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Crowborough is a lovely town in the county of East Sussex – only seven miles from Royal Tunbridge Wells. Modern day Crowborough had its origins in the 19th century with the first railway station in action in 1868. This supported local commerce and the sale of Crowborough products further afield. The town also became known for the healthy outdoors and it was called 'Scotland in Sussex' with the heady combination of woodlands and hills. This rural charm is hinted at in the names of streets in the town such as Barnfield, Aviemore Road, Forest Rise, Crowborough Hill, Fielden Lane, Rannoch Road, Hurtis Hill, Fermor Road, Marden's Lane, Walshes Road, Smugglers Lane, St John's Road, Treblers Road, Millbrook Road, Palesgate Lane, Montargis Way, Clackbarns Lane and Rochester Way. Crowborough is a thriving town with a great relaxation feel, enjoyed by both residents and visitors alike.
Crowborough has had its fair share of famous residents, both past and present. They've come from a wide spectrum of science, arts and technology, as well as sportsand culture. Perhaps one of the most famous is the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He lived for more than 20 years at Windlesham Manor, following a relocation from Surrey. The town honours his memory with a statue at Crowborough Cross. Another equally famous resident is the actor David Jason, of TV's Delboy and Inspector Frost fame, as well as astronaut Piers Sellers, actor Dirk Bogarde, actress Cate Blanchett, Tom 'Dr Who' Baker, singer Keyy Katona, England rugby union player. Dylan Hartley, and actor Ross Kemp. Other respected residents include Sir E. E. Evans-Pritchard, social anthrpologist, naturalist Richard Jefferies, and pioneering engineer Isaac Roberts.
Residents in Crowborough take part in regular community events. Bonfire night on November 5 is particularly popular. About 5,000 folk come together on Goldsmith Recreation Ground to enjoy the spectacle. Carnival Night in September is also popular. It involves a torchlit procession with a carnival princess and a fete on the main green. Crowborough Bonfire and Carnival Society is responsible for both town events, which is supported by other bonfire societies in Sussex. Both Christmss and summer fairs also prove popular. Farmers markets take place each month with a continental market in June.
Competent Person Registration Scheme - HETAS
The installation, replacement or any alteration to the position of a solid fuel combustion appliance (wood burning stove) is subject by law to building regulations. Competent person schemes were introduced by the Government in 2002 to allow individuals to self-certify that their work complies with these regulations; as an efficient alternative to notifying the local authority or using an approved inspector. I am part of such a scheme - see below - which gives customers reassurance that my work is legally compliant.
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text: the big easy by Krystal Bick December 2, 2016 If you've been following along for the past few months, you've been seeing a lot of my OtterBox cases, especially while I'm traveling. (You can see my first two installments here and here.) And this time around, we're keeping the bus moving, all the way down to the Big Easy: New Orleans. Admittedly, I've never been to New Orleans or Louisiana for that matter, which just about blew my mind and everyone else's mind I met while I was hopping around town. It's been a longtime dream of mine to finally check this little spot in the south off my list and one thing is for certain: I'm already itching to go back! Between the jazz and the architecture, the po' boys and the purple drinks, this New York City gal has already been busy planning a return trip for this April (hopefully for Jazz Fest itself!). Oh, I might have also been practicing my souther drawl a la Scarlett O'Hara, but I digress. Luckily, for my first time in town, I had two of the best tour guides around, Andi of Oui We and my girl, Christine, of My Style Pill (who's basically an honorary New Orleanian because she's visited so many times). We were all invited to town as part of W Hotels' What She Said speaker series, participating in a panel discussion with a few other female entrepreneurs. It was such a delight getting to connect with so many like-minded ladies to talk about what inspires us, how we stay motivated, how we can lift each other up to help change our respective industries for the better. I won't lie — it's easy to feel discouraged at times in this industry (and a lot of other industries), but I definitely left our panel feeling rejuvenated and inspired. As for the rest of our trip, I must say, the tourism board for New Orleans spoiled us rotten. We indulged in more than our fair share of DELICIOUS meals, hopped around different neighborhoods for walking tours, listened to live jazz and scared ourselves silly looking up different ghost stories originating from New Orleans. I've included an itinerary recap below, including all restaurants, bars and sightseeing stops we made time for, in case you're planning your very own trip to Nola soon. And if you happen to be an architecture nerd like me, I cannot recommend simply walking everywhere if you can, especially in the French Quarter. I generally do this whenever I visit somewhere new — I'll usually reserve my last morning in town to wake up super early, grab my DSLR and phone to snap the early morning light around town. I managed to snag the new iPhone 7 before heading out of town so, naturally, I was excited to try out the new camera and my new floral OtterBox case to boot! And while we're on the topic, it goes without saying, but I really rely on my iPhone while I'm traveling and a lot of you guys have asked what apps I rely on while I'm out of town, which to be honest, there's an embarrassing amount. I've included my go-tos in my guide below, so be sure to keep reading! WHERE TO EAT/DRINK: (Because, let's face it, you can eat REALLY WELL in Nola) Cavan: This was likely one of my favorite meals of the trip. Cavan serves up very traditional southern American comfort food. Think hush puppies. Grits. And the most delicious gumbo I've ever had. But the cherry on top? It's nestled right next to the Garden District (where you'll see some incredible homes!) in a gorgeous two-story Victorian home. The decor is true to the New Orleanian flare: eclectic and classically vintage (all the chairs in the restaurant are tufted dusty pink velvet), plus, as we found out after leaving that night, it's apparently haunted! Peche: Having just been award not one, but two James Beard Foundation Awards for Best New Restaurant and Best Chef, Andi was most excited to share Peche with us. And the seafood certainly didn't disappoint. I highly recommend the fried bread with sea salt, the smoked tuna dip, the smothered catfish and don't forget a side of the fried brussels sprouts! Parkway Tavern: Two words. Poor Boys. Or one word, depending if you spell it po'boy. 🙂 Andi and Christine raved about the fried shrimp po'boy, so I went with that. Couple with a local brew (I snagged an Andigator), it was the perfect southern lunch! Cafe du Monde: We swung by here for our obligatory beignet breakfast. Is there anything better than a beignet breakfast? I think not, and Cafe du Monde's lovely outdoor patio seating made for just the warm November morning brunch spot we were looking for. Also highly recommend getting a cup of coffee, but make sure to ask for the chicory kind! SoBou: Located in the W Hotel in the French Quarter, SoBou (which stands for south of Bourbon) made for a no-brainer first dinner spot choice and I love how it set the tone for the rest of our meals down south. Their menu is the perfect blend of modern meets traditional southern style cooking, and we spent a long time picking out multiple plates that we all wanted to split. Don't miss the Cochon de Lait Cuban sandwich (to die for!) and the Chef's Gumbo (they serve it over mashed potatoes, which I'm tempted to make myself this weekend!). St. Roch Market: We stopped by here after our walking tour of the Treme district and for those of you from the Bay Area, it reminded me a lot of San Francisco's Ferry Building. A high-ceiling, open air market with lots of little artisan vendor booths and a common seating area in the middle. We split a few things here, namely gumbo (surprise, surprise!), rice and beans (so simple, yet so delicious!) and some shrimp and grits (YUM!). Man, just writing this section out has made me SO HUNGRY. Lafitte's: So, understandably, no visit to New Orleans would be complete without two things. An obligatory stop off at Bourbon Street (which we did briefly just to experience it) and having an infamous Voodoo Daiquiri, or as the locals call, a "Purple Drink." Side note: If you want to sound like you know what you're doing, ask for a "Purple" when ordering. The bartender will appreciate it. Each night before heading out, we stopped off at Lafitte's for our round of purples, which we promptly took in to-go cups out to the street (I don't think I'll ever quite get used to their open container policy strolling around town with a drink in hand, but it sure was fun!). If you're in town, I absolutely loved Lafitte's. Set up in what used to be an old blacksmith's shop, it's one of the oldest, continuously running bars in America (meaning at no point as it ever shut down, apparently even during Hurricane Katrina). There's no electric lighting in the place either, which means lots of candlelight and if you head there in the evening, there's a woman who comes EVERY night to play the piano and take song requests. WHAT TO DO: Walking tours: You all know me. I love to walk everywhere in a new place, if I can. And New Orleans just happens to be the perfect walking town, especially in November. The weather was just right, a tad unseasonably warm according to locals, but we were content in summer dresses during the day and light jackets at night. We chocked up two walking tours while in town, but I think I definitely would love to do more the next time I return. It's a great way to learn the history of certain buildings and gives a great excuse to peer into little alleyways that pop up along the way. Plus, each tour guide gives their own unique local perspective on a neighborhood, which I always find so fun. We went through the Treme District, America's oldest African American neighborhood as well as the birthplace of jazz, and later we went through the Garden District, a well-preserved neighborhood full of antebellum mansions where plenty of celebrities live (like Sandra Bullock and Eli and Peyton Manning) as well as famous writers of years past (Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams). Ghost tours: I've mentioned this before here on the blog, but I love a good ghost story. I mentioned it recently on my trip down to Charleston and unsurprisingly, New Orleans has a lot of that same history, that lends itself well to ghosts and the supernatural. We didn't actually have time to sneak in a true ghost tour, but if you walk around town enough and have a local with you, it's fascinating to just Google the history and folklore behind certain buildings as you pass them. The one that sent chills down my spine though? Hands down that would have to be the LaLaurie Mansion in the French Quarter. In the early 1800s, Delphine LaLaurie, a notable New Orleanian socialite became infamous as it was found out by the local townspeople she had been brutally torturing, maiming and killing her slaves, all locked and chained away in the slaves' quarters. Once the authorities found out what she had done, she was chased out of town and likely fled back to Paris. One recounting in particular details a young slave girl (likely 12) who jumped out of the third story window to her death to flee punishment from Madame LaLaurie. Since then, the window pane has been replaced time and time again, only for it to shatter unexpectedly each time. The window is now cemented over, which you can see from the street when passing it (I've included a photo here, look for the dark grey building) and all other tenants since then have moved out almost over night after only a short time staying in the building. The last tenant? Nicolas Cage himself, who, like others before him, moved out almost immediately after moving in, citing strange disturbances that his family couldn't explain. For all my American Horror Story fans, if the storyline sounds familiar, it's because Kathy Bates played Madame LaLaurie in the "Coven" season. Try walking past the mansion at night. It will chill you to the bone. Preservation Hall: If you're into jazz, like me, make sure you reserve tickets for a performance at Preservation Hall. The Preservation Hall Band is a mainstay in New Orleanian culture and you'll often see a long line out in front of the hall. Get there early, buy your tickets in advance if you can and snag a purple drink before heading in (they don't serve alcohol in the hall itself). Then, get ready to tap your feet and sing! Some of the most incredibly talented musicians around. The Shops at Canal Place: A perfect mid-afternoon pick me up. We swung by here to enjoy a few cocktails at the Green Bar and shop around, namely at Saks, Aveda, Mignon Faget, Jeantherapy and Rhino Gallery (a great gallery to see local art!). Voodoo shops: As you might guess, there are a lot of voodoo shops around town. We stopped into Island of Salvation to pick up a few energy candles and peruse through the artwork. You can get readings done here (just make sure to schedule in advance). UAL: We stopped in here on our last day and I'm so glad we did. I managed to snag the Olympia Le-Tan clutch you see in the photos here at a fraction of the retail price. Lots of other great designer pieces to be had, all seriously discounted. Marie Laveau's grave: Many folks will tell you to head to Voodoo Priestess Marie Laveau's grave, namely so you can perform a little ritual that has been done for many years since her death. First, you bring a small bottle of rum as an offering that you place on top of her grave and, using red lipstick, draw three red X's on the tombstone, while making a wish. Legend has it that she will grant you your wish. But what legend doesn't tell you, is that the cemetery she's buried in actually stopped allowing folks in, because of the damage it was causing to her grave and to others. If you want access to the cemetery, you need to purchase tickets for a specific tour group. WHERE TO STAY W Hotel in the French Quarter: Given the type of sightseeing we were doing for most of the trip, we couldn't have asked for a better hotel and location. Situated in the French Quarter, the W was a stones throw from all the restaurants we were dying to check out, boutique shops and, of course, the iconic French Quarter architecture didn't disappoint. Huge thanks to their team for hosting us — we had a blast and we hope to be back very soon! GO-TO APPS For photo editing: I rely on slew of these, so take a deep breath! VSCO, FaceTune, Snapseed, TouchReTouch (a new favorite!) and for a consistent theme edit, I always apply the iPhone filter "Fade" to my images to give them a nice desaturated, high contrast look. Also, I live and breathe by Planoly. If you don't have it yet, download it now. It's been amazing to plan out my Instagram feed this way. For tunes: I love creating new playlists when I'm in a new city, especially ones that are so lively and known for their music like New Orleans is. If you happen to use Spotify, you can check out my New Orleans Beats playlists here (complete with Louis Armstrong, the Preservation Hall Band and Ella Fitzgerald)! For everything else: Luckily, the tourism board for New Orleans prepared an amazing itinerary for us but that didn't mean we weren't also spying Yelp for little fun bars and restaurants to duck into in between our stops. I also recently discovered the app Fever, which populates events in your area — think of it as a Time Out New York, that generates a fun weekend list tailored to where you are. Venmo is amazing for splitting tabs easily (which is inevitable when you travel with friends). Have you guys been to New Orleans? Any recs? This post was in collaboration with OtterBox. As always, all opinions and styling are my own. Thank you for supporting all This Time Tomorrow collaborations! Photos of me by Christine Cameron and Andi Eaton


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City dwellers are able to live by unwritten rules. Though we don't often think about it, we're constantly making tiny decisions that coordinate with others', especially when we walk around. We try to behave like people who know what we're doing, not like atoms bouncing frenetically off of one another.
It should be pretty easy to pull off. But it isn't.
As bikes have complicated the pedestrian/car binary in many cities, there's been more analysis of how we share—or hog—space. Many municipalities have started collecting data on where we walk, and how quickly. The average walking speed in New York City is about 4.27 feet per second, found a 2006 study from the Department of City Planning. (Tourists stroll 11 percent slower.)
The intricate dynamics of pedestrian behaviors have even spurred new types of jobs. For example, a new breed of crossing guard called pedestrian/traffic managers direct foot traffic in high-stakes, tourist-packed areas such as Lower Manhattan.
When we take to the sidewalks, our manners kind of fizzle out. Hence the need for snarky faux infrastructure like the "texting lane. Here's how to be better at sharing the space.
In an odd imitation of car traffic, people quietly decided that it was ideal if everyone agreed on one side of the street—their relative right—as the direction of travel.
Sure, it might not make a ton of sense. But unless you want to unleash sidewalk chaos, don't be the guy who tries to subvert convention by strolling on the wild (left) side.
Sound cues play a subtle but surprisingly important role in helping you anticipate the movement of others around you. Overheard chatter and even the little movements of air around you really helps you establish your position in space.
Pedestrian traffic has a rhythm. Fall behind, and you'll soon find that someone is tailgating you. If you have to move more slowly, stick to the margins—and pull over to text or rummage in your bag, unless you don't mind careening into a pothole or one of those scary flights of underground steps.
Multitasking, even if you think you're pretty good at it, makes you a less attentive pedestrian. You're less tapped in to your environment whenever you divert your eyes from the street. A study published in Psychology and Aging found that this effect was particularly exacerbated as we get older.
Even if the sidewalk is sparsely populated, that doesn't give you free license to cut around corners and charge headlong into the streets—after all, quiet blocks have speeding cars, too.
Bikes have their own lanes, but now a bonanza of other person-powered vehicles are also trying to squeeze into the precious pedestrian space. (Think: scooters, roller skates, skateboards.) Are you a speed walker, or a very lightweight motorist? If it has wheels and can go as fast as a bike, you are probably terrorizing other people on the sidewalk—best to ride in the fast lane and take the bike lane instead.
You know the people who stroll four or five in a row, gawking at buildings. A study published in PLoS One found that groups of people tend toward either side-by-side movement or an outward-opening V-shape, which isn't great for making room for others. Groups probably don't intend to clog up the traffic flow, but they snag the pattern, big time. Even wide sidewalks are ill-suited to a gathering of more than two people. Catch up with your crew at the next intersection.
And, for your own good, beware of stopping to snap a photo on a crowded sidewalk. Even if you manage to get a picture without tons of peoples' torsos in it, they'll give you the stink eye for blocking the way.
In some cities, there is a half-joking culture of commiserating about these habits. Imagine if pedestrians were taken to task for a litany of offenses, such as hitting people with bulky bags, slow walking, or clogging up prime jaywalking territory. As Sarah Goodyear reported for CityLab, a facetious memo circulated around New York City's East Village, envisioning a fantasy world in which all visitors would have to pass an exam to earn a permit from the Department of Pedestrian Etiquette. Violations included:
- Blocking the sidewalk or any public area in a large group or just standing like an idiot in the middle of pedestrian traffic. Also referred to as "Clumping."
- Weaving from side to side oblivious to busy New Yorkers trying to get the hell around you.
- Walking with your face in a map or mobile device.
- Excessive arm swinging or bag swinging.
- Stopping on a bike path with a big group to take pictures of squirrels.
It's fun to be snarky about it, but actually seething over annoying sidewalk behavior can trigger something akin to road rage. Dr. Leon James, psychology professor at the University of Hawaii, developed a Pedestrian Aggressiveness Syndrome Scale. You're edging into this territory when you exhibit behaviors like muttering or bumping into others. When venting about such behaviors are encouraged, it can set off conditions like "intermittent explosive disorder."
"If you feel yourself getting angry, change the way you think," says Dr. Shonda Lackey, a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York. "Tap into your sense of humor."
And of course, you can always try to avoid crowds altogether. Startups like Placemeter, which uses sensors to "quantif[y] the movement of modern cities, at scale," have also collected quantitative and qualitative information about walking habits.
The company studied pedestrian traffic in highly congested Times Square to see whether there were ideal times to go to skirt the sidewalk madness.
They discovered that there were blissful lulls on weekdays between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Those hoping to avoid sardine-style travel conditions should leave a wide berth on the weekends.
"We've found that each block has an individual personality—an individual profile—that is determined by how people interact with and travel through it," says Placemeter co-founder Florent Peyre. "In Philadelphia, we've been working with the Center City District to understand how people use the new public plaza, Dilworth Park, in front of City Hall. We're looking at the volume of pedestrian traffic as well as patterns in pedestrian flow within the park."
As the movement of people in public spaces continues to attract the attention of intrepid startups and civic organizations, we'll no doubt start to learn more ways that we can all move around together without driving each other crazy.
Top image: ymgerman/Shutterstock.com.
Architects and planners have an obligation to protect health, safety and welfare through the spaces we design. As the George Floyd protests reveal, we've failed.
Two new studies have revived the long-running debate over how police respond to white criminal suspects versus African Americans.
Often ranked as one of the deadliest cities in America, Camden, New Jersey, ended 2017 with its lowest homicide rate since the 1980s.
As national protesters call for defunding police, a movement for anti-racist "people's budgets" is spreading from LA to Nashville to Grand Rapids.
A new report fleshes out the controversial demand to cut police department budgets and reallocate those funds into healthcare, housing, jobs, and schools. Will that make communities of color safer?


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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
MD Anderson Strikes Out "Cancer"
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center takes a visual step forward today with its announcement of a new graphic that visually symbolizes its even wider mission: to eradicate cancer.
Not just eliminate, but eradicate. Since the word literally means "to get rid of as if by tearing up by the roots" just imagine cancer vanishing from its source. Imagine that the roots of a particular cancer, mysteries buried deep within a cell, can be destroyed. To me that seems like a dream. MD Anderson, at least, wants to put that elusive goal out there for all to consider.
The change to the logo is actually simple, which is part of its beauty. The powerful "Making Cancer History" tagline, part of a l996 advertising campaign where surviors take a red pen and strike through the word cancer, remains. But the red-lined cancer now is incorporated into the graphic where it was only subliminallly related before.
"With this new mark, we've told the world where we stand in the effort to end cancer," said John Mendelsohn, M.D., president of MD Anderson. "We're proud that we've created tremendous momentum in cancer research and care. Every patient and research finding teaches us more about how we can eliminate cancer."
As many of you know, I'm a "graduate" of MD Anderson and was diagnosed there in l998 with a locally advanced breast cancer (or Stage IIIB). My cancer may indeed be history, and the same for my husband who is a two-time melanoma survivor. He too has been treated there and also participated in a clinical trial for a melanoma vaccine.
Until now, oncologists have been jumpy about using the word cure and cancer together, or in my case, to consign cancer to a limited time frame. Gone. But certainly not forgotten. For if that were true, there wouldn't be so many of us, working so hard, with such diligence and determination, to bring the elusive cures to fruition. Imagining a world without cancer isn't something I can conceive of. Just yet.
What about you? How does this affect your thinking about cancer? Do you you think cancer can be eradicated in your lifetime? Or that of your children?
3 comments:
- Annemieke said...
Dear Jody, what an awesome way to make a stand! I do believe we can do what MD anderson wants but we have a long battle ahead of us. We will win though because there are just to many of us to stubborn to give up, like me, and a few amazing cancer advocates like you. So yes, we will get rid of this disease once and for all in our lifetime. Thanks again, Annemieke
- May 4, 2010 at 4:28 PM
- Running the race said...
Jody I love the logo! I think it is so appropriate. Once cancer was here and now it is gone. It is wonderful that you are living in a place where they put the money where the mouth is on a logo!
Why is this possible? Because nothing is impossible with God! At least that is what his word says:)Rejoycing with both you and your husband!
- May 5, 2010 at 4:20 AM
- Debbie said...
I love that MD Anderson made this move. It is subtle but implies a greater meaning. Trying to focus our words and thoughts on our desired outcome. I try to follow this when possible but like positive thinking it can be overwhelming. But it is always good to have reminders and this is a large reminder for many of us.
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Jason Segel has a filthy sewer of a mind. What other possible conclusion could one reasonably draw from the 31-year-old's body of work? Since appearing in the lone season of NBC's cult high school series Freaks and Geeks, Segel has become closely associated with its executive producer Judd Apatow's profane juvenilia. It was Segel in Knocked Up earnestly asking Seth Rogen for his blessing to plow Rogen's unborn daughter once she reached legal age. It was Segel in the Apatow-esque bromantic comedy I Love You, Man proudly displaying his "jerk-off station" to a new friend. And, most unforgettably, it was Segel in Forgetting Sarah Marshall—which he cowrote—shooting a breakup scene totally nude, his flaccid Segelness on display for a full 73 frames. He's a dude who goes there.
So when it was announced that the actor had been anointed to breathe life into the moribund Muppet movie franchise as star and screenwriter, gasps from the peanut gallery were understandable. Consider the other players: Segel's cowriter on the project, Nicholas Stoller, wrote and directed Get Him to the Greek, in which the protagonist is forced to ferry a rock star's heroin through airline security, Papillon-style; the film's director, James Bobin, was directing HBO's Da Ali G Show when Borat led a barroom crowd in a rousing refrain of "throw the Jew down the well." These men were to be entrusted with Jim Henson's most beloved and famous creations? The Muppet faithful trembled, imagining the worst: Miss Piggy working a donkey show; Dr. Teeth and Fozzie on a meth bender. The possibilities were endless—and endlessly horrifying.
But tonight, on a chilly January evening on the set of The Muppets, Segel's junk is safely hidden inside a pair of jeans. And far from readying an infusion of raunch for the franchise, he's sounding like a Muppet Moses, delivering his felt buddies from an Egypt of crappy sequels and development hell. "I'm not saying I'm the guy who's going to swoop in and fix it," he says, "but I sure thought I'd try." He's well aware that his fitness as a guardian of Henson's legacy is in question—"People thought, 'Hey now, watch them dirty up the Muppets'"—but in truth, it's hard to imagine a more vigilant champion of the Muppets than Segel. Ever since starting work on their big-screen comeback, he's been hewing closely, almost obsessively, to what he sees as sacred Muppet orthodoxy.
Of course, because Henson died of a bacterial infection in May 1990, this divining of intent presents a quandary of its own. There's no question about who owns the trademark and tons of felt that are Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo, and the rest of the gang; Disney acquired them from the Jim Henson Company in 2004. But one existential question remains: Do Muppets have a soul, and if so, who owns that? Is it Segel and the nostalgia-mongering arrivistes? The aging puppeteers who have dedicated their lives to Henson's felt creations? Or is it Henson's five children, who have been maintaining his legacy in the 21 years since his death? To those of us of a certain age, the Muppets—like The Lord of the Rings and Doctor Who—are that rare fictional universe so pervasively influential as to implant itself in our DNA. (And the granddaddy of the generation's touchstones, Star Wars? Even a Muppet of its own it has, in Yoda.) We naturally think the Muppets are ours. So can Kermit survive getting pulled in so many different directions?
Segel is seated at a French café table—or, rather, at a table on a French café set on the Universal lot. A few dozen feet away, Kermit, Fozzie, and Animal are being tinkered with by Muppet wranglers inside a Rolls-Royce. It's a shock at first; seeing them carted around by their fuzzy necks between takes feels a bit like watching a dead relative being dragged through the funeral home by the hair. Segel, who has said that he shed a tear or two when he first saw Kermit deliver his lines at a table read—yes, the Muppets go to table reads—has been around lifeless Muppets long enough now that he doesn't give them a second glance. Or it could just be that he's too exhausted to notice; to complete his leading role in the movie, he's had to work seven-day weeks for much of the shoot, dividing his time between the set of his CBS show How I Met Your Mother and The Muppets locations and sets here at Universal.
By Hollywood standards, it's a low-key production. Whereas The Amazing Spider-Man, Sony's summer 2012 tent pole also filming on the studio's lot, is rumored to have a $220 million budget, The Muppets will cost Disney less than $50 million. And sure, $50 million is still a considerable sum—until you realize that Sony was willing to pony up $110 million for a dusty children's franchise as patently lame as The Smurfs. "It's thought of as a movie for children," says Steve Saklad, the film's production designer, who had to scrap almost all of his elaborate set designs when he realized the budget. "You and I know that it's a much richer thing than that, but in the Disney paradigm it's basically a movie for kids and whichever adults will come with them."
Fixing the Muppets, for Segel, is a restorative act, bringing back the creative purity that was the hallmark of The Muppet Show's five seasons on television and the three Muppet movies Jim Henson had a hand in between 1979 and 1984: The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, and The Muppets Take Manhattan. Segel calls them "the pantheon"; he hadn't even been born when the first one was released, but he wore out the VHS copies of the films in his Pacific Palisades childhood home. "I feel like there was a singular vision for the Muppets in the initial three," Segel says, "but it wasn't corporate. It was driven by the idea of how special the Muppets were." And after that? Well, the last time the Muppets appeared together on a big screen was in the 1999 turkey Muppets From Space—a concept that wasn't exactly driven by how special the Muppets were. With a measly $24 million budget, which it didn't even recoup (the film made less than $17 million), the failure certainly seemed a death sentence for Muppets as movie stars—and the aughts found the gang relegated to decidedly nonpantheon works like 2002's made-for-video prequel Kermit's Swamp Years and videogame shovelware. (2003's Spy Muppets: License to Croak? Really?)
Segel's career wasn't faring much better in the early 2000s. Following the cancellation of Freaks and Geeks, Apatow tried to cast him as the lead in his Fox show Undeclared and then in a prominent role in 2005's The 40 Year Old Virgin; both times, Segel was nixed by executives. Big galoots, the 6'4″ and decidedly non-willowy Segel was finding, aren't exactly in demand in Hollywood. On a suggestion from Apatow, he began writing material for himself, but he also started buying soft puppets at a toy store and casting them in homemade movies. His magnum opus was a musical version of Dracula, a song from which he performed for Apatow. "You can't ever play this for anyone ever," Segel's mentor told him. "You're getting weird."
Of course, that unintentionally funny Dracula became a major set piece in his script for Forgetting Sarah Marshall, produced by Apatow and directed by fellow Apatow acolyte Nicholas Stoller—after getting dumped by his TV-star girlfriend, Segel's character copes by completing an all-puppet extravaganza. When it came time to find someone to build said puppets for the movie, Segel and Stoller ended up at the Jim Henson Company in a meeting with Lisa Henson, Jim's daughter, who has been CEO since 2004 (originally co-CEO with her brother Brian) and as such also heads up the Creature Shop, the separate Burbank outfit that makes puppets and animatronics for various productions. Though it's capable of producing state-of-the-art visual effects, the Creature Shop is perhaps best known for its soft Muppet-esque creations—Spike Jonze, seeking a low tech feel for his 2009 Where the Wild Things Are, hired the company to create his monsters.
At that initial meeting between Segel, Stoller, and the Henson Company, puppets were distributed to the attendants. "Everyone just laughed and had the puppet in their lap," Stoller says. "But Jason was playing with the puppet the whole time during this business meeting—it was looking at people, looking at him as he was talking. It was truly insane." After the meeting, Segel asked the Henson people if he could see Kermit and Miss Piggy. Unfortunately not, he was told. Although Henson's death had scuttled a deal with then-chair Michael Eisner to sell Henson's company to Disney for about $100 million, Disney finally bought the Muppets in 2004. As such, it took everything except Big Bird, Elmo, and the rest of the Sesame Street puppets, which are now owned by the Sesame Workshop.
Soon after, Disney invited Segel to meet with Kristin Burr, an executive who works primarily on smaller-budget comedies for the studio. "I want to do a Muppet movie," he told her. He couldn't understand why the company had owned the property for years already and seemed to have no big plans for it. The Muppets Studio, as the Disney group was called, had done some small-bore projects—there were a few Muppets interstitials for the Disney Channel, and Kermit got a few thankless gigs, like singing "You've Got a Friend" as a duet with a ventriloquist on America's Got Talent. But nothing major was in the works, and certainly nothing on the scale that Segel envisioned.
Afterward, Burr called Segel's agent to make sure he hadn't been pulling her leg. She quickly found out he wasn't. Segel felt like things weren't moving quickly enough; well before there was any sign that a new Muppet movie would even happen, he took his campaign public, first and most notably on Craig Ferguson's Late Late Show. "It was a dirty strategy," he admits. "But I was so hungry to make this movie that I started talking about it publicly just so someone had to say either 'We're not doing this, stop talking about it' or 'We're gonna do it.'"
As it turned out, all the project needed was a change of Disney administration. Several months after chair Dick Cook was replaced by Rich Ross, The Muppets was greenlit. Hired to direct was James Bobin, a Brit who began his career in England with Sacha Baron Cohen, helping create Borat and Ali G and then directing Da Ali G Show stateside for HBO. But it was his subsequent work as cocreator of HBO's Flight of the Conchords which showed Segel that the Muppets would be in safe hands. "The thing about the Muppets is they're kind, sweet underdogs who never say a mean thing about anyone," he says. "That's exactly what Flight of the Conchords is. You never hear Bret or Jemaine say anything bad about someone in those episodes."
Segel had found a kindred soul in Bobin. The director grew up near Oxford watching The Muppet Show every Sunday on his grandmother's TV and later became steeped in Muppet arcana while working on Conchords; during breaks, he and the show's stars would entertain themselves by pulling up old Muppet Show sketches on YouTube. His breadth of knowledge dwarfed even Segel's: Not only did he propose including lesser-known characters Marvin Suggs and his Muppaphones in a scene, but he insisted on incorporating Uncle Deadly, a reptilian-like creature who haunted the Muppet Theater in the original show.
This particular evening, Kermit is shooting a surprisingly adult-themed scene with Miss Piggy—not Sarah Marshall adult-themed, more Brontë sisters adult-themed—on the streets of Paris. According to the Muppets script, they were part of a group of animals that once starred in The Muppet Show, a variety production shot at the Muppet Theater in Hollywood. They've long since gone their separate ways. When we meet them again, decades later, Kermit has become a Hollywood recluse and Miss Piggy is the plus-size editor of Vogue Paris. The whole gang is wrangled back together by a new Muppet, Walter, who with his human stepbrother and best friend, Gary (Segel), tries to reunite the gang to save the Muppet Theater, which is threatened with destruction by unscrupulous oil baron Tex Richman (played by Chris Cooper).
In the scene being shot tonight, Kermit, in a suave turtleneck-and-overcoat look that Bobin calls "Liam Neeson Kermit," tries to convince Miss Piggy—in beret and blond blowout—to come back to LA to help the cause. At Bobin's direction, they do about 15 takes. It's painful work to watch. The two puppeteers—Steve Whitmire, who took over Kermit from Jim Henson, and Eric Jacobson, who took over Piggy and Frank Oz's other characters when Oz retired from voicing a decade ago—lie supine on metal wheeled carts, watching their performances in real time on small video monitors to optimize Muppet interplay, their backs cushioned by nothing more than a small pile of rug remnants. It looks like an incredibly uncomfortable way to make a living. Dave Goelz, the voice of Gonzo, held up his arm for such long periods that he recently needed to have his shoulder surgically reconstructed.
Despite rumblings within certain corridors of Disney that 2011 visual technology could go a long way toward updating the Muppets, Bobin and Segel were both insistent on sticking with the same tech that was used for the first three movies. "When I came onto this job," Bobin says, "I said that I'd only consider doing it if we could stay with the simple idea that Jim Henson had in 1954 of having a camera, a puppet, and a monitor. When you see Kermit onscreen, you want to be able to see this beautiful bright green felt." For Segel, it was a question of the founder's intent; in his opinion, Henson wouldn't have wanted his Muppets sullied by computer graphics. "I have nothing against CGI," he says. "I think it's a new toy that people are having a really fun time playing with. But a kid can never meet Shrek. You can touch Kermit. He'll talk to you."
It's true, he'll talk, but there are certain questions he'll have trouble answering. This becomes evident when Kermit—attached to Whitmire—arrives for an interview. True to everything anyone ever tells you about the experience, once confronted with a Muppet, there is almost no temptation to speak to the puppeteer. A disconnect arises, however, when I ask Kermit if he remembers the period in the early 2000s when European entertainment conglomerate EM.TV owned him and the other Muppets. (EM .TV bought the Jim Henson Company in 2000—only to slide to penny-stock status and sell off many of the Sesame Street Muppets before the Henson children were able to buy the company back in 2003.) For this, Whitmire breaks character and says, "It's hard for Kermit to answer, you know? The corporate stuff, it's as though it didn't happen for us." At one point, I remark on the pristine condition of the Kermit puppet, and Whitmire shrugs, seemingly exasperated. "Talking about the puppet as though he's an object … ," he says, trailing off. I find myself, a 39-year-old man, apologizing to a 53-year-old man for disrespecting the fabric he's wearing on his hand.
In the post-Henson era, the Muppets' self-awareness has become a sticking point. In an early draft of their script, Segel and Stoller included a number of "felt" puns; the old guard told them that Muppets never acknowledge that they're made of fabric. Segel also included a bit where he made money on the street by pretending to operate Walter like a puppet. Never, he was told, would a Muppet even vaguely allude to his puppethood. Nor do Muppets age, eat, or drink (save for notable exception Cookie Monster over at PBS). Muppets, it seemed, were more ascetic and humorless than expected.
Segel might very well be the sweetest, least affected guy in Hollywood. But he's not a particularly good Muppet historian. Henson saw the Muppets for what they were—a business, and one that wasn't what it used it to be. He had walked away from The Muppet Show after five seasons, while it was still a ratings juggernaut, but wasn't shy about pulling Kermit and gang out for projects that kept the lights on at the Jim Henson Company.
Across town from the Universal lot, in the Jim Henson Company's La Brea Avenue offices, son Brian Henson narrows his eyes and ponders the question of how it feels to have a new Muppets movie in production. With his longish hair and beard, he quite resembles his father. "My dad loved the Muppets," Brian says, "but I think he started feeling like 'I'm in danger of repeating myself; I need to do something else.'"
In fact, an argument could be made that Henson didn't feel remotely sentimental about the Muppets. He made The Great Muppet Caper only because Universal insisted on getting a Muppet movie if it was going to foot the bill for the 1982 puppet-driven (and much more adult) fantasy movie The Dark Crystal, a project Henson was truly passionate about. Lisa Henson howls when she hears Segel's implication that there had been a cynical cheapening of the characters since her father's death. "Talk about cynical exercises," she says. "Is Muppet Babies not a branding thing? It was done by Jim."
Far from feeling dread about the Muppets' future, Henson felt eager to unburden himself of them—especially after NBC canceled his 1989 Muppets vehicle, The Jim Henson Hour, nine episodes in because of abysmal ratings. "He was like, 'I don't know how many times we can keep trying to make another movie or another TV series,'" Brian says. "He wanted the Muppets in the theme parks. He thought that's the way the Muppets could live forever in a meaningful way."
The pious feeling that pervaded the Muppets set, that Kermit's essential puppetness must not be acknowledged and that there are distinct Muppet rules that must be abided, likely wouldn't have been observed by Henson either. "He was disrespectful of the puppets in a very healthy way," Oz—who was literally and figuratively Bert to Henson's Ernie—said in 1994. "He was not precious about them. That always made us gag." In an episode of The Jim Henson Hour that NBC never aired (though it surfaced later on Nickelodeon), Henson seems to take great pleasure in reducing Gonzo to his component parts. "Gonzo doesn't have real hands," Henson says at one point. "They're just little bits of fur fabric that are controlled by arm wires." Gonzo interjects: "This man is deranged! Of course I have real hands!" Then footage is shown in which Gonzo's arm wires are visible. "Ah," the puppet says. "Never mind."
The need for Muppets to maintain a low tech purity can seem similarly absurd. Henson devoted the last eight years of his life to pushing the envelope on puppetry and animatronics in The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, both of which seemed to rely more on tech wizardry than soul. "The technical stuff," Henson said not long before his death "is more interesting to me than to a lot of the audience."
He was right. Labyrinth tanked at the box office; Universal executives, after watching The Dark Crystal for the first time, left the screening room without saying a word to him. When he was thinking about Muppets, he was thinking about how to push the technology in a 3-D ride at Disneyland. "It's really amazing to think that in 1989 his twin obsessions were CG animation and 3-D stereoscopic," Lisa says. She remembers how giddy her father looked emerging from a screening of Tron in 1982, even contacting CG innovator John Whitney to learn how it was done. Not long ago, Lisa met Sean Bailey, Disney's head of production, for the first time. "If anyone tells you the Muppets can't be digital," she said to him, "it's not true." Now she says that the Jim Henson Company's PBS show Sid the Science Kid, in which the movements of human puppeteers are converted to digital animation, is a direct outgrowth of what her father did at Disneyland.
She's convinced that, used sparingly, digital fur could be a great substitute for the tactile stuff. "If Tobey Maguire can be digital in Spider-Man, why not Kermit?" she says. "It's easily achievable." Her father, she guesses, would approve, "but I imagine I'm waging some kind of virtual debate with the purists." Who knows whether there would even need to be Muppet purists if Henson were still alive. But if there were, they'd likely be disappointed. "I get excited sometimes thinking about what he would have come up with," she says. "But I know pretty much for sure that if he were alive today, he wouldn't be doing a Muppet movie."
Of course Jim Henson wouldn't be doing another Muppet movie. The $100 million or so he stood to make from selling them to Disney was great, but the freedom to let someone else handle them for a change was the real appeal. And for those of us who grew up watching the weekly vaudeville show and wearing out tapes of the pantheon, that's fine. But the change of ownership can't mean the end of the Muppets. These characters hold a rare and sacred place in our childhoods; we feel compelled to drag them into our own kids' childhoods, to inoculate our progeny against the ills of the world with a test tube of Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's Kool-Aid. Henson may have needed some space from the gang, but like us he also wanted the Muppets to live. And if he were alive, he'd have to agree that there are fates far worse than ending up in the hands of a pervert with a pure heart.
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Vitriolic political headlines (the bread and butter of Twitter) can make it seem as though the world is constantly ending, and the endless parade of self-congratulatory posts about job promotions, status updates regarding happy relationships, and photos of beaming babies on Facebook can be equally depressing at times.
To particularly impressionable minds, such as some adolescent users, it can wreak havoc on their psyche. Spending time on social media isn't exactly the best idea when you are feeling particularly anxious or blue — and no angst is quite as fierce as teenage angst.
You can help your child develop a more positive relationship with social media, as well as maintain an overall healthier perspective, by starting a dialogue with them.
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Research suggests that social media use has been linked to both anxiety and depression, and females are particularly vulnerable. In fact, teens who use more social media platforms are proportionally more likely to develop mental illness. While outright barring your child from social media use seems a bit extreme, you should at least discuss the issue with them.
Despite the very public nature of social media itself, teens may have difficulty opening up about their online behavior to family members. Nevertheless, with tact, you can open a channel of communication.
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Have your teenager track their social media usage. Ask them to note the reasons they feel compelled to use social media, if any specific posts had a strong impression on them, and how they feel after using it. While going through this information yourself may be an invasion of privacy, it can help them organize their thoughts and note trends about their online behavior.
Don't be afraid to let your teenager be the expert. Ask for their help in setting up new social media platforms. When you let them demonstrate their knowledge about social media, you can help them lower their emotional barriers when it comes to discussing their experiences.
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When it comes to social media behavior, mental wellness is not the only concern. Everything from work to education is becoming increasingly digital. The etiquette you teach your child today will impact their opportunities tomorrow; they will need to be prepared to develop and maintain a positive online reputation. Whether they will need to impress future potential employers or simply make new friends in online classes, their online behavior can open (or close) many doors.
Stress that there is no true distinction between "real behavior" and "online behavior." Explain that legal and social fallout that can follow what they do online, even if they believe that they are engaging with others anonymously.
By adopting the strategies listed above, you can begin to lower emotional barriers and engage in constructive discussions. Not only will this lead to a more positive mindset, it may safeguard your child from limiting their future opportunities.


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America, we have a mystery to solve. Mommy has a secret admirer. (I don't know WHY she has a secret admirer, America. Apparently everyone has their own standards.)
The Never Ending Party
America, my brother had a birthday. How do I know? Because we have been celebrating it. FOR A MONTH. As you know, America, I love my Jacob. But, seriously. A MONTH?
Grown ups are irrational
Hello, America. Time for an update. A lot has happened since I last wrote. A LOT.
Back talk
Hola, amigos. It's me. Emma. May I vent? (Sorry. Didn't mean to shock you. Let it settle in for a moment.)
Hello, America. It's me. Emma. Writing to you from one of the polar ice caps. By which I mean, New England. Where it now snows. ALL. WINTER.
We're all thinking it, America. So let's just say it: WTF?
Potty Talk
Hello, America. It's me again. Sorry it has been so long. I will try to do better. But no time to waste with apologies. I know you forgive me. (Thanks, America. Kiss, kiss.) Down to the business at hand.
Potty training.
Emma in the ER
Seriously, Mommy? You could not find a SINGLE thing to write about in the past MONTH? What about that adorable thing I do when I have half a bowl of cereal left in front of me and I cock my head and say, "Mo' cereal, Mommy?" (Hey, some of us still have a Depression-era mentality. What if the cereal runs out? Don't give me that look, woman. I've seen the way you shovel this stuff down your throat.) And how about when I'm playing hide-and-seek and as soon as I hear you coming I jump out of my hiding spot and yell, "TA-DA!" . . .? And don't you think America needs to know that I can now count to ten in Spanish?!? (English, not so much.) AND. WHAT. ABOUT. THE. FACT. THAT. I. NOW. HAVE. VISIBLE. HAIR?!?


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Is there anywhere prefs etc. where I could force this back to windowed mode? It worked fine at first launch, but I changed it to fullscreen and then restarted the game and now it shows just black screen. itch demo and (full) steam version acts the same way.
EDIT: Ok found it in >> My Documents/GROWTH settings.txt
Black screen still persists but I have very unorthodox setup anyway. I have to try few things, probably not a big thing :)
..and Xbox360 controller bindings for jump, action & use item, seems to be in wrong order.
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Here are some details of what is being sent through different communication platform (email vs SMS):
Invitations sent via Email, SMS or Both
- Users can be invited using their cell phone number, email address or both. Please note that SMS invitations work in the US only.
- If you would like to use both email and SMS invitations for the same parent, please make sure you are adding them to the same student vs. creating two different students for the same parent.
- To add both contacts to the same student, please use one contact first and then you will see + Add phone or + Add email appear under the contact information you just added.
- In case you have added both contacts for a parent (email and cell phone number), that parent will be receiving invitations via both methods and will accept both invitations automatically once one of them is accepted.
- Please note that as soon as parents are invited to ClassTag, they start receiving all communications even before they have accepted the invitation. If the user has both email and SMS contact, the default notification method would be email.
- You can find more information about inviting parents here.
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- Announcements will use the announcement title as the subject line. The body of the announcement will be included in the body of the email.
- You will be able to see a preview of the email in the process of creating the announcement.
- The announcement in the email will include up to 3 images and icons for any other attachments as applicable (mp4, doc, pdf, xls, etc). Users can follow a link to see these attachments on ClassTag.
- When replying to an announcement, only the announcement creator will receive the response.
- Conversations will be sent to users in full if the user hasn't seen the conversation online or in the app within 2 minutes.
- When replying to a conversation, all the participants in the conversation will receive the response.
- Weekly Summary will use use the title "Next Week at [Class name]" as the subject and have all the body of the email as the weekly summary including the custom message, calendar and personalized activities description for each parent.
- When replying to a weekly summary, only the creator or the first teacher in the class will receive the response.
- The recipient can reply to these email notifications from their email account and the sender will receive the reply in their email and in the "Conversations" on ClassTag (conversation icon on he top right).
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- Announcements via SMS will use the announcement title as the actual SMS that is being sent. If the title is longer than the number of characters allowed in a single SMS, the user will receive multiple SMS. The actual body of the announcement (if included) will be sent as a link to see more with the SMS. When clicking on the link, the user will be able view full announcement with attachments in the "Home" tab of the website or app (if the app has been downloaded). Currently there is no preview for SMS announcement.
- Conversations via SMS will be sent to users if the user hasn't seen the conversation online or in the app within 2 minutes. The SMS will state who sent the new message and to see the body of the message the user will have to click on the link leading to 'Conversations' in the app or on the website.
- Weekly Summary via SMS will use 'Next Week at [Class name]' as the actual SMS. The full weekly summary will be sent as a link to see more with the sms. When clicking on the link, the user will be able view full weekly summary on the website or app (if the app has been downloaded).
- Recipient of the notification via sms currently cannot directly reply to the message. When the recipient tries to reply to sms, they will receive an automated notification with the link to ClassTag "Conversation" to use them instead via website or mobile app (if the latter has been downloaded).
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- All users will be receiving Daily Summary notifications via SMS, Email or can turn off notifications (None). Users currently cannot select to receive both email and sms. Please refer to the Weekly Summary above as it behaves in the same way.
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Don Quixote Puppet Show
Saturday, November 14, 2015 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Edgar Wibble Puppets will perform a 40-minute marionette show based loosely on the adventures of Don Quixote, preceded by a brief hand puppet short.
Following the performance children will have the opportunity to participate in a puppet-related craft.
This event is in conjunction with the exhibit, "Illustrations of on Quixote: Interpretations of Imagination." There will be shows at 1:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
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Many of these chores can be handled simply, and if done on a regular basis, the small problems will be managed and handled before they are turned into larger, more unmanageable problems. It is well worth the time and money spent to invest in a pool service to install pool the necessary pool equipment needed to do this regular maintenance; or some may find it easier for them to make a quick call to a monthly pool service specialist such as the professionals at Avalon Pools and Tile to do the maintenance for them. These pool experts specialize in everything a pool and spa may need from regularly needed maintenance to pool equipment installation to tile repair and replacement.
Areas Requiring Maintenance
The pump for the pool and spa is generally self-priming; however, the strainer basket inside will need to be cleaned out at least once a week. If one is going to attempt to do this one their own, they should refer to their owner's manual to determine the specific location of their pump's basket.
While checking the basket, they should also check the O-ring or gasket that seals the top of the pump housing for any cracks and replace it. Failure to do so will mean that the lid will not be able to form the seal that is needed to keep the pump operable. Major pump problems including water leaks are a reason to call a professional pool service such as Avalon Pools and Tiles.
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Gingerbread crawfish!
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
At the Saints game
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Christmas colours
As we're off to see the Laughing Geos at Christmas we had a little parcel opening in LB last weekend. Nick gave me a lovely selection of new colours (pink, clear sky, British racing green, lemon zest and cherry) for staining porcelain from Scarva and I got a chance to try them out (in a one step firing!) this week. Super exciting - and they all look lovely, though the pink seems not to have worked, which is quite normal. Sometimes the composition of the clay stops the colour from coming out.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Sprouts & gingerbreadmen
I opened up the kiln again this week to see some lovely creations. Above some more experimental glazes - this time on some little cruets - I think they look remarkably like sprouts. And then to continue the Christmassy theme there were gingerbreadmen in porcelain - complete this time!
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Saturday, December 10, 2011
Christmas cupcakes
Another fabulous (though fiddly) cutter from kitbox - I'm loving these snowflakes, I had a hand though from Mr H!
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pink porcelain
Yesterday I was at a conference in London and managed to squeeze in a quick trip to see the Grayson Perry The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman exhibition at the British Museum. I had been tempted to go after see a few of his pieces on BBC4's History of Ceramics series. But I didn't expect to be totally blown away! The ceramics themselves were fantastic - such depth - both of meaning and decoration/craftsmanship. Layer upon layer of different techniques - scraffito, slips, glazes, transfers, casts, lustres...all on one piece. And the juxtapositions of the museum collections and his objects fitted perfectly - working very well with the title of the exhibition. Highly thought provoking - an incredibly intelligent man.
While I was away Nick was in charge of the kiln, so it was very lovely to be able to open it up to some bits and bobs when I eventually got home. I had been trying out some colour blends with pink and yellow porcelains. I couldn't resist taking a picture this morning with the early morning light coming through the kitchen window.
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The GW Veterans are stepping up their event programing this academic year to build closer connections between student veterans and more traditional students.
Tyler McManus, the president of GW Veterans, said an increase in funding from the Student Association allowed the group to plan about 60 events for the fall, compared to about 40 events a year ago. Many of the events will be organized with other student organizations to allow student veterans – who are typically older than most undergraduates – to feel more apart of the campus culture, McManus said.
Last spring the SA tapped into unspent funds from previous years, giving the finance committee a roughly $300,000 increase in the amount of money it doles out to student groups and setting aside more for co-sponsorships given throughout the year.
GW Veterans was given $4,500 from this fiscal year, according to the SA's budget – more than double it's allocation from a year ago.
McManus said he wants to bring groups together for events on campus with differing perspectives, like the GW College Democrats and the GW College Republicans, because veterans at GW hold a wide range of political perspectives, though the organization is officially nonpartisan. He said student veterans want to play a role in bridging the political divide on campus.
The events will help build relationships between student veterans and more traditional students that will be beneficial to both groups, McManus said.
Veterans have traveled all over the world and have a lot of life experience and skills to offer other students, he said. While younger, more traditional students can potentially help veterans with school work or adjusting to life on campus, McManus added.
"I might not be the best student and I need help in a certain class and so I can get tutoring from these traditional students who have done classwork very well," he said. "But some of them, this might be their first time away from home or they might be dealing with a family loss and so I can give back through my life experiences of already having gone through this."
Sophomore Jesse Robinson, the vice president of GW Veterans, said having someone to talk to in class can be a vital for veterans who can sometimes feel alienated from campus life.
"What's hard is not being in the military, it's what comes with that. Being older and not being able to relate to people," he said. "Once you get to meet with somebody outside the classroom and then once you see them inside the classroom, it makes it so much easier."
Robinson said he didn't know anyone when he moved to D.C. last August for his first year at GW. He commuted from Arlington, Va. and rarely came to campus for anything other than class, he said.
Graduate student Tommy Elms, the former vice president of GW Veterans, said after a heavy focus on internal projects for student veterans, like getting their own resource center on F Street, the group can now shift to a more outward-looking perspective and work on getting its membership more involved in campus student life.
Jazmin Kay, the president of the GW College Democrats, said the group is reaching out to GW Vets and GW College Republicans to plan a community service event on Veterans Day. Kay said the organization also plans to be involved with the 9/11 Vigil and Remembrance event, which groups like GW Veterans, Sigma Delta Tau and GW Women in International Security will co-host, according to a Facebook event.
"I think that right now politics is something that affects everyone's daily lives, and I think that especially engaging with veterans who bring such a unique experience and also commitment to public service is a really, really natural partnership," Kay said.
The GW Veterans plan to partner with the GW Republicans during the fall semester but have not yet announced an event. Sara Dougherty, the director of public relations for the GW Republicans, said the group will be involved in the Veteran's Day event and plans to be involved in veteran advocacy.
"Veterans do not all have the same opinions about how they can best be supported, so it is important that our two parties work together to support our veterans," Dougherty said in an email.
This post was updated to reflect the following correction:
The Hatchet incorrectly reported that Jazmin Kay said GW Veterans, Sigma Delta Tau and GW Women in International Security will co-host the 9/11 Vigil and Remembrance. Those organizations are listed on a Facebook event promoting the vigil. We regret this error.
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Teen Summer Reading Video Challenge
The Connecticut State Library is co-sponsoring a national video competition for teens to encourage them to get involved with reading and their public library's summer reading program.
Teens across the country are invited to create a 30 to 90 second video with their unique interpretation of the 2016 teen summer reading slogan Get in the Game - Read.
$150 will be awarded to the creators of the winning Connecticut video. The deadline for Connecticut entries is Friday, April 1, 2016. Winners will be announced in April 2016.
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Orangeland Gallery presents a juried art exhibit featuring the color yellow. My painting, Sound Off, Fern 280 (30 x 24″, oil/canvas) is included in this beautiful show.
June 22, 2019, 4–7 pm
Exhibit: June 15 – July 31 2019
Participating Artists: Katia Almeida, Marsha Balian, Julie Blankenship, Greta Boesel, Lisa Bostwick, Carol Brighton, Gordon Bryan, Carol Dalton, Lorrie Fink, Bean Finneran, Liz Fracchia, Julie Garner, Alyce Gottesman, Irene Kononova, Candace Loheed, Sherrie Lovler, Liz Mamorsky, Gloria Matuszewski, Zea Morvitz, James Ong, Sara Post, Young Shin, Ivy Something, Earl Speas, Inez Storer, Victoria Veedell, Emil Yanos, and Sara Young.
1250 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
Thursday-Saturday, 12-4 pm, and by appointment
Orangeland is located in the Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco on the Powell-Mason cable car line, across the street from the Cable Car Museum.
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