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The Church of England has launched a new website justpray.uk which offers ways to explore prayer, to develop a deeper, more regular prayer life, and an opportunity to share prayers live on the website.
This website is simple to use and clear in purpose. It helps promote an understanding of the value of prayer in our faith life, it encourages us into a deeper relationship with Christ through prayer, and it has a live prayer board on which anyone can post a prayer, which is then able to be prayed by all those who visit the website. Once you have prayed for the family who have been bereaved, or for the ending of war, etc – whatever the prayer is that someone has put up on the board – a tick symbol appears and you click you've prayed and that prayer disappears to be replaced by another.


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Today after American Girl Book Club we stopped at Barnes and Noble for their homeschool information session. As a homeschool family we get an educational discount for anything that we buy there. I still don't have a card yet but that is a nice feature. It was neat to hear about what programs they have there. I was able to pick up some information on different books and series that they had gotten from publishers for teachers. I was just in time to sign up for the drawing and won Bananagrams. It looks like a really fun game. I took a picture but again, it will be loaded later. I am excited to play it with the kids as they start spelling better. It is small and we can bring it with us for fun times. I was not expecting to win anything so that was pretty exciting!
Thanks Barnes and Noble for the game and the resources. Thanks God for unexpected surprises!
Thursday, April 15, 2010
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August 10, 2009
Urge Tim Hortons to Stop Supporting Anti-LGBT Group
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From Change.org
Oh, don't you hate it when doughnuts decide to go homophobic? The Canadian mega-giant Tim Hortons (which in Canada is the largest coffee chain in the country), has decided to co-sponsor a rally in Rhode Island next week hosted by the National Organization for Marriage. Yup, the same National Organization for Marriage that is currently leading campaigns to take away the civil rights of gays and lesbians in Maine to marry, and the same group fighting marriage equality in places like Washington, D.C., New York, New Jersey and elsewhere.
Is this really the type of politics that Tim Hortons wants to support?
Michael Airhart at Truth Wins Out and the Providence Daily Dose were the first ones to point out that, indeed, Tim Hortons is not only sponsoring the anti-gay marriage event, but they've also allowed their logo to be plastered on the brochure for it. To be clear, this is an event hosted by an organization that has said gays and lesbians are a threat to children, and a group that openly promotes discrimination toward gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizens.
Here's what the Providence Daily Dose wrote about Tim Hortons sponsoring this event. Take note, Tim Hortons says on their Web site that they don't support those representing religious organizations. Yet, despite that pledge, the restaurant chain is sponsoring the NOM event where a worship concert will take place, and supporting an organization that has consistently partnered with anti-LGBT religious groups.
What in the world [is Tim Hortons] doing sponsoring something like this? Their site says that they support "local initiatives that make a difference" — such as little leagues, Halloween safety, and the like. And that they sponsor community initiatives with a focus on "helping children and supporting fundraising events for non-profit organizations and registered charities." But not "those representing religious groups [or] political affiliates," such as.. well, how would you characterise a group like NOM?
Disturbing, right? Well, here's where you can take action, and tell Tim Hortons to get out of the business of sponsoring anti-LGBT organizations. We've got a petition right here at change.org that goes to the company's President & CEO, as well as to their Director of Public Affairs. Please consider signing this, and forwarding it to your friends.
As Truth Wins Out notes, one reason that this sponsorship may have gone through is that Tim Hortons allows its franchise owners to decide on donations and sponsorships. But that reason just isn't good enough when the restaurant's name gets attached to one of the most anti-LGBT groups in the United States. Remember when a Subway franchisee decided to give money to take away the rights of gays and lesbians? Activists fought the hell back, and not only got the donation to the anti-LGBT groupr rescinded, but also got Subway to change their corporate policies to incorporate equal rights for LGBT people.
Now that's the power of activism. And as far as Tim Hortons goes, it's ever-so important to know where they stand on the issue of civil rights for gays and lesbians. Tim Hortons currently has franchises in Maine, where anti-LGBT folks have put a ballot initiative on the slate for this year which could eliminate the rights of gays and lesbians to marry in the state. If Tim Hortons is going to take a position on same-sex marriage by sponsoring organizations like the National Organization for Marriage, LGBT folks and LGBT allies in places like Maine - as well as places like New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere where Tim Hortons are popping up - deserve to know.
UPDATE: For Canadian readers interested in signing the petition, please include both your city and province name in the field for "City," and select "CA" from the list of states. For our petition software, "CA" can act as both California and Canada. This should allow Canadian readers to sign the petition to change.org. Thanks!
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This sort of thing really irritates me, even though I know it shouldn't:
"Romance novels should never be considered 'literature'. Danielle Steele, Nora Roberts and the like should not be allowed to put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard."
Say what?
Uh, honey? Do you read Shakespeare? Emily Bronte or Charlotte Bronte? How about Jane Austin?
OH! How about Edgar Allen Poe? (Annabel Lee is a lovely romance, isn't it, even if it is in poem form?) Or Alexandre Dumas, who wrote perhaps one of the best romantic action/suspense novels ever when he penned The Three Musketeers?
I know, I know. How dare I lump Will, Alex, and EA in with the Bronte sisters, Austin, and Nora Roberts? It might have something to do with the fact that when I read, I read with an open mind. I consider any well written novel to be a source of enjoyment, regardless of the genre. Have I read War and Peace, or The Color Purple? Yes. Do I want to do it again? Not right now, but I might later.
And that's the difference between us. I can sit down today and read Shakespeare's Othello and tomorrow Roberts' Heart of the Sea, without sneering at either. Because I love books, not genres. I'm not tied to what I believe I should be reading (or writing) because someone told me that romance novels are nothing but poorly written, cliched, hackneyed things that harken back to the days when women were helpless and depended on men to protect them from the Big Bad World. I read what makes me laugh, what makes me smile, what makes me cry, and what makes me think.
Do I like all romance novels? No, of course not! Just like I don't like every play Shakespeare has written, or the fact that I prefer Pride and Prejudice over Sense and Sensibility, I can't be expected to like every single romance ever written. And neither can you.
However, if you don't go into it with an open mind, I can tell you that you are going to miss out on some of the best literature ever written.
I mean, according to Publisher's Weekly, half the books sold in the United States are romances. We must be doing something right, and I doubt it's "catering to the lowest common denominator".
Thursday, July 31, 2008
To Read or Not To Read...
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America, land of the free, home of snobs. A snob for everything and anything has it's snobs. Usually they're all about blue blood or money but they're actually some in everything. Car snobs, food snobs, you name it. The snobs used to say the same thing about Sci-fi too.
- July 31, 2008 at 1:35 PM
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Chefs' children eat duck confit, not Go-gurt? No duh. Not quite sure what this article's about in the Times, but I know that we've had the kid sitting at the table and eating what we eat since the get-go. Still, one of the only green vegetables she eats is edamame [which she pops and devours, btw.]
Of course, the real problem, then, is what YOU eat. Note to self: stop buying Pringles.
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The Year 2006 in ReviewAuthor: Adam Bernard
Forget all those people who try to tell you that Hip-Hop is dying, or that there isn't anything good out there to listen to anymore. When going through albums for my year end top ten list I had more than forty I felt were deserving of notoriety. Here's who made my year end "Best Of" list. (Please note I compiled this list midway through December, so please no emails about how I left off albums that came out after the 12th)
10) Lady Sovereign – Public Warning
Some of the rhymes have a juvenile (and I don't mean the southern rapper) quality to them, but she's only 19 so it's not annoying, it's endearing. She's acting her own age with her lyrics, but has the skills of someone years her senior. "Tango" ranks as one of my favorite songs of the year with its classic "Bitch you're orange!" taunt in the chorus. (myspace.com/ladysovereign)
9) Jair Dynast – Vialence
Vialence, which stands for Vicious Ignorance Amounts to Little Except Negative Consequences n' Expression, is an impressive collection of songs that have some social concern in them and showcase a lot of lyrical ability, as well. The production style of Vialence is also pretty unique as it encompasses the influences of all of the places Dyanast has called home, including Toronto, Barbados, Connecticut and Texas. Overall it's a fantastic launching pad for a talented artist. (myspace.com/jairdynast)
8) Macromantics – Moments in Movement
This album will hit American stores in January of '07, but the international release of it was in September of '06, so it makes this list. From Macromantics' flow, to her lyricism, to the production on this album, everything is top notch. This female MC with an Australian accent will be a force to be reckoned with in '07 and beyond. (myspace.com/macromantics)
7) Jake Lefco – And You Are?
Philadelphia's Jake Lefco had a huge college radio hit with "Headphones," which is included on And You Are?, a fantastic album all about dealing with your own personal issues through being honest with yourself and, eventually, being able to laugh about it. And You Are? has a real positive vibe throughout the album and is a nice introduction to another MC we should hear more from in '07. (myspace.com/jakelefco)
6) Core Rhythm – Nat Turner Reloaded
Make no mistake, Core Rhythm has something to say and he doesn't bite his tongue on Nat Turner Reloaded. Core considers this album a statement for our time and ideas on what he feels needs to be done to usher in a new tomorrow. Sounds intense? Don't worry, it's all done over flawless production and with a flow that will have you not even realizing revolution is being pumped into your eardrums. (myspace.com/corerhythm)
5) Vinnie Scullo – Hollywood Menace: The Hills Have Lies / See You at the Gap
Two albums in one year, one of which, Hollywood Menace: The Hills Have Lies, being a double CD, certainly puts Cleveland's Vinnie Scullo at the top of the list of hardest working MC's in 2006. This former Hollywood extra rips into the façade known as fame and what it's done to both Hip-Hop and people in general. With See You At The Gap Scullo continues his onslaught on the Hollywood lifestyle and modern society, all with a wit and charm that has you leaving with a laugh and a smile. Heck, how can you not like a guy who samples everything from The White Stripes to the He-Man theme? (myspace.com/vinnyscullo)
4) Bubba Sparxxx – The Charm
In an era when southern Hip-Hop is all over radio it seems odd that Bubba Sparxxx still flies relatively under the radar. "Ms. New Booty" was big, but The Charm is filled with amazing songs that leave the listener knowing "Ms. New Booty" was done strictly for radio airplay. Don't sleep on Bubba. (myspace.com/bubbasparxxx)
3) Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse had a lot of people going "Crazy" in 2006 and I was most certainly one of them. An album filled with wild production and Cee-Lo at his best, what more could anyone ask for? Oh yeah, a follow up! Make it happen! (myspace.com/gnarlsbarkley)
2) Mickey Avalon – Mickey Avalon
Never has an MC demonstrated such an incredible detachment from such intense imagery. Mickey Avalon, the new king of glam-rap (was there an old king?), brought us tales from the gutters and red light districts of the Hollywood streets with his most intense tales being told in a monotone "I don't really give a fuck" tone of voice. He brings it up a bit for his more fast paced songs, but his delivery on tracks like "So Rich, So Pretty" and "Friends and Lovers" is what makes his self-titled debut so amazing. (myspace.com/mickeyavalon)
1) Pharrell – In My Mind
I was honestly surprised at how slept on this album was in 2006, then I realized why, it's simply ahead of its time. With In My Mind Pharrell has created an album that both MC's and singers will be borrowing from for years. A lot of folks don't hear it now, but like the George Clinton albums of the past, Pharrell's solo debut is something that people will be using for quite a while. (myspace.com/pharrell)
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Jessica Tierney has been forced to flee 1876 Sacramento, California and pose as a schoolteacher to avoid being forced into a marriage forced on her by her father's will. Ross McCain, Colorado mine owner is determined that the children in his town will have the opportunity to be educated. Ross talks Jessica into a marriage of convenience to keep her in town, not knowing that she is not who she seems to be. Mary Burton's first book is a very good story!...
Rafferty's Bride
Harlequin Historical, Nov 2002, 5.25, ISBN: 0373292325 He joined the army in the forties as a teen, but the military never trained Captain Travis Rafferty on life as a prisoner of war languishing in a Confederate Prison. He is shocked that Meredith Carter, though niece to Dr. Castleman, brings a poultice to help an ailing POW. When the fevered soldier reveals to Meredith that the prisoners are escaping through a tunnel, Rafferty reluctantly al...
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After the death of his wife, Matthias Barrington's sole concern was raising his two boys. He had no desire or intention of marrying again, but town matchmaker, Hilda Marie Clements had other plans for him. Without his knowledge she sent a mail-order bride for him. Abby Smyth ran away from her aunt and uncles to marry Matthias only to discover that he doesn't want a wife. With nowhere else to go and no money she accept his offer of working as his hous...


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I try to stay away from wearing an outfit
exactly the same way it was worn on a previous occasion -
even if it worked.
|7 For All Mankind jeans - Zara white puffy top - Fergalicious beige pumps
For me that it the magic of getting dressed.
Wearing one item several ways.
But, today I was running late and did not have time
to put anything special together.
And I have yet to find an outfit composed of jeans and a white top that don't work.
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Missional tribe
In June 2008 a gorup of 50 of us had a Missional Synchroblog, where we discussed the meaning of the word "missional", and what it means to be a missional church.
But those blog posts soon get pushed down the pile by new posts, and it's not so easy to find them any more, and a group of people have created a web meeting place called Missional Tribe.
It's a kind of social networking place for missional Christians. Perhaps the best explanation is given by Calacirian, who says:
what the conversation needed was a place to discuss, share stories, watch videos, ask questions, and grow together. Where all of this can easily be tagged and indexed for rapid access in the future. The Missional Tribe social network was born (www.missionaltribe.org).
It was launched on 6 January, and so is still new, and suffering from a few teething problems, but it has the potential for becoming a useful contact point.


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Point of View Video System Mounts on Oakley Eyewear and Introduces Advanced Bluetooth™ Streaming to Smartphone Platforms
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TASER, the market leader in on-officer cameras, created the new AXON Flex point of view camera, a technological breakthrough in the world of on-officer video devices. With multiple mounting options, including a seamless integration with Oakley, Inc.'s Flak Jacket® eyewear, AXON Flex systems are TASER's newest offering in the field of evidence-capturing technology, giving officers flexibility, simplicity and wearability. In addition, AXON Flex systems feature Looxcie Inc.'s proprietary video over Bluetooth™ streaming technology that allows officers to review events on a smartphone application supported by Apple iOS™ and Google Android™ operating systems.
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There is a lovely movement of sewers aspiring to alter the landscape of mass production and consumption, one small project at a time. They are known as the Sewing Rebellion and they are lead by the devout and diligent Frau Fiber. An artist, activist and textile worker, she has helped organize Sewing Rebellion chapters in California, Pennsylvania and Illinois.
Chapters meet once a month and work out a project designed by Frau Fiber in order to support more sustainable forms of consumption. Not only do participants gain technical skills in mending and construction, thus reducing the need for mass produced items; they create totally unique objects while flexing their creativity.
I learned about this group about a year ago and have unfortunately never been able to attend the LA chapter meetings. Good news for me and other over-extended folk, you can be a 'chapter of one' by checking out the website for instructions and guides to projects past and present.
As the current economy shrinks, it may be worth investing a little time honing our skills in order to support a smaller and more stable economy. Or, maybe just consider these activities as fun ways to get creative with neighbors and friends!


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W and I heard some strange cries in the woods on our walk yesterday afternoon.
Looks like it was time for some babies to venture out into the big world!
Both of these little ones were at the base of the tree when we first came along. We watched them for a bit as they climbed and climbed back up the tree. I am sure their mama was nearby. Babies in the wild are way more capable than we humans like to think. Since I like to name all the things I find,
I called the one above Lucy and the one below...Ricky!
Winston was sure I was going bring one of these two home for him as a playmate! After we left them, he would periodically stop leading me, turn around and smell my pockets and camera. My hunter would not have played nicely.
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Sunday, 13 April 2014
Guilty Of Nothing
We put out Roku Music as our first label release, so you know that Sonic Masala is all about good quality shoegaze. Of course in this day and age there are so many variations that it's hard to discern the good, the bad and the ugly - you get enough of the last one and you are likely to turn off from all the noise (bless me Kevin for my blasphemous tongue...) Philly's Nothing certainly use some of the tropes emblematic of shoegaze, but there is definitely a lot more going on here - this band has their roots as entrenched in early hardcore as they do in 80s English midlands. This is apparent on their excellent record Guilty of Everything. The vocals remain submerged in the miasmic swirling noise on display, but its the dynamic at play here that makes this a different beast altogether. It comes down to the calm and quiet that nestles amongst the bluster – a sonorous quality permeates tracks like 'Hymn To The Pillory', 'Endlessly' and 'Dig' allowing the noise to seep smoothly into the pores of your being. There's a familiarity in the wavelength-like undulations of Guilty Of Everything, but that makes it even more arresting. A seriously good release - and if I hadn't put out the best shoegaze album of 2014, then this would surely be it...
Guilty Of Everything is out through Relapse now - get it here.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
My job is an interesting one. Rarely dull. I talk to people who want to buy houses. And then we do everything we can to get them into one. Some of them are nice, some are far from it. Some are very grateful, some feel entitled. Some really deserve it, and others... well. The thing is that it's a pretty emotional process for them, so sometimes that is transferred to me. Thus the stress.
So today I have resolved to have a thoroughly enjoyable Wednesday, whether the numerous people I talk to on the phone are pleasant or not. Whether I am able to meet some of their ridiculously high expectations or not. And tonight we will go to church and I will see my 10th grade girls and I will have forgotten about work by the time I get there and it will be great. I am determined.
On another note... you know how Chase does those promotions where if you open a checking account with them you get $100? Well, we got one of those promotions before Christmas, and we just got too busy, and by the time we looked at it in January the promotion was over. The plan was to put the money we are saving for a house in there and have money direct deposited into it from our pay checks and eventually buy a house! But we weren't in much of a hurry once we realized the promotion was over. Well... now they have a new one! And it's more money. Yay. Bring on the house fund.
I hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far!
Monday, January 26, 2009
Taggied by Jeni!
1. Go to where you store your digital photo folders. Open the fourth folder.
2. Go to the fourth picture and post it.
3. Explain the picture.
4. Tag 4 people.
I have two places where I have pictures, so I am posting two.
This is one of my favorite pictures. It's from my Ring Dance. College was almost over for me, and we went out this night with my friends and had a really good time. We're at Autumn and Ashley's house. Doesn't Patrick look handsome?
And this one...
Haha. Patrick took this picture of himself in my room at my parents house while I was living there last year. It was after I got my new computer. Nice.
I am tagging: Claire, Courtney (Roberts), Chelsea (Wichert), and Patrick.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
In other news, today, my Uncle Mark graduated from Wilmington University. He also received one of two awards given out at the ceremony. His was for outstanding service to fellow students, to Wilmington University and to the community. And he's in his 60's. Pretty cool, huh?
Did anyone watch the Duggar wedding on TV? That poor girl. I mean it's a beautiful sentiment and the families were both really sweet about it. But the poor girl and the broadcasting of the discussion of the wedding night. That's all I have to say.
If you have never tried the crab and shrimp penne pasta from Costco, you are SERIOUSLY missing out. (Yep, this is Becky writing a food post.) It's amazing. I normally refuse to eat anything with what someone claims to be 'crab' in it unless I am within the confines of Maryland. But this stuff is so good. We also found some fresh lump crab meat at this enormous new HEB we have, so Patrick intends to attempt making crab cakes at some point. It will have to be for a special occasion though because fresh crab meat is somewhat pricy.
Today, we visited with the McGowns. We checked out their new church building (www.cypressfamily.org) and then had lunch with them. It was a really good time. The food was so good, and we reminisced about old youth group times. And then we got to hang out with Lisa and the kids some more after Kevin left for an appointment. It was really nice. We are so grateful to the McGowns for their friendship and their encouragement. They are wonderful people and so good to us. And so are their oatmeal cookies. :-)
Well, this week will be super crazy at work. It's the end of the month. Tomorrow I have a doctor's appointment in the medical center, so when I get done Patrick will be getting off of work. We're going to try to meet down there to do something fun for the evening. We'll have to see how work goes. Like I said, crazy week.
I hope everyone has a great week! 20 days to Valentine's Day!
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
A new countdown!
I am ridiculously excited. I LOVE her! In the weird way that you love a person who you have only seen on tv. It's ridiculous, I know. But either way, I am going! Tomorrow! Yay!
Alrighty, that's enough excitement for one day.
Birthday List: Item 1
* 4 Apples, cored sliced
* 1 lb RAPA Original Scrapple, sliced
* 1/4 cup of melted butter
* 1/2 cup of bread crumbs
Preheat oven to 350°F. In a shallow baking dish put a layer of apple slices.Add crumbs to butter. Mix and sprinkle half over apples. Put a layer of scrapple over crumbs. Add remaining crumbs. Top with a layer of scrapple and apple slices. Bake for 30 minutes.
Friday, January 16, 2009
That's about it. Just wanted to comment on this BEAUTIFUL day that God gave us! And the wonderful, relaxing weekend ahead.
Monday, January 12, 2009
culinary delights, and crazy times
Saturday night, we went to dinner with the Duprees and Stroups to thank them for everything they did for our wedding. (Yep, we were super late.) We went to one of our absolute favorites, Taste of Texas. MMMMMMM. They are crazy... we laughed the whole time. Then we went to the Alleman's to celebrate Lindsay's birthday, and it was also lots of fun and we got to see everyone.
We also got lots of stuff done on Saturday, including our first shopping trip at our new (enormous) HEB. It will take me some time to get used to that place. It's so big and I don't know where anything is yet. But they have quite the selection and it's a really neat store.
Patrick and I also expanded on our culinary skills. We were celebrating Molly's birthday on Sunday, so Saturday I made her an angel food cake (my first attempt) with whipped cream and strawberries on top, and chocolate covered strawberries around the sides. And it turned out perfect! I was very worried that it wouldn't come out of the pan very nicely, but it did. And Patrick made an apple pie basically from scratch, including the crust. It was beautiful! Everyone loved it, and we had fun celebrating Molly's birthday. We also got allll kinds of fun news while we were there! 2009 will be a big year. We can't wait.
Alrighty, a new Jon and Kate Plus 8 is on in 13 minutes! I must go!
Friday, January 9, 2009
How cool is Google?
Google is beyond awesome!
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Happy 6th monthiversary!
We had a LOT of Christmases!
Patrick got this fleece he really wanted.
He got me this ornament for our first Christmas as a married couple!
We got LOTS of other gifts, but there are some highlights.
The next night was Christmas with his family. Here's his dad opening.
And Meghan (yay Twilight!)
And Michael got tickets to some wrestling thing.
And his mom
And of course Jax.
The next night was the Palmour family Chrstmas. Libby got a new bone.
And I'm not sure why my sister is the only person who got their picture taken. My mom has better ones, though. I got her that bag... cute, huh?
The next day we headed for Baltimore. Here are a very few shots of the many many Christmases we had there.
My cousin Tanner.
My cousin Jamie (one of my flower girls!)
My cousin Liam (one of our ring bearers)
Geemom and Tanner
This was them opening the gifts we got them in Hawaii. :-)
And last but not least, we headed to Lufkin this past weekend for Christmas with the extended Palmour family.
This is a really terrible picture of my Uncle Sid, Aunt Vicki, and GrandDortha.
My mom, Anjela, my cousin Phillip, his wife, and next Christmas Baby Chloe will join us!
My dad and his mom.
Phew! Of course I missed some things. Christmas with my mom's college roommate's family, Elijah's visit, Christmas with the Nelsons. But you get the idea. :-)
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Christmas Addicts Anonymous
Yesterday Becky and I traveled to the Lufkin to do Christmas with the Palmour's. We had a great time. Frist, we went to GrandDortha's apartment at the retirement center and said hello and waited for her uncle Sid's family to arrive. Then we went to Cheddar's, home of the greatest broccoli cheese casserole ever, where I had BCC and ribs. Finally, We moved back to GrandDortha's apartment to open presents and ask questions about how oil leasing works. It was a great day.
Becky and I got some really nice gifts. We met her cousin Phillip's new wife, Kimberly, and hear all about the baby girl their expecting in March. Kimberly is very sweet and was a lot of fun. Her uncle Sid is the epitome of Texas: he's large, wears boots, tips his hat at you, and works with oil and cattle. He also has the mustache I dreamt about.
GrandDortha is such a sweet lady and I'm very glad we got to spend some time with her yesterday. She told me that she was glad I was apart of their family and that meant a lot to me. Funny story: the first time I spent significant time with her was at Thanksgiving in 2005 when we were at South Padre Island. I made her a sandwich and she told me I was as handy as the pocket on a shirt. And she mentions that every time I see her. Like, yesterday after I took the family picture she said, "You're handy! You can make sandwiches and take pictures!" She's a very sweet lady.
Finally, she has an amazing picture of her late husband, Harold. He's on the right side of the frame, sitting on (what appears to be) a leather couch, suit jacket unbuttoned, with his right arm tossed over the couch. It is an amazing picture and I would love to 1) look that cool, 2) have someone take a picture of me looking that cool, and 3) take a picture of someone looking that cool.
Here is the family picture I took yesterday:
I have a working computer
So for Christmas I asked for a new hard drive. My mother-in-law got me the new hard drive I asked for. Then, while in Baltimore, my father-in-law upgraded my grandma-in-law's computer to 2GB of RAM for like $25. So I figured, I might as well do the same. I seached on newegg.com and ordered 2GB of RAM for < $20 shipped.
To make an even longer story shorter, my great friend Chris let me use a license of his Leopard family pack to install that on the new hard drive.
Now I have an uber computer running the greatest OS on a 320GB hard drive with 2GB of RAM.
It's pretty exciting.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
I was thinking about people's differing reactions to the New Year. Last Christmas, we spent one of our Christmases at my aunt and uncle's house, the same uncle who passed away this past June. That day, he was doing very well. He had tried some experimental treatment that was working, he had gained some weight back, and he was pretty healthy. There were no guarantees of course; it was all so up in the air. He had also just broken his arm, their dog had needed surgery, and his boat stopped working. I remember on that day, my aunt said 'We are so ready for 2008.' And I look back at that and think what a bold statement that was. They didn't know what 2008 would bring. And I know it certainly didn't bring what they had hoped for, or what any of us had hoped for. But she was optimistic, and ready to take on a new year and put the rough year behind her.
So I can say, I am ready for 2009. Not that I want to put 2008 behind me. It was a good year. But it's time for 2009, and I usually go into a new year dreading the post-Christmas down time. The lights come down, the season is over. The weather is still all over the place. I have to go back to work, no vacation for awhile. But if a person faced with the reality of how uncertain the future is can face the new year head on, so can I. So look out 2009! I will do whatever is in my power to spend time with friends and family, do a better job of letting go of work when I get home, working on our resolutions, and enjoying our life. I won't be under the impression that if I think happy thoughts, nothing bad will happen in 2009. But either way, here I come. I am excited to see what is in store.
Friday, January 2, 2009
We are making resolutions. Everyone does that, I know, and never follows through after January. We have resolved to do the following:
-Make better use of lists
-Do all tasks that take no more than 2 minutes immediately
-Take lots of fun trips
-Be slightly less connected to our cell phones/email/blackberry/etc.
I also plan to try to be somewhat more physically active. This is not a lofty goal... I currently do absolutely nothing. :-)
Tomorrow we head to Lufkin to spend time with my dad's family for Christmas. That's always a good time. We are also in the market for a new TV which I know Patrick is pretty excited about. The TV we have right now is not really ours, so we are going to use some Christmas money to get a new one. Lots of fun things going on in the Gilgour household. Oh, and we got LOTS of Christmas cards!! They have taken up a shelf and a Christmas card holder.
Well, I hope you all have a happy New Year! Happy 2009!


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"Offering everything, pure and impure, is the best and quickest way to develop spiritually.
If you offer everything to the Divine, the Divine will accept and change it, even the worst things.
It is not what you offer but that you offer which is important." - Mother Meera*
Pope Francis said something like that recently - that Christ wants us to give him our sins. He was citing the mystical experience of St. Jerome, the penitent.
I think it's right.
Thinking of the sentimental song 'Little Altar Boy', even 'Little Drummer Boy', or the story of the 'Juggler of Notre Dame' - some of us have nothing to give to the Infant Jesus except our sins, our faults, our failings - in other words, our greatest 'talents' - sorta. After all, he came to set prisoners free... the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life... He tells us to come to him, the weary, the burdened. You who have no money, come, buy grain and eat; Come, buy grain without money, wine and milk without cost! You who have no merits - Come.
*h/t Jeron


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Happy Sunday! The Paper Players are taking a little Christmas break, but there is still time to play—we're leaving our current challenge open until December 30. You can see all the details here!
My sister's birthday is coming up and she has recently found some blogs and websites featuring vintage designs and she loves them as much as I do, so I thought I would make a birthday card for her using some vintage ephemera:
The next time I try this technique I'll do my velvet ribbon/lace treatment a little differently…still on a learning curve with that! But I love the effect of the snowy glitter on the metal frame as well as the Dazzling Diamonds on the die cut leaves:
The little postage mark is cut from an envelope I had gotten at my church's yard sale many years ago…I bought a whole box of them mostly for the postage stamps, but I love the look it gives here…although it would have been cool if I had chosen one from the year she was born! Hmmmm…maybe I'll have to swap that out before it goes in the mail! I cut the swirl from the same envelope as well. I also sprayed the entire card with a mixture of More Mustard ink, alcohol and white Shimmer paint. You can't see it here, but it added a nice antique color to it! Hope she likes it!
Pumpkin seems intent on commandeering my computers….yesterday it was my laptop!
Have a blessed day!


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|16 Oct 2010
TPM - Security Platform Initialization: what is this?
Hi, I recently tried to upgrade some drivers and I have been left with TPM - Infineon in the systems tray that keeps asking me initialize. When I clicked through the wizard it tells me to set up security on a removable USB Stick.
Forigve me, but can someone explain what this TPM is, and do I need it?
It seems to be a high tech security device?
How did I end up with it! This normal? Thanks!
|My System Specs
|16 Oct 2010
here is a short description of TPM.
What is trusted platform module? Definition from WhatIs.com - see also: TPM
if you decide you dont need TPM, you can disable it in the BIOS. otherwise it will nag you every time you restart.
|My System Specs
|17 Oct 2010
right...from my understanding it is basically a security service which can enrcypt your drives.
Do you guys use it?
|My System Specs
|18 Oct 2010
Most of the people here have no need for TPM but for those who do then the capability of preventing unauthorized access to ones computer is a strong plus.
If you have to travel and your notebook/netbook goes with you and you have company/government classified info on your computer, then you should be using TPM.
|My System Specs
|18 Oct 2010
you think bit locker would do the trick just as well?
|My System Specs
|18 Oct 2010
How to enable full drive encryption on your system
If you want to encrypt your entire HDD, you'll need windows 7 ultimate or enterprise, a TPM and HDD password are necessary, and windows should be freshly installed without the system reserved partition present, otherwise the encryption process will take a long time and will not be as secure
Do not try this unless you have a flash drive to store a backup of the bitlocker key and are already skilled with computers
enable the Administrator account and sign in to it for the entire process
Set a password for all active accounts on the computer if you haven't already done so
Restart your computer and enter bios
In security settings, set an adminstrator and HDD password first, then restart your system. This is necessary to enable the full drive encryption, or the TPM will sometimes block it due to security concerns. It also has the added benefit of rendering your HDD useless to anyone without the HDD password. It won't work in any other computer without it
Enter bios again and navigate to TPM management. Enable the TPM and set it as active, then clear the TPM and boot to your operating system
Open the group policy editor, navigate to computer configuration> administrative templates > system > trusted platform module services
Enable "ignore the list of local blocked TPM commands" & "ignore the default list of blocked TPM commands"
Disable "turn on TPM backup to AD DS"
Then from an elevated command prompt, type TPM.
Initialize and turn the TPM on
Restart your computer. Ok any prompt if the TPM gives you one..
In control panel>system and security you will find the bitlocker drive encryption options. insert a flash drive to use for a backup of the bitlocker key, then turn on bitlocker. It takes about an hour to encrypt a typical HDD on a laptop.
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|18 Oct 2010
I installed BitLocker on my netbook to familiarize myself with the capabilities and performance. Performance slowed. I admit that the netbook is underpowered for such operations. The encryption took about an hour and a half for each drive, c: system and d: data.
The netbook does not have TPM so had to change a couple of registry settings, as documented by Brink in the main BitLocker tutorial.
I'm now in the process of removing the encryption since I'm not traveling on plane or overseas with such anytime soon. The removal takes just as long as the encryption itself.
I've never used the following, but many have recommended:
TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux
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|24 Oct 2010
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|25 Oct 2010
look in your "startup" folder and delete the shortcut if its there, go to control panel/software&programs and uninstall the TPM software.
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The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century, start as any other family history might: with a family tree. Most of us do not wish to read about someone else's family history, especially if it will be a recitation of dates and events. David Laskin's family history, however, balances the intrepid genealogist's need for credible sourcing with the reader's desire for a compelling and well-written story.
Laskin tracks three parts of one family from Volozhin and Rakov (today in Belarus), the descendants of Shimon Dov HaKohen, from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. One group became immigrants to the United States; one made aliyah to Palestine; and one stayed in Eastern Europe. The U.S. immigrants were successful in business - in one case, incredibly successful as founders/owners of the Maidenform Company. The ones that made aliyah struggled to reach their vision in the new land. One only need look at Laskin's family tree to see the outcome for the Eastern Europeans well-before the last chapters describe the expected.
Laskin was fortunate in that he had access to family members' memoirs, interviews and, best of all, letters. Still Laskin colors his story with details and impressions that spring from his writerly instincts. He is careful to identify where information was scant, where recollections of other witnesses help furnish his family story with first-hand perspectives. He uses the historical record to advantage, but uses it as a story-teller should - to not only provide the setting and feel of the times, but also to help us understand how participants may have perceived and experienced the events.
Interestingly, he provides no footnotes in the text. It is not until one reaches the back of the book that one finds chapter notes. This is a welcome technique: it provides the background sourcing of the text, while also identifying where the author was indebted to the historical record and where he may have taken license.
From this book, one may learn something about how to use historical background information in portraying one's family history. Laskin uses the historical record so masterfully, it's almost imperceptible.
Based upon his success in telling his family's story in The Family, I expect that Laskin's talk will be one worth hearing.


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A place to share my papercrafting designs and encourage others to join in the journey.
Friday, July 14, 2017
Christmas in July
1 comment:
- Migdalia said...
Love your pretty shaker card!!
Have a wonderful day,
Crafting with Creative M
- July 15, 2017 at 1:40 PM
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Direct Assessment of Research and Information Literacy Skills in First Year Seminar Courses - Assessment Committee Paper #3
(see also posting under Information Literacy)
St. Lawrence University's First-Year program places a significant emphasis on the development of writing, research, and information literacy skills. This paper discusses results from the direct assessment of research papers randomly collected from First Year Seminars in Spring 2009 and Spring 2010 and analyzed by the University Assessment Committee. Results suggest that for the majority of students, skill development is at the level expected of students at end of the first year of college. Greatest weaknesses were found in the articulation of a quality, focused thesis. Read more...
Writers of Concern - Assessment Committee Paper #5
During 2012-13, a subcommittee of the Assessment Committee developed a new reporting system for identifying writers of concern in the First-Year Program, which involves feedback from faculty about students with writing concerns (collected via a web survey), a submission of writing samples for students reported, and the follow-up with these students by the Director of the WORD studio. The longer-term goal is to refine this process as an alternative to our current "unsatisfactory writing" (UW) system. Read more...
Indirect Assessment of Writing Skills based on Surveys - Assessment Committee Paper #6
In addition to the direct assessments described above, the Assessment Committee also reviewed carefully self-reported data from first-year students and seniors on their perceived writing skills, gains in writing and how much writing and revision they were asked to do while at St. Lawrence, compared to students at other institutions. Read more...
Additional Resource
- St. Lawrence Writing Rubric
- St. Lawrence Research Rubric


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I will post about the Cuba trip later today, but I wanted to note to recent departures from the world of arts and letters, one I heard about only when I got back (I had almost no net access while away), Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and one I read about this morning, J. G. Ballard. Both Sedgwick and Ballard were pathblazers, in very different ways, and global literary studies in the former's case, and fiction and science fiction in the latter's, would look quite different had they not appeared. Both have also been very important to me in many ways, as a creative writer, as a teacher, as a critic, and as someone trying always to think about how we see the world and the multifarious ways it works. Both were quite fearless in their work; for Sedgwick it meant trampling on binaristic assumptions that still grip our public and private discourses when it comes to gender and sexuality and how they function in the world, while for Ballard, it involved writing texts that could be read as pessimistic, anti-humanistic, sexist, and obscene. Not that such criticisms stopped either of them.
In the case of Kosofsky Sedgwick, as is now well known, her first two studies, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985), and The Epistemology of the Closet (1990) and Tendencies (1993), the text I have studied most closely, have been foundational in what many scholars, students, artists, critics, and increasingly the broader public may now take for granted, the field of queer studies, and the articulation of much more complex readings of the relationship between gender, sexuality, literary and cultural texts, discourse, performance, and related concepts. With each of these studies, the complexity of her argument, and her openness to a range of possible conceptual and performative axes, expanded. These critical texts, along with her teaching, raft of other publications, and public conversations and advocacy with an wide array of other notable scholars, artists and critics in and around gender, queer and performance studies, liberatory politics and practice/praxis, and critical theory, have remade the critical landscape in many humanities fields, while also helping to change discussions about the role of critics in shaping the public discourse around these topics. Though a self-described straight woman, she was truly emblematic of the complex and beautiful queerness she explicated and explored. Eve Sedgwick befriended and championed the work of the important, late black queer writer Gary Fisher (Gary In Your Pocket: Stories and Notebooks of Gary Fisher [1996]). (I should note that I recall the time I first heard her speak about Fisher, just before the book came out, and took her role in its production and publication quite skeptically, though Robert Reid-Pharr calmed me in the moment, and later I read the book and, after much rumination--because it is still a difficult book for me to take on many levels--and came to appreciate it, Fisher, and her role in bringing it into the world.) She was also a poet in her own right (Fat Art, Thin Art [1994]), which, like the playful essays in Tendencies, offered her another critical mode (why oh why do so few scholars not follow her example in this regard?). She had taught at a number of institutions, including Duke University and most recently the City University of New York's Graduate Center. She was only 58.
J. G. Ballard, a Shanghai native and trained physician, was one of the leading British and English-language experimentalists and of the late 20th century. His works could easily be described as "queer" in a different sense; they are often called science fiction or dystopic fiction, but in a number of them, at the level of narrative, they defy categorization. It's easy to forget, given the popularity of his more mainstream books, such as Empire of the Sun (1984), which later became an acclaimed Steven Spielberg film, which obituaries today have been highlighting, and The Kindness of Women (1991), how utterly strange and singular books like The Crystal World (1966), Crash (1973), which David Cronenberg masterfully turned into a cinematic shocker in 1996, Concrete Island (1974), and my personal favorite, one of the most perverse, draw-dropping, and horrifyingly sublime books in all of English-language literature, The Atrocity Exhibition* (1969) really are. Riding the genre line multiple ways and breaking not only formal boundaries but thematic and content ones as well, Ballard managed to delve perhaps more deeply than many of his fiction-writing peers into the ways in which our endlessly and excessively technologically mediated society was transforming, in a phenomenological sense and at a neuropsychological level, our experiences of the world. As his readers know, an adjective, Ballardian, has been coined to describe essential aspects of his style and dystopian thematics. The proliferation and normalization of paraphilias far beyond concerns about sexuality and pornography, the incessant and life-devouring obsession with mass media and hypercelebrity, the increasing struggle and ecological destruction produced by capitalism's churning engine, the spreading paranoia produced by the creeping global, govenrmental and corporate panoptican, and so much more, can be found in germinal and distilled versions throughout his oeuvre. This body of work influenced a wide range of artists across fields, but especially other fiction writers and many musicians, including groups such as Joy Division, The Normal, the Buggles, Jawbox, Radiohead, and many others. And Ballard did not let up: one of the last novels he wrote that I read, Super-Cannes (2000), refines these interests into what appears to be a straightforward realist narrative that slowly but surely turns bizarre, in quintessential late Ballardian style. He also published nearly two dozen collections of stories, a collection of essays, and an autobiography, and also wrote for film and TV. He was 78.
*As I never tire of telling students, there are different forms of censorship. Apocryphally Ballard experienced one form in the US when publisher Nelson Doubleday decided to glance at Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition and was so disturbed--very likely by the references to the late President Kennedy and his widow, and to the extremely graphic short story/chapter whose title included the words "Ronald Reagan" (Ballard was quite a visionary)--that he ordered the entire press run pulped. The entire press run. Jonathan Cape published the volume in the UK, and it later appeared in the US first under a different title, and then under Sylvère Lotringer's Re/Search imprint, with fetching graphic photos. You're forwarned....
The poem I'm choosing today is by one of my favorite poets, Adrienne Rich, and it's from her "Twenty-One Love Poems," which appeared first as a stand-alone collection in 1976 and then in her volume The Dream of a Common Language (1978). It is worth reading all 21 of these poems, as they economically and incomparably demonstrate poetry's capacity to express desire and love--and in the case of these poems, specifically the love between women. Thinking of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and J. G. Ballard, I am posting Poem VII, "What kind of beast would turn its life into words?"
Love Poem VII
What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
What atonement is this all about?
--and yet, writing words like these, I'm also living.
Is all this close to the wolverines' howled signals,
that modulated cantata of the wild?
or, when away from you I try to create you in words,
am I simply using you, like a river or a war?
And how have I used rivers, how have I used wars
to escape writing the worst thing of all--
not the crimes of others, not even our own death,
but the failure to want our freedom passionate enough
so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem
mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?
Copyright © 1988, from Gay & Lesbian Poetry In Our Time, Carl Morse and Joan Larkin, editors, New York, St. Martin's Press. All rights reserved.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Remembering Sedgwick & Ballard + Poem: Adrienne Rich
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I managed to finish #magamsewalong June dress with theme "Seasonal Stashbuster" by the end of the month, but only today I have time to write a blog post.
I like the pattern since the day I found it about three years ago, but somehow I didn't have a chance to make it. I was lucky to found the Simplicity magazine Autumn 2014 during our visit to Portugal, the magazine is in Spanish but I can follow the pictures and tutorials easily.
I also saw other patterns such as tunic and jacket that I want to make in the future.
About the dress, fabric is printed anchors and dolphins in red colour, 2.5 yards from stash, bought in Bangkok last year.
Pattern based in Simplicity New Look Misses Dress 6224 with Sleeve Variations size 36 model C with neckbands model B. I only used the bodice and modified the dress to one piece. What I did,
- I omitted the darts.
- Reduced the shoulder width 3 cm finished with armholes with 1/2" bias tape from the same fabric.
- I lengthen the bodice at the waist down to the hem 55 cm long and added few centimeters in both sides at the hemline to created a little A-line shape. I did for both front and back.
- Added inseam pockets, pattern from my other dress.
- Added two very long waist ties, 130 cm long x 6 cm wide that is enough to tie around my waist three times before I knot it.
- 1.5 cm seam allowances in all edges and 3 cm hem allowance.
The sewing process was faster than I thought. I did in ten hours including pattern tracing and muslin. I was so surprised that the armholes fit me fine in the muslin but not really in the real fabric. It was gaping, so quick decision I added dart 1 cm wide in both back armholes. Hope you can spot in the picture below at the bottom right.
And the rest of the processes were okay, as usual I fused fusible tape in both sides of the front holes and sew as the direction.
Then hand basted and gathered both sides of the front neckline, sew both front and back bodices at the shoulders and sew the neckband.
I love inseam pockets, I sewn them few centimeters below the waistline/waist ties. I always think that any practical dress will not be perfect without inseam pockets.
And the ties were made from the same fabric, it was easy to sew with little pointy at the end. I attached right on the waistline.
And the finished dress on Ellie my dress form, front and back views.
And glad I wore the dress few days ago to test it. We visited The Venetian' Macao for a walk and lunch. I saw that I place the tie in the opposite side as in the dress form. But anyway, I liked the dress and the loose fit of it.
That's it for today post, wishing you all a happy sewing and crafting 💗 I am knitting my UFO fair isle sweater lately, a very slow process but sure I will finished before winter come 😉 And also, at the moment I am sewing self-drafted swimsuits and hope to show you when I finished.
Hana @velvetribbon_sew


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ACNE'S NOT the only brand unveiling a big collaboration this month. London Fashion week favourite Michael Van Der Ham has joined forces with British cashmere label Brora, on a twelve-piece collection to make sure that you can keep warm but stylish this winter.
"I was approached by Brora [to do a collection] and wanted to do it instantly, as I knew about how high quality their product it is," van der Ham said, and the partnership is certainly one that makes sense. The Dutch designer has slowly introduced more and more knitwear into his main line and his penchant for colour lends itself to the bold palette that Brora is known for. "The colour palette was really important and that's why I used a lot of vivid shades to off-set the pastels we used," he explained, and that is particularly apparent on a multi-coloured long-sleeved zigzag print top that is already proving to be a hit.
Van der Ham fans won't be disappointed. The collection infuses all of the signatures that he's known for, so expect collaging and an interesting mix of different delicate fabrics woven together on each piece. "Working with Michael has been extremely refreshing," Brora's founder and creative director Victoria Stapleton said. "He has such a great eye for detail and his very elegant, feminine touch resonates through all the pieces he has designed for our collaboration. He loves a quirky twist and this unique collection with Brora certainly brings out his creative genius."
Prices start from £200 for knitwear and £60 for accessories.
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I have zero faith in the Supreme Court to see its way clear to let millions of Americans, including yours truly, to enjoy affordable healthcare. On the third day of hearings in this Republican effort to undo decades of work to bring the United States into something near what most other countries take for granted, the Supremes seem to be lining up along political party lines.
Quelle suprise. (What a surprise).
So when I see the looming end to dashing my hopes for healthcare independence on the rocks of Republican disinformation, I must retreat to cynicism. Cynicism, is after all the final refuge of the eternal pessimist.
Cartoons follow with thanks to the artists for sharing their very clever thoughts.


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Thousand and one ... thousand and two ... thousand and three ... Riiiing.
This mental alarm clock has been going off in Mark Rypien's head for nearly two seasons, but the Washington Redskins quarterback hasn't paid attention to its call.
Thousand and one ... thousand and two ... thousand and three ... Riiiing.
This mental alarm clock has been going off in Mark Rypien's head for nearly two seasons, but the Washington Redskins quarterback hasn't paid attention to its call.
And as a result, beginning this week, he will spend the rest of his career learning to listen for the alarm and being alert to the dangers that lurk when it begins ringing.
Rypien, who started six games in 1988 when starter Doug Williams was recovering from an appendectomy, has lost his starting job in 1989. After starting the first eight games while Williams recovered from back surgery, Rypien will be on the sidelines Sunday night in RFK Stadium while the 34-year old Williams leads the team against Dallas.
The 27-year old Rypien's demotion has nothing to do with a strong right arm that has thrown for 2,192 yards and 14 touchdowns in eight games.
The National Conference's six-ranked passer will be on the bench because he didn't listen to his mental alarm clock.
"About three seconds after the snap, defenseive linemen start getting off their blocks," said Rypien. "That's the signal for me to bring the ball closer to my body and protect it.
"I've got to be more aware of that clock when it goes off in my head."
Rypien's disregard for his mental alarm clock has produced one of the more bizarre situations in pro football history.
In 14 career starts - six last season and eight this year - Rypien has been sacked 26 times, fumbled 16 times, and nine have been recovered by the opposition. He has fumbled on 11 of 12 sacks this year.
This week in practice, while Williams worked on the game play with the first unit, Rypien walked to one end of the field and went through a drill that will be a part of his daily routine for the forseeable future, at least.
He took the snap from center, dropped back to pass, and started counting. When the count reached three, reserve quarterbacks Stan Humphries and Bill Kenney, along with offensive backfield Coach Don Breaux, rushed him from defensive positions and started slapping at the ball.
"When the same thing (fumbles) keep happening over and over, there's obviously a problem with mechanics," said Rypien.
"If I was having a problem with interceptions or something physical, I would more upset with myself. But I'm having one major problem that keeps showing up. It has to do with mechanics, and it's something I can correct.
"I've just got to listen to that clock in my head."
The coaches, who believe Rypien's problems stem from carrying the ball too low and away from his body when the pass rush begins to close on him, think the third-year passer from Washington State will emerge as one of the better quarterbacks in the NFL.
"Rypien has a bright future in this league," said Coach Joe Gibbs. "He has done a lot in a short time, made a lot of big plays. He's been exceptional, other than the turnovers."
Rypien's first 14 career starts have been comparable - and in some ways better - to similar beginnings by John Elway and Dan Marino, two of the NFL's top quarterbacks.
In 14 starts, Rypien has passed for 3,922 yards and 32 touchdowns.
Marino threw for 3,497 yards and 22 touchdowns in his first 14 starts and Elway passed for 2,094 yards and 10 touchdowns.
Nobody around Redskins Park is calling Rypien another Elway or Marino. Not yet, anyway. His passing statistics and potential have been clouded by his fumbles.
But Rypien insists he will work hard to correct the problem. He said he will not pout or fight the demotion, as former Redskins' starter Jay Schroeder did in 1987.
Schroeder, who stood apart from his teammates on the sidelines during games and engaged in a bitter war of words with Gibbs after being replaced by Williams in the last game of the 1987 season, was considered such a disruptive force that he was traded to the Los Angeles Raiders last year.
"I will continue to be a part of this team," said Rypien. "I saw what happened to another guy (Schroeder) who was replaced.
"I learned from that. I'm not the kind of guy who would do something like that, but I saw it happened and it opened my eyes to the fact that acting like that could cost me my career.
"I'm going to work hard to correct my problem and be ready when I get another call."
... thousand and one ... thousand and two ...
How Redskins' Mark Rypien first 14 starts compares to those of Miami's Dan Marino and Denver's John Elway:
Name Yds TDs Int
Dan Marino 3497 32 10
John Elway 2094 10 18
Mark Rypien 3922 32 22


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Officials at the International Boxing Hall of Fame and Museum in Canastota, New York recently announced their selections for inclusion into their august environs for 2005. In what has become an annual rite, said selections have met with a fair share of second-guessing, incredulity and otherwise ill-tempered reactions from some in the boxing world.
Not wishing to rock that particular boat, and cognizant of the fact that no one ever wrote a column extolling the judgment of the electors for the IBHOF, I'd like to use a little of TheSweetScience.com's bandwidth to critique their choices and otherwise break some balls.
Among the living fighters and non-participants being honored are junior middie boss Terry Norris, junior welter champ of the early '60s Duilio Loi, featherweight kingpin Barry Mc Guigan, featherweight and super feather champion Bobby Chacon, legendary California matchmaker/promoter Don Fraser and the ubiquitous boxing writer and editor Bert Randolph Sugar.
Some of the most dearly departed in the fistic fraternity have been posthumously selected this year, with featherweight champ of the 1920s Eugene Criqui, old-time bantamweight rulers Joe Lynch and Charles "Bud" Taylor, and middleweight champ Marcel Thil being chosen in the Old-Timer Category. The Non-Participant Category sees boxing manager/boxing film guru Bill Cayton and legendary Filipino promoter Lope Surreal honored, while the Observer Category includes writer Jersey Jones and Boxing News editor Harry Mullan. The Pioneer Category sees Jack Randall, a real crowd-pleasing scrapper from the Roaring '20s…well, the Roaring 1820's, somehow allowed onto the Wall of Fame by electors with w-a-a-y too much time on their hands for research.
Recent selections by the voting bloc, made up of boxing historians, writers and other self-appointed experts have pointed out some serious lapses in standards for inclusion into the IBHOF. Ingemar Johansson, Carlos Palomino, Daniel Zaragoza, Pipino Cuevas and Curtis Cokes have all made it in as of late and, while all were fine fighters in their day, one wonders why they are sharing the same wall space with the likes of ring immortals Joe Louis, Henry Armstrong, Willie Pep, Barney Ross or Tony Canzoneri. Should they be accorded the lofty honor of entrance into the repository of ring greatness while others, such as Jeff Smith, Kid Norfolk and (featherweight champion) Davey Moore – just to name three – are continually kicked to the curb?
At first blush it would seem that the selectors weren't too picky with the living inductees this year. We start with the streaky Terry Norris, who largely made his reputation meeting and beating shot fighters (Ray Leonard, John Mugabi and Donald Curry among them), while avoiding big time bouts with contemporaries such as McLellan, Quartey and a youngish Trinidad, and end with Duilio Loi, who – outstanding 115-3-8 (26 KO's) record aside – amassed the majority of those wins over scores of Euro-Stiffs during his long, insular career. In between we have Barry McGuigan, whose brief reign as WBA featherweight champ in the mid-1980s became more conspicuous for the truce-inducing effect it had on the Catholic and Protestant fight fans in his native Ireland than for its contribution to boxing history. We save Bobby "Schoolboy" Chacon for last, as he represents our only agreement with the voters in this category. Chacon was an all-action, heavy-fisted, face first crowd exciter who made up for his lack of polish with a surfeit of testosterone. His titanic battles with fellow West Coast idols Danny "Little Red" Lopez, Chucho Castillo, Ruben Olivares and "Bazooka" Limon energized the California fight scene and made it possible for "Fabulous Forum" promoter Don Fraser to carpool with him to Canastota this coming June, if he so desires. Besides, how many other pugs have had their names immortalized in song by Warren Zevon (within the lyrics to "Boom Boom Mancini")?
Look up the word "boxing" in the dictionary and you are quite likely to see a photo of a chapeau-wearing, stogie-puffing Bert Sugar next to it. Sugar has been as much a figure in popular sports and entertainment culture as he has been a creative force in the boxing world. A prolific and supremely entertaining writer who has postulated on any number of sports other than boxing, Sugar is nonetheless the "face" of current day pugilism as a result of his many appearances on television and radio, as well as for his ability to deliver a witty sound bite whenever the occasion calls for it. For instance, who can forget his bon mot regarding Chuck Wepner's propensity for dispensing claret?
"Chuck starts bleeding somewhere between 'Oh say' and 'can you see'," Sugar wrote of the Bayonne Bleeder. Priceless.
Don Fraser was the distaff coast's latter day Teddy Brenner and Harry Markson rolled up into one. Of course, having guys like the aforementioned Lopez, Chacon, Castillo, et al. at his disposal made for some decent bouts in Cali. Knowing when and with whom to match them is what allows him his rightful place in Canastota.
Among the posthumous honorees, Eugene Criqui stands out as much for his personal courage as for his ring acumen. A decorated French war hero of WWI, Criqui had half of his jaw shot off and then replaced with a jerry-rigged, wire and metal contraption sewn under his skin and muscle. He miraculously resumed his successful ring career upon the end of hostilities, eventually knocking out longtime featherweight ruler Johnny Kilbane to gain the 126-pound diadem. He held it less than two months before losing it to Johnny Dundee – no slouch, by the way – but met a bunch of good European fighters of the first quarter of the 20th century, usually walking away with a "W".
By the time former bantamweight champ Joe Lynch called it quits – following a pair of insipid draws against Pal Moore in 1926, the "Blond Terror from Terra Haute" – Charles "Bud" Taylor, was just starting his upwards trajectory in the bantam ranks, handing a pre-championship Jimmy McLarnin a ten round loss in Vernon, California. He would go on to lift the vacant N.B.A. (yes, there were alphabet titles even back then) bantam title from Tony Canzoneri the next year. It can be argued that the Canzoneri win represented the apogee of Taylor's career, as he went 11-13 from 1928 until his retirement in 1931. As for the New York City-born Lynch, he and every other lighter weight fighter enjoyed perhaps the most halcyon of eras in the early to mid-part of the century. Neighborhood and ethnic rivalries abounded in New York, Philadelphia, Harford, Boston and all points north, south and west. Lynch, a spindly though freakishly strong 118-pounder, took the title from Pete Herman in 1920. He held for less than a year before Herman reacquired the bauble. Lynch took it off of Herman's eventual conqueror, Johnny Buff, in 1922 and defended it only one time – against Midget Smith later that year – before losing it for the last time against Abe Goldstein in 1924. Both Lynch and Taylor were big time boys back in the '20s, but HOFers? No way.
Some eleven years after his business partner, Jimmy Jacobs, was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame, and a year and a half after his own passing, Bill Cayton finally gets the call to Canastota. Aside from the fact that he single-handedly bankrolled and facilitated the preservation of the filmed history of boxing, co-managed fighters such as Wilfred Benitez, Edwin Rosario, Tommy Morrison and Omar Sheika, and re-wrote the book on creating and marketing a fighter with his stewardship of Mike Tyson, Bill Cayton deserved enshrinement in somebody's Hall of Fame for his bare-knuckles-tough, though scrupulously honest business acumen. His Big Fights, Inc. boxing film and video library was a veritable monopoly, and represented over 90% of all of the available moving images of the sport extant in the world. He created lucrative marketing opportunities and negotiated television and video rights contracts for Tyson that were heretofore unknown within the sport. Finally, a major oversight corrected by the electors.
I grew up reading old RING magazines, so naturally I was familiar with Jersey Jones' work. Mostly, he flakked for a number of New York/New Jersey metropolitan area pugs, and had a proprietary interest in some of them. For this fact alone I do not think he merits inclusion into the HOF.
Harry Mullan was one of boxing's treasures. The longtime editor of the estimable Boxing News, Mullan was the punch fraternity's Man For All Seasons, authoring a score of entertaining boxing tomes as well as performing as a ringside commentator for numerous television, closed circuit and radio broadcasts of British and international fights. Mullan passed away in 1999, and was yet another victim of the HOF's finger-twiddling on voting in deserving candidates.
Regardless of my feelings on this year's selections – or non-selections as the case may be – wild horses could not keep me from being in Canastota this coming June. I'll be the one wearing a t-shirt bearing the likeness of my own, personal dark horse candidate for future Hall of Fame inclusion, the incomparable Don Elbaum.


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It was my devil's own temper that brought me to grief, my temper and a skill with weapons born of my father's teaching. (Quote by - Louise L'amour)
In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties. (Quote by - Solomon Ortiz)
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people. (Quote by - Tom Daschle)
The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin. (Quote by - Alexander Cockburn)
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. (Quote by - Lionel Trilling)
Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon. (Quote by - Victor Kiam)
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. (Quote by - Ferdinand Foch)
Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed. (Quote by - Terry Goodkind)
I get no say in my weapons, I always get like a blow-dryer. It totally looks like I just came from doing my hair. (Quote by - Natalie Portman)
Instead of operating within rules and law, we have been supplying lethal weapons to terrorist nations. (Quote by - Jack Brooks)
The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. (Quote by - Steven Biko )
Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation. (Quote by - Kofi Annan)
Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough. (Quote by - Martin Amis)
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but they cannot be uninvented. (Quote by - Sir Martin Rees)
A laugh is a terrible weapon. (Quote by - Kate O'Brien)
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free. (Quote by - Bill Richardson)
Over any such tangled wave of problems the S-1 secret would be dominant and yet we will not know until after that time probably, until after that meeting, whether this is a weapon in our hands or not. (Quote by - Henry L. Stimson)
If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government. (Quote by - Tommy Franks)
It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. (Quote by - Alfred Adler)
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way. (Quote by - Jean Anouilh)
The majority of Americans - the ones who never elected you - are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction. (Quote by - Michael Moore)


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BELLEVILLE, Ill. -- A St. Louis County woman has been convicted in a 2011 attack on a Red Lobster waitress who was pummeled after serving the wrong fish order.
Ania Wilkes, 21, of Ferguson, Mo., was found guilty Tuesday of felony assault and mob action, the Belleville News-Democrat reported Thursday. The St. Clair County jury deliberated about three hours.
Click here to watch cell phone video of the attack.
Authorities say the restaurant in Fairview Heights, just east of St. Louis, was busy on Dec. 30, 2011, when a server other than victim Heather Frink took the order from Wilkes and her companions.
Frink said when she brought the customers broiled fish instead of fried fish, she fixed the order and said it was complimentary because of the mistake. Frink said she was walking away to ask a manager if the table's other meals would be served without charge when one of the women at the table called her a profane name.
"I turned around and told them they couldn't talk to me like that," she said. "That's when Ania grabbed her glass and threw it at my face. I was in shock when it happened. My face was all wet, I was in awe, like, 'Did that just really happen?' "
Frink said the table's four diners then began punching and pushing her, leaving her with cuts on her nose and forehead and a swollen eye. Frink also said she had to undergo physical therapy for injuries related to being punched in the back.
A customer recorded the attack on a cellphone video that went viral.
"It was a nightmare. I had nightmares about it," Frink told the newspaper. "It was definitely traumatic to me."
Frink said she expects to give a statement during Wilkes' Oct. 3 sentencing, saying "her behavior is not acceptable" and Wilkes should be held accountable.
"You can't just act that way in public," she said of Wilkes, who is free on bond. " ... You shouldn't be afraid to go out and eat, and I shouldn't be afraid to go work at my job."
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As far as you Know it have been long time I have written something
yet here I'm in boring Sunday morning (which used to be a poya day as well) with limited Internet connection try to write down something
lets try to list down some semi professional things which I was step in to past few months
Framework Vs Matured Framework
when its comes to an open source framework selection always go for a matured one that means a framework that have been around for at least 3 years which have reasonable numbered user community .
the new framework may have cool features such as XML annotation ,lazy binding etc .. but not the help when you needed them .. or a less documented API .. don't risk your entire project on that
Process ... Process and more Process
the way maintain professionalism is getting rid of doing ad-hoc thing .. well at least try to avoid ad-hoc stuff until others recognize you as a professional . define some steps to do a every day task ,maintain communication with relevant people
Small Organizations give you opportunity to expand
we all dreams to work for big company like google , facebook ,microsoft apple but none of those places offer you a chat with CEO over a tea/coffee at 7 AM morning
I think its a best place to start for a fresh graduate . dream big start small pules points of this is you can hear what your organization really want from you . what their plans for you
most of the big companies want you to work 8 hours a day and 3 months salary in advance if they no longer wanted you thats it
Work Hard or Work Smart
you have to select one of above ether you work hard or work smart .. don't try to do both I have tried and failed .. so select one I have selected work hard .. because I'm not a smart man :-D
ok those are the things I have to list down after 2 hours of writing hope this will help for you in some how
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|Saltaire Art and Craft centre
The book is printed on beautiful, a little bit thicker, half glossy paper and is divided into 8 chapters; basics, blogging platforms, content, community, monetization, inspiration, photoshop basics and resources.
Even when you have been blogging for some time and you think you know what to do it is very useful. At least for me. I might know what to do, but I don't always know why and how it works. You also get explanations on a lot of abbreviations and other technical terms.
The most useful for me were:
Content: How to write a blog, what to write about, methods, regularities and consistencies. How much? How little? Most important thing is to write regularly. Since that can sometimes be a problem we go to the next point.
Inspiration: Challenges are one. Considering all the challenges out there the biggest problem would probably be to find a new challenge that people would be interested in. With photography it might be easier, but the 'well of books' is big and there are a lot still to be found. Another option is to find inspiration from other artists; not only book bloggers as in our case, but also from other areas of which you have an interest, photo blogs for example!
Photoshop basic: This was very useful to me who is not very good at photoshop. I just bought a magazine tutorial how to do it. It is time consuming and I don't know why, but my efforts does not always end up at the same end point as in the tutorial! Maybe the tutorial is wrong! Hmm...This basic one is very good and probably all what you need to highlight your photos a bit.
Resources: This was also very useful for me with information on various media. Web hosting with links to various types, software that can be useful for various parts of the blogging. And on top of all! A glossary that explains it all.
Jolie O'Dell has worked as a technology journalist for Mashable and Venture Beat, with a decade of experience engaging the online community. Her photojournalistic creations have been featured in tech and social-media publications internationally. All according to the cover. She has also written a blogging for creatives which could be interesting to read as well.
Well, that's it. Now, I have no excuse not to make professional blog posts! Let's see if I can put some of the advice into some thrilling posts for this site!


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RMAF chief says no plans to buy jet fighters and other assets due to budget constraints
THE Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) is expected to seal several contracts at this year's Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace exhibition (Lima 2011).
Air force chief General Tan Sri Rodzali Daud said among the contracts lined up were for the acquisition of radars, sensors and communication equipment, which would beef up the country's air defence.
"Several letters of offer and acceptance will be inked during the exhibition. However, owing to budget constraints, the government is unable to approve the procurement of larger assets for the air force for the time being.
"This includes the purchase of new-generation aircraft and defence equipment."
Read more: Air force set to seal deals for radars, sensors - General - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/local/general/air-force-set-to-seal-deals-for-radars-sensors-1.13723#ixzz1fTH9ogyh
Here this.. Malaysian Airforce interested to buy radar & sensors..


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Name: Jacqueline Rousseau
Location: West Village, NYC
Size: 400 square feet
Years lived in: 4 years; Rented
After living in the UK for nearly a decade, Jacqueline returned stateside with a blank slate. To the envy of her friends and fellow New Yorkers like myself, Jacqueline settled into a sun-filled studio in the West Village. A white Ektorp lounge chair left by a previous tenant was the jumping-off point for what has developed into a very comfortable place to live and work.
from Apartment Therapy | Saving the world, one room at a time http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/jackies-bright-airy-west-village-studio-house-tour-201102