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Friday, 26 September 2008
Sleepless In A Country Town
The following evening, student son had arranged to go out with some of his friends. They were travelling by 'bus into the nearest city, a journey of about 13 miles, to visit a couple of clubs. When I went to bed that night, my son still hadn't returned from his evening out, but I wasn't too worried, as he had told me that he and his friends expected to be too late to catch the last 'bus, so intended to return by taxi.
I couldn't sleep, because I had already fallen asleep on the settee downstairs, during the evening, so I read, until I felt tired. Every time I tried to lie down and sleep, however, I found that I couldn't settle and I didn't finally sleep until my third attempt. After a couple of hours, I woke up and went into student son's bedroom to check his bed, but it was still empty. It was 3 am and I began to conjure up pictures of student son lying alone, in the gutter, in some dark side street. He had spent the night away from home, without letting me know, on 2 other occasions and each time, he had stayed with the same friend. I reassured myself that, once again, he would be staying at his friend's house.
About 2 hours later, I woke again and checked student son's bed. He was still missing. I checked the 'phones for messages or texts, but found nothing. By this time, I imagined that student son had probably been run over, whilst lying alone, in the gutter, in the same dark side street. Alternatively, I imagined him telling me the next day, that I had been silly for worrying about him, when he had only been at his friend's house.
At 7 am, I woke again, realised that student son still hadn't come home and imagined him being rescued from the gutter, in the dark side street, by 2 paramedics and then being rushed to Accident and Emergency, in an ambulance, with the siren wailing. I told myself not to be silly. My 3 sons had each worried me on the odd occasion, by staying out late, or not coming home at all. Each time, I had been concerned in case something had happened to them, but my fears had always proved unfounded.
At 8 am, I texted student son, asked him where he was and told him that his eldest brother was coming to lunch, with his girlfriend, so that they could see him before he went back to university. At 10 am, I texted again and asked if he was okay. I knew that if he had been admitted into hospital, I would have been contacted by now, so I was beginning to feel annoyed about being ignored by him.
I was in the bathroom at about 10.30 am, when I heard the front door open and then I heard student son's voice. I sighed with relief, realising that he must have been at his friend's house, after all, and he had obviously just walked home from there.
I went out onto the landing, leaning over the rail, at the top of the stairs, just in time to see my son taking off his t-shirt. I was puzzled by the fact that he had several round stickers on his chest and a sticking plaster in the crook of his right elbow. He glanced up at me, suddenly, and said 'Guess who spent the night in A and E, then?'
24 comments:
- softinthehead said...
I could so relate this post MOB, its silly because when they are away from home, ignorance is bliss!! I remember one morning waking up and son hadn't returned home and just as my husband and I were reassuring ourselves that no news was good news, the phone rang - it was son asking me to come and pick him up from the hospital, he hadn't called before because he couldn't remember the phone number as we had recently moved!!!
- 27 September 2008 at 00:36
- Mean Mom said...
Obviously, I understand how upsetting it must have been, for you, at the time, but I had to smile at your comment. Lucky for you, then, that you'd moved, otherwise you would have had a trip to the hospital, in the middle of the night. ;0)
Son was OK, wasn't he?
- 27 September 2008 at 00:52
- softinthehead said...
Yes he was and yours also I hope! Mean Mom sorry for mistaken identity ! :)
- 27 September 2008 at 02:33
- Maggie May said...
Mean mom, this post takes me back to many a sleepless night, worrying about my "wayward" son! Most nights he did show up eventually, some times a bit worse for wear! Once I got the dreaded phone call at 6.30 am from our local hospital. He had had a serious motorbike accident & although I didn't realize it then, it nearly cost him his leg. Thank goodness for bone grafts!
Would I go back to those times again? NO!!!!!!!!
- 27 September 2008 at 07:28
- Mean Mom said...
softinthehead - Sorry I forgot to address my previous comment to you. Luckily, you were first to comment. Glad your son was OK. Yes, student son is OK, too - just a bit DIM, apparently. Will explain all. Not to worry about mistaken identity. I could also answer to that title, at times!
maggie may - That sounds horrendous! My eldest son also rides a motorbike. Have you heard the one about A & E staff calling motorbike riders 'donors'? I sometimes think that my 3 sons take a perverse pleasure in worrying me out of my mind.
Your son was lucky, from the sound of it. When I worked in hospital Admin, there was a young lad on one of the wards, who had just lost his second leg, because of an accident. They all come off their bikes, sooner or later and at least once, as far as I can gather!
- 27 September 2008 at 10:45
- Suburbia said...
Oh no! I hope he's ok. I am dread ing this part of growing up. Mine are safley tucked in every night still. I'll sleep and enjoy it while I can!
- 27 September 2008 at 11:04
- Mean Mom said...
suburbia - Yes! You think that they are a worry, at times, when they are young, but, at least, you still have an element of control. Student son is 19 and seems to have a cavalier attitude towards his own safety. He is OK. His friends looked after him, fortunately. I am working on the next post, which will give an explanation.
- 27 September 2008 at 12:09
- Mignon said...
OK Im guessing A&E there is like ER here in US. (Emergency Room). I always start to panick when my Bee does not respond promptly to my call or texts. Darn kids!
- 27 September 2008 at 19:12
- A Mother's Place is in the Wrong said...
Oh dear Mean Mom, what a follow up to your last Post! Isn't it typical that something should happen like that. I do hope your Son is OK now? I still do the same worrying, lying awake etc, and my Son is in London so there's nothing I could do anyway. It's in the wee small hours that all the worries come out of the woodwork.
M xx
- 27 September 2008 at 21:12
- Mean Mom said...
mignon - Yes, you're right. Accident and Emergency. It is so worrying, when they don't reply to messsages etc. You know that it is more likely that they are OK, rather than not, but it doesn't stop your imagination working overtime!
A mother's place - Yes, son is OK, thanks. You're right, of course. Everything seems so much worse in the middle of the night. For me, it's something to do with the darkness.
- 27 September 2008 at 22:40
- Swearing Mother said...
Oh don't, it reminds me of so many sleepless nights I've had over the years and still do.
Can't even tell you about some of them, they still make my stomach clench.
He was obviously OK, bet you wanted to thump him!
- 28 September 2008 at 00:10
- Mean Mom said...
swearing mother - Teenagers (and sometimes, even twenty somethings) don't understand why anyone should worry about them. After all, they are immortal and nothing will ever happen to them. The concept of 'consequences' is totally alien to them.
Student son seems to have a total disregard for his health and safety and he is studying to be a nurse!!!
- 28 September 2008 at 00:37
- auntiegwen said...
Your last comment made me smile. I too was a student nurse, we always had a healthy disregard for our well being
but I've survived ! x
- 28 September 2008 at 21:37
- Mean Mom said...
auntiegwen - Perhaps there is some hope for him, then!!
- 28 September 2008 at 22:54
- Robin said...
Thanks for the translation. How dare he not think to call, why if I was there I'd break his arm, WAIT is that what the plaster on his arm means? (I need help understanding the rest.)
I am glad everyone is safe.
- 28 September 2008 at 23:40
- Mean Mom said...
robin - I'm not sure what your word is for a plaster. A Band Aid, maybe? The hospital had taken some blood, anyway, and it was to cover the site, to keep it clean. I keep forgetting that not everyone lives in this country!
- 28 September 2008 at 23:52
- Rose said...
I can so relate to this; it's especially hard when they go away to college, because they think they're independent--and we want to treat them that way--but they don't realize we still worry about them.
My husband always said, "Well, if he was in the hospital, we would have heard by now." Your story just proves that we're right to worry! Glad your son is ok.
- 29 September 2008 at 02:37
- Mean Mom said...
rose - When I was 19, I thought that I was grown up. Now that I'm 55, I doubt that it will ever happen.
I've only just remembered that, when I was about his age, I stayed out 3 or 4 nights myself. Rebelling, I suppose. Trying to prove that I was old enough to do whatever I wanted. Oh, dear. It's OK as long as it doesn't develop into a habit.
Yes, the irony of it all. For once, based on past experience, I had convinced myself that he was OK and then it turned out that he hadn't been!!
- 29 September 2008 at 09:00
- Robin said...
Mean Mom, you are teaching me a second language. Thanks.
- 30 September 2008 at 18:42
- Mean Mom said...
robin - It's a pleasure!
- 1 October 2008 at 13:36
- blogthatmama said...
I hope you gave him a good telling off and were a truly Mean Mom! Looking forward to the next post, if not the next 10 years!! Blogthatmamax
- 1 October 2008 at 19:47
- Mean Mom said...
blogthatmama - He did have a telling off. I think that he's had more stern words from us, since he's been a student, than he had when he was living at home. He's obviously been waiting for his opportunity to misbehave!
- 1 October 2008 at 22:44
- merry weather said...
I've been catching up MM. I am so pleased you finally escaped from the tower - and with such panache...!
Reading your son tales, I'm smiling and wincing. A night in A and E, dear God!
I have all this anxiety yet to come you see. I'm trying to imagine this empty time you describe so vivdly. Our house now is so full of boys, shouts, socks and sweat...
Beautifully done MM.
- 18 October 2008 at 22:40
- Mean Mom said...
merry weather - Thanks. Yes, I'm trying to act as a bit of a warning to those of you with younger families. It's mostly good fun having a house full of people and noise and you don't imagine it ever coming to an end. Then one day, it does, and somehow you feel as if you should have enjoyed it more. (We've been a bit unfortunate, because our 3 sons have disappeared more or less all at the same time.)
I'm getting used to the situation, now, though. It was just a bit of a shock at first.
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Not since Donna Karan has there been such an open, clear personality behind a brand in women's ready-to-wear, says Anna Wintour. Affirmation has come in several forms: prominent placement on Bergdorf Goodman's third floor, right near Chloé, Marni, and Balenciaga; and the CFDA's womenswear designer of the year award last June.
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Vera Wang considers her own style very edgy. She refers regularly to a pantheon of designers with whom she identifies: Comme des Garçons, Ann Demeulemeesterdesigners who work in dark colors with deliberately offbeat shapes, designers as far from the frothy fantasy of a wedding day as possible.
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You thought you were meeting a designer, says Vera Wang. She's barefoot in the full-floor living room of her Park Avenue apartment, stuffing a Rice Krispies Treat in her mouth. The room is so ornateall yellow and gold, with a coordinating Monet on the wallthat it looks more like a grandly named suite in a very, very expensive hotel than a home, and Wang, 56 years old but jiggle-free in a pair of tight black leggings, resembles no one so much as Eloise, calling out to her housekeeper for her shearling coat. I'm actually a little clown, she says, grabbing the leggings in both hands and yanking them upward. Her daughter has come home, but Wang doesn't notice. Are the girls here? Wang asks her housekeeper. They are, is the answer. Okay, Wang says, and she's off.

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The topic of Standards Based Grading is a huge one. It is much larger than we can tackle in a single newsletter, document or parent meeting. My intention is to provide you with brief updates throughout the year to help you better understand SBG, our professional development activities, and our progress towards full implementation.
Thank you to the parents that attend the first of six parent meetings to better inform you on grading practices at Solon High School. Here is a link to the district resources page. A video of the parent meeting sessions will be shared on the district resource page next week.
Also, here is a link to the presentation that was shown during the parent meeting.
To begin with, let's take a step backwards and look at the traditional grading system to see how it compares with Standards Based Grading in philosophy:
Traditional Grading System
Standards-Based Grading System
1. Based on assessment methods (quizzes, tests, homework, projects, etc.). One grade/entry is given per assessment.
2. Assessments are based on a percentage system. Criteria for success may be unclear.
3. Use an uncertain mix of assessment, achievement, effort and behavior to determine the final grade. May use late penalties and extra credit.
4. Everything goes in the grade book - regardless of purpose.
5. Include every score, regardless of when it was collected. Assessments record the average - not the best - work.
1. Based on learning goals and performance standards. One grade/entry is given per learning goal.
2. Standards are criterion or proficiency-based. Criteria and targets are made available to students ahead of time.
3. Measures achievement only OR separates achievement from effort/behavior. No penalties or extra credit given.
4. Selected assessments (tests, quizzes, projects, etc.) are used for grading purposes.
5. Emphasize the most recent evidence of learning when grading.
Adapted from O'Connor K (2002). How to Grade for Learning: Linking grades to standards (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
As we began our studies, we found that the philosophy of SBG matched nicely with our belief in a system that focused on student learning and appropriately reporting that learning.
Earlier in the year I shared the five grading guidelines, which teachers would begin implementing this fall.
- Entries in the grade book that count towards the final grade will be limited to course or grade level standards.
- Extra credit will not be given at any time.
- Students will be allowed multiple opportunities to demonstrate their understanding of classroom standards in various ways. Retakes and revisions will be allowed.
- Teachers will determine grade book entries by considering multiple points of data emphasizing the most recent data and provide evidence to support their determination.
- Students will be provided multiple opportunities to practice standards independently through homework or other class work. Practice assignments and activities will be consistent with classroom standards for the purpose of providing feedback. Practice assignments, including homework, will not be included as part of the final grade.
Throughout this school year, professional development will be provided for staff to insure that these guidelines are understood and implemented. By the 4th quarter, teachers will have fully implemented SBG, according to the five guidelines, in at least one of their classes. While full implementation of Standards Based Grading is not expected until the 2013-14 school year, many of our teachers began using SBG in all of their classes from the start of the school year.
An important step in our transition is to have the majority of staff fully implementing the SBG guidelines. While I've been impressed with the number of staff that jumped in with both feet, there is still much learning ahead for all of us. We are still working on more clearly defining the guidelines - to determine what fits and what does not . We are still working on developing consistent classroom practices, not only across the building or grade level, but also within an individual classroom.
Of the many challenges we face with our transition, perhaps the greatest is how to best report student learning to you, the parents, as well as the students themselves. You'll notice most teachers using a 4 point scale in a rubric format. This works well for a students' understanding of his or her progress on a given learning target, or standard. This is an adjustment for parents, however, who are more familiar with traditional grading and homework/classwork grading.
We certainly welcome any questions you may have regarding Standards Based Grading. In addition to your child's classroom teacher, please feel free to contact Matt Townsley, Director of Instruction, or myself, with any questions you may have. Again, we are committed to providing you timely updates throughout the year as we continue on our journey.


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Watermelon salad! Summer watercolor painting collab with Apiece Apart, recipe by chef/owner Jean Adamson of Vinegar Hill House.Read More
23K Gold Leaf for Walter Foods, Williamsburg BK /
Check out this rad time-lapse video of yours truly captured by longtime (7+years) Walter Foods regular Kirk Balden. A tremendous thank you to him for literally spending hours filming this. He time-lapsed my process of hand lettering & water gilding 23k gold at the Williamsburg BK restaurant, Walter Foods. The Mercow looks fabulous!
VHH Foods Dumbo Brooklyn /
VHH Foods & Vinegar Hill House
Red ribbons & logo watercolors for Vinegar Hill House. Happy Holidays!
December is upon us and VHH commissioned me to create custom work to ring in the season!
VHH Foods is an all day cafe in DUMBO with yummy takeaway. They make delicious food that I always want to eat by Jean Adamson. Paired with an incredible view of the Manhattan skyline, waterviews & Jane's Carousel, it's an adventure worth having.
Quality food without the formality of fine dining.
Friend of Farmers~Chef Chase Elder /
Custom branding for Friend of Farmers! Located in Ojai, California.
"Chase Elder is a chef who creates meals that make you feel good about eating, and designs personalized menus to meet all your dietary needs and desires. Her food philosophy is pure, minimally processed food that is thoughtfully prepared at peak season when the plants can truly shine. she finds great benefits in using local, organic, and sustainable product, and believes in the quality of our food directly effecting our health. she is, a friend of farmers."
Let them cook for you at home, for a special event, or teach a class!
Artist portrait~Randy Ryandi /
Photographer Randy Ryandi recently shot my portrait for his artists series. Using a Hasselblad & real black and white film, he graced my Bed-stuy studio with his presence. He's a delight. Thank you Randy, it was a pleasure.
See more of his work on his website http://randyryandi.com/. He's not on Instagram - its too mainstream ;)
Mango! Mango! Mango! /
Ode to a family recipe~
Champagne Mangoes are my favorite. It was a delight to paint & collage these golden fruits. This family recipe was handed down from mother to daughter. Vivid colors of India enliven ingredients to compose this mouthwatering accompaniment. This is why I love what I do!
Bell & Basket Logo Collaboration /
The food blog, Bell & Basket was created by Michelle Berg. As the daughter of a chef and restaurateur, her love for cooking and NYC's food culture runs deep. She channels her obsession for cooking, baking and traveling into Bell & Basket. Her love for the creative process is reflected from "script to screen", as she tests, tastes and writes her way to delicious.
I recently has the pleasure to collaborate with her as she relaunched her blog. She was looking for a unique logo that aptly reflected the spirit of her endeavor. I asked for some inspiration shots. Photographer Colin Berg captured the essence of Michelle, as she filled her bike basket with all of the things that matter–a baguette, tulips, an antique frame, scallions and a few acorn squashes for good measure.
A logo was born! It was a delight to work with her. Get hungry & check out her site! www.bellandbasket.com
Wowzer! I'm in Manrepeller! /
Celebrating 20+ years of waitressing! The time flew... I'm featured as one of the 5 servers in Man Repeller. Telling tales from my times at Aquagrill, Diner, Il Buco, Vinegar Hill House & currently Cherry Point. Pretty wild to reflect on all those years.
Thanks to Haley Nahman for bringing all the stories together & Man Repeller for the opportunity to tell my tales. Big thanks to photographer Patrice Helmar for capturing me at Cherry Point.
By Their Fruits~$60K for Planned Parenthood! /
WE DID IT!!! Together we raised more than $60K for Planned Parenthood. This was possible because of YOU. Thank you for donating, bidding, and sharing. This is a true representation of what we're capable of when we come together for a common cause.
I had the pleasure to be included with a number of incredible women artists in By Their Fruits.
This auction was a nonprofit coalition of female artists in support of women's reproductive rights. This auction featured works of electrifying talent and extraordinary creativity by the likes of Ellen von Unwerth, Pamela Hanson, Andrea Gentl, and more. Proceeds go directly to support the imperative work of Planned Parenthood.
Huzzah! A Cherry Point Restaurant Recipe Collaboration~ /
Illustration by: Abbie Zuidema
Hey all!
Just submitted this recipe to :They Draw & Cook
Super nice people and a very cool thing to be involved with.
Nate Padavick and Salli S. Swindell are a brother/sister design and illustration team known as Studio SSS. They have created hundreds of magazine and book illustrations, thousands of greeting card designs, and, of course, many super tasty illustrated recipes!
Here is the illustrated recipe and the description. THIS is what I want to do. I love food so.
Recipe by: Julian Calcott & Ed Szymanski
This recipe was inspired by Cherry Point Restaurant, a bright star in Brooklyn newcomer eateries. Dreamed up by Julian Calcott & Ed Szymanski of Cherry Point, this salad is deceivingly "simple". It was a delight to illustrate all the elements of taste that make up this lips smacking dish.
TDAC make books with many of the submitted illustrations, which informs the layout of the recipe. Imagine a gutter in the middle of the page for a book. My map of Montauk was in their book last year of maps, so I know the routine. You can buy it on Amazon HERE.
I am excited to make more recipe illustrations with favorite chefs! More to come . . .
THIS Thursday, July 28th! Picture Farm Gallery Benefit for the South African! /
Friends & Family,
Mark Beukes, aka the South African, was diagnosed with MDS, Myelodysplastic Syndromes, and will need a Bone Marrow Transplant. Yes, this is very serious; but it can be cured with a successful bone marrow transplant and a lot of will power. A bone marrow transplant is expensive and has a long recovery period (usually a full year) which is why a fund has been created to raise money and support to help cover some of his medical treatment and living expenses. Click to learn more & contribute to the fund.
THIS Thursday, July 28th, Picture Farm Gallery will be hosting an art auction to benefit Mark Beukes. There will be an amazing array of art on offer, over 30 local and international artists. Preview & bid on art before Thursday.
My contribution was a custom map of South Africa, which is where Mark is from, also why we call him the "South African". I teamed up with Mark Firth to come up with some significant spots and memories. They hung out in the Northern suburbs in Sandton and Rosebank, near Johannesburg, but made regular forays into Hillbrow for the night clubs. Mark and Mark would meet at 2 am at the Hard Rock Cafe after their shifts. South African, as we all call him, attended Wits University, or University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Those years were spent working, smoking pot, and drinking Castle Lager to the album, Cold Fact, by Rodriguez. One can only imagine the kind of mischief those two must have gotten into back in the day! Ihope that this map celebrates that moment in time, and the South African, before we even met him. To this day I can't hear Rodriguez, and not be magically transported back to my Diner days in 2001, and the South African leaning on the bar.
Lovebirds-Happy May! /
I love this painting.
Extreme Kids & Crew Gala Commission /
Donate to dance!
When you give to Extreme Kids & Crew you get invited to the Felix Award Gala! Extreme Kids & Crew is a welcoming community center where children with disABILITIES, their friends, and their families, socialize, create and play. Together families share resources, stories, tears, and laughter while children play and take part in inclusive arts programming that is open to all members of the family.
May 19th ~ Give to the campaign & GO to the Gala!
Extreme Kids and & Crew enlisted me to design and paint the invitation & banner for the Felix Award Gala. It was a pleasure to collaborate with them. I can't wait for the Gala!!
Sideman Records-Sign Painting Gig /
Video of Abbie Zuidema, watercolor artist, hand lettering Sideman Records Signage on glass, in Fort Greene Brooklyn to jazz music.Read More
STARBUCKS~Huge India Ink watercolor Maps! /
Starbucks ~ Thrilling news!!!
Biggest project to date!!
Starbucks enlisted me to paint 3 large scale maps of coffee growing regions: Asia/Pacific, Africa and Indonesia. These large scale watercolor maps are 3 x 3 feet big.
Each letter, and all the writing on these map was done by my hand. Each stroke of the pen reflects who I am as an artist. As a result, the lettering is highly expressive with a distinctly unique style.
The Sumatran tiger was completed using Inkblot technique, creating the markings on the coat and face. Inkblot creates an expressive uncontrolled mark. It's incredibly laborious but well worth the effort, resulting in deep, rich, expressive lines. This technique was the finishing touch on all the maps created for Starbucks.
The maps will be installed in Starbucks across the country.
{Details of these paintings can be seen at abbiezuidema.com}
They Draw and Travel-100 maps & a brand new book! /
"In 2011, the brother-and-sister design duo of Nate Padavick and Salli Swindell founded the website They Draw & Travel (www.theydrawandtravel.com). Today, it is the internet's largest collection of illustrated maps created by artists from around the world.
This book contains 100 illustrated maps of places in the United States that were drawn by the fine artists, professional illustrators and amateur doodlers who make up the very creative community on They Draw & Travel. The illustrated maps in this book provide inspiration on many levels.
From a purely artistic standpoint, the variety of illustration styles is amazing. From the cool linework of James Gulliver Hancock and the painterly style of Abbie Zuidema to the sharp graphics of Nate Padavick and the cuteness of Aunyarat Watanabe, the illustrations in this book are a great reference for exceptional style and talent.
As a travelogue, these maps provide a fresh way to look at and learn about a particular place: through the eyes of an artist. Do you know where to go for a really great bike ride in Vermont? Did you know there are 36 places to eat cashew chicken in the town of Springfield, Missouri? Or, how about all the great things to do with kids in Los Angeles? This book takes armchair travel to a whole new artistic level!"
(thank you Nate Padavick, I couldn't have said it better myself!)
Get your copy on Amazon.com! Perfect for a holiday gift!
Neil Young-Flash back Friday /
Back in 2005, I was asked by Williamsburg Diner regular Justin Lowe to contribute a painting to a group show at Printed Matter in Manhattan. The inspiration was Neil Young's patterned liner notes from the album "On the Beach". I took the pattern of the liner notes, and overlaid a portrait of cream being poured into the baked eggs. The "baked eggs" were a play on words and reference to the time the albums was made, 1974. It was the 70's and lots of people were getting "baked". Eggs are just plain wholesome & part of the fabric of our diet, as is the cream being poured into the dish. So it created a visual juxtapose of that moment of time in history. And I listened to a lot of Neal Young which is always good. I still love this painting.
"Baked Eggs", 12x12", Watercolor, English Breakfast Tea, Gesso, India Ink on Fabriano Paper, 2005
Westjet - a Canadian commission honoring a brother. /
My friend Joelle Hann asked me to paint a very special commission. It was a thank you map for Westjet Airlines. They flew her for 16 months unlimited from New York City to Canada. So that she could be with her brother and his family while he underwent chemo. It would also commemorate that special window of time they shared.
"Yesterday Bill, my brother, would have turned 40. This morning I landed in Vancouver to spend a week with his wife, and kids Sammie, 7, and Alex, 8.
This time I bring with me my "thank you" gift for WestJet, the company Bill flew for, who very generously--incredibly, really--flew me from New York to Victoria as often as I needed while Bill was sick. That's 16 months of flights. They never said no. In fact, they said there is no limit.
They are directly responsible for all the extra time I got with Bill. Because of them I got to know Bill again as an adult. I got to know his wife and kids. West Jet was key in bringing my brother and me together again before he passed. It is a gift I can't repay.
But, I offer this token: an original watercolor painting by the talented Brooklyn artist Abbie Zuidema. A map showing the flight routes I took for those 16 months, one of Bill's favorite quotes, a note of thanks, and the things we loved in both places: the Olympic mountains in the west, the Williamsburg bridge in the east. To WestJet, thank you. (And thank you, Abbie J. Zuidema for the love you put into this project.) I've brought the painting to show my family, and then it's going on to WestJet offices in Calgary."
-Joelle Hann
This map chronicled a life journey. We all must face seemingly impossible challenges in our lives, and the passing of a loved one is something we all must experience. This map was a testament to the grace of leaning into the challenges that life gives us. It's about survival and abundance, even in the darkest moments. As I was making this commission, I too was struggling with a loss I didn't think I could bear. It was incredible to take part in documenting something so affirming. Thank you Joelle for asking me to be a part of this.
Isness~a cinematic graphic novel /
Stavit Allweis, asked me to contribute illustrations for her graphic novel, Isness.
It's a bold, uninhibited graphic novel about a post-apocalyptic family, integrating live action photos with detail-drenched miniature environments.
She has dedicated years of her life to chronically working this project. It's HUGE. I paid a visit to her studio & saw the diorama in real life. The details are astounding! She makes miniature sets, then photographically shoots them, then adds the actors into each scene-there are so many facets to each of environments. It was inspiring.
The watercolors that follow are to be placed within the novel, as illustrations. They were a treat to make. Thank you Stavit!
You can learn more about this epic project at: www.facebook.com/sallweis and www.countercomics.com
Holiday Market Sale~December 13th & 14th! Come & visit! /
Next weekend! SATURDAY & SUNDAY I will be selling prints & cards at Hillside Café in Vinegar Hill, BK. Come & see me! I am thrilled to be sharing space with Fox Fodder Farm & Vinegar Hill House!!!


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... That a fresh egg will sink in water and that a stale egg will float?
Egg shells are porous. Thus, over a length of time, more air will be absorbed into the eggs. Older eggs will have more air in them. Fresh eggs will have less air in them.
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text: This oriental form of massage uses Thai herbal stamps and aromatic oils. This exclusive full-body massage is extremely wholesome for body and soul. The back and shoulders are massaged with warm herbal stamps. This is followed by a relaxing oil massage of the back, the head and, lastly, the feet.


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Boy was I glad to have my feet on planet Earth! I was even more happy to be seeing Christopher and Kara after being apart for 2 weeks. I was bawling like a baby coming down the escalator to baggage claim where they and my family were waiting for us, and I was so full of anticipation for them to finally be able to see Meighan face to face and skin to skin!
Once we were home the kids had a great time playing. I love the pictures of them getting to know one another. Ken and I loved being able to have some one on one time with Meighan, and she really deserved and needed that time with us, too. It is absolutely priceless seeing Christopher and Kara wrap their hearts around their little sister.
Thanks for letting me remember...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Remembering Our First Night as a Family of Five
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Friday, September 26, 2008
Favorite Friday Fotos
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
Our God is Miraculous
I am ready to leave for work, but thought I would hop over to www.roomforatleastonemore.blogspot.com and see what was happening. So many have been praying for this family and Susannah. I'm in tears now a I see the hand of God has indeed interveened and Susannah is getting better and is one step closer to home!
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Friday, September 19, 2008
Some Chuck E Cheese's Fun
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Attacking the Ball
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Friday Nite Fun
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Sweet Baby Girl and her Dada
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Do you think she's an animal lover?
Yesterday we were outside for a bit when along came two of our neighbor's kittens. They are quite affectionate, and Meighan was pouring some of her own sugar on them- as you can see! They even played fetch with some black walnuts or "balls" according to Meighan. What she didn't like was when they climbed up on her slide and tried to push her bubble mower...the gloves came off and love turned to...well, not love!
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Urgent Prayers Needed
Yesterday I learned of a family that was about to meet their little one for the first time, for that much anticipated Gotcha Day, only to find out their little one would not be delivered to them in a civil affairs office, but rather, in a hospital room. I do not know this family. I have only read about them and their daughter Susannah on their blog. One thing I do know about them is they are a member of ther family of Christ and that connects us! They are begging God for a miracle. I am asking anyone who reads this to keep this family in prayer~ for God to intervene in time and space to bring healing to Susannah and bring her home to the US.
You can join in this journey with them by visiting www.roomforatleastonemore.blogspot.com
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Wordless Wednesday
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
Moon Cakes and Birthday Cake!
We had a great time celebrating Meighan's second birthday tonight, even as the remains of Hurricaine Ike began to knock on our door! We also celebrated the Moon Festival since we were gathered as a family. Some friends gave us a real mooncake, and we had fun sampling such a treat! Meighan had a great time- laughing and running around with Ellie! I love the picture of Meighan and Ellie- look at the admiration in Meighan's eyes for her cousin! So sweet. She was great at blowing out those 2 candles and loved opening presents. Thanks everyone! We love you all.
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Happy Birthday Meighan!
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Monday, September 8, 2008
Tea Time with Some Friends
When we were in Myrtle Beach we spent ALOT of time in the Disney Store, and I'm so glad Angel talked me into buying the Princess Tea Party set! We gave it to Meighan for her birthday, and it is bringing her HOURS of enjoyment. This morning she had a tea party with some of her "closest" friends!
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Friday, September 5, 2008
One of Meighan's Favorite Places to Be
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Almost Two!!!
This is last year after Meighan was attacked by her birthday cake~ well, maybe it's the other way around. I just remember Meighan and her high chair had to get a bath! Alot has changed in the last year. Meighan couldn't walk this time last year, and now she walks, runs, and loves to jump! She was so much still a baby last year. I see more of sweet, but oh so independent, little girl now! Time in a bottle is what I want for her birthday. I forgot how quickly time marches along. It will be with anticipation and cherished memories that we look forward to what the next year will bring!
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Welcome Julian
Anton Califano
Julian is forty-six and lives in Camphill in Milton Keynes, a community inspired by the ideas and writings of Rudolf Steiner. The loss of his mother over twenty years ago had a huge impact on his life, and now as the last remaining member of his family, Julian lives and works for the benefit of the community where he lives as well as the wider world.
- Year
- 2009
- Type of film
- Shorts
- Running Time
- 14 mins 35 secs
- Format
- DV Cam
- Director
- Anton Califano
- Producer
- Rosemary Hill
- Co-Producer
- Rosemary Hill
- Editor
- Anton Califano
- Director of Photography
- Anton Califano
- Sound
- Anton Califano
- Music
- Soeur Sourire
- Principal Cast
- Julian Armstrong, Joan Harris, Hanne Drexel, Amanda Kilburn
Please let us know if we need to make any amendments to this Film entry mailing us directly at
Last updated 28th August 2009


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Serves: 4
Cost: £1.93
Healthiness: 5/5
Tastiness: 4/5
Easiness: 4/5
Don't worry about exact quantities for this recipe - accuracy isn't important. You can be flexible with the ingredients too - although, remember, a soup is not a culinary dustbin - so nice, fresh stuff only!
Makes loads - enough for one person for a week at least. Reduce the quantities if you don't want to be eating lentil soup for a whole week - or if you don't have a huge pan.
You will need:
If you want your soup to be smooth, wait until it's cool and blend it with an electric blender, or push it through a sieve. You could even use a potato masher if necessary.
When you're ready to eat, heat the soup through thoroughly and enjoy.
Serves: 6
Cost: £2.26
Healthiness: 4/5
Tastiness: 5/5
Easiness: 5/5
You will need:
When the soup is cooked, pour it into your blender and blend until smooth. When you are ready to eat the soup, pour it back into the pan, stir in the cream and season with salt and pepper. I like to add a lot of pepper to this soup that you get a nice peppery kick. Serve with bread.


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Extend time for filing e-returns
The commercial taxes bar association on Wednesday met the commissioner of commercial taxes (CCT) to urge for the extension of timeline for filing e-returns, in wake of the difficulties faced by large and mid sized companies.patna Updated: Oct 11, 2012 13:40 IST
The commercial taxes bar association on Wednesday met the commissioner of commercial taxes (CCT) to urge for the extension of timeline for filing e-returns, in wake of the difficulties faced by large and mid sized companies.
A recent notification issued by the commercial tax department, has curtailed the due date for filing quarterly tax returns, from 30 days to 20 days and has thrown the entire tax filing process by the companies, particularly large entities, into a tizzy.
Leading a delegation of the association, Anil Kumar Pandey, general secretary, while explaining the problem to CCT Sudhir Kumar, said that the compilation of data for big companies, which normally operated in large areas, involved more time in comparison to smaller companies.
Almost a fortnight is exhausted by big companies in receiving and compiling data from different geographical locations.
It is only after these 15 days and at the end of a quarter, that they are able to start the work for the actual preparation of returns, he added.
Maintaining, that the August 29 notification should be amended suitably in the interest of taxpayers and related parties, Pandey said, even if the last date of filing quarterly returns were restored or extended, even by a month, there would be no loss to the government exchequer.
He said, an immediate intervention in the matter was required as Durga Puja - a major festival - fell in October and many company officials and employees would also be on leave.
The timeline for filing the returns for the quarter ending September should be extended till November 15 for all types of dealers.
A minimum time of 30 days for big companies and 25 days for medium and small companies should be provided for the filing of quarterly returns.h The CCT, he said, gave them a patient hearing.
He also assured that the demand would be considered sympathetically. gAs regards to the difficulties in uploading C forms and TIN based e-visibility of WCT after proper certification, the CCT agreed to organize demonstration of the uploading process for the benefit of dealers at different places, Pandey said.
First Published: Oct 11, 2012 13:39 IST


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A beautiful Sunday in our Nation's capital
While seemingly everyone and their uncle were making their way down to the National Mall for the Cherry Blossom Festival, my dog and I took a nice long walk to Eastern Market. With the borderline-perfect weather we had this weekend -- the only downfall being Saturday's crazy wind -- it was damn near impossible not to enjoy being alive in DC.
The first shot below is a typical Eastern Market scene, while the second is a little less standard. For some reason, I really liked the contrasting colors in both these shots, even though they're quite different.
Is it me, or is this statue in front of the Shakespeare Library just a little bit creepy?


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Who influenced your favorite writers?
As Laura Miller reported in Salon recently, a group of mathematicians led by Daniel Rockmore of Dartmouth College analyzed the works of 537 authors who wrote in English from 1550 to the present. The mathematicans concluded that "today's literary writers have little use for the classics," in Miller's wording. She continues, "They are, the study asserts, much more influenced by their peers than they are by the most revered authors of earlier centuries."
The Dartmouth study focused on style--word usage--and I won't disagree that no one these days writes quite like Shakespeare, Donne, or Milton. But look back farther than 1550 and you'll start to see more similarities.
Take Snorri Sturluson. A few years ago, when I began writing my biography of Snorri, Song of the Vikings (due out in October), I read Neil Gaiman's best-selling genre-bender American Gods (published in 2001). I was delighted to see how heavily Gaiman was influenced by Snorri Sturluson, in both style and content.
American Gods won the Hugo and Nebula awards, was the first "One Book One Twitter" title in 2010, and is being made into an HBO television series. But put aside the fact that it's a great story. What intrigued me is that American Gods essentially updates Snorri's masterwork, the Edda, for both Gaiman and Snorri ask, What do we lose when the old gods are forgotten?
Gaiman's Mr. Wednesday is closely patterned on Snorri's Odin One-Eye, the god of Wednesday. In this passage from American Gods, Mr. Wednesday reveals himself—by paraphrasing Snorri: "His right eye glittered and flashed, his left eye was dull. He wore a cloak with a deep monklike cowl, and his face stared out from the shadows. 'I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I am Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. I am One-Eyed. I am called Highest, and True-Guesser. I am Grimnir, and I am the Hooded One. I am All-Father, and I am Gondir Wand-Bearer. I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die.'"
Mourned Snorri in his Edda, "But these things have now to be told to young poets." They have forgotten the names of Odin. The old lore is dwindling and will soon vanish into neverwhere: "But these stories are not to be consigned to oblivion," he insisted.
And because of the books he wrote, they were not.
More than eight hundred years after his death, Snorri's books are the basis of a best-selling American novel and a TV series. And Neil Gaiman is not the only author Snorri influenced.
Snorri Sturluson died, accused of treason by the king of Norway and murdered by thugs, in 1241. His books over time were forgotten, though manuscripts of them were preserved in Iceland and Norway.
Then in the early 1600s Snorri was resurrected. Translations from Old Norse began to appear throughout Europe. The craze led to the Gothic novel and ultimately to modern heroic fantasy.
Snorri has influenced writers as various as Thomas Gray, William Blake, Sir Walter Scott, the Brothers Grimm, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Richard Wagner, Matthew Arnold, Henrik Ibsen, William Morris, Thomas Hardy, Hugh MacDiarmid, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jorge Luis Borges, W.H. Auden, Gunther Grass, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A.S. Byatt, Seamus Heaney, Jane Smiley, Michael Chabon, and Neil Gaiman.
Through Tolkien, Snorri has inspired dozens of writers of fantasy. Fantasy and science fiction now account for ten percent of books published, and few books on the fantasy shelves of modern libraries or bookstores are free of wandering wizards, fair elves and werewolves, valkyrie-like women, magic swords and talismans, talking dragons and dwarf smiths, heroes that understand the speech of birds, or trolls that turn into stone—all drawn from Snorri's Edda and Heimskringla.
An incomplete list of fantasy writers indebted to Snorri includes: Douglas Adams, Lloyd Alexander, Poul Anderson, Terry Brooks, David Eddings, Lester del Rey, J.V. Jones, Robert Jordan, Guy Gavriel Kay, Stephen King, Ursula K. LeGuin, George R.R. Martin, Anne McCaffrey, and J.K. Rowling.
Snorri has inspired countless comic books—from Marvel's Thor to the Japanese anime Matantei Loki Ragnarok—and games, including the wildly popular Dungeons and Dragons, World of Warcraft, and Eve Online. The hit movie The Avengers would not exist without Snorri.
Snorri Sturluson is the most influential writer of the Middle Ages. His Edda, according to one translator, is "the deep and ancient wellspring of Western culture." That comment was published in 1909—how much more true it is today.
Join me again next Wednesday at nancymariebrown.blogspot.com for another adventure in Iceland or the medieval world.
Join me again next Wednesday at nancymariebrown.blogspot.com for another adventure in Iceland or the medieval world.


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Mayreau is one of the Grenadines islands and Saltwhistle Bay was our first stop. When we arrived there were very few yachts and so we could pick a good spot, nice and close to the beach. This was the first destination, since we returned to Melody, that we truly experienced the "deserted tropical island" feeling.
None of these photos have been edited to enhance the colors of the water etc. This is exactly as we experienced it (just a little more spectacular in person).
It's easy to get used to palm trees and white beaches but water this colour, this clear and warm never gets old. It was so good we returned a second time, a few days later, on our way to Tobago Cays.


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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Jack Bauer will be getting help from Starbuck next season.
In a casting straight out of fan central, Katee Sackhoff, best known for her role as Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on "Battlestar Galactica," has been tapped to co-star on another series with a big fan following, Fox's "24."
Sackhoff will play Dana Walsh, an expert data analyst at CTU who is involved with CTU agent Davis Cole (Freddie Prinze Jr.).
She joins fellow new cast members Prinze, Jennifer Westfeldt, Mykelti Williamson, John Boyd and Chris Diamantopoulos on the upcoming eighth season of the series starring Kiefer Sutherland.
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Clinton names climate change envoy
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton appointed a special envoy for climate change, vowing that the Obama administration would restore US credentials and leadership in shaping environmental policy.world Updated: Jan 27, 2009 01:30 IST
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday appointed a special envoy for climate change, vowing that the Obama administration would restore U.S. credentials and leadership in shaping environmental policy.
Pledging that the United States would play a primary role in international efforts to stem global, Clinton named Todd Stern, a former White House assistant who was the chief U.S. negotiator at the Kyoto Protocol talks in her husband's administration, to the post.
"American leadership is essential to meeting the challenges of the 21st century, and chief among those is the complex, urgent and global threat of climate change," she said at a State Department ceremony held shortly after President Barack Obama announced new policies to allow states greater latitude in limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
Sterns' appointment, she said, sends "an unequivocal message that the United States will be energetic, focused, strategic and serious about addressing global climate change and the corollary issue of clean energy."
"The urgency of the global climate crisis must not be underestimated," Clinton said. "Nor should the science behind it or the facts on the ground be ignored or dismissed. The time for realism and action is now."
The Bush administration had come under fire for failing to act on climate change, walking away from the Kyoto Protocol on grounds it favored large developing nations like China and India, and refusing to allow states to bolster some environmental regulations. "The time for denial, delay and dispute is over," Stern said in accepting the job. "The time for the United States to take up its rightful place at the negotiating table is here." Stern will serve as the chief U.S. negotiator at United Nations talks on climate change including an upcoming session in Copenhagen as well as with individual nations and groups.
Prior to his appointment, Stern was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and a partner in the WilmerHale law firm. He served in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001, first at the White House, handling the Kyoto Protocol and follow-up talks in Buenos Aires and coordinating the president's Initiative on Global Climate Change.
He later worked at Treasury, where he was a senior adviser to the secretary, and after his Clinton administration stint, Stern taught at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
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a person or subject throughout the whole site from one index. Only the albums from 1998-2001 have been indexed at this time.
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Why Rapid Reads? Crime Writers of Canada Blog Post
As part of National Crime Writing month, I blogged about Orca's popular Rapid Reads series and my experience teaching adult literacy. The post is available here.
Talk 2 Writers – April 12th
C.B. Forrest and I will be teaming up for an evening of conversation and readings from our latest mysteries on Tuesday, April 12th from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at the Ottawa Public Library, auditorium, Main Branch, 120 Metcalfe Street. Governor General award-winning author Tim Wynne-Jones will be our special guest interviewer and host for the […]
Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal Interview
Kenneth Grierson interviewed me by phone for the Chronicle-Journal. The article is only available in hard copy. You can read it by clicking on 'Read More' and then this link: CJ_2011-02-15_A-04


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The Breakwater Flag Project under the stewardship of the Santa Barbara Yacht Club has now been underway since its inception in August, 2007. The flags have been flying proudly on the breakwater for nearly three years. The Waterfront Department graciously provided the funding to seed the reinstitution of the present project and remains responsible for maintaining the rigging and the poles. The flags now on the breakwater were taken from a list compiled by the late Paul Mills, who originally conceived the project and maintained the flags. After Mills' passing the flag poles were empty for a period of over 3 years. It was at that time that the partnership between the Waterfront Department and the Santa Barbara Yacht Club was formed and the flag project was instituted once again as a welcoming gesture to all who visit the beautiful Santa Barbara harbor.
The Flag Project is designed primarily to display the flags of the many non-profit organizations in the city of Santa Barbara as well as the national, state, and city flags. A rotation policy of approximately one year's time, weather depending, has been found to be effective to maintain the proper condition of the flags. The Santa Barbara Yacht Club's stewardship of the Breakwater Flag Project is done solely in service to the community and in honor of the many outstanding non-profit service organizations within the city of Santa Barbara. A special thanks goes to Sigrid Toye, wife of Staff Commodore Bud Toye, who shepherded this project along. The Santa Barbara Yacht Club offers its sincerest gratitude for her dedication to this project.
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Recently, Leumi Bank – the leading Israeli bank – held a 36 hour hackathon to build the bank of tomorrow. tinyBank, an innovative solution for educating children of all ages about fiscal responsibility, won 3rd place, and gained its edge by using built.io, raw engineering's mobile application development platform, to power their application.
Alik Hochner, Itay (ET) Galim, and Shahar Levinshtein, tinyBank inventors, only had great things to say about built.io, "It was our first try with built.io and we found it to be super cool!"
tinyBank is an application for iOS, Android, and the web that teaches children and young adults to manage money. They learn to set financial goals and achieve them, which prepares them for adult financial reality. By teaching children to bank at an early age, tinyBank creates better customers for Leumi in the future. tinyBank molds the minds of the future to be better equipped with financial knowledge and goal awareness, so that the bank of the future will be greatly improved.
tinyBank is a virtual banking product that resides in a checking account. Parents host a child's virtual account and help them manage their money – creating a perfect balance of control and visibility for the parent, and freedom and responsibility for the child. tinyBank is adaptive and uses different engagement methods to playfully push the kids to manage their money like grown ups. The application is catered to 3 specific age groups:
- 6-10: Make the right choices when spending your money, compare before you buy, keep personal information safe and understand the basic saving.
- 11-13: Save money, learn the basics of interest and the concepts behind credit, loans, and credit cards.
- 14-18: Plan for higher education, taxes, and investment.
All 3 groups utilize gamification and reward processes to make the tasks fun.
The built.io team is proud to be able to help the tinyBank team create the bank of the future. To learn more about tinyBank, visit their hackathon submission page.


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This is a time of the year to be thankful. I know that also as a single mom that it is a hard time for us. I am thankful though for a lot of things. I am thankful that I have my...
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- Your pets will be moving in and out of the house fairly often. Make sure they are on a leash or in a crate in case they run off! Even if they do not have a history of doing that, understand that they will be in a stressful state of mind.
- The most difficult days for your pets are the unloading/loading days. Keep a close eye on them, or have a family member be in charge of keeping them calm.
- If you are moving between states, make sure you are aware of state laws for your pets, as some states have stricter laws than others.
- Lastly, don't rush things. It stresses you out, you are more prone to forgetting things or making mistakes, and your pets pick up the mood.
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EVs: Zero Emissions But Fueled by Coal?/
By JOANNA DETZ
Electric vehicles. They're sleek, quiet, cool and totally eco-chic. They are to the upwardly mobile greenie what the Prada handbag is to the Manhattan socialite. But more than just a status symbol, electric cars have been marketed to appeal to our enviro guilt — our deep seated desire to buy something that will absolve us our carbon transgressions. However, like so many green products in the marketplace, the marketing doesn't reflect a simple reality.
For example, ads for the Nissan Leaf boast, "Zero gas. zero tailpipe."
True, but while those Leafs may produce zero emissions from their non-tailpipes, they still require electricity for their frequent battery charges, and, in many cases, that electricity doesn't come from a clean energy source but from a dirty smokestack.
As electric cars gain traction and become more commonplace in this country, should we become concerned that we are simply trading tailpipes for smokestacks, and, if so, what are the implications?
Fact: Currently, nearly 50 percent of America's electricity is generated by the burning of coal.
According to the EPA's blog, 20 states — West Virginia, Indiana, Kentucky, Wyoming, North Dakota, Utah, Ohio, Montana, New Mexico, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Michigan, Colorado, Wisconsin, Georgia, Minnesota, Maryland, North Carolina and Tennesse — generate more than 50 percent of their electricity from coal. In fact, more than 90 percent of the power in West Virginia, Indiana, Kentucky and Wyoming is from coal. Only five states — Rhode Island, Nevada, Florida, Massachusetts and Arkansas — use natural gas for more than 50 percent of their electrical generation.
So while your new electric car might not be generating emissions, depending on where you live, charging your car's battery could be linked to some of the dirtiest forms of energy.
One could imagine the following hypothetical scenario: Wealthy residents of Aspen, Colo., who might be able to afford the stratospherically priced Chevy Volt, achieve a smug sense of greener-than-thou-ness while a less-fortunate family living downwind of a coal-fired power plant in a different region of that same state may suffer an undue health and environmental burden so that electric vehicle and others can be charged.
Such a scenario, if it is played out fully, will only serve to widen the gap between the haves and have-nots, creating a sociological gap based not only on financial inequities but on environmental ones, putting in harm's way those poor communities in so-called sacrifice zones, where carbon-intensive power is produced.
Electric car owners in Rhode Island probably don't have to worry about the above scenario as it relates to coal. The top power sources for electricity in Rhode Island are generated from natural gas (35 percent) and nuclear energy (31 percent). Coal comes in a distant third at 11.2 percent, according to National Grid's disclosure label from last year.
Rhode Island's natural gas is imported from production areas in the Gulf Coast and natural gas storage sites in the Appalachian Basin, according to the Institute for Energy Research. Anyone who's watched the documentary "Gasland" knows that natural gas, long touted as "clean" energy, carries with it a host of problems with respect to its extraction, especially for those people who live near wells or fracking sites.
There's a solution, of course, especially here in Rhode Island, where analysts estimate the state has the potential to generate a large portion of its power from wind. Green up the grid so that those electric cars live up to their Madison Avenue hype as zero-emissions vehicles.
In the Ocean State, greening the grid means that the small but vocal cabal of NIMBYs who have stood in the way of several wind projects will have to stand down and just be happy they are not living next to a coal-fired power plant. "Flicker-induced headaches" are a heck of a lot more pleasant than lung cancer.
So, until we can clean up our power grid, the electric car itself shouldn't be a pass to drive as much as we like, guilt free. We must adopt this new and exciting technology with the understanding that, to an extent, we are passing the emissions buck.
The ultimate goal should be to change our driving — and living — habits. The simplest solution, which many probably don't want to hear, may be to drive less, take the bus, or, better yet, use our own two feet, with the knowledge the only impact will be on our knees.
Joanna Detz is the executive director of ecoRI News.


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A vase
I dunno if this is technically called a vase or an urn or something else. But anyway, I have my Spanish lessons at the family home of my teacher; she was late arriving home, so while I was waiting I drew her mum's vase/urn/whatever that sits in the middle of the table. I got most of it done there, and took a photo to finish it off at home. Ta and da.
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After an opening segment where Phil discusses John Wick: Chapter 2 with Chad Osuna of Fanboy Nation and "The Popcorn Podcast", Dean joins the fun for a free-wheeling discussion of silent films, autism, Canadian animation, what actors should expect from directors, the Oscar nominations, female-driven films and more!
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The Ultimate Wedding Keepsake
The Ultimate Wedding Keepsake
Weddings are by far among the most emotionally rewarding events to shoot. When you capture someone's special day, you're essentially preserving the pure bliss in the air. For the rest of their lives, they'll look back on your photos and relive the memory – the happiness they felt, who was there to share the excitement, and who might have drank a little too much.
Canadian photographer Liam Hennessey of Applehead Studio brought a touch of creativity to a recent wedding shoot. As PetaPixel reported, Hennessey was hired to photograph a wedding at a hotel near his studio in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia. Reimagining the art of wedding photography, he came up with the idea to invite every single wedding guest to the studio for individual portraits.
The result? A dance party to Taylor Swift's "Shake it Off" that saw 111 people pack the photographer's tiny headquarters and strike a pose one at a time. Hennessey told PetaPixel that the crowd was "dancing for the camera, drinking our beer, and having a great time."
And the shoot was just the beginning. After it was over, Hennessey compiled the portraits to create a 6-foot-long panoramic image of each guest side by side against a plain white backdrop. The wedding party is seen at the center of the image.
Now that's one heck of a keepsake. Hats off to you, Mr. Hennessey.
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|Current World Topics is a winter short course of the Ferris University Open College at Ferris University in Yokohama, Japan. The students of this six-week course are highly communicative English speakers, some of whom have lived abroad, who wish to maintain and improve their group discussion skills. Many find that in examining international issues and personalities, insights into Japan and Japanese culture may be uncovered as well. The discussion facilitator, Dr. Hamilton Armstrong, welcomes all student-initiated inquiry and projects. For students visiting this site, please feel free to make comments, ask questions on weekly discussion topics, or to add to our information with new ideas/discoveries by submitting your comments in the field box found at the bottom of the page.
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The P08 Luger has the distinction of being the world's first military adopted semi-automatic pistol.
It served through the maelstrom of WW1 and WW2 and became iconic; sought after as a war trophy and now considered highly collectible. As a result of this, the Luger has become not only recognized for its outline but also the seemingly endless lore and mythos that surround it.
One of these generally accepted beliefs is that the P08 Luger was ultimately replaced by the P38 due to its sensitivity and unreliability in the dirt, mud and filth of war. There really is no war that better encompasses the idea of mud and filth than the trenches of WW1 yet the Luger continued to be used post WW1 and up through WW2. Additionally these guns are generally 70+ years old, many of them worn and ill maintained from a functionality perspective which could corrupt modern perception as well.
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International Jewish Cemetery Project - Argentina
Carmel is 410 km from Buenos Aires, 70 km from Vasavilbaso, 27 km from Villaguay, 24 km from San Gregorio, 20 km from Villa Clara, 15 km from Villa Dominguez, and 7 km from Sajaroff. Carmel colony on Route 20, 15 km west of Villa Dominguez and south of Ingenerio Sajaroff no longer appears on maps. Only four or five houses remain. [December 2003]


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We're less than a month into the 2012-13 NBA season, but we already know who the worst team in the NBA is. It's the Washington Wizards, who haven't won a game yet this year. They're currently sitting at 0-9 and, with a matchup against the Hawks on the schedule next, they're probably on their way to 0-10. They're without John Wall and Nene right now, so there's a chance that they won't end up being the worst team in the league by the time April rolls around. But, they certainly haven't gotten off to a great start this year.
To help highlight just how bad the Wiz are, some unhappy Washington fan out there just created the @DidTheWizWin Twitter account. Rather than resort to checking ESPN's scoreboard, Wiz fans can simply visit the account after every game to find out whether or not their team won. And, this is what they'll find:
Naw.— Wiz Win Last Night? (@DidTheWizWin) November 20, 2012
So helpful! Hahaha. But, seriously: Hang in there Wizards fans! Hey, at least you're not as bad as last year's Bobcats team, right? Er, yet…
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|A failed Save Vs. Purple.
|An Otyugh.
|An Orc.
|A cloak of healing.
|A helmet of transformation.
|A treasure chest filled with something shiny.
|A group of adventurers running from some suspicious smoke.
|A summoning spell gone awry.
|Ambulatory eyes.
|A magic wand of something.
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The Electric Company "The Potato Custom" Jessica is named Junior Ambassador to the planet Skelecki, that is, until she makes an intergalactic faux pas. D
10:30 am
Wild Kratts "Octopus Wildkratticus" When Martin accidentally knocks Aviva's creature power suits into a deep Arctic trench, the Martin and Chris dive down in search of them in Aviva's newly invented Octopod submarine. Science Concepts: An Octopus can use ink, jet propulsion, tentacle regeneration, and camouflage in order to escape or hide when in danger. Each feature has an important function for survival. D
11:00 am
WordWorld "Castles in the Sea/Get Your Coat" Castles in the Sea: While playing in the sand on the beach, Duck and Shark discover the perfect home for Shark: a sand castle! But why, oh why, does it disappear every night while Shark is sleeping? When the WordFriends try to hunt down the castle thief, they learn about tides and waves.from a singing Crab. Get Your Coat: Duck thinks Frog doesn't want to play in the rain because Duck accidentally broke Frog's boat. D
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WordGirl "Granny Mayor/Tobey Goes Good" Granny Mayor - Granny May uses her wily ways to become the Mayor's Senior Aide. WordGirl has to help the Mayor see past her "nice old lady" act to stop him from signing laws which actually help villains commit more crimes. Tobey Goes Good - In order to win WordGirl's heart Tobey decides enters "The Young Inventors Challenge and Friendly Competition. D
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Outdoor Idaho "Seeking Refuge" Nature's scenes and sounds are captured on film in Idaho's six natural wildlife refuges. Hundreds of thousands of migrating birds, plus more who find nesting sites in the refuges, also attract birdwatchers, scientists and others to these special places.G
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Mexico -- One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless "Cooking on the Sea of Cortez" Rick is always up for a cooking challenge. After a day spent boating and kayaking on the Sea of Cortez with a local ecotourism group, Rick grills dinner for the group on the beach at Espiritu Santo Island - one of the most biologically diverse marine areas in the world. The waters surrounding the island support coral reefs, colonies of sea lions and more than 500 species of fish. D
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Katie Brown Workshop "Best of Gifts" In these "best-of" segments taken from previous seasons, host Katie Brown demonstrates her favorite homemade gifts to give and receive. In the Kitchen: designer breadsticks, matzo ball soup, Katie's truffles. Projects: putting together a welcome basket for a neighbor and personalizing planters with photos. D
1:30 pm
Paint This With Jerry Yarnell "Kim, Part 2" Having completed the basic under painting, Jerry can now start to shape the figure. This is done by adding the next layer of highlighting as well as using loose strokes to form shadow areas. Jerry continues to work throughout the painting adding highlights and shadows where appropriate. D
2:00 pm
Essential Pepin "Sweet Endings" Chocolate Mint Truffettes; Quick Almond And Plum Cake; Tuiles A L'orange; Summer Cornets Susie. D
2:30 pm
Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions "Taipei" Burt tours the city's night market, visits traditional shops and the weekend jewelry market. He also learns about Chinese medicine.G
3:00 pm
Dialogue "Life on the River of No Return" Host Marcia Franklin interviews Isaac and Bjornen Babcock, husband and wife filmmakers from McCall, about their NATURE documentary River of No Return. The couple, who spent more than a year in Idaho's Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, discuss the making of the film, some of the highlights of their adventure, and some of the challenges they faced.G
3:30 pm
MotorWeek "$16k Subcompact Shootout" Road Test: $16K Subcompact Shootout. Road Test: 2012 BMW 3-Series. Goss' Garage: Clock Springs & Airbags. D
4:00 pm
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Salmon and Sole" Host Christopher Kimball visits a Boston fishmonger to discover the truth about farm-raised salmon. Then, test cook Julia Collin Davison shows Chris how to make perfect Glazed Salmon. Next, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Chris to a tasting of tuna. D
4:30 pm
Painting and Travel with Roger & Sarah Bansemer "Amish Farm" Roger and Sarah visit Amish country. Roger paints an Amish barn and Sarah talks with an Amish farmer about their lifestyle at the farmers market in Shipshewana, Indiana. D
5:00 pm
Globe Trekker "West Texas" In the state capital of Austin, Zay Harding explores everything from rattlesnake hotdogs to bingo with chickens. He checks out the Alamo at San Antonio, spends a night in a haunted hotel and travels to El Paso where he treks into the desert along the old Butterfield trail. He follows Route 66 in a 1960s Mustang and competes in Amarillo's steak-eating challenge.G
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Song of the Mountains Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. D
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Austin City Limits "John Legend & The Roots" The performance is a mix of mostly 1970s soul covers and a few originals. "Captain" Kirk Douglas has a blistering guitar solo at the end of the Bill Withers cover "I Can't Write Left Handed."G
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Circus Dreams Step into the world of Circus Smirkus, the only traveling youth circus in the United States. Follow a group of talented teens, ages 12 to 18, as they audition, rehearse and take to the road for a summer of performances. There are comments from many of the 27 kids with the circus but the film closely follows a 12-year-old dancer/aerialist, a shy stick-juggling boy, and two girl clowns.G
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Music Voyager "Nashville: Music City" Known as the capital of country music, Nashville also is home to some of the world's top singer-songwriters and rock and pop bands. Host Jacob Edgar receives a personal tour of Nashville's iconic Grand Ole Opry by country superstar Vince Gill. Then, he sees Elizabeth Miller perform at a funky bar in East Nashville, the bohemian district home to many of the city's musicians. D
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Song of the Mountains Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. D
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Austin City Limits "John Legend & The Roots" The performance is a mix of mostly 1970s soul covers and a few originals. "Captain" Kirk Douglas has a blistering guitar solo at the end of the Bill Withers cover "I Can't Write Left Handed."G


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If you haven't seen Childish Gambino's "This Is America", then you need to watch it! I'm still processing Childish Gambino's "This Is America" music video. I have watched the video at least five times now, and I am still so amazed at its brilliance. My take on the video is the central theme of the… Read More Five Things Worth Sharing (5.9.2018)


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