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PUSD $1057 to file a candidate statement:
Original post made by Julie Testa, Foothill High School, on Aug 1, 2008
To file to run for school board for PUSD is free but the candidate must pay the cost of the candidate statement $1057. Without the statement a name will appear but nothing else giving a great disadvantage.
Many school districts pay the full cost of the candidate's statement Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Dublin, and Fremont districts all pay the full amount. Livermore requires a $500 deposit they then pay the remainder, Castro Valley requires the full amount of $906. The amount is dependent on the number of registered voters and rangers from $465 to Pleasanton at $1057 which is the highest.
The City of Pleasanton requires $25 to file, $255 for the candidate statement to run for council or mayor.
It cost more than four times as much to run for School Trustee than to run for Mayor.
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a resident of Amador Estates
on Aug 2, 2008 at 5:31 pm
It is very appropriate for candidates to pay the fees. I am surprised and disappointed that some school districts would be willing to pick up such fees. The complaints just keep on coming.
a resident of California Reflections
on Aug 3, 2008 at 2:44 am
Public service should not be a financial burden.
People that want to give back to their community should not feel that doing so will take away from their family resources. Campaigns are costly and out of control. The cost of running for a local office should not be cost prohibitive or require a person to become beholden to anyone or special interest groups. In the case of a school board candidate I don't want to see candidates taking money from unions to fund their campaigns.
$1000. is unreasonable to run for local office it makes it out of reach for many people.
a resident of Alisal Elementary School
on Aug 3, 2008 at 1:19 pm
My taxes should not be used to support candidates, including paying fees.
a resident of California Reflections
on Aug 3, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Do you value representative government?
Do you want a range of candidates to choose from or only the candidates funded by special interest groups or wealthy individuals?
Our taxes are used to subsidize City Council and Mayoral candidates.
Then our tax dollars are used to pay a small stipend to cover some of the cost of serving in these elected positions. No ones time is covered but everyone understands public service should not be a financial burden.
a resident of Birdland
on Aug 4, 2008 at 10:08 am
Public service is a noble contribution of an individuals time it should not be a financial burden as well.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 4, 2008 at 4:31 pm
I agree with Tom's remark. The article said they get $400 a month and that's for how many meetings a month? And if they are doing their job, how many reports do they have to read for those meetings? I don't think anyone does it for the money but it sure shouldn't cost anyone much just to put their name on the ballot. They are doing a service for the rest of us in the community so I don't think we should look at it as a waste of taxpayer money. They will also probably spend plenty of their time AND money on their campaign.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 6, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Sir Winston Churchill said, "You make a living from what you get. You make a life by what you give."
Public service should be affordable to everyone.
a resident of Kottinger Ranch
on Aug 7, 2008 at 12:13 am
Don't most candidates raise campaign contributions that would cover the cost of the statement and other expenses associated with running for public office? It seems to me if someone is a candidate with a good chance of winning raising a couple grand in Pleasanton would not be a hard thing to do. I would donate to a candidate I supported. I think many other parents would do the same. The filing fee should not keep serious candidates from running and I think they can get this covered by their supporters. If they don't have enough support in the community to get contributions than maybe they are better off not running at all?
a resident of Oak Hill
on Aug 7, 2008 at 1:31 am
Please educate me - what's the true purpose of "filing fees" for public office? Is it to cover the cost of the processor and the paperwork involved?
If that's the case, the processor, and all others involved in the filing process, whom I assume are public employees, are already being paid with public funds to provide this service(in other words, it's their job). Would I be correct in assuming this is another minor funding source for cities, counties, states and feds.
Maybe I'm not seeing "the big picture", but if my analysis is correct, it's seems a "double whammie" on prospective candidates.........
a resident of Foothill High School
on Aug 7, 2008 at 11:13 am
Yes it is "cost recovery", paying again for what our tax dollars have already paid for.
The cost is for the candidate statement. It is a shared cost for typesetting/layout, printing,mailing, language translation, and all of those cost again for different languages.
Pleaseanton has 40 voters that require spanish translation and 250 that require chinese translation but of the $1045 that each candidate must pay out of their own pocket $369 goes for 290 voters. Pleasanton has 38,990 registered voters.
I think all of the cost is excessive.
a resident of Birdland
on Aug 7, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Julie, you are a golden source of information that many of us have come to trust over the years. The fee is excessive. Remember -- representative democracy, of the people, by the people, for the people. Cap the fee at $100. Only raise the fee to keep up with inflation on an annual basis.
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Friday, December 9, 2011
There's nothing like sitting on a beach or touring through another country to leave work and worries behind. But for many professional women who are always striving to further their education, a beach vacation just isn't stimulating enough. Imagine putting a purpose behind your travels, a purpose that runs the gamut from participating in fun and exciting cultural activities to learning the ins and outs of a country from the people to the business and government.
Since 1997, Malía Everette has been director of Global Exchange's Reality Tours program. She oversees the growth and development of alternative travel programs to 40 destinations around the world. From the United States to Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Europe, and the Caribbean, Everette promotes in-depth experiential education and socially responsible travel as an alternative to the "sun and fun" tourism that often results in cultural homogenization and does little to benefit local communities and host economies. The organization is based in San Francisco.
Womenetics: How did you start working with Global Exchange Reality Tours?
Malía Everette: I started in March 1997, when the organization was 8 years old. It was a young, but very well-established nonprofit human rights organization. As an educator, social justice advocate, world traveler, and recent graduate with a master's in international relations, I was compelled to apply and delighted when I landed the job because I had traveled with the organization to Cuba in 1991.
The group travel experience for me was inspirational, educational, and transformational. I had traveled to over 30 countries around the world before that Reality Tour, but the model and the access we had to various institutions like schools and hospitals, to individuals and artists, as well as government representatives was amazing. All I wanted was to take my passions and build upon the powerful model that Global Exchange had built. Looking back, almost 15 years later, I can say I never thought that I would have found such a perfect professional fit directing a socially responsible travel business.
Womenetics: Can you explain the relationship between Reality Tours and Global Exchange?
Everette: Global Exchange is a nonprofit human rights organization working for global political, economic, environmental, and social justice. Since 1988, we have worked to increase the U.S. public's awareness of global issues while building progressive, grassroots international partnerships. Global Exchange pursues these goals through four program areas: fair trade; public education; human and global economic rights campaigns; and, last but not least, reality tours, which educate the public about domestic and international issues through socially responsible travel. Thus we are one program of Global Exchange.
Womenetics: Can you explain your gender-focused tours, created specifically for women?
Everette: Sixty-eight percent of our travel alumni are women. We don't necessarily focus on attracting women to our tours; rather our tours are attractive to women. All of our open listed tours, for example, have sample itineraries, yet when we have a final sense of the group and its unique interests, we customize some of the visits. Thus responding to the backgrounds, professions, special requests, and passions of women on the tour is very important to us. We can tailor the specific tour a bit to ensure that we are maximizing the potential for long-term relationship building or at least enhancing the level of exchange and therefore learning.
As a human rights advocate, I know that women across the world bear a disproportionate burden of the world's material poverty. Just look at international intergovernmental organizations like UNIFEM (the United Nations Development Fund for Women) and its decades of data. It exposes how women are more likely than men to be poor and at risk of hunger because of the systematic discrimination they face in decision making, politics, education, health care, employment, and control of assets that often transcend physical borders.
Our women's delegations are an important tool for exploring countries, political economies, and cultures through an intentional gendered lens. We highlight the advancements, obstacles, and struggles of women from diverse sectors of society and learn about how they envision and live social change.
Womenetics: How do you involve women in other ways?
Everette: Gender analysis and inclusion does not stop with our gender-focused tours. On all our tours our participants always have an in-depth look at the reality of destination countries through direct observation of the host society.
We are very instructive with our program officers around the world to include women as speakers and include women's organizations into our itineraries. This is about balance and inclusion, and it helps our participants better learn about the country's history, politics, economy, religion, government, health care, agriculture, education, and environment, all while participating in exciting and fun cultural activities.
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Everette: Travel can always be a learning experience. Even individual travelers, high end to backpacker, can have their world view change in a day from an unplanned encounter that pushes their comfort zone, inspires a new way of seeing the world. I know this firsthand. I constantly see how I am a student of life when I travel. I truly believe any kind of person is a good fit for a tourism product that is educational or seeks to bring folks off the beaten path. However, those who will most enjoy it are those who are already curious and prepared to learn. My favorite participants are those who come with plenty of questions.
Womenetics: What are your client demographics?
Everette: Half of our 100-plus departures every year are customized tours. Most of these are for schools, colleges, and universities, but we also organize them for choirs, dance troupes, other travel agents, families, churches, and membership organizations. Thus the demographics are very intergenerational; on our general open tour you can find college students, professionals, and retirees.
Womenetics: How do you choose your topics and locations for tours?
Everette: The development of our tours has ebbed and flowed according to current events in the United States, changes in the international political economy, and by the interests and passions of our staff in the United States and around the world.The Reality Tours program seeks to enhance understanding around various issues with four strong program areas or themes of tours that all allow space for other destinations to be added.
Our open tours fall under: Citizen Diplomacy Tours, focusing human rights and peace and justice issues; Fair Harvest Journeys, focusing on the fair trade story and offering opportunities to learn about globalization, economics, and alternative development models while also offering service learning or voluntourism; Anti-Human Trafficking Delegations, in partnership with the abolitionist organization Not for Sale, seeking to educate travelers about modern-day human trafficking and slavery; and last, Sustainable Solutions, about programs around the world that focus on sustainable examples of development and enhance understanding of social and ecological issues.
Womenetics: This seems different than the volunteer tourism that has become popular. How does it differ?
Everette: Volunteer focuses on the act of doing a project, while our tours also focus on active engagement. Our emphasis is around education and understanding. Instead of just picking coffee beans, for example, we also ensure that the participant understands the story of primary commodities in the world market, the natural history of coffee, what the day-to-day lives of farmers are like, etc. While I applaud the desire of the volunteer traveler to do good, and I love our humanity's generosity of spirit, I also strongly believe that we need to travel in an ethical and respectful way, one that is based on partnership. I believe that we also need to carefully scrutinize development projects where the tourist does the work. I know there can be some great programs out there, but we have to do the due diligence to ensure that these projects are ones the locals want and will benefit from, and that the capacity building to maintain and fund the project are also built into the project for the long term.
Womenetics: Can you tell me about you business model? Do customers pay to go on these tours or are they sponsored?
Everette: The business model is based on social responsibility. This is an ethical approach and a pragmatic business approach. We want and ensure that the majority of the package price that people pay for a tour actually stays to benefit the local or national economy. In fact, 70 percent or more of every Reality Tour dollar stays in the host economy. This is in dramatic contrast to the capital flight, or leakage, that plagues the conventional tourism industry. Sadly 50 to 90 percent flies back to the North. This means most of those tourism packages online are not truly benefiting the country or community you are visiting.
Even though Global Exchange is a nonprofit organization and Reality Tours exists primarily as a dynamic public education program, we charge people to participate in our journeys. Thus ours is meant to be a self-financing program that in good years can also benefit our organization. Though we offer financial assistance to selected recipients, the majority of our travelers pay the total in-country cost and then a bit more for our administrative costs.
Womenetics: What about your own personal travels, where do you go for vacations and why?
Everette: I travel a few times a year to recharge myself, and as a single mom I also want to offer incredible educational adventures to my sons, 10 and 11 years old. I try to travel back home to Oahu every year to immerse myself in nature and beauty. I also try to travel to the Amazon every few years because, for lack of better words, I am spiritually compelled to do so. I love to experience the phenomenal biodiversity nature has as well as be exposed to new cultures. I try to expose my sons to a different state and country every year, plus we take a few camping trips in California and Oregon. With extended family in Cuba, we also try to spend some time there every few years. I am blessed that my sons have traveled to nine countries throughout Latin America. We are talking about China, Japan, and Malaysia next summer.


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I wasn't too much of a fan of Sandra Bullock at first (although I did like her in The Net), but she has really come back and I must admit, since she has had a chance to be in venues that showcasw her talent she has truly amazed me and earned the respect of being a new favorite in my book. – Thank you Ms. Bullock!
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You are a true winner. Love ya Sandra keep up the good work…
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Im glad she WON!!!!! SHES AO REAL N COOL…….B.O.L.
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Ahhh I was about a month and a half behind and finally caught up. Sounds like you guys are having an amazing time. It's awesome that you're able to catch up with friends and family. I feel like I talk to you all the time just by reading your blogs, love it!
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The first place we came to was really hopping with super loud music. We were all like I thought it was Sunday night. We thought about hanging out there but it wasn't really a good place to eat. Colleen was like people go out every night here and it really depends on what the crowd is like for how the bars will be. We next decided to try to hit up the bar right next door, but they were having a private party. After that we decided to walk over to the Pacific Beach Bar and Grill. We were able to get a table outside here and have some dinner and drinks
After dinner we decided to play some beer pong at the bar. They had a couple of tables set up for it. I was wearing my I <3 beer pong shirt so we were destined to play. Rocks and Matt killed us though. We played about 3 games and were playing with Stone IPA (this was not a good choice since it made us all super full). After finishing up beer pong we headed home.
Monday, May 2nd
We didn't do to much today. We slept in and then decided to take Nash on a long walk to check out the area. We headed down to the beach and hung out on a bench over looking the ocean for a while. Then we just continued walking around checking out the area. We walked down to Mission Bay to see the bay and then we headed back towards the house. On the way back we decided to stop at Ez-J's Sandwiches for a late lunch. We both really enjoyed our sandwiches, they had tons of stuff on them.
We decided to put on our bathing suits and hang out in the yard in the sun for a while. When Matt got home him and Jared played some ladder ball. When Rocks got home we decided to go to PB Sushi for some sushi and $1 sake bombs. I have some pictures of our half eaten rolls and our sake bombs all set up. It was definitely a great meal and a great time. The limit on $1 sake bombs is 10 so we of course decided to hit the limit. We weren't planning on at first, but our waitress was persuasive and we messed up some of them (by the sake falling in before we were all ready) causing us to have to do another to make up for the mess up. It was definitely a good night.
Tuesday, May 3rd
We slept in again today and then decided to go on a bike ride to La Jolla Cove. It was a little bit over 4 miles to get there. When we got there we rode around some checking out the different views and stopped to see the seals hanging out on a rock. There were a bunch of them. Then we decided that we were hot so we should go down to the beach to cool off and relax. The water was freezing so all I had to do to cool off was just stand in it briefly
Rocks had a gala for work tonight and Matt had class so we were on our own for dinner. We decided to stay in and just cook for ourselves. After dinner we just hung out and watched Kill Bill. It was a nice relaxing night.
Wednesday, May 4th
Rocks had off from work today so we were able to hang out with her all day. Rocks coaches a high school lacrosse team and she was hosting a pasta dinner for her girls after practice tonight. So we spent most of the day getting the stuff together for the dinner and then we hung out in the yard to soak up the sun. Rocks' assistant coach Kelly came over to hang out with us for a little bit and then I headed to practice with the two of them.
It was lots of fun to be on a lacrosse field again. Rocks and Kelly are both good coaches and they let me help out. Rocks told her girls that they were to listen to any input I had. I tried to keep quiet in the beginning but before long I couldn't help myself from getting involved
The pasta party was also a surprise going away party for Kelly so Rocks, Kelly and I stopped to have a beer after practice to give the girls enough time to get to the house before us. Luckily Jared and Matt were making sure the food was hot and ready to go. They were a huge help and the pasta party was a success. After all the girls left we just cleaned up and hung out for the night.
Thursday, May 5th Happy Cinco De Mayo!!
Today we took the bus down to Old Town. It was a super cute area with lots of shops and restaurants. We spent most of the day just walking around and checking out the sites. There were a lot of people out for Cinco De Mayo. We decided to stop at one of the places that had some dancing going on the stage for the margarita. We got a super huge one to split
After hanging out for a while we talked to Matt and he said that he could give us a ride to Rocks' game. So we decided to take the bus back to the house so that we could eat some food and head out with him. We went to Rocks' game, which was intense. When we got there it was 1-1 and it was a battle the whole game. Rocks' team ended up losing though which did not make her a happy camper. She said that they totally should of won, but their turnovers killed them. I am sure she will be working them hard before playoffs start. They do have some really good players on the team.
After getting home from the game we decided to have some margaritas and then we drove Rocks and Matt to the airport. They are flying out tonight to head East. They are going to Matt's 10 year high school reunion this weekend. We are going to stay at the house this weekend and take care of Philip their cat.
I forgot to write about Philip the cat until now. Him and Nash were not very good friends when we first got here. It was really Philip who kept hissing and throwing paws at Nash
Friday, May 6th
We decided to do some driving in Rocks' BMW convertible today. It was awesome. We first headed to Cabrillo National Monument to check it out. It is part of the National Parks so we were able to get in for free with our pass. We basically just walked around checking out the sites. There was a light house that we were able to go in but we couldn't go all the way up though. After that we drove to Coronado which was a cute beach town south of where we are staying. We were going to get out and walk around but we decided to just do a drive by since we wouldn't be buying anything in the shops anyway.
After leaving Coronado we headed to the Gaslamp Quarter. We parked and got out to walk around here. It reminded us some of old city with all the bars, restaurants, and shops around. We walked around for a while just checking it out and then headed to the Hopping Pig to grab a late lunch
When we finished up lunch we headed back towards the house and stopped for a case of beer. We decided that we were going to have a lord of the rings marathon and do our laundry. We have lots to do so it will be a busy night.
Saturday, May 7th
Today we decided to head to the Torrey Pines State Reserve today for some hiking. There are a bunch of different hiking trails and we decided to combine some of them. It was chilly in the morning, but ended up being a really nice day. We had a great time just hiking around and taking in the sites.
After we finished up hiking we headed back to the car to eat some apples and then head on to Kohl's. We had to return my Literati. It would turn on but not move past the start up screen. I was able to return it with no problem, but they didn't have any in stock so now I am without an e-reader again. I will have to try to buy another one some where else along the way
After we got home we watched some movies and had a fantastic dinner. Jared grilled the steaks to perfections.
Sunday, May 8th
We are heading out from San Diego tomorrow morning so we decided to clean up and pack up today. We spent most of the day taking care of that and making some strombolis for dinner. Once we got done all of our chores we just relaxed and played some games. Rocks and Matt were supposed to get in around 7pm, but there plane is delayed so now they won't be in until 12:45am. We are just playing some games and waiting to pick them up.
Tomorrow we are heading to Temecula for some wine tasting and a couple different wineries and then we are going to head on to Los Angeles.


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NECA, which has previously handled portal guns as well as Borderlands and Diablo action figures, has recently unveiled its newest project: a fully functional motorcycle helmet that Master Chief himself would appreciate.
The models of the Mjolnir Mark VI-style helmet don't show any color yet, but if they're any representation of what the final product will look like, don't be surprised to see one or two of these on the road come 2015. The models are meticulously detailed with the final product to feature a fully functional visor. To see the helmet's design in all its rotating glory, check out the video below.
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The 13 Greatest Adventures for 2013
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-Richard Bangs
Though the odds have been bucked (there are bold travelers; and old travelers; but no old bold travelers), I've been reconnoitering the backs of beyond since the exordium of modern adventure travel, and have written about quite a few. I would imagine I could swing my Bic with the best of them. Nonetheless, I am daunted by AdventureLink, which boasts the world's largest database of adventure travel trips and outfitters.
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13) Borneo (Sarawak and Sabah, Malaysia)
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It would be remiss of me to predict a wave of desperate midlife crises in Why won't the kids leave home? without examining what exactly constitutes such a thing these days. It's generally used as a derisive term to explain frivolous and out-of-character behaviour in someone over the age of about forty.
"Introduced to popular psychology in the mid-1970s, the midlife crisis is now entering its own midlife years," says Psychology Today's Fulfillment at any age.
Sometimes a midlife crisis is triggered by an event such as illness, menopause, children leaving home, the death of a parent - or even attending a school reunion and realising that all these "old people" are, in fact, your ex-classmates. Other times they just occur with the passing of the years.
The recognition that your life is probably half over can bring on feelings of regret and a sense of lost possibilities - and result in a flurry of activity that others identify as a midlife crisis. In order to assist with the meaningful expression of your midlife crisis, I've considered ten different manifestations of this phenomenon. Some of them sound more fun than others.
Affairs: Having an affair with someone younger is a tried and tested way of compensating for your own grey hair and wrinkles. Not recommended if you're already committed but, if you're footloose and fancy free, what have you got to lose apart from your dignity?
Appearance enhancements: Shedding weight, dying your hair and using Botox are all ways of giving your outer shell a more youthful appearance than the candles on your birthday cake suggest. Is it just my imagination or do we all look far younger for our age than previous generations?
Babies: Difficult as it may be to believe, some women's midlife crises and associated lack of purpose inspire them to have a baby. There are children walking around today who were their mother's one last attempt to prove their fecundity and, ergo, their worth.
Blogging: The mantra seems to be: if you can't beat it then over-share your experience with an unspecified number of strangers. Midlife crisis blogs abound. A Google search reveals over 2.8-million.
Fast cars: Buying a sports car, preferably a convertible, is every bit as clichéd as having an affair. See TopSpeed's list of the top five midlife crisis cars which includes M-Series BMWs and Porsche 911s.
Religion: A freshly discovered sense of your own mortality and perhaps a fear of death might lead you to embrace religion in midlife. Depending on which of the world's faiths you choose, you may be promised eternal life or reincarnation. Religion cannot be beaten as an antidote to mortality.
Partying: Considering the fact they're almost guaranteed to result in hangovers and undue tiredness, late nights combined with alcohol and recreational drugs seem an unlikely way of recapturing one's youth. Nonetheless excessive partying is a well trodden path to relieving the dullness and boredom that can accompany middle-age.
Physical challenges: These can be running marathons, swimming the English Channel, climbing a mountain or taking up a new sport. You'll benefit from increased fitness levels and hopefully feel more energetic too. Unfortunately, the subtext of "I need to achieve this before old age slows me down once and for all" isn't quite so uplifting.
Self improvement: Whether it involves learning a language, going back to university or taking a Landmark Forum course, personal development is designed to make you feel good about yourself and temporarily take your mind off your creaking knees and stiff back.
Volunteering: There's nothing like helping those less fortunate than yourself to make your own middle-age angst fade into insignificance.
Have you had a midlife crisis yet - if so, how did it manifest itself? Have you watched someone's unfold? Do you plan to have one in the future?


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What movie has been YOUR most anticipated? I'm certain that a lot of people are going to answer with the "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace", but the field is really wide open. Who knows why people would look forward to certain movies more than others? Perhaps it was a literary adaptation from a novel you really liked, or a sequel to a movie that you and your friends really loved. A certain installment of a long running franchise… maybe you couldn't wait to see how Rocky would follow up toppling communism.
Whether its your favorite actor or actress, or a recurring character, or a chapter in a series of films, we've all anxiously awaited a new movie at some point in time or another. So let's hear it! Which movie was YOUR most anticipated?


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I would like your opinion as to which is best: the use of 9 or 10 frames in the brood chamber. I have seen a couple of opinions and cannot make my mind up. The 10 frame configuration is closer to what we find in a natural environment.
I would like your opinion as to which is best: the use of 9 or 10 frames in the brood chamber. I have seen a couple of opinions and cannot make my mind up. The 10 frame configuration is closer to what we find in a natural environment.
I run 9 narrow frames in an 8 frame deep hive body because that is the closest to what we find in nature.
This only works in the brood chambers.
Ten frames in a standard width box gives you more space for the queen to lay in that box. Nine frames makes comb manipulation easier. It doesn't matter in the long run all that much, in my opinion.
Mark Berninghausen
Whatever you do, keep the frames all pushed tightly together in the center of the box. If you use 9 frames, you will find the outside ones extra fat on the outer side, but will still have more room to take frames out.
If you space them out, you will get a very large amount of bridge comb at the top of the frames and the honey arc will be very fat and uneven, making it very difficult to get the frames out without making a mess. Bees respond to extra space above 3/8" by building comb to close it up, and you will have far too much space between brood areas as they will NOT draw brood comb deeper, it stays the correct depth for raising brood, no more.
I did this my first year, learned quick. My brother tried spacing out nine frames and had a nightmare, lumpy comb that "interlocked" so it was very hard to get frames out without damage to the brood area, drone comb in patches everywhere, etc.
I'm trying narrow frames this year, I think it will produce much better brood comb, less misplaced drone comb, and better wintering. I have a couple nucs ready for swarms, and I'll replace any frames I take out of my existing hives for nucs with narrows until I convert them over.
I cannot see why the extra frame would make a difference to the total area that the queen has to lay in. Studies have shown that a good queen can only use the equivalent of FIVE full brood frames, even though this might be spread out over 8 frames or more.
Surely the difference between 9 and 10 on the brood surfaces means a single layer of bees in the 10 frame and a double layer in the 9. This surely allows the bees in the 10 frame to cover more brood, keep it warm and expand faster in the spring.
However, what happens with ventilation? Is the 9 frame able to cope with keeping the hive cooler in high temperatures than the 10?
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i started with nine, because that's what the first person that helped me told me to do.
i have since switched to 10, and push them tightly together.
i like this better because:
there less propilizing in between the frame's end bars
they are easier to pry apart using the crook of the hive tool
the comb is more even
i roll less bees by 'sliding' the tapered stops on the end bars past each other when putting them back in
i have read the bees preserve heat and cluster better with that spacing
i use nine frames however, in the honey supers, to get the fatter honey frames.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
Actually, needing two layers of bees means it takes twice as many bees to cover the same amount of brood, not the reverse. There is also more air movement in the wider space, which means more heat needed to keep the brood warm in cold weather.
In a feral hive, the brood combs tend to be about 1.25" apart, with drone brood and storage combs spaced more like 1.5" on the outside of the brood nest. Varies a bit, obviously, and we are putting frames in the hive and variable spacing isn't really possible for more than a few hives.
Narrow frames (1.25" spacing rather than 1.325") always gives flat comb all the way up to the top of the frame since the honey arch isn't thicker than the brood area, reduces the bees to a single layer and lets them control the airflow a bit better.
Mark Berninghausen
A full depth Langstroth frame with 5,4mm cells has about 3,250 cells per comb face. That is about 6,500 cells per frame. If we have a really good queen pumping out about 1,500 eggs/day then it will take her about 4 days to fill the area of a single frame. 21 days for a brood cycle and we can see that the brood area is maximum 5 full frames. The rest is pollen and feed honey, which, when is in the outer frames, acts as a stabilizer against temperature fluctuations.
Were these 9 FULL frames? Or did they have less than 100% brood. I can't imagine 9 frames 100% brood. I have seen many colonies spread the brood over +- 15 combs, but when it is measured it never amounts to more than about 30,000 cells.
yep, nearly all brood. this was a very strong colony last year brooding up in the fall for winter. we had a really good fall flow last year. i acutally donated a couple of brood frames from it to some nucs i had started.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
I guess some AHB in the make up?
none found this far north, yet. these bees were more yellow, italian?, heavy propilizers, and darn good honey producers. also the only survivors out of 6 old hives that had preventative afb treatments stopped abruptly.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
Interesting bees to say the least.
How about 11 frames per deep
Some small cell beek trim the frames to fit 11, I would but it's alittle hard to trim the frames with bees and brood.
I use 9 frames in the suppers.
My brother's bees are very dark, and man to they stick things together! Been known to close the bee escape hole and block off most of the entrance, too.
However, they are tough -- had a very light single deep make it through the winter last year, not that we had much of one, and typically they don't have problems with mites most years.
"German" black bees were popular some years back for this reason, but the amount of propolis them make puts people off them in favor of Italians.
I was told to use 9 frames in the 10 frame brood box, so I did. Then I put the other frame back in. It took a bit of adjustment, but now the frames are a lot easier to get in and out of the boxes and the bees seem a lot happier with it. I am thinking about possibly shaving down some frames and seeing if I can get 11 frames in my normal/commercially bought boxes.
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Rethinking Expertise. Harry Collins and Robert Evans. xii + 159 pp. University of Chicago Press, 2007. $37.50.
This slim book by Harry Collins and Robert Evans offers a conceptual typology of "expertises." The authors invent a plural form of the word to suggest that more than one type exists. They also identify a core or central type—contributory expertise, which they define as the possession of sufficient skill and tacit knowledge to participate fully in an activity; the prototype is the ability to perform experiments in a specialized science. This picture of expertise relies on Collins's long-running sociological research on controversies in experimental gravitational-wave physics.
The book's central focus is interactional expertise—a "parasitical" form characterized by an ability to "talk the talk" without being able to "walk the walk." The prototype of the interactional expert is Collins himself. Through his study of scientists searching for gravitational waves, he has acquired an ability to discuss that subject in a way that passes for expertise, even though he is unable to perform the relevant experiments or work through the mathematics. Collins and Evans's major insight is that interactional expertise sometimes proves adequate for practical communicative purposes. In other words, it is sometimes possible to know (or at least to speak in a way that seems knowledgeable) without possessing the relevant know-how.
Taken by itself, this insight might seem unremarkable, but it does have implications for public and organizational efforts to understand, regulate and manage specialized knowledge. It also can shed light on methodological problems that sociologists and anthropologists face when they study practices with which they are initially unfamiliar.
Many modern social institutions rely on expertise, and difficulties can arise when nonexperts are charged with making important legal, political, medical or economic decisions on the basis of expert advice. Jurors, government officials, voters, consumers, patients and, at some point, all of us can be puzzled about what to think or do when faced with confusing, often contradictory, expert claims about environmental and safety hazards, climate change, healthful diets, possible remedies for disease, and many other personally and politically consequential matters.
Collins and Evans suggest that the attainment of interactional expertise provides a possible way to gain adequate knowledge when we lack the time or capacity to acquire contributory expertise. Although this is a promising insight, it does not tell a juror, political official, voter or medical patient how to decide in any given case which substantive fields of expertise are relevant, which experts or bodies of experts can be trusted, or just how much interactional expertise might be adequate. The devil is in the details, and the devil remains well hidden in the book's abstract treatment of "expertises."
Collins and Evans make a point of saying that theirs is a "realist approach" and that their book "is meant to increase the chance that the process of coming to be called an expert will have more to do with the possession of real and substantive expertise." They insist that (authentic) experts possess genuine capacities or abilities, which are more than mere credentials: Contributory expertise involves real embodied skill acquired through immersion in a practice. They contrast their realist theory with "relational" theories, which they quickly dismiss for reducing expertise to subjective attributions. By doing so, they sweep under the rug what is most sociological about expertise—its embeddedness within social-institutional relations—and their realism becomes a variant of what sociologist C. Wright Mills once lambasted as "abstracted empiricism": an empiricism of constructed categories that never quite touches the ground. They pay little attention to specific cases of expertise in specific organizational contexts, because their schema treats expertise more as an individual ability or cognitive capacity that is acquired through membership in social groups.
Although Collins and Evans undertake the laudable task of distinguishing among kinds of expertise, their typology conflates expertise with commonplace competencies and normal capacities. They classify ordinary competencies, such as speaking a first language, as "ubiquitous expertises," and they treat the ability to drive in traffic as a common, but not quite ubiquitous, form of contributory expertise. Anything that involves skill and tacit knowledge is, by their reckoning, an expertise. In a series of rather strange experiments, they even go so far as to treat normal perceptual capacities, such as the ability to see the colors that color-blind individuals do not see, as modes of contributory expertise. Expertise thus loses any sense of being an institutionally accredited entitlement or activity-specific mastery beyond ordinary levels of competency.
They also use the word contributory in a restricted, and sometimes opaque, way. For example, one might wonder about "contributions" to a scientific innovation. Should one include only the authors of publications (who often work in different specialties and have variable distance from the hands-on experimental work)? Or should one also include as "contributors" the technicians who operate the equipment and calibrate instruments, the clerical staff who help file the records and assemble the publications, the lawyers who help with patent applications, the critics in the field at large who press the authors to modify their initial claims, the panels of "experts" that review grants for funding agencies, the colleagues who cite and give credit to the authors, the administrators and faculty committees who review the authors for promotion, and so on? Determining just what counts as a contribution can be a contentious issue within the organizations that produce and regulate scientific research. Indeed, focus on this issue is a constitutive feature of life in such organizations.
Contentions over what counts as expertise also arise in legal disputes. For example, in the thousands of lawsuits over possible teratological side effects of the morning-sickness drug Bendectin, which culminated in the U.S. Supreme Court's 1993 landmark ruling Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , judges were faced with deciding which areas of expertise to include as contributions to the deliberations: epidemiology, animal experimentation, structural chemistry and meta-analysis of epidemiological studies. One lesson that can be derived from examining actual cases in science, law, politics and many other fields is that expertise is a contentious and valued social phenomenon that is subject to distinctive organizational and institutional processes, tests and judgments. This lesson can lead one to consider how expertise is interactional , but in a very different way than is specified by the typology of Collins and Evans. Their conception of expertise makes sense when a single specialty has unquestioned relevance for a problem at hand, but it does not apply so well when many specialties, specialists and mediators are in contention with one another.
Although the authors present the book as a (social) scientific theory, decorated with "proof of concept experiments" and a "periodic table of expertises," Rethinking Expertise is largely an exercise in philosophy. As philosopher Peter Winch noted a half-century ago in another slim volume, The Idea of a Social Science , social and psychological theories frequently turn ordinary words into odd and confusing "technical" concepts, leading to what he called "misbegotten" modes of philosophizing. Winch is one of the few philosophers whom Collins and Evans cite favorably, but they seem not to have heeded his main lesson, and they pursue their philosophizing as though in a void (all too frequently citing Collins's own publications for examples and authority). Their theory of expertise has been extensively discussed and criticized in the six years since they first published and posted their earliest writings on the subject, but for the most part they have studiously insulated the theorizing in their book from criticisms and case studies that might well have led them to rethink Rethinking Expertise .
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The effect of property values increasing as a result of gays and lesbians moving in to a neighborhood.
Look at the gay couple that moved in down the street, they will make that place really nice and we'll get a homoequity increase on our property.
by JumpOffJoe May 15, 2013


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What is there to say about Journey into Mystery that hasn't already been said?
Although it began in 2011, this year was without a doubt the one when Journey into Mystery became all its opening issue implied it would: ambitious, structured, perpetually riding atop a crossover and clinging for dear life. Throughout it's two-year lifespan, there were only three issues of this series that didn't have some kind of promotional banner attached, and it's perhaps most thought-provoking that those three (comprising the Manchester Gods arc) were some of our favourites.
So there's something you can say about Journey into Mystery that hasn't really been said before: as good as it was, just imagine what it could have been with even a little more time.
Comparisons with Sandman have been made many times, but the books are as different as they are similar. Probably the biggest difference is that Sandman got 76 issues to tell its story, and Journey into Mystery got only 31. And had to devote a portion of those to servicing guests characters like Thor and the New Mutants in sales-buoying crossovers. The story of Kid Loki's journey was probably the best fantasy epic Marvel has ever published – if it had been given double the space, it could have been so much more. The denoument wouldn't have been so rushed. The mythology would have served more than its barest purpose. The ideas would have been followed up on and expanded. We'd have had something more like Sandman and less like Captain Britain and MI-13.
That's not to say there was a failure on anyone's part here. The book's creative team barely missed a step in two years. Marvel, for their part, kept the book alive as long as it needed to tell the barest form of its story. The fans spread the book's word, most notably on Tumblr where the Journey into Mystery tags were ablaze with the rarest kind of online chatter: praise, and enthusiasm. But the book wasn't overtly commercial, nor was it small enough that it could afford not to be. Under those circumstances there's only so far you can go. If anything about Journey into Mystery was wrong, it was the timing: the current comics market is conservative and unadventurous, unwilling to support smaller books, less tolerant of those that don't fit in a simple box. A series from a superhero publisher where the lead character didn't throw a single punch in 30 issues? A hard sell at the best of times, and 2012 was far from those.
But let's not forget that despite its all-too-premature conclusion, Journey into Mystery was still great. Deep, funny, surprising and sad. It had points to make and ideas to explore. It resolved a story by printing a board game. It did an issue starring (effectively) the devil. It snuck what was essentially a three-issue Phonogram arc into the Marvel Universe. It made friends, then killed them. But most of all, it was a comic you wanted to read, starring characters you wanted to spend time with. Amidst all the praise for the book's technical quality, remember that telling a story that hangs together is comparatively easy compared to telling a story people enjoy. Journey into Mystery was all that and more, and in the end, what I said at the conclusion of my CBR review of issue #645 still stands today:
It's tempting to say that we shall not see the likes of it again — but how depressing would it be to actually believe that?


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DRONE ON THE RANGE: There are only 7 northern white rhinos left in the world and 4 of them live in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya.
Protecting them and the other rhinos, elephants, leopards and other animals in the reserve is a particularly hard job for the 190 rangers.
Game poaching rates are soaring and the conservancy covers more than 36,000 hectares. Now the conservationists have raised enough money to buy a drone to help with their efforts. The electric drone will be fitted with a high-definition camera with zoom for daytime and infrared thermal imaging for nights. Each 90 minute mission should cover about 130 square kilometres while the drone sends a live stream of images back to base, providing a deterrent to potential poachers.
The rangers also hope to fit animals with unique radio frequency ID tags the drones will be able to track. It's sad that such measures are necessary to protect these vulnerable animals.
TINY BUT FAST: Need some hydrogen right now for your fuel cell? For hydrogen in a flash you just need some spherical silicon particles about 10 nanometers in diameter and a little water. The combination forms non-toxic silicic acid and hydrogen anywhere between 150 and 1,000 times faster than do silicon in bulk or in particles 100 nanometers wide. In tests the 10 nanometer particles yielded more hydrogen in less than 60 seconds than the 100 nanometer particles yielded in 45 minutes. The smaller particles are more expensive to produce but could be useful where speed and portability are more important than cost. Be nice to refuel your car at the nearest river too.
WATER HOLE: Current low-flow shower heads may reduce both water flow and pressure. But if you like a powerful shower perhaps the shower head that produces hollow drops may be for you. Felton's Oxijet nozzle creates the feeling of a full pressure shower, using only half the water. The nozzle pulls air into the water stream making the droplets hollow and expanding the volume of the shower stream. The aerator insert allows the device to work with existing showers already installed and can be fitted to most existing shower heads. So really you're showering in air with a bit of water on the side.
BALANCED SCOPE: NASA and the European Space Agency aim to map and measure some 2 billion galaxies with a new telescope. The data will also help scientists map dark matter and understand the role of dark energy in the Universe's evolution. The Euclid mission will begin in 2020 with putting a telescope into orbit at the Earth and Sun's Lagrange point L2, where the gravitational pull is balanced. For 6 years Euclid will map galaxies across about a third of the sky. It all sounds very geometric.
SKI SHOCK: Giro's Combyn Helmet is designed to take multiple hits but still protect your head while you ski or snowboard. The soft-shell helmet flexes and bends under pressure then pops back to its original shape. Two layers of foam lining absorb the shock from high and low energy impacts. Look after the head, folks.
Miraz Jordan, knowit.co.nz


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June 2, 1973
San Francisco, CA US
Kezar Stadium
Rock and Roll, Celebration Day, (Bring It On Home intro) Black Dog, Over the Hills and Far Away, Misty Mountain Hop, Since I've Been Loving You, No Quarter, The Song Remains the Same, Rain Song, Dazed and Confused (incl. San Francisco), Stairway to Heaven, Moby Dick, Heartbreaker, Whole Lotta Love (incl. Let That Boy Boogie), Communication Breakdown, The Ocean.
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News Report: 50,000 See Led Zeppelin in Bay City
The British rock group Led Zeppelin drew 50,000 rock fans who paid $320,000 at Kezar Stadium last weekend. Although the 2 ½ hour show Saturday was 6,000 short of capacity, listeners blanketed the football field and stands. Hundreds of others heard the music for free from rooftops in the surrounding neighborhood.
A month ago, Led Zeppelin grossed $309,000 to shatter the Beatles' mark in 1965. Organizers said the group netted better than $1,000 per minute during the show here. It was the second large rock concert in a week at Kezar. The only casualties reported were some bad drug trips, a broken leg and a security guard accidentally wounded with his own revolver.
More than 250 cars were towed away from illegal parking areas around the stadium, police reported.
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I too am wondering about Lee Michaels set and band mate
I was there... I remember waiting forever it seemed for Led Zeppelin to show up....
In the mean time Lee Michaels came on stage and rocked the house... just awesome..... !!!
Did "Frosty" (Bartholomew Eugene Smith-Frost) play that night?... I do remember it was only Lee Michaels and a drummer.... just makin' all that great noise... Wow!
If you found out any details please let me know...


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Area residents give back to others through Kinship Partners
Laugh more. Eat healthy foods. Stop biting the fingernails. Get a better job.
In January many of us make resolutions to guide our actions into the new year. However, over the years resolutions have become more superficial and appearance-oriented than in previous times. A typical New Year's resolution in the late 19th century was based on good works — to become focused on others, a more giving person or a more industrious worker — and less on body image or possessions.
Three area individuals are living testimony to those old-time resolutions of giving back to others. Each has befriended a child in need of another caring adult and positive role model in their lives. Ann Bergin (East Gull Lake), Paul Nelson (Crosslake) and Liz Blowers (Nisswa) began mentoring three of Cheryl Hilgers' six children during the past year through Kinship Partners.
Hilgers is a single parent living with six children, and she works as a home health aide. She grew up around Pequot Lakes and graduated from high school with honors in 1990. She maintains full custody of her children, while her former husband and father of the children lives out of state and has minimal contact.
Currently, the family receives no financial assistance, but does receive fuel and medical assistance, as well as food stamps. Hilgers uses the local Lakes Area Food Shelf regularly and calls them "awesome people."
Hilger sought help from Kinship Partners so her children would get to know what other families are like and to expand their opportunities.
"My extra time is spent cleaning," she joked, "and money is tight. Having a Kinship mentor is that extra positive thing I can give my kids."
Bergin, a mentor to third-grader Olivia and vice president of the Kinship Advisory Board, is a Kinship Partner because she likes children and believes her own youth could have benefited from a mentor. Before meeting Olivia, Bergin mentored another girl for more than seven years who now attends college in the Twin Cities. They continue to stay in touch with one another.
"So many kids don't get to experience how other people live," Bergin said. "I share with her that hard work pays off ... to stay off drugs. I give her the same little talks in the car that I had with my own daughter about teen issues."
Olivia's favorite activities with Bergin include baking sweet treats to later share with her family, attending Kinship activities and going swimming with Bergin's grandsons. With the help of Bergin's encouraging words, Olivia is brimming with confidence and ready to conquer her dreams.
"I constantly tell Olivia how smart she is and how she can grow up to be anything she wants," Bergin said. "I know I needed to hear those encouraging words. You can hang on to that forever."
Nelson, who mentors the only Hilgers boy, second-grader John, does so because he sees mentoring as a positive for the community and fondly recalls his own informal mentor as a young boy. But the new friendship doesn't come without some frustrations.
"It's hard coming up with creative, fun and educational activities for an 8-year-old," Nelson said. "But I model some of our activities on what Cub Scouts get to do. We built a birdhouse and I've given him an introduction to tools and technology. Hopefully it will give him a jump on what he's going to learn and need down the road."
Another area Nelson is reinforcing is gratitude. Nelson laughs when saying that he might be overdoing it a bit by using "please" and "thank you" in almost every sentence.
Nelson enjoys showing John what he does in his daily life, and the partners have worked together to wash and wax fire department equipment. Through this combination of work and play, Nelson hopes it leads John toward becoming an "ethically moral adult that works hard and has success in his life."
John's favorite experience has been riding the snowmobile for his first time. He also recalled walks in the woods and eating lots of pizza and ice cream. But even during those fun times John admits that Nelson has him "adding up sugar packets or counting money."
With a smile, John added, "I like him. He likes me. He tells me so."
Blowers and sixth-grader Erin have coined the term "Marvelous Mondays" to explain their time together. Blowers said Erin was at first hesitant to try new things but now "is game for anything." Together, and often including Blowers' husband, Drew, they enjoy shooting pool, fishing and playing card games. They also kept Erin reading over the summer and they continue to read aloud and discuss books over a meal. Blowers has acquainted Erin with her home business and they enjoy decorating for the seasons.
"Adults have lots of life experiences to offer a child," Blowers said. "Mentors are there to listen. You don't need to be full of advice or ready with a lecture. Mentors give them someone in their corner. Everyone wants that."
What does Blowers hope for Erin? Indeed, Blowers has hopes for Erin and said they have even discussed them. Erin has made a promise to Liz and Drew that she will never smoke or use alcohol in high school. They work on showing gratitude. Good grades are expected. Participation in extracurricular school activities is encouraged. Conversation is shared about college and careers.
But to Erin, it's all about having fun and trying new things.
"We both got to see our first 3D movie," said Erin, "and I caught some pretty big bass."
She thinks Liz is funny, but more important, a very caring person. It is also evident that having a male role model like Drew has been influential.
"He (Drew) said I have good eye-hand coordination and maybe I should try basketball," said Erin. That's still on the bucket list.
Bergin, Nelson and Blowers all believe that the No. 1 objection most people give for not becoming a mentor is time. Nelson said there is always time. It just needs to become a priority. Blowers agrees that the weekly commitment to the child might be scary and puts off some people, but it can be managed.
Bergin sums it up well. "It doesn't take a lot of time. The time equivalent figures to being about two TV shows out of the week. You can do that."
For more information about Kinship Partners in Crow Wing or southern Cass counties, call 218-454-8016 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit the website at www.kinshippartners.org.
Mentoring — Make it your New Year's resolution!
(Jean Kraft is the lake country program coordinator for Kinship Partners.)


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Thanks for another great blog
Hi Dalton: lovely to hear your voice yesterday and today. We love your blogs and are grateful to you for sharing your adventures with us.
What a lot of wonderful experiences you have had. Can't wait for you to tell us all about them.
Granada and last of Secret Beach
Trip Start Jan 31, 2008
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We stayed at Secret Beach for 2 more weeks. There wasn't any treasure on the beach after Alma, but there was a spring. It was an underground river that came up on the beach, the spring was like quicksand and the sand looked like it was boiling because of the water coming up. If you put your foot in it you would sink to the bottom where there was rocks.
when I was snorkling I saw a big jellyfish, hundreds of different types of fish and a big blue pufferfish about the size of my thigh.
On the last day of boogie boarding, the waves were huge! It was the best day ever!
I was sad when we left the apartment, because it was so nice and the time just flew. Everyday was nice, the showers kept everything clean and dust free
After our stay at Secret Beach, our host Manuel and Jesus took us to Santa Cruz to catch the bus to Liberia. From Liberia, after a short wait we took a Ticabus to Nandaime, Nicaragua and then another to Granada and now we are at Casa San Francisco in the Annex. I love it in Granada and we are staying two weeks and then afterwords we are going back to Canada. Where I will see my Grandpa, Abuela, Nana and all my friends and toys back home. I'll be happy to get back but I'll be sad to leave Central America, Granada and especially my favourite bird Charlie.
This pool is bigger than the other pool it is big enough for me to do dives and flips. First I learned to dive and then recentrly I learned to flip. My cannonballs have reached the roofline they are huuuuuuuuuge!!!!!! My uncle Bruce would be proud, my dad says he could do great cannonballs when he was a kid. I bet he still does great cannonballs. The pools is bigger and too deep for me to touch so it helps me learn to swim better.
We went for a trip to the isletas
On Father's day we went to a baseball game, the teams were Granada and Managua. At the beginning in the fourth inning Managua had one run and Granada had zero. In the sixth inning Granada put in a new pitcher. The first pitch he threw got hit for a homerun. The next pitch was a ball and the next pitch got hit out of the park again. For the next two days I was saying put a curse on that guy
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I like the design Carrie and the way you are putting it together.
QuiltE, you have fires burning in Canada?
Janie, I promised dh he got to use the new Bernina for his kilt sewing that he does for himself and he also quilts. In fact, his free motion is better than mine!! Right now, we are finishing up the Christmas presents two years ago for our son and daughter...too many thicknesses for my Bernina 1530. If I get the binding done on the table runner, Dd's is already to go. Found the fabric in Michigan and love how it sparkles for dd. Like snow crystals in blue and silver. son's is woodier with a 'log' in the center of the table runner.
I started to put binding on dgs birthday quilt, its 60 by 66, and broke the needle on the 1530; started on the new one 550, and broke the thread there, so I sat lunch on. The turkey was not cooked enough, did not taste like a butterball turkey and the turkey ran over in the oven, leaving a liquid trail of broth to the island. Commercial mix for gravy was not to our liking, so the hens got it in the afternoon. I will boil the bones for noodles and turkey; save some turkey meat to make a turkey salad sandwich with our surplus of eggs.
So I finished one side of the binding for dgs 's quilt, and then tackled the FWQ and put the binding on one side of it...using the new machine. No other new machine right now; plan to pick up the second one on Saturday...will wait and see what happens then...and will pick up the tables as well.


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Top: overview of works in "DeNature"
Middle: "Rot," glycerin soap, Jasmyne Graybill
Bottom: "Mound," mixed media, Willie Sanchez
UTSA Satellite Space presents sculpture exhibit
By Tim Brownlee
Assistant Director of Public Affairs
(July 27, 2007)--The UTSA Satellite Space and the Department of Art and Art History will present the exhibit, "DeNature," from Aug. 2 to Aug. 26 with works by graduate sculpture students Jasmyne Graybill, Scott Oldfield, Willie Sanchez, Jar Schepers, Young Wook Song and John Webb. The exhibit is free and open to the public.
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An opening reception is 6-9 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 2 at the UTSA Satellite Space in the Blue Star Arts Complex, Suite 115, at S. Alamo and Probandt streets.
The exhibit will be open for First Friday, the monthly Southtown gallery open house, from 6 to 9 p.m., Aug. 3. Regular gallery hours are noon-6 p.m., Friday-Sunday, or by appointment.
"DeNature" features new work of six graduate students that investigates various aspects of nature and our role within the natural world. Using a variety of organic and synthetic materials, each artist recreates sculptural aspects of nature, deconstructing and constructing ideas of what is natural and how nature affects the psyche.
Ranging from sculptures reflecting the minutia of life, to sculptures that reflect the bleak undertones of earth's present state, the exhibition scrutinizes the diversity of relationships that humans have with nature.
For more information, call the UTSA Satellite Space at (210) 212-7146. For appointments or a private showing, call Connie Swann, Department of Art and Art History, at (210) 458-4391.