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- Mild winter leaves stored corn at risk from mold
- Monitor grain temperatures weekly
• Corn stored in bins since the fall harvest could be at a heightened threat for mold.
• If farmers find mold, they've got to get that corn out of the bin as soon as possible so that it doesn't spread to other grain in the bin.
Monitor grain temperatures weekly
Bins should be visually inspected and grain temperatures monitored weekly, Stroshine said. He recommended running bin fans for 30 minutes before entering the storage facility to conduct an inspection.
"Aeration will push musty odors, which are indicative of mold growth, to the headspace of the bin," he said. "If the problems are deeper in the bin it will take longer for odors to reach the surface. So you could run the fans another 2-4 hours and check again.
"While you're in the bin, look for signs of condensation on the inside of the bin's roof. That's an indication you've had moisture generated by mold activity. Also, look for crusting on the grain's surface, which is symptomatic of mold growth."
Farmers also should check grain temperatures for mold-generated hot spots at numerous places in the grain mass, Stroshine said. If a producer does not have a temperature probe, a metal rod will do. Stroshine advised sliding the rod into the grain and pulling it out after about 15 minutes. If the rod is warm, mold could be present.
Insects that invade stored grain probably will be active earlier this year, he said.
Stroshine offered other grain bin tips:
• Exercise extreme caution when entering a bin. Grain can shift and trap a farmer, leading to potential suffocation. A family member or friend should remain outside the bin to offer assistance, if needed. Shut off and tag out unloading equipment before entering a bin.
• Cover bin fans when fans are not running to keep warm, humid air and rodents from entering the bin through the fan inlet. Covers can be made from plywood, sheet metal, heavy plastic or canvas.
• Keep grain as cool as possible for as long as possible. If planning to hold onto corn past the middle of June, consider warming it to about 50 degrees.
More information about corn storage and mold issues is available in the paper "Check Stored Corn for Potential Problems" by Stroshine and fellow agricultural engineer Matt Roberts. The paper can be found on Purdue's Post Harvest Grain Quality website by going to http://www.grainquality.org and then clicking on "News and Information." Related information can be found by clicking on the "Extension Publications" tab.

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News reporters know that making extra phone calls, continuing to gather information beyond what's needed, can result in richer information and better outcomes.
The same is true when it comes to saving money and finding good deals.
It's all part of the big trade-off between time and money. More research and shopping around almost always lead to savings, but at a cost of time.
Take something as simple as getting a flu shot.
I know I could just run over to a local pharmacy and get a flu shot. But I also know that grocery stores and big-box retailers have pharmacies, and I've seen stores courting flu-shot customers with offers such as cash back or discount coupons.
So, instead of running over to the pharmacy, I made a few calls.
What I learned was that instead of spending $30 or more at a pharmacy, I could spend as little as $15 at a grocery store (that's $19.95 for the intradermal flu shot at Harris Teeter, minus a $5 store credit). Publix stores were recently offering a free turkey for customers who got a flu shot, but that promotion has ended.
By making a few phone calls, I saved $15 — or, at least I will soon. Most places I checked ran out of flu shots during the first week of December.
Is saving $15 worth the time it takes to make some phone calls? That's up to you.
How about $28? Would that be worth spending 10 minutes online?
That's how much I saved by changing a car-rental reservation on a recent trip to Florida. I already had shopped around and thought I had found the best deal, paying $142 for a midsize car rental for three days in Fort Lauderdale, including all taxes and fees.
But then Southwest Airlines sent me an email promising big discounts if I booked my rental through them, to go along with my plane tickets. I already had booked my car rental through Southwest, so I nearly ignored their offer, but I checked and it turned out the discount they promoted in the email knocked the price of the rental down to $114.
I'm happy to spend the extra time to save a bit of money, but if $15 or $28 doesn't sound worthwhile, how about $240?
That's how much I saved for a group of friends and myself by finding a better hotel deal, and then topping that good deal with a great one.
Here's how that happened.
Last month we were preparing to go on an annual weekend getaway, and planned to share a big oceanfront condo at the same place we stayed the previous year.
Price shopping for accommodations large enough for seven or eight people is more complicated than just checking travel websites, but after checking around online, I was able to find a larger and more conveniently located condo with an even better view for about $80 less.
That's pretty good, but here's where making that extra call came into play.
Saving $80 while getting a more spacious place to stay seemed like a great deal. But after finding that deal online, I called the resort where the condo was located, and found that they had identical units available for that off-season weekend, and quoted me a price that was far lower.
How does $280 sound for two nights in adjoining oceanfront condos with seven beds? That's just over half of what we originally expected to pay.
The point is, finding a good deal doesn't mean you've found the best deal. Greater savings may be just a phone call or an Internet search away.
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Update: On July 2, 2007, Israeli officials announced that plans to construct a major new bridge to the Mugrabi Gate had been dropped.
Prior to rebuilding the ramp, the Authority is conducting salvage excavations � a standard procedure under Israeli law when construction is being performed in a recognized archeological site to ensure that ancient remains in the location are protected.
This project is in no way harming the Al Aqsa platform or affecting Muslim holy sites.
The following is a fact sheet prepared by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on the Mugrabi Gate ramp renovation project.
The Mugrabi Gate is located just above the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City. This small gate, high up on the Wall, opens onto the Temple Mount Plaza, and is accessed via a ramp.Following the reunification of Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War, the Israeli government announced that Jews would be able to visit the Temple Mount, but, in a nod to Muslim sensitivities, would not be allowed to pray on the Mount. Since that time, the only gate to the Temple Mount to which Israel "holds the key" is the Mugrabi Gate, which serves as the main entrance for Israel Jews and tourists to enter the Mount.
Since 1967, Christians and Muslims administer their own holy places and institutions and have access to Israel's democratic court system in order to present any claim of violation of these rights.The Current Project
A snowstorm in 2004 caused parts of the ramp to collapse. A temporary wooden bridge was erected, but it is unstable and a more permanent one is necessary. The Israel Antiquities Authority is currently performing an emergency salvage excavation in order to protect any artifacts under the ramp and to erect cement pillars for a stronger bridge.
There is a long history of Muslim leaders inflaming tensions with claims that Israeli excavations are destroying their holy sites. In 1996, for example, rumors of Israel tunneling under the Temple Mount set off massive and bloody rioting.In response to the current project, some Muslim leaders are charging that Israel is behind a "Jewish assault of the Mosque." They are alleging that Israel is trying to undermine the foundations of the al-Aqsa Mosque to prepare the ground for the Third Jewish Temple and are calling for action by the Muslim world.In response to these claims, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni charged: "There are irresponsible elements, who know full well that no harm is being caused here to any holy site, who are exploiting Israeli democracy to fan religious feelings for political gain. This is true of both political groups within Israel and extremist elements outside Israel."
Muslim Endangerment of Archeological Artifacts
While the Muslim world has repeatedly charged Israel with endangering Muslim holy sites, construction performed by the Waqf � the Muslim entity which controls the Temple Mount/Al Aqsa Platform � has destroyed priceless ancient Jewish and Muslim artifacts.In 1997, the Waqf, without consultation with archeologists or city authorities, unilaterally decided to dig up the south eastern end of the Temple Mount to build a huge new mosque in the so-called "Solomon Stables." Hundreds of truckloads of earth, laden with artifacts from the Second Temple and other periods, were removed and dumped in a garbage pit. Items rescued from this garbage pit included objects from Solomon's Temple - believed to be the first significant objects from the first Temple.
Also recovered were invaluable artifacts from the Second Temple, visited by both Judah the Maccabee and Jesus of Nazareth. Archeologists have claimed this also weakened the foundations of the walls supporting the al-Aqsa mosque.
Muslim Protests and Violence
Israel's Mugrabi Gate Project: A Selection of Cartoons and Quotes Appearing in the Muslim World
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Township engineer William Erdman said it has been delayed by an environmental issue - stormwater infiltrating through mine wash and reaching groundwater at the site of the new intersection.
But Erdman said construction of the "brand new intersection" should begin by summer. He predicted when completed, trucks will use that intersection rather than finding other roads to take, as many do now.
Elaborating later, he said: "The expectation is they should be able to start it sometime this summer, but they won't finish it. They'll probably finish it sometime in 2015."
Spring Ridge Crossings Park and Trail
Commissioners approved applying for two grants from the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to develop a Spring Ridge Crossings Park and greenway trail.
They hope to get $100,000 to create the park and another $100,000 for the trail. If approved, the township will have to match both grants, but it will have four years to pay for its total $200,000 match.
Sara Pandl, the township's planning and economic development director, said the township has received more than 22 acres of land along Little Lehigh Creek as part of the Spring Ridge Estates development.
She said the park, which would be off Spring Ridge Drive W., would have parking lots and at least two athletic fields.
She said lacrosse fields could go in the new park to end an unsafe situation with existing fields near Lower Macungie Middle School. She said people don't have any place to park there, so they're parking where parking was not intended and walking in roads.
Higgins indicated the proposed park also could have a baseball field, "which we're desperately in need of and always will be, because there just aren't nearly enough of them."
Pandl later confirmed the proposed park is large enough to have two soccer/lacrosse fields in its upper section and a softball field in its lower section.
Another part of the project is to install the trail along the creek between Brookside Road and Wild Cherry Lane, which Pandl said is a distance of about one mile. She indicated that trail will give anglers more access to the creek.
She put the total cost for the park and trail segment at $438,000.
Pandl said last year the township tried to land a similar grant through the state Department of Community and Economic Development, but was not successful.
Hills at Lock Ridge
The 700-home Hills at Lock Ridge subdivision was first approved by Lower Macungie in 1999, said Erdman, with more recently approved revisions.
The entire subdivision plan came back before township commissioners for re-approval again Thursday night because developer David Jaindl wanted two changes -- to modify the design of a stormwater detention basin and to build a twin home rather than a single family home on one property in the subdivision.
Jaindl said he voluntarily is adding recreational facilities near what was referred to as detention pond - including a tot lot, a pavilion, a parking area and a 200-foot-long walking path.
Jaindl also has agreed to increase money for long-term maintenance of the detention pond from $17,000 to $20,500.
Erdman later explained the intent is interest from that $20,500 should be enough for the township to maintain the pond for 20 years.
Commissioner Brown was concerned that the modified detention pond will require more inspections and maintenance when it is turned over to the township. He suggested plans for the pond should be reviewed by the township's public works department, which will be responsible for that maintenance, before commissioners approve it.
Commissioner James Lancsek objected, saying subdivision plans are not sent to the public works department for review. He called Brown's suggestion "a needless delay."
"Procedure is not being followed," said Lancsek. "Why are we picking this developer to change that procedure?"
Jaindl, who was at the meeting, agreed with Lancsek, saying: "A delay does not make any sense at this point." He pressed commissioners for immediate approval, saying the twin home site has been sold and "we want to pick up building permits and get it started. We have a contractor that wants to break ground as soon as the snow and the frost lift."
Trying to reach a compromise, Commissioner Brian Higgins suggested a one-month delay - then a two-week delay -- in approving the plan, so the township's public works staff could have a chance to review the pond modifications.


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ExxonMobil sees U.S. oil trade turnaround by 2030
WASHINGTON — A stunning turnaround in North American oil and gas production will position Canada and the United States to be net exporters of crude oil, refined products and natural gas within the next 17 years, Exxon Mobil Corp. announced Tuesday.
Liquefied natural gas cargoes will likely start shipping to Europe and Asia by 2020, while a turnaround in oil trade appears likely in 2030, said William Colton, Exxon Mobil's vice president for corporate strategic planning.
In 2005, the United States imported 60 percent of its oil. This year crude oil imports are expected to account for 40 percent of demand.
As U.S. imports decline, Asia's need for imported oil will soar to 80 percent of supply by 2040, Colton said.


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Two dogs were left in a backpack Wednesday morning at the Lancaster County SPCA.
Lancaster police are still looking for the person who left them there but say the dogs are doing better.
The SPCA says the two Chihuahua mixes were nearly frozen when they were found Wednesday morning.
The dogs have seen a vet and once they're back to 100 percent, the SPCA hopes to find them a new home.
"We will house the puppies until the investigation is over. They'll be taken care of through us. We'll provide the warmth they need, the food and everything like that. So they'll be with us until they're ready to be adopted," said Jennifer Nields, operations manager.
If you know anything about the dogs or who left them at the SPCA, Lancaster police is asking you to give them a call.


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30 Rock's Jack McBrayer: Mariah Carey 'A Comedy Nerd'
30 Rock's Jack McBrayer may fantasize about dating Mariah Carey in the diva's new music video for "Touch My Body." But, it turns out, the two have something major in common. "She's a comedy nerd," McBrayer, who plays Kenneth the Page on the hit NBC show, tells PEOPLE at WonderCon in San Francisco. In the cheeky video clip, the geeky star gets to romp on a bed with Carey and even walk a unicorn down the street. "It's the craziest thing ever," he said of the experience. "It was the most surreal thing ever." While the video depicts Kenneth's fantasy date with the songbird, the comedian says that working with the pop star was nothing less than a dream come true – and not just because she told him she's a big 30 Rock fan. Returning the compliments, he raves, "She was awesome! She was fantastic!"
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The Last-Day Apostles: Calling of the Twelve
Author: Jeff Pate
Paperback 288 pp.
Retail price: $15.95
Publication date: September 2003
Our Lord Jesus Christ said to His disciples:
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few: Pray ye, therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.
(Matthew 9: 37, 38)
Best selling Mystery/Thriller novelist Jeff Pate crosses over to the Christian Fiction genre with
Calling of the Twelve
, the first installment of an exciting and revealing new series concerning the Great Harvest: The Last-Day Apostles.
Pastor Roger Ingram has all the Lord's blessings--at least he believes he does. On his way to visit relatives on Thanksgiving Day 1985, Roger's life changes forever. Dead at the hospital after a car accident, Roger's spirit journeys beyond the worldly realm where he experiences fascinating revelations. His journey ends at the Throne of God where he comes before the Lord Himself. Confident and bold of his salvation, Roger quickly experiences the terrifying wrath, and also the incredible mercy and grace of God. He learns that he has been chosen to embark on the most important mission mankind has ever witnessed: to prepare the world for the Great Harvest and Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Sent back to earth to wait for the mission to begin, Roger's ministry takes a 180-degree turn, igniting a fire for the truth of the Gospel. Forewarned of future persecution as a result, Roger and his wife Carolyn are commanded by an angel of the Lord to flee their Virginia home to Pilot Mountain, North Carolina where they continue preaching the Truth. Move forward to April 2003: eighteen years after his incredible near-death experience, and just three days after the unexpected death of his wife, Roger is visited by an angel named Boethos. Called Bo, the angel was sent to help the pastor gather the remaining eleven last-day apostles. After being given the new name of Stephen, the spirit-filled pastor and spry angel set out on their mission.
Donning the full armor of God, the missionaries begin in New York and travel across the country facing insurmountable forces of Satan--in both spirit and flesh--that will stop at nothing to destroy God's plan. But Stephen and his growing band of apostles remain steadfast in their mission, despite incredible dangersonly to be delivered from the depths of destruction.
Calling of the Twelve
marks the fictional beginning of the end of this age, and the dawning of incredible events to come when the world will witness the omnipotent authority of God. Much like the twelve original disciples, the last-day apostles begin as a band of lost sheep from every conceivable walk of life and generation, but under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, they become the most powerful messengers of God the world has ever seen.
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SANTA FE (AP) - Narendra Singh Kloty is using his head to keep people from mistaking him as a Muslim extremist: He wears a red, white and blue turban.
Kloty, a 41-year-old American citizen originally from India, wears a turban because of his Sikh religion. But, he says, to many people, "the turban represents something not American, something Middle Eastern."
"I'm trying to tell people, 'No, this is very American. Red, white and blue.' That's what I'm trying to do without saying anything."
Kloty said his mother was concerned for his safety after people began associating turbans with Taliban Muslim extremists. He said he asked her to send him a red, white and blue turban from Bombay, India, when people began "throwing him the finger" as he drove in his car.
But Kloty, who owns a restaurant in Santa Fe, said he declined his mother's request for him to return to India.
"I said, 'No, this is my home,"' he said. "I'm an American citizen. My wife is here. My business is here.
"This is a great nation where I've seen so much love. There are people on this planet who cannot love their fellow man because they're fighting for their next meal."
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SCOTLAND wicketkeeper Colin Smith has revealed he could end a glittering career on a high by bowing out at the World Cup.
The record-breaking Aberdeenshire keeper last night set out on the longest tour ever undertaken by a Scottish side, with Smith and his team-mates facing a hectic schedule of 16 matches on three continents, culminating at the World Cup in the Caribbean in March.
At the end of it Smith, 34, may be ready to spark an Aussie-style spate of retirals after playing against Australia and South Africa at cricket's biggest tournament.
Before jetting out to Sharjah to face UAE in the Intercontinental Cup, the Aberdeen policeman declared: "I don't know what the future holds but it's getting harder to keep going.
"It's a huge commitment to maintain the fitness levels required these days for playing international cricket.
"When you have a career and a family to think about as well it's even more difficult."
However, the veteran gloveman, who boasts 145 catches and 36 stumpings, added: "I'm making no decisions at this stage because we're about to embark on an intensive programme of matches.
"There is some crucial cricket to be played and I'll give it 100 per cent but the World Cup might be my last big tournament for Scotland."
Several other top Scots are nearing the end of their career and may bow out after the trips to Sharjah, Kenya and the West Indies.
Meanwhile, Scotland skipper Craig Wright insists his side will be ready for the four-day clash against UAE starting next Thursday.
The Scots were caught cold during two heavy ODI defeats in Bangladesh last month but Wright said: "We've got a week to acclimatise and there will be no excuses."
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ECOSOC: Council Discusses Global Food Crisis
21 May 2008: Speaking at the UN Economic and Social Council's (ECOSOC) special session on the global food crisis, Léo Mérorès, President of ECOSOC, emphasized the "need to concentrate efforts on minimizing greenhouse emissions, deforestation and global warming, while finding ways to promote investments in agriculture [and] maximize the use of agro-science and technology."
The special session was originally scheduled for one day, 20 May 2008, but it extended to 22 May 2008 due to the large number of UN member states wishing to take the floor. It convened at UN headquarters in New York, US. Léo Mérorès also emphasized that "agriculture has to be put back in the center of the development agenda." UN General Assembly President Srgjan Kerim highlighted the need for greater investment in agriculture, calling for the "best science, tools and technologies to optimize efficiency and boost production,…[and] policies that support land and resource ownership." Kerim also drew attention to the role that high oil prices have played in rising food prices, and emphasized that "a sustainable solution to the crisis must therefore be linked to oil price stability and our efforts to tackle climate change." The session also heard video-recorded messages from Bingu wa Mutharika, President of Malawi, and Gordon Brown, UK Prime Minister, as well as a keynote address by Joachim von Braun, Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute.
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Recently, the role of the defensive coordinator has been thrust head first into the NFL limelight.
This is due in part to the unfortunate passing of longtime Eagle Jim Johnson as well as the senior election of the Steelers' Dick LeBeau into the Hall of Fame.
Both were commended for their excellent mastery of defenses. As a result many individuals – including myself – included them amongst the best defensive minds of all time. However, is this really true?
And if so where do they rank all-time amongst the best defensive minded individuals, whether coach or coordinator?
Comparing these two individuals to others that are considered great defensive minded coaches and coordinators is a problem because of trouble quantifying greatness.
However, after a while I worked out a system through utilizing the following 12 things as criteria:
• Number of times that a defense affiliated with the individual placed in the top five at either points per game allowed or yardage per game allowed. (Doing both in one season counted twice)
• Placing first in either points per game allowed or yardage per game allowed over a season.
• Being affiliated with a defense that is considered by numerous factions as one of the ten best single-season defenses in the history of the NFL.
• Inventing a defensive scheme that predominately had strong success in its era and some success in subsequent eras.
• Being affiliated with a defense when a player on that respective defense won an "NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award" or "Defensive Rookie of the Year Award" from the Associated Press.
• Having a coaching tree with strong defensive coaches that could have been considered for placement on this list.
• Being affiliated with an infamous defense such as "The Steel Curtain", "The Purple People Eaters", or "The Monsters Of The Midway"
• Being on a defense that has reached numerous Super Bowl, NFL Championship or Conference Championship Games.
• Winning a Coach or Coordinator of the Year accolade from The Associated Press, The Sporting News, The UPI or Pro Football Weekly.
• Having defenses that average over 40 sacks per season throughout your tenure.
• Being affiliated with one of the best units of all time at the defensive line, linebacking corps or secondary in addition to things listed above.
• Having a gameplan within the Hall of Fame.
With that said this is an opinionated list and the chances remain that I may have missed somebody or that one person could be argued to jump a few spots up or moved a few spots back so please bare that in mind.
With that said, here are 25 individuals that I feel can make valid cases for being the 25 best defensive minds both pre- and post-merger.
Honorable Mentions: Joe Collier, Mike Ditka, John Fox, Dave Wannstedt


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By PETER SIDES
Many businesses across Pennsylvania are preparing themselves for the usual summer slump. As the owner of a small business myself, I've been here before and I know what it takes to make it through the long summer months until shoppers return in the fall during back to school season. However, there's an even bigger threat to local businesses this summer - one that most people wouldn't expect. The threat is the lack of tax fairness between brick-and-mortar businesses like mine and online-only retailers.
Because online-only businesses do not have to collect the same sales tax as local, brick-and-mortar ones, they are at an automatic price advantage that undercuts our local businesses and undermines our local communities.
We need our members of Congress - especially our own Rep. Tom Marino - to stand up for what's right and support e-fairness legislation like the Marketplace Equity Act.
Right now, the cards are clearly stacked in favor of online-only retailers. While there are many honest advantages to operating at a very low overhead, their main competitive advantage is the ability to skirt local sales tax laws in most states, making their products seem artificially lower in price.
Of course, consumers would flock to these Internet-only retailers in droves. The convenience of shopping at home combined with the false premise that their products are tax free is enough to attract many consumers. However, all is not as it seems.
There's no fine print on these websites and no online-only retailer would advertise this, but their products aren't actually free of sales tax at all.
They simply don't have to collect it themselves due to a 20-year-old loophole in our tax laws. Instead, you as the consumer are expected to track and remit this tax along with your annual taxes. Pennsylvanians will notice this year's tax form includes a special line explicitly for this purpose.
Sadly, this line had to be added because most people don't know they are responsible for paying this tax if it isn't included with their online purchase. This results in the state losing hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue - which could be put back into our communities and balance budgets using consumption-based taxes, as opposed to new or increased tax rates.
If passed, the Marketplace Equity Act would clarify exactly whose obligation it is to collect and remit sales taxes, and it would put the onus back where it belongs-with the business rather than the consumer. The Marketplace Equity Act would also help level what has historically been an uneven playing field for local businesses.
It would enable states to require online-only businesses to play by the same rules. And playing by the same rules means collecting the same sales taxes.
As the president of Robert M. Sides Family Music Centers in Williamsport, Wilkes-Barre, State College, and Elmira, I'm not looking for a handout or a hand up.
I collect sales tax in New York and Pennsylvania and want my competitors to be treated the same way when they do business in NY and PA. It's a simple matter of fairness. We sell many of the same products to the same customers at comparable prices, so why aren't both collecting the same sales tax? It makes no sense in today's national marketplace, especially when you consider the software available to ease in collection and distribution of sales taxes.
We've all seen many independent businesses come and go over the years.
Running a business is no easy task, but it's even harder when our own government allows one certain type of business to operate under a completely different set of rules than all others.
Sides lives in State College and serves as president and third-generation co-owner of Robert M. Sides Family Music Centers.


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Happy 16th Birthday to Our Grandson!
Aloha, all!
Today is the 16th birthday of our grandson, Quin. Of course I had to make him a special birthday card. I've already made him a scrapbook page to use with pictures from this special teenage birthday. But he still definitely needed a card!
For this card, I felt that his name had to be included. I wouldn't want ANYone to think that I'd made just any old card and sent it off for this birthday (I'd never do that to our kids or grandkids!). I really like the size and fun shapes of the letters in the Layered Letters Alphabet Stamp Set. So that's the set I chose for this card. The set does not include numbers, so I had to leave the numbering to the scrapbook page I made for the birthday. More about that later.
I looked through all the papers that I have that are current Stampin' Up! products, and didn't find any that screamed birthday (Stampin' Up! has such sets, but I've not yet bought them. Gasp!) But as I was going through what I did have, I came across this sheet from the By The Shore Designer Series Paper set. OK – that's masculine enough for a 16-year old. And the colors work. So off I went with this as the color scheme: Dapper Denim, Mint Macaron, Calypso Coral, and Pool Party.
I'm showing off two punches in this proejct. The first is the Balloon Bouquet Punch, used to punch balloons in Dapper Denim and Calypso Coral. Then there's the new Duet Banner Punch, which I used to punch the banner for the Happy Birthday Greeting. Both the banner and the sentiment stamps are from the Thoughtful Banners Stamp Set. If you are looking at this stamp set, you might note that the words are all straight-line stamps. However, it's quite easy to bend photopolymer stamps to give them a light curve, as I did with the word "Birthday." "Happy" is a short word, so I did not need to bend it to make it look as if it was meant for this banner stamped image.
Now for the Project Life Scrapbook Page! I made this last Spring when I first thought about Quin's 16th Birthday. So the papers are now retired. But what is a lot of fun is the page with the small 2" squares in the Project Life Variety Pack 2, 12 x 12 Pages.. How perfect are these squares for inserting year numbers to mark a particular time period – such as 2000, the year Quin was born, and 2016, the year of his 16th Birthday. I'm going to send this to his mother for her to rummage through her photo stash to find pictures of this other birthdays.
Oh, and those numbers! These are the numbers from the Number of Years Stamp Set. New in the 2016-2017 Stampin' Up! Catalog are matching letters, Letters for You. I could not use the letters from this set as well as the numbers in the first stamp set on a card because they're just too big! Yes, the "I" is thin. But the other letters and numbers are not. It would be a REALLY large card! So I've left the "16" to the scrapbook page!
Here are the current products that I used for these projects. I hope you'll think about these when it's time for a special birthday celebration in your life – and come to my Stampin' Up! Store to buy what you need for YOUR projects!
A Bit of Throwback Thursday!
Aloha, all!
"Aloha" is filled with just a bit of cheer for me and my husband this month, as we finally are getting our house ready for a move back in 5 or 6 weeks. Yes, the lava is still out there and still threatens to cross the road that links us to the rest of our island and the world. BUT the lava is moving slowly, and no one can seem to predict what it is going to do. So we're taking our chances and moving back home – our home and OUR garden!
To get ready for the move, we decided to take the opportunity to paint the inside of the house – what better time to do that when most of our furniture is in another house! The sad part for me is that I have had to remove all the old Stampin' Up! Decor Elements images from our walls.
Were you around in the stamping community when Stampin' Up! sold its own line of Vinyl images? I LOVED them! I hopped right on that bandwagon, and had decorations all over my house. I even left the Christmas hanging ornament images up all year because just a bit of a different ribbon accenting them made them work well in any season.
But my favorite vinyl images were the Inspire, Create and Share images, with their Stampin' Up! definitions. I accented each of them with flowers and had them where anyone who entered my Craft Room would see them. On the fourth wall, next to a bookcase, I even accented a photo collage of me and my sister with a Decor Elements Hostess set.
Sigh! But now they're gone. Gone but not forgotten as they now appear in one of my first 2015 Project Life Pages. What a fun Project Life project this was!
As you can see, there are not any specific Project Life cards or accents in this page. Eventually there may be. But for now I just wanted to get these pictures cropped and put in a page. In fact, that's what I'm doing with all my pictures so far this year. I made a "resolution" to keep track of this year as it contains a significant birthday for me, and I'd like to look back on the year to see what I've made of it.
So first things first – get the pictures into an album, with some basic accents (the Melon Mambo mat for the smaller 3" x 4" pockets) and at least one journaling card (I made this one up myself with a picture from an old catalog). Down the road, when I have some more free time, I'll glitz the pages up a bit!
For now – memories are captured!
Project Life – I Finished my Snorkel Trip Story!
Aloha, all!
Oh, my, am I in love with the Project Life by Stampin' Up! product! There have been so many mini-trips that my husband and I have taken in the last year, and I have scrapbooked NONE of them – because I don't have the time!
Well let me tell you that time is NOT an issue with Project Life. As I may have mentioned, I've been intrigued by this idea since I started reading about it in magazines quite a while ago. But I never gave it any serious thought because I really do try to keep my Craft Room all Stampin' Up! all the time. I don't always succeed, but when I buy something that's not Stampin' Up!, it's always something small both in size and cost. Project Life would have required too much of my resources both ways, so I let it be.
Now I don't have to let it be!!! And I just this morning completed my album pages for a snorkeling trip we took last month.
As I'm sure you can see with these two pages, I haven't used much in the way of embellishments. But I'm sure that embellishments are on the way.
The bottom page is on the back of the page that I shared with you yesterday. Of course with this kind of album pocket page, you can see both through the front and the back of each page. The top page is a different layout. This is a Standard Project Life layout called, Design A. There is a similar layout where the larger (4" x 6") photos are portrait in orientation instead of landscape as this one is – it's called Design D. I also used one of the cards that came in the new Stampin' Up! Everyday Adventure Project Life Card Collection. The Bermuda Bay and Crushed Curry colors went beautifully with this project. There are also some embellishments in the Accessory Pack that Stampin' Up! sells – and that I have! But I was so excited to have these pages finished that I just left them alone. Probably not next time.
As with my last project, I printed draft wallet sized pictures of the photos I wanted to use and laid them out on top of the pocket pages. I wrote on each photo what size and orientation it should be when I was finished printing. Sometimes it's going to be the case that I can print all the photos the same size and manually crop them to the shape I want. But I wanted close ups of the photos with the fish in them, so decided printing them to size was the right way to accomplish this project.
You can see the backs of the photos and papers that I inserted into the other size of the page at the left – that's yesterday's project. And I think that the back of the High Tide Designer Series Paper sheet that I used yesterday is perfect for today's page – imagine that!
We're going to take another snorkeling tour later this week, and I'm hoping that I have some new photos to put into a page – maybe two! – following these pages in my book. I'll definitely have them done in no time!
Here are the products I used in today's project. You might recognize the "April 2014" image from yesterday. I just left the photopolymer stamps on my clear block because I thought I might use it on today's project – and I did! Now they're back in their stamp case. I didn't do much else in the way of taking pictures in April except for this snorkeling trip, so no need for April 2014 any more!
Back in Control – and Project Life!
Aloha, all!
I am finally back in control of my Craft Room and I'm finally back crafting! OK, that didn't take long – but it certainly felt like forever! I won't go into the gory details. Just let it be said that, while I confidently touted myself as a non-hoarder, my pulling stuff out of boxes and off shelves in my craft room proved me to be, well, less than truthful. I had no idea! Have you heard the phrase, "This would go so well with…." That is SOOOO deceptive, especially when you put that little something in a drawer or on a shelf and then hide it behind the next "This would go so well with…" object.
Five big black bags of trash and four boxes of stuff to be mailed to friends later I have wrenched myself out of the mountains of stuff I've been saving, "Just in case."
This all started when I got my new Project Life by Stampin' Up! products delivered last week. I could hardly wait to rip that box open to see what I had. Then I went to put the fun new products away and I had no place to put them. I knew that this was going to be something that I was going to be working with and sharing frequently from now on. And not to have a place for all the goodies was NOT acceptable.
But now I have a place to put them and I have made my very first Project Life by Stampin' Up! "page."
If you're a traditional scrapbooker, you may wonder what all the fuss is about. But I am here to tell you that this, my VERY FIRST PROJECT LIFE BY STAMPIN' UP! PAGE took me 30 minutes to make. And I took that long because I still wasn't sure how to get my pictures to print in the 3" x 4" style of the Project Life program. I'm still not quite there, but I will be by tomorrow. And tomorrow I'll have a couple more pages to share from this particular trip that my husband I took to celebrate our wedding anniversary.
The Project Life by Stampin' Up! template that I used I could only find in the Stampin' Up! store. All of the Project Life templates have letters designating the design. So far I do not know the letter designation for this template. But I LIKE IT! It was perfect for this layout. There are two 4" wide x 6" high places for photos (or whatever you wish) to be inserted at the top. There is one such place on the bottom. Between the top two 4" x 6" places at the top there are two 4" x 3" places for inserts. There are two of the same size on the left and right of the 4" x 6" insert on the bottom.
You may wonder how I even got started with this layout. Wonder no more, because this is how I did it.
As you may imagine – and as you probably do yourself – we had far more photos than we would want to place on one page. So I picked the photos that I liked. Then I printed them in draft mode on plain paper as large "thumbnails." Then I pulled out the template I thought I'd use and laid the large thumbnails out on it.
All but one of the photos seemed to work well with the layout. The one in the middle at the bottom would have been a landscape 6" x 4" sized photo. But that spot needed a photo with a portrait orientation. So I cut the photo in half and determined that it would be a portrait 4" x 6" print. Um, that's called, "cropping." Basic Scrapbook stuff!!
Once I had the layout done, I went to my computer to print out the photos. Depending on what software you're using, this is easy or not so easy. I'm currently using Photoshop Elements 11. I added a "new" project the size that I wanted my photos and then dragged my photos onto the "new" shape and resized until I got everthikng where I wanted it.
Then I needed to fill in the "extra" spaces. As I'd decided to use the High Tide Designer Series Paper Set for all my pages from this event, I picked a design that went well with all the photos I was using. I cut the High Tide paper pattern into 3" x 4" pieces, and punched the corners with the new Project Life Corner Punch. I then stamped some dates and images from two new Project Life Stamp Sets – Point and Click and Day to Day. I also used the Geometrical Stamp Set for the "I Love You" stamp onto the High Tide paper. As I still had not figured out how to get my pictures to be 3" x 4", I placed some of the High Tide Designer Series Paper behind those photos. They wil also be behind the photos from the next pages – the photos my husband took of tropical fish in the water!
The final touch for this, my first Project Life page, was the journaling. I was going to hand-write my thoughts from the day. But then I thought, "why not just print it on cardsock?" And so I did. I have a fairly new HP printer, and it does beautifully with colored cardstock! Calypso Coral was my choice, and I just printed away and finished the page!
What a fun project this was! The only thing that took a long time was getting my craft room table up and running so I could do the project! I'll have more done by tomorrow and will share them with you. I'm so excited to have gotten this far!
Here are the products I used today. The Project Life producs are new AND available! So exicted as I've been reading about Project Life for several years and didn't get into it because it wasn't Stampin' Up! Now it is and I'm into in BIG TIME!
Absolutely Incredible Kid – A Digital Page!
Aloha, all!
Today is this year's Absolutely Incredible Kid Day. "Celebrating its 18th anniversary, Camp Fire's Absolutely Incredible Kid Day honors our nation's youth by asking adults to write letters of encouragement and inspiration to the incredible kids in their lives. It is a simple, meaningful way to let youth know how much they are appreciated. Lives are changed by this act of love and kindness."
Once I heard about this celebration and the reason for it, I didn't want to miss the opportunity to express my own appreciation for an Absolutely Incredible Kid in my life, my grandson, Quin. He's awesome in so many ways, but he's been especially awesome as he's blossomed into a wonderful performing artist. His latest venture, with his performing arts academy's guidance, is in performing on stage as a singer, both as a soloist and with a group. But what really woke me up to his incredible talent was his performance in his academy's production of Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas this past winter.
I'd never seen the movie on which this stage musical was based. But, a month or so before the performances, while I was visiting on the U. S. mainland, my son and grandson sat us down to watch the movie. I wondered how my grandson would play the role of Jack Skellington and wished I could have seen the play. Once I saw photos of the production, I knew just how wonderfully he had nailed the role!
Of course, now that I had the photos, I knew that I would have to make a scrapbook page or two memorializing this fab performance. Today's page is one that I made using Stampin' Up!'s digital program, My Digital Studio. This program is SO easy to use with just a bit of basic training courtesy of Stampin' Up! In fact, you don't really need to have much in the way of skill in putting digital elements together. You've probably never seen this exact layout no matter how much you use My Digital Studio. But that's not because it's an original layout. I took a pre-made layout originally meant for a Christmas Album and swapped out some (but not all) of the "papers" in the layout, along with the photo elements. In the original there were two places for photos, for example. In this modified layout there's just the one.
I couldn't decide which of the photos I wanted to use as the main element in this project. But I finally decided on the one that included a dance routine (my grandson takes dance lessons with the academy, too!), but went ahead and used the other two that I liked as background images.
And that's pretty much the way this whole page came to be. I'd see something that would spark an idea and then I'd go looking for something in the My Digital Studio library on my computer that would help me put that idea on "paper." Oh, and it's oh so much easier than it used to be to figure out what you have already purchased that would work for your projects. I went into my Stampin' Up! digital download files, and there are actual pictures of the downloads. So no guessing what images are in what downloads.
If you're at all interested in digital scrapbooking – or even making cards using My Digital Studio – I'll be more than happy to help you get started. There's a free trial available for the basic program, and I'd love to help you download it and get to know the program. Just click here to get started!
Another Scrapbook, More Pages – Even Easier!
Aloha, all!
This is a continuation of my blog post of last Thursday, where I talked about making three scrapbooks for each of my three North Carolina grandchildren using My Digital Studio.
Can you imagine making three traditional scrapbooks when you decide at the last minute that you need to take a scrapbook for each of three children when you go visit them in a few weeks? I don't even want to go there. I would be up until midnight for days in a row and NOTHING else would get done, including packing for my trip!
Stampin' Up!'s My Digital Studio to the rescue.
To begin, I made one scrapbook using My Digital Studio, from start to finish. That was the big project. Figure out the papers, embellishments and basic layouts. These are for children, after all, so I didn't need to crowd a lot of photos onto a page, and I didn't need a lot in the way of embellishments – just enough to make the final printed book look like some care had been taken to put it together.
The book captured photos from a trip that my husband and I made to North Carolina last Spring when I took LOTS of photos. Many of the photos were group photos, but many were also of just one child. I wanted have a book that included the group photos, but also photos of just the child whose book this was.
So I made the first book with many of the groups photos – such as the two pages that I showed last Friday. Then I included photos that featured the one child whose book this was to be.
For example, in this layout, the only child involved in the T-Ball game was Kiara. So this is unique to her book.
But all three children were involved in her or his own way in the project to make birthday cards for their grandfather. So the page layouts were the same for all three children, with different individual photos for each child's book.
The second and third pages took 5 minutes to do and most of that was in closing and opening files. Those pages that were the same in all three books took NO time for the second and third book. Can you even imagine all the work that would go into the second and third pages of a traditional scrapbook!?! Neither can I.
If you haven't tried out My Digital Studio, you can TRY IT OUT FOR FREE for 30 days! Once you buy it from my Stampin' Up! online store, I'll be more than happy to help you out as you get to know this fun and easy program!
Digital Scrapbook Pages – Made Easy!
Aloha, all!
For the easiest of all scrapbooks, Stampin' Up!'s digital program, My Digital Studio, is the best! And it's become even easier by allowing two-page layouts to be viewed and edited side-by-side! While my favorite new feature of MDS-2 is that you can color stamps with different "inks," being able to view and edit pages side-by-side is a close second in my voting for favorites!
While it was possible from the beginning to unlock the page views and see two pages side-by-side, the new feature of MDS-2 is much better than that. Now the pages sit side-by-side by design, and it's SOOO much easier to line up the elements in each page.
This is how the pages of a recent scrapbook looked while I was editing them. The first thing that was super easy was lining up the Border Embellishment from the Comfort Cafe Designer Kit. Before I would have had to look at the positioning of each border vertically by using the Edit feature. Copy the placement, open the other page, use the Edit feature, paste the placement number. There were a couple of other ways I could do that, but none would show me how the two pages would look side-by-side. Now I know visually that the two are lined up horizontally!
This way of looking at the pages also allows me to place the photos and other elements in a way that looks pleasing to my eye. Believe it or not, sometimes an angle of a photo just doesn't look right to me and I go fuss with it until my eye is comfortable with the placement.
As you can see with my designs, I like my scrapbook pages to be fairly clean and simple in their design. I definitely oooh and aaaah over the fabulous pages done by the truly gifted designers. But my focus is on the photos and getting them into a book that people will enjoy leafing through – to see the photos!
For my project last week, I was also doing THREE photobooks with a DEADLINE! Had I thought to make these photobooks earlier in the year, I would have been in a bit less of a rush. But once I decided that each of the three grandchildren involved in the story I am telling in this photobook had to have his or her OWN photobook,in JUST THREE WEEKS! things became a bit more complicated – and more of a rush.
My Digital Studio to the rescue! I now have all three photobooks at the printer and I should have them in plenty of time to show off at home and then pack for my trip to North Carolina later in the month.
And, no, it's not three copies of the same book! Each books is different, and not just in small ways. Check back here next Tuesday and I'll tell you more about them!
Breaking News: A Price Reduction from Stampin' Up!
Stampin' Up! has announced a PERMANENT REDUCTION IN PRINT PRICES for most of its My Digital Studio print projects, including the soft cover photobooks that I've designed for my three young grandchildren! So instead of the basic price for these books being $24.95, they're now $19.95. For 24 pages, including 2 that are printed as the front and back cover, that is a super deal. I'm definitely going to be having more of these printed with that kind of a price reduction. $60 sounds a lot better than $75 for three of these! If you'd like to know more about My Digital Studio and they printed projects, just send me an e-mail and I'll be glad to help you!
A Scrapbook Page – Explosion Style!
Aloha, all!
This blog post originally was part of the September 2012 SUDSOL blog hop. SUDSOL – or "Simply Unique Demonstrators Sharing OnLine") has a fantastic library of samples and patterns for me to use when I need something for a class or even just a day-to-day blog post! This is what I showed off as my contribution to the blog hop. I went looking through some old patterns to try to find something that I could make using up-to-date materials to add to the library.
A BOX????? What in the world is so special about a box? Well, in this case it's what's INSIDE the box!
It's a full 12" x 12" Scrapbook Page, is what! The design was a contribution to SUDSOL by former Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, Sherry Robinson, back in early 2010. Lots has changed in the Stampin' Up! catalog since then, and so I updated Sherry's sample with products both from the 2012-2013 Stampin' Up! Catalog as well as from the Stampin' Up! 2012 Holiday Catalog. As you can see, there are seven panels where you can place a photograph as well as two panels that have a place to insert some journaling note. Is that not cool? And if you look REALLY closely you'll see my contribution to the blog hop from the Stampin' Up! 2012 Holiday Catalog!
Here are two pictures that show how the page looks as I begin to fold it up…
…and as it's fully folded, ready for the lid to be placed on it. (Well, it's actually sitting on the lid in this photo – the only way I could hold it closed AND take a photo!)
Just quickly, I'll go over the Stampin' Up! products that I used for this project: Lucky Limeade, Tangerine Tango and Whisper White Card Stock; Summer Smooches Designer Series Paper; Fancy Fan Sizzix Embossing Folder; Sizzix Scallop Envelope Bigz Die; Tangerine Tango 1/2" Scallop Dots Ribbon; Rich Razzleberry 1/4" Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon; the 1-3/4" Circle Punch; the stamp set, Bright Blossoms (on the journaling paper).
Oh, and that Holiday Catalog product? It's the Window Frames Collection Sizzix Framelits. That is one product from the catalog that has GOT to stay around. I've been using it so much, it feels like a main catalog product!
If you were able to follow the blog hop, I'm sure you had a fun time looking at all the projects! And if you're too late for that, you could go back one post in my blog and see yet another project that I made from a pattern in the SUDSOL Library!
A Fun Way to Capture Letters to Santa
This post was originally part of a blog tour for the online Stampin' Up! Demonstrators group, SUDSOL.
You may still participate in the tour using the links at the bottom of this post. Lots of great holiday projects – and you don't have to be Demonstrator to enjoy it!
Aloha, all!
There are so many wonderful products in this year's Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini Catalog that I haven't been able even to start to use them all. One that I finally decided I had to use (because I have grandchildren who are young enough to still believe in Santa) was the stamp set, Dear Santa. I actually bought the set because I just had to have the "To: From", Holly, and Snowflake stamps in the set. I wasn't so sure about the "Dear Santa," but now I've figured out how to put even that stamp to good use.
These are two "Letters to Santa" books that I've made for two of my grandchildren (would you guess that their names are Morgan and Kiara?). These books are made from the 5" x 5" On Board Journal sold by Stampin' Up! I covered them with paper from the Designer Series Paper Set, Holly Berry Bouquet and decorated the front with the Dear Santa Stamp Set.
Inside each journal, I decorated pages on which the girls could write their letters to Santa – or this could be their Christmas Scrapbook! Most of the pages are decorated with either the snowflake or the holly sprig from the Dear Santa Stamp Set. But other pages I decorated with some of the stockings from the Stitched Stocking Stamp Set (also – you guessed it! – from the Holiday Mini Catalog!).
I actually got the girls to help me out with this. Last month, when I was visiting them, I asked if they'd each write a short letter to Santa so that I could use it when I was blogging about this project. They jumped right into it – and they both wanted a puppy! It was so touching, as they'd lost their last dog to an illness this summer, and you could tell right away that this was to be THE thing for this Christmas!
For the very young people in your life, they wouldn't even have to write in the book! Think about having them draw pictures of what they'd like, as Morgan drew a picture of the puppy she'd like. Or have them cut or tear pictures out of catalogs and paste them onto the pages. Hmmm, I might just have to cut some pictures out of the Stampin' Up! catalog to show Santa what I'D like this year!
Finally, you could use the pages that are the journal as the basis for a Christmas Scrapbook. You could make this into a fun 6" x 6" Scrapbook or even put the pages on a large 12" x 12" scrap layout. This is a hybrid project – the background and lettering is done with My Digital Studio and the rest is the "real" stuff. The stocking uses the Stocking Builder Punch and the candy cane is from the Sizzix Stocking Accents Die (both in the Holiday mini, of course!
And as for that puppy that my granddaughters had asked for for Christmas this year? It turns out that this year Christmas came two and a half months early. Their new puppy arrived three weeks ago and the whole family is absolutely thrilled.
I hope you've enjoyed reading about my idea for the Dear Santa Stamp Set! I had a lot of fun with it and I'm sure that you will, too.
If you're a member of the SUDSOL online Stampin' Up! Demonstrators group, click here find in the patterns section of the website a set of instructions for you to use as a tutorial or class handout, including a template to use to cut the holes through which the binding wires go and the measurements for the paper to use for the cover. Demonstrators who are NOT a member of SUDSOL can access the instructions, too – with a FREE two-week trial membership to the group! Why not try it out TODAY!!
CONTINUE on the Blog Tour
Invitation to a Challenge!
Aloha, all!
To begin, I hope that you all know that any time there's a challenge at the Stampin' Up! Only Challenge blog site, ANYONE can join in! You don't have to be a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator or even have a blog. There's a group called Split Coast Stampers that's a great place for you to post a photo of a card that you've made, and then you can link that photo back to the Challenge blog. In fact, I think I may just have to write a tutorial on how to do that – just one more thing to add to the list of things on which I'm procrastinating (I don't know if I should be making a smiley face or a frowny face after that statement).
OK – now here's my card for this week's SU-Only Challenge to make an invitation to a party. As I said in the SU-Only Challenge blog, it can be any kind of party at all. Well, one of the parties that I, as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, occasionally have is a "Crop" or "Scrapbooking" party. What better set to use to advertise such a party than the 2011 Summer Mini Catalog Stamp Set, Travel Log. This stamp set is the PERFECT scrapbooking stamp set for scrapbooks about trips that we've made. I wish I'd had more time to scrapbook this summer so I could have done more to demonstrate this set.
One of the things that I did with one of the stamps is something that I do on occasion – I cut it up into separate stamps. The three phrase stamps are all part of one stamp, but I cut them up so that I could easily stamp them individually if I wanted. I was also having difficulty figuring out when I'd want to use the stamp set with all three phrases together. Usually that would come to my mind immediately after I cut the stamp apart. But that didn't happen this time, so I guess I'm good with them split up.
The colors in this card, besides the Whisper White Card Stock, are Cherry Cobbler and Not Quite Navy. I accented each of the phrases with pennants cut using the Petite Pennants Building Punch. This is a great punch because you can punch both the straight-edged pennant and the scallop-edged pennant with the same punch! After I layered up the pennants, I tied them all with a bit of the Cherry Cobbler/White Baker's Twine. This is one of the products from the Summer Mini Catalog that's been carried over into the 2011-2012 Catalog.
Now I just have to figure out when I'm going to have that scrapbook party so I can make up more invitations! If you'd like to come, just let me know when.
And today I have a sketch for this card. After having had quite a few posts based on the sketches of others, I finally have one of my own that I can share with you!
I hope you have fun with your stamping this week! And don't forget to post one of your fab cards on the SU-Only Challenge blog!


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Newspapers last week struggled with how to report the Rev. Jesse Jackson's candid and crude remark about presidential candidate Barack Obama.
The Oregonian did not carry the initial story on the incident, looking instead for a broader story with more context on the relationship between the two men. That story came for Saturday editions and ran inside the main news section.
For readers who did not know what was said, or who did not have a detailed description of the remark, the New York Times story likely left them wondering. For the record, Jackson's remark about Obama was that he wanted to "cut his nuts" off.
The New York Times News Service piece described the comments as "profane criticism," which falls short of fully capturing the remark. The piece ended with Jackson himself characterizing the comment as his "pejorative and personally embarrassing remarks."
Go here to read more about how the Times handled the initial coverage of the remark.
This week, in a Los Angeles Times opinion column, chosen by The Oregonian's opinion page editors who make their judgments separately from the newsroom, the remark was described more fully but still without the full quote:
Jackson was a recent guest on a Fox News show and, while off camera, didn't realize that his microphone was on. The network made a recording of the longtime civil rights leader expressing a vulgar wish to castrate the putative Democratic presidential nominee over remarks he had made concerning the need for some young black fathers to behave more responsibly toward their families.
Readers do not expect The Oregonian to pass along vulgarities without some journalistic purpose. This incident did not rise in news value to the level where the quote needed to be repeated verbatim, but we could have taken more care to describe it more fully.
Go here to read more about how news organizations handled the matter.
Unlike some political stories, this was not one where readers called demanding full and prominent coverage.


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Saint Vincent-Highmark deal now up to state, county authorities
Saint Vincent Health System and Highmark Inc. are finished negotiating their proposed merger.
Now two outside authorities must approve the deal before Saint Vincent can join Highmark's new integrated delivery system, the Allegheny Health Network.
Both the Erie County Orphans' Court and the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office will weigh in on the merger.
"We review all hospital mergers from two perspectives: an antitrust perspective and a charitable trust perspective," said Dennis Fisher, spokesman for the state Attorney General's Office. "We will do that in this case."
Any Erie County hospital involved in a sale or merger must gain approval from the county Orphans' Court, which has jurisdiction over cases involving charitable organizations. The state Attorney General's Office regulates charities in Pennsylvania.
Though Saint Vincent and Highmark reached a definitive agreement March 28, they have not filed petitions with either the county Orphans' Court or the state Attorney General's Office.
"We have been providing information to other entities, which is required before you can file a petition in Orphans' Court," Highmark spokesman Aaron Bilger said. "Our plan is to file the petition in Erie County Orphan's Court within the next week or so."
Bilger added that filings with the state Attorney General's Office are "in progress."
"We are very excited at the prospect of becoming a part of the new Allegheny Health Network and this is a positive step for Erie as well as the entire northwestern Pennsylvania region," Saint Vincent Chief Executive Scott Whalen said in a statement. "This new model of care will be patient centered, preventive and physician led. This will mean more affordable health care and, more importantly, health care that will be delivered in the community where our residents and patients live and where they expect to be treated."
If approved, Saint Vincent would receive $65 million from Highmark in exchange for giving the Pittsburgh-based health insurer the right to appoint 75 percent of the hospital's board of trustees.
Saint Vincent would join West Penn Allegheny Health System and Jefferson Regional Medical Center as part of the Allegheny Health Network.
Highmark is creating the network as a way to compete with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center health system, which includes UPMC Hamot.
Approval from the Orphans' Court or state Attorney General's Office is not guaranteed.
A proposed merger between Hamot and Saint Vincent fell apart in 1998 after Saint Vincent officials decided they couldn't approve conditions the state Attorney General's Office had placed on their deal.
DAVID BRUCE can be reached at 870-1736 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNbruce.


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RICFest Homecoming Update: All outdoor activities planned for Oct. 1 have been moved indoors. Click here for details.
Samuel Breene
|Nazarian Center (NC) 223
(401) 456-9520
Academic BackgroundB.M. in Music History and Violin Performance, Lawrence University Conservatory of Music
Advanced Performance Studies (violin), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
A.M. in Performance Practice (baroque violin), Duke University
Ph.D. in Musicology, Duke University
Courses TaughtPFA 461 Senior Seminar in the Performing Arts
MUS 205-206 Music History and Literature I & II
MUS 221 The Symphony
MUS 222 Opera
MUS 311 Music of the Baroque
MUS 312 Music of the Classical Era
MUS 313 Music of the Romantic Period
MUS 314 Twentieth-Century Music
MUS 360/560 Senior/Graduate Seminars in Music History and Literature:
Rise of the Virtuoso
Tradition and Innovation in American Folk Music
Current ResponsibilitiesHead of Music History and Literature
Director of the RIC Early Music Ensemble
Instructor of Violin and Chamber Music
Member of the Proteus String Quartet and the RIC Symphony Orchestra
Chair of the Department Honors Committee
Department Liaison for the Early Enrollment Program, College Honors Program, and Technology
SpecializationsMusic of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven
Baroque and Classical Performance Practice
Subjectivity in Music: Historical and Cultural Contexts
American Fiddling
Research and Professional ActivitiesFeeling for Sound: Mozart's Violin Sonatas and the Subjectivities of Performance Practice [book manuscript]
Conference papers at the Second International Conference on Music and Gesture (Royal Northern College of Music), Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (University of London), Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Indiana University), and national meetings of the American Musicological Society and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Preconcert Lecturer and Program Annotator, Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra
Orchestral Violinist with the Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Berkshire Symphony Orchestra, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Opera Company of North Carolina, and other ensembles
Active recitalist and chamber player with performances throughout the United States and abroad
Awards/Special RecognitionsJacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources, Council on Library and Information Resources
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania


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Cranberry liquid and thrush!?
Whenever someone has thrush apart from using cream general public say to drink cranberry liquid.How the hell does that help??xx
cranberry - for cystitis.
for thrush? capably, the insane itching will be relieved by an old remedy. run a small amount of TREX - yes, trex - the white vegetable-derived fat. Hope you are within the UK as you wont know what I'm talking roughly speaking. The Co-op sells it. Biocare (Birmingham) also sell a product that is excellent and inbred - however, its main ingredient is drastically similar to Trex. So try that - it's also very cheap.
you should take to the bottom of why you have thrush though. Read books on candida and how to do away with an overload of it.
by the way - loads of general public think "ooh, I'll drink cranberry liquid for my cystitis" and end up buying 'cranberry drink' instead - which is any full of sugar or sugar substitutes. The sugar is very obliging if you'd like to product thrush even worse...
something to do with the fluent chemicals and enzymes in the cranberries...comfort to calm the indection.
It doesn't. Cranberry liquid is antibacterial and useful for urinary infections. Thrush is a fungi, cranberry liquid is useless against it.
cranberry juice is great for bladder disfunctions.. one of it's properties apparantly.. you can buy it contained by tablet form, like royal jelly or garlic.. i lately whack orange liquid in next to it to make it appetite bearable :D
Cranberry is usefull for cystitis, not thrush.
oh its the best thing... cranberry liquid encourages those discouraging bacteria that are surrounded by your body to exit! it really does work! better than any drug trust me!
pretty sure they stop the bacateria from attaching to any part of your body, whether the infection is internal or external, hence removing the germs...plus it contributes towards ur daily river intake as well so it can help out ur skin as well as any infections!
its live yoghurt for thrush... consumption it helps... its the microbes in it that help with the fungal infection...
as stated up to that time... cranberry juice is for bladder infections.
i thought it be for use when you have cystitis (and it does work for that)
Its not thrush that you drink cranberry liquid for its urine infections. t helps beside the acid and alkaline surrounded by the urine which causes a burning sensation. For thrush applying canestan cream or a pessary and innate youghat really help.
From Suzi a nurse.xxx
Drinking cranberry liquid or taking freeze dried cranberry pills (which are available at most health food and supplement stores) sustain with thrush by combating yeast. Thrush is a form of a yeast infection. If you enjoy it, I am really sorry because I know that it can be painful. Cranberry is also adjectives in the treatment of urinary tract or bladder infections. It's a highly powerful natural antioxidant. Good luck.
dont know but my sister swears by it.
Never hear that one. Cranberry juice have a substance in it that coats germs and makes it easier to pee them out when you hold a bladder infection, but I think that would be an especially humiliated choice of beverage in one beside a sore mouth.
I thought it was cystitis it's righteous for?
Thrush people tend to recommend live youghurt on a tampon (it really does abet!)
Cranberry juice is accurate for urine infections, no thrush!
Use natural yogurt if you don't want to use the regular creams.
God I love YouQA! Its more human than Wikipedia.
Every time I log in I swot umpteen new things to store away for adjectives use and share.
If cranberry juice is fitting against infections, I guess its good to boost the throat against sore throats and colds too?
Cranberry liquid is recommended for cystitis and bladder infections. Cranberries contain an enzyme that paralyses the bacteria that end in bladder infections.
I don't think it would lend a hand with thrush at adjectives beacuse of the sugar content. Thrush thrives on a warm ,yeasty, and sugary environment.
The best means of access to help disagree persistent thrush is to get through a diet that is free from yeasts and sugars; so no breads, biscuits, sweets, beer, ; put away loads of vegetables and take a tablet of acidophilous every day. thrush lives within the gut, and is spread to the genital area immensely easily.
Acidophilous help replace the "friendly" bacteria contained by your stomach that stress, poor diet, boozing, and antibiotics destroy.
cranberry doesnt backing thrush it helps cystitus. it can atually nurture thrush with its illustrious acid content.
you inevitability acidophilis to help next to thrush
I am an alternative medicinal therapist and i don't know who told you that but its total rubbish, thrush is vaginal and cranberry only works on the kidneys and bladder. The origin it works with cystitis is because. Cranberry contains a component that stops germs from sticking to the walls of the bladder. The benefit is that the juices don't work by acidifying the urine, which is well-mannered because alkaline urine is more beneficial for beating bladder infections. Blueberry works newly as well.
I hold many remedies for your problem if you want to contact me touch free to do so.


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Centenarian celebrates at Olive Garden
Woman rings in 104th birthday
Surrounded by family and friends, a woman celebrated her 104th birthday at a restaurant in Citrus Heights.
The family has more than one reason to celebrate. Lucille Hicks has a living sister who is older than her. She also has five younger sisters, including another centenarian.
Hicks was born in Chico on 1909.
As a businesswoman, Hicks ran a gas station as well as a store in the Central Valley. She also started a vitamin company.
"I believe my grandma is still alive because she has never allowed herself to feel old," wrote Hicks' granddaughter, Brenda Sheriff Hicks.
On Monday, she celebrated at the Olive Garden, not too far from where Hicks lives.
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Nine of the region's top young chefs will go head-to-head in a kitchen cook-off later this month to determine this year's finalists for the prestigious Copper Saucepan trophy.
The annual competition, organised by the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitality Association, is now in its eighth year and is open to all chefs working in the hospitality industry with a maximum of four years experience. It has the support of some of the county's top restaurants, including the Michelin-starred Pipe & Glass at South Dalton and the Star at Sancton.
Each of the nine chefs will be asked to produce a three-course menu reflecting flair, skill and the best of local produce. The cook-off takes place on Thursday June 19 in the kitchens of the Hull College catering department and will be judged by Paul Vinsen, chair of the hospitality association, Joanne Bunce, curriculum leader of catering at Hull College, Helen Watson, of Beverley Food Festival, and food writer Roy Woodcock.
The two strongest competitors will then go forward to the final before a live audience at this year's Beverley Food Festival on Sunday October 5, with the chance of winning £250, the Copper Saucepan trophy and work experience within the kitchens of the renowned Winteringham Fields restaurant run by Colin McGurran, a recent winner on TV's Great British Menu, who was chosen to cook the sweet course at a special banquet in St Paul's Cathedral to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day Landings.
The runner-up will receive £100 and a day's experience at Winteringham Fields.
Those taking part in the cook-off are:
Kristian Whitehand, Drewtons
Adrianna Wypych, Cuckoo Café and Restaurant
Jonathon Moxon, Pipe & Glass
William Teyen, Holiday Inn Hull Marina
Max David Havler, Willerby Manor
Michael Moughton, Star at Sancton
Dominic Weatherill, Triton at Brantingham
Harry G Smith, Wrygarth Inn
Matthew Charlton, Bupa


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The Inquirer and Mirror
(April 25, 2014) The Artists Association of Nantucket has announced that the editors of Yankee Magazine have named the AAN's Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery as the Best Art Gallery in New England for 2014.
"We are quite delighted with this unexpected honor and are thrilled to be acknowledged by such an old and established publication," said AAN executive director Cecil Barron Jensen. "The fact that we are the only art gallery mentioned as an editors' choice in all of New England is a wonderful tribute to our talented artists and capable AAN team."
"More than 240 active artists belong to the Artists Association, which mounts changing exhibitions of their work in a two-level gallery space. Many focus on island scenes, so it's a great opportunity to take a fresh look at Nantucket's beaches, marshes, and weathered old buildings through the eyes of an artist," writes Yankee.
"The May/June issue has just hit the stands, thus is quite timely considering the gallery has recently reopened for our sixty-ninth season. This impartial distinction is marvelous because it not only recognizes the amazing range of our artists, it is a terrific credit to our entire organization," said AAN gallery sales manager Peter J. Greenhalgh. "It's a proud moment for all of us."
The AAN includes over 200 artist members–who display their work during fourteen changing exhibitions throughout the season–including island-made jewelry, oil, acrylics, and watercolor paintings, ceramics, sculptures, mixed media, photographs, and encaustic works.
The gallery is located at 19 Washington St.
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Freedom of the City Granted in Honour of PPCLI Centennial
May 22, 2014Members of the public are invited to attend a military parade, as soldiers from the First Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI) exercise their Freedom of the City in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the Regiment.
The Freedom of the City Parade will include an official ceremony at which Mayor Don Iveson and Lieutenant-Colonel Nick Grimshaw, Commanding Officer, 1 PPCLI, will re-enact the historic rite of allowing a formed military unit to march through the streets with "drums beating, bayonets fixed and colours flying."
Date: Friday May 23, 2014
Time: 11am
Location: City Hall Plaza
The parade will also include music by the Edmonton Police Service Pipes and Drums band, which has historical ties to the PPCLI and the PPCLI drums.
The granting of the Freedom of the City is the highest honour a municipality can grant a military unit.
For more information:
Kaetlyn Corbould
|Military Liasion
780-893-2450 (cell)


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What is your Marchie's obsession this week?
For ds, it is Iron Man both the song by Black Sabbath and the superhero. He sings it, talks about it, wants to listen to it all the time. I woke up to DS saying "I am Iron Man" over and over again this morning. He told me he wants to be Iron Man for Halloween and have an Iron Man themed birthday party. It was cute, but now it is just annoying.


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Pullman Sydney Hyde Park places you within 2 miles (3 km) of popular sights like Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge. This 241-room, 5-star hotel welcomes guests with a restaurant, an outdoor pool, and a 24-hour fitness center. It's in central Sydney and also close to University of Sydney and Circular Quay.
Enjoy a leisurely bite to eat at the onsite restaurant, or have a drink at the bar/lounge. Savor a meal from the comfort of your room with 24-hour room service, or get a quick energy boost at the coffee shop/café. Start each morning with breakfast, available for a fee.
Pullman Sydney Hyde Park's 241 soundproofed rooms provide refrigerators, minibars, and coffee makers. LCD TVs come with satellite channels and pay movies, and guests can stay connected with WiFi. Bathrooms offer hair dryers and free toiletries, and pillowtop beds with premium bedding and down comforters ensure a restful night. Free newspapers, laptop-compatible safes, and ironing boards are also available.
Property features
At Pullman Sydney Hyde Park, guests enjoy features like an outdoor pool, a 24-hour fitness center, and a spa tub. Valet parking is offered for AUD 65 per day. Multilingual staff at the 24-hour front desk can assist with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Other amenities at this luxury hotel include a sauna, WiFi in public areas, and 7 meeting rooms.
- Onsite dining
- Outdoor pool
- 24-hour fitness center
- WiFi in rooms and public areas (fees apply)
Pullman Sydney Hyde Park36 College Street Sydney NSW 2010
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
The 23-story Sydney Pullman Hotel is steps from the CBD (Central Business District). Hyde Park, a popular urban oasis, is adjacent to the hotel. The Museum rail station is just 0.2 km away.
A rooftop pool with spa tub and sundeck offers panoramic vistas. The Pullman Hotel's Windows on the Park restaurant showcases modern Australian cuisine, complemented by park and city views. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are served daily. The wine list features premium Australian selections.
Conveniences include a 24-hour fitness center, a concierge desk, business services, a number of conference rooms, and wireless Internet access in public areas and guestrooms (surcharge). Secure self parking and valet parking are available for a fee (height restrictions apply). A shuttle service to the airport is also available (surcharge). The hotel has a smoke-free policy.
- 24-hour front desk
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 241
- Number of floors - 23
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Coffee shop or café
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Conference space
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Business center
- Luggage storage
- Concierge services
- Meeting rooms 7
- Multilingual staff
- Terrace
- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant
- Snack bar/deli
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Sauna
- Spa tub
- Steam room
- Outdoor pool
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Valet parking (surcharge)
Family Friendly Amenities
- Outdoor pool
- Soundproofed rooms
- Snack bar/deli
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Refrigerator
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( AUD 26.50 per 24-hour period )
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( AUD 26.50 per 24-hour period )
Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Pay movies
- Premium bedding
- Soundproofed rooms
- Air conditioning
- Refrigerator
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Satellite TV service
- Pillowtop mattress
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Free newspaper
- Room service (24 hours)
- Down comforter
- Free cribs/infant beds
Where to Eat
Windows on the Park Restaurant - Located on level two with windows overlooking Hyde Park. A buffet breakfast is served and dinner daily.
Bar Rendezvous - Located in the lobby. Serves alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and snacks. Open from 3 PM until late.
Cafe Thirty6 - Located to the left side of the lobby, serves a la carte breakfast daily and lunch on weekdays. Closes at 3 PM.
Nearby Things to Do
The Cook and Phillip Aquatic Centre (0.5 km) has an eight-lane, 50-metre swimming pool, a leisure pool with wave machine and rapid river run, basketball and tennis courts, and a children's play area.
On site are a large number of recreational facilities including a 10-metre heated rooftop freshwater swimming pool with views of Sydney's CBD and Hyde Park. Other facilities include a two─three person indoor spa tub overlooking the pool area and Hyde Park. A sauna and steam room is located nearby. Also on the pool level is a two-room fitness centre containing cardio equipment with a treadmill, bike, and step machine, and a system for resistance training.
- Golfing nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
To make special requests for accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
Parking height restrictions apply
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: AUD 34 for adults and AUD 17 for children (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: AUD 26.50 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: AUD 26.50 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Self parking fee: AUD 55 per day
- Valet parking fee: AUD 65 per day
- Rollaway bed fee: AUD 70 per night
- Onsite credit card charges are subject to a surcharge
Hotel Name
- Pullman Hyde
- Pullman Hyde Hotel
- Pullman Hyde Hotel Sydney Park
- Pullman Sydney Hyde Park
- Pullman Sydney Hyde Park Hotel
- Pullman Hyde Park Hotel
- Pullman Hyde Park


text: Here is my second design. I would like to get pointers on this one as I feel there is something more that can be done. I have thick skin and a open mind so please let me know what you think. I hope to finish up this design in the coming weeks to submit. Thanks to all.