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Sunday, November 28, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Twelve by Twelve: The BOOK - 100 Days and counting
In the meantime, remember the book is now AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER from suppliers such as Barnes & Noble, Amazon and the Book Depository. Treat yourself or put it on your gift list!
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Eggplanty Plants
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Don't Cry!
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
In Real Life!
Kristin and I had such a wonderful time at the International Quilt Festival in Houston this past weekend.
We did some actual 12x12 business in preparing for the upcoming book release and future exhibitions, but we also spent tons of time just chatting, looking at quilts, talking about creative development, challenges, balance, etc. -- all the big and little ideas that like-minded friends share. It was wonderful. It's been said before, but it's so true: all the friendships we have developed through the 12x12 project are pretty amazing.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
I went googling for the colors Niki has given us. I needed a reference and thought I would share it here.
I took this photo yesterday at the Japanese Garden. It is pretty close to the colors.
I think this palette suits the season we are in, don't you?
Personally I Like Purple and Green
Here's a sneak peak my next challenge piece. I'm finished!
Just kidding.
Amazingly enough, just when Nikki has announced the eggplant/wine/emerald color palette for the next challenge, this is the quilt I am working on. I started it as a way to play with my very first screen prints from a printing session this summer, and it's far bigger than 12x12. Although now that I know the palette, maybe I'll work a bit more with these prints. Hmmmm. But anyway, as this is certainly not my usual color range, this seemed strangely synchronistic.
I asked Miss C what she thought of the piece in progress. She gazed at it thoughtfully. "Purple and green together make me feel nauseated," she said, "and those splotches in that fabric look a bit vomity so that doesn't help ... " She paused again, then added brightly, "But I like the shapes!"
It's always good to get an honest critique.
Undaunted, I am continuing with the machine quilting today.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
The Colourway Collection So Far
I have found that the inspiration and design process is quite different when a colour or palette is your springboard rather than a theme word. As Diane mentioned in her rusty reveal post, a theme word was useful in narrowing down the options and providing focus. Fortunately we all revel in colour so this new series is keeping us engaged and challenged.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Eggplant, Wine and Emerald
Delicious eggplant, rich wine and sparkling emeralds. Okay, maybe you need to use your imagination with my photo, but you get the idea. Our next palette includes deep purple, burgundy red and dark green -- all my favorite colors.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Rusty Mosaic
Rusty Sawblade
This one snuck up on me. I had ideas. I let them simmer. I pondered fabrics. I felt good about it all. I had time.
And then I didn't! The last few days have been a marathon of stitching and beading. But, here it is, pretty much as I had envisioned it two weeks ago.
In keeping with my self-imposed theme of traditional blocks, I based this on a sawtooth border. It looks more like a star, but just know that in my mind these are concentric sawtooth borders. In my mind it's also an abstract circular saw blade that's been hanging on a pegboard in an old shed for way too long and has clumps of rust all over it.
I enjoyed playing with all the bumpy circular elements of the fabric, the french knots, the covered rings, and the beads. I do enjoy piling on the threads and the beads, so even if this is not the most cohesive composition I've ever come up with, and although I would have preferred to have worked more leisurely, I thoroughly enjoyed the process.
Patricia Tina
Inspired by:
* Trinny and Sussanah and their "Sex Bomb" episode - a glorious romp with mutton dressed as lamb
* My friend, Vicki, describing blue or green eyeshadow as "mouldy eyelids"
* My husband's great aunt - a wild and wonderful woman who never stopped dying her hair an extraordinary and rather alarming shade of orange. She remains an inspiration.
* my first ever viewing of "Mame" last Sunday.
Definitely NOT inspired by any of my red-headed friends, including our luscious ginger Twelves!
Terra Incognita
Terra Incognita, the unknown land. My wonderful husband helped me with the name of this quilt because I really didn't know what to say about it. As I look at it nothing comes to me. Therefore, I thought the name fit perfectly. It is a land I don't know. This color scheme proved to be a real challenge for me. I admit it, despite talk about orange growing on me, I really don't like rusty orange. If forced to pick, I'd rather be surrounded by pepto pink. I'm never going to be an earth tone girl. There it's out. I accept it.
To make the quilt, I once again quilted and painted fabric. I then sewed the strips together in a log cabin pattern with copper thread and arranged the blocks in a diamond pattern. The edges are finished with copper tape.
Autumn Leaves
I had to do several dyeing sessions to get the colour shades I really wanted to have. I also collected many fallen leaves during my walks, to find the right shape for the three leaves.
I did all the stitching by machine except for the few detached chain stitches.
This was a pleasant challenge to work on, pretty stress-free, although I've only put the last stitches on this morning. Thank you Terri!
I've posted some close-up pictures on my blog.
Rusty Square Dance
This piece was fun and a lot of work. I started by rusting the turquoise silk and I discharged and added turquoise Dynaflow paint to the rust colored silk. I sandwiched each of the fabrics with a thin batting and backing and quilted them.
I played around with some scraps of fabric to figure out what size squares would fit into a twelve in square piece. I ended up cutting 1 and 3/4 inch squares. Stitching these is not as simple as it looks. You can read more about it on my blog.
Here is a detail shot. I found a 12 inch copper rod at the hardware store which I sanded with steel wool. I then soaked it overnight in Windex with ammonia to get the patina.
October's End
Heading into this piece, I was reminded why we call this a "challenge!" I'm discovering that I'm finding these color challenges harder than our first round of challenges, I think because I'm a word person. Having a color palette to start with, without any more direction than that, really does leave things so wide open for me that I have a hard time settling. Because I can be so literal with words, I LIKE that this pushes me away from that ... but so far, with each color challenge, I've had to fight the urge to think of something (a word) that can then translate into the colors. This is really stretching me, which is a GOOD thing. A really good thing. But along the way, I must confess to feeling some stress around that stretching!
This is the first time in all of our challenges that I have completed two pieces. This one, my favorite of the two, was the second one I started. (You can see the other on my blog.) I began with a gorgeous piece of fabric dyed by Judy Robertson of Just Imagination, and with a shiver of fear, I cut smack into the middle of it to get a piece with the striation layers I wanted. The overlaid circles, mostly cotton but some silk duppioni, are fused on.
I've struggled with this. I tried some hand stitching, then ripped it out. I tried adding some seed beads, then pulled them off. I can't shake the sense of it not being finished, but everything I've tried to add seems to take away from it. (I keep hearing Tim Gunn's voice: "Edit wisely!") So, I've decided,that means it's done. Maybe what I'm reacting to is that this doesn't have a high amount of contrast -- and yet that's what I like about this, too.
I really enjoyed the quilting process. And I was delighted that I was able to use the stitch regulator on my new machine for the first time, while I stitched those small circles. Up until this piece, I'd only done practice doodling with the stitch regulator function, finding it slow and awkward compared to my usual free motion quilting. This small quilting design was just the sort of application that makes the stitch regulator useful to me, I think. So that made me happy. Here's a detail of quilt:
I think that this might be a piece I'll really like after I've put it away for a month or so, and then pull it out again. Funny how some pieces are like that!
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As you probably already know, I very much enjoy including cats in my art. I love cats and they are a great source of inspiration for me. And I also had a sudden awareness that I haven't created a quilt this round yet with a cat on it.
I've been having a lot of fun recently painting some fun kitty characters and had wanted to do one in fabric. This was the perfect time to do that.
This quilt was made with fused, raw-edge appliqué and free motion quilting. I also added touches of paint for shading and highlighting.
Autumn Patina
I love Autumn and with the season and all the inspiration around me it became the theme I decided to work with. I decided recently that I need to challenge myself to try some different techniques and this presented a good opportunity to paint fabric; add hand-stitching; include a found object; and let the process create the form the piece took, creating its irregular outline.
The leaf is a real leaf that I had picked up last fall and pressed in a book. I came across it the very day the color challenge was announced and I knew that I wanted to use it. The rich, rusty color seemed just right. The challenge was how to stabilize it well enough to attach it. In its pressed form it was very delicate and brittle. I started by fusing fabric to the back side, which strengthened it considerably, but I could still see that if it bent, even a little, the leaf would crack. I ended up gluing it to a piece of illustration board and carefully cutting it around the outline of the leaf, with a craft knife, after the glue was dry.
I really enjoyed painting the two fabrics, using a small sea sponge to do most of the mottling of acrylic fabric paints, including a bronze metallic paint. Since I can hardly bear to not have any patterned fabric in my work, I used one of my hand-carved stamps to add some very subtle pattern to the patina fabric. I liked the way the fabrics looked as I stacked them up and so I worked out a composition using that idea. I had found some hand-dyed floss in the patina colors, so I added a scattering of little stitches across the background, then glued my stabilized leaf in place.
This detail, taken at an angle, reveals that the "stacked" background fabrics are actually quite flat. The trompe l'oeil effect of shadow and raised surface was done with paint. The leaf, on the other hand, does actually protrude about 1/8th inch because of its illustration board backing.
This really is one of my very favorite 12 x 12 pieces at this point. It was an exercise in problem solving and the colors were a joy to use.
Both photos should be clickable for a closer view.
Blue Moon
This piece was made using some fabric I rusted with some sort of grating I found somewhere. I used that for the top, and some large rusted washers for the bottom piece. I had previously dyed some of the rust fabric this aqua blue color, and I had a sheer I had rusted along with the washers.
I originally made something else for this challenge, but I think it's too busy, so this was my second attempt. I've posted that on my blog http://www.fiberartmusings.blogspot.com/ There's no particular message to this piece, I just like the way it came together, and after it was done I saw the moon.
Garden Gate
I suppose, my Yellow Ladder quilt is the only one for our ColorPlay series that is more about the image than the colors, but that's still the initial decision I have to make at the beginning of my process.
This quilt is about the colors -- and the variety of fabrics. I would never stumble upon this color palette if I were just thumbing through my fabrics in preparation for a new piece. And yet, I am stunned by how much I like it. And by how many fabrics I had to choose from. And by how often it jumps out at me in nature and other day-to-day visuals (now that I am more aware).
I began with a piece of muslin that I rust dyed with a group of fiber artists in Texas. I must have used some kind of rusty grate that created that diamond pattern. Then I pulled from the fabrics I pre-selected and leaned on my shrine-style composition. I wish I could have fit in more of the fabrics. I had lots of interesting options, but I always try to achieve a bit a simplicity and spareness to allow for additional interest with embroidery and embellishments. (Maybe I'll have to make a larger version that would accommodate more fabrics.)
I wish I would have made some different choices up at the very top. I think those two plain teal fabrics at the top are dull and clunky. Maybe some stitching or embellishments would have helped, but I ran out of steam at the end and felt I needed to finish and move on. (Do you know this feeling?)
I've been exploring creating sheer overlay silhouettes with tulle. I chose crocuses for this piece. I really like the contrast of the linear composition with the organic flower shape. My little Y-shaped flowers trail across to emphasis the idea of a garden or a field.
An old rusty key seems so predictable. Maybe too cliche, but I think it works. I also like the contrast of the grittiness with the fancy, metallic fabrics.
I had a tough time coming up with a title, but the key and the lines in the rust-dyed fabric make me think of old gates or fences and the plant images are somewhat like what you might find in a garden. I also like the idea of the different blocks of fabric as plots for growing different things. Maybe fruits and flowers, maybe ideas and inspiration.
A Lasting Impression
Then in Wellington I came across Yvette Stanton's new book The Right Handed Embroider's Companion (there's a left handed version too). What serendipity! I could use this travel time to expand my stitching vocabulary and make my own version of a pressed metal ceiling.
I enjoyed the stitching process - the wool felt was like butter! I stitched the teal centre panel first and appliqued it onto the rusty background using armenian edging stitch, taking the opportunity insert some batting in between the layers at the same time.
It's a departure from my usual style and, in keeping with my embroidery experience level, is a bit naive but I like the penny rug quality. As I worked on this piece, my husband frequently expressed concern that it "isn't a quilt" and that I may be expelled from the group! I don't think there is any danger of that but I do have a back up piece if required. It started out as writing in flour paste like this:
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The Rough Guide to the Beatles
Penguin, 2 нояб. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 336
The Beatles are the ultimate band - the most popular, the most respected, the most influential. The Rough Guide to the Beatles covers every aspect of the Fab Four, delving deep into the Beatles music, lyrics, movies and the Beatles solo careers. Features include: The Story: from Liverpool clubs to Beatlemania. The Music: incisive reviews of every Beatles and solo album and new Beatle Music from George Martin's son Giles. The Canon: the inside track on the 50 greatest songs. On Screen: the movies, the promos and the TV appearances and new coverage of the upcoming Rock Band-style video game of Beatle music. The Fifth Beatle: George Martin, Yoko Ono, Magic Alex and other contenders as well as the resignation and death of Neil Aspinall. Beatleology: the best books, the weirdest covers, the most obsessive websites, the obscurest trivia. This updated edition includes new material on Cirque Du Soleil 's acclaimed Love Show - the only officially endorsed Beatles theatrical presentation, Paul McCartney's albums Memory Almost Full, Ecce Cor Meum and Electric Arguments and the media circus surrounding the McCartney/ Mills divorce. All you need is this!
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I'm a sporting pessimist by nature and never more so than during the Ashes. Not for me the abrasive positivism of the model Australian supporter, who characterises the doubts of the England fan as defeatism that undermines the team's chances before the first ball is bowled. Even if I think England have a good chance this time, as I do, experience and superstition prevent me from buying into the prospect of success wholeheartedly. Where Glenn McGrath, spouting as reliably as Old Faithful, bullishly predicts 5–0 drubbings every couple of years without fear of hubris, I always take Geoff Boycott's view of a promising position when England are batting – but instead of mentally adding two wickets to the total as a defence against disappointment, I add five.
This has been a recent phenomenon. Apart from the Lillee and Thomson onslaught on the "George Davis is innocent" tour in 1975, England had a wonderful run of home Ashes success when I was growing up. In 1977 the batting of Boycott and Bob Woolmer and the bowling of Derek Underwood and Bob Willis demoralised an Australian side distracted by imminent defections to World Series Cricket. Four years later Ian Botham had his career-defining summer and in 1985 the alliance of the Simple Minds-mullets of the great Somerset all-rounder, Allan Lamb, Paul Allott and Les Taylor with the Jheri-curled David Gower, Tim Robinson and Richard Ellison ended in a triumph for big hair and cavalier cricket.
Like most of us who expect the worst I sometimes worry neurotically that I am to blame. Perhaps Australia's 16-year dominance was somehow invited by laughing at the sight of Greg "Fat Cat" Ritchie and David Boon with pot-belly balconies protruding above almost pornographic groin-high "stubbies" in the nets at Headingley in 1985 or whether I killed an albatross by ridiculing the selection of Bob Holland and Murray Bennett which turned me into a Jonah by the time Australia returned in 1989.
England's "pace" attack for the first Test that year was underpowered to say the least. Gower, restored to the captaincy, ended up with a quartet of Phil DeFreitas, Neil Foster, Phil Newport and Derek Pringle at his disposal after winning the toss and putting Australia in and found, not for the first time, that swing bowlers were easy targets if the ball refused to do their bidding. Mark Taylor bored a first-day Leeds crowd to tears as he patiently built the foundations for Australia's 601 for seven before Terry Alderman eclipsed the so-called experts in England's attack and arced the ball all over the place to take 10 wickets to win the match.
Thus began an extended persecution complex – their bowlers could make the ball talk while ours could barely persuade it to deviate from the straight; their nuggety wicketkeeper had the infuriating habit of scoring runs when his side most needed them while ours didn't and their slips seemed to swoop and pouch half-chances while ours spilled routine nicks.
Until 2005, with the exception of 1997, the first day's play seemed to be a harbinger of doom for the rest of the series. In 1990 England were skittled by the brittle beanpole Bruce Reid. In 1994 DeFreitas's wide, short, dilatory loosener was thwacked to the boundary with disdain by Michael Slater on his way to 176; in 2002 Nasser Hussain was so jittery at the toss he put Australia in to bat, and the less said about Steve Harmison in 2006 the better.
Little wonder that even in 2005 I feared England would contrive to lose from winning positions. And it wasn't only me – I remember driving back from that thrilling first day at Edgbaston and hearing a discussion on Test Match Special about whether England had scored their 407 too quickly and how a golden opportunity had been squandered. As Brett Lee and Michael Kasprowicz eked their way towards the target I thought England would lose and I was also convinced Australia would bowl them out in the fourth innings at Trent Bridge and The Oval.
This defence mechanism makes for muted celebrations which are more relief than exhilaration. There's also more than a hint of masochism – I can't wait for this morning's Test to start but with it I know comes that old familiar fear again. But six weeks of bowel-churning torment is a price worth paying for an Ashes victory.


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Case Detail
Geraldine Ann Obregon-Gingles
Case Details
Case Type: Missing
Height: 5' 0"
Case Status: OPEN
Weight: 120 lbs
Aliases: Geraldine Trujillo; Geraldine Raaf; Geraldine Jingle; Annie Gingles; Ann Jingle; Geraldine Tiller
Identifying Marks: Tattoo 'Jessie' on right ankle. Scars on left and right fingers.
Incident Date: 08/02/2001
Agency: Aurora Police Department
City: Aurora
Date of Birth: 06/08/1981
County: Adams
Date of Death: Unknown
Agency Case #: 2008-49456
Age: 20
Judicial District: 17th Judicial District
Gender: Female
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Race: Caucasian
NamUs Case #: 15047
Eyes: Hazel
NCMEC Case #: Unknown
Hair: Brown
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20 year old Geraldine Obregon-Gingles was eight months pregnant when she went missing. She was last seen in the company of an unidentified black male leaving the 1500 block of Chester Street, Aurora, Colorado. She left her purse and personal belongings behind. Ms. Obregon-Gingles had crack cocaine dependency issues and has been arrested for prostitution in the past. Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to please contact the Aurora Police Department.
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Ralph Barbieri, Cumulus Media square off
So how can Cumulus Media, owner of KNBR, take a 28-year veteran like Ralph Barbieri, co-host of its afternoon drive show and a Bay Area Radio Hall of Famer, and terminate him with no notice? Because it can. Or can it? Five days after his dismissal on April 10, Barbieri had a team of lawyers on the attack.
Led by his friend Angela Alioto, they charged Cumulus, in a press release, with wrongful termination "for an alleged 'cause,' i.e. 'for being late.' " Alioto and associates said "the termination is nothing less than Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Breach of Good Faith And Fair Dealing, and Breach of Contract, inter alia. Barbieri is 66 years old and has a slow-developing form of Parkinson's disease, which he spoke publicly about for the first time last October, 2011. As a result of this wrongful termination, Barbieri has lost his entire salary and all health benefits." Barbieri, Alioto added, "was escorted off the premises, like a common criminal."
Cumulus, which had said no more than that the firing was "a management decision," shot back with its own press release. Bill Bungeroth, VP & Market Manager, called the charges "inaccurate" and "baseless," and said Barbieri was let go after he "refused to honor some of the most basic terms of his contract."
Bungeroth, who also oversees KGO, where a format switch last December left several veteran talk show hosts without jobs, added that Barbieri was offered six months of salary and health benefits (essentially paying off a one-year contract he signed in late October), and that "his response to that offer was to make disparaging statements about KNBR in the press."
The termination, Bungeroth said, had nothing to do with Barbieri's age or ailment, which he disclosed to the Sporting Green's Scott Ostler. "KNBR renewed his contract this past fall with full knowledge of those circumstances. At that time, Ralph publicly recognized that the Company 'didn't view the Parkinson's as a red flag.' That statement is true. It never has."
Barbieri responded to Chronicle Sports Editor Al Saracevic, confirming the six-month offer, but claimed that the deal could be terminated by Cumulus after one month.
Barbieri, whose ouster topped SFGate.com's weekly tally of most popular searches, was saluted the day after by an emotional Tom Tolbert, his on-air partner of 15 years. Barbieri, he said, lasted a remarkable 28 years at one radio station in part "because he was very passionate, very opinionated, whether you agreed with him or not. He was a bulldog." More barking to come.
I read the news today: KCBS reporter Bob Melrose has retired after 36 years on the job. He got farewell toasts from his colleagues in the newsroom April 12. Reporter Barbara Taylor, who, like Melrose, joined the station in 1975, noted, "We were two little twentysomething nobodies in awe of people like you who were reporters for Rolling Stone. We toiled on the editors' desk for a couple of years until we finally clawed our way up to become reporters ... exactly the opposite of what happens at newspapers and magazines. But in broadcasting the talent rules, so everyone on the editorial staff is desperate to get off the desk and on the air. Although Bob worked harder than anyone else and everyone at KCBS loves him, he never got the attention he deserved. He wasn't a fancy anchor and didn't get to go on special assignments. He was the guy the station called at 2 in the morning and told to get out of bed and go chase a fire or an explosion. And he never said no."
Melrose did get a little attention in 2010, when the Society for Professional Journalists' regional chapter gave him its Career Achievement Award. But he preferred pointing to prizes, like a Peabody Award in 1993, that he won as part of a team of reporters. "Every day was kind of a highlight," said Melrose, who, at 61, is looking forward to doing "a little traveling and decompressing." Radio news, he said, "is a young man's and woman's game." At his newsroom farewell, he said, "KCBS is, was and always will be, CBS. And that means something."
Two of us: The social group the Broadcast Legends drew one of its biggest crowds ever when Frank Dill and Mike Cleary headlined its quarterly luncheon in Berkeley on March 28. The former KNBR morning team told stories, often finishing each other's punch lines, while interviewer Stan Bunger of KCBS sat contentedly between them.
They recounted Dill's on-air flirtation with the sexy actress Angie Dickinson and pranks they played on each other. They thanked former PD Ron Fell for pairing them, in 1978. Cleary, who left in 1995, had been the midday guy, following Dill's show, and began showing up an hour early, sitting in, adding character voices and "fooling around," as he put it.
Before the program, Dill told me, "The greatest thing about this day is that I'm seeing some people we used to work with that I haven't seen in many years, and what I'm most proud of is, I'm remembering their names." Cleary, who in recent years has done a travel show with his wife, Mary Ann, said they'd given up the program. "We're retired," said Mary Ann. "Actually, we're rewired, not retired."
There will be an answer: Letty B, the midday DJ (10 a.m.-2 p.m.) on KMVQ ("Now"), has been named the Hottest Woman in Radio, according to Popcrunch, a gossip site that specializes in photos of attractive women. Letty, who was No. 26 in last year's poll, said, "The active social media campaign by my producer, Marcus 'Chunk' Bonfiglio, really made the difference." She added, "Last month at Stonestown, I ran into a woman who had won a gas card from me, and she was so grateful for it, she said I was so nice to her on the radio, it almost made me cry. It's great to help out and just be a part of the community here in the Bay Area."
Mr. Moonlight: Welcome back, Doug Wendt, reggae DJ heard on local airwaves from the mid-'70s through the mid-'90s, on KTIM, KQAK, KFOG, KUSF and KPFA. Beginning Tuesday at midnight, he'll be on World One, a.k.a. KECG (88.1 - El Cerrito and 97.7 San Pablo), and online via Shoutcast (Search "KECG"). Besides the recorded "Midnight Dread," he'll host "Wendt's World Beat" weekdays at noon. As Wendt says, "I flow with the go." {sbox}
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From food to nukes and drones, Just Peace Churches have impact at home, abroad
Two churches in Indiana helped resolve domestic violence in their rural community and civil war in Sri Lanka. In California, a city church needed to name a big part of its mission. All of them found Just Peace was just the framework they needed.Read more
We Shall Not Be Moved
Vicki Kemper
If someone told you how to be more effective in your work for a more just and peaceful world, would you do it?Read more
When Peace Came to Church
Vicki Kemper
Have you ever heard 100 people gasp in unison?Read more
Peace Cranes fly to Orlando
After the June nightclub shooting in Orlando, Fla., that left 49 people dead and another 50 injured, the colorful symbols of peace made their way to First Congregational Church of Winter Park UCC in Winter Park, Fla., located just a few miles from where the tragedy took place.Read more
Just Peace Sunday
The Thirtieth General Synod called on the congregations of the United Church of Christ to mark the Sunday preceding September 21 (which the United Nation recognizes as the "International Day of Prayer for Peace") as Just Peace Sunday.
Observe Just Peace Sunday on September 15, 2019: The Earth Shall Mourn
Just Peace Sunday 2019 is a call for lament. It is a call to mourn in the face of crisis and catastrophe. Only through genuine mourning and repentance in the face of our complicity in environmental degradation, can we as a global population ever be catalyzed into action. We must join with the prophet in Jeremiah chapter 4 in calling for contrition and transformation for both our actions and ignorance that have led to such a watershed moment in history.
We now know that if we do not alter course, the Earth will be irreparably harmed through climate change, leading to an increase in loss of species, droughts, and natural disasters. We have defiled God's creation, and sinned against future generations. We are called to join with the Earth itself in mourning this state of "de-creation" through extraction, xenophobia, and violence.
As Just Peace churches we are called to build "Just Peace with the Earth" and find intersections between God's call to love God (the Creator) and our neighbor. One way to see these connections is to explore the UCC's "3 Great Loves" (Love of Neighbor, Love of Children, and Love of Creation) as well as get engaged in the Environmental Ministries of the UCC. However you choose to mark Just Peace Sunday, take a moment to face, and mourn, our inaction. Together, let us follow the voices of indigenous peoples and our youth who are leading us toward a more just and peaceful connection with the Earth. God forgive us. God be with us.
Rev. Michael Neuroth
Read the Rev. Michael Neuroth's Getting to the Root where he shares insight into the theme of this Just Peace Sunday.
Observe Just Peace Sunday! Here are some resources to use in your congregation:
Worship Resources
Sermon Seeds: The Earth Mourns - Download this "Sermon Seeds" for Just Peace Sunday inspired by Jeremiah 4:11-28 written by Rev. Dr. Sheila Harvey Guillaume, pastor of Union Congregational United Church of Christ in West Palm Beach, FL. Download this special "Sermon Seeds."
Reflection on Jeremiah 4: The Great Reveal - Download this reflection on Jeremiah 4 for Just Peace Sunday by Rev. Michael Mulberry, Senior Minister of Billings First Congregational Church in Billings, MT.
Sermon: "God's Decree" - Sermon on Jeremiah 2:4-13 by Rev. Loren McGrail, pastor at Irondequoit United Church of Christ in Rochester, NY. Download "God's Decree."
Worship Materials for the Climate Strike - Worship Materials for the Climate Strike writing for UU congregations. Download here.
Faith Resources for the US Climate Strike - Click here.
Other Worship Resources - Download a list of hymns for Just Peace Sunday.
More to come! - More resources will be posted as we get closer to Just Peace Sunday. If you are interested in contributing a prayer, litany, or sermon, please email Rev. Michael Neuroth.
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Craft Activity for Youth and Children
Observe UCC Just Peace Sunday, church-wide, by giving your children a biblical look at Just Peace and making a craft with your church youth and children. These peace doves can be draped throughout your building in celebration of Just Peace Sunday and in observance of the International Peace Day (September 21). It will be a vivid witness to your congregation's commitment to peace.
Children from all over the world fold paper cranes each year as symbols of hope and peace. These cranes are in memory of the story of Sadako Sasaki who died of radiation induced leukemia in 1955, but not after inspiring the world through her folded cranes. Read Sadako's story here. In folding, we echo Sadako's hope for the world: This is our cry, This is our prayer, Peace in the world.
This year, we will be folding Peace Doves which are as symbols of hope, peace, transformation, endurance, and life. These doves will also highlight our new Just Peace logo that includes a purple dove. See if you can find purple origami paper at a craft story near you or online, and refer to these instruction for how to fold
- Download the Peace Doves activity here.
- While your children are crafting consider inviting them to sing along with music about peacemaking.
- Consider sending pictures, or the actual doves, to your state and national leaders as an act of advocacy. And please send us the pictures so that we can share them with UCC congregations across the country! Post them on Twitter and tag @JustPeaceUCC or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Peace Dove Craft was created by Tirsana Paudel, a recent graduate of Bryn Mawr College. Tirsana is committed to peacemaking and uses her artistic gifts to raise awareness about the need for peace with justice.
Take Action
Get Involved in Creation Justice Ministry!
Check out this page written by Rev. Brooks Berndt on how to be engaged in Creation Justice Ministry that lifts up 10 ways to climb the ladder of engagement.
Advocate for Just Peace with the Earth
At General Synod 32, the United Church of Christ became the first U.S. Christian body to endorse the Green New Deal, a congressional resolution seeking to address the climate crisis. This endorsement affirms our belief as people of faith and conscience; we are called to care for this world that is the Lord's.
"The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for God founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters." Psalm 24:1-2
Last year, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that an increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius over the next 12 years could have irreversible catastrophic effects on our world. Now more than ever before, we have a moral duty to uphold our call to care for creation.
Our faith calls us to be prophetic voices, responding to injustice with a vision of how our world can be more loving, healthy and equitable. As we celebrate Just Peace Sunday, call on Congress to address the urgency of the climate crisis by passing legislation that follows the following principles:
- Truth and science: Solutions that are in line with scientific consensus on global warming and that respond with the needed urgency and thoroughness.
- Restoration and renewal: Economic and environmental revitalization that includes job programs, skills training, education, investment in a clean energy economy and just transition for both urban and rural areas.
- Compassion and fairness: Just treatment for all including workers and communities most dependent on fossil fuel energy.
- Interdependence across boundaries: Sacred dialogue across political, geographic, racial and cultural boundaries.
Study Resources
Download the Just Peace Handbook
In 2015, the 30th General Synod held in Cleveland, OH marked the UCC's 30th anniversary as a Just Peace Church and called for a renewal of the UCC's Just Peace witness. This booklet is intended to accompany this resolution and be a resource for all levels and areas of the church for further work and witness, especially to local congregations declaring or recommitting themselves as "Just Peace Churches." This resource includes a summary of the historical and theological uniqueness of the Just Peace vision; the biblical and theological grounding for Just Peace values; and recommended steps for how to become a Just Peace Church. (Download.)
Find additional resources here.
Background information and links on environmental justice:
Just Peace with the Earth
In October 2017, the World Council of Churches held a conference in Iceland under the theme "Just Peace with the Earth". This conference called on the church to advance environmental sustainability. In the final message of gathering, participants reflected on the vision of human flourishing depicted in St. John's book of Revelation (22:2). This image can offer hope to us today, even amidst the climate and other emergencies we face. As people of the cross, we believe that God has not forsaken us but is instead calling us to turn from our destructive ways and join in the act of creating all things new.
"On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations." Revelation 22:2
What is the crisis?
- We Have 12 Years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN
- True Climate Justice is Impossible without Racial and Economic Justice
- One Million Species at Risk of Extinction, UN report warns
- Artic Ice is Crashing, and That's Bad News for Everyone
Faithful responses:
- Pray and protect: faith saves forests of Cambodia
- The Green New Deal Picks up Major Christian Endorsements
- Pope Francis declares 'climate emergency' and urges action
- Overwhelmed by climate change? Here's what you can do (Including becoming involved in UCC Environmental Justice Ministries!)
What is Just Peace?
Just Peace is not a destination, but a path requiring awareness and constant vigilance to resolve existing and developing conflict in ourselves, our families, our communities, our institutions, and our world. This path requires non-violence when possible and even when impossible to engage in love and restraint. Just Peace envisions a renewed, vibrant, diverse, and sustainable world free of violence.
Just Peace is grounded in God's activity in creation; God's covenant patience and provision in the wilderness; in the reconciling activity of Jesus Christ; in the presence of the Holy Spirit; and in the community of reconciliation. Shalom is the vision that pulls all creation toward a time when weapons are made into ploughs and all creatures lie down together without fear; where all have their own vine, fig tree, and dwell secure from want. As Christians, we offer this conviction to the world: Peace is possible!
The Peace the World Cannot Give
No generation in history has put so much thought, energy and money into keeping itself safe and secure, but still we are not at peace.Read more
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Nonviolent resistance emerged as the technique of the movement, while love stood as the regulating idea. In other words, Christ furnished the spirit and motivation, while Ghandi furnished the method.Read more
"That they may all be one" – The Motto of the United Church of Christ
A rabbi told me that a town with two Jews would need three synagogues: The one I go to; The one you go to; and one neither one of us would be caught dead in. Christians are much the same. But Jesus' prophetic words assure us that someday, God's people will ALL be one – within and across faith groups.Read more


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A humorous moment came from Monday's news conference when the microphone came to me.
After asking Nick Saban about the confidence AJ McCarron gained from hitting a few down-field passes against Vanderbilt, I received the following response:
"You ought to ask him … when you get a chance. I know I don't make him available to you, but I'm sure it helped his confidence. But I didn't ask him, and I really don't know."
Since preseason practices opened, McCarron has been made available to reporters three times. Once on media/fan day in early August, after the Penn State game and after the Florida game when most reporters were on deadline and physically unable to be there.
(Click here to see McCarron speaking on fan day)
It might not be as noticeable if former quarterback Greg McElroy wasn't fielding questions twice a week for the past two seasons.
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Injuries are awful. I hate them. I hate the uncertainty. I hate the waiting. I hate the patience they require. But goodness do we experience a lot of injuries as gymnasts.
I remember going to a doctor's appointment one time and the doctor asking me to tell her all the injuries I had had. I looked at my mom with a look I'm pretty sure said, "Are you kidding me?! We'll be here all day!" But, I sat there and did my best to go through each and every injury I had ever had as a gymnast. And let's just say that's a VERY long list.
If you name it, I've probably had it. Not to mention the two tears I currently have in my shoulder from spotting. So I'm having surgery in a month to fix that up. Basically all I'm trying to say is I've been there. I was pulled out of my level 10 state meet because I found out the week before I was supposed to compete that my back was fractured… for the third time. I missed an entire season because of a tear in my shoulder (completely unrelated to the ones I have now). I competed level 9 Eastern Nationals on a fractured arm (not recommending you do that.)
But injuries are something you have to be able to navigate as a gymnast. You have to learn to take care of your body. You have to learn to be patient and actually listen to your doctor… even though it's not fun. At all.
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- It won't last forever.
It's so easy to get caught up in being miserable and bored because you can't do anything. And because of that, it's really easy to just ignore your doctor and do what you want. Please don't do that! In the grand scheme of things, this injury is only a very short part of your gymnastics career. And if you push it too much, you might end up prolonging your injury even further, and I can tell you right now that you DO NOT want that! It's much better to be patient (I know it's hard) and listen to your doctor. Give your body the time it needs to heal. It won't last forever. And you might even heal faster than expected if you do what you're supposed to do! But it might last longer than you want it to if you jump back in too soon.
- You only get one body.
I don't know if you're aware of this, but the body you have now is the only one you get in this life! And it has to last! I know it might feel like a good idea to take your boot off your broken ankle so you can test it to see if it's better yet, but DON'T DO IT! You need that ankle to last until you're 100 years old! And if you push it now, you're probably going to live in pain for a big chunk of your life. And it's just not worth it. I promise you, you do not want to live in pain. And you do not want to have to have surgery because you didn't take care of your body. I've been through both. It's not fun.
- You have time to get stronger!
I know, I know. Conditioning isn't fun. But in this sport, it's 100% necessary. Use the time you would usually be spending on skills to keep your strength up, and maybe even gain a little! Your skills will be so much easier when you do get to come back if you keep on strengthening your muscles. If you get lazy and depressed because you "can't do anything", you'll lose a lot of strength and your skills will be that much harder when you're released to start training again. This time can be so beneficial if you'll actually use it to your advantage!
Sometimes it's tempting to lose hope and give up when you're injured. Especially if it means you miss out on competing for a season. But I promise you're going to be okay. I remember waking up with back pain every single morning, so much so that bending over to brush my teeth was excruciating. And I was only seventeen! I was so scared that I was going to have to live with that pain for the rest of my life. Now my injury did require surgery, but I remember a few weeks after surgery bending over to brush my teeth and all of a sudden realizing I wasn't in pain anymore! It was amazing! But I had to be patient. I had to do what my doctor told me I needed to do.
Thankfully, most gymnastics injuries don't require surgery like mine did, but they ALWAYS require patience. If you do what your doctor tells you to do, if you do your boring physical therapy, if you're patient throughout the healing process, you're going to wake up one day and realize that you're not in pain anymore! Doing your skills will be fun again because they won't be painful! So choose to be patient. I promise it's worth it.


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Hundreds of people marched with lit candles across the University of Virginia campus Wednesday night in a contrasting demonstration from the torch-lit white nationalist parade last Friday night.
Students and residents gathered at the Rotunda at the University of Virginia campus carrying candles and glow sticks to sing together for a vigil.
They sang "God Bless America" and "The Star-Spangled Banner" before invoking in unison the civil-rights-era anthem "We Shall Overcome."
The vigil came together hours after state and national leaders spoke at a memorial for Heather Heyer, the 32-year-old woman who was killed when a vehicle careened through a crowd on a Charlottesville street on Saturday, injuring 19 other people.
As they stood on the steps of the Rotunda, students there led the chorus as the crowd on the central grounds followed singing "Don't Let Hatred Blow It Out," an altered verse to the old gospel tune "This Little Light of Mine."
The crowd thinned out as the night wore on, but those who came said they heard about the gathering the old-fashioned way.
"They tried to keep things off social media," said Charlottesville resident Santiago Padrón. "I got like four text messages about it."
Cara Warren, who was with Padrón, said they brought their own candles for themselves and to share, but there were people handing out LED lights to the crowd.
The seemingly spontaneous smattering of groups who showed for the vigil also received half-sheets of paper with the lyrics to various songs to sing along.
CNN aired live video of a sea of candlelight unfolding across the campus as the crowd headed to the school's Rotunda and the statue of the school's founder, Thomas Jefferson, where days before white nationalists and counterprotesters clashed.
Reporters from the Daily Progress newspaper tweeted images and videos of Wednesday night's scene, which included the crowd singing "Lean on Me."
The gathering was a "community effort" across university departments, alumni and residents to bring a different face to Charlottesville, said Rebecca Soistmann, a rising junior studying global public health.
She said organizers intentionally kept the vigil off social media so as not to attract attention from other groups that may try to disrupt the peaceful show of unity. People across the university gathered up all the white candles they could find, she said.
"It came through various text messages and [the messaging app] GroupMe," said Soistmann, who was carrying a bucket used to distribute and collect authentic and LED candles. "It traveled quickly, and I got word of this yesterday."
Charlottesville resident Ben Brinkop said he found out about the vigil through an email that cautioned him not to place it on social media. There wasn't a specific agenda or theme to the event, he said.
"I thought it was just about coming out and not being afraid," the 41-year-old said. "It didn't seem there was an overarching message, but it felt really good to reclaim this."
Alumnus Victoria Young of Charlottesville agreed, saying the event was about reclaiming a place that means so much to the local community.
As the crowd dispersed, they sang the university song and headed home.


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Some of these certifications are listed below.
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- Microsoft Certified Professional
- Network+
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Breastfeeding is the time-honored and natural way to nourish your baby, but that does not mean that everything will come easy. Nearly all women have some challenges with breastfeeding in the beginning, but many are able to exclusively breastfeed afterward or at least supplement with some breast milk. Many women early in the postpartum period wonder if they are supplying their baby with enough breast milk. Since women do not visually see how much milk the baby is drinking, it can be hard to figure out if enough is being produced. In the majority of cases, women do produce enough breast milk. However, some women do struggle with what we call a "low milk supply." Producing too little milk can be due to many factors and can be very discouraging! If you are concerned that you may not be producing enough breast milk for your newborn or baby, please contact your doctor or lactation consultant. They can help you figure out if there are any issues that may be hindering you from producing enough milk or if there is another issue at play. Find a Lactation Consultant in Your Area
How Do I Know If My Baby Is Getting Enough Milk?
Though you cannot necessarily measure how much milk your baby is drinking, there are a few signs that your baby is sufficiently fed:
- Your baby's cheeks are full while feeding rather than sucked in
- Your baby releases on his/her own from your breast or falls asleep & releases
- Your baby seems happy and content after feeding
- You may feel sleepy after feedings
- You can see/hear your baby swallowing during feeding
- Your breasts feel soft, not hard, after feeding
Keep in mind that babies may request to feed many times throughout each day – this may cause you to feel like you must not be producing enough each feeding. Not to fear, as babies tend to feed 8-12 times per day (24 hours) once the full milk supply comes in. These may seem like signs your milk supply is decreasing, but probably don't have anything to do with your actual milk supply:
- Having a fussy baby (this is common aside from getting enough milk)
- Your baby wants to nurse often (every 1.5 to 2 hours is pretty common for breastfed babies)
- Your breasts don't leak any milk or they suddenly stop leaking (doesn't have to do with milk supply)
- Your breasts feel softer than they used to (this is pretty natural once full supply comes in)
- You get very little when pumping after a feeding (babies are more efficient at extracting milk than a pump, and your leftover milk amount isn't a good indication of milk supply)
- Your baby suddenly increases his/her frequency of nursing (likely will line up with a growth spurt!)
What Can Cause a Low Milk Supply?
There are quite a few factors that can lower your milk supply, such as:
- Taking an oral contraceptive
- Having fewer than normal milk ducts (ex. from surgeries or cancer)
- Bad positioning during feeding
- Incomplete latch
- Tongue or lip tie in baby
- Supplementation (giving formula or bottled breast milk after baby feeds at the breast)
- Using pacifiers or nipple shields
- Mom's health issues (postpartum reproductive issues such as retained placenta; others such as anemia)
- Mom's medications (antihistamines, etc.)
- Drinking alcohol
- Smoking tobacco
- Cutting feedings short (instead of letting the baby decide when he/she's done)
- Scheduling feedings rather than feeding on demand
- Baby sleeps too much/through the night (lessens the frequency of feeding – wake baby up more often to feed)
How Can I Boost My Milk Supply?
Before you try to take supplements or try different actions to increase your milk supply, we highly suggest to consult with your doctor or breastfeeding professional before self-diagnosing yourself with a low supply. The truth is that most women do not need to do anything extra to enjoy healthy breastfeeding and have a good supply. If you have been diagnosed with a low or declining supply, there are a few things you can try that may help increase your milk supply, such as eating certain foods/herbs and power pumping. Breastfeeding as much as possible also boosts your supply. Increased frequency of pumping and milk draining will let your body know that more milk is needed on a regular basis! Here's a look at foods and herbs that are supposed to help increase milk supply:
- Fenugreek
- Blessed Thistle
- Alfalfa
- Goat's Rue
- Oatmeal
- Vegetables/Leafy greens
- Garlic (too much can change the taste of your breast milk, so be careful)
- Sesame seeds
Before trying any herbal supplements, talk to your doctor regarding safety and dosing. Here are other actions to boost your milk supply:
- Avoid alcohol and smoking
- Practice hand expressing/breast massage
- Practice power pumping (pumping in between feeding sessions or continuing to pump after the last drops of milk have been expressed)
- Promote skin-to-skin with baby
- Breastfeed on demand (or more if the baby is not very demanding)
- Offer both breasts for each feeding
- Switch multiple times from breast to breast if the baby is tired/falls asleep too quickly
- Make sure the frequency of nursing is enough (8-12 times every 24 hours, at least every 3 hours at night)
- As the mom, get plenty of rest, try to eat a balanced diet, and drink plenty of water
If nothing seems to work in finding a good balance for you and your baby, contact a breastfeeding professional, such as a lactation consultant, for help.
What If Nothing Is Working?
Before self-diagnosing or choosing to switch to formula, be sure to consult your doctor, pediatrician, and/or a breastfeeding professional (such as a lactation consultant) for an exam. They may be able to help you find ways to produce more milk or show you a better position to breastfeed.
Want to Know More?
Compiled using information from the following sources:
1. Breastfeeding, Inc.: Protocol to Manage Breastmilk Intake.
2. Wambach, Karen & Riordan, Jan. Breastfeeding and Human Lactation, Fifth Edition. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC. 2016.
3. National Health Service (NHS) Choices. Breastfeeding: is my baby getting enough milk?
4. Kelly Mom: Parenting, Breastfeeding. Increasing Low Milk Supply.
5. Healthline: 11 Lactation-Boosting Recipes for Breast-Feeding Moms.


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10 Nov An Amazing Community
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When I started this blog I didn't think I would find too much to write about. Now I find myself wondering what not to write about as so many great things have been happening within my gaming hobby time.
I have held up finishing part 2 of Entering the Gates of Antares to tell you about a very touching and heart-warming event that took place this evening. I am a member of Tabletopbattle.com's patron supporter people……which I have found to be a great source of information and chatting to some wonderful fellow gamers about the hobby, mainly bolt action but they now have many little subgroups for different games. The reason I decided to spend some of my hobby money each month on a group of random, crazy and slightly odd Norwegian guys is because they entertained me, they make good battle reports which I suggest you go and check out. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOFfaGX521aCkyn5wmgQvxQ
Since I have joined however I have been introduced to the patron only section on Facebook, where I have spoken to and even got the chance to meet a few of the great guys who love the hobby like I do.
Recently Damon (one of the founders of TTB) asked if I could/would help out a fellow Patron, Mr Andy B to set up and maintain his website. Which TTB have allowed him to host through their own website http://tabletopbattle.com/small-terrain.html
I was happy to help out, and it turned out Andy was a war veteran, so with even more reason to help I got the shop up and running for him, which he still doesn't stop thanking me for.
Andy's shop Small Terrain sells miniature terrain in a variety of scales, however he makes it all by hand. A very time consuming process as all of us gamers know, especially when doing it as a business as you need to get things sent out as quickly as possible.
So having had a few chats with Andy, TTB's very own Damon and Svein pledged £1000 to help him buy a much needed laser cutter to help with his work. Little known to Andy that they had also set up a secret group in which they kindly asked anyone in the Patron group (except Andy himself of course) if they could help him out by pledging some money?
Between the 40 odd people we managed to scrape together another £1000.
The fantastic news was broken to him tonight over the phone by Damon, needless to say there were some tears. I know Andy has now been facebook calling many of the patrons all over the world to express his thanks and I can fully admit to being a little choked up at his kind words of thanks. This is someone who as of today I have never met (hopefully rectifying that soon) but someone I class as a good friend having spent a lot of time chatting about things (mainly over facebook).
So the point of this post was really to say that tonight I was humbled by a community rallying around one of their own and just how good it feels to be involved in something like this. I think Damon put it fantastically in this message which he doesn't mind me sharing
"I think I have said something before, but I can repeat myself. TTB has turned out to be way more than what we imagined, the videos and FB page are all good and fine, but when we started getting you guys (the patrons) in one group it took a turn for the better and much much more. Coming from a gaming community of younger players and 40k, to a community of Matt Rattenbury 😉 and everyone else (i.e. players my own age) and much more mature was a real change, This thing that we did behind Andy B`s back (you never saw us coming did you) was a thing of beauty and really goes to show what a group of like-minded people can do"


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Monday, December 31, 2018
Goalie Announcements (Dec 31)
Lots of writing on this Monday morning, so much so, I had to get a head start on it on Sunday night. It's New Year's Eve and we have some afternoon games going today, so once the Newsletter was published, I was going right to the social media lines to check and see where the starters were, since Week Fourteen gets started at 10:30am MT with the Nashville and Washington game.
On the plus side, a few of the teams were already naming starters on Sunday, so we were ahead of the game in a number of spots.
The new week begins, the goalie survivor game is now over, so now we'll concentrate on the overall standings and the weekly honours. Overall will be the name of the game today, since the week is only just getting started, so here we go!
Pekka Rinne (John P.) versus Braden Holtby (Stacey C.)
Really early start in Washington this morning and there were no confirmed goalies at the time the post went live, so we're leaning towards the number ones getting the start in a European showcase game today. The only argument I could see that would change their minds is the curse of the afternoon games, which some goalies are ill-prepared for and come away injured. For both team's sake, this might not be a bad game to dress the number twos.
Anders Nilsson (N/A) versus Mackenzie Blackwood (N/A)
It's a moot game in the crease in New Jersey this afternoon, when the Canucks take on the Devils. There are a couple of hockey pool goalies sitting out of this one, one likely to save him from the afternoon grind, while the other one is giving way to a hot hand. I'll let you decide which one is which.
Matt Murray (N/A) versus Devan Dubnyk (Wes)
It's an afternoon start in Minnesota for the Penguins and the Wild, but certainly not as early as the other two games that we led off with. Still, neither goalie has been confirmed, so we're also taking to the number ones in this one, as a solid potential match-up. The Penguins are back in a playoff spot, while the Wild are scratching and clawing for one, so this makes some sense today.
Robin Lehner (Chelsea) versus Carter Hutton (Wes)
The Sabres confirmed that Carter Hutton would indeed be the guy tonight with the Islanders in town, which is good news for Wes' team. Chelsea also gets some good news, as Robin Lehner was the first goalie off the ice at practice this morning and the coaching staff confirmed that he starts against his former team. Chelsea gets her only start of the day in this game, 80 points out of the money, while Wes potentially has his second game of the day, 28 points out of the money. Two very contrasting pool teams here.
Carter Hart (N/A) versus Petr Mrazek (Stacey C.)
The Philadelphia Flyers are having a hard time saying no to Carter Hart, as they will be giving him another start on the road tonight in Carolina, taking on the Hurricanes. He is certainly making the goaltending situation more and more interesting, as we draw closer to some goalies getting healthy again. The Hurricanes goaltending hasn't been a problem of late, it's been their scoring, but that still suggests to me that Petr Mrazek should get the call today, but that's unconfirmed and among the picks that could change just as easily.
Henrik Lundqvist (Scott) versus Jake Allen (Steve)
The Rangers were certainly nice enough to confirm early that Henrik Lundqvist would get the nod in St. Louis tonight, when they take on the Blues. The Rangers haven't been good on the road this season, 5-10-2, so it could be tough for Scott to get the 2 points tonight, but anything is possible, I guess. The Blues haven't firmed up any goalie decisions, at the time of the post, but there's no reason why they won't go back to the well with Jake Allen tonight. He's their guy, through thick and thin.
Marcus Hogberg (N/A) versus Sergei Bobrovsky (Kristy & Don)
Kristy & Don will get yet another start out of Sergei Bobrovsky and the Columbus Blue Jackets, when they play host to the Ottawa Senators tonight. The duo are having troubles cracking the top three lately, opening up play today 5 points back of 3rd, so they'll lean heavily on Bob to get the job done and help them into the money fray. The Senators confirmed that Marcus Hogberg will make his second career start tonight, with Craig Anderson still injured.
Roberto Luongo (John P.) versus Jimmy Howard (Tony)
No confirmations here yet this morning, but it's an evening game and both teams are trying to fight their way back into the Eastern Conference playoff race. The Panthers open tonight with a 2-point lead over the Red Wings in the standings, so you better believe that these two will be starting their number ones... until they don't and make me look silly.
Andrei Vasilevskiy (Dale C.) versus John Gibson (Kristy & Don)
The Lightning and Ducks haven't confirmed their goalies either yet and there's no reason why we wouldn't see the big guys out there in their respective creases today. The Lightning are running white hot at the moment, while the Ducks still own a playoff spot, but they are sub-.500 in their last 10 games and could really use a statement game to help turn things around. A win against Tampa could be that statement.
Jonathan Quick (Derek B.) versus Semyon Varlamov (Wilton)
The Avalanche confirmed that Semyon Varlamov would get the last home start of 2018 on Sunday, so Wilton was assured one more start in the calendar year and it's a promising game for points, as they host the Kings tonight. Wilton's team sits 44 points out of the money at the start of play tonight, so those points would be very useful. Although it's unconfirmed, it seems very likely that Jonathan Quick will go yet again for the Kings. Who else do they have?
Antti Niemi (N/A) versus Ben Bishop (Clayton)
There has been no word on Carey Price rejoining the Canadiens on their current road trip, so it would seem that Antti Niemi would get the start again tonight in Dallas for the club. The Stars are starting to pick things up again after their upper-management kuffaw, so we're leaning towards the number one in Ben Bishop here too. No guarantees, but this seems likely.
Martin Jones (Brenda & Seward) versus David Rittich (Ryan)
Much of the same in Calgary, with the Sharks in town to take on the Flames. After a night off for both sides yesterday, I think we'll see the guys that both teams have been leaning on for results this season. David Rittich was actually confirmed last night, so that means we know that Ryan will get one start at least. His team starts 22 points out of the money and still making positive moves in the standings.
Connor Hellebuyck (Jeremy) versus Mikko Koskinen (Tony)
Finally, it's going to be a wicked retro night in Edmonton tonight, since both the Winnipeg Jets and Edmonton Oilers will be rocking some retro colours tonight. The Jets will be wearing an iteration of their WHA/NHL jerseys, in Adidas fashion, while the Oilers will have their alternate jerseys on tonight, which have a shoutout to some of their older retro duds. As for the goalies, nothing confirmed yet, but why not Hellebuyck versus Koskinen?
2019 Winter Classic Preview
We're ringing in the New Year tonight and that means that the NHL is going outside tomorrow.
It's a couple of the usual teams playing in the Winter Classic, as the Blackhawks and Bruins will be meeting at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, IN, home of the Fighting Irish. These two teams have been pretty well a constant in these outdoor match-ups, either one of them playing in a good portion of the outdoor games in the NHL's last 10 years of outdoor games.
The jerseys that each team are going to be wearing are looking fairly sharp, excellent throwbacks to the early days of these two sides, we'll be in for a visual treat.
More importantly, the question is, will be treated to a lot of points in the hockey pool? Between the two NHL clubs, our 25-team hockey pool has 23 players selected, but not all of them are going to get to play.
|Pool Team
|Corey Crawford
|Zdeno Chara
|Charlie McAvoy
|Alex DeBrincat
|Henri Jokiharju
|Derek B.
|Dominik Kahun
|Patrice Bergeron
|Jonathan Toews
|Tuukka Rask
|Torey Krug
|Gustav Forsling
|David Krejci
|Cam Ward
|Stacey M.
|Brent Seabrook
|Jake DeBrusk
|David Pastrnak
|Jaroslav Halak
|Dylan Strome
|Brad Marchand
|Patrick Kane
|Erik Gustafsson
|Duncan Keith
|Brandon Saad
On the Chicago side, Corey Crawford is out indefinitely with a concussion and defenseman Henri Jokiharju is away in Vancouver/Victoria playing in the World Juniors for Finland, so neither are playing in tomorrow's game.
For Boston, Brad Marchand is expected to play, coming off of an upper-body injury, so minus any setbacks, he should be there. Charlie McAvoy's status will be dependent on whether or not he practices on Monday on the outdoor ice, he has been on the IR for the last couple of days, but is eligible to come off when he's ready to go. He's day-to-day and questionable for tomorrow's game.
What does that leave us? Well, Stacey M. leads all teams in the pool with three skaters and a goalie, while Stuart and Tony will each have three skaters on the ice for this game. We don't know who the starting goalies are going to be just yet, so there's still some intrigue left here in the pool.
No money in the outdoor games again this year, which was too bad for Tony's team last season, as he walked away with the title with 8 points in the three games outdoors last season. He's certainly got another good shot at it again with three players in this game and the Stadium Series later on in February, still to be played.
It's an 11am MT start tomorrow, so you should have more than enough time to sleep in and nurse those hangovers before the game starts.
Week Thirteen Newsletter
Despite the shortened schedule, the hockey pool had some pretty good performances in the week, as five players were tied at the end of the week with 6 points, so we had to go to the tie-breakers, which as you can see Patrick Kane of the Blackhawks won. First, we eliminated Robin Lehner of the Islanders, he's a goalie and didn't have any goals, then we took out both Nikita Kucherov of the Lightning and Phil Kessel of the Penguins, as they only scored two goals. Then it got tough. I had to dig deep to break this one and separating Kane and Mathew Barzal of the Islanders was a matter of game-winning goals, 2-1, being the difference, since both players scored 5 goals, had a +3 rating between the two games.
Kane did his damage against the Minnesota Wild on Thursday, scoring his hat-trick there, and then on Saturday against the Colorado Avalanche, 2 goals and an assist. Definitely a solid couple of outings for the Chicago sniper.
This brings his season total up to 22 goals and 50 points in 40 games this season, good enough for 8th overall in hockey pool scoring. Stuart took him with the 14th overall pick this year, so he's definitely getting the value for his pick selection.
Grant's week finished early, not having any participation in the only game on Sunday between the Golden Knights and Coyotes, but he had more than enough points to worry about just one game, as he comfortably took the Mover & Shaker for the shortened week with 29 points. His team was obviously visited by Santa Claus and given all the best stuff, like sick mitts and filthy moves, and they were all eager to show them off to their opponents.
Having two of the five players that were involved in this week's Player of the Week tie-breaker was certainly a huge help to his team. Mathew Barzal of the Islanders and Nikita Kucherov of the Lightning made some waves with 6 points each to lead the way.
Anton Khudobin of the Stars got a shutout in his only start, collecting 4 points, while Brock Boeser of the Canucks and Tyler Johnson of the Lightning each had 3 points to help out.
In total, Grant's team scored 14 goals in the week, which was 5 goals better than his nearest competitor. He can thank the 24 skater games he had for all those chances at points this week and even three appearances from his goalies were good enough for 6 points at the end of the week.
This is Grant's fourth Mover & Shaker of the week nod this season and his team has been on a bit of a mission since a bit of a slow start in the first couple of weeks. This is now his third week in a row, where he has finished in the Newsletter in the money spots, now in 2nd place, tied for 1st with Stuart, but losing the tie-breaker in goals.
Can Grant's team be stopped?
A Reilly Smith goal for Stacey M.'s team in the Vegas/Arizona game last night tossed the Basement Dweller race into a tie-breakers with Derek B., as both teams finished Week Thirteen with 9 points, but was that goal enough to lift her team up and out of the Basement Dweller nod, adding to her tie-breaking total? The answer is... yes. Yes, it was. The Smith goal gave Stacey's team a total of 3 goals in the week, while Derek's only had 2 goals, so by that 3-2 margin, Derek's loss gives him the Basement Dweller for Week Thirteen.
Eric Staal of the Wild, Colin White of the Senators and Jonathan Quick of the Kings all finished with 2 points each for Derek's team in the week, which would have been enough for the Player of the Week, if they were all combined and to think our Mover & Shaker had two of the 6-point players this week. Eight of Derek's 14 players failed to register points in the week, one due to injury and another is at the World Juniors, so overall, it was a very pedestrian effort here.
This mention in the Newsletter shouldn't be too discouraging for Derek's team, since he opted to leave the overall race and just focus on the rookie points, which hasn't quite worked in his favour just yet and it hasn't helped his side in the overall standings, staying static in 23rd place since the end of Week Ten and ranks last in points in this second segment of the season with 71 points in the last four weeks.
It's back-to-back weeks for a tie at the top of the standings, but the only difference is, the team that is tied with Stuart's, losing out to his in the tie-breakers.
Stuart and our Mover & Shaker, Grant, sit atop the standings at 368 points, while Stacey M. had a horrible week, in the tie-breaker for the Basement Dweller, which dropped her team to 3rd at 357 points to round out the money spots.
Kristy & Don are 5 points back at 352, Troy's team fell off a bit, now down by 9 points, while Mike's team is still a couple arms lengths away at 17 points back of 3rd.
Week Fourteen ramps back up again and we'll have 53 games on the schedule, so a good Mover & Shaker week can really do wonders for the money race, maybe even bring another team into the mix.
There were a few points to be had among our league's freshmen, but the best contributions to the hockey pool teams was only 3 points and our two leading teams in the rookie pool collected those. Both Clayton and Derek B. saw 3 points in Week Thirteen, extending their lead over everyone else competing for their money back here. Clayton's team still holds a 20-point lead over Derek's team, 56-36, while John P.'s team, held pointless in the week, is back at 28 points.
Only six games went to extra time in the four days of action in Week Thirteen and none of those six games went to the shootout. No dirty dangles. No silky smooth mitts. No big stops by the tendies. So, the totals remained the same. Jeremy, Grant, Mike and John P. all have 6 shootout markers and Brian's team has 5 of his own, all to lead the way in the mini-game here. It was a bleak week to say the least, but again, a busy week coming up, so we're bound to see some skills competitions before too long.
Out of 32 games this past week, we collected 20 game-winners from the bunch, which has been close to the season average all year, so far. Five teams each picked up a couple of winners to lead the way in the week, including our mini-game leader, Stuart, who now has 28 this season. His team is 6 better than both Benson and Clayton's teams and 7 better than Mike and Tony's teams.
There have been a total of 561 game-winners scored in the NHL through 14 weeks and the pool has collected 395 of them for our own personal gains. That is actually coming in at a rate of 70.4% of the goals actually scored, which is damn good.
19 minutes was tops in the week for the goon teams of the week. Yes, that's right... teams. Stuart, Grant and John P., all three are mini-game favourites in this edition of the Newsletter, all finished atop of the goon standings for Week Fourteen.
Stuart's team is still the goon team to beat though, still racking up the PIMs with 276 in total, followed by John P. at 231 and Scott's team at 229. It's not even a close race and Stuart's team is also leading in points. Where does his team find the time to score?
The holiday shortened week was what the goalie survival game needed to finish up, as both Stacey M. and Jeremy were unable to see their goalies pick up wins in Week Thirteen, leaving Troy as the last team standing and taking the nod this season.
Marc-Andre Fleury of the Vegas Golden Knights has been nothing but consistent this season and playing a ton too. Fleury got the qualifying win on Thursday against the Avalanche and then got a second start on Sunday night, which ended up as another win against the Coyotes.
Congrats Troy on the bragging rights for the rest of the season, it's too bad the mini-game wheel wasn't going to reward you for the win though.
Scoring found a decent recovery after that embarrassing display we saw in Week Twelve, almost going back up by a whole point per NHL game this past week. The pool collected 396 points in 32 games, which comes in at an average of 12.4 points per game, still well back of our season-high of 14.55 in Week Eleven.
Skater games held fairly steady, while goaltending numbers continue to dwindle and we're still four weeks away from even starting to think about drafting again, so the goaltending may still decline in those weeks. Let's hope that the skaters can keep plugging those backup goalies and keep racking up the points.
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Safety Moment - The Forklift Story
Todays Safety Moment is a guest spot. Here is Bob Edwards telling a story about how to learn better by asking better questions. The ultimate challenge in managing safety is not about knowing the answer - it is about knowing the question...and in this story the question was much more effective than any answer. Go figure, paint color is important to safe performance? Enjoy!