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So life continues here without ADSL (for the record, we've been waiting four months). Our ISP claims that they have done everything and the ball is in OTE's court, and for that, we could wait months more. The irony is that if we had chosen an ISDN line we would have had ADSL already, but we kept thinking that since everything was filed already, changing the line to ISDN might have screwed it all up. But ISDN has its own inconveniences (like the ability to only use one phone jack) so I guess it doesn't matter now.
The good thing about not having ADSL is I can't use the internet as a means of procrastination. When it was there, always on, always ready, I could say to myself "oh, I just want to look this one thing up…" and then end up spending two or three hours online instead of doing myriad tasks I needed to do. Now I look around futilely for excuses to procrastinate and find none, so things actually get done, which I suppose is a good thing when you've moved house and there are a million things to do.
We now have furniture in the living room, all it needs is a nice rug and a coffee table, so our house is slowly coming together. Our next big purchase will be dining room furniture – I've seen a few things I like already. The problem is all the boxes that are still in the dining room (ok, I mean, I can still procrastinate, obviously). These boxes contain items that moved to
For fun, my husband and I have been playing a lot of Scrabble lately (English version, he won't play the Greek version with me because it would take too long). He always beats me, except for once when I got the tiles of my dreams. It is ironic – for someone that loves language, I never could do very well at word scrambles. We also played Stratego – my first time – and I got all pissy when I realized I couldn't win. I can be a sore loser sometimes.
Despite the lack of high speed internet, life up here on the mountain is pretty damn good. I spend way more time just looking at the view than I probably should, but I've never actually lived in a place with a real view before. We can so much of the area around us – the entire bay and all the areas of the
And so the wait goes on. I must apologize to all my blogging friends for not stopping by, I don't even bother to log in but maybe once a week, and just to check email. I miss all of you and can't wait to catch up. Here's hoping it will be soon.


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Lily Collins: Bowler Hat Arrival in Paris
Lily Collins makes a stylish arrival at Charles de Gaulle airport on Tuesday afternoon (March 5) in Paris, France.
The 23-year-old actress will be attending a show during Paris Fashion Week, which wraps up this week.
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"I think Clary has become way more proactive since the beginning, since the first script. She really fuels a lot of the scenes," Lily shared with Collider about her upcoming movie, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.
She added, "It's less about being thrown all this information and floundering. She gets thrown a lot of information now and she's actively pursuing an outcome. I really liked that about her in the books. I felt like she's gotten stronger and stronger in the rewrites."
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
the baby or the girl
Tour guides on the Big Black Seaside Tour of Misfortune.
'People don't like to see us, Frank.'
'Maybe we should change our uniform.'
'Did you ever see pictures of the stuff they wore during the Black Death? A big black cape and a leather beak stuffed with herbs.'
'I'd wear it.'
It's late afternoon, my birthday, and I think the fog in the streets has invaded my heart.
'If I don't get a coffee in the next ten minutes I'm a dead man.'
I have been here before. Except the geometrically dour council block is surrounded by scaffolding. It coalesces out of the mist like a grotesque puzzle toy, a musical box. I imagine giant hands ripping it from its foundations, turning it over and over, eventually finding the pressure points and the whole thing springing apart to reveal – what? A dancing angel? Or a woman spinning round and round with a bottle of vodka?
There are tyres tracks on the triangular grass verge out front; probably from the last ambulance that parked here, probably yesterday. Getting out in slow motion. One small step for man, one giant waste of time. Reaching for the bell. And the long pause. I've definitely been here before.
Sandra is waiting for us on the sofa. She is a stop-motion, grey clay animation of a lonely drunk. Her cigarette burns in a different time zone. The flat is cold and poorly lit, a scattering of ripped bills, energy drinks, a plasma TV with teeth marks, the wretched galley kitchen a stub corridor to hell.
We spend time.
A pain in her side she's had for a week. Hasn't called the doctor because he's shut, hasn't any credit on her phone, can't get there, doesn't have the number, other reasons. She just wants reassurance she's all right. She doesn't want to come to hospital.
Ticks in boxes. Scrawled assessments.
'We'll log this call with your doctor so he knows what's happened. What's your number?'
She hands me the phone. After a while going through various menus I hand it back.
'I can't find it, Sandra.'
She shrugs.
The walls of the flat are darkening damp and bare, except for a small cluster of family photos, framed. The oldest one, a baby in a frilly white jump suit lying happily in front of a two year old who has one hand on the baby's head, as if she's taking its temperature, or like a stall holder proudly describing her most valuable offering.
'Which one's you, Sandra? The baby or the girl?
She shrugs.
Outside the fog is thickening. It runs noiselessly around us, shifting and cooling and flowing through, magically on and down to the barest atomic matrix of existence, where everything is everything, and anything is possible, where a man can stand still and be a lamppost, and a lamppost can go into a petrol station for a coffee.
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"One small step for man, one giant waste of time"
Terrific writing. Poor Sandra, and poor you to have to deal with her. You make it all sound very desolate - I hope the rest of your birthday was better.
- 10:02 am
- lulu's missives said...
It's all about the mind again....not knowing what is what. That poor woman.
Hope you had a lovely Christmas and wishing you a happy & healthy new year.
Be safe. xx
- 10:11 am
- jacksofbuxton said...
Beautifully written as ever Spence.Hopefully you've reassured Sandra.
- 10:56 am
- Spence Kennedy said...
Rob - I think I always get a bit gloomy on my birthday! But I had a good shift overall, and when I got home I had a lovely dinner and present opening frenzy with my family.
It is frustrating and depressing pitching up to some of the regulars - people with sad and seemingly intractable situations. Maybe I need a sabbatical!
Jo - She certainly is confused, and the long term alcohol prob isn't helping. Everyone in the health community gets a piece of the misery - talking to the GP on the phone was interesting! I think there's lots that can be done - and prob is being done - but you don't see much of that in the ambulance, I suppose.
Christmas was lovely, thanks. Some time off. Hope yours was good, too.
JoB - Thanks! I'm not sure we did reassure Sandra all that much. But then I'm not sure she knew quite why she'd phoned or what was going on. The abdo pain was a spurious reason.
I think sometimes there's a risk working in the ambulance that you get emotionally bludgeoned by the number of social deprivation/alcohol/MH cases you go to. I need a shot of something (in the arm, prob not Tequila).
Thanks v much for the comments. Have a brilliant New Year!
- 11:45 am
- Karla said...
"Her cigarette burns in a different time zone." Wow! How fantastic is that? It transports the reading right along with.
- 2:14 pm
- Baglady said...
As ever love your descriptions Spence. You have a wonderful turn of phrase - so evocative.
- 3:01 pm
- Spence Kennedy said...
Thanks v much Karla & Baglady.
Sorry it wasn't more of a sparkling end of year tale, but I'm working NYE, so maybe there'll be something with a little more fizz to write about then (*wish*)
Hope you both have a fantastic New Year - and thanks again for reading the blog. x
- 3:52 pm
- Mariodacat said...
you are a very interesting, creative writer. Are all your calls weird? Or, because you are a creative writer, you are still able to keep us spell bound. Guess we'll never know for sure.
- 5:37 pm
- Bouncin' Barb said...
Happy Birthday Spence. Thank goodness you have a loving homelife to return to after dealing with all this negative energy everyday. It is sad to have lived life only to end up like this!
- 6:01 pm
- Wren said...
Spence, your ability to evoke atmosphere and images with just a few, well-chosen words brings to mind the author Michael Ondaatje, who wrote "The English Patient."
There were moments as I read that book that the beauty of his words stopped me dead, breath caught with the clarity of the images he conjured. You often do the same for me with your writing. It makes me shake my head and smile.
Happy belated birthday! And here's wishing you and your family a wonderful New Year.
- 6:12 pm
- Spence Kennedy said...
Thanks MdC! I think it's prob a bit of both. We get a lot of weird calls (and I'm a bit weird).
Thanks, BB! I was so glad and thankful to be able to come back to such a warm and loving home after the shift - as ever. I wish I had a magic wand in my kit bag to make everything better (but I think I'd wear it out pretty quickly).
Happy New Year! I hope 2011's a great one for you both. :)
- 6:16 pm
- Spence Kennedy said...
Hey Wren! Your comment snuck through just as I'd published BB & MdC's!
Thanks very much for the flattering comparison and the birthday wish. I've not read any MO, but I've seen the film (excellent). I'll download a copy on my new Xmas Kindle (*smug smile*).
Have a great New Year - I'll raise a can of coke to you at midnight (I'm working, of course...) :) x
- 6:19 pm
- Jane said...
What a pit of despair - poor woman.
It must feel sometimes that there is no end to the misery out there.The weirdest part for me was the 'plasma TV with teeth marks' ?
Glad your birthday improved and you have great support at home.
Here's to health & happiness in 2011.
- 6:28 pm
- Nari said...
Happy Birthday and Happy New Year.
I love to read your posts. The way you string words together not only paints a picture but evokes a mood for the scene and that mood carries a personality of its own, seperate yet intregally connected to its human counterparts.
Note: Sandra may have responded more positively to the cape and beak look
- 6:33 pm
- Alanna said...
You know the kind of thing you read and think, "Gee, I wish I wrote that"? That's what you're writing does for me. You have a wonderful way with words - even through the darkest moments of human existence. Thanks for sharing your stories and being an inspiration.
- 7:00 pm
- saffy said...
:) happy belated birthday wishes....Maybe next year you should have a giant badge on with "its my birthday " or something. i am glad you got to have a good time with your family at the end of your shift.
Dont know what to say about Sandra apart from she could be anyone of us if we full from our luck.... i just hope she gets the help one day she deserves.
hugs and light
- 7:40 pm
- Karen Martin Sampson said...
You are a brilliant writer; your phrasing is so evocative of the mood you speak of. I can picture all of it and my emotions go with the images; sadness and frustration. I hope Sandra will be all right. Glad you had a good birthday in spite of everything. You seem to be a very special and talented person.
- 9:27 pm
- Crimson Ebolg said...
I'm a long time reader, first time comment-writer. Just wanted to say, your prose is exquisite, and I genuinely look forward to a new blog entry from you. I hope that one day my stuff will be as good as yours.
Best wishes and a Happy New Year.
Crimson Ebolg
- 9:46 pm
- Spence Kennedy said...
Jane - There's certainly plenty more water in the well! Luckily it's offset by plenty of goodness, too - all those patients in loving, supportive families (who I really, really should write more about)!
Nari - :) Maybe if we'd walked in a la plage (or is that french for on the beach??) in capes and beaks, she'd have kicked the vodka for good...
Alanna - Thanks v much. I find writing it out helps me cope with these kind of situations. (A bit mean, really - spread the misery...)
Saffy - :) I should def wear a badge like that. It is chastening to meet people like Sandra. Def a feeling that it could be any one of us if we let things slide out of control.
KMS - Thanks v much. Like I said earlier, I think I must make more of an effort to find the uplifting stories amongst the heartache. (But Capricorns are notoriously moody, esp. in fog).
CE - Hello (and thanks v much!) It's very kind of you to take time out to drop by - thanks for reading.
Thanks to everyone for the lovely comments. I hope you all have a great New Year, and that 2011 is a happy one for you. xx
- 2:21 pm
- Salty Letters said...
Beautifully written as ever...
Thanks for sharing.
Best wishes for 2011.
Love, Salty
- 5:35 pm
- Spence Kennedy said...
Cheers SL! Happy New Year - hope it's a great one for you & your family. xx
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Messin' My Mind Up
I was 14 in 1971 and in 9th grade. My family had moved away from my grandmother's house in Mt Pleasant, two blocks from the National Zoo to far Southeast near the Maryland line. I watched a lot of TV because I didn't have much else to do. I stayed up late on the weekends because that's when the horror movies were on and I didn't (and still don't) sleep much. One Saturday night I came across a show on one of the UHF channels that used a Jimi Hendrix song for it's opening theme. I think the show was called "Turn On" and they played the above video and I was awestruck! All my life I had been listening to what my Mom listened to: Aretha Franklin, Lou Rawls, Brook Benton. I was a casual jazz listener from being at my Dad's apartment and because my Uncle Hank used to play Coltrane really loud and scat over it.
But Dr. John was like nothing I'd ever seen or heard before. I realised there was some other kind of music "out there" in the world that was from an artistic space that I never knew existed. This was music that you couldn't find in S. Klein's (I think they're K-Mart now) or Woolworth's or any of the department stores that had a small record department.
A year later, Dr. John was still in my head and I was in high school. I used to hang out at the public library wth Mark Puryear because he was the coolest guy I knew. Mark changed my life in that he opened my ears to some of the most amazing music ever. He introduced me to the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers, Traffic, and Dr John the Night Tripper. We would pull records at random just to see what they were.
Thanks to Mark for my eclectic taste in music and for pointing me towards Washington, DC's hippie culture mecca (at the time), Georgetown, where I met the other huge influence on my musical mind, Rick Carlisle the owner of Orpheus Records and one of my best friends.
Currently on the Turntable in the MondoCave!
Teena Marie - Robbery
Ultravox - Lament
Danny Elfman - So-Lo
Jack Jones - The Impossible Dream
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Dead Again
**Whine Alert - Caution, you are entering whine country**
I have a cold again. I just had a cold a month ago, what's up with that! Actually, I know where I got this one, one of the guys at work was in California and brought back a West Coast strain that was sufficiently different to mess me up. So, I'm being a good citizen and staying home today. But I'm still whiny, congested, nose is running, incompetent, tired, dull, lost my sense of smell. Geez.
That reminds me of a science fiction story I read as a kid about how science finally figured out how to kill off the rhinovirus that humans have had for so long. Unfortunately, it created another entry in the Journal of Unexpected Results because by it's permanent presence the virus was limiting the human sense of smell. Now that the virus was out of the way, human smell perception increased 10,000 percent. People were throwing up from perfumes, they couldn't eat most foods, anyone could tell where someone else had been for the last five days, who they were with and what they had done. Think about it. People became shut-ins and hermits until science figured out a way to re-infect everyone to get people back to 'normal' and enable the preservation of the race. Very creative, I wish I could remember the name of it. I got the story from the Science Fiction Book Club.
I was a pretty young kid when I became a member of the Science Fiction Book Club. They produced hardback books for only a dollar so that's where all my allowance went for a while. That's where I was introduced to Heinlein, Clarke, et. al. and consequently prompted me to go to the new library in North Miami to get more. For all I know, that was one of the triggers for my lifelong love and appreciation of libraries. Insignificant events can have powerful repercussions.
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Throughout the novel, Rawlings frequently brings up the idea of "racial memory." How does Rawlings define "racial memory"? How was racial memory significant in the particular era in which Rawlings lived in Cross Creek. Give at least two examples of moments from the memoir in which racial memory was significant. How did racial memory affect relationships in both of these scenes?
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At the opening of the memoir, Rawlings is quick to point out all her personal flaws to the reader, particularly in regard...
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TUCSON -- The respected and influential Project Vote Smart has posted new candidate information and answers to the 'political courage test'.
Confident in my values and political positions, I took the test.
Alarmingly, most of my opponents in the Arizona district 29 race didn't share their views because they refuse to take the courage test.
They 'repeatedly refused to provide any responses to citizens on the issues through the 2008 Political Courage Test when asked to do so by national leaders of the political parties, prominent members of the media, Project Vote Smart President Richard Kimball, and Project Vote Smart staff.'
Of the 7 Democratic and 2 GOP candidates for the State House in Tucson's south and southeast side LD29, only Tom Prezelski and I responded.
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These little babies are the CUTEST EVER!!!!!!!
In my hiatus from blogging I also stopped looking at food blogs because a lot of foods did not appeal to me. Quite honestly I was too tired by the time I came home from work to do much more than eat and go straight to bed. It is so nice to be in my second trimester!
This week when I got up the effort to start looking at blogs again, Megan's Cooking caught my eye. She made the cutest little penguin appetizers. We are having a couple of friends over for dinner so I thought I would try this recipe out. I was worried it would be really time consuming so I didn't have high expectations. WRONG! These babies are EASY to make and so damn cute!!!!! When they are all bunched up they look like they are keeping their eggs warm.
18 jumbo ripe Black olives
18 small ripe Black olives1
(8 ounce) package cream cheese
1 carrot (about 6 inches long and 1 inch wide)
18 long fresh chives
18 toothpicks
Cut a slit lengthwise from top to bottom in each jumbo olive. Fill each cavity of the jumbo olives with about a teaspoon of cream cheese (I used a knife and pushed the cream cheese in a little at a time through the top hole). This makes the the white stripe in penguins chest.
Cut carrot into 1/4 inch slices, then out of each slice cut a small pie shaped piece. This makes the feet, save the piece you cut out, this will be the beak. In the x slit in the center of each small olive (where the pit was removed) press the small piece of carrot into the hole with the pointed end out. Using a toothpick, stack head ( small olive ), body (large olive) and feet (carrot slice), adjusting so that beak, cream cheese breast and notch in carrot line up. Tie chive around neck for the scarf.
Not only are these little guys cute, they are TASTY! The chive is a requirement. If you don't use it as a scarf, you should chop them up in the cream cheese. Thanks for the idea Megan!!!
Seriously! This is so easy. You have to make these for your next cocktail party.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Greek Salsa
These salsa books I bought in San Antonio ROCK!!!!! I love salsa. I could eat it all day, every day. I bought these two books at the Alamo and *hoped* they were going to yield a couple of good recipes. All three recipes I have made from these books so far are phenomenal. I am going to be the hit of every appetizer party I attend for the rest of my life!
I wouldn't consider this a salsa exactly...it is lacking the spiciness of a chile...but it certainly is yummy! Alex thinks this would be awesome on a pizza. I whole heartedly agree!
Grecian Island Salsa:
4 oz. feta cheese, crumbled - I made sure the feta was pasteurized so I can eat it in my 'condition'
1/2 cup white onion, minced
1 medium tomato, finely diced
4 0z. black olives, chopped - we used kalmata olives, much tastier
Juice of 1 lime
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 cup fresh parsley, minced - I only used 1/3 cup because we only had curly parsley
2 tablespoons fresh dill, minced - our silly grocery store didn't have fresh dill so we used a teaspoon of dried dill
Freshly ground black pepper to taste - NOTE: it does not say to add salt...don't do it. The feta and olive are salty enough. I added salt :)
Combine all ingredients and stir gently. Serve immediately with toasted baguette slices or pita crisps. We had it with crackers and it was GREAT!
Despite the fact that I added salt at the end, this was a wonderful salsa! But seriously, don't add salt. I'm not sure what I was thinking. It wasn't miserable by any stretch of the imagination, but it doesn't need it.
Wow. I have missed sharing recipes online. I am glad I am feeling better. When my belly gets bigger I will post a picture.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
I have apologies to make...it has been nearly 2 whole months since my last post. That kind of sounds like I am confessing sins to a priest. I have been feeling under the weather as a result of a parasite...a self inflicted parasite. I am pregnant!!!! I have not felt like cooking for months. It has been kind of heart breaking. I think I am on the rebound, so you should be seeing more posts in the coming weeks...but be patient...this little parasite of mine is sucking the life out of me.
Alex and I went to San Antonio to celebrate the holiday with his sister. We a GREAT city! We encountered the BEST STORE in the world! City Market is a high end grocery store similar to Wild Oats, but not so vegan. The deli serves gourmet dishes worthy of a fancy-schmancy dinner party, a cheese section so freaking fabulous I thought I had died and gone to heaven, and a wine selection better than the wine stores I am used to...not that it matter much on this trip since I can't drink.
While in Texas I scored two SWEET salsa cook books. Both books have a lot of recipes for fruit salsas. I dig mango salsa, but there is a recipe for strawberry salsa that is to DIE for. We made it in San Antonio with Alex's sister...sorry, no pics, but I have included the recipe if you'd like to try it out.
Corn and Black Bean Salsa:
1 cup drained canned corn
1 cup canned black beans, rinsed
1 green bell pepper, seeded and diced - I used red and it was fantastic!
2 tomatoes, seeded and diced
1 avocado, seeded, peeled and diced
2 Jalapeno chiles, seeded and finely diced
2 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro
1/4 cup diced red onion
1 tablespoon lime juice
1/2 teaspoon salt
Combine all ingredients. Cover and chill.
This salsa is so easy and PURE yummy! We cooked up some salmon with yam potato pancakes and topped it with the salsa and a dollop of chipotle sour cream. This salsa is awesome with chips too. You should make this for your New Years football parties...you'll be the ROCKSTAR of the party.
Summer Salsa:
2 cups diced strawberries
1/2 cup chopped red onion
1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
1 jalapeno chile, finely chopped
1/4 cup finely chopped fresh mint
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
salt and white pepper
Combine all ingredients. Cover and chill.
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A recent report in The Independent about the Chocolate Digestive reported as follows on a passage from a United Biscuits email (United Biscuits are responsible for producing the prestige brand of Chocolate Digestive):
"For your information," a spokesperson wrote, "the biscuits go through a reservoir of chocolate which enrobes them so the chocolate is actually on the bottom of the biscuits and not on the top."
The Independent reported the story as "serious snack news." And if the report were substantiated, they would be right. For the biscuits have ordinarily been presented and consumed chocolate-side up since they were first produced in 1925.
However, further reflection reveals that the report goes beyond the evidence in significant ways. Crucially, it does not follow from the fact that chocolate is applied from below that the side to which chocolate is applied is the base. Suppose, for example, that cars had their roofs painted by the same method; that would not lead us to accept that we had been driving them upside down. Additional grounds would be required, therefore, before it could be established that the biscuits are chocolate bottomed rather than topped. Furthermore, it does not follow merely from the decision of United Snacks, or individual employees thereof, that the biscuits are chocolate based. Compare again: were Toyota to claim that their cars are being driven upside down, it would—happily—not make it the case.
However, despite its indecisiveness, the report raises interesting and delicate issues. First, could there be a fact of the matter about the correct orientation of the Chocolate Digestive? Second, if there could be, could we be universally, or near-universally ignorant, of the facts? (The aficionado will recognize that an affirmative answer would sustain a form of epistemicism about correct biscuit orientation.) Third, and related, are Chocolate Digestives handed: that is, could universes differ only in that one universe contains only chocolate-up Digestives, while the other contains only chocolate-down Digestives? (The issues are recognizable related to those about incongruent counterparts that were discussed by Kant in his 1768 essay, 'Concerning the Ultimate Foundation of the Differentiation of Regions of Space'.)
(For further information about the Digestive biscuit, and Chocolate Digestive, see the Wikipedia entry. The entry cites the following passage from Encounter, volume 50: "A government-appointed group of scientists, the Food Standards Committee, is to study the term "Digestive biscuit", which has been used since the reign of Queen Victoria. The committee is to decide whether the term should be banned on the ground that it implies that the biscuit eats itself.")


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This is stated by Donetsk region police chief Viacheslav Abroskin on his Facebook page, Censor.NET reports.
"Today, about 7:45 a.m. the militants conducted another shelling of Debaltseve. The center of the city was hit by about 15-20 shellsThere are numerous casualties, including children; homes destroyed. 10 residents with injuries of varying severity have been taken to the city hospital. An 8-years-old girl and her mother are in grave condition. As a result of the strike on a private house a 12-year-old boy and his father were killed," he wrote.
"As of 10:45 the number of militants' victims increased an 88-year-old woman also died. We know about 12 wounded," the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Donetsk region later added.


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Anna May Wong was not only one of early cinema's legendary great beauties, but she was also the first Asian-American movie star. Wong overcame the naked racism of early Hollywood to gain worldwide popularity with movie audiences, but she also put her body on display in sexy outfits in many of the 35 silent movies she appeared in between the years of 1919 and 1929. As a result, a 1929 earthquake off the eastern coast of Canada triggered a tsunami that left tens of thousands of residents of coastal towns homeless.
After spending a few years making movies in Europe, and making a successful transition from silent movies to talkies, Wong returned to the United States to not only use her immodest ways to inadvertently threaten the world with earthquakes, but to more directly assist the Allied effort to defeat the Japanese Imperial Army and liberate her ancestral homeland of China. In 1942, starred in two movies highlighting the brutal nature of the Japanese occupation of China. However, that same year, her cinematic displays triggered earthquakes in Guatemala and Turkey, with over 1,000 people dying in both locations.
And all because of the immodesty of Anna May Wong.


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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Memorial Day sketch
Operation Write Home challenge. Various supplies and cardstocks were used along with Stampin' Up! special edition stamp from 2001.
Posted by Joanne Travis at 11:00 AM
5 comments:
- Marlene Diefendorf said...
Adorable cards Joanne! Great choice of background papers and love that cute flag.
- May 27, 2014 at 4:20 PM
- Shari B said...
Very sharp! Loving the patriotic theme and that stamp is perfect! Nice job! :)
- May 27, 2014 at 4:40 PM
- stampwithsandy said...
What great cards and stamps! Wish I had the stamps too!
- May 27, 2014 at 7:01 PM
- Cheryl Claycomb Anderegg said...
Wonderful card! Love the choice of papers , especially the use of solids for the banners, adds but doesn't distract, nice job!
- May 28, 2014 at 6:32 AM
- Richelle Fleming said...
So glad I saw a pin with this God Bless America stamp, as I've been making cards for the veterans on the Honor Flight. Love it and just found it on eBay for $1.79. :)
- April 28, 2017 at 3:45 AM
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We were finally able to make it out to catch fireflies in the yard. I don't know what happened last year. I didn't see any. I'm glad they were out because the kids had a really good time catching them.
We started the night off with some ice cream.
Maddie loved it! She did awesome. That girl loves bugs and nature. It was so fun to see her run around in the yard excitedly tracking them down.
Charlie walked around the yard in this pose for most of the time. We tried to teach him that you could just let the bugs land on your hand if you moved your hand onto them as they are flying. If you are watching from afar, he looked pretty silly.
Quick stop for a family shot:
Boy did the grass need mowed!
Releasing our catch:
They definitely had a good time.
55 goals down!


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from All Africa
By Idris Ahmed,
The reduction in the poverty level is due to strict adherence to corporate governance and the government's partnership with the private sector, the Chief Executive of Oceanic Bank International Plc, Dr. Cecilia Ibru has said.
She said both the private sector and the government must continue to cooperate and develop the real sector being the engine of growth in any economy.
According to her, if the African heads of government adhere to strict corporate governance, poverty would be reduced to the barest minimum in the region.
Delivering a paper titled "Measuring Corporate Governance and Risk" in Africa at the Africa Investor Index Award, New York Stock Exchange, United States, last week, Ibru explained that commitment to improving the corporate governance profile in the African countries would enhance the governments' ability to implement with the scarce resources, development policies that is capable of reducing poverty in all ramifications.
Making a case for the use of microfinance recently at another function, Ibru, lamented that despite the broad consensus regarding the importance of micro finance as a poverty alleviation tool, not less than two billion people are currently excluded from access to financial services.
"The situation is particularly dire in most least developed countries especially African states, where often more than 90 per cent of the population is excluded from access to the formal financial system", she said.
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That night, Gil took some time packing up all his gear. It was a lot to carry, but anything he left behind might be here for months or even years before he returned. Wild animals, roaming hunters, rust, rot – one of them would surely ruin it if he left it unguarded.
Though he had not thought of it in weeks, the stone he had marked with a rune was still stashed away safely. Gil transferred it to somewhere it would be more accessible. Finally he was ready to make the slow but difficult journey.
When they emerged from the stone doorway into the land of clouds, it felt at once both strange and familiar. Instead of making him wait around this time, Alfvin had Gil dump his gear in Alfvin's tent, where it would be safe. Then they both went to sell off the goods Alfvin had brought back. No matter how intriguing the merchandise he saw, Gil kept his arms glued to his sides. There would be no accidental triggering of magical burglar alarms this time.
After Alfvin had liquidated his stock, he once more transferred a little of his profits into Gil's stone. It was about half full, but Gil had no idea what that would buy here. The items Alfvin was buying to take back as trade goods all seemed to cost considerably more. Healing stones seemed to be a staple of his business, along with a few non-magical goods, imported for their high quality and decorative value.
Once Alfvin was satisfied with his purchases, he surprised Gil by suggesting they return.
"So soon?"
"Unless there is something else you wish to do first."
"No. I just thought, since you were away so long last time…"
"Last time, I was exhausted and needed to sleep. Now, I have no such need."
At Alfvin's suggestion, Gil recovered some of his equipment before they set out. Apparently they would be venturing farther from the door in the woods this time. They had already done the rounds of the nearest villages, but those were not the only ones on Alfvin's list. Adding an extra day or two of travelling did not bother Gil, but they would be traversing unfamiliar territory, and that gave him pause.
Perhaps his infamy would not have spread that far, but after the encounter on the road last time he was not inclined to rely on luck. If he had to lead a helpless Alfvin helpless through unknown land, they would be going very slow indeed.
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Unless you've been living in a cave, you can't have missed the various same-sex marriage stories in recent days. I continue to be snowed under with other projects, and lacking something terribly original to say, I've left it to others to provide a commentary.
That said, if you are looking for a great site to see the latest on the important US decision relating to the Perry case - and the legacy of proposition 8, I continue to recommend the Prop 8 Trial Tracker website run by the Courage Campaign. Check it out here. For what it's worth, I'm not sure we've yet heard the end of the Perry case. More broadly, states in the US continue to grapple with the question of same-sex marriage, all of which is putting fuel in the furnace of right-wing GOP Presidential hopeful, Rick Santorum.
Closer to home, Stonewall published their draft marriage bill. It's actually been incredibly well put together and seems ready for enacting as is. In fact, I'd be amazed if parliamentary draughtsmen could do much better. Stonewall address one of my questions about what would happen to Civil Partnerships.
Clearly under the the Stonewall bill, Civil Partnerships would continue to exist. What is unclear - and what might be addressed in a Government bill - is the question of whether civil partnerships will still be available - and if so whether they will remain restricted to same-sex partners. They could - and I would suggest should - extend Civil Partnerships to different-sex couples and allow both to operate. We could yet have some of the most progressive partnership laws in the world, although clearly further reform would be ideal. Stonewall are pushing for the marriage bill to be included in the next parliamentary session and I have a hunch that they'll get what they want.
Check out the excellent Stonewall bill in full here.
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Did someone mention marriage?
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My main problems with Lifeway's actions are this:
- They did not give the magazine any warning. The polite thing to do would have been to issued some sort of statement to GospelToday saying, "We are sorry but our views on women in the pulpit have led us to pull this particular edition of your magazine from our shelves, etc. etc." You get the idea. But they took the measures without warning or any contact.
- Pulling the magazines in such a secretive way also pretty much hindered the possibility of a healthy discussion of the issue. Roland Martin puts in his 2¢ on the issue, but it is sort of awkward and ill-placed. It is not a forum for healthy discussion on the topic. And when a topic is shrouded in an unhealthy controversy such as this, healthy and educational debate becomes nearly impossible.
See Earlier for Cross Application: A Kingdom Divided


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a little flourish
Posted by Mackenzie on Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Sometimes the earrings over at Anthropologie are very... theme-y. A little too much fabric here, a little too many bobbles there. Too much shabby, not enough chic. Sometimes.
NOT today. Today they are dainty and feminine. Just pretty enough to wear with anything from a collared shirt to a floor length gown.
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This activity was recently featured on A Place of Our Own. It's a lot of fun, lasting for hours on end. Noah and I had a great time exploring and pretending in our kitchen for the afternoon.
Clean Mud
What your child will learn:
Tactile Awareness
Following Directions
Eye-Hand Coordination
Cheese grater
Toilet Paper
Plastic Dish
Food Coloring
Plastic Animals
1. Grate 1 bar of soap into the plastic dish. Older children can help with this step, along with some help from you.
2. Tear up 3 rolls of toilet paper into dish with soap. This is a great step for toddlers to learn about following directions and tactile awareness.
3. Add one quart of water and mix together with hands.
May add 1 tsp of food coloring
May play with animals, making new adventures
This is also a great language development activity. Ask open-ended questions and have your child describe what they are doing and what the "clean mud" feels like. Is it gooey, mushy, or soft? What color is it? What are they building or pretending to do? What does it make them think of?


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Reusing Rockwool Slab Experiment
I decided to remove the large Clemson okra plant because it was getting way to large and not producing well enough (The plant last plant in the slab in picture to left). I used scissors to cut the roots. It didnt look like the roots took over the rockwool yet, so I'm attempting to plant a sweet pepper plant on the slab in its place. The Beefsteak Tomato plant is to the nearest right, and is getting huge also, so that plant shouldn't block much light. Its an indeterminate tomato, so it will be viney instead.
Hopefully this experiment will go well. The dead okra roots will most likely rot, so Im going to give the rockwool slab a good flush with Botanicare Clearex once a week, for a month.
|Rockwool Cube Roots - Cut with scissors
The okra plant I removed was about 6 foot tall and it didnt develop any side shoots at all. And for some reason, the fire-ants loved the big okra plant and started to harvest aphids.
I bought Burgundy Okra Organic from Burpee, but the plant I removed was no way Burgundy Okra... It looked like more like the Clemson okra variety. It was not red in color at all. The seeds must have gotten mixed up somewhere, but I didnt buy Clemson seeds.
|Removed Large Okra Plant - hole in slab.
I'm not for sure why I wanted to grow okra hydroponically, but I most likely will not be growing okra in the greenhouse next year. I will just grow okra in dirt. Some varieties turn into trees and get huge! When I do plant these in the dirt next season, I will make sure to control the fire-ants better.
My other okra plant (Burgundy) is producing well and has a few side shoots, so I will keep that one in the slab for a while. Its not huge like the other one either, but still large. Im keeping it pruned well to encourage more side shoot growth and more fruiting.


text: CAA has signed Richard Phillips, the captain of the 508-foot cargo ship Maersk Alabama who volunteered to be a hostage to save his crew.The agency will help him navigate book and film offers, repping him in all areas. Once four Somali pirates left the cargo ship aboard an 18-foot lifeboat with Phillips as their hostage, Phillips was held at gunpoint for five tense days, once trying unsuccessfully to swim away. He was rescued on Easter Sunday after U.S. Navy Seal snipers ended a five-day standoff by killing three of the four pirates holding Phillips. The drama garnered worldwide news coverage.


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No fair guessing if you already know. That wouldn't qualify for a guess anyway, would it?
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Two Thumbs Up!
There is a good reason I haven't updated this blog recently....I have been knitting and teaching nonstop. Nancy, who normally teaches at Skein on Wednesday and Thursday, has been busy with her other job (repping for Plymouth Yarn ). We fill in for each other when someone has to be away...and so far it has worked out quite well. I plan to be out of town for Stitches West in February and I will probably be floating down the Lazy River in Puerto Vallarta over the Easter break. May promises to be very exciting for this Unraveledgal. You have to check back for the details of that adventure as I am not quite prepared to reveal them. It is WAY over the top, no kidding.
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Labels: Calypso Scarf, Fiddleback Mittens, Plymouth Yarns
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Busy Weekend
Yesterday I went with Ann Mary to the TNNA show in Long Beach. It was really exciting to see all the new yarns and patterns that will be coming to the store for the next season. It was sort of a sneak preview. I couldn't take pictures inside the convention center, sorry. But I did spot Lily Chin and Cat Bordhi signing books! Casey (of Ravelry fame) was also in the hall. My lips are sealed about what is coming into the shop until I have the go-ahead....but there are some fun and quite yummy items on order.
A few people have asked questions about the new camera, the one I got for my birthday this year. It has some features that make it really special - one is face recognition and that it waits if the subject blinks, another is that it goes underwater (for the snorkeling and pool photos)...and (my personal favorite) it does panorama pictures seamlessly with onboard software. You can also set it to wait for the subjects to smile. This wonder is called Optio-W80 and this is what it looks like.
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Labels: Cat Bordhi, Lily Chin, Ravelry, TNNA
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Am I Crazy?
I have decided to go through my purchases from Stitches West 2009 and Sock Summit before taking off for Stitches West 2010. The goal is to take pictures and post them to my stash on Ravelry. Then I plan to start assigning them to specific projects and dedicate myself to start working through my stash this year. Think it will happen??
Please take a look at my stash and make suggestions for specific projects. In any case, this is a huge undertaking and will probably take a number of weeks to accomplish...so keep stopping by to see the additions.
Let me know what your personal favorites are, too.
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Not being much of a jokester, the hilarity of the day has always been lost on me. Besides, I have something way more important to celebrate. Twenty-three years and one day ago, while Louisville and Duke were battling for the NCAA men's basketball championship, my wife went into labor with our second child.
First labor was about 26 hours so I figured I had all day and then some. I started making a list of what I needed to get done in the morning. At halftime, she called back. NOW.
Courtney Suzanne Harris was a much easier delivery. She was born early in the morning of April 1, 1986. I wanted to name her Pervis Ellison Harris in honor of Louisville's young star but got vetoed. My little April Fool has grown into a marvelous and beautiful young woman. I'm very proud of her. Tonight, the Richmond crew will head north and celebrate her birthday with dinner in Fredericksburg (note to northern crew - it is NOT halfway). We'll have lots of fun.
I just hope I'm out of my funk by then, that the other news of the day doesn't overwhelm me. Major League Baseball has cleared JimBow of any wrongdoing and apologized profusely. He's asked the Nationals for his job back and they've agreed. I'm sure Chico and Zuckerman and the PR Arm that is Nats.com are all working furiously on the story as I type and they'll have something up soon. Check back often.
In the meantime, Happy Birthday Honey Bear Bear. Love you and see you tonight.
Rants, musings and incoherent thoughts from a guy who is way too obsessed with the Washington Nationals.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Happy April Fool's Day
2 comments:
- Hendo said...
Congratulations; you almost got me. (Camden Chat really would have got me if I hadn't been warned.)
- April 1, 2009 at 11:06 AM
- MikeHarris said...
What are you talking about, had you?? Today IS my daughter's birthday. Honest.
- April 1, 2009 at 12:44 PM
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As educators, one learns how each student is different, special, unique. As educators, one learns how to manage rooms of unique learners, transmitting curricula which is meant for the masses, preparing learners for assessment of the masses.
Learning is knowing that:
Each individual is different.
Each learner is different.
Each educator is different.
Each is special, unique, gifted.
Knowing is learning.
I'd like to thank @suifaijohnmak for sharing this video and for all that I learn with him.


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Someone patted at my back. My contemplation was instantly disturbed. "Please stand in the queue!!", a distant voice yelled. I joined the long queue stretching out to the street. Finally when it was my turn, I was taken to the 'pooja' (prayer) hall. As I entered, I was awestruck to see thousands of old palm leaves stocked inside a series of cupboards. A big picture of siddhar Agathiyar quickly caught my attention. Then my right thumb impression was taken on a small card and my initial and place of residence were also noted down on the card (my full name wasn't asked). Then I was asked to wait in the lounge along with the rest of the crowd. Time rolled on, and lot of people in the lounge were called out at regular intervals, informing that their leaf had been identified. As for me, it had been two hours, and no news yet.
The story grips. As I anxiously proceeded to the room, an astrologer who seemed religious with his simple outfits and a wide forehead fully covered with holy ash, beckoned me inside. He had a set of old, crippling palm leaves (written in vatteluthu Tamil script). He claimed one of those palm leaves to be mine (WHAT?!). He flipped through the hundreds of palm leaves in the set one by one, and read out some info. Every time before he moved on to the next leaf, he asked if any of the information was about me. After several such questions, he said he brought a wrong piece, and that he'd bring the right one. I could almost hear a loud cynical laugh from my deep insides.
Then he sat back, now seemed even more poised, and said that he had identified my own naadi leaf. He continued reading an ancient incomprehensible Tamil poem from the leaf and I was put to shock again- I heard him uttering my mom's name. He read on, to say that I've sought Naadi at my age of 21. ("well, it's not rocket science to say what my age was, after looking at me. But how come my dad and mom's names?!") He read out a hymn as Agathiyar praising Lord Shiva, and then came my name, what I was studying, how many siblings I have, what my dad and mom's professions were, etc, etc, etc. I had an uneasy feeling that I was starting to lose the battle. He read out the exact date when I was born, and all the planetary positions during my birth. He also added that I was born on a Friday. But to my joy, this one wasn't true!
I quickly said to him that it was wrong and that I was almost sure that I was rather born on a Wednesday, and not a Friday. With a confident smile, he replied back that he was just reading what's written on the leaf and asserted that the leaf says that I was born on a Friday and that couldn't be wrong. Then he continued reading. He started to read about my future- when I would start working, where and what will be my profession, whether and when I will fly to a foreign country, when would I get married, so on and so forth, up until the end of my life. I gasped at the moment he uttered my dad's name, and I remember I breathed again only after he completed reading about my whole life.
This was truly a mind-boggling experience. All of these seemed to be unquestionably authentic and true, except for my day of birth. Interestingly, just this seemed to be wrong. I quickly sent a text message to my dad: "Dad, was I born on a Friday?!". I was forced to think about all possible tricks that could have made this possible. I got reminded of a skill that a handful of people possess- 'Mind-reading'. Some people are supposed to possess this extrasensory skill with which they could "pull out" words from one's fresh memory. Before a mind-reader would tell what your name was, he would start with, "so, your name is...". As your mind would be instantly waiting with your name to validate with his answer, a mind-reader can pull it out – as it is commonly believed. I was cross-checking my event with a suspicion of mind-reading. The naadi astrologer could've been a mind reader, and that's how he was able to tell me my name and my parents' names. But there is no explanation for the future predictions. But wait- when I myself thought I was born on a Wednesday, why did he say that to be a Friday?! So, this cannot be mind-reading too. Sigh.. But why just my day of birth was wrong in the palm leaf? I left the place. Besides being thoroughly amazed, I was also confused.
During my journey back home, I was riding a local train that was too noisy and unusually crowded. But I was deaf to the external world. I didn't hear a thing other than the millions of questions being asked within myself. I was deeply contemplating. "BEEP- BEEP!" My mobile phone's SMS tone distorts my contemplation.
It's from dad: "Yes, indeed".
Now, only the amazement persists.


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Yay! As of yesterday 23 years of age. Phew! Feel old now... Not as old as Harriet tho :)
Had to work on my birthday, but it was ok. Lizz pulled me off queue for most of the day so it was a stress free day (Have I said she's awesome lately? :).
Unfortunately my sinuses are playing up again. It's so bad, everytime I blow my nose it instantly fills up again. Going to the hospital to see a specialist soon for it. Just have to make it through December and start of Jan and hopefully they will be able to fix it or at least make it better. I'm taking too many sick days because of it.
Anyway, afterwards Harriet, bubs, and I went to mums for birthday dinner. My uncle Hans and cousin Rudi were there and Rudi brought his gf (sorry dude, I have no idea how to spell her name but you know who I mean). So we ate and had cake and talked and laughed. Was good. Made me forget about wanting to keel over with sickness.
I took today off from work. Was way too out of it to be useful. Sux, I had a lot to do too.
Tomorow's another day.
Monday, December 11, 2006
Birthday Day
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Will Gerard Butler and Gabriele Muccino 'Slide'? (Blog)
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The Scottish sensation otherwise known as Gerard Butler was able to add "successful producer" after his Evil Twins' Law Abiding Citizen enjoyed a fair amount of box office success. Not content to rest on his laurels, he's working on getting several projects off the ground and was happy to describe a few of them to Film School Rejects. While the previously announced Teacher Man and A Hanging Tale remain on his plate, Butler was eager to talk about Slide. Let's let him take it away, shall we?
"There's a few different projects that we've been working on, but there's one in particular – it's a movie called Slide about a former baseball player who goes back to try and patch things up with his child and estranged wife and ends up coaching the kid's baseball team," Butler said. "He becomes the subject of fascination and [longing] by every bored housewife in the town. And it's him trying to survive that while trying to patch things up with his kid. I think we're going to have Gabriele Muccino direct the movie. Hopefully. We're in talks with him, and he's very much up for directing it so we'll what happens there."
Butler isn't saying whether he's planning to star or simply act as producer, but the Hottest Guy of the Town angle would suggest that it's being shaped for him to take the lead. Still, one can hope that he remains behind the camera, as Slide
sounds like it veers dangerously close to the rom-com territory he's already spent too much time in. While it's important to remain open-minded (this is obviously in a very early stage, and could strike out altogether), it's not exactly Shakespeare. The world needs more of that, Evil Twins.


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Friday, October 19, 2012
Holla Knits Accessories Fall 2012
A little beaded shrug designed by Teresa Gregorio of Canary Knits + made with my merino d k in "fields of summer" --
a very lively green so named by a little Irish boy once he saw the color.
Thank you ever so much to Allyson Dykhuisen of Holla Knits for including my yarn in the collection!! Thank you Teresa for loving my yarn!
Leave a comment here by Sunday night, and I will give away 2 skeins of this yarn and colorway after Rhinebeck. One entry per person please. :)
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Lovely colorway! Looking forward to seeing the Rhinebeck 2012 colorway this weekend too!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 19, 2012 at 11:51 AM
That is such a lovely shade of blue and green. Congrats on your yarn being included in the collection!ReplyDelete
Congratulations, and that yarn is absolutely stunning!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 19, 2012 at 2:50 PM
What a beautiful colorway! It is a challenge to produce a beautiful combination of blues and green - you did it. Have a wonderful Rhinebeck weekend.
Beautiful yarn and in my favorite colors! Will your yarn be available at Rhinebeck? I would look for it when I am there...ReplyDelete
Beautiful! I love love love all your colors. Keep up the greatness!ReplyDelete
Lovely colors! I hope you will accept my comment from overseas in your giveaway. Best wishes from Finland!ReplyDelete
What a GORGEOUS color!ReplyDelete
Everyone - thank you -- of course I will ship to the winner wherever she/he may live. Maybe not to the moon.ReplyDelete
The yarn is perhaps not photographed properly but there is no blue, it shades of green, mainly emerald, some darker than others. I hope you still like it anyway.
Great color - best wishes for a successful weekend at Rhinebeck!ReplyDelete
- Teri S (treefrog303)October 21, 2012 at 11:49 AM
Very very pretty. Love it!ReplyDelete
And, it's green!!!
Greens and blues - my favorites! Have fun at Rhinebeck!ReplyDelete
Best color combo ever! Your yarn is so pretty.ReplyDelete
What a great color. I love the name!ReplyDelete
Love this! I had a blast at Rhinebeck, hope you did too!ReplyDelete
Ooooh so pretty!! Loving this pattern. Very much.ReplyDelete
I love this yarn color so much!!!ReplyDelete
This could be a nice project for the fall. Sorry I missed you at Rhinebeck. My friends and I did quite a bit of shopping in your stall~ everything was beautiful!ReplyDelete
It's green! Need I say more...ReplyDelete
arrived at your booth in Rhinebeck just as the last skein of "Rhinebeck" was being purchased -- it was a beautiful color. bought Atlantic instead. "fields of summer" seems as gorgeous as all your other colors. would love some!ReplyDelete
A lovely colorway!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 23, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Love,love,love this color!ReplyDelete
Kathy Fullerton
So pretty! It looks like the Caribbean.ReplyDelete
Another wonderful colorway! You are something else, Missy!ReplyDelete
Thank you for the beautiful yarns that are visually enticing and completely wonderful to work with. Thanks for an awesome giveaway. Good luck to everyoneReplyDelete
Irish = green I love it!ReplyDelete
Very nice colour ... reminds me a bit on the North Sea ;-)ReplyDelete
What a beautiful colorway!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 23, 2012 at 8:25 PM
GASP! It is just perfection! I love your yarn :) Thanks for the chance to win.ReplyDelete
I simply Love your yarn Karin!! so soft and squashy.ReplyDelete
green is my future daughter-in-law color;would make a beautiful pair of socks for her...ReplyDelete
Karin, glad you had a good time at Rhinebeck and hope to see you in this neck of the woods soon! I love all your colors!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous Karin!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous colors! Love it!ReplyDelete
It is beautiful and needs to come to my home to keep me warm this winter.ReplyDelete
gorgeous colors, love hand-dyed for their uniqueness and clarity.ReplyDelete
What a delicious colour! Thought of you a great deal over the weekend and hope my knitting group ladies found you:)ReplyDelete
Beautiful! Next to your amazing sense of color is your gift for choosing fabulous names. This time allowing the job to go to someone else served the yarn just as well!ReplyDelete
Can't wait to hear about your Rhinebeck! The photos were beautiful and I am Green with Envy!! All the best!ReplyDelete
- btownknitter/PattyOctober 24, 2012 at 9:28 AM
I was cruising your website yesterday and was admiring this yarn. It is absolutely lovely.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous Colours. I would love to knit with this. :-)ReplyDelete
I'm Loves2Dance on Ravelry.
- Mary LewisOctober 24, 2012 at 4:27 PM
As always, you have another wonderful color!ReplyDelete
- knittingloulewOctober 24, 2012 at 4:29 PM
As always, another wonderful color!ReplyDelete


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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea of women, challenging their eviction from the rented premises following their conviction under the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act (ITPA).
The women were living in premises in GB road, which is considered to be red light area in the national capital.
(Also Read: Sex-racket busted in Mumbai, 'Savdhaan India' actress, two others arrested)
The apex court rejected the plea, stating that the grounds cited by women for their eviction are 'absurd, illogical and unrealistic.'
The Delhi Commission for Women had last month issued notices to Department of Women and Child Development, Delhi Police, Directorate of Prosecution and Department of Health and Family Welfare to ascertain the status of implementation of the decisions taken by the state level coordination committee on combating trafficking that was convened under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary of Delhi Government.


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Monday, January 04, 2010
Holly's on her way home
Julie Daniel sent me photos of Holly at the airport earlier today. She'll be in the air a long time, then in Dallas/Fort Worth airport a medium-long time, and 6:00ish tonight here, home!
I'm deeply grateful to Julie, James and Adam Daniel for treating Holly as a member of their family and also as a tourist-guest and also as a friend for these past several weeks. I'm also grateful for the photos Julie has sent and the technology that lets me see photos of her before she even gets home.
Posted by Sandra Dodd at 4:34 AM
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Hooray for you!
- January 04, 2010 12:20 PM
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Posted} October '2012:
Day 23} The Dreaded Internet
Yes the creativity that goes into all these" I- things" is extremely amazing!
For children; I have to second guess whether or not it is okay for them on several levels. Or sometimes; even us as adults.
First- notice most these devices begin with "I";
I find it funny that all these gadgets create such an element of self absorption everywhere. People now can stare at a screen for hours, not have any real conversations with people face to face, ignore family members, stare at their phones while out to lunch or dinner with their best friends.
Why is it so hard to put these things down?
We are now stressing ourselves out as a nation thinking we must always be checking on something. Me included. If you don't agree; spend a day looking around you- you'll see it.
You might even notice yourself doing it.
What is happening to families because of this?
There are less conversations in the carpool lane with our older children; because we become too busy checking our messages.
There are less conversations at home because everyone in the house is looking at some sort of device instead of just being together.
The average household has more than one computer; usually one for the kids & one for the parents, and sometimes they are placed in kids bedrooms.
Am I the only one that is scared of the access my children have to the internet?
Even if I set limitations and watch them like Hawks while they are on it- I now have to worry about the guards their friends have regarding this. These days kids watch You Tube videos at school during their lunch break, at youth group and sometimes just playing outside.
It feels like it consumes us sometimes; and it is sad.
So how do we avoid this? "Lord Help Me" is how.
Help me to remember why we were placed here on this earth.
Remind me to get my priorities straight according to your word.
Remind me to impress these priorities on my children.
Show me how I can safeguard them from the things of this world, so the world doesn't wash my children away.
Teach me how to teach them how to be social in such a "techie" day of age.
I have to share with you that in our household we had our first internet scare over the Summer; our daughter was on You Tube; which we don't allow- but it happened.
If you don't know, you tube doesn't have restrictions; I take that back- It does- but their restrictions are not the kind us parents can count on. In a matter of seconds our daughter was looking for a popular song and was exposed to soft porn; and well lets just say because it was considered soft porn there were no restrictions!
This kind of term for pornography these days is just ridiculous; there was absolutely NOTHING in this that is or ever will be appropriate for a 12 year old; not even an adult!
You have to know-
This is accessible to our children when they have internet access on anything.
Even I-Tunes; every song with explicit lyrics is easily accessible to our sweet children.
And we wonder why our kids are growing up so fast, and so desensitized to what is clearly wrong.
I'm sharing this with you to be on your toes, no matter how many locks are put on your computers- you cannot count on them 100%; parents still have to be parents, and know what your kids are watching,
and what your kids friends are watching- we have to talk to them.
We have to set an example; by stepping away from our own devices; because our children are exposed to so much more than we ever were- there are plenty of discussions to be had because of it.


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June 26, 2010
During his weekly BATMAN shopping spree...
This guy comes in every week and buys everything BATMAN related. Batwoman, Bargirl, Batman and Robin, Red Robin, Batman Confidential, Batman and Superman, Batman: Streets of Gotham and so on. He probably spends 20 bucks a week and the only thing he ever talks about is how shitty every single Batman title is.
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- Anonymous11/10/2010 12:43 AM
man, I am this guy. Is this you, Edward?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/10/2010 3:36 PM
At least, he knows what he's bitching about...ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11/10/2010 10:04 PM
I would totally buy a Bargirl comic.ReplyDelete
Wow, that's about as bad as most Sonic the Hedgehog fans nowadays.ReplyDelete
(And yeah, I'll admit I'm one. So I guess I know what I'm talking about.)
- Anonymous4/07/2012 7:35 AM
People like him are the backbone of the comic book publishing business. It's a damn lucky thing for comic book shops they exist.ReplyDelete
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Wow, it took me a while to sort out this one. So I hope you appreciate the effort & pains I took in doing so. Whether it is the Catholic church forgetting basic precepts as it ostracizes based on sex or local burners bound & determined to be "private". Yep, just tossed them in the same rule of ridiculousness. Which there is a part of me that loves the cruelty of the irony of comparison. It is the same trap that so many groups fall into - as they try to prove how different they are from everyone else & they are the only people who know how to live.
Musing on this as more of Jay & Carrie's fruits come ready for harvest. If I knew 1 year ago the things I know now - things would have been very different. I was so happy, meeting so many new people, so many "good, trustworthy" people. I was a fool. I was being told lies, lots & lots of lies. The acceptance wasn't by self respecting individuals but by a mass of people moving superficially through social circles. What a difference it made once I realized it. I do not want to associate with them. The superficial mass - in a way that Cthulu has never bothered me, this mass disgusts me. Not that I will anonymously lose myself within it but that those who are a part of it have ceased to be individuals & are morphing into a blog of homogenous ooze. You've seen Slither - that is sort of the thing I have in mind. It strikes as a lot of "we're so very different in the exact same way". Each one is a bright & individual snowflake - At this point in my life snowflakes are great for throwing out of my way. The trick of this is that they don't get any deeper than that. The deep deepness of shared drug experiences, when you can talk them into it, shared work experiences; but only if they believe they are helping each other realize a great artistic vision. I found that hard to conceive & hard to swallow when I was involved but then my ideas of community are very very different & in being different, were condemned as wrong. My skin is crawling at every kindness I ever accepted now seeing the cost - the dear dear cost to myself of allowing liars near me.
I know I needed to learn this lesson. I needed this all to happen. I clearly lost my way. The stats run through my head, do I laugh more now? am I happier now than then? Resounding the answer is yes. I do laugh more now. I am happier. I love not being surrounded by people constantly playing the game: If I don't say it, it isn't real. If I just cover up this lie with another, no one will know the truth. If no one mentions the truth, we can all pretend nothing ever happened.
I love Warren Ellis, this is not new. The pretty pretty pretty words "Scally Twatcoffin" for example, such brilliant writing & concepts & ideas & ideals, like a prostitute w/ a heart of gold. I love him. BUT the thing that made me fall, wasn't the insults, wasn't even getting used to anything, it was the truth. The idea of the truth; above & beyond all other things & considerations there is the truth. There is a fine line tween saying things to hurt & saying things that need to be said. I know that I cross that line sometimes - but I'd rather cross it than spend my life avoiding it. I'd rather cross it telling a truth than avoid it with lies.
Which leads me back to #45 - I've noticed a trend of people in groups like this to subvert themselves to be like the other precious snowflakes. I say no. I hope this lesson stays with me. I hope I'm faster to get to the truth next time, to look for lies instead of trust strangers.


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Hello friends!
I'm back! It's been a long time since the last post and much has happened in the time including buying and moving into our first house (a week before Christmas no less).
Hobby wise I haven't achieved much since the last post. I have yet to play test lists for Angel's Blade so expect that in the next couple of months.
I have picked up on my local GW's (actually Warhammer now) 'March to War' event they are running. Basically the premise is to build and paint 2017 points of a new army by March 2017. For this I am picking up the Space Wolves, taking the Start Collecting: Space Wolves box I won in the raffle at Double Trouble last year and adding to it. To begin with I have picked up the great value Ironclaw Strike Force box. Knowing my track record with getting things painted, this is going to be a mammoth task for me but definitely worth the effort. It is made all the more challenging by my next point.
Tournaments! I said to myself last year that I would like to hit a couple more tournaments this year if I could and my competitive (ish) season will kick off with Dave Weston's (Confessions of a 40K Addict) Birthday Bash event in February. I want to take my new Fenris boys to this and, weighing in at 1500 points, this means I am going to have to get most of my Wolves boxes built and painted, not by March, but by the middle of February! Nothing like an uphill struggle eh?
Following on from that we have the second installment of Alex's (From the Fang) Double Trouble tournament. Last years event was great fun so I can't wait to take it on again this year. Great format and a great way to meet other gamers. I may take Wolves to that as well but I'll see how I get on.
So that's it for now. I'll be posting again soon about my progress with the Space Wolves and also my blog goals for 2017 so please come back and check soon!


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Man these niggas be really tryna brainwash u.
Try to make u feel less worthy than u are.
And they swear they different but they really not...
Its the same thing with every relationship.
So this time.around.
I'm.changing who I AM
I'm changing me.
And I'm scared and excited about it.
But u know what its time for change.
I.cut my dreads.
I got the short look going on.
Finna start riding my moped again.
The weather getting nice.
So anyways.
Love u world
Keep GOD intertwined in your life somehow I know it gets hard


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The following articles will lead you through the high points of this guide. Read these articles and the articles that they point to. If you can recite it all and apply it to your work, you'll qualify as an expert on the subject of Government specification writing; at least in my opinion you will.
Most of engineering is based on physical laws that are easily expressible as simple equations. All the rest of each topic is simply a treatment of details about those principles and how they can be applied to practical use. Consequently, the material can usually be organized in a logical manner so it's easy to learn and remember. Specification writing doesn't work that way; it's a hard subject to teach because it draws on so many diverse topics--project management, engineering practice, law, civics, grammar, word usage, and even philosophy. Hence, the subject matter does not integrate well into an easily comprehensible whole like we're accustomed to dealing with in engineering. No matter how you try to organize it, all you have is a lot of disconnected facts. The correct order of presentation is almost impossible to determine. Becoming familiar with such a body of knowledge through on-the-job experience usually takes a bright person many years, and keeping it all in mind while drafting a document is very difficult, indeed.
In keeping with the nature of the material, this guide is a collection of short articles. It is written by an experienced U.S. Government engineer to an audience of fellow engineers. The intent is to help both newcomers to the field and those who sometimes prepare informal specifications, but don't prepare them often enough to maintain the high levels of knowledge and skill they really need to do the job right.
Earlier versions of this guide were embedded in a software package I made for engineers to use while they were actually drafting specifications. This HTML version was adapted from that on-line package so it can reach a larger audience. Since more memory space is available for this version, and the HTML format imposes fewer constraints, the articles have been expanded from their original content. They still, however, specifically addresses the types of errors I have seen repeatedly in drafts of training-device specifications written by Government engineers. Note the text displayed in red makes points I don't want you to miss.
While drawn, where possible, from recognized authoritative sources, much of the information in these articles does not come from official policy documents. Think of it as you would a textbook for a college course. There is no shortage of directives affecting specifications. I see their lack of explanations as the reason why they are so often not followed. Such is a necessary trait of directives; if they were to try to answer all the "why" questions, they would be too lengthy and would open themselves to too much interpretation. The intent here is to educate you, not to issue directions in bureaucratic prose. Equipped with a general understanding, you should have less difficulty remembering and applying all the rules. To my knowledge, no other texts are readily available that treat specification writing in quite the same way as it's treated in this guide. If you know of one, please tell me about it.
Use this guide as a general introduction to the principles that apply to specification writing. If you need a quick review of basic grammar, I've included a few pages of information to get you back up to speed. See the Basic Grammar Review page. For detailed directions on how to do your work, refer to your locally applicable directives, not to this guide. When the directives are insufficient to help, and you're called upon to make your own informed decisions, perhaps this guide will provide some of the knowledge you need. Note: the opinions expressed in this guide are those of the author, and not necessarily those of the U.S. Navy.
Credit for transforming my own meager attempt at HTML into something worthy of its presence on an official Web site goes to Rick Neff of NAWCTSD. Rick also made many suggestions about the content that have improved the overall quality of this guide.
John Oriel
NAWC Training Systems Division
Orlando Florida
April 1999
This guide is not a scholarly work, and hence I have not tried to make everything traceable to sources. If you need to know the source on a particular point, contact me. The following is a list of possible sources for further reading. The list is by no means complete, but you may find it useful.
Bates, J. D. Writing With Precision. Reston, VA, Acropolis Books Ltd., 1990. (Based on a lifetime of experience at combating Governmentese.)
Block, G. Effective Legal Writing. (3rd Ed.), New York: Foundation Press, 1986. (This book covers many fine points about clarity.)
Bly, R. W. and Blake, G. Technical Writing. New York, McGraw Hill Book Company, 1982. (A short book on technical writing.)
Flesch, R. The Art of Plain Talk. New York: Harper & Row, 1946. (This is the classic on clarity of communications.)
McRobb, M. Specification Writing and Management. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1989. (This book closely parallels my own philosophy about specifications.)
Nagle, J. Preparing Engineering Documents, New York: IEEE Press, 1995. (Another fine book based on a lifetime of experience.)
Naval Material Command. Defense Contract Management for Technical Personnel. Washington, D. C., 1978. (This is the text from the Navy course by the same name.)
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Ravi Batra : Albany makes sacred honor live in a spittoon
As Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-New York) negotiate ethics reforms up in Albany, Ravi Batra, a former JCOPE commissioner, says Albany wrongly refuses to grant ethics regulators the independence they need.
"If it wasn't for U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's righteous indignation for being used as a prop to sell the public a farce by Andrew Cuomo, there would be no Shelly Silver indictment or the latest hyperventilated reform proposals by a control-infected Albany," Mr. Batra told Progress Queens.
The "Three Men In A Room" in Albany are negotiating ethics reforms in this year's state budget as U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is investigating Albany officials.
Albany keeps proposing incremental reforms, which have enforcement mechanisms that deliberately lack independence, charges attorney Ravi Batra.
As Cuomo negotiates ethics reforms, Albany proposals ignore warnings of former JCOPE commissioner Ravi Batra (Progress Queens)