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Archive April 2012
Oh Calendar, My Calendar
We love calendars. But online calendars sometimes do not love us back. And at other times they are down right viscious. Right now I am in a love-hate-love relationship with the following Wordpress calendar plug-ins.
10 Easy (and Not So Easy) Steps to Create Your Web Site
Owning your online presence allows your business to create and control your public image, inform your client-base, and provide information in a timely manner.
Do You Need a Database?
If you need to track names, contacts, processes, transactions, or client information, you need a system. Once the system exceeds 150 records or you want to involve multiple people at different locations with your records, then there is a good chance that a database could be helpful to you.
Solving Problems. Creating Order.
I help individuals, non-profit organizations, and small businesses manage information. The course of the work we do together is determined by
- Your needs
- Your staff
- Your budget
- Your comfort with technology
My Favorite WordPress Plug-ins
When setting up a new Wordpress site it's good practice to install the following plug-ins. They've proven to be stable with different versions of WP and different themes, they are relatively conflict free, and they are currently well maintained.
Workstation Basics
I wrote this about fifteen years and many of these simple and essential measures still apply. I've updated this piece for 2012. Take these steps to ensure that you computing experience is productive and painless.


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For anyone who is new to the realm of the Tarot cards, the mysteries attached to them seem to be the additional draw. The truth is that Tarot Card Readings actually deserve no such mysticism since they are the esoteric science that has been around for centuries. A deck of Tarot cards may be an exciting field, and quite advantageous.
Intend to get Tarot readings smoothly done? It is very important to make sense of picking out a good and gifted reader. Furthermore, the Tarot pack is able to come alive with a life. As a result, the reader we will entrust our reading to should be of reputed Psychic power. Keep in mind that there will be higher forces at play every time we consult the Tarot. Actually, there are several unexplainable reasons for us to desire to have a reading performed on a particular day. Thus, it is not necessary for us to choose to complete the Tarot consultation. Instead, the Tarot deck will call to us.
How To Interpret Tarot Readings?
In general, skillful interpretation of the Tarot reading may be an artistic, inspirational and technical feat that is built on the cards' meanings, refracted via the prism of the layout as well as enhanced by the more advanced techniques.
Now, it is time to learn Tarot spreads and meaningsfor clarifications. Normally, the Tarot is applied to offer the reading in which a specific query will be discovered or even the questioner's life will be generally considered. It is supposed that each card in a Tarot deck shall possess a basic set of significances and associations attached to it.
Nevertheless, interpreting the cards according to the attributions alone might be a one-dimensional and unsatisfying exercise. To give a framework which enables the more wonderful richness of meanings, it is essential for a reader to employ the following spreads here: she will lay the cards out where the position of the card in the layout can modify its interpretation.
For instance, the Nine of Cups is considered as the card of fulfilling relationships and contentment. If its appearance is in a position related to the future, then it indicates that the time of fulfillment and well-being may be on the way. On the contrary, in case this card appears in a position regarding the present dilemmas, then it can warn that complacency, taking something for stagnation may be the big issues which the questioner should stay away from.
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A brook is a small stream. On a hot day, you might enjoy wading in a babbling brook. As a verb, brook is a rather stuffy word for "put up with." The lord of the manor might say, "I will brook no trespassing on my land."
Brook is tailor-made for talking about what you won't stand for—it's always "brook no..." If you brook no criticism of your friend, it means you won't let people speak ill of her. If you brook no brooks, it means you've developed a bizarre stream-hating fetish and will spend the rest of your days trying to stop their flow.


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Sunday, December 14, 2014
Hitching Up The Sidecar
The time has come to pick that one little word that I will attach to the year ahead just like I would attach a sidecar to a vintage BMW motorcycle. The year ahead will take off traveling at a high rate of speed just like that motorcycle, and then hopefully it will slow down to a reasonable cruising speed. All the while that sidecar is right there attached to the BMW keeping the exact same pace.
You may be curious what my one little word for 2015 is going to be. Hint - it isn't motorcycle or sidecar. I thought I had the perfect word all figured out at the beginning of November. It fit me to a tee or so I thought. It was going to be curious. But one day of writing at a local coffee shop completely changed the course for the entire year ahead. I eluded to this change in direction in the post The Wider View. I will be doing a year long photographic and writing study of nature's beautiful bodies of water. When I wrote that post the idea was still a little seed that had just been planted. Since that time the idea has rooted itself firmly in my head, my heart and my soul.
I have a notebook full of ideas for this project. I know in my heart it is the right time for this kind of work. Let me also state that I am horrible at sticking with year long projects. Not to be deterred by past failures, I have not only decided to take on this year long endeavor. I have also signed up for a year long class on making movies with Xanthe Berkeley called A Year of Creating Time Capsules. I have always wanted to take one of Xanthe's classes to learn how to make movies but the timing was never quite right before, now it is perfect. I want to incorporate short movies into my new project.
My word that I have chosen for 2015 is...Committed. I am committed to this project. I am committed to finally finishing a year long class. I am committed to documenting my photographic and writing growth. I am committed to putting a lot of my creative time and energy into this project. I will only be taking classes that in some way fit into the needs of the project. I plan on putting in 10-15 hours a week on some aspect of the project.
The best part is that this whole project will be housed in one place completely devoted to it. I am putting the finishing touches on a new Squarespace blog that will go live very soon - A Year Beside The Water.
For those of you who love the Coffee Shop Chronicles you needn't worry, those will continue here just as they have in the past. I hope to post two Chronicles a month. Other than that though most of my time will be spent on the new blog.
I see 2015 as a year of tremendous artistic growth for me. I am committed to this project and I am committed to investing in my future. So I am strapping on my leather motorcycle helmet, pulling on my vision correcting googles and revving up the engine, loading "committed" into the sidecar, and getting ready for the ride of my life.
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Interesting choice as I too have become committed...:)JPReplyDelete
HI!!! thank you so much for seeking me out after finding me in artful blogging. after going through a few of your posts, are you sure we aren't related? or already friends? previous blog readers of each others maybe? as i found myself so comfortable here….with a bit of "have i been here before?"…..anyhow, you are the first of the "word finders" to share their word and i can't wait to start susannah conway's "find your word" class tomorrow in hopes of getting a grasp on mine. i love that your word is truly a word fitting into what you are planning to do all year. such clarity is a wonderful gift. it's a foggy wet morning here in wisconsin…and even though it's too wet to be out with my camera, i love being blanketed by it happy sunday to you.ReplyDelete
Sounds like a fantastic and adventurous ride for next year. I look forward to following you.ReplyDelete
I love how those little things enter our minds and won't let go! They stick, they grow, we become inspired and we create!ReplyDelete
I can't wait to join you by the water this year! You know how I love the water.
ps…we lived in grand rapids YEARS ago and one of my best friends lives in stevensville now. last year we did a michigan take the ferry across trip and spent a night in holland….i love that area. you are so lucky to live by the water!!!ReplyDelete
Oh Sarah, your post is so exciting today! I love the motorcycle and side car analysis! Your new word for 2015 tells the progress you have made and now know you want to take on a challenge and be committed. I know I will love your new series as I love water, and the best one is Lake Michigan, but I'm sure you will included many others. Happy the CSC will be continuing. The bench at the Lake would make a very beautiful wall print. One day I want a home with a huge wall to hang such art! Such a dream! Looking forward to your year on the water!!ReplyDelete
what an adventure you have planned for yourself - both in artistic venues but also in personal accomplishments...and I love that we will be able to follow along with you (in the sidecar!) as you document your journey with a new blog...I look forward to your adventures...ReplyDelete
That is a great word Sarah I'm so looking forward to reading your adventures I'm still thinking about which direction I will go in. As my 60th birthday is early 2015 I feel I need to get motivated...ReplyDelete
That photo really made me smile. I think you did very well with your writing commitment last year. I am looking forward to your take on your new idea this year. I have to think about my word for this year...ReplyDelete
great idea, I am taking xanthe's course too see you thereReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2014 at 12:22 PM
Thanks for the reminder that it's time to pick a word for 2015! I've been too busy sort of moping around the end of 2014 to even think of it. I'm inspired by your commitment and looking forward to following your new blog. (And really, I think I already know what next year's word needs to be for myself. I'm just not sure I'm ready to be "committed" to it.)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 14, 2014 at 1:46 PM
What a better place to be in to commit to this type of project!ReplyDelete
Sounds like a perfect word, well suited to how far you have come and determination to go. Personally, I've been uber impressed with your commitment to both writing, and your photography throughout this year - I eagerly await your new endeavors.ReplyDelete
Sarah, You are thinking in a powerful, life-affirming way. Your clarity is beautiful. I will look forward to your year beside the water. I grew up overlooking the Potomac River in a very small town, and my heart will forever be stirred by rivers and their shores. Your sidecar analogy is the perfect way to visualize your word in action. Yes, you have reminded me that perhaps I might establish a word also. But I am also thinking over a blackout poem from Austin Kleon, "I think there will be a year when we'll say, 'Gosh, we were good enough this year' and then we can just sit here." I've been driven most of my life, so perhaps my word will be something that takes me in a different direction . . . Thanks for the inspiration!ReplyDelete
Love this post ... can't wait to see how you grow in 2015. Is that Scout in the sidecar? Great picture.ReplyDelete
I can't say I've dedicated myself to blogging again yet. I keep feeling like I need to do something new. Not sure what. What I do know is I need to get back to work. I have a phone interview Wednesday. We'll see how it goes.
You are definitely a more dedicated writer than I!!
Sounds exciting.ReplyDelete
Committed is such a strong word but I see you as a strong woman...I know you will make it...the course sounds lovely...I might just take a look at it...I am thinking the same as you, writing and photo's...but I'm not sure yet if I can make a strong commitment...it will take a lot of time..but I sure do wish you well in this endeavor and look forward to following along in the sidecar.ReplyDelete
I'm looking forward to your 2015 journey too. Merry Christmas and a very happy (and committed) New Year.ReplyDelete
I believe in you!ReplyDelete
You have chosen a great word, committed. I have a hard time sticking with projects, it is something need to work on. I admire your determination! A Year Beside The Water sounds wonderful. I can't wait to read it.ReplyDelete
I came away thinking I would find you COMMITTED and it will be about WATER . . .ReplyDelete
That's what I got . . . now I will sit back and watch and listen . . . to Sarah, 2015!
How fantastic! Great word - I can feel your excitement and anticipation and I look forward to seeing your creative growth over 2015.ReplyDelete
Yay Sarah! I am so excited for you and will enjoy your new project. All the best to you in 2015ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2014 at 1:06 PM
I am impressed and invigorated by your post and your commitment to your project. I have every confidence you will have a superlative creative year -- the kind of year you are ready and up for!ReplyDelete


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TUCSON, Ariz. NASA officials say plans for the Phoenix Mars Lander's second day of activities on Mars have been delayed.
They say it's because of a problem in relaying communications from one of two Mars orbiters relaying commands from Earth.
Fuk Li, manager of the Mars exploration program for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., says that a "transient event" on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter turned its UHF radio off. That stopped communications between it and the lander.
But Li and others say it is not a significant problem.
Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, the mission's principal researcher, says plans called for maneuvers Tuesday to unhook the lander's 8-foot robotic arm from a latch holding it in place.


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The phones were ringing, subscribers knocking on the doors, volunteers filling out forms & taking details and payments.... yes, it was our annual Radiothon week at 3D Radio! The Cat & the Brat were busy playing a bunch of faves plus tracks from 'giveaway' albums, chatting to local musicians such as Brenton Manser, who brought in his latest album, and even managing to squeeze in a 'live-in-the-studio' interview with up-and-coming local band the Byzantines, who are releasing their debut EP this week. Whew! So we'd like to thank all those people who subscribed to help keep this great totally volunteer-run radio station continue to be independent and on-air – and you can still subscribe anytime... just go to the 3D Radio website and follow the prompts, and don't forget that each subscriber receives a copy of the latest edition of DepthCharge, our annual CD compilation of Adelaide bands.
.....so here is the playlist plus a few associated clips.....
Ride Into The Sun – Hunt Like Wolves ('Ride Into The Sun' LP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)
Thee Oh Sees – Sweets Helicopter ('Floating Coffin' 2013 California, USA)
the Barbarellatones – I am Verwolf (mp3 demo 2013 USA)
Tall Tales & True – Wasted Life (7"single 1986 Sydney, Australia)
Cate Le Bon – What Is Worse ('Cyrk 11' EP 2013 Wales, UK)
the Purple Hearts – Early In The Morning (7"single 1966 Brisbane, Australia – taken from 'Down Under Nuggets: Original Australian Artyfacts 1965-1967' compilation 2013 Australia)
Embryo – The Bad Times Are Gone (recorded 'live' 1976 – taken from 'Live Kraut: Live Rock Explosions from the Heyday of Krautrock' compilation 2013 Germany)
the Electric Banana [aka the Pretty Things] – Blow Your Mind ('Even More Electric Banana' LP 1969 UK)
the Beatles – Word ('Rubber Soul' LP 1965 UK)
Wire – I Should Have Known Better ('154' LP 1979 UK)
the Byzantines – CFC (Colourvision Football Club) ('Colourvision' EP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)
the Dagoes – We Sell Soul (7"single 1980 Adelaide, Australia)
Metal Urbain – Lady Coca-Cola (7"single b-side [to Panik] 1977 France)
Death In June – The Scents of Genocide ('Peaceful Snow' LP 2010 Adelaide, Australia)
the Bee Gees – The Earnest of Being George ('Horizontal' LP 1967 Australia/UK)
Moon Duo – Sleepwalker ('Circles' 2012 California, USA)
Tom Lehrer – Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park (7"single 1961 USA)
the Walking Who with Soko – Mini Mini Mini [Jacques Dutronc cover] ('Melodie Francaise' compilation 2013 Australia)
Jacques Dutronc – Et moi et moi et moi ('Jacques Dutronc' LP 1966 France)
the Monkees – Your Auntie Grizelda ('More of the Monkees' LP 1966 USA)
Tame Impala – Elephant [Todd Rundgren remix] (cd-single 2013 Perth, Australia)
Brenton Manser – Abel & the Bad One ('Below the Moan' 2013 Adelaide, Australia)
Love – A Message to Pretty ('Love' LP 1966 California, USA)
les Liminanas – Une Ballade Pour Clive ('Crystal Anis' 2012 France)
the Alohas – Dagnabit ('Get Leid With The Alohas' 2002 Australia)


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- Cover and simmer 2 hours stirring occasionally.
- Service over rice and sprinkle with noodles.
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•*Currently Showing Mid-winter Day Dreams— Feb 16, 2010 – to Spring 2010* at Urban City Cafe & Lounge, 212th & 44th in Mountlake Terrace, Washington!
•"Winter Light" 12/09-02/10 at Urban City Cafe & Lounge
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•"3rd Annual Analog Show" Ouch My Eye Studios, Seattle. Opening Night 11/08/08 and runs until end of year
•Edmonds Convention Center, Arts Now "Through the Lens", 05/08-07/08
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on scholarship for fine art certification in photography at pcnw, as well as an assistant instructor both at edcc and pcnw, i now teach private & group lessons & tours all over the pacific northwest as i build on the art of higher living, capturing people who are being the change in the world & all whose heART is making a difference.
one of my deepest passions is at age five i claimed i wanted to be able to write like shakespeare and grew to love the theatre, someday i would like to produce a theatrical production from scratch (the screenplay, set design, lighting, costumes, choreography, music) to me that is the ultimate in creative expression as it encompasses all mediums and is as large as life!
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Geneva Auto Show: Mercedes Introduces First S-Class Coupe In Over A Decade
The $100,000-plus coupe is loaded with the new S-Class Sedan's award-winning technology and a unique tilting function that leans the car through turns. But will it have hot stone massage?
Mercedes-Benz spent $1 billion revamping its flagship S Class Sedan, which launched last year amid hosannas for its mixture of style, tech innovation, performance and creature comforts (hot stone massage seats, anyone?).
At the Geneva International Auto Show this week, Mercedes officially unveiled the S family's latest iteration, the S-Class Coupe, which will replace the CL coupe when it goes on sale later this year.
STORY: Apple's CarPlay System to Debut in Mercedes, Ferrari at Geneva Auto Show
The car will be the first coupe to wear the S-Class badge in more than a decade. Critics at the show marveled that the car is almost indistinguishable from the stunning S-Coupe concept shown at last September's Frankfurt auto show.
The S-Class Coupe shares many of the tech innovations introduced in the S-Class Sedan, including an array of 3-D stereoscopic cameras, radars and other sensors that allow the car to take over from the driver in emergencies and operate autonomously in stop and go traffic. (The S-Class sedan won the International 3D & Advanced Imaging Society's 2014 car of the year award for the camera system.)
The coupe debuts Mercedes' active curve tilting function--as the car enters a turn the suspension automatically leans the car toward the turning side, like a motorcyclist would tilt a bike through a curve. Mercedes claims the feature reduces the G-forces on drivers and passengers, making for a more comfortable ride on twisty roads. Forward-facing cameras "read" the road conditions and adjust the suspension in real time.
The coupe gets the sedan's panoramic LCD interface that comprises speedometer, tachometer, navigation and other functions, controlled via steering wheel buttons and a console-mounted track pad, and will also be on of first cars equipped with Apple's new CarPlay interface, which allows seamless iPhone integration and hands-free messaging and email via voice command.
Sleeker and more advanced than the outgoing CL Coupe, the S-500 coupe will be available this fall with a 4.7 liter, 449 horsepower twin-turbo V8 and sticker for about $116,000.


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Ilesanmi strike not enough as Daggers unlucky to lose out at Gillingham
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League Two: Gillingham 2 Dagenham & Redbridge 1
Femi Ilesanmi's first goal in his Daggers career went unrewarded as they lost out 2-1 to promotion hopefuls Gillingham in an encouraging performance from John Still's side.
Still stuck with the side that won 1-0 over Cheltenham Town and the first real opportunity of the game came when some nice work from Daggers skipper Abu Ogogo saw him move into the box before seeing a shot blocked behind for a corner with 14 minutes on the clock.
But from a moment of controversy, the Gills took the lead on 28 minutes.
A ball into the box fell to Leon Legge, who looked to be in an offside position, saw the defender smash the ball home.
But the referee's assistant had the flag up for the offside only to be overruled by Iain Williamson.
As the half drew to a close a great bit of skill from Femi Ilesanmi saw him win the ball in the hosts half, run towards goal only for his cross shot to miss the target.
The Gills had been warned but after the break Ilesanmi finally broke his goalscoring duck in Daggers colours with a fine finish on 52 minutes.
He produced another one of his rampaging runs down the wing came inside and saw his cross blocked.
But it fell invitingly for the left back and he fired first time low past Stuart Nelson to stun the home crowd.
For the hosts Charlie Lee arrived late into the box on 66 minutes and directed Fish's delivery just wide of the far post.
However just a minute later the Gills retook the lead when Lewington brought down Anton Robinson and received a yellow card for his troubles.
Deon Burton, just brought on, sent the Daggers keeper the wrong way and fired the hosts back in front.
Green and Jake Caprice came on for the Daggers and the former made a worthwhile contribution.
His free-kick into the box was headed goalwards by Wilkinson but it fell just wide of the goal.
The play was all Daggers and the ball was cleared off the line when goalkeeper Stuart Nelson came out and got nowhere near a cross and Williams fired wide in another good opportunity for the visitors.
Dagenham & Redbridge: Lewington, Hoyte (Reed 90+2), Doe, Wilkinson, Ilesanmi, Elito (Caprice 75), Howell, Ogogo, Saunders (Green 79), Strevens, Williams.
Unused substitutes: Seabright, Maher, Woodall, Bingham.
Attedance: 5,611 (228 Daggers fans)


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A mother, who lost touch with her daughter, was able to find her again 5 years later thanks to a kind hearted iPhone user. The mother, a shoe cleaner in China, came across someone in the street with an iPad and asked if she could use it to get online to help find her daughter. Unfortunately the iPad was WiFi only and there was no network to be found. Luckily, the iPad user also had an iPhone. A photo was taken of the woman and it was posted to Weibo, a hugely popular micro-blogging site in China with over 140 million users.
The picture was reposted (re-weibo'd?) over 100,000 times or whatever the equivalent term is in Weibo language. Within three days her daughter had seen the photograph and the pair were in touch again!
That is two uplifting stories involving iOS devices this week. Earlier in the week we heard about the visually impaired schoolgirl using an iPad; to improve her school life. May be Steve was right; these devices are magical after all?
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We are Sevendof, a technology startup based in Trondheim, Norway. Our mission is to enable businesses to use drones as tools, without having to own or operate them. To accomplish this we're building a network of stations housing fully autonomous long-distance drones capable of carrying out missions automatically, without placing humans in the field.
In cooperation with our pilot customers TrønderEnergi Nett and Eidsiva Nett, we are focusing on performing automated power line inspection. The future re-use of the drone network across customers and industries will distribute costs and improve availability for all users.
Pilot use case: Power line inspection
We're working with Norwegian utility companies to build a completely automated data gathering solution.
Our project has R&D funding approval from The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate for the period 2017-2024.
October 16th, 2017 - Aftenposten
The Sevendof team won the 2017 Innovation Challenge with their "Inspection Lab" concept. Innovation Challenge is a national innovation contest hosted by Aftenposten and Accenture, with the final round held at the A-Tech technology conference. The "Inspection Lab" concept focused on how the power grid can be inspected using long-range drones, and how this system can be generalized to solve other important tasks in society.
April 24th, 2017 - Aftenposten
The Sevendof team won the 2017 student R&D contest hosted by Statnett, Norway's national utility company, which aimed to gather ideas on how technology can improve the Norwegian power grid. The submission focused on how long-range drones can improve Statnett's ability to inspect valuable assets.
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I have reached my Indiegogo campaign goal! Words On Woodcuts Press will undoubtedly become a reality with the publication of Cats A-Z this summer.
The monumental woodcut print shown here is Triumphal Arch. It is one of the largest prints ever produced, and was commissioned by Emperor Maximillian I to be displayed on walls in palaces and city halls.
It also perfectly illustrates how awesome I feel right now!
Thank you to everyone who has contributed and shared information about this campaign.
While I've cleared the first hurtle, I still need to raise additional funds to enact my business plan. I've applied for an interest-free, crowd-sourced small business loan and am currently waiting for approval to launch that campaign. Any funds I raise through Indiegogo that exceed $2000 go to reduce the amount I have to borrow to make this small press a reality. And that increases my press's chances for long-term success.
The Indiegogo campaign runs through April 24th. Help me keep spreading the word. Also, check in on this blog where I'll be posting eight original woodcut art cards as thank-you gifts for all the funders.


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The reason for our 2nd post today is because
I'd just like to take the opportunity to thank all of you for supporting us over the past 5 years, we've seen so many changes in the industry and we still love what we do and it's so awesome that you keep on supporting us along the way, so huge thanks from Myself and Kris, but also from the Polkadoodles team too.
One thing that completely warms my heart is how I have made some wonderful, true friends along this crafty journey and I am so proud that Louise Sims and Ruth Cunliffe who were with me from day one at Polkadoodles are still here to this very day! And now of course, very very dear friends forever! 2 other people also very dear to me are Enfys Cashmore and Kath Stewart who also were on that very first team and who are still great buddies of mine - HUGE HUGE thanks to these 4 very special people who helped me get Polkadoodles off the ground way back when there were hardly any blogs around and even less blog Challenges - we've certainly seen things change along the way! And it goes without saying that the Design Team members throughout the years and the current team who are just awesome are also thanked from the bottom of my heart for all the hard work they put in for us week in, week out.
We thought we needed something special to celebrate our 5th Birthday....
So I decided to celebrate I would design a special Digistamp for each of us 5 'Originals' along with a great little paper bundle which was also designed specifically for each teamie to co-ordinate with their kind of stylee. They are TOO stinking cute!!
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The Poet sent me his "Miracle Book"
I opened my mailbox today to find out that Jack had mailed me his latest poetry book: The Viet Arcane. I sat down holding it in my hands and started crying copious tears of joy. Those of you who know me--or have known me for a while--are aware that I am writing Jack Hirschman's biography. I guess we could say that fate played a great part in our meeting one morning in Caffe Trieste in North Beach, SF, in August 2010.
Holding this book in my hands, I feel how much the efforts of the writing and the intense research that I have been doing and that I am still doing have made a miracle happen. Had Jack and I not met that morning, I would have probably never have known who he was and I would have never started researching extensively about him. And, I would have never heard the story of Anh, the manuscript he lost track of several years ago. I would have never googled that word with a few others one day that pointed me to a "manuscript" that was housed at La Salle University in Philadelphia, PA. I am grateful to the helpful librarians and to my stubborness for having found this lost typewritten work of Jack dating back to the Seventies.
I would not be able to express properly the overwhelming reaction of joy that this manuscript has brought to Jack, who received it via mail on the day before his 79th birthday in 2012. Jack has worked on it for several months in 2013. So, seeing the book published now is one of the things that makes me think that miracles indeed happen, sometimes. I encourage you to read what Jack writes about this miracle in the introduction to his book that follows below. It is indeed inspiring!
Only now I fully realize the importance of perseverance.
Jack wrote in my copy:
Holding this book in my hands, I feel how much the efforts of the writing and the intense research that I have been doing and that I am still doing have made a miracle happen. Had Jack and I not met that morning, I would have probably never have known who he was and I would have never started researching extensively about him. And, I would have never heard the story of Anh, the manuscript he lost track of several years ago. I would have never googled that word with a few others one day that pointed me to a "manuscript" that was housed at La Salle University in Philadelphia, PA. I am grateful to the helpful librarians and to my stubborness for having found this lost typewritten work of Jack dating back to the Seventies.
I would not be able to express properly the overwhelming reaction of joy that this manuscript has brought to Jack, who received it via mail on the day before his 79th birthday in 2012. Jack has worked on it for several months in 2013. So, seeing the book published now is one of the things that makes me think that miracles indeed happen, sometimes. I encourage you to read what Jack writes about this miracle in the introduction to his book that follows below. It is indeed inspiring!
Only now I fully realize the importance of perseverance.
Jack wrote in my copy:
For Sasha,
with especial gratitude
for making this book possible.
Jack Hirschman, 06.30.2014
is what I call the work you are holding in your hands. I'm not referring to the form and/or content of The Viet Arcane, but to the existence of the book itself, which involves the telling of a story that goes back almost half a hundred years. The American war in Vietnam began in 1965. I was an assistant professor of English, American and Comparative Literature at the time, in Greece on a Creative Writing sabbatical from UCLA, where I taught. I was fiercely opposed to that war and, when I returned to teaching in the Fall of that year, I broke some State laws in attempting to prevent my students from being drafted (or so I was told ? I felt I never broke any laws but those that served the imperialist war in Vietnam), and I was terminated ? ironically enough in the same week that the students gave me the award for distinguished teaching. Realizing even then that UCLA was a cultural corporation, I turned my back on academic life and for the next 48 years I've lived as a poet, translator and painter "in the street", as it were, first in Venice, California; then in Topanga Canyon, California, where I wrote The Viet Arcane in 1970-71; then in Echo Park, Los Angeles, where I began The Arcanes; and since 1972 in San Francisco, with many journeys to Italy, France, Sicily, Greece, Venezuela, Haiti, Austria, Iraq, Germany, Sweden, Great Britain, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, China and Colombia -- either for readings or upon publications of translations of my poems into different languages. The only thing I carried out of UCLA, apart from the memories of some very fine students who would come to be fine activist poets and translators, especially the late Max Schwartz, as well as Stephen Kessler and Gary Gach, was a library card to its excellent collections. One day four years after I was done with UCLA, I found in its library stacks the book that would change my life unalterably. I had been living at the very end of Venice, in southern California, writing and translating for David Meltzer's Tree magazine, a journal devoted to Jewish kabbalistic poetry and prose -- that is, the anti-zionist real poetry of the Jewish people. There was a group of hip artists and poets interested in kabbala: Wallace Berman in Topango Canyon; Meltzer in San Francisco; Asa Benveniste in London; Jerome Rothenberg in San Diego, as well as poets and painters who were not Jewish, like George Herms, Dean Stockwell and Russ Tamblyn, the latter two fine actors publicly and in their private lives excellent graphic artists. The book that I discovered was written in Havana, Cuba in 1964-65. Its title is A Rainbow for the Christian West and its author is a Haitian poet, novelist and intellectual, René Depestre.The book enacts in a series of poems an invasion by the Vodou Loas -- or Haitian gods and goddesses -- into the southern and most racist part of the United States. It was published in French in Paris by Présence Africaine in 1967. I discovered in 1970, translated it in Venice and Topanga Canyon from December 1971-March 1972. It would appear later that year by the Red Hill Press of Fairfax, California, whose publisher, John McBride, lived in the north of the State, but whose colleague, Paul Vangelisti, an Italo-American poet originally from North Beach in San Francisco, lived in Los Angeles and edited the very fine international poetry journal, Invisible City. I've clarified the details of the Depestre book for two reasons: (1) as I've said many times before, it was my translation of the ?...Rainbow...? book that turned me into a communist as a poet, so it was a momentous eventuation for me, and (2) it lead to what ultimately is The Viet Arcane. That is, a couple of month after I'd completed the translation, I saw a notice in a footnote to a book I was reading about Vietnam that one Maurice Durand had written a book ? The Technique and Pantheon of the Vietnamese Mediums (I translate the original French), which was based upon a Vodou sect in Vietnam! I sent off to Paris for the book and was amazed to discover when it arrived that it contained the 24 song/texts (in both Chinese and Vietnamese) of a sect of Mediums who follow the Dao Mau (the Worship of the Mother) religion, whose ritual, which the book describes not merely in words but with more than 50 pages of photographs of Mediums in action, is called Len Dong. Though the sect's activities were banned by the North Vietnamese government during the war as a grouping that might promote superstition, I was particularly moved by the account of the Mediums, especially in the light of its vodouisant dimension, after having translated Depestre's book only a short time before. I'd studied a good deal of the people and history and language of Vietnam since the American war had begun. Inspired both by the Durand book, and the anti-war work of the mediums of media at Pacifica Radio's KPFK station (my wife at that time Ruth was head of Drama and Literature for the station; we'd done many anti-war broadcasts, and so it wasn't difficult for me to include the cultural workers there by transferring them into the texts), I wrote The Viet Arcane over the next three months in 1972 in Topanga Canyon, California. That was not the title I gave the book in 1972. At first I called it Len Dong and then, after I'd left southern California for San Francisco in the autumn of that year, I changed the title twice in ensuing years to Anh, for one, and Nam for another -- when I sent it as a submission to a publisher. That's perhaps why the book was literally lost since 1996, the last year I recall sending it to a press in hopes of publication. The three copies of the manuscript all had either been lost, discarded or I didn't know what had happened to them, except that I no longer had a copy of the text, and my original handwritten copy had gotten, for the most part -- except for a few of the 36 sections --lost as well. And yet, during the '70's in San Francisco, when I had copies of the manuscript, after having met a young Chinese-Vietnamese filmmaker, Paul Kwan, and given him the manuscript to read, I was informed by him a couple of weeks later that he knew of a temple on Potrero Boulevard where the Len Dong ritual was performed! I was astonished. A week later, accompanied by Paul and his artist partner, Arnold Iger, I attended the ritual. In subsequent weeks I attended the temple once again, and the congregation even allowed Paul and Arnold to film the service. At that time I believe there was but one temple in the northern California area, (and that temple on Potrero Boulevard was destroyed by a suspicious fire and the congregation forced to move to St. Jose). Today in fact -- with the lifting in Vietnam of prohibitions after the war in 1975 and the subsequent loosening of laws against sects within and outside Vietnam -- temples are flourishing in that southeast Asian country and no less than 11 temples exist in Silicon Valley of northern California! So it was that the ?miracle? ? that is, the miraculous recovery of the manuscript ? occurred. On December 12, 2012, the day before my 79th birthday, Alessandra Bava, who's writing my biography in Rome, wrote to say she'd a birthday gift for me: she'd found the manuscript in the archive of La Salle College in the Philadelphia area. Apparently I'd sent the text to a group of Vietnamese activists in the Boston area, which, after the war ended, sold its archive to that college, and my text was among its documents. Alessandra had remembered one of the titles I had given the manuscript and, when surfing the internet for material on my life, discovered the texts, bravely convinced that college's library to release the texts to her for me. What a joy to receive that attachment to Alessandra Bava's email! After 16 years in oblivion! Of course much had happened to me in 40 years (most eminently the loss of my son David at 25 to leukemia/lymphoma in 1982, and my years with the Communist Labor Party 1980-1992), though I was surprised to discover, over the first two months of 2013, when I went through the texts, that the bedrock intuitions and political thrust were already embedded. What I've done here is bring a deeper sense of rage against the imperialism that still tyrannizes the world from its center in Washington, D.C. And I've changed the title, arcanized it as it were, since, historically speaking, my masterwork, The Arcanes, published in Italy by Multimedia Edizioni in the American language in 2006, was actually begun in Echo Park, Los Angeles, a month after I completed this work, when my marriage dissolved and I left Topanga Canyon and was staying at the home of Paul Vangelisti and his then wife, Margaret. This Arcane, reworked in 2013, will be included in the second "tower" of Arcanes (first contains 126 Arcanes; the second, a work in progress, numbers 108 and continuing). My heartfelt thanks to Alessandra Bava, for the recovery of the texts; to Ingrid Swanberg of Abacus Press, who diligently searched for the last copy of the text I sent, to no avail (probably because I'd changed the title of the manuscript); to Trang Cao, a Vietnamese-Canadian who helped me with transliterations into Vietnamese of the names of some of my friends. All three women are excellent poets and, in fact, I've included Trang in one of the sections because her help has been like a Medium's for this book. And to Maya Pi Docampo Pham who, in 2008, at the age of 4, painted the cover that I've chosen for this book. She is the daughter of a dear Vietnamese friend, Maria Pham of San Francisco. And to Mark Weiman of Regent Press, who understands that, even if my childhood was lived during the Second World War, and that that war is a destruction that effects everyone, even if one were born after it was over the American war in Vietnam was the major catastrophe in my, and others' adult life of this generation, and must not ever be forgotten by this and future epochs.
Jack Hirschman


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I usually want something sweet for breakfast like oatmeal with maple syrup and dried fruit, or a smoothie, but this morning I was craving something savory.
I love grits and polenta. I thought it would be fun to try a veganized version with quinoa and Daiya cheese. I wasn't sure how I'd make the sauce at first. I started making a bechamel sauce, but I didn't need the roux to thicken. The Daiya melted so beautifully and was the perfect consistency, you'd never believe it's non-dairy.
As with all experimental recipes, it's always a gamble. Sometimes they end up in the trash, sometimes they end up in the permanent repertoire. The fluffy quinoa with the creamy cheese was hearty and satisfying while the black pepper gave a nice heat at the end. Quinoa is low-fat, high in protein, and fiber, so it's filling and good for you! It's perfect for a quick and nutritious breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
This could be a healthy alternative to mac and cheese for the kids if they are open to trying new things, or if they already like quinoa. Next time I would even try it with itsy, bitsy broccoli florets. You could also substitute quinoa with two cups of elbow macaroni. I think I know what my next experiment is…
The whole recipe takes about 15-20 minutes to prepare if you have to make the quinoa. If you cook the quinoa in advance, this dish comes together very quickly since the sauce only takes about 5 minutes.
I even got the thumbs up from the omnivore hubbie so I'll definitely make this one again!
Cheesy Quinoa Grits
1 cup uncooked quinoa
1/4 cup milk (I use hemp milk, but you could use any nut milk too) *
1/2 cup cheddar cheese (I use vegan non-dairy Daiya cheddar cheese)*
salt & pepper
hot sauce
*If you want it extra cheesy, double the sauce recipe.
1. Prepare quinoa according to manufacturer's directions.
2. Once quinoa is cooked and still warm. Make the sauce.
3. Bring the milk to a boil with a pinch of salt and a generous amount of ground pepper (1-2tsp).
4. Add the cheese. Once becomes creamy and sauce-like texture, add couple shakes of tabasco.
5. Pour over cooked and warm quinoa. Stir until fully incorporated.
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Publisher: Henry Holt
Pages: 416 pages
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Source of my copy: publisher
Synopsis (from Goodreads)
Seventeen-year-old Bonnie™ Baker has grown up on TV—she and her twelve siblings are the stars of one-time hit reality show Baker's Dozen. Since the show's cancellation, Bonnie™ has tried to live a normal life, under the radar and out of the spotlight. But it's about to fall apart . . . because Baker's Dozen is going back on the air. Bonnie™'s mom and the show's producers won't let her quit and soon the life that she has so carefully built for herself, with real friends (and maybe even a real boyfriend), is in danger of being destroyed by the show. Bonnie™ needs to do something drastic if her life is ever going to be her own—even if it means being more exposed than ever before.
Heather Demetrios' Something Real is the winner of the Susan P. Bloom PEN New England Discovery Award.
I brought Something Real with me on vacation to the Philippines back in December but I put off reading it. The book is about a girl who grew up on a Jon and Kate Plus Eight-like or a Kardashian-style reality TV show and I hate watching those kind of shows. The book's description doesn't tell you much and I wasn't sure what to expect. But my Kindle ran out of battery with a couple more days left on my trip so I reluctantly started reading Something Real.
And then it was really had to stop reading. I wanted to savor it but at the same time I wanted to quickly flip through the pages because I had to know what will happen next.
Something Real was an amazing read. First of all, the writing was fantastic and it immediately grabbed me. It was well-paced, well-plotted and Bonnie™/Chloe Baker's voice was spot on. I couldn't detect any debut novel awkwardness. The story just flowed liked butter and it was a joy to read.
After being born on camera and spending her all of childhood in front of the cameras on her family's hit reality TV show the Baker's Dozen, Bonnie™ Baker was finally living a normal life. In the last four years, she has reinvented herself as Chloe Baker, a normal girl (or as normal as she can get because her years on the show did a number on her psyche) trying to get through her senior year of high school with her two best friends Tessa and Meredith, crushing on the lovely Patrick Sheldon and trying to keep her reality TV past a secret. And then her mom drops a bomb on her: Baker's Dozen is going back on air. Soon, the life Chloe carefully built for herself start to crumble.
Being a reality TV disliker (I only watch the competition types like Project Runway or The Voice), I liked the behind-the-scenes look of what it meant to grow up on reality TV--the fun/okay parts and the ugly parts (people's obsession with celebrities and the awfulness that they invite, the lack of privacy, the crazy paparazzi, etc.) were explored. And it gave it a face in Bonnie™/Chloe Baker, which made me reflect about myself and my quick to judgements and dismissal of reality TV stars. How we only see one side of the story, and sometimes not even the whole story but just the version that will garner the most viewers. It is a very timely topic.
Bonnie™/Chloe Baker's character quickly endeared herself to me. Throughout the novel, I felt her pain, her anger, her depression, her joy... Chloe experienced a roller coaster of emotions and I was there with her all the way. I loved the coming of age journey she undertook--Chloe started out desperately trying to stay of the spotlight and just ran from her problems rather than face them but she bloomed and became a stronger person by the end. Her finding her inner strength to confront the challenges in her life was empowering and I rooted for her to succeed.
I also enjoyed all the secondary characters in Something Real, from Benny™ (Chloe's brother who had the best and cutest secondary plot line ever with his boyfriend Matt) to the "unlikable" characters like Chuck the evil producer and Chloe's mom. They were all fully fleshed out and some, like Chloe's sister Lexie™, just begged for their own novels.
And of course I cannot end this review without talking about the dreamy Patrick Sheldon. Man, can Heather Demetrios write a swoon-worthy love interest(s)! Patrick (as well as Benny Baker, if he's more your type) is one to add to your book boyfriends list. He was just lovely. Maybe he was a little too perfect, but whatever. We can dream. I loved how Patrick and Chloe's relationship developed and by the end of the novel you know these two are meant to be together. The romance had a very My Life Next Door (Fitzpatrick) feel to it, which I LOVED.
Something Real is the kind of contemporary YA that I prefer too read: not light and fluffy but not dark and serious either... just that perfect balance of serious and light-hearted moments. It is so, soooo good, you guys. I absolutely loved it and I urge you to pick it up.
Author Heather Demetrios talks about her inspiration for Something Real + more!
And don't forget to check out my interview with Chloe Baker and Patrick Sheldon and enter to win your own copy of Something Real here.


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Beware of Dog
Dog bites are a big problem in the United States with the most recent survey showing emergency rooms across the nation treat about 1,000 people a day for dog bites.
The same survey showed children are the ones most often bitten, usually in the face.
If you or your child is bitten by a dog, a Daytona Beach accident lawyer can explain the protections under Florida law.
The owner of a dog is liable for damages if the dog attacks you while you are in a public place (such as on a sidewalk), on your own property or on another person's property lawfully. It doesn't matter whether the dog has bitten someone before or if the owner is aware the dog is a danger to the public.
So, the owner is strictly liable for damages no matter if the owner was negligent. The dog owner may not be liable, though, if he can prove you provoked the dog.
The exact law is Florida Statutes Section 767.04.
However, if the owner posts a "beware of dog" or "dangerous dog" sign on his property, he has some protection. You have to prove the owner was somehow negligent and the attack was caused by that negligence.
As for a landlord, they can't be held liable unless it is proven the landlord knew the dog was dangerous and allowed it to live on the leased premises.
So while a dog bite on your arm or leg may be obvious, proving that someone is liable for that bite isn't so clear.
A Daytona Beach accident lawyer at Seitz & Tresher can help you with these and other questions about Florida law.
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Cost of Rabies Prevention
The estimated public health expenditures on rabies disease diagnostics, prevention, and control in the US is $245 to $510 million annually. This estimate is based on available data on costs associated with the vaccination of companion animals (dogs and cats), national rabies diagnostic testing, and for biologics for rabies postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PreEP). However, the total expenditures on rabies accounting for associated healthcare costs, animal control measures, and time lost from work is much greater.
The number of PEP treatments given in the United States each year is unknown; however, it is estimated to be about 40,000 to 50,000. When rabies becomes epizootic or enzootic in a region, the number of PEP treatments in that area increases. Although the cost varies, a course of rabies immune globulin and four doses of vaccine given over a two-week period typically exceeds $3,000. The cost per human life saved from rabies ranges from approximately $10,000 to $100 million, depending on the nature of the exposure and the probability of rabies in a region.
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Gingrich Attacks Romney on Abortion
Watch an ad from Newt Gingrich's campaign, taking a swipe at rival Mitt Romney by alleging that he functioned as a "pro-abortion" governor. Courtesy of AP.
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John Evelyn was born in 1620, one of five children all of whom survived to adulthood. He was the second of three sons in a family whose fortune had been made in gunpowder manufacture and then expended on land. By the time of his birth, his father, Richard Evelyn was a leading member of the Surrey gentry and had settled at his estate at Wotton, Surrey. In fact, John Evelyn was brought up by his maternal grandfather, John Stansfield, and his wife in East Sussex at Southover, outside Lewes, where he attended Southover Free School until going up to Oxford, to Balliol College. However, he always considered that his intellectual life began with his travels, first to the Low Countries in 1641, and then for a prolonged period (1643 until 1651) t…
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Devon and Cornwall fears over public sector pay drop
Unions fear a government plan to review public sector pay will drive down wages in Devon and Cornwall.
Male public sector workers in the region earn about 8% more than men with similar skills in the private sector, says The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
The government says that damages private sector competitiveness.
Unions say the changes would increase the number of those earning low wages in the region.
The IFS said in a report that the South West has the biggest public-private pay gap in England.
Chancellor George Osborne used his Autumn Statement to announce a review of national pay rates for public servants and has asked the independent pay review bodies to report back in July.
The review means wages could be set at different levels from region to region to close the gap between public and private sector workers.
There are an estimated 200,000 public sector workers in Devon and Cornwall.
Teacher Stacey Gray, from Looe in Cornwall, said: "I'm doing the same job with the same responsibilities as someone in a different area, so why should I be paid differently, whether it's less or more?"
The TUC says hourly pay rates in Devon and Cornwall are already below national rates.
Regional secretary Nigel Costley said: "I thought we were trying to get away from the South West being worse off than London and the South East, not make it worse."
Mebyon Kernow councillor Dick Cole said in his blog: "I consider it a disgrace that the Coalition wishes to consign us to a second class future, entrenching Cornwall as a low-pay economy in both the public and private sectors. "
Labour councillor Jude Robinson said in her blog: "Not only will unemployment rise as the Tories and Lib Dems take yet more money out of Cornwall's economy, but whole communities will find they are there simply to service wealthy visitors and second homes owners."
Richard Glover, of Cornwall Chamber of Commerce, said: "If you have a whole gang of roles in the public sector that are paid that much more than others in very similar jobs, it just skews that market.
"So you really can see why the government would think along these lines.
"It's not just about teachers and nurses, it's about a whole plethora of administrators and people who do similar jobs for the private sector."
Neil Parish, Conservative MP for Tiverton and Honiton, told the BBC Sunday Politics that costs such as housing should be factored into the review.
"If it is going to reduce salaries with people finding it difficult to get housing then we should be very careful.
"I am not sold on it one way or another."


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Vintage Whispers
by Riley Blake
Series: Cozy Retirement Mystery Book (#1)
Published: 20 Jun 2016
Best friends since childhood, Mary Louise, Opal, and Pearl enter a retirement community with plans to live out their golden years reminiscing about the good old days while embracing the new, but when rocking chair discussions reveal different versions of bygone days, investigations are in order. Soon, three blue-haired ladies are doing what they must to find suspects in an unsolved murder, but a cold case is the least of their worries when they discover the buried body and inconspicuous clues are a little too close to home.
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Lake District
out of interest how many of you have been? I never have but want to, it seems like everyone I knew ended up going on a family holiday there.
Nah, not really.
Arnside is really nice as it's on the coast and might not technically be the Lakes. Then around Bowness and Windermere are touristy but as soon as you get walking then people quickly disappear. Also, there's something quite amusing in walking up a mountain and saying "hello" to a Japanese couple who speak little English coming down.
Mint cake
mmm. I may have use of a cabin for free so I quite fancy making a trip. Only I was a div and left my proper walking boots at home. I could get muum to post them and refund her the cost I guess. I just fancy getting out and about.
We went all the time when I was younger
I've probably been every year of my life. Ususally to the Wasdale area. It's really loveley and is usually much less busy than other parts.
I wish to walk Pennine Way one day
From what I've seen of the Peak District from train windows on my seemingly bi-annual trip from Glasgow to Birmingham, it looks like the kind of landscape I want to pass through.
Its a lovely part of the world, stunning.
been with my family
and went camping somewhere there with my friend, which was really fun.
I've been a few times
I know a lad from Hawkshead. It's a very nice part of the world, I'd quite like to go back again sometime soon.
family holiday yes
i want to go again, w/o family.
I go there every year int he summer for a weekend.
We sleep in an old converted barn in sleeping bags and a matress, we drink lots and lots and then go for a massive walk on the Saturday.
I love the place, its amazing.
I've been
I hate it.
I now hate it even more.
it's one of my favourite places ever
i've only been with my dad, but it's never been family holiday-ish. we've always camped and i was pretty much allowed to run around anywhere when i was little, which was awesome. i've camped all over, don't really have a favourite part.
but yeah, you should go.
i kinda live near it
about 20 minutes drive away
ambleside and bowness are really nice places
cosy pubs where dogs are lay by the fire ect
there are loads of walks to do aswell
Peak district is better
(probably not, but i used to live there and it was nice)
I go walking in the Lake District and the Peak District a lot
They're both great - but realistically, the Lake District is much more impressive. I climbed Helvellyn, The Old Man of Coniston, Skiddaw and High Street over the summer - brilliant. Places to visit - try Ambleside and Keswick for a start.
has a pencil museum
I'm not taking care of a space cadet
whilst you're off in shroomland
i remember the pencil museum!
keswick is lovely
I recommend Wasdale.
i've been a few times
it's nice
let's talk about the Lake District further.
what's the best lake (i'm assuming there's lakes)?
what's the best hill (i'm assuming there's hills)?
what's the best town?
what's the best thing that's happened there (ever)?
what's the best thing that's happened there (to you/people you know)?
most importantly, where should 6 people sleep there, comfortably, on May 27th 2013 best to have a good time and see some Natual Beauty?
It only has one lake
Derwent Water is real pretty http://www.landscape-images.co.uk/derwent_water_1.jpg
I also like Coniston because you can rent a small motorboat and have a nice picnic in the middle of the lake.
Old Man Coniston is a lovely, lovely hill.
Ambleside is a nice little town with a few pubs, will be mega touristy busy that weekend though.
Best thing that's happened - Wild Beasts are from Kendal.
Best thing that happened to me- maybe driving a quad bike out on the fells when an old fighter plane swooped and banked just over my head.
You could go "glamping"
The Wasdale campsite is good, nestled in between the beautiful Wastwater and Scafell Pike http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/article-1356395569539/
Went there for three days last year
My first and only visit to date. It's gorgeous, I need to go back. Bowness/Windermere is a good place to start because of loads of places to eat and stay. But then as people have pointed out, once you're based there get walking and escape out into the quiet bits. On a return visit I might want to base myself somewhere more isolated.
yeah it's well nice
Loughrigg Fell was a pretty amazing walk
Been quite a few times, love it down there.
Generally always stay in ambleside, lots of good wee pubs, places to eat etc and lots of great walks. If you go try the drunken duck, cracking place!
Once I went there and it was foot in mouth times and we couldn't go anywhere
and there were smouldering piles of sheep carcasses.
The Hawkshead Brewery in Staveley is pretty great.
So are the cathedral caves:
i was so pleasantly surprised with the little i saw up there
like in awe of how beautiful england actually is. totally wasnt what i expected.


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Dog Efficiency
Pappy, being a nonstop ball-chaser, has to conserve energy to devote to his primary task. It is truly astounding the amount of time he can spend retrieving balls, and some of this is due to his labor-saving strategies. The first he uses at home, where I generally toss balls to him from our back yard patio. He'll race after the ball at top speed, returns as fast as he can, stops short, and lets the ball fly forward bouncing across the flagstones to me. Over the course of a session he probably saves himself from running a few hundred feet, and he's in better position to chase after the next ball. We often get into a really good rhythm that way-- toss, run, bounce, toss, run, bounce. His aim is pretty good, but occasionally his bounce misses. In these cases he runs down the ball, places it on the ground, and then shoots it at me using his nose as a billiard cue. Is this normal?
The second labor-saving strategy he uses at the dog park. I toss a ball, and he chases it down. Rather than bring it all the way back to me, he'll take his wet, mud-caked tennis ball to someone close by, drop it on a shoe, and then look pathetic and expectant. It's the rare dog park newbie who isn't conned into tossing the disgusting thing, and even some old-timers are taken in. There's got to be some way to turn this moon-eyed gaze into some cold, hard, holiday cash.


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Travel, travel and more travel – that's what everybody would like to do, if only they had the time and the money. "See the world, lad, before you settle down", my grandad used to say. Of course, he was right. There is nothing like travel for seeing how the other half live, delving into exotic cultures and then realising the limitations of your own. For some of us, travel can be addictive. We soon get bored with the easy life at home and yearn for adventure. When the travel bug gets serious, we want to throw off our tourist garb and settle somewhere for a while, learn the lingo, fall in love, submerge ourselves. But how to earn an honest crust?
Well, if you are lucky enough to be a native English speaker, Bob's your uncle! You can teach English, of course – what could be simpler? You were born speaking English so it's as natural to you as falling off a lorry. All you have to do is talk…and listen to your sweet (but very slow) students without falling asleep. Eureka! Instant job, instant income! But hang on a minute…you know how to speak English, but you're not sure how to, erm, 'teach' it. What about grammar and all that stuff? Well, to be honest, depending on how far-flung your destination is, you might get by with little or no previous experience. If a student asks you about the 'Present Perfect', you can always say you'll do that in the future. Trouble is, if you go somewhere more popular, you might face competition from somebody 'trained': a qualified TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) teacher, no less.
Yes, folks, the world is choc full of TEFL teachers of every hue and stamp – the young and the old, the keen and the jaded, the settled and the shackled. In my experience, there are three predominant 'types' of TEFL teacher you are likely to come across on your travels:
The Backpacker: this is the charlie who jumps off the banana boat in Rio and, after filling his nostrils with that tropical sea air and spotting the beach totty, bangs on the door of the first 'School of English' in view. He's a chancer, an opportunist, but hey – he's doing no-one any harm! Besides, he will most likely be paid peanuts but doesn't care because he is only in it for the ride, 'the craic' as they say in Dublin. Come Christmas he'll be on the plane heading back to Aunty Doreen and Uncle Derek in Darlington, no hearts broken. Believe me, there is wisdom in his nonchalance.
The Dabbler: these guys are by far the most common, thickly spread like dandelions in a prison garden. They arrive in their 20s on a Club Med holiday, get hooked on the sun and the laid-back lifestyle and end up drinking so much they forget to go home. These time-servers have a rudimentary knowledge of English teaching methodology, having completed a three-week crash course in Bournemouth in 1991. Or was it 1993? They can't remember. As teachers they are popular types, ditching the dreaded 'course book' for something called 'conversation', which often turns out to be a teacher's monologue about past exploits, peppered with personal anecdotes. Lessons may be extended if there is a bar nearby. For the dabbler, 'home' is a murky memory too scary to contemplate, a cold dark place full of stressed-out people with crippling mortgages.
The Pro: this power-dressed Iron Lady makes the rest of us look like supermarket stackers on a pub trip. She has spent years studying the whys and wherefores of teaching methodology and the science of language acquisition, finally being honoured with an MA in Linguistics from Utah University. She is Miss Serious and never gets her knickers in a twist. When not in the classroom overawing students with her knowledge, she can be found lurking in the corridors of TEFL Conferences in Milan or São Paulo, clutching a bunch of papers concerning the effects of modal verbs on mental health.
Different though they may be in many respects, these TEFL 'types' all face the same dilemma: whether to stick it out in the big wide world or whether to face the music one day and creep back 'home' to Bognor Regis. The key words here are 'happiness' and 'job satisfaction': if you have both of these, you are laughing. You may also be well-integrated into a new, foreign family and feel perfectly settled in your adopted homeland. But for those of us who haven't embraced TEFL heartily as a lifelong career, endless days of 'conversation' – broken by the occasional detour into the dictionary of phrasal verbs – becomes steadily less rewarding.
After all, TEFL is not rocket science. Actually, it is much more of a laudable profession for those people who are non-native speakers and have had to study the language for years. I have met many non-native EFL teachers and they love everything about English, gaining much personal satisfaction from their achievements in a foreign tongue. Most of them put us native 'buskers' to shame.
So, as an old hand at the 'game', what is my advice to those of you considering the TEFL route around the world? That's simple: definitely go for it, no question about that. Nothing comes close to the soul-lifting experience of living abroad. However, there is a caveat I must throw in: don't put all your eggs in one basket (or all your verbs in the same sentence). In my experience, it is only for the very few that TEFL becomes an engaging and financially rewarding long-term career. Before you swan off to Beijing, you need to think seriously about adding more strings to your bow, or developing a parallel career. Then, if you end up back in Blighty with a backpack full of memories and empty pockets, you are not reduced to serving behind the bar at the Nag's Head in Romford.
TEFL may be a 'ticket to the world', but it just might not be enough to keep you abroad forever. As Spandau Ballet put it so memorably in the 80s, 'I bought a ticket to the world / But now I've come back again / Why do I find it hard to write the next line / Oh I want the truth to be said'. 'Writing the next line' is, figuratively speaking, what you will have to do post-TEFL, so be prepared. Oh, and the name of the song? True, of course, like everything I write in From Bradford to Brazil! And don't be late for class tomorrow…


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As a young working professional who lives alone, there's nothing I love more than home hacks that simplify tough tasks.
Whether it's painting hacks to ease my home renovations or a genius way to turn a cup into a speaker, I am always incorporating tips and tricks I find online or hear from friends into my everyday routine.
But no matter how many hacks I read about or try for myself, I am always shocked by how innovative people can be with their household items. I would never think to use my can opener to open a tough package, or sharpen a pair of dull scissors with sandpaper, but now that I've tried these hacks at home, I can't imagine living without them!
Whether you're cleaning up in the kitchen or doing an art project with your kids, these six household hacks are guaranteed to make your life easier. Check out the tricks below, and watch the video to see how they're done!
Hack 1:
- Drop a denture tablet into the toilet to clean a tough stain.
Hack 2:
- Use a can opener to unseal the edge of a hard-to-open blister pack.
Hack 3:
- Cut sandpaper with a pair of dull scissors to sharpen them.
Hack 4:
- Spread white vinegar on a cutting board before chopping onions to avoid tearing up.
Hack 5:
- Place rubber bands around the base and lid of a stubborn pickle jar to open it.
Hack 6:
- Use salt and lemon to remove stains from a cutting board.
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Beyond the Mountains of Madness
Little by little they rose grimly into the western sky; allowing us to witness the various bare, bleak, and blackened summits . . . in the reddish Antarctic lights against the provocative background of iridescent ice-dust clouds. In the whole spectacle there was a persistent, pervasive hint of stupendous secrecy and potential revelation. . . . I could not help feeling that they were evil things — mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.
—H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness
The scientific world was amazed by reports from the 1931 Miskatonic University expedition into uncharted Antarctica. The entire world was shocked by the tragedy which followed. Now a new larger expedition will brave the mysteries of the icy continent. How credible were Miskatonic University reports of fossilized remains of ancient life forms predating all known terrestrial life? Will your expedition return in glory or tragedy?


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By Ernest Disney-Britton
Kids love Underground Railroad stories, and most also believe that they would have been part of it. Today there is almost universal belief that American slavery was evil but also that the Underground Railroad was God's hand at work. In that spirit, I bought the new book titled "Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead, Oprah's book club pick. It's a work of fiction but like most books on this subject it prompts an important question, especially for Christians: If I lived in America during the 1800s, would I have supported the status quo of slavery; been a quiet bystander; or would I have fought against it?
|Novel imagines an actual railroad built underground.
The problem is if history is correct then today's museum visitors, both black and white are wrong. Most of us are bystanders waiting for someone else to be the sacrificial lamb. Most historians agree even though 4 million were enslaved in 1860, less than 100,000 blacks ever took the risk to escape on the Underground Railroad. Those same historians tell us that while there were 27 million white Americans that only 10,000 risked their livelihoods to work on the Underground Railroad. Because of the many lessons, I learned from the Underground Railroad when facing injustice, I always ask myself "What will I do?" Will I advocate for the status quo; be a bystander; or will I risk my personal safety and fight against that issue? Taking a risk is not sending a check, attending a rally, or even voting. The Underground Railroad is the story of sacrifice. It's the story of people who sacrificed their jobs; sacrificed their homes, and even sacrificed their lives.
|"RefuJesus" by David Hayward
Too often when I see problems, I am too quick to criticize but unwilling to answer the defining question, "What will I do about it?" As Christians, I don't believe we are called to be bystanders but sadly, most of us gripe, but we won't take action. Most of us ignore the personal challenge to be a sacrificial lamb. However, if you are willing to be the sacrificed, then you are indeed a freedom-seeker, and I'll bet you would have been one of the 10,000 on the Underground Railroad.
Thought for today: What cause means enough for you to risk it all, or are you just another bystander?


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We are a group of craft beer lovers from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut who write reviews of craft beer online, do beer rating, blog about beer, share brewery reviews, and discuss microbrews. We enjoy visiting brew pubs, beer halls and gardens, beer festivals, and beverage stores in the Rockland, Westchester, Fairfield and Bergen County area and sharing our experiences with others.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Peekskill is Beerville
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Peekskill Rocks! A client (I'm a realtor) just passed this post onto me, and I will pass it on as well. Both places have awesome beer and food, and Peekskill as a whole has so much to offer,history, music, awesome people and the Yellow Brick Road!ReplyDelete
I write about Peekskill often in my blog, come on by and take a look!
- Mike-TristateBeerBlogSeptember 23, 2011 at 6:54 AM
I agree, Suzanne, that Peekskill Rocks. I've seen several concerts at The Paramount Center. I will check out your blog soon.ReplyDelete


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Let's talk about this year's sunglasses trends that feature many bloggers, fashionistas, businesswomen and many celebrities. Today we want to share with you this season's specs shapes, including aviator, vintage wayfarer and cat-eyes, as well as some modern styles that make any person look differently, as we see some really creative and trendy shapes here. Women's specs come in vintage shapes, but every style is reworked in a modern way, by implementing some brilliant details that make these accessories look vibrant and bold. Our favorites are D-shape, aviators and oversize Tom Ford's modern Alien-eyes shape eyewear. While the men's line ranges from different round shape glasses and ultra thin circular designs. Anyway, let's start our trip into the world of powerful and trendy looks.
That's a gorgeous collage of trendy styles, as here are presented oversize and impressive D-shapes, blue mirrored plastic frames, circular white frames and classic aviators in thin metallic frames.
statement brow eyewear
How about some retro touch for men.
Polka dot yellow frames will look fun and youthful.
The same, while this time in blue color.
Burberry makes really statement looks.
Burberry sunglasses in action
The geometric shape frames look modern styled with bright blue belted shirtdress with flared skirt and white floral prints.
How about mixing modern world with retro touches.
Circle shape in mint green color will look gorgeous and hippie inspired along with printed shirt playsuit.
The Tom Ford dragonfly sunglasses will make you really bold and statement.
How about sweet cyberpunk style circular sunglasses.
Baroque inspired frames.
Dolce and Gabbana Baroque inspired details feature these oversize shape glasses.


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The One Ring Forums:
Tolkien Topics: Main:
Tolkien Estate HATES these movies?
There was a heavy silence. It was Gimli the dwarf who broke in suddenly. �The words of this wizard stand on their heads,� he growled, gripping the handle of his axe.
…all eyes looked upon the ring; for he held it now aloft, and the green jewels gleamed there that the Noldor had devised in Valinor. For this ring was like to twin serpents, whose eyes were emeralds, and their heads met beneath a crown of golden flowers, that the one upheld and the other devoured; that was the badge of Finarfin and his house.The Silmarillion, pp 150-151
The Silmarillion, pp 150-151
while Felagund laughs beneath the treesin Valinor and comes no more to this grey world of tears and war.The Lays of Beleriand, p 311
in Valinor and comes no more to this grey world of tears and war.The Lays of Beleriand, p 311
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A woman Leigh Marcini, on instructions by a NY cop she met on a dating site, performed oral sex on a two year old boy and sent the policeman, Sgt. Alberto Randazzo, of the NYPD. Marcini was one of three women, Randazzo had doing his bidding.
Police says Marcini sent him pictures of herself naked and a video of her performing oral sex on a two-year-old boy in her care.
It is unclear how she knew the boy, but Marcini was a speech language therapist who worked with children, ABC27 reported.
Randazzo faces 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to the sexual exploitation of children.
Two other women have ensnared in his sick plot.
Keira Norton, of Colorado, has peaded guilty to molesting a toddler while Randazzo watched on Skype.
And a woman in Massachusetts, Jennie Lemay, will go on trial on similar charges in December.


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Drone or drones may refer to:
Season one of Smallville, an American television series developed by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, began airing on October 16, 2001, on The WB television network. The series recounts the early adventures of Kryptonian Clark Kent as he adjusts to his developing superpowers in the fictional town of Smallville, Kansas, during the years before he becomes Superman. The first season comprises 21 episodes and concluded its initial airing on May 21, 2002. Regular cast members during season one include Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, Kristin Kreuk, Annette O'Toole, John Schneider, Sam Jones III, Allison Mack, and Eric Johnson.
The season's stories focus on Martha and Jonathan Kent's (O'Toole and Schneider) attempts to help their adopted son Clark (Welling) cope with his alien origin and control his developing superhuman abilities. Clark must deal with the meteor-infected individuals that begin appearing in Smallville, his love for Lana Lang (Kreuk), and not being able to tell his two best friends, Pete Ross (Jones III) and Chloe Sullivan (Mack), about his abilities or his origins. Clark also befriends Lex Luthor (Rosenbaum) after saving Lex's life. The season also follows Lex, as he tries to assert his independence from his father, Lionel Luthor (John Glover).
Drone is a 2014 English-language documentary film directed by Norwegian director Tonje Hessen Schei. The film explores the use of drones in warfare. Drone aired on the TV network Arte on April 15, 2014. The documentary screened at several film festivals throughout 2014, winning several awards. Drone was released in Norway on February 27, 2015.
Variety reported, "'Drone' depicts the recruitment of young pilots at gaming conventions, explores the changing perceptions of what 'going to war' means, as well as the moral stance of engineers behind the technology. The docu also investigates the ways in which world leaders engage in wars, as well as look at the struggle of anti-war and civil rights activists."
Drone was produced by Lars Løge at Flimmer Film and directed by Tonje Hessen Schei. The film received financial support from backers in Norway and from around the world.
The sales outfit LevelK acquired Drone at the Nordic Film Market at the Gothenburg Film Festival in January 2014. A 58-minute cut of Drone premiered on the TV network Arte on April 15, 2014. A 79-minute cut was edited for subsequent screenings. In October 2014, Drone screened at the Bergen International Film Festival and won Best Norwegian Documentary and the Checkpoint Human Rights awards. In January 2015, it screened at the Tromsø International Film Festival and won the Norwegian Peace Film Award. In the following February, it screened at the Berlin International Film Festival and won the Cinema for Peace award. In the same month, LevelK sold distribution rights to Drone to several major territories.
Espionage or, casually, spying involves a spy ring, government and company/firm or individual obtaining information considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage is inherently clandestine, as it is by definition unwelcome and in many cases illegal and punishable by law. Espionage is a subset of "intelligence" gathering, which includes espionage as well as information gathering from public sources.
Espionage is often part of an institutional effort by a government or commercial concern. However, the term is generally associated with state spying on potential or actual enemies primarily for military purposes. Spying involving corporations is known as industrial espionage.
One of the most effective ways to gather data and information about the enemy (or potential enemy) is by infiltrating the enemy's ranks. This is the job of the spy (espionage agent). Spies can bring back all sorts of information concerning the size and strength of enemy forces. They can also find dissidents within the enemy's forces and influence them to defect. In times of crisis, spies can also be used to steal technology and to sabotage the enemy in various ways. Counterintelligence operatives can feed false information to enemy spies, protecting important domestic secrets, and preventing attempts at subversion. Nearly every country has very strict laws concerning espionage, and the penalty for being caught is often severe. However, the benefits that can be gained through espionage are generally great enough that most governments and many large corporations make use of it to varying degrees.
Espionage! is a role-playing game published by Hero Games in 1983.
Espionage! is a system of modern espionage rules that use the Hero System. The rulebook (64 pages) covers character creation, skills, combat (melee and firearms), vehicles and car chases, and a sample espionage organization, the CIA. "Merchants of Terror" (16 pages) is an introductory scenario in which the heroes must track down a stolen atom bomb.
Espionage! was designed by George MacDonald and Steve Peterson, and was published in 1983 by Hero Games as a boxed set including a 64-page book, and a 16-page book, and dice.
This system was later updated and republished as Danger International.
Espionage is a New York-based Norwegian songwriting and music production team consisting of Espen Lind and Amund Bjørklund. Their breakthrough came in 2006 as co-writers of Beyoncé's worldwide smash "Irreplaceable", which was number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 10 consecutive weeks and the best selling single in the US in 2007. They are probably best known as the producers and cowriters behind several of Train's major hits after 2009, including "Drive By" and their comeback single "Hey, Soul Sister", which is among the 20 highest selling singles of all time in the US. Espionage has received numerous BMI Awards.
Lind and Bjørklund started working together on Lind's solo album Red in 1997, which was a major success in Europe and won Lind the Norwegian equivalent of a Grammy. In the early 2000s they branched out to the UK market, working with various artists and writing pan-European hits such as Atomic Kitten's "Last Goodbye" and Kym Marsh' "Cry", both of which reached number two on the UK Singles Chart.