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American Atlas: Oxford, Mississippi
Oxford is more than a town, much more. It's a way of life, a place built with words that holds the heart, mind and spirit of those who call it home whether for four years or a lifetime. Oxford is at the crossroads of Southern culture, class and cuisine. The storied buildings around the picture perfect town square seem to hold the key to Southern culture, equally embracing learning and leisure. In many ways Oxford is a dichotomy, simultaneously offering stimulation and serenity, creativity and calm. Oxford is a state of mind, a gateway to some and a lifelong home to others. It's a place where all four seasons take a firm hold, accentuated by football games, festivals and friendships.
Oxford is full of stories that resonate with a tenor that can only be found in a town that reverberates Southern charisma and charm. Enjoy the slices of life that follow as they are but snapshots of the town and university we so deeply love and admire.
- Texas Visionary Brings Development, Love to Oxford
- Ronzo: The Gateway Drug to Cool
- Ron Shapiro, one-of-a-kind 'cultural ambassador' for Oxford, Mississippi, has died
- Four Decades of Oxford's Square Books
- Tailgating Goes Above and Beyond at the University of Mississippi
- At Ole Miss, evolving perceptions both outward and inward
- Week 6: What Happened To You On Saturday?
- Real Estate Students Network With Wine-Tasting, Plan Future Goals
- The Anatomy of a Field Storming: The Fantastic Saga of the Ole Miss Goalposts
- Hotel for College Towns Coming to Oxford in 2015
- Harvest Supper: An Unforgettable Night
- Movie Magic
- Who Remembers the Rebel Deli?
- American Atlas: Oxford, Mississippi
- The Sounds and the Fury - Down Home with Ole Miss, Beauty Queens and Literary Greatness in Oxford
- Are You Ready to Ryde?
- Ole Miss, MSU Real Estate Producing Grads Schooled in the Art of the Deal
- About Oxford
- Ole Miss' Bo Wallace and Rebels Boat Race Longhorns 44-23
- Top 10 Best Small Towns, 2013
- Throwback Friday
- Oxford Takes the Tailgate
- Of Parties, Prose and Football
- A Sincere Thank You To The Good Folks of Ole Miss
- America's Best College Bars
- New Oxford High School Under Construction
- They're Bitin' at Ezell's Fish Camp
- Oxford Ranked as Nation's Second-Best College Town
- Best of 2012- #4 Oxford Ranked as Nation's Second-Best College Town
- Oxford Tourism: 'All Good News'
- Best Breakfasts Around the World
- Take Monday Off: Oxford
- The Grove at Ole Miss
- Goose Creek Club Breaks Ground
- Inside Forbes: On a Visit to Ole Miss, a Look Into Journalism's Past, Present and Future
- Forward Together: We Are Ole Miss
- Ole Miss National 60 Second Spot
- Sorry We're Open
- Tailgate Movie
- Ole Miss Football: Vanderbilt Highlight '13
- The Tailgating Experience at Ole Miss
- The Pride of the South: From Dixie With Love
- Oxford, Mississippi on CNBC Boomer Nation
- Oxford, Mississippi
- Best Atmosphere in College Baseball
- Ole Miss Football - Opening Weekend 2012
- Ole Miss Football Team Intro 2012
- America's Game - 1962 Ole Miss Rebels National Champions - John Vaught
- "Lock The Vaught"
- Ole Miss Baseball Home Run Shower
- The Ole Miss Rebels Throw Texas Size Party
- Ole Miss Band Dixie
- Ole Miss HOTTY TODDY Cheer
- The Oak Ridge Boys Tribute to George Jones
- Hoka Video / Documentary
- Oak Ridge Boys Stop in Oxford
- George Will Gives Honors Convocation Address
- College Towns Doubling as Retirement Communities
American Atlas: Oxford, Mississippi
- Town and Country, Chris Offutt
The small town where Faulkner created masterpieces has a larger-than-life reputation as the South's downhome capital of culture. It's place where mavericks still congregate—and where tailgating is a fine art.
I have a special affinity for the literary history of Oxford, Mississippi, beginning with William Faulkner. The town pretty much ignored him until a film version of his novel Intruder in the Dust was shot here in 1949; it had more impact than his Nobel Prize the following year. Now his former home of Rowan Oak is fully renovated and presided over by Bill Griffith, who will show you the phone on which Faulkner received word he had won the Nobel, the same phone on which he refused to speak to Edward Murrow, who had the audacity to call during supper hour.
My relationship with Oxford began during a publicity tour for my second book, The Same River Twice, in 1994. The worst ice storm in Mississippi in over 40 years occurred, dropping power lines and trees across every road, stranding me there for three days, unable to make my flight. Electricity and water were out. The roads were slicked by two inches of ice. Every surface glittered in the sun, which wasn't quite hot enough to melt the ice. The lack of cars created a silence in which the only sound was the creaking of frozen branches and the fierce crash of trees falling from weight. I didn't know anyone, but it didn't matter—all the people in the town pulled together to assist one another: checking on older folks, sharing food and water, breaking cars free, chainsawing trees out of city streets. I joined in, and at the end of each night drank with my new friends in bars that insisted on staying open despite low supplies, dim lights, and no music. I fell in love with the place.
I would not possibly have believed a fortune teller who presaged my future: In 18 years you will leave Hollywood and move to Oxford with a different wife for a tenure-track position teaching screenwriting at Ole Miss. I'd have laughed like a maniac. I had a solid marriage, no desire to teach, and, despite some successes, no real ambition toward Hollywood. Nevertheless, that's what came about.
Oxford has made up for slighting Faulkner by welcoming successive generations of writers, beginning with Barry Hannah, Willie Morris, Richard Ford, and Curtis Wilkie, then locals Larry Brown and John Grisham. Stories about these writers take on the timbre of legend around town. Taverns and restaurants feature their books and photographs. Big Bad Breakfast—chef John Currence's place out on North Lamar Boulevard—takes its name from a Larry Brown book, and the entire menu is composed of variations on titles by Southern writers. My favorite is the Smonk Burger, described as "the big nasty with everything on it!" (Smonk was the misanthropic protagonist of a novel by Tom Franklin.)
Currently making their home in Oxford are a suite of sweet poets: Beth Ann Fennelly and Ann Fisher-Wirth, along with newcomers Melissa Ginsburg, Derrick Harriell, Chiyuma Elliott, and Dave Smith. On any given weekend night, you'll find them at the movies, in the bookstore, at a literary reading, at a band show, or carousing on the Square. Into this mix are thrown fiction writers—Franklin, Ace Atkins, Jack Pendarvis, and Lee Durkee—always ready to listen seriously or laugh uproariously. The food writer John T. Edge, who heads up the Southern Foodways Alliance, will not only buy you a drink but tell you its history, the provenance of its ingredients, and the etymology of its name. No gathering is complete without the bighearted Wright Thompson, the best sportswriter in America, telling the outrageous details he had to cut from his last article, or Larry Wells, keeper of the Faulkner flame.
The writers converge primarily at another Currence establishment, City Grocery, a tavern where bartenders remember your name, shake your hand, and know your drink. It specializes in local ingredients, traditional Southern fare, and great shellfish, steak, black-eyed peas, grits, fried boudin balls, pork rilletes, and hummingbird cake. Everyone mixes at City Grocery, from 21-year-olds to my mother—lawyers and carpenters, bankers and house painters. People smoke on the balcony and recall the time so-and-so jumped off to escape an oncoming ex-wife, landed on the hood of a giant pickup, rolled to the pavement, and fled into the night.
Oxford is home to the Howorth Nation, five brothers who live and work here , including Richard, former mayor and husband of the witty, kind, and phenomenal party hostess Lisa. Thirty-four years ago they cofounded Square Books, chosen by Publishers Weekly as its Bookstore of the Year for 2013. The store hosts at least two well-attended author readings per week. Every Thursday evening at 6 p.m. Thacker Mountain Radio broadcasts live from the bookstore's annex, the event hosted by the inimitable Jim Dees. The show typically includes two or three musical guests and at least one writer reading original material. I have seen an a cappella gospel group reduce a fervent agnostic to tears, followed by a humorous reading that had the audience laughing so hard the show came to a halt.
Everyone in town does double duty. Slade Lewis, the bass man in Thacker Mountain's house band, the Yalobushwackers, will discuss novels with you while ringing up sales at the bookstore. A local dentist performs in community theater. Organic farmers volunteer at the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, which offers art classes for children by day and hosts films at night. The actress Joey Lauren Adams prefers to live here rather than Los Angeles, serving as a volunteer for the Lafayette County Literacy Council. We recently chatted in a parking lot beside her pickup truck, her dog in the front seat.
Word of mouth reigns as the chief means of communication in Oxford. A typical day entails running into friends—at Kroger, in the post office, on the Square, or at a café—and learning the top social event of the evening, along with a few auxiliary options depending upon preference. Oxford events are eclectic and surprising. Two years ago we could attend a reading by Pulitzer Prize winner Jeffrey Eugenides, then walk a few blocks to see a Snoop Dogg show at the Lyric Theatre. Another night might include running into Dolly Parton on the Square, or a meal with Morgan Freeman at a friend's house. Bob Dylan rolled through town not too long ago wanting to meet a favorite writer. (It was Larry Brown.) Tom Waits surprised people by eating health food and being polite to everyone.
Significant to Oxonians is how Ole Miss is holding up in the SEC. Our motto is simple: We may not win the game, but we will win the party. Tailgating has evolved to an art form here. A section of campus called the Grove is set aside for aficionados not just of sports but also of food, fashion, and strong cocktails. Citizens arrange tents with silent generators that power stoves, chandeliers, and wide-screen TV sets. Ole Miss honored quarterback alum Archie Manning by making his jersey number, 18, the official campus speed limit. The week after his son Eli, another Ole Miss alum, won the Super Bowl, in February 2012, I ate lunch at Ajax and was seated at a table beside him, his wife, and his young daughter. We nodded to each other. Other patrons did as well. Nobody bothered him because he was out with his family. In Oxford, that's just how it's done.
I moved here just over two years ago. After decades of relentless travel, I sought a more settled life in a small town and managed to pick the best place in the South. No snow (despite the odd ice storm), great people, spectacular food. They'll carry me out of here feet first, if I don't leap off the balcony one wild night.


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The Federazione Italiana rugby Football League (FIRFL) is growing visibly and has now officially announced another bead to their international stature: the Federleague, in fact, has signed an agreement with the "Kenya Rugby League Federation" for the creation of an "Rugby Academy", which will be launched in the Watamu area, the location where the Italian National Rugby League team recently completed in an international rugby league match against their Kenyan selection.
The idea was launched during the Italians' Kenyan tour and this immediately took foot and within a few weeks was formalised. Two weeks ago, the Kenyan Federation President met the Secretary General of the Federleague, Pierluigi Gentile, and the parties have now defined a project of understanding, which will most likely start within a year: in particular showing the willingness of the African Federation to officially open the Academy and organise another international rugby league match event against the Italian national team, in a similar format to their previous encounter in March.
The Kenyan Rugby League Federation will provide an area where the Academy sports centre will be based and, along with this, there will be a gym and offices that will act as their the headquarters. This enables them to create a "highly specialised" area open to athletes of all ages, managed by the African experts during the year, but enriched by the season presence of several Italian technicians. The parties would like to point out that the Academy will certainly like the major focus to be rugby league, but it will be open to other codes of rugby.
In short, there is the idea of developing rugby activity as Kenyans are logically very sporting and attentive to all codes of the oval ball. The Federleague, with this new project, emphasised once more that there is complementarity between the various codes of rugby, highlighting how the discipline of XIII is not absolutely contrary to the other.
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Clean the debris on your condenser units. Leaves and debris can accumulate quickly, particularly following storms, and that can cause problems for your system. It could get too hot, leading to even more problems.
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China-based Manufacturer SUPOR Sanitary Ware Sends Chinese New Year Greetings to Chinese Communities Worldwide from New York's Times Square
Jan 30, 2017, 09:00 ET
NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- SUPOR Sanitary Ware, a China-based manufacturer of high-quality sanitary products, has taken a unique approach to celebrating the arrival of the year of Rooster, by announcing this year's greetings from one of the immense digital screens overlooking New York's Times Square, drawing the attention of many of the passers-by. The brand chose the famous square as the venue for wishing members of Chinese communities all over the world the best for the coming year.
SUPOR, originally a manufacturer of cookers, has transformed itself from a one-product producer into a maker of a full range of stainless steel sanitary ware for both the kitchen and bath. On the back of more than 20 years of experience in manufacturing stainless steel cookware, the company has invested approx. 3 billion yuan in building three manufacturing facilities: one for stainless steel faucets in Shenyang, Liaoning province and one for ceramics in Faku, a suburb of Shenyang, as well one for hardware accessories in Yuhuan, Zhejiang province. The company, a subsidiary of Supor Group, has received substantial investment from its parent. Supor Group is one of China's Top 500 Private Companies and has a product portfolio spanning stainless steel faucets, showers, toilets, bathroom cabinets and sinks, among other product lines.
SUPOR Sanitary Ware has taken on as a corporate mission a promise to deliver products that are both non-toxic to the user and environmentally responsible. With this in mind, the company has taken the lead in bringing about a transformation across the industry, by developing and producing stainless steel sanitary products that meet the demands of the mission. After nearly five years of research in association with the global leader in automation technologies, ABB, as well as with Tsinghua University and several scientific research institutions both in China and abroad, the sanitary ware maker has made significant breakthroughs in stainless steel processing, welding and finishing. The research team went back to the drawing board four times until they felt that they had gotten the manufacturing process right, and, in the process, decided to reject one million faucets that had already been made, until they were fully satisfied with the final results. Investment in the research has reached nearly 500 million yuan.
In its push to deliver products that in no way pose any health risk to its users, SUPOR Sanitary Ware has become an expert in the field. The company's products now meet the industry standards of multiple countries and regions and are widely recognized by world-renowned labs. The company has obtained several internationally authoritative certifications including Australia's WaterMark, the European Union's CE marking, France's ACS, the US's NSF and Canada's cUPC. Its products are exported in quantity to South Korea, Russia and Vietnam as well as to several other countries.
China's household sanitary ware market is in the midst of a product revolution in terms of quality and expanding categories and SUPOR Sanitary Ware is fully confident in the efforts the company has made in delivering environmentally-friendly and safe products that meet the demands of the increasingly discerning consumers, both in its home market and abroad. The appearance of SUPOR Sanitary Ware on a Times Square billboard is of great significance as the company continues its expansion into markets worldwide.
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Our entire Sunday was spent mostly on the road and in the forest — 3 hours on the road driving up north to Grik to pay a homage to Mother Nature and to what I call the most prestigious and protected rainforest in all of Malaysia – the Royal Belum Rainforest, before leaving the place at 6:00pm. The Royal Belum Rainforest is prestigious and special to me due to its nature in terms of the landscape, lake and its foresty surrounding. I have not been to Taman Negara in Pahang yet, so for now, this rainforest will wear the crown of glory and sit on a throne.
Before we set foot on rainforest soil, we stopped midway for lunch in a small town just before Grik, where we had the most scrumptious meal of wild boar curry, freshly steamed catfish, paku pakis stir fried with sambal belacan (ferns in chilli and spices), and a steaming plate of egg tofu. That meal itself was enough to sustain us all the way to the rainforest where our adventures began and lasted until sunset.
The Royal Belum Rainforest, also known as the Belum-Temenggor Rainforest, is located on Pulau Banding in Grik, Perak. Set in the midst of a tropical paradise is the Belum Rainforest Resort, one of Malaysia's premier eco-tourism holiday destinations where nature lovers and holidaygoers can enjoy complete relaxation and serenity surrounded by stunning views and scenic landscapes, adventure and get the chance to be close to nature. With the rainforest literally at their doorstep, guests have the rare opportunity to experience the soothing and calming beautfy and mystery of the vast forest which has remained untouched for centuries. One of the reasons why this is so is due to the Sultan of Perak's protection given to the rainforest. Nature lovers can also revel at the chance to observe the beauty of plants and scenery that are rarely found elsewhere. Nature lovers will revel at the chance to observe the beauty of plants and scenery that can be found only rarely elsewhere. Thrilling outdoor activities also await adventure seekers who crave for adrenaline-pumping experiences.
Here's another titbit of the Royal Belum Rainforest:
According to the boatman, one of the islands within the rainforest is home to four Rafflesia flowers. The Rafflesia is by far the largest and most magnificent flower in the world, and it is a plant with no leaves, roots or stems. The Rafflesia (Scientific name: Rafflesia arnoldii) was discovered in 1818 by Sir Stamford Raffles and his companion, surgeon-naturalist Dr James Arnold. This jungle parasite of Southeast Asia holds the all-time record-breaking bloom of 106.7 centimetres (3 ft. 6 in.) in diameter and 11 kilograms (24 lbs) in weight, with petal-like lobes at least an inch thick. It is also one of the rarest plants in the world and so happens to be on the verge of extinction. As if size and rarity weren't enough, the Rafflesia is also one of the world's most distasteful plants as it is designed by nature to imitate rotting meat or dung.
The rainforest was so wide and spacious that it took up a large portion of the town, and came with many islands, both big and small. The boatman who took us around the rainforest, also told us that there were as many as 80 small islands dotting the area with a few larger ones within sight. Each island has its own stash of trees, greens and wildlife, from mountain goats to tigers, panthers and elephants. Monkeys were a common sight to us, while the much less common ones were wildlife that normally emerge from the shadows of the forest after the sun has gone down.
Our boat ride did not commence until the first heavy downpour ceased, which we assumed would not recur until we boarded the motorboat and set off on our way to a wild ride around the rainforest and an hour and a half's worth of lessons about the jungle's history. The second downpour came and by the time we were done with our ride, we were soaked to the skin but we enjoyed the whole episode. Nothing could stop us from getting onto the boat and going for a spin. It was a breathtaking experience which I would gladly have again if I had the opportunity.


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New design available in my Zazzle shop — let your little one shine their light bright!
With the Good News!
New design available in my Zazzle shop — let your little one shine their light bright!
She is clothed with strength and dignity,
and she laughs without fear of the future
– Proverbs 31:25 (NLT)
I'm sure many of you have heard this before, or have seen it on a poster or somewhere online. I was playing around with my Over app on my iPhone trying to do just that (create a cute image with one of my favorite verses – for Instagram, of course!), so I opened up my Bible and started reading Proverbs 31, "The Sayings of King Lemuel…which his Mother taught him"
Let me share the whole passage with you starting at 31:10:
10 Who can find a virtuous and capable wife?
She is more precious than rubies.
11 Her husband can trust her,
and she will greatly enrich his life.
12 She brings him good, not harm,
all the days of her life.
13 She finds wool and flax
and busily spins it.
14 She is like a merchant's ship,
bringing her food from afar.
15 She gets up before dawn to prepare breakfast for her household
and plan the day's work for her servant girls.
16 She goes to inspect a field and buys it;
with her earnings she plants a vineyard.
17 She is energetic and strong,
a hard worker.
18 She makes sure her dealings are profitable;
her lamp burns late into the night.
19 Her hands are busy spinning thread,
her fingers twisting fiber.
20 She extends a helping hand to the poor
and opens her arms to the needy.
21 She has no fear of winter for her household,
for everyone has warm clothes.
22 She makes her own bedspreads.
She dresses in fine linen and purple gowns.
23 Her husband is well known at the city gates,
where he sits with the other civic leaders.
24 She makes belted linen garments
and sashes to sell to the merchants.
25 She is clothed with strength and dignity,
and she laughs without fear of the future.
26 When she speaks, her words are wise,
and she gives instructions with kindness.
27 She carefully watches everything in her household
and suffers nothing from laziness.
28 Her children stand and bless her.
Her husband praises her:
29 "There are many virtuous and capable women in the world,
but you surpass them all!"
30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last;
but a woman who fears the Lord will be greatly praised.
31 Reward her for all she has done.
Let her deeds publicly declare her praise.
How beautiful is that?! Now you know where that famous verse comes from.
As a Wife and a Mother this passage is breathtaking — and it speaks to me even more as a Maker.. not that I'm sitting here spinning wool or anything, but it is truly inspiring. Not sure my husband sees me exactly this way but hey, I try. #wifegoals
I've put together a few new products in my Stickelberry Shop on Zazzle with Proverbs 31:25 on them to help inspire us. May we all raise our standard a bit higher and be as noble as we can today and everyday.
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Here we are, back in the season, scooping up all of the clothes, gear and supplies for our offspring to head back in to the classroom to grow and learn all the things.
You know the last thing your kid wants is the same "_______" as someone else, so wouldn't it be great to surprise them with some personalized coolness and unique duds that no one else will have? Zazzle can make this happen for us, friends!
AND you can get 30% off right now through Sunday 8/21 using code ZBIGDEALFORU at checkout!
First off, I LOVE these bags from Zazzle – they are lightweight, easy to clean and large enough to hold plenty.
I totally dig these for my littles AND for myself, because hello – these are awesome for the beach, park, gym, wherever. They would make a great sports bag too!
Check out my newest backpack designs here, or peruse the amazing Zazzle gallery of other unique backpack designs. They even have popular Game, Movie and Comic characters for the little fans out there.
Next on my list for my dudes was a new lunchbox. Again, I wanted something totally unique for them and I hit the jackpot with these Yubo lunchboxes. They are totally customize-able and come in hundreds of designs!
What I like the most about these is the fact that the faceplates COME OFF – so if you want a new design, you can just order new plates instead of a whole new lunchbox. Think about the possibilities — different plates for different seasons, or each new school year, etc. They come in other colors besides blue, too! It's all washable, AND it COMES WITH the containers AND the icepack! So there you go — everything you need to pack your child's lunch (or yours for that matter, I may indeed make one for myself). You can find my designs here, or checkout all the cool lunchboxes that Zazzle has to offer here.
Let's talk clothes. Shirts in particular. Kids love shirts with words. Funny sayings, things that express who they are and what they are into… I happen to know a lot of kids that are in to sports. Like, REALLY in to sports. ALL THEY DO is eat, sleep, and play their sports. Enough said. Check out my collection of back to school shirts here (more to come, I'm adding new designs daily!), or peruse the entire gallery of SO MANY awesome and unique shirts on Zazzle.
Have I mentioned that I love all things paper. I love love LOVE notebooks in particular – anything I can write or doodle in makes me SO happy. Get your child writing with these custom notebooks and journals! Great for taking notes, journaling, keeping scores… you name it. Check out my favorites here or view the entire collection that Zazzle has to offer!
If you have an avid list maker, artist or poet on your hands, these pocket journals are THE BEST! You can customize the outside and choose what type of paper is on the inside: blank, lined, grid or checklist.
I love the idea of customized binders – nowadays the older kids need one for every subject so why not provide them with super cool subject binders.
You can put any text on them, so you could put their name or initials, the class the binder is for, etc., and they come in 1″, 1.5″ and 2″ sizes. You can find my designs here, or the entire gallery here. You can get popular characters like Superman, Batman and all of your favorite Disney friends!
Don't forget phone and tablet cases – there are so many beautiful and customize-able designs available on Zazzle! Here is my newest design from my Back to School shop — you can get them with a shiny or matte finish, available in 3 colors. You can find this and the rest of my cases here, or check out the rest that Zazzle has to offer here for iPhone, Samsung, Nexus, iPad and Kindle!
So, my friends – go shop with confidence knowing that your kids will have the good stuff this year. Be sure to check out my Check Mate collection, featuring all of my latest checkered goodies inspired by my little dudes.
Get 30% off right now through Sunday 8/21 using code ZBIGDEALFORU at checkout!
Want to see ALL of the Back to School goodies available on Zazzle? Check them out here:
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Happy National Dog Day!! You may or may not know, I am not only mother to two crazy boys, but also to this guy — this big, beautiful and completely blind boy named Jaeger (Jaeger der Wunderhund Von Stickel, to be exact).
I have a huge place in my heart for all things furry, especially big slobbery dogs. In fact, it wouldn't be a stretch to say I am more fond of them than people… which is why I am SO excited to try to do my part to help these guys out.
The Labrador Rescuers of San Diego is an amazing charity that helps foster, rehabilitate and relocate Labrador Retrievers to find their forever home. They are amazing! I've teamed up with them to donate a portion of the proceeds from my new collection, Labrador Love, to help support their efforts.
I have all kinds of goodies available that are super cute and will help you show your love for your fur-baby, while also supporting a fantastic cause for our four-legged friends. We all have at least one crazy dog lady friend, there are lots of great gifts for her, too!
Here are a few of my favorite items that are available, but do check out the Entire Collection Here. Be sure to check out the Zazzle Offers page to see if there is a coupon code for one of the items you might be purchasing first!
Labrador Wine Tote — also available with the full Lab Lover logo.
Labrador Love Acrylic dog food or water bowl!
Lab Lover T-Shirt — available in several styles. Sweatshirts, hoodies, baby and toddler shirts also available!
And many more goodies, like leashes and collars, coffee mugs, blankets, etc., available in the shop — go Check it Out and support Labrador Rescuers today!
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The little man recently turned a year old (!!!), so of course, we had to celebrate. Always itching for an opportunity to design and be crafty, I dove in head first and let everything else go while I was in party planning mode. I then remembered that I have a blog and that I should probably blog about it, so I had to remember to take good pictures, too! #bloggerproblems
Since I did actually think ahead this time, almost everything you see in this post is available either for purchase or as a free printable (yay!). You can find a list of products and links to their source at the bottom of this post! I chose a farm theme for Vaughn – his Grandpa is a strawberry farmer, and Vaughn seems to have an affinity for one of his cow toys, so I thought it would be a really cute party and super fun to plan for if we held it at Grandma & Grandpa's house.
It all started with the invites. I started playing with the cow idea and drew up this cutie. The whole theme unfolded from there with the red font and cow splotches all over the place. 🙂
I loved the tag shaped invite option on Zazzle, so I used that as my canvas, and opted for the natural colored paper instead of white. Much more farm-y, don't you think?
The back side of the invite has all the details for the party.
When you purchase the invites, they come with plain-jane envelopes. I considered making some cute labels or something, but why go through all that effort when I can design custom envelopes! Right?
They even have cow splotches on the inside. Hello Cuteness!
Once I dropped the invites in the mail I started working on all of the fun for the big day. Utilizing Zazzle's crazy huge selection of customizable goodies, I started adding the party's mascot to favor boxes, favor tags, paper plates, and a onesie for the birthday boy!
How cute are these little guys?
I really love the tags, and they come with the twine!
So my next mission was to figure out what to put in these little boxes for the kiddos that were coming to the party. Amazon to the rescue! Farm themed rubber duckies….
…cow tales…
…farm animal STICKERS!
I wanted a banner or bunting with Vaughn's name on it, and decided to just make my own printable bunting, punch some holes in the triangles and string some twine through.
While I was at it, I made a couple of flags for cake toppers, and some water bottle labels (seriously, I can't stop once I'm on a roll). All of these are available to print below!
I couldn't wait for the big day!
This display was inside, and Grandma and Grandpa's house tends to be pretty dark so it was very hard to take decent pictures. The close-ups are better!
Good old Albertsons did an amazing job yet again with the cake! I used bamboo skewers for the cake topper flags (taped them on). I purchased a package of the red bandanas on Amazon to use for decoration and handed them out to the kids as well.
Vaughn got his own cake to dive into. And he totally did!
The printed water bottle labels – they fit on both the mini and regular size Arrowhead water bottles.
I found these milk bottles at Target in the party section, and filled them with jelly bellies (french vanilla and chocolate pudding to be exact).
The favor boxes, all packaged up and ready to go!
The printable name banner with red and white twine. The secondary banner is from Target!
I found this great chalkboard banner at Target too, along with some chalkboard pens (my new favorite). I wrote the letters and used two types of twine to string through the banner and tape on to the highchair. The highchair is very special – it's an antique my Mom purchased years ago, and every grandchild has spent ample time in it during their baby days. Vaughn is probably the last one. Certainly from me. LOL
Me and the Birthday Boy! Notice his onesie? 🙂
Grandpa's wagon made a great place to put the presents!
Do you see the remote control in his hand? He wouldn't put it down… and since it was his birthday, I wasn't about to take it away from him. Sorry Mom. 🙂
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OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Alex Collins enters this season looking to gain 1,000 yards, enhance his stature among NFL running backs and help the Ravens reach the postseason for the first time since 2014.
These goals are far more ambitious than his singular objective of a year ago, which was simply to earn a place on Baltimore's 53-man roster.
After being waived by Seattle early last September, Collins was signed to the Ravens practice squad. He was activated in Week 2 and thrust into the starting lineup on Oct. 1.
Collins finished with 973 yards rushing — ranking ninth in the NFL with a 4.6-yard average — and caught 23 passes for 187 yards.
If he can come up with a sufficient encore in 2018, then perhaps Collins will no longer feel underappreciated.
"I feel like I've been overlooked my entire career, throughout college and at this level," Collins said. "But I'd rather show them on the field why I'm overlooked than run my mouth talking about it."
At Arkansas, Collins became only the third player in the history of the Southeastern Conference to open his career with three successive 1,000-yard seasons. Yet, he wasn't selected until the fifth round of the 2016 NFL draft.
Collins rushed for 125 yards in his rookie season, not enough to convince Seattle to keep him for another season.
He finally made some noise with Baltimore last year, though not quite enough to get him the acclaim many believe he deserves.
"I definitely think he's underrated, but it's probably due to the fact that he's only played one real year," Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco said. "After this year, I'm not sure he'll still be underrated."
Collins certainly isn't underappreciated by the Ravens.
"In my mind, he's a veteran back. He's been there before and has a lot to prove," coach John Harbaugh said. "He still has a little bit of a chip on his shoulder; I'm looking forward to seeing how he plays."
Collins does not like talking about himself. He was scheduled to meet with the local media on Wednesday to preview Baltimore's opener against Buffalo, but was nowhere to be found when it was his turn to step up to the podium.
Long after most of the cameramen and reporters departed, Collins finally spoke in the hallway outside the locker room.
It's been a quiet summer for the 5-foot-10, 208-pound Collins, who carried only three times during the preseason in the only game he played.
"There's an expectation at the end of that," he said. "They took care of me in the preseason, so I feel like it's my responsibility to take care of them in the regular season. I'm going to show them that I can carry that load. I'm ready to take on that pounding."
It sure beats being a member of the practice squad.
"I'm thankful for the position I'm in, from last year to this year," Collins said. "But at the same time, I'm trying to go above and beyond what I did last year. I have the motivation."
Collins twice ran for 100 yards last season and probably would have topped 1,000 yards if he played in all 16 games instead of 15. He expects to reach four digits in yards this time around.
"That's something I'm trying hard to achieve. At the same time, I still have other goals that trump that," he said. "I'm going to help the team first. I'll worry about my personal goals after that."


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where she will join the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme in September 2019. In 2018, Marc Minkowski awarded Stephanie a special recital in his Concours Bordeaux Medoc Lyrique. She was a finalist in the Kathleen Ferrier Awards 2018 and The Richard Lewis Award 2018.
Wake-Edwards is a Royal Academy of Music Bach Cantata/Kohn Foundation scholar, recipient of the Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust Award 2017, a member of Royal Academy of Music's prestigious Song Circle and is supported by the Josephine Baker Trust, Help Musicians UK and Royal Academy of Music where she holds a Blue
Badge Style Award. She is also the recipient of the Sarah Walker CBE Mezzo-Soprano Award and won second prize in the Isabel Jay Competition 2017. In September 2019, she will make her debut on stage of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as Käthchen in Werther, followed by more role debuts such as Flora La Traviata, Kate Pinkerton Madama Butterfly, Maid Jenufa and Second maid in Elektra. In 2018, Stephanie made her debut as Third Noble Orphan Der Rosenkavalier at the Glyndebourne Festival as well as joining their Chorus for Saul, Vanessa and Madama Butterfly. In summer 2019, she will cover roles including Third Lady Die Zauberflöte at Glyndebourne as part of the Jerwood Young Artist Programme.
Operatic engagements include Mrs Noye Noye's Fludde for English Martyr's, Leicester; Dido Dido and Aeneas for Leicester Music Fest; Old Woman/Book of Fate/Mrs Northwind in Jonathan Dove's The Enchanted Pig, Arnalta L'incoronazione di Poppea, Third Lady The Magic Flute all for Hampstead Garden Opera; Florence Pike Albert Herring, Lucretia The Rape of Lucretia both for Aspect Opera and Auntie Peter Grimes for The Dartington International Festival.
Patrick Milne
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British pianist and conductor Patrick Milne joined the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme as a conductor and répétiteur in the 2018/19 Season. In his first Season on the Programme he conducted Pelléas et Mélisande and Rigoletto in the JPYAP Summer Performance, was cover conductor for Phaedra and trainee cover conductor for La Fille du régiment and joined the Royal Opera music staff for Die Walküre, Götterdämmerung, The Queen of Spades, Così fan tutte and Billy Budd. In the 2019/20 Season he conducts Susanna and joins Royal Opera music staff for Werther, Die Zauberflöte, Otello, Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci, Elektra and Tosca.
Milne graduated from Cambridge University with a First in Music and took a Masters degree with distinction at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. At Cambridge he founded the Alba Orchestra and conducted symphonic and operatic works and concertos from the piano. During his studies he won prizes for solo performance, concerto performance and chamber music and performed at the Barbican, the Wigmore Hall and Cadogan Hall. He has also studied on the Solti Accademia Répétiteur course in Venice and been Emerging Artist Répétiteur for Scottish Opera, where he worked on La Traviata, Iolanta, The Fiery Angel and Eugene Onegin, was Musical Director and pianist for the Opera Highlights Spring tour and conducted the world premiere of Sam Bordoli's Grace Notes.Milne worked for three seasons for Grange Park Opera, where he was Assistant Conductor for Tosca, Jenufa, La fanciulla del West and Eugene Onegin. He has also been Assistant Conductor and Chorus Master for Iolanta and Mavra (GSMD), répétiteur and continuo player for Così fan tutte (Opera Lyrica) and assisted on Hansel and Gretel (Sinfonia d'Amici), La traviata (Opera South) and Le nozze di Figaro (Instant Opera). He was Musical Director and pianist for Our House in HMP Isis for Pimlico Opera, working with professionals and young prisoners
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Rachmaninov: Nie poi krasavitsa
Tchaikovsky : Niet tolko tot kto znal
Don Juan, Serenade
Richard Strauss: Das Rosenband
Mahler: Nun Seh Ich wohl
Brahms: Unbewegte laue luft
Congolese songs: Ave Maria
Tambuisa ngai
Spiritual: Go down Moses
Bolcom: Cabaret songs, volume 4
Madeleine Dring: Song of the Nightclub Proprietress
Handel: "Where shall I fly" from Hercules Act 3
Stephanie Wake-Edwards (Deianira)
Verdi: "O tu, Palermo!" from I Vespri siciliani Act II
Blaise Malaba (Procida)
Saint-Saens: "Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix" from Samson et Delilah Act II Stephanie Wake-Edwards (Delilah)
Ponchielli: Ombre di mia prosapia, from La Gioconda,
Blaise Malaba
Mozart: La ci darem la mano, Duet from Don Giovanni, Act 1
Stephanie Wake-Edwards (Zerlina), Blaise Malaba (Don Giovanni)
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Happy Monday! Radio Riel welcomes you to your week with music from French Composers from the Baroque through Modern eras of Classical music. Let the lovely music of Couperin, Rameau, Farrenc, Adam, Faure, Berlioz, Saint-Saens, and Debussy (and more!) give you the boost you need to get moving on this Monday.
Radio Riel produces this program in conjunction with the Caledon Library in Second Life. Today's music originates from the music library of Gabrielle Riel.
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A Season of Peace: The Violent Will Bear It Away
Dr. Bruce Lancaster
November 8, 2015
Ephesians 2:1-10; Matthew 11:12, 16-17
A Reading from Ephesians:
You were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once lived, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient. All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else. But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God— not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.
Frank Morris owned a shoe shop in Ferriday, Louisiana – a small town in Concordia Parish where my father had grown up.
We had moved back to Concordia Parish in the summer of 1963, when my father became Superintendent of Education for the parish schools—we lived in Vidalia, across the Mississippi River from Natchez and next door to Ferriday.
Frank Morris was black, and in the early morning of December 10, 1964, his shop was torched, and so was Frank Morris, who had a bedroom in the back of his shop.
He died four days later, only saying that he saw two white men whom he thought were his friends, but never revealing their identity.
By all accounts, Frank Morris was respected by both blacks and whites, each comfortable enough to wait together inside his shop for their shoe repairs.
In 1964, maybe that breach of the racial barrier was reason enough for the Ku Klux Klan to act against Frank Morris.
That was the year of Freedom Summer as hundreds of young people rode buses into Mississippi to work for civil rights, and the Klan had announced they would retaliate, and three civil rights workers had been killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
A year later, in the fall of 1965, two Federal Marshalls sat in our living room in our house in Vidalia.
Bloody Sunday in Selma was in the spring of that year. The Voting Rights Act had just been signed in August. Tensions had escalated in Concordia Parish as the school system was being sued to desegregate.
The Marshalls were in our living room because we were receiving phone calls—threats against my father, our family if he let the schools integrate—because I had a deep voice, and when they asked for Mr. Lancaster and before I could finish saying 'just a minute, I'll get him for you' the verbal tirade would begin.
It was an assault, a violation—our homes may not be a castle, but they are, however grand or humble, a sacred space…and the Marshalls were in our living room to talk to us about what to do if something was thrown through a window or burned in the yard.
My job was to get my baby sister—I was fifteen and she was two—she and my other sister each had a bedroom on the front of the house facing the street—my brother and I had our bedrooms across the hall from them, on the back of the house.
I was to get her, and then go back through my room and through the window into the back yard—making sure no one was there, and go to the big ditch behind our house.
Nothing ever happened, except for the phone calls and letters my father received, some cars that would drive by and around the corner and then come back by slowly.
No, something did happen – from that night on for the past fifty years, I have lived with the reality that there is no escape plan for the violence that drives through my life, walks up my driveway, knocks on my door every day.
Just this past week, I received a notice from our church's insurance company that offered assistance to us for "active assailant emergency planning" —like the Charleston shootings.
A recent report about Austin's SafePlace stated they expected to perform about 100 sexual assault exams a year, but in just four months, nearly 250 women have come after being sexually assaulted.
A man throws a bomb into a Wal-Mart in Tupelo, Mississippi because they won't sell Confederate flags. A student assaults his classmates with a knife because they rejected him from their study group.
Sandy Hook School and Virginia Tech, Michael Brown and Tamir Rice, Jared Fogle, Rashad Owens, Syria and Sudan, Nine-year-olds murdered on Chicago Streets, Refugees marching through Europe, Missiles Dropped on Hospitals in Afghanistan, Demolished Homes in Palestine, Uninsured, Unemployed, Sex Trafficking, Battered Wives, Addicted Husbands, Abused Children…
This rain of never-ending violence gives way to a rising flood of fear that sweeps away the foundations of our lives, leaving shattered memories of hope and home.
Flannery O'Connor took the title of her novel The Violent Bear It Away from the gospel of Matthew.
"From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and men of violence take it by force…But to what," said Jesus, "shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places and calling to their playmates, 'We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.'" (Mt. 11:12, 16-17)
Perhaps that's the best way of saying what some of us experience…The violent will pipe and expect us to dance to their tune.
So we try to make sense of the violence; we wring our hands and shake our heads. And we seem to always come to the same conclusion: They are monsters.
We somehow forget that they, like us, are children of God and were created in God's image and it is their actions that are monstrous.
As someone pointed out to me, "We ask questions like: How could he do such a thing? We need to be asking (she said): How is my complacency in a culture of violence resulting in the death of members of my community?"
It is our moral imperative to stand against acts of violence, and we cannot turn a blind eye to the institutional practices, the policies of injustice, or the social lifestyles that lead people and equip them for acts of violence.
And it begins, as Walter Wink noted, "The roots of violence lie deep within us… (he says) "Ever outer evil inevitably attracts from our own depths parts of ourselves that resemble it."
Our moral eye should turn inward, for it is true that we are children of wrath.
If we resist violence with violence, we simply become what we resist…and what is required in the way of Jesus is a spiritual act, the courage to face the demons within, the inner darkness where I hide the killer, the torturer, the assailant in me‒the one who burns the buildings in another's world‒economic, military, verbal, social, emotional.
I am helped here by the late Anwar el-Sadat's words concerning peace with Israel—very much a journey into the shadows of the valley of death.
In his autobiography, he wrote: "What was it then that I needed to change? We had been accustomed (a whole generation had been brought up to regard Israel as taboo… [So] he who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality."
For some this is more than difficult and they would prefer to fight fire with fire—to dance to the tune of the violent bearing it away.
No, the way of peace in the name of Jesus Christ is a gift—a freedom not that we secure peace before God, but something we are able to do when we realize that the power of God is greater than the power of death.
We cannot expect to be the salt of the earth and then do nothing to change the blandness of our belief that peace is impossible among all God's children!
We cannot be the light of the world and then do nothing to change the darkness that justifies our own power and privilege to remain content with things as they are!
Because Elie Wiesel is right: "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe."
And we reach that center of the universe through the cross—not an escape plan, but the entry into a way of life that reveals the outcome of what God has prepared for us.
We enter a way of life created for us in Jesus Christ, in which we each have a part to play with our brothers and sisters in Christ in proclaiming the unifying, peacemaking love we have seen in Jesus.
We enter a way of life in which pain, sorrow, and despair will always find compassion, joy, and hope.
We enter a way of life in which the weak will always share in the strength of the strong; a world free of greed, war, hunger, poverty, and agony.
We enter a way of life in this world in the name of Jesus Christ in whose love all things are possible!


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Arjun Kapoor has been spending a lot of time in the gym these days. His role in the Ashutosh Gowariker-directorial, Panipat, required him to buff up big time. A few months ago, the actor was first clicked with the handlebar moustache that he will be seen sporting in the film. Apparently, his hair has been cropped short for the role, which the actor tried to hide by wearing a cap. However, he has been posting pictures from his gym sessions, to keep his followers in the loop about his body transformation for his part as Sadashiv Rao Bhau. And his body transformation sure is impressive. His latest pictures show off a well-sculpted pair of shoulders. The caption read, "Lath-path, time for Panipat !!! Late night prep @shivohamofficial killing me slowly… #panipat. (sic)" Fans, especially the ladies, were happy to send the actor a lot of love through comments and emojis for his late-night workout.
Recently, when asked about hiding his look, Arjun said that his director wanted him to do so. He went on to add that Neeta Lulla has designed his costumes for the period drama, and it would only be right to present the character in the correct manner on the big screen. The movie will see him sharing screen space with Sanjay Dutt. Around 60 per cent of the film is complete. Arjun is confident that the shooting will be wrapped up within the next two months, while his look is likely to be revealed by the end of 2019.
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This slim, stylish device is with you all the time. During the day, it tracks steps, distance, and calories burned. At night, it tracks your sleep cycle and wakes you silently in the morning. Just check out the lights to see how you stack up against your personal goal. It's the motivation you need to get out and be more active.
Every mile matters. And now there's a stylishly simple way to capture each one. Forerunner 10 is a GPS running watch that tracks your distance, speed/pace, and calories. It also identifies your personal records and provides motivation along the way.
Easy-to-use device designed to massage muscle tissue. Encourages increased circulation to muscle fibers before exercise, disperses lactic acid after workout, and diffuses muscle stiffness and knots.
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When people talk about the rise of great TV, they inevitably credit one show, "The Sopranos." Even before James Gandolfini's death, the HBO drama's mystique was secure: novelistic and cinematic, David Chase's auteurist masterpiece cracked open the gangster genre like a rib cage, releasing the latent ambition of television, and launching us all into a golden age.
"The Sopranos" deserves the hype. Yet there's something screwy about the way that the show and its cable-drama blood brothers have come to dominate the conversation, elbowing other forms of greatness out of the frame. It's a bias that bubbles up early in Brett Martin's otherwise excellent new book, "Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From 'The Sopranos' and 'The Wire' to 'Mad Men' and 'Breaking Bad,' " a deeply reported and dishy account of just how your prestige-cable sausage is made. I tore through the book, yet when I reached Martin's chronicle of the rise of HBO I felt a jolt. "It might as well have been a tourism campaign for a post-Rudolph Giuliani, de-ethnicized Gotham awash in money," Martin writes of one of my favorite shows. "Its characters were types as familiar as those in 'The Golden Girls': the Slut, the Prude, the Career Woman, the Heroine. But they talked more explicitly, certainly about their bodies, but also about their desires and discontents outside the bedroom, than women on TV ever had before."
Martin gives "Sex and the City" credit for jump-starting HBO, but the condescension is palpable, and the grudging praise is reserved for only one aspect of the series—the rawness of its subject matter. Martin hardly invented this attitude: he is simply reiterating what has become the reflexive consensus on the show, right down to the hackneyed "Golden Girls" gag. Even as "The Sopranos" has ascended to TV's Mt. Olympus, the reputation of "Sex and the City" has shrunk and faded, like some tragic dry-clean-only dress tossed into a decade-long hot cycle. By the show's fifteen-year anniversary, this year, we fans had trained ourselves to downgrade the show to a "guilty pleasure," to mock its puns, to get into self-flagellating conversations about those blinkered and blinged-out movies. Whenever a new chick-centric series débuts, there are invidious comparisons: don't worry, it's no "Sex and the City," they say. As if that were a good thing.
But "Sex and the City," too, was once one of HBO's flagship shows. It was the peer of "The Sopranos," albeit in a different tone and in a different milieu, deconstructing a different genre. Mob shows, cop shows, cowboy shows—those are formulas with gravitas. "Sex and the City," in contrast, was pigeonholed as a sitcom. In fact, it was a bold riff on the romantic comedy: the show wrestled with the limits of that pink-tinted genre for almost its entire run. In the end, it gave in. Yet until that last-minute stumble it was sharp, iconoclastic television. High-feminine instead of fetishistically masculine, glittery rather than gritty, and daring in its conception of character, "Sex and the City" was a brilliant and, in certain ways, radical show. It also originated the unacknowledged first female anti-hero on television: ladies and gentlemen, Carrie Bradshaw.
Please, people, I can hear your objections from here. But first think back. Before "Sex and the City," the vast majority of iconic "single girl" characters on television, from That Girl to Mary Tyler Moore and Molly Dodd, had been you-go-girl types—which is to say, actual role models. (Ally McBeal was a notable and problematic exception.) They were pioneers who offered many single women the representation they craved, and they were also, crucially, adorable to men: vulnerable and plucky and warm. However varied the layers they displayed over time, they flattered a specific pathology: the cultural requirement that women greet other women with the refrain "Oh, me, too! Me, too!"
In contrast, Carrie and her friends—Miranda, Samantha, and Charlotte—were odder birds by far, jagged, aggressive, and sometimes frightening figures, like a makeup mirror lit up in neon. They were simultaneously real and abstract, emotionally complex and philosophically stylized. Women identified with them—"I'm a Carrie!"—but then became furious when they showed flaws. And, with the exception of Charlotte (Kristin Davis), men didn't find them likable: there were endless cruel jokes about Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), and Carrie as sluts, man-haters, or gold-diggers. To me, as a single woman, it felt like a definite sign of progress: since the elemental representation of single life at the time was the comic strip "Cathy" (ack! chocolate!), better that one's life should be viewed as glamorously threatening than as sad and lonely.
Carrie Bradshaw herself began as a mirror for another woman: she was the avatar of the New York Observer columnist Candace Bushnell, a steely "sexual anthropologist" on the prowl for blind items. When the initial showrunner, Darren Star, and his mostly female writing staff adapted Bushnell's columns, they transformed that icy Carrie, pouring her into the warm body of Sarah Jessica Parker. Out popped a chatterbox with a schnoz, whose advanced fashion sense was not intended to lure men into matrimony. For a half dozen episodes, Carrie was a happy, curious explorer, out companionably smoking with modellizers. If she'd stayed that way, the show might have been another "Mary Tyler Moore": a playful, empowering comedy about one woman's adventures in the big city.
Instead, Carrie fell under the thrall of Mr. Big, the sexy, emotionally withholding forty-three-year-old financier played by Chris Noth. From then on, pleasurable as "Sex and the City" remained, it also felt designed to push back at its audience's wish for identification, triggering as much anxiety as relief. It switched the romantic comedy's primal scene, from "Me, too!" to "Am I like her?" A man practically woven out of red flags, Big wasn't there to rescue Carrie; instead, his "great love" was a slow poisoning. She spun out, becoming anxious, obsessive, and, despite her charm, wildly self-centered—in her own words, "the frightening woman whose fear ate her sanity." Their relationship was viewed with concern by her friends, who were not, as Martin suggests, mere "types" but portrayals of a narrow slice of wealthy white thirty-something Manhattanites: the Waspy gallerina, the liberal-feminist lawyer, the decadent power publicist.
Although the show's first season is its slightest, it swiftly establishes a bold mixture of moods—fizzy and sour, blunt and arch—and shifts between satirical and sincere modes of storytelling. (It's not even especially dated: though the show has gained a reputation for over-the-top absurdity, I can tell you that these night clubs and fashion shows do exist—maybe even more so now that Manhattan has become a gated island for the wealthy.) There is already a melancholic undertow, full of foreshadowing. "What if he never calls and three weeks from now I pick up the New York Times and I read that he's married some perfect little woman who never passes gas under his five-hundred-dollar sheets?" Carrie frets in Episode 11. In a moment of clarity, she tells Miranda that, when she's around Big, "I'm not like me. I'm, like, Together Carrie. I wear little outfits: Sexy Carrie and Casual Carrie. Sometimes I catch myself actually posing. It's just—it's exhausting."
That was the conundrum Carrie faced for the entire series: true love turned her into a fake. The Season 1 neurotic Carrie didn't stick, though. She and Big fixed things, then they broke up again, harder. He moved to Paris. She met Aidan (John Corbett), the marrying type. In Season 3, the writers upped the ante, having Carrie do something overtly anti-heroic: she cheated on a decent man with a bad one (Big, of course), now married to that "perfect little woman," Natasha. They didn't paper over the repercussions: Natasha's humiliation, and the way Carrie's betrayal hardened Aidan, even once he took her back. During six seasons, Carrie changed, as anyone might from thirty-two to thirty-eight, and not always in positive ways. She got more honest and more responsible; she became a saner girlfriend. But she also became scarred, prissier, strikingly gun-shy—and, finally, she panicked at the question of what it would mean to be an older single woman.


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Penfield High School PTSA's annual
Fantastic Finds Sale
will be held on
Saturday, January 25, 2020
in the Penfield High School Cafeteria
from 9 am to 4 pm
9:00 am - 12:45 pm - Full Price Sale
1:00 pm – 2:45 pmHalf-Price Sale*
3:00 pm – 4:00 pmBag Sale*
*some items excluded from Half-Price and Bag Sale
Pre-Sale for all district employees who are PTSA/PTA/PTO members† is
Friday, January 24, 2019 from 2:30 - 5:00 pm
†staff not affiliated with a specific building do not need to be PTSA/PTA/PTO members
We will also have a
Baked Goods Sale
so you can stop by and grab a yummy treat.
The Fantastic Finds sale is the only PTSA fundraiser for the year.
All monies raised are used to support the High School community.
For information on the sale, please send an email to
Donations will be accepted at the High School Back Loading dock at the following times:
If you are doing any cleaning, set aside your saleable surplus household goods, extra decorations and outgrown clothes for the Fantastic Finds Sale!
If you would like to donate large items, antiques, jewelry, artwork, or other valuables, please email the program chairs (email@example.com) at any time to arrange pickup.
We cannot accept the following:
Volunteers NeededVolunteers are needed to unpack, display and sell the terrific stuff donated by the community and clean up at the end of the sale. To sign up for a volunteer shift simply visit the online registration site.
We are also looking for donations of baked goods. These can be anything yummy and scrumptious that you are willing to donate! Brownies, cakes, cupcakes, cookies, pies, fudge, or your favorite recipes. Bake one or bake a couple! Please let us know what you would like to contribute by signing up here!
Any questions about volunteering may be directed to firstname.lastname@example.com


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Bibi's back on Time list of 100 most influential
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made Time magazine's 2012 list of the 100 most influential people in the world for the second year in a row.
Netanyahu is called an "iconic, strong and determined leader who has excelled during a lifetime of service to the state of Israel" in a profile written by U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the majority leader in the House of Representatives.
"At this perilous moment, Prime Minister Netanyahu is the right leader for Israel — and the right partner for America," Cantor wrote….READ MORE
The 100 Most Influential People in the World
They are the people who inspire us, entertain us, challenge us and change our world. Meet the breakouts, pioneers, moguls, leaders and icons who make up this year's TIME 100
Benjamin Netanyahu
Source: Time, 4-18-12
Israel has had its share of transformational leaders who are comfortable on the world's stage, dealing with their nation's often oversize challenges. Benjamin Netanyahu is one of these iconic Israelis, a strong, determined leader who has excelled during a lifetime of service to the state of Israel. Bibi's accomplishments and service as a soldier, a diplomat, an economic reformer who took on the difficult and politically perilous task of challenging the status quo, and a two-time Prime Minister rank him among the world's great leaders.
Now, at a time of tremendous international instability and growing danger, Prime Minister N
etanyahu, 62, has provided a compelling and reasoned exposition of one of the gravest threats facing the world today. He deserves credit for drawing attention to the threat Iran poses to Israel, to America, to the region, to its own people and to the free world. Confronting Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons and sponsorship of terrorism is an urgent task for all of us. At this perilous moment, Prime Minister Netanyahu is the right leader for Israel — and the right partner for America.
Cantor is the majority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives


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1989 Chevrolet Small-Block Car Engine
Reader Question: My question is not really for a car but it is a car engine.
My boat's engine is 1989 Chevrolet Small-Block 350. When I turn the ignition on to start, the starter does not seem to catch. It just hums. I have to wait a little until it stops the spinning sound and then I can try again. It usually takes a few times before I can get it started.
What does this sound like to you? Is it solenoid or starter?
Hey Larry,
This could be a bad bendix in the starter motor and require a new starter or an overhaul of your starter by a starter/alternator shop in your area.
Or, it could be a bad spot on the flywheel and the starter drive gear can not grab hold of the flywheel, so inspect the flywheel first for missing or worn out teeth.
Austin Davis


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Top accommodation with well feeling ambiance to 4 persons in more quiet, however central position in the heart of the Ruhr district for tourists, assembly workers, fair visitor, fair exhibitor, musical visitor,
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Premier League Weekend Wonders
After a great weekend of football and 26 goals it is time to pick out the best performers from the weekend that you can use for the midweek Champions League competitions in Yahoo! Daily Fantasy.
Mohammed Salah
Where else to start than the Egyptian winger who has now scored 14 goals in 18 appearances since moving to Liverpool, in the process breaking Robbie Fowler's record with his ninth in his first 12 league appearances, one more than the legendary striker managed. With 23.40 points thanks to two great goals his salary has increased accordingly to £25 but with Liverpool in form and a big match against Sevilla at home another big performance is likely.
Philippe Coutinho
Sticking with Liverpool, the little magician was back to his scintillating best, in his first game back from (another) potentially dubious back injury, Philippe managed one goal and one assist from his new favourite deeper position. 22.35 points and £23 salary, this would be a good addition to the fantasy squad.
Paul Pogba
'Pogback' was back in full flow dancing celebrations and all, 1 goal and 1 assist produced 18.20 points whereas his salary is relatively low at £20. With a fixture against Basel away where Utd should do the business this would be a nice little addition
Kevin De Bruyne
There are not many more superlatives that can be used when talking about Man City this season with Martin Keown claiming that they will be the new invincibles this season. De Bruyne is certainly at the heart of this, scoring a stunning goal in an all round fantastic technical display. Feyenoord at home is the next fixture who City should sweep aside with not too much difficulty. At £24 salary if you've got the money include him.


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There has been a huge controversy about various types of art, such as
performance, visual, fine, liberal, applied, and graphic arts, and what
different affects they each have on society. Many say that certain types
of art, such as song lyrics have a negative affect on society, promoting
the use of drugs, profanity, and violence.However, some say that other
types of art such as paintings, often respond to human suffering in a
positive way, inspiring child labor laws,and changing idealistic
There are many ways in which art and society are interdependent.
Events and technologies affect the content and form of art. Censorship,
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Browse our range of publications including performance and financial statement audit reports, assurance review reports, information reports and annual reports.
The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's management of Australian aid to Vanuatu.
The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the arrangements established by the Department of the Environment for the funding and management of the Nimmie-Caira System Enhanced Environmental Water Delivery Project.
The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of the Environment's administration of the Biodiversity Fund program.
The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of DSEWPaC's administration of PIIOP, including the acquisition of water access entitlements and progress towards achieving the program's objectives.
The audit objectives were:
- to assess the effectiveness of the revised certification process in promoting compliance of government advertising campaigns (campaigns) with the March 2010 Guidelines on Information and Advertising Campaigns by Australian Government Departments and Agencies (2010 Guidelines);
- to assess the effectiveness of agency administration in developing campaigns and implementing key processes against the requirements of the campaign advertising framework;
- to assess the effectiveness of Finance's administration of the campaign advertising framework; and
- to assess the effect on campaigns of an exemption from the 2010 Guidelines.
The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency's implementation and administration of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme.
The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of FaHCSIA's administration of the HAF. To address this objective, the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) assessed FaHCSIA's administration against a range of audit criteria, including the extent to which:
- assessment and approval processes were soundly planned and implemented, and were consistent with the requirements of the overarching financial management framework;
- appropriately structured funding agreements were established and managed for each approved grant; and
- the performance of the HAF, including each of the funded projects, was actively monitored and reported.
The objective of this audit was to assess how effectively entities had developed and implemented appropriate KPIs to support stated program objectives.
The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of DEEWR's and FaHCSIA's administration of the Australian Government's responsibilities under Element 1 of the National Partnership Agreement on Indigenous Economic Participation (including the NT Jobs Package).
This audit is the thirteenth in a series of audits that have fulfilled the Senate's request for the Auditor-General to provide an annual report on agencies' compliance with the Order, since it was introduced in 2001. The audit objective was to assess the appropriateness of the use and reporting of confidentiality provisions in Australian Government contracts.
The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry's administration of EC measures and the implementation of the pilot of new drought reform measures.
The audit examined key aspects of the first four tenders for the RtB program. These tenders provided coverage across the Basin and resulted in expenditure in excess of $1 billion. The 2008–09 tenders included the largest single purchase under the program—$303 million to Twynam Agricultural Group. The audit also examined the Commonwealth's contribution to the purchase of Toorale station, the only purchase outside a tender process.
The objective of this audit was to assess key aspects of the establishment and administration of HIP by DEWHA as well as the transition of the program to DCCEE. All phases of the program were examined with particular emphasis for Phase 2 being given to:
- program design and implementation;
- registration and training of installers;
- payment of rebates; and
- the compliance strategy underpinning the program.
On 3 February 2010, Senator Christine Milne wrote to the Auditor General raising concerns about DEWHA's administration of the Green Loans program and requesting a performance audit of the program. Issues raised included: uncapped assessor numbers; problems with the delivery of the program; the quality of assessor training and assessments provided to households; the lack of an audit facility within the program; and equitable access to work under the program.
In light of Senator Milne's request and other concerns in relation to the administration of the program, the Auditor-General agreed on 25 February 2010 to conduct a performance audit of the program. The objective of the audit was to examine key aspects of the establishment and administration of the Green Loans program by DEWHA and the program's transition to DCCEE. Particular emphasis was given to the program's three main elements:
- training, registration and contracting of assessors;
- scheduling, conduct, and reporting of home sustainability assessments, and the associated payments to assessors; and
- provision of green loans to householders, and the associated payments to participating financial institutions.
The audit also examined the extent to which steps had been taken by DEWHA and DCCEE to assess whether the Green Loans program was achieving its objectives.
The objective of this audit was to assess and report on the administration of the regional delivery of NHT 2 and the NAP.
The scope of the audit encompassed both Environment and DAFF, including the Joint Team of staff from both departments working together under a common management structure for the delivery of both programs. The audit focused on:
- the implementation of the regional delivery arrangements;
- governance and financial management for regional delivery; and
- monitoring, evaluation and reporting on the programs' performance.
The audit reviewed Commonwealth National Parks involving total assets of $105 million with net operating costs of $41.77 million. Nineteen Commonwealth reserves are declared comprising six terrestrial national parks, one botanic garden and twelve marine parks and reserves totalling some 23 million hectares across Australia, its external territories and Commonwealth marine areas. The objective of the audit was to examine and report on the adequacy of the planning, management and reporting systems which support the Director of National Parks in the achievement of required functions under relevant legislation and agreed outputs and outcomes.
The purpose of the audit was to examine the environmental management mechanisms in place across some of the major Commonwealth land management and oversighting entities. In particular, the audit examined Commonwealth environmental management practices to identify current strengths and weaknesses, and provide a framework and direction for the adoption of better practice and continuous improvement. The audit has not been designed to judge past Commonwealth performance using current environmental standards and practices. Rather, the audit focused on encouraging the development of better practice by illustrating the implications and lessons learned from past and present practices.