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Love the Summer monogram and all the borders, too!
What lovely monograms. I especially like Olivia. Thank you for bringing this company to our attention.
I've never seen such pretty monograms! How to pick one? The Leslie is very pretty, but I also like the simplicity of the Sophie. Thanks!!
I love the Vanessa! It reminds me of my great grandmother's sterling. Thank you for sharing their website. Such beautiful things.
Love the Florence monogram. The one pictured is almost my initials. Nice giveaway. Jo @ Let's Face the Music
I love the Danielle and Fuschia monograms. Hard to chose just one... Thank you got the wonderful opportunity.
So many gorgeous monograms to chose from. I am in love with the Danielle pattern. Thank you for the opportunity.
Pick me pick me! GREAT giveaway...you know my feeling on monograms:)
I love the shaded summer and Vanessa monograms though all of them are just so exquisite...wow such beautiful things!
Would love to win!
Oh so hard to pick. I would pick the Leslie or the Vanessa. I love monograms and they are all beautiful!
I love the Vanessa! They are all beautiful!
These monograms are absolutely stunning! I love the Fuschia and the Vanessa. Thank you for this fabulous giveaway!!
Love the Kim or Danielle but they are are great.
The Leslie is my favourite. It reminds me of the linens on the altar. The Leslie is a classic beauty, with simplicity and flourish all at the same time.
Lovely and tasteful items, here!
Count me in for the drawing, please.
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Love the Kim and Danielle but they all are beautiful!
The choices are all lovely. I like the Chadwick the most. What a great giveaway!
Beautiful monograms!!! I think I like the Kate best.
I love all things monogrammed! The Kate and the Leslie are my favorite styles ... I can't pick just one from all of the beautiful choices.
I love the Vanessa and the Fuschia monograms. Great giveaway! Deb email@example.com
I'm in love with the Olivia Overlap.
All beautiful...Kate....Lesley...all lovely.
Jenna is timeless and elegant. Beautiful linens!
Love the Elyse and Kay monograms. They are all fabulous!
Love the Elyse and Kay monograms, they are all so fabulous!
Monograms are always classic and classy I love the Single letter Leslie
I have visited the Walker Valentine site many times, I love their beautiful designs, my favorites are the Kate and the Scalloped. Thank you for the generous giveaway :)
Vanessa is calling my name, especially in a pink and orange combo. Such lovely, classic yet creative monograms.
Vanessa! And Kay! And.....all are just beautiful.
Vanessa is my favorite but I have to mention that Coco Daisy is awfully cute too. The borders are to die for!
Shaded-summer is fantastic!
Love the Fuschia monogram on guest towels and napkins--their linens are just stunning!
I love the Leslie and the Vanessa.
Fabulous giveaway, thanks so much!
Walker Valentine items are so chic but so very practical,too.
I love the Helen Jumbo, Milan Large and Andrea Jumbo... too many! I want them all! Thanks for sharing!
Jan thanks for introducing to me!I love the Helen Jumbo, Milan Large and Andrea Jumbo. So pretty... love the towels and linens too!
Thanks for introducing these to me Jan! I love them all especially the Helen Jumbo, Andrea Jumbo and the Milan!
Love so much on their website. I especially like the Jenna and the Olivia-Overlap monogram although you can't go wrong with any of them. What a great giveaway! I admired the napkins you ordered from them when you posted a picture on your blog.
Walker Valentine's website is wonderful. So many great products. I especially like the Jenna and the Olivia-Overlap monograms but you can't go wrong with any of them. Fantastic give-away!
Oh how gorgeous! The Olivia Overlap monogram is my absolute favorite! Thanks for the feature-- I have not heard of them before. Thanks for the opportunity!
I love the monogrammed bedding/pillowcases. They make the bed look so put together and stately.
I love Walker Valentine!! Loving the Danielle!!!
I love the monogrammed napkins and bed pillows! Everything is so beautiful!!!
Gorgeous monograms. My favorite is the Leslie. Keep my fingers crossed.
these are the most beautiful monograms I have seen. Thank you for sharing. Have to really love the "Fuchsia". My mother always loved Fuchsias; grew them abundantly. In addition she could embroider magnificently--as a girl she spent summers in a convent off the Mediterranean mastering the skill. I am lucky enough to have a couple pieces and this design resembles so strongly some of those treasured pieces.
I love the Helen Jumbo!
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Love the shaded-summer for a simpler look, but the kim is definitely my favorite!
Oh wow, I love the Erin tote. What a treat it would be to have one of these with a beautiful monograms. Vikki in VA
i love them all -- but "kay" is my favorite!
I love the Kate monogram!
This is new to me, and they are all gorgeous. Hard to just pick one! I think my favorite is 'Vanessa,' but 'Kim' and 'Megan' are close seconds.
Beautiful Monograms.....Love, love, love the Andrea Jumbo! Please pick me!!
I adore the Leslie -- I kept coming back to it, and then I noticed its name, which also is my name! I would love to see it in two colors. Just stunning!
Hi Jan, you have made this very hard to chose 1, I do love so many, but I think my very favorite is the "Vanessa". followed by a close second is the Danielle floral, and the Rollins floral, I think it might have something to do with the fact that I love Danielle Rollins so much. Do hope I win. have a great weekend.
What a great source…thank you! Love the Andrea, small, jumbo double…all are fantastic for traveling!
What a fun post…
Linda Floyd
Leslie lover here - although all are beautiful!
Gorgeous!!! I love the Andrea collection and adore the use of colors (2) in the monograms. It is such a fresh, new idea. I love everything monogram!!
Thank you..... WPL
Gorgeous! I love the Andrea collection and adore the use of thread colors in each monogram. What a fresh, new idea.
Thank you..... WPL
I am head over heals for the Kim monogram! With the whole "lets monogram every inch of everything" craze which seems to be sweeping the nation (I mean I love a good monogram...don't get me wrong, but I personally draw the line at a sparkly monogramed tee-shirt), I love that Walker Valentine is sticking to the good ole classics, and upholding the beauty of a good monogram!
I LOVE LOVE the Vanessa! So hard to choose just one -- they are all stunning. Thank you for posting!!!
My favorite monogram is Leslie and I love the Ipad cover!
I love the Leslie Monogram and the IPad cover is awesome!
I love the Andrea jumbo. I travel a lot for business and this item would be great for my jewelry. I may just have to order one for myself - and maybe a few more things while I am at it. Love, love, love monogrammed anything!
Thank you for the opportunity.
Deborah Wilkins
I love Summer- Shaded, it's so classic. Just can't go wrong with that style! I hope I win!! :)
I love the Megan! I am dying to find out if they do trunk shows in my area. Everything is so beautiful!
Oh my gosh, so hard to choose! I love both scallop and fuchsia!
It's hard to choose just one because they are all wonderful! I like the Leslie because it is unusual!
Love all their products and monograms especially Olivia! Wonderful giveaway....thank you for thinking of your readers.
Coco daisy!
Fabulous giveaway!!!
Love the borders, maria spiral, I would like it done in orange and fuschia.
All beautiful! I think I like the Vanessa best, although the Leslie is fabulous also!
I love the Helen large bag with the 'Face' monogram!!
I love the Helen large bag with the 'Face' monogram!!
Love the Jenna...classic and feminine!
Love the Jenna...classic and feminine!
I adore Lucy!
Hard to choose, but the Kaki monogram is quite nice.
Love Walker Valentine! Ali and Della are my favorite monograms- can't wait to get my new monogram, after my wedding in 2 months!


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In June I was lucky enough to attend Randy Smith's Northallerton Meetup. You can read about the experience in my last post.
I can honestly say that attending this event really is the single most important step I have taken in my online career to date, even though I did not essentially know it at the time.
It has been all of the things that have happened since then that have brought me to that conclusion. Not only did the meeting help me to set defined goals and make myself accountable to both myself and others, but it helped me to define the steps I have taken to get to this point where I am today, and I want to share those steps with you.
Step one:
- Believe in yourself. I have thought long and hard about including this as I wavered in my self belief at a point just before going to the meetup; in fact the meetup was a pivotal turning point for me in terms of KNOWING that I truly believe in my abilities, but I recognise that occassional self doubt is completely natural, however constant self doubt needs working on. You must change this first of all, and believe in you.
Step two:
- Have A Plan. Indeed this is an incredibly important step. Even if you do not stick to your original plan it is essential to have some plan that you can work to, to give you incentive, motivation and goals to work towards. You must know where you are heading, and if you don't believe you can do it, go back to step one!
Step three:
- Take Action. You will have heard it so many times before, but nothing will happen if you do not take action. You must have a plan, goals to work towards, but they will not happen until you take action! If you reach a goal and find it isn't what you wanted don't think of it as time wasted, recognise the valuable learning curve you have gone through to get there.
Sometimes believing in yourself is hard to do, particularly when things are not going so well, maybe something technical doesn't work the way you wanted it to, or a great planned product launch falls short of your expectations. Don't think that it is all going to happen either quickly or easily. In order to succeed it takes hard work, determination and perseverance, all of which is within your reach, especially when you believe in yourself.
In fact, today, I am going to help you with that self belief, if it is a stumbling block for you. Just click on the image below to download a free seven day short course that will help you to believe in you, and if it makes a difference and gives you a step up the ladder then I'll be very glad to have helped.

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The Greatest Halftime Show On Earth
Last night I went to the Warriors-Celtics game in Oakland with a buddy from work. The Warriors were getting demolished in the first half so all I had to look forward to was my next drink. We were sitting courtside 7 rows back and, as such, had access to the Club Bar. The Club Bar is never crowded like the concession stands and doesn't have that ridiculous "2 drink maximum, last beer served at end of 3rd Quarter" rule that has so often killed my buzz. My buddy and I took turns getting four drinks at a time (2 Belvedere and Tonics and 2 Crown and Cokes) throughout the first half. By halftime we were shit-housed.
The buzzer sounds at the end of the second quarter and out runs this gaggle of little people in green and white jerseys. I thought I was seeing things. Half the kids bolted to the sideline and a 5 on 5, full court game broke out. Apparently, when I was paying too close attention to one of my crown and cokes, the hoops had been lowered to seven feet and somebody had tossed the ball up for tip-off to a 10 minute scrimmage. Three minutes in and the game had gone nowhere. No one had made a basket. It wasn't until the 5-minute mark that anyone hit the damn rim when, finally, the biggest kid on the floor purposefully grabbed a rebound, started looking around and freaked. He launched the ball toward center court into the hands of the opposing team.
It's at this point that I got suspicious. I got out of my seat, drink(s) in hand and walked OVER the 6 rows of seats in front of me to get a good look at the kids. I almost fell over. It turns out that we were witnessing a scrimmage of the under-13 Bay Area Special Olympics Basketball Team. Tards! Real tards! And there were 16 of them …though I can't be sure because I was counting running and fidgeting little people in a drunken fog. Most of the tards were just standing around waiting to get the ball, but a couple of the kids--conveniently split between sides--had real skills. One kid had a real nice jumper. Another--I'm not sure if he was Lebanese, Iranian, Mexican (how can you really tell when it's a tard with a unibrow)--has the Tim Hardaway Killer Crossover down to perfection. His only problem was, once he finished with his dribbling exhibition, he had no idea what to do with the ball. Someone would eventually have to come over, grab the ball, and make yet another in a series of ill-advised tard shots.
Time is winding down now and the score is 10-4. I'm screaming at the team in white to get it together and take some good shots but they won't listen to me (it might be worth noting here that upon discovering we were watching tard basketball, my buddy and I each picked a side and bet the next round of drinks on the outcome…I picked the white team). As I am yelling at the top of my lungs for the big tard to "Box out! Box out, goddamnsonuvabitch, Box out!" the PA announcer comes on and says, "OK people, we're coming down to the wire in FIVE, FOUR, THREE…" It's 10-4 and this really skinny tard on my team has the ball and is driving down court. I start yelling "PULL UP, PULL UP," and he pulls up just inside the NBA 3point line at the top of the key and BURIES a jumper at the buzzer. The best part of my skinny tard's shot was that as he shot it he made that little bounce and wrist cock that pro and college players make when they know their shot is going in. As it goes in, his whole team--both sides of the tard scrimmage--mob him in a big, sloppy tard-pile. The crowd is cheering. I'm going fuckin' crazy even though my team just lost and I have to go to the bar and drop 30 plus tip on 4 under-sized cocktails. I'm shouting, "MONEY, THAT WAS MONEY, MY BOY IS MONEY!"
People are staring. My buddy is seated crippled with laughter. I start cracking up with him sloshing my drink on the seats in front of me. Then, out of nowhere, almost on cue, the tardpile scatters and all the kids race to center court for a team photo. You couldn't have beaten the smiles off their faces. The photographer snaps a couple of great shots, tells them he's done and, I swear to god, the whole team takes a victory lap around the court! They're getting high fives from the media guys on the other side of the court and fans sitting behind the players benches. Not willing to miss a single MOMENT of this, I leap over the 6 rows in front of me again (spilling my vodka tonic down my leg) and give each one of them a high five. It was awesome! They made a full circuit, stopped, waved to everyone with that limber, non-jointed tard wave that has become the trademark of tard greetings, and bolted off the floor. I challenge ANYONE to come up with better halftime show entertainment than pre-teen tard basketball.


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LIVERMORE — Evan Wolfe threw a perfect game, retiring all 15 batters he faced with eight strikeouts to lead Pleasanton National to a 12-0, five-inning win over Georgetown of Jenison, Mich. in the opening game of the inaugural Intermediate 50/70 Little League World Series at Max Baer Park.
Wolfe threw a first pitch strike to 12 batters and threw 39 strikes in all to complete the first perfect game in the tournament's one-day history.
Pleasanton National now faces Nogales, Ariz. in the second round of the United States winners bracket on Wednesday at 6 p.m. Nogales had a first round bye. All games are at Max Baer Park.
Mitch Benson finished 2 for 3 with two runs and three RBIs, including a two-run homer in the third inning to give Pleasanton National a 9-0 lead. Pleasanton National, the District 57 champions, scored twice in the first inning and five times in the second inning to take control.
Cal O'Loughlin scored three times and Max Heverly and Drew Kobayashi each scored twice in the win.
Pleasanton, coached by Dave Lander, raced through the District 57 tournament, beating Livermore 10-2 and Granada 12-3 before defeating Danville 6-2 in the semifinals. In the final, Pleasanton knocked off Granada 9-2 again for the title.
In the other U.S. Bracket game from Tuesday, Post Oak of Houston beat Collier Township/Cartiers Valley of Pennsylvania 6-4. Port Oak will face Rutherfordton, N.C. on Wednesday at 3 p.m.
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Deueronomy 20
When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you. When you are about to go into battle, the priest shall come forward and address the army. He shall say: "Hear, Israel: Today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not panic or be terrified by them. For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory."
There are points in time where people they face an enemy which is better equipped and has more forces arrayed against them. In cases where their victory is assured, we know that is because God is with them. Our country is living proof of this fact. We just have to remember that good triumphs over evil with the help of Divine Providence. Got faith?
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So in 2018, disney has a new animated feature in its way, fitting into the line of Tangled and Frozen, called Gigantic. It's a new take on Jack and the Beanstalk. However, when Jack goes up the stalk, he is confronted by a 60ft 11 year old girl name Inma, who thinks he's a toy and wants to keep him. The two become a duo and help each other in a new land, normal to her but gigantic to him. So, a reporter I saw doing a introduction to this suggested that maybe a little girl isn't the best idea for Disney to use to befriend a small man (even though music from the creators of Frozen will probably try to make hits target to girls). Perhaps a giant boy would be better? In your thoughts, do u think if an average teen/adult person was, say miniturized, would it be better if they were discovered by same sex younger giants, like girl finds woman's or boy finds man, or it doesn't matter? I think Disney puts out great productions and it'll be popular and just fine.
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In 2011 a small group of people, with a keen interest in blues music, organized what became the Greater Clemson Blues Festival.
With encouragement and direction from Clemson Mayor Larry Abernathy the festival was launched. It was known as Nothin' But the BluesFest that year and was held over a three-day weekend. As the Festival grew we realized we needed to encompass more than just Blues. We expanded becoming the Greater Clemson Music Festival; adding Jazz, Rock, Reggae, Gospel and Roots (Country.)
The inspiration for the Festival comes from Littlejohn'sGrill, a popular African American restaurant/hotel/nightclub that existed just as WWII ended until about 1968. The owners of the Grill were Horace and Gertrude Littlejohn. The Littlejohns became famous for their good food and the quality entertainment they brought to the area. Dozens of well-known black performers of that era played Littlejohn's Grill: James Brown, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong, Otis Redding and The Supremes.
Our area has a strong association with popular music from jazz and blues to R&B and rock. Over the years groups
such as The Rolling Stones, Eagles, Pink Floyd, Billy Joel and Elton John have performed at Clemson University and other venues.
The Festival is a 501c3 non-profit corporation benefiting our local charities. Each year the Festival returns 1000s of dollars to the community as we leverage your contributions through our music events. Please be in touch with us if you would like to learn more about how we can help your firstname.lastname@example.com
For more information about Littlejohn's Grill:
THE LITTLEJOHN'S GRILL STORY: BLUES, JAZZ AND ROCK n' ROLL IN CLEMSON, SC This book may be purchased by email@example.com The cost is $20 + $3 postage and handling. Please join with us this year as we celebrate the music that makes our area great. Help us keep the music alive.Your support is greatly appreciated.


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Discover how Axelle Fine Arts approaches the printmaking process and why it continues to rely on traditional methods.
I had the opportunity recently to interview Luther Davis, the director of the print shop, and give Screen Printing magazine's readers a chance to learn more about the operation and the current state of the art world of screen printing, at least as it pertains to 312 Atlantic Ave., in the old Boerum Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY.
Luther, can you start by giving us a bit of background regarding Axelle Editions and how you started?
In late 1999, Bertrand bought the assets of Noblet Serigraphie from Jean-Yves Noblet. At this time, I was a master printer at Noblet Serigraphie and was asked to direct the new printshop. We moved into the beautiful, but neglected, National Cash Register Co. building. It took three semis to move the Sias PSMatic, UV drier, take-off, Seybold paper cutter, racks and other equipment to Brooklyn, and it was all swung in the windowless third floor by crane. We did not have power or water for three months as the building was being renovated, but we printed etchings while we waited.
What kind of printing equipment do you have?
We started with a Brand 35 x 60 etching press, and a 63 x 48 Sias PSMatic, with take-off and Sias Uvex drier. In 2002, we added an M&R 30 x 40 Saturn, and in 2004, we added a 30 x 40 AWT High-Tech Micro. We also have a 20 x 30 Acromark hot stamper, and an 8500-lb. Seybold paper cutter. Our screen-washout room is completely sealed and tiled with built-in floor drains, and the entire layout and set up was purpose-built—one of the advantages of working with a completely gutted space when we put the print studio together.
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Hillel and the Latin American Student Union (LASU) joined together to bridge the cultural gap that exists between the students that make up Binghamton University.
A group of almost 40 students shared their names, backgrounds and something they cherish about their culture, ranging from foods to holidays.
Attendees readily swapped questions. Several students from Hillel had to double check that salami and platanos actually went in the same dish, while members from LASU grappled with the idea of a separate Jewish calendar.
The discussion developed a more serious tone when members began discussing social obstacles the groups have experienced in getting where they are today.
"Both of our cultures are spread out around the world, but we're minorities here," said Catherine Almonte, member of LASU and a junior majoring in political science. "And, just to talk a little political science, we both vote Democrat. That shows a shared sense of values."
Arryana Olavarria, a sophomore majoring in English, added that these values might arise from prior oppression.
"People who have gone through struggles in the past can relate in a deep way," Olavarria said.
Almost all the attendees agreed that identifying with both a native or ancestral culture as well as American culture can be confusing.
"It can be hard because when I'm here, and people ask me what I am, I say Dominican," said Jessica De Jesus, secretary of LASU and a junior majoring in human development. "But if I say that while I'm in the Dominican Republic, they'll say no you're not, you're American."
Belle Yoeli, a junior triple-majoring in political science, Spanish and Judaic studies, and next year's president of Hillel, agreed that sometimes these distinctions can get confusing.
"I think I identify as being Jewish. I mean I may say it about 20 times a day when it comes up," Yoeli said. "For people who are 'Jewish-ly' involved, it becomes like a nationality."
Nathaniel Jimenez, a member of LASU and a junior majoring in English, noted that even though the two cultures are different, members of both communities value preserving their background and traditions.
"There's a lot of pride from both cultures," Jimenez said. "We both know to how to celebrate. That's how you keep your culture alive."
Stephen Bedik, a junior majoring in accounting and executive vice president of Hillel, worked with De Jesus in organizing the event.
"This is a good first step for our organization," Bedik said. "We want to see more of this happen, with more interactivity between such influential groups. We're going to try to carry this momentum into next year."


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Recently, I was invited to attend a private preview of a new digital experience about the legacy of lynching in America. Today, this bold new digital social justice project the Equal Justice Initiative launched. The project made possible with support from Google, is shedding new light on this chapter in American history with Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, an interactive experience that brings their groundbreaking research on this racial violence-and the personal stories behind it-online.
As a Caribbean-American who came to mainland United States and grew up in New York post Martin Luther King and many Civil Rights era events, I am always particularly interested in initiatives which promulgate OUR story not HIStory.
The Equal Justice Initiative is a nonprofit challenging racial injustice both in and out of the courtroom. The organization's founder, Bryan Stevenson, believes that we cannot truly move forward as a nation until we confront this dark chapter from our past. During the Atlanta event, Mr. Stevenson talked about how America's court system
"doesn't value the victimization of people of color They don't see inequality and injustice that is racialized. I think that has to do with our practice of minimizing and denying what racial inequality has done to us." — Bryan Stevenson, founder and Executive Director, EJI
The discussion was thought-provoking and at times the visuals and videos were difficult to digest. It is this difficulty which I believe precludes this country from having open discourse about its shameful history and paying homage to the lives lost during slavery and post-slavery when lynching became the new slavery.
Google's mission statement is universal access to information and knowledge for everyone. What's important about EJI's Lynching in America project is that they are giving everyone access to untold stories of our racial history and helping people develop a deeper understanding for how we have gotten to where we are in this country. — Justin Steele, Principal, Google.org
Based on EJI's original publication of the same name, Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror reveals both the scope of lynchings of African Americans between 1877 and 1950 and the profound way in which this era continues to shape our nation,particularly in our criminal justice system. Racial disparities continue to burden people of color; the criminal justice system is infected with racial bias; and a presumption of dangerousness and guilt has led to mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and police violence against people of color. If current trends continue, one of every three black boys born in America today will be imprisoned.
The Lynching in America site brings together EJI's in-depth research and data with the stories of lynching victims, as told by their descendants. Through six audio stories, and a short documentary, "Uprooted", you both hear and feel the impact of this dark time in history on generations of families. Uprooted tells the story of Thomas Miles Sr. who was one of more than 4,000 African Americans lynched in the U.S. between 1877 and 1950. Recently, the Dedman/Myles family returned to the South 100 years after Thomas Miles Sr. was lynched there for allegedly passing a note to a white woman.
You can also explore an interactive map that includes incidents of racial terror lynchings, as well as in-depth profiles of the stories behind these acts of violence.
Please take the time to immerse yourself in the stories, visuals and information found at the newly launched website LynchingInAmerica.eji.org
Google has been able to take what we know about lynching, and what we have heard from the families, and what we have seen in the spaces and the communities where these acts of terror took place, and make that knowledge accessible to a lot more people. To create a platform for hearing and understanding and seeing this world that we've lived through. — Bryan Stevenson, founder and Executive Director, EJI
About the Lynching in America Project
In 2015, Equal Justice Initiative received a $1 million grant from Google.org to help fund the From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration Museum, as well as its Memorial to Peace and Justice. After the grant was made, EJI and Google.org looked for further ways to work together. EJI's recently published report, Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror (in the form of an 80-page publication), seemed like an opportunity to leverage Google's expertise — organizing information and making it more universally accessible — in the name of amplifying Equal Justice Initiative's message. Coinciding with the launch of this project on 6/13, Google.org is donating another $1 million to the Equal Justice Initiative to support their national memorial to lynching victims in Montgomery, Alabama. Opening in 2018, the memorial makes this history an undeniable part of the physical landscape, ushering the past into the present day.
Google's mission statement is universal access to information and knowledge for everyone. What's important about EJI's Lynching in America project is that they are giving everyone access to untold stories of our racial history and helping people develop a deeper understanding for how we have gotten to where we are in this country. — Justin Steele, Principal, Google.org
Kudos to Google for not only being a part of this dialog but putting their money where their mouth is.


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Monday, November 5, 2012
christmas sewing already!
I'm so happy to have gotten started on a bit sewing for Christmas giving. I'm making little stacks of "dinner white cloths" for people. These are excellent for giving because they are quick to sew, and if the recipients don't want to use them as informal dinner napkins they also make great towels for drying dishes.
I'm normally not inspired to start so early on Christmas presents, but Ken reminded me that our weekends in November are filling up very fast, so last Saturday was my first and best chance for getting a chunk of sewing done. He took the kids so I could accomplish these.
I'm so happy to have a good start on Christmas. When the holidays finally come, I want to be super organized and "done" with everything, then just bake, eat cookies, play games with the family, and read holiday books to my little ones. My mind is already humming with ideas for New Year's Eve. That's how far ahead I am thinking.
A big thanks to Ken for helping me get started on these!
3 comments:
- Andrea said...
Oh, you are so on top of things! I have a few little ideas floating around in my head, but haven't gotten much traction yet.
- November 6, 2012 at 7:03 AM
- Andréann said...
I've officially started Yule crafting yesterday too! And there's so much to be done!
- November 6, 2012 at 9:47 AM
- Sarah said...
I have officially been a slacker blog follower and just saw these missed post...we love using cloth, and actually only use cloth in our house. It actually can be a bit of an issue when we're out and there is only paper available, same for our boys little noses - they're only into using cloth! These look super easy and cute to make, may have to do a few for the fam to try them out first ;)
- November 9, 2012 at 11:50 PM
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Book Review: Mad Love by Suzanne Selfors
Is it magic or madness? A young adult contemporary fantasy about Cupid in Seattle
Mad Love by Suzanne Selfors
Reading Level: Young Adult
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Publisher: Walker Childrens
Pages: 336
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Reviewed By: Kate McMurry
Sixteen-year-old Alice Amorous is the daughter of bestselling romance author, Belinda Amorous. Due to her mother's suffering from years of untreated bipolar disorder, Alice's family life has been highly unstable, leading to the present crisis of her mother being institutionalized for catatonic depression.
Alice has no father to step in and take care of her, because she's the product of a one-night stand occurring during one of her mother's manic phases--and Alice needs help badly. Her mother earned a great deal of money over the years from her writing, but her mania caused Belinda to blow all her earnings, and Alice is now scrambling to pay their bills and keep up appearances so that Social Services doesn't take her away from her mother.
The one worthwhile manic-inspired purchase of Alice's mother is the four-unit rental house where Alice and her mother have lived for several years. They share it with a grandmotherly lady named Mrs. Bobot, an elderly minister named Reverend Ruttles, and a nurturing, gay, legal secretary named Archibald. In addition, Mrs. Bobot's anorexic granddaughter Realm, who is Alice's age, is visiting for the summer, but she's no friend to Alice. All Realm cares about is publishing the horror novel she's written, and she threatens to expose Belinda's mental illness to the world if Alice doesn't forge a letter in Belinda's name recommending Realm's novel to Belinda's editor.
The three eccentric adults in Alice's life are very concerned when, after a sudden fainting spell, she becomes obsessed with a mysterious white-haired boy named Errol and begins to hear his voice in her head. Alice is worried, too, because she isn't sure if what is happening to her is magic or madness. Is she starting to exhibit signs of the same mental illness that has destroyed her mother's life? Or could it actually be true that she's been shot by the invisible arrow of the one and only Eros, commonly known as Cupid?
Ms. Selfors is an excellent writer who particularly excels at quirky characters and situations, and that talent is very much in evidence here. I also enjoyed that all the adults in this book truly care about Alice. In a delicate, non-preachy way, Ms. Selfors uses every character in this book, even the obvious antagonists like Realm and Errol/Eros, to offer crucial insights to Alice that allow her to grow in emotional maturity in believable ways by the end of the book.
Ms. Selfors is extremely gifted at writing comedy, but in the case of this book, she has created a "dramedy," a mix of comedy and drama. Her two previous young adult novels, Coffeehouse Angel and Saving Juliet, are entirely comedic with strong fantasy elements and light subject matter that is perfectly suited to their humorous tone. In contrast, Mad Love contains less fantasy than either of these books, and it covers much more serious issues, including mental illness in multiple characters, cancer, eating disorders, illegitimacy, and child neglect and abandonment.
In this book, the laughs come as a kind of "comic relief" from Alice's ongoing painful struggles with the circumstances surrounding her mother's tragic mental illness. Some examples of this comedy include a scene where Errol shoots Alice with an invisible, magical arrow causing her to yell wild accusations that no one believes, and the first chance Alice has to actually talk with Tony Lee, the boy she's been staring at every morning for weeks from her kitchen window as he rides by her home on his skateboard.
For those wondering what ages are suitable for this book, it seems to be aimed at preteens and younger teens, that is ages 11-14, for several reasons: In spite of the hard life Alice has lived, she seems very naive for her sixteen years. Her romance with Tony, the skateboard boy, is definitely G-rated. And the inflated way in which the author portrays both Alice's and Realm's novel writing achievements is unrealistic to a degree that is usually only found in middle-grade novels.
There is only one situation in this story that is slightly questionable for this age group: Alice's magically induced obsession with Errol/Eros leads to one brief but sensual kiss, and he shamelessly confesses to Alice that he has used his magical arrows to take (presumably sexual) advantage of countless women over the past 2000 years.
Heroine: 4
Subcharacters: 4
Fantasy World-Building: 3
Writing: 5
Drama Plot: 4
Overall: 4
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The Other Edwards Blogger Steps Down
In less than 24 hours, two campaign bloggers for former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) have resigned amid controversy over comments they made on their personal blogs.
The latest casualty is Melissa McEwen, who announced her decision on Shakespeare's Sister. "This was a decision I made, with the campaign's reluctant support, because my remaining the focus of sustained ideological attacks was inevitably making me a liability to the campaign, and making me increasingly uncomfortable with my and my family's level of exposure," she wrote.
McEwen's departure follows closely that of Amanda Marcotte, who stepped aside yesterday. The two women were accused of making anti-Catholic comments on their personal blogs. Edwards refused to fire them over remarks they wrote before they were members of his presidential campaign, but he said he was personally offended by their comments.
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Literature Across Frontiers, Part 1
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Three international authors discuss the similarities and differences of their backgrounds and chosen literary forms. This event is chaired by Wendy Zhu, Director of the Suzhou Writer's Association with her own interest in the relationship between local and global culture. Panelists include Welsh writer Owen Martell (winner of the Arts Council of Wales' Welsh Book of the Year award in 2001) author of a novel set against the real life death of a young bassist in Intermissions, Tammy Ho, a Poet and editor of the Hong Kong literary journal Asian Cha and Nico Helminger, a novelist, playwright and poet from Luxembourg winner of the prestigious Prix Batty Weber in 2008.


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Last month at the press junket for "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" Jim Carrey revealed that he has written his first children's book, titled "How Roland Rolls". It's a story about a wave named Roland who's afraid that one day when he hits the beach, his life will be over. But when he gets deep, he's struck by the notion that he's not just a wave, he's the whole big wide ocean.
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In particular I would love to have known more about their early married life in Ireland in the 1930s. My Nan was a Nottinghamshire lass but found herself working in Ireland as a lady's maid for the brewing side of the Guinness family. It was in Ireland that she met and married my Grandad in 1929. At the time of the marriage Grandad was a bus driver and family lore tells of how he took a fancy to my Nan and used to give her free lifts in his bus. From pictures I've seen of him as a young man, I can fully understand why she would accept them!
|My handsome grandad in his driver's uniform
A year after their wedding, their eldest child was born. He was followed by four more children in the space of five years. The three eldest, including my mother, Mary, were born in Longford, where my Grandad came from. Their fourth child, my Uncle John, sadly died when he was a tiny infant. He had been born in Carlow. The youngest child was born in Dublin. This was a family that obviously moved around a lot as it was a case of going where my Grandad found employment.
|Russborough House
Russborough House was built in the 18th century by Joseph Leeson, a property developer and important art collector, who later became 1st Earl of Milltown. His art collection was so substantial that when it was bequeathed to the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin at the beginning of the 20th century, they had to build a new wing to house it.
|The workers flats at Russborough.
|The Russborough estate and distant Wicklow Mountains
But they weren't to stay in this idyllic location. By 1938 most of the family had upped sticks and moved to Central London where they were to stay for many years to come. The Irish accents that the children would have brought with them were to be sacrificed in an effort to fit in and not appear too 'different' to their peers (unlike me 40 years later). The family never lived in Ireland again and its only in the last couple of years that I was to pay my first visit there. I made sure I visited Russborough to see where my mother had spent her childhood years. Rest assured, the quarter of me that is Irish is determined to go back.
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(wrenn)'s Description: of several experimental works printing on found objects
2006-11-10 08:36
i like a lot the idea of working with found objects. i haven't started my series yet but it will probably soon. dirty white papers on the floor are my passion...with shoeprints or car prints! there's this english artist who does an excellent teeny works, take a look! LINK
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2009-01-09 18:59
is it a scene from a fritz lang movie?
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Monday, September 13, 2010
45 comments:
That was tooo funny and oh so true :)ReplyDelete
Haha, I love that! But I'll be skipping the potato salad, thank you.ReplyDelete
Sir, again then - thy Language! I am appalled.ReplyDelete
Glad you liked that one!
Hey, it's a more efficient way of infusing food...no utensils needed!
Nice to hear it...I was concerned you might be losing your hypersensitivity!
It does indeed, Tim. Potato salad will never be the same now...sigh... ;)ReplyDelete
but I love potato salad!ReplyDelete
Darn, now I will have drunks and hippies floating around in it.
very funny!ReplyDelete
Let he who is without ever being face down in the potato salad cast the first stone!
Just pull them up by the hair, take a few scoops, and ease them down back in it. ;)
And I tip my hat to you as well!
Very very good. I literally LOL(ed)at stanzas 4 + 5. Re. the potato salad, us(I mean those) doped up hippies would be licking the bowl proclaiming it was the best potato salad that we (I mean they)had ever tasted.ReplyDelete
Don't you hate it when they fall on the potato salad...ruins everything..ReplyDelete
Loved it!
Hilarious1 Rofl when I read the potato salad line.ReplyDelete
This sounds like all my relatives when I was growing up. My grandmother was very propoer, of course, and the worst thing she could think of to say to express her opinion of my hair was that I looked like a Beatle. Which I didn't, but she preferred the slicked back Brylcreem look. Good one, sir.ReplyDelete
Love it...there is nothing like an old hippie and an old redneck...at the same party eating potato salad...fun...bkmReplyDelete
Buncha silly poetsReplyDelete
...face down, in their word salad!
This cracked me up!! I loved it. Made me smile at the silliness.ReplyDelete
hahahaaa loved the flow Tim! you amazed me , deep and soul entertaining,ReplyDelete
Life has a way
of ironing out
the little differences
between us
how true ha!
Delicious One shot :))
I'll be there licking it along with you!
The worst part of it is trying to pick the hairs and stuff out of the potato salad once they've left. LOL
Much appreciated!
The "Wet Head" is dead! :)
Peaceful coexistence, eh? The only way such disparate folks can get along is when they are totally wasted.
Funny! We are often drunk with it, are we not?
Thanks for visiting--I was checking out your blog just a bit ago!
Thanks so much...and so you see what it sometimes takes to bring everyone into accord with one another...
After last week, I was so excited as I clicked your name on the One Stop Poetry list! Well worth the click. You rock!ReplyDelete
haha. the more that seperates us the more we realise we are all just as screwed up...too funny...ReplyDelete
Hilarious, but I'll pass on the potato salad!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 14, 2010 at 5:55 PM
Fun and amusing that makes me laugh out loud =P Wonderfully written, my friend:D~ReplyDelete
Thanks for coming by my blog. I found this funny, cool, and really true (I live in TX for goodness sake)..so I read it twice and believe I've seen all these folks in the potato salad at least one. Drunk, stoned and stupid! Cheers. GayReplyDelete
funny - but then the reality of the truth sets in on both sides of the potato saladReplyDelete
Glad you joined us for One Shot today
Moon Smiles
Wow...that makes me EXCEEDINGLY happy!
You nailed it!
Aw, just have a bite or two--it's made with wine!
Thanks so much...sometimes you just gotta go for the belly laugh!
Drunk, Stoned, and Stupid...sounds like a country song...or it should be one! :)
iSee that hair in my potato salad.ReplyDelete
Don't need a song for me to be stupid. A long time since I've been drunk and stoned.ReplyDelete
This write just rolled along like Ole Man River. Kept rolling along, then OVER THE DAM...and into the POTATO SALAD--which must have been laced with something.
MOST enjoyable reading this post, Sir!
i think i have now officially been put off potato salad fer life ;-)ReplyDelete
Interesting...I like the whole "Buncha" even though I dont know what it means...the comparison was great as well...Cheers!ReplyDelete
Hilarious oneshot really laughed hard there but boy you do point out the obvious on both ends. Thank God i don't like potato salad it could have depressed me haha...!ReplyDelete
Life does have a way of ironing things out with time... interesting poetry.ReplyDelete
ॐ नमः शिवाय
Om Namah Shivaya
- AnonymousSeptember 15, 2010 at 7:02 AM
Piece as a whole is great. Third last stanza is AMAZING. Love and Light, SenderReplyDelete
Nice and light for a lousy Wednesday morning, Thanks T this put a smile on my face.ReplyDelete
Funny and so true! The comments were fun to read, too!ReplyDelete
Enjoyed it very much!ReplyDelete
nowhere island
Thanks for your continuing visits!
Was that beard hair or nose hair?
If it wasn't laced with something at first, it was after those faces hit it!
I'll still eat potato salad, but not at picnic with hippies and rednecks!
Thanks for stopping by--"buncha" means, like, "Hey, barkeep--gimmie a big buncha dem beer nuts over dere!"
Glad I could make you laugh!
Om Namah Shivaya
Thanks...hee hee.
Glad it brightened your lousy morning a bit.
Thanks...the comments and responses are definitely a creative effort of their own!
"They call me Tater Salad!" LOL!ReplyDelete
That was a fun and funny one, Catnip!
Ha ha! Love your sense of humor, Timoteo!ReplyDelete
We're similar in many ways yet still, we pretend...
Very funny and oh so true. Different is so much the same. I came here via One Stop Poetry's ONe Shot. If you are playing - My One Shot is HERE.ReplyDelete
a really enjoyable piece..that although sounds funny is seriously true..cheers peteReplyDelete
love your playfulness.ReplyDelete
fun entry.
Glad to meet.
I will have to try that!ReplyDelete
Ain't is the truth!ReplyDelete
Now I will never be the same on the other side of the picnic table when they serve potato salad. Ugh! The irony is funny yes, but true. Hippies and rednecks, there are a lot of them in pockets in and around Oregon where I reside.ReplyDelete
OMG - and you even illustrated it with potato salad...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2010 at 4:49 PM
Oh just make me laugh, querido! Totally non-PC, but v.cool!ReplyDelete


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Life is precious, fragile and best lived in the moment
Every week, a few women email to ask if their early-pregnancy spotting or discharge means they're going to miscarry. They're terrified and looking for reassurance and a guarantee that everything will be OK with their pregnancies. I have plenty of reassurance to offer and I wish I could offer that guarantee, but the best I can do is tell my readers that probably, everything will be OK.
Between 10 percent and 25 percent of all pregnancies end in miscarriage, and most happen before a woman knows she's pregnant, according to the American Pregnancy Association. They usually occur before 13 weeks, and we don't know why they happen in most cases. Best theories say it's because of some sort of genetic or developmental anomaly, hormonal problems, implantation problems or environmental conditions that have a bad effect on the pregnancy. Is it because of something mom did, such as getting pregnant after a few drinks? Is it because she's stressed out or having negative thoughts? Almost certainly not. Think about how many starving women living in war-torn countries carry babies to full term. Most of us will never know that kind of stress. Drug addicts and alcoholics often carry babies to term, as do mentally ill women. Miscarriage is an equal-opportunity tragedy and it happens to many, many women regardless of how well they take care of themselves or don't.
Does spotting mean a miscarriage is on the way? Not usually. Instead, it indicates implantation or cervical irritation or simply residual discharge leftover from your last period. Most of the time, it's no big deal…physically. Emotionally and mentally, however, spotting and discharge are tumultuous and strike fear into every newly pregnant mother. Can you do anything to make sure that spotting doesn't turn into a miscarriage? Probably not. Do let your doctor or midwife know and make an appointment for a consultation. They might recommend you avoid having sex until the spotting passes, but other than that, if you're still in your first trimester, there's not a lot you can do.
That leads me to the subject of grief and the tentative hold we have on any life. I recently attended a book reading of Emily Rapp's new release, The Still Point of The Turning World (Penguin Group). It's a memoir of her experience raising and losing her son with Tay-Sachs disease, a fatal genetic disorder. Among the topics she discussed was how her experience awakened in her a realization that life and death walk hand-in-hand for everyone, but most of us don't realize it. I suspect that pregnant women understand this intimate relationship more clearly than ever before in their lives. In many countries, mothers face the deaths of their newborns and children with alarming frequency and they understand the fragility of life better than most of us do. Here in the U.S., we live with safety nets that prevent most, but not all, tragedies. It's not until we face a crisis like some spotting, a serious illness, accident or death that most of us really get it. Life is precious, fragile and best lived in the moment because no one knows how long it will last.
Maybe that's the lesson from miscarriage and grief. None of us know how long a life will last, whether it's the one inside of us, the one in the crib or the obnoxious teenager down the hall. Its value isn't measured in time. It is valuable simply because it is. If you can find a way to stay present, love the child inside of you or in front of you for however long you have them, then you've been the mother they needed.
Not to end with too much sadness, let me boost the reassurance factor here. Spotting and discharge don't always mean miscarriage. The odds that you will carry your pregnancy to term are very, very good.
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We just love the look of cacti in a home's decor. For those without a green thumb, though, sometimes even easy to care for plants like succulents can be a challenge. Read more to discover a soil-free way to add the look of succulents to your home!
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This project challenges the ongoing discussion of the next big move in developing Sandefjord.
A place known for sea related industries spanning from the Viking age through shipyards with whaling and offshore, is debating its connection between city and sea.
Through three scales we explore the potential of relocating and collect important culture institutions, making the shift from the industry based to the information based society an urban addition of Sandefjord.
We emphasize the importance of these institutions by bringing them to the city square, overtaking a significant and poorly utilized site. The building connects to the square and creates new routes toward the harbor, and is a destination in itself.
The building focuses on staging and exhibiting its contents. By working with the common and the specifics, we create internal links so that synergy not only can work between the building and the city, but also building and programs.
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Inside the World of Comic Books
Jeffery Klaehn, Ed.
Black Rose Books, 2008
Paperback, 258 pp., $24.99
By Tim Pelzer
While there are no longer comic racks in every corner store, comics are still around. More recently, comic book characters such as the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Batman and Hellboy have enjoyed success in the movies. "Inside the World of Comics" is a timely, amusing collection of essays and interviews exploring comics from the perspective of writers, academics, artists, editors and readers.
In "Tales of the American Crypt", Bradford W. Wright reveals how Entertaining Comics' (EC) line of horror, crime, science fiction and war comics from 1950 to 1955 subverted and critiqued American attitudes and practices. In Shock Suspense Stories, a Korean war vet returns to his home town and discovers that his family did not carry out his request that his friend, who died saving his life in combat, be buried in the family cemetery because he is black. The soldier, at a ceremony to welcome him home, tells everyone that his black comrade thought he was defending democracy in Korea, but even in death faced discrimination. "I am ashamed of you" sobs the soldier.
In "Judgment Day", a black astronaut visits a planet and discovers that the planet is inhabited by orange and blue robots. Orange robots receive all the benefits while blue robots, living on the southern part of the planet, are second class citizens.
"In EC comic books American society was not a great melting pot that dissolved racial, religious, ethnic and political differences into a national anti-communist consensus. It was a society at war with itself. In their intolerant crusade against various 'others', white American ultimately stood exposed as the real villains. The more respectable the individual's status within society, the more likely it was that the individual was evil", writes Wright.
Warning about the dangers of anti-communism, in an issue of Shock Suspense Stories a parade honoring Korean war vets is taking place and a group of onlookers are angered by a man who looks indifferent to the event. Thinking that he was "a lousy red", they jump and kill the man. After, they learn they had killed a blind war veteran.
Artist Harvey Kurtzman, who first contributed cartoons to the Daily Worker during the 1930s – forerunner of the Peoples Weekly World – became EC's most influential writer and illustrator. He created two war comics that presented the ugly side of war unlike conventional portrayals that glamorized it. Kurtzman would later go on to edit Mad magazine.
"EC's crime and horror comics explored the psychosis and evil that lurked beneath the gilded exterior of the American home."
In the end, boycotts by nervous distributors and self-censorship forced EC to fold in 1955.
Julian Darius in "Exposing Status Quo Superheroics" explains how DC comics censored one of its popular titles Authority, written by Mark Millar, because he created a character that tried to create a just world.
Editor Jeffrey Klaehn, a professor at Canada's Wilfrid Laurier University, also includes interviews with writers and editors from independent labels such as Dark Horse. Since the early 1990s, there has been an explosion in the number of independent comic book companies, challenging DC and Marvel's dominance of the industry.
In another interesting interview, Canadian artist Steve Niles talks about his monster vampire hit comic "30 Days of Night", which Hollywood made into a movie last year. According to Niles, who was working for DC at the time, he did "30 Days of Night" for the independent label IWD for fun without pay. Little did he know that it would turn out to be an overnight success.
Klaehn's "Inside the World of Comics" is a unique meditation on the comic book landscape.
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Bay Horse, York - pub details
Address: 68 Marygate, York, North Yorkshire, YO30 7BH [map] [gmap]
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|Nice-ish food at reasonable prices, excellent beer, great location, very nice staff, BUT, considering the stunning, beautiful exterior, the interior of this pub is dull, charmless and slightly sad. A lot of the original interior will have been removed long since I think, but the open interior now is just rather depressing. The carpet is ugly, the pictures on the wall are few and tasteless. This is *such* a shame for such a beautiful, noble building.
AbeC - 27 Feb 2016 12:24
|Been in here a few times since it re-opened a couple of years back. Aimed very much at the food market, but keeps a good pint too. Copper Dragon (Skipton) brews usually available and on good form at average prices for York. Pleasant walk along the river from Lendal Bridge, or through the Museum Gardens to this venue. Plenty of tables out front looking onto Marygate when the weather is decent. If you haven't been in here since pre-refit, then I suggest you do, as it has largely changed for the better. Gone are the bare floorboards, "Trainspotting-esque" toilets and dingy atmosphere, and in its place is a pub be-fitting of the area and the building. Not perfect, but on the right road. 8/10.
MountainMan - 7 Dec 2011 18:59
|Only the second time I've been in here but I think it is a very decent pub.
Staff seem friendly, it is clean and serves a good pint of ale.
I had a nice pint of Pendle witch.
Ayresomeangel - 14 Mar 2011 12:31
|Only the second time I've been in here but I think it is a very decent pub.
Staff seem friendly, it is clean and serves a good pint of ale.
I had a nice pint of Pendle with.
Ayresomeangel - 14 Mar 2011 12:30
|Had a fantastic Christmas lunch here this year - 7 courses! Food was amazing. Was also pleasantly surprised by how lovely the pub is inside and out - I was expecting more of an old man's pub. Decor is stylish and modern - but comfortable too. The staff were very friendly and efficient and not knowing the area, we were very glad we chose this pub for Christmas. I wish I had a local like this one.
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New Richmond Millers rally, get first SCVBL win of season
A four-run outburst in the bottom of the eighth inning earned the New Richmond Millers their first St. Croix Valley Baseball League of the season on Saturday.
The four runs lifted the Millers to an 8-7 win against the Elmwood Expos, a team which advanced to the adult baseball state finals in 2016.
The ninth inning started for the Millers with a walk to Brock Luehman and a single to Caleb Belter. Things got exciting in a hurry when Caleb Manecke cranked a triple to cut Elmwood's lead to 7-6. Elmwood then intentionally walked Nate Olin, one of the Millers' hottest hitters, in hopes of setting up a double play. Olin immediately ruined that strategy by stealing second base.
He did not stay there long. Tommy Grygienc singled over third base, scoring Manecke and Olin to give the Millers the lead.
Grant Riemenschneider came in to pitch for the first time for the Millers in the eighth inning. The recent NRHS graduate helped get the Millers out of an eighth inning jam. In the ninth, he gave up one bloop single, but otherwise pitched a spotless frame to earn his first adult baseball win.
The Millers have been pitching by committee so far this season. Riemenschneider showed he has the mix of pitches and the ability to throw strikes that could move him quickly into an important role in the pitching rotation.
Coleman Roskam started on the mound, working the first four innings. Dante LaDuke and Cam Hausman worked in the middle innings.
Offensively, the middle of the batting order carried the Millers to this win. Grygienc, Manecke and Olin all had two hits, with Grygienc driving home four runs.
Saturday's win was the high point of the week. The pitching wasn't as sharp on Friday, when the Millers lost to Plum City, 8-5. Plum City has one of the hardest throwers in the league in veteran hurler Tony Garner. Getting five runs against Garner was a good showing, but it was not enough. LaDuke started on the mound, lasting three innings. Manager Ryan Stephens pitched the next four, with Roskam and Belter taking the final innings.
New Richmond had one good inning, scoring four times in the eighth. An RBI triple by Manecke was the big hit of that rally.
Last Wednesday, the Millers hosted another of the state playoff tests when the River Falls Fighting Fish came to Citizens Field. In a game where the Millers got decent pitching and defense, the offense wasn't up to par in a 5-3 loss.The Millers didn't get their first hit until the fourth inning when Olin singled. The first run came in the eighth inning on doubles from Belter and Jon Will. RBI singles from Olin and Austin Juhl made the ninth inning interesting.
The Millers are on the road for three games this week. They play at Osceola at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday and they play at the same time Saturday at Ellsworth. The week concludes with a 1 p.m. game at Hudson on Sunday.


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The Boston Globe reports on Massachusetts. "If you really want that house, grab a pen and start pouring your heart out to the seller. And, above all, don't forget to gush. Shed that New England reserve and let it all tumble out about how you will cherish the seller's house long after they have moved on to that retirement community in Arizona. Apparently, your closing argument should paint an idyllic vision of you and your family sitting by the fire in the seller's house, forever grateful to the generous, wise, and bountiful sellers who gave you the keys to this paradise."
"OK, I am only half serious here. Still gushing seems to be a prerequisite if you want to write one of these letters, at least based on the advice being doled out on the many real estate websites out there. Nearly 30 percent of all winning bids by Boston-area buyers included a 'cover letter' or personal appeal to the seller, according to Redfin's latest report on bidding wars in various metro markets across the country."
"That's down somewhat from the height of the spring market, when 41 percent of all winning buyers penned personal appeals."
The Journal News in New York. "Dan Rivlin said when he and his wife saw a totally renovated move-in-ready house in New Rochelle they knew they had to act quickly. To get the house and move from a rental apartment in New York City, their offer included a handwritten note to the owner saying this house was where they wanted to begin their family. The couple recently closed on the updated 4-bedroom home. 'I did get nervous that we would lose this one and then we wouldn't find the right house,' he said."
From Bloomberg. "Toll Bros. has room to raise prices on its houses as the real estate market extends its recovery, CEO Douglas Yearley Jr. said. Buyers are purchasing properties 'sight unseen' in New York and demand is strong on the coasts, in Texas and in suburban Detroit, Yearley said. 'We have plenty of room' to raise prices, Yearley said. 'I think 2014 is going to be a great year.'"
CBS New York. "A startling trend is happening in some of our area's most ritzy communities — a foreclosure wave is affecting an income bracket that may surprise you. A Rockland couple asked that their identity remain concealed. They are now in the middle a foreclosure battle with their bank. When the husband lost his job, the couple got behind on payments. Even with his new job, they now owe $780,000 on their home, which is worth just $500,000."
"'You just feel like you're this horrible person, that you have this dark, deep secret and you want to be able to talk to somebody about it. But you feel that you would get shunned upon,' the wife told CBS 2's Janelle Burrell. 'It's kind of like an embarrassment. How did it get here? How did I end up in this situation? What did we do to deserve this?' the husband added."
"Their attorney, Linda Tirelli, said she has been so inundated with foreclosures; they are now the only cases she handles. 'The flood gates are starting to open,' she said. 'More and more people are underemployed and simply not making the same salaries they were making before,' Tirelli said."
"Real estate experts say even in upscale communities like Scarsdale, on average 1 in every 7 homes is in foreclosure."
Aljazeera America on New Jersey. "Paulette McQueen, 60, and her mother Lavinia Curry, 86, have lived in this narrow, two-story house on Garwood Place since 2003. 'My mother always dreamed of having a home,' said McQueen. But since 2010 their home has been a source of consternation as much as pride. 'We were one month behind, and I took [two payments] to Wells Fargo the next month,' McQueen said. 'They told me they wouldn't accept it. Ever since then, they're harassing my mother. They want me to sell her house.'
"At a press conference on Saturday, Irvington Mayor Wayne Smith announced the township's plan to 'take' and revalue foreclosed homes at market rates for the public's benefit, using the legal doctrine of 'eminent domain.' Should the plan move forward, Irvington could become the first municipality to seize and re-mortgage foreclosed properties. 'When you hear ('eminent domain'), you usually think of people being talked out of their homes (for corporate development), but what we're trying to do is recast it so that people can stay in their homes,' Smith said."
"From credit cards to home loans, banks have targeted low-income people of color for toxic products, according to the non-profit group New Jersey Communities United. In Irvington, whose population is 85 percent African American, consumer issues resonate in racial-justice terms."
"'They know we're poor, and they're taking advantage of us,' said McQueen. 'The neighborhood we live in, nobody gives a damn because it's black, Spanish, Haitian and Jamaican. They put us in situations where, at the time, it's presentable, but when we go to talk to them, they aren't willing to help.'"
The Providence Journal in Rhode Island. "After nearly five years of trying to avoid foreclosure and get a mortgage loan modification, Paul Patnaude is ready to let go. Patnaude is living alone at the Cape Cod-style house he bought in 2004. Until June, it was also the home of his wife and their three children, ages 10, 8 and 3. Patnaude and his wife, who are getting divorced, recently settled their foreclosure-challenge case with Bank of America. Theirs is one of the 1,123 cases that have been handled in the U.S. District Court in Providence, as part of Judge John J. McConnell Jr.'s foreclosure mediation docket."
"For $10,000, which they will split evenly, the Patnaudes will give their house to the bank, and their debt of about $300,000 will be erased."
"In 2004 the Patnaudes paid $400,000 for their house, putting down $90,000, and paying $13,000 in closing costs. Patnaude said the down payment money came from the sale of his house in Lincoln, which he bought when he was single. In 2004, Patnaude's 17-year-old home-improvement company was doing well, and the monthly house payments of about $2,200 seemed manageable for the two-income family. By 2008, however, the faltering economy had hurt Patnaude's business so much that he was having trouble paying the mortgage."
"Although he made no payments on the house for more than two years, Patnaude said he began paying $760 a month after Sherman began to administer the federal court's foreclosure mediation program. Sherman instituted monthly 'use and occupancy' payments, based in part on the home's current market value. In August 2011, McConnell issued a stay preventing foreclosures and evictions in pending foreclosure cases. The use and occupancy collections were halted in September, following an appeals court ruling that effectively required McConnell to remove that stay."
"Today, Patnaude is working for a local painting company, and he is preparing to move out of the house. The latest statement he received from Bank of America said that $2,414.77 was due on Nov. 1 and that he was $103,131.84 behind in payments, and $30,735.36 behind in escrow payments. The loan balance was $302,407.93. The loan was a conventional, 30-year mortgage with an interest rate of 5.65 percent. But Patnaude will soon be rid of all that debt, along with the house."
"Patnaude said he'll probably stay with a relative for a while before starting over in a new place of his own. 'I fought the fight …, ' he said, but 'I'm letting it go. Too much has happened.'"


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Owner-driver Kyle Busch will be behind the wheel of the No. 51 ToyotaCare Tundra Friday night at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway when the reigning NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Owner's Champions open the 2014 season. The season opening event will mark the first official event for the revamped Tundra, which was redesigned during the off season to resemble more what fans can purchase in the showroom of their local Toyota dealer. Busch, who has recorded 105 NASCAR National Series victories for Toyota since 2008, will be on a mission to get his first Truck Series win at the "World Center of Racing" and deliver Toyota its first win with the newest generation of trucks.
While Busch is yet to get to victory lane in a Truck Series event at the "World's Center of Racing," the talented wheelman has recorded top-five finishes in four of his five starts in NASCAR's third division, including three runner-up results. Busch was in a position to pick up a win in last year's Truck Series opener, as he was tucked in behind eventual winner Johnny Sauter on the final lap waiting to make his move, when a caution occurred and ended the race prematurely. The Las Vegas native finished second to Todd Bodine in both the 2008 and 2009 events.
The Daytona Truck race is the first of a 10-race Truck Series schedule for Busch in 2014. The talented wheelman enters the season ranked second in series history with 35 career wins, winning an amazing 30.4% of his 115 starts. Add in 22 runner-up finishes and he has finished first or second in nearly half (49.6%) of the Truck Series events he has entered. "Rowdy" has led the series in wins four of the last five seasons, from 2009 to 2011 and again last season when he reached victory lane five times in 11 starts.
Racing prodigy Erik Jones, who turns 18 at the end of May, will be behind the wheel of the No. 51 ToyotaCare Tundra for the remaining 12 races beginning with the second event of the year at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway. Jones finished inside the top 10 in all five of his starts last season, including a dominant win at Phoenix (Ariz.) International Raceway in November when he became the youngest winner in Truck Series history.
Busch is hoping all the newness this week - new trucks, new qualifying procedures and new rules in place to limit bump drafting - will equal something new for him and the new-truck smell will turn into the sweet smell of success in the Truck Series at Daytona.


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I can think of a dozen reasons why Bikram is good for yoga, but dcalvert said it all in the first post. Think about this - Bikram ds a lot of "Rah, Rah, Rah.... (team spirit)." "It's us against the world." and "Everyone is is less than me." Maybe you see this as opposite of union and it is, but team spirit can be a good thing for young people.
Look at football, baseball, hockey, etc. These are sports that can focus a young mind. Yogananda mentioned martial arts and this is also good for all ages. Young people have much energy to be rid of. Why should competitive sport yoga be bad? No reason, but many of us practiced or do practice meditative forms of yoga now.
What would you do is you were young again? Maybe test yourself in a hot yoga studio on a dare? These followers of Bikram aren't bad people. They are usually young yogis experiencing life and making a little noise in the process.
If Bikram charges the most for a yoga teacher course that teaches 26 methods that is good. These people want to give him money. Maybe he can own another new Rolls Royce next month. At worst, he is making money and bragging, but he isn't a bad person.
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