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Chankaska Creek Winery Blog
Get into the Spirit of Summer with Chankaska's Wine and Spirits
If the rising temperatures are causing you to spend more time indoors and less time enjoying your favorite summer festivities, a relaxing drive to Chankaska Creek Ranch & Winery may help you beat the heat!
Home to stunning vineyards, a delicious restaurant, and an incredible selection of award-winning wines and spirits, Chankaska's winery has something special for everyone. From tours of our gorgeous party venues and distillery to tantalizing wine and spirit tastings, you'll have everything you need to enjoy the summer season—all in one unique location.
In a recent blog post, we shared some professional wine tasting tips. To continue this tradition, and also help you prepare for your upcoming trip to our distillery—where you can partake in a variety of incredible small-batch brandy, whiskey, gin, and "Hard Hops" beer-based spirits—here are some fun spirit tasting tips:
Remember This is a Tasting, Not a Shot:
For many people, when they're handed a shot of bourbon, whisky, or gin, their natural reaction is to consume it in one determined gulp. When you're spirit tasting, you'll want to avoid this tendency. Instead, take a moment to look its texture and color. Like a wine tasting, you'll want to appreciate its features first, such as its consistency, smell, and taste.
Keep the Glass at a Distance:
As you'll want to smell the spirit to identify its unique aromas, be sure to hold the glass a short distance from your nose. Be careful not to dip your nose in the glass and inhale, as this will burn your nostrils and disrupt your tasting experience. The trick is to inhale away and gently.
Sip Water In-between Tastings:
Whiskey, gin, brandy, and bourbon can taste smooth and delicious, but they're also a bit of a shock to the system, especially if you're not used to tasting spirits. Some experts recommend that you sip the spirit and then swish the reminder around in your mouth before spitting it out. This allows you to prep your palate for the second sip. You can also add water to dilute it, if you find that it's too strong for you. Another great idea is to drink water in-between tastings.
Take a trip to Chankaska's winery today to learn more about our distillery and Minnesota vineyards! When you arrive, visit our tasting room for a delicious sampling and experience for yourself why our wine and spirits have earned top regional reputation.
Give the Gift of Wine with Great Ideas from Your Local Winery
Wine, with all its diverse characteristics, is the perfect gift for every special event. Whether it's a birthday, wedding shower, or friendly gathering, wine gifts never go out of style and can be customized to suit any occasion or person you're buying for.
To help you find the perfect present for your friend or family member, here are some creative gift ideas from the wine experts at Chankaska Creek Ranch & Winery.
Wine Journal: If you're buying a gift for a wine connoisseur, a wine journal is both thoughtful and original. It will enhance the person's wine tasting experience, as well as encourage the person to explore different types of grapes and vineyards.
Wine Books and Magazines: If the person is an avid reader then purchasing a wine book or a subscription to a popular wine magazine is a great way to introduce he or she to wine culture and learn about its growing industry.
Wine Gift Certificate: If you don't know the person's wine preference, a gift certificate to an award-winning winery is sure to do the trick. Chankaska's winery offers delicious wine tastings, stunning scenery, wine tours, and an impressive selection of wines and spirits to satisfy every palette.
Wine Gift Basket: Wine gift baskets make ideal gifts for unique events, and you can easily customize them to match a person's personality and taste preferences. For example, if the person enjoys red wine, pair it with a sharp cheese and berry jam to balance its flavors.
Gifted Wine Circle Memberships: A gifted membership for Chankaska's Wine Circle offers incredible benefits. It includes free tastings for two, specials on bottles and glasses of wine, and discounts on cases and merchandise. Members also receive invites to exclusive events with special ticket pricing. Learn more about Chankaska's Gifted Wine Circle memberships and how they make the best gift for the wine enthusiast in your life.
Attending a wedding this summer? Give your favorite newlyweds the perfect wedding day present. Contact Chankaska winery today to learn more about our wine gift baskets that are available in a variety of styles. Visit our Minnesota vineyards or fill out this form to create your custom wine gift basket in time for the big day!
Wine Pairing 101: Learn How to Pair Wine and Food Like a Master
Pairing the right wine with a spicy entree or a salty dessert can be challenging. Many of us stick to the old trick of pairing red wine with red meat and reserving our white wine for fish or chicken dishes. But having a clearer picture of why certain wine characteristics pair better with different food groups will help you master the technique of wine pairing and discover new favorites along the way.
Before you learn the basics of wine pairing, however, you'll want to know the difference between contrasting pairings and congruent pairings:
Contrasting pairings simply mean that you're creating a balance between juxtaposing flavors. Take, for example, salty vs. acidic. It's very common to pair a Thai dish containing soy sauce with an acidic wine like Riesling or a smoked salmon with champagne. That's because the contrast between salty foods and acidic white wines creates a unique, complementary flavor that leaves you wanting more.
Congruent pairings are when you match flavors according to their similarities. A popular example of this is pairing a creamy alfredo dish with a full-bodied chardonnay to bring out the richness of the sauce. Of course, you'll want to be cautious with this type of pairing as some similarities between wines and food won't always create a perfect match. Consider dark chocolate against a high tannin red wine. The dryness of the red wine will clash with the tannins of the dark chocolate, leaving a bitter and sour taste on your tongue.
Now that you know the difference between wine pairings, here are a few tips to help you find the best wines to compliment your favorite foods:
- Always pair full-bodied wines with heavier foods
- Match your wine pairing to the sauce, not the entree
- Pair earthy wines, like Pinot Noir, with earthy ingredients
- Wine should always be sweeter than the dessert you're serving
- Wines with high tannins are better matched with textured foods
Ready to test your new wine pairing skills? Visit Chankaska Creek's vineyard and winery and experience our award-winning selection of delicious, hand-crafted wines and spirits. We also offer a mouthwatering food menu filled with savory appetizers and entrees you can enjoy with a glass of wine or wine tasting amid stunning views of the Southern Minnesota River Valley.
Visit our winery in Minnesota today and discover how nothing pairs better with wine than a relaxing atmosphere and good friends.
Find Your Perfect Wine: Wine Tasting and Exploration Tips from the Experts
Dry, semi-dry, light-bodied, or bold, wines take on many characteristics that either excite your taste buds or leave them feeling bitter. The truth is finding the perfect wine that pleases your palette can be tricky, but with a few simple tips, you'll quickly discover that finding the right wine is really a matter of knowing which flavors compliment your palate's personality.
Use the Past as a Starting Point
Think about the last glass of wine you enjoyed and recall its features. Was it a red wine or a white wine? Did it leave a smooth finish or a tangy bite? Would you describe it as light-bodied or medium? Let's imagine it was a red wine with a smooth finish. This most likely means it contained low acid and low tannin. You can now use this knowledge as a starting point in your search. Food and Wine offers a great resource for matching your flavor preferences to wines that share the same characteristics.
Compare Wines with Your Favorite Foods
Another tip is to think about your eating habits. For example, when ordering dessert, do you choose a creamy scoop of vanilla ice cream over a fruity sorbet? If you prefer the sorbet, your wine preference is likely leaning toward a light-bodied Pinot Grigio or a sweet Riesling. For more ideas on how to compare foods to wine flavors, visit winefolly.com.
Put Your Taste Buds to the Test
One of the best ways to discover new wines and figure out which flavors satisfy your taste buds is to go out there and actually try them. Chankaska's winery offers a unique tasting room, where you get to sample a wide selection of distinctive wines and spirits and learn more about the grapes that are used during our hand-crafted wine-making process. The expert staff at our Minnesota vineyards is available to answer your questions and guide you to the right selection of wines based off your tasting experience.
By using these few tips, you'll be on your way to becoming an expert on finding the wines you love.
Get That Perfect Winery Wedding with Chankaska Creek's Vineyards and Event Spaces
While the holidays may be the most popular time to get engaged, spring is certainly wedding planning season. Don't let the stress set in as you work to choose dates, colors, and all the details that come with your wedding. Chankaska Creek is an award-winning event venue that promises you a picturesque wedding, incredibly supportive staff, and a wine selection that will be remembered for years!
No matter the season, our Minnesota vineyards make a beautiful backdrop to your day. Our outdoor wedding venues include the Creekside Tent, right on the bank of Chankaska Creek and surrounded by a canopy of trees, and the Forest, which takes your guests over a bridge to an open-air tiered ceremony space. View our gallery for stunning photography and a taste of these breathtaking wedding locations.
For receptions and indoor ceremonies, Chankaska also has fantastic options. If you follow our blog or our social media posts, you know we're expanding our indoor event space with a spectacular new building. Featuring a large space able to accommodate 350 guests – plus two private patios, a fire pit, a bar and lounge, and private rooms for the bridal party – this new space is literally built with your wedding in mind.
Beyond the venue, our event staff draws from decades of expertise to make your day go as smoothly as possible. With an on-staff, on-site Event Director and her team, everything is taken care of, from setup and security to games and, of course, an amazing selection of wine.
I don't even know where to begin when reviewing Chankaska as they far exceeded any expectations we had. First of all, Chankaska is one of our favorite local wineries because of its sheer beauty and perfectly crafted wines. This charming winery is meticulously landscaped while maintaining a laidback atmosphere… Every single staff member we encountered during our planning process with Chankaska was professional, helpful, and personable. That brings me to the winery's Event and Marketing Director, Karen. Karen was an absolute joy to work with and ensured everything on our wedding day was carefully and thoughtfully planned. Her high levels of expertise, organization, and open communication throughout the entire planning process allowed us to be able to truly enjoy our wedding day. On the day of our wedding, she ensured everything ran smoothly between all of our vendors and routed all questions/concerns providing a worry-free and relaxing day not only for us but for our guests as well. Our guests still compliment on how beautiful our wedding was at Chankaska! – Brittany
If you're interested in a winery wedding at Chankaska Creek, let's talk! Our event venues and supportive staff earned us The Knot's Best of Weddings award last year, and we anticipate keeping that record going. We're filling up for 2018 fall weddings, but still have a few available dates. And we're already getting reservations for 2019, so now is the time to book your big day! Connect with our team at email@example.com for more details.
What Can You Do in Chankaska's New Event Venue?
Looking for the perfect place for your wedding reception? Need a fun venue for a corporate outing? Planning a special birthday party? This summer, find the perfect setting for your big occasion with Chankaska's new event space.
Surrounded by our Minnesota vineyards and stunning landscapes, the event center will feature statement chandeliers, exposed wood, and abundant natural lighting – not to mention multiple outdoor areas to enjoy. Function complements form with lounges and suites for your VIPs.
Join us on Facebook to follow along with updates as we watch the event center being built! We broke ground in September and our team and visitors have enjoyed watching the building's progress.
The venue offers two private outdoor patios, a fire pit, a bar and lounge, private suites for bridal parties, and a gorgeous reception hall that can hold up to 350 guests. The versatile space will be open for corporate events, private parties, and weddings as early as June 2018. For larger groups and weddings, this event center can serve as a reception area to complement our tasting rooms, patios, and outdoor wedding venues around the property.
Beyond just providing an event space, Chankaska's expert team can help with event planning, activities and tours, staff and rentals, and, of course, an incredible wine and spirits selection!
Booking has already begun for the center, so if you're ready to pick a spectacular venue for your next event, contact our team to secure your date! Still trying to decide? Come by for a wine tasting and tour to experience everything Chankaska Creek's vineyard and winery has to offer.
The Art of Cold Climate Viticulture
When most people picture a vineyard, chances are that they're picturing California sunshine in Napa Valley or a moderate Mediterranean climate. There's a reason most wine grapes are grown in temperate climates – but we've never backed down from a challenge! Cold climate viticulture is an art, and one that is rapidly growing in Minnesota. The number of wineries in Minnesota has more than doubled in the last decade, and the state now hosts the annual International Cold Climate Wine Competition, where Chankaska has won many awards.
What makes cold climate viticulture so special?
Unique Grape Varieties
Many of the popular grape varieties grown around the world simply aren't suitable for Minnesota's weather. As such, local wineries and agricultural experts from the University of Minnesota have worked on breeding hardier grape vines and hybrids that can survive in the Midwest while still producing delicious wine. Our success has been irrefutable – you'll even find Minnesota-based grape strains in Alaska! This is especially impressive given how young the wine industry is in the region.
Attention to Detail – and Acidity
With new grape varieties come new challenges, however. Minnesota-grown, cold-climate grapes tend to be high in natural acidity, and our winemakers have a short window to create the right balance in taste. This is often achieved through judicious blending or the addition of a small amount of sweeteners, and results in some of the best white wine you can find.
Good, Old-Fashioned Work Ethic
The weather in Minnesota is not only cold for much of the year, but it can be unpredictable. The team at Chankaska is always on alert and watches the vineyards carefully. This is demonstrated through dedicated team members like Jamieson Lindquist, our Grounds and Vineyard Manager, who stayed up all night heat fanning the grapes after an April freeze – and saved the crop!
The wine at Chankaska is truly special, thanks to grape varieties unique to the region and the continued commitment of our expert team. Taste our hard work for yourself by stopping into our tasting room or scheduling a tour of our Minnesota vineyards. We're proud of our winery and hope to share our story with you in person soon!
Beyond Wine: Discover the Spirits of Chankaska
While Chankaska makes an exceptional bottle of wine, our expertise doesn't end there. Inspired by the Prohibition-era speakeasy that originally occupied Chankaska Creek Ranch & Winery, we added a distillery in 2014. Now, in addition to our awarded wines, our visitors can partake in a variety of incredible small-batch brandy, whiskey, gin, and "Hard Hops" beer-based spirits.
Like our wines, our spirits are created through a hands-on, high quality process that begins with an authentic German Still. A double distillation process is employed with calculated aging to ensure the best possible flavor profile for each batch. Precise and perfected, our distillery's process incorporates top ingredients and talent to produce our amazing handcrafted, small-batch spirits.
Our spirits, such as the recently bottled Ranch Road Barrel Gin, are available to try in our tasting room. Come in for a tour of our grounds, one of our live music events, or just to explore the tasting room and experience our wine and spirits:
- Unaged Apple Brandy
- Aged Apple Brandy
- Gin
- Light Whiskey
- Aged Whiskey
- Straight Bourbon Whiskey
- Hard Hops Nut Brown
- Hard Hops Imperial
Discover first hand why Chankaska's wine and spirits have earned its top regional reputation – and why our customers always come back for more. Stop by our Tasting Room to sample our featured wine and spirits and learn more about the distillery and our Minnesota vineyards!
Experience the Best of Chankaska: Join Our Wine Circle!
Whether you're enjoying our beautiful vineyard and winery or sipping our spirits at home, we at Chankaska love being part of your special moments. To provide even better experiences for our loyal customers, we invite you to become a member of our Wine Circle!
What's the Wine Circle?
The Wine Circle is Chankaska's members-only group. As a member, you receive a first look at new and limited edition products, have access to exclusive discounts, and can join members-only events at our Minnesota vineyards. Becoming a member is completely free! After your initial one year commitment, you may cancel at any time with no penalties.
Are there different membership levels?
There are two levels – Wine Circle Classic, and Wine Circle Select. With a Classic membership, you receive four home deliveries of your choice of wine, first access to new and limited production products, 20% off wine purchases, and invitations to member-only events. With a Select membership, you also receive additional discounts and a spot at our biannual VIP parties. Learn more about memberships here!
How do I get the most out of my membership?
In addition to enjoying wine at exclusive prices, our members use their Wine Circle status for amazing events! Be sure to text "winecircle" to 51660 to get notifications of all upcoming parties, music, community events, and more. Your membership will get you everything from complimentary tickets for select events to special seasonal promotions.
Already have and love your membership? Remember that you can buy Wine Circle Memberships as an exceptional gift for any occasion! For any remaining questions you may have, be sure to check out the full FAQ page or contact our MN winery at 507.931.0089.
From Our Grounds to Your Glass: Explore Chankaska's Process
At Chankaska, your experience is our first priority. Whether you're enjoying our wine and spirits in the tasting room, touring our Minnesota vineyards, or savoring a bottle at home, you'll quickly notice the passion and attention to detail that goes into everything we touch.
Growing and Harvesting
The process of creating an exceptional glass of wine starts with the vineyard. Growing grapes in the Midwest requires special care and patience, so our winemakers carefully select the grape varieties that will produce the desired flavors in Minnesota's cool climate. The vines are tended to by our dedicated Grounds and Vineyard Manager until they are ready for harvest. The harvest's timing is determined by the grape's feel, color, and taste, as well as technical lab results for comprehensive analysis. All of our grapes are handpicked at just the right time in the season and even the right time of day to ensure incredible flavor and quality.
Sorting and Preparing
Based on the wine blend being made, grapes are sorted by purity and flavor. Any debris, such as leaves, stems, and raisins, is removed by a vibrating table and additional hands-on time from our staff. Once the grapes are selected and sorted, they are prepared based on the type of wine being made.
Processing Per Type
White, rosé, and red wines are processed differently at our local winery to create the right flavors and aromas. Differences in crushing and juicing, temperature, fermentation and yeast strains, and aging times are all carefully considered when making the perfect white, red, or rosé wine. No matter the type, each wine's development is monitored daily, with the winemakers continually working to balance and perfect each batch.
White, red, or rosé, every wine that comes from our vineyard is carefully tended to from vine to table. This absolutely commitment to quality from the very beginning, along with our team's experience and expertise, is why our customers keep coming back – and why we are one of the most awarded wineries in Minnesota.
If you're interested in knowing more about our process and products, come by for one of our guided vineyard tours! You can walk through the grounds, talk to our winemakers, and learn how each wine was made. Private tastings with a wine educator are also available through our barrel room experience. No matter how you experience Chankaska, we know it will be excellent – we've worked hard to ensure exceptional quality from our grounds to your glass.
Your Day at Chankaska
No two visits to Chankaska are the same. From our inception, our founders believed that our winery should be about your experience first and foremost – and that goes far beyond an exceptional selection of wine and spirits. You're encouraged to engage with our team by visiting the winery, meeting our team, and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. From weddings and corporate events to picnics and live entertainment, you can make your visit to Chankaska exactly what you want.
Our stunning winery features rolling hills, the titular creek, and of course, our perfectly picturesque vineyard. With such a beautiful setting, it's no surprise that many couples choose Chankaska as their wedding venue. Let us accommodate your ceremony, reception, showers, or other celebrations. Working with our experienced team gives you far more than just one of our many wedding venues on the winery. Learn more about our wedding services and event spaces here.
Planning another special event? Try Chankaska for corporate events, birthday parties, weekend conferences, or other group get-togethers. Choose from intimate settings like our barrel room to spacious outdoor sites. Rely on our expertise to make your next event memorable and easy to plan.
You don't need a reason to visit our winery, though. Whether you're planning a date night, catching up with friends, or just looking for a relaxing afternoon outing, Chankaska can deliver. One of the top vineyards in Minnesota, you can come here to:
- Take guided vineyard tours and see the production floor
- Visit the wine tasting room or arrange a private barrel room experience
- Breathe in the view from the tasting deck or enjoy great food by the patio's firepit
- Sip a glass of wine while walking through our sculpture garden
- Play bocce ball or croquet on Chankaska Court
- Shop a unique selection of products from local businesses in our boutique
- Gain access to even more events with a Wine Circle membership
Think you've tried it all? With frequent live entertainment events, including a regular rotation of local and nationally known music groups, there's always something new to enjoy. Check out our favorite food trucks, listen to some jazz, participate in a trail run, or attend a cultural event – there are new things to do being scheduled all the time at Chankaska!
Stay up to date with our Minnesota vineyard's schedule by visiting our events page, following us on social media, or by signing up for text updates.


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Last week in my blog I talked about the different kinds of fences there were and why it is safer for a dog to have a fenced in yard than for them to run free around the town. One of the kinds I mentioned was an invisible fence. Our friend Beauregard reminded us that invisible fences can be very bad for dogs.
Some people like them because they can be lots less expensive than other kinds of fences and since you can't see them, they let you see all of the outside. Some places make rules about what kinds of fences houses can have. Because you can't see an invisible fence they fit the kind of fences those rules say are okay.
An invisible fence sounds nice but it is really an electric fence that gives a dog a shock and makes a screechy noise when he tries to go outside of the fence. Shocks hurt and I don't think hurting is a good way to train a dog. I think there are already enough bad noises like fireworks and thunderstorms so who wants more ugly sounds in the world.
Also the dog needs to be wearing a special collar for the fence to work. That means that other dogs, other animals or even bad peoples can come in the yard and hurt the dog that lives there.
If a dog sees something he really wants to chase or if something scares him enough, he could run real fast right through the invisible fence. He would get a shock but he would already be on the outside. The problem gets worse when he can't get back into the yard. He will walk up to the yard and get a shock and stay on the outside.
One of Mom's friends tried an invisible fence at her house. Her dog got shocked a couple of times and refused to go out of the house. He didn't understand that he could go outside, just not too far. Luckily he only thought it was the front door so they let him out the back door and stopped using the fence.
Our friend Julee reminded me that collars can get caught on fences and could choke a dog so we need to always be careful when we are outside, even when we are fenced in. Caught collars are only one of the reasons I reminded peoples that they need to watch their dogs even though they are in a fenced in area.
I see Dad is ready to go outside to rake the big yard so DixieLee and I will relax in our pen and watch him work. Having a big chain link fenced in yard means we can be outside with Dad and pretty much keep out of trouble. Well, I can. I don't know about DixieLee.
Love your outside friend,
P.S. Blatant self-promotion. For the super bestest pet gift baskets in the universe, stop by pawpalsboutique.com You will be happy you did.

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The PLA Continues Recruitment
Posted by n3wday on March 19, 2009
This article was published on Nepal News.
PLA decides to bulldoze through SC interim order against new recruitment
Flouting Supreme Court's interim order to stop its recruitment process, People's Liberation Army (PLA), the military wing of the ruling Unified CPN (Maoist), has decided to go ahead with its earlier decision to fill up the position that had, according to it, become vacant after the verification team of United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) disqualified many of its combatants mostly because they were underage.
A "General Staff" meeting of the PLA held in Kathmandu Saturday decided to go about the decision on the basis of the applications for "vacant positions" it received before the SC issued an interim order against PLA recruitment saying it goes against the Comprehensive Peace Accord.
Likewise, both the government led by the Maoists and the Army Integration Special Committee (AISC) under whose jurisdiction the PLA comes have already ordered immediate halt to the PLA recruitment process.
Although the SC has already ordered the NA not to conduct new recruitment, it however, upheld the recruitment of some 3000 personnel in NA, stating that the recruitment procedure, which completed before the writ was registered, could not be invalidated.
Observers say that the PLA is also trying to provide the same logic if its decision to conduct new recruitment were challenged.
Meanwhile, the General Staff meeting of the PLA is expected to be held today to finalise the recruitment of fresh combatants.
Nepal FM quoted PLA deputy commander Chandra Dev Khanal as saying that the General Staff meeting is being held to "properly manage" the new recruits in the Maoist PLA.
He told the radio station that they have requested Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who is also the chairman of the Unified CPN (Maoist), to attend the meeting, but as they are still waiting for a word from his office, the timing of the meeting hasn't been fixed.
Reports say that the seven division of PLA has received around 7,000 applications for for the vacant positions so far.
The 31,000 men-strong PLA was reduced to less than 20,000 after UNMIN disqualified 12,000 of its personnel mostly because they were found to be under aged.
The commanders of all seven divisions have gathered in Kathmandu for the General Staff meeting. nepalnews.com ag Mar 15 09
One Response to "The PLA Continues Recruitment"
March 20, 2009 at 10:19 am
The recruitment by PLA is logical, and justifiable on every ground. Though some of pragmatic 'revolutionary' within Unified CPN(M) after the merger of Maoist and United-Centre may think other way around for cmpleting the new democratic revolution in a peaceful way, but for the majority of Maoist cadres and supporters, this decision of PLA recruitment is a happier moment.


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When singer/songwriter Jewel hits the road for her upcoming Greatest Hits tour, she'll be showing plenty of love to the Jersey Shore.
Jewel, who performs at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood on March 7, the State Theatre in New Brunswick on March 8 and the Golden Nugget in Atlantic City on March 9, will team up with New Jersey Hometown Heroes to raise money for those affected by last October's superstorm Sandy.
At each of Jewel's New Jersey shows, there will be a silent auction that includes a signed Taylor guitar, framed hand-written lyrics to one of Jewel's hits and a one-on-one meeting with the performer after the show, with all proceeds going to "pay for goods and services to return local residents to safe and stable housing," according to a news release.
A native of Alaska who got her start in San Diego's coffee house scene while living out of her car, Jewel first hit it big nearly 20 years ago with her smash 1995 debut "Pieces of You," which included the hits "Who Will Save Your Soul," "Foolish Games" and "You Were Meant For Me." Earlier this year, Rhino released Jewel's first best-of set, "Greatest Hits."
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Introduction: Kid Kave
This is my balcony off of my great room.The hole in wall was a built in cabinet I built 12 years ago.12 years of collecting dust.The balcony was mostly for looks until the big boss(my wife) had a idea to turn it into usable space.
Step 1: Back of Built in Before I Removed It
This is a view from my garage upstairs looking at back of built in before I removed it.Almost all of this room is under a layover roof connecting my garage to my house.
Step 2: Building Walls
In this step I built 3 walls before cutting into living area to keep dust down
Step 3: Toy Cabinets, Insulation and Sheetrock
Here I built and installed toy cabinets.I insulated and sheetrocked also.Trying to do as much as possible before cutting out wall seperating garage and living area
Step 4: Removing Wall and Cabinet
My boys couldnt wait to grab a slugo and smash thru!
Step 5: Walls Out
The wall is out and in the dumpster.My boys had a fun time breaking thru and I had fun cleaning everything up.uggggg
Step 6: Tying in Sheetrock.
Luckily all the framing lined up and connecting sheetrock went well.
Step 7: Building Railings
I built all railings out of kd(to save $) in my garage.Did stain and poly then brought inside and installed.Even post caps are homemade from scraps.
Step 8: Ladder to Kid Kave
Ladder is also kd.2x12 rails and 2x8 steps.The ladder had alot of steps involved and took about a week to get done.Alot of time staining and applying polly.
Step 9: Railings and Ladder Are In!
Needed to install ladder to get up and down and railings for saftey.
Step 10: Finishing It Up
In this step we got the trim done and installed carpet.I used a old door for entry to garage.I used chaulkboard paint on kave side.Installed lights and some outlets with usbs built in.
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I finished just before Christmas.The timing was great because we had a place to put all the new toys my boys got from santa.Me and mom got a new tv and moved the old one to the kid kave.
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i want to thank anyone that voted for my instructable.im still shocked my first one made it to the runner up slot.the best part was doing the project with my two young boys and showing them the e mail that said we won a prize.they were so proud of the work we did together.times like these are worth more than anything in the world to me.i also want to thank the people at instructables that made it possible to document such an event in a neat way.
First of all, your kids are ADORABLE! Second of all, my dad dosent do ANYTHING like this for me!! Once, he started making me and my bro a go kart and then he gave it away. :((
thank you daddysgal,
they may b cute but they r a handfull
great! Another person I'm DEFINITELY Going to vote on
Thank you very much
nice project...
thank you
Awesome and well documented.
thank you, do u know anything about entering a contest? I did the entire kid kave project so I could enter the small space contest and I cant figure out how to do it.i even tried other contests and cant enter them either? I am extremly frustrated as it took me quite a while
Wish I knew. I haven't ever done a 'structable or tried to enter a contest.
Are you using the mobile app or the website? I would think the website would be easier.
thanks I think im in


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Week four of the 90 Day Fitness Challenge was trying; very trying. It started off filled with good intentions and kick-ass energy, but then life decided to get in the way and that all changed.
Initially I was worried that work was going to be the main challenge – what with three major events this week. But then Thursday's mail arrived and everything changed. I'm not going to dwell on that, but needless to say the wind was knocked from my sails and I found myself needing to spend more time at home thinking with the wee fuzzball safely snuggled up next to me.
There's a part of me that is annoyed that I didn't make my weekly goals (only 1 run, instead of 5), but I know that I also needed to take the time to begin to deal with everything. And because I find safety and comfort in numbers, I also know that I can easily catch up. In fact, the only goal where I've fallen short is running. My schedule indicates that I should have run a total of 123km by tomorrow, and I currently have 111.29km under my belt. I should be able to get back on track with one longer (and much-needed) run tomorrow.
So yes – this week sucked more than it should have. Yes – life got in the way. But I'm not going to stay down for long. Tomorrow begins week 5 and I'm ready to crush it.


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There was to be no repeat of Valentino Rossi's race day heroics in Qatar, as the returning Yamaha MotoGP rider rode to a 'defensive' sixth in Sunday's inaugural Austin round.
Rossi had qualified just eighth - one place lower than in Qatar, where he had gone on to claim second place - but was ever able to get the set-up he needed for an attacking performance at the Circuit of the Americas.
"This is a difficult track for us. We expected to do better, but I had a lot of problems in the race because I had a problem with the brakes," said Rossi. "I had a vibration in braking because I lost one part of a disc so this didn't help.
"Also during practice we didn't work in the perfect way and we did not arrive ready for the race.
"We knew that we had to defend here; we know that when we cannot attack we need to try and arrive in the top five, but today it was sixth. The balance of the first two races is positive and we arrive in Jerez optimistic.
"In Qatar it was a Yamaha one-two, here a Honda one-two, but the next races have traditionally been good for the M1."
Team-mate and reigning champion Jorge Lorenzo finished in third place, 13 seconds ahead of Rossi.


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The majority for this last survey has voted 20th June (Sunday).
New NSS members not been with us for previous surveys and have some knowledge of Butterfly ID are encouraged to..............come lah !!
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May not be from the Butterfly Park excapee ? Possibly found in the island areas.
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Coming from a crafting family, Gemma Atwell has always been creative. But it was a pre-Christmas "now or never moment" that saw the Bath-based maker hand in her notice at work and sign up for a course in silversmithing. She now creates beautiful handcrafted jewellery from her garden shed-style studio, and, as they say, the rest is silver-dusted history.
Gemma: "The Silver Shed started in 2012, admittedly though it took a little while before I was ready to face the public with my work and it has changed dramatically over the last five-years. I was working in a retail environment at the time, and a month before Christmas I had a now or never moment – I handed in my notice and bought a garden shed! It was a long time before setting up my studio that I studied jewellery design and smithing, maybe six- or seven-years. I was looking for a short creative course and stumbled across a 10-week silversmithing one. That was it, I was smitten! I signed up for the design for jewellery City and Guilds NVQ after that."
Gemma's passion for making stems from her creative family, and growing up they gave her plenty of inspiration. Plus some sage words from her father!
Gemma: "I don't remember a time when I wasn't making. When I was younger I remember gardening with my dad (that was his work) and talking about what I should be doing, and him saying 'you're trouble is that you're only happy when you're using your hands.' And it's true – baking, making, planting… I need to be creating with my hands. My mum has always been a crafter too so we were always at fetes and fairs when I was a child."
Not only does Gemma get ideas and creativity from her family, but she credits Somerset – and Bath where she lives – as providing her with a wealth of inspiration.
Gemma: "I am based in Bath and have a garden shed studio where I design and make all of my work. I am very lucky to have grown up in this beautiful city. It does feel that Somerset, particularly the Bath area, is a hub for creative activity. It is very easy to find like-minded folk. My partner is from Glastonbury and he is involved in the local music scene there so I get to spend a fair bit of time in that area too. Originally I was going to use my own name as my business name but I wanted something a little more memorable. There has been a running joke about all of the silver dust that coats my shed space, so the name came from that really."
Gemma's love of magic and fairytales is prevalent in her designs, and it's a style that is popular with her customers. And although she admits that running her own business can sometimes be difficult, she says it's her customers that keep her wanting to create new products.
Gemma: "Inspiration can come from absolutely anywhere. I have many ideas waiting to be developed. Much of my work comes from my love of folklore and fairytales, and Arts and Crafts-style imagery. Motivation is trickier! There are often days when I could curl up and hide, but generally the feedback I get from my customers and social media followers make me realise that I must be doing something right."
Gemma's designs are as varied as they are beautiful, but currently it's her new styles that get her creative juices flowing. And it seems that size does matter.
Gemma: "The newest things that I make are usually my favourites. I have been working on some larger statement pieces recently that I love. My most popular sellers are definitely the rings and bangles with text on them. I think it's because they bring a little bit of magic and remind people of stories they loved as children. I like to think that my style is fairly recognisable. It is quite whimsical and has common themes running across the different collections. It is important to me that the branding and staging I use match my jewellery."
So why does Gemma love Somerset?
Gemma: "I don't think that there is a simple answer to why I love Somerset. There are so many reasons. Somerset, Bath, is home – it is family. Wherever I go in this world I will always gravitate back here. I love the architecture of my hometown, love the cafe culture and soaking up the atmosphere whilst people watching. I also enjoy exploring the independent shops in towns like Frome, or walking straight out of the city into the rolling countryside that surrounds us."
You can follow The Silver Shed on Facebook , Twitter, and Instagram, and find out further information on their website.


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I'm ill. I suffer from several serious diseases. As such it shapes my life, and affects everything that I do and say. When I am talking to someone, sooner or later my illness comes up when I have to explain why my life is a certain way or why I cannot do something. Many of those people ask what is wrong with me, and since it is very hard to explain it every time especially on twitter, I have explained it here for future reference.
So here's the official list of diagnosis.
- Migraines
- ME / CFS (Myalgic Encephalopathy / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)
- Type 2 diabetes
- Severe Restless legs syndrome
- Insomnia
I've had the migraines all my life. I get between one and four a week. The main trigger is fatigue, other triggers are red wine and some blue cheese. I get migraines with pain over the right eye, pressure throughout the head, tension in the neck, and aura including nausea, vomiting and bright flashing lights in my vision. I treat the migraines with Sumatriptan (Imigran) nasal spray which is fast and effective at stopping them.
I was diagnosed with Diabetes the day before my 30th birthday. Given my family history I had fully expected to become a diabetic one day but I had expected it to be at least another ten years away. I control my diabetes with tablets, but it is progressing absurdly quickly and so I may well be given insulin injections soon. Note to detractors and "it's your own fault" idiots: I am not obese.
Restless legs is fairly common, affecting 1 in 12 people. I have extreme restless legs. It makes me move, twitch, stretch and convulse any time I am required to keep still, especially when trying to sleep or in a car. Combined with ME and an inability to move sometimes, it's torture. It is a major cause of insomnia for me so that I am now afraid to even try to sleep. I treat it with Pramipexole which is a dopamine agonist aimed at parkinsons disease. It makes me feel horrible and sick, but if I don't take it, my legs try to rip themselves off of my body.
Insomnia is an obvious one really. I don't sleep when I should. It is quite debilitating in its own right since going to sleep at 6am makes it nearly impossible for me to get up and do anything at 8 or 9am. It is fueled by a natural obsessiveness in me that won't give up on whatever I am doing just for sleep, but also by my Restless Legs and by an inability to switch my mind off and stop thinking, which is a common problem in those with ME.
I have had ME/CFS for 10 years now. Many people get ME after a viral infection such as flu. They simply never recover from it. I first got sick after being in bed for a week with flu. After the flu seemed to be clearing up, the exhaustion, the headaches and the muscle pain stayed on. Those are the primary symptoms of ME.
When I talk about chronic fatigue the words really don't cover the reality of it. People use words like tired, exhausted, and fatigue all the time but they have no clue what it really means. When I say I am too tired to get out of bed it's not hyperbole. I mean it. When I am that tired I can't get the five metres from the bed to the toilet. When I am at my worst I cannot lift my head from the pillow or turn myself over in bed. If you have ever experienced sleep paralysis then imagine it continuing for hours. For the really unlucky ones it continues forever. One of the most frustrating things that people can say to me apart from "Have you tried…" is "oh, yes, I'm quite tired after work too." I want to scream at them. You just have no clue!
The fatigue is not logical either. It starts about as low as energy levels can get so that every action is an extra effort. That effort must be gauged incredible carefully. Each action results in a bit more fatigue and in a bit more pain. Where most people could perform a physically demanding task for a day and then be refreshed by one nights sleep or perhaps a day off, when you have ME the refreshment doesn't happen. A few minutes of extra effort can result in days of exhaustion and pain. Sleep can make things feel worse. The best analogy I can think of is that every bit of energy used must be borrowed from a loan shark. He isn't forgiving. That energy will be demanded back the next day with menaces, and whatever you pay won't be enough. The loan shark will be back again for more.
Other symptoms are many and varied. I have already mentioned fatigue, headaches and muscle aches. i also have burning pain in various muscles, brain fog, irritable bowel syndrome, problems with vision which appear when most tired, and more that I can't remember.
Brain fog is worth explaining. Once again words are inadequate but it is often described as a head full of cotton wool or as thinking through treacle. Brain fog prevents me from remembering words that I need, from completing thoughts in my head, from finishing sentences that I am speaking. It's frightening and horrible because it strikes at my own sense of self. It is brain fog that can prevent me from speaking at all on some day
For me, my illness varies a lot. I tend to have cycles of relatively good (~80%) health and then relapse for a few weeks of months where things get bad. I had flu, the real deal, not once but twice in the last few weeks. Since then my health has gone steadily downhill and I am now in a complete state of relapse. I have barely been able to leave my bed for the last few days and have been in a lot of pain with burning sensations in my muscles. I would say that i have rarely been as ill as this in the past.
I wrote about how ME affects me every time I wake up in my article A morning with ME.
For a full understanding of how chronic illness affects me I recommend reading Spoon Theory by Christine Miserandino or watch the video below to see Christine reading Spoon Theory to a conference. This is the origin of the #spoonie tag that you may have seen me use on Twitter.


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Sunday, April 02, 2017
All Occasion Stack Class - just strips of paper, a greeting and an embellishment
We had a wonderful time and lots of beautiful cards were created!!!
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Labels: A2, birthday, cards, colour printed accents and greetings, decorative paper, fathers day, laser printing, punchies, rhinestones, scraps, sequins, thinking of you
All Occasion Stack class - cut and circled
For my next card, I decided to feature decorative paper in hopes of reducing my stash!! Not even dented!!
I cut the decorative paper 3.75" x 5" and made two cuts - one in each direction and when the pieces were glued to the next layer it created a cross as the lower colour showed through. I discovered that once cut the pieces provide a puzzle to be solved before they can be glued in place!! I chose to layer my circle greeting over the intersection of the lines but the creative ones at class chose many more options in both the cutting and the layout of these cards!! The circle greetings were laser printed on white or ivory and punched with a 1.75" circle punch (SU). They were layered onto scalloped circles which were die cut from coordinating cardstock using my Nestibilities. I found most of these round greetings at Netty's cards. She has a really good variety and some for every occasion. The little turtle one is very cute and the floral element were found on line but I do not have a record of where I found them. Therese
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Labels: A2, birthday, cards, decorative paper, digital stamp, get well, laser printing, layered punched shapes, mothers day, thank you, watercolour
Handmade paper and stitching
this class I came across this beautiful handmade paper! It was very thick and therefore I set it aside because it would not glue well. Yesterday, I created a card with it. I cut the elements and stitched them in place instead of using glue. That works very well!! I love stitching handmade paper!! I stitched the center to the flower then the border to the background paper. I positioned the flower, situated the leaves and stitched them into place. I repositioned the flower and stitched all around the center to anchor it to the background. I positioned the greeting and stitched it into place as well. Lastly, I stitched this large element to the front of an ivory card!! LOVE IT!! Therese
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All Occasion Stack Class - handmade paper
For this set of cards I decided to continue the theme I started with my middle of the week class and feature my own handmade paper.
I created several focal elements - hearts, flowers, leaves and butterflies which were cut from coordinating handmade paper. The flower were embellished die cut centers, the hearts had an extra little heart cut from cardstock, the butteflies had tied cording which created a body and antennae and the leaves had knotted twine as an accent.
I really love handmade paper and am glad that I decided to check out the papers I had in my boxes. I will continue to feature handmade paper on my cards as time goes on!!! Will consider making more this summer when the weather outside is warm and sunny and the sheets can dry outside.
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Easter and birthday card created by reusing a beautiful rose card
These two cards were created using the most beautiful card full of shimmery gold and roses!! I trimmed off the front and turn it over onto the back inside which had the stripes and that worked well for a background. For the first card, I created a focal element using a floral background from Artsy bee on Pixabay combining it with a vintage rose image from Clipartfox and a font greeting which I then printed it onto ivory cardstock. After trimming I layered it onto green. I glued the two layers of my background together, added a pink organza ribbon across the width and layered on my focal element with 3D foam tape. I tied on a short length of ribbon to the one on the card using a single knot to simulate a bow. I layered this large element to a pink card.
For my second card, I created the background with the ribbon in the same manner and glued it to a light pink card. The rose focal element I fussy cut from the front flap of the original card and glued it over the ribbon using 3D foam tape. I sponged the edges of a punchie greeting with green and pink and adhered it just below the focal element over the ribbon with 3D foam tape. Beautiful!!
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Talimena Drive
I've lived in Oklahoma all my life. Born here, raised here, and will most likely die here. The winters and summers are comparably mild; Spring and Fall are the best times. For those who have never been here, many people think of a place dominated by cowboys and Indians. And although we do have real cowboys (yes, they ride horses and raise cattle) and Indians (no, they don't live in teepees and run around half naked) here, the thing that really makes Oklahoma a great place is its natural beauty.
Oklahoma features all types of terrain from flat plains to rolling hills and an "almost mountain" to the densely wooded Ouachita National Forest in the southeastern portion of the state. Winding through the Ouachita Forest (pronounced wash-e-taw) is a 54-mile long stretch of highway known as Talimena Drive which connects Talihina, Oklahoma and Mena, Arkansas--hence the name. From approximately the last week in October through the first couple of weeks of November, the Talimena Drive is a favorite spot to view all of the brilliant fall colors.
Even though my wife and I are both life-long Okies, neither of us had been on the Talimena Drive. We decided this past weekend we would fix that situation. Friday afternoon, we drove to Poteau, OK--about an hour north of Mena, AR. Because we decided to make our road trip at the last minute, we weren't able to find accommodations in Mena. (Note: We determined early on that we wanted to make the scenic drive from east to west. Although it was a little longer drive to the starting point in Mena, it would make for a shorter drive home.) We stayed at the Best Western Traders Inn and opted for the King Suite --about $15 more than their standard Queen room-- which consisted of a King-size bed and a separate sitting area with a couch and occasional chair. Both rooms had a nice sized flat panel TV.
We checked into our room and then headed to downtown Poteau to check out a local steakhouse: Warehouse Willies. I had Willies specialty, the ribeye, while Dana enjoyed their bacon wrapped filet. Both steaks were very tender and cooked to perfection. Dinners came with baked potato and salad. The decor is probably best described as eclectic--everything from old signs, tools, screen doors and vinyl records covered the walls. I'd recommend Willies if you're in the area.
The next morning we made the short drive to Mena and ate breakfast at Skyline Cafe. GREAT biscuits and gravy! Dana got her usually scrambled egg(s) and bacon and I opted for eggs over-easy and grits--my favorite. Service was a little slow, but it was a Saturday morning and the place was PACKED. The wait staff did a great job of taking orders, keeping coffee cups filled and getting the food out to us. Nothing fancy about the Skyline's decor, just good old southern style cooking.
There are 26 different stops/vistas along the Talimena Drive. Several publications stated you could make the route in about an hour and a half if you didn't stop. Average time ranged from four to six hours if you stopped at each location. We took about four hours--we didn't stop at all of the vistas and our trip was slowed a bit by the heavy fog that rolled in that morning. Visibility was so bad at one point, we could only see about 10 yards in front of my truck! We drove through the Queen Wilhelmina State Park and could barely see the lodge. On a sunny day, I'm sure it's very nice.
By the time we reached the Kerr Nature Center, a little over half way long the drive, the fog had lifted and we were able get out and enjoy a walk along one of the trails there. As we approached the end of the drive it began to sprinkle rain, and by the time we pulled into the East Visitor's Center, it was a downpour! Perfect timing...and a great weekend getaway!


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Online Holiday Helpers!
- By Tammy Dunbar
- 14 December, 2012
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* Holiday movies shown the last couple of days before Winter Break can be used to extend and/or review lessons. TeachHUB.com has some great ideas for using Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Home Alone, A Christmas Carol and even watching a familiar movie in a foreign language.
* So many faiths celebrate a Holy time of year during Winter, it's a good time to talk about celebrations. Edutopia offers a mini-lesson for students to reflect on what a celebration is and why it's important to remember them more than just one day a year.
* Check out the wide array of Holiday lessons at Education World, especially "Rename That Tune" for vocabulary enrichment and "Deck the Halls with Literature Trees" to showcase reading comprehension.
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School lunches from all over the world: I can't stop clicking through this amazing slideshow of school lunch photos from all around the globe. There's homecooked macaroni from Pakistan, pancakes in Indonesia, plantains in Cuba, omelettes in Spain, salmon and ratatouille in France, and plenty more. [AP]
Celebrities are just like us: Looking worse for the wear after cocktail hour. Ahem. [Page Six]
Ah, the tyranny of the cookbook: I live in New York City and am not a gazillionaire -- so that means I have super-limited counter space in my kitchen, and whenever I cook with a cookbook or a tablet, I usually wind up propping it up in my dish drying rack. Not ideal. Here's a company with a novel idea -- take recipes and make them temporary tattoos, so you can stick 'em on your arm for reference while cooking. Silly or brilliant, we'll leave that up to you. [FWF]
Would you or would you not pay $6 for a banana? What if it came in a box, had a brand name, and was super-pretty? What if they were the 1 percent of bananas -- grown at 500 meters above sea level? Think about it. [Kotaku via Eater]
Love Bourbon? Have a story about it? You might be interested in Bourbon Story magazine, then. While on a journalism fellowship at Stanford last year, writer Michael Lindenberger embarked on an exploration of his Louisville, Kentucky, family history with the whiskey. Bourbon Story was a natural extension of this project -- find our more here. [Food Republic]
Oh hey, it's the 1-year anniversary of this thing: The Cronut. Are you so sick of hearing about it yet? Have you even eaten one? Do you even want to anymore? Here's a brief history of the cronut's first 365 days of existence. [Grub Street]
Jamie Oliver runs into a spot of trouble: New sources in London report that celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's flagship high-end butcher shop near St. Paul's has closed for 24 hours after a health inspector found unhygienic conditions. [Guardian]
An etiquette thing: Here's how to deal with dinner guests who won't stop texting, tweeting, Instagramming, emailing, or taking selfies. [The Kitchn]


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October 16th, 2018 • 1 hr 28 mins • Download (80.6 MB) • Link with Timestamp
We dive deep into the mayhem on this one. Guinea John had just returned from a trip to Dallas which led to some discussions on flying, the JFK assassination, and another impersonation of Sam Kinison. Bruce leads another movie tangent ranging from Cocktails to The Deer Hunter and we reminisce about some celebrity crackpots. The Orioles still suck, the Fabulous Thunderbirds are still Tuff Enuff and the Mad Pooper is still at large. Taking the Cynic Route is like a box of Chocolates, fat people love us. Download, Like, Share, and SUBSCRIBE!


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Salt Spring National Art Prize Award Winners 2017!
Congratulations to the 2017 Salt Spring National Art Prize Award Winners!
49 Artists were chosen from across Canada by an independent jury for the Finalist Exhibition. All artist submissions were anonymous to the jury.
SSNAP gave awards totalling $30,000 to the […]


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Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Show and tell
Take your pick.
Gun nuts who say it is "too soon" to discuss gun violence are cowards.
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OK. Well, let's discuss away. I don't give a shit about the 10,000+ non-suicide gun deaths a year and I certainly don't give a shit about the less than 1,000 mass shooting deaths a year and absolutely won't support any significant sort of gun control. Furthermore, I couldn't care less if you think I'm morally depraved or mentally sick and I absolutely think that anti-gun nuts are both of those thinking that clinging to pathetic, unfree lives is a good thing to do.ReplyDelete
There. Courageous enough for you?
Well, that escalated quickly.ReplyDelete
If this was an old west movie, I would be sneaking out of the saloon now.
Don't worry. Harry's not armed, of course! :-)ReplyDelete
Though I'm not armed either! Oops, forgot about that minor detail. :-)ReplyDelete
Bret, your attempt at sarcasm -- as I take it -- fails because there really are gun nuts who think that way. On the other hand, if it wasn't sarcasm, I rest my case.ReplyDelete
It was not sarcasm. Bret does value the freedom of anyone to buy an AR-15 over the collateral damage that may create.
Harry, that article is so shot through with crimes against statistics and logic that it is astonishing anyone falls for it.ReplyDelete
Problem one: Y-axis is quantity, not rate. Of course a country with (US) 330 million is going to have more mass killings than one with 64 million (Philippines).
So use the metric that matters, and the lower left corner spreads out a lot.
Second, one would think it worthwhile to talk about mass killings, not shootings, because the victims are just as dead no matter the means.
Australia has virtually confiscated guns, yet they continue to have mass killings.
Its almost as if you think that without guns the homicidal will decide to binge watch Disney musicals instead.
Oh, and speaking of collateral damage, a significant portion of the US population believes in the inherent right to meaningful self defense.
Think about the collateral damage that would ensue should you achieve your goal -- no matter its failures in logic, evidence, numeracy -- and the government went about confiscating them.
It's neither sarcasm nor really representative in any concrete way of how I actually view the situation.ReplyDelete
As you both know, I often play devil's advocate, and I do it more and more as time goes on, and my comment above was definitely in the devil's advocate mode. The sorts of things that trigger me to be the devil's advocate are terms like "gun nut," "coward," "morally depraved," "mentally sick," "coward," etc. and Harry managed to work all of those into a very short post. These are not objective characterizations but completely emotional and subjective. Harry says in a comment above "I rest my case" and apparently also appoints himself prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner who apparently knows objective morality better than anyone else. Oh sure, Harry is certainly entitled to his moral beliefs and is certainly entitled to deign those who disagree with his moral beliefs as "mentally sick" or whatever, but to me, it seems to be a symptom of a complete inability and/or unwillingness to understand other people and their needs, aspirations, beliefs, etc., and that inability/unwillingness, in my opinion, is leading to a lot of unnecessary conflict and even hate in the United States and the world.
Do people actually think what I wrote in my earlier comment? No doubt. Is Harry wrong to criticize them? No, but he's not objectively right either as the emotional verbiage he uses shows. If he was objectively or even non-emotionally right, there would be no reason for him to use such emotional terms, in my opinion.
There is another, even more fatal error to this silly analysis.ReplyDelete
Assume guns are instrumental in mass shootings. If that is true, taking Russia as an example (17 mass shootings, 12 million guns), there should have been 340 mass shooters in the US over that period, not 90.
Explain that.
[Bret:] Oh sure, Harry is certainly entitled to his moral beliefs and is certainly entitled to deign those who disagree with his moral beliefs as "mentally sick" or whatever, but to me, it seems to be a symptom of a complete inability and/or unwillingness to understand other people and their needs ...ReplyDelete
In other words, being completely incapable of thinking clearly.
Which probably is at least part of the reason Harry is just as unable to come even close to correctly analyzing the "evidence" contained in this vapid rubbish. Just as I'll bet the author has absolutely no idea, either.
Do people actually think what I wrote in my earlier comment? No doubt. Is Harry wrong to criticize them? No, but he's not objectively right either as the emotional verbiage he uses shows. If he was objectively or even non-emotionally right, there would be no reason for him to use such emotional terms, in my opinion.
Why? People can well be right and still be emotional about it.
As I see it, you are not asking for Harry to be fair, you are asking him to be a computer.
Life and death topics usually touch people in emotional ways. Hence abortion, guns and death penalty will always be such hot topics.
It is easy to conceive of a moral system where your individual freedom to a minor treat (having an AR-15) should never be above even a relatively small number of lives, such as the ones lost to mass shootings. In such a moral system, Harry's accusation makes sense.
Now, you do not share that moral system with him, and probably most of your fellow citizens don't either (otherwise there would be a few fixes in gun laws by now), but you are surely aware which moral system he is talking about.
Bret, if there is 'no doubt' that people hold the views I castigated, then your objection is merely to tone and you are not being adevil's advocate.ReplyDelete
I have no idea what 'objectively right' means. you either object to child murder or you don't. It is objectively true that gun nuts contribute to an excess of child killings. As you say, some people are OK with that.
Unstated is that they assume it won't be their children.
If, at the end of each year we toted up the number of children shot to death and selected an equal number of children of gun nuts and shot them, too, it wouldn't make much of a difference in the overall death statistics, and we could just write it off as part of the price of being armed.
And if you think the 2A is so important, how could you object?
... you either object to child murder or you don't. It is objectively true that gun nuts contribute to an excess of child killings. As you say, some people are OK with that.ReplyDelete
More kids die from drowning than guns. Clearly, then, unless you just don't care about children, you must be advocating the elimination of swimming pools.
Oh, wait. You aren't.
And just as puzzling, there are deaths nearly uncountable with which you are perfectly happy.ReplyDelete
Harry wrote: "...you either object to child murder or you don't."ReplyDelete
You're implying that gun rights advocates are ok with murdering children. That's simply not objectively true. They obviously universally object to that. They simply view the tradeoffs differently than you do and you are unable to get past your emotional baggage and put yourself in their shoes and see that.
Here's the thing. If the only way to save gun rights was to put all children of gun rights advocates including my own children, into some Hunger Games like lottery to be killed by someone horrible (you apparently, right?) on a one-to-one basis with other children who were "murdered" , then I would do it without hesitation. The odds would still be far, far lower than them dying in a car crash and I let them drive around in cars.
I lost millions of distant cousins in WWII and before, at least partly because they were disarmed, so I don't take the disarming of the population lightly.
Clovis wrote: "In such a moral system, Harry's accusation makes sense."ReplyDelete
Yes, but it's an emotional accusation and not an objective one. I've read your comment several times and I'm not quite seeing what you're getting at - I'm guessing probably something with more subtlety than I can grasp.
My characterization of Harry's position is also based on reaction and the likelihood of convincing anyone. Do you think that the tens of millions of "gun nuts" will somehow be convinced by being called "morally depraved," "mentally sick," "coward," etc.? Do you think those who are neutral will be convinced by hearing tens of millions of fellow americans being called "morally depraved," "mentally sick," "coward," etc.?
If Harry had an objective "case" to actually convince people (and actually wanted to convince people), he would be very foolish to use those terms.
So it's only tone that bothers you. Got it.ReplyDelete
The case is guns = kids or not. It's simple, really.
I consder it important to speak up about depravity, fascism, stuff like that. I bet you never challenged, say, Pat Robertson about calling immorality by its name.
The case is guns = kids or not. It's simple, really.ReplyDelete
The murder rate in the US is roughly half what it was in the early 1990s. Which is also when gun laws were greatly relaxed in much of the US, leading to a huge increase in gun ownership.
The correlation between increased gun ownership and declining murder rate is extremely high, especially compared to the non-existent (France more mass shooters per gun than the US, BTW) correlations this article clings to.
If the authors -- and you -- are going to get on the correlation hobby horse, then you can't get off it when the ride gets rough.
History is clear: fewer guns, more dead kids.
It's simple, really.
The murder rate in the US is roughly half what it was in the early 1990s. Which is also when gun laws were greatly relaxed in much of the US, leading to a huge increase in gun ownership.
You know that's not the whole history.
Murder rate fell across the board, in states with guns and states without it. In some states with guns the fall was steeper, but the final bottom line does not keep relationship with gun ownership. So your case is much weaker than you paint it.
So it is not so simple, really.
[Clovis:] You know that's not the whole history.ReplyDelete
Of course, I know that's not the whole story. However, it is far closer to the whole story than this assault on reason is.
If a very tenuous correlation that ignores as much as it includes -- do you think Iraqi's are particularly worried about mass shootings? -- is something we should take seriously, then a far tighter correlation should be a slam dunk.
Particularly given their thesis: the huge number of guns in the US is instrumental in the number of mass killings. If that is indeed the case, then it requires a great deal of explanation, none of which is even hinted at, as to why that the rapid and substantial increase in guns didn't lead to an increase in gun deaths.
As it happened, confiscationists at the time were quite certain that liberalized gun laws would lead to slaughter in the streets. (Just as they were certain that eliminating restrictions on carrying guns in national parks would lead to slaughter there, too. That didn't happen, either.)
At some point, you think there would be some 'splaining to do.


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With Posh having attained back-to-back promotion it`ll be interesting to see if the current squad can match the achievement of the squad managed by Chris Turner.
Back in 1992, Turner matched the successive promotion achievement of the Darren Ferguson squad and Posh appeared in the old Division One.
With the talk being of challenging for a place in the Premier League, inside three seasons, it`ll be interesting to see if our current squad can better the 10th place that Turner`s side achieved.
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- Term used as a generic label for the various forms of philosophy and theology developed in western European univer-sities from the late 11th or early 12th century. All of these "scholas-tic" systems of thought were broadly Aristotelian. They accepted Aristotelian logic and Aristotelian terminology as standard practice in debating intellectual questions. Aside from their broad agreement on the status of Aristotle as a methodological guide, however, these schools did not share a common set of doctrines on broad philosoph-ical and theological issues. From almost the beginning, there were many "scholasticisms." The term really meant little more than "the philosophy taught in the schools"—that is, in the universities. The founders of scholasticism, such as the theologian Peter Lombard (ca. 1100-1160) and the philosopher Pierre Abélard (1079-1142), ac-cepted Aristotelian logic as their guide to rational discourse, but they knew only a limited number of Aristotelian works at first hand.In the early years of the 13th century, however, as almost the whole corpus of the Aristotelian writings known today was translated into Latin (mostly from Arabic rather than directly from Greek), Aristo-tle became an overwhelming presence not just in logic but also in vir-tually every philosophical subject, including natural science and even Christian theology. On many disputed questions, philosophers and theologians soon found that they did not agree on just what his writings meant. The 13th century, when Aristotle's works were newly discovered, was the golden age of scholastic philosophy and theol-ogy, distinguished by the careers of such figures as Albertus Magnus (1206-1280) and Thomas Aquinas (1224/5-1274). The great task was to assimilate the new Aristotelian learning and to define its rela-tionship to philosophical and theological doctrines such as God's cre-ation of the world out of nothing and the immortality of the human soul. On both these and other doctrines, Christian thinkers had to contend with a radically secular way of interpreting Aristotle associ-ated with the Arabic commentator and philosopher Ibn Rushd (in Latin, Averroës, 1126-1198), whose understanding of Aristotle de-nied the philosophical validity of belief in both the creation of the world and the immortality of the individual soul.Even in its greatest century, scholasticism was divided into con-tending schools, sometimes defined by the authority of a leading fig-ure (for example, Thomism, based on the thought of Thomas Aquinas) and sometimes defined by the tradition of a particular university or by the prevailing opinion within a religious order (Aquinas among the Dominicans and Bonaventura [1221-1274] among the Franciscans). These divisions continued to multiply in the following generations, so that scholastic philosophy came to be divided into a great num-ber of contending schools or traditions, a point used against it by its critics among the humanists of the Renaissance but admitted by leading scholastic thinkers as well. From the greatest figure of late 13th-century scholasticism, John Duns Scotus (ca. 1270-1308), stemmed an influential tradition known as Scotism, which criticized Aquinas as excessively rationalistic and became dominant at many uni-versities. It was still influential in the 16th century. Another powerful school of thought was known as Nominalism, which had its roots in philosophical and theological controversies of the earlier Middle Ages but in its late medieval formulations looked upon the English Francis-can William of Ockham (ca. 1285-1347) as its founding authority.Though potentially radical in its implications for theology, Nomi-nalism produced few challenges to Catholic orthodoxy. It was, how-ever, critical of the older forms of scholasticism associated with Al-bertus Magnus, Aquinas, and Duns Scotus. Followers of these older schools of thought came to be known as the via antiqua, while sev-eral academic traditions that arose out of the criticism of the "realist" views of the older schools on the question of universal ideas came to be known as the via moderna, "the modern way." Especially in Ger-many and at Paris, there were sharp divisions between the Antiqui and the Moderni. Some German universities (Erfurt, for example) were fully committed to the via moderna during the 14th and 15th centuries, while others (such as Cologne and Louvain) became just as firmly committed to the via antiqua. At a few German universities, the faculty of arts was formally divided into two sections, one fol-lowing the via antiqua and the other, the via moderna. In practice, the division often narrowed down to the choice of different sequences of textbooks for the study of arts subjects, especially dialectic.Although some modern historians have argued that the via antiqua was more open to humanistic influences and others have viewed the via moderna as more receptive, there is no convincing evidence that the problems faced by humanists who wanted to reform the faculties of arts were significantly different because of the "way" that pre-vailed locally. In 15th-century Paris, the king for a time intervened to forbid use of "modern" textbooks and to give a monopoly to follow-ers of the via antiqua, but this effort proved unworkable, and the via moderna not only survived but was probably the more influential tra-dition in the study of logic at Paris by the end of the 15th century. Al-though the humanists wanted to reform the arts faculties of universi-ties in order to give more attention to their own favorite subjects, thus decreasing the time students were required to devote to dialectic and natural philosophy, most of them had no intention of abolishing all scholastic studies. They wanted better-written and less abstruse text-books to be used and eventually succeeded in getting rid of old text-books and substituting books more congenial to their ideas of good education. Yet they neither destroyed nor wanted to destroy scholas-ticism in general. Even the Protestant Reformation did not lastingly break the hold of scholasticism on the academic world. Martin Luther set out to drive scholasticism and all forms of Aristotelian philosophy out of his own university at Wittenberg, but the alterna-tive set of textbooks and subjects put forward to replace Aristotle was not very successful. By the 1530s, under the leadership of Luther's close associate Philipp Melanchthon, both Aristotle and some parts of traditional scholasticism were gradually and quietly reintroduced in the Wittenberg faculty of liberal arts, though not in theology. Scholasticism, somewhat reformed under the influence of human-ism, remained dominant in all European universities until the late 17th century, when the rise of the new quantitative approach to natu-ral science and the intellectual collapse of Aristotelian metaphysics and natural philosophy began the gradual demolition of scholasticism as the dominant intellectual tradition of European higher education. Even then, in conservative Roman Catholic countries like Spain, Por-tugal, and Italy, the revival of the Thomist tradition and its close al-liance with post-Tridentine Catholic theology preserved a scholastic intellectual tradition that remained powerful into the 20th century. In general, scholasticism has come to be regarded as a significant philo-sophical tradition of the past which might still have valuable insights, more in some fields such as moral philosophy and metaphysics and less—much less — in others, such as natural science.
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Vista RC2 installs
Having waited for RC2 to arrive to sort out my Media Center woes on my Mac Mini, it was worth it. A combination of Bootcamp 1.1.1, Vista build 5744 (available a day earlier than I had anticipated) and Sigmatel installation (forced copy from Bootcamp XP drivers CD) saw my problems on gone (stuttering etc). It took a few attempts to discover the correct combination but now my Media Center runs like a dream (funniest thing was that previously saved movies played back fine).
I also installed RC2 on my home Sony A190. Both my installs have been upgrades and first time successful (installation time on my Mac Mini would be around an hour – my Sony probably double or triple that).
I'm very happy with:
Boot time (seems to be 30-40 seconds)
Media Center (very fast and most glitches gone – TV is great)
I found a few posts to the download for Vista RC2. Which surprised me as it's a selective audience (RC2 was expected to be skipped). Will try are find out what's happening there....
Hopefully Vista RC2 will improve my Sony performance (which is awful compared with XP), which seems to be affected by the 3d graphics card (on two monitors RC2 switched off Aero!!).


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Following the 2018 Research and Development event held at Bentley Wood High School, please view below the various posted showcased at the event. The posters highlight the variety of research being undertaken in schools across the alliance.
Honorarium Poster Booklet 2018
Following the 2017 Research and Development event held at Bentley Wood High School, please click below to view the various Honorarium posters on display. The diversity of presentations illustrate the breadth of research going on in Harrow schools.
Sarah Butterworth - Learning and Memory (and the Role of thinking)
Taira Chaudhry - Making the Best Use of Book Reviews to measure Student Progress
Stephanie Fogg - Creating a 'Culture for Learning' based on SOLO Taxonomy
Emily Hillman - Can we make our research students more resilient?
Catherine Kennedy- Developing strategies to improve attainment and High level thinking
Matt Marks - Can we improve attainment by incorporating effective 'oracy-based' teaching
Jo Mensah - Differentiation 'How can 'pupil self- selection be used as a successful strategy for engaging, motivating and providing stretch and challenge for underperforming boys of prior high attainment?'
Simon Nussbaum - Using resources and technology to provide a 'flipped learning' approach and promote independent preparation for the new linear English qualification
Devyani Patel - Developing purpose and consistency in the role of the tutor: improving self-esteem and academic achievement through life coach for most-able students
Rebecca Rothwell - Developing Purpose and Consistency In the role of the Form Tutor
Lucy Temple - An investigation into the use of mastery learning in response to challenges posed by new linear specifications
Mike Worth - Using feedback to support improvements in assessed work
Kate Wilson - Narrowing the gap through collaborative learning


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If you have never used a pressure cooker, consider that it saves a lot of cooking time, is versatile and produces richly flavored, tender meat and conserves the broth. It is also economical. This recipe could be cooked in the oven for 3 hours, but that is a lot of heat and time.
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 2 to 2 ½ pounds beef chuck roast
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 3/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 medium onion, quartered
- 2 cups water or enough to come half way up the roast
- 1 tablespoon rice or apple cider vinegar
- 2 cups potatoes, cut into 1 inch chunks
- 2 cups baby carrots or carrots cleaned and cut into 2 inch pieces
- ¼ cup thickly sliced celery
- ¼ cup cornstarch or rice flour mixed into ½ cup cold water
Pressure cooker or heavy pot with tight lid.
Trim meat of visible fat then sprinkle with salt.
Meanwhile, add oil to cooker and heat over medium flame. Place meat in middle of cooker to brown it. Turn over and brown other side, adding onions. Add water and vinegar then close cooker. Adjust heat in a few minutes so valve has a slow rock. Cook 45 minutes.
Remove from heat to bring down temperature. When steam is released, remove the valve and open the lid. Add the potatoes, carrots and celery. Close the lid, replace the valve and cook for 10 minutes more. Again, remove from heat to cool down. A fast way is to place the cooker under cold water in the sink.
Alternatively, if you like soft vegetables, then put them in with the meat and cook the 45 minutes.
Remove meat and vegetables to a platter. To the cooker add the cornstarch or rice flour mixture and cook until thickened and clear. Easily serves 4 persons.


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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income amounts received from a water department for water conservation efficiency measures and water runoff management improvements.
The bill's titles are written by its sponsor.
Sponsor and status
Jared Huffman
Sponsor. Representative for California's 2nd congressional district. Democrat.
Last Updated: Feb 25, 2016
Length: 4 pages
114th Congress (2015–2017)
This bill was introduced on February 25, 2016, in a previous session of Congress, but it did not receive a vote.
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