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I added this bag to my Etsy shop today. You can look here to see more pictures and details. I am mighty proud of this bag because it is my first ever completely original design. I've adapted patterns and added to patterns before, but this is the first time I've drafted a pattern from my own idea. So, take a look if you want!
I also renewed some of my expired listings, so in case you were wondering, no, I did not permanently close up shop. I have plans for several other new listings over the next few weeks, but first I have a huge bag of alterations to finish up (I've decided to exit the alterations business altogether after this) and whip up a bag that my sister's mother-in-law graciously requested from me.
In other news, just as I was pondering ridding my storage closet of a few tubs of yarn because there are no cool crochet patterns out there anyway, and I have decided I am just not a knitter (I think it's so cool-looking, but it takes forever), I came across this website. There are some great patterns for kids' toys there and some of them are even free. The for-sale ones are only between 2 and 5 bucks, though, and no shipping charges are necessary because they are emailed to you in a pdf file! So, if you like to crochet, go check it out.
Also, I was asked for the Sangria recipe I mentioned in a previous post, so I'll just put it right here for all to enjoy. You can make this virgin or not, ingredients for both are included:
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup orange-flavored liqueur or orange juice
1 cup vodka of lemon-lime soda
2 medium peaches or nectarines, thinly sliced, slices cut in half
1 medium orange, thinly sliced, cut in galf if desired
1 lemon, thinly sliced
1 lime, thinly sliced
1 bottle (750 ml) dry while wine or white grape juice, chilled
1 bottle (1 liter) club soda, chilled
In half-gallon glass or plastic pitcher, stir sugar, orange liqueur and vodka until sugar is dissolved. Into another half-gallon glass or plastic pitcher, pour half of vodka mixture. Divide fruits and wine evenly between pitchers. Refrigerate until serving. Just before serving, pour half of club soda into each pitcher; stir gently to mix. Serve immediately. If desired, serve over ice.


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Seasonal adjustments to the CS-HPI
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
In response to an email request that asked the question of how current seasonal adjustments compare to past seasonal adjustments for this time of year for the 20-City Case-Shiller Home Price Index, the following chart was promptly whipped up.
The scale on the left is simply the difference between the seasonally adjusted monthly change and the unadjusted figure, so, in the case of December, +0.3 percent minus -0.2 percent (as noted in the last post) results in about +0.5, which looks to be low, if anything.
Seasonal adjustments peak in January and given the fact that the precise data was not yet available when this chart was prepared, there's a built-in margin of error of +/-0.1, so, the most recent adjustment could actually be a bit higher, more in line with prior years.

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Hi crafters and followers, hope you are all well today.
My post for today is using tonic dies and my flowerr is the beautiful tattered lace lavish blooms poppy die.
My Shopping List
8x8 cream card
black card
cream pearlescent card
Tattered lace lavish blooms poppy
Tonic happy birthday sentiment die set
black gems
flower made with melt pot
- I have used an 8x8 cream base card followed by a piece of black card and then a piece of cream pearlescent card which I have embossed.
- I then die cut my main feature using the tonic happy birthday sentiment die set and attached that to my card followed by my flower which I made using the papers from a tattered lace magazine - they are just divine papers and superby quality.
- I finished my card off with some black gems and a flower made using my melt pot.
I have also purchased the christmas ones which you will be seeing into the future.
Thankyou for much for stopping by. Take care and see you all soon.


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And here I am.
After a crazy busy week, finally the time came... at 4 o'clock this morning.
Karl and Mayday dropped me at the airport for my first flight in the next 12 days.
Arrived at 8 am to Madrid, went home, had lots of coffee and then spent the day shopping for clothes that I may never wear again.
But hey... maybe I actually end up loving the "boating" style! ;-)
Other then that is weird to be here, miss the boys, miss the island!
Thank you by the way for all you support through all the week and through all this months of preparations, exams, stress, studying, more stress etc... I hope to make you all very proud!
An example of my new clothes:
Actually to don't get any temptation, I left them all in Ibiza!
It was so funny, because we were browsing around the shops with my dad trying to find the clothes that actually are NOT my style... but hey, c'est la vie!
And we ended up in Rip Curl (very me!). I went out of the shop with 2 amzingly hippy colourful bikinis and my dad looked at me and said:
" we have to get back on track, that's our first failure in the mission!"
Very funny! but hey look at this, is so me:
Compair with the "boating" stuff, a little bit of colour in life is good!
Boring... but retro... very VINTAGE!
Thank you for all my yoga friends as well for all your support and positive energy! I will miss you during this days a lot!
I will try to do some yoga tomorrow to avoid a heat attack (I'm so nervous and scared!)
I will post some more news tomorrow and hopefully all along, to let you know how everything goes!
Love to you all
ps: Borja and Karl: I'm very jealous about the amazing flabellina that you saw today on the Don Pedro!! It's so pretty!!


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Today, while I was waiting for my computer to start up, I was sitting here (in a bit of a daze mind you as I have not long woken up) loosely planning my day. I was thinking mostly about my free time this afternoon. Through the week I purchased the ingredients to make Choc Cherry Ripe Muffins so I'm going to make some of them as a treat for my family. Then I will have a couple of hours to myself, after dinner so I plan to create and scrap. Anyway, in my dreamy, just out of bed kind of way, I looked at my Louise Hay Desk Calendar which still had yesterday's date page and affirmation on it and I leaned over to rip it off to see what today's affirmation is. The universe is a funny old thing really, isn't it? Today's affirmation is: I am peaceful when I am creative. I let creative juices flow through me as a healing force. Beauty just naturally manifests itself. It still amazes me every time life and the universe line up like this. It exhilirates me and leaves me knowing that at times like this I have definitely found the path that was meant for me.
Anyway, by now your mouth is probably watering for the Choc Cherry Ripe Muffins so I thought I would include the recipe. I haven't yet made these but they sound easy and divine. Enjoy!
1 1/2 cups of SR Flour
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1 cup castor sugar
2 eggs lightly beaten
90g butter, melted
1 cup milk
1/2 cup white choc bits
2 x 55g(there are actually 53g now I believe) Cherry Ripe Bars finely chopped
Melted chocolate and extra chopped Cherry Ripe bars to decorate
Preheat oven to 190 C. Line 16 holes of 2 12 hole muffin pans with paper cases (1/3 cup capacity). Combine sifted flour and cocoa with sugr in a large bowl. Stir in egg, butter, milk, Choc Bits and Cherry Ripe until just combined. Spoon 1/4 cup of mixture into each paper case. Cook for 20 minutes or until cooked when tested with a skewer in the middle. Remove from pans and cool on a wire rack. To decorate muffins, spread some melted chocolate in the centre of the muffin (when cooled completely) and then top with a piece of chopped Cherry Ripe.
I would like to give credit to someone for this recipe however I'm not too sure where this recipe is from as it is one I have collected over the years. I tend to cut them out of magazines. It looks like it could be from a New Idea magazine (as it's titled New Food) and there is a lady by the name of Barbara Northwood featured throughout the article.


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Meet My New Studio
In The Beginning
In The Beginning
Some of you know that my husband and I recently moved to the lake. We had been shopping for a house for over a year and saving our pennies.
I remember buying this draftsman table fondly. We were living in Des Moines Iowa and I bought it for $15.00 at a garage sale. I proudly brought it home, parked it in the Dining Room Corner and called that my studio, much to my husband Toms disfavor. We were living in an old 1930's house. I still think of that house fondly. It was our first home and it was a fixer upper and we did it all.
At this time in my life I wasn't making jewelry I was mostly scrapbooking. It was after we had our second child. My husband graduated from Law School and I quit my job as a Product Manager of a Medical Supply Company. I left the 9-5 to stay home with our children, Ben & Kate. I do have to say it frightened me to stay home with my kids. I loved to work and I didn't know that being a domesticate would make me happy.
One thing I did know was that being creative would help. It actually worked out quite well. I would park my children at the table with some old computer paper with the perforations, I used to bring that home from work, you might remember those long reports. We would have crayons, paints and colored pencils and the creativity flowed from all of us.
It was wonderful and it kept me sane and happy. It also bonded me and my kids in a creative way.
Then there was a 6 foot table
Those that know me well know that my interests often jump around. I will be gang busters on something only to realize a month later that I hate it. Quilting was one of those. I vow never to make another quilt again in my life.
As hobbies go they become quite expansive. My husband realized that quite quickly that I needed diversions as a domesticate. That I would never quite be satisfied cleaning, cooking and carting kids around. We had moved to Savage, Minnesota. Where I got to graduated to having a spare bedroom as my place to create. You can see my blog on that space here.
So the Bucket List for me is all the things I haven't learned yet. Like solder, silver fusion, saw and to be honest the list is quite expansive. This area above is where I am hoping to spend sometime doing that in my new space. A plastic table I know isn't ideal so I will be looking for something to overlay or to replace. We all start from somewhere and mine was that draftsman table above.
When I started to make jewelry it was mostly for fun and for free. As hobbies go, they get a mind of their own and the jewelry became a business. So we added some additional storage to my expanding world.
Well this is a dream come true really. I would never of dreamed that I would have this wonderful space to create 10 plus years ago. This is were I will be doing most of my designing. I love having tables surround me. You can never have enough surfaces to work.
We all need a little motivation and caffeine is my friend!
My office space is here. I spend more time here than actually creating. Nothing but some good self discipline can handle that. That being said I love my new friends on Facebook. They have expanded my jewelry knowledge and helped me see what I was doing was important and relevant.
The hope is to adorn people across the planet with some of my jewelry, thus the shipping area. I have to say I am really liking this little space, it is perfect for putting the final touches on my packages and keeping me organized.
Function usually comes first in my studio but do like to have a small area to display some of my latest work.
Last but not least the most important person / animal needs his spot too.
I am so fortunate to have this wonderful space to work and to think it all started with that little draftsman table.
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Its May and that means peach picking time!! We actually went earlier this month but the peaches weren't ripe yet so we had to come back. Dad had to work this time but Bapa came with us!
Tiffany LOVES picking and eating the peaches! What is super cool is you can eat as many as you want while you pick :)


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Last Saturday, Shayna (my soon to be Sister-in-law) and I were given a double shower by some sweet women at my parent's church. It was perfect. From the beautiful flowers and colorful lanterns to the exquisite food, they worked very hard to make sure everything was in place.
The hostesses...Ada, Kim, Vicki, and Linda.
It is a good thing Zach was not able to come down for the weekend because he certainly would not have had a place to sit on the way back...my car was PACKED!! God has provided SO much for us through this shower...Harper is set!
Here are a few pictures to recap the day...
Vicki, Kim, Ada, and Linda-thank you again for hosting such a wonderful shower!! I hope Harper has such Godly woman in her life like you 4-as I have had.


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Just Exactly Where We´re Going I Can Not Say But We Might Even Leave The USAadmin | January 30, 2012
"Now baby, pack your leaving trunk, you know we've got to leave today
Just exactly where we're going I cannot say, but we might even leave
the USA" (lyrics Canned Heat )
One thing´s for sure, however,
we will never leave The Vintage Fairy Tales!
Thank´s for all your lovely comments on the previous post.
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This weekend, Vanessa and I watched a couple of flicks I like a lot.
I know I must be the last one on the planet to see it, but I finally saw Juno. And I loved it. It was quirky and interesting. At first, Jason Bateman's character was the only one I really liked. And then not so much. Vanessa and I have been talking about the prolife-friendliness of Hollywood movies lately. Those who advocate abortion as a solution to unwanted pregnancies come off as irresponsible and self-absorbed. This was true in Knocked Up, where she keeps the baby and in Juno, where she gives it up for adoption. Juno is highly recommended.
Last night, we watched The Lives of Others. I saw it at the library and was reminded that I had heard Rush Limbaugh recommend it a couple of times. I am so glad we took his recommendation. The movie is set in the 1980s in communist East Germany. It tracks the story of a writer under surveillance by the Statsi, East Germany's secret police. It is a touching, haunting, beautiful story that reinforces this little world-changing idea that "love wins." The Lives of Others is highly recommended.


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Now that we've gathered all our stitching tools in our well-chosen on-the-go around town or travel totes (see last week's posts), it's time to pick out a pattern and get stitching.
If you sign up over there on the right, you will receive a free Four Season's Forest embroidery pattern.
This is a great pattern for a beginner or a child or teen you'd like to teach. But it's also engaging enough for an experienced embroiderer who would like a create a favorite seasonal gift or the whole series of wall art for the year.
Whatever you choose, you're likely to come across a lot of patterns that call for the back stitch. I found the usual method of doing back stitch left my work rather weighty and bulky because there was so much crossing over of threads along the back. The normal method of stitching back stitch uses an awful lot of extra thread and I looked for an easier way.
Hurray! Cheater's back stitch is born!
It's so easy. I simple sew a running stitch going in one direction and then stitch backwards along the same line.
Back of the work.
I still make one stitch at a time. I have tried just sewing a line of running stitches but it creates a different look. But when I'm in a big old hurry, it can be done.
That's my dirty little secret. Don't tell anyone.
Want more? Embroidery School is on the way! This week I'll be unveiling a series of lessons you can refer to anytime: how to choose and use embroidery supplies, stitch guides, methods of transferring patterns to fabric, washing and caring for embroidered lovelies, displaying your work. It will be a tab at the top of the page and I'll announce it in my newsletter.
So sign up and get your free pattern and receive up-to-date info about Embroidery School!
You can practice lots of cheater's back stitch in this pattern.


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Pinball Machines - More Monsters!!
This last one is a litle weird. You've got Jack from the Shining at the top, Dune at the bottom, vampires from Fright Night on the table and I think the house from Psycho? I guess they were trying to put together a collection of characters from horror films, which makes it weird to see Dune on there.
You can dig through The Internet Pinball Machine Database to see more of these amazing, cheesy, bizarre, insane, awesome, pinball cabinet/table artworks.
So ends the epic journey through artwork in vintage videogames and pinball machines. I'll be doing another videogame series of posts sometime down the road.


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|The Pope in Shul - Photo credit: Forward
Not to mention his honesty about the Catholic Church's role during the Holocaust. Not having been in Europe and hearing all the accusations against - and defenses of it, he just doesn't know what to believe. He has therefore said he willing to open up the Vatican archives to find out the truth. Which he says is imperative. From the Forward:
"Opening the archives of the shoah seems reasonable," the future pope says. "Let them be opened and let everything be cleared up. Let it be seen if they could have done something [to help] and until what point they could have helped. If they made a mistake in any aspect of this we would have to say, 'We have erred.' We don't have to be scared of this- the truth has to be the goal."Wow. This pope may actually be a throwback to Pope John the 23rd - perhaps the man most responsible for Vatican II which changed the 2000 year old paradigm of latent Antisemitism based on Jews as Christ killers to one of near brotherhood.


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US Airways is finally climbing onto the Wi-Fi bandwagon. The airline said today it had chosen Aircell, the leading supplier of in-flight broadband connectivity, to install the service, starting early next year.
That leaves Continental alone among the legacy carriers in not signaling its intentions, at least, regarding Wi-Fi.
Aircell has already installed its Gogo-branded service on about 675 aircraft. AirTran and Virgin America now have it on their entire fleets. Delta, Aircell's biggest customer, has been busily installing Gogo and expects to have its mainline domestic fleet completed by the end of September. Not far behind is American, with United saying it also plans to install Gogo.
US Airways said that Aircell's Gogo -- which costs about $100,000 per plane to install -- will initially be installed on its A321 aircraft on "select routes." A map showing those routes is on the airline's Web site. [Good luck with that. I couldn't find it readily and life is too short to waste any more of a fine summer morning in the desert fiddling with the US Air Web site!]
Later next year, customers will be able to see if Wi-Fi is available on a specific flight by looking for the Wi-Fi icon while booking a flight on usairways.com, the airline said.
Pricing hasn't been set yet. Aircell's standard pricing ranges ranges from $5.95 to $12.95, depending on the length of flight and type of Wi-Fi-enabled device used.
Wi-Fi is the only major customer-service initiative the airlines seem to be going for these days. Now that Aircell has bagged another major airline, the big question is, what does Southwest do?
Southwest has been testing a different system in partnership with a company called Row44, which is Aircell's only serious competitor. Southwest is testing the service on four aircraft. Alaska Air has also tested Row44 on a single aircraft.
Southwest hasn't yet announced whether it will install Row44's Wi-Fi system on its entire fleet of about 535 Boeing 737s. Testing will continue through the summer.
If you're flying Southwest, there's no way to know at booking if your plane is one of the four with the service. But 24 hours before departure, Southwest notifies you by e-mail if it is.
There's a big difference between Aircell and Row44 technology. Aircell uses land-based cell towers, which means that Gogo is not able to provide service over oceans. Row44 is a satellite-based system, fully capable of transoceanic service.
It would seem odd that Southwest, which doesn't fly transoceanic, would partner with a satellite Wi-Fi company, but Row44 says that satellite delivery provides a faster and more consistent-quality connection than land-based delivery in which connections are shifted from one point to another on the ground.
Row44 won't say how much it costs to install its systems on an airplane, except to say that the cost is considerably higher than Aircell's installation cost.
Expect an announcement by Southwest on its intentions regarding a fleet-wide rollout sometime in the early fall, if not sooner.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
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Greetings Blasters! Have you decorated your Pod recently? We can all get super busy completing our favorite Math Academy games and trying to save the entire I.S.P. from aliens and asteroids. When you need a moment to step away from the heat of your missions and trainings, giving some extra flash to your Pod can help lighten things up here in space. To help give you some ideas for decorating your room, GC and I toured the halls of Spaceport once again to show you some of the brightest Pods of the month! Read below to see both GC and my picks!
Max's Picks:
Alex DarkMoon
Alex has turned his Pod into a full-on throne with these torches! This is a pretty fascinating set-up that is sure to ward off any Alien intruders!
Maya DarkSun
Maya's sports-themed Pod is an absolute touchdown in my book! We might not have your traditional earthling sporting events up here in Spaceport, but this room makes you feel as though you are always at your favorite sports arena.
GC's Picks:
Steph EmeraldBlackhole
Steph's room is all decked out in Spaceport's favorite color… Green! Even if we weren't biased for our love of greens, we were very impressed with her knack for organization. The placement of her desk, bookshelf, and plants really opens up the space in her Pod!
Robert OmegaFire
Robert's room is simple, but feels very well thought out. I love how the carpet matches the bed and chairs! I cannot help but also admire the large TV right in the middle of his room! As a big television fan myself, I appreciate a Blaster that keeps their TV in clear view so as to not miss a thing in their favorite Spaceport shows!
Well, this concludes our Pod Tours for the month of July! Are you particularly proud of the awesome room decorations you set up in your Pod? Send us a screenshot in the comments below and we would be happy to feature it in next month's Tours!
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Toddlers' Focus On Mouths Rather Than On Eyes Is Predictor Of Autism SeveritySeptember 29, 2008
Scientists at Yale School of Medicine have found that two-year-olds with autism looked significantly more at the mouths of others, and less at their eyes, than typically developing toddlers. This abnormality predicts the level of disability, according to study results published in the Archives of General Psychiatry. The research scientists involved in the study used eye-tracking technology to quantify the visual fixations of two-year-olds who watched caregivers approach them and engage in typical mother-child interactions, such as playing games like peek-a-boo. After the first few weeks of life, infants look in the eyes of others, setting processes of socialization in motion. In infancy and throughout life, the act of looking at the eyes of others is a window into people's feelings and thoughts and a powerful facilitator in shaping the formation of the social mind and brain. To read more, click here:


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CINCINNATI (TDB) -- Any minute I expect to pick up a map saying Cleveland and Toledo are on the Ohio River and Cincinnati is built upon the shores of Lake Erie. Because something is plumb topsy-turvy about the state. Its north shore -- the liberal Democratic heartland -- seems aflame with reports of Free Speech oppression.
Tom Suddes, my old colleague from the newspaper business, always contended the "mouthbreathers," his word for the crowd most uncomfortable with people who liked to exercise their constitutional rights, infested downstate Ohio. They were generally Republicans who had gun racks in every pick up truck spotted south of Interstate 80.
Could be he was wrong. Could be that NEO is now SWOhio. Could be the heat. Something is out of sort with Ohio's political map because anti-taxers managed to collect enough signatures in Hamilton County (ground zero of Suddes' mouthbreathers) for a ballot measure aimed at repealing a proposed sales tax hike for a new jail -- and NOBODY was arrested or pushed around by the authorities who imposed the tax. Contrast that to what's happened in the liberal Up North these past few days.
The anti-tax crowd is being hassled when they try to circulate petitions against a sales tax increase in Cuyahoga County. This follows a Kent anti-war protester being ticketed for sticking an "Impeach Bush" sign in a public garden last month. And it fits right alongside Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner's Aug. 12, 2007 order that closed a public park so anti-Nazi protesters from the University of Toledo could not raise cane about the fascists in our midst.
There's more. Gloria Ferris had a difficult time trying to collect names on anti-tax petitions near Jacobs Field, where a cop and security guard tried to keep her at bay. Gloria said:
"We weren't there ten minutes when we were told that we would have to move along by a security guard. I asked where we could stand, and he said I will get my supervisor if yo want. I said no don't bother I will ask that Cleveland Policeman over there. The security guard very politely kept insisting I should speak to the head of security at Jacobs Field. Probably because the police officer said he didn't know what was public or private.
"By that time, someone else in our group had talked to the head security guy who told him that three feed from the street was public . . . Of course, the cop told us that the three foot stretch would be too dangerous for people so our best bet would to be on the other side of the street. These locations were simply feeds into the main area and were not efficient for gaining large amounts of signatures."
And this is what the Toledo Blade reported today about the decision to close the park to the University of Toledo students who wanted to express concern about the Iraq War and supporters of Hitlerism. Sadly, they were prohibited.
By comparison, the land of the mouthbreathers has been pretty tame. People can complain about taxes, abortion (Cincinnati-based judges have been dismissing cases against abortion protesters) and, one supposes, even Nazis. Nobody in power seems to get their nose out of joint. Of course, they don't breath through their nostrils.


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Looking at the platform, this had to be done by a bunch of engineers. It's a pretty funny joke on the groom who thinks he's jumping from a high platform rather than a few feet above a small pond.
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ABC will announce the season 11 cast of Dancing with the Stars tonight, but the rumors have already been flying about potential cast members.
Every season boasts at least two sports stars, this season's rumored stars are former Los Angeles Lakers forward Rick Fox and retired Arizona Cardinals QB Kurt Warner.
Fox is no stranger to the spotlight with multiple television roles and co-starred alongside Angela Bassett in the 2007 movie, Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns.
Athletes have traditionally performed well on Dancing with the Stars. In 10 seasons of DWTS, five champions have been athletes, the last being Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson.
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It's made of plain old construction paper and some red gingham print ribbon. It was super simple and super cute! I think it went about 1 or 2 months out. I cut the ribbon long enough to hang it on the cabinet. Jump to the last photo to get an idea of what I'm talking about. Each day had the date and the number of days left written on it, and each day we got to tear off a page. Fun!! Unfortunately any before pictures I have are missing somewhere in the depths of the computer. However I do have some action shots!
Here I am pulling off Day 43.
This was sometime in June, June 6th I think... It was also the day of Holly's wedding which is why I'm looking so gorgeous. I know I don't look it yet, but that's because the light is bad and my hair isn't dry yet. Don't believe me about how beautiful I ended up?
Tada! Told you :)
Here's me, suspiciously pulling off June 13th. Perhaps I'm rethinking the engagement? Nah! Probably just rethinking the photo op.
Stephen and I pulling off the final day - this was when we came home after the rehearsal dinner. Our final hours as singletons!
Zero days left! Hooray hooray hooray!!


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The chapter that starts it all. Chapter One is basically an extended controls tutorial, which is pretty handy for someone with two left thumbs. (Harr, harr.)
Still, there's meat here: we get Dr. Breen on the terminal screens, trying to convince us of the benefits of our 'Benefactors,' including no longer needing or wanting to have sex. He makes alien overlords sound so appealing.
Our fellow survivors paint an even grimmer view. We get our first hint that things have gone awry in the intermittent years when we speak with a woman at the gate.


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A New Place to Live
01. A New Place To Live 6:40
02. Go Away From Here 2:28
03. Summertime In The Winter 3:14
04. Standing On The Edge Of An Island 3:43
05. When You Wake Up In The Morning 3:15
06. The Dream Stage 7:25
07. Easy Does It 2:03
08. The Moon Tune 2:49
09. Oh This Jailhouse 7:04
Artwork – Nancy Wagner
Conductor, Producer, Written-By – Bob John Gallo (tracks: A1-A5,B1,B2,B4)
Guitar – Richard Zito
Narrator [Poems Recited] – John Zacherly
Vocals – Joey Carbone
A concept piece seemingly based on American psychic Edgar Cayce and a bizarre mixture of ecological concerns, history, religion, social commentary, and probably way too many illicit substances, the album sported one of the strangest plotlines I've come across. To quote the liner notes: "Due to recent occurrences in the world, I would like to bring your attention to my concept album " A New Place To Live". Written by Robert John Gallo more than two year ago. Its meaning and significance take on a frightening yet truthful aspect now that the earthquakes and other disturbing occurrence of nature have begun." Some of you will swear I'm makin' this stuff up. I'm not and I've gone to the extra step of embedded the song-by-song liner note comments along with my own thoughts:
- "Side one opens briefly with the poem 'A New Place To Live' depicting the creation of this planet and how it will destroy itself." The title track opened up with a nice atmospheric instrumental section, before shifting over to an extended spoken word segment. Backed by some tacky sound effects (ticking clock, theremin, explosions), John Zacherly managed to somehow keep a straight face while setting the stage for what was to come. It actually sounded a bit like Captain T. Kirk spouting some sort of campy Federation manifesto. The song ended with a rock-cum-progressive tinged segment.
- "We move to the first cut which is about the prophet Edgar Cayce who made the prediction many year ago of a disruption in the San Gabriel Mountains - which did occur recently. The prophet is attempting to warn the people about this disaster but had no success." Say what you will about this project, Joey Carbone had a nice voice and managed to get through the pop-tinged 'Go Away From Here' with his dignity intact. One of the most accessible and enjoyable tracks on the album.
- "The next tune takes place at the present time along the Eastern Coast of the United States. The song 'Summertime In The Winter' is self explanatory." Kicked along by some tasty Rich Zito acoustic guitar and another poppy Carbone vocal, 'Summertime In The Winter' blended another highly commercial melody with some of the album's darkest lyrics.
- "The fourth cut on this side reminds us of the Atlantis legend - that when the end came only a few people were mart enough to escape via the sea route thus bringing 'Standing On The Edge Of An Island' into focus." Okay, I'll admit that I never would have gotten than message out of this bouncy slice of cocktail jazz tinged pop.
- "The last song is about the pollution problem (which we are all aware of) and how the atmosphere, because it is so full of garbage is cutting off our only supply of heat and light; the sun. End of side one." Okay, the message may have lacked a bit of subllty, but 'When You Wake Up In The Morning' had a good heart, some biting Zito fuzz guitar, and a bouncy bubblegum-ish melody that would have let you overlook other shortcomings were it not for the totally unnecessary country segment that popped up in the middle of the tune.
- "Side two begins with 'The Dream Poem' the state in which Edgar Cayce and man originally derived all their basic thoughts. The Dream Poem shows how most occurrences in dreams actually do come to pass. In relation to our story one subject has a nightmare about the "end" which he feels is relevant and soon to come." Zacherly's back with another extended spoken word segment that ends in what I'd imagine sounds like a bad acid trip, complete with trippy sound effects, echoy vocal snippets, and other goofy touches. Curiously the track listing doesn't even show this track.
- "The first song to follow the poem 'The Dream Stage' is the part of man's life when he is awake yet not concious." I won't comment on the lyrical content (it is what it is), but musically this one offered up a cool slice of '60 pop-psych influences. One of my picks for stand out performance.
- "The second cut 'Easy Does It' explains the idea of an escape route or pattern to those who do believe." Had it been recorded for a conventional album, 'Easy Does It' probably wouldn't have made much of an impression, but here the combination of pop hook, Greek-flavored instrumentation (wonder if Zito was actually playing a balakaika ...)
- "The third tune suggests the Moon as a possible escape spot - thus 'The Moon Tune'." Showcasing Zito's fuzz guitar, 'The Moon Tune' was another sterling pop tune, marred by some truly goofy lyrics. I can only hope that Carbone was paid well for his efforts. This one would have sounded good on the Carbone-Zito "Snowball" album.
- Now we leave what is so far fact and continue without frightening sojourn into realism. The people finally put our prophet in jail because he is the cause of mass confusion among the world's population. In this selection 'To the Jailhouse' he sees the end clearly and exclaims "When these walls come tumbling down, then I'll be free ! Yes, I'll be free." Another nice pop tune with a bouncy country tinge that would have been far better had it been written and recorded a straightforward pop tune.
- "Following the jailhouse scene is the prayer to the heavens. It seems that when all else fails we always look up to God - as a last resort. But it is too late for the prophet (who was actually a messenger of a sort from the heavens), and his warning have gone by unheeded. Thus all prayers go unheard as the thunder starts and the end begins. The earth crumbles; armies fighting; mass confusion. All of which is occurring presently. The end is evident and out prophet who had somehow hoped to save the old world is now hoping to find a new and pure world - a new place to live. 'Finali (Oh Dear God)' was another track that didn't show on the track listing. It started out sounding like a Gregorian chant and ended with another Zacherly spoken word segment and a slew of backward tapes and sound effects. Not exactly the most cheerful ending you could have imagined.
I own a couple of Gallo's solo albums and this one is unlike any of those other releases. This one is simply so strange that it almost qualifies as a classic ... image an aural version of Edward D. Wood' Planet 9 From Outer Space. At the same time, several of these song were remarkably catchy and commercial. Released as part of a more conventional album, they could have attracted considerable commercial attention.


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Monday, September 13, 2010
By Request
It was 34F this morning. J was kind enough to start a fire before heading out to cut firewood. Beans, Nugget, and I snuggled in the big bed, pulling the blankets up over our heads, and waited for the cabin to warm up.
Sweater Weather is my all-time favorite. The sun is lazy to rise, and this morning I had coffee brewed before the sun peeked above the treeline. I'm not much of a morning person, but Autumn makes it easier.
As the fire heats the log cabin, the scents of coffee, woodsmoke, and coffee cake (gluten free, of course!) mingle.
The roosters crow indignantly at the hens who dare eat breakfast without satisfying their breeding desires. This is the dance of the morning. The cackles of hens and cries of their jilted lovers mingle with the clatter of pots and pans, and little girls arguing over blocks or books or dollies.
I have a few moments yet to savor some sunrise and some espresso roast, then our day must begin in earnest. With the morning temps so close to freezing, the autumn chores can wait no longer.
JackDaddy- sounds like you left around the same time we did? (May 08)
I was originally there because of MAFB. My original reason to be there left. I finished up medic school and stayed a few more years. J was a govt civilian at Maxwell and Gunter. In addition to working with Haynes Ambulance for some time, I also worked as a medic on the base (Same company, but under contract). Knew lots of folks from the base because of it, and lots of lab owners too! :)
By Request: some recipes
Don't forget, you can sub milks and such with whatever your dietary restrictions are pretty easily! And send feedback! If I ever get past blogging and writing my crappy memoirs, maybe I'll write a cookbook. Or open a gluten free bed and breakfast. Or start marketing my recipes. Or just keep cooking yummy stuff for my kiddos...
*use a round cake pan or springform pan for best results. Um- square would probably be fine too?*
Prepare pan: spray with nonstick then dust with cornmeal
in large mixing bowl:
1/2 c quinoa flour
1/4 c sorghum flour
1/4 c corn starch
1/4 c tapioca flour
1/4 c arrowroot starch
1-2 Tbl Teff flour (adds texture and nutrition. Can do without if you don't have it)
1 tsp xanthan gum
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 ounce yeast (I think it worked out to 2 tsp if you dont have a scale?)
1 Tbl sugar
1 tsp olive oil
3/4 c WARM water (110F ish)
blend until moist, then beat with electric mixer on high for 2 minutes. Spoon into pan and spread dough to edges. Cover and rise 40 minutes or until doubled. Drizzle with olive oil and add any spices you like. (we do plain sea salt)
Preheat oven to 400F
Bake 20-25 minutes. Crust should be golden or beginning to brown and bread should be cooked through.
Has delicious chewy consistency that most glutenfree is missing. (Reminded me of domino's pizza crust, actually! Or bagels. Or a hundred other yummy delicious things we can't eat anymore! Crisp and chewy!)
And another recipe I tried yesterday. This was so good that even my pickier eater ate three servings of, and asked me to make again today.
You can use any kind of fruit you want- we used peaches and rhubarb. If you use a particularly wet fruit, adjust your liquids.
If you have leftovers, refrigerate and then reheat in the OVEN, or it will be soggy ickiness instead of yummy deliciousness!
Honestly, it reheats okay but next time I would probably half the recipe.
Fruity Coffee Cake:
3/4 c sorghum flour
1 c brown rice flour
1/8 c cornmeal (adds texture. Can skip if you wanted)
1/4 c tapioca flour
1c sugar (can use 3/4 if using sweeter fruit than I did!)
1Tbl baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp xanthan gum
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 c almond milk (can use subs!)
1/2 c oil
2 eggs
1-2 tsp seasonings (I used Ginger in this one. Cinnamon would have been good too!)
2 cups chopped fruit of choice
Preheat oven to 375F
Mix dry and wet ingrediets seperately, then combine, stirring until moistened and no lumps. Add fruit and stir to coat evenly. Spread into 9x13 pan (cooking spray helps!) and sprinkle with "fancy" sugar. (or regular sugar. Or make crumb topping if you can have butter. Or just bake the dang thing!)
Took about 30 minutes, I think? Top with be lightly golden and you should be able to have a toothpick come clean.
In the words of Beans, "I yike it! I even ate a peaches and it wasn't uh-skust-ing"
(NOT a fan of peaches, can you tell?)
she ate three adult sized pieces of it.
Beans mostly smeared it in her hair, along with some bacon grease for good measure. But she ate more than she put in her hair.
J declared it "awesome" and told me I should enter it into te Rhubarb Bake Off contest next year.
Must have been pretty good!
Off to start the farm chores and put a nice soup on to simmer. 'Tis the season for soup!
Until Next Time,
Happy Moose Trails!
6 comments:
- Gloria said...
It sure sounds like the season for soup up there! Thanks for the recipies! I am passing them on to a friend at work who is gluten free.
- September 13, 2010 at 1:49 PM
Thank-you for the recipes!!! Hubby's gonna Love them!! :)
We are seriously changing our eating habits mostly due to allergies, but also I'm taking on-line classes for "Nutritional Consultant" we want to eat healthier so these recipes are perfect :)
Keep Cookin Girl!! You Rock!!
- September 13, 2010 at 4:37 PM
"Honestly, it reheats okay but next time I would probably half the recipe."
Halve is the verb form...
Half is the adverb...
(Halving is the present participle for of the verb halve. ( Not to be confused with calving which produces either a calf, or an iceberg. ))
Thus ends the cabin school lesson...
- September 13, 2010 at 11:53 PM
- Life in the Heavrin house said...
Coffee cake is in the oven! Thanks, I was looking for something different for breakfast this morning!
- September 14, 2010 at 6:51 AM
Found a Jerky recipe for you:)
1 1/2 Lbs Flank Steak
3/4 cup wine vinegar
1/2 cup Worchestershire sauce
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
1 minced garlic clove
1/2 large onion diced
cut meat into 1/2 think slices. combine ingredients and let marinate in frig overnight. Lay meat on cookie sheet and bake 150 degrees. cook 2-3 hours. Turn pieces over and dab the meat to absorb the grease. Cook another 2-3 hours until all meat is dry. if moisture is present then meat is not cooked throughly.
I have never made this recipe before I was searching my cook books and came across this one and thought I would post it for you. If there is any ingredients in it that you can't have I'm sure you can tweak it :)
Let me know if this works....if not I'll keep searching:)
- September 14, 2010 at 6:54 PM
- LadyA said...
Can't wait to try those recipes.. thanks for taking time to type them all out. Gluten free is necessary for us too, but sometimes tastes like crap.
BTW love love love the blog. We were going to move up there 10 yrs ago but ended up staying in the Rockies.. now I can live vicariously through Moose Nuggets :)
- September 18, 2010 at 2:04 PM


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Don Patrizio Poggi, who served a five-year prison sentence for abusing teenage boys at his Rome parish, also told Italian authorities a former Carabinieri police officer recruited boys for nine clergymen, IBTimes reports.
Poggi told the police: "I decided to file this complaint and cooperate with the law after long reflection and after a painful history of abuse and misuse of power that I have overcome thanks to the faith that guides me."
The 46-year-old, who has complained that the Vatican refused to reinstate him after he completed his prison sentence, added: "I feel obliged to protect the Holy Church and the Christian community since I am aware of grave facts that undermine their integrity and break canon and penal law."
Poggi has reportedly handed the names of 20 alleged child abusers in the Roman clergy – including four serving priests and a Monsignor - to the authorities.
More at huffingtonpost.co.u


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Can you say F-I-N-A-L-L-Y?!?!? My Prima-Share with Jody was mailed to me on the 24th of May, and I just finally got it today, June 26th!!!! Apparently it either sat in customs for three weeks or sat in the military post office...but I don't care at this point. I'm ready to PLAY! And seeing as how I'm impatiently waiting for the new Stampin' Up catalog...and I fear it won't come before it's released online July 1st. Some stateside demonstrators have had theirs since Saturday, but I may not get mine anytime soon (did you read my second sentence??? Apparently shipping is not going well right now!!). It really sucks!!!
So anyway, I'll play with my new Primas (the Sprites versions in a variety of colors, although due to a manufacterer glitch many of the same colors were sent to Jody, so I got duplicates of the green primas. No matter: a prima is still a prima, and I'll use 'em! They actually match some of the SU greens pretty well, so I'm excited to start adding them to projects. Yippeeeee!!!!!


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Sunday, May 22, 2011
Our Fallen World
My sense is that he was on a typical trajectory. Easy going kid hanging out with friends, having a good time, living for pleasure. No sense of anything greater than doing the next thing. No sense of how his next thing might come into conflict with someone else's next thing.
The church is not having much impact this age group--high school and just after who aren't headed to college. Those who try mostly just come off as preachy. The trajectory of the government toward his demographic is either to reinforce the status quo (Democrats) or to worsen it (Republicans). I have heard of some Christians who move into neighborhoods without meaningful trajectories and actually live out good news, give hope, give healthy distraction.
God save us from ourselves and send us some true prophets...
10 comments:
- Robert said...
Dreadful. I remember the sense of shock a few years ago when a couple of girls were gunned down not far from here. It was some idiots having a go at a rival gang, and they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- ::athada:: said...
I remember the many privileged, Christian observations of Marion. What a horrible city, violent, dirty, ignorant. Can't wait to get out.
I often wondered whether they were interested in ministry, in living the Christian way, or more interested in living the life of a TV sitcom.
The challenge, somehow, is energizing youth to be strangely magnetized toward the margins, toward the suffering and hurting centers where hope is needed.
- Angie Van De Merwe said...
It does not matter what anyone does, as there will always be "evil" and there will always be those that judge you for not doing something about their particular "conviction" or passion......there are those that have moved into neighborhoods to "redeem", but these too can only do so much....and they obviously feel "called to it". This is their passion and heart.
::athada:: Does that mean if one doesn't have the "same passion and heart" for such as these that they are not Christians....You should have "faith for yourself", then...and not judge others for what they don't have faith for...or about...
Community mindedness is a matter of where one desires to serve or be of service. We certainly decided after driving through Marion 16 1/2 years ago that this was not the place we wanted to raise our children...but then, we reconsidered, because we "felt called to the university"...by coming here we gave up much, does that mean that because we don't give up our time and efforts to orient ourselves to "the poor", that we are less than "Christian"...being a "Christian is a matter of definition, and once one's definition is undermined, then the questions about Christianity itself begin....and one can assess what one really is interested in....not for being considered a "Christian" but for the value of the interests itself...
- ::athada:: said...
I'm never sure quite what you are saying, but I'll respond thus:
*I only worked in Marion 2 yrs after graduating, then left, so I'm not throwing stones. From a Christian perspective, I personally believe we must have a preferential option for the poor because, as Phillip Yancey points out, Jesus' upbringing and ministry shows that is exactly God's priority. Some Christians will have a deeper calling within that and will commit themselves to that work more intensely and specifically. Different, not better.
*"faith for yourself," in as much as it is Randian, to me seems to be a low ethical bar, even for non-theists. If you aren't a criminal, pay your taxes, and take care of yourself - ok, at least you caused no harm. But I know and read of many non-theists who have developed a deep sense of care for other humans and the rest of creation - I think we can strive for a better world, whether or not we believe in a God or gods. Does that make sense?
So Marion is certainly not for everyone, but I just lament that Christian ethical teaching seems not to have penetrated very deep in most believers (myself included). Following up Ken's lament of this world, and hope for a better one.
- Angie Van De Merwe said...
Then, the question is (if theists and non-=theist agree) what is to be "mandantory"....or mandated....? Can it be, if we want to live in a free society? I tend to resist any type of "standardization" of "right behavior" concerning the world and all that is, whenever I "smell" co-ercive Statist or busy-body modus operandi!
What does anyone know about what another really has done or is doing, unless they judge it by outward actions that can be seen? That is setting up a society where "The State" or Moral Policemen set the standard and determine whether it is being carried out or not...and such thinking is similar to making sure that one is doing one's liturgical duties, by taking communion, etc... I believe that most everyone is doing something that makes for a better society or world, even by raising one's children or babysitting another's child. That may not be seen by those that are expecting some other type of service...service does not have to be a specified action...but a matter of personal choice, value and interest... and yes, I am defending autonomy of decision and choice.
- ::athada:: said...
You are reading in things that were not mentioned or even insinuated (moral police, a government forcing a given ethical code, etc).
I mention Rand not for her laissez faire applications to big political structures, but for her advocating a personal narcissism that caves in on itself into a black hole ;) If I wanted to be an animal, I could move back to the jungle. That story is old. I'm interested in becoming more human.
- Angie Van De Merwe said...
Then, I will leave out the government language and say that only the individual can determine what they will or won't do...that is unless some entity thinks they can morally perfect the individual...their babysitting, being involved in their children's lives, extended family duties, being a good neighbor, and other activities do not meet the standards that are to "perfect" the person...they aren't Humane EnOUGH!! or they do not "love till it hurts" (that's a good gauge, I suppose for some, to determine whether one becomes "like Jesus, that is, making sure that perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord, will be inhumane to create more humaness! That makes perfect sense!)
- Angie Van De Merwe said...
It like saying that if one abuses a child, then they will learn to be kind and considerate!!! That makes sense, eh?
Or if one controls the choices of people about their healthcare, then more people will be able to be covered. It doesn't matter that more people will die due to a lack of quality care, at least it will appear that the government "did it's duty"!! And those that have the money or power can get their quality needs met, no problem!
- ::athada:: said...
I don't mind people pointing out some benefits of individualism, just as long as they don't forget that it is a historically recent and unique cultural phenomenon and it not the apex of human civilization towards which all of humanity is or should be heading. Most libertarians I know speak this way. IMHO, it shows a lack of understanding of basic anthropology.
Japan shows that just because a culture leans more towards collectivism, their economy will not shrink back into the stone age. They have handled and will handle their current crisis much better than the U.S. handled Katrina. I don't remember seeing a single picture or hearing a single broadcast about looting there.
- Angie Van De Merwe said...
Collectivism, looting and helping one's neighbor....
I thought that Americans believe in the "social contract", which does mean that as long as one lives their life within the bounds of law, then they have protections under the law. This is a form of "collectivism", an identification with the law that protect society's order.
Other than that, there is the business contract that protects economic interests to all parties. This is a way to organize interests. Respecting another's interests protects against "looting" when another is not looking or there is opportunity to do "what one wants" with no accountability.
Community service is involvment in one's given location. And that is voluntary. It is giving the neighbor a hand when one sees the need.
What is the difference, then? Character of those that won't loot when another is not looking or cirucmstances are such that the law is not enforced.
Character who those who take care of their property and give a hand to places where one can, because one is committed to a particular community.
The problem lies in our society, with its transitory nature and the disruption of extended support systems, whether family or community. These are not easily found in places like Marion, where people already have their associations "in place".


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BUT I will elaborate my reasons first.
The second was bringing Dr. Brantly and his co-worker back to the United States. The number of angry calls into my radio program from well meaning conservatives, comments across social media, opinion columns, agreement thereto, etc. really boggled my mind. Here are two Americans risking their lives to help others and we are supposed to turn our back on them, leave them there, or criticize their decision to go in the first place? That's not the America I know or love. The level of outright anger, fear, and bitterness over the decision to take care of American citizens and the lack of knowledge and understanding that formed the foundation for the anger, fear, and bitterness really left me wondering what is going on.
Thats right folks some one who has been on the Internet for more then 6 months does not understand a fundemental rule of the Internet: Anyone can say anything they want to say on the internet, and will no matter how stupid that thing might be. The fact he runs a website that has moderated comments and he takes stupidity on the internet seriously makes me strongly doubt this entire article is a geniue hand rubbing by Erickson. Furthermore Erickson has a talk radio program. Talk Radio callers are picked for the most interesting nature (interesting being making people want to listen to the radio) nature of their comments. If Erick was truly concerned about those angry calls he would just not take them and not give their idiocy an actual soap box...which is what he is doing with his blog post here.
And at the end of this statement we see yet another reason not to take Erick Serious.
That's not the America I know or love. The level of outright anger, fear, and bitterness.....
So as a so called Christian and Conservative thinker you encounter people who are lost from the idea of the America you all love instead of showing LEADERSHIP and being a LIGHT to others, you mearly rub your hands in woe. Ignorance about a disease is easy to fight. If you fight the ignorance you can deal with the fear and anger. And then you can discuss the debate about people walking into certain death being saved, to what end do we do that? There is value in that debate and their is substance in that debate. Do we encourage people to take more and more risks until we cannot help them. Is that a better alternative then not helping them. This is a perfectly valid and reasonable debate of ethics. It goes and takes a deeper look at morality and it leads to a deeper insight and thought.
To start, Christian conservatives were roundly assailed by other conservatives for daring to provide aid and comfort to children whose parents had shipped them across the border. Some could not distinguish between giving a child a teddy bear and supporting Mexican drug cartels. It was all one or all the other. In fact, many Christians, myself included, want expedited deportations and a secure border. But we also want to make sure the children, some victims of human trafficking, were taken care of, fed, and comforted.
But to some on the right, that is aiding law breakers. The anger and hysteria directed at conservatives engaged in private charity had all the makings of a leftist police state making us care about how we choose to spend our own money.
Latin American Countries have serious economic problems. And I want to take this deep case and use a famous analogy.
If your neighbor has a fire, you would take your firehouse and help him. But what if your neighbor always had fires and always relied on you to help them? Is that charity or subservience? Is that charity or is that dependency? In this case there are a variety of social and economic factors pushing illegal aliens into our country from Latin America. When faced with these challenges countries like Mexico (and others) provide aid to these immigrants going north. They do so because it prevents them from having to make a hard choice and hard reforms. Pass on the cost of their economic failures to their neighbor in the north.
Providing charity to suffering children in this situation is a valid response and I think a necessary response. But bad actions by state actors (on both sides of the border) have encouraged illegal aliens to migrate north. This charity will serve as a further encouragement for people to flee their countries rather than make them better. This will serve as a further encouragement to their "leaders" to encourage and help then go rather than to fix their country. Are we being penny wise and pound foolish with our generosity? That's a valid debate to have. Is the debate being engaged in a productive manner: Absolutely not.
The last is the present situation in Ferguson, MO. The rush to win a fight and lay blame instead of mourning a loss and praying for a situation just leaves me perplexed. The rush to "change the narrative" with bad facts to replace bad facts by some folks who keep the ichthys on their car unsettles me.
The Conservative movement is far from united here. But as in the above comments there is a valid debate to be had, just a debate that is served by people who would rather hand wring then engage it constructively.
In the 60s-80s Conservatism embraced Law and Order as a response to the social permissiveness that seemed to encourage crime. (And it may encourage crime but there are far more sociological factors involved in crime for a blog to do them justice). Many bad people who were doing bad things were put into jail even into the 90s. A dear friend of mine reminds me that Superman I with Christopher Reeves spoke of the power of crime that infested New York City. Even an upscale reporter like Lois Lane had 5 or 6 chains on her door. In the 1990s the efforts of Law and Order Conservatism bore their fruit. Violence and crime were in a massive decline and the police were heroes. Crime is still lower then it was when we embraced as Conservatives Law and Order. The problem with Wars of Social Policy is they are wars that can never end and their soldiers continue to fight them. We have seen the "Warrior Cop" and the rise of "Total Information Awareness" to try to provide a total and complete security for the American People. Such an absolute never exists and promotes a sense of paranoia about the world in the soldiers set to protect us. And over time that Paranoia leads to serious errors in judgement.
Errors in judgement that lead to events that happened in Ferguson. We can mourn the loss of a human life, but a mourning for a stranger is less important in this then embracing an anger at what has become of those heroes who liberated us from the world of the first Superman movie. The concern of the movement should not be about prayer (but praying for peace should be vital) but it should be about spreading knowledge, and bringing about intellectual clarity in the conservative movement so we can apply that clarity to the problems we face.
What do we get from Erick Erickson and Ed Morrisey? Hand Wringing and concern trolling of the first order. The problem is not one of conservatives wanting to be uncharitable, its a problem of is being charitable a constructive response or a response that will make problems worse? Lets have that discussion.


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Title: Planetary Passions- Call of the Sea
Author: Michelle M. Pillow
Publisher: Ellora's Cave
Website of Publisher: http://www.ellorascave.com
Genre: Werewolf / Shape-shifter
Rating: E-rotic
Publication date: July 2006
Length: Novella
Format: e-book
Part of the Call of the Lycan series.
Ceana is punished to swim forever as a mermaid by the sea witch for saving her brother Kerrigan from her. Only upon the full moon does Ceana trod upon land as human and she's growing weary of her search for "the one" to break the curse and free her.
Ian O'Connell is heir to his clan of lycan who now reside after many
centuries outside Astoria, Oregon.He's pursued as Mate, but
uninterested as his heart was given to she who saved him centuries before from drowning.
Can a woman cursed to the sea and a man who shifts shape find each other and restore both their hearts? With such definitive specifics it seems unlikely, but somehow love prevails and evil is beaten.There are some very good love scenes, strong characters, and a fully developed plot. I found it to be an altogether good read and great fun.
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We get an update on the newly announced CW DC Comics TV series with The Flash, which is spinning off of Arrow.
Arrow co-creators Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg along with The Flash series writer Geoff Johns let it be known that the DC speedster will be appearing in three episodes of Arrow before getting his own series.
The Flash will appear in episodes 8, 9 and 20 of Arrow, with the trio writing them and David Nutter directing the twentieth.
It's reported that when The Flash makes his first appearance in Arrow episode 8, he will just be seen as "ordinary man" Barry Allen.
"The character will be as grounded and realistic as possible," Kreisberg offered, reports Deadline. "That's how we'll get to know him. Then his life will get a bit faster."
It's further said the characters in Arrow will be treating Barry Allen in "a very realistic way," and regarding the powers of The Flash: "They won't be treated as commonplace on the show but as extraordinary events."
"It will be fun for the audience to see how we do our take on The Flash's powers," Kreisberg continued. "Some will feel very familiar to those who know the comics, and other stuff will feel different yet fresh and exciting."
Berlanti also added, "That said, he does need powers to become The Flash. And he will be The Flash. He will wear a red costume, and he will go by that name."
Arrow returns to the CW on October 9th.
If the schedule is similar to Season 1, The Flash looks to debut December 4th (adjusting for the Thanksgiving skip week).


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Until I moved to the FLX, I had never heard of Snow Geese let alone saw one or dozens or hundreds or thousands. Now, I see hundreds of them every winter. Usually, I see them in fields on River Road in Waterloo/Seneca Falls on my way to Sauder's.
This year I was treated to a truly amazing site. When I was leaving my store a few weeks ago, I heard tons of honking.....well goose chit chat. I looked up and was amazed at what I saw. There were hundreds and hundreds of geese flying overheard! Who knows how long they had been flying overhead before I went outside. I stood there in the parking lot for at least 4 minutes watching them.....4 minutes! By then thousands of geese flew over me.....and not one dropped anything on me!
I could see them over the city buildings....they were coming from the residential side of the city....looked like they were flying towards Seneca Lake....until they weren't.....seems like the head goose was taking a detour...maybe they wanted some wine? Or had to much wine? There are still grapes out on the vines at a few vineyards for the Finger Lakes Ice Wines.
As geese do, they shifted who's in the lead and changed direction.....closer to where they wanted to go.....another goose took charge and wow did they change course! They were now heading towards the lake. They had to loop around about 135 degrees when originally they needed to turn left like they're at Watkins Glen driving in the NASCAR race.
How do I know they were Snow Geese? Well, most of the time I was watching them, I thought they were Canadian Geese since we have an abundance of them. Seriously, if you ever want a Christmas Goose, go find a pond or lake or body of water around here and during the day you'll get yourself a goose. Fair warning, they're noisy! And they WILL charge! But they are beautiful. **Check out the NYS hunting regulations and the federal laws on protected species before hunting anything!!! And make sure you're not trespassing unless you have documented proof the property owner gave you permission to hunt their land.**
Back to the geese.....Once the goose who knew where they should be flying took charge, they kind of bottle necked so they were flying in tiers. They started coming down lower and lower. I could see them! They were all white with black wing tips! SNOW GEESE! They don't usually arrive until early January....and they were right on time! Unfortunately, I only had my iPhone with me so the photos aren't spectacular, but hey I got some!
They don't stick around long. They are on there way down to the Atlantic Coast...around NYC, Jersey, Maryland, down in that area along the coast.
Cornell has some interesting details about Snow Geese. Shouldn't be surprising with the bird lab they have, right?
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Terrance Joyner
Also on this blog entry, would you all be interested in halftime updates of all games on the blog? I don't know how much readers would check the blog when you can watch online. Let me know.
Finally, Jahmar Young made his singing debut on the jumbotron, singing christmas carols so keep an eye out for that next time you come to the Pan Am
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JY is hilarious. Love that guy.
- December 18, 2008 at 1:32 AM
Jason, I didn't know that you would be doing an in game blog. I would be interested in keeping up with it since I cant make it to every game. I will keep an eye for it during upcoming games.
- December 18, 2008 at 9:35 AM
I was concerned about if Terrance Joyner in the lineup would affect the chemistry the team is starting to achieve. However, I saw how Terrance blended in and I think it actually helped. LaRoche has been doing a good job so far this year. And it seemed like Terrance actually pushed Hernst to do even better. Now when Hernst needs to rest, Terrance can come in and we dont have to use one of our shooting guards to do the point.
- December 18, 2008 at 4:00 PM
JG, is there any word whether Abdoulaye N'Doye will enroll at NMSU in January?
- December 20, 2008 at 12:55 AM
- Jason Groves said...
Anon, My understanding with N'Doye was that they hoped to have him in Las Cruces for the second semester, but that's not looking like it will happen. Menzies said it's more realistic to have him in June because his family can't afford to have him move here while he goes through the NCAA Clearinghouse process, which tells me he hasn't been cleared yet. It's too bad, because I believe Menzies wanted him to be able to practice with the team for the second part of the year which would have helped his development and the development of the current Aggie big men in practice
- December 21, 2008 at 5:08 PM


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The annual bouldering competition at Baring Head (eastern side of the entrance to Wellington harbour) took place on Saturday. A strong, cold southerly hadn't quite blown itself out and numbers seemed down a little, although that might have been partly because most of the Christchurch climbers hadn't come north, for obvious reasons. Still, the event ran smoothly and, as always, I found it delightfully social — the spirit at these competitions is wonderful. I'm working through my photos and will eventually post them on the Baring Head Bouldering blog, with a few here too. In the meantime here's one from the beach on the walk back to the car.
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"Dear Mr. Fantasy, play us a tune, something to make us all happy…"
You'll be feelin' alright when Traffic's Dave Mason plays you a tune (sings a song, plays guitar, makes it snappy) July 11 at New Bedford's Zeiterion Performing Arts Center.
A founding member of psychedelic Brit rock band Traffic, Mason— with members Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi and Chris Wood — was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.
Do yourself a favor and YouTube the video of Mason and Traffic playing "Feelin' Alright" at that induction ceremony, rocking out with Tom Petty, ZZ Top, Keith Richards, Jackson Browne, The Temptations, Paul Schaefer and more.
It is unreal, my music-loving friends.
Of course, Mason, 71, is killer on his own. The guitar hero has played and recorded with everyone from Paul McCartney and George Harrison, to Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Michael Jackson, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Cass Elliot and more.
His 1970 solo album "Alone Together" featured the commercial hit "Only You Know and I Know," which reached No. 42 on the Billboard chart.
Now on his "Alone Together Again" tour, he'll play plenty of solo and Traffic hits at the Z on Tuesday.
Mason was born in Worcester, England in 1946. Growing up, his initial goal was initial dream was to become a member of the Royal Air Force.
"That's what I wanted to do, but my math skills weren't good enough for the exams," he told me.
But when he picked up guitar at 16, everything changed.
"It seemed like a good idea, everyone else was doing it. I was a fan of instrumental bands, like The Ventures," he told me. "I knew I wasn't going to work 9 to 5. So I guessed it was either a life of crime, be a bum, or be musician."
By 17, Mason was in his first band, The Jaguars. At 18, he met musician Jim Capaldi and the rest, as they say, is history.
Through Capaldi, he met Steve Winwood and Chris Wood. They would form Traffic.
I asked Mason how the roots of the band formed.
"Jim and I grew up close to each other we had bands before Traffic. Steve Winwood and [Wood] we met in Birmingham, at a late night club. We were just four young kids hanging out when we could… and eventually that became Traffic."
I asked him about the name.
"Jim thought of the name. We liked it because there's no "The" in front of it,—plus you're advertised on every road in the world."
Good point.
The group's first single "Paper Sun" was written by was the Winwood and Capaldi, followed by Mason's "Hole in My Shoe" which hit number two in the U.K. in 1967.
As for his songwriting process, there is "no real process," Mason told me.
"It could be some music, a catchphrase, something I hear somebody say" that sparks a song, he said. "I don't have a process on anything."
As it says on his website, "Mason's journey with Traffic was fitful, yet fruitful."
Before Traffic's first album released in late 1967, Mason left the band and recorded a solo single, "Little Woman."
According to his official site biography: "Artistically Mason had started the process of establishing himself."
So he left for the U.S. to pursue a solo career, but when Traffic arrived in the U.S., he rejoined. "Feelin' Alright" released as the first single off their 1968 sophomore album. About a month after the release, Mason left the band again, and it broke up shortly afterward.
Their small but dense body of work — including "Dear Mr. Fantasy," "House for Everyone," "Cryin' to Be Heard" and "Don't Be Sad" — is enough to make them rock legends.
I asked Mason whether he likes playing with a band or solo more.
"I just like playing, so either way is good with me," he said.
Now, you know you're a killer guitarist when you end up on Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland."
"Hendrix was just amazing. He was very innovative," he said. "There were a lot of great guitar players out there, but there are no more Jimi Hendrixes."
Amen to that.
Another historic moment: Mason was with Hendrix when Jimi heard Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" for the first time. Hendrix, of course, would go on to create a blazing version of that song.
"We heard it together in someone's apartment. He must've picked up on that song and wanted to cut it," Mason said.
Mason, of course, has also had some Big Names cut versions of his own songs. Most notably, Joe Cocker's interpretation of "Feelin' Alright."
"Joe Cocker, his version stands the test of time," Mason told me.
Micheal Jackson also sang on one of Mason's albums, "Old Crest on a New Wave," joining in on "Save Me."
"He was working in the other studio; I needed someone to sing a high part, and I asked him. He said, "When I was 12, we were doing a Diana Ross TV Special and we did 'Feelin' Alright.' So OK,."
Love it.
I asked Mason about his connections with The Beatles.
"I attended some sessions; I played on George Harrison's 'All Things Must Pass,' and I played on 'Listen To What Man Says' with McCartney."
As for retirement?
"I don't know retirement is," he told me. "I can't see doing nothing but playing golf. I have to be doing something."
Lauren Daley is a freelance writer and music columnist. Her weekly music column "Spotlight With Lauren Daley" runs regularly each Thursday in Standard-Times' Coastin. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her athttps://www.facebook.com/daley.writer She tweets @laurendaley1.


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Pictured on CCTV the horrifying moment French mother calmly pushes her baby girl to drown in the sea because she claimed child was 'incompatible' with her love life
- Fabienne Kabou, 36, has admitted to police she wanted to kill the child
- In police interview she said baby was 'incompatible' with her and boyfriend
- Checked into hotel in Berck sur Mer with baby Adelaide on November 19
- The next day Adelaide was found dead, strapped in pram, in the water
- Demonstrators have taken to streets calling for crackdown on child cruelty
By TIM FINAN
Horrific: A CCTV image has been released showing a woman pushing a pram in Berck sur Mer on November 19
A mother faces life imprisonment after confessing she drowned her 15-month-old daughter in the English Channel because the child was 'incompatible' with her love life.
CCTV footage has emerged of Fabienne Kabou, 36, from Senegal, pushing little Adelaide to the coast of Berck sur Mer on November 19.
The next day, Adelaide was found dead, strapped in a pushchair submerged in the water, by a fisherman.
After ten days of searching nationwide, police used DNA from the pram to trace Ms Kabou to the home she shares with a 63-year-old man in Paris, where she was arrested.
Ms Kabou, a philosophy student, told police she took the drastic move after deciding motherhood was 'incompatible' with her love life with Adelaide's father.
The case has sparked outrage as hundreds took to the streets outside the court and on the coast in a White March - a French style of demonstrating against child cruelty.
Ms Kabou had told her boyfriend, a sculptor, that she had handed over the little girl to her grandmother who had agreed to look after her in Senegal, police claim.
On Saturday, Kabou was taken under Police guard to Boulogne sur Mer and questioned for four hours by an examining judge in a closed court session.
The judge placed her under investigation for murder. She was remanded in custody pending her trial.
Her lawyer Fabienne Roy-Nansion who was present during the interrogation said that her client had made a full confession.
In an interview with Le Parisien newspaper the father of Adelaïde said that Fabienne Kabou had been 'a magnificent' mother to her child.
Neighbours of the couple said they were at a loss to understand how the mother of the Adelaïde could have wanted to be rid of her.
Berck sur Mer: Ms Kabou was said to have checked into a hotel on November 19 before going to the sea
Tragic: The French Police Judiciaire has released images of Adelaide's onesie that she was found in
Court: Ms Kabou, 36, is here covered in the back of a car heading to court in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Northern France
Hundreds have taken to the streets in the past couple of days paying homage to the little girl in a White March.
The first White March took place on 1996 in Belgium as people demonstrated against Marc Dutroux, a serial killer and child molester.
Gerard Lopez, the president of the Institute of Victimology and legal expert at the Paris Court of Appeal, told 20minutes.fr: 'First and foremost, she wanted to save her marriage by killing her child.
'This would probably not have changed anything.
'She is not crazy. Her actions were premeditated.
Arrested: She was traced to a house in an eastern suburb of Paris where she lives with a 63-year-old man
Demonstrating: A banner reads 'Our thoughts are with you, Princess' held by a teenager as inhabitants of Berck-sur-Mer, northern France take part in a White March to pay homage to little Adelaide
White March: The first White March took place in 1996 in Belgium as people showed their anger towards serial killer and child molester Marc Dutroux who kept girls in his basement
Mourning: People left flowers, toys and messages on the coast as French people express outrage in Berck
Tributes: A bouquet of white roses with a note reading 'rest in peace little angel' is left on the beach
'The investigation will now determine whether the woman was a victim of domestic or psychological violence from her partner.
'Some develop narcissistic and immature behavior at the birth of a child.
'By getting rid of the child, she may have been trying to meet the needs of her boyfriend who wanted more attention.'


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"Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" - one of the greatest Yiddish songs - is performed by a host of performers of all backgrounds via this clip from the Yiddish Radio Project.
Listen here to A musical montage of various recordings of "Bei Mir" by Guy Lombardo, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman (who played it at Carnegie Hall), Lee Marjane, Zarah Leander, Felix & His Crazy Cats, the Lennon Sisters, Jimmy Rushing, Louis Prima and Judy Garland.
Recorded by almost every every pop and jazz artist, translated into many languages, it was also a hit in Hitler's Germany, "until the Nazi Party discovered that its composer was a Jew, and that the song's title was Yiddish rather than a south German dialect."
Listen to a 16-minute NPR documentary on the Project, focused on Yiddish Melodies in Swing, sponsored by the Manischewitz Company. The program ran for nearly 20 years, from 1938, when it had a large studio with a live audience of 1,000 and a large orchestra - all of which dwindled through the years.
Don't miss the exhibit about crooner Seymour Rexite (originally Rechtzeit - for the genealogists reading this!) and listen to his Yiddish versions of "Surrey with a Fringe on Top/Oh, What a Beautiful Morning," 1948; "Tea for Two," (with Miriam Kressyn), c1950; "Love and Marriage," (with Miriam Kressyn) c1950; "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," 1954; Barbasol jingle, 1948; and the Ajax jingle, 1952.
In "Love and Marriage," note that "horse and carriage" are now geyt tzuzamen vi zup un knaydlakh (go together like soup and matzoh balls).
There's much more on this Yiddish radio phenomenon as the Library of Congress has recently posted a video presentation on the topic by scholar Henry Sapoznik of the Yiddish Radio Project, recorded October 14. 2009. This presentation is detailed in another Tracing the Tribe post.


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Friday, June 30, 2006
I Have Gas
I get it at Arco.
In fact, I think everyone should befriend an Israeli gas station owner at an Arco near you. If you have children, he'll stuff their pockets with free chocolate and hold them near the register while you fill up on sixty four ounce Diet Cokes which he'll then give to you for free. If you're single, he'll curse in Hebrew at any thugs that check out your ass near the Beef Jerky cases. If you're old, he'll help you to the car and tell you stories about his 3 sons and marriage to his wife - she was a 15 year old bride via good old fashioned match making, no less! (And if you're nosy and desperate for interaction, like me, you're privy to all three scenarios.)
Most of all, good old fashioned Israeli Arco managers make you feel like a person when it's 101 in the Valley and you think you're nothing but a mother with no make-up and post-pardum softness that you just can't get rid of (despite walking to Arco). But the Arco manager will smile and remark,"Ooooh, you lost weight?" And when you say "Yes" (thrilled for the compliment) they will add, with 3 clicks of the tongue,"... Too much lost. Not good. Not good at all."
Even if you think this person is delusional, you'll love him for having an opinion other than "Mommmmmmmy... this chocolate is melting!.... Mommmmmy... I want a sip of your soda!" ... "Mooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmy... Pip is touching my spooooooooooooooooon!"
Speaking of loving Arco, I also love Kate. Thank you, sweet Kate, for the retro post card and vintage Arco patch! If I were a true fifties housewife, I'd not only know how to sew it onto a jean shirt, but I'd actually never stop to talk to a 50 year old Jewish dude who chuckles at my kids and wishes me Happy Pesach.
Thank God I'm me, thank God my husband is my husband who laughs at my Arco stories, thank God you're a wacky blond living in San Fran and remembering Valley housewives like me, and to all of you out there reading, thank God you're you! Now, as Albert would say, "Shalom!"
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I thought the original Deskpro was something to modem home about, but the people at Compaq did themselves one better: the incredible Deskpro 286.
The 286 beats the IBM PC AT at its own game. The basic model comes with a 30-megabyte hard disk, one 1.2K disk drive, a monochrome monitor, a monochrome/color graphics card, a superb keyboard like the AT, a keyboard keylock, MS-DOS 3.0, and 512K of RAM. It retails for $6,355.


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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
New Links
Nisi Shawl reviews Sarah Hall's Tiptree-winner Daughters of the North for Ms. Magazine, in Grimness and Grace. Here Nisi suggests that Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents might offer a closer parallel to the novel than the dystopias of George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, and Ursula K. Le Guin that the book's publicists have emphasized. And she speculates:
Perhaps the publicists don't compare Hall to Butler because of racial differences; Butler was African American, and Hall is not. Yet Daughters, unlike many works of speculative fiction by white writers, refuses to let race remain the unmentionable elephant in the living room.
Meanwhile, Brian Charles Clark reviews Nisi's Filter House for Curled Up With A Good Book.
The real, here, is animated, alive, and Shawl's sentences weave a rhythm that gives voice to (secret?) desires: for divine intervention, for allies and challengers in rocks and trees and dragons, for love and imagination to be made simple, practical and transcendental. Her stories' trajectories are wonderfully entertaining, but her sentences are magical. Through dialogue and observation, Shawl frequently pierces the veil separating reader and writer, bringing her characters delightfully to life.
Check them out!
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- X. Trapnel said...
Totally off-topic, but: I was recently in Seattle, and was disappointed to see that Elliot Bay Bookstore (which otherwise seemed awesome) didn't have your Marq'ssan books (though the University bookstore did). And Bluestockings, a radical/feminist bookstore in Manhattan, had trouble figuring out how to get them when I asked. Are there any plans to expand your distribution pipeline?
Anyway, I'm a big fan--thanks so much for writing them!
- August 22, 2008 at 11:20 AM
- Timmi Duchamp said...
The Marq'ssan books (& indeed all of our full-sized books) can be ordered via Ingram as well as Baker & Taylor, so I'm a bit surprised that Bluestockings found it difficult. (Our books might be listed under the name of our fulfillment house, Pathway Book Service, rather than Aqueduct's name, though.) Our Conversation Pieces series, on the other hand, has more limited distribution, because they are relatively expensive to produce, which means we can't afford to distribute them in the usual way but sell them to retailers directly. (Not all independent bookstores want the bother of dealing directly with publishers, though, even though they get a better deal going around the distributor.)
I'd be happy, of course to send Bluestockings a catalog. We should also have a new web-design implemented on our site in the near future, which will be easier for booksellers looking for information or customers interested in buying books to navigate. (Our current design worked when our list included ten or fewer books, but with 30+ books it's something of a mess.)
I, too, love Elliott Bay Books & have done readings there (& of course often attend readings there), but they just don't keep up their sf section the way Duane Wilkins does at University Bookstore.
& last but not least, I'm glad to hear you're a fan of my Marq'ssan Cycle. I'd like to believe there was a reason for publishing them. Thanks for your interest, X. Trapnel.
- August 24, 2008 at 9:36 PM


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Monday, April 26, 2010
Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 66
Here is my card I created for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge. I love the simplicity of the sketch this week.
My card uses the new Basic Grey line-Whiskers and Max. I also incorporated some of their mini stamps (Kitten Kaboodle). The sketch called for three basic strips of paper along side of a circle, or oval as I used.
The background of my card was stamped and embossed with clear powder. I colored the stamped images with Copic markers and inked the edges with Pumice Distress Ink. I added some natural colored hemp with a button on the top. Hope you enjoy!
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One of my favorites was this one:
|While I have no clue where his weird, anti-environmental message is coming from, the last section of the note contains two of my legacies from that year. 1 - introducing them to the 'alot,' and 2- that every no name paper turned in killed a puppy.
At the time I was a little confused by what appeared to be a sort of backhanded compliment. Thanks, I guess? I thought I did OK in the public setting?
Well, shows what I know, since that little snot-nose was right. One year later, and where am I? Teaching at an "independent," a.k.a. private, school for gifted and talented children. And you know what? I'm loving it.
OK. So Fact: I haven't officially met the kids yet. But I've talked to a few parents, and they seem almost overwhelmingly supportive. Also, Fact: I don't think I've ever seen such a friendly, open and relaxed staff. Usually I feel lucky to find one person to talk to at staff meetings, but here I can strike up a conversation with anyone I sit by. It's one of those dream faculties where everyone respects each other and is working as a team to benefit the student. Imagine that! Working so that your students are getting the best education possible! If this is a dream, I certainly don't want to wake up. Here's hoping it lasts. I've got a feeling it just might.
However, in the interest of full disclosure, there is one downside to the job. I have a new nemesis. The classroom bulletin board.
|Hello, SATAN.
Ugh. The staples. The creativity. The cutting out of construction paper and spatial planning (definitely not my strong suit). How I hate it so.
So be warned, bulletin boards. You're On Notice.
Cat's Hit List
1. Ferris Wheels
new addition! ------> 2. Bulletin Boards