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Certificate: 18
Running Time: 90 mins
Director: William Hopkins
Starring: Alexis Golightly, Damian Ladd, Bashir Solebo
Genre: Horror, Exploitation
A group of friends come together to stage an intervention unaware of the recently excavated demonic burial ground nearby or what lies ahead of them if they dare stick around.
All too often independent horror is beaten with the bloody end of an exceptionally dirty stick. For every one good indie horror there are one hundred dreadful offerings. The same is true for modern day independent attempts at Exploitation cinema so the chances of Demon Resurrection passing muster surely must be high, right? Wrong. In recent reviews we've been quite lucky to be able to dole out the praise and pentagrams generously. The roll continues. Demon Resurrection has the look and feel of an authentic Exploitation horror. That's not to say it looks old, or hokey –anything but. It's the energy instilled in the production that draws this authenticity to the screen and something that
must be praised for. It's part Fulci's Zombi, part Night of the Living Dead yet it has enough style, strength,
confidence and composure to stand alone as an incredibly well constructed, not
to mention enjoyable, piece of genre fiction.
The film has the look of classic horror without coming across as showy or forced. There's a beautiful green hue to the undead, the cinematography is tight and claustrophobic when it needs to be and opens up marvellously to highlight just how screwed everyone is, at all the right moments. The set pieces (normally the Achilles heel of indie horror) are not only extremely well choreographed but are also tightly shot, sharply performed and beautifully balanced. Not too long, not too showy.
sensibilities when it comes to the visual representation of the resurrected is
spot on; enough on screen to fill the audience with fear but not enough to
allow us to become normalised to them. It's a masterful demonstration of skill mixed
with style and patience as the tension is allowed to build with the gradual turning of the
screw. Narratively Demon Resurrection taps into the rich pipeline that is cursed burial ground but does it in a
way that has enough of a tweak to it that it reinvigorates a narrative which traditionally comes with
pre-set audience expectations.
Like Fulci, Hopkins
shrinks our cinematic world, shrinks it down to one house; one house, eight
friends and ten hours of attempted survival (give or take a few minutes). It's this shrinking of cinematic geography
coupled with expansion of cinematic time (as time is often condensed in cinema)
that creates tension. The characters are
trapped in one location, the audience trapped in another (our seats) and Hopkins (like Fulci
before) uses this shrink-and-stretch technique to tell the smaller world story and deliver genuine tension to the hearts of
the audience.
The film is as well put together with regards to casting as it is with everything else. There are some excellent performances on display, Will McDonald (as Toth) has a wonderful screen presence and the essence of Michael Parks which makes him incredibly watchable. Similarly, Damian Ladd (as John) and Bashir Solebo (Denton) step up and deliver commanding, powerful performances that immediately have note taken as two actors that are definitely worth keeping an eye on in the future but the stand-out is Alexis Golightly. She has the most difficult job of the movie; as Grace she is the central character who (for reasons you'll see) has large portions of the film were she's a lot of set-up to do in order to deliver the final arc of the movie. Her on-screen presence and dedication to the movie is commendable, she's a daring and gifted performer whose role demands nothing short of one-hundred percent belief in the on-screen stimulus. To ease her foot off the pedal for a moment would allow some of the more graphic, disturbing, beautifully horrific moments to lapse into spoof yet this never happens. A mesmerising display of talent and dedication.
Demon Resurrection isn't just great "for a second outing as director" (
first being Sleepless Nights). Demon
Resurrection is just plain great.
Extremely well constructed, beautifully paced, superbly acted and hugely
entertaining. How it hasn't been on
Knifed in Venice's
radar for the past six years is a mystery. It is now though, and it should be on yours.

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TRH Recap 45/46: Oh, Brother!
Hey, did you guys know that Darryl Sutter and Brent Sutter were brothers and coached against each other for the first time Saturday night??? Apparently, Canada did.
Maybe "gripping" and Darryl Sutter shouldn't be used in the same sentence.
I'm just amazed that people still use newspapers.
No seriously… did you know that Darryl and Brent Sutter were brothers and were coaching against each other for the first time?!? Fox Sports West HD certainly did.
Before the game, both Darryl and Brent Sutter held press conferences to reiterate that they were brothers and coaching each other for the first time.
Forget about the First Family of Hockey…
they are more like the First Family of Ugly.
Let's just say if you were playing a drinking game that every time Fox Sports West HD showed a shot of Darryl Sutter and Brent Sutter back to back during the broadcast…
You'd be shit-faced drunk by the middle of the 1st period.
That awkward moment when you can see both Brent and Darryl Sutter during a cross-dissolve edit.
I just wish there was some way to visually understand the 7 Sutter Brothers and their achievements in life.
I haven't seen this many Sutters since I went to that really cheap wedding.
I tell ya, those statisticians at Fox Sports West HD are some of the best in the business.
The only thing active about Owen Nolan's career are the animals he hunts.
Thankfully there was no other story to cover during the Los Angeles Kings 4-1 victory over the Calgary Flames besides these two particular Sutter Brothers coaching against each other for the first time. Am I right?!?
Cammy's Back!
Speaking of coaches facing each other for the first time, the LA Kings newest non-assistant coach continues to creep closer and closer to replacing either Jamie Kompon or John Stevens as part of Darryl Sutter's staff.
"What's that? My qualifications? I scored 70 goals in 1 NHL season.
Your move, Kompon."
"Great, game…huh boss? So um… Bernie was just here for the buffet, right?"
"We know you can hear us, Darryl. Please… talk to us. I have children."
Oh man, the LA Kings looked so good last Saturday night against the Flames that I could have danced.
And then they played the Edmonton Oilers the next day.
Thankfully, Darryl Sutter didn't let any of the emotion involved with coaching against his brother affect him during the game.
Drew Doughty approves.
It seems that Darryl and Brent have finally put their differences behind them and can now do what they do best… sing!


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Melody Madarasz in Café Variations
The music of George Gershwin is a good thing; a very good thing. Which is a very good thing for director Anne Bogart, as it repeatedly saves her beautiful, baffling, Café Variations (at ArtsEmerson through the weekend) from a persistent threat of tedium.
What's baffling about this show, you may ask? Why it was ever produced, frankly; there really is no show here. Bogart has simply set various snatches of dialogue from playwright Charles L. Mee, Jr. - with whom she often collaborates as she works the college circuit with her theatre troupe, SITI - against a clutch of Gershwin standards, played in a giant period café. And - ta-da! - she seems to think this means she has made some sort of statement.
If only. Mee's banter can be cute in its bitchy pique (at least in the wonderful performance from Ellen Lauren it can), but it doesn't add up to much, and it only relates to the rueful swoon of Gershwin in the most desultory way. I admit there's also some sort of folderol going on here about variations in personality over the course of the evening (the characters come in three variants, labeled A, B, and C) - but this also didn't seem to add up to much, and in fact I found I really couldn't be bothered with following Bogart's bogus acrostic. Because the whole thing was obviously a weightless monument to academic conceit.
But there is that Gershwin. Some of the music here is recorded, but there are also performances on offer from a live band tucked behind a shimmery curtain on Neil Patel's gorgeously luxe set (below). The arrangements by Rachel Grimes - particularly the wordless chorale drawn from "Embraceable You" - are likewise to die for, as are the costumes (Caitlin Ward), lighting (Brian H. Scott), and sound (Stowe Wilson). It all made me wonder - couldn't we just keep this design team and drop Bogart?
If we do, perhaps we can dodge in future the dodgy vocals that dot the show. The Emerson kids do okay - although only Melody Madarasz, who caught my eye in Bat Boy a year ago, is a standout. The actors from SITI, Bogart's troupe, are another story. In a word, SITI can't sing - which is a problem, because singing Gershwin is far more difficult than it sounds. I love a Gershwin tune, but I know it usually hovers between at least two keys, and so any vocal jump larger than a third can be perilous (that's why I only sing them in the shower). And let's just say there are a number of awkward landings here - in fact, some of the SITI vocals may be the weakest I've ever heard in a professional venue. And I wish I could say that the dancing made up for this, but it really didn't until the very end (again, SITI can't dance - but Emerson has at least one talented hoofer in Maximilian Sangerman). So I guess you could say I left singing the set, and dancing the arrangements, and that's about it. But at least Bogart and Mee can't take that away from me.
|Like the music, the set is 'swonderful. Photos: Paul Marotta


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Saturday, 6 December 2014
What's the WOD ?
If you need explanation on doing the WODs, check here or in the discussion board. Likely your question has been asked before.
Some insight and thoughts on sets and reps:
The WOD descriptions are very literal; don't read into them. If it says "squats" it means bodyweight (aka "air squats") - no added weight, unless it says back squats or front squats.
A "rep" or repetition is one iteration of a movement. One bench press, one squat. A "set" is a group of reps: 10 reps =10 bench presses, 10 squats. 3 sets is do a group of repetitions, rest, repeat, rest, repeat. So, 3 sets of 10 (reps) is 10/rest/10/rest/10. The rest interval is up to your recovery time, and the goal of the WOD. Obviously, if it's a timed WOD, you want to rest less.
Also, rest and reps are frequently inverse. Sometimes a WOD says deadlift 3-2-2-1-1-1. This means a set of 3 reps, a set of 2 reps, another set of 2, a "set of one" aka a "single." This few reps indicates maximal load, and indicates longer rest times.
Back to literal: if the WOD says 21-15-9 reps of bench and pullups in "rounds" (or any two or three exercises as given) you do 21 reps of exercise 1, followed by 21 reps of exercise 2, and 21 reps of exercise 3 if there is a third one. Now do 15 of the first, 15 of the second...9 of the first, 9 of the second.
Most likely you will be breaking the 21's and 15's (and maybe the 9's) into subsets, aka "breakdowns." This is based on your strength and conditioning. Remember if you need to adjust the weight downward, do so, since these are timed WODs.
Here's some insight from Coach on the intent of CrossFit:
"CrossFit is in large part derived from several simple observations garnered through hanging out with athletes for thirty years and willingness, if not eagerness, to experiment coupled with a total disregard for conventional wisdom. Let me share some of the more formative of these observations:
1. Gymnasts learn new sports faster than other athletes.
2. Olympic lifters can apply more useful power to more activities than other athletes.
3. Powerlifters are stronger than other athletes.
4. Sprinters can match the cardiovascular performance of endurance athletes - even at extended efforts.
5. Endurance athletes are woefully lacking in total physical capacity.
6. With high carb diets you either get fat or weak.
7. Bodybuilders can't punch, jump, run, or throw like athletes can.
8. Segmenting training efforts delivers a segmented capacity.
9. Optimizing physical capacity requires training at unsustainable intensities.
10. The world's most successful athletes and coaches rely on exercise science the way deer hunters rely on the accordion."
Source : http://www.crossfit.com/cf-info/faq.html
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Monday Jul 14, 2014
The Man with the Dog
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I decided to revisit a short story that I wrote some ten years ago.
Here are the first 5 chapter (30 in all) of The Man with the Dog. If you like what you've read so far, give me your vote. Thanks and enjoy!
Click on the link: Man with the Dog
What I've read so far is wonderful. I can't wait to see how it all plays out.


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This study was conducted to look at whether exercise and physical activity are better and more vigorous when children perform them with friends. Results showed that boys with friends who indulge in more physical activity spend more time doing vigorous activities like exercise and play. Similarly, girls who work-out or play actively with their "best friends" tend to be more physically active. The current study states, "Boys and girls who take part in physical activity with their best friend at home or in the neighborhood where they live engage in higher levels of physical activity."
Over the last few years, the time that children and adolescents spend on physical activities has decreased. This affects them mentally as well as physically. It puts them at risk for heart disease later in life, and lack of activities puts them at a social disadvantage too. Various strategies have been used to increase the time of intense physical activity among children to at least an hour per day. Not many of these efforts have succeeded. Some studies have shown evidence that having active friends often motivates children to be active themselves. However, none of the studies have been extensive and well-planned. This detailed study was conducted to explore the link between having active friends and being physically active.
* A total of 472 10- and 11-year old children from 40 different primary schools were included in the study.
* All the children were given activity measuring monitors to wear for five days.
* Thereafter, the children answered questionnaires that asked them if they had best friends. The children were asked if, and for how long, they participated in physical activities with these best friends. They also answered questions related to whether their friends, or they themselves, suggested being active.
Results/Key findings
* Results showed that total minutes of intense physical activity increased in both boys and girls if they had best friends.
* Having a friend at home or living nearby definitely enhanced physical activities in both boys and girls.
* For girls, having a best friend play at least twice weekly increased physical activity. For boys, the same rise in activity was seen if there was a participation in a sports team by a friend.
Next steps/Shortcomings
The authors agree that the study population, being limited to a single city, may have shown a different picture than a study done throughout the country. They also state that only best friends from school were included in the evaluation. The children may be active with friends who do not go to the same school. They also write that the effects of the participating child on the physical activities of the "best friend" have not been studied. They suggest that further studies that follow children over a longer period of time and from different regions might give a clearer picture.
This study concludes, "Boys who have best friends who are physically active engage in greater amounts of physical activity. Girls who frequently take part in physical activity with their best friend obtain higher levels of physical activity than girls who do so less frequently." Furthermore, the physical activity rises if the friend lives nearby. This means children spend more time being physically active beyond school hours than during school time. The authors suggest that this might mean that if attempts are being made to create support systems and networks of active friends, the end result of increased physical activities of children could be realized.
For More Information:
Better with a Buddy: Influence of Best Friends on Children's Physical Activity
Publication Journal: Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Accepted for Publication June 2010
By Russell Jago, PhD; Kyle MacDonald-Wallis; University of Bristol, United Kingdom
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If a blog's popularity is in direct proportion to the amount of spam it receives, then I've been getting quite a bit more popular lately. Thank you to my Readers for that, and thanks Akismet for blocking those Viagra ads!
I also wanted to note: I received Kim Harrison's brand new first hardcover ever: For A Few Demons More today! I forgot to budget for the hard cover, so I ordered it from (cheaper) Wal-Mart.com and had to wait (in agony!) all week for it. If you're not familiar with Kim's work, you'll need to know that all her titles are word plays based on the work of Clint Eastwood. Why? I don't know. They just are, and you just do.
I expect to do a review this week, so stay tuned!


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Students across Somerset County have been engrossed in the monarchy of King Henry II for the last week.
But instead of learning through the history books, they've taken to the Mountain Playhouse in Jennerstown, where "The Lion in Winter" is playing to learn some of the basics.
The production is the theater's Theater Classics for Students production, a way to bring theater to students across the region.
Written by James Goldman, the tale takes students into the lives of the royal family in 1183. King Henry is attempting to choose his successor amid the pressures and demands of his three sons and estranged wife.
"It's his interpretation. His spin on what may have taken place behind royal doors," said director Guy Stroman.
For Mountain Playhouse Producer Teresa Stoughton Marafino, offering a piece such as "The Lion in Winter" gives a chance to accomplish two missions.


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By Jonathan O'Connell and Mike DeBonis
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, November 18, 2010; 12:49 AM
Wal-Mart announced plans Wednesday to enter the District for the first time, laying out an aggressive strategy to open four stores and hire 1,200 people in the city by 2012.
The blueprint is part of a national effort by the chain to expand beyond rural and suburban areas, where its low prices and massive stores transformed the retail landscape, into urban markets. Although Wal-Mart already operates stores in Northern Virginia and suburban Maryland, it has never had a store in the District.
The four stores would be built in D.C. neighborhoods where retail options are relatively scarce: on the site of a former car dealership on Georgia Avenue NW; at New York Avenue and Bladensburg Road NE; as part of a new mixed-use development on New Jersey Avenue NW; and at East Capitol and 58th streets SE.
As it has when it entered other cities, Wal-Mart's announcement is already is drawing the ire of labor leaders who complain that the company pays substandard wages and provides inadequate benefits. But with an unemployment rate above the national average and many neighborhoods lacking the basic goods and groceries that Wal-Mart says it will offer, several city officials and neighborhood leaders said they would consider supporting the plans.
Wal-Mart said it expects to create 400 construction jobs, generate in excess of $10 million in tax revenue for the District and expand its charitable activities here, focusing particularly on job training and efforts to combat hunger.
"D.C. residents want more convenient access to quality jobs and affordable groceries," said Henry Jordan, senior vice president of Wal-Mart U.S. "We want to be part of the solution and look forward to building even more support for what our brand can deliver."
The Bentonville, Ark.-based company has fared better than many retailers during the economic downturn by emphasizing its low prices. But much of its growth has come from expanding operations overseas. Wal-Mart has been looking for opportunities to grow in the United States, whether it be moving into urban areas or experimenting with stores that rely on far smaller footprints than the traditional one-story, big-box format that dominates so many communities.
In June, for instance, the nation's largest retailer agreed to a deal with the Chicago City Council that gives the company the green light to open its second store in that city by 2012 and two dozen or more stores there in coming years.
Its four D.C. stores will vary from 80,000 to 120,000 square feet, a typical size for the chain. The company is also considering additional stores for the District, including a new pilot format of fewer than 30,000 square feet, according to spokesman Steven Restivo.
"We're continuing to evaluate opportunities across the District, and those opportunities are small, medium and large sites," he said.
The company is also trying to improve its image as an employer. In 2007, Wal-Mart named the Washington area one of 10 "jobs and opportunity zones" across the country, promising to help local suppliers and even teach mom-and-pop shops how to compete with it.
At its stores in Washington area suburbs, Wal-Mart pays an average of $12.49 an hour. Although Restivo would not say what wages would be at its District stores, he said the rates would be above that of most union jobs offered by competing grocers and that most jobs would be full-time positions.
But Thomas P. McNutt, president of Local 400 of the United Food and Commercial Workers, which represents employees of area Giant, Safeway and Shoppers Food Warehouse stores, said Wal-Mart's wage pledges don't change much.
"It doesn't matter what format they bring to the city," he said. "This is a wolf in sheep's clothing."
McNutt said he was skeptical of the company's wage claims, saying the comparisons often do not account for generous benefit packages provided for in union contracts, including health and retirement benefits. "It's total compensation that separates the union market from the non-union market," he said.
Throughout its history, Wal-Mart has often been the target of fierce opposition from local business and community leaders who fear it will drive smaller retailers out of business. In the District, it is unclear what zoning and legislative approvals would be required for the stores to open. The company has already begun briefing city officials on its plans.
Mayor-elect Vincent C. Gray cautiously welcomed the announcement. Gray, who won election in part by promising to tackle unemployment, also received tremendous support from labor unions.
"There have historically been concerns about [Wal-Mart's] labor practices," he said in a brief interview Wednesday night. "I want to make sure workers are treated fairly and earn fair wages."
D.C. Council member Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) said that he's quite aware of the many arguments against the retailer but that District residents have as much right to low prices as suburbanites do.
"One of the arguments about gentrification and displacement [is that] it's not just about the cost of housing, it's about the cost of groceries and other goods," he said.
Council member Harry Thomas Jr. (D-Ward 5), perhaps the most reliable pro-labor vote on the council, is also assuming a soft stance for the moment. "My number one concern is ensuring we have full-time jobs and labor-based pay rates," he said.
Kamili Anderson, a neighborhood activist who lives near the Georgia Avenue site, said she has some reservations about Wal-Mart, based on its reputation for being anti-union and giving employees paltry benefits. But she said the area has an "urgency" for more retail outlets and that most residents will welcome the proposal - particularly if the company solicits input from neighbors on "what they want to do with the store."
"Anything that could draw more business and more development should be welcomed," Anderson said. "With conditions."
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Poinsettia's for you
This is another cutie from LOTV called Pretty Poinsettia, colored with Copic markers then added Martha Stewart ultra fine glitter.
My papers are from Melissa Frances Deck the Halls 6 x 6 paper pad backed with Kraft paper. Here are the dies I used
Spellbinder Fleur de Lis square & layered poinsettia, Cheery Lynn Holly flourish.
For the flowers I used white cardstock then inked with festive berries, fired brick and peeled paint distress inks. I then applied glass glitter and used my Krylon gold leafing pen on the clear rhinestones for the centers.
I'm entering my card in the following challenges
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Top Tip Tuesday - Anything goes
Deep Ocean - Warm wishes
Divas by design - Merry Christmas
Paperplay - Christmas
Stampin for the weekend - Anything goes
Secret Crafters - Anything goes
Totally Gorgeous - For someone special
Dream Valley - Christmas
Simon Says - Anything goes
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day
19 comments:
- Jane (Carroll's Creations) said...
Thanks for joining our "Anything Goes" challenge on SECRET CRAFTER SATURDAY CHALLENGE :)
Hugs Jane x
- December 28, 2011 at 4:04 PM
- Nady said...
Magnifique! j'adore ta carte, les couleurs sont superbes, j'aime beaucoup le petit ruban qui passe dans le spellbinder, ta coloration est magnifique et tes fleurs un gros wow!
Nadyne xx
- December 28, 2011 at 4:21 PM
- Teresa said...
What a beauty! xx
- December 28, 2011 at 5:02 PM
- Catherine said...
This is gorgeous! Love your shading and the holly flourish (may have to invest in this....)
- December 28, 2011 at 5:22 PM
- CraftyC said...
Very pretty Louise, love the gold pen effect. Thanks for taking part in the dream valley challenge and all the best for 2012!
- December 29, 2011 at 2:48 PM
- NGCARDS said...
Great card hun and Happy New Year :) Thanks for popping by my blog! xxx
- December 30, 2011 at 6:27 PM
What a cute stamp! I just love those Poinsettia's!
Hugs Julie P
- January 1, 2012 at 8:16 PM
- Mandy said...
Beautiful card Louise, the image is adorable and I love the sparkle.
Thanks for joining us at Simon Says Stamp for our anything goes challenge & at Paper Play for our Christmas challenge.
Happy New Year :)
hugs Mandy xx
- January 2, 2012 at 10:31 AM
- mags said...
Lovely card Louise. Love the adorable image. Thanks for joining us at Dream Valley.
- January 2, 2012 at 3:35 PM
- Karita said...
WOW! Gorgeous card! :)
Beautiful image and I just love your card design - so stunning :)
Thank you for joining at Deep ocean Challenge :)
- January 2, 2012 at 3:52 PM
- Deirdre said...
Gorgeous - thank you so much for joining us on Paperplay for this Challenge. Happy New Year to you and yours. Hope to see you again in 2012.
- January 4, 2012 at 6:58 AM
- NGCARDS said...
A gorgeous creation hun! xxx
- January 4, 2012 at 8:24 AM
- Mummylade said...
Fantastic project! Thank you so much for entering this in our challenge at Stampin for the Weekend and good luck!
- January 5, 2012 at 10:48 AM
- Danielle said...
I have been MIA lately... and I missed this gorgeous project of yours. Happy new Year Louise, and thanks for your visits and always so appreciated comments. wish we'd meet one day!
Your card is just sooo precious. I love those stamps too, these little characters are so adorable. I love your pointsettias, gorgeous coloring of this cutie, and all the beautiful details.
- January 5, 2012 at 12:23 PM
- NGCARDS said...
You have a wonderful blog hun! Good luck with our DT Call! xxx
- January 6, 2012 at 7:37 AM
- Andie's Space said...
Hi Louise,
This looks so pretty. I love the fab image & the poinsettas are perfect. Thanks for joining us at the Secret Crafter's Saturday Challenge.
Andie xx
- January 6, 2012 at 2:47 PM
- Sonia said...
Beautiful card thank you for taking part in this weeks 'Secret Crafters Saturday Challenge'
Hugs Sonia xx
- January 7, 2012 at 3:53 AM
- Sandy said...
This is one beautiful card and you have done a gorgeous job with it. I love it. I particularly love the poinsettias - beautiful!
- January 8, 2012 at 1:19 PM
- Gunn (Merete) said...
This is really beautiful. I love the flowers and the image is so beautiful colored in.
Thanks for joining us at SFTW
- January 26, 2012 at 9:06 PM
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Paul: I agree with Tony about the bad timing. I'm also confused and concerned about a few issues related to this meeting. I will not forward to my WG until some concerns are addressed about the meeting: 1. Who chartered it? The presentation lists it as an IEEE 802 ad hoc, which would imply that either you or the EC chartered this meeting; yet the presentation provided is an 802.11 document. 2. The presentation cites SA governing documents and the LMSC P&P on slide two, yet the LMSC P&P are silent about ad hoc meetings. I would think though to be called an IEEE 802 ad hoc it should have been chartered by the EC. Paul, your message doesn't even suggest that you chartered the ad hoc as LMSC Chair. 2. What is its objective? I can only speculate based on the presentation. The abstract is worthless, the presentation objectives are questions not objectives (i.e., a statement of the meetings purpose). The agenda item "Discussion" proposes a discussion question about "this" without any definition of what "this" is (emergency services does not seem to fit well as the assumed antecedent). 3. Why wasn't this topic raised through the 802 Architecture Committee? Emergency services was one of the items on its issues list, and the 802 Architecture Committee has been waiting for someone to show enough interest in any of the issues on that list to resume meeting. 4. At this point what it appears to me to be is an attempt to hold an EC Study Group meeting without EC approval. Based on the meetings serious lack of procedural basis, insufficient information and obfuscation of the real meeting objective, I formally object to this meeting being called an 802 meeting, and recommend that the interested parties work with the 802 Architecture Committee Chair to get an Architecture Committee meeting called to discuss the topic. It is now too late for the Architecture Committee to meet Sunday afternoon as we did previously. I would not have trouble holding the meeting in an open tutorial slot as Tony suggested, though I would though have to go back and look at the chartering motion for the Architecture Committee to determine if any EC action was required to allow a meeting to go forward as an Architecture Committee meeting. --Bob -----Original Message----- From: ***** IEEE 802 Executive Committee List ***** [mailto:email@example.com] On Behalf Of Tony Jeffree Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 2:27 AM To: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: Re: [802SEC] IEEE 802 Emergency Services Ad Hoc Agenda Paul - The timing is not good - there are WGs (802.1, 802.3, ...) that have their closing plenaries Thursday afternoon, and I am already getting requests to move to a different time. It would be better to locate this in an empty Tutorial slot. I would have copied this to Steve, but I don't know his email address - can you forward it to him please? Regards, Tony At 00:43 08/07/2007, Paul Nikolich wrote: >IEEE 802 Emergency Services Ad Hoc AgendaDear EC members, > >Stephen McCann requested I distribute the attached presentation on >emergency services to the EC reflector and would like to encourage >representation from at least one member from your group at the >ad-hoc meeting he will be chairing during the July plenary >session. Please solicit interest in this activity from your group >members and provide feedback directly to Stephen. > >Regards, > >--Paul > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: McCann, Stephen >To: firstname.lastname@example.com >Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 4:15 AM >Subject: IEEE 802 Emergency Services Ad Hoc Agenda > > >Paul, > Please may I ask you a favour. > >Since the main presenters appear to be happy with this agenda, >please could you distribute it to the ExCom >mailing list for me, and encourage all WG chairs to forward it to >their groups, so that everyone is aware >that it is happening. > >I currently have been allocated the Marina room, which I think holds >50 people. Meeting Thursday 19th >July 14:00 - 16:00. > >Thank you for your time. > >Kind regards > >Stephen > > <<11-07-2032-00-0000-802-emergency-services-ad-hoc-agenda.ppt>> > >---------- >This email is sent from the 802 Executive Committee email >reflector. This list is maintained by Listserv. > ---------- This email is sent from the 802 Executive Committee email reflector. This list is maintained by Listserv. ---------- This email is sent from the 802 Executive Committee email reflector. This list is maintained by Listserv.


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One of the reasons I decided to stay in Michigan after my initial move here to clear my head, was the cooler temperatures. Oklahoma summers last much more than the Michigan 3- month time period. I think my first summer here it hardly made it past 80. In Oklahoma I am used to triple digits with heat indexes making it well into the 120s. Yuck! It is an interesting sight sometimes, to live in a place where the government issues heat advisories and has the Red Cross set up on street corners to provide bottles of water to those who are out in the heat.
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Welcome, Elijah Eliot Wan!
Today is my little nephew's one month birthday! Isn't he just a darling? I never thought that I could love someone so tiny so very, very much. My sister has been sending me pictures almost daily so I can keep up to date with all of little E's developments and all his little faces and expressions.
Of course, before Elijah arrived, I set to work sewing and making all sorts of thing to prepare for his arrival. Here are some little tote bags I made for my sis and Billy to make it easier for them to go out with their little one, similar to the ones found here.
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And some baby boys bibs.
And for mom, a nursing cover for feeding on the go.
Happy birthday, little guy! Auntie can't wait to meet you soon.


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This photo, copyrighted by The Associated Press, shows an amicable Tommy and Tammy shaking hands before their last "debate" Friday night at the Marquette Law School Library. Moderator Mike Gousha's hand is just visible in the lower left of the photo.
I think it's safe to say Tammy and Tommy won't be shaking hands again in the near future, if they can avoid it. This Senate campaign has ended up in the muck, and both are throwing it.
Some people who've known Tommy for a long time say he reluctantly went along with Karl Rove's attack ad on Tammy's 9-11 Patriotism; some who've known Tammy a long time say she had no option but to counter Tommy's 9-11 smear with one of her own.
This is what politics has become: both candidates with their own sets of facts, who refuse to directly answer questions about specifics, and simply repeat whatever lines their handlers have told them to use when talking about the subject. You can't pin them down; even when a competent moderator like Mike Gousha asks Tommy directly about his pandering to the tea party with his remark to the tea people "who better than me to do away with Medicare and Medicaid?" Tommy just pivots and says "I've been a moderate conservative all my life".
Both Tommy and Tammy could benefit greatly by hiring an elocution coach; Tammy more than Tommy. Tommy's tortured pronunciations and shattered syntax are part and parcel of his very well-known public persona, and a well-spoken Tommy Thompson might even be a net negative. We're used to his bluster and his dropped g's and his repeated mispronunciations ("Ahmadeenajon") and constant flubs like "Gulf of Hormuz".
Tammy's not nearly so well-known in Wisconsin, and her halting answers and constant interjections of "ahhh…" make her responses to debate questions seem uncertain. In the closing moments of Friday night's debate, when Gousha got to the 9-11 (non)issue, Tommy launched into an obviously well-practiced response about not questioning Tammy's patriotism, but her judgment. Tammy's "I am outraged that Governor Thompson would make a political issue of a national tragedy" speech, no doubt also calculated and practiced, came off as stilted and rehearsed. Unfortunately, this is the kind of stuff – style elements, not substance – that tend to stick in the mind, and play too large a role in the decision-making process about who's the better candidate.
Mercifully, the "debates" are now over; no more Tammy and Tommy; no more Barack and Mitt; and a creature named Sandy will take center stage on the national news reports for the next couple days.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
John Carter: Quick thoughts.
I finally saw John Carter last night. The good news is that it was only $2! The bad news is that I was mildly disappointed. I felt that the beginning of the movie was a bit confusing if you hadn't read the books, and that the major change in John Carter's personality was a negative. It's still a worthwhile movie, and I wish they would do more. I don't know where the budget went, but it certainly wasn't spent on the actors.
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NT: Hey, can you give everyone an introduction to Graciellita?
G: I'm graciella, alias Graciellita, pretty straight forward I guess, you know it's still me just sorta givin' myself that free flow to dig deeper into the creative side of the mind and spend most time on my musical playground.
NT: What's the process behind making one of your tunes. Where do you start? How long have you been making music?
G: The process of makin' a tune for me can actually happen all at different times, and once I sit down I put the pieces together to allow for an audible expression. Inspiration is an amalgamation of the many scattered thoughts and energies that surround me or are within me, feelings of all sorts, especially that of inner despair/cryout and confusion.
Graciellita - To Happy Tree
NT: Do you feel it's important for music to have a sense of emotion, time or place linked to it? What are you influenced by, musically or otherwise?
G: I couldn't say this a few years back, but I understand now that makin' music, for me, is healin' and freedom, I'm always off on a journey of an intensity that can only be rendered through sounds and lyrical metaphors.
NT: What are your plans for your music? Have you had any releases previously, and have you got any planned for the future?G: I've released on labels most of my recent work, EP's like 'Quest' and ' 'Tropus', upcomin' 'Loner' and
more albums to be announced in the near future.
Graciellita - Quiet Unconditional
NT: Can you tell us a little about the track you're kindly giving away?G: Rhetoric brain-stirrin' is just another conveyance of exactly that feelin' of mental turmoil and constant thoughts and questions stirrin' around in the brain that never seem to leave you or provide an answer. Everything is the product of powerful overbearin' feelings, the emotional overload.
NT: Finally, if you had to pick your three favourite "Night Tracks", what would they be?G: Fave night tracks :D tough one:
HGLDT - Knowing You
eplp - Hurt
Burial, Four Tet & Thom Yorke - Mirror
Sweetheart Of Kairi - Approaching Farewell
Ollie Macfarlane - Torment...
Much luv to night tracks and its brilliant creator ;p (NT: I must stress that I didn't make this up, she definitely wrote it. I swear.)
NT: Thanks very much for your time, and double thanks for the quality tune! If you missed the link for the download, here it is again!


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Anxiety is a rather constant companion of mine. It use to be an every wakeful moment companion, a not let me sleep companion, and then it also use to bring its close cousin panic attack to the party. Thankfully, those days are behind me (for the most part), and anxiety only usually shows up occasionally, for small doses of time. Then this past week happened.
This past week – last Sunday night and not stopping until about Friday evening, was rather brutal. Anxiety was with me more often than not. Doug, got sick last Sunday night, Monday we got our apartment sprayed for cockroaches. Those seem like insignificant things in the grand scheme of things – and they are…now. At the time it was anything but.
See, I have a phobia of throwing up. And Doug was throwing up. Was I there for him and taking care of him when he was sick – of course. Did I lose it thoroughly afterwards to my anxiety? Yes. Did I have a panic attack? No. Years ago I would have. So small steps in the right direction.
Then the spraying of the apartment. I had a sick boyfriend sleeping finally, and a piece of paper saying that I didn't have to leave the apartment. Turns out the paper I had was wrong and we did have to leave – for 6 hours. Packed up sick boyfriend and we all went to my grandmother's. Oh, and did I mention I was working from home that day too?
The next 48 hours were spent with me worried – irrationally worried – that I was going to get sick. Was I? No. Even writing that sentence makes me a little anxious because I'm afraid I'm jinxing myself. Doug had night shifts later in the week, and I slept over at my parent's place after finding another cockroach after the spray and losing it. Because, hey, I hadn't really been sleeping well. You can't really sleep if you can't really stop shaking.
The big triggers for me from this week that set me off were the throwing up and the change of my routine. Everything in the kitchen was in the living room and dining room, the stuff from the bathroom was in the hall and the bedroom. The apartment was in disarray, and I felt like I was in disarray already. Small drops of water as it were, that easily turn into a flood.
Now reading all of this from my calm mental and relaxed state – I know that I sound irrational. And that's because it is. Anxiety is irrational. A switch gets flipped, a light goes off and all of a sudden your flight or fight response is triggered for no rational reason. And it can (as it did in this case) go on for days. It can be terrifying when you can't easily calm down, and there's no rational way to explain why you can't.
So how did I calm myself?
As the week when on it started getting a little less on its own. I helped it along by meditating a lot. Meditating slows down your wayward thoughts, makes you breathe deeper, forces you to calm down slowly. I use the app Insight Timer. A friend of mine recommended it and it's wonderful. There are hundreds (if not thousands) of meditations all for free. It's fantastic.
I walked. Doug and I (when he's not on night shift) taken 30-60 min walks around the neighbourhood. The exercise is light, but it gets you moving, gets your endorphins running, and by going with Doug it gave me someone to talk when my brain started running away with me again.
I also purposefully made this weekend my "reset weekend". Doug and I put the kitchen and bathroom back together because a) it had to happen and b) it made me feel so much better. Friday night I went to bed at 9:30 and slept for about 9 hours. I woke up feeling refreshed. Saturday I made my day of rest – I cooked myself French toast for breakfast, I read, I relaxed. Sunday, was (is) more productive as we cleaned the apartment, and I sat down at my laptop to work. But even so, Sunday (today) is being approached with a relaxed productivity. Things need to get done, but there's no racing around. It's almost like nesting or puttering.
So here's what I've been reminded of this weekend. Life happens, and it's okay to fall apart after you've handled the important things (like taking care of a sick boyfriend), and it's also okay to take the time to reset yourself. We're not machines, and sometimes we don't function like we think we should. And that's all okay. We just have to take care of ourselves, ask for help when we need it, and most importantly try to remain positive that the irrational cloud that's hanging over us from time to time isn't a permanent fixture in the skyline.


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Well, ok, I've been weaving before, but this time I am weaving on a floor loom so my feet get to join in, and the process feels more fluid than using the table loom. You would not believe how difficult it was to come up with the word fluid, I tried proper, real, professional, and active - and none of those words were the right one. I wanted to convey how weaving on the floor loom was not at stop-start a process as weaving on the table loom, the simple action of using feet to change the shed instead of hands means that hands only have to do two things, beat and throw the shuttle.
But the table loom is good, there is a place for portable and small looms. I've enrolled in a two day workshop next month that loos at four shaft weaving on a table loom. No way I could lug a floor loom to a workshop. the second body of weaving is off the table loom now, hemstitched and cut up into cloths. It's a pointed twill weave from the same book I mention below.
I ended up with edges that I'm more pleased with than the ones I started with, about two thirds of the way along the 1.5m warp a slim boat shuttle arrived from Bluster bay.
The boat shuttle made weaving more fun, instead of having to unwind end over end a length of weft long enough to cross the warp - I could just slide the boat shuttle from one side to the other. Truely there are tools that do make working more pleasant, and this is one of them.
There was of course drama with the shuttle, the weft is wound on small card tubes, and I thought I could use my majacraft spinning wheel to wind the weft thread on. Turns out the majacraft spindle is way to thick for the cardboard tubes - and I didn't have a hand or power drill that could be sacrificed as a electric diy winder. I did wind one using a hand drill, one by hand, and one using a dremmel - all of which worked but not in a way that encouraged doing it that way again. So I splurged and spend all my pocket money on a swedish bobbin winder with a thin tapered shaft. I read up on winders first, and there seem to be those who use electric - often a diy repurposed drill or sewing machine motor, and those who wind using a manual winder. Of the manual winders I found enough who said they had worn out a winder - or two - and eventually bought a swedish one. The reports from those people were along the lines that it was good, easy to use, and durable - so durable that they should have bought that kind in the beginning. So I decided to follow their advice - it was expensive - but when it arrived I recognized it was a lovely mechanical peice of equipment.
Here is the full spectrum of selvedges, from the very wobbly first inches (underneath and to the left) to the edges woven with the boat shuttle. Much smoother and straighter. I guess if I can improve this much over 1.5m then over the next 20 or 50 m of weaving my selvedges with be even better, just like a new knitter gets better at making even stitches.
I used black in the warp but avoided using black in the weft for most of the weaving, only adding a little at the end. I wish I had added black earlier - it made the pattern pop.
And here is the all hand all feet weaving, I chose a draft from a library book, The Handweavers Pattern Directory, over 600 patterns for four-shaft looms by Anne Dixon. The draft is on page 67 and is filed under the chapter on Point Drafts, but isn't given a name. When weaving I am sitting sort on the upper right corner of the image, but the effect of the pattern is more clearly seen from the side.
The first bit of weaving was odd (closest to th upper right corner), even me as a non weaver could see that what I was weaving didn't look like the pattern in the book. I checked my tie up on th treddles and found I had done something completely odd. I retied the first and third treddle and surprise, the pattern I wanted appeared. A little part of me was rather pleased I had identified that there was a problem and that I was able to fix it.
The test weave is a scarf for Bear, warped with some pale grey vintage Purls sock yarn left over from a cardign. The warp is going to be made up of wide stripes of a variety of dark grey, blue, green left over yarns, also vintage Purls sock. My hope is that this won't look too much like a left overs project. I have large quantities of some yarns, one is a mint unused skein, and plan to alternate that with the yarns I have less of. That should look at least planned more than a weird accident. The scarf is a test weave of my skills, a learning peice, I know the loom can do this, so the test is can I get the loom to do this.
One of the things people say about countermarch looms is that you can get a nice clear shed. This is the shed - technical term for the opening through the weft made by lifting and lowering shafts - after a wee bit of tweaking. There are I some stray threads, some that sit higher or lower than the others. If I was to push the beater back a little, the shed would look even more open.
The loom has what I think are its original string heddles, colour coded by shaft. The are hundreds on the loom and hundreds more in a bag that look never used. I've adjusted the shafts as much as I can for now, and with the Venetian blind cord I can in theory adjust each shaft a millimeter up or down - but this is as level as I can get the heddles. The theory is the warp should pass through the center of the heddles - but I can't do that as the eye of each heddle is not quite perfectly lined up with the eyes of all other heddles on the same shaft - let alone with the eyes of all the heddles on the other three shafts. That may not matter, for this warp the shuttle glides from one side to the other without problem - so the shed is as good as it needs to be. What I need to do is weave and assess the issue with different weave set ups rather than rushing in to update and spend money.
One of the nicest surprises about this loom, other than it came with boat shuttles, Venetian blind slats ( to use as warp packing), and lots of other useful bits - is how quiet it is. The table loom has metal heddles in metal frames (shafts), and the are lifted with springs,and then when released fall with gravity down to their resting position - the arrangement is called a jack loom. The metal shafts and metal heddles are essential to provide weight to hold the warp threads down below the beam height. The metal shafts need to fit loosely inside their guides, and the metal heddles need to slide loosely along the shaft bars. Simple enough - and in theory a very simillar operation to this countermarch loom. The main difference is in the countermarch the shafts are light, wooden, and are either pulled into place up or down with the counter balanced bits, and returned the same way - a smooth controlled move not a sudden gravity driven drop of a whole bunch of loosely attached metal bits.
In fact the only noise is when I depress a treddle too far and it hits the floor, a soft clunk, easy fixed by getting a feel for how far to depress the treddle or maybe putting a mat under them. The other noise is me moving the shuttle towards the shed and clunking it against the beater ... And I hope the more I weave the more coordiated I become and the less I do that.
And yes, there has been knitting, the secret project is a secret, the cardigan has more of a sleeve than before and I might even be excited about wearing it.
Na Stella


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Overcharged Countrywide Homeowners to Get Refund
By Brent Kendall
The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that Countrywide Home Loans allegedly cheated more than 450,000 homeowners as they struggled to keep their homes, a figure far higher than the agency's initial estimate when it settled the case last year.
The increased number of alleged victims came in an FTC announcement that it is mailing refund checks to those affected. The agency originally estimated that about 200,000 customers were overcharged by Countrywide before the company was acquired by Bank of America Corp. in 2008.
The FTC reached an agreement with Bank of America last June in which the company agreed to pay $108 million to settle charges that Countrywide took advantage of homeowners in distress by inflating the cost of services relating to their defaults, such as property inspections, title reports and lawn mowing.


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