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Kofi Anyidoho. One of the students, who I will call Ama, was reading a pristine library copy of the volume and came to me trying to make sense of the poem, "A Harvest of Our Dreams." Unfortunately I could not give her all of the assistance she sought because I too did not understand the cultural references to "Ootsa of the sea" or "Uncle Demanya" mentioned in the poem (Anyidoho 7). With no glossary, no accessible Google for miles, and an education system swimming in colonial influence, what chance did Ama, or any student in Ghana, have to understand Anyidoho's poem? After careful consideration of Anyidoho and his messages I have discovered that the reasons why A Harvest of Our Dreams fails to be understood among the local community is because of an education system uninterested in preserving cultural identity and indifferent to literature. By using textual evidence from A Harvest of Our Dreams, secondary sources, and my own person experience I will show how this particular brand of illiteracy is caused by the loss of traditional values in the adopted British school system, the estrangement from the local language, and the emphasis on the practicality of speaking English.
The first failure of the current education system in Ghana is that it has maintained their British Educational System, restricting the cultural identity necessary to be fluent in the references Anyidoho makes in A Harvest of Our Dreams, and we can see this in the text. The Panther, which represents colonialism, is described as a negative but powerful influence throughout the work. The very first page of this volume of poems contains an interesting dedication for "the students of Ghana who risked their lives to clip the Panther's claws" (Anyidoho 1). We can better understand this dedication in "The Panther's Final Dance" where he talks about the "children of the land" wielding "blunt machetes" that "clipped the Panther's claws." Clipped is used here because they did eliminate the impact, and it was not a permanent fix. We go on to read that the students of the revolution "forgot the Panther's teeth" as well as "his feet." This is still a living entity, kept in "the forest" (48), but still preying in the school system, unable to "betray the spirit of the hunt" (50). It is clear from these descriptions that colonialism has had a lasting impact on Ghana, even after "independence." Despite efforts to remove the residue, effects like the suppression of national identity still linger in the education system today. Maintaining this heritage from colonialism is dangerous because it does not cater to the Ghanaian population and de-emphasizes traditional values and art forms native to the region that are necessary to understand Anyidoho's poetry. The secondary school library shelves are filled with Romantic English Poetry, European explorations of Africa, and outdated textbooks on American History. Only one shelf was dedicated to African literature. Local myths, folktales, and history passed down for generations are absent from their social studies class, and Twi, their local language, is outright forbidden. By distancing Ghanaians from their cultural identity, we can detect this as one of the causes of illiteracy regarding Anyidoho's poems.
The school system's influence in dissolving cultural identity can found not only in the opinion of Anyidoho, but also in many other outside sources. It is common knowledge among Ghanaians that you go to school to receive a Western education, not to learn about your traditional beliefs and cultural inheritance. As Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo puts it in No Sweetness Here, people do "not really go to school to learn about Africa" (Aiddo 2). The subjects make up the core of an education aimed at modernization, but since the system is not organic it is not as effective when it comes to grasping these cultural references in Anyidoho's poetry. Frantz Fanon, notable for The Wretched of the Earth and his idea of a "nervous condition," suggests that there is a type of identity crisis that a native is vulnerable to when torn between the traditional state and a colonial education (Senanu 22). Surely it is not possible to divorce the colonial influence and resurrect a purely traditional Ghana, but there is something to be said about the negative consequences, such as abandoning traditional stories that are unique to Ghana and Anyidoho's poetry. This is an imperative part of the identity of Ghana, and the educational system at present is ignoring that importance.
Another outside example of how the British Educational System intact today is void of traditional heritage and how it is responsible for this brand of illiteracy is found by looking at some of those traditional forms that have been associated with Ghana and other African countries. Ghana is known for "oral narrative and poetry, dance, drama, music, and visual art," forms that are thought incomparable in a Western paradigm (Appiah 69). Anyidoho himself is valued for utilizing the Ewe traditional funeral dirge in his poetry form (Senanu 209). Yet, what happens when the dirge is not taught in school, when traditional poetry goes forgotten, and the wonderful performance aspect of an oral tradition is absent from the educational system? Traditional forms are left abandoned and Anyidoho's cultural references in A Harvest of Our Dreams are missed. This places his work in a limbo, a type of nervous condition. They cannot be retrievable by local Ghanaians who are familiar with these traditions because it is written in English, but the English educated students, like Ama, are now robbed of their traditional inheritance.
My personal encounter with the Panther and the British Education System in the secondary school was during my first poetry lesson. I began the class having a student read an Ijala, or a hunter's chant, one of the most popular traditional forms in Africa (Senanu 19). The activity was painful for both reader and listeners. Giving up on that poem, I asked if anyone could share any Ghanaian traditional poems. They knew of none. Not only did their educational system de-emphasize the value of literature in general, but it also robbed them of the unique value of performance in oral tradition. It did not take long before I realized that the clash between these traditional forms and this adopted British System resulted in this illiteracy by producing an education where students were unfamiliar not only with Shakespeare, but with Achebe as well. It is not hard to see the momentum moving towards a Western paradigm and away from "Uncle Demanya" and the other local stories Anyidoho references (Anyidoho 7).
Recognizing that the British Educational System has contributed to this loss of traditional identity helps us identify the estrangement from the local language as the second failure of Ghanaian education contributing to this crisis, and we can see that through the text of A Harvest of Our Dreams. The image of this harvest Anyidoho invokes throughout the volume of poetry is hopeful that traditional heritage and the Ghanaian language will not be abandoned. In "Seedtime" there is a repeating stanza that says, "We will not die the death of dreams/ We will not die the cruel death of dreams" (Anyidoho 5). This repetition drives home a sense of desperation, an exclamation as much as a plead, knowing full well that these unharvested dreams of the past do not have a promising future. Yet, Anyidoho recognizes that there is something still to be said for them, and he does this throughout this volume by referring to the "hunger of our graves," a "harvest ungathered in our time" (7), and "a ghost on guard at Memory's door" (6). Here Anyidoho is expressing bereavement for something that has been lost, dreams that existed once but not yet been fulfilled, and by bringing up this image he is suggesting that there is a need for a change. Yet, it is not a triumphant, nationalistic, or even an optimistic approach to the subject. It is an honest hope, an acknowledgement that there is something absent, but not ignoring the difficulty of the situation either. No doubt the lack of tools that would allow Ghanaians to access Anyidoho's poems and these expressed hopes are related to abandoning tradition and the local language at school.
Other sources can help expose how language loss has serious implications in all aspects of life, including the void we are finding in the realm of literature and in cultural identity within Ghanaian schools. Keith Basso, an ethnographer interested in the effects of English language imposed upon Apache schools, quotes Anna Peaches who said that "if we lose our language, we lose our breath, then we will die and blow away like leaves" (Basso xiv). Through this quote we can understand that language is a vital part of our cultural identity. It is a lens through which we see the world and "emerges as a powerful vehicle of thought and as a crucial instrument" for communicating. Language is "an indispensable means of knowing the world and for performing deeds within it" (xii). By replacing Twi for English in the school, Ghana is losing more than just a language. It is a unique epistemology, and the way their ancestors have viewed their world for generations. You cannot remove the language without admitting that these traditional dreams Anyidoho references will go unharvested because Twi is a central part of their cultural identity. Writing in the language of the colonial power has been said "to write within death itself" (Ahmad 276). It is no wonder that language has been such a hot debate among postcolonial writers, most notably Kenyan author Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and Chinua Achebe from Nigerian (Jussawalla 27). A child does not go to school to read and write Twi in Ghana. Although some of those classes are available, it is not the focus of the education. The lofty task of adopting this new language causes subjects, like literature and Twi, to be overlooked. This causes cultural identity to be lost because the traditional self is bound up in the local language.
During my stay in Ghana it was evident to me that the estrangement from the local language is a significant contributor to the loss of traditional identity and the tools necessary to understand Anyidoho. I was surprised to find that in all of my interviews only five percent of the students said that they preferred to write and express themselves in the local language. I once asked the librarian if they had any books available in Twi. He gave me a confused look and pulled out a book on agriculture in Ghana. He got me a book on trees. That incident was evidence to me that the concept of having a book written in the local language was completely foreign. To read and write is to be a student of English, and to have that education at present is to be stripped of the cultural fluency necessary to understand Anyidoho. It is system determined to give you an English education to survive in a Western world.
Now that we have looked at how the British Education System and imposed English language contributes to a loss of cultural identity in current Ghanaian education we can now identify the third failure in the school system, which is an overemphasis on speaking English that undermining the importance of literature. We can see this by again looking at the text of A Harvest of Our Dreams. In the first poem, "Mythmaker," Anyidoho is blunt about the nature of Ghanaian education. He laments, "these children are away/ in schoolrooms where the world in a book/ distils daydreams into visions/ burns memorials of the past." Here he makes a distinction that there is a gap between life according to a textbook and what real life looks like for the average Ghanaian. Very few people get the privilege of a complete education. He goes on in the poem to say that this Western education is "plucking poison kisses from laurels" (Anyidoho 2). The laurel, associated with victory, is posed as an oxymoron, which presents this Western education as a double-edged sword. The children receive an education but at price of their traditions, their language, and tools necessary to appreciate their own literature. By the end of the poem Anyidoho talks about the children coming home "Some Day" (3), knowing full well by the repetition of this phrase that they will lose something, and coming home (if they ever come home), will never be the same. The reason why Ama and her classmates are not equipped to understand this volume of poetry is because the education in Ghana is aimed at speaking the language for practical uses like becoming a successful business owner or an accountant in a place away from home in a foreign context. It is about chasing after those laurels and finding job success in an increasingly Western world. But there are casualties along the way, like cultural identity and the tools to value of like A Harvest of Our Dreams.
Having looked at the loss of cultural identity in the school system and the separation from the local language, we can now look at outside resources to identify the speaking emphasis of the education system in Ghana. The curriculum does not prioritize literature whether it is written by an English or an African author. The government of Ghana finances student's education up to the Jr. High level. For two years of this education, a thirty-minute literature class is supposed to be offered twice a week. In my experience this class was the most skipped over by the teachers and least emphasized in their English lessons. Last year they also changed the Jr. High textbook, gutting out some of the figurative language and literature lessons, making the syllabus more like the secondary schools focused on English language skills. In the secondary school there is supposed to be a silent reading period at the beginning of each day, yet it is only required for boarders, and attendance is not enforced. After the first year of secondary school there are no more literature classes offered, and only some of the concepts are weaved into the general art student's curriculum. I was informed later in my research that literature is not seriously approached until the University level, where only about two million from a population of almost twenty four million could ever hope to reach. Other researchers looking at the literacy culture in Ghana and other African nations have also concluded that reading and writing "thus appear as Western skills, appropriated by Africans for instrumental rather than expressive purposes" (Austen 2). English is viewed as a practical skill, used to improve your position in life and not for personal fulfillment or expression, and this emphasis helps us see why literature is not a priority in the educational system in Ghana.
My personal experience gave me the opportunity to observe this emphasis on speaking English firsthand. Class after class focused on comprehension, sentence structure, and learning life skills like opening up a bank account. It did not take long to learn that the Ghanaian education system teaches the English language to better the lives of students to help them find jobs and function in an English dominated world, not to convince them to appreciate literature like Anyidoho. In conducting interviews I found that nearly seventy percent of the students said that they read in order to improve their vocabulary or become fluent in English. Every day on my way to teach I would walk past painted signs on school buildings that read, "Speak English, Both the Community and the Nation Expect That." It says to "speak" English, not appreciate English, not come to understand the meaning of life and appreciate English through literature, but to use it. Learn it to get a better job and to better your circumstances. A book will not feed your family, only an idea, and when it comes to getting by from day to day and providing food for your children, something has to give.
Given the text, secondary sources, and my own personal experience with the secondary school in Ghana I cannot help but conclude that the reason why A Harvest of Our Dreams is not understood by students and the community is because the educational system today is uninterested in maintaining cultural identity and over emphasizes English speaking at the expense of literature, both vital tools necessary to access Anyidoho's poems. The three factors that dictate these failures are retaining the British School System (a colonial inheritance), abandoning the local language, and emphasizing the importance of spoken English above the value of literature. These three failures leave Anyidoho's messages undiscovered in a medium that seems to be in the same limbo—that same nervous condition that the nation itself seems to be suffering from. In one of the later poems in the collection, "Ghosts," Anyidoho laments, "My voice my voice they seek after my voice! / Do not put me to sleep my people" (Anyidoho 69). This final exclamation, this plea to not be stifled out by this increasingly Western momentum, feels desperate and dejected. It appears to be self-conscious of the fate of his work and the direction the educational system is going. Unfortunately I think that ghost is still on guard at Memory's door because those traditional dreams, and Anyidoho's words, have yet to be harvested.
Works Cited
Austen, Ralph A. "Social History and Everyday Literacy." The Journal of African History 49 (2008): 143-144. Web. 1 Oct. 2010.
Ahmad, Aijaz. "The Politics of Literary Postcoloniality." Contemporary Postcolonial Theory. Ed. Padmini Mongia. London: Hodder Headline Group, 1996. 276-293. Print.
Aidoo, Ama Ata. No Sweetness Here and Other Stories. New York: The Feminist Press, 1995. Print.
Anyidoho, Kofi. A Harvest of Our Dreams. London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, 1984. Print.
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. "Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?" Contemporary Postcolonial Theory. Ed. Padmini Mongia. London: Hodder Headline Group, 1996. 55-71. Print.
Basso, Keith H. Introduction. Western Apache Language and Culture. By Basso. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1992. xi-xv. Print.
Jussawalla, Feroza, and Reed Way Dasenbrock. Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992. Print.
Senanu, K.E., and T. Vincent. A Selection of African Poetry. Essex: Longman Group Limited, 1988. Print.
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Actress Krysta Rodriguez aims to inspire young cancer patients through fashion blog after rare diagnosis of her own
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Turning 30 comes with its own set of stressors— or excitement, depending on your perspective— but for actress Krysta Rodriguez, two months into her third decade took a surprising turn when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Rodriguez, who had a featured role in the TV show "Smash" and has been in six Broadway musicals, including the lead role in "First Date," was in her hometown in Southern California, directing a musical at her old high school when she found out the news in September. Having the creative outlet to work while processing her diagnosis helped, she said, and she chose to keep things quiet for a few months.
"It didn't seem to be real; it almost felt like that's the hypochondriac in me, the dramatic actor that would think, 'oh, of course that would be the thing that would happen,'" Rodriguez told FoxNews.com.
In mid-February, Rodriguez announced her diagnosis, simultaneously launching her blog, ChemoCouture, to candidly share her story as well as fashion and beauty tips learned from her breast cancer experience.
"I was very nervous to do it but it feels nice to actually be able to talk to people about it openly," she said.
Rodriguez's diagnosis— stage 2B invasive ductal carcinoma in situ and invasive with an estrogen receptor-positive tumor in her left breast— indicates that the cancer began in the milk ducts and has a risk of invading other parts of the body. Invasive ductal carcinoma is the most common type of breast cancer, but is relatively uncommon in women Rodriguez's age, Dr. Halle Moore, a staff physician in the department of solid tumor oncology at Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute told FoxNews.com. About 20 percent of breast cancers occur in women under age 50.
Moore, who has not treated Rodriguez, said that while younger women are less likely to have breast cancer, specialists still see their share of the diagnosis.
"I thought I was going to be this chemo warrior."
After initially going through a hormone treatment in the hopes that the tumor would shrink, doctors determined Rodriguez needed to start chemotherapy. She relocated to her hometown in Orange County, Calif., after living in New York City for 13 years, and underwent her first treatment in January. She'll go through six rounds total, one every three weeks, and assess her status with her doctors at that point. According to Moore, while there are a variety of different treatment regimens, this is a standard used for patients who haven't had surgery yet in order to monitor and evaluate how a patient responds.
In the week after her first chemo treatment, Rodriguez was surprised by how serious the side effects of nausea, bone pain and fatigue were. For a couple days, she was unable to walk after an allergic reaction.
"I really thought that I was going to be this chemo warrior— the only person that had no side effects because that's what you imagine has to happen… maybe the only one not to lose my hair… I was not," she said.
Fortunately, after the first week of a treatment she feels more normal and is grateful, knowing that many others going through it have far worse effects.
"The week of sickness is enough to me to keep going, if it's going to work. I hope for that, but I won't know for a few weeks," she said, adding that her mid-treatment evaluation was due soon.
Her diagnosis at such a young age was even more surprising because she has no family history and does not have the BRCA1 and 2 genetic mutations, or tumor protein P53; doctors told her she only had a 1 percent chance of being diagnosed.
"I kept thinking, this is insane, I must be the only person in the world," she said "Then as I heard about more people, my doctor kept telling me it's much more common than I thought it was, and now I can't even believe the amount of people who have the same thing I have, or worse or different kinds of cancer."
Preparing for the future
Immediately after her diagnosis, Rodriguez had her eggs harvested and began hormone treatment. The roller coaster ride of injecting estrogen in order to prepare her eggs, then starting her initial treatment of hormone therapy, which shut down her ovaries, was rough, but doctors hope the 'Sleeping Beauty' method can preserve her fertility for the future.
For patients with estrogen receptor-positive tumors, like Rodriguez, using drugs to shut down the ovaries and prevent estrogen production is a good treatment, Moore said, as the cancer cells may receive signals from estrogen that promote their growth.
In fact, Moore published a study on Wednesday that found that women with hormone sensitive cancer had a reduced chance of ovarian failure with use of the hormone-blocking drug goserelin, which is similar to Lupron, which Rodriguez is on. Moore noted that her study participants had early stage hormone-receptor-negative breast cancer that did not require additional hormone treatment, as patients with early stage hormone-receptor-positive cancer do.
For breast cancer patients who must undergo hormone treatments after they're cancer-free— which could last 5-10 years— fertility becomes tricky, with factors such as age, risk, and lifestyle coming into play. For example, would a woman interrupt her treatment in order to become pregnant, at the chance of cancer recurring?
"These are very complicated and individual decisions that a patient has to take into account," Moore said, adding that typically they suggest patients wait two years after chemotherapy is over before trying to conceive, but that there isn't a "magic" number of years at which recurrence is unlikely.
Estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer is tricky because doctors see late recurrences, even ten years after remission, while more aggressive estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer has a higher risk of early recurrence, she said.
"Breast cancer in young women is an extremely complicated issue," Moore said, affecting fertility, genetic risk, career development, and personal relations. "Really, there are many, many issues young women face disproportionately with a breast cancer diagnosis."
"My concern is that I have a lot of living left to do and there's a lot more years to worry about getting cancer again," Rodriguez said. She'll stay on medication for at least five years after she's cancer-free and will be in menopause until she's 35.
Taking care of her body— and finding a great wig
As a triple-threat actress, Rodriguez has always had a strong awareness of her body and health, especially to perform eight times a week on Broadway, but occasionally slipped up. Now her diagnosis has shown her there are no more excuses to not be as healthy as she can. She's found that a diet that's close to Paleo— nixing refined carbs and processed foods in favor of whole foods and low sugar — has worked for her and she tries to eat as clean and healthily as possible. Now, rather than grabbing food on the go, she plans her meals ahead and prepares freezer foods so she always has a healthy option.
"I'm going to be very clear— that this is my path, my own specific choice, and I'm not advocating a specific route for anybody," she said. "Everyone's path is certainly unique and this is what felt good for me."
With her fashion-focused blog, Rodriguez is aiming to help women feel good— because how a breast cancer patient presents herself and makes herself feel is more important than ever.
"The major thing I've heard from people is how your dignity sorts of gets stripped away… your body becomes a study of science instead of what you know it to be It becomes a very public entity to everyone," she said.
Thanks to years of applying false eyelashes for the stage, Rodriguez had the skills to use them when her eyelashes started falling out, and will share tips in ChemoCouture, along with the homemade natural, aluminum-free deodorant she's started using, and other natural beauty treatments tailored for women undergoing chemo.
Rodriguez's hair started falling out two weeks after her first chemo session, and four days after that, she and her boyfriend, Peter, both shaved their heads. While her custom wig got lost by FedEx, she found store-bought substitutes that her hairdresser customized, which she said makes a big difference.
"It's like a really great pair of pants altered to you," she said. "It's a more personal and unique experience for every person that's coming through, so we don't all just feel the same."
"I actually enjoy looking at myself in my mirror now, more than I did before."
Rodriguez is shooting a guest role on "Inside Amy Schumer" and has performed in concerts in New York, but for now, she's focusing on her blog and stepping back from work, which she called "equal parts scary and thrilling."
"I'm definitely working hard as a very driven person to give myself permission to have cancer and to fight cancer," she said. "It's a really hard thing."
Speaking up about her diagnosis and talking with others has been an integral part in her processing of all the changes. Young women are an underrepresented part of the cancer conversation and that needs to change, Rodriguez said.
"There are so many more strides we need to take," she said. "I'm one person who doesn't know anything about medicine and the science behind it, but we have an army of people who need it. I'm hoping to raise some awareness that we need a better system, somehow."

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Monday, November 8, 2010
House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #82 -Friends
It's all aboutYou gotta have Friends this week at House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #82. This is a pretty easy challenge don't you think??? All these meeces ( Monica, Mudpie, Maxwell, and Amanda) are all great buddies and seem to be busy enjoying this basket of apples! Here in Oregon, the farms around are just finishing the fall apple harvest...and boy are these fresh apples tasty! I love them fresh picked!
I cannot even tell you how long it took to color this image...Good thing I love to color...House Mouse images were meant for copic coloring though! This stamp if reallllyyy big, so there isn't much room for embellies or whatnot, so best to just let the lovely stamp speak for itself!
Challenge #82 is sponsored by Simon Says Stamp!...a stamp of your choice! Wish I could enter....but I can't...but you can!
I hope you can join in and play along this week. Thanks for stopping by and visiting!
Card details:
Stamps: Apple Harvest HMTR1059, Sentiment is half of a saying in the retired set from SU! Simple Sayings "Perfect Friends"
Cardstock: Real Red, Polka Dots by Bo Bunny
Ink: Memento Black and Red, Copics (I will try to remember) R 20,22,24,27,29 E00,02,30,31,33,34,37, 40,41,42,43 YG 00,03,23,25 C 2,3,4 V 12,15, Y 08
Misc: Martha border punch, Dots and Dashes ribbon
21 comments:
- Deloris said...
Love your card! It's adorable! Great coloring too!
- November 8, 2010 at 2:57 AM
- Chris said...
Fabulous card Sue, your colouring is amazing, I could eat one of those apples right now :D! Hugs, Chris
- November 8, 2010 at 3:05 AM
- Carol (HB) said...
Oh my! This is adorable and your coloring is fabulous!
- November 8, 2010 at 4:21 AM
- Lorie said...
This is gorgeous Sue! I'm in awe of your coloring once again!
- November 8, 2010 at 7:10 AM
- Christine said...
Ohhhh Sue awesome creation GF your colouring is amazing beautiful apple colouring it must have take an age??? fab colour combo with the DP's...love it.
smiles Christine xx
- November 8, 2010 at 8:13 AM
- America said...
GF your coloring is so luscious. Adorable image, great take on the challenge. FANTASTIC WORK! :)
- November 8, 2010 at 9:03 AM
- Shirley N said...
OMG girl, that is a huge stamp. I would freak out if I had to color one that big! But wow, you did an awesome job, your coloring is amaaazing! I keep staring at everything but dunno why I keep coming back to your grass, it looks so real! Love it all, fab job Sue!
- November 8, 2010 at 10:15 AM
- Sue said...
Hi ya hun
wow this is totally stunning, awesome colouring, fabulous image, lovely design, scoopy,x
- November 8, 2010 at 10:22 AM
- Sue said...
What an awesome array of colors and fun and merriment!!! This card is beautiful! Love the little guy that ate his apple right in the basket no heavy lifting for him!!!!
Sue Drees
- November 8, 2010 at 11:26 AM
- Larissa said...
Wow Sue, gorgeous card! Your apples look so delicious. I almost want to take a bite out of your card! LOL Love your colouring on this one, so amazing.
- November 8, 2010 at 11:47 AM
- Yvette K said...
Such a beautiful card! Love your colouring, the apples looks delicious!
- November 8, 2010 at 12:48 PM
- Our Little Inspirations said...
Sensational coloring and design! SO pretty!!
- November 8, 2010 at 3:50 PM
- stamps&cars said...
Your apple coloring is awesome.
- November 9, 2010 at 1:50 AM
- Annika said...
It IS a huge stamp and must have taken ages - but then again, ANYTHING takes me ages!! lol And you're right - some big impact images are much better off to be left to do all the work without adding much embellies!!
- November 9, 2010 at 2:03 AM
- Rica said...
Fabulous card Sue, your colouring is amazing - those apples look good enough to eat and your array of colours is astounding!!!
Fortunately I think these huge images speak for themselves and don't need much embellishing.
hugs Heather xx
- November 9, 2010 at 3:23 AM
- Lorraine A said...
this is just amazing Sue !! the image is adorable and your colouring is FANTASTIC !!!!!! those apples look good enough to eat !! absolutely stunning !!
Lols x x x
- November 9, 2010 at 4:58 AM
- Eve said...
Sue, it's sooo funny that we've been coloring the same HM images lately! I've just colored this one also, BUT NOT as beautiful as your coloring! I don't own the copics, so i used water color pencils. As you said, it took lots of time to color the image, and i dont' like my colored image, so it's still sitting on my desk... You colored it beautifully, and finished it into a beautiful card! As you said, HM large image is as pretty as the way it is, and hard to put anything else on it...
- November 9, 2010 at 6:04 PM
- Charlene said...
Wowza..that's a piece of art! Love, love your awesome coloring!! Those apples look good enough to eat. You're right...it doesn't need a thing!
- November 9, 2010 at 7:21 PM
- CHRISSY said...
Fantastic coloring. Beautiful image. Love little animal stamps. Must get mine out [ which are old now ] and get coloring.
- November 9, 2010 at 10:10 PM
- Curt in Carmel said...
Your coloring on this is really off the charts! So vibrant and colorful. The one thing I hate about coloring HM images like this are all the blades of grass! They drive me nuts. Love this card! Best, Curt
- November 10, 2010 at 5:10 PM
Fabulous coloring Sue! I can tell you spent hours! I colored one last year at Christmas and for some reason they just turn out so fun! Charming even! TFS!
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From handwritten letter with an excerpt written day by day, received August 3, 2013:
Dear Family Aberdeen
July 22, 2013
Ok, this will be the last letter if this letter doesn't go through because I really hope they didn't lose my other ones in the mail. Today was a nice and easy p-day. A lot of people emailed me and that was so nice to hear from them and Sister Barlow sent some pictures of the youth hike/walk thing and it was funny because I got to see Adam Hoopes in my hat. After I was done emailing, we went to a park with the other missionaries to have a campfire which was nice just to talk to people and it's weird because most of them are going home. After that, Elder Holbrook and I got some braces (suspenders) and we are also excited this week because we got some really good food to make and I have Mom's cinnamon roll recipe and it will be amazing.
July 23, 2013
On exchanges today I went with Elder Meline and he goes home at the end of the transfer so it was weird being on the completely other side of the spectrum. When I went out tracting with him it was like my first day all over again, I never knew what to say. But, everything was ok and not too crazy. Elder Meline is also in a car area so we actually got to see the country-side and it really hit me that 'Wow, I am actually in Scotland!', and I also saw a ton of sheep. Other than that, it was a pretty normal day.
July 24, 2013
Today marks the one month mark of my being 19! Since time moves so fast, I still don't feel like it. Today was a very nice day. At the end of exchanges Elder Meline gave me pointers since he is going to be done with his mission in two weeks. He explained that I need to live everyday like it is my last on my mission. It is great advice. I just need to take that step and act. We also got to teach an English class today with a guy named Neftaki and it turned into a lesson. He is super funny and really curious which is a good thing.
July 25, 2013
Today was something that I needed, we had an all Scotland conference and so we drove for three hours to the mission home to listen to Elder Texiera and he taught me that I need to work a lot harder and that there still is an importance of street contacting and that it does have a place. We also got to go into ward council today for the first time because they didn't allow missionaries in until now and we gave a preview of the lesson we will give to the ward on member missionary work. I feel like this is something this country needs and deserves and I am more than happy to be on the front lines of this change.
July 26, 2013
I'M GOING TO START WRITING IN ALL CAPS TO IMPROVE MY PENMANSHIP WHICH IS VERY MUCH NEEDED. Today was just really good. I'm not sure why but everything just went very well. I also know I just need to work a lot more and with exactness and I also need to show the Lord I can just put in the work and everything will work out. Time is still an obstacle that I need to overcome but that will only come in time and work. Today we also had a lesson with a Nigerian woman and we had another approach to ask her if there was anyone she wanted us to pray for and she ended up praying for us after we were done with our prayer.
July 27, 2013 (Mom's birthday)
Today was awesome. We are pretty busy and the work is really moving and I am so blessed. I now have confidence that I can do this and I know it will be hard but every time we have hard days that means a good one is soon to come. We went to some potentials and street contacted pretty much the entire way there and we had a very good dinner appointment and the food was amazing. Other than that it was a pretty average day.
July 28, 2013
Today was just a really good day. It was raining like crazy! So I just had a thought in my head that we should help everyone by holding an umbrella from their car to the building and it might sound weird but I think that thought was from the Holy Ghost because of the rain, that would have not been my idea. It was a perfect way for the ward to bond with us and that is absolutely what we need and we are doing really well but I know it is because of the Lord. We ended the night at Sister Holman's (sp?) with a dinner appointment and the food was amazing and I'm just afraid that next transfer when they add the sister Missionaries that they will get all the attention from the ward and the dinner appointments.


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An Auckland real estate agency renting tiny pods as "one bedroom apartments" for $200-a-week has removed the ad from Trade Me.
Yesterday, an agency advertised the $200-a-week sleeping pods as Auckland central apartments.
The ad showed photos of eight small "state of the art" capsules stacked two-high, with step access and violet coloured lighting.
Prospective tenants were encouraged to rent the pods, and share a kitchen and living space with other pod-tenants.
But the Trade Me listing for the capsules, which had been viewed more than 2000 times, was taken down within hours of being put up.
An agent for the company that listed the rental pods would not say why the ad was removed.
Auckland Council is looking into the legality of renting out the pods.
A spokeswoman called situation "unusual" and one the council had not encountered before.
"With that in mind, we will investigate this further to determine whether the pods, and how they were being advertised, breach any Building Code, resource consent or Auckland Unitary Plan rules," the spokeswoman said.
Advertised under the heading "City centre, 1 bedroom", each pod appeared to contain a single mattress, a pillow, a fire hydrant, and a mirror.
Reminiscent of Japan's famous capsule hotels, the pods were stacked two high - with the bottom pod advertised as costing $180 per week, and the top pod $200 a week.
"Live in a prime inner city location for a fraction of the cost!," The Trade Me ad read.
"Enjoy a unique living opportunity in the heart of the city. Rent your own individual sleeping pod/bedroom. These state of the art pods include internet connection and a flat screen TV as well as secure swipe card access. Each pod comes with its own locker too.
"One person per pod."
Tenants would have access to a living and kitchen space shared with three other pod renters, according to the ad, and utilities were included in the rent.
Yesterday, The Wireless called the advertiser, Ray White's Supercity Rental Management Limited, to arrange a viewing.
But within half an hour the agent called back to say the ad had been removed and the viewing was cancelled.
Alan Johnson, a social policy analyst for The Salvation Army, said the appearance of the pods for rent showed if standards lowered enough, the market would provide anything.
"It's a race to the bottom."
Johnson said the pods might not be an unreasonable response to Auckland's housing crisis, and some people, such as students, might like the accommodation.
But he wondered if the relatively cheap accommodation would appeal to vulnerable people desperate not to end up on the streets - such as those with drug, alcohol and or mental health problems - and if so, how they would cope with the lack of privacy.
"The people managing [the property] will have to be mindful of the people they're letting in. Commercial operators have no interest in or knowledge of how to manage these people," Johnson said.
Hugh Pavletich, co-founder of the Demographia International Housing Affordability Surveys, said the appearance of these pods to rent was symptomatic of Auckland's over-inflated housing market.
Auckland housing now cost 10 times household income, Pavletich said.
"This is further evidence of how ridiculous the Auckland housing situation has got. When this government came in in 2008, Auckland housing was 6.4 times household income. When Nick Smith was appointed in early 2013 it was 6.7 times household incomes. Today it is 10 times.
"We're going to see these nonsense solutions, when what we need to see desperately is actual affordable housing being built."
In January 2010, the New York Times reported that Tokyo's Capsule Hotel Shinjuku's 510 capsules had become popular living spaces for those affected by the country's recession.
Is it a boarding house?
According to the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), a boarding house is a situation in which a tenant rents a room, rather than a whole house. Facilities like the kitchen and bathroom are shared with other tenants, and the house is occupied by at least six tenants at a time.
However, according to the ad for the pods on Trade Me, only three tenants would share a communal space.
Under Auckland Council's 2008 hostels bylaw, a boarding house is shared by five or more tenants. According to the bylaw, if a room is smaller than 4.5 square metres, it cannot be rented to sleep a person.
In a 1999 report by the Mental Health Commission (now the Health and Disability Commissioner), boarding houses were noted as filling a gap when there was an absence of other suitable accommodation, or where public sector housing provision was lacking.
"Often, they provide 'housing of last resort' for some consumers, while for some others they are a positive choice," the report stated.
According to MBIE, if the owner of the premises lived on the property, rented out pods to individuals and shared facilities, then this arrangement will likely be excluded from the Residential Tenancies Act and was likely to be deemed a "flatmate" type arrangement.
What are pods?
Pods, or capsules are extremely small "rooms" intended to provide cheap, basic accommodation, made famous in Japan where the first capsule hotel opened in 1979.
The pods advertised as central Auckland apartments look very similar to a model advertised for sale on alibaba.com for US$600 each (for a minimum of six capsules). These pods are just over seven cubic metres.


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There are so many different ways you can use stamps and create beautiful scrapbook images. Different types of material can be used on your page layouts. Velvet is a material that will add elegance to your pages. Use it for your Valentine layouts, Wedding pages or baby memories.
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A blast from the past, really and truly, found amongst my old sketches during a blitz this afternoon. It's Dunnottar Castle, just outside my hometown and famous for all sorts of worthy historical reasons, but also as the setting for Mel Gibson's Hamlet - my sister served Franco Zeffirelli at a local restaurant during filming. I can remember doing this one as part of a project in eeek! - 1995! I can't decide if I like it or not. There's something slightly unnerving about looking at your work years later, as if it might possibly have been done by someone else entirely. Which in a way I guess it was. I remember doing another version of the castle too, in watercolour only... I must try and rake it out.
8th Feb Update: Ahem, as proof I am absolutely NOT the best judge of my own work - I just sold my first print on Etsy (whoop!) and it was this one!


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Good Morning!!! Hope you are all up drinking that coffee, tea or anything else you prefer in the mornings. I like to drink my coffee while reading all my e-mail. It seems like I have the same routine everyday unless there's something I need to get somewhere early.
Well, this week we have a challenge that I know your going to like and probably need one at some point. We are doing get well cards. I do have a few people that I know would like one. Handmade cards always cheers someone up. They know you put your love into it and not something picked up off the rack. Our sponsor this week is one that hasn't been here before so let's give a big hand. She have really great digi's that you would like. This is the name of this week's sponsor: Imagine That!....digis by Kris. I had the pleasure to work with her image "Well Wishes." I loved the flowers and the butterflies that was around the well. I loved working with the detail and I also used her sentiment that she made that came with the image I received. I just love the way she wrote it. Here is a great prize to win for this challenge.
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Imagine That!....digis by Kris
Now, I would like to show you the card that I made with this image. I really hope you like it.
I wanted the background paper and the flowers around the well to match. The only color that wasn't on the paper that's on the well is the blue flowers. I just wanted to add a little more color. As you know, I'm going to let you know the items I used to make the card.
Cardstock -- Close To My Heart & The Paper Studio
Paper -- DCWV
White Buttons -- Close To My Heart
Pop - Ups Under The Buttons -- Ranger
Ribbon -- Offray, Spool O' Ribbon
Flower -- Prima Flowers ( Pink Amoroso )
Colored Markers
Colored Pencils
There was a little bit of everything I used on this card but I did have fun with it. I hope you come and join us for this weeks challenge. To see what the design team made and where you enter your card, just go to Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog. Hope you have a Wonderful Week!!!


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Date: 08 February 2018 By: Silas Nduvheni
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The Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is thanking the farmers and other stakeholders in the province who are reporting incidents of Fall Army Worm (FAW).
The spokesperson for the department, Mr Selby Mokgotho, said FAW was first detected in the province in early 2017 and caused damage primarily in maize, sorghum and about 70 other host species. FAW is an exotic pest that had its origin in central America and its moths can fly thousands of kilometres in a short period of time and mostly fly according to the direction of the wind.
"In this current maize-planting season, farmers and other stakeholders from affected areas started reporting FAW incidences, which were confirmed by local agricultural technicians and monitoring trap catches placed in some of these areas," said Mokgotho. The areas where the pest occur are Mutale, Matangari, Thohoyandou, Mashamba, Niani in the Vhembe district, Lulekani, Nwamitwa and Hoedspruit in the Mopani district, Thabazimbi, Bela Bela, Mookgopong, Mokgalakwena in the Waterberg district, Polokwane in the Capricorn district and Groblersdal in the Sekhukhune district
He said affected farmers were therefore advised to report FAW incidences to their local agricultural offices immediately for assistance with identification, confirmation and management of the pest.
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New Associate Members
We are delighted to announce that the CHO Board have recently approved an application for Associate Membership from Collecting Rainbows Meditation Group.
Collecting Rainbows leader, Frances Roberts has been interested in self-development and meditation for over 20 years and took up healing in 2009. The group, situated in Devon, offers an introduction to meditation and the use of a variety of tools to understand how to balance mind, body and spirit and work toward healing self.
We hope to see them at future CHO events as Frances is a big supporter of CPPD.


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The two societies are holding AGMs this week amid ongoing battles against
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Just playing around with some home made lighting set up. Had to clean my sensor today it was terrible, If you have ever tried this for yourself you will understand that I am now totally BALD! it's a very nerve racking experience. Seems clean enough now as this was shot at f16 and no bunnie dusty bugs are present.
This is Izaak, he is one of my sons, Twins, age 18.


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By Malie Bifc USA
I just re-uploaded some trailers from Bie's TV Drama on youtube…
Roy Adeed Heng Rak (Trace of Past Love)
Hua Jai Sila (Heart of Stone), 2007
Prajan See Roong (Rainbow Moon)
Dok Rak Rim Tang (Love Found at the Edge of the Road)
Karm Weala Harak (Crossing Time to Find Love)
Khu Kam (Ill-Fated Love)
Jut Rak Viva Luang: coming July 23, 2015, Wednesday & Thursday slot
I've watched all of these except Karm Weala Harak (I couldn't find it with Eng subbed) and Prajan See Roong (not sure about what the storyline was about and couldn't find one with Eng subs either) so I didn't watch them. Anyway, I loved all of Bie's lakorns that I have been able to watch so far. It's hard to pick the one you liked the most. They are all good storylines. I feel like Bie's done almost every kind of lakorn, even though he's done so few lakorns in all 8-10 years of his singing and acting career. His first one, it was a love/hate relationship story, second one was a revenge/slap-kiss story, third one (haven't watched it), fourth one is a comedy/controversial story, fifth one is a musical, sixth one is a wartime story. His upcoming lakorn seems like it's going to be a comedy again with some irony and the relationships are flipped (everyone's not with who they should be with until the end). It'll be funny to watch…=)
Hi Malie, somehow I can't find Bie's TV drama , the ones that you just re-uploaded on YouTube. Can you show me how pls. Thank you
Hey Malie,
I was just wondering if you've read the Khu Kam novels. I am really interested in knowing what was written in the Khu Kam novels. Do you think you would ever consider reading and translating it into English?
Hi Malie, check your mailbox when you have a chance


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The Arkansas News Bureau obtained a draft of a news release announcing a joint commitment by UofA System President Alan Sugg and UCA President Lu Hardin to lead a $250 million public bond campaign to benefit higher education.
They want Gov. Mike Huckabee to put the question on this year's Nov. 7 general election ballot, and they say they have the financial resources to sell the measure to the public.
Rep. Bruce Maloch, D-Magnolia, said Tuesday that he was told last week that "university presidents are planning to make the request."
House Speaker Bill Stovall, D-Quitman, said Tuesday he wouldn't be surprised if there was another attempt to get the higher education bond proposal before voters considering it barely failed in a December special election.
"There wasn't a lot of controversy about that bond issue," Stovall said, adding that voters were so opposed to a highway bond program on the ballot that many also voted against the higher education plan.
"The problem was there was some spillage from the highway issue over on it," Stovall said.
UPDATE: Huckabee today issued a proclamation putting the bond issue on the Nov. 7 ballot.
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banana is probably too conservative for social attire for a man in his 30's; they are a better place for casual work attire. H& M is too big for you, and it has a lot of really trendy cheap things, mixed in with some better pieces. this isn't a good place for a man who doesn't really know how to shop/dress.
take a look at the plastic models and at men's magazines, such as esquire and gq, to get an idea of what you like, look at men on the st. to see what looks you like.
some better shopping options for you might be diesel, armani exchange (if you like a more urban/trendy look), j
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One of Those Moments
It's been a long time since I've done this (write a post here) so, you know, please be patient while I get back into the swing of things. This evening I had one of those moments – those ones when … Continue reading
On Saying Little and Thinking Much
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On Turning 40
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To write effectively as a journalist, you will need to be able to distinguish one type of article from another.
See Writing in the Disciplines: Journalism, from the University of Richmond Writing Center for a detailed description of several article types.
Article types that you will learn about in this class:
News Story
Press Release
Feature Story
Opinion Piece or Op-Ed
Scholarly Article (see boxes at right)
Report or White Paper
The best sources of information are peer-reviewed, scholarly articles from journals.
See Identifying Scholarly Articles from University of Wisconsin - Madison for further help with locating and identifying scholarly articles.
For more information on the differences between scholarly and non-scholarly/popular articles, see this guide from the University of Arizona.
Scholarly article example:
Lucas M, Mirzaei F, Pan A, et al. Coffee, Caffeine, and Risk of Depression Among Women. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171(17):1571-1578.
What Does "Peer Reviewed" or "Refereed" Mean?
Librarians at the University of Texas at Austin explain the Peer Review process in this way:
Peer Review is a process that journals use to ensure the articles they publish represent the best scholarship currently available. When an article is submitted to a peer reviewed journal, the editors send it out to other scholars in the same field (the author's peers) to get their opinion on the quality of the scholarship, its relevance to the field, its appropriateness for the journal, etc.
Publications that don't use peer review (Time, Cosmo, Salon) just rely on the judgement of the editors whether an article is up to snuff or not. That's why you can't count on them for solid, scientific scholarship.
Note:This is an entirely different concept from "Review Articles," also known as Literature Review Articles.


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What instrument do you play?
"Its one thing to be positive in a positive environment. It's another to be an instrument of change in a negative environment." - John Maxwell
What instrument are you playing through your life? Is it playing a tune your happy with? I meet with several people that tell me "Debbie I want to eat well but my family, friends and coworkers are just so negative and couldn't be more unsupportive of me being on this plan. They try to convince me it's too difficult, not enough freedom and always tempt me with food and alcohol that I know I need to avoid." I say it's time to change instruments. Change your tune. Tune out the negative parts of these people and become an agent for change.
Refuse to be defeated by others lack of discipline.
Don't be manipulated by someone else's nonexistent desire towards good health. Play your own tune. Live your life out loud in front of them. Eventually I promise you will silently become the tool that single handedly changes their life. They will on their own come to the same conclusions you have come to and finally realize they must make a change. "Everyone has the capability of becoming a person who lifts up others. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. You do have to care about people. Don't let another day go by without lifting up the people in your life." - John Maxwell
Just the simple actions of you waking up early to get your morning walking in daily will make an impact on your spouse and kids. They will realize your health means something to you. Otherwise you would just sleep in. The simple action of bringing your lunch to work today in your cooler while everyone else un-wraps McDonalds, Taco Bell or the left over pizza they have will show each of them you are serious about clean eating and changing your life. You will show them that even you can find the time to prepare your food for the week, make it taste wonderful and feel great because of it. Just the simple act of coming to the gym 2 times a week and starting a strength training program instead of heading to happy hour will show your friends that you mean business about looking better and maybe they will lay off you about drinking. They might understand that you are giving this everything you have, and you deserve support instead of discouragement.
"If you don't allow the enemy to discourage you, one of his greatest weapons has been lost." - Joel Osteen
If you are struggling with discouragement because others around you don't support your new vision for health, change your tune. Pick a new instrument. Start this road alone. Choose it for you and you alone and do all that you do for the overall improvement of your health. This includes a few simple choices. Eat clean daily. Meet with a professional. Have them align a group of foods that agree with you and will fuel you to feel your best each day. Then get a minimum of 30 minutes of exercise daily. Cardio, strength training, yoga or whatever you start with. Just get started and stick with it. Do it for yourself, not for the others around you. Trust me, they see you, they want what you have and eventually one day they will be the first in line to say "hey what are you doing, you look great, I want to do what you're doing."
"I've heard that trouble is inevitable, but misery is optional. Trouble descends on all of us from time to time, but we can decide whether to fall apart or to pull it together." - Joel Osteen. Next time your day doesn't go your way, DON'T QUIT! Don't give into temptation! Don't lose your focus! Fight the good fight. I guarantee you will love the way you feel if you don't grow weary in continuing to do what's right for your body. Everyone feels better when they feel lean. They feel healthy and ready to take on the world.
Don't let anyone, anything or any moment take you away from the joy of that feeling which can be had daily.
You get what you give in life. Give your health 100%. Don't settle for second best; don't live to please your critics. They will always be there. Eat clean daily, 30 minutes of exercise daily and run your own race for you. You can do this starting today. Starting this hour. God Bless you this week as you fight the good fight of health and wellness.


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Thursday, September 17, 2015
Taking another step toward fulfilling the clean energy goals set forth by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., the California Department of General Services (DGS) has partnered with SMUD, Sacramento's community-owned, not-for-profit electric service, to purchase 100 percent renewable energy for all of its state-owned buildings in downtown Sacramento—a move that makes California one of the nation's largest purchasers of energy derived from renewable sources.
"We are taking a leadership role in the fight against climate change by embracing energy efficiency," said Daniel C. Kim, Director of the Department of General Services "With the help of our local utility partners, state office buildings across the region are cutting their carbon footprint and switching to renewable energy."
As part of an agreement signed this week, SMUD's Greenergy program will supply 100 percent of the electricity needs of DGS-controlled office space in the downtown Sacramento region – including the state capitol – with power generated from renewable resources like wind, water, sun and biomass.
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I love this. Wonderful!
Taken from Headington Hill Park I believe. Great shot Allan!
Comment by Stephen(10th April 2009) Very good shot Allan. I've cropped the people from the left and think it looks even better. Maybe you can try it and see what you think.
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