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Jyoti Basu, the nonagenarian patriarch of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) was seriously ill for the last few months. He was also too old. So, the news of his death initially did not arouse much shock but a profound sadness. This sadness will gradually creep dip by dip into the minds of the masses, from the poor countryside to affluent cities, those who have admired and respected the man and repeatedly brought him and the Left Front back to power. With every passing day, the reality of his absence will be felt more and more among his admirers as well as his critics. Beginning from the early 40's till the recent times, the towering persona of this legendary leader of the Communist movement in India has marked an enduring imprint on the socio-political life of the nation in many significant ways, particularly in the collective psyche of an entire generation of post independence Bengal. However, he had strongly dismissed the view that he had played any special role from an individual capacity and affirmed that, "What I was and what I am is because of the party. The CPM leadership had assigned a role to me which I carried out with help from innumerable comrades." (Source) He was a true Marxist committed to the ideology. Like a true communist he had tirelessly served his people symbolizing their aspirations, struggles and sacrifices for six decades till his last breath. Even after his death he continued to serve them by donating his eyes and body for the benefit of patients and medical science. He had learned from Lenin that democracy is indispensable to socialism and genuinely believed that "it is people, and people alone, who creates history". He was the last living icon of a spectacular era. Now with his demise, the era has permanently come to its end. Comrade Jyoti Basu has become history himself.
The subject of this post is not about Comrade Basu or his legacy. This blogger is too minuscule to write anything about the impressive feats of this illustrious life. This post will only present the undulating media extravaganza which has followed from his final illness till his death. The post is arranged by eclectically picking up gems from the "respectful" media "homage" offered to this extraordinary man.
On one hand, a wide spectrum of the mighty Indian press has pursued its standard populist agenda by sensationalizing the persona of Jyoti Basu, flattering him as a colossus, a stalwart, an astute but bhadralok (gentleman) politician and what not? Did they hold a similar attitude for Jyoti Basu when he was at the helm of the government? It must be noted with some conviction that during his tenure, the dominant section of the Bengal press, Bengali as well as English, left no stone unturned to regularly disparage him, his government and his party by distorted or twisted news and views. Jyoti Basu was made the prime target of this hostile and contemptuous criticism that has many times gone beyond all limits of journalistic decorum towards plain impropriety. Before every election in Bengal, Chief Minister Basu and the Left Front were written off by these mischief-makers and an aura of 'hope' use to be propagated in favor of the opposition. This tendency became a commonplace phenomenon in Bengal just like the winning streak of the Left Front. To them, as Ashok Mitra has recently written, the communist party was a nuisance and Jyoti Basu was an integral part of that nuisance. Even when he had voluntarily retired from office, he was not spared and was subjected to ill-concealed acrimony.
All the praise and admiration that has been promoted after his death are therefore nothing but sheer duplicity. The way in which the tributes and honors are published displays an inherent design beneath. It is actually designed to ridicule the present Left leaders, particularly Prakash Karat. Corporate media loves to hate the CPI(M) general secretary. The intention is to show them as dwarfs by comparing them with the "pragmatic communist" who was free from the 'muddle of ideology'. The ignominious tone of this media 'homage' is evident from the high pitch exposition of the so called 'historic blunder' when the "upstart" leaders of CPI(M) Polit Bureau and Central Committee opposed him to lead a coalition government in 1996. Though, the stateliness in which he had accepted his party's decision is obviously downplayed. It looks as if Jyoti Basu as the Prime Minister of India was a much anticipated desire of these superficial media folks.
On the other side, a wide range of reproach has been planned through contract analysts and senior political pundits to bash the man from all possible angles, by any means. We find a hoard of elite ex-Kolkata denizens lamenting about their ex-Kolkata "paradise" that was turned into a hell – "a place time forgot" due to the politics exercised by Jyoti Basu and his party. Speaking on behalf of the "entire generations of educated middle-class Bengalis" who were "forced to seek refuge in other States or migrate to America" these detractors grieve for the genius Bengalis who became a prey of the "Stalinist rule" of Jyoti Basu regime and became "refugees from Bengal" due to "a contraction of opportunities, educational and economic, and a closing of the Bengali mind". (Source) Besides, who are these well-wisher crooks who are purposely wheedling about their Kolkata days before the communists came to power and shedding crocodile tears for the "brainy" Kolkata middle-class diaspora from safer and cozy distance? They are essentially representatives of the Indian affluent class promoting its odious anti-Left values. They surely feel grateful, pleased and satisfied to be able to join the creamy section of Indian society. In their tapered vision, Kolkata embody the whole of Bengal.
From both the sides the intentions behind the tributes are similar. A candid statement like "the present history of Bengal is largely the story of Jyoti Basu" is fundamentally contemptuous. The comment is intended not really to glorify him but as a deliberate attempt to get nearer to the real point of attack – to ascertain that the story of Jyoti Basu is actually "a story of unmitigated disaster," the story of Bengal's pathetic "decline and decay" from "a hub of industrial and intellectual activity" into an "economic and professional backwater". To validate their point, established analysts of the neo-liberal media have thus unambiguously relied on the phony findings of Bibek Debroy & Laveesh Bhandari, the "duty bound" economist duo infamous for their dubious study Transforming West Bengal – Changing the Agenda for an Agenda for Change. This bogus and ostensible "study" was commissioned and funded by Dinesh Trivedi, then Rajya Sabha MP from the Trinamul Congress. It was a purposeful effort on the eve of 2009 Lok Sabha polls to illustrate Bengal's "pathetic decline" caused by "overall governance failure". Putting the purpose behind the study into perspective, Economic Policy Editor Vivan Fernandes of CNBC-TV18 has uncovered that "the Business Standard and Economic Times quoted it as if it were an independent study. By tracing West Bengal's decline from the 1960s, than from 1977, when the Left Front assumed power, by comparing it selectively with peers Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu and by ignoring achievements in agriculture, the authors seem anxious to prove that West Bengal is indeed, as they say, the most miserable state in India." (Emphasis added) Fernandes found that the study was "deliberately provocative when it asserts the Left Front government is like Gangrene. It cannot be cured, and must be excised out." (Source)
Like the above stated iniquitous report, Jyoti Basu's death has brought out the savage teeth and nail of a variety of editors, commentators and experts who are principally anti-Left. Some among them are rather clever to present their contentions under a politesse veil. According to their sarcastic depiction, Jyoti Basu was just "a member of Calcutta's privileged," who wanted to "do something for the downtrodden". A bhadralok who wore "glistening white" clothes and "invariably polished" shoes, who was fond of "good food and the sundowner" and whose only memorable contribution was to spearhead agitational politics that "resulted in the flight of capital, a complete erosion of work culture and irresponsible trade unionism." (Source) Some among them have also tried to suggest how the persona of Jyoti Basu, previously committed to his party and the ideology, began to change "once he became firmly entrenched in power" and "acquiesced in the loot of state sources" along with party functionaries. (Source) There are also others, intensively raw and crude, those who have virtually crossed every limits of civility while lambasting Basu. Their calumny is decorated with abusive language and based on imaginary stories, fabricated reminisces, street gossips and unadorned lies. It also includes malicious personal attack by putting imaginary dialogues into selective mouths. (Source) Their style is fairly similar to the despicable approach popularized by the Trinamool chieftain Mamata Banerjee who while expressing her doubt upon Basu's retirement had commented, "He will never retire till he expire."
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. But can these so call experts be dubbed as fools when they cunningly avoid mentioning the stride in the Bengal countryside achieved under Jyoti Basu's leadership? The pathbreaking achievements of Operation Barga – the land reforms and redistribution program initiated by the Left Front government is either completely ignored or referred in a diminutive and inconsequential way while assessing his contribution in the obituaries,. This example is sufficient to expose the precise objective of these deceitful pundits. How can they establish their points if they focus on the unmatched achievements of Jyoti Basu government's panchayat program that has decentralized power to the grassroot and greatly empowered the rural peasantry? Since Independence, Bengal has accounted for 22.6 per cent of the total land distributed in India as a whole, and 54.5 per cent of the total number of gainers from land distribution programmes in the entire country. Land reforms and redistribution is the single most important contributor to rural poverty reduction and in this regard Bengal's performance is the best among any state in the country. These policies occupied the centrestage of the Left Front government's pro-people administrative initiatives and thus have significantly improved the status of the poor, giving them a sense of social dignity. Even in recent years, as V.K. Ramachandran has observed, "the extent of agricultural land distributed under land reform in West Bengal as a proportion of land distributed in the country as a whole is 22.6 per cent." Ramachandran has also observed that "the total number of gainers from land distribution programmes in the country, more than half – a full 54.5 per cent – are from West Bengal." (Source) But as Paranjoy Guha Thakurta has pointed out, "Historians have selective memories. Who cares today about Operation Barga or the empowerment of panchayats?" (Source)
By delicately applying their biases and prejudices, the pundits talk about Bengal's poor growth compared to the rest of India. These pundits will never draw attention toward Bengal's phenomenal agricultural growth which has grown at an annual rate of 2.7 per cent – double the national rate. Instead, they prefer to vociferously babble on the 'gherao culture' as the foundation of industrial stagnation in Bengal but never utter that Bengal's industrial turn down was primarily caused by the central government policies of freight equalization and industrial licensing. Doesn't it astonish us today that it took 13 years for the Congress government at the center to clear the flagship Haldia Petrochemicals project? Since the days when the license-permit raj were lifted and liberalization opened new possibilities, from 1990s Bengal was one of the fastest growing states in India. The pundits also endlessly emphasize on the worst condition of poverty and hunger in rural Bengal compared to most other states. But the planning commission figures show an entirely different picture. Percentage of persons below poverty line in rural Bengal has declined from 73.2 per cent in 1973-74 to 28.6 per cent in 2004-05 compared to the national average of 56.4 per cent in 1973-74 to 28.3 per cent in 2004-05. Urban poverty in Bengal is 14.8 per cent compared to the national average of 25.7 per cent – the performance is even better than fast-growing states like Maharashtra and Gujarat. The Eleventh Plan document has noted that Bengal is one of the five major states that have succeeded in reducing the absolute number of the poor in rural areas over the three decades from 1973 to 2004-05.
Protecting the rights and privileges of the poor, creating the possibility for a better socio-economic condition and achieving it to some reasonable extent are certainly the most significant contributions of Jyoti Basu's rule. There are also other social sectors where Bengal has performed well. The state has registered the lowest death rate and maternal mortality rates among all the major states and has achieved notable reductions in fertility rate. It is the first state to lower the voting age to 18, first to introduce reservation for women in elected bodies. Jyoti Basu must also be credited for his firm commitment to secularism that has established an unwavering atmosphere of communal harmony and secularism in the state.
However, responding to the new aspirations and popular demands that has emerged from the successful agrarian reforms is a far more difficult and time-consuming task. It is a fact that the Left Front government's response in this aspect was relatively slow. The government has also somewhat failed to achieve success in areas like education, infrastructural developments and the state of the economy. Long stint in power have also developed bureaucratic habits among a section of the Left Front leadership and detached them from the people. Jyoti Basu was quite aware about these shortcomings and negative developments. He had persistently spoken about the necessity of going to the people, listening to them, explaining the reasons behind the shortcomings and sincerely admitting the mistakes. Jyoti Basu himself has done it all through his life.
All his positive achievements, and there were many, is overshadowed or ignored by the bombastic and dismissive media rhetoric which is more engrossed to focus on the "egregious blemishes" of Jyoti Basu and his tenure. Viewed objectively, most of them will turn into plain deception. Jyoti Basu's death has once more proved the myth of media objectivity and manifested an emergent trend of corporate journalism in India. A depressing trend that deceives millions of people and indoctrinates them by promoting personal bias towards the Left in the name of "balanced reporting". It is a dangerous trend that encourages flak criticism to disgrace an exemplary politician – one of the country's most illustrious leaders and statesmen.
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The School of Communication and Media mourns the loss of faculty member and Georgia Radio Hall of Fame member Warren "Rhubarb" Jones, who died of a heart attack Sunday afternoon. He was 65. In his early years, Jones was best known as a morning host at country station Y106 (later Eagle 106.7). After that, he joined Kennesaw State University as a Senior Development Officer and a faculty member in the School of Communication and Media where he became a popular professor among the students.
Click here for more information about his life and funeral service information.
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Today is that day that I FIFTEEN years CANCER FREE!
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I know there are many that struggle celebrating today because they are dealing with battles they didn't expect. But I pray that one day, I will hear you say that you are fifteen years cancer free too!
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Master Bedroom Closet Ideas - Wardrobes are an essential component of your residence - it's vital to arrange them well and to find space for all your household items. Closets are never big adequate - and every family members with little ones knows that really well. The quantity of clothes, toys, manuals and various other stuff a little one demands are really tough to fit in one closet. Here are some pointers about how you can arrange the closets, not only those from the children's area, yet likewise the parent's bedroom.
1. A closet with numerous compartments continues to be professional and neat for a longer period of time. If you have a special location for every single group of items: T-shirts, socks, underwear, shoes, playthings and more, it will be a lot easier for all your family people to find just what they require. Great closet organizers are the attachable wall mounts with pockets. You can install them on the two sides of the closet as well as on the interior side of the doors. Those wall mounts with pockets will offer you extra-storage area and a different place for every single classification of items. One more good suggestion is to maximize your racks with sets of baskets. Get clear baskets - it's very comfortable to be able to see exactly what's in every container and to take what you need, without experiencing the entire closet.
2. Rather than keeping the shoes in boxes, which take a bunch of area, set up, in the reduced component of the closet, a shoes organizer - those skew racks that allow you to deposit several sets of footwears in a little spot.
3. Reserve the top racks, where it's difficult to get to, for products you just utilize rarely - added pillows or coverings, sky devices, vacant luggage. If you are frustrated with the significant quantity of toys from your children's areas, simply load a component of those playthings in huge boxes and put them away, on the upper shelves of the closet. Once in a while, take them out, give them to the kids and group various other playthings as an alternative, the ones your youngsters are currently tired of. By doing this, not only it will be less complicated for you to keep your home tidy, however additionally your children will certainly enjoy theirs toys much more.
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My mother died yesterday. I was fortunate enough to be able to speak with her on the phone a few hours before she passed away. The essence of what we spoke about is encapsulated in these reflections.
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Wobbly times number 169
My mother died yesterday. I was fortunate enough to be able to speak with her on the phone a few hours before she passed away. The essence of what we spoke about is encapsulated in these reflections.
Lieutenant Recharda Benson WWII U.S. Army Nurse
That's why I love you
That's why I want you to be free
That's why I hate the sadists
That's why I'm a democrat
That's why I'm sympathetic with the poor
That's why I want kindness to replace hatred
That's why I don't care about riches
That's why I care about animals' welfare
That's why I go for the underdog
That's why I love the vivacity wild things exhibit
In short
My mom's the reason I care
In short
she's the reason I'm focussed on elan
not tied down to property and status
She's the reason
I've declared war on cruelty
ever since I was born
And why I think
It's nobody's business but my own
if I ride tear-filled waves of grief today
Recharda with her sisters and a friend late 1930s
My mom and I Christmas, 1949
My dad and I in the same place, 1949
Me, my mom, Bruce and Grandma Benson late 50s San Diego train station
My step-dad, Bruce, mom and me early 70s East Lansing
On my last visit to the USA in 2009
April 1, 1919-August 24, 2013
Posted by Mike Ballard at 12:58 AM
Labels: memoriam, mom, poetry, Recharda Benson
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These are some good memories. She must have been an excellent mother because she allowed you to keep your beamish grin.ReplyDelete
That's great Jen. I'm going to embed your youtube tribute on this blog. One correction. I joined the Marines at age 18, not 16. More on that can be found here: http://wobblytimes.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/wobbly-times-number-114_21.htmlReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 8, 2013 at 9:54 PM
Condolences. Beautiful poem and lovely tribute by Jenny. My grandma died on June 30 and she was nice enough to remember me in her estate planning. That's how I was able to afford my Honda Accord Coupe, otherwise I would still be too poor for a car I deserve.ReplyDelete
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Monday, 16 March 2009
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What a fabulous view.
- Monday, 16 March, 2009
- Anna said...
Oh wow what a beautiful view! Excellent representation of depth, I can see so many layers, the volcano gives a nice touch. Nature is amazing! Anna :)
- Monday, 16 March, 2009
- Illuminated One said...
"and i say to my self WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD"
Beautiful view it is pictures like this makes me forget about all the bad things going on in the world.
- Monday, 23 March, 2009
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First off, I have to say: Holy Crap! How prophetic was this? That's pretty freaky, isn't it?
Anyway, I know I said I was going to tell you all about finding out today, but I'm busy so you'll just have to wait one more day. But I will tell you about another prophetic situation that happened yesterday.
My best friend and I have been best friends since we were 2. That's 25 years of being best friends, and we're more like sisters than anything else. Anyway, yesterday morning said best friend called me, and here was the conversation (nearly verbatim):
Me: Good morning.
Her: You're pregnant aren't you.
Me: Um, what?
Her: I had a dream last night that you and I were hanging out and you said you had something to tell me, and that something was that you are pregnant. So are you?
Me: Yes!!!
Her: I told Jon (her husband) that I had to call you this morning because you're pregnant.
Me: (slightly freaked out by her psychic abilities, but also relieved about not having to figure out how to tell my best friend I'm pregnant)
Aaron is completely freaked out by both of these occurrences and has also requested that my best friend dream up some lottery numbers for us. I'm just to excited to worry about anything except, you know, everything baby related.
*Quote from my sister's best friend (it's a good thing she's so pretty) during high school when they both said the same thing at the same time.
We're So Psycho*Posted in project: baby on 9:36 AM by Mrs. Ca
5 comments:
- audrey said... September 12, 2007 at 11:29 AM
I was so excited to read about you finding out you were pregnant today. Thanks for nothing.
Just kidding! That is one crazy story -- I can't believe how psychic you and your best friend are!
- L Sass said... September 12, 2007 at 12:17 PM
That is freaky! Super, super freaky!
My aunt had a psychic dream about me when my mom was pregnant... I'll have to blog about that!
- Katelin said... September 12, 2007 at 4:50 PM
that is so freaky. but a good and fun freaky, haha. congrats!
and i just came across your blog. very fun. keep it up! :)
- Sizzle said... September 12, 2007 at 5:28 PM
i love when that kind of "psycho" stuff happens. hee hee.
- carrster said... September 20, 2007 at 12:36 PM
haha! I have the same psychic abilities with people I'm close with. They get so annoyed when I know they're pregnant before they tell me. :)
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Let's start a rumour: The Smiths to reform
Look, stranger things have happened, alright? And it is the start of the silly season
The odds on a Smiths' reunion may have shortened a little this week. As astute watchers of the pop reunion game know well, the requirement by any band member to deal with financial woes or other bad luck is one sure way to soften everyone's cough when it comes to getting the band back together again.
Going on his recent run of bad luck, if Morrissey had ducks, they'd drown. The year so far has featured serious illness (double pneumonia, a bleeding ulcer and food poisoning), tour cancellations (dates in the United States, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Argentina have been yanked) and insurance problems.
By contrast, his former Smiths' foil Johnny Marr has been having a great year. His debut solo album "The Messenger" is one of the year's best and the live shows have been receiving a lot of rave reviews and purple prose.
Add in the fact that Morrissey hasn't had a record out since 2009 and you almost begin to feel sorry for the poor lad. "Cancellations and illness have sucked the life out of all of us" Morrissey melodramatically wailed, "and the only sensible solution seems to be the art of doing nothing."
Or doing something no-one expects. While the hoary notion of a Smiths' reunion has always been greeted with harumphs and sidesteps (to quote Lauren Murphy from her Ticket interview with Marr earlier in the year), needs must on some occasions.
Despite his considerable ego, even Morrissey would concede that The Smiths would be a far bigger, more lucrative draw right now than anything he himself would be putting just his own name to. Acrimonious fall-outs with past members could always be solved with a large cheque. And Morrissey knows, above all else, that some positive attention might serve to re-energise his own lacklustre solo run.


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[News] Actor Kim Seung Woo and PD Choi Jae Hyung to leave '1 Night 2 Days'.
Cr. - allkpop
KBS 2TV's '1Night 2 Days' will be going through format changes as well as a change in PD, and with the announcement, actor Kim Seung Woo has also revealed that he'll be leaving the show.
Kim Seung Woo's camp confirmed his departure stating, "It is true that he will be leaving '1N2D'." Kim Seung Woo will be leaving to focus on his acting career and will participate in his final filming on the 15th along with PD Choi Jae Hyung, who will also be leaving the show.
PD Lee Sae Hee will join the team as the new PD for the show and is expected to cast another member into the '1N2D' family.
There were also rumors that singer Sung Si Kyung will be leaving '1N2D' as well. But his agency Jellyfish Entertainment denied the rumors responding, "There have been reports that Sung Si Kyung will be leaving the show and they are totally false. Sung Si Kyung will continue to participate in filming '1N2D'."
Uhm Tae Woong, Joo Won, Lee Soo Geun, and Cha Tae Hyun's representative also asssured viewers stating, "The '1N2D' filming will continue smoothly like it always has."
With the recent cancellation of 'Moonlight Prince' and 'Qualifications of Men', viewers are left wondering what KBS will do next to revamp their variety shows.


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The Galaxy S8 is hitting the tech headlines almost every day as there are numerous leaks and rumors making the rounds all over the internet. Despite the many rumors, some aspects of this upcoming flagship seem to remain the same making us believe that these features will definitely be a part of the final release.
Today too we have a report about the Galaxy S8. Well, a Korean media has shed light on the finalized specifications and design of the upcoming Samsung flagship. Going by this report, the Galaxy S8 will not feature the dual camera due to the high cost involved in using this technology. This leaves only the Galaxy S8 Plus to feature the dual camera setup at its rear. This is something that we already came across during the launch of iPhone 7 and 7 Plus.
Also Read: Samsung Bixby to come with Galaxy S8: Everything you should know
In line with the previous rumors, it is suggested that the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus will not feature the physical home button at the front, making these phones to be the first ones from Samsung to come sans the home button.
As per the report, the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus will feature flat displays and there won't be an edge variant this time around. Also, the screen sizes are said to be 5.7 inches and 6.2 inches respectively. Maybe, Samsung is planning to implement a near bezel-less design in these phones as the Xiaomi Mi Mix. Contradictory to the previous reports that suggested that the fingerprint sensor will be behind the display, the recent one says that the same will be at its rear.
Also Read: Samsung Galaxy S8 render with no home button at the front hits the web
Talking of the specifications and features that we know so far, the Galaxy S8 will arrive with the company's own AI software Bixby. Also, it will employ the recently launched Snapdragon 835 processor in one of the variants while the other one will get the Exynos SoC. It is likely that we can see 6GB of RAM in the Samsung flagship, but there is no affirmation on the same as of yet.


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Friday, April 3, 2015
The Hawker Street @ Taman Desa & Penang Koay Teow Kitchen @ Kuchai Entrepreneurs Park
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- AnonymousApril 03, 2015
Nice! People say hawker food, have to go to the hawker stalls. I don't quite agree. Even with the stalls, one would need to know where to go - not all are good. Have had some nice hawker stuff at such places but of course, they are not as cheap.ReplyDeleteReplies
Suituapui: true, i've had a fair share of misses among the hawker stalls in penang throughout my three years there too, heh :)Delete
Hmm... i am not excited for these, not sure why :PReplyDeleteReplies
Ken: i know the reason ... you live in penang and have access to all this any time! :DDelete
Simple yet attractive decor, Sean, and I like the dishes they use to serve the food.ReplyDeleteReplies
Linda: you're right, the dishes are quite pretty :)Delete
Rather cute serving plate for the lor bak....it fits in snugly! ;D The food in he first one looks a bit more promising though.ReplyDeleteReplies
Contact.ewew: yeah, it's an interesting shape, that plate! lor bak in a banana-shaped vessel :DDelete
Assam Laksa - I'd like a big hearty bowl of that please.ReplyDeleteReplies
The Yum List: assam laksa is one of the great pleasures of penang :DDelete
We were unlucky, a lot of things ran out when we visited The Hawker Street.... :(ReplyDeleteReplies
CK: aiks ... but can revisit maybe, since it's located in your taman! :)Delete
Premium price and not robust tasting.. like that's my biggest nightmare. Might as well eat hawker la.. non premium AND yet robust! Makes more sense don't it? LOLReplyDeleteReplies
Ciki: time to go hawker hunting outdoors for me! :)Delete
Hmm.. the hokkien mee - i miss those that i can add pork ribs!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Rebecca: heheh, yeah, i didn't actually eat much hokkien mee when i was in penang, but nowadays i sometimes crave it, especially on rainy evenings :)Delete
Assam laksa Now only 7.50. But still yummy.ReplyDeleteReplies
Ivan: heh, i guess a 60 sen increase was inevitable this month, yeah :)Delete
Ah Sean, need your help. Downloaded the app but can't log in with facebook. can't even send enquiry via the app to solve this problem. is it me or something with the app?Delete
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I finished up the pink and black donation quilt over the weekend. I really love it!
It's about 40" x 40" finished.
I have committed to trying something new on the quilting on my donation quilts this year. You know, trying to make myself learn something new. So on this one, I quilted a tight spiral from the center of the diamond out. I like the way it turned out.
And here's the backing.


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You all know how much I love the beach! I always say that Utah would be the perfect place to live, if only we had an ocean....I tell Luke quite often that I don't care where we live when we settle down, as long as there's a beach nearby. That's my only prerequisite...well, the most important one anyway :)
Anyway, over at I Heart Faces, they're having a Beach Fun contest. Of course I've got to join in!
Here's my favorite picture of Luke having fun at the beach! We were visiting the Oregon Coast after flying out for my little bro's graduation, and we happened to be there the weekend of the sand castle competition! Some totally awesome creations there! Great photo op!
Visit I Heart Faces to check out everyone else's beachy pics!!
More pics of our Oregon trip (and more sand castle creations) can be found here.


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old IBM voice systems, a photo by ilox101 on Flickr.
These were given to me around 1995 by Les Legge, an old friend from the days of the CompuServe Pacific Forum. At the time Les was high up in IBM and also Editor of the Everyday Electronics magazines.
These programs were both fun to work with but recognition rates were poor mostly because of low system resources available at the time.


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We shouldn't elect presidents "to make history." Hasn't Obama's presidency proved what a fallacy that is?
Not only do our public employees in the federal government earn way more than workers with similar jobs and backgrounds in the private sector; they also earn a lot more than similar employees in 18 other developed countries.
Steven Hayward is re-reading Bernard Bailyn's excellent history of the beliefs and principles of the revolutionary generation, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, and is struck by the idea that blogs are our modern-day equivalent of the pamphlets that Americans were reading in the period leading up to the Revolution. I have long held a somewhat related belief - I think blogs are the modern equivalent of the committees of correspondence which revolutionary leaders used to communicate with those in other colonies about what the British were doing and to coordinate action.
So the guy who admitted that he
A couple of high-level IRS workers live in Texas but commute to D.C. by plane. And guess who gets to pay for that?
Kim Kardashian's mom slams Obama for his hypocrisy in criticizing Kim and Kanye's conspicuous consumption.
Jim Geraghty reminds us of the "wild hype-to-accomplishment ratio" of Cory Booker. And how did such a master of public relations get himself in such a "dumb money mess" with his internet startup and with not reporting the payouts from his former law firms?
Bret Stephens has some fun with the idea that Britain should give back Gibraltar. Why stop there? Practically every nation has land that they could be giving back to some other country or peoples. No one's borders should be sacrosanct. Given that this year is the 400-year anniversary of the Treaty of Utrecht that gave Gibraltar to Britain, which country's borders would be able to withstand scrutiny for the past 400 years?
As James Taranto writes, Oprah Winfrey is not Rosa Parks.
John Hawkins presents 11 liberal rules for racism in America. These are very accurate.
It's not good when a writer from The Atlantic says that the President spoke to us as if we were "precocious children."
So Jane Austen is going to replace Charles Darwin on the 10-pound note. I'm not sure why it has to be one or the other. But the real scandal is that they quote Miss Bingley on the note. That's just not right no matter what the quote is.
Here's what seems like a true win:win - a restaurant bans tipping and the waiters are happier and the service improves.


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What Do You Get For Your $611 Million?
So, Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer, what did you get for your $611 million?
A curly W mowed into the center field grass, a bright red clock of stars, a view of the construction cranes that count off a city's progress, a playground for a stressed-out people.
All that and a game that turns grown-ups into kids and bonds children with their dads.
Fans stepped off Metro last night, passed under arches of red, white and blue balloons, walked the red carpet along Half Street SE -- a street that until now served as one of Washington's ugliest back alleys -- and entered Nationals Park.
Whereupon their jaws dropped. They smiled for photos with Teddy Roosevelt and George Washington, walked the circumference of the new stadium and took in what the District of Columbia and the Clark, Hunt and Smoot construction companies built in a remarkable two years, on time and on budget.
This was a happy, nearly delirious crowd. I wouldn't have believed it until I heard it with my own ears, but people were even praising the cumbersome, jury-rigged bus system that shuttles fans from the RFK Stadium parking lots to the still-barren landscape that surrounds Nats Park.
"I would even pay $5" for the free shuttle, said Rich Park, 32, who made it from Annandale to the Guitar Hero games in the stadium's interactive play area in well under an hour. "As Washingtonians, we're kind of finicky. We're not really passionate yet about the Nats. But this place is just great. Now if the team gets better in the next few years, we could learn to love the game again."
For your $611 million, you get to spend more -- for seats that feel vastly closer to the action than did the stands at RFK, for the Ben's Chili Bowl half-smokes that fans are queuing up for as if they were perfectly grilled tubes of manna, for the Five Guys burgers and all the other ways to eat your hometown allegiance.
Joe Hawkins, a fan from Woodbridge, noted that as a Virginian, he isn't spending a penny of his tax dollars on this new pleasure palace. But he said D.C. residents ought not grumble about shelling out for the stadium because "sometimes you got to spend money to make money."
Twelve-year-old Brennan Jones, a Little League catcher from Falls Church, served up this strike from Econ 101: "The District's going to make so much money. We're paying for this place every time we come." Brennan expects to come very often; during Nats batting practice last night, he got pitcher Luis Ayala to sign his Nationals rally monkey. The kid is set, probably for life.
Fans didn't even mind having to spend absurd sums to snare Opening Night tickets on the secondary market. Jason Halliburton, 30, a police officer from Knoxville, Tenn., fell in love with the Nats and Washington when he and his wife honeymooned here during the team's inaugural season. Since then, he's made the nine-hour drive several times a season. There was no way he was going to miss this night. He shelled out $175.30 for a $10 ticket in Section 230.
"It's well worth my time and money," he said. "There's unlimited stress in my job. This makes me forget about all the rough things I've seen and just, for once, see the best in life."
An investment in granite, concrete and steel buys a new retail, residential and office neighborhood. It buys the president of the United States throwing out the first ball. And it buys a son showing his father what his boy has become.
Henry Hunter, a third-year Georgetown Law student, has worked in the Nationals' legal department for the past three years, toiling in the team's decrepit RFK office. Yesterday, he showed his father the splendors of the club level.
"I remember taking him to his first game in Oakland," said the father, also named Henry Hunter. "Now he's flying me up from Florida to see what he's done."
Baseball, as far too many poets remind us, is like that -- circles of life and all. So your $611 million also buys strained metaphors and wistful memories, and unending expressions of love for stuffed dead presidents.
"I love Teddy," said Malcolm Tarlton, a former NASA worker who lives in Upper Marlboro and hopes one day to see Theodore Roosevelt win the Nats' nightly presidents race. He is prepared to wait. He has waited before. "Do without something for 34 years and then see if it's worth it."
A first night is a time for reveling in the new, so the only whining to be heard came, characteristically, from the press box high atop the ballpark. The broadcasters, accustomed to much more prime locations at other parks, cracked wise about the view "from up here at our altitude," as Baltimore Orioles radio man Fred Manfra put it.
"The view from the booth is as if we were at the top of the Washington Monument," ESPN play-by-play man Jon Miller told me. "But the park looks beautiful." He stared up from the field to the sharply stacked seating decks, and somehow the La Scala opera house in Milan, another steeply raked house of dreams, came to mind.
"This is sort of the La Scala of American baseball," Miller said. "It's the setting of high drama, tragedy, even redemption. And then you go back to your everyday life."
That's what you get for your $611 million. Oh, and helmet sundaes, and from the cheap seats, the alabaster Capitol Dome, gleaming like nowhere else.
Coming up at midday: The 10 best things about Nationals Park--and the five worst, too.
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smash someone's face in
1. Fig. to crush someone's face. The accident smashed Harry's face in, and he had to have extensive surgery. The accident smashed in his face.
2. Inf. to strike someone in the face. You had better stop that or I will smash your face in. Max tried to smash in Lefty's face.


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New Balance Summit Unknown Review
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Ty, Thanks for a stellar race. It just keeps getting better every year.
Ty- what a rocking event, can't wait for next year! (and the 2 after that- man do I want one of those buckles!)
Thanks so much for all you did. It was the hardest thing I have ever done.
Not a big deal but you mispelled my last name, Anamarie Fagg.
Dude, thanks for the stellar tour of your backyard, what a truly beautiful place! Weather was great, the company was fabulous, and the huckleberry sodas at the end were tasty.


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|Ren at 14 months
Today Ren-Ren turns 11—Happy Birthday Ren!
You may have noticed that I seem to have written a bunch of birthday blogs lately, namely Kai's birthday, and Ling's birthday . That's what I get for bearing 3 kids all in the spring. Between March 3 (Scott's birthday) and May 27 (Ren's birthday) all 5 of us, plus 3 grandparents and an uncle were born.
Despite today being the last birthday, birthday season isn't over yet. We don't even have a date for Ren's party—with Ling's birthday only a week earlier, I can't plan his until hers is over, and by then I'm already running behind. Good thing he always wants a pool party and the water's too cold until mid-June!
Our rapid succession of birthdays is all because Scott and I listened to Nancy, Ling's godmother and my supervisor at the time. She said that spring was the best time to give birth. Why not spend maternity leave in warmth with minimal clothing between baby and breast?
We believed her, and fertility being the only thing that's come easily in our marriage, had 3 kids on first or 2nd try.
The gender of my kids is just about the only thing I've gotten exactly as I want it. First, I wanted a girl, probably out of rebellion against my parents' overweening fixation on sons to carry on the family name. I wanted a daughter with whom I would share a special mother-daughter bond, not completely remembering all the screaming tearful fights I had with Mama. And Ling was born.
For #2, I wanted a girl because I loved having sisters, even if we competed to the death and I never wanted to be seen with them growing up. I wanted Ling to have a sister and for her sister to have Ling. And Kai was born.
By #3, knowing this would most probably be our last child, I wanted a boy because I wanted something new. And Ren was born.
Although I love my father, brother and husband, as well as a multitude of male friends, I didn't understand just how much I could love a male until Ren. In all other male relationships other factors adulterate my feelings, but when Ren first smiled (a continuation of the bonding problem I wrote about), nothing marred the fierce mother love that whooshed through me.
So happy birthday Ren-Ren!
I tried hard to break the Chinese misogynistic son fixation, but fell in love with you anyway.


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"GREENWICH foot tunnel will be closed to all users for ten months during its refurbishment, council officials have said."
"Greenwich Council continued to insist today that no official decision has been taken on how long the tunnel will close."
"Greenwich expect to close only one lift per tunnel at a time. Most work will take place while the tunnels remain open although there may be a need for limited tunnel closures at times when it is not safe to carry out work, even behind hoardings."
"seeking to limit the number of times when the foot tunnels will be completely closed and that these closures will be short in duration."
-Update- Thanks to Darryl, I see that the Mercury got here first.


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"Today's conservatives can argue for immigration restrictions if they so choose. But they should not claim the mantle of Reagan in doing so."
Archive for the 'Immigration' category
Fightin' WordsMay 25, 2007
The Government Gives, Thus, The Government Can TakeMay 10, 2007
This bothers me:
Members of a House committee Wednesday appeared to be leaning toward passage of a bill that would allow law enforcement officials in Alabama to seize the property of illegal aliens. . . .
The bill, sponsored by state Rep. Micky Hammon, R-Decatur, is modeled on laws allowing police to seize the property of drug dealers. The legislation allows law enforcement to seize from illegal immigrants any property not needed for "basic living necessities," but gives law enforcement agencies broad scope in determining what is and isn't necessary.
The bill is HB290:
Property of a person present in this state who is in violation of the immigration laws of the United States, except property needed for the basic living necessities of the person as determined by the local law enforcement agency, acquired by the person directly or indirectly while in violation of the immigration laws of the United States shall be subject to forfeiture . . . .
I hate forfeiture laws. They give the state the power to summarily seize your property without having to so much as get a warrant prior to the seizure. And then when the judicial proceedings do occur, they're governed by the rules of civil procedure. That means: 1) the state gets to take your property if it can prove that it's more likely than not that it is subject to forfeiture; forget about beyond a reasonable doubt; 2) you have no right to an attorney; 3) you have no right to confront the witnesses against you. Oh, and then the agency that took the property gets to keep it and do with it whatever it wants. The whole process is a huge incentive for abuses. So I am never going to be in favor of expanding them.
This particular one is extrordinarily bad. It gives the state unbridled discretion to take any kind of property. Yeah, it throws in language about basic living necessities, but the cops get to make that decision. This is asking for abuse.
But more than the potential for abuse and the inherent unfairness of forfeiture laws, something else bothers me about this bill.
I really don't care about illegal immigration. It does not bother me one bit if someone wants to enter this country without first stopping fill out the proper paperwork. It does not bother me one bit if that same person refuses to ever learn English, enjoy apple pie, or watch Nascar. Still, I understand the arguments that illegals ought not receive Government services. If they don't pay the bureaucratic costs – becoming citizens, paying all the same taxes I do, etc – than I can understand denying them the bureaucratic benefits.
Forfeiture of property, though, is different. In contrast to welfare payments, property ownership is supposed to be a natural right. That is, something that a person can do simply because they are a person. Property ownership is not something the government gives us. It is an inherent right no different than the right to free peach or the right to freedom of religion. Hence, it exists whether or not the person is a citizen of whatever country he happens to find himself in.
This bill, though, treats property rights like welfare privileges. That is, it treats property "rights" as something the government provides and the government can take away. That scares me. The results of this type of thinking are ugly.
So even if illegal immigrants are a real problem, letting the government assert this kind of power is a cure worse than the disease.
Now That's A ResolutionApril 27, 2007
Maybe this one would have an easier time than did the slavery apology:
The devil is sticking his pitchfork into the nation's immigration politics.
At least that's what one of Utah County's Republican delegates thinks.
Don Larsen, a district chairman, has submitted a resolution equating illegal immigration to "Satan's plan to destroy the U.S. by stealth invasion" for debate at Saturday's Utah County Republican Party Convention.
Referring to a plan by the devil for a "New World Order … as predicted in the Scriptures," the resolution calls for the Utah County Republican Party to support "closing the national borders to illegal immigration to prevent the destruction of the U.S. by stealth invasion."
Concurring Opinions has already made the obvious joke about the resolution coming too late to keep Satan out of Utah:
Brigham Young University students stood and showered Vice President Dick Cheney with applause after his 15-minute speech that encouraged them to approach life with flexibility, persistence and gratitude.
Immigration issues are fueling a rise of hate groups in the United States, with their numbers increasing 40 percent in six years, according to statistics released Thursday by the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery.
Gosh, I can't imagine why people would react irrationally and violently to the problem of illegals, what with responsible and intelligent people like the Republican from Utah out there offering sage leadership on the issue.
But hey, look at this:
Alabama has 22 reported hate groups, the lowest of surrounding states, Potok said. California, with 63, and Texas with 55, have the highest numbers of reported hate groups in the country.
Hah. Those pot-smokin, free-lovin, Muhrica-hatin hippes are three times as hateful as we are. Sweet Home Alabama, baby!
This is my favorite part:
One of the most popular groups in the country, Council of Conservative Citizens, denounces its label as a hate group, said Gordon Lee Baum, a spokesman for the organization, which has active chapters in 28 states, including five in Alabama.
Clearly, that label is inapplicable. Just listen to the good sense exhibited by the
grand wizard leader of the CCC:
"That is ridiculous," he said. "The Southern Poverty Law Center is in the business of finding hate groups and has made millions off of so-called outing right-wing groups."
Baum said his members, who he says represent different races and religions, do have strong views about issues such as illegal immigration, Baum said.
"Not everyone is for this rampant runaway immigration," he said. "Diversity is not our strength, it is our calamity, our downfall. That is a recipe for disaster. The Hispanics coming here have no intention of coming to the melting pot. They want a Mexico North. They want the Southwest to become nonwhite."
Ethno-centric delusional rants, anyone? Here's a suggestion, if the CCC wants to be considered as anything other than what they are – a bunch of sorry assed racist pieces of s**t – maybe they ought to find a better spokesman.
Nasty Immigrants Steal Votes, JobsApril 5, 2007
A bill to make it a felony for illegal immigrants to attempt to vote touched off a heated debate in a House committee Wednesday before being approved.
As it is, illegals can't vote, and would be turned away at the polls. But their mere presence at a polling location would so harmful to democracy that it really ought to be a felony for them to even show up. And they smell bad, too.
But that is not the only problem created by illegals:
[Rep. Patricia Todd, D-Birmingham, who voted against making a felony for illegals to attempt to vote,] said rather than trying to punish the immigrants, legislators should try to penalize employers who hire them, particularly if they are helping the immigrants vote illegally.
"If employers are knowingly hiring illegal aliens, they should be the ones to be held accountable," Todd said.
Yes they should. Because, as this video shows, the results of employing illegal immigrants are horrific indeed.
Hispanic CodesMarch 12, 2007
Back in August I posted about Huntsville's attempt to
preserve and protect our white culture and heritage regulate illegal immigration:
[The proposed ordinance] would, among other things, deny business permits to any business that hires an illegal – whether knowingly or not; prohibit illegals from leasing or renting property; and fine anyone who rents to an illegal – whether knowingly or not -$500 a day. The council considered it last week, and decided to take some time to further study the issue.
As I explained here, Huntsville and several other cities around the country cut and pasted the ordinance – and the "factual findings" underlying it – from a
sorry ass racist p.o.s. grassroots organization in California.
Huntsville delayed a vote on the ordinance so they could "study" it further. Hazelton, Pennsylvania, though, adopted it. And starting today, they get to go to court to defend it.
I'm no immigration lawyer, but based on what little I know, I expect the City to lose. The feds have exclusive jurisdiction over immigration, and it is hard to see the ordinance as anything other than an attempt to regulate immigration.
Of course, none of this directly impacts Huntsville. The ordinance is the same, but unless the Hazelton case goes to the Supreme Court, the result will not be binding down here. Still, federal courts like to walk in lock-step, so if Hazelton loses, I would be very surprised to see Huntsville adopt this ordinance.
Oh yeah, on a related note:
The Ku Klux Klan, which just a few years ago seemed static or even moribund compared to other white supremacist movements such as neo-Nazis, has experienced a surprising and troubling resurgence due to the successful exploitation of hot-button issues including immigration, gay marriage and urban crime. Klan groups have witnessed a surprising and troubling resurgence by exploiting fears of an immigration explosion, and the debate over immigration has in turned helped to fuel an increase in Klan activity, with new groups sprouting in parts of the country that have not seen much activity.
Jeff Sessions: Fence's Fate Causes Flip FlopJanuary 5, 2007
Last July, Sessions was completely fine with the President signing bills into law while at the same time declaring that he won't enforce parts of the law.
Oh, but now that Sessions thinks that a law near and dear to his own heart may be ignored by the President, well, Beauregard's attitude has changed:
Plans to erect a 700-mile fence along the border with Mexico may be in jeopardy as the new Democratic majority in Congress considers immigration reforms that could eliminate funding for the project.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., was an early advocate for the fence, which was approved by Congress and President Bush. Sessions on Thursday said he was anticipating a challenge.
"I am worried about it. There could be attempts to undermine what we voted for," Sessions said. . . .
"I'm not going to accept this just being gutted by either new law or by the administration not following through on what the law would require."
To summarize: It's fine and dandy for the President to declare that he will ignore a law banning torture, but if the President refuses to spend funds marked for a useless fence, the gloves come off.
As an aside, I'm hoping that if the fence fails, my idea will receive some consideration.
Statue Of Liberty To Huddled Masses: "Just Kidding"October 6, 2006
On a plaque at the base of the Statue Of Liberty:
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
From Hugh McInish's report about the recently concluded "Eagle Council XXXV, the Super Bowl of conservatism:"
[In a speech, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions] pointed out that 60 percent of the people in Nicaragua and 70 percent of those in Peru want to come to the United States. Obviously we cannot admit all.
He recommends that we consider a point system similar to that used in Canada, whereby an applicant will be given so many points for speaking English, so many according to his education and skills, and so on. Only the most qualified, those who would strengthened the country would be allowed entrance.
Three points here.
One, I guess we need to get rid of the plaque.
Two, notice he is not talking about illegals, he is talking about any immigrants.
Three, why are we supposed to directly apply to our country the Bible's alleged prohibitions on abortion and homosexuality, but then hem and haw and talk about context and times changing when we get to the Bible's commands to welcome and accept aliens?


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Priscilla Skunk is a character in Sheriff Callie's Wild West, voiced by Cree Summer. She is a beautiful skunk that loves to be the center of attention to the point where she doesn't like sharing the spotlight with anyone - even Sheriff Callie. Priscilla also loves fashion and looking her bests, as well as flowers and all things beautiful.
Priscilla's ego is displayed in "Calamity Priscilla", in which Frida Fox and her Wild West show come to Nice and Friendly Corners. Frida Fox, being a known celebrity, gets a lot of attention from the residents of Nice and Friendly Corners, which makes Priscilla jealous.
Priscilla cares a lot about self-image and hates to get dirty, and it's revealed in "My Fair Stinky" that Priscilla is part of a Flower Club. In the episode Priscilla was embarrassed by Farmer Stinky's filth, and tried to change him into a suave gentleman. She was successful, but she let him go back to his old ways toward the end of the segment.


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One week after a former Superbowl champion warned of the threat of North Korea's ability to launch missiles toward the US, a former NBA champion landed in the country, which is now ruled by a big fan of his days as a Chicago Bulls.
Riki Ellison, the head of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance won Superbowl rings as a starting middle linebacker for Joe Montana's San Francisco 49ers. Last week he reacted to a North Korean launch on the MDAA website.
Tuesday Dennis Rodman, the Hall of Fame NBA player who grabbed almost twice as many rebounds (11,954) as he scored points (6683) while coloring his hair and wearing tattoos, arrive in the same country.
Many of us want to meet our teen-age heroes, and it appears North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is getting his wish. Dennis Rodman arrived Tuesday in North Korea. Kenji Fujimoto (pen name) claims Un was a huge Chicago Bulls fans when Rodman was winning three titles with the Bulls. Fujimoto was Un's sushi chef at the time.
Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, visited North Korea earlier this year as the country clashes with the US after launchi
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Let me first preface this post with a motto I would have tattooed on my bicep/arm flab if tattoos weren't breaking commandment, if I didn't think tattoos were fabulously not fun and really... why am I talking. I would never have this tattooed on me, but it is a motto I live by when it comes to church- BAN THE FLUFF.
I like simple. I like effective. I like spending time with my hot husband even though his dreds smell rather than fretting over stuff that really doesn't make much difference. Which brings me to bulletin boards. Am I saying they are fluffy and not important? Absolutely not. Bulletin boards can definitely add to the spirit of the room. However, they can detract from a lesson the attention of a child if they are over the top. Find the balance. Don't stress over it, as with anything in life. A bulletin board doesn't make you or break you in your calling.
I like boards where there are spots to change the monthly theme and scripture. Some boards you can use to display reverence reminders. If you're stuck, pray over it.
* Have a large drawing of a jar you can add paper hearts to. Write down the childrens' favorite scriptures or scripture heroes on the hearts as well as their names. Have the Primary yearly theme and scripture posted above and below the jar "For my soul delighteth in the scriptures, and my heart pondereth them." 2 Nephi 4:15
* Alma 32:33 "And now behold, because ye have tried the experiment, and planted the seed, and it swelleth and it sprouteth, and beginneth to grow, ye must needs know that the seed is good."
Have a really large flower with this scripture. Or as time goes, you can start with a seed, then add a stem, then leaves, etc and by the end of the year have a flower.
* Have a really large iron rod. Take a picture of the primary that you can gradually move along the rod as the year goes on. Only move the picture though if the primary children are reading their scriptures!! At the end of course you can have a picture of the Savior.
The Iron Rod is "the word of God, and whoso would hearken to unto the word of God, and would hold fast unto it they would never perish." 1 Nephi 15:24
* Let the Primary Chorister use it for songs!!
* Have large pictures of the different books of scripture. Have a Bible, a Book of Mormon, Pearl of Great Price, JS History, Ensign. Space them around Moroni 10:4-5. You could even have a few GAK pictures having to do with the different books to help them identify what goes where.
* Have a large map with different pictures of the Book of Mormon in different languages by the places where that language is spoken. "The time shall come when the knowledge of a Savior shall spread throughout every nation, kindred, tongue, and people." Mosiah 3:20
You could also have pen pals with different primaries throughout the world and share testimonies of what the children have learned about the scriptures throughout the year.
* When holy men of God write or speak by the power of the Holy Ghost, their words "shall be scripture, shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the word of the Lord, shall be the voice of the Lord, and the power of God unto salvation" (D&C 68:4).
In October or April you could have this quote and all the pictures of the current apostles and first presidency. You could also have a challenge for the children to learn all their names!!
* John 5:39 "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me" Have a large magnifying glass with this scripture. On the other side of the board you could have the word "Findings!!" Throughout the year you can put up words the children have said they have found to be true in the scriptures.
* John 20:31 "But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name." Again, have pictures of the different scripture books and then a picture of the Savior in the middle.
* Romans 15:4 "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope."
Divide the board into 2 sections. On one half have a bunch of different pictures of different ancient prophets. On the other side have all the pictures of the children in primary with the words "They wrote the scriptures for us!!!" and then the scripture on the bottom.
Hope these can help! I'd love to post pictures of anyone who wants to share!!


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Just stopping by briefly, in too much pain to do more. Splitting ear ache. Feels like there's a little troll in my ear canal with a pick axe and big freakin' hammer going to town, screaming at the top of his lungs the whole time. Can't really concentrate on anything else, and have tried all the natural remedies I have available to me here. If I can make it through to morning it looks like I'll be hitting the minor emergency clinic. 😦
Nasty Little Ear Troll!
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Memoirs about everything from minor subjects as trivial as how to tie your shoes to major works detailing trauma and tragedy that expands far outside the normal range of human experiences, such as Surviving Auschwitz scatter the marketplace. A memoir is an account written from personal knowledge that professes historical accuracy, and personal honesty when the narrative is based on a true story of some significance. A meaningful memoir should leave a message behind, much like the duly acclaimed memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. In Caged Bird, the personal struggle of young Maya to reclaim her self-esteem and identity after being raped, emerged into a powerful and poetic story of resilience. The inspirational message is you can survive and become stronger after earthshaking trauma; in Maya Angelou's case, she became her own earthshaking force as world renown poet, writer, philosopher and mentor to Oprah Winfrey.
My Story is a Memoir that recounts a childhood that was far from normal in which octogenarians relatives saved me just long enough for me to recover from the damage of early childhood neglect and abuse before my life catapulted me into the heart of a violent and abusive marriage to a mentally ill Vietnam Veteran, when I was only sixteen years old. My Story is a Memoir, Torn From the Inside Out and its message is clear: Domestic Violence bends, breaks, and kills. Too many victims never escape except through death, far too many who escape the actual abuse as damaged children, grow up to become broken adults who perpetuate the damage done to them: Broken People, Break People, and Hurt People, Hurt People. The cycle of abuse has be stopped; although domestic violence survivors champion resiliency and strength, the children bear the scars.
My Story is designed to increase understanding and raise awareness of domestic violence and its effect upon human lives, not just the lives of women, but all lives, the lives of men, women, and children.
Torn From the Inside Out by Sara Niles
From the Prologue:
This book is for me and my children, as well as the millions of veterans of domestic war: those who live in homes predominated by domestic violence. Some survive the violence, stronger in some ways, and broken in others, and some do not survive at all.
In memory of the dead victims of domestic violence, I have retold stories of those who became casualties. The stories below are all true; I retold them from the perspective of my own visualizations in an effort to give some validation to lives wasted, and mostly forgotten. Some things are too precious to forget, such as the lessons of history, and the deeds of unsung heroes, for if we stumble into the habit of forgetting, we lose both the value of life and the opportunity to become a wiser and stronger generation. If we forget, we lessen our children's heritage and cheat them of the legacy of their pasts, therefore we can never forget.
I lived a life that was far from ordinary, and even far from normal. I was given away when I was barely over three years old to two aged, octogenarian relatives who had been childless until their early eighties, when they received me, much like a human gift. I was cherished and protected by them, that is, as long as they could offer such protection I lived in 'The Garden of Eden'.
Time passed and I found myself far removed from such valued protection when I was on the brink of losing my life to a violent abuser, one I had married and pledged to spend a lifetime with. My life would take me far from my life's oasis, my childhood Garden of Eden.
Chapter 1
The Garden of Eden
Chapter 1
The Garden of Eden
Thunder rattled the window- panes two stories high and lightning split the sky; it was as if the whole world was in turmoil that night. My nerves were keyed up as tight as piano strings, and in a sudden moment of stillness and silence it felt as though my heartbeat was amplified ten times over. He was over a hundred pounds greater than I, nearly a foot taller, and I knew he could move his muscled body into unbelievable sprints. Rain started falling in torrents while the storm raged outside. I was not afraid of the storms of nature; it was the storm inside this night that I knew I might not survive.
Anticipation was so great that I wanted to scream at him to get it over with... and true to my expectation he lunged for me and my body did not disappoint me as I flew down the stairs two at a time in my bare feet. He stalled for mere seconds to enjoy his pronouncement of a death sentence upon me:
"I AM GOING TO KILL YOU—YOU GOOD FOR NOTHING BITCH—STONE DEAD!"He screamed like a crazed animal.
The date was February 13, of the year 1987, the night that I disappeared into a February rainstorm with five children and no place to go. I was twenty-nine years old.
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Store Signing at Midtown Comics Today
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Just a quick note for those in the NYC area, I will be at Midtown Comics (Times Square) from 5-7pm tonight signing anything and everything. Shake hands at your own risk...I'm fighting off a very bad cold--damn NY cold and rainy weather! Apparently Crisis #1 shipped this week. Curious to read it; the reaction has been pretty positive; even read 'Best Comic Ever' type stuff. Only thing is I know how the story goes...= D


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I have been working on a few commissioned portraits in pastels for past few weeks...can't share them until they are delivered to the client.In the meantime I was itching to do one in watercolor.A new watercolor block had just arrived and what would have been a better way to break into it! This portrait was just to check out how the paper behaved- but I went on to 'complete' it..as I always do.
I like this new Hahnemule Britannia matt paper, it took all my overworking kindly, texture is good.
I am beginning to like this brand.
I would love to paint this on a bigger scale, she is so beautiful. It was painted from a picture taken way back; of a fellow artist in my life drawing session.


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Britney Markham feels that she's been the victim of a hate crime. The post-op transsexual porn actress has filed for a restraining order against former boss Jenna Jameson, who was arrested on suspicion of battery last weekend for allegedly striking Markham. The Orange County District Attorney's Office subsequently confirmed that they would not be pursuing charges against Jameson due to lack of evidence, but Markham is determined to keep fighting. "I've got a call in to the district attorney to discuss that," her lawyer, Adam Krolikowski, exclusively tells E! News. "We don't know if he's aware of the three witnesses and exactly what they saw and heard. If the D.A. won't prosecute criminally, then we'll be forced to seek justice civilly." "They aren't taking me seriously because I'm a transsexual woman," Markham tells E! in her first interview since her alleged fight with Jameson. "The things she was saying to me is a hate crime, it's very wrong. They need to do something about it." In her petition for a temporary restraining order against the porn superstar, filed Tuesday and obtained by E! News, Markham names five witnesses, by first name only, who, she says, witnessed Jameson "yelling and telling me to hurry the f--k up" while she was trying to make an appointment for her at a hair salon Saturday evening. "When we got to the car, I was in the driver seat and she was in the passenger seat, she used her brass knuckle iPhone case to punch me in the stomach and back," she states in the court filing. Though the so-called brass knuckle case was plastic, "it felt like she was punching me with metal," Markham, who says that she started working as Jameson's assistant in January, tells E! News. "After the police were called," Markham's filing continues, "she said, 'I'll f--king kill you.' I took that as a threat that she would cause me harm with a weapon. I know she possesses weapons." After their apparent altercation, Jameson tweeted-then-deleted, "Wow just got robbed by a friend @britneymarkham she accused me of gusting her, and broke into my home and took everything." Markham posted a screengrab of Jameson's then-live tweet to her Instagram, writing, "NOT TRUE! How could u say that u attacked me and im@in the hospital because of u." Markham tells us that she vomited blood for three days after the alleged attack. "I wasn't feeling well and went to my doctor," she says. "She told me I wasn't OK and referred me to Orange Coast Memorial Hospital. The doctor told me the punches had caused severe bruising to my spleen and organs." Markham's TRO petition requests that she get back whatever personal items of hers that are still in Jameson's possession and that the adult-film icon pay her $2,500 for attorney fees. "She was calling me a man...She was calling me a he-she," Markham tells E! "I haven't been insulted like that since high school." As for Jameson's tweeted allegation that Markham stole from her, she says, "That is a lie. My father taught us that nothing is worse than stealing, that we have no reason to steal. I did not steal anything." As for why she went back to Jameson's beach house with her after the alleged attack in the car, she says, "I just wanted to grab my things and leave." Police showed up to the porn star's house while she was still verbally bashing Markham, the former assistant claims. Since their altercation, "my anxiety has gotten so much worse, my self-esteem has gone down," Markham says. "I cry to my lawyer every day. I've had panic attacks. I have random people come up and say things to me. [Jameson's] supporters are attacking me online. Luckily, I have friends around me supporting me."
Saturday, April 13, 2013
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"I gladly abandon dreary tasks, rational scruples, reactive undertakings
imposed by the world."
- Roland Barthes
Barthes said he would do the above, "for the sake of love." Even though he knew it might cause him to act like a lunatic sit freed up tremendous energy."
What if you take time off from the ordinary?
Launch from daily tasks. Search for an amusement, an adventure, or creative idea that might stimulate your imagination.
Use boundless vigor and act like a lunatic to accomplish the goal.
Abandon the dreary
Alter your rhythm
Free up energy
Take a chance
Make a change.


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Circles are abundent if your eyes are wide open.
The children explored ciclres on the light table and
tape on round plated. Their desire is to be able to cut the
tape on their own. As they practice their skills will build.
Each time they come to the atelier they are able to
move about choosing different areas to work. But, at two years old
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Location: Cerro Plomo, Cordillera de los Andes
Rundown: Took advantage of a few days off to make an attempt at the 18,000 foot Cerro Plomo, just outside of Santiago.
After hiking in the mountains around Santiago for some time, under constant watch of Cerro Plomo, a glacier-capped, 18,000 foot beast in the Andes, my buddy Ben and I decided it was time to get our tails in gear and at least attempt a summit.
The drill seemed pretty straightforward. Drive to Valle Nevado, the local ski hill, hike some ten miles to the base of Plomo via a set of camps, then make a summit bid.
The trek started out like any other... we hiked up the now dirt trails that used to be ski runs. Along the way a stray dog that was following us fell into a ice-covered lake and Ben and I had to pull out the climbing gear to lasso and haul him out! It was good practice to get my 'huaso' on, and we made an instant friend. The bugger followed us for days.
Luckily caught a ride in the back of a high-clearance maintenance truck. The dog was the first in the back... right next to the open drum of fuel. Ah.... I love regulationlessness.
The truck dropped us off at Tres Puntas, the top of the ski hills at 12,000 feet. Only 6,000 more to go! We set off, following our new best friend.
Beginning to realize what 'still early in the season' means. Lots of snow, which means slow traveling. We ended up the first night short of our first intended camp.
Made a fabulous ramen dinner as the sun lit up Plomo and the temperature plummeted. Went to bed a little headachy and nauseous from the altitude.
The last red rays of light on the glaciers. Although the sun sets early due to the high surrounding peaks, light stays in the sky for much longer.
Woke in the morning feeling in better tune with the altitude. Not a bad view to stumble out to as well.
The valley became increasingly snowy as we progressed, including some steep snowfield traverses. Bent a pole on a self-arrest. Probably should have had the axe out.
Stopped behind a boulder for lunch. It's so sunny that you can be pretty hot while hiking with a big pack. When the wind kicks up the temp drops quickly. The differences are impressive!
More steep snowfields. The going gets slower. The hikers get more fatigued.
Didn't make it to Federación, but made our second camp just around the bend. I traded off my altitude sickness to my climbing partner, who crashed out, hoping to rest up for a early morning summit bid.
Melting snow for water, a seemingly endless task. It's a amazing how fast you burn through water!
Didn't quite make it to the summit. Had some gear problems, snow problems, and altitude problems that all added up to the decision to turn around. Probably a good one at that.
Plomo isn't going anywhere in a hurry. Will possibly have a second attempt in February when there isn't so much snow.


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Becoming an Outstanding Personal Tutor
Contributions by: Susan Wallace
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To celebrate my 1 year blogging I'm holding a giveaway once a week leading up to my blogiversary!
I don't usually require readers to follow me ANYWHERE in order to enter a contest, but since this is about my blog's 1 year anniversary I felt it was fair enough to ask it this one time.
And to reward people who have been following already you get 2 entries per place you follow instead of just the 1.
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy what prizes I came up with!
To Enter :
Simply be a follower on goggle friend connect of this blog or my main blog, or be a follower on my twitter OR follow either blog by email, all you need to do is follow via one method and you're set to go!
~The Prize~
One lucky Winner will receive a pair of new Bath and Body Works Lounge Socks infused with Shea Butter!
They may have a snowflake tag on them, but these socks are the most comfy, soft socks I've ever worn! And the lil plastic no skid nubbies help klutzes like me from falling down on hard surfaces! I can highly recommend these socks as I have over 10 pairs and LOVE to stock up on them when they hit clearance for gifts for my loved ones!
Leave a post for every place you follow, leave 2 posts for every place you follow if you were a follower before this giveaway started!
Just be sure to submit a new entry for every method you use!
Also remember to include your Twitter username when submitting a Twitter Follow Entry!
Open to US residents only please. Entries will be accepted until 11:59pm CST Sunday June 6th. The winner will be chosen via a random number generator Monday June 7th and announced that same day before noon CST. The winner will be notified by email, and will have a shipping address and phone number requested. Personal information of any kind is used only by me to notify the winner and ship out the prize.


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The report focuses on the South East, an area traditionally a lot better off than much of the country. It is a shocking thing that in an affluent nation like ours, anyone should be hungry, but hunger is on the rise. Malnutrition is a real risk for people who regularly miss meals, or go more than five days without eating, with long term health implications for people who aren't eating properly. If you've never done that, you might take a moment to try and imagine what it's like not to be able to afford to eat properly. Weight is no indicator, either. A person eating a badly balanced diet, can be both obese and suffering malnutrition. Junk food with lots of calories but little nutritional value, is often a cheap option.
The Charity The Trussell Trust runs a number of foodbanks in Stroud district – typically open for a few hours several days a week, they are giving food to some of the most desperate people in the district. Dursley Tabernacle, Douglas Morley Hall in Stonehouse, Wotton Baptist Church and The Cross at Parliament Street, Stroud, all host foodbanks. http://strouddistrict.foodbank.org.uk/
Of course you have to be able to get there. We have a lot of smaller villages across the district, many of which do not get much of a bus service. The person who cannot afford food probably also can't afford the cost of petrol, or a bus ticket even assuming a bus is available. We might imagine the countryside as a place for the wealthy, but many of our villages also have small pockets of council housing, and older people in houses bought before rural property prices inflated so outrageously. We have a small population of people living on narrowboats as well. The tendency of foodbanks to be in small towns, may hide the extent of rural poverty and the people who cannot access that help.
The rise in foodbanks marks the failure of our modern politics and culture. They are proof of a corrupt system that punishes the poor for being poor. The government may talk of 'recovery' but Shelter (http://www.shelter.org.uk/) are telling us there will be some 80,000 homeless children in the UK this Christmas. And how many hungry people? This is not recovery, this is the destruction of lives, and an assault on civilization.


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This is another video update from the Nephew of Guru. this one breaks alot of this mystery down. it really hits at some very valid points on what you need to do to handle your business before the ish hits the fan. he tells you what he saw and how the whole experience makes him feel as Gurus' Nephew.
it makes no sense for Solar 7-Grand to be tweeting as though he is Guru, while Guru is still basically unable to do anything for himself - especially use a phone to send a tweet.
These Are Tweets From - GuruGangStarr
Guru's Statement:
"I am doing fine and I am recovering! I'm weak though. Solar is the only person who has the accurate info on my situation. Any info from anybody else is false! I appreciate your well wishes and all the love!" March 3
Guru recovering, issues statement! – From BrooklynVegan
Solar Will Be Providing The Only Accurate Info On Guru And Will Be Doing Interviews Soon. Solar & Guru And (cont) http://tl.gd/d88o4 1:06 AM Mar 3rd via TwitlongerGuru is doing Better everyday and wishes to thank all his fans and supporters for their love and well wishes. (via @Solar_7Grand ) 12:55 AM Mar 5th via webMy Brother, sister and Niece visited me last week. My brother stayed with @Solar_7Grand for 3 days. Truth!! 1:01 AM Mar 5th via web
No Good Can Come of That Lie Solar
Knowing that Solar 7-Grand has now committed Fraud and signed paperwork saying he is Guru's Brother; we know that the truth on everything won't be far away. the pain in Gurus' nephews voice clearly indicates what type of games are being played over this mans body. Even as he is attempting to recouperate from a very serious surgery. can you imagine what he must be thinking watching all this play out ? it has to be quite an incredible revelation on all corners.
to think that Solar 7-Grand would try to prevent Gurus' flesh and blood from seeing him, just smacks of "WTF is This Really All About Here God" ? somehow it seems more like a beef that he's trying to keep going against DJ Premier. because if you pay attention to the whole drama, that's the person Solar 7grand always seems to swing back to in his references.
This is a very sad and unfortunate situation for one of our HipHop Gods. isn't it time we payed attention to the situation our brother finds himself in now with people throwing paper all over him, instead of respecting him as a Man.
Tonite we found this really revealing phone interview from Hot 97 done earlier today (march 8, 2010) with Solar. he says more about what he won't say; than what anybody asks him. he leaves himself open like a door, even though he says he's Gurus' partner. he says he's Gurus' best friend, not his manager or his spokesperson. so why is he speaking for him ? infact why is he Tweet Lying AS him ? why is he not addressing the video situation from Justin and His Family ?
He says it's untrue and after watching Justins' video - I think Justin is Telling The Truth. how can Solar_7grand say who should or shouldn't be seeing Guru ? this guys words sound cheesy like spaghetti. No doubt we're all gonna know WHY; when Guru recovers and can speak for HIMSELF.
Listen To This Interview -
This is the most recent tweet from the Solar_7grand camp:
This morning on Hot 97 Cipha Sounds and Peter Rosenberg interviewed Solar on the phone regarding Guru's health situation. They address the family issues and rumors in this 13 minute interview. Listen to this interview here…
HipHopAndBS MUST HEAR!!! LISTEN TO @Solar_7Grand's INTERVIEW ON HOT 97 W/ @ciphasounds & @Rosenbergradio >> http://bit.ly/aelvJz
This is about as Deep as it gets, Really Doh,
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he 2012-2013 flu season arrived earlier than usual, so it's time to prepare yourself, your business and your employees. Prevention is important for physical health, as it may impact your bottom line if your staff are out sick. These tips can help you avoid illness and maintain business continuity.
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I feel like it's Christmas eve!!! Tomorrow begins the hallmark once a year promotion of Stampin' Up! called Sale-a-bration. You can choose one free sale-a-bration item for everys $60 you spend before taxes/shipping. It's so special they even have a special brochure for all the free product you can choose from. If you haven't been out to any of my events recently, but want a sale-a-bration catalogue, make sure you contact me and I"ll get one to you right away.
I'm getting ready for my upcoming sweet and simple class and private card classes so I thought I'd share this sweet valentines card. It uses the Amore designer series paper. This specialty paper pack also has a sheet of laser cut hearts in real red and primrose petals. I'm using one of the real red hearts on this card. The stamp set is from the spring catalogue and is called "ciao baby". There are two sale-a-bration items used on this card: the pool party ribbon and the petite curly label punch. It's so awesome that a punch is available as a sale-a-bration freebie. That's an over $20 value! Whoo hoo!
I will be putting in my first sale-a-bration group order tomorrow so feel free to e-mail me an order to catch the group shipping rate.
Why not mark your calendar and come out to any of my upcoming events and enjoy stamping some great projects and get your class free with your order? I'd love to see you. My basement is filled with inspirational samples that I'd love to show you!
Friday Jan 25th 10:00am Coffee and a Card
Thursday Jan. 31st 7:00pm Sweet and Simple Card Class
Monday February 4th 7:00pm Technique Class
RSVP required for all events so please contact me today! (email@example.com)