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Thursday, February 12
TEDx Disruption
LaSells Stewart Center, 875 SW 26th St. 6 p.m. $20 ($15 for students)
This mini TED conference is a locally organized offshoot of the public speaking idea incubation behemoth that has become synonymous with next-gen thinking for almost a whole gen already. On the speaking schedule for this exhilarating event are Emily Calandrelli of FOX Xploration Outer Space, David Edelstein from the Grameen Foundation, Hanson Hosein with HRH Media Group, Project Runway winner Michelle Lesniak, and OSU student and first Helen P. Rumble Research Scholar Matthew Kaiser.
Comedy Nite
Bombs Away Café, 2527 NW Monroe Ave. 9 p.m. Free
Former Corvallisite and up-and-coming Oregon comedy act Jeff Oliver hosts a stand-up comedy night at Bombs. The show will feature Joann Schinderle, Paul Jay, and Steven Wilber and promises to be a night of big laughs. If you are a heckler, I recommend getting incredibly drunk first. I find that it feels like you win every time if you're drunk.
Friday, February 13
Funkle Ted
Bombs Away Café, 2527 NW Monroe Ave. 9 p.m. $5
These guys are from Albany, but don't hold that against them… I don't even know if that's a funny joke. Do we even have a rivalry with Albany? You people mystify me. Aaaaanyway… Funkle Ted is a pretty solid alternative prog-pop outfit and they even reminded me a bit at times of Archers of Loaf. I'm not sure if either band would dig the comparison, but I see it. Go see them at Bombs.
The Low Down
Cloud & Kelly's Public House, 126 SW 1st St. 10 p.m. Free
I wish I still had this in me. I just can't show up for live electronic dance music. Doesn't mean it's not totally good and worth your time, just conceding that I'm old and busted. DJs Modesik and Sayhiro will bump downtempo, funk, and house at this free dance party that the me of 10 years ago would be totally down for. This goes down every second, third, and fourth Friday of the month. Obviously, first Fridays are reserved for pagan rituals and a sexy indoor LARP.
Saturday, February 14
Goldfoot and Brothers Bror
Bombs Away Café, 2527 NW Monroe Ave. 9 p.m. $5
Goldfoot is a rump-shaking soul funk electronic rock outfit from Portland. They sort of sound like Chromeo meets Maroon 5, and for once I don't mean that comparison derisively. Brothers Bror have a more soul-infused blues and folk sound which is really polished. This is a definite candidate for best show of the week right here. If I can get the battery replaced in my mobility scooter, I will be there.
Valentine's Day with John Shipe
Calapooia Brewing Company, 140 NE Hill St. 8 p.m. Free
John Shipe looks like the one really obnoxious guy from That Seventies Show. And Valentine's Day, like love, is for suckers. That said, you could do a lot worse than the smooth sounds of this witty and romantic act at a fun bar like Calapooia's. Shipe is a really talented and un-douchey singer-songwriter, which says a great deal about him considering the singer-songwriter scene. If you're gonna do something that's both fun and covers V-Day requirements, this is it. It's just… I hated That Seventies Show, and Valentine's Day is for suckers.
Sunday, February 15
Musical Cameos
Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan, 333 NW 35th St. 2 p.m. Free
This is a cool set of mini concerts from smaller offshoots of the stellar Corvallis Community Band. I love these guys, so this is a no-brainer. Free songs of folk, ragtime, classical, and contemporary by Flute Cocktail (flutes), Sax Trax (saxophones), Spiritoso Wind quintet (winds and piano), Hornocopia (horns), and a clarinet trio. Don't squander a great opportunity to hear some standards and maybe some surprises by a fun group.
Blues Jam!
Calapooia Brewing Company, 140 NE Hill St. 4 to 6 p.m. Free
Something about this musical free-for-all makes me want to go all 80s bar bad guy. Like one of the dudes Patrick Swayze destroyed in Roadhouse. If I were incredibly annoying and talked like a jackass, I'd say something like, "Hit up 'Pooia for some blues jams, brews, and gams!" And then I'd get round-housed in the face. But of course, I'm not incredibly annoying and I don't talk like a jackass… Sorry, I lost my train of thought. Oh yeah, Blues Jam, Calapooia, good times…
Monday, February 16
Traditional West African Dance Classes
Oddfellows Hall, 223 SW 2nd St.7:15 p.m.
To do West African dance right, you're going to want to have a great live band providing pulsing rhythms. Fefafe to the rescue. Now that that's covered, you're going to want to get some rhythm yourself. And don't move your lips when you're counting along with the beat. And don't wear sandals, because honestly, nobody wants to see your feet.
Bryson Skaar
Imagine Coffee, 5460 SW Philomath Blvd. 7:30 p.m. Free
"Are you going to Skaar-bro's fair?" is what I imagine a hackier writer than myself would write while desperately stretching to make some wordplay land. If it were up to me, I'd probably do something more like, "Buy some Skaar live." Yeah I hate myself, too. But don't let that reflect poorly on Corvallis' hardest working jazz pianist. Show him some love in proportion to your hate for me.
Tuesday, February 17
Community Movie Night
Darkside Cinema, 215 SW 4th St.7 p.m. Free
Just in time to be three days late for Valentine's Day, Ygal's got Cyrano De Bergerac (1950), starring Jose Ferrer in his legendary Oscar-winning role as the greatest adventurer/lover/witticist of them all. This movie is free and a great way for people who had to work on Saturday to make up for it with a late romantic Valentine's date. And then, instead of spending like $100 on a stuffed bear that plays Jesse McCartney songs when you squeeze it, you can just put a fraction of that in the donation box and tell your date it's for them. You just want to give back to the arts community… 'cause you've got such a big heart.
Space Neighbors
Sky High Brewing, 160 NW Jackson Ave. 8 p.m. Free
Celebrate Fat Tuesday in relative style with Corvallis stalwarts Space Neighbors live at Sky High. These guys are terrific, and they will be featuring special guests Melanie Reid on the mic and Brian Meyers on sax. There's surely going to be beads at this show, so I'll probably go; I feel safe around plastic necklaces because my adoptive mother won me in a Mardi Gras raffle. I mean, I like beer. Moving on…
Wednesday, February 18
Wednesday Acoustic Live!
Les Caves, 308 SW 3rd St. 8 p.m. Free
Les Caves really knows how to pair a beer or wine with a delicious plate of food. Which is good, because I have no idea, and I always end up with something good when I go there. Wednesdaynights they're good enough to pair it with some fine live music. No way to go wrong here.
Nate Wagner
Bombs Away Café, 2527 NW Monroe Ave. 7:30 p.m. Free
I'm not going to sit here and lecture you about coming out to see local music and how important it is to the local art scene and how we owe it to each other to show up for these shows. I'm just going to say, Nate Wagner is a person, and I can find no trace of him or his music on the Internet, which is weird. So here's my theory: Nate will be awesome, and is well worth free admission, but don't make too big a deal about it because he's in a witness protection program and we don't want to get him killed.
Thursday, February 19
Curtis Monette and Twisted Snout Brewery Tasting
Bombs Away Café, 2527 NW Monroe Ave. 6 p.m. Free
"Curtis Monette got more loops than a toucan!" is what I heard a sassy teen fan of his saying one time… in my head. But seriously, Monette is a big deal in the local scene for a reason. His live show with a liberal dollop of looping and jamming is great, and Twisted Snout brews a mean…brew. Crap. That sassy teen is the best writer here…
Rough Jazz
Calapooia Brewing Company, 140 NE Hill St. 7 p.m. Free
If you're anything like me, you like your jazz like you like your cats' tongues. Rough. I want my jazz to get so rough we need to agree on a safe word. So I think you'll know what I mean when I say Rough Jazz at Calapooia will sate your thirst for the hard stuff. Okay, that was all a false buildup. These guys are pretty smooth. And great.


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Later that night, when E was getting ready for bed, I complimented him on his hard work.
Me : Won't Dad be surprised by the amount of work you got done, emptying the
compost bins is quite a big job, but you were a really big help.
E: Surprised? He won't be surprised, he'll be stoundified!
Me: (confused look) Stoundified?
E: Yes, stoundified.
Me: Excellent word, is that a cross between astounded and stupified?
E: Oh, astounded, that is what I meant.
Me : I like stoundified better. I'm going to write it down. :-)
When I told S later he decided that he liked stoundified better too. I can see that becoming our new family word. How cool it would be to be stoundified on a regular basis.
And looky here! You know it is a good day when you get to get your knees dirty.

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David Shea's The Book of Scenes can probably best be thought of as an imaginary soundtrack to an imaginary film. The Australian (by way of New York) native's 2005 Sub Rosa release is a series of 29 short vignettes, composed primarily for piano and viola, that range between just shy of one minute and three minutes in length. The pieces, with titles like "Sunrise," "Dangerous Ground," "Chase," "Spaces," etc., correspond to specific discrete "scenes." Each individual composition was allegedly scored on a single page, with the resulting pieces having been arranged in such a way that they form a single, coherent story. The tracks are based on treated and partially improvised live performances by Vincent Royer on Cello and Jean-Phillipe Collard-Neven on piano, which were subsequently manipulated electronically by Shea. While the concept of composing a score for an imaginary film or novel has been previously executed on numerous occasions, the corners in this film are just a shade darker, and the rooms just a little more claustrophobic than the usual end result.
As is the nature of this type of recording, Shea's pieces are geared heavily toward the generation of tension and atmosphere. Oftentimes dissonant and unsettling to the ear, Shea's compositions frequently consist of the sort of artificial harmonics and prepared piano that featured prominently in the avant-garde classical compositions that came out of postwar Eastern Europe, particularly in the '50s and early '60s. Brooding and pensive, The Book of Scenes conveys a sense of grim, Cold War-era paranoia, which is periodically broken up by lighter moments featuring Royer's and Collard-Neven's playful free improvisation. "Chase" is a tongue-in-cheek, piano-driven jazz piece that could have been copped from any number of kitschy noir films from the golden age of the silver screen, but mind you, these tracks are much more "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" than they are "Kiss Me Deadly."
Shea demonstrates an ear for meticulous arrangement on The Book of Scenes. While the recording could just as easily have wound up sounding fragmented and far from cohesive, this particular endeavor is assembled in an extraordinarily even-keeled manner. Considering the vast number of tracks to be found here, coupled with the relative homogeneity of the source material, Shea keeps things interesting by spacing the tracks with such sagacity that the listener hasn't the slightest idea what "scene" is coming next.
While Shea's mixing is reasonably subtle, for the most part allowing the instruments to speak for themselves, the record is occasionally marred by the overuse of the sampler. Thunder claps, bird sounds, creaking doors, etc. have the intermittent effect of breaking up the continuity of The Book of Scenes. Despite the occasional transgression, however, The Book of Scenes is an effective mood piece and often beautiful album that demonstrates just how well classical composition and electronic experimentation can be used in conjunction with one another.
1. Air
2. Vertical Shapes
3. OM Chapelle
4. Prepared
5. Cadenza Piano
6. Cadenza Violin
7. Radio Weekend
8. Wood
9. Metal
10. Water/Fire
11. Time
12. Crossings
13. Walkabout
14. Machines
16. Spaces
17. Air Jungle
18. Exotique
19. Alternation
20. Memory Lane
21. Sunrise
22. Drumming
23. Spaces
24. Hearbeat
25. Bows
26. Dangerous Ground
27. Chase
28. Harmony
29. Elegy
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Schedule of 23rd day of Ramadan
The 23rd day of holly Ramadan вЂ" 27 October вЂ" will start with a morning pray (namaz) and breakfast (imsag) at 06.54am, while the evening pray (namaz) and supper (iftar) is at 19.03pm, the Caucasus Moslems Board (CMB) told Trend.
In accordance with the schedule provided by the CMB the 22th day of Ramadan вЂ" 26 October was to end with the evening pray (namaz) and supper (iftar) to be at 19.04pm. According to calculations by the Shamakhi Observatory, the time in regions can be later 5-14 minutes as compared to Baku time.
Tonight from 26 to 27 October, on the 22nd day of Ramadan, is the first "leylat Р°Р"СЊ-kadr" (вЂ�the night of might' or вЂ�night of predestination'), when Allah resolves the destiny of people. On these nights the Mosques are crowded with people who participate in the theological lectures and gatherings conducted by ulemas (Muslim theologians). It is supposed that Allah can forgive the sin of a man that night, if he prays and helps the needy people, donates for charity purposes. Allah also releases the hearts of the dead from the hell. The next night of вЂ�leylat al-kard' dates to 30 October. As of the legend, in one of these knights Allah gifted Koran to the world.


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When is a restaurant not a restaurant? When it's situated in a rented hallway out in the woods? When it's usually a bakery? When Tom Waits and his family are there?
How about: yes. (The Waits family don't make a restaurant not a restaurant, they just make whatever it is—be it watching a local parade or making a quick trip to the hardware store—instantly cooler through mere presence.)
Pop-up restaurants, those insta-dining events that require a chef and a wash basin and financial transactions but don't need to be open on a dreary Tuesday if they don't want to, are all the rage for many obvious reasons—dreary Tuesdays chief among them. With no long-term lease, no full-time staff, no monthly electrical bills, with in fact none of the trappings of a static business, pop-up restos dramatically insist that tonight is the only night patrons can get a seat. Ya better hurry.
Up in Healdsburg, Yucatán chef Mateo Granados—a kitchen god whose résumé boasts stints at Masas, Rubicon, Manka's and Dry Creek Kitchen, among others—hosts regular "Missing Link" dinners at the Costeaux Bakery. Sometimes guests just get what Granados is cooking; other times, they have a selection and a menu and everything. Always, they get a great meal at a remarkably affordable price. "Insiders" become such by signing up for monthly alerts: firstname.lastname@example.com; put "Missing Link" in the subject head.
More swathed in mystery is the monthly soiree that organizers begged us not to name put on way out in the middle of Western Sonoma County Nowhere. Generally held the first Monday of the month, this supper club has a different famous area chef come in to cook at a rented hall. There's live music, outdoor seating overlooking a creek and 10 mere dollars gets you whatever the famous area chef is cooking. Recently, former Cafe St. Rose owner Mark Malicki spent an industrious day roasting a pig for the occasion. The supper club is strictly BYOB, and kids are even welcome. Look for utensils-and-tree flyers for news of the next one.


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James DeFrantz
Principal -VirtualCompliance Management Services LLC, Banking
Hi, I'm James DeFrantz. Welcome to my profile!
James DeFrantz's Bio:
James Defrantz, CRCM, CAMS, J.D. Principal-Virtual Compliance Management Services LLC, has 30 years of experience in financial service regulatory compliance. He is a specialist in compliance in consumer and real estate lending; BSA; CRA; Fair Lending; Consumer Operations; Non-Deposit Investment Products; Note Department Operations; Assessment of ALL and Credit Approval Process. He has served as a Senior Compliance Examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco; as an Analytical Manager at the Office of Thrift Supervision; and as a Commissioned National Bank Examiner at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). He has a Certificate from the Pacific Coast Banking School of Bank Management, a Juris Doctor from the University of San Francisco with a concentration in banking and finance, and a BA from Dartmouth College. He is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Management and Certified Anti- Money Laundering Specialist.
James DeFrantz's Experience:
Principal at Virtual Compliance Management Services LLCNovember 2009 - Present | Hayward, California
James DeFrantz's Education:
Pacific Coast Banking School1989 – 1991CertificateConcentration: Bank management
Dartmouth College
Shortridge High School
James DeFrantz's Interests & Activities:
Consumer Compliance Regulations, Community Banking, Fair Lending, Community Reinvestment Act


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10 Bizarre Gifts Given To The Royal Family
It's a well-established tradition for heads of state to give gifts to their opposite numbers when they visit, with the presents usually being something unique and significant from the giver's culture. However, when people visit the United Kingdom they have a problem in that they have to get something distinctive for the Queen, who has been visited by thousands of different presidents, prime ministers and royals throughout her reign, making it difficult to choose a gift that she won't have had before. This has led to some bizarre and astonishing items that have been given to her and her family as gifts.
Dog Soap
Knowing that the Queen is a big lover of dogs and owns several of the animals herself, the Australian government decided that the idea gift for the Queen would be a bar of dog soap. She was given a bar of Tilley's Timid Joe Dog Soap while in Victoria.
Fiji officials almost always present the Queen with a ceremonial tabua whenever she visits the country, which is part of the Commonwealth. It is a hugely important item in Fijian culture and is made out of whale tooth, carved into shape and plays a major part in many of the island's traditions.


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See more from the Simmons Castille collection.
Beautifully designed and superbly crafted, the Castille Crib 'N' More from Simmons Kids® will add long-lasting old world charm to your baby's nursery. Constructed from strong and sturdy wood, it features round feet, inset panels at the base and headboard, as well as a special multi-step finish that includes sanding, staining and glazing by hand. JPMA certified for peace of mind, this multi-positional crib is also designed to grow with your child, and easily converts into a toddler bed, daybed and full size bed with headboard and footboard.
- Converts from crib, to toddler bed, to daybed, to a full size bed with headboard & footboard
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I have been told several times now on the phone by customer service that my router (Comcast-Netgear CG3000DCR) is "already in a bridge mode, kind of...". Well can I do it or not? I can't get a straight answer. Can anyone advise? Comcast_John are you available to save the day?
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If you want to use 'true bridge mode', please note the following characteristics of devices in bridge mode:
I can make the change per our request, the approximate down time is five minutes.
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Did you know we here at Spark Logix Studios, in addition to being amazing web designers, are also psychics, mentalists, and prognosticators of the highest order? Through the use of magical healing crystals, animal bones, Tarot cards, chiromancy, ouija boards, and phrenology, we can see into the near future, and predict what the internet will look like one year from today.
Also, we have some magic beans we'd like to sell you. Call now to find out more.
#1 – Grid Layouts
We can all thank Pinterest for this. Grid layouts look great, and more importantly, it's very, very easy to use. Everything can be quickly understood, and is skimmable, but is still coherent and easy to follow. Plus, it doesn't require nearly as much space on the page. Hopefully, more news sites and aggregators will be using this layout in the future. As opposed to the current messy, non-sensical layouts that seem to be all the rage on the most popular news sites (CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, we're looking at you).
#2 – Parallax
For those who aren't familiar with it, Parallax scrolling is a technique used to add depth to your website, by using various layers, and having them scroll at different speeds. This creates the illusion of movement, and 3D depth to a website. It's also the name of a major villain from the Green Lantern comics which was used as a disappointing cop-out/retcon in the Hal Jordan goes insane storyline, but that's neither here nor there.
Sure, some people might call it a gimmick (dumb people maybe) but Parallax design really opens up a lot of flexibility and neat options to incorporate into your designs. It allows us to use the visual hierarchy, and snag users attention in unique ways that we don't think has been fully explored and used. Plus, non-design folks see it, and love it. "Hey man, I saw this one web internet, and it had like, two layers. Can you do that? Cause it was awesome!"
#3 – Single Use Pages
We're not sure exactly when this became a trend, probably around the boom of the landing page movement, but we predict it will be even more popular moving forward. For content heavy websites, publishers and news sites, this creates a unique way for to set a specific article or piece of the content apart from the rest of the site. Now you know…and knowing is half the …something…something.
#4 – Blur. So Very Much Blur…
A relatively new trend that seems to be growing, is seeing different layers on a website blur out to bring focus on the necessary content. This is particularly true with mobile apps, but I suspect we'll see more and more blurred modals and forms and interactions on web designs. Especially with the flexibility of CSS3, and the ability to make these sorts of transitions and effects less resource intensive. Plus, it looks neat.
#5 – Giant Navigation
A growing trend we've spotted towards the end of 2013, is the increased use of giant navigation menus, which have lots of content, images, text, and information in them. This is especially common, and useful, for sites that produce a lot of content. Online magazines and forums are a good example of people who would benefit from this type of navigation. It certainly beats using breadcrumbs to help with navigation. Because those are kind of ugly.
#6 – Unique Font Choices
Thanks to the revolutionary new features in web development, the @font-face declaration, you can now import externally hosted font files, and using CSS can write them into the font-family properties to style your web site fonts. This opens up new worlds of font usage, and will allow sites to utilize different typography than we've previously seen. Oh, and this also includes different font-based icons. So there's that.
#7 – Minimal Text
Remember when every website used to look like a neon green version of Wikipedia? Well, that's certainly no longer the case. We predict the minimalist approach to text, and image heavy presentation will continue through the year, reaching it's natural conclusion when all websites are just a single two color picture of the product or service being sold or advertised.
I mean, who wants to make users work by actually reading? No one, that's who.
#8 – Laser Focused Landing Pages
With the rise of PPC and Google AdWords, now one of the most viable marketing and lead generation tools available (if you know what you're doing), the effectiveness of a good landing page cannot be overstated. But beyond the uses for PPC Campaigns, a simple, focused, easy to follow home page will become all the rage. Are you noticing a pattern here? Simple, easy to use, direct. THIS IS THE FUTURE!
#9 – Flat Design User Interface
2013 saw the rise of Flat Design. Sure, it wasn't invented in 2013, but it really took off, and we predict it will continue through 2014. Thanks to Windows 8 and iOS7, flat design is here to stay. Hand in hand will be metro-style layouts, but the flat trend is here to stay.
#10 – Unique Image Galleries
With image galleries become more and more central to web design, and with the growing integration of Javascript and CSS, we think we'll see even more unique and interesting image gallery options. Dynamic carousels and image lightboxes are definitely in our future. Checkout this neat example to get an idea of what we're talking about.


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Over 200 guests turned out to support the 33rd annual Women of Achievement (WA) awards ceremony which took place March 26 at the University of Memphis Holiday Inn. The program opened with a greeting from Deborah M. Clubb, executive director of the Memphis Area Women's Council. Clubb is also a WA co-founder and recipient of Woman of Achievement for Vision award in 1997. Hosts for this year's ceremony were Emily Ballew Neff, director, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and Adriane Johnson Williams, program officer, Pyramid Peak Foundation."
"Women of Achievement Inc. was founded in 1984 by a group of women dedicated to honoring the extraordinary women who have made Memphis and Shelby County better through their lives and accomplishments," said Deborah Clubb. "This coalition of diverse civic and professional groups and support agencies organizes events to recognize and celebrate these women."
"Since our founding, we have honored and preserved the stories of 241 individual women plus the Yellow Fever Martyrs and the Shelby County suffragists," continued Clubb. "Years later, Women of Achievement continues to be the only award given to women by women representing the whole community," added Clubb. "This awards program is a way to honor HERstory. Women of Achievement organization members and individual members reflect a diverse spectrum of Memphis women in races, religions, ages and interests. The list of award recipients each year reflects that same diversity."
Clubb explained that seven awards, based on the quality of character that underlies achievement, highlight contributions of women who improve the Memphis and Mid-South community and the advancement of women are given each year. She said that the awards are given without requirements of education or income and are not limited to professional categories.
As each honoree was recognized, she was presented with a hand-made pottery plate by Katie Dann. WA began in 1985 with plates created by potter Mimi Dann and they continue that tradition with her daughter Katie.
Co-chairs for the 2017 selections were Carolyn Head and Summer Owens. Other WA members are Peggy Caffrey, Judy Card, Deborah Clubb, Kay Due, Erma Elzy, Africa Gonzalez-McCloy, Margot McNeeley, Perre Magness, Lily Mastron, Audrey May, Pat Morgan, Gail Murray, Linda Pelts, Pam Routh, Patti Smith, Jane Sorin, Catherine Clubb-Brown Turner, Regina Walker and Nancy Williams.
The 2017 Women of Achievement honorees were:
HERITAGE - Mary Magdalene Solari (1849-1929)
This award is given, posthumously, to a woman of generations past whose achievements still enrich our lives.
About a year after her birth near Genoa, Italy, Mary Magdalene Solari's parents moved to Memphis where her interest in art eventually flourished. She became a barrier-breaking and award-winning painter as a well as an advocate for community reform and a philanthropist. In 1928, a year before she died, Mary donated her home, art collection and land, valued around $150,000, to Christian Brothers College. To this day, the school houses her art collection, and the sale of her home and land provided funds to purchase the land upon which Christian Brothers University sits today on East Parkway at Central Avenue in Midtown.
STEADFASTNESS - Joyce Springfield-Collins
This award recognizes a woman with a lifetime of achievement.
Organizations that have benefitted from Joyce Springfield-Collins' leadership and support include YWCA of Greater Memphis, Mothers of the Nile, Rotary Club, Girls Inc., Goodwill Homes Senior Center, Habitat for Humanity and the Coalition of 100 Black Women. Her decades of engagement continue.
VISION - Karen Moore and Ruby O'Gray
This award is given to a woman whose sensitivity to women's needs led her to tremendous achievements for women.
Karen Moore and Ruby O'Gray, co-founders of Women's Theatre Festival Memphis, believe women in theater arts deserve wider exposure and an audience for their work. Moore, a director and event planner, and O'Gray, a playwright, combined their skills and love of art to bring their dream alive.
The semi-annual multi-venue event showcases performances about women, directed by women and written by women.The festival is comprised of theatrical, operatic, dance, symphonic performances, stage readings and workshops.
DETERMINATION - Ines Negrette
This award honors a woman who solved a glaring problem despite widespread inertia, apathy or ignorance around her.
When her position as an advocate for Latina survivors of domestic violence ended in one agency, Ines Negrette rallied her spirits, support and funding to open Casa Luz, a new non-profit dedicated to those survivors and providing court advocacy and other services. Inez, an attorney, immigrated from Venezuela in 1999 and settled in Memphis in 2000.
INITIATIVE - Kamekio Lewis
This award recognizes a woman who seized the opportunity to use her talents and created her own future.
Drawing on her own experience as a survivor of domestic violence, Kamekio Lewis has written a book and a play aimed at raising awareness. Her Share a New Life organization seeks to help survivors of intimate partner violence transition to safety and a fresh start with housing, clothes and jobs.
COURAGE - Rev. Lisa Anderson
This award honors a woman who, facing active opposition, backed an unpopular cause in which she deeply believed.
Memphis' homeless have a champion in Rev. Lisa Anderson who persevered in organizing Room in the Inn among local churches despite opposition from city officials and within some churches. Homeless persons are welcomed with hospitality, food and lodging in participating churches November through March.
HEROISM - Rebecca Terrell
This award is given to a woman whose heroic spirit was tested and shown as a model to all in Shelby County and beyond.
Providing complete reproductive health care for women is Rebecca Terrell's passion. Despite ongoing intense and violent opposition to abortion providers, Rebecca perseveres, presently striving to create at CHOICES the first non-profit clinic to offer both a birthing center and abortion services.
"For our 2017 awards, we celebrated women in a year when we've seen renewed momentum around women's rights and women being interested in speaking out," concluded Clubb. "Women of Achievement began in 1985, two years before Congress designated the month of March for women's history. Once again we saluted and honored women from right here in Memphis and the Mid-South who are making history."
Clubb issues a final rallying cry, saying, "We must work together to make our nation better, more fair, more just. Remember, if we want anything in our community — to be different than it is today — then it is up to us to change it."
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Group Photo(top): The 2017 Women of Achievement honorees were (front row, from left) Joyce Springfield-Collins, Rev. Lisa Anderson, Ruby O'Gray; (back row, from left) Ines Negrette, Karen Moore, Rebecca Terrell and Kamekio Lewis.
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El Paso County is no stranger to close elections. In 2014, incumbent Congressman Doug Lamborn won re-election with less than 3 percent of the vote; 1,649 ballots to be exact. Just 350 votes separated incumbent State Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt from his opponent, Dave Williams. With such close contests in a county where the party primaries often decide who will win in November, the stakes are high - as government at all levels makes major decisions regarding our taxes, health care, education, and more.
Yet, in the 2014 primary election, just 23 percent of registered El Paso County voters turned out to vote, and far fewer filled out their whole ballot. The same is true for counties across America. Without easy access to trusted information about the candidates on their ballot, voters either abstain from races in which they are unfamiliar or stay at home altogether. The result is a government for all the people, selected by very few of the people - and, of course, the non-stop political ads, party labels, and campaign machines that try to sway their votes.
Our elections process is broken and outdated. In an age when we can hail a cab or rent a hotel on-the-go, decide what to eat or where to travel based on the input of friends and strangers alike, and have all of the world's maps, weather, and information within fingertip reach, there's got to be a better way to prepare to vote. Now, there is: changepolitics.org.
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Take, for example, the highly competitive US Senate race in Colorado this year. The Republican primary will determine who faces off against incumbent Senator Michael Bennet, which may very well determine which political party maintains or gains control of the United State Senate. Five candidates are on the ballot, but how many of them do you know?
On Change Politics, you can browse text and video endorsements for each of these candidates - perhaps from people you already know and trust. You won't get the typical campaign spin from professional political consultants. Instead, you'll get the unique and informed perspectives of your neighbors. There's the small business owner who overcame homelessness and addiction to start at new life at the age of 40, and the teacher who chased her own version of the American Dream as an undocumented student who put herself through college. They offer perspectives you won't hear elsewhere.
Better yet, you can log on to change politics.org and endorse the candidates who you are supporting, and share your endorsements with your friends on Facebook and Twitter. This way, you can impact the election even before you cast your vote.
This past Memorial Day, we honored our fellow Americans who made enormous sacrifices for our freedoms, including our right to vote. On Election Day, June 28, we now have a new way of exercising that right by ensuring the people we support at the ballot box truly reflect our views and values.
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New study shows ships bringing invasive species into Mediteranean
A new Tel Aviv University study finds that ships play an unknowing but dominant role in introducing and dispersing these tough-shelled non-indigenous organisms into new environments. The research showed that these marine invertebrates hitch a ride on half of all the marine vessels passing through Israel's Mediterranean coast.
The research was conducted by Mey-Tal Gewing, of TAU's School of Zoology and led by Dr. Noa Shenkar, also of TAU's Department of Zoology and of The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History and Israel National Center for Biodiversity Studies. It was published in Marine Pollution Bulletin.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-marine-vessels-unsuspecting-hosts-invasive.html#jCp
According to the research published by Tel Aviv University's School of Zoology, half the ships passing along the Mediterranean coast of Israel are carrying invasive ascidians, presenting a global threat to ecosystems around the world.
TAU's Dr. Noa Shenkar, who led the research, said: "These organisms are passing through the Suez Canal, latching onto ropes and the bottom of the ship".
"These organisms are well known in the US and Canada," Dr. Shenkar said. "In Israel, they are passing through the Suez Canal, latching onto ropes and the bottom of the ship. They're filter feeders, so they cover and clog every surface they latch onto, creating a lot of drag for the ship and damaging marine biodiversity in their new environments. They're a major threat to our coasts and are very costly to ship owners."
Among the wide occurrence of non-indigenous ascidians (NIA), TAU researchers also discovered a Caribbean species new to the region. The findings, state the authors of the report, "strongly support the hypothesis that marine vessels constitute a substantial vector for the introduction and dispersal of NIAs".


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Just yesterday, January 23, Creamsilk, the Philippines' No. 1 hair care brand, launched its newest campaign: Creamsilk Transformations: Spotlight on the #ModernFilipina. Known for helping women go beyond beautiful, this year, Cream Silk champions Modern Filipinas, who strive to become the best versions of themselves in their journeys of transformation.
Held at the World Trade Center Tent, Cream Silk collaborated with the country's top magazines - Cosmopolitan, Meg, MEGA, Metro, Preview, and YES! - to empower us and equip us with everything we need as we kick off our own transformations.
At the Creamslik lounge, we completed the experience through hair transformations. To demonstrate that only Cream Silk can transform any hair problem to beyond beautiful hair, experts assessed our hair needs, as well as recommended the best styles that suit our face. My hair stylist decided to transform my dull, boring waves into beautiful face-framing curls that highlight my assets.
In celebrating the year of the Modern Filipina, each top glossy magazine hosted workshops and talks inviting some of the Philippines top industry experts in the fields of fashion, entertainment, and beauty. Each activity featured different kinds of transformation, from beauty and fashion makeovers to unleashing one's inner potential. Through these, we were empowered and equipped with everything we need to transform into Modern Filipinas.
As a fitting and grand finale, the audience was treated to the first ever live cover shoot experience to unveil the new roster of Cream Silk Modern Filipinas. Cream Silk and the top magazines styled and photographed the newest endorsers on stage, in front of event attendees. Joining Heart Evangelista on the covers of the publications' March issues are the country's leading ladies, Nadine Lustre, Coleen Garcia, Julie Anne San Jose, Rachelle Ann Go, and Yassi Pressman, who have all embraced on their own journeys of transformations. Aside from that, Cream Silk also welcomed home Pia Wurtzbach, on her first Philippine appearance as Ms. Universe! Pia epitomises the most inspiring transformation of the Modern Filipina yet, set to conquer the universe. You might be wondering now why I don't have photos with these stunning celebrities. Well, too bad I was not able to witness the live cover shoot as I left the event early, because I had to attend a wedding reception with my family. Nevertheless, I had fun catching up with some of my blogger friends during the event! <3
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DeAWM: Dax will gain record levels in 2015 but markets remain volatile
Asoka Wöhrmann, CIO at Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (DeAWM), considers the prospects for the next 12 months. The appendix includes an at-a-glance view of our 2015 outlook, which you are welcome to use.
Foreign exchange, bonds and central bank policy
"2014 has been the year of the Greenback and dollar strength will continue in 2015. With the US at the vanguard of the international economic cycle, the Dollar will maintain its momentum. Longer term, it is heading for parity with the Euro."
"We expect returns from sovereign bonds issued by countries with a high credit rating to increase modestly. Identifying relative value will be key. Bond investors will have opportunities to exploit regional risk premiums and currency trends. In fact, in the coming year foreign exchange will be an important component of overall returns."
"The major international currencies are developing in quite different directions. Next year this divergence will continue to grow. Central banks are taking different approaches to economic trends in their respective markets. In the US and UK, monetary policy is likely to be reined in, while the Eurozone and Japan are more likely to continue ultra-relaxed and unconventional monetary policy. We expect the European Central Bank to provide stimulus in Europe through bond purchases. Quantitative easing has been the driver of rising equity prices, while also stimulating real estate and bond prices. This will remain the case in 2015."
Global economy
"In 2015 the US will be the front-runner in the global economic cycle. The positive we see in Europe is that growth rates in peripheral countries is increasing. This indicates that structural reforms in the periphery are working. But in economic terms, the continent is not yet out of the woods."
Interest rates
"2014 was dominated by low interest rates worldwide. This affected every area of financial investment. Real interest rates are negative for near-money market investments, eroding capital. This makes wealth creation and selecting the correct investment strategy even more difficult. Discussions about negative interest rates on savings accounts have highlighted the issue to investors."
"Equities were an extremely important asset class in 2014; this will apply equally to 2015. Over the last decades Investors in the Dax gained on average seven per cent each year – though with considerable volatility. We expect returns of a similar size in 2015, which equates to a fairly typical year for equities. Stocks continue to offer return potential despite the increasing challenges."
"Taking a 12-month view, we expect Germany's leading index will reach 10400 points – though the overall upward trend will again be characterized by substantial volatility. A level of 11000 points and above is feasible. Bear in mind that, while in the US record corporate profits have been met with high after high on the stock exchanges, so far the DAX has made only tentative moves towards its previous highest level."


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Raw Dog Screaming Press Rapid-Fire Read & Sweet Sixteen Celebration
PulpFest is proud that over 30 popular fiction writers will be attending our 2019 convention. "Back in the day," the authors who labored for the rough paper industry liked to call themselves scribes, word-slingers, penny-a-worders, and, perhaps the most favored term of all, fictioneers. Join PulpFest as we celebrate today's fictioneers — the authors writing today's pulp fiction!
On Friday, August 16, at 11 AM, join five writers from Raw Dog Screaming Press for a Rapid-Fire Read and Sweet Sixteen Celebration. It will be hosted by publisher Jennifer Barnes. Raw Dog Screaming Press has carved a niche for themselves as the specialty house for offbeat, dark, deviant, thought-provoking fiction. They were the recipient of the 2018 Horror Writers Association Specialty Press Award for outstanding horror, dark fantasy, and weird fiction. Their critically acclaimed publications are attracting mainstream attention with Ridley Scott recently optioning one of their titles as a major motion picture for Twentieth Century Fox.
Readings on Friday morning will be given by author/poet Michael A. Arnzen (four-time winner of The Bram Stoker Award); fantasy and science fiction author Carrie Gessner; author and founding editor of Raw Dog Screaming Press John Edward Lawson; novelist and journalist Jason Jack Miller; and Bram Stoker Award-winning poet and novelist Stephanie Wytovich.
Coffee, tea, and sweets — celebrating sixteen years of high quality fiction — will also be available, compliments of the publisher.
Help Raw Dog Screaming Press, the publisher who seeks to "publish the unpublishable," celebrate their Sweet Sixteen in style by meeting the authors of fiction that "foams at the mouth" Friday morning, August 16, at PulpFest and see if their Rapid-Fire Read doesn't set you aflame and leave you foaming at the mouth for more.
PulpFest 2019 will begin on Thursday, August 15, and run through Sunday, August 18. Join PulpFest at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, just north of Pennsylvania's "Steel City" of Pittsburgh. We'll be celebrating "Children of the Pulps and Other Stories" at this year's gathering. Click our Programming button below our homepage banner to get a preview of all the great presentations at this year's event.
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Luke 21:5-19
When some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and gifts dedicated to God, he said, "As for these things that you see, the days will come when not one stone will be left upon another; all will be thrown down."
They asked him, "Teacher, when will this be, and what will be the sign that this is about to take place?" And he said, "Beware that you are not led astray; for many will come in my name and say, 'I am he!' and, 'The time is near!' Do not go after them.
"When you hear of wars and insurrections, do not be terrified; for these things must take place first, but the end will not follow immediately."
Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and plagues; and there will be dreadful portents and great signs from heaven. But before all this occurs, they will arrest you and persecute you; they will hand you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors because of my name. This will give you an opportunity to testify.
So make up your minds not to prepare your defense in advance; for I will give you words and a wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to withstand or contradict.
You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, by relatives and friends; and they will put some of you to death. You will be hated by all because of my name. But not a hair of your head will perish. By your endurance you will gain your souls.
The Forever Kingdom
This is one of the gospel readings that appears in all three of the synoptic Gospels: that is, Matthew, Mark and Luke, and is virtually identical in each of the Gospels. It is interesting to note that less than half of the content of these three Gospels are found in all three, and some of the passages which cover the same material have some striking differences. So passages like this one were at the very core of the tradition of the new Christian church in its very early years. Not only had all three Gospel writers heard this story, but they had heard it told in the same way and likely had a nearly identical written source from which they copied the story.
So, we are forced to ask what it was about this story that made it so important to the early church. What we find out is there is much more to this story than meets the eye at first hearing.
The tale is set in the context of the different parts of the Jewish hierarchy looking for ways to discredit Jesus and his teachings. The particular folks who were questioning Jesus were Sadducees, and one of the essential differences between Pharisees and Sadducees was their attitude toward the idea of resurrection. The Pharisees spoke of a physical resurrection into a new Godly Kingdom, whereas the Sadducees did not believe in a resurrection.
Their question was designed as a trick question. The answer Jesus gives does not set well with either group, nor does it sit well with many of today's Christians.
The members of the Sadducees bring up a hypothetical question which was not absolutely impossible, but not terribly likely. It's a legal question. The law says if a man dies without leaving his wife a child, his brother must marry her in order to create a child to carry on the family name. Remember only the first born male can carry out this family lineage. Essentially the brother is to act as a surrogate father for the first-born son. A son born to the second brother would be considered by law to be the son of the first brother for purpose of inheritance. Got that?
But in this case, the second brother also dies without leaving a child, and the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh brothers. OK, that's not very likely, but I suppose it's possible. Perhaps all the brothers are chain smokers with heart conditions.
In any case, the question put to Jesus is, which one of these would be married to the woman in the resurrection.
Remember, they are asking Jesus about a resurrection they don't believe in. It's a "gotcha" question.
Perhaps they expected Jesus to come up with a legalistic answer. Like, perhaps that the first husband would be the spouse of the woman in the resurrection. Since he had married her first.
And here's an important thing to consider. If Jesus believed, as the Pharisees did, in a physical resurrection, would he not have NEEDED to come up with some sort of answer? If all of the brothers were resurrected, and the woman was resurrected, wouldn't they need to know who was married to whom?
But that's not how Jesus responded. He says, "Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage; but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. Indeed they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection."
The resurrection he speaks of is clearly spiritual. "They are like the angels and are children of God."
Many Christians are terribly concerned about what happens when we die. What will our relationships be like? Will we meet Jesus in the flesh? Will our dogs and cats be in heaven. Will we be rejoined with the ones we love?
Those are all interesting questions, but they all ignore the fact that the resurrection Jesus speaks of is a Spiritual one. I don't think it's wrong to want to believe we will be rejoined with all those we love, because we will be. What Jesus seems to be saying is that worrying about the physical and legal aspects of the resurrection simply make no sense to him. We will be spiritual beings with no physical boundaries immersed in the loving presence of God. The love we know from our existence in this world is only a small inkling of the love that will surround us.
Jesus makes another dramatic claim which must have shocked his listeners. Did they not realize, he asks, that Abraham and Isaac and Moses are already proof of the resurrection?
Listen to what he tells them. "And the fact that the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive."
What does that mean? If Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are alive, where are they? Why can't I see them? If our God is the God of the living and not of the dead, why is there still death?
Jesus says it is simply an established fact that, to God, all of the Saints of the Church are just as alive today in Spirit as if they were still with us in body.
The same goes for the Living Christ. For all those still waiting for Jesus to come to earth on a cloud; good luck with that. What is it you are waiting for? Do you not believe Jesus Christ is the resurrection and the Life? If you do, why would you possibly be waiting for a second resurrection? Christ must be resurrected in our hearts and find new voice in our living as the Living Christ leads us.
"Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living." The Kingdom of God is a Forever Kingdom without beginning or end, and Christ wants us to be a part of that.
In Jesus' teachings, God is not a once-in-a-millennium God who comes and goes and then suddenly appears again; and life is not something that starts at birth and ends at death. God is with us from the beginning of creation to the end. Our Spirits were alive before we were born and will carry on when our bodies leave this earth.
We are one in the Spirit. We are reborn, refreshed and renewed in Christ. There is no need to consider who will be married to whom in the next life because we will all be with those we love surrounded by God's incomprehensible unconditional love. We'll be alive as we never could be in this temporary physical body we have been given.
We are freed by this new life – this Christly approach to living – to live and love as if there were no end to life and love. We are free to dare to shed the concerns of this world and consider only what will bring God's Kingdom to life on earth as it is in heaven. We are free to share God's love and blessing with all God's creation.
May it be so. AMEN.


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I've been working on a story about the abrupt closing of the San Francisco SPCA's Hearing Dog Program, and the more I dig into it, the less I understand what's happening at what was once the best and brightest shelter in the country.
SF Weekly is reporting that the SF SPCA, which is a private shelter that does not do animal control, has all but abandoned its "no kill" mission -- the same mission that once made it one of the richest shelters in the country, due to huge donor support -- and has implemented new guidelines making it easier for its staff to kill pets with borderline and treatable health and behavior problems. The described two animals recently killed at the shelter, a six-month-old puppy named Isaac, and a feral kitten named Tulane, who started out his life at the SF SPCA and was adopted into a home:
Tulane appeared to be a good adoption candidate, according to his medical log. Volunteers reported he enjoyed having his head petted, and purred contentedly when sitting in their laps.
The person who adopted Tulane already had a domesticated cat the kitten got along with. But Tulane never formed a bond with his adopter. On May 2, more than a year after the adoption, that person returned a very different cat to the SF/SPCA. Now 18 months old, Tulane demonstrated fearful and aggressive behavior and was categorized as "completely feral," according to the log. He was put in a cage where he ran in tight circles, knocking over his food bowl. Veterinary staff assumed the spilled food meant Tulane wasn't eating, even though at least two employees say there was fresh crap in his litter box.
The SF/SPCA's feral team was making plans to return Tulane to a managed feral colony where they thought he would be happier and would likely eat better. But before arrangements were made, veterinary staff decided, without a full medical examination, that the cat's failure to eat was a symptom of a serious condition. Tulane was euthanized.
Why the big rush, that the paper says cost Isaac, Tulane, and other animals their lives?
The reason for the new euthanasia policies is, in part, money. The SF/SPCA is scrambling to find funding to complete its controversial $30 million, for-profit animal hospital, the Leanne B. Roberts Animal Care Center. The project is only half complete, and with the looming specter of hiring staff, new equipment costs, and opening expenses, there has been an emphasis on saving money around the shelter, where it costs an estimated $43 a day to house a healthy cat. Since president Jan McHugh-Smith was hired a year ago, she has scaled back or eliminated internationally known behavior and medical services that had saved thousands of animals over the years.
Employees and volunteers were alarmed at the recent closure of the 30-year-old Hearing Dog Program, along with major changes to adoption policies, cutbacks to the Cat Behavior Program, and the loss of the volunteer Affection Eaters program, which might have been able to help Tulane.
The cutbacks and new policies have caused at least seven staffers to quit, as well as an uncertain number of volunteers. Some of them have organized into two groups who are vowing to expose the new policies even if it means that donors, the lifeblood of the nonprofit, stop cutting checks.
And it's not only the legendary Hearing Dog Program that's been shut down:
McHugh-Smith has also made controversial changes to the Cat Behavior Program. Longtime SF/SPCA cat behaviorists Dilara Parry and Mikel Delgado, who were the most prominent standard-bearers of the now-defunct no-kill policies, gave their notice in April, claiming management had been continually undermining them. And, Delgado says, there had been a shift in the policy that every treatable animal should be given a chance at adoption.
"The cat behavior staff had to struggle to keep this program together, especially over the last year," says Delgado, who is a certified cat behavior consultant. "This was physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausting."
Management made it clear that less time and money would be spent on marginal animals, Delgado says, and services were vanishing. The volunteer-run Affection Eaters program, which helped traumatized cats regain their appetites in the shelter, quietly disappeared.
The SF Weekly piece is painful reading for someone, like me, who was involved with the shelter in the early days of its no-kill transition under the guidance of then-director Richard Avanzino, now the head of Maddie's Fund, a national organization dedicated to funding community efforts to become no-kill.
I have a series of interviews with people involved with the story set up over the next few days, and am not really sure where this will go, but the SF Weekly report clearly lays the blame at the feet of the SPCA staff who are hellbent on pushing through the hospital project, now careening widly over-budget.
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I'm not the smartest person out there, and I've never been very good at 'living in the moment'. Even now as a responsible adult, I'm never really aware of what's going on when it's going on. It has to do with being a daydreaming expert, but it's also ingrained from childhood.
Example: The first time we had show-and-tell in kindergarten, I had no idea what the protocol was. Apparently we were supposed to bring green things, and that morning there was this whole table up front just chock full of cool green things.
The teacher (Mrs. Spindler?) said something like, "Who wants to share something?" Well, I certainly wanted to share something – how about one of those cool green things on the table? There seemed to be plenty.
I circled the table a few times and made my choice – a green hand mirror. I held it up to show and perhaps tell something about it and Barbara Stroud shrieked, "That's my mirror!"
What the what? We were supposed to show what we brought? But – I didn't bring anything…… Mass shame ensued, but I've successfully blocked that out.


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So Sherry Cheever and I were talking…… Ok nothing too new there. We've been talking about starting a blog challenge. A just for fun, no prizes involved kinda challenge. Sound like fun? Everyone is welcome to join in. Each week (we're going to start out on Sundays, but that may change at some point) somebody will post a challenge and then you make your card and either add a link to your blog in the comment section or to the gallery over at www.SplitcoastStampers.com with the keyword JBWW – that way everyone there can easily find your card in the gallery. Are you still with me? Sound like fun to you? If it does please join us in our first challenge:
Use a little or a lot. However you wish. Glitter and glue, Stickles, sparkly embossing powder. Whatever you want. Have fun and get sparkly 🙂
Here's a couple of examples to get you creative juices flowing:
The first one has glitter glue dotted for snowflakes. This is a 4 1/4″ X 4 1/4″ card.
Stamps: Snowman Quartet – Whipper Snapper Designs
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Accessories: Copic Markers, Red Gingham Ribbon, Diamond Stickles
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Thank you Ms. Hite
May 11, 2019
When I signed up for newspaper in high school I did not know exactly what the class would entail. All I had really been told by other students was that it was more than just a English elective. I soon learned over the course of three years that I would gain much more from the class than I initially expected.
Thank you for walking into the classroom each day with a smile and a positive attitude, no matter what needed to be done or what you were stressed about. You have inspired the entire team not only when it comes to writing, but also in many other skills that will benefit me long after those newspaper classes were over. I have learned to always look forward, no matter what mistakes have happened.
Thank you for creating such a awesome team full of unique talents and gifts. You knew each and everyone's strength and weakness helped make the classroom a close-knit family. You weren't just concerned about our academic status but wanted to know how we functioning personally. You helped the group step out of their comfort zone and create new friendships throughout the school year.
Thank you for teaching us the importance of deadlines. From that first day of class it was very difficult to produce a 500 word article in a couple of days. Now leaving the class with three years of experience, a four-page paper in college with a quickly approaching due date seems a lot easier because of the training to write in short periods of time.
Thank you for always giving us more critique than compliments. You always managed to find something which shaped us to always work to improve and made us strive for perfection.
Most importantly, thank you for going out of your way to push students to be hardworking without taking the easy way out, putting numerous hours into your students, and being one of the many outstanding school teachers in our nation, something we are all guilty of taking for granted.
Thank you for being my spark. Journalism opens so many doors for students. No matter if you're majoring in journalism or if you're like me a Computer Science major who just loves to write, your love for producing works and writing began somewhere.
With this being the final article for the Red and White Newspaper the staff and entire school would like to say thank you for help covering the news here at Dwight D. Eisenhower high school. Because of you we know that even though the newspaper will be no more, it is everyone's responsibility to be the news.
Thanks Ms. Hite for being you!


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We've had an interview with Fine Books & Collections, a famous website and magazine dedicated to fine press publishing. They've had a look at our two editions set of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and they've heard about the recent announcement of Dracula, so they asked a few questions to better understand how Amaranthine Books works and what drives us to create fine press special editions.
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Has anyone worked with something called a digipatch? Is it like a fancy phone patch? Do I need something special in my studio in order to make this work or is it just done over my phone with the digipatch in the studio to which I'm calling?
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"There's no proof we received any contaminated product. Because Goya was so broad in their recall we just went with the safest option," said Junior Aguado, whose family has made Fruiti Pops in Santa Fe Springs for 30 years.
The mamey-flavored popsicles were the least popular of the Fruiti Pops line and accounted for only one percent of sales, according to Aguado. He believes the recall of 10,000 popsicles took all of the product out of circulation.
Dr. Jonathan Fielding of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said there have been two confirmed cases of typhoid in Los Angeles County but they were not linked to Fruiti Pops. He said at least one of the victims may have gotten it from contaminated mamey pulp that was used in a smoothie.
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"Ted" and "Magic Mike" big box office opening
HollywoodNews.com: This weekend represented a shining example of the two best trends in mainstream moviegoing this year. As I wrote (here and here), we've seen a real upswing in both mid-to-low-budget mainstream fare that aren't especially 'tentpole-ish' as well as a huge upswing in the number of R-rated films being released by the major studios.
As such, two of the four wide releases this weekend were both R-rated and all four were relatively small-scale and in 2D. That they mostly debuted to blockbuster numbers is an encouraging sign that not every movie need be a $150 million fantasy genre franchise entry. The top film of the weekend is also the best mainstream picture of the summer, as Seth MacFarlane's Ted (review) debuted to a massive $54 million.
That's the third-best debut for an R-rated comedy behind the $57 million opening of Sex and the City and the $87 million Fri-Sun debut of The Hangover part II. Among non-sequel/spin-off R-rated comedies, it topped the $44 million record debut of The Hangover and is the is among the top-ten best R-rated debuts of all-time. This is a massive win for all involved, bringing Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane serious film-making clout, further confirming that Mark Wahlberg is an actual 'put butts in the seats' movie star and giving Universal something to laugh about.
Speaking of Wahlberg, this is his second biggest opening behind the $68 million debut of Planet of the Apes back in 2001, and it needs only cross $133 million to supplant The Departed as his third-highest grossing film (Planet of the Apes and The Perfect Storm earned $180 million and $182 million respectively)
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In addition to a Milan Lucic interview, footage from the Monarchs' Calder Cup championship and Alex Curry and Sean O'Donnell's off-season analysis, last night's Kings Live summer special on FOX Sports West also contained a special Coffee with Bob interview between the Kings' Hall of Fame television broadcaster and newly retired defenseman Robyn Regehr.
Though the segment lasted roughly six minutes, additional (and highly recommended) video was uploaded to FOXSportsWest.com earlier today and is embedded below. Interestingly – and corroborating much of what those close to the team had heard over the past year – Regehr's wife, Kristina, acknowledged during an August, 2014 interview that the 2014-15 season would be Robyn's final season in the National Hockey League. Portions of that interview book-ended last night's Coffee with Bob segment, though they're not a part of the video below.
What did we learn from the video? Regehr once sewed Darryl Sutters track pants pockets together as part of a prank. He'll also be leaving hockey to move back to Calgary and work for Blueline Oilfield Rentals, a company he co-founded. On the Blueline Oilfield Rentals website, there's a bio for Regehr.
Said Regehr in the video provided by FOXSportsWest.com: "We're going to live in Calgary for probably the large part of the year and go back to the lake in Saskatchewan in the summer months as much as we can, but I started a frew things prior to being done in the league. I started a company with a friend of mine. It's called Blueline Oilfield Rentals, and we're based out of Calgary. We've been working on that since 2007, so it's been really enjoyable. Also, I own some farmland, and a little bit of a quick story, the farmer that I used to work for and I grew up working for as a kid, he now rents the farmland from me. We have a very good relationship, and I still enjoy going out and working with him and doing whatever he wants me to do, whether it's drive a truck for him or a combine, or whatever he needs to be done. So I'm actually looking forward to in the fall when normally I'd be coming back and getting into training camp, just to sit out there and be a part of harvest and help work with him. I did it a couple years. During the lockouts, I actually went there in the fall and helped out, and it's a fantastic time to be around the prairie provinces. The harvest time, everyone's in a good mood, everyone's taking the crops in, and there's a very special relationship between the people and the land, and it's fun to be a part of that."
Bob Miller responded, "Well, no wonder Darryl Sutter likes you." For a few more laughs, Regehr recalls his prank on Sutter four minutes into the second video. There are also interesting conversations about Regehr's noted ability to get a good feel for a room and when to step in and offer his voice.


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Coalition MP wants crackdown on rogue GPs
A COALITION backbencher who once worked as a GP is calling for a crackdown on "cowboy" doctors in any government push to overhaul Medicare.
Andrew Laming, who is still a qualified eye specialist, has also suggested financial rewards for high-performing doctors, and taken a swipe at his government's recent Medicare reform efforts.
"At the moment we don't have speed limits on doctors," Dr Laming told AM.
"I think that if you're seeing more than 10 patients per hour you can't be delivering quality medicine, doesn't matter how smart you are.
"So we do need to be looking at ways to pull the cowboys up. It's been a difficult discussion that's never really been had," the Queensland Liberal MP said.
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I Was An Apple And I Got Peeled – But It Was A Good Thing by Hertta Kiiski
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I was an apple and I got peeled – but it was a good thing is a sevenyear play with and for the camera. The protagonists of the book are Kiiski´s daughters and the intimate surroundings at home, summer houses and residencies from Finnish archipelago to Venice. The photo series juxtaposes private life with art history and different genres of photography. It talks about the most banal of subjects: time and the experience of it. The series is about the ontology of materials and everyday objects as well as one´s relationship to a camera. Everything makes sense – not necessarily in a way that can be verbalized, but according to some secret internal logic that unravels very slowly and never entirely.
Hertta Kiiski is an artist working with photography, moving image, objects, space, and oftentimes with her own daughters. She holds a B.A. in photography from Turku Arts Academy and an M.A. in timebased arts from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is part of several public art collections. Hertta Kiiski lives and works in Turku, Finland.
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