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I didn't use much formula with my child because I chose to breastfeed my little guy. We did have to supplement with a little formula when he got older and I was working and couldn't keep up the supply. I remember signing up for all the new baby deals and getting lots of coupons and a few samples. I did use the formula coupons a few times, but wasn't on the coupon scene fully at that point so I never found where the best savings were for formulas.
You can sign up to be on mailing lists for Enfamil, Similac and Good Start and they all send out coupons if you're on their list. I do remember getting bombarded with coupons!
Stacey at Frugal, Faith & Family has a good blog explaining where to get the best buys on formula these days. If you're at this point in life and formula is a necessity, please check out her post. It could save you bundles. Thanks Stacey!


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1994 Mazda Miata: World's Tallest Pop-Up Lights
July 27, 2010
This morning I shot this video of our Miata's ginormous old-school pop-up headlamps. They're so tall that when you flip them up you can feel the car's aerodynamics change. The Miata's wind noise levels with the top up and its wind management with top down are completely different when the headlamps are up.
They're so tall I decided that the above video didn't cut it. I decided you needed something in the frame for scale if you were to completely understand just how stupid big those headlight doors are. So I shot another video and used my shoe (Size 10 1/2). You can watch it after the jump.
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H o w t o W r i t e a n I n t r o d u c t i o n P a r a g r a p h
Give a general opening statement, possibly with an interesting "hook". This statement can be about the novel in general, about the character you're writing about, or about something from real life that is somehow related to your essay (3-5 sentences).
Body Sentences: State the main ideas of your essay.
These should be similar to your topic
sentences (3-4 sentences).
State your thesis
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OPENING STATEMENT: The first sentence is the wide end of the funnel – the least specific statement in the paragraph. It is a focused generalization about your topic that provides necessary context and introduces the main idea. The opening serves two purposes: to identify your subject, and to attract your readers' attention. You want to invite your readers into the rest of your essay. Typically, these opening statements are either hooks, or main idea statements.
HOOK: The purpose of a hook is to grab your readers' attention, to pique their curiosity about what you have to say. A hook relates to the readers' experiences or knowledge, or engages their emotions in some way. The hook opening works best in argumentative and other expository essays. Some standard hook openings include: question, dramatic statement, shocking or interesting fact or statement, humorous statement.
For example, if you are writing a persuasive piece to convince your friends to watch Iron Man 3, you might consider the following openings:
- Question: Is it possible to portray humiliating weakness and admirable strength at the very same moment? In the case of Tony Stark, the answer is yes.
- Dramatic Statement: One man, Tony Stark, holds the possibility of world peace in his hands; his actions define the future safety, security, and happiness of an entire population.
- Shocking or Interesting Statement: What Iron Man 3 makes most clear is that we are our technology; how we use it defines humanity.
- Humorous Statement: Tony Stark, like any other geek, hangs out in his basement thinking about girls and gadgets.
PLEASE AVOID the "dictionary definition" hook, as in, "The dictionary definition of hero is 'a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities.'" Not only does this turn your very first sentence over to somebody else's words, but it is a flat, and avoidable cliché.
MAIN IDEA STATEMENT: The purpose of this opening is to express the heart of the essay – to present a main idea about the subject of the essay. Main idea statements are often used in analytical writings like character analysis or essays exploring the development of theme.
- If the purpose of your essay is to analyze Tony Stark as a flawed character, you might open with a statement about man's fallibility. Something as simple as: People are flawed; Tony Stark is no exception.
- If you are writing an essay analyzing the significance of the main female character in Iron Man 3, Pepper Potts, you might open with a statement about typical portrayals of women in action films. Something like: While audience members are accustomed to viewing a damsel in distress saved by the action hero, they want more from female characters than just a pretty face in need of some rescuing. Pepper Potts in Iron Man 3 gives them what they want.
BODY SENTENCES: Next, transition from the opening statement into the body sentences. The body sentences, sentences between the opening and the thesis, are used to clarify and narrow the subject. Additionally, this space should be used to introduce subtopics – the subjects that will be covered in the body paragraphs of the essay. This section gets more and more specific as the paragraph progresses. The goal is to lead into the thesis statement, to move from general idea to specific point. By the end of the body sentences in the introduction, the writer needs to bridge to the thesis.
THESIS: The thesis statement is the narrow end of the funnel, the most specific point. It is the driving assertion for the essay, the sentence that expresses what you will prove in the body of paragraphs of your essay.
- Do not announce what you will be writing about in the essay. Avoid statements like, "In this essay, I will explore_________." Just explore the subject.
- Italicize titles of books, movies, and other major works.
- Put quotation marks around the titles of pieces that are part of a larger, major work. For example, you would italicize an album title, but put quotation marks around the song titles included on that album. You would italicize the title of a collection of essays or poems, and put quotation marks around the titles of essays or poems in that collection. You italicize the title of a magazine, but put quotation marks around titles of articles included in that magazine.
- Give an author's full name in the introduction paragraph. Once you provide the full name, you should refer to him/her by last name only. Never refer to an author by first name.
Here is a sample funnel intro paragraph:
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, thousands of Americans lost their jobs and their homes when farms and businesses failed and unemployment and poverty exploded. As a result, many were "set adrift" to wander and to seek work in strange places. This rootlessness created a jarring contrast to the ideal of the American Dream that so many Americans had been led to believe was within everybody's reach: that if you work hard enough, you can create your own fortune, no matter what. In his novel, Of Mice and Men, set in the 1930s, John Steinbeck portrays several of these lonely, drifting characters who are struggling under the difficult times of the Great Depression. Characters are skeptical of companionship and are reluctant to make connections to any person or place. The novel illustrates the emotions, hopes, and disappointments of these characters, who opt out of the belief in owning property and being a member of a community because of the miseries that they suffer every day. In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses the emptiness of the ranchers' lives to show the American Dream to be nothing more than a myth that is impossible to achieve.


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Brochures need to make an IMPACT and that's why many designers and business owners opt to have their brochures printed in full color. Most of the time it's a brochure's job to sell a product or service and since brochures are often taken home they need to do the work of a salesperson with text and images.
Having your brochures printed in full color can really make photos pop and it allows a designer to use color in many other ways such as to direct the viewer's eyes to important text. Below is a nice sampling of full-color brochure designs from around the web to inspire anyone who designs or is going to print brochures for a marketing campaign.


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Energy and Climate Change: Creating a Sustainable Future provides an up-to-date introduction to the subject examining the relationship between energy and our global environment. The book covers the fundamentals of the subject, discussing what energy is, why it is important, as well as the detrimental effect on the environment following our use of energy. Energy is placed at the front of a discussion of geo-systems, living systems, technological development and the global environment, enabling the reader to develop a deeper understanding of magnitudes.Learning is re-enforced, and the relevance of the topic broadened, through the use of several conceptual veins running through the book.
One of these is an attempt to demonstrate how systems are related to each other through energy and energy flows. Examples being wind-power, and bio-mass which are really solar power via another route; how the energy used to evaporate sea water must be related to the potential for hydropower; and where a volcano's energy really comes from. With fermi-like problems and student exercises incorporated throughout every chapter, this text provides the perfect companion to the growing number of students taking an interest in the subject.
"As a text book for GCSE level students, this title is worthy of 4 stars." (Enagri eMagazine, May 2010)
Preface.1. Introduction.Part I: Energy: concepts, history and problems.2. Energy.What is energy?Units.Power.Energy in various disguises.Energy quality and exergy.Student exercises.3. The planet's energy balance.The sun.The earth.Comparisons.Student exercises.4. A history of humankind's use of energy.Energy and society.Wealth, urbanization and conflict.Our current level of energy use.Student exercises.5. Sustainability, climate change and the global environment.Sustainability.Climate change.Other concerns.Debating climate change and answering the sceptics.Student exercises.6. Economics and the environment.Key concepts.Environmental economics.Student exercises.7. Combustion, inescapable inefficiencies and the generation of electricity.Combustion.Calorific values.Inescapable inefficiencies.Heat pumps.Double Carnot efficiencies.The generation of electricity from heat.Student exercises.Part II - Unsustainable energy technologies.8. Coal.History.Extraction.The combustion of coal.Technologies for use.Example applications.Global resource.Student exercises.9. Oil.Extraction.The combustion of oil.Technologies for use.Example application: the motor car.Global resource.Student exercises.10. Gas.Extraction.The combustion of gas.Technologies for use.Example application: the domestic boiler.Global resource.Student exercises.11. Non-conventional hydrocarbons.Oil shale.Tar sands.Methane hydrate.Student exercises.12. Nuclear power.Physical basis.Technologies for use.Environmental concerns.Waste.World resource.Example applications.Is nuclear power the solution to global warming?Student exercises.13. Hydropower.History.Technologies for use.Example application: Itaipu hydroelectric station.Environmental impacts.Pumped storage.Global resource.Student exercises.14. Transport and air quality.Present day problems.Air quality and health.Example application: air quality in Exeter, UK.Student exercises.15. Figures and philosophy: an analysis of a nation's energy supply.The economy.Production.Consumption.Oil and gas production.Prices.Fuel poverty.Carbon emissions.Sustainable energy in the UK: the current state of play.Student exercises.Part III - Climate change: predictions and policies.16. Future world energy use and carbon emissions.The world's future use of energy.Student exercises.17. The impact of a warmer world.Climate models.Natural variability and model reliability.Future climate change.Impacts.Costing the impact.Student exercises.18. Politics in the greenhouse: contracting and converging.Climate negotiations.Another approach.Bringing it all together.Conclusion.Student exercises.Part IV - Sustainable energy technologiesCurrent world sustainable energy provision.19. Energy efficiency.Cogeneration.Reducing energy losses.Energy recovery.Energy efficiency in buildings.Student exercises.20. Solar power.Passive solar heating.Heat pumps.Solar water heating.Low temperature solar water heating.Example application: solar water heating, Phoenix Federal Correction Institution, USA.High temperature solar power.Low temperature water-based thermal energy conversion.OECD resource.Student exercises.21. Photovoltaics.History.Basic principles.Technologies for use.Electrical characteristics.Roof-top PV.Example application: Doxford Solar Office, UK.OECD resource.Student exercises.22. Wind power.History.Technologies for use.The modern horizontal axis wind turbine.Environmental impacts.OECD resource.Example application: Haroy Island Wind Farm, Sandoy, Norway.Student exercises.23. Wave power.Wave characteristics.Technologies for use.Example application: the Pelamis P-750 wave energy converter.Student exercises.24. Tidal and small-scale hydropower.Tides.Small-scale hydropower.OECD resource.Student exercises.25. Biomass.History.Basic principles.Technologies for use.Example application: anaerobic digester, Walford College Farm, UK.Global resource.OECD resource.Student exercises.26. Geothermal.Background.History.Resource and technology.Technologies for use.Environmental problems.World resource.OECD resource.Example application: Hacchobaru geothermal power station, Kokonoe-machi, Japan.Student exercises.27. Fast breeders and fusion.Fast breeder reactors.Fusion.Example application: JET Torus, Culham, UK.Student exercises.28. Alternative transport futures and the hydrogen economy.Improving energy efficiency.Alternative transport fuels and engines.Hydrogen powered vehicles and the hydrogen economy.Fuel cells.Example application: the greening of natural gas.Student exercises.29. Carbon sequestration and climate engineering.Capture technologies.Storage technologies.The reflection of solar radiation.Example application: Statoil, Sleipner West gas field, North Sea.Student exercises.30. A sustainable, low carbon future?Methodology and assumptions.Results.Worldwide reductions.Conclusion.What can I do?Student exercises.References.Appendix 1: National energy data.Appendix 2: Answers to in-text problems.Appendix 3: Bibliography and suggested reading.Appendix 4: Useful data.Index.
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Sources: AZ Central – By Ed Masely| All Things Michael
It barely lasts three seconds. Blink and you'll miss half of it. But even after all these years, the sight of Michael Jackson in his prime unveiling his signature dance move — a series of backward glides we've learned to call the moonwalk — while performing "Billie Jean" on "Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever" is fascinating television.
You can hear the audience go wild as though they'd just experienced the most amazing thing ever. In the midst of a song then enjoying a seven-week run at No. 1 onBillboard's Hot 100, you can hear the excitement level surge.
See for yourself when the Emmy Award-winning special returns to television for the first time since it aired that night in 1983 at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, on KAET.
Mary Wilson was there the night show was taped, performing as part of a Supremes reunion with Diana Ross and Cindy Birdsong. She remembers being blown away by the moment that marked Michael Jackson's arrival as the King of Pop.
"Michael and the Jackson 5 became the focal point," she says, "because it was as new for all of us as it was for the audience. And I would say that perhaps the highlight of the whole show was just seeing him emerge as this new talent. None of us had seen that. This was new. It was a growth. And it was fascinating, as it is today. He became an international star far beyond what any of us had done at Motown at that point."
Versions of the moonwalk, in which Jackson appears to be trying to move forward while being pulled backward by an unseen force, had been floating around for decades.
"Those of us old enough that we had grown up watching Jackie Wilson doing all of those great moves," Wilson says, "Michael Jackson took that with James Brown and created a whole new movement, a new dance. So that was very exciting."
As exciting as it may have been, though, Wilson points to Marvin Gaye's as her favorite performance of the night.
"I remember when we used to do the Motown Revue tours," she says, "he was the one everybody wanted to watch. And it was the same that night. I mean, I can't mention Marvin Gaye enough. Marvin was like an angel. He's one of those people, I know they say Elvis is the king, but Marvin should be the king as well."
Other key performances include Smokey Robinson's reunion with the Miracles, a Stevie Wonder medley and a battle of the bands between the Four Tops and Temptations.
As for Wilson's performance with the Supremes on the chart-topping "Someday We'll Be Together"?
"Well, our performance was probably not as fascinating as I would have wanted it to be," she says. "Everybody else's performance, to me, was more exciting than ours. And I was not very happy about that. But you know, you have to take life as it comes and it was one of those things where we had to understand that we were just in different places."
The tension between the Supremes was never personal, she says.
"It was always more about business. That's one of the sad things that happens sometimes if you're not family. Sometimes the business gets in the way and you just can't get ahead of it. So I just tried to have as much fun as I could and still enjoy it. For me, once you're on that stage, you're there. So I had to enjoy that moment."
Despite her disappointment in her performance, Wilson's memories of the night are mostly positive.
"It's really more of a family reunion situation because all of the artists, the writers, the producers, we all kind of grew up together," Wilson says. "We were all very young. So the television special was really like a family reunion, us coming together. We had so much more fun backstage than probably the people out front watching it. Or, should I say, as much fun. Marvin Gaye came in and all the girls were just like, 'Oh my God, Marvin. He's still so cute.' It was a wonderful, wonderful gathering."
Wilson is thrilled to know the show is coming back to television after more than 30 years.
"The Motown artists inspired most of the people who are out there today," Wilson says. "I can't wait to hear what the young people who see it today, what they think. Because when they see this special, it is definitely professionalism at its best. When we used to work on shows with other artists, you could always tell the Motown artists by their professionalism. So I think the world is going to relive a beautiful moment in what show business should be like."
Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever
When: 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, on Channel 8 (KAET).
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Raspberry Pi GPIO Switch
rpi_gpio switch platform allows you to control the GPIOs of your Raspberry Pi.
To use your Raspberry Pi's GPIO in your installation, add the following to your
configuration.yaml file:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
- platform: rpi_gpio
11: Fan Office
12: Light Desk
Configuration variables:
ports array (Required): Array of used ports.
- port: name (Required): Port numbers and corresponding names (GPIO #).
- invert_logic (Optional): If true, inverts the output logic to ACTIVE LOW. Default is false (ACTIVE HIGH).
For more details about the GPIO layout, visit the Wikipedia article about the Raspberry Pi.
Note that a pin managed by HASS is expected to be exclusive to HASS.
A common question is what does Port refer to, this number is the actual GPIO # not the pin #. For example, if you have a relay connected to pin 11 its GPIO # is 17.
# Example configuration.yaml entry
- platform: rpi_gpio
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What does the name Dan O'Bannon mean to you? If you aren't a movie geek or Hollywood insider it probably means nothing to you. Now my next question. Have you ever heard of any of these movies: Alien, Total Recall, or Return of the Living Dead? If you answered, 'Yes,' then you know Dan O'Bannon's work. He wrote them all and many others too. O'Bannon scripted some of the greatest sci-fi films of all time by using a formula that veers from standard thought. Usually when writing a script we ask ourselves "What does the Protagonist or hero of the film want and need?" O'Bannon takes it one step further and answers "What does the Antogonist or bad guy want or need?" That is what sets his style apart from others.
The book Dan O'Bannon's Guide to Screenplay Structure, written by Dan O'Bannon and Matt R. Lohr, is a textbook on outlining a screenplay. The first half or so of the book teaches you how to analyze and tear apart a script. He teaches you to search for how it is put together or its formula. There are several chapters that dissect a half dozen movies including the classic, Citizen Cane. Then it moves onto a section where you choose a script or several for that matter to dissect for yourself. You can choose any script including one that you have written. By doing the exercises and answering the questions included, you can figure out whether the script is outlined in a fashion that is interesting and if it is sellable. Even if it is a script that has sold, you'll be able to find its flaws.
I use the term, 'textbook' because that's what it feels like. It's loaded with questions to force you to think. You don't just sit back and read this book; you think about each script in great detail. You will definitely walk away a better writer after reading this publication. Dan O'Bannon knows what he's talking about. He went from homeless to writing one of the greatest films in history – Alien. If that isn't a story about coming from your lowest point and rising above it all, I don't know what is.
The book is a result of Dan O'Bannon's dream to teach people his version of script outlining called "dynamic structure." O'Bannon passed away in December of 2009 from Crohn's Disease before the book was completed, but co-writer Matt R. Lohr continued on and finished it. We can now all benefit from what O'Bannon knew. It is a heavy read at times, but it certainly contains a wealth of knowledge. I reiterate the fact that it makes you think, and that is how you learn.
Every now and then, there seems to be a gem and this book for example… That just should not exist. In my research about this book (yes I like to research, not just read them), there seems to have been so many things against this book ever becoming a reality. Thanks to the devotion of many people and maybe even the stars aligning just right, this book is real and available to us all.
Read it, enjoy it, and be thankful that O'Bannon's knowledge did not die with him.
Don't miss this great interview of Matt Lohr explaining the behind the scenes of writing the book.
Purchase Dan O'Bannon's Guide to Screenplay Structure
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CCI, Day 1 – Rachel Weisz Looks Back At "Constanine"
Panel host Jeff Connor had a problem — the main focus of the "Constanine" panel was supposed to be director Francis Lawrence, using a series of slides to show some of the thought processes that went into making the Vertigo adaptation, with actress Rachel Weisz (who said, "I've never been to Comicon before, so I'm very excited!"), Vertigo exec Karen Berger and creatives Tim Bradstreet and Brian Azzarello as backup. But unforeseen events took the main course out of this entree, and Connor worked hard to save the meal.
Berger related anecdotes about origins of this and that, saying that the comic book's rendition of the character Chas was based on writer Jamie Delano, who was a cab driver at the time. Azzarello chimed in to say he was once an antique furniture restoration artist. She also emphasized how the original character was based on the visual appearance of pop singer Sting.
"I thought for a dark-haired American guy," Azzarello said in response to a fan question, "Keanu did a great job. As a fan of the book, you should be really happy with this adaptation."
"It was Constantine's world, very true to the core," Berger agreed.
Clips from the film were shown in between slides, and mostly Weisz and Connor went through the slides — from the film and the source comics — in sometimes excruciating detail, discussing why they thought Lawrence might have chosen them for this presentation.
When asked why she chose the project, Weisz admitted that the chance to play two parts was part of the reason, and that she visited a morgue as part of her research for the part. She also talked about the model of her character Isabelle, created by Stan Winston's Creature Shop, saying, "To see myself dead in front of myself, was spooky. My dad came to visit that day, and I said "Dad," to show him the dead meat. He didn't like it." Laughing, she finished, "I think it was stolen."
She commented that the backstory of a former lover and co-worker was cut from the film but will be back on the DVD. When the suicide jump was pictured, Weisz said,"I wasn't insured for that. I would have, if they let me. I like doing stunts." Weisz also told a little girl who questioned her that her favorite scene was the devil appearing.
As for a sequel, Berger summed up the thoughts of everyone there: "I don't really know. I haven't heard anything."
To close up, the panel was asked what their next projects were. Weisz outlined a number of non-genre films, and Bradstreet mentioned he'd be leaving "Hellblazer" after issue #215, as well a working on "Bad Planet" with "Punisher" actor Thomas Jane and creator Steve Niles. Azzarrello said he's still focused on "100 Bullets" and a new creator-owned project called "Loveless" with Marcello Frusin, which features "shootin'" and "cussin'" prominently.
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Wine-ter is coming! To celebrate the return of the biggest show in the TV realm, we paired the Game of Thrones houses with wine. (We thought about doing characters, but pairing Cersei with vino would've been like pairing a goat with food; it'll eat anything.) The night might be dark and full of terrors, but you'll be as happy as Sansa eating lemon cake with these dynamic duos. Get the pairings below!
DISCLAIMER: Light spoilers included! Please don't read if you're not caught up.
THE HOUSE // Baratheon
THE WINE // Malbec
After last season, it's hard to say what'll become of House Baratheon (our money's on Stannis definitely not being dead, though). Because the members of the Baratheon family — Renly, Robert, Shireen, Stannis, Joffrey (yes, we know he was really a Lannister) — were all so wildly different, this one was hard. We went with Malbec for the difference in nuance and complexity its age can bring.
THE HOUSE // Lannister
THE WINE // Bordeaux blend
The Lannisters are a house of many personalities, but they're best-known in Westeros for their wealth and power — as well as their cunning and arrogance. The most obvious parallel in the wine world? The Bordeaux blend. Luxurious and a bit elitist, they tend to be expensive and can even be a little intimidating — but if you take a closer look, you'll realize they actually come in all flavors and at all price tags. (There's a "Lannister always pays his debts" joke here; we just can't think of it.)
THE HOUSE // Stark
THE WINE // French Syrah
In many ways, the Starks function as the emotional center of Game of Thrones. Ned and Robb Stark, two of the best-loved figures in the series, were brutally taken from us in two of the most memorable, WTF-just-happened scenes in TV history. Arya Stark and Jon Snow continue to headline the list of favorite show characters season after season, and Sansa's storyline has evolved into something truly heart-wrenching. The real way we think of the Starks, though, is as the familial embodiment of Robb's last moniker: the "King of the North." The only choice for a wine pairing? A French Syrah, where the grape happens to rule in that part of the country.
THE HOUSE // Targaryen
THE WINE // Napa Cabernet
The Targaryen sigil is a dragon, the family motto is "fire and blood," and the only living member of the Targaryen clan (that we know of) is Daenerys — aka one of the fiercest characters on television. For this pairing, we went with a Napa Cabernet, both because of the pedigree its name conjures and because of its classic power and boldness.
THE HOUSE // Tyrell
THE WINE // Riesling
Over the past couple seasons, the Tyrells have become bigger and bigger players in King's Landing. Margaery (Joffrey Baratheon's widow who's now married to his younger brother Tommen) is outwardly all charm and sweetness, but she has a clever, cutting edge lurking just beneath the surface. The wine world match? Riesling. Most people think it's sweet, but those in the know are well aware of its surprisingly bright acidity and refreshing bite. Plus, it's straight-up delightful to drink — just like Margaery's grandmother Olenna is delightful to watch, thanks to that seriously sharp tongue.
All posters in our pictures were downloaded and printed from HBO's website.
More we think you'll like:
What's Your House of Cards Wine Personality?
Skip the Milk // We Paired Girl Scout Cookies with Wine!


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As seven-year-old John Burroughs explored the woods one day, his attention was arrested by a small blue warbler with a white spot on its wing. The sight of this strange bird thrilled him as no other bird before and awakened within him a resolve to know more about the birds some day.
John went back to the work on his father's farm, for there were hundreds of chores to be done. He milked the cows, chopped wood, gathered sap from the maple trees, helped his mother churn butter, threshed flax to be made into home-spun shirts (how they scratched the skin!) and took part in the sheep-shearing which provided wool clothes for the winter. This farm, his birthplace, stood on the slope of Old Clump (later renamed Burroughs Mountain) in the Catskills, just above the village of Roxbury, New York.
Of the ten Burroughs children, John was the only one who, as his father said, "took to larnin'." The others, like their parents, barely learned to read and write. Even John was not thought a brilliant scholar in the rural schools he attended, being a poor speller. But he was determined to learn. Once, when his father refused to get him a grammar, he earned enough money to buy one by making small cakes of maple sugar and peddling them in the village.
At seventeen he left home in search of work and further knowledge. For nine years he taught school in various communities, mostly in New York state, completing his meagre schooling with a few months' study at the Ashland Collegiate Institute in Greene County and at Cooperstown Seminary. During this time he married (at twenty) Ursula North, of Olive, New York, and began to write nature essays. His boyhood interest in birds was reawakened by the reading one day of Audubon's bird book, and he began a systematic study of feathery creatures with high enthusiasm.
At twenty-six he suddenly abandoned teaching and went to Washington, D. C., where he worked as a clerk in the Currency Bureau of the Treasury Department for nearly ten years. In Washington he formed the most important friendship of his life—with Walt Whitman, the poet, who was eighteen years his senior. It was Whitman who inspired, and even helped write, his first book, Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person. Whitman also gave the title to his first nature book, Wake-Robin.
In his thirty-sixth year Burroughs resigned his government position and resumed the outdoor life of his youth. He purchased a farm near Esopus, New York, on the west bank of the Hudson, about eighty miles north of New York City. There he built a house which he named "Riverby" and cultivated fruit-trees, grapes, and berries. Apart from the house was his small study, made of bark. In the hills about a mile away he had a secluded cabin, "Slabsides," where it was his delight to cook breakfasts of bacon and pancakes. His summers, later in life, were usually spent at a rustic farmhouse, "Woodchuck Lodge," on the farm near Roxbury where he grew up. An old haybarn, in which he used to quake with fear of ghosts as a boy, was his literary headquarters while there.
For nearly half a century in these places Burroughs observed the birds and animals, read, and wrote. His books, more than twenty-five in number, were mostly nature essays and they recorded the changes in his own inner life. He traveled quite extensively. He camped in the Yosemite with John Muir and in the Yellowstone with Theodore Roosevelt. Among his close friends in later years were Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford.
Burroughs was a national figure and many people made pilgrimages to him. His snowy-white beard, expansive fore-head, and slender figure were familiar in every part of the land thru the medium of countless photographs. Children said he looked like Santa Claus. He was awarded honorary degrees by Yale, Colgate, and the University of Georgia.
He died while traveling on a train from California to his home in New York. He was buried on his eighty-fourth birthday by the rock where he used to sit and dream as a boy, on the farm of his birth. A bronze tablet was inscribed with a line he wrote in his youth: "I stand amid the eternal ways."
John Burroughs' books that younger readers like especially are: Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers, Wake-Robin, and Bird Stories From Burroughs.


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Coronation Street star Tristan Gemmill has defended co-star Sarah Harding.
The Girls Aloud beauty was axed from the soap after just four episodes some weeks back following negative feedback from fans.
However, the 48-year-old, who plays Tracy Barlow's new man Robert Preston, has suggested that the public may have been too harsh on his TV wife.
"I got on very well with Sarah and found her delightful to work with – and I thought the criticism about her was unfair," he told The Sun.
"She had a lot of emotion to get into a very short space of time, and I thought she made a good job of it."
Tristan went on to reveal that since landing a role in Coronation Street earlier this year, he has been attracting more attention while out and about.
But apparently, the people stopping him believe he's a lookalike rather than the real mccoy.
In fact, one passer-by recently advised him to look into cashing in on his resemblance to Corrie's Robert Preston.
The star joked: "This lady came up to me and said, in a deep West Country accent, 'I don't know if you know, but there's a man on Coronation Street that looks exactly like you. You could be a lookalike for him. There's lots of money in that — you should look into it'. I said, 'Thank you very much, I will go and watch Coronation Street and look!'"
Coronation Street is on ITV1 tonight at 8pm.


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EYFS framework links:
Language and physical development, self confidence, using imagination
Roll Up! Roll Up! is an exciting participatory theatre-in-education programme for Nursery and Reception in which the children help Bim to find the confidence to realise his dream of joining the circus as a performer.
The children are involved as supporters, creators and performers working through movement to help Bim to create an act of his own. The acts in Mr Z's circus are represented using familiar objects and materials that the children will recognise from home and school, thus creating a world of circus that is unique and accessible, and one that provides a stimulus for creative play beyond the life of the programme.
See what schools are saying about this programme here


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"I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness. Upstairs, my daughter and granddaughter are asleep in their bedrooms, each one alone as well, the forty-seven-year-old Miriam, my only child, who has slept alone for the past five years, and the twenty-three-year-old Katya, Miriam's only child, who used to sleep with a young man named Titus Small, but Titus is dead now, and Katya sleeps alone with her broken heart."
And THAT, my friend, is how to write an opening paragraph of a book!
Yesterday, I finished reading a different book, one that I had started speed reading and scanning through the last third because I was only curious if anything was really going to happen or if my suspicions that it would ultimately disappoint me were true. It went no where leaving a bad taste in my mouth. So much potential of story that fell flat.
Just before bedtime, I picked up this book from my to-read pile from the library.
It is cleansing my palate with beautifully crafted words that make me insanely curious about the characters written within one long sentence. A sentence that, in school, I would have received marks off as a run-on sentence. A sentence that invites all the questions.
Who is telling this story? Why is he ( or she ... we don't know at this time) alone? Why is his daughter alone? How did Titus die? How did the three of them come to live in the same house?
I turn the pages, reading more, sinking deeply into words that cradle my thoughts and more questions. I re-read certain sentences because the words are achingly beautiful and I love the way they make me feel.
Why do you love one book and not another? What makes you clutch a book to your chest, close your eyes, and sigh deeply with satisfaction? How do you qualify and quantify your reading choices?
For that matter, why does any one of us prefer one thing over another? If one thing is liked or loved by more people than another, does that really increase its worth or value? If someone else does or does not like something, does that mean that I will or will not?
Why all these questions and is this post really about why we like the things that we do?
The questions come to me when I am churning and exploring something undefinable. I've been keeping track of my reading list on Goodreads and once I finish a book, I then go and rate it. I like to remind myself later if I liked a book and why but also with the ratings comes recommendations. Can they really know though? My taste is peculiar. I don't always go for plot or setting or character. Sometimes it is about the crafting of the sentences. Always, it is about how I feel when I close the book.
What if I only read books that were recommended to me? Then I probably wouldn't be reading A Man in the Dark right now. This one made it to the book bag at the library simply because I allowed myself to wander and get lost in the stacks of books, running my hands along the spines, wondering if I could be like Francie in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and aspire to read my way through the library, beginning with the A authors. That day, I chose this book by Paul Auster. How glad I am but it may not have been so. It could have been a book that I couldn't get pass the first fifty pages. It's the risk you take by blindly choosing to try something. It's exploration and discovery.
Ah. Exploration. According to Personality Hacker (my FAVORITE source for all things personality), exploration is the way that I learn things. It's the way that I experience the world. When I try to do things or experience things based simply on the reasoning that this is how it is done or based on recommendation, I feel stuck. I have to explore.
All these words today have really been my exploration about why I have been feeling stuck lately. Exploration is missing. The reason for some of that absence is temporarily unavoidable. The move has upended systems and routines. I haven't quite gotten myself back into a flow of exploration. Ah, but now that I know, now that I see clearly the missing piece, I can begin today. I can begin to build exploration back into my life. It doesn't have to be HUGE. It doesn't have to be limited to painting at the easel. ( OH, how I have missed it. Soon, soon ... the studio is almost ready) Exploration can begin right outside my door or inside the cover of the next book.
Here is another layer to peel and understand. I HAVE been exploring ... in a different way. Maybe I am discovering that, "every experience is a form of exploration" (Ansel Adams said that).
Spending these moments, writing for myself but posting for others, clears my head. It wipes away the dust and the scum. I feel more settled with where life is right now, what is possible, what direction I am moving.
What about you?
How are you exploring today?


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