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- Cesar Chavez: a Photographic Essay
- This simply told, moving account of the life of Cesar Chavez reveals what a
humble yet forceful man he was, and what an extraordinary and internationally-known
person he became. An admirable quality of Stavans biography is the choice of photographs to illustrate Chavez life, because of the immediate yet historical connection photography creates. According to the author, a Latin American and Latino Culture professor at Amherst College, the photos were gleaned from the Farm Workers Archive and the Cesar E. Chavez Foundation, and most were shot by amateur photographers. Adults as well as young adults will find this a suitable introduction to Chavez.
- Dance of the Eggshells = Baile de Cascarones
- Aragon charms the reader with this celebration of a New Mexico tradition. Her family experiences shape this bilingual tale about two children who visit their grandparents during preparations and festivities related to cascarones, those colorful, decorated eggshells. Slight occurrences of sibling bickering, prepubescent obstinacy, and childish poutiness add a convincing touch of realism to which kids can relate. Love and respect for family prevail in the end. While never digressing from storytelling, Aragon reveals instructions on how to actually make the traditional eggs and perform the dance. Festively colorful illustrations add lively details and warmth to this picture book.
- Emily Walks the Sheep Trail
- Self-published efforts dont always hit the mark, but this author, a retired elementary school teacher, succeeds as she portrays the first year in the life of Emily, a lamb. Shanks sharp photographs, coupled with simple yet detailed text, vividly convey a fascinating tradition in Arizona ranching. Emily walks the Heber-Reno Sheep Trail as others have done for more than 100 years. For young readers, this picture book is a captivating look at contemporary family ranch life, too. The publisher also has a Spanish version of this book available, titled Emilia Camina la Vereda de Borregos.
- Hidden Life of the Desert
- Arranged in order of the Sonoran Deserts seasons (indeed, not four but five!), this books lively, interesting text closely corresponds to sharp, vibrant photos. Focusing on plants and animals that thrive during each season, the reader learns about distinct characteristics as well as symbiotic relationships. Wiewandt has done a marvelous expansion of the first edition of this title. Sadly, however, the depredations that have occurred in the intervening 20 years since the first edition have led the author to include a new section, Facing the Future, filled with grim descriptions of mans alterations and damage to fragile deserts and their inhabitants. He also includes some resulting conservation efforts. Pronunciations of unusual names and words are helpfully inserted in the text. Inclusion of a glossary, recommended resources, a list of scientific names and an index enhance this new edition, which is an informative and fascinating addition to any school, library or familys bookshelf.
- Tale of the Pronghorned Cantaloupe, The
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So we just kept on going, that was our mandate that was our guideline. Then when we had the art direction of it we had these amazing concepts done in the beginning and it was like, "Yes this is the visual look, this is how its going to be. It's going to be this very broken down society with this over built technology." So we had all those pieces and the design team really busted their asses making the maps good and the art team's done an amazing job on the art so it's been really that kind of power train where it's been sheer will not only of one person to put it out, it's been sheer will of everyone.
We've really really crushed it I think. I want to see other games, DLC especially or 60 dollar games, bring their level up to that magnitude. I think a lot of studios that have 120 people or 200 people would never be able to what we did in a year.
What do you think the difference is?
I've been on both sides of development. I've been at a big studio with 30 producers and it's like, "Oh we need to have a meeting about that. Oh we need to have a meeting about that." The bull crap that happens, it happens in offices all the time, you know? You have fast and agile systems and then you have meetings and reports and a crap load of documentation.
We have the whole game documented but when we documented the game, it was in lock down, we documented it in the first month of the game and after that it never changed and it's because if you have people constantly coming in and changing it and saying, "Mmm this doesn't work" it ruins it.
But I think for a lot of the big companies and a lot of companies with a shit load of money it's like, "Oh we can let it slip." and when you have 'we can let it slip' in your mind, that's when you ruin it. It's like "Oh I can paint the house next month." With us it's, "We need to paint the house today" and the mentality's a lot sharper.
And you found your publisher when you had a pretty much finished product?
We had the first playable. We had four maps, what we would consider an alpha. The look and feel was there and the core gameplay was there. We had the core weapons systems but not the customisation added to them. So you were able to select all these guns and play the game and have fun with it as well as connecting with everyone, but there were still systems that we added after we worked with Ignition. Ignition's been an amazing publisher. They've done nothing but make sure that they've given us everything that we've needed. It's been a really great project actually.
I suppose you only need to look at Activision and Infinity Ward to know how wrong it can go...
Yeah and that's kind of the sad thing. Everyone wants to do the best thing and there are formulas that publishers use and we spoke with publishers that were interested in it but were like, "Well we need five new USPs." Ok well, you know, what about the game? "Yeah yeah but we need these things. We need to make sure it gets approval by thirty different departments." I think that's where a lot of things get held up. There would be a lot more new IPs if people were to understand a different mentality.
I think DLC is going to have that different mentality. A lot of new cool things are going to come out of DLC because of that. If you want to do a 60 dollar game you need to do the big budget movie. You have District 9 that was a small awesome passion project and was done with 3 million dollars, but it looks like it's been done with a hundred million like other big movies. Why did that do that? It's that passion and the beliefs that they had. It's just making sure that the others can be just as good.
You know, when you're buying our game for the price of five maps from the other guys, step it up. I mean really if there's a little guy snapping at your heels all the time you'll catch on otherwise we'll catch you.


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Thailand's government is set to lift the state of emergency in Bangkok and surrounding provinces two months after imposing it to curb anti-government protests, as the security situation has improved due to the dwindling number of demonstrators.
The protesters have been trying since early November to overthrow Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and rid the country of the influence of her brother, ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
"We have agreed to lift the state of emergency and use the Internal Security Act starting from tomorrow until April 30 as the number of protesters has dwindled ... and after pleas from the business community," national security chief Paradorn Pattanathabutr told Reuters news agency on Tuesday.
The decision had been approved by Yingluck, according to the prime minister's secretary-general, Suranand Vejjajiva, who spoke to AFP news agency.
The Internal Security Act is a less harsh law but still allows the authorities to impose curfews, operate security checkpoints and restrict the movement of protesters as needed.
At least 23 people have been killed since the unrest began late last year, most in shootings and grenade blasts.
The protests, which were mainly held in Bangkok and the south, have waned in recent weeks and are now mostly confined to Lumpini Park in Bangkok's central business district and a few other sites.
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The government set the 60-day emergency from January 22 to help contain protests in the run-up to a general election on February 2, but most of its measures were barely used, especially after a court ruled on February 19 that some had been imposed illegally.
The election in February was disrupted by protesters in almost 70 of the 375 constituencies, leaving the House of Representatives without a quorum to open and elect a new prime minister.
The Constitutional Court has accepted a petition to consider annulling the election, which could further delay the formation of a new government.
Yingluck, whose Puea Thai Party had been expected to win the election, heads a caretaker administration with limited powers.
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When Joseph Brodsky was alive, he and I would often go to the Russian Samovar to drink and talk about poetry. It was always vodka-many flavors of it. Joseph would usually have cilantro. I would have cranberry. We talked and talked, stopping now and then to take large bites of smoked salmon, smoked sturgeon, pickled herring, usually with black bread. And the caviar we consumed! The food, like the vodka, was excellent. But what made the Russian Samovar special was its owner, Roman Kaplan, who knew Joseph before he came to this country. He is one of the warmest and most generous men that I have ever known. Whenever I go to New York, I go to the Russian Samovar, sit down, have some vodka, and talk with Roman. A gifted pianist plays sad Russian songs. Almost everyone in the restaurant is speaking Russian. Mikhail Baryshnikov, who is a part owner, is a frequent patron. Joseph hovers nearby.
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Easter is just days away! Has the Easter Bunny gotten enough stuff for the baskets? If not, I have a quick basket filler for him to get working on! I'm sure the kids are going to LOVE them! And as my Easter gift to you, I have some treat printables for you to use this Easter!
You know how much kids love pixie sticks, right? And you are probably fully aware that they are pure sugar, right? Well, you can easily do it yourself and make a healthier and tastier version! These are so easy! I got this recipe from Amanda Parker and Family. I only made a little change to her recipe by adding a bit more sugar because I prefer sweet over sour! I also changed the packaging slightly. For great printables, please go visit her site!
You need a bag of you favorite freeze dried fruit (I found them at Trader Joes), 5-6 T sugar, and some paper straws (I got mine for like $2 at Hobby Lobby), and some tape is optional
All you need to do is put the fruit and the sugar in a food processor. You might want to start with 4T of sugar and taste. Add a tablespoon at a time until you have it to your preferred taste.
Process until it's a fine powder.
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Pinch one end of the straw and fold it over about a 1/2 inch. I put a piece of tape on it to make sure nothing came out.
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Once you get near the top, brush off the excess powder and fold the top over. Tape it down.
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A third man is now wanted for breaking into a firefighter's home and ransacking it, deputies said.
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I'm not a fan of Westerns particularly. The mythological images created by Hollywood seldom bear any resemblance to reality and their political leanings are often less than honorable. But those wide, open spaces and America's dramatic past (even filtered through Hollywood's gauze) arguably have inspired more great film scores than any other cinematic subgenre. As… More
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This future, which is a bleak future, is not even new. The fútbollers were reporting on Northwestern's automated stats program—which have, in turn, become Yahoo's new and fascinating and horrifying robot-written fantasy football articles—back when New Meadowlands Stadium was indeed brand new. But if computers making news isn't breaking news anymore, Yahoo's kind of reporting is broken nonetheless. Fascinatingly and horrifyingly so, but broken all the same.
As with hearts, so it goes in sport: "Things get damaged," sang Dave Gahan so preciously. Apropos more so, it was Built To Spill's Doug Martsch—or Yeats, if you're picky—who followed Yahoo down. "Things Fall Apart," the IT center cannot hold.
We aren't the first site to note the inchoate poesie of Yahoo's cyborg prose, or to indulge in that poesie ourselves. But, to leave aside the accidental literary triumph on display, I'd like to focus upon these recaps' innate readability. Which is sort of like "drinkablity," but for comprehension and the idea actually makes sense.
This would probably be a good place to mention that a L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E scholar I'm certainly not. I didn't even finish my undergrad. As a red-shirt, however, I did snow my coach for beer money to 'research' the aesthetic implications of text-to-speech algorithms—real ecstasy of influence stuff. And again, we're not on first. This guy went and—no pomo—beat me to it.
But we've got a much bigger problem on our hands than computers talking when we've moved on to letting them write. And I'm sore afraid that, after a few more seasons, there'll not be a boat big enough to keep us sports writing humans afloat. It's probably best to be specific, here. Qualitative, even, to the extent possible. These post-game reports are, ostensibly, written by robots. And thanks to newsman "Charlie Skinner," we all know how their half lives. There is no time to waste.
Like Paul Erdős in ISBN 1-85702-829-5, I do know a thing or two (or 3, or 5, or 9, or 21) about numbers. And if you'll notice my correction to this On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences entry, I once had my very own electronic mailing address c/o Yahoo! Enough, certainly, to assert that—upon running their fantastic script through a variety of indices that, themselves, sound like Ivy League fantasies or boutique law firms (e.g. Flesch-Kincaid, Coleman-Liau, etc.)—it's crystal clear that Yahoo's rubric appeals to our basest literary instincts.
I quote, verbatim, from the fantasy football robo-recap that Yahoo! sent to my new Google email address. Only the names have been changed, to protect against cyberpunks. You don't need to read the whole thing, although you're of course welcome to do so and offer any lineup tips you wish in the comments. But you'll get the idea of how these read pretty quickly.
As always, because I'd be remiss if I did not, I offer the SAMO caveat: Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress that the following in no way endorses a belief in Yahoo!
[Chriscooleyhighharmony] picked up 32.22 points from Peyton Manning to edge [The Sheryl Yoast Infections] 134.47 - 132.77. Even though both teams hit their projections, [Chriscooleyhighharmony] put up 5.3% more than their projected 127.76 points to secure the win. Cam Newton led [The Sheryl Yoast Infections] with 23.62 points while Ahmad Bradshaw brought in 21.55. [Chriscooleyhighharmony] starts off the campaign with a 1-0 record, good enough for fifth place. [The Sheryl Yoast Infections] opens at 0-1 and in eighth place.
[Chriscooleyhighharmony] Smooth Moves
With 16.00 points, Matt Bryant had the highest score for a K in the league this week. Peyton Manning ranked seventh in the league in scoring with 32.22 points.[Chriscooleyhighharmony] had most of their starters beat their scoring projection (5 out of 8). By scoring 19.00 points, the Denver Broncos Defense beat their 13.98 projected points by 35.9%.
[The Sheryl Yoast Infections] Regret Tracker
Left Jeremy Maclin on the bench, where he scored 22.60 points and surpassed his scoring projection by 79.5%, the highest percentage of any player on the team. Did not start Jay Cutler, who led the team in scoring with 29.87 points. Only 3 of the 8 starters on [The Sheryl Yoast Infections] underachieved this week, but they still lost. Marques Colston scored only 77.0% of his 14.41-point projection, with 11.10 points. [The Sheryl Yoast Infections] ranked ninth in the league in starter/bench scoring ratio this week with 132.77 points from their starters and 118.44 total points left on the bench.
What If [Chriscooleyhighharmony] would have beaten five other teams besides SmackYou InTheMouth this week. If [Chriscooleyhighharmony] had scored 44.12 more points, they would have beaten all teams in the league this week. [The Sheryl Yoast Infections] would have lost to five other teams besides [Chriscooleyhighharmony] this week. If [The Sheryl Yoast Infections] had scored 16.82 fewer points, they would have lost to all teams in the league this week.
Game Notes [Chriscooleyhighharmony] did not cover the 2.51-point spread, winning by 1.70 points. The 1.70-point margin of victory was the smallest in the league this week. Both teams topped their projections, but [The Sheryl Yoast Infections] performed better versus expectations than [Chriscooleyhighharmony] and still lost. [The Sheryl Yoast Infections] got 55.60 points from their RBs, the third-highest combined scoring output from the RB position for any team this week. BenJarvus Green-Ellis exceeded his projected point total by 48.2% in the loss, scoring 21.00 points against a projected 14.17. Peyton Hillis failed to meet his projected point total, scoring only 7.15 points of his projected 14.48.
So. This raises two questions: one, how much worse is this, really, than the average at Bleacher Report, and two and more germane here is: how slow does Yahoo think we are? If my calculations, and the reigning metrics for assessing this sort of thing are correct, the answer is that this page should be easily understood by a ten-year-old. That is, it's written at a fifth grade level.
I hold no baccalaureate degree. I was able to finish grade school, though. (FYI: I went on to be graduated from J.B. Beck Middle School—as valedictorian, no less.) So, à la Charlie Hustle, allow me now to crunch home the numbers:
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease
Calculated on a 0-100 scale, the higher the score, the dumber the text. As in golf, lower scores suggest that the text is complicated to understand, and thus more likely to turn off the average sports fan.
206.835 - 1.015 x (words/sentences) - 84.6 x (syllables/words)
The next five metrics help determine a text's readability to student grade level (United States-only).
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level
0.39 x (words/sentences) + 11.8 x (syllables/words) - 15.59
Gunning Fog Score
0.4 x [(words/sentences) + 100 x (complex words/words)]
SMOG Index
1.0430 x square root (30 x complex words/sentences) + 3.1291
Coleman-Liau Index
5.89 x (characters/words) - 0.3 x (sentences/words) - 15.8
Automated Readability Index (ARI)
4.71 x (characters/words) + 0.5 x (words/sentences) - 21.43
Lest you allege I'm skewing jingoistic, here's a handy-cum-dandy exchange table for The Classical's international readership. Green is good on this one:
N.B. Coleman-Liau and ARI rely on counting characters, words and sentences. Meanwhile, Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, Gunning Fog and SMOG consider number of syllables and poly-syllabic words (i.e. ≥ 3 syllables). As with doping v. 'roids, opinion varies as to which index yields the best hard results. Obviously, it's difficult to automate the tallying of syllables, as the King's English does what it may.
Finally, for all the Cartesians in the house, here's how Yahoo's prompt scored on Fry's graph:
But if it's the area under the curve you're looking for, look homeward to Alton L. Raygor's estimate for a truer differential:
Okay, but what does it all mean?
It means war, mostly. You see, the war the House of McLuhan started never was a cold one, and has never quite stopped. On and off-the-field, video vanquished radio eons ago in Internet time; as tit begets tat, the net has more or less killed video tsars like Howie Cosell and Erin Andrews dead. In a hundred years time, the apparent glasnost championed by the present Sabermetric administration will have surrendered to one thousand more despots—each one less enlightened, more draconian than the last. This is a pessimistic sort of futurism, admittedly, but look at things this way and it's clear that you Yahoo! at your own peril.
Singularity U's Ray Kurzweil has long proven that the exponential growth of Moore's Law is a real, mathematical constant endemic to media, as well. Football will be no different. Moreover, since such takeovers are inherently hostile coups (R.I.P. ART), we can't exactly arm a militia, much less field a team, to tête-à-tête a cultural line we can't even fathom blitzing.
Right now, this sort of apocalyptic dread might seem a tad quackish, if not altogether alarmist. But take a look around the grounds. We're awful close as it is. Cribbing from my own piece for Disinformation, Big Lehrer Style:
From insulin pumps to robotic limbs to the chips embedded in Parkinson's patients, a nascent Singularity—namely, that man and machine will be indistinguishable no later than 2045—has arrived ahead of schedule. With IBM's Watson having bested both Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter at Jeopardy!, this gauchely bipartisan Mr. Smith came to Washington earlier this year and quickly deposed a caucus that included former Rhodes Scholar Jim Himes (D-CT) and trained nuclear physicist Rush Holt (D-NJ).
And what does RGIII (QB-DC) have to do with this shit?
He's fuel, mostly. Yahoo's swapping out of human for non- scans as the latest update in John Henry's bout with the steam hammer. Doing so on the topic of fantasy football—where we're already accustomed to slack, haphazard writing—can be seen as just the first note of a long, sad song.
And so, in the short run, the rotisserie football fan is now having a much more autistic read. In the long run...well, the long run does not look good, if it's a story told by the robo-scribes. We should hope that those underpaid to write about Sportin' Life will not go both-knees-down quietly, at least for a few more snaps. If we do, then, per that old Sondheim flight song, send in the Cylons.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post8079209857906446280..comments2014-12-20T16:43:28.036-07:00Comments on Diary of a Quilter - a quilt blog: My Own Vintage Notionsamy smarthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-126837986938976322011-03-12T08:14:53.632-07:002011-03-12T08:14:53.632-07:00LOVE the vintage supplies. I have lots of them, t...LOVE the vintage supplies. I have lots of them, too -- from MY grandmother. I display them in an old wicker basket. I like that some of them still have the original price tag.

My grandmother did a lot of tatting in her time, and I have a whole collection of hankies on which she tatted around the edges.Bobbiehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-41823419713484504802011-03-09T14:41:28.822-07:002011-03-09T14:41:28.822-07:00That little needlebook is so sweet. Whatever you d...That little needlebook is so sweet. Whatever you do with your vintage collection of spools, don't sew with them! My grandmother was a horder of the first degree and I inherited garbage bags full of sewing notions, yarn and thread. Everything I tried sewing with these threads has come apart, the vintage cottons and rayons just disintegrate.Gabriellehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-66083351105583218712011-03-03T13:48:22.261-07:002011-03-03T13:48:22.261-07:00Roma is My older sister's name and also my SIL...Roma is My older sister's name and also my SIL Mother's name. I haven't heard it that often. Love the Treasures your Grandma shared with you. I used the old wooden spools I had to make a spool toy for my children when they were little. They have got some 3rd generation drool on them now.Maryhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-19815431488612426162011-02-28T08:01:48.814-07:002011-02-28T08:01:48.814-07:00display some of them via shadow boxes!display some of them via shadow email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-27652375218666679292011-02-27T05:04:56.938-07:002011-02-27T05:04:56.938-07:00Great collection of vintage sewing notions! I use...Great collection of vintage sewing notions! I use old print drawers found at antique shops to display my vintage thread and thimbles. I just hang them on the wall and fill them firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-62598970651125080802011-02-26T23:19:01.176-07:002011-02-26T23:19:01.176-07:00I would definetly make a shadow box for your sewin...I would definetly make a shadow box for your sewing room to display those vintage items. Use some coordinating fabric for the background of the shadowbox to match your rooms color scheme in maybe a retro pattern for the time.iiSwanSongiihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-50043196354860046542011-02-26T23:18:15.901-07:002011-02-26T23:18:15.901-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.iiSwanSongiihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-86163741276875996822011-02-26T20:17:16.048-07:002011-02-26T20:17:16.048-07:00I had that doll clothes pattern! It might still be...I had that doll clothes pattern! It might still be in my mom's pattern stash! Loved those dolls! They are boxed up in my garage, and I'm thinking they will all end up on ebay....since we still have no girls here ;)
Love the vintage sheet quilt too- beautiful- as always :)mylittlegemshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-21799562942910727252011-02-26T09:28:14.202-07:002011-02-26T09:28:14.202-07:00I still have my grandmere's sewing cabinet tha...I still have my grandmere's sewing cabinet that my grandfather made for her. It is stocked full of vintage sewing items that she brought from France after WWI. I am holding on to these memories so I can share them with my daughter, daughter-in-law and grandaughter.Dnowhathttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-58062595855219268142011-02-25T22:16:52.989-07:002011-02-25T22:16:52.989-07:00i saw this and it looked great! it was a spool wr...i saw this and it looked great! it was a spool wreath...so unique, so cute. I am sure if you googled it you could find some.

hope it gave you some inspiration or an ideaGarden Gnomehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-33888658334660217342011-02-25T17:01:48.576-07:002011-02-25T17:01:48.576-07:00I made a lamp to display my vintage sewing items. ...I made a lamp to display my vintage sewing items. Took a large mason jar put the items in nicely and got a light kit and shade. I made 3 in all one for me and one each for my sewing buddies. They were very happy with them.Karenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-44977502961356279912011-02-25T12:46:01.641-07:002011-02-25T12:46:01.641-07:00Hmmm...some of that stuff looks like things in my ...Hmmm...some of that stuff looks like things in my Mom's sewing room...maybe I'll have to raid it!! (She sewed professionally when I was little, and has a lot of notions left from back then.)

I am SOOOOOOOOOO jealous of that yellow canister!!!AMMhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-66834323600195415272011-02-25T11:25:06.809-07:002011-02-25T11:25:06.809-07:00yup, we are pretty much kindred spirits!yup, we are pretty much kindred spirits!kathleenhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-71134819068725716972011-02-25T08:14:57.940-07:002011-02-25T08:14:57.940-07:00this post feels like it was written for me:) My gr...this post feels like it was written for me:) My grandmothers notions look exactly like yours and i love them very much. Much of my sewing comes from my grandmother, whose name also starts with 'R'. I started when i was 8 and would often sew on her machine when we visited in the summer. I have fond memories of all the trips we'd take to the fabric store. She, too, made clothes for myDKBhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-21247142917254216082011-02-24T13:40:11.954-07:002011-02-24T13:40:11.954-07:00I love wooden thread spools. Every now and then I...I love wooden thread spools. Every now and then I feel that I need to find some somewhere, I don't know why or what I would do with them. They are just so nice to look at.Allisonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-29554413450978819002011-02-24T10:58:31.049-07:002011-02-24T10:58:31.049-07:00Roma! I did a double-take because that is my daug...Roma! I did a double-take because that is my daughter's name. She is named after my maternal grandmother. We love meeting people who are, or knew someone named, Roma. I sort of "collect" them for my daughter. I have really been enjoying your beautiful work for a while now. Thanks so email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-70607044227313313122011-02-24T09:52:15.195-07:002011-02-24T09:52:15.195-07:00I love your vintage "stuff". It is wond...I love your vintage "stuff". It is wonderful. I have my grandmothers Kenmore sewing machine and it came with the drawers full. I cherish the contents. Happy quilting. LizzieLizziehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-54350866006213899372011-02-24T08:44:51.892-07:002011-02-24T08:44:51.892-07:00Aw what a great gift. Love vintage notions.Aw what a great gift. Love vintage notions.Nanette Merrill and daughtershttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-53105759678913590752011-02-24T08:22:19.454-07:002011-02-24T08:22:19.454-07:00Ok, here's a crazy idea as to what to do with ...Ok, here's a crazy idea as to what to do with the spools of thread. I really just like looking at them from an "aerial" view like in your last picture. If you could find some sort of clear acrylic box, you could just arrange them how you want them & hang the box on the wall in your sewing room. I think I'd love looking at it...a little piece of graphic sewing art.neubiewatershttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-24163178831083414222011-02-24T08:21:40.261-07:002011-02-24T08:21:40.261-07:00Vintage? Don't stop now you're on a roll....Vintage? Don't stop now you're on a roll.. I love vintage!dreamzhappenquiltzhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-72003930088867732592011-02-24T07:20:20.702-07:002011-02-24T07:20:20.702-07:00When my mother passed away I was just 22. I inher...When my mother passed away I was just 22. I inherited basically everything she owned, including a lifetimes worth of sewing supplies. My mother sewed all my clothes when I was small, and made stuffed animals, too. And what did I do with all this wonderful stuff? I was so upset and so raw with grief, every time I looked at any of it, that I threw it all away! Now, MANY years later, I could Stacihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-4522833166847216032011-02-24T07:05:36.535-07:002011-02-24T07:05:36.535-07:00I love any kind of vintage sewing items. I'm a...I love any kind of vintage sewing items. I'm always looking for more...but don't know what to do with it either...I guess I just like looking at them! I have my great aunt's wicker sewing basket with old buttons in it...occasionally I dig through it just to look at them! I'm always looking for more at garage sales or auctions. Love this stuff!!timandkarenhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-47797163591360195802011-02-24T05:52:16.674-07:002011-02-24T05:52:16.674-07:00Vintage! Vintage!Vintage! I say it alot as well. ...Vintage! Vintage!Vintage! I say it alot as well. Love it!Rosehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-81955548823822167192011-02-24T05:24:49.805-07:002011-02-24T05:24:49.805-07:00Wow, that kind of makes me feel bad for boxing up ...Wow, that kind of makes me feel bad for boxing up all that "vintage" stuff I had and giving it to Goodwill. I had my grandmother's old buttons too and sent them to Goodwill.Sybilhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701356841394413080.post-57872855497332647842011-02-24T04:12:16.235-07:002011-02-24T04:12:16.235-07:00Un regalo muy especial!!! Son bonitos de ver y de ...Un regalo muy especial!!! 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Faith & Culture: My French atheist friend and moi
By: Tim W Callaway
| Posted: Wednesday, Mar 21, 2012 06:00 am
I've enjoyed my recent exchange in this space with my blogger friend, Michel Mercier, of Montreal. I fully intend to stay in touch with him but wanted to share one last bit of our ongoing dialogue with you.
Michel said in a recent email, "I'm really glad you actually took the time to read my blog because I put a lot of effort in trying to make it readable even for someone religious (well, someone religious AND open-minded)… I see how in the end, if we just come around and call people's religious belief all BS, not only does it make people sad, but it makes us look like morons and cuts off any possibility of dialogue. It's just not true that religion is inherently bad or completely useless, etc. If we're going to criticize someone or something, we should say what we don't like about it and explain why. This forces me to actually wonder if my reasons are valid… if something good comes from something I don't like overall, how ridiculously counter-productive would it be for society to ignore it?"
For those truly interested in making a positive contribution to this multi-cultural experiment we call Canada, I hear Michel making a couple of helpful observations here.
For one thing, it is increasingly important we truly listen to what those we disagree with on significant issues in modern Canadian life are truly saying, as opposed to stereo-typing them or presupposing we know what they're saying. Just as I don't appreciate being negatively stereo-typed as a "Christian" or a "Baptist" guilty of all the negative connotations those designations legitimately convey for some people, neither should people of faith automatically stereo-type "atheists" or "agnostics." Michel noted how pleased he was I actually took the time to read his blog. My doing so really has little if anything to do with my religious orientation – it's just a matter of civility and decency… doing unto others as you would have them do unto you, as someone once suggested.
It's both interesting and disappointing that in Michel's experience, he has encountered many religious people to be close-minded. This doesn't surprise me if for no other reason than that his experience equates mine in this regard. Blind adherence to religious dogma has produced and continues to produce no small problems in the history of mankind. And, to be sure, as David Kinnaman points out in his book You Lost Me: Why Young Christians Are Leaving the Church and Rethinking Faith, many in today's younger generation are not naturally disposed to blind adherence to any system of thought. It doesn't matter how much said system means to dad or mom. Young people – and I have every reason to believe many adults are the same – have every right to be accepted for who they are regardless of what they believe.
The behaviour of Jesus with regard to those he associated with in his day verified as much.
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Tuesday I was cooking, dinner was a pork roast with squash, pepper,
tomatoes,etc (kind of pork with ratatouille) . Cooking wine was the
2007 Domaine de la Louvetrie "Amphibolite Nature" Muscadet. I liked
this more than previous couple of vintages. Light hint of petillance,
saline and minerals. Citrus and apple, but more about stones than
fruit. Holds up well and a glass Thursday is lively. Very nice B+
Dinner wine was the 2006 Viticcio Bere (Toscana IGT), a blend of
Sangiovese and Bdx varieties. Soft, innocuous, with red cherry and
plum fruit, a little edge of cocoa. Soft, ripe tannins, a pleasant
enough red wine that is easy enough to drink, but not anything I'd go
looking for (A friend got this at the Zachys $5 sale, I traded a
couple of my $5 bottles for 2 of these, so I'm not complaining) B-
Thursday I was on again, did a vermouth/oil marinade on some halibut
steaks before grilling the fish, some squash, and some Japanese
eggplant. Wine was the 2007 Cascina d'Ambra Ischia Bianco. Billed as
the equivalent of a good Muscadet, and I can see the resemblence in
the salinity and minerality. A bit more fruit driven than the
Louvetrie Muscadet, but still with a nice flinty/rocky edge. Fruit is
a bit rounder, honeydews and peaches, backed by a good acidic spine.
Good value at $12ish. B/B+
Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an excellent
wine, B a good wine, C mediocre. Anything below C means I wouldn't
drink at a party where it was only choice. Furthermore, I offer no
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Quinoa with squash and pomegranate by Brian of A Thought for Food (used with permission)
Wow, I can't believe it's been a full year of naturally gluten free links! I hope you have all enjoyed this series, and that it has given you several ideas for some great ways to prepare naturally gluten free dishes without having to worry about substitutions, elusive alternative ingredients etc. I know it has been inspiring for me to see just how many different types of food are already gluten free, even though my family has been GF for years now. To close out this year, we have a couple great looking recipes to share – warm squashes, lots of quinoa, rich chocolate, and some great photos as well.
Hope you had as much fun with this series as I did! Would you like it to continue into 2013, or have you been sufficiently inspired?? Let me know your thoughts in the comments, and hope you have a wonderful New Year's!
- Nicole of Prevention RD made an ambrosia with buttermilk-coconut dressing
- Sally of a Food Centric Life made dungeness crab salad with ruby grapefruit
- Wendy of Cooking Quinoa made a black eyed pea and quinoa salad
- Michelle of Peachy Palate made a warm fig squash and quinoa salad
BBQ Shrimp and Grits by Barbara of Creative Culinary (Used with permission)
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- Brian of A Thought for Food made quinoa with squash and pomegranates
- Michael of Herbivoracious made a turkish chickpea and potato stew
- Toni of Boulder Locavore made black eyed pea fritters
- Dassana of Veg Recipes of India made aloo tiki chole
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- Kate of Framed Cooks made creamy chardonnay shrimp
- Natalie of the Devil Wears Parsley made spicy turkey soup florentine with cream cheese
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