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First full 3 round NFL Mock Draft of the season. With the Super Bowl in the books the official draft order is in place and the offseason has officially started. All 3 rounds have a few reaches and a few players droppin down the charts, click below to soak in the entire 3 rounds. Full Mock Draft >
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Analysis: I have finally jumped off the bandwagon of Geno Smith to the Chiefs (for now). Getting the surefire pick Joeckel will shore up the Chiefs offensive line and allow them to look for a quarterback who would be less of a reach in round 2 or 3.2. Jacksonville – Jarvis Jones DE/LB, Georgia
Analysis: Jaguars had one of the worst pass rushes in the league, Jones is an instant game changer who will bring an immediate impact day 1. Not only a true pass rusher but excels at all other parts of the game as well.3. Oakland – Star Lotulelei DT, Utah
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However, a number of organisations in the country have a well-established legacy of digital operations, arguably the most recognisable and prominent being Tourism Australia, the official Government agency which is responsible for both the international and domestic promotion of Australia as a travel destination.
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Frank Rose is the author of The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories and a contributing editor to Wired.
Last week, he gave one of the keynotes at Ad:tech Sydney, based upon digital storytelling and why marketers need to surrender the idea that brands control their messaging. I was able to catch up with him afterwards, where he generously expanded his thoughts on this complex topic.
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Econsultancy has been discussing the ongoing transformation of organisations for a while now, as digital increasingly permeates their operations, capabilities and structures.
Ahead of ad:tech Melbourne, where Econsultancy is one of the media partners, I managed to catch up with one of the keynote speakers, Bettina Sherick, to discuss these changes, along with their challenges, benefits and the general direction digital is heading.
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The shifting digital economy is something I've written about in depth previously, with the main focus of my thoughts being the BRIC countries and other parts of Asia.
Recently, though, I'm seeing growing evidence pointing towards the fact that Australia should probably be given an equal amount of due care and attention as these other countries in the coming few years, by marketers both inside and outside the country.
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The decision has been made to extend the deadline for anyone wanting to take part in the State of Digital in Australia benchmark survey by Econsultancy and Marketing Magazine.
If you're a digital professional in the region, the closing date to participate and claim a free report copy of the findings (worth $400) is now December 14.
But, until the document is published, I thought I'd tide everyone over with some more juicy digital marketing statistics, following on from another stats-based post a couple of weeks ago.
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She has just self-published a book called I Got The Fever which "offers a practical course of treatment for dating within five unique cultures: Latino, Asian, Black, Indian and Jewish," according to her Racy JC blog. "Plus, author J.C. Davies delivers the low down on every question you ever had about dating men of other races but were too PC to ask." Check out the racy cover.
Davies spent more than a decade managing money and writing stock opinions on Wall Street. She holds a degree from Harvard and worked for a stint at Goldman Sachs. But after the market downturn of 2008, she "began focusing on her other area of expertise: interracial dating. She has more than 20 years of experience dating men of different cultures."
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
Tonight I'm in . . .
one of the larger Confederate cities that never did fall to the Yankees,* thanks to the failure of the Red River campaign. Also, or so I'm told, a place whose founder and namesake broke up a 140 mile long log jam (the 'Great Raft') in order to open the Red River to navigation -- including my birthplace, which is a good seventy miles upriver from here.
--John R.
*i.e., not until after the war was over.
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Tonight I'm in . . .
. . . a town founded 148 years ago; before that it was a plantation named Frog Level.
--John R.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Tonight I'm in . . .
. . . the only state capital whose Capitol building looks exactly like the one in D. C., except with no Indian on the top.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
With a Whimper
So, the Iraqi war winds down at last. Ironically, given that the timetable for withdrawal was negotiated by Bush, who had no intention of honoring the agreement,* and that it forces Obama to keep a campaign promise that he's since repudiated. Turns out they both didn't take into account how much the Iraqis hate being an occupied colonial state run by a puppet government. And so, after killing roughly five percent of the country's population and created the chaos that led about another twenty percent to flee (either to relocate in other areas of Iraq to escape 'ethnic cleaning' or to leave the country entirely for Jordan et al), in the end we settle for the Vietnam option: leave behind massive amounts of armaments,** withdraw to a fortress-embassy, and Go Home.***
About Time.
*kind of like Churchill's promises to free India after WWII
**when we left S. Vietnam, it had the world's third largest airforce, since we gave them most of the military equipment in the field rather than bringing it back home. It didn't do them any good.
***here's hoping there's no secret clause in the agreement we don't know about -- like Nixon's promising the N. Vietnamese war reparations
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The New Arrival: Shore's Symphony
So, on Saturday came a new cd: THE LORD OF THE RINGS SYMPHONY, by Howard Shore, performed by the '21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus', who are apparently based in Lucerne (Switzerland), and directed by Ludwig Wicki. This is not to be confused with THE LORD OF THE RINGS: SYMPHONY No. 1, by Johan de Meij, which has been around for more than two decades now. Instead, it's Shore's scores for the LotR films adapted into symphony form, more or less. I say 'more or less', because it's rather unusual for a symphony to have six movements (four is traditional). Here, of course, the six parts correspond to the six books that make up Tolkien's LotR, rather than (as I expected) a three-part structure deriving from the three Peter Jackson films.
So how is the music? Well, if you disliked Shore's scores (as a small but vocal minority does) you won't like this either, since it derives from the film music. Surprisingly enough, I found it less impressive than the original individual soundtracks from which it derives. Played too softly, it vanishes into the background; played loudly, I found I had some trouble identifying where in the story we were at different points (which had not been the case with the three soundtracks). I'd thought this would be tighter and have greater impact than the longer scores, but I think the opposite turns out to be the case. This shorter version seems to me to have less focus, oddly enough.
Such at any rate is my first impression. It's entirely possible Shore's symphony will grow on my over time. But for now I think I'll be more likely to re-listen to the cds I have (FR, TT, RK, the stage musical) and that this might drift towards the back of the shelf. We'll see. At least it has more impact than the de Meij, which I've never been able to listen to all the way through without my attention wandering -- though I see that there's a new recording of this out, from the London Symphony Orchestra. If anyone has heard this, I'd be interested in how it compares to the earlier recordings: does it have more character?
--John R.
Monday, October 24, 2011
I Am Interviewed
. . . by Michael Martinez, as the second in a series of pieces he's doing with Tolkien scholars (the first, last week, was with MYTHLORE editor Janet Croft; next week's being with Wayne & Christina (Oct. 28th), followed by Michael Drout (Nov. 4th) and then John Garth (Nov. 11th). Mine mostly focuses on THE HISTORY OF THE HOBBIT, but does expend to other matters Tolkienian as well. Here's the link:
--John R.
Monday, October 17, 2011
The Doom That Came To Footnotes
So, today a friend* sent me a link to the following mediation by a fellow practitioner of the fine art of footnoting, about the melancholy prospects e-books offer those of us who like our footnotes (and I do).
I have to say I haven't found things too bad yet, but then most of the books I read on the Kindle don't have much in the way of notes, and most of the books I read that are thickly be-noted I read as actual books (e.g., most Tolkien scholarship). Ironic that a format that shd be able to easily accommodate something like a note shd make cross-referencing more difficult and not less. Especially when audiobooks have by and large solved this problem -- I was particularly impressed by the deft treatment of footnotes in the audiobook of Susanna Clarke's STRANGE & NORRELL, where each notes was given its separate track on the cd, making them easy to skip for those who had a mind to press on, while most listeners could enjoy them as they came. But then JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL might be a special case, since I ultimately concluded that the notes were better than the story there -- that is, that Clarke's world-building was superlative while the main plot was less interesting than the setting it took place in. That's rare.
I also admire Terry Pratchett's footnotes, which are a distinctive feature of his style of humor (or perhaps humour); a feature I think he derived (along with so much else) from Douglas Adams's HITCH-HIKER'S GUIDE. And of course in my own work I've always thought that, having learned grammatically how to construct compound-complex sentences, it'd be a pity not to use them. I'm also fond of parentheticals (a trait I share with Tolkien).** And I like footnotes. Sometimes my footnotes have footnotes (usually marked with a dagger). Sometimes I need to distinguish between two sets of notes, such as between Denham's notes and my notes in the DENHAM TRACT I reproduced in an appendix of
And sometimes different notes do different things, as with the Notes to my commentary vs. the Text Notes to Tolkien's drafting in my presentation of the HOBBIT Mss.
So, as not just a reader of footnotes but also an inveterate writer of notes, I'd be sad to see the passing of the footnote -- but I trust that endnotes will still be with us, if a little harder to access. And if all else fails, we'll still have parentheticals.
--John R.
*thanks, Doug!
**it's a feature I greatly enjoy in FARMER GILES, LotR, and esp. THE HOBBIT, and something I miss in THE SILMARILLION.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
The New Arrival: Ruud's Companion.
So, this week the mail brought a book I only learned about through amazon.com's 'Recommendations',* Jay Rudd's CRITICAL COMPANION TO J. R. R. TOLKIEN: A LITERARY REFERENCE TO HIS LIFE AND WORK. This is a hefty book (650 pages) at a hefty price ($75)** that seems to have just slipped out without anyone being aware it was in the works or, so far as I can tell, that it's now been released.
I think this is because its target audience is clearly libraries (the publisher is Facts on File), and its intended readers are high school and college students who need to write a book report but don't necessarily want to read the book in question. It falls into the same territory as Michael Drout's TOLKIEN ENCYCLOPEDIA or Wayne & Christina's COMPANION & GUIDE in its attempt to cover Tolkien's life and (especially) works through a series of encyclopedia-like entries, but unlike those seems to be largely a one-man show. Rudd has clearly put an enormous amount of work in on this book, but I'm not sure how many Tolkien scholars will find themselves making much use of it: its intended reader is the non-specialist.
I haven't had a chance to read the book yet, but on a quick skim it seems that Rudd derives most of his information from relatively few sources (e.g., Carpenter and Garth seem to provide pretty much all the biographical information). I haven't found any signs yet of original research, such as distinguish the Hammond-Skull, while it lacks the Drout project's all-star cast, which largely offset that production's flaws.
As usual when first looking at a great big book like this, I check the relative accuracy and quality by reading a few entries on topics I know really well -- like THE HOBBIT. Here Rudd starts by saying that "The origin of
The Hobbit
is well-known" and then proceeds to get several of the salient facts wrong. Oddly enough, Rudd devotes three paragraphs to describing the existence and significance of the 1960 Hobbit but never mentions that it's been published. I suspect from this that his book was a long time in the works, and so wasn't able to take advantage of books published within the last half-decade or so (just as my own MR. BAGGINS wasn't able to draw much from the Hammond-Scull).
Rudd's method is to first provide a brief overview, then a synopsis of the text, then commentary on the book, then some notes on major characters, ending with a selective bibliography. In the case of THE HOBBIT, the whole entry runs some thirty-five pages (p. 95 to 129), of which fourteen are a plot-summary. The commentary that follows is a bit eccentric -- for example, he asserts that Bilbo is the Grail Knight and Bard the Fisher-King -- and its general thrust is suggested by his including in this entry's Suggested Reading: Northrop Frye, Joseph Campbell, Jung, Propp.
The sheer bulk of the synopses indicate that this really is a book meant for the non-specialist (cf. the paragraph or two summarizing each poem in ATB). But that being the case, if this book is going to be the only authority someone checks when reading about Tolkien, it's all the more important that it get the facts right. A quick skim makes me worry on that front (e.g., "Thorin is the grandson of Thrain, the last dwarvish King under the Mountain"), but I may have just been unlucky and come across more than my fair share of the sort of inevitable slips that occur in any large project.*** I'll certainly be dipping into it and reading more over the next few weeks.
So, my initial impression: an impressive achievement, but to be used with some caution.
--John R.
current reading: THE ZERO STONE by Andre Norton [1968]
current audiobooks: The Learning Company lectures on Skspr***
*i.e., 'you seem to buy everything there is to buy w. Tolkien's name on it; why not buy this too?'
**making it the latest of a recent run of budget-busting bks on Tolkien.
are a particular problem, as when a photo of the Radcliffe Camera states that "The manuscript of
was discovered among Tolkien's papers in this library" (p. 333). Um, no. Also, at least four times cover art for movie tie-in editions of various volumes of THE LORD OF THE RINGS are inexplicably described as "coloring book editions". However, these gaffs shd not be held against Rudd himself, since captions for most publishers are not written by a given book's author and are invariably inserted into books at a v. late stage, usually too late for even the editor to double-check them.
****not surprisingly, they think Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. I gather the new movie just out about Skspr ("Anonymous") subscribes to one of the various conspiracy-theories instead.
UPDATE Oct. 17th: I've corrected the spelling of "Roverandum" to "Roverandom", as per D.B.'s comment -- JDR
Friday, October 14, 2011
New Tolkien Calendar
So, today I finally managed to pick up next year's Tolkien Calendar, the second in a row with Cor Blok's pug-ugly art. The most interesting part is the 'A Tolkien Tapestry' centerfold, arranging dozens of his LotR illustrations into sequence in tiny thumbnail format. The actual monthly displays give us more of his signature pieces, such as most of his characters being armless, and Gollum-as-a-duck, which sounds like a joke but unfortunately isn't. There are some odd choices of composition as well -- has anyone else ever devoted a painting to Grima spitting? (cf the one for October). I hear there's a book due out soon explaining how he came to do this project, Tolkien's response to it (or what parts of it he saw), &c -- all of which actually sounds more interesting than the art itself. Which is, as I might have said, pug-ugly.
I did have an amusing exchange with the sales clerk at Barnes & Noble when I bought it that went something like this.
He: oh, Tolkien calendar.
Me: yes. Tolkien's said to have seen and actually approve some of the art.
He (after long, considering pause): perhaps what Tolkien saw isn't
pieces . . .
Me: or perhaps Tolkien was a kind-hearted man.
--John R.
current reading: THE STAR BEAST by Rbt. A. Heinlein (just finished)
THE ZERO STONE by Andre Norton.*
*probably my favorite book before I read LotR.
Friday, October 7, 2011
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today . . .
So, I thought of naming this post something like "TSR (New Fish, Twenty Years On)", but in the end had to go with the Sgt. Pepper reference.
Today marks exactly twenty years since I started work at TSR, back in the Lake Geneva days. I was one of four new hires that month, so we all had the 'New Fish' lecture together from Jim Ward, the head of our department; my immediate bosses were Steve Winter (AD&D core group) and Bruce Heard (D&D group).
Of the four of us, I started first (Monday October 7th, 1991). Rich Baker and Thomas
Reid started together a week later (Monday October 14th) and Wolfgang Baur started the week after that (Monday October 21st). I suspect I started a week before Rich and Thomas because when the nice lady at TSR called and offered me the job and asked when I could start work I answered, well, that afternoon and the next day are pretty busy; would the day after tomorrow (a Wednesday) be okay? They assured me that the next Monday (the 7th) wd be fine, which gave me the rest of that week to finish up my paper on Charles Williams' best play (TERROR OF LIGHT) for the Huttar-Sckakel collection (THE RHETORIC OF VISION, eventually published in 1996).
I was living in Milwaukee at the time, so I cd commute from where we lived on the Lower East Side; I suspect the others got hired on the same day and were given two (or, in Wolf's case, three) weeks to move into the area.
A lot of water under those bridges since then. Rich quickly became one of TSR (& later WotC)'s best designers, as well as at one point a brand manager (of the Forgotten Realms) and novelist in the TSR book line (I recommend his Ravens' Bluff novel, although my favorite of his novels, the BIRTHRIGHT one, never got published in its original form, alas).
And now Rich has just completed the unprecedented achievement of spending
twenty consecutive years
working in the rpg department at TSR/WotC.
No one else has ever done that in TSR/WotC's thirty-eight year history
,* and there can't be many at any rpg company who can boast a similar record.** Well done, Rich!
Thomas*** went from editing (with the occasional freelance design) to eventually brand manager of the core AD&D line (wh. throughout the early nineties was overseen by Steve Winter, one of the unsung heroes of TSR days), before eventually leaving to work in the computer game industry, like so many others who got their start in rpgs (cf. Jeff Grubb as an outstanding example). Last I heard, he was back in Austin, still working on novels and computer games.
Wolf I see the most of, since we're in the same gaming group (though with the newborn his attendance is mostly in abeyance right now). He
became consecutively the editor of DUNGEON and then DRAGON, as well as building up quite a reputation as a freelance designer, particularly of al-QADIM. He was also the first of us to leave TSR, making the move to Wizards well before TSR went on the rocks and eventually leaving WotC in turn before the layoffs started there a few years later. These days he manages his own little rpg empire, Open Design (for which I've freelanced several times), with his own magazine KOBOLD QUARTERLY.
And I, through three distinct stints at TSR (1991-1996), WotC (1997-2001), and WotC/Hasbro (2003-2005), got to work with a lot of great people, many of whom I still consider close friends, and got to work on a lot of great projects, most of which I'm proud to have my name on. And through it all, in what little bit of "free time" I cd manage, I kept plugging away at MR. BAGGINS, which I'd started in earnest just about the time TSR hired me (Taum having died in August, less than six weeks earlier), though in the end I was only able to finish it by working full-time on the thing in the year and a half after I left WotC for the final time. And since then it's been the Independent Scholar route, buttressed by the occasional freelance.
*Kim Mohan, their managing editor (the final set of eyes who proofreads every rpg product before it goes out the door) has been there longer overall -- I remember he got his twenty year pin not long before I left for the last time in December 2005 -- but he'd had a hiatus, having
worked at TSR (where he was the second editor of DRAGON MAGAZINE), left to follow Gygax to New Infinities, and then came back after Gygax's new company collapsed.
**Lynn Willis of Chaosium, perhaps?
***historical trivia fact: Thomas's grandmother is one of the two people who could testify that Lee Harvey Oswald had been in the Texas Book Repository at the time Kennedy was assassinated in Dealey Plaza, having run into him at the soft drink machine as he was making his way downstairs a minute or so after the shooting (the other being Robin MacNeil, later of the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, who had a brief exchange with Oswald as the later was leaving the building).
having half-drafted this piece, I fell into one of my not-posting spells that strike every now and then, and so am only now (Fr. 10/14) resuming. In the meantime I've been able to see a few more old friends from TSR days of yore: Miranda Horner, Bruce Cordell, and Monte Cook. Been good to reminisce and catch up a bit on what they're doing now. Many the best thing about working in the rpg industry is the number of really interesting, really nice people you get to meet along the way. --JDR
Thursday, October 6, 2011
My Newest (re-) publication
So, a few months back (February-March) I got an unexpected request from an unexpected source. The folks at Gale Publishing (aka Cengage Learning) wanted permission to reprint my essay, "A Kind of Elvish Craft: Tolkien as Literary Craftsman", which I'd originally written as my 2007 Blackwelder lecture at Marquette and then, to my great delight, had published as the lead article in TOLKIEN STUDIES (Vol. VI [2009]). Gale are famous for printing small editions of library-only books, long series about authors, and the like. My piece appears in TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE CRITICISM, Vol. 258. *
Or so I'm told. I haven't had a chance to check for myself, since my contributor's copy hasn't arrived. So, if you find yourself in a library which carries the series and happen to notice whether this new volume is on the shelves yet, let me know. Suzzallo-Allen, based on their online catalogue, seem to have most of the set but not the newer volumes yet.
But, in any case, thought I'd share. Woo-hoo.
*Here's a link that gives an idea of what a typical volume in the series is like:
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Jack London and The Lost Road
So, I've just finished reading a book I came across on one of the downstairs bookcases while we were staying at Trout Lake (nr Mt Adams, just north of the Columbia River gorge) last week, and which our hostess* v. kindly loaned to me: Jack London's BEFORE ADAM [1907]. It turned out not to be much of a book -- there's a reason that most of what London wrote goes unread these days, aside from a few classics -- but was interesting in several ways.
First off, as a early man/primitive man story, it reminded me both of a story about cavemen by H. G. Wells (the title of which I've forgotten) I came across years ago when leafing through bound volumes of THE IDLER in the Marquette Archives in search of Sidney Sime artwork (one of the ones I found I'd love to have a reproduction of: "The Brother of Ali Baba Lost in the Woods" -- but unfortunately in the years since I've lost the reference)** and THE INHERITORS by Wm Golding -- wh. I've not read and know only through a presentation on it I attended at one of the first WisCons I went to (hence, in the early 80s, since I moved to Milwaukee in August 1981 and first attended WisCon the following February).
London's story is much closer to Golding's in its bleak depiction of one race of early men being systematically exterminated by another, and I wd not be surprised if it were a source. In Golding's case, it's the Neanderthals (who are the point of view characters) being wiped out by Cro-Magnon (i.e., our ancestors). In London's he depicts a time when there were three distinct races of humans living in close proximity:*** The Tree People (who still retain a lot of arboreal features), The Folk ('missing links', who include the narrator), and The Fire People (who are more advanced, with bows and language).
What interested me are two features that v. much remind me of Tolkien's THE LOST ROAD.
First, the narrator is a modern-day man haunted by vivid dreams of a previous life in which he was Big Tooth, one of The Folk. This seems v. like the Errols in LOST ROAD and for that matter Ramer and Arry in THE NOTION CLUB PAPERS. One thing that had puzzled me in Tolkien's time-travel stories was his insistence at one point (I forget where) that the modern day characters were not re-incarnations of their Numenorean selves but inherited memories of those events through being descendents of those distant ancestors.
That didn't make any kind of sense to me -- either they were re-incarnated or they weren't -- but London's book makes much the same claim. His modern-day narrator is not the same person come to life again in a new body, but a descendent of the person who felt and thought and acted long ago. A Lysenko-ist, London believes that memories can be inherited genetically. Thus, for example, he argues that the dream of falling some people have, but always waking up before hitting the ground, is because those people are descended from hominids who fell from trees or other high places but caught themselves before hitting the ground. London claims that no one has the dream of hitting the ground, because those individuals died in the fall and hence had no descendents to passed on the traumatic memory to. Which is no more absurd, I suppose, than the modern claims some make that people are afraid of snakes because of little furry mammals being hunted by the dinosaurs (people are afraid of snakes because they're taught to be afraid of snakes. duh.).
Now, this seems v. like what Tolkien must have been getting at. The Errol father-and-son pair are not literally the two Numenoreans re-incarnated, the way elves can re-incarnate (with the same soul and personality), but ancestors of the modern-day Englishmen who under the right circumstances can re-awaken those inherited memories and re-experience events in their ancestors' lives. Which of course ties in to 'the past alive in the present' (to give one of Jared Lobdell's catchphrases from ENGLAND & ALWAYS a new application) in the NCP, where past events can erupt explosively in the present. In the abstract, described like that, it sounds much more like a David Lindsay novel than anything we associate with Tolkien. Which is perhaps just a good reminder that Tolkien's not as predictable as we sometimes think.
--John R.
*better known as Marjorie Burns, author of PERILOUS REALMS. Thanks again, Bijee.
**this was back when I was working on my Dunsany dissertation, a section of which is devoted to the wholly remarkable Dunsany-Sime partnership.
***the accompanying introduction (by McKiernan) and afterword (by Eisley) to the edition I read were careful to point out that London was quite wrong in depicting multiple hominids alive at the same time -- which, amusingly enough, is itself quite wrong, as recent discoveries such as the Flores hobbit reveals.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Dimitra Fimi's class
So, today began this fall's session of Dr. Dimitra Fimi's online Tolkien class,
. I've been interested in this since first hearing about it a few years ago, and this time around I'm going to be auditing it. Here's a brief description of the course:
And here's more information about the specific topic for each of the course's ten weeks, presented in slideshow fashion:
In addition to the main course, I'm v. much looking forward to the guest lectures by T. A. Shippey and Jn Garth. Looks like it'll be an interesting ten weeks.
--John R.
current reading: SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY by Nick Rennison [2005]
current viewing: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO [original, subtitled]
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Four Teas in Four Days
So, last night I finally finished my current project* (only one month late), an essay for the French Tolkien journal TOLKIENDIL. Read it out loud to Janice tonight, who didn't find any passages that needed to be toned down, so it's good to go. Sent it off before midnight, and will compile the Bibliography to accompany it tomorrow. Even better, this is really two deadlines in one: this same piece will form the core of my paper at the Medievalist Congress in Kalamazoo next May, so I'm well ahead of schedule there -- although I'll have to work out how to shorten the delivery time by half and still have a coherent presentation. But that's a good problem to have.
And so today I would be celebrating The Dance of Doneness, except that we just got back from our week's vacation to Trout Lake (near the foot of Mt. Adams), where we stayed with friends Bijee and Don (a.k.a. Tolkien scholar Marjorie Burns and her husband, Don Willner), followed by two days in Portland (and some serious poking about in Powell's--two sessions totaling somewhere between four and five hours worth, I'd say). So in a sense we've pre-celebrated. And one way in which we did so -- going out to tea together -- formed something of a running theme over the last few days.
Having arrived in Portland Wednesday night, Thursday we visited the Lan Su Chinese Gardens in Portland, a favorite of ours (this is I think our third visit there). And, as is our tradition, we ended up by visiting the teahouse after an hour or so of first the tour and then wandering about. This being a Feast Day,** I had an order of their fava beans (wh. they call 'horsebeans') and Janice their mooncake, each accompanied by fine tea in tiny pots and minuscule cups and, as an added bonus, live music on a kind of Chinese zither made of oak and redwood. Janice had an interesting thought that we were able to confirm: the Chinese music notation the perormer was using on her sheet music is nothing like the standard staves and notes we use in Western music. Interesting. And I got to see both a Magnolia and a Mimosa ('silk tree') in the garden -- though no actual tea trees. I always enjoy visiting Chinese gardens, and I'm already looking forward to the next one, whenever that eventually comes.
Friday it was the Portland Japanese Garden's turn, which we'd seen once in the company of my sister-in-law maybe a dozen years back. Unlike the Chinese gardens I've seen (e.g., the Lan Su in Portland and Sun Yat Sen garden in Vancouver), which are inclosed in a wall and include a number of buildings within the garden itself, Japanese gardens have much more open space, far fewer structures, and tend to have a steep green cliff forming a backdrop on one side (though whether this is happenstance or a deliberate feature I do not know). Now I'm curious to visit a formal English walled garden when we're over there sometime next year and compare it as well.
Afterwards we had been planning to see the Portland Zoo, but having gotten a late start we went right to the next item on our itinerary: high tea at Tea Thyme & Lavender in Beaverton, on the west side of Portland. This turned out not to be a tea room as such but an antique store; the reason they ask for reservations is that it gives them time to clear off a table and make a place to sit. The high tea that followed was unusual in having a distinct French touch (e.g., gateau rather than cake, &c). It was okay, but I find I'm of the mind that lavender is better as a scent than as a flavor ingredient in a scone.
Friday night having seen us arrive back in Kent to a welcoming array of kitties, we drove into Seattle Saturday afternoon for this year's Northwest Tea Festival, where we roamed around the room sampling many, many teas from the tiny free cups they give you when you come in. They also gave each attendee a free canvas tote bag, and I managed to fill mine with purchases of four ounces of Yunnan here, a small packet of Dian Hong there. Last year (or was it the year before?) when visiting the Tea Festival with friends Anne & Sig, we'd all seen much taken w. a 'tea wheel', a sort of color chart listing adjectives suitable for describing tea flavors and undertones. This year they had a smaller, portable version available for purchase, so naturally I got one.
And finally, today (Sunday the 2nd) we decided to make up for the rather disappointing high tea of two days ago by revisiting a tea room we'd really liked on our two previous visits (once for Janice's birthday, once w. our friends Gwen and Stan): the Secret Gardens down in Sumner. It did not disappoint: good strong tea, a pleasant setting, and most excellent tea-treats. We ate till we cd eat no more, then made our way home to reflect on an interesting vacation and prepare ourselves to plunge back into the new workweek tomorrow morning. It promises to be a busy one . . .
--John R.
current reading: BEFORE ADAM by Jack London [1907]
just finished: THE BRICK MOON [1869; 1899]
*"A Fragment, Detached: THE HOBBIT and THE SILMARILIION"
**i.e., we were off the diet.
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Does anyone know anything about Maria Simma and what the Church has to say about her?
-- D Joseph (email@example.com), July 16, 2004
-- D Joseph (firstname.lastname@example.com), July 16, 2004.
What a coincidence, I was just given a small book last week, "the Amazing Secret of the Souls in Purgatory - an Interview with Maria Simma" by Sister Emmanuel of Medjugorje. Great reading.For what it's worth, Maria and Sister Emmanuel both mention the fact that Maria has the full support and encouragement of her local priest and of the bishop of her diocese. (Has or Had? The book was written in 1997, and Maria was 82). But they don't mention the Vatican.
Besides this, I've never heard any other mention of support or non-support.
My own doubts come from this: Maria seems to say that at the moment of death, you make your choice to go to purgatory (and eventually heaven), or to go to hell. It doesn't seem to matter whether you're in a state of grace or mortal sin at the time; at least, this isn't made clear in the book. It seems you can repent right after you die, and receive absolution from God. (Notice I use the word "seems" because I'm not sure I'm interpreting her words correctly) Nor am I sure whether this is in line with the teachings of the Church.
The main point of the book is that we should pray, as often as possible, for the souls in purgatory. And the Church agrees with this, at least.
Interesting to note that Maria says the worst sins are those of pride, hostility, slander, and lack of charity.
-- JoeJeff (email@example.com), July 16, 2004.
If your interpretation of her words is correct, then her words are in direct conflict with teaching of the Church. The opportunity for repentence ends at the moment of death (it may end earlier than that if a person is unconscious for a time before death - in a coma for example). If a lifetime wasn't sufficient time for repentence, then there is no chance to do after death what a person resisted doing for a lifetime."... it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment" (Hebrews 9:27)
Judgement, not repentence.
-- Paul M. (firstname.lastname@example.com), July 16, 2004.
Incidently, Maria Simma recently passed ( April or May 2004). She lived in Austria.
-- Jennifer (firstname.lastname@example.com), July 16, 2004.
Paul, that's exactly what I thought. But then I started wondering if someone had changed the Teachings or something. There have been so many changes lately, it's hard to keep up with...I'll be back with a quote, so you can see what I mean. BRB
-- JoeJeff (firstname.lastname@example.com), July 16, 2004.
Got it. Here it is:Q: "Maria, I would like to ask you: at the moment of death, is there a time in which the soul still has the chance to turn towards God, even after a sinful life, before entering into eternity - a time, if you like, between apparent death and real death?"
Maria's answer: "Yes, yes, the Lord gives several minutes to each one, in order to regret his sins and to decide: I accept or I do not accept to go see God. There we see a film of our lives..."
It's that "apparent" as opposed to "real" death that I'm finding tricky.
Maria also says "God gives to everyone during his earthly life, and at the hour of his death, sufficient grace for conversion, even after a life spent in darkness. If one asks for forgiveness, sincerely, of course one can be saved."
On the other hand, Maria acknowledges that once a soul is in Purgatory, it's too late for them to earn merits on their own to get themselves out. That's why we have to pray for them, and offer our sufferings on their behalf.
I'd like to know what you think about this. (About the quoted stuff, I mean)
(Thanks, Jennifer, for the info.)
-- JoeJeff (firstname.lastname@example.com), July 16, 2004.
"It's that "apparent" as opposed to "real" death that I'm finding tricky."A: Yes, me too. I accept that a person can be "apparently dead" without being "actually dead", as shown by the number of "clinically dead" patients who are resuscitated and live. But I doubt that a person who is "apparently dead" is in any condition that would allow for repentence. Repentence is a conscious, rational process, so I don't see how an unconscious person could repent.
-- Paul M. (email@example.com), July 17, 2004.
There have been so many changes lately, it's hard to keep up with...I am not aware of any doctrinal differnces. Which ones are you refering to?
-- Hugh (email@example.com), July 17, 2004.
Hugh, I'll rephrase myself:There have been so many changes in the Church lately, that it often seems as if the Teachings themselves have been changed.
Example: Many Catholics don't talk about Purgatory anymore. Some even say there is no such thing. Why is this? Are they making a personal choice to believe what they want and to reject what they don't like? Or is the Church now officially teaching that there is no Purgatory?
BTW, I know where the Church stands on Purgatory. The above is merely an example. Also, I understand that Doctrines do not change; however, unless you know whether any given matter is doctrinal or merely normative, how do you know whether a contradiction of Doctrine is actually a contradiction?
-- JoeJeff (firstname.lastname@example.com), July 17, 2004.
"Are they making a personal choice to believe what they want and to reject what they don't like?"A: Yes, they are. But the teaching of the Church regarding Purgatory has not changed in the slightest. The doctrinal truth of the Church never changes. You cannot change truth, except to untruth, and Christ promised that the Holy Spirit would guide His Church to "all truth". And so He does, until the end of time.
-- Paul M. (firstname.lastname@example.com), July 17, 2004.
When speaking of "apparent" death, she is referring to a physical death that is "upon you" or about to occur. "Real" death is just that.....the actual, physical death.She is saying that God grants individuals a chance at repentance right before they enter eternity.
Purgatory exists and is an unchanging doctrine that the Church still teaches. Even though the homilies remain silent on the subject and many folks prefer not to talk about it, the souls there still cry out.
-- John Kenneth Webber (email@example.com), August 26, 2004.


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Bob Niederman had two passions.
"He loved to farm, and he loved to have fun on the farm,'' said Bethann Niederman, his wife of 23 years.
Niederman, 45, who died Wednesday after an eight-month battle with cancer, was the man whose paintball course, corn mazes and educational programs brought thousands of visitors to the family's 214-acre farm to have fun.
To the children who came to the farm to learn about Butler County's agricultural roots, he was known simply as "Farmer Bob." To adults and his family, he was known for his sunny smile, "can do" attitude and problem-solving skills.
"He was a visionary. He worked through every crazy idea. He started the corn maze because he wanted to find someplace to play for the community,'' his wife said. "He always said, 'I can build that. I can make it or I can make it better.' "
And he did.
It was Niederman who diversified the cattle and dairy farm to bring in extra income. As the community became more suburban, it was Niederman who added barns to store boats and recreational vehicles.
When the local Pee Wee Football teams needed a place to play, Niederman built a field inside the hayfield around which his father erects the annual Christmas Walk Through the Bible display.
Except for his years at Ohio State University studying agriculture engineering, the 1984 Lakota High School graduate never left the family farm, raising his own five children in the house he grew up in. (more…)
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These are Orange and Strawberry ganaches in the shell mold.
Hazelnut ganache in the hazelnut mold with a dark chocolate stripe
You have seen these before, but they are multiplying. These will be my signature piece. A mint infused white chocolate ganache.
Molten caramel in the farfalla mold
Cinnamon ganache in the Maya mold, sprayed with a touch of yellow. One is in dark chocolate, the other milk.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
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Woah! Looking good! I'm really liking those acorn molds, and the signature pieces look great.
- August 19, 2008 at 9:57 PM
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So, apparently, there was some minor anger over the Mass Effect 3 ending... fancy that?!
Wilful ignorance aside, those many millions of angry Shepards can now look forward to a fuller, more complete ending to the game. On June 26, Bioware will release the Extended Cut DLC for all platforms, for zero cost.
According to the DLC site, the new cut fills in a lot more of the game's ending, and brings in a lot more of the impact of player decisions. The game's epilogue will deliver a greater sense of closure, apparently; it certainly sounds like there's a lot in the DLC, as at nearly 2GB on total, it's a lot of data.
"The Extended Cut is an expansion of the original endings to Mass Effect 3. It does not fundamentally change the endings, but rather it expands on the meaning of the original endings, and reveals greater detail on the impact of player decisions," according to the DLC FAQ.
Apparently, to get to the new stuff though, you'll need to load up your last Save Game, just before the attack on the Cerberus base, and play through. For more details, and a neat interview, check out the official site.
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Earlier today we landed on Jeffrey Goldberg's saying that people who think the Israel lobby is important also believe that Jews have horns. Well here's more: MJ Rosenberg has teed off on the piece at his site.
Check this out. It's just a little piece by uber-neocon and Israel Firster Jeffrey Goldberg about sharing a moment with blogger Spencer Ackerman. These two don't agree on much but, on Israel, they are one.
The little joke here is the two mocking the very idea that the Lobby exists or, perhaps, the idea that some of us think we can somehow control it. So funny, belly laughs all around.
Why is this important? It is important because the social element insiderness demonstrated here tends to keep would-be critics of Israeli policies (like Ackerman) in line — that and the fear that the lobby will block their careers. That is, of course, a legitimate fear. AIPAC has voluminous files and if, say, Spencer Ackerman, starts speaking out of turn, it won't be good for his career, to put it mildly.
Career protection is the big reason pundits and commentators tend to avoid the lobby issue like the plague. (Note how Netanyahu's attack on Obama was not news on MSNBC).
But don't overlook the social element. Remember Judge Goldstone and his report on the Gaza war. He actually retracted it because his pals started dissing him.
So who will tell the truth about this issue? Tom Friedman does. He openly despises the lobby but no one can touch him and all his Pulitzers (I still give him credit. He is the most famous "dissident" and that can't be fun all the time.) Joe Klein is big and can get away with it. Nick Kristof is good. Bill Moyers, a few others. The jury is out on Peter Beinart (the AIPAC crowd may get him in the end).
In any case, note the little Ackerman/Goldberg exchange. Multiply it by a few thousand and you might have some idea how the lobby works.
But remember, if you talk about it, you are a conspiracy nut or (if you are Jewish) a self-hating Jew or (if you are not Jewish) an ANTI-SEMITE. So be careful. This stuff is NSFW. Or NSF (keeping your) W.


text: State v. SwansonDownload as PDF Loading PDF... [Cite as State v. Swanson, 2008-Ohio-2929.] Court of Appeals of Ohio EIGHTH APPELLATE DISTRICT COUNTY OF CUYAHOGA JOURNAL ENTRY AND OPINION No. 89351 STATE OF OHIO PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE vs. WILLIAM SWANSON DEFENDANT-APPELLANT JUDGMENT: VACATED Criminal Appeal from the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Case No. CR-358388 BEFORE: RELEASED: Boyle, J., Calabrese, P.J., and Celebrezze, J. June 5, 2008 JOURNALIZED: June 16, 2008 [Cite as State v. Swanson, 2008-Ohio-2929.] ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLANT Robert L. Tobik Cuyahoga County Public Defender BY: Paul Kuzmins John T. Martin Assistant Public Defenders 310 Lakeside Avenue Suite 200 Cleveland, Ohio 44113 ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE William D. Mason Cuyahoga County Prosecutor BY: Jon W. Oebker Assistant Prosecuting Attorney The Justice Center 1200 Ontario Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113 BOYLE, M.J., J.: {¶ 1} Appellant, William Swanson, brings this appeal challenging the trial court's imposition of postrelease control after he had served his prison sentence. Because we find that the court below failed to resentence appellant prior to his release from prison, we vacate the court's order of postrelease control. {¶ 2} On May 18, 1998, appellant entered a guilty plea to one count of rape. On June 18, 1998, he was sentenced to nine years in prison. At his original sentencing hearing, the trial court did not impose postrelease control. Appellant was due to be released from prison on January 1, 2007. On December 28, 2006, the state filed a motion to correct the sentence, asking the trial court to include postrelease control. On December 29, 2006, three days before his nine-year sentence was to end, appellant was returned to court for resentencing; he was represented by counsel from the public defender's office. {¶ 3} Appellant's counsel asked for a continuance in order to prepare for the hearing. The trial court granted a continuance until December 31, 2006. Appellant's counsel was present at the hearing on December 31, but appellant was not. The parties agreed that appellant's testimony could be taken by proffer. Appellant indicated he did not think he was subject to postrelease control. He also stated that the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction had informed him on November 6, 2006 that he was not subject to postrelease control. {¶ 4} On January 2, 2007, one day after appellant was released from prison, the trial court ordered the following in its journal entry: "* * * State's motion for correction to the journal entry for judgment of conviction is granted. Defendant informed he is subject to 5 years of post release control; a violation of post release control, the parole board may impose up to one half of the original prison sentence and failure to report to a parole officer while on post release control may result in being charged with escape which is a felony. ***" Final Appealable Order {¶ 5} Appellant cites nine assignments of error in his appeal, however, our ruling on Assignments of Error I and VII renders the remaining issues moot. {¶ 6} "I. The trial court's journal entry of January 2, 2007 does not constitute a final appealable order because it does not comply with Crim.R. 32(C). {¶ 7} "VII. The journal entry in this case was not entered until after Mr. Swanson was to be released from prison and thus is null and void." {¶ 8} First, appellant argues that the trial court's journal entry fails to comply with Crim.R. 32(C) because it does not set forth a finding of guilt and include the entire sentence.1 Further, appellant argues that although the trial court held a hearing on the issue of postrelease control the day before he was due to be released from prison, the docket reflects that the judgment entry was journalized the day after he was released. Both issues are critical to our analysis of this appeal. {¶ 9} Crim.R. 32(C) states in relevant part: "A judgment of conviction shall set forth the plea, the verdict or findings, and the sentence. *** The judge shall sign the judgment entry and the clerk shall enter it on the journal. A judgment is effective only when entered on the journal by the clerk." In a somewhat unusual twist, appellant assigns as error that the order from which he appeals is not a final appealable order. Generally an appellant does not raise this issue; either the court sua sponte dismisses cases which lacks a final appealable order or the appellee raises it as a defense. We consider this issue with respect to whether the court complied with Crim.R. 32(C) because it relates specifically to appellant's seventh assignment of error. 1 {¶ 10} W hen the trial court originally sentenced appellant, it failed to notify him that he would be subject to postrelease control. The state filed a motion to correct the journal entry for judgment of conviction on December 28, 2006, fully aware that appellant was due to be released from prison on January 1, 2007. A hearing on the state's motion was held on December 31, 2006. {¶ 11} According to the holding in State v. Bezak, 114 Ohio St.3d 94, 2007- Ohio-3250, 868 N.E.2d 961, "when a defendant is convicted of or pleads guilty to one or more offenses and postrelease control is not properly included in a sentence for a particular offense, the sentence is void. The offender is entitled to a new hearing for that particular offense." Appellant was afforded a resentencing hearing, although it was at the state's request. {¶ 12} The trial court, however, failed to comply with Crim.R. 32(C) when it resentenced appellant. Pursuant to the holding in State v. Bashlor, Lorain App. No. 06CA00909, 2007-Ohio-2039, "*** [Crim.R. 32(C)] also applies to resentencing entries, entered pursuant to R.C. 2929.191, as is the Judgment Entry here, as there is nothing in R.C. 2929.191, or elsewhere, to indicate that resentencing entries do not need to comply with Crim.R. 32(C)." {¶ 13} In the case at bar, the journal entry of January 2, 2007 does not include the requisite language setting forth the conviction and the sentence. In fact, it only serves to add postrelease control, but makes no mention of the finding of guilt and the original prison term imposed on appellant. See, State v. Marsh, Cuyahoga App. No. 89281, 2007-Ohio-6491. {¶ 14} Normally, we would dismiss appellant's appeal since the journal entry does not constitute a final, appealable order; however, we decline to do so here for the following reasons. {¶ 15} Upon dismissal, the trial court may attempt to correct its January 2, 2007 journal entry to reflect the finding of guilt, the prison term, and the imposition of postrelease control. Yet, appellant has demonstrated that postrelease control is improper because he had completed his prison sentence on January 1, 2007. The trial court's order imposing postrelease control became effective on January 2, 2007, the day after appellant was released from prison. {¶ 16} It is too late for the court to impose postrelease control. "Once an offender has served the prison term ordered by the trial court, he or she cannot be subject to resentencing in order to correct the trial court's failure to impose postrelease control at the original sentencing hearing." State v. Marsh, supra, citing Bezak. {¶ 17} This rule applies to appellant's situation. By the time the trial court's order imposing postrelease control was journalized on January 2, 2007, appellant had already served the prison term ordered by the trial court. He cannot be subject to resentencing now, even if the trial court intended to include postrelease control at the December 31, 2006 hearing and had done it in compliance with Crim.R. 32(C). {¶ 18} Having determined that appellant is not subject to postrelease control, we hold that appellant's remaining assignments of error are moot. {¶ 19} W e believe appellant raised the issue of a non-final, appealable order in order to preserve his appellate rights. We also believe this argument is in line with his contention that the court did not comply with Crim.R. 32(C). We choose not to dismiss this case for lack of a final, appealable order, but instead vacate the portion of the trial court's entry imposing postrelease control. Judgment vacated. It is ordered that appellant recover from appellee costs herein taxed. The court finds there were reasonable grounds for this appeal. It is ordered that a special mandate issue out of this court directing the common pleas court to carry this judgment into execution. The defendant's conviction having been affirmed, any bail pending appeal is terminated. Case remanded to the trial court for execution of sentence. A certified copy of this entry shall constitute the mandate pursuant to Rule 27 of the Rules of Appellate Procedure. MARY JANE BOYLE, JUDGE FRANK D. CELEBREZZE, JR., J., CONCURS; ANTHONY O. CALABRESE, JR., P.J., DISSENTS WITH SEPARATE DISSENTING OPINION ANTHONY O. CALABRESE, JR., P.J., DISSENTING: {¶ 20} I respectfully dissent from the majority's opinion and would instead affirm the court's notifying the appellant that mandatory postrelease control was part of his original sentence pursuant to R.C. 2929.191. It is my opinion that the appellant in the instant case was always subject to postrelease control by operation of law, and the court's notifying him of this was remedial in nature rather than substantive. See State v. Barnes, Portage App. No. 2006-P-0089 (holding that "the purpose of the resentencing was to give defendant notice of a condition that already existed at the time of his original sentence"); State v. Corrigan, Cuyahoga App. No. 83088, 2004-Ohio-4346 (holding that Crim.R. 32 does not apply to resentencing); State v. Huber, Cuyahoga App. No. 85082, 2005-Ohio-2625 (holding that Crim.R. 32 does not apply to resentencing).


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Monday, September 6, 2010
Hurricane Snore
Anyway, Peanut was coming back in the storm, she had gone to Maine with my parents, my niece, and my Aunty Kathy and her two Labrador puppies, Abby and MgGee- adorable! They had a blast up there (they were close to Canada!!!) out in the woods, swimming in the lake with the dogs, riding on the ATVs.. it was a good weekend for her! :)
So they were driving home in the rain that night and I was stuck at home worrying about my baby!!
What else does one do when one is at home with nothing to do????
Well, I watched Camp Rock! Anyone else watch it and love it?? *cricket**cricket*
And I am going to shamelessly admit that 21 year old Joe Jonas is really really cute! OK?!?! Now pretend I didn't say that!
I also made cookies at 10:30. Proof below:
These are pretty good! I liked them.. of course, easy to make, but what do I make that ISN'T easy to make?!
So the Peanut came home safe and sound and we have just been getting ready for school, cleaning her room, organizng her closet and her school supplies! She starts school on Wednesday! I'm so excited for her! My baby is going into 3rd grade!
I won't be posting up pictures of her school outfit, but if you want to see, send me an email, because she picked out an AWESOME back to school outfit.. she is too cute! Seriously! Finally her fashion sense has evened out a little bit- and she is getting the hang of making her own outfits. I love putting together outfits, but I never wear them- because I look absolutely riduclous in all these new trendy things people are wearing. I would love to do a fashion post on here every week- but I'm afraid people wouldn't like what I have!
I'm glad you guys liked my gym story too- I thought it was funny myself, even while it was going on.. like one of my "only happens to me!" thing! Ha!
Well I'm off to bed now - at 9:02 pm on a Sunday- but I am WIPED out!! See you all real soon!
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What hurricane Earl?:-). I know, it didn't even touch here, but i know it rained heavily in the Outer Banks on Friday but the tourists were still able to enjoy the rest of the labor day weekend:-). Those cookies look yummy! I wish i was your neighbor; i'd invite myself over all the time:-) xx
ReplyDeleteI didn't watch all of it, just the beginning and the end. Of course he's cute! When I was 13 I would have been gaga over him completely! My kids had a sleepover after our Luau in June so there were 9 kids, mostly girls. They requested that we rent Camp Rock for the billionth time and they stayed up giggling to that until like 1 am. They aren't teens, they are still all pretty young. They all went crazy this weekend with the sequel too!
I'm in Minnesota so we don't get hurricanes. At all. It's windy out tonight, does that count? :-)


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- Increase the use of technology, high speed internet use, telecommuting opportunities, on-line research tools – classes offered will be for the parents of Foley school students. This class will be introduce parents to the school district's website. (A website that offers access to variety of things including current events, school calendars, lunch menus, on-line fee payment, daily announcement, homework links, grades, teacher information and more.)
- Provide basic computer skills classes - Services to be provided at little to no charge to residents and businesses of Benton County through the Foley Community Education Department. Classes offered will range from what to look for when purchasing a computer and basic operating system skills to classes designed specifically to build a strong resume that defines specific software skills.
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Gloucester wing Lesley Vainikolo has been ruled out for the remainder of the season after undergoing surgery on his ruptured Achilles tendon. Vainikolo suffered the injury during the first-half of Gloucester's 22-16 Guinness Premiership win over Saracens on Saturday, and underwent surgery at the Cromwell Hospital in London on Monday. Vainikolo will be out for at least seven months, and is also awaiting trial on a charge of GBH arising from an incident outside a Bath nightclub in October. In total he has made 17 appearances for the Cherry and Whites this season and has five England caps after making his debut against Wales in the 2008 Six Nations. "Les is a massive part of our squad, not just for his on-field contributions but because his personality is such an integral and vital part of the group," said Gloucester's head coach Dean Ryan. "It will naturally leave a very significant gap and with the current injuries we have in the squad at the moment this could not have come at a worse time. "Les has undergone surgery and when it is appropriate he will begin his rehabilitation process but we appreciate it will be a long road and he will have all the support he needs from everyone associated with the club." © Scrum.com