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Mindless vandals have damaged a Dearne war memorial, just days before Remembrance Sunday.
The callous thugs caused 'significant damage' to the brickwork of the Sisters' Lychgate memorial in Creighton Woods, Swinton, which commemorates local residents who served in the First and Second World Wars.
Swinton Coun Ken Wyatt, who discovered the vandalism last Thursday morning, said: "It was quite significant damage. The brickwork has been pushed in.
"I was very sorry to see the damage because it's such an important local landmark. It is well-known in Swinton and it features in the town's crest.
"I don't know when this happened, but I spoke to a lady who said she walks there every day and she said she had not seen anything the previous morning.
"It's such a shame – especially because we are in that time of year now when we are thinking about remembrance. It makes this extra poignant.
"I'm not aware that there has been any damage to the memorial before."
The Lychgate has been at the entrance to the woods since they first opened to the public in the 1940s.
It was designed by the council's surveyor, Harold Goodwin, and was a gift from Enid and Beatrice Harrop.
Local residents are also shocked at the damage.
On Facebook, Hannah Louise Schofield said: "That's a disgrace, hope they can repair it."
Coun Wyatt said: "A contractor from Rotherham Council has been to look at the damage and has said that the memorial can be repaired.
"There is a slight problem because the original brickwork, which is rustic brick, was put in when it was first built in the 1940s.
"That type of brick is not around anymore so it might have to be repaired in stone, but I am told that the plaques can be reset in to the new brick work and it would look the same.
Rotherham Council's countryside green spaces manager Kevin Burke said he had made the area safe while an investigation is carried out and quotes are obtained to repair the structure.
He said: "The gate is an important feature in Swinton and we will work hard to ensure it is restored."
Contact the police on 101 or Rotherham Council on 01709 336003 if you have any information.


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2. Re: motion tracking?Fighting Sticks May 13, 2010 9:12 PM (in response to sevkie)
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3. Re: motion tracking?Todd_Kopriva May 13, 2010 9:57 PM (in response to Fighting Sticks)
Fighting Sticks,
Is there a reason that you're recommending a wide search on Google rather than the resources that Szalam pointed to? Have you checked out the resources that Szalam pointed to and found them to be deficient? I think that Szalam's very focused advice was right on.
4. Re: motion tracking?Fighting Sticks May 13, 2010 10:12 PM (in response to Todd_Kopriva)
Szalam's link is great!
5. Re: motion tracking?Szalam May 14, 2010 11:33 AM (in response to Fighting Sticks)
If you DO want to search for further information, I would suggest this customized google search, rather than blindly googling.

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The Nectar Wine Bar and Ale House in San Antonio, Texas, recently unveiled a decadent brunch creation called the 'Ultimate Mimosa.' While mimosas are already considered a brunch staple, the drink often seems like a tame choice next to more extravagant cocktails such as the Bloody Mary or Caesar. Now there is a statement-making mimosa available for those who take brunch very seriously.
The Ultimate Mimosa from the Nectar Wine Bar and Ale House is an over-the-top drink topped with high-quality ingredients. The base of the drink is made from the traditional combination of Champagne and orange juice for a boozy breakfast treat. However, the top of the drink includes unexpected garnishes such as cheese, fruit, smoked salmon, half a lobster tail and even a muffin. At $28 apiece, the drink is likely to double as breakfast for most customers.
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Bob Humphreys is a featured dealer on Global Surf Industries! Read the full feature here.
For over 30 years, one of the most passionate surfers you could hope to meet has been working at Boca Surf & Sail. Bob Humphreys started the business with his brother Bruce, and every morning as the sun rises, he recharges his stoke with a paddle or swim, no matter what the conditions are like. This is part of Bob's story…
Humphreys: I love coming to work each day. And I still get in the water every morning before sunrise. There's never a day I come to work and haven't already been in the ocean. So life is great, and we have the best customers in the world….
At the beginning, we just hoped we'd have a store for 3 years, and figured we'd get cheap surfboards and maybe travel a bit. Half of the store was dedicated to wind surfing, and we were doing a lot of business there, and with lessons and surfboards too. Then as things have changed, we just focused more on surfing. We were always surfers, but just saw financial opportunities in wind surfing originally. We thought we'd have to get real jobs later, but now, 31 years later, we're just too dumb to quit.
How did your surfing life begin?
My dad was from New York, but we moved here to Boca when he was working for IBM, about a block from the beach. I was in the third grade then, and got into surfing at 13. It was just the greatest thing, and I've been able to share that love of the ocean with everybody I've met since. Seriously. Everyone's got a gift from God, and he gave me the gift of making anyone comfortable in the ocean, and to teach surfing. I just want people to commune with the ocean, it's the greatest gift that I know of, and I really have to go down each day and watch the sun come up. Then I get out there one way or another. Paddle, swim, surf, snorkel, free dive… whatever it takes, we're in the water. I'm fortunate enough that the lifeguards in Del Ray allow me to workout with them every morning, so whatever they do from 7:30 til quarter to 9, I get to participate in too. Unless it running (laughs). If they do that, I just say see you later, and go for a swim.
I get so excited thinking about the ocean, and just always want to be out there. Actually just lost a girlfriend, cause she was like 'you're really not willing to compromise on the time tables?' I was like, 'I get up at 5:30am cause it's like Christmas. What's the beach going to bring me? I can't help it. It's a lifestyle I gleefully embrace, and I can't understand how other people who are introduced to it, don't just take it as their own. When you're that passionate about something, it's easy for it to be infectious, which really helps us take others out in the water. That being said, we lose sales all the time by not selling people things they want, when we know its wrong for them. I really try and make sure people leave the store with what is going to help them have a great time.
It's why I'm so excited about the Hypto Krypto. As a 58-year-old man, that surfs it at about 210 lbs., that thing is a game changer. I still longboard 90% of the time, but any day when you're going to be duck diving, or traveling, my little 6'4" Hypto is just amazing. If you get a chance to come by the shop, I'll even loan you mine (laughs). I can ride them all the way down to 5'10", but as you get older, you just don't want to paddle that hard. There's no surprise it won Surfboard of the Year a couple times.
Do you remember the first boards you rode?
Of yeah, distinctly. It was the time when everybody was taking beautiful longboards and stripping them down. My neighbor Glenn Guthrie built my first one. He took it from the middle of a longboard, so it had no nose rocker, and no tail rocker. He sold it to me for 50 bucks, and it did its purpose. It's actually kind of similar to the design of the Hypto (laughs). I just love the Hypto cause it's such a traditional, classic design, and goes great.
What else have you ridden through the years?
Everything from 5'4" twin fins, on up to longboards. I had a longboard collection that got stolen in the mid 80's. It wasn't a great collection, but it happened to be my four boards (laughs). I look back fondly on those… kind of like thinking you had a hot rod in high school, when you actually had a piece of junk.
But we've always ridden a little bit of everything here. I think during the early 90's, when boards got so rocker'd out, and thin, we all switched to really small fun boards that had a wide nose and fuller outline. There was just that period of time when boards didn't work for the average person, or on the average wave. But we all wanted to look like Kelly, so we kept going with it (laughs).
Knowing what we know now, those boards just look horrific, but back then, they looked really cool and were like Corvettes.
Over the span of this store, what other board changes or technology really stand out?
Honestly, I tell people that right now, boards are the easiest they've ever been to ride since the early 80's. I've only shaped enough boards to know I should leave it to the pros. I love doing it, but it's just a waste of foam under my hands. But back in the 80's there was enough foam on the smaller boards that an average surfer could actually paddle and ride a normal wave. But then the boards just got too performance orientated, despite the fact we weren't all surfing performance kind of waves. Thankfully in the past 5 years, boards have gotten way more user friendly again. It's all about flotation, less rocker, and they're just designed so well. I'm so stoked on it.
Where has surfing taken you, or taught you, over the years?
I'm living every little boys dream. I'm living the dream I had as a kid. I used to go hitchhike up to Nomad Surf Shop, and hang out there, and I'm sure I was a pest (laughs). For Christmas I always told my parents I wanted a Nomad surfboard, so I'm giving them a plug even though they're my competitors up the road, cause they're great guys.
I got into this with my brother, and honestly, everyday has just been a blessing. I basically own my job, but what I really own is friendships, and watching people grow up, and the community in general the past 30+ years of having the store. My heart is warmed everyday by my customers. I just feel so lucky about being part of this community.
What are you most proud of?
The relationships. I could cry thinking about some of them. That's what it's all about. It's not about money. I have a theory, called psychic income. That's doing something I would be miserable doing everyday, but making money, or doing something I love and making less money. In that spread is psychic income, and man, I make a million bucks a year. It's awesome to get to live the lifestyle I do, have these relationships, not to mention be partners with my brother and watch our kids grow up in the store. All the employees are like family, and never leave.
Who has influenced you most?
My dad. He was very supportive and really helped us out a lot in the beginning. As far as personal influences in the water… we grew up in the days before leashes, and you didn't drop in on the older kids in the water. You had to earn your spot in the pecking order, which I guess you still do at most breaks. I'm real gracious in the water now, kind of at that age where my ego is not in the way, so I share a lot of waves. I love to watch people ride with me, see them surf, and just share the waves. Maybe don't drop in on me if I'm in the best section, or the barrel (laughs), that's not going to get points with me, but all the rest of the time, yeah let's share and have a great time. You can totally change the vibe in the water and make it good, by your attitude. Give a smile instead of a stink eye. Paddle out and show some respect to the locals, say hello and wait your turn, and you'll get your waves. Obviously some days are more agro, but for the most part, showing respect in the water makes it so much better for everyone. Be out there for the stoke and have a great time.
Life is better when you surf.
It is. One of things I do is teach people how to play again. People get into their life and become workaholics… not because they don't want to play, but they get kids, have to put them through college, a mortgage, and everything else, and playing ends up on the back burner. When I take people out paddle boarding, it's just magical. Some days are more magical than others. Suffice to say, I'm still stoked everyday I paddle out. If I see whitewater, I'm going to go out and stand up. I love it.


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7:22pm PT by Aaron Couch
'Robocop' Viral Campaign Teases Sci-Fi Reboot (Video)
OmniCorp is ready to do some killer business.
More than a year out from the release of MGM and Sony's Robocop reboot, Omnicorp.com is now live, and gives us an early look at some of the weapons which may be featured in the film, including the updated ED-209 automated security sentry and some deadly looking drones.
PHOTOS: 28 of Summer's Most Anticipated Movies: 'Avengers,' 'Dark Knight,' 'Prometheus'
Viewers of the original film will remember the ED-209 as the killer robot with the tendency to cause some serious trouble.
The video posted on Omnicorp.com also touts an upcoming innovation which will combine human resources with robotics. Could it be Robocop himself?
The original Paul Verhoeven Robocop explored what happens when corporations run the police and when machines decide who lives and dies. Those themes may resonate even stronger today, in an age in which intelligent drones have become commonplace on real-life battlefields and ethicists have begun debating the use of those machines.
PHOTOS: New Generation of Superheroes
The Robocop reboot stars Joel Kinnaman in the title role, Gary Oldman as his scientist-creator, Samuel L. Jackson as a media mogul, and Hugh Laurie as the CEO of OmniCorp. The film is being helmed by José Padhila and is slated for a summer 2013 release.
Watch the video below.
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There a number of home remedies for dandruff that can help you shake the flake, but today we present you the three most efficient remedies that will help you to get rid of dandruff.
Lemon Juice Remedy
Massage your scalp using two tablespoons of lemon juice and leave it for a few minutes. Then wash your hair with some lemon juice and water solution -- add a tablespoon of lemon juice in 7 oz (200 milliliters) of water and wash the hair with this mixture.
If you have long hair, increase the amount of water and lemon juice, of course, in the same proportion. Repeat the procedure as often as you can, until the itchy feeling and dandruff completely disappear. Lemon juice cleans the skin on your head, and your hair will also smell nice.
Bay Leaf Tea
Boil a liter of water (4 cups) and add a few bay leaves. After the tea cools for awhile, strain it and wash your hair. Wrap it in a towel and leave it for an hour, then rinse with warm water.
Apple Cider Vinegar
It balances the pH of the skin on your head, so it is an amazingly efficient dandruff remedy, which should be in no way underestimated. After washing your hair, rinse it with water and apple cider vinegar solution (4 cups / 1 liter of water-100 milliliters / 3.5 oz apple cider vinegar). Do not worry about the smell, it will evaporate completely after your hair dries.


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The school summer holidays. Who'd be without them? Not me, certainly. Parents may be tearing their hair out, wondering how to keep Johnny and Joanna happy for yet another week. But for teachers, summer is a chance to recharge the batteries, ready for the autumn trials ahead.
Not many adults are lucky enough to have a full six-week break. And if you teach in boarding schools, this extends to eight weeks: nearly the whole of July and August (well, we do work Saturdays during term).
Picking up August's pay packet is a wonderful feeling — paid to do absolutely nothing for an entire month.
Yet with schools and teachers under constant pressure to improve exam results, it's not always a case of totally downing tools. Most schools now expect heads of subject departments to be available on site, or at the end of a phone, during the crucial mid-August A-level and GCSE results period.
This year, the dreaded dates are August 14 and 21. With so many university places hanging in the balance and constant calls for exams to be re-marked, there can be dozens of pleas for help that need heeding.
Ordinary teachers too have books to read, new courses and classes to prepare. Term ended with us exhorting our teenage charges to "Do something constructive!" So it's hardly setting a good example if teachers themselves are glued to golf or cricket on television – or slumped in a hammock, slurping Pimm's or pastis.
Yet it's increasingly pointless hanging around school. Most independent schools, particularly top boarding schools like Charterhouse, Radley and Wellington, let out their stunning facilities and hotel-style study-bedrooms to summer camps and courses, thereby generating extra income.
No sooner do the fee-paying pupils depart, than the rather less tidy newcomers descend. Schools can seem even busier than term time, with all the bustle of tennis camps, fun zones ("Keep the kids entertained while school's out!") and music and drama courses.
These are staffed by outsiders, usually gap-year students, so there's a sense of redundancy if teachers stick around too long (we boarding beaks mostly live on site, so school is also our main home).
>> A technology-free summer? Is that even possible?
A frequent complaint from the few colleagues who do linger is that residential courses, often involving dozens of foreign teenagers having fun while learning English, make more noise – early breakfasts, late-night barbecues, loud Europop – than our own pupils. And it's a strange feeling for a teacher not be able to snap "Be quiet!" or "Stop that!" at any over-boisterous behaviour.
Not only that, classrooms are out of bounds too, used for drama or music workshops. So it's not always easy to pick up books, notes or emails (it's amazing how quickly these mount up).
As for any offers of extra tutoring in exotic locations – New Zealand perhaps, or Mustique? Well, this remains a tantalising fantasy. Legends abound in some staffrooms about "Lucky Miss X", who accompanied a sixth-former to the Sydney Opera House to ensure her French and Spanish stayed in tune, while the pupil was performing in a youth orchestra there.
And I know of one teacher whose onerous task it was to tutor a teenage actor for an A‑level course while she was filming for weeks on end in the Far East. All I can say is, I'm very much open to offers.
As for the lucky few, chosen to "supervise" all those overseas sports tours to far-flung places, like cricket trips to the Caribbean? I'm still awaiting team selection.
Instead, like many other teachers, I end up spending a few weeks in Cornwall, France or Portugal. In fact, everyone tends to head off to the same old places: Ribérac, Ile de Ré, or anywhere within striking distance of Faro Airport.
Each summer, I make a few laudable resolutions. How about some historical or cultural sightseeing for a change, or taking on a tough personal challenge, like getting really fit and cutting out holiday hangovers? But good intentions quickly fizzle out.
I have two never-to-be-completed novels stashed away in my classroom, the product of sudden two-week surges of August activity. I once made the mistake of reading that Muriel Spark wrote The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in a mere month; while Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the "Beatnik Bible" so well suited to summer reveries, was penned in three weeks.
As for constructive reading, parents of sixth-formers will know only too well from end-of-term reports that A-level students are expected to read several course-related books over the holidays, with an eye to university entry. So what about their teachers?
As an English teacher there's extra pressure to perform here. There's even some talk about possible summer reading lists: sometimes with an element of one-upmanship from keener colleagues ("So which Kafka novel are you planning to read?")
Sadly I often fall short here too. For the last three summers, I've vowed to plough through Moby Dick. Each time, I've abandoned this worthy project after around 100 pages. I know I ought to read it: Melville's classic is considered one of the finest works in the language I teach.
But the simple fact is that, by early August, I've come to a shuddering halt. After Chapter 23, "The Lee Shore", I'm adrift. So having turned my nose up at everyone else on the beach's chick lit, while toting a Penguin Classic, I too end up desperately trawling through the holiday books left in hotel lobbies.
Take last August. Melville aside, I should also have been mugging up on Ford Madox Ford's Modernist classic The Good Soldier, for a new sixth-form course. Far more riveting however, was David Finkel's The Good Soldiers, about the Iraq War in 2007: a real "find" some kind soul had left on the hotel shelves.
Summer holidays also mean that, just like teenagers, teachers are at last at liberty to look slightly scruffier. There's this wonderful moment in mid-July, when every single Sir or Miss in the land seems to don shorts and deck shoes: never to be taken off until that sad, sinking moment in September, when term starts again and the tie goes on.
Shorts in particular become increasingly rank and ragged as the weeks progress. Hair too can be allowed to grow just a little too long.
But even such carefree casualness has its drawbacks. It's highly embarrassing, as happened to me recently, to bump into pupils and parents in Portugal (en route, naturally, to well-heeled Vale do Lobo), when unshaven and in flip‑flops.
"Mum, Dad, meet my English teacher!" There was a definite smirk at the tatty Pink Floyd T-shirt I was wearing – and that was just from Mum. Presumably most parents and pupils imagine we should still be sporting our trademark tweeds.
So the road to a perfect summer is paved with good intentions: not just for teenagers, but for teachers too. When I'm quizzing a class in September about the classic I gave them to read over the holidays – this year, Catch 22 — I'll take care not to be too critical.
Inevitably some bright spark will ask: "So what did you actually read yourself, sir?"
"Er, Moby Dick."
The author teaches English at a top independent boarding school @BoardingBeak.
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I've been so busy writing over the last few months that I've neglected my poor blog so here is a quick update.
Firstly the sequel to The Flight of the Griffin, Chaos Storm is just one chapter away from finishing. Just a wrap up of the loose ends and then it goes for editing. I'm hoping that it will be on Amazon by early July. One thing I promise is that if you enjoyed The Flight of the Griffin you are going to love Chaos Storm!
Set one year after the crew reunited the crystal skulls in Sterling Temple, a new threat plunges the Realm into danger with invading armies on two borders and Matheus Hawk back with greater powers and vengeance on his mind.
I also wanted to note that Shadowland, which now boasts 72 reviews on Amazon US with a 4.3 star average is a FREE kindle download on Amazon 11th- 13th June, if you haven't yet snagged a copy, this is your chance! Please leave me a review!!! http://amzn.to/xrUOm5


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Sunday, July 10, 2016
Our Day Trip to Mackinac Island
Getting There
We traveled to the island via ferry. There is an airport located on the island but I'm not writing for the lifestyles of the rich and famous here. The ferry ride takes twenty minutes, which is just enough time to take in the beautiful water views of Lake Huron. Our ferry ride included a side trip under the Mackinac Bridge, which connects the lower and upper peninsulas of Michigan.
What is there to do on the island?
This is the first question Rich asked when I proposed this outing. There is an 8.2 mile loop bike path around the island, and 80 miles of bike paths throughout the island. At first, we considered tackling this, but we had concerns with Anna. And also with Allie and Emily if we ended up with a hot day.
(That's Fort Mackinac up there.)
We ultimately chose to sightsee on foot and take a guided horse and carriage tour of the island. The tour had two stops and was quite informative.
(Arch Rock)
While we were happy with the horse/carriage tour, I wouldn't include it on my itinerary on a return trip as a fair amount of it looked like this . . .
We ate lunch at Seabiscuit Cafe, which was amazingly delicious. Rich and I shared the Wicked Good Lobster BLT with sweet potato fries. The sharing was due to the anticipated consumption of large quantities of fudge that afternoon. (Plus, the girls eat lunch super early.) That sandwich should be renamed the Wicked Awesome Lobster BLT. I still dream of it today. The sweet potato fries were the best I've ever tasted.
For dinner, we dined at Millie's on Main. The food here was quite tasty and as a bonus, the kids' meals weren't as expensive as those of other restaurants. I had the meatloaf with mashed potatoes and cole slaw, which I quite enjoyed.
And then there's the fudge, which was like a little slice of heaven melting in your mouth. Chocolate, maple, vanilla! I couldn't pick a favorite.
Maybe it's part of my OCD but I like to know that restrooms are available, most especially when I am traveling with the girls. I'm happy to report that public restrooms were plentiful, even along the horse and carriage tour. The only issue we ran into was with cathing Anna. When out and about, we will cath Anna in our vehicle for privacy. Well, we didn't have a vehicle or a hotel room on the island. I began looking for a baby changing counter in the restrooms. I found one but it was a changing table top attached to the wall and too small for Anna to fit on. I was so desperate, I almost set up halfway under one of the ginormous lilac bushes in the park area. We thought of using the jogging stroller and Rich as coverage. I didn't feel completely comfortable with cathing her in such a public space and I could tell Anna wasn't comfortable with that either. We found another bathroom but no counter. The floors looked clean so we entered the largest stall where Anna pointed to one of those pull down changing tables. We made it work. Afterwards, she began weeping and told me she had been afraid that I wouldn't be able to cath her. Gah, I felt so bad. Mama will always find a way.
Would we return?
Most definitely! But not next year as there are other places in Michigan we'd like to see. There are parts of the island we didn't visit this time around so a return trip wouldn't be identical to this one. We would add bikes to our next visit as well.
You can view more photos from our trip in this post!
8 comments:
- Tracey's Life said...
Sarah, your pictures make me want to visit Michigan :)
- July 11, 2016 at 8:09 AM
- JEN said...
We were just there over the 4th of July. I am enjoying your pictures! Did you try the donuts? My husband says they are the best donuts he's ever had.
- July 11, 2016 at 9:25 AM
- Sarah said...
Thank you!
Jen - We didn't have any donuts - just too much fudge!
- July 11, 2016 at 9:34 AM
- Kate Jaco said...
I don't remember how I first heard about Mackinac Island last year, but I've been dreaming about visiting one day! Our kids are 3 and 18 months, so it will be a few years. Until then I will add your recommendations to my planning :)
- July 11, 2016 at 5:01 PM
- Bargerboys said...
We are headed to Mackinac Island in 2 weeks. Thanks for the suggestion for lunch! One less thing I will have to figure out :) The next time you go there is a very cute library just past the area where you get the ferries. And where are these donuts that someone mentioned??
- July 14, 2016 at 8:11 PM
- Sarah said...
Have fun!! The library was on our list of potential spots to visit but we never made it there.
Jen - Where do you get your donuts?!
- July 14, 2016 at 9:54 PM
- Unknown said...
I feel like I am stalking your family :) I live right by Stony Creek so my kids play at that giant playground. We just went to Niagara Falls a few days ago. We were on the Canadian side since we were staying in Toronto. We went on the Hornblower boat which was definitely the highlight of the trip. And then next week we are going to Mackinac Island. I wonder where we will follow you next...
-bargerboys (I can't figure out how to sign in as that username now)
- July 16, 2016 at 7:54 PM
- Sarah said...
Bargerboys - Cape Cod!!
- July 20, 2016 at 12:23 PM


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Final 5 Noms in Big Brother 2011–UPDATED|
UPDATED- First look at Pic of Luxury comp with Adam's love, 90210's own, Tori Spelling
SAT MORNING- Nothing to report in the house last night. All the little hamsters are calm and tucked away in bed.
OK- No surprises.. Kalia and Porshe's pitches didn't stick, they are up in Week 9 Big Brother 2011.
All the HG's are pretty sure they'll be meeting up with the incredible OTEV tomorrow.
Check out the LIVE FEEDS tonight and tomorrow! It's 3-2 playing for VETO, but Jordan's only been so-so, and Adam's been plain old pitiful in comps, so….
Unless something monumental happens tonight, we'll post again after tomorrow's VETO, so STAY TUNED for this all-important comp!


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By Chris Goldberg
Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 8/9/16
Shawnee (N.J.) 2017 midfielder Dan Wigley has made a verbal commitment to play Division I lacrosse at Loyola University Maryland.
Dan Wigley profile:
High School: Shawnee, N.J.
Graduation Year: 2017
Position: Midfield
College Choice: Loyola University (committed 8/24/14)
Club Affiliation: Blue Star Lacrosse
Major lacrosse honors: Varsity Starter as freshman, Nike Blue Chip Rising Sophomore, Second Team All-State, First Team All-Conference, First Team All-County, First Team All-South Jersey
What will you major in/study? Business
Why did you choose this school? "I chose Loyola because I loved the exceptional academics, the high lacrosse standards, and the coaches."
Outlook for 2017 HS season? "We have the players and coaches to compete for a state championship, with tons of experience and talent coming up."
People to thank: "I'd like to thank my family, my South Jersey Black Storm youth coaches, my coaches at Shawnee, and the Blue Star Lacrosse Program."
Other schools considered: Princeton, Cornell, and Penn
Maplezone Sports Institute, the official sponsor for Phillylacrosse.com boys' recruits, congratulates Dan Wigley. MSI is located on Conchester Highway (Rt. 322) in Garnet Valley.


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From "Alone" ©2017 Linda Marks
2017 was a year of truly crazy times. Fake news. Alternative facts. Tweets and more tweets. Russian hacks. Questioning global warming. Dismantling the tax code. Unraveling health care coverage for millions of people. The #MeToo campaign, with celebrity after celebrity, well-known political figures in the spotlight for sexual harassment and more, unleashed an avalanche of stories from the shadows. Overwhelm and overload. Every day seemed to bring with it a new low.
Many people feel powerless, voiceless and scared as critical issues are changing in ways that impact us all. Yet the political factions making the changes are out of reach, and don't seem to care about the vast majority of people who are impacted by the changes. Do things need to breakdown to breakthrough? Can our country and our infrastructure truly be taken from us and overtaken by a small group of wealthy self-interested people?
Creativity abounds even in crazy times. Matt Kiser started publishing WTF Just Happened Today?" a daily newsletter giving you a point by point breakdown of the daily "shock and awe" (particularly involving all matters Trump), providing links to the major political news events of the day. An article in Fast Company magazine calls it, "a diary of our times," and one might shake their head at the amount of news Trump et al are managing to generate every single day. I find reading WTFJHT is grounding, since Matt's summary is well-done and it's an easy way of keeping ones finger on the pulse of the unfolding news.
Another wonderful interpreter of our crazy times is Randy Rainbow, a comedian, singers and writer, who has become a popular YouTube presence with his political parodies set to the music of many well-known Broadway tunes. The 2016 Presidential campaign was great fodder for Rainbow's creative talents, and his viral YouTube videos are brilliant, funny and on the mark. "Fact Checker, Fact Checker," sung to "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" from Fiddler on the Roof, "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Korea," sung to "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria" from the Sound of Music and even a Broadway Medley of Trump's famous made up word "Covfefe," are just a few examples of Rainbow's brilliant musical satire.
So, while Matt Kiser will help you keep grounded in the daily news reality and Randy Rainbow will help you find humor in even the darkest realities, how do we keep our sanity when we don't know what to believe, what rug will be pulled out from under us next, and whether our economic future will be crumble to quicksand or solid?
I think gathering with other people and talking about your experience, your feelings overall, what you are scared of, what you can do and can't do is important to diffuse the overwhelm and isolation that so easily come from living in crazy times. Perhaps isolation is a version of the pot of boiling water we find ourselves in. And gathering together is a way to escape the inevitable slow death to follow.
Looking at where we CAN make a difference and taking action in ways that DO make a difference are important. Whether you mentor a child in your community or volunteer at the local animal shelter or even help good local candidates run for office and represent issues that matter in your community, being part of a positive change is both good self-care and empowering.
Letting yourself take space to slow down, meditate, find and keep your center, and keep working towards your vision and your values is critical. We don't need to buy in to the powerlessness the fake news generators are feeding us. Remember you are an active creator in this world and certainly in your own life. Create what inspires you and helps others. The moment is our point of power, and following our points of passion helps us direct that power wisely.


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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
Fear or Guidence?
Ok, let me lay it all out for you.
I have been back and forth in this pregnancy as far as where the best place is to have my birth.
I believe God made a woman's body so beautifully. It really comes down to not only just how every muscle in a woman's body works together to labor and birth. but how the newborn baby works with it. It is amazing. Something only God could dream up. I believe he intended it as a natural process. And frankly. I know that the birth center would allow me the biggest chance to experience a birth in all its beauty.
There is fear of not being in a hospital and there is fear of being in one. The hospital has more tools on hand in case I need a c-section but thats the problem. I don't trust that the doctors in the hospital would assess the need in the same manner I believe in. For example I don't believe being a week "overdue" is cause for high concern or induction of labor. (Which is what led to my previous c-section) Yes, it is true that I don't have even close to a medical degree. However, I have done a ton of research in the matter. I believe labor is best left alone to do what God intended and that more times then not doctors intervene when it is not necisary due to time, money, and hospital restraints. (Hey, just being honest...they get paid more if they do a c-section and if they can save time in doing an hour surgery instead of waiting out a 36 hour labor why not) It is true, I have a lot of trust issues when it comes to doctor's due to previous experiences. I will never deny that. I would love to find one that I wholeheartedly believe has my daughters best interest as well as my own in mind as I do my midwife. I am sure doctor's exist like that out there. I just haven't found one.
Ideally, I would love to have my midwife do my birth in a hospital but unfortunately that is not an option.
So I ask this, is that the question? God's way; naturally w/intervention only as needed outside of the hospital w/of course the option to go if needed. (we could be there in 15 minutes and it takes 30 I have heard to prep an OR anyway) vs Man's way; with medical decisions based off time and money restraints with the security of being there just in case something goes wrong?
I will always do my best to choose God's way over mans but I can't help but wonder if that is the way I am perceiving this because I have a biased opinion based on previous negative experiences with doctors and if that someway my fear of the unknown when it comes to my birth is God's way of telling me to take another look at the picture or if it is just because I now know the tainted reality that sometimes, babies and/or mama's don't always make it through the beauty of birth. (ok, I am beginning to think me calling birth beautiful SO much might be a subconscious way of trying to take my mind off the pain that comes with it ;)
I know this. I will do whatever is best for this baby first and foremost. Even if that means having another c-section. I am ok with that. I just want to give her the best opportunity to arrive to this world as intended.
I know I need to birth in the place where I feel the most safe and comfortable. I just don't know where that is. I feel like its the birth center but I am just not 100%. Will I ever be?
I know I need to let go and let God handle my fear. I am just trying to find the best way to do that while deciphering between fear and guidence.
So this is me seeking counsel I suppose. I would love input. I know there are those of you who absolutely agree with out of hospital birth and those who strongly disagree. I am open to hear both sides but know that weather or not I have an out of hospital birth I will always be an advocate for them. I just need counsel on my personal situation...not out of hospital birth in general.
Oh, by the way I have been told by one doctor that I am considered high risk due to my previous c-section and the death of my son and told by another I am not considered high risk at all.
God has to be included in my life and this birth. Without Him I am nothing.
2 comments:
- Ember's Mommy said...
I think the birth center with a midwife and a hospital nearby if needed is the best route for you to be able to make the decisions for you and your new baby. Because of the fear from losing your son, I don't think you will ever be 100% on where is best to give birth, because there's always going to be the "what-if's". With the birth center, you have can both in a way- the comfort of the out of hospital birth with the safety of the hospital, if you need.
- March 14, 2011 at 7:58 AM
- fiona parsons said...
Hi Kristina,
It's Fiona. Brandon was planned C-sec, Ty was natural, Austin was emergency csec, Hayley was natural w/ epidural.
I know that making this decision is most difficult based on your experience with Donavin. What if you were in the hospital with Donavin and they performed a csec, but not soon enough. Would he be a challenged child today? Would he still be in the hospital today? Maybe what happened was supposed to unfold the way it did perhaps to prevent further future pain for him and you.
The birthing center with hospital close by seems like a viable route to me.
You may try calling Dr. Liz Newhall for a referral of the kind of Dr. you are looking for in case you decide on the hospital route. 503-222-7333
Whatever you decide will be the right choice.
Love you!
- March 14, 2011 at 2:06 PM


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As Drew Brees heads into the playoffs with New Orleans for a fifth time in eight years, he has a lot of familiar faces joining him.
Five key players on this season's offense were part of the 2006 Saints, who went to the NFC title game. Two more arrived a season later and were part of the 2009 Super Bowl team.
They hope their experience together aids them as they prepare to make another postseason run, starting in Philadelphia on Saturday night.
''We have been through a lot together,'' said Brees, who has been teammates with receivers Marques Colston and Lance Moore, as well as offensive linemen Jahri Evans and Zach Strief, for eight years. ''We know the expectation level. We know the preparation. I think there is a level of pride that comes along with that - and accountability. You want to perform well for each other. You know how much we have invested.''
In 2007, receiver Robert Meachem arrived as a first-round draft choice and running back Pierre Thomas as an undrafted free agent. They were key contributors on the 2009 team that won a Super Bowl.
Meachem left in 2012 when he was offered a free agent deal by San Diego that New Orleans wasn't willing to match. But he struggled in to fit in with the Chargers' offense, and when San Diego released him at the end of this past preseason, Saints coach Sean Payton acted quickly to bring him back to New Orleans.
Meachem has not been as productive this season as his previous three in New Orleans, but he's had some big catches, including a pair of touchdowns in victories over Arizona and Tampa Bay.
Meachem acknowledged a greater comfort level when he returned to New Orleans.
''To me, they're like your family away from family,'' said Meachem, recalling how supportive Brees, Colston and Moore were when he was struggling with a knee injury early in his career, and then when he was working to refine his techniques and pre-snap reads.
''They went above and beyond to help me get better,'' Meachem said. ''For me, having Colston, Lance, Pierre, Drew and Strief - the guys who were here when I was here - means a lot. ... You see how happy they are when you have success because we worked so hard together and it pays off.''
Moore said the Saints shouldn't underestimate the Eagles simply because they don't have as many players who've experienced winning in the postseason together. Experience, he said, is not an overriding factor in who wins in the NFL.
For Moore, the longevity of key players on the Saints' offense was more a testament to their unselfishness and commitment to Payton's offensive system.
''We almost have an ultimate trust for each other and one thing that this team specifically does is we want everybody to be successful,'' Moore said. ''That's something that could be somewhat unique in that we're all like that. The result of the whole is more important than each other's success and I think that's why we've been able to be so good here.''
During the last eight seasons, Brees has passed for 38,733 yards, more than any other NFL quarterback during that span. Colston, Moore and Meachem have had a lot to do with that, as has Thomas, with his knack for turning screens into big gains.
More recently, tight end Jimmy Graham, drafted in 2010, and running back Darren Sproles, signed as a free agent in 2011, have blended well into an offense that ranked fourth in the NFL this season, averaging 399.4 yards per game while Brees eclipsed 5,000 yards passing for an unprecedented fourth time.
Now the Saints are in the playoffs for the fourth time in five years, and they confident that their chemistry and experience makes them a particularly strong No. 6 seed.
''I would say it is pretty rare that you have that many guys to be here for that period of time,'' Brees said. ''When it is all said and done, if we can look back and say man, we did some pretty special stuff together regular season, playoffs, championships, that's what it is all about.''
NOTES: Thomas (chest) and S Rafael Bush (ankle) were the only Saints to miss Wednesday's practice. Both played through most of last Sunday's game without any apparent limitations. Payton, who spoke before the injury report was released, did not discuss the severity of their injuries.
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Shahadat and Kayes dropped for ODIs
Fast bowler Shahadat Hossain and batsman Imrul Kayes have been left out of Bangladesh's one-day squad for the forthcoming tri-series at home as well as the three ODIs against Zimbabwe. The only new face in the 14-member squad is Rubel Hossain, the right-arm fast bowler from Chittagong Division.
"Rubel has performed well for the Under-19, Academy and Bangladesh A sides and been impressive in the domestic first-class level also," Rafiqul Alam, the chief selector, said. "He has extra pace and a deceptive sling-shot action. He is an attacking bowler and comes in for Sajedul Islam who was in the Test squad and is more of a longer version bowler."
Alam explained that Shahadat was dropped due to his expensive economy rate of 6.63 in 16 ODIs in 2008 but was confident he as well as Kayes will return to the fold soon.
"Shahadat is by no means out of our plans and we believe that returning to domestic cricket will be beneficial for him at this stage and I am sure he will be back in the national side soon," Alam said.
"Unfortunately Imrul Kayes had to give way as he has not managed to deliver despite getting opportunities. He will remain in frame though as he is someone we think will perform in the future."
Returning to the ODI side after a gap of three years is Enamul Haque jnr, the left-arm spinner. Enamul made a comeback to the Test squad in the two-Test series against Sri Lanka which concluded on Tuesday and picked up two wickets. Alam said the left-arm spinner Suhrawadi Shuvo - the leading wicket-taker in the National Cricket League first-class competition with 59 wickets - was also considered but the selection panel opted for Enamul's experience.
"We don't have Abdur Razzak at the moment so we needed a specialist back up," Alam said. "Besides Enamul's record against Zimbabwe is very good indeed. We also thought about Suhrawadi Shuvo but couldn't find a spot for him."
Also rewarded with a comeback is the middle-order batsman Mahmudullah, who was dropped for the South Africa tour late last year. He ended the first-class season as the second-highest run-scorer with 710 runs at 54.61.
The tri-series, also featuring Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, starts on Saturday with Zimbabwe taking on the home side. Zimbabwe stay back for the three-match ODI series which begins on January 19 and ends on the 23rd.
Squad: Tamim Iqbal, Junaid Siddique, Mohammad Ashraful (capt), Raqibul Hassan, Shakib Al Hasan, Mehrab Hossain jnr, Naeem Islam, Mahmudullah, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Mashrafe Mortaza, Mahbubul Alam, Nazmul Hossain, Rubel Hossain, Enamul Haque jnr


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Out in space, there are two requirements that determine the physical shape of a starship.
The first is heat management, by which I mean dumping heat to keep a starship from overheating. Any kind of drive, even an external drive, will produce a vast amount of heat. And unfortunately, vacuum is an excellent insulator. Also, the temperature of space in Earth orbit is 394 Kelvin (120 Celsius) when exposed to the sun so that line about "space" being cold is just lying crap.
Parenthetically, it's amazing how much lying crap one has to dig through in order to find that number, 394 Kelvin. Cryptic imbeciles who think they're elite engineers do a song and dance because they believe ordinary people are incapable of grasping that it will be cooler than 394 K in the shade. Give me a fucking break.
The second requirement is shielding from radiation and micrometeorites. Isaac Kuo came up with an ingenious way of shielding a starship using only known and existing technology. The idea is to exploit the high velocity of a starship to annihilate everything in its way instead of letting the high velocity work against the starship.
You do this by continuously misting water in front of the starship so the droplets disintegrate everything in their way. After objects are disintegrated down to elementary particles, and conveniently ionized, it's a simple matter to almost instantly sweep them out of the way using an electromagnetic field. Particle accelerators do that all the time.
A 1 milliliter droplet of water going at 99% of light speed hits with the force of 31 tonnes of TNT. One tonne of water going at 99% of light speed hits with the force of 31 megatonnes of TNT. The most powerful nuclear bomb ever made had a yield of only 50 megatons (45 megatonnes).
Now, everyone knows the shape of electromagnetic fields, and most people can figure out from looking at a diagram of an electromagnet that the center of the electromagnet is unshielded. There are no field lines going through the exact center of any kind of magnet or electromagnet. They all cancel out there, so it's unprotected.
So if we want to maximize the amount of shielded volume in our starship, we're going to pick some kind of torus. Right away that looks very different from pretty much every depiction of starships in science fiction. But that's not all.
You can increase the volume of the starship without increasing its cross-section in its direction of travel (ie, what has to be shielded) by elongating it. And by some marvelous coincidence, when the starship is inside a solar system and in danger of getting crispy fried by its sun, that small cross-section also helps, as all you need to do is orient the starship towards the sun.
Incidentally, elongating the starship is also the answer to radiator fins. If you need radiator fins at all, then the best place to put them is down the long axis of the starship, probably in the middle. You put them anywhere else and they're likely to get ripped off. Also, radiator fins that don't catch sunlight are a really good idea.
It's unfortunate that you need strong structural supports to keep the front and back sections of the starships together with the radiator fins in between. Those structural supports have mass and so increase the size of the drive necessary to push the starship. But I can see no way of avoiding this ... unless the misting system is very lightweight. Which it very well might be.
Well, there you have the best possible shape for a starship. It looks like a tube. And if you don't need it to turn at all, better yet if you want to avoid it turning at all costs, then you just spin it. The gyroscopic forces will keep it steady. This also happens to generate gravity, not that computers and AI will ever care about gravity except as a bad thing to avoid at all costs.
And if you're thinking of Babylon 5 or other pathetic space operas where starships spin to generate gravity, you can get that right out of your mind. As a result of the spinning, any such starship is incapable of turning without tearing itself apart. Which is the same reason flywheels can't be used to store energy in automobiles.
No, if a starship ever spins, it's because it's expected to never, ever need to turn for any reason. So it's a good thing interstellar war is flatly impossible, isn't it? What with every space civilization deploying giant space mirrors to fry any incoming enemy vessels, and light up cities at night and during winter.
Starships can never wage war on each other or on any planets like they do in science fiction. Starships can't move like they do in science fiction. And starships can't even look like they do in science fiction. You see, science fiction is pretty much totally fucking useless. It's a wonder that people consider it to expand the mind.
I think the only worthwhile science fiction on television was probably Star Trek and Alien Nation. And that's because both explored the boundaries of humanity rather than get mired in the muck and the past.


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August 15, 2012
Players at Barona Resort & Casino's baseball-themed party pit celebration could go home with more than just peanuts and Cracker Jacks on August 16.
Barona's Boys of Summer Party Pit kicks off at 6 p.m. on Thursday, August 16 in the Chipless Arena casino floor. The event will feature a live DJ until 2 a.m., games, giveaways and cash prize contests. Players could even hit a home run and leave with a share of the $5,000 that's up for grabs.
Those hoping for a double play can check in on www.foursquare.com to receive a Party Pit T-Shirt and answer trivia questions on Facebook to win cash prizes.
Dealers and pit supervisors will dress in their best baseball-inspired attire and players are also invited to don their favorite team's gear.
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R Bank is headquartered in Round Rock and is the 131st largest bank in the state of Texas. It is also the 1,473rd largest bank in the nation. It was established in 2009 and as of September of 2018, it had grown to 97 employees at 8 locations. R Bank has an A health rating.
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When RBank recently upgraded their online banking software, they also changed the date of their qualifying period. I just got caught in it. The old period was the 25th to the 24th of the month. With the new system the moved it one day to 26th to 25th of the month.
R Bank announces changes to its R Best Checking Account. Effective October 26, 2016: • The Interest Rate/Annual Percentage Yield (APY) on the account will change. An APY of 3.00% will be earned on balances of $0.01 to $15,000 and 0.45% APY on balances over $15,000 as long as qualifications* are met each qualifying cycle. Base rate of 0.01% APY will be earned on all balances if qualifications are not met. Effective November 26, 2016: • The balance cap will change from $15,000.00 to $10,000.00. This means an interest rate of 2.96% (3.00% APY) will be earned on balances up to $10,000.00, when the monthly statement cycle qualifiers are met. Any balance in excess of $10.000.00 will earn a rate of 0.45% (0.45% APY), when the monthly statement cycle qualifiers are met. A base rate of 0.01% (0.01% APY) will be earned on all balances if the monthly statement qualifiers are not met. *Important Reminder: In order to earn the premium interest and ATM fee refunds, account holders must sign up for e - statement notifications; have 12 or more debit card transactions post and settle during the qualification cycle and have one Direct Deposit or ACH transaction post and settle during the qualification cycle.
The rates did indeed go down. As of July, Interest rates (if requirements are met) are now:
3.05% on the first $15,000 (down from 3.5%)
0.71% on funds > $15,000 (down from 1.0%)
Customer representative said that an email was being prepared and would be out soon.
Ken, Why doesn't R Bank show up in the list of Rewards Checking Accounts in Texas with high interest rates? After finding your Nov 2013 review of R Bank Rewards Checking, I opened a Rewards Checking Account at rbanktexas , and have been very satisfied. Pays 3.25% on the first 15k, and then 1.01% on the balance above 15k. I had to open in person, so easy for people in Central Texas, but not elsewhere.
It looks like R Bank reduced their reward checking rate this month (july). Unfortunately, they don't seem to publish these rates on their web page nor do they inform the account holders when the change takes place takes place. I'll post more info after I contact them next week.
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Here is a link to my husband's video. He was nominated to do the ice bucket challenge by our friend and his coworker, Stuart.
He was also nominated by Pittsburgh Penguins co-owner Mario Lemieux (all fans were nominated). Also, Marc-Andre Fleury did his in a banana suit so hubby thought he'd up his game.


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Malaysian author wins Asia's top literary prize
Author Tan Twang Eng became the first Malaysian author to win Asia's top literary prize on Thursday for his novel set during the aftermath of the Japanese occupation of Malaya.books Updated: Mar 15, 2013 11:50 IST
Author Tan Twang Eng became the first Malaysian author to win Asia's top literary prize on Thursday for his novel set during the aftermath of the Japanese occupation of Malaya.
Tan won the $30,000 Man Asian Literary Prize with "The Garden of Evening Mists", beating four other shortlisted books.
Literary critic and journalist Maya Jaggi led the judging panel and said Tan's novel "revisits the traumatic aftermath of the Japanese occupation of Malaya, and the post-war insurgency against British rule, with stylistic poise and probing intelligence".
"The Garden of Evening Mists," which was also shortlisted for the 2012 Booker prize, follows a young law graduate who discovers the only Japanese garden in Malaya and its secretive owner and creator.
"The novel becomes a profound exploration of personal and national honour; guilt and complicity; what it means to atone; and what it takes to forgive," said the judging panel that also included Vietnamese-American novelist Monique Truong and novelist Vikram Chandra.
It is the second time the prize has been won by a novel originally written in English. All previous winners, except Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco (2008), won as English translations.
Tan, born in 1972 in Penang, worked as lawyer in Kuala Lumpur and also has a first-dan ranking in aikido. His first novel, "The Gift of Rain", was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007.
The Asian literary prize, which is looking for a new sponsor with London-based Man Group ending its funding after this edition of the event, began in 2007 and is given to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English.
Last year's winner was South Korean author Kyung-Sook Shin for her novel "Please Look After Mom", a story about a family's guilty soul-searching after the disappearance of their elderly mother that has gone on to sell more than two million copies.
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'It will never work, ' the builder told me sadly. 'The client will have problems within 18 months, and then they will blame me.' He was talking about a new building, beautiful in concept and where the architect had made substantial use of timber. The problem, he said, was that the architect had not understood the material and was treating it in a way that would make it prey to damp - to swelling, distortion and, possibly, even to rot.
This was not a builder who wanted to be negative about contemporary architecture, and neither is it a negative story about timber. All materials must be understood to be specified properly. Pushing materials to their limits so that they can be used in new and imaginative ways is admirable; ignoring their limitations is not.
The wood. for good campaign is now well established in the consciousness of both the public and the profession. Awareness is growing that timber is an attractive, versatile and environmentally good material to use in buildings. But to use a material well, you must understand what it can and cannot do.
Pitfalls are not a problem with timber alone. My builder friend had equally sorry tales to tell me about other materials. And there is really no excuse for getting it wrong. There are plenty of existing sources of information on timber - TRADA is an obvious one; wood. for good is doing a sterling job; and publications like this supplement aim both to inspire and educate the reader about the use of timber.
My builder friend was depressed because he loved contemporary architecture but disliked seeing exciting concepts ruined by poor detail. The projects shown here are by architects who are also excited by the potential but have not allowed that excitement to overwhelm their judgement. I hope you enjoy reading this supplement as much as I enjoyed editing it. If you treat it as a step in your learning process about a terrific material then in years to come my builder friend, and his successors, may find themselves doing a little less head shaking and a lot more celebrating.
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Ever since I first heard Lydia Mordkovitch's recording of Prokofiev's first violin concerto a few years back I've been thinking about the role of the performer, their function as mediator between me and the music itself (if there is such a thing). I had not previously known that concerto, and my first reaction was that it was lightweight, even frivolous. But a second and then a third hearing convinced me otherwise. Now I place it among the most moving pieces of music I've ever heard.
But after a couple more hearings I became curious about how another performer, Anne Sophie Mutter, would perform the piece. So, I decided to have a listen. After just a few minutes, I turned it off. What I was hearing was not the Prokofiev concerto. It sounded so different from the Mordkovitch version, it seemed to be another composition entirely.
What I've been wondering since is why. I consider Mutter to be the greatest living violinist. At the time, I was unfamiliar with Mordkovitch beyond that one performance. I had experienced the genius that Mutter brought to Mozart and Brahms, had heard her evolution from wunderkind to mature artist — and beyond. I had thought her performance could only enhance what I had heard in Mordkovitch's. Instead, it seemed to violate it.
Was I only reacting as I might to any alternative rendering of the performance that had first revealed the music to me? That first hearing of a composition tends to imprint itself on us so strongly that the music and the "interpretation" are virtually indistinguishable. I have nevertheless recognized and appreciated performances that are far superior to my initial experience of a composition, even when that second revelation occurs years or even decades later. A first kiss is a first kiss, but there may well be other passions, perhaps just as or even more memorable.
I can't speak with any real authority about the work of either Mordkovitch or Mutter, but my experience of their separate performances in this one instance raised a question that has outlived my initial reactions: To what extent is a performer a vehicle, conduit or, as I think of it, a clear pane of glass through which we experience the music, and to what extent are they a kind of second composer whose performance is itself a creation as original as a musical composition?
My thinking on this has evolved. At first I thought I saw a clear distinction: Mordkovitch was that clear pane of glass, an unobtrusive aperture into the essence of Prokofiev's music; Mutter (and her fellows) a kind of composer in her own right, her performance as much a creation as the composition she's playing, each new rendering an opus, as it were, just as all of a composer's compositions can be said to be one single composition in various forms and stages of development.
But nothing is ever so clear-cut, or remains so unless we are so wedded to an idea that we cannot bear to see it overturned or even significantly altered. I have heard recordings that seem to be near-perfect representations of the experience of a concert hall. I know now those recordings are the result of great artistry on the part of sound engineers. Is there an artistry on the part of the performer that corresponds to the skill of those engineers, involving an almost saintlike sublimation of personal ego for the sake of letting the music shine through unimpeded by "interpretation"? Or, does this apparent simplicity involve, as does all art, a great deal of artifice and delusion, the way good prose that seems simple and straightforward is the result of many hours of work on the part of the writer to achieve that "effect."
There is room certainly for both types of musicians, and I'm not sure we should value one over the other. Ultimately, there may be more of this in the ear and mind of the listener than I have yet explored. But the question, however naïve or tentative, enriches for me music's, indeed all of art's, limitless possibilities.
(Read a great piece relevant to these thoughts at Harold Knight's blog on the occasion of J.S. Bach's recent birthday and why it is "the most important day of the year." )


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Now that my social "knit and natter" group "Yarning" has been running for a few weeks (If you love Yarn crafts come and join us, more details here) I have found myself posting links to videos in the group Facebook page so that attendees can check them out in their own time and come back to them repeatedly if they need to. Five of the videos have stood out as being useful YouTube videos for learning to crochet in particular so I have decided to corral them into this post for easy reference.
There are loads of useful YouTube videos for learning to crochet but as I am left handed I wanted to make sure that (wherever possible) there are decent left handed versions available as well.
Before we start I have to point out that most of these Tutorials are American. That means they use US crochet terms. If they are using UK crochet terms I will make it clear in the title. If you don't know how US crochet terms translate into UK ones you can download my free guide here.
Without further ado here are my…
5 Most Useful YouTube Videos For Learning To Crochet
Crochet Slip Knot – Beginner Course: Lesson #4 (by the Crochet Guru)
I like the fact that she takes you through THREE different ways to tie a slip knot and that this video will work for you whether you are left or right handed. Her explanations are really clear and don't waffle. I have to admit that I'm a pretzel girl myself 😉
Crochet basics – Chain stitch & Foundation chain (by Bella Coco)
This is the same in both the UK and US.
Ok, you can let out a cheer because this video is BRITISH! She starts by giving you yet another way to tie a slip knot and then de-mystifies the chain stitch. I particularly like the fact that she puts the pattern shorthand (ch) on the screen AND the UK and US terms. In this case they are no different but it's still nice to have this reinforced.
If you are LEFT-HANDED and want to learn this most of the videos are disappointing because they are either poor quality or they are the same tutorial as that for right handed people where they have just mirrored the footage (cheats!).
The best of a bad lot is another video by the Crochet Guru. The video is really clear and easy to follow I personally just find it disappointing that it isn't being done by a left hander!
Crochet basics: US Single crochet (UK Double Crochet) starting a foundation chain (by Bella Coco)
The single crochet stitch is one of the basic building blocks of crochet. A lot of the patterns you see are made up of different combinations of chain, single crochet, double crochet, half treble crochet and treble crochet stitches.
Disappointingly I couldn't find a single video that I felt both explained the process of putting single crochet stitches into a foundation chain clearly AND that had decent quality video. I may have to resort to making one!
US Double Crochet Into A Foundation Chain (UK Treble Crochet) (by Crochet Guru)
Both the right and left handed versions of this video are lovely and clear. The video deals with making US double crochet stitches into a chain to give a square(ish) result.
This is the left handed version of the video
How to Crochet Magic Circles: Double Crochet (The Crochet Crowd)
This video shows you how to start any circular project (including Granny Squares) in the simplest way. I particularly rate it because he shows you how to tie a slip knot clearly and is very clear about how to finish off stray ends or "stragglers".
It is a long video and he doesn't feel the need to fill in any gaps of information with chatting (which I find confuses me when I am following instructions). At 11 minutes in he shows you how to turn a corner and at 19 minutes he gives a valuable "rule of thumb" for making sure that included stragglers don't get unwound.
And the same thing for left-handers-
I hope that you find these videos all nice and easy to follow. In my opinion these were the most useful YouTube videos for learning to crochet although there are a lot of others. If you have any links to videos you think would be clearer please feel free to post them in the comments section or in our Yarning Facebook Group.


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Judy Davis
Nurture your inner potter with a Wheel Throwing or Hand Building class. Sling some mud around and learn to throw a pot, not a tantrum, with this easy-going teacher. This teacher will really get your wheels spinning. She puts a spin on everything and gets a glazed look on her face at the mention of fire. With her talented hands fresh from a mud treatment, she's always ready to roll (clay that is). She is constantly adding new masterpieces to her display in the gallery and tourists carry her pottery to points unknown across the globe. If you want to nurture your inner potter, Judy Davis is the instructor to consult. Judy has been teaching for us for 15 years and kids and adults alike love her clay classes. She gets "All Fired Up" and shows kids how to throw pots and glaze them beautifully. She is patient, quiet, and a joy to be around. And she can bring out the "Clay Dog" in anyone! It's never too late to take a class in pottery. She is a great addition to the talented staff at the Center for the Arts. She is an awesome potter in her own right and teaches all ages and all levels of proficiency. You will learn easily from her straightforward style.


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Holiday Heafer Syndrome?
Guess what! Now that the summer is gone you can push your health and fitness goals off to the side! After all we can now hide under big wool sweaters and tights, right!?!
WRONG - IT'S GONNA TAKE WAY MORE WORK TO WORK THAT SH*T OFF then it did to put it on!!
I am determined not let this evil holiday heafer syndrome affect my clients, so here is a few tips & tricks that help me keep the weight off.
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Feeling weak, anxious and unconnected to my body lead me to start exercising. I joined a dance class once a week and after every dance class I had a glow about me, and it wasn't just from the sweat that I built up in class, it was something more. I realized it was the endorphins that were being produced from the physical activity I was doing. Join me and start moving and feel the difference. Read my blog to get motivation, try the exercises I've posted, contact me for personal training, bootcamps, workout cards or just go for a walk. Any activity is good activity.
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If you're just joining, our family of four is on a three-year journey to double our net worth and become location independent so we can move abroad. Each month, I'll keep you apprised of our progress. This year, we've got some major goals, including paying off our outstanding debt (car and apartment in Chile), replacing our roof, AND saving around $70,000. (Wow, that is scary to type all those goals out in one place). In January, we made some solid progress toward those goals, and got 7% of the way to doubling our net worth.
Ah, February. Month of heavy snowfall and rampant sickness Continue reading "February Net Worth Update"