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There�s a corpse in the cake and everyone�s a murder suspect. Fancy bites Sheridan�s head off. Ethan vows that he will continue to go after Jared. Miguel has a plan to outsmart Fox.
Luis is trying to comfort Fancy by saying that he loves her and will always be there for her. Fancy sees a shadow and Luis rushes out to see who it is. It�s Sheridan. They give each other awkward looks. She says that she�s there to see fancy. Luis says that she can use all the comforting she can get right now. They return to the room and Luis informs her that he was just about to take Fancy home. As Sheridan watches Luis comfort fancy, she begins to dig her nails into the back of her hand. They take Fancy home to bed and Luis leaves them alone. Sheridan takes her niece�s hand and offers to get her whatever she needs. �What I need is for you to get away you b@#*!� Fancy exclaims to a shocked Sheridan. She heard everything that Sheridan said to her when she thought that she was unconscious. �What kind of sick and twisted person does something like that?� Taking advantage of her when she is sick and weak with subliminal suggestions that she break up with Luis; she�s worse than Alistair.
At the wedding reception, Sam offers to go get his chainsaw since Chad us having so much trouble cutting the cake. Chad thinks that there�s something in there and reaches in only to pull out a dead body. Whitney can�t believe that there�s dead body in her wedding cake. Kay starts to wonder if the wedding death that Tabitha predicated in her bowl was for Whitney�s wedding and not hers. Noah imagines that this will put a damper on the wedding as he admiringly watches Paloma go off to help Chief Bennett. Eve examines the body and announces that it�s been �long dead.� Everyone starts asking Sam who it is, but he doesn�t know. He thanks Paloma for trying to help him and Noah gets excited that she�s almost a cop. The reporter starts taking photos and Sam grabs away his camera and has him thrown out. He sends everyone to the foyer for questioning. Eve can�t figure out what killed the woman because there�s too much icing on her. She and Sam make a few jokes before he rolls her over and they�re shocked to find that it�s... �The media will have a field day with this,� he says.
Rebecca tells Gwen she should be glad there was a cadaver cake to distract everyone. Now they just need to figure out who has the flashdrive. Rebecca starts to think that the flashdrive could have been hidden in JT�s bra. Maybe he�s dead by now...everybody wanted to kill him. Even Chad.
Theresa tries to comfort Whitney by telling her that whoever is in the cake might not have been very innocent. Chad asks Jared if he�s okay and he admits to being spooked. �Me too, more than you know,� Chad says before repeating that he�ll do anything he has to in order to make sure that his secret is safe.
Ethan has gone out to badger his investigator to track JT down. He goes back in and tells Theresa that he has an investigator trailing Jared. �You�re too late,� she tells him, but he doesn�t understand.
Kay is worried that her wedding doesn�t bode well. Simone tells her that she doubts these two thing are connected. Noah tells Miguel that Fox seems like a decent guy and isn�t as deceitful as most of the Cranes. Jokingly, Noah suggests that Miguel play �catburglar� and break into Eve�s office to look at Fox�s medical records. Miguel takes this suggestion seriously. He uses the distraction to steal Eve�s keys from her purse and tells Kay that he will find the proof that Fox is lying. Kay starts to wonder if Miguel might be onto something and Simone says that it sounds like she really wants Miguel to find evidence against Fox. Simone tells her she to be careful or she�ll have Fox and Miguel knifing each other at the altar. Meanwhile, Miguel has already gone into Eve�s office to begin searching. When he finds the file, someone is seen lurking outside the door.
Sam comes out to announce that they�ve identified the body and everyone starts to file back in. Sam unveils the body and announces that it�s JT. Rebecca falls on him and begins feeling up his off the rack clothes for the flashdrigve while she rambles about their love. Luis tries pulling her off while Ethan is disappointed that he�ll never get the information he needs. Everyone else seems happy. When they pry Rebecca off the corpse, the bra comes with her and there�s nothing there. She starts licking the cake off while Sam asks who might have killed him. Ethan comes forward to accuse Jared. Gwen and Theresa tell him to stop and Sam says that he should wait for some evidence before he makes accusations. Ethan tells Theresa again that she�s making a mistake and she reminds him that she can�t be with the man she wants. Jared wonders if this incident has destroyed the mood too much for a wedding proposal but Whitney encourages him to go ahead. He walks off thinking that this actually might be the best opportunity, �especially now.� Chad and Whitney seem happy anyway and he goes off to get their room ready. In the kitchen, his lover calls him and he tells them that he�ll figure out a way for them to be together on New Years. He turns to see Whitney standing in the door. �So I was right?� She slaps him across the face.
Rebecca plays up her grief some more and wipes herself on Sam�s chest before walking out. Sam tells Luis that, if he can solve this case, he�ll be a detective again. Luis� mind is elsewhere right now. He wonders how Fancy and Sheridan are doing.
Outside, Gwen is trying to convince Ethan to go but he wants to stay and look for dirt on Jared. Gwen reminds him that JT was blackmailing lots of people, but he trudges off to look for evidence again. Meanwhile, Theresa discovers Jared in a room full of candles. He wants things to be special and he keeps getting interrupted. On his knees, he holds up a ring and tells her that he wants to spend the rest fo his life with her.
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HUNTINGTON -- Mary Wallace's workspace is one-quarter office, three-quarters Toys R Us.
Stuffed in beside the mandatory computer, with a space carved out for a desk chair, Wallace has mounds of baby dolls, stacks of playing cards and board games and bubbles a-plenty.
At first glance, it might appear the 23-year-old is just a big kid who never grew up, especially since one of her buddies is 2-year-old Dylan Kiser.
"The day before yesterday, Dylan threw a fit because I walked outside," said his mom, Mary Kiser. "By the time I came back, he and Mary were looking out the window together, laughing and having a good time."
Wallace and Dylan share a special bond because Dylan is battling acute lymphoblastic leukemia and Wallace is the child life specialist, a newly staffed, one-of-a-kind position, at Hoops Family Children's Hospital at Cabell Huntington Hospital. As a child life specialist certified by the Child Life Council, Wallace works in the care of children in the hospital and their families. Through her work, children experience therapeutic play and learn coping and adaptation skills during medical procedures and hospitalization.
"I wear many different hats, and a lot of what I do requires me to think like a kid," said Wallace, whose education came in the form of a child and family development degree from Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Ga., followed by an internship at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She worked at Children's Hospital at Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah, Ga., before coming in Huntington in October.
"Hospitals and doctors and nurses are scary for them. It's a hard place for a child to be, so I try to help them cope with everything around them and understand what's going on."
As an extension of the medical team, Wallace, originally from Madison, Ga., works closely with the nurses and physicians to understand each child's medical challenges and upcoming procedures, and crafts therapeutic play to help them understand what's happening or, sometimes, serve as a distraction.
"I do a lot of medical play with real medical equipment and a lot of role playing, where the child gets to be the doctor," Wallace said. "That's how kids learn -- through play."
Wallace's arsenal is an impressive one. She has all the typical toys children might have at home, authentic medical equipment such as stethoscopes and syringes, an iPad with educational apps such as the sounds made by a CT scan or MRI machine, and, of course, Radical Randy.
"Radical Randy is one of my Legacy dolls, and he helps kids with asthma understand what's going on in their body," Wallace said. Radical Randy features a rib cage that opens to reveal lungs, healthy and inflamed airways and inflatable bronchioles. He's kin to a second Legacy doll that features a real port and PICC line.
"We can role play with these and talk about what's going to happen. It's a concrete way to help them understand even though it's fun and play," said Wallace, who works with children from birth to 18. "It helps parents, too. It becomes an educational environment for the entire family."
Kiser is one of those parents.
"When something like this happens, your child is terrified. You're terrified. Mary has not only helped him, but she's helped me, she's helped my other boys," said Kiser, mom to two other boys, ages 9 and 14. "She's good at helping you figure out what to say, games to play, ways to help him eat, keeping connected with the other kids. It's comforting."
Prior to any medical procedure, Wallace works with the child and family to make things "less scary," and often is on-hand during a procedure, such as removing an IV line, to soothe the child and keep them distracted. Her average visit with a child is, well, not average, she said.
"There's no average time because there's no average child," Wallace said. "Sometimes it's 20 minutes, sometimes it's all day."
Recently, Wallace said she had one patient who refused to sleep in her hospital bed at night.
"That's where they were doing procedures and poking and prodding, so I told her mom, 'Let's make her bed a positive place,' and we played some games, and it became a fun place," she said. "It was the first night she stayed in her bed all night."
Another child, afraid of a basic syringe, was treated to an afternoon of syringe painting. Wallace loaded syringes with paint, turning standard medical equipment into something less scary.
"I see what the medical plan is and translate it to kid language," she said.
Pediatric hospitalist Dr. Samantha Cook said Wallace makes the jobs of the hospital's physicians and nurses "better and easier."
"She makes a really terrible time for these kids less terrible," Cook said. "They're not as scared or upset or bored. She has such a positive impact on the kids and this great enthusiasm to expand to the NICU and the nursery. We're just in the beginning. It's only going to get better from here."
Besides the obvious passion Wallace carries for her job and her patients, there's a tinge of ulterior motive in what she does.
"I can watch cartoons now and call it research," she said, with a laugh.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting beginning to a unique character,
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This review is from: Enemy Ace Archives Vol. 1 (Hardcover)
This volume, along with "The Sgt. Rock Archives", reprints excellent work by the team of Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert. What is particularly astounding about both volumes is that each contain a level of maturity and depth not found in the DC Comics super-hero line at that time (which is not to say those stories are without value). While it is not quite as sophisticated as the stories being told in comics today, both Rock and Enemy Ace tell riveting and complex stories in the war milleu. Enemy Ace is particularly daring, telling the story of a WWI German pilot, and bringing a great sense of moral ambiguity to the procedings.
The key attraction of the Enemy Ace is the depth of Hans von Hammer. He's a skilled fighter and killer, without equal, and so, he is a loner. But above all else, he is a man of duty: to his fatherland, to his men, and to himself. His trophies mean nothing, the opinions of his commrades in arms mean nothing. Only his duty. It's this sense of duty that allows us to sympathize with this otherwise enigmatic soldier, whose only friend is a wolf in the Black Forest.
There are many touches which help bring the character to life. The almost chivalric code that pilots live by, with the loser falling to his death while saluting the victor, for example, bring the war into focus. As does the violence. Now, this isn't "Saving Private Ryan" of course, but Kubert and Kanigher do make it plain that the life of a pilot is nasty, brutish, and short, even for a good one. Hammer live under a very real threat of death everytime he takes to the skies. And Hammer knows this, making him that much more human.
What is particularly interesting about this volume is there is a certain level of repetition. Kanigher was clearly taking his time and finding his way in developing his character, trying to make him work. Thus, we often read variations of the same dialog and themes for much of the volume. Towards the end, Kanigher seems to have gotten hold of the character, as there is a great deal of confidence, and the repetition deminishes. I note this not as a complaint, but with intrigue.
Hopefully, DC will continue publishing volumes of Enemy Ace. While I love the "Big Gun" character, some lesser characters, like the Enemy Ace, offer great storytelling as well, if not better in some cases. This volume is a testiment to that fact.
4.0 out of 5 stars The first of its kind.,
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This review is from: Enemy Ace Archives Vol. 1 (Hardcover)
Enemy Ace was the first character of its kind in comics. Telling the story of a war from the point of view of the foe. However that statment is kind of overplayed as usually the German Hans von Hammer was fighting the French or British. In this volume you will not see him against any American.
The idea of one who's main focus is duty is a powerful one. Von Hammer is a character that can't one can't help but respect. the stories are fine and the art is first rate.
We see only the first glimpse of what later issues will bring on the agony of survival and the inability to protect the young unready men thrown against the foe.
The origional issues are still cheep enough the you can get them for less than the price of this book, however I still favor the Hardcover which will last a lifetime of reading.
And that's what stories are for.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I loved it but probably won't get another volume,
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I highly recommend buying this volume if you love comics and originality. Alot was put into it and yet, after reading the whole volume one realizes that probably there were or should have been limits to chivalry. Sometimes a bit silly. Still the character is extremely compelling and the art work/research that went into it, I did not regret my purchase at all.
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RICHARDSON - Texas A&M-Kingsville juniors Taylor Taska and Dallas Ponder took home two of the bigger awards Wednesday when the Lone Star Conference named its all-conference teams.
Taska was named the LSC's co-Player of the Year with Angelo State's Lee Neumann, while Ponder was named the Pitcher of the Year.
Taska also earned first-team honors as a utility player and honorable-mention selection as a pitcher.
Three other Javelinas were named to the first team — senior catcher Cash Barker, senior relief pitcher Jeremy Flores and senior outfielder Chris Ballou.
King alumnus Travis Schuetze, a senior outfielder from Abilene Christian, was named to the LSC's second team.
Taska is hitting .344 with 42 RBIs and a conference-best seven home runs heading into the LSC tournament this weekend. He also is 7-2 as a pitcher with a 2.19 earned-run average. Ponder is 9-0 with a 2.32 ERA, fifth in the LSC.
Ballou is fourth in the conference with a .382 average with 29 RBIs. Barker is hitting .367, 11th in the LSC, and Flores has an LSC-leading nine saves with a 2.39 ERA and 1-2 record.
Schuetze is hitting .333 for the Wildcats, who open the tournament against the Javelinas Friday afternoon.
A&M-Kingsville senior outfielder Joe Tallerine was a second-team pick.
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KINGSVILLE — In the second edition of the NCAA South Central Region Poll, the Texas A&M-Kingsville baseball team took over the top spot. Formerly No. 2, the Javelinas (35-15) swapped spots with ex-No. 1 Colorado Mesa (37-7).
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Nagy was an automatic qualifier from the Southland Conference after winning the conference championship at No. 1 singles. He is currently ranked No. 97 in the nation, with Nagy set to move up in the new singles rankings that will be released on Thursday.
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Falling Angel is a 1978 horror novel by William Hjortsberg. Written in a hardboiled detective style with supernatural themes, it was adapted into the 1987 film Angel Heart.
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Johnny Favorite, a popular crooner before and during the Second World War, has not been seen or heard of since he was critically wounded during a 1943 Luftwaffe raid on Allied forces in Tunisia. In 1959, private investigator Harry Angel is hired to locate him on behalf of a mysterious client who calls himself Louis Cyphre. During his investigation, Angel finds himself enmeshed in a disturbing occult milieu.
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Nick Mariano "lives and dies" by his iPad. He got his first one five years ago and won't be seen at meetings, in conferences or at the front office without it.
As principal of Toledo School for the Arts (TSA), he dreamed of bringing the technology to students.
Last March, Mariano got his wish. After working with board members and diverting textbook funds, he equipped every student and teacher with an Apple iPad.
The device can be found in the hands of students everywhere in the charter school, from hallways and classrooms to studios where dancers review their choreographed moves.
The iPads initially cut down on paperwork and put information at students' fingertips, but this winter, they did what teachers and Mariano could not have predicted: They allowed students and teachers to stay connected during subzero temperatures and school cancellations caused by the level three snow emergencies.
"With this being one of the harshest winters on record that caused most schools a loss of valuable teaching time, it was the optimal year to bring new technology into the classroom," Mariano said. "Despite the snow, TSA was able to keep the educational process moving forward even though students were not in the building."
During the polar vortex in January, students logged onto the school's website to watch videos and find assignments. They posted homework, held discussions and created videos.
The iPads allowed the school to make up two snow days, and their success with students was evident, Mariano said.
"The sophomore class was given a project and 95 percent of the students completed it online and submitted it on time while home on a snow day," he said.
The TSA board of directors decided to invest $117,000 a year for three years to lease 700 iPads as part of their plan to transition the school away from textbooks to iPads for all of its students, board member Rob Koenig said in an email.
The iPads were paid for by redirecting the school's annual $100,000 textbook budget, Koenig said.
The iPad initiative "revolutionized" the school's curriculum, he said, and readied students for state achievement tests which will soon be administered by computer or iPad only.
"The iPad deployment went extremely well and the new technology positively impacted the learning environment at TSA beginning on the first day of school," Koenig said. "The faculty and students embraced this change quickly and the effect has been more powerful than we could have hoped."
Mariano said the iPads have been so successful that students no longer use the school's computer labs.
On March 17, two computer labs were devoid of students who were instead gazing into their iPads from their classroom desk or carting the device between classes.
Students said the device cuts back on what they have to carry and overall creates an easier learning experience.
"[The iPad] is definitely a great tool and learning experience for me," said senior Tyler Fowler, who was a first-time iPad user. "We have to do [homework] anyway, the iPad made it a little more bearable."
The iPads are being used for simple tasks such as "read the next chapter" as well as more difficult assignments like creating videos, Fowler said. During a snow day, he used it to write a paper after watching a documentary on slavery.
"I really like [the iPad]. It keeps me organized," said sophomore Drew Longmore, who got her first iPad for Christmas a couple of years ago. "I am the biggest paper-loser ever."
Longmore used the iPad to videotape her mother modeling clothes as Longmore voiced-over the names of the clothes in Spanish.
"I'm tech-savvy so I was really happy [to get an iPad]," said junior Roan Martin.
"I love typing rather than writing and all resources are in the same place."
Martin said the school is teaching responsible use of the iPad. Administrators restrict email use and students are not allowed to download any apps.
"For the most part, students are very responsible," Mariano said.
Mariano will be part of a group that will speak May 6 at Bowling Green State University on how to continue lessons during calamity days. The iPads as a learning tool will be a major part of that discussion, he said.
Students at Maumee Valley Country Day School, a private school in South Toledo, also use iPads as part of their curriculum, said teacher Lisa Behnfeldt.
The school purchased the devices two years ago and has put them in the hands of learners as young as 2 ½ years old up to 12th-graders, Behnfeldt said, who teaches first and second grades.
Every student in the middle school has their own device they can take home with them and other students use the iPad during the school day.
"It's been two years so initially it was using the apps more as a tutoring usage — more as support — but now that we've had a couple years under our belt we're using it more as a creative tool. It's finding apps, creating books or creating math solutions," Behnfeldt said.
Faculty had training on different ways to use the iPad in the classroom, she said, and the devices are stored and available within 10 feet of every instructor.
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San Antonio Police Department to honor officer injured in line of duty
Officer Jonathan Esquivel struck by truck while directing traffic
A San Antonio police officer who was struck by a truck while directing traffic will be honored Wednesday morning by Police Chief William McManus and other members of the traffic unit.
Traffic officer Jonathan Esquivel was injured last February while he was diverting traffic at a crash scene on Loop 410 near Callaghan Road.
A police investigation concluded the pickup truck driver was texting.
Esquivel was in a coma for two months. He suffered a shattered pelvis and several broken bones.
Esquivel has been undergoing rehabilitation and hopes to return to work soon.
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Dear Mr Gove,
As a teacher I feel it is my duty to educate you as to what exactly it is that we teachers do all day, since you seem to be absolutely clueless.
As your latest proposal to lengthen school days and shorten school holidays once again reveals, you seem to believe that teachers only work 9am-3pm, then bugger off home without a second thought for children's education.
You are very much mistaken, Mr Gove, so let's take your preferred method of learning – by rote – to instil a hard truth: TEACHERS WORK HARD. TEACHERS WORK HARD. TEACHERS WORK HARD.
Do teachers and students roll into school at 9am? Absolutely not. My day officially starts at 8:15am, with a staff meeting every morning, before students arrive for form time and registration at 8:30am. Does this mean I simply pull into the driveway at 8:14am? No! I have a whole host of tasks to complete before the day commences – setting up the classroom, ensuring I have all of the resources needed for the day's lessons, reading and responding to the endless string of daily emails. And that's all before I've even taught a lesson.
Do I pack my bags and head straight out of the door at 3:00pm? No way! For a start, school doesn't finish until 3:20pm. Then there are revision sessions, after-school clubs, detentions, staff meetings, interventions, phone calls home to make, CPD training, INSET and classroom tidying to do (and don't forget that endless string of emails). Every day of the week, at least one hour after school, but usually more, is taken up with such obligations. It is rare that I leave school before 6pm, and more often than not I don't arrive home until well after 7pm.
All of that, and I haven't even mentioned planning and marking yet. When do you think that gets done? PPA time? Ha! What a joke! I only get three hours of that a week, and it's usually swallowed by meetings, intervention, dealing with student behaviour incidents or supporting other colleagues. No, ALL of my lesson planning and marking takes place in my own time, after 7pm in the evening or at weekends. And of course, I'm expected to teach outstanding lessons, so I can't just pick up something I've used before and churn it out. No, I have to be creative, I must personalise the learning, I must make each task more engaging, more entertaining, more fun, more creative. I must mark in ever increasing depth, leaving more and more constructive comments in books, sticking in assessment sheets, covering work in various target stickers. It's exhausting just to read about it, let alone live it. Goodbye social life. Goodbye, evenings. Goodbye, weekends. Hello work.
Well, what about the holidays? Don't get me wrong, I'm very grateful to have 13 weeks holiday a year. But do you actually realise how much of it is spent doing work? In an average half term, I spend around four full days working – catching up on marking (because, I'm sure you've worked out, it's near impossible to keep on top of it during term time), completing long-term planning, sorting out classroom displays, running revision or catch-up sessions (yes, with actual students! All for free and completely voluntary, because surprise, surprise, I ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT THEM!)
Among colleagues, we often speak of term time as 'entering the tunnel'. We do not expect to see the light at the end – our friends and relatives – during term time. We do not expect to be able to engage in social activities. We do not expect to be able to spend quality time with our loved ones. Teaching is a demanding, challenging, draining, exhausting, all-consuming, self-sacrificing profession that we do because we whole-heartedly invest ourselves into improving the life chances of the students in our charge.
But there is a line that must be drawn. We are only HUMAN. We need rest, recuperation. We need time with our family. We deserve to live – and doing so for a couple of weeks at Christmas, Easter and summer is often the only opportunity we have to do this.
God only knows how colleagues with children manage. I barely manage, and I don't have children of my own.
Which brings me to the heart of the issue: children.
Children – whatever their age, be they six or sixteen, are tired by 3:20pm. Learning is mentally challenging and therefore mentally draining. Have you ever tried teaching a classroom of boisterous 14-year-olds after lunch? It's tough, trust me! Even the top set students will try every trick in their repertoire to deviate the lesson from its planned path by period 5. I can't imagine trying to keep the momentum going for a further hour or more on top of it. Children need freedom. They need rest and recuperation, just like us. They deserve a few daylight hours in which to play outside, socialise, and let's not forget, complete their homework – to learn independently, discover things for themselves.
Because, after all, children are just like us: human.
Are you?
So I say to you, with impassioned tears streaming down my cheeks, at the end of yet another exhausting week, with a day of planning and marking looming ahead: stop bullying us. Stop trying to paint us all as work-shy, lazy good-for-nothings. Stop trying to insinuate that we are all incompetent. Stop attacking the teaching profession.
Please, just stop.
Give teachers and students the respect and reward they deserve.
© The Uphill Struggle, 2013.
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Last year as a new student, I was introduced to doing charcoal drawings in, for example, 60
seconds, five minutes or ten minutes. We
did longer ones as well, but the emphasis early on was capturing the gesture of
the human form, in one or a few straight lines. We moved to mass drawing as the
year progressed, but generally in
quick figure drawings.
Well, imagine my shock when Darren did a demonstration of
what we would be doing in his cast class (copying three-dimensional forms of
human features such as the nose, an eye, and a mouth in two dimensions).
Darren very slowly, and with a very soft touch, established
the approximate height and width of the nose. He then began to establish
the form, finding it with straight lines, which became rounded only after he
had achieved the shape he was looking for in straight lines. Then he began to
put in the shadows. The drawing you see here is not the shadows as he put them
in the first or second day, but the third. He began the shadows very lightly,
using the time to continue to look and and correct the drawing, including
shadow shapes. You might look at
this drawing and think it was close to being done. The form shadows are there,
the cast shadows are there, and the shapes look pretty darn good. But the
reality is that we are going to be spending in the range of twenty ( yes, twenty!) weeks doing a single
drawing of a single feature!
At first, I
have to admit to being a bit overwhelmed by the thought of it. But after the
first three sessions of class we have had, I think I am a convert to Darren's method of
teaching. Although I have been working on my drawing of an eye for six or so hours, I am still
correcting very basic things, such as the height of the cast itself. The eye
was too wide, and that needed to be corrected. There were (and are) lots of
additional corrections to be made as I work my way through it. I will provide
it in whatever state it is in the next blog or two, but the thing I am sure
of is that it will not be correct by that time. The angles will not be
precisely right, nor the values, which will be put in very slowly. It will take the time that Darren has set out to really get the
job done right—not just good—but as close to perfect as each of us can reach
in the time allowed.
But rest
assured, Darren does not recommend doing every cast drawing this way. It is a
teaching technique. It is not an every time thing. (I checked with him to be sure!) In my view this is just another way of teaching us to see
and achieve the proper angles, no matter how small they may be, and to see and
obtain fine distinctions in value.
Both will be critical to us as we draw and paint.
But who would have thought
this was one of the ways we would learn it, especially after the fast paced
drawing we started with!
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2007-08: Played in 31 games ... ranked third on the team in goals (nine) and tied for fifth in points (17) ... also had eight assists ... scored his first collegiate goal against Niagara (10/13) in the season-opener ... recorded his first collegiate game-winning goal in the 4-2 win over Sacred Heart (1/26) ... had one goal and one assist for two points against Mercyhurst (10/26) and Bentley (1/12) ... scored one goal each against Canisius (11/9), UConn (11/30), RIT (1/5), AIC (1/15) and RIT (3/7) ... had two assists versus Canisius (11/10). Before Holy Cross: Played one season for the Bridgewater Bandits of the Eastern Junior Hockey League (EJHL) for head coach Mike Doneghey ... earned a spot on the 2006 EJHL Select Team ... named the player of the game in the 2006 EJHL all-star game ... led the team in the 2006-07 season in goals (30) and points (58), while he was second in assists (28) ... led the team with six game-winning goals ... two-year member of the varsity hockey team at Shattuck St. Mary's School in Faribault, Minn., for head coach Tom Ward ... team won the 2005 National Championship ... also played four years of varsity lacrosse as he earned a spot on the 2006 all-state and all-academic teams as a senior captain. Personal: Son of John and Sarah Brock ... his father played tennis at Georgia State ... has not yet declared a major.


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"So you have decided to seek therapy. I will be interested in learning about your strengths and resiliencies as well as your issues so we can co-design your individual pathway to healing. How do you want your life to be different? What's missing? How have you gotten through past difficulties? Do you ruminate about the past? Worry about your future? Together, we will create strategies and goals to improve your life.
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"I believe that therapy is a journey of discovery into your personal truth. My work focuses on helping you to disentangle yourself from the things that block you on this journey- past trauma, low self-esteem, addictive behaviors, anxiety, depression, and other obstacles. It is time to release old patterns that have dominated your thoughts and emotions, and awaken into a new life of healing and prosperity.
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"I have been in private practice for 20 years and can honestly say that I love what I do. Clients and friends often ask me how I can do this kind of work and isn't it depressing to listen to others problems for a living. My answer continues to be the same, if I know I can help someone feel better it's not depressing at all. I have always felt privileged that others trust me with their difficulties and the resolutions that we come up with together in our work in therapy.
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"Clinical Counselor and Personal & Professional Coach assisting individuals, couples, families to overcome struggles and become co-creative and successful in their lives and ventures. Dealing with crisis, grief, depression, anxiety, or feeling overwhelmed... I assist in overcoming loss, trauma, addiction, and road blocks so you are able perform, be at your best, live a healthy life style, and reach for your peak goals. Offices are in in Barrington, New Bedford, Wareham, and Yarmouth Port.
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Decline and fall
Our Culture, What's Left of It: the mandarins and the masses
Theodore Dalrymple Ivan R Dee, 35
Our Culture, What's Left of It: the mandarins and the masses
Theodore Dalrymple Ivan R Dee, 35
by Geoffrey Wheatcroft Published
Even though he wasn't one himself, George Orwell used to say that the conservative pessimist has more opportuni-ties than others for saying "I told you so", given that most schemes for human betterment do in fact go wrong. Few writers today have been so unflaggingly pessimistic as "Theodore Dalrymple", the pseudonym of Dr Anthony Daniels.
He is a physician who has worked in Africa as well as in this country, where he recently retired after many years as a GP and prison doctor. That gave him an unusual authority, in more than one sense, to comment on the lower depths of English life (a previous book was called Life at the Bottom) and to criticise what he sees as the lamentable consequences of progressive social folly. He has been doing this for years in the Spectator, but most of this latest collection appeared in an American quarterly, City Journal.
If Dalrymple/Daniels can sometimes seem relentless, you have to admit that he has plenty of easy targets. He takes the Fred West case as an epitome of national decay, which may be a little sweeping, as is his accusation that the blame lies with a "psychotherapeutic world-view to which good liberals subscribe", in which "there is no evil, only victimhood". Yet it is true that the police were shockingly negligent: when one of the earlier victims was raped by Fred ("while Rose was upstairs making a cup of tea for them all, a peculiarly English touch to the story") and went to the police, she was persuaded not to press rape charges, because indecent assault would be much easier for everyone. And so, after a small fine, the Wests were able to proceed to serial murder.
What readers in this country may not know is how good a literary and cultural critic Dalrymple is. There are items here about social decay, but he is almost better when, for example, he dissects a piece in the Observer on the pop singer Marilyn Manson. According to the Observer writer, the singer's autobiography "revealed a smart, funny man - even if he did enjoy covering hearing-impaired groupies in raw meat for sexual sport". In his stage act, Manson often echoed Nazi rallies, but he "was making a valid point about rock'n'roll gigs and mass behaviour, as well as flirting with fascist style". Dalrymple has fun with this kind of posturing drivel, from a journalist so squeamishly observant of the canons of political correctness that he cannot write "deaf", but will gloat over a woman's humiliation.
Having written about the terrifying phenomenon of "Diana Week" eight years ago, I cheered Dalrymple's essay on "The Goddess of Domestic Tribulations". The worst thing about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, was not the mass hysteria that followed it, but the way writers ostensibly on the left - even self-styled feminists - tried to make a heroine out of the poor girl. After years of sneering, the left-liberal press suddenly found that she embodied a compassionate alternative to Thatcherite selfishness. "She preached a doctrine of hugs, warmth and confession," wrote one Guardian writer, in apparent seriousness, "a revolutionary doctrine whose enemy was the frigidity of our habitual reserve."
Turning aside from these displeasing subjects, Dalrymple is at his most beguiling when he writes about books. He gets in some liberal-bashing here, too, when he returns to the trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover, which produced a fine display of humbug on behalf of a remarkably bad book (whatever D H Lawrence's gifts as a lyric poet, a man who could write the lines "he saw nothing but the round wet head, the wet back leaning forward in flight, the rounded buttocks twinkling" was entirely without a sense of the ridiculous). There is a deft essay on Shakespeare, in which Dalrymple shows that while he was no sex-hating puritan (in Measure for Measure, Angelo's hatred of carnality and his hope to "extirp it quite" fly against human nature), he none the less saw that complete surrender to instinct is as disastrous as total repression. Another excellent essay, on Turgenev, compares the Russian favourably with his contemporary Karl Marx. Turgenev's intolerably poignant story "Mumu", about a deaf-mute serf forced to kill the dog who is his only friend, displays an authentic humanity that eludes political economists.
Another favourite is Stefan Zweig, whose memorable and haunting stories of old Vienna are sadly now best remembered thanks to the cinema: in Max Ophuls's hands, Letter From an Unknown Woman became one of the great Hollywood weepies. If Zweig is, indeed, "A Neglected Genius", Dalrymple may well help rescue him from neglect.
Having written with elegiac sympathy about Zweig's life and death, Dalrymple wonders if he would have liked the modern world: "The shrillness of our ideological debates, the emotional shallowness, the vulgarity of our culture, would have appalled him," he argues. He might have a point. Dalrymple has acquired a following on the sarcastic right; if anything, it is the thoughtful left that should be reading him.
Geoffrey Wheatcroft's The Strange Death of Tory England is published in paperback by Penguin


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Photography By: Arthur Malczewski
Words By: Arthur Malczewski
Shake & Bake: Rickyy Bobby's Honda Civic EM2
Driving a slammed car daily isn't something that's done easily. It is a sacrifice that one must accept at a particular point in their car's life. It could be when you first buy your car and know that it's going to end up on the ground, or that first time you buy your coilovers, or even the day you just decide you no longer want any functionality left in your car. For Rickyy Bobby it started when he first bought his car, and it's evident when seeing the history of cars he's owned. Driving around with Rickyy I witnessed a radically different geography of the streets of Toronto, where a map was obsolete simply because maps do not describe the condition of the roads ahead. Rickyy, however, has a map in his head of which routes he has to take to navigate his car to his destination, or which roads no longer exist to him simply because his static chassis is millimeters from the ground. With harsh conditions all winter and construction happening nonstop during summer to fix the damaged roads this isn't an easy task.
Rickyy has an obsession with going low, literally doing hours of research to find the coilovers which bring him as low to the ground as possible, and then making suspension modifications beyond the norm such as fabricating custom arms, using bolts that nobody has ever tried on a 7th generation civic and using custom top hats. Another unorthodox modification on this 7th generation Civic is the wheels Rickyy is running; 16×9″ wheels on an unheard size on this chassis: 205/40/16. All these ingredients make up the formula for Rickyy's more-addicting-than-drugs addiction to slamming the car.
The inspiration for this 7th generation build all began with his exquisite taste in style. Knowing him personally I understood why this car was pieced the way it was: A simple clean OEM body with tasteful rare parts such as the DC5 Type R blue Recaros with a matching DC5 Type R steering wheel and shift boot. Although upon first glance spectators don't think much about the chosen combo, simply thinking "wow those seats are rare" but don't see the car for what it really is as a bigger picture. For the handful which know Rickyy he is more than just an automotive enthusiast. Being a huge basketball enthusiast and a collector Rickky has one of the largest collections of Jordans, reaching close to 180 of some of the rarest models. He chose to theme the car after his favourite pair of shoes, the Jordan 1 'Royal' from '01: a simple black outer shell with a deep blue exquisite center. Such a simplistic stylish design, the car followed suit with the simple clean OEM bodylines with simple OEM lip kit, an 8th generation civic Visor and ARC winglets on the front for the flare.
After getting the night hawk pearl paint buffed out last summer with an 18 hour detail, the new wheel setup, and the interior finished off to his taste, the car's overall glow turns heads. If you're ever in Toronto and hear scrapes and see a black glossy 7th generation Civic avoiding manholes and small imperfections to the road surface chances are it is Rickky Bobby taking an obscure route to hit up a ball court to shoot some hoops.
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I have been learning how to make and then working to perfect socks with heels. It has been fun. I am hoping to post pictures soon.
Knit-Off, 2012!
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So, on top of blogging, working, homemaking and couponing (more on that later!), I have compiled a quick list of some gorgeous knitted projects I want to accomplish this year. I decided to pick six, and hopefully I will get them all completed in the first six months. After that, I'll pick another six and see if I can get them done as well. Here's my list!
Two Christmas stockings — one for me and one for Michael. I did one for Naomi in 2010 and I would really like to make one in greens for Michael and one in a pretty multi-colored yarn. This one is pretty high on my list of knits, because I want them done before Christmas.
I have wanted to make this adorable sleep sack forever, so as soon as my stockings are done, this is going on the needles!
A beautiful, mindless knit — a chunky minimal scarf that will definitely keep someone warm and toasty!
A cute and functional knitted scarflet — great for Michael, who likes to sleep with a scarf wrapped around his neck when he feels a flu bug coming on.
I normally am not a big fan of knitted purses, but this one is just too cute, and would be perfect for Naomi. I think I'll add a handle, though.
And, just to blow your mind, here's a project I am totally NOT taking on this year — the knitted baby sling! This sounds like a genius invention but trust me — waaaaaay too complicated for my beginner's knitter brain!
What's on your sticks this year? Got any big projects? Let me know!
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Eric Stonestreet: Modern Family's Moon Man
BY Brandon Voss
February 10 2010 2:40 PM ET
Do you feel a responsibility to represent same-sex parents respectfully?
Of course, but I would feel that with whatever character I was playing because I always want to bring honesty to whatever I do. Jesse and I were both really excited about getting these parts, and when we heard the writers and creators talk about how they wanted the characters to be serviced, we learned that they have the utmost respect for them. We realize that there are people tuning in who are seeing themselves for the first time on TV, and that's exciting.
When you were auditioning for Cameron, did anyone discourage you from taking the part or advise you to think twice before playing a flamboyant gay guy?
No, but I heard that there were other actors who didn't want to do the part because of that. Good parts on a good show are so hard to find, so someone would be stupid and crazy to care if the character was gay. It's a dream role. I wanted this part so bad, but they weren't seeing my type of actor — a big guy — so I really had to fight just to get in the room.
Colin Firth recently spoke about how he feels that his playing gay in A Single Man hasn't helped the gay actors in Hollywood who have difficulty landing both straight and gay roles, adding, "I think it needs to be addressed and I feel complicit in the problem." Do you feel complicit in that problem?
I read that, and that's interesting, but there's a tried-and-true process of how actors get cast in Hollywood that's been going on for years and years. When a project becomes available, casting directors — and a lot of casting directors are gay — bring in all kinds of actors and pick the person they think is best for the part. Sexual orientation shouldn't have anything to do with it. I have the opportunity to help the gay movement in another way because I'm a straight guy who's willing to put himself out there and be this gay character without any apologies. I can lead by example and say that this character deserves to be played honestly on TV, and it doesn't matter if it's by a gay actor or a straight actor. Saying that only gay actors should play gay parts doesn't move the gay movement forward. There's certainly no shortage of gay actors in Los Angeles. Maybe there aren't that many gay parts for gay actors to play, but Neil Patrick Harris is playing a straight guy on How I Met Your Mother, Jonathan Slavin is playing a straight part on Better Off Ted … This town has a process of how actors get parts, and that's just the way it goes.
Have you learned anything about gay people by playing Cameron?
Well, I've been surrounded by gay people my whole life — I grew up with a gay cousin, I went to Kansas State University and knew a lot of gay people in the theater department — so it's not like I'm all of a sudden immersed in the gay community for the first time. But in this particular case, what I'm learning is being learned off-set with the great feedback I'm getting. I'm seeing how prideful and appreciative the gay community has been of the fact that we're playing these characters honestly and without sensationalizing them. Cameron's a dramatic, passionate person, but there's a truth to the character. I look to myself for the character because I'm a dramatic, passionate person too, and that has nothing to do with my sexuality.
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DURHAM, N.H. – Kaylee Kilpatrick (Saint John, New Brunswick) and Cari Reed (Owsego, N.Y.) scored 16 points apiece to lead the University of New Hampshire women's basketball team to Tuesday night's 61-54 America East victory against the University of Maine at Lundholm Gym.
UNH won its sixth consecutive game vs. Maine and second straight overall to improve to 8-12, 3-5 in America East and 5-3 at home. The Black Bears, who remain winless on the road (11 games), are now 2-19, 1-7.
Kilpatrick, selected UNH's America East Player of the Game, made 6 of 11 field goal attempts and 4 of 5 free throws, including two with 14 seconds remaining to give the Wildcats a 61-52 lead, for 16 points. She also tallied four rebounds, three assists, two steals and a career-high four blocks.
Reed made a pair of 3-pointers to increase her career total to 161 and went 6-for-7 from the foul line, including two with 40 seconds to play that gave UNH a 59-50 advantage, to match her career high of six free throws.
Morgan Frame (Waterville, Maine) pulled down a game-high 12 rebounds and equaled her personal best of four assists for the third consecutive game.
Corinne Wellington, the Black Bears' Player of the Game, recorded team highs in points (14) and rebounds (seven). Liz Wood netted 12 points while Ashleigh Roberts had 10 points and seven rebounds, and Courtney Anderson scored 10 points.
The Wildcats quickly jumped out to a 5-0 lead on Reed's 3-pointer from the left corner and an Elizabeth Belanger (Acton, Mass.; eight points, five rebounds) jumper. UNH extended the advantage to double-digits, 14-4, at 12:59 on a short jumper in the paint by Kilpatrick. Reed hit another jumper and 3-pointer during that spurt.
The Black Bears trailed 20-10 at 9:16 but clawed within four points, 22-18, wth an 8-2 run in which Anderson and Wellington both hit a pair of baskets. The teams exchanged scores the rest of the half and New Hampshire took a 31-24 lead into halftime following an offensive rebound and layup by Kendall Martenet (Waukesha, Wis.) with 15 seconds on the clock.
The 'Cats reestablished a double-digit lead of 37-27 at 16:31 when Reed hit two free throws. Danielle Walczak's short jumper ignited a 10-0 run that leveled the game, 39-39, at 13:01 on a layup by Roberts. Out of the media timeout, Roberts had a chance to give Maine its first lead of the game but did not complete the three-point play with a missed free throw.
UNH slowly pulled away the next seven minutes to build a 50-42 lead at 6:59 and the Black Bears did not get closer than six points the rest of the way – 52-46 at 4:31 and 54-48 at 3:31. Belanger's 3-pointer extended the cushion to nine points with 2:32 remaining.
Maine called time out at 1:16 and Wellington hit a layup eight seconds later to lift the visitors within 57-50. The Black Bears opted not to foul and send the 'Cats to the foul line for a 1-and-1, but eventually fouled Reed when she drove to the basket with 40 seconds to play and she hit both free throws.
Walczak hit a layup with 29 seconds on the clock to make the score 59-52 and Wood immediately fouled Reed, who missed the front end of the 1-and-1. Wood grabbed the defensive rebound, but Anderson's 3-pointer hit off the rim and Kilpatrick snared the ball. She was immediately fouled and hit both foul shots with 14 seconds to play to give UNH a 61-52 lead. Roberts was fouled on a loose ball moments later and went 2-for-2 from the foul line to close the scoring.
UNH recorded a 41-35 rebounding advantage and recorded 15 assists on 23 field goals to mark the team's second highest assist total of the season. The 'Cats also committed a season-low nine turnovers.
Maine shot 41.8% (23-55) from the floor and 42.9% (6-14) from the foul line.
New Hampshire returns to action Feb. 2 (2 p.m.) at Stony Brook University. The Wildcats' next home game is Feb. 6 (7 p.m.) against the University of Vermont.


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Just when it seemed like Netflix was leaving those who purchased an iPhone 5 in the dark, they have finally released an update to their iOS Netflix app to bring about support for the iPhone 5 and iOS 6.
Popular apps have been releasing iPhone 5 and iOS 6 compatibility updates over the last week or so such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Due to the fact that the iPhone 5 has a widescreen (16:9) display , it is important apps release updates to avoid being letterboxed. This is especially the case with multimedia applications like Netflix because the new aspect ratio of the iPhone 5 is so beneficial.
After playing around with the new Netflix update, it truly is amazing how good movies and TV shows look on the iPhone 5's widescreen display. Another nice addition to this new version of Netflix (v2.4) is improved browsing, searching and watching experience. Navigating through Netflix is now more responsive than ever and the difference in speed compared to the previous version is definitely noticeable.
You can download Netflix v2.4 with iPhone 5 and iOS 6 support from the Apple App Store by clicking the direct download link below.
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