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"It's apples and oranges," insists Communications Director Dan Bartlett comparing the accounting practices at WorldCom and Enron and those that led to a 1990 SEC investigation and restatement of Harken's earnings. The distinction, say administration officials, is not only that Harken's restatement was in millions, not billions, but also that the company was merely caught being aggressive, not fraudulent. Many corporate executives currently under the bright lights are saying a version of the same thing.
Democrats have been working hard to draw the parallels and revive interest in another SEC investigation in which Bush was cleared of trading on inside information twelve years ago when he sold stock two months before the company announced a large loss and its stock price sank. White House aides insist none of the recent questions about the president's past have affected his policy or the speech outlining it, but the dustup has annoyed a Bush team always nervous that voters might turn their anger about corporate fraud on a president who is proud of his business-friendly posture.
The Tuesday speech has run through the word processor a few times as different administration factions debate over policy and tone. On the one hand, Bush wants to penalize corporate executives who diddle with their books. "They have to know we are serious," says a top adviser, "so that people don't think: 'give them two months, they're Republicans, then we can start doing this again." The president is likely to call for criminal penalties for wayward executives and offer more money for the Securities and Exchange Commission to help hunt down the swindle-doers.
Aides promise a bold speech. Democrats claim Bush's corporate past gives him no credibility on this issue. The White House argues just the opposite. One official even used the inevitable "Nixon goes to China" analogy, arguing that executives will be certain to heed the guidance of one of their own. But Bush isn't likely to throw the whole book at corporate executives or board members. Vice President Dick Cheney and economic adviser Larry Lindsey have argued that regulatory over-reaction will put a chilling effect on entrepreneurial activity and keep good people from serving on corporate boards. "We've been dancing on the head of a pin here for two weeks trying to find balance because this is hard to do," says a top White House aide.
At heart, Bush's speech will praise his corporate audience but also "call business leaders to a higher ethical standard," says one who has worked on it. Speaking in Manhattan, the president will refer to the "character of New York," after the attacks of 9/11, a suggestion that Wall Street should aim for the same standard. Throughout the week, cabinet secretaries will help make the big sell. Commerce Secretary Don Evans and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, both ex-CEOs will speak to a town hall meeting of investor groups, and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao will assure people their pensions are safe. In the end, say administration officials, the markets will decide whether the push has been successful. "Doing too little won't just lose us voters, "says a senior administration official, "but, more importantly, we'll lose the economy."


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JOSEPH ISSAKA HAMIDU, was born and raised at Binduri in the Upper East Region of Ghana on 2nd June, 1976. He is married with a baby girl. Speak kusaal, mori, dagbanli and twi.
He had his basic education from 1984 to 1992 in Binduri and obtained a BECE certificate. In 1993, he was enrolled at Notre Dame SHS – Navrongo, in the Upper East Region and graduated with SSSCE certificate in 1995 (Science student).
From 1996 to 1999 he attended St. John Bosco Teacher Training College. Graduated as a trained teacher and was posted to St. John's Anglican JHS in the Bawku West (Zebilla) District to teach Science and Mathematics.
From 2002-2006, he attended University for Development Studies, Nyankpala, Campus to study BSC in Agriculture.
He returned to the classroom to teach after his university education at Presbyterian SHS in Tamale, teaching Integrated Science till date.
He also holds MSc in Biotechnology from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi.
He has held several leadership positions including becoming a Hall President at the university, President of the Ghana Association of Agriculture Students – GAAS. He also held other responsible positions in the church.
He was a senator at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (a course representative) at the graduate students' leadership level.
As a teacher, he formed a number of clubs including the School Science and Mathematics club, 4-H Club, among others.
In 2015, he was nominated to represent his school to compete for best teacher awards because of his hard work and enormous contribution to school development.
His core vision for his constituents and for Ghana is to set up a Skills Development Training Centre – SDTC, where many unemployed youth will visit to learn and be trained some skills to develop themselves. Apart from that, the largely illiterate farmers need a lot of education and other forms of support to enable them execute the farming activities very well.
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12 Things People Feel Fine Saying To Pregnant Women (And Why They Shouldn't)
Not sure about you guys, but when I was pregnant, I felt like there was some kind of buzzy neon sign flickering above my head instructing people to "please say whatever comes to your mind and definitely do not filter it," because I got some doozies from perfect strangers (looking at you, work acquaintance who had too much wine at that after hours event).
People feel fine saying all the things they actually shouldn't say to a pregnant woman, probably because looking at a pregnant woman is like staring into the sun, apparently. I mean, people are obviously so blinded by that particular woman's bright glow that they lose the ability to think or see straight, and it makes their face feel kinda funny and hot.
Now that a couple years have passed since my pregnancy, I'm mostly over the trauma that many of these awkward conversations caused. As a result, I can finally think clearly enough to realize that, bummer, I missed some good comeback opportunities. However, you, dear reader, are in a unique position to let my losses be your gains, and learn from my mistakes. Here's a carefully curated list of all the things people say to pregnant ladies that test patience, raise eyebrows, and leave us so stunned that the snappy responses don't come until it's too late.
"You Barely Look Pregnant!"
That's the thing with human bodies and with pregnancy; they're all different. If the maternity photo comparisons that have gone viral are any indication, we should try to avoid making assumptions about how a pregnant woman should look or should be carrying.
Exception: She's perhaps dressed in an elaborate Halloween get-up and most definitely looking for reassurance that her baby bump is not a distraction to her costume.
"You're Huge!"
Again, I could see how this might seem like a pretty standard observation of a pregnant woman. However, in my experience, putting anyone on the spot to have to explain their appearance is questionable territory at best, especially when they're growing someone else with their own body.
Exception: She's perhaps dressed in an elaborate Halloween get-up and most definitely looking for reassurance that her baby bump is working as part of her costume.
"Are You Scared?"
See, that's the thing with fear. Sometimes, people who are experiencing it would rather not be reminded of it during casual conversations. I was super scared during my pregnancy, and in the off-chance that I was out and about, having someone bring up my fear was not my favorite.
Exception: You and the mom-to-be are ride or die, and you suspect she's dying to discuss her worries with you.
"Were You Trying?"
I can't think of any other circumstances where people inquire about the intentions of your sex life, though I'm sure some exist. Either way, does it really matter?
Exception: I'm sure there's a reason medical professionals could need this information. However, if you're not one of them, probably better not go there.
"You're Not Going To Vaccinate/Circumcise/Insert Other Medical Choice, Are You?"
Unless you're at a support group meeting for people who share specific views, these could be sensitive topics. Furthermore, they could very well be things she and her partner are still deciding. They're definitely none of your business.
Exception: Again, medical professionals have wiggle room here.
"Better Get Your Rest Now"
Maybe it's just me, but this one came up so often during my pregnancy. I knew the other person was likely making what they thought was a lighthearted joke, but I could barely even muster a laugh. The subtext says, of course, "Get ready, things are going to suck soon." Given the fact that I was already way behind on all the rest I wanted when I was pregnant, I didn't need someone reminding me that labor and delivery wasn't going to provide me with an opportunity to sleep.
Exception: It appears like she's nesting so hard that she's completely forgotten about the human body's need for sleep.
"Let Me Touch Your Stomach"
I mean, I know some people like to live on the edge, but asking to touch someone you don't know all that well is a bold move in my book. Better to just keep it to yourself. Don't worry, if you hang out around a pregnant woman long enough, she'll probably bump into you soon anyway since those growing bumps can indeed make one a bit clumsy.
Exception: Oh, wow, look at that. Another one for medical professionals and medical professionals only. I'm sensing a trend here.
"Are You Going To Breastfeed?"
Not sure about everyone else, but I heard an insane amount of horror stories about breastfeeding challenges when I was pregnant. It felt like every time the topic came up, I had to cushion my answer with an explanation that I knew it could be challenging but I was hopeful and prepared and blah blah blah, because that's often where the other person was going to take it.
Exception: You are from some sort of organization who gives prizes and treats to women who breastfeed and you want to make sure you put her on the list for presents and gifts and cash rewards.
"Are You Quitting Your Job?"
I've known pregnant women who were, indeed, going to quit their jobs after their babies arrived. I've known even more that weren't going to quit. I've known many who thought they were going to do one thing, and ended up doing another. I've even known some who had plans in place that they simply didn't want to share, because, hello, a woman's career trajectory can be a complicated thing that she's still figuring out. Either way, like many of these topics are showing us, it's best not to assume.
Exception: You're her boss and she hasn't come to work for, like, a week. At that point, I could see a need to clarify.
"I Was Wondering If You Were Ever Going To Have Kids"
Let's pause for a moment. How does one actually respond to that? In a perfect world, she could laugh and say, "Me too!" but the world isn't perfect and this comment will likely catch her off guard.
Exception: You're a fortune teller admitting that you're not good at your job.
"I'm Definitely Not Going To Have Kids Anytime Soon"
I'm sure she's totally sorry to hear that her major life change is giving you all the feels, but reflecting aloud about it while she's staring back at you isn't really going to help it.
Exception: she straight-up asks you about your plans for childrearing and you don't mind answering (which, for the record, is on my list of things not to say to non-pregnant people, but alas, she may not have gotten that memo).
*Insert Personal Story About Someone You Know Going On Bed Rest/Having Complications/Almost Dying During Pregnancy*
Yes, I'm sure it can be traumatic for someone you know to go through an intense medical situation, and you might want to talk about it for some really valid reasons. Trust me, though, she doesn't want to hear about it. It's the equivalent of walking up to someone who's about to get in their car to drive home and saying, "Oh hey, did you know you might get into an extremely serious and possibly life-threatening crash?"
Exception: Eh. Nope. Even medical professionals have better ways of broaching these topics than through the unnecessary sharing horror stories, I assume.


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D: An Undervalued Manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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- Australian and New Zealand Association of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Inc.)
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D: An Undervalued Manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle As every Anglo-Saxnnist knows, there are seven manuscripts (and a fragment of an eighth) containing the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a document which has been described as "the most important source for the political history of the period", and which is also a basic text for the origins of Old English prose, since it is mostly independent composition rather than translation from Latin, and its style changes over the centuries. Up until at least 890, all manuscript versions go back to a common original which is usually 2 called by the Old English letter ae, and which had already been transcribed more than once, so that two major errors (which I am not here concerned with), are found running through all the Old English texts. After the early 890s the Old English manuscript versions vary a great deal, so that argument has arisen among scholars as to whether they can indeed be considered one Chronicle or (at least from the late tenth century onwards) four distinct Chronicles. This paper is concerned with the interrelationships of the various versions, and indulges in some speculation (as a means of understanding the processes involved) about where the continuations were originally composed. An attempt is made to evaluate the various manuscript versions, and this results in a greater appreciation of the worth of the D manuscript than it has usually been afforded. The manuscripts are conventionally numbered by the first eight letters of the alphabet, which correspond roughly to the dates at which they were written, and to their relative importance. A (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 173; Ker 39) is the oldest, being in one hand until the intended end of the annal for 891 and the year number for 892, and then continued in a variety of hands, the second either to 912 or 924 (palaeographers differ about this; if there were two they were very similar ); the next covers the years 925-955, the next 958-67, and the one after 973-1001. All these scribes wrote at a stretch; that is, they entered their annals in a block, some time after the end of the period they covered. It is important to remember that not even the A manuscript was normally kept up year by year; and indeed, when all the evidence from all the manuscripts is taken together, it seems that the breaks in the handwriting do not always coincide with breaks in the sequence. However, palaeographers are agreed that at least from the second scribe onwards the continuations in A were added probably not very long after the date of their last annals. Moreover, and likewise certainly from the second scribe onwards (probably from the beginning), the A manuscript was written at Winchester until 1001; after that it was neglected until it went to Christchurch, Canterbury where it received a few independent additions, taking it up to 1070. Because it was kept up at intervals after 891, and was usually written up closer in time to the events it relates than any other manuscript, it is considered the most important of them all. One set of annals in A (for 915-20, s.a. 918-23), 14 Audrey Meaney written by the same scribe as those for 913 and 914 (s.a. 916, 917) is found only in this manuscript, and gives a very full and valuable account of the later wars of Edward the Elder. The misdating by as much as three years must indicate that the unique annals were written into the manuscript some years after the events; but they have no obvious copying errors (except in a few lines by an inferior scribe), and may be virtually autographic. Otherwise , until 975, most of the material in A is duplicated in B and C, except for a few brief Winchester additions and a few "fuller and less local annals" in the early 960s, which are all unique to A. However, though usually providing the earliest transcription, A is not the archetype of any of the other manuscripts, for it has some errors and omissions where they are correct. After 975, the A manuscript continues with a few quite...


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It's a cool, crisp Autumn day in San Juan Ostuncalco. The corn is all dry on the stalks, rustling in the wind. The morning air is like crystal with a bit of frost on the edge until the sun rises to oversee the bustle of harvest.
We enjoyed Thanksgiving with a couple of other missionary families yesterday. The fellowship was nice, and the laughter hearty! My soul is full of gratefulness for God's blessings, for the abundance of His provision, for friends and family with whom to share the abundance. God is so good to us!
I have to admit that even though each year I very much look forward to Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday all year, I always seem to feel a little let down the day after. Did we truly honor God on this day we set aside for Giving Thanks? What did we offer as a sacrifice of thanksgiving? Was He pleased? Or was it just all about the special meal?
There is a danger in assigning Thanks Giving to one day on the calendar. Perhaps I am not the only one who lays great expectations on that one day, and when they do not all come about there is disappointment to deal with afterward. Could that be the reason that there is so much depression around this and other holidays?
I was reading Psalm 92 when it struck me that giving thanks and singing praise to Him is to be a daily thing, not a Thanksgiving Day thing..
"It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: To show forth thy loving kindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night.."
This and many other psalms show that praise and thanksgiving are to be offered up daily! Doing so is a daily reminder to us of His great works, and it makes us glad on a daily basis. Praise Him!
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Filed under: Abandonment, Addiction - Parents, Aging parents, Blame, Death of a Parent, Inheritance & Wills, Relationship with Father, self-absorbed parents, Shrinks, siblings, step-siblings, Stepfamilies
Hey, as long as psychologists ignore the fallout of coming from a divorced family and lawyers make their money off of the arrangements, this is a situation that will never be addressed. Sigh, people who grew up in Divorce are so used to being rejected and ignored and poor this really doesn't matter (too much). The lawyers only take on cases where they know they will get paid. Lawyers do pro bono for politically correct situations which will further their career.
Second/third/fourth/90th wives and their children are never, ever gracious enough to set things right. Best to blame those kids for the shit their Father dished out. The will is the parent's last message to his/her children. This type, so common, do dear, is as bad as it gets.
Comedian/Actor Jerry Lewis died in August at age 91. The news says that he was surrounded by family but doesn't indicate which family. The news always also make a point out of saying that the one child, a grown daughter, from Lewis' second marriage will inherit everything, even though she's "only" adopted. That's really rude and I'm very sorry she has to read that. The first marriage lasted 36 years and the second marriage lasted 34 years.
So here we go. Kids from divorce are disinherited by their parents. Same old, same old. This time it's a super successful rich guy who is known for his humanitarian work. That's an extra twist. Don't know what Divorce rates are of parents of kids with muscular dystrophy but it might be high. Here's an article about high divorce rates among parents of children with special needs. Hopefully, being from a "first family" has never disqualified any of Jerry's kids from receiving some of his charitable contributions.
Lewis died of heart disease which is associated with mental illness like depression which can make an old guy even grumpier so I suppose the kids have a lawsuit in there somewhere, especially since their Father made almost all of his money while he was married to their Mother and not the Step-Mother. You would think.
I'm not making much sense here. This kind of thing makes me so angry. But here it is, over and over and over. And the shrinks stay silent……
Filed under: Aging parents, Aging Step-Parents, Blame, Death of a Parent, Denial, Favoritism by Parents, indifferent parents, Inheritance & Wills, Long Term Fallout, self-absorbed parents, separate households, Shrinks, Stepfamilies
Lawyers just do as they are told. If a ten times divorced rich guy shows up at the office and wants to leave all his money to his 3d wife and her hamster, the lawyer will write up the will that way. Rich people tend to love money and power, maybe just money. Often they don't like their kids as much. Some people are just in denial that they'll ever die. And, of course, there are hundreds of other stories about why children of divorce don't receive an inheritance. Love is generally not equated with Loyalty in Divorced families the way it is in intact families.
After a divorced parent dies the grieving process for a Child of Divorce will also be different. A Will is a parent's last words to his/her child. If there are no possessions or money this won't be an issue. But, if no inheritance, no love, point blank. So the grieving process will bring up all the old crap from the divorce days/years/decades along with the current grieving process for a parent. Divorce is War. This is one of the many fall-outs from War usually decades after the War. Therapists don't give a rats ass about the whole process because most therapists are 1) from intact families and 2) divorced themselves and so defensive that they will not worry themselves over this.
So, here is a start. The reviews are mixed and don't really give much information about whether these books really are friendly to the kids. Different States have different rules and I don't know if the books cover this. That's why my Father maintained residency in Washington rather than California even though he had homes in both and had lived in Washington only a few years and had died in California. He wrote his will in Washington and it could have been contested in California.
Estate Planning for the Blended Family by L. Paul Hood Jr. and Emily Bouchard. (2012)
Estate Planning for Blended Families by Richard E. Barnes (NOLO Press, 2009)
Filed under: Books, Favoritism by Parents, Inheritance & Wills, moving, multiple households, Parents and their Dates, Personality Types Most Likely to Divorce, Stepfamilies, Uncategorized
Bad mood. Walking through library. Books on carts that need to be shelved. I see the word "Parasite" and immediately think of my step-family.
The Art of Being a Parasite by Claude Combes.
Reading on I find that this is probably the best study on understanding the politics of blended families. Within these families there are Winners and Losers. You win not by working hard and building a following and doing chores and finishing homework and setting the table, but by discerning where the richness is and just moving in on it with a fantasitic degree of ruthlessness. Whichever bloodline can gang up on and humiliate the other one wins. There's the Conqueror family and the Conquered family. The Step-Mother always knows she's right
(isn't that just so bizarre how they all say that? It must be how women get their rocks off, maybe the battle for the husband is the lure, destroying another woman's kids is the ultimate sexual turn-on)
Wondrous. Remember, your family loves you and will always be there for you? Stranger Danger applies to everyone except Mommy and Daddy's dates? Here's another crap fact about growing up in Divorce.
Chapter 8 Parasites in Time and Space
The Art of Being a Parasite by Claude Combes
From this same Chapter is an explanation of what types of hosts are most likely to attract parasites. The author reminds us that these do not always apply, so you still have to watch your back even if you're all clear in these departments. The author is using Fish and Sealife as an example but I think the ideas can pretty easily transfer over to Host and Parasite Family Structures.
So, you may be more likely to attract and have your blood/home/parent/security/inheritance siphoned if:
1. You spend a lot of time in many different places (large area range v. small area range).
2. You are extroverted and spend a lot of time within a large community. Writer calls this "gregarious." Parasites are less likely to cling to solitary fish.
3. You live in the depths like a mollusc. Don't cling to rocks. Rolling stones gather no moss.
4. You are migrating. I see this a lot in California which has a Divorce rate so high the CDC doesn't bother to include it in its statistics. People come out to California as a couple and almost always split up.
5. Writer calls this one: "Species richness of the phylum." Wow, can't say I understand the jargon. I guess this means that you are more likely to attract a parasite from someone you are similar to because parasites enjoy a particular diet. If you hang out with people who you are like you are more likely to pick up a parasite because parasites like to feed off of hosts which are similar. If you are wealthy and you hang out with wealthy people you already know that you will attract parasites. Makes sense.
6. Size. Large hosts attract more parasites because there is more area to attach to. Well, I became anorexic, so don't know if this is very true on a physical level. The parasitic step-host family kept siphoning. I did learn that it's not worth being successful because you have to always be on guard about the crap that shows up on your doorstep looking for dinner.
From pages 209-210, Aging Anorexias from Divorce know that even if you stopped eating as a result of your parents' divorce that the Host family with keep right on chomping away. There's gristle on your bones, after all, marrow inside for making soup, and compost to be made with what is left. Since food becomes scarce growing up in divorce, everyone for himself. And regular meals become an emotional burden of trying not to ask each other how they're doing because that's going to lead to long stories about greed, betrayal, rejection, lawyer and shrink visits, money and asshole boyfriends who disappear at Christmas. Plus, all those "I have it worse than you ever will" comments.
"Parasites "circulate" in the ecosystem. Some follow simple routes and others complex ones through life cycles in which unrelated hosts follow one another. One interesting and still poorly studied aspect of parasitology consists of reconstructing such routes in order to acquire key knowledge about the functioning of the ecosystem itself. The strategy is, if you tell me who parasitizes you, I will tell you whom you eat."
Haven't read the entire book, of course. But, it looks as if the author, Claude Combes, likes parasites. They keep the whole eco-system moving. They toss your half baked family into your step-mother's complaining arms. Is this really how the human species evolves? Sounds a little bit like the bubonic plague to me.
Filed under: Astrology stuff, Inheritance & Wills, self-absorbed parents, Uncategorized | Tags: Conditional Love, Unconditional Love
A Yahoo/Huffington Post article and video of Warren Buffett giving advice for his success in life.
This is a great introduction to my next phase of development post which, in my opinion, represents the most difficult age/phase for a child going through a traumatic event like a divorce because it mixes up the idea of what the Moon and Saturn represent in Astrology. In a very basic phrasing, the Moon represents Unconditional Love and Saturn represents Condtional Love. Both are essential for well being in the world, of course. Kids who receive nothing but unconditional love from their parents without the setting of boundaries and conditions often have problems with drugs/alcohol/crime, etc.
But, Buffett says here that he feels the greatest gift his Father gave him was Unconditional Love, the feeling that he could always have something to come back to. The way that these two elements blend in a person's life is very important to watch. Saturn represents setting Goals and achievement. But, Saturn is often called the Taskmaster and the Devil because the lessons he sets for us are often to difficult for us to succeed in. There is often a lack of feeling or tolerance which turns into a fear of failure. A child who has to try to deal with Saturn without also having use of the riches of the Moon won't be able to pick himself up and move on in life after a failure. There has to be that sense of trust which occurs deep down in the unconscious. And the Moon is the unconscious (Saturn calls it insanity, but that's because Saturn is a jerk).
So, Divorce represents the ideas of Venus, Pluto, Uranus and Neptune in a person's life. Obviously not represented by the Moon and Saturn which are the basic building blocks of what an individual needs to get ahead in the world. If the parents don't function the way they ought to, then the step-parents are going to be extra evil. If the child doesn't develop that feeling deep down in his soul that he can have something to fall back on that will catch him, he will probably never take risks needed to get ahead. The "Happy" that is associated with Venus, the Sun and Uranus, doesn't happen unless the Moon and Saturn are deeply secure within a person. That's where the parents who divorce are screwing up.
Buffett's advice is also highly hypocritical when matched against his life. He never divorced his first wife but lived apart from her since the middle 1970s. He lived with another woman since that time and married her after his first wife died in 2004. He has disowned one of his son's children.
So, there you go, we're stuck in the middle of a bunch of big experiments where nobody in the end really knows what is right and what is wrong. And, it's important to pay attention to the fact that people who mess up by marrying the wrong person the first time around don't repeat the same mistakes the second and third times around. The hypocrisy that some parents show in their family lives doesn't go away just because they divorce. It's important to state that because I know a lot of people out there who justify their own divorces by saying that they don't want to be unhappy like their parents. Generally we fall back into the same stupid traps the second time around in relationships.
Filed under: Abandonment, creativity, Exemplary Children of Divorce, Inheritance & Wills, money, Suicide
English fashion icon Isabella Blow was a Child of Divorce. Blow was a magazine editor, muse and stylist for major fashion designers. She became famous for wearing eccentric hats. She said it was "to keep everyone away from me." How Child of D' ish.
Blow related much of her personal problems to problems from childhood. When she was 4 years old her younger brother drowned in a swimming pool. Her parents' marriage slowly fell apart after that. They separated in 1972 when Blow was 14 years old. The parents divorced 2 years later when she would have been around 16 years old.
She said that her Mother, a Lawyer, left her with her 2 younger sisters by "shaking each daughter by the hand." Children of Divorce learn early on that it's difficult to say Good-Bye.
I believe that both parents remarried. Blow didn't get along with her Father's new wife and daughters and worked for years at low wage jobs to support herself.
Blow's life shows several other difficult rejections, possibly due to her struggle with Bipolar illness. Alexander McQueen was one of the designers whose careers she built up. He ignored her after he became successful. Isabella's Father disinherited her. She found out that she couldn't have children and then was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer. Blow's first marriage ended in divorce. Her second marriage was difficult.
Blow was severely depressed during her last years and tried to kill herself at least a couple of times. In 2006 she told her friends that she was going shopping, but instead drank a bottle of weedkiller and ended her life. Her husband's Father had also committed suicide in this way.
Filed under: Death of a Parent, Inheritance & Wills, money
Fighting over the Will of a dead parent is a big deal in any family. It often tears people apart. At any rate, death of a parent can bring out an interesting side of siblings that one never knew was there. Grief counselors will explain that a death can rearrange entire family relationships all over again.
I've written some posts about dealing with sick and dying parents who are divorced but haven't published them. My parents were both dying from Lung Cancer at the same time. That was hell. Two completely different households. When a parent is single the kids have to take over. The other parent is off having a good time. In my case my Mother got sick first. My Father got sick a couple of years after. They died within a year of each other.
But the classic awful story of inheritance is of the Step-Parent who takes all the money. I know this because it happened to me. It was clear that this would happen so I never fought. My Step-Mother had been kicked out of a Country Club by the wives who were tired of watching her go after their husbands. Then she kept coming over to my house, supposedly to pick up her daughter who was my friend. Money was pretty much the only thing that this woman wanted. My Father's extremely successful business failed after he got involved with her.
Because this happened to me I always hear stories the greedy step-parent stories. They are told quickly and efficiently. Having a step-parent in the family always seems to add that detached, efficiency thing to all emotional relationships. Step-parents can take advantage of this situation very easily and in my experience they generally do. The biological parent gets tired of hearing about how manipulative his kids are and how they never call for anything but money and eventually sides with the Step-Parent. So, this is a very common story. The illness and death of the parent can be devastating. And the strange and unusual loyalties within the family and of feeling loved become even stranger through the intense feelings of the grieving process. I suppose if a child is used to being batted around back and forth through court proceedings and alimony and child support trauma another fight in this regard may not affect some kids.
My advice is: do it. Fight. The parents' possessions are their last message to you. The Lawyers like to watch this stuff happen. They wil fight in the Divorce Courts for years, but they like to let the kids know that they don't deserve any possessions of their parents. They bring up the Spoiled Child image. Call a zillion lawyers if you have to to find one that will find the loophole in the law. Don't worry about the lawyers who humiliate you into meekness.
Inheritance actually gets more complicated than that. My Father had been prominent in his field and I googled his name one day a few years ago to see if anything had been written about him. I found a website asking for information about him. I could only add a bit of information. All of his papers had gone to his wife and had probably been used as fuel for a bonfire at a beach party. Most of his work is now lost. Since most of my childhood experience of him was as the workaholic father who never came home this is strongly embedded in my love for him. His wife only wanted the money and the prestige and the long trips around Europe. I assume that his work failure after his involvement with her was an embarassment to her. Actually, I don't think she probably gave any thought to it one way or another because she was so selfish. I've also found that my ex-step-brother runs a pawn shop. No doubt the jewelry that was left for me by my ancestors in a safety deposit box were his first sales.
Filed under: indifferent parents, Inheritance & Wills, money
The Sunday San Jose Mercury News was just brimming today with interesting articles to link to. The link below discusses talking with parents about their finances and last wishes. People who grew up in split homes are likely to have grown up observing really intense negotiations over finances so this is either easier to do with their parents because it's familiar behavior, or it will bring up long lost stress over having watched the fighting.
Just wait until the parents get old, sick and infirm. You've got two sets of them to care for. Each set doesn't acknowledge that the other set exists. Talk about a lonely existence and feelings of being used. After all, if you grew up in a divorced family you already know that you received less parenting than people who didn't.
Now you've also got their Spouses to fight with over who gets what. This is already a taboo subject, very difficult to discuss. People don't want to discuss their Death. The don't want to discuss their stuff and their money. They've already spent an entire Divorce or two fighting over that. The step-parents will accuse the kids of being selfish if they bring the subject up. And just try having to face doing it twice!!! If the parents are remarried the kids at least will have less responsibility for their care.
Parents don't understand that how they write their Wills and what they leave to their Children is their last statement to them and ultimately to the world. The kids won't talk about being disinherited but it is an extremely humiliating and cold statement for a parent to make to his/her kid.
Someone called up my brother and I to ask about our Father. My brother's response was "I don't have anything to share about him. He didn't even leave me a pencil. Forget about him." (And then he gave a very nice statement). My Father's career will be almost forgotten. His papers, which have probably become collectible, were all left to his wife who no doubt threw everything out that she couldn't get some money out of.
The article is called: "Talk with parents about their finances, last wishes." by Pamela Yip. http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9868273


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The picture below is of the Microsoft Sidewinder X6, a largely forgotten gaming keyboard from Microsoft.
It was, and still is, close to being the best gaming keyboard ever made. Why?
- A swappable numeric keypad that can be turned into a macro pad means that MMO players are happy.
- Convenient macro keys close to the WASD cluster so FPS players can have their fun as well
- It has a red backlight that does not ruin your night vision, it also looks less tacky then blue backlights which are starting to have a backlash against their overuse.
- The backlight's brightness can be easily adjusted through the left knob up on top. This makes it really simple to just twist the knob and turn off the backlight before going to bed. No strange key combination to remember.
- There is a volume control knob, for lighting quick changes in volume level, no pounding on the Vol- key while your ears are getting blasted.
- A full set of media playback keys, meaning there are no strange hotkeys or function+key combinations to remember.
Now, that said, this keyboard is not perfect. It does not have N-Key Rollover. which is very very unfortunate. The keyboard that came after it, the Sidewinder X4, has amazing NKRO and red backlighting, but is otherwise a very utilitarian keyboard. This fits its role as a low cost gaming keyboard, but it entered into a very crowded market and it didn't really taken the world by storm.
The other problem with the X6 is that the high end gaming keyboard market has moved on. The current big thing is Cherry MX switches of various types. Right now only a few manufactures are making gaming keyboards with Cherry MX switches, and with the exception of Corsair's Vengeance series, all the Cherry MX gaming keyboards are fairly spartan in their feature offerings. Many of them do not even have media control keys and the vast majority have the same styling as regular cheap PC pack-in keyboards.
I believe that when you take into consideration all these factors (Microsoft's excellent design work on the X6 and the lack of real competitors in this product space) that Microsoft is in a great position to enter into and dominate the market for high end gaming keyboards.
How? Quite simple: Release an updated version of the Sidewinder X6 with NKRO that uses Cherry MX switches. Offer it in two SKUs, one with Brown switches and one with Red. (The CherryMX brown sku could even have a limited production run, but it would serve the purpose of getting excellent press amongst enthusiasts.)
This would immediately place Microsoft's offering at the top of the pack for Cherry MX gaming keyboards by offering more features than any other gaming keyboard of comparable quality. The X6's design was already great, and re-released and updated it has the potential to be the best gaming keyboard sold by anyone.
The second aspect of this is doing a proper marketing campaign. Thankfully there are so few CherryMX gaming keyboards out on the market right now that getting reviewers to take a look at your product is comparably easy, as is building up a good grassroots base on forums. If MS sets out full throttle on both paths, top down and ground up, a new CherryMX X6 should be well received by a community that eagerly awaits the latest high quality products.


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Less than a week ago, Motorola updated its ICS upgrade timeline, moving back the tentative release timeframes for many devices. Among those was the Atrix 2, which got its status pushed from "Q3 of 2012" to "further plans coming soon." Initially, that didn't leave us with any sort of good thought, but it looks like we were wrong.
Motorola just released the changelog and other installation information to its My Moto Care site, indicating that the update is indeed coming much sooner than we anticipated. So soon, in fact, that the initial soak test has already begun rolling out.
As shown in both the changelog and the above screenshot, this will bump the Atrix 2 up to Android 4.0.4, with a build number of 67.21.125. This update brings numerous new features with it, including a whole new look, improved lockscreen, folder support, enhanced notifications, improved settings, and all the other great things that come along with ICS.
For those who have already gotten the soak build, hope you're enjoying your new ICS-ified handset! All other Atrix 2 owners should sit tight, the update should begin rolling out to everyone shortly.
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…a night devoid of starsUnaccompanied Euphonium or Trumpet
…a night devoid of stars is a collection of three, short, reflective pieces for unaccompanied euphonium, each inspired by
the writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., specifically the following passage from "Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos or
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie,
nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence
merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a
night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate:
only love can do that.
…a night devoid of stars was commissioned by, and dedicated to, American euphonium soloist, Aaron Tindall. The
composition is equally suited to the euphonium or the trumpet (Or the flugel horn).


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My Review:
I went to the Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes at the Corcoran last week and when I say it was AMAZING; It really was. The pictures that I am putting up will do no justice as oppose to going to see it. Her inspiration was landscapes. There is one landscape that is made out of all pieces of wood and it is indescribable. Another is one made out of wire and it makes you almost able to feel what it would be like to be underwater.
Enjoy the pictures =)


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Good afternoon, how are you ?
You have a great game "Fantasy" ... But look at a way to improve ... What is currently lacking is a game manager, similar to the console ... Offline and with real teams, since others who are similar are very well classified "SC 2018" has problems with the market ... But, you could do an equal
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Hi @Felipe,
Thanks for your suggestion. I'll share it with the team to take into account for future versions. For any additional suggestions you have, please kindly send them in our "Suggestions" thread so we can keep all suggestions together.
- Brino
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So I've showed you quite a few of the rooms in our house (and you can see most of them on this page), but I always find it helpful to see how a house is laid out- so many times I picture someone's house laid out completely different than it really is- pictures are often so deceiving!! So I messed around with floorplanner the other day, and came up with a rough drawing of how our house is laid out. This program was fairly simple to use, and it had decent amount of things for me to choose from to put in the various rooms. These pictures are by no means perfect- and the scale is off because I was
too lazy to get didn't have the measurements of each room/window/door.
Here's the main level:
Basically you come in the front door and there is a bedroom off the left (that's an exercise machine in there, FYI- yeah, was having a little fun with all the extra things I could add!). The stairs to the 2nd story are directly in front of you. The bedroom has a walk-in closet and a bathroom that also connects to the office. The living room is long and rectangular. The kitchen and dining room are connected and the deck is directly off the dining room. Through the kitchen is the laundry room, and then the garage (which we only keep a car and lawnmower in, according to my picture- ha). Our bottom floor is basically a big circle- which is often confusing for some people.
A funny story- the first night in our new house, Tim and Jackson went up the stairs to go to bed. Ellie was being wild and zooming around- and she had never seen stairs before this house. She watched Jackson go up the stairs, but instead of following him up, she ran around to the dining room and stood waiting for him to come out in there!! Silly girl.
Anyway- speaking of, here's the second story:
As you go up the stairs you end up in front of the bathroom, with a bedroom on either side. We made the left hand bedroom our master bedroom because we were afraid if we didn't, we'd never go upstairs!! Plus it's warm and cozy in the winter. Both bedrooms have large closets (we are not lacking in closet space in this house). There is a little storage space off our bedroom closet. And a dormer in each bedroom.
And that's it- all 1900 square feet! Just the right amount of space for us and our 5 fur kids! I love that we have enough extra space to have family and friends stay over. I know that will change one day when we have non-fur children, but for now we have 3 extra rooms worth of space. We had 5 friends come stay with us this summer and every one had their own room- it was awesome.
Did the layout surprise you or was this how you pictured our house? Have you used Floorplanner before?


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It is almost 10 years since the Global Surgical Safety Checklist has become a policy in all operating theatres. It was perhaps one of the most radical culture changes in surgery that promoted and ensured a new way of patient safety in the operating theatres.
The WHO surgical safety checklist was derived from airline practices that include promotion of team working, leadership and minimise errors due Human Factor.
It consists of 5 principle stages:
Team Briefing:
this happens at the beginning of the surgical list. Surgeons, Anaesthetists and rest of the team members introduce themselves and their roles. They confirm the order the theatre list, main issues of each case, necessary equipment and critical moments of each case.
Sign in:
This happens before patient receives anaesthesia. By involving the patient, the Anaesthetic team ensure that right patient is having the right procedure at the right site and that patient understood the consent. It is also time to ascertain about allergies and last meal. Team ascertain monitoring is applied before anaesthesia starts.
Time out:
This happens just before knife to skin or start of the surgical procedure. The Anaesthetic team together with rest of the team carry out the rest of checks that include patient safety during surgery, critical moments during surgery, the amount of blood loss and whether there were arrangements for blood transfusion. It is also time to ascertain whether patient has antibiotic for infection prevention if they are indicated.
Sign out:
This happens at the end of the procedure before patient is transferred to the recovery area. Checks include name of the procedure, whether there were any complications and special care after the procedure.
this happens at the end of operating list. The team members discuss good and bad things that happen during the surgical list. Any lessons to be learned and whether there are incidents to be reported to the management. They thank each other and make close to the list.
The WHO surgical safety checklist has become a policy in many countries for many years. It has proven to save lives and improve patient care. It has also shown to improve theatre productivity and save money. Completing the checklist does not cost much apart from getting the team member together.
In Countries like the United Kingdom, the WHO surgical safety checklist has been mandatory in all Hospitals and has been extended to other specialities other than surgical one. For example, Radiology, Intervention Radiology, Endoscopy suites and cardiac laboratories have produced their own safety checklists.
As we are about celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Checklist, one would argue that patients who do not benefit of such practice are denied basic quality care.
Embedding the practice within an organisation is not taxing. It does need support, education and systems to enforce it to become second nature practice. 'For Better Health' has accompanied organisation to establish that practice and would be delighted to assist any other organisation to do the same.
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are you familiar with this " our company pays averagely the same as our competitor?"
Regardless the use of "average" in above sentence is intentional or simply out of misunderstanding, it is wrong to use only it for representing a population or a group of data.
I've been amazed that until today, many people is still using just "average" or "mean" as the representation of a set of data. And more people just take it without question. With the widespread use of spreadsheet, we have to be better than that.
"Average" could be misleading, because it does not tell us the distribution of the data or population. I'll show you why.
Imagine there are two company: Company A and Company B, each has 10 employees (to make it simple). In below table, I list the salary of each employee. NOW, you can see that the AVERAGE of employees salary for Company A equals to Company B. But, you know they are NOT the SAME, don't you?
When the sample is only 10 data points, you can see with your eyes that there are difference. But if the data points are more than 200, you need other tool.
In this case, standard devation can help.
Standard deviation shows the variation of data in one group. For instance, in Company B, there is one employee (maybe the CEO) who has very high salary while there are several employees are paid less than 4; it means, the variance is high–> shown by the higher standard deviation vs. Company A.
Hence, while the average salary is the same, Company B does not pay employees similar to Company B.
In summary, whenever you hear someone tell you that average X equals to average Y, you need to ask "what is the standard deviation?". You need to see whether the variance is also similar and whether there is an outlier that drag the average up or down.
basic principle: you should know the shape/distribution of data, standard deviation and the average/median for making a simple conclusion of data


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THE DINING REPORT – Old Salt Marketplace
But Perfectly New Food
As Portland is now famous for its farm to table food ethic and its often unconventional approach to restauranteering (food trucks, pop-ups) it's no surprise we are now seeing places like Old Salt Marketplace on the scene. What could be better than a space that has a deli, cafe, butcher shop, farmer's market, bar, commissary kitchen, cooking school and quality restaurant all in the same space? Old Salt is the vision of Ben Meyer (Grain and Gristle) and Alex Ganum (Upright Brewing). According to Meyer, formerly of Ned Ludd, his idea was to open the type of establishment he wanted to see in his neighborhood, a place to stop in and grab the fixings for a meal at home, where you can also buy an already prepared meal to go, or even just sit down and eat or have a drink at the bar. Old Salt opened in early May, and the droves came immediately to their unique space. Somewhat similar to Ned Ludd with their wood burning oven, the Old Salt Supper house does most of their cooking in an open hearth, sort of like a fireplace. Where the cooking at Ned Ludd is Industrial Revolution Revolt style, the style of cuisine at Old Salt is billed as Colonial cookery, and the deli extensively features American products. There is also a heavy emphasis on butchery, supplying the meat market, Old Salt Supperhouse, and Grain and Gristle.
N.E. 42nd Avenue, in the Cully and Concordia neighborhoods, isn't an area I am particularly familiar with. Basically you go there if you live around there, or you need something there. In the past ten or so years I have driven down 42nd a couple of times (which is a lot compared to none) so I knew the easiest way to get there, but was surprised how quiet and neighborhoody the street is around Alberta; I thought it was a wider and more traveled boulevard. Old Salt was easy to find, and when you have a reservation as early as ours (5:30) it is easy to park. I read somewhere later that Old Salt doesn't take reservations, but when I called up for one, they certainly had no problem giving me one, the only stipulations the somewhat unpleasant 5:30 PM or 9:00 PM. Although they offer a million "services" at this modern day marketplace, the dining area at Old Salt isn't really very large, and we actually sat in the meat market/deli side, not on the bar side where most people looked to be, so I can see why they would offer limited group reservations. Almost all the time we were there, people were queueing up by the door to eat. (more…)


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Of Oil Spills and Black Holes
Update 2 (March 19, 2013): I was recently asked to discuss this issue with the Blacklock's Reporter Digest, you can read my comments from that interview here.
Update (March 1, 2013): After I posted this blog, issuing a press release as well as facebook and twitter messages in advance of last Thursday's Natural Resource Committee meeting, the Conservative committee chair and the parliamentary secretary (an MP who acts as the Minister's representative on the committee), in a surprising move, decided to allow me to present my motion briefly, in public, at the beginning of the meeting. My motion was voted down with all Conservative MPs against, and all Opposition MPs for. After the committee meeting, I approached the parliamentary secretary (David Anderson) who said that, in the future, he would be willing to allow brief public presentations and votes on motions at the beginning of meetings. Did the effort to publicize secret in camera meetings make a difference? I hope so, though we'll never know for sure. I plan to continue to present motions that I think will be important and useful for the committee to consider.
As the world was reminded during the disastrous BP Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, drilling for oil in deep ocean waters is a risky business. Canadians rightfully expect their governments to take all necessary steps to make such drilling as safe as possible, and to be fully prepared for any accidents.
Canada's oil and natural gas exploration and drilling off the Atlantic coast are regulated by two Offshore Petroleum Boards, one representing Newfoundland and Labrador and one representing Nova Scotia. Both are joint federal-provincial bodies.
I was alarmed to learn that the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, in his report to Parliament earlier this month, said that the Offshore Petroleum Boards are not adequately prepared to deal with a major oil spill off the Atlantic coast. Specifically, the Commissioner cited poorly coordinated plans, unresolved jurisdictional issues, inadequate testing and insufficient oil spill response tools.
In my capacity as the permanent Liberal Party member of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources and the Liberal Critic for Natural Resources, I have put on notice and will soon be tabling a motion to invite officials of the two Offshore Petroleum Boards to appear before the Committee to tell us how they will respond to the Commissioner's report, and to have the Committee report its findings to the House by June 2013.
Will the Conservative and NDP members of the Natural Resources Committee support my motion? Or will my motion disappear into the black hole of a secret (a.k.a. "in camera") committee meeting, its consideration never to be part of the public record? The conduct of conducting most committee business meetings (and all committee business meetings of the Natural Resources Committee) in secret to discuss and vote on motions has become the norm under the majority government elected in 2011. In that case Canadians will never know why the committee chose or did not choose to work on a particular topic and who was responsible for that decision. Motions from opposition MPs are usually voted down by the Conservative majority and may never even be publicly tabled. Once the committee goes into a secret "in camera" session, no MPs in attendance are allowed to discuss the proceedings afterwards.
This is why I've posted this blog.
I believe that my motion is proper, timely and relevant. I will try to convince Conservative members of the committee why it is in their interests as well as the national interest to support my motion and I fervently hope it will pass. But if my motion is voted down in another secret meeting, I want my constituents to know exactly what I tried to do on this important issue. I can only tell you in advance, not after the fact.
To comment on this blog, please leave your remarks on my facebook posting: https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/TedHsuMP/posts/137063353137396
On Feb. 14, I gave notice to the clerk of the Committee on Natural Resources for the following motion:
That, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), given the concerns raised in the 2012 Fall Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, the Committee further study the issues raised in Chapter 1; that the respective Chairs and officials of the two Atlantic offshore petroleum boards (Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board and Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board) be invited to appear before the Committee, and that the Committee report its findings to the House by June 2013.


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I have been reminded of a truth. It is an obvious truth, and yet I think it is nice to be reminded of it when we forget and get caught up in thinking that everyone's life runs the same course as everyone else's.
It is true that we all are born. And yet, I bet every single mother that went into labor has her own unique story of how each child's journey began and ultimately played out in birth, hopefully swaddled with love and wrapped safely in its mother's arms.
It is true that most of us are blessed to pass through the next phase of life called childhood. We learn to walk, to talk, to interact, to discover ice cream, to learn joy.
Yet my childhood couldn't possibly have been the same as yours, even though we shared many of the same experiences.
Did you find love? So did I. Yet how fun it is to hear of each person's unique pathway to discovering it.
No one's proposal story is the same.
No one's path is the same. Of the billions of people that fill the earth, each lives a unique life.
So why bring up this obvious truth?
So that we will STOP COMPARING OURSELVES TO OTHERS!
It is an invalid argument, invalid worry, invalid boast, invalid anything to think for one moment that our unique life can or should be compared with someone else's.
Rejoice in your life with all of its facets that shine because they are your's alone.
If your life isn't following what would seem "normal", celebrate that! Why would you want to have the same life as anyone else?
Every person I meet has their own story, as do I.
And I would love to hear about your's.


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The color challenge today is to use Soft Suede, Teal, and Celery. Great combo, isn't it??
I just got a new cb folder, one of four in a set by Provocraft. The big one is a checkerboard pattern, and this one of bricks (?) has a real Asian feel to it.
I used my markers on Art Of Life, still one of my favorite sets, and crimped a piece of celery, which was the "dessert" of the challenge. I had a great piece of ribbon to match. How cool is that?
This is my entry for MMTPT88. The story is pretty involved, but my response to the story is this:
Frazzle, the rooster at McCoy's Farm is panic-struck to think he may lose his job. Frizzle is out behind the barn teaching the hens to "rap", and their nests are empty. Normally they lay 42,00 eggs, but today there are only 17! Maybe Frazzle needs to learn "rap" to get those girls back where they belong, but everyone knows they lay more eggs when the music is soothing. Here's the RAP for the card (with apologies to your sensibilities).
Behind the barn
Learnin' how to rap
Layin' those eggs
Is really no snap.
Frazzle can't do it.
He needs them girls.
Losin' his job's
The end a his world!
Send Frizzle back.
Fill those nests.
Heck with that rap,
Muzak's the best!!


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Happy Friday everyone!
I know I say this all this time, but this has to be my favorite DIY of all time and for various reasons. #1 it took me less than four hours to make and that includes cutting and sewing time
#2 it has been a perfect wear for this crazzzzzy humid weather we've been having lately
#3 The stripes are so perfect, I wish I had left over fabric
But i have always loved shift dresses but could never find one that was perfect for my body type, so I decided to make one.
I picked up this fabric for $2.97 a yard from my fave local fabric store and knew that i wanted to play with the stripes so I mixed it up horizontally and vertically. I must say, it came out perfectly. I wore it to a craft event and everyone was asking me what pattern I used. Like you know, this dress was made without a pattern and i drafted directly on my fabric just because i'm lazy like that.
I paired it with my favorite heels right now, these uber feminine rhinestone bow heels. I love these shoes for two reasons, they're so beautiful and they're comfy, that's a home run in my book.
I am looking forward to making more shift dresses with even more creative hems and sleeves! Stay tuned guys! I can't wait!
Dress (DIY) ~ Heels (here) ~ Bag (Gifted)
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