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BRIMLEY — Brimley edged Pickford 3-1 in an Eastern U.P. Conference volleyball match Thursday night at the Karl Parker Gymnasium.
The Bays prevailed 25-22, 23-25, 26-24 and 25-22.
For Brimley, Tabitha Graham had 20 kills and five digs. Alyssa Graham had nine kills and five digs, while Hana Vesela had five kills and eight digs. Kourtney St. Peter had five kills and 22 assists and Clarissa Kelly had 17 assists for the Bays.
"I think we didn't give up on rallies," Brimley coach Lisa Moran said. "Even though we made some mental errors, we still continued to compete."
Though the team's middle did well and all of their "hitters were swinging," the girls need to work on their serves, Moran said.
"When we did pass the ball, we put the ball down well," she said. "We need to focus on our serve receives and keeping the ball in play. We need to not give up easy points."
For Pickford, Alyssa McCord had five aces and eight kills, while Alicia Portice had six blocks and three kills.
Kelsey Rambo had four aces and seven kills, Sierra Johnson had six kills, and Krysta Wondergem had 18 assists for the Panthers.
"I don't think we gave up," Pickford coach Heather Salmi said. "I think we played hard for every point, we just couldn't seem to get a run at all — to get a few points ahead."
The young Panther team excels at passing, though they could work on following through, Salmi explained.
"We have good passing attempts, we just need to finish them off," she said. "It's a pretty young team and I'm looking forward to where we can go."
Brimley travels to Cedarville on Tuesday night, while Pickford heads to Rudyard.


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Once we left the café, we headed towards my home. I told AS not to worry at all as my parents were very cool but I knew that AS and I both were bit nervous. I kind of knew my parents will like him but at the same time I wanted them to love him as well.
It was as a huge milestone in our relationship and it was exciting and promising. After all, it indicated to me that AS felt positive about the future of our relationship together. I knew that it had not been very long ago that we started our relationship but we didn't have lots of time as both of us were leaving the country in a month's time.
When we reached home, dad was busy with someone downstairs and mum was in the kitchen, I asked him to wait for them in our living room and went to the kitchen to fetch my mother. Both my parents are not very talkative people so I was a bit worried how the meeting would be.
My mum came to the room and I introduced them. He did Namaste and then they talked for a few minutes. Then my dad arrived as well and my mum left to go to the kitchen as there was a feast being readied for AS. My dad and AS seemed to be getting on well so I was relived. You always want your parents to like your partner as it makes it easy for you to deal with both of them. As I saw AS was comfortable with my dad , I left them for a moment to go to the kitchen and see what my mum was up to.
When I got to the kitchen I saw that she was busy preparing lunch. I told her that we are very full and there is no need for lunch, may be just tea and snacks but she said that it was AS's first visit so he has to eat some nice food. I knew I was not going to win in this instance so I just gave in.
I asked my mum how she liked AS and she told me that he looked like a nice guy. I took the tea and some snack with me to serve AS and my dad. By then I am sure both of them were feeling comfortable with each other.
AS ate some snacks and had his tea. Then my mum told everyone that lunch was ready so we went upstairs to eat. I couldn't believe that my mum cooked so many different dishes and AS's plate seemed to have heaps of every one of them. I felt a bit sorry for AS as I knew both of us were full form our lunch together. So I went and tried to take some things off his plate but my mum caught me in the act and didn't let me.
My dad and AS sat down for lunch but I decline to eat. My tummy had no room for food and I was bit nervous as well.
To my surprise by the end of lunch AS had finished every item on his plate. And no wonder my mum was so pleased. He even praised my mum's cooking. But it was not over yet. My mum also served some sweets and knowing AS and his love for sweets, he ate them too.
After lunch, AS stayed for a while and then he had to leave as he had plans at home for the evening. I told him I was sorry that he had to eat so much but he said that he loved it and enjoyed his meal. I accompanied him till the gate of our house and then came back upstairs to hear what my parents thought.
Both my parents were extremely pleased with him and my mum was super happy that her future "jwain" (son in law) was so easy to feed unlike me and my brother. They told me to that they were happy with my choice.
I was over the moon when I heard that as I really wanted my family's approval to take our relation further. That night I slept well but the next day was a different story.
The next morning I woke up, had breakfast and got ready to meet AS's parents.
I never knew that meeting your partner's parents could also be so intimidating. I was wondering what was in store for the future of your relationship together if his parents didn't like me. I had so many conflicting thoughts and emotions that were running through my mind. But I tried to put all negative thoughts behind me and started concentrating on the day.
I know first impressions are often lasting impressions, and I absolutely wanted to dress to impress his parents on the big day of introduction. I wanted to look attractive, presentable, and fashionable so I put on my best Kurta suruwal, did my makeup and hair and waited for AS to pick me up. The plan was to meet his parents and then we would leave to do some shopping in the city. I was really scared to spend a very long time with them in case I stuffed things up. It had sounded like a good idea at the time we had decided to meet each other's parents but in real life most plans don't work out as expected so I was a little bit nervous.
When I reached AS's place, I met his mum and dad. Both or his brothers were not home. Both my future in laws made me feel at ease and talked to me as if they had known me forever but I was nervous in answering them. They asked me some basic questions about where I work or what I studied and what are my plans for the future. AS's mum talked most of the time while his dad listened and made some comments in between. From time to time, I looked at AS when answering question but he was just there smiling at me. I really wanted things to go well that day. While we were talking, suddenly they had some unexpected visitor, AS's uncle (his dad's elder brother) and aunt.
I was now more nervous about what to do and say as it was not in our plan. AS's mum introduced me to them and they started talking to me too. As they had some other plans, they didn't stay long.
After they left AS's mum asked me to stay for lunch (morning Bhat dal). I told her that I am full from breakfast but she said that she was not letting me go without eating something as it was my first time to their home. Seriously every mum seemed to have the same agenda, to feed everyone that they can get their hands on. It was sweet of her but it was not going to be an easy time for me.
First of all, I was full from breakfast and second of all I didn't prefer eating dal bhat in the morning. But I sat down with AS and his dad while mum served us food. The food was yummy but it took a long time to finish what I had on my plate. AS's mum wanted me to eat more but I kindly refused. I was just glad when I finished what I had on my plate. I really didn't want to be rude and not finish my meal.
Finally once we finished, AS got ready and we left. I said my good byes and we were off to the city.
Once we were on our own, I asked how he thought I was. He said I looked so nervous that he felt it was funny. I am a talkative person but I lost all my words when I was in his house.
Later AS told me that his parents were happy to meet me and wanted to meet my parents next.
So after a few days, our parents talked on the phone and decided to meet. AS's parents came over to our place for dinner. We made sure many varieties were prepared and they had a great time with my parents.
After the meeting, both of us were happy as we had taken the next step in our relationship.
We thought the tough time had passed but there was more to come. I will tell you next time. Till then take care.
Please share your Meeting the Parents story. Were you scared?
M from nepaliaustralian
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Portraits of Authors: Introduction
By Gillian Dow, University of Southampton and Chawton House Library,
COST action "Women Writers In History: Toward a New Understanding of European Literary Culture", Working Group 4 Leader
As part of the dissemination activities of WG 4, this section of the website contains short biographies of just some of the women writers we are keen to investigate as part of the activities of our COST Action. It is designed to provide an user-friendly point of access to the project. For more information about each of the writers discussed below, and many, many more, please click the hyperlinks or visit the WomenWriters database.
The authors included here represent a diverse and eclectic grouping. On the surface, not much links the Norwegian author Dorothe Engelbretsdatter (1634–1716) with the German Ida Gräfin Hahn-Hahn (1805-1880); the French Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis (1746-1830) has little in common with the nun Jefimija (1349 –ca.1405). We have, in this list, women who wrote in all genres, in complex historical settings in a variety of European countries, and who came from wildly diverse socio-economic backgrounds. Women writers in Europe across the centuries did not constitute a coherent community of writers, any more than their male counterparts did.
We have tried, in writing these biographies, to emphasise pan-European links, and transnationalism, and to talk specifically about the influence and reception of each writer Europe-wide, as this is the focus of NEWW. Naturally, some writers lend themselves better to this approach than others; some women had more opportunity and taste for the kind of networking activities we are keen to map. But the aim of these biographies is certainly not to set up alternative 'canons' of literature, or to claim that the women writers included here are more important than ones we have not (yet) included.
This section of the NEWW site should, in fact, be considered as a growing resource, rather than a completed project. In designing it, we have been inspired by the work of second-wave Anglo-American feminists, who felt that bio-bibliographical compilation was a necessary step in the recovery project. In her seminal work A literature of their own: British women novelists from Brontë to Lessing (1977), Elaine Showalter famously ended with a call to arms: 'it is only by considering them all – Millicent Grogan as well as Virginia Woolf – that we can begin to record new choices in a new literary history, and to understand why, despite prejudice, despite guilt, despite inhibition, women began to write'. This project is our attempt to 'consider them all' – from all European countries, and through the centuries until 1900.
We have chosen not to include here any British and American women writers in the first stage of this project: these writers have been well-served by online scholarship – the biographies on the Chawton House Library website may provide a useful starting point for those interested in the Anglo-American tradition.
November 2010
Please click on the links below to find out more about the individual women writers.
Portraits of Authors
- Josefa Amar y Borbón (1749-1833?)
Spanish writer, scholar and translator
By Mónica Bolufer, Universitat de València
- Teresa de Ávila (1515-1582)
Spanish nun, reformer and author
By Anne J. Cruz, University of Miami
- Emilia Pardo Bazan (1851-1921)
Spanish author
By Henriette Partzsch, University of St. Andrews
- Beatriz Bernal (ca. 1504–ca. 1563)
Spanish author
By Donatella Gagliardi, Università della Calabria
- Minna Canth (1844–1897)
Finnish author
By Kati Launis, University of Turku
- Camilla Collett (1813–1895)
Norwegian author
By Torill Steinfeld, Universitetet i Oslo
- Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis (1746-1830)
French author
By Gillian Dow, University of Southampton and Chawton House Library
- Dorothe Engelbretsdatter (1634–1716)
Norwegian author
By Inger Vederhus, Oslo University College
- Ida Gräfin Hahn-Hahn (1805-1880)
German author
By Elisa Müller-Adams, Universität Trier
and Kerstin Wiedemann, University of Nancy II
- Dora d'Istria (1828-1888)
Romanian author
By Ileana Mih?il?, University of Bucharest
- Jefimija (1349- ca. 1405)
Serbian poet
By Biljana Doj?inovi?, University of Belgrade
- Varvara-Juliana de Krüdener (1764-1824)
Russian author
By Elena Gretchanaia
- Zofka Kveder (1878-1926)
Slovenian author
By Katja Mihurko Poniz, Univerza v Novi Gorici
- Katharina Lescailje (1649-1711)
Dutch author
By Nina Geerdink, VU University Amsterdam
- Ana Maria Marovic (1815-1887)
Montenegrin poetess
By Jelena Bakic
- Pavlina Pajk (1854-1901)
Slovenian author
By Tanja Badali?, University of Nova Gorica
- D. Leonor de Almeida Portugal (1750-1839)
Portuguese author
By Vanda Anastácio, University of Lisbon and Foundation Casas de Fronteira and Alorna
- Catharine Felicia van Rees (1831-1915)
Dutch author and composer
By Lotte Jensen, Radboud University Nijmegen
- Fredrika Charlotta Runeberg (1807-1879)
Finnish-Swedish Author
By Heidi Grönstrand, University of Turku
- Luisa Sigea (c. 1520 - 1560)
Spanish author
By Nieves Baranda, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid
- Milica Stojadinovi?-Srpkinja (1828-1878)
Serbian poet
By Biljana Doj?inovi?, University of Belgrade
German writer, translator and intercultural mediator
By Juliana Jovi?i?, University of Novi Sad
- Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi (1741-1821)
British diarist, author, and patron of the arts
By Marianna d'Ezio, University of Rome RomaTre
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
British author and philosopher
By Laura Kirkley, University of Cambridge
- María de Zayas y Sotomayor (ca. 1590–1660)
Spanish author
By Yolanda Gamboa Tusquets, Florida Atlantic University
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- Portraits of Authors >


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Hexagor.io is a strategy io game where you can team up to conquer more territory. Hexagorio is one of the few strategy games that I consistently play, its a very thought intensive game however so to fully enjoy it its advised you have some experience with other strategies. You start off with a small home base and conquer adjacent land plots in order to increase your territory, doing this will expand your troop and also ensure that your home plot is better defended.
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Once you have some land surrounding your base you can begin to build towers that can defend you in case of an intrusion by another player. Be careful because other players will try to break into your base and conquer it, if they do all of your land will be taken over and deleted! To be successful in the world of Hexagor.io I'd suggest trying out several builds and ensuring that the land surrounding your home base has a lot of turrets to defend against incoming attacks. When expanding its important to try and gather wood/stone plots early to get supplies for towers, to harvest the resources simply click on a claimed resource plot and it will harvest the supplies.
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"Swadhisthana, Svadisthana, or adhishthana is symbolised by a white lotus within which is a crescent moon, with six vermilion, or orange petals. The seed mantra is Vam, and the presiding deity is Brahma, with the Shakti being Rakini (or Chakini). The animal associated is the crocodile of Varuna.
This Chakra is located in the sacrum and is considered to correspond to the testes or the ovaries that produce the various sex hormones involved in the reproductive cycle. Swadisthana is also considered to be related to, more generally, the genitourinary system and the adrenals. The key issues involving Swadisthana are relationships, violence, addictions, basic emotional needs, and pleasure. Physically, Swadisthana governs reproduction, mentally it governs creativity, emotionally it governs joy, and spiritually it governs enthusiasm.[42]
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This look was requested by somebody on my Formspring and it's actually the makeup I've been wearing over the last few days. It's a very natural classic silvery/blue look with minimal liner so it's perfect for girls who are just starting out with makeup, maybe for a night out when you want a little more dressed up but still want to look like yourself! I personally wore hardly any eyeliner when I was a teenager so I know this look would have been just right for me!
Let me just say that I know nothing about the show Pretty Little Liars, and even less about the actress Shay Mitchell but after it was requested I googled her makeup and found this picture which I thought was so pretty! I did my best to interpret this look on myself but please take into account that I look nothing like her and my eye shape is also totally different -- I hope you find this helpful though and enjoy the tutorial which you can watch here! :)
Products Used:
FACE - Maybelline 24 Hour Superstay Concealer, Flawless You Forever Impeccable Mineral Loose Powder, The Body Shop Bronzing Powder in 03 Medium, Sedona Lace Blush Palette (neutral skin colour blush), Benefit 10 Highlight
EYES - MAC's Prep+Prime for Eyes, Urban Decay Vapor e/s, MAC Knight Divine e/s, NYC Manhattan Island Highlight & Crease e/s, Impala Waterproof Eye Pencil, Covergirl Lashblast Volume Mascara
LIPS - Flawless You Forever Lipgloss Asta
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Hi there! Today's post is about all the products I finished in July. I used a few single-use face masks, and you can click here if you'd like to read my latest face mask reviews. Now let's look at the big bottles…
1 Herbal Essences Moisture Balance Conditioner – a holy grail product. I have plenty of back-up!
2 Original Source Skin Quench Blackcurrant & Moringa Oil Moisturising Shower – this is a nice one! I'd like to buy it again, but it's been discontinued. I think I've seen one more bottle in my stash.
3 Original Source Pink Grapefruit Shower – a really nice shower gel too. Also discontinued. I do have some back-up though.
4 M&S Fragrance Collection Mimosa & Bergamot Eau De Toilette – this is a decent fragrance, and it was nice while it lasted, but I wouldn't buy it again.
5 Sanctuary Spa Foaming Bath Soak (travel size) – I liked this bath soak a lot, and I'd like to buy the full size.
6 Revlon Nail Care Base Coat – a decent base coat. I would buy it again.
7 Palmolive Aromatherapy Absolute Relax – one of my holy grail shower products. My husband loves it too. I will buy this one again, no doubt!
8 Imperial Leather Mauritian Spa – one of my old favourites. I have one more bottle in my stash.
9 Imperial Leather Beautiful Indulgence Rich Moisturising Body Wash – I like this one a lot too. Also discontinued. 😦 But I have one more bottle.
10 Boots Ingredients Glycolic Acid Toner – this is a very basic toner. I won't buy it again.
11 Olay Anti-Wrinkle Face Wash With Exfoliating Particles – this is a nice cream wash. Definitely repurchase-worthy.
12 Poundland #6 Anti-Ageing Retinol Facial Serum With SPF 25 – this is a very good serum which I aim to buy again soon!
This is everything I emptied in July. Have you tried any of these products or would you like to try them? Which products have you said goodbye to recently? Feel free to get in touch, and thanks for reading! x


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Title: Strained
Author:Marcia Colette
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Alexa is keeping a secret from her husband and being half werewolf isn't it. After all, he's a full-blood and doesn't care that there are those who think their union is an abomination. Despite their abnormalities, the Yorks have settled into suburbia and gone out of their way to look like the couple next door. Their rouse may have fooled an entire community, but not the Georgia Pack. The Yorks have encroached on their territory. Most interlopers end up dead, especially when the bounties on their heads invite stalkers, killers, and psychos to collect. Despite the trouble the Yorks have brought with them, the domestic suburbanites have intrigued the pack. Alexa's less domestic than she seems. Eight months ago, her bounty hunting club disbanded after several team members lost their lives in an ambush. Since then, the club has reemerged and are expecting Alexa to take her rightful place among the ranks. Keeping the truth from her husband about her extracurricular activities will strain the Yorks' marriage and risk everything they've worked hard for. But, that's the price Alexa pays when her deception becomes deadlier than her aim. A deception that also keeps her alive.
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Author Marcia Colette didn't start out reading or writing books. She had earned a bachelors in Biomedical Engineering before going on to complete her Masters in Information Technology. While riding the MBTA train back and forth to her job in Boston as a software consultant, she picked up a copy of John Saul and never looked back. It wasn't long after that when she started writing her own stories. Five years later, she signed a contract with Double Dragon eBooks to publish her first urban fantasy novel. Her next novel was a paranormal romance entitled Unstable Environment and was picked up by Parker Publishing, LLC. She went on to sell her next urban fantasy entitled Stripped to Samhain Publishing, LLC. During that time, she also released Bittersweet (YA), Hazardous Environment (Paranormal Romance), The Spider Inside Her (Urban Fantasy), and Deadlier by the Dozen (Urban Fantasy) under her own independent publishing label Dusk Till Dawn Books. She has sold several short stories and novellas to Mocha Memoirs Press and has continued her Alexa York series with Purple Sword Publications. Marcia also writes science fiction under another pen name. Still holding her own as an IT Manager, Marcia is a single mom who lives in South Carolina.
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And it finally happened.
I am so grateful to report that after much time, many failed attempts, yelling at my computer, yelling at the WordPress chat help, not literally, although I do think I told one of the people on the chat that I was as computer conversant as a tired four-year old.
I really felt like throwing a tantrum with that chat and I excused myself from it quickly when I realized I might, probably not, but might throw my computer on the floor and stomp on it.
So it is with much happiness and relief that I can report my website, my professional website, and my personal blog are no longer connected.
They still are, but not really, not in a way that anyone could figure out and my friend who helped me even made the suggestion to change my face on the profile picture so I couldn't be recognized that way.
Hence the new icon which is a graffiti photo I took many years ago in Paris.
Six years ago it feels like.
Paris was much on my mind today.
And in many of my conversations.
I went and saw my dear friend Barnaby at his new shop in Oakland, East Bay Tattoo, and he touched up the color on my pink jackalope bunny tattoo that he gave me for my 40th birthday when we were living as room mates in Paris.
We both marveled at how far we'd come since that time in Paris.
We were both trying to figure things out and neither one of us thought that we'd actually be moving back here.
Barnaby landed in Oakland and I in the Outer Sunset.
Six years later he's the father of two boys and he and his partner own a house in Oakland and he just opened a new shop.
Six years later I'm a psychotherapist, not going to tell you my name though, oh no, I don't want you finding my website from my personal blog (this baby is dark, no social media, no LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, nada), I'm also a PhD student and I own a car!
I mean.
I remember how I felt leaving Paris when we did, my heart-felt bruised, I felt defeated, broken, I had tried so damn hard to make it work and Paris was not having it.
Not having me.
Although she has welcomed me back with open arms and love every time that I have gone back since.
I feel like I have learned so much about myself from my time spent in Paris.
So my friend and I reminisced and talked about all the things we did there and the conversations and all the things that we have done in the time between and how life is.
You know.
Life is pretty damn good.
Even though.
Fuck my life.
I just found out that my paper is due at 5p.m. instead of midnight.
I must be a little on edge about getting my shit done by all the deadlines.
I forgot, tomorrow is Sunday, not Monday.
The paper is due Monday.
Of course I'll be working and not really have time to address the paper, so I've been planning all along to have the work done by Sunday night and turn it in Sunday night after I get back from doing the deal up in the Castro.
What a goofy little moment of panic.
I was all sorts of mad.
Breathing deeply again.
I will hopefully be posting on a much more regular basis on my blog now that I don't have any worry about potential clients finding out about it.
I mean.
My most "popular" blog is about cocaine and vodka enemas, not something I want any perspective client to be reading about.
I know how that sounds.
I never have and never will administer or be given a cocaine vodka enema, but I had a friend tell me a story once and I was so horrified by the idea, I'd never heard of it and I guess it's actually a thing, that I wrote a blog about it many moons ago and what do you know.
It's the most searched for tag that leads people to my blog.
I have actually thought about deleting it, but you know, it's actually well written and it does in fact allude to recovery, so maybe someone out there who happens to stumble upon it might get the idea that they actually have a better shot at life without shooting cocaine up their bum mixed with vodka.
There are lots of other things in my blog I'd rather not have my therapy clients find out.
Like I've been to Burning Man eleven times.
(Dirty hippy)
(Sex addict)
(addict in general)
I won't say that any of those things don't apply, but ahem, you know, I'm happy with who I am and not really shy about sharing.
God forbid a client read any of the blogs I wrote about my brief and tumultuous jaunt on Tinder.
God was that a heap of crap.
With one or two shining moments, but mostly a lot of yuck.
And now.
I don't have to worry about it.
I can write happily and freely about everything.
I don't actually write about everything either, you know a girl has to have a few things kept back.
At least for right now.
There may well be a time and place when that changes, but right now, yeah, there are a few things that don't wind up in these posts and that's alright too.
I'm just so happy to have my little blog space back.
I don't mind that it's gone so dark, it's like my own little private universe with a few select friends that like to hang out and have a cup of coffee with me and catch up.
I've got some followers who know me in my personal life as a real bona fide person, and I'm cool with that, but the rest of the world can keep right on thinking of me as Auntie Bubba.
I'm very.
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One of the best things about having a blog is making new friends. There are the kind you meet in real life, that also happen to live down the road from you. But then there are the online ones. You have crazy obsession with cookies, doughnuts and the best combination of flavors for that new sandwich you want to try.
I mean who else is going to understand that it's REALLY important that you try adding herbs to your lemon cookies? Or how you absolutely NEED to recreate that recipe you tried at some restaurant you went to last weekend?
These things are important. And other food blogger friends can truly appreciate that. Because sometimes I need to send cookies to people, I teamed up with some bloggers for our very first The Coast-to-Coast Cookie Swap.
Since I was sending cookies to bloggers, I knew they had to be good. Because of that, I tried to recreate my favorite cookie
We made cookies and sent them to each other. It was pretty great!
Who Participated:
Allison from Sweet Potato Bites (aka my crossfit/running buddy) with her Loaded Oatmeal Cookies
Natalie from In Natalie's Shoes with her Amazing Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Coco from Urban Chick's Foodie Ventures with her Peach Cobbler Cookies <— LOVED
Jazzy with her Lemon Blueberry Cookies (Link to come!)
My contribution to the bunch:
Molasses-Ginger Apricot Cookies
1 stick of butter + 2 tbsp (10 tbsp total)
1 cup sugar (plus extra for rolling)
1 egg
1/4 cup molasses
2 1/4 cup flour
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp mace
1 cup dried apricots, chopped
1/2 cup turbinado sugar (for rolling)
Preheat oven to 350F.
Cream together butter and 1 cup sugar using a stand or hand mixer. Beat in molasses and egg until fluffy. In a bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt and spices. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients. Just before ingredients are combine, fold in apricot pieces.
Form dough into 1 inch balls and roll in turbinado sugar (note: you can use any sugar, but turbinado sugar is thicker so it looks pretty!). Place on a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Bake 8-10 minutes. Allow to cool and serve! Makes about 3 dozen cookies.
Clearly, I'm a big fan of ginger and molasses year round, not just for Fall/Winter.
All the cookies were delicious! It was cool to see what the other ladies chose to make, and also to make new friends. And let's be honest, who doesn't love getting packages?
Thanks to Jazzy, Natalie, Coco and Allison for participating in the Coast to Coast Cookie Swap! I can't wait to do it again!
If you were making cookies for your favorite bloggers, what kind would you make?


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The power of remembering ancestors
Sometimes events happen in life that forces us to remember. We go about our busy lives – taking kids to soccer and football, or picking up grandchildren (depending on your phase of life) and trying to fit exercise into our schedule and then bam! Something happens and we are forced into remembering our ancestors – those who have gone before us or even those we have had lifelong relationships that have passed. That happened to me this week.
When my mom called to tell me my Aunt Linda had passed away I wasn't surprised. She really hasn't been with us for several years. Her mind has been trapped by dementia and the lively, kind sometimes sassy aunt I adored just wasn't herself for so very long. But at the news of her passing I was surprised by the sadness I felt, but also the happiness as my memories of her came flooding back. I talked to my husband about it, who hadn't really known my aunt when she was healthy, I talked to my kids, because they knew how much I loved her, but the true remembering didn't come until I talked to my sister. We talked for a long time about close experiences we each had with her and how thankful we were for parents who gave us opportunities to love our aunts and uncles even though we love and miss them when they are gone. But the most important part of our talk was, you guessed it, the remembering.
For the past few nights since her death, as I've tried to find sleep I remember her. The way she smelled (of some kind of floral lotion she wore), the way she looked (always beautiful – perfect makeup and hair) and the way she sounded (she was from Texas and her southern drawl was both appealing and comforting.) She could shop like no other and put on a "supper" spread that would make anyone hungry. Those memories are sweet to me and I feel the need to capture them. But remembering her late at night isn't enough. I need to document her life – remember her with purpose. How? Write it down! Journal it! Record her life story somewhere so other people can enjoy it. That is the true power in remembering.
A few weeks ago I wrote about how important it is to teach our children to remember who they are. (Read it here.) But why is it important for adults to remember our family history and stories? I have a few ideas.
Remembering ancestors gives us confidence.
Everyone deserves to be remembered.
It brings us closer to our living and dead relatives.
It helps us understand who we are.
Uncovering the mysteries of our ancestors keeps our minds sharp and it is fun!
1. Remembering ancestors gives us confidence.
I have done quite a bit of research as to why telling our children their family stories gives them confidence and it only makes sense it does the same for us as adults. How many of your great-grandparents can you name? Do you know a story for each? Discovering those stories can be somewhat of a miracle in our lives. The other day my husband made a huge discovery with his family history, finding an ancestor that fought in the Revolutionary War directly with George Washington. Wow! No matter how distant that relative is, how can you not feel good about yourself knowing someone with your blood rubbed elbows with George Washington? Professional genealogist, Jacqueline Kirk, said she got "hooked" on genealogy when she found a census record from the UK 1901 census. She learned new skills and found she had a talent for the work. "When my husband died family history gave me an escape from grief. I have made so many friends in the family history world and at a time when my confidence was low family history research restored my self-esteem. I owe it a lot," she said.
It seems the confidence that comes from remembering is two-pronged: Yes, finding family stories takes time and energy, but once a project is completed it is something to be proud of. That gives us confidence. Also, learning the amazing stories of our families can fortify us to combat hard things. The video below by Sheri Dew speaks to that point.
2. Everyone deserves to be remembered.
At RootsTech this past year one of the quotes that stood out to me the most came from FamilySearch CEO, Steve Rockwood: "Everyone deserves to be remembered." As he said it you could hear a collective intake of breath around the room. Such a simple thought, but so profound. Yes, everyone does deserve to be remembered. I was working on a project earlier this year trying to piece some sort of story together from a gentleman's family during Civil War times. As I was looking at the lists of names and dates a semblance of a life well-lived started to come together. Until that project, he was a name on a census. With some diligent digging, he emerged as a Civil War Veteran who traveled back and forth between his home and the battlefield. He was remembered. And he more than deserved it.
Family historian, Liz Gauffreau, started researching her maternal grandmother's education after being inspired by a photograph of her university days during World War I. Now she feels a kinship to her that she didn't have when she was alive. "What means the most to me is that I've been able to show this side of her through my blog. She was such a private person that the family sold her short," she said. She deserved to be remembered and Liz did it right.
3. It brings us closer to our relatives – both living and dead.
It's no secret that remembering brings us closer to our relatives who have gone before, but what about those still alive? About 20 years ago my husband and I did a project where we interviewed every family member on my mother's side from my grandma and grandpa right down to my youngest cousin. We had dozens of videotapes chronicling all the memories shared. Last year we digitized them and shared them on our family Facebook page just a week before our family reunion. The reaction was something special. My cousin Chris Ellis wrote, "I love this so much. Thank you, Matt and Rachel, for this. It is really emotional for me to hear Grandpa and Grandma voices and the stories. That is shorthand for it made me cry… and laugh, and made me happy." His was one of many echoing the same sentiment. Our family had this moment of closeness because we all remembered together.
I think for many of us who remember our ancestors through genealogy or story writing we feel a tug of the divine as we do the work. I am a firm believer those ancestors are close by helping us find their dates and their stories. That spark keeps us going in the work and we feel a sense of closeness that is hard to describe to others until we experience it ourselves. The phrase "angels among us" comes to mind. My writing partner, Rhonda Lauritzen, had one of those moments and writes about it in detail here. She talked about waking with a start at 3 a.m. Instead of lying awake in bed, she decided to get up and do some work. She started to peruse the Utah Genealogical Society newsletter and ran across a story that loosely related to an ancestor's story she and her brother had spoken about the day before. She emailed it to him with a quick note: "I thought I'd forward in light of our conversation yesterday.' A few hours later, Matthew emails me back and says, 'Very Interesting, Rhonda. Look at the last full paragraph on page two. The Indian girl, Waddie, is the exact girl I was reading about and mentioned to you.'" Rhonda said,
"The hairs on my arm prickle, as though I was awakened at 3 a.m. to find this story. As though the story wants to be known."
Rhonda wondered if the Native American woman in the story, Nellie Leithead Justet, wanted to be remembered.
4. It helps us understand who we are.
As adults, although we don't always like to admit it out loud, we feel a little lost at times. We wonder what our purpose is or if we are doing it right. My oldest child is 23 and I am still waiting to feel like a "grown-up" myself! Remembering our family gives us purpose and helps us understand who we are.
Diane Lund belongs to the Geneablogger's Tribe and found an interesting sense of belonging in doing some family history research.
"I started researching after I found a purple velvet cover photo album with photos from the mid 19th century. It belonged to my grandmother. I only recognized a couple of people, so I started to look for any writing or clues in the photos. There were a few pictures that were taken in Rome – odd, since my grandmother was from Pennsylvania. My brother was able to identify the photographer was the official Vatican photographer. One of the photos was my great grandmother's brother, John, who was sent to Rome to study and who became a Catholic priest. I found the marriage record for my great grandparents, Ida and Charles, and Fr. John was the officiant. It means a little more to me because my uncle was a Catholic priest and was the officiant at my parents' and my sister's wedding and my brother is a Catholic priest and he was the officiant at my wedding."
For Diane and so many others, finding a link or connection to an ancestor we have something in common with gives us a greater sense of self. Seeing old photos and seeing family resemblances is only the beginning of the commonalities that link our families together. DNA is helping people make breakthrough discoveries about themselves and others. I loved what renowned DNA expert CeCe Moore had to say at RootsTech in 2017. In her keynote address, CeCe noted that DNA helps human beings connect – something we all long for. "It's providing answers to hundreds of thousands – maybe even millions of people," she said. One of the most important things she's learned is how strong biological bonds are. She doesn't want to push aside nurturing, but has found that our ancestors live on through us and that nature has a "profound effect on who we are." DNA helps genealogists find out everything they can, not just what appears on a chart. Read more about DNA and connections here.
5. Uncovering the mysteries of our ancestors keeps our minds sharp and it is fun!
I was talking to my aunt recently about why she loves family history and she said, "I feel like I'm an investigator putting together an important puzzle." And she's right. Family history and trying to find the stories so we can remember keeps us thinking and keeps our minds sharp. Remembering isn't about living in the past it's about giving meaning to lives well-lived so we can have one of those well-lived lives ourselves. Unlocking and discovering our ancestors keeps us on our toes in a new and interesting way. Last summer I was looking for some photos of my great-grandmother on FamilySearch. I was shocked to find a large downloaded history that I didn't know existed. After all, only my grandfather and his descendants knew the history, right? Wrong. This relative wrote these words: "I hope that someone will come along that has the talent of writing to write this better than I can. For now here is the history." I believe she wrote those words for me over 20 years ago. Now I need to get to work to write the history into story form. I'm glad she was looking out for me to keep my mind sharp and help me to remember.
I hope that one day I will be that helpful for someone else. We find connections to places and events through remembering family stories the provide deep and abiding spiritual and personal connections. The hard life stories of our ancestors make us stronger as well. Please enjoy a few related to articles to the place, history and overcoming obstacles that make remembering all the more important.
What's the History in your Family History
At the end of all the remembering it does us no good if we don't either record it orally or write it down. One of the best things that can be done is to create a story that can be cherished for generations. Here are a few tips to get the ball rolling.
Storyboarding that perfect family story
Whatever way you enjoy uncovering the family history and telling family stories, the key is to do it now and it will be enough. Pick a category of family history to work on and get started. We would love to hear your feedback on why you love to remember! Please share a few ideas and stories of your own remembering journey!
Rachel J. Trotter is a senior writer/editor at Evalogue.Life – Tell Your Story. She tells people's stories and shares hers to encourage others. She loves family storytelling. A graduate of Weber State University, she has had articles featured on LDSLiving.com and Mormon.org. She and her husband Mat have six children and live on the East Bench in Ogden, Utah.


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(AP) — Chicago's new speed cameras have clocked almost 205,000 violations in just over a month.
An analysis by WBEZ shows the cameras in nine safety zones logged the speeding violations between Aug. 26 and Oct. 3.
The cameras are only issuing warnings to drivers, but fines will be levied starting later this month. If the violations had been tickets, they could have generated nearly $13.9 million for the city in just 39 days.
That's on pace to be well above the $40 million to $60 million in extra revenue forecast by Mayor Rahm Emanuel for next year.
But the larger-than-expected number of citations is prompting criticism from some who say the cameras are more about making money for the city than protecting children and pedestrians.


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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has detected sulfur, chlorine, and oxygen compounds in fine grains scooped by the rover at a wind drift site called "Rocknest." The grains were heated and analyzed using the rover's Sample Analysis at Mars, or SAM, instrument suite. Scientists indicate the oxygen and chlorine may come from perchlorate or similar compounds, which contain chlorine and oxygen. Perchlorates were also found by NASA's Phoenix Lander at a different location on Mars. The sulfur compounds suggest the presence of sulfides or sulfates in the grains.
JPL manages the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The rover was designed, developed and assembled at JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
For more about NASA's Curiosity mission, visit: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl, http://www.nasa.gov/mars, and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl.


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Red Heart Baby Hugs YARN Giveaway!
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Exhibited at LA 2 by 8, Los Angeles Architecture & Design Museum
PUERTO PROVIDENCIA is a strategic forecast for a new settlement in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Like other rural development projects located at logistic corridors, the land of Providencia is speculated by private industries, landowners, indigenous communities and municipalities with competing interests. Safely assuming that no development schemes will let all stakeholders win, it was realized that perpetual competition–suppressing one bad tendency using its counterparts–is the most viable approach to prevent extreme situations from taking over the virgin forest. By tactically laying down territorial limits, logistical axis and no-build zones, the project sets up a "gaming ground" for Providencia's influx of cargos, tourists, mix of citizens and farms. The project realistically engage with Amazon's second nature–like everything in the wild, human development is bound to go through perpetual cycles of booms and busts.


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Batik, a cloth that traditionally uses a manual wax-resist dyeing technique, has been associated with Indonesia since a very long time. But not until The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has officially recognized batik as an Indonesian heritage and cultural treasure in October 02nd 2009. Even though the exquisite fabrics can also be found in other countries, but now more people are aware that batik are originally from Indonesia.
With the new designated title from UNESCO two years ago as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, batik is even more popular these days. Every Friday, here in Indonesia, most of people are wearing batik to the offices and work places to celebrate our lovely national heritage.
I got a wonderful opportunity to covering the Cultural Evening Performance during World Batik Summmit 2011 in Jakarta Convention Center couple of days ago. That night, a fashion show by 10 fashion designers from 4 countries was held in front of the high profile guests and invitations as the main event.
With more than 30 models, Carmanita, Ramli, Chossy Latu, Danar Hadi, Parang Kencana, Sebastian Gunawan and Anne Avantie from Indonesia are presenting their finest batik designs along with fellow designers from China (Lu Kun), Malaysia (Deanoor) and Japan (Kaoru).
Another fun part during the event was of course the rehearsal and backstage visit where I can snapped the models before and after the make up. The models for the fashion show are lovely and wonderful mixed of new faces and established ones.
There's senior catwalker Dessy Mulasari and Nien (who opened the show), new face Hege at Look Models, top names such as Julia Jamil, Teuku Zacky, Katya Talanova, Drina Ciputra, Whulandary Herman, Ilmira, Advina Ratnaningsih, Dhining, Dominique Agisca Diyose, Advina Ratnaningsih, Selvi Rivera, Bunga Jelita, Renata Kusmanto, Hendy Bramantyo, Christina, Kimmy Jayanti and Indonesia's 'IT' model of the moment, Prinka Cassy.
Feel free to visit and enjoy our Facebook photo album to view MORE exclusive backstage images of the models during World Batik Summit 2011.
The make up that night was done by Sariayu team and it was soft smokey eyes with a dash of bright red lips and dramatic eyelashes to create the sexy yet beautiful feeling just like Polina at Damn! Inc. shown above.
Some of the models are sporting a sophisticated little bun with blunt bangs, some of them are having a simple slicked back low ponytail and the others are sporting the very exquisite 'sanggul' or chignon (shown by Ilmira and Mungky) to completed the look by Indonesia's foremost Kebaya designer, Mrs. Anne Avantie.
World Batik Summit 2011 exhibition will be held until tomorrow, October 02nd in Jakarta Convention Center. So, if you want to view the amazing displays of various types of batik in one place, this is really the place you want to be. Just like the tagline "Indonesia : Global Home of Batik"
A very special thanks to Tara Makmun, Panca Makmun, Andreas Yudhi and Armadina.


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A Trace Criterion for Nilpotence
We're going to need another way of identifying nilpotent endomorphisms. Let be two subspaces of endomorphisms on a finite-dimensional space , and let be the collection of such that sends into . If satisfies for all then is nilpotent.
The first thing we do is take the Jordan-Chevalley decomposition of — — and fix a basis that diagonalizes with eigenvalues . We define to be the -subspace of spanned by the eigenvalues. If we can prove that this space is trivial, then all the eigenvalues of must be zero, and thus itself must be zero.
We proceed by showing that any linear functional must be zero. Taking one, we define to be the endomorphism whose matrix with respect to our fixed basis is diagonal: . If is the corresponding basis of we can calculate that
Now we can find some polynomial such that ; there is no ambiguity here since if then the linearity of implies that
Further, picking we can see that , so has no constant term. It should be apparent that .
Now, we know that is the semisimple part of , so the Jordan-Chevalley decomposition lets us write it as a polynomial in with no constant term. But then we can write . Since maps into , so does , and our hypothesis tells us that
Hitting this with we find that the sum of the squares of the is also zero, but since these are rational numbers they must all be zero.
Thus, as we asserted, the only possible -linear functional on is zero, meaning that is trivial, all the eigenvalues of are zero, and is nipotent, as asserted.
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Fans now have less than five months until Jon Chu's G.I. Joe: Retaliation makes its way to theaters in 2D and 3D versions. Today, YouTube user "MovieMagic6" has posted a brand new international trailer for the Paramount Pictures action ensemble. Check it out in the player below!
In this sequel to the 2009 release G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.
The film stars D.J. Cotrona, Byung-hun Lee, Adrianne Palicki, Ray Park, Jonathan Pryce, Ray Stevenson, Channing Tatum with Bruce Willis and Dwayne Johnson.
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As we count down the days to training camp, Around the League will examine one player from every team set for a breakout campaign in 2012. We did the New York Jets first. Next up: The Buffalo Bills
Bills defensive tackle Marcell Dareus wasn't ever especially likely to make big noise as a rookie like Cincinnati Bengals receiver A.J. Green. Dareus plays a position (defensive tackle) that takes time to learn. Furthermore, many of his duties in Buffalo last year had to do with occupying blockers. That doesn't garner much attention, even though he recorded a respectable 5.5 sacks.
After a slow start, Dareus proved that he's going to be a keeper. ProFootballFocus ranked Dareus the No. 12 defensive tackle in the entire league last year. His best four games came in Weeks 6, 8, 14 and 16. He excelled as a pass rusher, ranking fifth according to ProFootballFocus' pass-rush metrics. Watching Dareus on tape, his combination of size, power and agility is remarkable. There's a reason NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock ranked him as the best player in last year's draft.
Everything this offseason points to a monster season in 2012 for Dareus:
• He will get a full offseason to work on his game and a season of experience, during which he learned how to be a pro.
• The Bills changed defensive schemes this offseason, and there will be more four-man fronts. Dareus won't have to occupy blockers as much this year.
• The players around Dareus have vastly improved. Kyle Williams is back at defensive tackle, while Mario Williams and Mark Anderson are on the outside.
Defenses are often going to have to single-block Dareus. After watching him toward the end of 2011, he is not a player you want to single-block.
Don't be shocked if Dareus -- and not Kyle or Mario Williams -- winds up leading Buffalo's impressive defensive line.


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Until recently, I had no idea how to undertake the fish.
You know, the yogic Fish Pose.
Over the years, I've gotten better at Down Dog and the Plank, and strong enough to accomplish shoulder stands and to hold an Up Dog for five minutes.
But my past yoga teachers never taught Fish Pose.
When I moved from California (some say, "the" yoga state) to New England, I discovered a slow gentle yoga class that I was rather disdainful of at first. I was way beyond needing "gentle." After all, my mornings started with four sun salutations before the sun even rose.
But this wise yoga teacher just smiled as he suggested a lunge and then encouraged us to hold it for three minutes. Easy peasy I thought after one minute. Two minutes later, I wanted to crumble and weep, realizing my frailty and weakness.
But through slow breathing, meditative silences, and long poses, my body became stronger than ever.
Then the yogi introduced Fish Pose for the end of the yogic practice.
Huh? We moved onto our backs in the corpse pose, then rolled our shoulders tight behind our upper back while turning our chins up to the ceiling, top of the scalp on the floor.
Surprisingly, this felt good.
But then came the hard part. The teacher suggested that in this position with our hearts lifted, we send our energy and love and thoughts to someone in need.
I sent out my love to my son, on the other coast, who I knew was having a tough month. Weird, but after a few minutes in Fish Pose, it seemed perfectly reasonable.
We ended the session with an Ommm, and I left the studio feeling like a rubber band.
In a good way.
I sank into the front seat of my car, knowing I needed to return to the world of deadlines and errands, when suddenly my cell phone rang. I wanted to ignore it, still savoring the peace, but peered down at the caller's name.
My son.
He never called this time of day.
"Hello?" I said, heart racing, wondering if there was a problem.
"Hey, Mom. Just wanted to touch base."
Before stopping myself, I shouted, "Because of The Fish!"
Silence. Whoops.
But then he just laughed without asking me what the heck I was talking about. At this juncture in our mother-son relationship, he seemed to deem it better to not ask.
But we had a great conversation.
Silently, I gave thanks to The Fish.
Fish and yoga images thanks to Pinterest.


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Excerpted from PIECES OF MY HEART by David L. Wood. Copyright © 2011 by David L. Wood. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher, Healthy Life Press.
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Frank was my next door neighbor at the house my family lived in for nine years. Frank never liked me from the time I moved into that house. Actually, to be more truthful, Frank did not like me from before I moved into the house.
The first time I met Frank was when the realtor was showing my wife, Denice and I the house for the first time. We were around the side of the house in between our future house and Frank's house and were gazing at the backyard. Frank was in his yard and I said hi to him and complimented him on his very nice looking grass in his yard. Our future yard was not so nice and in need of some serious attention. Frank's response to my compliment was, "If you would take care of your yard, it would look nice too". I remember thinking geez buddy, I don't even live here yet and that was pretty rude. To make things ruder, later I found out that Frank had come into some money and had recently had new sod installed in his whole backyard. So not long before out meeting, his lawn had looked much like mine.
But still we moved in and Frank lived up to my first impression of him and continued to be rude day after day, year after year. I am a pretty friendly guy and can usually make at least casual friends with just about anyone, but Frank was a tough cookie. Actually, if Frank was a cookie, he would have been one of those cookies that had sat out on the counter for an eternity and had gotten so stinking hard that you could have thrown it and it would have stuck in the wall like one of those cool metal thingamadoogies that ninja's throw. They would be referred to as the Frank Throwing Star by General Foods. It's a throwing star, it's a cookie…two great things that go great together! (cool jingle plays)…anyway. Time after time I made my attempt to become friends and time after time he shot me down like the Red Baron shooting down opponents in a dog fight. Over time, I had to resort to considering a head nod a huge victory with him.
Then one day, something strange happened that changed everything between us. It was a very small "something" actually and really, it was not for him at all but rather, just something to make my life easier, which affected him indirectly.
There was this area between our houses that was long and skinny and really a big pain in the butt to water. To water this area I would have to move a single head sprinkler from one spot to the next and gauge the water just enough to get the grass but not enough to water the side of the house. This was a time-consuming chore to which I did not like, so I set out to solve this once and for all.
I ended up designing a long and skinny PVC sprinkler that had multiple sprinkler heads all in a row that allowed full coverage of this area in one sprinkling. It was an ingenious idea to say the least. All you had to do was lay it out, screw a hose to the end, adjust the water flow and let 'er go. It was probably the best invention of the past 100 years and it very possibly could have single-handedly brought about world peace and yet I remained extremely meek, lowly and humble.
One day as I was using this, I noticed Frank had gone into his garage. I boldly, like Captain James Kirk going yet into another uncharted territory, went over and asked Frank if he had a minute. He must have had one because he came out of his garage and followed me. I showed him my "Wonder Waterer" that I had painstakingly designed for our area between the houses. He was obviously in awe, shock and wonder at first but eventually recovered enough to nod his head as I showed him how it worked. I'm sure it took everything he had to keep him from oooing and ahhing throughout my very meek and humble presentation. After my last graph and Pareto chart was presented, I knew Frank was sold. When I was finished, I simply told Frank that he was free to use this anytime and it would be right here up against the house. From that moment on, Frank began to worship the ground I walked on…um…I mean…from that moment on, things changed between Frank and me.
Frank used this miracle device and as our grass grew, so did our friendship. He would now just talk to me for no reason at all. He would make eye contact with me, chat me up without me begging him, offer me things to drink, offered me his extra weed barrier and even would even run by and scream high-five as I was mowing my lawn. Ok, I made that last part up. He did not high-five me when I was mowing the lawn, most of the time it was as I was getting my mail. Everyone knows that it is too dangerous to "high five" someone who is operating a lawn mower. Even a weed eater is risky. But that's for another story.
So my point in all this is that for approximately 7 of the 9 years I lived in this house, I was dead to Frank. And then one day, one random act of kindness cracked him like…um…cracked him like a…a well…like a thing that gets cracked a lot, after a very long time of not being able to be cracked. Yes, just like that!
Frank died about a year after our big break through. I remember that Denice was out of town and we were talking on the phone and I was telling her that something had happened next door. While I was on the phone with her, they brought someone out on the gurney covered in a white sheet. Frank's wife told me he was sitting in his recliner and never came to bed. When she got up the next morning, Frank was still sitting in his recliner but was not with us anymore.
When I think back on the event that changed the relationship between Frank and me, it is amazing that something so small was the device that changed it. After all, I had spent years and years trying to become at least consistent head nodders with Frank and to no avail. Then when I was not even trying something changed the situation.
I think God works like this. I am reminded by Jesus that we are to love our neighbors and further even love and pray for our enemies. After all, everyone cares about people they like and that like them. It is the people who rub you the wrong way or snub you for no reason at all or just plain mean people who are the real challenge. And yet, that is exactly what Jesus was asking and "is" asking us to do.
I am glad that the door of opportunity finally opened between Frank and me. I wonder, how many more Frank like people are out there just waiting for someone to consistently reach out to them no matter what they get back. I think God has plenty of them and I would encourage you, challenge you or maybe even triple dog dare you to show the love that you have been shown to anyone God puts in your path. Whatever works with you, that is what I am doing. Isn't this really what Jesus did? God, please help me to remember that it is only Your love that makes me presentable to You. More specifically, it was only through the sacrifice of Your Son that I can stand spotless and blameless in your presence even as I write and pray to You this very moment. Please help me to pursue everyone that You put in my path in the same way that You have pursued me. Help me to show them the value that You have shown that You have for me. Thank you for never giving up on each and every one of us. I love You.
Love, David
David L. Wood 5/9/2010 (c)
Mark 12:28-31 (New International Version) The Greatest Commandment
One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?" "The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."
Matthew 5:43-46 (New International Version) Love for Enemies
"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?


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The Carrboro ArtsCenter has generally been a key player in the local theatre scene since its founding in 1974, and has been fortunate in its leaders, from Mary Ruth through Derrick Ivey and Emily Ranii. But Jeri Lynn Schulke, current artistic director of ArtsCenter Stage, has particularly championed–and commissioned–new work for the stage since taking that position. March 13 saw the first blossoming of her most strenuous effort yet, made in collaboration with, and major support from, Dorrie Casey. Casey is one of those protean artists who explore every aspect–she's acted, sung, written, directed, designed and criticized–and now dreamed up and co-produced a festival of new one-act plays by North Carolinians. The Schulke-Casey team commissioned the plays and put together a dream team of about 30 theatre artists to present five works in two programs. This is community theatre, but not volunteer. Every one working on this is getting paid. "Not a living wage, said Casey, "but a respectful amount of money." The first three of these new works debuted on the 13th; the second two will premiere tonight.
The Triangle is rich in theatre. Both the university-based and the independent theaters do amazing work year in, year out. But the REDBIRD festival strikes me as marking a significant step forward in our cultural growth. The world has long praised North Carolina writers, and this (first?) festival capitalizes on the well-known names of some of them–four of the five plays are adaptations from other forms. On opening night, all the authors and playwrights were in the house, if not on the stage.
First up on Program One is Jane Holding's adaptation of Allan Gurganus' Saints Have Mothers, from his novella collection Local Souls, performed by her with her customary entrancing blend of bold and bashful. Her intoxicating speaking voice, cultivated by reading aloud since childhood, glides from character to character as Holding tells a complicated story of a thwarted poet's love for her daughter and the predicaments in which it lands her. Nothing can take the Southern out of that voice, though it knows many variants. Like most of Gurganus' characters, Jean is eccentric, wacky with energies seeking outlets, and very very talkative, but never "derange-o" as some kids in the mall call her. After a deeply traumatic and ridiculous series of events (don't want to spoil the surprise for those who haven't read the story), Jean's on the ferry to Ocracoke, having been instructed to "gather" herself and get out of everyone's hair. Director Tamara Kissane (mother of a daughter herself) has created a pleasing amount of action for this extended monologue. She has Jean bump and struggle up the steps to the ferry's upper deck with much luggage, where she takes over two benches in the sun, pulling things out of her many totes and shopping bags to illustrate her tale, and makes the story close with the ferry's arrival in harbor, so that Jean clatters and bumps her awkward way offstage into the next chapter. She's lightened her load by an item or two. Very smart.
Gurganus' grand, wry style, both embroidered and cut to the quick, gets to its destinations via many diversionary paths and lacunae, but never loses sight of the operatic human feelings that inform it. Holding "made many passes" over the story, successfully condensing it to its most telling and dramatic elements for the stage, without altering the tempo so important to Gurganus' storytelling. Both the original and the adaptation make you hoot with laughter, cringe sometimes, and sometimes cry–but the in stage version, Jean's pain, anger, relief and mystification are more directly communicated and felt.
The program's second work, Linnaeus Forgets, was adapted from a Fred Chappell short story of the same title by Marianne Gingher and Debby Seabrooke, and is absolutely delightful. It takes quite a few liberties with the original, but Chappell laughed and nodded and shook his head in amazement from the front row during the performance. Gingher and Seabrooke have made some of the story into songs (some original music by Sam Gingher), wonderfully sung by Greg Hohn in period costume and wig, and made other parts into puppetry, and substituted a fabulous claymation video sequence for description of what Linnaeus sees through his magnifying glass. The two beautifully caught Chappell's blend of erudition and simplicity; his love for the fantastical and the ordinary (sex and love fall into both categories), and his deep sympathy for his characters. They even made up rhymes that sound like Fred Chappell rhymes–"no, no," Chappell said afterwards, chuckling, "those weren't mine, those were all Marianne's."
Greg Hohn also directs, and he keeps the pace zesty and the laughs coming. Jimmy Magoo operates and speaks for a marvelous puppet, and he might speak a little more loudly, but that was the only problem. Tom Marriott is completely wonderful as the aged, dreaming scientist, and most charming waltzing with his wife (Lenore Field), still a coquette after all the years. Special kudos to the costume designer, Marissa Erickson.
Tom Marriott also directs the program's final work, perhaps its most difficult and ambitious. Michael A. Smith has made a first-rate adaptation of Nancy Peacock's 1996 novel, Life Without Water, set in 1969-1975, mostly in a Chatham County that time has nearly erased. It's a good moment to revisit this story. Maybe if we look back carefully enough on the Vietnam war, we might find someway out of the morass of war we're sinking in now. Life Without Water is a small book that contains an outsized story, and I didn't see how it could be squeezed into a one-act play with a small number of characters.
But Smith, with, I believe, some ideas from director Marriott, conceived a simple set-up in which daughter Cedar (Jane Allen Wilson, kinetic and commanding) tells her story, with her mother Sara (Marcia Edmundson, softly aged, still baffled by the buffeting events) there to agree, augment, argue and echo. Marcia Edmundson can evoke big emotions with the most economical of gestures, and her little shiftings and turnings away at difficult moments had me stifling sobs at times. The house so crucial to the story, Two Moons, is present in an excellent changing photo/video backdrop made by photographer Catharine Carter and video designer Joseph Amodei. That this is Cedar's story, and Sara's in it, is made clear by Cedar controlling the laptop on stage that controls the images. Brilliant. There's also great period-appropriate sound design by Tom Guild, and again, Erickson's costuming is strong: she's put mother and daughter both in the dark red of placental blood. It was very hard to keep in mind that they weren't actually mother and daughter, so natural–free and easy–with each other are the actors, and so well-timed is the direction.
That three quite different plays could appear smoothly on the same stage during the same evening, in a modest theater with minimum backstage facilities and a tiny control booth, speaks of the high levels of skill and organization that have gone into making this festival. There were no delays; there were no technical problems. Just three hours of exhilarating, artful theatre. Made in North Carolina, on view in the Paris of the Piedmont.
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Oh, little red bird come to my window sill
Been so lonesome, shaking that morning chill
Oh, little red bird open your mouth and say
Been so lonesome, just about flown away
So long now I've been out
In the rain and snow
But winter's come and gone
A little bird told me so
From "Winter's Come and Gone" by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings.


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Apurva, a blogger from India, writes:
In the midst of all this, we had Mr Advani talking about the need for stricter laws to control terrorism. If that is his solution, I wonder in which India he lives in. Stricter laws have never been a deterrent for crime anywhere in the world and least of all in India. If that were the case, dowry deaths would be non-existent by this time. Untouchability would have been a thing of the past. His unimaginative and primitive mind can only think of draconian laws that will inevitably be used to harass the minorities and the powerless. As John Oliver says in the above video, "when you're a bankrupt ideology pursuing a bankrupt strategy, the only move you've got is the dick one."


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As a former champion of the show, it's kind of an obligation.
This week, go to your local ABC station to watch Jeopardy! as Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, two of the show's greatest champions (Besides Mr. D, obviously) will square off against Watson, an IBM supercomputer that apparently has the recall and reflexes to outwit almost anyone.
I was asked last year to schedule a sparring match with Watson, as a former champion. I never got the chance, and would still love to duke a few rounds with that behemoth from Armonk. As for me, I'm rooting for Brad and Ken this week.
Apparently, tonight Brad and Watson came out tied for first…which I guess is a victory for us mortals. I'm still not sure if Watson can handle the interviews after the first commercial break.