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Shoppers welcome holiday sales by buying early, often — and online
Shoppers swooped into stores in droves on Thanksgiving weekend, topping last year's sales, as more retailers opened their doors earlier than ever on Thursday, luring bargain hunters away from eating another plate of turkey.
And now Cyber Monday is expected to set a record for online shopping this year, for those who prefer the Internet to the mall.
Spending per shopper nationwide averaged $423 — $25 more than last year — from Thursday to Sunday, while total spending increased nearly 13 percent, to an estimated $59.1 billion, according to a survey by the National Retail Federation.
"I think the only way to describe the Thanksgiving openings is to call it a huge win," said Matthew Shay, the trade group's president and chief executive. Shopping, he said, "has really become an extension of the day's festivities."
South Florida was no exception, as a flurry of stores, as well as several malls, opened on Thanksgiving. Thursday has seemingly become the new Black Thursday, taking a bite out of the old-fashioned kickoff day of the holiday, Black Friday.
"We had an excellent weekend," said Humberto Maldonado, director of marketing for Dadeland Mall, which opened at midnight on Thursday. Sales figures are not yet in, but the overall trend was up from last year, he said Monday.
"It was really busy from midnight to 5 a.m., then it slowed, and picked up again at 7 a.m. or 8 a.m., and stayed busy all day on Friday," Maldonado said.
Nationwide, about 35 million people visited stores and shopping websites Thursday, up from 29 million last year. More than double that number — 89 million, up from 86 million — shopped on Black Friday.
"There were more people shopping every single day of the weekend," Shay said.
Topping off the weekend, Cyber Monday's early results, tabulated at 3 p.m. Monday, showed that online shopping was up a whopping 25.6 percent compared with the same time period a year ago, according to figures by IBM Benchmark.
Nationwide, most of the weekend's shoppers — roughly 58 percent — bought clothing and accessories. Another 38 percent bought electronics and 35 percent shelled out for toys, National Retail Federation figures show.
Retailers made an effort to lure people in, with updated mobile shopping applications for smartphones and tablets, and expanded shipping and layaway options.
Still, it remains to be seen whether increased sales over the Thanksgiving weekend will translate to higher sales throughout the holiday shopping season. Analysts have been predicting mediocre sales this year, nationwide, as shoppers remain uncertain about the broader economy. Overall holiday sales are expected to increase 4.1 percent from 2011, compared with sales growth of 5.6 percent last year, the National Retail Federation said.
However, Florida is expected to beat those figures. Buoyed in large part by tourists and snowbirds, the Florida Retail Federation is forecasting a 5.3 percent gain this year over last, to $58 billion, marking the highest percentage growth predicted since the recession. Pre-recession, retail sales peaked at $54.3 billion in 2006.
Christian Cutillo, 26, of Weston, hit Walmart, then Sears, Target and Old Navy after eating Thanksgiving dinner.
She began at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and by 3 a.m. Friday she had finished shopping for all 15 people on her list, mostly buying clothing and toys.
"I am all done," said Cutillo, a lawyer. "One night and I am done."
Yet while Black Friday (so named because it was traditionally when stores' profit for the year went into the black) is best known for holiday shopping, it is actually not the heaviest shopping day, said Rick McAllister, president and chief executive of the Florida Retail Federation. That distinction belongs to Christmas Eve, he said.
Overall, Americans are expected to spend an average of about $750 each this holiday season, propelled in part by stronger consumer confidence. More Americans this month said the U.S. economy will improve than at any time in the past decade, according to the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index. The share of households saying it would get better rose to 37 percent, the highest since March 2002. A year ago, the measure showed a record number of consumers said it was a bad time to spend.
Nationwide, a rebound in housing and the job market, along with a drop in household debt, has also led additional consumers to say they'll buy more this holiday, according to a survey this month by the Credit Union National Association and the Consumer Federation of America. Of those polled, 12 percent said they would boost spending, the highest level since 15 percent in 2007, while 38 percent said they would spend less.
Much of the weekend's shopping took place online, as consumers logged on to take advantage of Internet-only specials beginning early Thursday morning. The average shopper spent more than $172 online over the weekend, which made up about 41 percent of the total weekend spending. That's up from 38 percent last year.
"There is no question that online is a real bright spot in the retail industry," Shay said. "For the first time, more than half of those who shopped this weekend said they shopped online."
According to comScore, which tracks online spending, online sales rose 26 percent to $1.04 billion on Black Friday compared with a year ago. On Thanksgiving, online sales rose 32 percent from last year to $633 million. And online sales on Black Friday were up 26 percent from the same day last year to $1.042 billion. It was the first time online sales on Black Friday surpassed $1 billion.
As retailers have ramped up deals, it's estimated that this year's Cyber Monday will be the biggest online shopping day of the year for the third year in a row. Coined in 2005 by a shopping trade group that noticed that online sales spiked on the Monday following Thanksgiving, Cyber Monday joins Black Friday and Small Business Saturday as days that stores are counting on to jumpstart the holiday shopping season.
Miami Herald writer Paradise Afshar contributed to this report, which was supplemented with material from The Washington Post, Associated Press and Bloomberg News.


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The vision of St. Stephen's Anglican Church in Heathsville, VA, calls us to equip the saints of our community for ministry. One of our four areas of support is the sharing of Christ-centered, Biblical wisdom so that we can interpret to the skeptical, secular world who God is and what He is doing. After three years of preparation, St. Stephen's is about to launch a curriculum that presents the Christian worldview in contrast with the deceptions of universal Darwinism. This eight-week course - A True & Reasonable Faith for a Skeptical World – is being offered to the Christian community this fall.
In early March 2012, an Apologetics study group was formed at St. Stephen's and included representatives from three different congregations. Under the leadership of Jan Beckett, the group met weekly to discuss Bible based answers to some of the contemporary issues challenging our faith. Members of the group took turns researching, presenting and critiquing each other's work on topics ranging from the reality of hell and hypocrisy in the Church to unanswered prayer and Islam. This spring, the group began to focus on the theory of evolution and the devastating impact of Universal Darwinism. These studies inspired a core team consisting of Jan Beckett, Jeffrey Cerar, Tad de Bordenave, Priscilla Williams, Melinda Floom, Susan Thomas and Dixie Goertemiller to develop and produce a formal program.
The True Faith course consists of lectures, workbook, homework reading assignments and class discussions, and is suitable for adults of all ages. The inaugural course is aimed at preparing Christians to respond to challenges from skeptics and is open to anyone in the Northern Neck. Classes begin on September 16th in the meeting room at the Northumberland Public Library.
For more information, or to inquire about the possibility of offering this course in your church, please contact: Priscilla Williams: 804-580-4540 / email@example.com or Dixie Goertemiller: 804-453-3688 / email@example.com.
Susan Thomas is a member of St. Stephen's Anglican Church, Heathsville, VA.

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A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association had an article with the title of this blog.
The article contained a bottom line as to why these errors occur and we decided to pass that information on as it is a recurring observation in so many of our malpractice cases in which we represent the injured.
"1. It is best for clinicians to communicate directly with one another rather than through orders in the medical record or intermediate personnel."
"2. Errors attributed to hand-offs may be minimized by standardizing the process and creating a template specifying what information should be passed from one team to another."
"3. Clinicians should review the informed consent form and clearly explain procedures or treatments to patients."
"4. Time-outs can minimize the risk of errors but only if treated seriously by the personnel involved."
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From newborn (Luke Spinale) to centenarian (Mary Todisco), SEF looks forward to sharing the educational journey of each participant through a community gallery online over the next few months. The gallery is a cross section of the people who call Scituate, "home." They are friends, neighbors, small business owners, teachers, parents, grandparents, athletes, students and above all... life long learners.
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Top 10 albums of 2017- Joe Swymeler
Dan Auerbach- Waiting on a Song
The Black Keys guitarist/vocalist is back with his 2nd solo effort and it does not disappoint, with an outstanding classic rock sound that very much surprised me the first time I heard the album. With myself being a huge fan of both The Black Keys and Auerbach, I wasn't sure what to expect. Yes, The Black Keys have drifted from their gritty blues garage rock sound heard in their first couple of efforts, so it is no surprise Auerbach has done the same, but that's not a bad thing. It's a nice blend of country, soul, and folk, with a timeless feel to it. Notable tracks include "Waiting on a Song," the excellent opener and title track, as well as the single "Shine on Me," a very George Harrison-ish sounding track. Other excellent songs are "Malibu Man," Living in Sin," and "Stand by my Girl." This album also features classic musicians such as John Prine and Mark Knopfler as well. Waiting on a Song is a breath of fresh air that I enjoy every time I listen to this album.
Vince Staples- Big Fish Theory
For me, Big Fish Theory, the sophomore album of Compton native Vince Staples, sounds like nothing I have ever heard before in terms of hip hop and that is a wonderful thing. You can clearly hear Staples interest in electronica on this album, with heavy techno electronic dubs, aggressive fast beats, and sometimes avant garde sounds make this album very interesting to listen to (and get down to as well). I have honestly never heard anything like it in terms of a hip hop album and that is what I like about it so much. Staples' lyrics on this album are very much about the down side of things, dealing with death as well as the horrors of fame and success as well as the current state of the world. The album features many appearances, samples and not, by the likes of Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Rocky, Damon Albarn (Blur and Gorillaz), and also is amazingly produced by the likes of Flume and Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) helming the project. Big Fish Theory was definitely the most interesting and all encompassing album I have listened to all year, and I can't wait to see what Staples has in store next.
Mac DeMarco- This Old Dog
Everyone's favorite gap-toothed Canadian indie boy is back in his much anticipated fourth outing, but This Old Dog is much different in nature then the laid back indie rock lp's we're used to. It's a much more moodier album than we are used to with DeMarco, with the album's theme centering around the troubled relationship between Mac and his father, who wasn't supposed to hear this album due to terminal illness, but interestingly enough he survived and the rest is history. Of course with any Mac album, there is many solid tunes on this album. Yes, it's much more melancholy than say, Salad Days, but it doesn't disappoint, having some of Mac's best tracks.
Kendrick Lamar- DAMN.
Over the years, Compton raised rapper Kendrick Lamar has emerged as one of the greatest artists of the modern era, and his 4th album, DAMN, keeps that status alive. While not as story driven as Good Kid, M.A.A.D City or as full as To Pimp a Butterfly, DAMN does not disappoint. His past albums, particularly Good Kid and Section 80 deal with Kendrick's struggle filled Compton upbringing. DAMN has a fair amount of weight to the lyrics, but it more of strikes a middle ground somewhere between success and struggle. It really doesn't have a bad track on it and in my opinion, his songwriting and lyrics have never been better. Lamar is, in my opinion, one of the most ambitious and thought provoking musicians I have ever heard and that's what I love about his albums. The subject matter definitely carries its weight, but that's a good thing. DAMN is a very good balance between energetic fast bangers and thoughtful reflections, all revolving around Kendrick's rap destiny, whether good or bad.
Randy Newman- Dark Matter
Throughout his 40+ year career, singer/songwriter Randy Newman has always had a keen sense of satirical irony and humor, as well as a knack for perspective and writing songs about characters in real and interesting situations. While most know Newman for his work on many Disney film soundtracks, particularly Toy Story, Newman's work goes far beyond that. His latest album, Dark Matter, is gorgeous and thoughtful. There are many interesting scenarios in the songs, and that's why it's so good. It touches a lot on politics, particularly the first track, "The Great Debate," an 8 minute mini opera of sorts, having characters debate the argument of science vs. religion. Other interesting tracks include "Brothers," a humorous imaginary conversation between Robert and John F. Kennedy regarding the Bay of Pigs Invasion and Cuban girls, and "Sonny Boy," the true story of blues legend Sonny Boy Williamson, who was murdered in Chicago and his name, songs, and reputation was essentially stolen by another man, Sonny Boy Williamson II. With a full orchestra on deck and Newman's signature garbled voice and soft piano, Dark Matter is as touching and absolutely gorgeous as it is smart and satirical, and a must listen.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard- Flying Microtonal Banana
At the end of 2016, Australian psych monsters/workaholics King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard said they would have 5 albums under their belt by the end of 2017. While many skeptics had their doubts about this claim, they were proved very much wrong as KGLW did in fact release 5 whopping albums, each one very good and more different than the last. The album range in genres from psychedelic lounge jazz to heavy Sabbath- like rock about a giant robot vomiting all over the universe. The quirk to this album is that all of the instruments are in microtonal tuning, which means every single note on the album is in a minor key, giving it an eastern and interesting sound for King Gizz, although it still has their signature sound written all over it. Still featuring their awesome harmonicas, flutes, and smashing drums and fuzzy guitars that make KGLW so much fun to listen to.
Drake- More Life
After lukewarm reviews of his 2016 album Views, Toronto native and music giant Aubrey Graham aka. Drake, returns with a absolute slam dunk. Let me tell you, I have always loved Drake. He has been a big influence on me, and I have been a pretty big fan since his 2010 debut, So Far Gone. His 2011 album Take Care takes the cake as my personal favorite hip-hop album of all time. The production on his records and mix tapes are always top notch, and he is an excellent rapper and singer. I thinks what strikes me most about his music is his ability to never hide how he feels. He is very "real" in that sense, and he isn't afraid to show his emotions, and I like that. With that being said, More Life is definitely a blend of old and new, and everything in between. It goes back while treading new ground. It is a blend of everything from hip-hop and trap to afrobeat, pop, and Jamaican reggae inspired dancehall. Once again, the production is nearly flawless and every track is dripping with good energy and lush sounds, some would even say as the title suggests, life. It's all flows and breathes really well and in that way it reminds me a lot of Kanye West's 2016 album, The Life of Pablo. More Life serves as a reminder that Drake is still a excellent musician and a force of nature in a genre that never stops changing.
Thundercat- Drunk
American jazz musician Thundercat released his first album in 4 years, and this album really took me by surprise. Drunk is a unique blend of groovy modern jazz fusion with a constant groove going. It features many guest appearances such as Kendrick Lamar, Kenny Loggins, and Michael McDonald. The production is amazing and I really love the album cover for it. I'm quite surprised this album didn't get bigger than it did, because it really is a good album listen that I find myself listening to a lot.
Joey Bada$$- ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$
Joey's sophomore effort is very well done, and I was very struck the first time I heard it. This album is definitely a throwback to the 90s, "golden age of hip-hop," but it still has a very fresh feel to it. It's definitely one of the most politically charged albums I have heard in a while, but that's a good thing in my opinion. The lyrics are definitely one of the memorable things about this album. Rap has always been rooted in politics, and it's interesting to see a modern young artist like Joey Badass convert that feeling on a modern scale. The production is amazing, with a jazzy feel to it with plenty of samples and record scratches in it too. It's the closest thing to old school hip-hop I have heard in a long time, and you can definitely hear it on this record. It reminds me a lot of A Tribe Called Quest and Public Enemy in particular.
Fleet Foxes- Crack Up
After a 5 year hiatus, Washington indie folk group Fleet Foxes is back with their 3rd album, and is an interesting departure in terms of flow for them. If you would imagine Fleet Foxes as a bunch of long haired bearded dudes playing acoustic guitars, you've got their image down, but their sound is so much more. They're known for their immaculate chamber like vocal delivery, and excellent song writing, courtesy of lead vocalist Robin Pecknold, as well as Josh Tillman, now better known as Father John Misty, who left the band back in 2012 to pursue a solo career. Fleet Foxes also have a good sense of production, which is very important in a genre like folk music. In term of modern folk and Americana music, there are a lot of generic bands and sound-alikes, which makes the genre feel pretty stale to me. Fleet Foxes is the opposite, always keeping things fresh and interesting, and Crack Up is no different. It is definitely not as good and as their self titled debut album or Helplessness Blues, but that's because it's so different. Every song flows into one another and it can be hard to distinguish sometimes, but it's a good album to get lost in. Each song soars and swirls with hoards of big drums and acoustic guitars. Sure they tried something different, and it made for an interesting album that mixes up things for them.


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Stanley Ebner is a former executive for several major U.S. defense contractors, including McDonnell Douglass, Northrop Grumman and Boeing. Ebner has also been a longtime supporter of a the Center for Security Policy, a neoconservative advocacy group led by Frank Gaffney that promotes extravagant weapons programs and hawkish U.S. foreign policies.
Ebner joined Boeing as a chief lobbyist in 1997, after the aerospace giant merged with McDonnell Douglass, where Ebner had served as senior vice president since 1994. He retired from Boeing in 1998, but would "continue to work for Boeing as a full-time consultant to assist the company in government affairs. Originally from New Haven, Conn., Ebner has pursued a career in both government and the private sector for more than 30 years in the Washington, D.C., area."[1]
At the Center for Security Policy, which receives financial support from a number of major defense contractors, Ebner has served on the group's National Security Advisory Council. The Council's members have included defense industry executives and militarist political figures, including Charles Kuppermana former Boeing vice president for its Missile Defense Systems; Douglas Graham, an executive at Lockheed Martin; Amoretta Hoeber, a former TRW executive; former Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA); Robert Joseph; Phyllis Kaminsky; and Fred Ikle.
Ebner participated on the CSP Roundtable on the B-2 Bomber, which was produced by Northrop Grumman. The Roundtable report advocated the continued production of the B-2 because of "the continuing requirement for a robust nuclear deterrent." [2]
He is a Lifetime Director of the Atlantic Council of the United States, which "promotes constructive U.S. leadership and engagement in international affairs based on the central role of the Atlantic community in meeting the international challenges of the 21st century."[3]
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[1]Boeing, "Boeing Senior Vice President for Washington, D.C. Operations to Retire Dec. 31," December 3, 1998, http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/1998/news_release_981203b.html.
[2]Highlights of the Center for Security Policy Roundtable Discussion on the B-2 Bomber (Web Archive) http://web.archive.org/web/20031121032600/http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?section=papers&code=90-30.
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Like NASCAR, Mississippi politics has its "Silly Season"
NASCAR stock car racing has its annual "Silly Season" following that final race of the season at Homestead, Florida and the grand opening of the next season in February with the Daytona 500. NASCAR rumors fly left and right about drivers changing teams, changing sponsors, changing crew chiefs and even the paint schemes being changed. Mississippi has a similar political "silly season." Everyone has accepted the fact that our next statewide elections, while three years away, will be a real political shootout. There's been an assumption that only one of Mississippi's eight statewide elected officials will seek re-election. That would be Agriculture Commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith. Gov. Phil Bryant is term limited, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves will run for governor, Attorney General Jim Hood will either run against Reeves or retire from public life, State Treasurer Lynn Fitch will be a candidate for attorney general and Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann is expected to run for lieutenant governor. It was widely assumed that Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, who was 72 when re-elected last year, would not seek another term and that State Auditor Stacey Pickering will not seek re-election. The leading silly political rumor is that the "Never Delbert" or "Anybody But Delbert" crowd is promoting Hyde-Smith to run against Hosemann for LG. You can bet the house that Hyde-Smith will not oppose Hosemann and will instead seek at third term. Despite his statewide popularity there are a number of prominent Republicans who do not care for Hosemann. There could be several reasons. In Jim Hood's first race for attorney general when his mentor Mike Moore did not seek re-election, Hosemann withdrew as a candidate at the very last minute. It left Republicans with a much weaker candidate to oppose Hood when Hood possibly could have been defeated. Some Republicans were also upset when Hosemann made noises about opposing Sen. Thad Cochran even if Cochran decided to run again as he eventually did. Then, Hosemann did not endear himself to Tate Reeves and Reeves' supporters. Hosemann reportedly gave some consideration to opposing Reeves last year for re-election or possibly challenging Reeves for governor in 2019. Reeves is known not to take


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Retin-A Vs. Tazorac
Tazorac and Retin-A are both vitamin A-based drugs called retinoids. Retin-A is the name brand of a drug called tretinoin. Tazorac is the name brand for a drug called tazarotene. Retinoids can speed skin-cell turnover and boost collagen production.
Tazorac comes in a gel or a cream. Retin-A comes in cream, gel or liquid form. Both Tazorac and Retin-A require a doctor's prescription.
Both Retin-A and Tazorac can be used to treat acne. They both work by keeping pores clear, according to the Mayo Clinic. Many people who use Retin-A see an improvement in their acne in four to six weeks. Optimal benefits are usually seen after three months, according to Emory College in Atlanta, Georgia. People using Tazorac will see improvement in six to eight weeks, according to acneguide.com.
Both of these retinoids are used to treat photodamage including brown spots, fine wrinkles, hyperpigmentation, pore size and poor skin elasticity. With Retin-A, expect improvement after three to six months of regular use, and best results between six and 12 months. With Tazorac, people should see improvement in six to eight weeks of regular use. Continued use after this point will lead to more improvement, according to acneguide.com.
Other Conditions
Tazorac can be used to treat psoriasis, according to the Mayo Clinic. The drug has anti-inflammatory properties, according to acneguide.com. Retin-A can be used to treat a skin disorder characterized by small, red bumps called keratosis follicularis, as well as flat warts.
Side Effects
Both of the drugs can cause a person's skin to be sensitive to the sun, severe dryness of the skin, redness, peeling skin and skin color changes. Both also can cause an initial acne flare-up that usually dissipates with further use, according to the Mayo Clinic and acneguide.com. Other side effects with Tazorac can include deep lines or grooves in the skin and pain or swelling of the skin, according to the Mayo Clinic. Neither Tazorac nor Retin-A should be used by pregnant women.
A study published in the August 2000, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology concluded that applying Tazorac once a day is more effective than a daily application of Retin-A in reducing papules and open acne skin bumps. The drugs appeared equally effective against closed acne skin bumps, according to the study. The study also concluded that the drugs are tolerated equally well by people.
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We each carry with us a negative – a recorded image in our minds of a time that once was. Like a negative, this memory is a bit skewed – it is exactly what happened, but it is also not exactly what happened. It is enhanced through our particular perspectives, careful framing, and selected subjects. Sometimes we record moments differently than how it was – maybe we thought her shirt was blue, when it was really red.
Each time we look back at these negatives and relay the story of that moment to others, we make a print - something to show others in an attempt to explain the reason why that moment was so poignant, and to make that moment live on. Each time, the print is a little different in subtle ways. Some of us have whole rolls of film with frames of these memories. Others have lost a few along the way, keeping records of only the most treasured, or the most riveting, moments.
The photographs in this body of work were created during a short two-day visit, quite possibly my last visit ever to Grove. As a child, I used to visit my grandmother in Grove every summer, and every year the place remained the same: the furniture exactly in the same position, and the decor was hardly modified at all over the years, save for the school photographs of the grandchildren which were updated yearly. This constancy created a strong sense of stability and comfort for all family members who came to visit.
In 2007, my grandmother packed up thirty-two years worth of memories and moved to a town home located closer to family members in Springfield, Missouri. I found myself wondering why I had not photographed in my grandmother's home before. Suddenly, I felt a strong sense of urgency to document a way of living that was coming to an end. My photographs are attempts to record details about the house in Grove: those details that were always exactly the same, the details that had changed since Mamma had begun packing, and the details that I never paid attention to until I knew I would never see and experience them exactly this way again.
These photographs were combined with text written by Mayfield family members and are presented together in a book (available through Blurb.com) to better encompass the range of tones, textures, and light recorded in our family's varied memories of Grove.


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1. Yarnbombing in Yellow Springs, 2. Knit the City - Phonebox Cosy, 3. Knit Graffiti Launceston TAS, 4. crossing
Yarn bombing is one of the most lovely ideas to bring happiness to the streets!
Very cool!
like them ;-)
oooooooooooooo! thanks for including my twiggy piece :) from Yellow Springs.
I will try to do something like that this year around Bucharest, can't wait to show you.
its first time I see something like that!!
oh I love this, I don't know how they do it, but it's brilliant.
Jip, yarn bombing is super! I should do some in my street! :) As soon as the weather gets a bit warmer I'll do it secretly! :)
oh my gosh! i got a fab book out on yarn bombing just today!
so cute and quirky, gotta make you smile!


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A new approach for producing hydrogen could cut the already low carbon footprint of fuel cells by 90 per cent.
Scientists at Manchester University are working on a new means of producing hydrogen that they claim could reduce the energy required to produce the gas by a factor of 10, potentially paving the way for a cost-effective and energy-efficient means of powering fuel cells.
The research - which forms part of a new £5m project to develop new techniques for producing, storing and distributing hydrogen funded by the UK Research Councils' SUPERGEN programme and involving 13 universities across the country - is to investigate a process known as plasma reforming, which scientists believe could slash the temperatures required to produce hydrogen.
Currently, most hydrogen is produced using a process called steam reforming, which applies catalysts to a mixture of methane and steam at high pressures and at temperatures of between 800 and 1,000 degrees centigrade.
Achieving such temperatures requires high levels of energy and as a result the carbon savings associated with zero-emission fuel cells are typically partially offset by the energy it takes to produce hydrogen in the first place.
However, Professor Christopher Whitehead, who will lead Manchester University's research effort, insisted that the plasma-reforming process could help cut the carbon footprint associated with hydrogen production by up to 90 per cent.
Plasmas are partially ionized gases that are electrically conductive. Whitehead explained that adding an electrical discharge to the plasma initiates the reaction required to remove hydrogen from methane at relatively low temperatures, improving the energy efficiency of the process.
"Any process that can bring down the operating temperature will have big advantages, and we think using plasma could bring it down from more than 800 degrees to about 100 degrees," he said.
The process has been pioneered on a small scale to remove pollutants from gas flue pipes, but Whitehead is confident that a technically feasible version of the process for producing hydrogen from methane could be developed within five years.
He added that the technology would be highly scalable, potentially helping to address the hydrogen distribution problems that experts believe will represent the biggest stumbling block to mainstream adoption of fuel cells.
"Because you can simply turn the process on and off, it could feasibly be used in small-scale generators in people's homes where you turn natural gas into hydrogen overnight for use in their cars," Whitehead predicted.
While this process would still result in some carbon emissions, Whitehead argued that plasma reforming could also form part of a truly carbon-neutral hydrogen production process where the energy used to drive the technology is generated from renewable sources and the captured methane is taken from landfill sites.
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The concept behind Nelson is quite unique: A 43-year old tale about the life of Nel Baker, born in 1968, as told by 54 British creators, published by Blank Slate Books, in a 252-page collaborative graphic novel. (Is that enough numbers for you?) Did I mention that all profits from the book go to Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity? To mark the book's recent release, Woodrow Phoenix (who co-edited the project with Rob Davis) took the time for a recent email interview. Once you've read this interview, be sure to enjoy CBR's Mark Caldwell's interview with Davis, as well as CSBG's Greg Burgas explaining why he ranked this book as one of his best graphic novels of 2011.
Tim O'Shea: In the afterword for this book, you noted that there is "an invisible jigsaw in this book that you could put together if you knew where to look for the pieces. A secret history, a kind of group autobiography, comprised of memories and reflections from each of the creators of Nelson." Did you always see the jigsaw pieces, or did the pieces reveal themselves to you as you compiled the book?
Woodrow Phoenix: Those pieces gradually made themselves apparent as we put the book together, really. Because the idea with the story was to ground it in recent history through the eyes of Nel, our protagonist, many of us used bits of our own lives. Things that we remembered, that we had seen or been told about, personal family history or items that had been in the news at the time. We based our stories on them or did 'what if' fictional riffs with them and Nel. You'll notice a lot of real events are alluded to in the backgrounds of strips. There are a lot of pop music references, for instance. Before the late-1980s and cable & satellite TV, songs that were in the charts were the only music you'd hear on local or national radio and everybody had to listen to the same three or four stations because that was all there was. So they are a really good indicator of moods and styles in 1970s and 80s Britain, and most people used them for texture in their stories.
As the book progressed we saw what a good narrative engine the episodic chapter idea was. Because you could build an event into a story without having to explain what happened before or after it, creators could start anywhere. But they could 'comment' in their chapters on events that were significant to them from previous chapters. So by the time we got to the end I'd found out a lot of fascinating things about my fellow contributors!
O'Shea: Speaking of the book, you are one of its co-editors. How did the co-editing duties break down (who did what?) in terms of the collaborative editing of the book?
Phoenix: We shared the story editing equally, talking through every decision before we asked anyone to change anything. We asked everyone to follow the same process: read the story so far, then deliver an outline or script within three days. Rob and I would read and discuss it, then one of us would give the creator any notes or feedback necessary. They had another three days to come back with rough layouts which we would again discuss and comment on. Once we'd okayed them, the script and roughs were passed onto the next person in line to start them working. This way people could work on their final finished pages without feeling pressured to hurry, but the book kept moving, a chapter a week.
I had the extra responsibility of the design and production too. One of the main problems with anthologies is how the differing styles of many artists can easily make a book feel random and unfocused. So I knew a page design that framed all the artwork in the same way was going to be crucial to tie everything together. The running heads and no top or bottom bleeds give a consistency that makes Nelson feel directed and curated; no matter what's going on within the page it's all visually and thematically connected.
We were determined to make this book accessible to people who had never read a comic before. People new to comics struggle with figuring out reading order and what to look at first. So the other key thing I did to help consistency was to go over everyone's lettering and balloon placements, making sure that all the creators were using the same "visual grammar" even if their styles weren't remotely similar. Lettering is often the most neglected part of comics but speech balloons are the way that people connect with your narrative. Bad lettering will confuse and annoy your readers and destroy your comic. So it's crucial to do it systematically and logically; even moreso on a large project like this. I did a lot of tweaking.
O'Shea: How did it come to be that certain creators landed certain years in the project, were they selected because "Hey creator A's style is best suited for that year." Or what was the criteria?
Phoenix: Some people really wanted a particular year, so they got it - but mostly it was about fitting styles to a time period, and putting the right people next to each other to get the most interesting transitions going. Rob had a idea of what style would fit a particular time in Nel's life–childhood, teens, early adulthood, etc–and he decided who should go where. There was a little shuffling later on but 70-80% of the creators were happy with their position in the lineup and as you can see, the progression worked out really well.
O'Shea: I am not going to ask you for favorites, of course, but can you mention a few contributions that were far different than what your expectations were for a particular creator?
Phoenix: Almost no-one did what I expected they would. We picked people who wrote or wanted to write as well as draw. Few of us did literary naturalism, so it was definitely going to be pushing most contributors into new territory. Jamie Smart surprised me with the depth of his characterisation of Nel and her parents in just two pages for 1971. He managed to get so much personality and quirkiness into them so deftly and economically, it was an amazing gift to the book right at the beginning. There's a three panel sequence in Sean Longcroft's 1975 chapter that is just breathtaking in its appallingly casual depiction of a near tragedy. I keep going back to it. John Allison did some beautifully subtle character studies with just enough slapstick to throw you off the scent. Simone Lia captured the random madness of teenage (il)logic wonderfully well… I could go on. Nelson is packed with great moments.
O'Shea: In editing these various creators, were there any storytelling lessons you took away from the experience?
Phoenix: It's a strange (but very telling) quirk of the industry that generally comics editors are not artists. They come from print media, publishing or even TV backgrounds and it isn't considered important or relevant for them to know anything about drawing. I discovered that when I gave very specific art notes to creators–move this character up and put the speech balloon over here so that in the next panel your eye will go here, break this action into two panels, this should be an up-shot, move the horizon line down in this panel, etc–they were usually amazed and delighted to get storytelling advice that made sense and fixed narrative problems that they might have been stuck on. One person said that the total amount of useful, targeted feedback he had received in twenty years of drawing comics was less than he got from Rob and I in two weeks.
Rob and I have opinions and we aren't shy about voicing them, which is the main reason why we did Nelson, to make a book that we thought needed making. But as a result of working with 53 people on this book and listening to what they have to say I think the low standard of basic narrative skills in comics and graphic novels today is due to inadequate editing as much as to artists having to learn as they work, with nobody correcting their storytelling problems or fixing odd tics and habits.
O'Shea: Any chance if response is strong enough, would you be willing to embark on a book of this scope and logistics again?
Phoenix: I really don't know if I would do this again because it was hugely demanding both technically and emotionally. I had to keep the overall structure of the book in my head so that I could see where each story fit or didn't fit Nel's evolving narrative; that was easy for a while but thirty chapters in, the number of events and character arcs to remember were immense. I had to tell people their ideas didn't work and deal with the fallout, which was sometimes sheer misery. Chasing copy, explaining rewrites, making suggestions and ensuring everyone was happy with what they ended up submitting. I had to juggle deadlines and corrections and check everything fit the design templates. There were some weeks where it left no time for anything else. Combine all that with the stress of living with a big cloud of uncertainty over my head about whether it was all going to fall apart in a huge embarrassing mess before we got to the end. My girlfriend Bridget deserves many fine dinners for proofing the final pages and helping me pull it all together.
O'Shea: What were the most challenging logistics of co-editing a project of this scope?
Phoenix: We were doing this by telephone and email; sometimes it took days to co-ordinate our responses and valuable creative heat would begin to cool before Rob and I could discuss a script. Luckily there were only five or six occasions where we didn't see eye-to-eye, but when we didn't we talked it through until one of us convinced the other or found an alternate idea that we could agree on. We rejected a story outline for one of three reasons:a: it had already been doneb: it was too closed and didn't give the next person anywhere to take itc: it didn't make sense
It was sometimes very tough to tell people to try again, which was mostly my job, for some reason… Some contributors who weren't used to working with an editor did not take criticism well and that meant difficult emails or strained phone calls to make them understand it wasn't personal. But once they saw that it was about technique or logical narrative flow and not anything to do with my (or Rob's) own likes or dislikes, most people were okay with making changes. The book went along paths that I would never have chosen were I the sole writer, but collaboration is embracing what other people come up with and making it work. Whether you like it or not is irrelevant. You just have to find the logical departure point and take it where it should go next.
O'Shea: Had you always intended the book to be published by Blank Slate, or had you considered others? If not, what is it about Blank Slate that made you want to have the book produced and released through them?
Phoenix: Blank Slate Books was central to making this book a reality. Rob and Kenny Penman, of Blank Slate, had been talking about doing a book together. When Kenny saw the initial discussion Rob and I were having about the 'collaborative graphic novel' project he offered to publish it if we were serious about it. That transformed our really cool idea into a potential book and suddenly we had no excuse not to go ahead with it. We did some quick calculations and I ran the specifications past Kenny, he was supportive and positive and enthusiastic, and just like that, we had a book to put together! By the time we had our first production meeting in January we were already five chapters in. I'm really grateful to him for being such a calm, no-nonsense, straightforward person to deal with. He saw the possibilities for something new and gave us the opportunity to create it, he trusted us to deliver it and hardly asked us to change a thing. We couldn't have found a better person to work with.
O'Shea: How did you all first find out about Shelter? Were the charity folks surprised to find out you wanted to do a book to benefit them?
Phoenix: They were very surprised. It was Kenny's idea to donate the profits from the first printing to Shelter and we thought it was an excellent idea. Housing in Britain is so expensive and so tilted in favour of haves vs have-nots that most of us are only a few pay-checks away from being out on the street. Nelson is not really a 'charity book' though - it's a book that is also benefitting a charity, if you see what I mean. There would have been no difference in the content wherever the money went.
O'Shea: You wrote of your contribution to the book "And because my sister died decades ago, but I still think about what our lives would be like if she had lived." Was it cathartic on some level to delve into a piece that partially delved into your personal loss?
Phoenix: I'm not sure if cathartic is quite the right word. But maybe, yes. It felt like a good, important thing to introduce as a theme because we don't have very effective mechanisms for coping with death as a society, especially the death of a child, and the lack of ways to acknowledge and deal with that loss makes bereaved people go a little nutty. It happens all the time and mostly we try and forget about it as quickly as possible, ignoring that the people it happens to are never the same again. My family went off the rails for a while in the face of that grief, though we knitted back together eventually. A couple of my friends whose children died had similarly bleak experiences.
I was surprised by the alacrity with which Sonny's death was seized on by the other creators, actually. I had expected everyone to avoid dealing with it in favour of easier topics, but it became a dominant subplot right from the beginning. So that showed me my instincts were correct: there really isn't such a thing as an undiscussable topic. It just comes down to how you present them.We're all curious about how other people live, how they cope, how they feel. We only need the permission to ask the questions and we'll be digging right in there.


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Declan, a Dubliner, was 20 when he ran his first 1 star Michelin restaurant for Conrad Gallagher. Afterwards, he was invited to cook at another, La Grande Cascade, in Paris. Later, he worked alongside Ireland's renowned chef, Dylan McGrath.
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Nile Rodgers, maestro music producer, hit writer, guitar player, in his "Duke Ellington" double breasted three piece suit in the whitest wool on earth with (up all night to get) lucky Japanese Goldfish shell buttons. His band Chic always wear white on stage.
Roger ordered a suit in vintage linen by Scabal ("I like the crumples, I'm a bit crumpled.") and our "Mr Clancey" coat in Harris Tweed from Huddersfield Fine Worsted. See the next picture for how we made the coat very much Roger's own.
Harris Tweed (with its individual serial number visible on the label) lined in a silk twill custom printed by our pals at Hatley print. The target is of course the logo of his band The Who, about to embark on their 50th anniversary tour.
Mr Wesley with South London don Eddie Richardson (in cashmere over coat and Duran Duran don Simon Le Bon (in one of his Bedlam jackets), both at fitting stage.
Gregory Porter takes delivery of his three-piece suit in a John G Hardy "Alsport II" tweed.
Wearing our puppy tooth waistcoat, he looked like the cat with the cream.
Anais, a student at St. Andrew's University, having her fitting for the "Thin Red LIne" jacket made of an ancient British fabric called kersey.
Scott Rodger, who manages Sir Paul McCartney, Arcade Fire and many other artists, in his first kilt suit. The kilt and jacket details were in a stealth tartan that only reveals when the light hits at a certain angle. The silver skull on black glass buttons were commissioned exclusively from Stuart Goodings at www.militaryjewellery.com
Scott with one HIS two Grammys at the 2014 ceremony. Bedlam- how success likes to dress!
Mr Andrew Roachford, of his own band fame and currently singer with "Mike & The Mechanics", in his "Black Pudding and Fried Tomato" strides. He honoured us by performing at the opening of the old Oval shop.
We place our clients on a pedastal.
Dave has played bass for Jools Holland for twenty five years and counting. He does all the TV shows and touring, and can be heard on Jool's Radio 2 broadcast also. He is a cool cat with a touch of the Wolf Man - his passion, after music and dressing beautifully, is vintage horror films.
Quality hits a true note. Dave's double bass was bespoken for him by a craftsman in Deptford. Keeping it real South London style.
Celebrated crime writer Jake Arnott in his herringbone breeches that he wears to cycle about town. He wears our "Signor Zoot" suit on the dust jacket of his novel "House of Rumour".
Jake Arnott wearing his Bedlam "Signor Zoot" suit on the dust cover of his book, "House of Rumour".
The marvellous Mr Mingle takes the measure of Matias at a fitting in his office.
Rob's wedding suit. He kindly gave permission for us to post his photo, "As long as it can also go on public record that you guys are fantastic and I wouldn't have wanted to be in any other suit on my wedding day."
Gugu in her "Sherbet dab" jacket.
Chris' double breasted wedding suit in softest dove grey, on the outside at least!
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Chris in his beautiful suit with his beautiful bride Jenna.
The celebrated dresser-upper and Resonance FM dj Alberto Umbridge in his Ginger Chutney suit.
Anthony was a military man, tanks. Helping out that day was our intern Ingmar Patton whose great grandfather General P knew a thing or two about being properly turned out too. A pair of bespoke trousers starts at £340.
Andrew in his 21st birthday suit.
Lovely Marina wearing the mini skirt of her suit with Mr Wesley holding the matching breeches. Bedlam's in-house milliner, Mrs P-K, made the flat cap to top it off.
And being worn at the occasion for which it was intended, at the Palace of Caserta, Italy.
The late and much missed Sir Michael Wilmot in his Bedlam jacket and seersucker trousers.
Merlin the dog and Arthur Sweerts de Landas, proprietor of the Buccleuch & Queensberry Arms Hotel in Thornhill, in the Scottish borders.
Vintage glass buttons with gilt satyr head from my grandma's button box, a nod to Arthur's family's coat of arms.
Our mate Pal in his shawl collared "Mr Fox" jacket and "Piccalilli" strides.
Cameron Silver, curator-commentator on international fashion and owner of Decades, the vintage store in LA that made pre-loved a wardrobe pre-requisite, in his one-off Pearly Cap of Bedlam at the opening of the Tommy Hilfiger flagship store in LA.
Fitting Baron Sweerts de Landas Wyborgh in the lobby of the Buccleuch & Queensberry Arms Hotel. Earl of Bedlam is also available through the hotel shop. http://www.bqahotel.com/
Lady C's beloved godmother, the late Elisabeth Ratiu in her Bedlam jacket and velvet "Rembrandt" beret made by Maria PK for Bedlam. Diminutive in stature she may be but even in her nineties her strength of spirit, and fashion forwardness, towered over most.
Helen Patton in the coat of Harris Tweed named for her, whilst our then intern, her eldest son Ingmar, sews pearly buttons on Bedlam's London-New York Newsboy Cap.
NY face of Bedlam, Redboy, with Helen Patton in her "Victory of the Curves" suit made from a John G. Hardy "Alsport" tweed, created to mark an anniversary of her grandfather General's WWII victory at the Battle of the Bulge. In the foreground, Monkey the Dog, senior shop assistant at Any Old Iron, then stockist of EoB in NYC, since decamped to Nashville.
We use only the finest British fabrics. This is a John G. Hardy "Alsport" tweed from the stable of Hardy Minnis that carries the Royal Warrant and supplies, we are proud to say, "the world's most prestigious tailors". They are "By Appointment to her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II mercers of woollen cloth".
Sarah doing the over-the-shoulder red carpet pose in her shooting jacket. It is slashed doublet style centre back to show a flash of Dutch orange silk.
The full ensemble for game keeper Russell, and there was a cap too...
Russell rocking the full look in his natural habitat of Dumfries & Galloway.
Thomas in his dinner suit.
Charlie does the San Andreas stomp in his Tectonic suit.
Cool hand Jake in his "Joat", the strong new length.
Sharp wit, sharp tailoring. It's hard to better a kick-ass trouser suit on a gal packing gags.
Joanna first commissioned us to make her some wide legged tweed trousers.
For the summer we made Joanna a pair of wide legged sailor trousers in blue cotton that can be chucked in the washing machine. The inspiration was Lauren Bacall aboard a yacht with Bogey, so this is our small tribute to her style. Joanna's own soulmate looks on admiringly.
Steve commissioned a three-piece suit in a 12 oz. 100% wool worsted from the Holland & Sherry "Peacock" range.
We think Steve currently holds the record for most pieces of Bedlam bespoke in his wardrobe.
Mr Rodgers' own words in the August 2013 GQ profile of his style:
"On some level, with certain tailors, I have a love affair with the bespoke process. There's this label Earl of Bedlam, a new line coming up here in London. Their rap is that they use nothing but the finest English fabrics. I have some wonderful woollen suits. Even their T-shirts are extraordinary: there are a couple of shots of a three piece white suit Mark Wesley made for me in a magazine called Jocks & Nerds..."
Cameron Silver featuring again, this time looking ambassadorial in the Tectonic at the Selfridges book signing of his magnificent compendium of style "Decades - a Century of Fashion", cradled lovingly by Lady C. http://www.shopdecadesinc.com/blog/
Our party piece, piece de resistance, plume de ma tante… the Tectonic cut, with panels of pin stripe, grooved or furrowed cloth panel placed at angles to each other to build up a force of energy when life needs a shunt.
We luff our clients, we weally weally do.
Leather buttons from Lady C's Grandma Ella's button box, all a slightly different hue, each picking out a colour of the tweed for Mike's shooting jacket. The best bit is proposing it to the client and having them say, "Yes, great!" rather than, "mmm, I'd rather they were all the same".
Alfie the Ace, rising young golf star, being fitted in his Bumble Bee jacket. Fly like a condor, sting like bee - it's a zinger!
Michel Roux jr at his fitting, where, unfortunately, Brian was more of a hindrance than an assistant, but Chef is much too nice a chap to have minded. Also in shot, la belle Giselle, Madame Roux, in the "Uptown Punkette" jacket we made for her.
At work in his restaurant Le Gavroche, Michel came out to greet Ma and Pa Butler on their birhdays.
Chef Michel fancied something skull & crossbones-esque for the lining of his dinner suit. In a clever brush stroke, Mr Wesley took the traditional tall white chef's hat, crossed a knife & fork beneath it... et voila!
One dinner suit is served!
Mark Hill wore our / his suit on his show "Collectaholics" - a spin off from his duties on Antiques Roadshow. It was the subject of much Twitter-sphere enquiry to which he was kind enough to respond: "My favourite suit ever. Period"
We used the extraordinarily impermeable 100% cotton British wonder fabric Ventile (R) that was used to make fighter pilots' flying suits in WWII.
PJ Harvey likes her band like her lyrics, smart. Here she is on stage with James Johnston in his black Bedlam suit.
Robert chose a 100% wool John G. Hardy Worsted "Alsport" in a charcoal grey with joyful flecks of colour and a silver lining for his wedding suit. We went for mussel shell buttons - one cuff will show the rough side, the other will present the smooth. For such is married life!


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"I like Geography it is very interesting and I think it will help me in the future"
Christos Year 8
"Geography is a lesson I can look forward to on the timetable"
Jay Year 10
"Geography students hold the key to the world's problems"
Michael Palin.
Our department focuses on the role of being a global citizen. We provide students with an opportunity to immerse themselves in the ever-changing world around them and ensuring that they have a strong sense of place.
Key Stage 3
At Key Stage 3 students investigate social, economic and environmental issues in the world from the UK and its global position to contemporary issues such as the Migrant Crisis, energy security and superpower geographies. Year 7 study Geographical Skills including map, the Physical and Human Geography of the UK, Africa is not a Country, Weather and Climate and Extreme Environments. Year 8 study Tectonics, Coasts, Energy Issues and Superpower geographies.
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Key Stage 5
At Key Stage 5 students follow the Edexcel exam board. This specification maintains the balance between physical and human geography in Year 12 and in Year 13, students study geopolitical synoptic themes which reflect our interconnected world. Students will acquire and develop a range of transferable skills, such as numeracy, data interpretation, research skills, critical analysis, report writing and ICT. There is a strong emphasis placed on academic enquiry and career aspirations which is highly important as Geography graduates have one of the highest rates of graduate employment. Geography is a strong 'facilitating' subject at A-Level as it compliments both sciences and the arts.
As a department we strive to teach a diverse curriculum which will ensure our students become confident, capable and successful geographers.
Curriculum Maps 2018-2019
Course Information
GCSE Geography Course Information
For more information please contact Head of Department: Miss C McDermont.


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Wild Green Pesto Master Recipe Makes about 1 cup
Versatile and nutritious, wild green pesto is a gourmet delight and an herb class favorite. I enjoy serving it as a spread on bread. (In this manner, it was delightfully received as an appetizer at a fundraising dinner which took place in a castle on the Hudson River. I appreciate the humble weeds being honored and bringing in the big bucks.) Pesto, typically added to pasta, tastes great topping whole grains and burgers, and in soups, sauces and dressings. Make it creamy by mixing it with equal parts yogurt, crème fraîcheesh, or heavy cream. In this recipe we can use any wild greens that are eaten raw. While some friends make pesto from only dandelion leaf (very bitter) or nettle (which generally needs cooking to chill out the sting), I suggest using half pungent, aromatic plants and half milder tasting ones. If adding bitter flavored plants, include small amounts — about one-half cup per batch. Please note: I usually triple this recipe, multiplying all the ingredients by three.
Today's Wild Green Pesto features wood sorrel (Oxalis stricta), garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata), wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa), star chickweed (Stellaria pubera), soaked and dried sunflower seeds and almonds, and pecorino fulvi sheep cheese as displayed in this photo.
- 2 oz (by weight) hard grating cheese such as Pecorino Romano or Parmigiano, cut into chunks (fills about ½ cup)
- ½ cup nut or seed (preferably soaked and dried, see earlier blog post here); some good choices are sunflower seeds, green pumpkin seeds, hazelnuts, almonds, pecans, and pine nuts
- 1–2 cloves garlic (less garlic is used than typical pesto recipes so you can taste the flavor of the herbs)
- 3 cups packed wild greens (edible raw) of choice; if leaves are large, coarsely chop
- 1/3–3/4 cup cold-pressed olive oil
- Sea salt to taste
- Place cheese in food processor and process until well pulverized.
- Add nut or seed and garlic and process until medium-fine ground.
- Add wild greens and process until mixture is well minced.
- With food processor running, add olive oil until the desired consistency is reached. 1/3 cup oil produces a thicker consistency — nice for spreading on bread, crackers, etc. For a thinner, looser sauce add another ¼–½ cup of oil.
- Taste first, then add salt if desired.
Wild Green Variations: Here are some good plant combinations for making wild green pesto:
- 1½ cups violet leaf, 1 cup wild bergamot leaf, ½ cup garlic mustard leaf or flowering top
- 1½ cups wood sorrel leaf & tender stem, 1 cup star chickweed leaf & tender stem, ½ cup bee balm leaf
- 1¾ cups sheep sorrel leaf and tender stem, 1 cup dayflower leaf and tender stem, ¼ cup gill-over-the-ground leaf and tender stem (can include flower too).
- 1½ cups day lily shoots, 1¼ cups field onion greens, ¼ cup garlic mustard leaves. This combination is available only in early spring.
Garden Variations: Here are some good plant combinations for making "tame" green pesto:
- 1½ cups arugula, 1 cup parsley, ½ cup watercress
- 1½ cups French sorrel leaf, 1 cup chervil, ½ cup hardy marjoram
Cultivated Additions: Of course pesto is most commonly made with basil, but other cultivated plants work surprisingly well and taste great mixed with wild plants. Try adding ½ cup of leaves of the following fresh culinary herbs per batch of wild green pesto:
Winter or summer savory, oregano, thyme, sweet or perennial hardy marjoram, tarragon, or cilantro
Wild Green Pesto ready to eat spread on cucumber slices and sprinkled with wild bergamot flowers (Monarda fistulosa).
Plant identification pages and recipe from Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook by (me) Dina Falconi; illustrated by Wendy Hollender. Book link: http://bit.ly/1Auh44Q


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Shot by Darius Twin
Darren gives me wings ^_^ no, but really, if only I could always have some light-up angel wings! I'm so happy to be able to add another photo to our "angel" series. This is the 4th one that we have shot so far, and we will only be adding many many more. We shot this one while we were at Rainbow Basin - the weather was perfect and we were the only people there. Oh, and it happened to be a full moon that night, so the whole landscape was lit up bright, making it easy for us to be the night-explorers that we are!
I hope everyone is enjoying their weekends ~ pretty soon here I will be off to see my friends play some amazing tunes at a farm in Ojai! <3


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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
From guns to chalk, land mines to books
Pic 1: Students are taught how to be active participants in and proponents of democracy. This civic education of young people is crucial to sustainable democratic change.
Pic 2: South Sudan is a place where weapons have been the currency for more than 20 years. That hasn't stopped these girls from expressing their zest for life.
Pic 3: "When you mine beneath the surface of fear, you discover resiliency, determination, and hope." -Anita
From guns to chalk, land mines to books....
While standing in line waiting to check my luggage for a short in-county flight, a man in front of me was obviously carrying something very bulky. I was curious about it.
"What's in your vest pockets," I ask.
"Nothing," he said, "except bullets."
Nodding my head as if this is normal, I simply replied, "Oh."
Two weeks earlier, while preparing to leave a public building, my friends and I were stopped before reaching the parking lot. Why? It seems some unhappy former employees had barricaded the front gate and were armed with knives and spears. No one was getting in. No one was getting out.
Oh. Blink.
Believe it or not, sometimes it is easy to forget that NESEI is at work in a post-conflict country. As we focus on educating young women in secondary schools, it is routine to place our attention on their grades, attendance, relationships, and general academic progress. But once we leave campus, anything goes.
Here is an example of an unpredictable day. It was a travel day. We were flying from Bahr El Ghazal back to Equatoria and then driving on to Yei. Our intention was to leave directly from the Juba airport for the return drive. The maximum amount of time we planned to stay at the airport? 30 minutes. Just long enough to collect our luggage.
For reasons that Colin attempted to explain (something about shock absorbers, a suspension crack, and a tire rim) we were forced to spend the afternoon waiting, and waiting, for the truck to be fixed. Around 5:00 p.m., we were given a "yellow-light." I don't say "green-light" because nothing related to transport in Sudan is ever that simple – or fast. The truck was in decent enough shape to "probably" make the 5 hour drive between Juba and Yei. However, there was just a snippet of daylight left. That was a problem.
We had to consider the potential consequences of being on a dirt road, in the dark, in Sudan. Thought had to be given to landmines, rogue rebels, and if our mobile phones would get service if we were caught in an emergency situation. Really. Think about this the next time you back out of your driveway in suburbia.
We opted for "safety first." Staying overnight in Juba was a better plan than hitting the road. We would be contributing to the local economy, and getting a good night's sleep before the trek to Yei.
It's not necessarily wise to tell these things. It gives my sisters more cause for worry than I already provide them by being so far away from home. But I tell it because it's a part of the NESEI story. And even more so, it's a part of life in a developing world. You have heard it before. Maybe even ignored it before.
But, these situations remind me of how much our students have overcome. Our transport delay was minor. The man with the bullets was supposed to have them – he is a soldier protecting civilians. The guards could have found a better way to protest their unemployment, but in a place where weapons have been the currency for more than 20 years, it is not reasonable to think that things can change overnight.
Our NESEI girls have lived in this environment for a long time. It's home. It's where they will likely raise their daughters and sons. When you mine beneath the surface of fear, you discover resiliency, determination, and hope. You may even find security and safety in the collective power of individuals who stop and think before they act. Our girls have done this. They have reasoned that an education will give them a better future. They do not fear it.
As we approach the national elections in 2010 and the referendum for self-determination in 2011, we are likely to experience anxiety. Old feuds linger and democracy sometimes seems elusive. Yet, in recent years, I have witnessed progress in security and seen steps taken for improved communication among the country's people. I want to believe that Sudan can have free and fair elections.
If our girls can overcome adversity, then we can too. Together, we can fight a different kind of war. One where chalk replaces guns and where textbooks replace landmines. This is important to keep in mind when boarding a plane with a man carrying little, "except bullets."
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Range anxiety is about to become a quaint memory from the early days of electric cars.
When EV technology was getting started, just a few short years ago, we were lucky to get 40 miles of range on batteries alone.
The original Chevy Volt couldn't manage much more than a short daily commute and needed a gas-powered motor in addition to the electric one to give buyers some extra peace of mind.
The first all-electric Nissan Leaf fared much better, with an 84-mile range, but still left motorists stranded after pushing the limits too far. Today's Leaf can top 107 miles of electric range while the much more expensive Tesla Model S can go more than 250 miles.
Chevrolet is about to change the game and combine Tesla-like range with Nissan-like affordability.
Chevy dropped the bombshell this week when it announced the cruising range for the all-new 2017 Bolt.
Leftlane News said,
Drivers should expect to cruise for 238 miles on a single charge, nearly 20 percent longer than the initial estimate of 200 miles.
The figure is slightly higher than Tesla's preliminary range estimate of 215 miles for the Model 3, though Tesla is presumably keeping a bit of margin between its public statement and actual internal target for an EPA figure.
Chevrolet wants to establish itself as the leader in electric cars and the Bolt could help achieve that goal. Still, it has generated nowhere near the buzz that Tesla has managed to grab for the Model 3, a vehicle for which Tesla has taken more than 400,000 pre-orders at $1,000 each.
Both vehicles should end up priced right around the $30,000 mark (after the $7,500 federal tax credit) and both will come with similar ranges.
The Bolt's biggest advantage is that it will arrive in showrooms later this year, while the Model 3 is still a good three years away from production.
The new Chevy Bolt, followed by a redesigned 200-mile Leaf, and ultimately the Model 3, should effectively put the days of range anxiety safely behind us.
Would you feel comfortable owning one of the new breed of electric cars?
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What is Organic Anti Aging Skincare?
organics+ anti-aging peptides = organic anti-aging skincare
If you are looking for products that deliver dramatic results, organic anti-aging skincare is for you. It is the best of both worlds as it brings organic ingredients and anti-aging peptides together. Going green is not always easy to do. Organic products are expensive and don't always produce the anti-aging results we desire. The highest quality organic skincare ingredients that naturally nourish. Powerful antioxidants restore a youthful glow. Reveal your radiance now!
- Improve the signs of aging.
- Diminish the look of wrinkles.
- Replenish hydration.
- Add volume and fullness, naturally plumping.
- Increase elasticity for a firmer, lifted face.
- Provide essential nutrients and antioxidants.
- Revitalize tone and texture.
Peptides began showing up in skincare products during the '80s. From then on, they have revolutionized the skincare world. Women love the positive benefits from best anti-aging peptides.
A good portion of aging can be caused by our environment and is easily reversible. Pollution and sun damage is typically the biggest offender. Antioxidant serums are beneficial for these reasons and blended with peptides; users often see 5 or 10 years taken off their complexion. (Without having to go under the knife and in a very short period.
In the last twenty years, skincare has made many significant improvements. Scientists have discovered a plethora of new anti-aging peptides that help your our skin act more youthful. From relaxing facial contractions to reducing the appearance of wrinkles, tightening up complexions and correcting discolorations by helping spots fade, scientific breakthroughs have you covered.
On the flip side, the more advances that are made in the skincare arena means that more chemicals get put into our products because formulators are looking for the cheapest way to make a beauty product. Most of us have discovered that hundreds of chemicals have been incorporated into the beauty products we wear and use daily(even if you can't read the label). Sometimes we don't even know that they are there or what an ingredient is. For many of us, our skin has become more sensitive from the overuse of chemicals and preservatives. For others, we just don't want to expose our skin to chemically made ingredients or preservatives.
The overuse of chemicals has caused many of us to turn to Natural and Organic Skin Care beauty products. Organic products feed your skin with natural ingredients and are grown without pesticides. For those who have skin sensitivities, this is extremely beneficial, as products without chemicals and pesticides allow our skin to be healthy with fewer reactions. Organic Skin Care delivers essential vitamins and nutrients, provides natural antioxidants and increases moisture levels. Many organic products include natural peptides. And while we love the nurturing effect organic skincare has on our skin, we want products that visibly improve the signs of aging. And of course, we want products that work fast. People today are so busy; we just don't have a lot of time to devote to a skincare routine. We don't want to wait for months for some improvement. We want real results, fast. Plus, most people today are so busy, we just don't have a lot of time to devote to a skincare routine.
So what happens when you put the two together? Organic Skin Care and Anti-Aging Peptides? The outcome is all-natural and organic anti-aging skincare. Our customers have been delighted by the results and improvements they see in their complexions. They love the fact that we use as many organic ingredients as possible. This is why we created our line of highly effective Organic Anti-Aging Skincare beauty products. A skincare line that works and recaptures the youthfulness of your skin, fast! Your skin will act and look supple, firm and radiant! No more waiting months to see results, tighten up with algae, reduce the appearance of wrinkles with amino acid peptides, and exfoliate dull, uneven complexions with Alpha Hydroxy Acids. Try our organic anti-aging products today!
Anti Aging Peptides + Organic Skin Care = Beautiful Skin
What's in that cosmetic bottle?Have you ever went into a department store and been promised that a $150 bottle of face cream can magically transform your skin? Then you look at the ingredient label. Most of the ingredients you can't pronounce. You've heard to stay away from parabens and mineral oil, but they are listed. And that particular peptide that is spoken so highly of, well it's at the bottom of the list. Reality hits. Do you want to put all those chemicals on your face? Can you afford to spend $150 on the promise that this little bottle will melt the years away and change your life?
We love peptides, and we love what they do.
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Toxic chemicals can show up in our everyday products. Here are some substitutions for using natural ingredients in your skincare.
- Use Leucidal Liquid or Leucidal Complete instead of parabens.
- Use oils from natural sources like coconut, jojoba, rosehip seed, or shea butter instead of a petroleum-based ingredient.
- Use Tea Tree oil instead of Triclosan or Benzoyl Peroxide.
- Use Essential oils instead of perfume or fragrance.
- Use vegetable glycerin instead of PEG or PPG.
- Use Xanthan Gum as a natural thickener instead of PEG's.
- Use mineral-based colors instead of synthetic colors.


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My baby starts school
|On her first birthday
And my baby starts school tomorrow. I was feeling cool as school about the whole thing and my husband was going to take her because I have a new job.
But I suddenly thought 'I can't do this. I need to be there. A little bit for her. But mainly for me'. My new boss is a lovely, generous lady who said, 'of course, you need time for these transitions'.
So I can be there tomorrow. I can take lots of photos. I truly can't believe this day has come - after all this time being at home with little people.
Don't think I'll cry. I'm excited for her. She's excited and school is such fun. I just need to be there to sign off this era of my life.


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What's To Do?
It's Always Something!
06/05/17 09:37
In Highlands, it seems like it is always something - something to do, that is!
This weekend the Highlands Motoring Festival comes to Town for 4 big days of cars, food, touring and fun.
From Monte Carlo Night on Thursday to Cars and Coffee on Main Street, Sunday morning, Highlands Motoring Festival brings some of the most coveted, collectable and viewable cars to in the Southeast to Highlands.
Don't miss a single event this weekend: June 8 - 11, 2017
Mountain Laurel
06/02/17 16:23
Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) is one of the most common evergreen shrubs in the mountains of North Carolina.
This years bloom is far more spectactular than we have seen in decades. One visitor commented today that it is "more beautiful than Calloway Gardens when the azaleas are in bloom."
Mountain Laurel is often confused with its larger leafed cousin Rhododendron - of which Rhododendron maxima is our most prolific species locally. It usually blooms in late June and early July.
If you have the chance to come to the mountains in the next week or so, we promise one of the most breath-taking displays of Mountain Laurel in many years.
Of course, you can alway come back for the native Rhododendron too…
Swim All Year
02/22/17 22:34
"Adult Swim"
Thanks the generosity of Art and Angela Williams, Highlands has one of the most exciting, fun and fitness complexes in Western North Carolina.
Mr. & Mrs. Williams donated the money to pay for the upgrades to the existing pool facility, making it a facility to truely be proud of.
Highlanders and visitors alike now have a year around venue in which to exercise and enjoy themselves - even when the snow is flying!
It doesn't matter wheather you are coming for the weekend or here for the rest of your life, make sure you dip your toes in our new "swimmin' hole."


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age 18 and up
IMPORTANT: ADVANCE TICKET SALES NOW CLOSED, you can buy tickets at the gate for $185, if any are left ($50 for youth at gate, free for child at gate)
If you are planning on paying at the gate, please email registration[at]intentiongathering[dot]org before 10am Friday to get the location, directions and other info. If you do not mail before 10am, we MAY get the message, but we cannot guarantee it, as we will be mainly off-grid.
Ticket prices include all workshops, camping, parking and meals for the event.
We ask that people with a high enough income buy the Tier 2 or Tier 3 tickets, so that the Tier 1 tickets can go to those who really need them. This is an honour system, and everyone can choose the price they feel they can best afford (until the lower priced tickets run out.)
Children age 5 and under are admitted free but still must be registered, so please select a ticket for them from the list below.
Title:Summer Intention 19.5 Adult Ticket - Tier 3
age 18 and up
Title:Summer Intention 19.5 Adult Ticket - Tier 2
age 18 and up
Title:Summer Intention 19.5 Adult Ticket - Tier 1
age 18 and up
Title:Summer Intention 19.5 Youth Ticket
age 6-17
Title:Summer Intention 19.5 Child Ticket
age 5 and under
All ticket sales are non-refundable.
If you have any problems with the purchase process please email registration[at]intentiongathering[dot]org . Note that the reply may come from a different email address to be sure to check your spam/junkmail/promotions tab if you don't see a prompt reply.
IMPORTANT: the web server where we are currently hosting this website is running nightly batch processes between approximately 1:30 am and 4:30 am PST, so you might find the website is slow to respond during those times. If that happens, we suggest that you purchase/register at any time of day other than then!


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Clarion Hotel
Clarion Hotel
2600 N Aspen Ave
Broken Arrow,
Phone: 918-258-7085
Fax: 918-251-6768
The Clarion Hotel in Broken Arrow offers rooms with king, queen or full-sized beds. All rooms come with microwaves and refrigerators. Guest laundry services and a business center are also available. For fun, relaxation and exercise, guests have access to a seasonal outdoor pool and fitness center. Clarion Hotel also offers free wireless internet access throughout and a complimentary full hot breakfast served daily. Clarion Hotel is ideally located with easy access to many nearby attractions like the Rhema Bible Church and Tulsa's Expo Square.
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Discounts: AAA Discount, Extended Stay Discount, Group Rate Discount, Military Discount, Senior Discount
Facility Amenities: ADA Compliant, Bar/Lounge, Credit Cards Accepted, Exercise/Fitness Facilities, Free Breakfast Served, Handicapped Parking, Interior Corridors, Laundry, Meeting Space Available, Pets Allowed, Pool Outdoor, Restaurant on site
General Information: Number of Units: 193
Group Amenities: Accommodates Tour Groups, Advance Group Reservations Required, Baggage Handling, Bus/Motorcoach Parking, Complimentary Room for Driver, Group Rates Available, Meal Functions, Total Capacity of Meeting Space: 450, Tour Group Welcome Reception
Internet Connectivity: Facility High-Speed, Facility WiFi, In-room High-speed, In-room WiFi
Location: Expressway/Interstate
Room Amenities: Balcony/Deck, Cable/Satellite TV, Climate Control, Coffee Maker, Desk, Free Newspaper, Hair Dryer, In-room Whirlpool/Jacuzzi, Iron/Ironing Board, Microwave, Refrigerator
Room Type: Connecting Rooms, Double, King, Suites
Special Rating: AAA 3 Diamond
Check-in: 3pm.
Check-out: 11am.
Check-out: 11am.
Pet fee: $25 per stay. Limit two pets per room. While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the pricing listed above, prices are subject to change without notice.
Exit off the Broken Arrow Expy (Hwy 51 E) at 145th East Ave (Aspen Ave).
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These two dogs are an Australian penguin's best friend — with skills that have saved as many as a two thousand birds in the last ten years.
Foxes had nearly decimated the population of 'little penguins' on Middle Island — killing nearly 200 a year.
But, since 2006 when Eudy and Tula started guarding the species, which is the smallest type of penguin in the world, there hasn't been any evidence of a predator attack.
WATCH: Knitters Stitch Sweaters to Save Oiled Penguins
It was a local chicken farmer, Swampy Marsh, who first suggested using the large, white Maremma sheep dogs as penguin guardians because they were so good at protecting his free range hens.
The community of Warrnambool sponsored the dogs' training and still provides homes for them through the winter.
RELATED: Manatee Population Has Rebounded 500 Percent–Learn How
During the penguins' mating season, the dogs patrol the island five days a week, spending their days off at Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village, where they meet visitors and help educate people about conservation.
(WATCH the video below from Bondi Vet) — Photo: Peter Abbott
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