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Oh my, what a lovely break.
The winter here has been cold, windy, relentless.
Following a whirlwind Christmas season in the shop, my hubby and I had the lovely good fortune of joining our good friends in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic for the wedding of their daughter Chelsey and her guy Matt. It was a beautiful thing.
It was warm, sunny, the beach stunning. There's nothing like poking your toes in the sand on a cold winter's day.
Somewhere along the way between then and now, my get up and go got up and went and I've been having difficulty finding her. While I haven't exactly been doing nothing, that which has been accomplished has evolved at a much slower pace.
The continuing master bedroom makeover is coming along nicely. With some alterations, additions, deletions from the original plan, I'm almost ready to share.
I've always loved vintage/rustic spaces and my absolute addiction to gray and white continues to grow but while spending down time on "snow days" surfing Pinterest, it's become clear that I ADORE Scandinavian Rustic Design and I'll begin to share inspiring blogs happily discovered.
My focus on living an alkaline lifestyle and eating clean became more focused upon my return from Punta Cana (I became ill with Salmonella poisoning, yup, fun times) and I've discovered a few great blogs that have inspired me to stick with it.
I've added a side bar to the blog with links to just a few of the blogs that inspire me.
In the midst of this crazy cold winter season I've begun to crave pink.
in all it's shades and dream of Spring.
I've plans in the works to revamp my handmade soap line and I'm excited to share that with you. Over the coming weeks and months I'll be sharing my love of scandinavian rustic design, blogs that inspire me, stories about what I call "Plan B brides and grooms", weddings flower plans, inspiration and other wedding "stuff", garden planning, favourite flower varieties and my thoughts on "pinning", classes planned for March and tease you just a little about Spring at Moss Cottage.
Thanks for hanging in there, snow days are over!
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The Americana Music Association UK (AMA-UK) has chosen celebrated singer-songwriter and guitarist Richard Thompson to receive its UK Americana Lifetime Achievement Award.
Acknowledged as one of the world's greatest guitarists and most prolific songwriters, Richard has been 'a ground-breaking force both in terms of his own acclaimed albums and live shows and his influence on other musicians'.
Commenting on the award, he said: 'I'm deeply honoured to receive this award. My heartfelt thanks to AMA-UK.'
Richard will receive the award as part of the second annual AMA-UK awards on Thursday 2 February 2017 at St John at Hackney. The show will be hosted by legendary broadcaster Bob Harris and will feature performances from nominees and award winners, including Richard Thompson.
The awards show also coincides with the first anniversary of the Official Americana Albums Chart, which was launched this year by the Official Charts Company in partnership with the AMA-UK and is published each week on OfficialCharts.com
The UK Americana Awards are part of AmericanaFest UK, a two-day event which will also include an evening of showcases on Wednesday 1 February featuring twenty bands playing in various venues around Hackney alongside daytime conferences on both days.
The full list of nominees is below:
UK album of the year
Ghost by Lewis & Leigh (produced by Matt Ingram)
Mockingbird Lane by Danni Nicholls (produced by Chris Donohue)
Nos Da Comrade by Peter Bruntnell (produced by Peter Bruntnell)
Palomino by Treetop Flyers (produced by Treetop Flyers)
International album of the year
A Sailor's Guide To Earth by Sturgill Simpson (produced by Sturgill Simpson)
American Band by Drive-By Truckers (produced by David Barbe)
Angeleno by Sam Outlaw (produced by Joachim Cooder and Ry Cooder)
Midwest Farmer's Daughter by Margo Price (produced by Alex Munoz and Matt Ross-Spang)
UK song of the year
Mr Sunshine by Peter Bruntnell (written by Peter Bruntnell and Bill Ritchie)
Silver Liner by Ethan Johns & the Black Eyed Dogs (written by Ethan Johns)
Tend To The Thorns by William the Conqueror (written by Ruarri Joseph)
The 4:19 by Lewis & Leigh (written by Al Lewis and Alva Leigh)
International song of the year
Dust by Lucinda Williams (written by Lucinda Williams)
Hands of Time by Margo Price (written by Margo Price)
Somebody Save Me by Cale Tyson (written by Cale Tyson)
Welcome To Earth (Pollywog) by Sturgill Simpson (written by Sturgill Simpson)
UK artist of the year
Bear's Den
Billy Bragg
Lewis & Leigh
Yola Carter
International artist of the year
Margo Price
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Richmond Fontaine
Sturgill Simpson
UK instrumentalist of the year
CJ Hillman
Dave Little
Henry Senior
Kirk Bowman
Lifetime achievement award
Richard Thompson


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While there is significant disagreement amongst psychologists and psychiatrists about whether a child can be diagnosed as a sociopath, there are early warning signs that signal when a child is deeply troubled. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder, common among sociopaths, can be given at the age of 18 to an adolescent who has exhibited symptoms since the age of 15.
Cruelty to Animals
Clinical psychologist Jill P. Weber states that while she is unwilling to diagnose a child as a sociopath, abuse of animals is an indicator that a child needs help. A child with an interest in watching others suffer may start by inflicting harm on animals. The National District Attorneys Association states that the boys responsible for most of the shootings in American schools between 1997 and 2001, including Columbine, had a history of killing animals. Serial killers Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and Dennis Rader, some of the most famous sociopaths in history, also tortured and killed animals as children.
Lack of Empathy
A 2009 article in Molecular Psychology points to a lack of empathy and remorse as a common trait among sociopaths. While a psychopath knows the difference between right and wrong, it makes no difference to him. If a child frequently hurts or bullies others, but displays no noticeable emotion when their victims express pain, they may have a glitch in the brain network connecting the orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala. This neurological trait has been noted in sociopaths and psychopaths, and may explain their inability to care about the harm they cause or the consequences of their actions. A lack of conscience and compassion are classic traits of a sociopath.
Vandalism and Setting Fires
Although the majority of fires set by children are ignited out of curiosity rather than malice, a pervasive interest in setting fires may be an early sign of antisocial or sociopathic behavior. Salisbury, MD-based Focus Adolescent Services cautions that if a child over the age of eight starts a fire, it is more likely that the behavior represents underlying mental illness than in younger children. Of adolescent firestarters, Focus states that the behavior often represents true criminal intent. Psychologists caution that children in whom firestarting behavior coexists alongside animal torture and excessive bedwetting are in particular danger. Often, children exhibiting these symptoms are victims of abuse or neglect themselves.


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University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia
Master of Arts in Psychology, July 2011
Earned the Humanistic Praxis Certificate through the Therapeutic Training Program
Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Bachelor of Arts, Majors: Psychology, Studio Art, and Philosophy
Selected Exhibits and Performances
Performing as The Mare in Rose M. Barron and J. William Hill's, Will You be My Nightmare at The B Complex, October 2017
Mammal Gallery, Dog Wedding Ceremony with eyeCandle, February 14th 2016
This Takes Time is on display at Eyedrum Gallery until September
Ritual #9 with Shana Robbins at Bluemark Studios, January 22nd 2015
South East-US Performance Tour, January 30- February 14
Nesting with Dashboard Co-op at Cube Space, April
Curating This is Taking Time at Eyedrum Gallery, September
Tanz Farm, Cloth/Tower with Glo
Nature of Consciousness at Skwhirlhaus
Philia at Low Museum,
Waking Down by Shana Robbins at Gallery Protocol, Gainesville, Fl
Sumptuary at Mint Gallery with Zee Zee Bow Dong
Evolving Mirrors with Woven Tongues at Mammal Gallery
See Through by PushPush Theater at Nelson St. Gallery
Thunder Road with N.E.M. At Art on the Beltline
Set design for A Devil's Tree by The Collectives Project at the Goat Farm
Performed at Living Walls, 2010-2012
Boy in Terrarium in Terrariums during FLUX Night at Raw Space
Artistic Designer on I am a Groucho Marxist by Anya Liftig with FLUX Projects
Research and Development with gloATL
Love Like a Devil's Handshake curated by Johanthan Bouknight at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
An Evening of Art and Music at Shakespeare Tavern
Dali Surreal College Night at The High Museum of Art
KilnHaus founding member and curator 2014-2015
GloGuild member since 2012 supporting Glo
Back Pockets lead theater member December 2010- March 2012
-Performed over 150 shows
-Traveled on a 2 month tour around the US and completed 6 other 2 week tours.
-Co-created the Documentary Magic Cloud ; Beaumont Film Festival 2014
N.E.M. (New Evolutionary Movement) member–Kris Pilcher; Since 2011 I have been an active artist in collaboration
Sassafrass in Woodbury, Tennessee; May 2012
-Engaged in Art Therapy with other artist in residency and completed a Gestalt dance performance
Hostel in the Forest in Brunswick, Georgia; March-August 09,
-Work Exchange where I used Georgia Cobb clay to help construct an outdoor sculptural kitchen.
Curator at Basement Gallery in Miami, Florida; January 05- July 07
Counseling Experience
Orion Psychotherapy, Atlanta, Georgia
Private Practice, Licensed Associate Professional Counselor, March 2014-Current
-Recently I began working in the private practice setting with clients with a focus on working with Expressive modalities, adolescents, and artist; and am working toward fiscal sponsorship with C4 Atlanta to offer scholarships to non-university artist to receive Expressive focused therapeutic services.
Second Nature, Clayton, Georgia
Wilderness Therapy Field Instructor, December 2012- Current
-For a year and a half I lived in the North Georgia woods for a week at a time supporting adolescents to discover identity and find awareness through community living and counseling. I provided one-on-one therapy, facilitated groups, and created and expressive therapy bi-weekly experience.
Skyland Trail, Atlanta, Georgia
Supportive Horticultural Therapist, August 2010 to March 2012
Manged the grounds and greenhouse, facilitated groups, meet one-on-one, and developed a work assistance program for clients to get vocational training
I am currently in the second year of post Masters supervision and working towards becoming an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) in the state of Georgia. I studied at a Humanistic program and took a focus in Expressive Therapies (art, music, dance, journaling).
Horticultural Experience
Biophilia, Atlanta, Georgia, Self-Employed Private Gardener, June 2011-Current
-Manage all aspects including design, installation, maintenance, and billing
WonderRoot, Atlanta, Ga, Community Garden Head Intern, 2010
-Worked collaboratively with the community to facilitate the raised bed and flower gardens. Oversee the garden care and maintenance. Implemented work days, and a structure to access volunteers.


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Barrington Tops is World Heritage Listed and one of the many beautiful places Australia has to offer. Covering more than 95,000 hectares of unspoilt wilderness, this is a must-see destination with an almost mystical reputation. There's sparkling streams, waterfalls, lush rainforest canopies, the call of the wilderness and much more.
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Introduction to Waste Management
for Artists and Schools
By Angela Babin, M.S.,
and Michael McCann, Ph.D., C.I.H.
Artists, art teachers, and students often produce solid waste and aqueous waste as a result of their art processes. Much of this waste can be hazardous, leaving the problem of how to dispose of it safely and legally. Some waste, while non-hazardous, can be bulky and use up space in overloaded landfills. See our booklet Waste Management and Disposal for Artists and Schools for more information on disposal methods for particular classes of art materials.
In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates the disposal of hazardous waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Industrial wastewater discharges are not considered solid waste, and are regulated under the EPA Clean Water Act.
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) was enacted in 1976 as an amendment to the Solid Waste Disposal Act, and can be found in Part 240-281 of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (40 CFR 240-281). Subtitle C of RCRA regulates the management of hazardous waste through its "cradle-to-grave" system of regulations for the identification of hazardous waste and generators, among other requirements. This waste manifest system tracks hazardous waste through generation, transportation, and disposal.
The responsibility for administering RCRA rests with the individual state. While most of the states' hazardous waste programs resemble RCRA, you should contact individual state environmental offices to elucidate any differences.
Hazardous Waste Generators
There are different categories of producers of hazardous waste, under RCRA, 40 CFR Part 261. The basic distinctions center around the amounts of hazardous waste produced. These categories are:
1. Large Quantity Generators (LQG): LQGs produce more than 1000 kilogram per month (kg/month), (2205 pounds) of hazardous waste, or more than 1 kg/month (2.2 pounds) of acutely hazardous waste. LQGs must obtain a US EPA identification number from a state hazardous waste management agency or EPA regional office. They must comply with storage time, quantity, transportation, handling, and record-keeping (manifest) requirements.
2. Small Quantity Generators (SQG): SQGs produce more than 100 kg/month (22 pounds) and less than 1000 kg/month (2205 pounds) and accumulate less than 6,000 kg (13200 pounds). Requirements for SQGs are similar to those for LQGs.
3. Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generators (CESQG) produce less than 100 kg/month (220 pounds) of hazardous waste, or less than 1 kg/month (2.2 pounds) of acutely hazardous waste. They are "conditionally exempt" from Subtitle C, and the manifest system, including transportation requirements. CESQGs must identify all hazardous waste, not accumulate more than 1000 kg (100 kg in NYS), and treat or dispose their waste onsite or make sure that the waste is sent to an approved facility. Not all states recognize a difference in requirements for CESQGs. The above categories of hazardous waste generators represent industrial or "commercial" generators. This would include an arts community group, printmaking studio, school district, college, photography studio, or even professional artists if they produce hazardous wastes and meet the definitions of a CESQG, SQG, or even a LQG.
4. Household Hazardous Waste (HHW): HHWs are exempted from federal hazardous waste regulations [40 CFR Part 261.4(b)(1)]. This exemption allows individual citizens, and home artists and hobbyists, to discard materials into municipal waste streams. EPA states that the reason for this exemption does not mean these wastes aren't hazardous, rather that enforcement and management of wastes generated by consumers in their households isn't feasible. Also, handlers of household hazardous wastes don't need to comply with the federal regulations when managing household wastes. HHW collection programs are a good option for these generators.
Sewage System
The Clean Water Act of 1977 can restrict what may be dumped into the sewer system. This act is directed at "significant industrial users," who discharge large amounts of wastewater on a daily basis. Large photographic processing studios and large electroplating studios are examples of businesses that may need to be in compliance with this law.
All publicly-owned treatment works are required to develop local sewer use codes which regulate the concentration of hazardous substances in waste water. These limits are designed to reflect the particular local environmental conditions of the area.
Non-toxic liquids (e.g. neutralized acids and alkalis), and small amounts of some hazardous, water-based solutions (e.g. dye solutions, photographic solutions) can be poured down the drain with lots of water if the sewage system has a wastewater treatment plant with a bacterial treatment stage that can detoxify small amounts of chemicals. Septic tank systems are more sensitive since one doesn't want to kill off the septic tank bacteria. Solvents should never be poured down the sink.
Types of Hazardous Waste
There are several categories of chemicals used by artists and schools that come under regulation as hazardous waste. These include:
1. Toxic Waste Chemicals: e.g. solvents, formaldehyde, lead compounds, mercury, chromates, etc.
2. Flammable Waste: e.g. flammable and combustible liquids with a flashpoint of < 140ø F; solids that can cause fire through friction, absorption of moisture, or spontaneous combustion; ignitable compressed gases; and oxidizing substances like potassium chlorate and concentrated nitric acid.
3. Corrosive Waste: e.g. wastes with a pH < 2 or > 12.
4. Reactive Waste: e.g. cyanide or sulfide wastes which can generate dangerous amounts of toxic gases between pH 2 and 12.5, and unstable compounds such as methyl ethyl ketone peroxide.
5. Acute Hazardous Waste: e.g. arsenic compounds, hydrogen cyanide and cyanide salts, many pesticides, vanadium pentoxide, etc.
6. Leachable Toxic Waste: e.g. materials that can leach into water more than specified levels of the following metals: arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, selenium, and silver. In addition, leachable levels of other chemicals are regulated, including benzene, cresols, p-dichlorobenzene, methyl ethyl ketone, pentachlorophenol, perchloroethylene, trichloroethylene, and several pesticides.
7. Miscellaneous: Other classes of hazardous waste not normally encountered by artists may include radioactive materials and pathological (viral or bacteriological) waste.
Methods of Waste Management
There are a variety of methods of managing waste materials, including waste minimalization, recycling, treatment, pouring them down the drain, evaporation, ordinary landfills, and taking them to a waste disposal company. Not all of these options apply to hazardous waste.
1. Waste Minimization: The amount of hazardous waste can be minimized by using less toxic substitutes, for example, using water-based instead of solvent-based screen printing inks.
2. Recycling: Many waste art materials can be reused. For example, mineral spirits used for cleaning oil painting brushes can be allowed to settle, and then strained through cheesecloth to remove the solids. The filtered solvent can then be reused. Leftover art materials can be donated to an art center or secondary school. Note that hazardous materials should never be donated to elementary schools, and highly toxic materials like lead glazes should not be recycled.
3. Evaporation: Small amounts of solvents or solvent-containing materials (less than a pint) can be evaporated if no other better alternative is available. Evaporation should take place outside, or inside a local exhaust hood where no one will be exposed to the solvent vapors.
4. Landfill: Non-hazardous, solid waste materials can be placed in the regular trash for carting to a normal landfill. Some toxic materials can also be placed in the trash, including clay, metals, paint residues, etc. Glazed pottery can be placed in the trash if it doesn't leach toxic metals.
5. Treatment: Some materials can be treated to make them non-hazardous. Neutralization of dilute acid and alkali wastes, and recovery of silver from photographic fixer solutions are examples of chemical treatment of hazardous waste that artists can do.
6. Hazardous Waste Disposal Transporters and Companies: Hazardous materials that can't be properly disposed of in other ways should be taken to a licensed hazardous waste disposal company. Individuals and CESQGs, carting their own materials, are exempt from RCRA transportation regulations that require (often costly) pick-up by a licensed hazardous waste transporter. Note that many fire departments restrict transportation of flammable liquids.
7. Household Hazardous Waste Collection: Household hazardous waste collection programs (HHWCPs), often organized by counties or municipalities, are intended to collect hazardous waste from homes. To be eligibile for these programs, materials must be generated by individuals on the premises of a temporary or permanent residence.
There is a grey area surrounding the boundaries that define artists and their working scenarios. For example, an artist who has a separate studio may not be eligible for disposal of unwanted materials at a household hazardous waste collection program. Likewise, homeowners, gardeners, and artists who bring in suspiciously large amounts of materials to a household hazardous waste collection program may be turned away from services because their quantities resemble those of businesses, small farmers, and commercial art businesses. CSA has produced a list of U.S. and Canadian collection programs that accept waste from both individual artists, and also from small "commercial" art businesses. For this list, along with recycling and waste exchange program information, see our data sheet Health and Safety Resources for Artists.
Environmental Protection Agency. 40 CFR 260 to 267. Hazardous Waste Management Regulations. Government Printing Office, Washington DC. 1989.
Environmental Protection Agency. RCRA Orientation Manual. 1990 Edition. Office of Solid Waste, Washington D.C. 1990.
McCann M and Babin A. Waste Management and Disposal for Artists and Schools. CSA 1992.
Art Hazard News, Volume 15, No. 3, 1992
This article was originally printed for Art Hazard News, © copyright Center for Safety in the Arts 1992. It appears on
courtesy of the Health in the Arts Program, University of Illinois at Chicago, who have curated a collection of these articles from their archive which are still relevant to artists today.


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The History of the High Meadows Fund
Carl and Judy Ferenbach established The High Meadows Fund (HMF) in 2004 as a supporting organization of the Vermont Community Foundation (VCF) because of VCF's capacity as a knowledgeable and engaged partner to inform and guide effective grantmaking in Vermont. Over its first few years, guided by a board of directors with deep familiarity with Vermont and the working landscape, the High Meadows Fund narrowed its focus to environmental grantmaking directed at promoting sustainable farm and forest enterprises, clean energy, and resilient land use in Vermont. A separate High Meadows Foundation was established for philanthropic giving outside the state.
HMF's dual mission to improve the vibrancy of Vermont's communities and the health of the natural environment inspires us to both mitigate the factors that contribute to the changing climate, and adapt to the risks and vulnerabilities brought about by extreme weather events and other impacts of the changing climate. These challenges shine a spotlight on the environmental and social justice challenges inherent in adapting to a changing climate, as Vermonters with more modest incomes are likely to live in housing that is expensive to heat and/or vulnerable to the impact of storm water erosion and flooding.
From its inception through December 2018, the High Meadows Fund has made grants totaling over $12.1 million. The High Meadows Fund recognizes that actions beyond grantmaking play an important role in serving our mission. Convening stakeholders with well-crafted agendas, contracting for specific research, and investing a portion of our assets for mission impact are strategies in addition to making grants. High Meadows considers the role of private markets in bringing successful ideas to scale over the long term.
High Meadows listens and watches for areas of specific need and opportunity in Vermont. From 2010 to 2015 High Meadows gave particular attention to first understanding, and then addressing, barriers to improving the energy performance of Vermont's homes and community buildings. High Meadows saw this as a key strategy for reducing Vermonters' greenhouse gas emissions. After Tropical Storm Irene in 2011, the High Meadows board turned more attention to the impact of the already changing climate on Vermont agriculture, land use, and community development. The fund's watershed resilience initiative and its interest in zero-energy modular homes resulted from our post-Irene line of inquiry.
In 2017, High Meadows engaged a consultant to interview our grantees and other key partners to explore opportunities to achieve greater impact. These interviews reinforced our commitment to providing more than grant funding. Grantees and other funders value High Meadows' role in fostering learning and connections among diverse practitioners across our areas of focus. Those we interviewed suggested High Meadows more actively share what we are learning and draw more attention to the work of our grant and investment partners, while also more proactively reach out to funders who share our values and mission.
You can learn more about what we heard from these interviews in our "2017 Reflections" blog post. In 2018, we hired a full-time Program Officer. With this new addition to our team, High Meadows can devote more resources to storytelling, blog posts, and active engagement with other funders who share our values and areas of focus.
The High Meadows Fund Board recognizes the fluidity of its process: we set out a strategy and course of action, reflect on our accomplishments and challenges, and make adjustments. We review our objectives annually, leave room for the new and unexpected each year, and use what we learn to influence broader policy and market activity in our fields of interest. The board also recognizes our effectiveness relies on the diligence and creativity of our grant, investment, and thought partners. We are grateful for the commitment, skill, and grace they bring to working alongside us.


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Confabulate: To talk together, converse, chat; in Psychiatry also means: to replace the gaps left by a disorder of the memory with imaginary remembered experiences consistently believed to be true.
This isn't a real RT round-up, just a sketch of what might have been for today's WOTD if I wasn't too taken up with our election wake.
Not a particularly inspiring word, today's WOTD (and yes, that IS sour grapes because got the form of the word wrong in my Artwicutweets from my non-Internet connected mobile phone).
But here are a few favourites I think particularly deserve my RT vote and a bit of extra exposure.
RT @TidKid @artwiculate "The word for today is confabulate" "It never was!" "Um, yes it was?" "Before my time" "So?" "Just saying" "OK"
I missed it too, @TidKid.
RT @lagadu123 Let's confabulate about the early days on artwiculate, when all was fresh & rosy, and every winning tweet was worthy.
Ah yes. @lagadu123, I remember them well … Or perhaps I'm just confabulating? 🙂
RT @I2Haiku I always / block out / bad memories / and only recall the good / or confabulate them #artwiculate #gogyohka
RT @jumpmonk "Waiter, there's a confabulate in my soup.""But of course, Sir. It's what everyone's talking about."
RT @marcosarroyos Blessed are they who confabulate for we can all use a good story.
RT @Squawkingalah I'd be happy to confabulate all day. Failing that, quite happy to just fabulate.
RT @19ish Aesop was The Great Confabulate -r! His fables are legendary! #artwiculate
RT @ariandalen Ah, Mistress Confabulate: she'll tell anyone who asks just how fabulous you are, even if she can't remember you.
RT @drchavi To create one needs to confabulate…
RT @harrarp There they are again // the moon, the lake and the word // is confabulate. #haiku
RT @marcosarroyos Once the Chinese take over script writing for Hollywood, all scripts will have a stamp that says "Confabulate-d in China."
RT @osmarjardim Confabulate-d in China. 上é¢å†™ç€â€œæ'†é¾™é—¨é˜µåœ¨ä¸å›½Ã MT@marcosarroyos
RT @runheidi Please, dear boy, confabulate. It's really not a sin. When she asks if she looks fat, tell her she's too thin. #artwiculate
RT @LorcanDesperado Confabulate? That certainly isn't a rugged individualist habit. #artwiculate
RT @dsceiorg Collective nouns: A headache of late mornings; A surprise of bed companion; A confabulate of morning afters #artwiculate
And @dsceiorg, FYI, that last one made the list both for the use of the WOTD and for "A surprise of bed companion" 😀
RT @Wifsie Lady Chatter-ley watched speechless and akimbo while Lover Andy made his confabulate gumbo. #lqw
RT @ZimmerJohn The banter on Twitter is great-It carries on early or late-Thru the whole Twitterverse people chat & converse-In tweets do they confabulate.
And to follow up @zimmerjohn's tweet with the next from @Ysabeluna seems only right!
RT @Ysabeluna to CONFABULATE is human, but often, SILENCE is divine #artwiculate
And that, my dears, is that. Had I planned things better I'd have begune with once upon a time and ended with happily ever after – but we all know that would have been a fabulation. Besides I'm ever so slightly tipsy and so's @TheSupercargo to whom I'm handing back the baton – if he doesn't drop it. Catch![RT @TheSupercargo @artwiculate Despite the rumours being spread by my evil dopplganger @TSupercargo I am not the worse for drink – only the better for it 🙂 ]
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BBC Review
This is that rarest of musical creatures; a debut album full of promise.
Al Spicer 2008
Disastro has to be the most misleading misnomer of the year: Sonny J's debut is messy with styles, overcrowded with samples and almost overbalances with the respect it pays to different genres, times and places. Yet it never approaches even the outskirts of disaster. The album takes a bucket of ideas and shakes them up in a ragbag of influences. What comes out is as sweet and surprising as a birthday cake.
There's more to this collection though, than just a collection of warmed-over riffs and recycled vocals; Sorrow could easily be the lead track from a Chris Martin solo project, and it works perfectly as a standalone island of high quality, old-school music for musicians.
If you've ever worshipped at the temple of DJ Shadow or bowed before Beck, you'll find more than enough eclecticism here to whet your aural appetite. If you remember the early days of Big Beat, when the likes of Fatboy Slim and Bentley Rhythm Ace were at their most inspired, you'll adore the quirky blending of arcade-game sound effects, heavy metal guitar and francophone girlie-pop which kicks off the set.
And if you can remember back to the time of the Banana Splits TV show, during the golden age of Detroit pop at Hitsville USA, you'll recognise the skills employed on Can't Stop Moving. It's surely no coincidence that master label EMI have released this gorgeous piece of work on old the $tateside imprint, one time home to Motown's output in the UK.
This is that rarest of musical creatures; a debut album full of promise.


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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves – by Matt Ridley.
Date read: 7/29/17. Recommendation: 8/10.
I read this book to combat confirmation bias. I tend to romanticize the past and idealize the simple living we associate with the hunter-gatherer era. As such, I read a lot of books that fall in line with that interest. Ridley makes the argument that we're currently living in the best period of human history (which we are). He credits this to the free exchange of ideas and knowledge, which breeds even more innovation and knowledge. He details the driving factors of dynamic change, bottom-up innovation, and how the specialization of talents has led to mutual gain for everyone involved. It's a dense book but Ridley offers brilliant insight, which should give you a much needed boost of optimism for the future.
See my notes below or Amazon for details and reviews.
My Notes:
This book is about the rapid, continuous and incessant change that human society experiences in a way that no other animal does.
It is not as if human nature changes...Yet to say that life is the same as it was 32,000 years ago would be absurd.
At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.
Exchange is to cultural evolution as sex is to biological evolution. By exchanging, human beings discovered 'the division of labour', the specialization of efforts and talents for mutual gain.
The rich have gotten richer, but the poor have done even better. The poor in the developing world grew their consumption twice as fast as the world as a whole between 1980 and 2000. The Chinese are ten times as rich.
The true measure of something's worth is the hours it takes to acquire it.
Healthcare and education are among the few things that cost more in terms of hours worked now than they did in the 1950s.
Study by Richard Easterlin in 1974, which found that although within a country rich people were generally happier than poor people, richer countries did not have happier citizens than poor countries. Trouble is, the 'Easterlin paradox' is wrong. New studies show that rich people are happier and rich countries have happier people and people get happier as they get richer. Easterlin study had samples too small to find significant differences.
*There are some exceptions. Americans current show no trend towards increasing happiness.
Besides, a million years of natural selection shaped human nature to be ambitious to rear successful children, not to settle for contentment: people are programmed to desire, not to appreciate.
Getting richer is not the only or even best way of getting happier. Social and political liberation is far more effective.
Self-sufficiency is therefore not the route to prosperity....If you wish to have even the most minimal improvement in your life – say metal tools, toothpaste or lighting – you are going to get some of your chores done by somebody else.
You may have no chefs, but you can decide on a whim to choose between scores of nearby bistros...Never before this generation has the average person been able to afford to have somebody else prepare his meals.
You employ no tailor, buy you can browse the internet and instantly order from an almost infinite range of excellent, affordable clothes.
You have no carriage, but you can buy a ticket which will summon the services of a skilled pilot of a budget airline to fly you to one of hundreds of destinations.
This is the diagnostic feature of modern life, the very definition of a high standard of living: diverse consumption, simplified production.
The cumulative accretion of knowledge by specialists that allows us each to consume more and more different things by each producing fewer and fewer is, I submit, the central story of humanity.
Barter – the simultaneous exchange of different objects – was itself a human breakthrough, perhaps even the chief thing that led to the ecological dominance and burgeoning material prosperity of the species. Fundamentally, other animals do not barter.
*Primatologist Sarah Brosnan tried to teach two different groups of chimpanzees about barter and found it very problematic...They could not see the point of giving up food they liked for food they liked even more...True barter requires that you give up something you value in exchange for something else you value slightly more.
Why did human beings acquire a taste for barter as other animals did not? Perhaps it has something to do with cooking...swapping different kinds of food.
Without trade, innovation just does not happen. Exchange is to technology as sex is to evolution. It stimulates novelty.
Technological regress in Tasmania. Once connected to Australia, until about 10,000 years ago. Isolation led to losing technologies that their ancestors had once possessed....Isolation–self sufficiency–caused the shriveling of their technology.
Imagine if 4,000 people from your home town were plonked on an island and left in total isolation for ten millennia. How many skills and tools do you think they could preserve?
The success of human beings depends crucially, but precariously, on numbers and connections. A few hundred people cannot sustain a sophisticated technology: trade is a vital part of the story.
Human cultural progress is a collective enterprise and it needs a dense collective brain.
The notion of synergy, of both sides benefiting, just does not seem to come naturally to people. If sympathy is instinctive, synergy is not.
The notion that the market is a necessary evil, which allows people to be wealthy enough to offset its corrosive drawbacks, is wide off the mark...In places where traditional, honor-based feudal societies gave way to commercial, prudence-based economies, the effect is civilizing, not coarsening.
But the idea that the market destroys charity by teaching selfishness is plainly wide of the mark. When the market economy booms so does philanthropy.
Political decisions are by definition monopolistic, disenfranchising and despotically majoritarian; markets are good at supplying minority needs.
The 'long tail' of the distribution – the very many products that are each wanted by very few, rather than vice versa – can be serviced more and more easily.
The coincidence of wealth with toleration has led to the bizarre paradox of a conservative movement that embraces economic change but hates its social consequences and a liberal movement that loves the social consequences but hates the economic source from which they come. 'One side denounced capitalism but gobbled up its fruits; the other cursed the fruits while defending the system that bore them.'
As islands of top-down planning in a bottom-up sea, big companies have less and less of a future (the smaller the scale, the better planning works).
When human beings were all still hunter-gatherers, each needed about a thousand hectares of land to support him or her. Now – thanks to farming, genetics, oil, machinery and trade – each needs little more than a thousand square meters, a tenth of a hectare.
Organic farming is low-yield, whether you like it or not. The reason for this is simple chemistry.
The mechanization of agriculture has enabled, and been enabled by, a flood of people leaving the land to seek their fortune in the city, all free to make for each other things other than food.
Throughout history, empires start as trade areas before they become the playthings of military plunderers from within or without.
In these Bronze Age empires, commerce was the cause, not the symptom of prosperity.
A Bronze Age empire stagnated for much the same reason that a nationalized industry stagnates: monopoly rewards caution and discourages experiment, the income is gradually captured by the interests of the producers at the expense of the interests of the consumers, and so on. The list of innovations achieved by the pharaohs is as thin as as the list of innovations achieved by British Rail or the US Postal Service.
The message from history is so blatantly obvious – that free trade causes mutual prosperity while protectionism causes poverty. There is not a single example of a country opening its borders to trade and ending up poorer.
Cheap imports can destroy jobs at home – though in doing so they always create far more both at home and abroad, by freeing up consumers' cash to buy other goods and services. If Europeans find their shoes made cheaply in Vietnam, then they have more to spend on getting their hair done and there are more nice jobs for Europeans in hair salons and fewer dull ones in shoe factories.
Suppose you had said to my hypothetical family of 1800, eating their gristly stew in front of a log fire, that in two centuries their descendants would need to fetch no logs or water, and carry out not sewage, because water, gas and a magic form of invisible power called electricity would come into their home through pipes and wires.
The more knowledge you generate, the more you can generate. And the engine that is driving prosperity in the modern world is the accelerating generation of useful knowledge.
The dissemination of useful knowledge causes that useful knowledge to breed more useful knowledge.
Eamonn Butler, economist: "Whenever you see the word equilibrium in a textbook, blot it out." It is wrong because it assumes perfect competition, perfect knowledge and perfect rationality, none of which do or can exist.
The possibility of new knowledge makes the steady state impossible. Somewhere somebody will have a new idea and that idea will enable him to invent a new combination of atoms both to create and to exploit imperfections in the market.
There is no equilibrium in nature; there is only constant dynamism. As Heraclitus put it, 'Nothing endures but change.'
Innovation is like a bush fire that burns brightly for a short time, then dies down before flaring up somewhere else...No country remains for long the leader in knowledge creation...Just as it is true that the bush fire breaks out in different parts of the world at different times, so it leaps from technology to technology. Today, just as during the printing revolution of 500 years ago, communications is aflame with increasing returns, but transport is spluttering with diminishing returns.
In the early 1970s, when credit cards were new, politicians of all stripes denounced them as unsound, unsafe and predatory...This nicely captures the paradox of the modern world, that people embrace technological change and hate it at the same time.
The great innovators are still usually outsiders...the R&D budgets at large companies who were once dominant get captured by increasingly defensive and complacent bureaucrats who spend them on low-risk, dull projects and fail to notice gigantic new opportunities, which thereby turn into threats.
One solution is for companies to try to set their employees free to behave like entrepreneurs.
It is the ever-increasing exchange of ideas that causes the ever-increasing rate of innovation in the modern world. Not science, money, patents, government.
Equilibrium and stagnation are not only avoidable in a free-exchanging world; they are impossible.
So long as people who are spending money on trying to find new ideas can profit from them before they pass them on, then increasing returns are possible.
The wonderful thing about knowledge is that it is genuinely limitless. This is the biggest cause for all my optimism.
"I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage." -John Stuart Mill
The world will not continue as it is. That is the whole point of human progress, the whole message of cultural evolution, the whole import of dynamic change–the whole thrust of this book. The real danger comes from slowing down change.
The pessimists' mistake is extrapolationism: assuming the future is just a bigger version of the past.
Recurring theme throughout human history, skepticism of new technologies and doomsday predications. Every organization/government claims that we're "at a defining moment in history." Apprehension about railroads in 1830s, nuclear doomsday predictions in 1950s, dangers of advances in human genetics and reproductive medicine in 2000s.
The endless modern laments about how texting and emails are shortening the attention span go back to Plato, who deplored writing as a destroyer of memorizing.
Famine is largely history. Where it still occurs – Darfur, Zimbabwe – the fault lies with government policy, not population pressure.
It is not as if Africa needs to invent enterprise: the streets of Africa's cities are teeming with entrepreneurs, adept at doing deals, but they cannot grow their businesses because of blockages in the system. The slums of Nairobi and Lagos are terrible places, but the chief fault lies with governments, which place bureaucratic barriers in the way of entrepreneurs trying to build affordable homes for people...In Cairo it would take seventy-seven bureaucratic procedures involving thirty-one agencies and up to fourteen years to acquire and register a ploy of state-owned land on which to build a house. No wonder nearly five million Egyptians have decided to build illegal dwellings instead.
Whereas it takes a handful of steps to set up a company in America or Europe, in Tanzania it would take 379 days and cost $5,506.
What Tanzania needs to do, as Europe and America did hundreds of years ago, is not to enforce its unaffordable official legal system, but gradually to encourage this bottom-up informal law to broaden and standardize itself.
Using such technologies, Africa can follow the same route to prosperity that the rest of the world is following: to specialize and exchange. Once two individuals find ways to divide labor between them, both are bette roff. The future for Africa lies in trade.


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Drafting Wills
When the testator sits down to write a will, the document -- including notes, drafts, lists and letters to the estate attorney -- are private documents. The privacy of her documents does not depend upon attorney involvement. A testator handwriting a holographic will, for example, retains complete control over who views the document. Since a holographic will requires no witnesses, the testator can keep the will's existence private, as well as its contents.
Executing Wills
Executing a will means signing it according to the procedures required under state probate law. The requirements vary among types of wills and between jurisdictions, but every state requires that a testator sign a prepared will -- whether a form will, a typed will or a will prepared by an attorney -- in the presence of at least two witnesses. The testator affirms to the witnesses that the document is her last will and testament before she signs it. However, no state requires the testator to allow the witnesses to read or review the contents of the will. During execution, the document remains private.
Probating Wills
In her will, the testator names an executor, the person who will administer the estate. When the testator dies, the executor petitions to open probate and files the will with the probate court. He then collects assets, pays estate debts and distributes the property as set forth in the will. During probate, the will is a public record. Most court documents are public, and no states except probate documents from this rule. Any member of the public may inspect the will in the court probate file.
Archiving Wills
Once the executor completes his work and distributes the estate among the testator's heirs, he closes probate. However, the court retains probated wills in its files. These wills, referred to as archived wills, remain public records open to public inspection. Currently, courts store archived wills on microfilm, but early records remain in original form. Members of the public look through indexes, organized either alphabetically or by date, to locate old wills.


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Online Databases
Access to online databases.
Library Card
For borrowing books and for accessing the electronic resources available through this website on home computers, library patrons now use a yellow and blue, bar-coded library card, sized like a credit card. All library cards will begin with the numbers 27954. You can obtain a card at the Main Library at 472 Jersey Avenue or at any of our branches.
Digital Services
The JCFPL OverDrive Digital Library offers a wide variety of eBooks and Audiobooks that can be downloaded to your computer from our digital media catalog. You can transfer your favorite titles to your PC (laptop), Kindle, MP3 player, portable device, or burn many onto a CD (when allowed by publisher) for your enjoyment anywhere, anytime! This service is available 24/7 to your PC at home, in the office, or from anywhere in the world!
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A year and a half ago, I lay on a hospital gurney in a surgery holding area, weeping.
It was a safe place to crack. My kids were safe at my friend's house. My husband was at my side. I wasn't near death or anything, but I was scared. I was about to be wheeled in for an operation to clip a herniated disc close to my spinal cord that was squashing a nerve, shooting pain down my arm for the previous five months.
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mabuhayangrebolusyon wrote (edited )
To regard the state as an instrument of oppression without noting who's oppression is to have a liberal, idealist conception of the state that obscures class relations.
What is your issue with current revolutionary communist movements in the poorest parts of the world? Would you like to take it up with the people involved with them?
Certainly Marx was wrong on many aspects - but what issue do you take with the millions upon millions of people who were and are involved in genuine communist revolutionary movements and benefit from them? Why don't you go pose this question to them? Why do you seek to limit communism to a movement of leaders, rather than a movement of people? Why do you outright ignore the mass element and only bring it up with false concern?
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mabuhayangrebolusyon wrote
Oppression has a class character. Do you oppose oppression of the landlords, of the capitalists, of the reactionaries?
Defasher OP wrote
Self defense isn't oppression, fam.
DissidentRage wrote
You can't oppress the bourgeoisie.
mabuhayangrebolusyon wrote
Self defense implies there is someone who would seek to attack you and will not relent - call it what you like, but all the same it constitutes a shift in power relations - no longer can the attacker assert their dominance as an equal or greater force has hit back at them.
Defasher OP wrote (edited )
Your argument makes no sense and seems to be an attempt to confuse the issue. Rulers are good because landlords are bad? No.
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mabuhayangrebolusyon wrote
Fascism is just as bad as anti-fascism, anarchism is just as bad as capitalism, really the only thing left for you to do is become a liberal and wallow in a sense of negative peace. At least then you will have the moral high ground and never have to oppress anyone.
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mabuhayangrebolusyon wrote
Are you an anarchist who has never experienced genuine oppression or are you a petit-bourgeois liberal who is afraid of the rule of the poorest sections of society over the rest
What respect should i have for someone who doesn't respect my humanity. Why should i give a fuck about some cop who kills people in my community, who makes them homeless, who enforces the oppression of private property, of capital? Why should i care about the wellbeing of a slumlord who charges me extortionate rates and doesn't care if i'm homeless or not?
Seriously, what the fuck are you fighting if not against oppression and oppressors. Who are you fighting for. What are you doing in concrete terms. Who the fuck are you helping with this rhetoric of "please consider the feelings of the nazis, the landlords, the police and the bosses.".
Anarchists, why are you counter-revolutionaries?
Defasher OP wrote (edited )
So many strawmen. Anarchists are on the front lines dealing with cops, slumlords and fascists everyday. You lot just want the cops to work for your party. And every time anarchists lead a revolution, MLs teamed up with fascists to murder us... because you'd rather have a fascist state than no state.
Don't accuse anarchists of supporting the police, it's ludicrous.
mabuhayangrebolusyon wrote (edited )
And so are communists. You haven't said anything of what you make of existing revolutionary movements lead by communists, such as in the Philippines or in India, or in Turkey. Instead you wish to pursue a point about why communists "want to be ruled" just like "fascists, monarchists, conservatives" etc. I do not dispute that anarchists do good work, and i hate ML revisionists who claim china to be "socialist", Cuba as "socialist", Venezuela "socialist" Norway "socialist" etc etc, who abhor all criticism of Stalin, of the past, who disregard the imperialist ambitions of Russia and China.
Ultimately I like anarchists more than most MLs, but I don't have much interest in being ruled, i'm more interested in liberation and making it so that me and people around me don't have to struggle to survive, and that the world doesn't burn, that the entire population of the world doesn't drown, die in nuclear war, etc etc.
I do apologize if i got annoyed, engaged in personal attacks - but it's rather tiring seeing these arguments again and again while hardly seeing any engagement with the real work done by ordinary communists, who are actually real genuine people and not people too ignorant to see that they are being ruled, or whatever.
mofongo wrote
Revolutions lead by communists are counter-revolutionary by definition. The revolution can only come by working class action to actually be communist, one could even argue that you don't need communists to achieve communism.
Defasher OP wrote (edited )
What do you mean by 'communist'? Anarchists are communists too, last I checked. And anarchism predates Marxism.
I'm from Catalonia. If you want to know what I think of MLs, ask any of the anarchists MLs helped the fascists murder to destroy our revolutionary stateless society. Oh, wait...
mabuhayangrebolusyon wrote
What do you think of existing revolutionary movements. I do not care what you think of what happened in the past. Tell me what you think of the work done by Maoists in the philippines. Simple question.
Defasher OP wrote (edited )
Idk enough about them to answer. Are they trying to seize the state and install themselves as rulers, creating a repeat of the USSR? What are their goals?
Usually the revolution is fought by genuine communists and then they're all killed by bourgie opportunists like Lenin who use the revolution to give themselves power.
mabuhayangrebolusyon wrote (edited )
Here we go :)
They want to end imperialist rule over the Philippines, they want to overthrow and put an end to semi-feudal semi-colonial rule, they want to build the people's revolutionary army, people's self defense, to implement agrarian reform, to ensure sustainability, to put an end to deforestation, pollution, etc - to ensure self-determination for oppressed nations, to advance the revolutionary emancipation of women, LGBT folks, etc etc, to build schools, hospitals, to end homelessness, you know, that sort of stuff :)
The documentaries i linked at the end of my second post show it best, lol. Let me link them again ( you will need to enable subtitles for Buhay Komunista, the first link )
If you do not want to watch documentaries, it is also outlined here https://www.reddit.com/r/RevPH/wiki/index and you can ask people on that subreddit, many of whom are involved in the movement on the ground, what they do, what they are fighting for, etc. I assure you none of them are interested in murdering anarchists or teaming up with fascists.
Also if you look here http://www.redspark.nu/en/category/peoples-war/philippines/ there is a lot of news articles from the party and organizations associated with it, and on the actions carried out by the party, by the NPA (New Peoples Army), the NDFP (National Democratic Front of the Philippines), and by mass organizations (feminist orgs, workers orgs, farmers orgs, student orgs, christians for national liberation orgs, etc etc )
Also of special note is that most if not all genuine modern communist movements, the leader isn't really in any prominent position in the media or has any real special authority, and they change often and in the philippines in particular here there's no personality cults, as far as i know. Nor india or turkey. The party there in the philippines has split and reconstituted itself multiple times over issues of opportunism and counter-revolution - which certainly shows it is messy, yes, as is class struggle and as is life, but shows genuine commitment to revolution also that it has not degenerated into a counter-revolutionary party


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To the reader who wrote in about eye protection with lasers.
Just to be very clear. Patients' eyes should ALWAYS be protected when using laser devices. And, patients' eyes are always protected in our office. We use both external shields and also intraocular (like a contact lens in the eye) depending on the type of laser we are using and where on the body or face we are working.
I have no idea where you got the idea that I was advocating using lasers without eye protection.
Dr. I
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Bee's 'Living in Misery' project honored with Gruner Public Service award
Three Fresno Bee reporters were honored for their public service coverage of Fresno's substandard rental housing at the 29th annual George F. Gruner Awards.
The awards for work produced in 2016 were announced Thursday night at a reception at the Fresno Art Museum.
The competition recognizes not only meritorious public service but also best news story, best sports story, best feature, best photo and best column or editorial, attracting a total of 100 entries from 21 San Joaquin Valley newspapers.
The Bee's Bill McEwen and Craig Kohlruss were among the winners.
The prizes honor George F. Gruner, whose 46-year career included 33 years at The Bee, retiring in 1988 as executive editor.
The trio of Barbara Anderson, BoNhia Lee and Andrea Castillo won for "Living in Misery," the special report published in May that launched a year of citywide debate before new Mayor Lee Brand's rental inspection housing plan was launched this year. It was honored in the category for daily newspapers with circulation over 50,000.
The judges remarked, "This is a thoughtfully conceived and professionally executed examination of the grim choices facing tenants who are forced to live in Fresno's low-cost rental units. The stories tell of great human hardship while also unearthing the historic and statistical patterns that created these problems – and the inaction that allows them to continue. The reporters demonstrate how important stories can be developed with both the 'head' and the 'heart.' "
Other winners of Gruner Awards for Public Service were Jim Houck, Juan Villa, Luis Hernandez and Calley Cederlof of the Tulare Advance-Register for their investigation of construction projects at Tulare Regional Medical Center in the category for daily newspapers with circulation under 50,000; and Vikaas Shanker of the Los Banos Enterprise in the category for weekly newspapers for his stories on the Los Banos school board.
Honorable mention in the Public Service category went to Joseph Luiz and Laura Brown of the Selma Enterprise-Kingsburg Recorder and Greg Little of the Mariposa Gazette.
The winners and honorable mentions in the other categories:
News – Winners were Harold Pierce, John Cox and Steven Mayer of The Bakersfield Californian in the large-daily category; Mike Eiman of The Hanford Sentinel in the small-daily; and Morgan Voorhis of the Sierra Star in the weekly. Honorable mentions: Tim Sheehan and Marc Benjamin of The Bee for their Sept. 25 story, "Why did it take a dozen years for Fresno's leaders to wake up to tainted-water problems?" Rob Parsons, Michelle Morgante, Brianna Calix and Monica Velez of the Merced Sun-Star; and Laura Brown of the Selma Enterprise-Kingsburg Recorder.
Sports – Winners Jeff Evans of The Bakersfield Californian, Nayirah Dosu of The Porterville Recorder and Matt Johnson of the Mariposa Gazette. Honorable mentions were Marek Warszawski of The Bee for his human-interest story about the shooting death of Deondre "Day Day" Howard, Shawn Jensen of the Merced Sun-Star and Sean Lynch of the Los Banos Enterprise.
Features – Winners Jennifer Self and Robert Price of The Bakersfield Californian, Michelle Morgante of the Merced Sun-Star and Voorhis of the Sierra Star. Honorable mentions were Julissa Zavala of the Porterville Recorder and Jackson Moore of the Dinuba Sentinel.
Columns – Winners Lois Henry of The Bakersfield Californian, Eric Woomer of the Visalia Times-Delta and Little of the Mariposa Gazette.
Editorials – Winners McEwen for his editorial criticizing Fresno County for its handling of the Seth Ireland case, Mike Dunbar of the Merced Sun-Star and Brian Wilkinson of the Sierra Star.
News photo – Winners Felix Adamo of The Bakersfield Californian, Ron Holman of the Visalia Times-Delta and Gene Lieb of the Los Banos Enterprise. Honorable mentions were Kohlruss for his June 19 front-page photo of President Barack Obama in Yosemite National Park, Andrew Kuhn of the Merced Sun-Star and Voorhis of the Sierra Star.
Sports photo – Winners Kohlruss for his photo from the Buchanan-Clovis high school dual wrestling meet, Kuhn and Lieb. Honorable mentions were Adamo of The Bakersfield Californian, Wendy Alexander of The Madera Tribune and Keven J. Geaney of the Dinuba Sentinel.
The Gruner awards are sponsored by The Bee and the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at Fresno State.
The judging is done by a group of professional journalists outside the Valley.
The Gruner awards are funded by the Central Valley Foundation and the Central Valley Community Foundation.


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Players: 3 - 7, as 2 or 3 teams or individually
Spades uses a standard deck of cards. Each player is dealt a hand of 13 cards.
Spades is always the trump suit.
Each player declares a number of tricks as their bid for the round. No player can lead a trick with Spades until a Spade has been played on a previous trick or they have only Spades in their hand.
Playing tricks follows the standard rules
For winning at least as many tricks as the team's combined bid, the team scores 10 points for each trick in the bid. Tricks in excess of the bid only score 1 point each and are called 'bags'.
Whenever a team accumulates 10 bags, they lose 100 points - 10 points for each bag. The bags mark can be changed from the Options menu.
The game ends when a team reaches 500 points and whoever has the most points is the winner. The target can also be set to 250, 300, 400, 600 or 700 points. The game also ends if a team loses so many points that they go below the target points in the negatives.
This changes the number of bags at which the team incurs a penalty equal to the number of bags multiplied by 10 . For low target scores (250, 300), this can be set to 5, otherwise, the default value is 10.
Closed Bidding
If enabled, players bid simultaneously, rather than in the regular turn based manner.
In each round, at least one player on each team must bid nil.
Must Win
If a player has a card which can win the trick, they must play it if able.
Lead Spades
This changes the circumstance under which Spades cards can be first played.
Blind Nil
Players can bid a blind nil, that is bidding nil without looking at their cards. This is worth double the points.
Blind Pass
When playing a blind bid, players can pass 2 cards to their partner. This can also be set to 1 or 3 cards.
Half Blind Penalty
When playing a blind bid, the usual penalty for failing the bid is halved.
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Local Obituaries
Music infused life of mandolin player, builder
Back in the day, Gary Palsmeier and his musician friends would have square dances in the attic of their three-story house on North Broadway.
But the dances — enhanced by bluegrass music — had to come to a stop, friend Ted Farha said, because plaster started falling off the ceilings.
Music was core to Mr. Palsmeier's life — worth a little falling plaster, friends say.
Mr. Palsmeier, 55, died Friday after a recurrence of prostate cancer.
He played the mandolin, including many he designed and made himself, for nearly his whole life, said his partner and caregiver, Nikki Moddelmog.
Over the years, Mr. Palsmeier was in several bands, trios and quartets, including Grand River Township in the 1970s, the band responsible for the falling plaster.
He worked at one time for Mossman Guitars in Winfield, which has guitars at the National Music Museum. Farha, who played mandolin with Mr. Palsmeier in the Riverside Mandolin Quartet, said Mr. Palsmeier made beautiful instruments, including a five-string electric mandolin. If Mr. Palsmeier couldn't find what he wanted, he built it himself, Farha said.
Mr. Palsmeier also played bass and guitar. In a band called Southwind, he played bass and mandolin.
In 1987, former legislator Ken Groteweil wanted a lot of mandolins at his wedding, Farha said. Groteweil also lived at the square dance house. Mr. Palsmeier called Farha, and they
formed Riverside Mandolin Quartet with Mike Seiwert and Mike Barrett.
"We put a quartet together to play a Vivaldi piece at the wedding," Farha said.
Mr. Palsmeier loved jazz, said Craig Owens, who teaches jazz at Wichita State University. Mr. Palsmeier studied with Owens and became "the best adult student that I've ever had," Owens said. "Then he got so good that he hired me."
Owens played in recent years with Mr. Palsmeier in the Gary Palsmeier Trio at Bella Luna on North Rock Road.
Mr. Palsmeier underwent surgery in 2008 for cancer. It came back.
He developed a limp in his left leg, Owens said.
"I didn't think much of it, Gary didn't think much of it," Owens said. "But he could see it get worse. In October, we played a job at Botanica, and at that point, Gary could hardly walk. That was the last time we played together. Gary was tough. Gary wasn't going to show how much that was bothering him."
Friends will remember him with music at 7 p.m. today at the Anchor.
Farha, whose Farha Construction employed Mr. Palsmeier for many years as a superintendent, said that a fellow musician made a comment that "all the mandolin players could move up a notch now that Gary is gone."


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'BIM for Heritage' is split into six sections, plus a number of illustrative case studies. As the industry involves a range of disciplines - many of whom may have little or no working knowledge of BIM – the introductory section of the document goes back to basics, explaining the technology and the process. It also explains how BIM can assist in collaboration, as well as its use in preventative maintenance, safety and security, condition monitoring, and interpretation and visitor management. There are further sections on commissioning BIM (with the emphasis on having a clear strategy and purpose), managing the data, and assessing supplier capability.
The six case studies demonstrate how BIM can be applied to various projects and work programmes, including details of how and why BIM was used in each instance, the deliverables required, and the problems encountered. The sites involved range from a Roman Fort (discovered when widening a section of the A1), and the redevelopment of an 18th century manor house, through to a measured BIM survey, and laser scanning of the Natural History Museum.
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How to Get The Lowest Home Owner's Insurance Rates
An adequate homeowner's insurance policy is crucial. This is the reason you need solid information to get the best coverage at the best price. This advice will assist you in doing just that.
Pay your mortgage down as much as you can to reduce the cost of your policy. As a rule, many insurers reason that homeowners are better housekeepers and maintainers than renters or people who have not yet paid for the home entirely. Paying off mortgage debt decreases your annual premiums.
If you've got a family, evaluate the insurance policies in case your home shrinks or if your material possessions increase. Purchase additional coverage to cover all your valuable items, such as jewelry. If there are specific individual items that you would like to make sure get covered, you can request an individual rider to make sure those items are protected against theft.
There are simple ways to reduce your homeowner's insurance premiums. If you are thinking about doing construction, like a addition to your home, keep in mind that wood frames may cost less than steel or cement but the insurance could be higher.
Fire Insurance
A lot of different things are able to damage a home. Fire is one factor. Make sure that your policy protects you in the event of a fire and other disasters if you are prone to them in your area. While homeowner's insurance policies usually have fire insurance, you should verify the amounts and types of fire insurance coverage you have in your homeowner's policy.
Add extra smoke alarms to your home. The safer your home is, the less premium your insurance company will charge. Your insurance company will view you as a lower risk if your home is equipped with plenty of CO2 and smoke detectors.
Make sure you are always thinking about safety so that you can lower your homeowner's insurance cost. You can reduce the amount you pay for homeowner's insurance by having working fire extinguishers and burglar and fire alarms. In addition, these safety items can save your life; therefore, you should purchase them and learn the proper ways of using them and keeping them up to speed.
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Consider a home security system. If you do this, you can reduce your cost every year by at least 5 percent. Be certain your security system routes to the central station or a police station so attempted burglaries and burglaries are able to be documented for insurance purposes.
Putting in fire alarms can cut your insurance premium by about 10 percent. Your insurance provider will consider the risks of fire as much lower if you have a good alarm system. Fire alarms are only the start and some companies will continue to increase the savings with additional installments.
"Guaranteed replacement value" is a very important term to look for in your homeowner's insurance policy. This means that your insurance will pay for a new home roughly equivalent to one that is lost, instead of an inferior substitute, like a mobile home. This insurance type covers the complete cost of replacing a home with one similar in size and value to the one destroyed.
Install a centrally monitored security system in your home. This will not only protect your family and house, but it'll also cut down on your insurance premium. In order to receive this discount, you must prove that your alarm is centrally monitored.
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Remember your insurance costs if you plan on remodeling. For example, you might install a new bathtub and bathroom sink, the value of which should be included in your coverage. The cost and quality of materials will determine the exact amount to be increased. You will pay more in insurance costs if you build with wood rather than steel or cement, because wood is more likely to be damaged due to harsh weather or fires.
Any valuable and expensive possessions should be noted specifically in your policy or added in the form of an endorsement. Art, jewelry and coin collections won't be covered if something happens, otherwise. If your possessions are not fully covered, ask your agent how to remedy that.
Document your belongings on paper, in pictures and on video to make potential future claims easier. If you must make a claim, an insurance company will ask for proof of what you had in the home. Having an efficient process will save you a lot of time and money. The completed inventory should be stored safely; a home safe or lock box is suitable.
You should be aware that your homeowner's insurance typically will not cover flood and earthquake damages. You must evaluate the likelihood of an earthquake or a flood in your area and determine if you will need to add special coverage provisions to your policy.
If you wish to purchase homeowner's insurance, figure out how much you want. Don't be too cheap when buying a policy, as in the event of a disaster, you will only too often find your valuables won't be replaced. The more you spend, the more protected you will be.
Make sure you now put all this advice to good use and obtain the best insurance policy that you can. Just take the advice you have read, and be sure to follow it diligently.