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- marie bailey said...
Way to go Carol!!! Thank you for all your updates Scott!! I copy and paste them to all the my friends that are praying.
- June 25, 2008 at 8:41 AM
- Stephanie said...
Great news this morning!! Are they still giving her steroids for ? adrenal insufficiency?
Someone mentioned Carol's laugh in a comment a few days ago...and since I cannot get her laugh out of my head followed by a "that's hilarious dude"! It makes me smile and I cannot wait to hear that laugh and those words again soon.
Thinking of you all so much and sending prayers.
- June 25, 2008 at 9:43 AM
- Dawn Bowerman said...
Thank you so much for keeping us posted. We are always thinking about you and hopeful that Carol and Safiya get out of there soon.
- June 25, 2008 at 9:45 AM
- Erica said...
What wonderful things to hear!
I am assuming "rock solid" blood pressure & heart rate is fantastic and that her kidneys are functioning on their own---wonderfully unbelievable! I know that was one of the major concerns when this whole thing first started!
I'll be there in about a week and I can hardly wait to sit with her, cheering her on in person! Being so far away has been so difficult but my thoughts are with you all every moment.
- June 25, 2008 at 10:36 AM
- lisa said...
Being Carols best friend since elementary school, I feel like I am incomplete right now. She has always been my other (better) half. It has been so hard to not be by her side and holding her hand through all of this. Carol is the strongest person that I have ever met and I know that she will pull through this. I can't wait to finally come and visit her in 14 days. Scott, I am so proud that Caol has you for a husband. You are the best. I knew it the first time that we met that you were the perfect match for Carol. I love you guys sooo much. Stay strong! Lisa
- June 25, 2008 at 10:57 AM
- rose said...
Scott: Thinking of you all a lot today. I'm working on our medical records and keep seeing Carol's name pop up. Keep up the great support and daily info. Hope to get back to see her tomorrow.
- June 25, 2008 at 1:53 PM
- kathy h said...
Carol: here at your old home, the MGH diabetes center, our thoughts and prayers are with you daily. From Scott's blog, we see that you have been improving each day and can't wait till you will be talking with us again!
Love from Karen and Kathy H.
- June 25, 2008 at 2:20 PM
- Scott & Carol Decker said...
Stephanie, no more steroids. Her temperature and heart rate seemed to improve quickly after giving it, but then shortly returned to hight levels. So the risks of prolonged wound healing outweighed the possible benefit they had.
They nurses seemed convinced that the issue causing the high fever and heart rate was some necrotic fat tissue around the c-section site, and some blood accumulation in the wound itself....I guess.
- June 25, 2008 at 2:45 PM
- Rochelle said...
Hi my name is Rochelle Bassett (Schultz). I know you don't know me. I went to high school with Carol. There are a few people I have always wondered about and Carol is one of them. She is such a sweet person. I am sorry it has to be under these circumstance to hear about Carol. I have to say you sound like a very wonderful husband. I am so happy that she has you to take care of her. I just got this link from one of the girls from high school. I am glad that you are so willing to keep everyone updated. I found it very helpful to blog. I love you positive attitude. I am glad to hear Carol is doing better. I hope she continues too. She has become a part of our family prayers. Our thoughts are with youand your family. Thanks Rochelle
- June 25, 2008 at 5:13 PM
- hatch said...
Again Scott this is so wonderful that you have this site to keep everyone updated about Carol. I know you are so busy, but this site means so much to all of us who are thinking about Carol. I check it all day long. I am happy to hear the news about her tempature and heart rate. Carol is amazing and such a figher, and she has so much to fight for. I am so glad to hear this news.
- June 25, 2008 at 8:18 PM
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
Georgetown Quilt Show - Love is a Quilt
This is my last round of pictures from the quilt show in Georgetown. It was hard to whittle the 125 pictures down to a manageable amount.
This is Madrigal. Oh how I love to see my patterns made by other quilters.
Love the quilting!
Pictures just don't do justice to the incredible amount of details in the quilts.
The trucks were the Fire Chief's Choice this year. Talk about detail! Amazing.
They start them young in Georgetown. This is Casey's first quilt.....she is 5!
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My sister and I had a fabulous time at your show. We adore all of the Needle Nellies, and look forward to seeing you again over a large plate of Wiener Schnitzel! Thank you again for everything!
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Dear Lynn, Thank you for the wonderful photos of our show and the rave reviews. It warms the heart! Speaking for all the Nellies, we loved having you and Gail with all your beautiful patterns and quilts. We look forward to seeing you here soon and having wiener schnitzel together. Such a wonderful blog that I am emailing it to everyone I know.ReplyDelete
Cheers! Marina
What a lovely quilt show.....kudos to the Needle Nellies.......such a great show and only 15 ladies to plan and put together.....WOWReplyDelete
I don't know who did the 3 trucks, but what beautiful quilts......actually pieces of art...
Thank you so much for sharing these with us! The quilts are amazing! Your Madrigal pattern is amazing and the quilter did a beautiful job! It must be a trip to see quilts made from your pattern. That's so cool! Thanks again!ReplyDelete
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Beautiful quilts, for sure. I'm glad I'm not the Fire Chief:)ReplyDelete
We loved the trucks too! We stood there staring at them trying to sort out the technique. Completely beautiful tribute to those well worn old trucks and so appropriate and deserving of the Fire Chiefs award. Amszing talent Miss Candy Nellie!ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing the photos from this quiltshow. The truck quilts are amazing!ReplyDelete
Just gorgeous quilts and what a variety too. I love the old trucks! Thank you for sharing this adventure with all of us.ReplyDelete


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The Students Taking action against Underage Drinking (STUD) approached the Dove Creek Town Council about the Pick n Hoe celebration in Dove Creek. With all the alcohol consumption involved, STUD is considering a taxi service and possibly the development of a beer garden to better contain alcohol consumption to a specific area. There are 34 members of STUD this year, over 40 percent of the student body at Dove Creek High School and the group has made good progress in reducing alcohol consumption by students.
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Teachers and staff at the Ouray School are hard at work preparing for implementation of a new standards-based report card for elementary students. According to Ourays superintendent/principal, Scott Pankow, parents can expect to see the new format alongside current report cards during the second quarter.
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DALLAS (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama signed a disaster declaration late on Friday for areas in Texas hammered by severe weather that killed at least 21 people, caused massive flooding and prompted evacuations this week.
Storms that battered North Texas on Thursday and Friday added more runoff to swollen rivers and prompted hundreds of calls for help in Dallas, where some areas saw up to seven inches (17.8 cm) of rain.
"Communities across the State of Texas have experienced devastating destruction, injury and – most tragically – loss of life due to the major and unceasing severe weather system that has been impacting our state for weeks," said Governor Greg Abbott, who has declared 70 counties disaster areas.
The presidential declaration frees up federal funds to help rebuild. No estimate has been given for the damage in Texas, which has a $1.4 trillion-a-year economy and is the biggest domestic energy provider.
Near Dallas on Friday, thousands of cars were trapped for about six hours on a suburban freeway blocked by floodwaters. The Red Cross distributed Girl Scout cookies and water to stranded motorists.
"I feel like I am on an island and nobody cares," Vanessa Paterson, who was on the highway with her 6-month-old son, told TV station WFAA.
The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch from Central Texas into Missouri, with the additional rain tipping off a new round of flooding.
Dallas officials advised people to go home early and stay off streets that have seen more water than they can handle.
"This would be a great night to stay home, watch a movie and cook some popcorn," Dallas Police Deputy Chief Scott Walton told a news conference.
The mayor of Wharton, about 60 miles (100 km) southwest of Houston, issued a mandatory evacuation order for about 900 people living near the Colorado River, which began flooding into the city on Thursday and has been rising steadily since.
The nearby city of Rosenberg also ordered about 150 residents living near the Brazos River to evacuate by Friday night.
Hundreds of Texans are set to spend the night in shelters after this week's floods turned streets into rivers, ripped homes off their foundations and swept over thousands of vehicles.
The rushing water trapped people in cars and houses. One Dallas-area police officer had to be plucked to safety by a helicopter.
The rainfall for May across the state has already set a new record and more storms were forecast for Texas over the weekend.
The Brazos River, which began overflowing its banks on Wednesday in Parker County about 30 miles (50 km) west of Fort Worth, is expected to see another surge due to recent rains.
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There is an Art to Gifting
>> Friday, July 30, 2010
I've been thinking about the art of giving gifts the past day or so. No, I don't have any gifts that I need to buy, or anything like that. Rather, I've been cleaning out closets, curio cabinets, and random boxes tucked in available basement and garage space, and I periodically find, "It," the wrong gift, at the wrong time, that for whatever reason just cannot be thrown away.
A great many of these gift-mishaps have come to me and my family from the best of love, affection, good intentions, and even effort. For example, at our wedding, we received several "crafty" presents, such as renditions of our wedding invitations mounted, decorated, framed, and returned to us. I had never heard of doing anything quite like this as a gift before, so I was intrigued, and yes, grateful. One of these beautiful crafty gifts involved an intricate paper lace cutout and a poem, all mounted and framed. Obviously, someone took a great deal of time and effort into making this piece for us. The problem was, it was beige. Everything about it was beige, from the frame to the paper, from the outside to the inside -- beige.
I hate beige.
I won't even allow off-white paint into my house. The first thing I do when I move in is paint all the walls white, and the last thing I do when I sell a place is paint the walls beige again.
The only truly beige thing in my life is my teeth because I've found better things to do with my money than spend it on teeth whiteners. I once received a beige and brown striped dress for Christmas when I was a teenager and almost cried. Thankfully, one of my sisters is in love with beige, and we traded.
This framed piece of artwork was indeed lovely, but in my starch-white home, I had no place to put it. So, it moved from room to room, from shelf to shelf, until finally it ended up in a box in the closet. I can't get rid of it, but I can't display it.
On the flip side, around about that same week, we received a gift card to Wal-Mart for our wedding. Now, before you email the great Wally-World, and I start receiving tons of hate mail, let me make one thing perfectly clear. I like Wal-Mart. It has it's place, and it is a great store ... for certain things. Nothing about the store says, "wedding," to me, though. While I guarantee you I spent the gift money, I couldn't help but wonder how the gifter's mind was working that they thought Wal-Mart was a wedding gift while I did not? I understand some people swear by the Wal-Mart standard -- but for wedding china?
We had a registry at more than one store so that people had options (and because I couldn't find everything I wanted at one place). The stores even had varieties of prices, and we had a variety of requests ranging from $10 to ... let's just say we were dreaming. If you wanted a no-thought gift, we had everyone covered through internet-accessible registries.
On the other hand,I understand not wanting to work exclusively from a registry. Some people get a charge out of venturing out on their own, but breaking new ground with gift cards? Really? What was wrong with a gift card from any of the stores where we did have a registry? Or a generic gift card from a major credit card company? I just can't help but think that not a lot of love, caring, or thought went into that gift choice. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe that Wal-Mart card was the biggest, most special gift that person could think to send.
Nah. I'm not buying it.
I could go on and on about stories of knick knacks (and clothing) gone wrong. I have had many a gift given to me with the line, "I thought of you the minute I saw this." More than once, I've wanted to ask, "What on EARTH about this statue of a gorilla in a tutu that sings 'Some Enchanted Evening' made you think of me?" I especially have to wonder about the gifts that involve depictions of naked people. Sure, I went to Egypt and looked at lots of figures of gods with inflated phaluses, but that doesn't mean I want you to bring me one when you next go to Egypt. Please.
Of course, I suspect that we in this house have been guilty of great gift errors. Darling Husband used to be rather fixated on the idea of giving away crystal mantlepiece clocks to friends that were getting married. The idea was certainly appropriate -- crystal, not cheap, wedding-ish, not from Wal-Mart. Years later I had to wonder whether our generosity was ever viewed as such by the recipients. Were they, perhaps, sitting in their living room saying, "What in the world are we going to do with a mantlepiece clock when we don't even have a fireplace in our apartment?" Or maybe the bride was saying, "Crystal? I HATE crystal. Didn't they see there was no crystal anything on our registry?" Yes, I'm sure that must have happened at least once.
The stories of bad gifting are universal, and endless. One Christmas my sisters and I all opened our presents from a one gift giver. The gifts were unique, unusual, and absolutely non-returnable, as they came from one small, non-franchised store in another state. After all three were open, we looked around at each other, and each other's gifts, and passed them one to the right. With a quick rotation, we were all pleased as punch, and we decided that the gifts must have just had the wrong label on them. Problem solved.
Not all poor choices could be explained away by a gifting label though. Some of them I just had to resort to actually exchanging. For example, I once got a terry-cloth wrap-around towel from a rather nice lingerie store. Right. One trip to said lingerie store to exchange it for a teddy solved that problem.
Others? Well, others were so unique, or so carefully thought out, that they sit in my house, far from the craft booth or mom and pop shop where they were born, waiting for the day that I can figure out what to do with it.


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Welcome to week #20 of our Get Inspired: Easy Recipes, Crafts and Projects linky party! We're so glad you can join us! Please feel free to link up your new creations all week long for us to share and find new ideas from across the web-world.
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The video games industry is huge: nowadays game releases are making more money than the movie industry. There have always been a huge number of video game related websites online – There are websites for Gaming News, Video Game Reviews, Downloads and Add-ons for games, YouTube Streamers and Twitch Lets Plays, Cheat Codes, Websites to play games online, website FAQs and Wikis dedicated to single games – you name it and there will be a website about your favorite game.
If you wish to create your own gaming website, it has never been easier for you to do so. By choosing WordPress as a CMS you have a sold foundation for creating just about any type of website. It's perfect for content-based sites as you can easily add pages and blog posts with commenting facility built-in. You can then extend it with a number of plugins, such as social media, galleries and sliders which will all help to increase interaction on your site by your guests. WordPress is free to download, then you will need a good hosting company which can be fairly cheap – you can always upgrade to managed hosting later on if your site takes off.
Some features you should look for in a WordPress Gaming Theme:
- Magazine Style Layout
- Fast Loading
- Responsive – Must work on phones and tablets
- Search Engine Optimized
- Review Functionality
- Commenting and Like / Dislike Functionality
- Multimedia Content – Add Videos and Images
If you would like to create you own Video Games website and share your passion online then our WordPress Gaming Themes roundup is for you. All these themes are well-designed and coded and aimed at the gamers niche, you can show off your videos, news, reviews and other video game information using these WordPress themes.
Extra Magazine Theme
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- 3 GameWorld
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- 6 Gauge – Games Portal & Review WordPress Theme
- 7 Games Theme
- 8 Game Portal WordPress Theme
- 9 Games Grid Theme
- 10 Interactive Magzine Theme
- 11 Games Portal
- 12 Play Games
- 13 Ithaca
- 14 IndiGamer
- 15 MH Joystick
- 16 GamingZone
- 17 GamingMag
- 18 Romero
- 19 eGamer
- 20 Youplay
- 21 Games Zone
- 22 Game Addict
- 23 Kappa
- 24 Gameleon
- 25 CrystalSkull
- 26 Orizon
- 27 WooCommerce Game Theme
- 28 Blackfyre
- 29 GoodLife
- 30 NewsGamer
Extra is a quality theme by WordPress perfect for use with every kind of video gaming site including video game review sites and portals, tutorial sites and more. Integrated with Divi Builder technology, this great theme allows you to create and manage your website layouts more simply and easily than ever by just dragging and dropping content.
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Video Magazine Theme
This multi featured theme by WordPress is suitable for all types of gaming related sites. Giving you the freedom to add multimedia to your site in for form of videos, create playlists and more, the homepage is arranged in a grid structure and offers a choice of 4 different homepage templates.
Gameworld is a portal WordPress theme designed especially for gaming websites. Powered by Cherry framework it is very easy to setup and customize to your needs. It boasts a large header for showing off your latest posts as well as multiple galleries.
Game Portal
Make sure everyone has a slice of the action with the help of this high quality gaming theme from WordPress. With many great features as standard, this fantastic theme is fully responsive and will display brilliantly on each and every device.
Game Space
Game space is a visually stunning magazine style theme from WordPress. Its bold design and amazing selection of built in features are sure to make a real impact online. SEO optimized, retina ready and fully responsive, this theme has the full package to assure your new gaming site's success.
Gauge – Games Portal & Review WordPress Theme
Guage is a Magazine style WordPress theme designed for review websites which gives you the power to complete video games portals for single or multiple games. This high quality theme's contemporary design is sure to make a real impact.
Games Theme
This premium WordPress theme enables you to create gaming reviews or tutorials with absolute ease. Its clean and bold layout and understated design elements will highlight your content to its very best advantage.
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Game Portal boasts a dark layout with a large header on the homepage to display your latest or featured content in real style. Allow users to view your latest posts and integrate your site with social media when you choose this quality WordPress theme.
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Games is a responsive magazine style WordPress theme for gaming reviews, gaming news and other video game related content. Featuring a bold green header and accent colors and a grid style layout on the homepage, this has all the tools you need in order to start creating your best ever gaming site.
Interactive Magzine Theme
Interactive is an eye-catching and highly professional magazine or blog theme that is perfect for gaming webmasters who want to really engage with their audience and maximise their readership. Display multiple post categories and large featured images on the homepage when you choose this amazing WordPress theme.
Games Portal
Games Portal is a complete games portal WordPress theme which enables your users to register and login to comment on articles and rate posts. Fully integrated with social media, its strong typography and powerful design add to its appeal.
Play Games
Developed for gaming websites, this stunning theme by WordPress boasts many amazing features including a built in header slider to display your newest games to their fullest effect. Gamers all over the globe will appreciate your new site's impressive imagery and easy to navigate nature.
Strong and modern design elements combine with a host of amazing built in features in this premium quality theme by WordPress. SEO optimized and fully responsive, it will make a real visual impact regardless of the device on which it is viewed.
The futuristic design of this amazing WordPress theme will appeal to gamers of all descriptions. Upload content quickly and easily and thrill your readership with the help of this premium quality theme which has been crafted specifically with gamers in mind.
MH Joystick
MH Joystick is a fully responsive, attractive and SEO optimized magazine WordPress theme that comes with great features, customizable options and awesome custom widgets to create stunning and effective online magazines and dynamic news websites about games, entertainment, technology and more.
GamingZone is a WordPress magazine theme for gaming portals, gaming news websites and more. Understated and sleek in design, this theme will allow you to highlight your content and videos to their maximum potential and to increase your readership in the process.
GamingMag is minimal yet elegant WordPress Gaming magazine theme with an advanced built in options panel. A perfect theme for gaming portals and gaming blogs, this has all the tools you need to bring your online presence to the next level.
The vibrant imagery of Romero make it an ideal theme for video game sites, car magazines, and other sites where images need to make an impact.Fully responsive, this will look great on both PCs and iphones.
Designed with video game blogs in mind, however, this great theme can be adapted to any niche. Boasting many advanced features including a custom author review system, video embedding (from video sites such as YouTube), thumbnail resizing, and more, eGamer also gives users full control over many of its functions.
Youplay is a creative and responsive theme for gaming related sites. An awesome integrated visual composer and super powerful admin options panel combine to make this quality WordPress theme a real force to be reckoned with.
Games Zone
This theme is packed with great features and admin options enabling you to add and filter reviews and much more! This super stylish site can be the perfect backdrop for all of your gaming related content.
Game Addict
Game Addict is a modern and effective WordPress theme which enables you to easily create and manage clan wars involving different maps, teams and games. This theme's bold design will appeal to gamers everywhere.
Kappa is a premium gaming theme designed to empower you to share your passion for gaming with the wider gaming community. Its strong imagery and ultra contemporary layout make for a really visually compelling site.
Gameleon is a WordPress theme for online gaming and game review sites in particular. Beautifully simple in design, its complete range of fully flexible features allow you to craft a site that is truly and uniquely yours.
CrystalSkull is a quality gaming news theme from WordPress. Fully responsive, it will be visually stunning on all devices.
Orizon is a theme for gaming, news and entertainment content. Created using the latest CSS3, it allows you to create a sleek and eye-catching online magazine, blog, gaming or personal project site with greater ease than ever before.
WooCommerce Game Theme
Gameworld works alongside the free WooCommerce plugin to allow you to create an online store for gaming products such as physical games, digital download keys, gaming peripherals, consoles and PCs. Why not take advantage of this great added bonus from this fully featured WordPress theme.
Blackfyre gives you the power to create massive gaming communities with just a few clicks of your mouse. Its modern and bold design and great features as standard make this a super appealing WordPress theme.
Boasting a mind blowing full screen video, this gaming theme comes with many integrated and flexible features as standard. Unlock your gaming site's full potential with the help of this quality theme.
NewsGamer is a professional responsive WordPress template suitable for gaming magazines, newspaper publishers, magazine or advanced blogs. Streamlined and minimal in design, this has all you need to build a superior new gaming site quickly and easily.


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RANCHO SANTA FE — In an effort to raise awareness, Alzheimer's San Diego recently visited the Rancho Santa Fe Library to help those touched by the disease learn some valuable information.
Leading the presentation was Amy Abrams, MSW, who serves as the education and outreach manager at Alzheimer's San Diego.
During the presentation, Abrams touched upon the symptoms of the disease as well as its progression.
The lecture was helpful for caregivers and family members who have loved ones that have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Abrams pointed out effective communication techniques for caregivers when their loved one is losing their language or other forms of communication. Another level of the discussion focused on the most common triggers for behaviors changes.
And adapting to that changing environment was part of the discussion in terms of how to respond to agitation, confusion, frustration and disorientation.
When it comes to challenging behavior, Abrams said, there is an importance in recognizing the emotion behind what the person is trying to communicate.
"When a person is confused and disoriented, what we need to do in that moment with them is connect to the emotion that they're expressing to us," she said. "First acknowledge it and then redirect it to something more productive or a more soothing behavior."
Alzheimer's San Diego has partnered with the Rancho Santa Fe Library as well as the Rancho Santa Fe Senior Center in bringing knowledge and helpful strategies to caregivers and family members. Their message is clear in that caregivers have access to support though all stages of the disease.
According to Abrams, she happily sees familiar faces attending the lectures as well as new ones who are aware of their organization. The locale of their presentations is also highly convenient to those living in the Ranch or nearby communities.
Abrams said the goal of Alzheimer's San Diego is to bring help through education and teaching various aspects about the disease. And that includes knowing how to lower one's risks and understanding the signs and symptoms of the disease.
The organization offers an array of resources and information as well as support for the caregiver.
"Getting information out all over San Diego County is the real mission," Abrams said. "We're based in Kearny Mesa and I know that getting to our office in Kearny Mesa is just not workable for everyone."
Understanding the needs of caregivers, including their busy schedules, Alzheimer's San Diego does its best to bring support and information to those who live in the county.
"We have a small staff to cover San Diego and get the education out where we can so we really appreciate the library's partnership," she said. "We are a local, independent organization."
To learn more about Alzheimer's San Diego, Abrams invites those interested to visit alzsd.org or call (858) 492-4400. Alzheimer's San Diego also offers a complimentary consultation with an expert who understands the disease.


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I was really excited when I heard about M3; The more Southern soul food in Boston, the better. It opened in June and The Globe just gave it a mildly positive review this week, so I wasn't surprised that at 7:30pm on Saturday night there was an hour wait for a table for 2. The evening was warm and there were seats outside, so we decided to wait it out. 40 minutes later we were seated in the small, dimly lit dining room, listening to an all country soundtrack, which Steve appreciated.
M3 refers to a common Southern meal concept that includes a choice of a meat and 3 sides. I love sides; sometimes I think that sides are better that the main course, and M3 has a ton of choices: root vegetable hash, mac and cheese, corn, grits, Brussels sprouts, 2 types of fries, sweet potato casseroles, salad, house pickles, fired okra, coleslaw, peach cornbread and biscuits with apple butter. I was shocked that there were no mashed potatoes or collard greens, staples of any southern meal.
The menu is small, but there were many options that appealed to me; fried chicken, pork chops, country fried steak, pan fried catfish. Luckily for me, Steve wanted fried chicken for himself, so I was able to indulge in my ongoing search for Boston's best country fried steak (CFS). He chose corn on the cob, Brussels and garlic dill pickles and I got the biscuit (big surprise), mac and chesse, and lime chili fries.
The fry station fell asleep on the job – both the chicken the CFS were 2 shades darker than they should have been, another minute and both would have been burnt beyond eating. That said, the result was an extremely crispy exterior, and not at all greasy. I stole a drumstick from Steve and although the meat was moist, it lacked flavor. The CFS suffered from the same problem. The sides were a mixed bag – the house pickles were the best of the brunch. They were crunchy, tart, garlicky a much needed foil to all the fried food. The sprouts were also well cooked and seasoned. My mac and cheese was swimming in Velveeta colored cheese sauce, but that didn't stop me from finishing it. The fries were drenched in chili sauce, rendering half of them soggy and inedible. The kitchen left some of the husk on the corn, which made it messy and unwieldy. I didn't try it, but Steve seemed to like it. Lastly, the biscuit was small and reminded me of the biscuit-in-a-can you buy the dairy aisle. I think I need to go back to Sweet Cheeks for another one of their excellent biscuits.
There are only 3 beers on tap – the rest are in cans. I don't think I've ever seen Steve drink beer in a can, but he said he liked both his selections. 2 out of 3 dessert options were fried, so we decided to go to Christina's for ice cream instead.
Our waitress was friendly and unobtrusive. And the prices are quite reasonable – entrees are between $16-18, which is a good deal when you consider the 3 sides that come with it. But, at the end of the day, I think that Highland Kitchen is doing better Southern food, for the same price, so why bother waiting an hour for a table?


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The government is facing calls to increase efforts aimed at eradicating the yellow nutsedge plant considered harmful for Switzerland's field crops.
The cantons accuse the federal authorities of making little progress in introducing measures against the grass despite research programmes launched eight years ago.
The Federal Agriculture Office said a special information platform has been launched to help coordinate efforts by the national and cantonal experts as well as farmers organisations.
It asked cantons to provide detailed maps to identify areas particularly affected by the nutsedge pant to plan concrete technical steps.
However, the federal authorities have ruled out urgent measures but they insisted on improved coordination, according to report by the BauernZeitung weekly.
With its dense and layered root system, yellow nutsedge can reduce the vigour of neighbouring plants, according to experts.
It is cultivated in Spain for its earth almonds but considered a weed in most other countries.
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Do you cultivate a sense of mystery? Or does everyone know every little detail about you? What you do every minute of the day?
I was prompted to write this because every time I open the internet I get way too much information about people I don't know or care to know. Like, really…do we need to know that Michael Douglas got cancer from too much oral sex? I would have been mortified if I was Catherine Zeta Jones. Oh and you feminists? Aren't you a little angry that this is yet another assault on our gorgeous pussies? Like referring to our pussies as "junk," now you can get cancer if you pleasure a woman too much. The whole news story was SICK. No pun intended.
Our private lives are no longer. I am very selective about what I tell to people. I share on my personal Facebook things I am up to in a general sort of way. And it's usually without a time frame. I share with my clients examples from my life that can help them. I want to be someone they can tell anything to. Like their best friend. So we can both move forward…together. One of the things I teach my clients is to not share everything. You don't have to tell anyone anything. You don't have to share personal information. Share with those you trust. Be selective. Let them earn your trust! So in that spirit, let's discuss cultivating a Sexy Sense of Mystery!
1. Become comfortable with silence. This is HUGE. Does quiet make you nervous? Do you feel as though you should be saying something? This may be insecurity. Don't let insecurity be your guide. That is so Drama Queen. A Sassy Bitch is very comfortable with silence. She knows the power of silence. Cultivate and enjoy that power.
2. Listen. Don't interrupt. Put all your attention on the other person. Smile and enjoy what they are saying to you.
3. Speak softly…it draws people in and creates intimacy.
4. Once you've mastered speaking softly, slow it down. Marilyn Monroe had a beautiful voice. If you ever hear her in interviews, it is hypnotic.
I discuss many more in my coaching courses and in my book Bitch Lifestyle the Manual but start with these 4. Let me know how this goes on our Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bitch-Lifestyle/205875411841?ref=hl Love, Goddess
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- Your Re-Awakening! http://bitchlifestyle.com/2012/07/your-re-awakening/
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ALIEN MAKEOUT & FLYING CARS! Oculus Rift VR (Rift Riot)
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The rank and file NYPD are being pressured to resume revenue arrests. Newser.com's headline asks, "Police Revolt Ends," but it is unclear if the headline means they've stopped a revolt against de Blasio or against their own supervisors who are making them do things they don't like.
The New York Post, as I wrote about earlier, had panicked that, in the wake of the killing of two policemen after Eric Garner's death, police were not making "low level" arrests as much as they used to. To read the Post's piece, the city was about to collapse into chaos if police stopped arresting people for jaywalking or selling single cigarettes.
So now the police are starting to ramp up those arrests that New Yorkers missed so much. In other words, quotas are back. What? Oh no! There are no quotas. As we find in the New York Times:
At the same time, by focusing on activity numbers, Mr. Bratton found himself forced to do the very thing that critics — including officers and their unions — had declared a prime problem with the previous police administration. Mr. Bratton sought to quickly distinguish his order, however, saying it was about quality arrests, not officers reaching a certain quantity of activity for a given week or month.
"There is no specific target number that we go for," Mr. Bratton said on Monday. "There are no quotas, if you will."
Yes, there are no quotas, especially none that cause the death of someone for a minor crime. Nope.
Except, as was posted on this blog in late 2012, one police officer started ticketing dead people to meet his quota. The NYPD denied the quotas again, and denied the fired cop a hearing. If you think about all the things police have done or been accused of doing, it is quite enlightening to see what you can do to be deprived of your right to a hearing.
From another cop's experience:
This system inevitably pitted cops against themselves. It wasn't simply "friendly competition." In Matthews' precinct, a guard had to be placed in the locker room to prevent cops "in the red" from destroying the lockers of those "in the black" who met quota.
Yes, by all means, lets restore civilization by getting that system back up and running.
To give you an idea of how bad it is, here is a quotation from a hospital report about a police officer in their psychiatric ward:
He is coherent, relevant with goal directed speech and good eye contact. … His memory and concentration is intact. He is alert and oriented [… but…] his insight and judgment are impaired.
He expressed questionable paranoid ideas of conspiracy and cover-ups going [on] in the precinct. Since then, he started collecting "evidence" to "prove his point" and became suspicious "They are after him."
The "patient" was NYPD Officer Adrian Schoolcraft. He had been alleging that the NYPD imposed a quota system. The only reason he is now taken seriously (though he is still mostly ignored) is because he had the insight to set up two audio recorders so that, when the police came to his house and committed him against his will to a psychiatric ward, they thought they had covered their tracks when they found and removed one audio recording device. From Wikipedia:
By the end of his 31 October shift, Schoolcraft felt sick and intimidated. With permission from Huffman, he left the station an hour early, went home, took some Nyquil, and fell asleep. At 6 PM, his father called with a warning message. He looked out the window and saw police massing in the street. He stayed on the phone. After 9 PM, he heard people moving upstairs. The officers obtained a key to the apartment after telling the landlord that Schoolcraft was suicidal.
About twelve high-ranking officers were present. Schoolcraft was interrogated by Deputy Chief Michael Marino, who asked: "Adrian … you didn't hear us knocking on that door?" Schoolcraft said no and after further questions said, "Chief, if you were woken up in your house how would you behave? What is this, Russia?" The two argued about whether Schoolcraft's early departure from the station was authorized, and whether he would return to the station with the team.
Schoolcraft agreed to check into a nearby hospital (Forest Hills) for high blood pressure. When paramedics said they were taking him to Jamaica Hospital, he said he was refusing medical attention ("RMA"). Marino said:
"Listen to me, they are going to treat you like an EDP [emotionally disturbed person]. Now, you have a choice. You get up like a man and put your shoes on and walk into that bus, or they're going to treat you as an EDP and that means handcuffs."
Marino eventually ordered, "Just take him. I can't f—— stand him anymore."
Schoolcraft was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric ward in Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. He was handcuffed tightly to a bed and prevented from using a telephone, by orders of police who were present. An officer told the hospital that police had "followed him home and he had barricaded himself, and the door had to be broken to get to him."
So, again, if Schoolcraft hadn't set up two audio-recordings all of this would be denied. They would have given him the Soviet treatment and continued to claim he was delusional. Of course, the hospital billed him for his involuntary stay as the New York Times reported as "regional news." Schoolcraft was virtually "disappeared" as far as his father was concerned. It took him six days of hunting to find him.
No one was criminally charged for what happened to Schoolcraft. How long ago was all this? 2006.
Yet New Yorkers are supposed to want this organization to be empowered to protect us from men like Eric Garner?


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Theatre News Online August 10, 2010By Laura & Mike Clark • Aug 10th, 2010 • Category: Published Elsewhere
- ShowBizRadio: Review of Olney Theatre Center's The Savannah Disputation
- Washington City Paper: Inside Arena Stage's Upgraded Costume Shop, and Its Human Costume Catalog
- Sun Gazette: Fantasy Escapism in Vienna Is the Right Tonic for Summer
- Examiner: Marsha Mason to star in Shakespeare Theatre Co.'s 'All's Well That Ends Well' opening 9/7 in DC
- DC Theatre Scene: Gavin Lee on playing Bert in Mary Poppins
- Washington Post: Phylicia Rashad will star in one of Arena Stage's inaugural shows of its reopening season
This article can be linked to as: http://washingtondc.showbizradio.com/goto/5384.
Laura & Mike Clark started ShowBizRadio in August 2005 because they love live theater. They each have both performed in and worked behind the scenes in DC area productions, as well as earned a Career Studies Certificate in Theater from Northern Virginia Community College. Mike & Laura are each members of the American Theatre Critics Association, and Mike is a member of the Online News Association.


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Waterloo, ON. - November 15th 2017,
The collaboration with internationally-awarded industrial designer, Joseph Hofer (hoferstudio.com) helped inspire the creation of a series of screwdrivers considering contemporary, elegant and outdoor lifestyles. The design strategy was to elevate this universal tool found in every home (winner of a Good Design Award – Chicago 2017 and a Silver finish in the European Design Awards) inspiring people to keep it at hand, in a kitchen, office drawer or glove compartment. With a clean approachable form, the patent pending E1 MULTI 8 is shaped to fit hands large and small, with 3 extra long blades stored under a magnetic end cap. The solid stainless steel connector securely locks each blade providing quick change access to 8 screwdriver tips, including one to assemble a very popular line of Swedish Furniture (www.ikea.com).
The screwdriver is a universal tool in every home, but is often kept tucked away in the basement or garage. The design strategy was to elevate this product for everyday use—inspiring people to keep it at hand, in a kitchen or office drawer. With a clean, approachable form and obvious function, the E1 Multi 8 screwdriver is the go-to multi-tool for performing light tasks such as assembling furniture, replacing batteries in kids toys, and hanging artwork for non-handy users. The body is shaped to fit hands large and small, while keeping the 3 extra bits out of sight. Each of the 8 tips fit an everyday need, and are stored under the magnetic end cap. The solid stainless steel collar securely locks the bit in use, while still allowing for easy bit changes. Made of high-grade materials for longevity and delivered in premium gift box packaging.
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A free education platform for creating and collaborating on music has come out of beta. BandLab for Education from BandLab Technologies lets students and teachers work together on tablets and computers to make music and develop their understanding of music production.
Just a couple of weeks after Microsoft announced that it was acquiring GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock, the platform launched a new bundle of its education tools for use by schools.
Technology is changing how students' brains are wired, setting expectations for faster, more interactive learning. And the most important thing that schools should be teaching students is "cognitive flexibility," or the ability to be creative and put ideas together in new and innovative ways.
LEGO Education has launched a new education community — LEGO Education Master Educators — and has named 110 members to its initial cohort, Applications will soon be accepted from educators around the world.
STEM interest is dwindling among boys. A recent survey found that just 24 percent of boys 13 to 17 years old expect to pursue a STEM career, down from 36 percent in 2017. However, interest among girls those ages has held steady year-over-year at 11 percent.
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text: The United States Winter Swimming Association formed as non-profit organization in 2014 with the mission to promote the sport of winter swimming in the United States. On February 21, 2015 we sanctioned the first Winter Swimming Championship in North America. The event was held in Newport, Vermont on beautiful Lake Memphremagog. On January 30, 2016 we will held our National Championship in New York, New York drawing in more swimmers across the country and around the world. On Feb 10, 2018 our 4th National Championship in Coney Island will be held. Winter swimming competitions are extremely popular in Russia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Estonia, and China . Even events in Great Britain and South African draw hundreds of swimmers. Over 1,000 swimmers competed in the 2014 Winter Swimming World Championships which were held in Lapland, Finland.


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USC Institute for Integrative Health Inaugural Conference on Integrative Health and Medicine
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A steering committee under the leadership of Dr. Armaity Austin organized the USC Institute for Integrative Health's inaugural conference at the Mayer Auditorium on the USC Health Sciences Campus. The primary goal of the conference was to foster cross departmental, cross organizational sharing and leveraging of existing resources and manpower to promote integrative health across greater Los Angeles County.
The opening Keynote Speaker, Victoria Maizes, MD, is Executive Director of the University of Arizona Center of Integrative Health. Together with her team at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, Dr. Maizes created and has sustained a national, scalable education model. Their model teaches physicians lifestyle change. They've also developed an innovative, integrative primary care clinical model and are carrying out a comparative effectiveness trial exploring clinical and cost outcomes. Her team is developing noninvasive research tools to measure health and well-being as well as the impact of place on health. Editor of the Oxford University textbook Women's Integrative Health and author of Be Fruitful: The Essential Guide to Maximizing Fertility and Giving Birth to a Healthy Child, in 2009, she was named one of the world's 25 intelligent optimists by ODE magazine.
Keynote Speaker, Tobi Fishel, PhD, sacred activist, transpersonal psychologist, artist, served as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Pediatrics as a member of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center faculty since 1998, before moving recently to Los Angeles. She was Director of Psychological Services for Vanderbilt's Center for Integrative Health and directed an adult and pediatric behavioral medicine training program for therapists in the areas of diabetes
and integrative medicine. In addition, Dr. Fishel has facilitated intensive courses for distressed physicians.
Break out Sessions were conducted by:
Murali Nair, PhD, "Traditional Healing Practices of LA Ethnic Enclaves"
Tobi Fishel, PhD, "Music as medicine: a mindfulness meditation & music experience"
Jim Adams, PhD, "California Medicinal Plants
Marc Weigensberg, MD, "Guided Imagery Council: Opening to the Power of Your Imagination"
Wei Chao, DDS, L.Ac, "Integrative Understanding of Acupuncture"
Marisa Perdomo, PT, DPT, "Yoga: Stress & Vitality: Releasing the energy within"
Jane Anderson, PhD, RD, LCSW, "Falun Gong & Tai Chi: An Ancient Chinese Meditation"
Jim Burklo & Allan Weiss, "Mindful Meditation"
Prior to the conference, Steve Weingarten, Weingarten Communications, interviewed Dr. Marc Weigensberg, one of the seminal founders of the USC Institute for Integrative Health on The Rise of Integrative Medicine. That article, in full, is presented here.
California is often on the cutting edge of trends. Since the early 1990s, though, other states and many countries have taken the lead in adopting integrative medicine, an approach involving herbs, music, nutrition, relaxation and other non-Western healing techniques.
In 2012, USC joined a U.S. consortium of 60 major U.S. medical centers that includes Harvard, the University of Arizona and Stanford. On April 16, the USC Institute for Integrative Health will hold its first conference.
"Some of the things that people are calling alternative medicine have been around for thousands of years," said Dr. Marc Weigensberg. "What's new is how we are using scientific methods to assess the effectiveness of these treatments."
Weigensberg teaches Clinical Pediatrics in the USC Keck School of Medicine and directs Pediatric Endocrinology at the L.A. County-USC Medical Center. He trained as a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine, where he received his medical degree.
"I found that wasn't enough," he said. "Western methods are really only a percentage of what we need to effectively treat diabetes. The challenge isn't to learn how to administer insulin, but how to integrate mind-body medicine in our lives for good health."
Weigensberg's specialty is guided imagery, a process that includes meditation, breathing and relaxing thoughts to reduce stress.
"Thinking about relaxing on the beach has virtually the same relaxing effect as relaxing at the beach," he said. "When you do this exercise, your stress hormone level is reduced by about 40 percent over 45 minutes to an hour."
Weigensberg is also a clinical investigator in the USC Childhood Obesity Research Center, and is halfway through a 5-year National Institute of Health study into how exercise and other integrative health elements affect high school students' wellness.
The April 16 conference will feature keynote speeches by Dr. Victoria Maizes and Tobi Fishel.
Maizes is Executive Director of the University of Arizona's Center for Integrative Medicine and teaches medicine, family medicine and public health at the school's College of Medicine. She developed a primary care clinical model and research tools to measure health, wellbeing and how our surroundings affect our health.
Maizes also edits the Oxford University textbook "Women's Integrative Health" and is the author of "Be Fruitful: The Essential Guide to Maximizing Fertility and Giving Birth to a Healthy Child."
Fishel co-founded and led the Vanderbilt Medical School's Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. She has worked for more than 25 years with distressed physicians, as well as children, teens, and adults suffering with chronic illness and pain, and other traumas.
Fishel directs a training program for therapists in the areas of adult and pediatric diabetes, and facilitates a 6-month intensive course for distressed physicians that incorporates creativity, compassion, meditation, music, art, narrative therapy, play, spirituality, and the healing aspects of nature.
USC staff, faculty and students, as well as the greater USC community and general public attended the inaugural conference from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Stay tuned to this web site and our Facebook page to see videos and more data on the Institute for Integrative Health Conference


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A spodik (or spodek) is a tall fur hat worn by some Hasidic Jews, particularly members of sects originating in Congress Poland.
Spodiks are to be distinguished from shtreimels, which are a similar type of fur hat worn by Hasidim. Shtreimels are shorter in height, wider, and disc-shaped, while spodiks are taller, thinner in bulk, and of cylindrical shape. Spodiks are made from fisher tails. Nowadays they are made also from fox fur.
Ger Hasidim, being the largest Hasidic community of Polish origin, are the most famous for wearing spodiks. Virtually all married men among the Gerer Hasidim wear a spodik. Due to an edict by the Grand Rabbi of Ger designed to stop the extravagance of the hats, Gerrer Hasidim are only allowed to purchase fake fur spodiks that cost less than $600.[1]
Other groups that wear Spodiks include Alexander, Amshinov, Ashlag, Kotzk, Lublin, Modzitz, Ozrov-Henzin, and Radzin.
A similar hat called a "kolpik" (or "kolpak") is worn exclusively by the Rebbe of many Hasidic sects on certain occasions or by the unmarried sons and grandsons of the Rebbes on the Sabbath. These hats are often a lighter shade of brown. Included in these sects are Bobov, Belz, Munkacz, and the five modern dynasties descended from the Rizhin.
- ↑ Slifkin, Natan. Man and Beast: Our Relationship with Animals in Jewish Law and Thought. p. 199. ISBN 1-933143-06-1.
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White, I thought. Peace and hope and joy. Comfort and lazy mornings. Dreams and quiet nights. Clouds and mountain snow. Star-like flowers.
White is lovely to live with.
So here it is: the White Collection. Rooms to dream about, rooms to dream in.
Read my post for Addicted2Decorating for what inspired this collection.
These pictures are from my files and I no longer know how I found them. If you happen to know the source(s) please let me know so I can properly credit them. Thanks!
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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- Umar said...
Yeah! :) I had seen this. :)
I would love having white rooms here! But need an AC to keep the dust away! But the AC keeps out all the natural wind and nature away!!
Oh, do you know the story about the crow who used to come to our place??
- June 4, 2009 at 12:15 AM
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Now that I'm back home and have more (read: a ton of) free time on my hands, I've been getting a steady amount of knitting done.
The Cubism Afghan for my brother is slowly growing, as you saw a couple posts ago. I finished two more squares and took a picture to show you how they're going to piece together to look like an optical illusion. I've included my dog for size reference (not intentionally, but he was there, so it worked out). I feel a little less-than-happy with the fact that it has taken me 6 months to complete 15% of the blanket, but I think what I have knit is still a sizable chunk of knitting (it took almost 14 balls at 220 yards each), so perhaps I shouldn't be too hard on myself.
When I finished the last square you see there, I took a little break from knitting on the blanket and finished the first half of my Autumn Arbor Stole (I only needed to knit one more 40-row repeat).
Sorry, I know that's not the greatest picture. I now have a decision to make. This stole is knit in two halves and then grafted together in the middle. I have been looking at finished projects on Ravelry and on the few I have seen which actually show this join, I haven't liked the way that it looks. The issues of a tight kitchener stitch which causes the piece to pucker or the choice to use a 3-needle bind-off by others isn't what bothers me because I know those can be avoided, but I'm not sure I like the way the pattern itself lines up on the finished product. I don't think it looks symmetrical and it makes the seaming look off center as if the two halves weren't lined up properly before grafting.
One Raveler went through the trouble of creating an alternate finish that allows one to knit the entire stole in one piece, finishing it in a way that mimics the shape of the cast-on end. I'm tempted to knit my piece this way to avoid an unsightly seam in the middle, but I've set this shawl aside for a bit while I debate whether or not to do this. What do you guys think?
As graduation presents, I have received a few very welcome additions to my knitting book collection and I find myself flipping through them on a daily basis.
From one sister (the Deirdre one) and her husband I received a Japanese stitch pattern book, aptly named "Knitting Patterns Book 300".
This book has an unbelievable collection of stitch pattern to use to create any knitted item you could ever want. There are cables, lace, knit/purl pattern, bobbles, slipped stitches, twisted stitches, and countless combinations of two or more of these techniques. Some of the patterns looks so bizarre that it blows my mind to think that someone, at some point, had to sit down and play with yarn and needles until they figured out how to do it. Absolutely incredible.
In this gift, my sister also included a skein of Malabrigo Sock in the "Stonechat" colorway (picked out by The Brain, aka her husband). It is absolutely gorgeous. Thanks, D and Sir Brain!
While this present came from the West coast, another arrived from the East coast from another sister living in Maryland.
This is a pattern booklet that I have been looking for for what seems like ages. I have never seen it in any stores, and the only time I found it for sale online was from Australia. Well, as it turns out, my sister's boyfriend's mom is from New Zealand and my sister managed to have one of her relatives still living there find a copy in a local shop and then send it halfway around the world to me! Thank you so much, sister! There are 20 sweater patterns in this booklet, and I think they're all classic and great.
And, well, that model on the right?
He's a keeper.
Last, but not least, Anne Hanson was also kind enough to send me a gift! Ok, not quite, but I did win a book from a contest on her blog.
I won a copy of the fifth Vogue Knitting Stitchionary all about lace knitting. This is a fantastic collection of great patterns that can be used in a variety of ways.
Patterns are both written out line by line and charted, which I think makes this book more accessible to those who prefer not to knit from a chart (or from written directions). My only complaint about this book is that the swatches are knit from a pretty thick yarn (for lace) and it's sometimes difficult to see the lace patterns because the yarn is so plump and often fills in the holes. Other than that, it's a great addition to my growing collection and I hope it will serve as inspiration for me to possibly design a few pieces in the future. Thanks, Anne Hanson!
Yesterday my family celebrated Father's Day with a nice get-together where I was able to see most of my siblings as well as my nephews and niece. It was actually kind of funny - my two youngest nephews (very close in age, 28 months and 35 months) showed up wearing identical shirts, completely by accident! What adorable little kids.
One even managed to find the fish hat I had made for my sister this past winter and became a silly fish monster.
Which then attacked me...
I hope you all had a great weekend!


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There's one moment in all of musical theater that I'll never get tired of watching. It comes in "Phantom" (not "The Phantom of the Opera"), when the sweet soprano Christine implores her mentor and potential lover Erik to take off his mask, allowing her to see the face that was basically turned to acid waste in the womb by a mother trying to abort him.
She implores him, begs him and even sings an entire song ("My True Love") just to let him know he can trust her to see the inner beauty within. So he does. And she doesn't. She freaks.
It's a rare moment in the inherently artificial world of musical theater that communicates real honesty. Of course Christine can't see past his hideousness. Who could?
Actually, in this version of Gaston LeRoux's immortal tale, just one person could — the mama who bore him; the same mama who maimed him, condemning him to a secluded life in the catacombs of the Paris Opera House. Priceless.
Whether you prefer this version of "Phantom," written by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit, or Andrew Lloyd Webber's global phenomenon "Phantom of the Opera" comes down to whether you think Christine's true love is really Raoul, or the man — yes, a real man named Erik — whom we fully get to know in this version (which, for the record, is much closer to the source book).
Boulder's Dinner Theatre's artfully presented and elegantly performed production is a return to what it does best — telling rich, sophisticated stories with dramatic, emotional and technical complexity.
It stars Markus Warren, demonstrating again why he's a ready-made, triple-threat Broadway leading man … in Boulder. He has the bravura tenor, poise and demeanor, but it's his tenderness as Erik that sets his performance apart.
In Lloyd Webber's version, the Phantom's soul is more twisted than his face. He's a monster with a murderous obsession for Christine. Here, Erik is more a malformed, wounded man-child who appreciates great music — and just happens to have killed a few people … but all in the name of beauty!
Warren is supremely matched with the lovely Maggie Sczekan, a Boulder's Dinner Theatre newcomer who not only is a classically trained soprano but, just as important, exudes nearly as much warmth in her acting. Her Christine treads a bit too close at times to Belle in "Beauty and the Beast," but Sczekan bares some unexpected open wounds at key visceral moments, and she will no doubt find more as the run continues into February. Let's just hope this pair's voices can hold out through a daunting December performance schedule.
This "Phantom" is more romantic and yet less romanticized than Lloyd Webber's more melodramatic version. It's more accessible and more human. The redundant score is no match for Lloyd Webber's, but a few songs hold their own, particularly "Dressing for the Night," "You are Music" and "The Bistro."
The necessarily pared-down supporting cast is uniformly solid. Joanie Brosseau could be better as the scheming diva Carlotta only if she carried a few hundred extra pounds. Katie Ulrich makes a memorable impression with what little time she has as Erik's mother. The surprise of the night may be the depth Brian Norber reaches as fired Opera House manager Gerard Carriere in his final scene with Erik.
I thought Erik's underground bohemian fairies were a little much, but I was shouted down by my table companions for the very suggestion. So … they were awesome! Neal Dunfee's live band is rich, Linda Morken's costumes exquisite and Wayne Kennedy's sound effects haunting.
And who needs a falling chandelier when you see what hydraulic trick scenic designer Amy Campion has come up with?
By the way, diners should know that for the first time in years, the theater has expanded its dinner menu. It's offering new appetizers; plus new entrees like mild bean and corn tamales, pasta Bolognese, herb-crusted cod and penne pomodoro. There are now "bonus" meal choices for a few dollars extra, like roasted angus sirloin, shepherd's pie, salmon fillet and braised pork medallions.
I would have been happy ordering the chicken cordon bleu house specialty forever. It's still available, but they've unnecessarily messed with the sauce, giving it a tangier kick I'd like to kick back.
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"Phantom" ***1/2 (out of four stars)
Gothic musical. Boulder's Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave. Written by Arthur Kopit and Maury Yeston. Directed by Scott Beyette. Through Feb. 18. 2 hours, 45 minutes. 7 p.m. Wednesdays, 7:45 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays; 1:30 and 7:45 p.m. Sundays (dinner service 90 minutes before). $35 to $56. 303-449-6000, theatreinboulder.com
This weekend's theater openings
"The Man Who Rented Christmas" A lonely fellow, on a whim, goes into a rental shop and glibly asks for a rented Christmas, complete with a tree, presents, five kids and a wife. Vocal selections by the Colorado Spirit! Chorus and De'Ja'Vue follow each show. Through Dec. 11. Arvada Festival Playhouse. 5665 Olde Wadsworth Blvd., 303-422-4090 or festivalplayhouse.com
"Santa's Big Red Sack" Billed as "the holiday show you shouldn't take your kids to," this annual evening of comedy sketches is performed by members of the former Rattlebrain Comedy Theatre. through Dec. 24. At the Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., 303-321-5925 or avenuetheater.com
"Real Housewives of the North Pole" The venerable Bovine Metropolis improv comedy troupe brings the worlds of Christmas and the catty nature of the "Real Housewives" series together for a comic mashup. Through Dec. 23. 1527 Champa St., 303-758-4722 or bovinemetropolis.com
"The Dinner Detective" This weekly interactive murder-mystery dinner is a whodunit that comes with a four-course meal. In this show, everyone's a suspect, even you, and the killer might be at your table. Every Saturday night, open-ended. Midtown Arts Center, 3750 S. Mason St., Fort Collins, 970-225-2555 or adinnertheatre.com
"Kentucky Claus and the Rebel Elves" It is Christmas Eve in Lickskillet, Ky., and six backwoods brothers are trying to make the best of it in a blizzard While trying to shoot something for Christmas dinner they accidentally shoot Santa. Through Dec. 30. Dangerous Theatre, 2620 W. Second Ave., 720-233-4703 or dangeroustheatre.com
"A Christmas Carol" Charles Dickens' classic tale of miser Scrooge's spiritual redemption. Through Dec. 18. Presented by Parker Arts Council at the 19650 E. Main St., 303-840-5406 or parkerartscouncil.org
"Columbo and the Case of the Country Christmas Killer" The interactive mystery company pays tribute to the late Peter Falk as Columbo stumbles upon a Western-themed Christmas party where he must must solve a mysterious death. Rated PG-13. Through Dec. 18. At the Broker Restaurant, 821 17th St. Denver, 303-292-5065 or thebrokerrestaurant.com/mysterydinner.htm
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Top Three Unexpected Benefits to Hosting an Open House
When you are selling your home, many people believe hosting an open house is a good way to sell a home. While an open house may indeed attract the perfect buyer, surprisingly, this is not the only benefit to an open house. The other benefits an open house offers, however, do tend to move homeowners closer to the ultimate goal of selling the home.
Open Houses Expand the Odds More than You May Think
Have you ever gone to an open house, not because you were thinking of buying, but because you were curious about your neighbor's home? At first, blush, hosting the neighborhood looky-loos may seem like an unnecessary hassle. However, people don't visit open houses in a vacuum. They may tell a friend or family member about what they saw, and how your home may be just perfect for them. This can lead to a private showing, and hopefully, a sale. The truth is the larger number of people who see your home, the more likely you are to sell quickly.
Open Houses Are an Opportunity for Another Set of Eyes
If you are willing to listen to feedback, an open house provides for a large amount of feedback with minimal inconvenience. It can be difficult, but listening to people's comments – without giving in to the desire to rebut - can open a homeowner's eyes to how others view their property. Maybe you think the border in the baby's room is the cutest thing ever, but ask yourself, what are the odds, if you were shopping for a new home and were expecting or planning for a little one, that the house you find has the perfect nursery already outfitted? If you still think your home will sell faster with the nursery intact, consider an open house, and ask your realtor to listen to feedback.
Open Houses Force You to Finally Get Around to It
When you decide to sell your home, you must know you will need to clean your home from top to bottom. However, this is easy to put off (particularly closets, the basement, and the attic). Nonetheless, once you have an open house scheduled, this may be just the kick you need to get to those final tasks done. If you are one of those people that needs a clear line in the sand, setting an open house date might be just the thing you need.
If You are Thinking of Selling Your Home
If you are thinking of selling your home, please contact us at Hallmark Re/Max. We look forward to working with you to sell your home quickly and profitably. Contact us today for a consultation.


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Happy 2012 and welcome year of the dragon!
So this is my snazzy new look website and blog.
My new blog posts will now continue on the 'Blog' bit of my website. This is so I can update you all quicker and more often.
Searching subjects is also easier, getting the 'Google Juice' flowing (apparently)! You can also sign up to my Newsletter, where I'll give you a brief update every few months. Plus you can 'Like' and comment using your Facebook ID.
As well as the usual 'Design' stuff I get up to, I'll also be posting quick photo uploads about China life; what I've experienced and observed. You'll then be able to search these by 'category' i.e. colours,trends, accidental Chinese hipsters etc…all will be clear soon.
SO FOR ALL MY LOYAL BLOGGER FOLLOWERS, THIS WILL BE MY LAST POST VIA BLOGGER. Please sign up via my new website. All my past posts are safe and sound on there and will soon be followed by new ones.
So sit back and enjoy the visual feast of what I've spotted so far: