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14-16 oz tube vegan sausage or other sticky, non crumble, vegan meat substitute
1/4 cup chopped green onions
2 1/2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
1/2-1 tablespoons sweet chili sauce
1 tablespoon peeled, finely chopped ginger
1/2-1 teaspoons curry powder
1/2-1 teaspoons ground cumin
4 large sesame hamburger buns, toasted
small amount of oil for frying
1/2 cup vegan mayonnaise
2 tablespoons sweet chili sauce
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1/2-1 teaspoons sesame oil
toppings: shredded napa cabbage, bean sprouts, fresh cilantro, sliced tomatoes
In large bowl mix vegan sausage, green onions, chopped cilantro, soy sauce, sweet chili sauce, ginger, curry powder, cumin and mix well. Shape into 4 patties.
In a separate bowl whisk vegan mayonnaise, sweet chili sauce, soy sauce and oil; refrigerate.
Heat oil in frying pan on medium-high heat, fry burgers 8-10 minutes on each side until well done (the longer you fry them the firmer the texture) adjust the cooking time to meet your family's needs. Drain patties on paper towel.
Spread chili mayo on buns; top with burgers and toppings.


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Good news everyone, a new contributor has just joined The Movie Planet. Call him…The Broadcaster! The Broadcaster will mostly be reviewing randomly chosen movies on a regular basis in his column Broadcasted! Reviews but may also pop in to tell you about new DVDs being released.
The Broadcaster, who describes himself as half-Chinese half-French and totally not handsome, likes all kinds of movies (except horror), but he's generally kinder to comedies and harsher to serious-minded dramas. His favorite movies include Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's trilogy (as well as other heist flicks) and recent East Asian fare from the likes of Zhang Yimou (Curse Of The Golden Flower), Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle) and Wong Kar-Wai (My Blueberry Nights).
He wants you to know he is usually very critical in his reviews, and his first one will be for the 2006 teen comedy John Tucker Must Die, starring the awesomely hot Sophia Bush, with many more to follow. Thus, please give a warm welcome to The Broadcaster, the alternate voice of The Movie Planet.


text: On Saturday, Big Ben settles down and becomes a one-woman man. The ceremony will be held in front of hundreds of the couple's closest friends (they will be checking IDs, so don't try anything funny or Benjamin Braddock-y) at Roethlisberger's church in suburban Pittsburgh. If you know anyone who lives in the area, you might want to tell them to stay inside and possibly board up their windows in case of any bachelor party shenanigans — although, as an alternative, the church's young adult fellowship is having a guys' night out to see Captain America on Friday. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]


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In photo above: Dr. Freda C. Lewis-Hall was the keynote speaker at Salem College's graduation on Saturday, May 23. (Photo by Tammy Hardin) By Carly Williams For The Chronicle Saturday
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(pictured above: City Council members Derwin Montgomery (left) and James Taylor address constituents at last week's meeting.) Monday evening, the City Council voted to amend the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO), allowing


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"Protection, socialism and cronyism," Rush Limbaugh told his nationwide radio audience today in describing the $30 billion bankruptcy deal for General Motors announced by President Barack Obama.
Rush was on fire today, doing an economics seminar on the GM deal, talking about Timothy Geithner's China trip, and also addressing the "puzzling" woes in the bond market:
The Federal Reserve is studying significant moves in the U.S. government bond market last week that could have big implications for the central bank's strategy to combat the country's recession.
But the Fed is not really sure what is driving the sharp rise in long-dated bond yields, and especially a widening gap between short and long term yields.
Heh. The sharp rise in long-term bond rates is only "puzzling" to people who know less about market economics than I do, and I'm a liberal arts major. But the list of people who know less than me, however, unfortunately includes the man Obama insisted must be in charge of the Treasury:
Timothy Geithner, making his first visit to China as U.S. Treasury secretary, reassured China that the U.S. must control a massive fiscal deficit and unwind market rescue efforts when conditions improve.
"In the United States, we are putting in place the foundations for restoring fiscal sustainability," he said, adding that he backs a strong dollar policy.
Oh, puh-leeze. It Won't Work, The Fundamentals Still Suck, and Economics Is Not a Popularity Contest. We're on The Road to Weimar America.


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While the name Hatton is more familiar in the confines of a boxing ring, it's Lucy not Ricky that will be looking to take the sports world by storm in 2015. A little over a month into the season, the hurdler has broken her personal best no fewer than four times leaving her just 0.01 outside the European Indoor Championships qualifying standards.
On Tuesday, the 20 year old clocked the fastest time in the UK this year and sixth in the world seeing off seasoned campaigner Yvette Lewis at the Copernicus Cup in Poland. By running 8.05, she equalled the UK U23 60m hurdles record set by Lesley-Ann Skeete in 1987, but believes there is plenty more to come.
"I think I've PB'd every time this year so far and whilst I know that's not going to keep carrying on but all the hard work is definitely starting to show. I've had a lot of changes recently, but I think I'm starting to develop as an athlete so it's all very positive at the moment," said Hatton, who is supported by the British Athletics' Futures Programme.
"I didn't have a very good warm up Tuesday and I think the nerves got to me a little bit because it was quite an intimidating environment. Even when I look back at the race my start wasn't that great and I actually got punched in the shoulder by the athlete next to me. That shows even though the race was messy, I managed to deal with the pressure and power through, which I'm really proud of."
With a place on the GB & NI team for Prague in her grasp, Hatton is putting all her focus into the Sainsbury's Indoor British Championships, which will see her pit her wits against the best hurdlers in the country. While small fractions will see her eclipse the illusive 8.05 mark, Hatton is not getting ahead of herself in her quest to wear her first senior international vest.
Hatton, who's first majr breakthrough came when finishing second at the Sainsbury's British Championships in 2014 explained:
"It's a definite aim (to make the team for the European Indoor Championships), but now I'm just focused on the British Championships and I want to go out there and be really competitive and run the time, because I feel like it's there. I know there's more to come and I'm really looking forward to showing people that I can do this and get the time to go to the Europeans because that's a great experience that I really need.
"I obviously really want to go to the European Indoors but I don't want to get disappointed if I don't because I know I'm right on the edge and I'm just trying to break through at the moment."
Also in the mind of the University of Leicester athlete is closing the gap on British indoor and outdoor record holder Tiffany Porter and she believes that having that marker will accelerate her progress both domestically and on the international stage.
"Tifanny is inspiring and I'm so happy that she's there and in front because it does give me something to chase. I like to be in races where I feel like I'm being pushed so chasing down Tiffany is the goal in the long run, but not in a horrible way!
"I know she's an absolutely fantastic starter and if I can pull out with her and hold on, then you never know what can happen. That's the beauty with hurdles – you can have the favourite on the startline, but everybody has a bad day and you never know I could break through and deal with that."
Following her performance in Poland, social media was awash with praise for Hatton's performance, but the level-headed youngster is keen to let her racing do the talking as she bids for the biggest year of her career to date.
"I see (the attention) more as being excited. I don't feel the pressure at the moment but I think if I go away and think about it maybe. However, I don't try and look at it on that perspective. People are seeing what I'm doing, they're positive and I'm happy. The times are here to be broken and I hope to keep carrying on. But I'm really grateful for the support because it's been great."
A perfect year, what would that look like for Lucy?
"The big goal is to go under 13 seconds outdoors and to be hitting the big championships and competitions to show that I am ready and competitive."


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Samsung has pushed out the Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean software update with build version DXLSE for the first generation Galaxy Note with model number N7000. The DXLSE Jelly Bean is an unbranded version of firmware and bundles several new features such as multi-view, buttery smooth performance, enhanced notification panel, Smart Rotation, Page Buddy, new Notification Bar and Google Now.
Galaxy Note users who have already upgraded their devices with the latest official release may follow our step-by-step guide below to root the same.
The method below uses CWM recovery packages, released by XDA developer Phil3759, to root the Galaxy Note. Head over to the source page to learn more about the Recovery zip files and their uses. The key feature of the root files is that users do not have to install ClockworkMod (CWM) recovery separately since the package will install it.
Below are two different methods to root the Galaxy Note: one is to root the Note using stock recovery and the other to root using Odin. Users may follow any of these methods.
IBTimes UK reminds its readers that it will not be held liable for any mishap, so proceed at your own risk.
1) Install USB Driver for Galaxy Note on the computer.
2) Enable USB Debugging Mode. [Press Menu>> Settings>> Applications. From there navigate and click on Development option and ensure the USB Debugging Mode is turned on.]
3) Create a backup of all data of the device.
4) The phone should be factory unlocked.
5) Ensure that the battery of the Galaxy Note has more than 80 per cent of charge.
6) The phone will lose manufacturer's warranty once it is rooted, but users can regain the warranty by unrooting the device.
7) The root method below is only compatible with Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 running on Android 4.1.2 DXLSE Jelly Bean; applying the method on incorrect variant might brick the device.
Steps to root Galaxy Note N7000 on Android 4.1.2 DXLSE via stock recovery
1) Download PhilZ-cwm6-DXLSE-OLB-4.91.2-signed.zip for the Galaxy Note to the computer
2) Connect the Note to the computer using USB cable and copy the downloaded zip file to the external SD card of the device
3) Disconnect the phone from the computer and switch it off. Now boot the device into stock recovery mode by pressing and holding Volume Up, Home and Power buttons together
4) Using the Volume keys navigate to and select 'apply update from external storage' then brose to the 'PhilZ-cwm6-DXLSE-OLB-4.91.2-signed.zip file' which is saved on the external SD card
5) Select the zip file by pressing the Power button and confirm installation
6) After the installation process is completed, select 'reboot system now' from the recovery menu to reboot the phone.
Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 is now successfully rooted on Android 4.1.2 DXLSE Jelly Bean with CWM recovery installed.
Steps to root Galaxy Note N7000 on Android 4.1.2 DXLSE Jelly Bean using Odin
1) Download root kernel N7000DXLSE for the Galaxy Note to the computer
2) Download Odin v1.85 which will help to root the Jelly Bean firmware
3) Turn off the Note and place the device into Download Mode. Press and hold Volume Down + Home buttons together, then press the Power button until the construction Android robot and a triangle appears. Now press the Power button again to confirm to enter into Download Mode
4) Open Odin on the computer
5) Plug in the USB cable to the phone to connect it with the computer while the device is in the Download Mode. When the device is connected successfully, one of the ID: COM boxes will turn yellow with the COM port number. This step is likely to take some time
6) In Odin, click on the 'PDA' button and select the 'Philz-cwm6-DXLSE-OLB-4.91.2.tar.md5'
7) Verify that the 'Auto Reboot' and 'F Reset Time' options are selected in Odin
8) Double check everything and click the 'Start' button in Odin to being installation. The process will take about a few minutes
9) Upon the competition of the installation process, the phone will restart automatically. Unplug the USB cable from the phone once the home screen appears
Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 running on Android 4.1.2 DXLSE Jelly Bean is now rooted successfully. Open the app drawer of the device and check for an app called Superuser from the list. Additionally, download Root Checker app from Google Play Store to verify that the root method is installed and working properly.
Click here for step-by-step guide to install official Android 4.1.2 XXLT4 Jelly Bean on Galaxy Note N7000.
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Live & Loud
Morire: Lemmy vs Bowie
GOOGLE TRADUCETE E PIANGETE – meglio una vita da Lemmy che 100 dischi da Bowie?
Live fast, die old
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, epitome of the rock lifestyle, died on December 28th, aged 70
IT WAS never hard to pick out Lemmy in a crowd. First, that black hat, vaguely cowboy in style, with silver medallions round it and crossed Confederate swords. Then very long hair (eventually dyed, or else he looked like Willie Nelson), and matching moustache. A black shirt, often open to a jungle of chest hair, with very tight black jeans. And, to complete the look, cowboy boots. Around the mid-1970s many rock bands and their fans spent Saturday night in something similar. Lemmy, founder in 1975 and frontman of Motörhead, wore that outfit, all the time, for 40 years.
He played the same music, too: fundamentally pure rock and roll, rooted in Buddy Holly and Jerry Lee Lewis, sent through two 100-watt black stacks and classified by the Guinness Book of Records as the loudest rock music ever. Bass was his instrument, but bashed in big up-down chords like the rhythm guitar on which he'd started: the effect was sometimes compared to crushed razor blades, sometimes to showers of gravel. Over this, through a mic tilted perilously over his head, he would rasp out vocals that were hard to hear and usually absurd, he admitted, once you'd made them out: songs about war, drugs, sex, rich people, kicking ass and broken glass, with titles like "Die, You Bastard", "Antisocial" and "Overkill", scrawled mostly by him in a few chortling minutes on the back of a cigarette packet.
Motörhead's selling point was not high culture. It was that, in a scene encompassing heavy metal, punk, psychedelia, rockabilly and all the rest, the band played reliable, raw, ear-splitting rock and roll of the old style, and went on doing so round the world—or at least round the M1, M6 and M4—as long as Lemmy lasted. He led the band through 22 studio albums, the latest released in August. Guitarists and drummers came and went, sometimes by falling offstage or through bathroom mirrors they mistook for windows. The black hat with silver bits was a constant.
Surprisingly, the body inside the clothes also stayed much the same, despite serial abuse from chain-smoking, a bottle of Jack Daniel's every day (no health-food shit for him!) and handfuls of acid crammed down like dolly mixtures when, for a while, he was roadie for Jimi Hendrix. Acid, he claimed, made him a better person. It gave you a new angle—several new angles—on things. His shift to amphetamines ("motorhead" was American slang for "speed freak") came when he joined Hawkwind, a dreamy psychedelic band, in 1972. The pills kept him functional through tours from then on, though he was fired from Hawkwind when he was busted for possession in Canada; and though for one show he had to be propped up, his bass hung on him, and pointed in the rough direction of the audience, which he couldn't see. A doctor once told him that a transfusion would kill him, because his body no longer contained any human blood.
Yet he couldn't imagine a better life than this, and certainly couldn't have foreseen it as a troubled, bullied English boy in north Wales—fiddling to catch Bill Haley on the wireless, messing around with short-lived useless bands, slaving at the Hotpoint factory. In the end he spent his entire career making the music he loved, thrilling fans, trashing hotel rooms, instigating riots with firehoses or squirty cheese, and taking restricted substances. ("If we moved in next door to you," he remarked, "your lawn would die.") He was a hedonist son of a bitch whose age seemed very nicely stuck at around 25.
Laid today, gone tomorrow
Meanwhile, girls desperate to bed him formed a disorderly queue at every stage door. The best part of any gig was getting laid afterwards; he estimated his conquests in the thousands, because chicks loved men intent on the wandering life, and it suited him, too, to be here today and gone tomorrow. Nowhere was home (though LA, with its "paradise" palm trees, came closest) and marriage wasn't his style. The one girl he deeply loved died from heroin, making him even more determined not to touch that stuff, at least.
His other regret was that after Motörhead's greatest hit, "Ace of Spades", had soared to number 15 in the charts in 1980, even the band's fans seemed deaf to the equally good music that came next. Though he was on the road most of the year for 40 years, playing to packed houses, he seemed to be always broke. On the fringes of venues he would loiter by the slot machines (his favourite form of that addiction), hoping someone would buy him a drink.
The big time, however, never came any closer, because he refused to change a thing he did. He wore his usual gear, including the Iron Cross necklace from his treasured collection of Nazi memorabilia, even to the Grammy awards. Nor would he kowtow to any asshole, record company or manager. He remained stubbornly his own man, and not always at full volume. On the road he bought dozens of chocolate Kinder eggs for the little toys inside. He enjoyed pondering the beauty and randomness of Nature. And at lights-out on the tour bus he would settle down to P.G. Wodehouse, quietly happy in his own company. He hoped to be remembered as "an honourable man". But then, with a throaty laugh, he had to admit there wasn't really any question of that.
Starman Jones
David Bowie, musician, actor and icon, died on January 10th, aged 69
IN JULY 1969 men walked on the moon, a technological leap all but unthinkable 50 years before. Three years later they abandoned it, and have renounced all return ever since. What boosters saw as the great opening act of the space age turned out to be, in effect, its culmination. Within a few years presidential corruption, economic stagnation, military ignominy and imagined catastrophe had warped post-war America's previously impervious belief in progress, a belief that had resonance across the then free world. After Apollo, the future would never again be what it used to be.
David Bowie's greatest years began nine days before Apollo 11 touched down in the Sea of Tranquillity, with the release of his single "Space Oddity"; they ended 11 years later, with the single "Ashes to Ashes". Over that decade he used imagined futures to turn himself into something contradictory and wonderful—an epitome of alienation with whom the alienated flocked to identify. In doing so, he laid bare one of the key cultural shifts of the 1970s: the giving up of past dreams.
Mr Bowie's future-fixation was most obvious in his appropriation of the themes of pulp science fiction, of space travel and aliens from other planets, of "Ziggy Stardust" and "Life on Mars". Other impresarios—most notably L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology—had ransacked the genre for mythologies of personal growth. But none did so with Mr Bowie's sense of dress and theatre, his sexual thrill, his salesmanship and his understanding of what his fans wanted to hear. His alien allegories made the possibility of change—the heart of the future's appeal, especially for adolescents—a matter not of remaking society or piling up technological progress but of revealing, or remaking, yourself. The difference between the future and the past lay not in it, but in you.
The proof was in the playing. Mr Bowie grew up as David Jones, a sharp-toothed kid from dull suburban Bromley whose parents held no aspirations for him. Through a talent born of yearning he had transformed himself into Ziggy Stardust: extravagant, flawed and sexually polymorphous, tottering on platform shoes and hiding behind a mask of paint. "Nijinsky meets Woolworths" Mr Bowie called him: a character who ran through 73 different outfits in 21 months. If he could so transform himself, what could make-up and attitude do for you—especially if you had outcast Ziggy, your leper messiah, to sexily show you the way?
Mr Bowie had taken a while to attract attention. Stuck in 1960s London, he picked up a saxophone and considered jazz, then flitted between bands; he moved from mod to Buddhist, from rocker to folk artist, hanging around London's Soho with its sex shops and music clubs, exploring sexual ambiguity. Despite the success of "Space Oddity" his early albums drew little attention. It was only with the fifth, "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars", (1972) that millions of teenagers in semi-detached houses just like the one back in Bromley took him to their hearts and turntables.
Through these years and after Mr Bowie's focus on the future was clear in his relentless reinvention of himself and his music: always wanting to see what was next, ceaselessly leaving the places he had lived and the music he had played for what was to come. "I can think of no other rock artist" wrote Charles Shaar Murray, a rock journalist, "whose next album is always the one I'm most looking forward to hearing."
Some called him a chameleon, but he was the reverse. Chameleons change hue to blend in with their background; he changed to stand out, and dared others to mimic him. He was never afraid to murder his darlings. Ziggy was killed off in 1973 as he finished an exhausting worldwide tour at London's Hammersmith Odeon; he was being too much imitated, and Mr Bowie always had to be one step ahead. One successor was Aladdin Sane, a zigzag of painted lightning across his face; another, the most troubled, was the Thin White Duke, an aristocratic cabaret singer in black trousers, waistcoat and white shirt, needing only a skull to play Hamlet.
The tragic garb was well judged. As he dashed from persona to persona, station to station, so the worlds he pushed into became darker. Shaped by the threat of nuclear war, the cultural imagination took a catastrophic turn in the 1970s—one ever-present future was no future at all. Mr Bowie was there at the turning point; his song "Five Years" says more about impending annihilation than a shelf full of reports from the RAND Corporation. Spectacular levels of cocaine abuse also shaped this nihilistic trajectory. Settled in Los Angeles from 1975, he stayed up for days on end, sitting cross-legged behind black curtains, surrounding himself with black candles and painted pentagrams.
His diet was "red peppers, cocaine and milk"; always slender, he became skeletal. He would work madly on a song for a week, only to realise that he had got no further than four bars. Nicolas Roeg had originally been set on Peter O'Toole to play the titular alien in his film "The Man Who Fell To Earth". But on seeing television footage of Mr Bowie sitting utterly isolated in the back of a limousine he knew he had his not-quite-man. Mr Bowie, true to form, remembered almost nothing of the filming. There is no alienation like drugged alienation, and perhaps no worse place to experience that than "the most repulsive wart on the backside of humanity", as he described the City of Angels.
In "Space Oddity" Major Tom, floating in a most peculiar way, had been an isolated spaceman; by "Ashes to Ashes" his isolation was a junkie's. Mr Bowie later said that this funereal nursery rhyme (only his second British number-one single) served to wrap up the 1970s. In the 1980s he reconnected, refashioning himself into a much more straightforward, and less interesting, pop star and something of a Thatcherite poster-boy; embracing consumerism was another side of his celebration of the individual over all else. He found huge audiences in America with "Let's Dance" (1983); he sang a camp cover of Martha Reeves & the Vandellas' "Dancing in the Street" with Mick Jagger for Bob Geldof's Band Aid. His skills were still there, yet his sense of daring had faded. For the first time since Ziggy, he no longer drove the cultural agenda; like many an ageing rocker, he found himself seen as part of the establishment he had spent his life wrong-footing.
His better work in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s, like the late work of many artists, seemed more a response to his own earlier achievement than a reflection of the world outside—but the stature of that earlier work, and the fact that it had done much to shape that world outside, still made the last albums far more interesting than those of most of his peers. Most poignant was his 27th and last, "Blackstar", released on January 8th. The video for the track "Lazarus" shows him singing "I'll be free—ain't that just like me?" before walking backwards, trembling, into a wardrobe, and pulling the door closed. He had choreographed his own death—a step ahead, as usual, and a profound shock for a world that had been unaware of his cancer. Within days "Lazarus" had been watched 17m times, and "Blackstar" topped the charts. His producer, Tony Visconti, confirmed that it was Mr Bowie's "parting gift".
"Blackstar" in fact harked back to his greatest period: the one, in the late 1970s, in which he escaped from Los Angeles to Berlin and laid the future to rest in a grave of strange, powerful sound. He chose Berlin to save money and live in a place where he would be unknown. Despite his fascination with Nietzsche, it was the city's cultural ferment, not a dalliance with fascism, that induced him to stay. He and Iggy Pop, a drug-addled rocker who was part-muse, part-playmate, part-protégé, shared a flat in Schöneberg.
In earlier days Mr Bowie had planned his albums meticulously; now he and his collaborators, including Mr Visconti and the remarkable Brian Eno, worked on the fly in the studio, the lyrics assembled with scissors-and-paste montage—or left out altogether. Much of the music was bleak, its synthesisers industrial, its guitars angry, its words disturbing. Take "Breaking Glass": "Baby, I've been breaking glass in your room again. Listen. Don't look at the carpet. I drew something awful on it"—presumed to be a reference to the pentagrams of Los Angeles.
But in this darkness there was grace. Freedom and honesty characterise the Berlin recordings, the veneer of masquerade abandoned. He had a sense, he said, "of closing the blinds and saying, 'Fuck them all'." And in a city as freighted with history as any in Europe, he felt he had at last captured "a sense of yearning for a future that we all knew would never come to pass".
It is no accident that his greatest song of this period, "'Heroes'", both celebrates its protagonists' potential and constrains it: while everything might be possible, it is all "just for one day". It is an embrace of the present that acknowledges the passing away of future dreams, but in its intimate immensity absorbs the sadness of that loss. It is, like much great art, universal precisely because of its response to a particular place—and time.
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In December, I reviewed the new Visual Studio 2012, and I briefly mentioned that it includes a new version of Microsoft LightSwitch.
LightSwitch first came on the scene two years ago, and although I felt it had a certain amount of promise, I had serious reservations about suggesting it would take off in sales. Essentially it's a rapid application development (RAD) tool for building database applications quickly and easily with no programming, while allowing advanced developers to actually go in and write C# code.
But there was a problem with it that I, personally, felt was a serious flaw: The final programs ran under the Silverlight runtime. But now they've changed that, with a new "HTML5 Client" version.
This makes sense. Since the first LightSwitch came out, Microsoft seems to have, on one hand, backed off a bit from Silverlight, instead focusing on the HTML5 features of Internet Explorer, but at the same time including Silverlight support in Windows 8.
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However, that doesn't mean I develop for Flash. I don't. But it is available and it makes more sense for somebody to choose something as ubiquitous as Flash over Silverlight to develop browser plug-ins.
In this review, then, I'm taking a look at the HTML5 Client version.
Creating the Project
LightSwitch is built right into Visual Studio 2012 as a project type. In the New Project dialog box, there's a section called "LightSwitch" and it has four types: LightSwitch Application for Visual Basic, LightSwitch Application for C#, LightSwitch HTML Application for Visual Basic and LightSwitch HTML Application for C#.
The first two are Silverlight applications, and the second two are HTML5 applications. For these tests I'm using the HTML5 C# project.
After creating the initial project, you get to set up the data. This is where the tool is supposed to be easy for non-technical people. You can either attach the application to an existing database or use a simple modeling tool to create your tables. You still have to have a basic understanding of what tables and relationships are. However, I'm not sure how easily a non-technical person could handle it (or even be willing to).
If you create the tables, you choose the names for the fields. The tables automatically get an ID field that's an integer and a unique key, which as far as I could determine in this project, you can neither change nor remove.
For the rest of your fields, you can choose between a large set of data types, such as numbers, dates and strings, but also higher-level fields such as Money, Percent, Email Address, Phone Number and Web Address.


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Super Mario Time Attack - click here to play
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DES MOINES, Wash. – Troopers believe two cars that were street racing caused an accident that backed up traffic on southbound Interstate 5 near Des Moines on Tuesday afternoon.
Washington State Patrol trooper Rick Johnson said the driver of a Ford Mustang is in custody and facing felony vehicle assault charges after the crash, which sent another driver to the hospital.
Johnson said the driver of that car, a BMW, is believed to have been racing with the Mustang. That driver's condition wasn't immediately available.
The accident had a severe impact on the afternoon commute, with the travel time between Seattle and Federal Way hitting nearly two hours.
Shortly after 4 p.m., the backup stretched 12 miles. All lanes were open by 5 p.m., but WSDOT expected traffic to be miserable as congestion slowly cleared.
The crash happened at about 3 p.m. on I-5 at 216th.
A flatbed truck was also involved, but trooper said nobody in the truck was hurt.


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Volume 54, Number 35 June 18, 2007
Garfield "has an outstanding record as a scientist, teacher and administrator," said Sheldon Axler, Dean of the College of Science and Engineering. "He has an unusual ability to explain science to nonscientists in an understandable fashion."
Garfield has conducted research at sea in both hemispheres of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and published widely in scientific journals including Science, Journal of Geophysical Research and Journal of Physical Oceanography. He was a researcher at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. and at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. As a member of the SF State geosciences department faculty, Garfield has taught oceanography and marine science courses. He has also taught at the Moss Landing Marine Lab, California State University, Monterey Bay and the Naval Postgraduate School.
A native of Massachusetts, Garfield grew up in Connecticut and Puerto Rico. He received his Ph.D. in physical oceanography from the University of Rhode Island, holds a master's degree in marine sciences from the University of Delaware, and earned a bachelor's degree in geology from Williams College. He is a resident of Oakland.
"In an era when the world is facing a range of critical environmental issues, I can't think of a more exciting place to work than RTC," Garfield said. "I am honored to lead the continuing development of the Bay Area's principle marine and estuarine educational research facility."
New School of Nursing director
Shirley A. Girouard, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, has been named the new director of the School of Nursing. She assumes the post in August.
Prior to accepting the position at SF State, Girouard was an associate professor of nursing at Southern Connecticut State University, health consultant for an early childcare program and a geriatric staff nurse at Evergreen Woods Health Facility in North Branford, Conn.
Girouard holds a Ph.D. in health and social policy from Brandeis University; an M.S.N. in medical-surgical nursing from Yale University; an M.A. in medical sociology from University of Connecticut and a B.A. in sociology from Eastern Connecticut State College. She is a graduate of the Hartford (Conn.) Hospital School of Nursing.
Girouard served as executive director of the American Nurses Association from 1993 to 1994; program officer for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation from 1987 to 1993; and vice president of child health and financing at the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions. Throughout her career Girouard consulted in the areas of organization, delivery and financing of health-care services including managed care, research and program evaluation. Her clients included the Orkand Corporation and Central Vermont Hospital. In the public sector, Girouard served as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives and as a policy analyst for the State of Connecticut.
"We are pleased to welcome Shirley Girouard," said Don Taylor, dean of the College of Health and Human Services. "In addition to her administrative, clinical and teaching experience, she brings a commitment to and enthusiasm for engaging faculty in scholarly research and writing."
Girouard said she is "very impressed with the San Francisco State nursing school's interdisciplinary approach and commitment to and interaction with its community," and is eager to have this opportunity to turn her passion for improving health and well being into action. "Nursing, and thus nursing education, is a mechanism to do this…I look forward to working with the committed and engaged faculty and staff at the University to make a difference for students and for those needing the expertise of professional nurses."
Emergency Web site launched
The University has developed a comprehensive safety resource for students, faculty and staff to serve as a clearinghouse of campus-specific and general safety information. The SF State Emergency Preparedness Web site links to on- and off- campus information about preparing emergency kits and security checklists.
The sites
feature detailed procedures for averting or responding to a range of
emergencies, from natural disasters to criminal threats.
Key campus
safety manuals, brochures and placards are now available online, reinforced
by an online tutorial, which explains and tests emergency preparedness
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Aggregation and C and N contents of soil organic matter fractions in a permanent raised-bed planting system in the highlands of Central Mexico
Permanent raised bed planting with crop residue retention is a form of conservation agriculture that has been proposed as an alternative to conventional tillage for wheat production systems in the Central Highlands of ...
Conservation agriculture and soil carbon sequestration: between myth and farmer reality
Improving food security, environmental preservation and enhancing livelihood should be the main targets of the innovators of today's farming systems. Conservation agriculture (CA), based on minimum tillage, crop residue ...
Influence of permanent raised bed planting and residue management on physical and chemical soil quality in rain fed maize/wheat systems
Densely populated, intensively cropped highland areas in the tropics and subtropics are prone to erosion and declining soil fertility, making agriculture unsustainable. Conservation agriculture in its version of permanent ...
Conservation agriculture as a sustainable option for the central Mexican highlands
Tropical highlands of the world are densely populated and intensively cropped. Agricultural sustainability problems resulting from soil erosion and fertility decline have arisen all over this agro-ecological zone. Based ...


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The Associated Press
Wheat and corn futures rose Monday after storms in the Midwest over the weekend threatened both crops.
Wheat for December delivery rose 7.75 cents to $6.9475 a bushel and December corn rose 6 cents to $4.4925 a bushel.
Weekend storms delayed the harvest of the corn crop and also caused delays in planting the winter wheat crop, said Todd Hultman, a grain analyst with DTN/The Progressive Farmer in Omaha, Neb.
Hultman also said traders of agricultural futures were becoming more cautious because the partial shutdown of the U.S. government has stopped the flow of data about crops that the market usually relies on, such as export sales and crop progress reports.
November soybeans edged up 1.5 cents to $12.965 a bushel.
In other commodities trading, crude oil fell 81 cents to close at $103.03 a barrel in New York as production in the Gulf of Mexico got back on track after a storm system passed through the area.
Wholesale gasoline gained 2 cents to $2.63 per gallon, natural gas rose 12 cents to $3.63 per 1,000 cubic feet and heating oil rose 1 cent to $3.01 per gallon.
Metals prices mostly rose. December gold rose $15.20 to $1,325.10 an ounce. December silver rose 63.4 cents to $22.386 an ounce.
January platinum rose $13.90 to $1,401.90 an ounce and December palladium rose $3.40 to $705.35 an ounce. Copper for December delivery edged down 0.45 cent to $3.2965 a pound.


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Source: The Journal of Textile Association
From about 600 years ago, when the Indian city of Delhi was being governed by emperors from the Tuglak dynasty, a noticeable amount of interchanges were taking place between Indian and Persian weavers. During an ebullient time in Indian history, when emperor Mohammed Bin Tuglak and his loyal herd of elephants tried to relocate their headquarters to Daulatabad in Maharashtra, some precious trade secrets of Persian shawl weaving techniques clandestinely found their way into the narrow alleys of Aurangabad. At a later period in history, and in the Mogul period, weavers who enjoyed imperial patronage began challenging the supremacy of the Persian weavers. The Himroo shawls produced in India evoked intense curiosity in neighboring foreign lands. This not only guaranteed a lucrative export market, but also uplifted the image of the Mogul dynasty. However, the disintegration of the empire of Aurangazeb resulted in the Maratha and British incursions. These unwarranted political upheavals not only inflicted deep injuries upon civil society, but also disrupted everyday life and stifled the artistic spirit central to Indian culture.
This short piece of literature, we wish to awaken a new spurt of interest in the ancient fabric weaving art of Himroo. While doing so, we have tried to employ a style of narration that was once the hallmark of British historians digging into Indias rich past. We have collected relevant bits and pieces of information from Indian history and woven it into a story about Himroo.
Key words: Himroo weaving, Persian weaving
Culturally, weavers in Turkey and Persia had been burning the midnight oil to conserve a vibrant fabric weaving tradition that often gave a purpose to ones life. While some aging historians hold the view that Himroo weaving originated from Persia, others wish to remain uncommitted to this controversial view.
Originally published in Journal of the Textile Association, Vol. 71 No.6, March-April 2011
The authors are associated with SNDT Womens University, Premlila Vithaldas Polytechnic, Mumbai.


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Mathematical Reasoning in Service Courses: Why Students Need Mathematical Modeling Problems
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modeling, applications, mathematical reasoning, Bloom's revised taxonomy
In this paper we argue that conventional mathematics word problems are not aligned with the typical learning goals and expectations partner disciplines, especially business, have in requiring that their students take mathematics courses. Using the taxonomy of educational objectives presented by Anderson and Krathwohl (2001) we show how mathematical modeling problems can be used to promote the needed alignment and contrast two examples to illustrate the differences. We then demonstrate how the more conventional word problem can be rewritten as a modeling problem. Sample assessment materials and instructional activities are included to support teachers in making the transition to the use of modeling problems.
© 2010, The Montana Mathematics Enthusiast. Original publication is available at http://www.math.umt.edu/tmme/vol7no1/
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Green, Kris H. and Emerson, W. Allen (2010). "Mathematical Reasoning in Service Courses: Why Students Need Mathematical Modeling Problems." The Montana Mathematics Enthusiast 7.1, 113-140.
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Multiple choice questionnaires (MCQs) consist of a set of questions in which examinees, or more general responders, have to select or eliminate response items, i.e., answers, from a list that is proposed to them. The term "questionnaires" is somewhat restrictive, since in some cases the item to which the examinee has to respond might not be phrased as a question but, for example, as an incomplete phrase that has to be completed by selecting an item from a list. MCQs are used in educational settings for testing students. One of the most characteristic features of MCQs, along with true/false questions, is that scoring can be done without the need of judgment application by the scorer, since the scoring rules are strictly set and straightforward to follow. In this sense MCQs tests' scoring is objective (Bush, 2006; Freeman & Lewis, 1998; Scharf & Baldwin, 2007). On the same hand, this characteristic makes the use of MCQs especially appropriate for electronic examination settings.
Electronic examinations have been consistently used as part of the online activities offered to students based on the introduction of personal computers (PCs) in education, which by itself constituted a landmark, promoting the implementation of innovative learning methods. The variety of learning material-related online activities available is impressive. It extends from simple access to static course content in electronic files, to complete courses followed by the student. Such "packages" often include self-assessment modules (Tsiakas, Stergiopoulos, Nafpaktitis, Triantis, & Stavrakas, 2007). In such cases the merits of MCQs become evident, since they are one of the basic tools available to content developers for providing comprehensive self-assessment examination material, along with true/false questions. Overall, in comparison to traditional teaching methodologies, a significant amount of literature exists to support the superiority of computer-aided learning for skill learning, including critical thought and problem solving (Bowman, 1995; Safrit, Ennis, & Nagle, 1988).
Electronic examinations, in modern educational settings constitute a part of computer-aided testing systems. In turn, those systems, being part of the available armamentarium of assessment and testing tools, provide one of the foundations needed for Learning Management Systems (LMSs). Successful LMSs integrally support the activity cycles related to the interactions between instructors, students, administrative staff, as well as learning material (Chu et al., 2010; Ellis, 2009a). Assessment and testing is only one of the many features than an LMS provides to its users, in conjunction with reporting and statistical processing of educational activities, compliance tracking, management approval, certification of participants, as well as authoring of material and content management. While electronic examinations are assessment items delivered by the LMS, the items that the electronic examination consists of are usually developed, managed and published by a Learning Content Management System (LCMS). LCMS are software applications either incorporated into or closely interacting with the LMS that the educational institution uses (Feldstein, 2002). It has been persuasively argued that creating electronic examinations in the framework of LCMSs and using them as computer-based learning and evaluation items in a LMS, could be considered for enriching existing assessment methodologies and, concurrently, constructing innovative assessment techniques (Ganguli et al., 2006; Triantis, Anastasiadis, Tsiakas, & Stergiopoulos, 2007). Additionally, findings of the surveys conducted on users of LMSs by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), in 2009 and 2010, stressed the importance of assessment and testing for LMSs (Ellis, 2009b; Ellis, 2010). Since an important part of assessment and testing tools used by LMS are electronic examinations, innovative assessment techniques can be readily incorporated into electronic examination modules and might be expected to expand the use of LMSs.
Constructed-Response Questions: A question that requires the respondent to create his/her own response.
Multiple-Choice Question: A question that is accompanied by a list of possible responses, from which the respondent selects the answer(s).
Scoring Rules: The procedures used in the process of assigning a score for evaluating the performance in a test.
Electronic Examinations: A formal test involving answering questions and/or solving exercises using electronic media.


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Welcome everyone!
Just in time for the release of the game at local game shops, here's a plugin to play Final Fantasy Trading Card Game using OCTGN.
To figure out how to install OCTGN, the plugin, and how to use both of them, click on the How to Play tab. To download the image pack needed for Opus I cards, click on the Image Packs tab. (If no image packs are installed, proxy images will be provided.)
Have fun, leave feedback, and support the official release!
EDIT: The link on the Image Packs page was pointing to the wrong file. Embarrassing! This has now been fixed.


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Symmetry in Complex Networks
Many real world networks are symmetric. In the research conducted by Ben McArthur, Sanchez-Garcia and Anderson, they've found out that a certain degree of symmetry is also ubiquitous in complex systems. They investigated the origin and form of real-world network symmetry and its effect on network function.
Many networks – for example the internet and the world-wide web are "growing" (that is new vertices are added to the network over time). Generally any growth process which allows for new vertices to the network one at a time generally leads to a network with locally-tree-like regions. Such locally tree-like areas are common in real-world networks and their presence is important because while majority of large graphs are assymetric, it is common for large random trees to exhibit a high degree of symmetry, deriving from presence of identical branches about the same fork. Thus, we can expect that certain degree of tree-like symmetry to be present in many real-world networks. [1]
[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166218X08001881


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About ICM Associates, Inc.
ICM was co-founded by sisters Kate Caravella and Meg Bernard in 2001. Our first office was located in Delray Beach, Florida. Kate and her family moved to the Tampa Bay, Florida Area later that year and a second location was added. Dr. Dawn Sheehan joined ICM as a clincial consultant and intervention specialist in 2012. Coming in January 2018, Kate will be opening a third office in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
Geographical Areas Served
ICM provides services to individuals and to families on both the east and west coasts of Florida, nationally, and internationally. Many of our services can be provided via the use of Skype, telephone, and FaceTime. Clients who reside near one of our offices (Palm Beach County, Florida, Tampa, Florida (and surrounding areas), Malvern, PA ( and surrounding areas) often work in person with one or more members of our team. Family and executive interventions are frequently facilitated nationally and internationally.
Affilitations & Partnerships
ICM does not professionally align with or partner with any one program, agency, or professional. We feel that it's extremely important that all of our clients receive care and services that are always independent of our professional relationships and are the best fit for the client.


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RPS has appointed German company LSS Laser Sinter Service GmbH as its first distributor for the NEO800 production stereolithography system.
Founded in 2002, and having its operational base in Holzwickede near Dortmund, today LSS is a supplier of both plastic laser sintering (PLS) and metal laser sintering (MLS) equipment and materials. Now the company has been named by RPS as its first distributor supplying the NEO800 stereolithography system into the German 3D printing market.
Guido Elbrecht, founder and managing director of LSS, said the distribution agreement was a natural fit. "We already have a good partnership with RPS on the service side of our business and with DSM Somos® in stereolithography materials, so adding the NEO800 stereolithography hardware to our portfolio of 3D printing products makes good business sense.
"We have an excellent understanding of the additive manufacturing market and technologies in central Europe and operate within many key industry sectors including automotive, high end engineering and product design, which gives us a distinct advantage in introducing the NEO800 to this market."
The NEO800, launched by RPS at the TCT Show in September last year, offers exceptional part sidewall quality, with a scanning resolution to within 1 micron, significantly reducing finishing time by up to 50%. As an open resin system it is compatible with all 355 nm SL resins and has an impressive print area of 800 x 800 x 600 mm, 30% larger than systems with similar footprints from other manufacturers. Designed for production, the NEO800 runs 24/7/365 with minimum intervention to maximise uptime.
RPS Director David Storey said that driving the growth of NEO800 sales in the European market had always been a long-term plan for RPS. "Appointing LSS as our first distributor is a very positive step and we are ramping up production of the NEO800 units in line with market share expectations.
"We see this as a strong distribution partnership. Like RPS, the company has been operating in the 3D printing market for over 10 years and has in depth market knowledge and customer relationships already in place so we are very positive about where this will lead."
Both companies will be jointly exhibiting at formnext, Frankfurt on 14 – 17th November. Visit LSS and RPS in Hall 3.1, stand number E31.


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or, if you prefer a more secular bowie,
happy christmas.
[ stefanie ]
Posted in music, tagged bing crosby, christmas, david bowie, labyrinth on December 24, 2008| Leave a Comment »
or, if you prefer a more secular bowie,
happy christmas.
[ stefanie ]
Posted in fashion, shopping, tagged arts & crafts, gift ideas, reprodepot fabrics, sewing on December 22, 2008| Leave a Comment »
having recently discovered how smashingly simple it is to sew a reasonably cute dress from scratch ("scratch" being 3 or 4 yards of fabric, and also some thread and some buttons), we encourage you to visit reprodepot fabrics, where one can find many yards of super cute material.
if, having heeded our advice, you are currently sitting in front of a sewing machine wondering where to begin, try taking a prior existing dress (or skirt, or vest, or onesie) and finding all the seams and figuring out how many pieces of fabric said article of clothing is made up of (for example, my dress was one front piece + one back piece + one skirt piece). then measure all the pieces (length from waist to neckline, length of space in between shoulders, length from waist to bottom of skirt, etc) and cut them out of your chosen fabric and assemble.
or, make pillows (2 squares of fabric + socks and cotton balls to stuff them with) and distribute them as practically free yet adorable homemade holiday gifts.
[ stefanie ]
Posted in art, books, fashion, music, photography, shopping, tagged balloon animals, big sur, cate blanchett, coffee and cigarettes, comme des garcons, digital photography, france, gus van sant, h&m, hannuka, interview magazine, irony, jack kerouac, jack white, jeff koons, paranoid park, rei kawakubo, richard prince, Sculpture, the new york times, versailles, william eggleston on December 22, 2008| Leave a Comment »
the latest issue of interview, is superb. it is the so-called art issue. inside find interviews with richard prince (who owns the original scroll of big sur by mr. jack kerouac), jeff koons (more on him in a sec), cate blanchett (interviewed by jack white, which brings to mind coffee and cigarettes, and also the two of them are quite witty with each other), william eggleston (who is color blind?), rei kawakubo (have you gotten a chance to shop for comme des garcons at h&m yet?), gus van sant (i fell asleep during paranoid park but still claim to have really liked it), AND MORE!
jeff koons was all, "i don't think my shit is ironic, or tongue-in-cheek" (that was paraphrased, badly, by the way) and i was all, reeeally? because you sculpted a giant balloon animal and put it in the palace at versailles… but then jeff koons was all, "living at versailles must have been like living in a fantasy, where you could go to sleep one night with a garden full of blue flowers and wake up to find a garden full of red flowers, because a staff of gardeners had been up all night uprooting and planting your fantasy, fuckin louis xiv, and my pieces relate to that fantasy in contemporary ways" (again, paraphrase-age) and i was all, hey i kinda like that, way to go jeff koons, this is the first time i've ever had tender feelings towards you and your art.
(photo from nytimes.com)
and then i was all, happy hannuka, and stuff.
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Posted in music, no but seriously, tagged animal collective, architecture in helsinki, bluegrass, coal, esau mwamwaya, free free free, green owl, heres to the long haul, indie pop, karaoke, m.i.a., radioclit, santogold, sustainability, the environment, vampire weekend on December 21, 2008| Leave a Comment »
if you listen to
architecture in helsinki,
vampire weekend,
animal collective,
you should download (for free!) esau mwamwaya and radioclit are the very best. it is lovable. it will make you feel musically on-the-ball. and it is free music. at times, the album sounds like karaoke (like track 3, tengazako). other times, though, it is karaoke TO THE MAXXX and we mean that in the best way possible, in that the tunes are familiar but the vibe is new. even other times, the tunes are new and the vibe is new. all in all, it is worth many listens.
oh. and. green owl, the label releasing the aforementioned indiedancepop lovefest, seems pretty kewl. and if their take on sustainable music is intriguing or appealing to you, perhaps you should check out heres to the long haul, a bluegrass-y mountainous sort of band that cares about the terrible effects of coal mining.
good music, and respect for the planet, are a really wonderful combination, no?
[ stefanie ]
Posted in fashion, photography, schmolitics politics, tagged 1980, Afro, barack obama, black and white photography, graphic design, Lisa Jack, Michael Jackson, panama hats, Time Magazine on December 17, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Every one and their 4 year old child knows that Barack Obama is hip. He was just chosen for obvious reasons as Time Magazine's person of the year, which includes the inspiration for this posting. Obama is, for many, the anthropomorphic representation of that which has been lacking in America – in politics, morals, ideals, etc, etc. Who knew that he also represents that which America lacks overall in straight up coolness. Actually, some of us might have thought something was up considering the now famous retro-inspired images from his campaign, as below. The use of such imagery could have been resultant simply from the smart choices of art directors and graphic designers in an effort to appeal to young voters (who no doubt had a large impact in his elected-ness), though I'm thinking (in light of the Time Magazine photos) that this image truthfully portrays aspects of Obama's character that are less publicized.
Thankfully, Lisa Jack, an old time University colleague of the current president-elect had the smarts enough to rummage through her basement and re-surface these fabulous, fashion-conscious negatives from 1980, Barak's freshman year at Occidental College in Los Angeles. I heard that Obama showed up to the shoot with a leather jacket, Panama hat and pack of cigarettes of his own accord. The shoot was a chance for the photographer to build her portfolio, from what I know.
Aparantly Obama mentions this time of his life in his memoir as one which he spent searching for himself and discovering his identity as a mixed-raced/ African American male, though I have not read his book myself. I'm not sure about you guys, but some of these images scream the Tito Jackson (maybe Jermain – not sure anymore..), even a young Michael if you could imagine Obama's young face at the tender age of 6, still surrounded by that brillianty maintained afro.
I will give full disclosure and say that Obama got my vote, for the sake that he sent the message that he understands the importance of innovative thought and a fearless approach to change. I have high hopes that he will make great changes for our image as a country, all the details of politics that I have no interest in mentioning here, as well as (hopefully) for our political system and CULTURE. Honestly, if he was this experiemental, fashionable and seemingly down to earth in his life at some point, my hope for those changes feels a bit more sound, if only within my own chest.
What a hip ass dude. …Go America.
Posted in art, no but seriously, tagged art, Buddha, Consciousness, John F Kennedy University, Ronny Joe Grooms, Sculpture, Video Art, Warrior Male, Zen Koan on December 17, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Not much of my own words will be in this post, mainly because I live in VA and am physically unable to see this exhibition myself. However, I found the subject fascinating and I wish to share this with those interested. If you're in CA I suggest taking the time to experience this art, and artist, for yourself.
This work Ronny Joe Grooms' MFA Thesis Show at John F Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, CA. This particular campus houses their school of Holistic Studies where they offer three degrees under their department, "Art and Consciousness." Each degree approaches the arts as firmly integrated with culture, spirituality and personal development. I dig it.
Below I have pasted the excerpt for the exhibition as listed on the university's website.
The exhibition Killing Buddha, by artist Ronny Joe Grooms culminates his Master of Fine Art study at John F. Kennedy University Arts & Consciousness program. Grooms, son of a Vietnam veteran, and a former Army reservist who filed for Conscientious Objector status during the Gulf War, draws on those experiences and current events to explore the shadows of the warrior male. The Zen Koan, "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him," inspires the shows title. The koan has painful implications to Grooms as the invasion and occupation of Iraq takes on its 5th year and continues to escalate with no end in sight.
In this exhibition Grooms, a dharma practitioner and multimedia performance artist, presents an array of video imagery and sculptural environments set to dissolve the subject/object relationship. Illustrating movement and stillness as essential human languages, he presents "meditation-sculptures" that are both spiritual asanas and non-violent actions that merge the inner-work of deep personal contemplation as ritual with the outwardly expressive forms of activism and art. Evoking these personal/social processes, he has challenged his own arbitrary differentiations between meditation, art, and creativity as well as promoting meditation and radical transcendence as a public act thereby awakening creative spirit in all.
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if you find yourself in manhattan before 17 january, make sure to swing by danziger projects (521 west 26th street). the current exhibition, sander's children, explores photography by and inspired by august sander, a really fantastic fellow who lived and worked in cologne in the first half of the 20th century.
( august sander / girl in a caravan / 1930 )
( richard avedon / bob dylan / new york city, 1965 )
( milton rogovin / untitled / from the lower west side, 1969-1973 )
when every creative venture feels like a distilled version of something that someone else did first (these days), we really enjoy an art show that doesn't try to treat pastiche as a secret. that, and the photos are really great, and galleries are a nice free alternative to museums (but make sure you don't go on a monday or tuesday, when visits are by appointment only).
if you don't find yourself in new york anytime soon, it is still very worthwhile to check out owner james danziger's blog, the year in pictures. it is nice, to feel like an art world insider at times.
[ stefanie ]


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Is what it takes to do well in competition.
S&Ts Steel Bridge Team has designed and built a lightweight, strong, and good-looking bridge for the regional conference in early April. To qualify for the ASCE national event they'll have to assemble the bridge safely and fast. And that takes practice.
Sarah Padgett's team has been choreographing the assembly routine for at least two weeks. Even (GASP!) through St Pat's celebrations.
They've taken over an empty building space, marked off a "playing field" on the floor, and set up a stopwatch. Then they do it over, and over, and over again until it becomes well-honed communication and simple muscle memory.
Teamwork is critical. Because there's so much more to engineering than just engineering.
Practice, Practice, Practice………
Is what it takes to do well in competition.
What Are YOUR Children Doing For St. Pat's?
Campus is pretty quiet today. No classes, and most students are sleeping in. Or sleeping it off. Or both. But not the S&T Steel Bridge Team. They're playing "So, you think you can build a bridge?"
The bridge crew is practicing, practicing, practicing building their bridge. They've already had "build-offs" to choose the assembly crew, those who can safely assemble the bridge the fastest. Now it's a question of reducing the assembly time to get the maximum points in the ASCE-sponsored regional conference next month.
Team leader Sarah Padgett has laid out an assembly area in a vacant storefront. This is a highly-choreographed exercise where even the bolts and nuts are counted. During one practice cycle one student hollered "I'm sorry, I had some of the bolts in my pocket!"
To make practice as realistic as possible Sarah even set up a three-chair table labeled "judges." Sorta like a "So, you think you can dance/sing/eat/make a fool of yourself?" TV panel, but our "contestants" have high three-digit IQs, a strong work ethic, solid careers ahead of them, and will contribute to the quality of life of our society.
Something "reality" show contestants (and fans) can never hope to attain.
What It Takes To Keep A Team Happy. And Solvent.
Team cohesiveness is a lot more than sharing a design program or two people spending long hours in the welding lab.
Notes from S&T's Steel Bridge Team show a group that:
Holds Inventor Workshops, where they break into small groups for the newbies to learn the basics. Lead design engineer Samantha Smith emails "whether you are an expert at Inventor or a beginner like me, we would love for you to come!'
Attends "Steel Day' events in St. Louis
Hosts cookouts at team members' homes, and even the occasional bonfire celebrations at the team advisor's mansion.
Car pools to dinner get-togethers at a nearby Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant.
Spent a late October day raking leaves for fundraising. Jermy Jamison reported "…….we raked three yards and had a successful time doing so. We will be doing more of these in the future, so keep your ears open for future opportunities."
He adds "……….make sure you "Like" the Steel Bridge page on Facebook so you can get the latest photos of all the events we do."
"Liking" that FB page is a great suggestion. You'll feel just like a team member, and hopefully be inspired to mail them a check. Or the keys to your late-model truck.
Don't laugh. That's how we scored a nice Mazda pickup truck last year.
Update: Samantha adds "we definitely try to keep a positive attitude so that our work seems more fun and not like a chore," which mirrors the SDELC's mantra of "Learn. Succeed. Have Fun".
Satisfy Yourself First, Hold Your Head High And Forget The Standings
S&T's 2012 Steel Bridge Team ran an operation that was as good as it gets. They designed well, practiced hard, tested often, and made changes based on test results., just like the best engineering firms do. They practiced assembly over and over until the team was a well-oiled machine. Load tested the bridge four times until they were certain that it would pass all performance requirements.
More importantly, they held themselves to a very high standard by staying true to the detailed competition rules throughout the whole process.
Did a gremlin or two pop up at competition? Sure! The Miners took some minor penalties during construction by dropping tools or stepping on the forbidden painters' tape, and in the excitement of moving the bridge they lifted it wrong and compromised the bridge's load capacity. Human error. It'll show up any place that people do.
So, life happens. You work toward a goal only to find that perhaps others didn't play by the published standards. Do you complain? Maybe. File an appeal? Possibly.
Or do you suck it up, think of it as "Integrity uber alles," promise yourself to treat others fairly, and move on, better prepared for your life and career and just realize life isn't always fair.
Sometimes that's just what successful people do.
Like Coaching A Basketball Team
Steel Bridge team leader Chris Ferguson has managed this group with a deft touch. Not only did he keep the team focused on their goals for the past 6-7 months, been the driving force behind many nights of assembly rehearsal, but he's even covered the little details.
Chris booked a study room in the Nebraska-Lincoln Engineering Library so that his teammates would have a quiet place to take calculus and Diffy-Q exams. It's that kind of "taking care of the troops" that is the hallmark of a good leader!
Did he actually assemble today's bridge? No, but he did prowl the sidelines like a Division 1 basketball coach, shouting encouragement, calling "plays", and making sure the build crew didn't miss any small details.
S&T drew a lot of applause by posting the fastest assembly time, but later teams who had less complex bridges did manage to pull ahead of the Miners. Hats off to Mizzou for hitting an amazing 15+ minutes score, which we think was the fastest time of the day.
Chris reports S&T also had the lightest bridge at the event, which counts for some points, but en route to the loading station things went awry. Seems the bridge is a great design for supporting loads, but not so good at being lifted to move. During the move outside one of the bridge piers came partly undone, nothing a rubber mallet wouldn't fix, but rules prohibit any "repairs" once the structures are complete.
S&T's entry sailed through the lateral and offset tests, and barely broke a sweat when most of the steel bars were added to the bridge. But when it came time to add a smaller load "cantilever-style", that mis-aligned bridge pier became an issue and the team lost its strong position in the standings.
There's still a decent chance that other performance factors will put the Miners back in a strong position, and maybe even qualify for the national event. S&T has a light, good looking bridge, and the betting is that some of the simpler bridges just won't be able to support much weight.
So it's still anybody's game.
How Do You Get To The Steel Bridge Nationals?
Controlled chaos/practice in the High Bay, that's how.
In just 30 hours or so S&T's Steel Bridge and Concrete Canoe teams will head to Lincoln, Nebraska for the Mid-Continent Student Conference of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
There will be seminars, networking, education, and a banquet (no, this is NOT the GSA in Vegas, thank you very much!), but the real draw is the student design competitions. Thursday's highlight is the Steel Bridge competition, and that's where the "high bay" reference comes in. Teams must assemble their structures in a timed event, and the highest-ranked teams qualify for the national event. S&T's bridge team has been rehearsing their synchronized assembly procedures in the civil dept's high bay laboratory nearly every night for the past week.
They've cut down on penalties, trimmed their assembly time from 40 minutes down to 18, and their goal is just under a quarter hour. Other points come from weight, cost, design, aesthetics, and performance under load. Tonight's the final practice event and then it's time to pack up.
Friday and Saturday the focus changes to the stone boat events, the results of which may live in students' memory for their entire lives, as did the Flintstones* of generations past. We'll have more on that soon, but Julie Whitehead's crew has built "Gold Rush", a great-looking, mining-themed boat complete with a toy train, a replica mine ore car, and even a really sharp mock-up of a mine shaft opening to add a little panache to their presentation. Practice? Yup! Sunday morning they put in a few more hours of paddling practice as a final tune-up.
*Yes, the boats DO have something in common with Fred's car. Heavy, yet (mostly) stylish. Tough to get moving and hard to handle in the turns. That's what makes it challenging. And fun.
Did we mention that S&T is sending two student members of the American Concrete Institute to participate in the Concrete Bowling event? THAT's gonna be interesting! Wonder who will volunteer to be the pin setters?
Who Knew A Plumb Bob Could Be So Entrancing?
Last night the Kummer Student Design Center was a madhouse. Students working on solar car, airplane, human-powered vehicle and who knows what else?
The real action was with the civil engineering-focused Steel Bridge and Concrete Canoe teams. In one corner of the shop ten students worked staining the S&T logo in the canoe, while right next door the Steel Bridge team was stacked cheek-to-jowl double checking the structure before testing for vertical and horizontal deflection.
The plumb bob thing? That's how the judges test how far the bridge leans under strong sideways pressure. More than 1/2″ and you get disqualified. In the "real" world it could even get this bad.
Adapting To A New Reality
Life gets in the way sometimes. Or maybe "To heck with the team meeting, the Cardinals are in the World Series!"
Here's the gist of a team email that explains a team's change of strategy when the unexpected happens:
"we'll do our best to keep the meeting short tonight so everyone can watch the Cardinals Game. As Derek mentioned, the bowling alley does have a TV in it so we will be able to watch the game there."
Sound like an excellent plan to us. Shows creativity, flexibility, innovative thinking and full recognition of the fact that if he doesn't want to talk to an empty room, he'd better adjust to changing circumstances.
If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another………. Or, Never Let Your Customer Touch Your Bridge Until They Sign For It!
At the ASCE regional conference this weekend the S&T Steel Bridge Team started in a real hole when they lost a critical component.
This year's allowable lateral deflection was only 1/2 inch, so what did the missing part do? Yep. Controlled lateral deflection.
Plan B was to remove a less-important part and make it fit, since once judging starts you can't add "replacements" to the structure. That meant the bridge was "one brick shy of a full load" in the competition. Team leader Zach Evans said "since we were second to last in the competition order and had to wait for our eventual demise, we watched the other teams compete. We got more optimistic as all but two teams failed deflection, so if our design held, we'd make it to the national finals after all."
"Our actual construction time went as practiced, but during scoring one official grabbed a steel bracing rod that helped prevent the bridge from moving laterally (you see a pattern here?). So, when the judge put his weight on the piece under tension it snapped, leaving us without two critical pieces. Needless to say we ended up as one of seven teams that couldn't pass the lateral deflection test."
"Out of 12 teams we came in 6th, with the difference between third and seventh being very close. The final differential was our construction speed."
"Next year we'll triple-check our parts before we go to competition."
Lace vs. The Leviathans
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) hosts regional conferences which include educational design events such as the concrete canoe and steel bridge competitions. In the bridge contest, scale bridges are judged on stiffness, weight, construction economy and efficiency, among other points. Each bridge component must fit inside a 4′ long box before it can be used as part of the assembly event, teams who need fewer "employees" to assemble their bridges gain a scoring edge, and errors or rules violations earn penalty points. Judges gave the Miners a lot of comments about "being out of the box", and those were not complaints.
S&T's 2010 ironworkers developed a striking bridge that, compared to the more common beam construction, looked more like a delicate lacework pattern; nothing at all like the competition. ASCE officials, OU engineering faculty, and other teams alike complimented the Miners on "great imagination", "very creative", and "thinking out of the box".
The Miners' bridge weighed in at just 162 lbs, less than half the weight of several other contest structures, and the Rolla crew's construction time or 19.44 included penalties and a time-and-a-half repair "charge". The design cleared the lateral deflection test by a slender margin, but was disqualified when it deflected too much before the last of the 2,500 lbs of steel was loaded.
Stuff happens at this event. One team took more than an hour to build their bridge, and another crew was stunned when, using rubber mallets to "urge" components into place, the other end of their bridge simply snapped and dropped to the floor. The looks on their faces said "THIS is going to be hard to explain!"
The overall attitude of S&T's bridge and canoe teams helped them bring home the traveling "Spirit of Competition" trophy for the first time. The Miners were grinning ear-to-ear when this was announced, because it is based on the judges' overall impression of the event, and takes into consideration sportsmanship, professionalism, teamwork, leadership, and the effort S&T students put into their designs.


text: So I got a new bass a couple of weeks ago (LeCompte ST-5). I used to be a faithful user of D'Addario Chrome Flats because they were one of the few that were real long and were actually long enough to fit my string thru body G&L L-2500 (34" scale). Even though it was only a 34" scale, the string thru body made it so most strings were not long enough, but the D'Addarios worked. So I got my new bass and it came strung with DR Hi Beams (rounds but VERY long). I ordered a set of my faithful D'Addario flats. When I put them on my LeCompte (which is a 35" scale with a LONG bridge but not string thru), the string taper starts just before the nut. It still seems to play OK, but I don't like the idea of the tapered part being partially in the frett board area even though it's up very close to the nut. I'm also afraid that the smaller taper may cut into the nut. I love the fact that the D'Addario's are fairly high tension for a flat, but I need something longer and/or not tapered. Any suggestions?


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The Pallas's leaf warbler or Pallas's warbler (Phylloscopus proregulus) is a leaf warbler which breeds in southern Siberia (from Novosibirsk Oblast east to Magadan Oblast), northern Mongolia, and northeastern China. It is strongly migratory and winters mainly in subtropical southern China and northeastern Indochina, but also in small numbers in western Europe (Wiki).
This migrant was in Wells Woods, Norfolk and arrived after some easterly winds blowing in from its home in Siberia.
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Advisory Council Expansion Recommendation
At their meeting on May 9, 2018, the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS) Advisory Council voted to accept the recommendation for sanctuary expansion proposed by its Boundary Expansion Working Group (BEWG). The council's recommendation supports expansion of FGBNMS through inclusion of 14 additional reefs and banks in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. If this recommendation is accepted by NOAA, it would expand the sanctuary by approximately 104 square miles, bringing the total area of the sanctuary to 160.4 square miles.
The reefs and banks under consideration are located along the outer edge of the continental shelf, between 70 and 120 miles off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana. These areas are comprised of coral reefs, deepwater coral communities, and associated marine environments that provide habitat for iconic species such as manta rays, sea turtles, and whale sharks, and nursery areas for numerous fish species of commercial and recreational importance.
NOAA released a proposal for sanctuary expansion in June of 2016, including a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) that presented a range of five alternatives for public review and comment. NOAA's preferred alternative (Alternative 3) proposed adding 15 reefs and banks, comprising approximately 383 square miles. The Advisory Council's recommendation includes all of the banks contained in NOAA's preferred alternative, except Bryant Bank, but with modified boundaries that resulted in smaller areas around most of the features.
Full Advisory Council Recommendation Package
Recommendation for Regulations
NOAA's DEIS proposed to apply the existing FGBNMS regulations to the expansion areas, including the prohibition of anchoring by all vessels, and restricting fishing to conventional hook and line gear only.
The Advisory Council's recommendation also addressed potential regulations that will be applied to the existing and expanded sanctuary. First, the Council supported the recommendations developed by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (GMFMC) regarding fishing regulations within sanctuary expansion areas. These recommendations were the result of a formal consultation between FGBNMS and GMFMC required by the National Marine Sanctuaries Act.
In general, GMFMC recommended the creation of restricted fishing zones above specified depth contours (ranging between 55 and 85 meters) for each bank, corresponding with existing "No Activity Zones" identified by Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) for offshore oil and gas activities. Within these areas, only conventional hook and line fishing gear could be used, and anchoring by fishing vessels would be prohibited. Outside of those areas, historical fishing practices (bottom longlines, anchoring) would continue to be allowed.
Full Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council Recommendation (8.2MB pdf)
Summary of Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council Recommendation (21kb pdf)
In addition, the Advisory Council recommended the following regulatory actions: 1) removing the existing prohibition regarding the possession of spearguns at East and West Flower Garden and Stetson Banks, 2) allowing free-diving spearfishing in the expanded areas, and 3) requiring the use of "weak links" for anchors on vessels fishing within the sanctuary.
Advisory Council regulatory recommendation for expansion areas (38kb pdf)
What Happens Next?
The Advisory Council's recommendations represent a continuation of an ongoing effort by the sanctuary to work closely with community and stakeholder groups to protect areas of national significance in the Gulf of Mexico. NOAA is extremely grateful for the input from its advisory council and working groups.
The FGBNMS Advisory Council recommendation has been forwarded to NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries for consideration and further action. NOAA will evaluate the Advisory Council's recommendation and revise the preferred alternative, as appropriate.
Pursuant to Presidential Executive Order 13795, NOAA will also request an analysis from the Department of Interior regarding energy or mineral resource potential within the proposed areas and potential impact of the proposed expansion on the development of those resources. NOAA will also continue to coordinate with GMFMC regarding fishing regulations in the proposed expansion areas.
National Marine Sanctuaries protect our nation's most vital and iconic coastal marine resources. Through active research, management and public engagement, we sustain healthy environments that are a foundation for thriving communities and stable economies. The Gulf Coast economy is fundamentally linked to the health of the Gulf of Mexico.
Full Advisory Council Recommendation Package
Proposed Banks
For more information on the banks included in the Advisory Council recommendation, please use the links below:
Horseshoe Bank - named by sanctuary staff for its shape
MacNeil Bank - named for F. Stearns MacNeil, a U.S. Geological Survey geologist
Rankin Bank - named for John L. Rankin of Minerals Management Service
28 Fathom Bank - named for its depth
Bright Bank - named for Thomas Bright, a Texas A&M University marine biologist
Geyer Bank - named for Richard A. Geyer, a Texas A&M University geophysicist
Elvers Bank - named for Douglas J. Elvers, a Minerals Management Service geophysicist
McGrail Bank (formerly 18 Fathom Bank) - named for David W. McGrail, a Texas A&M and Coast Guard oceanographer
Sonnier Bank (formerly Three Hickey Rocks or Candy Mountain) - named for Farley Sonnier, an offshore wildlife photographer
Bouma Bank - named for Arnold H. Bouma, an LSU geologist
Rezak Bank - named for Richard Rezak, a Texas A&M University oceanographer
Sidner Bank - named for Bruce Sidner, a Texas A&M University geologist
Parker Bank - named for Frances L. Parker, an oceanographer from Scripps
Alderdice Bank - named for Robert Alderdice, founder of Flower Garden Ocean Research Center (FGORC)


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Current Research
I just finished my PhD dissertation, that is about the genetic structure of a coral reef fish in the Indo-Pacific. I focused on one common and widespread damselfish, the three-spot dascyllus, Dascyllus trimaculatus. My studies are specially looking at the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, and the results will shed light on the processes that shape the marine biodiversity of coral reef ecosystems in this poorly studied area. This project's results will contribute to identify species genetic breaks and Indian Ocean key conservation sites. I did my PhD with Drs. Luiz Rocha and Giacomo Bernardi, in a joint program between the California Academy of Sciences and the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program of University of California Santa Cruz. I also did a lot of my work at the Red Sea Research Center at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, with Dr. Michael Berumen
Previous research
My master degree thesis dealt with the patterns of genetic connectivity of bicolor damselfish (Stegastes partitus) populations in Central America. The results indicated that there is weak but significant genetic differentiation, suggesting some restriction in connectivity along the Central American coastline, consistent with bio-oceanographic model predictions of fish dispersal. These results were published in Marine Biology in 2010. As part of that research I have also been looking at techniques (assignment tests, parentage, relatedness) to understand if fish larvae come back to their natal reefs. I am extremely thankful to my advisor Helena Molina, my host University of Costa Rica, and to Dan Heath of the University of Windsor, where I was able to perform the genetic analysis. All my work would have been impossible without the scholarship from Peter Sale of the United Nations University, chair of the Connectivity working group, of the Coral Reef Targeted Research and Capacity Building for Management Program (CRTR).
As part of my undergraduate research, I participated in the monitoring and assessment of coral reefs from Costa Rica. Costa Rica is an amazing country for a marine biologist, because it has both the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Here, those oceans are only separated by less than 150 km, but their marine fauna has been completely separated by land for about 3.5 million years!!!!!! The consequences for the marine fauna and the environmental conditions were profound, and it's a great place to study evolution and climate change.
I was lucky to participate in the Costa Rican chapter of the Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity Program (CARICOMP) and in the monitoring of Pacific reefs in Bahia Culebra, Gulf of Papagayo. These monitoring programs are leaded by Jorge Cortés, from Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología (CIMAR), University of Costa Rica. During that time I had opportunities to look at the reef fish community structure using visual surveys. I am really thankful to Jorge Cortés and CIMAR.


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My husband set to work changing it all out about ten days ago, though it's been slow going. We've had a few days of really bad weather and a few other obligations that cost us a few days of work, but here is where we are today...
You may notice that we do not have a kitchen sink yet. It's here, sitting on a pallet. My husband is making temporary countertops from the few usable scraps left over from the old cabinets. Eventually, Jerry and I will tile the whole room together, once we get the sink and new floor down. That won't be for about a month yet though.
Homemaker of the Week-
I filled up my Kindle, and ultimately had to create a Kindle for PC account for the many free titles I have downloaded as a result of Natalia's work. I really appreciate this resource and I always look forward to reading her blog posts. There's usually an ebook or two that I simply must have.
On another exciting note, Natalia will be starting her own preparedness blog hop soon. I look forward to joining in on the action. Thanks again Natalia for investing your time and energy and for sharing this treasure trove of goodies with our little blog community.
I'm off to bed early (for me) because in the morning we're heading on an adventure. We are going to The World Ag Expo. I am so excited. My fingers are crossed that I might make a connection for a jersey milk cow.
Now let's GET HOPPING!!!


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As a winter-warming and haunting introduction to the Christmas season, recordings come no better than this, especially when sung with the heartfelt sincerity of the St. John's Choristers. Christopher Thomas,www.musicweb-international.com
This recording presents a reconstruction of the Service for Advent with Carols and within the space available preserves as many aspects as possible of the Service as it might be heard on Advent Sunday from St. John's. It should be noted however that the number of readings has been curtailed and that certain congregational elements are naturally absent as is the extended organ voluntary played as choir and congregation leave the chapel. The Service blends traditional plainsong antiphons, carols and carol-anthems alongside readings and Collects.