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Buying a home for yourself as well as your loved ones is possibly the biggest financial decision you may make in your life. Therefore, there are a lot of points to consider before you may make your choice.
· The Pros of buying your own home
1. Ownership of property
The fundamental difference between renting a home and buying one is that the amount you pay for mortgage payments will eventually serve to ensure that one day after all the payments have been completed you would be the 'whole and soul owner' of your very own property. Moreover, you can also opt to refinance your house and be able to utilize the funds generated in this way for either renovating your home (or thereby further enhancing its value) or alternately any major expenditure that you may have in mind.
2. Stability
Since you live on your own property, you can pretty much do what you like with it and are not answerable to any landlord and would not have to worry about having your rents increased or being evicted from a place that you may have grown to think of as your own home.
· Disadvantages of owning your own property
3. You cannot shift easily
In case you have to move urgently to some other city or locality, you would have to sell your house. This may not be done simply and easily and you might need to wait until a real estate agent finds a prospective buyer or alternately you may decide to sell at a loss, quite unlike rented premises in which case you would simply relocate elsewhere.
4. All repairs are your own responsibility
Unlike rented accommodation, any repair or routine maintenance work is your own personal responsibility.
· Advantages of rented accommodation
5. Low Cost
It is a whole lot cheaper than buying your own place. Buying a house may mean you would end up being indebted for years, if not decades, while rented accommodation gives you the flexibility of changing your home as and when you want.
6. No need for DIY (Do it yourself projects)
Renting a house a allows you to let your landlord deal with such irksome problems as a ruptured mains or sewage pipes, rats, spiders and other assorted creepy crawlies that may infest the house.
7. Fluctuations in the real estate market
If the price of the property you are living in were to drop, it would not be of any consequences to you if you occupy it as a tenant. And moreover, as an added bonus it might lead to lower monthly rent payments.
· Disadvantages of rental accommodation
8. No opportunity to build equity
Every dollar you pay for rent is gone forever. In other words, you cannot build any equity. In case, you have to face adverse financial conditions, and are unable to pay your monthly rent, you might face eviction from your home.
9. Higher rents
Your landlord (property owner) has the authority to raise rents once your original agreement expires and as such, you would be forced to pay higher or seek alternative accommodation.


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I Have No Time to Train My Dog
You say you have no time for training your dog? I hear you loud and clear. Dog owners and non-dog owners alike, all over America, are time crunched.
As a dog owner, your time is stretched, in high demand with your work or business pulling you in one direction, family pulling you in another – and oh yeah, do you want a life? Life is that "fun part of living" I think! And then there is what the dog needs. Behavior problems usually develop with no time given to the dog. But with no time for training your dog, how can life with your dog ever take shape in a meaningful way – problem free?
What Keeps You From Training Your Dog?
I did a short, informal survey asking one honest question: What keeps you from training your dog?
The response was predictable: LACK OF TIME!
Boy! I couldn't believe it! This question fetched up somewhat guilty emotional responses from dog owners such as, "When I'm in a hurry I let my dog get away with things and feel I don't have time to address the behavior right then."
Another writes in, "If I need to hurry up and get somewhere quickly, I won't stop to correct my dog from pulling on leash. I just let him pull to quickly get the walk over with."
It's truly amazing. Here's a dog that has been waiting all day for its owner to get home and it gets cheated out of a good long walk which he's been waiting for nearly 8-10 hours. Some dog owners just don't take the time to spend any quality time with their dogs. That's a dog owner, not a dog partner.
Your Dog Needs Attention and Training
One dog owner confesses to, "Turning a blind eye to misbehavior – in the interest of time or when they are in a hurry."
Some blame their spouses or significant others for not holding up their end of the bargain.
Parents also get dogs for their kids – kids promising to feed and walk the dog as part of learning good dog responsibility then loose interest.
The parents then get saddled with the added responsibility and the dog gets the short end of the deal – again. The list goes on.
Most people will readily admit, "I have no time for training my dog." Here's more proof.
I Have NO Time to Train My Dog, I'll Just Calm Him with Prozac
This dog owner was overheard in the vet clinic complaining about her dog, "I don't have the time or money to fix the dog – just gimme my Doggie Prozac." She cranked up her Mercedes and took off in a puff of diesel smoke – her poor car in as much disrepair as her dog.
As a result, many dogs are left in the back yard to amuse themselves then often get punished when they get bored and become destructive. Dogs are not lawn ornaments.
Dogs Are Thinking Creatures
Dogs have natural instincts to hunt and explore which include activities like running, chasing, biting and chewing.
To deprive them of the opportunity to follow their instincts on a regular daily basis is not respecting their needs as a dog.
As I've said before, dog owners satisfy their own needs with their dogs while dog partners balance their needs with the needs of their 4-legged partner. That's a win-win in my book.
Think about this: spending time training and exercising with your dog will build that perfect partnership.
Dog Training Changes Your Dog and You
You should be constructively managing his energy anyway, so walk your dog. Exercise your dog and train your dog. Your dog deserves a great partner with which to share life. Dog training doesn't have to be burdensome – in fact it can be quite enjoyable.
Guess what? The funny thing about it is that owners will be the first to admit that they've seen a dramatic change in their dog's behavior when they remember to train.
The Easy Way to Train Your Dog in A Short Time
Want to see a dramatic change in your dog's behavior? Then listen up. The really cool thing is that it doesn't matter if you have just a little time for your new puppy or adult dog.
Both puppies and dogs are just trying to figure out what works. If you tell them what works (sit for affection) before they figure out on their own what works for them, it will be a win-win situation.
Because I know you were already time-crunched, I wanted to share three tips here with you from an article I wrote a while back on "How to Keep Training Short, Simple and Successful." In this article I mentioned some of my training tips that can be easily applied to training your dog today.
Three Very Simply Dog Training Tips
• Consistently work on leash each time you train. It keeps them in the classroom and helps to maintain focus – yes, even in the house.
• Always keep your training sessions short. Train for 2 minutes, 3 times a day.
• Repeat the training for your dog in a quiet environment at first, and then gradually add distractions around which your dog will be required to behave.
Did you notice the words I used with each tip. They all mean the same thing: consistency.
That's because being consistent is the key to dog training – not time. But consistency builds time. That's the secret.
More Repetitive Training Equals Fewer Dog Problems
Remembering to require your dog to do a sit consistently for everything will go a long way to producing that obedient, 4-legged partner of yours. Walking your dog twice daily for at least 45 minutes will endear him to you for life.
And if you dare, add those weekend trips to the beach, the park or what ever your dog favors. Don't know? There's no time like the present to find out! Have fun exploring!
"Sharing Time" Let us know your thoughts on today's issue by commenting below – I'm here to help.
"Together, We Can Raise a Happy and Obedient Dog"
Jim Burwell, professional dog trainer for 25+ years, serving 8700+ clients, has a profound understanding of dog behavior and the many things, we as humans, do that influence that behavior – good or bad. Jim has the ability to not only steer dogs and puppies down the right path but to also train the owners to understand their part in having a great dog.
His Ground Rules for Great Dogs is the culmination of these years of training into an easy, step-by-step process so that when your dog understands what you expect of him, you empower him to be able to give you the behavior you want and you empower him to be successful at living in a human home.

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Château to Rent in Dordogne
Located in Périgord, Château le Mas de Montet is nestled in the heart of a 60-hectare park with tall trees.
A Luxury Château in Périgord
Combining renaissance charm and luxury with 21st century comfort, Château le Mas de Montet is a venue like no other to host a wedding, team building seminar or end-of-the-year party. The château features 10 luxury rooms, each designed to surround you with elegance and wellness. We also have a heated outdoor swimming pool that is surrounded by a furnished sun deck.
Sitting on a green and picturesque 60-hectare park, the location of the château is truly idyllic. It also offers easy links to Charente and Dordogne and it is just a stone's throw away from Gironde and the vineyards of the Bordeaux region.
The Park
Château le Mas de Montet is located in a green and peaceful environment, well protected from unpleasant winds and perfect for sunbathing. Discover our lovely 60-hectare park and the paths around the property on foot, by bike or on horseback.
As the seasons change, so do the animal and bird species that visit us, including red squirrels, deer and hares. Our park makes a great spot for observing the animals.
Visit us to discover an outdoor paradise and to relax in the heart of nature.
The park also lies on a popular migratory route for cranes, offering front-row seats to a spectacular wildlife phenomenon! The green setting of the château is composed of an arboretum planted in the 19th century by the Marquis de Natte.
The park is home to plane trees, giant sequoias, chestnut trees, oaks, beeches and truffle trees.
It is bordered by canals and arms of Dronne, a 201-kilometre long river in south-western France.
Less than two kilometres from the centre of Petit-Bersac and hidden in the shade of a large park with century-old trees is an elegant Renaissance-style residence called Château le Mas de Montet.
The origin of the name of the château goes back to the Gallo-Roman period and comes from the word "mansion", which means a stop or stage of a journey.
The château is home to many remnants of the 15th and 16th centuries and an important restoration operation has been carried out to preserve them.
The archives of the Marquis de Cumond allow us to trace the history of the château to 1509 when a member of the de Malleret family (Pierre de Malleret) married Jacquette, daughter of Jean de Signac, living in the house of the prior, which they named Mas de Montet, in memory of the Mas de Montet de Petit-Bersac, the birthplace of their old house.
It can also be established that, in 1765, an ancestor of the Marquis de Cumond married Marie Jacqueline Augustine de La Cropte de Chantérac, daughter of François David de La Cropte de Chantérac, descendant of the Marshal of Aubeterre
The de La Cropte family, whose genealogy can be traced as far back as 1271, had, among other lordships, that of Mas de Montet de Petit-Bersac.
Château le Mas de Montet was attributed to Louisa Mathilde Marie du Lau d'Allemans in 1861 by her father. She was born in 1840 and married Pierre Marie Béranger in Paris. He was the Marquis de Nattes, born on May 25th 1829 in Montpellier.
The family left a very vivid mark on the commune and some "elders" still speak of them. Much has been chronicled about the character and behaviour of the marquise and how she lived among her dogs and monkeys, the names of which have been passed down to many of us.
There was the unbearable Sarah and also Romeo and Juliet who wandered in the countryside, to the great displeasure of the peasants. The marquise rode on horseback, hunted and fished with her faithful butler Jean Virecoulon.
These distractions did not prevent her from taking an interest in literature and history. She also had a passion for flowers and orchids, which she grew in real laboratories.
Legend has it that her greenhouse contained wonders, including rare species of flowers from Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala. She also had a singular Bulbophyllum odoratum from India, a gift from her son.
A photograph shows her in the Amazon! She is with her son, who was dressed in a dragon outfit and was carrying a helmet and a sword.
Many owners followed one another at Mas de Montet. One of them, Mrs. Rolland, who operated the estate, had the idea of transforming the château into a luxurious hotel.
"Toutvent", the family home of President François Mitterrand is just a stone's throw from the château.
He frequently stayed here, enjoying the peaceful setting of our premises with his Labradors in the Grande Allée.
Closed in 1997, Château le Mas de Montet was completely renovated before its reopening in 2005 and a new standardisation in 2010.
With its sense of opulence and green setting, the château attracts many nature lovers.
Diane H. ( May 2019)
" If you ever wanted to relive your childhood fairytale, in reality, the Chateau Le Mas de Montet awakens these memories. We had a group of sixteen people, many celebrating birthdays and wedding anniversaries. The Chateau left nothing to desire... down to fresh flowers all the time. Lise and her husband Paul were available for questions about the Chateau, the town of Aubeterre, things to do in Dordogne, and even went canoeing with us. Yet we felt they were friends who were around, from time to time,not hovering landlords. The people to greatly appreciate were two members of their staff: Thierry and Corine. They were so gracious, and accommodated us for the most mundane things, and never made it feel like they were anything but happy to do it, to make sure this holiday was everything we wanted it to be.
Lise also recommended a person/company to have for private tours all over, Dordogne, Charente, Aquitaine.... who became another friend. We were able to have a cooking class at the chateau, private catered meals several nights, and walks in the 60 hectares of landscaped loveliness.
The most wonderful part was a chateau which exuded charm and intimacy.....one would never think it to be huge and austere. It gave us all plenty of space to be alone and yet welcomed us all back together, fostering and building relationships. We thank God for providing us with this opportunity ! "


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Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1898–1976) was a Soviet agronomist and charlatan, who proclaimed the inheritance of acquired characteristics and transformation of species in plants. Lysenko was a member of the cohort of uneducated 'barefoot professors', whose folk wisdom would lead the way in developing the country's agriculture. He came to the notice of the régime by publicising his technique of 'vernalisation', which he asserted could 'educate' winter wheat into producing an abundant crop in the spring, not just in the following year but ever after. This was enough to secure him a position as director of a specially created unit at the All‐Union Plant Breeding Institute, and thereafter his claims became ever more extravagant. He could not only impose newly acquired characteristics on crop plants, but also convert one species into another. As his power grew, Lysenko's doctrines were officially recognised, and dissidents were treated harshly. The poison spread to engulf most of Soviet genetics. Lysenko's reign of two decades ended with Stalin's death.
Keywords: Soviet biology; Marxist science; Lamarckian inheritance; Lamarck; Michurin; Soviet genetics; inheritance of acquired characteristics; charlatanism; vernalisation


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We made it: spring at last! After a long, cold winter, this gardener is elated to see signs of spring - from the return of the songbirds to the earliest daffodils blooming cheerfully. I welcome the warmth of the sunshine melting the last patches of snow. Winter be gone!
As if this lovely first weekend of spring wasn't enough, I'm thrilled to report that our garden is featured in the April 2014 issue of Southern Living! Many thanks to Southern Living for making this spring even more special. I am so grateful for their continued support - check out my topiaries here, here and here. Also, read about our shop here.
Garden Editor Rebecca Bull Reed sensitively captured the spirit and soul of our garden. That's because Rebecca is an accomplished and enthusiastic horticulturalist who thoroughly understands the challenges and rewards of gardening. And you know the adage "a photo is worth a thousand words," well, photographer Helen Norman's brilliant photos are beyond words. Helen can make even a dreaded dandelion look like the jewel of the garden - she's that good, and her passion for her craft shows. Thank you, Rebecca and Helen!
The article is presented as five separate sections with design ideas, informative tips and plant recommendations for a tone-on-tone garden. Enjoy these beautiful photos taken by Helen throughout spring and summer of 2013.


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bridge, church, debates, films, Greek, Latin, lectures, luggage, Oxford, plays, societies, Union
There were no other Sri Lankan undergraduates in Oxford in those days, though I was lucky that Anil Gamani Jayasuriya, Ena de Silva's son, was there as a graduate. I did not know Ena very well in those days, but had been touched when she turned up the day I was leaving with a beautiful sarong. Anil and his wife Avril were most hospitable, though I had hardly known them before, and they also introduced other contemporaries. I was also delighted when Indrajith Coomaraswamy, who was just finishing at Cambridge, dropped in one afternoon.
One duty I am glad I fulfilled was visiting my uncle, Bishop Lakshman Wickremesinghe's landlady from his days at Keble. She remembered him fondly, and was deeply upset that he had not become Bishop of Colombo. He had not, of course, contested, since his commitment was to the rural diocese of Kurunagala.
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I haven't had even one letter from Ceylon for this week which is pretty annoying. Cawkwell, who was the senior Tutor, incidentally – on Sabbatical at the moment – had asked a 2nd year from Singapore, as being from my part of the world, to talk to me and so on and he turned out to know the Kulas quite well. His name's Rafik Juma something. I'm not sure of the surname except the J..
I went to see Anil on Wednesday and spent nearly 2 hours with them. Anil gave me tea, because Avril returned only late from shopping. It's a cute little flat, quite near the centre of town, and Nim and Justin la Brooy stay in the same building. On Thursday evening I collected part of my baggage which a singer friend of Rohan de Saram's had deposited about a mile off – the flat is shared by an Indian girl who was the only person around when I got there and I had coffee there and stayed ages and missed an Aristophanes play in the process – an uncut version, only lately tolerated even in England – I read a Victorian translation in the morning which was quite chaotic. Continue reading


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- I was reading one of the blogs on my blogroll recently. The writer used the wrong word for something, and I left a comment, hoping she would correct it. I would have been perfectly happy if she just corrected it and deleted my comment--I wasn't looking for a public thank you. Instead, she criticized me for trying to help. I have deleted her blog from my list. I see no reason to help promote her work.
- I wish Twitter and Facebook had filters that prevented pictures of people's pets from appearing on my feeds.
- It's always a little weird when I get home very late and the doorman greets me with "Good morning," and then we say "Good night" when I get in the elevator.
- Every time I go to a show at Joe's Pub someone at my table spills a drink on me. It's happened the last three times I went there.
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Italian Way Music has partnered with Timeless Music Company in a 3 year digital distribution and sub-publishing agreement.
Roxana Pranno of Italian Way Music met with Jane Kiely of Timeless Music Company at Midem 2010 to discuss the possiblity of bringing the quality of Italian music to Australia. The tracks from Italian Way Music are developed to create emotions and a close communication and involvement with their audience. The music is perfectly constructed for sychronisation projects.
The Music ranges from chillout, dance, electronica, jazz, ambient, classic, ethnic, latin, pop and piano collections.
This exciting partnership is expected to enable the rediscovery and consolidation of the Italian Music prestige within Australia.
The albums from Italian Way Music are already available on Bigpond Music and Timeless Music is looking to secure some great synchronisation deals.


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Turning Miniatures
(To skip all this and go directly to the Turning Miniatures Tutorial s- CLICK HERE)
If turning is the Crack Cocaine of woodworking - fast acting and cheap, relativley speaking (assuming you have a lathe, a chuck, some turning tools and some wood) - then turning miniatures is even quicker acting - and more addictive. In an hour, you can turn and finish four or five little bowls out of a cheap dowel, exotic woods pen blanks or some of the scraps you just couldn't part with but didn't know what to do with. You can experiment with profiles, woods, finishes and colors. And it's a great way to turn what may become prototypes for larger pieces later. A profile may look great on paper - but having a miniature in your hand and actually seeing the idea in actual, rather than virtual 3D, may show you something that isn't obvious in 2D.
Turning miniatures is also a very low risk thing - small stuff is less apt to hurt or kill you. A catch when turning a little bowl an inch or less in diameter is definitely not the traumatic experience it might be with larger pieces. (In fact, a 10" diameter blank turning at 1200 rpms has 1,000 times more kinetic energy than a 1" diameter blank turning at the same 1200 rpms. (KE = m X V2). Mistakes and failures aren't a big deal either since the amount of wood involved and the forces involved when turning it are minimal. Blow it and you're just out 10 or 15 minutes of your timem maybe even a half an hour - not 45 minutes to several hours. Turning miniatures is also a great way to develop tool control that will also work for regular sized pieces.
Did I mention that miniatures don't take up much display space? A collection of your turned miniature bowls, and maybe most of the mini hollow forms you've done, can be displayed - in a couple of square feet of shelf space.
Whether you have a BIG LATHE or a small lathe, YOU can turn small - miniatures bowls (as well as plates, even hollow forms and tiny finials).
First I want to give you a feel for what can be turned in miniature. Later I'll provide basic illustrated Step By Step tutorials with accompanying videos on how to turn the basic cuts, then how to turn a miniature plate, bowl, hollow form, finials and hollow forms with finials.
In the time it would take you to turn and finish a regular sized piece you can do four, five or a half dozen miniatures. Here's a low angle shot of about three hours of miniature turning - forty nine miniatures. If you count them, you'll come up with only 48. But if you look carefully in the upper right bowl, that's the 49th - a tiny bowl.
As you can see, you can play with all sorts of profiles. Great for prototyping. (BTW - the coin in this shot is a dime ; )
You don't need any special tools to turn small. All of the pieces you've seen so far were turned with four tools. For all but the hollow forms, these are the THREE tools used.
The home made 1/8 parting tool (made from an old "bayonet saw" blade) and the 1/4" bench chisel are used like little bedans - or a single bevel skew. The thin parting tool is used to block out the shape quickly - then the bench chisel is used to do the outside profile The inside profiles were turned with the little insert tool shown, but a small 1/4 fingernail ground spindle gouge used as a bowl gouge works too. I used Abranet and wet/dry sandpaper to smooth the inside profile and for final shaping and smoothing of the outside profile. A paper coffee filter is used to burnish the sanded surfaces and a car wax was used when a shiny finished surface was warranted.
For hollowing (yes, your CAN do miniature hollow forms), I use a home made tool, ground and shaped on my 8" grinder. Not hard to make, though not very pretty to look at. A little allen wrench can easily be made into a miniature hollowing tool.
These were the first batch of miniatures I did - out of strawberry quava and plum wood. With the exception of the three pieces at the bottom of this photo, the pieces shown are largish miniatures. The quarter in this photo will give you an idea of the scale of these pieces.
As you can see in the image below, miniatures are a great way to try different profiles and proportions and a quick way to evolve and refine an idea. With an actual piece in hand, regardless of size, it's much easier to do another one, or a variation, at whatever scale you choose, assuming you have enough wood for the piece
(the smallest piece in this photo is sitting on a dime)
If you just want to turn small shapes, a 5/8" or 3/4" poplar dowel is cheap, readily available at BORGS, most hardware stores and lumber yards, and is easy to turn. Because it's a light colored wood, it's also easy to color - with felt tip pens, diluted inks, dyes, paints or even patina solutions. Because poplar dowels are fairly soft wood, turning really thin walls is harder to do than it is when turning harder woods. You CAN turn poplar thin, but it requires a very delicate touch. But since poplar dowels are cheap and you can turn little pieces so quickly, you can get a lot of practice in in very little time. And if you blow it - part off the "learning experience" and try again.
You can also get cherry dowels that are easily turned. Pen blanks in exotic woods are also readily available, An unexpected wood for turning small is - old broomsticks. They often were made of old growth pine - with very tight growth rings. When you sand blast pine, the soft spring wood abbrades away faster than the harder winter wood. The bottom two bowls were "sand blasted" using a small Harbor Freight "air eraser" - a small airbrush looking device - shooting simple and cheap baking soda. Baking soda is a very fine abbrassive so you don't have to worry about the health issues associated with sand blasting or glass bead blasting, BUT wear a dust mask whenever you're "blasting" - even when Soda Blasting.
After you've done a bunch of little bowls, try a small hollow form. You won't be able to do miniature versions of some of Ellsworth's hollow forms because of the minimum sized hole needed to hollow through. But you can still turn nice little hollow forms. The black rim of this example is just scortched wood, done by spinning the piece at 2800 rpms while pressing a paper towel into the hole in the top.
In case you didn't recognize it, that's a dime the piece is sitting on.
How about a little cookie jar?
These are a little trickier. Turn the "jar" first, finish it and part it off. Next, turn a short little tenon on you're remaining blank to fit the opening in the top of your cookie jar. Do the little tenon on the lid FIRST because you're likely to overshoot the fit the first time or two. You want a snug but not Pop Tight fit. You don't want the lid falling off and getting lost. But you don't want to have to really tug and twist to get the lid off either. The lid will be pretty small and delicate and won't handle much abuse.
When you think you've got the lid close to fitting, take its diameter down with 400 grit sandpaper, testing the fit often. If you overshoot and turn the tenon just a little too small, try a coat of thinned shellac. Give it half an hour to dry before testing the fit again. OR - part off the mistake and try again. That's quicker and easier.
After you've done a simple little lidded vessel, why not turn a small finial for it instead of a simple lid? Here's a little flat topped hollow form, with three different finials/lids - in the order they were done. Notice that the finial started out kind of clunky and got more delicate and better proportioned. A little more difficult to do than the flat topped hollow form they sit on, each only took about 20 minutes to do, mainly because the sanding has to be done as you go and done much more carefully than the hollow form. The profile was gotten close with the bench chisel and a small detail gouge then thinned and refined with 400, 600 and 1500 wet/dry sandpaper, followed by burnishing with a paper coffee filter.
The method for turning the finial - to fit the hollow form - is the same as the one used for the cookie jar lid. Start with the bottom and get the fit to the hollow form's opening first - sand and finish - then work your way up the finial to its tip. Again, you want to work with short areas, sanding and finishing as you go. Things get pretty delicate. Too much pressure and you can snap off everything you've done. A VERY light touch when sanding can mean the difference between a nice result - and a "learning experience" (read "OOPS!") I'll be showing you how I sand delicate things like this in a video we'll get to later.
Here's something to be aware off. A finial will appear differently depending on how you're looking at it. ON the lathe it may look fine (1). Upside down it still may look OK (2). But turn it upright, as it will be on the piece, and things that aren't quite right about it will become far more apparent (3).
Here's what I saw in (3)
- the diameter of the bottom of the "onion" is too big
- the transtion to the neck of the "onion" isn't smooth and flowing
- the length of the "neck" is too short
- the neck is too fat
I corrected most of those things to get (4). The length of the neck is still a bit short, but I can always turn another more refined version. (and I have - see below)
Here's the best finial - so far - on its flat top hollow form. Yes, that's a nickel the piece is sitting on.
LONGER NECK!?] How much longer and how much thinner can poplar be turned?
At least this long and this thin. Have a feeling I could go taller and maybe thinner but going Goya-esque only works up to a point beyond which the result is just showing off - and not very aesthetic.
The finial on the right looks pretty thin. At its ACUTAL size, it's even thinner.
This Flat Top HF with Finial thing is a bit addictive.
Here's LargeMediumSmall (still have to do the pyro work on Large)
We started this Turning Miniatures Journey with the basic spindle cuts - lines, grooves,V cuts, coves, Ogees, and rounding cuts. Then we used them to turn
- a plate
- a bowl
- a hollow form
- a hollow form with finial
Now, let's put all the pieces together and add a pedestal|
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shown about actual size.
For the How To for turning your version of this T-Ball, CLICK HERE.
So far we've been dealing with individual pieces or individual components of multiple part pieces. Each is turned independently. But if you want to integrate a finial with a hollow form and have them flow together rather than look like two piecesone STUCK ON the other, you have to "blend" the top of the hollow form and the bottom of the finial together.
For much more about how to turn a "blended finial", CLICK HERE.
Why not head out to the lathe - and turn your own version of any of the miniatures you've seen here?
Still not sure?
CLICK HERE for the Step By Step illustrations and links to the videos for each one.
NOW do you want to turn some miniatures? Try it, you'll like it! Be aware, turning miniatures is addictive. You've been warned ; )


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What a Difference a Year Can Make
We are under 48 hours from holding our twin daughters in our arms and I have so many thoughts and emotions swirling inside. I am…
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Feeling unprepared
Feeling prepared as we'll ever be
It has been quite a journey to get to this point.
It feels so long and somehow rather quick in hindsight.
Suddenly it's now the end and it's the beginning all in one.
One thing I've been marveling at in the last week or so is where we were at this time last year compared to where we are today.
August 1, 2014 – After the months of testing, consultations, switching insurance, trying acupuncture in the meantime, severely altering my diet, and waiting on the right timing, we did our first self-administered injection in our first round of IVF treatments. It was a terrible hour long process, where almost everything went wrong and I sat there wondering, how in the world will we ever do this…
August 4, 2015 (Tuesday of this week) – We will welcome our daughters into the world and everything will change, forever. Our daughters that we were not sure we'd ever have. Almost exactly a year to the day since that awful, first injection.
One takeaway for me from this story is that we have no idea what God has in store for us. What His plans are for our future. To remember how we were feeling this time last year and seeing how He worked out His specific plan for us.
What a difference a year can make.
And this is so true – in so many areas of life, for so many people.
For the person waiting on a job, a house, a move, an adoption, a relationship, a diagnosis…
God has a plan. And even though we may experience some pretty low times of desperation or questioning, we can look to how God has worked in our lives and in the lives of loved ones we know, and be reassured that there is a next chapter in our story. It may be one we never imagined, but His plans are far better than ours can ever be.
Today, I am grateful and marveling at how our lives have completely changed from where we were a year ago, and we never could have predicted how it would turn out.
What are you waiting for today? Trust that God does have a plan. And that His plans are perfect.
How have you seen this play out in your own life?
God has given us our miracle(s)!
"With God all things are possible." – Matthew 19:26
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It's been more than two years since we started trying to get pregnant and a year since we started down the "infertility" road. After being told last spring that we had a 1% chance of getting pregnant naturally, I clung to the idea that my God is a God of the 1%. He is the God of the impossible. If He choses, He can make it happen. We just didn't know, in His sovereign plan, if He would choose to do it. There were many days where I didn't think it would ever happen.
He has taken us down quite a journey, especially over the last 6 months of seeking treatment. Four months in a row of attempted IVF cycles will do a number to your emotions.
As I typed out my last post, about how God had to take me to a place of brokenness to really start to find a hunger for Him, we were in the midst of our 4th attempt. (Only our 2nd where we were actually able to do an egg retrieval & embryo transfer.) We made it all the way to the embryo transfer and were in the excruciatingly long 2-week wait before the pregnancy test as I hit publish on that last one.
God knew the journey He had to take us on. For some reasons we see now and others we'll never know.
Because of my previous response (or lack of response) to treatment — including the one unsuccessful IVF round where we had one embryo to transfer — we decided to transfer 2 embryos this time around. We took the risk.
We found out we were pregnant before Christmas and were able to share the news with both of our families as we saw them in person over the holidays. It was the best and only present we needed, and a welcome miracle at the end of a hard year on both sides.
This past Friday, we went for our first ultrasound where they discovered that it is, in fact, twins. (For about two minutes we thought there was only one, but the second one was hiding a bit!) Both decided to stick around! We saw two tiny miracle hearts beating, at only 7.5 weeks. Wow.
We are so grateful and also quite overwhelmed! Twins! How in the world are we going to handle twins? There are so many logistics to figure out in the next several months.
As we continue on this new phase of our journey, we will lean on some of the lessons that God has taught us over the recent past. Both are possible blog posts that still need to be written:
1. We are not in control. Only God is. We could attempt to take matters into our own hands — I tried acupuncture, a special fertility diet for 6 months, 4 months of medical treatment where we could try the exact same combination and my body would respond differently every time — but it is only God who has any control over the outcome. It's all in His hands.
2. God provides. We've experienced this in not having any idea how we were going to pay for such expensive procedures and medications. But month after month, God provided, in amazing ways. I know He will continue to do so.
Okay, I have 2 quips that I have to randomly fit in:
1. You all prayed too hard and God sure did answer — twins! 🙂
2. I guess we're making up for lost time and trying to catch up.
And a serious note. For some reason, God has chosen to answer our prayers. I'll never understand why. Why He has chosen to answer this one, but there are so many couples going through similar journeys and who haven't gotten their hearts' desire. I remain extremely sensitive to others who are walking this difficult road. And I don't want to trigger anyone else's sadness. The infertility journey is one that will forever mark who I am and I don't think that will change.
As of today, we are only 8 weeks along. It is obviously still early and I am not naive to think "we've made it". But we also couldn't wait any longer to share the news of these two tiny miracles with you all. So many people have been praying for us and supporting us. We are so grateful for you! Would you please join us in praising God for these two lives and also praying for their continued health and development?
And maybe kick in a prayer for our wisdom and decision making about the future? We sure do have a lot to figure out! We have many more opportunities on the horizon for us to desperately lean on God in all things.
"I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonders. I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High." -Psalm 9:1-2
Photos are by Stacey Michelle Photography.
The Beauty in the Brokenness
October was hard. Really hard. On the personal and family side of things. A month that started with a lot of hope, felt like it crashed and burned quickly.
After a disappointing, failed first round of fertility treatment in August, we started a second round of treatment and hefty meds in September. This time we actually made it all the way through an IVF cycle (which is no walk in the park, but those are details for another day). It was like holding my breath every single day. But after making it to an embryo transfer, I was filled with so much hope, thinking "this could finally be it". Almost 2 years later.
Then life came crashing in at once. My mom started chemotherapy for breast cancer. Two days later my grandma passed away. Two days after the funeral, we go in for our long-awaited pregnancy blood test. (It's an excruciatingly long wait from the day of the transfer to when you can take the actual test. It feels like forever.) We got the call later that afternoon that it was negative.
I haven't been very acquainted with grief and mourning in my sheltered life. But I became acquainted quickly. I didn't even have a name to put on our own personal situation. It wasn't a miscarriage because it was never a clinical pregnancy. But if we believe that life begins at conception (and we do), then it was a life lost. We have a picture of our 3-day old embryo that they gave us, before they transferred it back in. It's a little 8-celled miracle. It still sits on my dresser, partly because I'm just not sure what to do with it now. But that was a life. I do believe we have a child in heaven now.
A week later, we plunged back into another treatment cycle, anxious to keep the momentum going. But after a week of pills and shots and every other day doctor's appointments, my body just wasn't responding and we decided the best thing to do was to cancel the cycle. Talk about dashed hopes and feelings of "this is just never going to happen." I had to have a talk with my doctor about if and how to move forward. That same day, my uncle died…
I had some straight up bouts of "ugly crying" that weekend. And moping around, and crying again. It was a tough couple of weeks and it just was too much. I learned about grief and feelings of brokenness. And I learned that I just needed to stop and figure out how I, personally, needed to deal with it. And that it was okay to feel how I felt.
Getting to the point of this story, if I had written this post when I first thought about it, it would have been very different. I was going to call it "A Time to Mourn". There's nothing wrong with that, but thanks be to God, the story didn't stop there.
I was so glad to turn the page on October. I've never been happier for a new month to come.
November then turned into a big month of healing and growth for me. It's hard to summarize, but I think that God had to take me to a place of brokenness to really start to find a hunger for Him.
"I will gladly rejoice because of Your gracious love,
because You recognized the sadness of my affliction.
You felt deep compassion when You saw the pains of my soul."
Psalm 31:7 (The Voice)
I started devouring a couple of great books. The un-ironically similar Bittersweet and Every Bitter Thing is Sweet. Both exactly what I needed to read and worthy of their own posts. I started diving into different scriptures and finding that I had a hunger to know more of who God is. With refreshingly nothing to do with my circumstances. My circumstances were what helped drive me to this place, but I wasn't looking up passages solely on hope and waiting anymore. I found a craving just to know Him better. I dove into Scriptures on the attributes of God, what He says about Himself, and His promises to us.
I found myself giving thanks to God despite, within and because of my circumstances. One particular devotion on SheReadsTruth.com ("Give Thanks in Sorrow") struck me with this perfectly phrased message:
"God doesn't ask us to silence our sorrow in favor of thanksgiving. Rather, He uses our sorrow to proclaim a type of thanksgiving we wouldn't be able to express otherwise… Extracted from all earthly attachments, void of trimmings and trumpets sounding, sorrow is a connection to Christ and our need for Him in its purest form…"
I love that.
God doesn't ask us to toss our grief and sorrow aside. To sugar coat it and forget it. He wants us to turn to Him in the midst of it. He hurts when we hurt. And it's in the brokenness that we find a new dimension of Him that we wouldn't know otherwise.
We learn about the Abba Father who wants us to climb into His lap and bring everything to Him – our hurts, our wants, our questions, our cries for healing and peace. This is the God that I've been discovering over the last several weeks. I've found myself praising Him for bringing me through this time of sorrow because it brought me to this place with Him that I wouldn't know otherwise. And it's a sweet place to be.
It IS the beauty in the brokenness.
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A Joyful Confidence
Thank you all so much for the outpouring of support, encouragement, and prayers from my last post, where I opened up about our journey through infertility. I wasn't quite sure if many people would read it, or what reactions might be. But I was blown away. I do hope these posts can be – at the same time – authentic, open, informative, God glorifying, and encouraging to those going through any sort of trial.
In the spirit of remaining authentic and vulnerable (since I don't have everything together), I will tell you there have been some hard days. If I had written these posts in May or June, they might have been a bit more raw. There were a couple days in June where I think I got a taste of what depression might feel like. It only lasted a couple days luckily. I was definitely not myself.
It can be challenging when it seems like everyone around you is pregnant and your Facebook feed is full of birth announcements and gender reveals. Or so much worse, when you hear stories at work of children who are pregnant as a result of the unspeakable abuse they have suffered. It seems so backwards and unjust. It's hard.
At IJM, we have quarterly all-staff prayer retreats (a phenomenal perk for which I am so grateful). At our June retreat, Nancy Ortberg was our speaker. She is an amazing example of someone who can at once be open, raw, incredibly God honoring and full of practical wisdom. In the midst of sharing with us some of her life's trials, she dropped a piece of wisdom that I picked up and have clutched like a treasure ever since. She said:
"Trials are a test of our joyful confidence in God."
Read that again slowly…
Trials are a test of our joyful confidence. In God. Despite our circumstances. In the midst of trials. Knowing, believing, clinging to the hope and truth that God's plans are best. Even when we don't understand it or feel it. Trials are an opportunity to show where our hope really lies.
Similarly, and perfectly complementary, in a Tim Keller sermon that I keep going back to called "Peace – Overcoming Anxiety", he said:
- Peace is confidence and trust in God's good and wise control of your life.
- Joy is a buoyancy. It's unsinkable. It's a focus on the unchanging privileges we have in God.
Peace and an unsinkable joyful confidence. This has become a prayer for myself and one I've had others praying for me too. That I would maintain a joyful confidence and a peace, despite our circumstances. Despite what our feelings of the day would like to dictate.
God has definitely answered that prayer and I am so grateful. We are actually in a pretty good place right now. We knew God started answering that prayer for peace and a joyful confidence when we walked out of the doctor's office in late June with our medical plan of action (after months of waiting for insurance to work out so we could start doing something) and we actually felt really light and carefree crossing the parking lot back to our car. How many people leave a fertility clinic practically skipping and laughing to their car? I knew it was strange… Only God.
And we've experienced relative peace… through some pretty brutal medical treatment involving 2 weeks a month of self-administered shots, 3 times a day… Only God.
I don't know what next month will bring, but I'm learning to lean on Him for each and every day. That's really all I can do. And quite honestly, that's not a bad place to be.
"Don't run from tests and hardships, brothers and sisters. As difficult as they are, you will ultimately find joy in them; if you embrace them, your faith will blossom under pressure and teach you true patience as you endure." ~James 1:2-3 (The Voice)
How do you find peace and joy in the midst of trials? What are some Bible verses that you turn to in those hard times?
Our "Something"
Everyone is dealing with something. It struck me one morning as I was getting off the metro a couple months ago. People were coming and going from all directions. I had just ridden my 5 stops in a bit of a distracted fog. A funk really. But stepping off the metro, I realized that I was bracing myself. Putting on a happy face, ready to walk into work again like everything was wonderful.
And if that's what I was doing (me, someone who has the strength of positivity) I wondered how many people around me were doing the same thing. Or who didn't even have the strength that day to try. Everyone is dealing with something.
For us, that "something" has been and continues to be a battle against infertility. There, I said it. Ripped off like a bandaid. We've gone public. Completely exposed.
Such a taboo and vulnerable subject. And I'm tired of it being that way. It's become core to who I am now and no matter our outcome, I think it will always be a piece of me.
I've sort of wanted to blog about our journey for the last several months for a couple reasons:
- Infertility actually affects 1 in 8 couples. I want to break the stigma and help people understand how common it is and how many people around you are probably dealing with it too. And possibly help you understand what they're going through.
- To encourage others who are in the same journey. I've heard it said that infertility carries the same weight as a cancer diagnosis, as far as emotional trauma goes. It is a hard and lonely road and I want others to know that they're not alone. I want to encourage others to reach out to their support networks or others dealing with it too.
- So that God can be glorified. I know that if we have to go through this, that one of the purposes is so that God can use it to His glory. And He can't be glorified if we don't share what He has done (& is doing).
- To share (& process) some of the lessons that we've been learning through it all that really are applicable to everyone, regardless of your exact circumstances. Like lesson #1: "Everyone is dealing with something".
I've been held back from sharing publicly by fear of being too vulnerable. Not sure if I wanted everyone to know our business. (Our inner circle of friends and family have been journeying with us for months.) But I'm feeling even more compelled by the reasons above and it's time I give in.
As for our journey, we've been "trying" for 2 years. Journeying and struggling through "infertility" (as a label) for the last 9 months or so. Currently going through medical treatment, which is no walk in the park. It has been a roller coaster. So many ups and downs. Sometimes by the hour. Certainly by the day, week, and month. If I'm going to lay it all out there, I've struggled with feeling rocked to the core of my identity, with feeling incredibly alone, with feeling traces of hopelessness, and of course, with wondering "why us". We've also been drawn closer to God and to each other. We've had the great opportunity to encourage and be encouraged by others we know going through this too. We've experienced the tremendous blessing of an amazing support network. We've seen God move in some mighty ways and have learned some really valuable lessons.
Everyone is dealing with something – a loved one battling cancer, conflict in a marriage, chronic migraines, feelings of loneliness, a miscarriage, unemployment, a personal financial crisis… something.
A simple, but profound lesson that I'm grateful to have fully realized. It has helped me view people with more kindness and empathy. In a world of social media where we choose which are the best pieces of ourselves to post publicly. Where we constantly compare ourselves to someone else's highlights (but not the lowlights). And in a society where we put on our happy face and answer "I'm good, how are you?" without thinking twice. We just don't know what others are struggling with.
It has made me want to be kinder to the cashier at the store, to greet the man always handing out papers at my metro stop, to give drivers on the road the benefit of the doubt (I know that's a hard one!). To realize and remember that the person next to you is probably dealing with something hard too. We might as well choose joy and try to spread it to others.
As for our current struggle:
"I watch in hope for the Lord. I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me." ~Micah 7:7
More to come soon…
Back to Blogging (& growing)
So I'm embarrassed to say that my last blog post was on February 20 – almost 5 months ago! I started 2013 strong (in regards to blogging), but it didn't last. In real life, 2013 started out with a bang. Between the last week in February and sometime in late April, we had 2 free weekends. It was all great things, but it was hard to catch my breath, let alone blog – though it would have been great material for blogging (like the inspiring Justice Conference in Philly). Alas, I had to let it go & just move forward.
Suddenly, it's July. More than halfway through the year. When did this happen?
My "one word" to focus on for 2013 is Grow. So how am I doing? Decently, I think. Work is constantly challenging & stretching. I don't think that will ever change. We're really focusing on taking things to the next level, so I definitely feel like I'm growing there. In regards to church, I said I wanted to grow into a place of service & deeper involvement. Well, in early spring Cason & I became leaders for our Sunday morning class and we started facilitating a midweek couple's Bible study. We are growing deeper relationships with others, which I always want more of. Personally, I haven't really made the time to grow in pursuits outside of work (like learning how to use that camera). Maybe someday soon. This is my attempt to get back to blogging more often than every 6 months! A constant struggling point is trying to figure out the balance with my work life (which I feel is both work & service/ministry) and finding a place of service in the community (outside of the church). Similar to our involvement with refugees in Nashville.
All of that to say, the remainder of 2013 has plenty of room for continued growth.
What's next? Well, in less than a month I turn 30. By the time that happens though, I'll have traveled to Uganda & back. I'll be visiting an IJM field office and helping with a project at a local courthouse. I'm extremely excited. This is something straight off of my bucket list. But more about that trip another day…
How is your 2013 progressing?
Happy one year DC-iversary to us!
On February 3, 2012 I woke up, headed to the Nashville airport, said goodbye, and boarded a plane for this new life.
I can't believe it's now been a year. So much changed last February.
We traded a 1900 sq. foot house with a yard for a 2-bedroom, 6th floor condo. A comfortable job for one that has stretched me in all possible ways. A fantastic church where we had put down roots to the challenge of starting over. A town full of people we knew to one where we were brand new.
It's kind of crazy to look back and see how far we've come in 12 months. To see God's provision through every step of the way. Continue reading
Bucket List
Jumping back in to the January blog-a-day (I told you I wouldn't hit every day… I might miss the next few days too), today's topic is "Bucket List". I've never given this much thought before. Turns out most of mine center around travel experiences. No surprise there.
The fun part was, as I was thinking through possibilities, several of the things that came to mind were things I've already been incredibly blessed with doing. I guess I'm off to a good start.
Already checked off the list:
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Did I Embrace 2012?
At the beginning of 2012 I wrote a post called "Embracing 2012". Embrace was my one word to focus on for the year, instead of all sorts of different new year's resolutions. 2012 was my year to embrace a new season of life, with all of the challenges, obstacles, and opportunities that would come with it. You can read that original post here.
So how did I do?
It was quite a year, full of all of those things listed above: challenges, obstacles, and opportunities. Moving to a new state, adjusting to a new lifestyle, learning a new job, finishing my MBA, being lonely & trying to slowly make friends, settling into a church, and growing immensely spiritually…
Here's what I wrote I would try to do at the beginning of the year & some reflections on each:


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Are the Chinese Playing Checkers with Your Future?
"It's like déjà vu all over again."
Legendary N.Y. Yankees catcher, Yogi Berra
The most useful definition of insanity (though not one Albert Einstein probably really said) is: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I'm reminded of this once again after hearing what multi-multi-billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros told an economic forum in Sri Lanka last week.
As Soros views the world's current economic ills, we're revisiting almost the identical problems we had in 2008. The difference is that today we're looking to one particular nation as the source of the tumult – China.
This crisis is no joke. As early as January 6th, Anusha Ondaatjie and Adam Haigh, in an article for Bloomberg wrote, "Almost $2.5 trillion was wiped from the value of global equities this year…" which, given that there had only been three trading days in the year to that point, is staggering in its implications.
Global currencies, stocks and currencies got hit by the financial equivalent of an AK-47 after a devalued yuan fueled investor concerns over the Chinese economy's shifting emphasis from investment and manufacturing toward consumption and services. Extreme losses caused Chinese stock market trading to stop twice last week; on Thursday for the entire day.
This even after the People's Bank of China pared interest rates to record lows and the Communist Party injected the economy with billions of dollars. The problem: Economic problems are almost impossibly difficult for a nation to fix once it devalues its currency, which China has done repeatedly in the pasts several months.
Soros told listeners in Colombo last Thursday that the current economic environment is reminiscent of another disaster. "I would say it amounts to a crisis. When I look at the financial markets there is a serious challenge which reminds me of the crisis we had in 2008."
As the world's second-largest economy, China's economic woes can't help but affect other economies – especially those who've profited for the last several years through their exports to China. Australia's is one such economy; the Australian share market slid over two per cent for a second time in recent weeks, bringing investor losses to eighty-seven billion Australian dollars during the first four trading sessions of the year.
But the aftershocks of China's devaluation also hit the Dow, which quickly lost two hundred points. So if you're searching for individual stocks not affected by the Chinese currency devaluation, good luck! Your paper investments are facing some mighty strong headwinds.
In addition, for those of us over fifty, it may not matter if one day the market fights its way back. We simply don't have time to wait it out. If you're within ten to fifteen years of retirement, ultimately the problem boils down to protecting savings you've worked hard for your entire life against destructive forces that don't care if you have a place to live or food to eat when you're seventy. I've said it before; only precious metals have the financial heft to withstand these kinds of market storms.
Gold is still undervalued, but predictably it's now inching up as markets flail. But – and this is key – it's still affordable, whether you want to buy direct or protect your existing IRA, 401(k), 403(b) or other qualified account by rolling it over to a retirement account that lets you hold gold.
Regardless of what happens in the Chinese economy, you know the Chinese Central Bank's still buying up gold. In the meantime, hoping and praying for your stocks to correct is no way to build your portfolio – or secure your future.


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"The Words" is one of those movies that makes being a writer seem like a sacred calling, a vocation akin to learning how to be the Dalai Lama or being chosen to receive personal orphan-washing lessons from Mother Teresa. In reality, the act of writing simply involves a lot of frowning, butt-scratching and imbibing of caffeinated beverages, though, admittedly, that doesn't make for a very dynamic movie. It's probably better to have Bradley Cooper star as an aspiring writer who toils away at the creation of a novel — it's actually not a bad one, as a publishing type played by Ron Rifkin assures him — only to learn that there's just no market for what he's trying to do. Then one day he opens an old leather case that he and his new wife (Zoe Saldana) bought in an antiques store while honeymooning in Paris, and finds…
Words! Lots of words! Really good ones, too. He loves these words so much — they tell the story of an American soldier at the end of World War II who meets and falls in love with a French girl — that he decides to type them into his computer himself. Eventually, they become a best-selling book, earning him great acclaim. He's so happy with his easy-peasy success that he almost convinces himself he actually wrote these words. Until he meets the old codger — played by Jeremy Irons, in a very writerly, codgerish tweed hat — who actually did.
"The Words," written and directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, is actually three movies nested in one. There's the story of Cooper and Saldana, newlyweds who kiss and cuddle as they wash dishes in their supposedly workaday but in reality probably very expensive flat, surrounded by some extremely photogenic dust motes. Then there's the story of the young soldier (Ben Barnes) and his pretty wife (Nora Arnezeder), for whom romance turns into tragedy — but before it does, they too kiss and cuddle amidst mid-century French dust motes. And then there's the framing device — because what real writer doesn't love a framing device? — of the novelist, played by Dennis Quaid, who has spun out this whole, allegedly fictional tale-within-a-tale. A comely lit-stalker (Olivia Wilde) who tracks him down at one of his readings may be the one to uncover the truth, to force him to reckon at last with the skinny-minny chasm between fiction and reality…
By now, you may have noticed my repeated and very writerly use of ellipses. The ellipsis is an extremely useful device that real writers sometimes employ to put supposedly meaningful distance between… words. But I digress. In terms of visual lushness, "The Words" works reasonably well as a romance for adults. Cinematographer Antonio Calvache gives the period sections in particular a muted, pearlescent sheen, making it easier to believe that everyone just looked prettier and more handsome in olden times. And one of the picture's key scenes works beautifully: Irons holds Cooper, and us, spellbound as he relays the true story behind the stolen novel. For a few golden minutes, Irons makes us believe his character has earned the deep, mournful hollows under his eyes. Quaid has a less significant role, but he does a lot with a little; he's simultaneously wily and weathered, the kind of guy you'd love to trust even though you're not sure you ought to.
But too much of the time we're left watching Bradley Cooper, a mildly talented actor who has somehow become a sizable star. Cooper is possibly handsome, in a generic, Sexiest Man Alive way. When he needs to look vulnerable, he works so hard you can almost hear the gears turning; most of the time he just wears the beady-eyed look of someone who's trying to put something over on someone.
Of course, in "The Words," his character is trying to hoodwink us, but there's nothing here that goes beyond the stock, bland Bradley Cooper shtick. Another actor might have made us feel something complicated for this troubled soul, but Cooper merely looks like the kind of guy who would steal another man's story. He hasn't been tapped by the muse, and it shows.


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Spanish amateur Luna Sobrón set the early pace at the Larvik Ladies Open with an opening round of 67 taking a one shot lead over fellow countrywomen Piti Martinez Bernal.
The 21 year-old from Majorca got off to a fiery start with birdies on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th and 8th and a single bogey at the long par 3, 6th for an impressive 31 outward nine. Sobrón kept her form into the back nine to come back in level par, for a solid five under par round.
Sobrón recently claimed the Smyth Salver at the RICOH Women's British Open for the leading amateur after finishing in a tie for 13th and will be looking to take advantage of her major experience and move up the LETAS Order of Merit.
Two shots further back in 3rd place lies fellow Spanish amateur Natalia Escuriola who opened her campaign with a 3 under par, 69.
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'Bonsai Love' Book Trailer
Posted: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 11:50am
Check out this beautiful book trailer for Diane Tucker's new book of poems, Bonsai Love, due out this April! It was made by her clearly also talented son, Joe Tucker.
Bonsai Love - Diane Tucker from Joe Tucker on Vimeo.
Bonsai Love is an eloquent book of poems about the sensual delicacy of love. Carefully pruned, intricate in design, and sensitive to intrusion, these poems create an image of intimacy through reflection and in relation to nature, the universe, music, literature and art.
Diane Tucker writes fiction and poetry. Her first book of poems, God on His Haunches (Nightwood Editions, 1996), was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She is also the author of the poetry collection The Bright Scarves of Hours (Palimpsest Press, 2007), the novel His Sweet Favour (Thistledown Press, 2009), and the play Here Breaks the Heart: the Loves of Christina Rossetti. Tucker's poems have been published in Canada and abroad in more than sixty journals. She lives in Burnaby, BC.


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With so much going on in Goldberg-land, I've barely had time to think, let alone blog. One thing about promoting wrestling, there is always something to do and always something left undone.
Last night's WrestleMania was a good show with a phenomenal Undertaker-Michaels match that ranks among the greatest WrestleMania matches of all time. When you realize that those two men are probably double the average age of the rest of the WWE roster, it makes their level of excellence that much more amazing.
I have a lot to say about the Chris Jericho-Legends-Mickey Rourke segment. This was a huge letdown on a lot of levels. Roddy Piper and Jimmy Snuka should not have been in the ring. It was sad to see two great stars portrayed as washed up has-beens. Ricky Steamboat made an excellent accounting of himself, and looking back, it would have been better if it was just Steamboat, with Flair in his corner, vs. Jericho. Mickey Rourke brought nothing to this. There was no build up for him, no emotional investment. I've heard the term "SportsCenter moment" with regard to Rourke's appearance. The time could have been used better on something else.
I'll have more on the subject this week on The Mouthpiece Wrestling Show, Wednesday at 5 PM EST on WWZN Boston, 1510 The Zone. We'll be recapping the show, getting your thoughts and opinions and getting some first hand reports from folks who were there for the WWE events, as well as some of the other wrestling events taking place in Houston that weekend.
NECW's MARCH BADNESS (yeah I know Roy Jones Jr. ripped that name off from us, as we have used it for years) is in the books and was another great night of action in front of another great crowd in Quincy, MA.
NECW has been doing great business of late, which I attribute to a number of different factors - great booking and creative effort, great talent and great promotion and marketing would be a few of the reasons. I think the current economy plays a role too, as NECW is a far more affordable option than mainstream major league franchise sports and is a more family friendly option as well.
MARCH BADNESS saw the return of Sean Gorman, shockingly aligning himself with "The Golden Greek" Alex Arion. There are also new tag team champions in NECW, as The Crown Jewels, you should pardon the expression, upended PRIDE to take the titles.
Antonio Thomas had a great match with NECW Triple Crown Champion, Max Bauer, and if it were not for the interference of Alex Arion, that title could have changed hands as well.
By the way, I think the Bauer-Arion bout at GENESIS 8 was in the same league as anything on this year's WrestleMania. I am looking forward to the rematch between those two taking place at NECW's SPRING BREAKDOWN on Saturday night, April 18 in Quincy at the Armory.
All the results are up at the newly redesigned NECW website - www.NECWwrestling.com. We've gotten a lot of positive feedback on the new site, which was the brainchild of Brian Wilkins. This is a project that took a long time to implement, but the results are outstanding and there will be more features added in the coming weeks.
I'll more thoughts later this week.
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George's Hot Dogs
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1876 N Damen Ave
Chicago, IL 60647
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