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Aileen Mehle, who titillated readers with her rapier wit for five decades as "Suzy," the glamorous, nationally syndicated grande dame of tabloid society gossip columnists, died on Friday at her home in Manhattan. She was 98.
Her death was confirmed by her son, Roger Mehle.
"Glamour was her occupation; she wrote about it and lived it," Blaine Trump, Donald J. Trump's former sister-in-law, said in an interview. "She was the social historian of her era."
Mrs. Mehle (pronounced MAY-lee) admitted to indulging in trivia and superficiality, but was unapologetic about her professed mission: to add some spice to the quotidian lives of her millions of readers.
Those millions read her column in scores of newspapers across the country and knew her face from her regular appearances as a panelist on the CBS game show "What's My Line" in the 1960s.
Mrs. Mehle, William F. Buckley Jr. wrote in 1982, is "known to a few dozen million people, plus the few hundred who really count, as 'Suzy.'"
She was recruited in the early 1950s by The New York Daily Mirror, a raffish Hearst tabloid, and worked, in succession, for The New York Journal-American, The Daily News, The New York Post and Women's Wear Daily. Though readers knew her across the country as a syndicated columnist, New York was always her base.
Phyllis Cerf, the children's book publisher, said in 1970 that Mrs. Mehle had performed in the guise of a "Mother Goose for adults," eavesdropping and rubbernecking to report on the very people with whom she partied.
"The people I cover have no more secrets than any others," Mrs. Mehle said. "Just more money."
Life magazine labeled her America's "No. 1 Society Snooper."
Mrs. Mehle once waggishly labeled Truman Capote "the Tiny Terror." (She said his thinly veiled autobiographical novel "Answered Prayers" contained "only a skein of truth.") She called Zsa Zsa Gabor "Miss Chicken Paprika of 1914." Describing Aristotle Onassis' ostentatious yacht, she deadpanned: "I would love to tell you the precious mosaic swimming pool on deck was filled with champagne, but it wasn't. Everyone else was."
She drolly described one party at which "Elizabeth Taylor and a flirtatious Richard Burton — he flirted with everyone but Elizabeth — stayed late." And in 1986, she dropped a bombshell that shook the pillars of Nouvelle Society: Sid Bass, the Texas oil billionaire, was leaving his wife to marry Mercedes Kellogg. (They asked her to wait a day so Ms. Kellogg could tell her diplomat husband that she was divorcing him.)
After late nights of dogged merrymaking, Mrs. Mehle typically worked from her palatial Manhattan apartments, first on Park Avenue and later in an Upper East Side townhouse, preferring not to be disturbed before noon and delivering her columns to downtown newsrooms by messenger.
"What I do is somewhere between ditch digging and galley slaving," she told Life in 1966. "It is a neck-swiveling, don't-miss-anything job. When I walk into a party, while I'm saying, 'Hello darling, hello dear, how are you?' to everyone I haven't seen since yesterday, I case the place. I have a fast eye."
"I also listen, listen, listen," she went on. "When I come home dog-tired at 1 a.m., I often haven't a line to go on. I've even put my little head down on the typewriter and cried a few rusty tears. But then I snap out of it and get to work."
She entered the crowded, fiercely competitive field of gossip columnists in the waning days of Walter Winchell (who was also at The Mirror), when high society still preoccupied mass audiences as passionately as Hollywood stars did, and when the rich still delighted in tattling on one another in print.
"No matter what I say about them," Mrs. Mehle confided, "it can't begin to compare with what they say about each other."
She recalled an editor's advice that "I'd be a success only when I could walk into a room full of people who whisper, 'Here comes that bitch Suzy.'"
As it turned out, she managed to be a success without earning that epithet.
Unlike some of her more scathing peers, Mrs. Mehle preferred to elicit a laugh and take swipes so gauzy that even Frank Sinatra, no fan of powerful gossip columnists, would conclude, "Aileen wields that power with a feather duster."
As she told New York magazine in 1976, "I give them the needle, but in a way that they don't feel till three days later."
It was perhaps a commentary on Mrs. Mehle's potency, as well as on the decline of the American aristocracy, that Clare Boothe Luce, the journalist, congresswoman and ambassador, would say in 1970, "Today, getting into society means getting into Suzy's column."
A dashing but diminutive 5-foot-3 (she wore size 4 shoes), Mrs. Mehle inflicted her stiletto ripostes without drawing blood. And on the occasions that she did — in response to a perceived betrayal or to backbiting by a fellow columnist (like her notorious spat with James Revson of Newsday, who reported in 1988, accurately, that she had reported vividly on some parties that she did not attend) — the gore would rarely splatter on the custom-made ensembles lovingly designed for her by Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera or Pauline Trigère.
That was because Mrs. Mehle's blood was as blue as her subjects'. She navigated those nightly celebrity dinners and charity benefits (whose success she assured by a mere mention beforehand) not as some interloping ink-stained wretch, but as a peer.
Aileen Elder was born on June 10, 1918 (not in the 1920s, as most biographies say), in El Paso, Tex. Her father, Lawrence Herman Elder, was an oilman who moved the family to California a few years later and left before Aileen was a teenager. Her mother was the former Aileen O'Keefe, a privileged descendant of pioneers who had received vast land grants from the Spanish throne.
Hoping to be discovered in Hollywood, Aileen attended Long Beach Junior College and Santa Barbara State College (now the University of California, Santa Barbara), but interrupted her studies, and her plans to become an actress, to marry a Navy ensign, Roger W. Mehle. He became an admiral. When he was assigned to flight training in Florida, she stayed with him part time.
Their marriage ended in divorce. Their son, Roger, a Washington lawyer and retired investment banker, is her only immediate survivor.
After the divorce, Mrs. Mehle decamped from California with her mother and young son to live full time in Florida, where she plunged into Palm Beach social life.
She mutated into a columnist, as she told it, at the suggestion of her friend Jan Cox. Mrs. Cox's husband, the publisher of The Miami Daily News, called Mrs. Mehle's bluff when she complained that her 10-year-old son could cover society news better than his paper and its competitors. She submitted three sample columns and was hired.
She borrowed the pseudonym Suzy from a stepdaughter-to-be through her impending second marriage, to M. Kenneth Frank Jr., a Washington real estate developer.
At first, her identity was kept secret. After she characterized Senator John F. Kennedy as a sartorial mess, according to W magazine, Kennedy encountered one of her editors in Washington and demanded to know Suzy's real name. The editor refused. "Well," Kennedy said with a grin, "when you get back to Miami, will you tell Suzy I got my pants pressed."
Her marriage to Mr. Frank (it was her last) also ended in divorce, and afterward, in 1957, she moved to New York and was hired by The Mirror, where Walter Winchell still reigned and a photograph with her column gave Suzy a recognizable face.
When The Mirror stopped publishing in 1963, she switched to Hearst's Journal-American, replacing Igor Cassini (brother of the couturier Oleg Cassini), who was fending off federal charges that he had failed to register as a foreign agent for the Dominican dictatorship.
Cassini, with a big editorial assist from another ambitious Texan named Liz Smith, wrote under the pen name Cholly Knickerbocker, and when Mrs. Mehle succeeded him, she inherited half of it. "Someone finally gave me a last name," she said.
As Suzy Knickerbocker, Mrs. Mehle churned out six columns a week, challenging the pseudonymous prima donna of gossip, Nancy Randolph at The Daily News, until The Journal-American and its short-lived merged successor, The World Journal Tribune, also went belly up.
She re-emerged as Suzy in The Daily News in 1967 and remained there until she was wooed away by The Post after its fashion and gossip columnist, Eugenia Sheppard, died in 1984.
Mrs. Mehle left The Post for Women's Wear Daily in 1991, about the same time that Liz Smith switched to Newsday after decades as The Daily News's durable celebrity columnist and Bill Norwich, another Daily News columnist, departed, too.
"The world of glitter and glamour (and a little bit of gush) will probably never be the same," The New York Times said of the three departures.
Mrs. Mehle wrote her last regular column in Women's Wear Daily in 2005, when she was 87.
"When she stopped writing her column," Ms. Herrera, a friend and confidante, recalled in an interview, "Aileen single-handedly buried society in New York."


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Garrett & Caitlin Vaughan | June 28, 2014 | Photography by Tara Lilly Photography & Design
After meeting during their final semester at Virginia Tech, Garrett took Caitlin to dinner one snowy night and then to the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C for the first time where he proposed. The couple's wedding had a personal touch by having Garrett's father officiate the ceremony just as he was married by Garrett's grandfather. A mandolinist played the Appalachian Waltz for the ceremony processional. The black, white, and cream-schemed wedding was carried out through bridesmaid dresses, décor, and even the wedding cake, which featured two coconut layers and two chocolate raspberry layers all covered in buttercream frosting. Food stations kept guests full, with a mashed potato bar, sweet potato ham biscuits, prime rib and more. Caitlin knew she wanted her flowers to be all white, so she chose a mix of hydrangeas, roses, baby's breath, and peonies. Her favorite moment of the day was when Garrett surprised her with their first dance song "She's My Kind of Rain" by Tim McGraw, which happens to be her favorite song. She says it was a very sweet gesture that made her tear up.
Be sure to see the Vaughan wedding on page 64 of the third issue of bridebook!
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Florist: The Crystal Orchid
Cake: Casey's Cakes
Venue: Valhalla Vineyard
Caterer: Blue Ridge Catering
Planner: Paige Kaufman
Jewelry: Jared and Fink's
DJ: RSP Entertainment
Attendants' Dresses: Dessy.com
Groomsmen's Attire: Men's Wearhouse
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HAZEN, N.D. - A former church in Hazen is being transformed by a utility cooperative into a daycare facility.
Basin Electric Power Cooperative has purchased the New Bethel Congregational Church, which has been empty since last fall. Basin Electric recognized a great need for child care among its employees and the community. So the cooperative board bought the church and hired a daycare program director.
The Bismarck Tribune reports the facility will have space for about 60 children, ranging in age from infant to 12. The facility is currently hiring staff and is expected to open by April.
Cooperative board director Erin Huntimer says there's never been a licensed daycare facility of this size in Mercer County. Huntimer hopes it will be a model for other communities in North Dakota that have daycare shortages.


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To De-couple or not to De-couple ...
This seems to be one of the most pertinent questions going into 2007 with a slowing US and over at Econbrowser Menzie Chinn takes up the issue. There are a lot of important points here but let us begin with an initial outline provided by Menzie.
The dream rebalancing scenario, in which adjustment of the world's imbalances occurs without fiscal responsibility returning to America, relies upon "decoupling".
A rejuvenated Europe, stripped of structural rigidities, and a resurgent Japan equipped with a newly reformed financial system, pick up growth, and begin running bigger trade deficits. The U.S. moves to a glide path of sustainable growth with shrinking trade deficits. I remember this scenario being outlined when I was in the Government --already over five years ago now. It's similar to rosy scenarios of global rebalancing circulated these days.
As such we can say that any idea of de-coupling assumes that growth in the de-coupling economies are driven, at least to some extent, by domestic dynamics. This, as Menzie notes, is also the whole issue when it comes to re-balancing and consequently we can approach this by saying that the extent to which the Eurozone and Japan (for example!) de-couple from a US slowdown also mirrors the extent to which these economies can contribute to the re-balancing act. In short, someone needs to run a trade-deficit here and we need to ask ourselves whether the Eurozone and Japan are the best candidates at this point? I am not so sure! In terms of the more policy induced nature of the imbalances (i.e. Bretton Woods 2) the RMB remains to be pegged and Brad Setser also reports Asian CBs in general show little sign of diversification although mind you that his analysis is based on the third quarter report from the IMF. Perhaps the fourth quarter figures will show something different? Meanwhile some of the petroexporters seem more willing to bet on the Euro rather than the Dollar.
The IMF as quoted by Menzie also seems to be rather sceptical of the de-coupling scenario at this stage ...
A review of recent historical experience yields at best only mixed to weak support for the decoupling thesis. Indeed, rising shares of exports in GDP suggest coupling should be trending stronger. That said, periods of apparent decoupling can arise when divergent shocks to domestic demand are driving growth, as has been the case recently. The bottom line is that we still expect growth elsewhere to be noticeably affected by a significant change in US growth prospects.
Consequently, what I am really trying to get to here is a discussion about the big pieces of the puzzle and how they should be aligned. This is also important when it comes to the recent wobbles in the Euro/Dollar. Did we see the beginning of a dollar crash or was the dollar's slide mainly driven by interest differentials and if we go for the latter view (I do) what, crucially, do we expect in terms of interest differentials in 2007? Do we really expect the ECB to close the gap on the Fed? And what if the Euro is propped up by diversifying petroexporters? As such, we can say that the potential floor for the dollar's depreciation is represented by the potential ceiling of other currencies' appreciation. As such this discussion mirrors the de-coupling and re-balancing story to some extent. This is also essentially what I am arguing in my recent 're-balancing posts' as we can all see that the dollar must fall but who is going to take up the slack? Most people seem very interested in the Euro and it does seem as if the petroexporters (perhaps!) are beginning to diversify in favor of the Euro but this process can only go to the extent that it is internally sustainable, that is to say the extent to which the Euro can muster it. We need to think about the fact that a rising currency is a proxy for deflationary pressures in the domestic markets and consequently that export dependant economies ( e.g. Germany) will come under pressure in this case very literally since the ability for Germany and Italy to pick up on domestic demand is, at best, far from clear at this point. At the end of the day it is all well and good that people are arguing that the Eurozone needs to import more and take up the slack from the US but what if Germany and Italy for example just cannot respond to this and as a result runs into deflation? Remember here that a hawkish ECB and general fiscal tightening in 2007 are also putting a downward pressure on and growth and price levels.
This is clearly still an unrealistic scenario I would say but this could very well be a theoretical end point if the process continues. Once again, how we piece together the puzzle is important. Without a doubt I need to tread carefully here and my implied rather bearish forecast for Germany (and Italy?) going forward is not at all certain. Most notably, Sebastian Dullien from Eurozone Watch has recently argued why he believes we need to be far more optimistic on Germany.
At the end of the day I cannot yet argue that my analysis is right ... there are still too many blanks to fill in but I do believe that we need to think about this in a general sense. Things are not as straightforward as they seem.


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Word on the twitter is the Flames have claimed Detroit Red Wings backup Joey MacDonald off of waivers. The 33-year old has bounced around the majors and minors over this career, most recently with Leafs and Red Wings. With 100 games of NHL under his belt, MacDonald is definitely older and more battle-tested than either Irving or Taylor. On the other hand, his career SV% of .903 in the show and only marginally better results in the AHL suggest he probably isn't much better than the rookies.
This suggests a couple of things:
1.) Kipper is out for longer than what the team is letting on.
2.) The guys in charge aren't terribly confident in either Irving or Taylor to carry the ball.
Point number two is fair, although I'm not sure how or why Joey MacDonald adds much comfort. Sure he's older and has more experience, but that additional information has told us he's really not all that good a goalie. The only thing I can really stick this decision to is the typical anxiety decision makers get in handing over meaningful minutes to untested commodities like the Flames current goaltending duo.
The addition of MacDonald also means the club is scraping up against the 50-contract ceiling (49). That's not a terribly big deal right now, but does cut down on the org's flexibility should other issues or opportunities pop up later.
Expect one of Taylor or Irving to get re-assigned to Abbotsford as early as today in response to this move.


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thailand is in the middle of their songkran celebration – which is the thai new year – and party animals that we are we had to get into the middle of it. so we loaded up the family in the car and headed for the moat. actually, we headed out to find parking and then made our way to the moat. now, we had been warned that it was a bit of a moist celebration, but we weren't exactly prepared for the soaking we got.
we left the rear windows to the car open intentionally so the kids could get a sample of the party.
our first taste of the trouble to come.
a11 recieved a shampoo – no joke. they wet, applied shampoo, lathered and rinsed. we were very glad they didn't give a hair cut, too.
when we finally made it to the moat, here's what we saw. and the real water fight began.
the first thing we did was hop in one of these little jobs – it's a tuk-tuk, with the top taken off.
and it was decked out with it's own barrel of water and a few smaller buckets so we could throw it on those in the beds of trucks, other tuk-tuks, and people just standing on the sidewalk. the only problem with this scenario is that there was so much water being thrown in at us we could barely manage to throw any water out. i think farangs – (a)in a topless tuk-tuk (b)that is not moving at all – are really sitting targets. and one other important thing about this water – it was ice water, freezing cold ice water.
after an hour in the tuk-tuk we were ready to head home. but we still had about an hour to walk to get back to the car.
as we were walking we were able to get some good pics of the water fight on the other side of the moat.
those folks aren't fishing, they are gathering water to hurl on to the people in the trucks, tuk-tuks, and riding on motorbikes.
as we were making our way around the moat, bh and the kids found the energy to conquer the walls of the old city.
our camera's both took a beating during this outing. we tried to protect them in plastic bags, but still they got a little damp. so, the pictures end here. and niether of us captured the stupidest thing i've done since arriving in thailand.
bh and the kids had gone to get drinks and i was waiting on the sidewalk when a truck pulled over. and out climbed some lovely young people with a container of red water – it looked more like red koolaid – and they wanted me to take a drink. having read somewhere something about it being rude not to added to the fact that i just really, really want to be liked, my knee jerk reaction was okay, sure, give me some of that. it took me no time at all to notice that my only option was to drink from the straws that were in the container. it took a very small sip for me to realize this was a tad bit whole heck of a lot stronger than red water or even koolaid. and they were absolutely tickled that i partook of what was probably some roofie laden cocktail.
and thus ended our first songkran. fun was had by all and we are all completely exhausted.
s8 has declared it the second best holiday ever. coming in right after his birthday.
you can read bh's songkran story here (the last pic he has is my absolute favorite, it's s8 enjoying all the fun!) and a11's take on songkran here.


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05 November 2014
TIBTIL: Fleur de Lis
Shawn's parents are here for Jane's birthday week. I spent all afternoon thinking it was Thursday and scrambling to get some stuff I need to do the church's weekly email. It's done, but the admin can't access her computer to send it to me. SO FRUSTRATING. But at least I have tomorrow to work on it...
I bought this fleur de lis sign at the Denham Springs craft fair in early October. It's metal and really cool. Shawn hung it in front of the kitchen window, so I see it multiple times per day. SOMETIMES it gives me a fright as it twists in the wind and I think it could be a person's head walking by. I'm sure I'll get used to it! CandCMetalProducts.com.
In October I made a big list of blog post ideas, and I tore it out of my notebook and can't find it. Hrm. I better find it or at least step up my game...
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"How in the world do I get traffic to my blog?"
If a tree falls in the forest and there's nobody around to hear it, does it make a sound? If I tell a story on my blog and nobody reads it or hears about it, is it really a story? B2B marketers have long puzzled over how to be heard from deep inside the internet 'jungle', but the forest is changing colours. Business to business marketing was once a considered a backwater. No longer.
I realize it's more than a little ironic that I'm writing on this topic at a time when my own blog has virtually no visibility. My only excuse is that I just started it a few weeks ago, but that excuse surely won't last long.
Meanwhile, you can visit a growing number of world class B2B marketing blogs that are taking B2B out of the wilderness. Here are a few, courtesy of Robert Rosenthal. I will be adding many more of my own soon.


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Turns out the perfect carryall, for me, is a roomy statement tote. This sturdy peach leather tote includes a fun mix of motifs, including: an iridescent monstera leaf, red suede lips, silver leather star, holographic leather eye, yellow suede moon, navy blue hand, and green ostrich leather patterned cactus.
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Later printing. viii, 246pp, illus. Dust jacket with some rubbing and minor loss, previous owner's name stamp on ffep, else a very good copy. Jo Mora (1876-1947) was an artist/sculptor/photographer who headed west in 1900 and worked there in a variety of media and styles. This is his book about the American cowboy, his mount, and the hardware he uses to do his job. His splendid illustrations are both descriptive and evocative of the old west and the hard working cow hands. J. Frank Dobie - who ought to know - says of this book: "No better exposition anywhere, and here tellingly illustrated, of reatas, spurs, bits, saddles, and other gear." Herd 1571.
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text: Last year, my friend Cal designed a Seed Pack for the Hudson Valley Seed Library. There was an exhibition here in New York City of all the artists who designed packs that year, and I went to mingle and hang with Cal. It was fun! So, when Cal sent me the call for entries this year, I jumped at the chance. I missed the gallery opening last weekend since I was still teaching at Penland, but the packs are now live on the site, and will be available for purchase on December 1st, which is soon (crazy, I tell you). Here's a link to the Danvers Carrot seed pack I designed.


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(A fragment of something bigger I was working through one Friday night)
Wanting and dreaming of wresting love back
from fate and physics and fury and history and pain,
Futuristorical histrionically
interintrinsicalligorically imperative…
This is what your love was to me.
This is the me that is no more without you.
Unmoored in mourning black & white-knuckling
sober divorcee's blue, red and grey.
In twilight's every minute of the day…
Since you went and you
Moved yourself away your embrace denied…
The mourning after the day you voice-mailed me your love died,
My one and only foolish-impulsive ex-bride.
Why do I choose to continue
Enacting my ruminatin' magisterbations anon and on again?
Another word jazz jelly tonight
Over matrimonially mutual delusional decisions made,
Of impulsively romantic adventure aventured
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Staying productive when working from home can sometimes be a challenge, especially when I'm working on projects that aren't necessarily for a client, but are more self-assigned. I recently discovered mytomatoes.com, which employs the Pomodoro Technique: 25 minutes of work, then a five minute break, and after four "tomatoes" a longer break. Every time you complete a "tomato" and hear the alarm, you log what you worked on, so it's really great for accountability.
Using mytomatoes.com is what motivated me to have a day free of social networking one day last week. I realized how much time I was wasting on Twitter and Facebook and I needed a break to increase my productivity! For me, it also does double-duty — I need to track my time when I'm doing work for clients, and this way I have a reminder to log what I work on for every 25-minute increment (instead of remembering at 4pm that I should have been tracking my time for the last 7 hours. Oops).


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Despite how chilly its been lately, today was surprisingly sunny and beautiful!
It's sometimes hard for me to get up and get dressed when its so chilly out. This is an easy, casual everyday look, that anyone can mimic. I like that it covers me up, but still allows me to be feminine and sexy. The knee high boot gives a sexy touch to this outfit. What do you guys think?
Jacket- RUBBISH (nordstrom)
Top- Forever21
Pants- American Apparel nylon tricot leggings
Boots- Shoedazzle
Bracelets- Swarovski and Handmade bracelets I scored at the Connected festival this year.
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So it appears that beta 2 of iOS 8 does not properly clear browsing data when you click the "Clear History and Website Data" setting within Safari options.
In the screenshot above you can see the setting, but when used you can still browse to your Safari history and view it in its entirety, as seen in the screenshot below.
Issues like this are becoming magnified in severity due to synchronization features within browsers. Safari and Chrome, for example, can synchronize your history and other browser data from your phone to your tablet and desktop.
The issue above was confirmed to be the case with iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite. I opened a number of sites on my iCloud-connected iPad, cleared my browser data using the feature above, and then was able to pull that same data up on my Yosemite desktop later.
So it's not just that the data clearing didn't work; it's also that the data that was expected to be cleared was propagated to all connected devices.
This is bad for obvious reasons: someone can potentially be doing something sensitive on their phone or tablet, not realizing that this information is being propagated to all other (potentially shared) devices that they use. This is compounded by the fact that clearing the history using the built-in explicit feature for doing so doesn't work.
If you're using iOS 8, just keep it in mind while Apple addresses the issue.
- If this had been an actual vulnerability and not just an "oh, they should fix that post-beta", I would have used a disclosure process.


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Student Safety Training Coming to Holy Cross
In order to make Holy Cross School the safest that we can for our students, we will be holding a parent night presentation on school safety using the ALICE Training Program on August 23 at 6:30 p.m.
ALICE Training (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter, Evacuate) is the #1 active shooter response training program for schools and organizations across the country. ALICE's mission is to improve chances of survival in this kind of event.
The program, led by an ALICE Trained instructor, provides preparation and a plan for individuals and organizations on how to more proactively handle the threat of an aggressive intruder or active shooter event. ALICE Training tactics have become the accepted response, versus the traditional "lockdown only" approach.
This training is supported by law enforcement, The Department of Education, The Department of Justice, numerous state level Attorney General offices, and The Department of Homeland Security.
There have been over 1 million people trained in this program, not only in schools, but also business, health care facilities, colleges, houses of worship, government institutions and major companies in 50 states.
In June of 2013, the Department of Education mandated that lockdown can no longer be the only option used in schools as their response plan. This unique training program comes to your facility with your concerns in mind and is based on personal training by an ALICE certified instructor, Ingrid Herriott, who is an Allen County Police Officer. Officer Herriott works with the staff and, as an option, can work with students as well on age-appropriate response to intruder situations.
You can visit the ALICE Training website at alicetraining.com to learn more about the program that is being brought into your child's school. Join us on August 23 at 6:30 p.m. to learn more about keeping our students safe.
* Officer Ingrid Herriott has been with the Allen County Police Department in Ft Wayne, Indiana for 17 years. Her first 10 years were spent as a 911 Dispatch Center Supervisor. Her last 7 have been as a sworn Allen County Police Officer, thus bringing a unique dual perspective to effective implementation of emergency response at the scene of critical incidents. She has received extra training as a Critical Incident Team Officer allowing her to do emergent mental health evaluations and involuntary commitments for those in crisis. She is an FBI trained Hostage and Crisis Negotiator and also volunteers for the Critical Incident Stress Management Response Team in North East Indiana. Officer Herriott is an Advanced School Safety Specialist and was the School Resource Officer for Southwest Allen County Schools for 4 years along with being a K9 handler. Officer Herriott has trained over 7,000 students of all ages and over 875 teachers, administrators and staff in advanced proactive lockdown procedures.


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Like the volunteers in ABCCM's other ministries, those who serve at the Medical Ministry come from many walks of life. Many are church members who feel blessed to care for their neighbors in need. Others are retired community members who want to make a difference with their free time. Some are medical professionals who seek to address the need among the uninsured in Buncombe County, including the 30 percent of uninsured who received services at ABCCM in 2016.
One evening a month, the Medical Ministry is filled with a different population – students from A-B Tech's nursing program, UNC's School of Medicine, and UNC's Eshelman School of Pharmacy at UNC-Asheville. ABCCM enjoys having these doctors, nurses and pharmacists in training on hand to learn new skills, share information and work with an underserved population.
"Something that students don't get a lot of exposure to is interacting with other professionals," said Nita Kirkpatrick, associate chair of nursing at A-B Tech. "We just don't have that opportunity anywhere else until they're out practicing and then it's like, here, OK, everyone needs to learn to work together! This gives them a chance to practice that. Here, they're all students and they respect each other. Then they get out and practice, and see these folks again."
Students work together as a team of three – one medical student, one nursing student, and one pharmacy student – to visit the patient together and evaluate needs, care and treatment. Each group of students has their preceptor on hand to supervise.
"We don't typically work with other students and we barely interact with pharmacy and nursing students," said third-year medical school student Parin Nanavati. "It feels really collaborative to ask a fellow student why one thing might work better than something else, going back to what we've learned in school and applying it."
Third-year medical school student Molly Duffy said the experience of working with the Medical Ministry's patients recalls, for her, the time she spent as an AmeriCorps member working in community health. Service at the Medical Ministry also drives home the importance of learning how to be resourceful when access to certain medications or diagnostic tests is limited.
"It's really important to learn how to use the resources in our community for people who are uninsured or don't have good insurance, which is learning that is so valuable for us," she said.
Nita Kirkpatrick said sometimes, the young people aren't only students at the Medical Ministry – they're also patients.
"Many times the students utilize it themselves," she said. "Oftentimes they're under insured or don't have insurance."
ABCCM could not serve the population it does without volunteers such as these students, who bring enthusiasm and interest to their clinic night each month. The students know their volunteer service helps patients in the long term and not just as a temporary patch.
"We're so grateful to have churches do so much wonderful volunteer work, and here at the Medical Ministry we're also grateful to have these students, too," said Maia Price, the Medical Ministry volunteer coordinator.
Do you have a team that would like to volunteer at the Medical Ministry? Contact Maia Price at firstname.lastname@example.com or call (828) 398-6690 to learn about how volunteers provide crucial support for ABCCM's services for the medically uninsured.


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Playing tonight at REDUX with The Lovely Few. Some solo songs, some SR songs, a Hot Chip cover, a veritable smorgasbord of notes and chords. JOIN US, BECOME ONE OF US
Well ok maybe not MASSIVE massive... but certainly, undeniably not a disaster. Thanks to everybody who came out, thanks to Johnny Delaware and Grace Joyner for playing beautiful songs, thanks to the Music Hall for having us, and thanks to Ron Wiltrout, Nick Jenkins, and Dan McCurry for playing with me. Still kind of feels like something I dreamed, not real life. Hooray for doing stuff that moves you even when you doubt it'll move anybody else. Sometimes it does.
Recorded a few weeks ago at home with a bunch of lovely, talented friends.
I'm being asked by scores of music lovers (okay, it's more like a few friends but STILL) am I touring this new record? Is there a release show? Who do I think I am anyway? Shit, Tony Bennett still hits the road for album releases and he's almost 109 years old! The answer is complicated; I'm not announcing any full-on tours as of now due to circumstances beyond my control that require me to stay where I am for the time being. Life and stuff. But whether you live here in Charleston or you're mired in a distant land with decent internet access, there are things coming up that may just interest you.
--A few weeks ago myself, Nick Jenkins, Ron Wiltrout, and John-Flor Sisante performed a few songs from the album right here in the hobbit hole I call a studio with a camera crew filming us. We're going to release those performances one song at a time over the course of the summer/fall, starting next week. It's not LIVE live in that you can't throw things at me but it's still pretty close and with the money I saved on gas from not coming to your distant land I can buy even more cupcake stock (that market is going nowhere but up).
--I'll be live on TheFIX.fm at 9pm THIS Sunday night (July 20), again streamable online right here. Playing some songs, answering some questions, wishing Brad Cooper was there.
--I'm playing a house show on Monday July 28 in Kevsco Alley downtown. There will be more details for that when it gets closer but it's going to be intimate and fun, like making out with your significant other while watching Wheel of Fortune! The best part is the opener, a guy who just happens to be named... MICHAEL FLYNN. That's right, there's another musician out there in the world named Michael Flynn who released a lovely record last year and lives in Canada but will be close enough around the show such that it's actually feasible for him to join me. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A MICHAEL FLYNN/MICHAEL FLYNN DOUBLE BILL. That's some bucket list shit right there, people. Not sure if the universe can withstand such a phenomenon (if we jam too hard on each others' songs will we rip the space-time continuum wide open?) but we're doing it.
Finally, August 15 there'll be an actual, honest-to-goodness release party for 'Face in the Cloud' at the Charleston Music Hall. If you can only go to one show (and your name isn't Michael Flynn) go to this one. Aside from me and my talented friendband, we'll be sharing the stage with Grace Joyner and Johnny Delaware. It's going to be a special night, and it's cool to be a part of a bigger series of shows celebrating the art of some talented fellow Charlestonians.
Thanks everybody for your response to the new record. You're just plain swell and that's all there is to it.
Remember when music wasn't free, and you actually had to seek it out in record stores and listen at listening booths and then take it to the cashier and pay for it? Remember when that was normal? Now aside from a few purist holdouts none of us do that anymore. Music is basically free and ubiquitous and it seems like it was always meant to end up that way. Sure it's that much tougher for everybody who tries to make a living creating music, but then again poets used to be like rock stars hundreds of years ago and now they teach English Comp and tend bar on weekends.
I didn't do a kickstarter for this record. I thought about it. People told me I should. They said it was a good way to 'monetize' my small but loyal fan base who are eager to support me. But the curmudgeon in me couldn't do it. I'm still too in love with the simple proposition that I go make something like Ron Swanson in his workshop, you check out what I've made and then IF you like it and IF you can afford to, you buy it. You don't have to take anything on faith. I don't owe you anything.
The record I spent 18 months creating and stressing out about and obsessing over is out today. I think it's maybe the best thing I've ever done. You can stream the whole thing right here for free. You can listen on Spotify or any of the other streaming services and I'll get a solid $.000000003 cents.
My one request from you today is this: IF you listen to it, and IF you actually like it, buy it.
Actually buy it! There are multiple ways to do this: right here on this site (via Bandcamp), in iTunes, on Amazon, on Google Play... the list goes on. Even if you do the streaming thing, even if it's been a while since you bought music...buy THIS music. You buying this record is you supporting an independent artist and his family (who haven't had the easiest year), it's you telling me you want me to make another record after this one, and it's you showing the world that music matters so much to you that you're willing to part with a little money to prove it. On the Bandcamp page you can even pay more than the $8 I'm asking if you're feeling especially generous. Lots of people have already done that with their preorders and I'm extremely grateful.
My second request (yeah I lied before, there are 2 requests here) from you is this: IF you listened to it, and IF you liked it enough to buy it, tell your friends about it. My biggest fear is that I'm going to pour all of myself into a project I end up being incredibly proud of like this one and no one will even notice that it's come and gone. An independent release like this depends on word of mouth. We both know that you have that one music-loving friend who goes to house shows and is always listening to things you've never heard of. If this record comes and goes and they never hear it that would be a gross injustice right? And isn't there enough injustice in the world? How heroic of you to slightly reduce the number of injustices in the world by sharing great music with them! (see what I did there? you're a HERO)
Anyway that's it. Obvious requests 1 and 2. Please buy the record and please share it with people you think might love it. I spelunked down deep inside myself and made it with my eyes closed, hoping when this day came that SOMEBODY would care that it now exists. Thanks for (hopefully) being that somebody.
Come get with this.
Who knows how long MGM let's me keep this on the internet, so let's just live in the now and enjoy it. A scene from your favorite wolf/puberty/basketball movie NOT named 'Teen Wolf Too', set to music from the new album. Somewhere in Burbank Jason Bateman just threw a scone across the room.
Though it probably won't rake in Nintendo-sized profits, the preorder page for the new album Face in the Cloud is now live and taking your money (then sending that money to me electronically, which upon receiving I print out with my Game Boy Printer). Click here to preorder, or you can get there by clicking the 'Nav' button in the upper right and then 'Buy'. That'll work too. It costs $8 but I've graciously allowed you the option to pay more than that if you consider yourself a well-to-do patron of the arts. I certainly need all the support I can get. Anyway preorder, get it the moment it comes out, and revel in the bacchanalian pleasure of instant electronic delivery.
If you've never bought music from Bandcamp before, please note that this preorder is for digital purchase only. Sorry curmudgeons: we're not releasing physical CDs or vinyl for this record (at least not yet). It'll also be available on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Spotify, Beats, all the usual online purveyors of music. But the best deal is the link above, so preorder with confidence.
I know what you're thinking right now-- here comes Flag Day, oh shit did I get the flags out of the attic yet, are they cooler than my neighbor's flags, etc. Totally understandable. Everybody talks about the wild fun of Flag Day but nobody talks about the enormous pressure and stress it brings about. This goes back generations. Did you know that cat suicide rates spike around Flag Day? Or that children conceived on Flag Day are 86% more likely to commit white-collar crime? It's true. My advice to you, for what it's worth: take it easy, unfurl your best flag, and just enjoy the day with your family and friends. That's what it's supposed to be about. I mean it's all about flags, but also family. And friends. Mostly flags though.
Anyway if you've just returned to the earth from the International Space Station you should know that I released the first single from the record last week! You can listen to it here. Lots of nice folks have been spreading the news of its existence. Wild Honey Pie likes it and asks for more 'spaced-out, haunted sanctuary slow jams'. Duly noted! Nooga.com dug the 'warm synths' and my 'soulful, yet oddly eerie voice'. Music Pixie is 'loving it', despite McDonald's having trademarked that catchphrase. The song also got featured on MarcusRimondini.com. Thanks to everybody for giving it a chance. Now get out there, plant a flag in your yard, and wave it like you just don't care it's FLAAAAAAAAG DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!
*note that I don't know if I'm going to do other editions of the press roundup or if this is the only one. Kind of feels weird and slightly icky. It's really just an excuse to talk about Flag Day, in case you hadn't noticed. #flagday
AT LAST there's a song from the album out there in the wild. It's called 'Holy Ghost' and I know what you're thinking but no, it's not about the Silver Surfer. Thanks to Wild Honey Pie for debuting it. You can also listen on the 'media' page of this here website. You know what, why don't I just put it right here in this post so you can just press play and be done with it? Yeah. Let's do that.
Here's me acting ridiculous in the hope that maybe it'll trick you into listening to a minute of music from the new record. I really should have stretched out beforehand.
First, thanks to everybody who's taken the time to like/follow/befriend solo me. In case you prefer the social network your parents can't figure out, I'm now followable on the Instagram. i'm michaelflynnmusic. 90% of the photos will likely take place in my home because my social life is reminiscent of the beast pre-belle's arrival.
More news to come soon. In the meantime here's a picture of my parents dancing in college. #nofilter
At long last, after much toiling in my top-secret hobbit bunker where I draw songs on the walls and sing to my diary, I'm finally able to announce that I've birthed a new solo record and it's coming out in just a few months! It's called 'Face in the Cloud' and it's being released by the fine folks at Hearts and Plugs.
Face in the Cloud is 9 songs chock full of high class synthesizers, yacht-rocking slow jams, and lyrics that sound like they were carved into my arm with a pocket knife. Lots of swell friends helped out in making it and I'm really proud of how it turned out. I can't wait for your ears to hear it. In fact just tell your ears to ignore all other sounds they might hear between now and release day because it's SO on between us.
There'll be more to come soon so make sure you're tuned in to all my new webzones: this site right here that you're on, the solo mef twitter, the solo mef facebook page, the solo mef youtube channel, and, of course, the video i watch at the start of every day. Thanks.
I created a youtube channel with which to share my intensely serious and meaningful musical performances. Unfortunately i have no such performances to share as of yet (stay tuned on that) but I had to upload a video to test the channel or whatever so I chose this choice nugget from my youth. It features me (being kind of a dick), my future wife, and my brother in a vintage display of his most glorious qualities.
subscribe to the official, 100% organic grain-fed michael flynn youtube channel here.
Oh hi! Forgive me, I didn't see you there. I'm Michael Flynn and this is my new webzone. No, I'm not that science fiction writer. No, I'm not other musician Michael Flynn, who I shall surely one day fight to the death (as the prophecies foretold). I'm a noisemaking man of mystery from Charleston SC and I've got designs on both your earholes. Stay tuned.


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A large percentage of the awards we produce are unique, custom award designs created specific to a customer's needs or requirements. Sometimes these designs are based on a fully developed design specification the customer has already developed. Other times, a customer may have a general theme, message or objective that they want to communicate through their custom award, but have not created a specific design specification. In these instances, we go through an extensive discovery and design process to create a new custom award from scratch that meets their objectives. And, of course, many projects fall somewhere between these two end points on the continuum: for example, a customer have a rough sketch of what they would like that needs refinement, or another referent award design that they would like to use as inspiration for their award.
When embarking on a custom award project, it is helpful to understand the different kinds of custom awards that can be created. One aspect to note is that any recognition award can be "customized" via personalized engraving in the award's base. This is a simple and cost effective way of making a stock award uniquely specific to a given recipient or event.
However, personalized engraving is not generally enough to make an award "custom" in the way that we refer to the term – it is more "personalized" than "custom". In our vernacular, we really work with two broad types of custom awards: 1) "customizable" awards; and 2) truly "custom" awards.
Customizable awards are stock recognition awards that can have some aspect of their design modified to make it unique to the organization that is commissioning the award. For example, a customizable award may employ a stock figurine holding an object, and the object can be custom-created in an image unique to that client (a logo, for example). Another example would be a set of stock hands holding a three dimensional sculpture object that is specific to the organization, Some of "customizable" awards that we offer are The Benny, Envision, Gratitude, and In Our Hands.
Truly custom awards are recognition awards that are created from the ground up based on a new award design. These may be sculpted, fabricated, glass-blown, etc., but the key point is that the entire award is based on a custom design that is unique from any other award. Some of the custom awards we have been created can be found in our Custom Award Gallery.
Which path is best for any given customer depends on a number of variables, including objectives, timeline, and budget. We pride ourselves on our ability to work with customers to help determine which custom award is best for them!


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Little Sprouts is passionate about giving back as we donate a portion of our proceeds to Williamson County CASA. CASA advocates for abused and neglected children in the juvenile court system. Their vision is for every child to be in a safe and permanent home. They are truly an incredible organization!
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Advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children.
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Thousands of children are abused or neglected every day in the United States. They are the victims of people who are unable or refuse to accept the responsibilities of raising a child. And through no fault of their own, these children are cast into a complex, chaotic, and uncertain environment of courtrooms and foster care. They are alone, and often times they are scared.
Williamson County CASA helps children in this situation every day. Speaking on their behalf in courtrooms, identifying safe homes for them to live in and listening to their stories. And while they consider this they mission as a non-profit organization, they are dependent upon people like you and me for monetary and volunteer support. Helping the helpless is a responsibility we all share.
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A child is introduced into the court system as a result of abuse or neglect in the home. A Williamson County Judge assigns a CASA advocate to that child and the advocate then becomes responsible for the welfare of that child as he or she moves through the system. That means managing and documenting all aspects of the case, making recommendations to the court on permanent living arrangements, communicating consistently with the child to ensure his or her best interests are being met for the short and long-term, and remaining actively engaged until the court discharges the case.
CASA volunteers are not therapists or official legal counsel. They are, in essence, a friend and responsible advocate with the goal of securing a solid home for a child so that he or she has a fighting chance to become a fulfilled, happy adult.


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The highly anticipated juried exhibition of Fine Arts in Pennsylvania returns to Muncy, courtesy of Muncy Historical Society. The show will feature some of the most talented artists in Pennsylvania whose works are exhibited and collected nationally.
The tenth annual invitational Artists Exhibition and Sale will be held from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Nov. 11, and from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Nov. 12 at the Pennsdale Civic Center Social Hall, 261 Village Road, Pennsdale, PA.
Friday night's opening includes a reception with complimentary beverages and hors d'oeuvres, and music by members of the Williamsport Symphony Youth Orchestra—William Knauth, Michael Fisher, Juliet Jacques, and Rachel Boll. Friday night admission is $15 per person; Saturday admission is $10 per person. The artists will be available during both Friday and Saturday hours to meet and greet show attendees.
The society's art show committee wants to ensure that show guests experience a well-rounded event that includes a wide range of artistic expression–diversity and excellent artistry remain paramount to the selection process. Many of the artists share a close relationship with Lycoming County and the surrounding area. The show includes a wide range of arts and craftsmanship, including photography, oil painting, jewelry, fashion, pottery, metal- and woodworking, quilting, mosaics, basketry, watercolor, sculpture, and home décor. The show will be a rich and varied collection of original work along with signed and numbered limited-edition reproductions.
This year's artists include Carol Cillo, Michael Coppes, Dorothy Fisher, Steve Getz, Robert Hughes, Jeff Keiffer, Selinda Kennedy, Deb Parsons, Kris Robbins, Mark Robbins, Ken Sanford, David Seybold, Roger Shipley, Theresa Spitler, Deb Stabley, Kathy Sterngold, Bruce Storm, Nella Godbey Storm, Sue Swisher, Wynn Yarrow and Judith Cole Youngman.
Five artists are making their first appearance: Joan Carroll, obsessed with animals and painting in oils; Joan Grimord, who combines whimsy with the macabre; Peter Grimord and his "pointillist" drawing technique; Lynn Kibbe who focuses on Americana and employs scratchboard; and Claudia Leo who brings finely crafted baskets to this year's show.
According to Linda Poulton, show coordinator, a panel of independent jurors evaluates new applicants and selects from our stable of previously juried talented artisans to choose those who will be asked to participate in the current year's show.
"While each exhibition is different, a small number of our artists are core to the show," Poulton said. "We are careful to offer a mix of traditional and contemporary styles and techniques from oil paintings to acrylics to mixed media. We are very fortunate to be able to introduce our community to such incredibly gifted artists and to be able to vary the show each year with different artistic expressions."
Attendees will have an opportunity to participate in a silent auction beginning Friday, and continuing until 1 p.m. on Saturday. In addition to works from the participating artists, there will be two limited edition ceramic pieces by Jef Raasch, a nationally recognized artist from the Midwest.
There will be two door prize entry opportunities. The Muncy Historical Society's door prize is two tickets to the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra's "Broadway Celebration" concert performance on March 18, 2017. Under the direction of Gerardo Edelstein, the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra will perform iconic show hits from "West Side Story," "Les Miserables," "Phantom of the Opera," "Show Boat," "Carousel" and others. Featured singers will be local stars Emily Wertz, Bernadette Boerckel and Brian Mextorf.
Also, this will be one of the last opportunities to participate in the 2016 Passport Program, an initiative sponsored by members of the Historical Organizations of Lycoming County with support provided by the Lycoming County Visitors Bureau. Entry forms will be available at the show and the prizes will be awarded on November 20. The 2016 grand prize is a 40-inch Sansui LED-LCD HDTV. There are four other prizes: 1) an overnight stay at Hampton Inn Williamsport-Downtown, a $75 gift card from historic Peter Herdic House Restaurant, along with two tickets to Williamsport Symphony Orchestra's March 18 concert; 2) 4 tickets to the 2017 Championship Game, 2017 Little League Baseball World Series; 3) 4 complimentary rounds at White Deer Golf Course, Vintage or Challenge course; and 4) a $25 gift card, Sam's Club or Walmart.
To commemorate the show's 10th year, there will be a special exhibit area comprised of a variety of artwork from the museum's collection. Art is part of the fabric of our community. The society continues to collect, preserve and exhibit pieces that highlight the many talented artists, both past and present, from this area. An architectural rendering of Ashhurst Manor, images from the Jean Mohr collection, and gunsmith Bill Kennedy's handiwork are a few examples of the pieces that will be on display.
This year's show proceeds will benefit the Muncy Historical Society's educational initiatives and its outreach, including the third annual "Pops at Pepper Street" free concert performed by the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra, confirmed for Aug. 5, 2017, and other projects that focus on Muncy as a resilient community.
Arts funding support has been provided by Gary's Furniture, 3 Factory Street, Picture Rocks; state funding through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, an agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts; the Lycoming County Visitors Bureau and friends of the Muncy Historical Society.
Directions to the Artists Exhibition and Show: I-180, 220 N exit, EXIT 15, toward Pennsdale; take 220 N approximately 0.3 mile; make slight left onto Village Road; Social Hall on left, 0.3 mile.
For more information, visit www.MuncyHistoricalSociety.org, call (570) 546-5917 or send email to email@example.com.


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This is a toy box that I helped a friend build for his son. He had the idea to add a drawer for games and he also wanted his son's initial cutout of the top. So I made a drawing and we went to work. He was very happy with the result and said his son loves to drop things through the top.
-- Luke 23: 42-43
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#1 posted 10-24-2009 06:07 AM
Very nice toy chest
#2 posted 10-24-2009 06:31 AM
iJUST ONE NEW THING I CAN MAKE I HOPE, P,S IT LOOKS GREAT OLDTIMER77 PULASKI,TENN.
-- Barry,Pulaski,Tenn.
#3 posted 10-24-2009 06:50 AM
Thanks guys.
-- Luke 23: 42-43
#4 posted 10-24-2009 11:57 AM
Very cool ===== Love the drawer & cut out…...
-- Ken, "Everyday above ground is a good day!"
#5 posted 10-24-2009 06:35 PM
It looks great. I can't believe he has enough toys to fill that chest. Look at the last picture with the you or your friend i it….it must be 5 foot tall! :-) All joking aside it looks like a woderful project that will get many years of use.
#6 posted 10-26-2009 02:31 PM
Nice job! Even has a S shaped breathing hole to let let air in when they play in the box.
-- Safety first because someone needs you.
#7 posted 10-26-2009 05:19 PM
Nice, Looks like it will hold a lot of toys. The drawer is a nice addition also.
-- If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!
#8 posted 02-23-2010 02:52 PM
Very nice job and timely.
I am starting the design process for a toy box for my grand daughter and I may incorporate the drawer idea into mine, if that's okay with you?
-- -- Don in Ottawa, http://www.donebydon.ca
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Sharny Russell is equally at home on the piano and the microphone, and is known for her ability improvise a line on both simultaneously. She brings joy to the jazz stage, and writes her own strong, appealing material. She has supported Martin Taylor, recorded with George Golla, been complimented by Ray Brown, and worked with many of the top players on the Australian scene.
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Redundancy in Chilled Water Systems
Hospitals, data centers and the like can NEVER go down but many other facilities can't afford to go down either. K-12 schools, universities, office buildings with leases that guarantee HVAC, and many other building types require the space have adequate heating and cooling. Often these projects see their chiller redundancy value engineered out. This can cause havoc for future maintenance and unplanned outages.
While we believe a redundant chiller and redundant pumps are critical for many building types, we understand that some projects simply don't have it in the budget to cover the additional cost. So what can be done?
First, by doing a little thinking and planning early on, we can avoid major costs and operational issues for the owner in the future. Here are some things to think about during the programming phase of your project:
- Can the project afford the space for a future chiller pad so that a redundant chiller can be installed in the future? It becomes very challenging to find space once the building is occupied and commonly means the owner is making major concessions to add capacity. Even an air cooled chiller, remotely mounted away from the chiller room is better than nothing.
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The point is, if budget doesn't allow true redundancy then there are other steps a project can take to ensure that a chiller issue doesn't cause a full shutdown and/or incur major future costs.
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'Is Baseball a Racket?'
Mike Gold, in a piece for the Daily Worker, published in October 1934:
Like everything else in the country, baseball is not run primarily for the fans, but for the pocketbooks of the stockholders. Communists are often ridiculed for their insistence that everything in the present capitalist system is a "racket." Hollywood recently caricatured the Communist who shouts on Mother's Day, "It's a racket!" Well, it is. It's a racket for the flower merchants, for the candy manufacturers, for the pulpit. The sickening sentimentality that is deliberately fostered by the manufacturers, the false mother-love decorations that surround the price on the box of flowers, attest to the way the emotions of people are deliberately and viciously exploited by the manufacturer for his own profit. Baseball, too, the love of sport, is deliberately and viciously exploited by the promoters.
Workers love baseball. But baseball, in its own way, is used as an "opium of the people." The "bosses" are cashing in on the "heroes" and cashing in on the frustrated love of the people for sports.


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Rewriting Love Underneath the Hollywood Sign
Love Stories is a series about love in all its forms, with one new essay appearing each day for the first two weeks of February, until Valentine's Day.
He slept, the story goes, below the Hollywood sign, taking shelter under the first L of the tallest metaphor in town. Watched the sun set in the belly of its _O_s, watched the sky darken and the stars and the city fill in the negative space. He was a Nature Boy. He'd wandered far. He knew where to pick fresh avocados and figs, persimmons and wild greens; he walked the deserts and canyons and downtown streets; he showered in waterfalls and slept sometimes in caves. So the story goes. In photographs he is bare-chested, with a necklace of wooden beads, a tangled beard, a bird in his palm; he is the pilgrim who appears briefly out of the shimmering horizon and vanishes again into the far-off distance. Or he is in flowing white robes like a sunburned desert shaman. Or hunched next to Brian Wilson in the halls of Western Studios, appearing tiny and wizardly, an ancient figure from some magic portal, perhaps from the imagination itself. Or in a duster coat and flip-flops, in the pages of Life magazine, for he did in fact become a little bit famous. He is eden ahbez—lowercase e, lowercase a—and he wrote what became one of the world's most popular love songs, and before he died, he said the ending was all wrong.
He was abbe (ah-be) to friends, George Alexander Aberle at birth, long before he rejected all capital letters except those for God and Infinity, the Alpha and Omega. He looked like a painting of Jesus transplanted to the Mojave Desert, but he was not religious—not in the way you think. Music ran in his blood. A relative wrote the songs "That's Amore" and "I Only Have Eyes for You." But George Aberle was cut off from his family. At the age of 9, he and his twin sister, Editha, were taken from Brooklyn by orphan train and adopted in Kansas. There, he grew up. He combed and slicked his hair and tied his tie and played piano in bars in Kansas City, which is where it was all happening then. Home of Count Basie and Charlie Parker, Big Joe Turner, the 4/4 beat, the all-night jam. Places like the Panama and the Reno and Lucille's Paradise Band Box and the Hi Hat and the Hey Hay. This was the 1930s, Storyville; the aftermath of the Depression; the beginnings of bebop. But this is also where the pomade narrative of George Aberle ends, where the capital letters drop off, where the lowercase long-haired story of eden ahbez begins.
A little shy and sad of eye, but very wise was he . . . . eden ahbez hops a freight out West. Or first he goes East, picking fruit in Florida; he is spotted in Miami. Or he crisscrosses the country by foot, back and forth, new roads each time. Everyone has an eden ahbez story, it seems, and all of them end in California, where all the Nature Boys go. You can live on $3 a week, eden's new friends claim, foraging in the wild. He plays a little piano, too, washes dishes at the Eutropheon, a raw-food place on Laurel Canyon Boulevard, the first of its kind in town. Remember it is now just 1940. In a few years Jack Kerouac will pass through L.A. and write, in On the Road, how he saw "an occasional Nature Boy saint in beard and sandals." Right now the Vietnam War is still years away; World War II has only just begun; the flower children have not yet been born. But here already is ahbez, here is his good friend Gypsy Boots, with their sandals, their precocious raw diets and their yoga, their mystic ways. Gypsy Boots is friends with Brando; he goes on Groucho Marx's show, tells him how he lives in a cave and swings from trees. This much is also true. Over in Palm Springs, here is their friend Bill Pester. A name like that, but he is the real deal Naturmensch, straight from Germany, wearing little more than a loincloth. He performs medicine ceremonies with the local Cahuilla Indians and lives in a cabin made of palm logs. Timothy Leary is his down-canyon neighbor. Rudolph Valentino, prince of the silent screen, stops by once in a while.
Even a Nature Boy needs love, and for eden, her name is Anna. In Life magazine, eden and Anna, husband and wife, sit bohemian style on the ground, slicing vegetables into a bowl. Anna wears trousers and a T-shirt and little loafers, her dark hair pulled back, a strong, beautiful presence. In another photograph she and eden hold their baby boy, Zoma; in another, she looks on as her man plays the bongos. Elsewhere are pictures of eden and little Zoma atop a pair of desert rocks, Zoma echoing his father's lotus pose.
There are no photos of Anna sharing eden's sleeping bag under the Hollywood sign. But say she does. Say it is 1947, pre–Life magazine story, pre–hit song. No baby yet. No money, really. Persimmons and sunshine. Bicycle and a juicer and a guitar. Say eden slips away into Griffith Park in the early morning, hiking down through the chaparral or strolling the hairpin turns of Mt. Lee Drive as passing cars lean into its curves. This is back when people still walked in L.A. We were the bus and hitchhiker people, a man from those times tells me. And eden walks or bicycles everywhere, almost always alone. He is on his way to wash dishes maybe, writing songs in his head.
Now here is where the stories diverge and converge again. Eden plays a new song he's just written, a deceptively simple one set to an apocryphal melody, for his friend the radio DJ Cowboy Jack Patton. Cowboy Jack refers to eden as "the Prophet." He has an idea of who should sing the Prophet's song. It is either ahbez, or maybe it is Cowboy Jack, who slips the song to the manager, or maybe it is the valet of Nat King Cole, who is performing then in a theater in South Central. There is no phone number, no address for the mystery white man in the beard and sandals who has delivered this beguiling little tune. Its lyrics are spare. I've given you most of them already, in fact. Here are the rest: And then one day, one magic day he passed my way, and while we spoke of many things, fools and kings, this he said to me: The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
Nat King Cole loves it. His recording of "Nature Boy" is the temperature by which all the others that follow are regulated. It is warm and bittersweet and full of heart. His words hang in the air like a deep exhalation. He smokes three packs of Kools a day to drop his baritone to that molten register. Released as a B-side of "Lost April," it shoots to the top of the Billboard charts and stays there for eight weeks. Profits from "Nature Boy" and Cole's other hits help fuel the construction of the then skyscraper-high Capitol Records Building, that vintage-futuristic architecture that resembles a giant stack of vinyl records. When it is completed in 1956, it becomes known as "The House That Nat Built." When Cole dies of lung cancer a decade later, "Nature Boy" is the montage song that plays on the news. To love and be loved in return.
"But that's not what he wanted them to say," he tells me. He—a guy I'm sort of seeing, is how I describe him. This is two years ago. I've never heard the story before. Until tonight I've never heard the Nat King Cole version. I know Big Star's, a bonus track, buried deep on their album Third/Sister Lovers, and to be honest I never thought about where it came from. Here we are, though, at the late break of a party in Brooklyn, summer, the windows flung open, the floor silvery with flip tops and lost earrings and dollar-store confetti, ice melting into abandoned glasses, records scattered and stacked into miniature Capitol Records Buildings all over the room, the few other stragglers out on the roof, smoke and windy laughter. Earlier the floorboards buckled under the seismic stomp and sway of dancing, plaster chunks of ceiling crumbling in the apartment below, but somehow no one was mad. Earlier the host's cat fled, and now she emerges from underneath somewhere with dust-covered ears, creeping past and drinking loudly from a bowl on the floor, pausing once in a while to stare at the two of us commandeering the late-night stereo.
"That last line," he says. He lifts the needle and replays it. "What abbe said before he died was that this was all wrong. It's too much of a deal, he said, and there's no deal in love."
"No deal in love," I say. "That's nice."
"It's true. The story, I mean." He goes on. "He wanted the lyrics rewritten: 'The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just love and be loved.'"
"Doesn't quite keep the rhythm," I say.
"That was the trouble," he says.
"That's always the trouble." He laughs, grabs both my wrists at once and pulls me up. "Let's get out of here," he says. He and I are making our own negotiations. We have been sort of seeing each other only a little while, and we will be doing this only a little while longer, and I suppose I already know it then, even though it's not much fun to admit, so I don't. This is in a time when I don't like to admit much. When the rhythm feels right, it is easier to make the lyric fit. I am always changing the lyric. When the return doesn't satisfy, when the song was maybe wrong to begin with. And so, as it so often goes, the story stays with me longer than the man who told it to me did.
Eventually I listen to all the other "Nature Boys." I go back first to Big Star's, recorded a year after William Eggleston made his famous The Red Ceiling photograph, used for the cover of their album Radio City. Eggleston, also a talented pianist, plays on the recording to Alex Chilton's singing. One night in the studio, the story goes, he just sat down and started playing it. It's only the two of them, probably something like four in the morning on one of these Mandrax nights in Memphis, so the piano has a particular solitary, wandering character, Chilton's vocals a lonesome, last-call quality—he's just been covering the Velvets' "Femme Fatale." It is perhaps how eden ahbez first wrote it even. Frank Sinatra's is subtle and lithe, till the ghostly male chorus intrudes, those vaporous male seraphic figures who always seem to be lurking about the studios in those days, haunting a shared microphone. Woozy, swooning angels, nature men and women, are in the background of Sarah Vaughan's version, too. Ella Fitzgerald's swaps the piano for a Spanish guitar.
"You will become everything. And everything will become part of you," is how Willie Nelson has described the effect of Django Reinhardt's version on him, the spirit of his gypsy jazz swing. John Coltrane's is a wordless pastoral of piano and saxophone, swooping deep into the forest. Miles Davis's, brooding; Arthur Doyle's, wild and transcendent. "Nature Boy" has been recorded as a duet by Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett. It has been done by Grace Slick and the Great Society; by Marvin Gaye; by Celine Dion; by George Benson; by Johnny Mathis; by Cher. James Brown steps to the mic and riffs—"Sometimes I get, I get a little lonely, and sometimes I get a little blue"—and proceeds to positively slay with a torchy, stomping swing.
"Eden Ahbez is an Orphic, messianic character," Baz Luhrmann told the writer Harvey Kubernik, who happened to briefly know both ahbez and the Coles in Los Angeles. Luhrmann made "Nature Boy" recurrent in Moulin Rouge! On the soundtrack it is performed by David Bowie and Massive Attack, and then by Bowie alone, with thunderous emphasis on that final delivery:". . . in RETURN!" For no one, despite eden's wishes, has ever changed the lyrics to his revised definition of love.
What does eden ahbez get in return? It isn't money he's after. For him there is never much. There is not enough to cure Anna's cancer. She dies at 44, and then Zoma, four years later at 17. A drug overdose maybe. A drowning. It is unspeakable. He will outlive them both by still another generation. But there will be more songs still. "Lonely Island," for Sam Cooke. "Hey Jacque," the B-side of "Santa Baby," for Eartha Kitt. "California," about a hobo hopping freight trains up the coast, for Hoagy Carmichael. And his own, strange exotica albums. Eden keeps Ampex reel-to-reels of his recordings in a van with everything else he owns, until a friend offers to store his tapes out of the heat and the sun. Because, it is known, eden ahbez will remain in the sun. He is brought to Brian Wilson when Wilson is the midst of making the very overdue Smile and occasionally receiving other enigmatic figures (Thomas Pynchon is another) for often wordless visits whose impact you like to imagine slipping somehow into the rearranged harmonies of "Heroes and Villains." In another allegedly wordless, near-telepathic encounter, eden meets with Donovan in Joshua Tree.
"'Nature Boy' is really the story of my life," eden says the first time he appears on television, a young-old man. He wheels his bicycle onstage and sits down cross-legged, reading from a piece of paper. "I was born with a love for nature and a desire to find God. Finally I came to look upon nature as a great symphony, and upon love as the theme of that symphony, and suddenly a melody just started singing inside of me." Though it descends from the 45-foot-tall letters that loom over the city, eden ahbez leads a hermetic, lowercase life till the end. Keeps on writing songs, poems; making wooden flutes; giving them away to friends and strangers; driving some miles to do this. "Eden driving?" says one who knew him. "It's hard to picture." He will die on the road, a car wreck. But by then it is 1995, and he is 86. He is still a Nature Boy, no fixed address, comes into the city only now and then. In between times, he calls his friends from phone booths, leaves long, warm messages, acknowledging that there's no way to call him back. He always tells them he loves them.


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This session has a really special place in my heart because this little family goes to our church! I was SO honored when Leigh and Tim asked me to document this new season in their lives. I've come to adore newborn sessions, but photographing a friend's newborn? It makes it that much sweeter.
Leigh and Tim are fantastic parents, and I'm already looking up to them. They both have such calm demeanors, and I'm pretty sure their relaxed attitude has transferred to Soren. I haven't heard him cry once in church! :) These two are also both so intelligent, involved with the community and have hearts of gold. I strive to be Leigh and Tim when I grow up! Soren is a lucky baby boy.
That cradle is a family heirloom. And because of that, this is my favorite photo of the whole bunch. :) Congratulations again, Leigh and Tim!


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[+Renke, who attended the F2F on behalf of SEMIC (thanks again, Renke)] El 30/10/2008, a las 2:31, Owen Ambur escribió: > This is a case study of the need for persistent URLs. > > I see that SEMIC now has a new set of objectives -- > http://www.semic.eu/semic/view/snav/About_SEMIC/Objectives.xhtml?cid=33749 > -- which have been established since April 5, 2008, when I captured > their > goals in StratML format, at http://xml.gov/stratml/SEMIC.xml > > Meanwhile, the page from which I copied their former goals -- > http://www.semic.eu/ > about_semantic_interoperability_centre_europe.html -- is > now generating a 404 error. And it goes on and on and on... too many examples like this around... This is one of the errors I really hate because it's very easy to solve, not to mention if planned in advance. As I mentioned on the call, my experience so far is that when you talk about it in technical terms to make the policy case it does not work. What is needed is to talk in their terms. Example: a recent meeting with people in charge of a national gazette (official journal where laws, decrees, call for tenders, etc. are published) and that is published on a daily basis. Paper version about to disappear, only online version to be available. Lots of references to a given issue and a given page. What if it just disappears online? Not acceptable. I like to think I succeed making this simple case :) I believe that many of the things we have to say as Group are as simple as that. I understand some governments are already ahead of this, so what I envision is: 1) showing the problem with simple real examples (I'd favor common generic ones, not finger pointing) 2) those that are ahead to tell how they are solving it (including the hurdles they find on the way) 3) showing issues still unsolved that will need further consideration It should not be that complicated. We have enough knowledge around and main areas are almost identified already. If after all that, we have enough time to develop best practices based on that knowledge base, that would be super. We can also defer this part to a second phase of the Group's work and even discuss later in time if we want to pursue it via recommendation track work. Jose. > Owen Ambur > Co-Chair Emeritus, xmlCoP > Co-Chair, AIIM StratML Committee > Member, AIIM iECM Committee > Invited Expert, W3C eGov IG > Membership Director, FIRM Board > Former Project Manager, ET.gov > > > -----Original Message----- > From: firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto:email@example.com > ] > On Behalf Of Jose M. Alonso > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 1:40 PM > To: email@example.com > Subject: SEMIC.EU slides -- Re: [minutes] eGov IG call - 29 Oct 2008 > > >> ... >> 1. Semantic Interoperability >> >> <martin> info on [15]http://www.semic.eu/semic/ >> >> [15] http://www.semic.eu/semic/ >> ... > > Slides in HTML: http://www.w3.org/2008/10/SEMIC_W3C.htm > Slides in PPT: http://www.w3.org/2008/10/SEMIC_W3C.ppt > > -- Jose > > > >Received on Thursday, 30 October 2008 09:03:15 UTC
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