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This account of an amusing encounter with wolves was given me by William
R. Ellison, son of old Jimmie Ellison who we have stated elsewhere lived
on the north side of White River a short distance above the mouth of Beaver
Creek. "In the early spring of 1861 Alex Steward, a relative of our
family who lived with us, concluded to go down on Elbow Creek and select
a body of land for a farm. A day or two before he started father went to
Forsyth some three miles above where we lived and bought him an outfit,
together with the necessary tools for clearing and fencing land.
"Fully equipped, Alex was ready for business and went on his way
to establish his new home. Near two miles south of John Cardwells,
who had settled on Elbow four years before, he found a body of land which
suited, him for a home, and went to work to split rails and otherwise improve
the land, except that he did not build a house. He did not think he needed
one unless he enjoyed the blessing of a nice pretty wife to help him occupy
it. A wife he did not possess, but later on when he put his farm in proper
shape he would erect a dwelling and then he would entreat one of Taney Countys
fair maids to be his own darling love and companion for life and share with
him the toils and the happiness of life on a farm. During the time he worked
he boarded awhile at John Cardwells and then at Marion Ellisons,
who settled the Logan Hopper stock ranch in Buck Hollow. Marion Ellison
located here in the early fall of 1860. Alex Steward knew that plenty of
wolves infested the Elbow hills but thought it a foolish loss of time to
idle away a minute thinking about them. Others might be afraid of the varmints
but he was not. He was too busy at work to allow the tales told about vicious
wolves to trouble him. But in due time his mind changed on the wolf question
which was about this way:
One morning when the weather was just the sort to suit wolves, he went to his rail splitting and chopping timber early and was working away as usual when he heard a wolf howl.
Evidently the animal was out seeking whom or what he might devourbut
what need Alex care. He was not afraid of a dozen wolvesone wolf was
no cause for alarm with him, and he went quietly on with his work.
In a few minutes another one howled in another direction.
It was a long dismal noise and a kind of loneliness of his situation come over him for a moment as he listened and then went on with his mauling of rails.
Directly a third howl from still another direction rang out in the damp
air for there was a light mist falling. This last wolf was answered up and
down the valley, and seemingly from a number of places on the nearby hillsides.
Undoubtedly wolves were more plentiful than he had counted on, and Alex
felt cold all over and curious sensations played up and down his spinal
column. But he stood his ground for a time, awaiting developments, which
soon came. It seemed from the noise they were making that a goodly number
of them were approaching from various directions. They were howling ferociously
as they usually do when scenting something which they intend to attack.
The man was now thoroughly frightened, and hastily came to the decision
that the time had come for him to relinquish his claim in favor of these
earlier settlers of the neighborhood, who carried in their mouths numerous
and forceful arguments as to their right to occupy it. He must desert his
land and fly at once for safety; to climb a tree would be but a temporary
solution of the difficulty, so shouldering his axe he started in a demoralized
manner in the direction of John Cardwells who was his nearest neighbor.
Flight once commenced his demoralization increased and he lost all presence
of mind and became completely panic stricken. As he was leaving the ground
he imagined that he heard the wolves make a rush for him, and in his terror
he accelerated his speed to the full limit of his ability. Never halting
or looking back to see if the wolves were really following him, on he went
in a desperate run to outstrip his hungry pursuers for he believed they
were close on his heels and he was exerting himself with all the strength
he could bring into action to outrace them and finally arrived at Cardwells
exhausted with his two miles run and speechless with excitement.
The funniest part of the story," said Mr. Ellison, "is that
Steward never returned back to his claim to recover possession from the
wolves. They completely scared him away."
This same land lies on the east side of Elbow Creek and is owned and occupied by the well known farmer and stock dealer, Ben Westmoreland. The writer will add that Alex Steward is dead now. He died at the mouth of Yocum Creek in Taney County, Mo.
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Oldham is a poor industrial North of England town which used to be a mill town - there used to be mill chimneys all around Oldham now there's only 2. There is high unemployment and where the national average for a 2 rooms upstairs and 2 rooms downstairs terraced house is about £100,000 in Oldham they are about £20,000 and in the Asian areas are worth about £7-10,000.
It is a depressed area - yet it's trying hard to pull itself up. There is high unemployment and poor education.
3 (or so) years ago it all boiled over and we had riots. For 2 nights White and Asian youths through rocks at one another and when the police arrived, usually after the Whites had moved on, the Asisan threw petrol bombs at the police. We were all shocked and the area sank even further into depression.
Yet when the people caught were brought to trial most of the Whites came in from outside the area, they were brought into 1 of the worst council estates and deliberately stirred up the riots - 1 racist family had seen something they didn't like - probably a white girl with an Asian lad.
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Since then it's been peaceful. The BNP managed to get 15% of the vote in the General Election but now their support has dropped off. Oldham is not a bad place to live. We love it here. You are on top of a hill and can see greenery nearby. We are only 8 miles from Manchester.


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OverviewThe Great Smoky Mountains are known as the "Salamander Capital of the World!" Salamanders are an especially abundant and diverse group in the park. Researchers use salamanders as a bio-indicator to help assess the health of our forests threatened by air pollution and impacts from a changing climate. This unit is broken into three parts. This unit involves a trip to the park and is accompanied by a preparation activity and a wrap-up activity. This is the field preparation activity of the unit.
1) use the scientific method while studying biodiversity
2) describe the steps in scientific inquiry
3) learn the identifying characteristics between different species of salamanders
4) understand the biodiversity of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
5) recognize the threats to aquatic and terrestrial salamanders
When students visit the Smokies on their field trip one group will be collecting data as part of a Salamander study. This lesson will introduce the scientific method and use the identifying anatomical characteristics to key different species of salamanders.
To be a scientist you don't necessarily have to have an advanced degree. All you need to have is the ability to observe the world around you and to ask good questions. Why do things happen? How do they happen? Scientists use a systematic method to find answers to their questions. The approach is known as the scientific method or scientific inquiry. The key components to this method are: making careful observations using your senses (sometimes that includes noticing what is not there as well as what is), asking a question that is clear and specific, gathering information from literature to develop a procedure for study and to discover what is already known about your question, forming a hypothesis (possible answers to the question), testing the hypothesis (surveys, experiments and field observations are techniques), interpreting the results (make sense of your data by creating graphs or charts), drawing conclusions (was the hypothesis correct, what can you learn from your results, what factors were not in your control...), and sharing your results.
Teachers coming on the accompanying field trip should download our complete field trip packet that includes this Salamander Research Preparation pre-site lesson, information and directions about the field trip and the Salamander Research Wrap-up post-site lesson.
Download the full Salamander Research Field Trip packet (includes Preparation and Wrap-up lessons).
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Inventory and Monitoring worksheet
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Instruct the students to read the "Inventory and Monitoring" worksheet. Discuss why it is important for a park to develop an Inventory and Monitoring program.
Have the students read the "Salamander Information" worksheets. Discuss the 1) Characteristics of a salamander, 2) What the term "lungless" salamanders mean in terms of how the salamanders breathe, 3) Differences between salamanders and lizards, 4) Different ways salamander monitoring is done in the park, 5) Correct method of measuring the length of a salamander, and 6) Differences between dusky and woodland salamanders.
Have the students read over the vocabulary associated with the salamander program. All of the definitions will be used within the salamander inventory program. Students will probably be familiar with most of the definitions but reviewing the list before the trip is essential.
Students can create a concept map for the subject of "salamanders" before starting the series of lessons. They can create a second concept map for comparison after the lessons. Did students show any gains in their organization of their knowledge; the use of concepts, content and terminology and connections; and knowledge shown between the relationships of concepts. Please see our concept map scoring rubric in the "Students as Scientists: Salamander Research" lesson 1 PDF for grading guidance.
Teachers can test students on their knowledge of the vocabulary.
Park Connections
Salamanders are an especially abundant and diverse group of animals within Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Most of the salamanders in the Smokies breathe through their skin which makes them sensitive to changes in the environment from threats like acid deposition. Since salamanders are cold-blooded, they may also be impacted by rapidly changing weather conditions in the park, especially in the winter and early spring. This lesson plan connects the student to these salamanders and readies them for their upcoming field trip to the park.
Lead a brainstorming discussion with your students. What are some questions that students have about salamanders in the Smokies? Would any of these questions make good research questions? Bring these questions with you on your field trip and ask the Park Ranger.
Additional Resources
View a video about Hellbenders, the largest salamander in the Smokies https://www.nps.gov/grsm/naturescience/amphibians.htm
"Reptiles and Amphibians of the Smokies" available at http://shop.smokiesinformation.org/category.cfm/gsma/books
VocabularyAll Taxa Biodiversity Inventory: also called the ATBI. A research project in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to inventory every life form in the park. It is estimated that we currently know only 18,000 of an estimated 100,000 species.
Baseline Information: information about how things are now, at this point in time, so we will know if there is a change the next time we look at it.
Biodiversity: the variety, distribution and abundance of life forms and ecological processes in an ecosystem; includes the ways in which different life forms interact.
Biological Inventory: a technique used by scientists to study the various life forms in a given area. In the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, inventories are done in study plots.
Biological Monitoring: a technique used by scientists to check the condition of a particular species or ecosystem over time.
Canopy: the top layer of the forest, the treetops.
Density: the number of individuals of a given species within a certain area.
Dichotomous Key: an identification method that narrows down a species in question using a series of pairs of choices.
Ecosystem: a system formed by the interaction of groups of organisms with each other and their environment.
Hypothesis: a proposition based on assumptions that can be evaluated scientifically.
Vertebrate: an animal that has a backbone.
Taxonomy: the classification of plants and animals according to their natural relationships.
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Many times I start a blog post, and for whatever of several thousand reasons, never finish it. But rather than let these rough gems continue to languish in neglect, I've decided to share them with you in the remaining days of 2012. These are the unfinished blog posts of 2012. Today is the Large Format Smurf piece. This piece started with a joke: what if you remembered that the name of one of the biggest wine bottle sizes was also the name of a rarely mentioned character from a cartoon everybody used to watch as a kid? Wouldn't that be amusing? And then that joke was continued with another joke: what if you tried to have a straight wine interview with a guy who is solely obsessed with his hatred of smurfs? Wouldn't the failure to communicate with each other be kind of funny? Well, I thought so. Problem was, I couldn't think of the third joke that I needed to keep the piece going. Seemed sorta like the guy was just going to keep talking about smurfs, and the other guy was going to continue to ask wine questions. I think then I got bored. Luckily, the post never got that far, so it never did get boring. Enjoy.
Recently, I've been opening up a lot of big bottles of wine. Pretty much every day I'm cracking open a magnum or jeroboam bottle from somewhere or other. A lot of people think that wines generally drink better from large format, but is it that just an unproved assumption? Is it really true that big bottles produces better glasses of wine? To find out once and for all, I spoke with the King of the Big Bottles, The Maestro of the 12L, Lord Balthazar.
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Organizers of the Community Media Convergence at Carleton University on November 22 -24 have announced the launch of Canada's first community multimedia festival, celebrating community media in the digital environment.
The festival will recognize community radio, TV, online media and gaming that has high community impact and innovative use of interactivity and multimedia. Excellence in community TV programming has not been recognized nationally since the Canadian Cable Television Association-hosted Galaxi awards disappeared with the CCTA in 2006. The National Community Radio Association's annual conference recognizes excellence in English community radio, and the Fédération des télévision communautaires autonomes du Québec's AGM showcases francophone community TV, but never before has there been a bilingual festival to celebrate and recognize all community media in Canada.
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Well. There were a lot of matches that got at least one of those categories. But there was also M. He's my husband now. He's the perfect fit for me and I'm sure our paths never would have crossed if it weren't for plenty of fish. Here's my tips to successfully meeting someone online (or otherwise):
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Prior to M, all of my relationships had been slightly mismatched but I thought that was normal. It is in some respects – but my problem was that they were mismatched on something that was fundamental to who I am. For example, religious and political leanings or the desire to marry and reproduce. Your desires aren't wrong – you just need to make sure that you know what they are. And learn to walk away when it's not right. I just blindly repeated to myself 'no one is perfect' and kept walking into the brick wall until we were both too unhappy to even look at each other. What a great way to have a relationship! That's what happens when you compromise on issues that are close to your heart. But if your list of non-negotiables contains lots of materialistic concerns, you are probably going to come in to problems too. I think non negotiables should be centred around your core attitudes, beliefs and values. Do they believe in driving themselves to achieve career success vs do they have a well paid title job.
3. Challenge your expectations
M is hot. I see him and want to wrap myself in his arms and take him upstairs. But when I first met him, I was shocked by his appearance. He wasn't 'my type'. He didn't fit my notion of what my partner should look like. Now, it's important that you are attracted to your partner, but there is nothing more attractive than a real connection. Don't write someone off because they turn up to your first date with a creased shirt, a flat cap and lots of piercings (yep, M, you're a lucky guy I had the wisdom not to walk out). The same goes for other material concerns on your checklist – try not to be too rigid. Think about the underlying value, and work from that.
4. Be happy
When I met M, I had my own flat that I loved. It was an extension of me. I felt I could express myself. Be myself. Love me. I was happy. I had spent some time really focusing on living a life that made me fulfilled. Being in that state helped me work out what made me happy. There weren't distractions. I wasn't biased by a relationship. I could be honest with myself. And I knew if a date wasn't great, I could walk away and still be happy.
5. Be prepared to walk away, but don't run
If you are happy and know what makes you happy, don't throw that away because you want a relationship. I knew there were some matches that were almost fits. But not quite. I was a little lonely and my biological clock was practically chiming in my ear … but I knew that I had to walk away from the men that just weren't right. But on the other hand, when a date didn't meet my expectations, I still took time to ask questions and get to know the person before immediately forming my judgement.
I know I'm lucky. But I had a load of rubbish before M and I think it's what helped me really evaluate where my relationships were going wrong. Through all the shite, love won in the end.
Wish I had known to just be patient, would have saved me a lot of worry!!


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Cool music and glamorous decor have returned to Victoria St. with the opening of Jazz Bistro next door to that historic diner The Senator, near the corner of Dundas St E. Playing a lead role in this resurrection is Sybil Walker, who presided from 1990 to 2005 at the gem known as Top O' the Senator.
Down the street, near the corner of Victoria and Shuter, another cultural miracle is about to begin: the upgrading of Massey Hall. Last month, despite ignoring other requests for arts funding, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty set aside $8 million for the first phase of this project in response to a pitch from Charles Cutts (CEO of the Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall).
The upshot: Victoria St., which also boasts two historic theatres (the Elgin and the Ed Mirvish) gains clout as Toronto's second most lively entertainment district.
We can thank a condo boom for making this an area where culture thrives.
I asked Walker what caused the demise of her old haunt eight years ago, where working for Bob Sniderman (owner of The Senator), she had produced many thrilling nights of music with such great performers as Diana Krall, Jackie Richardson, Julie Wilson, Trudy Desmond, Ray Brown and Benny Green. Why would she and the new owners of a building that had been vacant for eight years take the risk of opening a new jazz club on the lower levels of the same building (where the old club occupied the third level)?
"With Top O' The Senator our business was totally dependent on the theatre across the street," she explained, referring to what was once the Pantages, then the Canon and now the Ed Mirvish Theatre.
After The Phantom of the Opera closed, other shows came and went, but there were many dark weeks.
"We tried to keep things afloat, but our business slowly sank," she said.
So why would a jazz club be more viable now?
"We will have a lot of people living in condos, easy walking distance to our bistro, and they give us a target audience," she says.
For now, Walker and her colleagues will have to put up with existing in a construction zone. But that's also what offers the hope of future vitality.
Let us now praise that often maligned group, condo developers. Many longtime arts supporters consider the downtown condo boom a blight. But in my view, condos are the key to Toronto's cultural growth. Think of the people who want to live in the towers adjacent to TIFF Bell Lightbox, the L Tower next to the Sony Centre or the skyscrapers David Mirvish proposes to build in collaboration with architect Frank Gehry.
And then there's the heartening link between Massey Hall and Mod, the development company about to erect a 60-storey condo tower called Massey Tower on the east side of Yonge St. between Queen and Shuter.
Mod managed to acquire a parking lot behind its condo site. The lot also borders the back of Massey Hall. In the 1890s, Hart Massey tried to buy the lot but was unable to do so. So for 119 years, there has been no loading dock for the hall.
"Every lighting instrument, every speaker and even every grand piano has had to be brought in through the front door and then down the centre aisle," says Cutts.
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Gary Switzer, the principal of MOD, has given Massey the rights to the space under the surface and in the air above it.
What makes it urgent to begin the big dig this fall is that Mod needs to use the lot's ground level as a right-of-way, providing access for deliveries and the machinery involved in putting up its condo tower.
Digging down and building the foundation constitutes Phase One of a grand Massey facelift scheme. This phase has a price tag of $30 million, so even with $8 million from Ottawa, Cutts has to raise another $22 million. He will be asking the Ontario government to provide a matching $8 million.
Later, Cutts will announce a larger plan to reinvent Massey Hall. He is not ready to disclose details, but no doubt it will cost a lot more than $30 million and likely require the hall to close for at least a year.
Now, for a footnote that connects the dots. Massey Tower will rise on land where the Colonial Tavern, once our city's most revered jazz club, once thrived. When the tower opens, occupants will be able to walk across the lot with the loading dock, on their way to take in the music programmed by Sybil Walker at Jazz Bistro.


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A birthday song
Happy Birthday Daddy!
since we can't celebrate with you we wanted to send you a birthday song. We love you and hope you have as happy a day as you can without us :)
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Saturday, June 23, 2012
An afternoon at Lakeside
We've been in Seattle for a little over a week now and have really been enjoying our visit. Nana and Papa spent the week up at Lakeside bible camp for the the 50's plus camp, so we headed up on wed to spend the day visiting and stay for the delightful salmon bake. It was a beautiful day so the ferry ride was perfect, and we were able to enjoy all the outdoor camp activities. Logan's highlight was fishing off of the pier with Papa and playing in the giant sand box (volleyball court) with his new friends. Madeline enjoyed the playground and especially the extremely fast slides ;)
Being up at camp again and seeing how the kids loved it gave me the excitement of looking forward to being able to go as a family one day when we move back home. LBC holds such a special place in our hearts and I look forward to being able to get back involved with it someday.
Enjoying a beautiful ride to Whidbey Island
checking out the front deck of the ferry
What fun it was to see them in there possible future camp bunk :) Logan can't wait till he he can go to jr. boys camp.
Papa and Logan with the first rainbow fish catch of the day
The proud little fisherman
a fun day includes feathers and fishing net
The playground was a big hit, especially the slides :) the slides were slick so you had to be waiting at the bottom or she would keep flying after reaching the bottom.
Having fun on the swings with Nana
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Friday, June 15, 2012
Star Wars Pj's
Little boys can be so fun to dress:) especially when it come to fun jammies. I had seen these star wars pj's a while back but ended up buying them, when I got home and told Scott about them he just gave me a confused why not? look :) I didn't really want to spend $15 on jammies, but I knew daddy would be happy to try and pass down the excitement for star wars to his little boy, so when I saw them on sale I snacked them up. When I gave them to Logan he said very very excitedly "Ooo!, dart vada peejamies :)"
So since daddy is not here to see them in person, this is a picture to warm his far away heart :)
Logan, Madeline, and pappa
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
A weekend with Aunt Becky
This past weekend Becky came down from DC to hang out, she just graduated with her masters and is now on her to to bigger and better things in Co.
We really enjoyed having here here and stayed pretty busy.
We went to the zoo, the pool, the local farmers market, did a little shopping down town, enjoyed lunch at a yummy small German bakery, went for a few runs, and did some fun projects with the kids.
Here are a few pictures of our fun times :)
a happy boy with a melted snow come, a grumpy moment, and smiles from auntie
Happy girl in her stroller
Madeline walked around with this on her neck most of the time
He kicked all the way across the pool and back by himself, he's getting more brave!
My sweet little boy loving the water
I was so proud of his high jump
Look mommy!!! isn't this great?
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
A smoothie morning
Life has been pretty full lately, things like managing the hot weather, kids, different schools Scott's been doing, and getting him ready for his trip keeps a person busy. I can get pretty cranky with the heat but the kids have enjoyed the water table, sprinkler and pool. This week we have been on the down low with coughs and fevers. Last night about mid night I woke up to find a hot little body on either side of me. It was a long night, but Scott and I enjoyed rolling over and kissing their sweet little soft hot cheeks all night :)
Lately I have found smoothies to be the only way to get decent nutrients into my littlest picky eater. Logan enjoyed them too as long as he doesn't know what's in them. So with appetites low plus not feeling good it was definitely a smoothie morning.
Components of Smoothie:
all natural yogurt
spinach leaves
blueberries...(disguises the spinach with the purplish color :)
while organic milk
Thing one
Thing two
And of course breakfast would not be complete for a tired mommy with out a morning cup of coffee while dreaming of my upcoming trip :)
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Pony tails and toddler beds
Above is Madeline showing off her first pony tail. Her hair is just long enough to get the front and back hair pulled together, she was quite impressed with this new hair style.
And after looking at this picture I have to add, look at that arm muscle! quite impressive :)
We finally took the plunge and converted Madeline's crib to the toddler bed, she loves being able to get in and out during the day, but at night I'm having a little difficulty getting her to stay in. It's only been two nights so far, but in those nights she's woken up a few times and come walking out in the middle of the night, thus needing mommy to rock her back to sleep. I love rocking my girl and being able to cuddle with her, but I also like to get some sleep so I can function properly during the day.
The first night she would only lay down if she could lay on my lap or my arm, and last night she settled for just holding my hand, she's so sweet! I see that as a little improvement, we'll see what tonight holds. I'm glad to be getting this figured out while Scott is here to help. I can relax a bit more while spending so much time in Maddie's room when I know Logan is not alone in the living room, and that Scott can spend that time with him.
I was trying to hold off on buying a twin bed till after summer, but Madeline is a little longer than most two year olds, and she's already fallen out once that I know of and been laying halfway off the bed a few others. I would prefer her to not wake up due to falling on the floor, so we might be starting to look for a bed soon :) I have to say that I can't wait to have a big girl bed in her room! it'll look so adorable.
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I put off reading Unholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane for several months after first coming across it on Goodreads, mainly because the synopsis includes hints of a love triangle. The super cheap price of the ebook called to me though, so I downloaded it. What an addicting series! I'm actually glad I put off reading it, but only because I had three books to sail through instead of just one.
Chess Putnam is far from the normal heroine you'd expect to meet in a paranormal romance/urban fantasy world. She comes loaded down with enough baggage and issues for about 34 pack mules and she is not easy to get to know (for the other characters or for the reader). She also has a severe, dangerous and disturbing addiction to drugs. I was shocked when I quickly found myself rooting for her! Hard to really blame her for wanting to stay high in order to keep from feeling. I wouldn't want to be constantly surrounded by painful memories if I was her either.
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Between all the darkness, death and drugs, I definitely didn't find much to connect with in the story. That is the only downside, but I got so caught up in the story that it didn't matter as much as it might have if everything else wasn't so stellar.
So what happens when Chess' drug problem catches up with her and the dealer, Bump, suddenly wants her help with a ghost – off-books and illegally? Throw in a rival gang, a stalker-ish ex-boyfriend and a reluctant attraction to Terrible (Bump's right-hand man) and you have got yourself a book well worth reading in Unholy Ghosts!
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The Sneakpeeq folks have been busy: in the past year they've reinvented their social shopping site, and now, gearing up for holiday season, they've launched an addictive iPad app.
Sneakpeeq is a flash sale site (and now an app) that offers social incentives as well as interesting indie brands you may not have heard of. For example, the more time I spend shopping for KC Malhan clutches, a brand I was previously unfamiliar wth (I'm coveting the Madame X model), the more points I get, and the higher I climb on the KC Malhan leader board. The top three shoppers in each boutique win a prize. Yay for prizes!
When I first tried Sneakpeeq last year, the model was something a long the lines of: "the more you click the lower the price gets." Now the company is focusing on making shopping into a bit of a game, which is for sure an improvement. In its previous iteration I had the feeling that if I simply clicked enough, an item might eventually become zero dollars. That never happened, of course! It still feels a bit mysterious, but in a fun, not arbitrary, way. New users also get a special store to shop in and newbie discounts.
The company's head of merchandising, Judy Zhu, hails from beauty behemoth Sephora and is excited about Sneakpeeq's beauty offerings. "No one has really figured out how to do beauty in a fun way," Zhu told me in a phone interview. She plans to change that by offering gifts with purchase—who does not love a free gift with purchase?—and other fun surprises coming up for the holidays.
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in doing a quick review of my blog this year, I realized I started off doing my normal blogging-as-archive thing and then somehow decided to start doing blogging-as-travel-tips (which I like doing, but isn't a strategy that will work for me long term) and then somehow segued that into recaps, which ugh, sent my autumn post-election tailspin into a not-blogging thing.
(not a new thing, these past few years.)
I decided a day or two ago that I am going to do another 365 project but that this time, it will be entirely hosted on my blog. focused on writing, not image making.
(I will still do both, since adding a photo to my posts is important to me, visually.)
writing here, every day.
today that seems like an overwhelmingly daunting task.
which means I really probably need to do it. but I may only commit for the first month and then reevaluate.
I feel the need to write more.
and I feel the need to write *here* more.
and I feel the need to write longer again, too - get back to the book (second draft, still needs doing) - and then I sort of got the seed for another (possibly shorter?) book today.
with these feelings, it's important to remind myself not to should on myself.
having a blog hiatus this last month and a half is ok.
I am allowed to be scared and anxious and feel overwhelmed. and I am allowed to come back when I am ready.
and to remind myself: what I am doing in life is enough. it is just that adding writing back into my life is something that calls to me.
I am a writer. I write.
sometimes I have fallow periods. there's ebb and flow.
I think I'm ready to revive this blog. I think I'm ready to commit to writing here daily again. or just to posting a photo. or art.
something. every day.
I'm not sure if that will be daily as in every single day, or if I'll give myself weekends off. I'm not sure if this will be an actual 365 project, or just a daily blogging challenge. I am feeling my way through this, one day at a time.
which basically sums up next year for me.
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Coneflower, Green Headed - Rudbeckia laciniata
Nicknames: cutleaf coneflower, greenheaded coneflower, cone-disk sunflower, tall coneflower, thimbleweed.
A tea made from the root was used for indigestion. The cooked spring greens were eaten for "good health". Peterson Field Guides Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants
"American Indians used coneflowers to make yellow or orange dyes. It was used in basketry and on animal skins and feathers. The Ojibwa had additional uses for the coneflowers. They used a poltice of the blossoms for burns and a compound made from the roots for indigestion." A Lesson to Dye For
Many insect species feed on the nectar of these August blooming flowers.
These lovely wildflowers grow 5ft to 8 ft. In a moist area of the garden they provide a dramatic, bright splash of color in the baked, late summer garden. Occurring naturally in moist to wet areas, it's surprisingly tolerant of average and even dry soils.
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An article over at TechCrunch by MG Siegler delves into Microsoft's approach to Phone 7 and how updates will deploy. Microsoft got the control they wanted with constrained spec's for manufacturers, but this also places the burden on them for tactical leadership in a way WinMobile never did.
MSFT will have to get the balance between new features and filling in missing pieces by pulling actionable signal from all the market noise, not easy to do when you are not actually building devices yourself. The timing for something like cut/paste has to be balanced with a differentiating new feature. Android does this with many eyes and many ears, a cross manufacturer, continuous snap to OS tip revision grind that aint pretty. The end result being consumers find at their semi-annual refresh window, the top couple Android fragments that are actually competitive with iOS.
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In the past few years, my mum has started to make marmalade. This year i decided that i wanted to help. I never realised how easy it was until now and i much prefer homemade to shop brought. I decorated the jars with ribbons so that i could give them to my friends. And on some of them, i put a cupcake case under the lid. This is a really good idea for birthdays or picnics. I also found out that homemade marmalade keeps for two years!
1kg Seville Oranges
75ml Lemon Juice
2kg Demerara Sugar
1. Remove the tops off the oranges then cut them in half and squeeze out all the juice. Place this to one side.
2. Using a sharp knife, slice the peel into short and wide shreds. Put the peel into the bowl full of the orange juice and add 2.5 litres of water. Leave for 24 hours.
3. Transfer all the mixture to a preserving pan and bring to boil then simmer slowly and cover with a lid until the peel is tender. This should take about three hours and the contents of the pan will have reduced by about a third.
4. Stir in the lemon and sugar and bring to a boil, stirring until the sugar has dissolved. Boil until it has set (about half an hour). Remove from the heat and let cool for at least ten minutes then stir gently and put into jars and seal.
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Hey Evie :)ReplyDelete
Wow, such gorgeous jars - I love the way you have decorated them! I have made raspberry jam, but never marmalade... maybe I should give it a go this Summer so I have a bunch for Autumn ;).
PS, how did you find out that they keep for two years?
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I would love to try jam next. Seville oranges won't be in season in Summer (according to my mum) so i would make it soon! I found out from a book that it keeps for that long.Delete
Evie xx
toast and jam - my favorite kind of breakfast :DReplyDelete
or marmalade, Evie xDelete
I love making marmalade :D the cup case addition is great!ReplyDelete
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Glad you like it. Evie xxDelete
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Selective Insurance Group (NASDAQ:SIGI) has appointed Gordon J. Gaudet as its new chief information officer. The position is responsible for all information technology operations at the organization, which is a holding company for casualty and property insurance businesses.
Gaudet approaches this new position with 35 years of experience. Before his May 8 appointment, Gaudet served for nine years at Deloitte Consulting's Insurance Core System Transformation program, as director and co-lead. He was also on the Systems Integration advisory boards for a number of project management assignments. Gaudet has also served as partner and CIO at The Actuarials Exchange, where he was responsible for all of the company's technology.
Selective CEO Gregory Murphy believes Gaudet to be an excellent candidate for the position because "he brings extensive information technology experience in the insurance industry to Selective, which will further our mission to be the leading 'high-tech, high-touch' provider of property and casualty insurance."


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After a week in which fortunes were made and lost even the biggest rollers must be tempted to trim their bets until markets become less febrile.
The strong finish in US equities on Friday should help to spread calm and some order was also restored in US Treasuries and the dollar.
It is, however, clear that investors do not welcome any diminishing of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) cornucopia and are not persuaded by any soppy talk of a Goldilocks scenario.
The main casualties look like the emerging market equities and bonds, many of which have now been hit very hard.
Some equity markets were due for some sort of correction anyway and may be through the worst. In contrast, yields on many bond issues have probably turned for good.
Yields on European peripheral bonds are also very probably past their low point and the widening of spreads over bunds over the last two week shows that a lot of hot money has suddenly departed both eastwards and westwards.
Japanese equities, after a crazy week, are more difficult to call this week but bargain hunting should limit further plunges.
Whatever happens to prices, the yen will move in the opposite direction
'Normal' service should resume on gold (downwards) and the dollar (upwards) when investors come to terms with the prospect of QE being tapered.
Elsewhere, collapse has never really looked likely but it may well still be best to watch and wait, while boggling over the risks some punters will take in the pursuit of returns of 20% or more.
The first US President Barack Obama - China President Xi Jinping summit was apparently requested by China, which quite usefully illustrates the reality that Xi, who is essentially a 'seller', needs Obama (a 'buyer') more than the other way round.
China needs free access to energy, food and other natural resources as well as to overseas customers for its exports but has very few nice or rich friends.
'Nice' might not be the most obvious description of the US but it is both rich and befriended and is working hard to exclude China from the Trans Pacific Partnership for trade while 'pivoting' its diplomatic and military resources to China's front door.
What Obama would like from China is less industrial espionage, more access to its domestic market and help in nuclear non-proliferation (notably vis à vis North Korea and Iran).
Deal or no deal?
The first reports are quite encouraging: after all, the business of China as well as America is business!
Xi is, however, taking a tougher line with 'Old Europe' on trade.
The EU's announcement of anti-dumping tariffs on solar panels has provoked immediate retaliation aimed at the heart of those supporting the measure: specifically, wine imports from France and Italy.
Both Germany and the UK were amongst those urging more negotiations before the EU acted.
This week brings the public hearings by Germany's Constitutional Court (the resonantly-named Bundesverfassungsgericht) of the challenge to the European Central Bank's (ECB) Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) programme that ECB President Mario Draghi, with considerable justification, was congratulating himself over only last Thursday.
This time the mighty Bundesbank is supporting the challenge and a favourable ruling is very possible.
The Court has previously blocked anything that looked like a step toward full fiscal union and common Eurobonds.
The approach seems to be 'thus far and no further', which would not oblige Germany to leave the European Monetary Union (EMU) but it would undermine Draghi's masterwork.
This helps to explain why France's President Francois Hollande had to accept two weeks ago that there cannot be a new common bank restructuring fund or a shared bank deposit insurance scheme.
An immediate Court decision is not expected but the euro and peripheral bonds may start to show signs of stress as the implications become more widely appreciated.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's speech revealing his 'third arrow' aimed at the country's economic renaissance has been deemed rather light on detail but in any case was swamped by the punters rushing in and out of the Nikkei and yen.
Deregulation and incentives for big business is not really radical: maybe he is secretly planning to encourage immigration to help with the worsening demographic crisis?
Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan may not appreciate being associated with anything Greek but he might well like to ponder what comes after hubris, which he seems to be exhibiting in ever larger quantities.
Investors on the Istanbul Stock Exchange have taken fright at the scale of the current protests, the composition of the protestors and Erdogan's Putin-like disdain.
He is unlikely to be unseated but rivals within his AK Party are now more likely to block his bid for the Presidency after he has served the maximum permitted two terms in parliament.
The first round of the Presidential election in Iran takes place this week. Anyone who looks like opposing the kleptocratic Khamenei clique has been banned but there are at least two dark horses.
Having amassed an estimated hoard of over $30bn the Supreme Leader can stay in control for as long as he keeps his 'marbles' (he is still only 74 but there are rumours of leukaemia) but the stakes are getting higher for the eventual succession: he has six allegedly avaricious children and a host of jealous and downtrodden enemies.
It would be good to know what members of the formerly secretive Bilderberg Group made of things at their meeting in leafy Hertfordshire. There is a distinct preponderance of 'Anglo-Saxon' attendees with Messrs Cameron, Osborne and Balls dropping in to join the inevitable Henry Kissinger, Christine Lagarde, Mario Monti and Peter Mandelson.
Other attendees include ministers from every Northern European government (except the three Baltic States) but only from Spain, Portugal and Turkey amongst the Southerners and former, albeit very distinguished politicians from the US. Business people, especially bankers, from both sides of the Atlantic compose the largest group.
Economic and foreign affairs are likely to dominate but medicine and technology is also on the published agenda.
Alas, the actual proceedings are not publicised.
There are two very important 'hard' numbers due from the US: Industrial Production (which has been quite disappointing of late) and Retail Sales (which have been going well). Both should have been solid enough in April but it is Unemployment that should be watched by those determined to second guess the FOMC and the latest Payrolls figures on Friday were inconclusive.
Dare we hope for yet more green shoots in the UK: this time on Industrial Production and Manufacturing?
Well, yes, probably.
Unemployment should also offer encouragement as the poor numbers from January now drop out. Average earnings, in contrast, are likely to disappoint again.
A batch of data from Australia should render even less comprehensible the RBA's decision last week not to cut rates. The economy is really hurting because of the slow-down in China and other developing Asian countries.
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A woman said a man who tried to rape her in a Blackpool hotel room said he changed into a "pure, nasty, evil man" after taking amphetamines.
Wayne Hollerin, 35, has already admitted attempting to murder the woman – claiming he had received a message from God to free her spirit from her mortal soul.
Just because I put a few pictures on Facebook doesn't mean I wanted sex. It was just a bit of fun, that's it
But he denies trying to rape her after meeting up with her in the resort and going back to the hotel which he had booked for a drinking session.
Giving evidence in a recorded interview, the woman said she met up with Hollerin on July 11 and the pair went back to the room.
Hollerin took three 'bombs' of amphetamine – wrapped up in a cigarette paper – but she said she only took a small amount of the drug as she was still suffering the effects of the night before.
She said: "I'm struggling with the fact he was fine and then he took the drugs and he was like a changed man.
"Amphetamine is like an upper and it makes you like, happy and stuff, but he went down.
"He had just said to me while I was in there, 'you know I would never hurt you' and he did. He ended up battering me."
The woman said she had known Hollerin through Facebook for a few months and had exchanged sexual pictures with him.
But she said she thought they were meeting in Blackpool for a 'sesh'.
She said: "Just because I put a few pictures on Facebook doesn't mean I wanted sex. It was just a bit of fun, that's it."
She said after Hollerin had taken the drugs he became sexually frustrated and started pestering her.
But when she rejected his advances, she said: "He was like, 'I've paid £60 for you to come to a hotel and I'm not even going to get 'owt?'
"His mood went from happy and merry to sexually frustrated and like a psycho.
"He was like a troubled little boy, like not fully right in the head mentally, like he needed to be in a mental institute because he was fine then he was like a changed person."
Hollerin, of no fixed address, denies attempted rape at Preston Crown Court.
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