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GFS 2011 Game 4 – Giants at Braves (8/17/11)
On August 16th, we woke up and headed north to Dahlonega, Georgia to spend some time with my Dad's aunt Eris. I haven't seen Eris since my wedding in 2003 and, of course, Tim had never met her before.
Over the previous couple days, my Dad had mentioned numerous times to Tim that we would go panning for gold when we visited Eris. Dahlonega is home to the Consolidated Gold Mines. I didn't know what to expect, it was totally awesome.
We started out panning for go:
We each found tiny bits of gold in our pans of sand. But a tiny bit of gold is all it took — Tim officially got gold fever! GOLD!!!
Panning was fun. But the real deal was the gold mine tour. If you are ever anywhere near Dahlonega, stop in at the Consolidated Gold Mines and "Sleepy John" will take you one an
amazing tour deep below the surface of the earth.
We went down, down, down…
…into huge rock-walled caverns.
This was like old-timey movies. Little train tracks through dark and muddy tunnels:
Sleepy John was a fountain of gold mine knowledge. This mine has tons of cool stories. It was sealed off and filled with water for approximately 80 years. It has old-fashion drills poking out of the walls where the metal drills fused permanently inside the rock walls. There is a turn-of-the-century motorized driller that was in place under water all of those long 80 years and still works – when they fire it up at 20% power it rattles the ears like crazy.
But the drills were nothing. The real noise came from the dynamite blasts exploding in all of those holes the miners were drilling. In the picture below to the right…
…Tim and I are hiding in a side tunnel off of the main tunnel where the miners would hide to avoid the shock waves from the dynamite explosions.
After the gold mine tour, we relaxed, went for a swim, and then had dinner out with Eris and my Dad's cousin Karen and her husband Mike. The next morning (August 17, 2011),
we had breakfast, went for another swim, did some laundry, said our good-byes to Eris, and drove back down to Atlanta.
In the afternoon, we were back at Turner Field for another battle between the Giants and Braves. On our way to the gates, we stopped to get Tim's pitcher with Phil Niekro…
…and Warren Spahn.
Upon the ballpark, we headed to the section 143 in RCF right next to the Braves bullpen. The Braves were just beginning to hit, some position players and pitchers were playing catch down the RF line. We were in the first row right next to the bullpen when I noticed the pounding the bullpen roof has taken over the years:
This roof covers the entrance way to the bullpen. The bullpen bench is elevated behind this roof, and the actual bullpen is behind the bench. A few minutes later, a Braves lefty launched a homerun into the Braves bullpen. It hit hard off of the fence directly behind the bench, and then it bounced back toward the field, and landed on that roof. It must have had tons of top spin because it hit the roof and spun back toward the bench. It was bouncing on a diagonal toward us. I reached over the railing as far as I could, but it was just a couple inches out of my reach.
The ball bounced into the bullpen bench area where I bullpen attendant guy grabbed it, denied another guy's request for the ball and pointed out Tim: "Gotta give it to the kid!"
Here is Tim showing off the baseball (with a mouth full of water):
Thanks, bullpen guy!
The seats in RF aren't open for the first half hour. But we wanted to get over there because Tim Hudson was over there. We have a goal of getting a ball from a "Tim."
I looked at my cellphone and saw it was about 5 minutes until the rest of the stadium would open. We headed into the concourse so we could be the first ones to run into RF. But the guy watching the gate that blocks the RF concourse couldn't let us go until his supervisor radioed and gave him the "all clear." Turns out the supervisor forgot about RF and we ended up waiting about 10 minutes before they let us (and about 20 other people) into the rest of the stadium.
We headed over to the RF side of the bullpen toward the back of the section. Bullpen coach Eddie Perez and bullpen catcher Alan Butts were walking around in the bullpen. Perez walked over to the RCF side of the bullpen and pointed out a ittle girl standing up above with her family. After he got her attention, he tossed her an unsolicited baseball. He then walked around a bit more – I have no clue what he was doing walking back and forth in there, maybe he couldn't make up his mind what he was going to do next. I pulled out the booklet they gave us upon entering the stadium and confirmed that his first name was Eddie. Then when he walked by below us, I asked him if he could toss a baseball to Tim. I knew he didn't have one on him…but he just seemed like he might hook us up given the unsolicited toss up to the little girl.
Eddie held up his empty hands and said, "Sorry, don't have one. Wait, later!" He then walked down into the bench and stairway area at the front of the bullpen. I figured that was that. But five seconds later, Perez yelled to get our attention and then held this baseball…
…above his head.
Then he headed out to the field and hung out with Roger McDowell:
Thanks, Eddie!
I was pretty sure that Tim Hudson and all of the guys standing out there had seen Tim get the baseball from the bullpen attendant and/or from Perez so I didn't think we had any
chance at getting a toss-up from Hudson. So we decided to head around toward foul territory.
As we approached the RF foul pole, I got this panoramic view of Turner Field from the first row of section 135:
We planned to walk all the way around to LF foul territory in the front row of the infield seats.
I took this panorama from section 117…
…which is one section past the 1B bullpen.
Then they stopped us and made us head up to the cross-aisle when we reached the dugout. Apparently, you can only go down in the seats between the dugouts if you have a ticket down there. Several stadiums have that rule, and I think it is silly.
Anyway, the usher who made us head up to the cross-aisle was from Washington (and I was wearing my University of Washington shirt – in a final attempt to entice Tim Lincecum to
toss Tim a baseball). The usher was a big fan of my shirt. In fact, he was a U-Dub alum. So we chatted for a few minutes before continuing on our way toward LF. He was a very nice guy, as are all of the people who work at Turner Field.
As we were circling around toward the 3B side, the Giants were just starting to stir by their dugout. Shortly, Tim Lincecum popped out of the dugout and started to play catch in shallow left field. We found a nice front row spot right behind him:
When he finished playing catch, he partner tossed the baseball back to the bucket and we decided to head out toward CF. Then something funny happened, as I exited the first row, I looked back to watch Tim follow me and I spotted something…
…(that is a little rawing of my eye) sitting under the seats right we had been standing. It was a baseball! It was tucked under the seat up against the
concrete step that raises the second row above the first. How odd. But we'll take it!
On our walk through the LF concourse on our way to CF, Tim posed with the Braves Statue of Liberty and a big Braves baseball:
Centerfield was rather uneventful. Tim Lincecum, unlike the rest of his teammates, actually had fun again. He saw my Huskies t-shirt and gave us a wave. But that was it. He tossed a few baseballs into the crowd, including a two somewhat near us, but they were random tosses with no specifically intended recipient on the other end.
Actually, CF wasn't completely uneventful. Tim and I set a personal record when we both separately failed to snag the same baseball. Some unknown Giants batter hit a ball to the
warning track that bounced up directly to me. It went out of view for a split second as it bounced and then hopped low over the fence. It was right to me. I mean RIGHT to me. But it handcuffed me, clanked off of the heel of my glove and fell down into the gap. I felt completely ridiculous for botching the catch.
Two minutes later, a Braves employee walked through the gap, grabbed the ball and called up to Tim. Tim was wearing his glove, but made absolutely no effort to catch it. Inexplicably,
he just watched the ball sail right by his face. It bounced next to Tim and a 20-something guy grabbed it. The usher yelled at him to give it to Tim, but he didn't hear him. That was cool though. The guy was super excited to get the baseball and he was already showing it off to his girlfriend. It was all for the best. While I would have liked to catch the ball off the bat, I didn't really want to get a ball tossed to us right in front of Lincecum.
A few minutes later, a 40-something guy scrambled for a homerun ball and then came over and gave it to Tim. It was very nice of him. But we don't count balls from fans. I knew someone else would appreciate the ball more than us. So, when we visited the CN kids play area…
…I kept my eyes open.
While Tim was playing, a little kid who was probably 2-3 walked by with his mom and dad. He was wearing a cool little glove. I asked his dad if he'd been able to get his son a baseball during BP. And when he said no, I unloaded the fan ball on him. Of course, I explained that it was a BP homer by one of the Giants (which, indeed, it was). The kid was
super-excited to have it, and I was happy to unload it. It was win-win!
I have no clue what you call this thing:
But Tim loved it. It was a room with black lights and all of these doors projected on the walls. The different doors would open randomly and the kids would chase the characters
that would pop out of the doors.
Tim spent most of the time running around the cartoony-inside play area attractions, but he took a few minutes to wait through a relatively long line and take a quality hack on
the whiffleball diamond:
Before the game started, I headed up to the bar/patio above the seats in RCF and got this panorama:
We then got some nachos…
…and reported to our seats in section 151, where this was our view:
Our seats were right on the aisle along the RCF side of the batters' eye. One of the closest players to our seats was 2010 post-season surprise standout Cody Ross:
Due to a combination of distance from home plate and lighting, I really didn't get anything good in the way of action shots. Both teams scored one run in the first inning. The Giants
scored on a double by Pablo "Kung Fu Panda" Sandoval. And then future Hall of Famer, Larry "Chipper" Jones delivered…
…and RBI walk.
The Giants took the lead in the a 5-1 lead in the top of the fourth inning on a pair of singles by Orlando Cabrera and Eli Whiteside and a pair of sac-flies by Matt Cain and Cody Ross. The score would remain 5-1 until the ninth inning.
It was time for ice cream. Tim and I wandered around looking for ice cream helmets. On our way out of the CF seating area, we got Tim's picture in front of the play area…
…and above the Braves bullpen:
We made an interesting discovery in the concourse behind the RF foul seats: if Tim got dippin' dots instead of ice cream, he could get an extra cool blue and red Braves ice cream helmet. He'd never had dippin' dots before (well, maybe once at a fair or something, but never at a game) but he was game for trying them. They had a nice selection of flavors. Tim picked chocolate mint…
…and he loved them.
As we walked down the aisle with toward our seats with Tim's dippin' dot helmet, we saw something very bizarre. A guy was sitting on the backside of the outfield wall in the batters' eye area while a girl laid in the grass…
…a few minutes later, she started doing her make-up. Soon enough, another girl joined them. I have no clue what the guy's role was, but during the next inning break, the girls ran out onto the warning track with checkered flags…
…and acted as the finish line for a race of some big tools. My guess is that the guy was there to open and shut the door through the outfield wall.
Anyway, Tim was rooting hard for the power drill to win, but the hammer took the checkered flag.
The girls and the tools then walked through the batters' eye grass (and sand where the grass had been removed to be transplanted to the field) and through a secret door below our
section of seats…
…, but before ducking into the tunnel the hammer did a big lunging dive and his hammer custom flew off his body and landed on the ground. The guy then grabbed the custom and left. It was an interesting little behind the scenes that you only get if you sit right on the batters' eye wall.
Here's a random picture that I'm including just for the heck of it:
I don't know when my Dad took it during the game, or why Tim is making that "I'm an extreme cool guy" face. The real reason I am including this picture is to point out my bracelet.
Reviewing all of our game pictures, I have worn that "cause" bracelet since approximately May 2008, and to almost 100 MLB baseball games.
It's a "Free the West Memphis Three" bracelet. It's a terrible, terrible story all around. It if you don't know about it, check out the WM3 website and watch the incredibly disturbing (on many, many levels) documentary "Paradise Lost."
Anyway, while I would eventually wear the bracelet for the rest of the Roadtrip and until we returned home, this was actually the last baseball game we would attend before the WM3
were, in fact, freed. The news came out the next day, and they were actually released from prison after 18 years on August 19th before our first game at Tropicana Field. So my wrist is now bare and looking for a new cause to support.
Back to the game.
The Braves have a guy who runs a lot of trivia games and other entertainment segments on the big screen between innings. Late in around the sixth or seventh inning of this game, the Braves posed the following question to a contestant named Holly:
All signs are that Holly Brown said "yes"!
In the seventh inning, this beer vendor wandered by and stood in front of us for a few seconds peddling his wares:
I don't remember his exact words, but he seemed so southern and gentlemanly as he made his "last call" announcement that he could have been straight out of a movie – hmm…if the made movies about southern gentleman beer vendors that is.
Since I wasn't getting any good action shots, I figured I better at least get a picture of Chipper playing third:
Late in the game, my Dad took Tim for a walk. They then returned requesting a penny. Tim likes to put pennies through those penny-smashing-souvenir machines. My Dad had one penny on him, but they accidentally pressed the wrong design on it! They did the Braves logo penny, but Tim wanted the Turner Field penny. Luckily, I had some loose change and, as a result, Tim ended up with two souvenir Braves pennies:
When they were out on their penny run, my Dad got a dippin' dots helmet of his own. After he finished his helmet, Tim and my Dad posed for some mini-helmet pictures:
And then Tim decided he needed some pictures of his water bottle wearing a helmet too:
Between innings, we asked the guy behind us to take a picture of the three of us. We'd asked someone to take out picture after our first Braves game on the trip, but he ended up taking a picture of my Dad's foot! So we needed a good picture of the three of us at Turner Field.
The guy was too intimidated by technology to use my digital camera, so he passed the buck to his teenage son. And the son delivered a nice shot:
The Braves were trying hard to mount a rally and get back into the game. Whenever the Braves need a rally, they break out the Tomahawk Chop. And you can't do the Tomahawk Chop without some drum beating. So where does the drum beating soundtrack come from? Canned drum beating, you ask? Nah. The Braves wouldn't do that. Instead, they have the biggest drum I have ever seen out in LCF:
In the ninth inning, Tim and I decided to head over to the Braves bullpen. As the Giants came to bat still leading 5-1, this was our view from the back of section 143:
And this was our view of Jason Heyward:
Just below us to our left, the Braves relievers were passing time on the bench…
…while Eddie Perez chatted up someone in the stands.
When he wasn't chatting with fans, Perez was sitting on the far right side of the bench and was filling out pitching charts and other paperwork (it can be seen sitting on the green
platform thing in front of the bench in that last picture).
We decided to relocate closer to the field so we could get a better view of the non-action in the bullpen. Tim got his picture with the relievers hanging out behind him:
When we were down there, we saw that Perez had a big, fancy line-up card like the one we'd gotten in Texas earlier in the season. We were all set to ask him for it after the game, but we discovered that he'd pre-arranged to give to a lady over on the other side of the bullpen.
As for the ninth inning, it was very exciting. The Giants scored two runs on sacrifice flies by Pablo Sandoval and Aubrey Huff in the top of the inning to make it a 7-1 game, a blow out in the making. But the Braves came out fighting in the bottom of the ninth and they made it interesting. They scored four runs all with two outs. Freddy Freeman led off with a single. He then took second on a wild pitch and third on a groundout. Freeman scored the Braves second run of the game on a two-out single by Jason Heyward. Michael Bourn then hit a weak pop up to short stop that should have ended the game. Instead, Orlando Cabrera recorded his second error of the game and Julio Lugo scored the Braves third run. Martin Pradio then followed with a 2-unearned run (zero RBI) double scoring Heyward and Bourn.
It was looking like it was going to be another amazing comeback like our last game. Tim and I were pulling for it to happen. But then Brian McCann struck out to end the
Final score, Giants 7 over Braves 5:
On our way out of the ballpark, we grabbed a stack of (unfolded) Braves pocket schedules, Tim got his picture with Hammerin' Hank Aaron's retired 44 outside the CF gate…
…, and I took a shot of the bright Turner Field sign that is on the outside of the stadium on the opposite side of the LF upper deck seats:
I would have preferred another comeback Braves win. But all-in-all, it was a great night at a great ballpark.
The next day, we had a long drive back down to Tampa, followed by a nice dinner out at Tijuana Flats, and a relaxing swim in the hotel pool before heading to the airport to pick-up
a Roadtrip guest who would be joining us for three Mariners games at Tropicana Field.
|2011 C&S Fan Stats
|23/4 Games (Tim/Kellan)
|18/6 Teams [Tim – Mariners, Orioles, Rangers, Brewers, Nationals, Phillies, Mets, Rays, Braves, Diamondbacks, Astros, Royals, Cubs, Angels, Indians, Reds, Giants, Tigers, Yankees, Marlins; Kellan – Mariners, Orioles, Angels, Mets, Indians, Yankees]
|18 Ice Cream Helmet(s) (Orioles (2), Nationals, Phillies (2), Rangers (2), Mets (1), Reds (1), Tigers (1), Marlins (2), Braves (2)).
|62 Baseballs (7 Mariners, 7 Rangers, 4 Orioles, 4 Umpires, 2 Nationals, 2 Brewers, 5 Phillies, 2 Mets, 1 Rays, 5 Braves, 2 Diamondbacks, 1 MLB Authenticator, 2 Easter Egg, 1 Glove Trick, 2 Royals, 2 Cubs, 5 Angels, 4 Indians, 2 Giants, 1 Tigers, 1 Marlins)
|11/3 Stadiums [Tim – Camden Yards, Nationals Park, Citizens Bank Park, Minute Maid Park, Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Citi Field, Great American Ball Park, Comerica Park, Yankee Stadium, Sun Life Stadium, Turner Field; Kellan – Camden Yards, Citi Field, Yankee Stadium]
|13/9 Player Photos* [Tim – Felix Hernandez, Adam Moore, Garrett Olson, Chris Seddon, David Aarsdma, Michael Pineda, Miguel Olivo, Ryan Langerhans, Greg Zuan, Mark Lowe, Michael Saunders, Chad Durbin, Russell Branyan; Kellan – Luke French, Milton Bradley, Franklin Gutierrez, Justin Smoak, Matt Tuiasosopo, Ryan Langerhans, Michael Saunders, Tony Sipp, Chad Durbin]
|3/1 Management Photos* [Tim – Howard Lincoln, Jack Zduriencik, Eric Wedge; Kellan – Jack Zduriencik]
|6 Autograph(s) (Michael Pineda, Michael Saunders, Mark Lowe, Felipe Paulino, Aroldis Chapman, Jack McKeon)
|1 Bat* (Milton Bradley)
|8/2 Mascot Photos* [Tim – Mariner Moose, Teddy Roosevelt, The O's Bird, Mr. Redlegs, Gapper, Slider, Sebastian (U. of Miami), Homer; Kellan – Mariner Moose, The O's Bird]
|2/0 Divisions Closed Out** [Tim – A.L. West (Safeco Field, Oakland Coliseum, Angel Stadium & Rangers Ballpark in Arlington), N.L. East (Citizens Bank Park, Shea Stadium, Citi Field, Nationals Park, Sun Life Stadium, & Turner Field); Kellan – N/A]
|2 Line-up Cards (Royals vs. Rangers; Indians vs. Orioles)
|* includes Spring Training** divisions where we have seen each team play a home game.


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Beyonce and Blue Carter Pictures
Beyoncé and Blue Go Gray For Their Latest Outing
Beyoncé Knowles carefully stepped out of her custom-designed SUV in NYC today wearing electric yellow stilettos and holding on to Blue Carter. The girls ran out for a midday meeting before returning home together. Beyoncé wrapped Blue in a fur sling and coordinated her own look in a matching sweater topped off with a bright manicure.
We first saw Beyoncé wearing a similar cobalt nail color in February when she made her first postbaby appearance, and then most recently when she attended an Obama campaign fundraising event with Mrs. Obama. It seems even when Beyoncé and Blue have to separate the little one is still on her mind. Hopefully Blue will be able to join her famous mom on the road when Beyoncé headlines three exclusive shows at Atlantic City's brand-new Revel Resort.

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Interactive Connections 2012 Reflections
By: Guest Blogger – Rhonda Carrier
The following are some notes from the Interactive Connections Conference and from the Florida Educational Technology Conference. I have not had a chance to visit all of the websites but thought I would pass on those that were highly recommended.
The Interactive Connections conference organized by Sister Caroline was a wonderful gathering of Catholics learning about the use of and implementation of technology to develop and expand our Catholic faith communities. Many of those attending the Interactive conference stayed to attend FETC but we gathered together each evening as a Catholic group for fellowship and to compare notes and ideas from the day.
Bishop Noonan's Welcome on Sister Caroline Cerveny's Cyberpilgrim's Blog
Fr. Larry Rice's Keynote and summary of the crises facing the Catholic Church: On the Catholic Couponer's Blog. Although many of the comments on the blog focus on the use of technology during mass, Fr. Rice's message included using technology to extend our Catholic communities. He suggested that we put the bulletin online rather than printing so it can be accessed at any time; allow online discussions so there is two-way communication and not just a one-way push of information; use online databases to gather information; allow online donations and contributions without the need of a signed piece of paper; translate publications into appropriate languages and make them available online; etc. He recommended that we read the book from Gutenberg to Zuckerberg.
You may wish to review the Media Timeline that Fr. Larry shared with us Monday evening
- Most of the workshop presentations are located at IC 2012 Learning Sessions. I suggest that you take a look at and join the Digital Catechisis that she organizes. Join in the conversations and pick up ideas for use in your classes.
- Another book to consider reading is Brandon Vogt's The Church and New Media.
Keynote: Michael Wesh, Anthropologist, spoke about the need to move students past being knowledgeable to being knowledge-able which means we need to help them develop their knowledge-ability. We must find ways to inspire them and to bring them to wonder. He said, "A great teacher can bring life into anything. A great teacher can bring wonder into anything. A question inspires wonder and inspires ideas. A question is: a Quest for mastery, Embraces our vulnerability, Invites connections"
- Wonder flourishes where there in inspiration and where they feel safe.
- Quest for mastery requires freedoms to learn
- Vulnerability requires Freedom to fail
- Connections require Freedom to love
Empathy is lower than in the past. We see birth and death and life intimately and daily because we live in a "capsular civilization " with TV, phone, computer. We are numbing ourselves, which also numbs ourselves to joy. But there is a solution, the media are not just tools, they're a means of communication. They mediate how we relate. (This brought me back to Fr. Rice's message to use technology to communicate and to build communities.)
View From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able, an 18-minute video and a short version on TED, of the topic he presented at FETC.
Heidi Hayes Jacobs, President of Curriculum Designers, Inc, presented a keynote session and a breakout session. I attended a workshop of hers several years ago, so was delighted to have a chance to say "hello". (I have used her curriculum map concepts to organize curriculum since then. The Curriculum by Design presentation that I did for ICS that referenced her work is available for viewing on Slideshare.)
At FETC she asked the following questions:
- How can we prepare students for the future?
- Who owns the learning? Do students?
- 12% of the 21st century is over and students are time traveling. They have 21st century at home but 20th century at school. What year are we preparing student for?
We need to help students with the following:
- Social production – Example: Wikipedia
- Social networking – Example: Curriculum21.com
- Semantic web – At least once a teaching unit, it should be upgraded with a new resource. Have a faculty meeting that just allows teachers to experiment and share new technology. Examples: Tag Galaxy (Enter a word such as childhood, then click on a bubble to go deeper – Wordle.net (creates word clouds) – Zooburst (digital storytelling pop-up books) – Visual Thesaurus
- Digital literacy – related to media literacy – related to global literacy. Examples: Check out Earth Pulse website on national geographic – Gap minder – Museum Box to replace dioramas –
- Global literacy – Brazil has a huge growing economy and middle class. Also Russia and India and China. We don't study geo enough, we must also study geo literature, geo politics, geo economics. Example: World Mapper (this one is a wow!) –
I was happy to finally meet Kathy Schrock, whose work I have followed and used for many years. Her website is the basis for a large portion of the research model that I use with our students. View Kathy Schrock's Guide to Almost Everything.
A few other good website to check out are:
- Creative Commons for information about what art and music can be legally used
- Rushton's Resources Powerful and Free Resources for Teachers and Students
- Next Vista for Learning – An online library of free videos for learners everywhere
- CK-12 for flex books – Can download books and customize
- Recommended list of apps for education


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INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — Kevin Love's phone rang in July and LeBron James asked the All-Star forward if he wanted to play with him in Cleveland.
"I'm in," Love said.
For the long haul.
Getting used to a new city and new team after being acquired by the Cavaliers on Saturday, Love said he's committed to winning an NBA title with the Cavaliers — however long it takes.
Love can opt out of his contract and become a free agent next summer, but the 25-year-old said he intends to stay with James and the Cavs.
"I'm committed to this team, committed long term to the end goal and that's to win championships," he said.
Love was introduced Tuesday by the Cavs, who acquired him in a blockbuster, three-team trade that instantly turned Cleveland into an NBA championship favorite. The deal also gives the team a star-powered trio in Love, James and Kyrie Irving.
Love never made the playoffs during his six seasons with the Minnesota Timberwolves, who will now rebuild with No. 1 overall pick Andrew Wiggins and last year's top pick, Anthony Bennett, two young players they were able to pry from Cleveland.
The Cavs know nothing is certain, and there's risk in bringing aboard Love. But with James, Love, Irving, guard Dion Waiters, relentless rebounder Anderson Varejao and newly signed veterans Shawn Marion, Mike Miller and James Jones, the Cavs have the makings of a championship team — this season and for many more to come.
"This is culmination of a year and a half of conversations to trade for Kevin," general manager David Griffin said. "This is a player that, quite frankly, fits us as well as any player could have."
Love will wear No. 0 for the Cavs. His No. 42, the number he wore in college and with the Timerbwolves, was worn by Nate Thurmond and retired in Cleveland. He considered No. 11, his Olympic number, but that was worn by Zydrunas Ilgauskas and also hangs from the rafters at Quicken Loans Arena. So he went with 0, the number he first wore as a kid in Beaverton, Oregon.
"I thought this was a chance to start fresh," Love said, "and pick a new number that would suit me. I just decided that 0 was the right fit for me."
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Sierra County, New Mexico Genealogy
United States Genealogy New Mexico Sierra County
Guide to Sierra County, New Mexico ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.
|Sierra County, New Mexico
Location of New Mexico in the U.S.
|3 April, 1884
|County Seat
|Truth or Consequences
|Sierra County Courthouse]
311 N Date
Truth or Consequences, NM 87901
Phone: 505.894.2840
Sierra County Website
- 1 County Information
- 2 County Courthouse
- 3 History
- 4 Places/Localities
- 5 Resources
- 6 Societies and Libraries
- 7 Web Sites
- 8 References
County Information[edit | edit source]
Sierra County, New Mexico Record Dates[edit | edit source]
County Courthouse[edit | edit source]
Sierra County Courthouse
311 N Date
Truth or Consequences, NM 87901
Phone:. 505.894.2840
County Clerk has marriage and land records from 1884, probate records, military discharge records from 1945; Clerk of the District Court has divorce and court records.[1]
History[edit | edit source]
Parent County[edit | edit source]
- Up until 1821 - New Spain controlled land that later would become New Mexico and Arizona. Some records of early settlers may have been sent to an archives in Seville, Spain, or to archives in Mexico City.
- From 1821 until 1846 - Mexico had jurisdiction over the land that later would become New Mexico and Arizona. Some records of this period may have been sent to archives in Mexico City. Starting in 1846 United States forces occupied New Mexico during the Mexican-American War.
- 1848 - Land that became Sierra County formally became a part of the United States when the Mexican-American War ended with ratification of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
1884--Sierra County was created 3 April 1884 from Socorro, Grant, and Doña Ana counties.[1]
Boundary Changes[edit | edit source]
For animated maps illustrating New Mexico County boundary changes, "Rotating Formation New Mexico County Boundary Maps" (1845-1981) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.
Record Loss[edit | edit source]
There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.
Places/Localities[edit | edit source]
Populated Places[edit | edit source]
Neighboring Counties[edit | edit source]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Cemeteries[edit | edit source]
- New Mexico Cemetery Records
- AHGP New Mexico Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project
- New Mexico Cemetery Records, Luna to Valencia
- New Mexico Cemetery Record Information Online
- New Mexico Tombstone Transcription Project
- New Mexico Cemeteries Project
- New Mexico Vital Record Information: Cemeteries
- Online New Mexico Death Records and Indexes
- Cemeteries of New Mexico
- BillionGraves.com - Provides photos and GPS locations of grave markers.
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Societies and Libraries[edit | edit source]
Geronimo Springs Museum
221 Main St.Geronimo Springs Museum
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Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, 87901
Sierra County Genealogical Society
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Shingle-hanging 101: The little philosophy shop that never was
"A philosophy course? Oh, that'll come in handy," he said. "Now all you have to do is open up a little philosophy shop. You're all set!"
After all these years, I can still see the smirk on that man's face. Can't recall his name, but the smirk lingers.
Fool that I was, I had thought I'd impress this man, the uncle of a childhood friend. I recall sitting at his kitchen table. His wife had just served me a cup of tea. What I remember about him, apart from the condescending attitude, is that he appeared to be successful. He was a professional photographer with a big house and a new Mercedes-Benz. I suspect he had a college education and had benefited from similar courses.
At the time of this conversation, I was about halfway through the journey toward my bachelor's degree. When the chitchat at the kitchen table turned toward me, someone asked how school was going, so I told them that one of the courses I'd just finished up at UMass was an Introduction to Philosophy course, and that it was much more interesting than I'd imagined such a course would be.
That's when the uncle made the crack about the financial utility of philosophy. I'm embarrassed to report that I guffawed along with him, as though I, too, understood how useless and frivolous it was to study philosophy.
Maybe my nervous laughter happened because I wasn't sure, myself, what the point was of taking such a class.
As time passed, though, it finally dawned on me that it had been the first time I could recall sitting in a classroom and not being taught what to think, but being taught how to think. Applying logic and ethics in a deliberate way to my own thought processes amounted to a personal revolution.
I returned to school the next semester, and worked toward my degree in French language and literature. But every now and again, I would remember the uncle's crack about opening up a philosophy shop. I wouldn't be opening up a French poetry shop, but I did become certified to teach French to high school students.
The financial saving grace of any academic subject is that you might one day teach it to someone else. Of course, that only works as long the powers-that-be agree that such knowledge merits transmission to the next generation.
In the current American atmosphere where the corporation is king, any academic subject that does not have obvious short-term earning power is an endangered species.
How narrow should higher education be? There are calls, today, for universities to be run like businesses, and that implies pruning away those educational offerings that don't lead immediately to a paycheck.
Following the recent ouster of University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan, it was reported in Charlottesville's Daily Progress that Sullivan's detractors thought she "lacked the mettle" to axe "obscure" academic pursuits such as German and Classics.
Apparently, the smirking uncles of the world are now in positions of power, and in the name of fiscal responsibility, they're calling for an emphasis on narrow vocational training in areas such as business and finance– presumably because you can, indeed, hang out a shingle and open a little hedge-fund shop.
Teresa Sullivan may have been reinstated, but behind the scenes, the powerful influence of those with big money and little regard for traditional education remains.
What will the world look like if they get their way? Picture an American landscape of "higher" education without the humanities: without art, literature, philosophy, history, or foreign language study.
How long would it take for the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of thousands of years of civilization to disappear? One generation? Two?
Yes, we want our college graduates to be self-supporting, tax-paying citizens. But we also need an American electorate that can sniff out hypocrisy and discern faulty reasoning when they hear it flowing from those who aim to be our leaders. And when history is repeating itself, it would be good to have someone around who recognizes the pattern and can lead us to an optimal outcome.
Also consider that, in our rapidly evolving world, we can anticipate changing careers several times throughout our working lives. The most flexible worker will be the one with a full quiver, the one who has had a broad education. Just as we can't predict what foreign language will be essential in the coming decades, we can't predict what the long-term benefit may be of any course of study.
If you think that the value of a life can be assessed by how much money a person earns, consider Socrates, who engaged Athenians in challenging discussions every day as he hung around the agora.
Those discussions have reverberated through the past two and a half millennia, from teacher to student, shaping Western civilization.
But even Socrates never did hang out a shingle and open a little philosophy shop.
Janis Jaquith hung out a shingle and raised three little children, all of whom are now adults.Read more on: janis jaquith
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Back in my undergraduate days, I minored in philosophy. I took a philosophy course every semester for four years. That's 24 credits in courses that didn't allow me to hang out a single. I'd have to look at my transcript to remember the titles of all these courses, but I only need to look into my mind to remember much of the content. It did, indeed, help me to think and exposed me to some of the great thinkers of the world. Some of the ideas I was confronted with are still things that I ponder.
If I had it to do over, I'd take all of these courses again. One wonders if those in corporate think academia may be the very folks who did poorly in some of the subjects that appear to have fallen out of favor. The real problem is a failure to understand the need for broad exposure to the ideas of any stripe that came before us. Two closing thoughts.
"Those who fail to remember the past are doomed to repeat it,"
"The society that allows shoddiness in philosophy and scorns excellence in plumbing will have neither good philosophy nor good plumbing. Neither its theories nor its plumbing will hold water."
Who wrote this? by Hawes at the top and why the mention of Jaquith at the bottom.
Sorry I clicked on the wrong key. It's by Janis Jaquith - hawes
Wonderful piece, thank you Janis.
We need to encourage the young ones in our lives to keep the fire of creativity, and the faith it takes to create, burning strong.
This is great.
I was just with a friend of mine who is a higher education administrator who was thinking of returning to get his doctorate in Higher Education Administration or maybe an MBA. I encouraged him to get his doctorate in philosophy (with a couple of courses from the B school on the side), that way when he applied for his next job he could argue that he would be an critical thinking and moral administrator.
He was persuaded and is mulling this over now!
I have had two excellent recent experiences with Philosophy Ph.d.s both in applied work, one a community activist and the other an organizational consultant with experience from the hospital industry. Both are excellent thinkers and doers. Applied Philosophy, what a concept.
We need more young people in fields like philosophy and religious studies. Its one way we are going to attain an ethical economy and a critical thinking citizenry. Wouldn't be great if all the social studies teachers in America required a BA in Philosophy to teach. Talk about critical thinking. Our students would out perform any students on the globe. Just imagine if the SOLs tested for moral reasoning and critical thinking instead of the inane distractions we require our young people to study now. That's the power of education for change.
Loved this piece Janis. Thank you.
I have followed with interest much of the conversation on The HooK message board regarding the recent happenings at UVa and the larger issue of the direction of higher ed in the US, in general. Just as I was troubled by the initial actions of the BoV to remove President Sullivan, I am also troubled by the tenor of some of the "Liberal Arts is the only true education" comments in connection with the local and national debate.
Just as much of the K-12 debate over the past decade has been about "core competencies," maybe that is where the debate over higher ed should focus next, too. Learned students in the United States should have exposure to philosophy, classical literature, and religion courses at college, but they would also benefit from some instruction in "financial literacy" and other basic business concepts. To often, today, though, students are not getting enough of either at "University."
I invite those of you who have not perused the list of current offerings at UVa to study the following website created and maintained by a UVa physics professor to make it easier for students to register for classes. It shows which courses are offered for the current semester (as opposed to the complete list of courses "authorized" by the University (even though many are never taught)). One can also go back to see the courses actually offered in previous semesters, as well. It takes some "clicking around" to get used to how the site works, but with a little effort one can fairly quickly find all the courses that are being offered at UVa this Fall, in all of the undergraduate schools and most, if not all, of the graduate disciplines.
Many departments of offer a stunning array of relevant and interesting courses to the students at UVa. Others, however, tend more toward the narrowest of niches -- primarily offering courses in the areas of current academic interest to the faculty members, while failing to offer more general, introductory or survey courses into the discipline. While I am sure there would be much debate among HooK commenters regarding the relative merits of some of the current offerings, I am confident that even the most ardent supporters of Liberal Arts education would find some drivel among the current course offerings at UVa.
If you take the time to review this website, I invite you also to consider what is not being taught. One glaring omission, in my opinion, is public speaking. How one can be well educated, especially in the Liberal Arts ,without touching on oratory, remains a mystery to me. Ironically, in the past 7 semesters, public speaking has only been offered within the McIntire School of Commerce and then has been limited to commerce students.
My conclusion, not all Liberal Arts courses are ipso facto beneficial to one's long-term intellectual growth. Likewise, not all business/practical/trade school type classes are bad. As schools struggle with resources, now may be the appropriate time to start critically evaluating the "intellectual merit" of the classes being offered.
An Observer: In regards "public speaking," I believe that was offered through the Rhetoric and Communication Studies Department (or was it a program?) before the budget ax fell in the late 1980s.
In regards your comments about course offerings: can you point to a school, department or program that does not offer and indeed require as part of its curriculum any introductory classes? I think not.
It is a good argument, but certainly not one I wold make to my kids. The soccer team my daughter played on entered college 4 years ago. Of that lot, 3 have been able to get jobs in their field of study. One in Social Services, but has to have a roommate on the outskirts of town in a rural area to survive. Another in graphic arts that has to live with her parents to survive. And one in nursing, who was employed 6 months before graduation and is stocking her new downtown apartment via Ikea.
A couple more have "jobs," which are neither in their field, or require a GED.
But a lot have tons on debt. The worst off of the lot (graphic artist excepted) are those that followed educational dreams and are trying to figure if they need to double down on the debt with grad degrees. Many are in the are between.
However, I am not paying for a education that lands my child back on my doorstep in 4 years, which is NOT the exception these days. Encouraging people to drown in debt and be your waitress in 4 years...the idealistic dreams of someone not worrying about their children anymore.
RCS -- "I believe that [public speaking] was offered through the Rhetoric and Communication Studies Department (or was it a program?) before the budget ax fell in the late 1980s."
My info is that the Communications Dept. fell not because of economics but rather because the "higher minded" types believed it had had fallen to the "rocks for jocks'' major. Whatever merits there may have been to that decision, it doesn't justify not finding a home for public speaking within English of some other department. The problem appears to be no current faculty member wants to teach the course, so it goes away. There are a couple of public speaking classes in the catalog of authorized English Department offerings, they are just never taught (at least not during Spring and Fall semesters).
As for course offerings -- I offer this as just one example: The Anthropology department offers one into class this Fall. Since first year registrations have just started, I am guessing the class has somewhere between 60 and 80 slots (currently 47 students are registered). So, out of 3000+ incoming students, there are less than 200+ slots a year for intro Anthro. Yet, there are 30+ other Antro classes offered, including ANTH 2230--Fantasy and Social Values which "examines imaginary societies, in particular those in science fiction novels, to see how they reflect the problems and tensions of social life."
Some heeded the call for more lab scientist but the jobs aren't there. Yesterday's Washington Post article. Slash and burn drug mergers have gutted drug research in the past 10 years while we screamed for more American scientist.
Jimi you base your conclusions on (a) a sample of a soccer team (12 girls?) and (b) gross, unsubstantiated generalizations. Which doesn't make your conclusions incorrect, it's just that you can't make a compelling case for them this way. Nor can Janis in all fairness.
And more importantly you missed the point that Janis made here (and btw very nice op-ed Janis). It's not that pursuing a major in Art History, as a particular example--others are easily imagined, will lead to a great job as a curator at the MOMA, but rather it might give that student an awareness of culture, history, and aesthetics that makes them an excellent member of the Foreign Service.
A big part of the problem is that it's just hard to find good work period.
Jeff -- that is the conundrum for students embarking upon college right now (and also for their parents). Jobs are scarce, and the signs don't point to that changing in the near future. So what is an 18 year old to do when considering college?
Your example of the art history major is noted, but the ranks of the foreign service are not expanding. The paths forward for liberal arts majors today are far narrower than they were 10 years ago. Law School is a pretty dreadful option right now, unless your family has its own law firm. ($100K + in debt with no job at the end of the line . . .) Businesses are not hiring humanities majors like they used to. Government/politics majors are still flocking to Capital Hill, but to what end, ultimately? Academia? Why would one pursue that path when supply and demand suggests a decline in humanities positions?
Bottom line as I see it, unless there is a sudden opening up of the post-grad job market for Liberal Arts majors -- especially those with Humanities backgrounds -- universities, including UVa, will look vastly different in 20 years, and maybe less.
@Jeff. that would be 22 girls. And yes, getting out of school and getting a job is a pretty important thing. Your want culture, there is nothing out there you cannot find that give you culture without going into debt. Hit itunesU and listen to an unlimited level of lectures and discourse for free. Recxorded lectures from silly places like Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale. Full coures. You do not need paid tuition college for culture. Crap, you ever wandered a campus post game time and thought... "Ahhhhh the high minded culture...."
Give it a rest. Graduate at 22 and get a job and spend the next many years reading, listening and learning. But for gods sake, dont drop yourself into a pit of debt so that these egg headed ivory towers can perpetuate over paid researched sending grad students to teach their classes so they can jump a bit in the USNEWS and World Report standings and subsidize overreaching money sucking "journals."
My compelling case is this: 22 girls go in college, four years later we have 3 with jobs in their study field, 1 that can survive on their own. The compelling part is called the real world.
Observer: You're probably right. And if we don't get the wealthy to pay taxes again like they did under Reagan the whole country is going to be vastly different.
Plumbers, nurses, HVAC techs, and electricians can't be outsourced (and I don't think there aren't visas available for these). These are solid jobs, but to follow my own admonition (above) I don't have the data for a compelling case. Good marriage and birth are still the best career choices.
Jeff --
30 years ago we still had a vibrant manufacturing "industry" where high school grads could earn $50+ an hour without a college degree. Now we have a service economy under which college grads don't even know how to answer the phone professionally, much less have the people skills to deliver good service. Taxing the bejesus out of the top 2% isn't going to solve those problems.
I don't remember Reagan saying "tax the bejesus" out of the rich, nor did he; rather there just wasn't the effort to relieve them of paying like we've seen in the last 20 years. We've got huge gaps in infrastructure due to lack of funding. Just do an easy Google search and look at how contributions to the well-being of our state have declined since Clinton years; there's a marked drop in tax contribution from upper earners.
You'll have to take your "they can't answer the phone politely" beef up with Ann Landers. This is not a data-driven argument (more of a "get off my lawn" gripe). [irony] I do my phone support with India and the Phillipines; they're very nice people. I get my home services done by Latinos; they're nice and they work hard for less money. I'm in the upper 2% but I don't want to spend more for American labor, since I don't get the 1% tax breaks. [/irony] *I've noticed the anti-intellectuals like Jimi don't get irony without billboards.
I suppose I would get irony a bit more if you had a bit more basics in knowledge bubba rather than flip use of linguistics.
Me, not so much anti-intellectual as the guy that would simply laugh at you and knock you on your ass. (should I say punk right about now?)
But, keep up the good work. Your posts really do make a difference for those teammates of my daughters looking for work...
And FYI, no one believes your in the 98, more like the Ivory Tower. Night-night...
Jimi looks like you quickly got to wit's end. Too bad but no surprises either.
Looking for jobs during the crash in the early 70s almost everyone
graduating with me was taking any job they could get--some jobs pretty grim.
Big differences less student debt and more affordable housing (at
least in my city). Best job I ever got was due to my impractical
minor in French.
mer -- I came just behind you. By 1972, because of what you experienced, there was a huge shift at the University of Illinois, my home state's flagship. Immediately prior, Suburban Chicago students needed to be in the top 5% of their high school classes for admittance to the Liberal Arts college. Thereafter, admittance to LAS eased some, and getting into the College of Commerce became decidedly more difficult.
Not only was student debt much lower back then, there was also a much smaller pool of college graduates competing for the jobs.


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Kirk Session Records of the Church of Scotland give us a fascinating glimpse of the past, beyond citing just names and places.
The Kirk duties were to maintain good order amongst its congregation, including
administering discipline and supervising the moral and religious condition of the parish. It also took a keen interest in irregular marriages, welfare and religious observance. So stories abound in the Kirk Session Records of offences such as drunkenness, swearing, breaking the Sabbath, quarrelling, sexual misdemeanours and accusations of witchcraft - alongside charitable activities, poor relief and mortcloth records.
For the family historian kirk session records, which date from the 1600's, can provide a unique social commentary on the community in which ancestors lived.
For the family historian kirk session records, which date from the 1600's, can provide a unique social commentary on the community in which ancestors lived.
Until recently kirk session records could only be accessed at National Archives of Scotland (http://www.nas.gov.uk/), but now many have been made available in digital format at local archive centres, including my own Heritage Hub, Hawick (www.heartofhawick.co.uk/heritagehub).
|My stylish mother
Kathleen Weston, nee Danson (1908-1999) - my mother was the seocnd daughter of William Danson and Alice English of Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire and the subject of many a blog posting. "Happiness in Stitching" could be my mother's motto. For her going into a fabric shop was like going into a jewellery shop. If she sat down, she was rarely without a needle in her hand. She was a creator in patchwork, crochet, collage, felt work, smocking, knitting, embroidery, smocking, dolls and dresses, with dabbles into millinery, lampshade making and china painting.
Kettle - I remember this copper kettle sitting in the hearth of my grandfather's house and was always led to believe it was his mother's - my great grandmother Maria Danson, nee Rawcliffe (1859-1919). I was abolutely delighted when it eventually passed down to me.
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With David Mitchell and Mike Swick each bowing out to injury, UFC brass had an extra slot to fill at UFC Fight Night 23.
Enter Will Campuzano (8-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC) and Chris Cariaso (10-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC).
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) has learned that the two bantamweights have verbally agreed to meet at "UFC Fight Night 23: UFC Fight for the Troops 2," which takes place Jan. 22 at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas.
Bout agreements are expected to be finalized for the contest shortly, and it's expected to take place on the un-aired preliminary portion of the Spike TV-broadcast fight card.
Campuzano likely finds himself in a must-win situation after being submitted by Nick Pace in the third round of The Ultimate Fighter 12 Finale in a bout that served as both fighter's octagon debut. Campuzano was ahead on the judges scorecards with just 27 seconds left in the fight (which was contested at 138 pounds when Pace failed to make weight) when he was caught by a rarely-seen maneuver his opponent dubbed the "Pace choke."
Prior to the loss, Campuzano earned a 1-2 mark in the WEC. All three contests were action-packed as the Texan earned a "Fight of the Night" won over Coty Wheeler but also suffered defeats at the hands of top contenders Eddie Wineland and Damacio Page.
Meanwhile, "Kamikaze" Cariaso seeks a win in his first UFC fight.
The California resident first fought under the Zuffa banner this past June and earned a unanimous decision win over Rafael Rebello. Cariaso took the fight on short notice after Campuzano was pulled from the matchup in favor of a fight with Wineland.
Cariaso returned to the WEC at December's WEC 53 card, where he was submitted in the first round by top Brazilian prospect Renan Berao, who is undefeated in his past 25 official contests.
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Facing a new master plan, development interests in Stamford square off
Last spring, Stamford embarked on a more than a yearlong effort to update its master plan by holding a series of public workshops. Spearheaded by planners, the forums were promoted as a rare opportunity for average citizens to shape the city's future.
But as the process draws to a close and the city's Planning Board nails down the details of a high-stakes plan that spells out a road map for development, it is the city's biggest business interests that are emerging as the most vocal stakeholders, drawing battle lines that could have an impact on the landscape, quality of life and economy for years to come.
In what has been one of the most closely followed changes, the 2024 master plan will include a re-categorization and remapping of the downtown, an area designated for the city's most-intense development. At the same time, the plan will also incorporate the South End and the success of the $3.5 billion Harbor Point redevelopment with the creation of a new land-use category called "urban mixed use."
`Lower density'
Throughout the public process, the Downtown Special Services District, a special taxing district made up of downtown property owners, and Harbor Point developer Building and Land Technology have pushed their agendas with painstakingly detailed feedback to draft versions of the master plan. In April, referring to a draft of the proposed urban mixed-use category, the DSSD asked the requirement calling for development to be at a "slightly lower density" than the downtown be changed to "significantly lower density." Last month, BLT came back with its own revision, suggesting the language be loosened to say development in the proposed category should "consider a lower density" than the downtown.
Some observers have described the back-and-forth as a battle between rival stakeholders as well worn. Last spring, the DSSD appeared before the zoning board to protest BLT's failure to provide a free shuttle service connecting the downtown and South End, which DSSD representatives argued had been required under Harbor Point's zoning approval. At first BLT balked, but the feud was officially put to rest in February when the two groups appeared smilingly at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the launch of the Harbor Point Trolley. The amenity has since been deemed a success by all parties, including the city.
`Three flavors'
Among city planning officials, the latest jockeying by the two sides is seen as part and parcel of the master plan process.
"Anytime you put something forward you're going to have people who will love it, like it, dislike it or hate it," said David Killeen, an associate planner in the city's land-use bureau.
The challenge for the Planning Board, he said, is to take all the differing viewpoints into account and then try to forge a consensus. "How do you take a concept and refine it so it achieves the best vision for most of the groups?" he said. "It's not an easy task."
Such has been the case with redefining the downtown. Earlier this year, the city's team of planning consultants, led by New York-based BFJ Planning, decided that Stamford needed to simplify the 2002 master plan, which created "three flavors" of the downtown:
The downtown corridor -- a thick block of commercial properties buttressing the train station;
The downtown core -- a wide swath of mixed-use development north of the corridor; and
The downtown collar -- a designation for the transitional areas on the outermost edges.
The consultants proposed doing away with the three categories and instead draw up one downtown. But from the beginning, the decision of where to place those boundaries, particularly in the area south of the train station, has been a highly sensitive issue. The DSSD has argued against an over-expansion of the downtown, saying it should remain concentrated so as to promote the area's strength as Stamford's commercial and cultural center.
Controlling growth
"You want to control growth for the best interest of the city," Sandy Goldstein, the president of the DSSD, said in a telephone interview last week.
For the time being at least, it appears that DSSD may have won the battle. Under the latest proposed plan to be released by the planning board later this month, the downtown will be considerably smaller than the consultants' initial proposal. To the north, the downtown border will end at North Street as opposed to Hoyt Street.
And in a more controversial move, the board has also amended the boundaries south of the train station, carving out a portion west of Atlantic Street and bounded by Pulaski and Henry Streets. In doing so, the downtown now encompasses sites that have already been approved for transit-oriented developments -- Gateway, a proposed office and housing project by BLT that currently consists of a 2,000-space parking garage, and Metro Green, a mixed-use project developed by Jonathan Rose Cos. and Malkin Properties that thus far has housing.
But the plan notably leaves out any properties east of Atlantic Street, including those on Station Place and Manhattan Street, where the state has tapped developer John McClutchy for a $500 million, 1-million-square-foot mixed-use redevelopment as part of a replacement plan for the state-owned parking garage at the train station.
`Irrational' decision
Instead, those lands would be placed in the new urban mixed-use category, which allows for moderate to high-density development but would nonetheless have to fall below the density that is permitted downtown.
Reached for comment last week, McClutchy, the train-station area developer, called the decision "irrational," saying that the proposal goes against a movement by other cities to increase densities around their transportation centers.
"These properties that surround the train station are properties that connect the downtown with the South End," he said. "It seems to me you would increase the density. You would want the opportunities for housing, hotel space, and office space."
He added: "I don't understand why Stamford would try to depress growth."
Jack Condlin, the president of Stamford's Chamber of Commerce who has lobbied for a broader downtown, called the omission "insane."
Those outside the business community have also expressed concern.
Robin Stein, the city's former land-use bureau chief who presided over the 2002 master plan and now serves as a special assistant to the mayor on economic development, said he planned to address the issue with Mayor David Martin. "From a planning perspective, transit-oriented development has always been an important concept that is critical to the development of Stamford," he said.
`Artificial' diminishment
He said that under the 2002 master plan, the area surrounding the Stamford Transportation Center had been singled out as places where development could be as intense as the downtown.
Amanda Kennedy, the Connecticut director of the Regional Plan Association, said she was unaware of the redrawn boundaries around the train station, but cautioned, "From a planning perspective, you don't want to artificially diminish the value of properties around your biggest asset, which is the train station."
The planning agency, which assisted the city on its 2002 master plan, is slated to provide input this time around as well.
Reached on vacation last week, Theresa Dell, the chairman of the planning board, said that without being able to look at the plan, she could not comment on the board's rationale for the revised downtown.
However, she stressed that nothing had been finalized. The board is expected to hold a public hearing in October before approving the final master plan. She said the board would take all considerations into account at that time.
"We may need to tweak it," Dell said, adding that the board had to date not received any complaints about the changes.
With so much of the city's energies having been poured into forging compromises between the downtown and South End, the late-game scrambling by McClutchy to protect his interests in the area surrounding the train-station -- a zone that is poised to become a flash point for development -- has come as a surprise.
McClutchy, who is set to meet city officials on Monday, said he did not learn of the revised boundaries until about a week ago. He had not been attending the meetings.
"Maybe I should have," he said.
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Lori! what a precious lo, you have me in tears! I luv the wonderful journaling! What a wonderful memory you have preserved!!
I love the blue and yellow together and what a sweet picture! Your title says it so well! Luv it!!!
What a great LO!
So beautiful! the colors are great and the pic is precious!
Wow. I love this. How did I miss this terrific page in your gallery? I just adore the soft yellow paper. What line is it, do you remember? Your journaling really tugged at me and now I feel guilty about grousing because my son, who turned 4-months-old today, still has not slept through the night... But I can't imagine sleeping in a recliner for three months straight. You just gave me an attitude adjustment, LOL! Back to your page, I love that you included a little clock. So appropriate. And all your swirls and stars and flowers are so pretty. Just wonderful, wonderful. Love it all.
This inspired me I always have trouble jounaling.
Dittos what was posted below.. I did the same thing with each of my boys. They just did not seem to adjust to the outside world the first few months. They just where more content next to me.. I got to the point where I used one of those baby pouches.. That worked great.. Could still get my stuff done and keep baby content.. Beautiful layout.. Love the flowers and the border punch accent.. And the clock is too cute..
This is beautiful Lori. I don't know how I missed it. You put so many beautiful little details in it. I had to do that some with my DD. I think she just wanted the attention and to be close to me. She seemed to love to stay on my chest and with her ear over my heart. She started that in the hospital (not sleeping unless she stayed next to my heart). I bought her the teddy bear that had a beating heart and put it in her bed with her while she went to sleep and held him next to me while I fed her so he had my smell. Maybe he needed more time sleeping with your heartbeat too. Their "environment"s change so drastically when they are born it is a wonder that ANY newborn can go right to a bed or cradle as soon as the are born.
Moving page, makes me miss my newborns!!!
This is just a beautiful page
aww so sweet, sorry about the sleep part:( great page!
Your page is tranquillizing in it self. Your colors set the mood for picture. I also like the picture.
Lori: Your journaling is so beautiful and so full of love.
Lori, this is such an AMAZING layout! The details are great (as usual) and I love how the title looks. But the journaling...how sweet! What a beautiful story to tell your son and such a perfect way to do it. It reminded me of all those nights as a new mommy. :-)
Wow, I love your journaling. And that precious photo. I remember those times with my kids. Such warm and fuzzy moments. You details are striking! Love it all!
so sweet. Our ds would only sleep in his swing for about six months! We would take turns sleeping on the couch while he was in the swing. He was almost two before we realized we could have put the swing in our bedroom!!
beautiful LO! I had similar trouble with my newborn and found a similar solution. The journaling is just too true and very sweet.
Wow very touching journaling.. I remember so well when my kids where babies. However it wasn't ever 45mintues.. I had to get up ever 2 hours to breastfeed my son... partially my own pain, said ok little guy your gonna have to eat. lol But that was one thing that I really didn't have a problem with.. I liked the nighttimes.. it was just me and him.. mommy and baby time. I got used to doing it ever 2 hours it became second nature.
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I love the journaling, beautiful lo :)
This is STUNNING!!! I love the journaling. Perfect title. I had the same problem with my son he was a premature and wanted to be in a fetal position to sleep, I would put him in the baby carrier and then put the carrier in the crib by my bed. It would amaze me that that was the only place he would sleep. lol.
This is simply wonderful. I love love the colors and the design. The journaling is beautiful!
Not only is the layout beautiful, but the journaling actually brought a tear to my eye. There is nothing any more precious than a baby at this age, well at all stages, but this was always my favorite. My daughter's youngest son (who is now 9) would never sleep in his crib either, in fact he slept with them for a long long time!!!!!! This is a favorite. Your work is always beautiful!
The story is wonderful, the photo is beautiful, and the lo is magnificent. What a lovely dear page.
Now THIS is what scrappin' is all about! Love the story, love that you have a picture to go with it too! (even if you do have dark circles... poor thing). One day your son will read this journaling and realize how precious he is to you! Beautiful page too!!!!!
love this lo! sooooo sweet!
Just stopped by to read your story again, it warms my heart and takes me back... :) Have a great day Lori !
ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS! I love, love. love the colors and the design.
Gorgeous LO, love it!
Beautiful layout, and the colors are great!
Beautiful layout and precious photo! Love the sweet journaling and it so perfectly documents those early days!
Wow, beautiful and so serene. Love the yellow with blue. I do see the circles under your eyes and I remember the days! Great lo to be cherished forever!!! (featured)
What a gorgeous page and the journaling is just beautiful....... Love the colors and the embellishments...
NOW see what I have been missing!!!! This is just BEAUTIFUL Lori!!! It's PERFECT!!! And the journaling...PRECIOUS!! Wait until those grandkids come along ~ You'll find yourself doing it all over again! xoxoooooo
What a gorgeous layout and a sweet photo! I enjoyed reading the journaling. Love the colors and the design. You did a great job documenting this precious time in your lives.
Hi Lori, this is a wonderful combination of colors, especially for a baby LO! Love all the border punches you've used here and the title is so fitting! I can't believe you did that for 3 months! I love every bit of your journaling! TFS!
So sweet! Both the LO & the pic. The journaling is wonderful!
oh and i did notice the cicles! My younget slept with us until he was almost 5. half of the night anyway then one of us would carry him to bed.
This is just the sweetest LO! I just love it! so sweet and tender!
WOnderful soft color, sweet design, tender photo! I especially like the photo corners and clock. :)
Such a soft gorgeous Lo and the journaling is wonderful!!!
Love the colors on this LO
soft and serene. perfect moment.
Lori, this is a GORGEOUS layout, and I love your journaling. What a sentimental moment in time you've captured!
This is Beautiful! It reminds me of mine when they were little. I love the journaling. A awesome layout.
This is so gorgeous....love the colors and all the swirls, And I love your journaling, I always held my babies to and slept with them in the chair, The photo is precious!!!
this is gorgeous... and so familiar, as I sit holding my stubbornly non-napping 7-week-old! Good to know I'll look back on this time warmly ;)
This is just beautiful! What a great moment to capture, I love the softness of this Layout!
How beautiful is this, stunningly soft page Lori, love the colours you hve chosen and all your cuts and embellies are just gorgeous, love it, fav
OK, what a great LO, luv the papers, everything, O, I remeber times exactly like this, even with the grandies. Memorable.
I thought I was the only one with a kid who did that!!! Was he a preemie? Jordan's Dr. said it was because she was a preemie and was used to being held near constantly by the NICU staff. So I slept with her on my chest for probably 4-5 months after she came home. This is so soft and sweet, and your journaling is wonderful.
Wow, this LO is gorgeous!!
This is just the most adorable and gorgeous and full of love layout, and I love it enormously! The sweetest colours, the mommyish journalling and the darling photo. Its a surefire winner!
Aw, this is sooo sweet!! The photo and journaling is just precious!! I love the softness of this layout! Great design! The stars, flowers, and flourishes- soo pretty! Wonderful work!
This is such a beautiful, tender, sweet page! A perfect Mother's Day layout, and boy does it bring back memories. Ben would only sleep in his swing, which was a wind up that would go for 20 minutes, so I slept on the couch next to him in 20 minute intervals for several months!
Lori this is totally gorgeous. What a sweet LO and a sweet pic also!
Wow - that's great Lori - a treasure your son will love forever!
Tender moments. Sweet journaling. AND I love the pp and beautiful flowers.
A beautiful LO. I love the colors that you chose and what wonderful heartfelt journaling. About those dark circles..you look great. They are just a symbol of your love. I've had quite a few circles myself lately and I wouldn't trade them for anything. I know all to well how quickly those early months pass.
Beautiful!! i love all the wonderful detail, it is awesome!! It is so sweet and delicate!! Perfect for your pic and story!!
What a wonderful story to tell Will! Every part of this is sentimental and such a great testimony to the love a mother has for her baby. I loved reading your journaling! Beautifully crafted page, as always!
Gorgeous page and journaling! The color theme and products are fabulous and you did such a wonderful job with the design. The clock with the flower is really neat.
This is so precious! I love the journaling and the colors in this are gorgeous! My vote for heartwarming!
Beautiful work! I love the colors & the fantastic way you have stars & flowers! I love love love this!! its a fav & inspire!! Beautiful! tfs ;)
wow...Lori ...Love the design of your LO! Great pps and you did a great job with it! Love your journaling as well! Great job! A fave for sure!
Gorgeous lo Lori! So sweet!
So pretty - love the colors and the sweet journaling - great layout!
Beautiful LO!
How sweet! lovely layout!
This is so sweet! Love the soft colors. (I have a son named Will, too!)
Hi Lori, this is a beautiful layout.
This is so beautiful Lori!!! So much pretty detail!! This picture immediately brought back wonderful memories of holding my DD like this when she was born, although not because she wouldn't sleep - just because I never wanted to lay her down!!! Darn DH kept taking her away cuz he thought she might roll off.. (Never would have happened!!) Anyways, thanks for this wonderful reminder!!
Simply beautiful .. love this ...
What a beautiful lo, and a great way to keep this memory forever! I hope he appreciates what you did for him later in life! Linda
such a sweet page and journaling!!! what a precious moment to scrap!!
This is so beautiful and what a precious memory. Even though it was hard while it lasted it´s a moment you will never forget. I once took a pic of my prec twins crying out because I wanted them to understand when they grew up that this was not just laughter and smiles but also a hard work.
Beautiful, what a precious layout, great journaling, you did a fantastic job here!
This is absolutely stunning!
What a sweet photo and page Lori, soft, delicate and beautiful!!!!!!!!
Lori, this is so precious!!! I have pics of me holding each of my children with me stretched out in the recliner!!! I love all the special touches! So incredible soft and sweet....awesome journaling!
How adorable and sweet is this LO my friend and what a sweet memory!!!
Love every single thing about this! So stunning..in my favs!!!
I love the colors in this LO...it's beautiful!
Can I say that you look so absolutely beautiful in this photo? You did a beautiful job with this page!
Boy, can I ever relate to this layout! Love the combination of papers and colours; the blue and yellow are so soft and dreamy together. Love the stars and the blooms with the flourishes. The journaling is precious and the butterfly is GORGEOUS! Great job on that for sure! Into my faves!
Oh Lori, this is such a beautiful lo! I love the beautiful colours, your lovely swirls, your awesome title, the appropriate little clock, those gorgeous little flowers and the little swallow and the stars...everything tells such a beautiful story! Your journaling is heartwarming and it is obvious that you are a very devoted mommy! Love the design and also the beautiful lace border with those little yellow hearts...gorgeous!! Love it all! Fave!
Aww Lori what a precious and priceless LO. LOVE the blues and yellows, just gorgeous. Love the journaling, how heartfelt!
this is such a precious and beautiful layout! oh, only mothers know how hard it is in those early days.....My first one didn't sleep through the night until he was 13 months old.....(my fault - I thought he needed a bottle every time he woke up...so I had him trained to wake up every night at 4 am for a bottle) - anyway...I went back to work 8 weeks after he was born...so I learned to operate on Auto-Pilot for a year...ugh! Read and followed the Baby Whisperer with my second...and she has always been a good sleeper......
Love the blues and yellows! The journaling and picture are so sweet! I need to show this to my dil...she's going through the same thing with baby Tyler. They just don't like being separated from their mamas.
this is beautiful, love the swirls
This is so precious!! Beautiful papers and journaling!
This is gorgeous Lori! I love your blue and yellow colour combination, the way you've copied and coloured the butterfly so beautifully, the clock with a flower in its centre (what a clever idea) and, most of all, that precious photo of you and Will. Into my Favourites! P.S. Nearly forgot to mention those Quickuz Flourishes!
so Beautiful!
Love the journaling.....I used to sleep with my eldest son that way also.....they grow up so fast ;0( Beautiful job as always!
Awesome work!!! Love the journaling and the flourishes you made . This story WARMS MY HEART.....SMILE....Patty


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I have always loved watching talented people work their magic with stone. Gardeners know there is a certain amount of serendipity when it comes to designing with plants while stone plainly mirrors the artist's expertise and precision. A stone construction will fail if not built well, but if assembled with skill, it represents solidity and timelessness.
Throughout the British Isles, as well as in certain parts of Europe, building stone walls without the use of mortar, referred to as dry stone walling, is a skill that has been carried on for many hundreds of years. Stone was cleared from fields to prepare for tilling and walls were built to ensure cattle were kept in place and borders were clearly marked.
But the last few centuries have seen the gradual decay of these ancient walls and the near loss of the expertise required to build and rebuild them. In fact, a 1996 survey of England's 112,000 kilometres of dry stone walls indicated that only four per cent were stock-proof, or able to contain cattle or sheep.
Jo Hodgson is one of few women here in Canada who call dry stone walling their trade. She came to the Ottawa area from England in 2003 at the age of 42 and has been running her business, Stonescapes, ever since. Many of her walls are in Wakefield and Chelsea, Que., and seem to fit into the landscape there just as naturally as they do on the rolling hills of the East Midlands where she grew up.
When Hodgson's father took his young family from the city to a farm in Derbyshire, they became the newest stewards of land that was criss-crossed with ancient and collapsing dry stone walls. Almost immediately the family discovered that their sheep were constantly disappearing, announcing to the county that the novice farmer and his family clearly couldn't keep their animals under control.
But no one in the Hodgson family knew how to rebuild these walls. It was almost too good to be true when the previous landowner, 70-year-old retired coal miner, engineer and farmer Ed Cooke, almost magically showed up and asked if he could repair those that needed it.
This lifelong dry stone waller had already rebuilt many of these enclosures decades before and they still stood majestic and true. Everyone was happy when the children were all sent along to help out. And so began Jo's — as well as her younger sister Sally's and older brother Clive's — love affair with dry stone walling.
Hodgson didn't start her working career building stone walls. A petite woman with cropped hair, a genuine smile and a down-to-earth but no-nonsense manner, she pursued jewelry making and silversmithing in college, continued studying art and design in Buckinghamshire and then finally completed her studies with a masters in education at Manchester University.
But this outdoor work was calling her. As she says, "I love dry stone walling."
The craft of making a wall with quarried stone, without the use of mortar and little besides a chisel, appears to be nothing short of magic. Watching Hodgson work you can see the vision and skilfulness that is required to undertake such projects.
Although she drives a large Chevy truck, is masterful operating a Kubota backhoe and works with huge chunks of granite and limestone as well as mountains of stone dust, the actual placing of the stone is a thoughtful and highly visual process.
She lays all the stone out on the ground next to where the wall will be built. Stones with different functions are separated into groups and she carefully picks the one she needs. Miraculously, none of them are cut to fit into place; at the most, the corner of individual stones might be chinked so they make a perfect fit.
"The strength of a dry stone wall lies in the hands of its builder," says Hodgson. "The location of each stone in the wall determines the strength and integrity of the overall structure."
This work cannot be rushed and it will take her weeks to lovingly complete one project.
Hodgson is becoming well-known around the region for her expertise and has even undertaken projects as far north as Iqaluit and Nunavut. If you're interested in her work, visit her website at drystonewaller.ca.
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