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On the train I managed to make about 12 crochet flowers ( I am making some rings) and write lots of notes and plans.
I have since put some of those plans into action and spent Tuesday taking photographs for our new kits and to go online.....I have soooo much more to photograph and thats my dilemma today.
I have some orders to do making button necklaces and brooches, I did manage to make 5 necklaces yesterday so its a start. I am making on the dining table so keep having to move, I do have a work space but I keep filling it up so that you can no longer see the surface! (my plan is to use the table in the shop when the sale ends.) I don't really have to move till 7 0 clock so thats not really a good enough excuse! The shop was fairly busy which is really good, and Arthur wanted to play. I also spent quite a bit of time online. Anyway back to today...
I think photographs first while Arthur is at nursery. I would like to start putting my stock on the website.
There is a photographer coming to take my pic for a local paper after 1..so I may need to tidy up a bit.
Then this afternoon finish the button necklaces I have done so that I can give them to Jenni if she comes to knit and Natter tonight...aaah clear the table and get ready for that.
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Hiii hiii...i'm back, a very bad blogger hahaha...it was so hard for me to have a time to blog lately,,,but I did post some pictures to my chictopia page, do you have chictopia account? share with me ^^ and now I have Instagram account too ^^
so questions to all my blogger's friends are:
1. how are you guys?
2. what is your favorite daily outfit right now?
3. have you shop a lot?
4. what is in your wish list?
answer from me:
1. I'm good with all my buzy working life.
2. Printed dress, mini skirt, and banggels
3. Yes I did shop a lot :)
4. Dolce Vita heels and leather pants
so, these are my 2 printed dress which I can share with you, so colorfull aren't they?
michael kors bag, juneandjulia boots
shoesone boots
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Riding with the Willie Nelson Country Throwdown Tour
Harley Davidson Motorcycles are pulling off a stunt only dreamed of by everyone from fading Hollywood starlets to aging professional athletes to average men and women marching through their daily lives.
America's most successful bike manufacturer is getting younger.
In the not too distant past, Harley was locked in as your parents' bike source – as a provider of touring motorcycles for older riders with more disposable income. But, in the last few years, the Milwaukee-based company launched a huge campaign to introduce its entire line of bikes to a wider demographic – while continuing to develop that unique Harley culture and brand.
As part of that effort, Harley sponsored the 2011 Willie Nelson Country Throwdown Tour, featuring the titular country legend in a series of five hour concerts with other major emerging country artists, including Jamey Johnson, Randy Houser, Jack Ingram and Lee Brice.
A stop in steamy, seaside Corpus Christi saw the tour arrive at the Concrete Street Amphitheater – an outdoor venue literally carved out of a long dead concrete factory. About 3,000 happy Texans celebrated a warm Friday night as July 4th closed in on the horizon with a night of country music.
More importantly, to Harley Davidson, the Country Throwdown Tour is an opportunity to recruit new riders while cementing (no pun intended, considering the venue) the bike manufacturer's cultural identity.
According to Harley Davidson outreach specialist Amanda Lee, Harley Davidson brass realized the company needed to become more relevant with a larger market share around 2008. Young adults, African Americans, Hispanics and women were specifically targeted for sales, while Harley Davidson made sure to pay continued attention to the veteran male rider – its traditional core buyer.
"We definitely wanted to invite younger riders into the culture," Lee said. "And we've had some success. The Harley Davidson Street Glide is the top selling bike to young adults. We sell more motorcycles to young adults today than we did to boomers when they were the same age."
The Country Throwdown tour's central meeting point at each stop was the Harley Davidson Golden Horse Saloon, a truck-side tent featuring a mix of Harley Davidson's most popular, mid-range models, including the Dark Custom Blackline, the Forty-Eight and the Fat Bob.
Anyone intrigued by the atmosphere or the sight of the brand new, gleaming bikes could take a shot at the Jumpstart attraction. Jumpstart sets up a 2011 model of a manageable size Harley Davidson on a brace and rollers. With a full tank of gas and a coach on hand, aspiring riders can straddle the bike and learn the controls. Then, once the engine is fired up, they can run through the gears while mastering the clutch and throttle.
More women partake of the Jumpstart opportunity than men as guys seem more embarrassed to admit in public they don't know how to ride. But a few testosterone-fueled rookies overcame their nerves and egos to take the free lesson. Unfortunately, some of them overcompensate, over-revving the engine and slamming through the gears at a rate that – in any street environment – would send them careening into a bus or a brick wall.
Amongst all of the lady riders who tried Jumpstart, Texas-native Emily Schultz wowed the on-hand instructors. The 18-year-old had never been on any motorcycle before as a driver or passenger, but she shifted through the gears with a deft touch and a respect for the throttle. More importantly, she came away with a sudden love of motorcycles.
"It seemed terrifying at first," Schultz said. "But, I still wanted to try it. It was a lot of fun. I want to take lessons now."
Fortunately for young Schulz, Harley Davidson offers the Rider's Edge program to prep motorcyclist for the road. Unfortunately for Schulz's worried mother near the Saloon, the course comes at a significant discount for Jumpstart applicants.
Harley Davidson will continue its cross-culture outreach with the seventh annual 2011 Afro-Punk Festival in Brooklyn's Commodore Barry Park on August 27 and 28. Celebrating the "Brooklyn Black Bike Scene," the music festival will also feature skateboarding and BMX bike events.


text: I don't like this artwork. It looks rather amateurish and bizarrely stylized. The artist, however, VEP--the initials for Victor E. Pazmiño--was already a veteran cartoonist and was known for his covers on FAMOUS FUNNIES. He worked for Harvey, Nedor/Pines, Centaur and Fawcett all over a long period so it must just e me. YOUR mileage may vary.


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This site has several artists' work on it. Totally blew me away! Check it out.
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Anything you want me to blog about? Here's something new I found on Pinterest by Andrea Torres.
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Here's a very cool animation of papercut buffalo. Check it out!
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This takes 3D papercutting to a whole new level!
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Beatrice Caron — Has the 3 I's: Interesting, Innovative, Intricate! Check it out.
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Congratulations to Arthur & Shira! Thanks to Bob and Judi for commissioning this papercut in honor of Bob's brother, Arthur, and his lovely bride Shira. This has the Ani L'Dodi theme (I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine), along with their Hebrew names, Aharon and Shirah. May they live happily ever after, with lots of naches.
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After an all-too-long hiatus, I got myself together and put new work online. Between this post I cut lots of paper, used lots of blades, and hopefully you'll see some new inspiration in my work. There's a good mix of Judaic and secular pieces. Please visit my shop and let me know what you think!
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ASU Post-Bacc Nursing Program 2013 - page 9
Hello out there! Is anyone else applying for and /or waiting to see if they are accepted to ASU's Post-Bacc nursing program starting in Jan. of 2013? Anyone from the ASU post-bacc nursing class of... Read More
Jul 17, '13Hi everyone! I am applying for the 2014 post-bacc program and am getting nervous about the upcoming application deadline. I am taking the TEAS in mid-August and am working to finish 8 of 10 prereqs by the deadline. I am taking nutrition and pathophys through Phoenix College (online) this fall. Anyone else in those courses? courtneyfaith, did you take your TEAS yet?
Jul 25, '13Hi there! I am also planning to take the TEAS mid august. I have so much work left to do for the application process so I'm getting a little worried too. It's pretty intense.
I actually have my nutrition final tomorrow morning...it's the 8 pre-req for me so I'll have a short break between now and fall classes. I'm taking stats and pathophys at PVCC in the fall.
Jul 25, '13Hi guys! I registered to take my TEAS test on Aug 20th at noon. How long did it take you guys to get your fingerprint clearance card back? Hope all of your classes are going well!
Jul 25, '13I'm also taking my TEAS Aug 20, I feel like its coming soo quick! My card took ~1.5wks so you should be fine. I'll be doing patho at ASU in fall (last class). Good luck finishing up the applications ladies!!Last edit by courtneyfaith on Jul 25, '13 : Reason: moreinfo
Jul 25, '13Awesome, I'm just ready to get the test over with so I can submit my application. I've studied a bit but need to get a little faster to feel more confident. I'm taking patho (last class) at Gateway in the fall. I'm so excited and we still have so long to wait! It can't come soon enough!
Aug 6, '13Hello everyone,
I'll be applying for the program too, I've got everything ready except the test which I hope to take within the next two weeks. I've been studying and I was just wondering, does anyone know if certain information is given on the test or do we have to memorize it, stuff like the unit conversions between the metric and English system? I'm using the TEAS Study Manual Version V that I got directly from ATI, does any one know if this stays pretty true to the actual test? I've taken the practice tests and they seem very straight forward, I'm use to having to choose from tricky answer choices, I just don't want to get to confident and have the test be completely different. Good luck to all of you!
Aug 8, '13Hey guys. I am applying for the ASU PBCNP program starting in January 2014 also. I just took the TEAS yesterday, so figured I'd offer some advice and encouragement to anybody who has yet to take it. Somebody asked about memorizing conversions, and you will be happy to know that there is no need for this. For any questions that involve unit conversions, these are provided. What I did to prepare was to buy the McGraw-Hill book of 5 TEAS Practice Tests. I found this helpful in terms of getting used to the time limits for each section of the test. I also took one practice test at ATI's website. The ATI practice test questions were more similar to the real thing than the McGraw-Hill practice test questions. Best of luck to everyone on the test and in finishing up the final pieces of the application process!
Aug 12, '13Quote from jimmyphx74How did those practice tests do in preparing you for the TEAS? I have the same materials and am hoping that along with recently finishing many of the prereqs, I'll be prepared and do well. Was that your experience? I have my TEAS exam on Aug 19 at noon and then just have to finish up my essays to submit this application. I can't wait to get it off my desk!What I did to prepare was to buy the McGraw-Hill book of 5 TEAS Practice Tests. I found this helpful in terms of getting used to the time limits for each section of the test. I also took one practice test at ATI's website. The ATI practice test questions were more similar to the real thing than the McGraw-Hill practice test questions. Best of luck to everyone on the test and in finishing up the final pieces of the application process!
Aug 13, '13Both McGraw-Hill and ATI's practice tests helped a lot. ATI's was more similar to the real thing ... the questions were presented and worded in a more similar way in my opinion. I found some of the McGraw-Hill questions to be poorly worded or vague, which was frustrating. And ATI's practice tests as well as the questions on the actual TEAS were more carefully written to avoid this. Take all the practice tests to get used to the time factor (Math seems to be the one where time was the biggest concern for me). Read the rationale for the correct answers for any questions that you miss. Keep track of the types of questions you tend to miss and brush up on these areas. Pay special attention to the types of questions that are always asked, like recognizing writing types (persuasive, narrative, expository, etc) and types of sentences (imperative, interrogative, declarative, etc). You are bound to get questions like that, and with a bit of practice they are easy questions you don't have to spend much time on. For science, review basic concepts and formulas for areas of weakness for you, but don't try to overdo it. Be realistic about how much you can review and learn without overwhelming yourself with the time you have available. Get a lot of rest and try your best not to be too stressed out going into it. You are giving it your best and will do great. Good luck!
Aug 14, '13Is anyone taking the test on the 30th? I have everything ready to go but would like as much time as I can get to fully review for the TEAS. Does anyone know if I can submit my application without having taken the test, since the test score will be sent to them electronically anyway?
Aug 14, '13Quote from NewUser123I would give a call to the advising staff and see what they suggest. Good Luck!Does anyone know if I can submit my application without having taken the test, since the test score will be sent to them electronically anyway?
Aug 15, '13Thanks. I did call and fyi, yes we can submit the application and just write the date we plan on taking the test.


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These were so fun and easy to make!
They are my favorite Halloween craft so far.
::All You Need Is::
Glue (Mod Podge is a best friend of mine)
Clear Jar (I always save glass spaghetti jars for times like these)
Gift/ Tissue Paper (I used Orange, Green & Silver)
Black Permanent Marker
Paint Brush
::And Here's How You Do It::
Measure the tissue paper to fit your jar.
Without applying any glue, first make sure the amount you cut fits your jar.
Use your paint brush to apply your glue- a light (even) coat will work just fine.
(apply it to where ever you will be putting the paper.)
Wrap your paper around the jar, while smoothing it down.
Be careful not to tear the tissue paper- when it gets wet it rips easy.
(It's alright to have some lines- I think it builds character.)
If any of the tissue paper is not secure,
use the glue and your paint brush to lightly go back over the area.
Once it's dry, you can start drawing with your marker.
You could do faces, words, pictures whatever you like.
You could do faces, words, pictures whatever you like.
Place the candle inside,
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A new idea – the Us for Precedent Campaign – will be launched at an event that also celebrates the 80th birthday of well-known community activist and teacher, Serene Stevenson. For over four decades, Serene has studied and taught some of the "hows" of being a peaceful, happy, positive person. She feels that the problems of our times demand a vision that unites and inspires us to make the personal and community changes that acknowledge the connection and equality of ALL peoples.
On her new BLOG, Ms. Stevenson presents her ideas as the character of a 'Gramma' who seeks truth with candor and humor. Gramma Sez - let us start with the old adage: "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you". It's a simple basic value agreed upon by every religion. Just imagine how different life would be using this ideal as a standard for relationships.
The concept of Us for Precedent is about You and Me, all of Us, reaching a united state of agreement to learn to live at our highest level of consciousness. The Us for Precedent Campaign is a model for a different quality of political conversation and will suggest collective actions that will open up new ways of living together. It encourages us to act as our own representatives and prove to ourselves and the world that as Americans, we can and will agree to realize at all levels of government the ideal of truly caring about the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness for ALL citizens.
A key element in the Us for Precedent platform is agreeing to love as motivation for all our actions. Gramma sez "If you and I can agree to model this principle in our daily lives, we can then set a precedent for a new kind of self-governing." It is Gramma's hope that politicians of all parties re-examine their motives for wanting to govern and commit to the Platform <http://grammasez.blogspot.com/2011/02/us-for-precedent-platform.html> of the Us for Precedent campaign. Because Bellingham is already on the path of transition and sustainability, it is the perfect community to demonstrate the 'how' of living in harmony with the earth and each other. Our city can be a 'precedent' of a vibrant community by agreeing, uniting and taking collective actions to remedy problems we haven't tackled yet.
Gramma has just purchased an RV and is getting ready to take her campaign to neighborhoods around Bellingham and the region. She wants to answer people's questions about the Campaign and hear their suggestions for solving problems. She also hopes to meet and interview other 'Precedents' who are implementing creative change. She will be posting these videos on her BLOG and YouTube channel so others will be excited to try new ideas.
Gramma Sez – "Let our united hearts be the voice of our society."
Enjoy our intro video, then follow our blog daily for ways to improve your quality of life, relationships, and community.
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GRAMMA ASKS: WILL YOU RUN Us FOR PRECEDENT WITH ME?
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Hi Gramma, love what you're doing! We could all learn a few things from you.
- October 11, 2011 at 10:09 AM
- Dudley Evenson said...
Thanks Gramma. This is exciting to see your ideas so fully formed. We are looking forward to your 80th birthday and the launch of Us for Precedent at the Majestic on Fri Oct 14 in Bellingham. It will be a great party and the beginning of a great campaign!
- October 11, 2011 at 3:54 PM
- James Bauckman said...
Gramma I love the work you ahve been doing in our community. Keep it up.
- October 21, 2011 at 2:02 PM
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On this special edition of Something Else Reviews' One Track Mind, we hand the reins over to composer and producer Paul O'Neill, who is currently preparing for the final leg of the Beethoven's Last Night tour with Trans-Siberian Orchestra and furiously working on two new rock opera projects — Romanovs: When Kings Must Whisper and Gutter Ballet. Naturally, he's also already thinking of ways to make the group's annual holiday tour bigger and even more spectacular.
You'll learn how O'Neill hooked up with metal band Savatage in the 1980s and formed a long, fruitful partnership — guiding them to an ever more symphonic sound that was the forerunner of Trans-Siberian Orchestra. You'll also learn the little-known story behind TSO's signature song "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)," find out what inspires O'Neill, what connects TSO with both the upper crust and Ozzy Osbourne, and learn why he thinks heavy metal will never die …
"PRELUDE TO MADNESS/HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING," with SAVATAGE (HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING, 1987): When O'Neill came on with Savatage, he had no idea he was going to find such a long and productive partnership. The band had caved to label pressures to make a pop-flavored record on their fourth album, 1986's Fight for the Rock. After it performed poorly, Atlantic dropped them. The label told O'Neill that it would re-sign the band if he agreed to produce their next project. That call led him to Savatage's hometown of Tampa, Fla., for what they thought might be a farewell show. "I arrived late, but the minute I heard Jon Oliva's voice, I thought, 'Oh my God, this guy has a four-octave range,'" O'Neill said. "I met with the band afterwards. I wasn't familiar with their music, but I was blown away by Jon Oliva's voice. I asked them 'why were you guys dropped?' and they said their managers had told them that heavy metal was dead and pushed them to make a pop album." He signed on to create what would become Hall of the Mountain King, arguably Savatage's best record. The centerpiece of the album is the combo of "Prelude to Madness," a metal re-working of Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King," which serves as the intro to the title track — a thunderous, screaming metal classic.
PAUL O'NEILL: When we did that album, the main thing was to get the band's rock credibility back. When I heard Jon's voice and Criss (Oliva's) guitar playing, I told them, 'I think you guys could be the first prog-metal band. "Prelude to Madness" and "Hall of the Mountain King" were the set up for that. They were completely unfamiliar with classical music, but (Grieg's) "In the Hall of the Mountain King" is just made to be done by a heavy metal band. We had a field day with that. It was definitely the beginning of a long working relationship between Jon Oliva and myself. Jon is not just a great singer, but one of the greatest musicians I've ever met. He plays drums, guitar, piano — all with no training. He's just a natural. He might be the best singer I've ever worked with. Not only does he have an amazing range, but he has the Mel Blanc gift. You can tell him, 'Jon, sing like Freddie Mercury' or 'Jon, sing like John Lennon' and you'll swear those guys are in the room. The great thing about Jon is that anything you can write, he can sing. I was originally in a band called Slow Burn in the 1970s, and I just couldn't find a singer that could capture the melodies. In hindsight, I realized the problem was me. I was writing three-octave melodies, and no one could sing it. Jon is the only person I've ever met that's got a real four-octave range. When he hits those super-high notes, he's not even in falsetto. He's just a monster.
[SOMETHING ELSE! INTERVIEW: Paul O'Neill shows us how, even when it's not Christmas time, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra lives up to its motto: 'Fog it, light it, blow it up.']
"BELIEVE" with SAVATAGE (STREETS: A ROCK OPERA, 1991); and with TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA (NIGHT CASTLE, 2009): Hall of the Mountain King is a bona fide metal classic, but Streets might be Savatage's finest moment from a musical standpoint. Based on a rock opera named Gutter Ballet (not to be confused with the 1989 Savatage album of the same name) that O'Neill had composed in the 1970s, it told the story of a rock star who'd fallen on hard times. He turns into a drug dealer and junkie, but eventually finds redemption. The closing ballad of the story, "Believe," is soaring, moving and absolutely amazing. O'Neill resurrected the song with a slightly different flavor as a bonus track on TSO's Night Castle to introduce the upcoming Gutter Ballet concept. The Savatage version happens to be one of this writer's favorite songs of all time. Give it a listen and see why.
PAUL O'NEILL: I wrote that in like 1979, and I've always loved that song. It's the end of Gutter Ballet, after this guy goes through all these unbelievable hardships. It's about redemption. The verses are designed to find the wound in the soul, and the choruses are designed to heal it. Jon Oliva sang the heck out of it on Streets, but I think Tim Hockenberry sang the hell out of it on Night Castle. It's funny because we were touring before we had released Night Castle, and Tim was singing "Believe." It's very hard, in an arena setting, to have a song that no one's heard go over well. When Tim was singing it, you could hear a pin drop in that arena. We once got a letter from a girl in Greece who was bullied in high school and was thinking about killing herself. Some of her friends gave her that song, and she sat in her room listening to it over and over again. She talked with her parents, they got her help, she went to college and now she's a doctor. That song made a difference. It's amazing somehow, the difference a song can make.
"CHRISTMAS EVE (SARAJEVO 12/24)," with SAVATAGE (DEAD WINTER DEAD, 1995); and with TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA (CHRISTMAS EVE AND OTHER STORIES, 1996): The pumped-up version of "Carol of the Bells" that has become the signature song for Trans-Siberian Orchestra has a long and checkered history dating back to the early 1980s. In fact, as O'Neill tells us, he tried to record the song several times before he finally found the right situation for it. Savatage's Dead Winter Dead was a concept album about a Serbian boy who falls in love with a Muslim girl during the Bosnian war, and O'Neill discovered a way to make the song fit perfectly. Now, thousands celebrate Christmas with the song every year, and it's a number that pretty much sums up what Trans-Siberian Orchestra is all about.
PAUL O'NEILL: Just shortly before I started working with Savatage, I had produced a band for Columbia called Heaven. The band was great. Mark Cunningham, who played guitar with Rick Derringer, was in it. We had done a cover of "Knocking on Heaven's Door" heavy metal style, and I had a song in my head called "Christmas Eve 12/24." I had this plan, and I had it all worked out. Les Paul was always playing a club called Fat Tuesday's. I was going to have him play the "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman" part, then when "Carol of the Bells" kicked in, he'd hand off to Mark Cunningham, then he'd hand off to the young guitar player in the band. It would be like handing the song down through generations. Then the label brought in a new A&R guy, who told us we need to make it sound like Animotion. I said, 'but this is a heavy metal band.' He told us metal was dead, and we needed to take the album and make it pop. That's ridiculous. Heavy metal will never be dead as long as God's making teenage boys. But they made the record pop, and "Christmas Eve 12/24" didn't make the album. That was the last record that I made without complete creative control. At one point, I tried to do the song with Badlands, but they weren't interested either. When we were doing Dead Winter Dead with Savatage, I heard the cello player (playing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"), and I thought I could put the rock band on one side and the orchestra on the other, representing the Serbians and the Muslims, with the cello being the lone voice of humanity. It was perfect.
"CARMINA BURANA," with TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA (NIGHT CASTLE, 2009): If ever there were a classical song designed for heavy metal, this is it. It's been so overused in the genre over the years that it's become a little cliché, but the symphonic approach of Trans-Siberian Orchestra managed to marry the heavy guitar versions with the opera original in a way that they had never quite been combined before.
PAUL O'NEILL: There's a magic to music. That's one of the reasons we put "Carmina Burana" on Night Castle, because that song really taught me the power of music. The first time I saw it performed was in the 1970s. A friend had tickets to a show in Germany, and the audience was filled with upper-crust aristocrats. In 1981, I went to see Ozzy Osbourne, and before he takes the stage, a tape starts and it's "Carmina Burana," and the kids went nuts. In the 1990s, a friend asked me to go see a band in an inner-city club, the tape comes on and the kids go nuts. Here's a song, with lyrics written in Latin in the middle ages by monks who hid them away because they were a little too secular and they didn't want to be burned at the stake, discovered in the 1930s and set to music by Carl Orff, and it connects with everyone from upper-crust aristocrats in Europe to metal kids and inner-city kids. I'd lay you good odds — any odds you want, really — that the majority of Ozzy Osbourne's audience does not speak fluid Latin, but it doesn't matter. It's just so well put together that it's mind-blowing. That's the power of music.
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By Brent Michael Davids, 1/9/07
"President Bush gave a very sincere and matured speech last night. It was visionary... It was a beautiful thing... Indeed" (David Yeagley, Horowitz Homey)1. Bush Homey: Jack Abramoff
"The war is going well... Where were our boys wreaking vengeance on the enemy? ... "There's power in the blood!" says the old 1899 evangelical hymn... we need the blood of warriors" (David Yeagley, Horowitz Homey)
Bush is draining the ecomony and the poor,
Losing a preemtive war of premeditated murder.
Bush thinks escalating troops is a good idea,
Bush practices torture and assaults individual freedoms.
Abramoff was Bush's homey, draining the Indians and the poor.
Abramoff was a Bush Homey — Bush's Token Indian Lobbyist.
2. Horowitz Homey: David Yeagley
Horowitz is draining away education and freedom,
Losing a proselytizing war on free thinking and reason.
Like Abramoff, David Yeagley is Horowitz's homey,
Proselytizing against Indians, Minorities, Women, Muslims.
Yeagley is a Bush supporter of this war of aggression;
Yeagley supports Horowitz's assault on individual freedoms.
Yeagley is a Horowitz Homey — Horowitz's Token Indian.
Yeagley is worse than Abramoff; The similarities are important.
Should America torture? Is the war really "going well?"
Bush wants to steal money, Abramoff helped him do it.
Horowitz wants to destroy freedoms, Yeagley helps him do it.
Examine the quotations below to experience Yeagley's
moral "character," reasoning "ability," level of compassion,
apparent "patriotic" bloodlust, and lack of basic decency.
David Yeagley — "A boy threatened to sexually assault the girls with a broom stick? Surely such a remark cannot be considered seriously. It is the refulgence of adolescent passion, and braggadicio [sic!] in the midst of a stimulating situation"
David Yeagley — "A woman in tears is a wonderful thing. The world wavers. History awaits. No doubt mankind is a mystical outpouring of a crying female"
David Yeagley — "The key to success here is to let women be utterly inconsistent, self-contradictory, and abjectly contumacious. If we can tolerate this, all is well"
David Yeagley — "I'm not going to tell Indians that our history is not tragic... Are we doomed to alcoholism, immorality, dissipation and disease? Are we doomed to see our men run after blondes and our women lie down and be raped by Negroes? Somehow, I don't see dissing Columbus as a solution to these problems"
David Yeagley — "From her [Miss Kentucky become Miss USA] brief interview, posted on the Miss USA site, she seems rather humble for one so beautiful"
David Yeagley — "Why am I talking to an Indian woman about this issue, where are the men!"
David Yeagley — "This is about an "enhanced" woman [Pamela Anderson] objecting to the "enhanced" chicken. It's about a woman given to the visual, whose false appearance is supposed to stimulate objection to animal cruelty... A pornographic icon is being used to merge the human emotion of conscupiscent [sic!] sexual indulgence with righteous indignation at the sight of cruelty to birds, birds with enhanced breasts, like hers"
David Yeagley — "The sexual aggression of the Negro, particularly when surrounded by those not of his race, is well known"
David Yeagley — "The darkness of the Negro has always repulsed other races"
David Yeagley — "Maybe the word 'nigger' should stay. It should be carefully defined, and refined, and it should remain... Nigger should be used when and only when appropriate....Nigger means unwanted, repulsive, and disgusting. Nigger means everything that is despised. Nigger means vehement and utter rejection"
David Yeagley — "It's never going to end. Blacks, African-Americans, Afro-Americans, American Negroes, whatever, have a perpetual ticket to glory in our wondrous American system. If they don't have a Cadillac, a house in a white neighborhood, money for college education ... then they've been wronged, and it's everyone else's fault. "You owe me!" is their mantra"
David Yeagley — "I just think it is neurotic and preposterous to make the sky fall because somebody says "n_gg_r," ... It is ludicrous, in fact"
David Yeagley — "Slavery, properly understood, is not an evil at all. True, the 13th Amendment is known as the Amendment which abolished slavery, but that was only as a commercial institution. Yes, the Amendment was passed ... in response to the hysterical rhetoric about racially-based slavery in the South"
David Yeagley — "And American Negroes today always think their experience in slavery was the worst ... That's only because their skin is the darkest"
David Yeagley — "Indian men...deserve to be at the bottom of the barrel....They cannot appreciate good will, they are possessed by envy, and have no higher thought than lies."
David Yeagley — "America did not commit genocide against Indians, and in fact was pleased to leave a good deal of land for relatively small population"
David Yeagley — "And how can anyone forget about the hundreds of thousands (does it reach millions?) of white people who were slaughtered by Indians, whole villages burned, women raped, then sliced to pieces, etc.? Who do you think did all the torturing? It wasn't the whites"
David Yeagley — "The Indian situtation [sic!] is not comparable to the Jewish Holocaust. Jews did nothing to anyone. Indians did....Like I said, it was a car wreak.[sic] An accident of geography and demographics"
David Yeagley — "It's their people that created America, not Indians. Only a diabolically self-righteous liberal politician would take America out of the hands that created it, and give it to those who either lost it, or never had anything to do with it"
David Yeagley — "Indian men... and also typical of black women, together, is just the kind of thing that says these races deserve to be on the bottom of the barrel. They cannot appreciate good will, they are possessed by envy, and have no higher thought than lies"
David Yeagley — "Judeo-Christian religion allowed the European Caucasian race to advance above all other people. The darker races now encroach through integration and intermarriage... "Maybe Hitler was partially right on 'the hated white race' thing"
David Yeagley — "The Holocaust terror at least had a racial divide of some kind. [I.e. as opposed to the French Revolution.]"
David Yeagley — "I new [sic!] a Jewish girl ... who once said, about Hitler, "You know...he was kind of...great." There is mixed reaction to the Nazi phenomenon ... primitive wonderment at its power and aggression... I think the Jewish girl ... was just being objective, being impressed with the incredible power Hitler wielded, and impressed with how he created that power... It's all about power... America values, made this country the most powerful of all... America is truly, truly great in the world. The Hitler thing is kind of an individual glory"
David Yeagley — "But their [=the Arabs] wives had indulged their secret desire to be ravished by the black 'ogres.' Stark racial contrast itself was sexually exciting to them. The more hideous and repulsive the man, the more sexual passion evoked in the female, and the more abandon she felt"
David Yeagley — "A Caucasian 'curl' in Asian hair? A bushy Afro on a white woman? ... How can the colored races be equal with the white race if they have to be doctored up to look white?"
David Yeagley — "Superior beauty is in the white race...In the darker races, everything is always the same, dark brown and black a beastly bore"
David Yeagley — "The white blood flowing is the purest I've ever seen"
David Yeagley — "Which Arab setting next to you on the plane, with his lovely wife and children, is not a mass murderer?"
David Yeagley — "Everyone knows, Islam is the religion of misery. Ask the feminists"
David Yeagley — "I'm beginning to think there's no such thing as racism. If there is, it is very rare"
David Yeagley — "He annihilated his foes without mercy. He filled their hearts with fear... Where is Dracula when you need him? Pacifists of the Christian Left, be warned. Had your ancestors thought like you, you would have no freedom to practice Christianity today"
David Yeagley — "Untill [sic!] Arab Muslims are all deported to their own countries, until there is at least a temporary ban on all world travel for Arab Muslims...Muslim leaders are pimps, and their murderous minions are whores. Whoso invites and harbors them deserves their plagues"
David Yeagley — "I have a theory that once a people or nation survives a great threat of extinction, that people become themselves aggressive expansionists, in their determination never again to be so vulnerable... it was men like Dracula who saved us... there is something in his ruthless conviction that we need today... Where is our Dracula today?"
David Yeagley — "America could easily level Iraq, with just the right bomb or two... I for one am terribly grateful for such a man as President Bush... Bravo, Bush. You are one brave man"
David Yeagley — "Well, Roman Catholicism is foreign to all of western Europe, in that it is not 'indigenous'."
David Yeagley — "The same people who want to remove the word 'nigger' want to remove 'Christmas,' and 'God'."
David Yeagley — "The Hindu people play well into the hands of the cause of 'Indian-izing' the dark races. Soon, Hindu people will be called 'American' Indian. All non-white people of the western hemphisphere [sic!] already are. It's only a matter of time and the people of Asia and then Africa will be called 'American Indian'."
David Yeagley — "The Mexican immigration problem is now a critical part of the Muslim plan to attack America"
David Yeagley — "But this wasn't a normal social encounter. This was a sexual encounter by nature, for that purpose, at least in spirit"
David Yeagley — "Sally Hemings ... was about one-quarter black. If she mated with a white man, and her child mated with a white spouse ... Sally Hemings black blood would become essentially extinct, I would guess. Some black baby might appear down the line, as a total surprise"
David Yeagley — "Liberals everywhere lauded the decision [i.e. to hand over property to illegal immigrants from Mexico as a compensation for physical assault], and denounced any manliness displayed by white American citizens, especially males"
David Yeagley — "I'm quickly loosing any respect I had for your ability to read, think, or comment... This is kindigarten [sic!]"
David Yeagley — "War, real war, can end 'terrorism'."
David Yeagley — "I know a lot more than you think I know. So watch out! ... I know a lot of things ... One day, I will reveal all"
David Yeagley — "If there is such a thing as a lie, as we all know, I dare say, there is such a thing as the truth"
David Yeagley — "I would welcome with most warmest wishes any white man or woman with real pride and respect for the race and it's accomplishments....I want to hear plans. I want to see ideas about how, where, when, in what way, to build a white nation"
David Yeagley — "The brave and courageous Japanese attacked us"
David Yeagley — "It is a wistful thing, to remember Pearl Harbor ... the dignity of war, the purpose of victory, and the value of the spoils"
David Yeagley — "What we really need is more news about what is actually being accomplished in Iraq in the way of progress. We don't need daily reports of bombings... I want to hear about it when one toilet flushes successfully"
David Yeagley — "The real problem is people here are AFRAID of Bad Eagle.... Remember I come from a warrior race. Says so on my genes"
David Yeagley — "I think genocide is a very relative term....Also, the germ warfare thing is hackneyed as well. It's been around for millenia [sic!]. No special horror, just the usual....War is war"
David Yeagley — "The White Anglo-Saxon Protestants created the American government... There is a sense of political/social/spiritual superiority in that aspect, I dare say"


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I've seen it many times, the bride and groom are so nervous and concerned about everyone else on their wedding day that they spend the day worrying.
I've seen it, too, where the bride is so caught up in the last minute details it takes her until the 2nd course before she settles down.
You've spent lots of time doing your research, meeting vendors and choosing the best people work with. Each of your vendors should be experts in their field. Let them do their jobs. You've got to trust and let go.
Do all your preparation, make your lists, have meetings with your vendors and be sure they understand your vision. Then when the big day comes sit back and enjoy what you've created. Let it wash over you like a beautiful wave. Let it flow. Some things may not go exactly as planned, but no one will know except you. So just stay in the moment and take it all in.
One of the biggest keys to making great wedding photos and portraits is to just relax. Allow yourself to be comfortable and enjoy. This is the way to ensure you look your natural best. Make sense?
And the more your guests see you enjoying yourself, the more they enjoy themselves, too. The last thing your friends and family want to see is you stressed out on your wedding day.
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It is so important to enjoy the day that you have been planning for 6 months, 9 months, 2 years, or more! You put your heart and soul into this day, and the advice I hear over and over again from trusted vendors: breathe. Make sure you remind yourself throughout the day to take notice of what's going on (even if you have to get your Maid of Honor to hit you over the head and make you pay attention :-). Live in the moment. You only get to live this day once so make sure you surround yourself with people who are passionate about doing a good job, and MAKE SURE YOU HAVE FUN! I guarantee if you are having fun, your guests will be having fun, and no one will notice that a different white wine was served or that Uncle Art hit the bar one too many times.


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The last time I posted here, I abruptly left after telling Dan dos Santos that I felt I needed to step away, and without too much detail, absorb and learn if I wanted to continue writing.
Not to sound so dramatic, but I don't enjoy sugar coating my posts. I like to speak from the heart, and try to cut out the cheese if I can. Problem was, I had been going through a tough time, both physically and mentally. I found myself not only disregarding my health, due to over-obsessing over my company and the work that followed it, but also mentally draining myself over issues I could and would never be able to control. Over the months, I've had time to think, meditate (if you can call staring at the ceiling such), and most of all, trying to grow. But then I hit another road block.
Recently, I found myself at the ER twice in a single month. Once for a kidney issue, and the other for a severe jaw infection from a shoddy dentist trip some two years ago. My left cheek bloated like a watermelon, a hospital gown on, I realized at that moment that I had to get my priorities in check.
This isn't a post meant to pine for sympathy, as my parents and loving girlfriend have supplied more than enough. Instead I'm trying to say in the easiest form possible, don't be an idiot like I was.
Now that I'm back on my feet, while still shaky, I requested to come back to Muddy Colors and talk from the heart, about the journey I've been on when it comes to building your own project or brand - if you can call it that - or more or less, doing what we've all come here to do; becoming a successful artist.
I'd like to thank Dan and the MC Team for allowing me to come back here, and I hope you enjoy what I have to write. While this post is several days older, as I wrote it on my own blog, I wanted to share a very important lesson I've learned and how disbanding social media (for the most part) has opened my eyes on what I need to focus on.
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Fourteen year old Hannah Smith killed herself the other week over alleged online bullying. That's tragic but I was disappointed in the response from the father, the media, and politicians in calling for clamp-downs, bans, and restrictions on social media. I can understand the father's reaction to some extent; he's trying to make sense of what is probably the worst thing that could happen to a parent but this is not the right way to go about things, especially when not of all the facts are out there. This sorry tale has now taken a rather odd, and perhaps sinister twist:
Bosses at Ask.fm, the social network on which hateful comments were posted to Hannah Smith, have controversially claimed that the vast majority of the messages were sent by the teenager herself.
An internal investigation at the Latvian-based website is understood to have analysed the user profiles from which the messages were sent.
They reportedly now believe the teenager set up a string of anonymous profiles and posted hate messages to herself.
They claim 98 per cent of messages had been sent from a computer with the same IP address as Hannah's with only four posts coming from elsewhere.
Leicestershire police are also said to be investigating a theory that Hannah's ask.fm profile could have been hacked.I'm not sure why this is controversial if true. If it is then the girl was deeply disturbed with ask.fm being the vehicle for her troubled thoughts rather than the catalyst or the cause. However, just because the messages were posted from the same IP address, it doesn't necessarily mean that Hannah posted them, it would just narrow it down to someone from the same household; a family member perhaps? The hacked profile theory is not plausible at all unless someone has not only gained access to it but also known and spoofed the IP address.
But who really posted the "hateful" comments to Hannah's ask.fm profile won't be known until ask.fm and the police have completed their investigations. What this case demonstrates well is that judgement should be reserved until all facts can be reviewed in the cold light of day; to have a better idea of the truth and to take away the emotion. This is particularly pertinent to politicians who frequently come up with crass and unworkable laws as a knee-jerk reaction to such tragic cases.


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Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI) has vowed to act decisively to protect the local textiles industry and save it from collapse.
Sector Minister, Mr. Haruna Iddrisu, said a task-force would be set up to seize pirated and cheap imports, arrest and prosecute the offenders.
As a first step, the ministry has begun a nationwide programme to engage and sensitise the various stakeholders, importers, distributors, retailers and local producers to have a better insight of the magnitude of the problem facing the textile industry.
The industry, which at a point employed over 50,000 people, now employs just about 3,000.
Mr. Iddrisu, in an address read for him at a day's workshop, organised by the MoTI in Kumasi, said the importation of pirated textiles, particularly from China and India, will not be allowed to continue, in view of the dire socio-economic implications for the country.
The workshop held on the theme; "National crusade against trade in pirated Ghanaian textiles" was attended by representatives of security services, importers, retailers, distributors and the media.
It sought to throw light on the damage caused to the economy through the flooding of the market with cheap imports.
Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, echoed the call to the people to patronise made-in-Ghana products to create jobs and wealth.
He noted that no country could achieve economic success, if it overly relied on imported products.
It was therefore time that the local entrepreneurs were given every necessary support, encouragement and incentives to grow.
Mr. Arde Acquah of the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) called for public vigilance to stop the pirated textiles, most of which were of inferior quality.


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Having a Chromebook connected to the internet is the best stationary EVER!! Using my Chromebook for my work has made me get better in lots of my work especially writing and what we were learning during the years. I've had my netbook for 2 years now.
On my netbook there is a lot of sites that I can go on or use to help me with my school work like Xtra-Math, MathWhizz, Google Drive,IXL, Study ladder and many other sites!
Using a Chromebook is way easier than pencil and paper. I say that because my Chromebook has the whole package! Like, dictionary/thesaurus, Calculator, note pad, etc..and...on my Chromebook I can go on this site called 'Google Drive', and its where I can do all my writing. It is better than using pencil and paper because when we are using our Netbooks we can use Google when we connect to the internet and instead of using a writing book to write in we open Google Doc to do our writing in.


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I actually got to go to game 2 last Thursday evening. It was THE MOST AMAZING GAME I have ever been to.
Then on Saturday, we went to Chickie and Pete's to watch the game, with our favorite side dish; CRAB FRIES!
Even Gabriel joined in the fun
Yes there was a lot of face painting. And yes, we had to wait until Sunday for the Phils to end the Brewers season...and Sunday was awesome! Here's to Pat "the bat" Burrell and his two long balls.
So I say, BRING ON MANNY and the DODGERS!!!
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PLATTSBURGH - To raise money to keep the local snowmobile trails kept up during the winter, the snowmobiles are coming out in the fall.
Next Saturday, Sept. 25, the fourth annual Grass Drags, Vintage Show and Swap Meet will be held by the five snowmobile clubs in Clinton County - Saranac's Mountain Lions Snowmobile Club, Ellenburg Center's Northern Adirondack Trailbreakers Snowmobile Club, West Chazy's Northern Tier Sno-runners, Plattsburgh's Trailgroomers Snowmobile Club, and Peru's Trail Finders Snowmobile Club.
"All snowmobile trails are funded through registration of snowmobiler's sleds. All money is really coming from the snowmobilers themselves," explained Peru's club president Mike Relation. "It is not tax money."
The show will be held at Airborne Speedway on Broderick Road, with gates opening at 9 a.m., registration held from 9 to 11 a.m., and races beginning at 12 p.m. sharp.
Relation explained there are different classes of snowmobiles, and snowmobilers are paired against one another depending on their class.
"It depends on the size of the snowmobiles, size of the motor, and whether you have studs in your track, you don't have studs in your track," he said. "They've got a regular technical crew that sort the sleds out so that you don't run your 1,000cc sled against a 200cc sled.
"You pay your fee, you come up to the line ... the light changes, and you put the pedal to the metal and away you go across the field," Relation added.
The day also includes the vintage show, which typically brings in 30 to 40 sleds every year, although Relation hopes more will take interest in it. The registration price for the show is $5 per sled, with a maximum fee of $20.
Spectators can also take part in the swap meet, which brought out Della and Roberts Sport Center with new sleds last year.
If you have any sled parts or related parts that you want to sell, or old sleds that you want to sell, bring them," said Miner.
Overall, Miner is just hoping people will come out and support the snowmobile clubs of Clinton County.
"We're trying, that's about all we can do," he said. "We'd like more people, we'd like more participation."
"Support your local club," Miner added. "Come out, have a good time. You can't have something if you don't support it."
Admission to the event is $5, and children younger than age 12 are admitted free.
For more information, contact Tom Highers at 643-8944, e-mail tomrh@ charter.net, or visit www.lakecitychoppers.com.


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Predators Fans' Booger-Eating Antics Caught on Live TV (GIF)
A word of advice to all of you sports fans out there. If you want to pick your nose and eat it, that's cool (okay, it isn't). But try not to do it at a live sporting event where dozens of cameras are scattered throughout the stadium.
Why, you ask? Well the answer is quite obvious (and, really, you probably aren't actually asking "why?"). It's because your booger-eating antics are that much more likely to be displayed for everyone around the world to see…and laugh at.
This Predators fan learned that lesson the hard way during last night's game against the Avalanche. But at least it looks like he enjoyed the quick meal.
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Meriden School Readiness
Jennifer Baglin, School Readiness Coordinator
Phone: 203-630-4222
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Meriden School Readiness provides affordable, quality child care slots for 3 and 4 year old children living in Meriden. Programs provide children with a School Readiness experience that can assure they will enter kindergarten ready to learn.
Fees are based on a sliding scale. Each family's weekly fee varies. The family fee is based on gross annual income and family size. To be eligible, your child must be a Meriden resident between the ages of 3 and 4. Full day and part day programs are available.
Click on the links below to learn more about the current child care locations in Meriden. Please call each center to see if space is available.
If you would like to be considered for a teaching position at any one of the community agencies listed below you can submit your resume here and your resume will be forwarded to the appropriate agency. By clicking on the link above, you acknowledge that your resume may be forwarded to a third party for a position that is not employment with the City of Meriden.
Center Preschool - 474 Broad Street - 203-238-2579
Catholic Charities: St. Stanislaus School Readiness - 81 Akron Street - 203-238-0845
Catholic Charities Child Development Center 61 Colony Street - 203-235-0392
Easter Seals Children's Academy- 125 Broad Street - 203-686-1438
First Congregational Preschool - 62 Colony Street - 203-634-8886
Women and Families Center - 169 Colony Street - 203-235-9297
Head Start Program - 398 Liberty Street - 203-238-9166
Meriden Child Care Center - 66 Crown Street - 203-235-8906
Little Spartans @ Maloney High School - 121 Gravel Street - 203-238-9166
Little Panthers @ Platt High School - 220 Coe Avenue - 203-235-8906
Little Hounds @ Hanover Elementary School - 208 Main Street, South Meriden - 203-379-1651


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"From fairest creatures we desire increase…" Shakespeare, Sonnet I
Photograph: Stephen Wise
Upcycling — The process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value.
Examples shown here include timber salvaged from old buildings and wine barrels. The furniture (top photo) is by Margaret Taylor of Dryads Home & Garden. The platters (lower photo) are by Ivan Hull of Australian Design + Marketing.
Europe 2 You is an Atlanta based company that handles upcycled products from Europe.
While addressing the World Business Forum in New York last week, former Vice President Al Gore spoke of the world "entering a period of consequences," with the climate crisis being the "most dangerous crisis we have ever faced." He cited the record setting heat and extreme weather events around the world in recent years, including the flooding of the "Grand Ole Opry" in Nashville, as examples of what's going on.
Among the causes of the problems we face, Mr. Gore pointed to business models and the power of technology, including the "short termism" of Wall Street — where transactions take place in microseconds and people tend not to think or care about the "long term." He also mentioned the world's population which has quadrupled in the last 65 years and the need for smaller families, through the empowerment of women and fertility management.
Mr. Gore's analysis and facts about climate change appear to be accurate, however he contradicts himself — in an important area, by advocating for smaller families as part of the solution. In other words, if the climate crisis came about because people failed to think and act in a holistic and organic way, then how can the solution be found in "managing" the size of families inorganically?
Bottom line, governments need to recognize the relationship that exists between economic, environmental and security interests, and work for a sustainable future with deeds and not just words.
Photograph: Stephen Wise
The tree came down in a storm and rested in this position for weeks.
Calls to the Fire Department (FDNY) to do something about it, by an elderly woman whose fire escape was blocked by the tree, were met with laughter. Finally at around 1AM on a rainy evening, the neighborhood was awaken by a thunderous bang, followed by a lot of swearing.
It turns out, an FDNY Captain driving up the street didn't see the tree and crashed into it — whereupon he took out a chain saw and finished the job. True story.
Photograph: Stephen Wise
Riverkeeper, a clean water advocacy group in New York, honored California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at their Annual Fishermen's Ball last night.
Some protesters, who questioned Arnold's worthiness to receive the honor, showed up to voice their displeasure.
To his credit Robert Kennedy Jr., who works with Riverkeeper, came out to talk with the protesters and even offered to help get them out of jail.
It's a national scandal that so many of the country's lakes, rivers, and streams can't be used for drinking, fishing or swimming.


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Scarry, Lies, and the Anthropomorphic Tradition
The first author I remember writing a fan letter to was Richard Scarry. I got back a reply on onion-skin stationery. It had an ink drawing of Lowly Worm and Dr. Bones, and typewritten word balloons showing their conversation about the artwork I must have enclosed.
Decades later, I realized that the drawing must have been printed onto that stationery, with only the characters' speeches added for me. But I didn't care. I still have that piece of paper.
It was therefore heartening, though not surprising, to see this comment in author-illustrator Brian Lies's recent conversation with Seven Impossible Things:
My favorite picture books were ones with detailed illustrations I could spend hours looking at--Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever, for instance... In addition to creating images filled with visual detail for such books as Bats at the Library, Brian also follows Scarry in depicting animal characters, with more or less anthropomorphism. He's moved from scratchboard to watercolors to acrylic paints, but the animals have been a constant.
At a Foundation for Children's Books event this fall, I asked Brian if he ever felt "typecast" because he's become so well known for his animals. He's great at creating furry faces with immediately recognizable emotions and personalities, but is he secretly planning a picture book with a completely different approach?
Brian replied that he's far from tired of animal characters, and finds he can express all that he wants through them. So we can look forward to more fine books in this venerable tradition.


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International Department
List of documents required
The intact for 2017/2018 academic years starts on 12th July and lasts till 1st November, on faculties of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy, English or Russian medium.
The student has to submit the following documents to the University on the arrival to Ukraine:
1. Original (and Copy) School Certificate with the subjects and grades.
2. Medical Certificate issued by the Department of Health in the student's Country at least two months prior to the student's arrival to Ukraine.
3. Original (and Copy) of Birth Certificate.
4. Original of Invitation Letter.
5. Passport and one photo copy (front page and page with Ukrainian visa).
6. 12 photos, size 3,5×4,5, matte.
Documents under pp. 1,2,3,5 should be translated into Ukrainian and notarized, under pp. 1,2 and 3 – legalized by the Ukrainian diplomatic or consular missions in your country. Read more…
General information
The University is one of the largest Ukrainian private schools, the only private medical university of such scale as: there about 2,000 people, among them 25% of foreign students from 56 countries, including 55 students from Nigeria. There above 400 staff members, not mention the administrative employees, has been working over the latest educational technologies, improving clinical and educational centers, equipment supporting departments, improvement of University logistics and students' comfort as well. Today the number of graduates has reached the number of 4,000 persons.


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The next Cardiff Support Group meeting will take place on Tuesday 2nd October 2012 from 11am to 1pm at Ty George Thomas Hospice Care, Whitchurch Hospital Grounds, Park Road, Whitchurch, Cardiff, CF14 7BQ
The primary aim of this Group is to provide a forum where people affected by PSP and CBD and their families, friends and carers can meet and give support to each other as well as having the opportunity to chat informally, make new friends and generally relax and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee.
We would like Groups in the future to be able to decide what they want from their meetings and be in full control of how frequently they meet, and what activities and speakers they would like to have at meetings – to do this we need volunteers to help run and organise the meetings, so if you think you might like to volunteer, please contact Wendy Crofts on 01327 356132.
The Group is open to all, whether you are affected by PSP now, are a former carer, want to raise funds and awareness or want to lend a hand at the Group – all are welcome!
Hope you will be able to join us.


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Good morning , you all!
I have already replied 2 of the 7 people who've tagged me and I've already tagged 11 people too. So , I am waiting for them to reply to me .
How it works:
1. Acknowledge the blogger(s) who've tagged you
2. Share 11 random facts about yourself
3. Answer the 11 questions nominating blogger(s)
4. List 11 bloggers
5. Post 11 questions for the nominated bloggers you 've chosen and let them know they've been tagged. don't nominate bloggers who nominated you.
Thank you for tagging me , dear Ana Maria!
11 Random facts about myself::
- I love Christmas and everything related to it! (songs, food, decoration, etc.)
- I love celebrating my birthday with a party and a lot of presents
- I prefer cold weather although I was born and live in a sunny warm place all over the year
- I love rainy days and the smell of the rain
- I'm afraid of most insects
- My daughter will get married in 2014 and I am really happy
- I love playing the role of a housewife but I hate ironing
- I'm afraid of diving. I'll never dive into the sea!
- I love watching all CSI series and similar on TV . LOL
- If I weren't a teacher, I'd probably be a lawyer
- I want to be a grandma ASAP!
Answering Ana Menezes
- Where did you live as a child? - Recife.
2. What was your favourite toy? - A doll called Suzy
3. As a child, what did you want to be in the future? - LOL Many things! But mainly a poilcewoman! Perhaps this is the reason why I love CSI and LAW & ORDER! lol
4. Tell us some things you are afraid of: Diving into the sea and cockroaches ( most of insects , actually)
5. Tell us some things you are good at: Cooking , organizing things and singing
6. Tell us some things you are bad at: Ironing. What a shame! LOL
7. Tell us about a place you'd like to visit and who with: GREECE , with Franklin, my husband
8. What do you normally procrastinate? Going to the doctor LOL ( I am the daughter of a doctor and the wife of another)
9. If you could choose a place to live , where would it be? Somewhere with cold weather : IN Brazil. Serra Gaúcha or Curitiba, perhaps a city in the countryside near São Paulo. Abroad, in England near London
10. What would you like to get for Christmas? First- class Air tickets and hotel vouchers (all paid )to go to Greece! LOL
11. What would you like to learn in 2014? More about education technology


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The Ma government keeps looking for an end around Taiwan's conservative financial regulations, which have protected the island fairly well from the stupidity and criminality that goes on elsewhere. Financial integration is a key goal of putting the island into China's orbit. President Ma himself noted in his Double Ten Day speech last month that he hoped the "free economic zones", 1960s style development zones, would include financial services, effecting getting them out from under Central Bank and other regulation. He said...
In addition, the free economic pilot zones (FEPZs) have already entered the launch phase. The Executive Yuan has relaxed 12 regulations to dramatically streamline customs procedures applying to pilot zone firms when they outsource processing operations, so that new operating models based on smart logistics can be gradually established in these zones. The Shanghai Free Trade Zone officially opened recently, giving us yet another competitor. Therefore, we must step up efforts to open up our market. The Executive Yuan is actively deliberating on whether to allow other industrial activities in the FEPZs, such as the financial sector's wealth and asset management services. This is the right direction. We should expand the scope of liberalization for both domestic and international financial and economic activities.Not so fast, however, says the Central Bank. I seldom source from WantWant since it is so pro-China, but in this case I'll make an exception. This WantWant piece's fuming at the Central Bank shows how closely Ma's policies align with those of China.
The central bank said that if the Taiwan dollar were to be traded in the free trade zone, then Taiwan would have opened its gates wide to the world, which it is not prepared to allow.It is hard to see how a system where all the financial transactions but those taking place in a certain zone are heavily regulated can ever function effectively. You can imagine that it would be laundering transactions from all over the world. Further, local banks would simply move transactions into the zone via paperwork to escape regulation. It would also make a nifty conduit by which PRC state banks could gut Taiwanese money policy simply by moving large sums in and out. The Central Bank's opposition is the correct move.
But the dilemma also lies in the fact that Taiwan has long isolated itself from the world's financial markets and has become a desert for foreign capital. If the government is currently planning a free trade zone that is no different than the system currently in place, the project is doomed to failure.
The central bank has cited the effects of the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the Lehman Brothers crisis in 2008 as reasons to lock the Taiwan dollar at home.
No doubt the memories of those financial disasters remain in Hong Kong and Singapore, but those two territories still consider it worthwhile to open their doors, judging the benefits to outweigh the potential risks.
Taiwan is urged to reconsider its policies regarding the international financial market and to take other countries in a similar position as examples. While other Asian financial heavyweights such as Hong Kong and Singapore compete to establish themselves as renminbi offshore financial centers, Taiwan talks the talk but remains petrified of taking the plunge.
Daily Links:
- Color pics from fifty years ago
- Michal Thim on how to make Taiwan integral to pivot
- Taiwan advising Indian state how to enhance math education
- Taiwan, Singapore sign trade deal
- Don't miss: J Michael on Chang An-le paying factory workers not to strike
[Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my blog and its sidebars for events, links to previous posts and picture posts, and scores of links to other Taiwan blogs and forums!


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I haven't added new music lately as I've been too busy with orders and also working through price changes (increases) for all Brass Wind publications. Most of the books have gone up by 50p. In some cases, I have left the books at the old price where I still have stock in, and I haven't yet finished the updates so if you order now you may get a bargain!
I have reluctantly had to raise postage prices - they have been static for two years now, and having reviewed my figures I have put them up by 50p. I should really have increased them when the postage cost went up in April, but with costs for many things rising fast, I have no choice but to put them up now. Sorry!
What's going on in the world of sheet music and online music shop VS Music Supplies, in the UK.
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Thursday, 5 November 2009
New This Week
This week I have added some mug mats to the gifts section on the website - here's a picture of one of them, but there are three other designs too. At £2.50 each they're a good price too!
I have added a number of pieces for double bass too:
- Armand Russell's Challenges,
- Clucas's Baroque Suite, which was premiered this year,
- Faure's Apres un Reve (Recital Edition),
- Hirta for double bass quartet
- Tony Osborne's Space Travel,
- Tony Osborne's Pizzicato All-Sorts,
For piano, we have Rock Ballads (with CD), Microrock (for beginners) and Riffs and Grooves.
For organ, we have an arrangement of Gershwin's Three Preludes.
For viola, Kreisler's Preludium and Allegro, and Hindemith's Viola Sonata in a new edition.
For cello, Cirri's Sonata in C Major.
For alto sax, two new publications: Jazz Ballads and Pop Ballads, both with CD.
More next week...
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Monday, October 30, 2006
The Machine Crusade/ The Battle for Corrin
Well- very readable, otherwise I wouldn't have got them finished by now, but as novels, rather than as historical sketches, they are ultimately very disappointing. Totally arbitrary changes in characterisation in many places (that of Ishmael is the most gratuitous and striking); no development of some of the most interesting characters; much less exploration of the philosophical problems - they even start reproducing quotations used as chapter headings that they have used several times before. Not good.
Glad I've read them - they've re-introduced me to the Dune universe so I'll now re-read the whole sequence again - but I can't see myself re-reading these ones.
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I thank the Lord Jesus Christ for the talent He has bestowed on all of us! I have been artistic all of my life and love experimenting with different mediums and techniques. This blog is my creative outlet to share my passion for cardmaking and papercrafting!
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Think Pink- Breast Cancer Awareness Month
13 comments:
- Lisa Hensley said...
love the look of the black ep on the pink!
- October 16, 2011 at 9:08 AM
- Dale Morin said...
Great card!
- October 16, 2011 at 9:55 AM
- inkedx2 said...
Beautiful card! Love vintage cards and yours is fabulous. Love the pink and black. Thanks for joining us this week at Hand Stamped Sentiments!
- October 16, 2011 at 10:54 AM
- Shannon said...
Wow Julie, this is gorgeous. LOVE the vintage look. The colors are so elegant and sophisticated! The distressing is the perfect touch. Thank you for joining us at Hand Stamped Sentiments.
- October 16, 2011 at 11:30 AM
Love the vintage approach to your card! The black and pink combo is wonderful. Thanks for playing at Hand Stamped Sentiments.
- October 16, 2011 at 3:56 PM
- Rachel @ The Little Blue Room said...
Such an elegant card! The black and pink are perfect together. Love all the wonderful details. So happy you shared your work with us at Hand Stamped Sentiments!
- October 16, 2011 at 10:51 PM
- Shirley Pumpkin said...
Beautiful, I just love the pink and black.. and the bow is Wowers! lol
- October 17, 2011 at 2:38 AM
- Patti said...
Fantastic design and use of the pink.
- October 17, 2011 at 8:01 AM
- Angela McKay, Stampin' Up Demonstrator said...
I am sooooooo in love with this card! You've thought of all the perfect details to finish it completely! Thanks so much for playing with us at Hand Stamped Sentiments this week! Hope to see you back in the future!
- October 17, 2011 at 3:10 PM
- Tammy Fite said...
So pretty--love the black and pink together!!
- October 17, 2011 at 4:43 PM
- Hi, I'm Lee Conrey! said...
Sp pretty and chic!
- October 19, 2011 at 6:13 PM
- Tiffany Bauer said...
WOW!! This is so shabby chic and right up my alley!! Love it and that bow at an angle is awesome too!!
- October 21, 2011 at 9:49 AM
- Selene Kempton said...
holy super sharpness!!! This is amazing!
- October 26, 2011 at 11:40 AM


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...began when the sea covered everything and the land was an ocean floor. As the water receded and the earth's crust began to dry and settle, volcanos spouted hot lava and mountain ranges were pushed high into the air. Remaining waters became rivers and streams cutting deep canyons, and some areas became so dry, deserts were formed.
This process of land formation took millions of years, and when the earth ceased its restlessness, it left a pattern of great variety and contrast.
The southwest corner of the state became desert, with craggy, barren mountains rising abruptly from its level floor. In the southeast corner, rolling hills with sparse vegetation and the "Wonderland of Rocks" developed.
Sweeping from the eastern border and curving northward through the center of Arizona a cool, green mountain and valley wonderland was formed. Its altitudes vary from 2,000 to 8,000 feet and are sharply cut by the Mogollon Rim, a sheer cliff extending for more than 200 miles and itself rising to heights of 7,500 feet.
Here lakes and streams were formed and the greatest stand of ponderosa pine in the nation grew. Above the Rim, near Flagstaff, a part of the earth was pushed up to a height 12,670 feet to form San Francisco Peaks, the highest elevation in the state. The peaks are snow-clad much of the year.
In the northeast corner, a vast desert-like plateau emerged. Millions of years ago its edge to the south was a part of a vast forest. Through the years, it was buried beneath volcanic ash, water, sand and mud and then uncovered again to become today's Petrified Forest National Monument, with fallen trees and now turned to varied-colored stone.
Farther north, the plateau was carved into strange rock formations and canyons which now bear unusual and picturesque names such as: Ear of the Wind Arch, Spider Web Arch, Monument Valley, Totem Pole, Mitten Buttes. Today this is the home of the Navajo and Hopi Indians.
To the west of the Navajo land, the elements seem to have made a last furious fling and left the Colorado River flowing a mile deep through the rainbow hued, wondrous Grand Canyon.
Man lived in this area 20,000 years ago. Traces of early agricultural civilizations are found throughout the state. High, almost inaccessible cliff dwellings still stand in silent evidence of another prehistoric race. Even the vast irrigation system surrounding Arizona capital city, Phoenix, follows a ancient patterns of canals used to irrigate the Hohokam farmlands with water from the Gila and Salt Rivers.
From tree rings studied, we know that from 1276 to 1299 A.D. there was a great drought which ended the prehistoric civilization. When Columbus discovered America, Arizona was inhabited by ancestors of present day Indians. The written history of Arizona began when the Spaniards sent exploration parties northward from Mexico. The first was a Franciscan priest named Marcos de Niza, who entered the territory in 1539.
Other Spanish missionaries followed and established missions to bring Christianity to the Indians. Tumacacori Mission, north of Nogales, was founded by Padre Kino at the center of an Indian settlement. This mission is now a National Monument. Padre Kino also laid the foundations for San Xavier del Bac Mission on the outskirts of today's Tucson, still used for regular services by the Tohono O'Odham Indians who live nearby.
After Kino's death, Spanish development of this area came to a halt. In 1821 Mexico declared its independence from Spain and eventually went to war with the United States. This war ended in 1848, and the land north of the Gila River became United States territory. In 1853 the rest of the area was acquired by the Gadsden Purchase Purchase. Then the great westward movement of our early pioneers began, and Arizona entered the phase of its history which has provided so much story material for books and movies.
Men came West to seek their fortunes - adventurers, prospectors, farmers, businessmen, builders. To protect them against the Indians who fought fiercely to keep back this change in their land, the army also came and built its forts. Only the most brave and hardy pioneers came until the last of the Indian uprisings were finished and final peace won in 1886. Development of the state then surged forward.
Arizona Desert Back in the ages of its creation, there had been formed in Arizona land great deposits of gold, silver, copper and other minerals which were now uncovered by the prospectors. Lusty new towns sprang up near the mines.
Great fortunes were made and lost, sometimes in a single 24 hours.
While prospectors were "striking it rich," other pioneers saw their fortunes of the future in another aspect of Arizona land aspect of Arizona land. Farmers cultivated crops along rivers and streams as had the Indians before them. Others brought in cattle to roam the range land. Still others saw Arizonans an ideal place to raise sheep.
Law and order were slow to catch up with the sudden growth of the frontier. Bitter gun battles broke out between the cattlemen and sheep men, each wanting the grazing land and water rights.
With the leadership of the pioneers themselves, United States Marshals finally made a peaceful territory of Arizona, where crops, cattle and sheep, as well as mining, all became important in building the future of the state.
In 1912, its lawless, boisterous frontier days behind it, Arizona became the 48th state to join the Union and its modern advance began.


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Last night, I came across Cornelle DeVille's blog. Like me, his blog is dedicated to "aspiring authors on their journey toward publication." A couple of weeks ago, he posted a recommendation for his fellow aspiring authors to take advantage of a set of YouTube videos posted by Martha Alderson, "The Plot Whisperer." I watched the first video and knew that I had stumbled upon a treasure.
I consider myself a writer aspiring to be an author; there is a difference. When I was in high school desperately trying to select a college major, my father asked me an easy enough question: "What do you like to do?" The answer was simple (or so I thought). I replied, "Write. I like to write." Up until that point, the only creative writing I had explored was poetry, and my exploration was both private and academically unsupported. My father had encouraged my love of poetry when he discovered my early pre-teen work, but, he could not fathom a "career" as a poet. So, with his direction, I decided to major in English with a focus on journalism. Ah, ha -- a way to make a living writing. And so I took the road most travelled, forsaking my passion.
Fast-forward nearly 25 years and I've come full circle...and the plot does thicken. I write most days in my professional career in public relations. I've been a freelance writer for national publications. I've written broadcast commercial scripts, press releases, features, newsletter articles, proposals, grants, annual reports, and more. I am handsomely compensated for my work; I am also completely detached from my work.
I am finally returning to the place where a young girl dreamed in rhythmic words and phrases to the delight of "herself." I am a creative writer without the benefit of academics to help nurture my craft. So, I'm starting from scratch and savoring every moment!
And thanks to Cornelle and Martha, I will be studying plot over the next few weeks. I watched the first of six videos posted by Martha. She began her "plot whispering" lesson with pre-plotting and character (which helps in the creation of my first character sketch for a YA novel). She offered simple questions to consider: What does your character want? What are they working towards, what's their goal? The goal, she insists must be measurable. OK, I can handle this.
Her first example, to my delight, was the wildly popular Where the Wild Things Are. In this story, Max's goal is to be a wild thing, to make mischief. Simple.
In response, I offer up three of my characters. Jasmine, who wants to be challenged. Chloe, who wants to stay hidden in her shell. And a little girl who wants to blend in. Believe it or not, I had not thought of any of my characters with goals. That short exercise connected and endeared me to these characters.
How Martha is going to guide me to the next step remains to be seen. Another blogger/author, Janice Hardy, and her Other Side of The Story blog reminds us that "Story is, but plot does." I have stories for each of my characters. I may also have weak plots. Who knows. I am an aspiring author with a passion for telling stories that children will love and a sincere desire to sharpen my writing craft to deliver on a promise. I will always be open to learning; it's a bare necessity.
Thank you for joining me on this journey. I can now honestly say, "I love what I do."
Always, Athena
Monday, September 20, 2010
The Plot Thickens
Posted by Athena Hernandez at 9:14 PM
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The crazy quilt star was found in an antique shop in Kansas. I have always loved crazy quilts; so the star came home with me to be placed in a frame.
What a beautiful collection of quilts in such a wide variety of forms. Thanks for sharing.
Very beautiful, and I love the framed star!
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I *adore* this post, Marilyn! I remember a few precious quilts from my childhood but, alas, none of them was saved! You are truly blessed to have these great quilted family memories. And since I'm a crazy quilt fan as well, I love-love-love that star. That is just an incredible blend of a traditional design with crazy quilt techniques. Wow!!!
A beautifully delightful post! Love all those old quilts! Thanks for sharing!
Hi. I came over to your blog from Isabel's and just love your quilts. thought your idea of framing the star was nice too. thanks for sharing. I will add you to my blog list, carrell
I keep thinking I want to make a quilt. Oh, there is just nothing like a quilt. One of my friends says that a quilt is a love letter written with needles and thread. Perfect, yes?