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A Lenoir County veteran reflects on his service during World War II
Serving in what he describes as �the greatest military ever assembled� is a source of pride for World War II B-17 mechanic John Callihan.
Callihan, who grew up in Columbus County, said he was drafted into the Army Air Corps in September 1942. After completing mechanic school in Amarillo Texas and a stop at the B-17 plant in Seattle, Callihan � who will celebrate his 94th birthday later this week � arrived at Royal Air Force Station Thorpe Abbotts in England where he remained until September 1945.
Callihan said he was part of the ground crew for a B-17 known as the �Squawkin Hawk� in the 100th Bomb Group, 349th Squadron.
�When it got shot at, we had to make repairs and whatever else was needed,� he said. �Every time it left the base to go on a mission, there were 10 men aboard, and it depended on us to keep it in condition to fly so it would bring those men back.�
Callihan said the worst condition he ever saw the plane was when the elevators and rudder we almost completely gone.
�We couldn�t believe it could fly, but it did,� he said.
Callihan said the �Squawkin Hawk� flew on 50 missions and he formed a close bond with the crew.
�We were just like a family,� he said. �We treated those planes as if they were our children.�
Callihan said he was busy during most of his waking hours.
�If we weren�t working on our own plane, we were working on someone else�s,� he said.
In addition to gaining experience as a mechanic, Callihan said he met his wife Monica at a summer resort in England.
The pair dated for a year, but Callihan said he wanted Monica to visit the United States before they decided to get married.
�I knew there was going to be a lot of girls the boys would shoot lines to and make them think that in America all they had to do was walk around and pick up $100 bills,� he said. �I let Monica know it wasn�t like that, and I wanted her to come over and see what it was like before we got married because I planned on making it a long term affair if she liked it.�
The two were married for 59 years before Monica�s passing several years ago.
Callihan was reunited with the B-17 in June when he visited the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum in Savannah, Ga. When museum staff found out Callihan used to work on B-17s, Callihan said they gave him star treatment and let him go aboard the plane.
�It was an experience I didn�t think I would ever have again,� he said. �I felt like I was home.�
Callihan said he is grateful for his time in the military.
�I wouldn�t trade it for anything in the world,� he said.
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What is Community Supported Agriculture?
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a system by which consumers become shareholders of a local farm to share its risks and rewards. Our CSA members are the backbone of our farms. Your support gets us growing in the Spring and your enthusiasm sustains us throughout the season. In return, we share the bounty of our harvest.
How does it work?
Each week for twenty-six weeks we harvest the best, most abundant produce and put together a box of seven to ten items. The selection of vegetables changes throughout the season. As a member, you will pick up your share at one of several drop-off locations.
When/Where do we pick up our shares?
see times and locations
Why summer and fall shares?
We'll have veggies the whole year (June-November) but thought breaking it up might be easier on the piggy bank. You're welcome to purchase both shares now, or to start with the summer share and see how you like it... There's no deadline to purchase a share, but the earlier you do, the easier it will be for us to grow for you. Sales from the shares fund spring production expenses.
What can we expect in our veggie shares?
We grow so many different crops it's hard to list them all. It's also hard to tell you when, exactly, you're getting what; but get it, you will! Here's a pdf of the SRF seed list so you get a better idea of what all we grow - and that's just half of it!
How do I purchase any of the additional shares?
Once you have purchased one of the seasonal veggie shares you can add as many of the additional shares as you like. The 607 adds just enough to cover the costs of hosting and delivering these items (3% credit card processing fee + 15% trucking fee + 7% Star Route Farm admin fee = %25 add-on), the rest goes to the participating farms.
Who get's the dough?
SRF and BERRYBROOK split the NYC share $ fifty-fifty no matter where its going. Upstate shares are handled by Star Route Farm, supplemented by Berrybrook when necessary. If you buy an additional share or a la carte item, that $ will go to the farm that offers it (minus the 25% discussed above). It's great. In short, the money goes directly to farmers to help them run their farm.
Who's doing all this admin, logistics, and website work then, are you paying them?
Ever wonder what farmers do in winter?
Are all those photos really your farms/produce?
Yep. And they can be found on our respective websites or instagram.
I thought we were supposed to volunteer?
Sure, please do! Come on up! Save on that gym membership. Get in touch. There are no obligations, however.
What are the benefits of CSA?
Nutritious organic produce. Freshness that can't be beat. Marketing language like that, but for real. Perks - recipes, farm visits, enhanced quality of life...
Furthermore, we believe changing the food-system is a form of REVOLUTION.
And, it's a great deal: Barring huge crop failures or natural disasters, we fill each box with more than $25 worth of produce each week and give you the option to add other farms' products to your share. We'll also include recipes to hopefully enhance your veggie experience. Plus you get to meet your neighbors during pick-up events and enjoy the satisfaction of providing seed money for your friends' farms. What's not to like?
Have other questions? e-mail us at the607csa at gmail.com and we'll do our best to answer you.

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Rocketrip 2016 Business Travel Spend Report
Rocketrip has analyzed expense data from thousands of business trips to produce a view of how business travelers spent on flights, hotels, trains, and rental cars in the past year.
The Data
Who - The data set provides a unique view into the spending habits of business travelers, who account for a fifth of travel volume, but a third of overall travel spending. That disproportionately high spending is explained by the fact that business travelers are relatively price insensitive. Rocketrip focused on the spending patterns of U.S. business travelers: most trips were domestic, with some international trips included to provide a point of comparison.
Method - Rocketrip is a tech platform that reduces clients' travel costs by giving business travelers trip budgets and incentivizing them to spend less. Rocketrip's analysis of spending in 2016 shows business travelers' actual purchase decisions in the context of market prices, availability, and the spending guidelines outlined in their company's travel policies. Each traveler received a custom budget based on an algorithmic prediction of what a given itinerary should cost. If the traveler spent less than the budget, he or she kept half of the savings.


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About the North Florida Brewers League
The North Florida Brewers League – Zymurgists of Tallahassee was established in 1990 as a membership organization dedicated to promoting both the hobby of homebrewing and an appreciation for hand-crafted beer. The NFBL welcomes and encourages participation from homebrewers and beer enthusiasts 21 years of age and older.
Activities of the NFBL
The NFBL engages in many beer-related activities. Some of those include:
- Providing brewing and beer education
- Brewing together at club brews
- Coordinating events with other beer organizations
- Participating in beer competitions and festivals
- Providing education forums
- Serving the community through volunteerism
So take some time, look around, and visit us at an NFBL event, brew or tasting.


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Home remedies to get rid of cockroaches include spreading baking soda, borax or diatomaceous earth in the affected areas of the home. Experts recommend mixing Borax and baking soda with sugar or other ingredients, such as peanut butter, to help ensure the insects consume the powder. Traps made from bread, old coffee cans and beer also help eliminate cockroaches. In addition to spreading the desired product, clean the home thoroughly, and remove water sources to completely eliminate the insects.
Mix borax, a laundry additive, with a combination of peanut butter, shortening, flour and water, and roll the mixture into balls. Place the balls in locations of frequent cockroach activity. Replace the bait as needed.
To make a trap, soak a piece of bread in beer, and place the bread in the bottom of an empty coffee can. Leave the lid off the coffee can, and place the trap in the desired area. Replace the bread as needed.
To use baking soda to get rid of cockroaches, mix the baking soda with an equal amount of sugar, and spread the mixture in cabinets and other areas of the home. When using diatomaceous earth, spread the diatomaceous earth in the affected areas of the home, and eliminate all water sources for optimal results. Give the product up to two weeks to work.


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$4B Theme Park Planned for Casa Grande
By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder's Exchange
Developer The Block Sports Company has filed plans with the City of Casa Grande to create a destination resort comparable to Walt Disney World, and it intends to invest between seven and 10 years and $4B to make it happen.
According the Planned Area Development prepared by Gilmore Planning & Landscape Architecture, Dreamport Villages will be created in two components, Dreamport Villages Casa Grande – North and Dreamport Villages Casa Grande – South. Combined, they will total more than 1,500 acres as a, "Destination Resort," at the junction of interstates 8 and 10.
The recently submitted PAD deals with the 618-acre north component, which will serve as the primary resort and recreation area. The developer plans to provide indoor entertainment, an extreme sports venue, water parks, restaurant, retail space and, ultimately a fully-themed amusement park.
The south section will augment the resort and amusement park with still more recreational areas, a college campus annex, tech park and master-planned residential community. It will also reserve a site for an elementary or charter school and provide access to mountain hiking trails.
The project will also create access connections to the freeways.
The submittal touts the plan as having an economic impact on the state that is, "simply staggering." It notes, "In sales tax alone, the State will receive 5.6 percent, Casa Grande gets 2 percent and Pinal County gets 1.1 percent. This means that 3.1 percent of every dollar spent throughout the Destination Resort goes directly to the local government. This means that for every $100 M in annual sales generated from within Dreamport, Casa Grande gets $2M and Pinal gets $1.1M."
In addition, the developer calculates the first phase of development will create roughly 5,800 direct and indirect jobs. When the project is completely built out, the estimate rises to 15,000 jobs and an annual visitor count of more than 15 million.
While making frequent comparisons to the end result being Arizona's equivalent to Disney World, the submittal explains at length the advantages the developer has over creating that project, including quantum improvements in technology and two major population centers within an hour's drive of the site. In its conclusion the submittal states, "As a result, what took Disney to accomplish in 50 years, could be accomplished in Pinal County in as little as 1/4 the time. "
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Depression and Anxiety - Winston Wiebe
This week we had Kevin Smith in the classroom talking about anxiety and depression. This being something I have dealt with in my past, it was not only good to go back through those things but good to think about the things I still need to work through and what that looks like. This week has brought up a lot of good conversation and was one of my favorite weeks in the classroom so far.
Personally, this week was tough because it was hard to get back in the swing of things after Thanksgiving Break. Finding my rhythm again is always tough. It does not help when I'm trying to work through things in my past and figure out what to do with them, but that is why I am here. There is a community here that is unlike any other and I couldn't ask to be in a better place!
As far as friend life goes, the highlight of my week was going to the Dolloff's house to have cookies and hot chocolate with the family. It felt great to be in a home again because we don't get that often. As much fun as this year is, it feels good to be in a homely environment every once and awhile.
All in all this week was pretty normal around these parts. I spent most of my time doing work and figuring out my life. Community is better than any place I have ever been and I don't think I would change a thing.


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James Freeman of Victoria Bakery has been crowned overall winner at the Tiptree World Bread Awards 2015 with his London bloomer.
At a harvest festival-style ceremony in St John's Church in Hyde Park, London, on 6 October, Freeman's loaf was also awarded the winner of the Great British White category.
Freeman said of his win: "It was a complete surprise. I never expected it at all."
Another big winner on the night was Mark Bennett of Patisserie Mark Bennett, who scooped a clutch of awards including the speciality savoury category. His success at the World Bread Awards followed being presented The Craft Business Award at last month's Baking Industry Awards, organised by British Baker.
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Bottle Service #7 (Thirty Stories in Thirty Days)
by Cherie Ann Turpin
A quiet crowd hovered in the alleyway between [] street leading up to the dull, gray door of Aremwen's Parlour near opening time, 11 p.m. Two Nephilim hybrid brothers, one with Black skin, one with White skin, stood at the entrance as security, quietly surveying the makeup of the chic crowd. Both men wore matching black suits, sunglasses, and Secret Service style earpieces, but they reserved the electronics for human eyes and ears, as they were adept at telepathy and teleportation. They were quite useful as security not just for their 7'8 height and massive chest and arm muscles, but because they were magical beings like the clientele of this private club.
The bar was located in the alleyway near an art gallery just before the C&O Canal at the bottom of Georgetown. It was the only venue that openly welcomed Phorzhicoans, witches, vampires, demons, angels, shifters, warriors, extractors, telepaths, fallen deities–in other words, all uber-natural beings often not welcome among humans in social settings. Mary, who was a vampire, owned Aremwen. At 300 she still looked like a slender teenager with smooth, dark brown skin, and a tall Afro cut down the sides into a mohawk. She was originally brought to the New World as a small child from Ghana.
After surviving the Middle Passage, Mary was sold into slavery to a small farm outside Jamestown, Virginia. Her Vampire Mother, under the guise of a freedwoman midwife, rescued her from the lecherous slave master whose nefarious intentions had already resulted in an unwanted pregnancy and birth of a stillborn girl. After smuggling the almost dead 19 year-old from the farm, the "midwife" offered Mary the choice of a quick death to relieve her of the painful, uncontrollable bleeding that would certainly result in her eventual death, or a new life that would free her of human pain and enslavement. Several centuries later, Mary owned a high-end bar that offered Bottle Service to VIPs, a complicated but extremely profitable service, given the special appetites of her VIP clientele.
Few of the ordinary patrons who sailed through the bar could afford Bottle Service–contrary to the myths, most supernatural beings these days struggled to make ends meet by working like the humans–but there were a few who had not been around long enough to know of Mary's wrath who deemed themselves cocky enough to attempt to run a scam, i.e., get Bottle Service and skip out on the bill. Such was the entourage of new vamps in the corner, loud enough to partially drown out the techno music pumping through the bar. Some of them were too young to even have the knowledge of comparing vampire powers. Had even one of them known the full extent of Mary's power none of them would be destined to be tied to each other with heavy silver chain links, prone, and in a pile like logs to be set afire in the venue's basement.
Mary would soon have a nice talk with the Nephilim brothers, because they were either clearly off their game tonight, or she had two very strong creatures who were in on the scam. Either possibility brought dread and not a little bit of irritation to Mary, as she stared at the quivering set of baby vampires in the corner.
This was not going to be a good night.
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Patrick Beaudan and three other fin tech executives will be speaking at the next Uncharted Minds: How APIs, Analytics, and Algorithms are Transforming Finance, Wednesday, February 24, 2015 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PDT) San Francisco, Click here or use the code 'insider' for 50% off tickets to the event
Fin tech is an elusive term, how would you define the space?
Fin tech is all about digital software that makes finance easier, smarter, cheaper and safer. Take Emotomy for instance – it allows investment advisors to upgrade from abacus and spreadsheets to online interface that makes advisors smarter and more scientific in analyses, with more time to dedicate to client management and education
There is a lot of talk around big data and analytics but is it just hype? Is the access to data, through APIs really changing how finance works?
Anyone who thinks that big data and analytics is hype is obsolete. Just look at how Facebook and Google know all about which sites you visited seconds ago. Access to data on who did what when for how long and how much, will change how financial institutions view individual credit, company financials, capital markets information, and many other things. Emotomy has APIs connecting to online brokerage firms and TAMPs to automatically trade thousands of investor accounts through 4 computers. The efficiency is amazing.
What area of financial innovation are you the most excited about? What are you le ast excited about?
Any area in fin tech that helps level the playing field is exciting, and can bring tremendous opportunity to groups that would otherwise not get access to information. Fin tech is helping democratize access to information, and it can have incredible far reaching implications. Emotomy feels good about bringing institutional-quality investment, risk, and compliance tools to professional advisors so that they, in turn, can provide high-level investment advice to their investors.
What's the biggest challenge entrepreneurs and small businesses will face in 2016? What advice do you have for them to navigate it?
The biggest change in 2016 will be access to capital. The past 5 years has marked an era of cheap, available capital. Interest rates are near zero, and the market has grown year over year with double digit growth. Therefore, the opportunity to exit a private investment via acquisition or IPO was relatively easy. This is changing in 2016 as markets are correcting, and more realistic valuations will kick in. The model of raising quick VC money, hyping up the brand with ads, and quickly flipping, is no longer going to work.
Is the change that the finance industry is experience transformative? Are fin tech startups disrupting incumbents?
Yes. Just think of how easy it is today to pay a bill using fin tech apps. Traditional financial institutions will quickly have to adapt or lose big portions of their businesses. Emotomy is providing turnkey B2B robo-advisory platforms to independent investment advisory firms so that they can compete with mega institutions with a fraction of their expenses.
What advice do you have for prospective employees who want to join a company like yours?
Experience working and knowing the market you want to disrupt is key to knowing what issues need to be solved through disruption. Relationships built in these markets can be converted to customers and investors


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Apple Cider Tangerine Cocktail | Recipes
Like I said yesterday, i'm here for you, procrastinators. Today I have an easy cocktail that looks like a million bucks but only takes a sec to mix up. And it also gives you a place to get rid of all those bottles of sparkling apple cider you mysteriously have in your cabinet (am I the only one? WHY do I have so many of the?!).
- Skinnygirl Tangerine Vodka
- Spiced Rum
- Sparkling Apple Cider
- Cinnamon sticks, apple slices and pomegranate seeds for garnish
Make it:
- Mix 2 parts vodka, 1 part rum and 3 parts cider in a glass
- Stir and top with ice
- Add in a few slices of apple and a cinnamon stick, then top with some pomegranate seeds
- Drink and be happy
What are your favorite turkey day cocktails?
Maybe i'll try one of yours (because you know i've procrastinated and not picked up anything for our celebration)!
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Chelsey T | 2014/15 BMHS Grad Rep
Meet Chelsey T, one of my grads from Bernice MagNaughton High School in Moncton. We had a bit of a late start to our session, so we had to make the most of the remaining golden light. We headed to Irishtown Park and managed to get a really nice range of beautiful fall photos of Chelsey. She was a great subject to work with and lots of fun!
If you would like to book your grad photo session, get in touch.


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Online courses: Participation in online courses requires a fairly powerful computer and a reliable, high speed connection to the Internet [view the technical requirements] as well as an independent learning style. These courses will use conferencing software and e-mail to enhance learning via increased access to faculty experts, who will guide you through the course. But your interaction with faculty and students will be by e-mail.
How well would an Online course fit your circumstances and life-style? Select one answer for each question and score as directed below.
3 points are given for each "A" that you selected, 2 for each "B," and 1 for each "C."
- If you scored 20 or more, an online course may be a good choice for you.
- If you scored between 11 and 20, online courses may work for you, but you may need to make a few adjustments in your schedule and study habits to succeed.
- If you scored 10 or less, online courses may not currently be the best alternative for you; talk to your advisor.
The 10 questions in the questionnaire reflect what we have learned about taking Online courses:
- Online students sometimes can end up neglecting courses because of personal or professional circumstances unless they have compelling reasons for taking the course.
- Some students prefer the independence of an online course; others find it uncomfortable.
- Online courses give students greater freedom of scheduling, but they can require more self-discipline than on-campus classes.
- Some people learn best by physically interacting with other students and instructors, but online courses employ e-mail and online conferences for interaction.
- Online courses require you to work from written direction without face-to-face instructions.
- Online courses require a working computer and a reliable internet connection.
- Online courses require at least as much time as on-campus courses.
- Online courses frequently use technology for teaching and communications.
- On-screen materials are the primary source of directions and information in online courses.
- Some online courses may require some travel to complete proctored exams.
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Sunday, September 23, 2012
On a Mission to Civilize My Cross Stitch Chart Format
After messing around with KG Stitch LE, which is a very nice program, for quite a while, I think that I've figured out how to make nice looking patterns without my other computer. It involves printing to PDFs and copious amounts of image editing, but it isn't really any more or less effort than I was taking to make these before, and I think that it looks a little nicer, too, in terms out how clearly the grid is marked. It is different, so if you stitch my sprite patterns, please take a look at today's pattern and let me know what you think! From this, though, I think that I've found a workable new format.
For the test pattern, I decided to use a sprite I'd done of Mackenzie McHale from The Newsroom, which is a show on HBO, for a couple of reasons. First of all, I didn't want to fiddle around with and post a chart everyone hated of a character someone had requested, since that would just be mean. I don't think that'll be a problem, but I hadn't been sure of that when I'd started, so it seemed reasonable to make a more cautious choice. The other reason why I chose her, which will only make sense to other people who watched The Newsroom, was that it seemed like it would be funny to use her as the first pattern in a new format. Regardless of all of that, however, here is today's new pattern, ready to be stitched, or at least looked at by people who are curious as to what the new charts will look like.
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The pattern looks great - very clear and easy to read. It'll be a little weird at first since I'm so used to your black stitches being solid blocks, but that's just me being silly!ReplyDelete
Glad you found something that will work so well for you :D
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 4:32 AM
I was not thinking 'cross stitch pattern' when watching the Newsroom but you were and that's what makes you awesome. Seriously, I've been visiting this blog consistently for at least two years and I'm always so wonderfully surprised. Thank you! And the new pattern format looks great.ReplyDelete
I love KG! It's what I use for all of my patterns and I print to PDF as well (thank goodness for CutePDF right?).ReplyDelete
The new format looks great! It just dawned on me though; do you print out your patterns in PDF form and then print screen for the editing?


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The Academy for Fine Arts and Design (HBKsaar) in Saarbrücken was founded in 1989 in connection with the economical and technological development of the Bundesland Saarland which intends to respond the challenges of the future by the creation and extension of alternative research centres - in particular in the fields of ecology, new technologies, computer graphics and artificial intelligence.
The nature of the art schools in Saarbrücken was shaped by arts and crafts which from
the twenties onwards followed the Bauhaus tradition. The HBKsaar has emerged from these art schools as an art academy which offers the two departments Fine Arts and Design. The academy ranks as one of the youngest art academies in Europe. It is a state institution and at the time it has 250 student places at its disposal.
The main characteristic of the academy is the interdisciplinary linking up of the courses. That means on the one hand experimental and interactive projects based on recent resources in the fields of science, technology, economics and society and on the other hand the focus on electronic media. Indeed the aesthetic innovation of telecommunications confronts artists and designers with key questions concerning our future.
The flexible educational concept requires from the students the capability of responsible, critical and reflexive interest for their environment. The purpose is to form mobile students rather than traditional artists or designers visiting one "class". So the students can gain an aesthetic qualification based, as far as possible, on an universal knowledge of social relevant contexts.The main building of the HBKsaar is an historical baroque building situated together with various pavilion buildings near the Ludwigsplatz in the heart of Saarbr¸cken. The principals office, the administration, the library, the media library, the archive, the studio and seminar rooms, workshops, a darkroom and a cafeteria can be found here. There is also a printing centre at the Tummelplatz, only a short walk.
In 1994 the campus was further extended with the opening of the so-called E-Haus, a former grammar school building. Today, the E-Haus houses various studios for photography, sound and recording, video and computer. Another site of the HBKsaar is the Handwerkergasse in Völklingen. It is part of a former iron and steelworks which belongs to the European cultural world heritage of UNESCO since 1994.The Art Department encompasses all artistic media, from painting and sculpture up
to audiovisual and computer generated art. The Design Department teaches all the fields of communication,media and product design.
The educational and professional concept of the HBKsaar is project orientated which means that it is based upon the principle of bringing together different disciplines and skills. Thus, new cross-discipline teaching and study projects are being developed continuously. This educational structure concentrates on flexibility which enables a far-reaching interchangeability between the different courses.Beside a close interconnection with several scientific and cultural institutions such as the Saarland University, the
Academy of Music and Drama, the Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, and the neighbouring academies of Fine Arts in France, the HBKsaar sees a further challenge in the confrontation with specific assignments given by public and private enterprises with the aim of increasing the students awareness for recent and future developments of the society. This co-operation result in semester works which deal with concrete design projects as well as art projects in public space.
Since 1993, the HBKsaar has been linked by an agreement, financed by the INTERREG Programme of the European Community, with the Glasswork Centre in Meisenthal, a former glass factory in Lorraine. The centre is offering various training courses about glasswork techniques in art and design. Meanwhile the HBKsaar has set up a co-operation network which has enabled the participation of the art schools of Nancy, Strasbourg, Reims, Karlsruhe, Milan, Florence, Barcelona, Prague, Enschede.
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Michele Bachmann Says Hurricane Irene Was God's Message to Washington
In what must be one of the most tasteless jokes of the century, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said on Sunday that Hurricane Irene and the recent East Coast earthquake were God's way of sending a message to Washington about the government's spending habits.
"I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians," Michele Bachmann told supporters at the Republican Party's Straw Poll gathering on Sunday.
"We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending,†Bachmann said.
While a press statement issued by Michele Bachmann aide Alice Stewart said her boss was speaking "in jest," we didn't find her tone funny in the least. She sounded more like crazed evangelist Pat Robertson, who said Hurricane Irene was a symbol from God to call attention to the cracks in our "nation under God" and the East Coast earthquake was a "birth pang" foreshadowing the End of Days.
Even if it really was a 'joke' by Michelle Bachmann to blame Washington for angering God into creating a series of terrible natural disasters, it was horribly uncouth. Hurricane Irene has claimed at least 25 lives and caused billions of dollars in damage all along the East Coast. Joking that government spending is responsible for pissing off God enough to kill people is amusing in no one's book.
As Politico.com stated eloquently, Michelle Bachmann's 'joke' raises "the question of whether it's appropriate for a presidential candidate and member of Congress to be joking about a major weather event that has already resulted in fatalities and extensive property damage."
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3 Responses to "Michele Bachmann Says Hurricane Irene Was God's Message to Washington"
Chris W.
August 29th, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Church & State. Separate. Period.
August 29th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
Michele Bachmann and her husband are both very far out. Not good for the U.S. She is running on her own "gay agenda†platform. We are closing schools, laying people off. Families are being foreclosed on and being put out in the streets. And all this Republican running for President and her husband can do is talk about is "praying away the gayâ€. It is a good money maker for her, but we have bigger things to do, and I am hopping God has too. If you or your church has the gay agenda on your mind, all the time you may need to set down and talk with someone. We need to start looking at what is best for the country. Not our own religion's views, that blow in the wind.


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A myriad of bright colours await those who go to Batu Caves in Gombak, the country's most well-known Hindu worship site that's nestled within 400 million year-old limestone caves. In order to pay to your respects to supreme Hindu god Lord Murugan — whose towering, 140-feet tall gold statue greets visitors as they approach the entrance — you'll have to brave a steep ascent of 272 steps. But it's well worth the trouble.
In addition to the robust workout you get from climbing the stairs, you'll be accompanied and entertained by a fair number of macaques who've long made their home at Batu Caves. Ambling about nimbly on all fours, the monkeys seem like they're constantly on a mission.
Unafraid of humans, they scamper up and down the stairs and banisters, stopping to feast on coconuts or eye things carried by humans. Some of the mama monkeys even have adorable baby macaques with them. Little arms are wrapped around Mama's belly, clinging tightly for dear life as Mama and the rest of the clan clamber upwards to wherever they are headed.
While there are other very eye-catching things to photograph there, I wanted to zoom in onto these adorable monkeys who would surely charm even the cold-hearted — I saw a tough-looking man try to share his ice-cream with one spiky headed little macaque! Overall, the macaques are even-tempered and friendly towards humans. Be warned, however, this does not mean that this is a green light for you to touch, pet or annoy them in any way. Keep a safe distance, and no one gets hurt.


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Official Landland Postcard Set (Vol. 2)
Are you into postcards? How about tiny versions of some of our prints? Want some weird little things to show up in your mailbox? Other people's mailboxes? We urge you to check out these Official Landland Postcard Sets that we've made. Send a thing to your Grandma or your friend or your high school English teacher. Or the police. Also works on your enemy.
• FIVE Fully-Functional Offset-Printed Postcards (all different, one of each shown in the photo)
• 1 (4"x6") Screen Printed Miniature Test Print
• Assorted Smaller Cards & Stickers, made for no reason, included for fun
• 1 Screen Printed "Thank You" Card for you, from us.
• A 4-Color Screen Printed Belly Band, wrapping the whole thing up
NOTE: These postcard packs will ship separately from poster orders, so there is an additional charge (based on your location). Shipping charges are set up to charge "per item" on these postcard sets, but we will refund the extra postage on orders for multiple postcard sets (and other small items that we can ship together). Confusing set-up, I know, but we'll sort it all out over here before your order ships. Thanks!
ALSO NOTE: Included in this set is a postcard of Jes' illustration for "The Wanton Sea," which has some sorta-explicit sexy things going on in there...it's honestly barely visible at postcard size, but we're mentioning it here to hopefully prevent getting weird emails about it later.


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In an article recently published by Reuters, titled Saving carbs for last may help ward off blood sugar spike for diabetics, an interesting twist on carb timing was revealed. The article followed a recent study done by the Comprehensive Weight Control Center at Weill Cornell Medicine (New York City) on diabetic patients. The study showed that the diabetic patients that saved their carbs, specifically bread and orange juice, for last had a "significantly lower increase in blood sugar after the meal." The decrease in blood sugar that they had was similar to that achieved with commonly used diabetic drugs. In the study, the participants in the study either at their carbs before their protein and veggies; together as a sandwich; or after their protein and vegetables. The ones that ate the carbs last had half the post prandial blood sugar of those that ate it first. The same team is now testing the same idea with patients with pre-diabetes. To read the full article, click here.
Although this study was done on diabetics, I feel it still has impact on all of us. The new cases of diabetes continues to increase at alarming rates and making small changes like consuming your carbs last in a meal could make a huge impact on prevention and management of this disease. So next time you go out to dinner, try eating your starches last to see how it feels. Not only will you not feel deprived but you may even end up eating less than when you had it first since you're full from those fiber rich veggies! Talk about an easy weight loss diet trick.


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Tracklements features 'Ann Arbor's Hottest Food Talent' this Saturday/
Corinna works at Zingerman's Deli with Ji Hye Kim, Kristen Hogue Jackson, and Katie Garlinghouse - of San Street and Working Girl Eats. Hosted by Tracklements (our very own nationally lauded Kerrytown smokery) and taking place in the performance space of Pot & Box, Saturday from 6-8 p.m. is your chance to meet "Ann Arbor's hottest food talent†in an intimate and informal setting. This is your chance to say, "I knew them when ...â€
The line-up for the evening includes The Brinery, EAT, Farrell Fruit, San Street and Working Girl Eats. Five passionate businesses dedicated to the perfection of the masticated morsel. "Most of us started up in the last year,†said Eric Farrell of Farrell Fruit. The proceeds from the event go to support the Fly Children Art Center.
The Brinery, which I wrote about in August, is the lacto-fermentation business of David Klingberger. His cheerful grin graces the Ann Arbor Farmers Market and Lunasa.
Helen Harding and Blake Reetz are the duo that comprise EAT. The pair worked together at the fabled Jefferson market and are taking their passion for eating seasonally and locally to their catering business. EAT is venturing into the mobile world of farmers markets; you may have seen their smooth operation at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market and tasted their delectable offerings.
Farrell Fruit is the sweet, smooth collection of homemade Michigan jams and preserves made by Eric Farrell. He does not use pectin or lemon juice in his preserves–just fruit and sugar.
Here is a small clip of Farrell describing his business.
San Street is the brainchild of Ji Hye Kim and Kristen Hogue Jackson. The duo is taking their, "fond memories of eating Asian street food off of their family dinner tables, and from street markets in Asia, and bringing it to the Midwest.â€
Here is a clip of Kim explaining the process of making dumplings.
Working Girl Eats is the brainchild of Katie Garlinghouse. She describes it as "inspired Tex-Mex … it is the food that I grew up with and it is the food that I really miss living in Ann Arbor.â€
San Street and Working Girl Eats are aspiring Zingerman's businesses. Choosing the next Zingerman's business is an extensive process of back and forth between the 16 managing partners and the advocates of the business. As Paul Saginaw said in June for arborweb.com, "We have a few in the pipeline right now [and it will be] a minimum of 24 months†before a decision is finalized.
Five different businesses, five different takes on how to tantalize your taste buds with locally sourced food. I plan on bringing a stack of small bills and a big appetite.
Pot & Box is located at 220 Felch St. The tickets are $5 in advance (can be purchased at Tracklements), or $8 at the door, for unlimited beer. Everyday Wines will be offering wine and champagne to purchase. There will be small plates offered by the different businesses up to $5, in addition to samples. Additionally, the businesses will be offering more of their wares to take home.
Here is the article on annarbor.com.


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Episode 67: Mad Max: Fury Road, Fury Road VS. Road Warrior, Top 5 Crazy Vehicles
"Oh what a day, what a lovely day!" We review George Miller's long awaited Mad Max sequel — Fury Road! How does Fury Road honor its source material while also charting a new course for action films? Does its treatment of women make it a "feminist film"? And what's the story behind Doof Warrior, the onesie flamethrower guitarist? In the INFINITE CROSSOVER CHAMBER, who's the better hero — Fury Road's Furiosa or The Road Warrior's Max Rockatansky? We step on the gas for our top 5 crazy vehicles.
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- 0:00 - 26:10: Mad Max: Fury Road (non-spoilers)
- 26:11 - 53:40: Mad Max: Fury Road (spoilers)
- 53:41 - 1:03:37: INFINITE CROSSOVER CHAMBER: Fury Road VS. Road Warrior
- 1:03:38 - 1:20:56: Top 5 Crazy Vehicles
- Mad Max: Fury Road was worth waiting 30 years for
- Mad Max: Fury Road Is An Astonishing Work Of Art
- Every Killer Car in Mad Max: Fury Road Explained
- The Best Character In Movie History, The Flamethrower Guitarist From 'Mad Max: Fury Road,' Has An Origin Story
- I saw Fury Road. I get why people like it. But it isn't feminist.
- Sorry, haters: 'Mad Max' is an 'incredible feminist movie'
Top 5 Crazy Vehicles
- TARDIS (Doctor Who)
- Batmobile (Batman)
- DeLorean (Back to the Future)
- Boat (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)
- Optimus Prime (Transformers)
- DeLorean (Back to the Future Part II)
- Tumbler (Batman Begins)
- Podracers (Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace)
- Lightcycle (TRON)
- Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix)


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Flow is an optimal state of consciousness, in which we perform our best and have the most fun. Here are 4 simple tips that can be added to every aspect of our life, from making breakfast, working on a project, to shredding on a snowboard.
- Develop single minded concentration. If we are distracted during any task it will be impossible find flow. Building the strength of attention and focus is how we combat distraction. One method to do this is by engaging in activities that require deep awareness, such as meditation, Yoga, Tai Chi, rock climbing or reading books. In meditation you are training the mind to achieve a single pointed focus. The more we can do this, the more we will find flow.
- Challenge yourself, but not too much. The skill to challenge ratio is a key ingredient to achieving flow. The difficulty of your task has to be just right. If it is too easy, you will get bored. If the task is too difficult, you will get frustrated. Either way, you won't find flow. There has to be exactly the right ratio of challenge to skill so be aware of making things harder or easier to maximise the chance to flow.
- Create clear goals to achieve. Goals establish a benchmark to measure progress and provide a sense of achievement. If you know the direction you are headed, and have a clear idea of your objective you massively increase the opportunity for flow.
- Create a feedback loop. Flow becomes self-perpetuating when our brain receives the message that we are on the right track. In action, this means you either complete the task or you don't, you catch the wave or you don't, either you land the jump or your stack it.
How to use these Flow-tips to improve our surfing or snowboarding
Looking at these 4 basic ingredients for flow is empowering, as we can see how to tweak the way we do things to optimise conditions for flow. This is how we could apply these factors to having a surf:
- Concentration: Notice how the ones getting all the waves are those focused on the incoming sets, eyes scanning the horizon, working out where best to sit. Concentrate on your environment, don't just follow the crowd- work out the conditions yourself and you will get more waves. Visualise what you want to achieve.
- Challenge: Choose the right spot and equipment that will provide the appropriate challenge for your skills. If beach A is breaking too fast and steep for your skills, you will get frustrated and will not find flow. However, if you go to the kiddies corner and ride mush, you will fall off the other end of the flow spectrum and get bored quickly. If riding the massive board has become too easy go smaller. Constantly be aware of keeping the challenge just on the edge of your skill level. The sweet spot is that area just outside your comfort zone- if you push yourself constantly into that fertile zone, you will find yourself in deep flow... and your performance will rocket.
- Goals: Decide before your surf what you want to work on. Create a clear goal. If you decide you want to achieve a deeper duck dive or a smoother bottom turn focus on that for the entire surf and analyse afterwards how you performed.
- Feedback: The great thing about surfing and any sport, is that it automatically creates the feedback loop. If you nailed the bottom turn, you will know it as it will feel amazing… and you will want more!
Have a think about how you can apply these 4 tips into your daily life and into your hobbies to find more flow and achieve higher performance. We run adventure retreats focused on guiding you to deeper awareness, more flow and higher performance. Join us in Niseko, Japan to Flow in the Snow or in the Maldives for a surf/freedive adventure.
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I'm a stalwart Terminal fan for my Engineering tasks. I don't understand why so many colleagues prefer a Terminal emulator like SecureCRT when we have native SSH built right into the OS. Something a lot of SecureCRT guys hold over my head is the nested folders with saved SSH sessions.
It dawned on me this morning that I could duplicate that functionality in something I'm already using: Brett Terpstra's Cheaters.
I won't get into an in-depth review of Cheaters, here. Simply put, it's a small app that launches a web view of a locally-hosted set of websites. Brett's suggestion is to use it as a place to keep cheatsheets (hence the name), like a virtual cubicle wall.
I used a little
grep and
sed on our existing hosts file, and came up with a Markdown list of links to the hostnames of our devices, using the following syntax:
I spent a couple minutes sorting the list into a reasonable hierarchy, then I used this nice little tutorial to create expanding lists using CSS and jQuery. I ran my Markdown list through Brett's own Marked 2, and copied the HTML to a new cheatsheet.
I took the CSS and javascript from the tutorial linked above, and dropped them into the appropriate folders inside of my Cheaters folder. In my new cheatsheet, I linked the specific CSS and javacscript:
<head data-preserve-html-node="true">
<link data-preserve-html-node="true" rel="stylesheet" href="css/expandolist.css">
<script data-preserve-html-node="true" type="text/javascript" src="js/expandolist.js"></script>
I didn't need to worry about jQuery, since Cheaters already uses it. I added the appropriate ID's to the
div that holds the list, and to the first
ul element. That's really all there was to it. Now I have a nice, organized, expandable list that lives in my menubar, which I can use to launch SSH sessions right in Terminal without having to remember specific hostnames. Not bad for 45 minutes of effort.


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For more info on nutrition, visit our Food section
Proper nutrition management, or a food plan, is essential for better glucose control. This in turn helps reduce the risk of diabetes complications. An individualized food nutrition plan based on exchanges or carb counting should meet your nutritional needs, while including a variety of foods without being overly restrictive. Daily consistency regarding the types of foods included in the meal, their nutritional information, and the time at which they are consumed will help to normalize blood glucose levels. Meal planning tips:
- Replace saturated fats and oils with unsaturated oils found in canola oil, olive oil, and nuts.
- Moderate salt and salty food consumption, especially when high blood pressure is present.
- Watch the amount of protein rich foods. Its a nutritional fact, one portion is about the size of the palm of your hand (no fingers). Choose fish and low-fat cuts of chicken and red meats. Choose low fat cheeses. Try tofu and other bean dishes for protein.
- Incorporate high fiber foods such as grains, raw vegetables and fruits. (Fruit is better than fruit juice.)
- Spread your daily carbohydrate intake through the day. Don't eat too much carbohydrates at one time.
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It suddenly struck me, when my firstborn was about two and a half, that he needed something to play with. He was done with the toddle-around-and-play-with-anything stage. He was bored of the few baby toys we'd brough over when he was four months old. He had a few Matchbox cars and a small collection of MegaBlocks that constituted his daily occupation. And he needed more.
I found a few Mommy-Blogs which threatened to send me into instant depression. These moms had multiple sensory bins (what's that?), water tables for tactile play, all manner of arts and crafts ideas, and even ABC worksheets to use with special "dot markers" - for their 18-mo-olds! My children were growing up deprived! I wanted to run to the store and spend hundreds of dollars on all the important items my children were missing out on.
Except that there wasn't a store to run to. Nowhere to buy supplies for arts and crafts. No playdough. No finger paint. No dot markers. I took a deep breath and suddenly realized that somehow I made it to 30 years old without sensory bins. I even got good grades in highschool in spite of my deprived toddlerhood. Maybe my boys would be okay. ;-)
But I still wanted to find something to keep them busy, so I did a little more research, and some experimenting of my own, and came up with a great recipe for playdough. It was an instant hit, and continues to be an often-asked-for favorite, over a year later. There's so many uses for playdough, from play-cooking to sculpting, to re-inforcing learning (we count balls as we make them, or shape bits of playdough into the letters that we're learning).
The Best Playdough Recipe
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup water
- 2 tsp. cream of tarter
- 1/3 cup salt
- 1 TBS vegetable oil
- food coloring
- Mix together all the ingredients, except the food coloring, in a medium saucepan.
- Cook over low/medium heat, stirring. Once it begins to thicken, add the food coloring.
- Continue stirring until the mixture is much thicker and begins to gather around the spoon.
- Once the dough is not wet, remove and put onto wax paper or a plate to cool.
- After cooling (30 minutes) knead playdough for a few seconds.
What activities have you found to keep your children busy? Any recipes or suggestions for craft supplies that aren't available in your location? Maybe you have a favorite playdough recipe that you'd like to share. Has anyone tried making playdough without cream of tarter?


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Dr. K's Home Grown Roots Revue: Absynth Quintet, Elephant Revival, Quake City Jug BandPurchase tickets online
March 24 8:00 pm
Dr. K has done it again! A trio of inspiring, up-and-coming bands offer up a rich and heady, globe-trotting variety of music tonight. Gypsy jazz, transcendental folk, and jug band mayhem: from our stage to your ears!
The Absynth Quintet melds the familiar and the avant-gard with a unique and provocative palette of tone and texture. This is streetcorner swing and bluegrass with footstomping danceability, intertwined with playful forays into the depths of sophisticated musical experimentation. The Eugene Weekly described their sound as lying "somewhere along the spectrum of acoustic-improvisational-gypsy-jazz...plucky and tight à la David Grisman" with "a dash of Eastern European exoticism that puts you in a smoky, understated hash bar kind of mood." No wonder they were recently chosen Band of the Month on premier jam website GratefulWeb.net, as well as winning Hightimes Magazine's Unsigned Band of the Month poll last June!
A youthful neo-acoustic quintet, Elephant Revival carries a fresh sense of creativity and inspiration with their appealing sound that is thoroughly modern, yet contains echoes all manner of tradition. On the cutting edge of an emerging new genre that they call "transcendental folk," the band ranges from Scottish fiddle tunes to original folk ballads, from psychedelic country to powerful reggae grooves....and beyond. Featuring Bonnie Paine, Sage Cook, Dango Rose, Daniel Rodriguez, and Bridget Law.
Tonight's show is opened by the Quake City Jug Band, purveyors of 1920's and 1930's swing and jazz, feather boas, tap dancing, and assorted musical mayhem. While the isntrumentation of Quake City has evolved since it started out in 1997 with a washtub bass, jug, and kazoos, the quartet retains its original jug spirits thanks to members Myron Grossman, Natasha Haugnes, Steve Scott, and John Tuttle.
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How a Baptist Does Lent
Some people think really hard about what to fast from for Lent. I'm a Baptist, and we don't "do" Lent, so my choice to give something up for it was an odd impulse decision. I'd had several long discussions with my sister about social media and my frustrations with it, and rather late in the evening on Ash Wednesday, we both decided to fast from social media. My only social media is Facebook, and I don't have it on my phone so you might think this was no big deal for me. You'd be right. Lent for me was not about the fasting so much as focus, so giving up social media removed a primary distraction.
I wanted to focus on fellowship with other believers, not an online facsimile of it. I wanted to invite people into my home more often. I wanted to spend the time I usually spend on Facebook on things that make me a better Christian, better mom, and better wife. I wanted to read my bible more consistently. I wanted to get more sleep because the secret to holiness is adequate shut-eye when you're a mom of three. I wanted to work on my novel.
I was unevenly successful. I spent entirely too much time watching backlist episodes of Good Mythical Morning and Blimey Cow on YouTube. I didn't get any extra sleep, but my littlest is primarily responsible for that. I didn't work on my novel much. I did, however, work on lots of blog posts and even finished several! I had a few fun days baking and cooking with friends while my children scribbled all over the back porch with sidewalk chalk. I even read a daily Bible study for Lent. It was good to unplug.
But the fundamental thing I learned from saying goodbye to Facebook is this: don't do it right before a big move without explaining what you're doing. It makes people think you are mad at them and hiding in your house.
All of you who do not suffer from unbelievable social awkwardness are shaking your heads. You don't know the half of it. Only I would choose a Lenten fast that accidentally confuses and insults people.


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Politics Against Pessimism
with Geoff Dow (Peter Lang, 2013)
Ernst Wigforss masterminded the social-democratic breakthrough in Sweden of 1932, and thereafter staked out the policy development that took the country, over two decades, from poverty-stricken backwater to the international paragon of an affluent and equitable society. This book presents the most sustained account in English of Wigforss's own political evolution, and his hand in government policy development. It argues that Wigforss still provides us with the vital inspiration to harmonise the aspirations of economic efficiency and social equity on the way to a decent society. His thought thus flatly refutes neoliberalism and provides the starting-point for an effective political challenge to it today.
'This book presents valuable information about Ernst Wigforss and the theoretical development of Swedish social democracy in the context of broader western trends and their diverse scholarly analyses.'
Lennart Erixon, Stockholm University
'The book is an important intervention into social democratic strategic thinking. It presents the political and economic aspirations of social democracy as long anticipated in heterodox political economy.'
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Dear Ben Folds
by Annie Schiffmann
When you listen to Ben Platt singing Dear Evan Hansen does it bring to mind a '90s band with Ben in the name? Let me jog your memory:
Did one phrase in there jump out at you as being very Dear Evan Hansen-esque? Here, I'll start the clip from the exact spot.
Now here's the freakishly similar phrase from Dear Evan Hansen's "For Forever."
There are lyrical similarities, too. In "Don't Change Your Plans" the lyric is "All I know's I gotta be" and in "For Forever" the lyric is "All we see is stars." The "all I" and the "all we" happen at the same point in the phrase with the same interval.
Okay, okay, but it doesn't end there!
"Sincerely Me." Great song, right? Super fun. Three guys in harmony with a poppy song that you can bounce along to. Remind you of Ben Folds Five at all?
Listen especially to the accompaniment. Kind of sounds like this, right?
Right? I know!
Okay, here's where I go deep down this rabbit hole.
Songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are both in their thirties. The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner - the album that includes both "Don't Change Your Plans" and "Army" was released when they would have been about the same age as the high school aged characters in the show. Pasek and Paul mentioned at BroadwayCon that they had drawn on their own high school experiences to come up with the plot. Maybe they were also channeling the music they were listening to at the time?
Justin Paul has an affinity for Ben Folds. As he told Billboard.com -"I love everyone from Sara Bareilles to Taylor Swift, Ingrid Michaelson, Ben Folds -- those are the artists I've listened to for the past 15 years or so. We've always been Broadway listeners and also radio listeners; good pop writing is always of interest."
I was able to interview Ben Folds and ask him his thoughts on the matter. He said he didn't know anything about the songs, although he has met the La La Land team. "You don't know if it's flattering or not. I don't know if I'm imagining it. If it is, I'm flattered. And if it's not, then I'm just being a dick."
Oh, one more thing: Hamilton fans, you're going to be all about this one.
Ben Folds recorded a cover of Dr. Dre's "Bitches Ain't Shit" that sounds like this. (Note: as the song title suggests this is not suitable for work.)
Does that sound familiar, sir?
Oh, and Ben Folds showed up on The Hamilton Mixtape. Coincidence? I sincerely doubt it. Especially when you realize there's another person who's worked on Dear Evan Hansen, Hamilton, and The Hamilton Mix Tape. Musical director, Alex Lacamoire. Perhaps he's the through line? Or, as Ben Folds puts it, the "wavelength."
Maybe it's time we see a Ben Folds Broadway musical? Clearly his influence is all over two of the hottest shows on the Great White Way!
In the YesBroadway interview with Ben Folds he tells Annie Schiffmann he has no idea that his sound is on Broadway - but he isn't surprised.


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Do you like fashion? We have "fashion designers", "clothing designers", "dressmakers" and "tailors" selling fabrics at Stash reHash .
Once upon a time I liked fashion so so much I went and studied it. I had a very elegant older tutor who often stressed that fashion and looking good were not the same thing, and that fashion and style were not the same thing. She believed you often had to choose whether you wanted to look fashionable or whether you wanted to look good as sometimes these were mutually exclusive. At the time I was young, pert, skinny and in love with fashion and had no clue what she was talking about. I probably just thought the 80s equivalent of "whatever".
Twenty years of gravitational assault and two children later and with multiple competing priorities for my cash, I am now acutely aware of what my fashion tutor meant. I realise that what I actually like is not fashion at all. What I do like is our ability to use clothes, shoes, accessories etc to say who we are and how we are feeling.
So these days when I see fashion week on the telly or I go to designer boutiques I have quite different thoughts from in the past.
Firstly, I think "I could get all four downpipes fixed for the price of that jacket"/"I could get my son new orthotics for the price of that top"/"I could get my daughter's teeth straightened for the price of that coat".
Secondly, I think that to buy new stuff I'd have to biff some perfectly serviceable thing out and the waste aspect of this perpetual consumerism irks me.
Thirdly, I think how most of the super fashionable clothes look, well, kind of silly anyway. Exact replicas of the clothes my fellow students and I made decades ago are now back on the runways and in the shops making the next generation of skinny girls' bottoms look enormous and their arms look like salamis.
So I have a wee trundle around in Interwebland and a snigger at Fugly, go back to mending or altering some old vintage thing and again think about the differences between looking fashionable, looking good and looking stylish.
And if I get tempted and buy some fabric at Stash reHash and make myself a shiny shoulder-padded, pirate-pant jumpsuit, please chase me and set fire to it.
The handbag above is by Enid Collins. Sometimes her bags are in fashion and sometimes they are so out of fashion that they end up in op-shops, but I will always love them.
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I could use some coke just now. Oh, well, alcohol will have to do. Amphetamines would be nice too. Actually, I'd love to sort of chew the coke-cud. Never had it, but I hear say that chewing the leaves gives a fine, settled, even high that doesn't fuck you up the way the "refined" stuff does. Refined as in cut with borax. Yeah, well, too good to be true. No access and that's that. Unapproachable.
Listening to Strawberry from Butthole Surfers. Top that, you sons and daughters of bitches.


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Sonny Terry Blues Riffs Book 1
In our first book of riffs devoted entirely to one harmonica star, harp players can learn to play traditional blues riffs like the great Sonny Terry with our easy-to-follow harmonica lessons.
There are 60 riffs in the collection and you'll need four keys for them – A, G, Bb and C. The riffs are performed at three different speeds and the notations and tabs give as much helpful information as possible. We end with four play along tracks, one in each of the harmonica keys, for you to try out the riffs.
On a special bonus track, our old buddy, the great Joe Filisko, has kindly given us permission to include 'Good Friend', which is dedicated to Sonny Terry.
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These reports help the University to track trends and patterns and to address bias incidents via educational campaigns to improve University campus climate. When information is provided that identifies an individual or individuals in connection with reported behavior or a pattern of behavior identifies an actionable approach for the University, the appropriate office at the University will address the incident or incidents reported. If we are provided with contact information for the reporting party or impacted party someone from the appropriate office or resource will reach out to those impacted by the reported behavior. Once an outreach has been made there is no obligation for those who received the outreach to respond or engage in any formal communication if that is not what they are seeking. Bias-related incident reports are not intended to replace existing processes for reporting and addressing acts of discrimination, harassment, or violence, including but not limited to, processes of the Office of Equal Opportunity, Student Resolution Center, Support and Safety Assessment, and the CSU Police Department. What is a Bias-Related Incident? A bias incident is any conduct, speech, or expression, motivated in whole or in part by bias or prejudice that is meant to intimidate, demean, mock, degrade, marginalize, or threaten individuals or groups based on that individual or group's actual or perceived: Disability and Ability (physical, psychological and cognitive) Age Geographic background Citizenship or immigration status Ethnicity Race Sex Color Gender Genetic Information National origin or ancestry Gender identity and expression Sexual orientation Parenting and pregnancy status Religion Veteran status First generation status Socioeconomic status What is the Difference Between a Bias-Related Incident and a Hate Crime? 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by Spencer Burke from The Hatchery
Each week on the HatcheryLA Podcast, we interview a world-class leader or thinker who resonates with the ethos of what's happening at our church planting incubator in Redondo Beach. Our desire is that you would be encouraged and stretched by fresh ways of thinking about life and ministry.
In this episode, I had the opportunity to speak with Greg Russinger, the co-founder and national director of Laundry Love, a neighboring movement that partners with individuals, groups, and laundromats to care for the poor, vulnerable, and marginalized throughout the United States. We had an engaging conversation about how Laundry Love got started, why it's flourishing around the United States, and the purpose of their first national gathering in May 2015.
At the end of the podcast, I also share three things that the church can learn from the example of Laundry Love.
CLICK HERE to listen to the complete interview.
Spencer Burke is the Founding Executive Director of Hatchery LA, an incubator for Common Cause Communities. For more information, please visit www.HatcheryLA.com.


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Classic Car Photo Shoot
While Mark has a lot of family and dog clients, he also really loves to photograph cars. This week we had the opportunity to spend a day photographing a private collection of a dozen classic cars in Denver. There was a huge variety in this car collection ranging from a Model A to a Corvette Stingray which made for a very fun car photo shoot! If you are interested in having your car photographed, contact us for information on what we can offer.