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Monday, August 29, 2011
New B-Megs Player Marc Barroca
Mark Barroca, selected fifth overall by Shopinas.com, is headed to
B-Meg Derby Ace as part of the Llamados' previous deal with the Clickers.
Shopinas.com will secure in exchange forward Bryan Ilad, the 16th pick, from B-Meg and another Llamado from among Rommel Adducul, Don Allado, Jonathan Fernandez and Val Acuna.
Meanwhile,A steady force for Smart Gilas Pilipinas the past three years, the 5-foot-9 Casio has helped the national team regain respect in the continent and rise as a contender in the coming Fiba Asia Championship.
This year's top overall pick in the PBA Rookie Draft is hoping he could help alter the misfortunes of the Powerade Tigers.
"It will be quite different in the PBA but I know my stint in Smart Gilas could help my team," said Casio, the smallest No. 1 pick in 25 years.
The crafty playmaker out of La Salle has established himself as the most dependable scorer in the national squad, someone Smart Gilas coach Rajko Toroman always turns to in the clutch.
Casio's sharp shooting, patience and court vision are the weapons the national team will bring to the Asian championship in Wuhan, China, on Sept. 15 to 25. The champion automatically clinches the continental slot to the 2012 London Olympics.
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(KUTV) — Local finance expert Kevin Bauer joined 2News in studio to show us four simple ways to save $1,200 in a year.
Tip #1: Cut your food expenses
- A family of four can spend anywhere from $560 to over $1,000 per month on their grocery bill.
- One trick that can make a difference is analyzing what you buy and cutting out unnecessary or frivolous items. For example, eliminating the weekly bag of potato chips or 12-pack of soda.
- Dining out also becomes expensive. Remember restaurants mark up items they are selling. A $15 entree might only cost $3-5 to make at home.
- You don't need to cut out every trip to the restaurant, but eliminating two to three meals a month is significant money back in your pocket.
Tip #2: Negotiate and compare
- You can try saving money on monthly services. Shop around to find which company is willing to give you the best deal.
- You might even be able to negotiate with your current providers.
- Some cable bills are over $100. Look into a cheaper streaming service or cut the cord altogether.
- It's also worth a call to your auto insurance to see if you can negotiate a lower rate based on criteria such as your profession, the age of the car you drive or theft-deterrent systems on your vehicle.
- If you're struggling to pay off credit card debt, call the company. They want their money back, so they may be willing to lower your interest rate to make it easier to pay down debt.
Tip #3: Challenge yourself
- Every month take a set amount of money from your checking or other spending accounts and put it into savings. Automatic transfers are easy to set up!
- Take on the 5 cent challenge. This is how it works: on the first day save a nickel, increase those savings by a nickel each day. Do this for one year. The most you'll set aside is $18.25 on day 365. After a year you will have saved $3,358.05.
- I have a guide you can print to follow on my website.
- Make it a competition and have a friend, relative or group all come up with a savings goal and compete to see who can get there first.
- Any time you get friends involved, it is someone to hold you accountable and it creates some extra motivation to save.
Tip #4: Reduce withholding at work
- If you're waiting on bated breath for your tax refund each spring, consider changing your withholding to benefit your finances year-round.
- You can make this change at any time by going to your payroll office and filling out a new W-4.
- You won't get as big of a refund, but you will get more in each paycheck throughout the year.
- Make sure you are making good use of the extra money in your paycheck. Set up an automatic transfer to a savings account or bump up your 401(k) contribution rate.
- The IRS has a calculator to help you figure it out if changing your withholding is best for your financial situation. You can find a link to the calculator on my website.
What to do with your monthly savings:
- It really depends on your personal financial goals. If you're saving for something specific, put the money in a savings account so you're not tempted to spend it.
- If you have credit card debt, consider putting the money toward your next bill.
- Another good idea is to start an emergency fund for those unexpected expenses you could face.
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My Literacy Adventure!. By: Brenna McCormick LTCY 519. Once upon a time. . .
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This presentation is a guide through my adventure in reading. I will show you some of my favorite books throughout my life. I will also share with you some of the trials and tribulations in learning that were faced by some members of my family and how witnessing this experience shaped my own learning experiences.
When I was a young child my entire world included books. My parents, my babysitter, my brother, every person in my life would read to me. I was surrounded by a loving group of people who knew how important reading was to life-long learning.
Let's begin exploring my adventure through reading!
I used to have my dad read this book to me over and over. This book is somewhat interactive. It is about Grover not wanting us to turn the next page because he is afraid of a monster at the end of the book! There is a clever surprise when you turn the final page (but you have to read it on your own to figure it out)! My dad would add so much suspense to this book that it made it so much fun to read. This is also part of the Golden Book series. I had many of these books as a child and enjoyed reading them as well as having them read to me.
I loved these books! They were fun to have read to me as well as fun to learn to read! When someone would read these books to me I would always look for the spider hidden in the pages. When I began reading on my own, I found them simple and fun to read! It helped me develop my love of reading. There were so many of these books about so many different topics that I always found one that was interesting to me and that I could relate to.
I loved this book! My dad would read it to me often before I went to bed. It is about an out-of-date steam shovel and his owner who are hired to dig a foundation for a new building. They are involved in a competition and must dig as fast as they can. They dig so fast that they don't leave themselves a way out. They must stay in the basement of the building! The steam shovel gets transformed into the boiler and Mike Mulligan becomes the caretaker of the boiler. It is a great story about making the best out of things!
This series of books was all about a class that would travel to all kinds of places on a magic school bus and learn a lot about the places they traveled. These books were so much fun to read because they were set up like a comic book. They had pictures and captions, thought bubbles, and informational boxes. It was full of energy and got me so excited about reading it. I learned a lot from these books. They perked my already budding interest in science and sharpened my focus on school.
I loved reading these books. I could connect with this young girl about my age. These books were about young girls growing up in different time periods in the United States. There were many other girls for many different time periods. These books taught me a lot about history. I learned more by reading these books because I became personally involved with this young girl and her family. There were many other ways that I became personally involved. These books also had a doll and "props" that went along with the stories. My parents bought me the doll, the props, and the books for Christmas and I fell in love with them. This increased my interest in reading and school.
When I was in the third grade my teacher would always read to us and inspired my interest in "chapter books." Ramona was one of the first chapter books that was read to me. I loved the stories in it. I could relate to them because they were about a young girl with siblings and the trouble she could get into. It was such a fun read. I read all of the Ramona books. Through these books I learned that I could read chapter books. Before they had seemed to hard for me to read. However, after I read the first one I knew I could do it and I could read anything I wanted!
My parents gave me my first Babysitters Club book for Christmas and I read it within 2 days. I loved it. It was a big chapter book and I was so interested in it I just zipped right through it! These books were about a young pre-teens life. They were so interesting to me. I just loved them. I began buying them in stacks of 3 or 4 at a time just so I would always have something to read. Later when I actually began babysitting, I used many of the ideas that the club had. So they actually helped me in my daily life!
Before I went to kindergarten my babysitter taught me how to write letters and to trace my name. She knew I liked to draw and taught me how to make Alphabet people out of capital letters. She encouraged me to use my interests as stepping stones into the world of literacy. When I got to kindergarten I was ready to keep learning to write and read.
I remember writing Bible verses when I was in Bible School as a young girl. My mother still has one verse that I wrote hanging in our home office. I had to write a few lines about my mother and family along with the Bible verse. I wrote: " I love my mommy and daddy. And my brother. I like to look at the prety flowers in my bakyard." You can see that I didn't quite have the spelling down yet! I also didn't have all of the grammatical rules down yet either! I was about 6 or 7 years old when I wrote this.
When I was in the third grade I was in our school's Christmas play. I was one of the reindeer keepers. I had to memorize several short lines. I was so nervous! I remember that I had to wear goofy red and white socks that went up to my knees, a set of Christmas suspenders that I borrowed from my dad, little red shorts, green tights, a white turtle neck, and of course a silly looking elf hat. I had to carry a bucket of reindeer food and talk about how they were not eating because the "Spirit of Christmas" was missing. I was really nervous but I remembered all of my lines! I could have put more emotion into the delivery of them, but they were still good!
From when I was 5 years old until I was about 10 I took piano lessons. I enjoy playing the piano and reading music. It was a whole new experience for me. I remember hating to work on the Theory books. I just wanted to play the music and not learn how to play it! It was sometimes really hard to remember all of the symbols and what they meant. I eventually learned music well enough to memorize a piece and play it in a competition.
I read a lot in middle school. I began to read more educational books (like my textbooks), rather than for leisure. However, some required reading I actually enjoyed. I also loved the Anne of Green Gables series. I bought all three books and read them all over a year or so. Mostly I read magazines for fun. My friends and I would get together and do the quizzes in them and read up on the current fashion trends.
In 8th grade we were required to take a creative writing course. I loved this class! For a short time I even thought about becoming a writer. I enjoyed writing children's books. I would write modern fairy tales and make-believe stories that would entertain young elementary children.
One time I remember we had to write a horror story in this class. I hated horror movies and I really was not looking forward to this assignment. I tried my best to come up with a really horrific tale. I wrote down as many gruesome details as I could think. As I wrote I got chills and knew I must be doing something right. I ended up getting an "A" on my story and overcoming my fears of horror movies!
During high school I mostly read textbooks and tried to keep up with my studies. I did enjoy my English classes that focused on Literature. I enjoyed learning about Shakespeare, Homer, and other great authors.
The two foreign languages I took were Latin and German. I learned a lot about the English language through both of these foreign languages. I was surprised that another language could teach me so much!


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One reacts to Joel Hopkins's Last Chance Harvey with about the same level of revulsion directed at its titular character by the people around him. Unbearably scored to within an inch of its bippity-boppity-booing life, the film follows Harvey, a commercial jingle impresario played by Dustin Hoffman, to London as he clumsily negotiates run-ins with friends and family on the eve of his estranged daughter's wedding. His alienation from the group practically chills the air, conveyed largely through contrived physical confrontations between the man and a series of inanimate objects: the curtain in his hotel room, the metal security tag that was never removed from his suit jacket, and a bed of stones he stumbles over in an effort to answer a cellphone you'd think be bought only that morning given the way he's shocked by its ring. Rather than shine a light on Harvey's emotional toil, namely his regrets, this unbearably forced awkwardness registers only as a symptom of some vaguely detailed emotional retardation bound to be cured by the affections of the lovely Kate (Emma Thompson), whose banal life the film intermittingly peeks into until she and Harvey finally hit it off inside an airport restaurant. Thompson, a spry and spontaneous actress, is a pleasure to watch, even alongside the less intuitive Hoffman, but she clearly struggles to give life to a sadly underwritten, rather insulting role. Her character exists mostly to help rectify Harvey's shortcomings, something she accomplishes with an absurd swiftness and precision, but Thompson has a few lovely scenes toward the end of the film during which her selfless Kate resists Hoffman's come-ons. Of course, to get there you have to endure all sorts of foul rom-comery, from the friend who asks Kate for an audience-winking answer to a crossword puzzle ("Scum"!) to the mother (Eileen Atkins, embarrassingly wasted) who thinks her Polish next-door neighbor is barbequing people in a shed in his backyard. By film's end, Harvey is ready to live even as you're ready to die.
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Of particular interest in the latest consultation document on corporation tax reform are the provisions on reducing the differences in tax treatment of investment and trading companies, an accrual basis for taxing capital gains on chargeable assets held by companies and the bringing closer together of tax and accounting principles.
This latter proposal in relation to capital acquisitions made by businesses would, at first sight, appear to signal the end of first year or other accelerated allowances for tax purposes as no such accelerated allowance exists under accounting principles. It is a purely tax-related provision.
However, it is made clear in this second consultation document that the Government recognises the need to encourage investment from time to time and so envisages the retention of the capability of introducing special allowances where this would be in line with Government policy.
In deciding whether to bring forward capital expenditure which you know currently qualifies for an attractive first-year allowance, you would need to consider whether you believe the Government will maintain the first-year allowance. Expenditure in the current regime, with the known beneficial tax consequences, should be seriously considered if it is thought that there is a risk that first-year allowances will be abolished (and bear in mind the latest counsel of caution from the Institute of Chartered Accountants), you consider the allowance to be currently attractive and, most important, the acquisition of the capital asset in question can be fully commercially justified. But you need to make this decision in respect of each client.
Your communication with small business clients will then be founded on making them aware that change is possible and will tell them in clear, plain language what that change will mean. Without overstating the possibility that allowances currently given could be taken away (especially given the reassurance stated in the consultation document), it should be ascertained whether, on purely commercial grounds, capital expenditure qualifying for the accelerated first-year allowance at 100 or 40 per cent is justifiable. If it is, then even though the risk of the allowance not being available in the future may be thought to be quite small, the client should be encouraged to act now.
When investing any sum, a business, in the same way as an individual, is making a choice. With any given sum available, most businesses have a number of choices. Some of the more obvious ones are to leave funds on deposit accessible to the company, to invest in other assets (qualifying for tax relief or not), to distribute the funds to shareholders, to pay salaries or bonuses to directors or staff or to provide for directors or staff through contributions to pensions or other savings media. Tax will, of course, be a factor in making these choices but should be very much a secondary one.
The decision should be made based on the relative utility to the business and its owners of whatever is brought into being by virtue of the expenditure. When a decision is made that is other than leaving a sum on deposit, from a financial standpoint the business will be determining that the rate of return that can be secured on the expenditure, either in hard quantifiable financial terms or in softer terms of overall utility and potential future benefit, will be an improvement on what would be returned should the sums be left on deposit.
Attitude to risk will clearly enter into the making of this decision. This calculation will be in even sharper focus if funds are borrowed to facilitate the expenditure. Here, the expected rate of return should, of course, be greater than the cost of borrowing.
This is not to say that all expenditure decisions are made based on such clinical financial terms. Reinvestment in the business is often made on what can only be described as sentimental grounds or at least without fully considering all the alternatives. For many owners of private businesses, after providing for the immediate needs of themselves and their families, the next hungry mouth to feed is the company, regardless of the merits of the expenditure in pure investment terms. The all eggs in one basket principle most definitely applies to many private business owners if you consider their business to be part of their overall asset allocation.
Often, there may be equally competing needs for available funds but only a single sum of money available. Two of these needs may be the need to make further provision for future financial security through contributions to pensions and the more pressing need to invest in capital equipment to regenerate the business to produce more profits that will also have a contributory effect towards future financial security.
As I have mentioned before, it may be possible to do both, provided suitable borrowing facilities are available in connection with the pension fund, self-administered or otherwise. Provided all the necessary conditions can be met (an SSAS must have been in existence for at least two years and the amount borrowed must not exceed more than 50 per cent of the fund value), it may be possible to, in effect, borrow the whole of the new contribution for the purpose of buying required capital equipment.
The business will, in effect, be recycling the contribution by borrowing it back once made and generating double tax relief, that is, on the contribution itself and then on the qualifying capital expenditure.
Naturally, there are other factors that must be taken into account before deciding to do this. The continuing payment of interest and the need to repay the loan at some point ahead of retirement (even though the lender is one's own pension fund) would be two such considerations.
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Practice Started at 1pm today.
This meant that Jamie, who was driving down from Providence, RI (yeah, he's pretty much a nomad at this point) actually got to sleep a couple of hours before we left in the morning. This also meant that due to my habitual early-rising that I was up for ~7 hours before practice started. Oh yeah, Jamie brought some crazy coworker that we had to drop off in Philly before practice. That was odd.
We got to the fields in time to watch Ampy-Bomb, that crazy coed team, finish up their practice. Looked like most coed ultimate-- look off your women, isolate your men in space-- only a bit faster paced. I suppose that's what Nationals-level coed means.
Practice was a bunch of game situations and some specifically focused drills. Not going into it too much though.
The quad held up pretty well until somewhere in the 4th hour of practice, then it tightened up and started restricting movement a little. I figured out what I needed to do in order to get back in the game, played a couple of points and sat back down (no need to completely push it). That was a really important lesson to learn. I need to know how to get back on the field in Sarasota if it tightens up. Sweet.
We then had a team dinner at Jeff George's place in Philly. That was sweet. I ate WAAAAAAY too much food (this is what happens when you're scrimping all the time to save up for Nationals and Kaimana) and went nearly comatose. This was after the Kentucky upset of LSU. About 4 hours later, after most of the team left, I was wide awake again. Seems about right. My clock is all kinds of off.
Stayed the night at Trey's place, a couple of blocks away, and had to listen to him mention that his trip to practice was a mere 15 minutes. Let's see... that's at best 1/8th as long as my commute. More regularly about 1/12th as long. With that in my head, I fell asleep.
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4 hours practice
Saturday, October 13
Late Practice Today
Practice Started at 1pm today.
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- John said...
can jeff george throw a beautiful deep ball?
- October 16, 2007 at 9:52 AM
At best 1/4th, at worst 1/20th.
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I like reading eulogies. Not that I have a death wish but simply many times there is much beauty in the crafting of the words. Many times it is a diligent reflection of what someone really means to us.
Many would say eulogies are simply too contrived and too late. But I think , it is better late than never. Life is never perfect.
I am not a Singaporean.
But I read the newspapers from Singapore. Their former President, Mr. Wee Kim Wee died and among the many eulogies delivered, these two touched a chord in my heart.
"Dear Mrs Wee,
This week feels like a long twilight.
It is something we do not know in Singapore, where light soars or sets quickly.
But this lingering neither-light sets the heart unease.
Mrs Wee, I write to you as a neighbour in our kueh-sized community, in this the time of your enormous grief.
We miss your late husband.
We cannot miss him as much as you, but the fraction is woeful enough.
I share this void with a lengthy cord of neighbours.
You have seen the lines at the Istana - people who came to glimpse your husband's face one last time, seeing him like they never have before.
Not all of us could pay our respects.
Many of us mourn in silence or share our feelings for him among friends.
We remember the man who invited all to your home - a table set for hawker and homemaker, newsmaker and king-makers alike.
He loved his fellow Singaporeans.
He lived the life we pledged daily as children to live each day.
Mrs Wee, when you ask yourself who can now talk to you in the same way as your loving companion of half-a-century, we will ask ourselves another question:
Who will now remind us of the good side of Singapore?
Look at him.
For 50 years, Mr Wee lent himself to the service of troubled partners.
From the days of the kerosene stove and charcoal kindling, to the modern birth of the handphone, you witnessed your husband dedicated to the blistered cause, ever willing to mend, to stitch back the rift among neighbours.
You shared with us till the late hour your husband's time, your husband's strength, your own gentle patience.
You listened with your gracious smile when he spoke to others at length, as he liked to do.
One can be a good man by one's own merits. But it takes two to make a great man. You were the other half.
Much has been written about your husband, but less uttered about you.
You were the nurse to the doctor. You could have built a protective wall around your man.
Instead, you built a bridge.
Today, we have not forgotten you.
Your husband held a key to every family's door. So much was he loved by so many.
Mrs Wee, as your neighbour, let me say this twilight will pass, morning will come.
You have a football field full of great-grandchildren to see you through, to remind you, each in his or her own way, of your loving man.
And they will find strength and joy in your presence.
He is gone.
We have you.
Then one of his grand-daughters delivered this eulogy:
Here was a man who loved life and lived it to the fullest.
A man who put himself up as a shining example - in life and in death.
My grandpa wasn't fuddy-duddy. He was fun.
He collected snuff bottles and coins, she disclosed, travelled the world, played sports, planted fruit tress and especially 'loved the smell and taste' of hazelnut coffee, ice-cream and chocolates.
How much?
There was a secret stash.
So much that whenever his grandchildren dropped by at his workplace, he would give them a cheeky wink, open his drawer and fish out 'a secret stash of Hawaiian macadamia nut chocolates.
A secret he kept under lock and key, away from his disapproving but well-intentioned wife.
A sweet man with a sweet tooth.
His favourite ice-cream flavour? Rum and raisin.
My most vivid memory is the evening jaunts to the neighbourhood Baskin-Robbins ice-cream parlour in Japan when grandpa was Ambassador there.
I was just 10 and on holiday. But grandpa indulged me and himself every day for a whole two weeks.
He taught me that in order to understand the present, we have to plan for the future, but we must not forget the past.
I also learned that we can all go on learning till our last breath on this planet.
Every day is a new day.
You loved
This was perhaps grandpa's greatest legacy.
His love for humanity dwarfed only by his immeasureable love for his wife of 69 years.
She was 'the rock of his life'.
His last thoughts were for her. They were holding hands when he finally went to sleep this Monday morning.
He loved her so much he kept a special list of her favourite songs, lovingly typewritten and kept safely in a folder, 'ready to be whipped out at any time'.
This is a LESSON FOR THE MEN .
Husbands who are here today, do you have a list of your wife's top 10 favourite songs in a special folder?
That's a lesson you can take from my grandfather.
A lesson in love.
I thank my grandfather from the bottom of my heart, for showing what it really means to love another person.
The stories of his life are to me, all stories about love.
It was an unconditional love that crossed creed and colour - and even species.
Horses. Dogs. Cats. Fish. Chickens. Terrapins.
Before starting on his dinner, he would always ask: Has the dog eaten yet?'
'And the first thing he did after finishing dinner would be to feed his goldfish and then his terrapins.'
When he once had give up six turkeys - which he'd gotten as a gift - to the Singapore Zoo, he was so concerned they might be fed to the crocodiles that he insisted the zoo send him a 'written report' each time one died, listing the 'cause of death'.
What a man.
What love.
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Courtney White
Miss Courtney is a native of Arkansas. Her mother was a Montessori teacher and she grew up spending her entire life thus far in a Montessori environment. Practicing the life skills she gained through Montessori Methods, she was naturally guided back to the Montessori classroom. Throughout high school and college, she worked in Montessori classrooms to further her knowledge and gain understanding of Montessori. She possesses more than 20 years of experience with children, and has been lead teacher continuously from 1999 to today.
Spend just a few minutes in Courtney's presence and one soon finds what makes her so special. Her calming nature and soft-spoken strength give her the tools necessary to command a classroom, a prepared environment. One of her greatest joys — as she builds a relationship with each student — is to tailor, create personalized lessons suited specifically to an individual child's interest. Whether it's dinosaurs, marine biology, entomology or the mammals of the African tundra to name just a few, Courtney will spend her personal time developing a new and interesting way for the student to explore and stretch their brain on the subject, typically handcrafting these new lessons. This attention to educational development empowers children with the freedom to explore their own curiosity while holding their interest and focus, drawing them deeper into their personal learning experience. Courtney's ability to connect with kids by showing them respect and honor and thereby teaching the same exemplifies and epitomizes the Montessori Method. Grace and courtesy are truly her strong points.
Courtney White and Jennifer Matthews-Drake are co-owners of Village Montessori, LLC.
Leigh Ann Harrington
Miss Leigh Ann is a native of Mississippi. After four years of of working with children in New York, she moved to Little Rock to be closer to family. Leigh Ann is a 2002 graduate of Mississippi State University with a degree in educational psychology. She also received her Montessori certification for ages 0-3 from NAMC in 2011.
Leigh Ann is affectionately referred to by her fellow Villagers as the Pied Piper of children. It's a fact: they love her and will follow her anywhere. And so will her students' parents. Leigh Ann is an expert communicator and is constantly searching for new ways to bring parents into their children's educational life. For example, she frequently and thoughtfully updates a private by-invitation-only Facebook page for her students' parents. And she posts on one wall of her classroom daily handwritten pages indicating each students' work and progress. The joy she receives in working with children radiates from her, and the community she builds out of that joy is a lasting one.
"The Montessori method and I were love at first sight. I enjoy the relationships that students, families, and teachers form as they grow together over the years. The community that is developed in a Montessori classroom is completely unique. I feel the emphasis on teaching young people to do and think for themselves is key, because they will use those skills for the rest of their lives."
Haley Floyd
Haley is the mother of one spunky, charming son and a native of Tupelo, Mississippi. She came to Village with four years of Montessori experience teaching alongside Miss Courtney prior to the start of Village Montessori. Haley's quiet demeanor has a calming effect on her students and they love her for it. And her warm smile welcomes all who approach.
"Watching these kids learn and grow is truly amazing to me. I'm in constant awe and enriched by their unsurpassed curiosity and love of learning. Just being a small part of their world is hugely gratifying."
Carley Harrigan
Carley grew up in New York and moved to Montreal, Canada shortly after High School to attend Concordia University where she studied Sociology and then Business, receiving her B.B.A.
She has taught at and worked in both a traditional and a Montessori environment and she believes the difference is truly monumental!
Carley has traveled and lived all over in places like Canada, Sweden, Richmond and now Little Rock. She and her husband have two sons, and one daughter. She enjoys traveling, photography, tennis, and snowboarding, but can most often be found on her hammock in the back yard watching the kids play.
Brittany Duty
Teaching Aide & Substitute Teacher
Meet Brittany Duty, a teachers' aide and substitute teacher here at Village Montessori.
Brittany is married and has two children, one of whom is a former Village student. She holds a degree in Occupational Therapy and is from Monroe, Louisiana.
Rachel Martin
Teaching Aide
Rachel Martin comes to Village Montessori with a background in Montessori education. Rachel moved to Little Rock from Fayetteville and is a teachers' aide in the Primary class and helps Miss Marcella prepare our delicious, nutritious and beautiful lunches daily.
Michelle Drusky
Yoga Instructor
Michelle Drusky is our Village yoga instructor and has been practicing yoga since she was a teenager. She holds a Masters in Psychology with an emphasis in Health Psychology. She is an experienced registered Hatha yoga teacher, is Balance Barre Certified and is the manager at Blue Yoga Nyla. Michelle is an avid animal lover. She has two dogs, Kaos and Sir George, and two cats, Lola and Mouse.
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Justin Bostwick is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer from Havertown, Pennsylvania. He is most known for his musical contributions to the Fox hit television series, Empire, whose soundtrack debuted at the number one spot on the US Billboard Top 200 and became certified Gold in the United States. He co-wrote the song Drip Drop and co-produced You're So Beautiful as well as many others for the show. The soundtrack also scored a Grammy nomination in 2016.
His music career began in 2007 when MTV contacted him to license his music to the network for the television series, The Real World. After finishing school, he spent several years working in different Philadelphia studios with various artists. In 2012, he produced three songs for well-known rapper, Freeway, for the album Diamond In The Ruff, one of which featured his vocals on the hook. Bostwick collaborated with fellow producer/engineer Mike Jerz on the project.
His work soon caught the attention of super producer, Jim Beanz. In June of 2015, he released his debut EP, Who I Was Is Who I Am, on his SoundCloud page. In 2016, he produced the Serayah song, Look But Don't Touch, along with Jim Beanz for the Empire Original Soundtrack Season 2 Volume 2.


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By Robin E. Simmons
A big hit at this year's Palm Springs International Film Festival, this sly, intelligent and compelling drama from director Olivier Assayas is powered by three terrific performances by Juliette Binoche (from whom the idea for this movies originated), Kristen Stewart and Chloë Grace Moretz.
Binoche is Maria Enders, a famous actress at the peak of her worldwide fame when she is asked to perform in the revival of a play that catapulted her to fame twenty years ago. Back when she first performed the play, her character was Sigrid, a charismatic young woman who drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now, decades later, she is playing the older Helena. Enders heads to Sils Maria, a remote place in the Alps, with her assistant, played by Stewart. But this time around, the role of Sigrid (Moretz) is played by a scandalous and trouble-plagued Hollywood starlet.
I loved the way the roles are reversed in a way that also reflects the lives of the two main characters: clearly, the younger Sigrid is a disturbing incarnation of the older Maria! What a wonderful conceit.
This enigmatic tale works on many levels. It's about ageing, mortality, honesty, fame, show biz and love. Yes, it's top-loaded with irony. And so it is with life itself – of you're paying attention. But in the end, it's the naturalistic performances that galvanize this singular drama.
I was never a fan of Kristen Stewart; never saw any acting skills on display. But here, wow, she is utterly astonishing. (Kristen, please forgive me for the sometimes harsh words I had for you regarding your film roles.)
Don't miss this fascinating film that's intentionally ambiguous in the best way. Pick of the week. Now playing at Cinemas Palme d'Or.
Nothing I write here can in any way alter this movie juggernaut that, in it's opening week, is already racking up record box office bucks allover the world! However, incredible visceral action with a few moments of witty repartee do not always satisfy if there's not an equally engaging story. Narrative is everything in movies. Just overloading the already crowded cast with some new characters both friends and foes, does not make this enterprise more entertaining or engaging. It's like jamming a wad of cotton candy into your mouth. Sweet while it lasts but there's no lingering satisfaction.
In this sequel, Tony Stark jumpstarts a forgotten peacekeeping program, but naturally, things go awry and some of our biggest comic book heroes (Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye) are tested to the limits as they battle to save the planet from evil Ultron.
Yes, I suppose it's worth seeing the chaos of heartless robots running amuck in IMAX 3D if that's your thing — as long as you remember that bigger is not always better. Now playing.
"Brave the deep, find the gold, trust no one," says the accurate tag line on some of the posters. This suspenseful, claustrophobic, well-crafted thriller directed by Kevin Macdonald, stars Jude Law as Royal Navy Captain Robinson who puts together a rag-tag, misfit crew of half English/half Russian marine specialists to steal a golden hoard on a sunken WW II era Nazi U-boat at the bottom of the Black Sea. But alas, the greedy salvage company that just let Robinson go has already marked the treasure and now it's tied up in complicated red tape. To pull off the heist, Robinson must pilot a derelict sub to the site without being detected by the Russian naval fleet above and before desperation, greed and simmering tensions on the sub explode. Jude Law is terrific — certainly among his better performances — as the captain of a crew fighting for their own survival.
Not a great movie, but a solid adventure of desperate men surrounded on all sides by what one crewmember describes as "dark, cold death."
British director McDonald (THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND and STATE OF PLAY) excels at stories about men in impossible situations. Recommended. Universal/Focus. Blu-ray.
Turkish filmmaker Nuri Blige Ceylan won the 2014 Palme d'Or at Cannes for this talky, Chekhovian drama. The story revolves around Aydin, an aging, rich, blinkered, hotel owner, his disenchanted younger wife and his recently divorced sister who spend the winter in their hotel in beautiful Anatolia.
There's lots of arguing with family and neighbors, and everyone seems to find ways to locate and pointedly jab at the other's vulnerability over a running time of three hours. In spite of a scene I consider cruelty to horses, I liked this film that isolates the characters deep dissatisfaction with life in spite of their refined sensibilities, prestige and wealth. I was provoked by the stark reminder of what does not bring happiness to the human condition.
The flow of remarkable images are embedded with an intimate but cold luxury; Aiden's wife speaks the line that underscores the theme when she says to her husband: "In order not to suffer, you prefer to fool yourself." Yes. That's what we humans do to cope. Recommended. Kino/Adopt. Blu-ray.
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What is birth injury?
Birth trauma is a whole complex of diseases (or rather, injuries) that can occur in a newborn during pregnancy or during the birth itself.
Birth trauma distinguishes hypoxic (associated with lack of oxygen) and mechanical.
Hypoxic trauma is represented by a lesion of the spinal cord, brain, or internal organs that arise due to hypoxia of the newborn or fetus.
Mechanical birth injury:
- a birth tumor;
- damage to nerves;
- hemorrhage in the muscle tissue;
- fracture of bones;
- Cephalohematoma.
Factors predisposing to birth trauma:
- prematurity;
- low or too large mass of the fruit;
- protracted or transitory delivery;
- In addition, the application of forceps creates a high risk of developing birth trauma.
In fact, birth trauma is nothing likethe inevitable outcome of the generic process. That is, it is present in each specific case of childbirth, the difference is only in its degree. Birth trauma is formed as a result of mechanical interaction between the fetus and the mother. In some cases, this process activates the protective and adaptive powers of the child, while in others (with the exhaustion of compensatory forces) contributes to the weakening of the adaptation of the child.
The most common manifestation of trauma is the birth trauma of the head. The following head injuries are distinguished: a generic tumor and a cephalothorem.
Generic swelling is nothing more than a soft edemathe tissues of the head of the woman presenting to the birth canal. As a result of compression of soft tissues, venous stasis is often formed with petechial hemorrhage under the skin. Most often this type of birth trauma occurs in primiparous mothers, with long-term births, as well as with a large, relative to the birth canal, the fetus. The consequences disappear within a week.
Hemorrhage under the periosteum of the skull bones -cephalohematoma, develops as a result of the displacement of the skin with the periosteum during passage of the fetus along the generic pathways. Over time (during the first two to three days after delivery) blood accumulates in the hematoma, as a result, the tumor increases.
If we talk about a hemorrhage into the muscle tissue,then most often it occurs in the sternocleidus muscle. At the site of hemorrhage, a tumor forms (1-2 weeks after birth). Subsequently, the hemorrhage manifests itself as a child's tilted head to the sick side (torticollis), while the chin is directed in the opposite direction.
As for bone fractures, the most common obstetric practice is a fracture of the clavicle. Fracture occurs as a result of the pathology of both the genera itself and in the provision of obstetric care.
Speaking of nerve damage, it is worth noting the high incidence of damage to the facial nerve. In addition, it is often found and damage to the brachial plexus.
The most dangerous of birth injuries -intracranial birth trauma. The danger in this case is that this trauma causes damage to the brain, as a result of cerebral edema or hemorrhage. There are three degrees of severity of intracranial birth trauma: light, medium and heavy. Severe degree steadily leads to the formation of a stable pathology of the nervous system (both central and peripheral). The acute period is characterized by excitation of the central nervous system of the newborn, characterized by: anxiety, convulsions, crying, insomnia, tremor of the child's limbs. At the same time, the reflexes of swallowing and sucking are suppressed. Subsequently, the period of excitement is replaced by a state of lethargy and decreased muscle tone, the child's cry becomes weak, the skin is pale, the child is too sleepy. Often there are repeated attacks of suffocation.
Thus, birth trauma - a frequent, and most importantly, a significant problem, leading to serious consequences.


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Which position is the most precarious? Housing & Planning Minister or football manager?
This image, which I came by via @NobleFrancis on Twitter, reveals that Alok Sharma is the fifteenth Housing Minister in twenty years, with the average tenure being just sixteen months.
According to this piece the average tenure of a football manager is also sixteen months.
An incoming football manager can typically expect to inherit a squad that is bereft of form and confidence. An incoming Planning Minister can typically expect to inherit decisions that were just too complicated and policies that were just too difficult for their predecessors to deal with. Alok Sharma's in-tray seems particularly full, but helpfully for him a House of Commons Library Briefing Paper on Planning Reform Proposals sets out proposed changes that are still yet to be made. These include (in the Briefing Paper's order):
- Section 106 contributions
- Community Infrastructure Levy
- Local plans and housing requirements
- Housing delivery test
- Fixing housing land supply on an annual basis
- Requirement to plan for housing and strategic priorities
- Incentive to put in place a Local Plan
- Duty to cooperate
- Housing on commuter hubs and commercial land
- A standardised approach to housing requirement calculations
- Upward extensions
- Rural areas
- Release of land for starter homes
- Affordable housing: change of definition
- Consultation on planning and affordable housing for build to rent
- Presumption in favour of brownfield land
- Cutting red tape review
- Roads and infrastructure requirements
- Protected species
- Utility connection to new homes
- Changes to planning application fees
- Garden cities, towns and villages
- Completion notice reform
- Secretary of State planning decisions: time limit
- Fees for making a planning appeal
- Green Belt
- Neighbourhood planning
- Developer's track record
- Sustainable development and the environment
- Basement development
- Designation for poor performance
- Draft airports national policy statement
A number of the proposals, for example, will influence how people will bid for land. If bidding on a subject-to-planning basis the bidder has to anticipate what the policy regime will be when consent is granted, which might be eighteen months away. Does the bidder adopt a 'worse case scenario' and risk losing the site with an uncompetitive headline offer? Does the bidder adopt a 'best case scenario' and present, in headline terms at least, the best offer, but risk either having to 'chip' the purchaser when the policy requirements finally emerge, or wrangle with the LPA over what then, to them, is viable.
A number of these proposals, for example, will influence how people will promote a local plan. The planning policy manager might be prepared to trust in the evidence base, build in as much flexibility to emerging policies as possible, and try to convince an Inspector that there is no future problem so serious that an early review cannot remedy it. The Leader of the Council though, perhaps faced with local elections next year, might adopt a more circumspect approach. What if? What if the draft standard OAN methodology is adopted and does mean we can reduce our housing targets? What if the large strategic sites policy falls foul of a housing delivery test? Our fragile pretence of a 5YHLS will be shattered for good. Let's just wait and see. There is an irony, of course, in one of the proposals being focussed on incentivising the production of local plans.
The pond of planning policy and guidance is seldom still, but in the recent past the sector has had to anticipate the waves from the Housing & Planning Act 2016, tossed in by the Cameron and Osborne Government, and the waves from this year's Housing White Paper, which signalled the change of direction being attempted by May and Javid. What hope for a period of tranquillity? Philip Hammond has suggested that the Budget might again include planning reforms, which would be in addition to the revised draft NPPF, expected early in the New Year and the Green Paper on Social Housing that Sajid Javid has announced. Even more for the Minister's in-tray.
Mr Sharma has noted that Planning Ministers are a bit like Doctor Who and that he is the latest incarnation, but has said that he "hopes to be in place for a decent length of time and to see through many of the reforms that are laid out in the Housing White Paper".
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What to know about taxes when sending large transfers Down Under.
How Australia regulates large remittances
If you're sending a large sum of money to friends and family in Australia, they could be on the hook for taxes regulated by the Australian Taxation Office, depending what you're sending it for.
In general, one-time gifts or inheritances transferred into the country are not subject to Australia's gift tax. As long as you've attended to any local tax responsibilities in your home country, you can send as much as you'd like to loved ones in Australia.
If you're sending a large sum of money to take advantage of an investment opportunity — for example, to invest in a business or property — you're required to report the amount as foreign investment income to the Australian Taxation Office. You may be required to pay tax on this money, depending on your specific circumstances.
If you're concerned about a large inheritance of money or property, speak to a tax professional to make sure that you comply with Australia's taxation regulations.
What are the penalties for not filing a large remittance?
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Criminal convictions can affect your employment and ability to travel outside the country. Encourage your friends and family to report any large money transfer on their annual tax returns to the Australian Taxation Office. Or ask them speak to a tax professional for guidance.
Do I have to report large transfers out of the US?
To be safe, yes. If the federal government discovers that you've failed to report a large sums of money into and out of the US, you face severe penalties that can include jail time.
By law, banks are required to report cash transactions that exceed $10,000 — and transactions of any amount that raises suspicions. For independent money transfer businesses, the reporting threshold can be as low as $1,000. Talk to a tax professional about whether your money transfer complies with federal taxation guidelines.
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Pockets Gone Stay Fat - Master P feat Magic
[Magic Talking]
I dare one of you say something bout me
Speaking on the wrong n_ggas ya heard me {come on}
Don't be mad
These n_ggas hear gonna stay around {come on}
F_ck with us if you wanna and see what's gone happen ya hear me
[Hook 2x: Magic]
Believe tha n_gga
These pockets gone stay fat n_gga
See me and P go way back ya best stay back
To you hatas muthaf_ck this is payback
[Verse One: Magic]
These n_ggas is hatin we like what ever
We pay no mind to these n_ggas we out chasin our chedda
and dodge'n this bull sh_t, n_gga neva
Close your f_ckin mouth is what you p_ssy n_ggas betta
We got this in this ??? because we so cleva
and make a mill break me off is how we stay together
I'm doing my own thing but me and P we forevea
Favor for favor we got this sh_t on lock
Keep running your f_cking mouth, get your ??? ass back
I go to church straped with a 45 glock
Them n_ggas be askin but scared to say it to out faces
Cuz we know so many n_ggas in so many different places ye head me
[Hook 2X: Magic]
[Verse Two: Master P]
N_gga we thugged together
Sold drugs together
F_cked hoes together
Kicked indo together and
I don't know why you hate me?
Screamin what the f_ck have you done for me lately
Only real n_ggas stand on my block
and home we hustlin and if we hurt than the 9 cock
Neva beef with no n_ggas you ain't got beef with
Never take care of no hoes you don't sleep with
These streets is real lil daddy so get yo mind right
but if you f_ck with mine I got a bag that will act right
N_ggas wanna leave the tank acting mad but do it silently
but ain't no comin back cuz ain't nobody smile n
[Hook 2X: Magic]
[Verse Three: Magic]
Hatin get you no where
You n_ggas better hush
F_ckin around with us and get yo ??? ass touched
I don't want bust I wanna bet you down to mush
Cuz you gettin on my nerves plus you talk to much
See Magic from ?? ?? ??
Whip you up quick and send you home to momma cryin
So ?? ?? ?? like a whirl like a tornado
5 hundred miles per hour, get rid of all the hatas
You wanna see us fall but you n_ggas ain't ready
Your music is dull and I'm sharp cuz ????
Compare me to the other n_ggas and see what you get
The coldest muthaf_ck that you've heard check ya hear me
[Hook 2X: Magic]
[Master P talking]
Now how the f_ck the media gonna compare me to a rapper
One of you muthaf_ckas make ???
Then ya'll speak on
N_gga know that we from the gutta
We made it to the b_tta
and that's why they mad at us
Tryin to keep us off MTV
Tryin to keep us out the muthaf_ckin public eye
but we street n_ggas
and we know how to hustle
We gonna always get ours n_gga
Believe that


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Discovering The Truth About Equipment
Purchasing Trailers for an Organization
Trailers serve a number of purposes. They offer a powerful form of transporting heavy goods or vehicles. The work of a primary trailer is the logistics of moving heavy cargo and appliances to various destinations. There are some models on offer in the market. They are utilized by small businesses, large organizations, and even for home use to ferry goods. A large percentage of these trailers are mostly used commercially, in transport departments, for the ferrying of big sized appliances and large quantities of stock, to retail chains. Typical versions of trailers are bike trailers, flat top trailers, food van trailers, car trailers, and such. Every model in the trailer range is designed for a certain purpose, due to their unique features. The model you finally decide to buy is chosen based on what your business will be using it for.
When looking to acquire a heavy-duty trailer for business purposes, you shall have to begin by establishing which companies construct the best trailers on the market. Some companies are there, which may turn out to be ready to supply your required trailer, from the variety they have in stock. When you settle on the best company offering you high-quality trailers, your business will be better off. The asking price of certain companies for their examples is quite competitive. A look at the company's gallery and specifications of each model should give you an idea of what to focus on.
Should you not find the right trailer for you from the various models presented online, you can order for a custom-made trailer. While this may be more expensive, it will, however, be best suited to meet your business requirements. You can get free quotations on your desired custom made trailer from the reputable companies which specialize in that field. There are those that even involve you in the design and finishing of the trailer.
After you manage to establish which company you wish to purchase from or work with, you will then need to focus your attention on their history and market behavior. The company must also be licensed and have legitimate payment options on their website. Also confirm whether the models and specifications they have on their site are similar to the finished products to be delivered.
It will of help to you to find out from other sources the information presented on their website for the various trailers. When you end up with the model you want to buy, you can ask to pay for it.
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The Lamzac® The Original is like a large and comfy inflatable sofa that you can take anywhere you want! Some people call this the inflatable sausage chair because it looks a little bit like a hot dog!The Lamzac can be easily deflated and stored away in polyethylene bag when not in use. As a result the Lamzac® The Original is the perfect travel companion for all your outdoor trips such as outdoor music festivals, on beach trips, hanging out in the park and much more.
Meanwhile the Lamzac® The Original inflatable lounger is made from a strong and durable fabric similar to the kind used for parachutes, which keeps this lounger lightweight. This will ensure that you can use the Lamzac® The Original over and over again — unlike copies made from plastic that are prone to bursting!
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Lea Michele has revealed that she is proud to set what she believes is a good example to young girls.
The Glee star explained that she is able to show children that you don't have to be "cool" at school to be successful in the future.
She told Zest: "I'm really proud [to be a role model]. I don't have any skeletons in my closet and I don't feel like I'm pretending to be someone that I'm not.
"Yes, I work really hard and I'm determined like Rachel but I'm also a really happy, easy-going person.
"Plus, I'm proud of the choices I made growing up and want to show young girls that you don't have to do what all the cool kids do in order to turn out okay in the real world."
The actress and singer admitted that her work schedule is tiring but said that she is fortunate to have a job that she enjoys.
She added: "The dance routines we learn at work are pretty punishing, especially when you have to do 50 takes of something.
"But when I look around and realise how much fun I'm having with my best friends, it just makes me want to do it again.
"Los Angeles is a pretty tough city. When I first moved here from New York I wasn't sure I'd fit in, as there's a definite idea of what's beautiful.
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Yesterday evening I had the opportunity to go and try a Hiitgirl class in Highgate, thanks to BeFit:London and the #HHHChallenge I'm doing. Hiitgirl was founded by Susan and Stuart Dyson who wanted to create a workout that would fit into the lives of busy women who wanted an effective work out which wouldn't take up a lot of their time.
So my session yesterday was led by Susan Dyson herself and it was a sweat filled 30 minute session. I loved it. I found is very challenging and I fear that I didn't push myself as hard I should. Does anyone else every worry about that after they have completed a work out? My body was hurting in the good way – you know when muscles are making it known that they are working out – and I was sweating loads. But today, looking back I think I could have done more.
However, this doesn't take anything away from the fact that it was hard and it was amazing. The atmosphere is lovely and there is always music but not deafening music which is brilliant. Susan was very encouraging and very motivational. Watching her demonstrate the moves was actually awe inspiring. Her speed is something I hope I have one day.
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The whole session worked in 30 second slots. 30 seconds of high intensity exercise and then 30 seconds to recover and learn the next move. It was such an effective way of pooping me out.
In this picture Susan is the beautiful woman in the middle. I am the woman at the end with very messy hair.
I love the fact that I get to try all these incredibly fitness classes and learn all these ways of making my body stronger. Hiitgirl was brilliant and I definitely will be going again.


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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
What time is it in China right now?
Finally, I can break my blog-fast and get on with things: We have gotten a message from our friends across the sea (see comments on the previous post.) I'm sure they are words of peace and cross-cultural understanding, something along the lines of "Old friends and new acquaintance bring much thankful 5-17-65-4-2-98-12," or perhaps "We love your Grand Slam breakfast."
Whatever it says, I'll never know, both because I don't read Chinese characters and I'm afraid to click on it. But it's the thought that counts.
And now I can get back to my blog.
In an effort to recapture what the approximate tone was around here before my long, Chinese-induced absence, I've decided to share with you something completely trivial and try to express just how hilarious I find it. That's pretty much all I did before, right?
And so I give you the Vox Clock 2, a talking clock from the 1980s.
That's right... a talking clock. This is the way-ahead-of-its-time precursor to all those talking clocks you take for granted and are now surrounded by in your 21st-century life. Can you even imagine a time when we didn't have robotic voices telling us the time on demand?
What's that you say? You don't have any talking clocks in your house? What is this, 1981?
Okay, so the talking clock caught on about as well as the dancing Coke can and the DeLorean, but you have to smile at the spirit behind such semi-futuristic gadgets. And the emphasis here is on the semi- because my favorite part about that clock, along with its lifeless, countdown-to-ignition robotic voice and the promise of a future where we don't have to use our eyes to tell time, is the classy faux-wood paneling! Because what better way to tie your future-is-now timepiece into your 80s yuppie decor, all track lighting and black laminate furniture, than to disguise it as a block of wood! So perfect.
And how did I come to possess this wonder of Cold War technology? Same place I got that 12-pack of Guiness in the fridge: My grandmother gave it to me. For most of my life, the hourly intonations of that clock (doo-doo-DOO... it's Four a m ...ding!) were the background of any visit to Cape May. That clock was almost a part of the family. Aside from announcing the hour, it was known, on very rare occasion, to announce random times between the hour (it's eeleven-Oh-thlree p m), and once, just once, with several witnesses, myself and my grandmother included, it said "Two dolla and a TOOT-sie roll." I swear to god.
My grandmother just moved to Georgia to be closer to my parents. Before she started packing up her stuff in New Jersey, she asked my cousins and I if there was anything we wanted out of her house so she'd be sure not to throw it away. Duffy took the little fisherman that sat atop the hutch in the dining room. Danny wanted the duck that held open the bathroom door. The giant jar full of beachglass was already spoken for, so I immediately thought of the clock that sat on a shelf just above where the duck did his work.
So now the Vox Clock 2 mechanically recites the hour in our new apartment in Atlanta. I'm a light sleeper, so I had to put it inside the bench by our dining room table, but you can still hear it loud and clear. Of course, you can't push the button to get the time with it in there, but we have some of those old-fashioned non-talking clocks to fill in the gaps.
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- Julie said...
He lives! Facebook has been trying to get me to reconnect with you for months now, but I refused to do so until you got a comment from China.
So (A) welcome back and (B) I will be so disappointed if I show up at your apartment and the clock does not tell me what it needs to provide me with a tootsie roll.
You've set the standard pretty high, Mickey. Do not let me down.
- December 8, 2009 at 10:44 PM
- A Free Man said...
I don't know, those dancing Coke cans came this close to being huge.
Glad to see you back.
- December 8, 2009 at 11:32 PM
Glad you're back. And how long do we have to keep that clock before the novelty wears off?
- December 9, 2009 at 9:40 AM
- nancypearlwannabe said...
Yay, you're back! I've missed you! And Mumsy Lou just commented the other day about how you weren't writing anymore. I'm glad you are disappointing her any longer.
- December 9, 2009 at 9:50 AM
- Chris said...
Very cool. There's no sense of scale in the photo, but it looks like it should double as a miniature beer fridge.
Could you fit even a couple of cans in there?
- December 9, 2009 at 1:16 PM
- Allie said...
That is one sweet clock!
I get a lot of Chinese character comments on one particular post on my blogger site. I did the Google Translate thing, and they all seem to be for some kind of hair care product. I never approve them. I'm not as cool as you. :)
- December 9, 2009 at 3:57 PM
- The Modern Gal said...
Well shoot, I could have offered you one of my Chinese comments. I've got plenty to go around.
I love that the name is VOX clock. Vox is such an '80s term.
- December 9, 2009 at 7:10 PM
[Mick's mom here.] I'm glad you moved the clock out of my house. I miss you, but not the tootsie-roll man.
Correction: the night of said tootsie-roll incident, 'the man' repeated the famous enigmatic phrase SEVERAL times. It was funny and creepy at the same time.
Speaking of time, it was like 3 in the morning. What were you doing up?
- December 11, 2009 at 5:02 PM
- Aaron said...
Well, huzzah. This is what I call a Christmas Miracle (tm). You blogging again, not the clock. Although that is awesome in an entirely different way.
- December 12, 2009 at 12:43 AM
- Stefanie said...
I don't have a talking clock, but as of Christmas Eve, I have a clock that I can talk TO! I know you're jealous. Seriously, I can hit the snooze button without even rolling over and pulling my arm out from under the covers. I just have to say "Snooze!" Oh, technology. And I didn't even have to go to 1981 to get it.
(P.S. Yes, I realize such a clock of laziness is ridiculous. I swear to you I requested it specifically because I liked the design, not the "talk to it" feature.)
- January 5, 2010 at 11:03 PM
- Robert said...
Just got my Vox clock from my grandmother today! My grand-father got this when he started losing his eyesight and could not see what time it was anymore. I remember sitting in my grandpa's lap when I was a kid and pushing that button a thousand times - it was so cool. Saw your post and wanted you to know people like me are still excited to own such a clock and remember the good ole days.
- February 4, 2013 at 7:54 PM


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When fishing clear-water small streams and wading along the shore, anglers pay close attention to the location of riffles, pools, and especially, "holes" and how fish relate to these visible features. However when fishing in a boat on large, possibly murky water, it all looks the same. That's why most anglers cast along the shoreline. This is a target they can see.
Electronic "fish-finders" help anglers locate features in a seemingly featureless body of water. I have a lot to learn about reading electronics but for my unit, unless ice fishing or the kids need something to watch between bites, I try not to be distracted by those pixilated fish taunting me by cruising across the screen; I'm looking for a quick change in depth. Not that there aren't fish on wide, flat areas too but when the going gets rough, it is hard to beat a hole.
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In a masterful introductive essay for an exhibition of architectural drawings of the twentieth century, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani (1982) stated that in the drawings kept in drawers, author's creativity appears in its purest form. He also said that since drawings are not debased by compromises of construction, the architectural idea manifests itself with greater fullness of 'meaning'. In this sense, the value of the architectural drawing assumes one of its most 'high' expressions: as symbolic figure, and icon.
During the exhibition organized by the Roman scholar is underlined a history of architecture of the last century through the drawings of those authors considered real masters of the Modern Movement whose representations can be considered architecture icons of that period.
For many years now, due to legislative definition the archive drawings have been considered cultural heritage that, as others, need to be safeguarded and focalized. Beyond their conservation, cataloging and indexing one must disseminate not only through simple photographic representations, found in books or catalogs, but also with critical interpretations of their contents.
As real place of architectural criticism the drawing is the tool that allows more than any other modus of criticism to get closer to the recognizable consistency of the design process due to its constant 'coming and going' characteristic of the drawing and construction of the form, without which it cannot take 'body'. Consequently conceiving the drawing as analysis of the form and critical tool, it becomes the medium between words and things. When these latter are 'drawn', drawing is the only survey device able to retrace the project's critical points, the hidden ones, that the word cannot identify. Therefore, the redrawing of the unbuilt architecture becomes a mimesis of the design process in which the action of the drawing coincides with the design one, so manifesting the Italian translation of the English word 'design' that is project.
Due to its extreme versatility the digital drawing is a useful tool for graphic analysis of architectural projects remained within the drawer that, just to be 'pristine', have a richer expressiveness than to the built projects debased by compromises of external factors such as the client, economic aspects, sudden variations in the process, errors.
The digital model, intended as a critical tool, is thus to be considered as a 'starting point' and not as the outcome for graphic analysis of the architecture. Indeed, other graphics, sometimes not deduced from the model, useful for understanding/translation of architecture, are added. The construction of the model is not the construction of a simple image, operation often carried out for the project's representation, but it is the hermeneutic and critical result of the drawing tending to the formal analysis, true object of 'imitation'.
The critical path traced by Magnago Lampugnani (1982) was enlightening because it had allowed undertaking research lines related to the unbuilt architecture. Indeed, when it is investigated by critical redrawing, allows to develop a 'new history'. At the same time it offers new architectural review and unpublished images for the 'written word', establishing new digital archives often explored when inserted into computerized databases on the web.
The construction of a database, the digital archive, is a dangerous operation since the produced image, instead to function as 'stop-glance' inviting to the silence, risks to add itself to the general noise, made by the web, until to create a sort of vague background noise to which it is not focused enough.
From this brief notes, through the creation of new images, this study wants to be a starting point for the construction of a possible digital archive related to the theme of the one-family house in the work of Piero Bottoni and Luigi Vietti, proposing itself as potential method.
Albeit apparently limited, the survey field has opened up to new scenarios both for the study of Bottoni and Vietti's work, and for the study of the history of architecture. Indeed, when the analysis of the drawings and the redrawing practice investigate the history of architecture, one can easily find similarities and differences in architectural production of the architect studied.
Leaving to the reader of drawings the critical judgment on the work of architecture, we do not want to cross the threshold of the 'doors' of history.
On the contrary we want to demonstrate that when the digital drawing comes from a graphic analysis of architecture and the project, intended as a 'set of systems', it can have this effectiveness, often lacking to the written word and, more of it, the silence.
Volumetric Analysis: Graphic analysis related to spatial logics that exist between the tridimensional elements of architecture, read through schemes, orthogonal projections and geometric analysis.
Diapente: Harmonic ratio. Rectangle with sides in ratio 2:3.
Hermeneutic Analysis: Interpretive approach adopted in the graphic analysis of an architecture drawing leading to the seeking of further key interpretations of the work itself.
Graphic Reading: Reading and understanding operation of an architecture through its decomposition into volumetric and geometric parts graphically expressed through an additional language.
Redrawing: Graphic restitution of one or more archive drawings obtained by an interpretative practice of the project and expressed through the codes of representation that provide new information on architecture.
Diatessaron: Harmonic ratio. Rectangle with sides in ratio 3:4.
Harmonic Ratios: Geometric ratios between pure shapes traceable also in music that enable us to understand the spatial logic of drawn architecture.
Digital Archive: Cataloging of drawings, obtained through the implementation of digital modeling software, within a database that collects graphic elaborations acquired from archive drawings.
Golden Ratio: Indicates the ratio between the two dimensions of which the major is the mean proportional between the minor and the sum of the two.
Diagoneo/i: Harmonic ratio. Rectangle which ratio between the two sides corresponds to the ratio between the side of a square and its diagonal.