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STREETS run north/south intersecting with the AVENUES that run east/west. It is important to know whether you are looking for a Street or Avenue. The downtown landmark is the Calgary Tower and its base heading north is Centre Street.
The City is divided into quadrants: Northwest [NW], Southwest [SW], Northeast [NE], and Southeast [SE]. The quadrant designation is important as there are three "216 – 25th Ave" but they all have different quadrant designations. For example, SW, NW or NE. The first numbers are important because they tell you the cross street or avenue. In 216 – 25th Ave SW, the 2 of 216 indicates that the street crossing 25th Ave is 2nd Street and the 16 infers the 16th house or building in that block. If there are 4 numbers then the first 2 numbers indicate the cross street or avenue and so on.
Highway 1 is 16th Avenue North and runs east/west. Many of the major arteries are called Trails or Boulevards and these are used to get as close to the address before using the streets or avenues. Many guests coming in from Banff access 25th Ave on the edge of the city but can't drive all the way through as 25th Avenue is cut off by rivers, escarpments, and hills. This is true for many of the streets and avenues.
From Calgary International Airport
Exiting the airport, at the first set of lights turn left onto Barlow Trail North, and at the next lights turn left onto Airport Trail. Continue over the Deerfoot Trail and take a left turn to merge onto the southbound Deerfoot Trail. Take a right onto Memorial Drive West exit [City Centre] then turn right onto 4th Ave South ramp [City Centre] over the Bow River into downtown. Turn left onto 1st SE which becomes Mcleod Trail South, and drive until you reach 25th Ave SE and turn right [west] onto 25th Ave SE. As you pass the 1st Street SW Junction on 25th Ave SW, we are half a block down on the right side [North] and it is a single house between two larger buildings. Just before our home is an apartment block with the number 210. 216 is the next house. We do have off street parking at the back of Westways and this is accessed by turning right onto 2nd Street SW and then immediately turning right into an alleyway [back lane]; half way down is Westways parking. Please come to the front door using the sidewalk on the left and ring the doorbell on the right of the front door. Please do not try to access the house using the back door [insurance liabilities].
Alternative route for rush hour
I advise to use this route to avoid downtown rush hour [3:30pm - 6pm].Use the same directions to access Deerfoot Trail southbound and instead of the Memorial Drive exit, take the next exit and merge right on to 17 Ave SE southbound that becomes the Blackfoot Trail. Look for the Ogden Rd exit and turn right onto 26 th Ave SE, drive till you come to a roundabout [road circle] and take the third exit onto Dartmouth Rd SE. At the next traffic signals, turn right onto 25 Ave SE, drive past the Calgary Stampede Park, cross Mcleod Trail and as you pass the 1st Street SW Junction on 25th Ave SW, we are half a block down on the right side [North] and it is a single house between two larger buildings.
From Banff
Travel on Highway 1 to Calgary, just past the Olympic Park. Turn right onto Sarcee Trail, and continue to 17th Ave S, turn left, and head east until you reach 2nd Street SW. Turn right [south] onto 2nd Street SW. Continue along 2nd Street and you will notice the cross avenues junctions will go up in numbers. For example, 18th, 19th, 20th and so on. After passing 24th Ave SW immediately turn left into an alleyway [back lane] and half way down is Westways parking. Please come to the front door using the sidewalk on the left and ring the doorbell on the right of the front door. Please do not try to access the house using the back door [insurance liabilities].
From the East
Highway 1 becomes 16th Ave North, westbound. Turn left onto Edmonton Trail just before Centre St, cross over Memorial Drive and straight on to merge with 4th Ave S and follow the instructions as for the Airport.
From the South
Highway 2 from Fort Mcleod as it approaches the City becomes either Mcleod Trail North or Deerfoot North [for Airport]. Take the Mcleod Trail North and at the intersection of Mcleod Trail and 25 Ave SE, Turn left onto 25th Ave heading west and Westways is a block and a half after the bridge, on the right hand side.
Regular taxi from the airport to Westways is approximately $42.00.
Public Transport
If you are light on luggage and have time then there is the Calgary Public Transit new bus service 300, the fare is $8.00 cash to the driver [ no change is given] or prepurchase from the Mac's convenience store located at Meeting Place D. When the bus reaches downtown you either get off at the Calgary Tower and get a taxi [$12.00]to our Calgary bed and breakfast or get off at 5 St SW and 8th Ave SW. Find the no 3 bust stop on 5 St SW and get off at 4 St and 25 Ave SW. Cross 4 St SW and walk a block and a half down 25 Ave SW to find us. More info at calgarytransit or board the Southbound train to Summerset/Bridlewood and get off at Erlton/Stampede Station. Head west on 25th Avenue, cross over McLeod Trail and Westways is about 3 blocks down on the right hand side. The fare is $2.75 per person.


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Most of this seems pretty straight forward but I do have a few questions. First, if there are cylons on the board, and a new cylon attack crisis card is drawn do the new units just add to what is already there? Second, If a skill or quorum card allows you to see someone elses loyalty card and you tell everyone that person is a cylon, then ... what? They are revealed and at what point do they execute their discard of cards and such. Those are the only main ones that come to mind. I always try to get the rules for a game down pat before my group plays and try to work out the kinks and this forum is a godsend for FFGs. Own many now and plan on getting many more. Thanks for the help. Can't wait to play this one as the hidden FU factor is just great.
Ok, just bought this and have a few questions
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1. Yes, it adds those units to what is already there.
2. Just because one person (and that person only) is allowed to see the loyalty card, it does not mean the cylon is revealed. The person viewing the card could be the cylon and lie about a human being the cylon. In the core game, I believe only the cylon can out themselves as the cylon. However, in the Pegasus expansion, a character can be executed, and that will reveal what they are to everyone.

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"The Judges: The scary thing is that they could be a reality someday."
British comic series starting in the anthology series 2000 A.D.
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Judge Dredd is amongst the UK's best known home-grown comic characters. So great is the character's reputation that his name is sometimes invoked over similar issues to those explored by the comic series, such as the police state, authoritarianism and the rule of law.[1] Judge Dredd was named the seventh greatest comic character by the magazine Empire.[2]


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To add additional security to most household external doors it is advisable to add extra door bolts. These can be in the form of either surface door bolts (barrel bolts) or mortice door bolts, commonly called 'Chubb' bolts or mortice star bolts, since they use a star shaped splined key to operate them.
External Door Attachments
Door bolts of one type or another will always be needed on a pair of external doors which are being fitted with a mortice lock, typically a pair of French doors. The bolts are required to keep the first or slave door fixed shut for the main door to close and lock onto. Without bolts the lock would be superfluous, as the doors could just be pushed open.
When fitting pairs of external doors it is common to use flush bolts. These are partially concealed bolts and flush to the door surface, thus securing the slave door. Usually these bolts are hidden in the joining rebate of the two doors. Hiding the bolts in this way is more secure as the slave door can not be opened until the main door has been unlocked.
Straight Bolt Systems
Normally straight door bolts are used on the opening face of the door and cranked door bolts are used on the closing face. However, there are many straight bolt systems available with a variety of keeps which will operate on both sides. Please ensure you select the correct type of bolt for your application. If you have any doubts please contact customer services for advice.
Door chains, which are now an NHBC requirement on new homes, come in several designs. As the name suggests, they restrict the door from opening when the chain is engaged. Mostly they are fitted to the main entrance door of a dwelling.


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Sergio Hernandez, a Cuban immigrant, and his family have already proven themselves proficient with Mexican food--in fact, they serve some of the best in this state--with their first El Azteca, which they opened almost three years ago at 3960 South Federal Boulevard. But the original El Azteca is a tiny, liquorless place located in a converted gas station (that's why there's no "Grill & Cantina" attached to the name), with a menu limited to about a dozen individual items and every possible combination of those items. They're all impossibly good, thanks to incredibly fresh salsas and other prime ingredients. The rotisserie chicken is crisp-skinned on the outside and juicy on the inside, the Hawaiian torta a simple Mexican sandwich elevated to heavenly, gooey status. Still, a bowl of green--even great green--just isn't the same without a cerveza.
Hernandez knows that and so kept looking for a spot for a second restaurant. He found it in January, when he settled on a large, airy space in a busy Aurora plaza. This El Azteca is much more comfortable, with booths, a separate bar, and a bathroom you don't have to go through the kitchen to access, as you do at the Federal Boulevard location. Clean, bright and serving the same fabulous food--as well as many dishes not available at the original--the place is so appealing it should be packed all the time.
543 Bryant St.
Denver, CO 80204-4809
Category: Restaurant > Mexican
Region: Central Denver
So far, though, the city's been slow to discover it. And it's even emptier on Thursday nights, when Hernandez throws in Cuban specials, such delightful dishes as arroz rellenos ($8.95), creamed chicken sandwiched between two layers of yellow rice, the whole deal topped with roasted red peppers and sided by sliced, floured and deep-fried plaintains; and picadillo ($7.50), a sort of hash made with ground seasoned pork, onions, tomatoes and lots of garlic, all pan-fried into a big mess of flavors that, when combined with white rice and black beans, makes for a soul-satisfying meal.
But you don't have to wait until Thursday to get a taste of Cuba. El Azteca cooks up Cuban-style white rice and black beans every day; you can substitute them for the side of refritos that come with the entrees. The thing that turns people off of black beans is that they're usually undercooked and hard, with a skin you could chew on for hours. But that's because few kitchens cook them long enough, fewer still remember to salt the water, which speeds the tenderizing process, and even fewer bother to pour off the water several times to get rid of as much of the gassy enzymes as possible (it's also critical to get the beans out of the water as soon as they're cooked). El Azteca is that rare place that cooks the beans absolutely perfectly, using chicken stock to boil them, adding some herbs for flavor, and pairing the beans with moist-but-not-sticky rice.
But El Azteca also does right by its refried beans; as with the Cuban dishes, the Mexican fare here relies more on herbs and less on grease or lard. That's apparent in the clean-tasting green chile, which is as good now as it was the first time I tasted it over two years ago: a semi-chunky concoction with a light chicken-stock base enhanced by cilantro, oregano and epazote. We got a side (75 cents) to smother the carne asada burrito ($3.99). The burrito itself was sizable, packed with sirloin tips sporting tangy, spice-crusted edges; a smattering of El Azteca's fresh-fresh pico de gallo, with its unerring balance of onions, jalapenos, tomatoes and cilantro, turned up the fiery flavors a notch or two.
The pico de gallo also added piquancy to the cheese quesadilla ($4.49). Jack and cheddar had been layered between jumbo flour tortillas, which were then brushed with something butter-like and fried until the outer flakes of the tortillas crisped like the edges of a pie crust. Topped with shredded cheddar, sour cream and that pico--whoa. So simple, yet so delicious that I order it every time I go to El Azteca.
The tortas are another thing I've ordered repeatedly. The house-made bread on these grilled Mexican sandwiches is always fresh, and that makes all the difference. The Hawaiian version ($4.50) has been a favorite since I first sampled it at the original El Azteca; I love the combination of grilled ham, pineapple and a mix of cheeses, all fused into a solid mass and moistened by guacamole and sour cream. But the carnitas torta ($3.99) offered at the second El Azteca was just as fine, filled with little bits of caramelized grilled pork. Also noteworthy was the spicier pork torta, the pastor, its fiery heat intensified by a layer of pico de gallo.
On some visits to the new El Azteca, I've been so engrossed with the chips and salsa that I never make it to the rest of the menu. (The first basket is free; subsequent ones cost $1.50.) And if it's one of those nights when you consider beer a food group, there's nothing better than munching on these freshly fried chips dipped into El Azteca's superb salsa of roasted tomatoes and serrano chiles.


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Someone recently mentioned the use of Ironite on their lawns to quickly make it greener. I was curious, so I googled a search and found this. Seems like it can cause cancer and it's also very dangerous when exposed to young children. Now, I'm not so sure I want a green lawn taht badly. What's your opinion on using Ironite products?
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Lara Thank You for the heads up.Once all the work is done hauling away stuff,I was going to start working on getting grass to grow.The sugestion for ironite was for me.I'll be doing alot of research before I put anything down.Our soil is dry,redclay and will need alot done before anything other then weeds can grow. Thanks again Julie P/S My Mother has 15 greatgrands under the age of 10. Safety is always an issue around here! :o) |
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Ironite - dog died of cancer. I used Ironite in my yard some in the summer of 2008 and about every few weeks, as Ironite instructed, in the summer of 2009, and followed all safety instructions. My large mixed breed dog - 6 years old - was diagnosed with high-grade fibrosarcoma in July 2010. Though the tumor was removed, it returned and the cancer spread and he was put down in Oct. 2010. Do NOT use this product. I also used other pesticides/herbicides. I've gone organic now, and urge you to do the same for the well-being of your family, children and pets. The medical literature makes this clear. The risk is real and my beloved dog is dead. Government studies show Ironite's arsenic and lead exceeds safety standards. Arsenic has been shown to cause cancer. The herbicides or pesticides may have caused it, but also possibly Ironite. A regret I'll live with the rest of my life. I feel compelled to warn others. |
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Just before its matriculation into Lippert Pictures, Screen Guild produced the fast-based boxing drama Ringside. Bantam-weight Don Barry stars as Mike, who forsakes a musical career for the boxing ring when his pugilist brother (Tom Brown) is blinded in a bout. Mike intends to confront the fighter (John Cason) who caused his brother's sightlessness, then "legally" kill the man in the ring. He is eventually talked out of this deadly strategy by his brother's girlfriend Janet (Sheila Ryan). The boxing sequences are well-lensed and tightly edited, compensation enough for the corny dialogue preceding them. Had it been made, say, 15 years earlier, Ringside might have been a suitable vehicle for James Cagney.


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Hello all,
I just launched my website this week, and while there are still finishing touches forthcoming, I'd still love to share. You can find me online at: I am currently based in Cleveland, OH and specialize in architectural photography, although it would be hard to find anything I wouldn't love shooting. Would love to hear any feedback or comments you have. Hope you enjoy, thank you!
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Putin warned police and security forces will crack down on anyone participating in illegal protests in Moscow or other cities. UPI Photo/Stringer.
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Police and security forces will crack down on anyone participating in illegal protests in Moscow or other cities, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned.
Russian cities have been rocked by demonstrations since Monday as protesters rallied against alleged election fraud during Russia's parliamentary elections, which saw Putin's United Russia Party retain control in the Duma, the lower house of parliament, but by a smaller margin. At least 1,000 people have been detained.
More than 25,000 people have indicated on social network sites they would attend a sanctioned protest in Moscow's Revolution Square Saturday, RIA Novosti reported.
"As far as acts of street democracy go ... if people act within the law, they should be given the right to express their opinion and we should not restrict anybody's civil rights," Putin said Thursday. "If anyone breaks the law, law enforcement bodies should demand they observe the law, using all legal methods."
During an interview with a Moscow radio station, opposition leader Vladimir Milov warned there could be possible violence at Saturday's rally and urged people to stay away.
Moscow city officials cautioned Solidarnost it could face charges if more than 300 people, the number sanctioned for the march, attend the protest.
"No one wants a development of the kind of situation that happened in Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine not so long ago," Putin said, referring to revolutions in the former Soviet states. "No one wants chaos."
Putin accused the United States of being behind the protests. He said comments by Secretary of State
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The United States and international observers have criticized the elections. President
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Looking ahead to the presidential elections early next year, Putin selected filmmaker Stanislav Govorukhin to run his campaign, RIA Novosti said.
Speaking to supporters Thursday, Putin said he wants to use the All-Russia People's Front, as the basis for his campaign.
"I would like to create my [presidential campaign headquarters] at the offices of the All-Russia People's Front, an organization that is above parties, that unites all the people of the Russian Federation," the prime minister said.
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Now I've heard it all: "How do you know what caused you to get sick?" "How can you avoid everything?" "Don't you think you are just reading things into it?" "You used to wear "this makeup" and now your telling me that its making you sick?!" I'm sure many of you can relate to this. My mother says that from my very first bath in the hospital, I was a rash. I had to have special laundry soap, personal care and you name it. Even my clothes would irritate me. I grew up with constant bronchial problems and she has always thought 'what did I do while I was pregnant with her?" Now I'm not holding my mother responsible for anything. She has always been a great mother to me. But I'm sure she thought that as I grew up, my sensitivities would calm down. When I began wearing makeup however, I noticed that my eyes burned a lot, and my skin would get scaly dry patches. At that time, I also began having more chores at home, and one that I just hated was the dishes. There was always a pile of them with two brothers in the house that had to drink from a new cup every time they were thirsty! She tried all types of dish soap, but they all made me itch and get terrible sores down my forearm to my elbows. The smell nearly killed me. She loved those candles too - as everybody did. We also had animals in the home, and that deodorizing powder was like scratching the inside of my nose with a scouring pad! The weekend cleaning wasn't as welcoming either. I know, what child would look forward to that, but using those powerful cleaning agents made me sick to my stomach and gave me bad headaches. I learned to deal with these things though with no thought to chemicals, fragrances, preservatives, etc.
As an adult and mother of two, you begin to settle into your life and dream those dreams every woman dares to have! BAMM! I saw gray hair on my head. Gray hair was not in my dream for a long time. At thirty years of age, I went into the salon and did what so many millions do, and had my hair colored. This trip to the salon was special because I had used a box color from my grocery store previously, and it didn't turn out right. So now I was going to fix it and be beautiful!!!! Wrong. Before I tell you what happened, I'll also add that I was given some furniture that needed refinished, and so I had just refinished four pieces of furniture in our open garage.
Now that my hair was one shade again, I began noticing that I was itching and burning on my scalp. It would happen in patches. From each patch, I'd lose hair and get these awful sores/scabs. It was so apparent, that when I went back to get my hair trimmed, the stylist had to mention the thinning. I was also very fatigued, as it was keeping me from any restful sleep. Shampoos I had used for years suddenly burned me. I had had a very busy business as well during that time, and my memory and temperament noticeably changed, for the worse I might add. My cycles were more irregular than ever before. I had pain that made me feel I was just going to die - and my mother got used to coming over in the middle of the night to wait it out! Finally, I went to my GYN, and he had the nerve to say to me 'What did you do?!" Most doctors I think wouldn't have actually asked such a question. This doctor actually wanted to know what I had done differently in the last months. So I told him what I did and he said that these activities could have messed up my hormones - STOP doing them.
He didn't have much more to add, so now I wanted to know what was in the products I've used that could cause such a problem. My own research led me to conclude that we are killing ourselves with chemicals. Our foods are no longer cooked from scratch. Do you know how to make spaghetti sauce? What about breads? What about the basic macaroni and cheese? Society has decided that engineered food is better than home grown. "BUY IT IN A BOX OR JAR!" 10 minute or less meals - on wheels, your wheels. We don't stay home enough to cook anything that has nutrition these days. Our personal care can stay under your counter for 3 years!!! before going bad. What have we thought was making that possible? Chemicals!!! So you think your hair has to have suds to be clean? Who made that law? So we are a generation that has to shellac our lipstick on now?
If allowed, man could truly increase their lifespan by making us into PLASTIC! We are becoming living lab experiments, just as preserved as those that we dissected in biology class. I can still smell it!
I've learned that the preservatives that are commonly used in personal care products are considered food grade. Companies boast of using only 2% or less in their formulas so they can have piece of mind that you won't get dermatitis from their product and you won't get to much of the preservative. These preservatives have been registered as safe for consumers, non-toxic. A notable consumer advocate, Linda Chae, once told the magazine, "NEW TEXAS" in May of 1998, "that safe and non-toxic means that only 50% of the laboratory rats died. If over 50% died, then it was considered toxic and they couldn't sell it." Now she felt that it was her responsibility to learn and understand everything about every ingredient. I share that zeal, and here at Natural Solutions, I try to learn and understand everything about our products, and I'm still learning.
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I don't know – I'm kind of into that I Melt With You trailer. Thomas Jayne is the shit. And… mid-life crisis stuff can be interesting. Am I outing myself as old with this comment?
I don't know – I think you guys might be harshing this too much. I'm serious!
Maybe I'm being naive (I don't think so, though – I'm anciently old and WISE – like 30), but I think maybe he's just chosen a creepy way to express that he sincerely thinks she's great. And – I don't know – I like it when people say nice things to other people, and this seems mostly like a bunch of nice things to say to someone.
I'm not taking it so far as to say "Way to go, Jim Carrey – you really hit it out of the park w/ your compliments," but I vastly prefer this to videos in which people say mean things about each other.
Anyway. Agree to disagree.
Oh man, Kelly. Stop what you are doing and watch seasons 1 and 2 of the Upright Citizens Brigade! You will not regret it.
Footloose was PERFECT the first time (stunt double dancing out your feelings and all). I feel embarrassed about this. And a little sad.
Argh I'm so annoyed that I don't even care about how crappy this movie looks, because holy crap Channing Tatum is DELICIOUS.
Man, folks take tattoos too seriously. Yes, they're permanent – and yes, a lot of people's tattoos are really dumb and that's hilarious.
But I think we put way too much emphasis on how permanent tattoos are. Lots of choices people make are permanent and alter their lives in ways you can't ever expect–getting married for example – or buying a house, or having kids, or committing to a career or a lifestyle, etc. etc….
With that perspective, tattoos are just surface… they're just on your skin. They start to blend into the background of the rest of you. They're like milestones. They mark the passage of time. They help me remember where I've been and help to remind me of what I believe is really important.
Anyway. I have 5 tattoos and I love them all.
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Hi, I had this persimmon tree in in my yard growing going into it's 4th year in Northeastern, PA. It looks like it froze out during the winter months. It was a GRAFTED variety suitable for this climate. Now I see a shoot sprouting out from near the base of the tree where the graft looks like it may have been performed. I took the photo attached. Can any of you tell me if there is any chance if left alone this sprout might grow up to be the grafted tree I started with or should I just pull it off of the tree and give up? |
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- Posted by Ampersand12 6b, PA (My Page) on Mon, Jun 2, 14 at 15:21
Looks to me like that's the rootstock budding out. The rootstock will probably grow into a tree, but it's probably either D. lotus or D. virginiana, not at all like what you lost. |
- Posted by ForestAndFarm 7A (My Page) on Mon, Jun 2, 14 at 21:17
I'd simply let that grow. If the top leafs out, you can prune it. If the top dies, the new growth will keep the rootstock alive. Next spring you can bark graft it with a variety of your choosing. |
This appears to me to be coming from the base of the graft rather than from the rootstock, and although it's hard to tell at this point it appears to be a kaki sprout. I would recommend that you let it grow and remove any other sprouts that later appear lower on the trunk, which is likely to occur. If the tree is a kaki grafted on a virginiana, it should be easier to tell for sure once the foliage matures; if uncertain, you can post a picture later on and we'll be able to help you with it. |
- Posted by scottfsmith 6B-7A-MD (My Page) on Tue, Jun 3, 14 at 8:12
I had the same thing happen with one of my trees a few years ago - by the leaves I could tell it was a kaki and the whole tree grew back from one sprout at the base. Scott |
Good advice---thanks guys There where our suckers sprouting up from the very base of the tree. The leaves on those suckers look nothing like the leaf sprouting at the graft level as shown on my photo. Not sure if that means anything. I sure hoped it might be the branch from the grafted variety I originally wanted and planted. Thank you |
- Posted by swampsnaggs 5b (My Page) on Wed, Jun 4, 14 at 16:53
Those leaves appear to be the grafted variety, not the rootstock. The rootstock shoots, if they are the native persimmon, will have a darker tinge to the stem and leaves. Same thing happened to my young persimmons during the brutal winter we had. This year I will be painting with 50/50 interior latex paint and water to help prevent southwest injury to the young tree trunks. The only one that didn't just about die back to the roots was shaded with black plastic deer netting, which I may use instead of the paint. |
- Posted by scottfsmith 6B-7A-MD (My Page) on Thu, Jun 5, 14 at 8:22
Thats an interesting idea swamps - protect the trunk to above the graft and you at least will save the graft. This last winter about halfway through my figs were starting to look unhappy (they looked more like end of winter stage in mid-winter) so I mounded up dirt around the bases of some of the younger ones. I didn't think much about it, just kicking a bit of dirt. But, those ones are coming back from the roots and the ones I didn't kick dirt on to seem to be dead. That one minute of work appears to have saved the figs. Scott |
Lou, could you tell us what variety of kaki it is? And do you have any idea how cold it actually got? We all know it was the coldest winter since 1994, but these specific details will help us learn about the cold hardiness of this variety and even for kakis in general. Thank you, Al |
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Orchestra Board Meets About Leadership
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(Minneapolis, MN) -- The Minnesota Orchestra Board will meet today and face tough decisions about its leadership moving forward. The board is apparently divided about reuniting with music director Osmo Vanska and the fact that doing so may mean the departure of CEO and president Michael Henson. Performers with the group reportedly asked for Henson to leave and Vanska to return. Vanska quit in October when negotiations for a new contract between musicians and the board failed.


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At this point, it's hard to imagine either one of them playing a prominent role at the GOP's convention in Tampa, Fla., in August. For the most part, Republican presidential politics has moved beyond them. Despite their ability to rouse a tea party gathering, each carries certain baggage the Republican Party would just as soon not remind voters of that close to the November election.
But this past week both Palin and Cain weighed in on behalf of Gingrich – Palin with a spirited defense of the former House Speaker, Cain with an official endorsement.
Gingrich in recent days has had to endure not only relentless attacks from the Romney campaign and the independent super PAC supporting the former Massachusetts governor – the rhetoric could be measured in megatonnage – but a series of biting sniper assaults from establishment Republicans like former Sen. Bob Dole and such conservative commentators as Peggy Noonan and Ann Coulter.
"If Gingrich is the nominee, it will have an adverse impact on Republican candidates running for county, state, and federal offices," said Dole in a letter released Thursday. "Hardly anyone who served with Newt in Congress has endorsed him, and that fact speaks for itself. He was a one-man band who rarely took advice. It was his way or the highway."


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Need for Speed: Shift PC Demo Available
Xbox 360, PS3 demo planned for early October. That's right, after the PC version. How is that for a change?
Usually, demos and these days even the full retail versions, make an appearance first on the consoles while the neglected elder brother PC has to wait for months to have a go. So, when Eletronic Arts dropped message that they have released the PC demo for its fantastic racer Need for Speed: Shift ahead of its console counterparts, we went 'Whaa…?" with shock more than surprise. Such blasphemy! How dare thee?
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It's been a while and it's time for some Damask in our lives!
I randomly (in other words, no clue how I got there) stumble on to "the little things" blog, a sweet blog with delicious parties. One that I was excited to see is a Bridal Shower made up of a very pretty yellow and DAMASK! Yeaaa! Be still my heart! Take a look below at the loveliness and if you want to see the whole version of the party, go to their blog.


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Oh Paul Buffalo s still alive and stalking the politically incorrect gentiles.
I guess you pulled up your pants and came out of the backrooms of Castro district of SF to tell us gentile here in Buffalo how we have it all wrong...and just in time for Christmas.
I guess you would have done it sooner but a gay Jew celebrating the miracle of oil during hanakuh in SF probably kept you on your back most of the time
ChristieLou, great ideas. Hey, maybe you could demolish the Guggenheim in Manhattan then have a new one built in Buffalo.
What are the bets for the next Frank Lloyd Wright project here in Buffalo?
The lLarkin District was planning FLW Row houses....that could be interesting addition to Buffalo.
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There are a lot of startups these days. With the explosion of accelerators, more and more companies secure seed funding, which helps them build out their products and business models. After that initial small investment is done, though, it's time to raise the real money.
We all know this song and dance: raising capital is hard. It's hard no matter who you are or what your company is doing. (Well, okay. If Mark Zuckerberg ever wanted to start another company, he probably wouldn't hurt for investors.)
For most of us, though, raising funds is hard work. So, it's probably a good idea for founders not to make rookie mistakes that will hurt their chances even more. How does the rookie founder avoid rookie mistakes, you ask?
The Founder Institute, an early stage accelerator, developed this infographic to outline some of those mistakes. The number 10 mistake is failing to use charts and graphs in your presentation. While this seems like such an unimportant detail, the rise of–well–infographics shows us that visually displaying data is important. In the case of investors, who may be unfamiliar with your industry, these charts and graphs can help them easily grasp your points.
Another mistake is not connecting the financials to your story. This happens a lot in demo day presentations. A founder is humming right along, drawing the audience in with a compelling story. Then, boom, out of nowhere they're talking money. Weaving that information into your story is crucial to keeping everyone engaged.
The number one rookie fundraising mistake? Projecting $1 billion in revenue for year 5. Founders throw out big numbers like this because they think investors like to hear it. Investors do like big numbers, but they also prefer projections to be somewhat realistic. To put it in perspective, eight years after founding Twitter has yet to reach $1 billion in revenue. Facebook did it in 6 years. Google did it in 5 years, but if you're the next Google, fundraising shouldn't be too difficult anyway.
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[1045] The Accuracy of an Intraoperative Diagnosis of Ovarian Borderline Tumor Varies by Histologic Subtype.
Karuna Garg, Karin Shih, Richard Barakat, Nadeem Abu-Rustum, Robert A Soslow. MSKCC, New York
Background: Borderline (BT) ovarian tumors are treated differently depending on the surgeon, patient age, the type of borderline tumor and co- morbid conditions. When the tumor appears to be confined to the ovary, these patients typically undergo conservative surgery. To determine whether additional surgery is needed in this situation, it becomes important to understand the extent to which frozen section diagnoses are overturned on review of permanent sections. The purpose of this study was to assess the sensitivity and positive predictive value of an intraoperative ovarian borderline tumor diagnosis at our institution.
Design: All patients with an intraoperative or final pathologic diagnosis of ovarian borderline tumor of all histologic subtypes between years 2000 to 2010 were included in the study.
Results: A total of 166 patients were included in the study. The median age was 49 years (20.3-91.2 yrs). The sensitivity and positive predictive value of an intraoperative diagnosis of ovarian borderline tumor was 81.6% and 89.9% respectively. 75% of tumors diagnosed as borderline on frozen retained this diagnosis at final pathology (74.6%) while 14 (8.4%) were upgraded from borderline to carcinoma. Twenty cases diagnosed as benign on frozen were upgraded to borderline (12%), while 8 cases (5%) were downgraded from carcinoma to borderline. The rates of undercalling carcinoma as borderline tumor on frozen section varied considerable by histologic type: 5% of tumors diagnosed as serous BTs, 0% of seromucinous BTs, 14% of intestinal mucinous BTs and 80% of small numbers of endometrioid BTs were reclassified as carcinomas on permanent sections. Most under calls were due to sampling error, not interpretive error. Further study of the serous tumors revealed differences related to the presence of micropapillary architecture, with 21% of tumors diagnosed as micropapillary serous BTs reclassified as carcinomas on permanent section compared to 1% of non-micropapillary serous BTs.
Conclusions: One can anticipate an accurate frozen section diagnosis of BT when the tumor is serous or seromucinous and non-micropapillary. This does not provide unmitigated support for performing staging surgeries for these types of borderline tumors when disease appears clinically confined to the ovary, without surface involvement. Significant rates of underdiagnosis can be anticipated with micropapillary serous, intestinal mucinous and endometrioid tumors when diagnosed as BT on frozen section. This provides sufficient support for performing cancer-type staging surgeries at the discretion of the surgeon in these circumstances.
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Recently managed to squirt sausage fat (when I bit into it) all over a hoody of mine. I've read some tips on the internet but they are tips for new/recent stains...this stain is maybe a month old. Any help greatly appreciated. |
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Lestoil works GREAT for grease stains. It's getting harder to find, though. |
- Posted by oilpainter (My Page) on Mon, Dec 7, 09 at 18:03
If you haven't washed it yet sprinkle talcum powder on it and let it sit for a couple of hours. The talcum powder absorbs the grease and when you brush it off the stain is gone. This always works on fresh grease stains, I don't know about old ones. Something to file away for future if not now. If it has been washed I second sweetbean. Lestoil is a great cleaner. but you might try anything that has a degreaser in it. Just test on an inconspicuious place to see if it removes the color too. |
- Posted by socks12345 (My Page) on Mon, Dec 7, 09 at 19:16
Fels Naptha is good too. Rub the bar on with warm water and massage it really well, let sit 5 mins or so. |
- Posted by cryptandrus (My Page) on Tue, Dec 8, 09 at 9:01
I've had great results using "Goop" hand cleaner on greasy laundry spots. Grocery and hardware stores sell it. You could also probably find it at an auto parts store, or maybe even the hardware aisle at Walgreens. If you can't find Goop, I'd try Dawn dishwashing detergent. Put either the Goop or Dawn right on the spots, then launder as usual. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Goop website with laundry instructions
Try a product called "Awesome". You can buy this at the dollar store. Saturate the stain and rub it in to the material and let set about 5 minutes. Wash and let dry on line (not in dryer). If stain still remains repeat process. If it wasn't for this product, I wouldn't have any unstained close to wear! |
Eucalyptus oil is great for getting out these types of stains. Just cover the stain with the oil and rub gently for a few seconds to allow it to loosen the stain and then wash normally. If it is really set and you can still see the stain once your hoodie is dry you may have to rub with the oil again and then rewash. |
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"The individual fairy tale is not itself a myth, but it presupposes a mythic framework of surprise, dependence or vulnerability, the balancing of anxiety with expectation: a thumbnail sketch of human experience in a bewildering natural and emotional environment." ("why we need fairy tales now more than ever" by Rowan Williams, New Statesman, December 22, […]
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"Sisters and Brothers," my post in honor of the UN commemoration of the international day to end violence against women is up at Luna Station Quarterly.
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Image by doodlemachine/iStockphoto What do Robin Hood, Red Riding Hood, Hansel & Gretel, The Wind in the Willows and countless other novels, legends, fairy tales, fables and myths have in common? They have woods, of course–deep, dark, primeval, archetypal woods. It's where the heart and soul of the story reside, and, not coincidentally, it's where our hearts […]
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I'm happy to announce that I'm one of the new assistant editors at Luna Station Quarterly, a speculative fiction zine for emerging women writers founded and headed by Jennifer Lyn Parsons. This is in addition to my LSQ column, "What's in a Fairy Tale?" The LSQ Website offers daily features, including reviews and interviews, as […]
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Marina Warner's new piece in The Guardian is a must read for fairy tale aficionados…
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The second instalment of my fairy tale column has just been posted at Luna Station Quarterly. I hope you'll enjoy "Under My Bark."
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One of the commenters following Mac Barnett's Ted Talk "Why a good book is a secret door" quoted Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from The Little Prince: "Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." The essence of this statement is a perfect way […]
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Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than in any truth that is taught in life. ~ Johann Christoph Friedrich v. Schiller, German Poet (1759-1805) Using fairy tales, fables, and other story forms to guide and nurture our children. I'm very excited to announce the launch of my publishing site […]
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In truth, I have more time for writing right now than I have had in a long time. This scares me. It scares me because the more time I have for something, the more I fear wasting it. And the more I fear something, anything, the less productive I am. So instead of spinning off into […]
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Fairy tale author and scholar Kate Bernheimer on "Surviving An Adult World in Fairy Tales, and Real Life."
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I'm very proud to announce the first instalment of my new column at Luna Station Quarterly. The column title is "What's in a Fairy Tale." My first essay is "Dark Side of the Fruit," which takes a closer look at the evil queen's poisoned apple. LSQ has a brand new format. I hope you'll stop by […]
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The sentimentalization of bears began with "Teddy's Bear," that cute and cuddly version of the powerful predator that was first manufactured following President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt's refusal to shoot a malnourished and frightened she-bear who had been tied to a tree for him to "hunt" at his leisure. It's a fascinating story, one that I […]
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From the wee folk of long ago (fairies, leprechauns, pixies…) to Hans Christian Andersen's Thumbelina, and to Mary Norton's The Borrowers, sentient beings of very small size have fascinated, delighted, and horrified us, but they never fail to capture our attention. In writing this piece I discovered there are far more books about wee folk […]
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If you read my Huffington Post article "Unfrozen: How a Disney Movie Gave My Daughter Hope," then you know that I have no prejudice against Disney movies. Indeed, I love a great story whether in book, ebook, or movie form, and the great Disney movies have as much power to heal or inspire as any other.
Thank you to Maria Tatar, John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard for posting a link to Ron Suskind's astonishing story of his autistic son Owen's journey back to the land of neurotypicals through speech development and emotional resonance as learned by watching his favourite Disney movies, repeatedly, over many years. "No sidekick gets left behind" is a quote from Owen, an example of one of the first sentences he ever spoke. Suskind has a book coming out and the linked article is an excerpt. I promise that if you read this article, you will feel better for having done so. If not, write me and we'll talk.
"Reaching My Autistic Son Through Disney"
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I'm currently catching my breath following a whirlwind year of taking care of business during which I was constantly busy, physically sore, out of touch with my imagination, and missing more dog walks than I care to count. I have been pulled back to a quieter sort of life because I need to attend to the well being of a close family member, and so the fact that I now have more time on my hands in which to think, muse, and perhaps create is a good thing, but it has come about because of a bad thing. This is the Tao of life, the up and down, back and forth, black and white, concrete and abstract, thinking and intuiting, building and destroying…the same old drill; nothing new.
While trying to catch up with the self I was before my crazy busy year began, I thought that beginning to re-read some of my favorite articles from the Endicott Studio archives would be a good start. This is when I found out that Midori Snyder is in the process of moving Endicott Studio and the Journal of Mythic Arts to a new home. In Midori's words:
I have been a bit preoccupied lately as I have a looming deadline to get the Herculean task of transferring over 10 years of Endicott Studio and Journal of Mythic Arts files from one website to another. Terri and I have had one foot on two platforms for the last five years and it's time to consolidate the archives on one site. It will also potentially set us up should we in the future decide to return to publishing a new version of the Journal. So, it's worth — a money saver, a chance to clean up the dead links, update art, and author bios, Terri's awesome reading lists and recommendations.
I am hugely grateful to Midori Snyder and Terri Windling for their award winning writing and editing. At times I've feared that this body of work will one day vanish from cyberspace, and I don't know how I would live without it. Good luck, Midori, and thank you for preserving and perpetuating this gift!
And while adjusting to this quieter life, I've mused on the things that brought joy a long time ago, like doll house furniture, papier maché, collage, tin toys, dogs, horses, flowers, trees, reading and writing…
In attempting to balance priorities, I like to hear how other people do it. The following is from "The 'Busy' Trap" by Tim Kreider for the New York Times:
Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration — it is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done. "Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do," wrote Thomas Pynchon in his essay on sloth. Archimedes' "Eureka" in the bath, Newton's apple, Jekyll & Hyde and the benzene ring: history is full of stories of inspirations that come in idle moments and dreams. It almost makes you wonder whether loafers, goldbricks and no-accounts aren't responsible for more of the world's great ideas, inventions and masterpieces than the hardworking.
There is a certain Japan tin toy truck–I now know it's called Joe's Kitchen Wagon Catering Van (friction food truck)–that my playmate owned when I was three years old. I loved that truck more than my feeble grasp on language could express, and when my family moved to a new house in a new neighborhood one of my biggest regrets was never seeing that truck again. I never forgot that toy and have looked for it occasionally online, but didn't find it until just a few days ago! I found an image on ebay.ca and it was absolutely, most definitely the toy truck of my dreams!!!!
I took a few screenshots, as you can see below. But the crazy thing is, the person selling that truck (it was already sold by the time I found it) could live anywhere in the world. But guess what? He/she lives where I live. How could I have missed this? Oh yeah, I was too busy to notice.
(If you or someone you know is selling this truck, please email me. I won't be too busy to answer.)
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Between the ages of five and ten my best friend was, compared to me, wealthy and sophisticated, fashionable, and fully aware of her superiority. But the worst of it was her beautiful, shiny, straight, long and, most importantly, manageable dark brown hair. Her hair looked good, smelled good, and was carefully tended by her doting mother. I, on the other hand, had hair that my mother referred to as "impossible." The deeper problem was really that she thought I was impossible, but that's a story for another day.
I'm going to talk about hair. I'm going to talk about girls' and women's hair because I have yet to read a fairy tale that mentions the prince's hair, or the wizard's hair, or the miller's hair, etc. If you have heard of such a tale, please let me know. I know that boys today dye their hair and spend time styling it in a way that hasn't been seen since, I don't know, since the 18th century let's say, for argument's sake. But they aren't really doing it for the girls in their lives, in my opinion. It's more of a banner—an announcement and/or pronouncement for the benefit of other boys. Girls wear their hair as a banner, too, but it goes much deeper than that.
Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair. But I can get a hair-dye And set such colour there, Brown, or black, or carrot, That young men in despair May love me for myself alone And not my yellow hair. I heard an old religious man But yesternight declare That he had found a text to prove That only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair. ("For Anne Gregory" by W. B. Yeats)
In the years since I parted ways with my gloriously-haired friend I have learned that I do, indeed, have unmanageable hair. The color was, once upon a time, quite lovely, though I didn't know until it snowed over prematurely. My hair grows forward, has a cowlick in the back (think Dennis the Menace), and is impossibly thick yet fine. If my friend's hair was a perfectly tended rose garden, mine was the thatch of crab grass best annihilated with noxious chemicals. Rapunzel, I was not. Nor was I a Rapunzel wannabe. Though I tried to be fairly presentable, I was grunge long before it was a trend. And yet, to my surprise, even though I think I know better than to reduce a woman's essential being to the state of her hair, when I set out to write a new fairy tale, I find that I am obsessed with the hair of my female characters.
When I say I am obsessed with the hair of my female characters, I don't necessarily mean that I write about hair obsessively. But I do get excited when I imagine their hair and work to remind myself that I shouldn't make a big deal of it (because I don't want to consciously promote stereotypes). The point is that I want to make a big deal out of their hair and have to force myself not to do so. What is really going on here?
On a certain wall in my house hangs a framed print of a painting by Terri Windling. It is called "The Green Woman" and it shows a youngish woman with eyes cast downward. She has beautifully structured bones and a graceful neck. But her most striking feature is her hair, which is all plant matter: saplings, vines, and leaves. This image of hair so alive—it is alive!—thrills me. And because nearly every shampoo commercial has a woman whose hair is "alive" (moves supranaturally?), I know I can't be the only one who feels this way.
I recently watched Disney's Aladdin for the first time in a long time. It has a special place in my heart since it was the very first video I ever purchased. I watched it for the first time with my first-born child. When I realized that my final-born child had never seen it, I was aghast. As we watched Aladdin, I paid particular attention to Princess Jasmine's hair. Her hair is alive! It has a mind of its own. The ponytail really is a pony's tail. And Disney's version of Pocahontas has hair that responds to the elements, even when the princess does not. Can you name a Disney princess whose hair is not fully alive, responsive, with a charisma all its own? (And in the case of Disney's Tangled, the heroine's hair is an adjunct character.)
Hair, especially female hair, isn't just dead keratinized protein kicked to the curb to make room for living cells, it is "a source of magic power or mana." (The Interpretation of Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise von Franz, p 179)
A check of mythology and folklore reveals the following: hair is 1) vitality (Samson), 2) transformation (Sif), 3) deadly power (Medusa), 4) life (Nisus, King of Megara), 5) sacrifice (Berenice and Ptolemy), 6) connection (calming the Inuit Sea Goddess Sedna by combing her hair), and 7) life-affirming power (Luthien, in a folktale created by J.R.R. Tolkien). I have no doubt this list is incomplete, but I do like the number seven.
There are far more examples of the significance of hair: it is sacrificed in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, and E. Nesbit's Melisande. Hair figures prominently in every version (direct and derived) of Rapunzel, of which there are more than can be listed here, though Zel by Donna Jo Napoli is one of my favorites.
Ironically, while preparing this piece, a member of my family cut nine inches from her gorgeous ginger hair and donated it to the Canadian Cancer Society wig banks via Pantene's "Beautiful Lengths" program. I'm very proud of her, but I sure do miss her hair. When did I become Mother Gothel? I must have skipped that memo.
Lest, dear reader, you believe this to have been a pointless exercise, I offer you this: self-proclaimed hair shaman Anthony Morrocco, "…after more than four decades of travel, research, and experimentation…", developed the Morrocco Method natural hair care system. On whether or not one should blow dry hair, Morrocco advised the following:
If we compare our hair to the leaves on a tree, the sprigs on a bush or the petals on a flower, we can easily understand the sometimes fragile yet also resilient thing that our hair is. Petals, sprigs and leaves are strong enough to withstand weather such as pounding rain and windstorms…but apply concentrated blasts of hot air to any one of them and they will wither and NOT return to their original state. Dear friends, consider your hair to be the living thing it is…much like the flower petal and leaves you see in nature, and treat it as you would them.
The Hair Shaman meets the Green Woman. I sense a fairy tale coming on, through my roots.
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I had to share this amazing photo of a rather surprised looking tree growing in Placerita State Canyon, California. It was sent to me by my sister who is a regular hiker there.
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"Every microcosm, every inhabited region, has a centre; that is to say, a place that is sacred above all." –Mircea Eliade
Take the North Star, the staff of life, and the sacred centre (axis mundi, perhaps the forerunner to the Christmas tree) and and what do you have?…a beautiful story by Katherine Langrish, posted on her blog Seven Miles of Steel Thistles for your enjoyment, and mine.
Read "The Girl Who Followed the North Star" here.
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Kind of a Hurricane Press has published an anthology of poems and flash fiction with the theme of ekphrasis–a writer's reaction to a work of art. In my case I wrote a piece called "Leonora's Disposition" as a reaction to "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik," oil on canvas by Dorothea Tanning, 1943. The anthology is called In Gilded Frame and is edited by A.J. Huffman and April Salzano. Click here for the free digital version, or here to purchase the print version.
Dorothea Tanning's stunning work of art can be viewed here.
Here's the first paragraph of "Leonora's Disposition" to, hopefully, whet your appetite:
Leonora's mother despised Leonora's disposition, slouching shoulders and dark hair that resolved into knots at the least provocation, so much so that her constant pining for a model child, unable to be fulfilled in the usual manner, moved her husband to hire a manufacturer of waxworks.
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I have two new publications, two days in a row! And some wonderful news about a good friend.
The first is an article about my fantastically courageous daughter and her struggle with Tourette Syndrome. Just click on the image below to read the article at Huffington Post.
Adults and children with TS have an everyday kind of courage that is usually only found in fairy tales. For more information about Tourette Syndrome, please visit the Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada.
My short story "Fire and Ice" has just been released at Luna Station Quarterly. Click on the image below to read this story about an elderly woman whose accident launches her into another realm.
Dianne Young's wonderful picture book Dear Flyary is a whimsical window into the life of Frazzle Patzer, a being from the Glank Quadrant of Merfatil who speaks English sprinkled with a patois of made-up words direct from the author's quirky imagination. It is the most fun reading aloud you will ever have. Dear Flyary has been nominated for a Saskatchewan Book Award. Congratulations, Dianne!
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