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Event Date: 2017-08-16 06:00 pm
Join us and our friends from the Peterborough Paddling Club for a trip to Big (Boyd/Chiminis) Island, on Pigeon Lake.
Date: Wednesday, August 16th, 2017
Time: 6 p.m.
Meeting Location: From Peterborough, take Chemong Road to Bridgnorth; cross the causeway, and follow County Road 16 – which becomes County Road 37. Turn left at Elim Lodge Road, and right on to Bear Creek Road. Drive to the end (#910). Parking is along the road.
What to bring: BYO Boat & lifejacket
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"Got my house cleaned."
"Getting my house clean would a HUGE win."
"Getting my house clean would be huge for me too."
"Want to clean my house? Please?"
The Facebook thread read.
I think most of us want a clean home. But for some reason, cleaning is the one to-do that commonly gets pushed aside in favor of just about anything else.
(In my home, too, but that never has a happy ending.)
But, I have noticed an attitude shift in willingness (maybe even want to) when it comes to cleaning my home, and I believe it has to do with these 5 cleaning hacks that make cleaning (sort of) fun. (Unless your like my friend, April, who loves all the cleaning things, all the time. Then it's totally fun.)
5 Cleaning Hacks That Make Cleaning Fun
- Creating a flexible cleaning routine
- Realizing that most cleaning tasks take less than fifteen minutes. (Some less than five minutes!)
- Asking my family for help
- Making my own cleaners
- Organizing my cleaners and cleaning supplies.
Creating a Flexible Cleaning Routine
My book, Creating Success At Home, goes into more detail about creating a flexible cleaning routine. One of the key points the book makes is to adjust your routine and your expectations of clean according to your stage of life.
Most recently, I've incorporated my daily cleaning task into the Pomodoro method as I work. A simple cleaning task is a great way to stretch your body and wake up your mind during those five or ten minute breaks.
Cleaning Routines for Moms of Young Children
A word of encouragement to Moms of young children; you will never regret putting aside sweeping or dusting to cuddle with your children. Tidy or picked up was my goal during this stage of life.
- Children as young as three or four can help put their toys away. This is made easier by creating an easy-to-follow system.
- Designate a cubby or bin for each child, and assigning each child a photo, color, shape or symbol.
- Label the bins and the shelf with the designated symbol.
- Give a five-minute warning before clean up time.
- Signal clean up time with a song or countdown clock.
- Reduce stress by allowing for lots of margin time in between activities.
Tip: Be sure to model the routine and practice it several times to help clean-up time go smoothly.
Young children are also capable of sorting silverware (great activity for four and five year olds), setting the table, and putting away their dirty dishes. You can even give them individual dust pans and sweepers to clean the floor in their area under the kitchen table and chairs. I used to do that with my Pre-K and Kindergartners and they loved it.
Which reminds me…you could also assign weekly helper jobs. For example, one child sets the table, another sorts silverware into the dishwasher, one puts dirty dishes in the sink or dishwasher and one sweeps under the table.
Cleaning Routines for Older Kids
I was sitting at lunch with a friend when I started tearing up. After letting me talk, my friend decided I was overburdened partly because I was doing too much for my family; that it was time to pass on some of the responsibility.
She went on to share that each of her kids became responsible for their own laundry at the age of 10. Hannah happened to be 10 or so at the time. So, I went home and created a simple laundry instruction sheet…from sorting, to washing to drying and hung them in the laundry room. And you know what? My girl seemed to appreciate the easy instruction and responsibility. Now, when she goes to college next Fall, I can knowing she knows how to do her laundry. (It's cooking I'm worried about.)
Older kids can also take responsibility for their own spaces such as bathrooms and bedrooms. I never clean my daughter's room for her (neither does she, and after organizing her room with her to try to set her up for success, I gave up and no longer fight that battle.) And I only clean her bathroom on the rare occasion I'm feeling generous.
Lately, I've been kind of bummed that I'll have to take on her chore of washing dishes again when goes off to school. Dirty dishes gross me out.
Ten Chores that only take 5 minutes or less to complete
- making the bed
- cleaning the toilet
- unloading the dishwasher
- loading the dishwasher
- wiping down the counter
- putting a load of laundry in the washer
- changing the laundry to the dryer
- sorting mail
- fluffing the throw pillows and blankets in the living room
- cleaning/shining the kitchen sink
Whether you create a quick morning and evening routine or fit these chores into breaks within your day, knowing you can get them done so quickly makes it so much achievable. Conquering that mental block is more than half the cleaning battle.
Asking for Help
One night when I was still in the throes of my health battle, I called a family meeting and let them know that 1) a clean or at least picked up home is important to me 2) that regrettably, I physically was not capable of doing even the simplest of chores anymore 3) and I needed their help.
Sharing my heart and asking for help worked. Now that I'm better, I've taken on my share of the load. But, everyone is still responsible for folding their own laundry, loading dirty dishes into the dishwasher and picking up after themselves at the end of the day. I also delegate sweeping because for whatever reason, it hurts my back.
DIY Cleaner Recipes
I truly love making my own cleaners which serves as motivation to use them. Part of the enjoyment comes from saving so much money by using products I already have on hand. And part of it is the peace of mind I get from using safer, nontoxic cleaners. Some of my favorite DIY cleaners to make are:
DIY Granite Cleaner
Supplies & Ingredients
- 1/4 Cup – Rubbing Alcohol
- a few drops – dish liquid
- 26 oz. spray bottle
- funnel
- water
- Use the funnel to add alcohol to spray bottle
- pour a few drops of dish liquid into the bottle
- use a funnel to fill the bottle with water
Shake before use.
Tip: Use distilled water if you have hard water.
DIY Stainless Steel Cleaner
I LOVE this cleaner. I have used many other stainless steel cleaners that worked just fine, but nothing beats natural and simple ingredients that work!
Supplies & Ingredients
- 16 oz. spray bottle
- water
- a few drops – dish liquid
- funnel
- microfiber cloth for stainless steel
- use a funnel to add water to spray bottle
- add a few drops of dish liquid
- shake before use
- spray appliance generously
- wipe away cleaner with microfiber cloth moving from top to bottom in an S motion
Tip: For extra stubborn prints or steaks, I use Bio Green Clean.
DIY Carpet Deodorizer
This carpet deodorizer rocks my stink intolerant nose and deep longing for a fresh smelling home world! It smells so good, and it's so easy to make!!
- lavender essential oil
- purification essential oil
- baking soda
- fork
- small bowl
- funnel
- glass jar with sprinkle lid ( Use a 7 oz. olive jar and punch holes in the lid with an awl and hammer.)
- pour baking soda in a bowl
- add 5 to 10 drops of lavender oil, depending on how strong you want the scent
- add 5 to 10 drops of purification, depending on how strong you want the scent
- blend the essential oils into the baking soda with a fork
- use a funnel to pour the mixture into the jar and place on lid
Sprinkle liberally over carpets, rugs, upholstery and mattresses. Let sit for 15 minutes up to overnight.
Then vacuum to reveal a brighter, fresher space.
Tip: Glass jars are recommended when using essential oils because they are extremely concentrated and can erode plastic.
DIY Daily Bathroom Cleaning Spray
Using a cleaner to daily wipe down the countertop, sink and mirror means that I hardly ever need to do a big bathroom cleaning. I also love waking up to a shiny bathroom.
- tea tree essential oil (a natural antibacterial disinfectant )
- 16 oz spray bottle
- funnel
- water
- dish liquid
- Use a funnel to add water to the spray bottle
- add a few drops of dish liquid
- add 7 to 10 drops of tea tree oil
- shake before each use.
- Spray on counter and sink. Wipe counter, then wipe mirrors with residual cleaner. Shine faucets and then wipe sink clean.
You can WATCH the video tutorial on how to make each of these cleaners here.
See you in class,

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I received my Bachelor's Degree in Architectural Science from MSA University in Cairo, Egypt & Greenwich University, London, UK.
Started my first job as a Junior Designer for P+R Architects in Long Beach, CA.
In 2008 I established my own design business, collaborating with Architectural offices - Interior designers - Landscape Architects - Contractors & Developers.


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Executive, 2017-2019:
Chair: Donna Bourne-Tyson, Dalhousie University
Vice-Chair: Susan Cleyle, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Past Chair: Marc Truitt, Mount Allison University
Treasurer: Lesley Balcom, University of New Brunswick
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Low Culture with a Purpose
Evangelicalism takes a lot of flack for being hokey. I know this because I've dished out a lot of the criticism.
Tim LeHaye's Left Behind series is the perpetual butt of jokes among conservative and revisionist scholars. It has inspired numerous book titles that play off the franchise's moniker; those books are almost always critical not only of the theological interpretation of LeHaye, but also the cultural cheesiness.
At one level, the criticism is justified. There are too many conservative Christians the see kitsch culture with a Christian overtone as the high watermark of art. Prairie fiction is a blight on the Christian imagination. Much of the Contemporary Christian Music scene is a sectarian revision of pop hits from a couple of decades ago. Evangelical culture makers need to improve their cultural tastes and stop mimicking popular trends a few years after they were vogue.
However, those who are critical of Evangelical subculture need to ensure we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. This, I fear, is an even more significant danger for us. We can become so critical of the style of some cultural creations that we ignore the value of the content.
The Embarrassment of Christian Cheesiness
When I was in college, one of my fellow English majors revealed how cheesy her homeschool life was. She shared with the class at our secular institution that her mother used to read her C.S. Lewis and point out how Aslan is like Jesus.
The class groaned as she described her mother's attempts to disciple her using children's literature. It was so simplistic and moralistic. It was so cheesy.
I now believe that it was perfectly practical and appropriate.
I'm glad to see conservative Christians work toward becoming culture makers again. We need people like Andrew Peterson, Phil Keaggy, and others to keep making excellent books, movies, and music.
At the same time, we need to keep making popular level material that puts the cookies on the bottom shelf, as the saying goes.
This hit me as we were listening to a Seeds Family Worship playlist in the van on the way to church. The music is pretty basic. The lyrics recast Scripture to fit the tunes and are often repetitive and simplistic. I went through an inner turmoil one day while the songs rolled on because I wondered if I was somehow cheating my children by exposing them to this kitschy music.
A Better Calculus is Warranted
Then I realized that I was missing the point and my analysis needed to be revised.
I certainly do not want my children to live in a cultural desert. I want them to be exposed to art and music that reflects the unique ability of humans to create, whether the artists are Christian or not. I want them to be familiar with high quality cultural artifacts and conversant with the good, the true, and the beautiful.
More importantly, though, I want my children to grow up being surrounded by some of the great truths of the Christian faith. Sometimes this will come through watching performances of Handel or listening to Tallis. Sometimes this will come by singing doctrinal truths along with a catchy tune that will never win an award for musical excellence.
Christian movies are another example. If you've seen the films produced by Sherwood Pictures, you have seen some feel good, moralistic, happy ending on your screen. The gospel is always a key element as someone goes through a crisis of faith.
I've dismissed these movies before and heard others mock them mercilessly. Now that I'm a few years later on in life with kids that are a little older, I'm reconsidering.
In no way do I think that Fireproof or Courageous are worthy of an Oscar. The overall production is not polished enough to put it into the same league as most major films. But I've reached the point that I'm glad the movies have been made. They are telling simple stories and pointing to an over-optimistically good world, which is more like the world that we want to live in than most of the dystopian films produced by Hollywood.
But aren't cheesy Christian films and pop music Scripture songs just cheesy knockoffs of culture?
Knockoffs vs. Creative Packaging
As I've considered the difference between "Christian" Prairie Fiction and Fireproof, I think a basic principle that separates worthwhile Christian pop culture from the junk.
Many of the Contemporary Christian Music songs (though not all) and most of the Amish Romance/Prairie Fiction genre are simply knockoffs of popular culture with the offensive ideas taken out. These are the "God is my girlfriend" songs, which only gain any Christian content when played in a context that assumes the deep emotional love being expressed is for God and not romantic idol. Your average Amish Romance is just a Harlequin novel with the sex pushed off screen.
In contrast, C. S. Lewis is trying to present a particularly Christian perspective on the world in compelling terms through a well-written story that is symbolically accessible to children. My family's peppy Scripture songs are trying to disciple by getting simple lyrics stuck in their head. Sherwood Pictures is trying to entertain an audience and get the gospel out there through a story with a happy ending.
There is a difference between making a cheap knockoff and creating healthy, purposeful entertainment. Sometimes simplicity and morality presented through story is the best way to get the medicine down.
Those of us who are critical should step back and remember that using popular culture to disseminate the gospel is not a recent invention. As Karen Swallow Prior notes, Hannah More wrote plays for sophisticated audiences and entertaining tracts with stories that landed on pleas for gospel conversion, which were distributed to the masses. We ought not criticize methods that were effective in reaching the lost. For example, Hudson Taylor was converted to Christianity through a novel that led to a moralistic gospel presentation. The author of that kitschy book will doubtless receive treasure in heaven for his or her efforts.
There is a place for using popular cultural forms in Christian subcultures, but it should be simplicity for the sake of the gospel, not mimicry for the sake of the dollar. That is the real criterion by which we should be judging our art.


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6 Day Itinerary
Day 1 UK- Israel
Depart London Heathrow on El Al's scheduled service to Tel Aviv Israel. Arrival at Ben Gurion Airport, where you will be met and given assistance by Diesenhaus Unitours representative. Transfer to the Hotel in Tel Aviv for overnight stay.
Day 2 Tel Aviv – The Galilee
Drive on to Caesarea; see the excavations of the Crusader City, the Herodian Port. Proceed to Mount Carmel, the site of the encounter between the Prophet Elijah and the Baal priests. Continue to Nazareth where Jesus spent his early years and visit Mary's Well and the Church of the Annunciation. Just north of Nazareth is the village of Cana, the site of Jesus' first miracle. Drive to Tiberias
Day 3– Sea of Galilee
Start the day with a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee. Onwards to Capernaum, centre of Jesus' Ministry, – located here are the ruins of an ancient synagogue, and the site of Peter's House. Visit Taghba and Mensa Christi, then to the Mount of Beatitudes. Transfer to Jerusalem for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 4 – Old City of Jerusalem
Begin the day's tour on the Mount of Olives for a breathtaking view of the entire city. See Bethpage, Chapel of the Ascension, Pater Noster Church. Walk down the traditional Palm Sunday route to, Dominus Flevit, the Church of All Nations and the Garden of Gethsemane. Tomb of Mary. Enter in Old City through St Stephen's Gate, see Pool of Bethesda (Pool of the Five Porches) & St Anne's Church. Onwards to Flagellation, Sisters of Zion, Ecce Homo Church, walk the Via Dolorosa and enter the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. End the day at the Garden Tomb
Day 5 – Dead Sea
Depart Jerusalem and descend the Judean Wilderness, via the Inn of the Good Samaritan, to the lowest place on earth-the Dead Sea. Drive along the shore to Massada and ascend by cable car. Tour this mountaintop fortress, which was the last stronghold of the Jews against the Romans. Drive to a nearby oasis and relax and enjoy an opportunity to " float" in the Dead Sea. Before returning to Jerusalem, visit the Qumran caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.
Day 6 Israel – UK
Morning transfer to Ben Gurion Airport for your El Al flight to London Heathrow.


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How One Company is Redesigning its Offices to Maximize Employee Happiness and Productivity
In an effort to maximize productivity and happiness, global insurance company Zurich is letting its employees determine what its new North American headquarters will look like.
Last fall, 150 staffers participated in a pilot program in which they tested out different workspaces and reported which design features they liked best. The best-liked features will appear in the new HQ in Schaumburg, Illinois, when it opens in fall 2016.Employee feedback suggested the current Schaumburg office, which features a traditional mix of private offices and cubicles, wasn't meeting their needs. So Zurich partnered with Cannon Design to create a workspace where employees could really thrive.
Zurich and Cannon analyzed the data from the pilot program and found that certain features were near-universally applauded as being conducive to productivity and well-being, while others were seen as obstacles to getting things done.
We spoke to Jennifer Kyung, headquarters business lead at Zurich North America, and Meg Osman, executive director of CannonDesign's Global Corporate/Commercial practice, about what they learned:
- Employees did not like casual furniture: Any furniture that was too casual — think a couch or a table with chairs that you'd see in a home — was not seen favorably. Instead, it was viewed as a hindrance to the ability to get work done. This was true for all generations of employees, despite the common misconception that millennials prefer more casual workspaces, Osman said.
- Employees wanted more social hubs: These spaces include a kitchen and an area for eating together or chatting, separate from areas designated for working. Employees liked having an area of respite, where their chatter or the smell of their tuna sandwiches wouldn't distract their colleagues doing serious work.
- Employees appreciated private enclaves: These are private spaces designed for individual, "in-the-zone" work. People can also use these areas for conference calls or small meetings. Employees liked having a balance of spaces for collaboration and individual work.
- Employees loved natural light: In the new HQ, there will be views of nature and as much natural light as possible.
- Employees wanted sit/stand desks: With these workstations, you can push a button to vary the height of your desk so that you can either sit or stand while working. The many employees who used these mechanisms said that when they varied their posture, they worked more efficiently.


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So you are probably wondering why I am posting a pumpkin recipe less than a week before Christmas. I'm going to be completely honest with you. I don't really like Christmas. I think it's over-commercialized, the malls are too crazy and Christmas trees make a mess on the floor. I know, I know I sound like a Grinch. I just love fall so much that I feel like Christmas cuts it short. So I try to extend it as much as possible. Plus, this was the recipe I have been waiting all fall for. Partially, because I used my new KitchenAid Pasta Attachments, which made this so simple. My friend told me they tasted like mini fried pumpkin pies in your mouth.
Total Time: 1 hour and 15 minutes Cook Time: 15 minutes
4 Eggs
½ cup of Water
3½ cups of Flour
½ teaspoon of Salt
Pumpkin Filling
½ cup of Pumpkin
2 tablespoons of ricotta
½ teaspoon of Cinnamon
¼ teaspoon of Ginger
¼ teaspoon of Nutmeg
¼ teaspoon of Salt
1 tablespoon of Sugar
Extra Ingredients
1/4 cup or less of Brown Sugar
Olive Oil
(1) Put the eggs, water, flour and salt in a mixing bowl. Attach a flat beater and begin mixing for 30 seconds to a minute. If you have a dough hook attachment use that and knead the dough for about 2 minutes. If you don't have a dough hook, then I would just continue to use a flat beater. Remove the dough from the bowl and hand knead for about a minute or two. The dough will be tough and it may be hard to knead, but try to do the best you can. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and let rest for 20 minutes.
(2) After the dough has rested, divide the dough into four pieces, that are about the size of tennis balls. Take one of the balls out (keep the other three wrap in plastic wrap so they don't dry out). Put the ball through your pasta roller attachment on setting 1 for about 3 or 4 times until flat and smooth. Turn your setting to 2 and feed the dough through 2 times. Do the same with setting 3 until the dough is very thin and smooth. If you don't have a pasta roller attachment, do not fret. You can still make pasta. Just use a roller, flipping the dough every few rolls. Just make sure the dough is very very flat (about 1/8 inch thick or about 2 quarters thick).
(3) Mix all of the pumpkin filling ingredients together in a bowl. It won't seem like a lot of filling, but it should make about 24 raviolis. Remember you don't want to have too much filling or you won't be able to properly close the ravioli.
(4) If you have a ravioli attachment, follow those instructions. Just make sure to only put enough to fill the little hole. You don't want to waste filling and you want to be able to close it. If you don't have a ravioli attachment there are other options. (a) You can use a Ravioli Maker and Press. (b) Use a small square cookie cutter to cut all of the pasta sheet. Then put a small amount of filling in the middle of one of the squares. Put a second square on top and use a fork to pinch the edges of the squares together.
(5) Fill a frying pan with about two inches of olive oil (you also may be able to use shortening, but I haven't tried this yet to know). Let the oil sit until it starts to bubble slightly. Start with just one ravioli at a time. It will fry quickly and you need to see how quick before you throw them all in. It likely won't take more than 30 seconds on each side, and sometimes it will take less.
(6) Place the ravioli on a napkin covered plate. Immediately, sprinkle brown sugar on top of the ravioli. I didn't try this, but next time I'm going to spoon a little bit of honey on top of the pumpkin ravioli and then sprinkle the brown sugar. That sounds fantastic! If you try it please tell me how it turns out!


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The Gift of Paper
A few years ago, I introduced by a dear friend to a small publisher in search of illustrators. The publisher and I talked for an hour about my background and my passion for all things paper related. I told him about studying fashion design and starting my own stationery line. I told him about my adventures designing and making paper creations for the White House Christmas. We talked about how I wasn't always sure what I would grow up to do, but that I was always encouraged by my brother to follow my passion. We finished our call, agreeing that when a manuscript came his way that he thought would fit my style, he would send it over.
A few hours after that call, the publisher sent me a manuscript. One that he had written about a girl that loves paper. I was touched, overwhelmed, honored... and so excited to illustrate my very first children's book- one that is about me.
I have been blessed with a family, husband and dear friends who always support me and never blink at whatever crazy thing I say I'm making next. Thank you ALL for all the words of encouragement and support. You make my paper-filled life a dream come true.
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The Best Way to Earn $500,000 in Your Spare Time
"It's never been easier in history to make more money."
We'd all like to earn a little extra scratch. But Grant Sabatier, the founder of Millennial Money, a personal-finance community dedicated to helping people achieve financial independence, took that whole "extra income" idea to an all-new level. In just five years, Sabatier, a former staffer at a marketing agency, turned a paltry savings account into a seven-figure behemoth by juggling a host of side hustles. He did everything from flipping concert tickets to buying and selling web domains to writing white papers for corporations.
But given his mind-blowing savings, we had to ask: What was his most lucrative gig? If you're looking to really rake in extra savings and don't necessarily have time to diversify workload across the whole of American industry—as Sabatier did—what is the most lucrative side hustle anyone can do?
Well, it turns out the answer isn't something like graphic design or dabbling in real estate ("The time invested in getting to [a lucrative] level on the side is not worth the effort," says Sabatier). It's SEO consulting.
SEO (or "search engine optimization") consulting is when you advise companies on how to have a stronger presence on Google and other search engines. In other words, if you own a pet-food company, you'd hire someone like Sabatier to help you deploy an online strategy to ensure that your website shows up when people search for "pet food."
All told, Sabatier was able to pull in more than half a million bucks through SEO consulting alone. He took jobs ranging from $500 to $100,000. If you balk at that latter number, don't. "Never be afraid to push your pricing," explains Sabatier. "A lot of people sell themselves short and don't get paid what they're worth."
If helping businesses rank their websites on Google doesn't sound like something up your alley, there are plenty of ways to put your income on steroids. The key, says Sabatier, is "being smart about the side hustle you choose."
Whatever you do, put yourself in a position of power. Instead of walking dogs, for instance, start your own dog-walking company. "The easiest way is to sell your skills in other formats," says Sabatier. In other words, you should be trying to figure out a way to repackage your day-to-day skill set and selling to others on the side. If you're a chef, your side hustle is lucrative catering gigs. If you're a marketing whiz at a big firm, figure out a way to sell those skills as a lone wolf.
That way, he says, your skills are put to use, and you're not wasting time—the most valuable resource—learning something from scratch.
But most importantly, he says, "Make sure you chill as hard as you hustle."
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One of the things I love about my daughter, Kiya, is that she is definitely unique. She is herself. She is quirky, and funny, and sweet, opinionated, stubborn, lovable and she knows what she wants! These are qualities in her I hope to maintain...I'm just hoping I don't impose any of my insecurities on her. I love her exactly the way she is.
One of her more "unusual" tendencies, which is often commented on, is her fascination with fuzz. Fuzz aka feathers, or anything soft. In the direst of circumstances she will resort to lint, or even cat fur to replace the fuzz. People often ask me (and I do mean OFTEN) how I got her into the fuzz, but like I said, she is her own girl. She knows what she wants.
It all started when she was younger (and yes I know she is only 2 but go with me on this one). One day my mom bought Kiya these dress up shoes, because she loves dressing up. They had a string of "fuzz" or feathers across the foot. Kiya just ripped the fuzz off and walked around carrying it EVERYWHERE. Finally it got kind of dingy and gross, so I bought her a boa thinking she would love it. She just ripped pieces of it until she had what she wanted. She seems to want a small amount that she can hold in her hand. She moves it around in her hand, and sometimes moves it around while sucking on her thumb.
Notice the fuzz in her hand? I have countless photos of this...you would think she would drop the fuzz when she sleeps, but nope
Her fuzz fascination has evolved now. She now color coordinates her fuzz with her outfits. I have been know to pack "emergency" fuzz and her school has some as well. My mother in law bought her a skirt that had pieces of feathers on it. She ripped all of the feathers off of the skirt one by one so that she could hold them. You can always tell where Kiya is because sometimes she leaves a trail of fuzz. This has led for us to get what we refer to as a "fuzz box".
Kiya knows that whenever she needs fuzz, she can just go into the playroom and get herself a new fuzz. We have had to retire fuzz when it gets gross, and she tends to understand when the fuzz needs to retire. However, she needs to approve that the fuzz is ready to be given its burial. She accidentally flushed some blue fuzz down the toilet one day when she was with my friend Katie and according to Katie, you would think the world had just ended. They ended up walking to the store to get some fresh fuzz.
Again, I did not teach my daughter this fuzz fascination, but I do think it is adorable. It just shows her unique personality...and I love her for it!


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John Spencer Bassett
John Spencer Bassett
Bassett in 1891
|September 10, 1867
|January 28, 1928 (aged 60)
|Alma mater
|Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
|Professor, historian
|Smith College
|Jessie Lewellin
|Richard H. Bassett
Margaret Byrd Bassett
|Richard Baxter Bassett
Mary Jane Wilson
John Spencer Bassett (September 10, 1867 – January 27, 1928) was an American historian. He was a professor at Duke University (then Trinity College) best known today for the Bassett Affair in 1903 when he publicly criticized racism among Southern elites, and called Booker T. Washington, "all in all the greatest man, save General Lee, born in the South in 100 years." In the face of widespread outrage, the college trustees refused to accept Bassett's resignation by a vote of 18 to 7. After Duke, he became a professor of history at Smith College in Massachusetts.[1] and was the Executive Director of the American Historical Association for many years.
Early life and education[edit]
Bassett was born September 10, 1867 in Tarboro, North Carolina.[2] John Spencer Bassett was the second of seven children of Richard Baxter Bassett (son of Richard and Caroline Spencer Bassett) who was born September 20, 1832 in Williamsburg, Virginia and died March 25, 1902 in Goldsboro, North Carolina; and Mary Jane Wilson (daughter of John Wilson and Susannah Dunn of Maine) born November 7, 1845 in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, and died September 1, 1903 in Durham, North Carolina. Both of his parents are buried in Willow Dale Cemetery in Goldsboro, Wayne County, North Carolina.
He entered Trinity College (now Duke University) in 1886, as a junior, graduating with an A.B. in history. In 1894 he earned a Ph.D in history from Johns Hopkins University, under the direction of Herbert Baxter Adams. As one of the first PhD's trained at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, he was introduced new models of scholarship to college education.
The Bassett Affair[edit]
In 1902 Bassett launched the South Atlantic Quarterly, a journal whose purpose was to promote the "literary, historical, and social development of the South."[3] It was from this journal that Bassett began to challenge more aggressively the southern press and prevailing sentiments about southern history and issues revolving around race. In October 1903 he published an article in the South Atlantic Quarterly titled "Stirring Up the Fires of Racial Antipathy" triggering a controversy that nearly cost the young professor his job. In the article, he spoke about improving race relations and gave praise to numerous African Americans. Near the end of the article, he wrote "...Booker T. Washington [is] the greatest man, save General Lee, born in the South in a hundred years..."
This led to an outpouring of anger from powerful Democratic Party leaders as well as the media and public; the most vociferous of which was the Raleigh News and Observer and its editor, Josephus Daniels. Many demanded that Bassett be fired and encouraged parents to take their children out of the university. Due to immense public pressure, Bassett offered his resignation if the Board of Trustees requested that he do so; the Board of Trustees then held a meeting to decide the fate of Bassett. In the end, they voted 18-7 not to accept the resignation citing academic freedom. In their decision, they wrote, "We are particularly unwilling to lend ourselves to any tendency to destroy or limit academic liberty, a tendency which has, within recent years, manifested itself in some conspicuous instances, and which has created a feeling of uneasiness for the welfare of American colleges [...] We cannot lend countenance to the degrading notion that professors in American colleges have not an equal liberty of thought and speech with all other Americans." In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt commended Trinity and Bassett's courageous stand for academic freedom while speaking to the university. He told the school, "You stand for Academic Freedom, for the right of private judgment, for a duty more incumbent upon the scholar than upon any other man, to tell the truth as he sees it, to claim for himself and to give to others the largest liberty in seeking after the truth."
Post-affair career[edit]
In 1906, he became a professor at Smith College in Massachusetts.[4][5] After 1919, he was the long-time secretary (Executive Director) of the American Historical Association, and helped to stabilize its finances through an endowment, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1921.[6]
He wrote numerous books on North Carolina, a major biography of Andrew Jackson, several textbooks, and produced carefully edited editions of important primary sources, most notably his seven volume Correspondence of Andrew Jackson (1926-1935).
Personal life[edit]
In Forsyth, North Carolina on August 10, 1892, John Spencer Bassett married Jessie Lewellin, she was born January 31, 1866 in Clarksville, Mecklenburg County, Virginia; died April 3, 1950 in Northampton, Massachusetts. John Spencer Bassett and Jessie Lewellin Bassett are buried in the Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Massachusetts, they had two children:
- Richard Horace Bassett (1900-1995)
- Margaret Byrd Bassett (1902–1982)
Bassett died 27 January 1928 in Washington, DC.
- A freshman residence hall on Duke's East Campus is named for Bassett.
- ^ Doherty p 28-29
- ^ "John Spencer Bassett, 1867-1928". Documenting the American South. University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved May 20, 2011.
- ^ http://library.duke.edu/uarchives/exhibits/academic-freedom/bassettaffair.html
- ^ "Action, Objectivity and the Bassett Affair". Duke Libraries: University Archives. Retrieved May 20, 2011.
- ^ Doherty p 28-29
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 20, 2011.
Further reading[edit]
- Doherty, Herbert J. "John Spencer Bassett" in Clyde N. Wilson, ed. Twentieth-century American Historians (Gale Research Company, 1983) pp 19–32
- Stephenson, Wendell H. "John Spencer Bassett as a Historian of the South," North Carolina Historical Review (1948) 25:289-317
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As the Sunni extremist group that currently controls parts of northern Iraq is slowly driven back by a combination of local and international military forces, many locals are asking what will happen to the areas that have come under the control of the Iraqi Kurdish military.
Many of these areas were formerly under the control of the Iraqi government but came under the control of the Iraqi Kurdish military when the Iraqi army fled as the Sunni Muslim extremists from the Islamic State group approached. Previous to this, some of these areas were also known as "disputed territories" – that is, they were areas that the Iraqi Kurdish said belonged to their semi-autonomous northern region but which the Iraqi government said belonged to Iraq proper. The issue of the disputed territories was supposed to be solved by the implementation of Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution.
The question now is who will control these areas when the Islamic State, or IS, group is driven out?
Many now believe that the Iraqi Kurdish military will not withdraw from the areas they have managed to take control of over the past few months. They think the areas will simply become part of Iraqi Kurdistan by default – unless, that is, one of Iraqi Kurdistan's most important allies, the US government, puts pressure on the Iraqi Kurdish authorities not to do this.
"In practical terms, no matter what happens, the areas that the Iraqi Kurdish military have captured from the IS group, or that they are defending, will continue to be controlled by the Iraqi Kurdish military by default," says Ghiyath ad-Din Naqshbandi, an expert on Iraqi Kurdish politics. "Any agreement on how to solve these problems depends on the nature of Iraqi Kurdish participation in the new Iraqi government, formed by [the new Prime Minister] al-Abadi."
"The IS group has changed the balance of power in Iraq," Naqshbandi says. "When all this started some people thought that the IS fighters were somehow allied with the Iraqi Kurdish because, indirectly, they were doing the Iraqi Kurdish a favour, by emptying the disputed territories of the Iraqi army. But then the IS group began to make its way toward Iraqi Kurdistan, trying to make that part of their Caliphate too. And that got the Kurds involved in a war they never wanted to be involved in, in the first place – they have always considered this a sectarian conflict that has nothing to do with the Kurdish cause."
"I think in the end the land will belong to the forces that liberate it," Naqshbandi concludes.
Iraqi Kurdish journalist, Qassim Khader, thinks that the disputed areas currently controlled by the Iraqi Kurdish military will become part of Iraqi Kurdistan.
"The areas populated mainly by Kurds will be under the control of the Kurdish and the areas populated mainly by Sunni Muslim Arabs will be under the control of the Arabs," Khader says. "It is as simple as that."
And, Khader adds, the whole issue of the disputed territories isn't really something that the new Iraqi government will be able to deal with. In fact, Khader believes that the Iraqi Kurdish should start negotiating with local Sunni Muslims in case they begin to rebel and manage to defeat the IS group.
"The Iraqi Kurdish parties will try and convince other Iraqi political parties to acknowledge that Iraqi Kurdistan has the legal right to annex all of the disputed areas because they are no longer disputed," another Iraqi Kurdish journalist, Badarkhan Sandi, tells NIQASH. "In the past Iraqi Kurdistan shared borders with Iraq, controlled by the government in Baghdad. But now those borders are with the IS group."
"Baghdad was not capable of protecting the areas under its control so it cannot now claim land that is protected by the Iraqi Kurdish military – especially when Baghdad has refused to pay them their salaries or provide them with weapons," Sandi argues.
When the IS group first started to take over territory in northern Iraq, there was plenty of talk that the extremist group were in a secret alliance with the Iraqi Kurdish authorities, against the Iraqi government led by Nouri al-Maliki.
"Some were talking about an alliance between the IS group and the Kurdish region," says Iraqi writer, Alaa Bahjat, from Mosul. "The issue was widely discussed on Facebook and on other social networking sites. In fact, there were pictures published of checkpoints manned by Iraqi Kurdish military and IS fighters standing next to one another."
However events in places like Sinjar and Makhmour which saw members of the Iraqi Kurdish military killed and injured, put paid to those kinds of conspiracy theories, Bahjat says.
"You cannot deny that Iraqi Kurdistan has benefited from the IS group establishing their Caliphate because the Iraqi Kurdish are able to deal with the IS group as though they were the central government," Bahjat explains. "Iraqi Kurdistan has also been supported by the international community."
"Iraqi Kurdistan won't attempt to occupy the disputed territories unilaterally," suggests Abdallah Abdul-Aziz, a writer from the Diyala province. "It will sit down with all parties to find solutions within the framework of a united Iraq. It will do this in order to avoid disputes or crises in the future," he argues.
However some of the locals belonging to other ethnic and minority groups living in the disputed territories believe there is already a concerted process of "Kurdic-ization" going on. The term mimics the name given to the process that former Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, undertook to try and replace Iraqi Kurdish locals with Arabs in northern Iraq.
Now some suggest that Iraq's Kurds are reversing the process – that includes Aruba Esmail Bek, one of the leaders of the Yazidi people. She has criticized the behaviour of the Iraqi Kurdish military in the disputed territories, especially those where her people were expelled, murdered or captured.
That opinion is shared by Sarkon Saleh, a Christian activist from the Christian-majority town of Qaraqosh in the Ninawa province. He too believes that, like the Yazidis, local Christians will eventually want some sort of an independent region where they can choose who rules over them.
"Many will demand the creation of their own province on the Ninawa Plain," Saleh argues. "This is because of their feelings of disappointment in the central government as well as the Iraqi Kurdish authorities. They know that these two governments have not done enough to protect them."
Additionally local Arabs are also complaining that the Iraqi Kurdish are treating them badly. The Iraqi Kurdish military are taking revenge on them, they say, because they believe that local Arabs collaborated with the IS group and their Iraqi Kurdish neighbours no longer trust them.
And the conspiracy theories are back too, with some local Arabs believing that Iraq's Kurds are trying to claim disputed territories under the guise of fighting the extremist IS group.


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I really started to dislike the old blog look, especially after my old ISP finally decided to close my web hosting account and delete the images stored there... So I thought I should do something about it. And once again it became painfully clear to me that web design really isn't one of my stronger skills. Anyway, it looks a bit different, it will have to do for now.
Hopefully I'll get around to post a bit more regularly also (but no promises).
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Pantego Christian Academy will use shorter light standards for new athletic complex after neighbors object
Pantego Christian Academy envisions its planned multipurpose athletic complex as not only a place for home football games but also a gathering spot for a multitude of school and community events year-round.
One thing the complex won't have, however, is 70-foot-tall light poles. The academy, at 2201 W. Park Row Drive, has withdrawn a request that it filed with the city of Arlington that would have allowed the poles along two sides of the site, which is zoned as residential.
"The neighbors didn't necessarily appreciate the thought of the taller light standards and were quite opposed to it," Headmaster Jay Pritcher said. "So we will be respecting their wishes and work with them as best we can."
Under residential zoning, structures must have a setback from the property line that is three times their height — 210 feet, in this case. The academy was asking for setbacks of 59 and 61 feet on one side of the field and 71 feet on the other, according to city documents.
Light standards up to 30 feet tall are allowed without a variance.
Residents of Waggoner Drive, whose homes back up to Turpin Drive, which runs alongside the site, were among those who objected to the academy's variance request, according to city documents. The case was scheduled to be heard by the Arlington Planning and Zoning Commission last week but was withdrawn by school officials, said Gincy Thoppil, a city planning manager.
Construction on the athletic complex will proceed as planned, Pritcher said, but without the taller lights, which he said would have produced less glare for neighbors and made for a better experience on the field.
The academy has been using Maverick Stadium at the University of Texas at Arlington as its home football field. Pritcher said the new athletic complex will "be used for a number of daytime and evening events," including home football games, which should generate excitement for the surrounding community.
The complex will give the academy more flexibility in its scheduling of activities, and the artificial turf will allow heavier use than grass, he said.
"All of our co- and extracurricular programs will benefit from this complex."


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Our caller is Gloria Vivier with her husband Fran. We are a caller-run club with very active club members. The level of the club dances is Mainstream with a plus workshop before our monthly dances. We hope to see you at one of our club dances during the coming year.
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The Western Mass Square and Round Dance Association will sponsor the 9th Annual Autumn Harvest Ball on Nov. 12, 2017. This dance will be held at the East Longmeadow Senior Center, 328 North Main St. in East Longmeadow MA from 2-5 PM. The featured caller is Steve Park and the cuer is Phil Gatchell.
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Mount Hood Summer Solstice
Thursday 16 July 2015 — Category: Outings
summer solstice I went on a photo outing to downtown Portland — see A Portland Summer Solstice for all the details.
Two days after the solstice (and Father's Day) I went on a more unusual and special trip. Somehow I had gotten the idea to take public transportation from the southern end of Portland's TriMet service area at Wilsonville Station all the way to Timberline Lodge, halfway up Mount Hood!
The exact distance between these two points depends on how you measure it. As the crow flies, it is about 53 miles from Wilsonville Station to Timberline Lodge. Even though I am a Byrd, I am not a crow, so my route was going to be longer.
The driving distance along I-5, I-205, Oregon Route 212 and U.S. Route 26 is about 69 miles, which should take around 90 minutes, depending, as always, on the traffic.
For this day's outing, I wanted to try something completely different by eschewing American overdependence on the automobile and taking mass transit to an extreme. Although Mount Hood is awesome, for my purposes the trip there and back was the main attraction. It had to be, because each 96-mile one-way journey took four hours!
To get from Wilsonville to Mount Hood, I had to take four different vehicles — two trains and two buses — which I caught in four different towns in the Portland metro area. But first I had to get to Wilsonville! My outing began when I left home in Albany at 5:00 AM and arrived at Wilsonville Station — located about 15 miles (by crow) south of downtown Portland — exactly an hour later.
Before the Westside Express Service (WES) commuter rail train left at 6:21, I had time to photographically explore the public art on display there — like the "interesting" and "different" Interactivators sculptures, the "Let's Dance" statue, and the ornate, 35-foot clock tower. Nothing like a good dose of culture before a four-hour commute to the ski slopes!
At least I did have my wireless remote shutter release (see the intervalometer link) with me. But without the intervalometer to do the work, I had to keep my eye on my watch, and press the remote shutter release once every 15 seconds for a full 62 minutes! It got a bit tedious, but it wasn't as bad as it sounds.
Click on the play button to watch this ten-second time-lapse video, comprised of the 251 photographs I took during that hour. The speed of the chairlift combined with the frequency of the image capturing (every 15 seconds) causes the lift to appear to be running backwards. I should have taken a shot every 10 seconds instead. And I should have brought my intervalometer. Oh well ... live and learn!
If you watch closely, you can even see "yours truly" as I was walking around in some of the shots. The music is from the beginning of the track Atman by the dynamic duo Rodrigo y Garbriela on their album 11:11.
Once I got back home I decided to make some changes in my equipment. Rather than having both a wireless remote shutter release and a wired intervalometer, I just purchased a wireless remote intervalometer for my Olympus OM-D E-M5 camera.
After standing there for over an hour pressing the shutter release more than 250 times, it was nearly time to catch the Mount Hood Express bus back to Sandy. Because of major roadwork on U.S. 26, we were delayed enough to make it look like I was going to miss my connecting bus in Sandy, even though there had been a scheduled ten-minute layover.
When we finally arrived in Sandy, the bus to Gresham was still there, so I bounded out of the bus and raced towards it. Right as I approached the door it began to pull away! I banged on the door, the bus stopped, and the driver let all of us latecomers aboard. Whew! That was close! Definitely no spare time for photos!
This bus arrived in Gresham early, so I was able to take an earlier MAX Blue Line train for the long 72-minute trip back through downtown Portland to the Beaverton Transit Center. But it didn't do me any good, because I arrived in Beaverton a few minutes too late to catch an earlier WES train back to Wilsonville. So I had nearly a half-hour layover to wait for the train I had originally planned on taking.
I made good use of that time taking some more pictures of the weird sculptured heads which I had already photographed at the Wilsonville Station at the beginning of my outing. Eventually I arrived back at my truck, 12 hours and 10 minutes after I had left it early that morning. But there was still one more experience to enjoy before I made it back home.
As you can tell by some of my recent articles, stopping at the newish Gustav's Bargarten in Keizer — about halfway between Wilsonville and my home in Albany — is in danger of becoming a new habit. A stein of beer and a bite to eat is a great way to wrap up a photo outing to the Portland area.
After the big lunch buffet at Timberline Lodge I wasn't overly hungry, even though I had eaten about seven hours previously. Therefore, instead of ordering a meal, I settled on a large pretzel with spicy, whole-grain honey mustard. I have hardly ever eaten such pretzels in my half-century on this planet, and wasn't too sure I would even like it. But let me tell you, it was killer! And the mustard was great — it really cleared out my sinuses!
Unfortunately, the price was as intense as the mustard! Between the pretzel, the beer and the tip, I was out fifteen bucks! It was certainly a wonderful snack, but I don't know that I can afford to indulge in that very often. However it did set me thinking. As I mentioned above, eating at home can be just as good (or better!) than a restaurant at half (or less!) the price. So why not pretzels?
After a bit of research, I found the book Pretzel Making at Home by Oregon based food writer Andrea Slonecker. According to the book, she is the executive director of the Portland Culinary Alliance and a chef instructor at the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of Portland.
Not only does this book have numerous pretzel recipes with lots of tips and great photos, but it also has a section on how to make various toppings, including a "spicy whole-grain pub mustard" made with German doppelbock beer, which takes at least three weeks to "mature" (the mustard, not the beer!). I have not made anything yet — for now I'm working on getting the necessary ingredients and kitchen utensils. But I'm very eager to dive in, and in the near future I will — stay tuned!
During this public-transportation outing to Mount Hood, I took a total of 366 photos. As I have already mentioned above, 251 of those were used to make the ten-second time-lapse video. Because the remaining pictures focus on two different subject, I have collected the best shots into two different albums.
Out of all the photos which documented my eight hours of riding mass transit, the best 27 can be viewed in the new Portland Area Mass Transit 2015 album. The best 30 images from Mount Hood, including the time-lapse video, can be found in Mount Hood Summer Solstice 2015, which compliments my earlier Mount Hood 2010 album.
All in all, this outing was a wonderful and unique way to celebrate the summer solstice. It was intriguing and satisfying to be able to take public transportation all the way from Wilsonville to Mount Hood. But it was definitely a time-consuming and tiring way to travel, so I doubt that I will repeat the journey. My next trip to Mount Hood will almost certainly be by automobile.


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Dark Zeal
Book Five of The COIL Series
Recipient of the Christian Fiction
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Suspenseful Fiction with a Faith Focus
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About DARK ZEAL
In Dark Zeal, D.I. Telbat takes us into the heart and heat of Gaza, Israel. Agent Corban Dowler infiltrates Gaza City for a routine medical op, but soon discovers an international plot by Hamas terrorists to destroy Israel, forcing him to respond as a soldier of Christ.
Wounded and captured, Corban gathers his wits to attempt winning over greedy arms dealer Titus Caspertein in order to save Israel from destruction. Corban's mission is further complicated when UN humanitarian American Annette Sheffield is kidnapped and within reach, and Corban defies government orders to stage a rescue.
Meanwhile, Luigi Putelli, ex-assassin and family guardian, searches for his friend in the war-torn city to offer his services once again. With Hamas militants closing in, and the Israeli Air Force targeting extremists, Corban calls in other operatives to help complete his mission, and prays they aren't all mistaken for terrorists.
Bullets and missiles are flying in this Fifth Book of The COIL Series. Experience tunnels, drones, and the horrors of the Gaza war zone. But where darkness seems to thrive, God has placed His eternal light in the heart of faithful servant and bold spokesman, Corban Dowler. Join us for this continued saga, and learn again, there is no redemption without sacrifice.
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Finished with David's latest: "Dark Zeal". Wow is a great descriptive word but it does not enough impact of what I desire to share in this review. I experienced emotional upsets when certain characters were faced with their choices and desires. This is a story all about choices. We may choose one path the Lord has guided us to, but we must be willing (and able) to veer to the left when we want to go to the right. I may be here ready to turn right at the "Y", but the Lord in His way is nudging me left. Am I willing and able to veer left?
This is D.I.'s best yet. Corban is faced with many choices in a moments time. Corban must choose at the "Y". I enjoyed the times when Corban shared his witness about choices. It was much like Mordecai when he spoke with Esther, reminding Esther that 'God chose her for a time such as this'. These are revealing moments in the lives D.I. Telbat's characters. These are revealing moments in my own life when I am challenged to ask myself, will I choose the Lord's way?
Thank you David and Dee for your devotion to the Word. Thank you for your devotion to getting the Word out through solid fictional writing!"
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This review is from: DARK ZEAL (COIL Book 5) (Kindle Edition)
All of the books in this series are great, they keep you on the edge of your chair and keep you up at night longer than you should. I am also thankful for the spiritual emphasis that is infused into each chapter. Keep up the good work and writing."


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Creative Music Editing
A Case Study
It's rare that a piece of music just works "as is" against picture. But its quite common to find something close. Budget aside, why re-invent the wheel by writing something new if you're already halfway there? That piece of pre-existing music is more malleable than you think.
For years we've approached music editing in a very unique way. By infusing precise editing with supplemental instrumentation and arrangements, we have perfected an elegant way to bridge the gap between the limits of pre-existing music and the ultimate versatility of custom composition. We can shorten, lengthen, change the emotional feel, add visual hits and synchronize any piece of music to match your film in a way that sounds absolutely natural, giving it the sound of a custom score without starting from scratch. We call this Creative Music Editing. Check out our case study below to see how Creative Music Editing can make a significant impact on your next project.
Step 1 - Find the right music
To help introduce the world to Oovra, we decided to create a one-minute video explaining who we are, and what we do. Our editor cut the film to a temp track, but we needed to find something that worked better. After a quick search in our catalog, we selected "Soft And Warm" by Oovra composer Chris Hajian.
Here is the original video, with the music dropped in "as is", before any creative music editing:
Step 2 - Editing
We liked how the energy and emotion of the music felt against the picture, and knew that the built-in musical shifts would give us a lot to work with. But we quickly identified several opportunities to make the video more interesting:
The music didn't match the arc of the story. It's noticeable that the music was simply dropped into the video, and not edited at all. It needed to punctuate the visuals, show shifts in the narrative and drive the story.
The original track is longer than the video. While the video ends at 1:02, the track ends at 1:58.
There are no hits to connect audio and video. The sight of certain instruments being played, the orchestra being conducted, and the movement from one section of the story to another all needed to be highlighted and emphasized through music.
Sonic branding. There was an opportunity for the video to start and end with a simple motif or mnemonic to underscore the logo.
We knew these ideas, when executed well, would elevate the video and bring the viewer into the story. As you'll see below, the impact is significant.
Step 3 - Final Video
Here's the final video with a timeline of each edit and change we made:
:01 Added a piano motif for sonic branding. This motif is heard at the beginning and end of the video, and is associated with the Oovra brand.
:08 Violin enters between VO lines.
:21 Made edits based on shifts in the narrative. As the story develops and Oovra's composers discuss what they do and the services that Oovra offers, the music shifts too. Strings (which were not in the original track) were added to coincide with the visual of the orchestra.
:27 Here we shift into a new section about our services. The music emphasizes this change and shifts with the story. Short strings and woodwinds are added to give the piece more energy and drive.
:34 The music continues to build.
:46 Clarinet (not in original piece) is added to coincide with the visual of the clarinet player. The track continues to build from here to the end.
:51 Added additional instrumental touches to support the final build.
:57 The music holds so that the final VO line is in the clear, adding emphasis to the message. A custom ending was created with strings and the piano motif.
:59 Piano motif is synchronized perfectly with the Oovra logo.
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Heroku Scheduler with Node.js Tutorial/
I recently put together a script for Bike Pretty so we could track the store's inventory over time. I did this by running a Node.js script using Heroku's scheduler every day at midnight. However, I ran into a problem along the way: Heroku's documentation on the scheduler has no Node.js examples.
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Collection 2.0
Those of us who follow us over on Instagram will know that we launched pollen + grace collection 2.0 this week. It's something we've been working on for months now: testing, re-testing, designing, re-designing, ensuring only the perfect product and branding hits the shelves. Before we decided to enter the world of retail, little did we know about how much thought, effort and time (with a little bit of blood, sweat and tears thrown in for good measure) went in to creating a shelve-worthy product. So today we're not only going to introduce you to pollen + grace 2.0, but also give a brief behind the scenes into what when in to creating this collection.
Acai + chia detox pot
Acai + blueberry chia pudding with creamy coconut milk yoghurt, topped with almond + buckwheat granola
Strawberries + cream porridge pot
Creamy coconut porridge with a strawberry + chia seed compote topped with toasted coconut
Cacao + ginger crumble pot
Ginger poached pears with a decedant fig + hazelnut raw cacao crumble
Power pot
Baked spinach + quinoa falafels with creamy beetroot hummus
Protein pot
Organic egg with lime scented black quinoa, edamame and a sprinkling of omega-3 seeds
Performance pot
Baked organic chicken breast, fresh greens and red pepper puree with a cayenne kick
Vegan performance pot
Edamame and fresh greens with toasted walnuts and a sweet potato and red pepper puree with a cayenne kick
The Alkaline Balance box
Grilled organic prawns with creamy pea mash, detoxing courgetti + kohlrabi salad and a wheatgrass salsa verde
The Hydration box
Sesame crusted free range chicken breast with a skin loving cannellini bean puree and a salad of orange, fennel + basil
The Probiotic box
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Back in the early days the plan was pretty simple - we'd just make the same boxes from the lunch delivery days, write our name on it and put it on a shelf. Simple. Ah, not quite. It turns out that food that tastes delicious freshly made, doesn't necessarily do so good in a box for a day or two. Avocado (eg. our all time favourite ingredient) was no longer an option - nobody likes brown avo. Cauli-rice: again, nope, that smell is enough to put anyone off lunch. Pre dressed leaves go soggy, porridge goes pungent without certain ingredients, flavours don't merge well and let's not even get started on the world of food costs and margins. But in the end, after months of ideas, testing, changing and picking the brains of our wonderful kitchen staff and naturopath, we finalised our 16 products. Every single one is created based on the taste, the nutritional benefits, and being as affordable for you guys as possible. We spent hours trying to find ways to bulk buy and smart buy to bring the price down, changing and re-testing to increase the nutritional profile and of course taste testing to ensure a product that tastes delicious - all the way to the end of it's shelf life. We're pretty of the outcome, and really hope that you all like it too.


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We are happy to announce that all the goat kids and chicken peeps have arrived!
With the arrival of 19 young mail order chicks that have been in foster care at a family member's house, we can finally turn our attention away from waiting on babies to show up.
When all was said and done, we ended up with 13 goat kids. Our vary last doe to kid had her babies on May 1st and ended the kidding season with a bang - 3 little does! It was hard to decide on names for them but we ended up calling them Charon, Nix and Hydra after the three moons of Pluto.
All the kids received their first round of vaccines and their ear tags. It's hard to believe but it will soon be time to start weaning the oldest kids from their moms.
As for the chickens, the 19 mail order chicks that arrived today bring the total peep tally up to 35! We had one hen hatch 11 peeps and another hatch 6. All of a sudden the chicken population has exploeded.
This week's farm work includes updating the sale page of the website, and setting the remaining fence posts for one of the new goat pens.
Later this month, I will be travelling to Maryland with three of the angora kids for the CAGBA National Goat Show. It should be a fun and exciting time!
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A charter plane carrying 81 people, including 22 players from the Brazilian football club Chapecoense, crashed in Cerro Gordo, Colombia. ...
A charter plane carrying 81 people, including 22 players from the Brazilian football club Chapecoense, crashed in Cerro Gordo, Colombia.
Police say 76 people were killed, and five survived. One of the dead, survived the crash, but died in hospital.Survivors included three members of the team, according to unconfirmed reports.
|The unfortunate players of the Chapecoense football club
The plane was given priority to land but didn't make the airport, according to Alfredo Bocanegra, the head of Colombia's civil aviation authority. It lost contact with ground controllers around midnight.
The plane was en route from Bolivia to Medellin airport in Colombia, where the team was due to play in the Copa Americana.Bad weather is hampering rescue efforts, but an estimated 90 emergency services workers are now at the crash site.
The club has been a success story in recent years, both on and off the pitch.
Based in the city of Chapeco, the Chapecoense organisation has been lauded as a model of financial restraint and common sense.
This season was the first time the club has qualified to play in the Copa Sudamericana - the continent's second tier club competition.
Formed in the 1970s, the team is not one of the more established names in the Brazlian game, and was only promoted to the country's top division in 2014.
On their way to the final in Medellin, Chapecoense beat major teams including San Lorenzo and Independiente from Argentina.
Shortly after news broke of the plane crash, the Chapecoense team put out a statement on club's Facebook page that read: "May god accompany our athletes, officials, journalists and other guests travelling with our delegation."
The team said it would refrain from any further statements until it had fully evaluated the extent of the crash.
The South American football federation, CONMEBOL, has cancelled all activities until further notice.
The federation said in a statement on Tuesday that its president, Alejandro Dominguez, is on his way to Medellin.
The first of the two-game Copa Sudamericana final was scheduled to be played Wednesday in Medellin between Chapecoense and Atletico Nacional.


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Innovating Education from Within Guatemala's Top University
When I left my position at the MPC, the students gave me this video as a going-away present.
In late 2014, I got a phone call that would change my life…
The host of the project was Universidad Francisco Marroquín, one of the top universities in Central America. In 2012, they had formed an independent department and autonomous profit center to create educational innovation. It was a skunkworks for positive educational change.
The division had been an endless source of problems. It had lost about 60% of its customers and hemorrhaged money every month. There had been serious interpersonal problems that created an atmosphere charged with negative emotions. Extreme disorganization meant that no one really knew what was happening inside and staff and students were cynical and demoralized.
Understandably, its funders wanted to shut it down.
A small group of believers in the potential of the project contacted me to see if I would consider taking it over and rebuilding it from scratch. I said 'Yes.'
On my first day I was scared as hell.
I didn't feel well-prepared and I knew that some of the negative social dynamics would make changing the environment an emotional minefield.
If the task had been to invent something truly from scratch, I would have felt differently. But the train was already flying down the tracks – and it needed to be rebuilt before it drove over the rapidly-approaching cliff.
Interviews and Prototyping
I conducted customer interviews with 30+ people and took notes. I went through hundreds of internal documents – budgets, org charts, marketing material, student assignments, even old task lists – just trying to get a handle on where things were.
After a few weeks of understanding the organization, I went through my notes and tried to find the commonalities in what worked, what didn't, what made people stick around, and what made people leave.
I also grounded myself in the field by reading lots of books about different approaches to education like Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire, Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich, Democracy and Education by John Dewey, Discovery of the Child by Maria Montessori, and others. I got the chance to meet TED-Prize winner Sugata Mitra, who gave me invaluable advice on how to create self-organization in a learning environment.
With TED-prize winner and education pioneer Sugata Mitra.
The deadlines were grueling. For the MPC to survive financially, I needed to get new customers before the end of 2014, but I had started in the middle of October. By November I was only just understanding what had happened.
So I did what you should do when you're freaking out about not being ready: I launched.
I synthesized everything I could from my interviews and put together a proposal. Really, it was a minimum viable product: nothing more than a few paragraphs and some checklists to help students understand what would be expected of them.
I presented it in a tense meeting to skeptical staff, investors, and students. I'll never forget the silence, broken only by the sound of papers shuffling, after my MVP had been distributed and dozens of people were looking it over.
In the end, people liked it. And the MPC received a new influx of great students.
Self–Organizing Education
I realized that people had really been sold many different products when they entered the program. Each person had come to get an experience tailored to their interests. They wanted to cultivate themselves as an individual not as a homogenized 'student'. Students were extremely driven and tended toward creative fields.
Tons of money and time were spent trying to herd intelligent and highly idiosyncratic cohorts of students into common activities and curricula. But they wanted to work towards their own creative achievements.
I saw a way to fix the financial and organizational problems while also giving customers what they wanted.
Put simply, we modeled the MPC like an educational market in miniature. Students planned out their courses and projects each semester using a contract. This Learning Contract was an agreement between the program and the students about what they would accomplish over a 5-month period. It was all or nothing. Contracts were won or lost in their entirety.
Instead of paying for in-house professors, we gave students their own budgets. Students learned how to manage their own money by funding their own materials, hiring tutors, attendance in courses, or third-party curricula to help them reach their goals.
Some students invested in MOOCs, others bought tons of books and worked alone, others audited courses at the broader university. The thread that connected it all was a focus on building stuff, whatever your preferred creative form, and putting it in your portfolio.
Students enjoy extreme autonomy and engagement with the real world from early in their college career. This has led many graduates to become employed long before graduation or to graduate with their own businesses.
By the end of the program, all have well-developed portfolios of creative work.
With Pedro Pablo Velásquez, a student of the MPC, after he won a prize in social entrepreneurship for an "asistencias funerarias" project developed in the program.
Students' Learning Contracts became a cornucopia of collaboration, self-study, entrepreneurship, internships, and everything else you could imagine. No Learning Contract was identical – they expressed the individual dreams and ambitions of each student.
Activities ranged from the traditional to the wild: many students worked for companies and creative professionals, created festivals, wrote plays, business plans, novels, and product designs, others took vows of silence or apprenticed themselves to shamanic healers.
Giving money directly to students as an educational stipend and monitoring their purchases cut overhead from the program.
In the end, customer growth, lower overhead, better organization, and stronger marketing meant that the MPC achieved sustained profitability for the first time in its history.
Despite being affiliated with a university, this was true operating profit: no subsidies, no government-backed loans for students' tuition, and no grants or endowment of any kind.
In the end, we had enough of a financial cushion to make important new investments in the program, including a collaborative redesign and expansion of the physical space, learning excursions, books, and new technology.
What I Could Have Done Better
I wasn't always perfectly aligned with the surrounding bureaucracy. Once I was even reprimanded for distributing marketing flyers that had not been approved through the usual channels.
While I felt bad about getting into trouble, the posters were harmless and approval would have taken weeks that I couldn't spare. I figured: better to ask for forgiveness than permission. If I were to do it again, I would spend more time winning allies within the organization before pushing so hard for the marketing.
I made a serious hiring error. I was asked to let go of a person who had contributed to the toxic and negative environment of the department. He was young and I knew would not find work anywhere else. I felt bad for him and my sentimentality about the crappy situation meant that I kept him around by giving him menial tasks.
In the end, the overall experience was made harder by including this person's negativity and unwillingness to collaborate. I owed it to the customers and the rest of the staff to have been a better leader and dealt with this problem right from the start.
I should have hired more people, more quickly. I was so worried about running out of money that I relied on a skeleton crew for too long. Everything turned out alright, but we pushed ourselves to our limits and stretched ourselves too thin as the program grew. I should have hired more people, more quickly.
What Customers and Partners Had to Say
"Your work speaks highly of how to turn talk into action. Before we would dream wonders … but none of this ever happened until now." - Student at MPC
"Zach, I really admire your disposition and overall positive energy when dealing with fellows or students. I know you have a lot of work and you manage to still be very graceful and not dismissive at all of others' worries, questions, or insights." - Student at MPC
"I am tremendously impressed by Zach's work, which is at the cutting edge of modern pedagogy." - Barbara Oakley, Professor of Engineering and creator of the Cousera MOOC 'Learning How to Learn'
"Thanks for being a leader, and for teaching us to be leaders, too." - Student at MPC
"…your adventures expanded the limits of what I thought was possible [in life]." - Student at MPC
"You have no idea how important your support was. Until this year, I hadn't faced the thing that prevented me from producing the work I wanted to produce. I mean, "The Resistance". It was a total shit show, and in good part it still is. The difference is that now I get to recognize it exists and most importantly, that I can overcome it. That's thanks to you." - Student at MPC
"I am afraid the only thing I can say is thank you. You created a world where everyone fits in. You treated me like an adult from the beginning, even though I look quite young. I am sure your ability to create innovative and one-of-a-kind things will be highly in demand" - Student at MPC
"There are marvels occurring in the MPC under your management. You should feel calm and proud." - Giancarlo Ibárgüen, Former President of Universidad Francisco Marroquín


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The Stacker 830 is made completely of aluminum, which is the metal of choice when getting a case this big as it's much lighter than steel. It feels relatively light for its gigantic size and has plenty of room for ventilation. Speaking of ventilation, there are spots to hold a crazy amount of 120mm fans. There is a position in the back for one 120mm fan, as well as one in the front, one in the top, as well as four on the side in the provided bracket which takes up the entire side of the case. This giant multi-fan bracket is quite amazing and when coupled with the fact that much of the side panel has metal mesh, it allows any user to amp up their airflow if needed. Also, you should be able to use very quiet low CFM fans if you want and still have very good cooling because of the sheer amount of fans you can mount in this case. Besides the fan mounts, a portion of the bottom of the case has metal mesh as well. This, I assume, is so that cool air can be pulled up past the components and expelled through the top or back of the case.
The top fan bracket can be replaced with a hard drive bracket that would be ideal for a Raptor X 150GB hard drive, which has a window so you can see the drive mechanics. Its apparent that the bracket is designed mainly for enthusiasts who own such a drive, but its nice for those that just want to add another drive to the case.
For anyone who wants to go with water cooling, the case also has two holes on the back to route your tubes outside of the case to your reservoir or any other component that you would have externally. From my past experience with water cooling, I would think that you could easily fit an entire water cooling setup inside this case with the proper placement of all of your components.
Like I mentioned earlier, the provided power supply is a full 1kW. A quick search of the UL number on the power supplies sticker, which is E166947, shows that Enhance is the company that manufactured it for Cooler Master. I haven't seen a Cooler Master power supply made by a poor quality OEM and this is no different, Enhance has been making high quality power supplies for a long time now. Also shown on the sticker on the PSU are the amperages for all the different rails, note that it has six separate 12V rails. Four of them have 18A and the remaining two have 28A each. This is more than enough to power the best SLI rig, so if you buy this kit you won't have to worry about having to upgrade to a better PSU. It also has a crazy amount of cables, as you saw in the specs and picture above. You shouldn't need any power adapter cable when plugging in any of your hardware. The only exception might be Three-Way SLI or Quad-Crossfire, you may need an adapter or two to power more than two cards. Unfortunately, I don't have a high-end SLI rig or elaborate power supply load tester to fully test the power supply. One of the most genius features about this case is that the power supply is connected to the case via a special bracket. The power supply can be removed from the case by taking the screws out that holds the bracket to the case and then you can just pull the entire unit out of the back of the chassis. This makes it much easier than laying the case down and trying to reach up past all of your components to remove the power supply. As if that wasn't convenient enough, the bracket has extra mounting holes for the PSU, so you can mount the PSU the normal way (fan facing down) or reverse (fan facing up). This is just one more option to the many cooling solutions this case offers.
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