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And This is Why I Don't Go on Rollercoasters...
Opening day for the Coney Island Cyclone, one of the world's most historic wooden rollercoasters, didn't go so well for the first riders of the season. At the top of its first hill, just before the first drop, the coaster stopped dead in its tracks. Riders were stranded, and had to be walked down by emergency personnel. Like rollercoasters aren't already scary enough, now this happens? But what do you want to bet that most of them will climb back aboard as soon as the ride's running again?
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Wait a Minute, What?
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Behind the Times?
President Obama sat down last week to talk with David Simon, the creator of The Wire, the critically-acclaimed TV show. The idea was to discuss what Simon observed about crime in the inner city that drove him to create the show. The guy's a former cop, so it's probably a valuable chat. But those observations are over a dozen years old. The Wire ran between 2002 and 2008. Relevant? Or just an opportunity for the First Fan to talk to the guy who created one of his favorite shows? What do you think?
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Unintentional Photo Bomb
Kim Kardashian must have been having an off day. There was a camera pointed her way, and she didn't manage to strike a pose. Instead, it sort of looks like she's picking her toes Or perhaps grabbing for her pocketbook. Kanye, on the other side, looks so very Kanye-ish. And ironically, he's the one showing sideboob in this picture, not his wife. Go figure... Lunch with Lilou at Nobu!! #Lilou #NobuSundays #greatcompany #Carolin #papaB @casiebamford @malibubuffy @anneysenring @jasoncampbellmalibu A photo posted by alibambam (@alibambam) on Mar 22, 2015 at 4:48pm PDT
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Arnold's Human Side
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a new movie coming out called Maggie. It's a zombie flick, but more than that. The advance buzz on it is pretty good, and no one seems happier about it than Arnold himself. Check out the post to his Facebook page late last week... (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); I'm really proud of my new film, Maggie. This is the most human zombie film you've ever seen, and it's the most human... Posted by Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday, March 25, 2015
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What is Wrong with People?
A meteorologist on Global News News Hour Plus in Canada took to the airwaves last Thursday to discuss a hate letter. Kristi Gordon is pregnant, and got a nastygram about the way she looks on the news. Calling her "gross," the viewer wrote further: "Your front end looks like the Hindenburg and your rear-end looks like a brick sh—house. We now turn off Global." Actually, she's gotten a few, and she decided to talk about it on the air with the news co-anchors. The male anchor didn't think they should give the letter any attention. "Haters gonna hate," he said, "as some rapper may have said." The female anchor corrected him immediately, which is the funniest put-down I've seen in a long while. Check out the whole thing... Sparks some interesting discussion.
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Thanks, Obama!
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Son of Coach?
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Now Playing, Sauce Castillo!
The people who do closed captioning for sporting events have a rough job. Hear it and type it, hear it and type it. They do their best to get it right, but sometimes, they're blunders are epic. Take this one. Nik Stauskas is a guard for the Sacramento Kings in the NBA. Except according to the closed-caption operator the other night, his name is actually SAUCE CASTILLO. It could easily have been one of those things no one noticed, but someone did, and now it's Nik's new name. Check out the video on the Kings' website. And check out what Nik had to say about it on Twitter, where the name has gone a little viral... Wait what does "Sauce Castillo" mean? Since when was that my nickname lol!! 😂😂 — Nik Stauskas (@NStauskas11) March 26, 2015
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That Knot is Tied
Country star Jason Aldean tied the knot last Saturday with Brittany Kerr. Yesterday, Brittany made it official by posting a picture of herself wearing a "Wifey" shirt to Instagram. ❤ A photo posted by @brittanylkerr on Mar 25, 2015 at 12:45pm PDT The wedding was held in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. And in the You-Can't-Make-This-Stuff-Up Department, the nuptials were officiated by Willie Robertson. Yes, that Willie Robertson - the one from Duck Dynasty.
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Nice to Meet You - You Are Dismissed
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The ladies of the Saturday Eves' Book Club have been meeting since 1968. They have met together for 45 years and while meeting all have agreed that one
of their goals would be to make a difference in Kalamazoo as a group. Another
goal was to write a book telling their collective stories. Their
accomplishments are numerous. They have a united goal to Read, Inspire, Lead,
Encourage, Motivate, Assist, Teach and Inform and their ultimate goal has been
to address community issues, mentor children and to take on the challenge of
making a real commitment to each other and their communities. This book addresses
their individual achievements, life challenges, backgrounds and dedications. There
are many great stories in this book that address decades of local and worldly
influences and contributions to making this one of the oldest and most
influential African American book clubs in Kalamazoo.
Growing up in Grand Rapids in the 80s and 90s, my family's "fancy" restaurant to go to was the Brann's restaurant on S. Division Ave. I would get the economizer prime rib special and a Shirley Temple to drink. Now living in the Kalamazoo area, my husband and I take our kids to the Brann's near Crossroads Mall/Celebration Cinema. With 11 locations across Michigan, Brann's is a thriving local chain. Mind your own business by Tommy Brann tells the history of Brann's restaurant, the Brann family, and shares highs and lows of running a successful restaurant/small business. Until this book came across my desk recently, I didn't know that our go-to restaurant had been opened by a 19 year old kid, just out of school at East Grand Rapids High. Available for other Fanns of Brann's to browse in our local history collection.
The subtitle of Oddball Michigan is A Guide to 450 Really Strange Places. I take issue with the contention that the 450 attractions covered are 'really strange,' although I must say the Kalamazoo-area ones would probably qualify. I immediately turned to the local section and found the sites where Elvis was supposedly seen -- years after his death. The other Kalamazoo venue is the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, listed because it was on this facility's parking lot that comedian Tim Allen was arrested by the Michigan State Police for trying to sell 1.4 pounds of cocaine. Among the other West Michigan sites included are the musical fountain in Grand Haven, Bear Cave in Buchanan, and the WZZM-TV Weatherball in Grand Rapids. For locations that open and close, further information is given -- phone, hours, cost, website, and directions.
Though it certainly doesn't seem like it, spring - and the end of ice, snow, and freezing temperatures - is around the corner! Enjoy the warmer days and make good on your New Year's resolution to get fit by running. The Kalamazoo area is host to several races this spring: Kal-Haven Trail Run (April 5), Consumers Sunburst Run/Walk (April 26), Kalamazoo Marathon (May 4), Girls on the Run (May 22), and Kalamazoo Klassic (June 14). If you're interested in running a race, you can join a local training group through the Kalamazoo Area Runners or Gazelle Sports to keep you on track. And don't forget to check out the library's collection of resources on running!
Runner's World magazine - The most popular running periodical, available in print at KPL and as a digital magazine download through the library's Zinio portal.
The Beginning Runner's Handbook by Ian MacNeill - This is a great starter manual that provides basic information on the science and psychology of exercise, choosing shoes and clothing, technique and form, safety and injury prevention, as well as a 13 week training program with stretches and exercises.
Complete Book of Running by Runner's World - This thorough guide covers everything from nutrition to cross training, and includes a marathon training program.
The Little Red Book of Running by Scott Douglas - This small book contains 250 tips for running further, faster, safer, and more frequently.
Proceeds from the Consumers Sunburst Run are donated to the Oshtemo Friends of the Parks, which in turn helps support Oshtemo Library's Movies Under the Stars summer movie series at Oshtemo Township Park.
If you're interested in American guitar history, you'll want to explore this comprehensive new work about C.F. Martin and his contemporaries' early technical developments in guitar design and manufacture. In a relatively short period of time before 1865, C.F. Martin and other builders developed and incorporated significant refinements, most notably an X-braced top capable of withstanding the higher string tension to which a steel-stringed guitar would be subjected. While Martin may or may not have invented X-bracing, his guitars were to the first to exploit this bracing system on a large scale.
Of course, folks in Kalamazoo get pretty excited about that other well-known granddaddy of the American guitar, Orville Gibson, who famously applied violin building techniques to mandolins and guitars. Arched-top mandolins and guitars? Yep, invented right here in Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo is rightly proud of the stack and factory on Parsons Street where luminaries such as Lloyd Loar, Thaddeus McHugh, Ted McCarty, and others ran with Orville's early ideas and made industrial design and musical instrument history.
From a business history standpoint, these two icons of American guitar manufacture are very different. Orville Gibson sold his nascent business and patent to a small group of Kalamazoo industrialists in 1902. Gibson Guitar relocated its headquarters to Nashville in 1981. The Heritage Guitar Company continues to build in the Parsons Street building today. C.F. Martin & Company, still located in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, remains a family owned business more than 175 years later.
Your Kalamazoo Public Library has lots of great books on guitar history. This new work is definitely worth checking out. I like it because it focuses on little-known technical history before the American Civil War – no dreadnaughts to be found here. The full color plates of many of the very earliest C.F. Martin instruments in this large format book are truly gorgeous to behold.
Here is an outstanding book that gives photographs and one-paragraph commentaries on notable buildings in Michigan. Any book of this nature will, of course, be subjective in the selections made for inclusion, but I think Mr. Gallagher made some wise choices. The book is divided into eight sections -- buildings in which we gather, play, govern, learn, worship, work, and live, as well as facilities for art. The Kalamazoo buildings presented are the 1931 Kalamazoo City Hall, the 1852 Amariah T. Prouty house at 302 Elm Street, and the 1947-49 Frank Lloyd Wright houses in Parkwyn Village, off Winchell Avenue. The photography is by Balthasar Korab, who also took the pictures for Peter Schmitt's 1976 book on early Kalamazoo homes. Clear pictures, concise narrative, and great buildings make this a book worth seeing.
August 28th will be the 50th Anniversary of the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom." This past weekend, tens of thousands of people marched on Washington, in commemoration of the event.
I looked for information at KPL about the 1963 march and what was happening here in Kalamazoo during that time. I found writings on the history and significance of the March on Washington, biographies of prominent march organizers such as A. Phillip Randolph and Bayard Rustin and other civil rights workers, a video recording of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
Kalamazoo Gazette, 7 October 1963
Local civil-rights events in 1963 included the picketing of the Van Avery drugstore and the October 6 Kalamazoo March for Equal Opportunities. To learn more local events the year ca. 300,000 people were marching in D.C. for jobs and freedom, visit KPL's Local History desk. We have numerous files of newspaper clippings and microfilm access to the 1963 Kalamazoo Gazette.
Are you vacationing in Michigan this Summer? Kalamazoo Public Library has many Michigan travel books. One particularly family-friendly book is: Fun with the Family: Michigan. Hundreds of Ideas for Day Trips with the Kids, by Bill Semion, c.2007. The contents are separated by geographic areas, such as West Michigan-North, West Michigan-South, and Upper Peninsula-East, Upper Peninsula-West… you get the picture…(picturesque!) It includes listings of events, adventures, parks, museums, sports, theatres, places to stay, and restaurants.
I also recommend viewing: Under the Radar Michigan, a PBS television show hosted by Tom Daldin, who has a friendly, comfortable presence and a great sense of humor. UTR Michigan is in its third season. UTR Michigan showcases a different Michigan town in each episode, featuring local places of interest, stories, great people, and mouth-watering foods at local restaurants. UTR is a helpful, convincing site for choosing a Michigan town to visit. Episode 318 highlights Grand Rapids, and, if you want to see a hilarious sight, watch the people pedaling on the Great Lakes Pub Cruiser, it's crazy! To find out the art of coffee roasting and information about the Can-Do Kitchen, watch the inspirational episode featuring Kalamazoo!
I couldn't help pick this book up after seeing its clever title in the New KPL Books stream in the KPL catalog, and after reading through it I can say that I am glad I did. The story of craft beer brewing in the United States is as funky as some of the places that helped it grow and pushed it forward during the past 30 or so years. The book takes you from San Francisco's Anchor Brewing Co., which was basically the only small batch "local" brewery that existed in the mid-1970s, to today's craft brew industry where we have literally thousands of craft breweries scattered across the country and introduces you to a seemingly endless stream of interesting and passionate people and their unlikely stories along the way. The book is thoroughly researched and comprehensive with interviews with all of the important players and tons of history thrown in to give the stories context. It's a rich and full-bodied tale sure to interest any beer fan out there. And for the record, Kalamazoo may have come up short in its bid to be named Beer City, USA, but we do figure pretty early on in the story of the craft beer revolution with the Kalamazoo Brewing Company appearing right there on page 119! Number of times anything associated with Grand Rapids appears in the index = 0. Hmmm
I have recently written about great buildings of the world and buildings of Michigan. This month I will narrow the focus by highlighting a book that describes, in words and photographs, historic railroad stations in our state. Michael H. Hodges has presented a nearly-200 page volume in which there are 31 Michigan railroad stations, both active and inactive. The photographs are beautifully done; the narrative is well-written. I of course turned to the chapter on the Kalamazoo station on Rose Street and I was not disappointed. I learned several new things about this building even though I have worked less than a mile from it for a long time. Other area stations included are Battle Creek, Lake Odessa, Lawton, Muskegon, Niles, and Three Oaks. As I looked over the acknowledgements in the front, I was very proud to discover that two of my Local History colleagues, Beth Timmerman and J. Patrick Jouppi, are recognized as having assisted the author in researching this material. Former co-worker Lynn Smith Houghton, now of WMU Archives, is also credited. Next, I think it would be great if Mr. Hodges would at some point do a second volume. Bangor and Lacota, among others, would be interesting subjects.
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In Dover: A park for people
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
DOVER — Conceptual design plans full of rope swings, slides, a waterfall and even a miniature stage proposed for the renovation of Henry Law Park were praised at Tuesday night's input session at the McConnell Center.
"We also talked about elements of safety, what type of field they want to have, where the arts may tie in, health factors, green energy," Bannon said. "We want to make this a park that people want to come to."
The $125,000 addressed in the Capital Improvements Program for Fiscal Year 2012 toward improving the park and the $10,000 grant from Public Service of New Hampshire toward the Children's Museum to create the design plans will not be nearly enough money to pay for the proposed equipment.
"There is much more in this plan than the budget allows us, but it is still a moving target," Bannon said. "We can't put a number out there yet."
According to Bannon, however, community organizations have come forward with interest in sponsoring certain parts of the park, but he could not comment on who they were at this point, as they have not officially given a donation.
"But, we haven't yet done the list," she said, of those interested in donating money and sponsoring items in the park.
The laundry list of ideas created by the community of what they would like to see in the park, which eventually was laid out into a plan, includes the standard swings and slide, but mainly focuses on steering away from the stereotypical metal structure playgrounds and swing sets and incorporating modern and natural play pieces to the park, such as forts, wood posts for climbing, a waterfall, a high perch to climb and view the river and wildlife from above and plenty of green space to let kids be kids and run, jump, roll and tumble down.
"Most parks around here are manufactured," Bannon said. "They are good, they are very attractive, but we are trying to change that whole dynamic and make a park that can be used for a longer period of time, not just a 20-year period of time."
"This is not going to be your cookie-cutter recreation area," he said. "It is very much a customized play area. It is meant to be that. We are trying to change the feel of it."
Boulders, slopes, wood pillars of post to climb, sand, water and other natural features are being proposed to be included in the park.
"We are trying to get the feel of being in the outdoors from an educational perspective, a recreational and exercise perspective and also a nature perspective," Bannon said.
Roberts said adding these natural elements are all part of the new generation of playgrounds. These elements also incorporate the surroundings of Henry Law Park, with the Cocheco River flowing aside the park.
Kemp Playground in Cambridge, Mass. has been a focal point for design plans. This playground, which Roberts said is just three years old, has many features Dover is looking to place in Henry Law Park, including a living arch and a miniature covered stage to climb on top of and to play inside, pretending to perform a show or sing a concert.
Deputy Mayor Robert Carrier, who attended Tuesday night's meeting, said he was pleased with the plans and looks forward to seeing the physical additions to the park.
"One concern or thought with all of this is safety," Carrier said. "We're talking rocks, poles, gazebos that are higher, platforms …"
Roberts said safety, along with ADA accessibility, has been one of their main concerns while planning the park improvements.
"There is, in some ways, that this design gives more opportunity to those with limited mobility," Roberts said, adding that the design of slides built into a slope removes the need of a ladder.
"In addition, water features are completely accessible," Roberts said. "There are still things that they can't do, but I think this design gives people a lot of choices."
Items still needing to be addressed include the amount of trees for proper shading, the amount of lights and where they will be situated throughout the park, bathrooms, water fountains and whether or not the upper part of Henry Law Park will be included, eventually, into the design plans.
Although the planning is still in the conceptual design phase, Bannon is estimating portions of the park to begin to be constructed sometime between the spring of 2014 and the summer of 2015.
"We want to get as much done at once as possible and not just do one part then another part," he said.
The next step in the planning process is to hand the concept plan back to Terra Firma Landscape Architecture of Portsmouth to design a "somewhat" final plan.
Bannon said the possibility of another input session in the future is likely, but if one does not occur, the public is continually invited to reach out to him or other city staff members to address concerns, comments or additional items to be placed in the plans.
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Um... you said that Stage is replacing kpresenter, and Flow is replacing kpresenter. I think only Stage is replacing kpresenter, and Flow replaces Kivio
They shouldn't even have to create a custom renderer. Write the whole implementation as an XSLT which generates SVG from ODF - then the display of the document is just a webkit kpart. Is there anything you can do in ODF that would be difficult to generate an SVG representation of for display? I know you can get from LaTeX to SVG pretty easily. Lilypond generates ps or pdf too and they recently modified it to generate SVG directly.
Calligra isn't going to compete with much of anything if it maintains its dependance on KDE libraries. Unless it can isolate those dependencies to a kde integration plugin or library, we can't port koffice anyware and have it stick.
Not to mention that a XSLT has to process the whole document, loading that 100 page document may take a while. Rendering the resulting .svg to a 100-page bitmap may be a bit taxing on your memory resources, too.
I'm also curious how you're going to implement intra-document links and the ability to copy/paste once everything has been transformed to svg.
Lastly, XSLT is a horrible language to write code in, writing a custom renderer is probably less work and way better for the sanity of everyone involved.
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they saw libreoffice, and they are trying to copy. sadly koffice should just start from scratch. the current suite is a mess.
after all I think openoffice and msword are both bigger than kdelibs + koffice.
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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost earned our attention as comic powerhouses with Shaun of the Dead, a surprisingly adept zombie movie parody that built the margins for their follow-up film Hot Fuzz (which, like Shaun, was directed by Edgar Wright) and has sustained its position as the film most rigidly associated with both actors. Now, a third Wright picture is on its way: The World's End, another humorous, supernatural adventure. Another union of adult children Pegg and Frost, and an assembly of reluctant supporting characters. Another movie set in a bar. Yes, The world's End looks pretty much exactly like Shaun of the Dead. See for yourself in the new trailer:
And we're not quite sure how big a problem this will be — this time, Pegg and Frost are joined by childhood friends Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, and Eddie Marsan, in an endeavor to recreate a pub crawl from their younger days, when they happen upon an Invasion Of The Body Snatchers-like plague that is sweeping their liquor-laden route. Soon, survivalism takes over, and they are forced to fend off the monsters while keeping their personal relationships in check. See? Entirely reminiscent of Shaun, right down to the setting and visual aesthetic, as you can see above. But there's something in this one that might separate it from former Pegg/Frost/Wright collaborations: Martin Freeman.
Despite his celebrity as Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit, the romantic lead Tim in Ricky Gervais' The Office, or the United Kingdom's Sherlock, Freeman is a comic champion whose mastery of subtle physical humor is inexplicably unappreciated. The perfect example of Freeman's whimsical might comes in the final second of the trailer, when his playing-it-cool-in-the-face-of-danger businessman character exits a pub bathroom, surrounded by glowing-eyed monsters, forcing a giddy smile and an enthusiastic head bob. It's utterly hilarious.
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The 23-year-old was named first runner-up at the pageant in Hot Springs, which is no small honor. For that distinction, Neal receives a $8,000 scholarship sponsored by Charles and Susie Morgan.
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A Seattle Times Best Book of 2012
When Catherine Gehrig, a museum conservator in London, falls into grief after her lover's sudden death, her boss gives her a special project. She will bring back to "life" a nineteenth-century mechanical bird. As she begins to piece the automaton together, Catherine also uncovers the diaries of Henry Brandling, who, more than a hundred years prior, had commissioned the bird for his very ill son. Catherine finds resonance and comfort in Henry's story. But it is the mechanical creature itself, in its uncanny imitation of life, that will link these two people across a century. Through the clockwork bird, Henry and Catherine will confront the mysteries of creation, the power of human invention, and the body's astonishing chemistry of love and feeling.
Excerpted from The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey. Copyright © 2012 by Peter Carey. Excerpted by permission of Vintage, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
"Dazzling . . . encompasses heartbreak, the comfort of absorbing work, the transformative power of beauty and the soul of an old machine. . . . part historical, part fanciful, and completely wonderful." —Heller McAlpin, NPR
"Ambitious, playful and engagingly strange." —San Francisco Chronicle
"Touching and thought-provoking." —The New York Times Book Review
"Deeply moving. . . tells the story of the essential human desire to return to the individual Edens that we inhabited. . . . beautifully told." —Nature
"Characters that beguile and convince, prose that dances or is as careful as poetry, an inventive plot that teases and makes the heart quicken or hurt, paced with masterly precision, yet with a space for the ideas to breathe and expand in dialogue with the reader, unusual settings of place and time: this tender tour de force of the imagination succeeds on all fronts." —The Independent (London)
"Carey is one of the finest living writers in English. His best books satisfy both intellectually and emotionally; he is lyrical yet never forgets the imperative to entertain. . . . A wholly enjoyable journey." —The Economist
"Carey is one of the most original novelists writing today." —The New Republic
"Vividly rendered. . . . Carey has given each story the chaotic quality of hallucination. . . . He shapes the two madnesses with imaginative intensity." —The Boston Globe
"A beautifully written, richly layered novel that includes treats like a meaningful, hidden message in Latin and a mysterious blue wooden block hidden inside the automaton. . . . Its graceful subtlety will keep you thinking long after you've closed the book." —Vancouver Sun
"A short novel that bristles with ideas. . . . Carey is a master novelist." —The Oregonian
"Heartbreaking. . . . [A] profoundly detailed study of love and grief. . . . Carey has built us a captivating replica of the most timeless piece of machinery of all—a broken heart." —The Seattle Times
"Leave it to a protean virtuoso like Peter Carey to write a novel, The Chemistry of Tears, that draws compelling parallels between a Victorian-era automaton of a defecating duck and the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. And, what's more, to make of it another delightfully recondite tour-de-force performance." —The Toronto Star
"For his new, briskly paced novel, The Chemistry of Tears, he has pulled off a nifty trick, offering interconnected plots set in two distinct eras. . . . Carey's deft, spare prose is full of striking images. . . . Carey explores a series of interconnected themes that are admirably complex for such a short book." —Richmond Times-Dispatch
"A writer of such sustained flair that he has, only two years after his Man Booker–shortlisted Parrot and Olivier in America, delivered another stylish tour de force. . . . With typical dogged panache, Carey's exploration of technology and tears indicates that emotion defies rationalism's impositions." —The Daily Telegraph (London)
1. We are told the story through two different narrators: Catherine Gehrig and Henry Brandling. Are they reliable?
2. How are the lives of Catherine and Henry similar? How do they differ, aside from their time periods and locations?
3. Why do you think Catherine is drawn to Henry's story with such curiosity? Do you think her state of grief affects the way she reacts to his journals? If so, how?
4. How do grief and loss function in the novel as a whole? What are some of the ways Catherine and Henry—or any of the other characters—cope with grief in their lives? How does this affect the mood and atmosphere of the novel?
5. Catherine is a horologist, used to dealing with many fine mechanical parts. How is her personality suited to this? How is it not?
6. Despite difficult circumstances at home, Henry Brandling begins his trek as an optimist, even saying "Brandling would see the glass half full even when it lay in shards around his feet" (p. 55). Do you think Henry is naive? Or is this a useful attitude for him to take in the face of hardships?
7. Carl emerges as an interesting and important character, particularly to Henry. How do Henry, Herr Sumper, and Frau Helga each view Carl? How do you view Carl?
8. Were you surprised when Henry violently beats Sumper (p. 93)? Were there any earlier indications that Henry would be prone to such rage? How would you characterize Henry's and Sumper's reactions the following day?
9. What reactions did you have to the scene between Catherine and her lover's sons? What do you make of Noah and Angus's gift to Catherine?
10. How would you characterize Catherine's relationship with Amanda? How does it compare with Henry's relationship with Sumper?
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Quick Takes on Elton John, 2012 Stand Up For Heroes Benefit, And Jackson Brown
Monday, November 12, 2012
Reports out of England say that Elton John and longtime partner David Furnish are expecting their second child in the coming months. The couple has a nearly two-year-old son, Zachary, and is reportedly interviewing candidates for a baby nanny for the couple's estate in Old Windsor, Berkshire. An unnamed source close to Elton revealed that the couple will be using the same surrogate who gave birth to Zachary in 2010 and was recruited via the Centre For Surrogate Parenting in Encino, California: "Elton and David love this lady like a sister and they feel indebted to her for life. Naturally she has been well rewarded. But her identity will never be revealed." The unnamed surrogate is said to be "several months" pregnant. (The Sun)
On Thursday night (November 8th) Bruce Springsteen, Roger Waters, and John Mayer headlined the 2012 Stand Up For Heroes benefit at Manhattan's Beacon Theatre. Springsteen performed a four-song set -- "We Take Care of Our Own," "Working On The Highway," "Tougher Than The Rest" with Patti Scialfa, and "Land Of Hope And Dreams." "The Boss" then took part in an auction for one of his acoustic guitars and played a bit of the Elvis Presley standard, "Mystery Train" with Backstreets.com posting, "(Springsteen added) perks as bidding escalated -- throwing in his harmonica, a 'personal tour of the backstage area,' and an autograph -- to finally bring in $110,000 for the cause."
Roger Waters performed a particularly heart-wrenching set featuring Levon Helm's "Wide River To Cross," Bob Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door," and his own Pink Floyd classic "Wish You Were Here" with 15 disabled guitarists and vocalists he had met while jamming with the veterans at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Since 2008, the annual Stand Up For Heroes benefit serves the Bob Woodruff Foundation, which provides aid to those who have sustained the "hidden injuries of war," and has helped over "one million veterans, service members, and their families since it began in 2008."
Among the comedians appearing at the benefit were Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, Patton Oswalt, and Jon Stewart.
Jackson Browne has just added a 15-date acoustic swing through the Western states for early 2013. Browne will kick off the trek on January 19th in Portland, Oregon and wrap things up on February 16th in Reno, Nevada. Along the way he'll be hitting Seattle, Washington; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Phoenix, Arizona -- with multiple stops on the books for California, including shows set for San Jose, San Diego, Thousand Oaks, Long Beach, Bakersfield, Temecula, Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, and San Francisco.
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November 12 - Omaha, NE - Orpheum Theater
November 14 - Denver, CO - Paramount Theatre
November 15 - Colorado Springs, CO - Pikes Peak Center
November 18 - Northridge, CA - Valley Performing Arts Center
November 19 - Portland, OR - Keller Auditorium
January 20 - Seattle, WA - Benaroya Hall
January 22 - San Jose, CA - San Jose Civic
January 26 - San Diego, CA - Copley Symphony Hall
January 28 - Thousand Oaks, CA - Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza
January 29 - Long Beach, CA - Terrace Theater
January 31 - Bakersfield, CA - Majestic Fox Theater
February 1 - Temecula, CA - Pechanga Resort & Casino
February 2 - Santa Cruz, CA - Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
February 4 - San Luis Obispo, CA - Performing Arts Center
February 6 - San Francisco, CA - Nob Hill Masonic Center
February 12 - Albuquerque, NM - Popejoy Hall
February 13 - Phoenix, AZ - Orpheum Theatre
February 15 - Las Vegas, NV - Pearl Concert Theater
February 16 - Reno, NV - Silver Legacy Resort Casino
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Lactation Management Workshop
Lactation management workshop:
The Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization in collaboration with the Ministry of Health Trinidad and Tobago conducted a three day lactation management workshop for 23 nurses and midwives selected from five hospitals and nursing schools 7-9 December at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
In Trinidad and Tobago exclusive breastfeeding for at least 6 months is less than 20%, with over 40% of infants given breast milk and complementary feed. A (41) % early initiation rate for breastfeeding, pointing to the practice not being sustained at home after discharge. There is a national breastfeeding policy, which should be operational at all public institutions and is clearly not having the desired impact. Hence there is a greater need to train health care providers in the management of breastfeeding to improve the skills and knowledge and create a supporting environment for mothers to initiate and continue breast feeding immediately after birth and thereafter.
Objectives of the workshop were:
1) To train health care providers in Trinidad and Tobago on the breast feeding management intervention methods and ways for:
2) To emphasize the importance of appropriate feeding practices in the context of baby friendly hospital initiatives and infant and young child feeding policy.
} Identify practices that support and those that interfere with breastfeeding;
} Practice the ten steps to successful breastfeeding and abide by the international code of marketing of breast-milk substitutes;
} Collaborate with co-workers to highlight barriers to breastfeeding and seek ways to overcome those barriers.
} Use communication skills to talk with pregnant women, mothers and co-workers;
} Discuss with a pregnant woman the importance of breastfeeding and outline practices that support the initiation of breastfeeding;
} Facilitate skin-to-skin contact and early initiation of breastfeeding;
} Assist a mother to learn the skills of positioning and attaching her baby as well as the skill of hand expression;
} Discuss with a mother how to find support for breastfeeding after she returns home;
} Outline what needs to be discussed with a women who is not breastfeeding and know to whom to refer this woman for further assistance with feeding her baby, including relactation
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3) Implement the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFI)
a. Increase / update breastfeeding knowledge
b. Learn / reinforce clinical skills
c. Acquire / confirm attitudes
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At the outset, Mr. President, allow me to thank you for convening this open debate on regional partnerships in peacekeeping. Allow me also to thank the Secretary-General, and the representatives of the European Union and the African Union for framing the debate through their presentations. This statement is aligned to that just delivered by the delegation of Egypt on behalf of the Non Aligned Movement.
At the elections held today in the Assembly of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), Fiji was re-elected to the Council of the ISA for a four year period commencing on 1 January, 2015.
The Council is the executive organ of the ISA. It is made up of 36 Member States elected by the ISA membership as a whole.
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|Bill Geivett moved his office into the Rockies clubhouse one year ago.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
GUEST POST: Colorado Rockies made a mistake by creating Director of Development position
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- AnonymousJuly 31, 2013 at 8:09 AM
so Tracy, Mikulik, Sakata are out because of operational incompetence. That is not really big news.ReplyDelete
Leyland, Zimmer, Girardi, Uribe were driven out years ago by feckless team owners.
Soon players at every level will be in rebellion against an overreaching, almost perverse obstinance, that permeates this grossly mismanaged organization.
Great Article, and thanks for writing this up. I've not liked the micro-management style and not by those that obviously aren't any good at their job in the first place.ReplyDelete
The Rockies minor league player development is an absolute joke at this point. Bare of any real player talent or prospects at AA or AAA.
But the same one's that are to blame for that now will tell managers how to do THEIR jobs?
What's worse then the blind leading the blind? Answer: The blind leading the sighted.
- AnonymousJuly 31, 2013 at 10:30 AM
meddlesome micromanagement, a hallmark of Rock owners, is slowly destroying a once promising baseball venue.ReplyDelete
- RedhawkJuly 31, 2013 at 10:32 AM
This was from Redhawk by the way. I have to remember which one of the log in's to use.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2013 at 7:08 AM
does it really matter who the rockies put in the dugout. after the last 3 games they are pathetic, both in pitching and hitting. would hate to have drew, george, jeff, marc, tracy, and squeaky voiced jennie's jobs as they have to make positive remarks to keep there jobs. the calls that weiss is making is old school alright, but it's high school where he should have stayed. SAD SADReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 1, 2013 at 12:21 PM
Rocks have become most pathetic, most backwoods organization in major league baseball.ReplyDelete
Such an embarassment for Denver and Colorado.
As far as the tv and radio people go, they are part of the problem as well......a bunch of damned sychophants.


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"I'm OK, you're OK … but not in health care"
Many business leaders understand the need to find common ground: Health care leaders are prone to think otherwise.
The Thomas Harris best seller I'm OK, You're OK: A Practical Guide to Transaction Analysis (Harper, 1969) sold 15 million copies in the 1970s and was on the New York Times Best Seller list for 70 weeks. Its premise is simple: When organizations or individuals negotiate, both must come away as winners. And to achieve that, each party must have a positive regard for the other.
It's a particularly relevant theme in the economy today as global opportunities and the advantages of bigger scale drive consolidation in almost every industry.
And in organizations, it's just as relevant as leaders restructure their organizations to facilitate the new direction they wish to pursue.
But in the health care industry, "I'm OK, You're OK" positioning is foreign to its key players. Each seems prone to think the other subordinate or of lesser value. More commonly, "I'm OK, You're NOT OK" is the starting point in discussions. And for the main players, their positions are firmly entrenched:
- Physicians seem to believe patients are incapable of making decisions on their own, regulators overbearing, hospitals theirs to run, and health insurers void of clinical aptitude adding administrative costs but no value.
- Health insurance plans seem to view hospitals as inefficient and wasteful, physicians incapable of managing money, and the system woefully flawed needing their expertise and competence more than others.
- Drug and medical device manufacturers seem to view doctors as customers, regulators as barriers to market entry, and all others unwelcome guests in their transactions.
- And hospitals may feel like they're ok, but others may feel in better shape to survive. After all, no other sector is required by law to accept everyone without regard for their ability to pay! And no other sector is on the frontline of running a capital-intense, labor-intense business wherein state and federal laws are extremely complex.
This presumptive suspicion about the roles of other players in the health care industry is central to understanding the formidable task of reforming the health care industry amidst such feelings. Simply put, it is an industry where "I'm OK, you're NOT OK" is standard operating procedure, and reasonably a root cause for some of its lack of coordination, efficiency, transparency, and sub-optimal effectiveness. Many business leaders understand the need to find common ground: Health care leaders are prone to think otherwise.
So in coming months, as the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act plays out, and as the industry's value proposition comes under more intense stress due to costs, it is incumbent upon business and community leaders to develop relationships with the health care industry leaders with the expectation that the rule of order should be "I'm OK, You're OK." Otherwise, the health care system will likely become mired in its own dysfunctionality even further.
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Bear-Paw fund-raiser in Strafford slated for November 10
Saturday, November 3, 2012
STRAFFORD — Bear-Paw Regional Greenways would like you to join them for their first annual Growing the Greenways fund-raiser on Saturday, Nov. 10, at the Bow Lake Grange Hall. Be one of the lucky 100 to enjoy an evening of food and wine and bid on one or more of the silent and live auction items. Proceeds will help Bear-Paw continue to Grow the Greenways by conserving local lands and waters. The event, from 7 to 10 p.m., will feature hearty hors d'oeuvres by Randy Brisson of Dining by Design accompanied by complimentary wine, beer, and soft drinks. A professional auctioneer will keep us entertained with a variety of auction games and surprises.


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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Tutorial Tuesday: Easter Wreath
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I LOVE this, and your's came out so CUTE, I just may give this a try! ~tinaReplyDelete
That is so cute! I love the spring colors!ReplyDelete
That is really cute! I was wondering what type of brown paint you used? I have been wanting to have speckled robin eggs and didn't want to pay for the spray paint that does it. :) SO crafty!!!ReplyDelete
That looks great, love it. It's beautiful hanging on your beautiful door :) Thanks for sharing, saw it on Today's Creative Blog. And I'm your follower!ReplyDelete
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I just used acrylic paint and a toothbrush to make the speckles.
That is adorable! And looks easy enough for even me to make :)ReplyDelete
Super cute! I totally love it! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
I love the color in that wreath! So happy! I also like how you filled in the spaces with grass. Great thinking. I am featuring this at somedaycrafts.blogspot.com. tonight!ReplyDelete
So cute! I love it. I have been looking for an easy Easter wreath. I will be showing this off on Random Crafty Georgia Girl.ReplyDelete
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Aww wow your Easter Wreath turn out GREAT!! Love the colors and grass you picked. I did one almost like yours too. xoReplyDelete
Love it! I'm featuring it for my Tutorial Tuesday post today. :)ReplyDelete
Love this! Thanks for sharing. I may have to try this. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
YOur wreath is adorable!ReplyDelete
How cute! I love how you speckled them so the eggs don't look like normal plastic eggs.ReplyDelete
This looks great. It doesn't even look like plastic eggs!ReplyDelete
Great idea! I have a ton of plastic eggs laying around that I can't wait to use to make one of my own!ReplyDelete
I think I will give this a try! :). Thank you!ReplyDelete
This looks so cute! Hard to believe you started out with a piece of cardboard! Great job!ReplyDelete
I TOTALLY wanted to make a wreath JUST like this but when I told my husband about it, he shot the idea down! I was so disappointed that he didn't want me to make one. I'll have to show him yours and see if it changed his mind.ReplyDelete
Thanks for linking it up!
So cute, I made the same one!ReplyDelete
I love that since you used cardboard for a backer it lays flat on the door. Thanks so much for linking up!ReplyDelete
You were featured today on Today's Top 20! Come say hey! :)ReplyDelete
SO cute! I love it. And I can afford it! ;) Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
BTW, you linked up to my pillow case link party, so I moved you down to the regular EBTKS link party. Sorry for the confusion! Thanks for linking!
This is sooo fun! I'm getting more eggs for this tomorrow!ReplyDelete
I blogged about my copy-cat today! Thanks for the inspiration!ReplyDelete
K-A-UTE!!! perfect for Easter. WINKS-JENReplyDelete
Your wreath is really very cute! I love the eggs and the purple grass - so darling!ReplyDelete
I am having an "every crafty blog" linky party and would love for you to come and join!
so cute! I so need to make one for my door! Thanks for linking up to my party, hope you stop by next week.ReplyDelete
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Very cute and very eastery.ReplyDelete
Thanks for linking up!
Thank you so much for posting this wreath as well as with the how too!! I had been trying to think of something to put on my door that wouldn't break the bank!! When I seen your idea I knew I had found what I was looking for. I think yours still ended up cuter then mine but I made one and I love it hanging on my door. I linked the project back to you!!ReplyDelete
Great Minds think alike! Check out my Easy Easter Wreath at http://refunkmyjunk.blogspot.com/search/label/HolidaysReplyDelete
oh my gosh!!! I just did one of these LAST NIGHT!!! haha thats too funny! And i did it exactly the way you show...except i didnt put the ribbon on 1st....thats a great idea, i wish i wouldve saw this yesterday!!! hahaReplyDelete
Wow, super awesome! I found your link on pinterest. So glad I did!ReplyDelete
I'm so glad you posted this. I picked up a bunch of eggs but I haven't made a wreath because I didn't want to spend the money on it. I'll be working on this tomorrow.ReplyDelete
So easy and so cute! Love it!ReplyDelete


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Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 6:30 AM
Size matters - when it comes to the impact of the Affordable Care Act on employers. For the next three days, ideastream health reporter Sarah Jane Tribble will walk us through the differences. She starts the series today by going to a bar.
Paul Siperke is the co-owner of Fat Heads - a popular brew pub in North Olmsted. He has fewer than 50 full-time employees, so he's classified under the Affordable Care Act as a small business.
He doesn't have to provide health insurance to his employees. But that's what he's been doing despite some pretty crazy volatility in rates.
"They just seemed to keep going up every year. One year we got a 38 percent increase, another year we got 11. One year we got 3," Siperke says.
This year, under the Affordable Care Act, he saw another hike - this one for about 20 percent.
"It just seems odd that we get such a drastic price increase when nothing has really changed with us as far as our employees and health issues," he says.
Until now, if employees were healthy and claims were few, premium prices were relatively good. But, for a small business, if even one employee was in a car accident or was diagnosed with cancer, insurance costs could skyrocket the next year.
The industry called this "experience rating." But that is changing, says Steve Millard, president and executive director of the Council of Smaller Enterprises.
"As you go forward, they're moving to this modified community rating, which means that if you're a really healthy company and have a really good rate relative to everybody else today, going forward, you're probably going to pay a lot more for insurance," Millard says. "On the flip side, if you have chronic conditions and difficulties and an older workforce and are paying a lot more, you'll probably see some benefit in healthcare reform.
In this new math world, there are more losers than winners. COSE, the small business group Millard heads, estimates about 20 percent of smaller companies in the region are seeing some sort of price relief this year. The other 80 percent are getting price hikes.
And Northeast Ohio - as it turns out - is a microcosm of what is happening nationally: In February, a federal report commissioned by Congress projected that about two-thirds of small businesses across the country will see their costs rise.
That's a big concern for Kevin Kuhlman,manager for legislative affairs at the National Federation of Independent Business.
"The initial sticker shock that's occurring this year or next year, or the following year when plans finally have to come into ACA compliance, that's what I'm really worried about. I'm worried that small business owners will not be able to continue offering policies because the costs are too high.," Kuhlman says.
Jonathan Gruber, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says this transition may sting at first, but there's a payoff down range.
"But once we're in this system, we're not going to see that year to year variability we've seen traditionally. We're not going to see these huge swings year to year, you know one of your employees get sick and all the sudden your rates double, that goes away now," Gruber says. "The main thing is, we're moving to a system that is going to be much more stable and we're not going to have as many year-to-year swings as we used to."
Once we're through this transition, Gruber says, insurance prices won't rise as dramatically as they have in the past.
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English pine antiques from the mid-1800s were the inspiration for this table with a planked top, chamfered legs and low stretcher. The sturdy design is ideal for lively gatherings, and two leaves drop in at either end to expand its length.
- 86" long x 40" wide x 30" high (unextended); seats up to 8
- 118" long x 40" wide x 30" high (extended); seats up to 10
- Frame and legs made from kiln-dried pine.
- Features two extension leaves.
- Finished in Vintage Honey.
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- Top made from solid pine and MDF with spruce veneer; frame, apron, stretcher and legs made from solid pine.
- Adjustable levelers add stability to uneven floors.
- Overall (without leaves): 86" long x 40" wide x 30" high
- Overall (with leaves): 118" long x 40" wide x 30" high
- Top: 2" thick
- Apron: 3.75" high
- Clearance Below Apron: 24.25"
- Leaf (2): 16" long x 40" wide x 2" thick
- Overhang Of Top: 4.5" (at sides); 9.75 (at ends, unextended); 25.75" (at ends, extended)
- Middle Stretcher: 59" long x 3.25" wide x 2.75" high
- Side Stretchers: 22.5" long x 3.25" wide x 2.75" high
- Clearance Below Stretcher: 4"
- Legs: 4.75" square
- Distance Between Legs: 57.75" at sides; 22.5" at head
- Maximum Weight Capacity (top): 575 pounds
- Weight: 211 pounds
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Stephanie, over at Sweet Boutique, blogged about her experience with being booed last week, and that's where the idea of an online version began. In her post, she shared an adorable sample flyer and boo sign, so if you'd like to start up the tradition in your neighborhood, visit Stephanie to use the documents she has made.
When I saw her post, we started chatting about how we could create a version to play with fellow bloggers, and this is what we've come up with.
Instead of getting a treat bag on your front porch, you get a fun button in your inbox. Then, to show everyone that you've been booed, you will put the button on your blog, and you get to forward the email to two of your blogging friends. The button links back to either Stephanie's or my blog AND the person who booed you as well so others can find out what the game is all about.
If so, we hope you've put your button on your blog. Please join our Linky party below to let us know that you've been booed and so we can visit your blog. If you decide to start following us, which is totally optional to play, let us know, so we can start following your blog too. You are also invited to visit all the other blogs that have been booed too. We hope that by Halloween, we'll see lots of booed bloggers out there, meeting each other, possibly making new friends, and getting into the fun spirit of the game!
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Six days of Christmas: Rochester man explains mischievous snooping for presents
Friday, December 21, 2012
Editor's note: This is the third day of stories in Foster's Daily Democrat's annual Six Days of Christmas series. This year we asked readers to share with us their funniest kids' Christmas story.
Sawyer explained when his mom, Joanne, would leave the house, she would lock the bathroom door, but he knew exactly how to trip the lock on the outside window and secretly enter the room of wonder.
Sawyer said, on a few occasions, he sneaked in to play with his cherished wish list item, supposed to remain a surprise, a starter electric guitar.
"My technique proved useful on more than a few occasions, but like any mischievous kid, I got (confident)," he joked. "I let down my guard. I failed to focus on the details. And in any crime, the devil is in the details."
Noting California has a very different winter season compared to New Hampshire, Sawyer said at this time of year, the ground turns to mud, and he didn't think of how that would corrupt his perfect plan.
One day, when his mother left to do a little more Christmas shopping, Sawyer sneaked outside, hopped up onto the window, unlocked it, and slipped down into the bathroom, stepping on the toilet carefully. After some time of playing with the prized guitar, he swiftly escaped back out the window, stepping onto porcelain before hoisting himself up with some assistance from the room's pristine white walls.
"Upon returning home …, my mother quickly dragged the bags to the master bedroom … while I peered out my bedroom door, trying to catch a glimpse of (her) bags, forming hypotheses about the contents," Sawyer said. "All clear as far as I was concerned, until a blood curdling scream, 'Gregory Erwin Sawyer! You get in here right now!'"
"Secretly, I'd be thinking, 'That's pretty impressive,'" he said.


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