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The 2013 Cannes Film Fest in
The local filmmakers and film lovers were cheering a hometown director and his cast for a movie with a French title that took the top award at the Finale (Sunday, May 26th) at the Cannes Film Fest.
|Courtesy The Cannes Film Festival
|Abdellatif Kechiche
The Grand Prix went to the Coen brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis." Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, the movie is about a rising folk singer who goes by Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) as struggles through the folk music challenge in
About the
The International Film Festival was created on the initiative of Jean Zay, Minister for Education and Fine Arts, who was keen to establish an international cultural event in
The first edition of the Festival was originally set to be held in Cannes in 1939 under the presidency of Louis Lumière. However, it was not until over a year after the war ended that it finally took place, on
→ The Festival de Cannes, which is managed by a Board of Directors, was registered as an "Association loi de 1901" (or non-profit association in
For updates and the rest of the winners and films featured visit: http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/inCompetition.html
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America, Copyright, DOJ, Hollywood, Kim Dotcom, MegaUpload, MegaVideo, New Zealand, US department of Justice
This morning Kim Dotcom tweeted some interesting facts about how he is being treated in what he calls "The biggest copyright infringement case in history". Personally, I think that the US Department of Justice are acting as bullies, with no regard for the laws of New Zealand. In fact, it's probably true that the US Department of Justice has little respect or regard for the laws of any country and will bulldozer in regardless.
Now, these facts that Kim has tweeted have not been checked, but there is little reason to believe they are lies.
I hope he is able to get the legal defence he needs.
He tweeted :
Fact #1: All my assets are still frozen. I have no funds to pay lawyers & defend myself in the biggest copyright case in world history.
Fact #2: NZ courts ruled: Restraining order illegal. Search warrants illegal. But I still have no access to my files. Not even copies.
Fact #3: NZ court ruled: FBI removed my data from NZ illegally. But the FBI reviewed my hard drives anyway and didn't send them back.
Fact #4: The DOJ argues in US court that I should not get a penny unfrozen for my defense cause I should be treated like a bank robber.
Fact #5: The DOJ argues in US court that I should not have the lawyers of my choosing because of a conflict of interest with rights holders.
Fact #6: There is no criminal statute for secondary copyright infringement in the US. The DOJ doesn't care. Let's just be creative.
Fact #7: Only 10% of our users and 15% of our revenue came from US users. Yet the DOJ argues in US court that all assets are tainted.
Fact #8: The DOJ told the Grand Jury that Megaupload employs 30 staff. In reality 220 jobs were lost because of the US actions.
Fact #9: The DOJ shut down several companies for alleged copyright infringement including N1 Limited – A fashion label making clothing.
Fact #10: The DOJ is charging us with Money Laundering and Racketeering cause Copyright Infringement isn't enough for Extradition from NZ.
Finally, he tweeted "
@KimDotcom And the NZ government is an accomplice in this insanity: Guilty until proven innocent, without funds for lawyers or access to evidence."
In my opinion, America, when it comes to copyright infringement is being swayed and directed by those in Hollywood, who (a) don't understand the internet and (b) don't know how to stop it – Kim Dotcom (silly name) developed a cloud storage service before we even knew what a cloud storage service was. He should be congratulated – because a few people took advantage of that service to store and share copyright materials doesn't mean he should be prosecuted.
I have Google drive, if I copy an episode of Family Guy and save it to my G-Drive, does that mean that Google has committed copyright infringement? Of course not – because google is based in the US and pays a damn high amount of corporation tax..

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Published: 2006/12/21
by Jesse Jarnow
Gratuitous Post-Jamboree #4
BRAIN TUBA: Gratuitous Post-Jamboree #4
Making up genre names is fun, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise, because arguing about them is even more fun. It is a parlor sport of social manners and pure peacocking, and I'm here to flash some feathers, yo. Actually, it's just another way of talking about music, of being able to boil a musical idea down into two or three possibly-hyphenated words that are historically and descriptively articulate. And, like trying to collectively edit a Wikipedia page, the arguments can get pretty, uh, hairy (or maybe just dumb).
So, now — by spontaneous group consensus — there's this thing called "post-jam." Sounds pretty good, right? Plus, it speaks to a disaffected listener, like a promise that the practitioners have figured out the excesses of the jambands and dispensed with them. Like most genres when they were initially named, it is more self-analysis than musicological reasoning. One can't identify it by putting on a CD. What binds the echoing heartachers of My Morning Jacket, the Beatles revivalists of Dr. Dog, and the technicolor sexytime explosioneers of the Duo as post-jam bands (oddly, it now seems natural to re-separate the "jam" and "band") but not beaded hippie Devendra Banhart, gnarly improvisers Animal Collective, or spacious crooners TV on the Radio? Is it that the former groups' recordings come off as uplifting when added up? Or that their only concepts are to just be bands without any costumes or gimcracks? (But that's not really true, either.) It all seems fairly arbitrary.
Historically, it does come at a particular moment, though, and sometimes that's all one needs. For starters, the last major wave of jambands seems to have long since broken. String Cheese Incident's future is uncertain. Trey Anastasio has returned to mortal status. With Phil Lesh's retirement imminent, the Dead seem to be maybe, actually done. More, there hasn't been a really new idea in the jamband scene since the Disco Biscuits and company integrated electronic music back at the turn of the century to tune the jambands into that hot early '90s sound.
On the other side are the changes going on elsewhere in the music world. In the past, what divided the jamband scene and everybody else was that jambands made their money by touring, which was in opposition to the traditional strategy of making money mainly from record sales. But, with the industry not-so-suddenly flipped on its head by mp3s, record sales are far from a certainty, and so the formula changes: create albums and use them to promote your tours, tee-shirts, ringtones, and other marketable goods. What the post-jammers have figured out is how to sell themselves on stage, reestablishing the primacy of the live show. It shouldn't be surprising that the hippies (or are we post-hippies now?) are finding tons of new bands that fit their demands for surprise, drama, and group experience. All that is new, really, is the demand.
Where one could identify jambands by their genre-mashing (sort of a Rainbow Coalition '90s sorta sentiment, anyway) and their improvisation, the same cannot be said for any of the new saviors. Still, it shouldn't be forgotten that many of the first bands identified as jambands — the Spin Doctors, Blues Traveler, and God Street Wine — barely sounded anything like that we now think of as even the most generic of nug-roasters. In the same way, Lester Bangs and others tagged tons of bands — ranging from Black Sabbath to Led Zeppelin to Sir Lord Baltimore — as "heavy metal" long before anything existed that we would identify as heavy metal today. But, like a hypothesis for an unproved equation, the notion took hold and, eventually, a real genre was born. The same process could be argued (and legitimately traced) for jambands, punk, indie rock, or pretty much any genre.
So, what we have here isn't so much a genre as an idea — and, really, not even so much an idea as a suspicion. But it seems like a useful one. After all, I don't cringe when I think about it (maybe because I don't know what it sounds like), and sounds at least a little contrarian (always good). More, it seems functional as a community-building tool, or just a way to talk about what happens now that one set of things has come sputtering to a halt and is changing shape. Who knows what's coming next? That's the beauty of jamming, isn't it? (Dude? Hello?)
Jesse Jarnow blogs at wunderkammern27.com.


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It's challenge time again over at The Stamping Boutique. This is one of my favorite challenges: Use a Doily. I love doilies, I use them almost too often.
The awesome image is "Audrey in the Rain" by Stamping Boutique. Colored with Copics. The DP is by Authentique, the birds are die cut rom Tim Holtz bird die, Love the flower, used Stampin Up punches, plus a small hand made doily, and my new flower maker, Bloom Tool by Marian Smith this tool is awesome for making hand made flowers. Ribbon and doily punch is by Stampin Up. I also added Glossy Accents to the raincoat and umbrella.
7 Kids College Fund: Anything Goes
Digi Stamp 4 Joy: Anything Goes
Divas by Design: Anything Goes
4 Krafty Girls: Anything Goes
Litte Miss Muffet Challenges: Anything Goes
Sister Act: Anything Goes
Digi Haven: Spring
Crafty Calendar: Sunshine/showers


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"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish that they are after."
Hi there! I hope that this greeting finds you happy, in great health, and ready to leave a positive impact on our planet today.
|Yes. Paradise has a store front.
Tiffany and I were honored to be invited to a dear friend's wedding last month and had the opportunity to stumble upon a hidden gem of a diner. Oh yeah. We attended the wedding outside along the Atlantic Ocean sans masks.
We stayed at a most marvelous motel along highway A1A in Volusia County. It was adjacent to the Saint John's River in the secluded quaint town of Hammock, Florida. A blog post will follow one day soon.
|JT's Seafood Shack on A1A in Hammock, Florida.
We had never been to this part of Florida before and asked the motel proprietors for a recommendation. According to him, the locals love J.T.'s Seafood Shack just up the road.
"I know." "I know." But Tiffany and Chucky don't eat fish. We thought that we'd pop in and see what their menu might hold. We were hungry, strange to the area, and did not feel like driving too far from the motel to eat lunch.
|Boca burger and fries.
When we asked our server about vegetarian choices he immediately suggested the Veggie Burger platter. "It's what the local vegetarians always order." he told us. We took a chance, shook the dice, and placed our order. Okay, it's a veggie burger at a fish house. How much can we expect after all? But, it's probably at least edible one could hope.
Guess what? Both Tiffany and I were knocked out of our seats when it arrived! O-M-G! What is this beautiful thing? We asked our server and he swore it was a Boca burger. Between you and I, I have NEVER seen one this huge (or as delicious). I suppose Boca might make a restaurant version?
Guess what? Both Tiffany and I were knocked out of our seats when it arrived! O-M-G! What is this beautiful thing? We asked our server and he swore it was a Boca burger. Between you and I, I have NEVER seen one this huge (or as delicious). I suppose Boca might make a restaurant version?
In any case it turned out to be the tastiest vegetarian burger that either Tiffany and I have been served with perhaps the exception of Hillstone's $15 "House Made Veggie Burger". But, for $6.75 we were served a veggie burger larger than my hands could handle with enough fries to feed an entire wedding party! "Oh?" "The $15 Hillstone burger?" "It does come with a choice of couscous, coleslaw, or shoestring french fries."
Trust me. The Hillstone "House Made Veggie Burger" is killer tasty but probably not $8.25 better. Tiffany and I were lucky enough to visit JT's Seafood Shack for breakfast on our way out of town. Again... O-M-G! Soooo much food for so little bucks. Tasty home-made delicious food.
It's a little short of 2-hours to Hammock from our home but we're already looking forward to our next visit. Guess what? You can bet that we'll be stopping by JT's Seafood Shack for another one of those Boca burgers!!!
Luckily we have a GFS in town now. I am hoping that they might carry the restaurant-grade Boca burgers that JT's uses. If not, that's okay. It's well worth the trip over to Hammock to visit JT's Seafood Shack!
Hi-dee hi-dee the-absolute-best-veggie-burger-for-the-money-ho my friend!


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Piqued by the high cost of building and construction projects in Nigeria, the Minister overseeing the Federal Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Musa Mohammed Sada, an architect, has challenged the Quantity Surveyors Registration Board of Nigeria, QSRBN to come up with a blueprint on how costs of projects in Nigeria can be reduced to compare favourably with what obtains in other parts of the world.
The Minister who spoke at the inauguration of the reconstituted 15-member QSRBN Board, described the trend as worrisome and charged the construction cost experts to take urgent steps to reduce the cost construction project in line with what obtains in other best practice jurisdictions of the world.
"The quantity surveying profession is concerned with financial probity and achieving value-for money in the conceptualisation, planning and execution of building and construction projects. Government therefore expects active support from the Board in the areas of good corporate governance and knowledge-driven innovations in the management of available but limited resources at its disposal.
However, one important and worrisome area the Board must critically look into is the high cost of building and construction projects in Nigeria. Available statistics show that costs of infrastructure procurement are too high in Nigeria compared with what are obtainable in the rest of Africa and the world. You must find a lasting solution to this anomaly and the time to act is now," Arc Sada said.
Continuing, he charged the new board to collaborate with the Ministry and other stakeholders in the building and construction industry to raise the bar of professional excellence in the housing and urban development sector.
"In doing this, you need to check the rot and unethical professional practices in the sector as well as the need to cleanse the system by identifying and removing those found to be bringing dishonour to it," he added.
The Minister commended the board for its sterling performance in the last three years, adding that most of them were reappointed because they did very well. He further enjoined them to ensure that registered quantity surveyors and practising firms continue to update and upgrade their professional knowledge and skills as global trend demands.
Responding, Mallam Hussaini Adamu Dikko who was reappointed QSRBN President pledged that the new board will continue to pursue excellence so as to make the QSRBN the best quantity surveying regulatory body not only in Africa but also in the world.
"We want to be the very example of a global best practice organisation We shall continue to make professional ethics, competence, integrity and pursuit of value-for-money, probity and accountability the central focus of our regulatory role within the Nigerian economy.
The board will continue with the on-going accreditation/resource inspections of the quantity surveying programmes in all universities and polytechnics that are yet to be visited such that by the end of 2014 all the 16 universities and 39 polytechnics offering quantity surveying would have been visited.
We shall step up the registration and induction of newly registered quantity surveyors to equip them with the necessary certification to offer cost management services to the Nigerian economy," he said
Furthermore, Dikko said the board shall continue to uphold the ethics, dignity and integrity of the profession and ensure that all registered quantity surveyors operate to the highest ethical standards. "We shall continue to enforce discipline within the rank and file of the profession. This will include taking drastic measure to fight quackery and quacks in the profession," he said.
Dikko stated that with the assistance and guidance of its consultants,the new QSRBN Board will pursue the implementation of the master plan of the QSRBN as a body corporate. "This is because effectiveness of the QSRBN in discharging its statutory mandate owes largely to the implementation of this master plan.
The master plan contains an organogram with clear cut departments, divisions, branches, sections and units which will drive the organic infrastructure in a systemic harmony to achieve the mandate of the QSRBN as a body corporate," he said.
Other members of the 15-man board include, Mr. Godson Moneke who was reappointed the Registrar, the Deputy President of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors NIQS, Mrs Mercy Iyorter, the Institute's Vice President, Mr Ogunfidodo, Mr Isaac Sobotie and Dr. SIJ Onwusonye.


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Dr. Wendy Graham, the lead physician along with other members of the Blue Sky Family Health Team in North Bay Ontario is actively conducting the Mihealth pilot project. This pilot powered by Diversinet, is a mobile health solution to give patients secure, 24/7 access to all their vital medical information on their mobile phones.
The Blue Sky Family Health Team is now able to serve more patients at lower costs, help patients more actively manage their health and wellness, help patients enter, retrieve, and update medical records.
The Mihealth Pilot uses Diversinet's Health Application built on their MobiSecure® Wallet and Vault technology. This specific technology has advanced personalization tools such as over the air branding and new mobile software development kits and enables patients to create and update personal health records (PHR). The records contain summaries of the patient's healthcare information, data on upcoming and previous appointments, the names of the treating physicians, and laboratory reports.
Both the patients and physicians participating in the Mihealth pilot are seeing benefits. The patients like being able to access personal health information anytime, anywhere and as a result, they become more involved in their healthcare and wellness. Physicians have to spend less time on unnecessary office visits, see increased patient compliance, and see fewer medical errors,
The pilot program illustrates how successfully patients can have 24/7 access to records in a secure manner. More than 100 patients are currently using the application which can run on more than 200 kinds of mobile devices. The pilot of the Mihealth system has been extended because of the positive response to linking patients, physicians, and clinical workers.
Plans are for Diversinet to provide Bluetooth® connectivity to medical diagnostic devices through MobiSecure Wallet and Vault and they expect to release this product in the second half of this year to enable even more additional medical information to be collected
Today, people are being helped enormously via the use of smartphones and mobile phones to improve patient care. The number of mobile phone subscriptions worldwide has reached 4.6 billion. In addition, with the arrival of iPhones and similar products, consumers expect more real-time information at their fingertips. However, at the same time, security issues can be a hurdle and could possibly hinder the adoption of the technology.
To meet this problem, Diversinet has a new product called MobiSecure® SMS to enable healthcare providers to exchange sensitive information instantly with patients via any mobile device in a secure environment. This product is targeted for telemedicine and provider case/disease management. More than $80 million has been invested in MobiSecure technology platform over the last 23 years and this has resulted in a significant patent portfolio.
The key to MobiSecure SMS is the mobile handset that secures communication via any wireless mobile device from the mobile operator or service provider. Encryption and strong authentication provides security for both one and two way messages meeting regulatory and privacy requirements. A remote access wipe capability enables users to erase sensitive data in the event a mobile device is lost or stolen.
"Our mobile expertise puts the company in a position to meet the growing demand for secure application solutions in the healthcare industry, according to Albert Wahbe, Diversinet's Chairman and CEO. Given government and industry mandates to move to a more efficient and effective electronic system of healthcare information management, we believe this is the ideal time to focus our solutions on healthcare providers, payers, and patients."
To contact Dr. Wendy Graham for information on the MiHealth Pilot Project, email firstname.lastname@example.com. For information on Diversinet's products and services, go to http://www.diversinet.com/.


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Since yesterday was Easter Cookies, I decided today must be Easter Dinner!! I don't actually do Easter Dinner as my sister handles that holiday. We usually do a brunch so I decided we would have our own little mini dinner here. On the menu: Baked Ham, Roasted Asparagus(see cookbook up top for recipe) and Popovers. I have a great ham recipe that I cut out of Parade Magazine years ago. It is from the late, great Sheila Lukins of Silver Palate fame. I've tweaked it over the years but it is still as delicious as ever. It was also a really nice change of pace from the usual chicken, pasta and beef. Of course, I had visions of a nice, conversational dinner. Unfortunately, everyone was cranky ! Of course, it was carbs to the rescue; Will ate 3 popovers and his mood improved immensely. Moral of the story: with kids, always have lots of carbs. You never know when you might need them.
Apricot Cider Glazed Ham (adapted from Sheila Lukins)
(serves 6-8 but this recipe easily doubles or triples)
3-4 pound ham
whole cloves
2 Tblsp Apricot Jam
1 heaping tblsp dijon mustard
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 cup apple cider
1 cup dried apricots
Preheat oven to 350. Score ham in a diamond patter with a sharp knife. Set pan in shallow roasting pan and stud each diamond point with whole clove. In a small saucepan, melt apricot jelly, then whisk in mustard. Brush onto ham.
Pat the brown sugar all over the ham. Pour apple cider into pan with apricots. Bake for 30-40 minutes , basting frequently, until ham is glazed and brown. Place on serving platter with apricots . This ham is even great at room temperature! So Good!!
March 24, 2010
Apricot Cider Glazed Ham
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Dear Gentle Reader,
Sorry that I have not been posting lately. This past week, we have been busy with house guests. It was nice to have them, but I haven't had time to blog. This coming weekend, we will be away at a family reunion, and I have to spend most of my free time working, to make up for lost work hours. So, not too much blogging again.
But, I did have time to check my garden. And Finally, I was able to harvest something. 🙂 Here are the total:
Yellow Zucchini: two squashes totalling 0.80 lbs. A lot more are coming on, so soon there will be a glut. My neighbor dropped off two jalapenos, reminding me that I will be able to pawn zucchini off on them. Also, I discovered that he has a crabapple tree in his back yard, and I have been welcomed to pick them when ever I want. Better go over tonight, and put them in the fridge. Our neighbor says that they are very ripe right now, and won't be good for much longer.
Carrot: one tinny 1/8 oz carrot
Purple Italian Hardneck Garlic: 0.42 lbs These had tiny cloves, and the papery covering was pretty much gone. Some of the cloves were starting to grow. I think I waited too long to harvest, though I did wait until the tops had dried up. Also, I cut off the scapes, but the cloves were really small anyway. I need to read up about growing garlic with large cloves.
Pink Music Hardneck Garlic: 0.30 lbs Same as above.
Leeks: 1.20 lbs These were not what I expected. I think I should have probably cut off the scapes. Oh well. Almost all of the leeks were making one or two cloves on their sides. In some cases, the cloves were starting to grow. I had picked these up last year (at the nursery), as a single pot of generic leeks. I think I need to start next year's leeks from seed, so that I know what I am getting. But, for now, I can plant my zinnias and have some summer blooms.
It wasn't much of a harvest, so far, but I learned a lot.
The corn is growing really well. Most of the plants have started growing a second ear. Interestingly, the local gold finches love the corn. There are usually several in the corn. Maybe they like the bugs. I don't mind. They are so beautiful. We have lots of goldfinches, since I have a thistle feeder across the yard from the corn.
There are a couple of baby pumpkins on the vine. I haven't seen any Hubbards forming yet, but that should be soon. The Mexican Sour Gherkins are growing like gangbusters, but I still haven't seen any H-19 cukes yet (only male flowers).
I need to harvest the potatoes, either tonight or tomorrow night.
The cherry tomatoes are growing all over the garden (had to tie them up) and are just starting to ripen. The Al Kuffa tomatoes are doing really well. They are short, sturdy plants that haven't been blown over. And each plant has several clusters of slicing tomatoes. I think they will take a week or so to start ripening up.
That's all for now. Hope that your garden is growing well.


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The Journey
A journey worth
A lifetime
Is the one into myself.
A discovery of who I am
What I am made of
Where I belong
What I have to offer.
An adventure to
A place of love
A place where passion
And drive meet to create
Extraordinary things.
A voyage across
Many seas of misinformation
Of despair and dissatisfaction
To the seas of wonder and acceptance
Of love, contentment and peace.
A trip inside myself
Through all the outward problems
Challenges and successes
To the deepest part of my being.
A place ever present and
Consistently filled with love.
Beyond the outward appearances and
To the strong foundation that sits
At my core,
Calmly waiting for me to settle there.
I am on this journey to myself. It can be a tricky journey, one in which I encounter fears and sadness. But I also encounter and am filled with great love and joy. It's always an adventure learning about myself. When I can let go and not take it so seriously that's when miracles happen.
What does your journey look like?


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[In advance of the forthcoming reprint by Nine Point Press of my 1978 book, A Seneca Journal, the following are some of the poems omitted from the original publication & now ready to be seen anew. Other work from the Seneca years has appeared since then in Shaking the Pumpkin & elsewhere. (J.R.)]
A Seneca Memory
At Harry Watt's old placeabove the
Leo Cooper tells me:
"I could have been the first
"American Indian
"rabbi were it not for my love
"of pork
circa 1972,
For A Seneca Journal: "The Grandfather"
Bucktooth, about middling height,spare & thin, hair cut close to his head, quite white. He
resides near the mouth of Bucktooth Creek
8 miles above Coldspring on the northern bank of the
Allegany near his cabin are the Bucktooth Mills
Bucktooth Hotel & Bucktooth Postoffice
So his name is likely to have a local celebrity long after he
shall have passed away.Memo. Old Bucktooth died June 1851. Ben Williams letter,
Sept. 4, 1851.
In the Direction of the Equator but My Feet Still Facing North
pale eyes. the treeis friendly
friend Jerome he says
my watch says
I walk to the old corner of
past the Seneca
Theater & cross
the bridge. hello
you citizens of
hello the dog says.
he is the tree's friend
& mine.
he is a silly yellow
color. eyes are shining
lightly into eyes.
empty & the trees
someone tells us:
you are going on a trip.
Two Sky Poems
1the sky is a large
we live
under its tongue
2my tongue is a large
is how we see the sky
The Beaver 1-12
They shall eat it.
In her womb.
And the sand lizard.
He comes running.
Someone slain.
Their father.
His sins.
A harlot.
In the heat.
He shall lead.
The prophet.
And he built.
[composed by gematria]
dead dog –– my enemy –
dead stone
dead stallion
– my deliverer –
dead mind
dead metal
dead appendage
– king of promises –
– my burden –
first & foremost
– my dead star –


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Supreme Court of Wisconsin
March 15, 2016
State of Wisconsin, Plaintiff-Respondent,v.Patrick K. Tourville, Defendant-Appellant-Petitioner.
ORAL ARGUMENT: December 15, 2015
REVIEW OF A DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS (Reported at 363 Wis.2d 656, 862 N.W.2d 903) (Ct. App. 2015 – Unpublished)
Circuit Court Polk County, L.C. Nos. 2012CF27, 2011CF293, 2011CF376, 2013CF107 Molly E. GaleWyrick Judge
For the defendant-appellant-petitioner, there were briefs by John A. Pray and the Frank J. Remington Center, University of Wisconsin Law School, and oral argument by John A. Pray.
For the plaintiff-respondent, the cause was argued by Jeffrey Kassel, assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief was Brad Schimel, attorney general.
¶1 Petitioner, Patrick Tourville ("Tourville"), seeks review of an unpublished court of appeals decision denying his motion for post-conviction relief.[1] He asserts that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object after the State allegedly breached the plea agreement by recommending consecutive sentences. Additionally, Tourville contends that there was an insufficient factual basis for the court to accept his guilty plea to the charge of party to the crime of felony theft.
¶2 Like the circuit court and court of appeals, we conclude that Tourville's trial counsel was not ineffective. Given that the State did not breach the plea agreement by arguing for consecutive sentences, Tourville fails to establish the deficient performance necessary for an ineffective assistance of counsel claim.
¶3 We also conclude that the circuit court's determination was not clearly erroneous. There was a sufficient factual basis to accept Tourville's guilty plea to the charge of party to the crime of felony theft. He willingly aided others who engaged in felony theft by taking them to his campsite, helping them open the safe, and disposing of the ill-gotten property. Accordingly, we affirm the court of appeals.
¶4 The underlying facts in this case are taken from the amended criminal complaint in case no. 2012CF27. The State charged Tourville with seventeen criminal counts in four separate, unrelated cases:
Case No. 2011CF293: Operating a motor vehicle without the owner's consent, misdemeanor theft, and obstructing an officer, with all counts charged as a repeater.
Case No. 2011CF376: Burglary while arming himself with a dangerous weapon, two counts of theft of a firearm, misdemeanor theft, felony bail jumping, and possession of a firearm by a felon, with all counts charged as a repeater.
Case No. 2012CF27: Party to the crime of felony theft, possession of a firearm by a felon, with both counts charged as a repeater.
Case No. 2013CF107: Possession of drug paraphernalia and five counts of felony bail jumping, with all counts charged as a repeater.
¶5 All charges from these four cases were incorporated into a single plea agreement. Tourville agreed to plead guilty or no-contest to felony theft as a party to a crime, felony bail jumping, burglary while armed with a dangerous weapon and misdemeanor theft, all as a repeater. The State agreed to dismiss and read in the remaining counts.
¶6 The circuit court received a plea questionnaire/waiver of rights form for each of the four cases. In three cases, a signed addendum was attached to the form that set forth the terms of the plea agreement.[2] Only Tourville signed the addendum. Terms of the plea agreement stated in the signed addendum included: "The joint sentencing recommendation is to order a presentence investigation; the state will cap its recommendation at the high end of what the PSI orders."[3]
¶7 A Presentence Investigation Report ("PSI") was filed with the court. It suggested a range of initial confinement ("IC") and extended supervision ("ES") for each charge, but made no recommendation regarding concurrent or consecutive sentences. The PSI recommended:
Case No. 2011CF293: 16-18 months IC, 6 months ES
Case No. 2011CF376: 4-6 years IC, 3-4 years ES
Case No. 2012CF27: 16-18 months IC, 6 months ES
Case No. 2013CF107: 1-2 years IC, 2 years ES
The circuit court asked Tourville's trial counsel if there were any errors or omissions in the PSI's recommendations that needed to be clarified. He responded that there were no errors or omissions in the PSI.
¶8 During sentencing, the prosecutor argued for the maximum in the PSI's ranges of sentencing recommendations. He sought the following:
Case No. 2011CF293: 18 months IC, 6 months ES
Case No. 2011CF376: 6 years IC, 4 years ES
Case No. 2012CF27: 18 months IC, 6 months ES
Case No. 2013CF107: 2 years IC, 2 years ES
The prosecutor also recommended that the circuit court impose consecutive sentences in all four cases, despite the fact that the PSI was silent on this issue.
¶9 Tourville's trial counsel did not object when the State recommended consecutive sentences. At the post-conviction motion hearing, he testified that there was no strategic reason for failing to object to the State's recommendation of consecutive sentences. Rather, he candidly stated that it "slipped my mind to object."
¶10 One of the charges to which Tourville pled guilty was felony theft as a party to the crime pursuant to Wis.Stat. §§ 943.20(1)(a), (3)(d), and 939.05.[4] Several men, not including Tourville, stole a gun safe containing firearms and other tools. The men called Tourville, advised him that they had a safe and needed both a place to take it and help to break it open. They picked Tourville up at his residence and then went to Tourville's campsite at a resort. After they all participated in opening the safe, Tourville advised the other men where to dispose of it. Ultimately, they disposed of the safe in a swamp, along the side of the road. The men drove Tourville home, dropped him off and later paid Tourville in cash for his assistance.
¶11 Although Tourville did not participate in the planning or initial execution of the theft, the criminal complaint alleged Tourville "took and carried away" property as a party to the crime. The probable cause portion of the complaint sets forth the factual basis for the charge.
¶12 At the plea hearing, the circuit court questioned Tourville regarding the factual basis for the charge of party to the crime of felony theft. Tourville stated that he did not take part in the burglary, but gave the other men who did commit the burglary a place to go to open the safe:
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The Eve & First day of CNY 2012
Boring as usual, there aren't much celebrating going on this year. The Chinese temple in KB didn't get the approval letter doing any mini performance and long shooting fireworks on the countdown eve day. As suspected, apparently they pissed off the head of the police officer last year so everything not going too well. Visitors and tourist's fun expectation turn to shit, so sorry about that.
Of course this have to blame the owner for the lack of traffic controls and unable moved the locals ignorance drivers causing road blockage even making the ambulance unable to pass through during the critical time. Did they learn their lesson is way beyond my reach. Hopefully next year we can expect better for celebration in KB.
Again, repeating the same scenario from last and even few years back. But this time, I find Chinese New Year is now part of sadness thing in life. Maybe it didn't happen around you (yet), now we sees misses people and less happy mood then before.
Two of my aunt's pass away really changes the people happiness into sorrow. My uncle cry during the eve sudden remembering his wife and how loneliness going to be without her. Another is my mom sister, which I still can remember the enjoyment we had storming (visiting) into her house eating and happy chatting every CNY. Now we don't get that anymore and able to experience this. Really find it strange.
Not that this year is bad or something. I am happy continue getting red packets from cousins and relatives. It just that something important has been missing in your life when you start looking and seeing hard unacceptable changes around you. I do know everyone of us have to move forward and face the future. No matter what, stay strong as always telling myself.
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When I heard the news on monday, via twitter, my initial reaction was shock. Shock that anybody would want to hurt this city in particular "it's the friendliest city in the World", I thought. Not that any city in the US deserves this kind of act of terror but the fact that it was Boston seemed to really confuse me. After reading A Boston Food Diary's post, Boston: My Town, My Love, My Community, I realised why I was regarding this city as if it were a human being, because as this fellow blogger explained, "Boston...It's a personality." And what a personality it is!
A lot has happened this week and as we all begin to rest our heads on our pillows in preparation for yet another monday morning in which the daily grind shall begin all over again, I just wanted to reflect on how much bigger and stronger my feelings have grown for my first love and it's people, some of whom I am so lucky to call my friends. Your spirit has been unfailing and your personality unfaltered.
Here's to meandering down Charles Street weaving in and out of boutiques and cafes, to Beacon Hill as you silently make your way through the elegant passages of brownstones, to the beauty of Boston Public Garden as it stands in unison with the more understated common, to the italian sausage stands parked as usual outside old Filene's Basement, to that golden dome that watches over us in confidence, to the Prudential tower as it smiles back at us whilst taking the red line across the Charles to Cambridge, to the twinkly lights, sparkling like magic at dusk on Newbury, to the hustle and bustle that is never angry or selfish on Boylston. To Boston.


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I saw this on a blog that I read, and I thought it looked like a lot of fun. Since Rick likes to go shoot his guns, I thought Jack would be excited to shoot his own guns at a target.
I did this once with just Jack in our backyard and it didn't turn out so well. Mostly because I didn't follow the directions. That'll happen. I used water with a little bit of food coloring in it instead of just food coloring. The result was a very pale color left on the paper. You could barely see it.
This time, when Cage and Jack got together for their most recent Art Date, I changed things up and got a much better result. Instead of using water and food coloring, I used water and tempera paint. It made for a much bolder color on the paper. Since I only had three squirt guns, we used yellow, blue, and red paint. Obviously, if you try this at home, you can use any colors you want to use.
It was a fun activity for the boys to do. It was definitely a workout for their fine motor skills and eye hand coordination. Luckily, they didn't get too much paint off of the paper. At least, I hope they didn't!
Thanks, Bekah, for letting us come over and have another Art Date with you! We can't wait until next time. My Pinterest board is filling up quickly with ideas for our little guys.


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WASHINGTON -- A White House policy guru named James Pinkerton has been pushing a set of domestic initiatives to empower the poor -- such as school vouchers, enterprise zones and low-cost home rehabilitation and ownership -- as opposed to the old welfare approach. He has labeled it "The New Paradigm," meaning a conservative blueprint for dealing with social needs in the 1990s. (In case you don't have your dictionary handy, "paradigm" is an egghead's word for model or pattern.)
The label could just as well be assigned to the original effort by President Bush to establish what he has unfortunately called "a new world order" (apologies to Adolf Hitler) in the wake of the collapse of the Cold War. In skillfully rallying the world community into a coalition against Saddam Hussein's aggression against Kuwait, Bush was well on his way to creating a "new paradigm" for coping with international outlaws.
That model was harnessing the collective will of the world community to impose harsh economic sanctions against the aggressor while mobilizing enough military strength to discourage further aggrandizement, in this case in the direction of threatened Saudi Arabia. If the coalition against Saddam Hussein works, it could provide the pattern for international cooperation against other dictators who might disturb regional or global peace, without resorting to war.


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First, I made it through giving birth, with subsequent post-dural-puncture headache, followed by a sinus thrombosis caused by said birth. (Let's just say I'm grateful for living in a country with excellent medical care) But what I really want to talk about in this post: I also made the deadline of this year's outfit along by Andi Satterlund and Lladybird. Therefore I obviously made some clothes. Here's the outfit:
The outfit consists of a boxy lace top (the free Cancùn pattern) and the official outfit along pattern, Sewaholic's Hollyburn. I made both patterns with only minor modifications.
The reason I didn't use the official knitting pattern: a top in fingering weight yarn was just not going to happen with a newborn.
I knit the top longer than the pattern by knitting two more lace panels and two more rows each garter stitch panel. During blocking it stretched out a lot and it's almost tunic length instead of waist length as planned. It's also way to wide. So if I ever make this again, I'd cast on less stitches, knit pattern as is and maybe knit it in the round. It was a quick and easy top to make, so that might actually happen.
I made the Hollyburn in a size 10. The only modification I made: I swapped the (too wide) waistband with the (just right width) one of the Cambie dress. The skirt wants to ride up a bit at the moment, thanks to the little belly I still have. Construction wise I have nothing to say that hasn't been said in the Hollyburn sewalong.
But I do want to say how much I love the fabric of this skirt! It doesn't look so extraordinary from afar, but look how awesome it is close up:
A little nod to my teenage goth self. 🙂
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Believe in yourself & Go for it
Tim Ferriss believed in himself. In fact, he believed so strongly in his abilities that he won the national San Shou Kickboxing titles just 6 weeks after being introduced to the sport.
As a prior all-American & Judo team captain at Princeton, Tim had always dreamed of winning a national title. He had worked hard. He was good at his sport. But repeated injuries over multiple seasons had continually denied him his dream.
So when a friend called one day to invite Tim to watch him in the national Chinese Kickboxing championships 6 weeks away, Tim instantly decided to join at the competition.
Because he had never been in any kind of striking competition before, he called USA boxing and asked where the best trainers could be found. He traveled to a tough neighborhood in Trenton, New Jersey, to learn from boxing coaches who had trained gold medalists. And after 4 grueling hours a day in the ring, he put in more time conditions in the weight room. To make up for his lack of time in the sport, Tim's trainers focused on exploiting his strengths instead of making up for his weaknesses. Tim didn't want to merely compete. He wanted to win.
When the competition day at last arrived, Tim defeated three highly acclaimed opponents before making it to the finals. As he anticipated what he would have to do to win in the final match, he closed his eyes and visualized defeating his opponent in the very first round.
Later Tim told me that most people fail not because they lack the skills or aptitude to reach their goal but because they simply don't believe they can reach it. Tim believed. And won.
When 20-year-old Ruben Gonzalez showed showed up at the US Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, New York, he had in his pocket the business card of a Houston businessman who believed in his Olympic dream. Ruben was there to learn the sport of Luge, a sport that 9 of 10 aspirants give up after the first season. Almost everyone breaks more than one bone before mastering this 90-mile-per-hour race against time in an enclosed mile-long downhill track of concrete and ice. But Ruben had a dream, passion, a commitment not to quit, and the support of his friend, Craig, back in Houston.
When Ruben got back to his room after the first day of training, he called up Craig.
"Craig this is nuts! My side hurts. I think I broke a foot. That's it. I am going back to soccer!"
Craig interrupted him. " Ruben, get in front of a mirror!"
"I said, 'Get in front of a mirror!' "
Ruben got up, stretched the phone cord, and stood in front of a full-length mirror.
"Now repeat after me: " No matter how bad it is, and how bad it gets, I'm going to make it!"
Ruben felt like an idiot staring at himself in the mirror, so in the most wimpy, wishy-washy way possible, he said, " No matter how bad it is, and how bad it gets, I'm going t make it!"
"C'mon! Say it right. You're Mr Olympic Man! That's all you ever talk about! Are you going to do it or not?"
Ruben started getting serious. " No matter how bad it is, and how bad it gets, I'm going to make it!"
"No matter how bad it is, and how bad it gets, I'm going to make it".
And again and again and again..
About the fifth time Ruben said it, he thought, Hey, this feels kind of good. I'm standing a little bit straighter. By the tenth time he said it , he jumped up in the air and shouted, " I don't care what happens. I'm going to make it. I will be an Olympian!"
Its amazing what happens to your self confidence when you get eyeball to eyeball with yourself and you forcefully tell yourself what you're going to do. Whatever your dream is, look at yourself in the mirror and declare that you are indeed going to achieve it-no matter what the price.
Ruben Gonzales made that declaration, and it changed his life. He went on to compete in three separate winter games in the luge-Calgary in 1988, Albert ville in 1992, and Salt Lake City in 2002. And he's currently training for the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics, where he will be 43 years old, competing against athletes half his age..
Whoa very long if you ask me, but worth it....
Stories gotten from Jack Canfield's book, my new hero... If you can, please buy his book.. " THE SUCCESS PRINCIPLES: HOW TO GET FROM WHERE YOU ARE TO WHERE YOU WANT TO BE", by Jack Canfield.
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Coming Over All Bipartisan
One of the most charming things about Islamist terrorism is the way it can beget sympathetic harmony in politicians of different parties and almost diverging beliefs. Right-wing terrorism by white wannabe-alpha males is, of course, a psychiatric and not a political phenomenon, and therefore requires little comment, let alone emotional bonding; but the Brussels atrocity has brought the shadow home secretary neatly back into his comfort zone of agreeing with Mad Tessie May. "Whatever it takes and however long it takes, we will face this threat to our way of life together," burbled Burnham; and the Home Secretary welcomed the content and tone of his remarks, which could scarcely have been less uncomfortable if Rachel "Kick 'em Harder" Reeves had added a request to take harsher measures against terror-fomenting idleness, or if Chuka Umunna had pleaded for a bit more business-warming from the bonfire of civil liberties. No mention was made of the latest court ruling against the Home Office's illegal purge of foreign students; presumably because Burnham is still trying to decide whether unprovoked dawn raids, unwarranted detention of innocent people, and the usual witch-hunter's preference for hearsay evidence over such piddling technicalities as due process, count as a threat to his way of life or as part of what it takes to face one. Doubtless Mad Tessie May will welcome Burnham's opinion, once he works out that she has arrived at it for him.


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STALINISM, SURREALISM, AND SWING: If you're coming in late, you can click on the links to see lists of my favorite films from 2000, 1990, 1980, 1970, 1960, 1950, and 1940. For 1930, read on.When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences looked back at 1930, it gave its Best Picture award to All Quiet on the Western Front, an adaptation of an antiwar novel by Erich Maria Remarque. The book is better than the movie, but the film is still good; you'll find it in the honorable mentions list. Meanwhile, here's 10 pictures I like better:1. EarthWritten and directed by Alexander DovzhenkoIt was supposed to be a Soviet propaganda picture calling for the collectivization of agriculture, but Dovzhenko got away with making something much more interesting. It's lyrical, sometimes funny, more surrealist than socialist, more pagan than political; the propaganda parts play like tongue-in-cheek interludes. Stalin objected strenuously. There would not be many more movies like this as long as he was around.2. People on SundayDirected by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. UlmerWritten by Billy Wilder and Curt SiodmakOne of the last great silent pictures, and one of the first great efforts by a gang of young filmmakers who would soon be fleeing Germany for America. Besides Wilder, Ulmer, and the Siodmak brothers, the future Hollywood aces include the photographer, Fred "Oklahoma!" Zinnemann.3. Swing You Sinners!Directed by Dave FleischerThe Fleischer brothers made many weird, wild, and funny cartoons in the pre-Code era. This was one of the weirdest, wildest, and funniest of them all.4. Le Roman de RenardDirected by Wladyslaw Starewicz and Irene StarewiczWritten by I. Starewicz, Roger Richebé, Jean Nohain, and Antoinette NordmannReynard the Fox, a trickster figure from French folklore, stars in a batty stop-motion masterpiece.5. Animal CrackersDirected by Victor HeermanWritten by Morrie Ryskind, from a play by Ryskind and George S. Kaufman"Pardon me while I have a strange interlude."6. L'Age d'OrDirected by Luis BuñuelWritten by Buñuel and Salvador DaliIn art, like this list, this film falls somewhere between Animal Crackers and Blood of a Poet.7. Under the Roofs of ParisWritten and directed by René ClairAn early sign that filmmakers could figure out how to use sound without forgetting everything else they'd learned about their craft. This has all the fluidity of the best silent movies -- but it's a musical.8. A Propos de NiceWritten and directed by Jean VigoLike Salt for Svanetia, listed one notch below, A Propos de Nice is a radical documentary. But Nice was made by an anarchist, not a Leninist, and it has far more respect for the ordinary people onscreen.9. Salt for SvanetiaDirected by Mikhail KalatozovWritten by Kalatozov and Sergei TretyakovThe anti-Earth: Communist propaganda proclaiming how wonderful it is that the Bolsheviks are bringing a backward village into civilization. It's a lie, but it's an artful lie; you can damn the picture's politics while admiring the talent on display.10. Monte CarloDirected by Ernst LubitschWritten by Ernest Vajda with Vincent Lawrence, from a play by Hans MuellerThe Lubitsch touch makes its true debut. This isn't Lubitsch's first sound picture, but it's the one where he masters sound so completely that it's hard to imagine he ever tried to make a movie without it.Honorable mentions:11. The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)12. Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau)13. Borderline (Kenneth MacPherson)14. Romance Sentimentale (Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov)15. Crabes et Crevettes (Jean Painlevé)16. Mechanical Principles (Ralph Steiner)17. The Big House (George W. Hill)18. All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)19. It's a Bird (Harold L. Muller)20. Night Owls (James Parrott)Of the films of 1930 that I haven't seen, I'm most interested in Jean Grémillon's La Petite Lise and Laurel & Hardy's Brats.
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Armune BioScience, Inc. will develop diagnostic cancer tests that allow for personalized treatment decisions. The company's technology is based on work performed by University of Michigan Professor of Pathology and Urology Dr. Arul Chinnaiyan, who also chairs the company's Scientific Advisory Board.
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Armune BioScience is pleased to announce that it was awarded the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition $500,000 grand prize on Dec 11. The award was presented to Eli Thomssen, President & CEO, following Accelerate Michigan's 3-day event in Ann Arbor. During the 3-day event, business plans were presented from 50 of the 600 international applications received.


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Hello everyone again!
As I said in the last entry, Pinterest is a very useful tool to share and find out new methodologies, resources and project. What is the another key thing for being a good teacher? Organise your learning, don't you?
Pinterest allows us to organise our favourite web sites, projects, articles or ideas for our class in an incredible easy way! All you have to do is create a new board and select the content that you want and pint it on your board. Extremely easy!
From now on you will have all your contents organised in the same place and it will be easy to find the information that you consider interesting for you and for you labour as a teacher!
Here is the link of my webmix. Have a look at Gonzalo's learning world, you will find it very useful!
I hope you like it!


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Wednesday, January 1, 2014
A Year of Afternoon Gardens - January
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Pretty (we'll be getting ours soon)snow that is. I'm reading Beatrix Potter's A gardening Life and it made me think of you. Hill Top Farms was one of her gardens....in England though. Great book Happy 2014 NanReplyDeleteReplies
Oh, I really want to read this! And the biography which I've owned for ages but haven't read yet. I am so very fond of her.Delete
And the same to you!
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2014 at 6:39:00 PM EST
Lovely idea Nan, I look forward to following the posts. I love the current header too.ReplyDelete
A very Happy New Year to you and yours, and a special wish for the newest member of your family.
Oh, thank you.Delete
And thank you for the wishes, esp. for Miss Hazel Nina. And I wish the same to you.
I take photos at the beginning of each month too. Brr, this photo looks cold. Very wintery.ReplyDeleteReplies
Not as cold as it was a couple days ago. :<)Delete
That is a creative idea, and I am looking forward to seeing the seasonal changes in your garden. I used to do an entire year of daily pictures taken from the same spot (the view from my kitchen window, familiar to all my blog readers) in 2009. There was a gap of a few days around the time my husband died, but other than that, and with the exception of a few times when I was travelling and could not get to that spot, there really was one picture every day. I still have them all in an extra album on photobucket, and it is interesting to notice the slight - and sometimes more drastic - changes in the course of a year.ReplyDeleteReplies
I do enjoy that view out your window. I'd like to see those pictures.Delete
What a lovely idea, Nan. I'm looking forward to seeing how the garden grows.ReplyDelete
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Thanks. This is one of the areas I hope to 'improve' a bit. The garden just to the left of the patio is overcrowded with daylilies. Hard to believe how time passes and the plants just spread. :<)Delete
I love this idea ...and will look forward to the first of every month. Wouldn't this be a good idea for a calendar for your family? It looks really really cold right now!ReplyDeleteReplies
It would be a good idea!Delete
We just had a couple really cold nights but warmer now.
I really like this idea...we don't have lovely gardens...but possibly I could adapt it to photos of a pretty spot in our community...or maybe this is an incentive to change our gardens! I'll have to look at your previous posts... Take care and enjoy your winter wonderland.ReplyDeleteReplies
We hope to change ours this very summer. As I wrote in my post about the goat dying, she really stalled my gardens the past couple years.Delete
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Walter Kitundu is a Multimedia Artist with the Exploratorium, Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and a Distinguished Visiting professor of "Wood Arts" at the California College of the Arts. He is also a wildlife photographer, with a specialty in hawks and other raptors.
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Concats to @maggietkat on winning last week. This week I is going for a simple linky ... Bob Seger did co-write a song with Don Henley, Glenn Frey & JD Souther wot was performed by Frey and Henley's band The Eagles. Dat song was Heartache Tonight and is brilliant ... so dat's it The Eagles, Heartache Tonight is my linky this week.
Larst week pal Maggie struck a blow for da kittehs n put a win on da board. Da winning linky wos Bob Seeger n "Old Time Rock and Roll" . Da video come from da film Risky Business. Annuva song used in dat film be "In The Air Tonight " singed by Phil Collins. Dat gonna be my linky but I gonna use da vershun wiv da Cadbury Gorilla (extended mix so we gets da whole song) n because I likes to drum along on my own kit made wiv saucepans n wooden spoons.
Last week our winner was "Old Time Rock n Roll"…so what better link this week than to go allllll the way back to what is often cited as the first rock & roll record: "Rocket 88" by Ike Turner and Jackie Brenston…!
Last week Maggie won with Old Time Rock and Roll performed by Bob Segar. It was written by George Jackson who also wrote this performed by the Osmonds. *screams* love you Donny!
Last week's winner was @maggiekat with "Old Time Rock and Roll" by Bob Seger. Bob did not take a songwriting credit for this song despite claiming to rewrite the lyrics. Songwriting credits is a bit of a murky world with lots of artists claiming credit for not very much input. However there are bands who choose to share songwriting credits equally. This includes Radiohead, Supergrass, Coldplay & Duran Duran. So this week we are going to celebrate the bands who believe in fairness with the 1994 Ivor Novello Award winning song "Ordinary World" by Duran Duran.
Bob Seger's musical career kicked off wiv Bob Seger & The Last Heard. He quickly changed the band name to Bob Seger System who released a single and album of the same name in 1969 - Ramblin Gamblin Man. Is amazin how many songs have ramblin in te title! One of our favourites dust be Ramblin Man by Lemon Jelly. So dat is our linky.
An da winner as chosen by ................. Maggie dus be ........... Clapton wiv Rockett 88 by Ike Turner. Yay well done CT. You dus be choosin next week.
Ere wot Maggie said: My choice for the winning song "Rocket 88". All wonderful links this week so it was hard to choose. Rocket 88 struck home 2x. Mom's grandpa drove an Oldsmobile Delta 88 (not the muscle car but the make and model # close). Next you all know Mom lived in Chicago and we live in St. Louis. Ike grew up in East St. Louis and We all love the Chess catalog.
So now is over to you. Email me: lex[dot]dogstovesky @ gmail.com or DM me on twitter (@dogstoyevsky) wiv your link suggestion followin on from dis one! You has until 13th February 2017 (gets it to me by 2pm UK time if poss). Oh sometimes I dus accidentally delete em! Heehee. So good idea to type DO NOT DELETE in the title and dussnt forget to send a linky to da video from You Tube!
Lexie's Chain dus be inspired by da pawsome Radcliffe & Maconie Show wot you can has a listen to on dere website. Follow me @dogstoyevsky or #lexieschain on Twitter to join da fun. Remember anyfink goes! Rock, classical, opera, ballads, punk, reggae - is up to you! Fanx for playin!


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I was born to.....
Starting the post like that seem so......boring and predictable. Unfortunately, I am at a lost of words on a creative way of starting it. So......here goes.....
Like many people, I have lost one of my parents. My dad passed away when I was a sophomore in college. That particular semester was very hard for me. Literally, every month in that semester both of my parents spent time in the hospital. I even contemplating leaving school and losing my scholarship just to go home to help. My mother was not having it! When I talked to my aunt about what I was planning to do, she told me that she had that conversation with my mother already. They had made contingency plans which did not include me leaving school. Both of them guilt trip me into staying. I am glad they did!
According to my mom, I was a Daddy's girl when I was really little. (My sister right after me took that role right from me.) I remember my mom telling me when I was a teenager when she wanted a "Me Day", she would start an argument with my dad. He would leave with me in tow. We were out the whole day! I love those days. We would visit so many of my aunts, uncles, and cousins. I came from a large family, so it was not hard to be gone all day.
As I got a little older, we would go on long bike rides. I was on my ten speed and he was on his supped up one. My dad rigged his to have a radio and a make shift padding section on the back of it. On the bar, he had several towels wrapped around it. Both served as "seats" for my sister, Psycho, so she had options when we went riding. Literally, we were gone for at least four hours. We did not ride continuously, but we were all over the place visiting people, stopping at parks, the aquarium, and Lake Erie. When I go home, it is not unusual for me to drive by some of our old spots. I have taken Baby-Bandit pass some of the spots. I have even shared sitting at the lake with him and a few friends watching the sunset one time.
I remember my dad waking me up in the wee hours of the morning. He had just came in from a party. Apparently, he had grabbed a plate out of the drain that was not clean to his satisfaction. We (meaning he) had many conversations about washing the dishes and cleaning the kitchen. So this particular night (early morning), he pulled out every dish in alllllllll the cabinets and made me wash all of them over again. I am talking about EVERY DISH in the whole house. To add insult to injury, he stayed in the kitchen and talked to me the whole time. Just say I tuned dude out! All I wanted to do was yell, "WILL YOU SHUT UP! CAN YOU JUST GO BACK TO WHEREVER YOU JUST CAME IN FROM". But since I value my life, all that plus more were said all in my head!
When I think about my dad, I think about the conversations we had throughout the years. At random times, our conversations or time spent pops up in my head and put a smile on my face.
Fortunately for me, my mom is still here. I really wished she would move to my city. I almost had her here a few years ago, but life situations has changed her mind. I understand, even though I don't like it (as I pout every time I think about it).
My mom reminds me of my grandmother so much. I don't think I have told her how much I love and admire her for the love and sacrifice she has made over the years for us. When I was in the third grade, my mom was working at my aunt's cleaners. With three children, she knew she needed more income to raise us. She decided to return to school and earn a nursing degree. Even though the hours were long and she had 3 daughters to provide for while in school, she did it. At the time I did not realize the lesson she was showing me through her actions. But like they say, you will understand when you get older. Now as a mother, I understand how one give up their time, money, sleep, and everything else for what you think is best for your child.
The following year, my mom enrolled me into Catholic school. The public school was in the midst of a strike and I was scheduled to attend school on the other side of town. She did not think that was the best option for me; therefore, she made the necessary adjustments to pay for Catholic school. I remained in Catholic school until the middle of my tenth grade year. Then my mother finally left my father and moved us to the suburbs to a much better school system. By that time all 3 girls were in private school. So pulling us out was necessary to make ends meet. Our education did not suffer. In fact, I believe the curriculum were just a bit harder at the public school.
On a personal level, my mother never bad mouthed my dad to me. Even though I know what went down, she could have played the bitter Black woman role and dogged my day out to us. But she did not. She allowed us to come up with our own opinions of our dad. Now we know this is hard for anyone who were done wrong. Again this was another lesson I learned by example. I never talk negatively about my son's father to him or in his earshot. It is important to me to give him full access and allow them to develop their own relationship.
Even though my mother is not the oldest daughter in the family, I feel she has taken the matriarch role since my grandmother passing. About 5 years ago, she started having the Thanksgiving dinner at her home the Sunday before Thanksgiving. The dinner is huge! Up to 100 people have been to Thanksgiving dinner. It is my mom's siblings, children and grandchildren, her five children and families, her 1st cousins and their children and grandchildren and other "family" members such as our closest friends. Mom does all the cooking. She really does not want any helping because it is her way to show her love to her family. Here is a picture of just the desserts from this year's dinner.
With four daughters, you best believe there were many arguments. Mom is very good with letting us fight it out until it get out of hand. Then she steps in. Mom is real laid back until you hit that point. Got to love her for that!
I could go on but I have been working on this forever trying to give you a complete picture and realize it will never happen. My girl Oldgirl LadyLee has done many posts about my mom. I will leave some of the links. Lee always have a way to capture an experience!
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Texas News (AP) - Some Southeast Texas cheerleaders have been told to stop putting Bible verses on banners for high school football games.
The Texas Association of School Boards this week advised the Kountze (koontz) Independent School District not to allow such signs.
Superintendent Kevin Weldon contacted the association after the Freedom from Religion Foundation notified him that a resident complained about the signs.
Weldon then told parents that student groups are not allowed to display religious signs at school-sponsored events. Weldon says the ban includes run-through banners at football games.
Cheerleader Macy Matthews says no school money was used and the signs weren't made on school property.
The conservative Liberty Institute on Wednesday said banning religious speech on student-made signs is discriminatory.
Kountze is 85 miles northeast of Houston.
Thursday, 20 September 2012
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Tuesday, 11 September 2012
My Healthy Green Mixed Vegetables
I always believe that I am a good cook but never found the courage of blogging it.Actually I came from a family who loves to eat and boasting each others specialty cooking during the weekend lunch together.
It was a secret competition among siblings while my father is reading the Texas News or watching Kevin Durant and my mother is busy on her backyard garden but since most blog hops is about healthy lifestyle I am showing you my hidden talent.
It is very simple vegetable recipe which anyone can do it. You can cook this 10-15 minutes tops. Most ingredients are available in your local farmers market but make sure to bring your own reusable recycle bag in order to Help the World and avoid using plastic to avoid to much rubbish going to your rubbish clearance London service.
Find any fresh cabbage,carrots,baby corns, broccoli,bell pepper,cauliflower,sweet onions and mushrooms or just buy those that are bountiful during that season.
Chop the vegetable to your desire shape. The more color, the better it will look so make sure to add those red bell peppers.
Pour some olive oil in the pan and wait for it to heat up and add everything and keep on stirring so that all the vegetables will be evenly cooked. If you want you can add a little water ,oyster sauce and some flour to thicken the sauce but if you won't its OK. Add some salt ,soy sauce and pepper to taste.
Make sure all the vegetables are not overcooked.It's best to cook it when the guest have already arrived or let them help by chopping those vegetables.
It was a secret competition among siblings while my father is reading the Texas News or watching Kevin Durant and my mother is busy on her backyard garden but since most blog hops is about healthy lifestyle I am showing you my hidden talent.
It is very simple vegetable recipe which anyone can do it. You can cook this 10-15 minutes tops. Most ingredients are available in your local farmers market but make sure to bring your own reusable recycle bag in order to Help the World and avoid using plastic to avoid to much rubbish going to your rubbish clearance London service.
Find any fresh cabbage,carrots,baby corns, broccoli,bell pepper,cauliflower,sweet onions and mushrooms or just buy those that are bountiful during that season.
Chop the vegetable to your desire shape. The more color, the better it will look so make sure to add those red bell peppers.
Pour some olive oil in the pan and wait for it to heat up and add everything and keep on stirring so that all the vegetables will be evenly cooked. If you want you can add a little water ,oyster sauce and some flour to thicken the sauce but if you won't its OK. Add some salt ,soy sauce and pepper to taste.
Make sure all the vegetables are not overcooked.It's best to cook it when the guest have already arrived or let them help by chopping those vegetables.
You can add leftover meat if you want like chicken, anything goes up to squid.
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April of The 21st Century Housewife
Swathi of Zesty South Indian Kitchen
Alea of Premeditated Leftovers
Elsa of Elsa Cooks
Judy of Savoring Today
Penny of Penniless Parenting
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Thursday, 6 September 2012
Recycle Common Office Materials
I meet a nice lady on Bloggers named Catherine. I was so touched by her work, if only I can give her a hug. She even offered to have a link of my blog recycle rubbish on her blog which I sincerely decline.I would have benefited from the traffic from her site but it is not the right thing to do. Her blog is so nice and it helps children of our world. I hope you can check her blog and works too.FB share and Tweet her blog, sadly she doesn't even have addthis this tool bar above her post, That wouldn't be a problem for you, right?
In her honor I'm awarding Catherine a Badge on my blog. Catherine is awarded a Good Citizen Award for her charity work. See on the left side(I mean't right side ) of my blog. I did not let her know but she will soon find out(Google Analytics) if some of her traffic comes from this blog. So I hope you keep clicking her award.
I still believe people are nice in this world like my Guest Poster Anna ,Abby and Catherine.
This song inspired me when I was young and it still lingers on my mind.
"I am but a small voice, I am but a small dream" by Leah Salonga.
I am such a cry baby.
Are you into recycling ?
Recycling is very common nowadays especially in offices.
Everyone wants to take part in reduce, reuse and recycle especially employees. Each of us is very aware on how bad our ozone layer is and we need to make it happen in our own little way. We should move now and do something about it for our future generations.
It is not hard to do recycling. We can do this everywhere we are, either at home, school, office and anywhere. But there are things we should know about recycling.
Here are few often overlooked do's and don'ts to help you through the process.
Not all paper can be recycled. Plastic coated papers, food/candy wrappers, and wax coated cups, should not be recycled. This items can still be use in school projects but they cannot be dissolve in water to make a new paper. Remember to remove all office staples, clips and tape before recycling because this will ruin the recycling process.
Plastic, Metal, and Glass
Not all plastic bottles can be recycle. Only items numbered 1-7 are eligible to be recycled. All aluminum cans and any color glass bottle can be recycled, but plastic bags, food/candy wrappers, and Styrofoam are not. These plastic wrappers can be use in other projects in the community for beautification. It should not be rejected easily and thrown as garbage for rubbish clearance services daily pick up.
Don't recycle packing materials, boxes covered in tape, wax-coated boxes, or boxes that been spoiled by food garbage (e.g. pizza boxes).
Recycling is easy if you know what to do. Just remember, nothing soiled should be recycled, and don't be too embarrassed to double check with maintenance before tossing items into the rubbish bin.
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I will follow them. So c'mon join me.
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Tuesday, 4 September 2012
12 Things Students Should Never Do on Social Media
Here are some tips for parents as well since school has just begun. I would also like to say thank you to my guest author Anna for a wonderful blog post about Ecological behavior.
The last thing young people want is another set of rules. But these days, social media comes with great responsibility, whether you're just starting high school or finishing up college.
The fact is, irresponsible social media conduct could potentially ruin your education and negatively impact your career, not to mention hurt others in the process. (And we're not just talking kids, either.) But most of those consequences are preventable, often with just a little foresight.
We've pinpointed 12 social media mistakes that students should avoid at all costs, because after all, it's never as simple as "be responsible." And it's never as finite as "don't friend your teacher on Facebook." Social media circumstances are nuanced and vary by situation, school and user.
Please head to the comments below to add your own contributions and advice for young adults on social media.
1. Post Illegal Activities
Granted, high school and college students experiment with many activities and substances. But the second you post a video of last weekend's bong hit or trash-can tipping adventure, you become vulnerable not only for school expulsion but also for criminal prosecution; in other words, consequences that affect the rest of your life. Even if your profile is set to private, a friend can always download and save incriminating photos that he or the authorities can use against you in the future.
Once or twice per year, perform a thorough review of the information and content accessible on your social media profiles. That way, you'll be able to locate and remove that photo of your underage keg stand before you apply for your next job.
2. Bullying
Bullying is one of the most serious problems in schools today. Vicious treatment and hateful words between students often lead to violence, suicide, depression and discrimination among the student body.
When a student turns to social media, blogs or virtually any online space as a forum for hurtful speech, the risks are unmeasurable. Not only does that student face expulsion, but also serious criminal prosecution.
3. Trash Your Teachers
Bullying doesn't just apply to student-to-student interactions. Students who speak poorly of their teachers (or post embarrassing photos of them) run a huge risk, too. After all, your instructors have a right to privacy and respect.
"Posting a negative comment about any teacher at your school is like getting on a microphone to announce that you will be burning down a bridge," says Heather Starr Fiedler, associate professor of multimedia at Point Park University. "You never know which one of your professors will hold the keys to the next great internship or job announcement."
You should even be wary of school or teacher-related posts you think are harmless — you never know whose feelings you've accidentally hurt. Dan Farkas, instructor of strategic communication at Ohio University, describes a scenario gone wrong. "I had several students tweet with excitement when I cancelled a class, ready to have a slightly easier Monday," he says. "What they didn't know was that I cancelled class to take my wife to the emergency room. It still makes my blood boil."
The same goes for institutions or persons of authority in general, not just teachers. High school seniors should be careful not to negatively post about specific colleges or geographical areas — these days, admissions officers thoroughly investigate the social media activity and personalities of applicants. One negative tweet could seal the fate of your college acceptance.
4. Post Objectionable Content From School Computers or Networks
Many schools prohibit all computer activity on campus not directly related to coursework. That almost always includes social media use, especially that which is objectionable (e.g. profanity, harassment, etc.). And don't assume you can get away with a tweet here and a status update there — many schools have implemented systems that track logins and IP addresses. In other words, you're on the clock.
5. Post Confidential Information
This piece of advice goes for every social media user, not just students. But young people are especially vulnerable to online predators and identity thieves.
Let this experience, from communications representative Jennifer Newman Galluzzo, be a warning: "This weekend my niece, who is going into her junior year of high school, posted her class schedule on Facebook. Took a picture of it and threw it right up there because she was so excited to share the info with her friends — complete with her social security number, student ID, address, full name, birthday and all the other personal information. I called her mom and informed her right away and her response was 'Well, all the kids do that!' I almost fainted."
Think about how easy it is to share content on Facebook; if a single person shared that photo to his public profile, that sensitive information would be accessible by anyone, no hacking required. Identity stolen — just like that.
6. Overly Specific Location Check-Ins
Similar to protecting your identity, try not to get too specific with your social check-ins. Although your parents may appreciate the heads-up, posts like these make it easy for predators to locate you. And especially don't check in on social media when you're by yourself and/or in a remote location.
Social media analyst Brad Hines advises, "It is usually wise to do little sharing of where you are if you are by yourself, or have left your home by itself."
7. Lie/Cheat/Plagiarize
Picture this: You convinced your professor to give you an extension on your term paper so you can visit your "sick" grandmother. Only instead, you blow off the paper to attend a Foo Fighters concert — and you post a status update to Facebook, check in on Foursquare and upload a photo of the performance to Instagram. Don't be surprised when you return to a big fat F and an academic investigation.
The same goes for lying about professional/academic achievements when applying to a college or an internship. People will investigate. Just as they will investigate your social media for charges of plagiarism or cheating.
8. Threaten Violence
Threatening a person or group of people in any situation is unbelievably serious. Even posting an anonymous, empty threat to an obscure online forum full of strangers will raise red flags. And as soon as authorities have located a threat, they have the right to investigate — and they will.
A student named Alexander Song posted his intentions to Reddit: to "kill enough people to make it to national news." Police located the young man and arrested him at school, despite the fact that he carried no weapons.
In other words, social media is not the place to vent your frustrations and violent thoughts. Talk to a school counselor about your concerns.
9. Ignore School-Specific Policies
School policies vary widely, according to religious affiliation, type of school (public vs. private), geographical location, district, gender (co-ed vs. single-gender), etc. Therefore, technology and social media policies are different for nearly every school. Behavior that may fly at one school is reason for expulsion at another.
For example, one Catholic high school's student handbook reads, "When a student is using online social media (of any variety), she must always bear in mind that the material she posts reflects upon the school, our Diocese and the Roman Catholic Church as a whole." That means, posting your opinions about sensitive subjects like abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, divorce or birth control, for example, could jeopardize your standing as a student.
While many types of content posted to social media are protected by free speech, your school may nonetheless find reason to use such opinions toward disciplinary action.
10. Unprofessional Public Profiles
Whether you're a high school student applying to flip burgers at a local diner or a recent college grad looking to land a career, your social media presence needs to reflect responsibility.
"While searching for a job, I made sure to take down any questionable photos from my college days," says recent James Madison University graduate, Christine Borkowski. "I took every red cup I could spot off my Facebook. It may seem a little extreme, but Facebook offers the 'Download' option of each photo." That way, she could save any photo she removed from the social network.
Whether it's a Google search or a social media examination, chances are a company is looking into your history. And sometimes, even a completely private social media profile sets off red flags for employers. In today's age of transparency, a professional (albeit public) profile is the ideal.
"Whenever I evaluate a potential employee, I always take a look at what is publicly visible on their Facebook profile," says Ryan Cohn, vice president of social/digital operations at What's Next Marketing. "On two separate occasions, I have rejected entry level prospects (finishing their senior year of college) for featuring firearms in their profile picture. Both were qualified in terms of experience and otherwise would have been worthy of an interview."
11. Never Rely on Privacy Settings 100%
Although most major social networks update you with privacy improvements, the changes are often too frequent to follow and can get complicated. However diligently you may protect your social media identity, it's best to assume anything you post is fair game — potentially seen by your school, by your parents and by strangers.
"Students should never rely on privacy settings over good judgment," says Andrew Moravick, social media specialist at SnapApp. "If you don't want something to be seen, don't post it on the Internet."
12. Post Emotionally
We've all said and done things we regret. It's human nature to react without thinking through the consequences. However, whenever possible, take a moment to imagine how your social media posts affect the feelings, safety and well-being of those around you — even your worst enemies. Posting an angry tweet in the heat of the moment may feel cathartic, but the momentary pleasure you get from writing it isn't worth the potential harm it could create. Take a moment to breathe, think and reboot.
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Election is coming... Many political ways of seducing the people in Malaysia. Either good or bad impression. The rest we... people to judge.
Recently, we are short of cooking oil. It's really a shock news since we're the one who provide oil to other countries and also our own. But then, what happen? I saw it my self at the grocery shops and malls... yes, it does happen. Why is this happen?
Way before that, petrol has been increasing twice a year... which not make sense at all. What happen? We have our own petrol tho but thing like this still happen.
Not to mention price of flour increase which make all restaurant up thier price too! Then they blame the restaurant, yet not the person who responsible for this of course...
Lately petrol increase again together with the tol fee. I still have no idea why the price of so many things increase when we have collected great tax from peoples and it increase each year. This year we have collected 75 billions. Not a small amount tho!


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Originally posted in "Our Butterfly Flew Home"…
Strength and peace. Strength and peace. Strength and peace.
As I look back on the events of last Monday, they seem a distant dream. I've lived an eternity since then. I've cried and wept and cried some more. I've despaired, and I've hurt. My heart burst and felt as though it were ripped from my chest. I've pleaded and begged to my God for strength and peace. And He heard my prayers…
I got off work a week ago at 6 am as I usually do. If you read "The Return", you know how hectic my schedule is. This time, however, I couldn't feed Mia and go to sleep as I normally do. I had court…six cases on the trial calendar from when I was a detective at the Sheriff's Office. Instead, I dropped Lena off at work and took Emma and Mia to the sitter. It's the last time I would see my precious little three-month-old alive.
I was finished in court around 11 am, and I went home to try to grab a few hours sleep before going to pick up the girls. My wife had earlier told me that I was NOT going to get them right after court. She said I needed the rest. After grabbing a bite to eat, I lay down for a nap. The phone woke me up three hours later. It was Michelle (I think) from my wife's office. She said I needed to get to the baby sitter's house right away. Something in her tone of voice caught me, and I jumped out of bed. She said Lena was on her way there, and there was something wrong with Mia.
I put on my shoes, grabbed the keys to the Tahoe and ran out the door in a panic. On the way, I called 911. A friend of mine, Jimmy, answered. I asked him if anything was going on at my sitter's address. He said yes, and I asked if it was a baby. He asked me if it was mine, and I told him yes. All he could say was that it wasn't good. I BEGGED him to tell me if she was alive or breathing. By protocol, he couldn't. He just kept telling me it wasn't good. Finally, his director came on the line and said I needed to get there as quickly as I could. I asked her if I needed to go to the sitter's or to the hospital. She said the latter.
I changed course and actually beat the ambulance to the ER. I pulled around back to their entrance (they knew me by name and face because of the amount of cases I've worked there over the years), and was restrained by a deputy friend of mine as I watched…in horror. They wheeled my Mia out on the stretcher and were breathing for her with a breathing bag.
I told Jacob to let me go. He tried to calm me down, and I assured him that I wouldn't interfere with the EMT's or doctors or nurses. I ran inside and stood outside the curtain to the room they carried her to and told them to do whatever they needed. A nurse moved me to an adjacent room, and I fell to my knees. I immediately began to pray to God to save her…to save my Mia. I implored Him to take me instead. I would gladly go in her place. It wasn't His will for that to happen.
I remember the doctor coming in several times over the next however long it was. Time stood still. He kept telling me that they were working on her, but they didn't have a pulse. I told him to work on her like she was a cop because she was a cop's kid. They tended to her for an extra 30 minutes. I asked him how long she had been gone, and he said he didn't know. I would find out later that only about 25 minutes had passed from the time she went to sleep to the time she was found unresponsive. Father God called her home in those 25 minutes.
At some point in time, they brought my wife into the room I was in. She got down with me, and we wept…great, heaving, gut-wrenching sobs that only a parent grieving for a child they were losing could cry. I began to pray for strength and peace. I shifted from being stricken at the loss of our Mia to having to be the rock for my wife and daughters. Lena couldn't stand…we just sat on the floor in the room, clinging to each other. She kept asking for God to breathe life back into her baby. Again, it wasn't His plan. Strength and peace, Father. I recited it over and over again through the tears that fell like rain to the floor. Strength and peace.
We left the hospital a short time later. The nurses, doctors, EMT's and hospital staff at Coffee Regional Medical Center were as sympathetic as they could be. In retrospect, they went above and beyond anything I could have hoped for. I thank them greatly for all they did.
I can't remember what followed immediately afterward. I know that we met with our sitter and her husband. She's been keeping Emma for almost three years, and has been keeping children for over 40 years. It's the only job she's ever known. She told us that she fed Mia a bottle and burped her twice. She then rocked her to sleep and lay her down on her back in the playpen. She was about eight feet away from her the entire time. Her son had come in and needed to get into the room beside the playpen. It was then that they discovered her not breathing. They reacted immediately, calling 911 and performing CPR, and I thank them for all they did as well. There was NOTHING they could have done to prevent Mia from going home.
Later in the week, at visitation at the funeral home, the deputy coroner gave me the news that I had already expected. She and I worked many infant, toddler and child death cases together. I've seen enough of them to know SIDS or SUIDS when they happen. Mia's preliminary autopsy report (it's Georgia law that an autopsy be performed on infants that pass away) said that Mia was normal. She just went to sleep and didn't wake up. That was God's will.
I wanted to share this story of Mia's passing with you for two reasons. One, because I wanted to record it while it was fresh in my mind. And two, because you need to know that I'm not mad at God. I've asked why, of course, and I've doubted. But at the same time, I'm thankful. I'm thankful that He sent His Baby Butterfly to us for as long as we had her. I'm thankful that she will never know pain or suffering… sorrow or fear… disease or death… heartache or heartbreak. I'm thankful that she's with my God right now, playing in His garden. She's preparing the way for the time when the rest of her family will be there with her… to tickle her nose and make that one dimple on her cheek glow with the rest of her beautiful smile.
My next post will share with you how our Lord and Savior has not abandoned us during our time of greatest need. He's shown me over the course of the last week that He's holding us closer to Him than ever before. Were it not for His supernatural strength, I wouldn't have been able to speak at Mia's service or carry her out of the chapel to the car to her final resting place.
Until next time, love on your children and loved ones like there's no tomorrow. You never know when God's plan will take a decidedly different turn than the one that's in your head. Never miss an opportunity to tell them you love them or hug them or kiss them. Our time here on this earth is entirely too short and fleeting.
God bless you, and thank you all for your prayers and thoughts. My family and I feel each and every one of them, so please, don't stop sending them our way. We'll need them greatly in the coming weeks.
"This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!" – 2 Corinthians 5:17
The metamorphosis of the butterfly.