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This guide had been designed by 0800 80 surf to help you chose the right board. It is designed for the BEGINNER to INTERMEDIATE surfer who surfs mostly in the Christchurch region.
Size Does Matter
The Bigger the surf board the more stable it is and the easier it is to ride. Most beginners need a board over 7 ft in length.
It's not just length however it's over all volume. The width and thickness of a board are important too. Most beginners are looking for a board at least 19 inches wide and at least 2 ½ inches thick. You will normally find the dimensions of a board written in small letters on the base of the board near the tail along the stringer line.
e.g. 8'6'' x 19 ' x 2 ½ ' means the board is 8 foot 6 inches long, it is 19 inches wide at its widest point and is 2 ½ inches thick at its thickest point.
How Long is too Long
There is a compromise between the stability of the board and how easily it turns. The bigger boards are more stable but turn more slowly. A short board does not offer much stability but is extremely manoeuvrable.
Longer boards are also heavier and can be more difficult to get out in larger waves.
The longer boards paddle faster though and go well in smaller surf where as the shortboards are more difficult to paddle and are suited to steeper more powerful waves.
How Big you are
The heavier the person the larger board they will need.
How Strong you are
Big boards are great but you still need to be able to carry it easily to the water. If you do not have much upper body strength then you will need a smaller board. Your arms need to be long enough to reach around the board. Check how easily your board fits under your arm.
What style of surfing. Short boarding or Longboarding
One thing you need to decide is what style of surfing you like.
Longboarding is the traditional surfing style. It's is about grace and style, hanging ten and cruising. Trimming and graceful turns. Christchurch waves are well suited to Longboarding. If you like this style of surfing then you are best to learn on a Longboard straight away.
The shortboarding style is all about high speed turns. Radical changes of direction, aerials, vertical re entries, swooping cutbacks and barrel riding. This style of surfing is best in steep powerful waves. If you like this style of surfing, then you will need to start on a bigger board and then gradually progress using shorter narrow boards as you improve.
Don't limit yourself
Surfing is all about fun. Some days the surf is better for longboarding other days shortboarding. Try to learn to use as many different boards as you can.
Types of Board
There are four main categories of surf board.
|Fun board
|Mini Mal
|Normally less than 8ft
Narrow pointed nose
|6-8 ft
Slightly rounded nose
|7-9 ft
Wide rounded nose
|9 ft plus
Wide rounded nose
|Good for intermediate to advance surfers.
Good for small children who are learning.
|Good for smaller sized beginners or someone progressing from a larger board.
|The ideal beginner board.
|Good for all skill levels.
|Low stability
|Fair stability
|High Stability
|More difficult to paddle.
|Paddles slower than longer boards.
|Paddles easily.
|Paddles easily.
|High maneuverability
|Good maneuverability
|Medium maneuverability
|Slower turns
|Suited to steeper larger waves.
|Suited to most wave types.
|Suits both short and long board surfing styles.
|Great for small or soft waves but good in big waves too.
|Suits shortboard surfing style.
|Suits shortboard surfing style.
|Suits both short and long board surfing styles.
|Suits the longboard style of surfing.
|Easy to manage when paddling out and in larger waves.
|Easy to manage when paddling out and in larger waves.
|Can be difficult when paddling out and in larger waves but not as hard as a longboard.
Good for small to large surfers.
|Can be difficult to manage when paddling out and in larger waves.
Great for larger surfers.


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Baseball / IBL / Baseball, kosher-style
Jerry Mittleman of Haaretz reports:
The moment you arrive, it's clear this is professional baseball as you've never seen it before. Young boys with black skullcaps, prayer shawl fringes and baseball mitts wait outside the park for foul balls, while others stand beyond the right-field fence hoping to catch a home run before it disappears into the sunflower field. Past the ticket stand and inside the park, a wildly enthusiastic crowd - of which 90 percent is religious Jews - is cheering on the home team.
Crown Heights meets "A Field of Dreams." That's how it is on game day, when the Beit Shemesh Blue Sox of the Israel Baseball League play their home games at Kibbutz Gezer. The Blue Sox have been one of the biggest success stories of the IBL's inaugural season, both on and off the field.
Beit Shemesh finished the regular season this week with a 29-12 record, two-and-a-half games ahead of the Tel Aviv Lightning. The Blue Sox also have been adopted by the town's large religious, American immigrant community. "Beit Shemesh today is literally an Anglo ghetto," says Gary Swickly, a resident who immigrated from the United States 17 years ago. "People have been moving in steadily in recent years, and they are still coming in droves."
According to league officials, an average of 300-350 fans attend each Blue Sox home game, almost three times the league average. For example, on August 9, a local Beit Shemesh online business held a company outing for 70 employees, as the Blue Sox bested the Lightning in a 2-1 pitchers' duel. "Most of our staff are Americans who live in Beit Shemesh, so this is a good way to get together," a company official told Haaretz.
Because many of the town's American immigrants are originally from the metropolitan New York area, league officials purposefully attempted to build a connection between the Blue Sox and the New York Yankees.
The Blue Sox wear Yankee pinstripes, their colors are dark blue and white like the Bronx Bombers, and they are managed by a former Yankee, Ron Blomberg. The popular, 58-year-old Blomberg played for the Yankees during the first seven seasons of his eight-year Major League Baseball career, and has maintained a strong connection with his former club since his playing days ended in the late 1970s. During the past two years, he has worked as a scout for the Yankees in his hometown, Atlanta.
Blomberg will always be remembered as the first player to appear in an MLB game as a designated hitter, after the American League introduced the rule in 1973. "Now I'm famous for three things, being the first player selected in the 1967 draft, the first designated hitter ever and one of the first managers in the Israel Baseball League." he says proudly.
The former Yankee is just as enthusiastic about the IBL as the American community of Beit Shemesh. This is Blomberg's first trip to Israel. "In the 1970s when I was still playing for the Yankees, Moshe Dayan came to New York on a visit and invited me to come here and teach Israelis baseball, but it didn't work out at the time. So for me to be here now and to give something back to the people after everything they've been through, is a dream come true".
This is Blomberg's first crack at managing, after passing up the Yankee's request that he manage in their minor system. "The only place I would manage would be here," states Blomberg, "I'd rather be managing here than in the major leagues. But I told the league officials that I'm not coming if they want me to wear red socks, only Yankee pinstripes."
Some of the features of Blue Sox home games would be hard to duplicate anywhere. As dusk approaches, the public-address system announces that a minyan will be held behind the bleachers at the end of the inning. The minyan is well-attended, and includes one participant, either a player or coach, in a Blue Sox uniform.
Baseball is a game of traditions. At Chicago's Wrigley Field, they play "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the seventh inning stretch. At Blue Sox games, two wildly gyrating yeshiva "bachers" lead the crowd as the sound system blasts "Y.M.C.A." after the fifth inning of the league's seven-inning contest.
The informal atmosphere at Blue Sox games make them good family entertainment, and women and children make up a good percentage of the crowd. Shoshana Levine, who attended the game last Thursday with her young children, is a typical Blue Sox fan. Seated behind home plate, in modest attire, her children wave a homemade Blue Sox banner adorned with a blue sock. "My kids spent the whole afternoon at home making the banner for tonight's game," says Levine, who immigrated to Beit Shemesh from New Jersey 10 years ago. When asked if she is a baseball fan, Levine replied, "Not really, but I come to the games out of loyality to my hometown team, my American past and also to represent my husband, who's on a business trip to the States, and a die-hard Yankee fan."
The game was decided by a walkoff, bases-loaded single by the home team that broke a 1-1 tie, a fitting way to conclude an evening of baseball - kosher style.


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Up until now it had been just like any other day, but as soon as he saw Bulbo coming up his garden path, clutching a small brown parcel, Algernon knew that was all about to change, and he began to wish that he had gone to the local "TROLLS versus ORCS" match after all.
Guide Algernon past the dreaded denizens of the "caverns" utilising, where necessary, all the cunning and skill of a stalwart adventurer. Do battle with immense "creatures" and solve many intricate problems and puzzles in your search for great wealth and untold riches. Help Algernon overcome "hungry" Dragons and negotiate dark, twisty passageways... That is, if you can ever figure out how to get into the damn castle in the first place!
Will you be able to help Algernon solve the riddle of the name of the person responsible for building the castle in the first place, or even satisfy the needs of the evil creature lurking in the murky depths of the moat? Can you assist him in his search for the means to unlock the wooden chest or simply to probe the inner depths of the small pouch? Don't forget that in the SHYRE things are not always what they first appear and that even one-legged Elves have a purpose in life.
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This is a painting of my cat, Slinky. He's a beautiful, very fluffy cat, but he is not really photogenic.. haha. Most pictures that I have of him, he looks stunned or is in a typically weird cat position, just like this one. The hang tooth was just the touch that made me want to immortalize that moment!
He was resting on our red couch and I debated about changing the color of the background several times.. However, I thought it provided a nice contrast. If I went with turquoise blue (like I wanted to do very badly), I think that the tones would be too similar and wash him out.
With the holidays, of course, I have to take a break from painting so that I can spend time with my family. See you in the new year!


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Is it a lace shawl or scarf? Either, depending on how you choose to wear it that day. What is not in question is how much you will love this wisp of an accessory! The mohair and silk lace weight yarn is supremely soft to knit with and a pleasure to wear against the skin.
This shawl actually starts at the top center, with 3 sets of eyelet increases that cause the stitches to fan out into a semi-circular shape. The two side eyelet increase sets are then shifted to the edges when the lace pattern is started, creating the final triangular shape.
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Allow me, Gentle Reader, to digress and tell you something about the Dwarves of Trollworld. Of all Kindreds, Trolls dislike Dwarves the most. This is because Dwarves compete with us for the buried riches of the planet. You, Gentle Reader, probably think that Dwarves are just short sturdy humans. Read this report and learn just how wrong you are.
The Dwarves of Trollworld are the people of Gristlegrim. They are a sturdy race–larger than Hobbs and Goblins, smaller than Men and Elves. They are generally not considered to be beautiful–being too broad and somewhat asymmetrical–but their faces have great character and integrity, and their bodies and minds are strong. Gristlegrim made them–literally carved them out of stone, then used a powerful version of the Living Stone spell to bring them to life. He did it because he noticed that all the other great wizards of Trollworld had subject races to use in their wars against each other.
People freshly carved out of stone have but little in the way of mind or memory. After verifying that he could indeed bring stony statues to life, but then finding that they simply sat around and watched him unless he magically seized their minds and used them as living puppets, the Dwarf God saw that it takes more than bodies to make a people. He set his first few dozen Dwarves to simple tasks, carving a tunnel into a mountain, and went off by himself to study the situation. From time to time he sent them food. Because they were living creatures they needed living food, but he wasn't too interested in feeding them, so he only sent a kind of moss and lichen stew–rich in vitamins and minerals. To this day, Dwarves still love to chomp on scummy mossy things that other races wouldn't even consider as food. It explains why moss is so often seen in their beards–they are messy eaters.
Scrying the multiverse, Gristlegrim found another race of Dwarves somewhat like his own on the world of Midgard (sometimes known as Earth). These ancient creatures (the maggots of Ymir) were accomplished stoneworkers, mages, fighters, and traders. Gristlegrim admired their industry and decided to mold his new minions in their likeness, but how to do so? He came up with a simple plan–he abducted a few dozen Dwarves from Midgard, brought them to Trollworld, and told them he wouldn't send them back until they had taught his Dwarves all they needed to know to survive on their own.
Imagine being abducted from your own world by some sort of mad deity, and told to perform a hopeless task before you would be allowed to return. Those kidnapped Dwarves didn't like the idea much, but when one of them tried to physically attack Gristlegrim, he was exploded like a blood sausage, and when a mage tried a magical attack, Gristlegrim turned his head inside out while leaving him still alive. Sickened and terrified, the remaining captives agreed to teach Gristlegrim's Dwarves how to live. Laughing hugely, Gris then reversed his spells, restoring both Dwarves to life and health, and set them free.
Getting a couple of stone-masons from Midgard to help him, Gristlegrim went back to carving Dwarven statues. But, they were all male–as Gristlegrim was a man, and hadn't associated with women for millenia. However, one of the Midgardian masons liked women, and he began carving some female, beardless, and quite voluptuous statues, and thus the khzd race came to include both sexes.
To aid in bringing multitudes of statues to life at once, each new Dwarf was carved with a G rune hidden somewhere on its body. A favorite spot was the bottom of the chin, another was the soles of the feet. All Trollworld Dwarves have a G rune that looks like a tatoo somewhere on their person–without it they could not live.
The Dwarves from Midgard found that they did not age and die on Trollworld as swiftly as they had on Midgard. It took centuries, but they trained and educated Gristlegrim's Dwarves into fair replicas of themselves. They learned stone-carving and metal-smithing, and architecture, and combat, and wizardry. Not many of the carven Dwarves seemed to have any natural talent for magic, but a few, perhaps one percent, those whose raw ore had contained some silver, seemed to be potent magicians. Something about the silver seemed to allow the natural magical power of the planet to infuse them to a greater degree than their fellows.
It took about 2000 years, but finally Gristlegrim had what he wanted; namely, a race of tens of thousands of strong, sturdy, and fearless fighters with some magical talent. They thrived in great subterranean fortresses, meeting and beating Uruks and Trolls on their own ground. They were manlike enough to pass among humans without arousing much alarm or suspicion. He scattered them around the world on all continents, and they have been ubiquitous ever since. And he returned his teaching cadre to Midgard, where time seemed to pass slower than it did on Trollworld. 2000 years in the other world was a mere 400 years on Earth. They came back with riches and magical power beyond belief, and many of them became legendary Dwarven kings and rulers.
There are some definite oddities about the Dwarves of Trollworld. Standing from one-half to two-thirds average human stature, they have no children among them. That is because new Dwarves are still made by carving a figure from stone, complete with a G rune which is the last thing to be added, and then magically brought to life. It takes from twenty to fifty years to infuse the blank Dwarf with knowledge and personality, and during that "growing period", it is kept as a laborer in the deepest Dwarven caverns.
Dwarves generally speak three languages: the Root Tongue which is Gristlegrim's native language brought from a vanished world. It is notable because it has no vowels in it at all. The original Dwarven people were called "khzd", now pronounced as Kah-zahd in Dwarvish which is the root tongue with vowels added. All Dwarves also learn the Common Tongue of Men, as it is the most widely spoken language on the planet.
Because of their origin as statues, Dwarves rarely change size or weight. Dwarves can eat as much as they want and never get fat; conversely, if they were carved fat to begin with, they can starve themselves and never get thin. Dwarves have neither fingernails nor toenails, but both fingers and toes are broad, spatulate, and strong. They have only one kind of teeth, squarish molars good for grinding away the roughest plants. A Dwarvish smile is a frigtening thing. If a Dwarf was carved hairy, then it is exceedingly hairy when it comes to life. If carved bald, then it never grows hair at all. Because they all started as stone, and retain a certain implicit rockiness (although they are not the true living stone of Trolls), Dwarves have exceptional strength and constitutions. Gristlegrim wanted them to be strong and hard to kill in order to fight the Uruks and Trolls who share their environment.
Dwarven senses are magically keen. They can see well in conditions with very little light; their hearing is acute; and it is said that they can smell gold or other metals. They are quite sensitive to vibrations, especially vibrations in rock. They do not seem to feel pain and pleasure in the same way that humans do, experiencing both as just varieties of pressure which rarely bothers them. Because of this immunity to pain, they can fight on with terrible wounds that would leave other life-forms gasping in agony. Dwarves seldom mention how things taste, except to comment on various mineral flavors. They love alcoholic beverages, but it takes a great deal to intoxicate them.
The great majority of Dwarves never leave their cavern strongholds. Only a relative few go forth to live and adventure in the outer world, and this they do as a form of service to their people. Dwarves need traders to bring foods and cloth and other luxuries to their underground cities. Whatever can be made from rock or metal, they can make, but organic goods are harder for them to obtain. They also need knowledge. They are excellent craftsmen and tireless workers and searchers, but there are few Dwarven inventors or innovators. Luckily, for the reputation of the Dwarves as master technologists, they have strong alliances with the Gnomes, and all Gnomes are full of wacky ideas. Sometimes the Dwarves can actually make some Gnomish flight of fancy work, and when that happens there is a technological advance.
Although the Dwarves who venture to the surface appear to be a bluff, good-hearted, friendly people, their rulers and masters in the caverns are secretive, suspicious, and greedy. They never allow outsiders to penetrate into the true Dwarven fortresses–going so far as to construct whole mock-cities on upper levels where surface dwellers can be suitably entertained and impressed. A showpiece city can be extensive and beautiful, but it always seem to be sparsely populated, leading outsiders to believe that Dwarves are not a numerous race. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Half a mile deeper in the Earth lies the true Dwarf metropolis with untold thousands of inhabitants performing their countless jobs: mining, smelting, building, tunneling, creating weapons, tending the vast fungi farms that provide their basic food. New Dwarves are carved at the very deepest levels–miles below the surface, and they wait in uncounted millions to be released into life. Meanwhile, the Dwarven population increases slowly but steadily, and the outside world never knows.
Dwarves have only one truly natural enemy–the great stone Trolls of Trollworld. Only those Trolls can penetrate into the deepest Dwarven cities, and Dwarves, being of rocky origin to begin with, are considered a great delicacy by the Trolls. To them, Dwarves taste better than anything.
The Trolls also resent the fact that the Dwarves are carving ever bigger and deeper caverns, turning living rock into unliving metal, and driving them from their ancient haunts and homes. Deep under the earth there is a never-ending war between Dwarves and Trolls, with raw power and savagery going to the Trolls, but numbers, organization, and planning going to the Dwarves. Ever so slowly, the Trolls are losing this war also.
Dwarves encountered on the surface of Trollworld are generally good fellows–stout, axe-swinging maniacs, and the best dungeon-delving bodies you could ever ask for.
Dwarves are good at making alliances. At one time or another they have allied themselves with Humans, Elves, Uruks, Goblins, Ogres, and even Dragons. They have never allied themselves with Rock Trolls. Trolls consider them to be little better than smart food. Dwarves are the most insidious threat to every other sapient kindred on Trollworld. According to their prophecies, some day the Dwarves will rule over all.
Ken's notes about this blog:
As I re-examined this chronology of Trollworld, which has existed in one form or another for more than a decade now, it occurred to me that I could integrate it with other bits of Trollworld lore that have been created–hence this short essay on the history of Dwarves. Although other forms of this chronology exist in various rulebooks, and on the web, this latest revision supersedes them all. Things may be changed and added here that have never been seen before. Trollworld continues to evolve in my mind.
The fne picture of a Dwarvish warrior was created by my friend Garen Ewing some eight years ago, and it has not been seen for quite a while. Perhaps I will show other art pieces contributed by my friends in bygone days. I certainly will if I can find them.
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I wonder why the search system has been changed but I believe it is changed for the common good. A simple thing from me, I can't find that drama check box. I've been a fan of Drama+Romance series for years and when I'm trying to find one, I'd usually check the Drama and Romance boxes in anidb search and voila! I arrange their ratings and the higher ranked series are my first priority. I did such search before and the likes of Saikano, Hantsuki, KimiNozo (which shows after searching for drama+romance genres) popped out but now, I believe they fall in different categories which makes it is a bit harder for me to search.
In this new search system, well... Some may find it just a small problem (or a huge improvement) but I think drama is still an important aspect when searching titles, especially for drama freaks like me. I think the choices in that search box today has become too specific that it got me confused. Thanks and more power to all!
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Harry Potter and the Exorcist
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Broken link. There's a "l" missing from the end of the URL.
- January 14, 2011 at 5:38 AM
- David T. said...
fixed it, thanks.
- January 15, 2011 at 8:59 AM
- Pseudonoma said...
Hi David,
I really appreciate the link to this post. Some very important information. This is a topic which, unfortunately, most people of good will should to some degree become better informed about, since it is believed to be either folklore or simply "interesting" --as if it were ever to be regarded as material for lucrative movie-making or novel-writing.
Needless to say, I was equally appreciative of, yet dismayed by, this information, to which your link had itself been linked: http://www.hli.org/index.php/news/press-releases/947-press-release-2211-hli-releases-additional-information-on-the-resignation-of-rev-euteneuer
Best regards, and thanks again for LPB.
- February 5, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- David T. said...
I never followed that link... yes, it is dismaying. Naturally we are all sinners and what he says about Potter I think still holds.
Deal Hudson has his own issues:
I've always been a little perplexed that he's still around in Catholic publishing circles after that one.
- February 5, 2011 at 2:41 PM
- Pseudonoma said...
I cannot speak on this matter with any more authority than as an internet browser ---which is to say, no authority at all, but I must say that the slew of links I followed afterwards regarding the obsure details of this Euteneuer's case, as well as the even more obscure consequences that have resulted, have lead me to suspect that the most recent marring of his reputation --whether justified or not ---is nothing less than tragic. Not only his book on the Church Militant but his earlier publication entitled "Demonic Abortion" seem to be bold proclamations regarding severe truths that illuminate the extent of the aggressive and pervasive evil that we are currently endangered by in the current age. Not the preaching material of someone merely concerned with making people feel more comfortable within their "faith community". We need tuly holy priests to fearlessly communicate these all too disconcerting truths if we are ever to be roused to vigilance regarding their encroachment. Somnambulistic sense of normalcy may even be a stronger ally of evil than paranoia, if I may say so. Hopefully the downfall of this questionable man's reputation does not prove to be a mere tranquilizer to the urgent problems he previously risked publically addressing.
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Boca Raton Historical Society (BRHS) is incorporated. The formation of the Society was a project of the Junior Service League (later the Junior League of Boca Raton).
At the urging of the Boca Raton Historical Society, the Boca Raton Bicentennial Committee sets a goal of creating a local history museum in the old City Hall.
The City of Boca Raton passes an historic preservation ordinance that creates the Boca Raton Historic Preservation Board, a project spearheaded by the Boca Raton Historical Society. Six properties are singled out in the ordinance as historically significant so they would not be torn down, including the Cloister Inn (original part of the Boca Raton Resort & Club), Town Hall, the F.E.C. Railway Station, and the Mizner Administration Building.
The City of Boca Raton passes a resolution designating the Old City Hall (Town Hall) as the site for a future historical museum. The BRHS immediately moves its office to the second floor of the building and begins to raise funds for the restoration.
The Boca Raton Historical Society convinces the Florida Legislature to create a local office for the Division of Historical Resources in Boca Raton, named the Historic Boca Raton Preservation Board. Several members of the BRHS board are appointed to the board, assuming new powers with state backing.
The Boca Raton Historical Society spearheads the saving of Singing Pines, a 1912 cracker-style cottage, headed for demolition. The BRHS persuades the City to donate land for the re-location and pays for and arranges the move, while an architect and a builder donate their services for the restoration. The Junior Service League raises $60,000 for the restoration, and in 1979, Singing Pines opens its doors as Boca Raton's first children's museum.
The Old City Hall (Town Hall) and the F.E.C. Railway Station are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Cabana Club, which served as the hotel's beach club since the 1930's, is slated for demolition to make room for a new high-rise condominium. The Cabana Club, which also served as the social center for the community in the summer months, was made of wood except for the portico entrance. The Historical Society persuades the developer to save the portico (porte-cochere) and move it at his expense ($50,000) to a new Palm Beach County park at the Boca Raton Inlet. The porte-cochere now serves as an elegant structure at a beautiful site that the public can enjoy.
The restoration of Town Hall begins at the same time that Sanborn Square across the street is being expanded. These two projects, using the same architect and working closely with the City, become the demonstration projects for downtown redevelopment. Design elements of architect Addison Mizner, who originally designed Town Hall, are incorporated into the Boca Raton Beautification Plan and later become part of the Downtown Redevelopment Plan. Boca Raton's successful redevelopment efforts are now recognized throughout the country.
In November, the $500,000 plus restoration of Town Hall is complete. The restoration was made possible through private and corporate donations and a $62,500 state grant. The project receives the prestigious Florida Trust Award for Historic Preservation.
The Mizner Administration Building is named to the National Register of Historic Places.
The F.E.C. Railway Station is to be sold by the Florida East Coast Railway to a local restaurateur. Incensed BRHS members appeal to the City to intervene. The Boca Raton Community Redevelopment Agency negotiates and secures the purchase of the property and the BRHS Board of Trustees agrees to accept responsibility for organizing and leading a community-wide effort to raise funds for purchasing and restoring the Depot and landscaping the site. A coalition of ten local banks arranges for interim financing, and within two months the deal is consummated.
The fundraising campaign for the Depot is underway. Local citizens, wearing engineer caps, blowing railroad whistles and "buying" stock in the Boca Scenic Railway Company, join in the campaign. With community donations, a $400,000 state grant, and a gift of $500,000 from Countess de Hoernle, the largest single gift to a preservation project at that time in the county, the necessary funds are raised.
Members of the Historical Society board arrange for four rail cars to be delivered to the Depot site. A steam locomotive and a caboose from the 1930's and two 1947 streamliner passenger cars are placed at either end of the Depot.
The Boca Raton Historical Society receives the prestigious Florida Trust Award for Historic Preservation for the restoration of the F.E.C. Railway Station, Count de Hoernle Pavilion.
The Old Floresta Historic District is created by the Boca Raton Historic Preservation Board and approved by the City Council.
The exteriors of the four railway cars at the F.E.C. Railway Station, Count de Hoernle Pavilion are restored by the Historical Society with a designation of $40,000 by the Board of Trustees.
|The Boca Raton Historical Society receives the Outstanding Educational Program Award from the Florida Historical Confederation for lesson plans on local history created for area teachers.
At the request of the Boca Raton Historical Society, the Historic Preservation and Review Board of Palm Beach County designates Camino Real and the Camino Real Bridge as historic. This is an effort to save the roadway, designed by Addison Mizner, and the bridge built in the 1930's from being changed due to high traffic.
The BRHS begins sponsoring Boca Raton's Walk of Recognition, which annually recognizes local residents who have gone above and beyond their normal careers to improve the community. The honorees' names are permanently inscribed in granite stars displayed at Royal Palm Plaza.
The Boca Raton Historical Society announces that the Countess de Hoernle has made a $2 million endowment bequest to the Society; $1 million for the upkeep of Town Hall and $1 million for the upkeep of the F.E.C. Railway Station, Count de Hoernle Pavilion. This is the largest single endowment gift to an Historical Society in the State of Florida.
The Boca Raton Historical Society begins working with the City and the Palm Beach County School Board to save the gymnatorium at Boca Raton Elementary School. The building, built by the WPA in the 1930's, was the only combination gym and auditorium still in use in the county and was at the center of Boca Raton social life since WWII days. Ultimately, the gym was demolished to make room for a playground for the re-built Boca Raton Elementary School.
Boca Raton Historical Society entered into a community partnership with the Boca Raton Magazine, the Design Center of the Americas (DCOTA), and DuPont – O'Neill & Associates to completely restore the interiors of the two 1947 streamliner railway passenger cars located at the F.E.C. Railway Station, Count de Hoernle Pavilion. Everyone in the community was encouraged to get All Aboard the Boca Express. The cars were brought back to their original condition to serve as a museum. In August 2001, the BRHS received a Special Category Grant from the state of Florida for the train restoration in the amount of $120,200.
The Boca Raton Historical Society nominates architect Addison Mizner to the Florida Artists' Hall of Fame. Mizner is chosen as the first architect to receive this award, and the induction ceremony is slated to take place in April 2001 at the Boca Raton Resort & Club.
The BRHS collaborates with local teacher, Deborah Rothberger, to write and publish a children's book on the history of Boca Raton: A Stroll Through Boca Raton's Early History from A – Z. The book is for sale in the Society's gift shop and is donated to local schools through the program "Books for Boca."
The two 1947 streamliner rail cars are named to the National Register of Historic Places.
Pearl City is designated by the City as an historic neighborhood. The Palm Beach County office of the Division of Historical Resources, working with the Boca Raton Historical Society, completed the site survey of Pearl City, Boca Raton's only African American neighborhood.
|The inaugural Boca Bacchanal Winefest & Auction is successful. This is a new fundraiser for the Society to raise funds for its heritage education programs in the community.
The Boca Raton Pioneer Club donates $17,000 that was raised to save the gym to the BRHS to digitize and microfilm the Society's collection of hometown newspapers. The papers are carefully unbound, ironed and sent for copying.
The BRHS undergoes the Community Assessment Program (CAP), sponsored by the IMLS, to assess the care given to archives and collections, including buildings and properties.
|Boca Express Train Museum opens to public. The Ticket to Ride children's educational program is started.
The Boca Raton Historical Society receives an award from the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation for its exhibit, Mizner's Dream: The Built and the Unbuilt.
|Boca Raton Historical Society undergoes the Museum Assessment Program I (MAP), sponsored by the IMLS, which is the first step for accreditation by the American Association of Museums.
Boca Raton Historical Society collection of hometown newspapers, digitized in 2003, are put on the web for easy access by those interested in Boca's history from 1938 – 1969. The funds for this were raised at the Boca Bacchanal Wine Auction 2005.
Boca Raton Historical Society is recognized by the American Association for State and Local History's Award of Merit for its website, www.bocahistory.org.
Boca Raton Historical Society publishes a new pictorial history, Boomtime Boca: Boca Raton in the 1920s, by curator Susan Gillis.
|The Historical Society receives a collection of antiques from Addison Mizner's Worth Avenue apartment, on long term loan from the Norton Museum.
Boca Raton Historical Society publishes a new scholarly history entitled The Boca Raton Resort & Club: Mizner's Inn by historian Donald W. Curl.
|Boca Raton Historical Society, in conjunction with Google, makes the Boca Raton News archives 1970-2005 available on line through Google News Search.
The Society receives a significant collection of Mizner related antiques from the Boca Raton Resort & Club.
|Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum initiates a Twitter account for pioneer farmer Frank Chesebro; each day tweeting the entry from Frank' s diary from 100 years ago.
The FEC Depot gets a historically appropriate new roof and lamp posts.
Boca Raton Historical Society is awarded the American Association of Museums MAP 3 grant, for community engagement assessment.
|Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum celebrates its 40th anniversary and adopts a new strategic plan.
The Boca Express launches a new first person interpretive tour.
Website www.bocahistory.org is greatly expanded with additional historic resources and new format.
|The Historical Society announces its rebranding as the Boca Raton History Museum.
The Boca Raton History Museum partners with the state's Viva Florida 500 event with an exhibition titled "Native Floridians."
|The Historical Society initiates its Boca Raton Jewish Community oral history project tin partnership with Lynn University's College of Communications.
Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum receives its second Florida Cultural Endowment matching grant of $240,000 forming a $600,000 endowment.
Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum publishes a new book, Palm Beach County During World War II, in partnership with sister agency the Historical Society of Palm Beach County.
|The Walk of Recognition holds its 20th Year ceremony.
The Historical Society hosts a trolley tour of the new downtown Boca Raton developments, "Meet Your New Downtown."
Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum prints a new edition of its popular 1975 cookbook, the Pioneer Cook in Southeast Florida.
|Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum's major fundraiser Boca Bacchanal, celebrates its 15th year.
|Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum launches its History Alive! project to build new professionally designed exhibits at Town Hall.
|Renovation begins on historic Town Hall for History Alive! to upgrade building infrastructure made possible in part by a grant from the City of Boca Raton. Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum launches a campaign to raise funds for the building and new exhibits.
|The history is happening now! Will you be a part of it?


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Name: Morimoto Soba Ale
Brewery: Rogue (Newport, OR, U.S.A)
Style: Soba Ale
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The sun is out in Auckland!
And as we all know, the first glimpses of summer (no matter how fleeting and misleading) call for beer to be drunk in the middle of the day. This is not something to be debated, it's simply a ritual I learned at university and have honoured ever since.
Olivia came over for lunch and we split this Soba Ale. I'd had this at Hashigo Zake nearly 3 years ago and had always remembered it fondly for it's uniqueness – presumably owing to the fact that it's made using soba (also known as buckwheat). Fun fact: buckwheat is not a wheat, but a member of the rhubarb family. Fancy that!
As you can see it pours a rather lovely colour – golden and slightly hazy. I think the aroma is the best thing about this beer: it's unusual and yet somehow really familiar… I smelled marmalade, appletiser, and grass (although the neighbour was mowing the lawn), and we both thought it reminded us of something from our childhood – a summer holiday maybe. As is often the way though, we drank it all before we nailed it on the head.
The taste is quite light, nutty, and not at all sweet, nor overly bitter. It has a light mouthfeel and quite a quick dry finish. It was really nice and refreshing, I think I wanted just a little bit more from it. I guess that might be a sign of a newbie craft beer taster, always wanting BIG flavours so that we can jump up and down and use exclamation marks when we write about them!
I'm nearly 3 weeks into this blog now, and it's funny how the things I thought would be hard are easy and vice versa. For example: thinking of things to say about each beer = easy. Forcing myself to shut up = hard. Finding a different beer to drink each day = easy. Sticking to just one = very hard.
I was a bit greedy yesterday and drank four different beers. As well as the 8 Wired Big Smoke I had a Mac's Sassy Red, a Moa Five Hop Winter Ale, and an Emerson's Taiere George. They were all worth breaking the rules for!


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Creator of Yoon-Suin and other materials. Propounding my half-baked ideas on role playing games. Jotting down and elaborating on ideas for campaigns, missions and adventures. Talking about general industry-related matters. Putting a new twist on gaming.
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Yoon-Suin Goblins
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Great choice!ReplyDelete
I like the snub-nosed monkeys of central China a lot. They do a good job of hitting that sweet spot between creepy and cool.
Goblins are adorable!ReplyDelete
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I always wondered what was up with blue-nosed hobgoblins.ReplyDelete
I love all the different variations on goblins people have. My goblins all wear samurai masks.ReplyDelete
Interesting that you chose to use Photoshopped baby photos for your setting source materials; I applaud your dedication!ReplyDelete
It'll be the shittiest feeling 12 xp you ever garnered.ReplyDelete
Roger, they're bigger than they look and much more vicious. You wouldn't be feeling too bad about those 12 XP after you've watched one of those things chewing your best friend's nose off a la Danny DeVito in "Batman Returns".ReplyDelete
@ Roger: Feel no guilt in their slaughter. Gingers don't have souls like real people. ;)ReplyDelete
I like the lugubrious expressions in pics 2 & 3. Gloomy Marvin the Paranoid Android/Puddleglum goblins would make a nice change from the excitable ADHD goblin cliché.
Chris: I thought so, too. They're clearly pissed off about being in the snow, although they must get it every year.ReplyDelete
And yeah, I like the idea of glum goblins. I'd be depressed too if I had to live in the kind of social darwinist dystopian nightmare than goblin society must be.
Gaaah! When is your G+ game starting up Noisms? This makes me want a spot in it, hardcore.ReplyDelete


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Cardiff's David Omoregie ran brilliantly at yesterday's British indoor championships in Sheffield to take the bronze medal behind dead-heating Olympic athletes Andy Pozzi and Will Sharman, smashing his personal best over the senior hurdles with a time of 7.78 seconds; a time that moves him up to 6th in the current senior UK rankings.
凯极娱乐官网Despite a less than electric start, David hurdled superbly to snatch a well deserved third place but had an agonisingly long wait for the official verdict as the photo finish judges tried to separate Pozzi and Sharman.
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Due to the recent wet conditions, alternative parking arrangements have been put in place for the Welsh Cross Country Championships at Dinefwr on Saturday 15th February.
凯极娱乐官网It is not possible to park athletes/spectators vehicles at the Newton House car park so instead an arrangement has been made to use the hard standings at the nearby Home Farm. There will be a regular shuttle bus service which will operate throughout the day.
It is also possible to walk to the start / finish area which is approximately 800 metres from Home Farm.
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凯极娱乐官网Cardiff AAC athletes were to the fore at the Welsh Schools' national cross country championships held in Brecon on Saturday last, 1st February.
The conditions were very poor with the ground heavy after days of rain and biting wind and rain for most of the races including occasional hail.
凯极娱乐官网Braving these conditions to win gold medals were Jake Heyward (middle boys), Daniel John (year 7 boys) and Rebecca Evans (senior girls).
凯极娱乐官网It has been a busy week in athletics with athletes off to Austria as well as the final indoor Grand Prix in Cardiff and the schools' cross country championships in Brecon.
Austria was a happy hunting ground with Cardiff athletes returning with several personal best performances. At the Vienna Indoor Classic on 28th January, Tom Marshall continued his good form with an indoor PB of 3:43.11 for 1500m while sprinter Dewi Hammond set his all-time best of 6.85 for 60m and Carl Hill ran an indoor PB of 1:51.67 for 800m. Not to be left out, Ffion Price set a season's best for 1500m.
Entries to this year's Welsh Cross Country Championships close on Sunday next, 9th February so make sure you get your entries in on time.
凯极娱乐官网There will be individual and team championship medals and Cardiff AAC has the talented athletes to win plenty of these as we have strong teams if everyone competes. We can even win medals with our A, B and C teams.
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Cardiff's Alice Nottingham received a very important email last week - confirmation that she had been selected as a volunteer (they will be called "Clyde-siders") at this year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
凯极娱乐官网Hurdler Alice (17), who is a student at Stanwell School in Penarth, was one of 50,000 (yes, 50,000) who applied a year ago for places as volunteers. And, naturally, she said that her preferred sport would be athletics.
凯极娱乐官网By last September, the applications had been reduced by a half and 25,000 applicants travelled to Glasgow (at their own expense) to be interviewed. Alice obviously gave a good interview and is one of the 5,000 finally selected - and she will be helping at the athletics stadium; her dream come true.
Cardiff's Curtis Mathews, representing Great Britain in the under 23 Combined Events international held in Sheffield on 25/26 January, set three individual event personal bests to produced a personal best total score of 5,205 points in the indoor heptathlon.
He had set his previous best score only a few weeks ago at the same venue.
凯极娱乐官网His event personal bests were in the long jump (7.01m), high jump (1.94m) and 1,000m (2:47.02).
His individual event performances were:
60m: 7.30Long jump: 7.01mShot put: 12.35mHigh jump: 1.94m60m hurdles: 8.74Pole vault: 3.80m1,000m: 2:47.02
After the clean sweep of medals by the under 17 men in the 800m on Saturday, Cardiff's under 20 men capped this yesterday in the 1500m by taking the first five places in the six man final. Matthew Edwards was first to finish, followed by Sam Longville, Jacob Preece, Ieuan Handley and Ciaran Lewis.
Several Cardiff athletes completed individual doubles with Issie Tustin adding the under 13 girls' 200m title to her 60m gold, Sofia Vella the under 13 girls 1500m to her 800m, Harry Hillman winning the under 17 men's pole vault and long jump, Naomi Reid the under 15 girls' 800m and 1500m, James Vincent the under 15 boys' 800m and 1500m, Ryan James the under 17 men's 200m and 400m and Gwenno Waddington the under 17 women's 800m and 1500m.
凯极娱乐官网In an action packed day at the NIAC yesterday, 25th January, Cardiff athletes accumulated an impressive medal count at the Welsh Athletics indoor championships.
The under 17 men's 800m saw a Cardiff clean sweep with Hassan Abdi taking the gold medal ahead of Joseph Adler (silver) and Alex Love (bronze).
An exciting senior women's 60m final saw Mica Moore (silver medal) edge out Commonwealth Games hopeful Elaine O'Neill in a personal best time of 7.54 seconds. The senior men's final, likewise, produced a personal best 6.97 for silver medallist Gareth Hopkins.
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Forrester report features successful application of StereoLOGIC Process Mining at a US Life Insurance Company
The recent report from Forrester is titled Process Mining: Your Compass For Digital Transformation – The Customer Journey Is The Destination.
According to Forrester:
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
A Plethora of Writing Quotes
She shares her favorite quotes out of her favorite writing books, that's what! An added plus is the link to where you can buy the book from which the quote is listed. That way you can highlight your own favorite quotes!
A word of warning: because writing and editing are two different skills, they require two different mind-sets. Don't try to do both at once. The time to edit is not when you're writing your first draft. Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King
Examples of dangling or unattached participles abound in today's newspapers and broadcast media and even in books from respected publishers. Once recognized, they should be instantly zapped by the laser beam of common sense. Between You and I, a little book of bad english by James Cochrane
I want to suggest that to write to your best abilities, it behooves you to construct your own toolbox and then build up enough muscle so you can carry it with you. Then, instead of looking at a hard job and getting discouraged, you will perhaps seize the correct tool and get immediately to work. Stephen King on Writing, by Stephen King
Before you can stretch anything, of course, you need the raw material. You don't fashion a a clay pot without clay. The clay for a novelist is trouble. The question you have to keep asking is this: What problem has the potential to lay some serious hurt on my character? Plot and Structure by James Scott Bell
You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or life, I have ever heard. Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
The last paragraph or line of your scene has one purpose: to get the reader to read on. It gets the reader forward in some fashion. Revision and Self-Editing by James Scott Bell
Fiction weaves truth into slice-of-life depictions to which readers can relate. It provides a touchstone to common experiences of humanity and a way to examine those experiences. When Jesus sat on a grassy slope surrounded by the hurting, he painted word pictures--salt, lamps, bread, rusting treasure. by Sharon Hinck in A Novel Idea, with contributions from best-selling authors.
I know I sound like some yogi from the land of easy answers, but I do have a point. You can either be defeated by your desperation, or you can use it. Revision and Self-Editing by James Scott Bell
My dad always told me, "Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are right." This is especially true for us writers. We must work hard and we must pray, believing that God is taking our writing to the place where he alone can showcase it. Wherever that place is, and however many people eventually read what we've written--we must always be hardworking and hopeful. by Karen Kingsbury in A Novel Idea, with contributions from best-selling authors.
Desire. It's got to be a hunger inside you. You're going to have to sacrifice time and money and endure frustrations galore. If you don't have the desire, you won't last long out there on the battlefield. The Art of War for Writers, by James Scott Bell
Storytellers are different. Storytellers look not to publishers to make them successful, but to themselves. They wonder how to top themselves with each new novel. Their grumbles are not about getting toured but about getting more time to deliver. Story tellers take calculated risks with their fiction. Mostly they try to make their stories bigger. The Fire in Fiction, by Donald Maass
I know people "write when they can," but if you are serious about wanting to finish something, create a writing time every day, and discipline yourself to sit down for say, thirty minutes, or an hour to write....You need to decide: Is writing for you Profession or Playtime? The answer will determine how you approach your time. From the Inside ...Out, by Susan May Warren and Rachel Hauck
What is your favorite writing quote? Or what is your favorite go-to writing resource?
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Sherrinda Ketchersid
Sherrinda is wife to "Pastor John" and mother to three giant sons and one gorgeous daughter. A born and bred Texan, she writes historical romance filled with fun, faith, and forever love.
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- Unknown said...
I have a few people that I love the read. Authors who have "been there, done that". One of my favorites is a realtive new author of "This Bird Flew Away". She also has a series of articles on HubPages for writers. If you don't object to a link, here it is. I found this series very useful. (This is just the first one.)http://lmmartin.hubpages.com/hub/Good-Writing-Is-1-the-two-biggest-mistakes-made-by-new-writers
- November 8, 2011 at 4:41 AM
- Sarah Forgrave said...
Wow, what an awesome list of posts, Sherrinda! I love that Stephen King one about the tools. That's brilliant stuff. And I love the Anne Lamott one too. Would you believe I've had "Bird by Bird" on my bookshelf for two years and still haven't read it yet? *sigh* It keeps getting shoved down my list for other craft books, but I'm dying to dive into it.
- November 8, 2011 at 4:43 AM
- Wendy Paine Miller said...
Excellent choices. I especially responded to the one from The Fire in Fiction today.
And Sarah, READ IT! :D It's one of my favs.
~ Wendy
- November 8, 2011 at 4:49 AM
- Jeanne Takenaka said...
Great quotes, Sherrinda! I'm reading Inside..Out by Susan May Warren right now, and slowly working through the activities she gives. they are so helpful.
The quote James Scott Bell offers about a writer's clay being trouble stuck with me. :)
- November 8, 2011 at 6:18 AM
- Carla Gade said...
Great post!
I like what Sharon Hink, and James Scott Bell on the last line.
- November 8, 2011 at 6:33 AM
- Embrace said...
Thanks Sherrinda for sharing these. Don't think for a minute that was a cop-out post! I loved being reminded of what so many great authors have said to inspire. I am fairly new to writing (less than two years) but I was very encouraged to see I had read most of the resources you quoted. And added the others to my 'to be bought' pile.
I can't think of my favourite quote right now but if it comes to me during the day I will revisit.
Thanks again!
- November 8, 2011 at 8:03 AM
- Sherrinda Ketchersid said...
Duchess, thank you for sharing a link! I think any resource to help writers is awesome. And I will definitely have to check out that author. Thanks for sharing!
- November 8, 2011 at 9:34 AM
- Sherrinda Ketchersid said...
Thanks, Sarah! I really liked Stephen King's book on writing. So straight forward and to the point. (my kind of stuff!) And YES, you need to pull Bird by Bird off your shelf! It's a good one.
Wendy! I hope you are doing well today! I love Donald Maass and anything he writes. He is a definitely a go-to for me. :)
- November 8, 2011 at 9:36 AM
- Sherrinda Ketchersid said...
Jeanne, I absolutely LOVE Inside...Out and found it so helpful is beginning a novel. It is like gathering the bones and putting it all together, piece by piece.
Carla, James Scott Bell is such a writer's writer. What great words of wisdom he has...and so generous to share!
- November 8, 2011 at 9:38 AM
- Sherrinda Ketchersid said...
Jodi, good for you in getting your resource library started early in your writing career. I think we are all continually learning in this field and we need all the help we can get! (I hope you come back with a great quote!)
- November 8, 2011 at 9:39 AM
- Beth K. Vogt said...
With a blog titled "In Others' Words," you've made me a ve-ery happy gal today, Sherrinda! I post all sorts of quotes over at my blog, not just writing quotes.
Here one of my go-to quotes that motivates me as a writer (I have it posted over my desk):
"Anything I've ever done that was ultimately worthwhile ... initially scared me to death." ~Betty Bender, motivational speaker.
- November 8, 2011 at 11:52 AM
- Mary Vee Writer said...
Thanks Sherrinda,
I love reading special quotes. On the ACFW Crit loop Fay posts a quote. I purposely click on that email to read the quote.
Great idea for a post!
- November 8, 2011 at 12:27 PM
- Sherrinda Ketchersid said...
Beth, I also love quotes of all kinds. I have a small notebook where I write quotes that speak to me. Not just writing quotes, but quotes that inspire or motivate me in life.
And the quote you shared is going into my notebook! I love that!!!!
- November 8, 2011 at 1:58 PM
- Sherrinda Ketchersid said...
Mary, I didn't know you were on the Crit Loop. I had stepped out during the summer and hadn't gotten back into it. And yes, I remember loving that part of Fay's emails!
- November 8, 2011 at 2:00 PM
- Marsha Hubler said...
I don't know if anyone famous ever said this, but I live it: "Revise, revise, revise!"
- November 8, 2011 at 3:35 PM
- Pepper said...
Great encouragement and wisdom here, Sherrinda.
I loved Anne Lamont's quote - and anything by James Scott Bell.
Thanks so much for sharing
- November 8, 2011 at 7:25 PM


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As good stewards of the land, ecology and environment are important to the Holy Trinity Monastery community. On the 132 acres, there is not only the Lady of Guadalupe Chapel, living quarters, offices, library, museum, dining hall, Father Louis Hall, thrift shop, and conservatory, but guest houses for the retreats.
The enclosed court yard around the church is a gardener's delight with the rose garden, flowers and plants of many varieties. The lovely fountain, surrounded by benches, gives the visitor an opportunity to just sit and soak in the peace. Another rose garden is down in the plaza near the Gallery Trinitas and Trinity Library.
Many pecan trees provide a means of income.
In 1992, the Bureau of Land Management helped dedicate a 1.3 mile bird sanctuary trail that borders along the property and the San Pedro River. In 1993 the monastery received the "Conservation Co-operator of the Year" award presented by San Pedro National Resource Conservation District.
With the beauty of the large, tree lined pond, visitors attain a peace and solitude that is difficult to find in a busy world. A Oriental garden is also a place for meditation. It has a small pond, oriental bridge and lovely flowers to lend its feeling of serenity.
Visitors who have their own recreational vehicles can stay in the Monte Cassino RV Park housed on the property. During their stay, they are invited to join the community in daily prayer and Eucharist, plus other activities.


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A popular weekday lunch spot, Label Ferme is full of good things. Old crates on the walls hold salamis, jars of jam, fruit juices and fresh vegetables, and at the sandwich counter there are delicious trays of meats, cheeses and more for you to choose for your salad or sandwich (around €7 to €10 with a drink). There are a few tables, but it's really about a quick takeaway lunch or buying cooking supplies. Further decoration comes from photos of the farmers behind the products, as Label Ferme's philosophy is to make 'fast' food from quality ingredients. The owners have scoured the Savoie region and beyond to source homemade produce and promote sustainable agriculture practices. It's not all organic or (eco)certified, but the origin of each product matters.
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It's Halloween Season and don't-ya just love the ghouls, the pumpkins, the screams of mock-terror, the kids in their top-to-toe, trick-or-treat disguises? I do.
Well, here's your Halloween treat because it's time for #2 of 10 New Authors of Colour.
Today, I'm interviewing V.M. Sawh, author of Cinders. Cinders is a perfect, dark pick.
Read on to find out more.
Cinders by V.M. Sawh
Book Description
As a slave in the bawdy Black House, Rella longs to escape the whips and chains of her existence. When she is chosen for a dangerous mission and offered a chance at freedom, Rella knows she has to take it.
Armed with a secret weapon, Rella must infiltrate the Grand Ball and come face-to-face with the true price of her salvation.
Cinders (Good Tales for Bad Dreams) is part of a short-fiction series of re-imagined fairy tales. Each story is set in a different time and place.
So strip bare your assumptions, open your mind and take a walk on the dark side of make believe.
Ann Girdharry's View
There's a wicked sense of humour in this dark re-telling which takes us a million miles from the original 'Cinderella', to a place of violence (and sex), where choices have to be made for your own survival. V.M keeps the style and tone of a fairy tale whilst conveying a story which is something utterly different.
What I liked was the way the author kept it dark and yet, the reader knows the hidden heart to the story, and understands Cinders as a young woman with a slim chance. There's a battle of values here, of who we are or what we want to be. There's also great writing with rich descriptions.
This is for those who like dark, mature themes, with a clever touch. The raw creativity needed to create such an original tale makes me look forward to a full length novel from V.M. Sawh.
Five Things You Didn't Know about V.M. Sawh
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1. Born in Guyana, I came to Canada during the big snowstorm of 1993, one day after my 9th birthday. I felt caught between the world I'd left behind and my new role as an immigrant, and discovered unexpected differences between the Indian culture I thought I knew and the Indo-Canadian experience. I sought to forge a new identity as I grew up - one free from culture politics and the social pressures that came with colour-based labels.
2. I crafted 3 novels by age 16 and was courted by a publisher while still in high school. To my everlasting regret, I doubted myself and chose to forgo my dream of publishing. Instead, I finished high school a year early, got a job and paid my own way through university.
3. I fulfilled a life-long dream when I drove to the top of Mount Haleakalā, a 10,000 foot volcano, white-knuckling it on both ascent & descent, in a silver Dodge Challenger nicknamed "Luna". With no guardrails on that mountain road, a single slip of the wheel meant instant death. Once I reached the peak, I was able to watch the sunset above the clouds and laid eyes on the Silversword - a metallic flowering cactus that only grows in the Mars-like crater at the top.
4. As a die-hard fan of monster movies, I was overjoyed to meet my long-time hero - director Guillermo del Toro (of Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth & Pacific Rim fame) in person. Del Toro was so disheartened by lack of studio support for Hellboy 3 that he wondered aloud if he should stop making movies. Seeing him losing hope, I told del Toro "You are living the dream of so many of us, who long to create art the way you do. Please don't give up." He promised me that he would never quit.
5. A life-long lover of martial arts, I studied Karate in South America and Canada, eventually gaining my Black Belt as a teenager and going on to teach. I learned the value of fair play during regional competition when my sensei asked me to throw the fight against my opponent - a celebrated rival from a sister school - due to racial & political implications. I gave in and settled for the Bronze. After being injured a year later, I was forced to retire from active competition. Now I feed my passion by dissecting fight choreography in martial arts movies.
Thanks for letting me review your book and for talking to us today, V.M.
Check out V.M's website here - http://vmsawh.com
or go here https://www.facebook.com/vmsawh
Next time, I'll be unveiling a writer who has been voted Goodreads Choice Author 2016 and 2015. She'll be telling us about the personal and cultural inspirations behind her book.
See you then.
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Happy New Year!
I hope your festive seasons went / are going well! I've been completely MIA for the past couple of weeks (no twitter / FB / blogging), but I've noticed a lot of people are blogging about their New Year Resolutions (NYR), or about why they don't make them. They're also taking stock of the last twelve months and planning ahead for the next. So this is me, doing that. Sort of.
First up – confession time: I have not been writing non-stop for the past twelve days. It was what I wanted to do. It was what I'd planned to do, but I didn't. Mostly, this is because I was tired. Coming off the slog-fest that was the ERoE (Epic Rewrite of Epicness), which resulted in 72,000 words (nowhere near enough but pretty darn good, really) and a particularly stressful project at the Office (thankfully, I met my deadline for this, at least), all I wanted to do was relax. So I did, and it was great. I've played video games, read comic books, watched movies, caught up with the family, and got together with friends (to play video games). It's been awesome, like a real holiday. Not the sort where you go away, but the kind where you take time off. Oh! Did you hear that? That was me taking a long, deep breath. In fact, if you ignore the writer guilts that have been plaguing me for the past twelve days, I've had an absolutely wonderful time. Ah, the writer guilts. Where would I be without that constant OMG it's Sunday night and I haven't even started my homework yet buzz? But that's a theme for another blog.
Next – taking stock: I had a book published last year. No, wait, that needs an exclamation point. Writers tend to look at the next thing, the book they haven't yet written, the one that's giving them the guilts, the project they should be working on right now. It's all too easy to lose sight of the completed ones, to, as I do, nod to acknowledge their existence and then move on to the next thing. So, I'm going to take some time today to just be totally, immeasurably, and insurmountably happy that Beast Child was published in September 2011. Is it self-indulgent to wallow in my own success? Yes. Yes it is. I do it so infrequently, though, that I don't think I'm in any serious danger of descending into pomposity.
Then comes – resolutioning: I will . . . I promise . . . I vow . . . Okay, here's the thing about NYRs. They don't work for me. I've joined (and quit) enough gyms to know this is the case. I hope they work for you, though, because I think they're wonderful things. What better time to assess the ups and downs of the past twelve months and look to what you can do better over the next than the start of a new year? It's almost mythic. As the old kingdom falls to decay a new hero (played here by the NYR) arrives to set things right for another year, until he or she also fades, only to be reborn the following year, and so on it goes. I've been studying heroes too long to ignore the importance of this renewal cycle, but I know from experience my heroes usually pack up and go home a couple of days (in some cases hours) later. So I stopped making them. I have enough (writer) guilt to deal with without worrying about the fact that I've strayed from my diet or spent too much time playing video games, which, let's face it, will be true in both cases before long.
Finally – the Plan: You can call this a NYR all you want, but I'm not going to. I think the problem with the NYR is that we expect too much. We're going to completely turn our whole lives around, or something equally unachievable, so I'm going with the Plan instead (outlined below). The Plan is particularly important for me this year because it requires me to actually completely turn my whole life around. Okay, not really, but I am a creature of habit, and there's one big habit I need to change this year, and it's to do with my writing. Up until now, I've written in huge chunks. A break from uni? Write! A weekend off? Write! Holidays? You guessed it – WRITE! I was never the sort of writer who could write every day. I'd save it up, and plan, and ponder, and then, when I had a block of days to myself, I'd power through. I fell into this habit because I was working and studying and, later, teaching so much that I completely overwhelmed myself. I worked hard to save money to take time off to write. This was my cycle, and it worked for me.
But life changed. First, I got a grant from Arts SA and wrote full time for 6 months, and it was just absolute goodness. Then, I made the decision to don the Suit. No more part time gigs. No more balancing (who am I kidding? There was very little balance involved) half a dozen jobs all at once with a goal to save, save, save so I could take time off to write, write, write. At the end of last year, I broke that cycle, which had always worked for me (if you don't count the spiralling stress and the ever-present fear of not making enough this week to cover the rent, not to mention the toll of working up to three different jobs in a single day). So, full time work and, as if that wasn't enough of a shock to the system, the need to write. Every. Day.
And I did it! Well, almost, but at least the ERoE taught me that I could write this way. I could hold down a full time job and still write at the same time! So, without further ado and to finish this lengthy New Year's blog post, my Plan for 2012:
1) Rearrange brain so that it approaches writing as a daily activity. This may require chocolate and coffee.
2) Write productively every day. Definitely more coffee.
3) Write at least 5,000 words a week, every week. For those without a calculator handy, that's just over 250k words in 2012, which equates to about three and a half books, give or take, in the year (see following).
4) Finish rewrite of Abe.
5) Finish Ebb & Flow: Volume Three of the Voyages of the Flying Dragon.
6) Blog more often. Blog entries don't count towards weekly word targets, but they come with extra chocolate.
7) Draft the following: Untitled Project A, Untitled Project B, and Untitled Project C. These are two new, independent YA projects I've been planning for quite some time now and one totally new project I came up with over the least twelve days (okay, so I did some writing work on my holiday).
8) Finally, just chill. The best part about having a Plan and not a NYR is that there's no twelve month countdown timer ticking way in the background.
9) Oh, and I should probably add something about getting a life . . .


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TAC assists public managers and state and local policy makers to develop and implement strategies to enhance care for vulnerable populations including designing outcome and performance measurement strategies and continuous quality improvement systems.
Types of assistance TAC offers include:
- Developing quality management plans that include strategies for monitoring provider performance, data collection processes, and public reporting.
- Conducting comprehensive evaluations of public-sector initiatives and pilot projects to determine their effectiveness at improving outcomes for vulnerable populations.
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Allergy symptoms are common worldwide. Although people many be allergic to different things, the treatments are mostly the same. Read this guide for ways on how to properly deal with allergies and how to eliminate them from your life for good.
If there is a choice in the matter, avoid having carpeting or large area rugs in your home. Carpet never becomes completely clean, and dust, mites, dander and pollen cling to the fibers. Try to install floors that can be mopped and swept with ease.
If you have allergies, and you want a pet, get an animal with short fur. The majority of animals can trigger allergic reactions, but longer-haired animals can make the condition even worse. To minimize allergic reactions to pets, forbid them from getting on the furniture or in your bed.
Your body could be responsible for your allergic reactions. Seriously – this is not a joke! All throughout the day, your body takes in lots of pollen and dust which can stick to your clothes and hair. When the day ends, especially when you hop into bed, these allergens can be extremely harmful to your airways. Try showering and wear fresh night-clothes prior to sleeping in order to sleep good at night.
There are lots of allergy medications available, some are sold over the counter and others are available only with a doctor's prescription. Talk with your doctoring about possibly getting a sample pack or buy the smallest size available. If one product doesn't work, that doesn't mean that none of them will.
If you want to fight back against bronchial allergy symptoms, it's important to stay well-hydrated. If you don't have a sufficient amount of fluids in your body, your mucus membranes can get dry. In addition, if you aren't properly hydrated, your bronchial tubes are affected because your mucosal glands produce hard-to-break-up secretions.
If you have a child with food allergies and you are planning a trip, remember to pack an assortment of known "safe" foods before you leave. This is especially true when visiting foreign countries. It can be hard to find product labeling of foods that may contain items your child is allergic to.
Many sufferers of allergens know they should make use of a humidifier in their bedrooms for moistening their airways while they are sleeping. Yet this might not be smart because all of the mist can cause mold around the area where the humidifier is located. If you have it available, use a saline spray so that your nose can be kept moist.
One way to avoid allergies is keeping your car clean and closed at all times. Keep dust, pollen, mold and so on out of your car by using your air conditioner and keeping your vents shut. Vacuum the interior of the car on a regular basis. This will help reduce allergy symptoms.
If you have allergies and spot any kind of insects or rodents in your home have an exterminator come immediately. Allergy symptoms can increase if you are exposed to rodent droppings. You may well find yourself breathing easier after you evict these unwanted house guests by calling on a reliable professional exterminator.
The article you read will help you understand allergy management. Just remember that these tips should be applied as they were written. Apply them daily, and start to enjoy life again.


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Kick-start your morning with this full body workout. Head to the gym, step outside or do it from the comfort of your own home!
Outdoor full body circuit
- Five minute warm up jog: Do as many laps around a park or oval as required.
- Two minutes of bench stepups: As fast as you can alternating legs each step
- 12-15 bench dips
- 12-15 on the monkey bars or pullups
- 30 second abdominal hold
- 40 walking lunges: 20 steps in one direction, then turn around and lunge back
- 12-15 bench pushups
- Repeat as many times as possible, including the five minute run between sets
Gym full body circuit
- Five minutes on the bike
- 20 power squats: As fast as you can
- Five minute rower sprint
- 20 pushups: Starting on your toes, dropping to your knees if needed
- Six minute treadmill sprint
- Stomach super-sets: 15 full situps followed by 15 small crunches
Push/pull leg cardio
- Four minute sprint on your choice of cardio: Cross-trainer, treadmill, bike etc.
- 10 chest presses or pushups
- 10 triceps dips
- 10 bicep curls: With a bar or dumbbells
- Repeat two to three sets of all of the weights: Take no longer than six minutes in total.
- Five minutes sprint on cardio machine of choice
- 20 squats
- 20 lunges
- 20 situps
- Again, aim for two to three sets in six minutes
- Four minute sprint on cardio machine of choice
- 12-15 lat pulldown or seated row
- 30 second abdominal bridge
- Aim for two to three sets of these resistance training exercises
All over body cardio and weights
- 250 skips
- 12-15 squats to calf raises: Do this by extending the upwards phase of the squat and rolling up onto the balls of your feet into a calf raise
- 250 running stepups: Use a small step, no higher than one foot
- 10 moving planks: Begin by holding an abdominal bridge for 20 seconds. Push off your elbows onto your hands into a pushup position. Stay off the floor on your toes. Then return to the pushup position and repeat.
- 20 burpies: Start in a squatted position on the ground. First, push off from the arms, stretching out your legs behind you. Then, quickly jump back into the starting position and immediately jump up, stretching your arms above your head. When you land, go directly back into the squat position and repeat.
- 20 crunches: With hands behind your head and feet off the floor
Repeat as many times as possible in 30 minutes: Keep rest intervals short and push yourself to the limits. It doesn't have to be a long workout, just an intense one.


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Sugar Free Guide and Log
Sugar has worked it's way into our daily life through many unexpected places. Read over this guide on how to identify added sugar and then take a look at the foods you have in your house. You might need to throw some stuff away or dramatically cut back on how much of it you eat. Remember, this is a process and you will have some good days and some not so good days. No matter what, stick with it, it will get easier!
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Software Management and the link with EAM/MRO
May 6, 2009
Hardware-oriented MRO systems need to cope with the accelerating complexity and velocity of change found within hardware embedded (and loaded) software on today's aircraft, cars, ships, industrial products etc.. One of the most critical aspects that PLM can address is the coupling of hardware and its certified software. PLM Configuration Managed software can nicely sit next to an EAM/MRO application. Integration of applications concerned with management of requirements, configurations and maintenance statuses captures all of the critical information needed to assure that the software status of an asset is known at any point in time. From the MRO perspective all relevant information regarding the 'master record' configurations are available (See also Enterprise Asset Management category) across specific aircraft categories for example, but also the individualized real-time status information of the current configuration for every managed tail number. We all remember the stories of software problems in cars, here the same link can be established between the Vehicle Identification Number and its software status. When integrated with problem reports, a complete closed loop failure record and action system can be operated and this would provide a full accountability from discrepancy till resolution.


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Video: Alton Brown's 5 Essential Pieces of Kitchen Equipment
Now that it's a new year, we're on our way to becoming our best, healthiest, most organized selves. For those looking to simplify their kitchens, we gladly present: Alton Brown's five essential pieces of kitchen equipment.
In our latest episode of the Chewing the Fat video series, TV personality and food science whiz Alton Brown (Good Eats, Iron Chef America) elaborates on quite the interesting hit-list, including a few "essentials" many might not include (hint: see above doodle!).
Watch the Video
What are your most essential kitchen tools? Any changes this year?
More 'Chewing the Fat' Videos
- Alton Brown on Future of Recipe Writing »
- Alton Brown on Why His Thanksgiving Turkey Recipe Is Perfect »
- Alton Brown on Writing an Omelette Recipe »
About the videographer: Jessica Leibowitz is in charge of all things video at Serious Eats. Follow more of her adventures at mycameraeatsfood.com, or on Twitter at @photo_delicious.


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