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On Friday, September 20, The Unconditional Art Show Opening Reception will be held at Foundation Gallery and Liveroom (3762 Howard Ave. Kensington, MD). Gabriel Pons joins eight fellow artists to benefit the Lost Dog and Cat Rescue. Curated by Virginia-based artist James Walker, "Unconditional" features animal based artwork in a variety of two-dimensional media. Anyone who has ever experienced the unconditional love of a companion animal knows that it is a special bond unlike the relationship with any other living thing. A portion of all proceeds will go to benefit Lost Dog and Cat Rescue, a non-profit animal rescue organization that saves the lives of thousands of homeless and abandoned pets each year. For more details visit www.fndtnarts.com
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Recently, a maverick golfer played on a major stage. But, it wasn't a student-athlete, it was head golf coach Stuart Deane. Deane competed with Team USA in the 2015 PGA cup. Deane spoke of how he enjoyed seeing the players' side of playing team golf. Meanwhile, Deane's players acknowledged that his status as a professional golfer gives them more confidence in him as a coach and in themselves.
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Friends of Eldorado work party dates have been set!
August 9th and September 27th
Both of these will be general clean-ups. The August 9th clean-up will be a minor clean-up in the Iron Mountain Road area and we will not need that many people. We may have to limit it to under 20 people or so. However, September 27th is National Public Lands Day! We are hoping for a huge turnout with that one to cover a big area or several areas on the same day. Several FOE members have spent time scouting areas to work on for that date. Another e-mail will go out at the end of the month giving you more information on the 27th date.
We have had several major projects in the works with the Forest Service for quite some time. Rick Ferdon has spent many hours with them as our lead Forest Service contact. Some of the projects included; removing old Forest Service buildings in several places to create dispursed campsite, installing bear boxes, planting trees, working on Barret Jeep Trail etc.
Unfortunately, most of these projects have been shelved for now due to red tape. The Forest Service has been sued so much in the past, they have to jump through a ton of hoops to get anything done at all. For example, voulenteers cannot help tear down an old building if there is lead in the paint. (Lead was found in several of the buildings we were going to dispose of. FOE took the paint samples to get tested and they came back positive)
We have just recently been given the go ahead to put a plan together to remove two buildings in the Silverfork area later this year. once the final approval is given we shall set dates for this.
While some of these bigger projects WILL come to fruition, for now we just have a few set backs to overcome before we take them on.
We are constantly looking for other potential projects. If you have an idea for a FOE workparty, PLEASE go to www.friendsofeldorado.com and drop us a line thru the work party Idea form.
Several things FOE has done in the past few months:
1. Rick Ferdon has been very busy pulling massive amounts of debris from a site off Silverfork road. This included a massive water tank and batteries.
2. Alfred Heck and a few others cleaned up a campsite that was left a total mess on the Rubicon during a very wet Memorial day.
3. The Rock Zombies not only cleaned up several messes left on the Rubicon, they held a very successful fund-raiser for FOE generating over $1,500
4. Many FOE members have been working very hard on appealing the Eldorado FEIS.
Thank you for taking an active role in helping to keep our access in Eldorado National Forest!
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Name: Madison
Age at diagnosis: 18 months
Diagnosis: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
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Prior to Madison's diagnosis, Shauna was working full-time in a dialysis center and studying to become a nurse. She put her work and education aside in order to care for Madison. Shauna incurred new expenses associated with her daughter's treatment, while simultaneously having to adjust to a lower household income. On her own as a single mom, Shauna reached out to family, friends, and organizations to help with everyday living expenses and the costs of Madison's treatment. Through the efforts of social workers at Dana-Farber, Family Reach provided additional support with a generous grant to cover the family's high utility bills. Shauna was amazed and deeply grateful for the assistance provided by Family Reach. "It was awesome! I just needed it. I'm beyond thankful. I would do anything I could to give back."
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They come with loads of biblical and theological weight. To keep them from becoming heady and esoteric, I had to tell stories. Early in the process, I made the decision to tell personal stories. This was a difficult choice. Some stories were hard to write. My German and Midwestern heritage is modest. You're not supposed to talk about yourself. A friend gave me the courage to remain candid:
"How can you share the importance of these words unless you share them personally?"
So I tell stories:
Bob the Farmer, who nearly broke my hand with his sausage-like fingers.
Lady Kay, the British Yooper and prophetess.
George, my friend cursed with ALS.
A recurring "character" is my little brother Brandon. I was initially reluctant to share the stories of our brotherhood. I've known and mentored Brandon since he was nine. He's part of our family. But I'm sensitive about the "white savior" narrative. If anything, Brandon has influenced me more than I have him.
Here's one of the stories from the book.
Loved and Sent
The images on the TV screen felt like a knee to my gut. Mobs of young black men filled the streets. A reporter on the corner dashed to cover at the pop of gunshots. Then the camera shifted to a cop car ablaze. Hooded figures darted into the shadows. An aerial shot revealed a small business engulfed in flames just miles from my home on the south side of St. Louis.
On August 9, 2014, 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot by a white police officer, Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown was unarmed. There were witnesses who claimed Wilson shot him while his hands were up. It ignited a firestorm. Race, history, politics, and socioeconomics were the kindling. Michael Brown's death was the spark. "Hands up! Don't shoot!" was the rally cry. We called the event by the name of the community set ablaze—Ferguson. But it was about our whole city. St. Louis was on fire. And all of America was watching.
Now it was November. The grand jury determined that Officer Wilson would not be indicted for Brown's death. This sparked more riots. Helicopters zoomed over our house. My kids were tucked in bed. School was canceled the next day. As I watched TV, I saw the image of a building near my house. Graffiti sprayed on the brick wall threatened, "If we burn, you burn. F the police!"
Where's Brandon? I had texted him, but no response. The young black men on the television looked like Brandon. Same skin color, age, and clothes. A 22-year-old black male, Brandon would have blended into the crowd in Ferguson. I prayed that he wasn't in the streets.
Brandon has called me "brother" since he was nine years old. My wife, Bobbi, and I were 22-year-old newlyweds. We met Brandon and his two siblings through a North St. Louis church. We quickly connected. It began with tutoring and trips to the zoo, but over the years we became family. Before Bobbi and I had children, these kids gave us a taste of parental responsibility.
Brandon and I are an odd pairing. I grew up rural. Brandon never knew life outside the city limits. I grew up in the Northwoods of Michigan. Brandon grew up on the notorious North Side of St. Louis. My family was stable. His dad was in jail. My skin is white. His is black.
The first time we took Brandon to our modest apartment, he opened the pantry door and froze. I worried that something was wrong. The shelves were stocked with cans of corn and boxes of mac and cheese. He finally spoke. "Oh my God, you got food!"
So we ate food. Lots of it. That day, his nine-year-old stomach devoured mac and cheese, carrots, biscuits, frozen pizza, and a bowl of ice cream. He was filled with joy and wonder as he explored our little apartment. He asked about everything.
"What's this?"
"A picture of my family."
"That your momma and daddy?"
"Yeah. And my brother and sister."
"You only got two?"
"What's this?"
"Oh, that's the deer I shot in high school."
Brandon froze. He took a step back from me. "Oh my God, you shot a gun?" "Yeah." "You killed a deer?!" "Yeah." It took me 10 minutes to assure him that hunting was legal and safe, and no humans were injured in the harvesting of the deer.
I was just as curious about Brandon's life, a world so different from my own. My quest for identity and meaning took on a new perspective when I entered Brandon's experience. For me, there was always opportunity. I had choices. I had freedom to make something of myself. But I had never encountered someone whose destiny was, in many respects, all but predetermined.
What chance did a nine-year-old black kid from the north side have? Cycles of poverty, crime, and absent fathers inflicted a generational curse. Can't he just get out? I once thought. But it wasn't that easy. Economics, race, and twisted social structures all collide to trap a child in a system nearly impossible to escape.
By November 2014, Brandon had outlived many of his peers. The nine-year-old boy was a 22-year-old man. I texted, "Where you at?" Finally a response came. "I'm OK. At home." I sighed. Maybe I could sleep tonight.
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Black Mantis: The Fatalist
Black Mantis: The Fatalist[edit]
|Wulong Goth
|The Fatalist
Real Name: Unknown
Height 6'3"
Weight: 225 lbs.
Age: Unknown
This strange Germanic mercenary is known for his ferocity and brutality. He is unmatched as a tenacious tracker of men or beasts. Though he has undergone Black Mantis training, he relies primarily on his European fighting techniques. Their rough, unrefined method style seems to suit him better. However, he will not hesitate to use one of the gifts he's learned from the Black Mantis: a way to channel the energy he draws from a set of supernatural Runes that rule his life.
The Fatalist believes that all actions are preordained. He carries a bag of Rune tablets. Before every battle, he tosses the Runes in order to read the message that Fate has for him. Of course, he tends to read the Runes in the way that is most favorable to him. Nevertheless, he firmly believes that an outside force, which he calls "Fate", controls him. Interestingly, the Runes have never told him to avoid a fight.
The Fatalist is emotional, gien to flashes of rage and other bursts of passion. His appetites are not far removed from Vapor's, but he is the fire to her ice. He can be loud and boisterous, likes to drink heavily and eats with gusto. He's a tireless woman chaser who doesn't understand how any female can resist his manly charms.
The Fatalist is also an inveterate liar. He has told a dozen different variations of his life story, all of dubious veracity. He has claimed that he is the last in the line of Vlad the Impaler; that he's secretly the ruling Prince of Austria, given away to peasants as a baby; that his parents were killed by wolves in the Black Forest who then raised him as one of the pack; and that he's a super-soldier who was engineered and raised in a lab. Take your pick.
What is known is that he speaks German, Austrian, and a smattering of other languages. He appears to be roughly 40 years old, knows how to use every weapon ever made, and was an accomplished solider of fortune who has seen action in the most violent parts of the world. He came to China with a price on his head, looking for a new challenge. He found it in the Black Mantis.
With a little help from Wulong Goth, anyone who was stupid enough to offer a price for The Fatalist was quickly eliminated. In return, the Fatalist gave his allegiance to the Black Mantis. Actually, it was the Runes who told him that he should join the Black Mantis. Maybe one day the Runes will tell him something else. That's Fate for you.
Moves Key:
r=away from opponent
f=towards opponent
Alternate Stance 1 r+X+Y
Alternate Stance 1 Kick r+X+Y, A
Alternate Stance 1 Punch r+X+Y, B
Alternate Stance 1 Punch Combo r+X+Y, B, B, d+A, f+A
Alternate Stance 2 r+A+B
Alternate Stance 2 Kick r+A+B, A
Alternate Stance 2 Kick Combo r+A+B, A, A, f+A, f+A
Alternate Stance 2 Punch r+A+B, B
Attack off pole RTrig+f
Attack off wall RTrig+r
Chi Attack 1 (Rune Blade) White
Chi Attack 2 (Rune Fire) r+White
Chi Attack 3 (Rune Thrust) f+White
Crouch d
Crouching Kick d+A
Crouching Punch d+B
Crouching Walk Backward d, r
Crouching Walk Forward d, f
Deflect Throw LTrig
Forward Jump Kick fu+A
Forward Jump Kick Combo fu+A, A
Forward Jump Punch fu+B
Forward Jump Punch Combo fu+B, Y
Get Up u
Get Up Roll Away r
Get Up Roll Towards f
Get-Up Attack 1 X
Get-Up Attack 2 X
Ground Attack d+X
Heal Limb Damage LTrig
In-Close Lead Kick r+X
In-Close Lead Punch r+Y
In-Close Trailing Kick r+A
In-Close Trailing Punch r+B
Jump u
Jump Backward ur
Jump Forward uf
JumpKick u+A
Jump Kick Combo u+A, A
Jump Punch u+B
Jump Punch Combo u+Y, Y
Lead Kick X
Lead Kick Forward f+X
Lead Kick Long Form Combo X, r+X, r+A, f+X, f+A
Lead Kick Short Form Combo X, A, B
Lead Punch Y
Lead Punch Forward f+Y
Lead Punch Long Form Combo Y, B, Y, r+A, f+Y
Lead Punch Short Form Combo Y, A, A
Long Reach Throw f+B+Y
Low Lead Kick df+X
Low Trailing Kick df+A
Lunge f, f
Quick Reach Throw r+B+Y
Retreat r, r
Run f
Running Attack f+A
Running Attack Combo f+A, f+A, f+A
Sidestep u, u
Step Backward r
Step Forward f
Taunt 1 Black
Taunt 2 r+Black
Throw B+Y
Trailing Kick A
Trailing Kick Forward f+A
Trailing Kick Long Form Combo A, X, f+A, d+A, f+A
Trailing Kick Short Form Combo A, A, A
Trailing Punch B
Trailing Punch Forward f+B
Trailing Punch Long Form Combo B, f+B, B, B, B, u+A
Trailing Punch Short Form Combo B, Y, X
The Fatalist is a fantastic mix of speed and power. While not as fast as some of the female Black Mantis members, the mixture of quickness and devastating power makes him the toughest of the Black Mantis. Well-balanced, The Fatalist is better with his fists than feet, but really, your goal here is to never stop attacking. Quick and powerful, the Fatalist can get in fast blows and long combos which can utterly demolish a foe. Be careful with his Chi powers, though, as they are relatively weak and have poor range/aim.
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Written by Dr Shoshanah Lyons, Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Director of Beacon House, a specialist mental health and trauma team based in Sussex.
Did you know that when we say a child has an attachment disorder, it is often not the whole picture? It is only one part of a seven-piece jigsaw puzzle called 'developmental trauma'. By putting together the puzzle, we can understand how a child's adverse childhood experiences have shaped their emotional world and outward behaviour. Once we understand this, we can then work with a child to help them with their developmental trauma using an innovative therapeutic approach called the 'Neuro-Sequential Model of Therapeutics'. This model recovers and repairs each part of a child's brain in a specific, phased and effective order. We need to ensure that the child's different environments work together using this model as a whole; including home school, therapy and even the GP – to ensure the child's best chances for recovering from their trauma and loss. Developmental trauma can be repaired – if we get the order and type of support just right.
Attachment is adaptive
The ideas described here are a holistic and whole life approach designed to help a child and their parent/carer to recover and repair from early trauma and disrupted attachment. It is an approach based on cutting edge research, and can be applied by everyone who knows a child who has been through chronic stress or repeated trauma.
The majority of people immersed in the world of working with or caring for vulnerable children have been taught about attachment styles. They understand the idea of 'insecure attachment' and that a child will either be 'insecure avoidant (disconnected), ambivalent (highly emotional and resistant) or disorganised in their attachment. This is the child's best way of coping with threat and danger.
Psychologist, Dr Patricia Crittenden, has now provided us with a heavily researched modern attachment theory that helps us take this further.
Crittenden has shown us that frightened children are not actually disorganised in their behaviour, but in fact they always organise themselves around danger by using a fluid combination of attachment behaviours to survive the environment they are in at that given moment. Children often have a 'default' attachment pattern, but they do not have one static attachment style. This helps us to understand why many vulnerable children are shut down (seen as "good") at school yet fall apart at home; or vice versa. It also helps us to understand why it can be so hard for some professionals to really see what is going on in a child's emotional world, as vulnerable children are so incredible at adapting to their environment.
But is attachment theory enough?
We (parents and professionals) have been so focussed on attachment that the other six pieces of the jigsaw puzzle are often not appreciated nor addressed. Without putting all these pieces together, working with a child who has early trauma is less likely to be effective and more likely to compound feelings of shame and inadequacy and ultimately failure.


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Shimada Kenji
Scholar, Thinker, Reader: Selected Writing on the Intellectual History of Modern China
Translated with an Introduction by Joshua A. Fogel
2014, 210 pages
ISBN 978-1-937385-52-1 Paper $38.00
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Shimada Kenji (1917–2000) was one of the great scholars of Chinese history and culture of the twentieth century. His major works have all been translated into Chinese, and select writings have appeared in Korean, German, and English. Yet, the full impact of his ideas about Chinese intellectual history has not as yet become widely known outside East Asia.
This volume brings to English a number of his scholarly writings, introductions to his two principle books, an autobiographical interview given late in life, and a lengthy roundtable discussion by former students and disciples. We not only learn much more about his thinking but also where many of those ideas came from, his personal inclinations in the direction of Confucianism, his attachment to certain modes of analysis, his early investment in the Esperanto movement, and the extraordinary affection of his former students. These essays were chosen to give a cross-section of his scholarly pursuits, especially in the field of Confucianism and comparative Sino-Japanese intellectual history.
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Furious shareholders hurled abuse at Bank of Ireland boss Richie Boucher today over his €838,000 bumper salary with one telling him to "f-off".
The chief executive came under fire for his massive pay from angry delegates at the bank's AGM.
One blasted: "F you, Mr Boucher, f you Bank of Ireland and f you the coalition Government."
Boucher was paid over a mind-blowing €840,000 last year in salary, benefits and pension contributions - despite his bank suffering losses of more than €2 billion.
Independent TD Shane Ross said the pay packet was scandalous and outrageous. He also rounded on chairman Archie Kane claiming he was being paid far too much.
Mr Ross demanded Mr Kane voluntarily cut his wages in half branding his earnings "outrageous and absurd".
Mr Kane also was forced to defend his appointment and said he had got the role after a "long process of fitness".
Delegates at the meeting passed a motion protecting the bank board after the Government refused to cast its vote.
Michael Noonan, who owns 15% of the institution on behalf of the taxpayer, didn't show up to the meeting and abstained from the vote.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny defended that decision and said the bank bosses would be taking a hit in their pay.
Mr Kenny said the institutions had two weeks to respond to plans by Mr Noonan to cut 10% across the board.
He said: "The Minister for Finance expects that this recommendation from Government will be responded to by the banks in the next two weeks.
"My understanding is that it will include a substantial contribution from the leadership of the banks in respect of pay and pensions."
He added: "He expects that to be back to him in the next couple of weeks, and a substantial contribution from the leadership of banks.
"Because of the fact that he has that process in train he expects to have that recommendation responded to in the next two weeks.
"The banks are only in existent because of the taxpayer," Mr Kenny said, adding it was "right and proper" the Government asks for pay to be cut.
As furious opposition rounded on Mr Noonan for being a coward and ducking from the vote, Mr Kenny stood by his man.
Independent TD Mattie McGrath said: "Is the Taoiseach prepared to defend the cowardice and inaction of his Minister?
"The Minister, Deputy Noonan, will vote in favour of every other resolution, including the re-elections of Mr Boucher, Mr Archie Kane and all the other directors.
But Mr Kenny said: "I want to tell the Deputy one thing; he can accuse the Minister of many things but he can never accuse him of cowardice."


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The title "Mustang" refers to the wild stallions indigenous to the region of Deniz Gamze Ergüven's beautiful Cannes award-winner, but it could just as easily apply to the untamed spirit of the sisterhood at the story's heart. It's a film about sexual repression, rebellion, and siblinghood in a conservative Turkish society that views femininity as something to be locked away and kept from the world. While Ergüven could have chosen to pursue the subject coldly from a distance, it's the harsh criticism he passes on such cultures that gives the film its powerful edge.
It's also that judgment which separates "Mustang" from Sofia Coppola's surreal "The Virgin Suicides", which tells a very similar tale of confined female vitality. Lale (Güneş Nezihe Şensoy), Nur (Doğa Zeynep Doğuşlu), Ece (Elit Işcan), Selma (Tuğba Sunguroğlu), and Sonay (Ilayda Akdoğan) are five orphaned sisters whose energy and spirit is frowned upon in their community where women are to be controlled. Something as simple as frolicking in the water with a group of boys is enough to warrant harsh penalties at home, meted about by their uncle who will stop at nothing to tame them. He insists the older girls have been sexually active, something that would make them impossible to be married off to the men of his choosing. So they're taken to get virginity tests despite their cries of innocence.
But that is just the start of the indignities forced upon these vibrant siblings. Everything from their clothing to their diet to the amount of time they are allowed outdoors is restricted; bars on the windows and doors give the appropriate sense of imprisonment. Naturally, this inspires rebellion, mostly within Lale, the youngest of the sisters. Largely through her funny and stubborn perspective we see what happens to her older siblings. Their bond is forcibly ripped apart as each is married off to one guy or another, turning the home into a "wife factory" as Lale puts it. But she doesn't want that fate for herself, and acts out in any way she can. Some of her exploits are comical, like a risky escape to catch a soccer match which, through familial subterfuge, ends with the entire town losing electricity. Other things we experience through Lale's eyes aren't so fun, as not all of her sisters are equipped to handle life's burdens the same way.
Some may take issue with Ergüven and co-writer Alice Winocour for not scouring deeper into why such cultures are able to persist, or better yet why individual families would seek to suppress the spirits of those they love. There are characters in the story who love the girls and yet enable their harsh treatment, and very little attempt is made to explain those decisions. But that also would have made for a very different film than the one we are treated to, one that allows the engaging performances of its cast to take bloom. There's an intimacy between all of the young actresses that comes through naturally, ebbing and flowing like all sibling relationships do. In a year that has seen a number of great performances by young stars, this film can boast that it is full of them. "Mustang" could have been relentlessly grim but Ergüven finds just as many joys to go along with the pains of fighting for female independence.


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Hello peeps,
How's it going? last days of summer are the ones I spend with family, and with family of my future family (haha)! Few days ago, M and I, decided to take my brothers and lil sis to his house (it wasn't the first time tho..) but this time, we came prepared for pool, for football and for endless fun time before school starts and we won't be able to appreciate and enjoy the good weather, attention of beloved ones , giving the attention and sharing love all at once..
Everyone had something to do, no one could get bored even for a second this 4 hours we spent together! Even thought pool was freezing cold we all found things to do, and as you could probably guess, mine was to take pictures! As I've told you already, camera is like a part of my body which i take EVERYWHERE! PLus i guess it's the blogger spirit and obsession in my head which makes me document and record every moment to share it with you guys:) Well, boys are boys so all they needed was football, imaginary goals all around the garden and endless amount of water and all you could hear from any corner of the garden was "Goaaaal", "What a defense" and "Pass"… My younger brother enjoyed the free trampoline and best view of the football championship between M and my other Brother! While my lil sis played with the most beautiful and kindest puppies of German Shepherd! With the ball running around and screaming on portuguese "The ball", "get the ball" and their names sound so cute i couldn't stop filming and taking pictures!
Later on I'll Post more pictures of this Swimsuit and how you can wear it but for now, enjoy the photos:)
(Yes I'm wearing socks and it's for 2 reasons: I have little wounds on my toes and My legs were freezing cold on the ground!)
Her face reminds me of the spartans in war! but so much aggression? no.. I think it's happiness, joy and excitement of getting and throwing the ball! Which I just admired when looking at all of that!
When the giant M got onto the trampoline it got even more exciting and I just had to join that little party!
How good having a boyfriend that likes taking pictures (of you specially :)
A minute of silence for the positions of everyone on this picture…………
When the sun went down, I as the person that gets cold in one second needed a jacket, and what can be better than a baggy jumper taken from his closet, with his smell and the color which looks pretty good on you ;) ?
So that's it! I could post the entire 600 Pictures i took, but these reflect the best moments of the day! And i hope you liked this pretty personal post:) Enjoy the last days of summer and spend more time with your family! Cos in the end, this is all that matters <3 :)
-Xoxo Masha


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A good friend suggested this topic for my blog today. At first I wasn't sure I could find my way with it but the more I think about the more I realize that word – change – has certainly been the key word of my life recently.
A lot of this change has been good. I have grown spiritually, and I am so thankful for that. I have been challenged to look deeply within myself, and especially at the way I deal with the ups and downs of diabetes. What I have seen isn't pretty. Frustration, anger, hopelessness – not something that should characterize the life of someone who claims to live as a Christian. So I am working on this, with the Spirit's help, taking thoughts captive and letting God's Word rule my heart, not the emotion-of-the-minute. It's good. Really good. I'm not perfect at it by any means, but I'm growing.
But some of the change is more of a challenge. I went back to taking a medication I had been on before with hopes of flattening out some of the roller-coasters in my blood sugar numbers (and hoping it would also help me lose weight). This time on the med was a disaster. Nausea, exhaustion, crazy numbers at night – it was a mess. So I gave up after a month and things are improving. But it was disappointing, as changes often are. I had high hopes of making my life easier with fewer highs and lows. But apparently that med was not the way that was going to happen.
And of course there are the constant changes that characterize life with T1D. A CDE asked me yesterday what the biggest challenge of diabetes is for me. I actually laughed when she asked, and said "I have to choose one?". But finally I said "Unpredictability". At the moment, my BG was sitting at 275, after being below 100 most of the day. I was frustrated by how long it was taking that high to come down, especially since I had no idea what had caused it in the first place. The moment by moment changes in blood sugar blow me away sometimes. On a good day, I can look at it and marvel at how incredible the human body is when it works to keep blood sugar in range all the time. When you have to be your own pancreas, you develop a great appreciation for physiological processes that regulate things like blood glucose so precisely without my even having to think about it. I can't keep my BG in range for more than a few hours at a time, but a living breathing pancreas just does it all the time with no problem. And so when I look at now changeable my blood sugar is every day, it is hard not to wish for the good old days when my beta cells worked.
I also have been feeling like my body is betraying me. First it turns on itself and kills off my beta cells, bringing diabetes into my life. And now my knee is shot, and I am looking at knee replacement in early May. And all through this, for the last six months or so, I have just felt so tired. Like someone pulled a plug and it drained me of energy that isn't coming back. I am not resigned to just saying this is inevitable. I want to fight back against these changes and take charge. I know the beta cells aren't coming back, barring a miracle or a cure. I am hopeful that a new knee will restore some of the energy that is now being sucked away by dealing with that pain.
Nothing in our lives is static. If it weren't diabetes in my life bringing the challenge, no doubt it would be something else. Mostly I like change. I grew up as an Air Force kid, and moved around a lot. I liked that life, and get a little antsy if things are static for too long. But what I have realized is that I prefer the change that I choose, not the change that God chooses to bring into my life. And that is my growing edge.


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Pam submitted this dress which felt super summery to me. It had an incredibly cool floral, polka-dotted print in a mix of red and white - this color combo is one of my faves! I thought it would be just the dress to welcome the weekend!
I found this 80s dress and loved the permanent pleating below the waist. I didn't love how high the neckline was, or the sleeves with shoulder pads.
Anything with permanent pleating wins in my book! Let's see how Pam made this work!
Both of those came off. I took one of the sleeves and made some bias to bind the armhole for a sundress.
For the neckline, I decided to just follow the line of bottom of the existing facing - 5/8" from the edge. Then I just trimmed, folded it over, and top stitched it to finish it off.
This made the neckline less choking on me - yay! I thought of raising the hem, but decided I like the length with the way the neckline came out so I would keep it conservative.
Pam, what a cute, summery dress you've got going!! I loved that you removed those sleeves and tweaked that neckline to make it perfect for you! I think this is a piece you'll get away with wearing all summer long! Thanks so much for sharing!


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(Kodansha 2009)
Story & Art by Hajime Isayama
Storyline Ongoing
Summary: In an alternate telling of the history of the world, mankind has been pushed back behind walls where for the last 100 years they've been protected from monsters known as Titans. One day these Titans appeared again and brought one of those walls crashing down – the result almost sent humanity into extinction. This is the story of the last remnants of mankind.
Review: And the battle is underway!
In this corner we have Humanity's strongest battling it out for the survival of the human race. And in this corner we have the Titans battling it out for the destruction of the human race. Both teams two leading competitors Eren Yeager and Reiner Braun battle it out to see who will represent the Earth's master race with both taking the form of a Titan.
It looks like Eren's hard work over this last month has really started to pay off. He's really wailing on Reiner even taking out Reiner's hardened and impressive armor! But Reiner has a few tricks up his sleeve still, Eren's going to have to work really hard to get the upper hand with such a disadvantage in both physic and experience.
We'll get back to the fight after this commercial message brought to you by Erwin and his memories. What drives Erwin? Why has he taken up arms against the insurmountable Titans in what seems like a hopeless cause? All the answers are here, folks, and they're just as vague as they are repetitive.
Oh! Would you look at that?! We leave for a moment and the humans, Eren's teammates, are jumping in to help him! It looks like they have a new weapon… They're ganging up on Reiner! This could be it for the Armored Titans folks, nothing can prepare you for what's about to happen next.
They fired their weapons all at once! Is this it for Reiner?!
Stay tuned!
And that's basically how this chapter went.
Final Score: 2 Rounds in Titan Kickboxing out of 5
Derrick is a born and raised otaku with a love for comics, anime, manga and movies. The full list is pretty long, but that's just the basics. Stories set in space are his bread and butter.
You can find more of his writing at IndieComix.net


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Eat Local | Onesie
Eat Local | Onesie
These onesies are printed on a grey heather Rabbit Skins Fabric. When ordering, keep in mind they run a little big. Pictured is my son Ignatius Levi wearing the 3 month size, at 3 and a half months old.
Currently out of stock in Newborn, and 3 month sizes.


text: So when the wife has a headache, and not interested in full particpation, what compromises can be reached, that can provide some relief to the husband, but with minimal impinging on the wife? How do you make a marriage work more often? What emotional blocks can come up? What are some steps to overcoming blocking emotions? What type of participation can the wife provide, that are of minimal discomfort to her, in times when her enthusiam is lacking? When there are important, unresolved disagreements, what types of approaches can be used to put aside the problems for long enough for foreplay, stroking and climaxing and after glow? When a big oppositional impulse arises, what are the magic words to cause the oppostion to melt for the moment? :sex


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Ride Your Bike to Work Tomorrow!
Tomorrow is the 14th Annual Ride Your Bike to Work Day. Some 60,000 Australians will participate, and you could be one of them.
Bicycle Victoria claims:
National Ride to Work Day will stimulate over 10,600 tonnes of Greenhouse Gas savings in the first three years – that's more than 2650 hot air balloons or 212,000,000 "black balloons" full of CO2!
I'm not exactly sure what that means – you would think if they meant "save" they would have said that, but any day you get to work under your own steam is good for the environment.
More stuff inside…
Wednesday should be perfect cycling weather as well – so far looks to be about 18 and partly sunny. Bring an extra shirt just in case though.
You can learn more about the event from Bicycle Victoria here – and if you register for the event, you'll be entered in a draw to win a Trek.
Interested in making the switch to bike commuting? The Age has a story today interviewing some first-timers and old pros.
There'll be a 'bike to work' breakfast in Fed Square from 6:30 to 8:45 (as well as regional breakfasts that you can read about here)
Some other 'bike to work' facts here.
Have fun and be safe! Remember to bring lights if you're one of those crazy people who works until all hours.
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It doesn't quite work that way.. People drive less cars, but they burn more calories. They need to eat more wheat, meat, eggs, dairy to compensate. The production of these foods involves CO2 emissions, and a report I read suggests that its more energy efficient to drive a car in the first place.
Joshua Mayon October 16th, 2007 @ 5:08 pm
Jono, I've read that same story.. From what I gathered, it was more of a tongue-in-cheek poke at the other side, but was far from gospel.
Speaking personally, the amount of difference in diet between when I ride to work and when I don't is virtually zero. Some days I eat more, other days I eat less – I'm sure it's slightly skewed toward eating more, but not by much (in comparison to the other two meals, plus snacks that I eat in a day).
And on the other hand, cars aren't just producing CO2. They're burning rubber, they're producing carbon monoxide, they're leaking coolants and whatnot. The less you can do all of those, the better.
I'm pretty opposed to people narrowing their focus to CO2 only. Carbon offset schemes, to me, are among the biggest scam of today. But at least it makes us feel warm and fuzzy.
I ride, not because I feel bad about driving, but because it's faster than any other mode of transport. And by riding, I don't feel as guilty about not playing a weekend sport since I moved here. If I didn't ride, I'd probably run/play other sport, which implies I'd still eat those exact same extra wheat, meat, eggs, dairy anyway. But human diets and sustainability is a whole separate issue for other people to deal with. One problem at a time.
Drive less.
That is all.
I say the optimal solution is to work from home!
I ride to work every day but even on the once in a while I choose to tram it I eat the same breakfast. But Jono, you do make a great point. As one of the top overweight populations, eating less can not only reduce your weight but help the environment. Unfortunately, people such as Al Gore haven't gotten the message.


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An Acid Test for Enterprise Architecture
Later on, while at work, I started talking to my teams about the need to liberate all the Information pieces that we got in our Enterprise and to link them together. I had this vision of myself as the head of the CTU (Well, that's me… - at the age of seven I had similar narcissistic image of myself as Superman, and some decades later as bullet-proof Neo… blogging with integrity…), receiving an alert about a failed service and then hurrying down to the Information desk, while shouting:
"I want to know who's in charge of this failed Service – names, phones, departments; if the service is related to other services – I want to know that too. And find anything you can about this particular failure: who invoked the service and when, current and historic data (30 days back); I want to know where the invokers came from, what applications they used, what touch-points (IVR, Call Center, 3G Portal), what devices; I want to know which applications are behind the service provider – their underlying applistructures (app servers, databases…) and infrastructures – and I don't mind if they ride on the Digipede Network [for Dan :)] – I want the name, (IP) address, operating system and performance details of any PC or Server allocated in the last 60 minutes to the failed service's transactions. Oh, and if any one made any changes, in the last 7 days, to any of the underlying components – software, hardware, cables etc. - … then add the change details, name of the one who did it and name of the one who authorized it.
You got 5 minutes".
Let's deconstruct this scene.
1. Bill Buchanan (Head of CTU) is a Manager. It does not really matter if he's the head of the CTU, a CEO, a CIO, a Billing Dept Manager, a humanoid like Agent Smith, or... a business process. They all need a whole bunch of Information… now.
2. Buchanan's request was built in an ad-hoc fashion. There was no pre-defined query pattern ; there were too many "Oh, and…". But that's ok, given the next point.
3. Buchanan's request was communicated to Chloe, who's the Interface to whatever Information Buchanan might need. There's one and only one Chloe – don't expect a Manager (any manager) to wander around in search for Information! One Interface, one Chloe, one Ring.
4. Buchanan's request for Information was communicated in his Language. In our case it is POE (Plain-old-English) + the specific vernacular used by managers-level at CTU. If some sysadmin would have called Chloe, they would be communicating using a different jargon on top of POE, as Chloe masters all the different POE Jargons.
5. Buchanan specified two KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), in regards with his Information request.
An explicit KPI: "You got 5 minutes" (which means there's a deadline. Specifying a deadline makes it a real-time request, and have a look at this article on the meaning of real-time).
An implicit KPI: All the Information specified in the request must be returned. In the Real-Time Enterprise (and we will talk about this in just a second) the manager never accepts nor expects the following answer: "Sir, I have only a partial report. System A didn't respond fast enough; System B - well, you know we're in the middle of a database upgrade there…; and as for System C – gosh, I don't know what happened, but it crashed just as we tried to get the Information you requested".
Some would probably claim that these Information availability requirements are an exaggeration; most Enterprises don't need 100% availability and fast-response time.
I 100% disagree.
Most people are lazy thinking about doing the right things. "We don't have budget"; "We don't have time"; "We have other priorities". That's a political as well as a technical mistake. Political mistake – because as long as IT fails to provide real-time Information to the CEO and the other LOB managers with all kind of excuses, IT would Matter - with the worst connotation possible. IT must aspire at being completely transparent and non-existent. The biggest success of IT is to become an "IT doesn't matter" IT. It's a Tao paradox, but I am convinced it's true (and that's actually the simplest Acid Test for Enterprise Architecture...).
Technical mistake – having Chloe is not expensive and it's feasible (and see Always-On: Re-engineering the Read/Write Web and the Enterprise (with del.icio.us examples) for a partial Chloe implementation). You don't have to be Google or Amazon for doing it - anyone can do it if he or she wants to.
Buchanan finished analyzing the report that was generated by Chloe. And then he went back, this time with instructions: orders that have to be carried out, actions that must be performed. Again, Buchanan communicates – most of the time – with Chloe (who then makes all sort of calls to the tactical units while constantly typing).
Deconstruction time again:
Realizing orders and commands in the physical world is achieved, once again, by communicating with Chloe, the Information caretaker. I think this is so important and critical to the evolution of Enterprise IT as well as the Web that I must elaborate here with few associations.
First - Haeckel: Management-by-wire is managing by CRUDing the Business' Informational Representations, i.e. the Business symbols.
Second – the Tree: if a tree falls in a forest... etc. etc. Today we say: if your site/blog/feed was updated and Google didn't pick it up – did the update actually happen? For all practical purposes - it didn't! If you are a brilliant Professor, but you don't publish – does it matter? No it doesn't: Publish or Perish. In other words, if changes to the real world are not reflected back into the symbolic representation of that world - it is as if the changes never happened.
On the other hand, when a manager is manipulating the Informational Representation of any Business Object, it is as if the change has been done physically and directly on the real-world object - even if it didn't! That's the managerial power. The title of J.L. Austin's book "How To Do Things With Words" describes this power, and the French translation sounds even better, imho: "Quand dire, c'est faire" - When saying is doing. That's pure Buchananism – by manipulating the Information Representations through Chloe things in the real, physical world get materialized.
Well, I feel in debt to you, the reader, who wanted an instant Acid Test for Enterprise Architecture and got instead something that must be printed (!). So here's my compensation.
An Acid Test for Enterprise Architecture:
Any person or object (software, hardware, humanoid) should be able to Get or Set any Information, through one and only one Interface, using what the person, or the object, think is their natural (voice? English?) protocol of communication. If it's a Get, the most up-to-dated Information will be returned, in real-time, always. Failure is definitely and absolutely not an option! If it's a Set, the manipulation of the Information will trigger the necessary action in the physical world.
An Acid Test for the advanced Enterprise:
The Managers don't have to ask! The Information they might request (as a result of a real-time event), is already ready for them on their (virtual) desk.
An Acid Test for the really advanced Enterprise:
Not only the Managers don't have to ask for real-time Information, their post-analysis symbolic manipulation is carried out automatically. They are out of the loop. The Enterprise becomes autonomous.
Good bye for now.
This post is a sequel to Meant for Each Other: Enterprise Architecture and SOA


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As a parent, you play a special role in the development of your daughter or son, and of his/her teammates. Your encouragement and good example will do more to ensure good sportsmanship and self-discipline than any other influence. The other team is the opponent, not the enemy, and should be treated with respect. While winning is important, player development, playing well and fairly is the essence of the game.
Parent/Coach Communication
1) 24 Hour Rule: There are to be no complaints or criticisms directed toward coaches or officials within 24 hours of a game.
2) If a parent has a concern they would like to discuss with a coach they shall set up an appointment to meet with coach in person or by phone. (Please be aware of the limitations of e-mail, voicemail and other forms of electronic communication. Face-to-face communication is best.)
When and how not to discuss concerns with coach:
Not during any time that will take away from practice, coaching or preparation for practice or game. (before or after practice or game without appointment)
Not in front of the children
Not while either parent or coach is angry
Not late at night/during coach's family/personal time
Not immediately after a critical incident
3) A parent or coach may request the Club's Conflict Resolution Coordinator (CRC) be present at any meeting. A parent or coach may also request any unresolved issue to be addressed by the CRC. The CRC's decision is final. Please understand that parents and coaches may have to agree to disagree.
4) U13 and Above: If a player or parent has a concern about the amount of playing time it is the player's responsibility to first discuss this with their coach. Only after the player has spoken with their coach and their concern has not been met with a satisfactory result, will the parent then be able to request an appointment with the coach. Encouraging our players to address their concerns personally with the coach empowers them and better prepares them for future conflicts on and off the field.
Sideline Coaching
5) Coaching during games and trainings should be left to the coaches. Failure to do so will interfere with your child's, the team's, and the other team's development and enjoyment of the game.
6) Parents shall refrain from any coaching or criticism of their own child, other players, coaches or referees.
7) If a parent is unhappy with a call or the referee they shall refrain from any negative comments and any criticism shall be put in writing.
8) Parents are encouraged to cheer their players and team on during the game.
Additional GVSA Rules
1. GVSA Players will not use alcohol or illegal substances at any time.
2. GVSA Players will not use profanity at any time especially during practices and games.
3. GVSA team captains will make themselves known to the referee and assist in the managing of the match as required by the referee. Team captains are encouraged to respectfully ask for clarification of referee decisions during the match.
4. GVSA players will show respect toward the referees and take responsibility for any fouls called. Players will positively acknowledge the referees' efforts regardless of the outcome.
5. Players will show respect to other players including no taunting. Players will accept victory and defeat with dignity.
6. Players will show respect to coaches and parents.
**Please remember that your child is the one playing soccer, not you. Children must establish their own goals and play the game themselves. Take care not to impose unreasonable demands on your child. Let your children experience the fun of playing as well as the challenge of excelling.


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Nobel Prize for Warwick Economics graduate
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded today to Professor Oliver Hart, a graduate – and honorary graduate – of the University of Warwick.
Warwick researcher one of first women to receive Suffrage Science award in maths and computing on Ada Lovelace Day 2016
On Tuesday 11 October 2016 at Bletchley Park, Professor Jane Hutton from the University of Warwick's Department of Statistics, will become be one of the first women to receive a new Suffrage Science in maths and computing award.
Minister for the Constitution presents WMG, University of Warwick with Royal Warrant
Today the Minister for the Constitution, Chris Skidmore, presented WMG, at the University of Warwick, with a Royal Warrant signed by Her Majesty the Queen, officially conferring her Majesty's recognition with the title of the Regius Professor of Manufacturing (Engineering).
Warwick wins activity award
The University of Warwick has been recognised for encouraging its students to be more active.
Institute of Advanced Study to double postdoctoral fellowship numbers
The University of Warwick is to increase support for postdoctoral fellowships following a €2 million award from the Marie Sklodowska-Curie COFUND scheme. Under this scheme the University will match the funding from the EU to offer postdoctoral fellowships to international researchers in areas related to the Warwick Global Research Priorities (GRPs).
Triple wins for students from WMG Academy for Young Engineers at F1 in Schools National Finals
Students at Coventry's WMG Academy for Young Engineers won three trophies last week at the F1 in Schools national finals at Silverstone Race Track.
David Morley wins the Ted Hughes Award for his latest book of poems, The Invisible Gift
David Morley's selected Poems, The Invisible Gift (Carcanet) has been chosen as the latest winner of The Poetry Society's prestigious prize, the Ted Hughes Award for 2015.
Prof Don Pollacco receives Wolfson Merit Award from The Royal Society
The Royal Society has recently awarded Prof Don Pollacco with a Wolfson Merit Award in recognition of his outstanding scientific achievements. The award will help support his research program on the discovery and characterisation of exoplanets (planets around other stars) for the next 5 years.


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[Hook - Camp Lo]
Megan Good
Mary Tyler Moore
Maybe Melba Moore
Sing while Mya dances on the dance floor
Mary Jane, or even Mariah
Might be a queen
Or maybe Maybelline or Amerie or
Tina Marie or Melody, oh
I just chill 'em 18, y'all
[Geechi Suede]
Brass Barbies
Clashing glasses of scotch
White linin' off the mirror
8 ballin', calling grape schnapps
Pretty marble faces, they lookin' like mannequins
Movin' on the porcelain
Under the china ? is in
Show you're right, show you're right
Emeralds ultra bright
Rayon the rubies
Wrapping around the thunder night
They all wanna dance, they all wanna wave
We all wanna sip, we all wanna chase
[Sonny Cheeba]
You like fur
Rub across my collar, does it purr
All these pimps is hysterical
I think they full of scurr
Pass 'em by, I'm in the V twin
Ghostridin' the blur
And rejection don't occur
Call an officer or a fireman
Dr. Feelgood, operates on Angela's Winbush
Call me Sonny Kush, take a puff baby
If that don't get you high
Hit the cliff and hang glide
Love potion number 9
She gonna trip off every line
[Geechi Suede]
Ballerina ball
Beautific Betties get blown
Bar Mitzvah for the blacklist
Iced ceramic wrap her wrist
Watch the fur blitz
Around her curveness
Blue bottle bubbles break at the rim I'm concerned with
Hop your corset out the Corvette
Walk on the water 'til a wave
And then you soakin' wet
? the Lex, stretch the next
Celebrate the scene
Catwalk your Maybelline until it drip clean
[Mac Miller]
I got a b*tch in my neighborhood
She looks like Meagan Good
And everyone around her holler at her
Tryin' to pay for pus*y
She don't f*ck with that
Or hit it 'til she hunch her back
She in love with that
That's why she in the kitchen baking cookies
Yeah, she a down ass b*tch
She said I was her favorite once I found that clit
Saw Mary Tyler Moore at the vinyl store before
Said I'd put it in her ass if she about that sh*t, cause
I need a freak that like to be a geek
Roll blunts of good kush and them that we can chief
She a believer in Jesus, I thought I'd teach her 'bout evil
And have her givin' me head
While we in a room full of people, she nasty
Always talk to my di*k, she have a conversation
Put some God in that pus*y
That's a revelation
Yeah, I like to eat it if it's tasting good
Never spend a dollar on a b*tch, even if it's


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NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. and Canadian scientists say volcanoes produce distinctive tremors minutes, days or even weeks before they erupt, making prediction of events possible.
Researchers at Yale University, along with colleagues at the University of British Columbia, said no matter their size or shape, explosive volcanoes produce tremors at similar frequencies, a Yale release said Wednesday.
Prior to most explosive eruptions the volcanoes shake slightly but measurably, and the shaking becomes more dramatic during the eruption itself and is a primary precursor used by vulcanologists for forecasting an eruption.
"Tremor is very mysterious, most notably because it shakes at pretty much the same frequency in almost every explosive volcano, whether it's in Alaska, the Caribbean, New Zealand or Central America," Yale geology professor David Bercovici said.
"That it's so universal is very weird because volcanoes are so different in size and character," he said. "It would be like blowing on five different musical wind instruments and having them all sound the same."
Tremors in nearly all volcanoes stay in a narrow band of frequencies from about 0.5 to 2 hertz, then just before and during the eruption the frequency climbs to a higher pitch, between 0.5 and 7 hertz, researchers say.
Bercovici and colleague Mark Jellinek at UBC suggest these similarities can be explained by "magma wagging," or the rattling that occurs from the interaction of rising magma and the foamy jacket of gas that surrounds it.
The factors that control this rattling or wagging vary little between volcanoes, which explains why the same tremors occur in very different volcanoes, they said.
"This model will provide a much-needed framework for understanding the physics of tremors, and this can only help with the prediction and forecasting of destructive eruptions," Bercovici said.


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Well it's finally here! The KAPCITY Show premiered its pilot episode, with an interesting twist.
We are introduced to DJ Keezy (played by KapCity, in case you were wondering), a DJ (who does the most) who is also a Kap City fan.
KapCity (previously known as Kapital K) discusses his bold and decisive transition from Africa to the United States of America in pursue of his music career. He also talks about the name change.
Currently based in Miami, Florida, Kap explains why he feels he's where he needed to be and how he needed to get off his "Komfortable Sofa" to achieve the goals he wants to attain.
KapCity ends the interview with a freestyle to Meek Mill's Litty. It is certainly an interesting flip on talk shows. I will definitely be waiting for future episodes.


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Lessons Learnt from Abigail Ahern: Flowers, flowers, flowers
This is the first of a new series about design lessons I have learnt and I am going to start it with a few insights from Abigail Ahern's Masterclass last month.
Fill your house with an abundance of flowers: they had texture and create immediate layering.
Here are some photos of Abigail's shop in London.
What's really interesting is that they are all fakes! Yes, that's right. Decking out your house with this amount of real flowers every day of the year is really only possible by those living in the country with access to bounties of free blooms, or those with a line of credit at the local florist. Alternatively, invest in some high quality fakes. These days they are so well done it's hard to tell them from real ones especially if you have a few scented candles burning at the same time.
Last week my house was photographed for a magazine and, with Abigial's inspiration in mind, I combined both real and fake flowers and scattered them throughout the house and below are the results.
A few tips to remember: don't put fake flowers near natural light as your secret will be revealed; and forget posies and flower arrangements, the latest in floral design is putting clusters of vases or bottles together each with one flower or stem.
The photo below is from the Masterclass, run in the attic of Abigail's house. It's painted in Farrow & Ball's Railings which is the most divine colour. Flowers (and pretty much anything) looks incredible against it. I am pretty excited that I managed to get a sample of this colour and it's being sent to me in Australia. If I love it as much as I think I will, my plan is to have it colour matched and to start painting!
Photo by me (Kate Challis)
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Hi Kate,
Gorgeous! Your house looks divine with all the flowers!
I have been eyeing Abigails flowers for quite some time now, they look fabulous on pictures and I heard they are even made of natural silk fabric? So much for many of the 'silk flowers' out there, that are made of plastics… My birthday surprise was a trip to London to visit her store to buy flowers, and we are planning a weekend to the UK right now. I cannot wait!
Have you decided on a name for your blog yet?
Have a great day!
ChrisJune 26, 2012
Her cafe is opening in the Autumn.
I too went on one of Abi's masterclasses and I loved it, she's such an inspiration. I'm in the process of buying a flat and I'm so glad I went before I decorated as the Farrow & Ball will be coming out now.
I haven't bought any of her silk flowers but I really loved Gem's class. I've paid much more attention since then rather than just shoving flowers in a vase. I made my first hand held bouquet which turned out surprisingly well. She just gave a list of brilliantly simple, useful tips didn't she?
I've just found your blog and I love it!July 4, 2012
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Love your blog which I just discovered tonight. That lightshade made of wire is so simple and lovely. Can you tell me where you got it? Thank youMarch 11, 2014
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Oh Kate, thank you so much! This is fabulous.March 15, 2014


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RPGnet launches fundraiser, citing flagging site traffic, exhaustion with hiding moderator bias
"Yes, other game forums don't ask for money, but they also don't have in-depth and nuanced discussion of important topics like 'Do I Have A Moral Obligation NOT to Play A Different Race or Gender,'" said an RPGnet spokesman.
|"Yes, 7-55 people have severe emotional problems, but we want them to see RPGnet as both a haven and a soapbox"
"Some members have more influence here at RPGnet--mostly because their white collar tech jobs give them time to post a lot and earn the moderators' trust. We thought that class-correlated privilege was pretty cool, so why not double-down on it by having these members give us some of that disposable income in exchange for having a little flag and a bigger avatar letting everyone know not to disagree with them?"


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Removal or transfer costs: expenses and benefits: main conditions for exemption: extension of time limit
Section 274 ITEPA 2003
The Commissioners of HMRC have the power to extend the time limit by one or more complete tax years if it seems reasonable to do so. That power is delegated to Grade 7 Team Leaders in the following circumstances.
Children on examination courses
Where the relocation is delayed to allow the employee's child or children to complete public examination courses (typically GCSEs, A Levels, or in Scotland SCE O Levels and Highers). Courses usually last two years, and you should extend the time limit to 5 April following the completion of the examinations. See the examples at EIM03106.
Difficulty in selling the old residence
Where the relocation has been delayed because of difficulty in selling the old residence. You should satisfy yourself that reasonable efforts have been made to sell the old residence. Extend the time limit by one year at a time, and review all the circumstances if a further application is made.
Note that there is no point in extending the time limit if the employee will have received £8,000 of expenses and benefits that qualify for exemption by the end of the normal time limit.
Send a full report to Personal Tax, (Technical), Solihull in cases falling within the above circumstances where you consider that the time limit should not be extended.
Where the Band B Team Leader decides to extend the time limit, he or she should write to the employee using the draft letter at EIM03107. If the application for an extension came from the employer or an accountant, adapt the first paragraph of the reply as necessary.
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French Immersion After School Program
Our aftercare program is for preschoolers through 1st Graders at our 607 Henry Street Location.
The after school classes are led by gifted bilingual educators, and the instruction is exclusively in French. Each day, the children will have the opportunity to play with open-ended materials, engage in art projects, and develop their imaginations through dramatic play. The teachers will read stories, sing songs, and gently guide & support the children's play in French. On select days, we will have Music & Movement teachers, Chess Instruction, a dedicated Art Teacher, and gardening activities.
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- We provide a small snack of organic fruit + healthy carbs
- Pick up is available from PS 58, ISB, and BNS for a $10 fee.
(we must have at least 4 students being picked up at each location in order to ensure the pick up)
We follow the NYC public school calendar for holidays and/or inclement weather closures.