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Girls post pictures of their modest outfits on Suddenly Darling, a Christian style forum that promotes modest dressing. Under many of the girls' pictures, there are lengthy debates on whether the hemline was long enough, or whether the tights covered enough, all in the form of comments. I go crazy and then wonder if there's something wrong with me.
Is it right for people to judge others on how much skin they cover, and how long their hemline is?
Not only does the idea of modesty restrict creativity-the followers of this idea do not understand differences. And anyway, people have different standards, so you can wear your below knee dress and stopping scolding the others that wear above knees and feel comfortable.
The form of entertainment known as porn is not the same as art with exposed human figures. In porn, people market their nude bodies and sexuality, whereas in art and fashion photography, the nude figure is part of the picture, a symbol of truth. It's like how the painters of the Renaissance and even before that painted nude women. They didn't do it to market sexuality, and neither are these artists.
After all, everyone has a body that is essentially naked, so covering up and condemning people in bikinis is just plain pathetic. Because dude, were you born in a turtleneck and long skirt?
Nudity in photography is a symbol of truth, vulnerability, and embracing of life. It's what people really look like. The artists who expose skin are not marketing nudity, they're expressing the truth. The truth of a human being, and the truth of life. Fashion envelopes us in luxe fabrics, but also aims to bring to us the meaning of life. This really is what every field of art and science ultimately tries to show. . .
Attempting to brand people as immodest and slutty when they're in a crinoline tutu is just plain ridiculous. Sure these people can stick to their modesty values and religious morals, but they can't force it onto other people, people who might be in quest of the truth.


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Welcome to my home in blogland. Here, I strive to make you laugh like never before, cry warmhearted tears, get silly, and be naughty. Together, we'll uncover sweet morsels in the light and dark. You'll leave craving chocolate. That's a given. I'm a bad influence. Oy vey, am I a bad influence! {But I do recommend fair trade and organic varieties.} Please enjoy the samples, and may you fast become addicted. You're most welcome to return.
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Sutter Buttes, Sundays in My City, Cow Pelvis
tour of bloggers' hometowns.
Today, we visit a stretch of land in the Sacramento Valley, the Sutter Buttes. This area has been private property since before CA became a state. John Sutter of Gold Rush fame initially claimed it, until it was given to a group that took Sutter to court over it. (Me thinks Sutter was a bit greedy.) Today, ranchers own the property. So we'll break through a few fences and trespass. Ssh, come on....
Oops, is this the last trespasser? Good thing I paid for a guided tour.
Can you guess what this skeleton remnant is?
It's a gorgeous 75 square mile patch of land, and I'm still a tad sore from hiking just a few of those miles.
We were bird-watching, actually, though I have no photos of birds for you. I saw some from afar, through binoculars: quails, robins, a red tail hawk that wouldn't budge from atop a tree a mile away...
Have a peaceful, safe and scenic new week.
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Nice tour! I hate to say this but that bone is pretty. It's incredibly white. If you find a bone around here it is gray. I like the tree and the grass a lot. I like the rugged terrain as well but had rather look at your pictures of it than have to hike to see it. Thank you for doing that. :)ReplyDelete
Looks like a nice hike. Glad you didn't have to break the law to see the place :)ReplyDelete
Definitely wouldn't have guessed a pelvis. Maybe the butt.ReplyDelete
Looks like some pretty scenery!!
No birds, but you got cow pelvis. What a day!ReplyDelete
I noticed that you stopped by today, but YESTERDAY I featured your requested When Harry Met Sally footage. Just FYI.
Cow pelvis - would've never guessed.ReplyDelete
Beautiful area. Like some of the places blogger Patrick Tillett goes.
Is a cow pelvis evidence that cowboys once roamed there? It looks like the perfect setting for a John Ford Western... apart from the birds. The only birds you see in Westerns are buzzards!ReplyDelete
Lovely views there. I especially like the last one. :-)ReplyDelete
That middle shot reminds me of New Mexico. I miss NM and ABQ...ReplyDelete
Great pics. Beautiful countryside, but like most of California it could use some rain.ReplyDelete
Cow pelvis was my third guess, right after coyote butt and horse kneeReplyDelete
That's a gorgeous piece of property. I would love to look for arrowheads on it!ReplyDelete
Very pretty landscape.ReplyDelete
What do you suppose happened to the rest of the cow skeleton?
I have a certain hate for seagulls, ever since one swooped down on me while I was walking down Pier 39 and knocked my calamari out of my hand and littering the ground with it. Bastards! Rats with wings I tells ya. ;-)ReplyDelete
Great tour! It looks like such a beautiful area. And it looks like you have those seagulls well-trained ;)ReplyDelete
I've driven around the Sutter Buttes a few times. It changes greatly depending on the season, but it is always scenic. Thanks for sharingReplyDelete
Hello, Cow Pelvis! OOh. first time I am seeing one, Robyn!ReplyDelete
The photo of the birds is so beautiful. Good seagull!
Everybody knows the pelvis is the best part of the cow. What a waste of completely good pelvis.ReplyDelete
The soreness will go away... eventually, but the photos will last a lifetime!ReplyDelete
Alex, yes, very similar. His photos are spectacular, though. Mine aren't.ReplyDelete
Stephen, it's really scary and getting scarier - that we've had no rain.
PatHatt, so close you were.
Herman, how rude. I'd have been crying to see my calamari land on the ground.
Vidya, it was a first for me too.
BnB, and to think there's a cow walking around without her pelvis.
MsA, I love your philosophy.Thanks.
Thank you, friends.
Be well.
Greedy? When it comes to gold? Say it ain't so!ReplyDelete
Oh wow this looks like an amazing place to hike and explore. May have to add it to my hiking Bucket List.ReplyDelete
Love this part of the country. Thanks for taking us along. You say "Cow Pelvis" to me and I'll go anywhere.ReplyDelete
That cow pelvis looks like it was picked pretty clean and sun bleached too.ReplyDelete
That looks like you had a pretty rough hike.
Cool photos. Great seagull shot!ReplyDelete
75 square miles...is that multiple owners or one owner??? It looks like a great place to hike.ReplyDelete
I would of never guessed that was a cow pelvis.
That looks like a very serene plot of land! A perfect place to bird watch and hike.ReplyDelete
Cheryl, good question. There are a number of owners. I'm not sure how many.ReplyDelete
Be well.
such a beautiful countryside- i love your photos!ReplyDelete
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Beautiful photos! Though the cow pelvis was kinda sad.ReplyDelete
Nice pictures.
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Generally speaking, covering the songs of Led Zeppelin seems like a bad fucking idea. After all, the reason Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Bonham and John Paul Jones played all those monster jams is so you don't have to. But the astute gentlemen of Coalesce have never let a bad idea get in the way of good music, so they unleashed a seven-track EP of shit-hot Zeppelin covers upon an unsuspecting world back in 1999, played a few shows and then promptly broke up for the second (or was it third?) time. We're not really sure, but what we do know is this: Eight years later, the cease & desist letter still hasn't rolled in. Which is precisely why There Is Nothing New Under The Sun is now being presented with eight additional jams-including those from Coalesce's split EP with Boy Sets Fire, the band's version of "Supernaut" from the In These Black Days Sabbath tribute seven-inch series, an Undertow cover, and a Get Up Kids cover. Think of it as the hammer of the gods pounding a few extra stakes into the music industry's litigious heart. But don't actually say that out loud: You'll sound like a dick, and we might get sued.
1. Immigrant Song (Led Zeppelin)
2. Heartbreaker (Led Zeppelin)
3. Black Dog (Led Zeppelin)
4. Out on the Tiles (Led Zeppelin)
5. Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin)
6. That's the Way (Led Zeppelin)
7. Thank You (Led Zeppelin)
8. I'm Giving Up On This One (The Get Up Kids)
9. Vehicle (Boy Sets Fire)
10. In The Wilderness (Boy Sets Fire)
11. Bob Junior (Coalesce original)
12. Supernaut (Black Sabbath)
13. Cutting Away (Undertow)
14. That's The Way Redux (Led Zeppelin)
15. Thank You Redux (Led Zeppelin)
Tour w/ Daughters
Aug. 15 - Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
Aug. 16 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
Aug. 17 - New York, NY @ Knitting Factory
Aug. 18 - Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
Aug. 19 - Richmond, VA @ Alley Katz
Aug. 20 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Lawrenceville Moose
Aug. 21 - Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick
Aug. 22 - Arlington Heights, IL @ Knights of Columbus
Coalesce only
Aug. 23 - Iowa City, IA @ Picador
Aug. 24 - Omaha, NE @ Sokol Underground
Aug. 25 - Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck
Coalesce Reissue * US Tour w/Daughters
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The One Ring: Fellowship of the New Alliance
Old Forest Road
The Dwarf-road (Men-i-Naugrim in the Elvish tongue) is a wonder of the northern world. It runs for two hundred miles across the middle of Mirkwood, and is the dividing line between the north and south parts of the forest.
A traveller in the wood might stumble upon a section of the road that is still intact; walking upon such a stretch of the Old Forest Road feels like advancing along a Dwarven tunnel — the stone-paved floor is covered by dirt and leafmould and weeds, but no plants have yet broken through the tiny joints between the slabs; overhead and to either sides the trees grow so thickly together that they form a roof and walls. Such clear sections can provide a short cut through the woods, but they are often watched by unwelcoming eyes.
For most of the roadway, though, the forest has triumphed. Trees colonised first the earthen ditches, and then broke through the paved surface. Roots dug through the stone, then the foundations until they found the living earth beneath. The only trace left of the road in many places is an unusual discolouration of the underbrush.


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"It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true."
Woodrow Wilson (maybe)
Others far more educated and qualified on this subject than I have already discussed the significance of the 100th Anniversary of The Birth of Nation, but I feel that I must also put in my two cents worth. Let me begin by giving a brief disclaimer. I am no expert on film history or cultural history. For the former, I defer to my college roommate (who needs to start a blog!) and for the latter I defer to my esteemed colleague and friend AJP and his co-author Dr. T. (Though soon it will be Dr. AJP.) I am just a guy who watches movies sometimes. I watch for entertainment only and to be frank, I'm not good at picking up hidden symbolism and finding deeper meanings. I hate modern movies and will typically only watch them if there is a redheaded actresses in it. I prefer older films from Hollywood's Golden Era, but not quite as far back as Birth of a Nation (hereafter called BON). My deepest, most guarded secret actually involves a movie. I cry whenever I watch Love Story. Now onward to the subject of today's post!
I have seen BON twice. Once I watched it when I was in college because it had come up in a class and so the next time I was home I picked it up at Blockbuster and settled in for a fun filled three hours! I thought it was terrible. Not because of the blatant racism or anything like that. I just don't care much for silent films. I have seen it one more time as I decided to work it into my 1302 course. (I don't show the entire film as that wouldn't be a good use of time in a survey course. Instead, I show a clip that has the most racist scenes from the movie in it instead.) My students find it so beyond the pale that it is almost laughable. It generates some good discussion too. Normally I shy away from imposing modern values on people from different time periods. I don't call people in the 19th Century racist, generally, because all of white America was racist by our standards. Abraham Lincoln, for example, is racist by our standards. People today often say "Well if I were alive back then I would have....." The answer to that is no, you probably wouldn't have fought the system and you'll never know because you weren't alive back then. With BON, there is no way to describe it but blatant anti-black propaganda. Period. End of story. Pass the popcorn.
Here we come to save the day!
I am not going to belabor this article with describing the movie and its plot in detail. If you want to suffer through it, you can see the whole thing in HD on You Tube here. For those who have not seen it, I can promise you three hours of nonstop moments in which you will be thinking OMG followed by WTF! One thing I will say though is that in the final scene where the Klan rides in to save the day, I am reminded of other movies about another group of people who the United States did not treat too kindly.....the Native Americans. We've all seen the old westerns from the 40s and 50s. In many of them, the besieged settlers, with wagons circled, desperately fight back against savage hordes. Right when things look the worst, the US Cavalry rides in to save them. In BON, the blacks play the Indians. The whites are the settlers. The Klan plays the cavalry. Really, what were the westerns other than a remake of BON?
One thing that BON also gave "birth" to was the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan. Time, space, and energy prevent me from delving as much in the history of the Kluxers as may be necessary for this post. There have really been the separate Klans in US History, each with different motives. The first (the one portrayed in this movie) is the Reconstruction Klan. Their goal was to prevent freed slaves from exercising any rights of citizenship and to battle against the Reconstruction government. They actually did not wear white robes and hoods as depicted in the movie. That is a Hollywood thing. They actually looked more like the pictures below. Also, I must point out that Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest DID NOT found the Klan! It was formed by a group of men in Pulaski, TN. Though he was involved and was sympathetic to them, he had nothing to do with starting them. That all comes from the Forrest Gump movie. Academic historians who should know better even talk about him starting the Klan which they never did prior to FG. The original Klan dwindled away after Reconstruction because the Compromise of 1877 gave them everything they wanted. There was no need for them to operate in secret as they could go about an openly oppress black people after that!
Boys under the hoods.
BON led to a renewed interest in the Klan and it was "re-founded" shortly thereafter. This Klan was different than the first. Rather than simply hate on black people, those who joined this Second Klan were more interested in oppressing new groups of people. In reaction to the massive influx of immigrants who arrived between 1865 and 1915 (some 25 million), they decided that anyone who was not "Murican" enough was the enemy. Eastern Europeans, immigrants in general, Jews, Catholics, Communists, and blacks were all on their shit list. By adding to their "hate list", they were able to attract more members. This Klan moved out of the South (which did not have lots of immigrants) and is typically associated with the Midwest. States like Indiana and Ohio became bastions of Klanliness. Even New Jersey elected a pro-Klan governor. I say this simply so people will stop associating all racism with the South. Slavery may have been a Southern problem, but racism is an American problem. For many white Americans, worried about the immigrants changing the makeup of our society, the Klan posed the answer to the problem. The heroic depiction of them, sweeping in to save the day, led many to pay their dues and sign up. And for every organization like this, for every member you also had numerous other sympathizers. I'll be frank. The Klan was using violence to achieve a political goal (restricting the rights of immigrants and foreigners). Last time I checked, violence to achieve a political objective is terrorism.
"May I call on you after the cross burning?"
I don't know if it had anything to do with the movie or not, but in Waco, Texas in 1916, a white mob committed an almost unspeakable act of depravity on a black man named Jesse Washington. He was a seventeen year old black youth who was convicted (after four minutes of deliberation) of murdering a white woman who was an English immigrant. After the death sentenced was read, the crowd seized him and dragged him away. Jesse was beaten and tortured, half strangled, had his fingers, toes, and genitals cut off, and only then was he burned to death while a cheering crowd looked on. They even posed for pictures afterwards which you can see below. Lynching was illegal in Texas, but the Sheriff was present for it and, of course, took no action. I do find it interesting that this happened so close in history to the opening of BON. Note in the pictures below that no one is covering their faces as they did not see the need. They were proud of what they were doing.
This is NOT the state I took an oath to protect. Oh wait, it is.
Are there lessons to be learned from BON? Sure there are. Dear Readers, I am a working class kid who grew up in Port Arthur, Texas. My generation in the South, those of us born in the 70s, are really the first to grow up in an integrated society. I attended Robert E. Lee Elementary which, at the time I was there, was mostly made up of black and Vietnamese students. I was one of two white children in the fifth grade. I grew up never really seeing a difference between me and the various students of color that I went to school with. They accepted me and I accepted them. We had two Jehovah's Witnesses in my class. One of them, Shadrich, was my best friend. They did not stand up at the beginning of the day when the school played the National Anthem and we said the pledge (no prayer or moment of silence back then). And guess what? We didn't care! Shadrich and Rachel were our friends. We didn't give two shits about what they believed. We accepted them and they us. Children have to be taught to hate. Adults pass on their prejudices to children and the only way we can break this cycle is to not pass that on to our kids. If you want to hate on minorities, women, gays, Jews, or Catholics, that is your business. Granted, you are an asshole, but that is your business. But for the love of God, don't pass your bigotry on to your children if you have any (and I kind of hope you don't).
Ah yes, "negroes", Jews, and Catholics were all closet Commies according to the Klan.
As a firefighter and then as a police officer I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution and my fellow citizens. I worked with firefighters and police officers of all religious faiths, skin colors, and sexual orientations. They were all family, regardless of our differences. I served all people in my area regardless of who they worshiped, where they lived, what color they were, or what language they spoke. Does that make me some kind of Eracist? Probably not. But in all seriousness, we need to realize as a society that it is okay for people to be different. The same Bible that people use to condemn gay people and deny them basic humanity also mentions how to sell your daughter into slavery (Exodus 21:7), not charging interest on loans (Exodus 22:25), and which animals we can and cannot eat (Leviticus 11). For those of you who say "but that's the Old Testament!" So too are the verses in Exodus and Leviticus used to condemn gay people. If the New Testament replaced the Old Testament, then I guess we don't have to follow the Ten Commandments? Remember, the Klan of the 1920s which arose as a result of BON billed itself as a patriotic and Christian organization. They terrible acts they did were done in the name of their God and their Country.
This is not really my idea of what Murica is all about!
For those of you who are Christian, I implore you to remember the words of Jesus as he spoke of not ignoring the plank in your own eye to discuss the speck in your brother's eye. When asked what the greatest commandments were, he did not say it was to discriminate against minorities or to deny gay people the right to marry. Nope. He said the two greatest commandments were to love your God and to love your neighbor. That's it. If we could all do that, then perhaps we could put this terrible legacy left us by BON to rest. I want to live in an America that follows this law given to Moses: "You must not oppress a foreign resident; you yourselves know how it feels to be a foreigner as you were foreigners in Egypt." (Exodus 23:9) That is the Murica I want to live in. I love this country, despite its faults. But many claim that talking about our past misconducts (be it slavery or the genocide of the Native Americans) is unpatriotic. No it isn't. It is part of our history. If anything, our history has shown that though we do have our faults we will (eventually) try to rectify them. This is not, thankfully, the same country that is was when BON debuted. We can all thank whoever we worship for that. Is out country perfect? Not by a long shot. But I can't think of anywhere else I'd rather live. (Other than my ancestral home of Ireland, of course, but that goes without saying.)
My name is Lee Hutch and I am a Half A$$ Historian who begs all of you to accept your neighbors for who they are. Remember, Thomas Jefferson said "It bothers me not if my neighbor worships one god or twenty. It neither breaks my arm nor picks my pocket." I think we can include our neighbor's color or sexual preference in that too. Though the Klan of today is nowhere near as dangerous as they were back then (fights on Geraldo and Jerry Springer aside), their ideas still are. Just yesterday, I heard the following gem from a college faculty member who, not knowing my faith, said "I don't have a problem with Catholics, but....." and proceeded to say why they had a problem with Catholics. I nearly went all Jesus driving the money lenders out of the temple on them, but instead I just walked away. That is no small miracle given my Irish temper.
P.S.: I'm sure this post will not sit well with some who will want to email me or leave comments calling me a communist, anti-Christian, etc, etc, etc. I am neither. Though I do lean a little left of center, I am, in fact, Catholic, and though I do think that history is the story of class conflict as did Karl Marx, I am not a fan of communism. It didn't work out that well for the Soviets, did it?


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Proposals are Due March 11
Commemoration and Remembrance Grant Opportunity
Beginning this year, in partnership with the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Council will offer 5 grants of $2000 each to organizations and qualifying individuals developing projects that commemorate and remember local and national histories. Commemoration, though almost always celebratory, works in the intellectual sphere much the same way historic preservation does in the physical. If memories can only be preserved by remembering so collective memory can only be preserved by commemoration.
Though history will always remember DC as the testing ground for emancipation, it is the ritual commemoration of Emancipation Day that makes it an integral part of the city's culture and character. A statue in a local park may provide its subject with an aesthetic sense of immortality, but it soon becomes merely decoration unless the meaning behind the bronze is consciously remembered through ceremonies, parades, and other traditions.
The people, events, and sites a public chooses to remember and commemorate can say more about the current community than the remembered past. What histories do we choose to commemorate? Why do we commemorate them the way we do? What messages do we hold on to so that we may apply them dutifully to our daily lives?
Help us answer these questions while preserving the collective pasts important to the people of Washington. Visit grantapplication.wdchumanities.org and start your grant proposal today. A preliminary application is not required for the Commemoration and Remembrance grant, the final proposal is due on March 11 at midnight.
Small Grants (Also due March 11)
The Council awards small grants in amounts up $1500. These grants are often used to support planning, research, or the early stages of larger endeavors. Like the Major grant, this opportunity is for projects that bring the humanities to the people of Washington, DC. The online application can be found at grantapplicaton.wdchumanities.org.


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You'll find places to visit, things to do and knowledge to put together a great plan. Indulge in Adventure Travel featuring both kid-friendly and adult appreciated activities. Use this uncommon, but replete list as a 'First Timer's Guide' or as a handy reminder of Moab's reputation for adventure. Here are the ABCs of Moab:
Arches National Park – It has the world's largest concentration of arches. See arches from a paved scenic drive. Get out of the car to hike to many others.
Biking – Moab is the mecca for mountain biking. There is a trail for every skill level. There are short paved pathways for road cycling and wide shoulders for distance pedaling.
Camping – Tent campers are best located in sites with toilet facilities while self-contained RVs can find more primitive spots. Arches and Dead Horse Point parks have online reservations to be booked well in advance of arrival.
Dead Horse Point State Park – The notorious name does not reflect the quality of this superb park with expansive views, great mountain bike trails and regularly scheduled ranger programs.
Elevated Transit – This daily motor coach links Moab to the Salt Lake City Airport and has room for bicycles!
Fisher Towers – When approached from the Cisco Desert, the cool mountains behind the towers and flowing Colorado River in the foreground demands, "Stop! Take a picture!"
Golfing OR Disc Golfing – Eighteen holes of green is dazzling in contrast to the surrounding red rock sandstone surroundings. Or bring discs for eighteen baskets among the junipers.
Horseback riding – Go on a guided ride through terrain that John Wayne has ridden for films. Bring your own horse and find stalls for rent or campgrounds with corrals.
Island in the Sky of Canyonlands National Park – This district of Canyonlands, north of Moab, is like the prow of a sinking ship poking up into the air with spacious views. The Needles district is south of Moab a few hours with Newspaper Rock on the way to it. Newspaper Rock is teeming with Native American history, more rock art panels can be found in and around Moab too.
Jurassic Rock means Dinosaurs – Hike to dinosaur tracks in what we call, open air museums. Treat these sites with respect. Know before you go: Any disturbing, casting, rubbing or pouring anything into the fossils, including tracks, is expressly forbidden under federal regulations.
Kane Creek – Kane Creek is a popular region of Moab with camping, hiking, mountain biking and 4wheeling.
La Sal Mountains – A 60 mile loop follows the Colorado River, then approaches the mountains by way of Castle Valley, serving up forest climate with unique vistas of red rock far below. The loop is completed by descending into Spanish Valley and navigating motorists back to town.
Motorcycling – On the road, there are three scenic by-ways with sweeping curves and views that demand attention. On the trails, Ride with Respect is engaged here. Get oriented. http://www.discovermoab.com/motorcycle_moab.htm
Night Life – Pick up the free publication of Moab Happenings for a list of live performances, dates, times and location.
Off-Road Vehicles – Whether in a jeep or driving an OHV, miles upon miles of trails surround Moab. Get maps from the Moab Information Center in downtown.
Photography – Iconic shapes, blooms throughout spring, summer and fall, capture the sporty fun or incredible lighting. Do it on your own, in a workshop, with a photo guide or get hints from DiscoverMoab.com/photo.htm
Quality Rock Art Panels – There are two types of rock art: petroglyphs and pictographs. The motifs pecked or scratched on the rock surface, petrogylphs, are often found on a dark patina called desert vanish. Pictographs are painted with mineral dyes or plant pigments. Examples of both are found in sites near Moab.
River Activities – on the calm water, stand up paddling boarding and canoeing is suitable. In the rapids, rafting and kayaking are enjoyed. Rent or bring your own or hire a river company to take you. Motorized jet boat tours are another manner of getting out from behind your windshield to experience the Colorado River by Moab.
Star Gazing – Rich, dark skies are breathtaking in southern Utah. Try peering through a telescope if visiting during the new moon, or hiking during the full moon.
Tempting wineries and brewery – Spanish Valley Vineyards and Castle Creek Winery provide tastings and free tours by request. Moab Brewery distributes many flavors in cans and bottles. The Blu Pig has a specially crafted beer on tap as well.
Ultra Marathons and Half Marathons – Trail marathons and paved half marathons dapple the event calendar in Moab. Ultra runners come to compete. Moab is host of the USA trail marathon championship race too. Beautiful canyons inspire rugged determination during competition. One half marathon is for women only, inspired by, Thelma and Louise, characters of an iconic movie filmed in Moab.
Veteran's Day is free! – Throughout the year National Park Service specifies dates to enter the park for free. In 2015 it began with a free date to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. day, Presidents' Weekend, opening of National Park Week in April, to celebrate National Parks' Birthday August 25 (turns 100 in 2016!), National Public Lands Day September 26 and finishes with Veterans' Day November 11 2015. Do research for free dates in 2016.
Winter Festival - The first weekend in December, holiday festivities commence with tree lighting and singing, annual craft shopping, appearances and picture with Santa, an electric light parade on Saturday night and a fun 10k Sun Run by the Moab Half Marathon folks.
Xcellent Restaurants – Pick up a free Moab Menu Guide in the lobby of hotels, campground offices, foyers of shops or find it online www.moabhappenings.com.
Yoga – With all of the activities possible in Moab, get grounded and centered practicing Yoga.
Ziplining – High flying adventure typically strung among trees, makes Moab's zipline especially unique. Tower to tower from sandstone mounds over amazing desert features, the tour includes a 4 mile OHV ride and a hike across a 100 foot suspension bridge. More harness and helmet fun can be had at the Adventure Park of Moab. There are 18 elements on the High Ropes course made up of cable and planks to cross.
The ABCs conclude, but the possibilities for everything fun has only just begun. Look for more adventure on www.DiscoverMoab.com or phone the Moab Travel Council for a vacation guide today 435-259-1340.


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Monday, October 01, 2012
Bob Goosmann is NewsRadio 1080 KRLD's new chief met
"Bob lives and breathes North Texas weather, and greatly respects KRLD's commitment to accurate and dependable forecast information every ten minutes" said Bruce Gilbert, Vice President of News/Talk/Sports Programming for CBS RADIO Dallas-Fort Worth. "NewsRadio 1080 KRLD listeners can rely on him, not only for accurate forecasts, but also for the information they need to stay safe when severe weather strikes."
Goosmann is an award-winning meteorologist with twenty-six years' experience in radio and television. Most recently, he was chief meteorologist for KDAF-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth. Prior to that, he held the same position at KDVR-TV in Denver. He also served as chief meteorologist for KRLD's sister CBS Television station KTVT (CBS 11) in Dallas-Fort Worth for nine years. In addition, he has worked at stations in Providence, Rhode Island and Richmond, Virginia.
Goosmann's work has been recognized with awards from the Associated Press, the Colorado Broadcasters Association and the Press Club of Dallas. He holds a Bachelor of Science in meteorology from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and the AMS Seal.
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LEFT: day 2
RIGHT: now, after 3 days
My skin is almost back to normal! The scaly feeling as well as the dryness has completely vanished, and so has most of the redness. The picture below is of all three days. I don't think the camera captured how red my skin actually was on the first day, but even after a night's use, the redness was the first thing to dramatically improve (as seen on picture two).
Chamomile tea is definitely something to look into if your skin is sensitive or red and inflamed. Chamomile has anti-inflammatory and wound healing properties, as well as many other benefits which all seem to work in union to improve skin health.


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This world war you were talking about, did it really contain Nazis? Were feet bigger then, stepping into the stadium and stressing abstruse mental regimen for the people rather than perfectly obvious? Were Nazis ecstatic as they rounded the corner into Poland? Were the woods alive with the glamourous meeting of Russian and German Armies? When the colourful line on the map declaring partition of Vietnam became a real wall and exclusion, did we just dream the interplay of political entities?Was President Johnson ascendant at any time? Did the clouds over the popular vote entail each voter? Were lives like ours possible then? Can we live our lives now? Was resistance the same laughing matter as Sarah Palin? Can we consult someone in authority. Who is so colourful as to ignore autumn? What's the meaning of meaning, when we are looking at maps?Are the people the people? Can we share the same planet? Have we authority? Is the ground cold as death? Was the napalm an excuse for a deflowered state of mind? What chant includes our articles of confederation?
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One should always strive to beat his/her own record, but how can we ever top Forever 21's opening weekend event? I couldn't sleep the night before the Mega 3-day sale—I was both (more) excited and (a bit) scared of things to come. "Will our marketing efforts bring in the crowd?" This was the question I kept asking myself... After all, this is one of my deliverables :o
We left the store Thursday past midnight, and I woke up 7:30 a.m. and got to the store by 8:30 a.m. Though my marketing responsibilities are over, I helped the Operations/Sales team in whatever way I can. I've always believed that success lies in teamwork. The morning was packed with preps, getting everyone all pumped up, and making sure everything's in order. I was only able to step out of the store around 11:26 a.m. and saw the line outside:
Can you see the end? I couldn't! So I took a video instead:
I remember having goose bumps when I heard the girls running and screaming towards the store when we opened. I thought I would never experience that again, until I took this video you just watched (above). Recording this clip left me speechless, it was truly an amazing experience to see everyone braving the line/s for Forever 21.
To all of you who patiently lined up to get in, to try on the clothes, and to pay:
Thank you so much! We hope the long lines and the super steal purchases are worth it ;)


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On completion of every photo expedition I undertake, I publish a verdict on what worked and what didn't. I'm probably the only travel photographer and photo expedition leader who does that so publicly, but it's a transparency ritual in which I believe very strongly. It's designed to assist those who intend to visit (in this case) Bhutan, and provides an insight at how and what my photo expeditions are all about.
Bhutan: The Land of the Druk Yul photo expedition was designed to provide its 8 participants with photo opportunities during the early fall festivals, or tsechus, which required us to travel from Paro to the west to the Bumthang region, its central heartland over a time frame of about 15 days.
Festivals: We attended and photographed a number of these festivals. Here I have to stress that I designed the itinerary of the photo expedition to include local and regional festivals only, bypassing the largest tsechu in Thimpu, which is held in a stadium-like area. The smaller tsechus offered us an enormous amount of photo opportunities, as I made sure we were in the very heart of the activities as well as behind the scenes.
The Wangdue tsechu was spectacular as always, and we were perfectly placed to photograph the dancers and performers coming out of their dressing areas. We also photographed them in these areas. I also consider the smaller Tamshingphala festival in Bumthang to be the most accessible in terms of photographing behind the scenes, and it has virtually no restrictions on what and where we could photograph.
While the Gangtey Goempa (temple) was on our itinerary, it was pure serendipity that our visit coincided with its annual consecration. This involved hundreds pilgrims streaming into the courtyard, seeking to be blessed by the presiding young lama. One of the rituals performed by the lama was breathing into small jars proffered by some of the pilgrims, who then sealed these jars to preserve the breaths.
Due to a mix-up in the Buddhist calendar (even Druk Air magazine got it wrong!), the Thangbi Mani tsechu actually took place a day later than we expected. This error confused many travel agents who had set their itineraries accordingly. We nevertheless managed to attend about an hour, after I delayed our departure from Jakar for a while. Here again, just like last year, we photographed the dancers' preparations and had total access to whatever we wanted to photograph. However, we missed the main dances of the Thangbi Mani tsechu due this Buddhist calendar anomaly, and because our itinerary called for us to depart the area on that very day.
Monasteries: Many monasteries were included on the itinerary I set for this photo expedition. Some of them involved uphill treks such as the obligatory Taktshang Goenpa in Paro (strenuous), the Thimpu Tango Goenpa founded by Lama Gyalwa Lhanangpa (strenuous), the Chimi Lakhang (easy) and the Ugyencholing palace (strenuous). Apart for brilliant landscapes, the latter trek is not worth it.
Other: We attended and photographed various other events; some of which were serendipitous and others planned.
1. Buddhist monks debates. We spent many hours photographing (photo-journalist style) two Buddhist monks' debates at the Kharchhu monastery in Chamkar. Apart from us, there was no other visitors and we had unfettered access to photograph the debates that are held in Sanskrit, and are accompanied by hand-clapping to punctuate the points made. None of us had seen such debates before, and we were thrilled to crouch and stoop to capture the action as it unfolded. Around 300 monks meet in the Kharchhu monastery's main courtyard and heatedly debate philosophical issues of the Buddhist tradition.
2. The Sacred Thread ceremony. By pure chance, we attended a funerary ritual at the Ura monastery. It appears that a prominent judge in the Ura valley region had died, and funerary rites were being held at the ancient monastery and goempa, as we arrived. Having secured the permission from the head monk of the temple, we trooped in the main chamber along with around 30 monks, who started chanting. The ritual was the first of its kind that I've witnessed in Bhutan. It involved monks stretching a sacred string from the altar where the holy statutes are kept to the seat of the head monk. This string is designed to facilitate the transmission of the deceased soul to the heavens.
We were told that we were the first photographers to document this ritual, but I take this with a grain of salt.
3. The pow (or traditional exorcist). In the general area of Thimpu, we had arranged to photograph during a traditional exorcism held in a farmhouse. The pow was called in to exorcise evil spirits out of a child and a middle-aged woman, and we were within a few yards from where that happened. Trances, shaking and incense-burning were all part of the traditional exorcism. Here again, we were told by the on-lookers than they had never seen non-Bhutanese attending such ceremonies.
Photography Gear: I used all of my lenses except for the 17-40mm on this photo-expedition. I used my 24mm 1.4L quite a bit, especially during the exorcism and other interior shoots, whether in monasteries or dancers' changing rooms. I used my flash sparingly, and only during the Wangdue tsechu as fill flash on the pirouetting dancers.
One of my favorite photo shoots was at the Jambhey Lakhang where I was able to spend a few unhurried hours photographing the pilgrims circumbulating the temple.
Hotels: It was gratifying and a testament to the efficiency of our land agent Adventure Travel Bhutan that we were never bumped from our hotel rooms. We were never asked to share our rooms, nor were we split over two or more hotels. Our guide Ugen, and Norbu our driver, always had their rooms as well.
Group Synergy: Similar to the cast of a successful sitcom, the 8 photographers' disparate personalities meshed well and created a truly enjoyable and, on many occasions, a hilarious environment especially during the long bus rides, and at meal times. Invariably, there were some moments of friction during photo shoots when one photographer intruded on another's line of vision...but these were quickly diffused or resolved. There's no question that this was one of the best groups I've led over the past 10 years.
Favorite Non-Photographic Event: I bet if I conducted a poll amongst the 8 photographers, our favorite moment was when the staff at the Kingaling Hotel invited us to a disco evening at its premises. Kingley Yangden (the manager) and her all-female staff of Tsering, Lekden and Kumari taught some of us traditional Bhutanese dancing to the tunes of local hip-hop.
Conclusion: Except for missing out on the full Thangbi Mani festival due to this Buddhist calendar mix-up, and for Druk Air's cancellation of our outward flight for 24 hours due to thunderstorms (but putting us up at no expense), the photo-expedition exceeded our expectations. Our travel agents Samdrup of Jachung Travel in San Francisco, and Pema (along with Sonam) of Adventure Travel Bhutan in Thimpu, closely monitored our progress and made available everything we asked for at a moment's notice. Naturally, special thanks are due to Ugen, our fixer-guide, and to Norbu, a knowledgeable and careful driver, who were our baby-sitters for more than 15 days.
Bottom Line: I returned with about 180gb of raw (unedited) images.


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Yay for siproxd. Working multi-user sip is a beautiful thing.
Key notes:
You need to configure siproxd, allow siproxd to use some ports on the firewall, and configured your sip client.
after installing the package, edit /etc/siproxd.conf and set
hosts_allow_reg=your internal network/netmask
do not set hosts_allow_sip – I found it interacted strangely and got 408 'timeouts' – which is how siproxd shows 'access denied' to the client.
edit /etc/default/siproxd and set it to enabled.
do a sudo invoke-rc.d siproxd start
Now, in your iptables rules you need to allow the following ports for 'INBOUND' on your inside and outside interfaces:
5060 (sip)
7070-7079 (rtp – the voice and video data)
Activate those rules, and you are done on the infrastructure, now its just each client that you need to configure.
So fire up your sip client. It should have a sip proxy field – in there put 'sip:' + your gateway address/ip.
if you have STUN configured – disable it. The sip proxy will forward registration and all traffic for you, STUN will at best confuse the issue.
And bingo, you should have working sip.


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US Secretary of State John Kerry is back in the Middle East as part of efforts to move along peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. However, there appears to be little hope of a breakthrough.
US Secretary of State John Kerry (pictured l. above) on Friday started his second day of talks with Israelis and Palestinians in a bid to find a firm basis for peace negotiations.
The first meeting on the agenda was with Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in Jerusalem. Later, Kerry was to head to Ramallah in the West Bank for discussions with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas.
Washington's top diplomat told reporters shortly after arriving in Jerusalem on Thursday that he planned to use his current trip to the region to try to convince Israel and the Palestinians to agree to a framework deal that would provide "defined parameters" to guide the two sides down the road to an overall peace agreement.
The framework included "all the core issues which we are addressing since day one, including borders, security, refugees, Jerusalem, mutual recognition and the end of conflict and of all claims," Kerry said at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (pictured r. above) on Thursday.
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Netanyahu, though, expressed skepticism about the US secretary of state's chances for success.
"There is growing doubt in Israel that the Palestinians are committed to peace," Netanyahu said, while at the same time accusing Palestinian officials of orchestrating a campaign of "rampant" incitement.
Specifically, he criticized Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for welcoming home a group of 26 Palestinian prisoners Israel released from jail early on Tuesday as part of a US-brokered package that persuaded him to restart stalled peace talks.
"To glorify the murders of innocent women and men as heroes is an outrage. How can he say that he stands against terrorism when he embraces the perpetrators of terrorism and glorifies them as heroes?" he asked.
There was no immediate reaction to the accusation from Abbas himself, but the Associated Press news agency cited Palestinian official Wasil Abu Yousif, who rejected Netanyahu's criticism outright.
"We, the Palestinians, are under the Israeli occupation. Israel is taking our land and giving it to Jewish settlers," Yousif said. "This is the only reason we don't have peace here. Netanyahu is trying to divert the attention from the real reason to a fake one."
Settlement announcement postponed
Meanwhile, Israeli media reported on Thursday that Netanyahu planned to postpone an expected announcement of the construction of about 1,400 new settler homes until Sunday, after Kerry leaves. Both previous prisoner releases since peace talks restarted back in July had coincided with announcements of the construction of new Jewish settler homes on land the Palestinians want as part of a future state.
Despite reservations on both sides, Kerry took great pains to try to appear optimistic about the prospects for peace.
"We have always known that achieving peace is a long and complicated process. It's a tough road. But this is not mission impossible," Kerry said. He also reiterated Washington's commitment to Israel's security.
This is Kerry's 10th visit to the region in pursuit of Mideast peace since he was appointed to the job almost a year ago.
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As Palestinians celebrate the release of family members, Israelis protest what they see as a bitter deal. Neither side is happy with international peace efforts. (31.12.2013)
Under the aegis of US Secretary of State John Kerry, Palestinians and Israelis are trying once again to reach a peace accord. But they've made little progress so far, and a deadline is looming. (29.12.2013)


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Thirty hours ago, Euna Lee and I were prisoners in North Korea. We feared that at any moment we could be prisoners in a hard labor camp. Then suddenly we were told that we were going to a meeting. We were taken to a location and when we walked through the doors, we saw standing before us President Bill Clinton. We were shocked, but we knew instantly in our hearts that the nightmare of our lives was finally coming to an end.Well done to President Clinton for skillful and compassionate diplomacy.
In other news, John Bolton seems convinced that America is irrreparably weakened by the success of this mission. What a scary, sad world it must be in his mind - where apparently almost everything that happens in the world is bad for America EXCEPT for failed military invasions which are, perversely, good. Poor soul.


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Despite the rain, Ben Ellis from North Timber Associates, has moved right along on our second floor. The rest of the walls went up quickly; then they started on the roof, ridge beam and one purlin beam first. They assembled three roof panels then lifted the whole piece into place. The goal was to get the purlin beams covered as much as possible before the next rain storm moved in. Tomorrow they will finish the roof and hopefully install the cupola before the weekend. Our windows arrived yesterday from Anderson (via Forestville Lumber, Plainville, CT). I've been in charge of the windows from the beginning (design, placement, ordering, etc.) so I am quite nervous and very anxious to see them on-site and installed. So far I feel pretty good about how the placement of the windows, or should I say openings, have turned out in the house.
Nola and Oslo are getting used to spending lots of time at the jobsite watching (or in Nola's case exploring the various construction debris scattered around on the ground. She really likes those plastic strips used to wrap building materials (she's 2 for those who don't know her personally). Oslo, age 8, had the privilege of operating the crane today - he moved the hook up, down, and swung the arm once.


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Bavarian emigrant Thomas Nast was just twenty-one years old at the outbreak of hostilities, but he had sketched some of Giuseppi Garibaldi's battles for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Switching to the staff of Harper's Weekly, the artist was on numerous battlefields and in many camps. Within a decade after the end of hostilities, he gained national fame from his attacks on the Tweed Ring in New York City. Today he is chiefly remembered for having created both the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Second Star to the Right...
A few months ago I posted an image of a little girl named Ava Jaymes Cipriani who was fighting Neuroblastoma. She recently passed away on April 17th, 2007. On her webpage are some pictures of her and her family. For some reason her trip to the aquarium (and her fascination with a stingray) and a picture of a flock of gulls that appeared as her parents put her ashes in the sea, stood out to me.
I decided to make a quick drawing based on those two things. I used the actual flock photo and added some more gulls. I also gave her hair. I'm guessing that's the first thing she brought back.
I can't imagine what her parents are going through. They amassed a large debt due to hospital bills, you can help them out by buying this t-shirt here: http://www.70star7.com/product.php?II=183
I truly don't know what to say, I'm just sad.
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Friday, May 11, 2007
More Brush Fun
My pen died. Been a crazy busy week. I had 8 more pages to go and I would have filled my sketchbook in less than a week. I felt like I was back in school. Lots of freedom.
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Thursday, May 3, 2007
The Ancient Mariner
It's funny thinking about this guy again. I have to dig out the old thumbnails I did way back when. At the time I thought he was sooo original, but really he's just a cross between Spawn and Aquaman. Here's a drawing of the Ancient Mariner from back in the day. That was also one of the first computer colored drawings I did.
I remember a programmer I was working with commented that he didn't look very ancient, and that his outfit was relatively modern. I gave the bullshit excuse that he lives outside of time, so he's been at this vengeance thing for centuries. To some he looks futuristic, to others ancient.
I can be good at bullshit sometimes.
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Brush Pen Sketches...
Katy Hargrove bought me this really cool Pentel brush pen. It's got a really cool looseness to it. I filled up 24 pages of my sketchbook in 2 nights. I can't recommend this pen enough. Way different than most brush pens, almost like sumi qualities. Love it. On a few I got inspired by Colin Fix's blog sketchbook entries and threw in some white acrylic.
First guy is an old comic character I was having fun with back in the late 90's early 2000's, The Ancient Mariner. There's an earlier version of him on my horrendously outdated website.
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Google Map service covers lunar surface
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Thirty-six years to the day since Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon, Google has extended its mapping service to cover the lunar surface.
Google Moon won't give you driving directions or the nearest restaurants, the types of information available with Google Maps and Google Earth. But the lunar tool lets you zoom and move around - to the extent NASA has provided images for those areas.
The feature debuting on Wednesday at moon.google.com also shows the locations of all six Apollo moon landings. Click on one to get the date and astronauts involved.
Google jokes that by July 20, 2069 - the 100th anniversary - the company will integrate its local search product with Google Moon, so users can find out about lunar businesses and other moon-related information.
It also says it is opening a lunar research centre by 2007, though applicants must be "capable of surviving with limited access to such modern conveniences as soy low-fat lattes, The Sopranos and a steady supply of oxygen."
And if you still don't believe engineers have a sense of humour, try zooming in all the way. You'll discover that the moon, indeed, is made of cheese.
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Inspiration struck me this weekend… not that I ever need inspiration to sew with my ever growing list of things to sew. I was reviewing some of my patterns and cataloguing a couple in a few spare moments and I came across a lovely pattern that I had admired and bought on etsy last year.
At that moment my eyes rested on the date and note written on the pattern envelope… "February 19, 1963. Yellow cotton" It occurred to me that was almost exactly fifty years ago. Who knew what had become of the original dressmaker. With the promise of Spring, the pattern had been purchased and made, the style was so very 1960s… was it made for a special occassion? A date? A dance? A wedding? Was it the dress she had hoped to win a heart with?
What I know about the pattern is that it had been in circulation at least by April 1961. Being an incurable romantic I was suddenly overcome with a desire to make the dress. I had recently laundered and prepared some beautiful black and floral cotton which was just waiting to be cut, cut, cut….
So the dress is well and truly underway. I decided to go with the optional lining on the skirt. The bodice has been more or less constructed (my first attempt at catch stitching a cotton stay into the neckline), I am procrastinating about pinning and basting in the cap sleeves. Then its just a matter of attaching the skirt, hemming and overcasting the seams….
The big question is… where and when shall I wear it? Hmmm!
Incidentally if there are any other vintage fabric lovers out there who have any Calpreta cotton (often advertised as Calpreta carefree cotton) I would love to see pictures of the designs.I actually found 2M at a thrift shop this last weekend (ha- the places I drag my husband)! The design and colour palette looked very mid century… when I laundered it I found the name stamped in red cursive on the underside. When I did some research on TROVE I found the newspaper advertising from the 1950s which confirmed it had been sold by a number of retailers in Canberra between 1956-1959… anyway, I can barely wait to imagine something great to make from it!


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Tyler Brelsford is an extremely mature and poised lead guard. He has consistently displayed the unique ability to make the players around him better, fit into the team concept, and has to be considered one of the winningest youth players in the DMV – having been a part of multiple national top 10 & top 5 teams. This lineage cannot be disputed by anyone as these facts have been documented and proven over time.
Tyler's style of play typically is not focused on individual accolades or high scoring exploits – from an evaluation standpoint he is not a quick study. His is a game that students of the game and purest find extremely appealing – camps, all-star situations, and unstructured environments previously haven't been where Brelsford shined at his brightest even when holding his own.
The Premier Youth Basketball League which has been around for three years has built a reputation on providing individual players a platform to showcase their talents. As Tyler Brelsford stepped onto the stage this past weekend, many assumed they had seen this show before – but this feature presentation was a new release… Tyler Brelsford 2.0.
Brelsford put on a display and showed a whole new aspect to the continuing development of his game; he didn't ask for respect he stepped on the floor and took it.
Tyler Brelsford's stat-line for the day: FGs: 6-11, 3pt FGs: 6-9, FTs: 11-11 Total Points: 41
The performance broke the previous league record held by Brayden Gault who put on a show in the championship game in the PYBLs inaugural season. Brelsford fresh off his #2 finish in the NYBL National Championship hasn't been a PYBL one game wonder as he leads the league in scoring at 25.3ppg, 5-points ahead of the next closest player.
One of the most enigmatic forces in all of youth basketball - its time that he be appreciated for the player that he is locally and nationally. Enjoy the entire 41-point performance below provided courtesy of PYBL TV.


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Italian architect. He designed the elegant façade of the Palazzo delle Assicurazioni Generale, Piazza Venezia, Rome (1902–7), and, as Superintendent of Monuments in Ascoli Piceno and Umbria (1891–1905), he carried out many works of preservation and renovation in those regions and in Rome itself. He reconstructed the Church of San Francesco, Force, Ascoli Piceno (1878–83), and restored the Cathedral of Sant'Emidio, Ascoli Piceno (1888–90), among many other buildings. He is remembered primarily for the gigantic Neo-Classical monument to Vittorio Emanuele II (1820–78—King of Sardinia and (from 1861) King of Italy), a huge pile-up of masonry (known by irreverent Romans as 'The Typewriter') dwarfing the Capitoline Hill in Rome, much altered after Sacconi's death by others, including G. Koch and P. Piacentini. Among his other works may be cited the quadriportico of San Paolo fuori le Mura, Rome (1893–1910—with Calderini), the tomb of the assassinated King Umberto I (reigned 1878–1900) in the Pantheon, Rome (completed 1910), and the Expiatory Chapel in memory of the murdered King in Monza (1910).
Accasto et al. (1971);Acciaresi (1911);David (1990);Maranesi (1929);Meeks (1966);Morosini (1929);Placzek (ed.) (1982);Portoghesi (1968);Jane Turner (1996)
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Dye your hair naturally, with no chemical substances, no business lead, no synthetic dyes. In a commercial sense available hair coloring uses chemical substances that eliminate, replace, or even enhance the organic pigments within the hair base. There are many negative effects that can derive from their utilize.
- pores and skin irritation, itchiness, burning, discomfort, redness, pain
- allergic reactions to the chemical substances like PPD (p-Phenylenediamine)
- hair damage or deterioration, over-processing
- unstable coloring (mostly with in your own home dyes)
Along with the undesirable results listed above, advantages serious health problems that are possible problems through chemical hair colorants. While there is certainly some discussion as to the fact of the issues from hair coloring, the risk just does not need that must be taken.
There are magazines regarding the risks of hair dyes such as:
- A good FDA research that discovered lead acetate in many chemical dyes to be poisonous.
- Content articles that make reference to the development of a few forms of malignancy including leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, bladder malignancy, blood malignancy, and several myeloma due to hair color usage.
- Prolonged utilization of permanent darkish hair chemical dyes can potentially dual a person's possibility of getting various kinds of bloodstream cancer.
- Some specialists suspect which hair whiten can eliminate brain tissues.
- The known human being carcinogen, 4-ABP, was present in some house hair chemical dyes.
Natural hair colorants such as the flower powders Henna, Indigo, Cassia, and Amla (click upon each to see more regarding it) may safely be applied to enhance or even change your tresses color. They may be plant powders that are combined with lemon fruit juice, water, and/or yogurt, in your house, to make a insert that is put on your hair as well as scalp.
As they are natural, and don't strip the actual natural pigment from your tresses, the color you receive from these types of powders depends on the color from the hair you might be coloring. For example, henna by yourself used on white-colored hair will certainly produce red-colored, while directly henna upon brown tresses will result in auburn hair.
These types of powders tend to be safe to use upon chemically handled or coloured hair, additionally. They are secure as often while you wish. In case you color hair with these powders and get the color which is not dark sufficient, you can easily deepen it along with another software.
It does have a few days to understand the final colour of your therapy, since the colour will still settle in to the hair base for a couple of times, due to the oxidation process. This particular natural procedure occurs since the plant colorants are exposed to the environment similar, in order to how a reduce apple transforms brown eventually.
You're likely to discover that most hairdressers are "anti-henna" since they possess only already been exposed to "compound" hennas combined with dyes, business lead acetate or even other metallic fixants inside them. Our powders are genuine leaf powders with no fixants or everything else in it. You could be assured it does not take best quality and can not provide poor outcomes.
As with any kind of product, examination for allergy symptoms. You should also attempt the insert on a little sample associated with hair (take hair from your hairbrush with regard to this) to find out what the resulting color is going to be on your tresses.
If you are using Amla, or Indigo you do not need in order to premix the actual powder along with lemon fruit juice. ONLY HENNA or CASSIA NEED TO BE COMBINED WITH LEMON FRUIT JUICE AND SIT DOWN OVERNIGHT. Indigo and Amla can be combined and combined with henna if you are ready to put it on.
Whatever mixture of powders you utilize, follow these types of guidelines within mixing:
100g combined powders for brief hair
200g for training collar length directly hair
300g for glenohumeral joint length directly hair
500g for waistline length directly hair
Please be aware that these tend to be starting recommendations and your tresses may need pretty much.
Mix henna or cassia with sufficient lemon fruit juice to make a insert with the regularity of mashed potatoes. In case your skin is actually sensitive in order to lemon and it is itchy right after using henna, use fruit juice, grapefruit juice, or perhaps a liquid which is less acidic than lime juice.
Include the textbox of insert with plastic material wrap as well as let it relax overnight in room temperatures or within a warm region. As the henna or cassia rests, the actual acid within the lemon fruit juice will launch the color through the plant natural powder. This slower, acidic launch will get the finest results. If you are in a hurry, place it in a comfortable place, however, not a very hot place! Your own henna is going to be ready within two hrs at 95F.
Once the insert is done seated, stir within a little more lime juice or perhaps a fragrant green tea to make the insert about because thick because yogurt. Put in a little each time to get the correct consistency.
With regard to Indigo or even Amla, just mix along with enough drinking water to make a insert the regularity of fat free yogurt. This does not require lemon fruit juice. Simply utilize warm water, including a bit each time so it does not become as well thin. As soon as your Indigo or Amla is combined, you can mix all your pastes together which you plan on combining. Make sure you mix it totally so you do not get streaked tresses.
You can also use one insert first, allow it to sit, wash it away, then use another insert to your tresses at a later time. In case you apply the actual pastes in separate occasions, you will get much deeper or more dark color.
For example, to get a really deep dark hair colour, you should very first color hair with henna, then colour it along with indigo following the henna'd tresses has dried out. If you don't would like as heavy of a dark, you can simply blend the henna and indigo together as well as apply like a single insert.
This process could get messy, therefore wear mitts to avoid tattoing yourself using the paste. You are able to prepare smaller sized amounts to pay for roots among full colorings. There is healthcare test proof that henna is calming, and can relieve headaches. The actual paste may feel weighty on your mind if you have lots of hair.
To use the insert to your tresses, wash as well as dry hair, then brush it via. You may want to area your hair with regard to easier software. Start in the back as well as work the actual paste completely to the head. Apply the actual paste heavily like frosting. More henna makes the richer spot and much better coverage. Reduce the next area and include that component.
Continue till all of your tresses is protected, then stack all of your tresses onto the very best of your mind and cover with plastic material wrap. Include with an aged towel if you would like, but the hand towel may get coloured if the insert gets in it. Clean away any uncovered skin to prevent dyeing this.
Allow the insert to take a seat on your hair with regard to 2-4 hrs before checking color. In case your hair is extremely resistant in order to dye, you are able to keep it upon longer. Look for a comfortable place and relax if you wish. If you are planning on getting around, make sure you cover the hair safely, or it is going to start to get or leak out of the plastic material.
Finally, clean the henna mix from your hair. Just rinse along with warm water. You are able to either leap in the bath or suspend your head on the tub as well as rinse the majority of it away. Finish eliminating the insert by shampooing the last from it out. Dried out and design as normal.
Your hair will most likely have a unique odor into it for a couple of times. If you detest the odor of the paste/powder, simmer the teaspoon associated with lavender marijuana or rosemary powder within water, stress out the flower residue, as well as rinse hair with lavender or rosemary tea in order to combat the actual herb-y odor. Or, you can add cinnamon to the insert before using it.
At first, tresses dyed along with henna might seem coppery vibrant. Don't tension. This will color during the following several times if you utilized an acidic mix. Entire body art high quality henna chemical dyes hands as well as feet very easily, but not your own ears as well as nape of the neck. In case you wiped from the henna, you will not see anything. If you did not clean this up, the actual stain will certainly fade within three times or so.
Hair will take three days to stay into the correct color. This is actually the oxidation procedure like whenever an apple company browns whenever exposed to air flow. Be patient and don't panic. The actual coloring may be best carried out on a Fri night whenever you don't have programs for the weekend break so you can allow it to settle prior to going back to focus on Monday. Heavier, longer programs mean more potent color. Use henna such as cake frosting. Get it right down to the head.
This functions on beards and mustaches, too.
Henna powder is actually ground through dried simply leaves of the "lawsonia inermis" flower. When combined with a slightly acidic fluid, henna will certainly stain pores and skin, hair, as well as fingernails reddish-orange. It tones up hair, provides shine, and it is anti-fungal, assisting eliminate issues like dandruff, lice as well as ring-worm. This strengthens your hair shaft since it colors, leaving behind your hair gleaming, healthy, as well as beautif
Henna has long been utilized as a organic temporary skin icon. Skin is actually painted along with henna, as well as left in order to sit for any length of time. After that, the skin bears the color by means of a skin icon, but ends with the sloughing of pores and skin. It is often utilized overseas within wedding rituals, and much more.
Indigo is among the earliest dyes to become used for sheet dyeing as well as printing. Additionally it is a natural powder ground from the variety of vegetation, including most of the Indigofera types. It is utilized as a meals coloring, referred to as FD&C Glowing blue No . two in the US. The actual sodium sodium of indigo is used like a dye within renal functionality testing so that as a reagent in the screening of dairy. When combined with henna or even amla it may produce a broad variety of colors, leading to the darkish hues within brunette colours. It is a fundamental, or alkaline, paste, in contrast to henna, therefore it does not need lime juice in order to activate this. It creates power and sparkle along the tresses shaft.
Amla comes the actual fruit of the deciduous woods, which is called because Emblica Officinalis. All areas of the plant are utilized for numerous ayurvedic natural preparations, such as the fruit, seeds, leaves, underlying, bark as well as flowers. It really is commonly used within inks, shampoos, hair natural oils, and for repairing dyes within fabrics. Additionally it is taken in house for a number of reasons.
Combined with henna as well as indigo, celebrate a smoother brown. It really is probably natural best tresses conditioner. Make use of the paste every week to protect, reinforce, and create sparkle on your tresses. It can also be converted to an essential oil and put on the hair every day. It has the smell such as raw red grapes and woods bark. Amla enhances dunes and curls, but may also be used on pores and skin as a cover up to then firm pores and skin.
TO USE: following the henna rests overnight, blend in the amla (1/3 in order to 1/2 the quantity of henna which you used to start) into it, start being active . water to help make the mixture fat free yogurt consistency. Total the process because listed above.
Cassia is an excellent conditioner for any tresses, regardless of colour. Cassia is really a green leaf powder which smells highly like mown grass whenever mixed with drinking water. It is alkaline like Indigo, and does not need lemon fruit juice to switch on the color compound.
It makes tresses glossy as well as thick, gleaming, silky as well as strong -- even harmed or bleached hair. Cassia has a fantastic yellow color molecule. Expense alter the colour of dark or even red tresses, but can make gray or even blond tresses turn fantastic. You can blend it along with any other natural powder combination, or even alone, along with equally wonderful effects. The actual conditioning results last for around a month. Blend cassia as well as henna to create shades associated with blond, blood blond as well as coppery red-colored.
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I have a building with a 881W. As the building is older the only wireless access points minus the 881w are in the clerks offices' They are just consumer netgear wireless routers. They have been working fine for years. (I know I should switch to the 1041N eventually)
Well in the last month a ward called me saying the wireless on their side of the building was down so I troubleshot it and discovered in the clerks office plugging directly from the wall to the clerks computer, the 881W assigned a address just fine and the clerk was good to go to do MLS and whatever. However trying to get the netgear router to get an address from the 881w from the same port was unsuccessful, so naturally I thought it was the router. I took it home and upgraded the firmware and tested and it worked fine at home. Bringing it back a week later all seemed to be fixed. (I even assigned it a static IP address from the 881W)
Well last week the ward clerk called again and said the same problem occurred, so he just bypassed the router and plugged directly in the wall from the clerks computer and everything worked fine for him to do MLS/tithing, just no wireless. So I was at a loss.
Well today the other ward on the other side said they've been having the same problem for about the last month! They've just plugged right into the wall to get MLS working, So no way both routers somehow go bad at the same time... What gives?
Again the 881w dhcp seems to be working fine. The 881w wireless feature is working as well Also plugging in my foreign laptop into the network jack yields a good address as well. The 881w just doesnt seem to want to play nice with the netgear routers. Even setting a static address worked only temporarily...
Any ideas?
intermittent access point/router connection issues
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Re: intermittent access point/router connection issues
Your wireless access points are probably fine. Read this topic on 881W problems over the last few weeks and see if the timing of your troubles matched the two weeks that were particularly bad earlier this month.
Re: intermittent access point/router connection issues
Sounds like double NATing to me, disable the the netgears DHCP and try it again. The 881 has to be the boss and the netgears just need to hand out IP's assigned by the 881.
CHQ would have no control over the non 1041n AP's so its not the wireless controller issue.
CHQ would have no control over the non 1041n AP's so its not the wireless controller issue.
Re: intermittent access point/router connection issues
rolandc is correct. In addition to disabling the DHCP in the netgear routers, I would assign a static IP address to them, just as you have done previously. I would also assign static IP addresses to the clerk computers.
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I did a solo show this summer at the Art Center (the month of August).
I was inspired by the word "catch" and the many phrases in which it is used. My medium was "recycled materials" and you can find at least one item that is recycled or "upcycled" in each piece.
The process was really good for me and made me switch gears from creating items with the sole purpose of selling it at a vendor show (meaning i had to keep final price in mind and ultimately the use for the item). Creating art for a show and for the sake of the art itself was great for a change. I had a two pieces that took me over 100 hours (Catch a Falling Star and Catch and Release). Others were just an exercise in figuring out new techniques or starting with a title and materials and seeing how I could bring the two together into a new piece (the broken mirrors for example).
I had a great opening (despite the terrible weather that night) and sold 9 pieces so that was thrilling. I gave a couple of pieces away and have a few pieces at the center for sale and my favorite pieces will hang in our home (for awhile anyway).
Catch of the Day: left over sweater scraps from other projects (sold)
Catch: 22 Languages
scrap paper on old typewriter
Catch a Falling Star: scrap felt cut from other projects, bunk bed board
Catch a Glimpse: broken mirrors found and cleaned up/ repaired (sold 2 of 5)
Whoooo Knows Why I Save this Stuff? (Catchall Drawer)
salvaged drawer, literally junk from my catchall drawer
"Catch and Release" broken fishing pole, beer/pop tabs
Catch a Tiger By the Toe: (this is the only piece that was done on a new canvas) (given as a gift to my friend who is in a band called Old Shoe)
"Catch a Cold" old picture frame, air dry clay, scrap wood (sold)
Catch Cooties: old picture frame, air dry clay, scrap wood (sold)
"Catcher in the Dye" (quotes from Catcher in the Rye done in resist on vintage linen with Procian dyes) Recycled frames
"Wild One Night Stand: Catch My Drift?" -salvaged nightstand (sold)
"Catchpenny paintings" - used gems
"Catch Phrase" series (Terminator/sold, Tenth Doctor, Spock, Doc Holliday/sold)
"Rick the Cat, Catchin' Some Sun" - scrap sun fabric
DreamCatcher (scrap tubing, vintage doily, scraps of ribbon and tee shirt scraps (sold)


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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military announced on Wednesday it will host Russian troops for war games along the Mediterranean coast, the latest step in the two countries' rapprochement and another sign of Moscow flexing its muscles in the Middle East.
The drill, due Oct. 15-26 in the coastal city of El-Alamein and dubbed "Guardians of Friendship," will include "elite units" from both sides. Russia's defense ministry said it would be the first ever joint paratrooper exercise for the two and would involve armor being dropped from planes.
Egypt has increased cooperation with Russia under President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the former army chief who ousted his elected but divisive Islamist predecessor in 2013, with several projects, including a preliminary agreement to build a nuclear power plant.
Meanwhile, Russia under President Vladimir Putin has revived its military presence in the region to levels not seen since the Cold War, intervening with an air campaign to shore up Syrian President Bashar Assad against opposition forces trying to oust him, and the extremist Islamic State group.
It's unclear how the joint exercises in El-Alamein would be interpreted by some of Egypt's main backers — including the United States, which provides some $1.3 billion in annual military assistance, and Saudi Arabia, which has helped prop up el-Sissi's rule with billions in key loans and grants. Egypt still needs several billion dollars in loans as a condition to meet an IMF bailout package to get the economy back on track.
El-Sissi has splashed out on big-ticket military hardware, from naval vessels to advanced fighter jets from the French and Americans. He has largely contained violence on Egypt's mainland, although an insurgency in a far corner of the Sinai Peninsula flared after he led the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi, with an IS affiliate forming in Sinai.
Soldiers and police officers in Sinai are frequently killed by roadside bombs and snipers in the area, while the army says it kills dozens of militants every month.
The insurgency risked upsetting ties with Russia last October, when IS militants brought down a Russian passenger plane in Sinai, killing all 224 on board. Russia suspended flights to Egypt and has yet to return them, waiting for better security measures to be implemented first.


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A good way to make songs more powerful and structurally sound is to use chord progressions not only within sections, but also across them. This creates a harmonic relationship between sections and adds to the sense of forward motion, tension and resolution, and overall strength. A change of section can feel more logical and expected, which you can also use to your advantage by doing something harmonically unexpected.
Progression Vs. Succession
First, we must define chord progression. Since there are two ways of placing chords side-by-side but only one term, "chord progression", everyone calls both versions the same thing. Let's call the second version, "chord succession".
In a chord succession, none of the chords have a relationship to the others except that first one and then another is played in succession. Playing E5, D5, and C5 ala Iron Maiden is a good example. Since nothing is going on, there's nothing to define. It's not even clear if this is E minor or C major.
Chord progressions, by contrast, are so involved that books are written on them, so we'll just cover the relevant basics. It is their nature to solidly define a key by concluding with V-I (the key's fifth chord and first one). The chords of increasing tension precede the chord of no tension, which is therefore the ultimate resolution. Several other chords can precede V-I, such as the famous IV-V-I (D, E, A). This defines the key as A major, provides tension and resolution, and moves (or progresses) the song forward purely by harmony. Let's use the IV-V-I progression for structure.
Song Structure
So what do I mean by structural chord progression? Let's say your song has a verse, bridge, and chorus. We'll decide our song, overall, is in A major despite any key changes within the song. To do a structural progression, we would write the verse in A major (I), the bridge in D major (IV), and the chorus in E major (V). After the chorus, we conclude the progression by returning to the verse in A major (I). See Example 1.
In this example, the indication (V/IV) means "V of IV", and that A major is not only I in A major, but also acts as the V chord in D major, our next key. Simply by concluding our verse on an A major chord and starting the bridge on a D major chord, we go V-I into D major.
After the verse (I), we continue forward with the bridge (IV) and chorus (V) again (Example 2). At this point, we could either return to the verse music again, or go straight into a solo in A major, but that key is sort of expected at this point, isn't it?
Why don't we do something unexpected, such as resolving to A minor (i) instead? It's a nice surprise, a different tonality (being minor), and is also something we haven't heard.
The technique can continue within a solo. To determine what keys to use, decide what section (and key) will come after the solo, then work backwards. In our example, the E major chorus comes after the solo, so it makes sense to end the solo in B major. B is V of E and makes E sound like home.
For this reason, at the coda in Example 3, we remain in E major instead of return to A major. By this point, E sounded like home anyway, and structural progressions have less strict requirements for completion.
What if our song has an introduction? This could be in A major, too, but let's use E major to create a build up to the main music.
Here's the final structure of our song and a recording thrown together to demonstrate it (progression jam track mp3):
Notice how the chorus has a succession in the first phrase (I-vi-I-IV), but because I slipped in the V chord right at the end before returning to the I chord, this became a progression.
To make structural progressions work, we must clearly define the key of each section. The only way is with a chord progression, for if I were to play all the white keys on a piano, the music could either be C major or A minor, or even modal. It must be definitive.
This raises the problem of using progressions constantly when they are all very similar, which is why people avoid them in favor of successions. Still, it is possible to ignore progressions and then slip in the V-I or vii-I motion at the end of a phrase. Either that, or do it at the start of a section and then avoid it, such as the entrance to the solo.
Since structural progressions are less strict, a song does not have to conclude with a finished progression, or even maintain them within a song. Two sections can be related by key when no others are. The song above ends in E major, the key of V, but still feels over.
This approach can improve your songwriting and make you think of new paths for song development. The effect is often subtle, almost psychological, and yet helps retain a grip on your listener, something every composer wants. This technique and others can be heard throughout the songs on my album, The Firebard.
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