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It's soooo cute, right? Well, I decided I wanted it. Not in yellow, and not by paying $30ish dollars. Soooooooo I made one meself!
Here goes.
1. Cut out two squares. I did the back of my pillow in a pattern, similar to the target one. These are 17" x 17" squares.
2. Fold the plain square in half one way, and in half the other way. Mark with a pin on all the folds (center, side, top).
3. Find a circle that is around 3 1/2" in diameter. If it's a little bigger that's just fine! I wouldn't go smaller though.
4. Trace around the circle 9 times. I just eyeballed the right spots based on the pin marks. I'm SURE someone can figure out a more calculated way to do this...I just didn't feel like it!
5. Make a strip that is 5/8" thick. This does not have to be real special...as in lined up with the selvage or whatever. I seriously took old random fabric and took the longest edge, and folded it over...lined the fold on 5/8" mark on the sewing machine, and sewed! It was VERY sloppy...but this project really doesn't need precision (at least for the flower parts)! This strip should be approximately 50" long.
6. Turn strip right side out. This part proved to be VERY TRICKY for me...until I realized...HELLO GENIUS! Do this! So I tried to picture it...but it's difficult. Basically, put a long safety pin through the top...about 1/2" down.
Then...slyly turn the pin upside down!
After you do that you can just push it through and pull. Good luck. It's still a little difficult with such a small width.
7. Iron strip flat.
BTW- This part doesn't need to be perfect either! The seam can be all over the place if it tries to do so...mine did a lot and I just let it. As long as the strip is flat, we are good to go!
8. SEW THE STRIP ON! And make it into a pretty flower! This takes a few pointers.
First of all, when you start, fold the raw edge over, so that it is hidden and looks nice and clean. You basically want to put the left edge of the strip, a little over the circles line. As you are sewing, you will come to a curve and this will seem really awkward....
You're thinking...wait a titch...how the heck do i sew this flat? WELP, ya don't! This is how they make those little flowers so cute! You fold it over. Like so...
You see? Instead of bunching it, you fold it flat. Then you just sew right over that, and continue folding everytime you're put in a situation like that where you feel like you're having to bunch it at a curve.
You see?
So continue doing that. All around the circle. I suggest overlapping the rows like half way. Meaning when you move onto another row (moving towards the inside of the flower) overlap halfway over the last row you sewed. Eventually you'll get to the middle...
This part can be confusing too...how do you make that perfect middle? Here's the catch...it's really easy! But kinda hard to take pictures of. I'll try my best to guide you through it.
First, twist the tail a bit.
Next, swirl it around the presser foot/needle (make sure your needle is down at this point and pressure foot is up). Fold under the raw edge and just kind of bunch it in with your swirl. It may look funny, but it really does turn out just fine.
Put your pressure foot down and sew a triangleish type shape ontop of the outer swirl. Then continue your triangleish shapes inward towards the center. Backstitch and your done!
See? It looks a little messy, but personally I think it fits perfectly with the look. If you want you can spend the time to go around the swirl perfectly... but I think this looks just great! And it's quick!
9. Iron the flower.
This is actually really important. It just solidifies everything and makes it look professional.
10. Continue the flowers until you have completed all nine. This actually takes a LONG TIME! Don't get discouraged! The finished product is WORTH the time.
11. PIPING! First, cut strips about 2-3" thick. This all kind of depends on how thick your piping is...just make sure you have 1/2" excess on each side when you wrap the fabric around the piping. If you have to piece together the strips like I did, make 45 degree angles (I think that's right? teehe) on the edges.
Then you place them like this.
NOTE: this pictures i kinda deceptive. I cut one strip bigger than another strip...they should all be the same width. After I sewed the seam there, I trimmed the wider strip down to the smaller one. I only sewed the length of the smaller one....Make sense? Sorry!
Sew them together and press. This way when you wrap the strip around the piping, it will look like this:
This is better than just sewing two normal pieces together because it makes it so it's not so thick in one spot.
Next, use your normal pressure foot still...wrap the strip around the piping and pin it, and sew along the edge. This just makes it easier when you are sewing it on the actual pillow.
Next, pin piping all around the flower square. Make sure you put raw edges together.
When you get to the ends of the piping, unpick the seam a bit so that you can fold under the fabric. Cut piping inside so that it fits together properly, and you can put the folded edge ontop of the other raw edge. See?
Now, use your normal pressure foot still, and sew around the pillow.
Next, pin right sides of pillow squares together.
NOW, use your zipper foot. Feel with your fingers the piping and sew as close as you can to it. You can move your needle far to the left for this.
TIP- I have found that when doing corners, it turns out better if you sew a little bit on the piping itself. I don't know why...I think if you DON'T do this, it always is too loose (for me anyway).
Make sure you leave an opening to turn right side out!
Turn right side out (poke corners out), and stuff with stuffing. I used batting from an old pillow I didn't like.
Pin shut.
Now the best way to do this would be to hand stitch this closed. However....I just sewed it with my machine. It isn't the prettiest that way, but it works and you really wont ever see it unless examining it!
And whala!
A mock target pillow for my polka dot chair, that I love SO MUCH! Good luck! Comment with a link to yours if you make one! :)
I entered my pillow in the Blogger's Pillow Party! Hope I win cause the prize is pretty pretty fabric :)


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Okay, figured I'd pop this out here and see if there was an artist out there interested in takin' on a fun project.
One of my little RP'in groups centers around a space-western. Pretty much very similar to Firefly/Serenity, but with some high-flash anime influences. (Think space-western, if clothing was taken up maybe a decade..)
Would be wanting a 'crew' (or cast) pose of the characters. Nothing actiony or flashy. (Look at any one of the Firefly crew shots, and.. there you go.) Extra points for those wanting to draw a ship in the background. Could be between 4 and 6 characters, as I'm waiting to get everyone's approval, so figured I'd see if anyone was interested.

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It's no secret.
Mother Goose. The Brother's Grimm. That Aesop guy. Remember them? Those books
full of short stories filled with morals and lessons? Well, at least try to
remember the Rocky and Bullwinkle versions of them (Fractured Fairy Tales).
Alas, television and videogames have replaced the storytellers from the days
of old. In many ways, Legend of Mana is like a book filled with many
short stories. It's just too bad they're not strung together well.
The big picture is that there's this Mana Tree, weeping its little eyes out because everyone's forgotten it. Oh boo hoo. Since people have forgotten about the tree, the land has fallen into peril. You play a nameless character (boy or girl) out to restore the land to its former good graces. The stories within the game revolve around the different people that you meet.
The nameless character chooses one of several weapons. The timing bar from
the original Secret of Mana has been replaced by a combo system; combos
are mostly comprised of three button chains. You start out with some initial
types of moves and develop more abilities later on. It's pretty much hack and
slash gameplay.
Battles end up more of a mashing frenzy compared to the strategy bend of the original. Item usage during fights is completely done away with; your health is reset after each battle. And those useful 'circle' menus have been all but removed from the game.
In an interesting twist, you create the world of LoM by selecting a
portion of terrain from a large map. Then, by placing magical artifacts onto
the terrain, areas are created. Put a mailbox down, and you create your house.
Place a broken doll by the coast, and it becomes the Land of Misfit Toys.
Within each area, there's at least one quest/short story for you to undertake. As you complete each quest, you gain more and more artifacts, allowing you to create more areas. In turn, each of the different areas is made up of many different sections.
A section is small; at most, it would be 2 screens tall by 3 screens wide. Sections
are connected to more sections. Well, not so much connected – sections are separated
by annoying loading times. Whatever happened to the idea of an expansive world
to explore? Exploration is now reduced to whether you should take Path A or
Path B. That feeling of wide-open space isn't there; the game is really just
little quests without a strong thread to tie them together.
There are spots of cleverness here and there in the writing. For example,
Duelle the Onion Warrior. What's an Onion Warrior? Hell if he knows. Mostly,
the writing is funny but simple, nowhere near the complexity of Square's recent
beauty, Vagrant Story.
Speaking of which, this game is beautiful. If you want to see what sprite-based graphics should look like, then look no further. Artistic and detailed, the graphics look like illustrations out of a long forgotten storybook with a watercolor, organic feel to them. The different characters are well drawn and animated – even Niccolo the fat bunny.
The music fits the nature and mood of the game to a tee. Or should I say Teapo? Teapo is this fat teapot that bounces around 'talking' with a little British accent. In one short story, she gets lost and starts crying. Funny, but what would have made it even funnier is if I could have heard her sad ravings AUDIBLY. Once again, I'm bitching that there's no voice.
Legend of Mana is a seemingly attractive beauty. But once you start
talking to her, you realize all she has are these vacuous little stories that
just go on and on, one after another. You try to ignore the lack of depth, but
you can't. If only LoM was more like her older sister, Secret of Mana.
Sure, Secret isn't as hot, but she had one great story to tell, more
depth, aaaand she gave really good gameplay. (Johnny needs to get out more.
– Ed.)
Overall, Legend of Mana is good for a few quick shots – play through
a story and then stop for another day. It's just not continuously fun in large
doses, though at least some of the new ideas were worth a try.


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Right shoulder doing OK, Koji could return to closing duties on Thursday
CHICAGO -- The worry that the Red Sox had in New York about two of their best players being sidelined had dissipated by the time they arrived at a frigid U.S. Cellular Field on Tuesday.
While Dustin Pedroia and Koji Uehara remained out of action for the opener of a three-game series against the White Sox, they should both be available before the series ends.
In fact, Pedroia, who has inflammation in his left wrist, fully expects to be in manager John Farrell's lineup on Wednesday.
Uehara, who was experiencing tightness in his right shoulder, will throw a bullpen session on Wednesday with the expectation of being available to close on Thursday.
Pedroia was greatly relieved to know he dodged what could have been a major injury.
"Very [relieved]. If it was broke, I would have been out a long time," said Pedroia. "It's good news. Hopefully I'll be in there tomorrow. They gave me a shot to calm everything down. Hopefully it takes. They say 24 to 48 hours to kick in and then get out there and go."
The injury occurred on April 4, when Pedroia got taken out on a slide by Carlos Gomez. The fact that it was the same hand on which he had thumb surgery created perhaps more worry by Pedroia.
"Yeah, I was a little bit worried. It was getting worse every day," Pedroia said. "It happens. I get taken out every day. It's my job. I just felt like it was part of the deal. I'm still obviously doing the rehab on my thumb stuff. Everything just got inflamed and then I keep swinging and playing, it just adds up, and so you think something is really wrong."
Uehara also was worried because the twinge he felt on Friday was similar to what he remembers in Texas two years ago with what wound up being an extended injury. But it appears he will be fine.
"It's getting better day by day, each day," said Uehara. "The fact there was no structural damage yesterday, that gave me a lot of peace of mind. I think it was more mental, the fact I had the same kind of feeling two years ago, that was sort of a sticking point."


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text: Proof That (Almost) No One Reads End User License Agreements John sent this in -- though, there's no date on it, so it's not clear how recent this is (also, it's on the site of the company in question, and it doesn't appear to be published anywhere else as of yet, despite being written by well known columnist Larry Magid). Apparently in an attempt to prove that no one reads end user license agreements (EULAs), anti-spyware firm PC Pitstop buried a note in its own EULA, saying they would give $1,000 to the first person who emailed them at a certain address. It only took four months and over 3,000 downloads before someone noticed it and sent an email (and got the $1,000). While this is an amusing story, it should also serve to show that EULAs shouldn't be valid at all. They're designed specifically to scare people off from reading them. It's hard to see how they can be binding, when they're designed in a way that almost no one will ever read. It's hard to show that users were willing participants in the agreement. So far, when EULAs show up that are simple to read, they actually get attention. Meanwhile, isn't it great to know that the company that has written one of the more misleading and impossible to follow EULAs is now advising the government on privacy issues?


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I am trying to print out 40 or so different .doc files which are in a directory. There is no right-click option to print them all out if I select them. I don't want to open each one and then print them one by one.
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Hey all
My nickname is Burni, my TM team is tcats (Ukrainian-Russian team), I'm from Ukraine and I'm 15 years old :O
I started playing tm 5 years ago. I played lunatics stuff in the beginning, but after 3 years I found RPG (in playing it 2 years).
I like trials and looong tracks with looots of cps My favourite thing in RPG is pathfinding. I don't really like finishing tracks more than 1 time, except the cups, where it's nesessary to hunt.
I also build some tracks, but never finish my projects I have several tracks on TMX, but they are pretty crappy. And my problem is... I TOTALLY CAN'T WORK WITH MEDIATRACKER =(
I usually play on my own server RPG Ukraine, so you can find me there.
Hmm, maybe that's everything I wanted to tell, see you in game ^^


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Why you should add Vietnam to your Indie/RTW trip
- This country has that intangible quality that not all countries have - energy. That energy may be a bit misguided and overwhelming at times, but it's an energy that's difficult to match. If you're looking for something different, Vietnam is it.
- If you travel for food, there aren't many other countries in the world that offer better cuisine. And if you stick to the streets, you'll find the most authentic, and cheapest, food available.
- The people may be a bit rough around the edges, but once you get used to them, and if you are patient and open yourself up, you'll make amazing connections.
- Options. From big bustling cities in Hanoi and Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), to beach towns like Nha Trang, to mountain towns like Sapa, to wonders like Halong Bay and the Mekong, and everything in between, this is a varied country that can tickle the fancy of any traveler.
- Cost. Like the rest of the region, Vietnam is cheap to travel in by western standards, and your dollar can go far, or you can get pampered on a higher budget.
Indie Travel TipsVietnam is firmly on the tourist trail in the region, but there are still plenty of ways to have an indie travel experience here:
- Wander the chaotic streets of Hanoi, darting in and out of traffic and making connections with locals by trying the amazing food tucked away in small alleys. If you really want to see how the locals live, get up early one morning and wander to Hoan Kiem Lake in the center of the city. It looks like the rest of the city (minus tourists) is here for an early morning walk, tai chi session, game, or conversation. Even at 6am, the city is alive and bustling!
- When the heat ultimately gets to you, head to the highlands and go for Dalat. This quirky little town is popular amongst Vietnamese travelers, particularly honeymooners, and while there are western tourists here, there are far fewer than most other places.
- Hoi An is one of, if not the, most touristy city in Vietnam, which is usually a giant red flag. People come from all over the world to get clothes custom made for them. But shopping in Hoi An is an experience. Sure, you can get some great deals, but it's the communication with shop owners and tailors that can be memorable (both good and bad). Trying to decipher which ones are good and which ones are solely around just to rip you off can be like a game.
- The Mekong River is still an important part of the country, and skipping this region would be a major mistake. Puttering down the river through floating river markets is a memorable experience that show how the locals still do it in the south. Homestays are available here, too, and if you are heading to Cambodia next, look into crossing the border by boat - there's nothing like heading up river and being greeted by hundreds of waving, smiling children on the river banks.
- Skip the popular bus passes that are sold in Hanoi or Saigon and instead just buy tickets as you go. They aren't much more expensive, and you can really come and go as you please instead of being tied to a set schedule.


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The year of 2015 is drawing to a close. Immigrants and citizens alike receive spam email as well as legitimate email from organizations requesting donations. I am happy to feature a post written by guest blogger Melba Pearson who gives tips on how to determine if the request for a donation is legitimate or not.
It's the end of the year, and your inbox is flooded with charities seeking your donation. You may also be getting requests from crowdfunding sources such as GoFundMe. You want to be generous, as well as get the tax credit, but what should you do?
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Peugeot has announced its "lion will roar again" at the 2015 Dakar Rally, when the French automaker is throwing its beret in the epic off-road race for the first time since 1990 with a new car and legendary motorcycle racer Cyril Despres at the wheel.
Though this will be Despres' first-ever Dakar effort on four wheels, he's won the race five times with various motorcycle. Two-time Rally World Champion and 2010 Dakar winner Carlos Sainz will join him in the cockpit of whatever Peugeot cooks up for next year's race.
You might be more inclined to recognize Sainz by his old vehicle; that insane Red Bull buggy that keeps looking really cool right up until it crashes.
Peugeot went out on a high note twenty four years ago, with Ari Vatanen bringing them the win in a 405 T16. In fact that was the end of a Dakar hot streak for Peugeot— they won the race in the three preceding years as well.
Check out an excerpt of Peugeot's 1990 race effort here. The scene was a little different a few decades ago; the race actually went to Dakar and banjos were the preferred motor sports soundtrack.
Peugeot's "teaser" video for their new competition car is decidedly lacking in banjo accompaniment and doesn't reveal much, but at least we can tell they're not running a truck.
Despres is nothing short of a legend in off-road motorcycle racing, and it'll be really exciting to see if his talents can translate over to cars. It seems fitting that Peugeot would pick a Frenchman to champion their return to this type of rally racing, and it's great that they're giving spectators the opportunity to see a whole new side of Despres.


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17 Signs You're in a Dirty Restaurant
When you arrive at the restaurant, take a look around before you even walk through the door. Are the dumpsters overflowing? Is trash strewn about the parking lot? Is the awning or sign filthy and falling down? Could the whole place use a paint job? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, you might want to reconsider eating there.Meinzahn/istockphoto.com
It smells
When you set foot inside a restaurant, take a sniff. Does it smell like garbage, grease, or anything unpleasant? If so, leave.istockphoto.com
It has a bad health department rating
Some cities make restaurants display health department scores on their front windows, and others make them public via an online database. Make sure you check these scores before committing to dining somewhere; if they don't have a high rating there's a chance eating there might make you sick.istockphoto.com
The menus are dirty
Making sure that the menus are in good condition is a pretty basic task, and if they're stained, sticky, or in otherwise bad shape, that's not a good sign. Hundreds of people have held that same menu, and if they're not cleaned (or replaced, in the case of paper menus) on a very regular basis, that means that you're picking up germs from anyone else who's touched it.istockphoto.com
The floor and walls are dirty
Are there streaks of sauce on the walls? Are the corners of the floors caked with dirt? Do your shoes stick to the floor a little as you walk around? If those aren't signs of a dirty restaurant, we don't know what is.istockphoto.com
Anything is sticky
Is your table, menu, seat, or condiments sticky? Well, they can't be both clean and sticky at the same time!istockphoto.com
The bathrooms are gross
A dirty bathroom is the best indicator - short of inspecting the kitchen - that a restaurant isn't safe to eat at. If the toilets are gross, the garbage overflowing, the toilet paper or paper towels running low, the sink and mirror covered in grime, and the floor a mess, that's a really good sign that this lack of attention to detail also extends into the kitchen. Just think: If a place that's open to the public is so gross, just imagine what it looks like behind the scenes!istockphoto.com
There's no soap in the soap dispenser
We recently warned that if you notice this one thing in a restaurant, you should leave immediately. In many restaurants, the dining room restroom is the only one on the premises; not many have space in the kitchen for a staff-only restroom. (That's why nearly all restaurant bathrooms have signs telling employees to wash their hands before returning to work.) So if there's no soap in the soap dispenser, the odds are pretty good that the folks who are about to prepare your food haven't thoroughly washed their hands.istockphoto.com
The server is unkempt
If your server looks like a hobo, that's indicative of a lack of oversight on the part of management and a lack of caring on the part of the server. We're not talking about tattoos and piercings here (those are fine) - we're talking about personal hygiene.istockphoto.com
The server is sick
If your server is sneezing and blowing their nose, or clearly appears to be under the weather, you're completely within your rights to either request a different server or just up and leave.istockphoto.com
You find a hair - or worse - in your food
Cooks are supposed to take great pains to make sure that their hair doesn't find its way into your food - they're supposed to wear hairnets, and many restaurants provide beard nets as well. So if you find a hair in your food, that means that there's an issue with cleanliness in the kitchen. And if you find a fly in your soup, that's a major red flag there as well. If you find anything in your food that's not supposed to be there, send it back immediately and make sure you get a refund.istockphoto.com
Kitchen workers aren't washing their hands
It may be tough to tell, but if you have the opportunity to sneak a peek into the kitchen, check to make sure that the cooks are wearing gloves when handling ready-to-eat food, and are washing their hands. And if you happen to be in the restroom at the same time as a kitchen worker, keep an eye on whether they wash their hands or not. It's a sure sign that they're taking basic steps to make sure that you don't get sick, and in many states, it's the law.istockphoto.com
Tables are cleaned with a dirty rag
Take a look at the way tables are cleaned between diners. If the cleaning process involves moving the gunk on the table around with a wet rag, that's a good indicator that those tables are going to be a bacterial minefield. Lots of restaurants don't clean their tables properly (with a proper disinfectant and a clean towel) so a good rule of thumb is to treat any food that touches the table the same as you would if it fell onto the floor: Don't eat it.istockphoto.com
Tables aren't properly bussed
Bussing a table involves more than removing the dirty dishes and wiping the table down. Have the dirty dishes been left festering on the empty table for a long time? Is the floor around the table also being cleared of dropped food and empty sugar packets? Are the seats and condiments being wiped down? These are also things worth paying attention to.istockphoto.com
There's a lipstick stain on the glassware
Make sure you inspect your glassware before you drink out of it, not just for lipstick marks but also for fingerprints from where the glass may have been held from the top. Hundreds, if not thousands, of other people have put their lips on that glass, and it's absolutely crucial that it's thoroughly cleaned before you do the same. We know that straws are in the doghouse right now, but you're much better off (from a hygiene standpoint) drinking through a straw than drinking right from the glass. Unless it's wine or beer - then it's a little weird.istockphoto.com
Plates and silverware aren't properly cleaned
Take a look at your silverware before you eat off of it, and when your plate of food arrives, make sure that it doesn't have any remnants of its previous meal crusted onto it. Every restaurant sends out a dirty fork every so often (even industrial dishwashers aren't perfect), but the fact that it wasn't discovered beforehand can be a sign of carelessness.istockphoto.com
Flies are buzzing around
If you're swatting flies away while trying to eat your meal, that means that the cooks are doing the same while trying to prepare it. Fly infestations are indicative of a larger hygiene problem and it's something that high-end restaurants take very seriously, which is why diners tend to not find foreign objects in their food at the very best restaurants in America.
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Pinoys and pork? Man, this is an easy question.
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An acquaintance from way back has come back into my life and the process of getting to know each other again on a more mature level is thrilling. During one of our conversations, she mentions that she's converted to Islam and thus, doesn't eat pork. This is familiar to me. I grew up in Indonesia where the population is almost 90% Muslim, and waking up to chants and wails from the nearby mosque was routine. I also had friends, devout Muslims who shunned pork and fasted during Ramadan. It was this latter concept of fasting from sunrise to sunset that – as a young girl then – fascinated me.
But, as I sit and listen to my friend talk about her faith and her food, the restaurants she can eat in, and how they must serve halal cuisine, I find myself longing – obscenely so – for pork. I consider myself generally accepting of all beliefs but gosh darn it, I'm ashamed to be thinking such lurid, porky thoughts in front of a Muslim. I can only hope she can't read my mind!
That night for dinner, I have what is currently, my favorite pork dish. I love crispy pata, can eat embarrassing amounts of lechon, and I admit to an implacable attraction to pork belly. For right now however, I profess undying devotion to the Peppered Pork Chop at Bistro Mondo.
I first had this dish almost a year ago on a cool, rainy evening. The restaurant is known for its wood-fired pizza which is quite good, thin-crusted and with the requisite char. The pastas and desserts are passable but it's the pork chop that remains ingrained in memory. A bone-in chop from the shoulder, it possesses presence when presented at table. Plated with precision, it rests on a scalloped wave of garlic-smashed potatoes and a bevy of grilled veggies.
The same Peppered Pork Chop, one year ago. The fancifully fashioned mashed potatoes are as delightful to eat as they are to look at.
Pebbled with peppercorns, slicing into the pork chop yields steam and moist meat. First, there's fat and it should be eaten right away. Masterfully grilled, my teeth crunch down onto a crust of fat, it implodes with smoke then oozes oil. Knees weaken, back goes limp, eyes close. The meat itself is just shy of being tough. Tightly-grained and itself devoid of fat, its juiciness is amplified even more when spooned with Chef Steven Scudder's signature sauce. A magnificent example of the marriage between red wine and brown stock, it's a boiling down of two components whose interaction with heat and time produces a sauce that demonstrates remarkable flavor. A pork chop couldn't ask for a better partner.
So tell me, what is your favorite pork dish and where is it served?
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This guest post from Karin is part of the "reader stories" feature at Get Rich Slowly. Some stories contain general advice; others are examples of how a GRS reader achieved financial success or failure. These stories feature folks with all levels of financial maturity and income.
My family was weird.
When you're young, it's hard to know how a normal family should look and behave. I do know that from very early on, I sensed that something was awry. Although my father had a respectable and reasonably well-paid job and my mother (a housewife) seemed like a frugal household manager, we were always broke. Things that other kids didn't think twice about — like school shoes, stationery, excursions, new clothes, dental treatment, and extra-curricular activities — were all out of reach for my family.
As a nerdy and bookish child I was already a target for bullies; going through school wearing ill-fitting hand-me-downs and being left behind when others went on excursions meant I might as well have had 'beat me up' written on my forehead!
It was easier to pretend my parents were strict and didn't allow outings or fashionable clothes, than to admit we were too poor to afford them.
An Unhealthy Relationship With Money
Why were we poor?
There was a lot of secrecy in our household (I don't think my mother ever knew how much my father earned), but it gradually dawned on me that my dad was a compulsive gambler. For his entire adult life, he gambled most of his income, and both parents used consumer credit — mountains of consumer credit — to survive day-to-day life. They had no savings, nothing put aside for a rainy day. Occasionally there would be a gambling 'windfall', and they would use the money to purchase unnecessary items (like ostentatious items of furniture, or sports gear they soon tired of) rather than paying down debt or buying sorely needed school shoes.
Neither of my parents had completed high school, and they saw no value in educating my sister and me beyond the minimum. This didn't bother my sister as she wasn't very academic, but it mattered to me. Despite having no educated role models — I was far too shy to confide in my teachers, for example — I somehow knew that education would be my ticket out of poverty. Unfortunately, my parents had no intention of allowing me to complete high school or supporting me for a moment longer than they had to, so in 1984 (at the age of 16) I left school to take up a full time office job.
My marks at school had been excellent, and I managed to sign up for part-time correspondence studies at a university. Looking back, I must have been incredibly motivated and driven, as the full-time work and part-time studies meant there was very little time left over for leisure — or to enjoy being a teenager.
My parents' unhealthy relationship with money flowed down to me. When I started working I had no work clothes, and no money to pay for my university course or textbooks. Rather than helping out, my parents signed me up for a credit account. In no time, I was in debt to the limit, and when I turned 18 and became eligible for a Visa card I really went to town.
For the next few years I was constantly, deeply in debt. I would pay the minimum amount required by each month's statement, and must have paid exorbitant amounts of interest over that time. My parents required me to pay board, and I moved out of home as soon as I could. Life felt more sane out of their orbit.
Escaping Poverty
At the age of 22, I bought a one way ticket to a much larger city, thousands of miles from where I grew up. Best decision ever. It was incredibly challenging to build a new life, and yet it was exactly what I needed. I arrived with almost no money, and accepted the first job I could find. Not ideal, but beggars can't be choosers!
The first year was really hard. I lived from payday to payday, and again leaned too heavily on consumer credit. Several special things happened in my second year there though.
- Firstly, after seven years of full-time work and part-time study, I completed my bachelors degree. That may not seem like a big deal to most people, but given my family background it was a huge achievement for me.
- Secondly, I resolved to get out of debt. I cut up my credit card, slowly but surely paid it off, and taught myself to save up for things I wanted. My first purchase was a $400 CD player — it took months to save for, but I was so proud to have persevered.
- Thirdly, that was the year I met my partner. He comes from a totally different world to me, one where education is encouraged, achievements celebrated, and budgets adhered to. Meeting him gave me added impetus to live an examined life, to make conscious decisions with an eye to the future rather than just concentrating on the here and now. (We've never married, but are still happy together more than twenty years later.)
The rest, as they say, is history. After about five years together we bought a tiny apartment (with a 20% deposit) which we paid off in less than four years by living very, very frugally. (No vacations, no restaurants, no new clothes.) Ten years ago we moved to a smaller city and sold the apartment, which left us with enough money to buy a modest but nice house with no debt.
I'm currently completing my fourth postgraduate qualification — I'm a perpetual student, and not afraid to admit it — and we have a good life: jobs we enjoy, worthwhile volunteer roles, and good friends. Frugal habits die hard, and I've never gone back to my spendthrift ways. We've struck a happy balance, where we live frugally and modestly for about 90% of the year, and take luxurious vacations for the other 10%!
An Exception to the Rule
I wanted to share my story as I suspect it's quite unusual. A lot of poverty is inter-generational, and it is also odd for someone from such an uneducated family to obtain a university degree, let alone several.
Gambling is a secret shame for many, and could have ruined my life too if I had allowed it. The rest of my family still live in our crime-ridden home town. They're still uneducated, still living hand to mouth, still mired in debt. On the surface they appear more affluent than my partner and me, with big houses, multiple cars, and the latest household gadgets. But I've made a choice. I could have those things if I wanted to (and could probably afford to pay cash for them) but prefer not to. There's something wonderfully liberating about knowing when you have enough.


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CHINA'S ECONOMIC WOES that have brought growth to a three-year low will continue for some time, but the slower expansion remains within expectations, Premier Wen Jiabao said Sunday.
Speaking during a tour of the southwestern city of Chengdu, Wen said Chinese need to recognise the seriousness and complexity of the challenges the country faces. But he added that China's economic fundamentals remain favourable.
"At present, our country's economic growth rate remains within the target range set earlier this year and we are seeing the effectiveness of stabilisation policies," Wen said in remarks posted on the central government's official website.
The government will prioritise job creation and provide financial aid and tax breaks to companies suffering from slowing exports due to sinking overseas demand, Wen said.
Private investment will be encouraged and the government will promote industrial upgrading and urbanisation to spur consumption, he said.
"All regions and departments need to proceed with even greater determination and courage," Wen said.
Slowing growth
His comments follow the government's announcement Friday that the world's second-largest economy grew by 7.6 per cent in the three months ending in June over a year earlier. That was the lowest since the first quarter of 2009 during the depths of the global financial crisis.
Growth was down from the previous quarter's 8.1 per cent, damping hopes that China can make up for US and European weakness, but in line with the government's official target of 7.5 per cent for the year
Private-sector forecasters say the economy may have bottomed out during the first two quarters and China still is likely to achieve its target for the year.
Export growth has fallen and consumer spending weakened despite stimulus measures including two interest rate cuts since the start of June.
The government also is pumping money into the economy through higher investment by state-owned industry and more spending on low-cost housing and other public works.
However, Beijing is moving cautiously after its 2008 stimulus pushed up inflation and spurred a wasteful building boom. Authorities have said curbs imposed on building and home sales to cool surging housing prices will remain in place.
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The humble computer mouse celebrates its 40th anniversary today. Currently I'm using two buttons and a scroll wheel mouse. At work I've a Microsoft IntelliMouse; it has four buttons and a scroll wheel.
I think mouse helped creating modern personal computers including powerful GUI interface, email, browser etc.
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On 9 December 1968 hi-tech visionary Douglas Engelbart first used one to demonstrate novel ways of working with computers.
The first mouse that Dr Engelbart used in the demo at the Fall Joint Computer Conference (FJCC) was made of wood and had one button.
Much of the technology shown off in the demo inspired the creation of the hardware and software now widely used.
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Last night Toronto FC won the Canadian Championship with an aggregate victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps, and it was not without some ridiculous floppery. In the midst of some heated talk, Toronto's Julian de Guzman lightly brushed the cheek of Jun Marques Davidson, as you would a lover or a baby bird. Davidson went down like a pile of bricks. Obviously, de Guzman is Marvel superhero Rogue.
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Moisture Problems in Manufactured Housing
A version of this article appears in the March/April 2002 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
March 01, 2002
Manufactured homes are affordable to many. A study points the way to making them healthy by dealing with moisture problems.
For the millions of people living in manufactured homes, the relatively low cost of these homes should not automatically imply low energy efficiency and poor indoor air quality (IAQ). In 2000, one out of six new single-family housing starts was a manufactured home. Last year, the industry shipped more than a quarter of a million homes from 280 manufacturing facilities. More than 19 million people, about 8% of the U.S. population, live full time in 8 million manufactured homes.These manufactured homes are one of the most affordable forms of single-family detached housing available.They generally cost less than $35/ft3 (plus the cost of land) for a centrally air-conditioned and heated home with a built-in kitchen. Available in all parts of the country, manufactured homes are most popular in the southern and western United States, where land is still plentiful, and in rural areas elsewhere. (For a description of manufactured housing, see "Manufactured Housing," p. 26.) In 1999, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected the Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) as the Building America Industrialized Housing Partnership (BAIHP) team leader.This group's primary function is to serve the ...
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The Chicago Mountaineering Club (CMC) and American Alpine Club Midwest Chapter (AAC) are proud to have Stephen Koch as our guest speaker for the 2010 CMC/ AAC Annual Dinner on Saturday March 6th at the Oak Brook Double Tree, 1909 Spring Road, Oak Brook, IL 60523.
Stephen is a climber, snowboarder, and long- time mountain guide. He survived an avalanche on Mount Owen in Grand Teton National Park that carried him over 2,000 feet! The aftermath left him with a broken back, two badly damaged knees with torn ligaments, cracked ribs, and a night spent at over 9,000' on the snow in only a long underwear shirt and thin pair of pants... His story is one of adventure, survival, and the awesome power of the Mountains!
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It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
It seems that a lot of people are having trouble figuring out how to compile CudaMiner from source for Windows and since our readers have also requested a simple and easy to use guide, we have prepared something that should help. The process is pretty simple and straight forward, so if you follow the steps you should be able to compile the code yourself in no time, probably…
First Download the required files:
– You need to have Visual Studio 2010 or 2012 with C++ installed, other versions might also work, but we have not tested.
– Download and install Nvidia CUDA Toolkit, do note that Visual Studio needs to be installed first for the CUDA Toolkit to properly work with it.
– You need to download the Windows versions of pthreads, OpenSSL and curl for the respective version you will be compiling for (32 or 64-bit), there is a complete package that contains all of these to make it simple for you, though they may not be the latest versions.
– Download the latest CudaMiner source code, use the Download ZIP button on the right to make it easier.
Prepare everything for compiling the project:
– Create a folder where you will place all of the required files, for example CUDAMINER-WIN and extract the complete package of prerequisites in it as well as the source code of CudaMiner, you should have things look like on the image above.
– Open the CudaMiner-master folder and open the cudaminer.sln project file, it should load up in Visual Studio. Note that the project is in VS2010 format and if using 2012 for example you will be asked to upgrade the project to the 2012 format, choose yes.
Final tweaks and compiling the project in Visual studio:
– Make Sure you have selected Release build and choose if you are compiling a 32 or 64-bit version inside Visual Studio after you have opened up the cudaminer SLN file.
– If you wan to compile the code for a specific GPU architecture other than the default you will need to go to Project, Properties, Confguration Properties, CUDA C/C++, Device and select the required ones under Code Generation.
– Select Build Solution from the Build menu and wait for the compilation process to finish, you will find the executable file in the Release folder (or x64, Release for the 64-bit version).
– You need the cudaminer.exe executable file and the respective cudart DLL file (32 or 64-bit, depending on the version you are building).
– You also need to get the respective 32 or 64-bit version of the pthreadVC2.dll file from the phtreads folder.
– Put the executable file and the two DLL files in a single folder and you are ready to run CudaMiner.
– Note that on your system everything should be working fine, but on other computers lacking Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2010/2012 installed you will need to also install this package (version depends on what version of Visual Studio you have used to compile the project). Alternatively you can just include the msvcp and msvcr DLL files along with the other files to make sure you have all of the required files packaged together.
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J. BrownCollege of Liberal Arts and Sciences - Geography and Atmospheric Science, Environmental Studies Program
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I am a "human-environment" geographer, one who feels uncomfortable being labeled as either human or physical. Through my teaching and research, I try to tell stories about the unfolding human experience on earth as one influenced by natural systems, social systems, and systems of culture and meaning. Ever since my years as an undergraduate biology major, I have been fascinated by the rapid changes occurring in the Brazilian Amazon. My research today continues to focus on attempts to forge sustainable development in that region. Policy directives in this area have often privileged a static image of forested environments, their biodiversity, indigenous cultures, and economies, as some ideal form to be replicated throughout the region among all human groups. Such of view of sustainable development masks what are dynamic political economic and biogeographical processes that have developed as people, institutions, and components of the natural landscape react to one another in an increasingly disturbed rainforest and savanna environment. I argue our research must focus on these dynamics that will determine the success of efforts to alter the currently destructive relationship between people and the humid tropical environment.
Ph.D., Geography, University of California, Los Angeles
M.A., Latin American Studies, University of Kansas
B.A., Biology, University of Kansas
Project 1: Social relations in Amazonian rural development.
My long-term research plans involve understanding the role of the growing movement of NGOs throughout Latin America in mediating human - environment relationships, especially in rural areas. I am interested in producing empirical studies of the spatial character of NGO activity, tracking where NGO resources come from, the types of production activities and political economic formations NGOs encourage, and what lasting local and regional effects the resulting forms of social relations have on people and the environment. Much of my current work stems from an NSF-funded project I co-authored with political scientists David Brown (University of Colorado - Boulder) and Scott Desposato (University of California – San Diego). Our findings on how funding of NGOs affectsr on bridge domestic politics at the state and federal level have been published in Comparative Political Studies, Political Geography, and Latin American Research Review (in press). Our general conclusion is that there is a direct relationship between NGO funding and voting for leftist politicians when people vote for presidential candidates, but when state politicians can claim credit for NGO funding, voters reward them even though they may be from center-right parties. Moreover, there is no evidence that the type of group receiving money matters when considering the effect of funding on political change. As this project comes to a close, we will begin working on efforts to understand the political impacts of the landless movement in Brazil (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra – MST).
Project 2: Expansion of soybean production in Amazonia.
The rapid expansion of soybean production has alarmed environmentalists world-wide that soybeans are the next major threat to the continued existence of tropical forest in the Amazon. Our task, involving researchers at Kansas Applied Remote Sensing, Texas A&M Geography, and Brazil's Federal Agricultural Research Agency (Embrapa) is to integrate remote sensing and socio-economic and cultural studies to understand the human environmental dynamics involved in the expansion of this land use. The major question is whether native tropical ecosystems are being converted directly to soybean and other annual crop production or whether most of the crop production has actually, and is likely to continue, to go into areas that were already deforested for other purposes long ago (cattle ranching, for example). Preliminary research, appearing in Ambio, suggests that soybean production expands readily into areas already deforested along with some expansion into forested regions. We also seek to use MODIS 250m data to carry out high-temporal resolution remote sensing of growing areas to detect deforestation and subsequent land uses to form the empirical data necessary to test hypotheses about the relationship between agricultural intensification and tropical deforestation. A current official cooperative research effort between Kansas and Brazil's Embrapa promises to allow for continued development of this research program.
Project 3: Development and the Politics of Scale:
This work involves a co-authored effort with Mark Purcell (Urban Planning, University of Washington), an urban political economic geographer. We are interested in the issue of scale in geography, not the common scales of analysis, but rather researching scale as the object of analysis, based on the idea that scaleis socially constructed and the outcome of political economic projects. Such research has allowed me to approach my work on so-called global/local linkages between international environmental and grassroots movements in Amazonian sustainable development efforts with much greater theoretical rigor. We argue that many human environment studies tend, incorrectly, to ascribe particular characteristics to scale (global and/or national is bad; local is good), and that understanding that scale is socially constructed helps avoid such "scalar traps". We call for researchers in political ecology to investigate more deeply the agendas of actors, rather than assume them from knowing something about the scale at which people are organized. Our work has appeared in Geoforum and Progress in Development Studies.
Research Interests
- Political and ecological dynamics of development and conservation
- Biogeography
- Development institutions and policy
- NGOs
- Human-environment relations
- Latin America
- Amazonia, Brazil
Selected Publications
Caldas, M. Granco, G. Bishop, C. Kastens, J. Brown, C. Qin, Z. Mishra, U. & Hastings, A. (in press). Effects of sugarcane ethanol expansion in the Brazilian Cerrado: Land uses response in the new frontier. In , Bioenergy and Land Use Change. Wiley.
Oliveria, M. Brown, C. & Moreira, M. P. (2017). Highway Infrastructure, Protected Areas, and Orchid Bee Distribution and Conservation in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Environmental Protection, 8(8), 923. DOI:10.4236/jep.2017.88058 http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=78031
de Souza, H. W., Cervi, W. R., Brown, C. Rocha, J. V., & Lamparelli, R. C. (2017). Mapping and evaluating sugarcane expansion in Brazil's savanna using MODIS and intensity analysis: a case-study in the state of Tocantins. Journal of Land Use Science. DOI:10.1080/1747423X.2017.1404647
Brown, D. S., Brown, C. & Brown, C. (2016). Land Occupations and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Land Use Policy, 54, 331-338. DOI:10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.02.003
Petrini, M. A., Rocha, J. V., & Brown, C. (2016). Mismatches between mill-cultivated sugarcane and smallholding farming in Brazil: environmental and socioeconomic impacts. Journal of Rural Studies, 50, 218-227.
Brown, C. Jackiewicz, E. & Bosco, F. (2016). Nongovernmental Organizations: Scale, Society, and Environment. In , Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Human Geography(3rd ed.). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Petrini, M. A., Rocha, J. Brown, C. & Bispo, R. (2016). Using an Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach to Prioritize Public Policies Addressing Family Farming in Brazil. Land Use Policy, 51, 85-94.
Brown, C. & Koeppe, M. (2015). Moratória da soja na Amazônia brasileira e governança ambiental: regulação através do mercado ou regulação estatal? (The soy moratorium in the Brazilian Amazon and environmental governance: market or state-led regulation?). Revista Pós Ciências Sociais, 11(22), 61-81.
Coutinho, A. C., Brown, C. Esquerdo, J. Kastens, J. & Ribeiro, B. (2014). Dinâmica da agricultura nos polos de produção de grãos no Mato Grosso do Sul. (Vol. 5, pp. 240-249). In SIMPÓSIO DE GEOTECNOLOGIAS NO PANTANAL.
Peterson, J. M., Caldas, M. M., Bergtold, J. S., Sturm, B. S., Graves, R. W., Earnhart, D. Hanley, E. A., & Brown, J. C. (2014). Economic linkages to changing landscapes. Environmental Management, 53(1), 55-66.
Brown, C. Hanley, E. Jason, B. Caldas, M. Barve, V. Peterson, D. Callihan, R. Gibson, J. Gray, B. J., Hendricks, N. Brunsell, N. A., Dobbs, K. Kastens, J. & Earnhart, D. (2014). Ethanol plant location and intensification vs. extensification of corn cropping in Kansas. Applied Geography, 53(4), 141-148. DOI:10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.05.021
Jason, B. Caldas, M. Peterson, J. Earnhart, D. Brown, J. C., Lauer, B. & Gong, S. (2014). Factors Affecting Farmers' Willingness to Grow Alternative Biofuel Feedstocks across Kansas. Biomass and Bioenergy, 66, 223-231. DOI:10.1016/j.biombioe.2014.04.009
Brown, D. S., Brown, J. C., & Desposato, S. W. (2014). NGOs, turn-out, and the Left: A subnational analysis of Brazil. Journal of Developing Societies, 30(4), 1–23.
Brown, J. C., & de Oliveira, M. L. (2014). The impact of agricultural colonization and deforestation on stingless bee (Apidae: Meliponini) composition and richness in Rondonia, Brazil. Apidologie, 45(2), 172-188. DOI:10.1007/s13592-013-0236-3
Putnam, H. Brown, J. C., & Schanbacher, W. D. (2014). The importance of process in achieving food sovereignty: Participatory action research (PAR) in coffeelands of Nicaragua. In , The Global Food System: Issues and Solutions (pp. 243-265). Praeger.
Brown, J. C., Rausch, L. & Luz, V. G. (2014). Toward a spatial understanding of staple food and non-staple food production in Brazil. The Professional Geographer, 66(2), 249-259. DOI:10.1080/00330124.2013.781492
Brown, J. C., Kastens, J. H., Coutinho, A. C., Victoria, D. C., & Bishop, C. H. (2013). Classifying Multiyear Agricultural Land Use Data from Mato Grosso Using Time-Series MODIS Vegetation Index Data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 130, 39-50.
Brown, J. C., Koeppe, M. Cooper, J. M., & Hunefeldt, C. (2013). Debates in the Environmentalist Community: The soy moratorium and the construction of illegal soybeans in the Brazilian Amazon. In , Environment and the Law in Amazonia: A Plurilateral Encounter (pp. 110-126). Sussex: Sussex Academic Press.
Kastens, J. H., Brown, C. Bishop, C. R., Coutinho, A. C., & Esquerdo, J. (2013). Soy Moratorium Impacts on Soybean and Deforestation Dynamics in Mato Grosso, Brazil . PLOS ONE. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0176168
Donalísio, M. R., Cordeiro, R. Lourenço, R. W., & Brown, C. (2013). The AIDS epidemic in the Amazon region: a spatial case-control study in Rondonia, Brazil. Revista de Saúde Pública, 47(5), 873-80. DOI:10.1590/S0034-8910.2013047004539
Barve, N. Bonilla, A. J., Brandes, J. Brown, J. C., Brunsell, N. Cochran, F. V., Crosthwait, R. J., Gentry, J. Gerhart, L. M., Jackson, T. Kern, A. J., Oberhauser, K. S., Owens, H. L., Peterson, A. T., Reed, A. S., Soberón, J. Sundberg, A. D., & Williams, L. M. (2012). Climate-change and mass mortality events in overwintering monarch butterflies. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 83, 817-824.
Brannstrom, C. Rausch, L. Brown, J. C., Teixeira de Andrade, R. M., & Miccolis, A. (2012). Compliance and market exclusion in Brazilian agriculture: Analysis and implications for 'soft' governance. Land Use Policy, 29(2), 357-366.
Victoria, D. C., da Paz, A. R., Coutinho, A. C., Kastens, J. & Brown, J. C. (2012). Cropland area estimates in Mato Grosso, Brazil, using MODIS NDVI time series. Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 47(9), 1270-1278.
Brown, J. C., Jackiewicz, E. & Bosco, F. (2011). Nongovernmental Organizations: Scale, Society, and Environment. In , Placing Latin America: Contemporary Themes in Human Geography(2nd ed.) (pp. 147-158). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Cordeiro, R. Donalisio, M. R., Andrade, V. R., Mafra, A. C., Nucci, L. B., Brown, J. C., & Stephan, C. (2011). Spatial distribution of the risk of dengue fever in southeast Brazil, 2006-2007. BMC Public Health, 11, 355. DOI:10.1186/1471-2458-11-355
Brown, D. S., Brown, J. C., & Donaghy, M. (2011). The Electoral Consequences of Direct Political Action: Evidence from Brazil. Latin American Politics and Society, 53(4), 35-66.
Selected Grants
Brown, J. Christopher, (Principal), Rocha, Jansle Vieira, (Co-Principal)Introducing interdisciplinary research on the human and environmental dynamics of biofuel production, climate change and related topics, 2015/19437-5, FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation), (01/04/2016 - 07/03/2016). Foreign (company, govt, agencies, etc.). Status: Funded.
Selected Awards & Honors
George and Eleanor Woodyard International Educator Award
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United States Oklahoma Washita County
|Washita County, Oklahoma
Location in the state of Oklahoma
Location of Oklahoma in the U.S.
|County Seat
|Washita County Courthouse
P.O. Box 380
Cordell, Oklahoma 73632-0380
Phone: 580.832.3548
Washita County, Oklahoma genealogy and family history research page. Guide to genealogy, history, and courthouse sources including birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, wills, deeds and land records, Civil War records, family histories, cemeteries, churches, tax records, newspapers, and obituaries.
- 1 County Information
- 2 County Courthouse
- 3 History
- 4 Places/Localities
- 5 Resources
- 5.1 American Indians
- 5.2 Cemeteries
- 5.3 Census
- 5.4 Church
- 5.5 Court
- 5.6 Land
- 5.7 Local Histories
- 5.8 Maps
- 5.9 Military
- 5.10 Newspapers
- 5.11 Probate
- 5.12 School Records
- 5.13 Taxation
- 5.14 Vital Records
- 6 Societies and Libraries
- 7 Web Sites
- 8 References
County Information[edit | edit source]
Washita County, Oklahoma Record Dates[edit | edit source]
County Courthouse[edit | edit source]
Washita County Courthouse
PO Box 380
Cordell, OK 73632-0380
Phone: 580.832-3548
Clerk Court has marriage, divorce, probate and court record from 1900[1]
History[edit | edit source]
Parent County[edit | edit source]
- 1892--Washita County was created in 1892 from Cheyenne-Arapaho Lands.
- County seat: Cordell [2]
Boundary Changes[edit | edit source]
- Interactive Formation Boundary Map of Oklahoma - shows boundary changes for Oklahoma Counties
- Oklahoma Historical Boundary Changes - list of all boundary changes by county provided by Newberry Library
Record Loss[edit | edit source]
There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.
Places/Localities[edit | edit source]
Populated Places [3][edit | edit source]
- Bessie
- Burns Flat
- Canute
- Clinton
- Cloud Chief
- Colony
- Corn
- Dill City
- Foss
- New Cordell (county seat)
- Port
- Rocky
- Sentinel
Neighboring Counties[edit | edit source]
Resources[edit | edit source]
American Indians[edit | edit source]
- 1851 - 1959 Oklahoma and Indian Territory, Indian Censuses and Rolls, 1851-1959 at Ancestry — index and images ($)
- 1895 - 1914 U.S., Native American Citizens and Freedmen of Five Civilized Tribes, 1895-1914 at Ancestry — index and images ($)
- 1898 - 1914 Oklahoma and Indian Territory, Dawes Census Cards for Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914 at Ancestry — index and images ($)
- Dawes Final Rolls - Oklahoma Historical Society
Land and Property
- 1884 - 1934 Oklahoma and Indian Territory, Land Allotment Jackets for Five Civilized Tribes, 1884-1934 at Ancestry — index and images ($) *1889 Oklahoma County Plats 1889 - Oklahoma Historical Society
- For more information see Indians of Oklahoma
Cemeteries[edit | edit source]
|Tombstone Transcriptions Online
|Tombstone Transcriptions in Print
|List of Cemeteries in the county
|Family History Library
|Billion Graves
|KSGenWeb Archives
|Tombstone Project
|Oklahoma Gravestones
|Oklahoma Cemeteries
|Billion Graves
|See Oklahoma Cemeteries for more information.
Census[edit | edit source]
|Historical populations
|Source: "Wikipedia.org".
For tips on accessing Washita County, Oklahoma Genealogy census records online, see: Oklahoma Census.
State Census Records[edit | edit source]
- 1890 Oklahoma Territorial Census 1890 - Oklahoma Historical Societ
- 1890 and 1907 Oklahoma Territorial Census, 1890 and 1907 at Ancestry — index and image ($)
Federal Census Records[edit | edit source]
Federal Censuses were taken for Oklahoma starting in 1860. For links to Federal census indexes, see Oklahoma Census.
Church[edit | edit source]
Church records vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. They may contain information about members of the congregation, such as age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage information and maiden names; and death date. For general information about Oklahoma denominations, view the Oklahoma Church Records Wiki page.
Lutheran[edit | edit source]
Bessie (Red Rock)
- Records of the American Lutheran Church, Bessie (Red Rock), in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America database at Archives.com ($).
- Records of Trinity Lutheran Church, Clinton, in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America database at Archives.com ($).
Court[edit | edit source]
Land[edit | edit source]
Land and property records can place an ancestor in a particular location, provide economic information, and reveal family relationships. Land records include: deeds, abstracts and indexes, mortgages, leases, grants and land patents.
See Oklahoma Land and Property for additional information about early Oklahoma land grants. After land was transferred to private ownership, subsequent transactions were usually recorded at the county courthouse, where records are currently housed.
Local Histories[edit | edit source]
Local histories are available for Washita County, Oklahoma Genealogy. County and town histories may include biographies, church, school and government history, and military information. For more information about local histories, see the wiki page section Oklahoma Local Histories.
Maps[edit | edit source]
- Interactive Formation Boundary Map of Oklahoma - shows boundary changes for Oklahoma Counties
- Maps n More - county and township maps.
- Oklahoma Civil War Map of Battles
Military[edit | edit source]
Revolutionary War[edit | edit source]
- 1775 - 1783 - United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783 at FamilySearch - images only
- For more nationwide Revolutionary War databases, see US Military Online Genealogy Records.
Civil War[edit | edit source]
- http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=9236 Oklahoma, Confederate Pension Index, 1915-1955] at Ancestry — index (free)
- For more nationwide Civil War databases, see US Military Online Genealogy Records.
WWI[edit | edit source]
- For more nationwide World War I databases, see US Military Online Genealogy Records.
WWII[edit | edit source]
- Oklahoma Military Deaths - Oklahoma Historical Society
- For more nationwide World War II databases, see US Military Online Genealogy Records.
Newspapers[edit | edit source]
Oklahoma Newspapers Online
- GenealogyBank - ($), contains images of Oklahoma newspapers
- Newspaper Archive - ($), contains images of Nebraska newspapers
- Chronicling America - contains images of some Oklahoma newspapers; searching tips
- Elephind - Free; search engine that retrieves newspaper images from other free newspaper websites
Oklahoma Newspaper Catalogs
- Oklahoma State Historical Society - catalog of known Oklahoma newspapers; lists repositories that have the newspapers
- U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present on Chronicling America - contains a list of all known newspapers and the dates they cover; once you locate a newspaper name, contact the local library to see if they have copies of the newspaper.
Additional newspapers abstracts can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Washita County, Oklahoma Genealogy newspapers in online catalogs like:
- WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
- Do a Washita County, Oklahoma Genealogy Place-name search for these and other records in the FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Place-name Search).
Probate[edit | edit source]
Online Records
- 1801 – 2008 Oklahoma Wills and Probate Records 1801-2008 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
- 1887 – 2008 Oklahoma Probate Records 1887-2008 at FamilySearch — images
School Records[edit | edit source]
- 1895 - 1936 Oklahoma, School Records, 1895-1936 at FamilySearch — index and images
Taxation[edit | edit source]
Oklahoma tax records complement land records and can be used to supplement the years between censuses. There may be gaps of several years in the records.
Vital Records[edit | edit source]
Births[edit | edit source]
Online Birth Records Indexes and Images
Marriages[edit | edit source]
Online Marriage Records Indexes and Images
- 1841 - 1927 Oklahoma and Indian Territory, Marriage, Citizenship and Census Records, 1841-1927 at Ancestry ($)
- 1870 - 1930 Oklahoma Marriages, 1870-1930 at FamilySearch Index only. *1870 - 1930 Oklahoma, Select Marriages, 1870-1930 at Ancestry — index ($)
- 1870 - 1930 Oklahoma, Marriages, 1870-1930 at My Heritage index ($)
- 1889 - 1951 Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, Marriage Index, 1889-1951
- 1890 - 1995 Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995 at FamilySearch Index and images
- OKGenWeb Oklahoma Marriages
Deaths[edit | edit source]
Online Death Records Indexes and Images
- Obituaries Listed in the Oklahoman - Oklahoma Historical Society — index only
- United States Social Security Death Index
- 1935 - 2014 U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 at Ancestry ($)
- 1936 - 2007 U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 at Ancestry, incomplete ($}
Divorces[edit | edit source]
Online Divorce Records Indexes and Images
Societies and Libraries[edit | edit source]
Family History Centers[edit | edit source]
Family history centers provide one-on-one assistance and free access to premium genealogical websites. In addition, many centers have free how-to genealogy classes. See family history center for more information. Search the online FHC directory for a nearby family history center.
Web Sites[edit | edit source]
- USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
- FamilySearch Catalog
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Washita County, Oklahoma. Page 563 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
- ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Washita County, Oklahoma," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washita_County,_Oklahoma, accessed 6 August 2016.


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We spent our first night away from our little man last weekend, and it appeared to be much harder on the parents than the child.
Back in early summer, we purchased tickets to a show at the Hippodrome in Baltimore, figuring by the time our baby was five months old we would be comfortable spending a night away and maybe even desire some time to ourselves. Well, when last Friday arrived, there were lots of mixed emotions. As a matter of fact, if we had not purchased our tickets three months ago and made hotel and dinner reservations weeks ago, the getaway may have never happened.
In the days leading up to the trip, my wife and I were pathetic and the worst part of it was we knew it and could do nothing about it. As we drove our baby to his sleepover at his grandparents, it felt like we were leaving behind a piece of ourselves and not to mention half of our house, since all his "stuff" came along to make sure he was entertained. We figured if we brought all his favorite things he would not miss us. Yes, I know, pretty pathetic.
It was a strange feeling being away from him for the first time. We were constantly thinking (and worrying) about him. Our curiosity got the best of us on at least seven occasions over 30 hours, resulting in "check in" phone calls. It was not a matter of thinking he was unsafe, in harm's way or anything like that. It was all about a couple of addicts going through withdrawal and the subsequent feelings of uncertainty and unfamiliarity.
Logic would dictate that we rested well that night without our baby. However, things do not always go the route of common sense with parenthood. We slept as we always do – intermittingly. We often woke up in the middle of the night, seeking out the video monitor on the nightstand to check on the baby. There was no monitor, just a Holiday Inn notepad and pen. We were up at our normal time (6ish) with no baby to feed, hold or play with. We had spare time, a concept foreign to us.
It was strange going anywhere without the baby in tow. It felt so unusual. My wife actually sat in the front seat of the vehicle rather than next to the car seat in the back, confirming I am not hired help. There was no diaper bag to pack, no heavy car seat to carry around, no bottles to clean, no formula to bring along, no toys to pack, no pacifiers to retrieve and no moods to keep in check. There was no customer service and it was bizarre. Strangest thing was we missed all of it.
There we were at a four-star restaurant in downtown Baltimore, eating rissoto and foie gras, not exactly dishes we indulge in around our house, talking about our son and his cute attempts to blow raspberries, how he sticks four fingers in his mouth at one time, likes to yank out handfuls of hair, is almost rolling over by himself and his ability to pull his toes to his nose.
Although we missed him terribly and talked about him too much, we did enjoy the time on our own. However, the one-day trip was just enough for these new parents. The 150-minute drive home from Baltimore was a grueling test of patience. We could not wait to get our hands on him and see whether he had grown or changed (pathetic). Of course, he really had not, but what was interesting was he developed the ability to successful blow a raspberry while we were gone for that short amount of time. Before we left, he was really just spitting up on himself and had not mastered it.
A little background, I am a sucker for the giggle or smile and will resort to any means necessary to get either. If I blow a raspberry or two, that usually does the trick. Apparently, now that it's easy for him, I have created a little monster because he's now constantly doing it and subsequently drooling all over the place. It's cute as can be but equally messy. It seems he has not gotten the hang of keeping the saliva inside his mouth, but we don't mind because it's essentially the first thing we taught him.
Once we got home and settled, it was interesting to reflect on the time away and the strange feelings experienced. Besides the obvious corny stuff already touched on in this column in weeks past, it was about not wanting to miss anything, even the most insignificant. It was being unaware of what's happening with him. We went cold turkey. It was that drastic cut-off after having nearly all aspects of life dictated non-stop by the little one. To go without is what it must be like to go through serious withdrawal. I imagine the next time will be easier and the time after that maybe even painless. Other parents say soon enough you will be going away for a week with no problem. Soon after, it will be 10 days and then two weeks, they say. I find that hard to believe at this point, but time will tell. In the meantime, it's back to the experiences of parenthood.
On that first morning back, I learned a lesson about raspberries from Beckett. One of my favorite things since he was born has been to lay on the floor with him on my stomach. It serves as a little "tummy time" for him and a little relaxation for me. It seems during one of our mock airplane sessions he decided he wanted to blow some raspberries. After a few good ones and some belly giggles, it seems the motion got the best of him and he spit up parts of his most recent bottle (two hours ago). To make matters worse, we were angled just perfectly and my mouth was open. You get the picture. It was neither pretty nor appetizing, but it was just fine by me, at least we were home.


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