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- Petr Ivashchenko
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|Watch_Dogs (2014)
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|Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist (2013)
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|Assassin's Creed III (2012)
|(Voice Talents - Russian)
|Assassin's Creed III (2012)
|(Voice Talents - Russian)
|Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (2010)
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|Drakensang: The River of Time (2010)
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Like it or not, it's time for Squamish to grow a pair and get political. Stop, even for a few hours, the trail bike riding. The hiking. The mountain climbing. The kite boarding. If the mudders really want to "live the life," then it's time to really get dirty. But by putting a little time aside for arguing and debating for the environment you so immensely enjoy.
We all have busy lives. And that's exactly how the more mischievous of politicians like it. A busy, distracted, and somewhat plump populace who, even if they find out about a government program they don't like, won't quite be able to find the time, energy, or solidarity to do battle. In the case of B.C. Premier Christy Clark and her grandiose LNG dream, that's the modus operandi.
As the guide details how he plans to retrieve each of us when we do fall into the chilly Cheakamus River I am thinking about hanging up my oar and making for higher ground. For you, I undertook my first white-water rafting trip, a two-hour thrill ride that was far safer than anything I expected and gave me a new appreciation for the soft-core adventures Canada offers.
Squamish easily earns its title as "Canada's Outdoor Recreation Playground" with the many elements that provide a natural workout for this very active community. Hiking The Chief, Canada's largest granite monolith, offers a natural and scenic Stairmaster, featuring a steep hiking trail up over 600 meters of rocky terrain.
Once you get past the breathtaking natural scenery and vistas of Squamish, B.C., and the architectural beauty of the campus buildings, and get talking with the students and staff of Quest University you know you've stepped into a community that doesn't have the same resonance of a large research institution.

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Don't Settle: Rick Perry for President.
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UH to Hold Open Enrollment Days
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) healthcare insurance marketplace is now open for 2015 enrollment, and UH is ready to help. People in the community without health insurance who want to sign up, those who want to change their existing coverage, or those who simply have questions are welcome to attend three open enrollment Saturdays, November 22, December 13 and January 31, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The UH Financial Counseling Department is hosting the event in Room C-203, where certified counselors will be on hand, free of charge, to help people navigate the ACA insurance marketplace. You do not have to be a UH patient or live in Essex County to attend. The deadline to enroll or make changes is February 15. Please let all your friends and neighbors know.
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Celebrating Employee Service
University Hospital said thank you to its longtime employees recently at two Employee Service Award Programs. On November 11, those who marked five, 10 and 15 years of service were honored. Among the honorees was President and CEO James R. Gonzalez, MPH, FACHE, who received his 15-year certificate from Chairman of the Board Donald T. DiFrancesco. The Chairman also congratulated everyone on behalf of the Board. "This year there are 396 of you celebrating five, 10 or 15 years," he said. "All of you together represent 3,885 work years. …The Board sends its gratitude for your loyalty and hard work."
On November 17, staff members celebrating 20 to 35 years of service were honored. Octavio Balza, Pathology; James Carr, Shipping and Receiving; Janice Cole, Neuro ICU; Esperanza Herrera, Ambulatory Care Services; Alesia Smith, Admitting; Eileen Smith, Radiology; Milagros Valera, Cardiac Cath Lab; and Joyce Williams, Emergency Department marked 35 years.
Photos of the events can be seen/downloaded here.
Legislators Get a Close Look at UH
University Hospital participated in the New Jersey Hospital Association's Advocacy Day on November 13 at the State Capitol. The annual event gives lawmakers an opportunity to talk with healthcare leaders and learn more about the healthcare community's contributions to New Jersey's health and economic well-being and the need for continued support. Thaddaeus Diggs, Director of Government Relations, represented UH at the event.
Twenty members of the New Jersey Senate and Assembly participated along with several staff members.
We've Got Their Backs!
University Hospital wants all kids to be warm this winter. To help achieve that goal, the Coats for Kids program is underway. Any UH patients in need of coats for their children can get them free by asking his or her social worker for a Coats for Kids voucher then calling Sharon Sneed at 2-7264 to arrange to pick up the coats.
Paying it Forward
Thank you to everyone who donated at this year's fall blood drive. A total of 62 units were collected, which exceeded the number of pints donated this time last year.
According to the American Red Cross, 97 percent of Americans will need a transfusion at some point in their lives. Whether it's the result of an accident, surgical procedure or other health-related issue, someone is getting blood every two seconds of every single day.
It is generous donors, like those who participated in this week's drive, who help these people stay alive. Giving blood is nearly painless, is completely safe and takes only about ten minutes. Please join us at the next drive. Stay tuned for the date and time.
Party Time is Fast Approaching
Everyone is invited to the University Hospital Holiday Party on Thursday, December 18, from 6 to 11p.m. at Nanina's in the Park, in Belleville. Tickets are $45 and will be available for purchase in the hospital cafeteria beginning this Friday, November 21 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
There will be a cocktail reception, buffet dinner, dancing to the DJ "Mojo" and much more. Come join the fun!


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We first got a glimpse of Sharp's BD-HP50U Blu-ray player at January's CES show. Now the company says the unit is available—and it looks darn good too.
The BD-HP50U is Sharp's second-gen AQUOS Blu-ray player. Aside from a snazzy 1080p picture at 24 frames per second, the unit also boasts BD-ROM Profile 1.1, which allows you to tap into some of the new content available on the latest Blu-ray titles.
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Blog: An Awfully Big Blog Adventure (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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I'm so excited to announce that I'll be participating in Ltd Art Gallery Seattle's show "From the Toy Box". It's my first piece in a gallery and I was lucky enough for Ltd to choose my illustration for the poster representing some really, really, REALLY awesome talent! I'm so honoured to be in this show amongst these fantastic artists. You can see the event here:http://www.facebook.com/events/769836919741028 and if you're in Seattle and happen to go, I'd love to hear about it!Add a Comment
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Today, three stories, followed by a few thoughts...
Clémentine Beauvais writes books in both French and English. The former are of all kinds and shapes for all ages, and the latter humour and adventure stories with Hodder and Bloomsbury. She blogs here about children's literature and academia and is on Twitter @blueclementine.
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Just over a month ago, it was the centenary of Tove Jansson's birth. There were public celebrations in her home land of Finland, and an exhibition at the Finnish National Gallery dedicated to the paintings, illustrations, and writing of this extraordinary figure.
I believe this exhibition also included the original miniature Moomin house on loan from its home at the Moomin Museum Tampere. This is a blue, five storey building which Jansson built with her partner Tuulikki Pietilä in the 1970's. It's about three metres high,
|Moomin House, Tampere (Adele Pennington)
I haven't been to see it, but my cousin and fellow Moomin-fan Ann - who lives in Norway - has. She describes how "Tove and Tuulikki built the house using materials they found washed up on the beach. The roof tiles, by the way, were made from cedar bark they found and cut into shape using nail scissors. Fish-scale pattern. And Moominpappa stands in his room which is equipped with maritime clutter, looking out of his window through his telescope. The small shy people are in tiny rooms in the basement."
But Tove didn't build this wonderful house to put in a museum. She didn't build it to market her books, or as a wonderful photo opportunity for social media. This house is a labour of love, a work of art, an act of pure creation by someone who felt compelled to write, draw and make from an early age, and for whom imagined universes arrived so fully realised in her head, they could literally be translated into bricks and mortar.
That house, along with so much else - like the sculptures and montages of scenes from the books they made together and put in glass cases - is for me a beautiful representation of why in some ways, Tove Jansson was the ultimate children's writer.
She wasn't just a children's writer, of course, not by a long stretch - but she was one of the greatest artists to write children's books.
In a famous 1961 essay, "The Deceitful Writer of Children's Books", Jansson writes that she writes for children not because she is particularly interested in them, or because she wants to entertain or educate them, but much more because she needs to satisfy "the childishness in herself".
This is not emotional immaturity or arrested development, of course - but rather a profound connection as an adult with the intuitive world of childish make believe and play, and a sad awareness at its passing.
Born into a somewhat madcap household of artists, from an early age Jansson was drawing, writing and making, at a dizzyingly prolific rate. It was like a compulsion, and I think any writer would - at certain times - envy that inexhaustible drive to produce and create. She developed her craft in all disciplines over many years, but in the 1970's, was able to sit down and build a toy house for her Moomins just as she might have done as a child at the beginning of the century.
Moominland is the world through the eyes of a child, captured with the skill of an adult, a synthesis of pure-make believe and acute, uninhibited natural observation, a perfect marriage of pictures and words. And it is a world of mystery tinged with an ineluctable sadness.
"It was the end of August — the time when owls hoot at night and flurries of bats swoop noiselessly over the garden. Moomin Wood was full of glow-worms, and the sea was disturbed. There was expectation and a certain sadness in the air, and the harvest moon came up huge and yellow. Moomintroll had always liked those last weeks of summer most, but he didn't really know why." (Finn Family Moomintroll)
The Moomins are popular worldwide, very accessible stories with pictures for readers young and old, with a warm and human cast of family characters, but the Moominvalley with its Hattifatteners and the Groke is also a strange, and occasionally frightening place - just like growing up. The mysteries of the wild country beyond are never far away:
"The very last house stood all by itself under a dark green wall of fir-trees, and here the wild country really began. Snufkin walked faster and faster straight into the forest. Then the door of the last house opened a chink and a very old voice cried: 'Where are you off to?'
'I don't know,' Snufkin replied.
The door shut again and Snufkin entered his forest, with a hundred miles of silence ahead of him."
The genius of Jansson is her ability to take children so simply and so naturally on exciting night journeys down mysterious paths, never to deny the human impulse to grow and to wander - even if gallons of milk, berries and buns will always be waiting in a warm Moominhouse on your return.
The elegant drawings and poetic prose of the Moomins tread the finest of paths between an enticing retreat of warmth, family eccentricity and humour - that we know cannot endure forever - and the mysterious unknowable forest beyond. It's a path every child must take one day, and who better to guide you down that road than a Moomin? Which other cast of creatures so gracefully demonstrate the wonder, mystery and sadness of growing up?
If it is childish to memorialise childhood with such imagination and feeling, whether through a miniature blue house or the pages of a book, then let's always try and write for the childishness in ourselves.
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i just wanted to be mork, as a kid. make everybody laugh and go to another planet as maybe that's where i came from, all along? sigh...xoxoxoxo, robin.
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Done in the car while waiting for the library to open. Bees were pollinating purple flowers next to me.
I'd like to share something I think is fun. The reaction I get from people when I'm out drawing or painting. When not in my car more often than not reactions are positive, like the Starbucks barista, saying he thought it cool. Occasionally my experiences are, let's just say a bit awkward. Even so they're often something I look back on with a smile, as they reflect the understanding of the person it's coming from. On one occasion where I was drawing at coffee shop, a woman sat at the table next to me accompanied by her two children. As they were getting ready to leave she mentioned she was an artist too. She shook my hand and introduced herself. I noticed while one of her children had gone, the other had walked behind me (between myself and the wall). Mom noticed and noticed I noticed. As she and I continued our conversation, her daughter then got on one side of her and put both hands on her mother's hip and began pushing. "Let's go… I thought we were going to go." I had said, "I guess she's a bit protective. I remember my daughter was that way sometimes." When her mother tried to continue talking her daughter came next to me, crossed her arms in front of her and said, nodding to my sketchbook I'd now closed, "Did you draw that?" I said "What," opening it, "You mean this?" She then nodded over to a magazine on the nearby table and said "You copied that". I said, "No, these are people who were here. I drew them." Mind you, she was maybe nine or ten years old. By then mom was ready go. I could only smile. Happy Mothers Day.
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Thank you, Mike, Thorsten, Sarah, Julia, Palmira, Crazy Green Thumbs, Amy and Mathew.
Hi Otto and Snoring Dog Studio, thank you!
Good to hear some of your experiences, as well as see your creations :)
Thanks, Kim. Now that my writing's improving I'm more apt to share some of these kinds of experiences.
Thanks, Elizabeth!
A neat story, Allen. Love the landscape full of life!
Landscape with Spring. Thank you, Karen. :)
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Book: Dot.
Author: Randi Zuckerberg (@randizuckerberg)
Illustrator: Joe Berger
Pages: 32
Age Range: 4-8
Full disclosure. Yes, Dot. is one of those picture books written by a celebrity (business maven Randi Zuckerberg) to convey a particular lesson. I am not generally a fan of such books. This one is even kind of a spin-off of an adult title by the same author (Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives), with the same release date. And yet, Dot. worked for me.
Dot. is a simple story. We learn that a little girl named Dot is quite skilled in the use of digital devices. "She knows how to tap ... to touch ... to tweet ... and to tag." And she talks and talks on phones and devices and webcams. But when Dot's brain becomes a bit fried from too much device-time, her mother sends the zombie-like child outside to "reboot." Outside, among friends, Dot learns different meanings of tap (tap dancing), touch (touching a sunflower), tweet (like a bird), and tag (you can guess that one). And at the end, she and her friends embrace both the outdoors and real togetherness AND devices.
I think that ending is a big part of what made the book work for me. If the story had ended with Dot realizing the error of her device-prone ways, and spending all of her time playing outside, well, it just wouldn't have been realistic. But it IS realistic to think that a child could get caught up sitting around inside, tapping away on the computer, only to be reminded that playing outside is fun also. Only to be reminded that it's more fun to do whatever you're doing with other kids than to do it alone.
By keeping the focus entirely on Dot, and finding a solution to her specific problem of tech burnout, Zuckerberg avoids making Dot. feel didactic. It helps, I think that Mom is only shown as a pair of hands shooing Dot outside. Otherwise, there are only kids, dogs, and butterflies.
I also quite liked the parallelism that Zuckerberg uses, between actions we do on devices, like "surfing", and actions that can be done in real life, like "surfing." Some of the examples work better than others ("swiping" paint seems a bit of a reach), but the idea of focusing on these dual meanings works.
Joe Berger's illustrations help, too. When Dot, in dotted dress, is "surfing" on the computer, she lies across the back of the couch with one leg up, reaching down to the computer. This is a nice visual clue to what is to follow later. The indoor illustrations are fun, but all set against plain backgrounds, white walls, etc. This provides a nice contrast when Dot goes outside, and is surrounded by birds, flowers, trees, and so on. I'm not quite sure why Dot has gray hair, but she also has an impish smile, a swirly skirt, and a cute dog.
I think that kids will like her. And if they like Dot, hopefully they won't feel dictated to by the point that this book is making. And let's face it. There are an awful lot of kids out there who could benefit from spending a few hours outside, where the only screen is the screen door. Mary Lee from A Year of Reading liked it, too, calling Dot."the perfect antidote to BYOD" (bring your own device).
I suspect this one will work better with five to seven year olds, kids who spend a bit of time using keyboards, and talking on the phone to friends or family members. My three year old was unimpressed. I think you'll find that Dot. is worth a look, particularly for libraries and classrooms. Perhaps one could pair it under the Christmas tree with a jumprope and some sneakers.
Publisher: HarperCollins (@HarperChildrens)
Publication Date: November 5, 2013
Source of Book: Review copy from the publisher
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I've been a very bad blogger this year, mainly because of this, of course. But G's treatments are now done, and we're working toward getting our life back to our "new normal." But first, we're moving apartments this week and packing is exhausting!
As always happens, while packing I've been finding forgotten things, like this letter Grace had sent me back when we were both seniors in high school. I had brought this with me from my parents' house in California a while back because I wanted to quote some of the letter in a talk I was giving, I think.
In it, we talked about boys, of course. I had asked her to send me a boyfriend, so she sent me this guy:
Cute, huh? She named him Roger.
And here are a few snippets from the letter:
"I'm going to illustrate children's books, y'know. That would be so cool. One day when we're all grown up, you'll see in a book store: Illustrated by Grace P. Lin. That would be excellent."
"I wish I could show you my portfolio. Then you could tell me if you think I'm talented. Or then you could lie to me and tell me you think I'm the bestest artist in the world and of course I will make it into RISD."
I wonder if Grace has the letter I wrote back to her. But I'm sure I said something like:
I think you're talented, Grace! You are the bestest artist in the world, you will make it into RISD, and you will become a famous children's book author and illustrator.
See, I can predict the future!
That is fascinating, Alvina! Thanks for sharing it. Grace, do you still have Alvina's letter?
And glad to see you blogging again.
Good luck with the move!
I would love to hear more of this story. Thanks for posting, Alvina.
I love this, Alvina!! What an awesome time capsule - and how terrific that Grace's dreams have come true, thanks in part your editorial awesomeness!
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Childhood, The Grand Adventure! Kids just wanna have FUN!
Les…this is an awesome photo…how can I get it?
Sent from Debby's IPad
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I, blessedly, had very good parents. But, not everyone has very good parents. Parents try to be good - for the most part. But sometimes we/they are not.
Thanks to Betsy at Fuse#8 for sharing this. Check out her other Sunday videos.
Amazing! Thank you for sharing!
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WordPressers, day in and day out, you entertain us, you make us think, you make us laugh, and you make us grateful to be exposed to so many voices all over the world. It's a pleasure to read what you're writing. Like everyone in the community, we value that feeling of connection that comes from reading something that speaks to you, that resonates, that makes you feel not so alone.
For this edition of Freshly Pressed Faves, we're looking at three posts that do just that, all around the idea of "busy-ness." Modern society seems to embrace the idea that unless you're "swamped" or "super busy," you just aren't being productive enough. Free time? Fill it up, preferably with something that pays! This attitude permeates children's lives, too, with scheduled after-school dance classes and soccer practices and violin lessons and foreign language tutors. The idle hours that once allowed kids to daydream seem to be no more. When's enough enough, though?
Doing more only to do less — do we glorify busy?
Author Tim Kreider believes 'Our frantic days are really just a hedge against emptiness.' We feel we are nothing, not worthy, unimportant or left out if we have nothing to do.
But there is another aspect to it. Perfectionism – that shadow from our childhoods. We want to be excellent – because if we are, we will be worthy of love. So we take on anything and everything that is thrown us. Even when we are aware we are overwhelmed, we find it hard to say 'NO'. Because we fear that if we do – people will think less of us. So we end up doing more than our fair share.
Sofagirl at Campari & Sofa writes eloquently about her own fight with the "busy" beast and the scary personal episode that drove her to question it all. Weaving in others' research on the topic, she presents a compelling argument for taking a step back — and a deep breath — and for refusing to participate in the tyranny of "busy" any longer. Bet you'll find it difficult to disagree.
The Quiet Contemplation of Inactivity
As kids we could come up with 16 ways to put our lives on the line using the jungle gym in ways no designer ever intended. They were days when we simply looked at clouds and imagined animals (or teachers or, for the juvenile delinquents, body parts) hiding in the puffy expanse of the heavens. … We were bored, but no one was ever bored enough to learn something.
Except it appears, according to recent research, that boredom is good for the brain. Evidently, boredom switches our brain's little buttons and the synapses and neurons start firing on more cylinders, pushing us to creativity and intellectual growth.
John Wegner of Consistently Contradictory harkens back to a time when "boredom" and free time were acceptable and even encouraged, when we didn't rely on technology and scheduling quite so much, and when we allowed our brains to wander. Are we losing the benefits of this today? Should we re-introduce some "slack" into schools? Read John's convincing and thought-provoking post and you'll probably be answering "yes."
The Kid Stays in the Picture
When I was a kid, Dad made it clear that 'mere play' was being idle—something lazy people did. And boy, you couldn't get lazier than me.
Michael Maupin from Completely in the Dark takes us back to his childhood and the lasting effects of not being encouraged to "play." He explains, "As a shadow, it darkened the room, filling me with anxiety and self-doubt: 'What am I doing now? Is it practical? Is it useful? Shouldn't I be ashamed?' … For years that sound, that shadow, was all around. It blocked up my writing, my artwork, my self-esteem — everything. I was psychologically held at gunpoint by an ethic that carries little currency in my world."
Not one to be bullied, however, Michael has found ways to protect and embrace his natural tendencies towards "play and reverie." Read his post, and you'll be inspired to do the same.
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For more inspiration, check out our writing challenges, photo challenges, and other blogging tips at The Daily Post; visit our Recommended Blogs; and browse the most popular topics in the Reader. For editorial guidelines for Freshly Pressed, read: So You Want To Be Freshly Pressed.
Thank you WordPress for drawing the attention to our blog. On behalf of sofagirl and I, we are forever indebted (she is busy answering comments)
I have such a hard time being inactive because I feel guilty if I am not doing something constantly.
I love this. Sometimes I do so much and feel like I've done nothing. I've done nothing fulfilling. That's why I take out time to read these wonderful articles and look at the reader to see what's on. This is something I can enjoy and learn from.
Really interesting piece. I'm such a daydreamer and am often bored in my day job so encouraged to learn that this may be boosting my creativity!
LOVED the comments about kids' play and need for time to 'do nothing'. There really isn't enough of that in most people's today… not in the 'western' world at any rate.
I read all three and love the premise. It's just been in the last few years that I have learned to relax and stop being so driven! It is very difficult to be surrounded by people who constantly "do" and maintain my sense of confidence in going at my own pace. Might I be thought lazy? I had to learn to do this in order to accommodate the ebb and flow of my daily life with kids and keep my sanity.
I have been accused, at many points along the line, of being lazy, unmotivated, uncaring, inconsiderate of other people's needs, distracted, distractable, useless, shiftless, and other things as well.
My immediate response: Your point is?
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I spent the last couple of days writing a post for this blog. It was jolly and fun and hopefully entertaining. But after yesterday's news about a horrific and heartbreaking shooting in an American school, I couldn't help feeling that a blog written today should have a different focus.
I write books for children. I write about mermaids and fairies and time travel and pirate dogs. Mostly, though, I write about family and friendship and love and loyalty. These are the things that are important to me. I believe that these are the things that are important to most of us. In one afternoon, in an elementary school in America, at least twenty families have had all of these things taken away from them, by a young man with a gun.
At the time of writing this, there aren't many facts available about the background to any of this, so I can't comment on that. I'm not going to get into the politics of it either – although, if I wanted to, it would be just one simple sentence: America – do something about your gun laws now.
So what do I want to say? I suppose I want to reflect on what kind of a world we live in – what kind of a world we have created. And I want to ask whether it's possible for us to do something about this.
The night before last, I watched a Panorama programme about homelessness in the UK. I thought the same thing then. Innocent children who haven't had a chance yet to make any mark on this world are in situations where they're losing something that so many of us take for granted. Their homes. Yesterday, twenty children had their entire lives taken away from them. And in recent months, we have all heard the appalling stories that have come to light about Jimmy Savile and others who stole hundreds of children's innocence and blighted their lives forever.
We live in a world where space travel is taken for granted, where lives are saved with incredible medicines or operations, where with the touch of a few buttons we can talk to and even see someone on the other side of the planet. We live in - we have created - a world where unbelievable things are possible.
With all this intelligence, how have we not managed to create a world in which our children are safe?
As a children's author, I am quite often asked if I would ever think about writing books for adults. Right now, I can't help thinking – why would I want to do that? Adults are the ones who harm. Adults are the ones who damage. Adults are the ones who should know better.
Children are the ones who see things as they are. Who see the beauty and simplicity and excitement and innocence and incredible potential of this world.
At this moment, I am proud of my job. It is about celebrating childhood – and right now I can't think of anything more worthy of celebration and protection than childhood.
I'm not a parent, but if I was, tonight I would hug my children that little bit tighter. I'm not religious, but tonight I will take my chances and ask God to look after the twenty innocent children who were ripped from this world when their lives had barely begun.
And I will ask us as a society to grieve for their families, to be thankful for our own and to do everything we can each do in our own way to create a world that is worthy of all of the gifts, riches and knowledge that we have.
Have been thinking about your comments which were expressed in brief tweet form. Thanks for writing and sharing this.
One of my nephews came in an hugged me today - he's 26. Another phoned "just to say I love you". Others, who live in other states "checked in" something they never usually do on a busy Saturday.
The 12yr old "Whirlwind", the child I take a special interest in, came to me in a very distressed state and said,
"I just need to hug you too". She had already hugged her father, her sole parent.
I hugged all of them back in reality and virtually.
It made me realise how very, very fortunate most of us are. I just cannot comprehend the grief those directly involved must be going through - and will go through for weeks, months and years.
Hugs are so much better than hate - and, if we must fight wars, let's do it with words, not weapons.
I find it impossible to find words for my response to this dreadful shooting - so thank you for this. There will be an inquiry, and people will look for someone or something to blame. I feel all I can do is make sure that those I love know how I feel about them - and that love is precious and we must cherish it.
Beautiful - you've expressed what so many of us are feeling.
Thankyou Liz.
Thanks for writing and sharing this blog. It is so beautiful you've expressed what feeling.
Thank you, Liz. Just...thank you.
Thank you for a moving, heartfelt post.
Thank you, Liz.
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The old refrain: we've seen this before and we'll see it again.
Some disturbed individual buys a bunch of guns and murders a bunch of people. The media falls in love with the story. We endure some rounds of punditry. A few people change their minds on the issues of gun control and mental healthcare, but most of us stand firm in our opinions. Then, after a few days, we move on, until another wayward soul takes some shots at another awful legacy and we all say, "we've seen this before and we'll see it again."
I rarely address current events on this blog. I almost never mention my politics. But I feel the need to address the issue of guns and gun violence. Don't worry, I'm not here with boatloads of links and statistics and I don't think I'm qualified to offer viable solutions. I'm only going to talk about how this issue relates to my life and my writing.
I've never owned a real gun, or even fired one. Although I lived a free-range childhood that involved plenty of squirt, rubber dart, and cap guns, my parents didn't allow firearms in the house. Even BB guns were off limits. If I wanted to shoot an air rifle, I had to arrange a clandestine meeting in the woods with a friend who owned a pump-action Daisy. During one such meeting, I ended up with a welt on my cheek, the result of poor safety precautions and an opportunistic ricochet. "You'll shoot your eye out, kid," indeed.
Six or seven years later, when I was studying in London, a lone Englishman at a party full of Americans approached me and asked how many of us were carrying guns. I laughed at the absurdity of his question, but he wasn't joking. Not only did he believe that all Americans owned and carried guns, he also assumed that we did so when we traveled.
A year after that, on New Year's Eve, I was in a nearly empty pizza parlor on Bleecker Street when a group of teens in puffy coats entered. They didn't attempt to order. They just stood amid the tables, eyeing up the cashier. When one teen unzipped his coat, I saw a pistol tucked in his waistband. The cashier knew what was about to happen; he placed his hands flat on the counter and didn't budge. After a tense minute or two, one of the teens finally said, "not worth it," and they walked out.
A few years later, in rural upstate New York, I attended a 4th of July party. In lieu of fireworks, the host pulled an Uzi from his impressive gun cabinet and proceeded to shoot a few dozen rounds into the air. I don't know if he was the legal owner of that Uzi, but I doubt it. I left the party shortly after the entertainment.
Guns haven't played much of a role in my life of late, except when it comes to my writing. These days, I write books about kids. Because my books are about kids, they're sold to kids. In my books, some of the characters wield and shoot guns. Those characters are all kids.
During the editorial stages, I have been asked to remove plenty of swearing and kissing from my books. It's a business decision more than an artistic one. Certain libraries and book-buyers refuse to buy anything in the middle-grade market (i.e. fare for ages 9–12) that features a few hells and a little frenching. And yet, I have never been asked to edit out a gun or an incident of gun violence, even when a 12-year-old character is the perpetrator of that violence. The powers-that-be are okay with all that.
Should they be okay with all that, though? I don't know. I hope they should be, as long as I'm doing my job as an author, which I believe is to provide an engrossing story with compelling characters whose motivations are relatable a
The Brit didn't realize the Americans had to abide by England's gun laws?
And yes, I would have left the Uzi party, too. That's wrong, dangerous, stupid, and illegal (even if the Uzi was legally purchased). Bullets go up. Bullets come down. The lead doesn't hover in the air indefinitely. And while the chances of hitting someone with a stray bullet are slim, it has happened. I would hate to kill someone because I'm being a dumbass. (Well, I'd hate to kill someone at all, but you know what I mean).
DA – The Brit was a 19-year-old kid who was a few pints into the night. And this was 1996, before Britain's latest gun laws were passed. In any case, he didn't think Americans cared about their laws.
As for the Uzi – luckily, no one was in the yard with him when he fired it, and he angled it toward some presumably empty cornfields, but still…dangerous and stupid indeed.
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To Any Reader - Robert Louis Stevenson. Click READ MORE. As from the house your mother sees
You playing round the garden trees,
So you may see, if you will look
Through the windows of this book,
Another child, far, far away,
And in another garden, play.
But do not think you can at all,
By knocking on the window, call
That child to hear you. He intent
Is all on his play-business bent.
He does not hear, he will not look,
Nor yet be lured out of this book.
For, long ago, the truth to say,
He has grown up and gone away,
And it is but a child of air
That lingers in the garden there.
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Cathy, at Merely Day By Day, is joining me in a poem a day this month. Other daily poem writers include Amy at The Poem Farm, Linda at TeacherDance, Donna at Mainely Write, Laura at Writing the World for Kids (daily haiku), Liz at Liz in Ink (daily haiku), Sara at Read Write Believe (daily haiku), Jone at Deo Writer (daily haiku)...and YOU?
Love it! Those lines all bring vivid images to mind.
This poems says it all and brings back special memories and extends to my life today where I am still dreaming.
I love this!
Love this! What fun! Can I copy and share it with our teachers (K-6, Title I school in Utah) to share with students? I will (of course)include your copyright and website info at bottom.
I love writing poetry--you've inspired me to post some on my blog, too! Thanks! Happy writing!
Love this too! A fun way to capture childhood with the rhythm and the rhyme!
Love this, ML. Never pegged you for a booger flicker, though :).
What fun, Mary Lee!
Yes, you certainly may share my poem (with attribution/copyright)! Thank you for the honor!!
Oh, yeah. I've flicked with the best of 'em!!
In a nutshell, you've written it! Such fun!
Mary Lee,
Great list poem--one that I'm sure kids will enjoy.
These lines came to me today in the shower -- whaddaya think, too much potty humor, or just right for kids?
Fart -- rip it.
Tooth -- chip it.
Mary Lee,
Thanks for allowing me to share your poem!
Lots of students have enjoyed it already!
I love how you are able to write beautifully, quirkily, seriously, nature-fully...this nailed childhood! a.
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Picture book author Tony Johnston has over 125 books for children in her repertoire! She was kind enough to speak at the 2011 Southern California SCBWI Writer's Day and share her immense knowledge and insight. This was one of the most heartfelt talks I've ever been too. Johnston is passionate and moved by her responsibility as a writer.
The following notes were taken during her talk:
Where Do You Find Inspiration?
- "Keep alive to everything." – N. C. Wyeth
- Bumble through life at the ready.
- "If I keep alive to everything, a story will find me." –Tony Johnston
- "I have not exhausted the ground I stand on." – N. C. Wyeth (on why he doesn't need to paint the alps. There is plenty to see and explore where he lives.)
- Notice things more and more. Inspiration doesn't always come from an emotional core.
- The LA Times is a great place to find stories.
Let the Feelings Catch You:
- "Be caught by feelings."
- "Words from the heart, enter the heart." (Saying in the Torah ??)
- Sentimentality is the cheapest lie.
- You don't have to include significance and meaning to have a heartfelt moment in your book.
- Make 'em laugh, but do it honestly.
- Heartfelt silliness is also an emotion.
- When writing about difficult subjects (like racism) remember that children don't flinch. It is the grownups that flinch.
- Keep it simple.
- "How difficult it is to be simple." – Vincent Van Gogh
- Writing simply does not mean words must be short and easy. It should be the words that belong.
- "The difference between the right word and almost the right word can be the difference between the lightning and a lightning bug." – Mark Twain
- Don't slip into Cinderella's Syndrome. Don't try to fit a story into something that doesn't fit. The glass shoe is the shape/structure of your story, if you try to force it, it will break." Johnston's example of this was a picture book that was really a novel, but she didn't realize it till an editor pointed it out to her.
- Find the right form for your story.
- Listen to your editor.
- Don't sentimentalize or trivialize.
- The process for every book is different.
The Essence of Childhood:
- Great picture books deal with the essence of childhood. Essence is the spirit, the pith, the heart of a story.
- The language of essences is clean, like an arrow, straightforward.
- "To the memory nothing is ever truly lost." –Eudora Welty
- You must get back to the place where it hurts.
- "No tears in the writer. No tears in the reader." –Robert Frost
Be Bold When You Write:
- Don't play it safe. Writing is about risk taking!
- Writing is about sharing yourself.
- "Don't hold anything back. Don't hold anything for the next
2 Comments on Nuts and Bolts and Chocolate, last added: 5/31/2011Display CommentsAdd a CommentMelora Bell said, on 5/31/2011 9:44:00 AM
I'm very impressed by the great words/advice of Tony Johnston. She seems to have it all figured out and is so successful. Nice post!Laura said, on 5/31/2011 9:46:00 AM
Oops. That was me not "Melora" (my penname). I pushed the submit button too fast.
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Anyone with children will know the 'why?' stage. The child discovers that this tiny word can make an adult talk and talk and talk. The child receives undivided attention because the adult loves to show how much he knows.
'Isn't the blossom beautiful?'
'It's beautiful so it attracts bees.'
'To help make more trees, and more blossom.'
'So that...er...would you like some Gummy Bears?'
It goes on forever. The child isn't really listening, she's just enjoying the attention, the love that's being devoted to her.
Because adults love to explain. Adults want to be able to show they understand and that everything is explicable.
Because adults fear that not knowing means they are stupid. Or that the child will feel rejected. Adults just love to fill silence with sound.
Shut up. I don't know.
Take the recent riots. How many different explanations did we hear? Left wingers giving left wing explanations (cuts; no jobs; the breakdown of the state). Right wingers giving right wing explanations (bad parenting; nanny state; the breakdown of the family). I am sure many of these views could have been given even before the event.
Question: If there was a riot next week what would be the causes?
The right wingers and the left wingers have already made up their minds. The event itself doesn't have any relevance.
Young children imagine all adults will give similar answers, that the reasons for something happening are easy for us grown ups to understand. The world is black and white. Up until around the age of seven or eight, if you ask a child whether it is wrong to steal a loaf of bread to feed a starving family, almost every one will give a categorical 'yes'. It is wrong to steal. Of course it is.
This is one good very reason for giving children a diet of fiction. Children get to hear inside the heads of other people, even if they aren't real. These imaginary people can hold views that real people may have. And slowly, a child begins to realise that two characters versions of the same event may be very, very different.
As children begin to explore the territory of what makes us the people we are then they can begin to understand that others may be inflexible, or are not even prepared to listen to evidence before coming to conclusions, that sometimes judgements are clouded by temperament, character or emotion.
It's a giddy experience, the dawning realisation that there may be fewer certainties in the world.
It just is. Now go to bed.
Brilliantly argued reason to read, thank you. As for why I seem to be perfectly happy to say to a class of 8 year olds: I don't know, but we positively trip over each other to answer the why's of my 3yo!
I'm going to send your post to my sister who struggles to teach entitled, entrenched 20-year-olds. Many thanks for writing it!
And I am going to send a link for this to the grandmother of a "why" child!
I think children want you not to be able to answer - they are exploring how far they need to go to get to the vulnerability of ignorance which they share. OK, we know why bees pollinate flowers, but unless you are going to opt for a religious answer at some point there will a 'why' you can't answer somewhere. And then you and the child are equal again. You are no longer an alien being who knows everything.
When my niece was much younger she went through the why stage. We turned it into a game - truth or tale? Often I'd keep fingers crossed it was tale as I often struggled with giving the real reason why. It was a great way of coming up with stories or bits of stories I could use later.
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I thought it was time to post a photograph. Since I happened on this old photo of my daughter I thought I'd share. I always liked this photo, daughter aside but also because it has a freshness I like. Now that I look at it nearly two decades later I still like it for that reason.
I remember my first 35 mm camera. A friend I meet in France noticed I liked photography and introduced me to the real world of camera formats by letting me use his inexpensive fixed lens 35mm. Upon returning to the states I bought a Pentax K1000, a real workhorse which I took this with. You've probably heard others say the same but I have to say it too…I miss the format compared to digital.
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she must be a pretty lady now
Hi Fiona, She is.
Thank you Michelle!
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Thanks to the OPEN A BOOK blog for using my "Dreambeast" poem to get people thinking big for 2012!
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By Denis Sampson
"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road." It is one of the most celebrated of all fictional beginnings, evoking the essence and tradition of narrative itself, telling a first story to a child, and at the same time the beginning of a very sophisticated kind of biographical fiction, the childhood and youth of an artist. Joyce's self-portrait in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man absorbed and reinforced a Romantic tradition that assumes the artist's life is determined by childhood and inevitably grows out of those earliest experiences. It was Baudelaire who proclaimed that "genius is the power to recover childhood" so it is hardly surprising that the shape of the artist's life is so often set down chronologically, as if it is uniquely and inescapably defined by its starting point and its familial contexts.
Literary biographers, and often the memoirs of artists, have usually reinforced this pattern. Richard Ellmann begins his justly acclaimed biography of Joyce with a chapter entitled "The Family Before Joyce" and comments: "Stephen Dedalus said the family was a net which he would fly past, but James Joyce chose rather to entangle himself and his works in it." Ellmann takes his cue, then, from Joyce, but it is not only Romantic paradigms and the artists themselves that influenced the shape of literary biography in the twentieth century; perhaps even more important were psychological paradigms, and the idea that biography is a branch of history played a part.
At any rate, common sense seems to endorse this way of beginning and contributes to the expectation that a biography should begin at birth and also sketch the genetic or historical inheritance. We observe people around us growing into adulthood and away from or towards the patterns of behaviour they have known in their childhood. Recollection is always affecting, especially childhood memories, in conversation or in reading. Yet it is selective recollection, and we do not really remember chronologically.In the second half of a lifespan, especially, as we move further away from childhood and may no longer have parents alive, we become aware of many other ways of finding order in a life. We realize, for instance, that there are many beginnings and endings, or phases that seem to break away from, or repeat, earlier patterns.
If we ask when a writing life begins, it may make more sense to focus less on chronology or childhood and more on the moment that allows us to map the beginning of significant accomplishment. For instance, both Proust and Beckett spent fifteen years dithering before they really began the work on which their fame rests; the work that came before would be forgotten without that new beginning. It was in 1909, when Proust composed the essays in Contre Sainte Beuve, that he really discovered the focus and energy that allowed him to begin A la recherche du temps perdu. The five years that followed the end of World War II gave Beckett The Trilogy, Waiting for Godot, and other work of a new stylistic beginning. It might even be said that he began again about the age of forty and that this was the true beginning of his work. Conrad's decision to write in English may be the decisive moment in his career.
In the end, and in the beginning, it is how people gather tog
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I recall going to a hospital with my nan when I was small and that the lobby area was a large circular room. I can still recall the echoing sounds of our footsteps. My mum says this never happened and there is no such hospital in Liverpool.
I also recall a man with a monkey playing an organ in the city centre when I was little. To which I was told to stop being silly and such things hadn't existed since the early 1900s... Muahaha.
...check out the video at about 4:05.
Now all I need to do is find that darn hospital. My quest to prove I am always right continues...
*Photo courtesy of Wikipedia
Wouldn't that have been absolutely crazy if you found a video that you were in? It's fantastic being right! :-)
Today's ridiculous word verification: mbedg candedin
I desperately hoped I'd see little me, but alas...
Wanted to jump on and say hello.
I bet it DID happen and everyone else just forgot. Writers have better memories, I think. Always observing. Maybe it starts young.
When I foolishly thrust both arms through a glass door at the age of 5 and ended up in hospital with more blood spurting from my limbs than John Hurt managed from his stomach in ALIEN, I recall being laid out on an ironing board to have my stitches.
I can only presume this image has stayed with me c/o some hideous 60s anaesthetic cocktail — but it WAS an ironing board.
I wish I'd stopped watching after the monkey - Morris dancers frighten me for some reason.
Hi, Bobbie :D
That's a fabulous story, Whirlochre - except for your being injured, of course.
Thankfully I have no memory of the morris dancers, Ray ;)
I was hoping you were in the video too. You should have been!
I have a clear memory of playing around a flagpole on a sort of fence thing with another girl when I was very, very small, singing "A tisket, a tasket." I can picture the whole area perfectly. My mother always swore we had never been to anyplace with flagpole like that. Maybe she just didn't notice it. Even though her daughter was swinging on it like a monkey (but not an organ grinder).
Adults forget everything (and I'm living proof of that)
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KANSAS CITY, MO The Kansas City Royals announced today that the club has agreed to terms with third baseman Kevin Kouzmanoff on a minor league contract for the 2012 season. The contract includes an invitation to Royals Major League Spring Training camp in Surprise, Ariz. The 30-year-old Kouzmanoff (KOOZ-mah-nahf) combined to play 73 games for the Oakland Athletics and Colorado Rockies in 2011, batting .235 with seven home runs, 33 RBI and 24 runs scored. The right-handed hitter is a career .255 batter with 85 home runs and 361 RBI over six Major League seasons with the Indians (2006), Padres (2007-09), As (2010-11) and Rockies (2011). He is a career .279 hitter with a .453 slugging percentage against left-handed pitchers. The 6-foot-1, 210-pounder is known as a strong defender, leading all N.L. third baseman with a .990 fielding percentage in 2009, and averaged nearly 19 home runs a season from 2007-2010.
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What does the New Testament teach about the spiritual gift of prophecy? What is it? How does it function? Can evangelical Christians use it in their churches today?
This updated, comprehensive work answers such questions and points the way to a renewed understanding of the gift of prophecy--an understanding that suggests how the body of Christ may enjoy one of the Holy Spirit's most edifying gifts without compromising the supremacy of Scripture.
"This conservative evangelical scholarly work gives a solid theological basis for further development of a practical theology of spiritual gifts." --John Wimber, Vineyard Christian Fellowship
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RedeemedByGrace5 Stars Out Of 5July 7, 2010RedeemedByGraceThis is a highly biblical presentation of the gift of prophecy. It should be in every Christian's library especially churches which have been skewed and influenced by the prophetic movement. This book and a serious investigation of the biblical texts would bring balance to the extremes that are current in vogue. The only thing that could be added is an engagement with the truth claims of the prophecy movement perhaps as an appendix.
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Steve5 Stars Out Of 5March 30, 2002SteveThis is the fairest attempt at staying faithfull to the biblical text that I know of. It's very thorough and includes a section that gives practical suggestions on how to incorporate this gift into various church settings. Even John MacArthur, who believesthis gift has ceased, feels this is the best presentation that this gift is still in operation. This work will also, hopefully, bring some balance to some extreme views held by manyof our brothers and sisters. May God grant us all grace to know and serve him better.
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Patron Saints: Karen Roe
Date: April 10, 2013
by: Observer Staff
Each week, The Observer posts a Patron Saints video featuring patrons of performing-arts groups and the venues to which they donate.
This week, Karen Roe talks about her experience with The Players Theatre of Sarasota. Friends directed Roe to The Players as a cure for her daughter Grace's shy behavior — she couldn't order at restaurants or make any eye contact. Grace took an acting class there, and now she's starring in The Player's Kids and The Players' productions. Roe believes every child should have this opportunity, which is why she donates.
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The document is organized into four levels of progressively more detailed information: 1) executive summary; 2) core document; 3) stand-alone supplements that address the key measures for SARS preparedness and response; and 4) attachments to each supplement that provide guidance and tools for local-level preparedness and response activities.
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Each Supplement outlines, and in some cases describes in some detail, many of the interrelated and multifaceted activities that need to or could be undertaken at the local level to prepare for and respond to the reemergence of SARS. Also included are guidelines and resource materials to assist public health officials and healthcare facilities in planning and implementing a response. To address the dynamic nature of a SARS outbreak and each jurisdiction's unique situation, each Supplement considers, as applicable:
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Milwaukee office Johnsen Schmaling Architects chose a palette of bare concrete, cedar and anodised metal to construct this small family retreat in a remote Wisconsin forest (+ slideshow). More »
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Chilean architect Pedro Gubbins designed this concrete residence as a rural retreat for himself and his family and has balanced it on top of a dry-stone wall (+ slideshow). More »
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Pigeon Forge Condo Rental Photos and Description
2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, Sleeps 6, convenience .6 mile off pkwy.
Your home away from home..... arrive to Dunkin Donuts coffee, creamer, sugar and chilled bottled water, travel size shampoo/conditioner and shower gels compliments of your hosts, Mike and Kathy T.. Got It All Vacation Rentals, LLC. Your cabin decor furnishings include a fully-equipped kitchen, your bedrooms come with 2 King beds, a jetted tub in the master bathroom and a custom tile shower. All within 1,150 square feet of luxury. 3 large screen HDTV's and DVD player each with remotes, a variety of games are yours to enjoy. Relax by your electric fireplace with remote control.
Your family friendly amenities include a washer/dryer, laundry detergent included. Your stay also includes travel size shampoo/conditioner and shower gels, hair dryers, iron, ironing board, dishwasher detergent, paper towels, toilet tissue, hand soaps, vacuum cleaner, cleaning supplies, plush towels, wash cloths, extra bed linens, comforters/linens washed after each guest and much more.
4th year in a row winners on Trip Advisor - Top Vacation Rentals and Rated Excellent. Bear Elegance only .3 mile to Kroger grocery and .6 mile off the Parkway at Red Light 3, Wears Valley Rd. Once you have arrived you will step out of the elevator and enter your one level 2 bedroom, 2 bath with incredible mountain views. Password protected wireless internet awaits you. Not the unsecure Resort wireless other owners are using. What A View of Bluff and Cove Mountains on your balcony accessible from living room and master bedroom in Pigeon Forge, TN!
Elevator access, from your home away from home brings you to another one level of amenities such as our game room, fitness area, men's and ladies rooms each with custom tile showers. From there you may enter the indoor heated pool or jetted tub!
Activities and Attractions: Less than 10 minutes drive to Titanic, Smoky Mountain Opry, Pigeon Forge Community Bowling, Blackwood Breakfast, Dollywood, the Comedy Barn, river rafting, horseback riding, mini golf or a day of family fun at wonderworks along with wonders of Magic. Our captivating Cades Cove adorns magnificent waterfalls, hiking trails, and incredible history within your beautiful nature drives. Stroll through the Tennessee Mountains and see our deer, turkey and please don't feed the Black Bears.
Savor a home-cooked meal at the Old Mill, Pottery café, Bullfish restaurant, the Apple Barn, Tony Roma's or your choice of many appetizing delights. Don't forget our home-made fudge and candy shops along the parkway. From your home-away-from-home near the Great Smoky Mountain National Park enjoy shopping, live performances, Dolly's Splash Country, hiking, biking, bowling or peace and quiet in our local library nearby. Your endless outdoor activities may include any of our 3 golf courses.
Simply take a cruise to Gatlinburg to the The Pancake Pantry for crepes, or take the trolley tour. We have truly Got It All.
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- Minimum Age Limit for Renters
- children welcome
- non smoking only
- pets not allowed
- suitable for elderly or infirm
About Michael Tollefsrud
Enjoying the complete renovations at Bear Elegance in Pigeon Forge, TN. 55' HDTV in living room, 36' HDTV in master bedroom and a 42' HDTV in guest bedroom. New paint, all new furniture, cabin décor and kitchen fully equipped throughout!
Michael Tollefsrud purchased this condo in 2014
Why Michael Tollefsrud chose Pigeon Forge
Incredible Mountain Views, just .6 mile from Outlet stores, Entertainment, Restaurants, and only .3 mile from Kroger grocery.
Have been coming to Pigeon Forge for years. There is always something knew to see and do.
What makes this condo unique
5% Discount: Teacher, Preacher, Military, Firefighter, Police Active or Retired) or Repeat Guest. Provide highest quality, hospitality and lower rates too! 4th year in a row-Trip Advisor Top Vacation Rentals and Rated Excellent.
Guestbook comments from the manager
Mike and Kathy T.,
thanks alot for letting us stay at What A View condo, beautiful home and we enjoyed your place a lot. We had fun. We hope to be back someday.
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Well, last night I started spotting a little bit. At first I thought maybe it was implantation bleeding. I woke up in the night and it was pretty much like full blown AF. I had taken 4 different pregnancy tests, which all said BFP. AF was also a few days late. I even made a doctors appointment with the OB. But I feel like it's over now. This sucks more than anything i've ever experienced.
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I'm sorry to hear of your loss. I had a chemical pregnancy last month and I know how much it sucks. You don't even haved a chance to get used to the idea and it's over.
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Sorry to hear about this :-( My first time getting pregnant I got an unexpected BFP. We told all of our family that weekend and then I started bleeding and getting cramps the next day. Went to the ER, saw my bean, and lost it. My older sister was pregnant at the same time and she bled too but everything was okay with her bean (now my nephew Isaac). It's not over until it's over. Sending hugs!!!
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