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CALIFORNIA - U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein has been reelected to the U.S. Senate following the 2018 Midterm Elections.
Feinstein, 85, has served on the Senate since 1992.
She beat Kevin De Leon in the race with 3,414,530 votes which comes out to 54.3 percent. De Leon had 2,872,510 votes which come out to 45.7 percent of the total votes.
In her acceptance speech, she spoke about the state of politics in our country.
"This is such a great country and it's been factionalized and trivialized with rhetoric," she said. "We must stop that. We must come together as the great power that we are.
She also spoke specifically about California and how she wants to make change.
"This state: The fifth largest economic power on Earth, over 40 million people, bigger than 21 states and the District of Columbia put together, needs strong representation," she said.
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A good friend of mine posted this article's feature image on his Facebook page; he recently left a successful career in corporate marketing, and is now an entrepreneur. He posted the following quote along with the photo:
This is so true. I never saw it this way but it is a reality. – Roger G.
As someone who has been on the entrepreneurial grind for about four years now, who has made MANY sacrifices along the way, and is a dad of three year-old twins, this photo resonates deeply with me.
For this post, in addition to the items listed in the feature image, I'm going to list a few other ways supporting small businesses is helpful, and if you own a small business yourself, push on, perhaps get yourself a small business advisor and never stop the entrepreneurial grind for your goals and dreams.
And I'd like you to add to this list by leaving additional helpful items in the comments section. I will update this list with all of your input. It would be great to see this list grow to well over 100 items.
To be clear, I ain't at all mad at the big company CEO for building her third holiday home-more power to her. But people need to know their support of small businesses MATTERS.
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She loves to laugh and never meets a stranger.
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I can write backwards and upside down with the same speed and fluency with which I write the regular old way.
I can remember the birthday of just about everyone I've ever known. And I can throw rocks with my toes.
Nothing, absolutely nothing... that's why I like to hang around the likes of YOU! I'm taking names on this one, I want to add these people to my friend list!
My friends call me the memory keeper. I can remember most everything. Little facts from years ago that no one else remembers until I bring it up.
I am in desperate need of an organizer. I think you should make a trip to see me and organize my entire home! :) Doesn't that sound like fun???
I love to make candy, so I'm a good friend to have during PMS, depression, mood swings, etc....
I'm the 'Child Discipliner'. Give me an unruly child and I'll have them eating out of my hands with manners and grace. I don't know why...I think it's cause I honor their good behavior. How do it do?
Now that is a good question....what would any of my friends say about me if asked?!
Mom: I'm 100% dependable and I'm a very good listener, I can keep a secret and I'm an optimist.
I'm having lunch with 3 of my gal pals tomorrow I'll have to ask them.
Madi:She can sleep anywhere in any postion under any circumstances
and I'm envious
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The Lord has blessed me with many talents...many I don't appreciate enough! But my best talent is the ability to recognize and appreciate the gifts of others..that's why I enjoy blogging and meeting so many others with talents different than mine!
I sing....and can pinch you with my toes. My kids say I have monkey toes.
Hmmm - that is a hard one. First of all your friends sound wonderful.
But what is my talent? I do wonder about that. I guess I would have to say love and laughter.
You do that too.
I'm always on time....not such a creative talent, but a good trait to have.
I can remember most things I read, but not much of what I hear. (I try to be a good listener, I really do. But my mind wanders... which is why blog communicating is so good for me!) I can play piano. I am highly adaptable to new situations. I'm a chameleon.
My husband has always said that my talent is being ready to leave the house within 5 minutes at any time of the day until about midnight. I put on my makeup in the morning, then I'm ready to go all day. I'm a "grab the keys and go" kind of girl!
I enjoy making people laugh and smile. I'm a professional at Wii Golf. I enjoy making things from the heart for others.
I don't think I have one really good skill. I can do a lot of things a little..or just enough to be dangerous I say. I can oil paint, a little, I can sew a little and I'm kind of crafty...in the artsy kind of way.
Thanks for leaving a comment on my blog about the Christmas Pageant :-)
The temperature was in celcius so yest it was 30 degrees celcius which is apparently about 86 degrees farenheit I think,,,,so it is pretty warm :-)
As for something bizarre I can do lol,,,,nothing, I am pretty boring I think!!
All of your friends make life fun and interesting! I can "give the toe," too! Comes from years of sitting through church services with my best buds as teenagers and entertaining ourselves by taking off our shoes and doing toe tricks. I can wiggles my ears. I can stand on my head. You know, all the usual stupid dog tricks, Ha!


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Four years ago today my life changed in a way I could never have imagined or foreseen. And it was certainly not in a way I would have ever wished for, but the end result so far has been, surprisingly, quite amazing. I would never have guessed it could go from what felt like the end of the world as I knew it to the most amazing time of my life. It has truly been a radical transformation.
In the blink of an eye, it seems, I went from being married to someone I considered my best friend and partner for life to being single and uncertain of what the future had in store. It was a painful and confusing time to say the least. But after a few years of deep reflection, soul searching if you will, and dedicated time spent working on myself and figuring out what truly makes me happy, I reconnected with parts of myself I had lost touch with over the years…parts of myself I really liked and which held great meaning for me. So I began doing things that allowed me to stay in those places and be that person again. So freeing, so energizing, and so empowering. And now I am doing things I am not even sure I could/would have even imagined for myself before. I am playing bigger than I ever have, embracing the opportunities life sends my way, working hard to make a positive difference in the lives of others and the world as a whole. I have never been happier or more focused, nor have I ever experienced as much success as I am right now. It has definitely been a transformational couple of years for me.
Isn't it funny (not in a humorous way but rather in an interesting and curious way) how life can throw things your way that feel and seem just absolutely awful and insurmountable? Like you will never recover? Like things will never be the same again? Like you will never be happy, or successful, or (fill in the blank) ever again? And yet, in all the cases I have ever seen in my life, things that have happened both to me personally and to people I know or have encountered in my life, better things always seem to come. It's as if the universe is saying to us that difficult change, while it can be temporarily devastating, can actually be good for us. One might even argue it is a necessary part of life.
I'll use a butterfly as an analogy. Caterpillars change into a beautiful butterfly through an amazing metamorphosis process we all learn about in elementary school. They wrap themselves in a cocoon and begin a massive transformation. When that transformation is complete they are radically different from their initial form…they have become beautiful, colorful creatures. Clearly, their transformation is not easy, but the end result is absolutely amazing to behold…a new life having been born.
What I have seen and experienced is that, despite how awful it can feel on the onset and even as you trudge through it, major changes in our lives are what seem to help get us on the path we are suppose to be on in the first place. Could it be the universe dealing us the hand we need to have in order to fulfill our greater purpose? That's certainly one explanation for it. Of course, when dealt that hand we have to play it or nothing can ever possibly come of it…but if we choose to play that hand, again despite how hard it can be at times, amazing things can, and in my experience do, happen.
We all experience challenges in our lives, but if we embrace those times as opportunities to bring something even better into our lives we open ourselves up to amazing transformation. Our view or perspective of those challenges makes all the difference. If we get caught up in the negative side of the things that happen to us, that cause major change in our lives, we will miss out on the opportunity that has been provided to us to make something great out of a negative or unpleasant situation. So celebrate both the good and the bad, the blessings and the challenges, in your life – they all serve a purpose, designed to help us live the best life we can. You just might be amazed at the outcome!
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Should you go back to places that have a special significance in your memory, or where you have found inspiration? It can turn out to be disappointing. They might have changed beyond recognition, or the magic you experienced might simply have dissipated.
So, it was with some misgivings that I recently revisited the Corsican village where I found the inspiration for my novel House at Zaronza. But something rather exciting happened while we were there.
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text: Lynn Burkhead - April 08, 2019 Spring Bass Tips from Shallow-Water Master Grigsby Shaw Grigsby, Jr. helps you figure out how to target spawning bass this spring. When water temps reach 60 degrees, bass-fishing pro Shaw Grigsby, Jr., begins looking for bedding fish . (Photo courtesy of Shaw Grisgby/Colton Kramer) In some senses, he's the Yoda of springtime's shallow-water fishing game, something that his longtime career accomplishments prove.Put another way, former Bassmaster Elite Series competitor and current Major League Fishing Bass Pro Tour angler Shaw Grigsby, Jr. is a sight-fishing master…and then some.While the Gainesville, Fla., resident is pretty good with cranking, finesse and topwater techniques, he's often used sight-fishing tactics for success on springtime's shallow, bedding bass to build a Bass Fishing Hall of Fame career.Since beginning his tournament career in the mid-1980s, he's relied heavily on sight fishing when the time is right to win nine titles, to qualify for 16 Bassmaster Classics and four FLW Tour Forrest Wood Cup Championships along with putting more than $2.25 million into the bank. How does Grigsby fish for spring's bedded bass, often the biggest of the year? For starters, he watches the water temperature as it noses up towards 60 degrees. On the calendar, that often works out to late February into early May across Texas, Alabama, Florida and other southern tier states. A little further north in the central states, expect the largemouth spawn to typically take place in April and May. And up north, the last few days of April into early June will be likely dates, depending on when fishing seasons open and how late chilly weather hangs on.After figuring out when to start looking for shallow fish, the next question centers around where to find them."When the time comes, the first thing I do - when that water temperature starts getting close to 60 – is that I'm easing to the banks where I'm looking for protected areas," said Grigsby, a huge Florida Gator sports fan. "Early sight fishing, early spawn, (for me) will be something that is really protected, things like marinas, a canal, areas that are real protected and doesn't have water flow." Editor's note: This is first in a four-part series on sight fishing for bass with shallow-water expert Shaw Grigsby. Jr. Come back to read more on this subject this month. Also read: Sight-Fishing Controversy? Not for GrigsbySuch protected spawning pockets often have a firm bottom, sandy or gravelly areas set off to the side in a cove or in the back of a creek or tributary. As spring progresses, the spawn will move into such areas in the main lake itself, with the breeding activity eventually winding up in the lower end of a reservoir and/or near the dam. "Early season is going to be back in protected areas and then later in the season, I'll move out (to the mouths of tributaries and main lake areas)," said Grigsby. "I'm looking for places where they can protect their fry, so you want some kind of cover, some kind of weeds, brush, something."So, you kind of look for general areas that have some sort of flats to them where the water can heat up and the sun can penetrate and germinate those eggs, so we can get the hatch (done) and (get) those fry."Until Grigsby finds a few fish locked into shallow-water areas — the kind of bass he can try to go catch by sight-fishing methods — he'll do a fair amount of prospecting in skinny water of up to four-feet in depth. "A lot of times when I'm going down the bank, I might be throwing a bait like a swim jig or a (Strike King) Pure Poison, which is like a Chatterbait, you know, a vibrating jig," he said. "I'm going to throw something that attracts the fish - maybe a jerkbait if it's real clear."The goal as he goes down the bank is to look for something that gives away a fish's location, maybe a glint of a fin, the flicker of a tail, or a lighter spot against an otherwise dark background."I'm looking for something that allows me to see the movement of that fish," said Grigsby. "Then it's a matter of setting back, getting off away from them, making long casts to them, and fishing S-L-O-W. I can't expound on that any more, slower is better."Why is that? "If they get an idea that that bait is going to come through the bed and get out of there, they don't really worry about needing to get it out of there (by their own efforts)," said Grigsby. "They're like 'Why do I need to worry about it?' Making it (the lure) to where it's coming to the bed and it's coming slow, (and they'll) get madder and madder, so slow is really a key."In addition to water temperatures getting consistently above the 60-degree mark, Grigsby points out that the ever-present danger of a strong springtime cold front can scramble things, especially early on when the water temperature is marginal. "If you have a cold front come through, you can pretty much guarantee that it's going to be tough in the morning," he said. "But as that water warms up (later in the day), then they get to being on that bed and being more protected."Another weather factor that can scuttle sight fishing a bit is sunshine versus clouds, the latter which makes it much more difficult for an angler to see into the water."Well, I love sunlight," said Grigsby. "I much prefer sunlight and I prefer calm. What wind does is it puts a ripple on the water and disguises the movement (of the fish) where you can't tell whether there's a fish there or not."When it's slick, boy you can see them, there he is and that's what I like. Slick water, blue skies, that's what I'm good with."Another key according to the Florida pro is to make sure to position a boat properly to take advantage of ideal conditions. That involves being just far enough off the bank to see key bedding spots in two to four-feet of water along with positioning the sun just right, too.When it comes to throwing a bait towards a bedded fish, Grigsby said where a cast lands is critical, especially since spawn time strikes are more out of aggravation than a desire to feed."Absolutely, you want to throw it past the bed and bring it in," he said. "A lot of people will try to say that it's got to be on that exact little spot and I say 'Really?' You throw it past the bed and you start going real slow, coming back to it. They're seeing it coming and by the time it gets there, they're so aggravated that they hit it before it ever gets to them. So, my game plan is to always go past them."Grigsby notes that to catch such a bass, reading body language is a big key."You want (to see some) activity, you want them to show that they're engaged in this pursuit," said the 2017 HOF inductee. "If you're throwing in there and they really aren't looking (at your bait), and you're changing baits and they're (still) really not looking, (that's not a good thing)."A case in point was a fish that Grigsby worked on years ago during a tournament. "I threw on one for quite a while and my partner – this is back in the days when we had our partner fishing with us – he put on a totally different color worm and threw in there and that fish just immediately looked at it," he said. "That's what you want to see is that engagement."If he looks, now you've got a shot," he added. "As he reacts, now you'll see that fin start to wiggle and shake, and then the tail move, and then him nosing down towards it – that's when you know you've got him."How long should an angler work on a bedded bass before moving on?"If you don't get reactions of any kind (initially), I'll try a few different things (before moving on)," said Grigsby. "I'll change baits a couple of times. It all depends on the size of the fish – if that fish is an eight-pounder and I know I need that fish to win, I may be willing to spend the rest of the day there working on it (in a tournament)."Since springtime bass are often the biggest they'll be all year, the same goes for a weekend warrior hoping to land the lunker of a lifetime.A fish that is worthy of increased time and effort to catch, photograph, and release, all for the memory of a lifetime. Get Your Fish On. Plan your next fishing and boating adventure here. GET THE NEWSLETTER Join the List and Never Miss a Thing. Sign Me Up


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I received the following story in an email sent to me by my parents the other day. I thought it was wonderful and had a great message so I wanted to share it with you.
Reading this, it reminded me a lot of the movie The Notebook. I cry every time I watch that movie. The devotion of the husband in that movie is remarkable.
I really love the idea about happiness presented here. We are a society that likes to collect stuff. Cars, homes, clothes, fancy things. They say you can't buy happiness and I think that is so true. You can have more toys than you could ever play with, but it will not make you happy. Happiness comes from within you. It is a decision you make. You can choose to be happy with whatever you have or whatever your circumstances are. The world and the people in this world can't make you unhappy. Only you can make you unhappy.
If you find that you are a person who is unhappy more than you are happy, you need to take a look inside yourself and ask yourself why you are unhappy. What is the real cause of your happiness? What do you need to change in your attitude so that you can make yourself happy?
Remember, to be happy, you don't have to have the best of everything, you just have to make the best of whatever you have. In my life, there have been times that I have been very poor and times where it seemed like I had plenty of money. Looking back, some of my happiest times where when I did not have hardly any money.
The other thing that really struck me is the level of love that this old man had for his wife. He could have easily deserted her in that nursing home and she would have never known the difference. He would have known though and that is the difference.
In our society today, so many people are so quick to get divorced. It is right around 50% of all marriages in the US that end in divorce. This is a staggering statistic. What is the problem?
I believe the main problem is a lack of true love. Too many people look for what they can get out of a relationship. Does this person make me happy? What can this person do for me? If we don't feel we are getting the level of satisfaction from the marriage, our tendency is to get divorced and move on to the next person. This never works though because the next person will have their own set of faults that is most-likely different from the person you just left.
Take a person who has been married and divorced 4 times. What is the common denominator? It is that person. They have to look inside themselves and see what the real problem is. I bet the farm that the problem is a lack of true love.
So what is true love? Let's go to the Bible a second and find out.
13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13
How many times we have been to a wedding and heard this verse said, but have we really listened to what it is saying? It describes what a true love looks like. So many young people nod their heads on their wedding day to this verse, but never really take it to heart.
When we look at true love we have to move past the physical portion. We have to move past the romantic portion. These are both important parts of relationships, but they are not what is the most important. What is the most important is the true acceptance of that person. That means that you will love that person for who they are not for what you want them to be. You understand that they are human and will screw up. They will make you mad more than you want to realize. You choose to forgive them. You choose to love them despite this. You do things for that person, not for what you will get in return, but just to do it expecting nothing in return.
This is the kind of love that Jesus shows towards each one of us. If we can model our marriages, our relationships after this type of love, then we will be right on track. It won't matter if the person you love finds themselves in a situation where they do not remember who you are. You love them anyway because a true love goes far beyond that.
I hope you enjoy this touching story!
The Rain
It was a busy morning, about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80's arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb.
He said he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am. I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be over an hour before someone would to able to see him. I saw him looking at his watch and decided, since I was not busy with another patient, I would evaluate his wound. On exam, it was well healed, so I talked to one of the doctors, got the needed supplies to remove his sutures and redress his wound.
While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor's appointment this morning, as he was in such a hurry.
The gentleman told me no, that he needed to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his wife. I inquired as to her health. He told me that she had been there for a while and that she was a victim of Alzheimer's Disease.
As we talked, I asked if she would be upset if he was a bit late. He
replied that she no longer knew who he was, that she had not
recognized him in five years now. I was surprised, and asked him,
'And you still go every morning, even though she doesn't know who you are?' He smiled as he patted my hand and said, 'She doesn't know me, but I still know who she is.'
I had to hold back tears as he left, I had goose bumps on my arm, and thought, 'That is the kind of love I want in my life.'
True love is neither physical, nor romantic.
True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be, and will not be.
The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
they just make the best of everything they have.


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Disclaimer: book was given to me free of charge by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Synopsis (from amazon)
The year is 1859. Edward Scales is a businessman, a butterfly collector, a respectable man. He is the man Gwen Carrick fell in love with.
Gwen Carrick first meets Edward Scales on a windswept beach in Cornwall. The spark is instant and the couple begin to forge a future together. Seven years on, Gwen's world has fallen apart and she finds herself in the docks at the Old Bailey, charged with Edward's murder.
Could Gwen Carrick really murder the man she loved? From country house drawing rooms to the rainforests of Brazil, The Specimen explores the price one independent young woman might pay for wanting an unorthodox life.
Set in a Victorian world battling between the forces of spiritualism and Darwinism, polite society and the call of clandestine love, Gwen and Edward's tale is a gripping melodrama, a romance and a murder mystery that will compel readers to its final thrilling page.
I cannot remember the last time it took me this long to get through a book. It's taken me a while to write this review too, mainly because my overriding reaction was 'YAY I managed to finish!'
I had fairly good hopes for The Specimen, a bit of a mystery, a bit sciencey, a bit romantic, maybe a little feminist. Sadly I was disappointed. It did have all the elements I expected but not to a satisfying level. To try and order my thoughts I'm going to go through each expectation at a time then add anything I haven't covered.
Mystery, well, I never really wondered who killed Edward. It was basically old from the beginning as if Gwen was guilty. I wondered why she might have done it, and I think I eventually got an answer, which was, to be honest a bit of a cop out of an answer considering other things which had gone on and could have been built to a motive. I had expected Gwen to be married to Edward at the time as well which took away a large chunk of the drama for me.
The science was probably the best in terms of detail, but it was also the bit I was anticipating the least. I thought the Darwinism issue would be interesting to read about, but there was less of a debate as a general feeling that everyone wanted to prove Darwin right, and even that was brief. I dud however like how involved Gwen was in her biologist role and how interested she was in the creatures.
At first there was a fair bit of romance in the way Edward and Gwen interacted but this seemed to very suddenly just disappear for no reason, and I was waiting for a moment that showed they loved one another. There was a sort of intensity to the times when the 'love' was there which made me unsure of how genuine it really was, and how but Gwen and Edward really knew each other.
Actually the only thing I really did like was that Gwen was quite a feminist. She wasn't to be able to explore the world in the same way that a male scientist would, and she- most of the time- expected to be listened to the same as a man would be. I respected her for that although I didn't exactly like her the whole time. She was certainly an improvement over Edward, even before they went away I started to loose any reasoning as why she liked him, and it just got worse.
There was a certain element to the book which was hard to follow. The time kept switching and I was often confused as to how the events fitted together. Plus there were a few sections which didn't seem to fit in with everything at all.
Buy it:
Hardback (£8.96)
Kindle (£7.12)
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Our barbers are what makes us so unique. We thought it's time to introduce our amazing team of experts so we've asked them a few questions, starting this week with Livia:
Hello, I`m Livia, you can find me in the Holborn branch of the Legends. I`ve been doing this job almost 10 years.
Why did you decide to be a barber?
I decided to be a barber, because I'm a creative soul. Always played with family member's hair since forever (feel sorry now for all the pain caused) and after high school I decided to try this profession and I fell in love straight away.
What do you like the most about the job?
I really enjoy creating what is in people minds and trying to advice customers with new styles or tips.
And the least?
The only thing I don't like that even if I'm outside the shop is that I still look at people's hair, sometime I could look like a stalker but unfortunately I CAN`T CONTROL IT! It's like a disease.
Who would be your dream client?
My dream customer, even if it's not possible anymore, would be Clarke Gable, so elegant and I love his style. Talking about alive people...Russell Crowe is you are reading this, I would be very happy to cut your hair and trim your beard.
If you were not a barber, what would you be?
If I were not a barber I probably would be an interior designer or something, or a painter, It's my passion.
What song inspires you when styling?
About the music that inspires me, I can`t pick one song...just need to be happy, with rhythm.


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Robot for Christmas is the new Comping Harry song. Composed, Performed, Arranged and Produced by Rob Gubbels a.k.a. Comping Harry using only a Windows computer, Cubase 10 and all kinds of VST instruments and fx. Only the vocals had to be sung live into the mic…the rest is more computer work than being an exceptional performer. I can hardly play the keys, I cannot sing very well…I endure until it's done !
What's new?
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https://songwhip.com/song/comping-harry/robot-for-christmas Songwhip is a quick link to several stores and players… I want to move on to the next song…so I want to finish the promotional work on YouTube and my Homepage…If you like the song, please support Comping Harry and BUY the song via e-Stores (iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, Amazon etc…) or DONATE.


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Drink Me.
The daily demands and tides sometimes make me forget that there is a vast, unexplored territory inside our collective hearts and imaginations, and people are posting these every day: little jewels hung on the web for us to find.
Drink Me.
The daily demands and tides sometimes make me forget that there is a vast, unexplored territory inside our collective hearts and imaginations, and people are posting these every day: little jewels hung on the web for us to find.
Instant City 7
Editor: Gravity Goldberg
(107 pages/Instant City, San Francisco)
Founded by Gravity Goldberg and Eric Zassenhaus in 2004, Instant City is a biannual journal that publishes fiction, non-fiction and art about San Francisco. Instant City 7, published in spring 2010, is a departure from the journal's usual theme-based collections. For this one, the editors decided to let those mysterious muses that whisper into pens and keyboarding fingers dictate the theme. What were those muses whispering about? Naughty, cheap, objectionable, crass, misguided, desperate, hilarious, absurd, delinquent, questionable, base, wicked and in short, completely riveting bad behavior.
For those readers who live or have lived in San Francisco, there is something unspeakably satisfying about knowing the places where these stories take place. If you thought you were the only person who recognized the 38 Geary bus as a confrontation magnet—you're wrong. Or maybe your experience picks up where someone else's leaves off, as in Lincoln Mitchell's story "Waiting for the 43," where the narrator imagines the bus disappearing to exotic places named Prague and Geneva, after it leaves the Haight. Even if you have lived in San Francisco for many years, (or are one of its seven natives) you will never know the city the same way another person knows it. The idea that your stomping grounds also belong intimately and emotionally to someone else is an uncanny sensation, akin to fitting together the pieces of a metaphysical jigsaw puzzle, or maybe just to shopping at Out of the Closet. And for those who don't live in San Francisco, the place names and specifics won't matter, but the parallel experiences will. Stories, particularly those about people doing what they are not supposed to do, are as universally compelling as playing ding-dong ditch or making prank calls.
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of Instant City 7 is the nature of the bad behavior people are writing about. It's strange to see, quite clearly, the imprint of economic fallout and its accompanying stifling of a sense of well-being almost unilaterally across these stories: a former convict working as a drug counselor is now being blackmailed for an amount of money he can only obtain illegally; the forced happiness of dirt-streaked, stumbling and sloppy recreational drug-taking; trying (and failing) to be slutty on craigslist; the ugly truth of waking up in a post web-designer, post job, job market.
San Francisco's misbehavior of 2010 is not the glamorous, rock n' roll to-hell-with-it bohemianism of the 60's and 70's, nor the cocaine and cash driven Top-Gun mentality of the 80's, and definitely not a 90's parachute-panted, can't-touch-this, SUV-infested, bling-driven impropriety . We're even past the air-brushed and trout-pouted shenanigans of the early 2000's. San Francisco of the moment seems to be a little dazed, a little tentative: less into escapism and more about survival, which makes sense when Burning Man has become a tourist attraction, or when a life and death near miss might be as simple as accidentally stumbling into a drug deal, or when a sack with a live duck in it seemed like a bright idea until the reality of the knife enters the equation. It seems from these stories, that San Franciscans are feeling an undercurrent of solemnity and exhaustion, like people posting wanted posters on telephone poles that say, REWARD: LOST FUN. Last seen so long ago we're not sure of what it looked like.
Still, even with the more shell-shocked nature of these stories of folly, this is still San Francisco: the Barbary Coast, Baghdad by the Bay, the City that Knows How. It's the place where the best role-model you ever had could best be described as "Rosie Greer meets RuPaul," and where "the sidewalks sometimes sparkle."
Want another take on Instant City 7? SF Literary Culture Examiner Evan Karp's got VIDEO.
Contributors: Robert Arnold, David Becker, August Bleed, Charlie Callahan, Scott Carroll, MK Chavez, Joshua Citrak, Sherilyn Connelly, Amanda Davidson, Sonya Derman, Dylan Dockstader, Andrew O. Dugas, Cathy Fairbanks, Kimia Ferdowski, Rona Fernandez, Casey FizSimons, Philip Franklin, Cody Frost, David Fullarton, Charles Gatewood, Peter Hermann, Beau Knight, Kyle Knobel, R.J. Martin, Rob McLaughlin, Christopher McLean, Cynthia Mitchell, Lincoln Mitchell, Alex Nowik, David Plumb, Aaron Rodriguez, Mary Taugher, Kevin Thomson, Stephanie Vernier, Atom Wong and Chris West.
from unincorporated territory [saina]
by Craig Santos Perez (133 pages/ Ominidawn Press, 2010)
Anchored in the wrenching history of the native Chamorro people, [saina] is a book about the plastic, ever-shifting nature of recorded history and identity. Perez composes this story by incorporating what has previously been unincorporated: the amalgamated, bypassed, excluded, adapted, redacted voices that make up the personal and political memory of the island of Guam.
Saina is the word in Chamorro for parents, elders, spirits, ancestors, and [saina] the book, begins as a divided, fragmented text built out of four languages (English, Spanish, Japanese and Chamorro)which quote the voices of family members, military decrees, tourist brochures, records of official transfer, creation stories, government exercises of eminent domain, and reports on the contemporary physical and emotional state of the Chamorro people and their lands. Perez takes these seemingly disconnected, disembodied voices and gives them a conjoined body, a paper skin they must inhabit together:
"territory ceded to united states in accordance with treaty of
peace between the united states and spain signed paris 12/10/1898
proclaimed 4/11/1899 known as island of guam in marianas
islands shall continue to be known as guam
during typhoon season she would tell us the story of i guihan dangkolo:
in days of
our before time
in days when chaifi…
virgin mary
not yet come…
"i don't remember who told me that story ilek-ña
maybe my mom your great grandma
"so many typhoons
pakyo pakyo pakyo every year she sighs
'guam is hereby declared to be an unin corp orated territory of the united states'
from typhon 'whirlwind' 'father of the winds'
from tufan 'big cyclonic storm'"
Perez has a power of vision in this book that is breathtaking to experience. If a native culture has been unincorporated, if Catholicism has grafted itself into its creation histories, if various powers have made of it alternately a disputed occupied territory, a military base, a fetish tourism destination, and most of its native population was forced to leave long ago, if all that is left are pieces of pieces– what can hold together what has no corpus, no body?
where no last detail
is legible–
with so many
customs to recover
the whole house
assumes a posture
of prayer until
becomes what holds it"
An answer takes place within the poetry itself: the breath, the rhythms shift, and a kind of transubstantiation occurs. The voices on the page are no longer colliding, running in parallel streams, speaking over one another, but form a continuous, inhabited, resonant energy, a song-like beam that illuminates the power of story as a regenerative power:
"…somewhere beginnings persist that were never simply given never simply taken
maybe this is more than lost cargo maybe this
is only where light comes to breathe from afar no exact location
disclosed because no breath ends
is it true that you can live with thirst
and still die from drowing only to have words
become as material as our needs
i want to ask you it it still possible to hear our paper skin opening [we]
carry our stories overseas to the place called 'voice'
and call
to know our allowance of water"
It is impossible to read [saina] and not feel moved by Perez's capacity to take pain and truths that should be embittering, even crippling, and fashion light out of them. As Perez puts it, "we belong to more than a map of remote scars."
The Takeaway Bin
by Toni Mirosevich
(55 pages/Spuyten Duyvil/ New York City 2010)
Any archaeologist will tell you that you learn the most about a culture by what it throws away. In her new book of poetry, The Takeaway Bin, Toni Mirosevich takes the odds and ends of our post-analog language and sends them through a mystical generator inspired by Oblique Strategies, a dilemma-based game invented by Peter Schmidt and Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (aka Brian Eno, godfather of ambient music.)
Writerly gamesmanship, in the hands of a lesser poet, might alienate the reader- offering a wink and an ironic jab to the hopes with which many readers approach poetry: to be compelled, surprised, expanded in some way. But Mirosevich is more than worthy of the task: handed a dilemma, she neither plunges her head into the sand, offering up easy but empty salvos, nor takes the academic chicken-exit, barricading herself behind impenetrable and inaccessible word-play. What Mirosevich does is demonstrate that there is a sweet spot in poetry where wit, defiance, warmth and irreverence embrace:
"No one told the bird dogs. Their eagle eyes spot the morning dove and they start up. The neighbor yells "noise pollution!"and before you can say Jiminy Cricket someone else joins to pollute the argument. "You're polluted," she said to her hubby when he returned from the bar with six pints in him. She'd been fuming in silence on the couch, waiting for the big shebang which never came. The neighbor calls for her orange tabby, Fluffy, Fluffy,and when that doesn't work, screams Fluffy, you prick! and the holy night is broken."
But Mirosevich isn't just playing just for play's sake: beneath the wit, beneath the snappy turns of sentence, arch reversals, and tumbling teases, the rumble of deeper workings can be felt. The Takeaway Bin arises out of an ultramodern language aftermath: the fragments and shards of language we are currently left with in an age of verbal foreshortening, where Photoshop has imploded the failsafe idea that "seeing is believing," and Wikipedia has shifted the idea of fact into the realm of a constantly updating consortium. This melee of reference points is the Takeaway Bin's fuel, and the profound plasticity of modern reality is the engine Mirosevich harnesses:
"Even though it would be nice… to go buck naked into the world… there are veils and shadows and shadow puppets in the firelight glow, someone's hands all over the strings, ghosts who manipulate… the past is clearly no longer of use… yet what is no longer serviceable clearly persists, like a cough, or a mangle."
Mirosevich has a bat-girl-worthy toolbelt, hung with sing-song sayings, back-woods phraseology, drunk-uncle slurrings, pop-lyric retorts, nautical arabesques, down-home cliches and uber-intellectual tongue-twisters: each of which she snaps, skins, and tosses into Eno & Schmidt's machine, which is really a helmet the poet dons in order to unthink the norm.
"…somehow a slight infraction became an infarction, we turned one cheek, then the other, and soon we were spinning, face forward, then butt ugly. It's a vertiginous life,said the prophet, a guy who'd lost his footing more than once. Before we could stand upright someone stepped on our knuckles, shove came to shove, and we went ape over the debate, creationism versus crustaceanism. You say you want an evolution, well, we all want to change the world. "He was a cretin," Eve, said, after her first date with destiny, "a fumbler, a stumble bum."
What comes out is heartfelt nose-thumbing. Flippant and sincere, showboating and shadowboxing, sincerity and shrugs: Mirosevich is sifting through the rubble and word-noise of language and cultural legacy and coming back with a hollaback that though all thought seem pre-thunk, though all feelings used, all insights, conclusions and hopes at times seemingly mass-produced, all words only rearrangements of the same few letters, and therefore all meaning seemingly mere rearrangements of the same few words– the key is in remembering who is steering this juggernaut:
"Question what is handed down, deconstruct, then sand it down… Toss aside the roof, the joists, the rafters… Sweep the darkened closet clean: of moon boots, bow ties, leisure wear… all garb in which you cannot move."
At the heart of The Takeaway Bin is a twinned idea: that reclamation and invention are not opposites, but parts of the same process, that all that distinguishes junk from jewels is the process of seeing anew.
The Broadsider: an annual magazine of rescued poems, edited by Paul Fericano
In 1980, eight years before the beloved, and now defunct-in-print Onion, was founded, Paul Fericano and Elio Ligi co-created Yossarian Universal News Service, a parody news site devoted to mussing Ronald Reagan's carefully coifed politics, perpetrating literary hoaxes Charles Bukowski himself described as "ass boggling," and refusing to recognize the emperor's new clothes.
As if running end-patterns around political galumphers, windbags and wormtongues were not enough, Fericano also brought down Barabarella's ire by writing a satiric poem that touched a nerve in the California senate during the comparatively literate, pre-governator years. Fericano even took on the literati themselves, or those who purport to judge them, by inventing his own poetry prize, The Howitzer. In a twist of fate only Vonnegut himself could have penned, this award is currently listed among Fericano's credits on the Poets & Writers website, the very venue he dreamed up the fake prize to hornswoggle.
In addition to Fericano's tricksterish bent toward lampoon, he is also a poet with a deep appreciation for the work of other poets. Every year, hundreds of books, anthologies, journals, zines and blogs publish remarkable poetry that, because of the small marketing budgets of micropresses or narrow circulation, reach only a limited audience. Unwilling to see notable poems disappear so quickly from view, Fericano edits and publishes The Broadsider, an annual, limited collection of author-signed broadsides.
Volumes 1 and 2 of The Broadsider include some well-established names– Diane di Prima, Ted Kooser, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Wanda Coleman– along with emerging poets like Sara Larsen, Debbie Yee, Tom Stolmar, Angelica Jochim and leah angstman. Thematically, the work selected favors the meditative and pastoral. The following lines are representative:
"the sky's summer lustre"
"the night wind hard in the open doorway of a boxcar"
"the orange half-light that comes between the evening and the day"
"that blue of certain hydrangeas"
"young men with light in their faces"
Though there are slightly toothier moments:
"Crone broth, swam broth, whatever doesn't kill you"
"a sawed-off sinatra is a dangerous weapon at close range"
"you move the joystick in the direction of the spin"
"holy enor saxophone filling empty beercans with voodoo"
"crisp starches sagebrush narcs crawling campuses"
the poetry of melody forms the bulk of the collection, with few edgier or riskier offerings to pose a counter-note. Traditional free verse is also the rule in the 2009 and 2010 issues: maybe the 2011 volume will branch out to the thriving community of poets out there working in other modes.
The Broadsider is a unique offering: it rescues, distills, and redistributes. It is also a deeply personal gesture from both the editors and the poets involved. Unlike a mass-produced anthology (or the mass-produced thoughts Fericano elsewhere satirizes), it is an intimate, interactive collection created specifically for the pleasure of the reader.
2009: The Broadsider, Volume 1, Series 1-30.
by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Polaroids by Tim Rutili
(103 pages/Sidebrow Books, San Francisco 2010)
If you have ever listened late at night to the sound of a river murmuring over rocks, or been somewhere very remote and heard wind moving through pines, you know the uncanny feeling that you are hearing a language that remains just at the periphery of sense. If that restless murmuring were translated into words and images, it would be Selenography, a new book by Joshua Marie Wilkinson, with Polaroids by Tim Rutili.
Selenography has a tidal energy comparable to those natural forces that only exist when in a state of motion: river, wind, coriolis. Ideas bloom out of spare lines that somehow contain more reverberations of meaning than seem possible in so few words. In a sense, these poems contain embedded information in the same way haiku do, except that Wilkinson's poems don't hold still with that self-contained, restrained delicacy, but detonate on the page:
"a curse has
all the ingredients
to be legendary if its
children make
on their forearms for drawings
of what the curse
itself might do
nobody visits the sewn-up hole
in the ceiling with flashlights"
Tim Rutili, a musician and filmmaker, creates an almost backroads-film-noir harmonic with thumb-printed, fuzzed-out, Polaroid images that hone-in on emotion via their fugue-like haze. Unlike pictures we usually take– to document places or events in a way that is instantly recognizable to others– Rutili's photos capture the fragments of consciousness that actually make up real experience: red party balloons in someone's shabby living room, rearing white, plastic horses at what appears to be a truck stop, a dog behind a chain link fence in front of an abandoned church. Rutili is documenting mood, indicating the commonality of spontaneous glimpses of meaning, of how objects and places seem inhabited by a mystical quality that comes and goes at will:
"there is no love without
strangers in the street
with their murmuring
like wires
a knock at the
a chalk line to cross says the boy
with the trapdoor in his eye"
Together, Wilkinson's verse and Rutili's images offer a kind of portal into a landscape most of us only experience in dreams, where language is effortlessly made of light and dirt and focus and movement and feeling, and the only limits are how deep you are willing to go.
It's difficult for me to over-emphasize the profound effect of this scene on how I experience the world, and any creative work I have ever done or ever will do.


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Dog Photography – I know, it's not something we do or specialise in!
I know, it's a funny title… but these little ladies were just delightful, so full of character and so loving! We just grabbed an opportunity after a commercial photoshoot training session when a black backdrop was in place. These little ones were photographed with just one light (it's actually all we had with us) and the results speak for themselves.
It's a fabulous business, photography, you get to meet some of the nicest folk… their owners are pretty special peeps too!
I guess I should be more google aware, hence creating these little bits of info… but when you go looking for us, try searching for Cardiff Wedding Photographer please 🙂


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Fashion Technology
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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
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How do design ideas become fashion products on the market? How can fashion be more sustainable? If you're interested in these questions then this could be the course for you.
This degree will allow you to develop an understanding of how to create the best product, from the cotton fields to the shop floor, and how to consider and overcome the many sustainability challenges.
You'll gain a working knowledge of design materials, fabrics and dyes, including how and when to use them. You'll also develop the ability to assess manufacturing processes and begin to plan supply chains.
You'll learn about key issues in the design industry including sustainability and consumerism and will also gain an understanding of the history of design from the industrial revolution to the present day.
This course has been developed in consultation with business professionals within the fashion industry to ensure that you gain the knowledge and skills necessary for a successful career in this exciting role at the heart of the fashion industry. You'll gain key career skills in product development, sustainability and market analysis as well as transferable skills such as research, problem-solving and report presentation skills.
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Want to work in a growing, creative sector where we are a world leader? Welcome to design! The UK has a proud reputation as a centre of design excellence, and last year just over 14,000 design degrees were awarded. At the moment, the jobs market looks a little better for fashion and textile designers, and not as good for multimedia or interactive designers — but that may change by the time you graduate. In general, design graduates are more likely than most to start their career in London, although that also varies by subject — last year fashion designers often found jobs in the North West, graphic designers in the South West, illustrators in the South West, East Anglia and Midlands, textile designers in the Midlands and the North West, and visual designers in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Midlands. Design is also a good degree for people who want to work for a small business - more than half of graduates start at a small employer.
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Going "channel-less"
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Creating differentiation in the insurance market through digital transformation and seamless customer engagement
Customer retention continues to be a challenge for insurers in an increasingly competitive and price-driven marketplace. Many are looking to digitally transform in order to improve the policyholder experience and regain their service-driven points of differentiation.
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Handcrafted in NYC, our 'Grand Bouquet' twelve-arm chandelier is a stunning statement piece with design elements of both Italian or French modernism and Hollywood Glam. This is a larger, more opulence version of our wildly popular 'Bouquet' Chandelier. Chandelier as pictured is crafted of lacquered natural brass. Total height with drop as pictured is 48". Body of chandelier (from upper finials to bottom of cones) as shown is 32" tall with a 36" diameter.
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Because the bumper sticker was not enough.
From BoPMonkey in the Tip Line:
Snapped this pic the other day.
Because the bumper sticker was not enough.
From BoPMonkey in the Tip Line:
Snapped this pic the other day.
Thanks for that. I would have had to wait to get a photo of the driver of this vehicle. Any speculation on gender/age/ideology? (scratch the last one, I think it's pretty evident:)
Around here people who drive little Volvos are usually people who want a four-wheel-drive vehicle without being able to afford a big black Yukon Denali XL, but they think they're too cool to own a minivan.
Oh come on! That's just a New Trier Township parent so proud of their child's accomplishments with the University of Chicago Everyday Math program they converted the math problem into a license plate slogan because it took 47 weeks to draw sticks and boxes in a grid expressing 315 x 91920 = 28954800.
I'm surprised there's not an Evanston parking sticker or a Jan Schakowsky sticker as well….
Volvo. That in itself said the say.
BTW, professor, it seems your RSS feed has been broken for over 24 hours. You might want to have your man take a look into it.
BoP – Hey! That's my Volvo! It's what I drive through the South and West sides with my pet unicorn as he farts Skittles and as I sprinkle fairy dust around while telling all the criminal gangbangers to not kill one another, but to CO X IST.
Illustrating Chicago's Murders, Homicides, Violence and Idiocy at heyjackass.com
Doesn't that car belong to the Pope Emeritus?
CO – Commanding Officer
X – the cross, or short for Christianity
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If you're active on social media, you know that not a day goes by without someone posting an article or news story which sparks sometimes heated disagreement and discussion over one of the many issues related to life and sexuality. Discussions center on topics like abortion, euthanasia, gender, and marriage. The reality is that even in the church disagreements and divides are on the rise. How can we build a strong biblical foundation that serves us well as we seek to respond according to a Christian world and life view? Do world views even matter? And what's at stake in these conversations with our kids? We'll be looking to find answers to the hard questions about life and sexuality as we chat with Nancy Pearcey, author of the book *Love Thy Body*, on this episode of *Youth Culture Matters*.
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Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast:
Jason Mangrum
CPYU Reading Group on Facebook
Nancy Pearcey – bio
Houston Baptist University
The Pearcey Report
National Study of Youth and Religion
Bioethicist argues children's 'right' to change sex trumps right of parents who object
Canadian Supreme Court Rules 14-Year-Old Can Have Hormone Injections without Parental Permission
Transgender Children and the Right to Transition: Medical Ethics When Parents Mean Well but Cause Harm
Paula Johnson Ted Talk: His and hers … health care
So what if abortion ends life?
It's not conversion therapy to learn to love your body: A teen desister tells her story
Tales From the Millennials' Sexual Revolution
Books mentioned or helpful to the conversation:
Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality by Nancy Pearcey
Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity by Nancy Pearcey
Saving Leonardo: A Call To Resist The Secular Assault On Mind, Morals, & Meaning by Nancy Pearcey
The Benedict Option: A Strategy For Christians In A Post-Christian Nation by Rod Dreher
The God Who Is There: The Book That Makes Sense Out of Your World by Francis Schaeffer
Escape from Reason by Francis Schaeffer
The Mark of the Christian by Francis Schaeffer
Questions, comments, feedback, suggestions for future episodes? E-mail us!