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In the autumn of 2002, I had become extremely interested in finding out when our Messiah Yahuwshuwa was born. I began to understand that if I could know the timing of his birth and death, then I would be able to use those dates as a reference point for charting "Daniel's Seventy Week" timeline found in Daniel 9:24-27.
I had begun to dig even deeper than ever before into end-time prophecy, and I knew that everything revolved around the birth and resurrection of the true Messiah.
When trying to understand eschatology (study of the end-times), it is essential to learn the meaning of the prophetic Feasts of YaHuWaH found in Leviticus 23, because they all point to important events pertaining to the Renewed Covenant of the true Messiah, Yahuwshuwa with his bride. Revelation 19:10 speaks about "The Testimony of Yahuwshuwa," and it says that it is the "spirit of prophecy."
However, what if the birth-date of the true Messiah of Yisra'el was a key identifier in being able to separate him from all the impostors?
What if his date-of-birth is one of the prophetic markers, a "sign" that we have in determining that he alone was the true Messiah and all the others were "thieves and robbers?"
The wise men had heard about the "star in the east" that would show them where the "King of the Yahuwdiy"(Jews) would be born, by the appearance of these "signs" in heavens:
On one particular night in history, this "sign" was seen in heaven and it was telling us a story and painting a picture of when the true Mashiyach (Messiah), Yahuwshuwa was being born.
Ushering In the King with the Tekiah
The next sound called the Shebariym is a broken staccato trembling sound which is supposed to typify a man crying in repentance. This would have been when Miryam "cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered" according to Revelation 12:2. The next trumpet sound is called the Teruw'ah and it is a wave-like sound of alarm calling upon man to stand by the banner of Elohiym.
Luqas (Luke) 2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
Romiym (Romans) 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Qolasiym (Colossians) 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the qehillah (congregation): who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have preeminence.
Then, after the larvae hatch they are able to enter their own life cycle. As the mother dies, crimson fluid from within her body, stains her own body and the surrounding wood she is attached to. She makes the ultimate sacrifice and because of her own death, her offspring are given new life. From the crushed, dried dead bodies of such female scarlet worms, the scarlet dye is extracted and used to dye wool red.
The connection between the wool that comes from a lamb that his shorn, and the red dye that comes from this worm are now coming into focus:
This means that the bride of Messiah is "covered" in the blood of the lamb!
That sign shown to the shepherds was a babe lying in a manger (sukkah) in swaddling clothes!
You see, our Messiah came to us in the 4th Millennium from creation, and he also died on the 4th day of the week (Wednesday), before he resurrected three days and three nights later on the evening of the 7th day, Sabbath. It is no surprise then, that the 4th trumpet blast is what brought about his arrival into the world. The number "4" in scripture symbolizes the "four corners of the earth" and YaHuWaH our creator will harvest the earth at the second coming of Messiah. His bride will also be resurrected at the beginning of the seventh millennium (the 7th day).
Circumcision Typology on Yom Kippur
I can understand why most Messianics and others within the Hebraic Roots Community have concluded that our Messiah was born during the Feast of Tabernacles. In Luke 2:7-16 we are told that our Messiah was "laid in a manger." The Greek word for "manger" is "phatne" which is a stable where animals eat their fodder. In Genesis 33:17, we read that Jacob built "booths" for his cattle at "Sukkot." During the Feast of Tabernacles, we are commanded to dwell in a "sukkah," (a temporary shelter) for seven days.
On the eighth day following these seven days of Sukkot, it is called "The Last Great Day" (Leviticus 23:36-39). Many scholars believe that this would have been the perfect time for our Messiah to have been circumcised.
There are several reasons why he could not have been born on the Feast of Tabernacles, and you are going to understand why if you follow my reasoning with the scriptures that I will present. So please bear with me and pay close attention. I am going to illustrate for you now, why I believe he was circumcised for Yom Kippur rather than the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles as traditionally taught.
Since ancient times in Yisra'el, traditionally, Yom Teruw'ah has always been celebrated for two days due to the fact that the sighting of the first crescent moon demanded two credible witnesses. By the time that the new moon was finally sanctified (set-apart) by the Sanhedrin, half of the day was already spent, and so the entire next day on the 2nd day of Tishri, the Feast of Trumpets continued to be celebrated.
It is also interesting to realize that like the new moon, no man can know the day or the hour when it will make its sudden appearance. So it is with a baby whose gestation can be approximated but no man knows the day or the hour when this baby will suddenly decide to make his appearance into the world. The baby's head first appears as it begins to make its way out his mother's birth canal. The moon likewise begins to show its first crescent.
On the first day of Yom Teruw'ah, Yisra'el reads Genesis 21 where Sarah conceives Yitzqach (Isaac) and they also read 1st Samuel 1-2:10 where Channah cries out to YaHuWaH for a son, and she conceives and gives birth to the prophet Samuel. This is not a coincidence that the scriptures being read on this feast relate to conception and birth, even though Orthodox Jews do not believe that Yahuwshuwa is the Messiah!
Can you imagine the shock they will experience when they will one day learn that these verses were being read as a symbol of their Messiah who was also born on this feast day? Messianic Jews also read 1st Thessalonians 4:13-18 where it speaks about the second coming of Messiah and 1st Corinthians 15:51-54 about the catching away of the bride when she is reborn (resurrected). Once again, the typology here speaks of birth and rebirth.
Abraham had to "die" in his heart to his son. He had to die to his own desires and let go of his son before he was ready to plunge that knife into him. Isaac also had to accept the idea of death, and so in his heart he "died" and was willing to give up his life for the love of his father and his Creator. When the angel then appeared to Abraham and stopped him from killing Isaac, we could then say that he was "born-again." This was essentially the birth of his new destiny as the son of promise!
The people of Yisra'el also read Jeremiah 31:1-19 where it speaks of the restoration and salvation of Yisra'el at the second coming of Messiah. Why is it important to explain this? Because as we uncover the details of when Messiah was born, we will be able to see that the traditions practiced by the House of Yahuwdah (Judah) on this particular feast all point to the birth of their long-awaited Messiah, if they will only have eyes to see!
Miryam went into labor on the evening of the 30th day of Elul, (the last day of the 6th Hebrew month). Then as the sun went down, began the 1st day of the 7th month of Tishri, and she was in labor all that day as these four trumpets would have been sounded. By the evening of the 1st day of the 7th month of Tishri, just before it became the 2nd day of Tishri, at sundown, he was born at the last trumpet!
At this website, by Hillel ben David (Greg Killian) he explains why Yom Teruw'ah was and still is celebrated for two days.
*Note by Maria Merola: Could it be that these "forty nine hours" used to celebrate this feast represents the "seventy sevens" or shebuwah (forty nine years) of when Daniel's 70-Week prophecy cycles around? If 70 X 7 = 49 and 70 "shebuwah" (weeks) equals 490 years, can we see a pattern of 70 X 7 equaling how many times we must forgive our brother? (Matthew 18:22).
We should then be able to count eight days following his birth until his circumcision just before Yom Kippur. So let us count:
Messiah born at sundown 1st of Tishri just before the 2nd of Tishri
9th of Tishri sundown: day #8 Messiah circumcised.
Jacob's wrestling was likened unto a baby coming out of the birth canal. He had to "die" to his old sinful nature, and by the morning he was reborn into a new man who had an encounter with his maker. His new name accompanied his "born-again" experience as he went from being called Ya'aqob to Yisra'el.
Our eternal High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, was having his foreskin removed on the 8th day following his birth as a picture of the veil in the Temple being torn away. The foreskin (veil) to our hearts must also be torn away or removed by his once-and-for-all sacrifice. His blood was being released through circumcision (covenant) on Yom Kippur as a sign that only his blood could atone for our sins!
You see, he could not be in both places at once. Yahuwceph (Joseph) would not have left Miryam there alone giving birth while he went to Jerusalem to offer sacrifices in the Temple. Also, there is an ancient adoption custom that says that whoever helps the woman give birth to the child gets to adopt the child and bring him into his tribe! Hence, the reason we are able to determine that our Messiah came from the line of Levi (his mother's tribe) and the line of Judah (Joseph's tribe) according to Matthew 1:16! That means that Joseph had to be there for the birth to adopt his son into the Tribe of Judah! Melchizedek is both a priest (Levi) and a king (Judah).
This means that she could not celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles with Joseph in a sukkah (manger) because this would render his celebration of this holy feast as unclean. Also, during the Ten Days of Awe, Yisra'elites would fast and pray leading up to Yom Kippur to cleanse and purify themselves. Miryam had seven days of being unclean and then the male child would be circumcised. It is fitting that Miryam was "unclean" during the first seven days of the "Ten Days of Awe," but by Yom Kippur she was cleansed so that she could go to the Temple for her son's circumcision. She would not be allowed into the sanctuary for 33 more days, but she could at least be in the outer court of the Temple for Yom Kippur to observe the circumcision of her baby boy.
Since Miryam had seven days of uncleanness following the birth of her male child, her uncleanness would have lasted during the "Ten Days of Awe" between Trumpets & Atonement. By Yom Kippur, she would have been cleansed and eligible to attend the circumcision of her baby boy in the Temple.
Scripture Reference
1st Chronicles 24:7
1. Jehoiarib
2. Jedaiah
1st Chronicles 24:8
3. Harim
4. Seorim
1st Chronicles 24:9
5. Malchijah
6. Mijamin
1st Chronicles 24:10
7. Hakkoz
8. Abijah
1st Chronicles 24:11
9. Jeshuah
10. Shecaniah
1st Chronicles 24:12
11. Eliashib
12. Jakim
1st Chronicles 24:13
13. Huppah
14. Jeshebeab
1st Chronicles 24:14
15. Bilgah
16. Immer
1st Chronicles 24:15
17. Hezir
18. Aphses
1st Chronicles 24:16
19. Pethahiah
20. Jehezekel
1st Chronicles 24:17
21. Jachim
22. Gamul
1st Chronicles 24:18
23. Delaiah
24. Maaziah
1st Month
2nd Month
3rd Month
Abib - Nisan
(March - April)
Zif - Iyyar
(April - May)
(May - June)
Jehoiarib (1)
Seorim (4)
All Priests
Jedaiah (2)
Malchijah (5)
Abijah (8)
All Priests
(Feast of Unleavened Bread)
Mijamin (6)
Jeshuah (9)
Harim (3)
Hakkoz (7)
Shecaniah (10)
*Note by Maria Merola: The Feast of Trumpets is never referred to in scripture as "Rosh ha'Shanah" (head of the year). The Jewish people call the Feast of Trumpets "the head of the year" because it is the end of the "harvest season" and it begins the new cycle of the season of "seed time and harvest." The true "head of the year" according to scripture is in the month called "Abib" according to Exodus 12:2 & 13:4 when YaHuWaH declared to Yisra'el "this shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you." This comes in the spring 14 days before Passover. "Times, Seasons & the Thief in the Night."
*Note inserted by Maria Merola: the Hebrew word here in Haggai's prophecy for "seed" is "zera" which is #2233 and it has the same root for the name of Tamar's twin "Zerach" #2226. It means the following: seed, sowing, offspring; a sowing; seed; semen virile; offspring, descendants, posterity, children.
*Roy Reinhold's article continues:
The green tree decorated with silver and gold and nailed down so that it would not totter was celebrated by ancient Yisra'el as they apostatized (Jeremiah 10:3-4), and there are a number of references in the Old Testament to a green tree as an idol. It is the same Christmas tree customs which people use today for Christmas. The round sparkly balls represent the sun. The popes in about 350 A.D. deliberately renamed the birth of Sol the sun-god on December 25th as a Christian custom. That is recorded in the Roman writings of that time. All of these Christmas customs were done by the pagans before the day was renamed as a Christian holiday. Isn't it interesting that there were ancient presentations of the woman and child thousands of years before Yahuwshuwa was born? These Madonna and child representations were Semiramis and Tammuz from ancient Babylon.
The Season of Messiah's Nativity Follows the Pattern of Jacob's Wedding to Leah & Rachel
Ya'aqob (Jacob) married these two sister brides within the same 14-day period of these two feasts (Trumpets & Atonement), as he also worked a total of 14 years for them. Leah typifies the Ten Northern Tribes of the House of Ephrayim. The wedding between Ya'aqob & Leah lasted for seven days (Genesis 29:28). I believe that these seven days were between the Feast of Trumpets & The Day of Atonement (Yom Teruw'ah & Yom Kippur).
The second bride, Rachel was the "second-born" and she typifies the Two Southern Tribes of the House of Yahuwdah (Judah). Rachel was also married to Ya'aqob at the end of Leah's week which would have been on Yom Kippur. Their wedding would have also lasted for another seven days during the Feast of Tabernacles.
When these two brides become "one stick" in the hand of YaHuWaH (one olive tree) according to Ezekiel 37:16, this will take place on Yom Kippur. And then both brides will become only one bride and will have the wedding reception during the seven days of the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot). Do you see the pattern? The 15-day period of our Messiah's nativity accurately portrays the rebirth of both brides into one bride which culminates at the Feast of Tabernacles!
This is how we can tell that he fulfilled all three of the Fall Feasts of YaHuWaH at his birth. He had to fulfill the "birth" of both brides, the Two Houses of Yisra'el! The "woman" in Revelation 12 is mother Jerusalem who will give birth to the "one new man." To understand this concept, see my other article entitled "Ten Days of Awe Leading Up to Yom Kippur!"
What if I told you that all three Fall Feasts celebrate the season of our Messiah's nativity, circumcision, and dwelling in a sukkah?
In the same way, all three Spring Feasts celebrate the season of his death, burial, & resurrection. Our Messiah fulfilled "all seven feasts" at his first coming, and he will fulfill them again at his second coming.
The Clincher
Since the year 2002, (when I first began researching the birth of Messiah), I had been grappling with the idea of whether or not our Messiah was born on the Feast of Trumpets or on the Feast of Tabernacles.
I carefully weighed all the evidence on both sides of the argument, and yet I could see pros and cons for either of these two feasts as a contender for his date of birth.
14 And Yahuwshuwa returned in the power of the Ruwach (Spirit) into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
However, if the High Priest did not sanctify himself, then he was not fit to atone for the nation either. Consequently, he could die behind the veil, thus causing the nation to be "not accepted" that year.
Now, that you have been shown the truth, you have a responsibility before YaHuWaH to come out of "Mystery Babylon the Great the Mother of Harlots and Abominations" as mentioned in Revelation 17.
Christ-Mass is none other than the recycled religion of Nimrod and his wife/mother Semiramis from the Tower of Babel. Modern-day Christianity has adopted all the pagan rituals of the Tower of Babel. The word "babel" means "confusion and mixture," and we are told that YaHuWaH is not the author of confusion (1st Corinthians 14:33). The same Messiah that many Christians claim to be worshiping on Christ-Mass has now called us out of this confusion and mixture.
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SANTA FE, N.M. - The sixth annual Santa Fe Garden Fair will be Saturday, April 24, at the Santa Fe County Fairgrounds, 3229 Rodeo Road, Santa Fe. The free event is presented by the Santa Fe Master Gardeners' Association, with sponsor support from Santa Fe Greenhouse and Newman's Nursery.
The Santa Fe Master Gardeners' Association, part of the Master Gardener program run by the New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service, serves the community by educating and promoting locally responsible gardening.
"This is a great opportunity for gardeners to have access to horticultural experts and gardening-related vendors," said Janet Hirons, Santa Fe Master Gardeners' Association president. "This event has grown each year in the number of lectures and demonstrations we offer, in the number of exhibitors and the public's participation. We offer a lot of information to educate and inspire everyone, from the novice to the experienced gardener."
This year's garden fair keynote speaker is Lois Ellen Frank. The celebrated chef and author will speak on "Seeds of Health: A Chef's Experience in a Native New Mexico Garden." There will also be a book-signing after her 12:30 p.m. lecture.
Other free lectures will include backyard beekeeping with Les Crowder; gardening for the senses with David Salman; "Santa Fe Vegetables Superstars" by Bob Pennington; "Asters, Goldenrods and Sunflowers for the New Mexico Garden" by Tom Antonio; bringing birds to the garden by Dawn Graber; growing fruit for food, beauty and pleasure by Jeff Clark; growing herbs by Michael Clark; and "Enliven Your Garden and Save the World" by Nate Downey.
Demonstrations will also be given during the day, including how to propagate cactus and grow different species of cholla; how to compost with worms and without worms; seed collecting, saving and cleaning; rose care and pruning; starting plants from seeds; how to make hypertufa pots; and how to grow and care for vegetables organically.
Activities and exhibits are planned for the entire family. "This is an event that the entire family can participate in," Hirons said. "There will be a kids' corner where they will participate in fun gardening activities."
One highlight of the garden fair is the plant sale. "Some of the plants were donated by local commercial greenhouses, but many were started by our Master Gardeners in the hoop house located at the fairgrounds," Hirons said.
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Did you know that National Park Week is April 20-28, 2013?
Did you know that there are 401 national parks? That they include seashores, battlefields, historic homes, archaeological sites, and spectacular natural areas?
Did you know there is at least one national park in every state?
Did you know that 99 percent of counties in America have recreational facilities such as playgrounds and trails funded by the National Park Service's Land & Water Conservation Fund?
So, if you are looking for something fun and fantastic to do with family and friends, head out to America's national parks where millions of stars light up the dark night sky, deer and antelope (and a few other critters!) play on the wide open range, and history is an unbelievable experience, not an exam.
The National Park Service is proud to once again join with the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America's national parks, to present National Park Week, a presidential-proclaimed celebration of our national heritage.
Be sure to pick up your free military pass to national parks! For more information, check this out:
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The Tesla Motors success story keeps getting better – this week shares of the electric car maker reached an all-time high after it was revealed that Tesla will soon be added to the Nasdaq 100 index. Tesla's shares have risen since news broke that it recorded a $11.2 million first quarter profit earlier this year.
On Tuesday Tesla's shares were up 2.6 percent from the prior day at $124.76. Even better, Tesla's shares have more than doubled in the last two months, and according to Barron's they are up a whopping 265% this year. Tesla's current market value is set at $14.2 billion, and the company is set to replace Oracle in the Nasdaq 100, which is an index of the 100 biggest nonfinancial stocks.
Tesla is continuing to ramp up production of its Model S sedan, and CEO Elon Musk recently revealed that the company is currently beating its production goals with over 400 units produced per week. By the end of next year Tesla hopes to double that number to around 800 units a week.
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well hello, did you have a good Mothers Day celebration? my mom is with my brother in Sweden, so he took over for me. I enjoyed more flowers last week, inside as well as outside. I worked on a new color design for a dear customer for the Joppe blanket, has some shopping success and thrifted this large set of crochet and knitting needles in a vintage case.
and, do you remember I teased you with an announcement last week? well, that big news is posted here on the blog later today. stay tuned....!
wishing you a lovely week


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wow Mike… what a beautiful testimony.. sounded so much like me!! Always wanting the approval of others… I am now learning, that doesn't matter anymore. You have done your best, and you should be proud of that!!! Don't let others destroy your enthusiasm in writing just because they didn't like it. fyi ~ remind you of a dream somewhere? 🙂


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Using Stories to Sell
Everyone has a story, and every company has a story. If you've been hired as a marketing writer to create materials for an organization, you need to share that story. Not only do stories help people connect to a business, but they also help to create a story in which the customer's experience can play a part in the story.
What does this mean? When Company A talks about how they grew from a small mom and pop business into a multi-million dollar company, it's going to attract attention. If a writer includes details that that make this story stand out, the story becomes a part of the branding message and a way to learn more about how a company does business.
Company A seems like the place where hometown values are the foundation, a place where people can come to talk with real people. Even though they might have grown into a monstrous organization, knowing the story helps make the organization seem accessible to its customers and prospects.
A story can show up on a website or in marketing materials distributed through other channels. The story can be a part of the commercials and promotions, helping to drive the details into the minds of the audience.
The story doesn't have to be heartbreaking and it doesn't have to be unbelievable. As long as the story is true and it connects with the audience in some way, it will work.
Stories sell companies, no matter what their products or services might be. As a writer, you need to find that story, write it, and make it memorable. When you do, the company begins to write a new chapter for its future – a story of ongoing success.
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on 3rd, January 2013 at 5:46 pm
Crafting a great piece of content such as the company story creates a piece of evergreen content that can be used to drive visitors to a website over and over again. As this content is specific to the company rather than its products or services, it is easy to update the content to keep it fresh and relevant. Adding any awards the company receives or if the business is expanding or renovating are all nuggets of information that can continue to build a strong story.
on 3rd, January 2013 at 6:26 pm
Thanks for the insightful comment. Happy New Year!


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The Community Matters Surgery model is based on the Social Media Surgery model, however this is a starting point and we will evolve the surgeries to best fit the needs of those who attend.
Until that point, we are following the basic principles of the Social Media Surgery.
Find some links to FAQs on the Social Media Surgery website that may help explain the concept a little better.


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I have at long last started on an altered text book. The title of the original book is Making It Up, which I like quite a lot, so may keep even though to be true to the essence of The Humument the title should be altered too. But, it is my book soooo I can do what I like :).
My aim is to alter the whole book – 248 pages woohoo. I think I will set up a blog specifically for this project á la Maz and her Neglible project – yay you my friend!
In case you cannot see the text it reads:
stories – the refuge
satisfying wisdom
internal narrative
gods and goddesses
the mythology of imagined alternatives
the whole climactic life
spun off in arbitrary absolute.
Good eh!
This would be prompt 3 from InsideOut-Europe journalling group. Um, I am catching up lol – we are up to prompt 15 – 16 come this Friday. Disgraceful eh seeing as I am the one who sets the prompts ….great example! ;oD.
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Where have you been. I'm having trouble.
I was about to lose. I pleaded, will you explain.
Dennis was on his heels. The police officer knew.
I shook, but he didn't tell. I wouldn't tell them. I co-ordinate our stories. I call them on the phone. He forbid it.
Am I allowed to go? You have no idea, I'm at risk. This is crazy.
I was away.
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I didn't have much time for observing this summer, let alone going through any data and processing for web publishing, so now that I have a little more free time, I'm trying to go back and post some interesting observations from months ago. Bear with me, please.
On July 4, Bill, Javier, and I spent the night observing at Conway Observatory, tracking down the historic close conjunction of asteroids 1 Ceres and 4 Vesta, among other things. As morning twilight brightened the eastern sky, Bill and Javier left. I was finishing closing the observatory, and was also about to leave when I noticed a beam of pinkish-orange light jutting above the horizon, about where the Sun should rise. I stayed at the observatory nearly another hour documenting this rare sight through photos. It could still be seen even after sunrise, and was even visible for awhile when I was driving home. I found it interesting to watch as the intensity and color of the Sun pillar changed over time. Here are some of my photos.


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Thursday, May 2, 2013
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ENGLAND! I am jealous. Have lots of tea and scones on my behalf. :)ReplyDelete
I'm glad your tests are over! I'll keep my fingers crossed for you! (Also I cannot wait to get my hands on The Whatnot.)
I'm about to go into my last finals week ever, so that's grand. Also terrifying. But mostly kind of awesome. :)Replies
We shall. Tea is actually planned, because I've never HAD it there, so it's like in our schedule and everything xDDelete
Also, thank youuu. :) Fingers crossed for you, too!!
Crossing my fingers for you. I think it is hard to know where you see yourself in 10 years. Our goals are always changing, fluid. (Grown ups, too. My dad was 40 when he went for his master's in social work/to help kids!). Heck, even what I wanted 4 years ago is different from today!ReplyDelete
In other news, my birthday was yesterday (May 1st)!!! ~*~*~*~ I had Thai food and saw 8 friends, and bought some new clothes. Bought myself a book today as a present.
Hope you are doing well. It has been a long time - we ought to have a catch-up when you are not gallivating England with Taryn and your brother! xox
Or just fly me to Zurich again and we'll meet by the fat angel!!!!!Replies
RACHEL. IT WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY AND I DIDN'T KNOW THIS? Happy Birthday. :D And thanks. You need to come baaaack. But we should be able to meet up in the Fall. We'll find a fat angel to meet by in Boston.Delete
- BeckettMay 3, 2013 at 10:47 AM
"Honesty is rarely an immediately helpful trait in human relations." I lold.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Hello! I'm a new follower. I finished your book today and I really enjoyed it! It is one of my new favourites and I am very excited for book two.Replies
:D Thanks so much!! I'm really glad you liked it! Also, yes, huge relief. Now I just hope I passed them...Delete
- AnonymousMay 18, 2013 at 9:29 AM
JUST FINISHED THE PECULIAR AND IT WAS SO FRICKING GOOD MAN. Just wondering how old Bartholomew and Hettie are though?ReplyDeleteReplies
Woooo, thank you!!! I don't know exactly, but I imagine Hettie around seven and Bartholomew around twelve. Thanks for reading! :DDelete


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Bobby Dunbar was a four year old boy from Louisiana who disappeared on a fishing trip while with his family in 1912. After months of searching, detectives believed they had found the boy and returned him to his parents. Years later with the development of DNA technology, the descendants of Bobby Dunbar were in for quite the shock.
Bobby Dunbar was the son of Lessie and Percy Dunbar in Opelousas, Louisiana. Bobby vanished on August 23, 1912 while on a trip with his family to Swayze Lake in St. Landry Parish. Searchers trudged through the waters looking for any signs of the boy. They even cut open the stomachs of alligators and blew the lake up with dynamite thinking that would dislodge the boy's body from the lake. Searchers did find footprints that led to a railroad track, that paired with rumors of a strange person being seen in the area led the Dunbars to believe that Bobby had been kidnapped. The people in town got together and raised a total of $1,000 to put towards a reward for Bobby's return "no questions asked".
After eight months of searching investigators found a boy that fit Bobby's appearance who was in the custody of a man named William Cantwell Walters, a handyman traveling through Mississippi. Walters stated that the boy's name was Charles Bruce Anderson and that he had been allowed custody of the boy by Julia Anderson, the boy's mother who worked for his family. Police did not believe his story and he was arrested. The Dunbars were called to Mississippi to identify the boy.
There are different stories in the newspapers as to what happened when the Dunbars met with the boy. One reported that the boy yelled "Mother!" and ran to give Mrs. Dunbar a hug. Another said that the boy cried and that Mrs. Dunbar couldn't be sure if he was her son. The newspapers also could not agree on the boy's reaction to being united with the Dunbar's younger son. One claimed that the boy didn't recognize his younger brother at all, while another said that he called out his brother's name and kissed him.
The next day while giving the boy a bath, Lessie confirmed that he was her son because she recognized a mole on the boy's neck and scars on his left foot from a bad burn as a baby. There are reports that she shouted "Thank God, it is my boy!" and then fainted. The family returned home with the boy to a huge celebration and parade in town.
During this time in Louisiana kidnapping was a very serious offence and Walters feared for his life. He wrote a letter to the Dunbars from his jail cell pleading with them to call for Julia Anderson. He wrote "I know by now you have decided. You are wrong and it is very likely I will loose my life on account of that and if I do the great God will hold you accountable"
With the help of arrangements made by a New Orleans newspaper, Julia Anderson arrived in Louisiana from North Carolina to claim the boy as her son. Julia viewed a line up the police put together of boys the same age and appearance as her son. The boy showed no signs of recognizing her and she couldn't say if any of them were in fact her son.
Some say the boy wanted nothing to do with her because he was enjoying his new, more lavish life with the Dunbars, which included a pony and a new bicycle.
The next day Julia was granted a closer look at the boy and was even allowed to undress him. It was then that she said she was positive that this was her son Charles. Unfortunately for her, word had already got out about her not being able to identify him the day before. She was also painted in a negative light when it was found out that she was the mother of three children out of wedlock and two of those children were dead.
Julia was poor and couldn't afford the cost of fighting for her son in court with what little she made as a field hand for Walter's family. She was forced to go back to North Carolina, but later returned to Louisiana to corroborate Walter's story in his kidnapping trial. During the trial there were witnesses who testified to seeing Walters with the boy before Bobby went missing, but the court still found Walters guilty and the boy was returned to the Dunbars where he lived the rest of his life as Bobby.
During the trial Julia had met and became friends with people of Poplarville, Mississippi and decided to stay there and start over. She became passionate in her Christian religion and helped form a church in town. She worked as a nurse and midwife, married, and had seven children. Though her new life was going well, Julia never forgot about her stolen son and spoke frequently of him to her family.
It was said that the Anderson family grew to hate and even be afraid of the Dunbars believing they had robbed the boy from them. The Dunbars were under the impression that Julia Anderson was just a neurotic, confused woman.
Years later in the 1940s two of Julia's children said that Bobby Dunbar/Charles Anderson came to speak with each of them on different occasions. Bobby's son also later told a story of a family trip they took through Poplarville and his father Bobby said "Those are the people they came to pick me up from." The Dunbar family stopped while in town and visited with the Andersons.
Walters served two years in prison for kidnapping and then his lawyer was able to make an appeal and he was awarded a new trial. Due to the cost of a new trial, prosecutors decided to release him. After his release Walters moved from place to place frequently as he did before. He would visit his family occasionally and maintained that he was innocent. He passed away in the late 1930s.
The boy who was raised as Bobby Dunbar eventually married and had four kids of his own. He passed away in 1966.
One of Bobby's sons remember a conversation he had with his father as a teenager. He asked his father "Well, how do you know that you're Bobby Dunbar?"
His father answered "I know who I am, and I know who you are. And nothing else makes a difference."
In 2004 a reporter from the Associated Press questioned the Dunbar family and Bob Dunbar Jr. agreed to take a DNA test to put an end to the mystery. They compared his DNA with that of his cousin, the son of Alonzo Dunbar, the younger brother of Bobby Dunbar Sr. The tests show that he was not related to the Dunbar family.
The descendants of the boy raised has Bobby still consider themselves Dunbars because that's the only family they know whether related by blood or not.
What happened to the real Bobby Dunbar, lost at Swayze Lake, is still a mystery.
**The book "A Case For Soloman" was written about the case. The website for the book is HERE and there are more pictures of the Dunbar family, Walters, Julia Anderson, Bobby Dunbar and Charles Anderson. It also has great newspaper excerpts and photos. Definitely worth a look.


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As you're probably aware, PLS manages the telecommunications network which provides public Internet access and the delivery of the One Card LMS software. We're very conscious that there is never enough bandwidth to do everything that people want to do - particularly when we have limited funds to apply to this part of our business. (Having said that, our network bill is the largest single service cost for PLS.)
So, with the challenges of people wanting more bandwidth, but with limited funds PLS continues to refine our services, look for improvements in what our providers offer and how much they will charge us for these services. We have been able to upgrade much of our network over the last 18 months or so to improve performance. These upgrades have been in the libraries' connections back to the PLS "gateway" to the Internet. This gateway has been a 60MB channel to the Internet.
As of tomorrow (18 June) this gateway will be upgraded to be a 200MB connection. We expect that this will deliver increased performance for libraries, and will be monitoring the network's performance to see what impact this has.
There are other advantages of this new service as well. One is that we now have the ability to filter what information comes onto our network. We are using this ability to filter out malware which could harm our network. However we are not using this to filter any content. The other advantage is that we have increased capacity to monitor network performance, which should help us to address faults more quickly as well as identifying network bottlenecks etc.


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Photo by Jeanne Sager After looking at these pictures of amazing pedicure designs, I look down at my own chipped lavender polished toes with shame. I won't be wearing my flip-flops today.
Photo from The United States of MotherhoodI may not be talented enough to create Jeanne's yin yang design, but mommy blogger Scout's ladybug design is achievable: Red nail polish and a few black dots. Simple and cute!
Another idea is taking this same ladybug design, paint a little lime green polish at the tip, French pedicure-style, and voila! It's a watermelon!
Do you ever create designs on your toes?


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i kinda regret how quickly i gave it up to him, but i just wanted the regular fucking to begin soon. ah we made good memories.
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only regret the things you didn't do in life
Calling slut
i did exactly the same thing aha
I feel like your living my life!
good girl
No ReGrEtS. You did it, it's done now move on.
"gave in"? Girls like you perpetuate stereotypes and produce guys who are assholes. If you like him/want to fuck him then by all means go for it, but don't "give in."
Ahh San Antonio!


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Saturday, June 21, 2014
Are you ready for "The Herman Thrice Series - Volume 2 - Seeds of Destruction" by CQ Scafidi
Sponsored by the Global Crop Diversity Trust, The Nordic Genetic Research Center (Nordgen) and the Nordic Council of Ministers, , all the major Agribusiness giants that produce GMO seed and agrichemicals, and major philanthropic associations, whose overt mission is to end global hunger and disease.
Held within the sumptuous surroundings of the historic Hotel Kamp, the Global Elite are meeting within the extremely tight security of its confines to discuss the future of Global Agribusiness. Often attended by the world's wealthiest people, the Summit is held in Finland because of its proximity to the key players who oversee the operation of the now famous Doomsday Seed Vault or the Svalbard Global Seed Vault located inside the Arctic Circle on a remote island in Norway, Spitsbergen.
It's time for Stan Gideon to act:
"Pack your bags tonight after your shift; you are coming with me to Finland to help with the Nord-gen Annual Conference of Nordic Ministers. Many bigwigs will be there and I need my best people. You are my best Sous chef and so you are coming with me. Questions?" Chef Gio stared at Stan with a look of impatience and arrogance as he waited for an answer.
Stan was a little stunned by his kind words, a rarity for Chef Gio, so after clearing his throat, he replied, "What time do we leave?"
Welcome to Volume Two of "The Herman Thrice Series"!
With his assignment to infiltrate the nefarious C.E.R.E.S. cabal, Stan was investigating their plan for global depopulation, while his young son was being schooled in the ancient arts of alchemy by his quirky project manager, Dr. Herman Thrice. Unbeknownst to Stan, Christian would soon be selected to hone his special talents as a Light Worker for the planet Earth. Via the power of Inter-Dimensional travel, Christian would join other "millenials" with similar talents at the Light Worker Academy located on a planet circling one of the Seven Sisters or Pleiades. It was here that they would learn that they are actually the next step in human evolution.
Utilizing the top secret information uncovered by his father, Christian would soon return to Earth with his teammates, to stop the depopulation agenda and return the planet to its original pristine condition utilizing their newfound alchemical skills. Will the father and son be successful at thwarting the ongoing attempts by C.E.R.E.S. to cull the human population through the systemic poisoning of the planet? Will they overcome the dark forces at work within the government to aid C.E.R.E.S.? Read the Herman Thrice series and follow the Gideon's as they work in tandem to save the planet Earth from its ultimate destruction.
The Amazon Kindle link for the story is: http://www.amazon.com/Herman-Thrice-Seeds-Destruction-ebook/dp/B00L6H9598/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1403385163&sr=1-3&keywords=CQ+scafidi
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Jan Heemskerk
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Heemskerk, Jan
Born July 30, 1818, in Amsterdam; died there Oct. 10, 1897. Dutch statesman.
Educated at law, Heemskerk began legal practice in Amsterdam in 1852 and became a member of the Supreme Court in Haarlem in 1854. From 1859 to 1864 he served as a deputy to the Second Chamber of the States General and from 1866 to 1868 was minister of internal affairs.
Heemskerk, a member of the Anti-Revolutionary Party, headed the government of the Netherlands from 1874 to 1877 and again from 1883 to 1888. In November 1887 Heemskerk's government adopted a conservative constitution for the Netherlands to replace the constitution of 1848.


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Biggish week to look forward to, no Batman Incorporated, though, that got pushed to the first week of July, we do have a new launch though!
- Batman/Superman #1: There's quite a bit of confusion surrounding the greater details of this title, but I'm sure all will be explained, and the pre release hype seems to indicate it's pretty good.
- Talon #9: The short crossover between Birds of Prey and Talon comes to a close, and Calvin readies himself to take on Bane.
- Batman - The Dark Knight #21: Bruce's girlfriend is dead, and I'm sure he has no problems kicking the ass of a little person, about it.
Panels of the week coming up, and look I may review the latest arc in Legends of the Dark Knight, but who knows, that may be tomorrow.


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Leave it to lawyers to combine the two favorite American pastimes: eating and suing. In various states, lawsuits have been filed or are being planned against the fast-food industry. Lawyers who recently received windfalls in fees from tobacco lawsuits are now eyeing fast food as the next opportunity for super-size awards. For More On Reckless Lawsuits, Click Here To See NRA-ILA Factsheet.
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One Ok Rock ~ Adult Suits Lyrics
can you hear me when I cry in desperation?
nothing comes along with my expectation
how much pain and ache you're feeling
I gotta change this situation
adult na kigurumi kiteru boku
kokoro wa itsumo fuantei tenbin see-saw
masaka no hatsugen de kouri tsuke kasu inrou mie gakure chimayou boku
kyou no ima kono shunkan ni hanatou tosuru kotoba ga itsumo ushiru gami hiku
zenbu dame dame nan desho? jaa mou houki shite!
hana kara nakatta koto nishi yo!! rariru rari rari ra
sore ja dame dame warui kuse dane! mou shinai!
douse kiserarete iru nara kime kime de ikou!
nani mo kamo ga kuraku kuraku mieru!
iru megane tsuki no adult na pachimon suit
hissatsu waza kakeru zero de zenbu keshi sarou ka? tsuyoki na boku
dakedo jissai wa yappo deki yashinai no migarusa wo ubaware ugokenai
sore de umai koto balance toreterun dayo!
kimi ni mimi moto de sore wo iu! sore ni shicha sukoshi *cd says 'kimi ni', taka sings 'kimi wa'
anmari janai? tte iu ka fukouhei janai?
douse kachime nante naishi kui gimi de ikou!
I feel this moment
no one can take it
sou nan kai datte tsute wara nakerya imi nai!
kyou no ima kono shunkan ga daiji nano! ubau kenri wa anata gata ni wa nai!!
zenbu dame dame! nani ga dame dame? nan deshou?
nattoku iku made hanashite yo!
douse herikutsu naberu ndarou? baka mitai
todome wo sasu ki de iru nara?
ima ga chance da zo!
English Translation
Can you hear me when I cry in desperation?
Nothing comes along with my expectation
How much pain and ache you're feeling
I gotta change this situation
Wearing an adult cartoon character costume,
My heart always has the see-saw weight of insecurity
Saying that my blood freezes and thaws like in a medical case, I've lost my way
Today's moment right now, let's try to break free, the words always pulling my hair from behind
Everything's no good, no good, isn't it? Well give up already!
It was useless from the start!! Getting wasted, wasted, wasted
Well that's a no good, no good bad habit, ne! Stop it already!
Anyhow if you've got your suit put on, let's get it decided!
Just about anything can look dark and black!
A knockoff adult suit with colored glasses
With my surekill signature move, shall we erase everything? I'm strong (laughter)
But actually, it's not possible at all, the casualness can't be moved or snatched away
And so, I've managed this skillful balance!
I'll whisper it in your ear! Come a little closer
It's not much, right? Isn't it unfair to say that?
Anyway, if there's no chance of winning, let's go out making fun of it!
I feel this moment
No one can take it
Yeah, there's how many chances, if you don't grab them, there's no meaning!
Today's moment right now, I'm an adult! I haven't lost more priviledges than you!!
It's all no good, no good! What's no good, no good? Isn't it?
Speak up if you agree!
Anyway aren't we arguing for argument's sake? It seems stupid
What if we just put an end to it?
Today's our chance!!
Akhirnya nemu juga trasletannya Adult Suits.
Masih dalam proses penulisan chapter x Pathetic Girl, ada yang udah ga sabaran? Hehehe :D
Selamat Siang
Kapan-kapan Main Lagi Ya...


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Rear Adm. Nancy Norton has run everything from a communications station in Bahrain to the C4ISR efforts of U.S. Pacific Command. Now she's in charge of the U.S. Navy's deputy director for cybersecurity, and its director of warfare integration for information warfare. Shorter version: she listens to the fleet's EW and cyber needs, and works to help fill them.
In February, Defense One headed to this year's West 2017 Conference in San Diego, where Rear Adm. Norton joined Deputy Editor Bradley Peniston for the latest edition of Cocktails and Conversation.
Watch their discussion, here:


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Philanthropy Update
Kellogg Foundation Sets Up Fund To Tap 'Youth Philanthropy'
To honor the upcoming 75th anniversary of the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation, its leaders wanted to establish a grant that would
represent the organization's main interests.
To that end, they have set up a new fund that will support "youth philanthropy," a program that folds philanthropy into service learning and sprinkles some youth-leadership on top.
By 2005, when the anniversary occurs, officials plan to "hold up the work of the fund to show people what the foundation really stands for: young people as valuable resources," said Bob Long, the vice president of programs for the Battle Creek, Mich.-based foundation.
The $5 million fund "is intended to provide money, knowledge, networking, and support services for young people who want to create new and inspiring engagement strategies," Mr. Long said.
A 14-member board, including eight young people, at the National Service Learning Partnership at the Academy for Educational Development in New York City, will select eight sites this summer to take part in the program.
Grantees will be consortia directed by young people, between the ages of 12 and 19, with the help of such partners as community-engagement organizations, school districts, or faith- based groups.
Each consortium will be given $400,000 over four years, and will be expected to raise $20,000 from its community. At least $40,000 must be used yearly to finance a dozen or more local mini-grants chosen by a local "youth board."
The program will give young men and women the opportunity to "decide what are the pressing problems and how do we address them," said Kenneth Holdsman, the director of the youth-philanthropy fund.
After two years, the youth boards and their partners will have to draft "impact plans" to determine how they can effectively make lasting changes in their communities, he said.
"People say we're the future, but we're really the present," said Lauren Pickering, an 18-year-old high school senior from Harbor Springs Mich., who is a member of the council selecting the grantees. "Why wait for the future when you can do something now?"
Entrepreneurs Wanted
The NewSchools Venture Fund is looking for a few good entrepreneurs.
Part of a small genus of charitable organizations known as venture philanthropists, NewSchools offers money and management expertise to groups with innovative ideas about improving education. Some of its biggest investments in the past year have been to expand networks of charter schools. ("Venture Fund Seeds School Innovations," April 24, 2002.)
Now, the San Francisco-based enterprise is putting new energy toward directly improving regular public schools. At NewSchools' annual "summit" of education leaders, held May 1 in Palo Alto, Calif., fund officials announced plans to raise at least $20 million to finance ventures aimed at helping school districts become better- performing organizations.
The Performance Accelerator Fund, as the group calls it, will focus on four areas: efforts to recruit and train teachers and administrators; tools for assessing student progress; programs that increase instructional time, such as after-school tutoring; and curricula that are proven, by research, to improve student achievement.
Those were the top needs identified by district leaders interviewed as the venture fund planned its new project, said Kim Smith, the chief executive officer of NewSchools.
"Educators just don't have the tools to do what we ask them to do," she said. "So we need to go out and find entrepreneurs to provide those tools to them."
Groups that win NewSchools' support may come from either the for- profit or nonprofit world. As an example, Ms. Smith points out that some technology start-ups could have good ideas for helping teachers better gauge student learning.
Some ventures that NewSchools already has invested in could get additional infusions from the new fund. One of the earliest members of the philanthropy's "investment portfolio," for instance, was New Leaders for New Schools, a New York City-based nonprofit that's piloting an apprenticeship program for novice principals—an effort that also fits under the accelerator fund's areas of focus.
Any group that seeks NewSchools' backing must undergo its rigorous screening process. Like the venture-capital firms it seeks to emulate, NewSchools subjects potential investments to intense scrutiny to determine which seem likely to bear fruit.
Still, Ms. Smith expects that NewSchools will have plenty of good ideas to choose from. "The entrepreneurs emerge," she said, "when they think there's capital to help them grow."
Youth Helping Youth
When the intern at the Chicago-based 11-10-02 Foundation first proposed the idea, Greg Forbes Siegman, the founder of the volunteer group that funds college scholarships, wasn't sure the young man could pull it off. After all, it wouldn't be easy for 18-year-old Kris Ekdahl to raise enough money to finance one of the $5,000 scholarships the foundation awards.
But he gave the enthusiastic Mr. Ekdahl the go-ahead anyway. "We said that's outstanding if you want to try," Mr. Siegman said.
Six months later, with the help of four friends, Mr. Ekdahl had raised nearly $10,000 by babysitting, holding a fund-raiser and auction, and writing successful grant proposals.
That amount is enough to pay for two foundation scholarships, which generally are given to students who, because of their less-than-exemplary grades or other complicating factors, wouldn't ordinarily qualify for such aid. ("Scholarship Fund Seeks Hidden Talents in Average Students," June 6, 2001.)
Mr. Ekdahl, a straight-A student who plans to attend Princeton University this coming fall, "knew that there is a lot more to life than just what your GPA is," said Mr. Siegman.
The college-bound senior from the Latin School of Chicago was rewarded for his hard work April 26 with a Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Service, sponsored by the American Institute for Public Service. The Washington-based institute was co-founded by the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Coincidentally, Mr. Siegman received the same award three years ago for his work with the 11-10-02 Foundation, named after the date of his 30th birthday.
Mr. Siegman said he hopes that the example Mr. Ekdahl set will show business and organization leaders "that if they give a young person an opportunity to do more than just type fast, they will really make the most of it."
—Michelle Galley [email protected] & Jeff Archer [email protected]
Vol. 22, Issue 36, Page 11Published in Print: May 14, 2003, as Philanthropy Update
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Sunday, 16 November 2014
LOTV Sneak peek...So Sweet
Hi..these two sweet ones
are "" Secretly Yours ""
another one of the 10 new release LOTV
stamps available very soon :0)
the papers are from the Antebellum,
Always and Forever pads
and the sentiment is an Everyday Grungy Message stamp.
i have coloured with distress markers
and used weathered wood for the shading around them.
love faux stitching and the double one around the edge
is a stamp from the Babies Companion stamp sheet,
added some lace,star charm,pearls and a button.
thank you for stopping by,
have a lovely Sunday...hugs all.Lou.xxxxxx
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- Natalia Smith said...
Two adorable cards, love the sweet images is beautiful x
- Sunday, 16 November, 2014
- Debby said...
this card is so lovely, love your stamped image and you colored it so beautyful this card is stunning
hugs Debby
- Sunday, 16 November, 2014
- Carol S. said...
I think this has to be my favourite of the new images so far. And of course your card is adorable, as always. Hugs, Carol S.xx
- Sunday, 16 November, 2014
- Wendy Nicola Jackson said...
Gorgeous images, just love those! Your colouring is amazing Lou. You have a really special and unique style. I <3 it! Big hugs, Wends x
- Monday, 17 November, 2014
- Pollard Carole said...
just fabulous and what a stunning design this stamp is just so lovely. Well this will be the first for the list I love it. Love and hugs Carole x
- Monday, 17 November, 2014
- Jane Lardner said...
Lou, love these cards. The little dies that you have put a brad through where did you get them from, like this idea. Jnae
- Monday, 17 November, 2014
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--The lost Romanov
is a fiery, stubborn, beautiful redheaded
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Google has announced new changes in Mobile search results which includes the following two.
Removed Mobile Friendly label from Google Mobile Search Results
Google has officially removed mobile friendly label from the search results. Before 2 years, Google added mobile friendly label next to the mobile friendly sites in their search results. Mobile friendly label helped the users to find pages where the text and content were readable without zooming the page and the tap targets were appropriately spaced. The removal of the mobile friendly label does not mean that mobile friendly ranking algorithm is not being used. Google says that it is simply removing the label because it has become unnecessary as 85% of the sites are mobile friendly now. This is an aesthetic change made by Google to keep the search results uncluttered. So, if you don't see the mobile friendly label next to your site, don't panic.
The mobile friendly test will remain active and you will still get the report for mobile usability in search console.
Pages with intrusive interstitials to rank low
Pages those are mobile friendly also show intrusive interstitials to users. Such interstitials obscure the content which is available on the page and which is being indexed by Google. This makes the users more frustrating as they are unable to access the content that they were expecting to see when they reach the page.
Pages that show intrusive interstitials offer a poor experience to the users than other pages where the content is immediately accessible to the users. So Google has announced that the pages where the content is not easily accessible to the users may not rank high in the search engines.
Given below are some of the examples of interstitials which might get your page ranking low
- Showing a pop up that covers the main content of the page
- Displaying a standalone interstitial which the user has to close before accessing the main content
- Using a layout with above the fold portion of the page similar to a standalone interstitial which cover the original content of the page
Here are few examples of interstitials which can be used properly and will not be affected by Google's new algorithm
- Interstitials that appear with regard to a legal obligation such as cookie usage or for age verification
- Interstitials that use only a reasonable amount of space on the page and can be easily closed by the users
- Login Dialogs where content cannot be publicly indexable, which includes private content.
This move of Google towards interstitials is meant to keep the mobile web as an environment that is competitive to the world of Apps. So by avoiding poor quality interstitials, you will help your users and your Google traffic.
This change is one of the hundreds of ranking algorithm used by Google. The intent of the query still remains an important factor. If you have relevant content on your page, it will still rank high in the search engines.


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I have been missing from blogger world for a while.
My family and I have been going through a very difficult situation: the lost of a loved one.
I know that our faith will give us the strength to get through this painful moment.
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As part of a Swedish TV show looking into what it's like to experience alone things you'd normally do in a social setting, they flew one Bob Dylan superfan, Fredrik Wikingsson, to Philadelphia to hear a Bob Dylan concert with only him in the audience. Besides being an interesting experiment and featuring some great Dylan music (albeit all covers), I was really struck by the (admittedly somewhat cheesy) follow-up questions they asked Fredrik, probing for what it meant to have this one of a kind experience.
In particular, Fredrik said that being alone made the experience itself probably more intense and powerful than it would have been in a normal setting full of other people. It also afforded him what sounds like the surreal experience of being completely mesmerized by the performance while it's happening (which happens often at a concert, I think) but then being very suddenly jolted out of that trance when he starts clapping alone after the first song and realizes how weird that is, how there is no acceptable way to act because that never happens--I can only imagine the mental whiplash!
However, Fredrik was conflicted about it, too:
I'm both grateful and happy that I was the only one there. But once I stepped out of the theater, all confused and dizzy, it could have been more intense if I had someone to share it with. In that way, I'm torn about the experience.One thing Fredrik usually loves about seeing Dylan live (which he'd done about 20 times before this) is to turn to friends and process and relive it together. Did he really play Changing of the Guard with a reggae beat? His harmonica playing is as good as it was in '66! etc. But with this experience, there is no one to share it with, he's ultimately alone with it. (Obviously the above video of the event, even if it were more than just clips of the songs, can never come close to the actual lived experience. [1]) That made it more intense in the moment, but perhaps undermined the long-term enjoyment of it as well.
Anyway, all of that is to lead in to a random connection I made between that fun video and another interesting tidbit I came across today, a post from By Common Consent titled "Life withers when there are things we cannot share." One of the things the author, Blair Hodges, argues is that a testimony only exists (or perhaps exists more fully) in a social setting. Leading with what he freely admits is a clickbait-y intro ("I don't have a testimony"), he argues that ownership of such a thing as a testimony is in some sense impossible:
I don't have a testimony because I don't feel like a testimony is something I can personally and actually have.
Especially not all to myself. I think a lot of Mormons recognize this deep down. After all, the setting where we most often use the word "testimony" is a group setting—a fast and testimony meeting. This is where we share our thoughts, beliefs, experiences; a testimony is really only such when it's being shared. It exists in the gap between me and you, or maybe in me and you, but not separately, not ever. Testimony is the narratives we create together, the truths we forge out of the myriad experiences and sensations of our day-to-day lives, stories about our lives, and testimonies are always interpersonal just like people are. You are not you without me, and I'm not either; we must testify and we must live, but only together.There's certainly a profound way in which this is true. It reminded me of the phrase "a testimony is found in the bearing of it"--in its original context the phrase of course is more about a reverent leap of faith than the social necessity of a testimony, but I still think it's apt in this more subversive context, too. A testimony is born anew every time it is expressed. We almost don't know what our testimonies really are until we put them to the test of trying to share them with others and see what words really spring to mind as we funnel our thoughts into narrow language, what the Spirit and ourselves feel the need to tell others (and ourselves) about our experiences and our hopes. Sometimes our testimony has changed, or the way it needs to be expressed has changed, whether because we've changed (for better or worse or just changed) or whether because we're in a different setting. We may have utterly transcendent experiences alone in our personal sacred groves, but if we don't or can't share some version of that with other people who have also been there we are torn much more than Fredrik was after his lonely Bob Dylan concert. That social aspect is crucial to whatever it means to "have" a testimony. Social experiences are crucial to spiritual life. [2] Ideally, a testimony might even be the best of both Fredrik's worlds: an intensely intimate, one-on-one experience with the divine--but one that others have shared. To be almost blasphemously trite, God puts on concerts for one every day.
So there you have it. Bob Dylan again illuminates gospel principles. Truly a prophet in these latter days :)
But seriously, I'm grateful for this beautiful, complicated world that we live in, and a loving God that watches over and guides it and helps us bring some order to it. I'm very thankful for friends and family and ward members to share my spiritual experiences with, and that they share theirs with me. I can't imagine how dry my life would be without all of that. And that is my simple, cheesy testimony of the moment. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
[1] In fact, in some ways the video is very different from the real experience. Fascinatingly, Fredrik has refused to watch the video of him watching the concert "in order to keep his own memories of the experience pristine."
[2] This social aspect also reminds me of Doctrine and Covenants 130:2 "And that same sociality which exists among us here will exist among us there, only it will be coupled with eternal glory, which glory we do not now enjoy." Fittingly, verse 1 of this section is about entering into sociality with Christ.


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Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark Juhas told Bach on Monday that he would agree to postpone the trial if she vacated the property so David can move back in with their two teenage daughters, Taylor, 17, and Hayley, 15. The ex-Hoff has until October 1 to pack and go.
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- CCSS.Math.Content.3.G.A.2 Partition shapes into parts with equal areas. Express the area of each part as a unit fraction of the whole. For example, partition a shape into 4 parts with equal area, and describe the area of each part as 1/4 of the area of the shape.
- CCSS.Math.Content.3.NF.A.1 Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a parts of size 1/b.
- CCSS.Math.Content.3.NF.A.2 Understand a fraction as a number on the number line; represent fractions on a number line diagram.
- CCSS.Math.Content.3.NF.A.2a Represent a fraction 1/b on a number line diagram by defining the interval from 0 to 1 as the whole and partitioning it into b equal parts. Recognize that each part has size 1/b and that the endpoint of the part based at 0 locates the number 1/b on the number line.
- CCSS.Math.Content.3.NF.A.2b Represent a fraction a/b on a number line diagram by marking off a lengths 1/b from 0. Recognize that the resulting interval has size a/b and that its endpoint locates the number a/b on the number line.
- Brainpop! Fractions
- Manipulatives: Folded papers into fractional parts
- Fraction Spelling Words
- Fraction Match Game (match picture with fraction)
- Explain Your Answer
- Everyday math resources in unit 8
- Read Tennessee example questions: http://www.readtennessee.org/sites/www/Uploads/Examples/3.NF.A.2final.pdf
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- CCSS.Math.Content.3.NF.A.3 Explain equivalence of fractions in special cases, and compare fractions by reasoning about their size.
- CCSS.Math.Content.3.NF.A.3a Understand two fractions as equivalent (equal) if they are the same size, or the same point on a number line.
- CCSS.Math.Content.3.NF.A.3b Recognize and generate simple equivalent fractions, e.g., 1/2 = 2/4, 4/6 = 2/3. Explain why the fractions are equivalent, e.g., by using a visual fraction model.
- CCSS.Math.Content.3.NF.A.3c Express whole numbers as fractions, and recognize fractions that are equivalent to whole numbers. Examples: Express 3 in the form 3 = 3/1; recognize that 6/1 = 6; locate 4/4 and 1 at the same point of a number line diagram.
- PBS Kids Video: http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/videos/biancas-new-pet/#!/seasons-1-8
- Brainpop! Equivalent Fractions
- Manipulatives: Everyday Math fraction cards, folded paper into fractional sections
- Color by number for fractions
- Memory game with matching equivalent fractions
- Various Everyday Math resources from unit 8
- Math Playground video: http://www.mathplayground.com/howto_comparefractions.html
- Fraction Top-It (using fraction cards from Everyday Math)
- Read Tennessee Example Questions http://www.readtennessee.org/sites/www/Uploads/Examples/3.NF.A.3final.pdf
Reflecting on the Unit
Fractions are such an abstract concept for kids to grasp, that spending at least three weeks teaching them is crucial for their understanding. We look forward to teaching this concept again so that we can focus more on helping diverse learners understand the concept now that we know what they are expected to learn :). One thing that we plan to change after having taught this unit is how this really helped students with measurement. Our students struggled when we taught them measurement before fractions. They had a difficult time understanding where 1/4 of an inch is located on a ruler. This year, we plan to teach fractions before measurement.
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Jackson, Mississippi, November 5, 1954: Former gubernatorial candidate and staunch segregationist, Ross Barnett, has assisted the black family of Helen Beatrice Barnes, 22, with a medical school loan. Barnes is a Negro pre-med student, who was born here in Jackson but is a graduate of Hunter College in New York City.
Barnes' grandmother, Harriet Watson, once worked as a domestic in the Barnett family. Apparently, Watson called Barnett, who practices law here, and told him her gifted granddaughter wanted to go to med school. Since the family had little money for such an expensive education, she asked Barnett how med school could happen.
According to Watson, Barnett told her that the state legislature had a program for medical educational loans, if doctors agreed to practice for five years in rural Mississippi. The family applied for the loan, last spring. They were rejected for reasons of race. However, the State Legislature changed the medical education loan law in special session, this summer, to allow blacks. Barnes reapplied. Yesterday, she received word she got $5,000 (about $41,000 today) for med school.
Helen Barnes is the only woman among nine blacks who were given the loans.
Since the University of Mississippi med school does not allow blacks, Barnes plans to attend Howard University in Washington DC, where she currently works in the Clinical Chemistry Laboratory. The other eight applicants will go to Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee.
The educational road traversed by Barnes has not been easy. She was raised by her grandmother here in Jackson after her mother went to work as a domestic in the affluent community of Rye, New York, a suburb of New York City. In 1939, Barnes, age 11, joined her mother in the North, not to live with her but to go to a Catholic boarding school for blackses and American Indians in Cornwells Heights in southeastern Pennsylvania.
The nuns there found Barnes to be extremely smart, but she was also headstrong, disobedient, and just plain obstinate. For her stubborn defiance, the nuns punished her time and again by forcing her to work in the school's infirmary. Oddly enough, the experiences of this infirmary punishment made her decide to become a doctor.
But, becoming a doctor was never a gauzy childish dream for this young, southern, black woman; it was an absolute fixed fact. Youthful obstinacy evolved into extraordinarily determined drive. Eventually, she attended St. Patrick's High School in New York City where she became an accomplished violinist, who played Carnegie Hall, and straight A student. Then, it was on to Hunter College, graduating Cum Laude in 1950.
Powerful persistence seems to be a way of life for Miss Barnes. She is now seeking entrance into a white male dominated profession, even as racial violence and animosities are breaking out all around us. By always going that extra mile on her road in life, she finds fewer women and even fewer blacks traveling with her. It could be a lonely trip for most of us, but not for Barnes. Her practical nature appears to mock racists, as she injects herself into white society, based on reason and abilities and sheer will – not skin color or gender.
Yesterday's loan for med school, originally suggested by Ross Barnett, was yet another big step for her in pursuit of—not her dream, but pursuit of her absolute unequivocal "fact"—being a doctor.
Of course, Ross Barnett and Helen Barnes veered even further apart on their individual roads in life. She became a doctor. He became Governor. Dr. Barnes injected herself positively into the total American society; Gov. Barnett became even more determined that the black race would never be allowed to do this. As usual, Barnes was right; Barnett was wrong.
Dr. Barnes fulfilled her loan obligation with much of her work occurring in the Delta. She eventually became one of the foremost OB-GYNs in the state.
In the late 1960's, after years of practice and delivering thousands of babies—black and white, she took her extraordinary medical talent in another direction—teaching at the University Medical Center in Jackson. For the next 35 years, her medical knowledge, disciplined will, and practical common sense approach to medicine influenced more than a generation of OB-GYNs of all colors.
To them, Dr. Barnes is, and forever will remain, a teacher, a mentor, and a close friend and confidant. She retired in 2003 but is certainly not forgotten.
The telephone at her home was constantly ringing during my interview. Doctors calling for advice. Doctors calling to take her to lunch. Doctors calling just to talk. At 82 years old, she is still quick witted and articulate on virtually any subject, and her legendary kindly, but powerful, demeanor shines through. Dr. Helen Beatrice Barnes is a part of Southern Memories never to be ignored.


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To the south, the twin peaks of Mount Elbrus, Europe's highest summits, dominate the skyline. To the north, the imposing pair of Mashuk and Beshtau protect the city, the former providing a panoramic view across the North Caucasus which sweeps across vast steppe, urban sprawl and leafy forest. At the foot of Mashuk's long mountain path, in a woodland clearing which has gradually grown into a tourist hotspot, lies a monument to the man who has come to define both a town and his generation.
Pyatigorsk is Mikhail Lermontov country, the North Caucasian spa town in which the embodiment of Russian Romanticism met his end aged just 26, at the hands of a fellow officer who did not share the poet's sense of humour. The duel lasted a single shot, and the site of Lermontov's death is one of Pyatigorsk's main attractions for travellers in the Russian South, along with a series of Soviet-era sanitoriums which continue to attract visitors despite maintenance falling in recent years. The town is also host to a Lermontov museum, in which enthusiasts can not only come face-to-face with the genius' paintings, poems and manuscripts, but also step into the room he used to dwell in, and discover artists inspired by and an inspiration to the young Muscovite.
Pyatigorsk remains a town for the romantic, a stunning natural beauty providing the backdrop to a bustling town, which combines its official role as administrative centre of Stavropol Krai with that of a picturesque postcard destination, restaurants and bustling shops surrounding leafy parkland as well as the imposing peak of Mashuk. Like the Volga town of Kostroma, Pyatigorsk is a town wrapped in metaphor - the Golden Age of Russian Romanticism hidden safely in its mountain home, not quite ready for the world beyond its frontier.
Its football team is no different. Competing in the Southern Zone of the Second Division, Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk possess a formidable home record, losing just three of their 13 games at Central Stadium and picking up eight wins in the process. After consecutive defeats to Alania Reserves and Dinamo Stavropol in just their second and third home games of the season, Mashuk embarked on a run of nine matches unbeaten in Pyatigorsk, conceding just five goals in the process and establishing their ground, one of the largest in the division with a capacity of 10,000, as something of a fortress.
However, away from home the statistics tell a different story. Aside from an early season victory over Astrakhan, not one of their five away wins has come at a club currently sitting in the top half of the table, with three of the bottom five on the limited list of sides Mashuk have conquered on their travels. Seven defeats and just a single draw away from Pyatigorsk has been the form which has cost them a chance at promotion back to the First Division, a league they dropped out of in 2008 in similar fashion, picking up just eight points on their travels.
To extend the metaphor, Mashuk's poor away form can be linked to their wandering manager, Valeri Zazdravnykh. Like Lermontov's Byronic hero Pechorin, Zazdravnykh's career history reads like that of a man fully aware of, and willing to break free of his own limitations, but ultimately unable to overcome those restrictions and thus bound to what he knows and loves. Almost 200 appearances for Dinamo Stavropol as a player was enough to trigger Zazdravnykh's wanderlust as a player, but the lure of his native South always stopped him moving on - other than brief and unsuccessful spells for Tajik club Pamir Dushanbe and Progress Frankfurt, the furthest he made it was Nizhnekamsk in Tatarstan before being forced back to a club nearer his homeland.
As a manager, he has endured the same fate. Of the six clubs he has coached, only an assistantship at Nosta Novotroitsk has taken Zazdravnykh further north than his home town of Novoaleksandrovsk, before he jumped at the chance to join Mashuk last year. His travels in the region have clearly given him an informed opinion of its footballers, and this shows in his transfer policy - of the 17 players brought in as part of a squad overhaul, ten are from other southern clubs. Whilst this can be attributed to the reluctance of players to move long distances for what is unlikely to be a large wage packet, it can only be expected that a manager as well travelled in one part of the country would have developed an encyclopaedic knowledge of its players.
Therein lies the problem for Mashuk at the moment - like Pechorin and their home-loving manager, their desire to escape and sample the sensations of life outside of the mundane is eternally tempered, both by the security of inertia and an inability to come to terms with life outside of their comfort zone. In the spiritual home of Russian Romanticism, it is perhaps fittingly tragic that Pyatigorsk's football team finds itself trapped in the same conundrum as one of its most famous characters. Mashuk's fans will simply be hoping that the conclusion to their story is more satisfactory than Pechorin's own resignation to fate.
You can read more from Rob at his excellent blog here.


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Hi everyone!!! so I'm blogging at 11:00pm! The Friday Mashup reminded me that I'm off to see my mom tomorrow and I needed to make her card ASAP! so thank you TFM! I hope she will like it :) ..have a great weekend!!!
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Hi Mandy, what a striking card. I love the way you've put the Apothecary Art over the embossed background. It makes the die-cut "M-O-M" pop. It's a perfect Mother's Day card. Thanks so much for joining us this week for the Friday Mashup.ReplyDelete
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Anne Wittenborg, News Director
"Each day at 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS, we ask tough questions and focus on how the issues impact Minnesotans. I enjoy being part of a team that delivers what really matters."
Connect with Anne Wittenborg
Previous Experience
Anne joined KSTP in September of 2000 as morning show producer. Previously, she worked at WEAU in Eau Claire and WMTV in Madison. In 2004, Anne left television news to produce home improvement shows for HGTV at local production company, Edelman Productions. In 2008, she returned to KSTP as Executive Producer for 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS. She was promoted to News Director in May of 2015.
Anne graduated from the University Wisconsin-Eau Claire with a Bachelors Degree in Journalism.
During her tenure at 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS, Anne has been part of many award-winning teams. Her work has been recognized with an Emmy for best morning newscast in 2001, an Emmy for best evening newscast in 2003, and an Emmy for breaking news in 2005.
Personal Interests
Anne is a Minnesota native and grew up in Marshall, MN. She considers herself lucky to have grown up in a small Minnesota town where she was raised to value time with family and appreciate our four distinct weather seasons. She currently lives in the Twin Cities with her husband, young son and pets Mr. Kitty and Sophie the English Lab. She loves fishing for Muskie.
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Each week, we profile 1-2 startups on each of our network of community sites.
A little bit of free promotion can lead to more clients or users, a key hire, or a new investment. Many times, that can be the difference between success and failure for a startup.
Startups are started, built, and grown by entrepreneurs.
Supporting the people behind each startup is as important as supporting their startup and their community, if not more.
Founders come from a diversity of backgrounds and celebrating the benefits of a diverse founder community is our priority. We encourage startups founded by minorities, women, veterans, and individuals with disabilities to apply to be profiled on any of our community sites.
With a network of sites across the United States (and soon the world), started.in helps founders connect with other founders in communities outside of their own. We foster local support and help facilitate outside connections.
If you don't see a site for your community, accelerator, or incubator, let us know and we can talk about launching a started.in site to profile startups in your community or organization.
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Become a coordinator in your area and meet some of the brightest business minds in your community.
Each week we profile 1-2 startups on each of our network of community sites.
There are only two criteria for being profiled on started.in:
1. Your startup must be active
2. No service providers
Sign up for the startup of the week newsletter in your favorite community.
Each week you will receive an email with a startup in your inbox.