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Couples who choose to reconcile after repeated marital conflicts, separation, or divorce face a unique set of challenges. Instead of calling it quits, Marriage on the Mend equips you with innovative and tangible tools that were developed during the first five years of the authors own reconciled marriage.
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By Clint and Penny A. Bragg
I love summer. My friends and family know that when the cold season begins so will my I hate being cold whining. But, God created the seasons and all the whining in the world isnt going to change that. I must accept that even here in California, it cant be sunny all year long. And so it is in marriage. God created it and all my whining in the world isnt going to change the seasons we go through as a couple.
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What is your churchs first response to someone whose marriage is in crisis? Couples in crisis, or a person who is suddenly separated, need a First-Response Team who will help those in crisis to focus on reconciliation and provide them with:
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The Reconciling Troubled Marriages Ministry Team is comprised of couples whose own marriages were reconciled. They are wholeheartedly dedicated to helping churches build First Response Teams for troubled marriages or for those individuals who find themselves suddenly separated. Pastors cannot tackle the rising rate of divorce on their own. This ministry team has combined their years of lay-ministry experience, written resources, and teaching materials to support and equip pastors and leaders with easy-to-implement methods for reconciling troubled marriages in their churches. The work and ministry efforts of this ministry team are available at www.amfmonline.com, on their individual websites listed below, and at the AMFM Marriage and Family Ministries Annual Conferences.
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Broken Heart on Hold, Surviving Separation
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Marriage 911
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Bridge to Life Ministries
Muskegon, MI
Richard and Sharon Wildman
Stubborn Pursuits Ministries
South Charleston, OH
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Inverse Ministries, Inc.
1648 Taylor Rd. #607
Port Orange, FL 32128
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The Ma Family has been serving traditional Vietnamese cuisine to Philadelphians for over two decades. It started with a small deli on 16th and Washington, which opened in 1990 offering banh mi (Vietnamese hoagie) and café sua da (iced coffee). After several years, the banh mi shop expanded to a dine-in restaurant, Viet Huong Café and Pho, named after their mom (Huong) and rightfully so because the dishes comprise of her secret recipes.
Huong learned the fundamentals of cooking and techniques from her mom. At an early age, Huong often helped her mom in the kitchen preparing meals for their large family. That is where her passion for cooking originated. Guided by natural talent refined through years of practice and experience, Huong shares her love for culinary arts through Viet Huong.
The restaurant on 11th and Washington soon became a favorite place for a quick lunch, family dinner or take-out. Viet Huong is known for its reasonably priced Vietnamese fare; some signature dishes include pork chop and rice, pho (beef noodle soup) and of course banh mi.
Since South Philadelphia was where the family set up roots, they wanted to remain in the area and pushed the geography eastward, choosing Pennsport for the location of Mekong River, their second restaurant. A casual, clean, and family-oriented atmosphere as described by others. The large menu, includes some favorites from Viet Huong in addition to new items, has something for everyone and is sure to please even the pickiest eater.
The vision for Mekong River is simple – authentic food, comfortable environment, good service and reasonable prices.
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HBO Canada Adds Catch-Up Seasons of 'Game of Thrones,' 'True Blood' to Battle Netflix
The Canadian licensee adds HBO's greatest hits to head off Netflix Canada
HBO Canada on Monday started rolling out catch-up seasons of Games of Thrones, True Blood and Boardwalk Empire as it steps up competition against Netflix Canada.
Time Warner's HBO won't launch its stand-alone streaming service in Canada anytime soon as the U.S. cable network's popular series are licensed exclusively in Canada until 2018 to Corus Entertainment and Bell Media, which operate HBO Canada and local pay TV channels.
So a new multiyear catalog deal similar to one that HBO cut with Amazon Prime will see 850 hours of scripted programming land on HBO Canada's VOD offering. Other catch-up seasons debuting today on HBO Canada include The Newsroom, Getting On and The Comeback.
Read more Bell Media Unveils Canadian SVOD to Challenge Netflix
In mid-December, the Canadian pay TV channel will feature all seasons of Girls, Strike Back, Veep, Banshee, Eastbound & Down, Treme and Vice. Earlier this month Canadian rivals Rogers Media and Shaw Media launched Shomi, a domestic SVOD service backed by super content deals from the major Hollywood studios to head off Netflix Canada.
Rogers and Shaw invited Bell Media to board Shomi, but that broadcaster is launching its own SVOD offering code-named Project Latte, backed by the catalog licensing deal with HBO. Project Latte will be exclusively for TV, including programming from Bell Media's pay TV network The Movie Network.


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Mine safety class preps workers for disaster
It was bright at the Moffat County High School football field Wednesday afternoon, but teams were decked out in black gear as if they were rescuing people trapped miles underground.
It was all apart of a mine safety class.
Mark Beachamp, president of Colorado Mine Rescue and a trainer for Twenty Mile Coal Company, helped conduct a safety competition that would prepare mine rescue teams to handle coal-mining disasters. Sixteen mine rescue teams from various states came to Craig for the event.
"We're kind of like firemen or search and rescue except we do it underground," Beauchamp said.
It's an important event, Beauchamp said, because, "It gets you into a routine. You don't think. You just do."
That element is crucial in a mining disaster.
Each team had 90 minutes to go through the course and recover two victims — all while not igniting gas or jeopardizing the safety of their crew.
"We really need to get better prepared in this day and age," said Fred English of the Oxbow Mine rescue team.
He referenced the Upper Big Branch mining explosion as evidence that new technologies don't prevent catastrophes.
"These things aren't supposed to happen, but, they do," English said.
That's why he was happy these competitions are now a federal requirement for all mine rescue teams to participate in at least twice a year.
One of the biggest challenges during the event was just "not getting frustrated," said John Merritt, an Oxbow Mine rescue volunteer.
Not only are team members strapped into layers of gear with only each other's communication helping them navigate through several obstacles, but sometimes they even come to blow with the judges.
"When we find a solution that's different than what (the judges) have there's frustration on both sides," he said.
But ultimately, it is a form of training. Merritt said he treats it like it was the real deal.
"(We) try to mentally handle it as if you were underground," he said.
That mental preparation is key to being successful in a mine rescue, English said.
"It takes a certain kind of miner to go into a situation that is hazardous and even gruesome," he said.
Besides providing Craig with training opportunities, Mine Rescue Coordinator at Twenty Mile, Dianna Ponikvar, said that this sort of event also brings revenue to the town. She said roughly 200 people are here for the event, staying in hotels and eating out.
"It brings a lot to the town of Craig itself. It's a great stimulus," she said.
While it is a competition, Ponikvar said it's about serious stuff.
"In a real event there's a 50-50 chance you won't get out," she said.
Beauchamp said his wife has asked him not to go on rescues before.
"I've always told my wife, 'If it was me trapped there, would you want their wife to tell them not to go?'" he said.
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Courtyard Gallery - La Conner Washington
About Us
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Courtyard Gallery is located in the waterfront town of LaConner, Washington which is just a one hour drive north of Seattle.
The following directions will get you there by car or by boat.
By Highway
Interstate 5 runs north and south throughout Skagit County. To reach LaConner you can exit at Hwy. 20 and head west. Turn left at LaConner-Whitney Rd. and follow the signs into town.
Or, turn off I-5 at Exit 221 and head west on Fir Island Rd. Once you cross over the south fork of the Skagit River, you'll want to turn right on Chillberg road a winding country road that will give you a good tour of the local farming community. Chilberg will lead you straight into town via Morris St.
Click here for a map
By Boat:
Transient moorage is available in LaConner Look for information signs on individual docks or head into the LaConner Marina just north of town. There is also a public boat launch on the Swinomish Channel, just underneath the Rainbow Bridge, and one north of town just under the Berentsone (Hwy. 20) bridge.
Pleasure boaters beware! The Channel's sometimes strong tidal flows (which may churn in excess of 10 knots) may require forethought and planned maneuvering before docking.
There are two boat basins located just north of town and public boat launches on either end of the Channel. Limited transient moorage allows pleasure boaters to tie up right downtown, making LaConner a true cruising destination.
LaConner has a multitude of marine service businesses. Because the town is within walking distance, small boaters can tie up and easily seek out the services they require.
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From downtown Puerto Vallarta, the Marina or the Airport: take the highway north to Tepic towards Nuevo Vallarta for about 10-15 minutes. You will reach Flamingos Golf 3 lights or 5 minutes after passing first exit to Nuevo Vallarta. Bear left on the highway and turn left into the parking lot.
From Nuevo Vallarta: take the streets towards the Puerto Vallarta – Tepic highway and upon reaching it turn left (north) towards Tepic. Drive about 5 minutes and you will reach Flamingos Golf. Bear left on the highway and turn left into the parking lot.
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Seed Cataloging for the Home Garden
Every mid-winter I find myself in a Lowes or Logan's perusing the seed displays. I cannot help myself. Today, the boys and I spent nearly an hour in Lowes playing on the mowers, looking at seeds, and talking to the staff. Actually, the staff was talking to my boys. They are cuties, what can I say. I left with a seed-starting kit, six packets of seeds and some starter refills.
This evening, I spread my spoils on the floor and went into the dining room to fish out my other seeds from the bottom drawer of my dresser-turned-sideboard. Like a good engineering student, I opened up Excel and began cataloging my seeds. Want to take a guess at how many seed types were on my list? Fifty-two. Granted, some of those were the same seed saved for multiple years, but still it is a ridiculously long list for a home-gardener who wants to keep it simple.
However, I can't help myself. When my friend brought me a bucket of tomatoes from her garden last summer, I think I cut just as many tomatoes open to save the seeds as I cut open for eating. She had varieties I had not yet tried, and I liked them! What was I supposed to do? I also have some that were given to me free from Logan's as they were dumping old seed stock for new seed stock.
Here's my list. The "For" column is the year for which they were packaged. "P" is for purchased, and "S" is for saved. So if a seed is listed as 2011 S, it means I saved the seed in 2010 to be planted in 2011.
Local friends and family, if you'd like to do a little seed swapping or stealing, I have far more than I could ever plant. Also, I highly recommend cataloging your seeds. It helped me throw out older stock and remember what I do have so I don't leave anything important out while planting this year.


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Map of bike paths / walking paths in the Pasco & Kennewick area
Recreational trails for walking, running and cycling in Pasco, Washington
The communities of Pasco, Kennewick, West Pasco, Finley, Burbank and Richland and West Richland are located along the Columbia River in the southcentral part of the State of Washington. These cities are located where the Snake River and the Yakima River converge with the Columbia River and the are is often referred to as the "Tri-Cities". This area is about a 200 mile drive from Portland, Oregon and 125 mile drive from Spokane, Washington. The area is located in the "rain shadow" of the Cascade Mountains to the west and has a very arid and relatively warm climate.
Many of the parks and other features have names related to the Lewis and Clark Expedition that went through this area along the Columbia River. The expedition camped along the river at what is now Sacagawea State Park. A number of other parks and greenbelts are located along the river. The tri-city area has a number of paved and unpaved recreational trails for riding bikes, strolling along the river and getting about town.
Sacagawea Heritage Trail Loop and Columbia Park Trail
The Sacagawea Heritage Trail Loop is a 24 mile long paved trail system that wanders along the edge of the Columbia River and passes through Kennewick, West Pasco and Pasco. At the south end, the trail starts at Sacagawea State Park at the confluence of the Snake River and the Columbia River. From here the trail heads northwest and takes a couple of turns through the industrial area. The a parking area located at the Port of Pasco at Oregon Avenue and Ainsworth Street. Just past the Port of Pasco, the trail take one more jog then back to the river's edge and to tuck under the Cable Bridge along Highway 397. There are pedestrian access paths along the bridge, if you want to get a good view looking up the river.
Northwest of Cable Bridge the Sacagawea Heritage Trail passes by Riverview Park. Ths park has several ball fields, parking and an paved access path for the trail. Farther to the northwest, along the river, there is an access path to cross over the river again on the Highway 395 bridge, or you can continue traveling along the trail on the north banks. The trail along the north banks goes through Wade Park next to residential neighborhoods. There is parking along Road 54 for the trail. The trail continues along the shores and passes through Chiawana Park. Just a bit north of the park the trail heads out to meet W. Court Street. To continue the loop, you need to ride or walk along Court Street for about 1.2 miles. There is an pedestrian trail on the Highway 182 bridge where you can cross the river to continue on the trail heading southeast across the Riverview Nature Preserve and the Yakima Delta Wildlife Nature Area where the Yakima River meets the Columbia River.
The trail follows Highway 240 through this area, but then takes a sharp turn to the east along the river's edge. It continues past Wye Park, which has a couple parking areas. This is also the location of the landbridge over to Bateman Island. The paved trail continues to the southeast along the river's edge. There are a few jogs inland where the road is too close to the river for the trail. The trail goes past Columbia Park Golf Links and Columbia Park. Columbia Park is a lovely place to stop and take a break. It has lots of parking, restroom facilities, a large children's playground, a large pond, boat launching ramp and shady areas.
The trail continues and tucks under the Highway 395 bridge. Again there is an access trail to the pedestrian path along the bridge, if you want to head across the Columbia River. To continue on the south banks of the river, stay on the trail and it will go past Duffy's Pond Park. At this point there is a paved path out to Clover Island and the Clover Island Lighthouse. The main trail will tuck under Cable Bridge and end, or you can cross over Cable Bridge to get to the other side of the Columbia River.
Columbia Plateau Trail
The Columbia Plateau Trail is a 134-mile long un-paved trail that extends from Pasco to Spokane. It follows the abandoned railroad bed of the Spokane-Portland Railroad. The trail goes cross country through the hig desert area of Eastern Washington. It a gentle grade, long straight stretches, and few amenities. You must be prepared to ride this trail, as there are great lengths between services. It does have dramatic views of the Snake River and a few mementos of the old railroad lines, such as railroad ties and telegraph poles.
Read more about the Columbia Plateau Trail
Keene Road Trail
The Keene Road Trail is a 6.5-mile long paved bike path that runs along Keene Road along the south edge of Richland and West Richland. It starts on the east end at N. Steptoe Street, about 0.1 miles north of Gage Boulevard. It travels directly west for 1 mile then goes over to run alongside Keene Road to the northwest. In this section there is an access trail through the local neighborhoods for Badger Mountain Community Park. The trail later passes righ by the parking area for the park.
The trail is separate from the roadway except at the overpass for Interstate 182. The west end of the trail is at S. Highlands Boulevard and Keene Road.
Riverfront Trail
The Riverfront Trail is a 5-mile long paved trail that takes you along the banks of the Columbia River. This is a great place for visitors to experience the Columbia River area and for the locals, too.
The trail starts at Columbia Point Marina Park just below the Interstate 182 bridge. It then heads north along the south banks of the river and goes past the marina, hotels and restaurants. Farther along it goes through Howard Amon Park where there are trees, tennis courts, a playground, a gazebo, parking and other facilities. The park has two piers with nice views of the river. It is also the location of the Richland Parks and Recreation Community Center.
The trail continues up river past residential neighborhoods and Leslie Groves Park. There are several locations where you can park along this stretch of the trail. The trail ends at Ferry Road, 0.5 miles north of the boat launching area of Leslie Groves Park.
Greenbelt Trail
The Green Belt Trail is a 4-mile long paved path that parallels Highway 240 from Highway 182 to Jadwin Avenue. Its a good way to get through Richland quickly, with few street intersections.
Following are links to official off-site resources to find out more details about the recreational trails in Pasco and Kennewick, Washington.


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Celebrating success
As happens each year when the results are announced, prep and primary schools across the island are swept up in a wave of emotions, ranging from joy and relief to disappointment. This year was no different, except that it represents the last time Jamaican students will enter high school based on the results of the Grade Six Achievement Test. (As of next year, they will sit Primary Exit Profile, which the Government says is designed to encourage critical thinking.) Here are some scenes of celebration from Half-Way-sTree and St Richards primary on Thursday.
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Today we had a look at Sketchnoting and how we can use it in the classroom to support our learners. Sketchnoting is a form of note-taking where you summarise the main points of a topic, lesson, lecture etc. It is a way in which learners can consolidate new learning and put it into a form in which they understand and remember it best. Throughout university and school I often created diagrams and images to cram for exams, so I definitely believe it is a valuable tool to summarise. Taking the time to teach students to take notes by Sketchnoting is an extremely valuable skill and requires careful scaffolding of lessons. Showing students who are not as confident in art that Sketchnoting can be stick figures, lines and basic shapes can reassure them that it is more about summarising the ideas in a more creative way than just making a list of notes and does not require in-depth detailed drawings.
For my Sketchnoting example I looked at the idea of an "Authentic Audience" as we had discussed this in the morning in our MDTA group. Dorothy Burt explained to us that an authentic audience is people who choose to listen. When people visit blogs, YouTube videos, Twitter, sports events or read a school newspaper, they have made the choice to do so. Children sitting in a class being spoken to or university students in lectures have not had the choice - it is a compulsory part of the day or course. When we share to an authentic audience it provides us with a feeling of satisfaction and realisation that others want to see and hear what we have to say - creating this authentic audience for our students is an important part of the Manaiakalani vision.
Here is my summary of an "Authentic Audience":
I then also created a Sketchnote of what I learnt about Sketchnoting:


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It's been more than 30 minutes since the news broke of the deal negotiated between the Ravens and quarterback Joe Flacco. And there are no specifics yet on what Flacco will make.
Adam Schefter of ESPN says that the deal is "expected" to make Flacco the highest paid quarterback in NFL history. The current high-water mark is the five year, $100 million contract given to Drew Brees by the Saints last year.
This means that Flacco will make more than $20 million per year, if he's indeed the new highest-paid quarterback in NFL history.
There's a rule of thumb in NFL circles regarding new contracts. If the numbers aren't leaked within the first 24 hours, the player didn't get what the player wanted to get.
Eventually, the contract will be filed with the NFL, and the numbers will leak. Key factors will be signing bonus, fully guaranteed money, money guaranteed for injury only, and total payout over the first three years. (Brees will get $61 million from 2012 through 2014.)
It may take a few days to get the information, since Flacco won't be signing the deal until Monday.
The Ravens will want him to put his name on the deal by 4:00 p.m. ET on Monday. If he's not under contract by then, the Ravens won't be able to use the franchise tag on him.


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So yeah, I had a little... incident last week.
Brando did all the art for the third panel, which I'm currently looking into getting airbrushed onto the side of my rape van.
Also, my blue-haired medic in Panel 1 is none other than Rocket, (link NSFW) my favorite dancer at Devil's Point. She rocks. Check her out.


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Flist greetings to adam_j_lupin, hiddenhibiscus, and rhwainwright.
If past flist entries have vanished, I probably privated them to protect AJL's young & innocent eyes. Heh. ;)
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Flist greetings to adam_j_lupin, hiddenhibiscus, and rhwainwright.
Is that your SISTER?!?!
I fail to see why I'm her sister is such a cause for alarm.
Y'never know. That arthenadent, she's pretty crazy. ;)
Thank you. ;;) Randomly friended you to make sure you would be able to see cynthia_black's birthday comm announcements, but am pleased to meet you, too.
I did notice, after the fact, that you had mentioned that :p But you seemed quite interesting, so. :) Hello! ::greets::


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LSRadio NEWS
The jury at the inquest for the Hillsborough Disaster has concluded that planning and police response were at fault, not the fans.
As the verdict was revealed at 11am, the Liverpool Echo reported that there were "cries of joy in the packed courtroom."
96 fans died in the 1989 crush, with accusations that the fans were to blame having been fought against for 27 years.
In finding the 96 victims to have been unlawfully killed, the Liverpool Echo reports that the jury were told :
"In order to answer 'yes' to that question [of unlawful killing], you would have to be sure that David Duckenfield, the match commander, was responsible for the manslaughter by gross negligence of those 96 people."
The verdict of unlawful killing comes following Lord Justice Goldring expressing that he would accept a majority verdict on the subject – seven members of the jury had to agree.
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Speak Like A Leader! Public Speaking Bootcamp with John Bates
May 8, AmCham Estonia welcomed in Tallinn a high-class executive speaking trainer from California, USA – John K. Bates. John led a half-day "bootcamp" for the AmCham Women in Leadership Program. The event took place in KUMU auditorium this morning.
This half-day program, which was attended by over 130 AmCham members and guests, included learning how to:
- Make the very most of every word you speak, and WHY it works
- Move your listeners to action with a new level of ease
- Stand out from the crowd and be remembered
- Leave your fear and anxiety around public speaking far behind
John K. Bates, is the man that top TEDx organizers from around the world call in for their events. He has trained 100's of TEDx speakers and is considered one of the best communication trainers working today, as well as a savvy entrepreneur. Bates has been actively coaching since 2005, working with CEOs and the executive teams of Johnson & Johnson Innovation Labs, the VW Electronics Lab, Janssen Labs, DudaMobile, Motorola, Goldstar, Oculus International, LAZ Parking, BigFra.me, Stone Brewing Co., and many others on their presentation, media and business skills.
We are truly thrilled and honored to receive John now in Tallinn and have this amazing opportunity to learn from him!
AmCham Women in Leadership Program is designed for AmCham female executives. The program brings together the powerful assessment and feedback tools, coupled with research-based content, which centers on critical skills and development areas for professional women. Women involved in this program have great opportunities to meet local and international female thought-leaders and successful executives, while also exploring the choices and tradeoffs that are faced while juggling personal and professional lives.
This particular event was made possible by funding from the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation (BAFF). For more information about BAFF scholarships and speaker support, visit www.balticamericanfreedomfoundation.org
Our big thank you goes to John K. Bates, his wife Sharon Bates and their dog Flash for crossing the globe to visit Estonia and participate in our event. We also thank the Baltic American Freedom Foundation for the assistance with this project!
Photos by Sergei Krasii, Fotki Inc. for AmCham Estonia


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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
art happens
Something along these lines might be perfect. I also found a piece of fabric that I'd purchased when he first talked about getting a dog (and keeping it at the firehouse ... funny how things cha cha cha change!)
Maybe I'll go ahead and make a big fluffy bed, fill it with cedar and such, and send it over, just in case. His new house has a fenced in back yard and it won't surprise me to find it occupied by a new dog one day! Harley likes it here at the 'firehouse' and I think that he's staying. Just sayin'...
I've started my aprons for Apifera Farm. Their Pino's Pie Day will be here before you know it! This is an incredibly good cause. In case any of you fine seamstresses out there in blogland feel like whipping up some aprons to save old donkeys, you might want to skip over there and check them out. I don't know about you, but I just FEEL better when I can lend my God-given talent to a good cause. In fact, this is something that I've been ruminating on for quite a while.
Why do I always lean toward creating for someone/thing else? I mean, seriously, it's almost an illness, it almost borders on the obsessive.
I'll see a delicious yarn and immediately conjure up a creation for this person, or that. A walk through the fabric store will have me piecing quilts for every Tom, Dick and Harry that I know! Forget about the beads. Art happens - it's like oxygen for the soul of the maker. If I don't create, I'll suffer and die. Francis Bacon said - "The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery" and I believe this. It used to be all about the paint and canvas for me. Somehow, it was easier then, there were less questions and raised eyebrows - one EXPECTED the painter to paint. I surrounded myself with people who nurtured my inner artist.
Today I no longer paint. I avoid it with everything that I've got - and I've got quite the arsenal of weapons ... bolts of fabric, skeins of yarns, bottles of beads, volumes of written pages. Just for starters. Maybe it's just easier to make fabric art, less judgmental. Easier still is the impulse to give the 'art' away without having to ask anyone's permission. Maybe my inner child is at work here and that is all there is to the mystery.
C.G. Jung said - "The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects that it loves." God, I wish that he was still here and taking on new clients!
And yes, I AM taking the course, 'The Artist's Way'. I want to paint again. I understand that faith is the required ingredient, so I may have a shot at graduating this time.
2 comments:
- Delisa said...
Hi Jody, sounds like you have some wonderful ideas percolating! I am like that too, I am always thinking about what I can make for someone else. It brings me great joy and I love to give. But, I know what you mean sometimes it can become a little limiting, especially if I have an idea to create something that is kind of "different", "out there" or doesn't have a particularly practical use. So I came up with the idea of making myself a "gift" every once in a while. On these projects I just let it flow! I have read the Artist's Way too, I especially liked the part about having "artist" dates and making time to explore and see new things. I hope you have a lovely afternoon! Delisa :)
- March 30, 2011 at 10:15 AM
- JelliDonut said...
I wanted to paint when I was in high school, then I figured out I have no talent for it. What a marvelous gift you have!
- March 30, 2011 at 1:10 PM


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Seals can be seen at this beach all year round. During the time that they are having their pups December to February, the beach can have up to 8,000 seals there. At that time, you can only go on the top of the sand dunes because if people get too close, the mothers will abandon their pups.
We went in April and there were still 350 around.
Do not take your dogs here and if you do, keep them on the lead.
The seal warden also said that people had asked him how to make the seals stay still so they could put their child on them for a picture. These are wild animals and should be treated as such. You should stay 3 metres (9 feet) away from them.
Read this information before visiting.
The Horsey Windpump is a National Trust property and on the way to Horsey Beach. It was used to pump the water away to enable the farming to happen in the local area.
It is a great place to stop for a picnic and free for NT members.


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Thursday, December 13, 2012
Philippine Dynamic Arnis Promotions Made for 2012
Grandmaster Rogelio H. Galvarole awarded rank promotions to 31 members of his Philippine Dynamic Arnis system recently in Lapaz, Iloilo City. Promoted to green belt were El John Flores, Sigfloyd Juatas, Larry Muelar, Ryu Christian Muelar, and to brown belt was Steleen Rose Espulgar. Awarded junior black belts were Ace C. Balbastro, Mary Hope C. Balbastro, Janrlyn Bellena, Herman Charito I, Mary Kathlen Dayon, Karen Joy Deporma, Angelique C. Dumlao, Jett Kouis C. Dumlao, Louella Agnes Eribal, Analyn S. Estrilles, G. Lacorita, Bryan Valeco, and Marten Vamilda. Promotions to senior black belt include Jessie Cajelilo, Jaime Camanade, Bryan Cofreros, and Stanly Siman (1st Degree Black Belt), Gorgonio Lopada and Joy Tenorio (3rd Degree Black Belt), Gian Carlo Dimaisip and Eiman Sarte (4th Degree Black Belt), Lucell Larawan (5th Degree Black Belt), Grace P. Soldevilla and James U. Sy Jr. (6th Degree Black Belt), Alexander Villa (7th Degree Red & White Belt), and Rogel A. Tanjuangco (8th Degree Red & White Belt).
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Conceptual Arnis Self Protection Workshop a Success
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Each semester, CSU music students perform recitals from various instrumental areas. Student recitals are free and open to the public.
Date: November 7, 2015
Time: 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
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December 16, 2014 |
What does it mean to live a good life? Everyone has their own definition, of course, but we asked 1000 Americans, taking a cross section of every slice of life to see if we could identify any patterns. Look at the five most interesting findings we found below, and explore the interactive infographic yourself to see how you compare.
Almost 9 in 10 Americans say they're living a good life.
The older you are, the less likely you are to believe achieving your personal goals and dreams are very necessary to living a good life.
Retirees are, by far, the most likely to say they were very successful at their jobs.
Single people place significantly higher importance on being wealthy than married people.
The unemployed are the least positive about their present financial situation, but the most optimistic about it improving.


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Canadian home buyers often put a lot of time and effort into studying their mortgage options and calculating their monthly mortgage payments based on all of the variables involved. But one thing many Canadians may forget about is the added cost of closing fees.
According to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, home buyers can expect to pay between 1.5 per cent and four per cent of your home's purchase price in closing costs.
What are closing costs?
Closing costs are the extras related to buying a home that aren't included in the home's price and are usually due on closing day. They can include title insurance, lender's inspection fees, credit report costs, legal fees, transfer fees and mortgage insurance. Home inspections, land surveys and appraisal fees are sometimes considered closing costs, because they are up-front payments involved in the home buying process that are not related to the mortgage. Homeowner's insurance, property taxes and pre-paid interest may also have to be paid before closing. Other closing costs include fees that have been paid by the seller that may need to be reimbursed such as property tax, utility bills and condominium fees.
How can I lower my closing fees?
There are many ways for home buyers to reduce their closing fees, including:
1. Extra closing fees on a number of documents may be labelled as "administrative" fees, and home buyers can request to have them reduced or waived. It never hurts to ask.
2. No-fee mortgages are available, where the bank will waive some closing fees but charge a higher interest rate. If you only intend to live in the home for five years, this may be a cheaper option because the added interest will be lower than the closing costs. However, If you plan on living in the home for at least 10 years, it might work out to be more expensive.
3. Save up a larger down payment for your home. Mortgage insurance is required when taking out a mortgage for a home with less than a 20 per cent down payment. Mortgage insurance payments may be added into your monthly mortgage payments, which means more money paid out over the life of your mortgage, or increased closing fees. Try to take the time needed to save up a larger down payment if possible.
4. Title insurance protects the bank when there is a problem with the property, like a boundary discrepancy, after the purchase closes. In some cases, the lender or bank may charge the buyer title insurance and the seller for title insurance, when only one title insurance policy is necessary. Redundant charges and services like these can be protested.
5. Asking the seller to pay closing costs when buying a home has become quite common in recent years, which can be done by including this stipulation in writing within the offer letter. There are different maximum amounts of closing costs that the seller can pay, for example: on a 10 per cent down payment the seller can contribute six per cent of the total cost of the home, but if the down payment is less than 10 per cent the seller can only pay three per cent.


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SeaWorld San Antonio's Steel Eel roller coaster is the only one of its kind in the Southwest. This "hypercoaster" delivers the heart-pounding periods of weightlessness or "air-time" coaster enthusiasts crave. From its 150-foot first drop and full camelback hill, to its 44-degree banked and S-curves, Steel Eel is packed with state-of-the-art ride features. During the three-minute adventure you'll fly along 3,700-feet of track and reach a top speed of 65 miles-per-hour.
Over the years Steel Eel has been the subject of some debate since some coaster purists refuse to classify it as a hypercoaster, despite having all of the required elements, simply because it stands less 200-feet tall.
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SEOUL (Reuters) -- South Korea's LG Chem says it has won an order from Audi to supply batteries for the automaker's growing lineup of plug-in hybrids.
LG Chem said the deal was "worth hundreds of millions of dollars" but declined to give further details. It said it expected to win more such orders from Audi parent Volkswagen Group in the future.
LG Chem, which has secured a total of 20 customers including General Motors, says it aims to achieve combined sales of over 10 trillion Korean won ($9.8 billion) from large-sized batteries by 2018.
Audi began European sales of its first plug-in hybrid, the A3 Sportback e-tron, in June and the automaker plans to add at least three further plug-in hybrid models, Automotive News Europe reported. U.S. sales of the A3 Sportback e-tron, a compact hatchback, are expected to begin in the second or third quarter of 2015, while China deliveries will start in the first or second quarter of next year.
Audi is betting on the versatility of plug-in hybrids that can be driven independently by electric or standard combustion power, to win customers looking for environmentally friendly vehicles. In 2015, the automaker will launch a plug-in hybrid variant of its large Q7 SUV, to be followed by plug-in hybrid versions of its flagship A8 model and an A6 long-wheelbase sedan for the Chinese market.
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I spent some time with this majestic beast last week. I'm pretty sure his middle name is Mischief or maybe Shenanigans.
Month: August 2014
Music Monday – Black Lable Society – Ain't No Sunshine
Fursday – My Dog Brother
Music Monday – NerdLife – The Recipe (TMNT Parody)
Fursday – August 14
Music Monday – Twenty One Pilots – Car Radio
Happy World Cat Day!
Fursday – The Pout
WIP Wednesday – August 6
It may not look like my quilt has really grown any since last week but it has. Those little green squares take just about as much time to stitch on as the octagons!
I'm about half way through bobbin #2 of the Shoot roving.
My WIP Wednesday posts may be a little on the lite side for the next few weeks. I'm doing a bit of commission knitting and it's a super secret project!
Music Monday – The Mountain Goats – No Children
This song makes me giggle.


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Boozy scientists have finally started researching something that we can get behind, the shortest route for a UK wide pub crawl with nearly 25,000 stops.
The 28,270 miles long run would take you a fair amount of time to complete, especially if you were having a pint in each of the routes 24,727 pubs, as it's actually longer than circumference of the Earth, so it's not something you're dong in a weekend.
The maths professor who led the international team who calculated the run, William Cook, has said this is the longest single road route ever worked out.
To work out the shortest route between each of the pub Professor Cook from the University of Waterloo in Canada fed the distance between 305,000 pairs of pubs into computers.
The route they devised is circular, so anyone wishing to try their hand at the three year boozfest can start the crawl at any point, but the team began their calculations at the The Green Shutters in Portland and ended at its neighbour, The Rodwell in Weymouth, a four-mile walk away.
The average distance between each pub is an hour but you may want to get one for the journey during the 270-mile, 50-hour trip, from the Sango Sands Oasis in Durness to the Bells But & Ben in Shetland.
That said the research team behind the study did not that this journey would include two ferry rides there they'd serve beer and other drinks.
It kind of blow the World's End run out of the water doesn't it…


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Truth about Bipolar Disorder
What is the truth about bipolar disorder?
- Bipolar disorder is Genetic.
- You are born with BPD, this is your normal.
- Bipolar disorder is what you have, not who you are.
- It is not your fault.
- No cure (Yet).
- Bipolar disorder is progressive.
- Bipolar disorder has definite symptoms.
- Behaviors are not symptoms.
- Medications will control symptoms.
- An episode is extreme high movement in mania or low into depression.
- When in episode the individual has lost control.
- Bipolar disorder has cycles, and patterns.
- A Cycle is movements between mania and depression.
- A Pattern is when your movements have a pattern to it.
- Other mental or physical illnesses do not cycle.
- Bipolar disorder is not dysfunction behavior.
- Bipolar disorder is not about your illness, but rather about how you deal with it!


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Newbold College, the Adventist institution for higher learning in the UK, is facing numerous challenges. It remains a problem to attract students in sufficient numbers and to stay afloat financially. But Newbold has every reason to be proud of its teaching staff in the theology department. The quality of the DTS (Department of Theological Studies) at least on a par with the best of the theology departments of other Adventists colleges and universities.
One of the most inspiring members of the Newbold staff is dr Laurence Turner. He is popular with his students, and he is also a very talented speaker. I must admit that, when listening to sermons, my thoughts often tend to wonder, but that does not happen when I am among Turner's audience.
Also as an author Turner is worth following. When, a few years ago, I was editing the Festschrift for dr Jan Paulsen, the previous president of the world church, I also asked Laurence Turner to contribute an essay. He wrote a significant piece that I see regularly quoted: The Costly Lack of Literary Imagination in Seventh-day Adventist Bible Interpretation.[1]
This week I saw a reference to a book by Turner that has, in fact, been in my book case for quite a few years. It has a short and simple title Genesis.[2] It is part of a new commentary series (Readings: A New Biblical Commentary), in which the story, the plot and the relationship to other stories hold the central place. I had read some of this book as a source of inspiration for a sermon and this week I took it from the shelf with the same purpose. As I read a few remarks about God's covenant with Abraham stayed with me.
In the first few verses of Genesis we read about God's command to Abraham, to set out on a journey to a destination only known to God. Next we hear of the tremendous blessings God has in store for Abraham: he will become a great nation; all nations will be jealous because of the blessings he and his decedents will receive. But Turner emphasizes another element that we should not forget: Abraham must himself be a blessing. This is not clear from most translations. Turner points out, however, that the original Hebrew has an imperative. Abraham will not only receive Gods' blessings but is also commanded to be a blessing for others.
It seems to me that this would be a good topic for a new sermon. God blessed Abraham. He also wanted to bless the people of Israel. And today the church (including the Adventist denomination) can count on God's blessings and can, no doubt, point to many things and experiences that are clear proof of divine blessings. As individual Christians we may ask for God's blessings, and if we keep our eyes open we will see how God continues to bless us in many ways. But the question is: To what extent does the church heed that command once given to Abraham: Be a blessing! And I must ask myself: Am I indeed a blessing for the people I associate with? Am I not only a receiver of God's blessings, but also a distributor? Thanks, Laurence, for reminding me of this.
[1] Laurence A. Turner, 'The Costly Lack of Literary Imagination in Seventh-day Adventist Bible Interpretation', in: Reinder Bruinsma en Borge Schantz, eds., Exploring the Frontiers of Faith: Festschrift in Honour of Dr. Jan Paulsen (Lüneburg, Germany: Advent Verlag, 2009), blz. 261-277.
[2] Laurence A. Turner, Genesis (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000).


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Welcome to EF (Earth Friendly!) Block. We manufacture EF Block in beautiful La Paz, Baja California Sur. EF Block is changing the way we build retirement and vacation homes down on the Baja. This game-changing product, when used as insulation in your new home, will maintain an even, comfortable temperature in your home year-round (even during our hot Baja summers!) while saving you thousands of dollars on your utility bills over the coming years. The benefits of using EF Block include:
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Halloween Safety Tips
News from Sheriff's Office, Posted on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 12:18pm
"Halloween can be great fun for our kids, but unfortunately there are people out there who may harm them. Being prepared is the first step in assuring all goes well. Make a plan for the night and talk to your kids about how to stay safe. You can make the difference." - Sheriff Whitcomb
To keep kids safe during Halloween follow these simple rules
- BE AWARE of sex offenders in your area
- NEVER let children trick or treat alone
- ONLY trick or treat at houses that your parents have approved
- NEVER let children enter homes without a parent
Be sure to Search/Register for sex offenders in your area
Find Safety tips for children & parents
- CDC: Halloween Health & Safety Tips
- Halloween Safety Tips for Kids
- Halloween Safety Tips for Adults
- Halloween Safety Tips for Parents, Kids and DRIVERS
- US Consumer Product Safety Commission: Halloween Safety
Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office ... where you make the difference


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Dear Visitor: This site preserves the legacy publications of the Rural West Initiative from 2009-2014.
For more recent information on our conference and publications, please go to ruralwest.stanford.edu
Report: Energy Development in the Rural West
Research Paper
A research report commissioned from Headwaters Economics by the Bill Lane Center for the American West, "Benefiting from Unconventional Oil" assesses how states like North Dakota are dealing with the rush to extract valuable energy resources. Some of the report's key findings:
"North Dakota appears to be learning on the job," says the report, "But a more consistent approach in all states that are facing future unconventional plays will need to replace the current, often ad-hoc assistance to impacted communities.".
The report, compiled by the Montana-based research institute Headwaters Economics -- is available for download here:
The report comprises part of a larger study of energy development in the rural west, including an interactive documentary video produced by the Bill Lane Center for the American West.
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"An Unquiet Landscape: the American West's New Energy Frontier" Watch the interactive video »
With sky-high energy prices driving new oil and gas exploration in the American West, states are struggling to keep pace with critical infrastructure and revenue policies. Working with Montana-based Headwaters Economics, The Rural West Initiative has published a comprehensive multimedia report, combining a rigorous economic and policy analysis with a 31-minute interactive video documentary.
By John McChesney, GEOFF MCGHEE and ARIANA REGUZZONI
High energy prices have made advanced drilling technologies profitable, pushing drill bits into parts of the West once believed tapped out, and into new places once thought inaccessible. A look at three communities in North Dakota and Wyoming who find themselves at different stages of an energy boom.
By Headwaters Economics
As oil production from the Bakken formation continues to set records in North Dakota, the sheer pace and scale of the boom is still unfolding. The intensity of industrial activity in western North Dakota translates into mounting concerns about the ability of local and state government to respond to growing infrastructure needs and service demands. In short, the fiscal policies on the books in North Dakota and other states may be especially ill suited to unconventional oil plays.
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We live in a global West. Even the most remote rural areas of the American West are plugged into the global economy. This has long been true. And it is even more so today. The connections between the local and the global run from the simple and straightforward to the complicated. In the current issue of High Country News, reporter Jonathan Thompson traces some of the connections that constitute this "Global West" through production and trade of natural resources, particularly energy and minerals.
While Thompson reported on this story for High Country News in Douglas, Wyoming, and other parts of the West, researchers here at the Bill Lane Center's Rural West Initiative closely examined trends in direct foreign investment and the effect of global demand on the energy sector, which is booming in the West. Robert Jackman, a Stanford graduate student in public policy, wrote a sidebar for Thompson's story exploring three future scenarios for global energy demand and its impact on the West. Graduate students in computer science working here at the Bill Lane Center created an interactive online map of current foreign investment in energy and mining operations in the West to accompany the reports.
Jackman's article for High Country News was based on his in-depth report -- the first in our Rural West Initiative Working Paper series -- is available here:
Jackman provides a sobering assessment of foreign influence in this crucial sector of the economy of the American West. He found that foreign direct investment in fossil fuel production occurs at a much lower rate than foreign direct investment in the American economy in general. Most of that investment comes from companies based in Europe, Canada, and Australia — and not from Asia — continuing a historical pattern.
The biggest foreign influence on fossil fuel production comes from rising worldwide consumption of fossil fuels, and that is largely driven by growth in Asian economies. However, the main driver of demand for fossil fuels from the American West continues to overwhelmingly come from domestic consumption in the United States.
The American West is indeed a "carbon colony." But it is our carbon colony.
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Data visualization of U.S. weekly newspapers in 2010, in white. View interactive map »
By Geoff McGhee
In an era of precipitous decline for major metropolitan newspapers, rural journalism is surviving, even thriving, in the rural West and across the United States.
By Krissy Clark and Geoff McGhee
The history of newspapers in the rural West is one of crisis and triumph in alternation. Failure, and bouncing back from it, has been a tradition. And at a time when there is so much talk about the future of newspapers, this past is worth considering.
With American newspapers under stress from changing economics, technology and consumer behavior, it's easy to forget how ubiquitous and important they are in society. For this data visualization, we have taken the directory of US newspaper titles compiled by the Library of Congress' Chronicling America project – nearly 140,000 publications in all – and plotted them over time and space. This visualization is also viewable as a series of video animations.
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By Geoff McGhee
Walk in to a town council meeting in Pinedale, Wyoming, and you're likely to find as many as three local reporters scribbling notes and asking questions. That news in a town of 2,030 residents is covered by two newspapers and a website is partly explained by the abundance of mineral wealth in surrounding Sublette County, which produced $3.6 billion in natural gas last year. Add to that the urgent concern about breaching a local dam threatened by record snowmelt coming from the Wind River Range, and you've got a recipe for a small-town media frenzy.
This scene is also illustrative of how rural journalism is surviving, even thriving, in the rural West and across the United States, in an era of precipitous decline for major metropolitan newspapers.
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By Michael De Alessi and Robin Pam
"In general, the rural population is less safe-guarded by boards of health than is the urban population. The physicians are farther apart and are called in later in case of sickness, and in some districts medical attendance is relatively more expensive. The necessity for disease prevention is therefore self-evident and a betterment of these conditions is a nation-wide obligation."
– Report of the Country Life Commission [1]
Fearing a loss of agricultural productivity and rural community, Teddy Roosevelt formed the Country Life Commission in 1908 to investigate why the social and intellectual, as well as economic, aspects of country life were not keeping pace with city life.[2] Of the six "deficiencies of country life" highlighted by the commission, "health in the open country" featured prominently.[3] The report emphasized issues such as differential access to doctors, numbers of physicians per capita, and costs of rural health care, and all remain contemporary concerns. The Commission's call for "increasing the powers of the Federal Government in respect to the supervision and control of the public health"[4] could be pulled straight from today's health care debates.
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Following police action in a high profile suspected UK terror case last week, one of Birmingham's senior Muslim leaders, Dr Mohammad Naseem, chair of the city's Central Mosque, has said that Muslims in Britain are being labelled as a threat in a way that has parallels with the treatment of Jews under Hitler.
Dr Naseem described arrests in the city as an example of the government justifying its foreign and domestic political agenda. He claimed Muslims were being "bullied" and that the framing of anti-terrorism laws was a threat to freedom.
The remarks, coming from someone who Midlands police says has been cooperative in the past in condemning those prepared to use violence, will be seen as symbolic of the huge distance in perception between the authorities and large numbers of Muslims.
"This is a persecuting course of action that the government has taken", claimed Dr Naseem. "They have invented this perception of a threat. To justify that, they have to maintain incidents to prove something is going on. There is dismay and people feel they are being persecuted unjustly… If there is a reason, the process should be open and for everybody to see what is happening."
He called on police either to charge the nine men being detained or release them, but added: "I do trust the West Midlands Police — but the orders are coming from the political establishment. Blair is under suspicion himself. I am asking people to be calm."
According to media reports, thousands gathered to hear Dr Naseem's comments during Friday prayers. Many continue to believe that the arrests will turn out to be a repeat of those in Forest Gate, London, in summer 2006, when a man was shot in the shoulder as police searched his home for traces of a chemical weapon. He and his brother were released without charge and no evidence of the weapon was found.
Sir Iqbal Sacranie, the former head of the umbrella group the Muslim Council of Britain, commented: "I wouldn't have used the Nazi reference but I know from the number of calls that we are getting that people are really disturbed by the onslaught on the Muslim community."
He added: "Opinion polls have been created giving a bleak picture of Muslim views which do not represent the majority. We are now having trial by media of the men who have been arrested but not charged. The mainstream Muslim organisations and community are being demonised and are under siege."
Other commentators say that voices of alarm do not represent the views of the majority, and that a substantial part of the problem is the desire of the media for instant comment based on defining people primarily by religion, and by the remarks of community leaders.
Others suggest that the substantial numbers listening to Dr Naseem indicate a genuine underlying fear in significant sections of Asian communities.
West Midlands police and the government say that the presence and activity of terror cells is a reality, and that to describe talk of a terror threat as unfounded is wrong.


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High Lexile (1000+) nonfiction: Fine Arts, Machines, Making Stuff
On this day in history: August 6
On August 6, 1928, Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the latter part of the 20th century, is born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A frail and diminutive man with a shock of silver-blond hair, Warhol was a major pioneer of the pop art movement of the 1960s but later outgrew that role to become a cultural icon.
To read morel, click here.
To learn more about Andy Warhol and his art, check out these books:
Fabulous : a portrait of Andy Warhol by Bonnie Christensen
Uncle Andy's by James Warhola
April Art Fest
Stop by the library during the month of April to enjoy artwork and quilts from members of our community, including library staff members!
Multiplication Makes Art
Artist Stefanie Posavec creates beautiful art out of words, sentences and even multiplication. She gives each number a special shape and color, then does very long multiplication problems with them to create beautiful patterns. Here's one example:
Check out more examples of turning math into art on her website, and then check out this book turning art into math…
On this day in history…December 12
On December 12, 1913, two years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Mona Lisa is recovered inside Italian waiter Vincenzo Peruggia's hotel room in Florence. Peruggia had previously worked at the Louvre and had participated in the heist with a group of accomplices dressed as Louvre janitors on the morning of August 21, 1911.
To learn more about this event, click here.
The Mona Lisa Caper by Rick Jacobson
The Mona Lisa Caper is based on true events that began to unfold on Monday, August 21, 1911, when Vincenzo Perugia shocked the world by stealing the most famous of the many treasures in the Louvre. Though Vincenzo was a thief, he meant well. He simply wanted to return the painting to the Italian people in the mistaken belief that it had been stolen from them. Eventually, inevitably, Vincenzo was captured in Florence and put on trial. Italians gave him their hearts for his patriotism. In fact, he received so much food, wine, clothing, and furniture, that he had to be moved to a larger cell! Throughout Rick Jacobson's lively text, Mona Lisa herself narrates the story of her trip back to the city of her creation. The playful art Rick has painted along with his wife, Laura Fernandez, heightens the fun. Not only is it Keystone-Cops funny, it is a sound introduction to the painting that continues to delight, amaze, and mystify hundreds of years after Leonardo da Vinci's death.


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Attending one of Ohio's many art schools will afford you the chance to express yourself creatively. Many of the art schools and colleges throughout Ohio present specialty courses in ceramics, glass, painting, photography, and printmaking.
If you're still undecided as to what field of art you'd like to specialize in, then Ohio is definitely the place for you. Many of the art schools in Ohio encourage interdisciplinary activities and the sharing of information and research, which include exhibitions, funded projects, exchanges, research, and special events.
Ohio also offers many types of art events including performing and visual arts, theater, and dance throughout Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati. Not only is studying art in Ohio beneficial when it comes to earning a degree but Ohio also offers many career opportunities for aspiring artists through the Ohio Arts Council, which also offers various grant programs.


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Antonio Veciana – writes in Trained to Kill :
The training was supposed to take two months. Mine was cut in half. I would arrive at 9:00 a.m. and leave at ten minutes to one. That was early enough to avoid being seen by the lunchtime crowd leaving the building, but late enough that I would quickly mingle into the flock of pedestrians going about their midday business on the street.
They told me to get away from the building rapidly, but not so fast that I would arouse suspicion. They wanted me gone by the time (Dick) Melton came down so I wouldn't see who was picking him up. He was a foreigner who didn't know his way around the city and depended on others for transportation….
As time went on, it became clear that Melton was not only an educated man, but a man who liked order and thoroughness. He had a folder with all of his notes in it. As we went through each class, he was like a professor, referring to his notes constantly as he explained. In truth, I don't think he really needed them. He knew exactly what he was explaining. Perfectly. He knew the lessons by heart.
It clearly disturbed him that we had to rush through my training as fast as we did. "I don't know what kind of operator you'll be after this course," he once said to me. "Sorry about that, Maurice and I both are convinced that you have what it takes to go far. But at this rate, a lot of its going to be up to you."
I didn't ask Melton questions. I was spellbound. Day after day, minute by minute, I listened intently as he reeled out the inner workings of his tradecraft. I was an apprentice to a form of sorcery I had never imagined – part magic, part skill, and part will – as much an art of deception and illusion as precise execution.
Melton was my master, the imparter of the conspirator's commandments. And I was determined to commit every detail to memory.
"Your job as a conspirator," he said, "is to use situation-appropriate means to create chaos within the enemy lines. Your job is to both gather information and cause damage. That might come as the result of a bomb, a fire, a bullet, or a carefully placed piece of misinformation that will disrupt the functioning of the government."
I listened carefully as Melton explained in intricate detail the methods, the tools, and the skills I needed to be effective. He repeated them again and again, like a teacher guiding his students through the alphabet for the first time.
"This is serious stuff," he said."This is a grave matter."
The wording of the commandments was deceptively simple, easily remembered, but loaded with meaning. Each word implied insinuations. Beach idea involved tactic. The combination of words and ideas represented the conduct expected of me. The limitations and capabilities were laid out perfectly in simple instructions.
- Achieve favorable opinions for your cause and critical ones for those of the enemy.
- Always maintain a double personality, disguising your real activity.
- Maintain your objectives in missions and absolute secrecy.
- Never reveal your associations, connections or collaborators.
- Use whatever is necessary in your battle plan. Your enemy is perverse by nature and will not hesitate to use whatever means necessary against you.
- Mistrust people, situations, and appearances.
- Be on your guard at all times.
"Your enemy's best weapon is to infiltrate someone into your group," Bishop said. "They'll offer some of your associates their lives in exchange for telling them where to find you. You'll learn that silence is the friend that will never betray you."
He warned me never to fall to the temptation of expanding my circle. "You're not competing to be Miss Congeniality. Your friend and associate today could be your betrayer tomorrow."
In the eventuality that someone in my group got captured, he said, "they will be tortured. You must anticipate that they will tell everything they know. If someone you work with is arrested, you need to take every precaution. Immediately."
Your cause needs to come first, before any sentimentality.
- Be bold in your objectives. Anything is possible if you plan well enough.
- Anticipate the personal risks you're willing to take, and the cause they represent.
- Be disciplined in doing exactly the work assigned, in accordance with the instructions received.
- Maintain strict silence about your superiors and collaborators from other countries.
- Use the services of your friends and acquaintances to achieve your goals. Unscrupulously if necessary. The ends justify the means.
"Your position, your personality, your contacts," Bishop said, "could be very useful to help prevent these people from consolidating their power."
Neither Melton nor Bishop ever spoke to me about being a spy. They didn't think of me as someone who would plant bombs or anything like that. What they wanted of me was for me to wage a psychological war against the government. They didn't call it that. They called it a "propaganda campaign." To discredit the government. To disrupt the government. That was their goal.
"You're a man who can organize a resistance to disable the government," Bishop said. "So that the people understand what the government is."
…I had access, and I had the ability. I could do things to undermine them. I could use ideas to counter their ideas. Often enough, I ended up using their own ideas against them. That's what Bishop wanted. More than for me to be a terrorist. I became a terrorist later. They didn't even want to teach me about weapons. I had to ask for them.
"You're not in the military," Bishop said. "You need to be what you are – a person who knows many people and can influence many more."
"But I need to be able to defend myself, don't I? To protect myself?
Despite the oft-repeated saying that it's better to fight and run away (and fight another day), Bishop insisted, "It's better not to fight at all. Avoid a direct confrontation with your enemy any time you can. Almost always, when someone in the resistance has to shoot it out with the authorities, they lose. There's more of them than there are of you."
Eventually, though, I persuaded them. A little at a time. At first they just showed me how to break down a pistol and put it back together. Later they taught me about explosives….
Still, I don't think they ever expected me to become a man of action. I'm not sure I did, either. Circumstances took me there.
Melton and Bishop insisted on offering me practical advice that they had gained through their own experience, which they knew was vital for an intelligence agent's success. I never forgot them. Abiding by those rules can save your life.
- Stop going to places you normally frequent. If you're being followed, avoid any of the places you previously visited.
- When you walk on the street, go counter to traffic.
- Avoid meetings with more than two people.
- Don't go out at night.
- Don't transport weapons or explosives at night.
- When you travel by car, do it accompanied by a women
- Develop and rely on your memory. Do not take notes. If you're stopped, a little piece of paper could incriminate you.
If I did write things down, or if it was necessary to communicate in writing, they instructed me in the use of invisible ink and simple codes, to obscure information.
They also taught me that the voice is the last thing that changes in a person. People sound the same for a long time. Their looks change. Their faces change. They may gain or lose weight as they age. Their hair color changes, or their style does. They wear it longer or shorter, or they may have less of it. They wear glasses, or they replace the glasses they had with contacts. Men grow beards or mustaches, or shave them off. Ears and noses grow. But the voices rarely change.
They told me if I wanted to remember the way someone looked, I should key in on distinctive features. Notice if someone has a mole, or a birthmark. Large ears, a large or oddly shaped nose, very close-set eyes. It not only helps you recall, it allows you to describe them to someone else succinctly.
There were other important instructions:
- Don't take or make incriminating phone calls. Don't speak over the phone with anyone you don't know.
- Don't show up for an appointment without first monitoring the location, to be sure everything is OK. Never go to a meeting unless you're absolutely sure that there is no problem.
- Dress in a normal, unassuming fashion. Don't wear clothes or colors that call attention to you. Don't wear dark glasses.
- Wear a hat or a cap to hide the shape of your head, but don't make it a very conspicuous one.
- Learn to disguise yourself with a mustache or a beard that you can grow or change.
One day, after my lessons ended and I was getting ready to leave, Bishop asked me to wait. He spoke very somberly as he said, "Tony, you need to understand that this isn't about showing how brave you are. For an undercover agent, there are times that the best route is to run away. Even if they call you a coward. You cannot let them arrest you."
Before he left Cuba – I'll never forget – he tore twelve American dollar bills in half and handed one set of the halves to me.
"Hold on to these," he said. "If someone comes to you and they say they're speaking for me, or they have a message from me, they'll have to give you one of these halves. If they don't have one, or if the one they give you doesn't match one that you have, they're lying. It's a trap. Don't tell them anything, and get away as fast as you can."
"The success of a clandestine operation requires just that, that it remain clandestine – secret, invisible, unknown," Bishop said. "The result should appear completely unconnected to any of our actions. That's why it's of the utmost importance to not leave tracks or compromising evidence of any kind."
"But even if you do, remember," he added, "we will forever deny our involvement. Forever. Even when it's obvious."
Secrecy he insisted, was absolute.
"We don't get to be heroes," he said. "No one ever knows what we do. Your triumphs won't be applauded in the newspapers. The president doesn't shake your hand on the evening news. Our satisfaction comes from doing our duty. It comes from knowing you helped your friends and hurt your enemies, even if no one else ever knows."
An operative's goal is to divide and confuse the enemy. To carry out a mission, an agent always needs to think of alternatives. He has to have backup plans. Success depends on his capacity for planning and his capability for execution. He needs to plan, prepare, perform – and expect the unexpected. For that reason, he should frequently evaluate the status of his plan and analyze his progress and consider any obstacles that have risen.
People are his tools, and his targets. They are to be used as means to his ends. If your interests align, they're allies. If they have no interest, they're instruments. If they oppose your interests, they're enemies.
"It doesn't matter," Bishop said. "Any of them can be useful, in the right-situation. If you need them, you use them. You just have to find their weakness. Everyone has one. That's the key."
He was right. Before I could "work" somebody, I had to prodigiously study their situation, their qualities, their defects. Everyone is penetrable. We just have to discover their weakness. There are those who cooperate because an alluring women offers her bed. Others can't resist the temptation of a bundle of cash, or the promise of power. Others just need their egos stroked. One way or another, anyone can be bought.
And once their usefulness is at an end, they can be discarded. Or eliminated.
An operative's methods should not be classified as dirty or clean, he said. They are simply favorable or contrary to our cause. There are no illegitimate means. Anyone who lets his moral judgement affect his mission is, at best, a bad agent. At worst, he's a dead one.
His arsenal: lies, deceit, intrigue, theft, kidnappings, bribery, corruption, destabilization, subversion, and murder.
"The only advantage of playing with fire," Bishop said, "is learning not to get burned."
As I listened to his commentaries and observations, I came to understand that Bishop had a disturbingly dark view of the world. It seemed, at times, worse than Machiavellian.
I came to believe that he considered himself above the law, beyond the rules the rest of us are expected to abide by. And I came to suspect that he might have been right, that he knew something I didn't. I came to think that there was a parallel power at work in empires that sets its own rules, for its own ends. We're all aware of the political authority that formally governs the country we live in. But Bishop made me see that outside this traditional, visible authority there is an invisible power acting in the shadows, directing events. These are the true puppet masters on the world stage, shaping the course of history. Political authority changes hand with elections. However, the true power lies in the hands of a hidden consortium that acts as an unseen overlord, watching over and deciding civilization's destiny….It passes from generation to generation, forever hidden, yet forever in control.
That realization led me to questions that have haunted me ever since. What was Maurice Bishop's assigned role in all of this?


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Demonstrations can be violent or peaceful… or beautiful.
Today a group of women decided to demonstrate for equal rights to bathe topless. They have my sympathy… I just can't help it girls. It has nothing to do with women's rights that your breasts turn me on. (So does a naked shoulder! Preferably a woman's).
Something I am strongly against is action against taking sexual photos of women in a nurses costume. JBS, a boxershorts company, pulled their campaign after heavy pressure from the national nurses association.
Luckily I saved the wallpapers. You can get them here:


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Professor Alan Gilbert is two weeks into his new job as vice-chancellor of the merged University of Manchester, but he is still making waves in his native Australia. A prominent Australian academic last week published a 250-page book, claiming that under Professor Gilbert's eight-year tenure as vice-chancellor, the University of Melbourne had lost its way.
When Professor Gilbert was appointed to the job of managing the merged University of Manchester - which from September will be the biggest university in the country - he was billed as having a "particularly successful track record of providing strong leadership to universities facing merger".
But the new book, Off Course: From Public Place to Market Place at Melbourne University, claims that Professor Gilbert left the university a "quasi-privatised institution in the corporate mould". Its authors are John Cain, a former head of the Victoria government and Melbourne University academic, and John Hewitt, a former tutor at the University of Melbourne.
The book claims that, in its marketing and self-promotion, Melbourne has lost sight of its fundamental role as a public institution; that managers wield too much power and don't understand the needs of academics; and that the democracy of the institution has been eroded.
Writing exclusively for Student Direct, the Manchester University student newspaper, Professor Gilbert responded to the book's charges by labeling its authors "highly ideological", citing the expansion of staff and facilities at Melbourne as proof that his methods work.
He wrote: "The authors of the new book are right to attribute these outcomes to a willingness to engage in non-government, revenue-generating strategies and to make the university less dependent on government funding.
"But they are wrong to imply that the strategies have failed. Indeed it is the very success of the 'Melbourne agenda' which irritates them. The development of mixed funding has been an emphatic success in Melbourne, and this 'Melbourne agenda' (as it is called) has had the support of the great majority of staff at the university, who see it as the basis on which the maintenance and improvement of the academic quality has been possible."
Professor Gilbert is also facing controversy in Manchester, where Student Direct reported that the university is planning to sell off the £2.5m Mobberley Old Hall, described as a "rare example of a fine early 17th century grade II listed Jacobean manor house".
The university's staff newsletter reported the director of estates, Diana Hampson as saying: "This is an unusual property with a considerable amount of land and being 17 miles from the campus, needing extensive renovation and ongoing upkeep, it was decided to put the estate on the market with the proceeds going to support Project Unity. There has been a great amount of interest and we expect to achieve a good price for the Old Hall and the other lots."


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I was fortunate enough to wake up and start the day with a hearty breakfast at Les Bruhasses (Maison D'Hotes) in Condom (Gers).
Along with crusty bread, local fresh figs, croissants, walnuts from a neighbor's tree and bread pudding smothered with caramel sauce, Helene had us taste her Melon de Lectoure and Pasteque jams.
I still have to mention what was on table d'hotes last night.