text: Painter and sculptor Rebecca Polyblank studied at Plymouth College of Art, and gained a first-class honours degree in Sculpture from Gloucestershire College of Arts. She lives and works on Cornwall's beautiful Bodmin Moor, and her work is inspired by the area's unique landscape. Walking the moors daily in different weathers, her experience of colour, temperature, light, flora and fauna are reflected in the detailed pencil and ink studies she makes at her studio. That same, detailed level of drawing is maintained in the flattened, almost decorative surfaces of her paintings, which combine soft backdrops of sectioned colour with images of butterflies and moths, grasses, thistles, hedge parsley and wind-blown Alexanders, leaping hares, deer, and tiny darting birds. Particularly unique are her sculptures of rabbits, owls, horses and other moorland creatures, all of which convey the weight and texture of bronze work, but are in fact skilfully created from papier-mache.


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"Crane: [Jokingly referring to Bob Dylan in the third person] He's quite the put on artist, isn't he?
Dylan: Nah, God.
Crane: [Teasing] You're terrible.
Dylan: Nah. I don't want to be categorized."
The Les Crane Show. February 17, 1965.
"It's either fortune or fame
You must pick one or the other
Though neither of them are to be what they claim"
Bob Dylan. Just Like To Thumb's Blues. Highway 61 Revisited.
"Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin' high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
Proud 'neath heated brow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now"
Bob Dylan. My Back Pages. Another Side of Bob Dylan.
As friends and family will vouch, I am a maniacal Bob Dylan fan, my obsession with him only intensifying over the years. It's not enough for me to have every one of his albums (over two hundred at last count, every concert and bootleg included), but I also obsess when it comes to listening to him. I end up listening to his albums in alphabetical order, chronological order, and based on every other criteria imaginable - but always from beginning to end, never piecemeal. I start with the very first album (say, chronologically) and don't stop until I get to the end: all two hundred albums - one after another.
I will listen to and enjoy other artists on a regular basis but I always come back to Bob sooner or later. "Let's see now… we haven't listened to him in reverse chronological order yet, have we?" And we're off to another journey with Bob. I've done this half a dozen different ways and I encounter new songs, new words, and new ideas every time. I hear new pearls of wisdom masquerading as poetry masquerading as music every time.
As you can imagine, this process can take several months since you can't really absorb more than one or two Dylan albums on any given day. When I'm finished, I go off and live in the normal auditory universe that the rest of humanity inhabits but sooner or later, I come back to Dylan.
The trick to Bob Dylan is to start with the oldest recordings and the bootlegs. Everything he recorded from 1961 (when he was only nineteen) until his motorcycle accident in 1966 - every track, every album, every concert - was world class, flawlessly executed, and sublime. Many of his newer albums have become classics as well and I don't mean to take away from any of those accomplishments but what Dylan accomplished in the first half of the 1960's is nothing short of heroic - in scope and in execution. Rolling Stone magazine has listed an amazing eleven studio albums by Dylan, more than any other artist, in its list of Top 500 Albums of All Time, including two in the top ten. But it's only when you listen to his official bootleg series (dozens of albums released recently with the artist's supervision and help) that you begin to realize his genius. Every song, every performance is amazing. You will find yourself stopping cold every once in awhile and gasping: "These are his discarded works?!? These are the ones he thought weren't good enough for his studio albums?!?" Suffice it to say that his castaways would be the envy of any recording artist today.
My personal struggles with OCD notwithstanding, I do wonder if anyone will ever understand Bob Dylan without obsessing over him. The problem with Dylan, you see, is his encyclopedic breadth and prolific output. He defies categorization as an artist, having innovated in fields ranging from prose to painting and more. But his biggest accomplishment, in my opinion, is the mesmerizing and profound lyrics in his songs. Most people listen to his scratchy voice and give up in frustration after a few tries. They can't figure out what the often surreal lyrics mean or how to interpret them. This is unfortunate because if you just manage to break through and hear the message, there is much to love and learn. He has written over seven hundred original songs at last count and almost none of them are your typical pop song. They cover every topic from civil rights to religion and so much more. Many of these songs are, in fact, world class poems; the music is often there only as an accompaniment. If you would only stop and recognize that you are listening to poetry, as opposed to popular music, you would appreciate Dylan a lot more.
I've seen articles and blogs denouncing the award because Mr. Dylan is principally known as a musician and not an author. Here's how I think about it. What if the committee gives the award to a graphic novelist next year? Would you have similar complaints about a "painter" getting the award simply because that is the medium chosen by the artist? How are pictures any different than music in this regard? Perhaps the quibble is over written vs. verbal delivery of the content. Well, feel free to go buy Mr. Dylan's lyrics/poems in print and enjoy them without the accompanying music.
At a time when American culture and politics are being misunderstood, ridiculed, and vilified around the world, I, for one, welcome the Nobel Committee's willingness to "think outside the box" and recognize positive American culture and, more specifically, Mr. Dylan as its representative around the world, with an award that he well deserves.
Finally, until there is a separate Nobel Prize for Poetry, I can think of no other artist, dead or alive, who has touched the lives of more people around the world over the past half century nor can I think of another artist who deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature more than Mr. Zimmerman.

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Not My Mother's House
Yo yo fellow design pals! Caroline here. Dropping in to tell you a little story about my own personal design journey, and how I discovered that design is so very specific to each person; that following your own gut is often the best thing....
"Who inspires you most?"
"What person would you most like to be like when you grow up?"
"Who is your hero?"
All questions that trace the memories of my younger years in elementary school. Fill in the blanks that never strayed from my constant, forever answer: my mother.
Now, at 27, I still live by my "What Would Sheryl Do", mentality. I make my best decisions by following W.W.S.D. Call me a fangirl of the woman who raised me, but I kind of think Sheryl hung the dang moon. For example...
Sheryl keeps her house spotless and prepares a meal via Ina Garten on weeknights?
Oh, well fork, I should do that too.
Sheryl has a subscription to "The Atlantic" and learns enormous amounts of what's going on in the world by reading every night before bed?
Here's my credit card, hit me with a subscription.
Sheryl wakes up early and uses not only a Nespresso maker but also froths her own coconut milk?
Why am I not yet doing this?!
In short, I kind of want to be my mother.
She's my best friend, the easiest person I know, and owns a deep wisdom about what to do in both the oh-so-great, and shittiest of situations. I respect her in all fields, among all things. My family jokes about this, but we're all deep in a never-ending funnel of bonging the Kool-Aid. Mom's a badass and we love it.
There is one part of my life, though, that I've found won't quite fit into the "strive to be like your mother" picture. It's a jagged, rough puzzle piece with frayed cardboard edges that won't fit the puzzle. For years, I've been trying to make it lay in its place.
Enter 2015, when my husband and I got surprise IUD (gasp!) pregnant and bought our first home. Holding our homeowner keys at closing my immediate thought was: I must make this home look like the house I grew up in.
So I called my mom, and began ordering all of the W.W.S.D. neutral pieces. Chairs, sofa, coffee table, lamps. They all spoke soft, calming vibes as I remembered my mom has always told me she chose her designs to create a calm home, a place of tranquility. The woman loved to add color in accessories and art, but she mostly needed calm colors, neutrals, and the soothing choices only she could make. Growing up, our family was struck with medical chaos time and time again, and home for my mom needed to be very, very relaxing. A place of safety.
And this is where I made the mistake. I never thought about why she chose to decorate the way that she did, I just thought that mimicking her taste would be the best for my home, and my family. But as the updated traditional pieces flowed in, something didn't feel quite right. I was living in a space I thought would bring me ease and tranquility, but likewise I was craving adding my very favorite colors, blue and green, into the mix. I too tried introducing color with art and pillows, but that still wasn't cutting it. It didn't feel like me.
I wanted the patterns, the bold choices, the turquoise geometric coffee table that says "Check me out. I'm awesome. Bring it". And all while I'm feeling these feelings, as luck would have it, I meet my tried and true gal, Amanda Louise.
AL introduced me to the idea of keeping my neutral pieces, but placing them throughout our house, instead of all in one room. She was the first to show me that a bold cheetah pattern could live next to a blue couch, and that said blue couch didn't have to be a scary unknown, but the ideal item I'd always aimed to own.
It was a big leap, going from what I've always known, to what I've always wanted. But damn, I'm so glad that I did.
May we always go with our guts, and design the homes we live in to an I-want-it-that-way T.
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We woke up this morning around 8:30, knuckled the sleep from our eyes and went down to breakfast. In this hotel, out breakfast is included in our room price, and we planned on stoking up before heading out. Our destination was to be the Art Museum. There were a wide selection of continental cuisine items on the buffet.
The breakfast room was bright and airy, and since we arrived around 9 most folks were already out investigating the town.
This was the view out onto the street. There is a fruit vendor immediately outside our hotel, but we have not availed ourselves of his wares just yet. It is a pedestrian shopping area, with restaurants and small stores.....quite quiet.
After getting some directions from our desk clerk, a very helpful fellow, we headed downstairs to the metro. Our station as previously mentioned is Krizikova.
It was chilly and overcast when we left, about 55F. Patsy is doing her "film star incognito" routine....in reality just trying to keep warm.
We got off our train, changed to another and in no time flat we were at Starometska station. We returned to ground level to see what was what.....what?
As soon as we came out of the station it was "raise cameras!" We started clicking away like two bumpkins on their first trip to the big city.
Across the street was the Rudolfinum. This is the venue for the Prague Philharmonic, and we were immediately besieged with offers of "special prices" for a concert. While it would have been only about $100 for both of us, we said we would consider it. We are still considering it!!
We walked to the end of the Manesuv Most to take a picture, and what a picture. I tell you my wits were keenly pressed at this vista. I steadied my shutter hand and clicked to my heart's content. I could do little about the wires in the way. a tram runs across the bridge.
We found the Art Gallery, and had a coffee at their coffee shop. We had a difficult time explaining what we wanted, but eventually Scooterchick got her coffee and I got my latte. The waitress was less than helpful, surly even. No tip for you!
We toasted our first day sightseeing and prepared to tackle the gallery. There were permanent and temporary exhibits.
This was on the 2nd. Floor. I believe it was a bust of King Karel IV. He is flanked by two bronze urns from the early 18th. Century, and set in a Rococo alcove.
This is one of six vases that were on the grounds of a villa on the outskirts of Prague. There were many other vases of varying size all made and fired on the grounds, although this is the largest one remaining.
This was a glass bubble chandelier. How unusual.
This is a wedding chest from the 14th Century. It is made of wood and is done in a style called Jesso, which involves gold-leaf overlay.
There was an entire gallery devoted to horological art, by which I mean to say clocks. This was a well designed number, encased in a fine cabinet.
Here is some art glass. The picture is out of order. It is for sale in a store nearby. I loves me some art glass, although my collection is scant. There's still time!
Here is a picture that Scooterchick snapped of me examining some of the clocks. They had some fascinating pieces, and I imagine most of them still keep pretty good time. After all they were made by the top manufacturers of the day.
Check this out. It is a piece of hand work all done in gold thread, and designed to be work over a priest's robe. I imagine you had to be pretty high up the pecking order to rate something like this. Although I don't have pictorial evidence we also saw a papal mitre and pair of papal shoes.....Nothing these guys did was cheap.
In another section off the museum was art tableware. This pheasant was a dish for pate de foie.
The Savoy Cabbage was a soup tureen, the Artichoke for sauce and the Asparagus was of all things a butter dish. Imagine using this stuff when guests came to call.
There was a non descript chrome and stainless something or other. it may be a whatchamacallit, or it could be a thingamajigger....I'm not sure.
There was also an exhibit that invited museum guests to create their own art piece.
Patsy decided to have a go and I thought her creation was very imaginative. I think you would have to check with her for the name of her work though.
Geocolor fusionart maybe???
There were numerous pieces of jewelry and fasteners from back in the day. They had some mighty fine taste in bling, it would still be in fashion today, though retro.
They also were not shy about spending a few ducats on a box to keep it in. The cabinetmakers of the day knew their stuff, didn't they?
Even the miniature furniture was exquisitely fashioned. The reverse camber legs are indicative of Rococo or late baroque period style.
There was a leather case with a set of 12 gilded cutlery pieces. They were base metal, probably sterling and gilded with 24kt. gold. The accompanying card said they were the property of some monastery somewhere on loan to the museum.
We started our way down to the first floor. Even the staircases were artistic, with barrel vaulted ceiling painted in high style panels.
As we exited we wanted to see an old cemetery which we had noticed from one of the windows of the museum, so we went around the block to investigate. The architecture is stupendous, and even buildings that were blown down during the war have been built back to period style, though updated for convenience sake.
We took a turn and came upon the Old Synagogue. This is where the graveyard started. We made inquires regarding looking around. The minimum price was 200CK, and would not include the graveyard. The next price of 300CK included the Old and New Synagogues, but again not the graveyard. Then we found out that the price including the graveyard and allowing for pictures would be 1000CK.
That's $50 in real money....we don't need to see the graveyard, nor the synagogues that badly thanks. We'll keep walking. L'Chaim and Mazeltov!
Here's another view of the old meeting house. Price for picture $0.00
We continued up the road where they had numerous stalls set up to part the tourist from his shekels, and we did buy another magnet for our collection.
This is another synagogue. This one was used during the 1700-1800's and gets good use today as a point of collection for tourist dollars.
We continued onward marveling and pictures taking all the way.
We found ourselves walking out of the Jewish quarter and down a street with some familiar names. A few quick taps on the calculator showed us that we would not likely be doing any shopping in this area either. When men's watches are going for upward of $50,000.00, we say..."really"?
We had already purchased some luggage for this trip. So, we decided not to spend any money here either. I understand that you can probably get a shaving kit for 2,500.00 dollars, though. You supply the razor.
Remember that movie "The Devil Wears Prada". It's probably purchased here.
Hey look poochy Gucci. I understand it's what all the best dressed dogs are wearing this year.
Thanks for noticing me. Wait, that's Eeyore......this is Dior.
We walked a little further and entered a square with the most fantastic building. We had never seen the like before. It turned out that this was the Tyn Cathedral. The edge of the property marked that fence which was the boundary of the old marketplace and work on this church commenced in about 1300.
There was a fountain with two fish. I don't know what the fish were for.
This is the church of St. Nicholas. Yes, he was a real saint. They built this church starting in the 1200's.
As with most Roman Catholic churches, the interior was very ornate. This is a view toward the main altar which was gated off to keep the masses out.
This is the domed ceiling of a side chapel. It seemed to go up for several hundred feet. Just imagine all of the work that would have taken.
This is the Bohemian glass chandelier which hung on a long chain below the main dome. It was very large and very detailed.
This is a picture of the dome itself taken through the chandelier. Again the mind boggles at the amount of labor and construction involved in completing it.
This is the organ loft. Although we did not hear the organ being played, it looked like it sounded amazing.
By now, we were both getting hungry. We looked around for somewhere to eat. We found a likely candidate in the Kotleta Restaurant. As the name implies, there menu was heavy with pork products. We perused it carefully before making our selection.
The entrance was unassuming, but led to a garden area with tables for eating outdoors.
Scooterchick ordered some water and we were both surprised to find a Roman centurion looking up from the bottom of her glass.
Athough it was chilly enough for a jacket, while sitting outside the sun came out and I had to dig out my hat. This is the first time I have worn it in a while and it smelled strongly of sunscreen.
My darling finally got an opportunity to order goulash. It was served in a bread bowl and she decreed it to be delicious. I had a small taste and found it likewise.
I had a vicious hunger going so ordered a Braised Pork Knee. This was served on a spit with bread, fresh shaved Horseradish, a pickle and some mustard. Talk about meat overload. This thing was huge.
Here is a closer look at the enormous chunk of roasted swine. Where to start?
I took my eating irons in hand and dug in.
It took quite a while to work my way through that huge chunk of roast goodness. I kept at it methodically, and acquitted myself in good order, even if I was unable to finish the last couple of bites. I felt as though I gave as good as I got.
When the bill arrived I was surprised. It was about $25.00 or so, and I felt as though I easily ate my way through $40.00 or so, without even mentioning my beloved's goulash in a bread bowl.
We had to walk across the square to let our stomachs settle and there were a bride and groom on their way to get married married at the church nearby.
There were these weird tricycle rickshaws available for rental. We both felt as though we should continue walking.
This is a famous astronomical clock which has figurines that do odd things when the hour is chimed. There is always a crowd and we didn't get to see the goings on when it did chime the hour. Perhaps tomorrow.
This is a closer view of the face of the clock. It shows phases of the moon and location of the planets.
Here are some other of the colorful buildings that ring the square. Although they are retail space at ground level, on the levels above there are undoubtedly residences.
If you'll take note of the crowds, I 'm glad we came in the off season. It must be crushingly busy in Summer.
Every where one looks it is more picturesque than can be believed although as they say "seeing is believing". I guess I believe.
Scooterchick's eye was caught by this store so we went in to investigate.
Lo and behold, she found something that fit her hand perfectly. I am happy I talked her into letting me buy it for her for our anniversary. Beautiful girls deserve beautiful things.
Even the bears clinging to the pole seemed to agree. She made an excellent choice.
Here the owner if the shop and I shake hands to seal the deal. He was happy, my darling was happy and I was happy. It was like a win - win - win!!
As we left the shop it started to spit, then drizzle and finally to pour. We headed for the metro, to return to our hotel. It was getting dark by now.
We went down to the train at Republic Square. Since we live in Canada part of the year we are no strangers to slogging through the rain. Our train was moments away when we arrived.
Here is Scooterchick admiring her purchase.
We got off at Krizikova and enjoyed the high speed escalator ride. Well, at least one of us enjoyed it
So, another blog post comes to an end. Good night sleep well.


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Gregory Rome filed an $18 Million civil rights lawsuit in federal court on Thursday in connection with the death of 19-year-old Nimali Henry in St. Bernard Parish Jail last spring. The lawsuit alleges that the Jail's employees neglected or refused to provide necessary medical care to Nimali Henry, resulting in her death. It is brought on behalf of Nimali's infant child, who was four months old at the time of her mother's death.
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FRANKFORT — Kentucky lawmakers will be asked for $2.3 billion in public pension contributions this winter as they prepare the state's next two-year budget, potentially diverting more than 10 percent of the budget for the retirement benefits of state workers and school teachers.
The chief pension fund that covers more than 90,600 current and former state workers has $2.6 billion in assets and $11.3 billion in assumed liabilities, making it only 23 percent funded, actuarial advisers told the Kentucky Retirement Systems' board of trustees on Thursday.
That funding level has dropped for years, from 52 percent in 2008 to 27 percent last year. It puts Kentucky at or near the bottom in most state pension rankings.
Pension experts say a funding level of less than 80 percent is problematic because a cash-starved benefits system can't make lucrative long-term investments, and it eventually can't keep mailing out monthly checks without draining money from other public services, such as schools and roads.
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The General Assembly has made attempts at "pension reform" — including Senate Bill 2 earlier this year, which reduced benefits for future state workers — but it's extremely difficult to climb out of the hole dug by two decades of underfunding by governors and lawmakers, pension officials said.
As recently as this year, when the pension system said it needed $485 million in contributions, lawmakers cited a tight budget and provided only 57 percent of the requested amount.
Under SB 2, the legislature committed to fully funding the Kentucky Retirement Systems' budget requests, which was revealed Thursday to be more than $1.5 billion for the next two years, to adequately pay the separate pension and insurance funds for state workers and Kentucky State Police.
KRS will have to stand in line: Many public agencies and interest groups say they plan to request more money from the legislature this winter, and the next state budget is not expected to be much larger than its predecessor. But William Thielen, the KRS executive director, said after Thursday's board meeting that he hopes lawmakers will honor their pension commitment.
"It's in writing, but I know the budget is still tight, the economy has not improved as we hoped it would," Thielen said.
In a statement issued later Thursday, the Facebook community Kentucky Government Retirees said its 2,788 members will lobby their lawmakers against "a betrayal of the pension promise."
Apart from KRS, the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System — which covers about 140,000 current and former school teachers — says it will ask lawmakers for nearly $800 million in the two-year budget.
Compared to the state workers' fund, the $16 billion teachers' fund is in relatively good shape, with a 54 percent funding level. However, under federal accounting rules expected to take effect in 2015, the system will have to recalculate its unfunded liability from $12 billion to $23 billion if there is no plan in place to stabilize the fund, KTRS executive secretary Gary Harbin said.
The $800 million is needed to help stabilize the fund, Harbin said.
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I was expecting le Petit's first word to be a very, very big deal.
I kept waiting for the moment he would look at us, open his mouth, and gesticulating meaningfully at something, utter an identifiable grouping of syllables. Instead, his babbling slowly settled into patterns that seemed to mean something some of the time but most of the time were just, well, sounds.
Progress was slow and I began to fret. Yet through the babbling le Petit was busy acquiring his two languages, and behind the random "cocos" and "da da das" there was hard work going on. And so it was that sometime between August and October "da da da" became "dada" and was firmly enough assigned to my husband that even I was able to admit it:
Le Petit had a first word! In English! Alas, I don't have a date to record in the baby book.
Once he had one word down there was no stopping him. He now can say baby and "lolo" (milk), bain (bath) and bras (arm). Naturally, his first sentence was in Franglish. Recently, as we looked through a picture book before bed, he turned to a page with a baby in a bathtub and said "Baby bain!"
But his biggest linguistic accomplishment came on his sixteen-month birthday. We were at the airport in Nice preparing to give back the rental car as le Petit waited patiently in his car seat. Once the agent finished inspecting the car, she waved at him and said "au revoir." Le Petit waved back and repeated quite clearly "aurvoi!"
My heart swelled with pride, but I fear that before long he'll be pronouncing that French "r" better than I can.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Parlez-vous Petit?
Posted by Parisienne Mais Presque at 10:53 PM
Labels: Le Petit, Le Petit's firsts
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- Mom in France said...
It's weird isn't it? Boo speaks a mixture of English and French - basically whichever is easiest. I find that the liquid words of french tend to be easier than the hard, gutteral English (hence: chat vs. cat). My favorite is "All gone!" Which is often confused with "Encore!"
- caramama said...
Awww. Way to go, Le Petit! By next year, he will be speaking French better than I ever could. I'm jealous!
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I wanted to share a little bit from my experience co-cheffing for The Blind Cafe a couple of weeks ago. This was such a cool experience and unlike anything I had ever done before. Chef Jimmy Bailey and I were asked to prepare a "culinary sensory experience" for 150 people each night, for three nights, all to be eaten in the pitch dark! We were thrilled to be asked and so intrigued by the challenge. The meal was to be all vegan, and gluten free, and had to be food that one could eat with their hands. I guess they don't want to put sharp objects into the hands of the guests in the dark after they've had a few glasses of wine….. We put our heads together and with the help of some fantastic assistants and volunteers, put together a 4 course tasting menu that was sure to delight…..four of the five senses anyway. It's interesting as a chef to come up with a menu and not first take into account how the food looks. Usually how it looks, other than taste of course, is a large part in how we prepare dishes. I guess everyone enjoyed the food because when we went into the dark after they ate and explained to them what it was that they had, they atually clapped and cheered. I figure if you can make anyone cheer for Brussels sprouts, you must be doing something right!
If you'd like to participate in The Blind Cafe they will be hosting another event in Austin in late April. We are in talks with them about Jimmy & I preparing the food again, so stay tuned to see how that plays out. In the mean time, here is the menu and a few photos of the night. You can also check out our Facebook Page more more.
- Mediterranean Cucumber Boats w/Toasted Pine Nut Hummus & a Gazpacho Sauce and Red Pepper
- Savory Chickpea Pancake Topped w/Sweet Potato Puree & Indian Spiced Chutney
- Tempura Style Brussel Sprouts w/a Grapefruit Chili Sauce
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I want to be able to create my own Chaos Champions as normal (rolling up attributes etc) and then converting a model to represent him; and then be able to immediately have his rolled up retinue join him in his warband.
Well this project has taken a bit of a backseat recently, although you can see what I have currently finished on the list to the right of this post. So it is with some joy that I can add to the completed to do list with the completion of a final centaur to add to the three that I had finished a while ago:
Here's the four of them together:
And here you can see how I was inspired by Tim Prow's Centaurs which were showcased in a White Dwarf of which I cannot recall the issue :


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Like learning to sit up, crawl and walk, potty training is a skill that your child must learn. Before mastering this skill, there are certain other skills and abilities that must be in place before learning can begin.
Signs your child may be ready:
- Your child is staying dry for longer periods of time (often two hours or more). This indicates that her bladder capacity is increasing.
- Your child recognizes when she is in the process of urinating or voiding. If you try to potty train before this time, you'll likely run into trouble, since your child isn't really aware of what she's doing and so is unable to control something she can't understand.
- Your child is able to easily pull her pants up and down. She may not have had any reason to do so in the past, but luckily, of all the readiness factors, this skill is easily learned.
- Your child can follow simple instructions. There are many steps to using the toilet that we take for granted as adults. For example– go to the bathroom, turn on the light, pull down your pants and underwear, sit on the potty, wipe your bottom, flush the toilet, wash your hands– the list goes on, so this is a very important skill.
- Your child is able to sit and engage in an activity for several minutes without becoming distracted or irritable.
- Your child is walking and running well. Because the urge to potty is often sudden in toddlers, and because a potty isn't always steps away, it's important for your child to be able to make it to the toilet before an accident occurs.
- Finally, and perhaps most importantly, your child shows interest and desire. Interest in keeping dry or clean. Interest in wearing "big kid" underwear. Interest in what you're doing when you go potty and a desire to do what you're doing.
Remember, age is not the most important factor. Potty training will be best accomplished when your child's physical and emotional development are taken into account as well.
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Well, first off as you can tell I'm back safely from Otakon. This year wasn't the best that I've ever attended. So many things stood in our way of happiness but overall we did enjoy ourselves. We got to see lots of people that included new and old friends. I was proud to live a dream and once again show my props to the "race of growing Otaku".
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We left on Thursday a tad bit later then we would have anticipated. But, still made good timing none the less even as we stopped at Walmart. We arrived around 4:30 PM at the Holiday Inn Inner Harbor and proceeded to check in. The communication was a bit lame as we had no idea where to park the car. It figured as we were almost to the front of the line for check-in when we were told to move the car because it was blocking traffic. So, we parked the car and headed back to the line once again. Once all the room shenanigans were settled and taken care of we unloaded the car. The room was quite spacious and smelled of fresh potpourri. The bathroom was divided into two main sections; sink and toilet/shower. The entertainment center that housed the TV was freaking huge and took up almost the whole wall. Overall, I think it was a really nice room. We were supposed to be joined by another roommate for the night. So, we played the waiting game. It reached around 7PM and I was getting antsy to proceed to the registration. Around 7:30 PM, we decided to head out and found that the line stretched the whole way around the BCC! It reminded me of a normal Friday that was the usual routine for us. After a 2-hour wait we reached the front of the line and registered. Both Nate and I chose the FB badge. After that we proceeded to the hotel room and waited for communication from the other room attendees. When everyone for that night surfaced we were content and finally fell to sleep.
We awoke around 11 AM and proceeded to prepare for the day of con events. Little did we know that the day of "supposed fun" was going to be a huge disappointment. Especially, after everything was all said and done and we didn't reach the con till around 5 PM that day.
The biggest thing we had to put up with was waiting for the other group members to arrive and get into their rooms in a reasonable matter of time. After that I dressed up as Feena from Grandia and proceeded to the direction of the con. I was so nervous due to the fact that my butt was practically exposed to the "whole City of Baltimore". But, even in my subtle embarrassment I wore it with pride. It was my dream to cosplay as my beloved heroine. Ramothhe and Sean dressed as Sue and Rapp accompanied me to the fountain where we could get good cosplay pictures. Isn't it interesting when you pose for pictures and people crawl out of the woodwork to snap your picture? There were a lot of people getting our pictures. It felt really good that some of them knew we were from Grandia. After the photo shoot we parted ways and Nate and I proceeded to the Dealer's Room. Along the way I encountered someone chattering that I looked like a character from Sailor Moon. It hurt to hear that but then I figured some "Otaku" just don't have any brains.
When we arrived it was so darn packed in there. But, in my opinion there wasn't too much things worth of interest in there. But, existing only on $150.00 for the weekend was like pulling teeth. I missed out on buying a FB wallscroll that really broke my heart. We ran into Gamer dressed as Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service. Genma was dressed as the Panda from Ranma ˝. After our friendly hellos and good byes we left. We decided to head back to the hotel room for a snack. Cons make me so darn hungry and tired. I retired the Feena costume after only 2 hours. But, there is plans to wear it again later when I can make the wings to go with it.
When we were rested enough I re-dressed as Dagger from FFIX with my mythril rod. Eric and Kel accompanied us as well. That costume was so incredibly comfortable. I got a lot of attention with pictures and praise on my mythril rod. We headed to Dealer's Room that closed five minutes there after. So, we proceeded to Artist Alley where Kieran said he and Jay were dressed as Quatre and Trowa. When we arrived Gamer and Genma were there also. We sneaked over to where Kirean was and glomped him. It's so good to see your friends in a melting pot of never-ending people. We had all decided to go to MAT3K for the night. Kel stayed behind because Eric got lost somewhere between there and the Dealer's Room. We waited awhile and headed up to the line from Hell. The staffers were a bit annoying this year as they bellowed commands like drill sergeants in the army. When the line finally started to move we rejoiced. The show was awesome and the anime they used was just plain lame. But over all I think the best quotes were, "Today's episode is brought to you by the letter tree and the number telephone pole". I think we laughed our asses off that night. After the showing we retired back to the hotel room where Eric and Kel were waiting. We decided that the night was done so we stayed back at the room for the night. Eric and Nate dived into some insane hours of "Super Smash Bros" for the Gamecube. Their little battles of Pikachu VS. Yoshi were the best. I slipped into a long peaceful sleep shortly after 2 AM I think.
We woke up around 1 PM which really shortened our day. Once again I dressed as Dagger and headed to the con accompanied by Nate, Eric, and Kel. We headed straight to the Dealer's Room shortly after. Eric headed to the Gaming Room for his tournement of GGX2. Finally, we acquired time to actually look at the goods and wares laid out before us. But, still in my opinion there wasn't too much there. We talked amongst one another and decided to attend the TMR concert. Once again we stood in a long line of pain and listened to the "Drill Sergeant " staffers. When we were finally seated I rejoiced because my Feet were killing me. The crowd went bonkers when the show started. First was a J-pop singer named Kristine Sa who everyone really didn't care about but I may have been hearing things. Her music wasn't bad as she sang in both English and J-pop. After her opening songs came the big honored guest T.M. Revolution. He was so much shorter than I would ever had imagined. He wore a kimono I think and his hair was styled so differently. Overall, the concert rocked. It was fun hearing songs from Kenshin and Gundam Seed. He gave a reprise of "Heart and Sword" after he was beckoned to appear back out on stage. It was indeed a fantastic event!
After the concert we headed back to the hotel room to eat dinner. Kel stayed behind and waited for Eric. We got ourselves around and headed back to the con. We were on a mission to find Kieran and Jay at the Gaming tournament dressed as Ayame and Momiji from FB. We had fun taking to Kieran. He made the cutest little Ayame. Jay was an adorable Momiji as well. As we sat there with Kieran we talked about things. Finally, the tournament was at hand and sadly Jay had lost just as Eric had. It's so painful to see your friends lose at something they strive to win. We wondered around Artist Alley for awhile and visited the auction items. I fell in love with a Fan cel of Shigure from FB and decided to bid on it. Then we headed out and ran into Froggie and Koala dressed as Sango and Kohaku from Inuyasha. After we said our good byes we went back to the hotel to eat and relax. We decided to order a pizza that sounded good at the time. In my opinion after the hour and forty-five minute wait the pizza tasted like crap. Then in their error they didn't send the cheesesticks so we waited another hour for them. I reminded myself never to order from that place ever again.
After the pizza ordeal we gathered ourselves and headed back to the con for a traditional viewing of "This is Otakudom". The sound quality wasn't the best I ever heard but it was somewhat tolerable. After the showing we found Kieran and Jay and gave our respectable hugs and said good byes. Then Eric, Kel, Nate and I went on the search for the illusive 2 liter of soda around 2 AM in the morning. It started to pour as soon as we started combing the streets. I'm so glad I had my cheap poncho with me. We once again stopped at that twenty-four hour deli and found 20 ounce soda bottles so it was somewhat worth it. Once again we trekked back to the hotel room for the last night of our stay. I was so darn tired and crashed pretty early. Nate and Eric once again played Super Smash Bros till the break of dawn.
The alarm went off around 8:30 PM but everyone didn't stir until at least 10:00 AM. We didn't get the car packed till nearly 11:00AM let alone being checked out as well. I decided to cosplay as Dagger one last time but dreaded those heels involved. We headed over to the convention in hopes of winning the Shigure cel and finding a fabulous treasure at the Dealer's Room. We were also hoping to spot the ECCG dressed as Gundam boy Nekos as well. Nate parted to the Artist Ally and Eric, Kel, and I went to the Dealer's room. We looked around for awhile and I decided to go back and check on Nate. He was still waiting in the Artist Ally Auction line. After awhile we found that weren't the high bidders and returned to the Dealer's room. We bought some nice things including a Yugioh sketch of Yami. Along our searches we located Foggie as Duo and Koala as Heero from Gundam Wing. Kieran dressed, as Quatre showed up not to long after. I then decided to get my picture beside Yuki from the huge Funimation posters with FB. Not too long after I spotted Paul in his Umbreon costume with his group. I also got pictures with Kieran in his adorable Ayame costume. We walked around some more looking at things. Nate and Kel signed up for the drawing of Viz's giveaway. We snapped pictures of cosplayers along the way, bought a few things, and headed back to the Viz video stand. Out of all the things given out Kel was the only winner of our group. After the drawing we all said our good byes as I promised Kieran we would try to visit him again before the year officially ended. Our little group then said our farewells to the con and left for good. We had offered Eric and Kel a ride to the airport so we headed down there not to soon after. Then we followed 695 N the whole way to 83 N. Then we headed home.
Over all the con wasn't too teribbly bad but I wish things would have gone smoother in the planning and execution of weekend. I think though the most memorable thing had to come from the Baltimore Sun paper from Sat. It started our little "devotees" madness that will never be forgotten.
"At Otakon, Japanese animation films are running throughout each day. Vendors are selling action figures, dolls, and video games. But the biggest draw to the convention is the chance to socialize with fellow devotees and check out what people are wearing".
Next year were planning a surprise for Otakon which is something I don't usually do. Closer to the con date I will however announce the big plan... See you then ::waves::
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Welcome to The Baltimore Bookie!
My name is Shannon Simpson and I am the Resident Librarian at Towson University in Baltimore, and apparently the only Resident Librarian in Maryland! I think I've got one of the coolest jobs you could have straight out of library school, which you can read all about at my Towson Website. So, since I have such a cool and unique job, I wanted to share with people, friends, librarians, fellow residents and future resident hopefuls, etc. some of the interesting projects that I'm working on.
My first rotation is in Tech services, and I'm currently working on a number of different projects like analyzing our print versus our electronic offerings. But, my favorite project at the moment is assessing some older books from our collection that were weeded during a huge summer shift, and are now being moved to either Special Collections or a new Legacy Collection. You'll have to check back in so that you can read some excerpts I plan to post from the books about education from the 1920's. Good stuff!
I'm currently working with our marketing department for Towson's part of One Maryland One Book. (Click here to read about One Maryland One Book.) I'll be leading a book discussion later this month following a lecture by Dr. Omar Ali on James McBride's "Song Yet Sung." (Click here to link to Dr. Ali's site.) I waited in line after Mr. McBride spoke at the Baltimore Book festival so I could shake his hand and gush. (That was so cool! He is so cool! He referred to Spike Lee as, "Spike!" Which, I now realize all of his friends, family, acquaintances etc. do, he probably never goes by Mr. Lee. Sorry! I digress! ) I'll share more about all of this soon on The Baltimore Bookie.
I'm also really into Oral Histories as a direct result of working at Kent State University's Special Collections and Archives, and I'm excited to be attending an Oral History workshop in D.C. later this month. (Click here to link to the OHMAR site and read about the workshop.) I'm kind of hoping to shape my second year capstone project into something with oral histories, but I'm keeping my options open.
In addition to all that, I'll be traveling to the National Library of Medicine this Friday to meet their residents, see the library, and attend a session on Cataloging Historical Materials. A friend today described their library as; ENORMOUS. (Click her to link to the NLM's homepage.) I can't wait!
Disclaimer: Please be aware that I do like to indulge in a bit of crude photoshopping fun every once in a while. (This original picture, sans Shannon head, is actually from a painting called Der Bücherwurm by Carl Spitzweg, and available from the open source site: Wikimedia )
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Shannon!! So glad you are having a jolly good time-- my own interpretation of Resident Librarian is sort of a melding being a graduate student with having a job--the best of all possible worlds. Looking forward to hearing more.ReplyDelete
What sort of criteria are you using to assess the electronic offerings? Like how successful users are in finding resources?ReplyDelete
Not exactly. That would be more like usability testing, I think. We're trying to allow as much as possible to be available to our users electronically, and, here's the tricky part, in perpetuity. As in, forever. Like many libraries, we're discontinuing the print options that we can provide for users electronically. But, we're still keeping our books! Copy this link into your browser and read here about the library that got rid of the books in Massachusetts: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/04/a_library_without_the_books?mode=PF
Awesome job! I'm a total bibliophile.ReplyDelete


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I used the masking fluid to keep my white highlights from getting colored. Can't get used to a medium if I don't use it, so he gets to be brush-watercolored too!
These figures are really good for seeing simple shapes…..cylinders….balls.
Adding layer upon layer.
I'm trying to remember to use the blow-dryer more between layers. Hoping it will help when the watercolor gets puddly on me.
Still more to do…..hold that pose Oscar and say cheese!


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June 21, 2009
How shall we begin today? I wonder what will be on these pages when we have finished our communication in this moment of NOW. I�ll just sit back and relax and let my fingers do the talking.
Should we take a different track today?
Entirely up to you.
We feel it would be congenial to do so. Therefore, let us take your hand and walk a different road with you this day. We have so often spoken to you in many ways regarding your purpose on this planet� that of bringing it into alignment as it moves with grace into its new settings. So let us speak in other terms �
..... ....... ..............
Are you still there? Nothing seems to be coming through all of a sudden.
We are thinking.
About what?
About the purest way to deliver to you that which we desire to speak to you about. For as you know � when words are involved they can be taken in � and yet not always interpreted in the manner that we are expressing. Therefore we are considering all options.
Okydoke. I was just checking. You must find us quite frustrating at times then � if we are not always receiving your words as you wish them to be understood?
Frustrating would not be the word we choose. For it is the inner journey of the individual to find out our meanings for themselves. We try to be as explanatory as we are able, and yet we find it necessary also for you to do the work � in discovering the depth of the words in which we bring forth. Ones soul would never grow to its fullest capacity if all work was done for them. They would become rather autonomated � for it is the heart that needs to hear � not just the mind that needs to interpret that of which we speak.
So � do you just feel that you will keep on keeping on � expressing in as many ways as possible in order to help us open up our hearts?
Precisely and yet � do you not see dear lady � That as each one of you awaken more and more to the Truth of yourselves � more of your Truth can be revealed? And with that � as it evolves � the entire �game� becomes so much more �involved� as it �evolves�. The pace is quickened and the excitement as one understands its position on the board � so to speak � allows the enthusiasm to �want� to become more involved � it works in this continuing cycle. Ones eagerness to learn /recall heightens � the further along one becomes down the road. There is a never ending bank of interest � for the more one knows � the more one sees there is to know � it is continual �And yet as we say � as one grows into their new understanding � one cannot help but be fired by their own inquisitiveness. Their intuition is their guide. Leading them on to a brighter place � and as the brightness lights the way ahead � what is presented is even more beautiful than the place one is in � that they thought could not get any more beautiful � and yet it does dear friends . On and on and on �.As one walks into the Truth of what IS � one becomes THE LIGHT that they are.
You NOW in this moment of time on your planet reside in THE LIGHT that is you at this moment of time. THIS LIGHT that is you is of a particular brightness due to the particular vibration that you are residing in upon earth within this moment. However � as you move up into the Higher vibrations the YOU that YOU ARE is able to become a brighter part of itself. Therefore it is able to be of a brighter LIGHT. It is the SAME Light yet it is �whiter� or more golden in depth. Again words fail to provide that which we desire to express.
I get what you mean � our vocabulary is a little stunted that�s all.
So� as the vibration Lightens � YOU ARE ABLE TO BE MORE OF THE TRUTH OF YOURSELF � .as you get closer to your TRUE home � the TRUE LIGHT that you are is able to shine out to a stronger degree in brilliance �
This takes place NOW � your Light is brightening upon your planet earth because of YOU. Each and everyone of you that is �getting it� � is able to bring that Light into your being from that Higher vibration ... in order for that Higher vibration to be here.
We say that it is a Higher vibration that is now filtering through, yet do you not see dear friends � that it is YOU who ARE that Higher vibration. It is the Higher part of you that as you awaken are bringing into BEING upon your planet. Therefore as we have said � YOU are making this happen. YOU are the ones through doing this very thing �bringing in your True Light � that are transforming your planet and making the change take place. Simply by BEING your Light.
When you say � �you do not know your purpose� � when some of you sit in a discontent space within yourself � try to understand, that your purpose � your entire reason of existing at this time is to BE OF LIGHT � TO BE OFJOY � because by doing that � you are fulfilling your purpose of being where you are. You are � by Being Light � bringing IN THE LIGHT and therefore doing what you came to do .Lift the planet into its Lighter disposition. That�s all there is to it. To be of joy.
Not to put a dampener on the excitement that is within you as you portray all this � as you have probably realised � from our energy at times � it just isn�t ALWAYS THAT EASY. I am in no way wishing to be negative � but there are struggles that have to be rectified and sometimes just by being plain and simple � good old fashioned humans � we are not always in a place within ourselves when we can BE in that total joy � so � if that is what we came here to do � by you and other channels reminding of this � we could � if we allowed ourselves � FEEL that we are letting the side down a little � and yet � we are just having an off day. Do you not get off days? � If you do, you might be able to see where I am coming from with this.
Dearest lady � we do not have �off days�. We that are connecting and communicating with you � Blossom Goodchild. For we understand ALL things from a HIGHER PERSPECTIVE. It is not possible for us to have lower thought vibrations for WE THAT SPEAK WITH YOU � cannot conceive of them or form them. That is not to say that we do not �pick up� on energies from those that are experiencing an �off day� � and when we do �we simply send Love to that energy � for that by far � above all else � is the most helpful thing to do.
Right now �in this moment � to whom am I speaking?
You are speaking IN LIGHT. We are not a person or people. We have only Light form.
You are speaking IN LIGHT. We are not a person or people. We have only Light form.
(that last line doubled itself � therefore I shall leave it be)
We present ourselves to YOU � because we chose to.
Do you reside on the large vessel that you have said will appear? Are you that I am speaking to NOW � part of The Federation Of Light � for I feel I have sort of been allowed to enter into HEAD OFFICE today. Your energy is so much more powerful � and I am �in awe � (another word for uncontrollable tears)
Let us say that we have no need to reside anywhere � for we as you have correctly stated our �IN CHARGE� shall we say. We are not those who are of your usual contact ... We have allowed them the day off! For we felt it was time to greet you. Those of us in THE HIGHER RANKS.
Don�t know what to say really � other than ... why? Have I done something that honours such a visit?
What would your answer be to that question?
In ALL TRUTH � I am just trying to do my best � like everyone else. Guess I got lucky! I do apologise for this EXTREME emotion � you sort of took me by surprise.
And yet � did you not in your head last night hear �you are in for a lovely surprise�?
Yes �. But it didn�t happen � so I knocked myself down � for �making things up�.
Your timing was a little awry � that was all.
I see that now. Whoa! TRULY � where does one go from here?
You keep on walking the path in which you are walking � it leads you home.
Is there anything more you want to say � I�m so sort of blown away by �your company� I�ve no idea if you have spoken much or little � or for how long?
Our purpose was to give you this nice surprise. We FEEL it has been successful.
More than you know at this time � well � you probably do � but yes, very appropriate timing and most unexpected. May I just confirm � now I am coming to my senses � that you said � you do not reside on the ship � I have the FEELING as I am writing this � that you are the OVERSEERS. So � When you say you do not reside anywhere � you are � EVERYWHERE?
Correct. Those whom you are in regular contact with are part of a HIGHER group of energy that Oversee the management of THE FEDERATION OF LIGHT � and we would put it to you � for want of a way for souls on earth to understand � that they �reside� upon the vessel � and yet they are not �contained� there. They are able to �return� to their �Truest home� �within� letting go of the form in which they present themselves to those who need them to present themselves in form. And yet � they do not NEED to be in form.
We wish you to understand that THE FEDERATION OF LIGHT � is much more than you are able to comprehend � even if we tried to tell you. Therefore we ask you to Trust � to FEEL from the deepest Truth of your hearts that we have only your greatest good within our intentions to assist. This you must find within you as YOUR TRUTH.
If you cannot � we do not �knock� you for it � for it is YOUR TRUTH that is to be found �. Not ours � if you see what we are trying to submit to you.
WE ARE LIGHT. YOU ARE LIGHT. WE ARE ALL FROM/OF THE SAME LIGHT. FOR THAT LIGHT IS ALL THERE TRULY IS. It is your choice to recognise this as Truth � or not? It is up to you dearest friends.
We only ask you to BE THE LIGHT THAT YOU ARE � and by BEING IT � you will KNOW of OUR TRUTH � Which ultimately � you will see � is YOURS.
I know that is your finishing �touch� for today. Excuse me whilst I just peel myself off of the ceiling!! Seriously � what can I say � words � words � words � they sometimes just don�t cut it do they? So � I TRUST you FELT what I was FEELING during that DIVINE INTERVENTION. That�s how it was for me. My heart was aflame! My body was bursting � and yet at the same time � I was so humbled � I crumbled!!!! Literally.
An honour � an absolute honour � Gratitude beyond gratitude. There is simply nothing more to say � yet my FEELING carries on �to you out there� for taking that time to come to me �in here�.
I sign off now � IN LOVE � to you � IN LIGHT.
FAR OUT!!! There are a few things I need to add now that today�s channelling is over. Last night I did my first public White Cloud meeting in 10 months. In the car on the way down as I was �adjusting�! I felt White Cloud was saying �You are in for a lovely surprise�. I assumned naturally that he was talking about something that would take place that evening. It was a pleasant enough evening, don�t get me wrong , yet nothing happened that blew me out of the water so to speak. There were probably about 20 or so people in attendance and I have to be honest in saying that after such a long break away � I did ponder on whether or not this is what White Cloud wants ...as to me � after 10 years � I feel we are not exactly drawing in the crowds. Don�t misunderstand me here � it is not about ego ... It is about doing what is best for the best. So � moving right along � when I tuned in to channell today � I was saying my protection blessing � during which I ask White Cloud to be my gate keeper etc � and as I did so � I had a vision scenario (for want of a better way to express � again!) of White Cloud taking my hand and as if we went inside a capsule briefly, and came out in a lift in a building � which I knew to be a large craft �although it looked like a large office building � there were many �people� on board at their desks � and White Cloud held my hand as we walked passed them. All of them smiling and yet I didn�t see any faces. A few nudged each other and a general whisper of �that�s her�. We came before a pair of VERY LARGE doors and I was brushing myself down and smartening myself up � the doors opened � White Cloud stayed behind and I walked into a room of White Light � through which I could make out some very tall rainbow coloured columns (?). I immediately KNEW I was in the presence of �BEINGS OF LIGHT�. I felt so full of Love .There was a large table in the mists of this Light and I sat at it with my lap top (der!) and said �shall we begin�
I then prepared to begin writing and considered whether or not it was appropriate to write down that which I had just experienced � I decided it was more of a personal thing � and thought better of it � yet NOW after the channelling I FEEL it makes sense to share it with you. Please understand it was all a visionary experience. I didn�t FEEL I was actually there. It was like watching a movie unfold in my mind�s eye. None the less �. The energy FELT by them when they came through � was indeed AWE some.
As I say � it was an honour and a pleasure and sort of like a confirmation for me that �All is as should be�. Thanks for �listening�.
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|The Crimea and the Black Sea were and remain an important crossroads between Europe and Asia.
The recorded history of the Crimean Peninsula, historically known as Tauris or Tauric Chersonese, begins around 500 BC when several Greek colonies were established along its coast. Crimea since that time has endured a long series of conquests and invasions.
|The modern history of Crimea began with the annexation by the Russian Empire in 1783. In 1921 the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was created. This republic was dissolved in 1945.
Since 1991 it has had the status of an Autonomous Republic within Ukraine until its recent annexation by the Russian Federation in the 2014 Crimean Crisis.
|Nearly a year after the exhibition "Crimea: Gold and Secrets From the Black Sea" wrapped up at the Allard Pierson Museum 565 rare treasures on loan from four Crimean museums remain in boxes in a storage facility, awaiting a court decision about where they should be shipped.
"Russia is attempting to appropriate valuable exhibits from Crimean museums that are currently on loan abroad," Ukraine's vice prime minister for social affairs, Oleksandr Sych, said during a news briefing.
|Construction of the Olympic venues in the Imereti Valley resulted in over a dozen archeological expeditions, and close to 400 artifacts have been handed over to the city's history museum. "The construction of the Olympic venues in Sochi over the past five years has triggered large-scale archaeological excavations previously unseen in this resort city," said Alla Guseva, Deputy Director for Research at the museum.
|In October 2013 the museum unveiled the Ancient Gold of Kuban and the Black Sea Region exhibition as part of the Cultural Olympiad's Year of Museums. This is the first exhibition to feature artifacts unearthed during the Olympic construction.
The excavations in the Imereti Valley started in the wake of the Olympic construction. Previously, the area was considered unattractive for archeological expeditions. However, the first excavations have demonstrated that the area has been populated since ancient times.
The Bosporan Kingdom was an ancient state located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula, on the shores of the Cimmerian Bosporus (now known as the Strait of Kerch).
Gold Stater - Bosporan Kingdom
|It was named after the Bosphorus, also known as Istanbul Strait, a different strait that divides Asia from Europe.
The Bosporan Kingdom was the longest surviving Roman client kingdom. It was based on the export of wheat, fish and slaves. The profit of the trade supported a class whose conspicuous wealth is still visible from the newly discovered archaeological finds.


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Okay! I had heard about this movie for awhile, and was promised that it would be pretty darn freaky, but it wasn't on DVD. Then a reader recommended it to me, I checked again and suddenly—it was! You know, you really have to keep checking back about those things. And not only on DVD, but in a spiffy special edition with about 10 minutes put back in [but NO special features]! So anyway, we see this girl in a communion dress as she holds a crucifix and the credits go on. Then, at the end of the credits, she raises the crucifix, but it's a knife! And we're off!
So Mom Catherine brings her little daughters over to this house attached to the church, where they meet the handsome Father Tom, who gives the younger girl, Karen, a crucifix. Karen, I'll tell you night now, is played by a very young Brooke Shields! Her older sister, Alice, who was played by a 19-year-old who really, REALLY looks 12, is not very happy about all the attention being lavished on her little sister, goes upstairs and put on this creepy mask, then comes back down and stands right where the older maid of the church, Mrs. Tredoni, was washing! The little terror!
Things get worse when they all go home to their fourth floor walk-up apartment with evocative painted tin ceiling. Mom sends Karen to go find Alice—who is playing in the local abandoned warehouse [this is in Paterson, New Jersey], wearing her creepy yellow rain slicker with translucent plastic mask. She jumps out at Karen, and there's a weird thing where Karen pulls off the young face mask and there is an old face mask underneath. Back home, Karen has gotten a nice white communion dress. Alice takes the veil from it, and when ordered to give it back, throws it down on the ground. This girl is a real terror! And they did a wonderful job with casting her, as she has a great mean look, which can easily switch into a scared, helpless girl expression. It blows my mind that this actress was 19. Oh, and guess what else? Her ONLY other movie credit is… wait for it… wait… waaaaiiiiitttt…. Liquid Sky. Her mother looks like a drag queen Brundleflied with Olive Oyl, and is a bit high-strung, to say the very least. And get this: the woman who plays her, Linda Miller, is the daughter of Jackie Gleason, and the mother of Jason Patric! WTF??? I guess Patric got the regressive "attractive" genes that accumulated over several generations. While we're on the topic of 'WTF???'-inspiring moments, suddenly the movie cuts to THIS:
WTF??? This man, this bald, mustachioed, morbidly obese man with a room full of cats and a giant, weeks-old piss stain in the crotch of his khaki pants [at least I HOPE they're khaki], turns out to be the landlord, but we just inexplicably cut to him for no reason long before we discover that fact. Long enough for him to eat cat food out of a can. Yeah, that's right. After that, you see THIS—and by the way, she's SINGING:
Okay, so it's communion, which a bunch of girls, including Karen, are receiving. Karen is last in line, and suddenly a little person in a yellow rain slicker and creepy translucent mask is strangling her with a church candle! She drags her back and dumps her in this wooden bench thing, then sets the whole shooting match on fire! And this is all WHILE communion is going on, right around the corner! There is a great panic scene at the church, then this woman runs back and looks in the smoldering bench, then fights her way back to where Mom is, grabs her and screams "She's dead! She's DEAD! KAREN IS DEAD! SHE'S DEAD!" all of which is accomplished with a little more relish than is, strictly speaking, appropriate. Ladies and gentlemen, please meet Aunt Annie.
Aunt Annie is the very SOUL of passive-aggression, and cannot keep her catty mouth shut under any circumstances. And let me tell you—I thought MOM looked like a drag queen… I seriously expected to look up this actress and discover that she was a man. Who knows—she may still be. Her name is Jane Lowry, and her only other credit is an ABC Afterschool Special. I am honestly not making this stuff up. Anyway, the father of the girls, Dom, who dumped the mother soon after and took up with the younger Julia, now returns. Annie is unable to restrain herself from saying "Well at least he was able to get here before they put her in the ground." Annie has an ineffectual husband and a fat daughter, Angela. Mom tells Alice and Angela to take one of the surplus cakes down to the obese landlord, so she does, taking some frosting and sucking on her finger in a highly suggestive way. Kids today! Or, okay—in 1976!
Later, Mom tells Alice to take the rent check down to the landlord, and he makes to sexually attack her. He's got her in his greedy clutches, and it looks like she's helpless, when she—the crafty little fox—reaches out and grabs one of his beloved kittens! She strangles it, tells him in no uncertain terms to LEAVE HER THE FUCK ALONE, and throws the kitten down with a nasty thud! You do NOT FUCK with Alice! Animal cruelty aside, you have got to respect this girl!
So she goes downstairs to the little shrine she keeps, which includes a candle, a picture of Father Tom [I think] in a bathing suit, and some live cockroaches. It's just the sort of wholesome, innocent thing millions of kids across the country have. Then Aunt Annie is on her way downstairs when the little person in the yellow slicker and mask jumps out and stabs her in the leg and foot with a 12-inch butcher knife. Which is way too bad, because Annie is seriously sidelined after this, and even when on has lost her verve for verbal cuntery, and we already lost little Brooke—all the interesting people are going away! I REALLY need a sequel called ALICE & ANNIE: ROAD TRIP! Anyway, Alice claims not to have done it, and Mom is totally sure she had NOTHING to do with ANYTHING, saying, rather comically, "Don't you know people believe what they want to believe?" This is a little hilarious, as it is beyond obvious that Annie is a little psycho killer—I've left out the part about her being kicked out of school for her attitude and the constant accidents that seem to surround her. Annie finally spills to the police inspector that it was Alice who attacked her, and Mom has a long, extended FREAK OUT about why she would say such a thing and what is the matter with her. If you love serious drama [not in the Masterpiece Theater sense] this movie is for YOU!
So then Alice takes a lie detector test, where the needle flies into a tizzy whenever she lies—it's very subtle—then she fixes the tester with a mean look through the two-way mirror and dumps the sensitive machine on the ground! Then she is sent to a psychologist who concludes, like everyone else, that she's bonkers. She also informs Mom that Alice is menstruating—with a bitchy "It's amazing what parents can not know about their own children." Then Mom and Dad find love again—but it's interrupted by a phone call from his new wife! So by this time I was theorizing that Alice is enacting her mother's rage against her husband, who dumped her, as well as dealing with her own lack of hunky man-figures in her life, Father Tom notwithstanding. I was thinking it's amazing that this would have followed so closely on watching In The Cut, where a daughter kills someone to psychically avenge her mother, left behind by a philandering husband. But eh—didn't turn out this way. Anyway, now Mom and Dad are accusing chubster little Angela, Annie's child, of being the killer—and she IS missing.
Well, there's still about a half hour to go, but we're going to have to stop here, because the big spoiler is too unexpected to spoil, and there's really no way to talk about much more from here without going into it. Just be aware that Alice does get another chance to unleash some nastiness, those cockroaches finally get some room to roam, and someone gets a knife in the neck in a very public place. There's lots to look forward to!
Ultimately, a smash hit, just for being so goddamned bizarre and having so many delightfully mean and nasty characters. Chief among them is obviously Alice, who is just a mean, spiteful little girl—and that is SO delightful. Then there's her shrill, oblivious mom with that crazy hair, running around saying "people only see what they want to see!" when obviously SHE'S the one who needs to yank her head out of her ass with a resounding pop—although maybe not. There's pissy, ugly, spiteful bitch Aunt Annie, and let's not forget our morbidly obsese, piss-stained little child molester downstairs. Or BROOKE SHIELDS. It's a colorful cast of characters! Then you have situations like child murder mere feet away from a massive communion congregation, sublimated fury at philandering fathers, Olympic-level passive aggression, bloody murders—and so much more! Sure ultimately it doesn't make a lot of sense, but what does these days? I only wish I was more religious, in order to get more of a buzz off of all the sacrilege happening here, but you still have time—it might just be worth converting to Catholicism JUST so you can be even MORE scandalized by this movie!
Not much more to say. This one has the intoxicating combination of a bunch of bizarre characters in a compellingly psychotic situation that actually has quite a bit of genuine creepiness to it—until, suddenly, it doesn't—and Brooke Shields! MMMmmmmm, it's like a finely-prepared gourmet meal, followed by a big bowl of macaroni and cheese.
Yes! Funny, freaky, bizarre, scary, operatic… amazing.
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Scott replied on Sat, 12/26/2015 - 10:39am
Am I the only one that felt the line about Alice's menstruation was meant to be an EXPLANATION for her horrible behavior? Especially after finding out the "big spoiler"?


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Having rambled sufficiently enough now, I'll get to my point. This all came up on TeenageWriters during a very similar Eragon bash fest as I have seen in various other avenues all over the Internet. Granted, it is not nearly as thorough or hateful as the anti-Eragon websites where people that apparently have nothing better to do with their lives sit down and read the book cover to cover, over and over again, and then resort to actually digging up statistics from ancient times to apply them scientifically to a universe that can't exist in the real world in the first place. If you can't see that as insanely absurd, then you probably shouldn't read further.
Now, one of the things that came up was a discussion of Paolini's success and the overall impression I get is that he basically sold out to the market or some such. It involved plenty of hate for the cliches and such.
I'm here to say that I would gladly sell out in much the same manner if it means that I'm going to be read and admired by fans across the world. If selling out means I get a best selling novel, or two, or three, or hell twenty, and have a following of devoted fans who, while very much as absurd as the haters, spend their lives analyzing and learning every little niche of my world, then by all means I would gladly sell out. If selling out means I get to sell 8 million books and get a magnificent opportunity to see my work put on the big screen, then you better believe I would jump on that opportunity. My dream is to be a published writer and someone who can make a living as a writer. But if selling out means I get to write something I enjoy, that others enjoy, and makes me successful, then I am more than willing to do that.
And for the record, this is not directed at any individual, but something that has been swimming around in my head ever since I saw that anti-eragon site on the net. I've been thinking of writing this rant for some time now, and the TW thread pretty much gave me the spark to do it. A further note, I doubt any of the members on TW actually did the extensive reading as the anti-eragon sites have, but likely took much of their information from such avenues. I don't believe anyone at TW would waste that kind of time because I get the impression that most of them have adequate lives and can leave a book they dislike well enough alone in the end.
Okay, now that is all.


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This epidemic, it is a rebellion. It is like a life-eating fungus (my words). This spirit of complaining.
We complain about the weather.
We complain about the price of gas.
We complain about the government.
We complain about our employment.
We complain about the perceived lack of funds.
Should I go on? He did. The Bread-bearer this morning bringing us our food from God.
He had a list a mile long...or so it seemed.
They headed toward death as a society because ~what did they fail at first? Giving glory and thanks to God. Romans 1:21
Then the Bread-bearer gave us the Always. Everything. Nothing verses: Philippians 2:13-14 * Colossians 1:3 * Colossians 1:12 * Colossians 2:6-7 * Colossians 3:15-17 * Colossians 4:2 * (Do you see a Colossians Theme?)
And look at this!!! Ephesians 5:20
And this one: 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Be joyful ALWAYS. Pray CONTINUALLY. Give thanks in ALL circumstances.
And I thought, "I know all this!" I grumbled about the cold and the length of winter far too often in the last week. Instead I should have given thanks for my warm home, clothing, bed, car... Then I grumbled about having too much to do when I should have given thanks for my ability to do the things on my agenda. The time, the inclination!
What can we do about all the negatives around us? Look up. Look out. Look beyond. We need God.
We need to acknowledge Him in all things. Trust Him with everything. Proverbs 3:5-6 He, the I AM.
The problem is that when we respond to difficult circumstances we tend to see the negatives because we know we are weak creatures limited in power.
The solution is acknowledging that. And more: Acknowledging that we need God.
And then leaning into the Power Source (the Holy Spirit of God) to enable us to rise above the harsh realities of this world in to the Glorious realities of the one to come. We....you and me...walk by faith and not by sight.
Join me in staking a flag in the ground now and determine by the grace of God to turn every complaint into voicing thanks! Tomorrow is a new day! A new week! A clean slate to bring joy instead of heaviness into life. Lets live it!


text: On date Sunday 2012-07-08 17:46:36 -0600, Michael Bradshaw encoded: > *Disclaimer*: There are a few differences in punctuation and grammar > rules between British and American English (particularly between ',' > and ';'). Seeing as SOCIS is for the European Space Agency, I'm not > 100% sure if British or American rules will be followed in this. I'm > going to comment assuming American rules. [...] > >* Disappearing student (mandatory): What is your plan for dealing with > > a disappearing student? > > > >We will try to keep scheduled contact with students during > >qualification tasks to make sure they are reliable before they are > >accepted. Also we'll make sure that we have different ways to reach > >out each student. We'll also urge the student to provide periodical > > I'm not sure exactly what was meant by "reach out each student." Was > it "reach out to each student" or "reach each student?" Changed to "get in contact with him/her...". > >reports in order to track their progress. > > > >In case of a disappearing student, we'll try to get in communication > > "get in communication" sounds funny (it's more idiomatic to say "get > in touch"). I'd say "get in touch" or "communicate" or something. Yes, changed to "get in touch". [...] > Side note: I don't know what space agencies use when archiving > multimedia (or how much of their multimedia is archived vs how much > raw data is archived), but it may be worth mentioning at some point > possibly? Added note in the space relevance section: |By participating in SOCIS, FFmpeg may extend its capabilities and |focus even more on robustness/reliability features, making it the ideal |candidate for multimedia/communication tasks related to |mission-critical space missions, and for archiving multimedia content |gathered during such missions. > Thanks for putting this together! Thanks for the review! -- FFmpeg = Fostering and Free Marvellous Powered Ecletic Guide -------------- next part -------------- * Project description (mandatory) - Describe in a few word your open-source project, why you would like to participate to SOCIS and what you hope to gain by participating. FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec - a leading audio/video codec library. FFmpeg is one of the most ubiquitous multimedia frameworks in the FLOSS world, is used as the multimedia engine for a significant part of multimedia applications, and provides the back-end of possibly most Internet-based multimedia transcoding services. FFmpeg strives at being the *universal* multimedia tool, implementing all possible multimedia formats (even the most obscure fringe formats), and at being *complete*, providing full fledged support for all multimedia operations, relying on external projects when it makes sense. * Space relevance (mandatory): Describe your project's connection with space activities. Communication is a key aspect in space programs; being able to communicate effectively and reliably, even in extreme conditions, is a fundamental prerequisite for mission critical tasks. FFmpeg is highly focused on providing the most reliable and robust multimedia support possible, and a special emphasis is given on optimization issues, making it especially suited for computing environments with strict memory and power requirements. By participating in SOCIS, FFmpeg may extend its capabilities and focus even more on robustness/reliability features, making it the ideal candidate for multimedia/communication tasks related to mission-critical space missions, and for archiving multimedia content gathered during such missions. In addition to this, the use of multimedia to demonstrate the work of ESA and other space organizations to the public is also of increasing importance. Free tools like FFmpeg allow space organizations to create multimedia at a low cost and distribute content on a wide range of platforms. Improving FFmpeg also means improving the large panel of applications using it, and the overall FLOSS multimedia ecosystem. * SOCIS ideas page (mandatory): Address of the webpage describing your project's development ideas for the SOCIS program http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=FFmpeg_Summer_Of_Code_In_Space_2012 * Criteria for selecting mentors (mandatory): Describe here how your organization is planning to select and recruit the mentors for the various projects proposed. Mentors will be selected on the base of availability and qualification. Mentors propose themselves based on their expertise in the domain area for the mentored tasks and on their skill to deal with students/people. Mentors are usually veteran developers who delivered significant contributions to the project and who deeply know the community and the project itself. On the other hand there is no need for the self-elected mentor to be a member of the FFmpeg community, provided that he/she can prove sufficient technical knowledge for the task that he/she wishes to mentor. * Disappearing mentor (mandatory): What is your plan for dealing with a disappearing mentor? We'll try to assign a backup mentor to each task. The SOCIS admin will take the responsibility to act as backup mentor in case the appointed mentor will disappear during the project. Finally, we rely on the developers community to help the student to accomplish the given task, in addition to the help provided by the appointed mentor. Since students will be urged to join irc, they will likely get help from other developers, even if the mentor is not available. We will also assign a designated backup administrator, which will act as administrator in case the primary administrator will disappear or will be unable to follow the project for whatever reasons. * Disappearing student (mandatory): What is your plan for dealing with a disappearing student? We will try to keep scheduled contact with students during qualification tasks to make sure they are reliable before they are accepted. Also we'll make sure that we have different ways to get in contact with each student. We'll also urge the student to provide periodical reports in order to track their progress. In case of a disappearing student, we'll try to get in touch with him/her using all the possible channels at our disposal, and in case the student can't be reached within a reasonable amount of time, we'll declare his/her task failed. * Interaction with students during and after the program (mandatory) We'll recommend students to idle on IRC and we'll request them to read and possibly participate in discussions on the main development mailing-list. On the other hand we'll let the students choose the communication means which better suit them (email, chat, direct voice call or whatever, public or private communication as agreed with the mentor). We will also try to create a friendly environment where the students can freely participate and where they can find support from the community. In order to avoid misunderstandings and miscommunication with the overall community we'll rely on personal communication between student and mentor in order to make the student aware of the "culture" and of the community implicit rules. We hope the students will stay around after the task termination on the ground that they will feel comfortable with the project and will have genuine interest in continuing their effort with it.


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