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You probably have noticed that I have not really been doing so well keeping track and recording my subtractions and additions the latter half of this year. I am sure I could probably go back and figure out most of the numbers though in the end I just don't know. I pretty much fell apart after we lost the twins a couple of months ago. Although I can't promise that I will not purchase any fabric over 2014, after all my birthday is in march and I have plans for a certain fabric line for my birthday, I'm not gonna lie. However, I am promising to make my stash work as much as I can. I promise to be innovative in using what I have on hand. Having all of my fabric right in front of my face really helps, so that is the first step, getting all my fabric finally in one spot!
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THIS spring sees a significant anniversary in British railway history – 25 years since the Settle to Carlisle line was saved. After a six-year battle, it was announced on April 11, 1989 that the Government had rejected British Rail's plan to close it. A quarter of a century on, 1.2million passengers now travel on England's most scenic railway every year.
THE fight started on December 15, 1983 and would go on for six years.
That month, Pope John Paul II pardoned the man who shot him, Kenny Dalglish scored his 100th goal for Liverpool and The Flying Pickets hit number one with Only You.
British Rail caused shock by announcing plans to shut the perenially threatened line as it was costing millions to maintain.
Along its 72 miles, eight of its stations had closed, services had been decimated and signal boxes were weathering.
It's most spectacular feature, Ribblehead Viaduct, standing 165ft tall and with 24 arches, was said to be crumbling.
Created by the Midland Railway in the 1870s to connect London to Scotland, it took six years to build with its 325 bridges, 21 viaducts and 14 tunnels.
This feat of Victorian engineering was nearing the end of its life after 120 years, claimed BR.
Stations at Settle and Appleby would also shut – unless a buyer could be found.
But bosses did not count on the strength of public affection.
"I can remember being in awe of those who conducted the campaign with such vigour, determination and non-stop energy," says Paul Kampen, secretary of the Friends of the Settle – Carlisle Line, and editor of the group's magazine.
"Some are still involved in the Friends. Many are enjoying a well-earned retirement and a few, sadly, have now departed forever."
Cutting through some of England's wildest terrain, the line was revered not just in trainspotting circles but in the communities it passed through: places like Newbiggin, Appleby, Kirkby Stephen, Garsdale, Dent.
It was a route like no other. At its highest, the central section of the route climbs to 1,100ft.
Over Ribblehead in 1977, the wind had been recorded howling at 120mph. Some said it was the ghosts of the 100 men who died during the line's construction, buried in a mass grave at nearby Chapel-le-Dale.
The people were not prepared to let it go. They had to make a case for its worthiness and they did so spectacularly – increasing passenger journeys from 150,000 to 450,000 a year.
One of its most famous supporters was Ruswarp – a collie dog owned by Graham Nuttall, from Lancashire, who became Secretary of the Friends.
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Now long gone, Ruswarp lives on, high up on Garsdale Station in the form of a bronze statue.
Two groups pivotal to the saviour of the line were of course the Friends of The Settle-Carlisle Line, and the Joint Action Committee.
Edward Album, a founder member of the Friends, recalls the campaign in a new publication, '1989 to 2014, Run-Down To Renaissance'.
He writes: "The Friends developed a policy early on of trying to work with, not against, the rail authorities, civil servants and Government.
"This policy did not prevent the Friends campaigning strongly. However, we aimed to maintain good relations."
He adds: "As regards the Ministers, they were initially strongly supporting closure. Financial reasons, then as now, were what counted. At the beginning, the Secretary of State Nicholas Ridley made the famous remark that the regular users of the line 'could all be accommodated in a decent-sized minibus'.
" At the end, Michael Portillo was the minister who had the pleasure of communicating the favourable decision to us. He has been a supporter of the line and a friend of the Friends ever since."
Mr Portillo will be the Friends' guest of honour on Friday, April 11.
That weekend will see a a number of special events including a Northern Rail sponsored special charity train running on Sunday, April 13 along the DalesRail route from Blackpool to Carlisle.


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Are the girls feeling swollen and sore? Are they getting more attention than usual? Better bust out the pee stick — you may be pregnant.
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Moody much? Did you just threaten to divorce your husband because he wanted to watch Deadliest Catch while you wanted to watch The Bachelorette? Don't worry. Moodiness is completely normal during pregnancy thanks to the dramatic hormonal shifts your body is undergoing. Each woman experiences these hormonal changes differently. You may feel extreme mood shifts in either direction, or be more anxious or depressed.
It is important to note that if you feel overwhelmingly hopeless or unable to perform daily duties, you should seek professional help from your healthcare provider or mental health professional immediately.
7/Missed period
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One of the concept behind hybrid bicycles is that you are supposed to get the best of both worlds. This is precisely what the Ridgeback looks like, a good balance between sporty and road. For starters, this bike is definitely on the lighter side of things. This is only enhanced by the double butted aluminum frame.
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|19 Apr 2010
Shawn, Troubleshooting doesn't show anything - the search pane in search options under Folder options are also at default. sfc /scannow did find something, and requested me to restart - and I did. After restart I tried searching "Computer" again, it's still not searching... If I search in a volume or a folder, the search will execute normally. Does this has to do with I'm mounting a volume in a folder?
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|19 Apr 2010
I just tested search with a drive mounted as a folder on my system and didn't have a issue with search on it from any location.
Try the search again with your search options set like this to see if it may help.
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|19 Apr 2010
Windows 7 Ultimate x32bit
Rebuilding the index did the task. I have found what I was looking for.
How do we can login in as admin in cmd. Even though I'm the only user of this pc but when I type
"sfc /scannow" in cmd it says login as admin
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|20 Apr 2010
Yousaf, that's great news.
You would right click on the command prompt shortcut and click on "Run as administrator" to do so. :)
SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker
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|20 Apr 2010
Hmm... still not searching, Shawn.
I already reindex everything (took me almost 2 days to reindex). I'll reindex everything again...
Thanks for the help though :) I'll keep you posted...
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|27 Apr 2010
Why is it when I do my search, and my results are shown, the locations the files are in are not shown? In the attached example I was looking for a duplicate file, which search found, but it doesn't show where the files are. I had to right click each one and go to properties to find their location.
On your example searches, the file path is shown. Why isn't mine? I can't find any settings to control this (or don't know where they are).
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|27 Apr 2010
Why is it when I do my search, and my results are shown, the locations the files are in are not shown? In the attached example I was looking for a duplicate file, which search found, but it doesn't show where the files are. I had to right click each one and go to properties to find their location.
On your example searches, the file path is shown. Why isn't mine? I can't find any settings to control this (or don't know where they are).
File and Folder Arrangement - Change in Windows Explorer Window
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|27 Apr 2010
OK! That works. That was simple enough, yet it's still not the same as the example shown in this thread when in "Content" view. Does Content view only selectively display paths?
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|07 Jul 2010
windows 7
Search in Windows 7
How do I search a key word AND date range AND file type all together in windows 7, i.e. like was doable in XP?
I find I can do date ranges, and file types or key word and file type simultaneously without problem but have not been able to add the key word to the string t and get it to work
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|07 Jul 2010
Hello Erc,
You should be able to enter the keyword that you want to search for first, then click on a search filter (es: Date modifies) and set it, click in the search box to see the available search filters again, and repeat with any other search filters (ex: Size) you wish to be used. The links in the yellow TIP box at the top of the tutorial can help show you some advanced search techniques that you can use to help you more with this as well.
Hope this helps,
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Transformative Experiences in Gifted Youth
The term transformation is commonly used in gifted education to refer to our goal for student products. Educators seek products from students that demonstrate a transformation of information, meaning that the student has applied newly gained information in authentic and innovative ways. Today, however, I want to address a different kind of transformation, one that is physical and emotional in gifted children when they experience something transformative.
The physical/emotional result I am referring to can derive from many different types of experiences. Some examples could include a student being asked a truly provocative or intriguingly challenging question, having an aha moment about a creative idea or invention, or realizing that one has found an understanding teacher or a new like-minded peer. Sometimes, this transformative experience can come from discovering a new area of passion within the curriculum that makes the student become fully engaged and absorbed with the new topic.
The term emotional intensity is often used in describing a characteristic of the gifted. We might consider that emotional intensity could be the impetus for the transformation I am referencing. It denotes a different way of experiencing the world, one which is all-encompassing and deeply absorbing—intense. Dabrowski's Emotional Overexcitability suggests that students with this characteristic feel emotions more intensely than others. What we observe when we witness this intensity or overexcitability in action presents itself in many ways.
In my experience, I have observed students exhibit a burst of energy in their enthusiasm, or go completely silent in their awe or absorption. I have seen students sigh with relief at being understood, or simply break into a wide, rarely-seen, smile. When such happiness emerges, there is a lightness around all involved. It's wonderful to sense a weight lifted from children's shoulders and to feel the release of positive energy. There is an awareness of the moment, of its importance. We long to freeze such moments, but they only last until routines return, or ideas are played out, or other situations change.
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Lee and Grumman sail over Cittàgazze and Grumman explains about the Specters and the children. Lee wants to help a child who is very close to being eaten by the Specters, but Grumman insists that he keep going. Lee reminds Grumman of his promise that the knife will be used to protect Lyra. Grumman says that the knife will protect everyone.
Lee's balloon is spotted and he flies faster to try and outrun the enemies even though he knows this is not possible. Zeppelins show up and Lee explains to Grumman that they will have to land soon in the hills. Grumman causes a storm to blow in and a bolt of lightening strikes the zeppelin, causing it to catch on fire. However, they are still being pursued.
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In an analyst note disseminated today, Stifel analysts launched Parsley Energy (NYSE:PE) coverage with "Buy" rating, and a $23.0 target price.
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I've literally done nothing this week other than break my washing machine, complain to the evil vulture estate agents (who are making me pay £100 to fix it, despite it not being my fault), bitch about the evil estate agents, and buy some not very exciting products for holiday. Has anyone ever used p20 suncream? My dad raved about it for ages so I tried it a while back but found it ridiculous, it goes on so clear and thin that it's hard to tell where you've applied it, and because you only put it on once a day if you miss a spot you don't realise until it's too late. I had little red and white finger prints all over me and looked like i'd been tie dyed, can't say this was the nicest of looks but it kept the pervy spannish scooter men away.>
I also fell in love with that lace dress a'la Topshop on Sunday, but they only seem to have it in white nowadays and even though it's the most flattering thing to ever grace my skin I don't want to look like Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls.
So thats been me for the past few days, exciting life aint it? Although I am going to be on moremagazine.co.uk for the next few months which does make up for the crappy week and I'm headed off to Sunny Spain tomorrow morning which will make the weeks of saving worthwhile - I hope. Being stuck in a mountain might lead to some here's johnny moments : /
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Book Review: Still Alive, by Ruth Klüger
Revisiting Ruth Klüger for the second part of her memoir
The Loss of Optimism
An author of candor and consequence like Ruth Klüger deserves a revisit in the pages of The Vienna Review: The Austrian-born Holocaust survivor had returned to Vienna nearly half a year after TVR's coverage of the Ein Stadt, Ein Buch celebration, where she and her book Weiter Leben were the guests of honor.
Still Alive, a memoir based on Klüger's experiences of Nazi Vienna and her time spent at three concentration camps as a young teenager, is an English version of Weiter Leben and a new work, revised a decade later in English by Klüger herself. She had originally wanted her memoirs only to appear in German – and thus far from her mother who resided in the U.S. To tell this story, she had to address her mother's conduct, which was suffocating. This attempt ultimately failed when a friend discovered the book in Germany and sent it to her mother as a 'gift'.
But her narrative of Vienna's darkest hour did not fail. Trying to retrieve her fading childhood memories, Klüger creates a narrative equal to the ugliness that human nature is capable of, trading accounts of her history with observations of others, giving the reader little reason to believe we have learned anything from history.
Her encounters with conflict didn't end with her harassment as a young Jew in Vienna, nor in the gruesome, cramped quarters of the Theresienstadt and Auschwitz-Birkenau camps, nor in the campuses of German universities, where her feminism was inflamed by the male-dominated society. The conflicts followed her to post-war New York, where first-generation immigrants condemned her for her unwillingness to adopt all things American and the manners of the Upper West Side.
Klüger's young life was calloused by reality, yet softened by an intellectual passion that helped her survive, weaved together in Still Alive by literary inventions that compel one to read very, very carefully. Her cynicism pierces even her opinion of herself, creating a detached identity from which she observes her proximity.
But this time, she was here for a reading of that work's sequel – Unterwegs Verloren – a memoir that takes readers past the view from a child's eyes and delves into the core of a woman who had aged, and who continues to observe the world with a poignant and cynical tone. Klüger met with The Vienna Review before the reading at Café Canetti, situated above the Wiener Hauptbücherei, towering over the busy Neubaugürtel. She seemed unimpressed, however, with the stunning view of the city:
"The view might be extensive, she commented, "but it isn't beautiful. Who wants to see all these cars?" There were many things that Klüger, a 77- year-old with grey spiky hair, wasn't satisfied with. Perhaps because of the "old" Apfelstrudel she was served, or the "annoying" (quiet) music at the café. Perhaps she still struggles with her difficult past, or maybe it was the nerves before going on stage that evening. But when asked to explain why she had "not the slightest desire" to stay in Vienna, she answered tersely: "For obvious reasons. I don't have to go into that."
Her pessimism dissipated when discussing the publication of Weiter Leben, which she claimed gave her a new beginning. "I became known in German-speaking countries," she said, though still using an irritated tone. "It created a new phase of life for me at a time when most people arretieren (lock up)."
As for the book itself, she feels that it had allowed for new connections to be made, and created openings for any kind of writing.
"It is an autobiography," she averred, slightly enraged after accidentally referring to the work as a novel. "I feel an autobiography is the most subjective form of history."
Her temper improved after stepping on stage after the interview. She appeared to enjoy the attention; the Hauptbücherei was packed, and guests were sprawled out on the floor due to a lack of chairs. The crowd of nearly 100 sat in concentrated silence as Klüger read from Unterwegs Verloren, her voice calm and neutral – in great contrast to an only an hour ago in the café.
Klüger's carefully-chosen passages focused on her experience of growing old.
"Elderly people are more secure of their identity than the young," she read. "They know who they are and how they differentiate from other people; On the other hand the levels of consciousness are blending into each other…. The present is only a couple of paces above the placid surface of past experiences, the ground swaying beneath you."
Klüger was the embodiment of self-assurance when she read. She sat perfectly upright and, when she paused to take a sip, she looked the whole audience straight in the eye. Her voice trembled slightly at times, although perhaps a sign of age, or more likely the result of intense emotion that resurfaced as she referred to her past, an indicator of how troubled she may still be.
Though most of the passages covered her past, one excerpt was read in the present tense. She is on a cruise that stops in Ile de Gorée, Senegal, an island from which slaves were deported in the 18th century. Klüger's voice came to a halt for a hundredth of a second, and then continued:
"I'm the only one here, whether tourist or local, whether men or women, who remembers what slave labor is – from personal experience; she read flatly. "I was a slave girl. The barrack in Ausschwitz's women's camp, where I spent the last few nights before deportation to Groß-Rosen as a twelve year old, with four other women on a three-storey-pallet, full of fear of death, that the sleep displaces the fear that came back the next morning."
This dispassionate yet lyrical account captured the listener, and made one imagine turning each page until the book was finished. One wonders if Klüger has come to terms with the atrocities she has lived through? Only two years ago, she said in the Q&A session after the reading, she removed the tattoo that disclosed her identity as a holocaust victim. "A keepsake from Auschwitz," she called it. It took three months to complete the procedure. Tattoos can be removed, it seemed; but as she concludes in her book, "the misery of the past is only over for those who perished."
For more on Ruth Klüger at the Ein Stadt, Ein Buch celebration see "The Klüger Campaign" in Dec. 2008 TVR.


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(I wrote this for the November 2008 issue of The Book Review - an article on classics among children's books - stuff that left an impact on my mind, as well as picture books I wish I'd seen when I was a kid. Here there are a few tweaks and illustrations you won't see in the original!)
Among my first 'friends' in the world of books were two Russian girls named Masha and Zhenya. While Masha was resourceful and clever, with a ready wit, Zhenya was more me: a bit greedy, a bit dull, and definitely careless. Masha was to be admired, while Zhenya—so much like me—was just accepted. In case you haven't guessed already, my 'friends' were characters in Soviet picture books which seemed to dominate the Indian children's book scene in the '60s and '70s. Delightfully written (and translated), beautifully drawn and designed, they were cheap even for the time. Their illustrations covered a breathtaking range from the detailed, jewel-bright Russian-folk-style rendering, to pellucid watercolours, and impossibly scraggly black-and-white lines. If there is one thing I can blame for my abiding desire to look at and hoard children's picture books, it has to be those bits of Soviet-era publishing.
G.K. Chesterton once wrote in a book he gifted a child:
…Stand up and keep your childishness:
Read all the pedants' screeds and strictures;
But don't believe in anything
That can't be told in coloured pictures.
There is a curious sort of cyclicality in finding these words—I love Chesterton's crime-busting Father Brown series. And Chesterton is supposed to have written the above words as part of a longer inscription in a book of Randolph Caldecott's illustrations. Interestingly enough, Caldecott (1846–1886) a British artist and cartoonist, drew 16 picture books for children, which were subversive and highly textured, and went on to inspire generations of artists.
But picture-book illustrations are really more than just coloured pictures. As a writer of children's stories and a mother, I think the illustrations in a picture book are supremely important. Primarily because they add another layer to the text—one that the non-literate child often 'reads' by herself. In the best picture books—where illustrations mischievously suggest more than is said by the actual words—this second level often breaks the fetters of the first. Not only do they create a playful other dimension, but illustrations also extend the frames of reference for a child, creating associations and levels of meaning that would be uneconomical if done with words.
When I read out or tell a story to children, I know that what is grabbing their eyes, making the words 'real' and enchanting for them, is the artist's version of it. Of course the story is paramount, but the drawings are actually the bridge that takes the story to them. I've grown to understand that illustrating for kids is as much and perhaps more difficult than writing for them. The same rules of thumb apply: don't talk down to your reader / viewer; be mad; be good; and most importantly, be a bit bad.
There is an essential and perennial confusion in the world of children's books—what adults feel children should read versus what children themselves enjoy reading or seeing. This confusion—which enters the world of illustration as well—is a path both publishers and parents have to negotiate delicately. While there have to be the 'good' stories—the fables, the pedagogic tales, the 'useful' books, there also has to be enough of the mischievous, the naughty, the merrily subversive. Take Punch cartoonist E.H. Shepard, whose black-and-white, scratchy, seemingly-rough drawings were not considered the best choice for Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) by A.A. Milne. Milne still agreed to have him draw When we were very young (1924) and was so delighted, that he went on to commission him for the Pooh books as well. Pooh bear—inspired by Milne's son's toy in the story and by 'Growler', Shepard's son Graham's toy, in the illustrations—was captured by an artfully rough style (in fact you can see Growler/Pooh's precursor at the bottom right of the b&w drawing here). The stories and their endearing characters went on to enthrall generations of children (till, that is, the Disney machinery swept in with their trademark yellow-and-red bear, a far cry from the homely toy of Shepard's imagination). Shepard was to extend his subtle 'roughness' to create far busier visuals for Kenneth Grahame's timeless The Wind in the Willows (1931).
One of my favourites (though I must admit it took me time to realize that) has always been Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline books. Written and drawn by Bemelmans, Madeline (1939)—illustrated in a flat, uni-dimensional style, largely in black-and-white with a studied and painterly abandon—was considered too sophisticated for children. At first glance the visuals do seem forbidding—but one reading down, most children are glued to the fast-paced rhyming narrative and the seemingly off-hand illustration style.
The very spare classic Goodnight Moon (1947) by Margaret Wise Brown was illustrated in a rich yet somewhat muted style by Clement Hurd. 'Goodnight' is said to each thing in an anthropomorphized baby rabbit's room. As a parent you can recognize the love for rituals that children have, and with subsequent readings, will sense how the book actually helps unwind. Goodnight … slowly reveals its illustrative richness—little details are noticed by the child in the 'clean' artwork, and a lot happens independent of the words. A tiny mouse, for instance, appears on every page, and children have fun spotting it.
When it comes to the mischievous-yet-delightful in children's books, practically nothing can beat Theodore Geisel's oeuvre, written and illustrated by him as Dr Seuss and sometimes as LeSeig. When asked by his publisher to create a picture book for children using less than 250 words, Geisel took 9 months to create the completely farout The Cat in the Hat (1957). A cat in a red-and-white striped top-hat drops in on a pair of unsuspecting siblings, and tries to entertain them while turning their house upside down, much to the consternation of their pet goldfish. It was funny, riveting, and literally '… a karate chop on the weary little world of Dick, Jane and Spot' (Ellen Goodman). The Cat … was published under the imprint of 'Beginner Books' and much more literary mayhem was to follow.
As a parent and a writer, I marvel at the stunning simplicity of Geisel's words, and at the vivid madness in his minimalist books. Geisel is in turn funny (as in the very basic Hop on Pop), crazy (as in Green Eggs and Ham, Mr Brown Can Moo, The Eye Book, The Tooth Book and Wacky Wednesday) and sometimes even political (like in Horton Hears a Who). Beginner Books went on to publish many fantastic titles by other artists and writers as well—the laugh-inducing Put Me in the Zoo (1960), written and illustrated by Robert Lopshire, is just one.
Eric Carle is another innovative children's illustrator whose work simply refuses to conform to adult notions of 'child-friendly'. With a background in graphic design and advertising, Carle created colourful books out of collage, using layers of hand-painted paper, that are stylish and yet earthy. Beginning with Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What can you see? (1967), he went on to create many classics like The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1969) and The Grouchy Ladybug (1977).
A British artist who caused something of a paradigm shift in how publishers and parents would view illustrations forever was Quentin Blake. His seemingly casual, scratchy sketches have brought so many of Roald Dahl's stories to life (The Enormous Crocodile of 1978 is a perennial favourite) that children often think he writes the books as well. Blake's delightful illustrations have a breathless quality, and he has not only drawn books, but also written some like Mr Magnolia (1980), Fantastic Daisy Artichoke, (1999) and the Mrs. Armitage series.
The thing with children is that they recognize immediacy and sincerity in art. So whether or not a picture is 'good' by adult standards, a child's response to art that grabs him is usually quick and instinctive. Often a book that I think will scare my daughter or alienate her, in fact ends up appealing to her the most. Artists, I conclude, must know something about her responses that I don't!
Tuesday (1991) by David Wiesner and The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher (1980) by Molly Bang—both Caldecott Honor Awards winners—were startling examples of this. Tuesday is a wordless book, where you build the narrative as you go, finding new details and images with every reading. Just before on a Tuesday, near a marsh in small-town
It was a book I was sure would terrify my toddler. It had a quiet eeriness to it and the painstakingly rendered frogs were not your average picture-book froggies. But she found it riveting, enjoying the sheer craziness of the story and laughing at the frogs' glee. The novelty came from discovering a new frog in the swarm, a new expression, and a new detail with every reading.
If Wiesner came as a surprise, then Molly Bang's The Grey Lady … was a shocker. A wordless book again, it 'tells' of an old lady who buys a basket of strawberries for her family. Leaving the shop, she is followed by the 'Snatcher', a skinny, gangly-limbed blue-coloured man wearing a yellow-and-purple shawl and a red hat. Deviously, he follows the Grey Lady, making many grabs for her basket.
The Lady dashes into buses, hides in a swamp, climbs a tree, swings from a vine, and finally escapes the relentless Snatcher only by a last-minute authorial intervention. Fed up, he spots a mulberry bush, and eats enough to have his hair stand up on end in a blissful, orange afro.
The challenge of the book is not just the fear of the chasing Snatcher, but the fact that Bang uses a complex narrative style. The same page has the characters in two different positions—before and after an event. Surprisingly, kids actually get Bang's complicated shifting of perspective and her elliptical story-telling device. Surprisingly, they seem to like rather than fear the Snatcher.
It took Bang two-and-a-half years to illustrate the book. When it came out, it was panned by critics as being 'too flashy' and 'weird'. When Bang won the Caldecott, she writes, she was surprised and asked a committee member if they had read the reviews. The member replied, 'We don't make our decisions based on reviews.'
Target, a children's magazine, seemed to attract the best talent in the '80s, with illustrators like Atanu Roy, whose richly intricate lines were dramatic and nutty; Ajit Ninan who drew the hilarious, pot-bellied Detective Moochwala; and Jayanto Banerjee, whose Gardhab Das, the donkey-musician, perennially plagued us with his lousy singing.
Mario Miranda's quirky, whimsical and sometimes even serious sketches in our Class 2 English reader left a huge impression. I've forgotten much of what I learnt, but his fat, funny, robust illustrations for Dhondu and the Rotten Eggs, and his solemn turn for a travel piece on
So the next time you want to pick up a picture book for your child, explore a bit and try to find exciting artists—the ones mentioned above are at the extreme, outermost tip of the iceberg. Look a little deeper and there's a whole world of picture-book illustrators out there (flapping about like eager penguins, perhaps?), just waiting to be discovered and enjoyed!


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I worked at Carl Owens for nearly a year. We worked in "teams" of 2-6 men working on large Oil and Concrete trucks. Painting with mostly Pressure Pots and some gun painting also.
I worked at Linthicum/Ferndale Truck Repair for nearly 6 years. I worked on everything ranging from Car's to Fire Engines and everything in between. We did all over's, blends and panel painting. I used a gun for most of the painting I did there.


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How many of us want to sit in the street in the dirt for the better part of the day? Has anyone who has actually seen a special on the school situation in Afghanistan hoped that our kids could spend their days learning while sitting in the dirt outside? While I'm sure our children love to play outside in the filth from time to time, none of them really want to sit there and try to learn or listen to a teacher all day. So why do so many schools continue to spend valuable dollars on facilities for hard, cold, dirty floors and then ask our kids to sit there?
The case could be made that VCT floors are cheap and that would be a fair argument. But that's where it stops. VCT floors that dominate the K-6 schools in the United States are cold, hard, expensive to maintain, cause airborne particulates to float everywhere and yes, they are dirty. Make no mistake, the fine people that are attempting to keep the schools and these hard floors clean for the kids are using every type of chemical possible to scrub, strip, wax, buff and spin shine these floor clean but they are almost always dirty because dirt just lives in schools.
Here is where this practice starts making even less sense. After we fund these floors and the massive operational budgets that go along with having to try and clean them for the next 20 years the teachers and parents take matters into their own hands and do the right thing by putting something more useful on the floor. They go and buy soft pieces of area rugs, colorful learning circles, and even times pieces of carpet for the kids to sit on so they don't have to be dirty and cold when they are sitting on the floor during the day. It's almost funny.
Perhaps we should ask our architects, designers, and administrators to talk to the teachers and students about what they want and how they would be most comfortable during their learning days. If that is impossible, just walk around a school and see what the have put in themselves to help the kids. Oh, and let us not forget all those tennis balls they have cut up and put on the bottom of the chairs to stop the noise pollution and scuffing that occurs to those VCT floors. Spending money on these types of floors for schools is not fiscally sustainable, hurts indoor air quality and does not provide a clean floor for our children. We can definitely do better and hopefully we will.


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Monday, March 12, 2012
A couple of cards in pink
For the second card I used a tag which was a free gift in a Magazine. Just gave it a bow and a diecut background and it made for a very quick card.
Now for a little cooking tip. Do you have a Muffin tin? Well, until Saturday I never ever owned one! I found one at our local store, one with six rather large cups in it. Saturday night I arranged a cozy dinner for two with DH and wanted to do something special and original. So I made some mini Asparagus tarts in the Muffin Tin. So easy! Used puff pastry which I cut out into four circles and into four of the cups. I mixed four eggs, a little bit of cream, Roquefort cheese (3rd of a pack), salt, pepper and a jar of asparagus which I just cut into small pieces. Mixed it all together, and divided the mixture on top of the pasty into the four cups - made a little lid from the pastry that was over for all four and they cooked in about 15 minutes in a pre-heated oven at 180 degrees. They were delicious with a salad and ready in no time. It just made it a little bit special to eat real home-made food. (Forgot to take a photo..)
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- AnonymousMarch 12, 2012 at 3:37 PM
both cards are very nice!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous cards!! I received my labels...I did a blog post about them...go have a look:)....thanks for the little tip in kitchen too!! Sounds yummy!ReplyDelete
love both cards - have had so much fun with the wine labels - used that label and put on a geeky picture of son when he was about 13 yrs. old - decorated it and put "you have aged to perfection" on inside - he got a good laugh out of it. asparagus muffins sound yummy!ReplyDelete
Hi Jacqueline! Your asparagus tarts sound very yummy! Love both cards today too - so pretty! Hugs to you! :)ReplyDelete
Love the cards and the tarts sound amazing! My husband will eat quiche if it is made in the mini tart pans and I think he would love this, too! I will be trying this soon! Thanks for the ideas both in card-making and in the kitchen!!!!ReplyDelete
lovely cards and the recipe sounds yummy. I make savoury muffins in my tin. They are part of my five a dayReplyDelete
Hi Jacqueline, love both your cards, the top one is stunning. Love the sound of your Asparagus tarts, yummy!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 12, 2012 at 7:27 PM
Gorgeous cards! I like your collage on the first one a lot! I also like how you included the definition! (I am sad that I did not purchase this set when it was available at my local scrapbook store).ReplyDelete
Your recipe sounds delicious and something my husband and I would enjoy (not the kids because of the asparagus..they are not fans!).
Beautiful cards Jacqueline and those little tarts sound super delicious !ReplyDelete
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Lovely creations! Your cooking sounds wonderful, so jummie! I have 2 small glass oven bowls and use them to make small quiches, so jummie! One of my favourites is with mushrooms, leek and walnuts and grated cheese (and ofcourse pastry and eggs). Hugs, HannekeReplyDelete
These cards are so stunning!!! I just adore your work ... and a great recipe too! your are multi talented!ReplyDelete
I am always so impressed with how you use patterned papers with stamping in your artwork, it's such a wonderful design style. These cards are both so creative and unique and so utterly gorgeous.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing your culinary tips, I'm sure the lack of a photo is testament to the deliciousness of the dish!
Have a lovely week~
More LOVELY cards! LOVE what you create always so BEAUTIFUL!ReplyDelete
Love that tag that you used, so pretty! And the gold foil looks delightful on your first card!ReplyDelete
Zwei schöne Karten, Jaqueline, sehr fein.ReplyDelete
Ich liebe die Idee mit den Wein-Etiketten.
Und das Rezept hört sich auch noch köstlich an, hm... :-)
Viele Grüße
fabulous cards Jacqueline. I have a Tex Mex muffin tin that has very large holes and it makes amazing little pies... I usually do bacon and egg, often just putting a square of pastry on and no lids... the eggs puff up and look awesome.ReplyDelete
Both of your cards are delightful Jacqueline! Btw, your muffins sound delicious, especially with that roquefort ;-)ReplyDelete
Love both of your cards and thank you for sharing your recipe. Sounds delightful! Hugs, YvonneReplyDelete
That sounds delish.. I love to use puff pastry. I think I have some in my freezer right now.. I am going to give this a try... Your cards are so pretty!!!ReplyDelete
Hugs, Linda
Your cards are beautiful, and I can't wait to try the recipe!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
Hi. Jacqueline. Both cards is beautiful. This weekend I have fun playing with my gift-the wine lable. It was so funny and challeging. Thanks again for the gift.ReplyDelete
Just love both your cards, Jacqueline, but especially that sweet little face combined with the wine label. Your tarts sound delish - I will definitely share this recipe with my mom too; she loves asparagus and Roquefort :)ReplyDelete
Both cards are beautiful! The first one is a real "Jacqueline" card. Love it!ReplyDelete
Love that gorgeous tag in your second card Jacqueline! And I adore how the stamps you used in your first card actually go perfectly with the image you used! Love Asparagus tartlets! You can make a nice breakfast dish in your muffin tin too, line it with some bacon slices around the edge and add some tomato, mushrooms, (whatever you want really), and a cracked egg!ReplyDelete
Beautiful pink creations! Lovely die cut on the second one and beautiful sweet image on the first. I love how you use your definitions collaged onto the image. Your recipes all sound so delicious and I am so happy your zest for cooking and creating is going so strong again!ReplyDelete


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I had seen this masking technique on Pinterest, and wanted to give credit to the person who posted it, however, when I went back to find it I could not find it! If anyone knows, please let me know, and I will give her/him credit for the idea.
I do not know how they did theirs, as I did not follow through on the link. But here is how I did mine. I started with a white panel and torn paper. I laid down a piece of the torn paper, then, with my TH distress inks, sponged the first colors, mustard seed and fossilized amber. Then I tore another sheet, masked off the next section, and sponged candied apple, then repeated the process with faded jeans and peeled paint.
Then I simply stamped the aganpanthus cluster over the background and added some white highlights for interest. The verse is from a clear Stampendous set (SSC039). I embossed it onto black card stock with white embossing powder. It seemed to need something, so I ran my black stamp pad along the outer edges to frame it in.
A few black sequins finished off the front. The panel is raised onto a white card using fun foam.
I am adding this card to the following challenges:
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Thursday, March 6, 2008
On Reconstructing Selected Memories
Kristina, Ryan, and I went hiking in the green hills. It was rainy and everything was quiet and green.
We saw things move in the hills.
"Goats," said Kristina.
"Not goats," said Ryan. "Coyotes."
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Reasons I really like this:
1) the drawings are also independent objects because they have been cut out of their original format, similarly to how people gain autonomy from their habits by forcing themselves to question their behaviors when they remove themselves from old, familiar circumstances.
2) the drawings are simple but beautiful. They are modest, but also independent and bold.
3) all of the CDs say "so" on them.
4) the drawings could make good replacements for actual friends, who are gone now.
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Will Worley regress in sophomore season?
There are no real reasons to expect Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee and Cole Hamels to regress in 2012. The peripherals of Lee and Hamels (walks, strikeouts, home runs allowed) fell in line with their ERAs last year, and in Halladay's case, his supporting numbers actually outperformed his ERA. Doc finished with a 2.35 ERA that easily could have been 2.20.
The Phillies know what they'll get from Halladay, Lee and Hamels. These are three pitchers with track records as defined as their pitching identities. Halladay is the craftsman with a killer instinct that supersedes the skill-set of whoever he faces. Lee is the pinpoint lefty who, when on his game, is better than anyone in the sport. Hamels is the ever-evolving "stuff" guy who transformed from a two-pitch pitcher into one with four weapons.
The question mark is Vance Worley. We spent the majority of 2011 waiting for the other shoe to drop … and it never really did. Does that mean we can expect him to roll right along in 2012?
Not quite.
After a complete game in San Francisco in late July, Worley improved to 7-1 with a 2.02 ERA. To that point Worley had a .199 opponents' batting average, a strikeout-to-walk ratio of 2-to-1 and only three home runs allowed in 11 starts.
Over his next 10 starts, Worley had a 4.18 ERA in 60 innings, allowing the opposition a .278 batting average. One looks at that and forms the opinion that Worley's numbers regressed to his true talent level. But that isn't exactly the case.
Worley's K/BB ratio actually improved over those 10 starts. The 2-to-1 figure from the first 11 starts jumped up to nearly 3.5-to-1. Worley kept getting better, but we're a results-based society so we noticed the increasing ERA rather than the 24-year-old's developing process and prowess on the mound.
How can it be that Worley had a 2.02 ERA with mediocre command through the first 11 starts, then a 4.18 ERA with much-improved command over the next 10?
Two reasons: worse luck with fly balls and a higher line drive rate.
Through 11 starts, Worley allowed three home runs on 180 fly balls. The average home run per fly ball rate is around 10 percent, or one homer per 10 fly balls. Worley was at 1.6 percent, allowing one homer every 60 fly balls.
Worley wasn't drinking a magic potion that made his fly balls die in the outfield. Some pitchers excel at keeping batters off-balance and jamming them, inducing weaker fly balls, but even they don't sustain obscenely low home run per fly ball rates. Remember how good Halladay was his first year with the Phillies? His HR/FB rate that year was 11.3 percent.
Sure enough, seven of Worley's next 60 fly balls left the yard to balance out his home run rate.
So that was reason No. 1 for Worley's ERA increasing despite his better command. Reason No. 2 was an uptick in his line drives allowed.
Worley allowed line drives on 18 percent of balls in play through his first 11 starts. In his next 10, it was 26 percent. Line drives are the hardest balls to field because they travel and fall rapidly. Thus, line drives fall in for hits at a much greater rate than grounders or fly balls. Liners are hits, league-wide, about 73 percent of the time. Ground balls go for hits 23 percent of the time.
An eight-percent increase in line drives is significant, and was one of the root causes of Worley's opponents' batting average going from .199 to .278.
Despite those added homers and line drives during the second half of Worley's season, we should be confident that he can be a successful major league pitcher moving forward. As mentioned several times, his command only got better as his 2011 season went on. His batting average on balls in play was reasonable, as was his strand rate.*
*BABIP and strand rate are usually the two telltale signs that a pitcher was lucky and/or underperformed despite his ERA. J.A. Happ is the best case in recent memory. Happ's ERAs were always low in Philly despite every other number suggesting they should be high. Look what's happened for Happ in Houston as things have balanced out.
Worley has shown that he can strike batters out. The league will catch up a bit to his two-seam fastball, but even when it does it is very hard for a right-handed batter to pull the trigger when it is running back across the plate. Any successful starter needs a go-to pitch. That two-seamer is a weapon.
Can we expect Worley to finish 2012 with an ERA of 3.01? No. But we shouldn't expect him to have a 4.18 ERA, either. Something between 3.50 and 3.70 is reasonable. Any team would love that production from a cheap fourth starter.
For more statistical musings from Corey Seidman, visit Brotherly Glove and Phillies Nation.
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- 10 Philadelphia Phillies Doomed to Regress in 2012 (bleacherreport.com)
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To do a facial at home, wash and exfoliate facial skin. Open facial pores with steam, and then apply a mask. After removing the mask, moisturize the entire face. This facial is appropriate for all skin types.
- Wash your face
Wash your face, neck and ears with a facial cleanser to remove dirt and grime. Remove all makeup with a makeup remover.
- Exfoliate facial skin
Exfoliate facial skin by rubbing an exfoliating scrub all over your face using circular motions. Pay special attention to areas of the face that are most oily. Rinse your face well to remove all the exfoliating scrub.
- Use steam
Fill the sink with warm water, submerge a washcloth and press it to your face. Repeat this step two to three times. Steam from a tea kettle reaps the same effects.
- Apply a mask
Apply a facial mask following the product's instructions. For oily skin, use a clay-based product. For dry skin, use a hydrating product. A homemade mask is also acceptable.
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Saturday, June 27, 2009
Snapshot from Woerden
Linda paddling in front of the landmarks of Woerden: Woerden Castle and Bonaventura Church.
Hot summer days! Woerden enjoys the water in the city. A lot of people look for refreshment along, on and in the channels of Woerden. This afternoon I paddled with Linda on the Rhine and the Singel amidst swimmers and small watercraft - most motorized, few paddlers.
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Get Your Daily Dose! Wheatgrass
While this may look like a patch from your front lawn, wheatgrass is really so much more. Just a few ounces thrown into your morning smoothie provides your daily dose of many vitamins and nutrients. Plus, a pot of these green shoots sitting on your window sill is sure to cheer up any dark day. Do you like wheatgrass?
Wheatgrass is the very young shoots of sprouted wheat berries. Once it's at least a few inches tall, the grass can be snipped close to the seed and eaten. Wheatgrass is normally juiced and consumed as is or added to smoothies. The whole grass can be tough for our bodies to digest.
People claim that wheatgrass can help with everything from diabetes to hair loss, though few studies have been carried out to support these theories. What's definitely true is that these shoots are rich with nutrients, including iron, calcium, magnesium, amino acids, chlorophyll, and vitamins A, C and E (according to The Mayo Clinic). If nothing else, the nutritional value of wheatgrass makes it worth looking into.
As far as I can tell, the biggest problem with wheatgrass is really the taste. At best, it can be described as distinctly "grassy." If you're making your own juice blends or smoothies, try blending the wheatgrass juice with other flavorful ingredients, like pineapple, ginger, carrots, and mint.
Do you use a lot of wheatgrass? Any recommendations for how to add it to your diet?
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Bullet holes in a computer screen, filmed by a cowering high school student sheltering in a classroom where a gunman was on the loose: just one of the images in the visual market created for those watching the news of the shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Florida. A map on the social messaging app Snapchat displayed pictures and videos located at the school as the shooting took place. Grabbed and recycled from mobile phone screens, they circulated through television channels, radio and websites almost instantaneously.
Much of what we know about the shooting, both in terms of how the events unfolded and what led up to them, was learned through social media channels. The perpetrator, Nikolas Cruz, a 19-year-old recent graduate of the school, had seemingly been flagging his disturbing interest in mass killing for some time through Instagram posts and even a comment on a YouTube video about becoming "a professional high school shooter". Last week the FBI admitted it had failed to investigate a tipoff in January. With each iteration of gun crime in the US, there is an accompanying debate about the role played by social and traditional media in amplifying or controlling the narratives which seem to feed an escalating cycle of violence.
Within 24 hours of the Florida shooting another story broke that centred on the use of social media as a platform to spread chaos and undermine security. The US Justice Department issued 13 indictments against Russians who it said were seeking to defraud the American public by interfering in the 2016 presidential election. The use of Facebook and its photo-sharing site Instagram was central to their campaign. Facebook is mentioned more than 30 times in the 37 page indictment.
The DoJ document, and the evidence of the Florida shooting highlight the same dilemma. There are no readily agreed or perhaps even possible standards for how we want to control the information that shapes society.
The Russian interference engine, the Internet Research Agency, is a sophisticated and well-run organisation that stokes division and fear through cleverly crafted campaigns, social interactions and a blend of advertising and "organic"material which can flow freely into anyone's feed. Its tactics are exactly the same as those used by alt-right groups in the wake of the Florida shooting to amplify untrue stories about the shooter's political affiliations with similar effect.
Striking examples of how a sprawling information infrastructure create effects with real consequences come at a time when the platform companies are debating how they can moderate the trillions of pieces of content that their users initiate everyday. It is not just a problem for social platforms either. News and media outlets have a similar challenge in understanding how they can - or should- report a world where we are inching towards both the possibility of complete surveillance and the threat of continual information manipulation.
At the beginning of the month, a high-level group of content policy employees from social media companies along with lawyers, academics and others attended a conference on large-scale moderation techniques at Silicon Valley's Santa Clara University. Facebook's head of policy, Monika Bickert, laid out a detailed picture of how the 7,500 content moderators at the company work, saying there was a long way to go before machine learning and artificial intelligence could scale the task of humans. Describing the rule-setting at Facebook as "mini legislative sessions", Bickert was not the only technology company employee who likened what the companies do to sitting as a governance structure over speech.
But the terrain these platforms – and all news publishers – inhabit at the moment lacks the characteristics of a governable territory. It is not at all clear that we have a consensus in society about what kind of media standards we want, or whether we can create them separately from the existing commercial models of communications companies.
Technology firms are piling on the number of content moderators or members of "trust and safety" teams as they are sometimes called - Google alone employs 10,000 - but this is happening despite a lack of agreement about what kind of societal norms we want for this new world of information. Snapchat has decided that we do want to see children terrified and cowering in their classrooms, as have CNN, Fox and every other news outlet that used the same images. As trolls or bots crowded the online conversations and fabricated reporters covering the event, Twitter said it did not "want to be the arbiter of truth", when actually the rest of us wish it would at least try and have some aspirations of that sort.
It is no longer a debate just about graphic images, moments of death and personal privacy, but also of whether different contexts demand different standards. It is a question of whether newsrooms now have to spend more time explaining the false mechanics of stories as they do the facts as they happen. And it is a question of whether the platforms are even capable of managing what has been asked of them.
Facebook finds it relatively difficult to decide which incidents deserve to be included in its "mark myself safe" feature which grew out of large scale terrorist attacks including those in Paris and Brussels over the past couple of years. Applying a set of different moderation or editorial standards to each sizeable event that might precipitate danger is an impossibility, yet this is often what the culture demands. Sometimes we need to see or experience reality to understand what has happened, but not always. News organisations make those decisions one way or another every day, in large and small ways, and often get them wrong, and each set of decisions is different according to publication, brand, market and story.
In summarising the arguments around large-scale content moderation, Irina Raicu, the director of the internet ethics programme at the Markkula Center at Santa Clara University raises the most uncomfortable prospect of all.
"To do this well, consistently, at the scale at which some of these platforms operate, is a gargantuan task. Is it outright impossible? And, if so, should we accept the idea of ungovernable channels that allow for the instantaneous distribution and amplification of information around the world?"
If we do accept this as the natural state of being, then it consigns us further to a world where we abandon standards of a civil society to a savage and sometimes dangerous market.


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