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Avenging Force (1986)/
Every Friday we recommend a movie for you to watch over the weekend. Hopefully something you've never seen, always something good.
Going to the theaters in 2014 is disgusting. Secret government agents, spies and lethal assassins. All that sounds cool in theory but the reality is BORING. I love a secret agent as much as the next guy but what does Jason Bourne have to lose? What pain does Liam Neeson really feel? Lets travel back to the 80's where the enemy really hit you were it hurts, where a cops family could be slaughtered, a soldiers sister might get raped, and who knows? Even our hero could die…
Matt Hunter, a former Military Intelligence agent, is assigned as a body guard to his best friend, Larry Richards, who is running for Senate. In a political assassination gone wrong Larry's little boy is murdered. When Matt and Larry investigate the murder they stumble onto a secret organization called Pentangle who murder for fun. Unfortunately Pentangle is one step ahead of them at every turn. This is one SEXY movie. When the fighting gets rough, the guys take their shirts off, when the fighting gets deadly they fight in the rain. Seriously. Half the movie is dudes soaking wet kicking each other in the dicks! This is some serious meat on meat action. 80's STYLE. No flashy montages or theme songs for Avenging Force, just kicking ass and killing people. The theme of 80's action movies that I love so much is surprisingly FAMILY (I know, right?). What I love about AF is the relationship between Matt Hunter and his little sister is a good 20 minutes of the film. We spend two or three scenes seeing how great of a father Larry is! The family aspect makes the slaughter SO much more painful. When Liam Neeson's daughter is kidnapped it's scary and intense. When Larry Richards wife gets a crossbow through her heart it's PAINFUL and SCARY. The movie moves from dope to REAL DOPE real fast. Despite being undercover government agents, one of the best parts about Matt Hunter is he drives around in an AWESOME monster truck!
(Cowboy Gangsta Matt Hunter)The damn thing even FLYS!
(If only it had lasers!)The PENTANGLE is totally awesome for a number of reasons (yes, not just the awesome clown ninja!) but the most brutal is how insanely racist they are! Nothing makes a villain better than being over the top racist (except for an over the top racist that talks to kittens that is). I don't know how these actors even repeat this shit out loud! [flv:http://facemeltingfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/afclipracist.flv 640 470]
("Hitler was RIGHT!")Avenging Force was originally the sequel to Invasion USA and was supposed to star Chuck Norris. Norris ended up being tied in with other Cannon films and to our luck did not star. Instead we got the totally awesome and awkward Michael Dudikoff. Dudikoff is the OG American Ninja (same director) and was one of the main two from Radioactive Dreams!!! While not the best actor ever he's got the look (damn sexy) and pushes it to the limit. This was also my first film by Sam Firstenberg which is a shame. If you haven't seen a Firstenberg film it's time to step up, his filmography is stunningly impressive: Revenge of the Ninja, Ninja III: The Domination, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, American Ninja 1 and 2, Delta Force 3: The Killing Game, American Samurai, Cyborg Cop 1 and 2, Blood Warriors, the list goes on! Expect Firstenberg to be a main director for Facemelting Films in the future! [flv:http://facemeltingfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/afcliptree.flv 640 470]
(The tree elf is here to kill you!)If you aren't ready for drawn out kung fu scenes, psychotic clown ninjas and some heart felt family love, Avenging Force might not be for you. This is a versatile film, you can get drunk with friends and love AF through the weed smoke or you can throw the VHS on at 1:30am and love it. The action is fun and the villains are EVIL. Order that pizza, roll that joint and embrace the art of one of the finest action directors of the 1980s.
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(My favorite scene: Watching this little kid fall off the roof!)
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Xtra Mile Recordings labelmates and tour buddies Skinny Lister and Beans On Toast have written and recorded a festive ditty called 'This Christmas', released on 20 November 2015. Money raised from sales will go to homeless charity Shelter.
You can buy the single on iTunes or get it from our digital shop. You can also support Shelter's emergency Christmas appeal. Please visit www.shelter.org.uk or text SHELTER to 70060 to donate £3.
While touring the US with Frank Turner, the riotous rum-soaked troupe and the ragged-throated troubadour bonded leading to this inevitable collaboration. 'This Christmas' is crammed full of poignant, bittersweet, funny but ultimately uplifting anecdotes of seeing family and friends at Christmas. The song boasts pounding drums, sleigh bells and decorative accordion while Jay Beans and Lorna from Skinny Lister duet around lines that are stuffed with turkey, presents and undeniable sentiments: "I love you, I miss you and I can't wait to see you and forget about all that other business".
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"'This Christmas' wraps up all our memories of Christmas into a neat four minute song to be delivered as a gift to our friends and followers this Christmas. It's got family, nostalgia and festive cheer in abundance! Written and recorded on our recent tour across America, the Santa hats were crucial in providing that extra little bit of seasonal magic in the studio! We're giving all the proceeds to Shelter, the amazing charity taking care of those without a home. Everybody deserves something nice at Christmas right?"
Skinny Lister are supporting Frank Turner once again on his UK tour throughout November while Beans On Toast headlines his own tour throughout November and December. Full dates can be found on our gig calendar. Their dates are also on their websites www.skinnylister.com and www.beansontoastmusic.com.
Skinny Lister's recent album Down On Deptford Broadway was released in April of this year garnering rave reviews across the board, with Q Magazine roaring "three cheers for a band who give pub rock a good name", while the Evening Standard declared "it's harder to imagine anything more mischievous". Beans On Toast releases his seventh studio album Rolling Up The Hill on 1 December which has been described by Rocksound as "quite possibly his most accessible and immediate album to date."
The money raised will support Shelter's Christmas campaign. In Britain, 100,000 children will wake up homeless this Christmas morning. You won't see these children on the streets. Rather, they'll be hidden away in temporary accommodation – including cold, cramped B&Bs and hostels that are damaging to their health. Their suffering risks being forgotten.
To support Shelter's emergency Christmas appeal please visit www.shelter.org.uk or text SHELTER to 70060 to donate £3.
Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness – and campaign to prevent it in the first place. Shelter is here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.
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Michaela Fisher on Her Cooperative World Tour
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Michaela Fisher talks with Matt Cropp, Emi Do, Matt Noyes and Josh Davis about her Watson Fellowship year, which she spent traveling in Europe, East Asia, and South and North America, visiting worker cooperatives and Social & Solidarity Economy enterprises.
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You find a job in a part of town you knew nothing about growing up.
While at said job people get to know you and find out you live around the corner.
Said people reference your home as "so and so's old house"
You don't know so and so... until a high school friendship is rekindled as she moves around the corner.
The so and so's become high schools friends, neighbors aunt and uncle.
Follow that??
Anywho thanks to the power of facebook you are offered the incredible and rare opportunity to connect with the so and so's and email back and forth.
Through your back yard new fence nightmare you find one of their childrens precious stepping stones accidentally left behind when they moved.
I am so excited to be able to message the wife of this couple and get her to fill in the blanks for me on our home we knew nothing about.
The people who bought from them were who got foreclosed on.
After several emails back and forth and her answering some questions for me she sent some pictures she took just before they listed their house on the market.
Enjoy seeing how it has changed in 8 years.
The bank made a LOT of changes between them and before we purchased. I kinda wish the kitchen was how it was when she had it.
Oh well.... to be renovated eventually!
This is the picture she sent me, i commented with the changes that have occurred since then.
Sorry its dark. but the kitchen dining area became our home office.
disregard the suitcase. haha
not sure who did what here but i LOVE her cabinet doors.
I dont have these pretty doors. mine are plain with an AWEFUL paint job to them!
and the cooktop and oven?? jealous!! this cheap thing I have doesnt cook evenly!!
And i hate my countertops, time to stop complaining.... there are people around the world starving and I complain about my faux granite countertops!
What am I the most jealous of??? she didnt have these HORRIBLE spanish tiles in her backsplash. one day I will get mad enough and just take a hammer to em!!
final share for this post...
remember my question about the random pole in the middle of the very back yard??
She answered it!
That was the side to the ladder for their above ground pool.
better picture from the spring when we added the flower beds.
Wait til this spring when we FINALLY landscape and put up a privacy fence!!!
I will probably cry because I will be so excited about the dogs not being about to run off!!!
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What is The Best Ecommerce Solutions Provider for SEO
Wondering what is the best or most suitable e-commerce solutions provider for SEO? Read this article and find out everything you need to know!
Choosing between Squarespace, Weebly or Wix will have absolutely no material impact on your SEO strategies. Yes, it is true that there are some technical SEO features that a website builder should offer, however, most website builders and e-commerce solutions already cover these features.
We have listed some of the most important SEO features you need to look for in a website builder. You should think of them as crucial and the minimum you need to get Google and other search engines to notice you and your site. You will also need quality content and links to outperform your rivals.
- Mobile-friendly templates – Google had two essential indexes – desktop and mobile. The first index or the desktop index served to desktop users only while the mobile index served to all mobile users. However, this has changed. From this year or 2018, the mobile index was being rolled out which means that from now on, the mobile index is the primary index. In other words, how your website works on mobile will strongly impact your desktop website ranks. It is super important that your ecommerce solutions provider offers mobile-friendly templates.
- Customizable titles, meta titles & descriptions – Every page has its own title, meta title, and description. Almost all website builders and ecommerce solution providers allow you to customize your meta title, as well as, description, however, because it is so important, you should make sure that is easy for you to do. Avoid complications as that will only confuse you and your visitors.
- The importance of SSL certificate – The SSL certificate gives your website a secure icon in the search browser. Google already announced the SSL certificate as a ranking signal and when Google announces that something is a ranking signal, it is necessary and recommendable to implement it. Aside from your SEO strategy, the SSlLcertificate is a good practice for all new websites and an important element for all ecommerce websites. Usually, most ecommerce solutions providers include SSL in premium plans, however, there are some who offer it for free, so it is a good idea to check exactly what they offer before you decide to use a certain website builder.
- Performance – Google says that website speed is a signal they use to rank pages and websites. The website builders or ecommerce solutions providers usually handle millions of websites and they tend to have the system necessary to have your site optimized for an ultimate performance – especially the most popular website builders such as ecommerce solution Shopify, Squarespace, Weebly, Wix, and others. They host millions of websites. If you want to check your website performance, you can use the two best tools – WebPageTest.org and Google Page Speed Insights.
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There's nothing like starting your project with an original un-molested car. Rich just completed a 10-year build transforming the stocker into a stoke hot rod filled with a dependable 350/700R4 combination, leather interior, and wood-grained dash. The immaculate body was bathed in Washington Blue while IFS keeps the ride smooth spinning a set of artillery-styled wheels to rack up the miles.


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"A quick read that provides rare insights into the White House offering unique views of the executive mansion from the perspective of the long serving staff that cares for the residence and the first family. This book covers a span from the Kennedy to the Obama administrations. While it provides limited insight into the private details and personalities of the various first families, it focuses mostly on the efforts and dedication of the staff to care for and protect the Presidents and their families. A great read! Definitely recommend!"
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"A fascinating topic - WWII and the LochNess Monster. Maddie is such a loving girl; growing up in privilege but lacking a loving mother and father. She seeks a male who makes her believe she is everything to him. Off to Scotland to film the LochNess Monster - only to find she may be living with the true monster in her life! 3 STARS - Wonderful Writing!"
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Why? Well the newest statistics about new HIV/AIDS infections in the US are alarming! After decades of prevention work it seems that awareness of HIV/AIDS hasn't established desirable results among the younger generation. Otherwise it is hardly explainable why nowadays 25% of the newly infected people are between 13 and 24 years old and why 60% of the infected youngsters don't even know they are infected with the HIV virus. HIV is not curable, but the sooner you know your status, the higher the chance of living a good life, even with HIV. Not knowing your status means no therapy, a higher chance to develop full blown AIDS and no medication.Other heavily affected groups are the male gay community and minorities like Hispanics and African Americans, especially in urban areas like NYC, Miami, New Orleans and Washington. Thankfully President Obama recognised this huge problem and initiated the National AIDS Strategy. We wish him the best to help stop the spread of HIV/AIDS!http://www.jsonline.com/features/health/hiv28-o57qobs-181100271.html
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As part of the Complementary Curriculum you will gain valuable insights from Professor Brian Barwick who has vast experience of broadcasting from his time as Head of Television Sport at the BBC and at ITV, where he created the ITV2 channel and negotiated the rights for ITV to televise sporting events including the Olympics and the world cup. Professor Barwick, Chairman of the UCFB Advisory Board, will also share his experiences as Chairman of the Rugby Football League and Super League and former Chief Executive of the Football Association.
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Applicants should have a strong GCSE profile, including English at Grade C, or equivalent and Maths at Grade C (specifically for Football Business & Finance, Sports Business & Sports Law and Sports Business & Psychology).
Other qualifications, including overseas, may be considered. Applicants for whom English is a second language should have achieved IELTS 6 or equivalent for entry into Level 4.
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In a turtle shell - and on the evidence of an extended multiplayer training session - the mustachioed mascot's soccer sequel runs pretty close in line with GameCube's Super Mario Strikers, but takes advantage of the kinetically-enhanced remote by throwing some shaky bits into the kit bag.
After selecting a team captain from one of Mushroom Kingdom's famous faces (Mario, Bowser, Peach etc) and picking your squad (made up of Boos, Toadies, Koopas and the like) and style of play, it's on to the crazy stadium of your choice for kick-off.
On-the-pitch action is as unlike real soccer as you'd expect, having received the Nintendo treatment. Power-ups are a vital part of play, captains have hefty mega-strike shots in their arsenal and the pitches themselves present their own hazards, such as electric fences around the perimeter and sheer drops that any player can suddenly find themselves careening down.


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Rather quietly over the past several years, Europe has seen a blossoming of new museums devoted to a subject that would send American curators ducking for cover. From Barcelona to Copenhagen, museums devoted to the history and subcultures of human sexuality have enshrined everything from ancient fertility icons to contemporary sex toys. Some are becoming major tourist attractions.
In booming Berlin, the Beate Uhse Erotik-Museum attracts a quarter of a million visitors annually and ranks among the city's top five museums by attendance.
Berlin's Erotic Museum is the idea of Beate Uhse, the septuagenarian whose name has been a household word in Germany since the 1950s. It was then that Uhse opened the world's first shop devoted to "marital hygiene," ultimately championing the right to sell contraceptives. Today she heads what her publicity materials say is the world's largest sex-related merchandising business, an empire that includes a mail-order division, video and publishing sections, retail stores and, since 1996, a museum devoted to the art and history of sex.
The collection of more than 5,000 artifacts from around the world tends toward the classical, with a lot of Asian and Indian erotic miniatures mixed in with carved phalli from Bali, African fertility masks, 2,000-year-old Peruvian drinking vessels, and plenty of more recent expressions related to human sexuality. The objects are interpreted in German, English and French.
Aside from the garish retail shop, the museum has a quiet, comfortable feel. The only mood-jarring elements are the occasional life-size dioramas meant to explain certain topics--fetishism, masochism, sadism--in visual form.
An impressive Asian section includes fine examples of Japanese shunga art, with its outsize genitalia, by Utamaro, Harunobu and others. Also noteworthy are the Chinese "Wedding Tiles"--18th- and 19th-century paintings on silk that had a sex education role.
Among temporary exhibits, which change regularly, the museum recently closed a show of works of major Weimar-era artists. In the 1920s, Berlin flourished as one of the most avant-garde cities in Europe, and the work of these artists clearly conveys an intense, even visceral sexual energy. These days, Berlin is as hip as ever, and the Beate Uhse Erotik-Museum is a testimony to the city's enormous range of cultural attractions.
The Beate Uhse Erotik-Museum is at Kantstrasse and Joachimstallerstrasse (Charlottenburg) near the Zoo train station. Open 9 a.m. to midnight. Admission: $5.50. Visitors must be over 18.
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Strap yourself in for a tour de force journey through a range of esoteric topics, with the idea of sacred landscapes as the starting point. From there Paul brings his encyclopedia of a brain to bear on topics as wide-ranging as Glastonbury, the Aztecs, the Maya, the Toltecs, Quetzalcoatl, leylines, the Cygnus Mystery, UFO abductions, David Icke, William Blake, Jeffrey Russell, Stonehenge, the Arthurian mythos, John Michell, crop circles, Phoenicians, Venice, Syria, the Druids, stone chambers, pre-Columbian colonies in America, the Sinclair family and Roslyn Chapel, the Giza necropolis, and much, much more.
Believe me, this is one that you're going to want to listen to a few times and take notes.
I'd also like to put out a call to musicians working in the ambient/trance/drone genres: I'd really like future installments of the Mystery Hour to have a musical backdrop (I included a bit of an old improvisation at the beginning to set the mood) so if you'd like to contribute music to the cause, please let me know. I'd prefer music without beats or vocals, so as to not compete with the discussion.


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Florida State University
FSU coach Jimbo Fisher pleased with team's progress
With a week of practice and a full team scrimmage in the books, coach Jimbo Fisher can see his team's identity beginning to take shape.
Fisher left Tuesday's scrimmage at Doak Campbell Stadium satisfied with the offense and defense and said that each succeeded a few times at the other's expense.
"For a first scrimmage, I'm pretty pleased with where we're at," Fisher said. "We've got a lot of work to do, but I'm not disappointed at all, knowing where we're going and [starting] to visualize our team a little bit."
With starting cornerbacks P.J. Williams and Ronald Darby sidelined by hamstring injuries, the reserve defensive backs got a healthy dose of work.
That includes youngsters such as Marquez White and freshman Trey Marshall, who have garnered steady praise from Fisher recently. He said their ability to get first- and second-team reps when they can is "critical."
"You walk out here in the stadium for the first time and [to] really be counted upon for the 1s, hey, you get those butterflies," Fisher said. "It's fun. You say, 'OK, this is for real.'
"But you've got to go through it. It's a learning process and I'm very happy they were able to do it."
• Freshman linebackerJacob Pugh
sat of the scrimmage and wore a neck brace on the sideline. Fisher said he "got dinged" in the neck and that Pugh would have an X-ray to determine the extent of the injury.
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Lance Nutter has played basketball since high school. Junior year his team went to the state playoffs in Alaska. In college, he was on the B league basketball team at the University of Alaska Juneau. This team won the championship with Lance averaging 22 points per game. Since then he has been on several league basketball teams.
He coached Special Olympics basketball from 1991-1996 and worked in the Parks and Recreation department in other sports related duties in Fairbanks Alaska. He has been the coach for Canyonville Academy's girls' basketball team for 2 years.
"I love sports and competition and hopes to keep coaching for many more years. I love to see people learn and grow – mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually from learning a sport."


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This segment's Meet the Maker was written by our very own Keagan Perlette. You can find Keagan working the coffee bar at the cafe a few days a week, but outside of the cafe, she is a creative writing student and English Literature major at the University of British Columbia. Here, she lends her writing talents to this blog, and interviews Natalie Ferrari-Morton, the incredible maker behind East Van Jams. Her jams have been steadily gaining cult status amongst die-hard food-lovers here in Vancouver, and it is clear why. Read on to find out more about Natalie's story.
On one of the last beautiful mornings of the summer, we trek out to the suburban family home of Natalie Ferrari-Morton, the big boss behind preserve producer East Van Jam. Natalie comes out from behind the house towing a dolly that's almost as tall as she is and, upon seeing us out on her front stoop, hurries us through the front door. Natalie brings us into her warm sun-drenched kitchen - featuring some quirky, olive-green, geometric 70's tile flooring - to bake us some biscuits while we talk entrepreneurship, motherhood, and the crafting of jam.
"I think, in a lot of ways, I feel like I'm not worthy if I'm not really busy," she says, elbow deep in batter. And busy she is: Natalie is the sole employee of her booming jam business. It was a feeling of not being busy enough that was the catalyst for the inception of the company. After her second son was born, Natalie left a lucrative and stable career in the corporate signage industry and became a stay at home mom. "What really shocked me about becoming a mother was that there's this listlessness that comes with it, for me," she recalls. "[Motherhood is] rewarding and fulfilling but it doesn't fully fulfill me. I needed way more stimulus."
The story goes like this: "The actual jam product came into play [when] I befriended the woman who owned [the wool store] Baaad Anna's on Hastings," Natalie says. "I was struggling to figure out what the hell I was going to do next with my life, and she was like 'Well, what do you want?!' and I was like, 'I think we should teach people how to can.' We felt like there was a gap; we didn't feel like it was really out there as a course option, and it was also the right kind of thing that we could do outside of our mom life where we could offer it in the evenings and our husbands would be home with the kids." It was through teaching workshops that Natalie realized there was also a gap in the jam market that she could fill: everyone seemed to be interested in making delicious jams that had less sugar.
Natalie's mandate, More Love, Less Sugar, comes straight from her desire to care for herself and her family while still enjoying the fruits of her canning labors. Natalie was already making jam for her family, but the overwhelming yield from the two plum trees in her backyard pushed her over the edge and into entrepreneurship. She had the materials, so now she needed to build a brand. That's where the illustration talent of longtime friend Scott Bilstad came into the picture. "Part of the charm and the fun of it for me was coming up with the labels," she says. "What [Scott] would do is he'd come to our house and he'd draw these little characters and we wouldn't find them until two weeks later, he'd hide them around the house! And [then we thought], let's make them into people who can somehow represent these flavours."
The creation of each jam is an immersive creative process that seems to me more literary than culinary. "For every new character [there's a new flavour]," says Natalie. "Some of my recipes came before the names, but others happened because of the character that developed; like... Hopricot was 'Ok we have hops let's use them somehow.' So then it was just the word-mash rather than specifically wanting to go with apricots. The drawing, the name, everything, was done before I'd even tried the recipe! With Serene Nectarine, once I came up with the name Serene; she became loosely based on my old work mate from my old job who was always very much a mother figure to me, so I thought 'What is serene, what's calming?' and so that's how sage and lavender came in."
"Some of my recipes came before the names, but others happened because of the character that developed; like... Hopricot was 'Ok we have hops - let's use them somehow.' So then it was just the word-mash rather than specifically wanting to go with apricots. The drawing, the name, everything, was done before I'd even tried the recipe!"
- Natalie Ferrari - Morton
Natalie's son is due back to the house after only an hour of school this morning. Natalie seems grateful for the break. I ask her what it's like to run her own fast-growing business while raising two fast-growing kids: "It's challenging on a regular basis," she says, "I'm a bit torn because sometimes there are times when I think 'When my kids look back at these years in their lives, are they gonna just remember momma always working? Or are they gonna have some [sense] of value around the fact that I was building something, and is that going to translate into them knowing what hard work looks like? It's not magic all the time, but I hope it kind of gives them a sense of reality, that it's not all about summer camp and ice cream stores."
We've retreated to the backyard that grows so many of Natalie's ingredients (she gets the rest, of course, from local farmers). I feel very taken-care-of by Natalie; she is a woman who has her shit together (whether she would admit to it or not), bravely balancing motherhood with her personal identity and the goals that are close to her heart. As we slather her jams onto her fresh-from-the-oven biscuits, it is clear that she puts the same care and passion into each and every one of her delicious, homemade products.
You can find a variety of East Van Jams flavours currently stocked on our shelves.
Story: Keagan Perlette
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CBU STUDENT OR RECENT OR POTENTIAL GRADS – Accounting – Highland Landscapes
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Morgan Leigh Reeve – 8 ½ month old daughter of Andrew Reeve of Hornell and Jillian Nolan of Bath, was taken by Angels to be with Jesus in Heaven on Saturday afternoon (April 15, 2017) at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester where she bravely fought for life since her birth on July 19, 2016.
Although Morgan was only with us a short while, she was loved by all of her family, will live in our hearts and will never be forgotten.
Surviving are her father, Andrew (Angela Allen) Reeve of Hornell; her mother, Jillian Nolan of Bath; her twin sister, Marley Jade Reeve; her half-brother, Cyle Howell; 2 half-sisters, Elaina Westbrook and Braelyn Foster; paternal grandmother, Alberta Reeve of Hornell; maternal grandparents, Vern & Darleen Fassett of Alabama; several aunts & uncles.
There will be no calling hours. Private services will be held at the convenience of the family.
Funeral arrangements are entrusted to the Dagon Funeral Home, 38 Church St., Hornell, NY.


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rose perfume
Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave
She wore it during my medieval literature class – rose perfume.
I whispered to the girl next to me, "It smells like death in here."
Originally, I thought the scent belonged to the blonde sitting several seats away. It wasn't until later, during her office hours, that I realized it belonged to the professor.
Her rose perfume, the one earring that dangled from her left ear, her index finger air dancing in a rhythmic fashion as she recited a passage from Beowulf:
A CUP she gave him, with kindly greeting
and winsome words. Of wounden gold,
she offered, to honor him, arm-jewels twain,
corselet and rings, and of collars the noblest
that ever I knew the earth around.
Ne'er heard I so mighty, 'neath heaven's dome,
a hoard-gem of heroes, since Hama bore
to his bright-built burg the Brisings' necklace,
jewel and gem casket. — Jealousy fled he
I made the distinction that I didn't care for her kind of eccentricity – her choice of perfume. My perfume had base notes of sandalwood, cedar, vanilla, musk – a disguise of layers like plumes of rising smoke.
Hers was a single note, a strong penetrating scent that was obtrusive and lingered like a death march. She often changed the dangling earring but never the perfume.
It is the irony of our finicky nature. She would later become a reoccurring character in my life – a woman who appears in the back of mind more often than old lovers and friends. I felt sorry for her in youth's ego, thinking no man would ever marry such a woman who lived so closely to such archaic, dull writers as Chaucer and Kempe. The one earring was a cry for someone to save her; and the rose perfume was an intonation of her death.
Perhaps she was the possessed kind, leaving imprints for the vulnerable to follow. When I stepped out of the shower this morning, after applying moisturizer and brushing the gray strands to the side of my face, I reached for a sample bottle of perfume (since I am currently without signature scent).
It smelled of roses. And I loved it.


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Topic: The Family Reunion (06/05/08)
- TITLE: What 'Cha Fixin?
By Carolyn Cyphers
"Reunion time is coming! The third weekend in July is fast approaching. What are you going to fix? Where are you going to stay?"
We'd met there every year now for over seventy-five years. Our forebears had helped to build that church over two hundred years ago, so it seemed fitting to help the church build a nice picnic shelter on the grounds to accommodate not only our reunion, but several others held there each summer.
This special day commemorated a clan of Coxes that traced their lineage back to 1716 when Solomon Cox migrated to Delaware, was excommunicated from the Quaker Church, then moved and settled in southwest Virginia. Folks traveled over 3,000 miles to attend the event. With six aunts, along with their spouses and kids, Grandma's house would be spilling over! Some aunts lived in the area and graciously offered their homes for the out of towners, like my family.
Coming to grandma's on Saturday was paramount though, as we all chipped in to do the special chores particular to that weekend. Grandma would have raided the flower beds and shrubs on Friday and have buckets of flowers in water just waiting for eager hands. We older girls had the joy of creating beautiful baskets of cosmos, peonies, irises, old fashioned roses, mixed with Queen Anne's lace, black eyed Susans, and chicory from the roadside. After dinner we'd all pile into cars and gingerly hold our baskets, during our pilgrimage to the family cemetery down the lane. Grandma faithfully made decorating these special graves an important family ritual. There were Great Grandma and Grandpa Blairs', Grandma's sisters', the greats on Granddaddy's side, and my own dear Uncle Jim's graves to consider.
There will always be a very fond spot in my heart for that lovely, old cemetery. Each year, more and more of the old-timers who made the reunion special, who held leadership positions, who sacrificed time and resources to keep the reunion going had found their resting place there.
After the graveyard run we'd all disperse to various homes to visit and share in each others lives. Grandma always made an early night of it in preparation for the big day.
And then it was Sunday. Church services were shortened, but there'd be the old glorious hymns from the Cokesbury hymnal. The tunes wafted out the open windows to serenade the folks who traveled in just for the day. Homemade tables were straining against the weight of myriad salads, fried chicken, fresh cooked vegetables from prolific country gardens, and the most delectable desserts one could ever imagine. Once the grace was given and the food line began, the whole climate of the day was swallowed up in the unrelenting attitude of savoring the delightful dishes prepared by "the best dog-gone cooks of the county!" Uncle Gib would always declare, "heaven is missing its ambrosia today, because this is the food of the gods!"
At two o'clock the business meeting and necrology service drew folks back into the open church, and then it was over until next year. Our families would reconvene at grandma's to consume leftovers before returning to their respective homes.
Being an only child, I've always relied on the camaraderie of the scads of cousins and the support of favored aunts and uncles who would pile in at Grandma's on the third Sunday in July. But now grandma and grandpa are gone. I figured it'd turn out this way, for they had been the glue that held the family together. I'm the oldest cousin, daughter of the oldest sister. Mom embraces that same old fashioned responsibility to be there at the reunion come what may, to support the few who continue to go. Gone are so many patriarchs. Gone are the great cooks. Now fast food boxes litter the tables. Mostly there are just a faded few who show up, trying to reignite the flame. It saddens me that folks are too busy to take time to look back, reminisce, and uphold the values of family heritage that used to mean so much. My cousins are really spread out now living in various states across the country with their families and I'm sure they treasure the golden memories of a bygone time. You certainly can't relive the past, but as memories fade and attitudes change I'm not so sure that people are better for their many losses due to the demise of the traditional family reunion.
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'The Sessions'
I guess I was expecting something a little more profound. The Sessions is the story of Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes), a severely disabled middle-aged man kept alive by an iron lung who hires a a professional sex surrogate to make a man out of him. Helen Hunt, who seems to rocket back in to Oscar contention every couple of years after you almost forget she exists, plays the surrrogate, Cheryl.
Hunt's performance earned her a Best Supporting Actress nod at this year's Academy Awards, and it seems like she may have a good chance of winning. This is the first bit of hype that I just didn't quite understand about this film. To me, there was little about her performance that stood out as award-worthy, except for a pretty ragged New England accent that veers into Razzie territory. Hunt played a character she has many times -- the ADULT WOMAN who cajoles the best out of an emotionally stunted male -- and did little to distinguish herself in that role.
The second bit of hype was the notion that this was somehow a deeper and more honest examination of human sexuality than has been seen many times. The Sessions did not pass muster in this regard, either, though I'm not sure any film which the MPAA gave a non-NC-17 rating to would actually be capable of fitting the bill. Much is made of O'Brien's Catholicism in the film; his religion is a major hurdle to clear before he ever even meets with Cheryl, and his humorous relationship with Father Brendan (William H. Macy) is nearly as important as his connection with Cheryl. There is even a Holy Trinity of women.
In this sense, The Sessions is more about the awkward relationship we have with religion -- how it informs so much of what we do -- than it is about sexual behavior. In taking this turn, it becomes much less daring and trailblazing, though not significantly less enjoyable.


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Irrigated Cropping Field Day
Peter Shotton, Systems Officer, Douglas Daly Research Farm
The economics of irrigated cropping on the Douglas Daly was the major discussion topic at the Irrigated Cropping Field Day held at the Douglas Daly Research Farm on 27 July.
Kate Peake, Regional Development Australia NT (RDA), has led a project looking at the economics of developing broad acre cropping in the Douglas Daly region.
Ian Baker, Ag Consultant, says there are many advantages in developing cropping in the Douglas Daly compared to other parts of northern Australia. Douglas Daly has farmers with freehold tenure, good soils and water, good infrastructure, good research and development support from government and good equity, who know their land.
The question is: why hasn't cropping development occurred? The current successful agricultural system in the Douglas Daly region is rain fed hay, cattle, forestry and horticulture. How can broad acre cropping develop? Markets for broad acre grain crops are large if we can show the economics are right.
Douglas Daly is unique in that there are established farmers that can add an irrigation cropping system to their existing business, thus spreading their risk through diversification.
The key parts of the RDA economic study are:
- The estimated cost of capital for establishing an irrigation system ranges from $11,000/ha for an existing farm that has some infrastructure but requires more such as bores, pivots, fencing and some plant and equipment needed for the crops, up to $28,000/ha for a greenfield site where initial tree clearing is required
- The annual net return needed to pay for the capital cost is around $2,000-$2,500/ha/year for an acceptable return on investment over 15 years
- The study selected broad acre crops and cropping systems that could produce the required revenue to generate the net return needed for the farmer to make a profit. This requires a multiple crop system (with multiple commodities such as grain and hay) as no single crop would be able to pay for the development costs of an irrigation system. In order to achieve this, a two or three crops per year system such as peanuts, aromatic rice and mung bean is needed to generate enough income to pay for the capital expenditure
- The technical gaps that need to be sorted include looking at the cropping system rather than a single crop so that multiple crops can be grown in a year without reducing yields or reducing soil quality.
The Peanut Company of Australia (PCA) and NT Department of Primary Industry and Resources (DPIR) joint trial of peanuts was viewed by participants and the agronomics and economics of the trial discussed. Peter Shotton, DPIR, explained that the three varieties trialled (Holt, Page and Kairi) were crops of potential but there was a need to get the economics right as well as implementing the peanut crop within a long term cropping rotation utilising follow-up crops that will benefit the soil as well as the next crops to be grown.
The challenge faced with growing an irrigated peanut crop is keeping a constant eye on pest and disease and to treat any outbreaks when they occur. Following a preventative spray routine with fungicide will keep on top of any fungal outbreaks. Another challenge is having the specialised equipment needed to harvest a peanut crop.
(above) Peanut planting at Douglas Daly Research Farm
Lionel Wieck, PCA, viewed the crop and estimated the nut in shell yield was between 4–4.5 t/ha with a potential hay yield from the baled tops of around 2–3.5 t/ha. A peanut crop could be grown as a part of an irrigation cropping system whereby the peanut tops after the nuts are harvested can be used in two ways, to add nutrition to the soil by ploughing in or by harvesting as hay to feed cattle. Farmers within the Douglas Daly need a crop to complement their current farming systems of cattle and/or hay cropping and PCA would like to see peanuts being one of those crops.
Callen Thomson and Ian Biggs gave an update of the research and development work DPIR has been doing and presented some results of the current trial crops being grown at Katherine Research Station.
Shenal Basnayake, CEO of NT Farmers, also gave an update of the organisation's activities.
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Monday, September 12
Coffee and Cookies with OU in Puebla and OU in Rio staff
South Oval
8:30-10:30 a.m.
OU in Puebla Information Session
Farzaneh Hall*, Room 142
3-4 p.m.
Samba Dance Lesson
Farzaneh Hall*, Room 142 and David L. Boren Lounge
5:30-6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, September 13
Pastries and Portuguese with Dr. Paulo Moreira
Farzaneh Hall, Room 145
10-11 a.m.
Snack Time with OU in Puebla and OU in Rio
Farzaneh Hall* Patio
2-4 p.m.
UPAEP Pre-Med Program Information Session
Farzaneh Hall*, Room 145
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Mexican Cooking Lesson - Salsa and Guacamole
Farzaneh Hall* Kitchen, Room 151
6-7:30 p.m.
Register by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com
Dance Lesson with the Latin Dance Club
Cost: $7 at the door
Henderson Tolson Cultural Center
7 p.m.
Wednesday, September 14
Chips and salsa with OU in Puebla and OU in Rio Student Ambassadors
11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Film Screening: "O Povo Brasileiro"
The Brazilian People and Q&A with Dr. Erika Robb Larkins and Dr. Paulo Moreira
Farzaneh Hall, Room 148
3-4:15 p.m.
Thursday, September 15
Donuts with the Directors
Farzaneh Hall*, Room 142
9:30-11 a.m.
Español and Enchiladas
Farzaneh Hall*, Room 145
12-1 p.m.
"Reconstructing an Image: Ciudad Juárez"
Join Luís Macías for a presentation on the changing image of the border city, Juárez.
Kaufman Hall, Room 230
2-3 p.m.
OU in Rio Information Session
Zarzaneh Hall*, Room 145
3-4 p.m.
Friday, September 16
Meet the OU in Puebla and OU in Rio Student Ambassadors
12-1:30 p.m.
Latin Americanist Lunch and Lecture
"Mexican Deep South: una reflexión sobre la frontera sur de México"
with Nadia Villafuerte. En español.
RSVP to firstname.lastname@example.com by Monday.
Farzaneh Hall, Room 145
12-1 p.m.
El Baile De La Cumbia
Join Jesús Ontiveros for a presentation on the cumbia genre and dance style.
Kaufmann Hall, Room 230
2-3 p.m.
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Who We Are
Aaron is an omni-gamer who enjoys playing something for the first time and is pleasantly surprised when he gets to play a game he enjoys ever again. His favorite games include Sentinels of the Multiverse, Colosseum, Twilight Imperium, Arcadia Quest, & Sleuth. He started this podcast because he enjoys talking to his friends about games. When not gaming or podcasting, he enjoys arguing with people, backpacking throughout the Appalachian mountains, and spending entirely too much money on food. His biggest fan (and the podcast's biggest benefactor) is his husband, Isaac.
Josh has been playing card games since his earliest memories and has gotten much more heavily involved with board games in the last 5 years. Self-categorized as a selective omni-gamer, his interests are generally dictated by his moods, and tend to shift from month to month. He is generally just as happy crawling through a dice-ridden dungeon, as he is lying to his friends whenever there's a hidden role involved, or feeling the elegant stress of card games that involve seemingly peaceful groves of trees, while possibly calculating some stock options in colonial Africa. He loves to travel and lived several years overseas in New Zealand, he loves the outdoors, nature, cooking, gardening, and can occasionally be spotted riding around the streets of Pittsburgh in his underwear on the last Thursday of the month. Josh lives with his partner Chris, who will generally indulge his love of games.
Jameson won't shut up about wargaming. He puts most of his hobby bandwidth into tabletop miniatures games like 30k, Frostgrave, and Dropfleet Commander. Nevertheless, he does play lots of board games, though he dislikes learning new ones and hates teaching even more. He prefers games that reward improvisation over long-term planning, and agnostic efficiency over system mastery (because he easily forgets things). His other habits involve zoos, audiobooks, and/or gin.
Mat is the ultimate Euro-gamer and will probably be found dead in a pile of wooden resource cubes. Other ways to get his attention are anything involving deduction or having to lie and cheat to his friends. Be warned, if you suggest he play Settler if Catan, you're going to be banned.
Matt is the ultimate "Ameritrash" gamer. He is always looking for games where he can fight the other players and cause as much drama as possible. When he is not plotting the best way to destroy another player's game you can find him playing his favorite game, Ticket to Ride. Outside of board games he spends the majority of his free time playing video games and listening to a ton Broadway musicals.


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I'm not complaining though (yet) because I LOVE this time of year.
Except that I live in Florida and I'm SO COLD when it is 61 degrees outside. (My darlings and I discussed how we shouldn't say "I am freezing" unless it is 32 degrees or lower.) I must have really thin blood.
It's time for November's Currently from Farley at Oh' Boy 4th Grade.
I use this CD mostly during Writing time. I have a darling this year who is really connected emotionally to music and he likes everything but Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. It made him really sad. Otherwise, my darlings call it "thinking music" and ask me to play it.
I'm off to see how much flour and butter I have. Count down to Turkey Day with the darlings: 7 days! Then it's break for a whole week! Yay!
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With summer here, and summer solstice here too... we are spending time outdoors in flip flops, shorts and cute bathings suits. Some of us joke about bathing suit shopping, while for some of us with teen body image issues, it is cringe-worthy and difficult. It may not be every day, but from time to time, we may have days when we doubt ourselves and do a double-take in the mirror. When we were younger, though, we thought nothing of heading to the pool in a bathing suit, so when and why did teen body image issues become so constant and negative? Is it the fault of media, or our changing bodies, or societal pressure? Why do we criticize ourselves and compare ourselves to others... and why do we listen to that voice in our heads, even when we know we shouldn't? We wanted to know if there was a way to squelch that voice and get back to our younger, more confident self, when we were always comfortable in our own skin, so we turned to Deborah Beck, our self-esteem expert:
"Your thighs are too fat, your breasts are too small/big, your stomach is too poochy, and you're way too short/tall/big/etc...." With these thoughts in our head from time to time, geez, it's amazing we go out in public at all! Why do we judge our bodies so harshly? Why do we listen to that little voice inside our heads that says the meanest things ever about our bodies? This voice is most active when we walk by a mirror or anything with a reflection, look at magazines, or try on clothes. Doesn't it make you want to run and hide from that voice? Why is our younger self so confident, yet our teen body image so skewed and impressionable?
The problem is that voice is yours. You bought into those negative thoughts and agreed with them 100%. You have the judgments inside you even though it seems like they are on the outside. If you didn't have the judgments inside you, the media wouldn't phase you. If you didn't have those judgments, your reflection in a mirror wouldn't upset you and you wouldn't even bring any attention to the way your thighs look when you sit down.
Let's look at how that voice makes you feel. If you are constantly being told what is wrong with your body, you will feel embarrassment, shame, unimportance, worthlessness, and even separateness. It would be pretty hard to be an empowered young woman if this is how you felt, right? I don't know anyone that would be okay with feeling this way. When we show up in the world and want to do big things, we have to be packed full of empowerment. Everything we do either empowers or disempowers us. Constant negative talk disempowers us.
Now let's look at how you can stop that voice dead in its tracks. First, separate it and act like the voice is its own person and not you. Then every time this person (voice) says something to you that is hurtful about your body, you disagree with it. "No, my legs are perfect just the way they are." If this voice is loud and obnoxious, you might have to say, "STOP! I'm not listening to you. My body is great."
No matter how often this voice speaks, you disagree with it and tell it "no," even if it is slamming you all day long. Our bodies are unique and beautiful in their own way, and not everyone has the same physical body. Love your body for what it is. Love your uniqueness, and celebrate what makes you... well, you! Embrace your physical you: your curves, embrace your height, embrace your thinness, embrace being petite.... physically you are who YOU are, and you should not be wishing to look like someone else!
How to love your body and overcome teen body image issues:
• Realize the judgments come from inside of you, not outside. • Disagree with that harsh voice and tell it that it is wrong (it may take practice). • Appreciate your body for all the good things it does for you, like play sports, run, walk, and carry you around all day. • Take care of yourself, eat healthy, exercise, get enough sleep, and pamper yourself. • Learn to love your body for its uniqueness. • Understand what makes you beautiful is what's on the inside, not the outside.
Keep Loving Yourself, Debra
Teen and parenting mentor Debra Beck, has spent over 20 years working with teens and parents, she is a devoted mother, sought-after presenter, and author. She has helped thousands of girls develop their self esteem. She now runs her popular parenting website, EmpoweredTeensandParents.com, she encourages girls to be the best "young women" possible, and gives moms and dads the understanding they need to help their girls mature with pride and confidence. Her award-winning book "My Feet Aren't Ugly: A Girl's Guide to Loving Herself from the Inside Out", has been revised and updated.


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David Bryan was born in New York City and grew up in large cities and small rural communities in New York and New Jersey. He attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook, (BA, Social Science Interdisciplinary, 1974), The University of California at Los Angeles, (MS, Kinesiology, 1978), and the State University of New York at Buffalo, (JD, Law, 1982; Ph.D., Communication, 1985.)
David's broad interests have led to several careers, including teaching law and communication theory at SUNY at Buffalo, teaching kinesiology at UCLA, kinesiological research at UCLA's Electromyography Lab, and private practice in kinesiology. In 1985, he began a private business in South Florida and what would become a three-year sailing exploration of other cultures that took him through the Caribbean islands.
In 1989, he moved to Los Angeles, where he taught briefly in the LA Unified public school district, and then for six years at Crossroads School for Arts & Science where he taught and served as the Dean of Human Development. In 1995, he became the President, founding Head of School, and a teacher at New Roads School, a position he held until July 2013. Under his leadership, New Roads grew from a small independent middle school in Santa Monica to include grades Kindergarten through 12 on four campuses in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, CA.
David currently lives in the Santa Cruz mountains with his wife, Shelly Graham, where he is writing, teaching, involving himself in local civic life, and looking for the next adventure.
Rebecca graduated from SJSU with honors in 1990 with a Major in Dance and a Minor in Musical Theater. She went on to perform in Summer Stock Theater while auditioning and studying dance, voice and acting in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. Throughout college and into her early 20s she taught dance to children and adults, including college students at the College of Notre Dame in Belmont, where she also choreographed musical theater productions.
Rebecca has always wanted individuals to "strive for excellence." She always sees the actual potential in others and wants them to succeed. She was advised by other dancers that she was "too nice for show business" and should become a therapist or teacher. Taking that advice, she became a full-time nanny and went back to school. After talking with many public school teachers and taking classes in child development and early childhood education, it became apparent that what teachers, children, and families needed most in schools was emotional support. She then attended John F Kennedy Graduate School of Professional Psychology from 1996-2001, graduating in 1999. While there she worked in the Graduate Psychology Office as an Administrative Assistant, Faculty Coordinator, and Administrative Director.
She also worked with children and families in the Cupertino School District (as a school therapist), the JFKU Cupertino Family Counseling Center, and Parent Center Watsonville. Professionally, Rebecca worked with Health Project Center's Del Mar Caregivers Resource Center as a Senior Family Consultant, a Supervising Senior Family Consultant and group and individual therapist from 2002-2007. Currently, she Home-Schools her daughter, while maintaining a small private practice helping families with grief and terminal illness issues.
Jennifer has 20 years experience on numerous educational boards including Parent Education Cooperative, Bradley Elementary School, and Temple Beth El Education committee. She has been a teacher and executive board member including Board President for Bradley Elementary Home and School Club and Vice President for Parent Education Cooperative School of Santa Cruz City Schools. She has been a fundraising chairperson for many schools and programs for students. She completed the Early Childhood Education Program at Cabrillo College in 1998 and has a lifelong commitment to creating quality educational programs for children of all ages. As a mother of three boys she has continually strived to be her children's best advocate for their education. Her energy is fully dedicated to making Pioneer a successful, innovative choice for the education of middle school students.
Bart has recently been consulting with entrepreneurs, existing businesses and organizations in the areas of strategy, corporate alignment, processes, software architecture, product design, user experience and assisting with outsourced development projects. Over the past several years, Bart has also been educating organizations on the use of Social Networking for marketing, brand building, and constituent management purposes.
Bart holds a degree in Communications with an emphasis on Human Information Processing from the University of California, San Diego and has been a frequent speaker at corporate and conference events, including keynotes, and has served as an industry expert on numerous discussion panels. In 2009, Bart was named as one of the all-time Top 100 Alumni to graduate from UCSD for his contributions in computer science and communications.


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School Curriculum
To see the plan for the school school, click here: Whole School Plan
For an overview of the learning oportunities planned for each year group for 2016-17, please click on the links below.
- Reception Long Term Overview
- Year 1 Long Term Overview
- Year 2 Long Term Overview
- Year 3 Long Term Overview
- Year 4 Long Term Overview
- Year 5 Long Term Overview
- Year 6 Long Term Overview
The Phonics Scheme we use is Letters and Sounds. Phonics at Vicarage Park.
The Reading Schemes we use are Oxford Reading Tree and Heinemann Story Worlds.
Reading in Early Years and Key Stage 1
For further details about our curriculum, please contact the school.
The 2014 Curriculum - A Guide for Parents
The National Curriculum in England has been in place since September 2014. The main aim for changing the curriculum is to raise standards further. Although the new curriculum is intended to be more challenging, the content is actually slimmer than the current curriculum, focusing on essential core subject knowledge and skills such as essay writing and computer programming.
The main changes.
The table below summarises the main changes in the core subjects.
|What's new?
|Stronger emphasis on vocabulary development, grammar, punctuation and spelling (for example, the use of commas and apostrophes will be taught in KS1)
Handwriting( not currently assessed under the national curriculum) is expected to be fluent, legible and speedy
Spoken English has a greater emphasis, with children to be taught debating and presenting skills.
|Five-year-olds will be expected to learn to count up to 100 (compared to 20 under the current curriculum) and learn number bonds to 20 (currently up to 10)
Simple fractions (1/4 and 1/2) will be taught from KS1, and by the end of primary school, children should be able to convert decimal fractions to simple fractions (e.g. 0.375 = 3/8)
By the age of nine, children will be expected to know times tables up to 12×12(currently 10×10 by the end of primary school)
Calculators will not be introduced until near the end of KS2, to encourage mental arithmetic.
|Strong focus on scientific knowledge and language, rather than understanding the nature and methods of science in abstract terms
Evolution will be taught in primary schools for the first time
Non-core subjects like caring for animals will be replaced by topics like the human circulatory system
|Design & technology
|Design and Technology has become more important in the new curriculum, setting children on the path to becoming the designers and engineers of the future
More sophisticated use of design equipment such as electronics and robotics
In KS2, children will learn about how key events and individuals in design and technology have shaped the world.
|Computing replaces Information and Communication Technology (ICT), with agreater focus on programming rather than on operating programs
From age five, children will learn to write and test simple programs, and to organise, store and retrieve data
From seven, they will be taught to understand computer networks, including the internet
Internet safety – currently only taught from 11-16 – will be taught in primary schools
Currently not statutory, a modern foreign language will be mandatory in KS2.Children will be expected to master basic grammar and accurate pronunciation and to converse, present, read and write in the language
Please click here to view the Full 2014 National Curriculum


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A wild obese monkey has been rescued by wildlife officials in Bangkok Thailand and put on a special diet to combat his morbid weight, according to The Associated Press.
Uncle Fat gained his weight by eating all the junk food and soda given to him by some tourists. He became popular on social media because of his size. And it brought attention to the Wild life officials in Bangkok. Uncle Fat is also the leader of the wild monkey mafia.
"He was the leader of his pack, and when I tried to go in, I had to fight off a flock of them with sticks," wildlife official Kacha Phukem told AP.
"He had minions and other monkeys bringing food for him but he would also re-distribute it to younger monkeys," added veterinarian Supakarn Kaewchot, noting that Uncle Fat's weight puts him at risk of heart disease.
Uncle Fat is believed to be between 10 and 15 years old. To help him lose weight, his new diet is limited to 400 grams worth of lean protein, fruits and vegetables twice a day. Supakarn said she hopes that within a few months they can consider releasing him to the wild.
Veterinarian Supakan Kaewchot prepares fresh food for Uncle Fat at rehabilitation center Bangkok, Thailand.
via nwitimes / huffingtonpost


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Thursday, November 21, 2013
You Never Know Where Hope Grows
This past Tuesday I was an extra in a third different scene for the upcoming movie, Produce. I am pictured above chatting with cast member, McKaley Miller, after the scene at Mt. Tabor Cemetery in Crestwood, KY. Interestingly, Mt. Tabor is the final resting place of D.W. Griffith, know as the "father of the motion picture."
Scheduled to be released in late 2014, progress can be monitored on the movie's website IamProduce.com.
My earlier blog concerning the movie including a plot synopsis is located here.
Posted by This Week's Chess Safari at 1:11 AM
Labels: D.W. Griffith, Frank Niro, Kentucky, McKaley Miller, Produce


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"...An outward manifestation of an inward power..."
How do you view action in your life?
What does your action teach you about your sense of purpose? ...about your understanding of your self in the world? ... about your relationship with your self and others?
We invite you into a moment of reflection to consider these questions through Margaret Wheatley's poem, "Action". In her own words, she describes this piece as "a 'found poem'" Wheatley explains, "all phrases are taken from, or found, in Parker Palmer's book The Active Life. I then played with them and extended them beyond Parker's original prose. I wrote this in tribute to Parker Palmer for the profound influence he's had on my work."
Action, like a sacrament,
is the visible form of an invisible spirit
an outward manifestation of
an inward power.
An expressive act is not to achieve a goal outside myself
but to express a conviction
a leading, a truth that is within me.
An expressive act is one taken
because if I did not
if I did not
if I did not take it
I would be denying
my own insight, gift, nature.
Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit
an outward manifestation of
an inward power. But as we act,
we not only express what is in us
and help give shape to the world.
We also receive what is outside us
and we reshape
our inner selves.
When we act, the world acts back.
The world acts back
and we and the world,
we and the world are
Right action is a process of birthing that cannot be forced
but only followed.
Wheatley, Margaret. "Action." The True Professional. N.p.: 2009. Web. 07 Apr. 2014. <http://www.margaretwheatley.com/articles/TheTrueProfessional.pdf>.
For more about Margaret Wheatley, visit her website here.


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Driverless cars may be the motor vehicles of California's near future, thanks to legislation approved by Gov. Jerry Brown last week. They're supposed to be safer, never getting drunk or breaking traffic laws. But watch out for the ones that go bad:
1. "Christine" (1983) — This carefully restored red 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine has a deadly past and turns out to be possessed by the devil, going around killing people. Thank you Stephen King.
2. "The Car" (1977) — This aptly titled film stars James Brolin battling a sinister black coupe that terrorizes a small Utah town. Once again, demon possession is suspected.
3. "Duel" (1971) — Directed by a young Steven Spielberg, "Duel" was a TV movie starring Dennis Weaver being relentlessly pursued by an evil Peterbilt 281 gasoline tanker truck.
4. "Maximum Overdrive" (1986) — Stephen King strikes again with a bunch of big rig trucks that come to life and try to kill a group of people trapped in a truckstop. Emilio Estevez tries to save the day. This time it's not demons, but possible extraterrestrial involvement.
5. "Wheels of Terror" (1990) — A TV movie where a demonic black Dodge Charger goes on a kidnap-and-killing rampage. And runs lots of red lights in the process. Bad car, bad!


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It's not just a legend. There's a new shop in Belltown taking tourists and locals by storm. Herban Legends opened on April 21, 2016 and is undoubtedly one of our #RetailersWeLove.
Retailers We Love — The Green Door
Next time you're exploring Seattle's International District, make sure to stop by the recently re-opened The Green Door and see why they're one of our #RetailersWeLove!
Retailers We Love — Bud's Garage
Retailers We Love — 172nd Street Cannabis
Retailers We Love - Fweedom
Combine two things we love, freedom and weed, and you'll get Fweedom, one of our retailers we love. These friends from our medical days transitioned to 502 and we couldn't be more excited.
Retailers We Love - Ruckus
Western Cultured is excited to announce we are now for sale in Capitol Hill's newest shop, Ruckus! After a year of uphill battles, Ruckus opened in early December.
Retailers We Love — White Rabbit
Hop on over to White Rabbit as we feature them for today's #RetailersWeLove. This Lynnwood shop loves its customers, so much so, they are on a first name basis.
Retailers We Love — Herbal Nation
This Thursday we're thankful for one of Washington State's first stores, Herbal Nation in Bothell. Herbal Nation opened in October 2014 and has witnessed the transformation in customers' perceptions of pot.


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Date: September 17, 2015
Time: 10:00am-11:30am
Ages: 3 to 5 years old + caregiver
Cost: $5 per child, caregiver free
Location: Nature Museum at Grafton
Calling all fairies, pixies and imps! Join us for an enchanted day filled with stories, outdoor exploration and fairy house building. By the end of the program we will have created a Fairy House Village which we will leave for visitors and wee garden folk to enjoy!
Mighty Acorns is the Nature Museum's creative, exploratory preschool program for children aged 3 to 5 and their caregivers. Held from September to June on the third Thursday of each month, these programs invite young adventurers to explore the natural world through interactive games, puzzles, and activities. Advance registration is suggested.


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Whether I'm serving as pulpit supply or delivering a series, my messages are deeply rooted in Scripture and experience. I will engage, provoke and inspire your group towards deeper connection with Jesus. Check out a couple examples below:


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Crew member Joe Fernandez with a proper Rock n Roll in Savannah this week! Stay tuned to see this park unfold…📷 – Curt Baker
Hey guys! Check out this cool article written by parksandrecbusiness.com on our 32,500 sq ft skate park in Charleston, SC that we designed and built back in 2017! This article…Read More
We are excited to announce that we got awarded the job for the Frederick, CO Skate Park! We are currently preparing the site for us to start work. Stay…Read More
Our social media crew, a few members of our Concrete Crew and some friends went on a trip from Orlando, FL to our Lexington, NC Skate Park a few weeks…Read More
Hey guys! If you or someone you know are interested in getting a skate park in your hometown and don't know what procedures to take https://publicskateparkguide.org/ is your answer. This…Read More
The ribbon cutting and soft opening for our new skate park in Lexington, NC is tomorrow at 9:00 am! The official Grand Opening celebration will be on October 19th !…Read More
Mark your calendars! The Design Input meeting for the Winter Haven, FL Skate Park has been rescheduled September 12th. Come out and give your input on what your new local…Read More
Team Pain crew members are hard at work building a top secret project on private land. This is going to be an expansive pump/jump track, all made from the same…Read More
Attention skaters and bmx riders of Polk county!! The City of Winter Haven is holding their first skatepark design input meeting on Thursday, September 5th at 6:00pm in the Senior…Read More
Add another central Florida project to our resume. We are stoked to be awarded the skate park project for the city of Minneola l! Located just west of Orlando, the…Read More


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2 BEDS + LOFT • 1.5 BATHS • 1,300± sqft • $975,000
Located in the highly sought-after Sycamore Park, 32 Park Terrace is a stylishly remodeled townhome that lives and feels like a single-family home. Arguably one of the more desirable units in Park Terrace, this unit opens to a spacious patio overlooking a huge grass area of the park itself. Just steps away from Whole Foods, Sol Food, Super Duper Burger, Samurai Sushi and Tamalpie.
Naturally light and bright and with rich Brazilian cherry floors in the main living area, this townhome has a feeling of warmth and comfort that is felt throughout. This spacious 1,300+- square foot home features 2 large bedrooms including a Master Suite, 1 ½ bathrooms plus a large loft-style bonus room perfect for a home office, guest room, home gym, media/play room, etc. The kitchen features a double door stainless steel refrigerator, a stainless steel range, a Bosch dishwasher, concrete countertops, wood cabinets, and bar countertop with seating for three. Adjacent to the kitchen is a spacious dining room fit for 6-8 guests that leads to a large family room with wood-burning white brick fireplace with wall-to-wall windows that look out to the patio and Sycamore Park. The sunny, private back patio is perfect for barbecues and al-fresco dining.
The master suite and guest bedroom are on the second level. The master suite features a large bedroom with beautiful views looking out over the park, a large remodeled bathroom with stone tile, a bathtub and heated floors and two large closets with built-ins by California Closets. The guest bedroom is also large and features great natural light, ample closet space and a built desk and shelves, great for a homework area. A large, light and bright loft with vaulted ceilings and ample storage space is on the upper level providing additional space for entertainment or for guest to stay.
The location of Park Terrace cannot be beat. The home enjoys close proximity to shopping, restaurants, public transportation, bike paths, parks, great public schools and so much more. Downtown Mill Valley is only a one level mile away and one mile in the other direction to highway 101 for an easy commute to San Francisco.
- 2 Bedrooms + Bonus Media Room / Office / Gym
- 1.5 Bathrooms
- 1,300+- Square Feet (per tax records)
- Beautifully remodeled throughout
- Rich Brazilian Cherry hardwood floors in main living areas
- Remodeled bathrooms
- Laundry in Unit
- Fireplace
- Private + spacious patio with unobstructed views to Sycamore Park
- Great natural light exposure
- Multiple storage closets
- Closet built-ins in master suite
- Level lawn for the complex
- Immediate proximity to coveted Sycamore Park for kids, dogs, picnics and more.
- Close proximity to Whole Foods and lots of restaurants, cafes and bars.
Wednesday, January 17th 2017: 10:30am - 2:00pm
Sunday, January 21st 2017: 1:00 - 4:00pm
Contact Whitney Potter: (415) 640.8671
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The New & The Moved in the City/
Lucky for all of us, new businesses are starting up in the city and ones that have been around for a while have become successful enough to upgrade to larger spaces. Better yet, businesses are ditching the 'burbs for new city digs. That's the kind of movement we like to see.
Check out the city's new businesses and those who have moved:
The New:
The Vesper
The newest business in the Washington Square Park Neighborhood is The Vesper Kitchen + Bar. This "gastro pub and raw bar" opened in September in the former space that Restaurant Nikko previously occupied on the 1st floor of the Capron Lofts building.
From the food (burgers and wings to oysters and chocolate dipped bacon) to the craft cocktails, wine, and beer, you'll find something to enjoy at Vesper. We'd describe it as classic American fare in a warm, rustic setting in one of the coolest areas of downtown.
Follow along: Website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
Leaf Tea Bar
Leaf Tea Bar is the expanded endeavor of Happy Earth Tea owners Niraj and Mary, a brick and mortar retail shop and tea bar. Located at 650 South Ave, this tea bar is not only a place to sit back and enjoy tea, but also to learn about where it comes from and perfect the art of pouring a fantastic cup every time.
Niraj and Mary moved from their original spot in the The Hungerford.
Follow along: Website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
Jetty at the Port
Jetty at the Port is new restaurant at the Port of Rochester. A bigger space inside than we imagined, this restaurant can easily hold your next family celebration, corporate function, or holiday party.
It also boasts an expansive outdoor section that includes tables for meals, a lounge-type area for relaxed conversation, and of course, a beautiful view of Lake Ontario where you'll see all the action happening at this newly re-designed section of our city. And yes, it's in the city.
Check out Port of Rochester for more info. You'll also want to check out the Harbor Town Belle at some point, as this beautiful riverboat runs in and out of the Port from May through October.
Follow along: Website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
Cedar Mediterranean
A new Lebanese restaurant has opened up at 746 Monroe Ave, Cedar Mediterranean. We haven't been there yet ourselves, but foodies crave relatively unknown spots like this. It looks like the menu has a lot of options, including vegan and vegetarian dishes.
Follow along: Facebook
The Moved:
Stacy K Floral
From a small garage type space on Park Ave to a large spacious, well-lit retail and design lab, Stacy K Floral has expanded.
This vintage inspired boutique now has a beautiful, larger new home at the Culver Road Armory. Think where Benrus used to be, around the corner from the entrance of TRATA, facing Cobbs Hill Park.
Formerly on Park Ave, Peppermint sells woman's clothing, accessories, bags, bowties, tie clips, a growing home goods section with greeting cards, candles, posters and more.
Follow along: Website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
Rochester Brainery
Not only is Rochester Brainery a place to "take a class or teach a class", it's an art gallery, event rental space, and new Friday co-work space.
Don't let the signage confuse you - Hetties Delites Cafe (formerly located in The Shops on West Ridge in Greece), has overtaken the former Boulder Coffee space at the Public Market.
Previously in a tucked away location off East Ave, More Fire Glass Studio now has a beautiful, newly renovated, larger space at 36 Field Street. Home to Elizabeth Lyons Glass and Jennifer Schinzing Glass, More Fire is a glass blowing studio and gallery. Check out the website for more information on the artists, the hours, and upcoming events.
Follow along: Website, Facebook, Instagram
BONUS: Big Announcement from Nosh
Lastly, a not so subtle announcement was recently made about what's going to be new for Nosh this coming Spring.
Stay tuned for most posts about new businesses and changes coming to the city.
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Sneak peek time! It's been a while since the last time I painted a watercolor. I have to admit I was a little nervous (sometimes I am hard to myself). I can't show you the whole piece, because it's a surprise! I have another one to share, but will share it later. Have a Nice week! Blessings of light for you ♥.
Below my little (but cozy) work space where all the "majeak" happens! It's where I am working my new watercolors. I always lit a white candle when I paint. Feeling blessed and grateful.


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So I deploy an existing app using Passenger for the first time and hit this:
The only Google results had to do with components and how they could result in the sweeper's after filter getting called twice which would results in a nil controller variable the second time thru. But I wasn't using components.
Finally after adding a bit of logging to show me FULL stack traces each time cache_sweeper was called I found something interesting: application.rb was being loaded twice.
I use Exception Logger in this app so I have this small bit of code in my production environment:
That set's up authentication on the LoggedException controller so not just anyone can access it in production. The problem is line #2. We're requiring application.rb since we don't have it yet this early in the stack. But then Passenger is coming along a little later and requiring it again inside preload_application.
Thankfully Passenger is using require_dependency (which checks to see if the same dependency has already been loaded via require_dependency)... so if we used require_dependency also then we'd avoid this. A diff:
Problem solved. I'll be submitting a patch on github for this as well.
But is it really Passenger's fault?
Someone tried to make the argument that this has nothing to do with Passenger. I could argue it's not my require call that breaks anything but rather Passenger's later require_dependency call - but I won't do that.
My point of view is this: It worked before for years and when I moved to Passenger it broke. From where I'm standing it doesn't really matter who is to blame. Only that the app worked in a "traditional" Rails deployment (Mongrel) and did not work with Passenger.
Regardless of who's code is at fault I think this is the type of issue Passenger has to take some of the heat for. If someone comes out with a new car with the gas and brake pedals reversed I think one could make a strong argument that the car manufacturer shares some of the blame (if not most) for wrecks resulting from people hitting the wrong pedal. It's not a perfect analogy, but we don't live in a perfect world. :-)
This post is mostly intended to help others deal with similar problems they might have moving to Passenger - not just to cast stones at Passenger.


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Rebuilding Day 2020
Rebuilding Day 2020
Hammers Nails & Cocktails 2019
Information about our 7th Annual Hammers, Nails & Cocktails event will be coming soon. The event will be held in October of 2019.
Learn more about all the ways you can help us achieve our vision of Repairing homes, revitalizing communities, rebuilding lives.
Rebuilding Together Hartford celebrated its 25th anniversary on April 27thby rebuilding homes in Hartford's Blue Hills neighborhood. National Rebuilding Day was a huge success as nearly 500 skilled and unskilled volunteers, known as [Re]Builders came together to help low-income homeowners repair their homes. Volunteers rebuilt, repaired, and renovated 25 homes on Andover, Branford, Cornwall, Lyme, Palm, and
The Board of Directors of Rebuilding Together Hartford (RTH) is pleased to announce the appointment of Sarah Thrall as the Incoming Executive Director. Rebuilding Together Hartford is a nonprofit dedicated to helping low-income homeowners through home renovation and repair. Their vision is safe homes and communities for everyone. "I am honored to be selected as