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Well, I received my first REJECTION letter today via e-mail. The publishing company is in the UK, but I've reviewed lots of books they have published and really like their style. Apparently they don't like mine! *Sniff* I don't know why I expected anything but a rejection letter; I guess I had hoped the first one I sent something to would think, "Wow! This is awesome! We gotta grab this girl!" HA! :) Yeah, right...still, it's wishful thinking. I sent them my dummy book and manuscript in mid-June, and she e-mailed me back today. Oh well...I guess I'll send it off to someone else soon. At least they didn't make me wait forever to know, and I can send it somewhere else. Or maybe not...maybe I'll wait a while.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Illustration Friday: Canned
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- INDIGENE said...
Lovely illustration! I hate rejection, too! Don't stop trying and use those rejection letters and create art on top of them, that'll teach them! Peace and have a happy weekend!
- Friday, July 25, 2008 11:10:00 PM
- Kelly Pound said...
Love the illustration! Great minds think alike!
- Friday, July 25, 2008 11:33:00 PM
- Eric Barclay said...
Wonderful illustration... the can reminds me of a little mini worm Medusa!
I'm sorry about your rejection letter. You have such a fun illustration style, and your love for children really shows in your artwork. Keep up the great work!
- Friday, July 25, 2008 11:49:00 PM
- Katie said...
That would have come in handy when I was little and would fish, but I'm a grown up now, and won't touch the darn things. Great illustration. The can's face says it all. Hey, don't get discouraged. I've just started my quest and hope to not give up. Are you a SCBWI member? $75 a year for membership. Great tips. Sorry so long.
- Saturday, July 26, 2008 8:39:00 AM
- MayY . C 五月媽媽 said...
cute illo, Tracy.
Sorry about the bad news, but there may be something better coming up, you don't know, life is full of surprises, hang in there, have faith in your talent, time will be the judge.. don't give up!
- Saturday, July 26, 2008 12:06:00 PM
- ValGalArt said...
Hi Tracy! I love this illo, it is creative, full of movement, great colours too!!! I have stacks of rejection letters and I keep adding to the pile. I look at it as a game and I hope you will too. Usually the good things just fall in my lap and they will for you as well. Don't worry my husband says remember the 3 p's, It is not permanent, it's not pervasive and it's not personal (even though it feels like it is) they don't know you, so it is not personal. They might not be publishing right now, the timing could be wrong it could be a myriad of things that have nothing to do with your wonderful style and art! Huge Hugs and send out more stuff.
- Saturday, July 26, 2008 12:37:00 PM
- Lisa M Griffin said...
Hi Tracy-
My daughter picked your name from the "Name the Piggie Vote" so I will be creating an ATC of her for you. Please email me your address so that I can get that out to you.
Thanks for participating! Lisa
- Sunday, July 27, 2008 1:11:00 PM
- mitchowl said...
I just love your style. Your colors are so great too. Good work. Don't let the rejection get you down. That's only one person's opinion.
- Monday, July 28, 2008 1:29:00 AM
- krisztina maros said...
don't worry about rejection (or not too long time) you have beautiful works with so origin style! but i know this feeling so absolutely feel with you... go ahead for tomorrow! :)
- Monday, July 28, 2008 4:49:00 AM
- theartofpuro said...
funny illo,love it
- Monday, July 28, 2008 2:16:00 PM
- Tracy said...
Thank you all for your encouragement! It means a lot to me to read your words :)
- Monday, July 28, 2008 7:12:00 PM
- Roberta said...
Oh I've been there! I like Val's three p'sthough! So true, so true!
XX hugs from Texas XX
- Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:11:00 AM
- Bobo Cat said...
Beautiful style, even the worms are cute, but no thanks, I'm not going to eat them!
Best regards from me and Julia.
- Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:31:00 PM
- Mônica said...
Great idea for this week's theme, Tracy, and really well executed. I really like the expression on the can and of all the little worms. You can feel them wiggling about!
As far as the rejection letter, what everyone says it's true. The same happened to me before, and while it's never easy, it's also not the final world about you or your work. So keep on doing your art, which gets better and better, and keep on trying different opportunities. :-)
- Wednesday, July 30, 2008 8:44:00 PM
- Gina Perry said...
Fantastic! Soooo cute. I really dig this style - I can see you've been experimenting a bit. So sorry about the rejection. I've heard a million stories about how many times certain fabulous people got rejected before finding success - wish I could remember them for you now! Persistence is definitely a big component of success so keep at it!!!!
- Wednesday, August 13, 2008 7:58:00 PM
- Rachel said...
I like that you are using muted color linework here and preserving the same sort of feel that you get from the paint. Good Luck to you!
- Sunday, August 24, 2008 10:28:00 PM
- Chickengirl said...
Let me tell ya Tracy, we've all gotten those rejection letters and you know what, I am so proud of you!! At least you are getting your work out there and now you are truly in the game so to speak. Its only a matter of time when someone says "yes." Keep it up!!!
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The state of Nebraska converges on Kauffman
We've already got a decent sized crowd in the stadium for the Alex Gordon Bobblehead giveaway.
The highway from Nebraska to the K must be filled with Cornhuskers wanting their very own Alex Gordon to take home. Sure it's not the real guy, but they love him up there. They showed it during the Nebraska Caravan last January and we're looking at another packed house tonight.
We're hoping the Nebraskans fill the stadium because that would give us a two-game sellout streak. Last night brought out a ton of people and for more on that let's go around the horn…
Sky Show was a huge success. A sellout crowd, great fireworks and an 85 degree first pitch. The only thing we were missing was the win.
Our team photographer, Chris Vleisides was able to capture some amazing shots last night during the Sky Show. Here's the photos for those of you who weren't able to see it and those of you who want to remember the largest firework show in the history of Kansas City.
Gil Meche throws tonight. Trey Hillman said Gil threw the ball with conviction during his last start and that was part of the key to winning his last start. Gil is the ace of the staff and making his 16th start this season. He's the oldest starter, with Zack Greinke being the only other member of the rotation with more than three years in the Bigs.
Gil posted a season-high 7 1/3 innings last Sunday at Chase Field in Arizona and a season high 10 strikeouts. His recent success (a 3.88 ERA and 44 K's in 44 innings over his last seven starts) has been one example of the rotation's turn around. During the clubs five-game winning streak, the starting pitcher earned the win each game. The resurgent starters allowed an average of 1.7 runs per game from June 9-19.
While in St. Louis, Cards manager Tony LaRussa told Trey he was impressed by the young pitching staff the Royals put on the mound. Hopefully Gil can keep some moment going tonight and bounce back after the loss last night.
Jose Guillen's two-run double last night extended his American League lead in doubles (27) and inched him closer to third in RBI (55)…Other Royals in the A.L.'s top ten: Mark Grudzielanek is 9th in batting average (.307); Guillen is tied for 9th in hits (82) and in 4th in total bases (142) and 2nd in extra base hits (38); Joey Gathright is tied for 8th in stolen bases (17); Mark Teahen is tied for 2nd in triples (4) and David DeJesus is 3rd in batting average with runners in scoring position (.391) …From Manager Trey Hillman's pre-game press conference: Closer Joakim Soria's is good to go tonight after taking yesterday off to recover from recording three saves over the previous three days.
With all the pics, and such a short amount of time til first pitch, we'll hold the Negro League jersey pics for tomorrow's game until tomorrow's post. One change that was reported on this blog earlier this week is that the Giants would be wearing San Francisco Seals uniforms. That is incorrect. The uni's are in and they are Royal Giant uniforms. The Royal Giants that started in Brooklyn, but eventually became barnstormers and played up and down the California coast… kind of fitting for the San Francisco Giants who are celebrating their 50th year by the bay after moving from New York. But more on this tomorrow.
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Forgive my lack of knowledge concerning this matter, but why do many AnCap videos show others mockingly saying, "...then move to Somalia..."? Is there really anarchy in Somalia? I know it's filled with drugs, guns, gangs and so forth, but I'm just curious to get the full context. Can anyone explain?
Jonathan M. F. Catalán:For much of the late 90s and the first half of the first decade of the 21st century, warlords in Somalia were losing power and order was being established. What has undermined these efforts, actually, is foreign pressure to put in place the TNG (Transitional National Government). One of the pieces I read actually correlates an increase in fighting during an early move to back the TNG, and later you see the same correlation with the Ethiopian occupation of Somalia and then the AU occupation. It has been the State which has caused chaos in Somalia, not the other way around.
Michael van Notten said much the same thing, didn't he? IIRC, he argued that the inter-tribal/clan warfare typically broke out when it looked like there was going to be a central government again. At that point, the different clans/tribes would start jockeying for favored positions. If you think about it, these clans/tribes could be considered primitive corporations - and at that point, it's revealed to be just a case of (more violent) special-interest wrangling.
From what I understand, this kind of tribal/clan rivalry has gone on in other areas where such organizations are still rather powerful, such as Libya, Yemen, and Afghanistan.
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This article I read recently may be of interest to you. It claims that:
These figures from the UN World Food Programme show that food aid has increased in recent years, coinciding with a period of fighting between Islamists and forces loyal to the Somali government.
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The cause of the instability is busybodies like this meddling and interfering in the affairs of people that they don't have the first inkling about as if they are the very depths of social and political wisdom.
Clayton -
The focus on clans is heritage from I.M. Lewis' work on the history of Somalia. It has been argued that this is an inadequate methods of analyzing Somalian politics. Warlords aren't the same as the clans, although warlords may belong to particular clans (just like TNG officials belong to clans). But, it has been clan elders who vigorously push for the rule of law through a courts system. Clan dynamics post-independence weren't the same as clan dynamics prior to the colonization. This remains true today. Also, warlords receive a large portion of their income from foreign governments and foreign NGOs. Ethiopia is know to have funded warlords during the mid-2000s; the UN and other NGOs also indirectly fund drug trade ran by warlords.
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Americans are pussies I swear to god
Who exactly are you referring to? I'm American and I'm no pussy.
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The cause of the instability is busybodies like this meddling and interfering in the affairs of people that they don't have the first inkling about as if they are the very depths of social and political wisdom.
Clayton -
Evidently you haven't been around guns much. It's mainly for muscle memory. You're only supposed to point a gun at what you intend to shoot, whether a target down the range or a criminal trying to take your life. Otherwise it needs to either point up or down. I don't like having guns pointed at me, no matter if they are empty or loaded. People forget to dislodge rounds in the chamber all the time, so there is a method to it; plus you have to rely on the credibility of the individual holding the gun, which is not reliable.
As for the "white dumbasses" comment, is that opposed to the black dumbasses in the video who are pointing guns at others?
It'd be nice to have an actual libertarian journalist in Somalia instead of more BBC documentaries talking about how free people can buy guns with their own money if they want.
Now that'd be a "The Point" campaign I'd back up. Just need to find a libertarian journalist.
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in regards to the video, at least they are pretty friendly in somalia.
"Since people are concerned that 'X' will not be provided, 'X' will naturally be provided by those who are concerned by its absence.""The sweetest of minds can harbor the harshest of men."
Here's a short response to a recent Foreign Policy piece by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson on statelessness: Law without the State.
Autolykos:Another purpose is to implicitly argue that anarcho-capitalists are hypocrites - if they prefer living under no government to living under a government, regardless of the standard of living, then they'd logically move to where there's no government. However, this is typically a strawman argument, as most anarcho-capitalists do take the standard of living into account.
So many great points by Autolykos, however I think his second it the strongest.
On a broader note, most everybody, regardless of any political or religious ideology they may subscribe to, agrees on the desired end: achieving the highest standard of living possible on this Earth. It is the means by which we can achieve this goal that is debated. Ergo, it would make sense for anyone, Ancaps included, to want to live in the country he feels has the highest standard of living. Now, standard of living is a VERY subjective valuation, and it varies from person to person (which is why anarchy would be great - you are free to develop the society you see fit to live in). However, there are some measurements routinely used to gauge standard of living that a great majority of people agree are useful when measuring such a thing as standard of living. These include access to healthcare, access to clean drinking water, availability of new technologies, cost of living, and private property rights.
That being said, even these figures are somewhat subjective, and the methods by which they are calculated are also often debated among professionals of varying kinds. The last measurement I mentioned, the strength of private property rights, can also be perceived as either totally bad or totally good depending on who you talk to. A dedicated communist, for instance, will tell you that private property is a totally bad thing, whereas an AnCap will tell you it is a totally good thing. This illustrates an important lesson: anytime you are presented with a ranked list of standard of living, always look at the study's methods of measurement to make sure they conform to your conception of what the measurement should be measuring. If you take these studies at face value, you could be loosing out on very relevant and valuable information.
Ok, so moving on, it is true that AnCaps believe that the existence of a government is one of the largest, if not the largest, contributing factors to the detriment of a people living within the boundaries of a nation's lands and laws. Thus, AnCaps believe that the existence of the state will, on net, be to a country's detriment when measuring standard of living. However, many other factors contribute to standard of living. These include a given society's access to plentiful and varied resources, a society's available food items which directly influence nutrition quality; a factor integral to the relative productivity of one people over another.
Also effecting standard of living would be the general culture of the people living in the society. If the vast majority of a society holds a strict religious ritual that 5 hour naps be taken every day in the middle of the work day, then that economy will probably suffer for it, regardless of whether or not a state exists. If the people of that society value the nap more than the productivity they have lost because of it, then this is not a problem because they are making that choice and accepting the consequences thereof. This again stresses the importance of anarchy over the state.
In a free society, the majority are free to take naps. You, being an industrious entrepreneur, may prefer to work during those 5 hours to get a leg up over your competitors, or you may not. The only thing the state is capable of doing in this situation is creating an opportunity for your competitors to lobby the government to create a law forcing the naps on everybody so that you loose your competitive advantage and they still get their nap. To add insult to injury, you now also have to pay a fee for this little kick in the nuts; this fee is called taxes. Pretty raw deal, huh?
What is most important to understand about this is that in the framework of a state, society is viewed as a singular entity. This necessarily means that the majority rule will likely be THE rule. Conversely, a free society has no boundaries. You are a citizen of Earth, so to speak, and everyone is viewed as their own sovereign individual. This characteristic is the ingredient that makes it possible for you to look down your nose at the nappers and keep working if you damn well please. In a state, you are a mere cog in the machine, and if on the whole that machine feels you are counterproductive to its desired ends (the nap) then you are a defective part and must be "repaired" (punished or regulated), or if you are really contemptuous to the machine, you must be replaced entirely (death). So you see that each individual is there own micro-economy in a sense. What I mean by that is, in the free society, should the majority choose to nap and the economy of that people is adversely effected because of the nap, it does not necessarily follow that the nap must adversely effect you. On the contrary, you can make it to your advantage by doing as I mentioned and working during your competitors' sleepy time. The existence of a state can only mire this wonderful quality.
You may ask, "how can you, on one hand, say the economy of a people is adversely affected by the nap and, on the other, say there are no boundaries and everyone is their own micro-economy? Wouldn't that mean that there really are defined and separate economies?"
To answer your question: yes and no. Yes, because geography defines economies to some degree for you. The resources available to you from the land you live on, to placement of your landmass relative to other landmasses being separated by bodies of water all play a role in this natural separation between economies. However, I answer no to your question in the sense that in a free society, there are theoretically no legally defined barriers between one economy and another.
However, another reality you must face is that while your society may be free, many others may, and probably will, not be, and you are forced to deal with this reality. In this sense though, the differing nation-states' economies we know of today live in a state of anarchy with each other. If the world were stateless, imagine those relationships being reduced to microscopic levels and in the billions instead of the several hundred we see today.
The other idea that must be understood is that we can never escape the peaceful actions of others that may indirectly adversely effect us. You may be able to work those five hours during which everyone else you know is napping, and it is at this point that you must accept the pros as well as the cons of freedom. Just as your competitors cannot prevent you from working, you cannot prevent your suppliers or your customers from napping. This is what I meant when I said that a culture of nappers will probably be detrimental to a given economy. In this case, it is detrimental to your economy, even if you aren't the one sleeping on the job.
However, technology is making many hindrances like these irrelevant. If your society must nap 5 hours every work day, the internet, the telephone, and the computer are all means by which to reach other customers during that time who may be on the other end of the globe. These technologies have also made the problem of geography a thing of the past for many service industries. Even time itself, while still a valuable and scarce resource, has in many senses become an antiquated issue.
So, while the existence of a state is widely regarded among AnCaps to be highly counterproductive to a good standard of living, it is not the only factor. Almost anybody, including most AnCaps, will tell you that the U.S. far surpasses Somalia in the area of standard of living, which is, at the end of the day, the only standard that really matters. It is either out of ignorance of the AnCap philosophy or through sheer disingenuousness and intellectually dishonesty that one would charge that we should move to Somalia if we don't believe in the existence of the state. For one, Somalia is not an anarchy, at least not in the AnCap sense of the word. But even if it was, as of right now, things are better here in the U.S. in spite, and not because of, a government.
What is important is to look to the future. Sure, right now it's better here in the good ol' US of A, but what are the trends? Right now nly matters right now. Past performance is no indicator of future performance. Sound logic, however, never changes. To quote Mises, "the criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.." So, where are we headed: toward the better or the worst? Where is Somalia headed: toward the better or the worst? I leave that question up to you to answer.
"If men are not angels,
then who shall run the state?"
As for the "white dumbasses" comment, is that opposed to the black dumbasses in the video who are pointing guns at others?
When in Rome, buddy. Especially if Rome happens to be Mogadishu. These guys were idiots. If they didn't know how to keep their composure when dealing with unusual circumstances without drawing raucous crowds in a foreign land where they stick out like sore thumbs to begin with, they should never have gone in the first place. That's the same principle of safety on which "always treat a firearm as if it's loaded" is based on.
After watching this video, despite the peacefullness of Somaliland I think Mogadishu is a muh more interesting place.
I'm sure a lot of folks have read this before, but just in case.
It wasn't a gun. It was a rocket launcher without a rocket. In other words it was a tube. They were ducking a piece of tube. And they ran away when children gathered to laugh at the dumasses. They were in no danger whatsover neither from the metal tube pointed at them, nor from the people who gathered.
Thanks, Jonathan and TheFinest, added more resources to the list. Let me know if there is more!
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Wedding photographer Jason Lee began taking pictures of his two daughters when his mom was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2006. The girls, who were very prone to getting sick, were rarely able to visit their grandmother in the hospital.
Lee did not want his mother to miss out on her grandchildren, but also knew that he couldn't let his daughters get their grandmother sick. He decided to utilize his occupation for a more personal project and decided to keep her updated with her grandchildren through photography.
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Q: How do you come up with such creative photos of your daughters? What's your creative process like?
A: Most of the ideas come from the girls, from observing them play, or hearing the funny and outrageous things they say. Their day to day life also plays a big role for my inspiration. Creative process, hmm, thats a tough one. After coming up with an idea, I then 'set up' the scene, and often use artificial lighting to enhance the images. It helps to plan out the shoot before hand, so at most, I only have them in the shoot for a minute or two.
Q: Do you have any advice for aspiring photographers?
A: Don't be afraid to experiment. Take notes. When you have an idea, jot it down somewhere for later. Practice, practice, practice. Start a 365 project, or at least try to shoot something on a consistent basis.
Q: Any quotes you live by?
A: Like in Finding Nemo, Dori advises "just keep swimming, just keep swimming." Replace swimming with taking pictures and I think you have a winning formula.
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Leader Of Loaded Gun March Compares Himself To Gandhi
By Rebecca Leber on May 15, 2013 at 9:00 am
On July 4, Adam Kokesh hopes to lead 1,000 protesters armed with guns into Washington, D.C. to advocate for open carry. In Kokeshs eyes, a crowd armed with guns compares to the nonviolent civil disobedience practiced by Mahatma Gandhi.
Kokesh answered the Washington Post through a series of text messages:
Satyagraha, in Gandhis words, is a way of life based on love and compassion. Gandhi explained that [i]n the application of Satyagraha I have discovered in the earliest stages that pursuit of truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on ones opponent but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy.
Suppose the D.C. police, as they have promised, block the marchers from crossing into Washington? How should they respond?
With Satyagraha, Kokesh, 31, texted The Washington Post. That is a term used by Mahatma Gandhi to describe his strategy of nonviolent resistance to British rule in India. [...]
Did his response of satyagraha mean violence is unacceptable?
Only if absolutely necessary in defense of life or limb, he wrote.
Compare Satyagraha to Kokeshs event description on Facebook. Although Kokesh claims his march will peacefully turn back if confronted with physical resistance, he ominously warns the march will be violent if the government chooses to make it violent. He also proclaims that [w]e will march with rifles loaded & slung across our backs to put the government on notice that we will not be intimidated & cower in submission to tyranny.
Because open carry is illegal in D.C., the police chief has already warned that passing into the District of Columbia with firearms is a violation of the law and well have to treat it as such. Even open carry groups like Gun Owners of America are wary of the march, which is now at over 4,000 Facebook RSVPs.
Kokesh is not alone in trying to link guns to civil rights movements. The argument has at times been taken up by the National Rifle Association and conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh.


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Volunteers construct teen's dream playhouse
Published: Sunday, February 3, 2013 at 8:34 p.m.
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SILVER SPRINGS SHORES — Mikey likes it.
Lake Weir Middle School seventh-grader Michael "Mikey" Ramos, 13, was nearly speechless on Thursday when he arrived home from school to find a roomy playhouse — built by six volunteer construction workers — next to his family's home.
The playhouse was a total surprise to Michael, who has endured multiple major surgeries since infancy for a detached stomach and herniated diaphragm. His most recent operation was in December.
"His first words were, 'I can't believe it.' Then he said, 'I love you so much,' " said Mike Ramos Sr., 45.
Michael hadn't asked for — or even dreamed of — such a playhouse, according to Geri Gerthe of the Purple Doves Team of Florida Kids Helping Kids. That's the group that spearheaded the project, obtained the donations of materials, and arranged for construction.
"Michael only asked if he could have some scrap wood" to build a new playhouse, Gerthe said.
Michael is a volunteer member of the Purple Doves Team of Florida Kids Helping Kids. And now he's a surprised recipient of its good works.
Six volunteer workers from a local construction firm — which prefers to remain anonymous — completed most of the construction during the three hours Michael was away at school Thursday morning. The playhouse was slated to be complete Friday.
When the family pulled into the driveway about 2 p.m. Thursday, Michael hopped out, looked at the side yard and then quickly embraced his dad. Father and son were moved to tears.
"I thought it was a party when I saw all the people here," Michael said.
"It's nice. I'm going to move in a TV and a bed," he said as he carried his smiling niece Izabella, 3, in his arms for a tour of the new digs.
Izabella will enjoy playing in the house as well, according to her mother, Elizabeth Ramos, 23, who is Michael's sister.
Michael's sister Amber, 13, was also on hand for the unveiling.
The Purple Doves Team of Florida Helping Kids is an outgrowth of the Belleview Middle School PTO. It is now a separate, private, registered non-profit outreach group aimed at helping children with serious illnesses.
The group includes about 18 children age 2 to 18 and is always seeking sponsors, according Gerthe, who is the group's founder and president.
"Actually, Michael didn't ask for this playhouse," Gerthe explained. "His family volunteers with the Purple Doves Team of Kids Helping Kids, and he was working about a month ago at the Ocala Drive-In, where we have a donated sales space weekly to distribute clothes to families with children who have serious illnesses.
"We were also making preparations at the drive-in theater for our upcoming Children's Festival to help six local children," Gerthe continued. "He saw some scrap wood and asked if he could have it" to spruce up the playhouse he had made with help from his sister's boyfriend, Mark Leger.
But the old playhouse was in bad shape. Soon, the Purple Doves Team-Kids Helping Kids secretly started gathering donations from individuals and paint from Home Depot. On construction day, Mojo's Grille provided a worksite lunch.
The six volunteer construction workers heard about the situation recently in a coffee shop. Larry Manning, Rusty Falke, Vincent Gillings, Marty Gerita and brothers Rob and Mike Kirby donated their time and expertise to help out.
"It was a blast — a labor of love," Mike Kirby said as he showed Michael how the windows were installed and showed the young man how to install a few screws in the window frame.
Michael's mother, Tonya Ramos, said her son has endured many surgeries but after the December procedure "he gave a full smile for the first time."
Meanwhile, Michael already has some ideas for his playhouse.
"I can get away here," he said with a smile.
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Friday, July 1, 2011
* Smart Summer Challenge: Week One- Me On the Map Linky Party!
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5 comments:
- Callie said...
Oh shoot! I missed the Linky Party (I thought it started Friday morning.) Just wanted to say that we had a great time with our Smart Summer Challenge this week, and I wanted to share my link. :)
- July 1, 2011 at 6:51 AM
This week we did not follow the Me on the Map theme, because we were gearing up for Canada Day and Independence Day (my kids' father is American and I am Canadian and so we generally make a big deal of the patriotic holidays.
We have been reading our Canada and America themed stories including a great Canadian alphabet book. We have been looking at the map of North America and having our young daughter point out which one is Canada and which one is America. We've also been doing some colouring and painting with red, white, and blue, and identifying maple leafs in pictures. It's been a fun week! Thanks for inspiring us to participate
- July 1, 2011 at 12:50 PM
- kewkew said...
We have been learning this week, I just have not followed the calender because I just found out about this. My first link is to a post in my archives. It was exactly a year ago that I posted about our X lesson where we mapped our house. WE will probably do it again when we are up to X again. Which should be sometime this summer.
- July 2, 2011 at 1:01 AM
- kewkew said...
I really hope I am doing the right thing by sharing these old posts. The next one I linked up to was from Jan 2010 when we used the map of our town that we had made and walked to the thrift shop and store.
- July 2, 2011 at 1:09 AM
- Maria said...
My kids had such a great time doing these activities! They were so anxious to see what the next activity would be. They really enjoyed mapping our house and spent two days working on it. Some great learning was happening this week! :)
- July 7, 2011 at 5:31 PM
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Episode 1 - Cazsh Dummy Spillionaires
In the first episode of season three, Dave and Alex start seeing each other again but are determined to keep it casual and date other people
Episode 2 - Sabado Free-Gante
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WHEELING - On paper Thursday's high school soccer match between Wheeling Park and John Marshall's boys looked like a mismatch. While the Monarchs were able to do just enough to keep the talented Patriots (8-1-2) off the board for the first 10 minutes of play, things took an expected turn the remainder of the contest.
Senior Zach Marra recorded a hat trick in a five-minute span of the first half as powerful Wheeling Park found the back of the net a whopping seven times in the opening 40 minutes of play en route to an 8-0 drubbing of John Marshall (1-10) at Wheeling Island Stadium.
"We have had a very demanding schedule, so it is nice to have a game where you can get all of your kids in and look at some things," Park coach Mario Julian said. "The kids are due for a little bit of a break and they will get it in the second half of the season after this weekend."
After numerous trips deep inside the John Marshall end didn't produce any goals the initial 10 minutes of play, Marra took over and started knocking goals in.
Marra's first came at 29:22 on a steal on the Monarchs side of the field and an assist from classmate Eric Bonar. A little more than a minute later Marra picked up a loose ball 5 yards in front of the net and blasted it in for a 2-0 margin.
His third goal during the barrage came on a rebounded shot from deep in the box at the 24:22 mark to make it a quick 3-0 tally.
Along with Marra, Stanley Czahoroski, Zach Vanhorn, Landon Irwin and Bonar all found the net in the first half while Artu Butov scored late in the contest for the final.
"You always know that John Marshall is going to play hard no matter what," Julian added. "They have a good bunch of players and give them an awful lot of credit, they came out and played in the second half and were very competitive.
"It was nice that the younger kids got to get on the field and they did a good job with their composure while they were out there. I think our passing was again at a high level also, and that is something that is a priority for us."
As for John Marshall, coach Jesus Marin, he knew that his kids were going to have an uphill climb, but he was more than happy with the effort.
"It's a numbers game and we are down to 14 players," Marin said. "But we still need to work on some things and the biggest is making more passes. When you play a great team like Wheeling Park you go out and you do what you can. We tried our best, but there really wasn't much more we could do.
"We just need to continue to learn."
The Patriots spent the majority of the second half shuttling in younger players and working on their passing skills while playing keep away from the Monarchs. While Park had 18 shots on the net, John Marshall was not credited with a shot in the contest.


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Here's the bottom line: Both farm bills proposed this week (May 13) by the House and Senate Agriculture committees would cut funding for the hungry and the environment to help boost subsidies for the largest and most successful farm businesses.
Dick and Linda Grotberg began their transition to sustainable farming largely by accident.
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Six former chiefs of USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service today (May 7) urged the leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees to once again require farmers to adopt basic conservation practices in exchange for crop insurance subsidies.
A smart man learns from his mistakes, Terry Ingram likes to say, but a wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
Federally subsidized crop insurance is now the most expensive program supporting farm income, so it's no surprise that it will be at the center of the Senate Agriculture Committee's deliberations on the 2013 farm bill, starting later this month. And as it happens, last year's epic drought, which decimated crops across a wide swath of America, afforded a unique opportunity to assess the effectiveness of a program whose costs have ballooned to $9 billion a year, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
As Congress gets to work again in 2013 on renewing the farm bill, it has the opportunity to do more to support family farmers, protect the environment and encourage healthy diets, while ending wasteful and unnecessary subsidy payments that flow to profitable growers and the crop insurance industry. Here is the farm bill platform EWG announced early in 2013.
Every American should be angry over the false claims being made against a fund designed to help black farmers who were the victims of long-standing discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which were reported last week by The New York Times.
Largely out of the public view, government officials, environmental groups and agricultural interests have been battling over public access to data about the workings of the crowded animal feedlots known as CAFOs, or concentrated animal feeding operations.
We've all heard of pink slime. Now, there's green slime too.
Our report struck at nerve at FDA. The agency issued a statement calling it "misleading" and "alarmist." You can read our full response here. Essentially, the FDA argued that antibiotic-resistance to only one drug is not that big of a deal because there are still some other antibiotics that could treat bacterial infections – for now.
The FDA glossed over the reality that scientists know well: antibiotic-resistance traits can spread like wildfire as genes pass freely from one microbe to another. Microbes that have adapted to defeat antibiotics designed to kill them can share this ability -- and create more superbugs.
Could the Farm Bill be an opportunity to promote better bug killers?
Minnesota Congressman Colin Peterson (D-Minn.) struck a nerve this month when he said that "there is five times as much fraud" in the federal crop insurance program as there is the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program.
For EWG and its legion of supporters, last week was all about food on Capitol Hill.
EWG argues for reform of farm programs to reduce the misuse of antibiotics in livestock production after analysis of recent government tests reveal more and more supermarket meat harbors antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
A March 26 report by the Environmental Protection Agency has found that 55 percent of the nation's stream and river miles are in poor condition, mainly because of industrial agriculture.
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For years the federal government wrongly sent millions in taxpayer-funded farm subsidies to dead farmers – a black eye for subsidy defenders and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Now it seems farmers are paying the dead back for all that bad publicity by bulldozing historic prairie cemeteries.


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Our parched land
Farmers contemplate mowing cornfields, water reservoirs are sinking, and crop prices are skyrocketing as the United States swelters through its worst drought in a half-century
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KOSCIUSKO COUNTY, Ind.-The corn stalks in north central Indiana stand thin and pale, like rows of prison camp inmates. They're short-about chest height, when they should be 7 or 8 feet tall this time of year. Their leaves are curled and limp to the touch, sometimes browned near the tips. They ought to be stiff, sharp, and deep green.
The problem is there's no water here. At least not enough to replenish the sandy gray soil. Though scattered clouds flung raindrops here and there on a mid-July day, they were just teasing.
"We've had little showers come through," said Matt Roberts, who runs a fourth-generation family farm in Syracuse. "It's all been less than an inch." As of midsummer, the largest downpour Roberts had seen since the growing season began was seven-tenths of an inch, in June.
"It dried up the next day. You couldn't even tell it rained."
Rain has been in short supply at many farms this summer. It's steered around entire states as mountains and plains stretching from California to Michigan have experienced severe drought. Prolonged hot weather is shriveling crops, fueling wildfires, and sapping rivers and water reservoirs. Kosciusko County, Ind., is one of nearly 1,300 counties in 29 states that the U.S. Department of Agriculture listed as natural disaster zones this summer-the largest disaster declaration in the agency's 150-year history.
Federal meteorologists say the drought is the most widespread the United States has endured since 1956. As corn and soybeans wilted under the sun, market prices for the two crops spiked, threatening to shoot up food prices in local grocery stores and foreign markets. In the meantime, farming communities in Indiana and elsewhere will have to cope with unforeseen losses.
"I know that the good Lord is going to take care of us," said Roberts, 30, who has been praying for rain at the dinner table with his wife and 3-month-old son. Roberts expects to lose an entire cornfield this year for the first time in his life. He farms about 250 acres apiece of corn and soybeans and has never used artificial irrigation, since rains and thick soil have, in the past, been sufficient to quench his crops.
Now, corn stalks are scraggly and bean plants are knee-high instead of waist-high. It's been so hot here-triple digits some days-there's often no morning dew. In some cases, ears of corn have grown only as thick as a thumb, with tiny kernels. Sections of Roberts' cornfields have no ears at all, because pollen from the corn tassels never fertilized the dehydrated plants.
Roberts said that if decent rains arrive before the end of August, he may get a fair, though drastically reduced, soybean harvest. In mid-July the plants were struggling to put out flowers, which are necessary to produce beans.
It's probably too late to improve corn yields, though. Farmers in Kosciusko County can harvest 150 bushels of corn per acre in a good year, but this fall they may get 60 or less. In the hardest-hit fields, they'll simply have to fire up a tractor and level the corn with a Bush Hog-or sell it as silage, cheap cattle fodder. Otherwise, Roberts said, "You're going to be wasting time and fuel trying to harvest corn that doesn't have any ears on it."
In communities built on agriculture, a bad year for farmers is bad news for everyone. "If they don't make any money this year, they won't spend it next year," said Matt Gilsinger, the store manager at Gilsinger's, a John Deere dealership in Plymouth. He expects the biggest impact on farm equipment sales to come in 2013, as farmers recoup losses. Meanwhile, Gilsinger isn't selling many lawnmowers: "Personally, I haven't mowed my backyard in nine weeks. The grass is just dead."
Many know that the ultimate solution to the drought is divine relief. Southwest of Syracuse in Burket, a farming town with just 106 Post Office addresses, about 60 people met at Burket United Methodist Church on the last Thursday evening in June. The pastor, Gary Loy, had invited two area churches to join his congregation in a special drought prayer service.
Attendees sang hymns and individually knelt near the front of the church to ask God for rain. Loy had brought a green-and-white umbrella, and held it up in front of his congregants, many of whom raised umbrellas of their own. "To me that's a symbol of faith," Loy told me later. "You have to believe. You have to have expectations."
Within an hour of the prayer rally's conclusion, sprinkles fell on Burket. The next day, a downpour arrived: Loy "worshiped and rejoiced" on his screened porch as he watched a powerful storm front sweep through Kosciusko County. He didn't mind that it knocked out his power: "The rain created an encouragement that God is in control."
But after cutting off lights and releasing a half inch of rain on the brown lawns of nearby Warsaw, dark clouds, lightning, and strong winds rolled eastward. The storm front, a rare weather event called a "super derecho," sped with hurricane-force winds from northern Indiana to the District of Columbia in 10 hours, uprooting trees and blowing down semis with 90 mph gusts. The storm left at least 26 people dead and millions without electricity.
The derecho wasn't enough to halt the deepening drought, though, and neither were other sporadic showers that flitted across the Midwest during the first half of summer. By the beginning of July more than half the continental United States was in a moderate to extreme drought, according to the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. On July 22 the USDA said only a quarter of U.S. corn and a third of soybeans were in "good" or better condition.
Sporadic rains also aren't enough to replenish shrinking rivers in Nebraska, a top corn and soybean state where half of cropland relies on artificial irrigation from wells and waterways. By mid-July the state's Department of Natural Resources had ordered 1,106 farmers to stop irrigating their crops because the rivers they drew from are dwindling in volume. State officials in Kansas gave out similar orders regarding 10 streams there. Some farmers, anticipating the restrictions, gave their crops an extra dousing before the orders arrived.
In several Midwest states, soaring temperatures turned a seemingly benign source into a Zippo: Farmers blamed barn fires in Iowa and Missouri on hay bales that had ignited by spontaneous combustion, a phenomenon that can occur when moist hay becomes overheated.
Concern about wildfires motivated all but three counties in Indiana to ban open burning this year, and the commissioners of Johnson County barred anyone from bringing cigarettes to the county fair. Many Indiana counties also prohibited residents from lighting Fourth of July fireworks. Although Indianapolis officials put on a firework display during a week of triple-digit temperatures, residents caught lighting personal fireworks faced fines of up to $2,500.
Indianapolis mayor Greg Ballard declared an additional ban on watering lawns, hand washing vehicles, and filling swimming pools while the drought persisted. Morse Reservoir, a major source of the city's water, was 6 feet below normal by midsummer and dropping 1 foot every five days. As the water disappeared and the lake bottom emerged, pontoon boats near the shore became stranded on dried, cracked mud. With just one-tenth of an inch of rain between June 1 and July 16, Indianapolis endured its driest stretch in 104 years.
As the drought progressed, government predictions of the fall corn harvest fell sharply from what was supposed to be a bumper year. Farmers had planted more corn this year than anytime since 1937: a total of 96 million acres. With corn futures selling at a handsome $6 or more per bushel last year on the Chicago Board of Trade, farmers sowed more than usual in hopes of meeting demand and cashing in.
Instead, their corn drooped and prices spiked. As the USDA slashed its forecast for the year's per-acre corn harvest, corn prices shot up nearly 50 percent in six weeks, reaching $8.25 per bushel on July 20, an all-time high. Soybeans set their own record of $17.58 per bushel the same day.
The record prices will help smooth out losses for some farmers: If they lose only a portion of their crops to the drought, they'll be able to sell the rest at the higher price. And most, like Roberts, have taxpayer-subsidized insurance to cover crop loss. The USDA also made low-interest emergency loans available to farmers and ranchers living in the driest areas.
This year, one farmer's dry spell will be another farmer's windfall: In Minnesota, where the effects of the drought are less severe, corn is faring better than in any other state. Farmers there stand to make good profits when they bring their crops to market.
But high corn prices have a trickle-down effect on other industries and food products. Field corn, besides being an ingredient in three-quarters of supermarket products in forms like corn syrup, is also a major feed source for cattle, hogs, and chickens.
As they watch the cost of feed rise, farmers are selling off livestock in order to collect profits while they can. Pork producers in Indiana have flooded the market with so many pigs that, in some cases, processing centers are backed up.
Corinne Alexander, an agricultural economist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., said that livestock sell-offs will translate to cheaper meat in the supermarket in the short-term-but in three to six months the prices of pork, beef, chicken, eggs, and milk will edge upward as livestock owners adjust to higher priced feed.
Products made from soybeans, like vegetable oil, margarine, salad dressing, and even doughnuts (fried in the oil) are likely to increase slightly in cost by the end of the year and into 2013. That follows a year of above-average food inflation in 2011, when grocery store prices ticked up nearly 5 percent.
With the 2012 harvest not yet gathered and counted, it's too early to tell how high the drought may drive corn and soybean prices, Alexander said. One thing is for sure: The record prices will ripple around the globe. "The U.S. is the world's largest exporter of corn," said Alexander. "If we have a bad corn crop ... that has a big impact on other countries."
Expensive corn and soybeans played a role in the food crisis of 2007 and 2008, when hungry citizens rioted in Haiti, Bangladesh, and several African nations. Anger over expensive food also contributed to the launch of "Arab Spring" revolutions.
Back in Syracuse, Ind., Roberts' concerns got some relief on July 19, when a 2.5-inch downpour-the largest all season-answered his prayers for rain. He was happy to see the rain fall, but regretted it hadn't come in June.
"This really isn't enough to cure the problem. It's a really good Band-Aid for now, though."


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Bad idea, says Dina Aronson, RD: "Fatigue breaks us down physically and emotionally and wreaks havoc on the immune system, making us more susceptible to illness, depression, and even chronic conditions like heart disease." Moreover, proper nutrition and the timing of what you eat can do wonders to make you feel alert and powerful, says Cynthia Sass, RD, Health's nutrition and weight loss blogger. Here, new rules for eating for energy.
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April 06, 2011
The person selected to replace Richard Steinke as executive director at the Port of Long Beach will have tremendous shoes to fill.
"Dick has been instrumental in developing the Port of Long Beach into one of the top seaports in the world," said Nick Sramek, president of the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners, which governs the gateway. "He led the port out of the recent recession, keeping it strong financially, while guiding our major modernization and environmental projects."
Sramek said the Board of Harbor Commissioners would begin the search for Steinke's successor shortly, and Steinke has agreed to assist the Board in both the selection process and the smooth transition to a new executive director.
Steinke's leadership extended throughout the U.S. port industry. He has been the chief spokesman for the U.S. West Coast Collaboration, a partnership of West Coast ports and the major western railroads. He has been chairman of the American Association of Port Authorities and the California Association of Port Authorities. Steinke serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority, the Intermodal Container Transfer Facility Joint Powers Authority, the Harbor Association of Industry and Commerce, Intermodal Transportation Institute and St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach and he is a member of the Red Cross CEO Advisory Committee.?
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SANDY SPRING, Md. (WUSA 9) -- The United States has a growing number of overweight children. Statistics from the CDC show childhood obesity has tripled since 1980.
In March, Grier was named head coach at his Alma Mater. Now, he sculpts young bodies and molds young minds, but it's not just exercise that's important to a successful football career, it's also diet, and that's something personal to coach Grier.
"When I was in this same weight room as a high schooler, there was nobody there who could guide me as to what I had to do to get in shape and lose weight," said Grier.
The former offensive lineman's weight had been an ongoing problem.
Grier was 300-plus pounds. His wake-up call came in 2006 when a doctor told him he wasn't an athlete anymore.
He's committed to keeping off the weight and sharing what he knows about staying healthy -- something prior coaches didn't focus on.
"Other coaches haven't talk about it that much, he's doing a good job so far ... I think nutrition is one of the most important things for staying in shape," said Sherwood linebacker Paris Atwater.
For running back Elijah Spottswood, who is diabetic, nutrition is key to safe athletic training.
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It looks good to me and your poles seem correct for the projection.
What is the original resolution of the image though? At this sort of scale I wouldn't think rivers would even be visible on it so I don't know if you need to do those. Also it seems very verdant - I would imagine there would be a few more arid areas depending on the weather/wind patterns.
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Testimony :: Hon. Alcee L. Hastings
Co-Chairman - Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Mr. Chairman, I appreciate your convening this hearing. With next month's summit rapidly approaching, this is a most opportune moment to examine whether U.S.-Russian relations have changed for the better.
When President Bush met Vladimir Putin for the first time, he claimed to have gotten "a sense of his soul." President Obama has already met President Medvedev and reportedly came away impressed, although I suspect he used different metrics in forming a judgment. I hope these two leaders establish a strong bond based on mutual respect. But a more reliable and stable basis for good inter-state relations is a meeting of the minds based on common interests. Russia and the United States have many of these, even while certain issues divide us. For instance, we will never recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and we insist on the right of countries to join any alliance they wish. But the range of concerns where Moscow and Washington see eye to eye or can hope to reach accord is broad and promising.
To some degree, the prospects for improved U.S.-Russian relations hinge on who is making decisions in Moscow. Like everyone else, I wonder whether President Medvedev is really in charge or whether former President and now Prime Minister Putin is running the show. There are also questions about whether there are really any differences of opinion between them, appearances to the contrary notwithstanding.
But I take heart from certain statements and gestures President Medvedev has made. These included giving an interview to the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, which has lost a shocking number of courageous reporters to contract killers. Among our witnesses today is the widow of an American journalist who was gunned down in Moscow; she will give us a personal perspective on the dangers of pursuing the truth in Russia. On another important front, President Medvedev last month convened a working group to begin reforming the laws that regulate some nongovernmental organizations.
These actions indicate to me a realization on his part that tight centralized state control is stifling Russian society, which is ultimately the source of that country's strength. If such gestures actually translate into trends, there will be more solid grounds for optimism about the prospects for better ties between our countries.
I would like to conclude by mentioning a news report that came out this week. Apparently, the Kremlin has created a new body to improve Russia's image in the world. Let me suggest that the best way to better one's reputation is by doing good. President Obama is attempting to do precisely that, changing many of the policies of the previous administration; I would hope the President Medvedev would see that as an example worthy of emulation.


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Discussion and debate with Joe Duffy
Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan has criticised four Garda sergeants who walked out of the AGM of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors. The Liveline listeners, including Gardai, talk about their right to protest.
John McDonnell is an Irish trained teacher who works in the UK. They are actively trying to recruit Irish teachers and are having great difficulty doing so.
Richard is a small business owner. He says that small businesses are struggling to stay open.