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Adult obesity rates increased in 37 states, while there were no decreases in any states, according to the annual report released Tuesday by the non-profit Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The obesity rates rose for a second consecutive year in 24 states and for a third consecutive year in 19 states, according to the report, F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America, 2008.
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While talking about the party bus incident that ended with a fight after a stripper named Sweet Pea hit Ravens wide receiver Jacoby Jones with a bottle, former Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis said that his old team was suffering from a leadership void caused largely by Lewis' retirement.
Many rolled their eyes in response to Lewis' claim that his presence makes dangerous off-field incidents less likely to occur, including quarterback Joe Flacco.
"It is what it is. Ray knows better than that," Flacco said, via Jeff Zrebiec of the Baltimore Sun. "Things happen. I think we're usually a pretty good team with stuff like that. If you look around the league, there are probably a lot of leadership problems then. Like I said, Ray knows better."
Lewis never specified just how his presence on the roster would have stopped a bottle from making contact with Jones' head, which is probably a good thing since he might have hurt a muscle while straining to try to elaborate on a comment that revealed more about Lewis' estimation of himself than it does about the state of leadership on the Ravens.


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This page contains all notes on journalism over and above what we put in our career profile. Read the profile first, here.
- 1 Profile type
- 2 What is this career path?
- 3 Personal fit
- 4 Career capital
- 5 Exploration value
- 6 Role impact
- 7 Job satisfaction
- 8 Alternatives
- 9 Past experience
- 10 Take action
- 11 Best resources
- 12 Remaining issues
- 13 Research process
Profile type
What is this career path?
What is journalism?
"Journalism is the dissemination of verifiable information through public media." [1]
"The journalist places the public good above all else and uses certain methods – the foundation of which is a discipline of verification – to gather and assess what he or she finds."[2]
"This "journalistic truth" is a process that begins with the professional discipline of assembling and verifying facts. Then journalists try to convey a fair and reliable account of their meaning, subject to further investigation."[3]
"Seeking out multiple witnesses, disclosing as much as possible about sources, or asking various sides for comment, all signal such standards. This discipline of verification is what separates journalism from other forms of communication such as propaganda, advertising, fiction, or entertainment."[4]
In newspapers, magazines, internet news organisations and television and radio broadcast companies the progression often looks like this:
Reporter -> Correspondent -> Columnist -> Editorial Writer -> Editor [5]
What are the people like?
Personal fit
Entry requirements.
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What does it take to progress?
Career capital
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Direct impact potential
"That value flows from its purpose, to provide people with verified information they can use to make better decisions" [6]
"The purpose of journalism is thus to provide citizens with the information they need to make the best possible decisions about their lives, their communities, their societies, and their governments." [7]
"Journalism has an unusual capacity to serve as watchdog over those whose power and position most affect citizens. It may also offer voice to the voiceless. Being an independent monitor of power means "watching over the powerful few in society on behalf of the many to guard against tyranny," Kovach and Rosenstiel write." [8]
Earnings potential
"According to the National Union of Journalists the average starting salary for a print journalist is about £15,000 in 2011 and the average for all journalists is only about £24,000 - far less than that of a teacher, so you don't do it for the money!" [9]
"In rough terms, reporters at small papers can expect to earn $20,000 to $30,000; at medium-sized papers, $35,000 to $55,000; and at large papers, $60,000 and up. Editors earn a bit more. News websites, depending on their size, would be in the same ballpark as newspapers."
"Here are some examples of weekly salaries for experienced reporters at a variety of newspapers from around the U.S. These figures come from the Newspaper Guild, the union for print journalists. All figures are estimates for 2010."
"Note: The Newspaper Guild represents about 250 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. Salaries at non-Guild papers are typically lower."
New York Times: $1777.83 Providence Journal: $1245 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: $1100.83 Lexington Herald-Leader Daily: $685 Copy Editors
New York Times: $1777.83 Providence Journal: $1297.5 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: $1115.14 Lexington Herald-Leader Daily: $685
Advocacy potential
"Journalism is a good path if you want to effect social change, but that change may be defined quite differently than it would be at a philanthropy or advocacy organization. Providing good information and analysis is a public good in itself. You've also got a public platform to promote neglected concerns. And there's been a renaissance of new news outlets that openly embrace advocacy and point of view journalism."
Job satisfaction
"The work is often fast paced, with constant demands to meet deadlines and to be the first reporter to publish a news story on a subject. Reporters may need to work long hours or change their work schedule in order to follow breaking news. Because news can happen at any time of the day, journalists may need to work nights and weekends." [11]
"Journalists have to work faster than academics, so people who like to analyze a problem carefully over a long time (as do many of those interested in effective altruism), developing arguments or constructing proofs, might find the pace frustrating." [12]
Past experience
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Next steps
"If you want to get a job in journalism, apply to any news organization that interests you, including all the major media organisations. Set some priorities – pay, location, size of organization, type of work, etc and select among them based on your top several priorities once you've got offers. "I applied to over 70 organisations. I got two offers, only one of which paid more than $10,000, so I went with that!" [13]
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If you want to use journalism to promote important causes, how should you build your career?
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Case studies: Early Childhood Education, Schools and Higher Education
Published in 2014, this series of case studies is themed around building respect and recognition for Koorie history and culture, across the spectrum from early childhood through to schools and higher education and training.
Case Study: Thornbury Primary School Koorie cultural program
Thornbury Primary School, nestled in Melbourne's northern suburbs on Wurundjeri land, is about to celebrate its 100 year anniversary. With 43 Koorie students, in a school population of 345, the school has the highest number of Koorie students in the metropolitan area, and a long history of working with both Koorie students and Koorie educators.
IECB Success Story: Koorie Languages in Victorian Schools Program
The Victorian Koorie Languages Schools Program and pilot trial has developed from the strong and long-term desire of Koorie families and communities for language and cultural learning in education, and improved education outcomes for their children.
IECB Submission to the Federal Government's Proposed Reforms to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975
The National Indigenous Education Consultative Bodies Network, of which VAEAI is a member, forwarded a submission to the Federal Government's Freedom of Speech (Repeal of S18C) Bill 2014, voicing its collective opposition to the exposure draft.
VAEAI's Submission to the Federal Government's Proposed Reforms to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975
VAEAI's submission to the Federal Government's Freedom of Speech (Repeal of S18C) Bill voices its opposition to the exposure draft. The submission details VAEAI's concerns that these proposed reforms can be detrimental to the self-esteem and wellbeing of Aboriginal people, leading to poor health and education outcomes, with lifelong impacts.
VAEAI Submission to the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into the extent, benefits and potential of music education
VAEAIs submission to the Victorian Parliament's Education and Training Committee's Inquiry into the extent, benefits and potential of music education in Victorian schools
A Balanced Scorecard: Koorie Education in Victoria
In the past decade Koorie education policy and practice has undergone significant changes, and VAEAI sees the current environment as an ideal opportunity to 'take stock' of progress in Koorie education during this time.
VAEAI Submission to: Indigenous Youth Careers Pathway Program Discussion Paper March 2012
The Victorian education environment in which Koorie students are placed is one of high standards and achievements, with numerous opportunities available to Koorie and non-Koorie learners throughout the compulsory schooling years and beyond.
VAEAI Position Paper – Koorie/Aboriginal Studies and Education
In 1990, the Victorian Government and the Victorian Aboriginal Education Association Incorporated (VAEAI) formalised their roles regarding the education of Koorie people by entering into a partnership - Partnership in Education: Koorie Education Policy, and again in 2001 with Yalca: A Partnership in Education and Training in the New Millenium.
Review of Funding for Schooling
In Victoria, Koorie students are dispersed widely across the state with around 70% of government schools having between one and five Koorie enrolments. This dispersal can lead to funding difficulties as both student-targeted and school-targeted models risk not adequately supporting Koorie students.


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Finding Clarity
By Elaine | September 6, 2009
This summer has been an interesting summer all right! My experiences have included spending a month just outside of Madrid with my interesting Au-Pair family to spending two weeks couch surfing in Madrid to spending 2 weeks of adventures all around Spain with my friends to camping now a month with my second Au-Pair family in Catalunia. I have entered my third and last month of my adventures in Spain and can feel some clarity for my personal life.
Before coming to Spain, I have to admit I felt a little bit of pressure from society telling me that I have to settle down and have a family. My grandmother seems to be very disappointed that she does not have great-grandchildren yet!!!!!Her Greek philosophy is ¨if you wait until you are 30 years old good luck Charlie¨and if you wait until you are 35 years old it´s ¨goodbye Charlie!¨Now I don´t know who this Charlie person seems to be, but that´s my Greek grandmother for you!!! My sister was explaining to her client this philosophy and she told my sister, ¨I was 35 years old and said goodbye to a man and his name was Charlie!¨LOL Too funny!!
It seems most of my friends in Toronto are either in serious relationships, getting married or having children. So, I started to feel an itch in Toronto and even more every time people talking about all of this marriage and baby business! Well, after this Au-Pair experience here in Spain, I have realized my time has not come yet for marriage and babies!! Do you know how much work having children is? And to think I am with them 8 hours a day!!!!!!!! I no longer have this feeling of settling down which FEELS good! I have many things to do and see and when the time is right, everything will fall into place.
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Students have the opportunity to develop and explore a range of relevant topics to ensure that they have an ability to become self-aware and further develop their Spiritual self; also an understanding of the Catholic Ethos within the school and wider community.
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"Every child and every tutor is different, every group different, every family different. As Deming so intimated, variation is everywhere, which is why we should do more to appreciate both its complexities and its management. If we over-organize tutor time into delivering pro-social programs or instruction, which is command and control organizations do, and demand that tutors account for every minute of time, this becomes waste of high order created in the name of order". (Peter A Barnard)


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It was set to be a great day, with many out for some summer jumping. Even if Jallen sadly wasn't to be out this weekend, instead opting to be at the cinema in Birmingham, to watch Suicide Squad. I was really looking forward to being out, so much so I had headed off to town early to get my training under way. When I arrived, I was sad to find David wasn't out today. I had hoped to do some filming and he helps keep me motivated while training as we vibe off each other with the movements we try. I was feeling a bit demotivated about the day now, but as the masses arrived that soon changed. Well, that was until I was hit by extreme fatigue and not too sure why. I was feeling unsure what to practise, doing a few k2ps while we waited for the stragglers to appear before we moved on. Phil was meant to be out, but as of yet he wasn't. Patryk was late too, for whatever reason.
One highlight of the day was after Frankie rode in on his bike, some of us kept ringing his bike bell, much to his annoyance and it wasn't just me that got enjoyment from doing it either! I think it secretly got to him, as he covered it up soon after so none of us could ring it again and asked us politely not to do it again. But, did we listen to that warning…?! We ended up moving over to Audo to train and that is where I captured some footage at various points of the day, collecting footage for a few weeks to see what I had and maybe make a video. I did the small upward precision near the side of the area, which I had struggled to do in recent times. I still hated it whenever I did it though, that feeling never change. What a strange jump, only ever so slightly upwards and with a sign in the way for craning the jump.
Dizzi did a precision further down the set of steps, the mid section which I think is around about ten to ten and half (of my shoe) feet across. So very few people have done and do that jump, well except the big jumpers. It still blows my mind, whether it's because it looks bigger than it is due to the steps widening as they go down, but it always looks massive. I joined Frankie, doing a precision to a slab that had a lamppost in the middle of, he of cause did it easily. Even though he said he felt he wasn't as in tune with his precisions as he normally was. That he found it a hard jump too!? I was only just hitting the jump and felt ugly compared. Everyone was dotted around the area, doing their own movements. I was unsure where to go next and what to practise, that was until I saw Patryk had found a new, I say new but what I mean to say is a jump that I haven't seen before nor have I ever seen anyone else do it.
It was fresh, but looked horrible too. I decided to film Patryk doing it, although he seemed to be unable to land it now, bouncing the jump each time. Much to his frustration, I guess the added filming pressure had got to him. I wanted to have a go too, but it felt insanely far, bigger than I could reach currently. Not to mention it was scary to hang in the air for the landing and if you didn't commit, well you had the awkwardness of buckling on the steps. I got Frankie to come and have a look, he took one look and laughed before prepping for the jump. I think Frankie felt the same with the awkwardness of it, as he kept jumping to the side of the steps. While filming, I felt due to the Cinstyle profile I have on my camera, it made everything seem very drained and even hard to see on the viewfinder when filming. I hope the video clips come out okay, as I couldn't see anything while filming and wasn't even sure I liked the setting.
Patryk was also practising a nice run involving a lazy vault, running stride up the steps, dive roll and other movements linked together. A very Euro style, different and I like that. It's always nice to see linked movements and people using the same areas we have trained for many years, differently. Again, it is something we need to practise more of, even after all these years we are still very singular in the movements we do. Then you get people from other countries who visit Nottingham and then you see the different style instantly. Gio is another great example of another practitioner that was able to link movements and do crazy runs as well. In the past there are stages where the community will start to practise a few movements together, like with anything it soon diminishes over time and then we fall back into old habits.
I finally mustered the courage to give the Audo precision (seen above) which everyone did downwards, as a running upwards precision instead. Patryk did it easily and Damo was contemplating trying it as well. For some reason I liked it more as a running box jump! While Damo was stating he would do it, getting cocky and yet when he was landing to the side of it on the floor to gauge if he would make it, he somehow managed to land awkwardly, jarring his back, and looked like both ankles buckled too. To which Phil and myself looked at each other like WTF?! Continue reading 'Ghettos, Bridges & Mental Barriers.'


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In the wake of September 11th, 2001, President Bush experienced a life-altering epiphany. Though his entire seven-year political career had
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Moving into a house is a big job, but with some planning, the process of creating a new home can be made easier and less stressful.
Below is a list of project which are ideally completed in an empty house:
My father, Max Guttmann, was definitely not a superstitious person. But, at about 11:00 p.m. on the day my wife, my daughter, and I moved into our first home in Seattle, my dad called to find out if we had "bread and salt" in the house.
Let me explain. My parents came from Czechoslovakia - The Czech Republic. It seems that in that part of the world, one had to have some bread and salt in a home for good luck! This seems to be of special importance when you move into a home, or are welcoming special guests.
My protests had no impact on my father. While it might have been okay for my wife and I to spend the first night in a home without bread and salt, it was not possible for his granddaughter. And so, about 20 minutes later, my father drove up to the house. In his pajamas, he handed us a nice loaf of crusty bread (it must be good bread) and some salt.
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Savers are confident UK shares will continue to deliver strong returns in 2014, according to an online poll of Telegraph readers.
Of 2,753 participants 1,166, or 42pc, expected UK shares to return between 5pc to 10pc next year. Some 423, or 21pc, of voters were even more buoyant, predicting returns of 10pc to 20pc.
Their optimism mirrored that of investment analysts, who said shares in the FTSE 100 can at least repeat this year's 10pc growth.
Some even predicted the FTSE 100 will hit a new all-time high in 2014, surpassing the 6930 it achieved during the tech boom in December 1999.
Analysts at Barclays Stockbrokers said the FTSE 100 will end 2014 above 7,000, while broker Killik has boldly forecasted 7,400. This would represent a 12.3pc return for the year.
All these predictions are guesses, but the weight of expectation for returns of at least 5pc indicates that savers are once again confident in stock market returns.
Only 12pc of those polled expected the FTSE 100, which currently stands just below 6,600, to post a negative return over the next twelve months.
Since the Victorian era shares have on average delivered 6pc to 7pc a year. A return in this region next year will be welcomed by savers, given the likelihood of record low levels of interest rates remaining in the UK for some time.
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Dave dives in to confirmation bias, when we seek out information that confirms our world view, rather than challenging ourselves with the truth. Peter says we often make short-term choices that conflict with our best long-term interests.
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Patriots day observed annually on sep 11 to remember those who were injured or died during terrorist attack in the united states on September 11, 2001. It is also referred as 9/11 or sep 11.
Patriot Day is different from Patriot's Day or Patriots' Day when people commemorate the contribution of American soldiers in the battles of Lexington and Concord. These battles, fought in 1775, marked the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.
Patriots day is that day when the US pays their tribute to those who were injured or lost their lives in the terrorist attack of sep 11, 2001.
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On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four planes on the east coast with west coast destinations.
Two of these planes smashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
The third plane hit the Pentagon in Washington D.C., and the fourth plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.
This resulted in terrible loss of life and property. Thousands of people died these attacks and many were injured. The September 11 attacks threatened the national security of U.S. and its economic might.
On October 25, 2001, members of the Congress voted for September 11 to be designated as Patriot Day
On September 4, 2002, President George W. Bush declared that September 11 will be observed as Patriot Day
The south tower collapsed first at 9:59 am. At 10:28 am the North Tower was hit.
Later that day, the nearby Seven world trade center collapsed at 5:21 pm from the fires of North Tower.
Here's how September 11 is observed every year across the nation:
On this day, the national flag waved at the White House and all U.S. government buildings around the world. Every American is expected to display the national flag around their homes, according to the directions of the U.S. President.
The flag should be flown at half-mast as a sign of honor and respect to those the nation lost on September 11, 2001.
At around 8:46 AM (Eastern Daylight Time), people observe a moment of silence in grief of those who have fallen victim to the 9/11 attack. This is the time when the first plane hit the World Trade Center
Church services and prayer meetings: Some churches hold prayer meetings, especially establishments located in the areas affected by 9/11 attacks.
Services are attended not only by people who lost loved ones in the attack but also by thousands of people who want to honor those who were injured or passed away in September 11 attack.
A large number of people lay flowers at the 9/11 memorials in various states in remembrance of those who were killed in the terrorist attacks
On Patriot Day 2018, the National September 11th Memorial will open for the public. This memorial stands on the site where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, New York were located.
Aside from the memorial, an underground museum will be opened to the public on Patriot Day . The museum will educate people on the history of 9/11. It'll hold exhibitions in which visitors will have access to first-person accounts of what happened during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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Hello Everyone!
Halloween is fast approaching, and of course I get it in my head that I want to do some new Halloween decor. At least this year I am getting it done before Halloween and not after, haha.
I saw a Halloween Village at the Dollar Store and thought it would be perfect to paint for Halloween
- Ceramic houses (I found mine at the Dollar Store, but there are a lot of options out there. You could even use Christmas houses)
- Metallic Paint
- Gesso
- Brushes, Stucco, Beads
When I saw these houses I thought that they were very cute, but the colors were not great. I didn't think that they went together very well and the figurines were terrible.
Before the painting fun I had to prep the houses. I cleaned them then added a layer of Stucco to the roofs and anywhere there needed to be a rough detail. Then I added some beads to the grass area.
After the texture was dry I added a layer of black gesso. This gave me a blank canvas to work on. I did have to go back and touch up areas that I missed.
After the gesso was dry it was time for the fun painting! I used metallic acrylic paint and I mixed some Mica Powder with soft gloss gel for the green. I just dry brushed the colors onto the housed, adding and blending as I went. Once I was happy with the look I went on to the next house, until I was finished with the project.
Here is an up close picture of the detail of one of the houses and the bridge.
And here it is on display in my home. I really liked this project, it was fun to watch the housed change right before my eyes. Good thing I bought more houses from the Dollar Store, now I can create even more villages, haha


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So, in honor of our Secondary Smorgasbord theme of All Treats & No Tricks for Teachers this month, I'm going to offer a vocabulary teaching treat, but also a few tricks for implementing the lessons with ease!
First of all, the TREAT! Yes, I know! That's the most important part.
With this easy Vocabulary Graphic Organizer, students can record vocabulary at the beginning of each unit, notate it's connotation for the unit, and illustrate the image for a graphic reminder of its use and importance.
And then there are the TRICKS:
- Assign individual vocabulary to pairs or small groups of students. Have each group become experts on the term and report back to their classmates. Reporting can be visual, oral, or even a performance!
- Always have students illustrate vocabulary. Not only does their hand motion impress on their brain, but the visual will help them recall the term when it is needed at a later time. Make the visualization fun by creating a complete wall mural with your vocabulary list each unit.
- Play games with words. Create puzzles, matching games, or even crosswords to help students correlate terms with their meanings. Use a Word Wall Game Board to build up your vocabulary in an interactive manner.
Follow my blog in upcoming weeks for an in-depth study of the academic vocabulary all students need at the secondary level. Additional tools may be offered along the way!
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ARTslanT New York
The Slant, Parlors and Pastorals by Aldrin Valdez, 9/17
Parlors and Pastorals
Angela Dufresne
Monya Rowe Gallery
504 W. 22nd Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10011
September 6, 2012 – November 10, 2012
Angela Dufresne, Hanna Schygulla Again Because There Can't Be Too Much of Her, 2012, oil on canvas, 10 x 12 inches; Courtesy of the artist & Monya Rowe Gallery
In DJ Augustine, the largest painting in Angela Dufresne's current show Parlors and Pastorals, one could say that the story goes something like this: DJ Augustine in the foreground is spinning records, his dog watches eagerly to the left, books are scattered on the floor, and a sculpture of Zeus or Poseidon, launching a trident or a thunderbolt in one hand and masturbating with the other, stands in the distance beneath an arched doorway. Another narration, more dreamy, might emphasize the medium itself: a scumbled field of deep purplish blue has been scratched into, drawn over, wiped, and dragged, creating layers of marks and the illusion of receding space. Slivers of pale peach yellow, cerulean, and earthy red penetrate and hover. The white of the canvas peeks through here and there. All of these formal decisions come together to construct what is an expansive interior, a bit like a sparsely furnished laboratory. So much is going on, not the least of which is the aide of art historical familiarity. It is an allusion that challenges the viewer's knowledge of this history. Which artist(s) is DJ Dufresne riffing from as she mixes all of these elements together, into a kind of composite self-portrait?
"It is more difficult to retell stories than to make new ones up," Dufresne explains in a conversation with fellow painter Nicola Tyson. "One has to inhabit things that exist already and lose oneself, be fully present in the role, but also always let the audience know what's happening, that there's a role being played."
The stories in Parlors and Pastorals seem to have been told before. Flipping through a hefty Janson'sHistory of Art textbook, I glimpse landscapes and interiors by Titian, Rubens, Courbet, Friedrich, and Delacroix. These were artists who also sampled the age-old myths of Greece and Rome, Christian legends, and historical events, both contemporaneous and distant. The Western tradition, according to this canon of painters, is male and white. I think back to my art history classes, nodding with each successive movement, as though I were listening to a rote litany. Yes, this story, Renaissance, yes, and Enlightenment, and Neo-Classicism and Romanticism and the Impressionists, and so on.
Is Dufresne putting this oft-repeated tale into question when she paints idyllic scenes expressionistically, betraying the simplified and peaceful life that a pastoral or a parlor might connote?
At Monya Rowe and CRG galleries, where Dufresne's seventeen new paintings are being shown, there are echoes of a bucolic, romanticized past, except they seem not at all peaceful. They're unsteady, the form always impinging on the content. They collide with other spaces, as in the cold, gray-blue painting of a movie theater where the feature film is John Singleton Copley's 1778 painting Watson and the Shark. The screen is depicted like a giant iPad and the spectators are transfixed shadows. Buster Keaton, with his back turned to us, recalls Friedrich's Rückenfigur—a figure seen from behind, gazing at the sublime sea or mountain range. Except here, the silent film star, standing conductor-like, confronts a blockbuster painting.
Among the artists that have influenced her, a list that includes the many painters she "covers," Dufresne cites Cindy Sherman, whose critical, performative photographs of gender and history reveal how academic paradigms are far from fixed. In particular, Sherman's History Portraits, in which she shape-shifts into the subjects of famous paintings, draw our attention to how bodies are represented and seen.
Dufresne does something similar in her paintings. Instead of donning wigs and prosthetics, however, she seems to ask first "What would an Albert Bierstadt landscape look like painted with the energy of a de Kooning?" And her imagination keeps running: What would it look like if protesters occupied these well-known pictorial spaces, pitching tents and playing music? What if the sun in that painting looked like a fried egg? The viewer keys into this humorous role-play through the titles, which suggest her process of montaging images culled from cinema, history, popular culture, and current events.
Angela Dufresne, DJ Augustine; Courtesy of the artist & Monya Rowe Gallery.
Whether laptop-sized or "epic" in scale, Dufresne's paintings have the ability to overwhelm. In between all the layering of references and paint, she demands a point of entry from the viewer. One has little choice but to jump right in. Once there, the most significant aspect of her work is challenging our prejudices of painting and considering our relationships to laden, time-worn images. How do you look, then? Well, with paintings like DJ Augustine or Lady David-Rosemary Angeles in a Golden Swamp, Dufresne seems to want us to start with our bodies. These are very physical paintings, and they make us mindful of our own physicality, shocking the system into a sensuous awareness of history. In an inclusive way, like any good disc jockey would do, she makes you dance to her big beats. In turn, you feel like a participant, an insider with more moves than you thought capable. —Aldrin Valdez


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The history of medieval navigation on the Iberian peninsula is a great mystery. In the 1970s, a recreational diver found a bronze candelabra in Ibiza which Marcus H. Hermanns, a scientist from the German Archaeological Institute in Madrid, has now unveiled.
It is a unique piece from the 10th century which could provide clues on sea routes in the period.
The scientist Marcus H. Hermanns from the German Archaeological Institute in Madrid works on research projects on underwater Spanish archaeological heritage.
He has just finished the catalogue of archaeological sites and pieces found to date underwater off the Balearic coast. "The list is part of the National R&D&I Plan to have an inventory of cultural heritage submerged under the waters of all coastal regions," Hermanns explains to SINC.
This collection has involved several years of archiving work, but also diving to check the state of shipwrecks and underwater archaeological sites.
"These diving checks were made with the Spanish Guardia Civil's (Civil Guard's) Special Group for Underwater Activities (GEAS in Spanish) of the Ibiza division, and certain locations – which are now being published – caught our attention. We also carried out other, more detailed projects, such as analysing a bronze candelabra from the Middle Ages that is unique to the region," the archaeologist adds.
This piece, a description of which is published in the journal Archivo Español de Arqueología (Spanish Archaeology Archive), is unusual because there are not many similar models in the world. It is also unique to the Balearic region and dates back to the 10th century, an era in which marine activities on the Pityusic Islands (Ibiza and Formentera) are widely unknown.
"However, as it belongs to a private collection – a diver in Ibiza found it in the 1970s – it is quite a challenge gaining information about it," Hermanns remarks.
From Ibiza to the Muslim colony of Fraxinetum
Archaeologists know the location of the underwater site where the candelabra was found, so a diving check was carried out. It yielded no results, however.
As the scientist explains, "the majority of the sea beds around the island, from 30 metres deep, are sandy and there is depth movement. You can be unlucky because the site could be covered on the day you are diving. We conducted several tests to find out the dynamics of the sea floor and the state the site was in."
This candelabra is noteworthy because the seaways that went along Ibiza to get to Mallorca are unknown. Moreover, on the route where it was found, several shipwrecks from the same period were also found in southern France.
"There was a link between the Iberian peninsula and the south of France at least, with a Muslim colony named Fraxinetum, according to the Latin documents preserved. There is also a group of sunken vessels that attest to it; this must have been a supply system for the colony from the south of the peninsula," the scientist claims.
Heermanns stresses that cases like these, in which objects currently held in private collections maintain well-documented account of the archaeological context in which it was found, are rare.
"There are few exceptions. This demonstrates the immense value that could be derived at institutional level, for example in diving federations, from raising awareness among recreational divers about underwater archaeology and the considerable cultural heritage to be found underwater," he emphasises.
This candelabra is a unique piece, but coming from a location with no archaeological context, it is hard to imagine what use it had or any possible ritual implications.
"It belongs to the Caliphate era. We are uncertain of its symbology and precise use. For instance, it shows no traces of burning, among other reasons because it was restored differently from those found in investigations. However, it was worthwhile to make the study known to the scientific community because it might give clues on the importance of Ibiza in navigation routes," he concludes.
Header Image Credit : Marcus H. Hermanns
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Universal Children's Day is celebrated November 20 by the United Nations and is intended to promote the welfare of the world's children. As this day nears, I find myself thinking more about the condition of life for children in the U.S. With all sides of the political and social spectrum debating whether the family is in steep decline or doing just fine, it is hard to sort through the rhetoric to discover what really is the well-being of America's children. Answering that question is also difficult because the answer greatly depends on two other questions: Whose children are we comparing? And, when are we comparing?
For example, if I, a white female, had been born in 1900, I would have had a life expectancy of about 51 years. There was a good chance my grandparents would not have lived long enough for me to have experienced a three-generation family, and I would have had a one-in-four chance of experiencing the death of one of my parents by the time I reached the age of 15. Only 70 percent of children were enrolled in school. If I had belonged to a poor or working-class family, school would not have been an option. Instead, I could have expected to begin working at as young as 10 or 11, often in factories alongside my father who himself worked 10 hours a day, six days a week. And my home, even if I were not poor, would have lacked running water, a flush toilet, central heating and a refrigerator.
In contrast, if I were born in 2003, I could expect to live 80 years. The child poverty rate in the year of my birth was 17.6 percent, down from over 45 percent in 1949. I could hope to be one of the 91.4 percent of children enrolled in school. My mother would almost certainly work for pay, as 7 out of 10 mothers are now in the labor force, and I would have four chances in 10 of experiencing the divorce of my parents.
So, is a child's life better in 2003 than in 1900? Almost certainly. Children today live longer, are better off financially and are generally healthier, better educated and less likely to experience the death of parents and grandparents during their childhood.
But not all children have benefited equally from the medical, economic and social changes occurring in the last 100 years. Poor and minority children continue to have greater infant mortality rates, lower literacy rates and lower life expectancies. An African American boy born in 2003, for example, could expect to live only 69 years, rather than the 75 years for a white boy born at the same time. Compared to higher-income children, poorer children are five times more likely to only be in fair or poor health and three times more likely to lack health insurance. And while children's poverty rates have fallen since 1949, they are on the rise once again, with minority children especially hard hit.
Are our families and their children in deep decline? No. Are they doing just fine? No. While tremendous progress has been made to improve the lives of children in the U.S., much remains to be done. Just as reformers at the turn of the century channeled their energies into social activism to improve the quality of children's lives, so too is action needed now to strengthen both two-parent and one-parent families as well as both first-time and blended families. A few possible strategies include expanding the earned income tax credit, shifting the focus of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) so that it attempts to actually curtail poverty rather than just reduce caseloads, increasing federal investment in affordable housing, improving the availability and quality of child care and expanding health coverage by broadening eligibility.
Surely a nation that is spending an estimated $10 billion a month in Afghanistan and Iraq, with the assertion that such action is needed to improve the safety of Americans, could choose to spend some of that money to improve the everyday existence of America's children. Perhaps, then, any celebration of a Universal Children's Day in the U.S. will be a much more meaningful gesture.
Stacy Hammons, Ph.D., chairs the department of sociology at Fresno Pacific University.


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Dear Whitey,
Man-to-Man, I've been struggling to find my place here. But I've found it now and it works.
I don't have any mighty powers but I have one thing that works………
My cuteness factor is very high. That in itself is where my strength lies.
I'm finding that it works for me and gets the job done.
See my tie? It's full of kittens. Cat Depot is full of kittens, too.
An idea came to me as I was sleeping on my little couch.
The shock of it jarred me out of my sleep and I fell right off the couch!
But then I realized if I put my cuteness and kitten tie out there on Facebook, something could happen. And it did.
Once people on Facebook saw my plea to go get kittens, they did.
Now, I'm not saying everyone went to Cat Depot because I asked them to. But the fact remains there were 13 kittens adopted in one weekend and my mug was out there promoting.
Then I realized something else. My mission is to help special needs cats.
They don't get much more special than my Helen Keller so I'm partnering with her. She and I will work together to make a double difference for special needs cats.
Once she went onto Facebook and asked for help with special needs cats, people responded.
Our special needs friends, Manny and Cashmere were adopted and so was one FIV-positive guy!
THEN, people (including your humans) started saying they would send donations to Friends Like Me!
That was really fun to see.
What a fantastic weekend we had! Lots of kittens and special needs cats found forever homes.
Now I know my place in all of this. Use my cuteness, use my Helen Keller and accept the mighty powers of support sent to me from the Rainbow Bridge..
All is well.
See you next week.
The Dapper Gent
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Quote from: Keagan on July 25, 2016, 01:17:43 amBought the kart for my grandson to step up from the yard kart. He was power sliding it since he was 5🌝Previous owner said hasn't been started for "several years". I've drained the tank, filled with 50/1 mixInitially disassemble the carb: all parts looked good, cleaned in ultrasonic unit, but still no start.Bought new kit,, installed all new diaphragms etc, no startwill fire with a shot of premix into the air cleanerNew plug , got good rich fireCompression test reads 60 psiPlug looks "wet" after attempts to startI note that the H needle does not have the o ring, washer that shows in manual ( did not come in new kit either)I'm new to these little 2 strokes, but pretty experienced wrench over allAny thoughts? Located in Southern In.


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Mary Gaitskill
- Suzanne Black
- 15 November 2007
Veronica (Serpent's Tail)
Mary Gaitskill rarely shies away from the violence of inner life. S&M, self-harm and bad sex torment characters as they struggle to define themselves and the world and new novel Veronica is no different. Alison was beautiful, a model, before being ravaged by hepatitis. Now she stumbles around her own version of Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, with a lifetime of memories surfacing during the events of one day.
Gaitskill conjures up an effusive assault on readers senses, with repetitive imagery circling the narrative, creating a heady evocation of a lost life. At the centre of her gyre is Veronica, a talisman of sexuality, ego and vulgar humanity, who is portrayed as both exalted and pitiable before being killed off with AIDS and metaphorically sacrificed to Alison's redemption (or at least acceptance) of the messiness of life. Where others see bleakness, Gaitskill finds hope and transforms a memoir into a dizzying, optimistic, visceral reminiscence.


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The cheering would begin soon enough. Dressed in a slim-cut gray suit and green tie, Van Jones ascended to the stage grinning and blowing kisses to the crowd. Jones, 39, a 6-foot-1-inch Yale Law grad, was appearing at a summit in San Francisco called "Advancing a New Energy Economy in California." The city's charismatic mayor, Gavin Newsom, was among the presenters, along with corporate bigwigs such as PG&E chief executive Peter Darbee. But no one would outshine Jones.
"What is considered green is usually for the eco-elite," he preached to the assembled solar entrepreneurs, environmental activists, and community leaders (including more than a dozen black clergymen). "But if we are actually going to meet the challenge of global warming, we are going to have to weatherize millions of homes and install millions of solar panels. That's millions of new jobs. We need to connect the people who most need the work with the work that most needs to be done." It's one of his favorite themes: the need to expand the green movement beyond "lifestyle environmentalists," with their hybrid cars and other eco-status symbols. The audience cheered. "Van Jones, he's a rock star," says Tim Rainey, director of economic development at the California Labor Federation.
But Jones is not just a performer. More than any other single figure, he has ushered the phrase "green-collar jobs" into the political lexicon — and economic reality. Last year, Jones led a coalition of business, labor, and environmental groups that persuaded the Oakland City Council to provide $250,000 in seed money for the country's first green-collar-jobs corps, which will train low-income youth in the renewable-energy, organic-food, and green-construction industries. The organization he founded and heads, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, also helped draft the Pathways out of Poverty legislation for the federal Green Jobs Act of 2007, which pledged $125 million to train 35,000 people a year in green-collar jobs. And in February, Jones launched Green for All, a national advocacy organization whose goal is to procure $1 billion in federal funding by 2012 for green-collar programs, and lift as many as 250,000 Americans out of poverty. "We speak for the least empowered folks, the people who didn't finish high school, the people with criminal convictions, the victims of Hurricane Katrina," Jones says.
A self-described "bridge builder, catalyst, and evangelist," Jones is of the Martin Luther King oral tradition. "We dream of rust-belt cities blossoming as Silicon Valleys of green capital ... of dying blue-collar towns blooming as green-collar meccas," he said in remarks to the House Select Committee on Energy and Global Warming last year. Comparisons with Barack Obama are inevitable. But Jones says, "The person I'm really patterning my life after is Ralph Nader." Not Nader the election spoiler, but Nader the lifelong consumer advocate, whose policy triumphs include the creation of OSHA and the EPA. "Hey," Jones says, "Nader got more legislation passed than almost any president."
Jones is balancing on the roof of a hilltop duplex in the hardscrabble East Bay suburb of Richmond, California. "It takes all kinds of people to build a green economy," he says. "From the PhDs to the PhDudes." Mount Tamalpais juts up on the horizon, not far beyond the smokestacks of a nearby Chevron oil refinery. Jones is wearing stonewashed jeans and a button-down wool shirt — his "proletarian" outfit, as he calls it. He has come roofside to check out two graduates of a local nonprofit program that trains low-income workers to mount photovoltaic panels. The installers, including 47-year-old Angela Greene, who says she "fell on extremely hard times" after the printing company she worked for shut down, are cracking up listening to Jones, and he takes the cue to keep the momentum going: "From the PhDs to the PhDudes — I just made that up! I'm bad! I'm slick! That's what makes me the spokesperson!"
Jones doesn't lack for confidence. But he is careful to point out that he didn't invent the phrase "green-collar jobs" — Alan Durning, the director of the Sightline Institute in Seattle, wrote a book by that name in 1999 — and he didn't set out to be an eco-evangelist, either. He was "nerdly" and bullied as a child in rural Tennessee, the son of a junior high school assistant principal. After attending the University of Tennessee, he went on to Yale Law (where he says he was "radicalized politically with my dreadlocks and Black Panther book bag") and eventually landed a job with San Francisco civil rights attorney Eva Paterson, the legendary founder of the Equal Justice Society. In 1997, he set out on his own, founding the Ella Baker Center, to litigate against police brutality and for prison reform. Five years in, needing respite from endless "funerals, prisons, and court cases coming out the wrong way," he started attending spirituality retreats in nearby Marin County, where solar panels were sprouting like trees. "There was a green economy growing right across from Oakland," he remembers, "and we were totally left out of it." The idea to link the green movement with issues of race and class came to him as an epiphany.
As he looked into this emerging economy, Jones realized how quickly its demands would outstrip the supply of skilled labor. In 2007, investment in clean-technology companies in North America reached $4 billion, up 38% from 2006. Twenty-five states now have renewable-energy standards for utilities, requiring them to obtain a minimum percentage of their power from renewable sources. In California, there already aren't enough solar installers to keep up with demand. Wind-energy producers are having a hard time finding trained turbine technicians, says Bruce Hamilton, director of operations at PPM Energy, a subsidiary of ScottishPower with more than a dozen wind farms in operation or under construction around the country: "There's going to be a fight for labor."
Getting in on the ground floor of a growth industry is classic antipoverty strategy, says Jones. But jobs in sustainable industries also come with built-in advantages. Retrofitting buildings and constructing wind farms is not the kind of work that can be outsourced, he explains, and "during this time of economic transition," green-collar-jobs training gives people from disadvantaged backgrounds a competitive edge in the marketplace. "Say a bunch of guys in the carpenter's union don't know how to work with bamboo. Well, here are some young people who have been trained to work with bamboo. Suddenly, rather than them being in the back of the line for the less-skilled blue-collar jobs, these kids have the advantage."
"We dream of rust-belt cities blossoming as silicon valleys of green capital ... of dying blue-collar towns blooming as green-collar meccas."
Jones has a newfangled rap, but behind the exterior, he is an old-style activist — a political animal who is looking to government to fund his revolution. Jones attacks conventional environmental appeals — bemoaning the plight of polar bears and other "charismatic megafauna," as he puts it — because they don't speak to poor urban dwellers who have more pressing needs, like scraping together bus fare or keeping their kids out of gangs. The fossil-fuel industry has taken advantage of the green lobby's weaknesses, Jones says, derailing clean-energy incentives by spinning them as essentially "green taxes" on the poor. He points to the 2006 defeat of California's Proposition 87 as an example. "It was a wonderful clean-energy ballot initiative to tax oil companies to fund clean energy," he explains. "Yet despite Hollywood and Silicon Valley spending $40 million to pass it, despite Bill Clinton and Al Gore campaigning all over the state, the thing failed. The polluters were able to destroy working-class support because the law wasn't positioned as something that would benefit lower-income people. They said the cost would be passed on — you wouldn't be able to afford gas or heat your house." The only way out of that bind, he says, is to make green policy not a burden to working families but a boon. And the way to do that is with jobs.
Jones's cramped office at Ella Baker, in a ramshackle gray building in North Oakland, is littered with speaking invitations — Harvard, the Kellogg Foundation. He spoke at Davos earlier this year. He has won a string of prizes, among them the international Ashoka Fellowship. While I was visiting, four MBA students from Presidio School of Management in San Francisco dropped by to discuss partnering on a green-enterprise zone project in Oakland. Jones offers "a message of hope," one of the students told me.
With his new $1 billion Green for All initiative, Jones, who named his 3-year-old son, Cabral, after an African freedom fighter, aims to replicate on a national level the coalition of government, industry, labor, and community-activist groups responsible for passing the Oakland jobs-corps legislation. He has brought on Jeremy Hays, former national organizing director of the Apollo Alliance, the country's most powerful clean-energy lobbying group, and Jason Walsh, a former policy director for the Workforce Alliance, a national job-training organization. Next up: a new social-networking Web site intended to spur a grassroots movement.
In many ways, his timing couldn't be better. Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have made the phrase "green collar" a regular part of their campaign pitches. The candidates talk about growing the green economy and retraining blue-collar workers. Their emphasis is not exactly his — they don't stress how those opportunities can lift people out of poverty — but that doesn't mean the end result wouldn't be the same.
Michele McGeoy is the founder of Solar Richmond, a local nonprofit that trains solar installers. Jones's advocacy, she says, has not only sent donors her way, but the promise of federal funding from the Green Jobs Act has inspired the city to increase support for her nonprofit. A former software executive, McGeoy used to work with low-income youth addressing the digital divide. "This is different," she says, citing 30% annual growth in the photovoltaic market. "We really need the workers."
In Jones's office, alongside all the speaking invitations are Superman logos and action figures — dozens of them. They're in his car, too, and all around his house. Sometimes he feels like Clark Kent, he says, and needs to strap on a cape to get the job done. To an outside observer, the big S's might also indicate supersize hubris. But then, maybe that's what he needs.
Linda Baker is based in Portland, Oregon. She also writes for The New York Timesand Salon.


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Behind the name Impulse standing several days of festivals where the main goal is to promote urban culture, especially its music segment. Events that will take place during the festival through various media and events (concerts, movies, art, panels) are engaged in music, which is the backbone link and festivals, and thinking of music through various art forms and new media , different views on the music itself and generally in club culture.
Slogan Music is everywhere on very simple international way communicates and encircles the festival's programme scheme.
In the past three editions, festival hosted many respectable names from the music domain, local and of course international. Especially, we need to emphasize premier shows like Lee Ronaldo ( ex Sonic Youth), Wovenhand, Mono, Mike Watt… general opinion about actual problems in music through panels have been shared and discussed by important regional organization: Buba Booking, Kino Šiška, Žedno uho, LAA, PDV ritam, club Močvara…through specific exhibiton or dancing shows Impulse festival encircle its main goal, to stimulate the urban culture.


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"Like all trees, the Oak is a beautiful example of an organism providing us with oxygen to breathe and leaves for shade while hosting habitat for all kinds of different species; increasing the biodiversity. Besides this, Oaks are real "lookers": The deep coarse bark, characteristically lobed leaves and of course the acorns. Oaks can become very big, very old and can grow in distinctive and unique shapes -when given the space and the time. In every stage of the Oak's lifetime there are different species benefiting from the Oak (think: birds, insects or mammals), even after the tree dies there are species being aided by the Oak's remains (think: worms, fungi or ants)! So, Oaks are amazing. Not just for us to enjoy and benefit from, but for many many other species as well! That is why I, as ambassador of the Oak, desire more Oak trees, which will get the time and space to grow old and impressive!"
Andrea Mulder is Ambassador of the Oak. She is from the Netherlands, but currently lives in Aarhus. She is very interested in landscapes, plants, animals and just nature in general. In September she will begin studying a MSc in Forest and Nature Conservation. She is currently learning Danish and loves visiting the deer at Dyrehaven, dancing a bit of salsa at Folkestedet and enjoying the diverse Danish pastries!


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August 19, 2013
weekend progress
How was your weekend? Mine was jam packed.
I finished some curtains for a client and they are ironed and ready to deliver today.
We transplanted the almost-dead hydrangeas to a spot in my yard where I know hydrangeas thrive and put in something else. (which needs to be trimmed)
We had a last weekend of summer campout in the backyard which was a huge hit, even if the hub's back is still paying for it.
I made a pillow with my new trim from Fringe Market. And when I say made I mean that I glued the trim onto a plain white pillow cover from IKEA. That's my kind of sewing.
If you don't know about Fringe Market yet you need to. They have amazing trims in all different colors and patterns, they will do any type of custom order you need and they are some of the nicest people of Etsy. Trust that I'll be ordering much more from them. Love them.
And we ended the weekend with a campfire and some neighborly BBQ. Now I've got to get ready for Amelia to start Kindergarten tomorrow. Wahoo!!! How is it possible to have a child in Kindergarten when I'm still a young dewy 18 year old myself?!
How was your weekend? Glue anything? Burn anything? Brave the back to school section at Target?
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Wow that was a productive weekend, Elizabeth! I love the x detail on the curtains, pleeeeease show a photo of them hanging! Good luck to your little munchkin on her big day tomorrow (and to you!)ReplyDelete
Love that trim and so glad that a pro uses the glue trick like I do! Have a fun first day of school! My baby girl doesn't start back until Labor Day week. Ugh. A campout sounds like fun, but we have a sneaky snake in our backyard so I don't think that's happening any time soon!ReplyDelete
love the new pillow, but my favorite is the shot of the girls- so adorable!!!ReplyDelete
Those blue-trimmed curtains look amazing. Just a fun design. And how cute are your little campers!?!ReplyDelete
Those plain white pillow covers from IKEA are the best! Love the backyard campout idea, I'm sure they had a blast!ReplyDelete
I am obsessed with fringe market. They are the best!ReplyDelete
Glueing is my kind of sewing too Elizabeth! I'm updating some pillows too using gold fabric pen, can't wait 'til it's done. Love camping out back too, but I agree with the hubs, the back does suffer a bit. :-)ReplyDelete
New world! Summers are so short now! Back in the OLDEN DAYS......you've heard that before.....school started the Monday AFTER Labor Day!!!ReplyDelete
How can you go back to school with summer clothes????
Love the pillow! Fabric glue is the best. The only kind of "sewing" I'll do!ReplyDelete
Champagne Lifestyle on a Beer Budget
Your girls are too cute! My oldest just started pre-school and I can't believe it. Glue is my best friend, too.ReplyDelete
On Friday night I stenciled something for the first time since elementary school. It was a trial run to see if I could attempt it on a (slightly) larger scale. It took a fair amount of nail polish remove to get the paint off my fingertips!
Thanks so much for the pillow ideas. I was just thinking, "where could I find some good trim to add to an already done pillow to make it different?" This is perfect! You can tell I'm not big on sewing, either. And that pineapple is perfect! Where did you get it?ReplyDelete
Cute pillow! The campout looks fun(ish). I don't do camping but in theory it looks fun.ReplyDelete
Back to school time is nuts in the stores. UGH.
That's the best kinda sewing ever ;-) Have a good week!ReplyDelete
thanks for the tip on that etsy store! fab! the pillow came out so cute. Your girls are precious!ReplyDelete
Love that pillow trim! Thanks for the source - this could come in very handy!ReplyDelete
I love that cushion trim!! And the pineapple cushion too :) And your kids are just too gorgeous, shouldn't be allowed really - you're making other parents of ugly kids look bad ya know ;) xxxReplyDelete
(I'm joking! Every child is beautiful)
(okay not joking)
I don't know about fringemarket. Thanks for the tip. How cute are your girls!ReplyDelete
You have a darling blog. You header with the black door and the simple layout is great. I am a glue/sew girl too. I'll have to check out Fringe Market.ReplyDelete
Love the trim! You are so funny with your glue. :)ReplyDelete
I have a feeling I need to do the same thing to two hydrangea bushes I planted at the beginning of the summer. They only get part sun, but they get the afternoon sun and the leaves are burning up. Bummer for sure! the ribbon on those curtains is stunning!ReplyDelete
Wow, you had a busy weekend! Your pillow idea is totally genius. We did a backyard camp out with our kids over the summer too and they loved it so much. I was tempted to sneak back into the house once everyone was asleep and finish out the night in my bed but I toughed it out. :)ReplyDelete
Love your pillow idea and the fringe is very pretty! Loving the pics too! XxReplyDelete
Love your pillow idea and the fringe is very pretty! Loving the pics too! XxReplyDelete
I could get excited about this Fringe Market...ReplyDelete
Awww, what a lovely weekend! Your daughters are so beautiful!! :)ReplyDelete
The Glam Pad
Thanks for the tip on the fringe market. That shot of your girls is too cute.ReplyDelete
Love that trim!! I'd love to try that on draperies soon!ReplyDelete
I love it when you sweet talk me! It makes my day!
And please make sure you leave an email address so we can keep the convo going.