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indigo dye, kasuri sampler
My next yarn dye will be with cochineal, which is a very precious natural dye. It is derived from insects that feed on the Nopal Cactus in South and Central America. Cochineal produces a brilliant red and is the only natural dye that is approved for use in food and cosmetics. Here is a photo of the dye. Isn't it brilliant!
*Thanks to the amazing Zee Boudreaux for fielding all of my questions and for helping me find dye sources.
One of my main interests for this collection and for my work all together is to study dye processes and apply it to my woven work. I have been working with Indigo which is a dye that is extracted from plants. It was once considered rare, however today it is produced synthetically. I found a source for natural organic indigo and here are some photos of the yarns I dyed yesterday. Some of the skeins I dip dyed for an ombre effect. The skein in the end (right) is my Kasuri Ikat sampler.
For my Kasuri ikat below, the areas on this warp that you see are where I tied a resist so that these areas would stay the natural color of the yarn when I dipped them in my dye bath. When I weave this warp, the white areas should create an arrow like pattern (that is, if I did it correctly). This warp is a test before I make the real pieces.
*Thanks to the amazing Zee Boudreaux for fielding all of my questions and for helping me find dye sources.


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Those dirty motherflickers! The birds that torment me
A bird has turned my writing life into a sit-com.
I write for a living out of a condo with wooden siding on the southwestern fringe of Portland, Oregon, a bucolic, normally quiet spot next to what might be described as a thickly wooded park.
A thickly wooded park overrun with woodpeckers, as it happens.
For the first several years, I occasionally heard the rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat (ad nauseam) on the metal flashing of my gutter. It sounded like a Tommy Gun going off. I'd run out of my writing room with Tabasco in my eyes. I had no clue what was in my flue.
It was a scene out of Woody Woodpecker.
Turns out that male woodpeckers, specifically Colaptes auratus, the Northern Fucker, pardon me, the Northern Flicker, beat their beaks on any hard, flat surface, including the walls of defenseless condos, to declare their primacy and find mates.
Apparently one of these motherflickers liked what she heard and got herself knocked up.
These males are a sexually liberated bunch. After copulating, they hang out with the females and help them build nests.
For weeks now, while attempting to write in my office, I've heard these little flickers drumming on the wall over my right shoulder. It sounded like a squadron of them. The noise got so loud that I loaded my shotgun.
Turns out they were building a nest. In my siding. On the other side of my TV.
I banged on the window now and again and watched the flickers flit away.
But when I wasn't home, they returned. Again and again, apparently.
I hung a stuffed animal (a ridiculous looking yellow monkey with brown spots) about six feet from this flicker sanctuary, and I returned to my work.
So did the woodpeckers, finishing their hole in my wall.
Now I hear baby woodpeckers inside my wall. Based on the noise, I figure she's given birth to about 400 of these little flickers.
When Motherflicker pops in with a beetle or a worm or a case of Schlitz, the babies go berserk. You'd think Kanye had come to roost.
I'm resigned to waiting them out, and I've been reading from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: "Once nestlings are about 17 days old, they begin clinging to the cavity wall rather than lying on the floor."
I figure I'm on about Day 9.
No word on how long until they fly the coop and I can board up their home for the winter.
For now, I survive on patience . . . and noise-canceling headphones.


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Brian Dove
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Born and raised in the Shenandoah Valley, Brian graduated from VCU with a BFA in Kinetic Imaging, a diverse degree where he studied animation, video, sound, web and game design, and other new media. After graduating, Brian spent a year living and working on a farm in rural Oregon before returning to Richmond to pursue a career in design. When he's not working on designs for Workshop Digital, you can find Brian playing music, gardening, or working in his home studio.


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Vine Street Christian Church celebrates a new season of TNT—a ministry spanning some five decades of joy! Read all of our announcements below!
Boardroom Bible Study Coming to Order
Charlie Biter invites the men of Vine Street to share in a Bible study. He says, "ars ago with Dan Mosele, nd later Dan Kuhn, we did a men's Bible study once a wee, njoyed by all. Now Thomas Kleinert has agreed to resurrect this tradition." It all begins on Wednesday, ept. 13. The group will meet at 7:30 a.m. in the conference room at Charlie's office in Green Hills, 40 Burton Hills Blvd., Suite 420. Coffee and tea will be provided, and the study will end at 8:30 a.m. Please R.S.V.P. to Charlie (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Elders Potluck Wednesday
Beginning this month, the elders will have their regular monthly meeting on the second Wednesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. To kick-off this new schedule, there will be a potluck dinner meeting for the elders to be held at the home of Martha and Roger Bishop. Dr. Jim Crenshaw will address the group about the role of elders in the Bible. Everyone will gather Wednesday, Sept. 13 at 6:30 p.m.
Living Our Call Making Progress
The Official Board heard two task force reports at its meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 30. Pat Cole, chair of the Endowment Task Force, summarized recommendations made to the Board for updating the document guiding the management of our endowment. Jim Carls, a member of the Financial Futures Task Force, summarized, too, the work so far of that group. Both pieces will influence decisions being made by leadership as Vine Street continues to move forward successfully with our strategic plans under the theme Living Our Call. These documents, along with reports already filed by previous task forces, are available in the church office for your reading.
Week of Compassion Is There
Prayers and donations are being offered on behalf of Hurricane Harvey and Irma victims. Please consider making a donation to Week of Compassion or to a relief agency of your choice.
TNT Returns for a New Season
We're celebrating birthdays and bingo this afternoon at2 p.m., kicking off another installment of TNT! The TNT Club is a shared ministry between adults with developmental disabilities, members of Vine Street Christian Church and community volunteers. This social group has been gathering together for over five decades, and it continues to rock the house with monthly events. Volunteers and party-goers of all ages and abilities are always needed. To volunteer for today's event, see Hope Hodnett right after worship.


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Dec 03, 2018
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Smith scored a game-high 21 points to go with five rebounds, three steals, and two assists in Trine's 92-63 win over Manchester Nov. 27. Smith connected on 5-of-10 shooting from long range and finished 8-of-13 from the field.
2018-19 MIAA Men's Basketball Player of the Week
November 12 - Jamezell Davis, Jr., Albion
November 19 - Jason Beckman, Hope
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Every now and then we like to mix things up a little. We've found that people tend to stick to the flavours they like best, but guys, you seriously have to try them all - we've got taster shot pots for you to sample every sweet and yummy flavour on display, so no excuses. We're introducing new flavours every now and then too - and that's because our lovely customers have asked for them, so we are listening!
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Today I sold one of my favorite paintings. It's hard to let a painting go, but it feels so good to know that it will be on someone's wall and not in my painting rack. And this painting couldn't have gone to a better home!
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New Oakland Nightscapes
After about a month's break from the studio, there are couple of new Oakland nightscape studies in the cooker. I'm also planning a slightly new approach to the paintings, stay tuned!
It's been too long...
Just a quick update on Rockridge Nightscape. I diminished the contrast of the tree's shadow in the foreground. Pushed back the lights on the horizon line and increased the contrast; alluded to windows in brownstones (town houses?).
Forest and Claremont, from photo to finished painting
I've become particularly interested in documenting my work, in tracking the development of a painting over time. In an effort to study and share the many lives a painting lives, I will post the history of a painting at the point when I've decided it is complete.
Below is the source photo, the study, the underpainting, and the finished painting of Claremont and Forest.
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back (and another new painting)
I've been working on Rockridge Nightscape AKA Liquor Video for 4 weeks. Because I only work on it during class - twice a week for three hours - each time I paint I look at it with fresh eyes. I made several major changes (at least major to me) this past class. Although the painting may look worse for it for now, the changes are for the best. The tree that was dividing the canvas virtually in half is gone and I've brought back the green leaves in the foreground. Next up: bringing back the depth in the sky and foreground.
And you may recognize this painting. It's a larger version of a study I did several months ago. I'm really happy with how the foreground is shaping up.
A New Painting and an Update
This painting is from a photo I took with my phone this past Friday night. It is the intersection of MacArthur and Park Boulevard by the high school.
And the latest iteration of "Liquor Video". I've been trying to paint only with 1" or larger brushes to keep the stroke loose and painterly and force myself not to fall into my old habit of overworking details.
Rockridge Nightscape Update
Latest iteration of Rockridge Nightscape, AKA Liquor Video.
Latest Work-In-Progress
The last month was a whirlwind. After EBOS I spent a amazing week in Bend, OR with my husband Ben's family. During the last three weeks of June we made an offer on a house, went into escrow, closed, and moved.
My new studio is not functional yet, but will be soon. I will share pictures of the studio's progress in my post.
In the mean time, I've been taking classes with Mel Prest at 10th Street Studios. Below is the painting I am currently working on. For those of you familiar with the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland, you may recognize the glowing sign for what I affectionately call "Liquor Video" aka Eddie's Drive In Liquors.
New Studies from the Studio
With the first round of Nightscapes nearing completion, I've begun working on a new series of studies. These ones are more abstract and less architectural than the first round. It's tough to know if they actual look like anything or if they just color blobs. They look like something to me, but of course I know what they are. I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Oakland Nightscapes Update
I've been continuing to work on my Oakland Nightscapes series. It's been somehwat of a challenging venture, I'm not particularly good at working from photographs not to mention low-quality photographs taken at night.
One of the particularly challenging aspects is the inability to fully understand the physical structures. Edges and relationships between shapes are indistinct. However, and I think I touched on this in an earlier post, this may be a good thing. The nature of these images is forcing me to try a new style, too keep my brush strokes loose.
Additionally, because it is not my traditional way of working I'm allowing myself to work using different techniques. Specificially, introducing charcoal and sandpaper into the mix.
Oakland Nightscapes, Continued...
I've begun painting the fourth large painting in my series of Oakland nightscapes. The reference photograph (below, middle) was one the first that I took in the series and the color study (below, right) was the first in the set of studies that I created last June.
The new painting is in it's *very* early stages - it's just an underpainting. I've probably only spent about an hour on it. BUT I really like the gestural quality it has and am afraid that I will lose that quality and by continuing to work on it. It's that fine line that I continue to search for - mixing looseness and gesture with line and fully realized form...
Paintings Series: Oakland Nightscapes
Now that summer is over and a certain normalcy has returned to my life, I've been able to get back into the studio and start the full-scale Oakland nightscapes in earnest. These paintings are based on photos that I took in the spring that I turned into studies (you can see both the photos and the studies in an earlier post here http://www.larahoke.com/larasblog/2010/6/5/reference-photos-to-formal-studies.html).
The goals is to create and ethereal space - something that feels not quite safe but is at the same time very familiar. To produce that effect I am developing the paintings slowly over time by applying lightly tinted semi-transparent layers of glaze. I use the classic 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 recipe to make my glazing medium - linseed oil, damar varnish, and turp. I am also working to loosen the brush stroke and am introducing line in the form of charcoal and graphite.
Video From East Bay Open Studios 2010
Here's a clip from this past weekend's Open Studios taken by Stan Goldberg, self pro-claimed Senior Dad. I come in around the 2:50 mark. The other artist included in the interview is Laura Malone.
You can also watch the video by following this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3R7Kiuh5aE


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Hope Breathes the Museum is a commissioned performance for the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney 25th Anniversary in 2016. Opening and closing the weekend celebration, the performance acted as a way to breathe in the past and exhale the future by using beat boxing vocal techniques. The work was performed by the international female acclaimed beat boxer Hope Haami.
Haamis vocal techniques were deconstructed by using forward and reverse play in connection to ascending and descending the entrance stairs of the MCA. The performer's body acted as a machine that swept the Museum's space from the past to the future. The costume referenced Janus the Roman god of time whose double-headed body symbolises transitions and rites of passage from the past to the future.
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Let's kick this column off with a little pop quiz.
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' latest federal funding consideration includes:
A. Increasing federal funding for special education programs
B. Lowering the student to counselor ratio in rural and urban schools
C. Providing increased funding to prepare teachers to support student mental health
D. Letting states use federal dollars to put guns in the hands of teachers
If you guessed D, unfortunately, you are correct and are not in the middle of watching Idiocracy.
"Education Secretary Considers Using Federal Funds to Arm Schools"...
While that may seem like a headline for The Onion, unfortunately, it is as real as real gets. The headline appeared in The New York Times on August 22. As soon as our brains finished running slap out of our ears from trying to comprehend what was going on, we decided this was a conversation Bitter Southerners needed to have. We cannot choose to ignore it if we truly want a better South. We are not here to talk about taking guns away from people. But we cannot stand by and say nothing when the Education Department's leader proposes using federal funds to buy guns for schools.
Here is a Cliff Notes version of the situation: President Barack Obama's update to President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). For many professional educators, the ESSA was seen as progress, but indeed not a policy without flaws. Praised by some and criticized by others, the ESSA did provide more state-based discretion over education spending. Under ESSA, there is a program known as the Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants. These grants are intended to serve high-needs students, and the funds may be used to promote a well-rounded education, improve school conditions for learning, and promote digital literacy through technology.
Now, the ESSA didn't specify some things verbatim. For example, it's not in the ESSA, but you probably shouldn't use witchcraft as a behavior modification technique, and you shouldn't write all your lesson plans down on the back of old Jack Daniels labels, no matter how much they make you think about the good times. The ESSA didn't spell such things out explicitly, because hopefully a touch of common sense was at play. But perhaps it should have, because now those funds might be used to fill the hands of underfunded, overworked teachers with guns, expecting them to add "law enforcement professional" to their growing lists of unpaid responsibilities. Some things you just shouldn't have to ask, but this is 2018, where convention and common sense are in the back of the bus while the slightly deranged driver tries to see if school buses really can fly.
So, in response, we write this letter to Secretary DeVos, and we ask fellow Bitter Southerners join us in the struggle. Tweet this letter, share this letter, print it and mail it. As representatives of the better South we all want, we can't sit quietly while the dollars that sustain our most vulnerable students might be redirected to further militarize our campuses and traumatize our teachers and students. If you're with us, here goes:
Dear Secretary DeVos,
About every day, we are Bitter Southerners, but today we are also Bitter Educators, Bitter Citizens. Today, we come to you not only from below the Mason-Dixon Line but from all over this country. We come to you today as teachers, counselors, social workers, administrators, bus drivers, professors, cafeteria workers, superintendents, parents ... as concerned Americans. We recognize the complexity and difficulties of your position and understand not one of us is perfect. We come to you today acknowledging that stories are multifaceted and current situations can move and shift at breakneck speed. However, we do not come to you today as naive, uneducated, or complacent.
You see, Secretary DeVos, we spend our days in classrooms, in hallways, and in cafeterias with children. We spend our days working to create a more informed citizenry capable of solving the complex problems of today and tomorrow, as we know those problems arise from the actions of yesterday. In our work, we include all people regardless of "othering" factors. We don't do this just because we have to. We do this because we believe this is how we continually strengthen our communities. To do this, we need some things.
Secretary DeVos, we need more funding for students with disabilities. We need special educators with such expertise in classroom management, people who can take the most complex social situations and create pro-social learning environments. We need counselors … a lot of them … not only to guide our students into the world of higher education, but to help our students navigate traumatic events and spaces with grace, dignity, and sound science. We need social workers, nurses, and mental health professionals at every corner of every hallway, with smiles on their faces and the budgets that will make a difference for communities and families. We need funding to expand our school models from a one-size-fits-summa-y'all approach into a differentiated and complex network of public community schools with the ability to offer student and community-centered setups.
It's a lot, we know. However, we can take one thing off your plate. We don't need guns. Teachers don't want to shoot anyone. We understand that tragedies happen, and we are prepared to protect our students with our lives, as many of our colleagues have done before us. But we are teachers. We teach. We read. We learn. We connect. We know of no data suggesting that placing deadly weapons into our hands would have any positive impact on the lives of our students. We understand how those outside the field may think this reasonable, but we hope you'll trust our professional judgment.
We want para-professionals, not .45-caliber parabellums. Heavens to Betsy, Betsy. Please listen. We are wasting time. We can no longer stand by and allow you to prioritize corporate interests over the lives of students and community interests. We hope you will take our message seriously and stop this senseless legislation before it takes even more money from teachers, students, and schools. We would be happy to sit down and discuss this further.
Just know, we are not the only Bitter Southerners, so it will need to be a big table.
The Bitter Southerners
Good people, we hope all y'all will share this letter on Facebook and Twitter, send it to your friends and family and ask them to share it, and send your letters to Secretary DeVos. After that, call your senators and representatives to let them know you do not support using federal funds to purchase guns for schools. Please share your experiences with us by using this link. We know that together, we Bitter Southerners can work to make sure this proposed use of federal funds never happens and the money is used to support teachers and students in schools in ways promote learning and engagement.


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5 bed houseshare – guildford place – heaton5 bed, heaton, houseshare
Oooooh this is big!! It has really high ceilings, so if you're into pogo sticking or have a remote controlled helicopter then this is the place of your dreams.There are 5 great bedrooms, though a couple are really HUGE so you'll best be the first through the door to baggsy the best one. That said, if you plump for the smallest then you might be able to convince your mates to let you pay less - more money for the pub! And there are 2 full bathrooms plus an extra loo. Crikey, you've almost got a toilet each! There's a tellybox in the lounge, so no arguments about who's goes communal and it has freeview too, so if you're not satisfied with the rubbish that normal channels churn out, you'll have access to billions more. The astute amongst you may have realised that we're not really a normal letting agency. So much so that there's only really 2 of us - both of whom are awesome. One slightly more so, but that's a matter of opinion. What we can promise - cross our hearts and hope to die - is that we will treat you as if you were our own children if you live in one of our properties. And by that we don't mean we'll sub you money and do your laundry - in fact, if you stop paying your rent we'll come and duff you up. Bet your mum wouldn't do that, huh?
Mine would.
5 bed houseshare – heaton grove – heaton5 bed, heaton, houseshareContrary to popular belief, this is NOT where Byker Grove was set. That said, I think that Ant and Dec did once walk past the house on the way to the Bingo up the road, so that's claim to fame enough for me. Oh, and Wor Chezza's mum used to live round the corner, so you might get a glimpse of Chezza coming home to see Mam one day with her new tats. You know why? Because she's worth it This used to be a great 6 bed flat, but we thought "there's loads of great 6 beds - why don't we make it into an awesome 5 bed", so asked some men to come round with hammers and knock a wall down. Fortunately, the brief was a bit more precise than that and they did the right one and then made it look good again. They even made sure that the person in the now defunct 6th bedroom was out. Man, they weren't happy when they came home :o) So what to tell you that doesn't make me sound like a shiny suited estate agent It's got a geet big lounge come kitchen come dining room. A loungeitchening room if you will. Decked out with the normal stuff - sofa, fridge freezer and dishwasher - plus some not so normal stuff. All of the 5 rooms are brilliant - yes, one's a tiny bit smaller but only in comparison to the others - so there shouldn't be too many games of beer pong to decide who gets which. It also has a bathroom, a shower room and an extra toilet. Bonus! It's just a hop skip and jump from Heaton Perk which is a great cafe, but the last time I saw someone hop skip and jump there, he got chased down the road by a dog.
ALL INCLUSIVE 5 bed student houseshare – fifth avenue – heaton5 bed, all inclusive, heaton, houseshareWhat a great house. Mainly attributed to the fact that it contains such a great number. 5. The amount of appendages on a Star Fish, the name of the 80's most popular drink 5-alive (though some would still argue that was Um Bongo) but most importantly what all of your friends will give you a high one of when they see quite how incredible your new house is. Sorry, I've confused myself a little bit - I'm alluding to the fact that they'll give you a high 5. God, that was tedious wasn't it. Sorry, back to reality... so, the nitty gritty. 5 amazeballs bedrooms (I'm trialling that word - it doesn't really work, does it?), a superlounge (which is like the love child of a kitchen, lounge and dining room), 2 full bathrooms, a massive yard and a general feeling of envy from all your mates who come over to see you for an epic yard party!


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To The Editor: Last Saturday I took a walk in the Follies, now known better as the Seven Falls Resort. Those of you looking to reside there should be honored to have a chance to live on such pristine land.
Although it was a beautiful day and I was surrounded by soul-satisfying scenery, I was overcome by a sadness that I believe was emanating from the current residents.
The residents I speak of weren't paid off to move to another area nor do they understand why their homes are being destroyed. They were born and raised there; they are the critters.
They know and care nothing about Arnold Palmer, manicured lawns or gated entries. What they do know is how to survive in what habitat that is left for them.
So when the rabbits and deer eat your plants, the raccoons and bears invade your bird feeders or the coyotes nab your pets, please remember they had no choice in all this and are only using their instincts
Welcome to their community.
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The larvae of the Alcon blue butterfly, Maculinea alcon, are sly little parasites, tricking ants into raising them. They smell just like the ants' own brood — their surface chemicals are very similar. So the ants take the butterfly larvae to their nest, where they feed them, neglecting their own.
Unlike other examples of parasitism where just one host species is involved, however, the butterfly larvae mimic the chemical signature of two ant species. What's more, David R. Nash of the University of Copenhagen and colleagues report in the journal Science, one of the host species may be a refuge for the butterfly when the other host fights back.
Dr. Nash, who has worked with this butterfly family for years, said one question had always been why they parasitize more than one species of hosts. So he and his colleagues studied parasitized ant colonies across western Denmark.
They found that ants of one species, Myrmica rubra, developed resistance to the butterfly larval infection, through alterations in the chemical signature of their own larvae, so that they no longer recognized butterfly larvae as their own. "They're changing their surface chemistry as a response to the butterflies," Dr. Nash said. The other species, Myrmica ruginodis, "doesn't seem to be able to do this," he added.
So when M. rubra adapts and becomes less likely to be parasitized, the butterfly still has M. ruginodis as a kind of escape valve. "What's important for the butterfly is having a host available that it can exploit," Dr. Nash said.
Why one species can develop resistance and the other cannot has to do with their social structure — how the ants are organized and reproduce. M. rubra forms new colonies by budding, essentially splitting in two. So local colonies are closely related, and genetic changes that help it resist the parasite are passed along.Continue reading the main story
M. ruginodis, by contrast, sends queens out on mating flights and forms new colonies that can be hundreds of yards from the old ones. This relative isolation inhibits the spreading of genetic changes: what happens in the new colony, stays in the new colony.
A report in the Observatory column in Science Times on Jan. 8 about a study of parasitic butterfly larvae that infect two species of ants misidentified the journal in which the findings appeared. It was Science, not Nature.


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Half of the soup base is the house original, the other is the spicy version ($3.75). I cannot even begin to list all the ingredients in the soup base, but I do know that both were very delicious! There are an assortment of Chinese ingredients that are typically seen at Chinese herb shops (the ones that are pungent with rock hard ingredients that soften upon addition to boiling water). The spicy half is not too bad unless you start sucking on the chili or drink too much at once. The nice part is that the waiter will refill the soup base when he notices it is getting low.
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Countless rolls of beef for $7.95. Thin, little fat, and tasty! Not pictured are beef tendon ($4.95), beef tripe ($4.95), and spinach ($3.95). This place is really good at giving generous helpings of everything. It's definitely a good idea to have a bowl of rice to mix with all the food, especially if you want to try the spicy soup base but are unable to handle too spicy. All the meat was delicious, and the abundant spinach helped balance all the meat. Some of the leaves looked withered, but not a big deal considering how much spinach you're given.
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push through walls; make linzer cookies
I'm thinking about fear. I think about fear a lot, because I have been trying not to be afraid. I put a lot of work into not being afraid. I want to put my thoughts and my enthusiasm into the world and just see what comes back to me, because what is the alternative? The alternative is stagnation and wondering what would happen if you ever pushed yourself through your walls, so I just drink too much coffee and push myself through. It's been going well, I think, if only because it has changed how I view myself and my potential. It has changed how I feel about work and possibility.
At the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday, seeing the Kehinde Wiley exhibit, I realized I was getting a feel for looking at art, for understanding it. I've been regularly going to see it, reading a bit about it, and it hit me that through not being afraid of delving into something without any knowledge of it, I have learned about it and expanded myself. This is obvious. We are told this happens, but the active practice of being open is a very personal one. It's similar to the asana practice in yoga: you keep going and, all of a sudden, one day you're doing a handstand and your whole sense of your body has changed, and thus your mind changes. That's how I started cooking and baking: just diving in. Cooking, eating, watching food TV, reading food writing obsessively—that's how I learned. If you just follow recipes, you'll never feel secure in the kitchen. But these are my passions and my luxuries; whether one can cook or stand on their hands or not is irrelevant to their worth as a human. They're just examples.
Anyway, the fear of not being an expert off the bat, of fucking up: get rid of it. Drink too much coffee and push yourself through your walls. (I'm talking to myself.)
I think about an essay John Frusciante published before The Empyrean came out, "Imrael," all the time. The closing paragraph is my (long) mantra:
Trying and giving up go hand in hand. But it's trying that deserves the attention of our will. Giving up is just breathing out. Breathing in is the one we need to remember to do. Breathing out naturally follows. The important thing is just to keep breathing. To try and then just go through all that happens, including not trying. And so we hold our breath sometimes. These things aren't problems. They are just living. As long as the message you send yourself is that it is important to you to be guided by the creative force inside you, in the long run you are on the same path as the sun. Of course you'll seem to go up and down, and be in darkness and light. That's life. The reality of it is that you are a shining star circling through space all the time. So by making your own circular actions (doing some creative or educational activity consistently) you will naturally become more of what you really are. And you are that already. It's just a game to learn to be it more completely amidst environment, and the illusions of constant change and separateness. One entirety of everything is all there is, ever was, and ever will be.
The Kehinde Wiley exhibit isn't to be missed. It's an intense experience, being confronted with the erasure of men of color from art, being immersed in a beauty this world has trained you not to see. His portraits of women are striking, but they lack the depth and nuance and understanding present in those of the men. Or, that's my take from one walk-through.
Food, though. I've been eating a lot, per usual. A few weeks ago, I ate at the new Dirt Candy. The respectability Amanda Cohen brings to vegetarian cooking is a salve on my soul, and the meal was quite good—the Korean fried broccoli and portobello mousse, especially. I want to eat there again when it's more in gear, but who knows when I'll chance upon a reservation. My thoughts on some other places I've been eating will hopefully be published somewhere else soon. Yesterday, though, Sareen and I went to Little Choc Apothecary, a new completely vegan creperie in Williamsburg. We had a mushroom and spinach crepe with added Treeline cashew cheese, plus the Masala crepe, which has pumpkin curried tempeh, almonds, and hemp seeds. Both these savory crepes were rather divine, the mushroom especially, which brought rustic flavors to perfection. For sweet, we did raw berry chia jam with shredded coconut and a classic "newtella" with banana. I tapped out with only a few bites left on the plate, but I was in actual heaven, easily enjoying flavors I'd missed so much.
For the Oscars last night, I made some Linzers. These are an almond shortbread cookie rolled out and cut to be sandwich cookies, with powdered sugar sprinkled on top and raspberry jam in between.
Ingredients (yields 10 sandwich cookies)
200 g butter
106 g sugar
1/2 t vanilla extract
1/2 t almond extract
260 g flour
40 g almond meal
1. Make the almond meal! Unless you bought some. To make it, blanch almonds by submerging them in boiling water for just a minute so that you can easily remove their skins. Then put them in a food processor until it you have small almond pellets, because you want to stop processing them before it gets to the almond butter phase. If the chunks start to get bigger, you've gone too far. Go farther and make almond butter. If not, though, you've got fresh almond meal.
2. Beat the butter in the stand mixer until it's smooth, then add the sugars. When those are combined, toss in the extracts.
3. Add the flour and almond meal, and mix until a smooth dough forms around the paddle.
4. Wrap the dough tightly in plastic wrap and let it chill in the fridge for at least an hour before you roll it out.
5. Preheat the oven to 350. Cut out your cookies, put them in for 6 minutes, rotate, then go another 6 minutes.
6. Once they're cool, shake powdered sugar onto your top layers and spread a thin layer of jam on the bottom ones. Form your sandwiches, then, using a pastry bag fitted with a wide, round hole and filled with jam, add your dollops to the center. This is best Linzer formation technique that I have found.


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Re-wild that athlete in you, achieve more and have fun!
We believe that movement can be fun; freedom to move can change not just our lives, but also the way we think.
Take anything out of its natural environment and it suffers, but put it back in and it flourishes. We are not meant to live in a confined environment. Depression, stress, chronic pain, these are symptoms. Modern society conditions us to consider this as normal and unavoidable. We don't think so. We have the potential to go beyond the temporary goals of losing fat/gaining muscle.
Training should be playful, (think like a child when you are moving), it should be challenging, at times intense, and rewarding. We've been inspired by various methods including Wildfitness, Contemporary Dance, Parkour, Gymnastic, Strength Training, Boxing, Mayi Thai, Kettlebells, Olympic Lifting, Exuberant Animal ( Frank Forencich), POSE, Movnat Inspired Training, Animal Flow.
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First, let me start by saying that I have no doubt you're pretty savvy when it comes to handling all kinds of business-related tasks and projects.
As entrepreneurs, we need to be.
Most of us start out wearing a ton of "hats" because we run our businesses either by ourselves, or with a super small team.
Once you've been in business for a while though, and you're ready to grow or scale, you need a solid marketing strategy in place. To truly take your business to the next level today, that marketing strategy needs to be digital.
Yes, digital. Marketing your business online is one of the most efficient and cost effective ways to attract the type of clients/customers you want to do business with.
And I'm willing to bet you're probably already well-aware that simply "understanding Facebook" or "tweeting from time-to-time" is no longer enough. You need a sophisticated online marketing strategy that will help you grow your business in a big way.
Still, coming up with the right plan, and then implementing that plan, can require a hefty investment of time and energy.
Time and energy that should be spent providing great products and services that are worth marketing.
If it's time for your business to get serious about online marketing and social media, and you're stretched a little thin in terms of time and energy, don't worry.
In this post, I'll walk you through three tips you can use to hire a social media professional who will save you time, reduce your stress, and help you reach your most important online marketing goals.
Know the right time to hire.
I already touched on this a bit before, but there are challenges you might face in the process of establishing and growing your social media presence. The following challenges could actually be indicators that it's time to hire a social media professional:
Struggling to make sense of a specific social media site (or multiple sites) you think you should be using for your business
Getting on social media to post for your business, and being completely confused because the site has updated/changed…again
Having a lot of fans/followers, but not knowing how to get them to do business with you
Forgetting or not knowing what to post, or how to effectively check-in and engage with followers on a routine basis
Of course, there are lots of other challenges you might experience along the way. But experiencing any of the above is a good indicator that it's probably time to seek at least some amount of social media help.
Here's a bonus tip: If you aren't totally sure about hiring someone to handle social media for you, but you're still frustrated trying to do it on your own, consider booking a quick phone consultation with 1-2 social media professionals. He or she should be able to understand, and answer questions about, most of the issues you're dealing with. This approach will allow you to get the answers you need, while vetting professionals who could be great to work with when you're ready to hire.
2. Consider the "little guy."
When you are ready to hire someone to handle your social media, you'll need to decide if you want to work with an agency or a small business/consultancy.
Now, I'll be honest here and say that I'm a little bias in suggesting you should consider working with a small business/consultancy. My company offers only three services: social media management, copywriting and analytics. I don't run a giant operation. I don't have endless resources or dozens of employees who handle specific tasks.
But do you know what else I don't have?
I don't have red tape or bureaucracy holding me back from doing whatever I can to help my clients reach their goals.
I don't have a ton of overhead because I don't rent office space, my husband handles IT and I'm pay close attention to how much I'm investing in my tools. And you can bet I pass those savings on to my clients.
I don't have all the craziness that comes along with running an agency to distract me from my work. Instead, I'm able to build space in my schedule to develop my skills and focus on what I do best -- social media management, copywriting and analytics.
Plus, clients contact me directly and I'm always just a phone call away. And here's a bonus we all can appreciate these days: you don't even have to go through an automated directory to get to me!
With the little guy, you get direct access to the people who are responsible for your marketing success. You get highly trained professionals who are focused on your business. And you get better rates, because the little guy typically pays far less in overhead than your average agency.
So, just a thought. Consider the little guy.
3. Ask the right questions in the hiring process.
When you finally decide you're ready to hire someone to handle social media, it can be tough to identify a professional who's the right fit.
The hardest part is simply knowing what questions to ask, and what answers to look for. After all, social media is a full time job for a reason. There's a lot to know! And you shouldn't have to become an expert just so you can identify someone who actually knows their stuff.
Since this can be such a big challenge, I created a list of questions, complete with a hiring guide checklist, to help you identify a social media professional who's the right fit for your business.
You can download the question list + hiring guide checklist for free in my resource library. Click here to get access.
What are your biggest challenges when it comes to handling social media for your business? Have you thought about hiring a professional to help? Let me know what thoughts/questions you have in the comments below!


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I have a love/hate relationship with the Feast of the Baptism of our Lord. I love it because I love that Jesus, though he knew no sin, insisted on being baptized anyway. I love that it was for him, like for all of us, a moment of communion with God and the reception of the Holy Spirit. I hate that it is so unlike a baptism that anyone other than Jesus could ever have. I hate that we have to preach it every year, on top of hearing the story of John the Baptist three, or even four, times in a year.
My real trouble with Jesus baptism is how unlike ours it is, but the reality is that this has less to do with Jesus and a whole lot to do with us and our ancestors in the Church. It is the direct result of more than a thousand years of bad theology that has created a cultural norm of infant baptism. Infant baptism is good, both of my girls were baptized at a young age. It can even be pedagogical, as my friend and colleague Evan Garner noted yesterday, but the fact of the matter is that it should not be the norm. The norm, as it was in the early Church and as it is now at least given lip-service to be in The Episcopal Church's 1979 Prayer Book, is for older children or adults who are ready, willing, and able to take the vows of baptism for themselves. The need to "get the baby done" as Louis Weil so eloquently puts it, in order to save them from the stain of original sin lest they die and end up in limbo, purgatory, or worse yet, hell, has robbed most Christians of the opportunity to be an actual part of their own baptisms, other than looking cute and cooing at the appropriate points, of course.
Very few Christians have had the opportunity to come up from the water, literally in the case of immersion (again the historic norm) or figuratively in the case of ye olde sprinkling (the prevailing cultural model in Episcopal Churches) to see the heavens torn open and the Spirit descending like a dove. We've had the chance to remember God calling us "beloved" stolen from us by Augustine's inability to keep it in his pants, and that's a real shame. As I've said before, I don't believe baptism to be a salvific event, but I do think that an ontological change can occur in baptism through the gift of the Holy Spirit, if we'd only give neophytes the opportunity by getting over our own anxiety and bad theology and return to the norms of the Christian Church from the very beginning.
The whole sale revision of our baptismal theology that came with the 1979 Book of Common Prayer is older than I am (by at least a few months), but I don't see even the beginning states of a real trend away from infant baptism now 35 years later. I hope it'll change in my lifetime. I hope others will have the chance to experience baptism like Jesus did. I hope that in due time, the Church can get over the trouble with Jesus' baptism.


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IKEA Reading opens its doors to the public/
After only 40 weeks under construction IKEA opens their first new UK store in 7 years. We have been working closely with IKEA for 25 years, and have designed and built 12 new stores for them. Their latest development in Reading sits on a 5 hectare site with a store in excess of 32,000sqm and a new multi-level car park providing spaces for approximately 1,000 cars.
On Thursday 14 July the waiting was over. There is nothing quite like the opening of a new IKEA store, and IKEA Reading was no exception. Excited shoppers were ushered in with cheers from staff. To commemorate the occasion Nicola Clase, Swedish Ambassador to the UK, gave a speech. There was singing, which has become part of the IKEA opening tradition. For customers and staff the whole event made for a memorable day.
For Gillian Drakeford, IKEA UK Country Manager it marked the start of a significant period of growth for the business, with new stores planned for the coming years.
We look forward to our next project with them, and for the next grand opening!


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Weekend VIBES, am I right?! Let me break this down for you. First of all, I am obsessed with this style of jacket for my type of body. If you've been following me for awhile, you may remember this one from last Fall that I love. The length and the weight of this one is perfect as we transition into Spring. Easy to dress up or down as well.
I threw it over a super casual button down from Target, my favorite Good American jeans, and my go to Adidas Neo sneakers. This weekender tote is from the new Universal Thread line at Target and I absolutely LOVE it.
My jacket is Lucky Brand, and I actually got it from this wardrobe subscription service called Gwynnie Bee. I am doing a campaign with them, featuring several of their pieces over the next few weeks and this is one of them.
So here's what is so cool about Gwynnie Bee. If you have the same problem I do, which is that you have an issue being an outfit repeater (still working on it) - this is the service for you! You pay a monthly fee and they send you two items a month. You can wear them, and then return them. AH. MAZING.
So, this jacket is actually an example of something I would keep. I can see myself wearing it several times a week and I love the color. But over the next few weeks you'll see a few fun items that would probably be great for just a few times.
By the way, I am wearing a 1X in the jacket. A size 16 in the jeans. And a 2X in the button up.
For more info and to sign up for Gwynnie Bee, go here.


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When my friend Hannah adopted her son, I remember holding himwhen he was tiny and thinking how very heavy seven pounds was. Heavy with significance, heavy with glory, heavy in worth and joy. He wasn't my son, but I felt the weight of him.
When my mom died, Aaron shared how hard it was for him sometimes, because there was nothing he could do. There's no repair although I know he would have given most anything to mend that tear. But I remember, one of those last nights when all of us were so tired from no rest and deep grief, the way he stayed awake all night watching over mom so we could sleep. I remember waking up all through the night and seeing his face, lit by monitors and machines, guarding. Watching. Sharing in my sorrow. During that time he was listening to the radio and heard a quote about sharing life with another being one of the most powerful things we as humans can do. The quote is;
"A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved and a joy shared is a joy doubled"
True. There's so much happening in the world right now, things we would all give much and more to mend. We're solvers, us humans. But some things we can't fix. The damage is done.
So maybe what we can do with the desire to do something, is to share with one another our sorrows and joys. To bear witness to them, to hold vigil, to mark memories. As Ecclesiastes says to laugh with those who laugh and mourn with those who mourn.
This is the joy I got to share today. Two hearts so clearly at home with one another. Technically, I was there for video. OF which there will be no preview, today. I am too tired. But I confess I couldn't resist snapping just a few shots of these glories.
More, most assuredly, to come.


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10th Anniversary | Yeoman on the Front Lines: A Commuter's Daily Diary [From BA 42-100]
"My commute is 11 miles through suburbia on a single speed road bike. It's a bike route par excellence because nobody would navigate such a circuitous pathway in a car. To bypass busy streets and interstates I add nearly three miles to the distance, winding my way to work over small, hilly residential roads."
(Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 Notable Selection)
Friday 3/21/08 Work > Home
Alone on a bike at night in early spring it's like I own these streets. I'm the night watchman. Tonight I watch the night that nobody else does, here, alone, the only man alive in early spring. Past these thawing lawns, these new-blooming trees, these sleeping parked cars. Past these sentinel mailboxes and picket fences. Past the quiet houses of the typical American family, inside watching television as my flashing red tail light shines for just a moment off the panes of their windows.
Wednesday 3/19/08 Work > Home
Tonight is the night of old woman joggers. I spot three at various points on my ride. Occasionally the world is so sublime and temperate, the traffic so gentle and sparse, the streets so smooth and open, that I lose the benighted, self-righteous attitude of the urban bicycle warrior and remember why I started riding in the first place. It's fun! I'm a child again, swerving in wide, graceful arcs, making my own sound-effects to compliment the rushing air: "Whoosh! Shoooo! Weeeee!" At North Druid Hills Road I zigzag over the sensor long enough to trigger the light green. When I first discovered these sensors could detect a bicycle I wanted to write love letters to the urban planner who put them in place, and even though they don't always work, when they do it feels like a gesture of great benevolence and good will on the part of society.
On Laurel Ridge a brown rabbit with a puffball-white tail dashes across the road in front of me: good luck.
Tuesday 3/18/08 Work > Home
Nothing but fatigue. Sometimes I weave switchbacks up hills for the fun of it, and then there are the nights like this when I'm so weak I have no other choice.
Tuesday 3/18/08 Home > Work
Near Shamrock Middle School, a squirrel dashes into the road in front of an on-coming car. It happens right in front of me as I'm slowly pushing up an incline and my breath stops as I watch it dart beneath a wheel and hear the sound of rubber grazing across its back. Somehow it escapes, just millimeters from being crushed. "Stupid, stupid, stupid squirrel." The roads are littered with their crushed bodies. Their evasive tactics, evolved over centuries of running from wily predators, are useless against the unthinking, uni-directional motion of cars. Seeing a squirrel nearly die confirms the sourness of the day, and the only saving grace is that when I go down this next hill, the wind will rush into my face and I'll stop thinking entirely until I reach the bottom.
Monday 3/17/08 Work > Home
I fall in behind an exhaust-spewing junker on Willivee and cough and gag for half a mile. The streets are deserted and everything is frozen. Nights like these I listen to the quiet clicks and creaks of my bicycle, the thumpthumpthump sound that sometimes comes from the rear hub and goes away when I back-pedal. "Gotta get that fixed." I've been saying that for months.
Sunday 3/16/08 Work > Home
The cold tonight hurts my lungs. There's a breathlessly empty feeling to riding in sub-freezing weather. This morning it snowed and tonight I am wrapped in layers. My wardrobe is an evolved system based on warmth and wicking. Waist up from the inside out it is: a long-sleeve silk undershirt, an acrylic, severely pilled thrift store sweater, a wool Pearl Izumi biking jersey, and a polyester 80's Adidas warm up jacket. On my head is a fleece hat with earflaps and strings to tie beneath the chin. On my hands are fleece gloves with rubberized grips. From the waist down I'm wearing silk long johns covered by knee-length wool socks and heavy cotton work pants rolled to just below the knee. Many thin layers as opposed to a single heavy coat. No cotton close to my body where I'll sweat. Even in the sub-freezing night I reach home hot and flushed except for my toes, which are icy.
Sunday 3/16/08 Home > Work
Sluggish ride. Nothing inspires, not the blue sky nor the light Sunday traffic nor the brisk, clean air. My legs are weak and I don't want to pedal. I move incredibly slow. Supposedly a bicycle is the most efficient form of transportation on earth. Today I pray it will carry me through this aftermath of Saturday's tornado with a minimum of effort. Everywhere minor destruction: downed trees, dead squirrels, wooden flotsam and leaf matter washed up on the road.
Friday 3/14/08 Home > Work
Everything is dramatic today in the wind and sun and glare. Suburbia has a charged, expectant atmosphere. A cluster of American flags at the Marathon gas station all blow in one direction. On Willivee Road a toppled Port-O-Potty slides down into a ditch at an empty construction site. On Pangborn Avenue a mailbox flag hangs upside down like an inverted periscope. I pass a father and son on bikes going up a hill and take care to smile and nod so as not to seem arrogant. I remember how I used to watch adult cyclists riding alone and fast when I was a child, with a mixture of envy and inevitability. Today I am a model of safety. I am wearing my helmet. As I ride away I hear the little boy's voice and I imagine he is saying something like, "Daddy, that man has a very fast bike."
Thursday 3/13/08 Home > Work
Balmy spring day. I only feel like coasting. I take Katie Kerr instead of Columbia because it's a sooner downhill, even though I know I'll have to pay it back in just a few minutes. Today I am lazy and living for the present with no thoughts of what's ahead. It's rush hour and the intersections are clogged. When a line of cars is backed up at a light I weave through the line to the front, then mount the sidewalk until I get a chance to slip back onto the street again. Improvisation is essential. The sidewalks are empty because hardly anyone walks in this city, and if they weren't so bumpy and ill-maintained they would make good bike lanes. Biking in Atlanta is unregulated by convention or enforceable law, and with this comes all the freedoms and pitfalls of any un-established system. I do whatever I can get away with and follow just one cardinal rule: stay out of harm's way. My commute is about minding and finding the gaps, inserting myself into the space left unclaimed. Atlanta roads epitomize America's over-abundant space. Cyclists insert ourselves into that space and claim it as our own. We are squatters of the road. I wouldn't have built a world like this, but I am willing to work with it.
Wednesday 3/12/08 Home > Work
Bright, blustery day. Left turners hazard me all the way to work. First an oncoming red compact cuts into my lane before reluctantly slowing to let me pass. Then a hulking brown Suburban lumbers in front of me like a careless dinosaur as I'm speeding down a hill. The driver examines me with bovine indifference as I brake hard and grimace. He pulls into the parking lot of the Elk's Lodge Bingo Parlor, demonstrating clearly that bingo trumps biker. Then at a traffic light a gray Mercedes roars by in front of me, unwilling to wait the extra four seconds it would have taken to let me pass. Self-righteous and pissed, I can't help but return the favor five minutes later, cutting off a cautious driver who has the right-of-way. It's funny how small retributive acts like these seem to even the score, as if the cars were a unified enemy, and any act against me is a collective act of war.
At Lawrenceville Highway someone makes an illegal turn on red and gets honked at by three other drivers. I shout at her too because it could have been me she almost hit. What's worse, to be hit by a car, or to hit a biker? Horrible physical injury or horrible guilt? I can never settle on an answer, but sometimes after a close call or a near miss I know that I would give almost anything to avoid being hit. I would be the driver. Self-preservation trumps all.
Tuesday, 3/11/08 Work > Home
Gray, oppressive day, surprisingly warm but the air feels soggy and so do I. Waiting at Church Street a truck roars by so loud I cringe and shrink away. Day of hassles and tedious exchanges. The over-courteous driver at the four-way stop sign flashes his lights at me and breaks my rhythm. I'm squarely against special concessions to cyclists. It makes us seem like children or old ladies crossing the street. Atlanta drivers either dangerously ignore you or behave like you're a one-bike funeral procession. Mr. Courteous, if only you would have just taken your turn, assuming your right-of-way, you would have been on your way and I would have barely needed to slow. Instead I stop dead and watch you flashing and waving at me like you're doing me a favor. Like you're doing the right thing. To protest, I ride through the intersection excruciatingly slow. It's an unfair reaction to someone who just wants to be safe and nice, but I can't help it. I want to treat every interaction with a car as an instructional experience, but sometimes my frustration gets the best of me. I want them to understand that cyclists don't need favors or concessions, just fairness. Treat us as equal human beings, only without a ton of medal armoring our bodies. Sometimes I outright refuse to accept the courtesy-wave of drivers at stop signs and find myself in a standstill of niceties, each of us waving the other through and nobody going anywhere.
Monday 3/10/08 Home > Work
Drivers must think I'm too poor to afford a car. They must wonder about this big black bag, slung over my shoulder like a pelt. They must question the intense look on my face, my wide eyes and flushed cheeks. A commuting cyclist occupies a higher intensity level than the cars around him, given that he could be mangled if his reactions are slow. Drivers must wish I wasn't here, impeding their progress, asserting my right to space that was made for them. But sometimes, especially on windless sunny days like today when it's not too hot or cold, I imagine some drivers wish they were me. Slowly one less car spawns two less cars, two less cars spawns four, and over time we grow into a significant force.
Friday 3/7/08 Work > Home
Frigid starry night. Dry crisp air. I usually love these nighttime rides home because there's so few cars. Traffic signals become mere cautionary points where I slow, swivel my head and slide through the intersections unhindered. But it's Friday night, so there's more traffic than usual, and I have to stop and wait for a light to change at Lavista Road. A white Bronco pulls up beside me with its windows down. I hear that country version of "Gin and Juice" blasting from inside. The occupants are two young men, the kind of rural suburbanites that grow increasingly common as you move further and further away from the city center. They're shouting along with the lyrics, taking great pleasure intoning the word "motherfuckers." They shout with an enthusiasm approaching reverence. They are tone-deaf, aggressively happy, and when they notice me they scream louder.
On Montreal Avenue I pass the giant Brill factory with its legions of semis backed up to the loading dock and the sickly sweet smell of confections in the air. Brill, I discover, is the largest wholesale manufacturer of icing and glazes in the world, and I am both enticed and repulsed by the smell.
Wednesday 3/5/08 Work > Home
Cause and effect: Because last night I used my headlamp as a flashlight, tonight my headlamp is still sitting on the counter at home. Without a headlamp, there is very little to demonstrate to oncoming traffic that I exist. It makes for a wary and tentative ride.
At the crest of a sleepy suburban hill, the road takes a ninety-degree turn and I meet a car's headlights face to face. Something about its middle-of-the-road trajectory tells me the driver hasn't seen me yet and I hug the shoulder, ready to dive onto the lawn if necessary. Just before passing the car swerves away and I know I've been spotted. I wonder what the unexpected sight of a dark biker evokes in a driver on an empty road at night. A jolt of panic, a sharp intake of breath, the futile reactive swerve that would have come too late, the silent curses as they drive away, and the tension of that moment lingering all the way home.
Wednesday 3/5/08 Home > Work
Today I ride slowly. I like being languid in a world obsessed with speed. When the rest of Atlanta is rushing home in cars, full of end-of-day tensions, dinner plans and desires, I'm rolling my way out to the suburban office where I do after-hours telephone surveys for the YMCA.
My commute is 11 miles through suburbia on a single speed road bike. It's a bike route par excellence because nobody would navigate such a circuitous pathway in a car. To bypass busy streets and interstates I add nearly three miles to the distance, winding my way to work over small, hilly residential roads.
I pass Medlock Elementary School. I pass the baseball diamonds of Medlock Park. I cross over North Druid Hills Road in a flurry of frantic pedaling because if I miss this green light it means waiting ten minutes in exhaust. A mile from work is a railroad crossing and a freight train is creaking past. Traffic is thirty cars deep. I cut to the front, and from here I can see the end of the train approaching. If I position myself just so on this little incline I can track-stand until the train passes, then dart through the gates before they open, the first to cross. Today it feels like the whole world yields to me and I make it all the way to work without touching my feet to the ground.


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Kota Ezawa at BERKELEY ART MUSEUM
June 30, 2018
Kota Ezawa's video work, The Simpson Verdict, is on view in the exhibition Way Bay 2 at the Berkeley Art Museum. The second iteration of an innovatively organized exhibition of art, film, performance, poetry, and archival materials, Way Bay 2 continues the museum's wide-ranging exploration of the creative energies that have emerged from the San Francisco Bay Area over two centuries. The exhibition features almost two hundred works by Bay Area artists and others whose work engages directly with the region's geographic and cultural landscape.
In The Simpson Verdict Ezawa used drawing software to reconstruct the final moments of the O.J. Simpson murder trial, based on broadcast footage he bought on the Internet. In the late 1990s, Ezawa worked as a legal videographer, occasionally appearing in court to play back videos or record testimony.
Way Bay 2 is on view through September 2, 2018.


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Read this tip to make your life smarter, better, faster and wiser. LifeTips is the place to go when you need to know about Baby Coupons and other Online Shopping topics.
Coupons and sales change every day. What is there one minute may not be there the next. That is the nature of retail. But the one online offer that you will find the most is for free shipping.
Shipping can get pretty expensive for certain items, especially if you buy in bulk. So whenever you place an order online, don't just look for the baby coupons that get you a discount on the price of a brand new stroller. Always check to see if you can take advantage of a free shipping offer.
Often times the cost of shipping can cut into other discounts you receive. But if you can manage to get free shipping along with other discounts and sales, you can potentially shave hundreds of dollars off the overall cost.
Remember to pay attention to exactly what the terms and conditions include, though. Sometimes the free shipping is contingent upon you spending more than you want on products or enrolling in a program. The best thing to do is look for special online coupon codes that do not require any other commitments.
|Guru Spotlight
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Pass Pickup
Pick up your Season Pass at one of our Fall Events or at the lodge during normal operations. You have the option of using a previous pass picture or taking a new pass picture. The pickup process usually takes about 2 minutes per customer.
2019 Fall Events
- Rocktoberfest, October 5th, 10am-2pm
- Colville Ski Swap, October 19th, 9am-2pm
- Inlander Winter Party, November 15 & 16, click here for details
Mail Option
Season Passes can be mailed for an additional $5 per order. You have the option to use a previous pass picture or send in a new pass picture. Season Pass mail requests will be mailed 7-10 business days after final payment, picture, and waiver are received. Passes must be paid in full before they can be issued. Passes will be mailed Monday thru Friday at 5:00pm. To place your order by phone, or have any questions about how to submit pictures or otherwise receive your pass, please call us at 509-935-6649 and select option 2 to be directed to our season pass department.
Upload your picture. After your order is complete log on to your account and browse to a photo on your computer and submit it to us. Photos must be clear head-shots (above the shoulders) without hats or other accessories and with a white background). Recommended picture file should be a 320 X 240 image (JPEG or BMP) that is between 50K and 100K. Names of each pass holder must be included in each file name (For example: joe_smith.jpg).
Email your picture. Photos must be clear head-shots (above the shoulders) without hats or other accessories and with a white background). Recommended picture file should be a 320 X 240 image (JPEG or BMP) that is between 50K and 100K. Names of each pass holder must be included in each file name (For example: joe_smith.jpg).
Important Information
As a season pass holder, understand that the nature of skiing is innately variable and that life is unpredictable. Season Pass Liability Waiver must be completed before pass can be issued. Purchase of a season pass is not contingent upon the quality of snow conditions or pass holder's ability to use a season pass. Once passes are issued keep them in a safe place. A $50.00 fee will be charged to replace a lost or stolen season pass. Transfer options are available for select circumstances. Call for details. All sales are final. No refunds. 2018-19 Season Pass holders must present their 2018-19 Season Pass before a 2019-20 Season Pass can be issued during the 2018-19 season. Please allow extra delivery time for high volume periods (i.e. Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc.)
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