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Alternative Gifts International, Inc.,
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John and Carol Turner, NY
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Brian and Ann Birner, NH
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Harold Clayton, NY
First Presbyterian Church of Oostburg, WI
Robert and Kristin Jones, Jr., VA
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Monroe Community College/Holocaust, Genocide, & Human Rights Project, NY
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St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Rochester, NY
William H. Donner Foundation, NY
Adam and Renee Haber, NY
American School of Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Bank of America Corporate Match Program
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Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School, MA
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Christ Episcopal Church, NY
Christopher and Louise Moore, NY
Columbia Intermediate School, OH
Concord Middle School, MA
Downtown United Presbyterian Church, NY
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., OH
First Bible Baptist Church, NY
First Presbyterian Church of Caledonia, NY
Furnace Brook Middle School, MA
Gary and Deborah Karl, NY
Gary and Kathy Marshall, NY
Hillcrest Middle School, IL
Hingham Middle School, MA
Holy Trinity Episcopal School, MD
Hope4Sudan, Inc., NY
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, MA
Howard Konar, NY
Howitt Middle School, NY
International School of Prague, Czech Republic
Jack and Linda McKelvey, MA
James and Lynette Blake, NY
James Johnson-Flint, England
Journeys School, WY
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Lewis M. Myers Elementary School, PA
Loveland Intermediate School, OH
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Mary Seebach, NY
Mendham Township Middle School, NJ
Michael and Christine Haefner, TX
Oliver and Cynthia Curme, MA
Pauline-Glenn Springs Elementary School, SC
Perinton Presbyterian Church, NY
Port Chester Middle School, NY
Rancho Santa Fe Rotary Foundation, CA
Robert Mackay, VA
Robert Shea and Kate Weisskopf, NY
Rotary Club of Montgomery-Rocky Hill, NJ
Rupert Nock Middle School, MA
Sarkis Izmirlian, NY
St. Bernardine of Siena Church, CA
St. Joseph's Catholic Church, NY
St. Louis Catholic Church of Pittsford, NY
St. Mary's Church Society, Inc., NY
Stamford American International School, PA
Stillwater Junior High School, MN
TCS Industries, Inc., NY
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The Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation, NY
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Here at The Amazing Blog we like to try all things quirky and new, our latest find is the Escargot collection, a skincare collection using the power of snails slime to assist in repairing skin.
We chose to review Escargot Collection's Snail Moisturising Revitalising Emulsion and the Revitalising Lifting Cream. It may not sound like the most glamorous product to promote, however snail slime is known for its great healing properties such as reducing inflammation and redness, stimulating skin regeneration, and locking moisture into the skin. Actually, the use of snail slime for aesthetics goes back to Ancient Greece era. The packaging is glamorous with glass gold and pink bottles containing good quality inside.
The Moisturising Revitalising Emulsion is a serum, which we suggest to use after cleansing the skin to improve roughness, darkening and dryness. It leaves the skin revitalised, bright and transparent. It has an oily base so, only a pea size is needed and the lotion sinks into the skin straight away, you can definitely notice the skin looks brighter but not oily. However if you have dry skin you may need extra moisturiser on top. You can also use it on its own as nicebase for makeup. The second product we tried from the collection is the Revitalising Lifting Cream, which is similar to a usual day cream with an oily texture meaning very little product is needed. It soaks into the skin and keeps it hydrated longer, the skin is noticeably brighter and feels silky smooth. This products help reduce wrinkles and fine lines on ageing skins if you correctly apply them on face and neck. They are the perfect combination for renewal and glowing skin.
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According to NFL.com's Chris Wesseling, the Oakland Raiders and ex-Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson have mutual interest in one another.
Jackson, who caught 82 passes for 1,332 yards and nine touchdowns, could be on his way back to the Bay Area as a member of the Silver and Black. Jackson, 27, a Los Angeles-area native and a former star player at Cal-Berkeley, grew up a Raiders fan and would be the crown jewel in an impressive free haul that has landed Justin Tuck, LaMarr Woodley, James Jones, Maurice Jones-Drew and Matt Schaub. In adding Jackson, Oakland would have both the vertical threat and speed that it sorely lacked last year and give Schaub a bonafide set of targets in both Jackson and Jones to throw too.
Per Ian Rappaport, also of NFL.com, the Chiefs are one of the front-runners for Jackson due to Andy Reid's past with him in Philadelphia along with the New York Jets, Carolina Panthers, with the Washington redskins and Buffalo Bills emerging as potential suitors for the electrifying Jackson.
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For years students with a part-time job at Amsterdam hospital OLVG had access to confidential and very personal patient files. This involved almost all patients who visited the hospital over the past 15 years, the Volkskrant reports. The hospital confirmed the leak to the newspaper.
The leak was discovered in August last year by a philosophy student who answered the phone and made appointments for the hospital's outpatient clinic. She informed the management of the hospital that she could see all of the patients' confidential medical information.


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This diet goes against everything we have been taught by health classes, dieticians, personal trainers, and the supplement companies. Through medical studies and living examples of the success of this diet, what we've been taught has been merely wrong.
This diet consists of eating calories originating from 80% fats, 10% carbohydrates, and 10% proteins. There are variations of the percentages, but all have the intake of fats as the majority of calories. By doing this, your body becomes "fat adapted," and ketones are produced by the liver, causing your body to use fat for fuel. When it has digested the fats, you have taken in and turns towards your body's stored fat for more fuel.
Because you are taking in healthy fats, you stay full and are less likely to eat crap food. Additionally, the keto diet does not allow you to eat sugar, starchy carbs like bread and pasta, and vegetable oils.
I started with going on 45 minute walks listening to "The Keto Reset Diet" by Mark Sisson, on Audible, which is also available in book form on Amazon as well.
This led me to purchase Mark Sisson's "Keto Reset Mastery Course" which is available on his website. It is an easy to watch video course in which he and Brad Kearns teach you everything you need to know, as well as helping you with starting out, on keto.
This technique I became aware of through a video from Dr. Eric Berg, who is a leading weight loss expert.
Dr. Berg later created a video about intermittent fasting, or IF, coupled with the keto diet.
I currently eat my last meal at about 4 pm or 5 pm and don't eat again until 18 hours later, which would be 10 am the following day. This way, the majority of my fast is while I am sleeping.
I have also re-programmed my body to not being conditioned to eat based off of the culturally fixed meal times of breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I now eat when my body tells me it's time to eat.
You will learn about IF in the above keto materials by Mark Sisson, as well as in the videos by Dr. Berg.
You will want to research Dr. Jason Fung. He is the author of The Obesity Code and The Complete Guide To Fasting.
I have listened to The Complete Guide To Fasting on Audible, and am just amazed at the information he provides, backed up by science and his expertise.
I know there is a new diet coming out every other month. I am not an expert on the keto diet or fasting, and I'm not going to start telling people what they need to do or how to do it, because I'm learning this myself.
However, I would encourage you to take a serious look at what I've spoken about and consider at least giving it a try.
A few days before writing this article, I had my annual physical. I got a great report, and my blood pressure, blood sugar, and weight were significantly down, and in healthy ranges. I'll share more about this in a future article.
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breaking my silence
who is she?
I hear her first
a faint little scream
the buzz of her wings as she tries to break free
from a web that was built for someone else
by someone else
invisible to some, but nevertheless
now holding her captive
He looks down from his lofty dwelling
slowly descending to devour his prey
she made it so easy for me
I can have her any way I like
because I'm powerful
and she shouldn't have flown into my web
stupid bitch
the drum of her wings intensifies
as loud as a F135 now
please please
no one told her where he would be
no one told her how he spun it
she fell.
I don't know if she got up again
or died of exhaustion from fighting for her freedom…
Hi there, readers. If you didn't notice, I took a break from writing for a few weeks. Or I should say, writing publicly. I did this because I wasn't proud of the voice that was emerging in my words. It wasn't hopeful. I wasn't seeing the boundless beauty of my surroundings. Because let's be honest, it's gotten ugly out there.
I would love to say that something has changed for that perspective to shift, but it hasn't. This week, I witnessed the small, winged friend in this poem hopelessly struggle in ways that may resonate with anyone who identifies as female. Or maybe not. Maybe poetry isn't your cup of soup. Regardless,
I hope for a day when women's voices are celebrated. When we are heard, not tolerated. When challenges to systemic problems are not seen as personal attacks. When there is equity in our country (and world) for people of any gender, sex, race, income level, geographic location, religious affiliation, profession, and age.
I don't know if that will ever happen. Today, I'm full of doubts.
I'm grateful for the people who work day in and day out to move in that direction. I'm grateful for the people who take the brokenness and muck of the world as material to make people laugh. I'm grateful each time I learn how to be subversive with love. I'm grateful that I'm a woman.


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The iron grip of the White House on our media is an affront to democracy.
In an attempt to quell the uproar caused by their "outing" of Joseph Wilson's CIA wife, in retaliation for Wilson exposing Bush's lie that Iraq purchased uranium, the media is now running with the non-story that Wilson's wife recommended him for the job.
What a crock. What does this have to do with the felony committed by persons in the White House in exposing a CIA operative? Even if Valerie Plame had recommended her husband for the job, which she did not, this would not justify the actions of the White House in exposing a CIA agent who was working on tracking the purchase of weapons of mass destruction by other nations and risking or causing the deaths of her contacts and destruction of her network.
The media should be clamoring for justice to be done and for the White House to reveal the identities of those who committed the dastardly deed! Instead, they are acting as an accomplice to the misdeeds of our manipulative, corrupt administration.
Jim Stillwell
Los Angeles, Calif.
Arizona's Lori Piestewa Native Games a success
The Lori Piestewa National Native American Games drew 1,262 athletes from eight states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Utah and Wisconsin), 18 tribes, 43 cities, ranging in age from 7 to 74. Brandon, the son of Lori Piestewa, lit the torch at the opening ceremonies.
A heartfelt thank you to all of you taking part in making this years competition a huge success. The field of 43 basketball teams, 28 softball teams, 16 volleyball teams and 50 track athletes were true to the omnipotent desire to play in all of us.
Congratulations one and all!
"Together we have the power to make it happen."
God Bless America
Erik Widmark
Executive Director
Lori Piestewa National
Native American Games
Phoenix, Ariz.
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Stendahl, Krister. "The Apostle Paul and the Introspective Consciousness of the West." Harvard Theological Review 56 (1963): 199-215.
One of the early and seminal
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Stendahl argues that Western Christianity, via Augustine and Luther, has
wrongly interpreted the Apostle. He claims that, unlike Augustine and Luther, Paul did not speak of an inner struggle that each person has with his
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Grass-Fed Beef Sliders with Sweet Potato Buns
Ditching the carbs and ditching the bun both seem to be a continuing trend for those who are focused on healthy, mindful eating. We all know that carbohydrates are a source of energy and when consumed, most carbohydrates covert into glucose to fuel our cells. To cut out carbs completely would not be a wise choice as it is our body's main source of energy. The problem arises when we consume large amounts of sugar and carbohydrates. That, in fact, can lead to a host of health problems such as diabetes and cognitive impairment.
As active of a lifestyle as I lead, I know my body needs carbohydrates. I simply can not expect my body to perform at its best without them. But I am mindful about the carbs that I choose. So when it comes to a burger, I would rather ditch the bun depending on its ingredients and put my burger on a bed of lettuce. Then add a better source of carbs to my meal.
Sweet potatoes are a a solid choice when looking for a nutritious carbohydrate. They have 7 grams of fiber per serving and are an excellent source of vitamin A, C, B6, and potassium. They also have a good amount of water content to them which provides you with the feeling of being full and satisfied.
Being that sliders are a popular menu item in our home, I wanted to create something fun and different but focus on a healthier alternative to the traditional slider bun. Sweet potatoes are the perfect candidate for this as they are not only healthy, but they are sturdy and the perfect size in diameter for a slider bun. When selecting the sweet potatoes, try to find some that are good size in diameter.
If you have never tried a sweet potato as a bun before, this is more of a fork and knife kind of meal rather than a finger food. That is unless you don't mind things a little messy. Then by all means, pick it up and go for it! I prefer these sliders open faced rather than having a top and bottom bun, but that is just my preference. Keep that option in mind when deciding how many sliders you want to make and how many top and bottom "buns" you will need.
Sweet Potatoes:
2 large sweet potatoes, large in diameter, sliced 1/2 inch thick
2 Tbs coconut oil, melted
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp ground pepper
Grass-fed beef patties:
1 1/2 pounds grass-fed ground beef
1 shallot, minced
1 tsp dried oregano
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp onion powder
1/4 tsp paprika
1/4 tsp fresh ground pepper
1/4 tsp sea salt
butter lettuce
sliced tomatoes
sliced red onions
sliced avocado
sun dried tomatoes
1. Preheat oven to 400°. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. Prep your toppings and dressing and set aside. The dressing can be made the day before.
2. In a large bowl, combine the sweet potato slices, melted coconut oil, sea salt, and pepper. Mix well. Then place potato slices on your baking sheet. Bake for about 25-30 minutes, just until tender, not too soft.
3. In a medium bowl, combine the ground beef with all the remaining seasonings, mix well, and form 8 slider sized patties.
4. Grill the patties until the internal temperature reaches 140°-145°.
5. Once your sweet potato slices and grass-fed sliders are done, you are ready to build these fun sized burgers. Choose your desired toppings and whether you want open faced sliders or the full top and bottom buns. Enjoy!


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A half-million-dollar grant has launched the City of Tacoma toward pre-approving up to 30 million square feet of new development in south downtown.
The two-year process is high-level master planning with high stakes. Instead of requiring environmental and traffic studies for each project, the city is developing a broad plan for the Dome and Brewery districts, the University of Washington Tacoma and part of the Foss Waterway.
The project will examine the area's roads, power, water and sewer needs, giving city leaders a tool to help them decide what infrastructure investments to make during the next decade. It also will plan for parks, trails and open space.
More significantly, the process is designed to write an environmental impact statement for the entire area, which developers then can use to skip a time- and money-consuming step: individual environmental review. The city estimates developer savings of about $5.8 million.
"After the sub-area plan, when you or a developer want to do a project, you just come in and get your building permit. All the work's already done," city planner Ian Munce said in late September, at a gathering of more than 60 people representing south downtown business and property owners.
This could shave months from a project timeline and save developers from having to spend money on individual traffic studies and water plans before they're sure an idea is feasible.
"Half of getting someone interested in property is having them understand what the process is going to be to get to permit time," said Mike Cohen, a South Sound developer who now is working on Point Ruston. "The time factor is one of the most important things to any developer."
But speeding up development time shortens the time residents have to react to things they might not like. And under a 2010 state law, once such an area-wide environmental impact statement is approved, a development that follows it can no longer be appealed on environmental grounds.
In a recent interview, Munce said that's why this process is important. Broad involvement is needed to find the sweet spot that allows Tacoma to prime the pump for private development and plan for future public infrastructure investments.
"If we get this right, we'll have a sub-area plan with clear policy and regulation and it will await private investment to bring it to light. Or public investment, in the sense of UWT being the big players" in the area, he said.
Tacoma is one of the first to embark on master planning under the new law.
"This is the new standard for metro areas to do your work up front so you make it more attractive to investors. It doesn't guarantee you anything but maybe gives more of a competitive edge," Munce said.
Broad environmental review is a good tool, said city councilman Ryan Mello, who also is the Pierce County director for sustainable-community nonprofit Forterra. This process isn't designed to address the things that affect people's quality of life.
People don't mind big buildings, Mello said. They mind big, ugly buildings.
"Tacoma's still very weak, in my opinion, on design standards," he said, and environmental review "is not the venue to tackle that."
A planner for the City of Bellevue said Tacoma's process will be hard work.
"You've seen very bucolic illustrations of all this wonderful development with big trees and everyone is going kumbaya, but then when it gets built everyone is furious," said Michael Paine, Bellevue's environmental planning manager.
"You have to do enough work that people feel certain that what they want to happen will happen," he said. "And if it happens to not be the case, woe to the politician who happens to be around at the time."
Sprawl and roads
The Puget Sound Regional Council won a $5 million federal grant to plan for dense urban communities around mass transit. The City of Tacoma received $500,000 of that for south downtown, which is the nexus for transportation including the streetcar, commuter trains and buses.
The goal is to guide population growth. About a million additional people will call Western Washington home by 2040, regional planners say, and about 100,000 of them should head for Tacoma.
"That's how the long-range plan would like things to develop, otherwise we're doing the same old thing of sprawl, sprawl, sprawl, and build roads, build roads, build roads," Munce said. He acknowledged that people so far have voted with their feet to live somewhere besides downtown Tacoma. "We're trying to redirect where people will go and put the investments in place."
City planners arrived at the 30-million-square-foot figure by looking at the most recent Pierce County Buildable Lands report, which showed the potential for 45 million square feet of redevelopment in all of downtown under current zoning. The 1.5-mile area affected by the sub-area plan, is the most underutilized part of downtown.
By comparison, downtown Bellevue is about half a square mile and has 15.3 million developed square feet.
Munce said this plan won't commit the city to spend anything, just write a to-do list.
In many places, the sewer and power lines are decades old. Deciding to work on that will be a separate policy decision.
'gold standard'
Since the mid-1990s, state law has allowed "planned actions," which assess the impact of development on a geographic area before a specific project is proposed. Cities from Tukwila to Vancouver have done them. Planned actions are designed to help developers avoid an appeal under the State Environmental Policy Act, but such appeals are allowed.
Developers say many SEPA appeals are made with the intention of stalling out an unpopular project.
Last year, saying it wanted to further encourage dense development around transit, the state legislature modified state law to allow cities with more than 5,000 residents to make "sub-area plans" for parts of the city. If they do, they have to do an environmental impact statement for the sub-area.
The 2010 law has a list of public notification requirements leading up to final approval of a sub-area plan and EIS. But for those cities that accomplish it, the new law has a sweetener: Projects under the approved EIS can't be appealed on environmental grounds.
"The public still perceives SEPA as the gold standard," Bellevue planning manager Paine said. But he can see the benefit of the new tool.
"When you have a broad landscape you want to remake, this is an ideal instrument," he said, "because you can address a lot of the issues but you don't subject every single project that comes in to every hurdle that you have to get over."
Richard Weinman, a Mercer Island planner and land-use consultant, worked for years on planned actions, including the 6,000-acre Suncadia Resort. He said the appeals shut-off is noteworthy, but not worrisome.
"That's one of the controversial aspects of these new techniques. Because it's been done this way for so long, people are more comfortable with project-by-project review and are uncomfortable giving up leverage that provides," he said. "But none of these things are written in stone. Plans aren't forever. If it turns out consequences aren't what you expected, you can change it."
The process for south downtown's EIS is only beginning. One community meeting was held in September. Another is planned for Dec. 1. The city has convened regular meetings of stakeholders in the neighborhoods. Private business groups such as the Hillside Development Council and the Dome Business District Association are working on their ideas for the draft EIS, which then will work its way through the city's planning commission and City Council. Both of those bodies will hold public hearings.
Deciding on the scope of the environmental review is important. The draft EIS will include only the things people say are priorities, Munce said. At the September meeting, he used air quality as an example.
"If you think air quality should be central to development plans, if you submit it now we must consider it. Otherwise it might be just a paragraph in the final analysis," he told the group. "Up-front SEPA only works if we do huge outreach at the beginning."
Avoiding guesses
Will up-front SEPA really draw investment? One local developer says yes.
Having an environmental review already done is huge, Point Ruston's Cohen said, because it allows a developer a much firmer idea of what they'll have to spend to mitigate any issues. Right now it's an educated guess.
Developers typically won't buy a property until they're sure a project is feasible. They can't know that until they do some studies, and they can't do studies until they tie up the land. That usually involves some earnest money, then months of hiring consultants and working with government agencies on requirements and permits before a single shovel of dirt is turned.
By then, a developer has spent quite a bit of money and still has no guarantee of return.
"You can spend $100,000 on a traffic study relatively easily," he said. "After you do the study, then the city determines what kind of requirements they'll impose, so you go in semi-blind."
"It's the difference between driving along a rural road and seeing a farmer's field. That farmer will sell a quarter-acre lot to build a house, but now I have to go plat the property. Then I have to figure out utility, water, sewer, power, all of that, and what it will cost," Cohen said. "Or, if you're driving along that same road and someone was offering those lots for $70,000 and all of that was taken care of."
Cities shouldn't wait for private development to create a place where people want to be, said Seattle-based urban designer and planner Mark Hinshaw.
"I think many people in local governments - and some are my clients - overstate the incentive that (up-front SEPA) is. It clearly is an incentive to developers," he said. "But a far more powerful incentive is for developers to see city investing in infrastructure early. Parks, new streets, civic structures, committing their own dollars to the line rather than saying, 'we want you to come do it.' "
On campus
Munce said the University of Washington Tacoma will be a part of the public investment. The school is helping lead the up-front SEPA process, and facilities director Milt Tremblay said it will help the urban campus grow more smartly while saving money.
"We do building by building, lot by lot right now," Tremblay said. It doesn't make sense to plan a campus that way. Getting environmental review done for the entire area will help the campus better predict building costs, which helps it when it asks the Legislature for money.
A faster development process also can help things be built more quickly, which could lure some projects from other UW campuses, Munce said.
Hinshaw said the UWT is a magnet for activity now, but it won't be enough in the long run.
"People in a community don't necessarily view campuses as for them," he said. In Tacoma's Stadium District, "Wright Park is clearly open to anyone. You can use it day or night. It's one of the great parks in the region. You just know it. A campus isn't the same."
At the September meeting, many audience members agreed that in the chicken-egg game of downtown development, the people must come first. Public institutions, like parks and schools, will draw people. People then draw developers, many said.
"How you develop the amenities downtown will affect who wants to live there," Dome District property owner Forrest German said.
Catalyst projects
Paying for infrastructure upgrades is another issue.
Munce said part of the sub-area plan will tackle that by determining what improvements can be paid for with existing rates, and how much extra might be needed. Then it's about phasing.
"Here's how the cost can be shared," he said, "so the first person coming in isn't paying for everything."
UWT's Tremblay said the best example of how this might work is South 21st Street, which comes up often as a major point of concern. The five-lane road is the southern boundary of the campus, provides entry to and exit from a major highway, and scales a steep hill. It's car-congested, difficult to drive on, and dangerous to walk across.
Putting it in the sub-area plan makes it part of the collective action, Tremblay said. It would be very difficult for the Holiday Inn, now under construction on South 21st, to improve the road all by itself just because their project was the first major new construction in years on that street. But if there's a plan to share the cost, Tremblay said, everyone could help.
Or, a so-called catalyst project - something big and desirable - could prompt the City Council to help move it forward by agreeing to upgrade a large swath of sewer lines. And a third idea, Munce said, is drawing thresholds, where infrastructure is fixed based on a certain number of developed square feet.
Envisioning south downtown with that much development can be difficult in the middle of a recession. But Munce said the economic slowdown makes the timing just right.
"I don't mean to be cavalier about this, but this is the perfect time to do it. You haven't got all this development coming through the door," he said. "Unfortunately it looks like we have a little time here to do this work. And we'll be ready when the market does pick up."
What: A community meeting to hear ideas about the future of south downtown.
When: 4-7 p.m. Thursday.
Where: Carwein Auditorium, Keystone Building, Room 102 on the University of Washington Tacoma campus.
Online: www.cityof tacoma.org/planning, click on "Dome/Brewery Subarea Plan & EIS."


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Fake Ads Accusing the Police of Racism Appear on London Bus Stops — PHOTO
Our friends across the pond are fed up with racism within their police force too, it seems. In Mile End, London, fake advertisements have popped up on bus stations accusing the police of said racism. One poster, pictured above, states: "You're 28 times more likely to be stopped and searched by police in London if you don't have white skin, because we're still really racist." That number comes from a study undertaken by the Equality and Human Right Commission, which also included evidence that the Metropolitan police were most likely to use that power, and that only 3% of stop-and-searches actually lead to arrest. Those are pretty startling numbers that show a disproportionate rate of racial profiling by police in London.
The ads are designed to look like police PSAs, and in the spirit of protest, should make you feel both emboldened and hopeful that, despite being told by our elders that we're part of an aimless, lazy generation, there are actually still people who are angry, passionate, and active, willing to make public statements about the things they believe in. The "culprits" are believed to be the folks over at political magazine Strike. I say more power to them for this creative, artful take on peaceful protest. Without hurting anyone, except maybe whoever's ad was there before (although honestly, a couple of covered up ads isn't exactly going to topple a corporate empire), Strike (or whomever is responsible for putting the ads up) has made a strong, highly visible point about the deficiencies in our system of law and order, which is just as pertinent here in the US as in the UK.
The police response seemed also to be disproportionate to the crime, with pictures emerging (below) of the bus stations surrounded by police tape, and treated like real crime scenes. Because obviously, criticizing the police force is the greatest crime one can partake in these days. Allegedly a spokesperson for the police has said they were working with Transport London to remove the offending posters.
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An Ebola Scare Was Live-Tweeted From A Plane, And The Results Are Surprisingly Hilarious
What do you get when you cross our insatiable appetite for social media with a world-wide health crisis? Not only videos of jokers pretending to have Ebola while on a plane (seriously? Who does that? People have died) it seems, but also the occasional British passenger live-tweeting an Ebola scare from her airplane seat. Sarcastically, of course.
Traveler Sasha Sabapathy was on a Delta Airlines flight from John F. Kennedy Airport to Las Vegas just two days ago, when the nightmarish occurred: her flight was delayed upon arrival, and then quarantined, due to not one, but two passengers potentially having the deadly Ebola virus. The plane was detained after the a passenger gave a flight attendant a note saying he wasn't feeling good (unclear as of yet why he handed a note instead of just saying so directly), and officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Southern Nevada Health District were immediately called in.
Luckily, it all turned out okay. It turned out the passenger was sick with something else, not Ebola, and the passengers were allowed off after just over an hour. None of the travelers needed to be quarantined or isolated; they could all make their merry way to play the slots.
But if you've been curious about what it could possibly be like, to be on an airplane and hear that fateful announcement, you're in luck. Because Sabapathy was on it, hilariously live-Tweeting the entire experience.
First, there's the announcement:
Or lack thereof:
Then, there's the panic:
Panic turns to frustration/rage:
Rage turns into confusion:
Then the scare is over, but the seething begins:
Then the seething turns to pure, beautiful, unadulterated sarcasm:
Travelers are no doubt going to keep getting frustrated as more precautions are added to deal with the deadly virus: starting Saturday, all passengers arriving at New York's JFK from West African countries will be screened; Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, Washington Dulles International Airport, and Newark Liberty International Airport will all be starting screening procedures in the next week.


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Apparently Will Traval who has portrayed two different characters on two different superhero shows (Marvel's Jessica Jones and Arrow) is now joining the X-Men franchise!
Wil Traval hinted on his Twitter a few months ago that he has been cast in next year's superhero sequel to X-Men Apocalypse – X-Men: Dark Phoenix. The new generation of X-Men actors introduced at X-Men: Apocalypse and X-Men: First Class will get their chance at the famous Dark Phoenix storyline after the first generation took on elements of the story in X-Men: The Last Stand.
This casting is not officially confirmed yet, nor is there any news to who Traval will be playing if he is in the film, but his tweet suggests it's something worth getting excited about. The Dark Phoenix storyline is considered as one of the greatest Marvel Comics, centered around the rise of Jean Grey's extremely powerful telepathic powers and her subsequent corruption.
Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner is the only cast member confirmed to return so far, reprising the role of Jean Grey from X-Men: Apocalypse. Longtime X-Men writer and producer Simon Kinberg has aslo reportedly been in talks to direct Dark Phoenix, taking over for Bryan Singer.
Wil will be returning to his role as Simpson in Season 2 of Marvel's Jessica Jones, which is currently filming with word suggesting that this season will see the character transform into his super-villain counterpart Nuke.
X-Men: Dark Phoenix will release at the theaters in November 2nd, 2018.
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I will boast only in the LORD;
Let all who are discouraged take heart.
Come let us tell of the LORD's greatness;
Let us exalt His name together.
Psalm 34:2,3
Bekah was born to us on a wild November night I can never erase from my mind. Too early and too fast, she came rushing into our world like a hurricane on the loose. Instead of pink and lovely, her skin held the colors of a storm—dark and grey.
Doctors whisked her away while a nurse stayed behind to explain: "Her lungs are filled with fluid and she hasn't been able to take a breathe… we're taking her to the resuscitation room and calling in a Neonatologist."
From that moment, her fragile life was bathed in prayer.
We prayed, our family prayed, friends prayed, our church prayed… that little struggling baby was placed so firmly in the Healer's Hands that I can't help but believe that He had a purpose to draw from the terror of that time.
For, ever since that inauspicious beginning, I have treasured my girl.
A bundle of joy-filled possibilities, Bekah brought sparkle and laughter into our way-too-intense Comer home. She kept her neat-freak older brother messed up just enough to lighten up, begging with those big brown eyes to enter his world of army men and mud.
I insisted on bows in her ponytails, though they seemed to slip out of their own volition. I ironed wrinkles out of dresses, and wiped all those muddy streaks off her delight-filled face. Sometimes I'd hear that whispered warning from her Father not to wash away His unique flair in her life. As if He was letting me in on a secret: She's just the way I want her.
As she struggled into womanhood, she demanded the freedom to be different than me. Then she charmed us all by creating a kind of beauty that could be stamped all her own.
There were tense times when my worry collided with her crying need to be unique, to craft her own version of femininity. Yet somehow in all those years we developed a sort of mutual "I really like the way you are" mentality towards each other.
I want to be like her— with all her openness and vivacity and quick intelligence and remarkable insight.
I study the way she breaks from man-made molds and makes her own way of loveliness.
I watch to see why she has so many friends, and I learn as she leans into other's lives and gives all she has without restriction. She loves her not-quite-right-in-the-head neighbor, thinks the Satanists who live in her building are "really nice", is fascinated by everyone and lets them know it.
And for reasons that I cannot quite understand, she wants to be like me.
No, no, not the conservative, let's-not-rock-the-boat, people-might-be-looking me. But the me who's changing and growing and emerging while holding tightly to my Father's hand. The one who traded the silver civic for a vintage red Mercedes, ventured out of my safe shell and learned to dance, Haitian style.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if every mother who holds a baby to her breast could catch just the barest glimpse of the person that child is to become?
How would it change the way we love— the way we discipline and correct and decide when to say yes and when to hold the line?
If I had known my son would emerge as a leader to his generation, would I have taken heart when he challenged my cherished-but-not-quite-biblical notions of right and wrong?
If I had known my daughter would flourish in a world of creative go-getters, would I have given her more freedom to explore the edges of my safe world?
I don't know… and my story is full of "I wish I hads", but I'd love to pass on to every woman a few things I do know, a few tidbits of wisdom I've learned along this journey of loving…
- Every child is a uniquely crafted individual made in the image of God. We know this, but find it so hard to believe. Our culture insists on sameness, on rigid boundaries that keep beauty confined. While behavior must be carefully kept in check, creativity and personality and giftedness should be fully explored and encouraged to thrive.
- Mothers who intentionally set out to discover their child's uniqueness will be like kids at Christmas. Instead of rolling their eyes at the embarrassing antics of out-of-control children, there are mothers who are so fully present that they are molding their child's life, polishing the jewels so they sparkle and shine. These moms are having a blast! Instead of whining and complaining and criticizing their kids, they're delighting in those few short years in which they have a chance to make a difference.
- There will always be critics. Always! Having the wherewithal to graciously ignore them is a sign of emotional maturity in a woman. It's not my job to defend my children or to explain away their idiosyncrasies. I never set out to raise perfect people— my hope and my prayer and my aim was always to raise men and women who love God with passion and have the heart to love people on purpose. The fact that they stumble a little in the process is just the way of humanity.
- Heap approval on your children… even when they're no longer kids. Be generous with encouragement. Make your mom space a safe place within which your children can revel in the limelight. Coax from them the accolades and accomplishments that would sound like boasting anywhere else. There's no such thing as bragging to mom. Tell them what you like about them. Admire them. Respect your sons and lavish love on your daughters. Keep doing this as long as you're alive.
- When they're really little be really tough… so that when they get older you can be really gentle. The mistake too many moms make is that they do just the opposite. We overlook those irritating habits in the early years: temper tantrums and rudeness and bad attitudes. Then when all that ugliness grows up, we try to stomp it out of them! What if instead, we were to diligently discipline during those exhaustingly intense younger years? What if we denied out own pleasures long enough to do what needs doing in order to present our children as well behaved, self-controlled young adults? Might that not change everything?
- Remember your goal. It's not to raise super stars, nor to insist on perfection. Your child will not be The Best at much of anything, no matter how hard you push. He needn't be exposed to every sport or every "opportunity". You are not obligated to remove all obstacles in her path, nor must you absorb your life in developing every potential. As followers of Jesus, our goal is the same as His, that our children would "…love the LORD your God with all your heart,all your soul, and all your mind…" Only God can make that happen, but you're the primary tool He has to create that kind of passion in your child's heart.
- Saturate your child in prayer. Prayer is the most powerful weapon in a mother's arsenal. To leave it locked in the gun case when the enemy is prowling around, taking shots at your child's soul is ludicrous! To think that we can worry our way through every problem is ridiculous! James 1:5 holds God's irrevocable promise to parents: "If any man lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives generously…" We have the wisdom of God at our fingertips! Just by asking and waiting with faith-filled anticipation for His answer, we are promised what no book, or seminar, or parenting magazine can hope to offer— wisdom from God.
- Get over yourself. I know it sounds a little harsh, but remembering that this whole mothering thing is not about me is imperative. My children are not supposed to fulfill me. I am not supposed to need them. They are not meant to be a reflection of my worth. Instead, they are unique individuals made in the image of God and I have the honor to nurture that image in different ways for as long as I live.
Not needing my son is the greatest gift this mom can give a man who is needed by so many.
Not needing my daughter allows her to thrive and soar and develop as a woman and as a mother in her own right.
Not needing my son who is in college gives him freedom to figure out who he is and what he wants.
Not needing my daughter who lives far away allows her to fully embrace her husband's vision for a different kind of life— a life far from my safe suburbanite world.
They need to know and be assured that I don't need them to make me happy. I am happy.
- Do not fear failure. When you are praying that your children will love God with all their hearts, minds, souls, and strength, and that they will follow hard after Christ, you are almost guaranteeing some missteps. I have never in my life met a passionate Jesus follower who has not been humbled into dependence by personal failure. Failure can be terrifying for a mother, but it is often the gateway into that intimate, grateful relationship that makes a man truly godly. Instead of fearing failure, we ought to lead our children to the Redeemer, whose specialty is picking us up out of that miry pit we dig ourselves into, and setting our feet on the Solid Rock. Could David ever have become a "man after God's own heart" without the humiliation of discovery? Wasn't it Elizabeth's barrenness that caused her to raise a son willing to stand against the tide? Could Peter have written the words that encourage and inspire us had he not failed so miserably? For your son or daughter to follow in the footsteps of the heroes of our faith, they must meet God in their own brokenness.
That little girl who rushed into my arms with so much drama is a woman now. She is beautiful and smart and creative and overflowing with love.
She and her husband inhabit a culture alien to me. They have purposed to bring the Redeemer into that world, to present Jesus to a people who are searching for meaning and worth.
God's plan for Bekah is different than His use of me. I get the distinct feeling that He's having fun with her! That He delights in our differences, that He needs us to be different.
And so, with all of you, I wish my daughter a Happy Birthday.
I will celebrate this date for as long as I live. I am so grateful that God chose to shake up my world on that November day so long ago, so incredibly honored to have your life in mine.
Rebekah Ruth (Comer) Opperman, I am thrilled with the woman you are and excited to see the woman you will become.
I love you, Bekah!


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Bumble on… Life
Ask any cricket fan to name their favourite sporting personalities and no doubt David 'Bumble' Lloyd will rank highly on that list.
Kumari Tilakawardane chatted with the former England player and coach to get his views on travel, cricket, and everything in between.
To read Part One of this interview, Bumble on Cricket, please click here.
This interview was originally published in Other Shores, ITC Travel Group's magazine. To find out more, please click here.
When you're not travelling for work around the world, what do you like to do in your spare time?
I like to travel around the UK, because we can take the dog with us. I've got a house in the Yorkshire Moors. I've got a little 26-foot boat, with all mod cons – tele, cooker, heating, a fridge… everything you need. It's like a caravan on the water.
I'll cruise up and down the River Ouse. Six miles per hour… what could be better? I'm not a great swimmer, but it's only three-foot-deep, and I've got my life jackets of course.
When I retire, the idea is I'm going to get a proper one in the Mediterranean. So that means I've got to take a navigation course to find out what buoys are and what they do. I think it's dead simple… red buoy, green buoy, stay this side…
You won't be retiring any time soon, will you?
Well, I won't be going on forever. I want to do other things. Get in my boat. Travel – that's what I want to do. I want to travel for something other than work.
Our work day is a long day, with the preparation and the post-match. It's not sort of 'six o'clock and cheerio'. But I'm happy with what I'm doing at the minute.
You're known as a huge football fan, and obviously you've been to a lot of cricket. What non-football or cricket sporting event would you love to attend?
The Ryder Cup would be good. Or the Masters, I'd love to go to the Masters. I've never been… that would be a real experience. My boss at Sky always goes and I keep asking him if he wants a mate to come along. He hasn't got back to me on that.
I believe you were recently given the Freedom of Accrington…
That was a good ceremony. It was also the Mayor Making Ceremony for Mohammad Ayub. That ceremony was in Arabic, and then translated into English, which was really good, a real experience. So it was in St James' parish church, and the local imam was preaching from the pulpit in the Church of England church from the Quran, and then he translated it into English. It was not to be missed, it was brilliant.
If you could pass one law in Accrington, what would it be?
Get rid of all the Pound Shops! That will upset many people. No… I'd make it cleaner. Dropping litter would be a major offence. We still have stocks in Accrington, like the old days, and litterers would be in the stocks.
Besides 'Sweet Caroline', what's on your travel playlist?
I'm a rocker. So The Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, The Band, Jerry Lee Lewis, Supertramp, Led Zeppelin, Roy Orbison. I collect vinyl; I've got a blue vinyl Supertramp which looks great. You can't go without Roy Orbison A Black & White Night Live, with James Burton on guitar.
And reading list?
I read magazines, I don't read books. Boat magazines, motorbikes, fishing, house.
What do you miss most when you're travelling?
The dog. Definitely. I miss the dog terribly. Her name's Tags, she's 14, and she's not been well; she's deaf, and blind in one eye. She was in emergency hospital recently for three nights. She seems ok now, and she's being spoilt rotten.
What's your favourite souvenir from your travels?
It's a bit corny… We've got a little cottage up in North Yorkshire, and the bathroom depicts the seaside. So, every beach my wife and I visit, we bring back either a pebble or a shell for that bathroom. We've got quite a collection… no idea where they're all from, of course.
If you could invite any three people to dinner, who would it be?
Can I have four? Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts.
Any final words of wisdom for fellow travellers?
Get out and about. See different cultures. That's the main thing, seeing different things and your eyes are open. Sometimes it'll be sad, sometimes it'll be very uplifting. Mind-blowing, unbelievably beautiful, spectacular. But you're embracing different cultures which will stay with you forever.
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This design/build project at at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, encompasses the construction of four concrete masonry unit barracks, providing housing for 640 military personnel. Supporting facilities include electrical, water, and sewage distribution systems, mechanical systems, information systems, site improvements, roads, drainage, and parking.
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Washington Charles and his partner Antar Sosa are on the move. After opening the mezcaleria El Grito earlier this year, they are on to their next project.
Lutum is scheduled to debut within the next two weeks at the previous Burger & Beer Joint location in Sunset Harbour, adjacent to El Grito. In Latin, lutum means "dirt and soil," and the restaurant will specialize in seasonal and local products. Lutum is the partners' first sit-down concept, which has always been a dream for Charles.
The kitchen will be helmed by Michael Mayta, who was chef de cuisine at Michelle Bernstein's Cena by Michy and is the co-owner of Illegal Bakery.
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"We are local kids trying to work hard and express what we have learned throughout our careers," Mayta says. "Washington [Charles] is one of the hardest-working people in this industry, and he's also looking to create something dope, so there wasn't any doubt to join him on this project."
The modern American menu will use local fish and ingredients. Dishes are still in the works, but Charles says the fare will be completely different from that at Taquiza and El Grito. Two offerings that can be expected are Floridian fish ($18 to $22) and succotash ($12 to $18). Because Lutum is located close to a handful of fitness destinations, health-conscious eaters will also have options. The cocktail program, which is being finalized, will concentrate on classic beverages driven by seasonality.
Antar and Charles are looking forward to taking over the corner space in a neighborhood that's become a dining and entertainment hub for South Beach locals. "We feel great about this," Charles says. "We want to offer another great dining experience among already amazing restaurants and bars in the area."
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About Norfolk Gliding Club
Norfolk Gliding Club was established almost 50 years ago, and operates from Tibenham Airfield, in South Norfolk.
We fly Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays!
The Club offers unique facilities for all sorts and conditions of aviator, from 'Fundit' to Pundit; Competition Pilot to World Champion, along with a growing number of power pilots, attracted by our three excellent runways. A highly qualified and hard working band of enthusiastic instructors give freely of time & expertise to uphold our record as a training club.
We are especially proud of our Cadet Scheme, which offers free flying training to young persons, and encourages their continued participation in the sport. 2007 saw one of our cadets receive the Royal Aero Club's "President's Rolex Trophy" for achievement in aviation by a young person.


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Similar Icelandic Thor's Hammer was on the locality: Fossi. Our reproduction is more animalistic - Fenrir, the Viking wolf. Size of the cross: 2.2 x 4.1 cm. Material: tin alloy. Similar zoomorphic pendants were found also in Norway.


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1. It is not often you see an original theoretical idea in a blog post. I think Mike's Eyes has done it in a post on infant epistemology based on first-hand observations of infant behavior. If there were a "10 Best Posts by Objectivist Bloggers" at the end of the year, I believe this would make the list.
2. A look at Hillary Clinton's economics:
Quick quiz: What does Hillary Clinton think is a "great organizing principle" for the American economy? Increasing our standard of living? Maximizing economic growth and economic freedom, maybe? Putting a chicken in every pot, perhaps? Nope, none of those. In a speech to the Chicago Economic Club last spring, she suggested that climate change would be a cool concept to organize an economy around.
And if government is going to make climate change or energy independence or whatever an explicit "organizing principle" for an economy, it means a return to a once edgy concept from the 1980s: industrial policy—government favor and aid to certain "strategic" industries, whether through subsidies or trade barriers—in pursuit of some national goal.
There's another name for industrial policy: fascism.
3. George Carlin on the 10 Commandments. Stand-up comedy at its best.
4. Turkey is voting itself into the Middle Ages.
5. Dana Gioia is Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, a government agency that should not exist. In a recent commencement address he bemoned "The Impoverishment of American Culture." He makes some interesting observations and some inane points.
There is an experiment I'd love to conduct. I'd like to survey a cross-section of Americans and ask them how many active NBA players, Major League Baseball players, and "American Idol" finalists they can name. Then I'd ask them how many living American poets, playwrights, painters, sculptors, architects, classical musicians, conductors and composers they can name. I'd even like to ask how many living American scientists or social thinkers they can name.
Fifty years ago, I suspect that along with Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays and Sandy Koufax, most Americans could have named, at the very least, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Arthur Miller, Thornton Wilder, Georgia O'Keeffe, Leonard Bernstein, Leontyne Price and Frank Lloyd Wright. Not to mention scientists and thinkers like Linus Pauling, Jonas Salk, Rachel Carson, Margaret Mead and especially Dr. Alfred Kinsey.
I don't think that Americans were smarter then, but American culture was.
What does Gioia blame for the woeful decline of American culture? First, commercialization. The only problem with this is that culture was freer and more commercialized 50 years ago. He also blames public education for cutting arts funding and he blames intellectuals and artists for not communicating with the middle class. He advocates more arts funding in public schools. He misses the essential cause of our cultural decline, the decline of philosophy.
And why is an understanding of art good?
These cultural activities seem to awaken a heightened sense of individual awareness and social responsibility.
By "social responsibility" he means that people who are actively engaged in the arts tend to do more volunteer work. So it's good to teach Dante and Goethe because then we have more altruists serving in soup kitchens!
America's cultural decline will not be halted by the NEA. We would be far better off leaving taxpayers their money to spend as they want. There are many individuals throughout America working for philosophic and artistic change who will do more good than Gioia and his government agency.
6. Hugo Chavez says foreigners who criticize him will be deported. You can't go to Venezuela and badmouth the big guy. I have to think a lot of American politicians look at his dictatorship with envy. If only they could handle their critics so efficiently, then they could really get things done here!


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If you don't live in Florida, California, Hawaii or one of the warmer states I know you will hate me…but I really needed a new tote for the beach. I use to have a wicker tote that I bought in the Empordà some years ago and I really loved it, but last week the handle brokes and it was the perfect excuse to make a new one with Ganxxet.
I choose the Aspen color because white is my favorite color for summer but also this yarn has more lycra and I wanted this tote to be flexible and soft.
- FabricYarn: 2 units of Ganxxet Aspen Color or your favorite color.
Because I want to use this tote for the beach (and I always carry a lot of stuff…) I made it with a round base rather than an oval one. This way the tote can stand for itself and also the bottom is bigger, so more things can go in it! So to start, we have to do a round base like the one in here. I just made one row more with the same pattern: 6 single crochet and one double single crochets in the same stitch.
If it's your first project, you can find here how to do the magic ring and here an example of how to increase the rows in a round base. In this video I do the second row, so 2 stitches for each one of the first row.
Once we have finished the base we have to do one row of half double crochet stitches to emphasize the bottom and go on with nine rows with double crochet stitches.
To do the handles, we do a row with half single crochet stitches and we calculate where to place the handles in order to be centered in the middle. Once in the correct place, we do 25 chain stitches in the air and we repeat the same in the other side. The number of stitches can be different depending on the size you want the handles.
For the final row, we repeat the row with half single crochet stitches and we wrap the handles with single crochet as we did here.
I add a lining in the tote just to ensure that any hair clip or coin escapes through yarn holes. I buy this lovely fabric at Joann and it was my first time making a lining. I found this video tutorial in youtube and even I'm afraid it's in Spanish, I believe is easily understood for the images.
You have to first draw a pattern in paper, after thread it and sew it at the end. It takes a little bit if it's your first time but it's worth it!
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One thing I had not yet considered in our new location is the closer proximity to the La Crosse area and all the beauty surrounding Mississippi River Valley, an area which I've visited but not spent a lot of time. It turns out that in his new position there are occasions when Mr Knitting Sarah has meetings just outside of La Crosse and one such occasion was earlier this week. Since the kids are finished with school and we didn't have anything on our schedule that day, we decided to tag along for the ride, drop him at his meetings, and do a little exploring before picking him back up.
There so much to do in the area, but I finally settled on starting with the Trempeleau National Wildlife Refuge (keep reading for the ulterior motive…). My thought was that we'd go and enjoy a nice little hike. We arrived and it was just incredible landscape…
The big 'ol Mississippi with abundant lily pads and surrounded by river bluffs. We watched Black Terns and Red-Winged Blackbirds and Pelicans across this vast expanse. We saw a couple bald eagles grasp talons and fall toward the river only to release their grip and catch themselves just before impact. And we saw a muskrat with duckweed comically plastered to his face as he chomped away on something in the water.
We attempted that hike. We chose a relatively short jaunt out onto a dike…
Which would have been amazing save for the deer flies that drove my son to insanity. We turned around after just a few minutes with a resolve to come back next time armed with long sleeves and bug spray. Or we'll just come back after a good hard frost. One or the other.
The wildflowers, of course, we beautiful.
And I braved a few stops to snap a few photos.
I cannot resist pretty flower photos, plain and simple.
I swear I will never get bored of these types of pictures because they are all so unique to my eyes. I love capturing one delicate moment in a precious life cycle. No matter how many pictures of flowers I take, they just seem to sing to my eyes.
The kids also spotted this photo on an information board…
Taken by none other than The Batman, Bruce Wayne.
With the kids anxious to escape the bugs, we piled into the car and headed out…
winding along between the river bluffs and the river on our way to our next destination. When the GPS chirped, "Welcome to Minnesota," I knew we were close.
And shortly after 10am, we made it to our destination, a new-to-me LYS, Yarnology in Winona, Minnesota. I told you there was an ulterior motive for heading a bit north of La Crosse! This little shop is a true gem and I was so happy to have a little time to spend there. Within its walls lie a really nice combination of yarn standards as well as indie & local dyers. I also got to meet Jennifer, also known as Driftless Knitter, an employee in the shop and from whom I'd learned of it via her Instagram feed. It was such a great shop that although I went in looking for bent-tip tapestry needles and rosewood cable needles, I didn't leave with either. It wasn't because the don't stock those items — they do — it's because I got totally and completely distracted by everything else.
When it came time to check out, I had some Heidi & Lana stitch markers.
I have loved these markers for years and some of mine are getting pretty worn. I'd just been looking at these rose gold wire ones online so when I saw them in the shop I grabbed them.
I also picked up this skein of Vesper Sock Yarn from Knitterly Things in the colorway 'Happy Accident'. I love the colors and once I saw the name I couldn't pass it up.
I also picked up this skein of Authentic Sock from Three Sister Fiber Co, dyed right there in Winona. I'd been ogling their recent 'Sea Glass' in their Summer Series since it came out and while I didn't indulge in that colorway, I just had to see how this yarn knit up. The colorway I got is from the "A Day In A Life" series (you can read about it here) — it is March 11, 2017 and I love that it feels like a complex mix of the end of winter and beginning of spring.
And last but not least…
I brought home a Hinza bag. Made in Sweden, I've been looking at these for a good long while now. I had a feeling it would be a great way to hold prepped fiber. The bins I used to use for this purpose are mostly occupied now and the idea of having one that I could easily move from the living room out to the porch or tuck away into a little nook seemed perfect. I'm ecstatic to have finally found one I could look at and see before I buy and even happier that I could bring home this pretty blue. It's probably time to prep some Tour de Fleece fiber, after all.
I only took two wrong turns on the way to pick up Mr Knitting Sarah, but eventually the GPS chirped, "Welcome to Wisconsin" again and we made it in plenty of time. My being late meant we all got to grab our to-go lunch together which by request was from my favorite chain of sandwich shops that we no longer have locally. Mr Knitting Sarah even bought me two sandwiches so that I could have one for dinner as well. ❤
Sure, it was a lot of driving. Sure, there were some bug-related setbacks. And sure, I splurged a bit at a new LYS &, you know, sandwiches, but instead of a day apart from our beloved Mr Knitting Sarah we got to spend most of the day all together and the kids and I enjoyed a beautiful day of adventure in a brand new place. There are loads more places I can't wait to check out in the area — bike trails and parks and landmarks. And you can bet I'm definitely looking forward to the next chance we get to hear "Welcome to Minnesota" again, too.