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Not a lot of published activity for me this week, though many pieces are in the works. As an accompaniment to my recent review of the documentary Theo Who Lived, however, Hammer to Nail published my interview with the director of that film, David Schisgall. Here is the link. Enjoy!
Month: October 2016
"Roughly Speaking" Podcast on Fall 2016 Coming Attractions
Today, Linda DeLibero – Director, Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University – and Christopher Llewellyn Reed (that's me) – Chair and Professor, Department of Film & Moving Image, Stevenson University – joined Dan Rodricks on his Baltimore Sun podcast, "Roughly Speaking," where we discussed some of this fall season's coming attractions, including, but not limited to: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Jackie, Moonlight and Tower. This portion of the show was recorded a few weeks ago, before I had seen The Accountant, which is why I mention the film as though I have not yet seen it. Here is the link to the show. Enjoy!
Leave Your Thinking Cap Behind, and "Jack Reacher: Never Go Back" Delivers Occasional Action Goods
[Note: This review also appeared on Film Festival Today at this link.]
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (Edward Zwick, 2016)
I missed reading all of the opening credits on the new Jack Reacher film – sequel to the 2012 original and based on the 18th book in the long-running series from author Lee Child – so I didn't notice the director's name until the end. When I finally did, it gave me some pause. Edward Zwick? The man who once helmed Glory and Legends of the Fall – critical and box office hits, respectively – is now directing a sequel to a modest 4-year-old box-office hit? The mighty can, indeed, tumble. That said, this fact helps explain why the action sequences are so finely wrought and why the movie zips along briskly, almost making us forget the utter inanity of the script. The undeniable appeal of the two leads, Tom Cruise (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation) – his Scientology exploits notwithstanding – and Cobie Smulders (Unexpected), ably assisted by young Danika Yarosh (Heroes Reborn), is a major plus, as well, but it's the mise-en-scène that makes the movie. Which allows Zwick to atone for his collaboration on a screenplay so rife with improbabilities and coincidences that it otherwise strains cinematic credulity as the plot details accumulate. It's certainly a lot of fun (if also extremely violent), but that enjoyment is predicated on leaving one's critical faculties at home.
I've never tackled any of Child's books, so all I have to go on is the first film. In it, Cruise's Reacher – a former army major – helped out an investigation that led, eventually, to the killing of some nefarious individuals (that's all I can remember). He seemed to be good at everything, like a shorter, American James Bond, able to physically dominate opponents even when outnumbered. Now he's back, re-introduced in an opening where we first see the groaning bodies of the men he has destroyed before finding him, alone, in a diner, calmly waiting for the next group of misguided bad guys to try their own hand at beating him. Not surprisingly, he wins that round, too, though by his wits, rather than fists. He then leaves for his next mission. In this second film, he appears to be a sort of unofficial army agent, dealing directly with the still-active Major Turner (Smulders), with whom he shares flirtatious phone banter while they jointly track down enemies of the state. Until, one day, Reacher shows up at army headquarters in Washington, DC, ready to ask Turner out to dinner, only to find out she's in deep trouble. The plot then thickens, especially once Reacher picks up a young charge (Yarosh), as well, after which we take off on a journey of manic mayhem, staged with panache and not a small amount of wry humor. Pow, snap, crunch, chuckle.
Cruise sets himself up as a mighty superman, and at 54 years of age certainly still looks fit enough to sell himself as a fighter. The problem lies not with him, but with the film's morbid fascination with the tearing and breaking of limbs, glorified as much as Cruise's torso. Smulders, not to be outdone, gets in on the action, too, and then we have the both of them cracking skulls with equal glee. Anything he can do, she can do just as well (or almost, as he's still the indisputable star), as their on-the-nose dialogue about male and female roles reminds us time and again. The villains in the film are not that interesting. so it's all to the benefit of the story that Cruise and Smulders are as watchable as they are. It's just too bad that in the midst of all the carnage, no one thought to write a better story. When, at the end, Reacher walks down a lonely road, an eternal drifter, it's hard not to recall the ending of every episode of the great late-1970s TV show The Incredible Hulk, when Bill Bixby would wander away from that particular installment's location, ever alone. Cruise seems even to have practiced Bixby's grim scowl, knowing that bad things happen when he gets angry. Too bad the writers didn't also crib the quality of that show's teleplays, each one of which told a better-constructed tale than Jack Reacher: Never Go Back even attempts to. If you can forget the story, and focus on the action and the leads, however, you may still have a good time. Good luck!
"American Pastoral" Traffics in Deadly Bucolic Ennui
American Pastoral (Ewan McGregor, 2016)
Actor Ewan McGregor (Miles Ahead) makes his directorial debut with American Pastoral, an extremely faithful, if also inert, adaptation of author Philip Roth's 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. Working off a script by John Roman (The Lincoln Lawyer), McGregor hits all the same beats as did Roth, yet ends up with a listless, dispiriting and distinctly uncinematic yarn. I was no great fan of the original work, despite its accolades (though I love other books by Roth), but it was a novel of great scope, in which Roth used the trials and tribulations of one American family to discuss the festering rot at the heart of the American Dream. I appreciated Roth's ambition, if not his execution. Sadly, in McGregor's version, that ambition has been reduced to a story of a small-town Job, shorn of much of its socio-political relevance. All the same plot details are there, but the emotional emphasis falls too squarely on the family drama, making this just an unpleasant tale of domestic dysfunction.
McGregor, himself, plays Seymour "Swede" Levov, scion of a successful glove manufacturer and a young man for whom life has always gone swimmingly, despite his status as a Jew in 1940s America (if you wonder how the Scottish McGregor fits in the role, the Swede is written as looking distinctly un-Jewish). A glorious high school athlete and easygoing man, the Swede seems bound for greatness, a destiny confirmed when he marries Dawn (Jennifer Connelly, Noah) a local shiksa beauty queen. Surely their children will be beautiful, and since the Swede is set to take over his father's business, their financial future is secure, as well. Our take on the story is colored by narrator Nathan Zuckerman – Roth's literary alias and a recurring character in his œuvre – whom we meet before ever laying eyes on the Swede. Played by David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck.), he wanders in to his 45th high-school reunion where he encounters his erstwhile best friend, the Swede's younger brother, in town for that sibling's funeral. For the early part of the film, before Zuckerman's voice is abandoned until the end, we cut back and forth between the Swede and Zuckerman, the latter our guide through the former's ups and downs.
For things do not go as planned for the Swede. He and Dawn have a lovely daughter, yes, but over time she grows into a troubled teen who comes of age as the tumult of the 1960s erupts into violence. Alienated and adrift, she flees the comforts of home and tears the heart out of her parents in the process. In both book and film, this daughter, Merry (Dakota Fanning, The Benefactor) is more construct than real, a device through which Roth and McGregor attempt to explore the volatile forces that simmer just beneath the surface of polite society. Unfortunately, in the film, she remains a cipher, only now the script requires us to invest in the emotional fabric of her relationship with her father. She's too one-dimensional for that to work, and so the film plays like a feeble melodrama. We know we should feel sad, but nothing resonates. This in spite of the fact that many bad things happen to good people.
It's too bad, since McGregor, Connelly and Fanning are all compelling performers (Strathairn, as well, but he's not given much to do here) and have some fine moments, together and separately. Peter Riegert (At Middleton), as the Swede's father, is watchable, as always, and provides much-needed comic relief in this otherwise ceaselessly dreary affair. Certainly, individual scenes work well, and McGregor and cinematographer Martin Ruhe (Run All Night) succeed in evoking the bucolic beauty of the New Jersey countryside, from which springs Merry's inchoate venom. But it all adds up to very little, other than a set of plodding nostalgic set pieces, slavishly recreated verbatim from the book, devoid of meaning beyond their own internal self-contained logic. I'm not sure that Roth's book could have made a good movie even in more accomplished hands, but this particular adaptation highlights all of the original's structural weaknesses and none of its strengths, failing to make a case for its own raison d'être. If wallowing in existential ennui, for the sake of it, is one's thing, then the film might have some appeal. Otherwise, wait for McGregor's sophomore effort, should he be afforded one.
Reviews of "The Greasy Strangler" and "Theo Who Lived" @hammertonail
I had two reviews published on Hammer to Nail this past week, for the aggressively (and intentionally) off-putting midnight movie The Greasy Strangler and the powerful documentary Theo Who Lived, which tells the story of journalist Peter Theo Padnos, who survived a two-year kidnapping by an affiliate of Al Qaeda. Here are the links to both pieces:
Though It Offers Guilty Pleasures, "The Accountant" Adds the Numbers Up Too Perfectly
[Note: This review also appeared on Film Festival Today at this link.]
The Accountant (Gavin O'Connor, 2016)
In The Accountant, the new action-thriller from director Gavin O'Connor (Jane Got a Gun) and screenwriter Bill Dubuque (The Judge), Ben Affleck (Gone Girl) plays Christian Wolff, a certified CPA by day who dons a cape and a mask to prowl the cities at … sorry, wrong movie, wrong character. No, Wolff wears no such obvious disguise, yet does lead a double life. As we quickly learn – within the first 10 minutes of the film, in fact – his mild façade hides a lucrative (and nefarious) career as an accountant to a global network of criminal operatives. When we first meet him, he's living quietly in Illinois, under an alias (Wolff is not his real name, which we never learn), ready at a moment's notice to disappear into his next persona. Somehow, on top of his brilliant work managing the books for gangsters and terrorists, he is also an expert in self-defense and a perfect shot. Imagine if James Bond worked the other side of the law, was a math genius, as well as autistic, and you'd have this movie: Casino Royale meets Casino meets Good Will Hunting (co-written by Affleck!) meets Rain Man. Presto, instant mish-mash.
The story doesn't start with Affleck, however, but with a mysterious gangland killing that will only be explained later. We then flash back to 1989, where we find a family at a clinic in New Hampshire, struggling to deal with their older boy (of two) whose autistic behavior is more than they can handle. Husband and wife differ on how to deal with the child, a disagreement with profound later consequences. Jump ahead once more, to the present, and we're in Washington, DC, where Department-of-Treasury supervisor Ray King (J.K. Simmons, Whiplash) assigns the task of discovering the identity of our mysterious accountant to new agent Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Amanda Waller on the CW's Arrow). For much of the rest of the film, we cut between present-day Wolff, little-boy version of him (with brother and parents), and our friends at the Treasury, along with sundry other characters, incidental and otherwise. One such supporting player is Dana Cummings (Anna Kendrick, Pitch Perfect), a junior accountant at a legitimate company where Wolff takes a job as a break from his illegal affairs. Though at first she merely annoys Wolff, since his condition makes him wary around strangers, her bubbly quirkiness (Kendrick's stock in trade) gradually thaws the ice around his heart.
Which brings us to the use of autism in the script. I confess to some confusion on the topic. On the one hand, it gives our protagonist something of an obstacle to overcome, since his initial manifestation of the condition is, as we witness it, debilitating. But as his evolution plays out over the course of the film, it becomes increasingly unclear what, if anything, our takeaway is supposed to be. Are all people with autism destined to live a dual existence, caught between good and evil? Is the only way forward through rigorous self-discipline, as taught to young "Christian" by his tough-love father? If looked at beyond the surface convenience of its dramatic purpose, autism is presented as both apple and serpent, imparting knowledge while tempting one down a path to sin.
That said, the film is actually a lot of fun, as thrillers go. Affleck is an appealing screen presence, as are Simmons, Addai-Robinson, Kendrick, and the rest of the cast, including Jon Bernthal (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) as a shadowy hitman who keeps getting in Affleck's way. Beyond the potentially offensive portrayal of autism, the real problem with the movie is the overwhelming number of coincidences that drive the plot. Someone needs to tell O'Connor and Dubuque that when you build your story out of a web of serendipity, it cannot help but feel contrived and artificial. Given its slickly produced action sequences and gently funny rapport between Affleck and Kendrick, The Accountant is far more entertaining than it has any right to be, but it is also absolutely ridiculous, as well as almost unforgivably sentimental when we consider the criminal nature of the central enterprise. It has its pleasures, but they are guilty, indeed.
"Roughly Speaking" Podcast on "Birth of a Nation" and "The Girl on the Train"
Today, Linda DeLibero – Director, Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University – and Christopher Llewellyn Reed (that's me) – Chair and Professor, Department of Film & Moving Image, Stevenson University – joined Dan Rodricks on his Baltimore Sun podcast, "Roughly Speaking," where we discussed both The Birth of a Nation and The Girl on the Train, both in wide release today. Here is the link to the show. Enjoy!
"The Girl on the Train" Misses Its Destination
[Note: This review also appeared on Film Festival Today at this link.]
The Girl on the Train (Tate Taylor, 2016)
To how many metaphorical uses can we put trains? Their gleaming hulls first arrived in the early 19th century, revolutionized mass transportation, and quickly became symbols of modernity and the human condition. Among other ideas, they represent, in art, the journey through life, filled with structured itineraries and random meetings. Think the daily commute in Patricia Highsmith's 1950 debut novel Strangers on a Train, which Alfred Hitchcock promptly turned into a deeply unsettling eponymous film about a chance railway encounter that quickly turns psychotic: you never know who you might meet on your daily commute! Or consider the train under which poor Anna Karenina throws herself in the novel that bears her name; Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov borrowed that scene for a terrifying moment in his 1957 WWII drama The Cranes Are Flying. There can even be a decidedly sexual innuendo to the manner in which trains forge ahead, plunging into tunnels as they go; Hitchcock, again, used just that image to end his 1959 espionage thriller North by Northwest. And on and on.
Now, not quite two years after its publication (about as fast a turnaround as Highsmith enjoyed), author Paula Hawkins' bestselling, if convoluted, 2015 drama-thriller (let's call it a "driller") The Girl on the Train comes to the big screen, courtesy of Tate Taylor (The Help). Not to be confused with a fine French film, from 2009, of the same title (in English), it possesses the same weaknesses as its source, for better or for worse. I was certainly no great fan of Hawkins' work, yet I tried to approach the movie with an open mind. After all, the central visual metaphor of an alienated person viewing snippets of others' lives from the windows of a passing train is a perfect representation (minus, perhaps, the alienation) of the act of viewing films. Add a dash of unseemly voyeurism, and it's Hitchcock all over again. Nothing wrong with that. And yet, it's largely an overwrought mess, albeit one with a fine central performance from Emily Blunt (Edge of Tomorrow) as the titular "girl."
Blunt plays Rachel, a thirtysomething woman who spends her days going back and forth to the big city from her suburban home, staring out the window at the houses that flash by, conjuring backstories for the people she sees on a recurring basis. The book is set in London and its environs; the movie transplants it to New York and the counties above (the story neither gains nor loses by this change). We quickly learn that Rachel is an alcoholic, though her cinematic version looks, in spite of Blunt's minimal makeup (Hollywood's variant of haggard), less dissipated than Hawkins' description. Rachel also has an unhealthy obsession with her ex-husband Tom, his new wife, Anna, and their infant child, as well as with another couple, Megan and Scott, Tom and Anna's neighbors, all of whom Rachel glimpses on her daily commute, and all of which we learn through Rachel's voiceover narration. She is not to be our only guide, however, as one unreliable narrator is not enough here, and soon we enter into the points of view of both the aforementioned Anna and Megan, as well, shifting not just between perspectives, but also time, jumping from the present to the not-so-distant past, the latter slowly informing the events of the former. And then, one night, Megan goes missing, and what had been seemingly disparate threads of a frayed narrative come together – or try to – as Rachel, her own memory blacked out from booze, tries to piece together the fragments of the mystery.
It's not without a certain maudlin appeal, and Blunt is very good as a lost woman desperate to reclaim her dignity of self, but the actual thriller elements work no better on screen than they did on the page. Characters, including a detective played by Allison Janney (The Way Way Back), behave in improbable ways, motivated more by narrative needs than actual human psychology. What could have been a truly interesting meditation on the ways that men manipulate women into self-loathing and self-destructive behavior is lost in the melodrama. Both Rebecca Ferguson (so good in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation) and Haley Bennett (so good in The Magnificent Seven) are largely wasted as the two-dimensional Anna and Megan. Justin Theroux (The Leftovers) and Luke Evans (High-Rise) fare no better as Tom and Scott, nor, especially does Edgar Ramirez (Hands of Stone), as a sexy, if possibly ethically challenged, psychologist. In short, good actors are hampered by an impossible script, and the only one given enough material to rise above the torrid muddle is Blunt, herself. This being a "driller," there is, of course, a twist at the end, and it is emblematic of this movie's on-the-nose construction that said twist is delivered via an actual corkscrew (the train, ultimately, is a mere passenger in its own tale). If you like your stories obvious, where everything is spelled out for you, then The Girl on the Train just might work. If not … well, you have been warned.
Uneven, Yet Rousing, "The Birth of a Nation" Offers Narrative Agency to Nat Turner and Company
The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker, 2016)
A fiery mix of Haile Gerima's 1993 cinematic bloodbath Sankofa, which profiles a West Indian slave uprising, and Steve McQueen's 2013 meditative 12 Years a Slave, which contemplates the toll wrought by slavery on all involved in its implementation, Nate Parker's rousing The Birth of a Nation, a dramatized retelling of Nat Turner's 1831 slave rebellion, has much to recommend it, in spite of its director's well-publicized past allegation of rape. As a first feature from Parker, however, it suffers from not insignificant screenplay issues and a tendency on the novice helmer's part to emphasize each dramatic beat with soaring chords from composer Henry Jackman's often overly sentimental score. Still, despite these problems, The Birth of a Nation deserves to be seen for what it does right. McQueen's own Oscar-winning film was a beautiful work of art that shed needed light on our nation's disgraceful past; Parker's film, though far less accomplished, grants its African-American characters agency in their own liberation, an important upgrade, no matter how clumsily handled. In addition, any film that reappropriates the title of D.W. Griffith's virulently racist 1915 epic and gives it new meaning is OK in my book, whatever its weaknesses.
In a bit of historical irony, the film opens with a quote from slave owner Thomas Jefferson: "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever." We then segue directly into a premonitory prologue where little-boy Nat Turner is declared a prophet by what looks to be an African-American shaman of some sort. Corny as this device may be, it has the effect of moving us away from an established authority – Jefferson – to the more militant point of view of those who will rise up. We then follow young Nat to his plantation, where he catches the eye of the mistress (a fine Penelope Ann Miller, Saving Lincoln), who teachers him to read, setting in motion his own future intellectual emancipation. Unfortunately, when the master dies, he wills that Nat be sent back into the fields. The transition from house to field slave is not easy for the boy, but it does allow for a quick montage of cotton picking that transforms the child into the adult actor who plays him: Parker (Beyond the Lights), himself. In the passage of time, Nat's childhood playmate, Samuel, has now become lord of the manor, and the two have developed as easy a rapport as can be expected, given the disparity in their status. As played by Armie Hammer (The Lone Ranger), Samuel is spoiled and lazy, but not unkind, even sticking up for Nat when he is assaulted by another white man. That will all change, later in the film, once alcohol, boredom, and the institution of slavery work their ugly charm. No one can survive something as ugly as enforced bondage, not even those in charge.
As a character study in these early scenes, the film is at its strongest. Parker and Hammer work well together, and their false intimacy speaks volumes about the fraught relationship between master and slave on which much of our early history was built. There's a strong cast of supporting players, including Aja Naomi King (How to Get Away with Murder), Roger Guenveur Smith (Dope), Gabrielle Union (Think Like a Man Too) and Chiké Okonkwo (Paradox), among others, as fellow slaves; Jackie Earle Haley (Preacher) as a wicked slave hunter; and Mark Boone Junior (Sons of Anarchy) as a white minister who views Nat as an especial existential threat. Little by little, the more we spend time with all involved, the clearer it becomes that no system built on cruelty and exploitation can or should last. Nat, now a preacher (thanks to Samuel's mother's early teachings), finds himself used to pacify other local slaves, earning money for Samuel in the process. Eventually, Nat loses faith, as the brutal treatment of his brothers and sisters (including, unfortunately, given Parker's own personal history, a rape) prove too much to bear. Rebellion awaits.
When it comes, though, it's disappointing. Having done a solid job of set-up, Parker can't quite handle the payoff with the same level of craft. Instead, he dwells on images of extreme violence to the point of fetishizing them, and cannot resist the temptation to lean on the musical score as overwrought accompaniment. That said, he does pull off one tragically powerful sequence at the end, once the revolt is defeated, where we see hanging bodies of martyred slaves hanging from trees while Billie Holiday sings "Strange Fruit" on the soundtrack. Is it the most original artistic choice? No. Does it work as effective document of the sins of our past? Yes. And so the movie goes, torn between Parker's competing impulses towards sentiment and harsh realism, sometimes evocative, sometimes less so. Not a perfect movie, but as necessary, in its own way, as its artistically superior cousin of a few years ago. If Parker survives his newfound scrutiny, it will be interesting to see what he does next.
3 New Pieces: @filmfesttoday on Tribeca Film Institute + @hammertonail on "Audrie & Daisy" (interview) & "Cameraperson" (review)
I had three new pieces published this week on two of the sites for which I write, Film Festival Today and Hammer to Nail. One was a profile of the grant opportunities available for indie and emerging filmmakers at the Tribeca Film Institute; another was an interview with filmmaker Bonni Cohen, co-director of the documentary Audrie & Daisy (just released on Netflix); the final was a review of Kirsten Johnson's new documentary Cameraperson. Here are links to all three articles:
- Film Festival Today on the Tribeca Film Institute
- Hammer to Nail interview with Bonni Cohen, of Audrie & Daisy
- Hammer to Nail review of Cameraperson


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Essay about George Washington: Father of the Country
Is it necessary to explain anything about George Washington and specify all his merits for the Motherland? I think that even those, who are only five-years-old, are familiar with this outstanding character and know, at least, one thing about him: the modern one dollar bill has the portrait of George Washington on one of its sides.
Of course, George Washington is famous not only because his face is flashing before the eyes of several billions people daily and each of them looks at him each time, when he takes up money from his wallet. George Washington holds a title of the first president of the United States of America and his name will be marked in the world history forever.
Frankly speaking, I was overwhelmed with an indescribable feeling of proud when I was announced that among all the possible topics it was me who was given a task to compose an essay about George Washington. It was not about Abraham Lincoln, or Benjamin Harrison. I had to tell the readers about the most famous president and it was really a great responsibility, which was laid on me. I knew that I had no moral right to spoil my George Washington essay. Was it possible for such a paper to contain a lot of errors and drawbacks? No way!
Quick Decision
I was deep in my thoughts about the United States of America, its history, and its 44 presidents. Could you name another country, which had so many governors? I wasn't able to do this without Google's help, but I guessed there were none.
Of course, America was considered to be a very eventful country and it couldn't have been otherwise. The presidents' number proved this. I couldn't find the best way how to start my essay, because there were too many thoughts in my head and it seemed that all of them were rather interesting and good. I was not a bad writer and essay composing was always not a difficult task for me. Unfortunately, there was one aspect, which troubled me a bit. I didn't like to delve through the past and the American history attracted me not more than any other countries' one. It was easy for me to build a good essay structure, catch the readers' interest from the first words, though it was impossible for me to reflect on any historical subject.
First, I wanted to tell about George Washington right in the first sentence. Then I started thinking that it was necessary to make a short introduction and tell about America on the whole. I wanted my essay to be attractive and all the readers to start reading the further info with bated breath.
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George Washington became a president in 1789 and held this post up to 1797. The period of his ruling the country is full of mystical stories and secret aspects, the quantity of which is still in growth. Frankly speaking, I am absolutely sure that the modern writers, who try to publish the books about this outstanding person, like to fantasize. They disclose various secrets about George Washington, though their veracity is too shady.
Washington, who was a talented commander, didn't spare himself and was always a good example for his soldiers. Yeah, it was really the glorious period of time!
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Rovers were beaten for the third time in their past five matches, with striker Dean Ashton grabbing the winner seven minutes after his arrival as a half-time substitute.
"In the first half West Ham had a lot of players behind the ball," remarked Hughes. "They stopped our influential players getting into the key areas, and they did it very well, with Danny Gabbidon and Matthew Upson outstanding. So credit to them. They worked extremely hard."
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Big news for Footmarks at Mobile World Congress 2015. Footmarks announced this week a strategic partnership with Skyhook Wireless, a global leader in mobile location, to provide the most complete solution to optimize the customer journey across the entire location spectrum.
By combining Skyhook's Context Accelerator with Footmarks' SmartConnect™ Platform, app owners, device makers and their stakeholders like brands and marketers, can analyze location behavior from venue to aisle and derive precise customer intelligence, as well as take action wherever their user is.
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Today we joined in with our nature woody friends and explored Seal Bay :) There was a great low tide and lots of tide pools to be discovered.
We'd never been there when the tide was out and we weren't the only ones taking advantage of it. There were TONS of Bald Eagles hanging about and picniking on all of the sea creatures that were now exposed. They didn't seem to be bothered at all either that there were a bunch of loud preschoolers running around *grin*.
and one of the girls spotted this dead octopus floating in the water!
It may have been part of this Eagle's snack :)
We were there well over two hours and even though the tide was coming in and it was definitely time to head back up the beach to the trail no one was ready to leave. We're definitely going to have to check hubby's tide book and see when there is another super low tide so we can come and explore again!
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Comed is reporting some outages to Chicago area towns and villages due to high winds this Sunday evening (11/11/2012). It is reported that about 24,000 customers are currently without power. The hope is that power is restored to these areas before the cold front that is expected to kick in tomorrow/Monday.
So what process does the utility follow to ensure that consumers receive electricity promptly after an outage? The requirement, due to the antiquated utility grid, is that consumers must report the outage. Once outages are reported the crews then kick in and go through the following steps.
- First the MAIN Priority is the safety of people and the crew. The utility makes certain that all hazards like damaged or partially damaged poles, uprooted trees and the like are cleared away.
- Second step is to investigate the cause of the outage. In this case the obvious reason will be the high winds. This does not mean that an investigation will not be carried out.
- The third step is the assessment of the damage to enable the crew to determine what equipment, resources and timeframe will be required to bring back electricity to all consumers. At this point the utility provides an estimate of the time it will require to get electricity back to the consumers. The estimate tends to be the time required to restore service to the last consumer. At this point the parts or equipment required is also determined. Where equipment, crew and resources are available work continues but the more severe the damage is the less likely full repair can be completed until required parts are procured.
- At this point repairs are then started. Power is first restored to key service providers like health (hospitals), safety (fire and police stations) and welfare providers (old people's homes), these are vital. Equipment repair follows the order of i) High Voltage transmission lines (they supply electricity) ii) Substations are repaired next and then iii) Distribution lines (the ones that bring the electricity to our homes) come next. The distribution lines tend to have multiple damage locations in the case of heavy storm damage
- Note: repairs follow the order of returning power by repairing facilities for the largest number of consumers first, then the facilities that return power to the next largest number of consumers and on till all power is restored.
You can view the outage areas through this Comed interactive map.
Hoping consumers get their power back shortly.


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Zombie Love Story
An illustrated story of how a zombie girl and boy met and fell in love. The gallery will be continuously updated as the story line progresses. I was influenced by Norman Rockwell and wanted to capture the tender moments shared as their love blossoms and unfolds. Cue the collective "ahhhhhh."


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Raising A Vampire
Book 2 in the Suckers Trilogy
Raising A Vampire is the sequel to Living Like A Vampire.
The story starts ten years after Black October, when vampire-like humans called 'suckers' roamed the land. Live has gradually gone back to normal, and Kate and her partner have been trying to hide the true identity of their daughter by leading an extremely quiet life.
One day, Kate decides to invite a colleague into her home. He betrays her trust and commits an act of violence. When Sue, Kate's eight-going-on-sixteen-year-old daughter, comes to the rescue, she exposes herself for what she really is; a sucker. Kate decides to accompany Sue when she is imprisoned.
The situation spirals even further downhill when an old flame of Kate turns up and he resumes his quest for Kate's love.
Once more, Kate is thrown into turmoil and heartache.
Join Kate as she struggles with the amorous feelings that awaken after meeting her old flame. Feel her pain as she loses the friendship of a good friend, as she pushes her daughter away from her instead of keeping her on the right path, and as she tries to keep the love of her partner while dealing with the mental aftermath of an attempted rape.
Can Kate keep her family and her wits together?
Some reviews received:
"Honestly, I loved this book."
"The plot is full of unexpected twists."
"The monster of all emotional rollercoasters."
"A ride through the unexpected and sure to peak your curiosity."
"There's some nice wit on show to keep everything from getting too dark."
"It is a fast read, that races through a short time span, that did keep me turning the pages."
"Ms. Dahlhaus reinvigorates those old bitey routines with a bit of smart storytelling while managing to make insightful comments on our society."
Author's note:
After having so much fun writing Living Like A Vampire, there had to be a sequel. I wrote Raising A Vampire in October 2015, again while having no knowledge of how to write English prose. But I had so much fun doing it! This time, writing the story in chronological order made it much easier. It did take me twice as long as Book 1 as my story got stuck when I had to think of an escape method. It took me a long time to figure it out. I even contacted a flight center to find out if gliders could operate at night 🙂 .
The ending gives the story that extra bit of oomph, keeping you on your toes. It came out of nowhere, my characters leading me on their merry way. Honestly, I had nothing to do with it!
Just in case you're wondering where I got the character of Dr. Greene from, it was taken from Dr. Bunsen Honeydew from the Muppets 🙂 .
Although reading Living Like A Vampire first is recommended, I wrote Raising A Vampire as a standalone. There is a span of ten years between the two stories, and I have done my best to give you hints of what happened in Book 1 in case you didn't read it. I do recommend reading Book 1 first, so you get to know the characters a bit better and understand their actions.
The eBook version of Raising A Vampire is available on Amazon, Kobo, and Nook. It is also available in paperback on Amazon.
Read on about Killing A Vampire, Book 3 in the Suckers Trilogy.


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A Happy Van is A Happy Band!
The band has been taking a two-day hiatus in Selah, WA to get caught up with business and much needed rest. Our beloved Hozzington has seen six states and countless miles as the band has continued to build a fan base throughout the Northwest. So far on our two-week tour, we have met many of friends along the way, new and old, who have greeted us warmly with the kind of hospitality most would have to pay an arm and a leg for. From Chuck and Toni's in Olympia to Brandon and Kelly's in Kennewick, the band couldn't be more grateful to have such outstanding friends to help us achieve our dreams!
However, let us take a moment to recognize a member of our band who has been there with us through thick and thin, rain and snow, and mile after mile. Ahh, yes! I am talking of course about The Hozzington! Our van couldn't have been more reliable to us as we have greeted each state and every mile on this tour. A happy van is a happy band! Why do you think we are always getting out of the van with smiles on our faces? Some may think it has to do with certain herbal supplements, while others relate it to Chris "Puffalo" Green being the band clown. Well, on the contrary it has a lot to do with being blessed to ride in such a radical van. And as a band, we know that we are only as strong as our weakest link. We also know that we spend triple and possibly quadruple the amount of time in The Hozzington as we do on stage. So, needless to say we take care of our van!
Thanks Hozzington for being you! We look forward to more quality time this spring during our Crooked Southwest Spring Tour!
Cody Beebe & The Crooks will be performing tonight at the Coug in Pullman, WA @ 9pm! And again at John's Alley in Moscow, ID on Wednesday night @ 9pm! Both shows are FREE to get in! See you there!


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New Rules of Engagement: Social media strategies for great advisor-client relationships
Everybody in business knows this to be true: it's way cheaper to retain a happy client than it is to acquire a new one.
But we know we need to acquire new clients in order to grow our businesses. And we rightly expect that we'll succeed in doing so by building on the value we're delivering to our existing clients.
All we need to do is ask our satisfied clients to recommend us – to their friends, their loved ones and their business colleagues. So that's what we do.
The fact is, we're often disappointed with the results.
Satisfaction, it turns out, is a necessary – though insufficient – condition for receiving referrals from existing clients.
So, what's missing?
Engagement Drives Referrals From Clients
Advisor Impact's Economics of Loyalty report found that while most of an advisor's clients reported high levels of satisfaction with and loyalty to their advisors, only 1 in 5 of those clients actually provided a referral to their advisors.
When the report's authors looked closer at which clients were giving referrals, they realized that there was another quality to the client-advisor relationship that seemed to correlate strongly with the act of making a referral. That quality is engagement.
In order to identify the drivers of this engagement, the Economics of Loyalty authors looked for common factors among those client-advisor relationships in which referrals occurred:
1. More attention – Engaged clients expected and received more frequent portfolio reviews and required more involvement of their advisor, though not necessarily because they represented more assets.
2. Written financial plan – Engaged clients were more likely to have written financial plan in place and felt that the plan was instrumental in helping them achieve their goals.
3. Coordinating role – Engaged clients were more likely to rely on their advisor to play a central role in their financial lives, for instance acting as a coordinator among the other professional advisors.
4. Advises offspring – Engaged clients with adult children were considerably more likely to have an advisor that also worked with their children.
5. Leadership – Engaged clients saw their advisor as a leader in terms of being proactive and keeping them on track, especially in turbulent times.
6. Opportunity for meaningful feedback – Engaged clients were dramatically more likely to have been asked for their input or feedback on the service being provided.
The new rules of engagement are social
Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human.
- Brian Solis
The drivers of client engagement revealed in the Economics of Loyalty data align strongly with the principles of effective social networking and inbound marketing and personal branding. Here's how:
1. Social technologies allow you to do more with less time.
Clients will always want more of your time and attention, so how do you realign your allocations of both so that your most engaged clients receive more? Time, after all, is a finite resource.
Enter social media technologies that give you the potential to leverage finite time resources by extending the reach of "personal" communication. These benefits are invisible to the uninitiated and don't even reveal themselves until you've scaled the steep social media learning curve.
Here's an example. In one-on-one meetings with clients, you often repeat information – offering the same analysis, observations and reassurances over and over to one client at a time.
An effective use of social technology would allow you to have a "social conversation" with select clients at the same time (imagine a LinkedIn group discussion for JUST your most engaged clients). You might also schedule regular Q & A sessions (think webinars or video conferences) where you could discuss key issues with your most engaged clients.
Social conversations and archived content assets enable you to cover common material once, freeing up time for you to deliver more valuable and personalized one-on-one client attention.
2. Attraction marketing is the new client "fencing".
It used to be common for advisors to talk about building "fences" around clients as a retention strategy.
A much better strategy in the social age is to attract and retain clients by building a compelling service offering and fostering engagement.
Written financial plans are a case in point. They help map out a path and offer measurable milestones that promote accountability with your clients.
A dizzying array of new technology solutions for financial planning, personal budgeting, account aggregation, portfolio analysis and other investment services are appearing in the marketplace and luring your clients into relationship – with other service providers, rather than you.
It behooves you to understand these services and, in some cases, to incorporate them into your practice. Clients want tools that are easy to use and help them plan and track their progress, so give them what they want. Attract them. Engage them.
If you don't, someone else out there just might.
3. Focus your social networking on peers and clients, not prospects.
Online social networks are emerging as the place where professionals – both clients and their advisors – go to find specialized knowledge and high-quality advice.
Establishing a competent presence in these networks is critical for at least two reasons:
a. to identify the thought-leaders on particular subjects that are relevant to your practice; and
b. to develop your own thought-leadership in your area of subject matter expertise.
Doing the first helps you identify and build relationships with the best in class professionals in any field. Doing the second helps you identify yourself as among the best in class professional in your field.
Social media is often misunderstood as primarily a tool for prospecting new clients. For a practice professional, using social media channels to build closer relationships with peers and fellow professionals is equally, if not more, important because of the critical role referrals and teamwork play when servicing your most engaged clients.
Being seen as a credible source of subject matter knowledge by your peers and having strong working relationships with similarly credible professionals in complementary practices will both attract referrals to you while delivering better engagement with your clients.
4. Changing demographics delineate the key battleground for financial services.
Intergenerational awareness, emotional intelligence and communication skills are highly valued by engaged, planning-oriented clients. Family well-being is often at the core of their values and define their financial goals and motives.
Social media technologies are being widely embraced by wealthy under-50 and Gen Y investors. At the same time, these younger investors are emerging as the key financial services battleground in the coming decade, as massive intergenerational wealth transfer occurs.
The key to working effectively across various demographic groups is understanding the world as each group sees it.
Digital technologies are remaking the world of interpersonal communications for many in the Gen X/Y group and this is changing how and where people meet and conduct relationships.
If you're not an early adopter or part of the early majority when it comes to social media technologies, then you're missing one of the best opportunities to engage your clients in this demographic.
5. Leadership and the economy of influence.
Engaged clients want to work with leaders.
They want their advisor to lead them in their financial decision-making and keep them on track with their financial plan. They also want their advisor to be a competent and recognized leader within their field.
Social media is creating new channels and opportunities for demonstrating leadership, yet at the same time it's changing the face of what leadership looks like.
Social media is spawning a new economy of influence. Social interactions – everything from online conversations, to sharing posts, to liking and following – are the currency of this new economy. Strategic investment in these online interactions helps us build our social capital which, like any investment, accrues over time.
The new marketing paradigm of social media and the influence economy is inbound, rather than outbound. Inbound marketing attracts attention by providing content and information that people want. Outbound marketing, the old mass media paradigm of advertising and interruption, no longer works as well as it once did.
Social media for financial professionals should be guided first and foremost by earning influence and building social relationships online. If you do that successfully, the business will come to you.
6. Asking for feedback helps you to become a "trust agent".
Asking for input from your clients lays the foundation for trust. Receiving input with transparency, honesty and a willingness to make things better breeds engagement .
Social media is an always on, real-time feedback mechanism. As you connect and engage with clients online, it becomes easier for them to interact with you and provide feedback.
In their book Trust Agents, Chris Brogan and Julien Smith borrow the trust equation, first introduced by Charles H. Green et. al. in The Trusted Advisor:
Trust = Credibility * Reliability * Intimacy
Self Interest
As we've seen above, using social media to find, create and share high quality content is a great strategy for building your credibility online. And you should strive for consistency online as a way to demonstrate your reliability.
Intimacy is a key element in the trust equation and it's perhaps the most important lesson of social media: share your personality. People do business with people they know, like and trust. Social media networks are an ideal channel through which you can really connect with people by sharing who you are.
Social media technologies are transforming how we meet, stay connected and engage with each other.
It's hard to imagine a future without the personal interaction that drives most people's relationships with their financial assets and the person managing them.
But a whole new set of rules are redefining how we engage clients and build great relationships.
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Viva la Musica! Classical Tuesdays in Old Town goes Latin, with influences from both popular and traditional music of Latin America and Spain.
• Concert flyer (PDF)
Pamela Ryker (flute), Cindy Renander (clarinet), and John Paul Shields (guitar) will perform music by South American, Caribbean and European composers. These works bring to life the dance rhythms, the passion and fervor, and the soul of the Latin heritage. It's music to set your foot tapping. Songs to get you humming.
Come enjoy the music of Argentinian Astor Piazzolla, Cuban Ignacio Cervantes, Brazilian Celso Machado, Frenchman Darius Milhaud and more.
Tuesday, November 13th. 7:00 PM at the Slavonian Hall. Free admission.
November 13th concert: Old Town Goes Latin
Viva la Musica! Classical Tuesdays in Old Town goes Latin, with influences from both popular and traditional music of Latin America and Spain.
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Loop 2.4.3 featured on NPR
Many of you have seen Loop 2.4.3's lively percussion concerts for Classical Tuesdays in Old Town.
We're delighted to report that Loop 2.4.3's new CD, Batterie, was reviewed on National Public Radio's Fresh Air today. You can hear the full review here (it's the second feature in the show).
NPR also used a Loop 2.4.3 track as an interlude. The audio is here.
Congratulations to Loop 2.4.3 for a successful debut CD! And remember, you heard them here first, on Classical Tuesdays in Old Town. We hope to bring Loop 2.4.3 to Old Town again, next season.
By Pamela Butler Ryker on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 0 comments
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Wonderful concert by Brass Unlimited, great audience
This week's Classical Tuesdays in Old Town concert was performed by the Brass Unlimited quartet. The members are David Mulkins and Karl Ronning on trumpets, and Keith Gorsuch and Eric Stevens on trombones. All four are professional music-educators in the Tacoma public schools.
Thanks to Jamie for the photo of the concert!
Brass Unlimited had appeared in the first season of our series, and we were happy to bring them back -- by popular request. They played wonderfully, individually, and especially as an ensemble, as only a group that has performed together for ten years could. Let's be sure to watch for the Brass Unlimited tenth anniversary concert at the end of January.
The pieces performed Tuesday night were often lyrical and mellifluous, at other times sonorous and stirring. The program was full of concert favorites composed by Beethoven, Mozart, Frackenpohl, American-great Copland, and many others. All the selections were transcribed by member Keith Gorsuch.
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Expanded season & Poster!
Season posterYou may have noticed the Classical Tuesdays in Old Town season poster around town, with dates for all six concerts.
Want a copy for your fridge door? Here it is, 8 1/2 x 11".
- Download poster (PDF)
Expanded seasonYes, I said six concerts! Our season has expanded by two months.
First off: Thanks to the generosity of John Connelly of Connelly Law Offices, our December concert will be a benefit for Classical Tuesdays (details to be announced).
And there's more great news: our sponsors are supporting two more free concerts in Jan-Feb 2008, to start the New Year with music!
By Pamela Butler Ryker on Saturday, October 06, 2007 0 comments
"Totally bad brasses", like, yeah!
We always enjoy these backhanded compliments from the Volcano. About the concert next Tuesday the 9th:
We agree. Totally.
Arts and cultural picks of the weekTrumpets and Trombones: Somebody's gotta love 'em. And you can't do anything but love trumpets and trombones running through Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Aaron Copland at once. Which is what you'll get when Classical Tuesdays in Old Town presents "Sounds of Celebration: Brass Unlimited in Concert". Four professional music educators — David Mulkins (trumpet and piccolo trumpet), Karl Ronning (trumpet and flugelhorn, Eric Stevens (trombone), and Keith Gorsuch (bass trombone) are totally bad brasses. Check it. — SS
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Lamb Dolmas with Dill Zabaglione
Things have been pretty boring in the Baketard household the past few months. I mentioned in a previous post that we were cutting out the booze and most of the carbs for the new year, and for the most part we did—David and I completed our diet challenge with our trainer, Anna the Horrible. What does that mean? Well, she will now be required to do a workout of OUR choosing for an hour while we watch from comfy yoga mats, eating fried chicken. Oh, and in addition to the gloating rights, we both lost between 25-30 lbs each in the process of doing this. We can get back into our tube tops and hot pants for summer.
Surprisingly, the diet wasn't too tough, and throwing a dinner party here and there to eat a few things we enjoy didn't hurt. I'll post some of the healthy recipes we loved throughout the diet in a later post (I really did find/concoct some great stuff in SPITE of it being healthy), but in the mean time, let's talk about one of the splurge dinners and one of my favorite do-ahead appetizers.
I love Dolmas. I've had good dolmas, I've had bad dolmas, and I've had middle of the road dolmas. This recipe makes the best fucking dolmas I've ever tasted. It comes from Wayne Johnson, formerly of Andaluca and now Ray's Boathouse in Seattle. Chef Johnson taught us to make this recipe years ago at a charity event called Cooking with Class, run by my friend Connie Adams. (You should check this out, because it's a fun hands-on cooking event with wine pairings, a fun auction and it benefits a great cause where the proceeds go to benefit seniors in our community. Keep gramma off the streets! She's not to be trusted). These dolmas blew us away then, and they continue to do the same today. Honestly, I made these as one of my dishes for my International Cuisine final in culinary school and they guaranteed me an A.
There's no big complicated trick here. When I make these I line a half hotel pan with grape leaves, place the rolled dolmas inside and put another half pan on top, weighing it down as much as possible with cans of water (The weight helps with the absorption). You can use whatever pans/dishes you have as long as they're stackable. The dolmas can be assembled and cooked a day ahead, and re-steamed briefly before serving. They're fine at room temperature, but better warm.
The zabaglione needs to be made fairly close to the time you serve the dish, but it's a quick process. These will seriously be the most kick ass dolmas you've ever eaten. Trust me. Would I lie to you?
Lamb Dolmas
Chef Wayne Johnson
Yield: 6 Servings
▪1 Tablespoon olive oil
▪1 pound lamb, lean ground
▪1 pound onion, small dice
▪½ cup red bell pepper, small dice
▪1 cup basmati rice
▪2 teaspoons salt
▪1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
▪¾ cup tomato purée
▪2 Tablespoons currants
▪¼ cup pine nuts, toasted
▪2 Tablespoons craisins™
▪¼ cup Italian parsley, minced
▪2 Tablespoons oregano, minced
▪2 Tablespoons mint, minced
▪3 Tablespoons dill, minced
▪Grape leaves, as needed, rinsed & drained
▪½ cup lemon juice
▪3 cups chicken broth
▪6 sprigs thyme, for garnish
▪4 egg yolks
▪2 Tablespoons lemon juice, fresh
▪6 Tablespoons chicken stock
▪½ cup olive oil
▪1 Tablespoon dill, fresh minced
▪¾ teaspoon salt, kosher
▪Pinch of white pepper finely ground
For Dolmas: Break up lamb with whisk for small and uniform pieces. In sauté pan over medium high heat cook lamb and onion in olive oil until well-browned. Add bell pepper, rice, salt and cayenne and sauté 2 more minutes.
Add tomato purée, currants, half the pine nuts, craisins, Italian parsley, oregano, mint and dill and heat through. Remove from heat. Let cool to room temperature. Refrigerate until cool.
On work surface, arrange grape leaves, shiny side down. Place 1 ounce filling per leaf, roll up, folding sides in burrito-style. Dolmas must be rolled neatly and tightly to cook correctly.
Line deep casserole with small or torn grape leaves. Place in pan seam-side down. Fit snugly but not packed together. Line entire pan with Dolmas. Cover with additional grape leaves.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Bring lemon juice and chicken broth to boil, then pour over Dolmas. Weigh down Dolmas by placing small, perforated cooling rack upside down on top. Cover pan with foil sealed well. Bake 1 hour or until liquid is absorbed and rice is tender. Remove foil. Let cool. Can be stored up to 5 days in airtight container in refrigerator.
For Zabaglione: Combine egg yolks, lemon juice and stock over double boiler. Whisk constantly over medium high heat until mixture is pale yellow, fluffy and thickened. Slowly add olive oil to incorporate. Whisk in dill, salt and pepper. Remove from heat. Zabaglione will last 4 hours at room temperature.
To Serve: Steam Dolmas 5 minutes or until hot. Place 3 Dolmas per plate, corners on top of each other at right angles. Sauce Zabaglione across Dolmas, covering each one. Sprinkle pine nuts across Dolmas, place dill sprigs in upper right corner of plate.


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The team at Inspired pride themselves on building architecturally designed energy efficient homes. They personally project manage all their own work, so you will always be dealing directly with the builder.
Inspired Building Group was a finalist in the 2014, 2015 and 2016 Master Builders Excellence in Building Awards. They are finalists again in 2017 with two exciting projects in Bonner and Gungahlin.
ACT Lic no. 2011 868. ACN 131 481 751 Inspired Building Group Pty Ltd.
Together with our architect, we will work with you to design and build the home of your dreams. With a range of different inclusions, we will deliver the best home to suite your lifestyle and budget.
We also have a range of architecturally designed house plans for you to choose from should you not want to have a home specifically designed for you. Each of these plans can also be altered to suite your individual needs.
If you are thinking of extending your existing home, we can work with you through all stages of the building process. Our architect can create the ideal extension to suite your home, lifestyle & budget. We then take care of all the approvals and then work can begin – it's that simple!
Do you love living in your neighbourhood but want a new home? Is a knockdown rebuild too expensive? Then why not renovate. We can give the outside of your house a total makeover – it can look like a totally new home! We will also work with you to create an entirely new interior – from stunning new kitchens & bathrooms to removing walls to create that open plan feel.
There is nothing nicer than relaxing with family and friends in a beautifully appointed outdoor entertaining area. A deck, pergola or outdoor kitchen are fabulous additions to any home. We can create and build an outdoor living space that everyone will enjoy.
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"Steve and his team did a wonderful job on our deck and installed two cedar colonial windows. We couldn't have been happier with their work and recommend them to anyone"
Peter and Di, Holder ACT
"Inspired Building Group did an amazing job on our extension. Steve is very professional and has a wonderful sense of attention to detail. He offered great advice and information giving us ideas to make our extension a fantastic addition to our family home "
Kylie & Eric, Isabella Plains ACT
"My fiancé and I just bought a new house in Calwell which needed a bit of work. Particularly, in the bathrooms but also a few other touch ups as well.
Concerned about the budget we obviously didn't want to spend too much but also didn't want to compromise on quality. Boy did we find the right bloke!
We did our research and got a few quotes to check competitiveness but decided to go with Steve from Inspired Building mainly because he appeared the most professional and mentioned the triple water seal in the bathrooms which the others didn't. Although, he was competitive price-wise he wasn't the cheapest of the quotes.. but as the saying goes 'you get what you pay for' and that really turned out to be the case with Steve.
Quality and professionalism is often hard to find in the building trades and we have heard so many horror stories of botched renovations resulting in blown budgets and finger pointing between the different trades (i.e. "not my fault that was the tiler / plasterer / painter / electrician etc who I have nothing to do with… complain to him etc).
Not so with Inspired Building. Steve took complete control and responsibility over the WHOLE job and worked with all the other trades seamlessly to deliver the end product on time and on budget (well pretty damn close at least – my fiancé and I couldn't help ourselves with a few additions which weren't in the original quote. He even built me a custom work bench in the garage after all the house renovations where finished).
And to top things off, he even gave us a discount on our bill because of a few scratches in the existing slate floor caused by other tradesman… ever heard of that before!?!?
If you are looking to renovate your home stress free, Steve from Inspired Building is the ticket. Don't compromise on quality in your own home… so glad we didn't.
Thanks Steve!
Joel and Stephanie – Calwell ACT"
Inspired Building Group extended and renovated my house in Duffy. Working in the construction industry myself, only the most professional and best quality work would pass. It certainly did pass. Great work, fair priced and Steve, the builder/boss, is incredibly personal and accommodating.
Ted – Duffy ACT
Inspired Building Group:
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Steve: 0438 556 472
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I am m-c, an artist, traveler and explorer born on may 30th 1975. I am right now sharing my life betwee Mérindol, a small village in the south of France and Montréal, Canada.
Exploring possibilities, observing, creating and inspiring people seems to be what i am here for. I have a background in fine arts and graphic design, years of experience in web design, and some years of experience as a business owner. Add to this, years of creative writing through my blog, along with many mornings of introspective journaling on my own.
After many life experiences of doing, trying and exploring, i am into creating my dream life, a life where i am fully expressing myself, creating projects and doing what i most love: to inspire people, to explore the most beautiful places on this planet, and meet the most creative people.
I've been curious and challenging all kinds of rules since i'm a kid, reading about spiritual matters since i know how to read. As a kid i believed there was much i could sense but not see, and i can still remember the day where i learned about the small percentage of our brain which we are using - learning that, it was clear to me that our so called "Awaken" state was one of a sleeping person, and from that moment on, i tried to learn how i could wake up to experience my full power, the one i sensed was always there, waiting for me to uncover.
I read alot of books labeled Self help, growth and inspiration - the ones which are often overlooked or criticized for being made for self centered people. Actually, many of these books are great tools which everyone should look into if they wish to find support to look into themselves. I believe in all kinds of things, one of them being the power for everyone to create anything they want, our power to manifest and fulfill all of our desires. My favorite readings have always been about metaphysics, spirituality, reincarnation, channelling, and the beings we call aliens.
One thing you must know is that i tend to get bored really easily. Second thing if you want to take me out for dinner, i'm vegetarian and eat only gluten-free food - no flour, because as you'll one day discover, most of processed foods out there are poison for your body - but this is up to you to find out by your own means.
Also, in case we meet, i can be seen as a really shy, low tempered person, but i am not (not always i mean). I do speak french and english but can never decide which language i should write in. I lived in Germany for 4 years but i dont speak german so well, or not at all. I was born near Montreal, Canada - yes, this is up north and particularly cold in winter and now live in the south of France with my husband and our 3 cats, Orchid, Fanta & Lili-boom.


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Last week I read this article about communication and how lack of communication causes major issues in relationships. I must completely and utterly agree with this statement. If my (friend, partner, wife, girlfriend) does not know how I feel, what I need, and what I want my life to look like in the next three to five years. It's really amazing how many couples go weeks before they have a moment to discuss these three questions.
What kind of motion does this question really bring to the table? Consider this for a second. If my partner does not know how I feel today, then my irritated state of mind might offend her and she will have no idea why I snapped. Furthermore, if I don't know what my partner is thinking about, I cannot help her through her hard times. There are specific's about these questions that requires attention from both couples. The second question in particular. What you need as a person should be expressed so your partner and you are on the same page. The problem arises and deepens when your partner does not know what you are expecting of her. Same applies for women that expect certain stuff out of their man. Expectation brings responsibilities and what I have seen so far in life, most people are not responsible. That were we get fights, breakups, and approximately 55% divorce rate in the United States. The lack of communication causes issues in the relation and creates problems. The last question focuses on your higher motives in life. Where you want your life to be simply address your goals and dreams. For example, if your wife has a goal of opening up a small flower shop in the next five years, and you know this. This will help you both to stay motivated with the financing, show how much you care, and can allow you to discover how well you work together. A couple that work well together can go beyond the petty daily discussions and become something more.
Communication is the key to success I read once. We as people should do a better job communicating our thoughts, feelings, and ideas. It's how others know what we want, and prove to us how they can be the people we need them to be.


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|United Kingdom
Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
|Agency overview
|Preceding agency
|Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
|United Kingdom
|Nobel House, Smith
Square, London
|Agency executives
|Rt. Hon. Hilary Benn
MP, Secretary
of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Jim Fitzpatrick, MP, Minister of State for Farming and the Environment
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the government department responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities in the United Kingdom. Concordats set out agreed frameworks for co-operation between it and the Scottish Government,[1] the Cabinet of the National Assembly for Wales[2] and with representatives from the Northern Ireland Assembly,[3] which have devolved responsibilities for these matters in their respective nations. Defra also leads for the UK at the EU on agricultural, fisheries and environment matters and in other international negotiations on sustainable development and climate change, although a new Department of Energy and Climate Change was created on 3 October 2008 to take over the last responsibility.
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It was formed in June 2001 under the leadership of Margaret Beckett, when the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) was merged with part of the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) and with a small part of the Home Office. The department was created after the perceived failure of MAFF to deal adequately with an outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease. The department had about 9 000 core personnel, as of January 2008.[4] The department's main building is Nobel House in Smith Square, SW1.
In October 2008, the climate team at Defra was merged with the energy team from the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) to create the Department of Energy and Climate Change, headed by Ed Miliband.[5 ]
The current make-up of the department's ministers is:[6]
The Conservative Party's Shadow Secretary of State is Nick Herbert MP.[7] The Liberal Democrat spokesman is Tim Farron MP.[8]
Helen Ghosh is the current Permanent Secretary. The Permanent Secretary is Head of the Department and also Principal Accounting Officer. She has personal responsibility for the overall organisation, management and staffing of the Department and for Department-wide procedures in financial and other matters.
The executive agencies are:[9]
The key delivery partners are:[11]
A full list of departmental delivery and public bodies may be found on the Defra website.[13]
Policies for environment, food and rural affairs are delivered in the regions by Defra's executive agencies and delivery bodies, in particular Natural England, the Rural Payments Agency, Animal Health, the Marine and Fisheries Agency and the Plant Health and Seeds Inspectorate. Increasingly, a range of policies are communicated locally by Government Offices for English Regions.[14]
Defra provides grant aid to the following flood and coastal erosion risk management operating authorities:
Defra's overarching aim is sustainable development, which is defined as "development which enables all people throughout the world to satisfy their basic needs and enjoy a better quality of life without compromising the quality of life of future generations." The Secretary of State wrote in a letter to the Prime Minister that he saw Defra's mission as enabling a move toward what the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has called "one planet living".[15]
Under this overarching aim, Defra has five strategic priorities:[16]


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I have updated my window vista version from home basic edition to Windows vista Business edition. and trying to install Act 2009 version 11.0 again, and during set up process my system is hanging up on last step.
Just to let you know i have just installed visual studio with sql server 2005. i don't know that is reason for hangup or act 2009 don't support business version as it was working fine with home basic edition, and that time i didn't now have visual studio with sql as well.
can any body help me out in that?
i am able to install now, so don't worry..............


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Scrap Car Daisy Green, Scrap your car for free
We're a dependable team of scrap car breakers working out of Daisy Green, Suffolk. Got an old scrap car then you will still be expected to keep the vehicle taxed if your vehicle is still on the road, even if you are not actually driving the vehicle. You don't have to pay to have your car collected. We will collect your vehicle at no cost to you and recycle it in the most environmentally sound way!
Daisy Green, Suffolk - Recent News
As well as offering a completely free collection, we are also currently able to offer cash for scrap cars in Daisy Green depending upon the weight of the vehicle!
If you'd like us to make you an offer just ask when calling or add 'CASH QUOTE PLEASE' in the 'Additional Info' box when submitting our online form.
- Nationwide coverage
- Environment agency approved recycling facilities
- Completely free collection!
- DVLA notification
- Convenient collection times
Just ring 0800 043 5100 or simply fill out the form and we will be there!
Choose Scrap Car Daisy Green
We have built a reputation to be proud of after trading in the Suffolk area for over a decade. We are proud to offer a fast response we can do this as we know the area so well. At Scrap Car Daisy Green, our service also includes a very fast response and we will always be with you in your specified time slot. Our collection service is there for you so we will dedicate a specific time slot to work around any commitments you may have.
Scrap Car Daisy Green will dispose of your car the right way. There are some companies out there that will not even scrap your car the will sell it and not notify the DVLA. This will leave you very vulnerable in the eyes of the law, and can easily result in you being fined a large sum of money. When we collect a scrap car in Daisy Green we always ensure that the DVLA have been notified that the car is going to be scrapped, so that should keep your mind at rest. Any car that we scrap we ensure that it is scrapped in the most environmentally friendly way possible, we like to do our bit.
Make sure you do your bit for the local community and scrap your car in the correct way. Having old broken down cars littering the streets makes the area look very run down and untidy, so scrapping your car will make your neighbours happy. The free and easy scrap car collection company, call us today!
The car scrappage scheme
The scrappage scheme may seem like a superb idea. However, you will be limited to what you can buy. You can't go out and purchase any car you wish. This is can be frustrating for those looking to get themselves a new car as they must buy a car that is currently in the scrappage scheme.
How to scrap your car
Its so easy to scrap your old car in Daisy Green. Just by picking up the phone you can be told the process by our members of staff. If on the other hand you are not ready to book and would like to find out more about how to scrap a car please feel free to look at our guide to scrapping your car.
Reasons to scrap your car
There will be a lot of reasons for you to scrap your car. One of the main reasons for scrapping a car will be that it has failed its MOT, and the work costs to much to put it right. If you have an old car that is not being used you will either need to declare it of the road or scrap it, but keeping the car you will still need to keep it taxed.
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Welcome to Nishnawbe-Gamik Friendship Centre
Welcome to our "home" on the Internet. Please take some time to get to know us. If it's been a while since you've visited our Centre, come by and chat with me or any of our staff to learn more about our activities and programming, or attend one of our community events as our doors are open to everyone. We are zero tolerance and ask that people refrain from coming to our Centre when they are under the influence of substances. This is to ensure the well-being of everyone who uses our space.
|Culture and Drumming Night
Everyone is welcome to attend our community culture night every Wednesday which begins at 5 pm with a community meal and fellowship. The evening continues until 7 pm with drumming and traditional teachings.
Youth Centre
Located in the lower level of the Centennial Centre on Front Street, the Youth Centre is open to all youth in the community. For more information about activities, please contact us at 737-2700 ext.2290.


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LION Publishers Summit roommate roster
Need a roommate for the LION Summit? Here's a way to find one. Add your name and info to the Roommate Roster, and help defray some of the expense of your trip. Just edit this Google Doc — please remove your name when you've found a roommate.


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The "Married to Jonas" star dishes about her life as a new mom. Plus, a glimpse at Baby Alena's budding personality.
Danielle Jonas Interview for Fit Pregnancy
Reality star (and Fit Pregnancy cover star) Danielle Jonas is "tired but doing well" as she navigates the early days of new motherhood. The Married to Jonas star, 26, and husband, pop star Kevin Jonas, 26, welcomed their first child, daughter Alena Rose, on February 2.
Related: Celebrity New Moms
Here, the new mom opens up about her natural childbirth, breastfeeding, and more.
Congratulations on the arrival of Alena Rose! How are you feeling?
Danielle Jonas: I'm tired but doing well — so happy to be a mom! It's very shocking that this is all real. Alena is amazing — she is such a good baby.
Related: Meet the Jonases
How was your birth? From Kevin's tweets, we gather you had a natural birth.
DJ: I don't know when he was able to tweet because it seemed he was helping me the whole time. I was very lucky.
We went into the hospital at midnight the night before, and thought we were going to have her then. Once we got there, they said it would probably be tomorrow evening, so we went home. Three hours later, we were back at the hospital and ready to start the process.
Are you breastfeeding? If so, how is that going?
DJ: Breastfeeding is a daily challenge. We're still finding a rhythm.
Check out Celebrity Baby Scoop for the full story: Danielle Jonas: "Alena Is Amazing"
Related from CelebrityBabyScoop.com:
Hank Baskett: Our Family Will Be Complete


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11 x 17", color xerox, edition of 300.
My housemate, Meghan, drew out the title type used in the poster. I added the ink spatters. The flower image was created by scanning in a real flower photo and then taking "snapshots" of the image when it was contrasted out at various levels. Each snapshot was then bitmapped and hand-overlayed and colored.


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A 1:250,000 map showing the main geological bedrock divisions in Northern Ireland. The bedrock shown on GeoIndex map comprises the bedrock geology, which represents the outcrops (at surface) and subcrops (at near-surface, beneath superficial deposits) in Northern Ireland. For each rock unit there is a brief generalised description showing the major rock group, rock type and age under the following headings. LEX_D: The name of the selected area. This can be a group, formation or igneous intrusion e.g. dyke. LEX_RCS: Map code as it appears on the published 1:250,000 map. RCS_D: The name of the dominant types of rock (lithologies) in the different areas shown on the map e.g. granite. The names of the rock types given here are often generalisations, appropriate for the large areas of geological coverage at this scale. These areas may include a number of different geological formations whose distribution can only be portrayed on more detailed geological maps. RANK: Identifies formations and groups. Min_Time_D and Max_Tim_D: The age of the rock unit in terms of periods, relatively smaller units of geological time e.g. Carboniferous, Jurassic etc. Some of the map areas include rocks with a range of ages and these are shown as such e.g. Triassic to Cretaceous. The oldest metamorphic rocks are described as Moinian and Dalradian. The rocks range in age from those deposited relatively recently, some 2 million years ago, back to ancient and highly altered Precambrian rocks over 2500 million years old. In broad terms the youngest rocks are found in the south and east of the UK, the oldest in the north and west. VERSION: Version of the data. RELEASED: Date of release/update of the data. CAUTION Because of the generalisation and simplification used in the compilation of this map, it should not be used to determine the detailed geology of any specific sites. It is best used to provide a basic understanding of the geology of the country in general, and for showing the geology of large regions where broad trends are more important than specific details. Persons interested in the detailed geology of particular sites should consult the latest large-scale maps or the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland at:- Geological Survey of Northern Ireland Colby House Stranmillis Court Belfast BT9 5BF
For more information please contact:
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Honey, I think you are just fabulous. Why? Well...
- Your flexible.
- You are sweet.
- And best of all, you are ALL natural.
- But you can be difficult...
...to get out of the bottle!
I tried to make bread using a recipe that came with the Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer. A recipe published in a manual that is distributed across North American would guarantee success... or so I thought. I choose the Honey Oatmeal Bread recipe to bring me to victory.
It was an odd recipe that required me to add DRY yeast into the flour, BEFORE being dissolved... and so I did. I added the wet mixture (which might have been too warm), just like it told me to. And Mr. Honey Oatmeal Bread did not rise to the occasion.
Well, he rose a little... but not much.
So I baked him anyways.
He grew in the oven, like a baby.
And then I cut him open, like a surgeon.
And then I ate him... like any normal person would.
He was sweet inside but he was too dense. I think the wet mixture was too warm/borderline hot and destroyed the yeast, preventing him from growing. Oops.
I also noticed Mr. Honey Oatmeal Bread had started to split at the top. Is there any way to stop this from happening?
Recipe for KitchenAid Honey Oatmeal Bread Print Friendly Version
1 1/2 c. water
1/2 c. honey
1/3 c. butter
5 1/2 to 6 1/2 c. flour
1c. quick oats
2tsp. salt
2pkgs. active dry yeast (or 2 TBsp. from bulk)
2 eggs
1 egg white
1 TBsp. water oatmeal (for the top)
Place water, honey, and margarine in small saucepan. Heat over low heat until mixture is very warm (120-130 degrees Farenheit).
Place 5 cups flour, oats, salt and yeast in mixer bowl. Mix with dough hook on speed 2 (low) about 15 seconds. Continue mixing, gradually adding warm water mixture and mix for 1 minute. Add eggs and mix 1 minute longer.
Still on speed 2, add remaining flour, 1/2 cup at a time, and mix about 2 minutes, or until dough clings to hook and cleans side of bowl. Knead on speed 2 about 2 minutes longer.
Place dough in greased bowl, turning to grease top. Cover. Let rise in warm place, free from draft, about 1 hour, or until doubled.
Punch dough down and divide in half. Shape each half into a loaf. Place in greased 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 inch baking pan.
Beat egg white and water together with a fork. Brush top of loaves with mixture. Sprinkle with oatmeal. Bake at 375 degree farenheit for 40 minutes. Remove from pans immediately and cool on wire racks.
Yield: 32 serving (16 slices per loaf)
Per serving: About 134 cal, 4 g protein, 24 g carb, 3 g fat, 13 mg chol, 162 mg sodium


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Stall 10
Offering a mix of antiques, collectables, vintage curios, cutlery, china/porcelain and wooden pottery.
Decorative and colourful drinking glasses in sets of four and six.
I will split any set of 5 and below to a single glass if required.
Sue Ferguson
Phone: 01303 272159
Mobile: 07794 719460
Email: [email protected]
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