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"HE'S BEHIND YOU". Yes that's right ladies and gentlemen It's Panto season and last night I went to see a performance of Robin Hood The Mayflower Theatre in Southampton. This was the first time that I had ever been to see a Pantomime and I went with the girls at Southampton Bloggers, so I knew that this was going to be a good night.
Wednesday, 21 December 2016
Tuesday, 20 December 2016
Hello Handsome Beard Grooming Kit
It's finally Christmas week and if you're anything like me you're in full festive mode and counting the days as each one passes. As there's still a few days left and if you have a bearded companion that you're still looking for that last present for this Christmas, then Hello Handsome's Bread Grooming Kit could be for you.
Friday, 16 December 2016
F&F's Hat With A Heart
For the third year in a row, F&F have teamed up with leading charities to provide help and support to people over the Christmas period. This year is F&F have teamed up with FareShare a food distribution charity and The Trussell Trust a food bank charity, to provide some Christmas joy to people in need.
Wednesday, 14 December 2016
Flapjacked Mighty Muffins and Pancakes Mixes
With Christmas edging closer each day and the usual thoughts that I will eat everything in sight over the holiday period, to then start afresh in the New Year. I decided to to get a head start with the healthy eating and starting"fresh year, fresh eating" ideology a little early.
Tuesday, 6 December 2016
Turtle Bay Southampton
Every once in a while when you're in a relationship you and your partner need a date night, where you can sit down, enjoy being in each others company and eat good food. This is what Alice and I recently decided to do at Turtle Bay in Southampton.
Sunday, 4 December 2016
Why I Like The Male Blogger Label
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Thursday, 1 December 2016
My Christmas Wishlist
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Sunday, 27 November 2016
Tacobell Rings In Southampton
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Wednesday, 23 November 2016
On Guard With Overwatch
Overwatch is a game that I have wanted from the first moment I saw it released in May. Produced by Blizzard Games (Creators of Hearthstone and World of Warcraft) Overwatch is a fast paced first person shooter, in which two teams of 6 face against each other fighting towards an objective.
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Sunday, 20 November 2016
L'Oreal Pure Clay Face Masks
Face masks are a favourite of mine when it comes to my skincare routine. Every other weekend you're likely going to see me walking around with my face in a different colour and pulling faces while it drys pretending to be The Hulk, so the more colourful the better. I had the opportunity to try the new L'Oreal Pure Clay Masks recently and one I've been intrigued to try.
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
Styling Your Winter Bomber Jacket
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Sunday, 13 November 2016
The Wind In The Willows At The Mayflower
The last time that I went to the theatre was on a school trip around the age of ten or eleven to see The Nutcracker, so it had been quite a while since I had sat down and watched a musical. This changed on Friday night when the Southampton Blogger girls and I all got together to watch the new adaptation of The Wind In The Willows at The Mayflower.
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Wednesday, 9 November 2016
Closed On Monday - Beard Balm and Matte Moisturiser
Last month Mankind and Closed On Monday teamed up to provide a male blogger chat on grooming and hair care. Using #MKXCOM, this was the first blogger chat that that I have seen that was designed around and for male bloggers, focusing on our interests and products.
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Saturday, 5 November 2016
Gears of War 4: Lancers at Swarm
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Sunday, 30 October 2016
Oxygen Freejumping
After meeting up with the Sotonblogger girls a few months ago to try out Orange Rooms Freakshakes, it was time to for another meetup and this one was with a bit of a difference. We went to Oxyygen Freejumping trampoline park in Southampton to burn off the calories from previously mentioned Freakshakes but also have a go at bouncing around at one of the newer trends currently going.
Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Halladays Tearooms & an OOTD
I had a rare midweek day off this week which resulted in Alice and I being able to have a nice couples day. We have mentioned about going to Halladays Tearooms for years but we either didn't make or when we did it was packed, so we made sure that we got up early to get a seat and enjoy someone else make us breakfast for a change.
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Sunday, 23 October 2016
Male Body Confidence & Image
Being body confident and having body positivity is all about not being ashamed of your size, shape or weight and liking or loving yourself the way you are. After a blogger chat last week I wanted to talk about male body confidence. As someone who has in the past failed to do this, it is a concept that I can now fully get behind. I have however found, that the majority of support for Body confidence is mainly female based and it got me thinking, that there isn't that the same support among men.
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Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Pumpkin Picking At PickWell Farm
On what was meant to be a lazy Sunday morning Alice and I went up to Pickwell Farm in Eastleigh to go pumpkin picking with Halloween soon upon us. We had been meaning to go up to Pickwell earlier in the summer to collect Strawberry's and other summer fruits but we were unsure how far away the farm itself was.
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Sunday, 16 October 2016
My Technology Wish List
It's that time of year where the days are getting shorter, the nights are getting colder and once Halloween and Fireworks night are done, it leaves only one thing Christmas. I decided that there is no time like now to create a technology wish list of the things that I would love to get.
Friday, 14 October 2016
The Philips One Blade
As a man who takes pride in the fact that I can grow a decent looking beard I have been trying to find a trimmer that will help keep it looking sharp, without being difficult to use. So when the opportunity arose to review Philips Christmas Gift ideas alongside Alice, it was one that I was definitely interested in.
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Monday, 10 October 2016
World Mental Health Day
As someone who has been through mental health symptoms growing up and who now works in a department that focuses on helping people going through mental health conditions, I know first hand how important it is to raise awareness on such an important issue.
Friday, 7 October 2016
At Home In The Man Cave
All guys know that having your hair on point is a must! You can't look fly if your hair is looking a mess, but you don't get a trim if you don't trust your barber. It's a catch 22 situation. Luckily for me, Southampton has Man Cave Male Grooming, a barbers in the city centre. Man Cave Male Grooming was created by Valter and Leon in 2015, with the idea that the barber shop experience in Southampton was lacking and they had a way to fix this.
Sunday, 2 October 2016
NFLUK - Lions vs Chiefs
The NFL is back in full flow and today the Indianapolis Colts and the Jacksonville Jaguars play each other at Wembley Stadium in the latest instalment of the NFL London game series. I wanted to take today as a chance to look back to November last year when I attended the game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Detroit Lions.
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Sunday, 25 September 2016
A Day On The Emerald Princess
I've lived in Southampton for the last six years and there is hardly a day that goes by where I don't see a ship in the dock, or hear the sounds of the horns playing tunes before their next journey (Which I love). So when Princess Cruises invited myself and several other bloggers from SotonBloggers a chance to walk around the Emerald Princess I was definitely interested. Having never been on a Cruise ship before I was excited to see what people get to experience while they are traversing from one country to another.
The experience was for the majority of the day, so I got to arrivals early so that I could get checked in and meet/catch up with the other bloggers that where also in attendance. We then made our way through security and on to the ship. It was like going into different world. The Emerald Princess has recently had a multi million pound refurbishment and you could see this as soon as you stepped aboard.
We started in one of the bars and were offered complimentary cocktails and bakery goods (The best breakfast). We then went on the tour starting in the Share restaurant, going on to view the cabins, on board cinema and then when up to the upper decks to see The Sanctuary spa. In tropical conditions this would be the ultimate spa, where you can top up your tan while enjoying a facial. We then ended our tour by going into the Galley. Once the tour was complete, we all sat down to have a three course meal lunch and had another chat. The food was amazing and the service we had was friendly and attentive. After this it was sadly time to depart as the Emerald Princess was about to embark on an 11 day cruise to the Canary Islands.
I loved the time I spent aboard and honestly wished I was one of the people going away for a few days to paradise.
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Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Our Engagement Party
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Sunday, 11 September 2016
Hearthstone and Chill
Wednesday, 7 September 2016
Sotonbloggers Freak Shake Event
On Saturday I met up with twenty bloggers at Orange Rooms in Southampton, for the Sotonbloggers Freak Shake event. This was the first blogging meet up I had been to since starting blogging, I arrived at 12:30 with a few others to help set up the event then made my way to the bar to grab a Mojito (what else would I have?!). The weather unfortunately was cold and wet but everyone that came was nice, friendly and more than happy to sit down and talk about blogging.
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Saturday, 3 September 2016
Lush - Ickle Baby Bot
You can guarantee a trip made into town is always an excuse for browse in Lush Cosmetics but I find the majority of their products are aimed at the female audience, guess what.... Men wash too and occasionally we also like a bath bomb in our baths for a little masculine pampering. Whenever Alice drags me in to shove flowery scented products up my nose there is one I always make sure goes in the basket for me and that is Ickle Baby Bot.
Monday, 29 August 2016
Southampton Solent Conference Centre Summer Party
In September 2010, I came to Southampton to spend the next three years studying at Southampton Solent University. Six years and a huge development later, I was invited to the grand opening of Southampton Solent new conference centre called The Spark. The new £30 million building located on campus has the availability to be used by businesses for exhibitions or conferences while also providing extra lecture space for students during term time.
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Wednesday, 24 August 2016
SebaMed Skincare - My Routine
After being constantly told I need to implement a daily skin routine, I have been using Sebamed Skincare for the last 28 days. The products are formulated using high purity ingredients that aim to take care of your skin, leaving it feeling soft and smooth. With a PH value of 5.5, Sebamed aims to keep your skin at its healthiest.
Sunday, 21 August 2016
Why I Decided To Blog
Over the last few years I have seen blogging grow at a phenomenal rate, from people not wanting to share the fact they blog to now sharing their experiences whether this be from their latest haul, holiday or event. This has resulted in a community that supports each other over common interests. Today I wanted to share with you the reasons why I have chosen to blog.
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Tuesday, 16 August 2016
My Gaming Set Up
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Sunday, 14 August 2016
Burger Sliders & Mojitos
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Pollyn: Living In Patterns – Album Preview on KCRW.
Great band from L.A. One of my new finds this year. You can preview their album via the link until October 26th.
Pollyn: Living In Patterns – Album Preview on KCRW.
Great band from L.A. One of my new finds this year. You can preview their album via the link until October 26th.
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Em Told me of a musicality test she did on the BBC Lab site. I took the test and came out with what, I assume, must be fairly average musicality. Although I was shocked by my low score (well, medium score) for my 'emotional connection' with music. Anyway, here are my results, if you are interested in taking the test yourself, click here
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I watched a documentary on Brian Eno's music collaborations on the television a few nights ago. The programme played selected tracks from these collaborations including the track Miss Sarajevo, which was to do with Eno's collaboration with U2 as Passengers.
I bought the Miss Sarajevo single on release but I never bought the album. I never really took in how heavily involved the members of U2 were in the Passengers project. I thought there were other collaborators and the album was a mix of all of them. And although there ARE other collaborators, the album *IS* essentially U2 and Brian Eno.
Fifteen years on I have unearthed what feels like an 'undiscovered' U2 album.
It's not the 'usual' U2 album of course, and the main collaborators are really Eno working with The Edge musically – but that is what has made it such a revelation to find after all these years.
I'm sssooo glad I watched that Eno doc now 🙂
Hello Peeps 🙂Since it has been some three weeks since my last post, I thought I'd better post something new up. Only problem is that I haven't really had anything to post! I have been holed up in the house since New Year due to the snow and "treacherous" icy conditions. I haven't been outside since about Dec 28/29. That is until yesterday. We went out with our friend Stan (well, Em's friend and subsequently, mine). We had a lovely bite to eat at a pub in Luton that sells Thai food. VERY nice! Then we went and saw a movie. It was a biopic on Ian Dury called (appropriately enough) Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll. Andy Serkis plays Dury and is quite good. There's mocked up concert footage and Andy actually does all the singing! If the acting work dries up for some reason he can always make a living as a very good Ian Dury tribute act! It was quite non-linear and didn't sort of tell the story from go to woe. But it was enjoyable. LOTS of swearing and even a few c**ts! The music was fab as well, especially (obviously) if you are a Blockheads fan. The things that made us laugh? Some being attributed in the credits as "make-up artist to MacKenzie Crook"! and a middle-aged punk in the cinema, complete with pink dyed mohican! Aah, those were the days! Anyway, that's me for now. Just wanted to post to say that I'm alive and I'd even managed to go outdoors and escape the rabbit hutch for a while! I will leave you with some Mr Dury.
I was listening in to Clive Bull on LBC last night when he brought up the subject of Susan Boyle. Her album release "I Dreamed a Dream" has broken records for being the highest selling debut album in UK chart history, with more than 400,000 sales in the first week of release.Clive asked "Have you bought the album? Does she deserve the success she's had?". He was arguing the point that she's an okay singer, but not GREAT. That her success was from a gimmick, IE: she looked one way and sounded another (his words). That she was just a reality TV personality that had become an instant celebrity in our obsessive celebrity culture. I don't think he can quite fathom the success and thinks it's not justly deserved. Here's my view. We all love an underdog. Boyle is an underdog. She came across, initially, as both shy but flamboyant. A very curious mix. She looked dowdy and while speaking before her performance perhaps came across as quite deluded about her own ability. Then she sang, and people were astonished. I do agree with Clive that her voice is not ASTOUNDING, but simply good. America catches wind of Susan, and instead of America doing what it does best (and fixate itself purely on the aesthetic), it actually got swept up in the whole underdog phenomenon. Just for that aspect ALONE, Susan Boyle should be congratulated. To change the mindset of a whole nation is no mean feat. There's something of the "Eddie the Eagle" about her. The only difference is that Eddie was celebrated for being crap! He was a crap ski-jumper but people got swept up in his enthusiasm and desire to be an Olympian even though he was not the best. Perhaps some people are a little deluded in thinking Susan Boyle's voice is VERY good, but it never stopped Madonna fans! She's a case in point. No one questions her status as a pop icon, but it was very much a balance of talent, sex bomb and shrewd business woman at work there. Who could argue that Madonna's voice is "exceptional"? No one really. Even the biggest fans would have to admit, she's not the BEST singer in the world. But it never really gets argued because she used her sexuality to perhaps sideline the argument. Sadly, poor SuBo doesn't have much sexuality to let the "Is her voice ACTUALLY that good" argument rest. It will always be there. And to answer Clive's question. No, I haven't bought the album (and doubt I will), but I think she DOES deserve the success. Come on! It's an uplifting "underdog achieves" story. We have too few of them these days. So let's celebrate SuBo. Good for her!!
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Purchase Planned To Save Bats
By Monica Keen, Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 12, 2005 4:03 PM CDT
Help is on the way for the endangered Ozark big-eared bat. The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation is expected to receive over $400,000 to purchase land in Adair County near the Sequoyah County line that contains at least three caves used by the endangered bat.
The acquisition is being funded through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation fund and could contribute to getting the Ozark big-eared bat taken off the endangered species list.
According to the conservation department, the land acquisition will protect 820 acres of high quality foraging habitat. These tracts are adjacent to the Ozark Plateau National Wildlife Refuge, which is a satellite of Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge near Vian, Steve Hensley, Ozark Plateau refuge manager, said.
Hensley said the tracts will adjoin the refuge and will be managed cooperatively by the Oklahoma Fish and Wildlife Service and the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. He said the refuge encompasses over 3,000 acres in Adair, Delaware and Ottawa Counties, and the land that will be purchased will be adjacent to the largest tract of the refuge south of Stilwell.
Hensley said only 2,000 of the Ozark big-eared bats remain, and they inhabit property on the Oklahoma-Arkansas state line. He said the largest concentration of bats is around the Stilwell area.
"It's one of the most rare bats in the country," Hensley said.
According to the fish and wildlife service's Web site, the Ozark big-eared bat is the largest and reddest of the five subspecies of P. townsendii. The species is medium-sized and weighs from .2 to .5 ounces. It has very large ears, over one inch, that connect at the base across the forehead.
According to the Web site, "the Ozark big-eared bat was probably never very common. The species is intolerant of human disturbance, which causes them to abandon favorite roosts. Disturbance of hibernating bats causes them to use valuable fat stores and increases the probability of starvation during the winter."
Hensley said the gray bat is also endangered and lives in the area, but there have been efforts made to delist the bats as endangered since their numbers have increased.
Hensley said the refuge is a remote area and is not currently open to the public, but will eventually be open to hunters and residents. He said they are developing a management plan for the area to keep the refuge like a walk-in wilderness.
He noted that the newly-purchased land will belong to the state, which pays in lieu of taxes, so counties won't lose any ad valorem tax money on land being acquired.
Hensley said the land purchase will help protect foraging habitat and to prevent future development of the area.
Ron Suttles, head of natural resources section for the conservation department, said different states are getting funding across the country for various projects to do recovery work on endangered species.
Suttles said the conservation of these caves and surrounding forested habitat will greatly contribute to the recovery of the Ozark bat.
Suttles said the paperwork for the land acquisition probably won't be completed until next year. He noted that the property acquisition is done through a willing seller only arrangement. Suttles said he was not sure on how many landowners have agreed to sell their property.
He said the land acquisition will ensure that these areas are managed specifically for the recovery of the bats, which are indigenous to the area and federally-listed as an endangered species. He said the acreage acquired will also preserve geological features of the area.
"The whole purpose is to contribute to the bat population," Suttles said.
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Web site, the refuge, originally known as the Oklahoma Bat Caves National Wildlife Refuge, encompasses caves that are the maternity sites for Ozark big-eared bat and offer protection to the gray bat. The forested areas surrounding the caves are also important for bat foraging since bats eat various insects, including moths and mosquitoes.
In addition to the bats, a whole ecosystem of cave creatures, including blind cavefish, salamanders, and crayfish, benefit from the security of the caves. Migrating songbirds also use the forested areas for breeding or migrating to their nesting areas further north.
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CHIRP Air Transport FEEDBACK Edition 124 has been published.
In this edition:
Missed RT calls and 'stepped on' transmissions: why do they happen and what can be done?
High temperatures in the cabin and flight deck and an unserviceable air conditioning pack: press on or delay the flight?
Low temperature issues: a passenger concerned about his flight departing with ice on the wings and, separately, a pilot concerned about the risk of pitot icing.
Company mail with an incorrect flight number: a dispatcher's dilemma.
Other issues: Software updates on company-issued tablets. RT phraseology and reading back clearances in full. Using the correct procedures for controlled rest


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Supporters of H.R. 3200 claim that its end of life counseling provision, section 1233, is merely voluntary for the patient. But a closer look shows that section 1233 includes conditions and financial incentives for physicians and other health care providers that create a setting in which an elderly patient's decision to appropriate this option is likely to be less than voluntary.
MercyMe, a Christian rock band, cancelled a performance after their tour bus collided with a car and killed a passenger, the pregnant driver and her unborn child.
Abortion clinic founder Merle Hoffman, in a rambling piece regarding how pro-choicers should respond to sex-selection abortion, shares a story of a Russian woman who came into their clinic for her 36th abortion.
Some believe that the choice of abortion is wrong in all places for all time. But attitudes about abortion are situational, historic and geographic.
My work to open Choices East, a satellite of Choices Women's Medical Center in New York, in the former Soviet Union was inspired by a 35-year-old woman who came to our medical center for her 36th abortion. Like so many other Russian émigré women living in New York, she was violently opposed to using birth control because her Russian doctor taught her that "the Pill" was far more dangerous than repeat abortions. This misinformation benefited Russian physicians because they could earn extra money doing abortions on women in their homes to supplement their three dollars a month salary. Other forms of contraception were unavailable for all practical purposes. For these women, the "issue" of abortion posed no questions of morality, ethics, or women's rights versus fetal life.
Jill at Feministe has a truly odd post regarding Esquire's profile of abortionist Warren Hern. After quoting a diatribe by Hern at length in which Hern calls the prolife movement a "fascist movement" and blames George Tiller's murder on the "hate-speech" of prolifers, she writes about how dangerous it is to compare people to Nazis,
But one thing that Maddow points out is that the rhetoric used even by supposedly "mainstream" groups is intented to incite violence, even as they claim to abhor it. Nazi comparisons are the easy example — I think it's one thing to say that someone's views or beliefs are so extreme that they are reminiscent of popular views in Nazi Germany, or even to point out the similiarities between certain regressive, frighteningly controlling policies and the polices of fascist states. But accusations of Nazism, or being just like Hitler, evokes a particular response. It crosses a line to start arguing that a Democratic leader is basically a Nazi, or to say that healthcare is a "Hitler-like policy being heralded like a Hitler-like logo" and "Obama is asking citizens to rat each other out, just like Hitler did" (those are Rush Limbaugh quotes, for the record; apparently Hitler was extremely concerned with universal health care). As Maddow says, "He's just like Hitler. And you know what that means he deserves, right?"The argument seems to go something like this: prolifers shouldn't compare abortion to genocide or used Hitler/Nazi comparisons because they could incite violence.
But in the next two paragraphs of the Esquire piece from which Jill quoted Hern, the writer briefly defends Bill O'Reilly's right to free speech and then Hern responds by saying this:
He's full of (expletive). This is not a debate, it's a civil war. And the other people are using bullets and bombs. I think O'Reilly is a fascist, and he would fit right in in Nazi Germany as far as I'm concerned.According to Jill, Hern is correct to call prolifers "fascists" and deplore their use of hot rhetoric and saying Bill O'Reilly would have "fit right in in Nazi Germany" is not comment worthy but if prolifers claim that abortion providers kill babies and slaughter innocents, we're over the line. Double standard anyone???


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Sam convinces Dr. Woodard to let he and Joe visit Maggie at Windcliff Sanitarium, something Dr. Julia Hoffman is not in favor of.
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- My name is Victoria Winters. A morning wind has cleared the nighttime mist that shrouded Collinwood and seen from the cliffs the sea and the sky share a summer blue that obscured the far horizon. Hinting perhaps that the boundary dividing Earth and heaven has been dissolved. But other boundaries remain, the boundaries that separate a tormented father from his daughter, the boundaries of knowledge that separate mystery from truth, and the boundaries within the mind that separate a young woman from herself.
At Windcliff Sanitarium, Dr. Julia Hoffman examines Maggie who is still clutching Sarah's doll. Maggie is able to speak a little bit, but begins crying when asked what her name is.
Act I
At the Evans cottage, Sam asks Dr. Woodard why he cannot see Maggie. Dave tells Sam that Julia is not very communicative and there is probably nothing to report. Sam believes they should have heard something and Dave assures him that Dr. Hoffman is very good. Sam asks if Maggie has seen the sketch of Sarah and says he is going stir crazy not hearing anything about Maggie's condition. Dr. Woodard tells him that seeing Maggie may not be in Maggie's best interest, that she is still afraid of something and seeing them may make it worse. Sam eventually convinces Dave to try and arrange a visit and Joe will be coming along. Then Sam becomes paranoid and tells Dave not to call Julia until after he and Joe have already left for Windcliff, believing Hoffman may be more willing to let them see Maggie if they are already there. Dave is reluctant, but tells Sam that he is going to go with them.
Act II
In the car, Joe tells Sam that he is worried Maggie may not recognize them and that scares him. Julia tells Dave she is upset that they have come up and would not have given permission for them to see Maggie. She further tells Dave that she is only concerned with Maggie, not with how her father feels. Julia calls Sam and Joe in for a consultation and tells them that not telling her in advance was unorthodox, but that her methods are also sometimes unorthodox and they should be aware that seeing Maggie could be painful for everyone, and not necessarily in a way they would expect. She then sends Sam and Joe up to see Maggie while Dave stays behind to talk to Julia. Once they are gone Julia tells Dave that she knows what will happen; it will be terrible but it is the only way to discourage future visits. Julia tells Dave how determined she is to find the truth.
Act III
Upstairs the nurse tells Maggie that her father and Joe are here to see her. Maggie does not look up from her doll, so the nurse lets them in. They try to talk to Maggie, but she does not look at them, then drops the doll and goes to the window, trying to get out past the bars. They give her the doll and an impatient Sam makes the mistake of reminding Maggie of the past. She starts singing London Bridge. When she gets to the "lock her up" section she starts to break down. Sam grabs her arm and she runs to the door, hammering on it and screaming "lock her up" until the nurse arrives.
Act IV
Dave and Julia talk about what they are looking for. Julia tells Dave that she has made some progress, but is not ready to divulge any information. Dave asks about the examination of Maggie's blood and Julia says she has found more information about the blood, but says she cannot say more. When Dave describes Maggie's blood sample as "an unholy union", Julia tells him he may have accidentally described it very well, but will not say more. The phone buzzes and Sam and Joe enter. Julia says that the visit was frightening for Maggie and painful for Sam, but Sam doesn't want to talk about it. Julia asks them to trust her, and that the woman he saw was not his daughter, and his absence may hasten the day that the real Maggie returns. Later Julia examines Maggie again, but Maggie is stuck on London Bridge.
Memorable quotes Edit
- Julia: Sympathy can sometimes be a hindrance, or a deterrent, when looking for the truth. In this case, it is the truth alone that concerns me, nothing else!
Dramatis personae Edit
- ← Joel Crothers as Joe Haskell →
- ← David Ford as Sam Evans →
- ← Kathryn Leigh Scott as Maggie Evans →
- ← Robert Gerringer as Dave Woodard →
- Grayson Hall as Julia Hoffman →
- Alice Drummond as Nurse Jackson (uncredited) →
Background information and notes Edit
Production Edit
- First appearance of Grayson Hall and the character Julia Hoffman. Hall would remain with the series until its final episode in 1971.
Story Edit
- Windcliff Sanitarium is seen from the outside and inside for the first time.
- Windcliff Sanitarium is over 100 miles away from Collinsport.
- Later in the series several people, Maggie Evans, Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, Amy Jennings, David Collins and Hallie Stokes will later escape from there and wander into Collinsport in hours and day or two.
- Julia often orders supplies for emergencies at short notice, such as the antidote for Chris Jennings' strychnine poisoning in 678.
- TIMELINE: Day 91 takes place.
Bloopers and continuity errors Edit
External links Edit
Dark Shadows - Episode 265 on the IMDb


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Lately I've been working with a lot of folks around sleep issues.
One of the biggest issues with sleep is waking up in the middle of the night and worrying about not getting back to sleep (and the implications of not getting back to sleep.)
What I have found is that these 2 words work in most situations, almost like magic!
What are the 2 magic words?
"Remaining calm"
Here's what you do – when you wake up in the middle of the night, repeat to yourself "remaining calm" as you tap in your imagination.
That's right! Tap in your imagination only!
Here's why it works – if you can prevent yourself from thinking thoughts that send you into a panic, (such as "I HAVE to get to sleep!"), then you are likely to fall back to sleep easily and naturally.
These 2 words will keep you calm enough to do so –
Sweet Dreams!


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"Bee" a dreamer
This swap could be used for a variety of occasions just by changing the sentiment. I admit that when I made this one I was thinking of some of my friends who sell Longerberger baskets and go to a "Bee" every year, yet to not be so literal I didn't make it yellow...this time. But you can imagine how changing the color and sentiment will give you a new look.
I used Island Indigo, Pool Party, and Whisper White card stock. The background is our awesome new Textured Embossing Folder - Honeycome (whatelse?!) and the new oooohh so cool new Sizzlits S Die - Pinwheel (of course!). The pinwheel was cut from Designer Series Paper 2011-13 In-color Pack. The stamp sets are Collage Curios (bee) and Loving Thoughts (sentiment). I also used Bakers twine and the Word Window & Modern Label punches.
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I drew them, b/c I love them.
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Replace GRUB2 with systemd-boot on Ubuntu 18.04
GRUB2 has always rubbed me the wrong way. It works — most of the time — but its complexity and structural distance from GRUB Legacy make debugging and customization nearly impossible. And maybe it's just me, but I like to keep my
/boot partitions small. As kernel sizes climb ever upward, removing a bloated dependency like GRUB2 becomes more and more attractive.
Enter systemd-boot (f. gummiboot). Put simply, it boots. No pomp and circumstance, just good old fashioned config-file simplicity.
While GRUB2 is still the default bootloader for new Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) installations, it comes with everything you need to run systemd-boot instead. The migration process is very easy, but finding information about how to migrate is not. Uncle Google pointed me toward a few tutorials — mostly for Arch Linux — but had almost nothing covering Debian-based systems, and literally nothing hitting all the necessary points for my damn setup.
The Ingredients
Not that my setup is super weird; it's just a normal amount of weird, I think.
- The laptop boots using the UEFI.
- Secure Boot is enabled.
- XanMod kernels are used instead of stock.
- There is only one disk, an SSD, with three partitions (but no LVM). There's an ext2 boot partition (
/boot), a vfat EFI partition (
/boot/efi), and a LUKS-encrypted root partition (
/dev/mapper/sda3_crypt), beneath which lies a BTRFS partition with @ (
/) and @home (
/home) subvolumes.
That isn't how Ubuntu does things by default, but none of it's crazy, right?
Set Up systemd-boot
Unlike a lot of software, bootloaders can generally exist independently of one another. To be safe, you should leave your working GRUB2 around until you are confident you have systemd-boot set up correctly. If you screw something up, don't sweat it! Just re-reboot, open your BIOS' boot menu, and point it to GRUB2.
With that in mind, let's begin!
For Ubuntu environments, there should be two boot-like partitions. One of them is the proper boot, usually mounted to
/boot, and the other is a special EFI partition, usually mounted to
/boot/efi. As systemd-boot is exclusively designed for the UEFI, most of this tutorial will focus on the latter partition.
# Everything in this tutorial should be done as root:
sudo -i
# Now hop on into the EFI partition root.
cd /boot/efi
# Configuration files will go here:
mkdir -p loader/entries
# And kernels will go here:
mkdir ubuntu
There are two types of configuration files: a loader.conf, which controls general systemd-boot behaviors, and any number of entries, which contain specific launch parameters like kernel and root flags.
Let's start with the main loader configuration. Using the editor of your choice, place something like the following into
default ubuntu
timeout 1
editor 0
Easy, right? We have a default entry item — which we'll make shortly — and a short timeout to allow for human intervention as needed.
The entry configurations are easy too, but there's a hitch: Debian-based systems will not directly install package files to any sort of FAT partition, but EFI won't boot from anything other than a FAT partition. Luckily, the solution is simple: copy your kernels from
/boot to
There's another hitch: systemd-boot does not go out of its way to generate entry configuration files for you. As you add or remove kernels, you'll need to add or remove entries.
To kill two birds with one stone, you can set a kernel postinstall/postrm hook like this. Since I am using XanMod kernels, I adapted it as follows. Either way, you'll want to save the scripts to both
/etc/kernel/postinstall.d/zz-update-systemd-boot and
# This is a simple kernel hook to populate the systemd-boot entries
# whenever kernels are added or removed.
# The UUID of your disk.
# The LUKS volume slug you want to use, which will result in the
# partition being mounted to /dev/mapper/CHANGEME.
# Any rootflags you wish to set.
# Our kernels.
FIND="find /boot -maxdepth 1 -name 'vmlinuz-*' -type f -print0 | sort -rz"
while IFS= read -r -u3 -d $'\0' LINE; do
KERNEL=$(basename "${LINE}")
done 3< <(eval "${FIND}")
# There has to be at least one kernel.
if [ ${#KERNELS[@]} -lt 1 ]; then
echo -e "\e[2msystemd-boot\e[0m \e[1;31mNo kernels found.\e[0m"
exit 1
# Perform a nuclear clean to ensure everything is always in perfect
# sync.
rm /boot/efi/loader/entries/*.conf
rm -rf /boot/efi/ubuntu
mkdir /boot/efi/ubuntu
# Copy the latest kernel files to a consistent place so we can keep
# using the same loader configuration.
echo -e "\e[2msystemd-boot\e[0m \e[1;32m${LATEST}\e[0m"
for FILE in config initrd.img System.map vmlinuz; do
cp "/boot/${FILE}-${LATEST}" "/boot/efi/ubuntu/${FILE}"
cat << EOF > /boot/efi/loader/entries/ubuntu.conf
title Ubuntu GNOME
linux /ubuntu/vmlinuz
initrd /ubuntu/initrd.img
options cryptdevice=UUID=${UUID}:${VOLUME} root=/dev/mapper/${VOLUME} ro rootflags=${ROOTFLAGS}
# Copy any legacy kernels over too, but maintain their version-based
# names to avoid collisions.
if [ ${#KERNELS[@]} -gt 1 ]; then
for VERSION in "${LEGACY[@]}"; do
echo -e "\e[2msystemd-boot\e[0m \e[1;32m${VERSION}\e[0m"
for FILE in config initrd.img System.map vmlinuz; do
cp "/boot/${FILE}-${VERSION}" "/boot/efi/ubuntu/${FILE}-${VERSION}"
cat << EOF > /boot/efi/loader/entries/ubuntu-${VERSION}.conf
title Ubuntu GNOME ${VERSION}
linux /ubuntu/vmlinuz-${VERSION}
initrd /ubuntu/initrd.img-${VERSION}
options cryptdevice=UUID=${UUID}:${VOLUME} root=/dev/mapper/${VOLUME} ro rootflags=${ROOTFLAGS}
# Success!
exit 0
These hooks should be owned by
root and executable. If needed, run:
# Set the right owner.
chown root: /etc/kernel/postinstall.d/zz-update-systemd-boot
chown root: /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-systemd-boot
# Set the right permissions.
chmod 0755 /etc/kernel/postinstall.d/zz-update-systemd-boot
chmod 0755 /etc/kernel/postrm.d/zz-update-systemd-boot
Also, be sure to update the
CHANGEME variables at the top to match your system. You can steal these values from your GRUB2 configuration as needed. For reference, I use
VOLUME="sda3_crypt" and
ROOTFLAGS="subvol=@ quiet splash". (My
@home subvolume is handled in
Once your hooks are customized and saved, reinstall one of the kernel images already on your system. This will let you know whether the hooks work, and assuming they do, copy your kernels to the EFI partition and generate the appropriate systemd-boot entries.
Actually Install systemd-boot
For most people, installation consists of a single command:
# Again, this should go to the EFI partition:
bootctl install --path=/boot/efi
To verify the bootloaders installed on the system — and their order — run:
BootOrder line shows you a comma-separated list of entry IDs in order of priority, after which you'll see a list of IDs mapped to human-friendly names. If everything worked correctly, the first ID in
BootOrder should correspond to
Linux Boot Manager. If it doesn't, you'll probably need to set the boot order from BIOS instead.
Secure Boot
Secure Boot, as always, requires a few extra hoops. If you don't or can't run Secure Boot, you can skip this section and laugh at the rest of us. Otherwise, you'll need to make another bootloader entry, a PreLoader to handle image verification and signing. To get started, download the following two files* to
- PreLoader.efi (MD5:
- HashTool.efi (MD5:
Once the files are in place, run the following commands:
# Rename your true bootloader. PreLoader expects a
# file called "loader.efi".
mv /boot/efi/EFI/systemd/systemd-bootx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/systemd/loader.efi
# Add a bootloader entry for PreLoader. Change X and Y below to
# correspond to your /boot/efi device. For example, if that
# device is /dev/sda1, change "X" to "a" and "Y" to "1".
efibootmgr --disk /dev/sdX --part Y --create --label "PreLoader" --loader /EFI/systemd/PreLoader.efi
# Once again, you can check the bootloader order by running:
If all went well, you should now see the
PreLoader entry set to boot first. If not, you'll have to change the order manually in BIOS.
You should now have a working systemd-boot configuration, but to be sure, you'll need to reboot. So do that now.
For systems with Secure Boot enabled, you should be greeted with a verification error message and a HashTool wizard. Select "Enroll Hash" from the menu and navigate to
loader.efi, enroll its hash, then repeat the process for your actual kernel, e.g.
vmlinuz-ABC123 (which will be up and over a few directories from where you found
Once both image hashes are enrolled, re-reboot, and everything should work A-OK.
The verification error workaround is thankfully only necessary the first time you boot from a given image. (The process for new kernels is identical, except you don't have to re-enroll
If you run into problems, use your native BIOS boot selector to choose GRUB2 so you can get back in and fix whatever unforgivable mistake prevented systemd-boot from working.
Clean Up
Once systemd-boot is working, you can safely remove GRUB2.
# Purge the packages.
apt-get purge grub*
# Purge any obsolete dependencies.
apt-get autoremove --purge
Purging the packages may or may not purge all the crap GRUB dumped into your
/boot and
/boot/efi partitions. To free up space, you should manually stroll through those directories and delete any GRUB leftovers.
That's it! The few seconds spent booting your system should now be a little brighter.


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Damn Bruce you are so right, no Compressor
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22nd September 2006
Gear Nut
Damn Bruce you are so right, no Compressor
Last Night
i recorded a Band without any compresson.
in the beginning it was really tricky to find a way to control the dynamic, because
most clients off me are not very proffesionel like michael jackson
and they
can`t really control their dynamic.
so i changed my workflow. everytime they lost there dynamic range i stoped the recording and started at this point.
after i finished equing ( sorry for that )
, i noticed the much more from this mix. it is absolutly impressing.
in the end i needed much less time for the hole work, because there was any harshness in the highend for equing.
my best sounding album was my first album and i didn`t know why ?!
i had no money for a compressor
thank you bruce, to go back to the roots .


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Our Deluxe Rooms are one of a kind
All our rooms are named after iconic Highland salmon rivers and each impeccably appointed around a unique vibrant Highland tweed. Beauly, Brora, Helmsdale, Oykel and Shin are located within the original Manse House and are traditionally styled with period antiques and artwork, writing desks and spacious en-suite bathrooms.
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The Rockford campus Diversity Office is part of the larger UI COM Diversity Mission. The campus strives to achieve the goals of diversity and inclusion which are consistent across campuses while working locally to implement programs which support this agenda.
The Assistant Dean for Diversity in Rockford is Pedro Rodriguez, MD. Dr. Rodriguez works closely with the Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at the College of Medicine, Dr. William Walden who is to be replaced in the fall by Dr. Gloria Elam.
The University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford is pleased to announce that Pedro Rodriguez, MD, has joined our faculty as Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion. In this role, Dr. Rodriguez will lead efforts to further support a diverse and inclusive culture on campus. While serving as an advisor to the Dean and department heads regarding diversity, he will also work with educational leaders to develop curricula that address cultural competence and its impact on patient care.
"We are delighted to have Dr. Rodriguez drive the initiatives and programs to cultivate a climate of diversity and equity in which individual students, faculty, and staff feel welcomed, valued for their contributions, and feel their identities can be openly expressed," said Dr. Alex Stagnaro-Green, Dean of the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford. "We are an academic medical center committed to developing an optimal learning environment for training healthcare professionals, conducting innovative research, and dedicated to improving the health and wellness of our society. Dr. Rodriguez's experience and educational background make him an excellent addition to our faculty and we are excited to have him drive our efforts to recruit and retain faculty to improve and expand diversity and inclusion." Additionally, Dr. Rodriguez will work with the Offices of Student and Academic Affairs in addressing issues of climate for diverse student populations.
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Sunday, June 5, 2011
just so you know :):):)
Well, this is a first for me :) posting a blog post from my phone :) wanted to thank everyone for their well wishes about my dental appointment yesterday :) I really appreciate it :) my mouth still hurts, and I have to go back on monday to do some more work....I guess this is the price I pay when I have stupidily ignored going to the dentist because of the MAJOR anxiety I have when I am sitting in their chairs....so bad, that I cry at every visit :(
.but again I want to thank everyone for their well wishes.....I so appreciate it :):):)
Now....for the reason I am posting from my phone :) my internet has NOT been the greatest since we moved......it has gone down A LOT since we have been on our new place :( in fact just yesterday we had a tech out and he gave us a new modem.....wellllllllll starting at about 4:30 this morning...our modem went out AGAIN :( this time I spent over an hour on the phone with our internet provider and THEY SAY they are going to have someone out today to fix it......so I wanted you all to know.....I will be back when I can :):):).....
Hopefully there aren't too many spelling errors in this post .....lol :) thanks for stopping by....I appreciate it :):):(:):(
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Julie. Sorry your mouth hurts. I understand about not wanting to go to the dentist. I'm terrified. Hope your internet issues get fixed correctly and soon.ReplyDelete
I hate how much we depend on the internet and computers. I'm very thankful I have a super geek for a husband, but he has another job other than serving all my computer demands for faster speed and higher tech gadgets. Here's hoping that a super blogger like you is back up and running soon.ReplyDelete
BTW.....I have a crapload of goodies going to Nikki for Joplin. I think the shipping is gonna kill me, but hey it's for a good cause...right!
Love ya'
Oh dear, I better make an appointment at my dentist reading your story. I too am chicken when it comes to sitting in that chair!ReplyDelete
hope your internet will be up and running very soon.
Ohhhh Julie...it wasn't that long ago I had my own problems w/ internet service and spent like 4 hours on the phone w/ the techs!!ReplyDelete
Good Luck!!
Hmmm.... I'm not sure what's worse? A trip to the dentist or no Internet? Poo on both! :-(ReplyDelete
Hey Dear I also had problems with internet .. and that is very moltReplyDelete
But I understand completely ..
I was here! not on your blog before but I'll go quietly now look!
hugs carla
I hope it's fixed soon Julie, your mouth as well as the modem! Hang in there girl...ReplyDelete
Shame my friend! I have never posted from my phone - my post would be terrible if I had to try to do that :) I am so sorry you are experiencing so many difficulties with your internet...that is so often the case when you move but it will all be sorted out in the end :)ReplyDelete
The dentist is no fun! )= Hope your feeling better soon!! (= Good luck with your internet service. I know how frustating it can be!! We have had our share of computer issues lately!!!ReplyDelete
Hope your internet is restored soon...that can be so frustrating!ReplyDelete
Good luck Julie! With your mouth AND the internet problems!!ReplyDelete
Hugs to ya Julie. I have the same anxiety about the dentist. I'll be going soon myself. Hope your internet is up soon. :)ReplyDelete
Sorry to hear about the pain.... hugs.....ReplyDelete
My phone is one big autocorrect fail after another, so I'd be scared to post from there LOL. Glad your dental appt went okay and hope you are feeling better now :)ReplyDelete
How annoying for the internet. I have major dentist anxiety too. I recently found out I have my first two cavities. I had a major panic attack in the chair. Crying and all. I've never had any dental work done other than cleanings. My grandma made it to 45 w/ no cavities. I thought I had another 10 years or close! ARGH! He wrote me a script for valium. haha I have yet to make the appt to get the cavities done..yet.. I know yours is probably more severe than mine, but we both have the anxiety and thats what is truly the horrible part. At least for me.*hugs*ReplyDelete
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When it comes to privacy, a business can't be too careful.
That's apparently the stance over at General Mills, the parent company to a long list of household brands, including Pillsbury, Cheerios, Betty Crocker, Yoplait, Bisquick and Gold Label.
General Mills this month made changes to its Privacy Policy and its Legal Terms, which now take away a consumer's right to sue the company if he or she has Liked the company on Facebook (aka "joined" its online communities), downloaded coupons, entered a sweepstakes or contest hosted by the company, or interacted with it in a variety of other ways, The New York Times reported April 16.
Put another way: If a peanut winds up where it shouldn't be—to dangerous results—but you're Facebook Friends with GM, you've given up your right to sue.
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The report is fascinating on several fronts. First, for the stunning audacity of a company that makes food (a product with so much potential for harm) to skirt the use of a judge and jury in favor of an arbitrator—and to do so in a way that's surely unclear to most people. (Like me!)
I also hadn't realized quite how many businesses, from wireless carriers to major banks, home builders and nursing homes, had also taken the arbitrator approach. The Times linked to the site of Public Citizen, a public advocacy group that, among its causes, works to "blow the whistle" on companies "that are taking away your rights with this predatory practice."
The site includes links to the "forced arbitration provisions" in contracts from companies including AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Comcast, DirectTV, Chase, Discover and American Express.
Finally, reading General Mills' new Legal Terms, I was amazed—or maybe just amazingly depressed—to realize how much this cereal company is interested in knowing about me and you. The new terms are worth reading.
General Mills discloses that it collects, among other things, information such as: the type of devices we're using, the operating system we're on, the browser we're using, whatever it can glean about us from social networks, and what it learns from "other sources where permitted by law."
It also receives information from Facebook, Twitter and other social networks about our contacts.
If you visit a General Mills Website or click on an ad on its site, expect that it's taking note of the "Websites or online services you visit before or after our Site."
The company may also turn to public aggregators to learn your social networking IDs, demographic information, postal address and income level.
Then, it might share all the information it's collected "among our various businesses, and within our family and affiliated companies," as well as with service providers and "third parties." Surely, that's all safe.
General Mills adds, "We know that maintaining your trust requires that we protect your privacy—so we are very sensitive to the privacy concerns of those who use our websites, our pages and applications on third-party social-networking services, our emails and our mobile applications. …"
The government is spying on all of us, I get that. But when even the company that makes breakfast wants to know about my income and operating system preference—and if they want to know it, that means all the companies we interact with do—it feels like technology has devolved society.
It makes me want my own new Terms and Policies.


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Donna's Crocheted Sweater
|Copyright Donna Eng
Photo courtesy of Ellen Lynch
1 Skein of 3 ply baby yarn,
Size G hook, tapestry needle
Tc = triple crochet Pattern: Repeat of Rows 2 + 3
Row 1: Sc in second ch from hook, sc across. Ch 1 turn (53)
Row 2: Sc in first sc, (tc in next sc, sc in next sc) across . Ch 1 turn (53).
Row 3: Sc in each sc across (53).
Row 4- 10: Repeat Row 2 and 3 for pattern.
Row 11: Sc 21 (21 sc). Ch1 turn.
Row 12: Sc in first sc (tc in next sc, sc in next sc) across.
Row 13: Repeat Row 3 (21)
Row 14: Repeat Row 12.
Row 15: Sc across. DO NOT TURN. Ch 8 , turn (Be careful not to twist Ch 8)
Row 16: Working into back side of ch , sc in third ch from hook *(tc in next sc, sc in next sc) repeat From * across. (27)
Row 17: Sc in each sc across.
Row 18: Ch 1, repeat Row 2.
Row 19: Sc across (27).
Row 20 + 21: Repeat Rows 18 and 19.
Row 22: Sc across. Fasten off. Leave Long strand of yarn to sew sleeve.
BACK NECK EDGE AND SHAPING OF LEFT SHOULDER AND LEFT NECK EDGE: (With right side of work facing you, return to Row 11.Skip the next 11 stitches. Attach to 12th stitch:
Row 11: Sc across (21 sc).
Row 12 - 13: Repeat Rows 2 + 3 for pattern (21).
Row 14: Repeat Row 2. Fasten off (21)
Row 15: Form slip knot and ch 6 then take up your work and sc across (27)
Row 16 - 21 : Repeat Rows 2 + 3.
Row 22: Sc across. Fasten off.
SLEEVE SEAM: Placing right sides of yolk and sleeves together, sew underarm sleeve seam in first 15 st from sleeve edge. Turn yolk and sleeves right side out again.
Row 1: Working from right side of work, join thread in first stitch of left yolk, ch 2 (tc in next sc, sc in Next sc) across. (53).
Row 2: Sc across (53)
Row 3 - 19: Pattern . Repeat Rows 1 + 2 . DO NOT TURN.
FINISHING EDGE: Working from the right side (evenly spacing ) ch 1 , sc up right front edge , around neck edge and down left side, and across bottom. (at each corner, sc, ch1, sc). Join with slip stitch, thread off and weave in the ends.
Sew button : (align with any hole in pattern) (for girl) on left side (for boy) on right side
To create ties: Attach yarn to the top of one side of the sweater and ch 25. Do the same on matching opposite side.
Try different size hooks for different sizes. Find one that is comfortable for you.
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Apple V Android: Market Share. When we think of smart phones people often think first of Apple before Android. That's interesting in light of the fact that in terms of numbers of people using Android devices the market is split as follows: Android 79% of the market, iOS 14.2%, Windows, 3.3%, BlackBerry 2.7 %others 0.7%.
Pretty comprehensive domination from Android then! So why is it so many of us think Apple when we consider the concept of the smartphone? Surely it must be the branding, the marketing, the product simplicity the single design purist approach with only black or white models available. Android is happy to be diverse in design and manufacture to carry its OS. There are in excess of a thousand devices carrying the OS.
Smartphones, like many other products sell worldwide but the world is not a simple single marketplace. The development of a market in emerging nations of Asia and Africa in particular has undoubtedly helped the Android OS. Devices priced under£ 60.00 help popularise Android, in short its relatively affordable whilst iOS needs an expensive Apple iPhone to run on which are several times the price. According to Gartner, Asia/Pacific, Latin America and Eastern Europe had the highest smartphone growth rates of 74.1%, 55.7% and 31.6% respectively, compared to the same quarter in 2012. This is largely growth in Android OS based devices.
Apple is recognized as more of a luxury item and hence may be considered as niche. Android on the other hand is increasingly the people's phone. Between Apple and Android -with a teeny bit of help from the likes of Windows and Blackberry (though for how long is anyone's guess)- smartphones account for 51.8% of the market share for mobile phones. It's amazing to think that it was only last month that the number of devices sold in a quarter finally out sell on the smartphone OS's as opposed to the traditional "feature phone's". This 51.8% figure is startling considering that 12 months ago the smartphone market accounted for only 36% of the market. meanwhile the never tiring wheels of marketing will grind on. Apple have their high profile annual jamboree very shortly…. Watch this space.


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In a Glass Grimmly, by Adam Gidwitz (Dutton Juvenile, Sept. 27, 2012, middle grade)
In A Tale Dark and Grimm (2010), Gidwitz fractured the story of Hansel and Gretel into a quest that was a conglomeration of several fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. In a Glass Grimmly is a companion to that story, again drawing on several desperate tales to make a surprisingly coherent narrative about the trials and tribulations that befall royal children Jill and Jack. As in the first book, there are frequent intrusions from the narrator, a considerable helping of danger, and some really unpleasant moments. But there's also humor, and hope, and character growth to balance off the less cozy aspects of the tale....
Both Jack and Jill are leading lives that are somewhat twisted--Jack longs to be accepted by the village boys, and Jill longs to be as beautiful as her beautiful mother, so as to win attention from her. But when the tailor responsible for the Emperor's New Clothes comes to town, Jill finds herself the victim of his cruelty....and runs off the village where Jack lives. Jack has his own problems--he's just traded a cow for a bean. And these happenings set in motion a journey that will take the children on a quest of a mirror that will tell the truth to whoever looks into it...if they can deliver the mirror to the mysterious woman who asked them to find it, they'll get their hearts desire. If they don't get it, they've agreed their lives are forfeit. It's the sort of quest that involves dangers from goblins, giants, evil mermaids, and finally a face to face encounter with a massive, very fiery salamander.
And it's the sort of quest where, when all the pieces fall into place, Jill and Jack have changed so much that what they thought they wanted--validation from others--has changed as well....
Comic relief along the way is provided by a three-legged frog (throwing a frog against a wall doesn't actually turn a frog into a prince, you know. It just hurts him). And the pluck of the two kids, and their quick wits adds zest to the story. So all in all, I found it a very diverting read, one I preferred to the first book. I'm not quite sure why that last is so--perhaps this book had a more hopeful, interior oriented character arc, perhaps the authorial intrusions were intruded with a more practiced hand, perhaps I just found Jack and Jill more interesting...perhaps it's because I liked the frog.
In short, although A Tale Dark and Grimm didn't work for me, this one did, and I can wholeheartedly recommend it to kids from fourth grade on up (yeah, it's dark, but so is Harry Potter). I know lots of people loved ATDAG--I'd love to hear from any of you who did about whether this one worked as well for you!
And as a final aside--there's no need to have read the first book before picking this one up, and there's no real need to know the fairy tales, although it adds considerably to the interest.
disclaimer: review copy received from the publisher
In a Glass Grimmly, by Adam Gidwitz
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I'm so glad you reviewed this. I too was not a big fan of the first one and was on the fence about reading this one. I'll take it as a good sign that you liked it better and give it a chance.ReplyDelete
OH YAY! I have this to read from BEA and since I liked A Tale Dark And Grimm, I am really anticipating this one even more because you actually liked it!ReplyDelete
I've been meaning to read both the first one and this one since it came out. I will read pretty much any fairy tale retellings, and I like when authors combine many fairy tales into one plot. Great review, Charlotte!ReplyDelete
I hope you both enjoy it!ReplyDelete
I just loved the first one. I wish my library had the second!!!ReplyDelete
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Ladies, many of us wear makeup. Some of us use our hands to apply it (which should always be clean to prevent the spread of bacteria to your face from your hands), while others rely on makeup brushes or sponges. One of the most important things to prevent blemished skin that is often overlooked, is regularly cleaning your makeup brushes. Leaving old makeup on them and then reusing them without cleaning creates a breeding ground for bacteria. It also can transfer bacteria back into your makeup.
Washing your makeup brushes should be a regular part of your beauty routine. You wash your face, your body and your clothing; you should most definitely be adding washing your makeup brushes and sponges into the mix. Luckily, cleaning your makeup brushes is quick and easy. The first step is picking up a brush cleaner and spritzing after each use, you can find products at Sephora and Target for this. Once a week you should give your brushes a nice deep clean (note that brushes will need a few hours to dry after deep cleaning, so it's best to clean them after you've applied makeup for the day).
Here is what you'll need to properly clean your brushes and sponges:
- A shallow bowl
- Gentle clarifying shampoo or baby shampoo
- Your sink
- A lint free cloth
- Begin by running your brushes under lukewarm water, rinsing out the residual makeup. Try to focus o the actual bristles while avoiding the part of the brush where the bristles are glued in, excess exposure to water over time can cause the bristles to loosen
- Fill a bowl with lukewarm water and quirt a tiny amount of shampoo into it. Gentle swirl your brush tip in the water, you can also swirl the brush tip in the palm of your (clean) hand and work up a lather
- Rinse the brush tip under running water once again. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until the water runs clear from the brush
- Use a cloth to wipe your brush clean, reshaping the bristles as you go
- Lay your brushes flat on a cloth to dry
And there you have it! A cleaner brush, means a cleaner face! And BONUS! Cleaning your brushes also helps your make-up brushes last longer too!


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Coming Clean About My Time in Advertising
Derek Walker
It feels so good to finally come clean -- I've never worked in advertising!
I have to thank my sons for helping me face the truth and giving me strength to make this admission.
On the way home from the movies, my youngest son, Micah said, "I want to be like you, daddy, and never have a job."
"What?!" I responded, trying to keep the car on the road.
Before I could say anything else, his brother Devin chimed in, "Me too! I don't ever want a job!"
At this time, my head was spinning, thinking about how their mother's going to kill me -- I am so dead, so very dead. Yall just don't know how ugly this is going to be. (Remember, no matter what anyone says, that was no "freak grilling explosion!")
Devin, sensing my panic, I hope, continued, "I want to do something I love for a living. I don't think I want to work a 'job.' I've been thinking I want to create comic books."
"I'm going to write books! Mainly science fiction, maybe some graphic novels," added Micah.
My heart was finally beating again; I may get to live. For the rest of the drive, we talked about the projects they have in mind, and what it takes to realize their dreams. I didn't sugarcoat it for them, I let them know how hard it is to make a living by writing.
Halfway through our conversation, Micah's comment hit me: "I want to be like you, daddy, and never have a job."
"Excuse me, but what makes you think I've never had a job?" I asked. I wanted to hear this.
"You call it work but you really enjoy advertising, you're always talking about it, reading about it, writing about it. You do know that there's more on YouTube than just commercials?" responded Devin.
"That's not a job," agreed Micah, "you enjoy it too much."
Children sometimes see things more clearly and simply than we do.
I haven't ever had a job in advertising.
Advertising isn't a job to me. I'm not doing this until I can sell a screenplay or movie idea or TV show. I'm not trying to figure out how to write a book. Advertising is my dream. And that explains a lot.
(I know right about now, some of you are going to ask about the bad bosses I wrote about previously. Yes, they were bad, horrible, terrible, horrendous and dreadful but even then I never thought to myself, "I'm done with advertising, I'm going to find me another job." I always thought to myself, "how much more fun this would be if this idiot would get hit by an asteroid or at least a small car?" But I never wanted to quit advertising.)
A fellow blogger recently asked me to put down my "student of advertising hat and put on my business owner hat to answer a question." And I couldn't. I tried to answer his question as a business owner, and the more I tried, the more I realized that for me, the two are the same.
I don't want to run my agency like it a business, I want to run it like it is an advertising agency. I want to be creative in everything I do: how I pay my people, how I view profit, how I manage staff, how I brand the agency, how I approach finding the right clients and everything else. All of it has to be done like I'm running an agency, not a business. To me there is a huge difference.
I see advertising differently, and the more I write this blog, the more I realize how very differently I see things. I've had my butt kicked by this industry but I'm still here banging away. Why? It isn't the money or the opportunities.
It is the creativity.
It's the one thing that when agencies work right, we do better than anyone else on the planet. Yes, Harry Webber, I know so many agencies do it poorly, but there are those out here that get it right consistently, that deliver creative solutions that speak to the human being in all of us, that touch a universal emotion in all of us, that make a connection and cause us to "get it."
It is a shame that clients are now looking to increase their level of creativity to make up for our deficiency of creative thinking. Just thinking about that makes me so angry because I know we can do better.
In my career, I have helped to create one or two campaigns that I felt did this. And let me tell you, if you've ever created something that you know touches people, you are hooked! You will spend the rest of your days trying to create it again; it is intoxicating and humbling.
This is why I rage against the hype of digital and social, this is why I scoff at the thought that there is no such thing as the "big idea," and it is why I am deeply offended by the assumption that what we do is so easy or unimportant that any Tom, Dick or Harry can walk in off the street and do what we do.
All of which is so untrue.
Here's a little secret: True geniuses do things so well that they make it look easy, but when you try to create on their level, you discover how difficult it really is. I know there are those of you that don't believe this. And we can discuss it, but if it wasn't true then the quality of the majority of advertising would not suck as much as it does.
I'm not saying I'm at that level yet, but I am striving to be. I'm not ashamed to be passionate about this thing we do. I want to be the best. And if you don't, then why are you here? Seriously. I am really curious about that.
I can't imagine working for an extended period of time doing something that I did not enjoy. And trust me, I should know. I have had jobs in my past. My path into advertising was neither smooth nor easy.
So, when I reflect on the words of my sons, I have to wonder why anyone would work in advertising if it were just a job to him/her? There have got to be better paying, better-benefits-having and more stable jobs to work than those in advertising.
I have never worked in advertising.
Wow. It feels so good to say that! I've been wanting to say this for the longest time.
And I know I am not the only one. (You don't have to be in the creative department to feel this way about advertising.) Go ahead and say it. You'll feel so much better. You don't have to say it out loud, you can whisper it to yourself.
See, I told you.
Derek Walker is the janitor, secretary and mailroom person for his tiny agency, brown and browner advertising, based in Columbia, S.C.


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The slow dripping sound of fresh maple sap hitting a tin bucket isn't heard as often as it once was. Horses pulling wagons of sap buckets and home-made molds for maple candy are also nearly bygone practices. Vermont Edition is reviving some of the old-school traditions of maple sugaring in Vermont and tracing its long history back to the 1600s with Betty Ann Lockhart, author of Maple Sugarin' in Vermont: A Sweet History.
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Also in the program, Olympic excitement continues this weekend with the opening of Paralympics. Six hundred international athletes with a variety of physical disabilities will compete in Alpine Skiing, Biathlon, Cross-Country Skiing, Ice Sledge Hockey and Wheelchair Curling. We talk with Maggie Burke, a program coordinator from Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports, one of six coaches and program leaders selected to participate in the Paralympic Experience Program.


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Brits Prefer Web to a Cuppa
It would appear dear readers that fooling around on the internet has outpaced breaking for a cuppa as a favourite workday pastime.
A new study quoted this afternoon on Classic FM radio found that British workers spend 54 minutes of their workday trawling the web, compared with 17 minutes spent making tea.
The big question, of course, is how many of those 54 minutes is spent on travel-related sites?
I emailed Classic FM in an attempt to find the source of the study, but alas I could not post my question unless I requested a song.
In order to do so, I had to complete an online form and then I had to think of a song I wanted to hear [I chose Vivaldi's Four Seasons, in case anyone's interested].
I then got a bit distracted by the current playlist and all of the other goodies on the Classic FM site.
Suffice it to say that, having spent a total of 21 minutes and 42 seconds logging on to the site, filling out the form, requesting a song, looking at other odd tidbits and writing this blog, I have every reason to believe the survey is correct.
Excuse me now while I go make myself a pot of Earl Grey.
Tricia Holly Davis, chief writer, Travolution


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New York Magazine posted a tantalizing item today in their "Grub Street" food blog – the existence of a bar that serves moonshine in Brooklyn. The author would not reveal the name of the bar, but I think that a budding Nancy Drew/Hardy Boy among our readers could probably figure it out based on the clues in the article. If anyone can identify the bar, their first shot of moonshine is on me. Seriously.
Embedded clues:
1. "There's a saloon in Brooklyn that will pull [moonshine] from under the bar if you ask nicely." – The bar is in Brooklyn and it has a bar in it with moonshine under it.
2. "We won't give away the place's identity, but we will tell you to look for a bulldog." – The bar has a bulldog in or near it. Possibly real, possibly a statue. Rule nothing out.
3. "We were recently treated to a few eye-popping, sinus-destroying shots, poured from the obligatory Mason jar." – Patrons suffering from terrible allergies. Not unlike all New Yorkers this week.
4. "We called later to request it for a friend's birthday party." – The bar has a telephone. In it, presumably.