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There Is A Right Way To Clean Your Floors
We've seen them! You've, no doubt, seen them too! Those cleaning hack internet articles that have you pulling out the mop and whatever method, remedy, additions to cleaners they are using to promote their own products - And, we say WAIT! What about my warranty!! Before you try one of these "hacks", let's talk about the proper cleaning, care & maintenance of your own floors, rugs, draperies and window treatments. We'll get to some of this in our next Blog on care & cleaning. Today our focus is hard surface flooring with a reference guide that you'll save (yes, please) to keep your quality purchases up to their intended performance.
What's got me going? A recent "hack" of adding essential oils, now before you judge I love essential oils! Just not in a mop bucket with water intended to scrub any wood floors, especially our beautiful hardwood floors. It's the easiest way to remove the natural luster of the hardwood and your warranty along with it.
So, what is the best way to clean, care and maintain the beauty of Hardwood Flooring?
All of our vendors agree, it is with a floor cleaner specifically made for your hardwood finishes.
Water and Wood Don't Mix . . .
A little snippet from our friends at Hallmark Hardwood Flooring. For their entire article on care and maintenance click here
From Hardwood to Laminate Floors . . .
Friends Don't Let Friends Steam Mop
"But, my steam mop says I can." I was at a clients recently visiting the laminate floors we had installed and there she was, her housekeeper, steam mopping away on our beautiful new floors! True, many of the popular steam mop brands do list laminate floors right on the box as was pointed out to me, but don't you believe it. Manufacturer's warranties do not include "other people cleaning" in their warranty, which brings us to "Friends don't let friends steam mop".
All Roads Lead To A Clean Sweep
Then there's Vinyl Planking, with possibly the largest misconception for cleaning that we come across on a daily basis. Did you know that steam mopping a vinyl plank floor, even the newer waterproof vinyl planks, that steam mops have the potential to damage the floor? The steam results in dripping water that will seep between the planks loosening the glue that holds the planks in place and the heat from the mop will cause the vinyl to warp or bend. The entire process will also dull the finish.
What is recommended? The "Laminate Floor Tips" video is a great start for your vinyl plank floors with these exceptions: It is okay to lightly damp mop vinyl, ahem...lightly, and a Neutral-PH balanced floor cleaner designed for vinyl floors is the go-to for restoring the luster.
Do Use The Power Of Steam For . . .
With all of our "don'ts" we actually love saying "Do"! And, we put the steam mop back into action when it comes to tile. There are so many different types of tile to consider though, and I think this photo captures them all with natural stone and man-made tile as well. Avoiding harsh chemicals is the best rule to follow along with these tips on how to clean the shower that apply just as well to your floors. Click for more on cleaning tile.
Thank you so much for joining in on this Blog post! We do have an attachment to our floors long after the sale is through. Preserving the quality of the floors through care, cleaning and maintenance is a great first step to loving your own floors for years to come. We hope you'll help us get the word out to the world-wide web by liking and sharing this blog post. If you do have any questions or comments, please leave them in the comment section, or give us a call at (805) 237-1400. Happy to be of service.
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What To Ask Before You Purchase New Flooring
When we think of new flooring we are apt to tune-in to popular decor trends, beautifully showcased in design magazines. While our focus is on the beautiful, it's good to remember that these images are staged to draw our attention and may not offer the best solutions for your personal living space.
At Knight's we focus on our client's lifestyle ensuring the selection you make is the one you'll love for years to come. Consider this: Gravity dictates that with every step you take in your home, you're stepping on your flooring. Whether in high-heels, cowboy boots, cozy slippers, or your barefeet, you deserve the comfort and quality suited to your needs.
To make the best selection start with these questions:
1. How is the room used?
2. Heavy or light foot traffic?
3. Is this space the center of activity for my family?
4. How much direct sunlight is in the area/floors?
5. What flooring is best for my pets?
6. How can we create a smooth transition to other flooring surfaces?
7. How often do I change my decor, colors, theme?
8. Is this floor CARB certified?
9. What is the warranty coverage?
Now make your own list and let's see how these questions apply to you.
As a small, family-owned business it is of the utmost importance that we continue to provide quality where it counts. From the accountability of our manufacturers & vendors, to our own installation team and into your home - we've found these questions very useful in helping our clients make informed decisions and we hope you'll find them useful too.
You have questions??? We have answers!
Meet The Experts Open House April 30th
This year's Meet the Experts Open House marks our
25-year anniversary!
As you can imagine, we're very excited for this year's event and thank you for checking in here.
Our "Experts" are coming together in our showroom with the newest product lines that you love the most. . . Vinyl Planking. . . Window Coverings. . . Carpeting. . . Tile. . . Hardwood Floors
What makes our event a stand-out? Our MEET THE EXPERTS event is a personalized home show where you meet one-on-one with Factory Reps, Installers and Industry Pros to learn more about the product's quality and application for your home.
April 16th - This just in! You'll want to scroll down to see all the offerings for our Raffle Drawing.
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Holidays in the Well Lived Home
'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house . . .
Timeless updates that last well beyond the holiday decorating are the focus of "Holidays in the Well-Lived Home". Give yourself a gift while at the same time entertaining family and friends.
Want to make a big impact? Paint the front door!
We all have that one friend or neighbor that is always one step ahead in changing their decor with every season. We stand in utter awe of their planning, their skills in announcing a new holiday is coming! We love the effect and charm and secretly wonder: "How do they do it?"
Well, dear readers, I do have one such friend whose creative juices are already overflowing into the next season before I've even planned how I'll decorate for this Season. So, I've tapped into her brain with the question:
If you could choose one piece to carry through to every season, what would it be?
I can't help but give a practical side note for your entryway: Bullit-proof your floors!
Learn more here from our blog post focus: The Well-Lived Home Entryways
Is it too late to add an accent wall?
We don't think it's too late and an accent wall is the gift that keeps on giving. You'll smile every time you walk by. With York Wallcovering's new SureStrip papers you are assured of an easy on installation, and if you joined us at our Relocation Celebration you saw first-hand these papers are also easily removed.
We're on a roll now and will carry our vessel creations throughout the home and use to coordinate our table centerpieces and trim the tree in our amazing color-scheme.
Cue the tree trimming. . .
Real or fake, family-style or high-end design...
I wish, oh how I wish, someone would have given me these tips years ago. Learning over the years time-saving techniques to filling my tree with decorations - key word "TIME SAVING". Give me spools of wider width wire-rimmed ribbons, decorated garland, floral picks and sprays and I'll decorate tree after tree, after tree, and love doing it.
Once you have filled the tree with lights, or better yet start with a pre-lit tree, grab your decorated garland and from the top drape throughout the tree loosely, going around the tree horizontally. You'll be coming back for a tuck here and there. Now my favorite part the ribbon!! Again from the top and running vertically, about 9 feet of ribbon for every foot of the tree. Vis-a-vis, you'll need at least 6 - 9ft. spools for a six-foot tree. Now weave the ribbon in and out from top to bottom at equal points of length all around the tree. Fill in with your floral picks and sprays and a few ornaments that you used in your Vessel Vignettes and you'll be tree happy!
Let's get cozy
Even as a decorator the task of creating the perfect holiday scene has me feeling a bit pressured. It's important to remember that there is no such thing as "perfect" and for that very reason give yourself, and your friends, another gift this season of cozy comfort.
I'm ready to wrap myself in these faux furs from our friends at Fabricut, and possibly recover the ottoman too. They look so divine I would not hesitate to leave my furry throw out on the sofa and invite someone to join me with a cup of a rich, hot cocoa made just for us adults - insert wink. Of course, slippers we must have slippers in our "Well Lived Home".
The Well-Lived Home Entryways
In my decorating travels over the years there are so many things I've learned from our clients. The ins and the outs of providing practical solutions for family living, all the while maintaining a well-appointed design. An interesting challenge that can and will become one for us in "The Well-Lived Home".
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The Entryway is the first impression...
For those who are fortunate enough to have a mud-room and entry from the garage, the landing area for the clutter of a busy day is easy to hide. For the rest of us the landing area must become a feature in the design. The console table is an intricate piece to this theory and becomes the catch-all for keys, homework, shoes and more so choose well. Keeping the top of the console decorated will distract from the mess hidden within and detour family members from cluttering the top. Give them a flat surface within arm's reach and it'll easily be filled with the findings of the day.
It's all about the drawers... Working closely with clients we've discovered dressers and sideboards make wonderful entryway tables.
The big and the small of it.
Living large, if you have the space we say go for it! As shown here in this entry hall a very family-oriented space with enough drawers for hiding you'll have to assign a row for each member of the household, pets too.
When working with smaller spaces that don't offer an entryway, create one by placing the console table close to the door and incorporating into the living area. Designate the flow with an area rug. This small space is very charming and will easily adapt to any design theme.
The consoles are picked and have been placed, but what about the floors?
Our Favorite Entryway Floors for our Well-Lived Home are worry-free selections that can a take a beating and hold their beauty.
When you want to carry real wood floors throughout your home a stunning compliment for the entryway is to create an area rug with tile. Capture the tones of your decor and protect your wood flooring from the in and out traffic through the entryway. Do you have an open floor plan with a view to the kitchen? Replicating the tile from the kitchen to the entry gives beautiful balance to your open spaces.
You love the look of wood floors without the worry of higher traffic areas. The choice is laminate flooring, but which one? Your first consideration in making the right selection is the floor's rating. Is the floor rated for commercial use? This is a great guideline to go by. Commercially-rated floors are optimum in performance for your home's entryway. Our pick is Armstrong's Rustics Premium Laminate offering a 50-year residential warranty and a 10-year commercial warranty.
A cohesive spirit is happiest when the outdoor flooring carries through to the interior. Curb-appeal to our first impression entryway design is accomplished with tile.
We interrupt this Blog to update our post with the latest in bullet-proof floors!
Vinyl Planking
Here we are in 2018 and our Vinyl Planking is not what it use to be. The innovation of Vinyl Plank is ever-changing, ever-evolving and now is 100% waterproof! Offered in several wood-look styles that actually look more like a wood floor than vinyl. Easy-care, and worry-free this waterproof vinyl plank floor has taken over our sales of all our wood-look products combined.
Photo Courtesy: Hallmark Floors - Courtier Premium Vinyl Plank
For our carpet lovers let us lay on the hospitality. Hospitality in this case refers to the type of carpet. Milled in a collection of inspiring colors and details just for public places and if it works in the hotel lobby it certainly will work for our entryway design. We're featuring
Masland's Contract Carpeting. Combine with selections of Mohawk's SmartStrand Forever Clean carpets and we're covering the adjoining rooms too - worry-free softness underfoot.
We've come full circle and have decided it's time to present some area rug offerings. Presentation is everything after all and we do love our Jaunty Area Rug collections. I think I see a "Perfect Pair" here..
Thank you for joining us in our "Well Lived Home". We'll be following up with a sequel soon. The floors we've featured are of products that we showcase and if you'd like to see the sampling in your own home, please give us a call. We also provide interior design services to assist you in all phases of your entryway project.


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Did you know that today marks the beginning of Bat Week? Bat Week is an annual, international celebration of the role of bats in nature, organized by a team of representatives from across the United States and Canada form conservation organizations and government departments.
Last Thursday, October 19, bat enthusiast Angela Gordon helped prepare us for Bat Week with her "Batty for Bats" talk and Wildlands Trust. Attendees received a thorough overview of bat adaptations and behaviors, bats species of Massachusetts, the importance of bats to humans, and threats to bat populations around the world.
White nose syndrome, habitat loss, and other factors have contributed to the decline of bat populations world-wide. These mammals provide vital ecological services to humans by eating disease-carrying insects like mosquitoes and pollinating crops that we depend on.
During Bat Week you can get involved in your local community to help raise awareness about the importance of bats and threats to their survival! Find out the many ways that all ages can get involved at batweek.org. You can also make some tasty treats with bat-dependent ingredients in this Bat Cook Book!

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For this week's MP report I am going to add some inside perspective on a few recent events that have occurred in Ottawa over the past few weeks. As many of you may have heard, recently the Leader of the Federal Liberal Party made an announcement that effective immediately, all Liberal Senators would be booted from the Liberal caucus in an effort to try and ensure that the Liberal Senators would become more independent.
Many in the media reacted swiftly calling the idea "bold" while debate remained on what, if any, difference might occur. What is interesting about this idea is that it was actually the NDP who back in late October of 2013 introduced a motion in the House of Commons calling for "the introduction of immediate measures to end Senators' partisan activities, including participation in Caucus meetings"– what is more interesting is that when the NDP first introduced this idea the media did not characterize it as being "bold"– most in fact ignored the NDP motion. What is also notable is that at the time the leader of the Liberals actually voted against the motion, accusing the NDP of political haymaking over the Senate. Privately many NDP MP's I know are expressing disappointment and frustration that a NDP idea is treated differently in the media when it is adopted by another party.
The larger question is will expelled from caucus Senators become more independent? In the case of the Liberal Senators what was seldom reported was that within hours of being booted out of the Liberal caucus, the Liberal Senators met as a group and quickly re-elected the same Liberal Senate leader, the same Deputy Leader and most surprising even elected the same Senate party whip before declaring they were still a Liberal Senate caucus. The fact that a group of supposedly independent Senators would vote in a whip and continue to sit as a Liberal Senate caucus ensures that the extra pay and perks of a caucus (that are not available to truly independent Senators) would still flow and be paid for by taxpayers. In other words, nothing really changed as a result of this announcement. The inside joke in Ottawa is formerly Liberal senators have now become Senators who are Liberals. Ultimately the only real means of reforming that Senate remains before the Supreme Court, which is expected to issue formal legal guidelines on how the Senate can be reformed or abolished at some point within this year.
While on the topic of Senators many citizens have contacted me recently to express support for Private Members Bill C-518 from my Conservative colleague MP John Williamson. The Canadian Taxpayer's federation has also engaged in a campaign calling for public support of this bill. What does Bill C-518 propose? I have already spoken in favour of Bill C-518 moving forward in debate to review stage and my comments on this Bill from Hansard were as follows:
"We know Canadians expect that if parliamentarians are convicted of egregious crimes, they should face consequences. No different from everyday Canadians would expect to face consequences if convicted of an egregious crime, yet we also know that this is currently not the case. I would like to commend the member for New Brunswick Southwest for his work to attempt to remedy this. Currently, if a senator or member of Parliament retires or resigns prior to being convicted, or otherwise manoeuvres to avoid being expelled or disqualified from Parliament, that individual is still entitled to his or her full pension, including the employer's share, which is funded by taxpayers. In other words, if one retires or resigns before being convicted of a crime, one still benefits from a generous pension plan. This is, in itself, an outrage to many taxpayers." – MP Albas excerpt from Hansard
I will continue to provide updates on Bill C-518 as it progresses through debate as there has been a strong level of interest in this bill. Also occurring this week is the introduction of the budget that is happening on Tuesday, February 11th and will be the topic of next week's report. If you have any questions or concerns on Bills before Parliament please do not hesitate to contact me directly. I can be reached at [email protected] or toll free at 1-800-665-8711.
Dan Albas is the Member of Parliament for Okanagan-Coquihalla and can be reached at [email protected] or toll free at 1-800-665-8711. To sign up for his weekly MP report or for his report archive please go to www.DanAlbas.com


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22 Questions About Electoral Fraud in Canada's 2011 Election/
This text was composed in response to written questions sent to me by Howard Breen of Smart Change, an NGO whose project of informing Canadian voters about issues of current concern I had offered to support. This text has not previously been published.
1. Is it fair to say the Robocall Scandal represents the worst transgression of our electoral institution? (One could argue that there have been worse threats to our democracy i.e. the War Measures Act in October 1970.)
There was undoubtedly a lot of piecemeal corruption (and indeed, outright violence) in Canadian elections during the 19th century. But I believe that Canadian elections were largely free from fraud during the latter half of the twentieth century. Under Stephen Harper's leadership, the Conservative Party has descended to what I believe are unprecedented levels of impropriety and systematic law-breaking.
In 2006, Stephen Harper came to power through the RCMP's mid-campaign intervention with subsequently dismissed accusations of corruption against Finance Minister Ralph Goodale, and through the "in-and-out" campaign finance scandal, which gave the Conservatives some $1.3 million of illegal advertising money. The 2011 electoral fraud that we refer to as the Robocall Scandal was the largest-scale and most systematic instance of electoral fraud in Canadian history—and since it very probably gave the Conservatives their parliamentary majority, it has had a substantial institutional impact: they are now able to implement measures that were beyond their power to push through Parliament when they formed a minority government.
The 1970 use of the War Measures Act was not damaging to democracy in the same way: it was indeed invoked and then given approval by a panicked Parliament on the basis of false and misleading information, but it did receive the support of an overwhelming majority of MPs, and apart from flipping a Montréal municipal election (I believe Jean Drapeau's chief opponents were all in jail) and indirectly inspiring the Québec electorate to vote in René Lévèque's PQ government in 1976, it didn't alter Canadian structures of governance.
2. Are there any obvious Robocall Scandal ties between electoral corruption and inequality and/or poverty (other than the obvious current Fair Elections Act maneuvering to eliminate 'vouching' etc.)?
Since the 1980s in the U.S., and during the past decade in Canada, electoral fraud has to an overwhelming degree been practised by right-wing parties (the Republicans in the U.S., and the Conservatives here). These parties have quite consistently pursued policies that are more damaging to the poor and more productive of inequality and increased poverty than the policies advocated by their opponents.
To the extent that electoral fraud has empowered the Conservatives, bringing them into office in 2006 and giving them majority-government status in 2011, it has very obviously enabled them to enact policies that have harmed poor and First Nations people.
3. Where does the Robocall Scandal rank in terms of any international corruption indexes monitoring election fraud (2008-2014)?
I'm not inclined to put much reliance on such indexes, though I don't claim to have studied them closely. I have noted, however, that Transparency.org rates Colombia as being very much less corrupt than Venezuela—a conclusion that is blatantly incorrect and that must result from political bias. (Trade unionists, journalists, and opposition politicians are routinely murdered in Colombia, while Venezuelan elections have repeatedly been pronounced clean by organizations like the Carter Foundation.) Transparency.org also gives a comparatively high score to the United States, a judgment that I know to be false. (I have studied the last four U.S. presidential elections quite closely, and I published several articles on the subject of Republican election fraud in the 2004 election.) A comparison with U.S. practices can tell us something about where we now stand.
U.S. elections are more corrupt than even our 2011 election by a very substantial margin. The electoral system is a two-party duopoly which places serious legal and institutional barriers in front of third-party candidates for office. Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court's "Citizens United" decision, candidates who have the support of major corporate interests have the overwhelming advantage of unlimited campaign funding. And thanks to the denial of voting rights to prisoners throughout the U.S. and to former felons in many states, as well as to Republican obstruction of voter registration, deliberately dishonest and racially biased purging of voters' lists by Republican state governments, strict identity-document requirements, and polling station challenges (often based on illegal "caging" practices), a substantial proportion of the U.S. electorate which would vote for Democratic Party candidates is regularly disenfranchised. Telephone-fraud vote-suppression tactics of the kind used by the Harper Conservatives were developed by Republican operatives, and continue to be used by them.
In addition to this widespread disenfranchisement, corrupt vote-counting practices—including the non-counting of "provisional ballots," the non-counting of "over-" or "under-votes" produced by punch-card voting machines, the use of touch-screen voting machines to flip or discard votes, and massive fraud committed through manipulation of electronic vote-tabulation machines—have given the Republican Party a further advantage of 5 percent or more in each of the last three presidential elections. Corrupt vote-counting turned a 3-percent Kerry victory over Bush in 2004 into a 3-percent Bush victory over Kerry; and turned Obama's complete rout of McCain in 2008 into a decisive but not completely overwhelming victory.
By these (appalling) standards, our 2011 election was only moderately dirty. On the basis of the far-from-adequate available evidence, I would suggest that the Conservatives' telephone fraud (which aimed at disaffiliating and suppressing opposition-party votes) probably increased the Conservatives' vote share by one-half to three-quarters of one percent nation-wide. This may not seem like much—but of course the fraudulent calls were very unequally distributed: they appear to have been concentrated in many cases on swing ridings, and they arguably produced narrow Conservative victories in enough such ridings to make the difference between minority-government status and a parliamentary majority. And as in the U.S., it is a very serious matter when a major political party engages in systematic and nation-wide electoral fraud.
The intention of Bill C-23, the "Fair Elections Act," is very obviously to move our system towards the kind of corruption that is endemic in the U.S.—by weakening current limitations on campaign spending, by disproportionately disenfranchising poor and First Nations voters, by putting the local administration of elections into the hands of people appointed by the sitting MP, by disempowering still further the Chief Electoral Officer, and by making decisions over the prosecution of electoral fraud subject to the (partisan) authority of the Attorney General.
4. Did the Council of Canadians court case reveal any quotable measurement of the impact and scope of Robocall corruption victimization which the judge in fact validated?
No, it didn't. Federal Court Judge Richard G. Mosley chided the Conservative MPs for waging "trench warfare" designed to prevent the case from being judged on its merits, and found both that widespread electoral fraud had occurred and that the most likely source of the misleading calls placed across the country was the Conservative Party's CIMS database (accessed by persons unknown).
However, Mosley had no adequate notion of the scale of the fraud (he believed that the "vote suppression effort was geographically widespread but, apart from Guelph, thinly scattered"), and he made what I believe are several significant errors in interpreting the evidence.
(1) Judge Mosley dismissed the testimony of the whistleblowing call-centre employee Annette Desgagné, preferring to accept that of a Responsive Marketing Group executive, even though Mosley's own summary reveals a major contradiction in the RMG executive's evidence.
(2) He made an important category error in deciding that the evidence provided by the polling company Ekos Research differed in kind from other sorts of expert evidence and therefore could not be given determinative weight in his decision.
(3) He decided not to use the calculating method that had been applied by the Supreme Court in deciding the Opitz case in favour of the Conservative who had defeated a Liberal incumbent by 18 votes. My analysis shows that had Mosley applied the Supreme Court's calculus to the six seats in question, he would have had to conclude that without fraud two of them would have been won by the Liberal Party, two by the NDP, and two by the Conservatives.
5. With respect to the culture of robocall corruption that has now emerged in the 2008/2011 elections, can any activities be traced to public/private financing, MPs or their campaign teams (worthy of indictment after the Sona trial), or to third party middlemen acting as robocall operatives (possibly with some taint of bribes, patronage or gift-giving), or to the PMO?
I suspect that Conservative operatives in a number of ridings may have had a nodal function in the organization both of the mid-campaign harassment calls (which early reports indicated were directed against Liberal supporters in 22 ridings, most of them in Ontario)1 and also of the end-of-campaign vote-suppression calls (which occurred nation-wide from April 29 to May 2, election day). Julian Fantino should certainly be investigated: in June 2011 three members of his own riding association denounced the fact that his riding organization had an illegal slush fund containing $300,000 to $400,000 dollars.
It seems to me obvious that the fraud must have been organized out of the Conservative Party's headquarters, and I can think of a number of people who should be persons of interest in any serious investigation. It is a sad fact that much of the crucial evidence that could have led to the conviction of such people—I'm thinking of telephone-company records in particular—has almost certainly been irretrievably lost.
But for two reasons—Stephen Harper's known habits as a micro-manager, and the principle of "The Buck Stops Here"—I believe that the person who should most distinctly be held responsible is the Prime Minister.
6. Is Harper using Bill C-23, the new "Fair Elections Act," to further subvert our democracy (through vote suppression), or to change channels and cover up the Robocall scandal? Or is it a stretch (& something that shouldn't be done formally) to directly tie the Robocall Scandal to the vote suppression embedded in Bill C-23?
Bill C-23 is transparently designed to do two things: to further corrupt our electoral process to the advantage of the Conservative Party, and to ensure that any future investigation of electoral fraud cannot take place. A government that was not deeply and unrepentantly stained by electoral fraud could never have formulated such an act. I would suggest re-naming it the Tory Electoral Fraud Enablement Act.
7. What is your assessment of the Canadian mainstream media in covering the Robocall scandal? Who were the worst offenders at spouting yet more CPC propaganda, or minimizing the wrongdoing? Who provided the best coverage?
On the whole, the mainstream coverage of the scandal has been shockingly poor. The Globe and Mail's coverage has been particularly feeble and misleading (especially given its pretensions to be English Canada's national newspaper); the Toronto Star, our largest-circulation daily, has not been a whole lot better. The CBC has given the issue extensive coverage, including some significant investigative reporting. Surprisingly, perhaps, the best coverage has come from the Postmedia group (including the National Post and the Ottawa Citizen). A very large proportion of the best reporting on the scandal has come from Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher of the Ottawa Citizen. Although much of the National Post's political coverage in other areas is biased, and much of the paper's political commentary is fatuous, I have (with some degree of unwillingness) become a regular reader.
8. Ignoring Bill C-23, what should have been the new Elections Canada policy choices, electoral rules, and investigation directions which should have addressed/emerged from the scandal?
In May 2013 Marc Mayrand, Canada's Chief Electoral Officer, published a 44-page report, Preventing Deceptive Communications with Electors: Recommendations from the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada Following the 41st General Election (Ottawa: Elections Canada, 26 March 2013), www.elections.ca/res/rep/off/comm/comm_e.pdf, which offered a detailed outline and justification of the necessary changes to the Canada Elections Act. The Conservatives refused any consultation with Mayrand, and ignored his recommendations. They likewise ignored a private member's bill tabled in October 2012 by Craig Scott, the NDP's critic for parliamentary and democratic reform.
The basic changes that are needed are quite simple. Elections Canada must have full investigative powers and adequate investigative resources. There must be substantially increased penalties for electoral fraud. Elections Canada and the Commissioner for Canada Elections must continue to report to Parliament as a whole, and must remain independent of any control or influence by government ministers. Strict constraints must be placed on the databases built up by the political parties. Measures need to be taken to increase voter turnout, not to suppress the vote (through, for example, photo-ID requirements or a rejection of "vouching").
9. Are any constitutional structural constraints on electoral corruption now eliminated or minimized by Harper's latest efforts?
Yes. Bill C-23 is designed to ensure that there can be no future repetition of what happened in late February 2012, when news reports by Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher based on court documents filed by Elections Canada investigators revived public and parliamentary awareness of the election fraud scandal.
Not merely will Bill C-23 make it unlikely that the public could learn about any ongoing investigation; by putting the Commissioner of Canada Elections under the power of the Attorney General, it will ensure that no investigations can even be launched without the approval of the government in power.
10. Given Elections Canada's inability to educate voters under Bill-23, what NGO, public, or governmental actions or changes are needed by 2015 to ensure more 'informed voters versus uninformed voters' re: election fraud?
People need to know, first, that the governing party of this country engaged in very large-scale and nation-wide electoral fraud during the last federal election—and that the Conservatives very probably owe their majority in parliament to this fraud. Whatever their political beliefs, most Canadians value decency and honesty; when they realize that there has been systematic cheating, they may well be motivated to learn more about a range of issues, and to withdraw support from the party that cheated.
People who have had no previous experience of telephone-fraud vote-suppression (in the form, for example, of calls impersonating Elections Canada which gave false information about supposed changes in polling-station locations) are vulnerable to being deceived by it. We can draw some comfort from evidence that suggests that people who know about this kind of fraud, or who have actually experienced it, are much less likely to be fooled. Telephone fraud brings diminishing returns.
It's not hard to predict that people who have engaged in electoral fraud in the past will attempt new forms of it in the future. Citizens need to be informed that high-tech voting systems—touch-screen voting machines, electronic ballot counters, electronic vote-tabulators, and on-line voting systems—are highly vulnerable to systematic and large-scale electoral fraud. (In a U.S.-style system, where federal elections are conducted in every county and state by partisan officials rather than by a neutral and arms-length Electoral Commission like Elections Canada, fraud of this kind is inevitable when the technology provides an opening for it.) Citizens need to know that the system that is least vulnerable to fraud is one in which paper ballots are counted and tabulated by hand by well-trained officials, and remain available for possible recounts when the results are close or are disputed. (As computer security experts know well, meaningful recounts are impossible with electronic voting machines or with on-line voting.)
Citizens need to be aware as well that the vote-suppression measures proposed in Bill C-23 are aimed particularly at reducing the turnout of opposition-party supporters. The Conservatives will gain a larger (if less focused) advantage from these measures than they did from their telephone fraud in 2011.
11. What role, if any, do special interests and elite cartels (e.g. Big Oil, Gas and Coal etc.) play in tempting or incentivizing Harper people to embark on illegal election practices?
I have no hard facts to work with on this subject, so can only speculate. Opinion polls regularly show that Canadians are deeply concerned about what they understand of environmental issues—and, in particular, about the accumulating evidence that indicates we are in the midst of processes of probably cataclysmic climate change.
But the Harper Conservatives are committed to unconstrained development of hydrocarbon resources—tar sands, shale gas, and pipeline systems. Political parties committed to unpopular policies are as a matter of course tempted to engage in corrupt practices as a means of frustrating the will of the majority.
12. Many third world countries with petroleum assets are afflicted by petro-corruption. Can we expect much more of the same here given the current Canadian fossil fuel boom?
Yes. Climate scientists indicated several years ago (using figures that accelerating climate change processes have now made out-of-date) that the largest global temperature increase that could be permitted without risking global catastrophe is one or two degrees centigrade above pre-industrial levels. It has been estimated that burning about one-fifth of existing proven reserves of oil, gas, and coal will raise global temperatures up to that two-degree-increase level. There is very good reason to think that burning more than this amount of hydrocarbons will take us past tipping-points (e.g. with a loss of most of the polar ice-caps and massive releases of methane clathrate deposits in the arctic tundra and arctic ocean) that will produce runaway global warming, runaway mass extinctions, and the end of human civilization. This means of course that increased tar sands exploitation amounts, together with shale-gas exploration , amount to a form of eco-suicide.
Oil and gas company executives and the politicians who serve them—and who are engaged in facilitating expanded tar-sands and shale gas production, along with the environmental devastation they produce—are not interested in evidence of this kind. They can be expected to do what they feel necessary in order to preserve and increase corporate profits.
13. Do you think Big Blue Conservative 'machine politics' played a significant role in this illegal choice or a few highly-placed individuals?
I assume the question here is about the choice to carry out systematic electoral fraud in our 2011 election. "Highly-placed individuals" make the decisions in machine politics. In party organizations, as in military hierarchies, information about centrally-planned operations is made available to party operatives on a "need-to-know" basis.
14. How significant a role is Harper's personal overly-paternalistic view of our democracy playing in the ongoing corruption?
Harper's contempt for democracy and for parliamentary procedures is legendary, and he is a micro-manager. I regard him as directly responsible for the 2011 electoral fraud scandal.
15. How much will any provisions of Bill C-23 (or other new CRTC regulation?) practically deter further robocall corruption?
Bill C-23 is designed to enable and facilitate electoral fraud. (One can anticipate that the Conservatives will take action in the near future to corrupt the regulation-enforcement practices of the CRTC. They have been quite heavily fined by the CRTC for robocall violations of CRTC regulations carried out since the 2011 election. The Harper Conservatives do not forget or forgive insults of this kind.)
16. In your view, are there any swing ridings with incumbent Conservatives who should be closely monitored or ranked as the most likely (of any) to consider fraudulent practices in 2015?
All ridings won by any party with a lead of less than about 3,000 votes should be closely monitored.
17. Will 'third party [illegal] robocalling' likely become a greater concern in 2015 due to competitive factional conflict and political malfeasance?
The Harper Conservatives have in the past (e.g. in the Saanich-Gulf Islands riding in 2008) gotten away with flagrant violations of the spending limits governing 'third-party' advertising in federal elections. They may well try to do so again.
High levels of voter turnout tend strongly to favour parties of the left and centre. Vote suppression will no doubt continue to be of interest to Conservative Party strategists. Negative, dirty campaigns are known to produce lower overall turnout, and political tacticians always hope that if enough of the mud they sling through attack ads sticks, the reduced-turnout effect will be greater among supporters of opposition parties. Attack ads (whether paid for by political parties or by supposed 'third-party' agencies) are legal, even when they are seriously misleading in content—but one can assume that a party which has developed a culture of cheating will also make use of whatever illegal means its decision-makers think they can get away with.
I can't predict whether other political parties will also decide to make use of telephone fraud. Except in one minor and isolated instance involving a single robocalled message in the riding of Guelph during the 2011 election, the Liberals have not used illegal robocalls. The NDP stupidly used improper robocalls against one of their Québec MPs who defected to the Liberals after the 2011 election (they were duly fined for this transgression by the CRTC). I am not aware of any evidence suggesting improper use of robocalls by the Green Party or the Bloc Québécois.
18. Crony capitalism is alive and well under Harper. What undemocratic transgressions may come from Bill C-23 contribution cap removals for fundraising etc.?
I think I've answered this in responding to questions 9, 10, and 15 above.
19. Does Bill C-23 and the new separation of powers for Elections Canada have any as yet undiscussed implications for political electoral accountability in 2015?
The Advisory Committee of Political Parties provided for in section 21.1 is clearly designed to hamstring the Chief Electoral Officer (any "guidelines" or "interpretation notes" s/he issues are automatically delayed by that committee for at least a month [section 16.2]).
I have not yet had time to do an adequate comparative study of the previous text of the Canada Elections Act and the revisions proposed in Bill C-23. However, I believe that the changes have the effect of increasing the input of the incumbent party into the process of selecting the people who administer the election in each riding.
20. Does 'robocalling' have any use in CPC 'political advertising' (and GOTV campaigning) which they may employ in 2015 that we should be monitoring?
It will be heavily used in both functions, as it was in 2011. It is important for opposition political parties to monitor this kind of stuff, and to be in a position to counter the falsehoods and smears that will no doubt figure in Conservative Party advertising robocalls.
Given that other kinds of fraud (beyond vote-suppression phone calls) are likely to figure in future elections, it may be necessary to start thinking about monitoring existing media-conducted exit polls—and organizing citizen-conducted exit polls as well.
In the 2004 US presidential election, I monitored exit-poll results of three kinds: the national exit poll, and the state exit polls in the key swing states of Florida and Ohio—and found conclusive evidence that the results were fraudulently altered during the night following the election. Parallel monitoring of all of the state exit polls was done by only two researchers in all of the U.S., Jonathan Simon and Steven Freeman. (That evidence turned out to be quite important in assessing the scale of the fraud in the official vote-tally—though one would never know that from the reporting of the mainstream US media.)
21. Does Bill C-23 have any new bearing on expenditure auditing for auto-dialing campaigns?
I need to do further study here. I believe that Bill C-23 will facilitate certain kinds of unregulated campaign expenses.
22. If there is any robocalling in 2015, any breaches will regrettably have the new Commissioner report to government, not parliament. What changes might we demand in the hopes of amending the bill before passage?
The Commissioner of Canada Elections, and the power to recommend prosecutions of violations of the Canada Elections Act, must remain within Elections Canada. Transferring this power into the hands of a member of the government (the Attorney General/Minister of Justice) is completely unacceptable.
1 Commissioner of Canada Elections Yves Côté's Summary Investigation Report on Robocalls, published on April 24, 2014, revealed that 51 percent of the 2,448 documented complaints about which Elections Canada preserved records were complaints about harassment calls. Given that the recorded complaints came from 261 ridings across Canada, it is clear that harassment calls, even if they were concentrated in certain ridings, must have occurred in a large majority of the ridings from which complaints were recorded.


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Latin is seeing an uptick in interest with those between the ages of 18 – 80 through new revival Cathedral Courses. While Latin is still considered a dead language, many of English's 'finest' cathedrals have undertaken the task of resurrecting Latin, so to speak. Greek, in addition to Latin, has also been included in these courses.
According to a 2012 census poll, Greek is the native language of some 13 million people, but modern Greek is somewhat different than what was spoken anciently, the latter of which is what's being offered through these courses. It coincides with the Latin theme and brings with it an appreciation that may have otherwise been lost on the modern day speaker. That said, should Latin or ancient Greek matter to us today?
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"Sometimes people are interested because they've heard Latin said at mass or they want to be able to read inscriptions on tombs in the cathedral." Sharpley said. "And people who are not generally good at languages are often quite good at Latin."
Sharpley later goes on to explain that the Latin of Ovid and Virgil was a language to be heard not studied, because, according to Sharpley, it's a 'lively language' made for the ear. He mentions, "Every few minutes, someone has an 'aha' moment when they realise Latin is part of our language today."
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Retrieve Lament: Les & Renee Aylesworth's mourning story/
Throughout this week that we call Holy, I've invited a few friends who have companioned with Christ and His people in suffering to share a bit of their stories with us. I asked my friends Les and Renee if I could share an update on their lives three years after Renee, at age 38 and the mother of 5 children, ages 20 months - 13 years old, suffered a stroke. Les was a God-send to us when we were first figuring out how to be parents to teenagers - befriending our oldest son at a key time in his life. We've grieved Renee's illness from a distance and have grown in our ability to understand what suffering-bourne love looks like -- in marriage, in family, and in community. Would you read their story with me, and listen with an open, prayerful heart for any words Christ might be speaking to you through them?
Les and Renee's journal entry from February 26, 2017
(the third anniversary of her stroke)
It struck me tonight that 3 years ago was the last night we went to bed without stroke being on our minds. Renee was going to go to the doctor to get her headache checked out...but that never came.
I can hardly believe that 3 years has passed. I remember when it was 3 months and that felt like an eternity; and the thought of 3 years was nearly impossible to fathom. And yet, here we are. I think we always tend to reflect on anniversaries of any kind and this is certainly one that makes you think a lot. People who have survived strokes call them a "strokeversary", so Renee is having her 3rd Strokeversary. It truly is a badge of honor, because surviving a stroke is a big deal! Especially considering in those initial minutes Renee thought she was going to die and meet Jesus, and in the initial hours, the hospital thought the same. But she didn't and one of our first prayers of many prayers prayed for Renee was answered. She lived and I'm able to share about life 3 years post-stroke.
I remember in those early days, when we were in the ICU, every time I went back to Renee's room I prayed and hoped that I would walk in and see Renee sitting up in bed and say, "Hi Les." I hoped after she went through the initial procedure to attempt to remove the clots, just hours after the stroke, that she would come out of the procedure all better. I had hoped after our stay at the rehab hospital that they would help put Renee's brain back together again and that she would be all better. "All better" is what the kids and I have prayed thousands of times since February 26, 2014. But "all better" hasn't come; and that is hard for all of us.
Yes, we strive towards some kind of new normal, but that is hard to swallow too. I think it's because we rarely believe or think that the "new normal" will last very long. We tend to think it's more like going to another country where there are different customs and languages and foods and even restrictions, and everything seems different and for the duration of your stay that is your "new normal." But you know that you will eventually come home and the "new normal" will have been temporary, and you will resume your "old normal." That's at least how I imagined it even as I tried talking myself into accepting our "new normal." But the "old normal" is gone and the "new normal" is here and as far as accepting it, I'll be honest, I'm not there. I want to, I really do, but I still haven't come all the way to full acceptance of it. I'm, after 3 years, still grieving the loss of the wife that I once knew.
Now I'm aware that's normal, to some degree. Others I've spoken to that have survived stroke said that it wasn't until after 5 years that they felt or knew it was going to be OK. Five years? I don't know if that gives me relief or gives me chills. Still, I want to feel OK now; and I wrestle with that tension. But, I was recently reminded that it wasn't until many years after Joseph was abandoned by his brothers, then sold into slavery, then thrown in prison, that he could tell his brothers that what had happened to him, God meant for good. So I try to have grace for myself.
And for Renee, this strokeversary is mainly filled with disappointment. She was certain she would be doing much better by now. So was I. But her days, after Aviah goes to school, are mostly boring for her. That is, when she's not battling the many effects of the stoke. She wishes she could read a book. (As an aside, literacy is more important than you can imagine. It truly allows people to expand their worlds; but being unable to, Renee's world has shrunk.) She wishes she could call a friend and shoot the bull. She wants to hop in the car and go visit someone. But she can't, and so she spends half the day alone and lonely.
Life is harder than we thought it would be at this point. We had hoped for more progress by now. We had hoped we would be feeling better about the whole thing. I find that we are still very much in the dark forest in our journey. And yet, when life has felt darkest, God has always sent a little light for us to give us hope.
Renee hasn't had a seizure since July. Last year, at this time, I wondered if we would ever be past them; and here we are. So now Renee is released to start driving again. Which of course brings about a whole new slew of worries for me (especially now that Ivan recently turned 16 and got his permit). Most of the things that give me hope, like most of the things I miss, are little things: a new word, a new phrase, the fact that she makes most of our meals now, or that she gets the coffee ready for the morning most of the time. She even has been waking up earlier, many times before me, and making me coffee! She was always a morning person, so it's good to see a little bit of the old Renee coming out. She has been able to stay home alone since the start of school year. This has removed a huge burden off me, because one of the biggest logistical tasks I had to perform every day was making sure there was someone to stay with her. Now I have so much time on my hands I don't know what to do:)! There really are too many to share of how God has provided little lights to brighten our lives.
I recently stumbled across a kids' book that came out recently called The Voyage to the Star Kingdom. The book primarily deals with the loss of child, but there is something in it that speaks to all who have gone through prolonged suffering. It's about a family that finds itself deluged by a storm cloud that settles only over their house and won't stop raining; and the rising waters threaten to destroy them. And this is how it's felt for us these past 3 years - like a storm cloud has settled over our home and won't go away. It just won't stop raining; and it has felt like many times we were going to be swallowed by the flood. I very much resonated with that image and I'm sure many of you can too.
But, the book goes on to describe how the Star King, even though he may not stop the storm, always sends a gift of something or someone to help meet a need. And this too has been our experience. Over these past 3 years, even though the storm cloud has continued raining down on us, we have seen the hand of God provide in so many ways that I suppose could fill books! So many of you have faithfully prayed for us. Over the course of several months this past year, Renee kept getting anonymous postcards from someone as they traveled around the world, telling her that they were praying for her wherever they went. You can't imagine how that encouraged and lifted us.
So we covet your prayers still. We need wisdom and open doors for Renee to enter a clinical trial for stroke treatment. We need safety as Renee starts driving again. We need no more seizures to continue. We need Renee to make more tangible progress in her speech. We need her ankle to stop rolling and constantly being injured. I need wisdom in just doing life as Dad, Mom, Caregiver, Neurologist, Nurse, Chauffeur, Cheerleader, Secretary, Speech Therapist, Physical and Occupational Therapist, etc...oh, and Husband too.
We really want to do this journey well. We really do. We want God to smile down on us. And for Him to be glorified somehow through this. Even though it is hard to accept our "new normal" I want to trust Him - no matter what!
Isaiah 42:2-3a: "When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior"
Thank you again for helping us weather this long storm, and helping us not be swept away. We love you for it!
Les & Renee live in central New York with their five children.
You can follow Les & Renee's journey on their Caring Bridge journal.
(You can read all of the Retrieve Lament stories from previous years here.)


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KTS Inc. is a small promotional product company. As the production designer, my main job is to make sure all information is accurate before a job is sent to production. This ensures that the size, color and placement of the logo on the product is exactly what the client has asked for.
In addition to the production side, I have also been able to create a vast array of posters for advertising. I'm always trying to find ways of incorporating both my design and photography together. For these posters, all the images were shot by me.
Similarly, I did a complete renovation of KTS' catalog, which I also reshot all their products for. To see the catalog, scroll down just a bit more.
For two years I worked at Oregon State University's Student Health Center. There, along side my co-designer Sarah, we created and designed a vast array of promotional materials for the workers in the center. This included posters, flyers, vinyl banners, buttons, stickers, pamphlets, LCD screens and more.
As a photographer and designer, this is where I was allowed to really explore how the two interact, and I would say the majority of the work I made played off of images that I shot myself.
Ridge Rider was a theoretical phone application designed as a statistic and social media for snowboarders and skiers. With three other designers, we collaborated in collecting data based on surveys, user testings, and research to filter out the best elements necessary to our end goal.
A brief overview of a few of the parts we included were:
- The ability to track your time.
- Tracking your speed.
- Having personal stats and goals.
- Connecting with other snowboarders and skiers.
- Current weather and resort status.
There are plenty of applications in existence that do one or two of these components together, however, our goal was to create one complete piece that had everything in one place. It eliminates the need to have multiple applications for different reasons and keeps everything concise.
Collaborators: Melissa Blanchard, Kimmy Hescock, Morgan Hostetler
Create Change was a theoretical campaign designed to bring awareness to how those in the LGBTQ spectrum are treated. Utilizing the experiences of the community I created a short film as the main focus.
To add substance I designed reminder cards that displayed the campaigns main objective "create change", because it's up to us as a people to make a difference.
The final piece was a simple designed website where the short film could exist on its own. The end goal was to highlight an extreme some people go through and how the smallest action can have the biggest impact.


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3 Tips For Naming Docker Containers
When you create a docker container, it is assigned a universally exclusive symbol (UUID). These are necessary to elude naming conflicts and promote automation without humankind intervention. They effectively identify containers to the host and network. However, they take more effort for humans to differentiate between, whether in the 64 character humankind-readable long display or the more frequently shown
12 character short form, which might look something like
To support the humans, Docker also supplies containers with a randomly-generated name from two words, joined by an underscore, e.g.
evil_ptolemy. This can make it easier to tell one container from another, but the ergodic names don't give any more perception into the container function than the UUID.
Here are three tips that can make it easier to keep your relatednesses as you learn to work with containers.
1 Name the container when you run it
By increasing
--name=meaningful_name to the
docker run command, an
evil_ptolomy becomes more perceptible in interactive sessions as well as in the production of regulates like
docker ps. There are limitations, however. Since container names must be distinctive, you cannot use intended naming and scale a service beyond one container.
On the Command line or in a dockerfile:
docker run --name=meaningful_name
For instance, if we ran a container based on the
nginx base graphic and commenced
it like this:
- docker run --name nginx -d nginx
The name would appear in the database of running containers:
- docker ps
OutputCONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
08f333ef7216 nginx "nginx -g 'daemon off" 15 seconds ago Up 14 seconds 80/tcp, 443/tcp nginx
While the name appears in the production of
docker ps and can be used to oversee the container, it will not appear in the command prompt of the container if you attach to it or in log records. In order to accomplish that, you'll also need to assign a hostname.
2 Assign a hostname to the container
The ideal given
to the
--hostname command is set inside
/etc/hostname and
/etc/hosts inside the container. Consequently, it appears in command prompt. It plays a role in configuring container DNS and can be useful while in the learning levels of a multi-container setup. It is not uncomplicated to accesses from outside the container, but it will appear in the containers log records, and when those records are written to a volume private of the host, it can make it easier to identify the container.
cli and Dockerfile:
docker run --hostname=ideal OR
docker run -h ideal
--name and
--hostname are both helpful for identification of containers, sometimes, it's not about naming the container at all. Rather, it's about having a container cleanable up after itself without having to remember to do it yourself.
3 Automatically delete containers when they exit
When debugging, its useful that a stopped container persists after it exits. You can retain data like log records and investigate the containers closing attribute. Sometimes, however, you know when you run the container that you won't want it around when you're done. In this case, you can use the
--rm flag to automatically erase it when it exits. This can make it easier to keep things cleanable.
Be cautious, though! If you're using Docker volumes,
--rm will remove any volumes NOT selected
by name.
cli and Dockerfile:
docker run --rm
This is very helpful when you're building an illustration and need to attach to a running container. You want to look around, and you don't want to fill up your disk with containers you don't intend to use again.
These three flags for
docker run,
--hostname, and
--rm can each, in their own route, make it easier to know what's what when learning Docker. You can learn more about containers and working with the
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My writing blog? I haven't been posting a lot here because I've been posting there. Come on over and take a look!!!
My writing blog? I haven't been posting a lot here because I've been posting there. Come on over and take a look!!!
I used to have a shirt, not a blouse, definitely a shirt hanging in my closet. I made sure it was always clean, it was my favorite shirt. I wore it no less than 2 times a week. I loved it because of the way it hung on my curves. It wasn't revealing or feminine and it wasn't refrained or masculine. This shirt, the color of burnt ash matched any mood I might be in on any particular day. I flowed with a sense of purpose in this shirt. This shirt clung to not just my body, but to my mind, soul, and spirit. It was who I am, inside and out.
The first time I met her, I was wearing this shirt. This shirt gave me confidence, and in my minds eye, sex appeal. I doubt anyone else saw what I saw when I looked in the mirror. Most people are this way. They live life being directed by the reins rather than holding them themselves. I don't mind so much, because I have a sense of freedom from knowing what they don't. Because of that fact, this shirt gave me the confidence I needed to go up to her, and smile my most sensational smile, and say hello. She took all of me in, and saw in me at that precise moment what I saw when I looked in the mirror every time I wore this shirt. I was grateful.
For many years, she and I were inseparable. She seemed to adore me, even if I wasn't wearing this shirt. That's something I've never been able to say before, so I knew this shirt had to have magic! This shirt brought us together and it was rewarded with it being worn over and over again. This shirt gave me 8 faithful years. I loved this shirt!
I'm not sure which came first, the dying of this shirt or the dying of my relationship with her. She began to despise this shirt with rolling her eyes, and mouthing, "Oh God, I'm sick of it." Did my shirt lose its magic, or had I? No sooner had the shirt lost its appeal, so did our relationship. I was back to being the only one who saw something special when I looked in the mirror. Whatever she saw, she no longer did.
This shirt hung in the closet, never to be touched again. But the pain of seeing it there, hurt too much, that I was forced to put it to rest. This burnt ash colored shirt that had given me so much, deserved no less. As I sat on the side of the bed saying my last goodbyes, one of the last 4 buttons that still hung on, rolled down the sleeve onto the floor, just as a tear rolled down my cheek.
I often think of this shirt, and the magic it had within its fibers. Deep down, a part of me wishes we had never met.
A vignette I wrote as a submission for a contest for the Off-Broadway show Love, Loss, and What I Wore. I don't think I won, so I decided to post it publicly. http://www.more.com/love-love-and-what-i-wore-contest
I think I figured something out. Those who could care less about you don't wring your heart into a twisted knot. Those who care about you, even love you, make you feel like shit. Life and stuff, it never ceases to amaze me.
I certainly see the appeal of being a lonely old maid….
Why is it that each new teenage generation thinks they invented all the cool phrases and words or that only they are entitled to use them?
The other day, one of the teenagers in my life was telling me something great about their day.
To show great, short winded, enthusiastic support, I snapped "Awesome!"
What I heard back was, "Oh no, you did NOT just use that word!"
"What word?"
"Awesome! You're too old to use that word."
Listen for sounds of me laughing, HYSTERICALLY!!!
"Oh, right…. okey dokey, GOLLY GEE THAT SURE SOUNDS NEATO!"
"Well now you're just be sarcastic", comes the reply.
I think if anything, the older we get the more entitled we are to use the shorter, cooler phrases. As time goes by we're burning our candles at both ends. When we're trying to express ourselves we need to say what's on our minds as quickly as possible before we forget what it is that's on our minds!
And speaking of bull shit…… I wonder if out in a bull field somewhere there are 2 bulls talking to eachother saying, "Man, that bill the bull sure is a bully! he's full of human shit!"
this is a continuation to a previous post, "have a crappy day". This came to my mind today while visiting my local Starbucks. I receive gift cards there twice a year. It would be 3 times a year, but since I'm a lucky bitch who has a birthday the day after Christmas, I get the gift cards twice a year. Christmas/birthday and mothers day.
So, I go in and always get the "how are you?"
Every single time someone ask me that question, I wonder what would happen if I said something really off the fucking wall.
Something like, "I was fine yesterday, but today I just want fucking coffee" or "I'm great now that I know Ann Coulter's point of view is the same as a horse's ass with eyes." Or some other crazy shit.
But instead, I always say "good" or "great." BLAH!
Then, they always insist on knowing your FIRST name so they can call back to the barista,
"so and so wants a……"
Here again, I want to say something crazy because when I say "Gia" I know what will come.
"Ah, that's an unusual name" or "I loved that movie" or "were you named after the model?"
I guess I should see that as a compliment…. but
I get my grande starbucks cup with my name nicely placed above the special order section. But I wonder….
What would the barista write on my cup if the polite, little college girl said, "non fat, triple, grande latte for fuck you!"
So, in light of my wonderful mood here's a bit from George Carlin, Have a nice day!!!!


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The Fudget library is available in precompiled form for some of the above mentioned platforms. The library is also available in source form.
To compile the Fudget library (in case you can not use a precompiled distribution) and fudget applications, you need a Haskell compiler. The current version of the library works only with HBC [Aug97], since the library makes use of existential types, which is an extension of Haskell currently supported only by HBC, as far as we know. Earlier versions of the library work with NHC and GHC as well.
The Fudget library and HBC are available for download from
Read theftp://ftp.cs.chalmers.se/pub/haskell/chalmers
README files and, if you get the precompiled
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Learn how to incorporate crochet techniques into your knitting projects with this 2 hour Crochet for Knitters Workshop. This workshop will go over the basics of crochet, how to use simple crochet techniques to compliment your knitting, and basics of creating a crochet border around a knit project. This workshop is perfect for the students who want a new approach to learning crochet techniques. With this workshop, you will begin to learn how to use each technique to your advantage!
Workshop includes:
2 hours of Instruction by Sarah Jamison
Knit samples for practice
Crochet Hook
None, but if you know basic crochet stitches, this is a plus!
3 person minimum, 8 person maximum.
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Cost: - $35 per person
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For this event, a minimum of 3 students must be signed up 24 hours before the event start time. If this event does not meet the minimum requirements within the 24 hour time frame, we reserve the right to cancel the event. If this occurs, we will email all current ticket holders with updates and a full refund.
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We strongly encourage you to RSVP in advance.
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Toronto launch for Neil Smith's "Boo"
I went to Neil Smith's book launch for "Boo" at Type Books in Toronto on Monday. If it sounds like I'm bragging, it's because I am. I felt damn lucky to be there, and surrounded by so many other wonderful writers too.
I've seen Neil interviewed several times (most recently for a master class in Sarah Selecky's Intensive) and I can't get over how unflinchingly sweet he is. That sweetness really pops and sparkles in his writing, which makes me all the more thrilled to spend some time in Oliver Dalrymple's head.


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Brendon Hartley has revealed he will be part of Porsche's development work for its first ABB FIA Formula E Championship car.
The Kiwi confirmed on Twitter that he is "still together with Porsche and part of FE development", alongside other commitments with Ferrari and SMP Racing.
Porsche is currently developing its first all-electric race car ahead of its Formula E debut in Season Six, which is expected to get underway in December this year.
Hartley will balance his development work with his role as sim driver for Ferrari in Formula 1, as well as competing in the next two FIA World Endurance Championship races with SMP Racing in place of Jenson Button.
He has been a Porsche-contracted driver for several seasons and was part of its successful LMP1 program, winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2017 and the WEC title in 2015 and 2017.
He is understood to be in contention for the second Porsche Formula E seat, along with Mitch Evans and Andre Lotterer.
However, as reported by e-racing365 earlier this week, it's expected that Porsche would prefer a driver with Gen 2 Formula E experience in its second car, which could rule Hartley out.
His teammate will be Neel Jani, who was announced in December and will undertake the lion's share of development work.


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I am a business, a mom, a wife, a friend, a playmate, a pet owner, a book reviewer, a freelance writer, a plant killer, a bargain hunter, a fashionista, a gamer, a head banger, and a shopper extraordinaire. Welcome to my world.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
WTH Wednesday
Thank goodness fashion crimes aren't a criminal offense or these un-fashionistas would be doing some serious jail time. "After I leave here I will be going to my second job down at the docks." Yes Vienna; you lied, schemed, and fought for that. Psssst.....Zac Posen hates you. Lindsey, this is even too much for you. This is one of those rare times where wearing the designer to the designer's party was NOT the best advertising. Toyko called...they need the B-Moth costume back PRONTO Missy! God made Lady Gaga so pretty to help cover up the crazy. This just makes me sad. Resistance is futile...
Posted by Gigi's Consignment Closet at 7:01 PM
Labels: dita von teese, fashion faux pas, fergie, lady gaga, rhianna
2 comments:
- Candice said...
What's up with Lindsay and the mc hammer pants?
- March 11, 2010 at 5:53 PM
- Gigi's Consignment Closet said...
Candice-I wonder how many stuffed animals were sacrificed to make that vest?
- March 11, 2010 at 6:03 PM
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Source: Arab News 2012
VIENNA: OPEC kept its forecast for growth in world oil demand unchanged for 2012 and 2013 yesterday, as the organization's ministers gathered in Vienna for a meeting on output amid economic sanctions on Iran.
World oil demand this year was expected to reach 88.80 mbpd, up from 88.04 mbpd in 2011, the group said in its monthly report.
Next year, global demand is set to grow to 89.57 mbpd, OPEC forecast.
The report comes a day before OPEC ministers of the 12-nation group meet in Vienna to decide on its oil production ceiling.
"Japanese oil use in power plants increased from 7.5 percent of total energy use to 19.7 percent.
This denotes growth of 300,000 bpd for the country in 2012 and made up 40 percent of annual world oil demand growth," the organization said.
For 2013, OPEC was more optimistic, citing an improving economy in the US and a potential return to growth in the euro zone.


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Commack High School Girls Varsity Basketball vs. Hauppauge - Suffolk Finals
Congratulations to the county champions Commack Girls Basketball team on a big comeback win over Hauppauge.
Back in Farmindale's Nold Hall Arena for this game. Not a huge crowd for a Sunday but with both teams advancing to the L.I. championship that's usually the case. Also not a lot of media competition although Newsday covered it. I was just enjoying the bright lighting for as long as I could before moving on to the (much darker) Brentwood arena Thursday.
Gotta cut this one short so I can get some photos over to the Smithtown News before their deadline.
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Visualize to Realize
Presenter: Randy Gardner
As we think, so we become. Learn amazingly powerful visualization techniques that elite athletes and highly successful performers in diverse arenas employ to help realize their goals. Understand the tremendous impact that visualization can have in the world of music performance and life, and experience a period of guided meditation and visualization.
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Painting Kitchen Cabinets More than any other area involved in house painting, kitchen cabinet painting has a wide variation in: ✔ Quality of products that you use ✔ Skill level of the painter ✔ Thoroughness of the project Painting kitchen cabinets the right way is an expensive undertaking relative to other painting projects. … Read More


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Valerie Wilson joined Dishon in 1999 and is now Vice-President of the Vaughan, Ontario company. She is responsible for all day-to-day operations, financial management and business development. She applies her financial and accounting experience to all aspects of Dishon's markets and products. Her entrepreneurial approach and get-it-done attitude have been key to growing Dishon's aerospace presence, including guiding the expansion of Dishon's manufacturing activities into Mexico.
Val was the catalyst that got Women in Aerospace-Canada off the drawing board and into existence. Under her leadership and along with a small group of enthusiasts, the inaugural luncheon of WIA-Canada was organized at the Toronto Aerospace Museum. Her development of the core concept, her reaching out to the US organization and her moving WIA-Canada forward to join the Global Network of Women in Aerospace at the 2010 Farnborough Airshow speak to the passion and energy she applied to this program of promoting the interests of women in Canada's aerospace community. Val was recently elected as Chair of the WIA-Canada's first Board of Directors.
Val was recently elected as a Director of the Ontario Aerospace Council representing the SME sector. She also serves as a Board Member of a not for profit organization, Eden House Community Center, where she directed the committee in the purchase of an additional home, which now houses ten homeless women with mental health issues.
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