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The World Journal is a Chinese-language newspaper that is published in North America. It is aimed at the Chinese-speaking populations of the United States and Canada.
The World Journal is the most popular Chinese-language newspaper in the United States. It is published and sold at newsstands in major cities throughout the United States and Canada, including New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and Toronto. The newspaper is also available through mail subscription. The newspaper covers global, national and local news. Individual categories include finance, art and fitness sections, among others. The newspapers' headquarters is located in Queensborough, New York City.


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Cable companies are spending billions to gut net neutrality and create fast lanes and slow lanes on the Internet. We can't let this happen, but they're so powerful. To win, we need a response that pulls out all the stops and drives the maximum number of people to voice their support for net neutrality.
On September 10th, sites across the web will display an alert with a symbolic "loading" symbol (the proverbial "spinning wheel of death") and promote a call to action for users to push comments to the FCC, Congress, and the White House. Major websites and services are lined up to push hard on this — it affects literally everyone who uses the Internet for work or pleasure. This is the moment to win this battle for the net.
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My "village" over here in the GCC (has music).
Harvesting the dates.
The drive to the village by some tourists.
I also enjoyed this documentary about polygamy in Oman who I can't upload so here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDOK27ytqPE (there are many parts, this is the first). I found it intriguing to notice that the women who made favorable comments towards polygyny were from the region of Oman that my husband co-wife hail from, and those who made more negative comments from areas I consider more cultural, and less Islamic based.


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"This is a fun movie that the whole family can enjoy together. The star is a monkey named Dodger who is amazingly well trained. He is not really bad- he's just been trained to do bad things by his gypsy owner (Harvey Keitel who has a lot of fun with the villan role). The kids in this movie are cute, especially the younger brother, and the locations around the L.A. area are beautiful. There's also some interesting comparisons between the monkey's family unit and the little girls."
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A bungling thief who tried to steal part of a church's PA system was foiled by a man who was praying, a court heard.
Anthony Schurock, 38, of Lancaster Road North, Preston, was seen walking into St Wilfrid's RC Church on Chapel Street, Preston, by a member of the congregation, Preston Magistrates' Court heard.
During the incident, at 4pm on November 19 last year, the worshipper was suspicious and moved pews to watch what Schurock was doing.
Prosecuting, Philippa Jones said: "He sat next to a Bose speaker which was attached to the wall, and the witness saw him tampering with something at the back.
"When Mr Schurock realised he was being watched he went to the witness and said 'I've got a friend who is sat outside Tesco, he's suicidal and you need to go and see to him.'
"The witness left the church but when he realised how far Tesco was he went back inside.
"The defendant gave him the same story, but this time the witness called the police."
Officers arrived at the scene and found the wires at the back of the speaker were cut.
Schurock also admitted stealing £45 of groceries from a shop, putting him in breach of a conditional discharge for begging.
Defending, John Rimmer revealed 11 days after the attempted theft Schurock was struck down with septicaemia and was in hospital for six weeks.
He currently walks with the aid of a cane due to the premature onset of arthritis.
He added: "He has been reliant on street drugs, sometimes able to cope financially, sometimes not able to cope financially."
The bench ordered him to pay a £200 fine, £50 compensation and £20 surcharge.


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Bluestacks is the best android emulator available for Windows, used by millions of people daily for a variety of purposes. The main competitor for Android is iOS which is Apple's operating system. But you can use Android on iOS and vice versa using some emulators.
So in this post, I will show you how to install Bluestacks Android emulator in Mac operating system. And it is the only way to use android only apps in iOS and that is also restricted to MAC users. iPhone, iPad users can not install blue stacks, so they can't.
Features of Installing Bluestacks in Mac OS X.
It is really a great way to use Android apps in MAC device, that too in a computer because mobile apps in a computer are always great.
iOS users always have to pay for everything they do on their computer, so having this in it will help them a lot.
Compared to iOS apps android apps are larger in number so that you can have new types of apps in your list
Android apps are more customizable and noob friendly than iOS apps.
The best part of having blue stacks on you MAC is that some of the apps which you are paying to use in iOS can be downloaded for free in Android through bluestacks.
Bluestacks has over a 90 million Windows users, so after it is been released with MAC OS, it is believed to have more than 100 million users.
Another cool feature is that it even recognizes gesture likes pinch to zoom in your retina display.
You can sync your Google account to the bluestacks Android account and install the apps from any other device to your MAC.
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This is really a very helpful initiative for the MAC users by bluestacks as many people have been looking for this kind of solutions for years and now they got one exactly from a most trusted and famous emulator.
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Messages to Joshua Ledet — Westlake Sends Love To Its 'American Idol' [VIDEO]
Dear Joshua,
You've been out in Hollywood with "American Idol" for a while now, and your friends and family miss you. We know your preparation means you can't always talk to us, but we wanted to talk to you. So we set up a camera and let everyone say what was in their hearts.
Every week, the Managan Center in Westlake is filled with your friends, family and neighbors, watching the show together and cheering you on, even though you can't hear us. It's become a big event, and your name is on the lips of everyone in town -- Westlake is becoming a famous place because you come from here.
This little video is one of two we'll be sharing this week -- we had so many people who wanted to tape their messages to you that we couldn't fit them all in one video. No one in the Lake Area doubts that you will be the next 'American Idol,' and we wanted you to know just how much support and love you have here!
You're going to see a lot of familiar faces in these videos. They're your biggest fans, and even when you belong to the world as a famous singer, you'll always be a Westlake boy to us!
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In early March, President Barack Obama proposed a "Student Aid Bill of Rights" that will help students manage their federal student loan debt and create a responsive feedback system where student loan borrowers can file complaints. In effect, the Student Aid Bill of Rights is designed to simplify and ease the loan process for student borrowers.
For the 40 million households with student loan debt—which, according to the White House, hovers around $28,400—this might come as welcome news. More than 70 percent of students who graduate with a bachelor's degree leave with some debt.
Student loans and your credit history
While student loans can be a challenge for people just graduating college, they can also offer some benefits for your credit report and credit score. Student loans are categorized as installment loans because you pay the same amount every month until they are paid off. Carrying student loans adds diversity of credit to your credit history and, if you pay your bills on time, can add positive payment history to your credit report.
"A student loan is no different than any other type of debt. Timely payments can be great for your credit report," says Kevin Weeks, president of the Financial Counseling Association of America.
"What's difficult with student loans is, with deferment, it's easy for a 22-year-old to ignore them," Weeks says. "And the next thing you know, you are moving toward a default."
Your payment history is the most heavily weighted factor in your credit score, which means that missing multiple payments could have a serious impact on it.
"Even if you start making payments, those historical late payments will still show up on your credit report," Weeks says.
To help ensure that borrowers can afford their monthly loan payments and avoid the hassle of missed payments, President Obama's proposed Student Aid Bill of Rights directs federal agencies to take the following steps to help students pay their federal loans:
1. Create centralized websites for loan management and student feedback.
President Obama has called for the Secretary of Education to create a new website by 2016 that will serve as a place where students can submit feedback about federal student loan lenders, services, collection agencies, and colleges or universities in a simple and straightforward way. The hope is that in creating such a website, students and borrowers will be ensured that their complaints will be directed to the right party for timely resolution and response by the Department of Education.
Currently, borrowers can submit complaints on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's website, Weeks says.
The Department of Education will also establish a centralized repayment center, which may help students stay on top of their monthly payments. Currently, if you wish to view your student loans, you can sign in to the National Student Loan Data System, but you must visit the loan servicer's website to see all of student debt obligations, payment amounts, due dates, and payment options.
2. Collectors must apply prepayments to loans with the highest interest rates.
The interest rate of your student loans makes a big difference in the total cost of your education. In order to help reduce debt, some borrowers choose to make extra payments toward loans with the highest interest rates, as those cost more the longer it takes to pay them off. But the process can be arduous because loan servicers usually apply any extra payments toward your next monthly bill overall, indiscriminate of interest rate. In order to apply funds to a specific loan, you often have to speak to a customer service representative or send a letter with your check.
The proposal directs collectors to allocate prepayments first to loans with the highest interest rates unless the borrower requests a different repayment plan.
3. Improve communication and consumer protection during the repayment process.
The Student Aid Bill of Rights also directs government agencies to provide better consumer protection and communication (such as enhanced disclosures throughout the repayment process); better protect borrowers from falling behind on their payments; and attempts to ensure consistency across loan servicers.
The government currently relies on private collection agencies not only to collect debt but also to communicate with borrowers about their debt repayment options. As noted in a 2014 report from the Student Loan Borrower Assistance program, "there is inherent conflict in these dual responsibilities."
"The third-party services act as a collection arm, not an advocate for borrowers," Weeks says. He says consumers need more education about their federal loan options.
4. Provide clarity on the rights of the borrower in bankruptcy.
Student loans are difficult to discharge in a personal bankruptcy. In the Student Aid Bill of Rights, President Obama ordered administration officials to review whether the bankruptcy laws should be changed.
Even in light of these proposed changes, you should communicate with your lender if you are having trouble making your payments. You may be able to enroll in an assistance program, such as an income-driven repayment plan or a pay-as-you-earn plan.
Camille Puschautz is a researcher, writer, and Web producer at Think Glink Media, and a regular contributor to the Equifax Finance Blog. Previously, Camille worked for Bloomberg News in New York and MediaTec Publishing in Chicago. She is a graduate of the University of Dallas and Northwestern University, where she received a master's degree in journalism.
Kristin M. Harty, Vice President- Strategic Solutions- Education Vertical with Equifax, contributed to this article.
The information contained in this blog post is designed to generally educate and inform visitors to the Equifax Finance Blog. The blog posts do not give, and should not be assumed to provide, personalized tax, investment, real estate, legal, retirement, credit, personal financial, or other professional advice. Before making any financial decision, you should always consult with the appropriate professionals who can explain your options, rights, and legal responsibilities, and advise you on any tax, legal, credit, or business implications that may result from those decisions. The views and opinions expressed by the authors of blog posts are their own views and may not be the views or opinions of Equifax, Inc. and/or its affiliates.


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Thanks to all those who turned up, athletes, parents and helpers (including those parents that were co-opted).
The reason for the event was to enable athletes to compete in events that they haven't done over the season. For the under 11's group there may have been some events elsewhere but it was assumed that most hadn't competed in these events, so it was good to see a good turn out from that age group.
In the older age groups some athletes were more adventurous that others - some stuck to the events that they have done all season - although for Alfie Else this resulted in a PB (albeit wind assisted) and others did fill in gaps to qualify for the club's multi-event awards.
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Monday, March 30, 2009
More Snow (Crocus)!
Here's a smaller clump of 'Tricolor' that has appeared a bit removed from the one in the previous shot, however this one has a visitor! To be honest, I'd rather it have been a bee, but even flies count as insect subjects in our photography ... I'm not quite sure what attracts flies to crocus, but Fernymoss did remark that it does seem that they often can be seen visiting many of the same flowers as the bees do, and if you look really closely at this photo (click through for larger versions on all of these shots), you can see that his legs and antennae have a lot of pollen clinging to them. So even if they're not one of my favorite insects, they apparently do fulfill a few useful functions around the garden aside from providing food for the various spiders and other predators....
I guess one of the reasons I really like photographing crocus is for the many rich hues of colors you can get depending on how much sun you have to work with at a given time ... on a bright sunny day, the degrees of intensity you can get just by varying the angle of the shot can really be surprising at times. I'm always really pleased when I can get positively "sun drenched" shots that illuminate the blooms in all of their varied hues and 'Tricolor' certainly provides an excellent subject for just such shots. We have another purple variety called 'Ruby Giant' that I'm eagerly awaiting because of the intensity of its purple, paired with its pristine white center and brilliant yellow stamens ... you'll see it here when it finally starts blooming!
Here's yet another new colony out back among the Monarda (see the purplish leaves on the ground surrounding these blooms) ... I really liked how the sun caught the brilliant yellow of the stamens and the high contrast they create along with the gradations of purple in the petals ... truly, this is why I wish crocus had a longer bloom time than they do as spring ephemerals, but that's perhaps one of the reasons gardeners prize crocus so highly ... they provide such an incredibly rich variety of colors and 'wow' to the early spring garden that we might not appreciate them as much if they were to be in bloom for several months. Indeed, this is a case where absence truly does make the heart grow fonder, because once they are gone for the year, we know that it will be a long long wait before we see them again....
Ok, at the risk of burning out my audience on this particular crocus, I'm including this shot for its inadvertent catch of an insect caught in mid-flight ... s/he should be pretty easy to spot if you enlarge the photo, and if you look carefully you can even see the shadow of a leg on the flower petal below. I just love when we get fortuitous intruders in certain shots, because it seems that most times when we focus on the insects themselves they never seem to want to cooperate and pose nicely for the camera, so catching one on the wing is an event indeed!
There were other crocus blooming today that I'll be featuring soon in additional posts, so there's more to look forward to this week from Casa IVG, and though the forecast for this week is little different from last week's (chilly and cloudy) I'll be on the lookout for more splashes of color popping up around the gardens. Today's photos are courtesy of Fernymoss (my arthritis has been keeping me from getting "down and dirty" with the flowers of late, thanks to the damp and cold) so any accolades should be directed his way!
Hanna update:
We passed the 2 months mark on March 18, and Princess Hanna has definitely decided this is her home! She's even been hanging out a bit in her crate (of her own volition, I might add) off and on, so we're pleased to see her doing that because the day will come soon that we will have to leave her alone sometimes, but we still take her everywhere with us as long as we aren't gone from the car for too long and the weather isn't too nasty. She went back to the vet's on Friday for her last bordetella vaccine and to contribute her fecal sample (oh joy!), which I found out on Saturday came back positive for Giardia (a pretty common intestinal parasite in dogs), so Sunday we went back to get her one week course of medication to rid her of those nasties. The weird thing is, she is completely asymptomatic for the infection (as are many dogs I found out doing research) but is a carrier, so Dr. B recommended a course of Panacur just to make sure she gets rid of the little buggers. After that's done and she re-tests negative, I'm hoping she'll manage to stay out of the vet's office till fall when she gets her rabies vaccine renewed ... I'm sure she'll be relieved too, because she's not very fond of having her temperature taken (though she cooperates just fine) and always has a very surprised look on her face when Dr. B inserts the thermometer! Easy for me to say, eh?
After her vet visit, we did something we haven't done in a while, which is to peruse the sale tables in Blockbuster for movies we've missed and since they were having one of their big sales, we picked up several titles we've been wanting to add to the collection. So, Friday night we settled in, made popcorn, and proceeded to watch a double feature of Iron Man followed by Woody Allen's latest, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, both of which we really enjoyed despite their incredibly different "genres." Though I won't attempt to give full blown reviews of either, I will say that Robert Downey, Jr. was perfect in the role and I have a hard time imagining how anyone else could have brought the depth to that kind of role that he was able to achieve. I'm really glad to see he's got his act back together and is doing brilliant work again (I also thought he was very good in Zodiac). Now if I can just work up my nerve to see Tropic Thunder ... I've been told he was quite good in that one as well but I have to admit I have Ben Stiller issues, and I generally avoid his films.
I also picked up Burn After Reading, In Bruges and W, which I have been informed I will be watching by myself because Fernymoss can't bear the idea of seeing a whole film about $hrub. There's just enough of a trainwreck loving ambulance chasing rubber-necker in me that I just have to see it. I'll let you know what I think when I get around to it ... But the real find that I spotted and was considering buying before Fernymoss snapped it up was Marjane Satrapi's 2007 (Academy Award nominated) animated feature about growing up during the Iranian Islamic Revolution, Persepolis, which I do intend to review fully soon. It's too bad that it lost out to a snooty culinary rat that year, because it's a truly remarkable film, animated or not! So, sometime soon when I've had a chance to more fully digest it (and perhaps view it again to soak more of it up), I'll be posting a review. Needless to say, I highly recommend this film, and if you're lucky as we were, you might just be able to pick it up on a sale table for $3.99! It is worth every penny and then some!
20 comments:
- Roses and Lilacs said...
Your crocus are beautiful. I'm definitely adding some this fall for next spring bloom.
Congrats on Hanna, you guys have done a wonderful job with her. It makes me feel good to think there is one less homeless pup out there suffering. Good job to the rescue group too.
- CONEFLOWER said...
Wonderful, informative, and beautiful post! Loved the fly in mid-flight. Very cool! I never thought much about flies being pollen carriers but, why not? They're not so hairy as bees so they're not as effecient but every little bit helps.
Little Hanna is one lucky, happy doggie! Good job!
- FARfetched said...
Great shots, guys…
Your comment about Hanna & the thermometer reminded me of the scene in Grinch (Jim Carrey version) where he's in the mayor's bedroom…
- Shady Gardener said...
What a beautiful crocus!!! Thank you for featuring it. I appreciate the comments because it tells me what I might expect, should I be so fortuitous to be able to obtain it! ;-) Glad Hanna is feeling so at home and has a clean slate healthwise! :-)
- Mr. McGregor's Daughter said...
If only they did so in a groundcover of Phlox divaricata. I'm down to 2 measley 'Tricolor' Crocuses. Then again, I must admit that last year I had only 1, so maybe they're starting to stage a comeback, but I doubt it. They are wonderful subjects, and your photos certainly do them justice.
I'm glad Hanna is adapting to the crate. Asymptomatic Giardia is a new one to me. I'll have to remember that.
My husband & I loved "Iron Man." I agree that Robt. Downey, Jr., is perfect for the role. It was so refreshing to see a middle-aged superhero.
- boran2 said...
The crocus are beautiful, and you even have flies! My compliments on the photos.
I hope that Hanna remains well. I'm glad that you caught that infection.
- Iowa Victory Gardener said...
Hi Marnie,
This is a great one to have in your collection, or better yet, wait until Van Bourgondien runs one of their big sales come late summer (they always do) and just get the collection this comes in ... there are three other really outstanding ones in that package!
Congratulate Hanna, because she has been the easiest dog I've ever had to train (so far!) ...she really adapted herself quickly to our routine and knows the ropes quite well already. According to her foster mom, she practically house trained herself within a week and hasn't had a single accident here! It's going to be a while before we can trust her off the leash (too much puppy still!), but we're confident she'll get there....
- Iowa Victory Gardener said...
Hi Coneflower,
Glad you enjoyed the post ... I appreciate it when people learn something (ever so slight sometimes) from my work. We thought that fly in flight was so cool it had to be posted ... one of those shots we couldn't have gotten if we had tried, lol.
Hanna sure is happy most of the time (except when she doesn't get her way ... typical terrier!) and such a joy to have around ... we got so lucky getting her!
- Iowa Victory Gardener said...
Hey FAR,
Glad you liked the pics ... we're glad to finally have something worth shooting out in the garden. Now if it would just warm up consistently we could get the rest cleaned up and new things planted!
I haven't seen Carrey's Grinch, but I can imagine the scary face he probably made....
- Iowa Victory Gardener said...
Hi Shady,
You're welcome! Glad to be of service on the crocus front, lol. This one's easy to find because Van Bourgondien (see sidebar for link) always has it every fall ... this is the second time we've planted the collection it's part of, because we liked them so much. Keep your eye out for their sales in late summer and you can get them at a really good price (usually).
Hanna's almost there, and will be when her next test comes back negative (hopefully) in a few weeks. I think she had a few side effects today but is doing fine otherwise and peppy and sassy as ever!
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Hi MMD,
You have them growing under P. divaricata? Ouch! I wonder if the Phlox just crowded yours out or smothered them? Well, 2 is better than 1, at least, right? Those colonies I showed are the results of the original planting from 2005, so they do spread pretty quickly, and oddly enough, don't mind growing under Monarda. Glad you liked the photos ... I was very jealous when you posted a pic of your Tricolor a while back when we still didn't have any crocus yet!
I'm sure when you get your new pup, they'll screen for Giardia when they do the first fecal test, that's how Hanna's showed up, even though she's completely asymptomatic.
I remember you recommending (well, you and Annie) Iron Man to me a while back, so consider yourself one of my respected critics! I did kind of hate seeing Jeff Bridges play the bad guy though because I've always had a fond spot for him and his brother Beau. But he excelled at his role and was quite sinister!
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Hey B2,
Any sign of your crocus yet? I hope they show up soon for you ... glad you liked these and there are more beauties still to come. Maybe we'll start seeing some bees soon!
Hanna should be fine and in the clear in a couple of weeks (1 wk course of med, 2 weeks wait then re-test). We never guessed anything was wrong, but it showed up in her first fecal the vet recommended, so thank Dr. B for catching this!
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Coffee Club
I had the morning off, so I stretched that a little to skate at coffee club. I had a nice skate, worked on pretty much the same stuff as yesterday but felt a bit more relaxed and at ease. My CW FXOs are slowly improving. I really want to work on my toe loop with Sonya on Monday.
I saw Kelli after the session, and she mentioned that she's going to teach a figures class starting in Feb.; it will be Saturdays at 11. I'm pondering this.... more ice time on this would be nice but it might be a bit much schedule-wise. On the other hand maybe I'd switch from Sunday afternoons to Saturday afternoons since I'd already be there. Something to ponder.


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Thomas was a 3 star recruit out of high school by both Rivals and Scout. Rivals had Thomas as the 58th best WR in the 2006 class while Scout pegged him 34th.
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According to my GPS watch, the ride was a mere 3.89 miles, starting altitude was 7307 feet, highest was 7708 feet, so 400 ft climb. Total ascent was 762 feet (not sure how much I trust this since I'm not sure how the GPS accounts for errors in altitude).
Here I am starting up the trail
lots of rocks to climb over. some I had to walk.
a couple of "play areas" to practice climbing over rocks:
nice scenery
just the right amount of challenge:
pretty trees
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I wanted to do it again, but then came the rain and thunder. oh well, I was lucky, because I started just after a rain storm and got back before the next. The first rain was not that heavy so the trail was not muddy.
This was an awesome ride.


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Snowmen and Snowflakes
So I called on my years of being an infants student, And made a paper snowflake for my card. I used to love making 'snowflakes' when I was a kid, it was the closest thing you got to snow in Inverell, altho It did snow one day in 1984 when I was at highschool, but it didn't settle on the ground, but it was sooooo pretty.
I've been tagged by Sephi.
So I am terrible usually at tags, have wonderful intentions of getting them done, but somehow they just don't happen.... so I'm going to do this one! I've done this one before, so coming up with something new...hmmm... lets see lol!
Share 7 facts about yourself: some random, some weird
1. I dream vividly and creatively, and sometimes horribly
2. I have an super sensitive sense of smell (yes I'm the one who always smells smoke)
4. I love candles and we have candle lite dinners often
5. I need to write lists, but hate being tied down to lists, instead it gets all muddled up in my head and I get stressed, so I am trying to learn to write lists..lol!
6. Day trips with my family are my {sweet times}
7. I actually am doing 7... (I reckon that can be a fact..lol!!!)


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Friday, April 14, 2017 offers a much welcomed extended weekend for La Vernia, Texas, the small town 30 minutes southeast of San Antonio that has recently been rocked by scandal. The La Vernia Independent is taking it's scheduled "Easter Break" and it couldn't come at a better time. On the shoulders of practically every citizen of the community has been the multitude of reminders as the arrests of thirteen high school student-athletes were arrested on multiple sexual assault charges.
Perhaps the La Vernia Police Department has worked the hardest the past two months on getting it all right. Sgt. Donald "D.J." Keil and Chief Bruce Ritchey have tirelessly provided the leadership to keep integrity in the investigations, find help for children and keep stability in the community. It was Chief Ritchey who first acknowledged that healing will come from addressing the situation.
"This has impacted trust in the community," Ritchey said. "We need to get with the kids and let them realize how serious this is. We think kids got caught up in the moment and didn't realize the seriousness of this matter."
Easter weekend has always been important to the beautiful, friendly community and most citizens will take advantage of the time for prayer, refection and the county of blessings. Churches are planning seasonal services and offer much of the stability needed.
Donna Howell, a mother who moved to the community in 2005, mentions some of the blessings include the various sports activities that have been so important to local youth. The La Vernia Grizzlies Youth Sports Association is a Texas Youth Football Association affiliated organization with facilities at Wiseman Field off FM 775. St Ann's Catholic Church offers C.Y.O sports for children in soccer, volleyball, flag football, track, basketball, baseball, and softball starting at age of four.
"They are Christian based, we pray before and after each event and win or lose our young people are encouraged to have fun and be kind to one another."
"They are a positive part of our community," Howell said. "They are Christian based, we pray before and after each event and win or lose our young people are encouraged to have fun and be kind to one another."
Howell said her children have played on La Vernia Little League teams "for the past 3 years and have enjoyed lasting friendships as well as learning the game from the ground up. I have not been involved in the structuring of this organization, but from the parent point of view it's been well organized and a pleasant experience."
"I know the former president was Chad Walker, although I didn't know him personally, there was always positive talk and energy at the complex. This season Matt Brown was elected president. Matt is a member of the community, owns a local business and coaches a little league baseball team. He has been a positive influence on this community and continues to carry on a tradition of maintaining a positive atmosphere in the organization. My children's coaches have promoted good sportsmanship, kindness and consideration to others in their spirit of competition."
"The La Vernia Grizzlies Youth Sports Association is what I know best," Howell smiled. "The organization began in 1997 as La Vernia Grizzlies Pop Warner Football and Cheer leading. There were a group of women lead by Jonett Story and Tina Howell that wanted to have a place for our young ladies and gentlemen to gather as a community to form friendships and learn things like good sportsmanship and sense of fair play."
"With the hard work of this group of ladies and financial support from the community–as well as the generosity of the Wiseman family who graciously allowed them the use of the land to develop this organization–the Grizzlies were born," Howell said. "They grew by leaps and bounds and for about 12 years the community youth were involved in either cheer leading or playing football."
In 2010 "the Grizzlies made the decision to move from Pop Warner to TYFA and thereby changing our name officially to La Vernia Grizzlies Youth Sports Association organized by Matt Miller then turned over and headed up by our former president James Green, who dedicated the next 7 years to our young men, women and organization as a whole."
La Vernia, considered part of the San Antonio Metropolitan area has been a thriving rural community that over the past decade has experienced considerable growth. Also, in 2010 a new H-E-B Food/Drugs and shopping center marked a milestone for local business and the community. Recognizable chains such as Whataburger, Dairy Queen, Pizza Hut, Sonic, Subway and Taco Bell emerged. The familiar growing pains most small towns experience when new businesses and neighbors move in crept in. Some say it was the typical 'good ol' boy system' threatened by what they considered an intrusion of new citizens that caused the pains. Others, like Donna Howell, see the youth programs as a uniting force of opportunities and bridges to help with the growth.
"We do this by modeling it within the organization by being accountable, and holding each other accountable."
Howell says that "those who served on the board of directors have done an outstanding job of being there for our kids. Four years ago our president and coach had a vision to bring Pony baseball to the Grizzlies. His vision came to light three seasons ago, first with baseball then softball. Our softball commissioner Shibbon Ovalle is having a great second season."
"In March of this year our esteemed leader chose to pass the torch in order to concentrate on his youngest son's last year of football with the Grizzlies, as a parent, " Howell observed. "The torch was graciously accepted by our current president Ronnie Gullion, backed by an amazing vice president Matt Miller as well as an awesome board of directors Kerri Gullion, Brian Bosanko, Matt Awbrey, Shibbon Ovalle, Ashlie Freidrichs, Georgianna Jannise, Jessica Neal and myself."
"This board of directors come from all stations in life," Howell acknowledges. "We don't always agree on everything but the one thing we do agree on is this organization is for the kids. To teach them their chosen sport, to show them how to have fun, be competitive, develop good sportsmanship and respect for each other and authority. We do this by modeling it within the organization by being accountable, and holding each other accountable."
"Our parents in this organization are amazing people who understand they are here to build up and edify these kids, not to tear them down or shame them," Howell continued. "And we do all of this while being USA Football (Heads Up) certified, using equipment and uniforms that offer our kids the most protection because their safety, on and off the field, is our #1 priority."
"No organization is without it's growing pains and those few who are exceptions to the rule but we also hold them accountable," Howell said. "Our parents sign an agreement when their kids are registered to set an example of these characteristics. And they are held to these standards."
"In closing I'd like to thank you again for the opportunity to allow those outside the community to see there is good and bad everywhere even in the little towns and communities of this great nation and the world," Donna Howell wrote. "That there is far more going on than the events that are 'news worthy'."
Some of the community religious activities planned over the weekend include:
The La Vernia Ministerial Alliance, 830-253-8905, sponsors "The Community Carries the Cross" on Good Friday, starting at 10 a.m. at the entrance of the La Vernia City Park.
The Cowboy Fellowship of Wilson County, 830-769-3733, offers Good Friday service at 6:30 p.m. Easter Sunday services will be at 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. and will include the Lord's Supper.
St. Ann Catholic Church, 830-779-3131, will have a Mass of the Last Supper on Thursday at 7 p.m. Stations of the Cross will be on Friday at 6 p.m., followed by a bilingual Mass at 7 p.m. in the church. Mass will be held on Saturday at 7 p.m. Easter Sunday Mass will be at 9 a.m., 11:30 a.m., and 5:30 p.m.
The First Baptist Church of La Vernia, 830-253-1239, will have a prayer, praise, and preparation service at 6 p.m. on Saturday. On Easter Sunday, services will be at 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. A children's Easter celebration will be held after the 10:30 a.m. service.
The La Vernia United Methodist Church, 830-779-2621, offers Good Friday worship service at 6:30 p.m. A sunrise Easter service will be held at 7 a.m., followed by an Easter procession at 8:30 a.m. An Easter celebration service will be at 11 a.m.
Life Church of La Vernia, 830-947-3480, has a Good Friday service at 6:30 p.m. Easter services will be held at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.
Immanuel Lutheran Church, 830-253-8121, offers a Good Friday Tenebrae service of increasing darkness at 7 p.m. Easter: sunrise service will be held at 7 a.m. An Easter breakfast will be held from 8:15-9:30 a.m. in the parish hall. A Resurrection Service will be held at 10 a.m.
Grace Bible Church, 830-779-5200, Easter Sunday services are at 9 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. in the La Vernia High School auditorium. A children's program, "Jesus Changes Everything," will be offered during both services to children ages 3 through fifth grade.
The La Vernia Christian Teaching Center, 830-779-6361, will have an Easter praise and worship service at 10 a.m.
Hope Assembly of God, 830-779-4673, will have an outdoor Easter service at 8:30 a.m. at the cross. A special Healing and Miracles service is planned for 9:50 a.m. for anyone who needs healing. Children's programs will be available during the 9:50 a.m. service.


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Dear all,
Alongside everything that's been going on for the past few years, I've also had a side-project brewing away…
It's called Vena Portae and it's a Swedish/Anglo/Aussie collaboration with Swedish producer/engineer/multi-instrumentalist Ruben Engzell (who, incidentally, produced my first solo album Photos.Fires.Fables.) and English theatre maker/songwriter Dom Coyote. Jesper Jonsson, also from Sweden, will join us for the live shows and also appears on the record.
You may remember me blogging about some songs I wrote with Dom over three years ago, which is where I first mentioned the Vena Portae name. Vena Portae means 'vein portal' in Latin; it's a short vein that carries blood to the liver. As we were writing the songs, we were finding inspiration in ideas of roads, rivers, creative openings, connections between people, places and life force, which is how we came by the name. It really does have nothing to do with drinking alcohol. Honest.
In the winter of 2012, Ruben, Dom and I visited the tiny Swedish town of Mölnbo just outside Stockholm. We found ourselves snowed in (like most of northern Europe at that time). With little else to occupy ourselves, we decided to build a make shift studio in the study of Ruben's parents' house. We filled it to the rafters with analogue equipment, spring reverbs, electric guitars, banjos, pianos and an array of weird and wonderful instruments. Over the space of the next twelve days, we set about recording some of those songs that Dom and I had started over a year before. And we wrote some new songs too. And the result: a treasure trove of songs, inspired by heartbreak, passion, and intrigue, which together make up the album we are now about to release: Vena Portae.
Vena Portae is our debut album and we're all incredibly proud of it. It comes out on August 18th and you can pre-order it (along with some limited edition special bits and bobs) HERE.
Our good friend Brett Harvey made this rather wonderful little video to accompany our first single 'Summer Kills' – he used the original album version of the track, though the single now available on iTunes is the super cool remix by Peter Morén of Peter, Bjorn and John.
I really hope you enjoy this music as much as we have enjoyed making it – and for those of you close enough, we hope to see you at one of our summer shows (see below).
Very best wishes,
Vena Portae tour
15 Stroud, The Goods Shed
16 Dermot O'Leary – live Radio 2 session
17 Beautiful Days Festival, Devon
18 Cheltenham, Rise (FREE instore show, 2pm), Worcester, Rise (FREE instore show, 5pm)
19 Bristol, Rise (FREE instore show, 6pm)
20 Kingston, Banquet (FREE instore show, 6pm)
21 Southsea, Square Tower
22 Marlborough, Sound Knowledge (FREE instore show, 6.30pm)
23 Lewes, Union Music Store (FREE instore show, 3pm), Bexhill, Music's Not Dead (FREE instore show, 6pm)
24 Purbeck Folk Festival
25 Winchester, Swiss Cottage
26 Birmingham, Kitchen Garden Cafe
27 London, Green Note
29 Durham, Old Cinema Launderette
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A special edition of Dominican Connect from the vocations office of the Irish Dominican friars has been published. This 'bumper' issue for Christmas 2012/January 2013, running to eight pages carries reviews of the year that is coming to a close, highlights the icon of Saint Dominic which is being used for the promotion of Dominican vocations, features an insight into the daily life of our student brothers and much more.
Dominican Connect has made extra copies available for the Christmas season in all our churches and centres throughout Ireland. It is also possible to download an electronic copy at http://dominicanfriars.ie/Dominican_Connect/volume01/Dominican_Connect_v01n05jan2013.pdf
Irish Dominican Vocations would like to take this opportunity to thank all those involved in the production of Dominican Connect since it first appeared in September of this year. This fifth edition is one not to be missed.
If you would like to receive a copy of Dominican Connect each month by email, please contact us at email@example.com


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That was then, this is now
Tania Lacy
For a time Tania Lacy was the enfant terrible of youth TV, a pig-tailed wild child who terrorised prime ministers and pop stars with her mischievous brand of ambush comedy on The Factory and Countdown Revolution.
But then in 1990, her on-screen career came to a halt when she and co-host Mark Little were dumped by the ABC for staging an on-air protest against bands miming.
"I don't know if my career ever truly recovered from that," Lacy, 44, admits ruefully. "I don't know when I have to stop apologising."
She bounced back in 1997, however, in the celebrated short film Titsiana Booberini, about a lovelorn checkout chick with a hirsute lip. Instead of being Lacy's golden ticket - as it was for director Robert Luketic, who went on to direct Legally Blonde - the film became the source of a bitter legal wrangle over authorship between Lacy, Luketic and Miramax.
"Essentially Robert wouldn't let go of the film and the title," she says. "I wrote the film and Titsiana was my character for a long time before I met Robert Luketic but he claims he wrote it."
Lacy says she was offered a settlement by Miramax but turned it down, demanding instead to be credited as writer and creator. The dispute, which she has never spoken about publicly before and remains unresolved, dented her confidence and passion for performing. Instead, she turned to scriptwriting and editing, working on Nine's teen girl series G2G and her own feature film, Virtually Kitty, with producer Gill Carr.
A typical day involves beavering away on her laptop in a St Kilda cafe before rushing off to pick up Per, her four-year-old son with German husband Ole Sturm. She's also preparing a return to the stage with a Fringe Festival show involving some of her old television characters, including Carlos the Latin Lover and Annette the Librarian.
Greg Arnold
"These days," jokes Greg Arnold, "my gigs tend to start at 10 in the morning." The frontman and songwriter for Things of Stone and Wood, the folk rock band that had a hit single in 1992 with Happy Birthday Helen, now lectures in music as part of the Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE's Bachelor of Australian Music program.
Some of his students know of his background in the music industry and some don't, but Arnold is sanguine about his time in the spotlight. "You come across people who have one song that tends to loom larger in the catalogue than others, but I don't have bad vibes about that song," he says.
A love song that paid off - Arnold is now married to the titular subject and they have two children - Happy Birthday Helen put Things of Stone and Wood onto a national stage. Their debut album, 1993's The Yearning, was a top 10 success, although the 1994 follow-up, Junk Theatre, didn't click and saw them part with their major label.
"Suddenly you're in this world being propelled by this big machine which has all this weight placed behind you," the now 43-year-old observes. "It was confronting but I felt determined to not be overwhelmed by it. But looking back, I'm not sure that that's possible."
Arnold's creative energy now goes into a side career as a producer, while his own songwriting will next be heard with his new band, the Swamp Dandies. Things of Stone and Wood haven't played for several years, he says, but that could change in 2010 as this year marks the band's 21st anniversary.
Jessica Muschamp
It's been two decades since Sharon Davies left Ramsay Street, but the legacy of three years on Neighbours continues for the Melbourne actress who played her.
"People know me but they don't know how," says Jessica Muschamp, 39. "I don't normally mention that it's probably from Neighbours because I've had people say 'nah, I don't watch that crap'! Then you're left with egg on your face."
Muschamp landed the role of Sharon while completing her VCE in 1988. It was a plum job for an aspiring actress and the young cast - which included Kylie Minogue and Guy Pearce - "had a ball". Sharon got up to all the usual Erinsborough shenanigans, such as setting fire to the coffee shop and pushing her love rival into a pool. But then came a cast exodus in 1990, which saw Sharon set off for New Zealand.
"They had the head-shots of all the different characters lined up above the mirrors and as people left, they'd turn them upside down," she recalls. "I remember dreading the day my head got turned."
After Neighbours, Muschamp moved to England, working in pantos and on a children's film where she met her husband Nick, who was the on-set driver.
Eventually though, the Neighbours sheen wore off and she struggled to find work. Instead she enrolled at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, to re-learn her craft.
"Neighbours was a double-edged sword," she says. "In many ways it opened a lot of doors but in other ways people thought I couldn't do anything else. So I thought, 'OK, how am I going to get around that?' "
These days she and Nick live in Frankston South with their two daughters, Hollie, 7, and Hannah, 3. While motherhood has been her focus, she is also writing and directing for stage and television.
Jack Levi (aka Elliot Goblet)
It's nearly 30 years since Melbourne comedian Jack Levi began channelling his catatonic alter ego, Elliot Goblet.
"I could never kill him off because he's an extension of myself," Levi says. "He's an expression of my fantasies. Elliot allows me to say things that I normally couldn't say."
Goblet was "born" in 1981 after an acting coach told Levi he'd never make it as an actor because he couldn't show facial expressions.
"I thought, 'right, that'll be my thing then," Levi laughs.
With his trademark goatee and dorky spectacles, Goblet made his deadpan debut at a try-out night at The Last Laugh, where he was discovered by a spotter for television talent quest show You're a Star.
The performance was seen by Daryl Somers, who offered him a regular spot on the short-lived The Daryl Somers Show in 1982. Goblet became a regular fixture on Hey Hey It's Saturday, The Big Gig, Tonight Live With Steve Vizard and The Midday Show.
These days, Goblet exists only on the corporate speaking circuit, which requires him to be friendlier and "less weird".
"I'm deadpan but friendly now because corporate audiences need someone a bit more engaging," Levi says. "I punch out a smile and they say 'wow!'."
Levi is still passionate about comedy and last year launched a cabaret comedy club, The Crimson Goat, which on March 14 moves into new premises at Ormond Hall.
"I really lamented the loss of the great comedy and cabaret scene we had in Melbourne in the '70s and '80s," he says. "And you never know, vintage Goblet may even pop by some time."
Tonia Todman
As you would expect, Australia's answer to Martha Stewart has not been idle since departing Good Morning Australia five years ago.
Craft queen Tonia Todman, 62, has been busy deploying those formidable skills with a glue gun and a pair of scissors on a "gorgeous old pile of bluestone" near Kyneton.
Soon after GMA was axed, Todman and her master carpenter husband Michael Dowding turned their attention to the restoration of Highbank Hill Farm, a dilapidated stone property built in 1848.
"I'd done up a lot of old houses, but I'd never seen anything as bad as this," Todman recalls. "But Michael took one look at it and said 'yes we can fix it', so that was enough for me."
Now beautifully transformed, it hosts Todman's home-making classes, in which she dispenses advice on cooking, design, craft and gardening.
She also runs a catering business, a commercial rose garden that supplies organically grown roses, and has just converted the blacksmith's and stables into a luxury B&B.
In some ways, Todman's new career is not so different from her days as a fi xture of lifestyle television, when her craft segments on Healthy, Wealthy and Wise throughout the '90s and later on GMA made her an authority on everything from pin cushions to beeswax candles.
While she has hopes of returning to television, she's also realistic about it.
"I don't know how to say it nicely, but older people in Australia don't have quite the same attraction as the younger ones," she laughs. "At least I have the wisdom and the training and the track record. Whether that appeals to TV audiences or not, who can say?"
Jo Pearson
"Some people don't even realise I'm not on the TV any more," laughs former newsreader Jo Pearson on the phone from London.
"In their minds I'm still doing the same thing because that's how they know me."
In reality, it has been two decades since Pearson was one of Melbourne's best known newsreaders, her blonde bob popping up in our lounge rooms every night with David Johnston on Ten's top-rating Eyewitness News.
In 1988 she was poached by Nine for a rumoured million-dollar figure along with her then-husband, weatherman Rob Gell. While Gell's career went from strength to strength, Pearson's seemed to grind to a halt.
Stints on Live at Five with Terry Willesee and, later, a Saturday afternoon lifestyle offering, Body and Soul, followed in the early '90s, but both petered out.
"Effectively there were no other jobs for me," Pearson says. "If something had been offered I would have found it irresistible. The red light on top of the camera is like a flame to a moth for a newsreader - you can't resist it."
Instead, the former newspaper journo started her own business, Media Strategies, which provides media training in crisis management and public speaking.
These days she divides her time between Melbourne and her flat in Ealing, west London, where business is booming.
"Increasingly I find myself working with people who had no idea I worked in TV and that's challenging when you are used to being a famous face wherever you go," she says.
While her television days are all but a distant memory, some assignments stand out with intense clarity.
"I remember I had to escort Johnny Depp to a nightclub during his 21 Jump Street days," she recalls. "It didn't occur to me to be starstruck. If only I had my time over."
Merril Bainbridge
Many former musicians can sound bitter when reflecting on the music industry. Merril Bainbridge is not one of them.
"I was so lucky," says the one time singer-songwriter, who had a hit single and album in Australian in 1995 with Mouth and The Garden respectively.
"I was blessed; I had a ball and I experienced every area of the music industry before it collapsed. My life is completely changed now."
Bainbridge made the change in 2004, when she was about to release her third album, having just had her first child. A brief tour made clear how much time she'd be away from her husband and son, which, combined with a belief that illegal downloading would gut the record business, led to the decision to retire.
The lifelong Melburnian sold her recording studio and production company and dedicated herself to her family (her son is now seven, her daughter is three), having previously had Mouth sell more than 600,000 copies in the US in 1996 and '97.
"It was really full on and really exciting," Bainbridge recalls. "In the States we were in limos and had jets going across the country. I visited 42 cities in six weeks. They really worked me, enough to know what it would be like to live that life all the time."
At first Bainbridge's creative energy went into improvising songs for her children, but after finding it difficult to buy good clothes for a breastfeeding mother she began work on a fashion line, titled Peachy Mama, due for release this year.
"My life now," she says, "gives me balance and control."
Peter Russell-Clarke
"G'day!" chuckles a familiar voice on the phone. Time may have greyed the beard and annihilated a few hair follicles, but Peter Russell-Clarke's trademark greeting remains intact.
It was with a friendly "g'day!" that he would launch into his nightly cooking adventures on Come and Get It, his ABC show that ran between The Goodies and Doctor Who throughout the 1980s.
The show was enormously popular, particularly among children who loved his ratbag sense of humour, running 900 episodes before "someone finally realised what we were up to".
Cooking has always been one of Russell-Clarke's many passions: now 75, he describes himself, "when I care to, which is not often", as a writer, painter, political cartoonist, cook and healthy eating advocate.
Painting now absorbs much of his time, and most days you'll find him in his studio on a tranquil bush block in Tooborac, 100 kilometres north of Melbourne, where he lives with his wife of 50 years, Jan.
The property belongs to their son Peter, 40, a software designer for Apple who lives in San Francisco.
Things haven't always been apples for the Russell-Clarkes: in 2001 they lost the lot when their Soho Lemon project, a citrus plantation on the Bellarine Peninsula, went into administration.
The 80 subscribers lost about $2.4 million. He is philosophical about the financial failure.
"All it means is that I have no money and having money doesn't concern me one way or the other," he says. "All money does is allow you to buy more things but I'm able to make things."
In 2008 his profile soared again when a blooper reel of Come and Get It out-takes was posted on YouTube.
It featured Russell-Clarke cursing cheerfully while delivering cooking instructions, such as how to make scotch eggs by "f---ing fry the c---s until they go black, you prick".
The aftermath may have lifted his profile among Gen Y-ers but he reckons it cost him a bomb in contracts.
"People offer me a job and then they look at the blooper tape and cancel the job," he chuckles. "But I couldn't care less. From my point of view it sorts out the chaff from the straw."


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"Cut from the Same Cloth," Responsibility Analogy/Arguement (42 of 54)
Weekly Directive: RESPONSIBLE
The directive for this week is responsible, and I couldn't help but notice a large number of my classmates referenced condoms and Levi's. Sure, using condoms is "responsible", but they actually enable us to take less responsibility for your actions. I believe parents serve as a better example of responsibility. Parents are responsible for the past present and future. Without them, there would be no us. The same is true for Levi's and blue jeans. They are responsible for the past present and future. Without Levi's, there would be no jeans.
Take Levi Strauss, for instance. What if he had made different choices? Do you think blue jeans would be the same or even exist? This is a serous question. Levi's Strauss is the father of blue jeans. He determined how jeans look, their style, even the very fabric they are made of. Without Levi's, there would be no blue jeans. Note how perfect his original design turned out. Future generations are "cut from the same cloth."
Take grandpa Johnny, for instance. What if he had made different choices? Do you think grandpa Blue, would be the same or even exist? This is a serious question. Grandpa Johnny is the father of grandpa Blue. He determined how grandpa looks, his style, even the very fabric he is made of. Without Johnny, there would be no grandpa Blue. Note how perfect his original design turned out. Future generation are "cut from the same cloth."
Sorry, I've had so much Philosophy reading to do, and I think it spilled over into my Advertising blog. I had fun free writing without knowing where I was going. So that I feel as though I've accomplished something, I will give the simple form of my argument below.
If there were no Levi's, then there would be no Jeans
There are Levi's
Therefore there are Jeans
Levi's Presents Hottest Abe Lincoln (41 of 54)
Weekly Directive: RESPONSIBLE
When I think of responsibility, I picture the past leaders of our nation. Abraham Lincoln stands out in my mind. He fought and died to abolish slavery, which was responsible for his death. I guess it's true that responsibility just leads to more responsibility. What if instead of his signature stove-top hat, Lincoln wore Signature Levi's? I remember playing with Lincoln Logs in elementary school and making Abraham Lincoln crafts out of construction paper. Instead of a black stove-top hat and a beard, he'd be remembered for his Levi's jeans and would thus have a more clean-cut look about him. Honest Abe would've been hottest Abe and wouldn't have wasted time chopping down the cherry tree like Washington. Hottest Abe would've torched that sucker! Like James Dean, in "Rebel Without a Cause," he would have set off a slave rebellion, and definitely wouldn't have gotten "popped" by John Wilkes Booth that infamous night at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. Hottest Abe would've been packing heat, or been somewhere cooler than a play house. He'd would've gone out like a rock star and been remembered as the hottest forefather of our nation.
Don't get caught with your pants down (43 of 54)
Weekly Directive: RESPONSIBLE
I kept thinking of Levi's jeans and he term responsible, and came up with a couple of "responsible catch phrases" for Levi's ad ideas.
Don't get caught with your pants down
Keep your pants on
We all get too big for our britches
Liar, Liar pants on fire
Panties in a bunch
Put your best foot forward
He wears the pants in the relationship
Don't' let money burn a hole in your pockets
Don't put your turd in my pocket


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Firstly, I'm sorry I have had an unexpected blog break over the past couple of weeks. My life has been unexpected crazy with family issues dominating.
I have even had difficulty getting to my sketchbook lately, which is like being without food and water for me.
But sometimes a little break can be invigorating and as I come back to my center, I find a new found energy.
With so much going on in my life right now, finding the calm is vitally important to my balance and well being. It is often difficult to find a quiet moment to meditate, sketch, read, or even listen to music, but that's the way life goes. Up's and Down's, Chaos and Calm!
To navigate times like this I just let myself go with the flow and do what needs to be done. The rest can wait.


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PSA: Being A Mom Is Not Easy. Here's What We Can Do About That.6:56 AM
Being a mom is not easy. Some even say that being a mom is the hardest job in the world. Remember to take care of yourself with self care tips for moms.
On VProud there is a phenomenal video touting one of the most important things that we have learned: self care tips for moms are a must, as are regularly scheduled mama breaks. Being a mom is not easy. In fact some people say that being a mom is the hardest job in the world. Mother and writer Aimee Farley reflects on this topic as a mom of three, including an adorable new baby. Aimee's raw, honest essay brought us right back to those early days of motherhood, when we reached the point of having to decide that laundry and snacks and blocks sometimes have to wait, and we have to put ourselves first. We love Aimee's essay because of its important reminder that you are never alone in these exhausted, I need a break feelings and that the first step to feeling better is deciding that your own self care matters. This is a message that we can absolutely get behind so we are shouting it from the (blogging) rooftops today. You matter. Take a break.
—The VProud Team
Momma Needs Her Coffee, And It's No Joke
By Aimee Farley for VProud
We all joke about it. The morning cup of coffee in order to function when dropping the kids off at school and rushing to get to work on time. The immediate passing off of the baby to your partner when he or she gets home late from work for the fourth day in a row. The glass of wine and a Netflix binge when all of the kiddos are finally in bed. But it's not really a joke, is it?
Some argue that being a mother is the most difficult job a woman could have. Others argue that motherhood is a choice, a calling, a purpose – not a job. Either way, moms work hard every single day. We work hard to support our partners in this journey of parenting and raising a family. We work hard to provide our children with safe, healthy, and happy living environments. We work hard for the present moments, as well as for our children's futures. We try to be superheroes and keep pushing ourselves to do more –to do better. But we are human. As much as we love and appreciate the fact that we have families to care for, we are human, and we need to be cared for too. And sometimes we break because we simply need a break.
When I became a mom for the first time more than six years ago, I became a new person. I experienced a new type of love, a new sense of purpose, and it was overwhelming. I wanted to be a good mother in every way possible, but everything was so new and I didn't know what else to do other than everything for my son. My husband felt neglected, and I neglected to take care of myself. I stopped doing all of the things I had loved to do before my son was born. I stopped biking, I only made it to a yoga class a handful of times during the first year of my son's life, and the only book I picked up was a board book. I stopped taking care of my soul, and it wasn't long before I broke and realized that I was not supermom. I could not be supermom and myself too.
Slowly, I began to incorporate some "me time" back into my life. It wasn't easy. It was a learning process of letting go and accepting help from others. It was a learning process of allowing myself from time to time to put my needs before the needs of my family –and not feel guilty about it. Six years later, I'm still learning how to take care of myself, but I know now that I'm not making a joke when I settle down at the end of the evening with a local craft beer, some Lana Del Rey playing in the background, and the keyboard at my fingertips while my three kiddos are snuggling on the couch with daddy watching a cartoon. It's no joke that we need our "me time."
This journey of motherhood is complicated, fulfilling, messy, and beautiful. We work hard every single day. Sometimes it feels like a job, and sometimes we joyfully accept this calling. But we are not superheroes. We cannot do it all. We cannot do it by ourselves. And every time we try to be superheroes, we lose a little bit of ourselves.
Enough of the jokes. I am a mom, but I am my own person too. I want my kids to know who I am. I want my kids to see what I can do.
Who are you? What are you going to show your kids today?
About the author: Aimee Farley is a mother, wife, blogger, and dreamer. You will often find her exploring the Twin Cities with her three kiddos and writing about her adventures in motherhood at Why I Left MyJob. Her writing has also appeared on Scary Mommy, Mamalode, Sweatpants & Coffee, and HelloGiggles. Join Aimee's honest conversations on VProud.
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