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A Little Skein project bag is for the maker who loves knitting and reading with equal passion. We create our own fabric and handcraft each bag, making space for your knitting or crafting project and also for goodness and inspiration.
Drawstring bags are:
• Perfectly sized for a 1 to 2 skein project
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• 10" tall and 5" wide when flat, with a square bottom
• Designed to last for years
• Be inspired every day. You don't need a special occasion to use special things. A Little Skein bag is like a favorite book that fills you with happy memories every time you see it.
• Delight in beauty.Our handmade touch is distinct, starting with our original, illustrated fabrics to small details like covered zipper ends and fully enclosed seams.
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About drawstring bags:
• Capacity of approx. 250 cubic inches
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• Canvas bottom so that inevitable scuffs or stains won't show
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The process of making your bag begins in my San Francisco home studio. First, I work with an artist to illustrate a theme for the story we're celebrating. Then, I print the design on a substantial cotton-linen blend of fabric, and my team and I begin sewing.
Beauty in difference. Each bag is carefully handcrafted, so there will be some variation in where the fabric print is placed and minor variations in size or shape. We think that's part of what makes each bag perfect – they're not identical.
Care for your Little Skein bag as you would a fine sewn garment. It can be washed if needed, and advice on washing is in my FAQ.
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This is my third bag from Anne. These bags are superbly made and absolutely beautiful. This particular bag has lovely botanicals on the outside and the zipper is hardy and well matched. I will always get the matching handle from now on. My other two bags were sock sized, this was my first shawl size and it's perfect and I immediately put my current project in it. I will be ordering bags from Little Skein again and again. Please consider rounding up to help the Community Yarn Fund. Make a place at your table. Stand in the Gap. Thank you!!
Gorgeous product and exceptional quality! Thank you Anne!
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The print is charming, the fabric itself feels lovely in hand, and the craftsmanship and thoughtfulness of the design have quickly made this my favorite project bag. And I LOVE project bags and have so, so many - I mean this as high, completely non-hyperbolic praise: this is a wonderful bag.
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There's nothing worse than coming home to the surprise redecorating of your kitchen table's legs or living room upholstery, courtesy of your cat's scratching instinct. That doesn't necessarily mean your cat has some inexplicable scratch problem that most other cat owners don't experience as well. There are many reasons why a cat will scratch anything sturdy enough to take a beating. Let's examine this further. [Read more…]
Why Does My Cat Scratch on Things?
What are bladder stones?
Is your dog having trouble urinating? It's quite possible he has bladder stones. What are bladder stones? Bladder stones form as a result of mineral deposits in a dog's urinary tract. As time goes on, these crystals gather together to form stones. Bladder stones are primarily found in the bladder however they can be found in the urinary tract, kidneys, urethra and/or ureters. The development of bladder stones in dogs is a painful and serious condition. In fact, if the entire urethra is blocked by a bladder stone and thereby prevents your dog from urinating, death can result as toxins and waste will build up in your dog's body. [Read more…]
You paid HOW much for that luxury puppy purse?
As I google "luxury pet accessories" I'm thinking of $2000 designer puppy purses and expensive jewel encrusted collars. Ralph Lauren pops up as the second listing… *click* Ah yes, the $1950 puppy carrier, a couple overpriced leather collars and another carrier for $1800… No, wait… that's $18,000! My jaw dropped.
Americans are spending more than ever on their pets in spite of a recession. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we spent over 50 billion on our pets in 2011. That number is steadily rising and the American Pet Products Association estimates we will spend about $55.5 billion this year. Big numbers so let's add a little perspective… that's more than we spend on coffee and bottled water combined! Americans love coffee but we love our pets even more. There probably is a personal coffee maker for eighteen grand available somewhere but something tells me an $18,000 puppy purse is easier to find.
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The INSA engineer
5-year courses in eleven engineering specialities
The teaching given at INSA Strasbourg is intended to prepare the student to become an expert in his or her field. The INSA Strasbourg student is trained to listen and to keep an open mind. To analyze, but also to decide and act.
To enable students to achieve this profile, the training teaches them the knowledge and the methods they need for their area of expertise (civil engineering, mechanical engineering, etc.).
At INSA Strasbourg, students choose their specialization in their second year, which means they are immersed in their future professional milieu very early on.
The training course fosters an open-minded attitude and receptiveness in students, in particular thanks to the mandatory period spent abroad to develop a sense of "interculturality" (every student must spend at least three months abroad to validate the diploma) and to the elective modules where the student can opt to study something outside his/her specialist area.
The dual architecture-engineering course and the joint engineering diploma-master's (preparation for research), inter-specialty seminars and the discovery and observation placement completed in Year 1 (shopfloor placement) also encourage openness and the ability to listen.
Active teaching methods
The teaching at INSA Strasbourg trains students to take decisions and act thanks to active teaching methods, based among other things on the use of case studies and projects, every semester from Year 2.
The internships completed in years 3 and 4 ("application placements"), technological research projects (PRT), supervised studies carried out on behalf of partner companies) and final course projects (PFE) completed in the final year all place them in situations where they have to produce, decide and act.
|INSA Strasbourg engineer's skills area
|Relevant element in the training
|Preparing to become an expert in his/her field
|The core academic training
|Being open-minded and ready to listen
International mobility
Elective modules
Dual architecture-engineering course
Master's degree
Discovery and observation placement
|Knowing how to take decisions and act
|Active teaching methods (case studies, projects)
Internships (application) in years 3 and 4
Technological research project (PRT)
Final course project (PFE)
Project-based learning
The project is a core part of the training of future managers, architects or engineers. It is the medium for students' reflection and research. It enables them to pull together and synthesize all the theoretical knowledge they have acquired on their architecture or engineering course.
Projects may be on a theme specific to their specialization or they may be cross-disciplinary subjects that give them the opportunity to work in a group with students from another specialist area.
The drone project is an example of an interdisciplinary project. Since 2002 this project has brought together students from the mechatronics and electrical engineering specializations, and when needed, mechanical engineers, surveying engineers, and others.
You can find more information on the drone project on two INSA Strasbourg blogs: mechatronics blog-drone page and electrical engineering blog.
Internships, a highlight of the course
Internships take place in between periods of academic training and can be completed abroad. They provide students with a lived experience and the opportunity to acquire knowledge, know-how and professional culture.
They also help to improve the business world's knowledge of higher education, and vice versa.
These internships are also a source of exchanges with different socio-economic milieux, thereby enabling skills transfers.
Internships with an increasing degree of responsibility
- at the end of the 2nd or 4th semester, a "personal development" placement, of no minimum length (non-mandatory),
- at the end of the 6th semester, a "shopfloor placement" (worker or operator role) of at least six weeks,
- at the end of the 8th semester, an internship in a supervisor or technician's role, lasting six to eight weeks.
The technological research project (engineering students only)
During the entire 9th semester, the student works on a technological research project (PRT) one day a week, in a company or laboratory (42 hours of training).
Final course project
The PFE takes place over the 10th semester, in a company or laboratory. It lasts about 20 weeks and ends with a viva.
Sandwich courses
These courses last three years. They are open to young people under the age of 30 with a BTS-DUT (2-year vocational training certificates) or bachelor's degree wishing to pursue their studies after three years of professional experience, on an apprenticeship scheme. Sandwich course students are awarded the INSA Strasbourg diploma in partnership with the ITII Alsace. 50% of the training time is spent in the company.
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The gray sky that greets me gives way to sun the higher I hike on North Mountain. Along the trail patches of Birds-Foot Violets are spreading out. The beautiful purple and lavender wildflowers look spectacular against the new green of Spring. Hiking in the forest this morning is peaceful and meditative.
Above me in the new spring leaves a Male Cardinal is singing to the emerging sun. Further up the trail a sweet White-Throated Sparrow appears to my right lands briefly then flys off into the forest. As I reach the top of the Lower Dogwood Trail it is as if I am wrapped in green. The gray of winter is beginning to vanish, a new glow is radiating throughout the forest.
As I connect to the Upper Dogwood and then the Hot Springs Mountain Trail a Carolina Chickadee lands in a tree near our Wedding Chapel. I can hardly keep up with it's rapid flitting from branch to branch. On the Floral Trail I discover several new color combinations of Birds-Foot Violets. The dark velvet petals with pale lavender are my new favorite.
The banks along the creek on the Hot Springs Mountain Road are blanketed with Wildflowers. There is a lovely mix of Bird's-Eye Speedwell, Common Violets, Spring Beauty, and Sweet White Violets. On the Promenade honey bees and wasps are flying from bush to bush and the air smells so sweet. A Northern Mockingbird is whistling an enchanting melody as I turn to see an exquisite Red Bud Tree. My morning hike in the park has soothed my soul.
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PS: Last night my Love/Fiance' Rick took my to world famous McClards (1928) for my first taste of Southern Barbecue. The ribs were amazing, yummy! Thank You Baby :o)


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There was once a group of people who were suffering from a certain calamity. One of these people came to Wahb bin Munabbih (rahimahullah) and asked, "O Abu 'Abdillah! Have you ever heard of a calamity or punishment that is worse and more severe than the calamity which we are suffering at present?" Wahb (rahimahullah) replied, "If you have to look at the difficulty that you are suffering and the difficulties that were faced by the people of the past, you would realize that your difficulty compared to theirs is like smoke compared to fire!"
To illustrate the point, Wahb (rahimahullah) narrated the following incident:
There lived a woman in the Banu Israaeel who had seven sons. One day, the king of the time, who would force people to consume pork, summoned her together with her sons. When they were brought before him, he called the eldest son forward, presented some pork to him, and said, "Eat this pork." The eldest son resolutely replied, "I will never eat something which Allah Ta'ala has declared haraam (forbidden)!" The king thus gave the command and the boy was dismembered (his limbs were cut off, one by one), causing him to pass away.
The king then summoned the next son and said to him, "Eat the pork." However, he too refused and replied, "I will never eat something which Allah Ta'ala has declared haraam!" The king thus commanded for a copper cauldron to be brought. When it was brought, he had it filled with oil and had a fire lit beneath it. Once the oil was boiling, he had the boy cast into the cauldron where he died.
The king then summoned the third son and instructed him to eat the pork. However, the third son fearlessly responded, "You are disgraced, weak and insignificant before Allah Ta'ala, so how can I obey you and disobey Allah Ta'ala by consuming that which He has made haraam?" The king laughed and remarked to those present, "Do you know why he is insulting me in this manner? The reason is that he wishes to anger me so that I will kill him swiftly, but that will definitely prove to be his mistake (as I will do the opposite)!" Having said this, he instructed for the boy to be skinned alive. First, the skin was peeled from his neck, then from his head and face, until the skin was peeled from his entire body, causing him to die.
The king then proceeded to kill the remaining brothers, using a different form of torture to end the life of each one, until only the youngest brother remained. Seeing the boy and his mother, the king addressed her and said, "It pains me to have seen you undergo this suffering. Take your son, and when you are alone with him, convince him to eat just one morsel of pork. If he does so, he will be allowed to live."
The mother agreed, and when she was in solitude with her son, she addressed him thus, "O my beloved son! Do you know that while I had a right over each of your brothers, I have a double right over you? The reason is that I had suckled each of your brothers for two years. However, your father passed away while I was still expecting you. This caused me to feel even more attachment to you. Thereafter, due to my feelings of sympathy for you, and due to your weakness, I suckled you for four years (as was perhaps permissible in their sharee'ah). I thus ask you in the name of Allah Ta'ala, and by the right that I have over you, that you do not ever allow the point to come where you consume that which Allah Ta'ala has declared haraam. Do not meet your brothers in the Hereafter in the condition that you are not with them."
Hearing this, the son exclaimed, "All praise is due to Allah Ta'ala who enabled you to say these words to me! It was my fear that you would try to convince me to consume that which Allah Ta'ala has declared haraam!"
The mother then returned to the king with her son and said, "Here he is, I have spoken to him and convinced him." The king thus instructed him to eat, but the son refused and staunchly declared, "I will not consume that which Allah Ta'ala has made unlawful!" The king then gave the command for him to be killed, causing him to join his brothers by sharing their fate.
Finally, the king said to the mother, "I find myself pitying you, after the suffering that I have seen you undergo today! What is wrong with you? Eat one morsel! Then I will do with you as you please and give you whatever you wish so that you may live comfortably." The mother retorted, "You want me to mourn my sons and disobey Allah Ta'ala at the same time? I do not wish to live after them if it entails me doing this (as I will then suffer a double tragedy – the death of my sons and disobeying Allah Ta'ala). I will never consume that which Allah Ta'ala has declared haraam." The king thus had her killed as well, uniting her with her sons in the Hereafter.
('Uyoonul Hikaayaat pg. 27)
1. It was only one thing that prompted the mother and her seven sons to behave in the manner they did – imaan. When a person's imaan is strong, his conviction in Allah Ta'ala and Jannah is so strong that he will not hesitate to sacrifice his life to please Allah Ta'ala. On the contrary, when imaan is weak, we will not be able to make even small sacrifices such as giving up sin and refraining from haraam.
2. The youngest son was raised without a father, yet his imaan was so strong that he stared death in the face and did not flinch. This could have only been the result of his mother's upbringing and attention. Similarly, every mother (and father as well) should make an effort to strengthen the imaan of their children and connect them to Allah Ta'ala. Conducting daily ta'leem in the home is an easy method to achieve this.
3. Just as a person with an allergy cannot consume food which contains his allergen, similarly a believer cannot consume haraam. If he consumes haraam, in any form (haraam food as well as anything acquired through haraam wealth), it will cause his imaan to have an allergic reaction, weakening it and causing it damage.


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This hotel comprises a total of 260 guest rooms and has been designed with comfort and style in mind. The pleasant decor, good service, energy efficiency and convenient transportation network all mean that guests will have everything they could wish for. Guests will find a café and a nightclub on site.
## Location
This is a multi-functional building, which focuses on business, living and office space. It enjoys a great location on the east Huanshi Road, which is known as the 'central district' of Guangzhou. This area is also home to the key financial, shopping and commercial centres, as well as the hub for transportation networks.
## Rooms
The establishment's elegantly furnished guest rooms come in a variety of different categories: standard rooms, deluxe rooms, suites with one bedroom, deluxe suites with two bedrooms, and deluxe suites with three bedrooms. All of the room types feature broadband Internet access.
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|4′03″ (1.3m)
|86.0 lbs. (39.0kg)
Signature Move
|Horn Attack
|Swift Swim/Water Veil
|Evolutionary Information
|Stage 1
Evolves from...
|Goldeen (lv. 33)
|50% Male, 50% Female
|Goldfish Pokémon
|Pokémon Red and Blue
Seaking (アズマオウ, Azumaō, Azumao in original Japanese language versions) are one of the 493 fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise—a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards, and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri.
The "sea" in Seaking's name refers to the fact that it is a water-inhabiting Pokémon. "King" is probably a reference to its unevolved form's name, Goldeen (a portmanteau of "gold" and "queen"). Hence, its name means "king of the sea." Its Japanese name refers to azumanishiki (東錦, azumanishiki) for one kind of "goldfish" and ō (王, ō) for "king". Seaking was originally called Neptune in the beta.
Characteristics[edit | edit source]
Seaking resembles a Calico fancy goldfish, and it is generally thought of as being a beautiful Pokémon.
When the autumn spawning season arrives, these Pokémon swim powerfully up rivers, creeks and waterfalls. They do this in large groups, turning the river a brilliant vermillion color. To attract a female Seaking, the males will woo them with courtship dances. During the spawning season, male Seaking have a more beautiful coloration.
Once the male Seaking finds a mate, he will carve a nest out of boulders in a stream using his thick horn. This nest is ideal for stopping its eggs from washing down stream.
Seaking are very parental Pokémon. They are very protective of their eggs. The male and female will take turns patrolling the nest and protecting the eggs. This guarding period can last several months.
Appearance[edit | edit source]
Seaking is available by fishing in all the Pokémon RPGs. Seaking can be found by fishing in rivers, usually not seas or oceans. It can also be obtained by evolving Goldeen at level 33.
In Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, wild Seaking can be caught by fishing in the Safari Zone.
Seaking lacks any especially high stats. Its Attack stat is somewhat high. Its Special Defense and Hit Points are both average, while its Defense and Speed are rather low.
In Pokémon Red and Blue, Seaking is the only Pokémon that is capable of learning Waterfall. However, in all later games, the move is learnable via HM; meaning almost any Water-type Pokémon can learn it. Goldeen and Seaking, however, can still learn it naturally, making them one of the few Pokémon that can learn an HM move by leveling-up (others include Rayquaza and Salamence, who can both learn the HM Fly in level up).
Anime[edit | edit source]
Seaking has made various appearances in the Pokémon anime, usually with small roles or cameos. (Its most notable appearance was the episode Hook, Line and Stinker, in which a Seaking-catching competition very similar to the bug-catching competition took place. The winner was whoever caught the heaviest Seaking; in the episode a tie was broken with a battle between the Pokémon used by the trainers to catch these Seaking.)
Both Professor Oak and Ash Ketchum have owned Seaking in the past, though Ash released his only a short time after capturing it.
Juan also owns a Seaking, which was used in a Gym Battle against Ash. Juan's Seaking was able to block electrical attacks with Horn Drill and send them back at its opponent.
Manga[edit | edit source]
Trading Card Game[edit | edit source]
In the Pokémon Trading Card Game, Seaking has appeared in the Jungle set, Base Set 2, Gym Heroes, Neo Revelations, Aquapolis, EX Ruby & Sapphire and EX Deoxys.
References[edit | edit source]
- The following games and their instruction manuals: Pokémon Red and Blue; Pokémon Yellow; Pokémon Stadium and Pokémon Stadium 2; Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal; Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald; Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen; Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness
- Publications
- Barbo, Maria. The Official Pokémon Handbook. Scholastic Publishing, 1999. ISBN 0-439-15404-9.
- Loe, Casey, ed. Pokémon Special Pikachu Edition Official Perfect Guide. Sunnydale, CA: Empire 21 Publishing, 1999. ISBN 1-930206-15-1.
- Nintendo Power. Official Nintendo Pokémon FireRed & Pokémon LeafGreen Player's Guide. Nintendo of America Inc., August 2004. ISBN 1-930206-50-X
- Mylonas, Eric. Pokémon Pokédex Collector's Edition: Prima's Official Pokémon Guide. Prima Games, September 21, 2004. ISBN 0-7615-4761-4
- Nintendo Power. Official Nintendo Pokémon Emerald Version Player's Guide. Nintendo of America Inc., April 2005. ISBN 1-930206-58-5
External links[edit | edit source]
- Official Pokémon website
- Bulbapedia (a Pokémon-centric Wiki)'s article about Seaking as a species
- Seaking on serebii.net
- Pokémon Dungeon Pokédex entry, full of statistics analysis
- PsyPoke - Seaking Pokédex entry and Usage Overview
- Smogon.com - Seaking Tactical Data


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4 weeks has just flown by! Here we are in the final part of this series - Assessment and Monitoring. Remembering back to Week 1, the big question from a reader was: What are the teachers doing? What are the kids doing? How do you monitor and assess?
As I always say, there isn't any one size fits all solution for any school and the conversations that you have as a collaborative staff are key in making these important decisions. Once again, WHY you are assessing and monitoring comes first, followed by what you will do and how you will do it.
When people first start teaching collaboratively, it does feel different than a single cell class. I found it hard to keep track of all the children in my head. Sometimes I would forget who was in my reading groups and who was in my writing groups. Systems, timetables and lists became more important. After teaching 24 kids for EVERYTHING and knowing them really well, of course it's not going to be the same with 75 kids that you teach for SOME THINGS. To start with I worried that I was losing my connections and relationships with the kids and their families. But you know what? I adjusted to a "new normal". So maybe I needed to check a piece of data for a kid because it wasn't right there in my head - when I saw the huge increase in student learning, engagement and progress I could cope with that. I still had great relationships with my kids and their families - just now there was more of them and also another adult in the room who also knew them and who could share their insights with me.
Danger zone - Do be careful not to create unmanageable systems that means you're recording all sorts of information that no-one will ever go back and use! How you do set up your assessment and monitoring systems will also be influenced by the numbers of students and teachers in your team. For example, 2 teachers working together might have more informal systems than 4 teachers working together.
Of course, any country is governed by some formal regulations about assessment/ reporting to parents and in New Zealand we are no different. Whether you agree or not there are some things that just have to be done - so what is the best way to do them? ( This is my favourite blog post ever about reporting - worth a read!)
So here's some ideas featuring systems that I have seen work well in innovative learning environments. I hope there's something here that can work for you or that you can adapt.
Below are some examples of different formats for recording information. Identifying information such as name columns and personal notes have been removed, but hopefully you get the idea!
Thank you so much for reading this series! Would love to hear how your ILP journey is progressing!
Make sure you revisit the Connected Educator resources. SO many cool things!
Additional Resources:
VLN Thread - gathering anecdotal evidence.
Enabling E- Learning Assessment Resources
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My name is Ngaire Shepherd-Wills. This website is a record of my TeachNZ sabbatical, Term 2, 2013 and then I have continued to share my wonderings and discoveries about Innovative Learning Practices. I now work for CORE Education. Views are my own.
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Saturday, March 21, 2015
Art asked about the word pension, which in our day is an agreed-upon payment made to a retired employee. At various times since the 14th century, it has meant
· payment made to retain loyalty – almost a bribe;
· payment made to an artist or scholar to produce public works;
· a tax;
· a payment to an ecclesiastic taken from the revenues of a benefice;
· payment for board or lodging.
It came from an Anglo-Norman word that meant compensation or annuity. In turn, that was indebted to a Latin word that meant a measured weight. The idea was that whatever was coming to a recipient was carefully weighed or measured.
Some other English words sharing the same Latin ancestor include compensate, depend, expend, impend, and stipend.
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Check for upcoming shows in Chicago and Seattle – COMING SOON
Also, see what we thought of the shows we've seen here. The concert experience can be influenced by many other factors other than the actual musical performance. In the concert review section we will try our best to capture the entire experience, rather than only focusing on how the band sounds. The crowd and atmosphere play a huge role, as does lighting and acoustics. We aim to diligently observe all factors at play, and relay that information to you.


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After all the work I poured into making the Aeolian Shawl, I did not learn my lesson and have decided that making 7 stitch nupps is THE BEST THING EVAR. So I decided that I would use Estonian lace patterns in Elizabeth Zimmermann's Pi Shawl because my regular knitting and two small children just isn't enough.
This is the swatch I made using some Arauncania Ranco on size 6 (4.0mm) needles. It looks very pretty and gave me a good idea on how the patterns worked with the pi increases, but I needed a larger needle for the nupps to stand out.
I had 3 skeins of Knit Picks Gloss Lace set aside for the project and I dyed them up on Thursday. I need to make new dye stock solutions because there has definitely been some fading and it took two goes to get the color that I really wanted.
I used my crock pot and Jacquard dyes and couldn't be more pleased with the outcome even if I did have to mess about with the colors more than I usually would. So I finished charting the lace on Friday night and cast-on. I've just started the 24 round section.
In other knitting news, I made a lot of progress on my Giselle sweater. I've made a big dent in the lower portion of the sweater and since I've hit the point of decreasing every other row, it'll go even faster.
This is what is left of my 2lb cone of Provence Lace Merino from School Products. It may not look all that small, but the diameter of the cone is at least half of what it was. I figure that by the time I'm done Giselle, I should have about 800yds left which should be just enough to make a pair of stockings. If you have the chance to go there, I highly recommend it – I paid just over $50 for this cone and I'm getting a large lace shawl, a size 3x sweater (with yarn doubled) and (hopefully) a pair of lace stockings or at least lace knee highs.
I don't have it with me, but a dear friend treated me to some sock yarn this weekend in a lovely brown/gray colorway and for the life of me I can't remember just what it's called so that will have to wait for the next post.
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by Linda O. Johnston
October is a fun time to have my Superstition Mysteries published. Of course I'd be happy with getting them published at other times of the year, too, but the month of Halloween, with all its extraordinary traditions, seems very appropriate.
My second Superstition Mystery, KNOCK ON WOOD, came out this month. Here's what KNOCK ON WOOD is about:
Rory Chasen, now the manager of the Lucky Dog Boutique in Destiny, California, is delighted when her best friend Gemma arrives a day early for her visit. Gemma's just broken up with her boyfriend in Los Angeles, so Rory is especially eager to cheer her up. But before they get a chance to talk, two of the town's most eligible bachelors sidle in. Their amorous advances—and an unexpected job offer—seem to take Gemma's mind off her ex . . . until he arrives in Destiny.
As Gemma tries to sort out what to do, one of her suitors is murdered, leaving Rory to wonder if a black cat has crossed Gemma's path. Is Rory's friend guilty of murder—or is she just having a run of bad luck?
And you know what? I've always considered myself as much of a superstition agnostic as Rory, but like her I sometimes wonder.
For example, last week I happened to find a heads-up penny on the ground in a parking lot just before I attended the NoHo (North Hollywood) Lit Crawl near me. I participated in a smackdown between writers of cozy mysteries versus writers of noir. It was very enjoyable, and the whole event was wrapped up at a late party. Some friends left earlier than I did and gave me their raffle tickets–and darned if the moderator didn't keep calling winning numbers from the three sets (including mine)! Of course I'm sharing the loot with the others.
Coincidence? Probably… right?
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Weren't they suppose to close on May 12? One weekend pass the anticipated last day of the season and MSS is still spinning the lift. Only two trails remained in the East this weekend, but Superstar at Kiilington wasn't possible due to my busy weekend in Montreal.
Another Sunday at MSS. I mentioned in the first outing in May that I had only skied MSS in May 4-times: 3-times from 1994-2012. I've equalled that today with my 3rd outing at MSS in May 2013! This is somewhat similar to the relationship I had with Gray Rocks back in May 1982 and 1985 with repeated weekly visits, however this year was more of a convenient detour with return trips to Montreal than back to the unique skiing days of the 1980s.
Another weekend where I had to be in Montreal, unfortunately things spilled over into Sunday morning. I had an extreme late departure from Montreal, it was already past noon. Saturday was the day for skiing in the sun, but I was over my head in Montreal. I was detouring via St-Sauveur to head back to Ottawa. The sky was gray and looked like it was going to rain: rain was in the forecast for the evening.
It was a Green, White and Gray day. Trees are now totally green, a pretty rare sight when you're skiing. Although the sun wasn't out, the temperature was +17c. This Sunday is long sleeve skiing weather versus t-shirts two weekends ago and vest last weekend. There were cars in the parking lot, however it would seem more people were here for the Viking and Dragon in the Amusement Area: zipline and tobboggan on rails as I've seen in the Alps.
Conditions were similar to last weekend and similar amount of people. I meet up with a few people I keep seeing at MSS: Parti en ski (Done skiing) from Zoneski that I recall seeing at each visit: I know he's already above his 100 ski days this season. We were started talking, Gerald showed up. I had skied with him last May and skied with him again two weekends ago and today. We ended up spending more than 15 minutes talking at the top. But it was that type of day; I was unwinding from a busy weekend.
Started skiing at 1:30pm and almost made last chair at 3:55pm. It was 3:49pm on our last ride when the liftie mentioned it was the last ride. Gerald next to me told him if we ski fast enough we might make it…just then, the chair slowdown for maybe 30 seconds. As we got the bottom, the patrol was getting reading load on the closing chair and liftlie smile at us. Thirty seconds were the difference between making that last chair. It was a short and condense day, 17 runs and 2:30 hours. We had gotten a few odd rain drop, but it held off
I arrived at the car. The rain continued until I reached Ottawa. MSS is attracting slightly more than more than the Montreal-Laurentians market, there were some people who drove from St.Albans VT mostly for the skiing. As I was getting my stuff in the car, I noticed a couple going for after-hour turns.
The base was very firm, icy and covered with some loose granular. I had my old slalom skis that could carve ice which was a good thing. The ice was gray and it was like skiing an old glacier. Snowdepth was still important, we are talking about approximately 4-10 feet along most of the trail. The only thin part was the flat top off the lift. MSS was suppose to open on "choose the name you like (Victoria, Dollars or Patriotes) Day as it is a Holiday in Canada, but just not named the same, but they weren't going to spin judging by today's weather. Is there going to be skiing next weekend at MSS? I don't know? I believe there is enough snow for an extra weekend or two!!! However like everything in the Spring, it can changed really fast and MSS generally doesn't open if the weather doesn't cooperate, regardless of snow. Let's hope for another clear weekend.
After-hours: Hikers in the rain
Recent MSS May Days and my last 4 May Days:
M.S.S. QC : SUNday May 6, 2012 – May Skiing Saviour
Mont St-Sauveur QC : May 5, 2013 – Skiing in May, Encore!!!
Mont St-Sauveur QC : May 12, 2013 – May, Mothers' Day and Montréal
This was the 42 days of the season and 201 days since that memorable start in West Virginia for Halloween.
Last May 12 was the first time I had ever skied on that day. May 19 was the third time. I have now skied Gray Rocks, Killington and now MSS on this day.
Forties are wild:
All ski areas with 40-49 days: Position #4 to #8 in MadPat's ski visits since keeping track in 1981-82. Lifetime numbers is greater for MSS*.
42 : Ski Days in 2012-13 to date
43 : Ski Days in 2011-12
44 : Mont Cascades QC
44 : Mad River Glen VT
46 : Killington VT
46 : Mt St-Sauveur QC*
47 : Chanteclerc QC
48 : MadPat's age in June 😮
49 : Days since someone from my family last skied. 😦
The irony is that I've skied MSS and Kiilington the same amount of days and are the only two options left for liftserved skiing in East. Will the tie be broken soon?
Who will head up on top?
Who will closed last?
When is Eastern liftserved skiing end?
Where am I going to skiing next?
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Mont St-Sauveur – 19 mai 2013


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Our quaint little reception area at Hezlett House has had a makeover for the new season ahead.
Thanks to the talents of local interior design company PreLoved by Patti and Frank, the reception area now boasts an array of fabulous colour and quirky design. Using mostly furnitiure that we already had on site, with the help of Patti and Frank we have revamped and reloved some much cared for and meaningful furniture. The decor is very fitting with the style of the thatched cottage and its quirkiness. No 2 seats or tables are the same and the colours are warm and welcoming. Stop by for a visit, you won't be disappointed.


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How to use content exercises to help form your content strategy
Going round-robin, stating our name, title, company, biggest content challenge, and something that makes us unique seems a bit ordinary if put in a room where introductions need to be made. But why do this exercise when there are nearly 50 people in a workshop room? That was my question as I sat at the end of a long line of introductions being made at the Social Fresh "Content That Converts" workshop.
My turn.
"Hi, I'm Danielle Hubner, Social Media Specialist for a Chicago-based higher education and finance company. My biggest content challenge is keeping content exciting and fresh for a not very exciting industry. What makes me unique is that I designed three New York Times bestselling childrens books."
About four more people take their turn after me.
Our gurus for the session, Nick Cicero (Delmondo), Jeff Cohen, and Chris Moody (both of Oracle Marketing Cloud ) must have read my mind. The reason why we did this informational ice breaker was to generate content!
What we learned in the intros was there were many marketing and content professionals in the room who had similar problems, and as an attendee this made me feel less alone with my problems. We also learned that of the people in the class, over 30% of us have social media in our titles, the next highest being digital marketing. Astoundingly, there were about 35% managers, and even VPs which means that people in higher-level positions are looking for help with their content strategy, too. What brought us all together is that we were all being invested in by our companies by being at the conference to learn how to improve our current situations.
Why content? "Content that Converts" with @cnmoody @jeffreylcohen and @nickcicero at #SocialFresh pic.twitter.com/zCDrte1Y0v
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This class couldn't have come at a better time for me as my colleagues and I submitted our first attempt at a content marketing strategy to our Director of Marketing, setting us almost in the one-third of businesses that have a content marketing strategy. But why even have a content strategy?
Your mission as a content creator is to inform and educate an audience or community, and drive demand for the product or service you offer. Content can connect the pieces of the mission of your entire mission. All you have to do is take your mission and apply it to your goals!
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By examining the remains of textiles from different historical periods in Iran, the research center for Iranian traditional arts has succeeded in recreating textiles from the Sassanid and Buyid eras.
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Head of the workshop, Ruhollah Dehghani, said the projects were run by artists and artisans with expertise in the traditional arts, and were based on research projects undertaken at Iran's Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, and Tourism (RICHT) on different provincial regions.
He said during the project the weaving style of a two-sided textile from Sassanid era was replicated and used to create new materials. The same was done on cloth dating back to the Buyid dynasty and a style of Termeh which died out over 50 years ago.
Termeh is a precious type of, originally, handwoven cloth originating in Iran, and primarily produced in Yazd Province. Weaving Termeh requires high quality wool with tall fibers and is woven by an expert and assisted by a helper referred to as "Goushvareh-kesh". Weaving Termeh by hand is a delicate, painstaking, and time-consuming process; a good weaver can produce only 25 to 30 centimeters in a day.
Dehghani pointed to another project which is aimed at reviving a textile depicting a prince and his captive. A course to familiarize artists to the characteristics and weaving style of the material and prepare them for the operational phase of the project is underway at the center.
The original textile is kept in New York Metropolitan Museum, and dates back to Safavid period.
Training courses on traditional artists are available for those interested in learning, preserving, and reviving the national heritage, he concluded.


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– Aphorisms – Letter H –
An alphabetically arranged collection of common and not-so-common Aphorisms in English. Many Aphorisms (commonly referred to as known as "Sayings") have slightly different forms and interpretations, depending on region, back-ground, and who is saying them, the ones here are listed in the most commonly used forms or where added by request.
- "Act In Haste, Repent At Leisure" – This Aphorism can also be classified as an Interjection, a Proverb, or a Saying, which is used to mean that: if one does something quickly and without caring about the quality or outcome (to act in haste), then he or she will feel very bad or entirely un-satisfied about it later (repent in leisure) and will most likely have to do "it" over. – (See Also: "Haste Makes Waste") – Read the Full Post Here
- "Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining" – This Idiomatic Aphorism can also be classified as an Interjection, a Proverb, and a Saying, to express that… every "bad" or un-pleasant situation has an aspect of something beneficial or advantageous. This phrase is usually used to describe a situation which is happening or has already happened – or as a reminder to someone who is experiencing (or is about to experience) an un-pleasant situation – so that the person can perceive the circumstances with a more optimistic attitude. – Read the Full Post Here
- "Build The House From The Ground Up" – This Idiomatic Aphorism can also be classified as a Saying, and can be turned into an Interjection and a Phrasal Verb – and is used to express the advice that: When one is involved in some process or working on some project, that he or she needs to do things in the proper order, and start with the basic (referring to the "base" or foundation) necessities before doing other things which (though they may be more interesting) can only be beneficial after the foundational elements are firmly in place. – Read the Full Post Here – (See Also: "Put The Horse In Front Of The Cart")
- "Haste Makes Waste" – This is an Aphorism which can also be classified as an Interjection, a Proverb, and a Saying and it used to express that: If one does something quickly (in "Haste"), and without caring how well he or she does it (usually because he or she don't enjoy doing it, or just wants to finish as quickly as possible), then that person will usually end-up with an un-satisfactory result or, will have to re-do "it"… This ultimately means that one will have "wasted" even more time and energy (by having to do it again), than if that person would have "taken his or her time" to do it correctly the first time. – (In trying to find a video about saying, I came across This One, which has a HORRIBLE description of the phrase! First of all, because it is not an Idiom at all! It means exactly what it says. BUT, because the speaker goes SO fast that it is almost impossible to understand anything of what he is saying it is actually a perfect EXAMPLE of the phrase rather than a description of it. The speaker was acting in such "Haste", that the video was almost completely… "A Waste" 😀 – (See Also: "Act In Haste, Repent At Leisure" Above)
- "Put The Horse In Front Of The Cart" – This Idiomatic Aphorism can also be classified as an Interjection, A Proverb and a Saying, and can be turned into a Prepositional Phrasal Verb. It is very similar in meaning to the Idiomatic Aphorism: (to) "Build The House From The Ground Up" – both of which mean:
"to do things in the proper order"
But, this phrase is less focused on the "foundational" elements of a process, and is used more to say something like:
"Do steps 1, 2, and 3, before moving on the step 4."
This is indicated by the fact that one must "put the horse in front of the cart" before that one can expect to get the cart moving anywhere.
(See Also: "Build The House From The Ground Up")
- "Strike While (the) Iron Is Hot" – This Idiomatic Aphorism is Prepositional and can also be classified as an Interjection, a Proverb, and a Saying, and is used to express that one should:
"Take an opportunity while it is still available."
…Because often-times, when people hesitate, the opportunity can be missed. This phrase comes from the art of black-smithing (iron-working). When the metal is red-hot then it is soft and easy to work with. Once the metal cools, it hardens and is much more difficult to work with. The word "strike" is verb which means: To hit/pound/kick/etc.. So Idiomatically, if one "Strikes While The Iron Is Hot" then it will be much easier to take that opportunity… but if one waits, the opportunity will be gone – just like the possibility to shape cold metal. – (Note Also: that the article "the" is not necessary, but is grammatically more proper.)
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Hey Everyone
It's Monday so that means it's Merry Monday time again. How are you all going with your Christmas cards? I've got a pile ready to go – for the first time in years I'm organised.! Here's Lesley's sketch this week:
I've flipped the sketch on it's side so it would fit my new Christmas stamp set – Ornament Keepsakes and matching framelits. Here's my card:
We'd love to see you join us this week – click here to take you to Lesley's blog and check out the gorgeous cards the DT have created this week.
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ST. CROIX, V.I. - Attorney General Claude Earl Walker
has announced that the Virgin Islands Department of Justice has reached an agreement
with Kmart Corporation, a unit of Sears Holdings Management Corporation, to
settle allegations that its pharmacies in the Virgin Islands charged the
Medicaid program more than its usual and customary charge for certain drugs.
AG Walker made
the announcement Monday morning at a joint press conference with Commissioner
of the Department of Human Services (DHS) Felicia Blyden at Government House,
St. Croix.
Under the
settlement agreement, Kmart agreed to pay a total settlement of $638,553.17 to
resolve the overbilling allegations in the Virgin Islands.
allegations of Medicaids overbilling by Kmarts Virgin Islands pharmacies are
deeply troubling, AG Walker said, because we have to guard against the
depletion of precious dollars from that program that many Virgin Islands
residents rely on, in particular, some of our senior citizens and Kmart has a
huge pharmacy operation in the Virgin Islands.
In her remarks, Commissioner
Blyden informed that the DHS has issued an advisory to all Virgin Islands
pharmacies reminding them that federal rules require that a pharmacy provider
may charge Medicaid no more than its usual and customary rate for goods or
Medicaid is a
cooperative program between the federal government and the Virgin Islands that
provides health care benefits to the poor or disabled persons. DHS administers the program, which includes receiving
claims for prescription reimbursement from pharmacy providers in the Territory,
such as Kmart.
The accusations
against Kmart date back to the mid-2000s when that retail company and many
other pharmacies began offering discounted generic drugs to their cash-paying
customers typically $4 for a 30-day supply.
Kmart began its Retail Maintenance Program by charging $15 for a 90-day
supply. The program was later expanded
to include 30-and 60-day supplies. Although some pharmacies with similar
programs gave federal health care programs the benefits of these prices, it was
alleged that Kmart did not. Rather,
Kmart billed and received $5 from Medicaid for a prescription that cash-paying
customers could purchase for $4, according to court documents.
On July 16,
2008, James Garbe originally filed suit against Kmart in the United States
District Court for the Central District of California. The case was subsequently transferred to the
Southern District of Illinois. The lawsuit alleged that Kmart was submitting
false claims when it charged federal health care programs higher prices than it
was charging cash-paying customers. The premise of the claim was that the
federal government and virtually every state Medicaid program, including the
Virgin Islands, require that a pharmacy charge no more than its usual and
customary rate for goods and services. Therefore, when Kmart billed and
received $5 for a prescription that a cash-paying customer could purchase for
$4, the lawsuit claimed that Kmart was falsely representing the usual and
customary rate. The parties, working with several states Medicaid Fraud
Units, entered into a settlement agreement that allowed the Virgin Islands to
be a party to the settlement and to resolve these allegations for the time
period of Sept. 1, 2004 through Dec. 31, 2014.
Every year, AG
Walker concluded, the cost of the most basic prescription drugs in the Virgin
Islands keeps rising to the point where some people are splitting tablets in
half to save money, which can be very dangerous, but the people cannot get a
straight answer as to why the cost of medication is so high.
AG Walker vowed
that the Department of Justice and Department of Human Services will remain
vigilant on this issue.


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April 7, 1991, Section 6, Page 22Buy Reprints
This Christmas, I finally caved in: I gave my 3-year-old daughter, Sophie, her very own cassette of "The Little Mermaid." Now, she, too, can sit transfixed by Ariel, the perky teen-ager with the curvy tail who trades her voice for a pair of shapely legs and a shot at marriage to a prince. ("On land it's much preferred for ladies not to say a word," sings the cynical sea witch, "and she who holds her tongue will get her man." Since she's the villain, we're not meant to notice that events prove her correct.)
Usually when parents give a child some item they find repellent, they plead helplessness before a juvenile filibuster. But "The Little Mermaid" was my idea. Ariel may look a lot like Barbie, and her adventure may be limited to romance and over with the wedding bells, but unlike, say, Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, she's active, brave and determined, the heroine of her own life. She even rescues the prince. And that makes her a rare fish, indeed, in the world of preschool culture.
Take a look at the kids' section of your local video store. You'll find that features starring boys, and usually aimed at them, account for 9 out of 10 offerings. Clicking the television dial one recent week -- admittedly not an encyclopedic study -- I came across not a single network cartoon or puppet show starring a female. (Nickelodeon, the children's cable channel, has one of each.) Except for the crudity of the animation and the general air of witlessness and hype, I might as well have been back in my own 1950's childhood, nibbling Frosted Flakes in front of Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and the rest of the all-male Warner Brothers lineup.
Contemporary shows are either essentially all-male, like "Garfield," or are organized on what I call the Smurfette principle: a group of male buddies will be accented by a lone female, stereotypically defined. In the worst cartoons -- the ones that blend seamlessly into the animated cereal commercials -- the female is usually a little-sister type, a bunny in a pink dress and hair ribbons who tags along with the adventurous bears and badgers. But the Smurfette principle rules the more carefully made shows, too. Thus, Kanga, the only female in "Winnie-the-Pooh," is a mother. Piggy, of "Muppet Babies," is a pint-size version of Miss Piggy, the camp glamour queen of the Muppet movies. April, of the wildly popular "Teen-Age Mutant Ninja Turtles," functions as a girl Friday to a quartet of male superheroes. The message is clear. Boys are the norm, girls the variation; boys are central, girls peripheral; boys are individuals, girls types. Boys define the group, its story and its code of values. Girls exist only in relation to boys.
Well, commercial television -- what did I expect? The surprise is that public television, for all its superior intelligence, charm and commitment to worthy values, shortchanges preschool girls, too. Mister Rogers lives in a neighborhood populated mostly by middle-aged men like himself. "Shining Time Station" features a cartoon in which the male characters are train engines and the female characters are passenger cars. And then there's "Sesame Street." True, the human characters are neatly divided between the genders (and among the races, too, which is another rarity). The film clips, moreover, are just about the only place on television in which you regularly see girls having fun together: practicing double Dutch, having a sleep-over. But the Muppets are the real stars of "Sesame Street," and the important ones -- the ones with real personalities, who sing on the musical videos, whom kids identify with and cherish in dozens of licensed products -- are all male. I know one little girl who was so outraged and heartbroken when she realized that even Big Bird -- her last hope -- was a boy that she hasn't watched the show since.
Well, there's always the library. Some of the best children's books ever written have been about girls -- Madeline, Frances the badger. It's even possible to find stories with funny, feminist messages, like "The Paperbag Princess." (She rescues the prince from a dragon, but he's so ungrateful that she decides not to marry him, after all.) But books about girls are a subset in a field that includes a much larger subset of books about boys (12 of the 14 storybooks singled out for praise in last year's Christmas roundup in Newsweek, for instance) and books in which the sex of the child is theoretically unimportant -- in which case it usually "happens to be" male. Dr. Seuss's books are less about individual characters than about language and imaginative freedom -- but, somehow or other, only boys get to go on beyond Zebra or see marvels on Mulberry Street. Frog and Toad, Lowly Worm, Lyle the Crocodile, all could have been female. But they're not.
Do kids pick up on the sexism in children's culture? You bet. Preschoolers are like medieval philosophers: the text -- a book, a movie, a TV show -- is more authoritative than the evidence of their own eyes. "Let's play weddings," says my little niece. We grownups roll our eyes, but face it: it's still the one scenario in which the girl is the central figure. "Women are nurses ," my friend Anna, a doctor, was informed by her then 4-year-old, Molly. Even my Sophie is beginning to notice the back-seat role played by girls in some of her favorite books. "Who's that?" she asks every time we reread "The Cat in the Hat." It's Sally, the timid little sister of the resourceful boy narrator. She wants Sally to matter, I think, and since Sally is really just a name and a hair ribbon, we have to say her name again and again.
The sexism in preschool culture deforms both boys and girls. Little girls learn to split their consciousness, filtering their dreams and ambitions through boy characters while admiring the clothes of the princess. The more privileged and daring can dream of becoming exceptional women in a man's world -- Smurfettes. The others are being taught to accept the more usual fate, which is to be a passenger car drawn through life by a masculine train engine. Boys, who are rarely confronted with stories in which males play only minor roles, learn a simpler lesson: girls just don't matter much.
How can it be that 25 years of feminist social change have made so little impression on preschool culture? Molly, now 6 and well aware that women can be doctors, has one theory: children's entertainment is mostly made by men. That's true, as it happens, and I'm sure it explains a lot. It's also true that, as a society, we don't seem to care much what goes on with kids, as long as they are reasonably quiet. Marshmallow cereal, junky toys, endless hours in front of the tube -- a society that accepts all that is not going to get in a lather about a little gender stereotyping. It's easier to focus on the bright side. I had "Cinderella," Sophie has "The Little Mermaid" -- that's progress, isn't it?
"We're working on it," Dulcy Singer, the executive producer of "Sesame Street," told me when I raised the sensitive question of those all-male Muppets. After all, the show has only been on the air for a quarter of a century; these things take time. The trouble is, our preschoolers don't have time. My funny, clever, bold, adventurous daughter is forming her gender ideas right now. I do what I can to counteract the messages she gets from her entertainment, and so does her father -- Sophie watches very little television. But I can see we have our work cut out for us. It sure would help if the bunnies took off their hair ribbons, and if half of the monsters were fuzzy, blue -- and female.


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2016 is nearly over and I made it. Happy, joyful, changed, purposeful and holding onto my integrity with great care.
As I wrote in my last post, moments do not define me, what defines me is my integrity.
'This thing that I am doing that is bringing me into my own.
Living in a way that is being true to me.'
Man I have had a few moments this year and each one has helped me get closer to my integrity more than ever. I feel pretty darn lucky actually and I am oh so grateful for my year. I have had a few challenges and most of these have been with my work. I am a teacher, this does not challenge me, it makes me feel great, it is like going home. What challenges me is difficult, confusing and bloody frustrating. I understand it a bit more this year and maybe next year the challenges will be less. It all falls around my role as management.
My word of the year 'Integrity' has definitely helped me get through those moments that rose to challenge me. Being true to myself has helped me burrow through those moments that challenge my essence.
Thank you Integrity.
Thank you 2016.
Thank you truth.
Next year my word will be Allow, I am going to Allow myself to do those thing that bring me closer to my truth. Creativity is my thing, it makes my heart sing and colours my world with much joy. This is why I love my work as a teacher, I love the creativity. I discovered this treasure, when after 3 years of not having my own classroom, I am finally starting the year with my own class of Year 2's and I feel so excited by it. That change has helped me better understand my role as a leader in education. I started my current job three years ago and the thing that got me the job, a leading teacher, I haven't been doing in my own classroom. I missed it so much and I didn't realise how much until I decided to return to my own classroom again.
This year I will:
Allow myself to make art
Allow myself to develop my creativity in my teaching work
Allow myself to plan daily
Allow myself to doodle in my art books
Allow myself to print my art and give it to the people I love.
Allow myself to print my art and sell it in my shop.
Allow myself to develop my lettering
Hello Allow
Hello Creativity
Hello Teacher
Hello New Classroom
Hello Art Shop
Goodbye 2016 and Welcome to you 2017
Top Tip 4: Allow yourself to discover a word to live your year by. A word that is close to what you need the most. Plan, reflect and set goals by it throughout the year.


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According to a recently published study, Americans worth $10 million or more will spend 67 percent more this year on gifts, including jewelry, fashion and travel. With a gift limit of $100 per client per year under NASD rule 3060, what's an advisor to do for his best clients? Here's what some of your peers are doing to make the right impression with clients this holiday season.
Nearly every advisor that spoke with Registered Rep, whether a broker or an independent fee-only RIA, said he or she sent something to clients around the holiday season. Most of them say personalizing the gift is a must—at the very least, sending a photo card instead of the plain old Hallmark, for example. One UBS advisor estimates he has handwritten 700 holiday cards this year for his biggest and most loyal clients—or half of his client list of 1,500 households. While his cards usually include a photo he's taken while traveling in a far away place—last holiday season was a shot of a little known waterfall in central Austria—this year is more plain vanilla: a shot of his team. "But we always try to personalize each one," he says.
Bill Bachrach, founder of Bachrach & Associates, a financial advisor coaching firm, also says that personalizing is key. "I love the family photo cards and the cheesy form letters about what's going on in our lives this year," he says. "The hokier and the more real the better—why not send your clients the same thing you send to your friends and family?" Other ideas: a gift certificate to the client's favorite restaurant or a bottle of wine you know they like. "Sending something generic only serves to remind them that you really don't know them—and that's not the message you want to convey," he says.
Chandler Taylor, an advisor with St. Louis-based Monetta Group, says his firm makes $25 donations in the names of clients to their favorite charities. Principals and employees fund the company's own charitable foundation—it has roughly $1 million in it—and he estimates $75,000 in donations are made each year to 15 to 20 different organizations, all in the clients' names. He says some advisors do other things tailored to individual clients.
For his own clients, Taylor keeps a tradition that he borrows from his own life when his kids were growing up in the St. Louis area and participating in the Boy Scouts of America. Each year, the Boy Scouts sell Christmas greens—wreaths and other holiday decorations—in downtown St. Louis. Taylor makes a donation, loads up his car with the decorations and hand delivers them to twenty of his top clients that live in the greater St. Louis area. He says he does it unannounced, so sometimes they're not home and he just leaves them on the doorstep with a quick note. When clients are home it's a great way to bond—"Sometimes I even get a beer," he jokes. He says the fact that it's a donation to the Boy Scouts, and that the gift isn't expensive makes clients happy—not to mention that he's taken time to deliver them himself.
Barry Glassman, an independent advisor with Cassaday & Company (Royal Alliance) in McLean, Va., calls himself a "contrarian" because he doesn't send a bucket of popcorn and a card during the religious holiday season. He actually prefers Thanksgiving for such connections. He says he sits down and writes 10 or so "letters of thanks" to his best clients. "It's not the same clients every year, and they're all different, but it's something along the lines of 'thanks for working with me all these years, challenging me, not just accepting what I tell you and referring me to people you know,'" he says.
One branch manager in one of Oppenheimer's largest offices says his advisors do any number of things for clients during the holidays, but that's missing the point. "Really, if you're conducting yourself the right way, you should be organizing personalized client contact year-round, not just at the holidays," he says.
A Smith Barney advisor we spoke to is a fine example of this. He sends out personalized diaries, and this year he's sending out three sets of holiday photo cards—one of him and his family, another of his partner and his family, and a third picture of his entire team. He likes pictures because they're more intimate and "people are more likely to hold onto them," he says. But the way he sees it, the holiday greeting is just one of 25 "touches" he and his team strive to make with their 200 or so client households each year.
For his best clients, he says there are several exclusive events—usually for groups of 10 to 20—which he gears towards their interests, like a ski trip to Alta, Utah for the skiers or a golf trip to Augusta for the die-hard golfers. Then there are the 10 to 12 dinners at high-end restaurants he arranges each year. (He's quick to point out that clients pay for all of this themselves, he only organizes the events.) In addition, all of his clients are invited to three major appreciation events each year, two of which he says are designed for the children of clients.
This year those three events included a magic show, a picnic and a year-end gathering at his home. The year-end event was attended by 134 people this year, and featured Peter Vidmar, captain of the 1984 U.S. men's Olympic gold medal gymnastics team, who gave a motivational-type speech aimed at the kids. All told, he estimates it costs him $100,000 a year out of pocket. But the impact his efforts have on his clients and their families makes it well worth it, he says.


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After a few weeks off we're back with another Donair Review! This week we were joined by Santa Claus himself.
Santa took us out to Rob's Donair in Sherwood Park where we ordered some delicious meat and cheese donairs. Afterwards, Santa took us back to his workshop at Sherwood Ford where we dove into these bad boys. It was a beautiful winter day outside which really added to the aesthetic of this donair. We were blessed that Santa could take the time out of his busy schedule to be a guest on our Donair Tour. We all know how busy he is this time of year so it was definitely a treat.
At the end of the day this was a very tasty donair. There were a few quirks to it that made the boys grin, but I would probably come back to Rob's again, however it definitely wasn't a 97 donair. Santa also gifted us with some reindeer antlers and a red nose for the #NATIONTRUCK! Watch the video to get the full scoop on the donairs and what we scored it!
Previous Donair Tours
- Marco's Famous
- 99 Sub and Donair
- Top Donair Downtown
- Burger Baron
- Queen Donair
- Sir Donair (Skip The Dishes Edition)
- Firezone Pizza & Donair


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This year, Cambridge Carbon Footprint is hosting the third edition of CirculART, a project in which the work of local artists who work with repurposed materials is showcased in the windows of Cambridge's finest charity shops.
For 3 weeks from the 7th June 2018, the public will be able to pick up a CirculART Trail map from participating shops and other select locations around Cambridge. Using the printed trail map or its online version members of the public can follow the CirculART trail, visiting charity shops around Cambridge and enjoying beautiful artworks, all made by recycling, re-purposing and reclaiming. In the 2016 edition there were 20 artists and charity shops involved, this year there are 30.
Click here to see the 2018 CirculART trail.
Event Details
All Day Thursday 7th Jun 2018 - Wednesday 27th Jun 2018