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Friday, January 2, 2009
Resolutions Schmesolutions
Today is not an official day-off at the office but there might be 3 or 4 people here, in total. In fact, I don't believe that there are any others in the office higher up on the totem pole than myself so I guess I am the master of my own universe in the office today. Ha! I plan on getting some work done but, I am not so pious as to stick around until 5pm. I'm generally a hard worker but I'm also not stupid.
By the way, my Chiquita Banana is labeled with "The Food that Fights for You!". Um, thank you? Will you help me get a good raise this year, then? Should I bring you with me, Banana, to my review with my manager? Then you fight? No? Ok. I will just put you in my belly, then.
I begrudgingly started the backplash last night. I say "begrudgingly" because yesterday could have been better as far as productivity is concerned. My indulgent self had entirely too much Red Truck Merlot (which, by the way, is excellent - Wine Spectator scored it in the high 80's and BevMo has it for $7.99 - that's a deal!) the night before which resulted in a morning of laying on the couch bemoaning my existence. I basically did shit-shine-ola yesterday morning. I dragged myself to a yoga class in the afternoon, hit up Lowe's with another $10 off $50 coupon , and then forced myself to do something with the kitchen. I textured one more drywall hole and put the last mudding on the final kitchen hole. I then had a internal battle about starting the backplash. I SO did not want to do it, but I told myself to just mix a small bit of mortar and start it, already, Lazy Butt. Turns out the last time I mixed mortar was for floor tile so I mixed more than I bargained for - it was enough to do a 3-foot wide chunk of backsplash when I was thinking I'd maybe do half that. So far, it looks good. I'll probably try to do more tonight and maybe get some pictures up this weekend. I think plain white subway tile was the right choice - thanks bloggy friends!
And I made a decision on bar stools. I did quite a bit of research - I even tried finding used ones but, generally, on Craigslist people sell bar stools in pairs. I have only seen one decent set of 4 and they were too high (29" instead of 24"). I priced out many options, including unfinished ones from a local store. In the end, guess who had the best price and the best option? Effing Walmart. Like 5 bucks cheaper per stool and they have a deeper seat for your fanny than the others ones I had been looking at. And free shipping if I pick them up at a local store. Can't beat it with a stick and I so wanted to get a big stick and beat it hard. Oh well. So I ordered them and they'll arrive, hopefully, next week.
My plan is to paint them red.
California Poppy from Behr is what I have "settled" on. If I can ever settle on a paint color, because while I am really liking the Water Chestnut, I am thinking that for the living-dining room that has cathedral ceilings, it could be nice to have a shade darker than Water Chestnut just to help it feel less expansive. What color NOW, you ask? Bonjour Beige. It's one step up on the same Glidden color card as Water Chestnut. Google research seem to indicate it's a color that lots of people use and like. I'll probably try it first in the master bedroom since we need to paint in there after having to patch 10 drywall holes from the plumbing re-route. Yeah, 6 months later we still have not fully recovered from the original mess.
With all my changes to the supposed "plan" that I had with my previous mood boards, I decided to throw the updated one together to see what it looks like. I haven't added the flooring choice yet since we are not sure anymore. Go figure.
Basically, I suck at designing in advance. Designing in real-time? Not so bad, because I am really liking the mood board now. But I don't know that I could have pulled this out of my ass in October. I guess that's why they pay designers the big bucks. They can see the final decorated outcome before they are knees-deep in the muck. Me, I need to get halfway there, change my mind 14 times, and then finally settle on something that works.
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Love the punches of red that are going on in the kitchen. I have pot filler envy!ReplyDelete
How would that go over if you brought a banana into your next review and just set it on boss' desk or extra chair, making no reference to it?
I don't take my resolutions too seriously . They are never carried out fully, but I do tend to put mine out there to movtivate me to stick with them for a few months.
You have a most interesting repertoire of "colorful" phrases. The shit shine ola is probably my favorite to date.ReplyDelete
The red is looking fabulosa. I like the color for your cathedral ceilings.
And I'm sorry Walmart came through for you yet again. "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in." Godfather III. Or Sopranos. Depending on your preference.
Can't wait to see the subway tile. Once that's done you can pick the floors. It's the only way I can decorate too.
Our last remodel was our main bathroom and it took forever to make decisions for this tiny little space. I literally could not decide on a floor until EVERYTHING ELSE was done. We ended up with a red brick floor, which is glorious!ReplyDelete
I started our kitchen remodel when I was seven months pregnant. Finished it when the kid was, like, a year old. Seriously. We had a year of NO KITCHEN at all, with the fridge free standing in the living room and a microwave sitting on the dining room table.


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Im Memory Of Those Who Fought In WW1
Heritage Workshop Centre is based at 80a High Street, Wildes Score, Lowestoft NR32 1XN, where you can see the interactive model of our lost village for just £2.50 per person. We take school groups and private bookings tailored around your needs, just e-mail or call 01502 581601 to book. Opening times Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 10am to 4pm.
The shop is now part of the Lowestoft Heritage Centre. The Lowestoft Heritage Centre is a self-funding charity with the shop helping to support it selling stock kindly donated by very helpful and generous people. We try to remain under the umbrella of 'Heritage', selling mainly secondhand books, pictures, knick-knacks, documentary videos etc., the most popular being Old Lowestoft and anything about the two World Wars.
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Major Park Plan Is Inspring Ideas
The local community are bursting with ideas for turning the East of England Park into a contemporary and heritage inspired park.
The East of England Park, known locally as North Denes, is located between the Birds Eye Factory and North Denes Caravan Park and includes North Beach and Lowestoft Ness.
Suffolk Just Got Smaller
April 1974 saw Suffolk lose more villages to its northern neighbour, as Government boundary changes took another bite out of the county.
Belton, Bradwell, Burgh Castle, Hopton, Fritton and St Olaves were all places on a map that were in Suffolk – but that all changed this week, 40 years ago – with Norfolk extending its boundary south once more.


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It is no surprise, but reactions of elected officials to President DONALD TRUMP's proposed federal budget differ by party.
The $1.15 trillion plan for fiscal year 2018, which begins Oct. 1, includes increases in military spending and money to begin work on a border wall with Mexico, along with cuts to medical research, agriculture and arts funding.
Under Trump's plan, the Environmental Protection Agency would be cut more than 31 percent to $5.7 billion and the Department of Agriculture would get $17.9 billion — nearly 21 percent less than in the current year. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides about $445 million annually to public radio and TV stations, would get nothing. The border wall project would get a first installment of $2.6 billion.
"The president broke more of his campaign promises today by releasing a budget that would weaken our nation, hurt the people of Illinois and reverse years of progress with its irresponsible cuts to countless vital programs," said U.S. Sen. TAMMY DUCKWORTH, a Hoffman Estates Democrat.
She said the American people will pay for "his ineffective border wall," and it will "cost them dearly."
"Urban and rural communities will pay with drastic cuts to both the Department of Agriculture and Housing and Urban Development," her statement said in part. "And American children will pay as their drinking water is poisoned by lead and other contaminants, with a depleted EPA left powerless to help them. This president likes to boast that he is the world's best negotiator. If that's true, then he is clearly not negotiating on behalf of the American people."
U.S. Sen. DICK DURBIN, a Springfield Democrat, issued a statement saying: "President Trump's budget is terrible economic policy and would be a disaster for America. Slashing funding for the things American families need most, like affordable housing, home heating, early childhood education, roads and bridges, and medical research and development, won't even come close to balancing the national budget but will hurt countless people along the way."
U.S. Rep. DARIN LaHOOD, R-Peoria, whose 18th Congressional District represents part of Springfield, said: "While I am still reviewing the details of the president's proposed budget, I appreciate his efforts to try and find new ways to reduce the size of our federal government and cut spending. With that said, I have concerns over the funding reductions for Amtrak, public broadcasting, and a number of programs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. If implemented, these may negatively affect my farmers and constituents. As the budget and appropriations process continues in Congress, I look forward to advocating for the needs of the 18th District, which include programs and policies that support our transportation, public broadcasting services, and agriculture industries, among others. Overall, we need fiscally sound proposals that encourage economic growth and help create jobs and opportunities across central and west central Illinois."
U.S. Rep. RODNEY DAVIS, R-Taylorville, whose 13th Congressional District represents the rest of Springfield, said in a statement that the proposed budget is "a vision document for the nation and I look forward to working with the administration to move our country in the right direction. While I am concerned about some of the suggested spending cuts, it's Congress that has the 'power of the purse' and we must go through our appropriations process to determine spending levels and programs that will accomplish this goal."
ASHLEY PHELPS, communications director for Davis, added that, "Obviously, cuts to things like agriculture, transportation, NIH (the National Institutes of Health) and others are concerns, but this is just the beginning of a long process and these things will be debated in the House."
On the roll
After less than a week being off the state's master roll of attorneys, Leland Grove lawyer KENT GRAY is back on the list.
JIM GROGAN, deputy administrator and chief counsel of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, said Gray was returned to the roll after the check for his annual registration fee was cashed Wednesday. He had been removed from the roll the previous Friday for failure to pay the $385 fee due Jan. 1, plus $75 in late charges.
Gray said he had waited to pay the fee until he found out more about procedures at the commission via a recent deposition of the registrar there. He also said he didn't get advance notice that he would be taken off the list, but learned he had been when I called him last week for a story on the situation. He said the check was already in the mail — and it is now cleared.
Gray said Friday that he had received no notification from the commission of his removal or reinstatement — but he did get an email Wednesday saying his registration was processed for 2017.
"The system is a joke," he said.
Gray is running for his fourth six-year term as a Lincoln Land Community College trustee. His opponent in District 3 of the LLCC territory is lawyer GORDON GATES of Springfield.
New chairman
Gillespie lawyer KEVIN POLO was recently elected Macoupin County Republican chairman by precinct committeemen there. He replaces TERRI KOYNE of Benld, who stepped down.
Polo, 48, had been treasurer of the party since 2007 and a vice chair for a year and a half.
He's supervisor of Honey Point Township, and said he hopes to build the party.
"Traditionally, we've been a Democratic stronghold," he said of Macoupin. "I don't think that's the case anymore."
He noted that the last time a Republican held a countywide elective office in Macoupin was when late state lawmaker A.C. "JUNIE" BARTULIS was county treasurer. Bartulis, who died in 2011, left that treasurer's office in 1970.
There was clearly a Trump bump in Macoupin in 2016. GOP President Trump won the county with nearly 65 percent of the vote over Democrat HILLARY CLINTON.
Polo was also among applicants to fill the vacancy when former state Rep. WAYNE ROSENTHAL, R-Morrisonville, was named director of the Department of Natural Resources by Gov. BRUCE RAUNER in 2015. Rep. AVERY BOURNE, R-Raymond, got that appointment and won a full two-year term in November, and Polo told me he "couldn't support Avery more."
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Facebook now allows advertisers reach mobile customers using iOS identifier for advertising (iOS IDFAs). Facebook had launched this feature as part of the redesigned iOS 7 app.
Facebook added that the new iOS identifier app is one of the most requested features from mobile advertisers. Custom Audiences enables advertisers to find existing customers on Facebook. The new app allows advertisers to upload a list of existing customers' iOS iDFAs and reach them with relevant content. This feature is available for iOS 6 or 7 users who have not disabled advertising tracking. Advertisers can upload mobile advertiser IDs (either the iOS IDFAs or App User IDs) within the Power Editor and the ads application programming interface.
Facebook has earlier launched the App User IDs that allowed advertisers to define and reach people who used the Facebook's mobile app. Facebook is constantly trying to woo advertisers with new features. It has recently announced testing auto play videos within News Feed on mobile version of the Social Networking site.
The company had recently launched the Keyword Insights API and Public Feed API for media companies. The new Keyword Insights API allows news organizations and media outlets to aggregate the total number of posts that are mentioned in a specific term at a specific time. The new public feed API feature will collect public posts and display it. A Facebook spokesperson stated that if a post is not public it will not be shown. Users will be able to set the privacy features while posting a message.
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The Internet can help to get kids reading, according to a 2008 Scholastic Kids and Family Reading study. In an article in the Bismarck Tribune (North Dakota), journalist Pamela Krueger says the study shows that:
*Kids who use the Internet are more likely to read a book for fun.
*Two-thirds of children aged 9 to 17 go online in order to broaden their reading experience (in other words, for reading extensions).
*Kids who are low-frequency readers prefer to read online rather than books.
The article suggests that your child look up their favourite author on the Internet to learn more about them and find other books written by them, e-mail family and friends, or visit the American Library Association's "Great Websites for Kids" page.
Here's the article in full.
And here's an article from GKR about how to get your video-loving kid reading books.
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Today is Dylan Thomas's birthday, and Sylvia Plath's, and Zadie Smith's… the book blogosphere is practically melting from all those virtual candles. Happy birthday to those literary lights, and thanks for all the good writing.
But Theodore Roosevelt was also born on this day, 156 years ago: police commissioner, governor, president, soldier, naturalist/hunter, explorer, one of those larger-than-life personalities whom everyone carries around as a caricature in their head. I worked for a couple of years at the American Museum of Natural History, where Roosevelt loomed large in the corporate culture—his father was one of the museum's founders, and TR did a whole lot of shooting and killing so that we can gaze fondly on the taxidermized fruits of his labor today. He's got an entire smallish wing of the museum to himself, and a statue out front.
He was also a serious man of letters—maybe not, canon-wise, up there with his fellow birthday celebrants, but he wrote and he read. He read a lot. Two or three books a day, legend has it.
I've never been able to wrap my head around how people can do that. Like hearing that John Wayne smoked four packs of cigarettes a day—what, exactly, are the mechanics of it? But then I'm not a particularly fast reader, so I just think of someone like Roosevelt as a different breed of animal and leave it at that.
One thing he did have, however, was a reading philosophy, and that makes the sheer numbers a little more comprehensible. If you're going to indulge in feats of literary consumption, you might as well have some theory behind it. This past summer Book Riot re-ran Roosevelt's top ten rules for reading, and they pleased me so much I remembered them today. It's nice to see that all this anxiety that seems to be prevalent lately—about which books to read, and how many, and what you're reading that you shouldn't be and what you shouldn't be that you are, isn't unique to this age of Goodreads and blogs and literary forums. Number one, for instance:
The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
And my favorite, at the top of the list:
The room for choice is so limitless that to my mind it seems absurd to try to make catalogues which shall be supposed to appeal to all the best thinkers. This is why I have no sympathy whatever with writing lists of the One Hundred Best Books, or the Five-Foot Library. It is all right for a man to amuse himself by composing a list of a hundred very good books… But there is no such thing as a hundred books that are best for all men, or for the majority of men, or for one man at all times.
I don't much like neuroticism any which way, but especially when it comes to books—reading outside of work or school is supposed to be fun, freeing, and relaxing even if it's challenging. Whenever I see people treating it as a kind of rarefied sport, or stressing over the size of their to-be-read piles, it makes me uncomfortable. They're just… books. They shouldn't make a body unhappy. I'm not 100% a fan of Teddy Roosevelt's bully-bully bravado, but I like his take on the reading life.
And since we're in the season to invoke Edgar Allan Poe (you didn't think I was going to miss a chance, did you?), I leave you with one more:
Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover's besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls "the mad pride of intellectuality," taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.
Happy birthday, TR.
(Photo of Theodore Roosevelt reading a book with his dog Skij on his lap in Colorado, April 1905, courtesy of AP.)


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It's that time again... last weekend, Andy and I were working in the yard when he stopped pulling weeds, stood up, and sniffed. This is a yearly ritual with him. And he then looks at me and says, "Ah, babe... can you smell it?" It which case I am then required to stop, stand up, and sniff too. "Um, hmm. Yep, I smell it."
"You know what that is don't you, babe? That's the smell of football."
Now, when I think of the smell of football, there are other things that come to mind. All three of my brothers played it so I associate the smell of football with sweaty duffle bags, dirty shoulder pads, and nasty mud-caked cleats thrown by the backdoor. But for a guy who played and loves the sport, there is something in the air right before the weather turns cool that signifies their beloved sport.
My guess is it's the leaf mold.
But in his defense I do know what he's talking about. There is a crispness in the air just before Autumn sets in that makes you anxious for it to hurry up already. But the smell for me is different, and is indicative of something else entirely.
It's the smell of mittens.
This year, just about all in my family will be receiving a pair for Christmas, including these. These are the Cabley Mittens from Kelly Porpiglia of KelpKnits. And these are also the first pair of mittens that we are knitting in our new Mitten of the Month Club at our local yarn shop, Twist.
Shelly Stilger, Twist's owner, and I started brainstorming one day over the idea of having a sister club for our popular Sock of the Month Club. Mittens were the perfect choice. But to change things up a bit we decided to not only make it a "Brick and Mortar Club" i.e., Twist regulars, but we should also open up to the online knitting community as well, i.e. you!
o we are officially kicking it off with the September Mitten of the Month, Cabley Mittens knitted in Cloud 9 from Cascade. Cloud 9 is a fabulous yarn using 50% merino and 50% angora. And the halo effect is off the charts, not to mention the softness factor! I blocked these a couple of days ago and when they were dry I combed the fibers gently and they plumped back up without loosing any of the cable texture pre-blocking. They even gained some softness from being blocked, so you can't argue with that!
Overall this is a great classic pattern that gives you cables without going overboard. I was a bit worried pre-blocking because the mitten and thumb were a bit short for my hand. But it stretched considerably from blocking and now fits perfectly. If you were concerned about it being short though, you could easily add another pattern repetition to both the cuff and mitten body.
Another modification I would consider when knitting this pattern is going down two needle sizes on the cuff. The mitten itself is knit on US size 6 needles, but I would definitely go down to a US size 4 for the cuff. Cables don't have the same memory as a ribbing, so a tighter stitch would ensure for a better fit.
The specifics and registration for of our Mitten of the Month Club are available here. We will also have a group set up on Ravelry to make sure a forum is available for everyone to be able to pick up new techniques or share ideas on knitting mittens. And of course there is the discount! 15% off on the designated yarn and pattern used for the project, and an addition 5% added on your next purchase for the upcoming month's mitten when you post a photo of your finished mittens. So, grand total: 20% off yarn and pattern! Membership is limited to the first 100 registrants, so head on over to reserve yours. You'll be getting sneak peeks from me about each month's pattern and yarn in advance here at NuttyIrishmanKnits, so be looking for them!
So if you are smitten with mittens or wanting to be, join the club! We're looking forward to seeing some great mittens out there. Enjoy, and happy (mitten) knitting!
AUTHOR: Vanessa
I knew I recognized that pattern! But I've never seen that yarn before.... *drool*
(And nachos remind my boyfriend of football... Just the other day I asked him if we could make some nachos and he said, "No! It's not football season yet!" But I guess now it is??)
AUTHOR: Alice
I totally agree with you on the cuff. When I knit this one up again I'm switching up the needle sizes.
I'm so pumped for the mitten club!!!!
AUTHOR: Sue
It is the smell of rugby in our house but I know what you mean! Even though we have had a dire summer weather wise here in England the weather has changed, its misty and the first leaves have turned to russet shades but it gives reason to step up the knitting of mitts, socks, cowels, scarfs & shawls!
AUTHOR: Rhonda DATE: 09/18/2008 09:45:26 PM
Hey Jen!
I just finished my mittens from the class for the Cessna crafters at Twist. Gotta say : You wrote a great beginners pattern! Loved it! It was well written and my mittens turned out great! I'll post them on my blog this week. Also, thanks for the clear instructions on how to block them.
AUTHOR: Dan
Hey, great looking mittens! I hope I can get good enough to do that someday. Adorable little girl, btw, in the previous post.


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Tunisian Clams contaminated with Hepatitis A Virus
Italy recently alerted the EU through the RASFF (Feb. 18th) on a Hepatitis A Virus contamination of Tunisian clams. Clams have often be implicated in viral contamination as previously reported on this blog (http://ceeram.blogspot.fr/2015/07/rasff-foodborne-virus-annual-report-2014.html), especially in 2014 with vietnamese clams contaminated by norovirus.
4 Hepatitis A Virus alerts in 2 days
On February 19th, Italy posted 3 more alerts on clams imported from Tunisia. Destruction was the fate of those clams (Ruditapes decussatus).
Monitoring viruses (norovirus, hepatitis A Virus) in mollusks
In our May 13th, 2010 article (http://ceeram.blogspot.fr/2010/05/studies-suggest-benefits-of-monitoring.html) we were echoeing a study from CIDRAP, where the group concluded :
- that growing evidence suggests that it is possible to gauge illness risk based on norovirus levels in oysters and that given the inadequacy of existing controls to prevent contamination,
- that setting an appropriate virus standard would yield public health benefits.
- that validated treatment processes can be used to produce a safe product, even when low levels of norovirus are detected in the treated oysters.
Hepatitis A Virus and ISO/TS 15216
- Microbiology of food and animal feed -- Horizontal method for determination of hepatitis A virus and norovirus in food using real-time RT-PCR -- Part 1: Method for quantification
- Microbiology of food and animal feed -- Horizontal method for determination of hepatitis A virus and norovirus in food using real-time RT-PCR -- Part 2: Method for qualitative detection


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Monday, October 7, 2013
what if you don't have a shopping cart?
I was at the laundromat washing some large bedding when I saw something that shed insight to an unasked question...
"If you're homeless and you don't have a shopping cart, where do
you store your stuff during the day?"
The answer: in an unused dryer at the laundromat.
Now it all makes sense.
Case ... er ... dryer closed.
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I've started playing the Hollywood Stock Exchange* again. I've been there off and on since the site opened a few years ago. The HSX gives you $2 million to "buy shares of your favorite actors and their new movies. Watch their values rise or fall based on their success. Prices soar with a blockbuster opening at the box office and plummet with a bomb no one went to see." (source: HSX website)
For some strange reason my Johnny Depp stocks are down 23.94% today. Sometimes you just can't tell. That's part of the fun.
Since I have to know when movies are coming out to play HSX I've decided to post release dates for 2011. After today I'll post what's opening in the coming week on Sunday. If you decide to go see one of the movies I've listed here please come back and tell me which movie and whether you liked it or not.
There's a lot of other movie related information I need to play HSX. I might randomly post anything I find interesting. We'll see how it goes.
Movie Release Dates - May 26 - 28
MAY 26th
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms
Director: Todd Phillips
Cast: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman
Director: Jennifer Yuh
MAY 27th
The Tree of Life (Limited)
Cast: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Fiona Shaw
Director: Terrance Malick
If I was going to a movie this weekend I'd go to Kung Fu Panda 2. The first one was very cute.
*If you want to join the Hollywood Stock Exchange tell them I sent you. My user name there is madison1964.


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This blog/ portfolio is currently in process due to switching sites! Please bear with me as I transfer all my documents here… Please don't hesitate to contact me if you need some up-to-date examples of my work.
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This blog/ portfolio is currently in process due to switching sites! Please bear with me as I transfer all my documents here… Please don't hesitate to contact me if you need some up-to-date examples of my work.
Kind regards,
Here are some of my favourite posts from my temporarily dead site, Break My Ears:
I worked as Assistant Editor at Screaming Dreams Publishing. While working here I helped produce and design the latest issue of the ezine, Estonomicon, re-formatting it to a magazine format, including news and reviews.
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Newport Centre, Sat 16 Nov
Opening with the title track of their most beloved album, Dirt, Alice In Chains fans were instantly assured of a treat at Newport Centre.
Support came from Duff McKagan (of Guns N' Roses fame)'s new band Walking Papers, a brilliant blues and hard rock-influenced act; and Swedish heavy metal band, Ghost – a theatrically dressed doom outfit lead by a ghost-faced Roman Catholic cardinal. Both support acts enjoyed a positive crowd response, with Walking Papers warming up the audience and Ghost making AIC look like a light relief.
However, after the first chord it was clear who the screaming fans were really there to see. Over 10 years since the tragic death of the band's lead singer, Layne Staley, AIC are selling out shows and inspiring crowds of fans, young and old.
This is a band that has stood the test of time, and this show was a testament to their influential status in rock history.
A backdrop of projector screens evoked the vibe of every song, images of a caged man supplementing iconic 1991 release, Man In The Box – the distorted riff pulsating through the whole body of the crowd. AIC didn't shy away from the old songs: Staley's successor, frontman William DuVall, eerily echoed the vocals of the legend that went before him, mastering every note with such ease it was as if Staley's presence was radiating from within him.
While lesser known classics were aired, much to the approval of the bellowing crowd, it seems somewhat traditional for the encore to bring the band back for their biggest hits, and this was no exception. Filling back on to the stage the band plummeted into Down In A Hole followed by power ballad Would?.
The band ended how they begun: returning to second album Dirt, an record which arguably defines their time as a band, they finished with one of its highlights,Rooster. The last line resonated as if a tribute to Staley, the man who couldn't be there, "he ain't gonna die" – and with so many passionate fans shouting every lyrics in unison, neither will Alice In Chains.
words and photos ALICE PATTILLO
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My interview with frontman William DuVall for Cardiff Events magazine, Buzz.
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Rituals and reflections of wise women, moonlight magic, cosmetic witchery and spellbinding couture...
Unleashing your inner goddess with a holistic, feminist approach to women's wellbeing
I watch a lot of films. And then I write about them.
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GoodToBeTheKing wrote:reasonable_man wrote:GoodToBeTheKing wrote:So, we have all pretty much been surrounded by law for the past few months: books, profs, students, hypos, thought provoking social policy issues, which have all made us think like lawyers - don't kid yourself if you think otherwise.
Anyways, anyone here thought about how different life will be when you head back home to see old friends, family, etc. and finally get to use your lawyerly (yes, I turned a noun into an adverb like every other legal paper I have read) brain amongst non lawyerly brains?
Personally, I think it will be very interesting to see how far I have come.
Holy horse shit op I just looked at your profile... 159 and 2.9? If that's true, and assuming that you are not a recent slave that was actually set free (not just a minority, an actual slave that was set free); you're almost certainly attending some manner of TTT, be it a T2 or a TTT or some other fake T1.
That said, I'd ease up on showing off your lawyerly brain to the proletariat (i.e. your non-lawyer friends), until after you find out whether or not you finish in the top 2 people in your class. Otherwise that lawyerly brain of yours, along with the rest of your body, might need a couch to sleep on and some cold noodles to eat when you graduate with no job. I'd be nice to the peasants if I were you man.. You're going to need their fucking couch one day..
FWIW, having passed a few bar exams and having had the opportunity to do this lawyer stuff for a while, I assure you that if you were not a huge self-absorbed asswipe prior to law school, you should have no problems communicating with your non-lawyer friends.
And, no... I already have a few jobs lined up. Sorry to burst your bubble. Nice, lame arguments by the way... such big big big assumptions based on what? my LSAT score, GPA, and your stab at some humor on a message board? 2500+ posts huh? hm... what kind of assumptions shall I draw???
Mr. King: allow me to set you straight.
First and foremost, you're barking up the wrong tree. These weak and overdone come-backs you're utilizing (consisting mostly of defending this asinine thread you started by calling people out on their use of "over-generalizations" and "assumptions"), shows us exactly one thing; that I will demolish you. I will eat your mother-loving lunch. I will own you and your little dog too, in Fee Simple; son… ( See what I did there.. I used my lawyerly brain – whatever the fuck that is).. You're just not built for this my man.. There is room for only one self-important, obnoxious-TTT asshole on this board and that's me. You're just going to have to deal with it.
This isn't the LSAT my man. No one is here to judge your logical reasoning ability. And you're right, I can't look at your lsat and class rank and infer that you won't have a job.. You very well might, apparently you've got like eleven lined up. But what I can do is look at your original post and infer that sooner or later your pompousness and arrogance is likely to catch up with you… But don't worry about that too much; shit like that usually only goes down when you're not expecting it, so there is no way to prepare for it… Just let it happen. Just wait and wonder when you're house built of TTT cards will come crumbling down before your eyes to bring you screeching back to reality; a reality where no one, least of all your friends, care that you go to some TTT law school that no one has ever heard of before. But while you're waiting for all that to happen, don't start in with me; pick someone a little less obnoxious and build up from there…
And for the record, the "reasonable_man has too many posts, he must be a loser" thing has been tried by way quicker-witted posters than you; all of whom have fallen flat on their face in the attempt to sling it at me. Even lawyers have free time my man. I choose to spend some of mine writing mostly absurd (sometimes useful), shit on TLS. It's what I do. Just because I don't masturbate in the corner to the thought of my own superiority, bestowed upon me by the lords of the TTT law school machine (which, by the way, is in the process of swallowing your soul as we type – you're just not smart enough to see it); it does not give you the right to take shots at me for posting on TLS.
So in conclusion young skywalker; ease up on the RM's post count, and get your own house in order.


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Snowbound Farms needs help deciding the new breed of chicken to add to the farm. You may see this poll in more than one place but we ask that if you do to be fair you only vote once. I will tally the votes and order the chickens on Monday. You can see the results then on our Fan Page. Be sure to check back and see if your breed won, and if your not a fan already like our page.
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House of 1,000 Corpses
review by
KJ Doughton, 18 April 2003
Say what you will about
singer-cum-director Rob Zombie, but one thing is indisputable. This
hairy, dread-locked, cartoon-scribbling metalmeister, a favorite
with bikers, headbangers, and goths, definitely knows his horror
movies. For House of 1,000 Corpses, Zombie pays homage to
those beloved seventies drive-in shockers that peaked with Texas
Chainsaw Massacre before they were later recycled, lampooned,
and repackaged with slick marketing as Scream, Blair Witch
Project, and other pretenders to the throne of gut-bucket, low
brow horror.
A pet project that Zombie nurtured
like a paternal overseer until its production wrapped in 2001 (it
was then hurled between reluctant studios like a hot potato until
Lion's Gate Films released it), House of 1,000 Corpses is
like one of the human skin-suits glimpsed in Silence of the Lambs.
Taking an eyeball from this film, and a severed arm from that one,
this all-too-familiar cinematic carcass is lovingly sewn from bits
and pieces of nearly every grade-B gore classic ever to splatter the
For instance, the movie opens as
bubbly friends Jerry, Denise, Bill, and Mary pull into a seedy gas
station helmed by Captain Spalding (Sid Haig). A grotesque, roadside
carny, he decorates his macabre filling stop with mounted animal
heads, freaks of nature (the fish-man, anyone?), and musty,
dust-coated skeletons. Decked out in garish pancake makeup and a
red, white, and blue vaudeville suit, Spalding looks like a
political campaigner gone frighteningly round the bend. Oh – and did
I mention that this clown-faced, pot-bellied Okie also markets a
special blend of fried chicken? Right away, images of Motel Hell,
Psycho, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Funhouse come to mind.
Later, when the four doomed
travelers are abducted by a leering family of rotten-toothed,
white-trash scuzzballs, things veer into serious Texas Chainsaw…
territory. Or is this Deliverance? Or perhaps Mother's
Day? Uh, Last House on the Left?
What comes next is a nonstop
smorgasbord of unpleasant torment and disturbing, decaying imagery.
Zombie's film is in a different world from the humor-heavy,
effects-laden energies spurting from the minds of directors Stuart
Gordon (Re-Animator, From Beyond), Sam Raimi (Evil Dead-
and later, Spider Man) and Peter Jackson (whose pre-Lord
of the Rings horror classics included Dead Alive and
Bad Taste). House of 1,000 Corpses has its bloody scenes,
but the imagery is more doomy than graphic. In this sense, its
aesthetic is more in line with the early works of Wes Craven (Last
House on the Left) and Tobe Hooper, whose Texas Chainsaw…
set the standard. Looking back, Hooper's milestone had very little
blood. Its power was conjured forth by quick-cuts to a clucking
chicken, a dilating pupil, or a demented old man trying to clutch a
Meanwhile, the …Corpses cast
is a casket-full of seventies icons. Karen Black, the busty,
cross-eyed star of Capricorn One and In Praise of Older
Women, appears as a slutty matriarch named Mother Firefly. In
need of some serious dental work, you can almost smell the halitosis
emanating from her vile mouth.
House of 1,000 Corpses is
one of those genre films that seem impervious to reviews. If you're
into the particular types of dingy, dank depths that Zombie prefers
to inhabit, this unashamed genre flick will probably satiate such
cravings. If you're of more delicate sensibilities – well, the title
alone will probably be enough to scare you off.
Written and
Rob Zombi
Bill Moseley
Karen Black
Sheri Moon
Sid Haig
Michael J. Pollard
R - Restricted.
Under 17 requires
parent or adult
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Thursday, November 26, 2009
Canadian Thanksgiving
Spending Thanksgiving with friends today. I'm charged with bringing an appetizer for dinner. The host wants deviled eggs. I guess I'll be making deviled eggs.
Wishing you all good eats and good company today.
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After buying Red's Savoy Pizza in October, Tom and Candy Radke have purchased another restaurant in downtown Red Wing as well.
One that's literally right next door.
On June 9, the Radke's opened Fat Frog Sub House & Deli in the former restaurant that housed SJ's Gourmet Subs.
After SJ's Gourmet Subs closed its doors in March, the Radke's decided to open Fat Frog, continuing in the traditions of The SubHouse, using the same type of bread from the Gonnella Bakery in Chicago.
Fat Frog will serve Boar's Head deli meats and cheeses, with salads, soups, and eventually, a special of the day hot meal.
There are also catering options for those interested. For general questions, contact the Radke's either at Red's Savoy Pizza or Fat Frog Sub House & Deli.
After retiring from 24 years in law enforcement, Tom said he and Candy were excited about buying Red's Savoy Pizza, calling onto their respective college days of working in the restaurant business.
Tom said he and his wife, along with their five children who work in the restaurants, are looking forward to challenge of running a sub-sandwich restaurant. Tom said if the community is patient with them, they know they can deliver.
"I think we bring something back to the community," Tom said. "We're just not a chain (restaurant) where other things get sent outside the community ... it's nice to just having good, quality food at a fair price."
Fat Frog will be open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Fat Frog, as well as Red's Savoy Pizza, offers a delivery service, too.


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CASSELBERRY — Over and over the babies dive for the rings, swimming diligently to the bottom of the pool, snatching them perfectly and returning to the surface sputtering.
It is not a killer whale show, so swimmers are not rewarded with fish. Instead they get hugs and permission to snatch more rings or jump from the diving board.


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Island Chaptal—nerdy IT engineer by day, romance novel junkie by night—just walked into her messy New York apartment to find Mr. Right waiting for her. No, wait…Mr. Clean. A gentleman professional killer with a bad case of OCD and zero tolerance for unsorted laundry, March isn't there to kill her…yet. ... more >
After years of war and still more years of travelling, Ulysses finally returns to his beloved Ithaca, penniless and alone. Rather than the joyous welcome he had hoped for, he finds his palace full of quarrelling suitors, all scheming to possess his wife and his land. Meanwhile the beautiful Penelope ... more >
Young Frankenstein (1974) Genre: Comedy Spoof Grade: B+ "Ah, sweet mystery of life, at last I've found you!" When Mel Brooks is on, he's fabulous and this is one of his directorial efforts which holds up for me just as well today as it did then. Over the years, I've ... more >
Blazing Saddles (1974) Genre: Comedy/Spoof Grade: A- "He rode a blazing saddle, he wore a shining star. His job to offer battle to bad men near and far. He conquered fear and he conquered hate. He turned dark night into day. He made his blazing saddle a torch to light ... more >
Blackadder's A Christmas Carol (1988) Genre: Spoof Grade: A "Bad guys have all the fun." No, right now I'm not in a very serious Christmas mood. Let's have some fun with it, I say. And what better way than with Edmund Ebneezer Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson), his trusty sidekick Baldrick (Tony ... more >
(National Lampoon's) Vacation (1983) Genre: Spoof/Dark Comedy Grade: B Back in 1983, a friend and I had nothing better to do one Saturday than catch some movies. We chose "Krull" and "National Lampoon's Vacation." You can see which movie I've chosen to review. [nggallery id=102] When Clark W. Griswold (Chevy ... more >


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January 27, 2016
Maria Inc. – Emilie Hallard & Pablo Porlan
Maria Inc. shared the creative process of their first photobook Anecdotal by David Fathi shortlisted for the Arles Author Book Award 2015 as well as some of their initiatives to open the photobook scene to wider audiences.
March 2, 2016
Ana Bloom, photographer
French photographer, art director and visual artist. Ana Bloom worked in fashion for Kenzo, and as a photo assistant for famous portrait and fashion photographers Michel Comte, Miles Aldridge, Fabrizio Ferri, and Jean-Batiste Mondino, in New York, London, Milan, and Paris.
March 30, 2016
Arnaud Laurenty – REGAIND
This talk will discuss the possibility for an artificial intelligence to understand our preference and help us edit our photos automtically, in a human way.
April 20, 2016
Pascale Obolo, Chief Editor Afrikadaa Magazine
AFRIKADAA is the first Francophone web magazine specialized in Afro-contemporary art, architecture and design. Filmmaker and producer, Pascale Obolo is the Editor-in-Chief of AFRIKADAA.


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Anyone who's been around powerboats knows that if you really want to get anywhere, you have to get your boat "up on a plane" and that to do so takes an initial expenditure of extra power and acceleration. When a boat begins forward motion through water, the hull is essentially plowing the water aside, making for rather slow and sluggish headway. But when you gun the engine and power the boat through the water, you begin gaining momentum. First the bow and then the rest of the hull kind of lift up and on top the water, so that the boat hull is now planing across the water's surface, quickly gaining speed with diminishing effort. Then you can back off on the throttle and just enjoy the exhilaration of cruising.
Starting and maintaining a writing practice is not a dissimilar process. Initially, it may take quite a bit of effort to carve out the time and set aside your fears and procrastinations, to actually sit down and begin writing on a regular basis. At first, it may feel like you're slogging against water but the more momentum you gain, the more habitual you become with your writing, the easier the process unfolds. And once you have a writing practice established, the easier it becomes to maintain.
However, for most of us, if you let your writing practice slip—just like a powerboat that slows down below a certain speed settles back deeper into water—you'll have to start over again and expend that initial extra effort to get yourself back up on a plane. I don't mean to sound discouraging, but the truth of the matter is that writing is hard work, even for many prolific and established authors. There are very few writers for whom words just come streaming out onto the page like water from an open faucet. Most writers have to learn how to live with the fits and starts that come with slipping in and out of their writing groove.
A successful writer—from the context of considering writing as a practice and process—is someone who has found the ways and means of entering into and maintaining the flow of their writing. A major determining factor between successful and would-be writers comes down to the tenacity and perseverance that one brings to the practice of writing. And a measure of our determination is the ability to come back to the writing table, time and time again, even when it means that we have to go through the sometimes tedious process of getting ourselves back up on the plane.
Rather than seeing this as a discouraging reality, I find that it helps to understand that these are simply some of the mechanics for establishing a writing practice. Just as naval architects study the parameters for designing planing hulls, we writers can devise our individual methods for getting—and keeping—our writing up on a plane. And whenever we find that we have settled back into the waters of inertia, we know that we simply have to apply that extra burst of energy and determination to get up and cruising again.
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IIT Bombay has taken an initiative and set up an Embedded Systems and Robotics Lab at Gulzar Group of Institutes, Ludhiana.
Eyantra team from IIT Bombay has participated in Valedictory function virtually and Lab Inauguration ceremony where more than 20 colleges have participated and connected at the same time of Inauguration.
After the address by eYantra Team, IIT Bombay certificates were distributed to the GGI-eYantra team members. After the successful completion of task-based training by GGI-eYantra team organised by IIT Bombay, the award of an Enthusiastic team was given to the team of GGI.
Executive Director of Gulzar Group of Institutes Er. Gurkirat Singh has inaugurated the ceremony by Lighting the lamp, Ribbon cutting and he applauded the eYantra team for their exemplary work. He said Gulzar Group of Institutes is always ready to take such an initiative for the betterment of student's fraternity and spread awareness of technology in the society and it would be very much possible with the help of IIT Bombay and GGI-eYantra coming together.
Salient features of eYantra Lab, IIT Bombay:
- A lab to promote experiential learning in Embedded Systems and Robotics Technology.
- Extraordinary benefits for the students of engineering to develop their practical skills and strengthen their foundation for better success in future.
- E-Yantra is sponsored by MHRD under the National Mission on Education through ICT program.
- An initiative by IIT Bombay that aims to create the next generation of embedded systems engineers with a practical outlook to help provide practical solutions to some of the real world problems.
- It is designed as a scalable and sustainable approach that addresses the students and teacher training – to create an eco-system at the colleges to impart effective engineering education.
- eLSI (eYantra Lab Initiative) by IIT Bombay provides guidance and support for the establishment of the eYantra Lab in Gulzar Group of Institutes, Ludhiana and also help in the training of students with live projects.
- Students after completing their training and different projects from GGI-eYantra will be able to join e-Yantra Symposium (eYS) which is held in IIT Bombay every year.
- e-Yantra Symposium (eYS) is an annual event at IIT-Bombay — This is an event to bring all those colleges which have set up robotics labs and through the e-Yantra Lab Setup Initiative (eLSI) they could share their knowledge. The goal is to share projects and brainstorm new ideas for improving pedagogy and the quality of Engineering projects.
- No registration fee is charged from teachers and students from colleges who attend the symposium.
- Students of all branches of engineering even with basic knowledge can be benefited from GGI-eYantra Embedded Systems and Robotics Lab.


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Bella Shooting Gilet by Olivia Tullett®.
We are proud to say that our Bella Shooting Gilet along with all of our shooting attire is all designed by a lady gun, for the lady gun.
100% British Made. Made with high quality materials.
Available in three beautiful colour combinations; Light blue check tweed with purple leather, Green check tweed with green leather and Brown herringbone tweed with brown leather.
To ensure high quality products we individually cut in both the tweed and leather for each of our Bella shooting gilets. The tweed is fully teflon coated with a full waterproof interlining to ensure the wearer stays dry. The colourful paisley print lining adds a bit of extra colour to the garment.
For practical reasons, there is padding on both shoulder patches of our gilet, this makes it suitable for both left handed and right handed shooters. Olivia Tullett® has created a unique design of pockets where, not only does the pocket expand to hold 50 cartridges but also the flap sits fully inside the pocket to keep it out of the way when the pockets are in use. The front zip goes from the neckline down to the waistline to enable the bottom section of the gilet to expand away from the body when the pockets are full instead of becoming tight and "riding" up the body through movement. The neckline doesn't sit flush next to the body as there is an allowance for the person wearing it to wear a scarf without the gilet becoming too tight around the neck area.
Finally the Bella shooting gilet is shaped at the waist and down the back to give a feminine look and shape to it. We have made the sizing is generous to allow for layers to be work underneath. We use cow hide leather in our gilets due to its hardwearing qualities.
All three colour options are available in UK sizes 8-18. All of the Bella shooting gilets by Olivia Tullett® are 100% manufactured in England. Please contact us for bespoke options available and prices.
Please be aware that some gilets are made to order due to varying order volumes throughout the year and can take anywhere from 5-10 working days from order date to delivery.


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A living organ has been successfully regenerated for the first time in very old mice.
Experts at the University of Edinburgh have rebuilt the thymus in mice by reactivating a natural mechanism that shuts down with age to regenerate the organ.
The thymus is an organ next to the heart. It produces critical immune cells but shrinks over time, eventually degenerating into small islands of fatty tissue.
As a result of it shrinking, older people become more susceptible to infections like flu.
Scientists believe their research has the potential to lead to new therapies for people with damaged immune systems and genetic conditions that affect the organ.
Published in the journal Development, the researchers targeted the protein FOXN1, which is produced by cells of the thymus. This protein helps to control how important genes are switched on and by increasing levels of FOXN1, the researchers made cells similar to stem cells to rebuild the organ.
After reactivating this mechanism, the regenerated organ had a similar structure to that of a very young mouse.
After the thymus was restored, the mice started making more T-cells, which fight off infection. Researchers do not yet know, however, if the immune system of the mice has been improved.
Clare Blackburn, Professor of Tissue Stem Cell Biology at the university, said: "Our results suggest that targeting the same pathway in humans may improve thymus function and therefore boost immunity in elderly patients, or those with a suppressed immune system. However, before we test this in humans we need to carry out more work to make sure the process can be tightly controlled."
Researchers also believe their findings could lead to treatments for people suffering from DiGeroge syndrome, which causes the thymus not to develop properly.
Rob Buckle, head of the University of Edinburgh's Regenerative Medicine, Medical Research Council, said: "One of the key goals in regenerative medicine is harnessing the body's own repair mechanisms and manipulating these in a controlled way to treat disease.
"This interesting study suggests that organ regeneration in a mammal can be directed by manipulation of a single protein, which is likely to have broad implications for other areas of regenerative biology."


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I am loving the changes I made for 2014 so far! By adding more color to the urns and treat jars the animals and letter pop and look bright and beautiful!
No matter what the animal is they all look amazing with the brighter colors! I can't wait to see how they continue to turn out!


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BigBridge is a hardware donation program that provides NGOs access to refurbished computers with licensed software, donated by IT companies helping them responsibly manage their e-waste.
The BigBridge program was launched in April 2009 as a win-win for both companies and NGOs. It is an offering to companies to ensure responsible e-waste reuse and disposal while cash-strapped NGOs receive computer donations. A lot of companies have bonded machines which are considerably difficult to remove from special economic zones. BigBridge guides companies through the process and ensures a seamless transfer. The program provides a complete IT disposal facility to companies, giving new purpose to redundant computers and peripherals. This in turn helps NGOs get access to technology and scale up their operations in areas of education, employability, health and entrepreneurship.


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Say thanks
The road can often feel like a hostile place full of traffic jams, road rage, and miscommunication. We're here to change that. MotorMood is an accessory for your car which lets you share good will with other drivers using a light-up happy face in your rear window.
If someone lets you into their lane, you can thank them by displaying the happy face; or you can use it to apologize for your own driving. It's a simple and fun way to make the road a happier and safer place.
Remote activation
The face is turned on by a small remote control that attaches to your car's sun visor just like a garage door opener. Activation is safe and simple with one easy-to-use button. After 12 seconds the face automatically turns off, and you can continue driving knowing you made the road a better place.
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Our Mission
Our mission is to make the road a happy and safe place because, sadly, this is not always the case. Americans spend an average of 910 hours a year in their car. These hours are often filled with traffic jams, frustration, and miscommunication. Furthermore road rage is often on the news, and in the United States there are an average of 200 road rage fatalities a year. The specter of these incidents adds an additional level of anxiety for drivers. These anxieties are especially prevalent before and after making traffic maneuvers.
MotorMood reduces road rage anxiety and driving related misunderstandings by offering a richer level of positive communication that facilitates better understanding between drivers. When used in potentially inflammatory situations, our light up happy face diffuses tempers and replaces frowns with smiles. It goes a long way when you can communicate "thanks" and "sorry" and show another driver you're a human being and not a two ton cube of glass and steel.
On a lighter note, our product also adds a fun and playful element to the road which can help reduce feelings of boredom and isolation drivers sometimes experience. So give MotorMood a try. Together we can make driving a little more human and a lot more happy.


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Broadway's biggest and most aggressive vulture right now has hoofs, flanks and a mane.
He's called Joey, but don't be taken in by that gentle-sounding name. This creature is stalking Shubert Alley, sniffing out weak musicals so he can snap up a theater and make even more money for his backers.
Joey is the life-size puppet star of "War Horse," the runaway hit from the National Theatre of Great Britain that's been ensconced up at Lincoln Center for a year.
But now it's on the move.
Executives from the National have quietly been checking out Broadway theaters — not empty ones — to find a new home for their show in the fall.
At one point, they set their sights on the Winter Garden, home to a minor little musical called "Mamma Mia!"
The National was enchanted with the idea of the Winter Garden because of its history. It was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt in 1896 as the American Horse Exchange, and featured a 60-by-180-foot show ring covered by trusses. Vanderbilt leased the building to the Shubert brothers in 1911, who turned it into a theater.
Nick Starr, the National's executive director, picked up rumors that "Mamma Mia!" — now in its 11th year — was beginning to slow down at the box office. He also heard the production might transfer to a smaller theater next year.
Perhaps a bit too emboldened by the success of the Tony-winning "War Horse," Starr decided to press the issue. He met with Judy Craymer, the producer of "Mamma Mia!" — and in a very English, very delicate way broached the subject of moving her show out of the Winter Garden.
Oh, you foolish boy!
"Mamma Mia!" has a worldwide gross of more than $2 billion — $500 million of it from Broadway. Craymer owns 50 percent of the show, making her one of the most powerful impresarios in the world.
She's fabulous — and formidable. The idea that anyone could muscle her out of a theater is preposterous.
You might as well tell Helen of Troy to pack her bags and go back to Sparta.
No sooner had the suggestion left Starr's lips than he realized he'd blundered. Craymer, I'm told, fixed him with a steely smile and laughed his suggestion right into oblivion.
Starr left the meeting, tail between his legs. The next day, a very large vase of flowers was delivered to Craymer's office. It was from her "friends at the National."
Last week, "Mamma Mia!" grossed $1 million at the Winter Garden.
So, with that theater off the table, the National is poking around others.
The Richard Rodgers is a possibility. Its tenant, "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," has yet to recover from Audra McDonald's two-week absence last month.
The St. James is in the mix — unless, by some miracle, "Leap of Faith" wins the Tony.
And the Lunt-Fontanne should have a for-rent sign out front soon enough, since "Ghost" looks dead on arrival.
A move could be risky for "War Horse." By being up at Lincoln Center — the city's premier cultural complex — the show has the cachet of an Artistic Event. Once it moves to Broadway, it's "just another show," says a veteran producer.
But the National is concerned that the highbrow audience has been exhausted. For "War Horse" to run another five years, it's going to have to bring in the hordes of tourists coursing through Times Square.
The National is also trying to raise its profile in New York, and would like to get its flagship show out from under the Lincoln Center umbrella.
Lincoln Center Theater has its own agenda, as well. A nonprofit theater that produces several plays a year, it can't have its main theater, the Vivian Beaumont, tied up for years with a production it didn't create.
Besides, the theater wants the Beaumont for its next big production — a revival of "The King and I" starring Kelli O'Hara.
And so Joey and the rest of the "War Horse" stable are headed to Times Square.
And some poor show is going to get caught in the stampede.


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In 10 years, 70% of the workforce will be millennials (born early 1980s to around 2000).
When I started at the Society six months ago, my supervisor asked me a question I had never been asked in my 12 years in the workforce: "What makes you feel valued at work?"
After being stunned then pleased she would even think to ask, I began listing off things like being able to wear jeans, open-toed shoes, having a flexible schedule, the free Cheez-Its in the breakroom-
She stopped me and said, "No – I mean what makes you feel valued as an employee?"
I was confused because I didn't and don't see a distinction: what makes me feel valued at work is being able to do and access what I value. I thought this must be true for most people and that the management team already understood this because INCPAS is one of the Best Places to Work in Indiana and even ranked 8th this year in the Small Business category. Seeing that employee-stamped seal of approval logo on their job posting is actually what prompted me to apply in the first place.
Feeling appreciated by gestures that cost little to nothing goes a long way with people of any generation. Especially when the economy tanked a few years ago and raises, internal advancement or external opportunities weren't forthcoming – that's when it seems like companies and their employees started getting creative with benefit plans to help build morale.
Suddenly I heard about friends having soap box derby competitions, beer or wine hours, four-day work weeks, cookouts with door prizes, random ice cream socials, group volunteer outings and being allowed to work from home.
These benefits don't diminish the importance of salary, insurance and retirement – rather, they add value to a company and absolutely factor in when considering a job offer. Among 20- and 30-somethings, I never hear a dollar figure with someone's work; I hear about the cool things their companies are or are not doing or offering.
And what I learned from a recruiter panel discussion at our recent Educators Conference is that HR departments in companies of all sizes are scrambling to figure out how best to attract millennials while keeping existing employees happy and incentivized, too.
Any company can start small by adding in some perks in part, full or as incentives. A few of the ones at INCPAS:
- A staff wall of appreciation (thank-you notes), from which a winner is drawn each month for extra PTO
- Jeans and/or sandals, unless meeting with members or other key situations (people wearing their phones is more off-putting anyway)
- ½ day Fridays in the summer
- Being given the option to go home a little early before a holiday, bad weather or even really nice weather (like the first warm day after a looong cold winter)
- Bringing in treats randomly (like Long's Donuts, if you're in Indy)
- Working remotely a day or two a week if the situation fits
Something other Best Companies did:
- Unlimited vacation days (knowing time off can't actually exceed deadlines and productivity – it relies more on self-policing)
- Paying 100% insurance premium
- Wellness programs, incentives and gym memberships
- Wholesale club memberships
Or you can just ask what makes each of them feel valued so you can better plan, recruit, retain and cultivate your associates so your company and clients or customers will ultimately be better served. For more findings on the next generation of employees, check out these Next Gen Survey Results from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Finally: I know there's always talk about keeping things "fair" (the same) for everyone, but especially for smaller companies the discussion could be about keeping things "balanced" so not everyone gets everything – they just get what they value or need most. With the inch doesn't necessarily come a demand for the mile; just the opportunity for a different route.
Have you seen any innovative ideas or trends in the workplace? Is there anything you've tried that did or didn't work?


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Georgia-Pacific Reports 1Q Results, Unisource Impacted by Slow Demand
Friday, April 19, 2002
Press release from the issuing companyATLANTA, April 18 -- Georgia-Pacific Corp. today reported first quarter 2002 net income before unusual items of $70 million (30 cents diluted earnings per share), compared with a loss from continuing operations, before unusual items and goodwill amortization, of $23 million (10 cents diluted loss per share) during the same period a year ago. The company's 2002 operating results reflect new accounting rules under which goodwill is no longer amortized. In the first quarter 2001, goodwill amortization totaled $61 million (27 cents diluted loss per share). Including the effects of a $14 million loss ($9 million after tax or 4 cents diluted loss per share) attributable to a February 2002 fire at the Crossett, Ark., tissue mill, net income for first quarter 2002 was $61 million (26 cents diluted earnings per share). Including the effects of an $82 million loss ($52 million after tax or 23 cents diluted loss per share) for the closure of the Bellingham, Wash., pulp and lignin operations and goodwill amortization, the company's first quarter 2001 net loss from continuing operations was $136 million (60 cents diluted loss per share). "Our first quarter 2002 results were positively impacted by significant improvement in our building products business as well as continued solid performances by our consumer products segment and our packaging segment,"said A. D. "Pete"Correll, Georgia-Pacific chairman and chief executive officer. Georgia-Pacific's net sales during the first quarter 2002 were $5.8 billion compared with $6.3 billion in the first quarter 2001. The 2001 results included operating results from the four stand-alone paper mills sold to Domtar Inc. in August 2001. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) in the quarter were $599 million, and the company made capital expenditures for plant, property and equipment of $124 million. Georgia-Pacific's building products segment, which includes the company's building products manufacturing and distribution operations, recorded first quarter 2002 operating profits of $74 million versus a loss of $24 million in the first quarter 2001. The segment improved almost $100 million year over year due to higher prices for finished products, lower wood costs, and lower energy costs in the gypsum division. Georgia-Pacific's consumer products segment recorded first quarter 2002 operating profits of $261 million versus $94 million a year ago, which included the $82 million charge for the closure of the Bellingham pulp and lignin operations and goodwill amortization of $43 million. The entire segment benefited from favorable operating costs and synergies from the integration of the former Fort James Corp. operations. The consumer products segment is comprised of the company's consumer and away-from-home tissue businesses in North America and Europe, and its Dixie cup, plate and cutlery business. The packaging segment reported first quarter 2002 operating profits of $84 million versus $88 million in the first quarter 2001 due to declines in selling prices, partially offset by lower operating costs. The bleached pulp and paper segment recorded operating profits of $3 million in first quarter 2002 versus $63 million during the same quarter last year. Results for this segment, which is comprised of the company's pulp, bleached board and communication papers businesses, as well as its Unisource paper distribution business, were negatively impacted by lower prices and weaker demand. "Overall, we are encouraged by the first quarter performance of our building products business and by the stability of our consumer products segment,"Correll said. "We continued making significant strides in our consumer products integration, and we are on track to achieve our synergy goals. In addition, we reduced debt by $47 million during a quarter in which increased working capital needs historically add to debt. "Looking ahead, we are anticipating further improvement in our building products business as construction and remodeling activity enters its strongest season. As a disciplined operator of manufacturing facilities, we are well- positioned to take advantage of these improving market conditions,"Correll said. "In our consumer products segment, we are excited about the quarter ahead as we expect to see further growth aided by the addition of new products such as Brawny napkins and shop towels, Dixie printed clear plastic cups, and Quilted Northern Ultra bath tissue. Our away-from-home business continues to improve in step with the economy, and we anticipate improving results from the upcoming summer travel season. We continue to uncover additional synergies in our integration and the cash flows from these businesses are delivering the predictability and stability we expected. "We remain cautiously optimistic that our pulp, paper and packaging businesses reached their troughs in the first quarter and believe these operations will show improvement going forward,"Correll added. "The second quarter will be significant for our company's continuing transformation as the board of directors considers the strategic separation of the company's consumer products and packaging businesses from its building products businesses at its meeting in May,"Correll said. "We are pleased about the progress we are making toward what we believe will be significant value creation from two entirely separate companies, each of which will have its own distinct operating characteristics, financial metrics, capital structures and investment attributes. "We remain committed to configuring our portfolio of assets in the manner that achieves the greatest value for our investors, and will continue to pursue the larger opportunity that strategic separation presents,"Correll concluded.
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Valparaiso University's Bryce Shafer (Wabash, Ind./Northfield H.S.) has been named the Horizon League's Pitcher of the week after picking up his conference-leading sixth victory of the season in Valpo's 2-1 win at Wright State on Sunday.
The sophomore right-hander allowed just one unearned run and scattered nine hits while walking two and striking out seven in eight innings of work.
For the season, Shafer is 6-2 with a 3.71 earned run average, where he ranks sixth in the league. He also is third in the Horizon League with 60 strikeouts, fifth in innings pitched (63.0), and eighth in batting average against (.277).
In his last six starts, Shafer is 4-1 with a 1.51 ERA in 41.2 innings or work.
This is Shafer's second career Pitcher of the Week accolade after he also earned the honor in March of 2008.
Shafer and Valpo (19-19, 7-8 Horizon) return to the diamond on Tuesday afternoon when the Crusaders host Bradley at Emory G. Bauer Field in a 3 p.m. contest.
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Which Country Sent Its First Astronaut Named Andreas Mogensen
Which country sent its first astronaut named Andreas Mogensen in space on 2nd September 2015?
- Belgium
- Denmark
- Austria
- Poland
Professor Asked on 12th October 2015 in General Knowledge.
Answer: (2) Denmark
Denmark is the part of Scandinavia and situated in Northern Europe. Germany and Sweden are the border country of this country. Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark. It is the "least corrupt country " in the world.
The total population of Denmark is 5.5 million and population density is 120 people per square kilometer. The official language of this country is Denish.


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Strong result at TOP-TOY
Today, toy retailer TOP-TOY presents its annual result with a turnover of 4 billion and a 62% growth in EBITDA. A new strategic focus is behind the strong comeback.
The fiscal year 2014/15, which ended June 30th has been a significant year for TOP-TOY, both financially and in terms of future prospects. With a growth in revenue to four billion and an adjustment of operating expenditure, TOP-TOY manages to turn around a previously struggling bottom line to a 62% increase in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA).
Among other factors, this growth derives from the fact that TOP-TOY has managed to step up same-stores sales with a promising four percent.
"We are very satisfied with this year's result. It has taken a decisive focus on both expenditure and improvement of our BR and TOYS"R"US stores and assortment. We are grateful to our dedicated employees, who have made an amazing contribution. This year we have solved some of our greatest challenges and now see an improved bottom line, which strengthens our ambitious plan for the coming years", TOP-TOY's CEO Peter Gjørup states.
Early this year, TOP-TOY launched a new strategy with a list of commercial goals for the future. Among them, the company expects to grow its Nordic revenue by 50 percent to DKK five billion in 2020 and to further improve their EBITDA.
Towards 2020, clear strategic focus areas within concept development and expansion will help the company achieve the commercial goals and ensure TOP-TOY's position as the undisputable number one toy retailer in the Nordic countries.
Closer to the customers and a stronger online presence
The main focus of the company's new strategy is on creating a better shopping experience for the customers, when they shop in BR or TOYS"R"US, whether this happens in-store or online. TOP-TOY plans to make this happen through dedicated attention to product development, improved online presence and a more exciting shopping experience in its stores. At the same time, the company will work on a more distinct differentiation of the BR and TOYS"R"US chains.
Already now, the majority of the Nordic BR stores have gone through a thorough upgrade, which has heightened the shopping experience for both children and adults.
"We will continue to develop our company to satisfy our customers, and we are proud to present our new stores. TOP-TOY is developing at a fast and exciting pace, and we can see the results of that now – both physically and financially. I am convinced that in the future we will only see even stronger results" Peter Gjørup says.
· In 2014/15, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) were DKK 225 MM, compared to DKK 138 MM in 2013/14. This amounts to a 62% increase or DKK 87 MM.
· Approximately DKK 38 MM of the increased EBITDA derives from an adjustment in the method used for management's write-down of obsolete inventory and usage of Club BR saving stickers.
· Reductions in expenditure and the implementation of a leaner organisation have reduced the number of employees with 3.6 percent.
· TOP-TOY's revenue grew by one percent to DKK 4.007 MM.
· Same-store sales increased by four percent. Five percent for BR and three percent for TOYS"R"US.
Read this statement in Danish or in Swedish
Read TOP-TOY's Performance report
Background information
TOP-TOY's annual results July 1st- June 30th
For additional information, please contact:
VP, Communications and Sustainability
Liselotte Gjerdum Carlsen
+45 3067 3916


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text: Below is the video explaining all the details I would like you to put in your video to ensure that it gets used. The more that you explain your difficulties in the video and the better your filming is the more likely I am to use your footage. I need to be able to see what your doing clearly so I can correct you as best I can. In order to accept more videos and help out more of you guys we have crated the form below so that you can just upload your files straight to YouTube and give us the links below. This allows us to get a lot more of your videos so please fill out the form below thank you and keep sending in your videos! – Aaron Kyro


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Sunday, June 14, 2015
A sign?
21 comments:
- primitivebettys said...
Ahhhhh!!!! How sweet! Your new babies are just as cute as can be... and yes, it must be a sign. Lovely stitches, Patti!
- June 14, 2015 at 10:24 PM
- Angie said...
Great pattern to commemorate your two new additions to the household! It is wonderful that you were able to open your home and heart to welcome these two sweethearts. I'm sure they will be forever grateful.
- June 14, 2015 at 10:36 PM
- sandi s said...
I'm so happy for you all and the two little sweeties. I am the proud momma to 4 doxie rescues and they are the light of my life. Enjoy your new family members! Hugs, ps. I love your cross stitch.
- June 14, 2015 at 10:52 PM
- Tanya Quilts in CO said...
Congrats on Peanut and Leia! We adopted a pair of doxies when I was a kid and they were fabulous. Two dogs are perfect because they have each other when the humans are not around. Enjoy them!
- June 14, 2015 at 11:21 PM
- Marilyn said...
Yes! It is a sign!
They are so, so cute.
Thanks for rescuing them.
I bet they are bundles of energy. :)
Your SN piece is turning out pretty.
- June 15, 2015 at 5:29 AM
- Pat said...
What a lucky little pair. I'm glad your family is full again.
A sign.....who knows, but I'd like to think so.
- June 15, 2015 at 6:17 AM
- pj said...
How sweet! These are two very lucky dogs to join your family and be loved by you. They are so cute and seem content already! Congrats on finding a match and yes, your sampler had a sign ....rescue two! See you soon, my friend!
- June 15, 2015 at 6:34 AM
- Karen said...
I totally believe that's a sign. What a blessing for,those two special pups to be kept together and come to live with your family. They are adorable and how fun to have two. I know how much Orion was missed by all of you. Now it's double the fun.
- June 15, 2015 at 6:58 AM
- The Eveningstitcher said...
Cute little puppies!! Love your Stacy Nash sampler. Beautiful colors...her designs are just gorgeous!
- June 15, 2015 at 7:05 AM
- edie said...
Oh, yea!!!!!!!! [Insert happy dance!] Something similar happened to me when I went looking for my first rescue several years ago . . . came home with two, one lived 18 wonderful years, the other 11. We now only rescue seniors (because we are seniors!), and they are truly gifts. Your new pups couldn't have found a better forever home, and, of course, your current project was indeed a sign. Thanks so much for sharing, I always look forward to your blog entries.
- June 15, 2015 at 7:14 AM
- Mugwump Woolies said...
Such sweet new pups! Great design by Stacy...yes a sign for sure!
- June 15, 2015 at 7:18 AM
- Lori Ann Corelis said...
Congrats and bless you on the new additions!
Lori Ann
- June 15, 2015 at 8:29 AM
- Nan ~ Threadwork Primitives said...
I do and all the best to you and your new family members! Love how you made your stitched dogs a wee bit longer:)
- June 15, 2015 at 8:51 AM
- wenhkc said...
Peanut and Leia are fortunate to be able to stay together and be in a loving home. How old are they?
- June 15, 2015 at 9:26 AM
- Kurt Schindler said...
SEW cute.
- June 15, 2015 at 9:29 AM
- Kathy L. said...
How sweet are those two!! congratulations. They are so lucky to be with you and your family.
- June 15, 2015 at 11:49 AM
- marly said...
How wonderful of you to take them both. Wishing you many happy years with the newest family members.
- June 15, 2015 at 1:07 PM
- Lisa Sener said...
So sweet, Patti!! And of course it was a sign. Looking forward to seeing you in July.
- June 15, 2015 at 1:56 PM
- Lisa Sener said...
So sweet, Patti!! And of course it was a sign. Looking forward to seeing you in July.
- June 15, 2015 at 1:57 PM
- Rugs and Pugs said...
God will smile on you for adopting those two precious furbabies. I am so happy for them and for you and your family. I know they will now live the life they deserve. I hope we hear and see lots about them often. Adoption is near and dear to my heart. THANK YOU!!!
I do believe the sampler was a sign.
Hugs :)
- June 15, 2015 at 6:13 PM
- Raymond Homestead said...
Patti, so happy you gave these two precious pups a loving home!
- June 18, 2015 at 10:28 AM


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For the past 81 years, John Bowman '60 (M.A. '73) has seldom experienced a dull moment. For proof, just ask this well-spoken, well-read man about the details of his well-worn life.
Don't be taken aback by his demeanor: He's gruff, speaks his mind without a filter and thrives on making a lasting impression on everyone he meets. He was the class clown in school and didn't finish 11th grade ("I wasn't dumb, I just didn't like it"), but he's also lived most of his life without really knowing his parents, who died before he turned age 5. He's a World War II Army Air Force veteran, but freely admits he wasn't a model soldier ("I had a big mouth").
Bowman's varied life experiences — some good, many more bad — haven't just shaped him, they've served as tools to teach others. He cherishes his 51-year marriage to wife Marion and being a good father to his four children. He is a cancer survivor. Bowman's 36-year teaching career consisted of stints at Ramona and St. Augustine high schools and as a professor at Palomar College. He relishes seeing former students who fondly label him as their favorite teacher when he taught English or drama or coached sports.
Another passion is his college student experience from 1956 to 1960. Even now, nearly 48 years after receiving a bachelor's degree in English, San Diego's College for Men holds a permanent place in his heart.
"The College for Men opened my eyes to what was around me, what was available to me as a human being. I was bright, but I did not realize what it could mean for me until I got into that school," says Bowman, who was 28 when he started at the institution that later merged with the San Diego College for Women to become the University of San Diego.
Bowman gained admission into the institution based on two recommendations and the encouragement of Irving Parker, who was the College for Men's dean of admissions. Parker offered Bowman a chance to attend college, but only if he kept his grades up. Bowman failed two classes his first semester and Parker reminded him of their agreement. Parker, however, gave Bowman a second chance because of two A grades in English and a B in American History.
"Had it not been for Dean Parker's faith in me, I would perhaps be mired still in that infernal swamp of failures fruitlessly seeking a means of escape," says Bowman, who spoke at a recent memorial Mass inside Founders Chapel for Parker, who passed away in November. "Whatever success I have enjoyed during those 51 years since that late summer of 1956, I owe to the man we pray for today. Irving Parker was not only my benefactor and teacher, but he was also my inspiration."
Bowman, who took classes at San Diego City College to build academic confidence, arrived on the College for Men campus the year the school fielded its first football team. He still says he earned both his degrees from the San Diego College for Men. It's a source of pride. It's his way to ensure that the College for Men's contributions are not forgotten.
"We had excellent faculty. They knew most of us weren't well-educated in the lower grades, and they took time with us and they explained things we couldn't figure out," Bowman says. "The faculty and the students were just one group. We were bonded together. Many of us were married and trying to make a living. It was a common need for all of us to get an education. Out of this group came teachers, lawyers, judges and professional businessmen, and all of it came out of this little school located across the street." — Ryan T. Blystone
College for Men alumni are encouraged to stay connected with the university. Share your story by contacting Alumni Relations at (619) 260-4819.


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I was reading Desire to Inspire a couple of weeks ago and came across Australian architectural firm Russell and George and just had to share. Their work is simple, clean and modern with a great sense of materiality. They tend to use a very simple palette of materials in each project, however have a way of accentuating and highlighting those materials so that they really become a key design detail in the project. It's their commercial and residential work that really sticks out for me as being innovative and relatable. In their commercial work they have a great way of making the product a design feature - the goal of any design team - and in their residential work, whether it be a white box (above) or a timber clad bungalow, the detail and architecture really speaks without having to yell.
All Photos courtesy of Russell & George


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Funding Application Open Dates for Summer 2018
Monday, April 30, 2018- Monday, May 21, 2018 at 9:00am
** Application materials submitted after the deadline will not be considered.**
Interested in Teaching English as a Foreign Language? Staying in Tucson this summer?
The total cost of the 100-hour TEFL program is $995 tuition + $50 application/technology fee. SGPP will provide a payment of $800 directly to the TEFL Summer Certificate Program. Recipients will be responsible for the remaining $245 tuition/application fee. SGPP will notify funding recipients, and then they will need to formally apply to the program and pay their portion. After they have paid their portion, SGPP will pay the remaining $800 directly to TEFL.
TEFL Certification Overview
The Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL/TESOL) Certificate Program helps those who wish to teach English. The University of Arizona Center for English as a Second Language offers teacher training programs to expand and update English language teaching skills depending on one's career goals. TEFL Website: http://www.cesl.arizona.edu/100-tefl
Program Dates
Students can choose the session for which they want to enroll:
- Summer 1: June 8- July July 7, 2018
- Summer 2: July 6- Aug. 4, 2018
Benefits of TEFL Certification
- Once certified, students can get international experience by seeking opportunities to teach English abroad
- Teaching experience looks great on a resume (shows leadership, communication and organizational skills, not to mention to ability to successfully work with people who might not speak your language)
- Become more competitive for international careers and/or Peace Corps
- Please note: The TEFL certification does not place students in teaching positions.
Requirements for Funding
- Applicants must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75, be in junior or senior standing, and be majoring in one of the undergraduate programs in the School of Government and Public Policy.
- Criminal Justice Studies, Law, Political Science or Public Management & Policy
- Students must be actively enrolled in classes during the spring and summer OR spring and fall semesters in order to be eligible. Students graduating in May 2018 are not eligible for funding.
- Applicants must have at least two years of University experience and be competent in written and spoken English.
- The funding will be given on the basis of financial need, academic achievement and/or potential for educational and career success.
- Students must be able to demonstrate an interest in a career in international relations, foreign affairs, teaching English, and/or Peace Corps.
How to Apply for Funding
Complete the ONLINE APPLICATION. As part of your online application, you will be asked to upload the following:
- A brief statement answering the following question (500 words): Please explain how this TEFL training will help you with your academic and career aspirations as it pertains to your major course of study.
- Current Resume
Students will be notified of acceptance in to the programs by Friday, May 25, 2018.


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I am sorry.*
Things got super busy, and then editing had issues, and then I got lazy, and then I sort of, might have been putting it off.
*not really sorry.
I mentioned a few posts back that Amy and I had filmed a pizza vlog, because apparently we talk about food so much on our blogs that it makes our
SO if you want to make delicious pizza the DeLallo way, here is our recipe for it. (And trust me, it's fabulous, we are pizza snobs.)
However since this is our first cooking vlog and we kind of suck at it, here's the recipe written down in case you have no idea what we're talking about.
1c warm to hot water
1 package yeast
1 glug (about two tablespoons) oil
3 c (give or take) unbleached white flour
In a medium to large bowl, mix water, yeast and oil. Add, little by little, 2 1/2 c flour, and knead together. Move the dough to a floured surface and knead in the remaining 1/2 flour. Your dough should be soft and not overmixed. A good way to test, is to stick your finger in and if it comes out clean or mostly clean, your dough is probably ready.
Rub it down with oil (so it doesn't crack) and put it back in the bowl, covered. Set aside to rise for about an hour, your dough should double it's size.
Makes 1 pizza.
1 medium sized can (16oz) unseasoned tomato sauce
1 1/2 tbsp oil
1/4 medium onion, diced
4 cloves garlic, diced.
2 tbsp oregano
2 tbsp thyme
1 tbsp basil or sweet basil
Pinch of salt
Pepper to taste.
Dice the onion and garlic and put them in a sauce pan with the oil. Saute over medium heat until the garlic is browning and the onion is sort of transparent and soft. Add the sauce and stir. Mix in the spices, and let them cook into the sauce for about ten minutes. Then turn the sauce down to about med-low or low and let it cook down for about an hour. (This makes the sauce super flavorful and yummy. :)
Good for one pizza.
The Pizza:
Preheat oven to 375*f.
The dough
The Sauce
Whichever toppings you're going to use (Optional, you don't need toppings, but whatever)
1 c cheese (Mozzarella is best) Or as much as you want, the more the merrier, I say.
Roll out the dough onto an oiled pizza tray. Spread the sauce fabulously over the top, and add toppings if you have them. Sprinkle the cheese and stick it in the oven for 12- 15 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown on the bottom.
And then all you need to do is partake of delicious goodness.
Just FYI, we are at a pretty high altitude, so the timing and cooking temperature might be a little off if you're closer to sea level. 'Pologies. :)
But seriously, try it out and let me know what it goes!