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At least, any Americans that happens to communicate regularly with terrorists abroad... (Don't go to MTV to get that perspective, though.)
Like this guy.
NSA's "special collection program" nabbed terrorist plotter Iyman Faris
Faris admitted to traveling to New York City in late 2002 to examine the bridge, and said he concluded that the plot to destroy the bridge by severing cables was unlikely to succeed because of the bridge's security and structure. In early 2003, he sent a message that "the weather is too hot" - a coded message indicating that the bridge plot was unlikely to succeed.
So, you know... slippery slope and all that....
(Frankly, if an Al Qaeda terrorist were to pick up the phone and give me a ring, I WOULD WANT THE NSA TO BE LISTENING TO EVERY @#$ING WORD OF MY CONVERSATION WITH THEM!!!!)
Do Shumer, Leahy, and Kennedy, and the editorial board of the NYTimes think that Faris's civil liberties have been violated? Should all charges against him be dropped on this technicality?
And it's interesting to note that Congress and the special court is notified of each such intercept (after the fact)... The only part that busts my libertarian sensibilities (I've been known to have a few) is the possibility that the government would do an intercept and not notify Congress. But, then again... if they're going to break the law and the executive order by not notifying Congress after the fact, it's unlikely that they'd follow the law on getting a warrant beforehand. If they really are breaking the law, why go to Congress?
As pointed out by an intelligence researcher on Fox News' Special Report with
The standard of proof required to obtain a warrant from the foreign intelligence court is generally considered lower than that required for a criminal warrant - intelligence officials only have to show probable cause that someone may be "an agent of a foreign power," which includes international terrorist groups - and the secret court has turned down only a small number of requests over the years. In 2004, according to the Justice Department, 1,754 warrants were approved. The foreign intelligence court can grant emergency approval for wiretaps within hours, officials say.
Because, you know... Osama's and Al Qaeda get real chatty when they're planning a terrorist strike.
The USA PATRIOT Act should be extended... there may be provisions that should be modified. But roving wiretaps (a tool commonly employed against the Gambino crime family) certainly should be employed against terrorist suspects. (Roving Wiretaps = you get court authority to tap communications of an individual, not a specific device of an individual. Thus, regardless of whether the individuals uses 4 cell phones, a blackberry, a satellite phone, a land-line telephone, or two cans with a string, you can listen in.) This is a common sense measure and has little impact on civil liberties.
By the way, isn't it just amazing that while we're seeing victorious milestones in the War On Terror abroad, we're losing our nerve here at home?
Looks like the next step for the Moonbats (aka the Democratic Party leaders such as John "Flip-Flopper" Kerry) is to call for impeachment...
See Michelle Malkin, Jeff Goldstein, and Captain's Quarters(here and here), and Newsbusters for more.
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Anish Kapoor, Chamber 3, 2016, alabaster and gold leaf, 37 3/8 × 24 × 22 13/16 inches (95 × 61 × 58 cm) © Anish Kapoor/ DACS, London 2018. Photo: Dave Morgan
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Anish Kapoor was born in 1954 in Mumbai, and lives and works in London. His work is featured in public collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Modern, London; Tate Britain; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Selected solo institutional exhibitions include "Anish Kapoor: Marsyas," Unilever Commission for the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London (2002); "My Red Homeland," Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2003, traveled to Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Malaga, Spain in 2006); "Anish Kapoor: Ascension," Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (2006, traveled to Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Brasilia; Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, São Paulo); Sky Mirror, Public Art Fund, Rockefeller Center, New York (2006); Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2007); "Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2008); "Anish Kapoor: Memory," Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (2008, traveled to Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York in 2009); National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (2010); Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain (2010); "MONUMENTA 2011: Leviathan," Grand Palais, Paris (2011); Leeum - Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (2012); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (2012); Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul (2013); Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2013); Chateau de Versailles, France (2015); and "Anish Kapoor. Archaelogy: Biology," Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico (2016).
Public commissions include Cloud Gate Millennium Park, Chicago (2004); and Turning the World Upside Down, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2010). ArcelorMittal Orbit (2012) is permanently installed at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London


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As I look back at my older posts, I see my progression, and regression, through the trials and tribulations of life. I am learning. Right now I have learned to not be so needy. To not give so much so quickly. To be more independent ( as I always was anyway). To know that I am whole and complete just as I am and a super bonus for anyone who earns my love and trust. Over the past 22 years, I did not need to have these lessons, as I was blessed with the most honest, loyal partner that has ever walked this earth. Sigh. I should have taken what I learned from him and applied it here, but had no frame of reference to work from. I am ( was) totally naïve and did not believe that there would be such conniving people out there. It is just in my nature to be trusting, because I try so hard to be honest and trustworthy myself. If someone looks into my eyes and professes their feelings to me, I tend to believe them. And when it makes me feel so good and wonderful inside, I WANT to believe them. Yeah, I have to work on that. That and not wanting to keep in touch 24/7. Lesson learned.
You know that you are going to be ok when you cease to hurt any more.
This is all a part of my journey. And now that I am back on the path, I hope that things begin to escalate forward again, and I am able to quickly manifest my hearts desires. I pray for the strength to remember. Remember the lessons, and why I needed them. Remember that everything is going to get better and better. Remember WHO I AM. And I am surrounded with a great group of angels and guides to support me along the way.
This blog is a record of my journey, but I also intended it to be a source of healing and inspiration for others who read it and are going through the same lessons. Lately it seems to be just a sounding board for my "woe is me" feelings. Of course, I hope to look back on these posts and say to myself " wow, look at how badly you hurt over that and look at you now. You rock, girl! Life is 100 times better than it was when you thought it was the best back then." Yes, life is only going to get better and better for all of us. You will see. And we will look back and say, " yeah, what was I so worried about? "
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BritCo. It's a super cheap way to personalize some koozies! The possibilities are endless-these would be fun father's day gifts, or great for a football or sports party (maybe shots of the players 'borrowed' from the net?)...or...I was thinking, how fun would these be at a family reunion? Scan old photos, and have these out for guest to use with drinks, and help them start conversations.
I bought some sheets of foam at the craft store (you can make four of these out of one sheet, and they cost about a dollar), some spray adhesive, sticky back velcro (b/c I didn't feel like sewing) and fabric transfer sheets (they sell these 10 to a pack).
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It's time for the 5th Annual Camas Vintage Street Faire!!!
Upon your arrival in Camas you will stroll down the street enjoying the canopy of shade that the beautiful trees provide. The music floating through the air will keep your boots tapping as you weave your way through the crowds. There are a wonderful group of talented local vendors that have been creating, searching, and will be showcasing their wares in this little boutique like market. All in all a wonderful afternoon to find some treasures, be inspired, and enjoy time with friends and family.
So join us on August 31st from 9am-3pm
The Street Faire is located right in front of
305 NE 4th AVE. Camas, WA 98607
Here is a current list of vendors for this years show:
Frank Lazzara
Dare to Dream
Rusty Chick
My Shabby Passion
Diamonds and Rust
Lillie Estella
Dickey's Decor
Marche Blanc
Oh So Cue Vintage
Triple R Design & E Studio
Gay Gehman and Mardell Peet
Scented Acres
Randall Woods
Kelly Julson
Erin Kiley
Queen B
The Shabby Cottage
Elegant Garden Designs
Aunt Adeleine's
Lavender Hill Cottage
Halfmoon Farm
Vintage River Ranch
Mama Roost
Roost Reimagined
Great Harvest Bread Company
Tequila Mexican Grill
Maddies Kettle Korn
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DOWNEY - An emotional Dr. Wendy Doty thanked the board, DUSD principals, teachers and staff, the whole student population, and all concerned for making her 10-year tenure as superintendent "memorable and special." Doty is stepping down as superintendent effective March 31, and is being replaced by Dr. John Garcia. Tuesday was her last attendance at the board meetings.
Garcia will commence his duties in her place at the helm of DUSD on March 18. The overlap is for orientation purposes.
An outpouring of praise and gratitude drenched Doty in her last hours in the district spotlight, as, first, members of the board spoke hailing her many "exemplary" contributions, then representatives of government officials and other associates added layers of hallelujahs on her head.
The replacement for the departing Brown-educated Kevin Condon, heretofore assistant superintendent for business services, was meanwhile introduced.
She is Nancy C. Nien, who holds a BA in political science from UC-Berkeley, an Ed.M. in education administration, planning and social policy from Harvard University, and an M.Phil. in comparative education and economics and a Ph.D. in the same areas from Columbia University. She has worked at the World Bank and at the U.S. Dept. of Education in Washington, D.C., and most recently was assistant superintendent of business services for 12 years for the Duarte Unified School District prior to serving briefly as assistant superintendent of business and administrative services for the Centralia School District.
She assumes her new duties on April 15.
Meanwhile, the board heard John Harris, principal at Warren High School, present the Link Crew leadership team with the Superintendent's Vision Award in the area of culture.
Describing 'Link Crew' as a high school transition program that welcomes freshmen and makes them feel "connected" throughout the first year of their high school experience, Harris said the program trains mentors from the junior and senior classes to be Link Leaders.
As positive role models, these Link Crew leaders assume the roles of student mentors who guide the freshmen to "discover what it takes to be successful during the transition to high school" in their 9th grade year.
It's a program that has worked wonders, Harris said. Present to receive recognition for their useful roles were Alison Davis, Daniela Keeler, Deanna Mack and Justin Muller.
Also recognized was Kaiser Permanente for its substantive contributions in the area of Parent/Community Relations.
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Well it's been a while, hasn't it?
I've been dithering around here and there, and have been inspired to come back to blogging. Trying to make it more personal again, and write what I enjoy reading, rather than being a business-y type blog.
So this is more of a visual diary of inspirations and works in progress instead of a blow by blow account of what I've been up to.
Back to study, doing textile design part time in the evenings, which is completely wonderful! It's soooooo good to feed my brain again, and this is the perfect opportunity to dip my toes back in the industry and make some connections after being out of the work force for so long.
Still have a few kinks to work out with the blog- posting from my iPad, so it's easy to write, but I really am a visual person, so I need to kerjigger things a bit to make it easy to post visuals.
Ok, things to do while the babe sleeps. Hopefully it won't be another three years until the next post!


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Saturday, June 29, 2013
A Little Help With Kitchen Work
It was a little overwhelming to me as I watched him with the tools. There are glimpses that I get every so often into the future as I see that my child is growing up and taking on more and more responsibility, willing to do more to help and be part of the projects that David and I are doing.
It impressed me to see how he remembered exactly how the tracks came out so he could put them back in the same way. It impressed me how he could barely fit into the cabinet to reach the back screw and nail to attach it. (I used to hold his little head in my hand!) I loved to watch him take on a challenge and have a sense of accomplishment.
Now he has moved down to the basement helping his dad with that new "computer lab" they are setting up down there. Where have my little ones gone?
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Friday, June 13, 2014
Chad's First Post
First and foremost, I would like to thank the SCLOC for allowing me the opportunity to run this blog. I also wish to thank my grandfather, Neil Vitale, for providing me with the knowledge necessary to do so, while he is keeping busy from sunrise to sunset on the farm. With that being said, I'm very excited about undertaking this project, and look forward to lending a hand to The Coalition in any way that I can. My interest in natural gas development in New York State began in the late summer of 2010, when I realized that if the drilling industry were to come into New York, particularly in Steuben County, I might not have to watch my neighbors lose their farms, and I might not have to leave my community in order to secure a decently paying career. I, along with my grandfather, began to write opinion editorials to the newspaper on the subject of hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale. Eventually, I found myself testifying at the DEC hearings in Dansville, and speaking at a large landowners rally in Albany. Running this blog is another small way in which I will continue to fight the good fight. My next post will feature an opinion editorial by Jeff Heller on the subject of "green energy". He takes the subject out of the lecture halls and takes it into the real world, and as always, hits the nail on the head.
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I have three completed projects to share with you. Yes, THREE!
While galavanting down the clearance aisle at AC Moore, I found a pretty sweet bird stencil and used it for two projects:
1. Bird Canvas
This is the largest of the Christmas Tree Shop Canvas Booty that I acquired way back in '07. I saw this stencil and thought it would be perfect.
So, using the paints from my "Eat" sign and a prepurchased canvas, I made this.
It needs to be touched up in some areas, but otherwise, perfect!
Paints: Owned!
Canvas: Owned!
Brushes: Owned!
Stencil: $3.00
Total: $3.00
2. Coasters
I'd been dying to try this craftster tutorial for some time. It's easy and I have always loved painting/decorating pottery. I made four of these coasters for a craftster swap I am in. Two are two shades of blue and two are two shades of green – but reversed. No two are alike…kinda.
Ceramic Tiles: $.16/each
Ceramic Markers: $4.38
Furniture Pads: $1.29
Total: $5.67
3. Pac Man Dishcloth! This is for the same craft swap. My partner is a video game nut so I thought her kitchen might like this. Very easy knit.
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Welcome.This wiki assembles resources researched and created by Jenny Ambrozek and Victoria Axelrod related to our presentations and workshop explaining how understanding and operating organizations as networks is critical for sustaining a 21st Century Organization. Please visit our blogfor current thinking or join us on Twitter as SageNetand VAxelrod.
Pointers to new approaches and research we've missed are welcomed. JA & VA.
2013 ResourcesBusiness SNA List started by Roberto Dand in a Google Site is now crowd curated. It lists over a 100 SNA tools and practitioners.
The Classifieds . Are American spies the next victims of the Internet age?
"Many of the targeted drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen, for example, relied on social network analysis that included cell phone call data in combination with human intelligence." Daniel B. Prieto
Source: wwww.foreignpolicy.com via Valdis Krebs SOCNET SNA and Drone Strikes posting 2013-08-13
Resources for Thomas Falconer's NYU Advanced Seminar Social Media Management Class March 27, 2013It was a pleasure spending time with you. Please explore this wiki general to discover network thinking and analytics. Here are some additional resources mentioned in our talk:
Lada Adamic's work at the University of Michigan and as a visiting fellow at Facebook. Find Adamic on Twitter at @adamic
Her Social Network Analysis course offered at Coursera. See a sample lecture on YouTube
Adamic teaches network analysis tool Gephi. Also look at NodeXL as a tool for social media network analysis.
Cameron Marlow Head Data Scientist at Facebook http://cameronmarlow.com/
Lars Backstrom, Data Scientist at Faceboook, Anatomy of Facebook Scan some of his publications to see the kind of social network research that will impact your work as social media managers.
James Governor's @monkchips post on Critical Mass: Bringing Physics to Social Network Pablum
Nicholas Christakis TED Talk How social networks predict epidemics
Resources for Enterprise 2.0 Summit Paris talk Social Group Analytics March 21, 2013
Social Network Analysis History and Basics
Jacob Moreno Sociograms Browse references to sociograms in "The Essential Moreno" available at Google Books
Leonard Euhler, graph theory foundations http://www.amt.edu.au/euler.html
Organizational Network Analysis Developments- Short ListDavid Krackhardt 1993 Informal Networks: The Company Behind the Chart Harvard Business Review
Bernardo Huberman & Lada Adamic 2004 Information Dynamics in a Networked World HP Labs Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Add German Flickr study
Patti Anklam, Rob Cross & Vic Gulas, 2005, Expanding the Field Vision
Rob Cross, Peter Gray, Shirley Cunningham, Mark Showers & Robert J. Thomas, 2010 The Collaborative Organization: How to Make Employee Networks Really Work MIT Sloan Review October 1
Sinan Aral, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, 2011 The Diversity-Bandwidth Tradeoff American Journal of Sociology
Personal Network Development to Grow Social CapitalRon Burt & Don Ronchi, 2006 Teaching Executives to See Social Capital
Big Network Data Analysis
Facebook Research Team- Eytan Bashky Research on influencers, information diffusion, influence and content. See for example Rethinking Information Diversity in Networks
David Easley and Jon Kleinberg, 2010 Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World
Rob Cross & Robert J. Thomas, 2009, Driving Results through Social Networks
Ranjay Gulati, 2007, Managing Network Resources
Yochai Benkler, 2006 Wealth of Networks,
Rob Cross & Andrew Parker, 2004, Hidden Power of Social Networks
Duncan Watts, 2004, Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age 2
Ron Burt,1992, Structural Holes
Network Analysis Tools
Gephi Open Source Network & Systems Visualization & & exploration platform https://gephi.org/
NodeXL Marc Smith and colleagues http://nodexl.codeplex.com/
Inflow from Valids Krebs www.orgnet.com
Ucinet from Steve Borgatti http://www.analytictech.com/ucinet/
Note: Wolfram Research added social networks analytics to their Mathematica platform
Academic Researchers and Social Network Analysis Courses
Steve Borgatti, PhD International Center for Research on Social Networks and Businesss Links Center - University of Kentucky, Lexington Kentucky
Both Victoria and Jenny have taken the one week summer workshop on SNA and can attest to the caliber of the material and the participants.
This is a rigorous program at a great price AND come prepared to work.
Ron Burt, PhD University of Chicago
Teaches "Strategic Business Leadership: Driving Results through Social Capital" as part of the Booth School executive development programs
Here are the Winter 2011 syllabus and main slide decks for the Chicago Booth Executive MBA course, "Strategic Leadership" and its full-time equivalent, "Network Structures of Effective Management:" http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/ronald.burt/research/
Fabio Sabitini, PhD world class economist and organizer of Social Capital Gateway
Join his list for the latest research papers on networks and social capital here email@example.com
F. Other Items of Interest
Joseph Cloonan 2007 Supply Chain Team Relationship Management Guidelines for the Knowledge Enabled Engineerr.
To learn more about Executive Networks who kindly hosted this webinar, please go to http://executivenetworks.com/
Mapping Industry Networksa. Optimice Australia analysis including:
__Global IT Industry Map__
__Global Media Industry 2006__
__Insurance Industry IT Contractual Alliances 1996-2005__
__Health Industry IT Contractual Alliances 1996-2005__
__Corporate Interlocks - Australian Stock Market - 2006__
b. FAS Research- An array of network analysis applications http://www.fas.at/caseshttp:www.fas.at/cases
Victoria Axelrod and Jenny Ambrozek welcome participants in our KMWorld Open Networks for Co-Generating Knowledge Workshop (2008-09-23). Thanks for participating and contributing to a rich conversation.
As promised here are links to records from the event as well as related resources that underpin the approach.
Please don't hesitate to contact us with questions or reflections on the workshop and how you take the ideas forward in your organizations.
Discussion starting slides from Enterprise 2.0 Open June 10 are on Slideshare.
Thank you for visiting this wiki devoted to gathering resources that help us understand how networked organizations work. Our premise is organizations today reflect the relationship networks enabled by computer networks on which they increasingly operate.Organizational design choices are expanded by understanding and influencing social networks (how the work gets done). Promoting organizational, group and individual skill development around collaboration and effectve personal networking positively impacts productivity.
This is an open wiki. Please add information to enrich this shared space. Just hit the "edit button" and an editing window opens. Try it. If you have any questions or thoughts to offer privately please email Jenny Ambrozek, the wiki starter, at "jenny at sageway dot com".A good wiki practice is adding your name to the contributor list below to indicate your participation. Our goal is building a collection of resources to aid thinking about organizational and personal networks, and design for productive and healthy places for people to contribute and learn.To join an ongoing conversation about evolving "21st Century Organizations" please visit our blog.
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I was at my tiny little local grocery store this morning and let out a little "eep" when I spotted these in the canned veg aisle. Made me nostalgic for London and jones for a proper English breakfast. I bought a can just to see it in my cabinet. Classic.
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Emotional Well-Being
The perfect picnic takes planning — pleaseJuly 01, 2014
Happy Independence Day! This is such a pivotal period in everyone's summer plans, and what a great time for weddings, family reunions and/or the perfect simple picnic. That goes for our frail seniors, too. I know I become happy just thinking about how great it feels to experience the fresh air, sunshine and the smell of nature, and they do too — if things go well.


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Saturday, 17 September 2011
Colour inspiration {palette No. 13}
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Friday, 16 September 2011
New logo
I've finally got round to redesigning my logo to what I think is a cleaner and more elegant take on what I had originally which you can see in this blog post and represents my design style a little more. I've lived with it fore a few days and still love it so it's a keeper (until I get bored of it again), hope you like it too.
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Monday, 5 September 2011
Real weddings - Ninka and Paul
I was lucky enough to be asked to create Ninka and Paul's wedding stationery for their summer wedding. It was a bit of collaboration, I created the stationery around the cute bride and groom that was drawn by one of Ninka's friends. Ninka and Paul got married at the beautiful St. Wilfred Church in Mobberley on a perfect sunny day at the beginning of June this year. The day was captured by the very talented photographers over at CG Weddings. CG Weddings
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Esther Shawl Crochet Pattern Download
This product will be accessible from My Downloadable Products located in My Account after purchase.
This clever shawl works four-petaled motifs in a two-pass method that leaves only two ends to weave in.
Finished Size:About 64" wide and 20" long. Size is easily customizable.
Yarn:Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks That Rock Lightweight (100% superwash merino; 360 yd [329 m]/4½ oz [127 g]; ): basan; 2 skeins.
Yarn Weight: #1 - Super Fine
Hook:Size E/4 (3.5 mm). Adjust hook size if necessary to obtain correct gauge.
Notions:Yarn needle.
Gauge:2 flower motifs and 2 diamonds = 4" in patt. For gauge swatch, work Rows 1 "6 of shawl and measure across 2 motifs and 2 diamonds both horizontally and vertically.
Originally Published: Interweave Crochet, Accessories 2011
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Today I raise a question of translation. Jennifer Whiting claims that a certain translation, the usual translation of a passage in Aristotle, simply "cannot" be correct. But is the impossible possible--or even likely?
I'll give you a couple of days to ponder this. Here is Whiting's discussion and translation of the passage (in blue), followed by the Greek (in red).
Now, suppose Whiting is wrong (as I think she is). Her discussion raises the question: How is it that scholars can claim that certain things are impossible, when they really are so? How can it be that a scholar says that X "cannot be the correct reading", or that X is "obviously" wrong, when X is actually the preferable reading? (Indeed, one might wonder: when should a scholar ever say that an interpretation or rendering--especially that usually supported by scholars--is not merely wrong or unlikely, but impossible and obviously wrong?)
From pp. 282-3 of Whiting's contribution to the Kraut anthology, "The Nicomachean Account of Philia":
The defense [of extending the term 'philia' to all three forms of friendship] culminates at VIII.4.1157a20-33:
[A] And only the philia of good people is immune to slander. For it is not easy to trust someone who has not been tested by oneself for a long time. But trusting belongs among these [i.e. good people], and so does never doing injustice to one another, and whatever else people think worthy of true friendship. [B] And nothing prevents such things coming to be in the other [forms]. For since people apply the term "friends" both to those who [are friends] dia what is useful ... and to those who are fond of one another dia pleasure ... we should presumably say that such people are friends and that there are several forms of friendship, first and in the controlling sense, the friendship of good people insofar as they are good, and the remaining [forms] according to their similarity [to this].Most English translators take the italicized "such things" as referring to the sort of "distrust" (Irwin), "slander" (Rowe), or "evils" (Ross) that Aristotle has just said arise in the other forms of philia. So they read the "nothing prevents ... " sentence as summing up the reasons against counting the others as genuine forms of philia. They then read the rest of (B) as saying that we should nevertheless continue to call the others forms of philia.
But it should be clear from (A) that this cannot be the correct reading. For "such things" obviously refers back to "trusting ... and ... never doing injustice ... and whatever else people think worthy of true friendship". Aristotle's point is that even though such things do not always in fact belong to friendships based on pleasure or utility, nothing prevents such things sometimes belonging (even if only accidentally) to such friendships. And his "nothing prevents..." sentence is surely better read as supplying an argument for his ostensible conclusion (i.e., that there are several forms of friendship) than as posing an obstacle to it.
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Band of Horses will be at Vega on April 18, but am not planning attending this one. First of all April 18 is Sunday of the Copenhagen Popfest, so I expect to be worn out completely by then. And since I did see them a couple of years ago, I believe I'll manage without seeing them this time, though I did think the show back then was absolutely brilliant. Copenhagen will be the last stop on a short European Tour (8 dates announced so far), which has made me start looking for news on any imminent release(s), though without much success so far!
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+ The Funeral
Tower Of Foil shares a second single from the band's forthcoming album Driving North. The new track is called The Frozen Ocean is a real typical Tower Of Foil track in the sense that it's sweet and beautiful. And with the weather being as it is right now, it's hard to imagine a better timed release.
+ The Frozen Ocean
A Pleasant Dream is a pleasant Spanish blog (though I don't understand a single word – you know; No habla español) focusing entirely on Nordic pop music.
Danny Provencher of Under Electric Light has teamed up with Rudy Behrnard of Les Incendiaries to form Those Weird, Dreamy Sounds. The first published track by the duo is the (rather oddly) named Á nœturnar, which does in fact sound weird and dreamy as well as somewhat incomplete.
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+ Les Incendiaires VS Under Electric Light - Danaé (Under Electric Light Remix)
+ Under Electric Light – This Moment
Lucky Soul shares (in exchange for your email address) the title track of the band's forthcoming album A Coming Of Age. "A lyrically dark, sonically dramatic Bond-theme-in-waiting, influenced by Scott Walker, Edif Piaf and brutal loss of innocence in equal measure"! Couldn't have said that better myself...cough, cough.
February 23, 2010
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Red Velvet Cake
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Ingredients needed:
2 1/2 cups self-rising flour
1 1/2 cup Wesson oil
4 eggs
1 ounce red food coloring
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vinegar
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Pour everything in a large mixing bowl. Beat on High Speed for 5 minutes.
For cake: grease and flour three cake pans and pour batter evenly into each pan.
Bake for 15-17 minutes.
For cupcakes: grease and flour muffin pans or use paper liners.
Bake for 12-15 minutes or until top springs back and a tooth pick comes out clean.
1- 8 ounce package cream cheese, softened to room temperature
1 stick of butter softened, to room temperature
1 box powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix cream cheese and butter together until smooth. Add vanilla. Slowly add sugar while continuing to mix. Spread frosting between layers of cakes and the sides and top or on to the top of the cupcakes.
Makes 24-30 cupcakes depending on the size of muffin tins.
Now get a large cup of hot coffee or tea and enjoy!


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Here's Tulsa
I ran across these photos I took of various Tulsa sights at various Tulsa sites. I like 'em, so I thought I'd put them up here.
Gratuitous night shots of the downtown skyline.
Followed by various views of the the iconic Golden Driller.
This one taken with my Holga, which is a boxy plastic toy film camera with a plastic lens.
These were taken last year during the fair.
And, this is a sculpture downtown that I really like. This photo was also taken with my Holga and, if I remember correctly, I think it was cross-processed. Which means the photo was taken with slide film but developed like a print, which causes arty color-shifts which are now more easily and predictably accomplished with the flick of a finger in Photo Shop.
Here's a double exposed shot of downtown, from right in front of the federal building where I toil most of the live-long day-- Also Holga shot.
And, finally a shot of Coney I-Lander. Yep, it's a Holga photo too, notice the charming light leaks --classic Holga stuff.


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Rambling analysis of my addiction to Brazilian jiu jitsu, with occasional political rants and musings on culture, sociology, food, love..
Saturday, March 28, 2009
So after washing and drying it, I tried bleaching it. I'd say about 2 cups bleach to about 6 gallons of hot water, soaked for about 22 minutes, and then because I'd forgotten there was already a gi in the washer (from rolling this morning) I let the peach gi sit in the kitchen sink, still soaked in bleach solution, for probably another 20-30 min. The bleaching helped a bit. I'll post better pics later; this, taken with my cell phone, shows my stack of gis on the dryer with the peach one on top. I will have two greens to add to the collection soon enough.
I have some sage green dye, and 2 gis left. The Atama Mundial #7 has those rip-stop pants, so I'm not sure they're cotton and therefore might not take the dye. Ergo, I will still have one white gi. The Atama summerweight will be tie-dyed; the Keiko Raca with red streaks just got dyed coral pink (much more aptly called a strawberry pink, I think I'll love it.) I just sent off my too-big kelly green gi to Mark at Badgerland Jiu Jitsu and hopefully will get a smaller one of those soon. I'm also getting a single weight for only $60 from Howard Combat Kimonos and I'll probably try a Fuji single weight too. Call me crazy but I like being different and I'm enjoying the experiment process. I have had a few people ask me to dye gis for them (happy to do it) and many many requests for a tie-dyed one. (I think they just want ME to wear it and be an even bigger target than I already am. Fine, happy to do that too :) )
But the real thing I've been struggling with for a few days now... my frustration. It started when I rolled recently. This guy is a higher belt, of course bigger than me, more experienced, and very nice. He's a good person to pair up with when the class is learning and drilling a technique, because he'll explain what you're doing wrong and he doesn't hesitate to give you feedback. However, both times I've rolled with him in a sparring situation have resulted in me crying. (He didn't know, either time, I hope, because I was quite sweaty anyway, and I wasn't sobbing or making noise. I just couldn't keep the tears in.)
I AM NOT THAT GIRL. I hate crying anyway-- except for those movies that are supposed to make you cry, in which case the catharsis is wonderful. But I generally don't cry, period, and I especially would never ever imagine crying in jits, over jits, or having anything to do with jits. It just isn't (usually) that frustrating or important. I have so much FUN when I'm rolling, it doesn't (usually) bother me much to get swept, caught, crushed, whatever.
But with him, it's been different, and I've racked my brain trying to analyze why. Partly I think it's because he doesn't smile or make any positive/friendly facial expressions. He appears quite implacable and unemotional. Kind of reminds me of the liquid-metal man in the Terminator-- you know, the highway patrol cop one? Super-serious, never cracks a smile, just keeps on coming after you like a machine. It starts feeling scary and even personal, which is illogical, but that's what my gut feels. After the third judo footsweep thing, in a row, in which I was obviously not getting how to avoid it or how to counter it, and in which my f-ing ankle felt like it was being hit with a hammer each time, I felt like it was perhaps incumbent upon the higher belt to stop a moment and instruct me. Since he didn't, I stopped, and asked what I was doing wrong. "Don't get in that position. Counter it." OK, thanks, obviously I don't know HOW.
At another point, after he successfully head-snapped me, he brought up his knee and stopped just short of kneeing me in the face. I was really scared, tried to laugh it off and told him I didn't want to do the vale tudo MMA stuff. He responded by telling me I wouldn't have that option "on the street" so I had to be ready for anything. Yes, this is true, but since I'm not used to having training partners simulating "fights on the street" in class, I was pretty scared.
He started mixing up his takedowns, but each one was equally successful, and within 4-5 minutes, I realized that I was both crying *and* mentally giving up. I wasn't quitting, I was getting up every time and coming back, but I was already certain I was getting taken down again, and I wasn't thinking offensively any longer. That totally SUCKED.
There aren't really any people who CAN'T take me down, so I'm not complaining about being taken down again and again. I don't mind that. I can't quite put my finger on why THIS time it bothered me so, but I definitely felt frustrated, even intimidated. The only thing I was proud of was not quitting and not asking him to take it easier on me. Maybe I should have made that request?
Then another day I rolled at lunch open mat. 45 minutes with a good friend and fellow blue belt. 45 minutes of being crushed in sidemount, in which all my escape attempts failed and left an arm exposed, resulting in americanas, armbars, and even a mounted triangle. 45 minutes of my attempts at mount escapes resulting merely in easily-passed halfguard, failed halfguard sweeps, failure in general. Oh, and don't forget-- we started every match from our feet, so there's also 45 minutes of not getting my grips, not breaking his, not getting takedowns, and getting taken down. *sigh*
At least he had to shower up at 45 minutes in, so I next rolled with a visiting blue belt from another city, a really nice guy. That resulted in 15 minutes of again being crushed in side, mounted, and two nice gi chokes, unusual ones I haven't dealt with much before involving the tail of my own gi. (I admit I did feel some detached interest in seeing what he did with the tail, so I didn't defend as much as I might have, even though I know it's never good when they start undressing you. Or themselves.)
He did give me some hints on bettering my transition from side to mount (something he called "going fishing": your headside arm is under their head, hipside knee tight against their hip, hipside hand digs down under their near elbow/tricep and pulls the arm up and over their chest, to be pinned there with your chest as you switch hips, sitting on the headside hip and now facing their feet. I don't recall what exactly the hipside hand then does but it would logically want to control their hips maybe by grabbing a knee? and I believe the transition to mount, when you're pinning their arm that tightly with your chest, is pretty easy; it felt like his hip was high up against my shoulder.)
To top it all off, I rolled with another good friend and as always was dominated. He gets air on a scissor sweep. When he let me pass his open guard, an area I'm intently working on these days, I did get mount and I was mildly successful in trying for the Donald choke and the ezequiel (shocker) and in not getting reversed, for a little while anyway. I was grateful for the chance to work on stuff and not get "stuffed" the whole time.
I know this all sounds like a bag of wind. I don't want to whine, I just want to understand where I'm going wrong. I feel like I'm training hard, I'm trying to learn the techniques and apply them, but somewhere there's a connection I'm not making. My tentative conclusions:
- I'm letting people settle into mount/side control and not trying to work my escapes quickly enough.
- I'm putting too much emphasis on not wasting energy thrashing around (which is what lots of the side and mount escapes end up feeling like) and I'm playing too much a waiting game. I often catch myself giving up my back and I think that plays into the same phenomenon.
- I'm not focused enough on thinking-- about their moves, my reactions, and grasping patterns. Therefore later instead of realizing specifics I need to work on, I'm left with the vague generalization that I'm getting crushed. Not terribly helpful.
- I don't have a plan or roadmap for what I'm trying to accomplish, takedown-wise. I have six techniques running around in my head, but what comes out is 1/6th of each mixed together which is worse than nothing.
My ultimate conclusion is that really, I'm not a blue belt. People watching me and my friend rolling this morning exclaimed about his underbelted-ness aloud because that's true, he seems like he's better than the belt he wears, but no one points out that I am not a blue belt because they're being kind. I am not rolling like a blue belt, I'm not thinking like a blue belt, and I'm definitely not excited about competing as a blue belt.
It's a blue day for me in jits.
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- Rob said...
Sounds like you are worrying too much about what other people are doing.
What are YOU working on?
I always like to have specific things I am practicing, and when I roll, I work on those non-stop.
Right now, Im working the 93 / Galvao guard, and that's all I do. I feel like a complete retard doing it, because it's new and I'm no good at it. I have no feel for it, and no timing yet. But roll after roll, I just try to get to 93, then go for the first sweep I am learning.
People I used to tap are now passing my guard, side mounting me, etc. I don't really care... straight 93 guard all the time. When they pass, I try to figure out a counter.
The point being, if you go into each roll with something specific you want to practice, you can guage your progress much more easily than trying to evaluate your overall game.
And as far as the belt, who cares. Let your instructor worry about what belt you are :) But if you focus on very specific things (pick ONE or TWO), you can improve more quickly, and you don't worry about the rest of it as much.
Keep your head up!
- Steve said...
Hang in there, Georgette. I know exactly what you mean regarding your blue belt. I felt the same way for a while. It passes. Rob's advice echoes the same advice I was given. Work your game and mark your improvement according to your own standard.
Regarding the gis, do you find that the bleach weakens the fabric? It sounds like you have plenty of them, so it might not be an issue.
- slideyfoot said...
Yes, that's the first thing you have to keep in mind: the only person you should be measuring yourself against is you. Is the Georgette of now better at BJJ than the Georgette of two months ago?
Second, nobody ever feels like they deserve their belt. However, remember that your instructor thinks that you do, or they wouldn't have given it to you. Trust their judgement: whatever other people may or may not think, the instructor's opinion is the one that counts in terms of rank.
So, keep training just like you did when you were wearing a white belt: the colour of the belt unfortunately doesn't give you magic powers, so try to ignore it as best as you can.
I'd agree with Rob and also strongly recommend coming into each lesson with a specific set of techniques you want to work. Look at what positions you end up in most frequently, then pick some basic moves you'd like to practice.
Every time you spar, focus on using those techniques, then gradually develop each component: e.g., where are you hands/elbows/knees/feet? How are you moving your hips? What about your weight distribution?
If you keep on working on those components, getting that small improvement every time, then eventually the technique is going to click. That means each sparring session has a structure with clear goals and progress you can track, which I personally find very motivating.
- Elyse said...
I disagree with Slideyfoot -- your belt DOES give you magical powers. This is why you should never ever wash your belt. When you do, all the blood and sweat and tears (power) you put into it will be SUCKED away. Whenever you feel like you don't deserve your belt (which is absolutely not true) you just look at how stained and worn it is to remember how much work you've done to get where you are.
Also, I hate to say this but you better get used to crying :). I think as one gets further and further into the journey of a jiu jitsu career (yes, this is your second career), and as you become closer to the sport as a supportive and integral part of your life, it is only natural that you should cry when things become strained or frustrating. I only suggest trying your best to do it outside the school away from the other students because it destroys the light atmosphere of a school and hurts morale.
I used to think I was the only idiot who cried over jiu jitsu and then I found out that ALOT of people do too.
Who hasn't cried over an important relationship in their life?
Why should jiu jitsu be any different?
The more you train the more you are going to expect of yourself, and so the more gravity you will begin to place on your progress and performance. What you need to remember is that your performance on one particular day is not at all indicative of your overall progress.
Finally, understand that people are going harder on you now that you're a blue belt. Sometimes it's a shock to realize people were taking it easy on you previously... but once the shock wears off you can make sure you get lots of sleep, maybe drink a red bull, and then really hand it to them next class ;)
Keep training!
Jitsu loves you!
- slideyfoot said...
You mean I don't have to put up with a mundane non-magical belt? Damn, no wonder my guard passing is still so terrible... ;p
- Georgette said...
a) I only bleached the one gi, the peach one, and I don't know if that one time will weaken it. It's not my favorite color, though, so if it tears, I won't cry.
b) I haven't yet cried in a visible way, and I won't. I'll go to the bathroom before I'll let anyone see me.
c) As unsexy as it is, I'm working on guard passing and sidemount/mount escapes. I don't really need more attacks-- especially if I can't get into position to use them.
- leslie said...
Hey, now you're posting about my life on the mats. I don't have any good advice like everyone else does; I can only commiserate.
Hang tough, chica. We're all on this crazy jiu-jitsu path together.


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The "socialist" tack of the McCain campaign has really been annoying me, both because of its potential to seriously harm the hopes of either party normalizing its relationship with the other (can you, a red-blooded American congressman, really co-sponsor legislation with the Commies?) and because it is another step down the path of McCain/Rovian prevarication that cynically assumes voters are half-wit slobs to be lied to and manipulated (WHAT, WHAT, Leo Strauss!).
Its upshot is that McCain has somehow managed to link white American men's fears of black people (not to mention terrorists, both of the "washed-up" and homebred sort as well as of the more exotic Arab sort) with their fears of Communism, nothing to sniff at nearly 17 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Obama has done too little to counter this claim, probably because he is too smart to take it seriously. However, I think any voter who can still be undecided at this point probably isn't quite as swift. Obama does need to get out his economic message more clearly tonight, to finally put the nail in McCain's coffin (before a heart attack does it a year into office), by forcefully making the following points:
1. Fully rebut the "Socialist" label: Obama needs to put this thing to rest already. Firstly, he should mention that the richest 2% would still be paying fewer taxes than under Reagan or Clinton and that government revenues from taxes as a percentage of GDP would be lower than under either of those presidents -- or under any president but Bush for that matter. He should most certainly not imply that anything even vaguely socialist is OK.
Obama needs to rebut clearly that he is a socialist and remind people with a bright yellow highlighter that taxes for the richest under Obama would be lower even than under Reagan or any other president besides Bush. If he's a socialist, so is Reagan, GHW Bush, Teddy Roosevelt and Eisenhower.
2. Explain fiscal responsibility and the irresponsibility (and break from American tradition) that Bush's tax cuts have represented. I think a large number of our countrymen no longer have any idea why taxes are necessary at all. This is a huge cognitive disconnect on the part of Americans springing from the fact that Bushian anti-government ideology has, I think, instilled in many a sense that government can just cut taxes ad infinitum and that history has a teleological purpose in getting taxes eventually down to zero, which would've happened years ago if it weren't for Communists masquerading as congressmen.
Obama needs to set out:
a) why government is at all necessary and why it has always been involved in certain aspects of American life (roads, schools, military) -- and why it has retreated from some of these in recent years with dire consequences (as in Katrina);
b) that taxes are therefore needed to restore the traditional place of government;
and that c) huge deficits and fiscal irresponsibility were fine for Bush when he squandered Clinton's surpluses but if the government isn't able to climb out of debt it'll raise interest rates for everyone and really hurt businesses (unlike marginal tax increases). Given that the Republicans have given up fiscal responsibility for those Pillars of Human Learning -- the issues of Creationism, Gun Control, Abortion and Sex Ed -- maybe the Democrats will take up the banner of fiscal prudence.
3. Name the people likely to be on his economic team: Although anyone who's concerned about Ayers or Wright is probably just using those arguments as a cover for racism, these absurd rumors persist, thanks to the Old Man and Twit who circulate them every day. Obama needs to show people that he is the centrist in this election, that any change he represents would act to restore -- not remake -- America, and he needs to do this by saying who his advisers are. When people see that familiar, trusted faces like Larry Summers, Paul Volcker, Robert Rubin and Warren Buffett are the crux of his team, it becomes harder to hold on to fantasies that he's an America-hating Muslim terrorist socialist.
A nice dig at McCain, whose economic advisers are a bunch of partisan hacks (Douglas Holtz-Eakin seems to be a political talking-head bulldog more than an economist); failed business leaders (Carly Fiorina was as apt an exec at H-P as Palin was an interviewee with Katie Couric, only Palin didn't cut 20,000+ US jobs or take a $21 million golden parachute after the interview; Meg Whitman's EBay has never even been profitable); and ideologues (the likes of Phil Gramm and Jack Kemp are Reagan political toadies with no claim to any experience or knowledge about economics at all), would be entirely appropriate here.
4. Give concrete details about job creation plans. Not only is job creation a huge worry for most voters (and rightly so), it's also an Obama strong suit. His job-creation strategies, admirably, are a mix of ideas from some of the world's smartest people. The creation of a $60 billion National Infrastructure Development Bank -- as conceived by Felix Rohatyn to oversee projects of federal, not local, importance -- and focusing on "rebuilding America" will be a huge source of jobs to do long-overdue work and avoid the local, "Bridge to Nowhere"-type projects Palin is fond of.
Obama already mentions his $150 billion "Manhattan Project" for energy independence and the greentech jobs it would bring -- 5 million jobs in building solar panels and turbines, and overhauling the nation's electrical grid -- in his stump, but he needs to do it even better.
His plans for public-private partnerships and investment funds to identify and develop advanced manufacturing techniques that would bring back production jobs to the US are hardly ever mentioned. Neither are the $80 billion in tax credits that would go to small/new businesses or R&D positions. Longer-term goals of worker-retraining, education and healthcare also play a part here...
McCain's plans, really, boil down to nothing more than giving the richest more tax breaks and increasing the house-of-cards aspects of our economy by further puffing up indecorous levels of consumer spending that far outpace production via tax cuts and low interest rates. This is called a consumer bubble; being the world's shopper of last resort, spending credit fueled by the Chinese Communist Party's investment in US bonds and not producing anything, will leave us in a hole much bigger than our current over-leveraged mess, given that real estate spending is a small fraction of overall consumer spending.
BONUS: Call McCain a racist Nazi slut. Conceding that the twin horrors of the 20th century were fascism and communism, if McCain's proxies can call Obama a "Marxist," the equivalent would be to call McCain a "Nazi." Of course, McCain's no Nazi, and Obama's no Marxist. But just as Obama wants to empower the middle class and bridge the wealth gap that is swallowing the country, so are McCain and Palin running a racially charged campaign about which candidate is true to "American culture" and "traditional American values" or, more simply put, is "American." That's as Nazi as Obama is Marxist, if not more so.
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Group Pushing Statewide Smoking Ban Touring State, Including Warren and Pulaski Counties Advocates of a statewide smoking ban are taking their issue on a five day tour before Fancy Farm to drum up support. The Smoke Free Kentucky Coalition has pushed a statewide smoking ban law in the General Assembly for the last two years. And they are making next year's legislative session a key moment in their fight. Kentucky Mothers Hope Their Grief Will Cause Others to Think About Pill Abuse By Associated Press • Jul 26, 2012 Two women who each lost a daughter to prescription drug abuse are becoming the faces of a billboard campaign alerting Kentuckians to the dangers of improperly popping pills. Karen Shay said Thursday she joined in the campaign in hopes of sparing others from her heartbreak. Kentucky Governor Still Mulling Medicaid Expansion, Consequences By Lisa Autry • Jul 26, 2012 Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear says he's not ready to make a decision about expanding the state's Medicaid rolls. The federal health care law, upheld by the Supreme Court, allows states to opt out of a Medicaid expansion, which some Republican leaders in the Kentucky legislature have urged the governor to do. Pages« first ‹ previous … 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 … next › last »


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"Doubtless, however, either of these stern and black-browed Puritans would have thought it quite a sufficient retribution for his sins, that, after so long a lapse of years, the old trunk of the family tree, with so much venerable moss upon it, should have borne, as its topmost bough, an idler like myself. No aim, that I have ever cherished, would they recognize as laudable; no success of mine–if my life, beyond its domestic scope, had ever been brightened by success–would they deem other wise than worthless, if not positively disgraceful. "What is he?" murmurs one gray shadow of my forefathers to the other. "A writer of story-books! What kind of a business in life, –what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation, –may that be? Why, the degenerate fellow might as well have been a fiddler!" Such are the compliments bandied between my great-grandsires and myself, across the gulf of time! And yet, let them scorn me as they will, strong traits of their nature have intertwined themselves with mine." —from "The Custom House", the introduction to The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.


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This past weekend my little sister came home for the first time since Christmas! She has had a very busy basketball season and is finally able to enjoy a Spring Break!!! She's got me singing, "Reunited and it feels so goooood" (chuckles) Oh, how I've missed that girl! We hung out ALL WEEKEND!!! We were … Continue reading
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Housewarming Pancake Gift Basket
Check out this breakfast gift basket complete with blueberry pancakes, syrup and mimosas! This gift basket was super easy and I love the way it turned out! When it comes to gift-giving, I love putting together gift baskets. They are attractive, thoughtful and often times give the recipient a reason to relax and unwind!
Cream Cheese Pecan Braid
The rain has made today kind of a lazy day. And what is a lazy day without some good, cozy food! I whipped up a super-easy breakfast braid this morning. It was so ooey, gooey and delicious… finger-lickin' good!


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Here is an update on three private torrent trackers that are open for signup on 19th of January, 2009. NordicDVDR, a DVD only tracker running on Gazelle as well as Nordic-T and Nordicbits (both general/0day trackers) - are all currently open for new registrations. Although these sites have the word 'Nordic' in their name, plenty of English releases including warez scene material are available for download.
- All tracker stats are as of 19/1/2009.
- Nordic-T has around 400 spots available at time of this post.
- NordicDVDR is in the process of recovering from a torrents and user database reset
Site Name: NordicDVDR (http://www.nordicdvdr.org)
Signup URL: http://www.nordicdvdr.org/register.php
Stats: ~1100 users and ~60 torrents
Description: A DVDR only tracker running on Gazelle. Check audio language on DVD before you download as some of the DVDs do not have an English audio stream. Some releases tagged 'NORDiC' do have English audio with optional Norwegian subtitles.
Site Name: Nordic-T (http://nordic-t.org/)
Signup URL: http://nordic-t.org/signup.php
Stats: ~50000 users and 12500+ torrents
Description: Nordic-T is an excellent general tracker with lots of English releases and packs. For full details of this tracker including screenshots and category information, refer to this article.
Site Name: NordicBits (http://www.nordicbits.com/)
Signup URL: http://www.nordicbits.com/signup.php
Stats: ~11000 users and 5400+ torrents
Description: NordicBits is a general/0day tracker. For more details including category information, please see this article.
Thanks Aivaras for the news on NordicDVDR.


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A PNR series. Brings together werewolves, vamps, were-vamps and demons. Great little world with the next installment due in 2011. So far, we have:
- The Accidental Werewolf
- Accidentally Dead
- The Accidental Human
- Accidentally Demonic
- Accidentally Catty
- Accidentally Dead Again
- The Accidental Genie
- Something About Harry (December 2013)
With a sort of related series being the Kiss & Hell and My Way to Hell. Not sure if there are more of those coming or not. UPDATE: I don't think there are, but, I am lumping them here anyway because I think it's only a matter of time before we have cross over. Not to mention, they are so darn similar anyway.
BTW, this is just one of many where I adore the cover art – and when that happens, regardless of whether or not I have the ebook, I always buy a hard copy for the book shelves!


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It was taken at a bike parade this Fourth of July. I am 40. Sam is 10. Kate is 7...within inches of turning 8 and Claire is 4.5.
Today at the pool, I ran into an old friend from high school. I was trying to corral my brood between the indoor and the outdoor water slide pools and she grabbed me..."Kelly...I don't know what's happened to Sam but he's grown. He's so tall and such a handsome kid."
My heart sort of stopped because to me on any given day, he's just my kid. But then, I look at pictures like the one above and realize...he's literally up to my shoulders. How dear God did that happen? He's only 10 years old.
Juxtapose this pic to the one below of me and my siblings. It's not the best of us. We'd all been pushing our kids on bikes at the Bike Parade in the midst of humid ass July weather and they were forced against their will to take the traditional pose against my mom's kitchen wall mural.
You know which one I am...Michael is my younger brother by 4 years. Christina...the red head on the right is my younger sister by 12 years and my baby sister April on the left is younger by 13.
They all have kiddos of their own and really fantastic lives. But not long ago, I was fighting like crazy with Mike. I used to beat the shit out of him until he turned 12 and then he returned the favor by pinning me down and spitting on me just exactly when no parent was looking. I practically helped raise my sisters...changed their diapers, helped them to brush their teeth, read to them and now, I look at them as grown women raising their own littles and I think...please, stop time.
It struck me at the pool that I often live my life in the following fashion...I look at all of the things I have going on and pace myself by saying...everything will be better after I get through this meeting or presentation or project or family event or fill in the blank. I let myself celebrate for 2.5 seconds and then I'm off to the races on to the next item to check off the list.
Somewhere in the mix, life happens and people grow up and time keeps ticking and memories are either made and savored or, they're not pardoned by the busy hectic freneticness of life.
And so, when my friend said that Sam was so tall and handsome, I thought, I must enjoy this journey. One day, he'll be like my brother with his own family and responsibilities. For now, I'll plan to stop and look him in the eye when he's telling me about the latest chapter of a book or a movie that's coming out that he wants to see. I'll engage him and ask questions...without trying to hurry through it because I'm constantly multi-tasking.
I'll remind myself that
swimming deeply in the waters of all of it is so much more rewarding than simply treading. Because time goes on no matter...even when we're desperate for it to slow down and let us savor the moments.


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Friday, August 26, 2011
Viva la Verve & Free 4 All
Teresa Kline has a super sketch on the Viva la Verve challenge...the 5th and last layout for August! It was perfect to use some of my new Verve images from the latest release. This is also for the Free 4 All challenge on SCS to "stack it up". I stacked the flower and the tag with 3 layers on each element. The seam binding was hand dyed using Tattered Angels glimmer mist sprayed on white seam binding.
Here's what else I used:
STAMPS: Tag Time & Sunny Days by Verve
PAPER: My Mind's Eye Stella & Rose "Mabel" papers, Vintage Cream, Old Olive
INK: Pumpkin Pie, Versafine Onyx Black, Old Olive
ACCESSORIES: Circle Nestie, Small & large tag dies by Verve, Baker's twine, Seam binding, Button, Ribbon, MS tiny heart border punch.
Posted by Wanda Cullen at 1:25 PM
Labels: SCS F4A, Verve, Viva la Verve
7 comments:
- Marisa said...
I have a busy weekend ahead as I'm three behind! Love your take on this week's sketch and the colours are yummy!! Way to flash that new Verve :)
- August 26, 2011 at 4:32 PM
- dstandard said...
Beautiful card!!!! I've got to find me some of that gorgeous ribbon - I haven't seen it anywhere.
- August 26, 2011 at 7:38 PM
- Vickie Z said...
Love all the different Verve on this card!! flower is gorgeus!! Hpe to play with mine this weekend.
- August 27, 2011 at 12:05 PM
- Vickie Z said...
Love all the verve on this card!! gorgeous flower!! Hope to get to play with my new Verve this weekend!!
- August 27, 2011 at 12:11 PM
- Grace said...
Wow! This is awesome Wanda! Love what you did with the sketch and yummy colors!
- August 27, 2011 at 7:25 PM
- Teresa Kline said...
this is sooooo gorgeous Wanda, luv the tag and the flower...very sweet!
enjoy *~*
- August 27, 2011 at 9:22 PM
- maryr917 said...
this is so pretty wanda-love the fall colors you used-you really worked the sketch well
- August 29, 2011 at 10:14 AM
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Andrea Eichhorn fired
The wicked bitch of Casselberry Florida got what she deserved. From the Orlando Sentinel-
Two months ago, after hundreds of people from across the country voiced their outrage, Casselberry police Sgt. Andrea Eichhorn dropped her lawsuit against the family of tiny, brain-damaged Joey Cosmillo.Eichhorn got what she deserved. Let me remind you, that the lawsuit wasn't the only questionable activity this woman was involved with. This from the Orlando Sentinel's comments section via an earlier blog post of mine.
It wasn't enough to save her job.
On Tuesday, the Casselberry Police Department fired her.
Her suit, filed Oct. 1 and abandoned Oct. 12, brought public ridicule to the agency, according to a memo from police Chief John Pavlis. It damaged the city's image and made people question whether they, too, might get sued by officers responding to 911 calls.
Eichhorn got what she deserved, said Richard Cosmillo, the boy's grandfather and guardian.
I have worked with, and known Andrea for a number of years. I can no longer remain silent.Andrea may've "wrestled" a box of razor blades from someone, but what Casselberry P.D. isn't telling the press is how during an attempt to take subdue another person, she handcuffed an officer who was assisting her. This was on another call, but it actually happened. That's not all. Casselberry is slow to release her public record, because it's also full of negative stuff as well. Several years back, she was investigated for fraud and forgery by the F.D.L.E. for forging officers names to collect money on an off duty detail. The detail was a cash payout, and required officer signature for the company's tax records. She was signing other names so she wouldn't have to claim the payout on HER taxes. THIS IS PUBLIC RECORD!!!!!As I noted in October, statements in this comment were later proved to be true. It seems Miss Eichhorn and the Casselberry police got a lot more shit going on besides their officers suing the public they are paid to defend.
How about her inter-department sexual liasons? Although never made public, she was known for being sexually involved with people who could further her career. She was caught having sex with an officer on the back of her patrol car which was parked in a lot off of Murphy road. This was never investigated, and was swept under the rug. While having an alleged affiar with the a Deputy Chief, she was promoted to Sgt. Was she the most qualified? Absolutley not, dating the Dept. Chief doeshave it's benefits. She started daing her current husband while he was still married( and had just had a baby ). By the way, she was still married as well. She is not a good officer, nor is she well liked at the department. Most people try to stay away from her.
Ask yourself this....Why was a Sgt, in the Investigation Division( which does NOT answer patrol calls ) at the Cosmillo home? Was she dispatched to the call, even though she's considered secondary to the patrol officers. What I mean, is that for her to be dispatched to that call, ALL roadway patrol officers, ALL traffic officers, and community service officers would have to be unavailable. So, that would mean somewhere between 10 and 20 other people, who would normally answer that call would have to be unavailable. Let's not forget that Paramedics were ALREADY on scene. So, was that the case, OR did she decide to go on her own? Dispatch logs are public record and should be investigated. If she went on her own, there was NO reason for her to be on scene. Following her lawyers logic of if the family had secured the pool area, there would've never been a puddle, if Andrea had not taken it upon herself to go the house, she would not have fallen. I urge anyone who wants to know more about her, to request her record of service from the City of Casselberry. It's ALL public record, and you have the RIGHT to see it. Don't take my word for it, see it for yourself."
If she hadn't filed suit, he said Tuesday evening, "she wouldn't have been fired, would she?"Funny but in October Casselberry police Chief John Pavlis was quoted saying- "Sgt. Eichhorn is a good officer,". Why would a good good officer fired if this was Eichhorn's only mistake?
Police spokesman Lt. Dennis Stewart would not comment.
Eichhorn, 36, of Chuluota, a 12-year department veteran, was not available for comment.
I'm betting Eichhorn's other deeds were behind the firing. Casselberry is trying to cover their ass before the other problems become public knowledge too. Thank God for blogs and newspaper comment sections, eh?
Eichhorn sued because she was afraid she might wind up disabled, the city's insurer might reject her claims or that she would become a burden to her family, she told the department.I bet the witch appeals, so stay tuned for more updates. Andrea Eichhorn is a disgrace, and should be hounded by anyone who comes into contact with her. That goes for her scumbag attorney David Heil. Wouldn't it be funny if Eichhorn sued Heil for legal malpractice?
She and her attorney, David Heil, had tried for months to get money from the Cosmillos, but the family had ignored her claim, so on Oct. 1 she filed suit in state circuit court in Sanford, accusing the family of negligence.
The Orlando Sentinel published an article Oct. 10, and the outcry was immediate. The police department and city offices were inundated during the next several days with calls and e-mail from people outraged by the suit.
Judi Romboli, executive assistant to Casselberry's city manager, told Mellon that in her 14 years on the job, she had never had to deal with anything like it.
"No, nothing. This was the worst," she said.
Eichhorn was in tears and went home sick the day the article appeared, according to the investigative report. She stayed home the next day.
That same day, Pavlis placed her on a paid leave of absence and called for the internal investigation. Mellon completed it three weeks ago, concluding Eichhorn had violated several department policies, including damaging the department's image and filing suit without giving the police chief advance written notice.
On Nov. 19, Pavlis took away her badge and weapon, telling her he intended to fire her. She asked for a review and got it, but it did no good. On Tuesday, Pavlis fired her.
Eichhorn has 10 days to appeal.
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text: Thrasher Report Posted August 12, 2017 (edited) Everybody knows that Gaga is a multifaceted, transforming and always-different woman and artist, but when you think about "Lady Gaga", what is that look (particularly hair + makeup, not talking about clothes) that comes first in your mind? Or also, the look that you consider the most defining of hers. You can help yourselves with a bunch of pics to explain better. For me: Spoiler I also love that wig in the first photo, i wish she milked that platinum curly hair more. Edited August 12, 2017 by Thrasher "Teachers said i wouldn't be nada, now i buy my mama Prada" 3 1 Share Link to post Share on other sites Facebook Twitter