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Monday, April 9, 2018
Who's Holding The Key to Spring?
Well, still unseasonably cold here and a bit of snow is again in the forecast! They say that by the end of the week it will be MUCH warmer. We'll see.
Let's start with a treat. I made a Blueberry Dutch Baby in my cast iron skillet for Sunday brunch for hubby and I -and it was SOOO good!
Have a slice won't you? I adapted a recipe I recently found in a magazine. This is similar to a pancake but lighter and more eggy (is this a word?). Recipe at end of post.
Joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth for T Stands For Tuesday, and Cast Iron Fridays.
There is a birthday celebration happening at the Simon Wednesday Challenge with special prizes! Happy 9th birthday, and thank you for all the inspiration challenges and projects!!
If you have been coming here regularly lately you know how much I have been loving using this brick stencil-it's also on the garden pic at the top :)
Products: Neenah Classic Coat Solar White 110lb. paper, brick wall stencil, clustered leaves die, Tessatina border die, Versafine Onyx Black ink, Distress Tea Dye ink- all from Simon Says Stamp; clear stamp (Mega Mixed Messages set -Papertrey Ink; metallic patterned paper (DCWV).
I will also share my card with the Simon Says Flickr Challenge #95 and Simply Neutrals Tuesday.
A journal page collage:
Images from a folder of magazine clips I just pieced together. Joining Art Journal Journey for the theme of "Recycle and Collage" this month along with Try It On Tuesday for the theme of "recycle something"..
And this tag (you saw a glimpse of it at the top of my post) is meant for the Simon Monday Challenge (theme is Mythology/Inspired by a Story) :
The Secret Garden immediately entered my head and this tag came together quite effortlessly. I love the 1949 movie version of this story so I had to use a vintage girl! And I do love the way my brick wall turned out:)
Products: Tim Holtz Distress tag, Paper Doll, Botanical; napkin (background); black wire; modeling paste mixed with a bit of black paint; Brick Wall stencil (Simon Says Stamp); key charm (from my stash); computer generated words; Diamond Stickles glitter glue.
Also joining Paint Party Friday! Have a super, fun filled week, and do share if you try the recipe for the Dutch Baby:)
"I am sure there is magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us"
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
Blueberry Dutch Baby
1 c. milk 3/4 c. flour 2 Tbsp. sugar 1/2 tsp. salt 4 lg. eggs zest of 1 lemon
3 Tbsp. butter fresh blueberries (or sliced strawberries) confectioner's sugar
10 or 12" skillet ( I used the 12").
Place rack in middle of oven and preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Whisk eggs, milk and sugar in lg bowl. Add lemon zest and salt. Gradually whisk in the flour and mix until smooth. Place the butter in the skillet and place in the oven 3 min. or so until butter has melted. Remove from oven and swirl butter around pan to coat then pour the batter in the skillet. Bake 17 - 20 min. until puffed and golden. Sprinkle blueberries over then dust with confectioners sugar. Serves 2 - 4.
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I like your collage with the sweet little Vintage girl, it looks pretty good on the Tag. The pieces of your other collage fit perfect together, the colors are in harmony. The Blueberry Dutch Baby looks very yummy, I think I am hungry now. ;)ReplyDelete
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Hi, Loved all of your art pieces and wow I am loving your Blueberry Dutch Baby Looks delicious! Our weather is sooo up and down here tooReplyDelete
Happy T Day KathyReplies
good morning and I just realized today is friday the 13th too thank you so much Linda for linking and sharing cast iron fridays.I copied your recipeDelete
Your tag and card are so pretty! and those Dutch Baby's look amazing! I love blueberry so I may have to try this.ReplyDelete
Happy Tea Day,
I know what you mean about winter not going away. man, it is April. They are telling us we're also due for a late week warm up, well maybe, right? LOVING all your art today. You've had a creative week. And your Dutch baby is looking good. Yum. Happy T Day Linda. hugs-ErikaReplyDelete
Loving your Spring selection!!!ReplyDelete
Beautiful art and that Dutch baby looks more than delicious, yummy! Thanks for joining us again at TIOT. Hope your weather soon gets better. Happy T Day, hugs, ValerieReplyDelete
love your girl waiting for spring... and i fully understand your preference for this wall stencil, awesome!ReplyDelete
i do not have cast iron - but maybe i will find a solution to make this dutch baby anyway- it looks so yummy!!!
oh, april days... at the moment we are on the sunny side, but that may change daily. - have a great week and happy t-day!
Such a cheery post! I'm loving your brunch and I could just eat that right now ...lol 😉. Your card, journal page and tag are beautiful, and I love the images you recycled on your journal page with the happy colours too 😀. Thanks so much for joining us at Try it on Tuesday! Happy T Day! J 😊 xReplyDelete
A wonderful selection of art Linda! I love the page you created for my challenge at AJJ!ReplyDelete
Alison xox
Gorgeous card and tag Linda :-) the CAS design of the card is stunning and I love your secret garden tag! very cute :-)ReplyDelete
thanks for joining us on the Simon Says Stamp Monday and Wednesday Challenges
Lols x x x
Firstly I take a big share of the Blueberry Dutch Baby if possible please! Just yummie!Thanks for the recipe! The elegant white card is gorgeous and I love your super fun collage page! It looks very professional! You have always the perfect touches to your work! Your secret garden tag is absolutely adorable - the brick wall is really amazing!ReplyDelete
Sending spring weather in your direction my friend and happy week and T-Day and thanks bunches for joining Art Journal Journey and Try It On Tuesday this week again! So much appreciated dear Linda!
Hugs, Susi
What a sweet postcard(?), Linda. Oh,it's a tag! Very pretty. I love how you did the bricks and the butterfly's antennae.ReplyDelete
I never heard of Blueberry Dutch Baby. It looks delicious.
Happy T-day! Hugs, Eileen
That looks oh so tasty! Both the art and the food. And should you find that key can you lend it to me. We urgently need it here in Scotland!ReplyDelete
Never heard of it before but that Dutch Baby looks GOOD!!! lol I love the brick stencil too... i think i have it... i need to pull it out and play now.. :) I love to collage too.. I usually do Postcards but i'm beginning to think i need a journal of nothing but collage.. :) Happy T day Linda! Hugs! debReplyDelete
love blueberries, your tag from a fav book of mine and your cardsReplyDelete
I've never heard of Blueberry Dutch Baby, and I gave my iron skillets away... Hmmm, I may need to make a run to the store :) Happy T TuesdayReplyDelete
The young girl sitting on the wall makes an exquisite tag; there is a story there somewhere. Maybe an old lady is reminiscing about her youth?ReplyDelete
I love your magazine collage, everything goes together so well.
I had to laugh at the name of your pancakes, who can resist making these, thanks for the recipe.
Oh no my comment just disappeared! :( Well again, I enjoyed your post! And so glad to see you shared your beautiful card with SNT's!ReplyDelete
I love the movie The Secret Garden. Enjoyed the book, too. Your tag with the vintage girl is so sweet. I love how the bow in her hair looks like a butterfly. I sure hope she unlocks Spring soon. We have snow flurries today and I want to cry. I've made a plain Dutch baby never though to add anything to it. Yours looks real good. Happy T DayReplyDelete
Your blueberry brunch recipe sounds and looks delicious, I really would enjoy a slice with a cuppa.ReplyDelete
Your art projects look amazing, I am drawn to the beautiful tag, that book was a favourite of mine, you have me wanting to seek it out to read again.
Thank you for adding another great recycling page to the TioT's theme.
Happy belated T day wishes.
Yvonne xx
What a gorgeous tag and the card is lovely as well. The recipe looks delicious.ReplyDelete
I had planned to be here sooner, but my keyboard had other plans. I am thrilled you shared that blueberry Dutch baby with us. Did you know that Kathy has a link you can add your cast iron concoction to every Friday? I plan to join in May, so I encourage you to link, too.ReplyDelete
Your darling tag is incredible. Yes, that brick wall truly MAKES that tag. It is fabulous.
Your collage is fabulous and fits in perfectly with Alison's theme. I was thrilled you shared it with us at Art Journal Journey. It's a very colorful collage.
Thanks, too, for sharing your recipe. I know it will go well with coffee, like it did with yours at T this Tuesday.
Beautiful art work as always- thanks for a glimpse of Spring! The recipe looks yummy too💗ReplyDelete
I can see spring here as well here :) Blueberries are so good and healthy. It's time for morning coffee but no bun for me, see you!ReplyDelete
Hello Linda, Thanks for the recipe - I must try that - pancakes in the oven. Your Spring tag is simply gorgeous! What a cute little girl. Your brick stencil is very effective.ReplyDelete
I love love love your pretty tag and I too chose The Secret Garden. :) This recipe sounds fabulous and I wonder how it would be with the blueberries baked in it??? I love my skillet and am excited to see you sharing ideas for it. Hugs, AutumnReplyDelete
Hi Linda, Love the Secret Garden tag, one of my favourite childhood books.ReplyDelete
It's a fabulous recycled journal page full of summer colours - thanks for sharing at TioT.
Your Blueberry Dutch Baby looks and sounds yummy, haven't heard of it before, thanks for sharing the recipe.
Avril xx
You have some fabulous art on your blog today! Your card is so elegant and your tag is so sweet! I love your journal page and so pleased you linked to Try It On Tuesday! Blueberry Dutch Baby looks similar to clafouti so I shall give it a try! Belated Happy T day ChrisxReplyDelete
Oh I love your art this week!!! The Dutch Baby looks great too . Very much like a Finnish Pancake I used to make all of the time when my kids were young.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog and leaving such kind words. I am so late getting around to visit this week. WE HAVE SUNSHINE and WARM TEMPS! So you know where I have been. The colder weather is due back tomorrow though :(
Happy Very Late Tuesday!!!
Every time I read about that Dutch baby I get hungry! Happy PPF and have a great weekend, hugs, ValerieReplyDelete
Wonderful art, Linda. I especially like the key to spring with that fab brick stencil. Your beautiful work inspires me to get out my stencils today and do some art. Thanks for the great recipe too. It looks delicious.ReplyDelete
Beautiful and creative 'secret garden' tag ~ love it!ReplyDelete
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Beautiful and elegant ~ 'Celebrate the day.' card!ReplyDelete
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Wow lovely art. I want to know where spring is too and who has the keys to it. LOL The blueberry treat looks soo good.ReplyDelete
Luv that celebrate today. Warm wishes. Hope the weather warms up for youReplyDelete
Thanks for dropping by my blog today
Happy PPF
Love the Secret garden tag, nice post!ReplyDelete
Happy PPF 💕
Oooh! Wonderful 'let's make fun' creation ~ love it!ReplyDelete
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Beautiful tag and thanks for the delicious recipe. YumReplyDelete
Oh that is the sweetest tag ! I love how you make the stencil so unique in each piece! Wonderful artwork and yummy brunch!ReplyDelete
Peace Giggles
Blueberry Dutch Baby looks and sounds delicious ~ReplyDelete
Thanks for the 'welcome back' ~ good to go away and good
to come home ~ ^_^
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
What a beautiful post, yummy dessert! and lovely recipe! Your creations are so magical I especially love your Secret Garden..stunning and enchanting..I love that old movie too..it is very special! Your art collage is fabulous and gave me deja vu!!ReplyDelete
have a wonderful wk!
Hello dear Linda, oh my can I have a slice of that yummy Blueberry treat? :) I should definitely try this one. Thank you so much for sharing the recipe! Your creations are beautiful, I love that brick stencil you used and the card you created with it in neutrals. And your spring tag is so sweet with the little girl! Wishing you a beautiful weekend, xx hugsReplyDelete
I love the combination of interests always in your posts. Yum! I love a nice hot Dutch baby. You have made good use of the brick wall stencil. I have it and have yet to use it. You have given me good ideas. The Secret Garden piece is intriguing . I have not seen the 1949 version but will try to find it at my library.ReplyDelete
I've not heard of a Blueberry Dutch Baby, looks very nice.ReplyDelete
Thanks for your visit to my blog and lovely comments.
I've never heard of this! Yummy!ReplyDelete
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Such a beautiful tag! Spring is hiding from michigan! Thank you for visiting my blog!ReplyDelete
Oh, my goodness! Thank you for that recipe! And your artwork makes me smile. :DReplyDelete
I so love your little vintage tag! She's adorable and so cute! I love the look of your pancake too. Wish I could eat them :)ReplyDelete
Weather is cold and going to rain/possible snow ~ Yuk! Glad you are enjoying some Spring ~ xxxReplyDelete
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
beautiful tag Linda, love your take on the Secret Garden, thank you so much for sharing with us at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge and for passing on that delicious recipe hugs kath xxxReplyDelete
Oh that looks so delicious! I love everything with blueberries. Wonderful pieces, your vintage girl is so sweet! I hope you got some warmer weather by now!ReplyDelete
Wild wind and rainy for the Boston Marathon today ~ hope weather is better where you are ~ and you are making lovely creations!ReplyDelete
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Wow! That looks delicious! I am Dutch but i have never heard of a Dutch Baby. It does look like an ovenbaked pancake. Thanks for the recipe. I might try that one day (but without the blueberries as they are very difficult to find here)ReplyDelete
I like your little girl on the wall of the secret garden. Yes, you did a good job of that wall.
Happy T-Day,
beautiful greeting card and journal pages.. and oh the blueberry dutch baby looks yum!ReplyDelete
love shilpa (desisoul arts)


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Aaron Hutchins scored 20 points and Anthony Pieper made a steal and two late free throws as Marquette handed No. 4 Iowa State its first loss of the season, 67-64 Tuesday night in Ames, Iowa.
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The Bulldogs turned the ball over a season-high 31 times, which Kentucky converted into 36 points.
(5) Clemson 86, (10) Duke 82, OT
In Clemson, S.C., the Tigers (13-1, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) used a 7-0 run to take control in overtime and beat the Blue Devils (11-3, 2-1).
Terrell McIntyre of Clemson made two free throws to tie the game 76-76 with 8 seconds left in regulation. Greg Newton of Duke (11-3, 2-1) was left alone under the basket but fumbled away a pass from Steve Wojciechowski with 2.8 seconds to go.
Wojciechowski opened the overtime with a 3-pointer but that was it for Duke's scoring.
Dayton 98, (12) Xavier, Ohio 91
Darnell Hoskins scored a career-high 30 points and the Flyers (6-4, 1-1 Atlantic 10) upset the Musketeers (10-1, 1-1) in Dayton, Ohio.
(23) Boston College 94, Syracuse 83
Danya Abrams scored 28 points and the Eagles (9-2, 4-1 Big East) held off a late rally by the Orangemen (8-6, 0-4) in Syracuse, N.Y.
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i love these 4x4 albums for my Day in the Life photos and words, although the mixed media approach does make it a little more time-consuming.
either way, it's in the bag.
a fairly ordinary work day that included a relatively unplanned date night/movie fundraiser.
can't wait to watch "THOR" again. it was hilarious!
i believe our next Day in the Life observance is next month (February).
can't wait!


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No reference, just a quick (3 hours) painting in Photoshop started and finished today. After a 30+ hour painting, 3 hours just flies by! This is Sansa Stark, a character from George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire.
Category: 2d
Snow Castle
Grey Castle WIP 02
Noriko's Fish Completed
Grey Castle WIP 01
Noriko's Fish wip 01
Trinth's School WIP 02
Trinth's School WIP 01
I finished (or at least am satisfied with 😀 ) my two most recent 3D models, so it's time for something new! My first order of business is painting some environments. This is a college-level school yard I imagined for some fictional characters of mine. I'm about 6 hours into it and probably have t least another 6 to go. It's refreshing to paint something so vast though, and I'd certainly like to improve at this sort of thing.
In other news, I applied to Torpex Games. They seem right up my alley – they've made a great, original game and that's the sort of thing I would love a chance to work on. I haven't heard back yet, but there's lots of other places in Bellevue/Seattle to apply if they aren't interested!
Indiana Jones
My first completely new art since moving! Moving in with my fiance occupied at least the last five or so weeks of my life, so it's a huge relief to finally be arting regularly again! Here we have Indiana Jones, a macho, rugged man, because my portfolio lacks macho, rugged men. I made him in Photoshop CS2, over the course of 2 days, with about 4 hours total of time spent. A much larger version of this is available on my site, www.majoh.com. Hope you like!
Firiona Vie
I think I originally painted this in February, and I spent last night touching it up. Her face had always bugged me in the old version, and somewhere in the last 6 months I must have gained whatever knowledge I needed to possess in order to fix it, because I am much happier with it now. Here she is, much prettier than before! 😀


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Michigan Argentine Tango Club proudly presents
Tango Workshops with Susana Miller
July 11-13, 2003
About Susana Miller
Susana Miller is the most prominent teacher in the world today of the "milonguero" style of tango. The milonguero, or what Argentines call "apilado," style is danced in the crowded clubs of central Buenos Aires. It is a strictly social style that emphasizes musicality and the connection between partners.
The apilado style uses compact choreography that creatively employs the limited space of the social dance floor. It is a rich and complex form of subtle body signals that profoundly respects tango's rhythms.
Susana has researched and studied the dancing of the older milongueros, each of whom has created a unique way to tango. She has been able to decipher their distinct vocabularies and choreographic combinations, and found a way to transmit these to students. Her exploration of apilado dancing is a huge contribution to passing on this popular form of social tango.
Susana encourages students to employ more rhythm in their dance, to discover their own dance vocabularies, and to learn how to shape and shrink these in space. For women, she encourages active following, in which the woman interprets the messages that the leader's body and the spirit are sending.
Susana has probably put more people on the dance floors of Buenos Aires than any other single teacher. Clarin, the major Buenos Aires daily paper, called her one of the four most important influences on contemporary tango, along with Miguel Angel Zotto, Gustavo Naveira and Gerardo Portalea.
Susana is a native of Buenos Aires and has been dancing and teaching tango since the late 1980s revival of social tango. She founded and operates her own tango academy in Buenos Aires, and is the owner of one of B.A.'s most popular tango clubs, El Beso. She has made annual teaching tours to the United States and Europe since 1994.
She will help students improve posture, axis, grounding, breathing, balance, and sensitivity to the lead and follow roles. She aims to encourage dancers to develop their own unique improvisational styles through knowledge of the music, space and body. Her classes will emphasize step quality and rhythm. Rather than predetermined patterns, she will impart a basic choreographic vocabulary that allows dancers to creatively shape their own language.
See Susana's Website:
Workshop Schedule
Saturday, July 12;
G115 Angell Hall or Mason Hall Lobby
MOVED TO Room 2000, Chemistry Building
Workshop A: Fundamentals
; 10:30am - 12:00pm
Posture, balance, axis, walking, and embrace.
Hearing the music.
Rhythm, rhythmic walking, basic choreography, including changes of direction.
Workshop B: No steps in social tango, Only situations
; 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Working with basic elements on a small dance floor, which parts of the man's body move to lead the woman.
Workshop C: Dancing into the Floor
; 3:15pm - 4:45 pm
The quality of tango is when it is danced into the floor. This occurs when the body contact is at the correct points. Balance, fluidity, musicality depend on these points of contact. With them you can paint pictures on the floor for such orchestras as Pugliese or D'Arienzo.
Sunday, July 13;
G115 Angell Hall or Mason Hall Lobby
MOVED TO Room 2000, Chemistry Building
Workshop D: Vals with Turns
; 1:00pm - 2:30pm
How to Vals with more turns, signature of the dance.
Workshop E: Turning on a Dime
; 2:45pm - 4:30pm
Connection, velocity and energy of turns.
Practicas will follow the workshops on both Saturday and Sunday.
Milonga Schedule
Friday, July 11;
Ballroom, Michigan Union
FREE beginner lesson; 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Milonga Picante; 9:00pm - 1:30am
Saturday, July 12;
Pendleton Room, Michigan Union
Una Mas Milonga; 9:00pm - 1:00am
As of July 03, the (07/13) Sunday workshops are FULL and CLOSED for enrollment. (07/12) Saturday workshops are still open for enrollment.
Enrollment is on a first-come-first-serve basis. (NO email/phone reservations please!). Please pay in person or send your check by US mail well in advance.
Enrollment in the Saturday workshops is LIMITED to 60. You are expected to have finished the Advanced beginners series to enroll in the Saturday workshops.
Attending Saturday's workshops is highly recommended if you plan to attend the Sunday's workshops.
Enrollment in the Sunday workshops is LIMITED to 40. Gender balance will be maintained for Sunday workshops. So please make "class-dates" with your fellow dancers for the workshops. Partners will be rotated during the class though.
Expect the content of Sunday workshops to be challenging. You are expected to be very comfortable with material taught in the advanced beginner and intermediate series OR dancing close-embrace tango for atleast 4 months on a weekly basis.
Dance shoes or leather-soled shoes are required. Please
wear sneakers.
Early registration prices (on or before July 7)
Any or all workshops on Saturday: $25 (students) / $35 (non-students)
Any or all workshops on Sunday: $25 (students) / $35 (non-students)
All 5 workshops: $40 (students) / $60 (non-students)
Late registration (after July 7)
Any or all workshops on Saturday: $35 (students) / $50 (non-students)
Any or all workshops on Sunday: $35 (students) / $50 (non-students)
All 5 workshops: $60 (students) / $90 (non-students)
Please make your check payable to
Michigan Argentine Tango Club
and mail it along with the
required registration information (see end of page)
Michigan Argentine Tango Club
2755 Windwood Dr. #213
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Questions/concerns: Dudhi Karsono
, Or call Ramu at 734-327-0642, Avik at 734-564-0811.
Private Lessons
Susana's rates for private lessons are $80 for individuals, $110 for couples. She also requires that women taking privates come with a partner, though the instruction will be directed at the woman. Unfortunately, the few private classes available have been all booked.
Chemistry Building
903 N.University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
The Chemistry building is few hundred feet North-NorthEast of Angell Hall. Free covered parking at specified times on weekends and evenings (please see signage on structure) is available in the Church Street parking structure which is on Church St. between N. University and South University.
Michigan Union
530 S. State
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Free covered parking at specified times on weekends and evenings (please see signage on structure) is available in Thompson Street Parking structure which is right behind the Michigan Union. Thompson street is parallel to and one block west of State St.
Here is a
that shows Michigan Union, Angell Hall and Chemistry Building.
Required Registration Information
Workshops: A/B/C/D/E
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THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS looks pretty damn funny. My wife and daughter are going to drag me to this one, for sure, and based on the trailers so far…I'm cool with that.
Doesn't hurt that the film has a killer voice cast that includes Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart, Jenny Slate, Ellie Kemper, Lake Bell, Dana Carvey, Hannibal Buress, Bobby Moynihan, Steve Coogan and Albert Brooks.
Here's the latest one:
For their fifth fully-animated feature-film collaboration, Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures present The Secret Life of Pets, a comedy about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day.
Comedy superstars Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet and Kevin Hart make their animated feature-film debuts in The Secret Life of Pets, which co-stars Jenny Slate, Ellie Kemper, Lake Bell, Dana Carvey, Hannibal Buress, Bobby Moynihan, Steve Coogan and Albert Brooks. Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and his longtime collaborator Janet Healy produce the film directed by Chris Renaud (Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2), co-directed by Yarrow Cheney and written by Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio and Brian Lynch.
THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS comes out on July 8.
Oh, and Happy National Pet Day!
SOURCE: Illumination


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MACHIAS— University of Maine Cooperative Extension will hold a six-session intermediate beekeeping course on Wednesdays, March 7 – April 18, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at the Maine Extension office, 28 Center St.
The course, taught by Master Beekeeper Andrew Dewey, is intended for the beekeeper with at least a season or two of hands-on experience and concentrates on keeping bees successfully in the Washington County area. There will be a private Facebook group for the class to expand on class discussions and for the instructor to post additional resources, including articles and video links.
Course fee is $50 per person, or per couple if willing to share materials. Enrollment is limited to 10 people.
Register and find more information online or email firstname.lastname@example.com. To request a disability accommodation, call 800.287.1542 (in state) or 207.255.3345.
About University of Maine Cooperative Extension:
As a trusted resource for over 100 years, University of Maine Cooperative Extension has supported UMaine's land and sea grant public education role by conducting community-driven, research-based programs in every Maine county. UMaine Extension helps support, sustain and grow the food-based economy. It is the only entity in our state that touches every aspect of the Maine Food System, where policy, research, production, processing, commerce, nutrition and food security and safety are integral and interrelated. UMaine Extension also conducts the most successful out-of-school youth educational program in Maine through 4-H.


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Fox Sports Wisconsin reports that despite Packers backup Quarterback Graham Harrell's lack of progress and results worries the team; however, they still believe in him as a viable backup to Aaron Rodgers. If Rodgers cannot play all 16 games in the season, the Packers would need a competent QB under center, but it's questionable if Harrell can be that guy.
"There's some throws that he missed," Coach Mike McCarthy said. "He's growing. He's getting a full dose of what it's like to play, and more things went wrong, unfortunately, than normal, and we need to do a better job as an offense and he will do a better job leading us."
Harrell has been taking most of the snaps in the preseason and figures to resume that trend against the Bears on Sunday.


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text: At 5.1 by 3 by 0.5 inches (HWD) and a mere 6 ounces, the Iomega Portable Hard Drive packs a lot of storage into its aluminum case. The USB 2.0 drive can be powered from a USB port or from a power supply. It backed up 2.7GB of data in just over 2 minutes. The drive ships with Iomega's Automatic Backup Pro software, which lets you back up your system and data manually or automatically.


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The Hungarian-Swedish camera maker. By Par Rittsel
Szilárd Szabad 1907–1994
Szilárd built a family of cameras in the European sizes 9x12, 12x16 and 18x24 cm. Later the U.S. formats 4x5, 5x7 and 8x10 inch was added. He also built a tripod, solid as a rock.
Szilárd Szabad came to Sweden in 1936 from Hungary and was admitted to the Stockholm Technical Institute's aviation department – he had experimented with a helicopter design in his youth. But as the war came closer, being Hungarian, or foreign from anywhere, did not merit for a job in the emerging Swedish airplane industry. He got a job as a model builder and eventually started a workshop of his own in downtown Stockholm. The Hasselblad agency became a frequent customer, with an increasing demand for repairs of plate and film cassettes, as the war had blocked the import. Photographers from the nearby Herman Bergne studio became frequent visitors and as a response to their criticism of their Kodak studio camera's lack of flexibility, he constructed a new camera with swings and tilts both in the front and back plane:
Szilárd gave me what he called his very first camera, a prototype that bore a small plate saying proudly "Szabad Stockholm," but the production units were sold as "Hasselblads Universalkamera". The Hasselblad family had owned the Kodak agency in Sweden since 1908 when Arvid Victor shook hands with George Eastman – a deal that would last until 1966.
From the original design, the camera had developed from each batch – the first batch was just 50 cameras, later orders were for a hundred at a time. But in 1953, Szilard was fed up being an underpaid subcontractor and announced that from now on he was only selling "Szabad Cameras".
That decision marked the introduction of a new series of cameras, now in black wood instead of mahogany and with an integral back base, instead of the separate piece that photographers often lost.


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The world is entering the most significant period of invasive species contamination in two million years as Arctic ice melts away and new shipping routes threaten to open the floodgates between foreign eco systems, causing irreversible damage. This affects a number of species and has happened before, as biologists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center explain in a recent report. For an example one has only to look at how insects invading trade-rich lands with the aid of humans have ruined local trees. Of all the possible invasive species, insects are the worst. They affect woodland areas, causing massive disruption of eco […]Read more →
Date: April 3, 2014 Source: Wildlife Conservation Society Summary: Scientists have reviewed the 'pros and cons' of large scale fencing and argue that fencing should only be used as a last resort. Wildlife fences are constructed for a variety of reasons including to prevent the spread of diseases, protect wildlife from poachers, and to help manage small populations of threatened species. Human-wildlife conflict is another common reason for building fences: Wildlife can damage valuable livestock, crops, or infrastructure, some species carry diseases of agricultural concern, and a few threaten human lives. At the same time, people kill wild animals for […]Read more →
Investing in habitat that attracts and supports wild bees in farms is not only an effective approach to helping enhance crop pollination, but it can also pay for itself in four years or less, according to Michigan State University research. The paper, published in the current issue of the Journal of Applied Ecology, gives farmers of pollination-dependent crops tangible results to convert marginal acreage to fields of wildflowers, said Rufus Isaacs, MSU entomologist and co-author of the paper. "Other studies have demonstrated that creating flowering habitat will attract wild bees, and a few have shown that this can increase yields," he […]Read more →
In 1990, the Jamaican iguana was removed from the list of extinct species when a small population was re-discovered on the island. Unfortunately, the species continues to be critically endangered, with only a single location left for the recovering population, now greater than 200 individuals, in a protected area called the Hellshire Hills, part of the Portland Bight Protected Area. A recent proposal by Jamaican government officials to allow extensive development in this area is causing concern among conservationists who have been working to save this species and the wealth of biodiversity in the area. "We have been working for […]Read more →
Hydromorphology and Hydrobiology or River Ecosystems Changing Because of SHPPs: Expert Syran Minasyan
EcoLur SHPPs jeopardize our waters and water ecosystem, as specialist in water ecosystems Seyran Minasyan said in his interview with EcoLur. "The main hazard is that more water is taken from SHPPs than it's permissible. Besides, cascades of SHPPs destroy rivers and water ecosystems." River is considered an complete ecosystem and is characterized with three main components – hydromorphological, hydrobiological and hydrochemical. Under the specialist, the operation of SHPPs destroys main components – hydromorphological and hydrochemical. "The temperature in SHPP increases, and though the chemical composition of water doesn't change, it changes the hydromorphology and hydrobiology of the whole river […]Read more →
The Nature Protection Ministry informs that from 10.03.2014 to 14.03.2014 the State Environmental Inspection detected violations during inspections it carried out, which resulted in drawing up 12 decisions on administrative fines in the amount of 730,000 AMD, while the total damage caused to environmental was estimated in the amount of 183,000 million AMD. The sanctions imposed by the State Environmental Inspection results in 1.24 million AMD to be paid to the state budget.Read more →
Ecologists at Plymouth University, in a study published this week, have shown the most common species of bumblebee are not fussy about a plant's origin when searching for nectar and pollen among the nation's urban gardens. But other species — and, in particular, long-tongued bees — do concentrate their feeding upon plants from the UK and Europe, for which they have developed a preference evolved over many millennia. Dr Mick Hanley, Lecturer in Ecology at Plymouth University, said the study showed the continued importance of promoting diversity and encouraging gardeners to cast their net wide when choosing what to cultivate. […]Read more →
Recently, there has been a lot of discussion in the scientific communityabout whether we should allow some species to go extinct. The argument put forward is that the number of endangered species is so great, it isn't worth the resources to attempt to save them all. But in a wealthy country like Australia – which has some of the best ecologists, conservation biologists and conservation scientists in the world – it is critical that we do far better in managing the nation's natural resources. A loss of biodiversity is an indicator of poor environmental management. Suggesting that we should let […]Read more →
Armored spiders are medium to small species that derive their name from the complex pattern of the plates covering their abdomen strongly resembling body armor. Lurking in the darkness of caves In Southeast China, scientists discover and describe five new species of these exciting group of spiders. The study was published in the open access journalZooKeys. The common name armored spiders is given to the engaging family Tetrablemmidae. Distinguished by their peculiar armor-like abdominal pattern, these tropical and subtropical spiders are mainly collected from litter and soil, but like the newly described species some live in caves. Some cave species, […]Read more →
An international team of researchers analyzed the available data taken from all previous studies of the Southern Ocean, together with satellite images taken of the area, to quantify the amount of iron supplied to the surface waters of the Southern Ocean. They found that deep winter mixing, a seasonal process which carries colder and deeper, nutrient-rich water to the surface, plays the most important role in transporting iron to the surface. The iron is then able to stimulate phytoplankton growth which supports the ocean's carbon cycle and the aquatic food chain They were also able to determine that following the […]Read more →


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Date Nut Bread
Enjoy this savory and sweet date nut bread.
Prep Time
15 min
Total Time
75 min
Calories per serving
- 1/2 cup chopped DOLE Whole Pitted Dates or DOLE Chopped Dates
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 2 large DOLE® Banana(s), mashed (1 cup)
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup sugar or granulated sucralose sweetener
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 2 egg(s)
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Soak dates in orange juice; set aside. Spray 9x5-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.
- Combine flour, sugar or sweetener, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in medium bowl; set aside.
- Mix together oil, eggs, and bananas in small bowl. Combine with flour mixture until blended. Fold in walnuts, dates and orange juice.
- Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake on center rack 55 to 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pan on wire rack; invert onto rack to cool completely.


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In Jocelyn's interview on TV3 News regarding e-book author Ollie Hille, she reinforces a couple of the many points a Self/Indie published author needs to appreciate.
1) Begin to build your readership while you're writing your book. Don't wait until it's ready. Hone and use your developing writing skills not just to produce your final text but as tools to get your name circulated, to build your credibility.
2) Always treat your work as a professional endeavour. (e.g: in terms of editing, layout, structure, design and production.) If you want people to pay for it, then it needs to be a professionally produced package. Think of all the steps as necessary facets of the professional process - not obstacles.
We cover these issues and the many other elements of self-publishing in The Story Bridge Blogging and Self-Publishing workshops.


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Most people in the life to use the net probability is not very high, even the use of words is the kind of small, so most people there is no folding trouble, but in the breeding and when crops use is relatively large because of relatively large shade net, so when compared to fold but, don't worry, teach you how to fold the net today.
1, continue to fold: This is the most common method of folding, like that of the folded origami, processing continuously, but the limitation is relatively obvious, when in use is small can be folded, but if the fold is big if it needs several people together to complete the folding.
2, the folding way: This is a kind of method for folding large net is relatively good, they will be rolled up, because we can use, are generally rectangular, so in the folding when used a questionnaire approach is more appropriate, this way no matter how long shade net, generally two people can very good finish up.
For the net, folding way, will be directly related to the use of shade net durability, will also affect the convenience of use next time.
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Boat Watch
Boatwatch is the practical way that members of KEBC support the club and other members of the boating community by providing a conspicuous presence and there by a deterrent to marine crime at the top end of the Estuary. Boatwatch also provides advice and assistance with general boating matters and security issues as well as providing traceable Security Marking for boats and equipment.
Boatwatch has developed from the efforts of members concerned by the level of marine crime affecting the estuary. It began in 2006 with a number of the founding members of KEBC mounting patrols at random times noting any activity that concerned them. The result was a dramatic downturn in the level of marine crime and the restoration of confidence for all boat owners.
Boatwatch today maintains a watch over the water all year round. Some 60/70 members are arranged in 15 groups and each group takes responsibility for one or two weeks per year. Each group has a Coordinator who supports their groupand ensures their allocated weeks are covered, though the commitment of individuals is never more than they feel they can offer. Most members manage 3/4 visits to the water per week which can be during the morning, afternoon, early evening or late evening. Visits can last as long as members are able to commit and can be on foot or by boat, be with friends or pets and include refreshments or and ice cream! Above all else visits should be fun and enjoyable. Each group decides exactly how and when they will visit the estuary. The only safety requirement is that members are asked to wear the high visibility vests supplied and work in pairs as a minimum.
This current model has evolved over time and after extensive consultation with the local Police. We are justly proud of the reputation KEBC Boatwatch has earned and is the reason that in February 2015 we were chosen to meet Tony Hogg, Devon and Cornwall Police and Crime Commissioner to describe our work and how we support law and order in the local community. He was very impressed and has maintained his link with us.
The major aim of our activities is to encourage those with ill intent to have second thoughts and go elsewhere! If someone on Boatwatch observes activities causing concern, the group can either choose to deal with it themselves or pass the information to the Boatwatch Organiser. In this way we hope that members do not feel they might need to get more involved than they wish.
To be successful Boatwatch depends on the membership of KEBC being willing to participate. The commitment is not onerous other than agreeing two weeks per year when you have the time to visit the Estuary between Kingsbridge and Frogmore. For most members that means no more than a maximum 10/12 hours per year. The rewards are knowing that the Estuary is both a safer place to visit and to leave your boat.
If you are interested and would like to know more please do contact the current Boatwatch organiser, Peter Rendell on email@example.com or any member of the committee. We will be delighted to hear from you.
Link to BOATWATCH ESSENTIALS - Link to BOATWATCH CALENDAR


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Chapter 17a: Wizard's Apprentice
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He looked old, sick. She squeezed his cold hand. Wellan shifted his head to the side and his dull gaze stared at her through a thin film. She didn't think he recognized her until he smiled. It became a grimace that caused him to squeeze his eyes closed. She ran a damp rag over his sweaty brow, being careful not to open any of the wounds as her rag ran across his forehead.
She had been sitting in the room with him for the last hour, listening to him mumble then scream out. Watching him as his body fought a desperate war against a fate worse than death. She feared he would loose this one.
A whisper, like faint words on the wind. She bent her head down closer to Wellan's mouth squeezing his limp hand. His mouth moved, but she still couldn't hear the words he tried to speak. She lowered her head more, until her ear almost touched his lips. "Put…put my hands…on your temple. I want…I…to give…"
She sat up and nodded, grabbing both of his hands and placing the fingers against her temples without a clue as to what he wanted.
His eyes shut and his mouth began to more again, soundlessly. She lowered her head to try and catch his words again, pulling his hands from her temples to lay them across his chest. His hands stayed on her temples with more strength than she had credited him with having.
She gasped as a spike of ice slammed through her head, coring into the center of her being. Wellan disappeared from her sight, the bed no longer mattered, her mind left the little room, the palace, the city.
A raging campfire spun to life in front of her. Men and women danced around the undulating flames while sparks burst into the air to ride the currents until they cooled and died. The people were like none she had ever seen, dressed in wolf hides and leather, wearing bones and painted faces. She looked down at herself. A leather loin cloth, shirtless. Her chest looked like that of a young man or a girl, old claws from some fearsome beast hung on a leather thong around her neck.
The dancing stopped. She looked up as a bear of a man came towards her bearing a staff topped with the skull of a large bird. He spoke harsh words in a language she didn't understand. He yanked her off her feet and spoke the words again, but this time she understood. "Come, apprentice."
The darkness evaporated into a blinding white field. The heat and humidity that caused her skin to sweat moments before changed, becoming a cold like none she had ever known. It slammed against her face like an open-handed slap. She gasped. And gripped her staff tighter. Her staff?
The large bear of a man stood next to her. This time he did look like a bear, covered head to toe in a wooly fur. She didn't know how she knew that it was the same man, but she knew. He grabbed her shoulder and pointed to the top of a white mound. "Watch. You may never see them again, Gwunwyvern."
Dark brown shapes broke over the top of the hill, shaggy lumps with huge tusks. A snout raised into the air and trumpeted a deep call. Rachelle wondered how the mammoths didn't sink to the bellies in the soft ground. Mammoths? No one had seen the great beasts in hundreds of years. What was happening to her? Did she suffer delusions? She turned to ask the bear of a man, Thornewulf, but before she could the scene changed again.
Tents. Leather cones with brightly painted symbols sat around her on a plain of grass, the flaps of their doors blowing in the steady breeze. Fires burned all around her, smoking meat lay out on sticks. The smell caused her mouth to water. He turned her head and something tickled her neck. She reached up to brush it off. Hair. A beard? She yanked on it, squinting her eyes from the pain.
A man gave her an odd look as he walked past. He wore only leather britches and a domed hat decorated much like the tents. She looked around and saw others moving back and forth between the tents, carrying clay pots, spears, and stone aged tools. The men wore the britches and strange hats while the women wore knee length leather dresses and flowers in their hair. She looked at her own attire, a leather robe reaching all the way to the ground, decorated with more patterns and colors than anyone else in the small nomadic village. In her right hand was the staff that she had held as she watched the mammoths.
Are these Wellan's memories?
She looked over at a stack of wood. A man lay atop it. The bear of a man, her mentor, his face pointed at the sky and his hands across his chest. Dead. It was a funeral pyre.
She took two steps toward him before the scene changed again.
Darkness. Rock. Her staff glowed with the power of a hundred fireflies. Five brave warriors stood behind her, fear widened their eyes, their spears pointed at something before her. She turned. A wolf stood before her, but like none she had ever seen. It stood five feet at the shoulders and its eyes glowed a bright red. Its lips curled up and a rumbling growl rolled from its mouth. Between the teeth a fire raged lighting up the space between each fang with a flickering light. Its hackles stood. It leaped.
A blast of energy erupted from her outstretched hand. The light of her staff dimmed slightly. She recognized the energy as the same force she had used against the undead on the streets of Renier. She recognized the trigger that set it off, the mental push that her will activated.
The great wolf slammed into a wall and fell to the floor. It rose and paced back and forth, not done with the fight.
The scene shifted.
Salt air and a strong breeze greeted her. The world rocked up and down causing her to put a hand out to catch herself. The damned beard tickled her neck.
"Ok gru tom chay?" Are you all right? She didn't recognize the language at all, but she understood it. She nodded at one of the three men who stood around a barrel on the deck of a ship. A map sat on the barrel, weighted down by a copper helmet. A crude map showing the coast line of Renier, something an explorer might have drawn.
The wind died, the sea smell disappeared.
She sat in front of a stone hearth in a wooden hall with a mug of mead in her hand and watched warriors wrestle and couples dancing. Her stomach felt nauseous from the constantly changing environment.
A hand grasped her shoulder. She turned to face a bearded man. He looked a great deal like the Duke except for the full beard and his wide girth. A grandfather or great grandfather perhaps?
He smiled, "Are ye enjoyin' yerself wizard?"
Not trusting herself to speak she only nodded her head.
"Glad t'hear it. This here hall is just a start. I think with a little hard work and a bit o'planin' we can have us a whole city right here in this very spot. Maybe even build a castle against the cliff. Ye tink I can do it, Wellan?"
She started to nod, but the scene shifted and shifted and shifted, faster and faster until she couldn't take it all in. With a scream she opened her eyes.
Wellan lay before her, his mouth drawn and his eyes open, staring at the ceiling. His life had ended, but he had given her all he could before it was done.
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The Charlotte Observer
Meaning is 'Embodied' in pleasant form
By Linda Luise Brown
Special to the Observer
Posted: Friday, Aug. 13, 2010
The current show at Lark & Key's South End gallery location is all about form - the human form - and all in good taste. Three of the four artists showing in "Embodied" depict the whole person in figurative, drawing-based compositions; the fourth, ceramist Paula Smith, focuses only on the torso of the feminine form.
Walking into the gallery is a soothing yet mentally stimulating experience. The ambience tends toward a calm aesthetic, one that has been shaped over the years by the gallery creators, Sandy Snead and Duy Huynh. They have done this by limiting the work they show to art that demonstrates a calm, yet intellectual color palette and meditative content, even when it involves jewelry and traditional ceramics.
Duy Huynh (pronounced Yee Wun), himself one of the artists in "Embodied," is Vietnamese by birth, and has developed his art for more than 20 years living in the U.S. In this show his paintings are infused with a golden hue, pleasant to behold, and deceptively simple at first glance, with high quality craftsmanship. One can get lost in these paintings, and use them as meditative objects with their ethereal, otherworldly presence. It's easy to understand the popularity of this artist with the fairytale feelings conveyed in work such as "Moonlight Meandering," or in "Featherweight," with its attenuated feminine form joined by 10 whooping cranes, set within a dream-like landscape.
Elizabeth D'Angelo's unusual combination of oil paint applied to carved wood takes her through a process in which she "symbolically carves into the surface of exteriors ... into what is just beneath the surface." This interesting technique, utilized in such work as "The Prison of the Past Is Illusory," suits the surreal quality of her imagery involving people, fruits and vegetables.
Susan Hall conveys a subtle presence in her work with figures "softly obscured by a veil of lace." She applies thin layers of oil upon the delicate pattern made by laying lace over the panel, and this technique has the most impact when the tonal range of the hue is widest.
Paula Smith, the ceramics instructor at CPCC, follows a formula she has developed over 10 years for a continuing series of sculptural quasi-portraits of her daughter. Sweet at first glance, petite feminine torsos such as "Girl with Tags," appear merely pretty at first, decorated as they are with tiny birds or lace, or embellished with a feather duster as in "Feather Duster, Sweet Sixteen."
But beneath the pleasing surfaces is a smattering of something darker, spicier, or more of a personal story within: something about the bittersweet relationship of mother and daughter, perhaps. This work is immaculate, even obsessive, with expert technique.
Much of the work at Lark & Key tends to be soft focus, pleasant, like a nice poem. All four of the artists in "Embodied" "explore the physical and emotional nature of the human form and its relationship to the world it inhabits, real or imagined," and if this type of art doesn't have the sort of exciting boldness and initial visual impact of, say, the Robert Motherwells currently at Melberg Gallery, they make up for this with subtlety of meaning and quality of craftsmanship.
Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/08/13/1618627/meaning-is-embodied-in-pleasant.html#ixzz0x18jfsve
Chicago Tribune
By Alan G. Artner
Tribune art critic
Published September 22, 2006
Susan Hall's recent paintings at the Melanee Cooper Gallery provide images of women caught in tranquil or introspective situations. The model for this is the art of Jan Vermeer, though one sees possible later influences including Symbolist painting of the 1890s and Ingmar Bergman's 1966 film "Persona."
The Symbolist connection comes through the oil on panel titled "Nocturne," which depicts a covered sleeper in blue-white light. The light, as in nearly all of the pictures, is bright but softened by the superimposition of various all-over decorative patterns derived from wallpaper or lace. These give the sensation of viewing the figure through a screen that in "Nocturne" successfully suggests the muffled fantasy of sleep.
"Persuasion" has two women shown side by side, apparently partially nude. Some sort of urging or convincing is taking place, but who is the active figure and who the one being induced remains as vague as what is being urged. Here the peaks and pocks of thick paint combined with brighter color -- a peach-orange -- convey less than a serene atmosphere, and if still subdued, the break in Hall's calm is welcome.
Her newest pieces are of lone women wading in water. These have patterns embossed or incised, too, though treating more of the figures outside eliminates the earlier claustrophobia and some of the artist's characteristic softening.
Nashville Scene
Critics' Picks, January 18, 2007
SUSAN HALL A painter from Chicago, Hall's current work overlays lovingly rendered human figures with the detailed patterns of lace and vintage wall coverings. The figures, mostly women, have a contemplative quality that recalls the quiet moments in 17th century Dutch painting or the 19th century Pre-Raphaelites. Her work takes obvious pleasure in both the human face and form, and in the intricate patterns traditionally made by women and found in the domestic realm. Hall's works are on display at Gallery One through Feb. 17. There's a reception for the artist 6 to 8 p.m. Jan. 20.
—David Maddox
The Tennesean
Friday, 01/19/07 Nashville, Tennessee
Look behind the veils
Looking at a painting by Chicago artist Susan Hall, the featured artist in Gallery One's latest exhibit, is akin to peering through a gauzy curtain: Bathed in a warm glow, these female figures lie underneath a layer of lace or some other decorative pattern that has been worked into the surface.
With her experience in printmaking, Hall brings the nuances of texture to her oil paintings, and the resulting works beg the viewer to consider his or her relationship to the image: It's easy to feel a little like a voyeur gawking at these women, with their furtive or contemplative poses. Hall's decision to place these figures behind lacy patterns also can be read as a meditation on trappings of femininity -- the veils, both literal and figurative, that have effectively cut women off from the society of men.
The show opens with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday and runs through Feb. 17. Gallery One is in Belle Meade Galleria, 5133 Harding Road. For more information, call (615) 352-3006 or visit www.galleryone.biz.


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Yoga plays a major role in your life, there are many yoga benefits that once if you start doing yoga religiously, you cannot stop it. It has so much positivity on your life.
Yoga is a practice, it involves more than pranayama and asanas. That is a topic for another day. For now let us see the impact of pranayamas and asnas.
Instead of just explaining aimlessly, let us see it in a clear way.
What are the yoga benefits ?
Gives peace
This may sound pretty main-stream, but once you start practicing yoga you will understand exactly what I am speaking about. It makes you calmer and helps you deal your situations better. You will have a very peaceful life. Things which bothered you prior will not bother you now.
Makes you healthy
Regular exercise and stretching releases endorphins and these relax your body and mind. It also regulates many hormones which help in function and metabolism. It regulates all the normal bodily functions and keeps you healthy
Improves concentration
It is a well known fact that yoga improves concentration, but how?
When you practice yoga prana will freely flow in your chakras and awakens your brain.
When you do pranayama, you will practice concentrating on regular basis. Thus yoga improves your concentration.
Tones your body
There is no arguing around this fact, All the stretching and working out obviously tones your body in the best possible way.
Relieves stress
As discussed earlier it releases endorphins which relaxes your body and also releases happy hormone serotonin which makes you happy. A happy and relaxed person is always a stress free person.
Takes away negativity
Asanas and pranayamas have this amazing breathing exercises and mantras paired with them which provide lots and lots of positive energy and so, no space for any negativity
Makes you productive
When a person is stress free, happy and positive the obvious outcome is being productive. Being productive makes you successful. It in turn makes you happy. So, put on your yoga pants and get in a loop with this amazing circle.
Relieves body pains and regulates few diseases
Many life style diseases like hypertension and diabetes can be managed to a great extent by practicing this divine system. It also helps in multiple pains like back pain, knee pain etc. I will write a separate article about what asanas are prescribed for what diseases shortly.
Improves Self confidence
A happy person with peace of mind and calmness always will have lot of self-confidence. It is like an all in one package.
Destroys ARISHADVARGA
Arishad vargas are 6 bad qualities of a human being which should be controlled for a happy and successful life. They are
- Kama – Lust
- Krodha – Anger
- Lobha – Greed
- Moha – Temptation
- Mada – Pride / ego
- Matsarya – Envy and jealousy
Lastly a big bonus is that it improves your skin health, texture and glow because of the blood flow and calmness of mind.These are the yoga benefits !
So, get inspired and start doing yoga immediately. Easy everyday yoga for beginners.
If you have any questions regarding health, beauty and wellness, Please don't hesitate to ask. Stay happy and stay blessed. Much Love <3
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There have been a number of discussions in New Hampshire over the past several months regarding the decriminalization and legalization of marijuana. On March 20, the Granite State took a huge step toward making this a reality when the House voted 286-64 in support of establishing a medical marijuana program.
According to regional news source the Union Leader, the new law would enable individuals who suffer from chronic or terminal illnesses to use the drug under a doctor's recommendation. One of the proponents of the bill, Rep. Donald "Ted" Wright, told a personal story about how his wife used marijuana as part of a clinical study to successfully treat side effects of a drug she took to help her combat breast cancer.
There are, of course, those who are against legalizing the plant for medicinal purposes. The New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of Police argued that these kinds of discussions make drugs seem more acceptable among recreational users.
Though Gov. Maggie Hassan is known for her support of medical marijuana, the source states that it is currently unclear how she will react to the bill.
"The governor believes any measure permitting the use of medically prescribed marijuana must ensure that the method of distribution is safe and tightly regulated and has concerns about the ability to properly regulate a home-grow option, but she will continue to listen to the concerns of advocates, law enforcement and legislators as the process moves forward," said her communications director, Marc Goldberg.
It will be interesting to see how this bill progresses in the coming months. In the meantime, if you have been accused of any crime involving marijuana, be sure you have the best legal team on your side of the courtroom. Working with an experienced New Hampshire lawyer can ensure that you don't unnecessarily suffer under the strict marijuana laws the state currently has in place.


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Gili Labak is one of the small islands among many other small islands around Madura island, administratively included in the district Sumenep at the eastern part of Madura. This small island is currently one of the favorite tourist destinations of Madura, you can walk around the island by walking and only takes approximately 1 hour. The beauty of its white sandy beaches and its crystal clear waters become the main attraction for tourists, besides for those of who like snorkeling activities, the waters around Gili Labak Island has reach and healthy collection of coral reefs.
00:00am We will pick up you at your hotel, train station, airport or any other public place in Surabaya city, after short introduction with our crew, we will start this tour and departs to Madura island, it takes around 5-6 hours drive crossing Suramadu bridge.
05:30am Early breakfast around Kalianget harbor
06:00am Arrived at Kalianget traditional harbor, from here we will cross to Gili Labak island, it takes around 2-2.5 hours
08:30am Explore Gili Labak island, you take around the island and takes only around 1 hour walking.
10:00am Snorkeling at Gili Labak, you can enjoy the crystal water around the island while watching the beauty of it healthy coral reef and fish.
12:00am Finish Snorkeling, Lunch and break.
01:00pm Crossing back to Kalianget harbor at Sumenep, it takes around 2 hours.
03:00pm Driving back to Surabaya, we will stop at shopping center for local souvenir and snack of Madura on the way.
09:00pm Tour ends in Surabaya.
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The mysterious trader known as '50 Cent' appears to be back betting on more stock market chaos
The mysterious volatility trader known as "50 Cent" appears to have made some new bets this week that the stock market will go nuts over the summer. The trades match a growing sentiment across Wall Street that the stock market could be in for a rocky ride over the next few months.
The former Target manager who made millions on a trade that just blew up refuses to throw in the towel
After this week's market meltdown, there was some concern over former Target manager Seth Golden's status, but he says he's just fine.
The stock market's fear gauge spikes the most on record
The Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, spiked 84% on Monday, the biggest single-day increase on record.
MACQUARIE: Here's how to protect against 'grotesquely swollen financial markets' that will go haywire this year
BI PRIME: Cross-asset measures of volatility have been at low levels for months, but that's about to change, and investors can capitalize, says Macquarie.
CREDIT SUISSE: There are 3 things that could drive the stock market crazy in 2018
BI PRIME: Credit Suisse highlights the three things that could whip up stock market volatility in 2018.
An infamous mystery trader refuses to give up on a bet that the stock market will go nuts
BI PRIME: A mystery trader can't stop making huge bets on a VIX spike, rolling over a massive wager to forecast a stock market shock by February.
GOLDMAN SACHS: Markets are about to get rocky — here's how to use that to your advantage
BI PRIME: Goldman Sachs expects market volatility to come roaring back in 2018, which will unlock investment opportunities in the areas that move the most.
The best stock market trade of 2017 was one that experts hate
BI PRIME: Two exchange-traded products used to short volatility have surged almost 200% in 2017, much to the chagrin of market experts who hate the trade.
Traders are cranking up bets that the stock market will go crazy
Investors are increasingly wagering on stock market volatility, according to a measure of options trading.
The mysterious trader known as '50 Cent' has lost $197 million betting on a stock market meltdown
The mysterious volatility trader known as "50 Cent" has lost $197 million in 2017 betting on a spike in the VIX, which would accompany a stock market shock.


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I meet a black guy named Dave or David. I think we met by having a car accident with each other at the bottom of my street [actually the street where I lived for ten years, but moved from about three years ago]. He says he will be so delayed by the accident, that he might as well just stay here. He asks if he can spend the night at my apartment. I agree.
It is night in my apartment. [It doesn't look like my actual apartment or any place I've ever lived. It looks more like a hotel room.] Sometimes it seems like there are two beds, and sometimes there is one big bed that we are sharing. The blankets are in disarray, and they keep getting moved around. Then Hugh Laurie is there. I am an actress on House, so I know him from work. [Obviously not true in reality.] Laurie and I are sharing one bed, and David is in the other bed. I ask Laurie if he would like a blowjob. He declines. I ask him several more times in different ways throughout the night. He is not interested. Finally he says he is going home. I am uncomfortable with the thought of being alone in the apartment with the stranger David. I whisper to Laurie please to make sure David leaves before Laurie goes. Laurie gets David to leave. Laurie is lying in the bed. Maybe I proposition him again. He shouts in pain and jumps up. I see two gashes in his back, one maybe two inches across halfway down the left side of the back, and another a little smaller a bit lower on the right side of the back. Internal parts protrude through the gashes, especially through the larger gash. The protrusions are like oblong strips coated in dark red blood. A few strips are a light yellow; they resemble wide flat rubber bands. I ask what happened and Laurie says he stabbed himeslf.
I am with my parents in the town of E. [My mother grew up and her mother lived her entire life in the town of E, about thirty minutes away from the town of W where I grew up and my parents still live.] We are in town for some sort of big function which is starting in a couple of hours. We are at some pre-party associated with the later event. Everyone is dressed quite formally, but I am wearing plain pants and a white sweater [a sweater that I actually own]. I didn't bring any other clothes. I want to go buy a dress, or go back to W to get the one dress I own that fits me. My mother has gone into a changing room to dress for the big party. I go to the door of the changing room to tell her I have one dress in W and I want to go back to get it. She says "M?" [the name of my eighteen-year-old male cousin] and moves away from the door as she is not fully clothed. I tell her no, it's me, and go into the room with her. It is quite a large room, and other women also are getting ready in there. My mother tells me I have to have more clothes that fit me. I tell her I have a size sixteen dress in W, I don't want to buy any more large clothes. I tell her I am not a size sixteen, meaning in my self-concept I am not a size sixteen. I say, I am a size-- but before I can complete the sentence a guy standing there says "a size two?" [How absurd. I never have been a size two in my life!] "I'm a size eight," I say, which is the size I want to get back to, the size I still am in my mind.
The main gist of the second dream, my mother nagging me to buy more clothes in my current size and my resisting, is so mundane it might as well actually have happened. There are some points I could explore (why my mother confused me for M, why the male stranger suggested I was a size two), but I prefer to focus on the first dream.
Hugh Laurie's appearance in this dream is easily explicable. I watched this week's episode of House last evening (thanks to the magic that is DVR), and just before I fell asleep I was thinking of Sherlock Holmes (the creators of House deliberately included in the series many similarities to the world of Sherlock Holmes), so no mystery there. It may be notable though that in the dream Hugh Laurie did not speak in his normal voice but in an American accent, even though in the dream he was Hugh Laurie and not House. It seems I may have conflated Laurie and House somewhat in this dream.
The other night I was quite drunk in a bar. While talking flirtatiously with a stranger there the topic turned to "celebrities I have blown." It is not an impressive list, and Hugh Laurie definitely-- and unfortunately-- is not on it. But it does get the subject of blow jobs into my recent thoughts.
Who is David? I don't know anyone named David, nor any black men. Nor have I been in any car accident recently.
In a previous post I described my lifelong intention to become a performing artist, and my recent pragmatic decision to focus on writing instead. In this dream, Hugh Laurie-- an actor and a pretty good musician-- rejects me over and over; I feel I have been rejected by my chosen profession. Also in this dream, an actor has been stabbed in the back-- by himself. Perhaps I feel a self-betrayal in giving up my performance aspirations.


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There's all this press being made about how War of the Worlds is the anti-E.T. or anti-Close Encounters of the Third Kind. While it may seem logical to compare Steve Spielberg's new film to his previous alien epics… there are some very un-alien films in his canon that bear a greater resemblence to the new film.
Like any filmmaker that has a career of 20-plus years and 20-plus films, you can take bits and pieces from previous work and see the inspiration that drives the current stuff. In other words, War of the Worlds has less to do with Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and more to do with three other (more recent) Spielberg films: Empire of the Sun, Jurassic Park, and Saving Private Ryan.
I don't wanna describe the specific comparisons for fear of spoiling plot elements, but keep those three films in mind if you're planning to see the film, or already have. War of the Worlds certainly feels more like a cocktail of those three Spielberg mixers, and less like a total inside-out version of E.T., as a lot of the media proclaims.
And, while I'm on the subject of War of the Worlds (which I found to be a very satisfying, taut, and entertaining thriller), allow me to preach a little: Think twice about taking your kids to this movie. In the crowded theater last night, there were half as many kids as adults. And, this is a pretty damn disturbing movie. I would argue more violent than Jurassic Park, in terms of horrific activity. I mean, we're talking high tension and bloodlust. And a lot of the dark stuff involves the perils of a little girl. Just consider that before thinking, "Hey, it's a Spielberg sci-fi movie, let's take the whole family!"
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Tallest Mountain in NZ
My next stop took me to Mt. Cook which stands 3755 meters (12319 feet) high. This picture shows Mt. Cook on my drive into town. The lake in the front is Lake Pukaki.
I stayed outside a small town called Twizel which is about 60k from Mt. Cook. It was a pretty cool place to stay because it is a working sheep farm, as you can see. This picture taken just 100 meters from the front door to my room. I have already met a few sheep farmers in my travels here. Definitely hard work, but they all seem to love what they do.
Mt Cook cont.
I spent a full day at Mt. Cook and I could not have asked for better weather. I got up and drove to the base of the mountain and picked a walk for the day. It was up to Hooker Valley and took about 4 hours walking in total. Check out the great views along the way.
Mt Cook...
More views as I got closer to the mountain.
Hooker Valley
I made it to Hooker Valley with Hooker Lake in front and a stunning view of the mountains behind.
I have always wanted to go on a helicopter ride and thought that since the weather was so perfect (close to 50 degrees F) and the sun was shining brightly that this was the time to do it. The helicopter flew us up to the top of Fox Glacier where we had a walk around. Pretty cooooollllll!!!!!
Fox Glacier
View from the top of Fox Glacier.... much different from the view from the bottom.
View from Helicopter
Here is a view of the lake through the helicopter window.


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Freaks, Porn Stars and Pies at Folsom Street East
Porn Stars at Folsom 08
September 23, 2009 at 10:35 pm
It's a good thing I don't drink. Ha. I am sure I will make you proud over the weekend!!
Grabbys 2016: Who Has the Hottest Cock? Heat One
Phillip Aubrey Aroused By Eating, Belching
It's an interview with Phillip Aubrey: porn star, Spencer Reed's boyfriend, burp fetishist.
Getting Activisty With Adam Champ & Carlo Massi
The COLT superstars joined a protest in Rome against the Catholic Church in order to make the claim that gay people are not pedophiles. There was a chihuaha involved.
[NSFW] He's On His PC, And He's A Macrophiliac
I feel sorry for people with fetishes that can never be realized in real life. Take this Flickr user, who has to make do with his giants fetish using Photoshop.
Conner Habib Whips Out His Book Blurb
I'm not one for bragging about intellectual accomplishments (it's something I learned from, you know, graduating with honors from Brown University), but Conner Habib is justifiably excited about his blurb in a book written by Carl Sagan's son.