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The first annual celebration of National Girlfriends Day was a total success. Nearly 100 women from the community were in attendance on the patio in front of T&R Antiques on Main Street. Local businesses, as well as many individuals, donated door prizes. We counted more than 65 wrapped gifts, and most of those held two prizes — one for the ticket winner and one for her to give away to a girlfriend. Each gift bag had a business card in it so the recipient would know who donated their gift.
It's not often that you see a commentary from a Republican Party official decrying racial bias in the American judicial process, especially when that party official is a U.S. senator from Kentucky.
In this day of negative politics, one may ask, "What do we have to be positive about?"
Maybe very little when we look at the national level, but certainly a lot when we look at the accomplishments of our Spencer County officials.
I am writing this letter in response to an editorial that was written a few weeks ago about holding our elected officials accountable. It appears that some of our officials are holding themselves responsible by working hard to improve their offices and provide more services for the citizens of Spencer County under their administrations than were available before they were elected.
I just wanted to thank Bryce Roberts and Mike Pyles for doing such a great job on the recent poisonous plants class.
The course was very helpful in identifying potential threats to my horses' health. I really liked the way we were given detailed information on what to look for each season. The class was well done and easy to understand. The photos were also a big help, although actually going out and picking out poisonous plants was terrific.
There has been much discussion about employees paid under salary (exempt) and there seems to be much misunderstanding about that term. Being curious, I looked it up and salary (exempt) is an employee on salary not eligible for overtime pay and an employee on salary (nonexempt) can receive overtime pay. There are restrictions on who can be under salary (exempt) listed in the Fair Labor Standards Act regulations and you can look them up.
I preached a sermon a few weeks ago on prayer. A few days after I preached this sermon on prayer, Jesus came to me one morning. It was just as plain as anything.
Jesus was telling me to quit complaining about these wicked leaders we have running our country and start praying for them.
This made me realize all the complaining I did did not do any good because our leaders kept coming up with one evil thing after another.
Praise the Lord, Jesus showed me he was the only one who could handle this situation.
We would like to say thank you to everyone who may have attended the benefit truck tug for Clifford Nation that was held on May 24. Your donations, attendance and continued support were and are greatly appreciated.
A special thank you goes out to KTT, Candy Branch Motorsports, Russ Goodwin, Jonathan and Sibrina Couch, Connie Milburn, the ladies from the Spencer County Clerk's office, Wanda Vaught, Candi Redmon, Janet Biggers, Todd Nethery and anyone we may have failed to mention.
On behalf of the Taylorsville-Spencer County Fire Protection District I would like to thank everyone that supported our 2013 WHAS Crusade for Children efforts. Our total was $15,885 which was up $855 from last year.
Thanks to our firefighters, family and friends that helped collect. Special thanks to a local business and Chief Toby Lewis and family for the donation of ice and drinks.
Nathan B. Nation, Fire Chief
An ad placed in the Courier-Journal a week before Memorial Day in 1999 read, "Family (daughter) of Cpl. Charles A. Smith 3rd BAT. 1st Marines, Kilo Co., killed in Vietnam 2-28-68. Have photo. Want to give to family," and listed a phone number Chris Giordano.
Cpl. Charles Smith is my brother. He was killed on Feb. 29, 1968 ... six days after his 20th birthday. Chris Giordano is an extension of our family now. He had served in Vietnam with Charlie. He was wounded, losing his left arm in January 1968.
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CNS has written before — in blogs and news stories — about church groups reaching out to the unemployed. These programs continue to pop up in church basements around the country as people continue to feel the effects of the economic tailspin.
Recent articles in The Catholic Voice, Omaha's archdiocesan newspaper, and the Arkansas Catholic, Little Rock's diocesan paper, show how this important church ministry not only provides the unemployed with practical tips but also gives them spiritual support.
Mike Geppart, organizer of a jobless support program at St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Omaha, said many people are currently facing unemployment for the first time and are dealing with a lot of anxiety, fear and uncertainty.
"Obviously you're going to be discouraged and are almost embarrassed by it and therefore you don't reach out," he said. "But you need to reach out to helpful programs that are out there."

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70 per cent more boys had called in about seeing porn online
Were they complaining or boasting?
Kids as young as five should be taught how to stay safe online, with tips and advice coming from their mates as well as teachers, a UK children's charity has said. The NSPCC said that online abuse was one of the major child protection issues today, as kids see more and more porn and are encouraged or coerced to make their own …
This reminds of me of hearing about the son of the directors of a company I used to work for. His son was suspended from school for peddling porn. It turns out that his son was videoing the late night trailers for the soft porn cable and satellite channels, putting them all together and duplicating and selling videos of it. Given the soft nature of it all he really wasn't sure whether to be angry about it or proud because of his son's entrepreneurship.
I'd be proud of his business sense, but a little annoyed that he was violating copyright to do so, then give him other ideas of what he could sell at school.... there is always a market for something beyond the closed school gates... and not all of it has to be dodgy.
A mate of mine started doing that. We had school dinners which were kinda meh, overpriced more than anything. The year 11s were allowed off school grounds for lunch. So he'd take orders for the chippy, go buy a huge order, and make 50p - £1 profit per order.
What I'm wondering is this.. Why are kids as young as 5 ON the internet? Seriously if I ever have kids (god forbid, I say that for their sakes not mine) they aren't getting on the internet until they turn 8 at the earliest, unless I'm there with them.
We used to have the crappy surveys at school every few months and we'd always, without fail, put YES to every dodgy or dangerous activity and write some rubbish on them. We'd never any of these things, we just thought it would be a laugh to annoy people, that's what kids do!
"The charity's phone-in helpline ChildLine said that compared to just one year ago, a whopping 70 per cent more boys had called in about seeing porn online, ..."
If I want to see porn online, I have to make a reasonable effort (hint: it's not worth the effort).
How are these kids doing it? If the are being shown porn or being sent links to porn, then this is an issue for child protection authorities and the police. If they are actively seeking it out themselves then that raises all kinds of questions.......
Hah, I remember at school, back before safesearch actually did much of anything, we'd just type 12345567890 into google images and it'd turn up SO MUCH PR0N
Then of course was the hilarious moment, we were doing an RE project on different religious things, one of the girls decided she was going to do the bibles opinion on homosexuality. First site she visited 'god hates gays' or something had been hacked. An endless stream of non stop gay porn popups. It was hilarious, and because the school was still on IE4 or something rediculous it had no popup prevention.
Kids should not be left unsupervised on the internet its as simple as that.
Its parents who need lessons in using the internet so they can keep their kids safe not 5 year old being told what to do.
Parents often won't let their children go to the end of the road unsupervised but think nothing of letting them spend hours unsupervised on the internet.
As far as the end of the road? That's very, very dangerous - there should be a law against that kind of thing. After all there are paedophiles behind every bush and gate down the street so it must be a mercy or arrogant luck that any of the poor innocent children actually make it to the end of the road, let alone back again.
We'll ignore the fact that almost all child molestation is carried out by a close family member of course. It's the exceptional cases that make the news, and often these wind up being a close family friend or family member anyway.
The NSPCC, for some reason, have this all wrong. While it's good to educate the kids, this isn't actually the cause of the issue. It's the parents.
I'm sure we've all seen it at some point, but parents let their children have laptops or iPad's with no parental controls and don't supervise them. They go to their rooms, alone, with just the laptop/iPad and themselves. They can go on whatever they want, when they want, and the parent doesn't know. Of course, the parent finds out when their child is the subject of "sexting" or finds an indecent image they have downloaded off the internet. Then it's everyone's fault BUT that parent for not taking a damn in what they are looking at.
An example of this would be my girlfriends 9 year old sister, given an iPad for Christmas by her mother. She never looks at what she's up to, and as far as the mother is concerned all she is doing is using FaceTime to speak to her friends. So on Sunday, I'm walking up the stairs and I can hear that Miranda's woman's voice (I can't stand her, and no one in the house can stand her either). I pop my head in the bedroom of my girlfriends sister and she's watching an episode of Miranda. I asked her what she was watching, and she said she was watching Tracey Beaker (LIE!). I told her that Miranda wasn't suitable (not because it's crap, but the language etc) and told her mother. The mother in law asked the 9 year old, and apparently she wasn't watching it although it was a good third of the way through the episode judging by the play bar at the bottom. The mother, like an idiot, took her word for it and didn't check it.
This mother in law isn't an isolated case, there'll be millions of families like this up and down the country. They need back bone and to stand up to the child and say "We're having a desktop down here in the living room, and you will go on it when I'm around". That is really the easiest way of combating children seeing things they shouldn't see, but alas for some reason this country/society seems to think it's the responsibility of others, not themselves, to police what their children see.
It's an absolute joke.
Yes I agree that kids should have lessons in how to stay safe online, but I believe that parents should be able to get lessons in how to secure their connection for their own kids and not expect someone else to do it for them.
If my kids see porn online, it will be down to one of two things either I havent secured my internet properly to keep them from seeing things that I believe are not safe for them. Or the little shits have become more tech savvy than me, which means I have to up my game.
But (and this is what I hope mainly) I am raising my kids to talk to me if they have problems, so that they can come to me with anything, knowing Im not going to go ballistic at them. If people took more interest in their kids and what they are doing online and in general then this wouldnt be a problem (IMHO)
Being "safe online" means not giving their personal (or my credit card) details to strangers and not agreeing to meet those strangers IRL.
Seeing a bit of human flesh (accidentally or not) or reading something which some adults may not be comfortable with them reading is not "unsafe". It may be undesirable for whatever religious, moral or educational purposes but safety does not come into this.
And the only way to make kids safe online means explaining to them what and why they should not be doing. Relying on any technical blocking and filtering would mean totally missing the nature of the threat and the methods needed for its mitigation.
Now here is irony for you - Microsoft (of all companies) did actually make that same point a while back.
We have a couple of vectors here that need to be checked.
- Parental guidance: parents need to have an idea how the Innertubes work or you're shot straightaway. You cannot educate kids if you don't have the basic understanding yourself.
- Education: kids should be able to find age specific education, be it online (but that could turn into a honeypot itself) or at school, which (to me) seems the natural place for it, provided the teachers have a clue as well
- Technology: we have *some* measures that can filter age-restricted material, but, to be honest, from experience I found that kids tend to settle on a number of sites. Once you have those, you can white list them. I wouldn't depend on blacklists because that's a game of whack-a-mole. This is also why you must educate the kids - that safety net will eventually fail.
They aren't really asking for our money - well, not directly.
In 2011 the government gave £11.2 million of taxpayers' money to Childline:
Big 'charities' like the NSPCC just lobby government for their money these days. It's so much less hassle than collecting the money from ordinary people.
So what they're saying is "Keep funding us beyond 2015, or paedos will sex every child in England."
ISTR seeing their adverts on telly most nights.
'Course - They have to blow the money on something not related to Fixing the Problem. Because Fixing the Problem means that they are either out of business or have to learn new skills to solve new problems - just like the politicians, really: It's both easier and safer, career-wise, to compound the problem while pretending to solve it!
I've not actually got my hands on any IPv6 gear in anger yet... what's it like setting up filtering compared to IPv4? I mean, I can and have set up at the firewall access to BBC (News, Weather and BiteSize) and Wikipedia only for all traffic from all devices save my 'grown ups' laptop. Easy peasy. No social media, no email, no photosharing, no YouTube, no iPlayer etc. Will I have to relearn a skillset?
I'm sure the DNS is still involved (unless you ARE typing those number/colon messes) but whether that's actually in the packets, I have no idea. I imagine it can be done in the router, whitelisting would probably still work (depending on the model).
I really am glad I don't have to concern myself with any of this...
Can they actually read or type well enough to go and seek out pr0n? Surely if they are clicking on pictures on some child friendly website it's unlikely they'd stumble across something unsanitary.
Or maybe we should praise the pr0n and the Internet for significantly increasing our children's literacy levels (albeit in one fairly specialised area).
Actually my 5 year old can use a pc well enough to turn on, goto google and search for things he wants to find, usually he ends up going to you tube and watching lego videos or playing games on lego.com
he has no interest in porn obviously (puberty is a fair few years away!) so I doubt he'd find it on purpose, and would be unlikely to follow a link if he saw one.
Even if every ISP in the land followed a voluntary code and sent out a letter when the customer signs up explaining how to go to a website set up by the ISPA for parental control software and making parental controls ridiculously easy to set up on their routers, I still don't think it'd be enough.
Putting a solution on a silver plate is still too little for that group of parents who aren't particularly interested in parenting.


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Robert Anson Heinlein. Stranger in a Strange Land was great, as was The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." - Beyond This Horizon
"I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful.
If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!"
Ahem. Fuck Roosevelt! :)
Occasionally I read sci-fi, or what passes for close to it. I recently read 'The Stars My Destination' by Alfred Bester, whom some consider a god-father to the genre. It was originally released as 'Tiger, Tiger'. Also enjoy the classics, like Asimov, but also like Richard Matheson and some of Vonnegut's science-fictiony (?)
I've got Amazon on hold while I look at other's suggestions.
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It ain't perfect, but in my opinion, it ain't too shabby for my first attempt. This was my first time working with fondant, my first time making a multi-tiered cake, my first time handling a 60-year old vintage cake topper and attempting not to break it. Early on this summer, two of my friends from college asked me if I would be so kind as to make their wedding cake. At first I laughed...then I realized they were serious.
These two blindly trusted my baking skills, and I thank them for it. This was an amazing learning experience, starting from scratch, with only a few online video tutorials, back episodes of "Amazing Wedding Cakes" from WE tv on my DVR, and a giant fondant rolling pin to assist me in this endeavor.
I spent a few months planning for this thing. I met with the bride and groom to discuss what they were looking for in their cake (size, shape, flavors, buttercream vs. fondant, colors, decorations etc.). From there we decided on a simple, two-tier, small-ish square cake. They were serving a tiramisu dessert at the end of dinner (they did get married at the Italian American Sports Hall of Fame after all) so they wouldn't need cake for everyone, just those who wanted a little extra something after a night of dancing and drinking. Also, we wanted to keep it simple because they were using the cake topper that their grandparents used back in 1954, and wanted to keep the focus on that, rather than any fancy decorations on the rest of the cake (not to mention that I have no business getting fancy on my first cake). Look at this thing, how awesome is this cake topper?
I cannot tell you how relieved I was to drop the topper off with the cake. The groom was teetering on one leg, and the bride was chipped at the hip, and I did not want to be responsible for destroying a family heirloom. I think I was almost more nervous about dropping the topper than the cake itself. Luckily none of the above occurred and everything got there in one piece.
We did a tasting about a month out from the wedding day. I presented them with four flavors of cake and four fillings, and they were able to mix and match and decide exactly what their wedding cake would taste like. The groom picked flavors for one tier, a devil's food dark chocolate cake with amaretto buttercream, and the bride picked flavors for the other tier; a banana cake with a banana cream filling. Hows that for cooperation? Now came the fun part...the baking!
Since I am no expert at this yet, I will show you my pictures and walk you through my schedule instead of going into detail with recipes and methods. Someday I hope to show you an exhaustive, detailed, perfect to the T, explanation of how to make a wedding cake, but I fear we are a long, long way from that day. So for now, here goes.
The wedding was on a friday at 3:00 pm. I needed to drop off the cake by noon that day to have enough time to go back home, get ready, and be presentable with no visible frosting in my hair in my pew at the church before the ceremony started.
Two weeks before the wedding, I began baking the layers. Cake freezes wonderfully, as long as you wrap it up well. Two to three coats of plastic wrap and a final layer of tin foil will do the job. One week before the wedding, I made and froze the buttercream, and made the fondant. Two days before the wedding, I made the banana cream filling and refrigerated it. I also cut all the cake boards to size and cut the ribbons to the correct length.
Crunch time. The day before the wedding, I torted, filled, and crumb coated both tiers. I also put the final, smooth-as-I-could-get-it layer of buttercream on each tier and left them in the refrigerator overnight.
If you are using non-perishable fillings such as a buttercream or ganache you can fondant your cakes a day ahead and leave them at room temp overnight. Since I had the banana filling, I had to refrigerate them up until right before the delivery.
It is apparently not a good thing to put a fondant covered cake in the the fridge. Bad things will happen, or so I hear. I chose not to push my luck.
I also made a little stand for the cake topper with a small round cut out of cardboard, covered with a piece of ribbon.
The morning of the wedding I woke up around 6 am to finish the cakes. I let the tiers sit out at room temp for about 20 minutes before covering them with fondant so that the buttercream underneath would have a little give and I would be able to smooth it better. I rolled out my fondant with a generous amount of powdered sugar, and covered my cakes. I had a good amount of air bubbles, so I got out a sterilized needle and went to town. I chalk this up to it being my first time using fondant if you don't count the styrofoam 'cakes' I covered a few months back for practice.
Using a small amount of hot glue, I secured the ribbon around the base of each layer. I then stuck some plastic dowels into each tier of the cake, removed them and cut them to proper size, the replaced them back into their holes. This helped support the second tier and the topper, making sure it they didn't sink down into the layer below.
Then I held on for dear life in the back seat of the car, yelling at my boyfriend every few blocks to drive slower and more carefully (in reality, he was doing a fine job, I was just really tired and scared that we were going to hit a pothole and the cake would going flying into the back of the driver seat. It didn't).
The cake was delivered without a hitch, and about fifteen minutes later I was a happy little clam with a strong bloody mary in my hand. I firmly believe that if you successfully make a two tiered wedding cake in your two-bedroom apartment kitchen, you deserve to drink hard alcohol before noon.
The wedding was beautiful, the reception amazingly fun, and the cake, delicious. Of course I was in the bathroom during the cake cutting...that just figures. Its okay though, hopefully, in time, there will be many more couples cutting into one of my cakes.
Here are the wonderful recipes I used:
Chocolate Devil's Food Cake
Banana Cake
Swiss Meringue Buttercream Frosting
Banana Cream Filling
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Spring Comica Comiket: Independent Comics Fair
Saturday April 21st 2012 is the day! Following the huge success of last November's Comica Comiket in the spectacular Great Hall at the Bishopsgate Institute near Liverpool Street station in London, we're organising a brand new Comica Comiket for the Spring, a one-day comics and art fair - bigger and better than ever, offering the best of British creators, publishers, small presses, graphic artists and suppliers under one roof, and admission is free from 11am to 6pm. Throughout the day, John Allison, Darryl Cunningham, Tom Gauld, Simone Lia, Maarten Vande Wiele and Andi Watson are among the top artists who will be taking part on stage in the Comica Drawing Parade, with their live artworks and demos projected on a giant screen.
Here's what a few participants thought of last November's Comiket:
"I thought Comiket was fantastic. It was probably my favourite convention experience so far, due to the abundance of exciting people and publishers in attendance and the live drawing is a brilliant extra. It left me really excited about comics. Looking forward to the next one."
Luke Pearson
"A grand day out in Bishopsgate: After five years of attending Comica's Comikets, the event has finally come of age. Though previously held in some wonderful locations such as the ICA and the Pump House in Battersea Park, this is the first time that the combination of venue and location has worked so well to bring in the kind of footfall that I'm sure made every exhibitor's day worthwhile. With plenty of passing trade, free entry and a magnificent continuous large-screen live drawing display kept visitors in the hall."
Francesca Cassavetti, Fabtoons
"It's the egalitarian feel of an event like Comiket that reignites that feeling of joy about comics for me that the cynical shenanigans of the bigger commercial publishers have done their best to erase. It was that tangible lack of cynicism, and an all-pervading sense of diversity, that were the admirable hallmarks of an event where everyone attending was focused primarily on the same shared goal: selling their personal vision of the very best of what comics can be. A tiptop day on every level and an experience I look forward to replicating at the next Comiket in 2012."
Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier
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When: Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 11am to 6pm
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A full house of alumni, parents, and friends gathered to welcome Anne and Andy Ford to Dallas. The group gathered at the Royal Oaks Country Club for a reception, dinner, and Andy's comments on the state of the College.
Anne and Andy were both surprised by the group. First, Dutch Freise '48 presented Andy with a "gen-u-wine" Stetson cowboy hat!!!! Dan Susie '68 reminded the crowd of the many accomplishments of the Fords during their tenure as Wabash's first family. Dan then presented Andy with a beautiful mantel clock bearing a plaque declaring Andy "Some Little Giant." Ray LaDriere '78 then lauded Anne Ford for her great service to the College and presented her with a necklace.
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Locassa needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 246 designs submitted by 52 freelance designers.
Locassa provide social and community network information on mobile devices and web portals. The service is map based and provides syndicated content from our own network as well as key social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr etc.
Locassa is a young, vibrant and community driven company. We believe that our network is not only for our customers but should be driven by our customers.
We are a worldwide product.
Our target audience is people who like to explore their community or participate in social discussions, social interactions and generally like to help shape their own community to make their lives more productive.
Our main requirements are as follows:
UPDATE: Please try and explore the 'connected' and 'networking' ideas but not computer networking, more social, people, groups etc.
1. No cartoons or other comic style imagery.
2. No cliched holding hands or hands around the globe type of imagery.
3. We are quite keen on something more abstract than literal although more literal representations of our service will be considered.
4. We are about networking, sharing and location / maps so things along that theme will be required (even in some kind of abstract form). We particularly want to focus on the 'connected' and 'networking' aspects, but not related directly to computer networking, more social.
5. Whilst we do provide software for mobile devices we do not want this to be particularly emphasised in the the design as we also provide desktop and web based services.
6. Nothing to extravagant, it should be fairly clean but still bold.
7. We are a professional service and want a logo that represents us well.
8. Typeface should be bold and clean.
9. Our colour preference is for various shades of blue, as per our website http://www.locassa.com or shades of red (although we will consider other schemes).
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Can Stainless Be Dethroned as King of the Kitchen?
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The kitchen in a Phoenix home for sale.
Not so long ago, a repairman could tell the age of an appliance by the color of its finish. If it was avocado or harvest gold, it had to be from the 1970s or early '80s. Poppy red meant the appliance was made in the 1970s, and harvest wheat, coffee or almond meant your oven or fridge was new in the early 1980s.
Stainless appliances first burst onto the scene in the late 1980s, and they've had a remarkable run. But there are those in the industry who sense "stainless fatigue" among homeowners.
It should come as no surprise, then, that major manufacturers have their own ideas about the next hot appliance finishes:
Slate could be great
In September, GE introduced a new finish called "Slate" across its line of appliances.
The company's news release about the launch details how its industrial designers spent countless hours conducting consumer research and reviewing design trends in the kitchen, home furnishings, home entertainment products, and automotive interiors and exteriors.
The result was Slate, a warm, gray metallic with a low-gloss finish that is a natural complement to the wide spectrum of wall colors, countertop materials and floor/cabinetry finishes found in today's homes.
"As people transition their kitchen appliances over time, it was important to us to find a finish from a palette that is timeless and harmonious, yet distinctive," said Lou Lenzi, whose team of designers created the new finish. "Slate is a universal, neutral finish that will suit consumers who want a premium finish that can complement or even replace stainless steel."
Ice may be nice
Whirlpool Corp. introduced its "Ice Collection" of appliances in July, including a glossy white finish for dishwashers, microwave ovens, ranges and refrigerators.
"White is the new stainless," the company's news release said. The collection also includes a sleek Black Ice finish.
Patrick Schiavone, Whirlpool's vice president of global consumer design, has said he "is over" stainless steel and set out to update the style and appearance of black and white appliances. The collection is defined by silver accents, elegant lines, sleek handles and streamlined controls.
Is black back?
When high-end cooking appliances manufacturer Wolf introduced its newest model in early 2012, its news release boldly proclaimed: "Black is the New Stainless Steel."
The company's Black Glass model comes adorned with a black glass tubular handle and cobalt blue interior. In addition to the oven, Wolf is also offering black glass trim kits for its warming drawers and convection and standard microwaves.
"Our commitment to design has always been on par with Wolf's dedication to innovation and quality," Michele Bedard, vice president of marketing for Sub-Zero and Wolf, said in a news release. "Introducing a new finish elevates the line and opens a whole new realm of design possibilities for designers and consumers alike."
Can color triumph?
Viking Range Corp. offers 23 color alternatives to stainless steel in its high-end open-burner range; the company most recently expanded its palette of finishes to include Cinnamon, Dijon, Kettle Black and Wasabi.
All those choices, yet stainless steel reigns supreme.
"I'd say 80 percent of our sales are still stainless steel," says Brent Bailey, design director at Viking Range. "I could add another 100 colors, and the percentage wouldn't change much."


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I love all the smart little details that went along with this wedding! Bright bold colors and handmade touches are always my favorite things to see in a wedding.
Michael and Christy both work at Apple and met when Christy performed a health assessment on Michael (she works in the Wellness Center). It was one assessment that went further than blood pressure:)
Their AMAZING wedding took place in Sonoma at Cornerstone Gardens. Situated near vineyards, it serves as a place for local artists to display art installations and is one of the most fabulous and unique venues I have shot at. The art installations alone are FABULOUS, however there is also a barn the couple used for their lounge and dancing, an enormous white tent they ate dinner under, and a gorgeous lawn area overlooking the vineyards for their ceremony. Being wine country, the bride opted to include wine bottles in many of her details- from installing directions to the various locations on the property for the festivities on wine bottles, to the guest seating, and by creating their own unique wine to bottle during the ceremony.
Being total food lovers, Michael and Christy opted for food "Stations" for dinner that included all of their favorite meals- a seafood station, an heirloom tomato station, meat and potatoes station, and a veggies station. The stations helped encourage guests to mingle and truly enjoy their dinner! During cocktail hour the wine flowed and mini sliders with fries and mini grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup in the cups were served. I just about ate my way out of there:) Guests were encouraged to take their time and eat as the night set in and the full moon rose. Christy is obsessed with the moon and specifically planned her wedding well over a year in advance to take advantage of the full moon on a weekend. It was truly fabulous. The night was capped off with dancing and lunging in the barn under gorgeous lanterns and moonlight… It was an epic night to remember!
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We're sad to hear of the passing of actress Jean Stapleton, who died yesterday, Friday May 31, 2013, at the age of 90. Stapleton died of natural causes in her home in New York City. She's best know for portraying the lovable "Edith Bunker" on All in the Family, but also enjoyed success on the Broadway stage with "Damn Yankees" and "The Bells Are Ringing," and with several television movies.
Below are some selections from her 2000 Archive interview:
Her thoughts on how All in the Family dealt with bigotry:
Her description of "Edith Bunker":
She was a very compassionate individual, had a peculiar way of arriving at things and thoughts. Not very bright, not well educated, but a great sense of wisdom and heart. I guess I would describe it that way. And also fun, a sense of joy about her and great, just great love for everyone, and a perception about people that was instinctive, intuitive, but certainly not intellectual.
And how she'd like to be remembered:
To be remembered? I don't think about that uh very much, frankly. I don't think anybody's remembered too well, after awhile… I really don't think it's one of my goals or projects to decide that. I hope that my work stands up, if it's ever seen in the future.
Watch her full Archive interview and read her obituary in the Chicago Tribune.
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So apparently there was some kind of race going on this weekend? I dunno. All I have on my mind is roller derby.
My third season kicked off this week and already I've garnered a new badge of honor:
We also got a small batch of fresh meat to add to the mix. Their first league practice was not unlike this.
So to all of you race fans sitting at home with a weekend's worth of bad tan lines and bad decisions- take a deep breath. Roller derby season will be here sooner than you think.


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Chuck Hinton, an outfielder for the Washington Senators and the Cleveland Indians during the 1960s and early 1970s, died this week at age 78. Hinton was the first African-American baseball player who plied his trade in predominantly black Washington, DC to be perceived as a star.
Actually, Earl Battey, who played for the pre-expansion Senators, was probably a better player than Hinton. But Battey, a catcher, found himself overshadowed by teammates like Harmon Killebrew, Bob Allison, Jim Lemon, and Camilo Pascual. Hinton, a speedy outfielder, easily outshone his teammates on some very poor expansion squads.
In 1962, Hinton batted .310 and stole 28 bases in 38 attempts. As this was only Hinton's second year in the big leagues, most Washington fans thought we had a phenom on our hands. Had we understood baseball statistics better, we would have noted that Hinton was already 27 years old, and that he didn't walk enough. But we still would have recognized him as a breath of fresh air on a team in desperate need of one.
It's not clear why Hinton arrived in the Majors so late. His career Minor League batting average was .346. It looks like a late start (he began his career at age 22 after his college education and later missed two years due to a hitch in the military) was to blame.
One cannot discount racism as a possible explanation. However, I believe that Baltimore Orioles, the organization for whom Hinton played, liked Hinton. Although they didn't protect him in the expansion draft, Paul Richards reportedly planted a phony story in the Sporting News ("the Baseball Bible") that Hinton was injured. When the expansion Senators drafted Hinton anyway, the "Wizard of Waxahachie" is said to have complained, "What's the matter with the Senators; don't they read the Paper?"
New York Yankee pitcher Ralph Terry beaned Hinton late in the 1963 season. Hinton suffered a concussion, and was never quite the same hitter thereafter. However, he played well enough in 1964 to represent Washington in the All Star game. He entered the contest late and didn't get to bat. His contribution consisted of watching Johnny Callison's walk-off home run sail over his head and into the seats.
The Senators traded Hinton to Cleveland before the 1965 season. He was ordinary with the Indians, but good enough to remain with the club for six years. Hinton's career stats — .264/.332/.412 with 113 homers and 130 steals– understate his talent. With an earlier start and no beaning, surely the numbers would have been more impressive.
After the big leagues, Hinton became a successful baseball coach at Howard University. He also helped found the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association, an organization promotes baseball to young people and has raised millions of dollars for charity. Reportedly, he had time for anyone who needed his help or who just wanted to talk about baseball.
You probably won't find anyone in the D.C. area with a bad word to say about Chuck Hinton. He was a good ballplayer and an exemplary citizen.


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"subject approached two individuals who were dining at a restaurant in the 1400 block of 12th St, NW and robbed them"
This is crazy. From MPD:
The Metropolitan Police Department is seeking the public's assistance in identifying and locating a suspect in connection with an armed robbery which occurred in the 1400 block of 12th Street, NW.
On Friday, May 17, 2013, at approximately 9:22 pm, a subject approached two individuals who were dining at a restaurant in the 1400 block of 12th Street, NW and robbed them of their personal property.
The suspect is described as a black male wearing a white shirt and dark shoes. He was armed with a handgun.
The suspect is shown in this video: http://youtu.be/rbtQyR4gmAM
Anyone with information that can assist in the identification of this subject is asked to call the police at (202) 727-9099. Additionally, anonymous information may be submitted to the department's TEXT TIP LINE by text messaging 50411. The Metropolitan Police Department currently offers a reward of up to $10,000 to anyone who provides information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for a violent offense, including armed robbery, committed in the District of Columbia.


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Tom Morgan & Nic Dalton (from Sneeze) team up with Jon Auer & Ken Stringfellow (from the Posies) on powerpop number On The Road, backed with a country-rock version (with strings and banjo!) of Teenage Fanclub's Starsign (with Bill Gibson on bass and vocals) plus cover of both sides of Replacement's first single (done simultaneously!) which was previously released under the name Erbs & Pisces on the Replacements' tribute album I'm In Love...With That Song.
The recording of On The Road has been a long and interesting one. Recording started in July 1996 when The Posies were on tour in Australia with the Hoodoo Gurus, and the plan was to record a 'late 70s powerpop' single under the name Deezleteens. Jon Auer added drums, lead guitar and his very fine engineering skills to the two new tunes provided by Nic and Tom. Ken Stringfellow was having too much fun in Newtown's Bermuda Triangle to make it to the session only to return four years later in 2000 (on a solo tour) to put down the all-important lead vocals. By this stage the Posies had broken up and Ken was re-united by wonderul analogue technology with his former bandmate. The song was finally mixed in July 2001 and by this stage the Posies had reformed! The other song recorded, an early version of Smudge's Ya We Are Cruel, will remain unreleased.
"It's had more gestation time than a Boston album" - Ken Stringfellow
Now available on iTunes...but nothing beats good ol' vinyl!
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A Quick Jaunt to Belize
Posted by Tony & Cheri on February 17, 2009
Early mornings on a long boat dock
Drinking coffee as the sun comes up
Lazy days spent napping in a big deck chair
Walking home underneath the stars
~Jerry Jeff Walker
Our dear friends Jan and Eric recently came from San Francisco to visit us. They have been to Playa several times over the years and as it was Jani's 50th birthday, they wanted to celebrate by doing something different this time. We all decided a trip to the island of Ambergris Caye, Belize was just the thing.
Ambergris is one of the islands, or keys (spelled old English Style as "cayes"), which lay off the coast near the border of Belize and Mexico. A little jewel floating in the Caribbean Sea, it has one town, San Pedro, and a whole lot of natural beauty. It's a perfect place to get away and relax for a few days.
We began our trip in the Big Bastard, the Chevy Express van which brought us to Mexico, driving four hours from Playa Del Carmen to the city of Chetumal, Mexico which sits on the border with Belize. The border between Belize and Mexico has the feel of a Bogart movie to it with dusty border town buildings on each side of a bridge which crosses a muddy river. Rusty trucks, aged cars and people carrying luggage wander back and forth over the bridge between the two countries, while hustlers and con men looking for a handout or a quick buck wait eagerly on both sides of the border.
Once we drove over the bridge into Belize we hit a snag. Belizean Immigration would not let our van in without the original vehicle title (we had a copy with us and kept the original back home in a safe). At first there was talk of sending us back to Mexico, but after a little bargaining it was agreed we could leave the Big Bastard in the Immigration office parking lot for a "daily fee." Right. Money changed hands and off we went in a cab to the airport. Well…kind of like an airport. At least it had a runway. Kind of.
Tropic Air ("The Official Airline of Belize") runs a small 12-person propeller plane back and forth from the island several a times a day. The "airport" is a small hut on the outskirts of a poverty stricken town, Corozal, where you can buy tickets and leave packages for shipping to San Pedro. The "food court" is a wooden stand across the dirt road where you can get a cold beer and maybe some nachos or chips.
In a short time the plane landed on the small runway (at least it was paved…last time we flew Tropic Air it was a dirt road!). The plane pulls right up to the building, people jump on and in a few minutes is airborne over the flatlands of Corozal. Fifteen minutes later the plane is over the blue waters of the Caribbean and heading in for a landing on Ambergris Caye.
Once on the ground in Ambergris we headed for the hotel. We had booked at a Bed and Breakfast called Changes in Latitudes. It had high marks on Tripadvisor and sent us friendly emails in response to our questions. It turned out we had made an excellent choice.
"Changes…" reminded us of our own Luna Blue Hotel in many, many ways. It was very small (only six rooms) with a central common area of bougainvilleas, plants, hammocks and chairs. They even had Radio Margaritaville playing over the hotel speakers…just like home! The rooms were small and tropical island funky which suited all of us just fine. But best of all were the owners. Renita and Cindy had moved to Belize from the States a few years ago to start a new life much as we had and created their own adorable little tropical getaway. They were friendly and welcoming. And it turned out that Renita, who was in charge of breakfast each day, was a fantastic cook. A perfect example of her skills was the banana pancakes made from scratch and covered with a homemade caramel sauce. OH….MY….GOD! We cannot recommend Changes in Latitude Bed and Breakfast highly enough.
The next couple of days seem like a soft and relaxing blur. There was Renita's breakfast each morning of course. And incredible Cuban coffee espresso shots with sweetened condensed milk at a little place called Mojitos Cuban Café. And as "Changes" offers free use of the pool at the Belize Yacht Club right next door, there was plenty of time spent snoozing on loungers, swimming, or sitting at the swim up bar. We rented a golf cart and cruised San Pedro's three …count 'em… three… streets and drove around the beautiful jungle roads outside of town. For three days we wandered about, went sightseeing, shopped, strolled on the beach, swam and ate. Boy, did we eat.
On Renita's suggestion we went to a number of different restaurants…all them excellent. The favorite of our little group was the Wild Mango's Café. Remember that the four of us are all from San Francisco, one of the restaurant capitals of the world, and as such we can be pretty demanding about our food. Yet we all agree Wild Mango's presented as good a meal as we had seen back home, and served on a deck overlooking the Caribbean. Hard to beat. And later in the evening we would take the golf cart and wander down dirt roads to a little place called Casa Picasso for coffee, rum and an unbelievable dessert named "Cracked Coconut," a molded chocolate shell covered in toasted coconut and filled with coconut ice cream. We might have made that trek more than once. 😉
On Jan's birthday we went out to the edge of the jungle to a delightful restaurant called Hidden Treasure. And boy, is it. Open air with a palapa roof, it was lit by candles and torches. It was like one of those Survivor episodes where the winner of a challenge gets sent to some exotic place for a banquet. Jan said it was a great way to turn 50.
We had hoped to either get over to Shark Ray Alley, a great snorkeling spot where you can swim among harmless nurse sharks and rays, or maybe get in a dive on the reef while we were there. However the day we planned for such fun ended up being a windy rain day…so it was reading in the hammock instead. Not so bad.
Ambergris was certainly bigger than the last time we were there several years ago. Condos are being built left and right, and the old dirt roads are now paved and have a fair amount of traffic. Yet the island retains its sweet Caribbean charm, and the people are as friendly as ever. Every one seems to say hello; everyone seems to have a smile.
Our last night on the island the four of us went out searching for some Belizean Rum. Belize is very strict about its liqueur. You can only get beer made in Belize (Belikin), and most booze is heavily taxed so that alcohol from other countries is very, very expensive. As one local jokingly told us: "It's easier to get a brick of cocaine onto the island than a six pack of Budweiser"! However the rum made in Belize is high quality, and Eric, being a bit of a rum connoisseur, wanted to get some of the local hooch.
We went to a store recommended by Renita. When we got there we found the local rum sold in various ages and proofs ranging from a clear moonshine-like form of pure cane alcohol to more subtly aged rum. The good stuff is sold under the name of One Barrel or, if appropriately aged, Five Barrel. The young man running the store that night was named LeRoi and seemed happy for the company. He was anxious to pour samples of whatever needed to be tasted. He chatted with us about where we were from and wanted to know if we liked his island home. We assured him we did.
As we were making our purchases, Tony noticed that LeRoi was wearing a One Barrel Rum baseball cap. He pointed it out to Eric who always wears ball caps. When Tony asked where we could buy one, LeRoi took the hat off gave it to us. Eric immediately put it on and gave LeRoi his own Hermosa Beach hat in exchange. We took pictures of the two guys with their new headgear. Everybody laughed and thought this was great fun. LeRoi insisted that we take his email and send him a copy of the picture so that when his wife wanted to know why he came home with a different hat on than he left with, he'd have proof of his story!
The next day with hugs and promises to write we bid the girls of Changes in Latitude goodbye and headed home. A Tropic Air plane took us back to the mainland where we picked up the Big Bastard and headed back into Mexico.
On the way home we decided to make a stop for lunch at Lake Bacalar, a natural lake next to the ocean about three hours south of Playa del Carmen. Lake Bacalar is known as the Lake of Seven Colors. Its expansive waters contain multiple shades of blues and greens reflecting the sky and the jungle around it. Some parts of the water are deep blue, some are pale, and some contain multiple shadings. Words can't describe it. We stopped for lunch at the Hotel Laguna Bacalar. Structured like a funky old 50s-style motel, it sits on multiple levels on the hills overlooking the blue water below. We had a great Mexican lunch at a decent price and then wandered the grounds awhile admiring the view before heading home.
When we moved to Caribbean Mexico is was our hope and intent that we wouldn't be held captive in just one place. We love Playa del Carmen, but the Caribbean Sea is a big front yard and borders many magical places that have a strong draw for us. Last year it was Jamaica. This year it was Belize. And of course there's still much of Mexico we haven't seen yet. The journey continues.
Here are a few more photos from our trip:
Some local school girls walking home on the beach
The Mayan Princess, and looking out at the Caribbean
Tony looks amazingly like his shirt, don't you think?
Renita, Cheri, Tony, Eric & Jan -saying goodbye at Changes in Latitudes
Beautiful Lake Bacalar
The view from the Belize Yacht Club
Changes in Latitudes
San Pedro, Belize, seen from the airplane
The Caribbean reflected in Tony's glasses
Looking out at the Caribbean
A typical San Pedro view
6 Responses to "A Quick Jaunt to Belize"
February 17, 2009 at 9:35 am
Wonderful!! It looks like you had a terrific time. I am looking forward to our next trip there as well. It's become a sort of second home!!
February 17, 2009 at 9:51 am
Too bad about Shark Ray Alley…But a wise woman I know says, "Leave something for next time~!"
and Laguna Bacalar sounds and looks amazing.
I really DIG the 50's and things maybe a bit Art Deco…
Belize has always been a dream of mine…and it's doable.
Cuba, another dream, is as yet, not so.
February 17, 2009 at 7:39 pm
This makes me miss you guys even more!
Looks like you had a WONDERFUL trip! I really enjoyed reading the blog entry and seeing the pictures! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
February 18, 2009 at 6:23 am
OK Guys, I could have done without reading this trip report. Now I am feeling that I must get back there soon! Casa Picassao w/the "cracked coconut" IS to die for. Love it, San Pedro and You guys too! See ya soon. Great Report.
February 18, 2009 at 8:56 am
Thank you so much for this intimate trip report, honouring your dear Jan's 50th Birthday. I love the photo of all 4 of you! And I also love the first photo with the bicycle, Tony's photo who looks like his t-shirt (hehe) and the last one…'Typical San Pedro View".
Belize has always been an attraction for me…until I discovered PDC. Maybe I need to reconsider and spend one half of our vacation in Belize and the other in Playa. 🙂
So glad that you got a chance to get away with your dear friends.
February 20, 2009 at 5:35 am
Looks like you guys had a great time! Sarah wants to know if you found the Burger King that had a Whopper Special? haha. Did you guys make to Estellas for some Fry Jacks? They are awesome!!!


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2012 Highway Safety Poster Contest Winners
Each year, Caltrans holds its annual Highway Safety poster contest. The contest is open to children and grandchildren of Caltrans employees, and it gives the children an opportunity to express their messages about the importance of driving safely in or near highway work zones, where their loved ones work in danger. It also allows them to be part of Caltrans' educational outreach and life-saving message.
The contest was open to children 17 years old or younger, and judges selected posters based on creativity, how well the poster conveyed the highway safety theme, and the use of color.
The winning posters appeared in the Annual Workers Memorial program and were on display at the ceremony.
Although the posters differ greatly in appearance, they all convey one of these important messages, "Slow for the Cone Zone" or "Move Over"
8 years old and under
Kaylynn Huynh
Kaylynn Huynh is 8 1/2 years old. She is a third grader at John Marshall Elementary School in Westminster, Orange County. Her mother is District 12 Transportation Engineer Kimberly Nguyen, and Kaylynn loves to visit Caltrans to see her mom at work. She always wants to meet the Cone Kid. Drawing is her favorite thing to do. She joined the Caltrans Poster Contest to show her skills and to send the message to every driver to "Slow for the Cone Zone and be Safe!"
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Ava Gomes
Ava Gomes is 10-year-old fifth grader at Fort Jones Elementary School in Fort Jones. She is the daughter of District 2 Seiad Valley Maintenance Supervisor Ryan Gomes. Ava has dreams of one day becoming a baker and opening her own cupcake shop. Ava is active in softball and likes spending time with her family and cousins. Ava wants to remind people to slow down and always drive safe, because her dad and his crews are out on the road.
12–14 years old
Selby Boerman is 14 years old and is homeschooled. Her father is Stephen Boerman, a Caltrans Equipment Operator II in District 2. She lives with her parents, sister, and a very good dog. Her favorite sports are basketball and swimming. Her favorite hobbies are playing Flight Simulator, WII and Angry Birds, as well as sewing. She also loves horses. Selby thinks it is very important for people to drive slowly through cone zones. Caltrans workers are working hard to help us, so we should respect them by going slow and not endangering their lives. It's not worth someone's life to go fast.
15–17 years old
Kristina Alvarez
Kristina Alvarez, is a 16-year-old high school junior and a very good student. Her grandfather is Dennis Costa, a Caltrans Equipment Operator in District 12. She volunteers in her community, sings in the adult choir, teaches Sunday school, and helps wherever she is needed. She is an important part of her community and family, and everyone enjoys her positive outlook, compassion, cheerful attitude and maturity. She feels this "Don't Text and Drive" message is very relevant to the world right now, and everyone needs to pay attention to it. It is also a very important message that affects road workers and relates directly to the "Slow for the Cone Zone" slogan and motto. How can people pay attention to driving when they are using one (or both) hands to text, their eyes are looking down at the phone screen, and they are focusing away from the road and their surroundings? Driving a vehicle is a huge responsibility, and texting while driving puts everyone in danger and is the cause of crashes.
Poster Contest Honorable Mentions
Katelyn Bermudez
D6 - Lemoore
Lauren Harrington
D3 - Truckee
Hugo Mercado
D11 - Chula Vista
Catalina Nguyen
HQ - Sacramento
Madeline Tao
D7 - San Gabriel


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1. (Redwinged) Blackbird. 2. (Stellar) Bluejay 3. (Long-nosed) Bat
4. Mourning Dove 5. (Gila) Woodpecker 6. (Great Horned) Owl*
7. (Tree) Swallow 8. (Cooper's) Hawk 9. Crow 10. Robin
Birds figure widely in traditional music and folksongs throughout the world. This 34th issue of I and the Bird invites you to an international hootenanny** at Tortoise Trail, in Tucson, Arizona, as birders from around the world sing their joyous songs. This is a multi-media production! See the beautiful photos our singers have brought us while you listen to them sing. Come on in, join the fun, and - in hootenanny tradition - sing along with us!
Duncan of Ben Cruachan Blog sings us "A tale of two trips," treating us to the bird treasures, including Freckled Ducks, that he found and photographed on each.
Snail of A Snail's Eye View lives in Melbourne, Victoria. Snail's song gives us the sight and sound of King Cracticus, the Black Butcherbird, a tropical species, restricted to rainforests of Far North Queensland, the Northern Territory and New Guinea.
Trevor, of Trevor's Birding, who hails from Murray Bridge, South Australia says of his song, Great Birding Moments #3 - The Mistletoebird, "Mistletoebirds are regular - almost daily visitors to our garden here in South Australia. Their cheerful calls and bright colours are enough to lighten any day."
Accompaniment: Traditional Australian bush music instruments: lagerphone (or Murrimbidgee River Rattler)***, bush bass, didjeridu, and clapsticks.FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM AND NORTHERN IRELAND
- Save the Ribble!'s band members are Riversider, Reigh Belisima, Atlantic Salmon, and Allotment Plotter. Their work is dedicated to preserving the beauty of the River Ribble, which flows through Lancashire and Yorkshire. Their exciting new song: New Ribble RSPB Reserve takes a mighty leap forward! is a mighty piece, accompanied by fine photographs, announcing that work can now begin on their new wetland nature reserve. Accompaniment: Lute, hurdy-gurdy, psaltery, Northumbrian small-pipes.
- A resident of Sheffield, Roger takes us to the southwest corner of England, where he sings "Choughed to be back in Cornwall." This roundelay tells of his delight in sighting a bird once thought to be extinct in Cornwall. Accompaniment: Traditional Cornish instruments - bagpipes and fiddles.
- Charlie of Charlie's Bird Blog lives in Chippenham, Wiltshire. His airline job takes him all over the world - he doesn't get much sleep, but he gets fantastic opportunities for birding. This month Charlie sings of Africa: Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens, Cape Town in a wonderfully illustrated work. Accompaniment: African strings, flutes, drums, marimbas, gourds and horn trumpets.
- Peregrine Craig Nash of Peregrine's Bird Blog hails from Strangford, Northern Ireland. Sing along with him as he regales us with the ballad of Migration Birding in Donegal where he met Ian Wallace of "Beguiled by Birds" fame. His band accompanies him on Uillean pipes, tin whistles and flutes, bodhrans and bones.
- From New York State, Mike of 10000 Birds keeps us singing and dancing as he describes surprises at Happy Hawk Day 2006 at the Lenoir Nature Preserve in Westchester County. Mike's band joins him on mandolin, fiddle, guitar and bass.
- greenmantim of Walking the Berkshires, who flew from Massachusetts, sings us a wondrous ballad, The Casual Twitcher: How I Came to Love Birds, surprisingly set far from home, as you might guess from the accompanying instruments: strings, flutes, drums, marimbas, gourds and horn trumpets.
- Lillian Stokes of Stokes Birding Blog from New Hampshire is an expert tunesmith. Her tune, Freedom: Broad-winged Hawk, heralds a Broad-winged Hawk experiencing its first taste of freedom. She sings against the background of harp-zither, dulcimer, guitar, bass.
- laurahinnj, of Somewhere in NJ, presents a lilting mystery song, Bird Quiz! As she raises her sweet voice a capella, try to guess the identity of the birds she's presenting.
- Also from New Jersey is Patrick of The Hawk Owl's Nest. Patrick thrills us with A Brief Look at a Harris's Sparrow, an unexpected encounter on his way to Sandy Hook, where both he and laurahinnj volunteer.
- The Ridger, keeper of The Greenbelt, brings us her song, Birds and Others, from Maryland. "I've moved to a new office building with a nice little park to walk through, and this week I've been seeing some of my favorite back-home birds coming in for the winter."
- AÖrstan of Snail's Tales just flew in from Maryland, too. He has an exciting tale to sing: Thursday Afternoon in the Park when he encountered a wonderful surprise on a park bench.
- From the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, robin andrea of Dharma Bums, fingers flying on her concertina, sings a delightful sea song, The Birds on the Bay, as she wonders "Which birds stay through the winter in your neck of the woods?"
- My own voice is pretty rusty these days, so I've asked my mariachi friends to create a norteño about the juvenile Cooper's Hawk that visited our backyard in mid-September. They play on violins, vihuelas, and guitars.
NEXT IATB #35. Don't forget to tune in on October 26, when Dan of Migration will be hosting IATB #35. Email your posts to him at daniel-dot-rhoads AT gmail-dot-com or to Mike of 10000 Birds at mike AT 10000birds-dot-com. Deadline for submissions is Tuesday, October 24.
Before we head for home, join us in singing The Birds, a New England tribute to our feathered (and one leather-winged) friends based on an early English song. (There's a portrait of each of the principal birds in this song on our IATB Hootenanny poster.) If you don't know remember the tune, listen to this midi file for a quick reminder.
from Songs from the Hills of Vermont, 1919
Hi! says the blackbird, sitting on a chair,
Once I courted a lady fair;
She proved fickle and turned her back,
And ever since then I'm dressed in black.
Hi! says the blue-jay as she flew,
If I was a young man I'd have two;
If one proved fickle and chanced for to go,
I'd have a new string to my bow.
Hi! says the little leather winged bat,
I will tell you the reason that,
The reason that I fly in the night
Is because I lost my heart's delight.
Hi! says the little mourning dove,
I'll tell you how to gain her love;
Court her night and court her day,
Never give her time to say "0 nay."
Hi! said the woodpecker sitting on a fence,
Once I courted a handsome wench;
She proved fickle and from me fled,
And ever since then my head's been red.
Hi! says the owl with my eyes so big,
If I had a hen I'd feed like a pig;
But here I sit on a frozen stake,
Which causes my poor heart to ache.
Hi! says the swallow, sitting in a barn,
Courting, I think, is no harm.
I pick my wings and sit up straight
And hope every young man will choose him a mate.
Hi! says the hawk unto the crow,
If you ain't black then I don't know.
Ever since old Adam was born,
You've been accused of stealing corn.
Hi! says the crow unto the hawk,
I understand your great, big talk;
You'd like to pounce and catch a hen,
But I hope the farmer will shoot you then.
Hi! says the robin, with a little squirm,
I wish I had a great, big worm;
I would fly away into my nest;
I have a wife I think is the best.
* Many thanks to t.beth of Firefly Forest for the use of her Great Horned Owl photo.
** Hootenanny, n. 1. An informal social gathering or concert featuring mostly folk songs, sometimes dancing, and where the audience often participates in the singing. 2. A gathering of folk musicians wherein each person gets an allotted amount of time in which to share songs they wrote.
*** For those of us in the northern hemisphere who might not know this instrument, the lagerphone is an upright pole with two crosspieces upon which are screwed beer bottle tops. The noise is made by hitting the instrument on the floor, at the same time striking the middle section with a solid piece of wood.


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The goal is to make it easy to
Before we take a look at the guide syntax itself, it's helpful to know how
guide XML is transformed into web-ready HTML. To do this, we use a special
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# cd gentoo-web/xsl # xsltproc guide-main.xsl ../xml/install.xml > /tmp/install.html
If all went well, you should have a web-ready version of
Now that you know how to transform guide XML, you're ready to start learning the guide XML syntax. We'll start with the the initial tags used in a guide XML document:
<?xml version='1.0'?> <guide> <title>Gentoo Linux Documentation Guide</title> <author title="Chief Architect"><mail link="email@example.com"> Daniel Robbins</mail> </author> <author title="Editor"><mail link="firstname.lastname@example.com"> Thomas Flavel</mail> </author> <abstract>This guide shows you how to compose web documentation using our new lightweight Gentoo guide XML syntax. This syntax is the official format for Gentoo Linux web documentation, and this document itself was created using guide XML. </abstract> <version>1.0</version> <date>29 Mar 2001</date>
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 This is a paragraph. <path>/etc/passwd</path> is a file. <uri>http://www.gentoo.org</uri> is my favorite website. Type <c>ls</c> if you feel like it. I <e>really</e> want to go to sleep now.

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We introduced a lot of new tags in the previous section -- here's what you
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We've taken a look at the
Here's how to insert a figure into a document --
Guide supports a simplified table syntax similar to that of HTML. To start
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To create ordered or unordered lists, simply use the HTML-style
Guide makes it really easy to reference other parts of the document using
hyperlinks. You can create a link pointing to
Guide has been specially designed to be "lean and mean" so that developers
can spend more time writing documentation and less time learning the actual XML
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And, the new Girl Land collection from Websters! I have a couple of projects to share with you over the next few days...including this coupon book I made as a Mother's Day gift. I used the papers from the Girl Land collection to whip it up...easy to make and a special, meaningful gift.
I created a traditional matchbook album...but gave it a twist...a cutout window! It adds some cool dimension and presents a surprise when the book is opened.
This is what it looks like opened...see the cutout and how the yellow circle is popped up and through a bit!
The intro card let's Nana know what this album is all about!
I cut one of the sheets of paper into these awesome square motifs and put coupons on the back.
I purposefully chose motifs that matched meaningful traditions or moments. Like this one:
For instructions on how to make this book, head over to the Creating Keepsakes Blog. It is featured there as a part of the Girl Land celebration!
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The William Blake Archive is pleased to announce the publication of the electronic edition of America a Prophecy copy M. One of 14 extant copies, and one of only four that are colored, copy M was printed c. 1807. Now in the Yale Center for British Art, it joins copies A, E, and O in the Archive and will be joined by copies F and H in the near future.
America is dated 1793 on its title plate, and the first ten copies were printed that year followed in 1795 by two more copies. Copies E (1793) and A (1795) are from these two printing sessions. Copy O was the last to be printed, c. 1818. With the addition of copy M, the printing history of America is fully represented in the Archive.
Copy M, however, is an oddity, for it was uniquely printed with no other works during a period when Blake appears to have been generally inactive in the printing of his illuminated books. It is the only illuminated book printed on Hayes & Wise 1799 paper and with most of its plates printed in blue ink. It appears to have been printed while Blake was proofing various plates from the first two chapters of Jerusalem, some of which are also in blue ink. A few of these proofs will enter the Archive in the near future.
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