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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Happy New Year!!!
I pray that you, my dear followers, will have a wonderful new year filled with good health, much happiness, a growing hope, deep contentment, & most of all a closer walk with God.
Posted by Shirlee at 3:37 PM 13 comments
Friday, December 30, 2011
The Last of My Christmas Finishes
Here are the final two Christmas finishes which I can now share with you : )
This first one was stitched from a Country Rustic Primitives pattern. I used sawdust for the stuffing & I loved using it! Sawdust or crushed walnut shells ... both are wonderful!
Posted by Shirlee at 12:53 PM 10 comments
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Need Help from Fellow Cross Stitchers
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Monday, December 26, 2011
Another Finish to Share Along With Lousy Photos of My Christmas Gift Stash Additions
I can share another pre-Christmas finish with you this morning : ) This pinkeep is from a Gettysburg Homestead pattern.
The majority of the charts in the next 2 photos are Prairie Schooler Santas. That stitching temptress Marly over at Samplers & Santas had been posting some of her PS Santa projects all along but the closer it got to Christmas the more she posted. Not just a Santa here or there, mind you, but a never-ending array of them filling boxes, mantel tops, garlands, trees, windows, etc. I was able to keep my distance at first. After all, Santas do not dominate my Christmas decor. Marly, however, would not give up. Like those pesky peckers that she has constantly peck-peck-pecking away at her house, Marly post-post-posted those blasted PS Santas until I couldn't resist them anymore. Feeling like a cheap tramp I armed myself with my husband's financial backing & rushed off to my favorite stitching supplier's site ... 1-2-3- Stitch ... & ordered every PS Santa chart I could find. Upon their arrival I just handed him the unopened package & said "since you paid for these you can wrap them up for me for Christmas if you want."
Posted by Shirlee at 11:58 AM 22 comments
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Twas the Day After Christmas ... Almost
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Merry Christmas!
Posted by Shirlee at 4:32 PM 8 comments
Stitcher's Giveaway Results
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Another Finish ... & Some Other Stuff : )
I am able to share another finish with you this morning ...
Posted by Shirlee at 8:24 AM 11 comments
Happy Day Before the Day Before Christmas!
Yes, it's the day before the day before Christmas! My countdown counter is telling me right now that there is just a wee bit more than 1 day & 12 hours till it's here. Today will be a quiet day for the most part. The only "have to do" thing on my agenda is cutting up celery & onion & making hard boiled eggs for the potato salad I'll be making tomorrow.
Some of my blogger friends are going to enjoy a white Christmas! How lucky you all are! The weatherman is saying that here it will be 51 degrees & sunny. The times when John reports this type of weather to me during the Christmas season are the only times when you will hear me utter the words "Bah! Humbug!" Ah well, next year it will be different. Next year we will be living someplace where we will be snowed in about now : )
And speaking of next year, I mentioned yesterday that I've been uttering the words "maybe next year" an awful lot lately. I find that I am getting a sort of mental poke in the ribs every time I do & a passage of scripture enters into my mind ... "Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such & such a city, spend a year there, buy & sell, & make a profit," whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow.... Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live & do this or that." (James 4:13-15) I do have my plans for the coming year & I will share them at another time, but I will not forget that all my plans are "if the Lord wills."
Don't forget my Stitcher's Giveaway ends tonight at 11:59 p.m. Central Standard Time. In addition to the "grand prize winner" there will be 4 additional items to be won by runner's up. This has been the first giveaway I've had where so many people wanting a chance to win. I might get adventurous & try the random number picker thingie ... or maybe not since I can't even remember the actual name of it ... lol! Whatever I choose ... the new (random thingie) or the old (Rubbermaid container) ... I will post the names of the winners tomorrow : )
I hope you all have a very peaceful, enjoyable day. No matter how much we all fret over things at this time of year, they all somehow seem to get done ... & those things that aren't done, have they ever really mattered in the past? The important thing is to enjoy time with friends & family. Share a nice meal, have a nice conversation, enjoy each others company, & make memories : )
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Old Greeting Cards
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Pretty Much Done!
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Another Finish I Am Able to Share : )
Just popping on this evening to share another finish with you : )
Posted by Shirlee at 7:09 PM 10 comments
Stitcher's Giveaway & Weekend Update
Just a reminder that your chance to enter my Stitcher's Giveaway ends on Friday, December 23rd, at 11:59 p.m. CST. I have responded to almost everyone thus far who has wanted to be included for a chance at this giveaway. I was unable to respond to some of you because "no-reply" shows in the address bar when I try to respond. I'm not sure how you would go about changing that. If anyone can fill me in on that I will pass it along in my next post.
As I write this post my Christmas countdown counter is showing 5 days, 11 hours left till the big day. All together now ... YIKES!!! I had hoped to finish a couple more goodies this past weekend but you know what they say about the best laid plans of mice & men. Rather than sitting comfortably in my recliner, a Mona Lisa smile on my lips, a pretty scented candle or tart sending its delightful fragrance throughout the house, & me calmly stitching to the accompaniment of soft Christmas music, I instead did laundry, cleaned the bathroom, dusted, wrapped gifts, made gumdrop breads, tweaked a bit of Christmas decor, & fretted over the fact that I gave my husband packages to mail last week & he sent them all via Parcel Post. He is the sweetest, kindness, most generous (& tolerating!) hubby a woman could want ... but for some reason he came back from mailing my packages telling me "It would've cost me an additional $3.00 to send them Priority so I sent them Parcel Post instead." Three dollars?!?!? Really honey?!?!? Good grief! I could've dug in the bottom of my purse & come up with $3.00 worth of change to give him. Sigh! Lesson learned for next year ... mail packages myself.
This morning I visited & clicked to follow a stitching blog which has gifted me with 2 more stitching monkeys on my back. The stitcher showed some Mary Garry & Val's Stuff projects she recently finished. Did I know anything about Mary Garry or Val's Stuff before visiting this stitcher's blog? No. Am I now frantically searching for Mary Garry & Val's Stuff stuff? Yes. The monkeys are starting to complain about the cramped conditions. I think I heard the question "How many more of us is she going to cram up here?" a time or two. Me thinks those silly monkeys should start laying off the bananas : )
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Another Finish ... & What a Lovely Day!
After this morning's heart-in-mouth experience I was leery about traversing through the rest of the day but it actually turned out to be quite pleasant! First & foremost I finished an old CS project & it's a keeper for me : ) This is one of the old projects I did in another stitching life (my second one) but for some reason I did not stitch one part of it ... the little stitched button on the right side. I think I remember thinking I'd be "creative" & use a real button there but today I put in the 39 stitches to finish it per the pattern chart & now here it is!
I bought this little tray at a half-off sale a couple weeks ago & had the wax candle with the tea light from last year. The tea light no longer worked so today I grunged a new one. All's well that ends well : )
I also spent an hour or two on the phone with a favorite aunt & cousin. I don't get to do that very often so I really enjoyed visiting with them : )
I made meatballs & marinara sauce for dinner. John had a meatball sandwich & I just had a plate of the meatballs ... both with melted mozzarella. Yum! While we ate that we watched a Christmas special DVD from The History Channel which we both enjoyed immensely.
I did a bit of cleaning today & in between everything else that was going on I looked at 12,406 gingerbread items on Etsy. Yes, I really did! I think it ended up being 250 pages. I'd look at so many pages & then walk away & do something & then come back & pick up where I left off. Most of it I got to pass by quickly but I filled my cart with several. Before starting this post I went through my cart & weeded out most of the 40 things I thought were "had to haves." I'm still thinking on the others.
After dinner John & I went to Office Depot to buy our son a new laptop for Christmas. Will be picking that up tomorrow after they tweak it a bit. We got to see some pretty Christmas light on the way there & back.
Had a cup of killer hot chocolate thanks to my wonderful hot chocolate maker which I mentioned in a previous post.
I also found a nativity I like & I ordered that.
And that was my day! I hope your day was as lovely : )
Posted by Shirlee at 10:55 PM 18 comments
A Heart in Mouth Moment
I'm sure I have experienced some heart in mouth moments in the past but to start out with one this morning was more than I needed! I made my morning cup of tea & then sat down to read emails & check blog posts ... my usual routine. When I got to the 3rd or so blog post I suddenly couldn't post a comment. I had no problems posting comments prior to that. I went back to my dashboard & decided that refreshing it might fix whatever was happening. After clicking refresh, I got a screen telling me my blog had been disabled for some violation of Blogger rules!!! What in the world could little innocent me have done? I did get an email this morning from some odd entity praising my blog & offering me a chance to promote their clothing sales site on it. Needless to say I deleted that right away. Otherwise I've been a model Blogger citizen!
After about half an hour of sheer panic, I thought I'd take a stab at logging in again & this time I got a screen asking me for my phone number so Blogger could give me a special code to type in. I gave them my cell number, got the code, entered it & all seems relatively well. I say "relatively" because whereas I had been following 80 blogs I am now following 128. What's up with that?!?!? And my "Items" area on my dashboard where it usually shows new blog posts to read ... there are so many that never showed up over the past week or so that I think I'm going to be reading these blog posts for most of the day!
I have no idea what happened here. I guess I should just be thankful that I have access to my blog again & that I can comment on others. I think I'll go brew myself another cup of tea & get started reading. If you have been thinking that I have been choosing to not comment on your blog over the past week ... or maybe even longer! ... just know that I probably did not have any idea you had made one or more new posts.
Maybe I should take a sedative with that tea.
Posted by Shirlee at 7:18 AM 11 comments
Friday, December 16, 2011
Another Finish to Share : )
You'll probably be seeing a few of these posts over the next week or so : ) Here is a photo of another one of the finishes I completed last week. The usual disclaimer for the lousy photography applies.
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
A Finish to Share : )
On Monday of last week I posted that I was not going to do any more stitching until I completed the finishing necessary on 13 other projects, some of which I recently stitched & some of which I found from one of my two previous stitching lives. I spent the entire week working on this finishing & am proud to say that I did complete 7 of those 13 projects! You may be asking yourself what happened with the other 5. I decided there wasn't really any rush to finish those so hooray, no more pressure there : )
I cannot, for a variety of reasons, share 6 of those finishes with you just yet. However, I am going to share this one ...
Posted by Shirlee at 9:56 AM 13 comments
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Stitcher's Giveaway!!!
I have been thinking about having a Stitcher's Giveaway for a while now & today is the day : ) I am going to play this a bit like all you pros out there. First of all, here is what you'll win if your name is drawn ...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
I Won Something!!!
Of course yesterday turned out to be a good day, thanks to the car dealership owner, after 2 horrendous days of stress, anxiety, & depression, thanks to the car dealership employees I guess you'd say. On the way back home after getting this mess all straightened out John & I decided to take a drive down this little side road to a town called Gravel Switch. Now doesn't that just sound like the most wonderful name for a country town??? We had never been to the town this car dealership is in before so we Googled to see what was there & some interesting places in the nearby town of Gravel Switch came up ... one of which sounded like an unbelievable craft shop & the other was an old general store which started life in the 1850s I think it was & was still operated & owned by the same family. We both had pretty high expectations as we drove to Gravel Switch but that didn't last long. The amazing craft shop was just the opposite, & the general store was still standing but it looked pretty bad & it was not in operation at all. The entire area was very run-down. Still it was a nice drive.
After getting back home we went to the post office to pick up our mail. I received several packages, some of which I had no idea what was inside. I do that ... I order things & then forget that I ordered them so sometimes I get quite a surprise when I open something. Well last night I decided to open these packages & inside one of them was this!
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Monday, December 12, 2011
And All Is Well With the World Again : )
I want to thank everyone who commented or emailed me regarding the situation my husband & I found ourselves in with the used car dealership this past weekend. I especially thank those of you who said you would pray about it.
Both John & I were pretty depressed both Saturday & Sunday. John had a rough time dealing with the high amount of the loan but I was dealing with my discovery that the dealership sold us this used vehicle with 50,000 miles on it for the price it was when it was brand new on the showroom floor. I did not want to tell John about this for very good reasons which I will not go into here. We needed to take the vehicle back to the dealership this morning for a bit of maintenance work which they couldn't take care of at the time of sale. Nothing major ... an oil/filter change, a turn signal bulb replacement, & a tire pressure adjustment. I initially thought about calling the owner of the dealership this morning & telling him a thing or two. However, after a good night's sleep I thought it best to just ask to speak with him privately when we got there, tell him what I discovered, & go from there.
As I said, I did not want to tell John about the price issue. However, this morning before we left for the dealership we were talking about the loan amount & he asked me if I had done any research to see what the actual price of the vehicle was when it was new. I am not proud to say that I looked him in the eye & lied & said I had tried to find this information but couldn't. Even though I did have a very good reason for lying to him like that I just could not rest after doing so. He looked at me so trustingly & believed what I told him without question. I felt extremely guilty even as those dishonest words were coming out of my mouth & within just a few minutes I couldn't stand it anymore & I had to confess to him that I lied & then tell him the truth. Sometimes I hate that I am such an honest person ... lol! Anyway, he took the news surprisingly well. I told him I was going to speak with the owner of the dealership when we got there & see what could be done & he agreed to that.
When we got to the dealership John just went for a walk & I asked to meet privately with the owner. I approached him by saying that I think there was an error made on the price & then proceeded to tell him about finding the original window sticker showing the vehicle was sold to us used for the same price it was sold when it was brand new. It turns out that he is a very decent man. He apologized for there being a misunderstanding & said he wanted to work this out to our satisfaction. He was very nice, very kind, & very patient. I know he did not have to do anything. John signed the contract & for many business owners that would be the end of the matter. He & I talked for a long while with him offering us several options we could accept. He indicated that he would've been happy to just take back the SUV & return our van to us but the van already had a contract on it & he could not back out of that contract & run the risk of the purchaser suing him. He said we could return the SUV to him & choose another vehicle. He also offered to give us part of our down payment back, & he also offered to give us part of our down payment back along with a 4-year, unlimited mileage full warranty. The latter is what we accepted. So now everyone is happy. We have a very nice SUV that is safe to drive, some of our money has been returned to us, & we have the full warranty.
Thanks again to those of you who expressed your concern, offered suggestions, & especially said prayers for us!
Posted by Shirlee at 3:28 PM 7 comments
Giveaway at Stitchers Anon
Stitchers Anon is having a wonderful surprise giveaway for Christmas ending December 23rd. Check it out : )
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Sunday, December 11, 2011
Country Sampler Primitive Christmas Ornament Swap
For the past couple years I have organized a Primitive Christmas Ornament Swap on the Country Sampler forum. This year 14 of us joined in, each making (or buying) 14 handcrafted ornaments, keeping one for ourselves & mailing the other 13. In the end we ended up with 14 new prim ornaments for our trees. I thought you might like to see the ornament from this year's exchange : )
Posted by Shirlee at 1:49 PM 11 comments
Liberty / Lebanon ... What Should/Can I Do???
I did get a good night's sleep last night ... hooray! ... but still feel a bit drained this morning. The temperature outside right now is 18 degrees with a wind chill of 16. Wonderful! Not as good as the old days in North Dakota with temps in the single or minus digits with wind chills of 80-below & a ton of snow to boot but hey, it'll do : )
I posted on Friday morning about my husband receiving a flier in the mail from the car dealership where we take our van for maintenance. The flier was one of those "YOU MAY BE A WINNER!" things. We never pay any attention to stuff like that but for some reason John paid attention to this flier, scratched off the little circle as directed & what do you know ... our number matched a winning number. We were guaranteed to have won one of the prizes listed. They were also making these spectacular offers for huge discounts when purchasing a new or used car as well as offering to pay off your trade-in vehicle if you still owed money on it. John said if the deals were good enough he might want to trade in our van. John said he read the flier carefully ... even the small print ... & there didn't appear to be any hidden requirements you had to meet.
I thought okay ... a little drive to Liberty, Kentucky would be nice. We hadn't been there for a while plus there was a prim shop not far from the dealership where I have found some nice things in the past. We also would be passing another shop on the way back home that had terribly overpriced things but I figured it would be fun to stop there anyway just to look at their holiday decor & offerings. So we're driving down the road & John takes the flier out of his pocket & says "you might want to take a look at this." I asked why. He said I should just check it over to make sure he hadn't missed anything. I said "you told me you read it over carefully & didn't see anything questionable." He then informed me he had read it over 2 or 3 times & didn't see anything at all but maybe I should look at it as well before we got there. I looked at it & did see where he missed that the Walmart gift card prize of $2,500 actually did have in tiny print "up to" so you wouldn't necessarily get $2,500 if that was the prize you won ... but otherwise it looked on the up & up.
We got to the dealership & approached one of the salesmen & handed him the flier saying we were coming to see what we won. The guy looked very puzzled. I was thinking we didn't want to deal with this guy ... he didn't even understand the special promotions his company has! Well, the guy then looks at us & says "This isn't from our dealership ... it's from the dealership in Lebanon." Liberty is about an hour from us. We had no idea where Lebanon was. We all had a good laugh & John & I couldn't believe that we never noticed the address : )
We did go to the prim shops (I'll post about those another time) & when we got home we looked up where Lebanon is located. What a surprise to find it is only 19 miles from our house! John suggested we drive there the next day (Saturday) & try again. That sounded like fun since we'd never been there before plus we looked up shopping in the area & found some interesting places to visit.
On Saturday morning ... yesterday ... we drove to the Lebanon dealership, met with a salesman named Dave. A liquidator actually ... the sale had to do with moving repossessed vehicles off the lot even if it meant the bank was going to lose money on them. We handed Dave our flier. Of all the prizes, we won one of the Walmart gift cards which he told us would be worth anywhere from $5 to $2,500. I'm pretty sure I know how much ours will be worth : ) It was funny watching people (a lot of them!) bringing in their fliers to see what they had won & then being handed a Walmart gift card : ) Many of the people left after getting their prize but some of them did stay to look at the vehicles being offered.
Dave asked us if we were interested in looking at any vehicles. John said it wouldn't hurt to look at some since we were there. As we were walking out to the lot John tells him how much he hates our van because it is so huge. More about the van later. So Dave starts showing us smaller vans. None of them appealed to us. He then said "how about an SUV?" We don't know anything about SUVs & we didn't care for the first one he showed us but the second one was quite nice. We took it for a test drive. It drove like a Cadillac. I could tell that John was falling in love.
A little background on our van ... a 2006 Dodge Caravan. We bought it this past May. I liked it. It wasn't anything pretty to look at but it was huge & I always pictured myself driving to other states & filling it with wonderful prim furniture to bring back home. The only bad thing about it was you were kind of taking your life in your hands every time you drove it. It was the Queen of Hydroplaning. You would have to be very careful or you would find yourself sliding into a ditch or into the path of an oncoming vehicle even if there was just a little bit of morning dew on the road. There were a couple other things that didn't quite work right but they weren't anything major. I really didn't want to trade it in ... but then Dave pulled up the CARFAX report on it. I had heard of CARFAX before but never really gave it any thought. It's some kind of reporting company where you can find out if a vehicle you are thinking of purchasing has ever been in an accident. It turned out that our van had indeed been in an accident ... a very bad one ... & it wasn't worth even half of what we paid for it. We bought it from a dealership in Danville which is the next town over from where we live. I'm telling you ... this is the type of business people you deal with in this area. You can't trust 99.9% of them. Anyway, I was not happy. That, coupled with the fact that it had the problems I previously mentioned here, was quite upsetting. You would think that there would be some type of law requiring the disclosure of such a thing!
There were no prices on these liquidation vehicles. Dave said he would need to work with the bank to get us the best price. He applied a coupon for $2,600 off whatever the price of the vehicle would be & then went to work. We were there for 2 hours. We were so wrapped up in the negotiation process ... the monthly payments & the interest rates ... that we were never given the price of the vehicle & never thought to ask. At one point I wondered what the vehicle price was when it was new but that thought came & then was quickly forgotten. At one point John seemed to be favoring just keeping the van but then Dave came back & asked John if he got the bank to agree to a lower interest rate (better than the one we had on the van), & if he got the dealership to agree to allow us the full amount for our trade-in rather than the less than half amount it was actually worth, & if he was able to get our payments lower each month than he initially quoted us, would John buy the vehicle. John said yes, initialed a piece of paper, & the deal was made. Now remember ... we were never given the selling price nor did we think to ask. When the contracts were drawn up & John went in to sign them, without me because I was outside transferring things from the van to the SUV, the final price was heart stopping ... basically 3 times as much as we still owed on the van. When I came into the business manager's office John was just finishing signing the last document. I never got to take a look at them until we were driving home & he was complaining about how much we were going to be paying. I wanted him to turn around & tell them we wanted the van back but he said "what's done is done."
The sad thing here is that we were told by the business manager that this vehicle would have cost anywhere from $33,000 to $45,000 when new. In going through the booklets & other printed materials that came with the SUV I found what appears to be the original window sticker which indicates the original asking price for this vehicle when new was exactly the same price this dealership charged us for it used with 50,000 miles on it! I am sick about this. I haven't told John. We need to go back to the dealership this week to get an oil & filter change. My thoughts are to present them with this window sticker & insist they give us our van back ... but I'm thinking the papers have been signed, the title has been transferred, & we are stuck : (
Any ideas?
Posted by Shirlee at 9:05 AM 6 comments
Saturday, December 10, 2011
I have a story to tell. It concerns travels & shopping both yesterday & today. However, these things have left me too exhausted to post about them! I will hopefully get a wonderfully refreshing good night's sleep & be able to regale you with the tales of these 2 days tomorrow.
I hope you have all been having a more relaxing, peaceful time this weekend : )
Posted by Shirlee at 7:34 PM 2 comments
Secret Sisters Stitching Group - Unfortunately Not Going to Happen
It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you that the Secret Sisters Stitching Group did not get enough interest to make it happen. That is okay though ... I have another idea : )
I think (know) that several people were concerned about how they were going to keep their identities a secret for an entire year. Others were concerned about committing to a year-long group having no idea what this coming year would bring for them. To alleviate these fears I am now thinking about hostessing a group where you will remain a secret to the person you are sending to but you will only be sending to that person once. You will still fill out a questionnaire of sorts indicating your likes/dislikes & you will be assigned someone to send a package to ... but it will only be a one-time mailing. Perhaps we could do this on a few occasions during the year ... maybe each season or each major holiday. You would only need to participate when you want to ... not be committed for an entire year.
The original post I made for the Secret Sisters Stitching Group (year long commitment) can be found here ...
The basic concept will be the same.
If anyone is interested in doing the group this way, please comment here & I will again collect names & see if I can get this to happen.
Posted by Shirlee at 7:26 PM 4 comments
OLM's Season's Special Meaning
Marie over at Olde Lady Primitives is having a surprise giveaway & asks everyone who enters to post one thing about what gives this season special meaning for them ... if they'd like to : )
One special thing. It's hard to choose just one ... but I would have to say the one thing that gives the season special meaning for me would have to be memories of Christmases past. Christmastime spent when I was a little girl ... opening gifts underneath the tree, visiting aunts & uncles & cousins, baking cookies, going shopping, making gifts during art time at school, hearing Christmas songs on the radio, the good food we had to eat, & attending midnight mass. Then when I got older ... in my mid to late teens ... it was still a time for some of those things but also a time of parties & being with friends & hoping to get a kiss underneath the mistletoe : ) When John & I were first married it was a time of setting up housekeeping, learning to share our lives together, & starting our own Christmas traditions. When the children came, well, it was all about them of course. Now that we are older, Christmas is about all these memories that warm our hearts & make us so very thankful for the life we have lived together.
Posted by Shirlee at 12:25 AM 4 comments
Friday, December 9, 2011
Country Sampler Secret Santa Package Received!!!
For the past couple years I have organized a Secret Santa group on the Country Sampler forum. No one knows who their Secret Santa is going to be except for me. I decided last year to play along & did so this year as well. A couple of the ladies offer to be my Secret Santa even though they won't be able to remain secret. I put their names in a little container & draw one out & that person is who will send to me. Each of us sends to someone other than the person sending to us. We add a card or note in the package we mail giving our identity but it is still kept secret until everyone gets their package ... then I reveal who sent to who : )
Today I received my package from my Secret Santa. I was, as the old saying goes, "spoiled rotten." The second photo is a bit blurry but the others came out well. I took a picture of the box before I opened it, hiding the sender's name, but my name & address were too easy to read & I didn't want them posted publicly so you won't be seeing the unopened box ... which was huge! I'm not going to indicate what everything is ... I think you can see that for yourself : )
I couldn't wait ... I had to find places for some of the things right away ... lol! Doesn't this hot cocoa sign fit perfectly here in the kitchen where I keep my hot cocoa pot on the counter???
Posted by Shirlee at 10:22 PM 6 comments
Ornaments & Finishings & Central Kentucky
My to-do's have been moving along at a steady pace but I sometimes rue the day I added that little Christmas countdown thingie here on my blog! Every time I come here, there it is counting down the days/hours/minutes/seconds I have left before the big day gets here!
The day before yesterday I received my last ornament in Amy's ornament exchange. It was made by Sandi at The Primitive Skate & is amazing! I don't know why I'm talking as if she sent me one ornament ... she actually sent two! I do apologize for the "blah" photograph below. I was in a flurry of taking pictures at that time & although I did a quickie try at hanging them on the tree, I just could not get them to hang nicely for a photo. I hope you can still see how awesome they are : )
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
The Chronicles of the Sweet Potato Garland - Part IV
Has Shirlee & her husband been buried under spices? Let's find out!
Side of the Tree
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Arthur Anthony Grugan
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BA, LaSalle College, 1966
BA, LaSalle College, 1966
MA, Duquesne University, 1969
PhD, Duquesne University, 1972
Fulbright Scholar and Fulbright Research Fellow, Germany, 1970-71
Widener University School of Law, 2000.
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Introduction to Philosophy
Introduction to Philosophy
Philosophy of Art Bioethics
Social Ethics
History of Philosophy I
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Romanticism: Its German Origin, Its German Art
I teach with the goal in mind of inviting my students to turn inward and to take the meaning of their lives seriously.
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Police: Mansfield dog on death row attacks again
Teenage girl treated for injuries
A Mansfield dog already on death row for mauling a 6-year-old boy in January has attacked again.
Police Chief Arthur O'Neill said a 16-year-old girl was bitten by the dog, Milo, on Saturday night. The teen was transported to Hasbro Children's Hospital in Rhode Island to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Milo, a 48-pound pointer/hound mix, is the same dog that bit Christian Herbert on the face on Jan. 3 while he was being babysat by the daughter of Milo's owner, Michael Bailey. The attack required Herbert to undergo surgery and receive 400 stitches.
The teenager attacked on Saturday, who has not been identified, is believed to be one of Milo's owners.
Herbert's mother, Dawn Herbert-Miller, had filed a complaint to have Milo euthanized after she said the dog caused him both physical and emotion pain. She said she is shocked to hear the dog attacked again.
"It just didn't need to happen. It's so awful it had to happen again," Herbert-Miller said.
Mansfield selectmen voted to euthanize the dog on Wednesday. Olivier Kozlowski, chairman of the Board of Selectmen, said that Milo had remained with his family as they appealed the selectmen's decision.
"We made a tough call on Wednesday and obviously it sort of reinforces the decision that was made," Kozlowski said.
He went on to say that the Bailey's surrendered Milo on Saturday and is currently in the custody of a Mansfield Animal Control officer.
"I'm a dog lover myself -- we have 3 dogs of our own but it can't happen, it can't happen again," Herbert-Miller said.


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To get max personal score for the fishing guild event, you need to catch 299 fish with the pristine anomarod. If you get 1 fish every 7 baits, that's 2100 baits to use. With the speed of pristine anomarod fishing, you're getting most likely using 3 baits every minute. That results in 700 minutes of using the rod. 700 minutes is 11.6 hours of straight fishing.
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Oct. 11 Jayson Werth postgame interview
Q. Can you take us through that 14 pitch at bat at the end?
JAYSON WERTH: He's tough. We've faced him a lot over September, and in the series. So I knew what he had. But I think he threw a hook, 2 2 to get to 3 2 and I figured from then I wasn't going to get off the heater, fouled a couple more off and finally got one to hit.
Q. What was it you finally got and were you looking for a specific pitch when you got it?
JAYSON WERTH: It was fastball. He's got a good fastball. Like I said but after that 2 2 hook, it was pretty close. After that, I was on the heater.
Q. After yesterday, a second straight eight run loss, you said, "I like our chances." Where did that come from? What made you like your chances?
JAYSON WERTH: Doesn't matter how much you lose or how much you lose by, it's 0 0 starting the game the next day. I just knew the type of mentality our club has, and the guys, they bring it every day. I knew that wasn't going to get them down.
You know, our fans have been great. They have been showing up in record numbers, and when I signed here, my first day here, I went to a Capitols game, a hockey game, which the place was packed. Somebody said, "just a few short years ago, this place was empty." So I knew that a winning ballclub would bring the fans, and here we are, two years later and they're showing up and it's awesome.
Q. You and Raul Ibañez are pretty close and you were teammates and you guys just had very similar moments within the space of 24 hours. I know you're focused on your team, but did you stop and think about that at all?
JAYSON WERTH: Yeah, absolutely. I watched all the games last night and the walk offs, and baseball this time of year is the best time for sports. I love October baseball. But I was sitting at home and watching the Yankee game, and I saw what Raul did, and I probably texted him 20 times last night congratulating him, and that was awesome.
You know, here we are a day later and I got an opportunity and came through. Raul is a quality human being and it couldn't happen to a better person.
Q. Must be a great feeling; how does this compare to some of the other big hits in your career?
JAYSON WERTH: You know, I can't even remember any of the other ones right now. This one's pretty fresh. This is, given the situation, you know, definitely pretty big.
Q. You played in Game 5s and Game 7s before; what is different about them, if anything, and what can the crowd expect, in a city that has not hosted one before?
JAYSON WERTH: It will be a lot like today. It's what it's all about. It's what you play all season for and what you work out all winter for and what you get to spring training early for. We have a chance tomorrow to take that next step.
I know my teammates will be ready and the city will, too.
Q. Along the same lines, people were standing for innings at a time. Was this a different feel from other games, here?
JAYSON WERTH: Yeah, I mean, the last two games were the place was packed. I don't think it it hasn't been packed. We've sold out, but it wasn't like it was. You know, a lot of the times, it's a little mix of some of our fans and some of the other team's fans. Today it seemed like the last two days, it was all our fans.
You know, hopefully they will show up again tomorrow and we'll do it again.
Q. About a month ago against Florida, the big rain delay, a thousand people left in the ballpark and a game tying home run; the difference in the environment how crazy was it? Just the noise level
JAYSON WERTH: I didn't hear a thing. It was pretty quiet to me. You know, I had an at bat like that in 2010 off Drew; I hit a home run. He was one of the first people to come grab me. He told me that was familiar he said something, but he was looking back to that moment. I think he said he knew it was going to happen, so it was a special moment for sure.
Q. Can you just talk a little about the job that Ross Detwiler did today, the No. 4 starter, maybe with all of the media scrutiny of him starting instead of Strasburg?
JAYSON WERTH: Yeah, media can say whatever they want. We know the type of guy Ross is and what he brings to the team. I said yesterday, I felt good about where we were at. I felt like Ross would handle business and we have Gio going tomorrow.
Ball's in our court. We've got a chance. We've got a chance to win the series tomorrow. What a difference a day makes. I know we are going to come in ready to go tomorrow.
Q. Of those 20 texts you sent to Raul last night, did you ever get one back?
JAYSON WERTH: Yeah, I got quite a few back actually. I think when I checked my phone on the way in here, he sent me like four or five. So you know, you create these bonds with these guys you play with and you spend so much time with these people; this team that we've got here is as close knit group as I've ever played with. We've got great team chemistry and it's a great place to come to the park every day. We have a great support staff and just the organization from top to bottom; this is a great place to play.
Q. To the young gentleman, you saw Pops hit a homer, what do you have to say about that?
JACKSON WERTH: I thought it was amazing to see him hit a walk off home run, and, um yeah. (Laughter.)


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I am doing a university project and trying to send a sms message from a java program but I can find and open a serial port but I am having problems
sending and reading data from the port.
My first problem is that when I sent AT\r I don't get a reply from my phone but when I open hyperterminal and send AT and press enter I get a reply OK
I have a serial port monitor and it shows that my java program is sending the same characters as in the hyperterminal but I don't get a reply. Can
anyone help?
my second problem is that I need to learn how to do event listening on the port for when data is ready to be read. Here is some of my code please help my due date is this friday.
public static void OpenSerialPort(CommPortIdentifier foundPort) {
if (foundPort != null)
PortID = foundPort;
else {
System.out.println("port null");
try {
// Open port and cast as serial port
Port = PortID.open("SMS Program", 2000);
SerialPort myPort = (SerialPort) Port;
// set up the serial port parameters
myPort.setSerialPortParams(9600, SerialPort.DATABITS_8,
SerialPort.STOPBITS_1, SerialPort.PARITY_NONE);
myPort.setFlowControlMode(SerialPort.FLOWCONTROL_N ONE);
is = new DataInputStream(Port.getInputStream());
os = new PrintStream(Port.getOutputStream(), true);
char b[] = {0x61,0x74,0x0d};
System.out.println("output: AT\r");
// is.read(inputBuffer);
} catch (Exception e) {
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Electrical Fixtures Overview: Solving unanticipated electrical problems
Replacing a light fixture is one of those DIY jobs that's theoretically quick and simple, but often becomes a three-hour series of problems.
So we talked with two of our master electricians. They've seen—and solved—all of those frustrations and offered these tips to help DIYers through the job quicker and safer. We won't show you here, but this article will walk you through step-by-step on How to Hang a Ceiling Light Fixture.
Flipping the breaker isn't enough
Noncontact voltage detector
You don't have to actually touch a bare wire to check for voltage with this detector. Holding the tip on or close to the wire's insulation is enough.
Even after you turn off the breaker that controls the light's circuit, you can still get shocked. How? Some junction boxes contain wiring from multiple circuits. So even if you cut the power to the light fixture, there may still be live wires in the junction box. To be safe, check all the wires in the box with a noncontact voltage detector before you disconnect any wires. Just touch each wire's insulation with the tester. If the light glows, the wire is live.
Buy extra hardware
Extra mounting brackets
Buy various types of mounting brackets in advance in case the one supplied with the fixture doesn't work.
The mounting brackets supplied with your fixture may not work with your junction box. So when you buy your new fixture, also pick up a few other styles of mounting brackets. Better to spend an extra five bucks than to make a trip to the hardware store in the middle of the job.
Slick solution for long screws
Wire stripper/bolt cutter
Shorten long screws without ruining the threads with a special bolt cutter, which is often a feature on a wire stripper.
If the fixture mounting screws are too long to fit in the box, you'll need to cut them. A hacksaw works but makes a mess of the threads. A wire stripper with built-in bolt cutters is the way to go. Just thread the screw into the correct size threaded hole until you get the length you need and squeeze the handle. As you remove the screw, the tool cleans up the threads at the cut end. Get one at a home center for about $10.
Short wires, no problem
Extend short wires
Extend short wires with extra wire connected with stab-in connectors of the proper size.
When the wires in the box are too short, making connections is aggravating. You'll want to hunt down whoever installed them and throttle that person. But instead, just go to a home center and pick up a few stab-in connectors. In tight spaces, they're much easier to use than twist-on nuts. Push a "pigtail" (a new piece of wire) into the connector, then push the connector onto the old wire. Presto! You've got plenty of length to connect to the fixture's wires. Make sure the wire you use for the pigtail is the same gauge as the existing wire.
Aluminum Wiring Caution
If you have aluminum wiring, don't work on it yourself. The connections require special techniques. Call in a licensed pro who's certified to work with it. For more information, go to http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/516.pdf
Extend the box
Box extender
Add a box extender when the old box is behind the wall surface more than 1/4-in.
If the junction box is recessed more than 1/4 in. from the surface of the wall or ceiling, you've got a code violation. This is common when a layer of drywall or wood was installed over the original ceiling. To correct it, add a box extender (about $2). If you don't find one for round or octagonal boxes at home centers, search online.
Use a third hand
Improvise an extra hand
Bend a scrap of wire to support the fixture while you wire it.
Connecting a fixture takes three hands: one to hold the fixture and two to make the connections. If you don't have a third hand, hang the fixture from a scrap of wire or a coat hanger while you make the connections.
Probe for the screw hole
Aligning a screw hole
Align the screw hole with a thin screwdriver.
Many fixtures have a canopy that's held in place by two screws. Aligning the first screw is easy enough because you can tilt the canopy a little and aim for the screw hole above it. To align the second screw, stick a skinny screwdriver or a nail into the canopy hole and rotate the canopy until you find the screw hole.
Check your home wiring before you buy the fixture
If your home was built before 1985, beware: Many new light fixtures can't be connected to pre-1985 wiring because the insulation on the wiring can't withstand the heat generated by the fixture. These fixtures carry a warning on the label: "Use wire rated for at least 90 degrees C." If you know your wiring was installed before 1985, you'll have to choose a fixture that doesn't carry this warning. Hanging fixtures, for example, usually don't require newer wiring because they don't heat the wiring as much as fixtures that mount directly against the ceiling. The alternative is to replace the wiring, which may be a small job, or huge, depending on the situation.
If you don't know the age of your wiring, look at the fine print. If you have plastic sheathed cable (Romex is one common brand) and can see the outer sheathing, look for "NM-B" or "UF-B." Or look for "THHN" or "THWN-2" on the insulation of individual wires. If you see any of these, the wiring can handle the heat.
Buy better connectors
Wire connectors
Buy connectors with internal metal threads for more secure connections.
The twist-on connectors supplied with most fixtures are all plastic; no metal threads inside. They just don't grip the wires for an easy, secure connection. So spend an extra few bucks on a pack of assorted small connectors with metal threads when you buy the fixture.
Make a strong connection
Connecting stranded wire to solid wire
Extend the stranded wire further into the connector than the solid wire for a solid connection.
Light fixtures almost always require a connection between solid wire and stranded. That's frustrating because the connector twists and pushes the stranded wire but doesn't grab it. Here's the solution: First, cut off the old exposed solid wire and then strip off 1/2 in. of the insulation. On the stranded wire, strip off 5/8 in. Hold the wires together so the stranded wire extends about 1/8 in. beyond the solid wire and twist on the connector. The end of the stranded wire will bunch up inside the tip of the connector, locked in place for a secure connection.
Why work in the dark?
Camping headlamp
Carry your flashlight on your head so you don't have to fumble around in the dark.
If the light fixture and outlets in the room are on different circuits, plug in a couple of lamps before you shut off the power to the fixture. Otherwise, strap on a camping headlamp. You'll find them everywhere, some for less than $10.
Stripped hole fix
Tapping a stripped hole
An electrician's tap cuts new threads so you don't have to replace the box. You'll need a bigger screw.
The built-in screw holes on a metal box are easy to strip. And if that happens, your first impulse might be to use a drywall screw. Bad idea—the sharp tip can poke through wire insulation. Instead, use an electrician's tap (about $9) to cut new threads in the hole. That will enlarge the hole from a No. 8-32 screw size to a No. 10-32, so you may need a couple of new screws, too.
Check for ground
Checking for ground
Touch a circuit tester to the ground wire and the hot wire to test the ground. If it lights, the ground is good.
Your new light fixture will have a ground wire (green coated or bare copper). But if you have an older metal box, there may not be a ground wire inside the box to connect to. Adding a ground wire to the box isn't difficult; just connect a 6-in. section of bare copper wire to the box by driving a No. 10-32 ground screw (available at home centers) into a threaded hole in the box. But before you do that, you have to make sure the box itself is grounded.
Here's how: turn the power on and make sure the light switch is turned on. Find the hot wire (typically black or red) using your noncontact voltage tester. Next, you'll need a circuit tester (about $4 at home centers). Touch one of the tester's probes to the bare end of the hot wire and the other to the box. If the light glows, the box is grounded. If not, a ground wire will need to be run to the box to meet electrical code. That's a job for a licensed electrician, unless you're a very knowledgeable DIYer.
Chandelier chain too long? There's a tool for that!
Chain pliers
This special tool neatly opens and closes decorative chains.
Raising a chandelier is as easy as removing a few chain links. But opening and closing links without scratching or misshaping them can be a pain. That's why some whiz kid invented chain pliers. This tool bends links open and closed gently and neatly. Search online for "Westinghouse 70099" (about $20). Sure, it's a splurge, but don't you want a tool none of your buddies have ever seen?


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Former Buff Alfred Williams in favor of McCartney for longer than a two-year period
Former Colorado linebacker Alfred Williams is one of the most passionate alums the football program has. And it's pained the college football hall of famer – as it has fans – to watch Colorado stumble to a 19-39 record in five seasons under Dan Hawkins.
He likes the idea of bringing back his old coach, Bill McCartney, but not if it means allowing him to coach for just two seasons as a mentor to an heir apparent.
"I think coach Mac is the most stabilizing force that the University of Colorado can put in as head coach," Williams said. "I don't know why a man would want a job like that and walk away after two years. Why does he have to walk away after two years? Why can't he stick around as long as Joe Paterno has stuck around at Penn State? This is a case where the life lessons and examples that amassed over your life can be transferred to kids that can use those in a diligent way. There's nothing wrong with coach Mac staying around for another 10 or 15 or 20 years if he wanted to and if he's effective. I don't buy the fact that coaches can be outdated. Football has been the same as long as they've played it. It's about blocking, tackling and discipline. That's what Bill McCartney brings to the table."
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I am having a bit of trouble with my collision detection. It only works correctly for the right side, meaning, if I enter the tile from any other side, it brings me to the right side.
Here is my code:
const float spriteWidth = 5.0f;
const float spriteHeight = 14.0f;
float x = position.X;
float y = position.Y;
if (bounds.Intersects(tileBounds))
if ((x + spriteWidth) > tileBounds.Left)
position.X = tileBounds.Left - 5;
if (x < tileBounds.Right)
position.X = tileBounds.Right;
if ((y + spriteHeight) < tileBounds.Bottom)
position.Y = tileBounds.Bottom;
if (y > tileBounds.Top)
position.Y = tileBounds.Top - 14;
I just don't see why it would do that. I am calling this function from the Game1.cs Update function, FYI.
And it only works for one tile out of a possible many, but that's for a later question...
Does anyone have an idea why it would do this? Thank you very much.


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VMware has issued a patch for its VMware View product that fixes a security vulnerability that could allow an unauthorized user to access system files.
"VMware View contains a critical directory traversal vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to retrieve arbitrary files from affected View Servers," VMware posted on a security advisory alerting customers to the issue. "Exploitation of this issue may expose sensitive information stored on the server." VMware's update to VMware View is available for free to license holders of the product and can be downloaded here.
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Digital Defense, a Texas-based risk auditing firm found the vulnerability this fall and alerted VMware of the issue in October. The issue is confined to VMware View, which is a product that allows organizations to grant access to certain virtual machines. It's typically used by larger organizations for demonstrating a product, for example, says Javier Castro, a senior vulnerability researcher at DDI.
While conducting a series of vulnerability tests on VMware View systems, DDI found that a guest user who had been granted access to specific files on a VM could prompt the VM to retrieve files that the user should not have access to. Basically external users had access to internal network files. This means a potential intruder could access file systems on a web server to access sensitive hashed passwords, for example. DDI found the directory traversal flaw in both a connection server and a security server running VMware view.
DDI runs a series of generic directory traversal checks on VMware systems and found this vulnerability by tying together various strings of prompts in subdirectories. Castro says VMware products are "juicy," because by the nature of virtualization, they provide access to a lot of virtual machines. Directory traversals seem to be a consistent area of interest for both hackers and vulnerability auditors. He adds that VMware seems to be getting better at auditing third-party tools in recent months to ensure any updates and patches of tools VMware uses in its products and services are reflected in updates from VMware.
Network World staff writer Brandon Butler covers cloud computing and social collaboration. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com and found on Twitter at @BButlerNWW.
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While numerous new wave artists in the early '80s tried to imitate David Bowie, Peter Schilling went a step further. In 1983, Schilling released "Major Tom (Coming Home)," a synth pop retelling of Bowie's 1969 classic "Space Oddity." It became Schilling's first and only entry in the U.S. charts, a song that eventually stigmatized him as a one-hit wonder in America. Schilling was born in Stuttgart, Germany, on January 28, 1956. As a teen, Schilling couldn't decide on whether to be a soccer player or a singer. He chose music and his debut album, Error in the System, appeared in 1983. The single "Major Tom (Coming Home)" wasn't just popular in the U.S., it was a worldwide smash. The video was played often on MTV, as well, but Schilling was not able to equal its success. In 1989, Schilling collaborated with Enigma's Michael Crétu on the track "Different Story (World of Lust and Crime)," an admirable attempt at updating his sound and trying to return to the American charts. "Major Tom" was given a techno sheen in 1994, and the reworked song was welcomed in the clubs. A year later, Schilling formed the Space Pilots with Catyana Schilling, J. Feifel, and P. Magnet, recording Trip to Orion. ~ Michael Sutton~ Rovi


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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil , 25-27 October 2005
Organised by the OECD Investment Committee in partnership with the World Bank and hosted by the Government of Brazil with the support of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES), the conference on Investment for Development: Making It Happen took place from 25-27 October 2005 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The conference was structured as follows:
The aim of the OECD-Brazil Roundtable was to draw lessons from Brazil's experience with improving the enabling environment for investment and sustainable growth, including the new Brazilian legal framework for public-private partnerships in infrastructure.
The principal objective of the 2005 GFII was to strengthen the developing country perspectives on the Policy Framework for Investment (PFI) and practitioners' input into its individual chapters. The PFI is being developed under the aegis of the OECD Investment Committee in partnership with non-OECD countries, the World Bank and other organisations to help countries at different levels of development to attract more and better investment. Participants were invited to explore the various avenues through which the PFI can best be put to use by governments and partners.
Participants to the conference included high-level policy makers and analysts working on investment climate issues, global and regional organisations, business, labour and other civil society representatives.
Conference documentation
Selected presentations
These presentations were made by speakers at the conference excluding OECD Secretariat. Only presentations made in the official languages of the OECD are available on the conference web page.
Background documentation on the Policy Framework for Investment
Further reading
Conference organisers
Marie-France Houde
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Michael Gestrin
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Thomas Dannequin
Conference Logistics
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The A.C. Burcky Award is "presented annually to the Senior athlete who has proven himself to be the most exemplar of all college products. A man who demonstrates correctness in habit and dress and gives evidence of much professional growth. Who has won leadership through fellowship that was promoted, and who kept himself loyal to truth and the sacred profession of friendship." -A. C. Burcky
By Ron Geiser, for 1997 awards program
It would be impossible to list all the contributions that Coach A. C. Burcky has made to the history of Bluffton College. The physical education and athletic programs of BC. were built on a firm foundation largely through the teaching and coaching efforts of Coach Andrew C. Burcky.
A. C. Burcky graduated from BC. in 1922. He began work at the college that fall. From 1922 on through the twenties, thirties and forties, he was a one-man athletic department. He coached football, basketball, baseball, tennis, track, women's basketball and taught all the physical education courses; served as trainer, equipment manager, handled publicity, arrange schedules, drove one of the cars to away games and much, much more. In 1930, a woman was added to the staff to teach physical education for women; and in 1950, Kenneth Mast was added to the staff to coach football, basketball, and track. Coach Burcky remained the baseball coach into the sixties.
In 1962, he was inducted into the NAIA Baseball Hall of Fame in St. Joseph, Missouri. A. C. Burcky was named Faculty Emeritus Professor of Physical Education in 1968 (1922-1968). At Homecoming, 1970, the A. C. Burcky addition to Founders Hall was dedicated in his honor.
In 1974 he was a member of the first-ever induction class into the Bluffton College Athletic Hall of Fame.
On March 19, 1987, along with the dedication of the Baseball Field portion of the new Emery Sears Athletic Complex, Coach Burcky was on hand to throw the first pitch for the opening home game.
Coach Burcky passed away on December 7, 1989 at the age of 93.
Tributes to a man considered by many to be a legend came easy after the Dec. 7 death of A.C. Burcky, long-time Bluffton College coach, teacher, and administrator.
But, perhaps Burcky himself put into words best what much of his life meant to Bluffton College and those who knew him.
As part of his speech at the October 1970 campus dedication of the A.C. Burcky addition to Founders Hall, Burcky said, "By way of definition - as I see it - a curriculum is nothing more that a great number of experiences for a student.
"Physical education - as I see it - is a part of the educational process - a total development of the individual through these experiences rather than just a development of agility, strength, and endurance as such."
PLAIN AND SIMPLE, Burcky, 93, stood for well-rounded education, what it was then and continues to strive to be today.
Perhaps in recognition of that fact, BC hired Burcky in 1922 after he had graduated from the school. Some 45 years later when he retired in 1967, the names "Coach" and "A.C." had become synonymous with Burcky and his devotion to Bluffton College as a coach of football, basketball, baseball, and track, as athletic director for years after coaching, and for his continuing efforts in the classroom.
"Coach Burcky is BC athletics," said current football head coach and athletic director Carlin Carpenter. "Our program is on solid ground now because of the foundation he laid for some 40 years. He is the program."
IN LIGHT OF the changes in today's world, where coaching staffs are selected and administrators chosen for most front office positions, Carpenter said he marveled at Burcky's accomplishments.
"Any lesser of a person couldn't have survived the demands on his time he must have had," Carpenter said. "As coach of one sport, I cannot imagine the amount of time he had for all four sports and teaching.
"You don't find these type of people today with that kind of dedication." Contrary to today's standards, Burcky's 38-108-6 coaching mark in football was far from poor, according to Carpenter.
"He was a winning coach," he said. "He is what winning coach is all about. He's what winners are all about."
FORMER COACHING NEMESIS Doyt Perry of Bowling Green football fame echoed Carpenter's tribute.
"I remember him very well," he said, via telephone from his winter home in Florida. "I'll say this, he was one great and loyal man. He's as good as any I've ever known.
"I never heard anyone ever say a bad word about A.C."
Perry said he looked forward to seeing Burcky each year at the state basketball tournaments in Columbus.
"We'd look for each other every year at tournament time," he said. Perry praised Burcky's ability to coach as well as work with youth. "He was certainly not only a great technical coach, he was a great man to work with kids," Perry said. "He was just an ideal coach. He fought hard, but there were other things that were more important than winning."
THAT IS ONE trait many of Burcky's friends and college colleagues remember most.
"I suppose what I appreciated most about him was he always insisted on fair play in anything he did," long-time BC librarian Delbert Gratz said. "Winning wasn't the most important goal, it was building character.
"If you played fair and did your best, that's all that was expected of you."
When Dr. Howard Raid arrived at Bluffton College in 1947, he soon learned about Burcky.
"He was the athletic department," Raid said. "He had all his things in one space in College Hall. You can imagine what all the smelly football suits were like with the classroom next door."
RAID SAID BURCKY was a man who knew the meaning of commitment.
"I think he was committed to his role and function in the community and the college," Raid said. "He was always willing to help in the community he lived. And he always had good rapport with his students."
One of those basketball-playing students was James R. Ehrman, who would later come to know Burcky more by the pair's Bluffton Lions Club membership.
"He had a good sense of humor and he was very devoted to Bluffton College and the Lions Club," Ehrman said. "I got to know him quite well. He was a good friend."
MEMORIES FOR EHRMAN include road trips when the eating was often good - at Burcky's expense.
"I remember going on trips where we would stop to eat and you'd get 35 cents for your meal," he said. "He'd tell us to have a banquet. That was a lot of money then."
College 'lessened' by passing: Pannabecker
Copied from The Bluffton News, Thursday, December 14, 1989
Bluffton College was "lessened" by the Dec. 7 death of A.C. Burcky, according to a campus statement released by school Provost Donald L. Pannabecker.
Because BC President Elmer Neufeld is in Bolivia and could not be contacted for comment, Pannabecker released the short statement the day after the death of Burcky, an Emeritus Professor in Physical Education at the college.
"His service to the college was considerable, and all of us - even those who may have known him only by name - are in his debt."
After listing much of Burcky's background, Pannabecker's statement concluded, "A part of each of us died with him yesterday; and much of him will live on to influence all who are part of this campus community. Students and student athletes of earlier generations, grateful for his work with them, will want us, on their behalf to maintain his memory."
BURCKY, 93, WAS hired by Bluffton College after graduating from the school in 1922. He would retire in 1967, but the honors bestowed on him would not cease.
In addition to being selected to the NAIA Hall of Fame in 1962, Burcky was chosen for the Bluffton College Hall of Fame in 1974, the Lions Club Citizen of the Year Award in 1982, and earlier this year, the National Alumni Association Board's Bluffton College Service Award.
Burcky, who attended graduate school at the Universities of Illinois and Michigan, received his master's degree from Ohio State University in 1940.
Known as "Coach" and "A.C.," Burcky was also known for his service on the Allen County Fair Board, as a Boy Scout leader, Bluffton Village Councilman, Board of Public Affairs member, high school coach, and 53-year membership to Bluffton Lions Club.


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Two dozen
years, like eggs,
embryonic, unfertilized,
unlife cracked and splashed
over sizzle-pop olive
oil heating hash the morning after.
One broken piece,
small, brown, jagged edge,
shaped like Connecticut, drifts
into a cloudy white sea
turning tundra when it's ready
to consume. Delicious.
Shattered out utero armor.
Not enough to notice, or cut
you from the inside, but enough
that you might hear a faint crunch
inside your head, reverberating
amidst the pillars of teeth, feel
them grind into shell and devour.
Equation for the poultry
life that is, sacrificed for
young unlife, fried,
over easy, golden insides
hardened, yolk spilling
out across the pan:
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Sam was toying with the idea, but did not how and when to broach it. In his mind, Sam had weighed all possible merits and demerits, and established that moving in together made perfect sense for both of them. It would certainly fulfill a promise Sam had made to himself that he needs to find a better place. Plus sharing the rent with Shalini, would not make as big a dent in his finances, if he was to move in to a place all by himself.
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One evening over dinner, Sam asked Shalini with a degree of trepidation, "what do you think we move in together?"
To Sam's surprise, albeita pleasant one, proposal was not rejected outright; infact, Shalini responded by saying, "I was also thinking along the line you know; we can always share the rent and other things we buy."
Sam wanted to jump in joy. He felt as happy as Winston Churchill, when allied forces established a beachhead at Normandy.
"What are you going to tell your parents," Sam asked cautiously, "will they not feel angry?"
"They don't need to know now," answered Shalini, "I shall think of something if they decide to visit; what about your family?"
Sam was sure, his family was least of his problem. His parents were happy that their son has gone to a big city and standing on his feet. So much so, his father had refused any monetary support from Sam.
Once the decision was made, and the couple had moved in together, it was time to spruce up the apartment. So on weekends and holidays, Shalini would drag Sam to markets for house hold items at a price they could afford.
One such weekend, they visited an auction house where two antique chairs were on display. Actually, it was Sam's idea to visit the place. He had heard from Som Prakash that sometime they may find items at surprisingly low price. This weekend the auction house had announced an auction.
"Look at these chairs? These look so old and used! Who will pay even a rupee for these?"
Shalini and Sam were walking through items on display at the auction house, one afternoon. Two old rocking chairs made of cane were on display with a price tag of ten thousand rupees.
"Shalini these are collectors items, from the house of a royalty! Old king and his queen used sit on the balcony of imperial palace and watch sunset, every evening."
Shalini was really upset when a delivery man knocked on her apartment door and delivered the chairs.
"What is this? I was not expecting any delivery!"
"Ma'am, this from the auction house."
" I am not paying for this, am I?"
"No ma'am, it is all paid for; where shall I put this?"
Sam was prepared for a stormy reception at home. He was not disappointed. "You spent money on this rubbish?"
"Shalini, looking at these chairs, I see of us growing old together." Sam knew his defence was weak, but he was helpless. No way his father would accept money from Sam.
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(5) Eagle Eye, (6) Friends in the Making


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Highlights include a David Beckham cameo at 55 seconds, as well as an absolute wealth of gameplay footage, both from the game's platforming point of view as well as its first-person shots.


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The 1970s at the CMA: 1970 — 1979
If the shift in museums in the 1960s was to look inward at the museum profession itself, then steps to strengthen the profession dominated the 1970s. The National Museum Policy was established in 1972, and with it came a steadier stream of financial aid from the government. It's initial disbursement totaled just over $9.4 million — or, accounting for inflation, approximately $55 million in 2017. This stream of income allowed the CMA to further encourage the formation of basic training programs in the provinces, as well as the development of an awards program, the appointment of CMA Fellows, and a more inclusive bilingual national dialogue. This new money also meant more control and influence by the government.
In keeping with the theme of strengthening the profession, the CMA's monthly publication the Gazette, began running monthly museological provincial profiles. Each issue detailed what was happening in a single province, allowing members from across Canada to learn more about the work of their colleagues. These spotlights crossed the country, from one coast to the other — a sure indication of a rise in the activity and development of provincial museum associations. Prince Edward Island, for example, was showcased in 1973 — the centennial of its entry into confederation.
Spring of 1975 saw the Gazette's project reach the opposite coast, as it detailed the happenings in British Columbia. Martin Segger, a museums advisor for the B.C. provincial museum, wrote that the museums sector in B.C. was experiencing tremendous growth. This development was only an indication of a much larger trend happening across the country: a rapid expansion in the number, size, and budgets of heritage conservation agencies. "Part of this growth has been stimulated by the rising tide of Canadian nationalism and the growing awareness in schools of the educational value of museums, "he wrote. "In the last eight years membership in the British Columbia Museums Association has tripled."
Training was the CMA's single largest program in the early 1970s. But already, decentralization was beginning. Basic training courses were being handed over to provincial associations wherever possible. In the long range, members believed the CMA would become a liaison and advisory body to oversee training, and encourage universities and colleges to develop degree-granting programs. Eventually, of course, that's exactly what happened.
The educational component of museums, and the partnerships that could be forged between universities and museums continued to be explored throughout this decade in the pages of the Gazette. For instance, in 1977 CMA member Louise Stevenson wrote: "The most obvious feature of most natural history museums is the extremely large specimens: few university departments have space for a mounted giant gorilla, an elephant, the skeleton of a dinosaur, [or] a large whale … What we have to offer is the museum specimen: the unique, the irreplaceable, the 'real thing.'"


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Investigators brought cadaver dogs to the Antioch property of Phillip and Nancy Garrido Thursday. They are the couple suspected of kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991.
Investigators from Hayward and Dublin are looking for clues in two missing childs' cases.
Hayward officers were at the property seeking information related to the case of Michaela Garecht, who was abducted in 1998 at age 9 outside of a Hayward grocery store.
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Dublin investigators are there looking for ties to Ilene Misheloff, who was 13 when she disappeared in 1989.
Two separate dogs became interested in the spot Thursday, according to detectives. The dogs were sent to search the property at separate times with separate handlers, so the fact that the same area was spotted could be significant. Investigators said more sophisticated equipment will be brought in Friday to dig where the dogs appeared to find something. The dogs are specifically trained to find cadavers.
Crews will also remove and dig under at least two random slabs of concrete on the Garrido property at some point Friday before taking the weekend off.
Other than the dog finding, there were no big developments Thursday from the extensive search of the property.
The dogs arrived one day after search crews announced they found several bones on the Garrido property and the property next door to the Garridos.
They said they did not know if the bones were human or animal.
Hayward police officer Chris Orrey said they "found a few bones on the neighbor's property" and one bone on Garrido's property. All of the bones were found in the yard.
Orrey said she had not seen the bones and could not describe them.
The original search of the properties by investigators in the Jaycee Dugard case found a bone fragment which authorities have said it is likely a human bone. Tests are still being performed on that bone.
Day two of the search went faster then expected. Officer Orrey said they made it through 75 percent of the debris area of the backyard which filled up three trucks. She said she expects to fill eight to 15 more trucks before they are done. The debris consists of everything from trees to trash to evidence.
Orrey said they have had an investigator on the case from the beginning and have investigated 13,000 tips, but the Garrido tip was one of the strongest she is aware of in all that time. She noted similarities in the manner of abduction, ages of the victims and suspect descriptions from the Garecht and Dugard abductions.Hayward Police Search Warrant PDF
"We're taking another shot at the property to see what we can find," Orrey said.
Investigators say they would tear the entire house down if they felt it was needed. They said they would not leave the property without a complete search of the large piece of property.
Dublin investigators were also part of the new search. Dublin officer Lt. Kurt von Savoye said Garrido had been released from prison just a few months prior to Ilene's disappearance.
Dublin Police Search Warrant PDF
"People who commit these offenses tend to be predatory" and generally have multiple victims, von Savoye said.
Both agencies promised a very methodical search of the property. Aerial footage of Garrido's backyard showed officers on their hands and knees searching blades of grass and dirt by hand. Hayward and Dublin investigators said they also planned to use ground-penetrating radar in their search.
Phillip Garrido, a convicted sex offender, is being held on $30 million bail.
Nancy Garrido is being held without bail.
Both defendants are due back in court in late October.


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Alternatives to the Harrington...
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
G9 - The summer jacket aka the Harrington
Worn by the likes of Steve McQueen, Elvis Presley and James Dean, this twist on the traditional windbreaker is a real must for the unpredictable summer. A perfect accompaniment for drivers on long journeys to have on hand. Baracuta seems to be the top of the tree when it comes to the various offers - Acquascutum, Fred Perry and Merc also do good versions. Choice of colors range from natural/beige, red to black, blue, navy etc...
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