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About Skeptics
Posted 30 June 2003 - 07:24 PM
And on schizophrenics:
If you talk to God, you're praying.
If God talks back, you're schizophrenic.
Posted 02 July 2003 - 04:02 AM
I was actually referred to Ghostville by someone on the JREF, as somewhere where I can find others of like mind to discuss things with. As a believer not a skeptic, I find some of the posters there very rude, demanding answers to questions, that you have continually stated you are not at liberty to respond to, and calling me a liar, deluded, kook, selfish and a lot more names besides.
I have never come across this kind of attitude in 27 years. I found that I wanted to protect the experiences I'd had over the years and of course this resulted in more verbal diatribe. I blocked a couple of the posters because of the swearing and complete ignorance both in manner and misunderstanding of what they were discussing. I have agreed to disagree stating that I wasn't out to change anyones views that were different to mine - but that wasn't good enough - they wanted proof, proof, proof and more proof. How can you possibly provide proof on that which only you have experienced ? Only you have heard ? Spontaneous happenings that can in no way be repeated ?
All you get thrown at you is take the test - the Randi test for $1,000,000 - that I am not remotely interested in. ( It would be very ironic if he were to pass over and those same skeptics refuse to acknowledge who was attepting to communicate - for according to the forum, the challenge will continue after his passing - if he ever pays it out. ) I am very sceptical about that issue. After all trust works two ways, we have only his word for it that such a challenge is there for the taking, and he made his fortune out of 'magic and illusion.' I rest my case.
We are all very different individuals who have each got something to offer the other on the wider scale of things .... resorting to sarcasm is very disheartening to anyone who is just wanting to expand knowledge in some way and maybe is trying to find further indications of the truth of our being here at all.
My incursion into the skeptic forum provided me with nothing but heartaches when my emotions were turned completely upside down - I found myself giving as good as I got with some of the posts, and this caused me the heartache for I have always tried to remain calm in the face of adversity - I let myself down big time when I joined their level. Some of the people seem to be quite nice but they are let down by those who appear to come across as thugs and bullies.
Posted 02 July 2003 - 04:16 AM
We are all very different individuals who have each got something to offer the other on the wider scale of things ....
First of all, let me welcome you to our Village I am sure you will enjoy the stay.
I am not a skeptic but considers myself to be a believer. but I am not a person who TENDS to believe in anything and everything. I am learnable and shares my ideas with like minded people. What you have mentioned is absolutely right, we all have something to share on the wider scale..... and that is the reason I am still "HAUNTING" the Village If people were closed minded or too much attacking kind, I would have left for better looong back.
Just want to assure you things are fantastic in here, good people, good thoughts! see ya around:)
Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above
Posted 02 July 2003 - 09:02 AM
Freda, I don't understand why you're on the skeptic boards if you're a believer and don't like having your beliefs challenged. We all have our beliefs challenged on here, most of us skeptics (though it seems some of us are more skeptical than others) are put through the wringer but in the politest way possible.
I really don't see anyone calling anyone else's beliefs stupid. Of course, if you're referring to my saying that anyone who blindly believes anything they're told as weak-minded, I stand by that statement.
I personally enjoy all the different viewpoints.
Posted 02 July 2003 - 11:24 AM
Freda I have agreed to disagree stating that I wasn't out to change anyones views that were different to mine - but that wasn't good enough - they wanted proof, proof, proof and more proof. How can you possibly provide proof on that which only you have experienced ? Only you have heard ? Spontaneous happenings that can in no way be repeated ?
Agreeing to disagree is no defence, Freda. If you imply or explicitly state a belief about something, anything, you may be challenged about it. Less so when the belief is about something most people think self-evident, more so when that belief is more controversial. You can guarantee a flurry of probing questioning when posting pro-paranormal views on a skeptics board.
You ask how you can provide proof on that which only you have experienced. My response to you would be is personal experience a reasonable basis for believing that what you experienced was real (i.e. part of the 'mechanisms' of the universe)? My views on this have already been posted in several threads.
After all trust works two ways, we have only his word for it that such a challenge is there for the taking, and he made his fortune out of 'magic and illusion.' I rest my case.
Trust is not the same as evidence and magic and illusion is not the same as fraud. Note that Randi being revealed as a crook tomorrow would not lend anymore credibility to the claims that we live on after death, people can heal through touch, remote viewing is real, etc.
Posted 02 July 2003 - 03:01 PM
Welcome to the village! There are skeptics here, believers here, skeptical believers here, but throughout the different opinions and personalities there are no disagreeable little trolls here, except for the occasional drive by. I am sure you will find a pleasent change of pace, and attitudes.
On my visit to JREF I found some facinating, intelligent people. I enjoyed reading their thoughts even though most disagreed with me. Then the ankle bitting, vile, little trolls moved in and that spoiled the interchange for me too.
Posted 02 July 2003 - 03:10 PM
hi jim,
I think a healthy dose of skepticism is necessary for a believer also.
Too many things on the web today are labled as "paranormal" especially when the pic is tagged as a photoshop construct. we even had a bit of that in ghostvillage. It was proved to be fraudulent and I think a few of the villagers learned a valuable lesson about accepting evidence without questioning it deeper. ;D
Posted 02 July 2003 - 03:18 PM
I wasn't actually referring to anyone of these forums flower, and I have no objections to anyone questioning my beliefs or even discussing them in a rational manner.
I object strongly to being called a liar though I understand that perhaps because of past challenges being unsavoury, some may adopt the attitude of being judge and jury, tarring others with the same brush, but there is no need to resort to swearing or posting in an offensive manner, suggesting that I am going totally round the bend.
I like to visit anything if I am going to learn from what is being discussed. I would never dream of calling anybody elses beliefs stupid, even if I thought it odd - I would listen politely and reply in the same vein.
We are all here for a reason and getting along with each other despite differing views is a real testing point, but not one that cannot be overcome with tact and thought towards the other person.
I am skeptical about a lot of things - but I still have a lot to learn.
Posted 02 July 2003 - 03:37 PM
Thanks for the welcome.
Then the ankle bitting, vile, little trolls moved in and that spoiled the interchange for me too
I totally agree. Some of those posting sounded very nice, even for skeptics - and I too enjoyed the interchange. Don't know why I joined really, I was looking for something else and suddenly it was on the monitor - so I looked further. Can't say I regret doing so really, and some of the other threads are great for information etc.
Yes Jim, my experiences were very real to me - and I suppose being shown what it was like to die could have been classed as "mechanisms of the universe" as we are all part and parcel of that aren't we ?
Posted 02 July 2003 - 05:17 PM
The trolls to which you refer border on cynic not skeptic. While some of the people offered good suggestions that would help explain certain happenings , I also noticed that the Million dollar challenge was constantly being thrown up. These people live to argue a point. :PThe outcome is secondary to the argument. They refuse to even allow themselves a moment of doubt about their stringent beliefs and offer nothing in the way of compromise or middle ground . They live to pick apart the beliefs of others and ask for conclusive proof at every turn. If I had conclusive proof , I wouldnt waste my time discussing it with them . They would only find more excuses to continue the argument and would refuse to accept what is right in front of their face.
They ask for conclusive proof on a subject where it is much easier to take the scientific side. Its really the only side to take since proof of an afterlife has never been proven scientificly
Who needs their lousy million ? The peramiters of the presentation of proof are designed to make it impossiable to obtain.
They want scientific proof of the existence of life after death and blablabla so on. If I personally had scientific proof I wouldnt waste my time with the likes of JREF. James Randi and his patheitc million dollars would be the least of my worries. Main stream science would offer much more than a million in grants in order to study the phenomenon if it could be proven consistantly.
Ghosts and spirit research is subjective since their is no conclusive proof. I wouldn't have wasted 11 years of my life in its study if I didnt think there was something to it . I am definitly in good company. Edision, Einstien, and more paranormal psycologist than you can shake a stick at have and continue to search for life after death.
Finally , even if I live my whole life and never find scientific proof of a conclusive nature , I will be happy I took the journey all the same . Of course the destination is what we all anticipate , but the journey is half the fun of getting there. Studying paranormal phenomenon has made me a better person in many ways. I assure you that as an investigator, my skills are getting sharper with every task I undertake. ( no pun intended ) lol
Rockhauler2k1 ;D
Posted 02 July 2003 - 06:52 PM
There is tons of proof for life after death and when positive results are shown all cynics do is attack the credibility of the experiment and the controls without any research or experimentation themselves. It doesn't matter how many times paranormal phenomena is demonstrated under controlled conditions cynics will always find a reason to discredit it. Using their ways you can dismiss anything.
Say if I didn't believe in the ocean it would be very easy to dismiss using skeptical tactics.
-First I would say something like its irrational to believe that a large body of water like the ocean exists there are only rivers. Anyone who believes in it is delusional. The idea of the ocean is a result of wishful thinking its so easy to believe that these magical large bodies of water exist.
-Then Ill say there is no evidence to support the idea of an ocean so its gullible to believe in.
-I don't have to go and try to see the ocean myself because "the burden of proof isnt on me" so I can just sit back and criticize without really doing any real investigation.
-I won't accept any pictures or video because they could easily be faked.
-Any first hand accounts of the ocean mean nothing because it's anecdotal.
-If there would happen to be an experiment proving it first I'll claim that they are biased because it's in the scientists interests to prove the oceans existence.
-Next I'll attack credibility and controls of any experiments involving the ocean to make it seem invalid no matter how good the results. I will always find a way to do this.
-I would also just keep demanding that it gets replicated over and over again no matter how many times it's done I would never be satisfied.
-I will ignore the strongest evidence and arguments for it and any positive results would just be explained as chance or coincidence. I would force any explanation that make the results fit into my already set beliefs.
Posted 02 July 2003 - 08:12 PM
Say if I didn't believe in the ocean it would be very easy to dismiss using skeptical tactics.
A ghost is not the same thing as an ocean. :-/
Posted 02 July 2003 - 08:26 PM
A ghost is not the same thing as an ocean. :-/
I obviously get that I'm only pointing out how the typical cynical ways used against the paranormal could be used to discredit anything. If those types of closed-minded tactics were valid you could dismiss any scientific experiment using them if you apply the same standard that skeptics use to debunk the paranormal.
Posted 02 July 2003 - 11:05 PM
Nor are all (or even most) skeptics cynics
Oceans are not likely to go anywhere anytime soon, and can be readily observed. Unfortunately, a ghostie is not nearly as cooperative.
Been meaning to ask you before...do you believe there is a place for science in paranormal research?
Posted 03 July 2003 - 02:58 AM
But, that's not a realistic comparison. :
Nor are all (or even most) skeptics cynics
Oceans are not likely to go anywhere anytime soon, and can be readily observed. Unfortunately, a ghostie is not nearly as cooperative.
Been meaning to ask you before...do you believe there is a place for science in paranormal research?
I know not all skeptics are cynics a lot that I've talked to some who have been open-minded and some who aren't. I wasn't trying to compare ghosts and oceans at all they are nothing a like it wasn't meant to be taken literally. I'm just trying to point out how the criteria some skeptics apply against paranormal is unreasonable and when used in those ways could discredit anything if applied to something different like it's used to discredit ghosts. So there isn't any more confusion just replace the word ocean there with ghost and that's the usual way I've seen most skeptics use when it comes to anything paranormal.
About there being a place in science for paranormal research I think there is but it's extremely limited. Skepticism is needed people shouldnt be gullible but the ways some use it to debunk already existing evidence is troubling and only used to disprove not find the truth. First it would probably take a while to get acceptance from scientists. Hopefully more of them will open their minds more this is something that should be continually tested to provide even more evidence but some will always find a reason to dismiss it. The major problem is there is only so much that can be done with paranormal because most of it is beyond the physical so it makes it difficult to replicate. Im personally going continue to have paranormal experiences myself instead of waiting for science to do more but I would like to see that area experimented with as much as possible.
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For the first time, researchers have found pathological evidence that repetitive head trauma -- such as that experienced by football players -- may result in a motor neuron disease similar to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or "Lou Gehrig's disease."
The evidence, a unique pattern of protein deposits, was found during autopsy studies of brains from 12 professional athletes who had played violent contact sports -- including three athletes diagnosed with motor neuron diseases before their deaths -- according to Ann C. McKee, MD, of Boston University, and colleagues.
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- Explain to interested patients that researchers have found the first evidence that repetitive head trauma from violent contact sports may result in a motor neuron disease similar to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
- Further explain that in 10 pro athletes with a history of repeated head trauma, pathologists discovered extensive brain deposits of a DNA-binding protein called TDP-43 and neurofibrillary tau protein -- but the tau proteins found in three motor neuron disease cases were different from those seen in sporadic ALS patients.
While extensive brain deposits of a DNA-binding protein named TDP-43 as well as neurofibrillary tau protein were found in 10 of the cases, the tau proteins discovered in the three motor neuron disease cases were clearly dissimilar from those seen in sporadic ALS patients, McKee and co-authors wrote online in the September issue of the Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology.
The deposits of the TDP-43 and tau proteins, found post-mortem in numerous regions of 10 of the pro athletes' brains provided "the first pathological evidence that repetitive head trauma experienced in collision sports might be associated with the development of a motor neuron disease," the researchers commented.
Previous studies had been contradictory as to whether repeated head trauma may cause ALS, the most common and familiar form of motor neuron disease.
But the researchers suggested that many former athletes diagnosed with ALS after suffering repeated blows to the head may actually have a different type of motor neuron disease.
Their article did not mention baseball legend Lou Gehrig, the most famous ALS victim. But a New York Times reporter coaxed McKee into suggesting that Gehrig may have been among those misdiagnosed -- even though, as a first baseman, he did not routinely experience violent collisions. (He was, however, beaned at least twice during his 14-year career with the New York Yankees.)
The 12 athletes in the post-mortem study included seven professional football players, four boxers, and one hockey player. Their ages at death ranged from 42 to 85.
McKee and colleagues found TDP-43 primarily in the frontal and temporal cortex, medial temporal lobe, basal ganglia, diencephalon, and brainstem in 10 of the brains. Inclusions and neurites containing the protein were also present in the spinal cord in the three individuals with motor neuron disease.
The latter group also showed motor neuron loss and degeneration of the corticospinal tract, and extensive distribution of abnormal tau protein, the researchers indicated.
Clinical histories of the three -- two of whom were former pro football players, the other a boxer -- included upwards of 10 concussions in one, three to four in another, and "many" in the third.
One had a sibling with "probable ALS" but otherwise the trio appeared to have no other risk factors for neurological disease other than their sports injuries.
The study also included analyses of brain sections from 12 neurologically normal individuals and 12 patients with sporadic ALS whose ages at death were similar to the athletes.'
Four of the normal controls showed a few tau-positive neurites in the ventral horn. No signs of TDP-43 or other pathology like that of the athletes were seen in any of the normal controls.
All the ALS patients, on the other hand, had TDP-43 in their brains. But unlike the athletes with motor neuron disease, only one of the sporadic ALS patients showed abnormal tau, and it was in the form of "rare" neurites, McKee and colleagues indicated.
Mutations in the gene for TDP-43 are responsible for some cases of familial ALS, but some 90% of ALS cases are sporadic with no known genetic cause. The protein is found in numerous tissues outside the nervous system. Because it binds to DNA, it presumably helps regulate gene expression, though its specific functions are largely unknown.
One role has been identified, which is that it mediates responses in the neuronal cytoskeleton when the axon is injured. Also, studies in animal models suggest that overexpression of TDP-43 leads to neurodegeneration, and the protein has also been found in humans with a variety of such diseases including Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body disease, and Pick disease.
McKee and colleagues listed several mechanisms by which repeated head injuries could cause the encephalopathies they found. The most obvious is that these injuries disrupt individual neurons, leading to production of numerous proteins including TDP-43 and tau. Inflammation, oxidative stress, and glutamate-related excitotoxicity are also possible drivers of abnormal protein deposition, the researchers suggested.
The researchers also remarked that, since it appears that years can elapse between the brain injuries and the onset of encephalopathy and motor neuron disease, there is a relatively long "window for implementing therapeutic measures to dampen or block the neurodegenerative cascade triggered by such injuries."
As a result, McKee and colleagues argued, more research is needed to sort out the pathways and risk factors involved.
"The study has broad implications, not only for understanding the potential risks to professional and nonprofessional athletes in many types of collision sports, but also for people who serve in military combat," said the journal's editor-in-chief, Raymond Sobel, MD, in a prepared statement.
"Anyone who experiences repetitive, seemingly mild, head injury or concussion might be at risk for developing a brain disease later in life," Sobel said.
The study was supported by the Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center; the Mount Sinai Alzheimer's Disease Research Center; the Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center; the Department of Veterans Affairs; the Sports Legacy Institute; the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment; and the National Football League.
The study authors and Sobel had no conflict of interest disclosures.
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Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology
Source Reference: McKee A, et al "TDP-43 proteinopathy and motor neuron disease in chronic traumatic encephalopathy" J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 2010; 69: 918-929.

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text: Joe McKendrick has a nice article highlighting SOA success stories. My favorite example: "To speed up the pace of mergers and acquisitions." This is an often overlooked benefit of SOA -- any company with an SOA-based infrastructure can more easily assimilate an acquired company. Companies often overlook this benefit as they simply aren't mature enough to account for this potential benefit (unlike their ability to account for opportunity costs).


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North Adams High School - Home of the Green Devils
1819 Pep Rally
1819 Spelling Bee Winners
1819 Pep Rally Spirit Cakes
2019 NHS Delivers Snacks to Families at Hospice
Myla Toole 1600-meter Run at State Track Meet
19-20 Varsity Cheerleaders Adams County Fair Champions
19-20 JH Cheerleaders Take 2nd Place Adams County Fair
As Mr. Seas It for Social Media and Threatening Comments:
Student and staff safety is a priority. Given the recent events involving school threats and school shootings, we would ask that our parents speak with your children about social media and the proper way social media is to be used.
Our kids need to know that threatening comments made on social media (or anywhere else) has consequences.
Working with local law enforcement and the Adams County Prosecutor's Office, all threats will be investigated and prosecuted accordingly.
Social media has many benefits. However, we need your help in informing your children of the proper use of social media so that we can maintain a safe, productive, and educational school environment. Thank you.
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North Adams High School, Home of the Green Devils, is located in southern Ohio about halfway between Cincinnati and Portsmouth. North Adams High School's first graduating class was in 1970, when a proud tradition of excellence in academics, sports, and fine arts began.
North Adams High School offers its students a variety of opportunities in learning as well as many student activities in which students can explore interests and grow and learn as young adults.


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Who We Are
Center for Career Readiness engages, supports and empowers students and alumni to discover, create and implement their career and future educational plans. Center for Career Readiness creates opportunities for students to connect with employers and working alumni in order to learn insider information about the world of work and to increase the likelihood of becoming gainfully employed upon graduation. Center for Career Readiness stays current on economic and world of work trends and provides this information to students and the UNC community while adapting services accordingly.
We in Center for Career Readiness envision a distinct and vibrant future for our office. We see ourselves delivering innovative programming that empowers students to honor their identity, values, and skills while they bring their education to life and persist to graduation. Our authentic engagement with, and support of, all students – particularly those who identify with marginalized, oppressed, and underrepresented populations – is essential to us. We see ourselves being known across campus as a safe and vital hub for all UNC students. We envision being the institution of choice for employer recruiting based upon our students' renowned excellence and fit for the 21st Century workplace, accentuated by their diversity, work ethic, and motivation to succeed.
Character: We encourage ourselves and students to be courageous, self-reflective and authentic in all interactions.
Empowerment: We encourage others to believe in their ability to achieve personal and professional goals.
Integrity: We foster, expect and act with the highest level of ethics, professionalism and respect.
Social Justice: Our commitment to social justice enables an accessible, inclusive, open environment where we advocate for the success of all students.
Relationships: We foster relationships with one another, students, employers, alumni and the UNC community for the benefit of serving students and enjoying one another's company


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For my thumb, I first stenciled a leaf. Well, I think it's a leaf. It's the shape I used for the tutorial, and although it sort of looks like a crown I figured that if I put a flower on top of it, it would look like a leaf instead. I should have added some detailing to it, but it's not awful. Then I painted a swirly rose. I had a decent-looking rose after 2 colors (red and orange), but then I kept going with various colors (sheer pink, pink striper, white striper) and ended up with... well, this. It's not horrible, but it sort of looks like a badly-wound ball of variegated yarn. Yea... next?
I used my royal blue glitter striper to paint diagonal stripes onto my nail. Simple, but then I started to think... and I wondered what the water polish would look like over this. Sure enough, it changed the color ever so slightly. It's more visible in person, but since I can't upload my actual fingers, this is as good as y'all are gonna get.
Of course, now I'm very tempted to do disturbing splatters and drips of blood down my nails with this one. Can't you see it? Ahh, it's so perfect for Halloween! It suits my mood the last couple of days as well! I wonder how well this polish would show on black...
Finally, here's the four nails together. See what I mean about the poor dragonfly? He looked much better in real life.
Ah well, it was a fun experiment! Do you ever doodle on your nails? I'd love to see what you do! Show me, or describe it in the comments!
Some polishes were provided by their companies' PR groups for evaluation.


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From the outside, it looked as if the Swiss-led Solar Impulse project smoothly soldiered through adversity as its solar-powered plane made a record-setting trip around the world in 2015 and 2016.
But the perspective was different when seen from the inside: The multimillion-dollar campaign nearly came crashing down when teammates debated whether to go ahead with a crucial Pacific crossing, even though the monitoring system for the autopilot wasn't working right.
"The engineers were crying," said Bertrand Piccard, the Swiss psychiatrist and adventurer who served as Solar Impulse's co-founder, chairman and one of its pilots. "They were begging me to stop."
The turmoil as well as the technology behind the globe-girdling, fuel-free odyssey are on full display in "The Impossible Flight," a two-hour NOVA documentary premiering on PBS tonight.
"This is why it is so good to have this documentary," Piccard told GeekWire. "Sometimes the public, from outside, think they know the story. … They think, 'Wow, it's easy.' But it's really difficult. There were a lot of emotions, hurdles, problems, technical problems, meteorological problems, administrative problems. It's all the ingredients in the recipe for a big drama."
Piccard and Solar Impulse's other founder, former Swiss fighter pilot Andre Borschberg, conceived of the adventure as a way to demonstrate environmentally clean technologies, ranging from ultra-lightweight building materials to the thousands of solar cells that powered the plane.
They put their first plane to the test during a coast-to-coast flight across America in 2013. Then, with further backing from their industrial sponsors, Piccard and Borschberg followed up with Solar Impulse 2, an all-electric airplane that weighs as much as a family car but has a wingspan that's wider than a Boeing 747 jet.
Solar Impulse 2's flight plan called for the odyssey to begin and end in Abu Dhabi, with stopovers in Oman, India, Myanmar, China, Japan, Hawaii, the U.S. mainland, Spain and Egypt. Piccard and Borschberg took turns in the cockpit's single seat, which could be turned into a toilet when necessary.
'A moment in history'
Filmmakers Noel Dockstader and Quinn Kanaly had extraordinary access to the team at every step of the way, and at Solar Impulse's mission control in Monaco.
"It just struck us as an incredible adventure story, and incredibly unique because it pushed technology to the limit, and it pushed human endurance to the limit," Kanaly told GeekWire. "We saw it as a moment in history that we felt compelled to capture."
Dockstader compared Piccard and Borschberg to the astronauts of the early space age. "It's a story of drama, similar to the first moonshot — with a similar amount of risk," he said.
It didn't take long for the risks to emerge: Piccard was almost forced to bail out during the flight from Oman to Ahmedabad, the first stop in India. That was one of the factors that went into the decision to have Borschberg, the more experienced pilot, fly the five-day journey across the Pacific from Japan to Hawaii.
Borschberg took off without incident, but engineers soon discovered that the plane's autopilot wasn't fully functional and that the pilot was facing fatigue. The team had to decide whether to keep going, or have the plane turn back before it reached the point of no return.
Piccard argued strongly for pressing on, over the objections of some other team members, and those tense moments are documented in "The Impossible Flight."
Entering into exploration
Piccard said his experience as an adventurer and round-the-world balloonist gave him the confidence to make his case. "I know what it means to enter into the unknown," he told GeekWire. "But the engineers, they did not know that. … For the first time, they entered into exploration."
Borschberg said he also was in favor of continuing the flight.
"When we heard that the weather was improving, for me that was a sign to keep going," he told GeekWire. "Sometimes you have to take the decision that you wouldn't take in a normal situation."
The engineers were overruled, and Borschberg made the crossing — but at a cost. By the time he landed in Hawaii, the plane's batteries had overheated to the point that the whole system had to be replaced. Because of seasonal weather patterns, Solar Impulse had to put the odyssey on hold in Hawaii in July 2015.
After a nine-month hiatus, Piccard took the controls for the crossing from Hawaii to California in April 2016, and the two men completed their tag-team trek around the world within the three months that followed.
"Impossible Flight" shows how Borschberg and Piccard worked together like brothers, and sometimes argued like brothers. "It was very enriching," Piccard recalled. "Each time we had a problem to solve, Andre brought one solution, I brought a different solution, and we combined the different solutions we had to make a third solution."
"We very quickly forged a relationship where one plus one equals three," Borschberg said.
There are plenty of beauty shots of oceans and deserts, pyramids and monuments, captured by chase planes and by webcams affixed to Solar Impulse 2. At times, Piccard or Borschberg speak directly into the cockpit webcam as they struggle with in-flight challenges, or enjoy the view.
"It is so beautiful to cross oceans with this airplane," Piccard said.
After the odyssey
It's been more than a year and a half since Solar Impulse 2's odyssey ended, but the project's "Future Is Clean" message lives on. Borschberg is the co-founder of a Swiss startup called H55 that focuses on electric propulsion technologies.
"Fifteen years ago, when we started, it was clear that we wanted to have an airplane that was solar … an airplane that could theoretically fly forever," Borschberg said. "Today, electric propulsion will revolutionize aviation."
Piccard, meanwhile, is concentrating on the World Alliance for Effective Solutions, a spin-off of the Solar Impulse Foundation that's aiming to identify 1,000 technological solutions to protect the environment in a profitable way.
"This is really my contribution to a better world," Piccard said. "And it is also something that can interest and motivate the climate deniers. … I can try to reconcile ecology and industry."
Piccard said he's optimistic that his vision of profitable environmental protection will take root, even if America's current leaders aren't receptive to it.
"The United States has lost its leadership in that field, so now the leadership is taken by the French and Chinese," he said. "The French and the Chinese are pushing very hard now to bring new technologies and solutions. And they are very, very happy. I know the French president very well, and he is very impatient to have my 1,000 solutions in order to go further."
So is Piccard giving up exploring for policymaking? Or does he have another adventure up his sleeve? His answer to that question makes it sound as if the filmmakers behind "The Impossible Flight" should start thinking about a sequel.
"Will there be another adventure in a couple of years? I don't know," he said. "But if yes, I will call you to let you know."
"The Impossible Flight" makes its debut on PBS' NOVA on Jan. 31. Check local TV listings. Filmmakers Noel Dockstader and Quinn Kanaly have also created a theatrical feature film about the Solar Impulse project, titled "Point of No Return." That movie is currently on the film-festival circuit and may soon turn up at a theater or on a video-on-demand channel near you.


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I ended up putting in deep marooon free satin stitched lines for accent-it is another Gilgamesh Rug.It is also a reference to remnants from the past being nothing more than glimpses- so the first layer has been foiled with some random cuneiform marks and then overlaid with scrim and then with dots added as a sort of counting system- the idea is that this would read not only on a visual level but also on a touch level- and the story of Gilgamesh comes to us incomplete with sections missing from the broken tablets on which they found the story - we have to surmise what the missing sections are. The quilt measures 60 cm by 145 cm long and it is for sale ( $1,000 US).
Todays task is to make more pomegranate cards to take overseas with me and to start another long piece- not quite decided what - there are a few options but none is crying out loudly.
Anonymous asked how to contact me- I had not realised when I went to the new blogger my profile settings did not follow- as I used to have an email link in my profile. That is fixed now so you should be able to contact me through clicking on profile.


text: Id like a copy: wankelc at optonline.net Charles Wankel St. Johns University, New York City -----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin at aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin at aoir.org] On Behalf Of Yvonne Waern Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 3:48 PM To: air-l at aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] ethics of 'net discourse research Since I saw some more people answering, I am not anymore ashamed of promoting my little report on ethics. It covers some cultural aspects as well. Reference: Waern, Y. Ethics in Global Internet Research. Report from the Department of Communication Studies, Linköping University, 2001:3. Part of it has been discussed in the AoIR meeting (through Malin Sveningsson). If anybody wants the report, I can send it to you in pdf-format. All the best wishes, Yvonne -- Yvonne Waern Ph.D., Professor Department of Communication Studies Linkoeping University SE 581 83 Linkoeping Sweden e-mail: yvonne.waern at tema.liu.se http://www.tema.liu.se/people/yvowa/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/attachments/20020505/6237a74f/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 4455 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/attachments/20020505/6237a74f/attachment-0001.jpg>


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Story Of A Fight/
The weeks leading up to Oct. 17 and my MMA debut were a mix of stress, stress and more stress. My training had gone as well as I could've hoped (despite frequent exhaustion and occasional injury), and I was concluding my "fight camp" with a clarity of my limited strengths (basic grappling and jiujitsu, a few rudimentary submissions) and glaring weaknesses (pretty much everything to do with striking). My sparring sessions in the last few weeks of training had shown some signs of improvement (I was mostly able to control my instinct to flinch and turn away from incoming punches), but my striking offense frequently bordered on laughable. I'm reasonably strong given my background and physique, but my crappy balance and general lack of coordination makes for some hilariously ineffective combos and striking flurries. In other words, I knew going in that if I was going to win this fight, it was a lot more likely to happen during a grappling exchange on the mats, vs. a striking exchange on the feet.
My game-plan, such as it was, mostly consisted of "throw some jabs, move around a lot, try to tire him out in the first round, and then dive for a takedown in the second round," but even while I was focusing on this plan I knew it was pretty shaky at best. All I knew about my opponent Mike was that he'd had some taekwondo lessons as a kid, and that his weight-cut has been stalled for personal reasons (hence the change from fighting at 185lbs to our 195-pound "catchweight"). Those two facts indicated that he might feel comfortable throwing kicks (a central technique of TKD) and that his conditioning might be suspect. I repeatedly drilled a technique called "catching a kick" - basically waiting for your opponent to throw a kick and then responding by quickly grabbing their leg and using it to throw them off-balance. At best it's a risky move, since you have to "eat" a kick and absorb the blow, but for someone like me with effectively zero wrestling ability, it was a reasonable way to imagine getting the fight off our feet and onto the mats.
A few days before my wife, son and I were going to board a plane for Las Vegas, I received a distressing message from my opponent: his training and weight cut had gone very poorly, his weight was MUCH higher than expected, and he wasn't even sure if he was going to show up to the weigh-ins. Needless to say, I was both livid (I've been taking this seriously and training my ass off since late April!) and terrified (all this training for nothing!). I did my best to keep a civil tone in my replies, and I encouraged him to continue doing his best to get to the weight we agreed upon (195).
So we left for Vegas filled with uncertainty that the fight would even happen, but determined to make the best of the situation. My wife's Vegas-based friends and family had all bought tickets to the fight, as had several friends who also flew in for the event, so I felt a weird sense of responsibility to make sure that they didn't waste their money paying for a fight that might not happen. I knew this wasn't really logical - it wasn't me who was putting the fight into question - but nevertheless, I really didn't want everyone to be disappointed by a cancelled-at-the-last-minute fight.
There was some confusion about our hotel room at The Orleans (where all the fighters were being housed and where the event itself would happen), but a series of phone calls with various managers ultimately got it resolved. As we were making our way to our room a few hours before the weigh-ins, my wife spotted a woman and man chatting, and she noticed that the woman's name tag bore the same unusual name as the manager who'd helped me resolve the room issue over the phone, so we walked over to say hi and thank her in person. The guy she was chatting with turned out to be affiliated with Tuff-N-Uff (the fight organizers), and he gave me a funny look. "Are you supposed to fight Mike?" I confirmed, and mentioned that I wasn't even sure if Mike was going to show up. "He's definitely here, but he's WAY over weight. I've been helping him cut weight for the past few hours and he's down some from when he got here, but man, it's gonna be close. If there is more than 10 pounds separating two fighters they absolutely won't let you proceed, so if you want to fight this guy, you need to put on as much weight in the next couple hours as you possibly can!" This is how I ended up in the highly-unusual position of worrying about being UNDERweight prior to weigh-ins, and so I was pacing nervously while chugging several large bottles of water until just minutes before stepping on the scales.
Once we arrived at the weigh-ins on Thursday, I got my first look at my opponent Mike. He was a heavy-set Asian guy with several tattoos and a generally friendly demeanor, and he was there with his girlfriend (who was very friendly and polite). We shook hands, went through the pre-fight medical exam, and then did the weigh ins. I weighed in at ~198lbs (and felt like I was going to BURST from having and gulped down so much water to raise my weight), and Mike weighed in at ~207lbs. The officials asked me if I wanted to proceed with the fight in the "Light Heavyweight" class (205lbs) given that Mike was technically two pounds over the limit, and I immediately agreed. We shook hands, rounded up our stuff and left the arena once the rule review was completed.
Since none of my coaches or training partners were able to fly out for the fight, I was exceedingly fortunate to have two great guys as my cornermen: Aaron, my brother-in-law, and Beau, a mutual friend with some jiujitsu / MMA training in his background. We spent the evening of Thursday (weigh-in day) and most of Friday (fight day) talking about strategy, technique, and skills that I might be able to leverage during the fight, and as we got closer to the event starting, my nerves started thrumming full-blast. So many crazy thoughts flying through my brain: what am I doing here? Why am I doing this to myself? What the hell was I thinking, signing up to fight in a cage with a complete stranger who could easily have been lying all along about his skill-level?
Finally, we arrived in the Orleans Grand Ballroom, and were instructed to go to a back room where we could warm up and prepare. The warm up room was just a large conference room behind the ballroom, and there was one room for people in the blue corner (like Mike) and one for people in the red corner (like me). Mike and I were originally scheduled to be the 5th fight on the undercard, but the officials opted to have us go first (likely out of concern that Mike might need to drop out for medical reasons last-minute, which would cause a shuffling of the remaining fights). Being the 5th fight of the night would've had its advantages - the audience would've been larger, for one, but I immediately realized how much happier I would be going up first - much less time to panic. We spent roughly an hour in the back room warming up, stretching, doing some takedown drills, etc. - anything we could think of that might be helpful once the cage door was locked. Given the large number of total fights on the event, the room was actually fairly crowded with other fighters and their corner-people. The ref for my fight came over to introduce himself, review the rules with me, and ask if I had any final questions. His parting words were very specific: "it is your job to win the fight, and my job to stop it. Do NOT stop fighting until I tell you to stop, but once I tell you to stop, STOP."
A very efficient guy called Doc (look up "mmacagedoc" on Instagram) applied my hand-wraps with expert precision, another official signed off on them, I put my gloves on, the red tape was applied to my gloves (both to signify which corner I was fighting out of, and to show that my gloves were sealed and hadn't been tampered with), and I was told to wait on standby. A few minutes later I was told to go to the end of the long hallway leading to the ballroom, where a video production crew was waiting. "Okay Huxley, we're going to be shooting video - throw some air-punches, and when we give the signal, follow the camera man to the cage. GO GO PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH OKAY FOLLOW HIM NOW GO!"
This is the point where my appearance in the video embedded above starts, so I won't describe in too much of what you can see for yourself. When they told me to follow the camera man, I stepped out into the ballroom and was immediately blinded - the large room itself was very dark, and the cameraman had a VERY bright light pointed right into my face the whole way. I could hear my walk-out music playing and the cheers of the crowd (especially my wife, her family and our assorted friends), but I couldn't really see anything due to that bright camera-light. As I started my walk out I was nearly paralyzed by fear… but as I took my first few steps and I heard my music, the fear melted away and I realized, "this is it, this is what you've been dreaming of for years and training for for months… just enjoy it!" I started clapping to the beat, made my way cage-side, passed the final doctor's check (which is entirely for show - the same routine was already performed with much more detailed attention several times in the back before I walked out), and climbed the steps to the cage. I bowed at the entryway of the cage (just as we do when entering the training area at my gym), stepped inside, and tried to control my breathing.
The ref asked Mike and I to confirm that we were ready, and just like that, I was in a fight. As you can see in the video, all my planning and visualization of how I wanted to dictate the pace, throw jabs, move quickly, etc. - all that flew out the window once the bell rang. Mike started by throwing a pair of kicks, both of which I tried (ineffectively) to catch, but his kicking speed and strength were MUCH better than I'd anticipated. The first kick stung, the second kick HURT, and the third caught me off-balance and landed so strongly that I toppled over - hardly an auspicious start to a fight. By this point I was already on "auto-pilot," and wasn't really making a lot of deliberate, conscious decisions. I'd drilled a thousand times how to defend myself while on my back with my coaches (especially Alberto, a very strong, very skilled, very large police officer), and all those drills paid off - without having to really think about it, I was able to "tie him up" (read: hold Mike so closely and so tightly that he couldn't land many strong punches) which gave me some time to mentally reset a bit. As you will see in the video, some of Mikes ground-n-pound punches were landing on the back of my head (technically illegal) and I had a hard time blocking those. I knew that the ref was watching very closely, I knew without any question that Mike was absolutely dominating the fight, and then the ref was separating us, mere moments after the fight started. I was nearly overcome with grief and dejection - I couldn't believe the ref had stopped the fight and that I'd lost! If you look closely at the video just as the first round ends, you can see me patting Mike on the shoulder and congratulating him on winning the fight - I really thought I'd just lost, and didn't know what else to do other than offer my appreciation to my opponent.
It wasn't until my cornermen Aaron and Beau plopped me down on a stool and started giving me advice that I realized that the ref hadn't stopped the fight because I'd lost, we were just between rounds. I couldn't BELIEVE that a full two-minute round had gone by in what seemed like 20-30 seconds. My sense of time was completely, utterly skewed from the excitement, fear and adrenaline dump.
The second round started, and I could tell that Mike was slower and more obviously tired than in the first, while I was still feeling fresh and ready for action. All that training had definitely improved my cardio and conditioning, which I was increasingly grateful for. Mike and I clinched up, I was able to throw him to the mat and land in "mount" (straddling his chest), and everything plays out as you see it in the video. Watching the video now is tough - I'm intensely aware of how tentative and slow I was in the first round, and how incredibly sloppy I was in the second round. Even when I managed to get the mounted position on Mike after my hip-throw sent us crashing to the mat, he was able to walk his feet up the side of the cage and plop me over on my back again - a great move on his part, and a stupid, rookie mistake on mine.
When I clambered up and got onto Mike's back and started trying to get my arm across his neck (trying to secure the choke that would end the fight), I did *exactly* what my head coach and jiujitsu instructor Diogo warned me against: I was in such a hurry to get the choke, I completely forgot about even the most basic elements of the form required to actually do so. Fortunately, my cornermen saw the costly mistake I was about to make and started screaming "GET YOUR HOOKS IN!!" - jiujitsu code for "wrap your legs around his body so he can't roll away from you." I got my hooks in, pulled him over, and he tapped. Out of habit from the many training sessions, I immediately let go of the choke before the ref told us to stop fighting - the right thing to do when you're training with your friends in the gym, and the absolutely WRONG thing do to in a cage fight. This was exactly what the ref had warned me to not do when we spoke backstage prior to the fight. Fortunately for me, our referee was observant and saw the tap-out - otherwise, I could easily have given away my best chance of winning.
That moment when I realized that I'd won the fight was easily the most intense non-birth-of-my-child-related moment I've ever experienced. I've heard MMA fighters talk for years about the extreme emotions that come with winning (or losing) a fight, and I feel like I sort of got to experience both ends of the spectrum in my ~3.5 minutes of MMA cage-time. As Mike and I embraced and shared a moment of camaraderie, we both congratulated each-other on a fun, fair and (hopefully) entertaining and injury-free fight. In that moment I was just so incredibly grateful to him for agreeing to do this and for showing up despite a very rough weight cut and various difficulties training.
They announced my win, presented me with my medal, and I screamed myself hoarse with jubilation. I was shaking all over, and continued to tremble for ~24 hours afterward - adrenaline is a hell of a drug. My cornermen and I exited the cage, I absorbed a massive outpouring of congratulations from my wife, extended family and friends, and settled in to watch the next fights on the card. My hands never stopped shaking. After a bit of cool-down time, my cornerman / brother-in-law Aaron suggested that we return to the back room to clean up and get our stuff, and when we got back there, he presented me with a custom-made shirt reading "UNDEFEATED 1-0" on the back. I was already feeling pretty overwhelmed with emotion, but this gesture put it over the top.
My goal with this whole project was always pretty simple (and pretty crazy): experience what a real MMA fight is like from training all the way through a fight in a real cage with an evenly-matched opponent. The reality of the situation was more complex. Just a few months before this whole MMA quest started, my father died in late November 2013, just a few days short of his 64th birthday. His health had been poor (and his weight unsustainably high) for decades, so his death was both easy to see coming and a complete, horrifying shock. Through the rest of winter and into spring of 2014 I was an unstable, emotionally-explosive mess. I mostly stopped working out, I started putting back on weight that I'd fought for years to lose, I was erratic and quick to anger both at home and at work, and was just generally a shitty person to be around. I would feel "fine" for days at a stretch, only to dissolve into a puddle of grief and anger at unpredictable moments, which made me feel like an alien in my own skin and a lousy husband and father. The only thing I was able to focus on was loss. It was in this difficult emotional state that I became obsessed with the idea of training for and participating in an MMA fight. I knew it was an insane idea, but I desperately needed something positive, something physical, something outside myself that I could focus on, and from my first nervous and awkward session at jiujitsu class, I knew in my bones I'd made the right decision.
As I'm writing this, tomorrow will mark one full year since my fathers death. I still grieve for him, and I still miss him, and I wish desperately he could have shared in my progress and victory with me. Even with all that, though, I can say that my instinct to sign up for something crazy, to commit myself to something way, way beyond my expected limits, was right. I am 100% certain that I'd feel the same way even if I'd lost the fight - I'd be disappointed with losing the fight, but still happy that I had found something like this experience to see me through one of the most heartbreaking and difficult times of my life. I have no intention or desire to fight ever again, but I've fallen in love with the training (especially the jiujitsu aspect) and the people I've trained with (both coaches and fellow students) have been uniformly the most helpful, supportive and dedicated group I've ever been privileged to know. I am immensely glad that I took this project on, and I strongly advise my fellow couch-bound MMA fans to jump into the training (if not a real fight) - you don't know this sport until you experience it, and you'll never know your own limits until you push past them and keep going.


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My husband, the bear, grumbled when he saw the sign on the kitchen refrigerator. "Kitchen CLOSED." But it wasn't until he read the sign on the laundry room door that he started to growl, "What's going on? Kitchen CLOSED, Laundry room CLOSED?"
Lying on the couch I quietly responded, "I'm taking a Mental Health Day."
"A What?" roared the bear. Puzzled, my husband repeated, with question and with no concern, what I said, "A mental health day? What's wrong?"
I responded again, "Yes, I'm taking a mental health day. I figure if the police chief can take a mental health day, than I am certainly entitled to one. I'm on call 24/7, fighting the forces against the General, the Tank, and the Destroyer, and I haven't had a day off in four years. I don't even get a lunch break! So, I have decided to take a day off."
After, a quick wrestling match of words, the bear realized that I wasn't backing down and he retreated to the kitchen.
"Stay away from Mom today," I heard him tell the kids, "she's gone mental!"


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There are a few ways to remove ground bees without killing them. Watering the ground with an inch of water every week prompts the bees to relocate to a dry area. A thick layer of mulch discourages bees from building the nest. These bees are docile in nature and don't form colonies, but the bees may build nests close to each other.
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Yes I hit the big 2-5 a couple of weeks ago and I find myself very happy with that. I'm now very much a grown woman, I've bought my own place, I have a lovely job, great friends and a truly wonderful family. I'm very much looking forward to see what my future holds for the next 5 years. I may join Sofia's 30 before 30 movement, as there are few things I would like ticked off before I reach the grand old age of 30!
I had the best weekend over my birthday and I have to give my friends and family full credit for that. I went to Henry's restaurant with 18 of my friends, then headed for a few drinks in St Paul's Square. It was such an amazing night, the food was delicious and company even better. This just set the scene for the weekend and was a brilliant prequel for my actual birthday on the Sunday. I went over to my parents to open my presents, went for a nice meal out with my Mom, Dad and Uncle, then came home to birthday cake and a game of cards. My family are big card players, we only play for 20p's but it makes for a fun game and atmosphere. I was pretty lucky and came away winning about a fiver!
Unfortunately I never took any pictures on the Saturday night, but hopefully these on my birthday Sunday are good enough. Present wise I got things for my flat, like pegs and a peg bag (having only just found out I have a washing line area -I've only lived here almost 4 years!!), I did get new ones of my Origins face wash and toner I'd run out of and my favourite thing of all, I got an iPad. I had to wait until the 1st of June for it to be delivered buy it was definitely worth the wait! It's been glued to my hands ever since! In fact, I'm typing this post on the BlogPress iPad app!
All in all I had the most amazing weekend, bring on next years festivities!


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The elephant headed God Ganesh (also known as Ganesha) is known as the Remover of Obstacles and Lord of Beginnings. As the God of Good Fortune, his name is traditionally invoked before the start of a journey or new enterprise. His abundant belly symbolises his embodiment of a successful and prosperous life.


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Since serving in the Falklands/ Malvinas war where my job was to shoot down Argentine jet fighters I have often wondered over the years what it was like for the Argentine military and how they dealt with their memories of that brutal war. I suppose that is how it would have stayed but for the advent of Facebook and with it the opportunity for former enemies to get in contact with each other. I have and am in contact with many of my former enemies who I now consider friends.
I respect that there are people on both sides who find it impossible to forgive and forget and I respect that and given the issue of Sovereignty is still disputed it makes it even harder. However I am more than happy to be friends with these people who I have found to be friendly respectful and more importantly they share an experience only we know.
One such veteran is Julio Herrera Vidal and his wife Laura and two children son Nacho and daughter Maia. Julio like me was serving in the military and fate dealt him the same card as me so we ended up in the same war on opposite sides. Now however I am proud to call Julio my brother in arms and I salute not only his courage but that of his fellow Argentine brothers.


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Welcome to my first ever contribution to the Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop! I'm super excited to participate this month and share with you my creation.
This month's theme is Anniversary cards! We all have someone in our lives that celebrates an anniversary of some kind. Maybe it's a wedding anniversary, or a work anniversary. It could be an anniversary of a first date or another momentous occasion. Which means, we all need anniversary cards to send.
I had a lot of fun creating for this hop and I hope you'll find inkspiration here and with my sister GSF hoppers. For my submission, I combined some existing products with some new products from the upcoming Holiday Catalogue; and I really think the result is stunning. In fact, the photo really doesn't do it justice.
The products used are Wisteria Wonder cardstock, classic stampin' pad and stampin' write marker; Powder Pink cardstock, 1/2" finely woven ribbon and stampin' write marker; black memento ink; versa mark ink; silver heat embossing powder; card front builder framelits; glue dots; vellum cardstock; and glitter enamel dots.
If you'd like information about this project and how to duplicate it or some of the techniques used, simply send me an email and I'd be happy to walk you through it. In the meanwhile, don't forget to visit the rest my GSF friends along the hop for more anniversary card ideas!
For more inkspiration check out my fellow GSF hoppers:
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4. Donna Gray
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10. Ellen Woodbridge
11. Lisa Ann Bernard
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Fall dining wouldn't be complete without delicious, succulent pears! Yes, you could add them to a salad, or make a pear tart, but what about a SOUP?!? Esquire Grill's new Chef, Scott Ostrander has taken pears to new heights with this flavorful (and vegan!) fall soup.
Fall Pear Soup
Author: Chef Scott Ostrander
Serves: 6
12 Red or Green Bartlett Pears
½ Cup of White Wine
4 cups of Vegetable Stock
1 Tablespoon of Salt
½ Cup of Granulated Cane Sugar
1 Piece of Star Anise (substitute cinnamon if no star anise)
Peel the Pears and quarter length wise. Cut the core out at an angle. Cut pears into chunks and place in a medium sized soup pot. cover with ½ Cup of White Wine and 4 cups of vegetable stock. Bring to a simmer and allow to simmer about 25-30 minutes. Pears must be soft and tender.
Transfer to a blender and blend on low for 1 minute, then on medium for 1 minute and then on high for 1 minute.
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Your child may be able to do more than you think. "Keep in mind that a child who has mastered a complicated computer game can easily run the dishwasher," Pantley says.
In general, she says, preschoolers can handle one or two simple one-step or two-step jobs. Older children can manage more. Here are her pointers on kids' chores by age:
Chores for children ages 2 to 3
- Put toys away
- Fill pet's food dish
- Put clothes in hamper
- Wipe up spills
- Dust
- Pile books and magazines
Chores for children ages 4 to 5
Any of the above chores, plus:
- Make their bed
- Empty wastebaskets
- Bring in mail or newspaper
- Clear table
- Pull weeds, if you have a garden
- Use hand-held vacuum to pick up crumbs
- Water flowers
- Unload utensils from dishwasher
- Wash plastic dishes at sink
- Fix bowl of cereal
Chores for children ages 6 to 7
Any of the above chores, plus:
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- Sweep floors
- Set and clear table
- Help make and pack lunch
- Weed and rake leaves
- Keep bedroom tidy
Chores for children ages 8 to 9
Any of the above chores, plus:
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- Vacuum
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- Wash table after meals
- Put away own laundry
- Sew buttons
- Make own breakfast
- Peel vegetables
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|M.N. Moore
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M.N. Moore was a long-time resident of Lynchburg, Tennessee. He was a member of the church of Christ and served as a teaching elder for the Lynchburg church for many years. His wife was the sister of Thomas J. Shaw, the preacher. Through the years he was co-owner of a grocery store in Lynchburg. In 1870 he and others were approved by the Tennessee state legislature to begin a Male and Female Institute in Lynchburg. He died January 5, 1906, and was buried in the Shaw plot in the City Cemetery.
Acts of the State Tennessee, 36th General Assembly For The Year, 1869-1870
|Directions To The Grave of M.N. Moore
The city of Lynchburg, Tennessee is probably best known world-wide for its production of Jack Daniels Whiskey. The distillery is open daily for free tours to sight seers. However, our visit in December, 2001 was for a much greater, and far more fulfilling purpose, to find the final resting place of M.N. Moore. This south-central Tennessee town lies 13 miles west of I-24 at Tullahoma on Hwy. 55. It is located about 18 miles northwest of Winchester, Tennessee on Hwy. 50, and about 15 miles northeast of Fayetteville, Tennessee. Coming in from Tullahoma the main road, Hwy 55, is called Majors Blvd. Go through the town's only traffic light and just ahead on the right will be a funeral home that corners on Morgan St. When you turn on Morgan St. you will notice the cemetery on the hill ahead of you. Go to the stop sign. Cemetery St. goes straight ahead, and Church St. goes to the left in front of the cemetery. Turn left on Church St. in front of the cemetery, and go over the rise to the first entrance on the right. Note that the sections are enclosed by curbing, with walkways between sections. Go to the second walkway and look to the left. The first grave facing you will be the "Setliff" family plot. Behind the Setliff graves five rows you will see Shaw's monument. To the left of Thomas J. Shaw plot is the M.N. Moore plot.
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Driving home tonight from a pre-season workout with my high school girls basketball team, I started thinking about some of my favorite phrases/sayings/quotes that I've heard coaches use to motivate their teams. I've always loved the challenge of finding the perfect quote to share with my team to fire them up before a practice or game. As these quotes bounced around in my mind, I started thinking about what I need to do to be the best possible coach for my team this year. What gets me fired up to give my all? I came up with a list of five things I must do to help my team have a great experience this season.
1. People first. I want to connect with my players on a human level and try to understand them as people instead of just basketball players. I have to be open and honest with my players about who I am as a person and really get to know who they are as people. Ganon Baker, one of the top basketball trainers in the country, says "You have to reach them before you can teach them!"
2. Little things. My own high school coach's mantra was "The little things are the big things." A player who reminds her teammate what type of defense we are playing during the game is doing a "little thing" to help the team. However, communication on a team is BIG thing. I feel like I will have done my job if my players understand how important the little things are to our success as a team.
3. Attitude is everything. "Great thoughts attract great results; mediocre thoughts attract mediocre results." I don't remember where I read that quote but it has shaped the way I think about the season. This year, my goal is to make sure my team knows that I am going to give them my all for two hours every time we practice and that I absolutely believe that we will learn and grow as a team every time we step on the court together.
4. Next Play. "Next Play" is a phrase that Coach Mike Krzyzewski (hall of fame NCAA men's basketball coach) has used for 33 seasons at Duke University (one of the most successful teams in all of sports) to help his players stay in the moment. "Next play" is a phrase that I'd like to hear everyday with my team this year." Coach K explains it best:
"In basketball and in life, I have always maintained the philosophy of 'next play.' Essentially what it means is that what you have just done is not nearly as important as what you are doing right now. This philosophy emphasizes the fact that the most important play of the game or life moment on which you should always focus is the next one... To waste time lamenting a mistake or celebrating success is distracting and can leave you and your team unprepared for what you are about to face. It robs you of the ability to do your best at that moment and to give your full concentration."
5. Simplify. The great UCLA coach John Wooden told his players, "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." I love the game of basketball so much and sometimes I get excited and try to do too much with my team. My goal this year is for my team to do a few things really well based on what my players CAN do (*sometimes coaches try to coach the team they wish they had versus the team they actually have*). Focusing on what we CAN do will set us up for success.
There are many more things to add to this list but, in the spirit of #5, I'm stopping here for now.
Much more to come!
PS. Even though I said I was stopping at 5, I think number 6 should be: Remember that these are all about much more than basketball.


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First It Trailer Recaptures The Horror Of Stephen King's Novel
Get ready for your childhood fear of clowns to resurface—the first teaser trailer for film adaptation of It is finally here.
Based on Stephen King's 1986 horror novel, It follows (ha ha, It Follows) a group of children known as "The Losers Club" as they try to track down a killer clown called Pennywise, who's terrorizing their town of Derry, Maine. As we all know, an It miniseries starring Tim Curry (the king of eccentric, creepy roles) as Pennywise aired back in 1990, but this marks the first time that the novel has been adapted for the big screen.
And this version looks to be more The Shout and less Clue than its '90s predecessor. The trailer, which is accompanied by appropriately chilling music and sound effects, darkly and seriously depicts It's famous opening scene in which Georgie Denbrough (Jackson Robert Scott) chases a paper boat as it floats down a rain-covered street and into a storm drain, where both Georgie and the audience meet Pennywise for the first time. Things don't turn out so well for poor Georgie, who just wants to see some damn floating balloons.
The trailer also features a clip of The Losers Club examining a map of Derry on an image projector, trying to figure out where Pennywise (or "It") lives. Immediately after discovering that Pennywise must live within Derry's underground sewer system, the projector begins switching to different images on its own and soon shows the children pictures of a partially covered (but still menacing-looking) Pennywise.
It is directed by Andrés Muschietti, who also directed the 2013 Spanish horror film Mama. The film stars Allegiant's Bill Skarsgård as Pennyiwse and Stranger Things' Finn Wolfhard as Richie Tozier, a member of The Losers Club. Though the trailer doesn't give us a clear sense of whether or not the 26-year old Skarsgård will make a convincing Pennywise, we're sure that plenty of other clips and teasers will be released before It comes out on September 8.
Until then, check out the first official teaser trailer and poster below:


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A tribute to The Melvins, in theory, is a great idea. Hell, all tribute records in theory are great ideas. They pay homage to talented bands that have been around for years and influenced countless artists. It's only fitting that they be showered with the respect that they deserve, right? Of course! Unfortunately, most tribute records don't turn out so well. Case in point, We Reach: The Music of the Melvins.
The majority of the artists contributing to this release are confined to the metal community. The lack of variety considering the influence of The Melvins reaches beyond just metal is disappointing. So here we have eighteen songs performed by primarily metal bands with the bulk of the songs covered stemming from the middle of The Melvins' catalog. Where to begin?
Let's start with the good. Mare's rendition of "Nightgoat" is an interesting take on the classic from Houdini. The band leans away from the original composition and actually ends up sounding quite a bit like California-era Mr. Bungle. Mastodon chime in with a beefed-up reworking of "The Bit", maintaining the integrity of the song but giving it an extra kick. Matt Pike of High on Fire and Keelhaul teaming up for "Oven" is a fine turnout; they should work together more often. Isis working with members of Agoraphobic Nosebleed may sound weird, but their collaboration on "Boris" is spot on; they take the longest song from The Melvins and play it to a T. Made out of Babies make things interesting as a female-fronted band covering "Bar X to The Rocking M" - a different twist on a classic is a good thing.
Unfortunately, not all covers turn out so well; here are a few that weren't so good, in my opinion. Strapping Young Lad sounds like every popular metal band on the market with their adaptation of "Zodiac." Guess you have to be a fan of the band to enjoy it. Pig Destroyer's "Claude" is pathetic for a cream of the crop grindcore band - their interpretation could have been so much more. Eyehategod's cover of "Easy as it Was" is easily a snoozefest. Blessing the Hogs get a hand from Sean Ingram of Coalesce for their cover of "Hog Leg." Honestly, apart from Ingram, there really isn't anything worth mentioning. Pincer 2 must be a joke, and a very horrible one at that. Their covers sound like a shitty and untalented version of Jud Jud.
Finally, there are the songs that fall somewhere between. The Dillinger Escape Plan cover "Honey Bucket" and it pretty much sounds exactly like that: Dillinger playing The Melvins but with crappy production. Absentee and Disengage's efforts are admirable. I enjoyed them, but they were played fairly straight and could have benefited from some meddling. The rest of the songs aren't overtly good or bad; they're just there.
If you're a fairly big Melvins fan, I suggest locating a copy of We Reach used as the respectable covers are worth hearing. However, if you're a casual fan, the risk here is too high. You'd be better off spinning your copy of Stoner Witch or Bullhead.
6.5 / 10
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