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The Hope College Faculty Jazz Group with Edye Evans-Hyde will perform on Friday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The Faculty Jazz Group includes Steve Talaga on piano, Tom Lockwood on saxophone, Charlie Hoats on bass, Mike Hyde on guitar, Mike VanLente on drums. Hope faculty member Edye Evans Hyde will be featured as a guest vocalist.
Steve Talaga teaches jazz piano, applied composition, and various jazz studies courses. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in broadcasting and cinematic arts from Central Michigan University, a Bachelor of Music degree in jazz studies from Western Michigan University, and a Master of Music degree in composition from Western Michigan University. He was a 1994 winner of the "Down Beat Magazine" Award for Jazz Composition, and received honorable mention in the 1996 "Billboard" Songwriting Contest. For the past several years he has performed with the jazz quartet Mind's Eye. Steve has released five compact discs as a leader: "Yin Yang," "Mirage," "Basement Alchemy," "Two Worlds" and "Contemplating the Heavens." He has appeared with numerous jazz groups and as a solo artist at jazz festivals and clubs internationally, including a performance with Mind's Eye at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Steve has also performed professionally with such jazz luminaries including Claudio Roditti, Bobby Shaw and more.
After starting on clarinet in the fifth grade, Tom Lockwood studied saxophone, flute and bass, and also arranged for and directed his high school's jazz, pep and show bands. He studied for two years at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where his teachers included Bob Mover and Mike Metheny, then finished two music degrees at Western Michigan University, where he studied with Trent Kynaston. At this time, he began working with some of the best jazz musicians in the Midwest, and performing in concerts and shows with everyone from David Liebman to Engelbert Humperdink. In addition, he has diverse teaching experience, including teaching college courses and ensembles while at WMU. Lockwood currently teaches at Hope, Grand Valley State University and Aquinas College.
A Hope faculty member for six years, Charles D. Hoats has had the privilege of performing with Rick Margitza, Marvin Stamm, Gunnar Mossblad, Marcus Roberts and many others. He has been playing the bass for 20 years and is comfortable performing in a variety of musical situations and styles. A former Hope student himself, Charlie has studied improvisation with Bob Thompson and John Shea. He is currently instructor of jazz bass at Hope, where his duties include teaching private lessons, directing ensembles and performing with the Hope College Faculty Jazz Group. When he is not playing, he enjoys camping, soccer, and spending time with his wife Holly and sons Sam and Ben.
Currently in his sixth year at Hope, Mike Hyde brings to his teaching a broad background of performing and educational experience. He received a Bachelor of Music Education from Aquinas College and a Performance Certificate from the Guitar Institute of Technology in Hollywood, Calif. In addition to teaching private jazz lessons and coaching ensembles at Hope, he has taught at Grand Rapids Junior College and at Aquinas. He has performed with Clay Jenkins, Kim Richmond, Winston Walls, the Fifth Dimension and the Lawrence Welk All-Stars.
Mike Van Lente is a native of Holland and a Hope graduate, and has more than 40 years of experience with the drums. At Hope College, he completed a teaching degree and minored in music, and performed with the Orchestra and Symphonette as well as the Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Chamber Ensemble. He has performed with a wide variety of jazz and popular artists including Clark Terry, Joan Baez and Clay Jenkins among others. Presently he teaches drum set at Hope College and conducts private lessons from his home. He enjoys students of all ages and abilities, especially and including beginners. His plans include continuing to teach and perform in as many musical settings as possible while maintaining a superb quality family life with his two children, who share in his love for music.
Edye Evans Hyde, an instructor of vocal jazz at Hope, has been teaching and performing jazz, blues and pop music for more than 20 years in West Michigan, Los Angeles and Asia. She holds a bachelor's degree in music education, has taught K-12 vocal music and has served as the assistant director of admissions at Grand Rapids Community College. Edye has shared the stage with world renowned blues singer Linda Hopkins, pop singer Michael Bolton, actress Connie Stevens, the late Ray Charles and Cuban trumpet player Arturo Sandoval. She has also appeared with The Grand Rapids Symphony and The West Shore Symphony performing songs from her acclaimed CDs, "Girl Talk" and "Lady with A Song." Her stage performances have included principle roles in "Dream Girls," "Ain't Misbehavin'" and more, and she plays Ms Lucy in the West Michigan-produced children's television show "Come On Over!"
The Knickerbocker Theatre is located in downtown Holland at 86 E. Eighth St.


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By Patricia
In a fascinating interview while in France
for a series of appearances at the Theatre des Abbesses, Khan spoke to me of
his early years and of the meaning of kathak, as well as of his recent
Born in London in 1974, where his Bengali background
was carefully nurtured, Akram Khan began folk dance at home around the age of
three. His mother had been a dancer in Bangladesh although, coming from a
Muslim community, she never performed in public. He studied music for two
years, and then began to learn kathak with the celebrated teacher Sri Pratap
Pawar, whose own guru is seventy-five year old Birju Maharaj, a legend in his
own lifetime.
"Music and dance are inseparable for we, the musicians and myself, are all searching for One, the first beat, which is the equivalent of looking for Krishna, the mythological god associated with love. Kathak has a geometric precision", he added, "and although we often take different paths, we know we'll meet at One.
"Mathematics is our base ," he explained, "and is the tool we use. Everything in Indian music works mathematically and is very logical. Once that's understood, the music can be appreciated in a different way, and you can start playing around with the rules. There's a lot of improvisation, and the complex patterns we work from are more simple than they look. My steps in Ronin start from a traditional format, and then I work instinctively, and just "confuse" everything. I prefer the word confuse to blend or mix, and besides, it's boring to do always the same thing," he said.
At Les Abbesses in December, Akram Khan mesmerized the audience the moment he arrived on stage in the darkness. His magnetic presence was immediately felt. As the lighting came on, he asked to see the audience as his performance is affected by the number of people, their reaction to him, and even by their breathing, whether tense or relaxed. When dancing at speed, he added, he also feels the adrenaline response of those watching.
The instant he moved, dance flickered and flashed around him, as arms whipping and feet stamping, the rhythms intensified by ankle bells, he burst into a series of very fast, graceful, virtuosic turns. He dipped and spun to the voice of Faheem Mazhar, and then repeated or replied to some of the musical themes on his ankle bells before launching into a contest with his brilliant tabla percussionist, Baluji Shrivastav. A dialogue was improvised between the two of them. It was breathtaking.
"When I'm with my musicians, several of whom have been with me since the beginning, I'm very Indian." he said. "It is strange, but I need to feel Indian before I perform with them, and my preparation is different. Another side of me takes over when I'm with my dancers, and although I don't like generalizations, I do become extremely Western."
When he was thirteen, Khan took two years out to perform with the Royal Shakespeare Company's Mahabhavata, directed by Peter Brook, which marked him deeply. A few years later, pushed by the academically minded community he lived in, he went to university to study dance, first in Leicester, and then at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds.
"I wanted formal contemporary training, but sadly it was all about everyone looking the same, which is the case with many dance schools," he said. " But I studied classical ballet, Graham and Cunningham, and discovered Pina Bausch, Jiri Kylian, and DV8, people who are real," he added. "Then shortly after leaving, I began making solo pieces. But it wasn't much fun creating just for myself, so my own company was formed in 2000."
"I saw each dancer perform before inviting them to join me, but what mattered most was that they believed in what they were doing, and made me believe in it too. I saw one of them audition for another company in a most amazing way; he arrived with no music, no steps, but simply stood there and breathed, following the respiration of those auditioning him. When he was rejected, I grabbed him. We were five very individual dancers and at first it wasn't easy. Now, we have two beautiful classically trained ballerinas from Slovakia joining us."
Commenting on contemporary dance in general, where provocation often replaces innovation, he said he didn't consider England to be part of the European dance scene anymore. "Europe, and particularly Germany has moved way ahead. In the United States the situation is disastrous. The Americans are stuck in the sixties and seventies because the whole culture of dance has shifted. The young choreographers there are going nowhere, not because they aren't talented, but because there's no money. It's a shame. I was there for nine weeks recently, and was told that nobody wants to give money to dance anymore."
Teaching, too, Khan told me, is an important part of learning, and one of the dancer's best kept secrets is a small class of children he has been giving lessons to for the last two years.
"They were five years old when they started learning kathak with me", he said, "and when I can't be there, a senior student takes over. I teach six incredible little girls who have no inhibitions at all and already have the level of sixteen year olds in India, but I want to wait another five years or so before they perform in public."
Meanwhile, audiences must content themselves with seeing Khan's grown-up contemporary group, at the Theatre Les Abbesses in February with a full-length work, Kaash, created in 2002. Contemporary kathak, to use the phrase coined by several British critics?
Patricia Boccadoro writes on dance in Europe. She contributes to The Observer and Dancing Times. Ms. Boccadoro is also the dance editor of Culturekiosque.com.
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There should be an easel set up at the 50-yard line at Folsom Field in September at halftime of a Colorado football game.
There should be a framed No. 21 Colorado basketball jersey positioned on that easel.
Fans should remain in their seats for this halftime instead of heading to the bathroom or running to grab refreshments so they can give Andre Roberson a proper send off.
The man didn't get a Senior Day. Of course he didn't. He was only a junior this season.
Yes, it was his choice to pass it up by declaring himself eligible for the NBA draft on Sunday afternoon, but there aren't many guys who have come through the Colorado basketball program who deserve to be honored with a Senior Day more than Roberson.
Some Colorado fans might disagree with Roberson's decision to turn pro. Others might agree with his choice. It could become a topic that is debated for years to come among those who bleed black and gold depending on where Roberson is picked in the June 27 draft and how he fares as a pro.
But none of that really matters any more.
Roberson's Colorado career is over and it's time for CU fans and those of us who get paid to chronicle and question such things to take a moment, step back and give the young man a tip of the cap.
His smile will be missed at Coors Events Center on those cold winter afternoons and nights as much as his customary 10-12 rebounds and shutdown defense.
There are three images of Andre Roberson's time at Colorado that will stick with me.
I waited in the bowels of Moby Arena after the Buffs lost to Colorado State in December 2011 for Roberson to emerge from the CU locker room. He scored only one point in 33 minutes that night, missing both of his field goal attempts and six of his seven free throw attempts.
When Roberson finally came out of the locker room to head for the bus and long ride back to Boulder, it was clear he had shed some tears after the game. And as he began to talk about his role in the loss, he did all he could to avoid shedding more. He didn't quite stop them all.
In those moments, it became clear to me that Roberson is fiercely competitive and cares deeply about his teammates and the school he represents. I recall that image of him now on a Sunday afternoon in late April 2013 and it's suddenly clear to me why he struggled so much with his decision to stay with that program for another year or pursue his dream to play the game he loves professionally.
The second image I'll always have of Roberson in a CU uniform came in January this year in a home win over Stanford. It might have been the best I've seen him play.
If you recall, the Buffs were pushed around by Stanford during Roberson's sophomore season and all the talk leading up to the first game this year with the Cardinal regarded whether CU could match up with the them any better in a new season.
Roberson provided the answer that night by dominating the game without scoring much. He finished with 12 points but he grabbed 20 rebounds and was a monster defensively. There weren't many players in the nation who could have played with him that night.
I left the arena that night believing Roberson had the stuff to play in the NBA, regardless of his shortcomings when it comes to ball handling and perimeter shooting. It was fun to watch.
I know this much, if he can summon that same energy and passion as he goes through individual workouts, summer league and training camp in the fall, it's going to be hard for the NBA team he joins to keep him off its roster.
The final enduring image of Roberson that will stick with me is watching him cheering for his teammates against Oregon and Oregon State at the end of this season when he couldn't play because of a viral illness. Some guys would have sulked at the end of the bench. Roberson was involved and doing his best to help his teammates while in street clothes.
The Buffs responded to losing him by completely dominating the Ducks, who were ranked No. 19 when they came to Boulder. I believe the emotional letdown from the high of that night played a part in them losing to the Beavers a few days later.
I don't know if any or all of those moments paint an accurate picture of who Roberson is as a person. Obviously there is much more depth to be discovered, the stuff you learn about someone when you really know them.
But those memories of Roberson's Colorado career accurately reflect who he is as a basketball player. He is extremely talented, highly driven to succeed and motivated by more than just a shot at a big paycheck.
He loves the game. Tough to blame him for trying to make a living playing it.
There are a lot of Colorado fans out there who loved watching Roberson play the past three years and wish he would have stayed for one more season. It could have been a magical one and still can be, albeit without him. I bet every one of those fans would shake Roberson's hand if given the opportunity and say what should be said.
Good luck Andre.
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Sunday, July 31, 2011
Guest Spouse: Infidelity is Abuse. Period.
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I had to read this post a few times to wrap my head around this notion of abuse and I'm still not sure I really get what Rabbi Sean is trying to communicate. The more I think about it infidelity does seem abusive but my struggle is whether it was intended to be abuse.ReplyDelete
In my situation, the utter lack of respect for me and our family could be considered abusive, I suppose. The humiliation and demoralization do feel that way. But, did my husband intend to be abusive is where I get stuck. If he did, I should leave right now. However, I do feel he is sorry (I hope for more than just getting caught) and he is trying to do the right things.
While the infidelity was abusive, thinking about it that way does not make me feel any better.Replies
- AnonymousMarch 2, 2013 at 5:28 AM
If such clear explanation about bedroom violation by Rabbi has not been enough to convince you that it is indeed an abuse, let me take you the academic way dear. As far as definition of "abuse" goes: "Abuse is the improper usage or treatment for a bad purpose, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit" (Courtesy: Wikipedia). Now, if you were in a monogamous marriage (at least that's the values you went in the marriage with), it is improper usage and it is bad purpose (intended or not intended to hurt doesn't actually matter). And in most cases of cheating and associated pathological psychology/ behaviour there are elements of unfair/ improper benefit gained often clubbed under entitlement etc. So, cheating is an abuse as per the standard definition of "abuse" :)Delete
I too have read and reread this post.ReplyDelete
I read it and I do agree with his points but I still find myself hesitating to label my husband's infidelity as abuse.
Why? I don't know. I just can't put my finger on the reason that I agree but disagree.
Maybe I, like so many don't want to admit that I have decided to stay with my abuser and therefore must minimize that aspect. It is easier to believe he made a mistake, he didn't really mean it, etc.Replies
- AnonymousMarch 2, 2013 at 5:31 AM
I've seen very few clear and upright logic on such issues. You've answered it (why you find it hard to digest), already. It is "dissonance" within you dear!Delete
Hi to everyone!Delete
All of us here went or goining through hell... I know very well how it's feel.
I discovered my husbands affair (whom I by the way adored) in Jan. of 2012. ... And aguess what ? The affair is still on!!!! And he "loves me" and he dont want divorce!!! After all I came up with some sugestions. I realize long time ago that it is actually emotional abuse! Cruel,selfish and without any hymanity in it! And than as now I'm wonder why out there is no low against it- . Anything for such cases?? Why not some legal sanction for a cheater and in same time some let's say small statifaction for other side? I think that would help a lot. At least cheater would hide better and his mate would not suffer as much as he/she suffer when "Big Man" do not even hide?! Or some of them would think harder then they did, and might make different decission?! Maybe... Well, that would save at least some lives... I do not think literally but people who are going through this type of abuse they living a hell every minute of their lives and person who cause it having a fun! Don't tell me that there is exit, like divorce. I know that. All of us know that as much as it sound simple it is not. Any thoughts on this?
Maybe I m not in the right state of mind now thinking about it on this way...
While I think a lot of us here think there should be laws against this, the fact remains that at this point, nobody's going to jail for it. So it's up to us to take care of ourselves.
Whether or not your husband wants a divorce, what do YOU want? I can't imagine it's okay with you for your husband to carry on his affair and stay married to you.
It's time for you to get clear on what you will and will NOT accept...and take the necessary steps. I know divorce isn't easy. But surely it's preferable to a husband who flaunts infidelity in your face. That IS abuse.
Dear Rabbi,ReplyDelete
Your attempt to simplify a very complex issue makes your understanding of the subject appear naïve at best. For you see, dear Rabbi, before one uses labels such as "abuse" to define the infidelity, one needs to fully comprehend the root cause in each specific case. Each and every case is unique, as is each and every human mind. Just as our finger prints are all unique so too is the wiring in each of our brains. You yourself admit that you have not been in such a situation; this could indicate that your brain is wired such an idea has no neural pathway and the temptation to act in this way is very weak or indeed no-existent. This makes you a very fortunate person in our society that judges infidelity as wrong and immoral. However for another man whose brain is hardwired to seek other relationships outside of wedlock, the drive to do so may be overpowering for his pre-frontal cortex to override.
Neuroscientists have discovered that "the brain of love" is rooted in the brainstem together with our other survival drives such as hunger thirst, the need to sleep etc. This means that it is not part of the limbic system which sits in the middle of the brain and controls emotions, and certainly not in the cortex which is the seat of thought, reason and morals. Love is a drive, not an emotion, the human race could possibly survive without happiness and sadness but it could not survive without sex just as it could not survive without water. Rooted somewhere in this drive is romantic love, which is to be infatuated with one individual in order to preserve energy. It is a built in mechanism to ensure survival of the species. What drives one to be infatuated or obsessed with one particular member of the opposite sex is presently being researched by neuroscientists; it is one of the mysteries of the animal brain. Why for instance a penguin will desire a certain mate rather than another, baffles scientists we simply do not know the answer.
Now it could be that a man whose pre-frontal cortex has decided to marry a certain woman, may be in disagreement with the pathways in his brainstem where his romantic drive desires another. There is a conflict between his natural drive and his intellectual appreciation of right and wrong, moral and immoral. Which part of his brain will win?
We all know that for the most part anger is undesirable yet when we get angry our thinking brain seems to go awol. The reason for this is because the limbic system floods the cortex with chemicals that do not allow the neurons in the cortex to make the necessary connection to facilitate logic thinking. The same applies to romantic love, but the only thing is that it is so much more powerful being that this love is rooted in the brain stem and is a powerful drive rather than a mere emotion such as anger.
Am I saying that it cannot be controlled? No I'm not! There are ways to train the cortex to overcome emotions and even drives; we fast don't we? However what I am saying is that to label infidelity as abuse is not always correct. The definition in the cortex of a spouse is to treat rough and cruel way. One who is overcome by his drives, not having equipped his cortex to deal with and to control the urge to love another woman; is neither being rough nor intentionally being cruel to his wife. He is merely following his natural drive as does an animal. We don't view a lion as being cruel when it makes its kill on a young and weak animal, because the concept of cruelty only exists in the human pre-frontal cortex and not in the animal brain. If a man's cortex is shut down when he commits infidelity we cannot deem him to be cruel. He may be an animal but he is not a cruel human being.
Please understand I'm not condoning infidelity, I'm merely explaining why it is not always a case of abuse.
Yours truly,
- AnonymousMarch 2, 2013 at 5:34 AM
Beautiful dear! Sociopaths and serial killers...and so many such individuals...even those who physically abuse women and children are all having some trouble in their frontal or backyard cortex!!! So, theirs is not an abuse!Delete
Elle, Rabbi, et al....Delete
I humbly apologize for not tracking this discussion as clearly as I should have. I am the author of the original article. Hi Elle....I hope all is well with you.
Rabbi - your post here is already four years old. I hope that you have gotten the assistance you need. I checked your blog. You have not posted anything new in a long time. Please note: I do not know your denominational affiliation, or even who you are. Both the RA and the CCAR have confidential hotlines for rabbis in distress. Colleague to colleague, I strongly urge you to speak to someone. You are not obligated to maintain the duplicitous life to which you seem to have fallen victim.
That being said, my pre-frontal cortex is wired to eat. I do not touch pork, even though it is more readily available than foods I will eat. The question is the degree of control we attempt to exercise over that pre-frontal cortex. Trust me when I tell you that I am aware that there are other women out there. Some of them merit more than a passing glance. But I make the choice for my wife. Most of us do.
"Rough" has more than one definition. To treat someone badly in an emotional way is rough, even if no physical damage occurs.
Have a good day everyone.
It was so nice to see your name pop up in the inbox. I hope you're well. All fine here...still doing what I can to support women who are where I was those years ago. And arguing with rabbis when I see fit. ;) Hope you'll continue to share your wisdom when time permits.
- AnonymousApril 14, 2015 at 3:45 AM
I had to respond to RavSean...very briefly. From what you have written I will deduce that you are not a Neuroscientist, I am and your hypothesis is not substantiated and incorrect in many regards. You may want to investigate even the harmful effects 'on men' using pornography let alone following through with sex..... how it affects the Striatum...dopamine, vasopressin, oxytocin...... and actually is sexually detrimental to men and how their brains respond to sex.....mapping inappropriate 'bonding' with images and can cause sexual dysfunction ED . Fidelity in an intimate relationship, benefits a man sexually...it maps his brain to increase oxytocin, dopamine.Delete
Even if a woman does not know of her husbands infidelity, yes, most definitely it is emotional abuse. A woman's sexuality responds to sensuality and in turn promotes a mans sexual response. Men who are cheating or even thinking of it, change how they respond intimately with their wives. This drops a woman's feelings of sensuality, he then becomes less appealing, her sense of sensuality is affected (any woman knows this) ...because he becomes more goal orientated and sexually changes his approach, women pick up on even subtle changes, he often being unaware...the man then uses this to ralionalize his further interest outside the marital bed, blaming the woman. Catch 22.
There is too much of societal excusing of men's behaviour as 'natural' and too many woman being pressured to believe it. When women recognise that deceit is abuse and cheating is deceit, they will honor themselves more and in so doing, will show men that personal integrity will benefit their health in every way and yes, better sex with true intimacy.
- AnonymousFebruary 20, 2013 at 8:34 AM
I agree that it can be abuse. It's one thing to catch your spouse cheating, them feeling remorse and guilt, and never doing it again. Maybe then it's not abuse, and can be chalked up to immaturity, animal instinct, whatever BS people want to come up with to make themselves feel better about the situation.ReplyDelete
BUT to be a repeat offender, to once again cheat on that same spouse after seeing the extreme pain and madness that it caused is when it constitutes as abuse. It proves that the betrayer enjoys the victim's pain. It's a rush for them not only to have sex with another, but such a rush to be caught and to have such power over another human being that they can destroy that person's heart, mind, and soul so easily. It makes them feel so important to be that loved by another person. Repeat offenders are sick individuals who are usually drug addicts, alcoholics, or mentally ill.
I'm stuck in this situation right now. For the people out there who have been a victim, please imagine for a moment if the betrayer did it again, and whether or not you would feel it as abusive or just another accident when they tripped while naked into another naked person's genitals.
My husband does repeat cycles. He becomes distant, cheats, gets caught, begs for forgiveness, swears his undying love, lies about cheating to make it less than what it was, becomes extremely nice to me to make me look like the crazy bitch (yeah betrayal makes you mad), and once I've eventually calmed down for the most part after a couple years the cycle repeats.
He won't leave when I catch him, because he is "so in love with me" and it's hard for me to divorce him, because I'm so desperately trying to hold onto whatever reality there is left without slipping into complete madness.
Continuous infidelity has left me a broken, pathetic woman full of hate, depression, worthlessness, and hopelessness; so broken that I have no strength to leave the monster that has stripped away everything in me, leaving me a shell of the person I once was. Tell me that I haven't been thoroughly abused and I would call you naive.Replies
I'm so sorry for your broken-ness. I know that pain.
But I'm going to ask you some hard questions only because I know you're worth saving. I want you to know to you're worth saving. And saving yourself isn't going to be easy but it is necessary.
It means leaving. It means insisting that his behavior is absolutely not okay with you and will no longer be tolerated. It means treating yourself with respect in order to teach others how to treat you.
You're telling us that this guy has done nothing but cheat, deceive, manipulate and then repeat. I really do know how emotionally drained you are right now and how exhausted you are at the thought of fighting for your life. But the alternative is to always be this emotionally drained. The alternative is to waste your love and your heart and your soul on someone who isn't worthy of it.
Whether or not he is "so in love" with you isn't the point. His actions aren't lining up with his words. Love isn't a feeling, it's a verb. It's what we DO every day for that other person. It's protecting them with our love.
You know exactly what you need to do. Get yourself to a lawyer and/or a therapist and get a plan in order. Then put one foot in front of the other until you're free of him. It won't be easy. It might just be the hardest thing you've ever done. And the most important.
We'll be here for you every step of the way.
- AnonymousMarch 2, 2013 at 5:41 AM
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I told my husband once that I feel he would have hurt me less if he'd thrown me into a wall. At least then I would have had a clear picture of what was going on (he was a closet porn addict since before he met me). And if I'd know, I'd have left.ReplyDelete


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The Originals (1970)
overview : A spin-off from The Vampire Diaries and set in New Orleans, The Originals centers on the Mikaelson siblings, otherwise known as the world's original vampires: Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah. Now Klaus must take down his protégé, Marcel, who is now in charge of New Orleans, in order to re-take his city, as he originally built New Orleans. Klaus departed from the city after being chased down by his father Mikael, while it was being constructed and Marcel took charge. As Klaus has returned after many years, his ego has provoked him to become the king of the city. "Every King needs an heir" says Klaus, accepting the unborn child. The child is a first to be born to a hybrid and a werewolf.
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Hi! i have a question... how can i know how many emails an user send ?
I guess you will have to go through the mail log.
theres any kind of mail bulk that show how many email a user send ?
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Those who like both Western history and fresh produce are in luck, a new farmers' market is opening this weekend (Saturday, April 28) at the Autry National Center in Griffith Park.
It will feature both conventional and organic produce and lots of yummy prepared foods. Some of my favorite growers and foodies will be selling there including Underwood Family Farms from Moorpark, and Tutti Frutti Farms from Lompoc. Homeboy Bakery and Heirloom LA will be selling prepared foods.
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Sentara hospitals celebrate Virginia 529 babies
Sentara hospitals were among 22 across Virginia to participate in the Virginia 529 celebration of College Savings Day (on 5/29). Babies that were born on May 29, closest to 5:29 p.m. in each participating hospital received a $529 college savings account from Virginia 529 College Savings Plan.
"This is a fun way to remind parents and grandparents that these babies will be off to college before they know it," said Mary G. Morris, CEO of Virginia 529. "We're not trying to rush them, but the reality is 25 percent of people procrastinate when it comes to saving for the future educations of their children or grandchildren – and getting started early, even with small amounts, can make a big difference."
Families were thrilled with the award and hospital staff were happy to present the gift on behalf of Virginia 529. The program is designed to raise awareness of the importance of saving for college. The cost of tuition continues to rise and saving early is more important than ever before.
"It's a really nice award for a baby to get started thinking about their college future," shared Sabrina Shiflett, director of the Family Birthplace at Sentara RMH. "Usually parents are really excited and very happy to receive the award, and it's usually a surprise."
Families received a certificate and Virginia 529 beanie in addition to the necessary paperwork to open their $529 college savings account. Virginia has the nation's largest 529 plan, with over 2.2 million accounts and is one of only 11 states offering the prepaid tuition plan.


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When a cure is no longer possible and the patient has decided to stop aggressive treatment, our hospice team (which includes nurses, home health aides, social workers, pharmacists, dietitians, volunteers and chaplains) steps in to provide for the needs of the patient and family. This includes medication for symptom control, skilled nursing care and dedicated volunteer care, as well as counseling and bereavement services for the family for up to 13 months after the patient's death.
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Left-hander Hector Santiago came to the Angels from the Chicago White Sox this season with parts of three major-league seasons under his belt — though the first consisted of just 5 1/3 innings pitched. In 2013, he was just 4-9 while making 23 starts and 34 appearances, but he had a very respectable ERA of 3.56.
All he had to do was carry the confidence he might have gained from that into his first season with the Angels. He didn't. Instead, he put what he insinuated was unnecessary pressure on himself to succeed with his new team, and he flopped.
Through May 19, he was 0-6 with a 4.82 ERA. He was sent down to Triple-A Salt Lake and returned for a June 10 start against the Oakland A's. He pitched six scoreless innings and struck out eight in a no-decision effort, but the die was cast. Today, he is 3-7 with an ERA of 3.84, meaning he has cut nearly a run off of that.
"I felt like I was trying to earn my spot, you know, go out there and prove myself as a pitcher, and I was trying to become part of this team," said Santiago, who tossed 5 1/3 innings against the Dodgers on Tuesday while toiling against Clayton Kershaw in which he allowed four runs — three earned on a three-run homer by Juan Uribe. "And I put a lot of extra pressure on myself out there on the mound."
From the sound of it, the best thing that could have happened to Santiago was getting sent down to the minors. It made him realize what he was doing to himself.
"I got sent down, and going out to the minor leagues is not where you want to be," he said. "Once you've got some time up in the big leagues, you never want to go back down. But it kind of makes you just enjoy the game and just have fun. It's a different atmosphere down there."
Santiago, just 26, said he knew what he had to do once he returned to the big club.
"Coming back up, I was like, 'Just have fun, man. Just let me go out there and take each pitch and enjoy every moment of it and kind of just slow down the game and just know what's happening in the moment. Don't worry about five, six pitches throughout the count. Worry about the first out instead of the first inning, or worry about the first inning instead of the sixth inning,'" he said.
Santiago, out of Newark, N.J., isn't setting the baseball world on fire just yet. But he has cut a run off his ERA, and he seems to have solidified a spot in the Angels' rotation.
Jansen super nasty
Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen typically serves up some rather filthy pitches when he's on the mound. But he admitted Wednesday that the air was a little more special than usual when he worked the ninth inning of Tuesday's 5-4 victory over the Angels.
Jansen struck out David Freese, Chris Iannetta and Collin Cowgill in succession. The final pitch to Cowgill was a very mean 98-mph fastball that seemed to just devour Cowgill.
"Definitely," Jansen said, when asked if he was a little nastier than usual out there. "I mean, it was a playoff atmosphere and these guys (the Angels), they're good and they're going to be in the playoffs. And who knows? It could be us against them. I don't know, you can't predict. But definitely, it was two good teams going against each other and that playoff atmosphere kind of amped me up a little bit more. You just want to go out there and compete."
Figgins gets DFA'd
The Dodgers activated utility infielder Chone Figgins from the disabled list and then designated him for assignment, and manager Don Mattingly admitted it was difficult to take.
"It's a tough one for Figgy," he said. "We all got attached to who he is and what he brought to the club."
Mattingly mentioned that one of the things Figgins did was mentor second baseman Dee Gordon. But the bottom line was, the Dodgers liked having a terrific fielder like Miguel Rojas who can come in late as a defensive replacement. Figgins, 36, can play that position, but not like Rojas.
Figgins, who sustained a quadriceps injury in mid-June, had been on a rehab assignment of late down at Triple-A Albuquerque, where he batted .286 in 19 games through July 30.
Trout in select company
Angels superstar outfielder Mike Trout will turn 23 today. He has accomplished quite a bit in parts of four major-league seasons. For example, Trout and Alex Rodriguez are the only two players to amass 80 home runs, 90 steals, 300 runs and 500 hits before turning 23. Trout is one of four players to have three seasons of at least 25 home runs before the age of 23 — the others are Mel Ott, Eddie Matthews and Frank Robinson.
Also, he joins Jimmie Fox, Joe DiMaggio, Ott and Ted Williams as the only players to have multiple years of at least 25 home runs, 80 RBIs, 100 runs and a batting average of over .320 before the age of 23.
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Selling because it is too tall for me (shoulda researched Redline's dimensions better).
54 cm (C-T), 31.2 inch standover clearance with 700-23 c tires.
Components are a mix and match since the bike was set up for everyday commuting:
8 speed Shimano (Ultegra bar ends, 105 front /XT rear derailleurs)
Nashbar 13-32 cassette and compact 50-34 crank
32H Sora hubs/Mavic MA 3 rims no-name spokes currently shod with Vittoria Randonneur Pro 700-35 tires.
Avid Shorty 4 cantilever brakes/Dia Compe drop bar levers
Turbo seat, Nashbar micro adjustable seat post
Asking $475 or make offer. Suitable for commuting as is. Will also sell just the frame and fork/headset (make offer) if you are gonna race it or are otherwise not interested in the prosaic parts.
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Quote from: Randolph on Dec 12, 2012, 06:57 pmAlso, detect a change in current for slippage (that may affect odometry and location).[/li][/list]I don't think that will be a practical method for detecting slip. If you need to know the absolute position reliably then you need to provide some means to determine it - for example, using GPS.
An Arduino is limited to what it can control. What you want to do will require a laptop with an incredible processor, and software, along with a I/O interface. An Arduino can not do everything want nor does it have the capabilities of processing video. It could probably control the motors, and maybe an encoder, but 4 motors each with an encoder, not possible.
Just out of curiosity, how big is the rover?
I don't see where a CAN bus fits in. If I were you, I'd get a small computer (Mini ITX / Micro ATX) and link it to an Arduino via USB; there are lots of small options out there that can be powered with 12V. Let the Arduino control the motors, encoders, rotating cameras/etc. and the computer to handle the navigation, camera data stream, and communications. Looking at the cRio you mentioned I can see where you'd want to get away from that ($3K!).


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WOODCUT PRINTS is what this site is about. I invite you to look at the
prints I made, what inspired me and how I made them.
Following the
menu there are pages about creating woodcuts made by and large along the
traditional Japanese style called "Moku Hanga" with some modifications here and
there sometimes. All steps are illustrated in various ways and will even make
more sense when actually making one yourself. As well as I can, I try to show
with photos and text while discussing some of the woodcuts how to make such a
Moku Hanga woodcut.
Other than
that I keep myself busy with painting, drawing, etching and drypoint.
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The carpenters workshop on the plantation was one of my favourite places to hang out when I was a child.
Yusouf was the carpenter always busy making the many pieces of
equipment needed for work in the field or the factory. He showed me how
he did things and we would swap the dutch and malay names for all the
tools he used. It was just great to sit there between all the
shavings and woodcurls and enjoy the smell of it.
In fact, a lot of the
tables I made are based on the design of the beds baleh baleh he made for the workers. Anyway I guess that's what launched me into woodwork.
photography has always been a big part of my life. As a teenager I would take photo's at school parties and the occasional wedding
celebration and even a local football team's official photo, all to
finance the next packet of photo paper, film, chemicals or equipment.
Edouard Jean Steichen, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Ansel Adams, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Breson just to name a few, were my heroes and I would drink in their images. Maybe that's why I still have a preference for black and white, for its expressiveness, the separation of tones and its contrast.
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Today had the potential to be a very bad, no good, rotten day.
My sister, who had been visiting with us for two days, left for her long drive home with two kids and all three of them had been sick for over 12 hours and I'm not going to get to see her again for a long time. Matt was incredibly sick also. Luckily it was his day off so he was able to lay down and pass out for the day but it meant that he couldn't take the kids to town (an hour drive) for Hannah's violin lesson and to see cousins like he normally does when his rotating days off land him on a Thursday.
The kids were sad about not spending the day with an up-and-about Daddy and so was I. Selfishly I was also irritated because I'd been looking forward to this day for weeks, waiting eagerly for when his day off would land on Thursday and I would get a 6 hour stretch all to myself. I wasn't irritated with Matt, mind you, just with the situation and my expectations getting shattered. Also irritated that my phone had just broken. That didn't help.
I was getting everything ready to go and was almost ready to head out the door when Matt said "What do you want to do?", clearly offering to take the kids even though he was in no position to be vertical, much less to be driving four kids around by himself. I snarled something along the lines of "It doesn't matter what I want to do, all that matters is what I have to do."
And that's when my day started to get better.
In February I was introduced to the idea that my life could be so much better if I chose to do everything I was doing instead of doing things because I had to, because there was no other choice. The idea that that small change in how I approached reality could change my attitude and therefore my contentment level was really intriguing, so for the last four or five months I have been working really hard at removing the words 'have to' from my vocabulary. In that time I have not found a single 'have to' that was really a 'have to'. Nothing - from making dinner to going to bed to cleaning the toilets - was a 'have to'. Every single one was a 'choose to' - the alternatives may not be pretty and I may just be doing it to avoid those alternatives, but that makes it no less my choice. And this one today was also a 'choose to', either way, good or bad.
I didn't have to take all of the kids to the city with me. I could leave one or two here. I could call and cancel the lesson. I could let Matt make the drive in. But I was choosing to do this and I was not about to waste a day being pissy about something that I was choosing to do. So instead I set out to make the day as sparkly as I could - just as sparkly as those toilets that I choose to clean.
I made sure we had enough interesting stuff in the car to keep everyone happy on the to-and-fro parts of the trip. I double and triple checked the food and water situation, because isn't that the most important with small tummies? I took a back road that takes a bit longer but would have different scenery for everybody. Hannah asked me about what 8-year-olds in school learn and we had a long, meandering discussion about schools and learning that solidified stuff in my mind and clarified stuff in hers.
After the violin lesson, we went to the home improvement store and picked up electrical tape and couplers to finish making some hula hoops. We talked about Abraham Lincoln and John Adams. Zander squealed incessantly about a plastic parrot he saw because he couldn't decide whether he wanted to be scared of it or eat it. We picked out a little bamboo houseplant for Matt because he likes green inside and our RV is lacking in inside green.
On our way to my little sister's house we passed a Mormon temple and the girls asked to drive around it so we did. They asked to go in so we got to talk about why that wasn't an option and about whether we think God exists. (Out of the three verbal people in the car we had three different opinions - very cool, and very, very different from what was an acceptable range of opinion in my own childhood.)
I watched my sister's kids and mine while she ran errands and I got to hear the oldest ones playing in the dollhouse and marvel at the sophisticated storylines they have compared to when they first started playing dollhouse years ago. My nephew and I played Quirkle. Zander and Gray and I played on the trampoline. I finished and taped Zander's hula hoop (Made solely because "Mommy, Zander's trying to get my hoop!!!" is heard at least three times every time I try to practice my hooping and that's just not necessary, now, is it? So my 14-month-old now has his own hoop.).
I had forgotten my own hoop so I washed every dirty dish she had, and the counters, and appliances. Then she got home and swore she was going to pay my kids to make sure I forgot my hoop every week. (Just kidding. But she did say she was glad I got bored.) Then we worked on fixing some of her hoops, the kids practiced jumping through a hoop I was holding (Grayson surprised me by how adamant he was about how high I should hold it for him and my niece surprised me by being a freakin' track star and hurdling through it at ridiculous heights for her size), and we headed back home.
On the way home Ains played games with Gray and Zander on the iPad while Hannah and I played the alphabet game on street signs and then 20 Questions. We went swimming at 8:30 and ate dinner at 9:45. Late night. Zander passed out. Grayson passed out. Hannah passed out. Matt never woke up. Ainsley and I played two games on Chess Kid and now she's passed out. I should too.
Today wasn't the day I had planned out for the last four weeks. It wasn't a relaxing, pull-my-crap-together day or a make-all-those-phone-calls day. It wasn't a bum-around-online-because-I-only-get-30-minutes-a-day-to-web-surf-right-now day. It wasn't a finally-wear-my-border-collie-out day or a learn-a-new-hula-hoop-trick-without-knocking-any-child-in-the-head day.
If I'd stayed on my path that I started on, my kids would have felt like a bother, a pain, a grudging responsibility. One of them for sure would have felt unloved. Another would have closed me out. The other two would have just gotten crankier and crankier as the emotional undercurrent they didn't understand got yuckier. Instead, every one of my kids went to sleep feeling loved and like they'd lived the day all the way through.
We all had a sparkly day. Except for Matt. He didn't have a really sparkly day even though he was vomiting into a sparkling toilet (see what I did there?). But the rest of us did have a fantastic day. Because I chose to take all of the kids to town for Hannah's violin class.
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Bernanke To Speak: Interest Is High, But No Surprises Are Expected
Though "nervous investors" are waiting anxiously to hear what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has to say later this morning when he speaks at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's annual economic policy conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo., in reality he "isn't likely to break much new monetary-policy ground," The Wall Street Journal's Real Time Economics blog writes.
Of course, anytime a Fed chairman speaks — and especially when the U.S. economy isn't faring well — there's lots of attention paid even if no surprises are likely. So we're seeing headlines such as these:
-- "Stocks Brace For Bernanke." (CNN.com)
-- "Bogeyman Bernanke Brings Out The Market's Sellers." (Forbes' Exile on Wall Street blog)
-- "The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Fear At The Fed." (The Economist)
Bernanke's address is set to get started at 10 a.m. ET. It is not due to be broadcast. But the text is supposed to be posted here at some point and the Fed is usually pretty good about putting transcripts up as well. We're also expecting to hear from NPR's Scott Horsley, who is covering the conference. So we'll be posting on the news as soon as possible.


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In 1988 the world was a very different place. Reagan was in the White House and the Cold War was going strong. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi' was playing the Russians and Americans off against each other. The PLO was beating it's chest. Iran was yelling " Death to America" but all that didn't seem too important compared to the possiblity of nuclear attack from the Soviet Union. Then poof-- there went Pan Am Flight 103. It shocked the world. The trail was hard to follow, but it seemed that this was an act of state-sponsored terrorism and the sponsor was Libya.
Megranhi and a co conspirator were wanted men. Libya refused to turn them over for trial for eight years, keeping them under house arrest in Tripoli, where it must be said they were seen as heros rather than criminals. Finally, in 1999 a trial began in the Netherlands. Only Megranhi was convicted in 2001 and sentenced to life imprisonment in Scotland. Lucky for him it wasn't an American jail. He would have been dead within a year. The inmates would have killed him.
What Really Happened?
I always had the feeling that Megranhi was a scape goat and that there was more to this story than met the eye. Conspiracy theories have abounded over the years. Some have pointed the finger at the PLO or the CIA. Iran has been implicated, but nobody has proof of anything. Megranhi is a former Libyan intelligence officer ( former?? I wonder) who always maintained his innocence. There are, it must be admitted, a lot of loose ends.
Now, Megrani, suffering from terminal cancer, has been allowed to go home to die , his sentence commuted on grounds of compassion. Lots of people are quite upset-- from the families of the victims to the President of the United States. I don't blame people for being angry. Me? I feel there is something funny going on. Part of me would like to see this guy rot in jail. Another part of me thinks this is about somethng bigger than just one man-- innocent or guilty.
Muammar Gaddafi',the bad boy Libyan dictator, has recently decided to play nicely with the West. This is going down well in high places because Libya has more oil than any other country in Africa. Gaddafi has stopped his nuclear program,restored diplomatic relations, gotten America and the EU to lift economic sanctions, paid reparations to the Lockerbie families and issued an apology. And now Megrani's sentence has been commuted on compasionate grounds. It's a regular little lovefest, isn't it? Nice to get that nasty Lockerbie thing over and done with forever.I don't know what is really going on, but I would guess that as always, it would be illuminating to follow the money.
So yesterday, Gaddafi sent his private jet to pick up Megrani and fly him home. Jubilant crowds waited at the airport in Tripoli. In two weeks Gadaffi will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the military coup that brought him to power. In three months or so, Megrani will be dead. In six months oil will be flowing and big money will be made. No doubt Megrani's family will get their share.
Families of the victims will continue to mourn. Terrorists will continue to plot. Nations will continue to jockey for power, and we, the people of the world, will believe what we wish to. Bye bye Lockerbie bomber. Are you a mass murderer or a patriotic soldier who fell on his spear for the good of his people? Truth, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.


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One girl's twistedly fantastic interpretation of what the hell is really going on in those tribes.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Ralph: Floated Right Into My Heart
Ralph is a 44 year old farmer from the great Commonwealth of Virginia. He's quite proud of the fact that he's completely debt free at this stage in his life and owns two homes. Meanwhile, I'm still running from the Columbia Records Club and denying the fact that I ever willingly ordered an Enya CD. So yeah, good for you Ralph!
Ralph is also a self proclaimed mountain man which means only one thing: Henceforth, in my world, he's a moonshiner. You know how I love to write about the 'shine! Let's listen to our Virginie outlaw, shall we?
*swoon* Oh my god... he's glorious. I can't understand a single goddang word he says, but I love him. The only phrases I caught were "dead and gone" and "hell of a good time". He's so rustic and hardcore. I just hope he was talking about a squirrel or a deer just then and not a 5 year old child. That would be awkward, right?
Can you imagine the conversations between him and Lucifer? *claps hands and giggles* OK I'm officially excited now.
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- AnonymousFebruary 11, 2011 at 11:32 AM
the only one in this whole cast who is memorable (save Russell and Rob, of course)ReplyDelete
L.O.V.E. H.I.M!!!!ReplyDelete
First off how can you not love a man that has such a well sculpted beard like Ralph? That and his Eddie Munster point to his hair line...I really love him just for that alone.
OMG to hear the conversations between Lucifer and Ralph...oh to be a fly on a tree because you know they won't show the good stuff on tv.
"Enjoy life while it lastes!"ReplyDelete
That's my new motto...
- DiabolicalFebruary 12, 2011 at 11:42 PM
Wow, there are words in that monologue that I didn't think could be spoken by the human tongue without jaw dislocation first. I hope to see them in the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. I think he's going to be fun to watch, but as I can only make out about one tenth of what he's saying he's going to be hard to listen to.ReplyDelete
Ohh Lord. I'm from the south and I don't know what the hell he said. They're gonna need to put subtitles on this one.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 16, 2011 at 12:25 PM
ahahaha--Alli, that's just what I was thinking: wouldn't it be funny if they subtitle *everything* that Roosterman says??? That'd be so GrEaT!ReplyDelete
I think he is really going to clash with Lucifer. You can't have two big personalities on one tribe, unfortunately. I would love to see both of these guys make it far into the game, because they're both going to be entertaining to watch.
But alas, I think Ralph might not make it far. I bet Lucifer targets his ass. (but it would be awe-some if they join forces!!)
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2011 at 12:44 PM
We all love Ralph too!
Ohh Lord. I'm from the south and I don't know what the hell he said. They're gonna need to put subtitles on this one.ReplyDelete


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This last summer was filled with teaching summer school classes and a dream vacation to Europe. One of the best parts was attending the IBBY conference in Santiago De Compostela, Spain. Since returning home, I have been reading some wonderful books. This post will focus on the excellent nonfiction and biographies I found. These titles will tantalize the reading taste buds of youngsters who like to read about things that are "real and have really happened." So I am back to blogging this time about biography and nonfiction.
Dave the Potter Artist, Poet, Slave by Laban C. Hill. Illus. by Bryan Collier. (2010). Little, Brown and Company. Pages not numbered. All Ages. Biography.
This unusual and stunning biography touches the heart as the sparse, lyrical text and powerful illustrations team to unfold the story of a slave, whose pottery and the poems he inscribed on them made him an important American artist. The poetic text concentrates on Dave's process of making the pottery. The book ends with, "But before the jar/completely hardened,/Dave picked up a stick/and wrote to let us know/that he was here./I wonder where/is all my relation/friendship to all–/and, every nation." Collier uses collage and watercolors to show different perspectives of making the pots. Some are a series of close-ups of Dave's hands molding the pots. Other images show the environment where Dave worked. At the end Hill provides more information about Dave, his poems and a photograph of five pots. Both the author's and illustrator's notes tell about the inspiration and research for the book. A bibliography and list of websites offer ways for students to learn more about Dave.
Pop! The Invention of Bubble Gum by Meghan McCarthy. (2010). Simon & Schuster. Pages not numbered. Grades 1-5. Biography.
This book has lots of kid appeal from the endpapers that feature colorful bubble gum balls on a bright pink background to the last pages with "Facts about Gum" and "More Facts About Gum." McCarthy concentrates on how Walter Diemer, an accountant for a candy and gum factory, got stuck on inventing a new kind of gum, bubble gum. Walter "spent months playing with different mixtures" until the mixture "bubbled and popped."' Walter thought the mixture needed some color. ""Pink coloring was the only one I had at hand,"" so bubble gum became pink! Walter's "Dubble Bubble" became a success and Walter was promoted to Vice-President of the company. The colorful comic illustrations add to the fun. The facts at the end will intrigue children, i.e. "If you chew gum nonstop for a year straight you will lose eleven pounds (good luck with that, though!)."
Bulu: African Wonder Dog by Dick Houston. (2010). Random House. 323 pages. Grades 5-9. Biography.
This is a great dog story but also an account of a remarkable couple, Anna and Steve Tolan. The Tolans, former police officers, left their comfortable life in England for new adventures in Zambia. There they created a refuge for orphaned animals and a wildlife education center for the children of the area. The Tolans acquired Bulu as a puppy and he is the star of their story. They were warned about having a pet in the African bush, and some of Bulu's harrowing adventures show why that warning was accurate. He has encounters with a cobra, crocodile and lions. Bulu has heart and unusual courage and he survives. He fosters and nurtures many of the orphans – monkeys, warthogs, a baboon, a bushbuck, a baby elephant. Black and white photographs enrich the text and show Bulu with the other animals. There is humor and suspense in this book. It would make an excellent choice to read aloud.
How to Clean a Hippopotamus: A Look At Unusual Animal Partnerships by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page. (2010). Houghton Mifflin. Pages not numbered. Grades 1-4. Nonfiction.
Jenkins and Page provide young readers with fascinating facts about animal symbiosis. The text describes how the animals have formed relationships in which each animal helps the other. For example, the oxpecker bird "debugs" large African animals like the giraffe, rhino, deer and buffalo by searching "for ticks and insects, pulling them off with its beak." The bird also warns its host when predators are approaching. The collage illustrations feature each host animal and its partner with appealing details. The book design makes it readable and attractive. The back matter provides more information about each featured animal and symbiosis. This is a book that children will pour over and return to again and again.
The next three books are outstanding new entries in the "Scientists in the Field" series. Together the books demonstrate how scientists around the world are working toward saving our environment and the creatures that dwell in it. Each book features stunning, full color, photographs that show close-ups of the creatures, the environments they live in and the scientists at work. The writing in each book gathers the reader into the narrative with stories from the field. These books are also outstanding in the way their text features, like sidebars, captions, insets, glossaries, indexes, further resources, guides to helping save the creatures, maps, bibliographies, appendixes are used to develop and extend the informative texts.
The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe by Loree Griffin Burns. Photographs by Ellen Harasimowicz. (2010). Houghton Mifflin. 66 pages. Grades 5-8. Nonfiction.
The first sentence in this book makes the reader an active participant in the story. "Put on your veil, grab your hive tool, and light up your smoker… …we're going into a beehive." Burns first explains the vital role played by honey bees in pollinating crops, fruit and nut trees and vegetable plants. Then she describes colony collapse disorder (CCD), a mysterious scourge that is wiping out hives all over our country, and how scientists are working to understand how to combat it. The reader learns about bees and the ways bee keepers are taking care of them. Photographs of the bees in the hive and at their work are detailed and exciting to see. It is especially intriguing to learn about the scientists' careful detective work in addressing the possible causes of CCD. An appendix provides more information about this amazing insect.
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot by Sy Montgomery. Photographs by Nic Bishop. (2010). Houghton Mifflin. 74 pages. Grades 5-8. Nonfiction.
Montgomery and Bishop have other prize winning books in this series. This is sure to be another winner for them. This book tells about a project on a remote island off the New Zealand coast to save the last ninety-one kakapo parrots on earth. Compelling writing paints visual portraits of the unique parrots and the scientists' efforts to save them.
It's hours past midnight. You'd think any self-respecting parrot would be asleep. But not Lisa.
No, despite the late hour, this huge, soft, moss-green bird, looking somewhat like a parakeet who has eaten one side of the mushroom in Alice in Wonderland and grown into an eight-pound giant, decides this is a great time to waddle out of her nest—a nest that's not in a tree, like a normal parrot's, but underground.
A large size photograph of the bird accompanies these opening paragraphs. Montgomery and Bishop became part of the story because they spent ten-days on the island learning about the work of New Zealand's National Kakapo Recovery Team. One of the last photographs shows Montgomery in "a dazzling encounter" with one of the parrots.
Project Seahorse by Pamela S. Turner. Photographs by Scott Tuason. (2010). Houghton Mifflin. 57 pages. Grades 5-8. Nonfiction.
This book also profiles an animal, the seahorse, which is in trouble because of environmental damage and overfishing. The underwater photographs of the appealing creatures dazzle. A variety of the species are pictured. This book focuses on the coral reefs off Handumon, a small village on an island in the Philippines. There the two women scientists who have founded Project Seahorse work tirelessly with local fishermen, villages and their research team to protect the seahorses and the livelihood of local fishing families. The photos of the scuba divers, fishermen at work and the gorgeous life of the coral reef compel the reader's attention. Some chapters are just devoted to describing the unique aspects of the life cycle of the seahorse like the way the male seahorse gives birth from his brood pouch. Other chapters outline the threats to this gentle creature like traditional Chinese Medicine that uses dried, ground up seahorses for medicine. A final chapter describes the positive outcomes that have come about through the efforts of Project Seahorse.


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Sixteenth installment from the diary of my great-grandfather's sister Alise, written during the First World War. When the diary starts, she is living just a few miles from the front lines of the Eastern Front, and is then forced to flee with her husband and two young daughters to her family's house near Limbaži as the war moves even closer. For the background, see here, click on the tag "diary entries" to see all of the entries that I have posted.
March 5, 1916
Thanks be to God, again so far and on my feet. On February 22nd, at 9 o'clock in the morning, our son was born. A lot of happiness and joy for Papa, my heart also fills with pride and joy, holding the hand of this small dear creature. His sisters are already in love with their little brother. Dagmāra, who is still only 1.5 years old, talks only about "baklaba" [NB: toddler-speak of some kind? Possibly "brālis laba", meaning "brother good"]. The boy is very strong and handsome, I'm sorry only about his small ear, which for some reason is not the same as the other. Maybe all of the horrible experiences of the past while had an impact, maybe the fault is also to be found somewhere else. That is God's mind and His secret. We will love him even more. We are now settled in the upstairs room at Kroņi. If someone had told me this earlier, that it would be so, I would not believe them and I would be angry. Yes – you may see the end of your nose, but not the end of your life! The hardest part – Trūtiņa and Dagīte are ill with whooping cough. The cough is very strong. Trūde is bleeding from her nose, Daga from the eyes. We have to protect the boy from catching it – if that is possible – the heart tires just thinking about it. Papa is certainly earning love, who sacrifices to serve us and care for us. No work is too hard or simple for him, he will do everything without complaining. He even washes his son in the evenings, and wraps him up and puts him to bed at night, so that things are not hard for me and so that I can rest and gather new energy. We still owe him so much love. We will try to grant this to him in this life.


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Right? That is the arm I want to read me Matilda as I fall asleep cuddled in it. This magical appendage belongs to Heather Warren, a kids' librarian at the Philadelphia Free Library.
First, is there any artist as delightful as Quentin Blake? Name names, if you can! And secondly, is there a job that could make me more sexually attracted to you than you being a kids' librarian? Maybe if you were actually Ms. Honey? Or ooh, if you were an ice cream truck driver who wasn't very good at your job and so nightly we had to eat all of the leftover ice cream before it melted because oops, your truck is broken, too. Sorry, this is getting dirty.
If you want to see some more detailed pics of Warren's arm, check out this gallery. Now, please excuse me so I can go reread Matilda whilst eating several ice cream sundaes.
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Sharper Image has provided residential and commercial window cleaning survices in a medium market in the Southeast for over a decade. This logo will be part of a new branding campaign that will be used in support of a new company direction pushing into all manner of exterior building cleaning and maintenance (window cleaning, glass restoration, pressure washing, gutter cleaning, etc. in all forms of buildings from residential to high rise) at a larger regional level in multiple office and service locations.
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I think that brand licensing and diffusion lines are really confusing. Add onto that the new "grey" market in which mass merchants like Target are suddenly selling products usually found only in salons and upscale department stores (i.e. Bumble and Bumble, Kiehl's, O.P.I), and it's that much more difficult to understand what you're buying these days. Is it the real deal? Expired product? Something completely different?
Such was the case when I started using a new moisturizer and began digging into the who/what/where, etc behind it. The cream in question is Kirkland Signature by Borghese Age Defying Protective Moisture Lotion SPF 15. I'm familar with Borghese. It's an Italian beauty house with a longstanding reputation for deriving innovative formulas with products from the earth, and not testing on animals. So I was totally confused when I headed to their web site to read up on my new moisturizer only to find that the product was nowhere to be found. After a quick Google search, I was redirected to…Costco. Huh?
Kirkland Signature by Borghese is a partnership between low and high- a mingling of classes, if you will. According to Borghese, this line incorporates the same quality ingredients and formulations. But they are able to offer them exclusively to Costco customers at rock-bottom prices- up to 85% less than those of the Borghese products found at spas and Bloomingdales.
I've never used a moisturizer from Borghese before, so I can't make a direct comparison to the one I've been using from Costco. It's a good cream, unscented, goes on light and soaks in quickly. I think the formula would work best on women with slightly oily skin because it is so light. I have normal to dry skin and felt a little tightness after using the moisturizer. At $14.99, it's on par with other drugstore favorites such as Dove face creams.
A few of the KS by Borghese products are available on Costco's web site- although this moisturizer is not one of them. You can click here to find out if your local Costco carries it. If you're a fan of Borghese and have tried the Kirkland Signature products, I'd love to hear what you think.