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I would like to take this moment to talk about Tom Bombadil (WHAT THE HELL IS HE I DON'T KNOW) and his foxy lady Goldberry, the River Daughter (BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?).
It is an indisputable fact that Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow. It is also known and accepted that his jacket is bright blue, and his boots are yellow. He has apparently been around since the beginning of time, but doesn't really seem to do much except carry water lilies around and cuss out angry trees. I love him and I think we have a real future together.
For quite some years now I've been desperately desiring a pony, so I could name it Wise-nose.
What do you love about Tom Bombadil? Go!
Okay, I've been reading slowly. I'm embarrassed to admit I'm kind of out of the habit, which is exactly why I need this. Also, where did my three nice little paperbacks go? Lugging around this complete hardcover volume is not helpful, although it does serve as a nice weapon of self-defense...
Anyway, it's a long book, sure, but five chapters and a hundred pages in, you generally expect to have a good assessment of what the book is going to be like. Here's what I want to talk about: do we have that?
I'm trying to separate myself from my familiarity with the story, and at the same time I'm remembering far-off jokes about how it takes forever to get going. The trick of this is that a good story isn't necessarily an eventful one. I'm enjoying it, but has anything actually happened yet, aside from the set-up of our protagonist being in possession of an evil ring?
We don't have a Fellowship, and won't for some time. Frodo says he's running from danger into danger, to lose a treasure, but he thinks he's simply headed for Rivendell, and we know that's not at all the real course of his journey. Much of what the hobbits have experienced so far could just be cut right out (as the movie showed us, by cutting it right out). Is Tolkien deliberately meandering with this part of the tale? If so, why?
I have some thoughts on this but first I'd like to hear if anyone else does, or if the slow pace even caught your attention, now or on some previous reading.
Wow, this is a very late post. But anyway, here we go.
Unfortunately, I didn't notice any hobbitisms in these chapters, although I was somewhat aggrieved to learn of their strong preference for mushrooms, which I loathe.
However! We did get two particularly excellent quotes, the former of which I knew but didn't remember came from Lord of the Rings and the latter of which I had completely forgotten about:
"Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
"Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes."
I found the second one particularly delightful. It's so true.
Chapter III: Three Is Company
The journey begins! Even though I've read this part twice before and seen the movies many more times than that, I was still very worried for Frodo, Sam, and Pippin when the Black Riders started popping up. That was scary, and such a near miss! *shudder* I was also struck by how different Pippin's introduction to the journey was, because the movies are fresher on my mind. Frodo and Sam set off with him from the start, rather than running into him and Merry by chance as they tried to escape the wrath (and hounds) of Farmer Maggot. I like that the other two's participation in the adventure began more deliberately than in the movie. They still might not have known exactly what they were getting into, but they had some idea, and they had planned to go with Frodo from the start in spite of the danger and uncertainty.
That one little passage where a fox stopped by the sleeping hobbits to sniff at them and marvel how odd it was to encounter three of them sleeping under a tree was so awesome. Now, the Elves were rather more aloof than I remembered--not that I remembered this encounter with them at all. So far, they're giving me no reasons to change my mind and prefer them instead of hobbits. The way Frodo talks to them while the other two fall asleep (or pretend to) helps to illustrate how much more mature he is than they are. The movies didn't really do anything to indicate that he's actually a bit older than his fellow hobbit companions.
Chapter IV: A Shortcut to Mushrooms
This chapter was even scarier! Goodness! I was suspicious of Maggot right up until he offered to drive them the rest of the way to the ferry, but then he won my trust (though not necessarily Sam's--his mistrust of him was rather amusingly endearing), and I became convinced that he was going to die while helping them. (This is all your fault, Joss Whedon.) And then the figure they met in the fog turned out to just be Merry! Phew. I was so sure that he was one of the Black Riders that I even read his first line in a Nazgul voice, but then I got a bit further and realized who it really was. My brother and I laughed, and I reread the line. (Okay, seriously, mushrooms? They can't prefer...I don't know, carrots or potatoes or something? This is gonna bug me more than it should.) I love how it turned out that Frodo was the notorious mushroom thief, rather than Merry and Pippin. It's good to know he had a bit of mischief in his younger years.
Chapter V: A Conspiracy Unmasked
Hobbits really are wonderful creatures. I had to stop reading a bit to just admire how loyal and brave they are. It probably shouldn't have come as such a surprise, but they did hide their conspiracy well, after all. I love that Merry found out about the Ring through observation and clever deduction. He really doesn't get enough credit in the movies. In fact, none of the hobbits come across as being nearly as clever and wise as they were written, except perhaps Sam. When they told him all about the plans they had been working on for months, so that they'd all be able to leave together the night after they reached Crickhollow, was so touching. Frodo's exclamation of gratitude for knowing such excellent hobbits actually made me teary. And we have a fifth hobbit friend! Fredegar Bolger. Now I'm terrified he'll die after they leave. Staying behind and pretending to be Frodo will be extremely dangerous. :(
And they certainly do love to sing. I wasn't in a whimsical enough mood when I was reading it to my brother to try making tunes for all the songs, but they were still really fun. They have a bath song! Hah! That just cracks me up. I was disappointed back in the prologue to find that hobbit holes seemed to be a somewhat antiquated type of dwelling, and that regular houses were becoming more common. But this chapter put me at ease there, because those "regular" houses are pretty much artificial hills with hobbit holes in them.
Okay, I'm not sure this will resemble anything like a proper discussion opener, but this is the first discussion opener for a discussion concerning books that I've attempted.
Hobbit word of the week: mathoms--objects with no practical use but which nevertheless tend to accumulate in houses. I, for one, will be incorporating this word into my vocabulary, as there are quite a few mathoms lying around my parents' house (and I'm sure I've got several in my dorm as well).
So this seemed mainly to be the encyclopedia entry on hobbits. I loved it. I had forgotten a lot of this stuff, like that there are three types of hobbits: stoors, harfoots, and fallohides. (Which type do you think you'd be? My brother thinks he'd be a harfoot, but I think we'd more likely be fallohides, as we're blonde and eccentric.)
Chapter I
This was delightful. Hobbits are such endearingly ridiculous creatures. And Bilbo's antagonism with the Sackville-Bagginses is hilarious. Also, could Gandalf's fireworks be any more awesome? I think not. One thing I particularly appreciated was the emphasis on Bilbo and Frodo's friendship with Gandalf. In the movie, that isn't illustrated nearly as clearly, so that Frodo's reaction to Gandalf's fall in Moria seems like an overreaction, especially compared with how little grieved everyone else seems to be. But no, this is a very close and enduring friendship. Oh, and another excellent hobbitism: "filling in the corners". Which I certainly did at Christmas dinner.
Chapter II
This chapter was a bit slower and less light-hearted, but very significant. Apart from further proof of the strength and depth of Frodo and Gandalf's friendship, we got a great deal of backstory for the Ring and Sauron (my voice got very tired reading all of that in as close an approximation to Ian McKellen's voice as I could manage). The plot has certainly thickened. And now Sam is part of the story. I'm so used to the movies that I was surprised to find the friendships as they are here in the beginning of the book. Merry and Pippin are Frodo's best friends, but Sam is pretty much just his gardener, even if they are fond of each other. Also, I'm starting to get the impression that Tolkien wrote a rather livelier Frodo than Elijah Wood portrayed. Movie Frodo seemed to be mainly quiet and thoughtful, but without the same spirit he had in the books.
And so, on this fine Christmas Eve, it begins! Welcome to the reread of The Lord of the Rings here in the Hobbiton Reading Society! Before we get to the actual discussion, though, I do believe introductions are in order. Tell us a bit about yourself. When did you first encounter the series? Is this your first time reading, or are you a seasoned veteran?
I'm here with my little brother, to whom I'll be reading this out loud until I go back to school for the spring semester. I'm a little ashamed to say that I hadn't even heard of the series until I saw the preview for the first movie, but I was only ten or eleven then, so perhaps that's adequate justification. As the movies came out, I tried to read the books, but I couldn't make it all the way through, and a second attempt a couple of years later also failed. I'm determined to make this third time the charm, however. So far, so good, and being in the company of such excellent hobbits (or members any other race, of course) will certainly help!
Merry Christmas, all! Expect an official discussion thread on the prologue and first two chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring soon.


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Monday, May 2, 2016
My Sugarbear
This girl. Goodness, has she just stollen this momma's heart!! She is just delightful!!! I thought I'd share some of her milestones...
Last week, she found her hands! It was so cute. She would hold her fist up, and get all wide eyed while looking at it. Cuuuute.
She wants to sit up, and see what's going on. All the time! Forget the snuggly baby stuff. She's ready to be a big girl! She also likes to "stand up". You know where you balance them on their legs while holding them? She thinks it's the greatest thing. If she thinks we are having fun without her, she fusses until we pick her up and let her join in the fun, which is usually just us sitting down to eat dinner. Haha!
Her smile lights up her whole face...and produces the cutest dimple!!
She is the BEST sleeper. Honestly, she averages about 10 hours every night, and one long nap in the middle of the day. She still takes tiny cat naps here and there, but they don't last long.
If you are slow getting her bottle ready, she will let you know. She "sasses" for several minutes. It is hilarious. Such opinionated grunts, hahahaha.
And all that hair? Still thick, dark, curly, and getting longer every day. ;)
Oh, Ella Faith. You are so loved.
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I've been operating on the assumption that my train left at 2:41pm. I never even looked at the confirmation email until the Amtrak quick check-in kiosk wouldn't accept my reservation. Then I had to stand in line for what felt like forever. I was horribly chagrined when I presented my reservation and the ticket agent said, "Yup you missed your train."
I wanted to cry, I really did. But I didn't. So the agent gave me two alternatives. He could get me on tomorrow's train, but there was only coach seats, no sleeper. A chair to sit in for 46hrs? No.
But he could get me on another train leaving in 20mins. But it would be 3days on a train, but 1st class all the way. I don't think I had much of a choice.
So now I'm a sleeper cabin, all my meals included, turn down service too. I'm chilling, watching the pilot episode of a new TV show I downloaded from iTunes.
I have watched too many TV shows and movies that make it look easy to just jump on the train and go. What did I think I was going to do? Make a running jump unto a moving train? I am not Jackie Chan.
As with every last minute getaway plans I make, something always goes wrong. So I missed my train, but I'm on a nicer ride through the desert and by the Grand Canyon. Sometimes you don't get what you just think you want, you get what you need.


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The innovative efforts of professors Hyung Choi and Dongxue Zhao to build and restore equipment in science labs on campus were recently featured in the August issue of Private University Products and News (PUPN).
The article titled "Do-It-Yourself Instruments Enable Top-Flight Research by Undergrads" spotlights the cost savings of rescuing castoff equipment and building as an alternative, in some cases, to buying. It also highlights the extraordinary benefits for students who engage in the process.
Putting advanced instruments in the hands of students is a hallmark of science education at Greenville College thanks to innovative thinking, plus generous donations from supporters for the purchase of new equipment, and donations as well of new equipment from businesses.
The article comes on the heels of encouraging numbers for this fall's enrollment in GC's newly expanded engineering program, another innovative enterprise. Twenty-three freshman have enrolled.
"That is more than twice the size we had last year," observes Choi, program director. He reports that the program is also attracting top caliber students. For example, a good number of the 23 enrollees are McAllaster Honors Scholars.
Engineering students in prior years studied under partnerships that GC maintains with University of Illinois-Urbana and Washington University-St. Louis. While these very successful dual degree programs continue, this fall, GC has added another option with its own program leading to a bachelor of science in engineering.
While the PUPN article focuses on innovation, the real star according to Choi is collaboration from the far reaches of our college community. He is grateful for:
Just as Choi and Zhao found creative ways to put advanced instruments in the hands of undergraduates, they also borrowed elements and teaching talent from existing programs to build marketable majors like environmental engineering and engineering management.
The result? A show of do-it-yourself ingenuity that warrants applause not just from folks who value innovation, but from today's engineering students who reap the benefits of all that creativity and collaboration.
Read the full PUPN article here and more about the sciences at GC here:
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Elle Shaw Claims Top Honors at Commencement
Kirk Pearce Awarded With 2015 President's Citation
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Since 2006, Cinereach has worked with over 200 film projects set all over the world. Below are some highlights that have premiered or been released in recent months and years.
Recent Highlights
Black Mother
Part film, part baptism, director Khalik Allah casts his lens between the prostitutes and churches of Jamaica; creating a visual prayer of indelible portraits and an intimate polyphonic symphony.
Drawn from a never-before-seen cache of personal footage spanning decades, this is an intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan artist and musician who continues to shatter conventions.
We the Animals
Us three, us brothers, us kings. Manny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah, the youngest, embraces an imagined world all his own.
Sorry to Bother You
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a macabre universe.
In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore's first road movie with her enigmatic American mentor, Georges—who then absconded with all the footage. The 16mm film is recovered 20 years later, sending Tan, now a novelist in Los Angeles, on a personal odyssey in search of Georges' vanishing footprints—and her own.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South— trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race.
Chained for Life
A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut. Through pitch-black satire, Chained for Life examines the treatment of disability on screen and on set.
Phantom Cowboys
For teenagers in three American industrial towns, adolescent dreams intersect with the realities of adulthood. An exploration of youth in transition, spanning nearly a decade.
Monsters and Men
This interwoven narrative explores the aftermath of a police killing of a black man through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, an African-American police officer and a high-school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand.
Night Comes On
Angel LaMere is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, Angel embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister to avenge her mother's death.
Wild Nights With Emily
Emily Dickinson's persona, popularized since her death, became that of a reclusive spinster—a delicate wallflower, too sensitive for this world. This film explores her vivacious, irreverent side that was covered up for years—most notably her lifelong romantic relationship with another woman.
Amal, an angry teenager, turns into a young woman during an extraordinary context of upheaval and violence in post-revolution Egypt.
Works in Progress
Aleph is a mysterious point (an opening) suspended in space and time that contains the entire universe. It's hidden in a splintered labyrinth where ten characters play a game of magic. Their collected thoughts serve as pieces of a puzzle that connect the labyrinth and lead to Aleph.
A zoo that rescues mythological creatures in psychedelic 1960's San Francisco races the U.S. Military to find and save a Baku, a Japanese dream-eating cryptid, to prevent the military from using the Baku to eat the dreams of the counterculture and suppress the anti-Vietnam War movement.
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Through intimate vérité, archival footage, and visually innovative treatments of her poetry, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project pushes the boundaries of biographical documentary film to reveal the enduring influence of one of America's greatest living artists and social commentators.
The Hottest August
A film about climate change, disguised as a portrait of collective anxiety.
In Case You Missed It
Beach Rats
An aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self-identity as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online.
The Florida Project
The Florida Project revolves around a precocious 6-year-old and her ragtag group of close friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility, and a sense of adventure, while their parents and the adults around them struggle with hard times.
Filmed with vérité intimacy, QUEST is a portrait of a North Philadelphia family and the creative sanctuary offered by their home music studio. The family's ten-year journey is a testament to love, healing, and hope.
Last Men in Aleppo
After five years of war in Syria, the remaining citizens of Aleppo are readying themselves for a siege. Through the volunteers from The White Helmets we experience the daily life, death and struggle in the streets of the city. They fight for sanity where war has become the norm.
An eccentric suburban woman and a Walmart door-greeter navigate their evolving relationship in this unconventional nonfiction love story.
The Cage Fighter
A blue-collar family man breaks the promise he'd made years ago to never fight again. Now forty, with a wife and four children who need him, Joe Carman risks everything — his marriage, his family, his financial security — to go back into the fighting cage and come to terms with his past.
Brimstone & Glory
Ritual, danger and the absolute beauty of fireworks — the National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico.
Wolf and Sheep
Wolf and Sheep is a drama with fantastical elements about a community in a little village in Afghanistan and its everyday life: what is allowed and what isn't, what is said and what isn't, and small details, traditions and values never portrayed before.


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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Christmas Card 2010
This is one of the cards I created to send to family and friends last Christmas. Papers from Mustard Moon, stamps from Paper Artsy, cardstock: Kraft from The Paper Company; green from Bazzill and red from Hobby Lobby; Memento black ink, and twine from May Arts. Punches from Martha Stewart, Fiskars and Magill.
Cards - Happy Birthday
This is a card I created for my sister using papers from Pinecone Press. When creating this simple card I only used printed paper, cut outs from the paper, ribbon and cardstock.
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M.A.C Cosmetics Sponsors MADE's Fall/Winter 2013 Fashion Week Debut in Paris
Feb 25, 2013, 03:30 ET
PARIS and NEW YORK, Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Each year, M.A.C Cosmetics participates in 23 Fashion Weeks and approximately 850 shows around the world providing Makeup Artistry and product support backstage. For eight consecutive seasons, M.A.C has partnered with MADE Fashion Week in New York, and will now sponsor MADE Fashion Week in Paris. For the first time, MADE will host an impressive lineup of designers under one roof at the Hotel Salomon de Rothschild.
As a founding partner of the original MADE Fashion Week concept, M∙A∙C pioneered the idea of makeup brands collaborating with and supporting established and emerging fashion designers.
"We are excited to be able to take our partnership with MADE to Paris Fashion Week this season, supporting a talented group of European designers," says John Demsey, Group President, The Estee Lauder Companies. "M.A.C Cosmetics is committed to the industry on a global level and it is programs such as these that speak to M.A.C's philosophy of fostering new talent in beauty, fashion and culture.
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We SAIL☆EBRATED Claire's birthday on Labor Day.
She turned 1 year old on August 28, 2014.
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I wanted to do a sailor theme. My friend Camie's mom was nice enough to make this sailor dress for little Claire to wear.
We tried really hard to take pics at the lake, but Claire thought it would be more fun to run. We were afraid she would run into the lake.
This was the second attempt. We got quite a few fun shots, where she was laughing or smiling… but not really that many where she was looking at the camera. Too much fun at the lake to look at the camera, I guess. ;)
This was her invite. I found something similar online, and the sailor theme took off.
We were able to rent the club house at our apartment complex for the afternoon. Which provided a nice big area to have the party.
I could have not pulled any of this off with out the help of Cruz, Candace and my family.
Thanks for all the last minute help. We kinda had a crazy morning. But in the end everything workout perfectly! And I was happy with how everything turned out.
I was planning this for over a month. I made all my own signs and banners.
It was really fun to see the banner pictured above with Claire from Newborn to One Year. What a big girl she has become.
Above Picture also shows…
Pink Coral which was pink (Strawberry Kiwi) popcorn
Live Bait which was gummy worms
Claire's Smash Cake.
Above Picture also shows…
Pink Coral which was pink (Strawberry Kiwi) popcorn
Live Bait which was gummy worms
Claire's Smash Cake.
A few of the snacks included…
Ocean Water, Life-raft Punch, Oyster Pearls, Clam Cookies, Catch of the Day, and Cupcakes.
(See above and below pics.)
We also had …
"SEA"sar Salad
Sailor Knots (Pretzels)
I decided to order the cake, to have it be less stressful. I thought it was cute. A big fish.
Lucky for me one of my Sister-in-laws had some starfish and a big sail boat that I could barrow. It really added to everything.
These little Sun Bathers were adorable!!
My brownies were a little gooey… so they kinda look a little weird… but seriously loved these.
I searched HIGH and LOW for that sour striped candy, found it at macey's.
Some of our guests. I wanted to invite everyone… but the clubhouse has a rule of 25 people… too bad.
SMASH CAKE time!
She got into it. It was so fun to watch her figure it out. She was slow at first licking one finger… and soon dug right in.
I made this little "ONE" t-shirt with a iron on transfer.
It was perfect to just pull off and not to have frosting covering her entire body. However Claire LOVED the cake and pretty much got it all over.
When she was all done she it was almost like she was trying to get it all off herself. Which sent some frosting flying.
CAKE TIME. Cruz thought it would be fun if we got some frosting on our faces too. ha ha.
Finally we got to the pool.
I got this little swim suit as part of Claire's birthday gift… and it got here in perfect timing for her to wear. I loved the little anchor on the front.
Swimming FUN.
Pillar and I tried to get pics of her kids and Claire… but we had no luck. Guess we will have to go swimming again. ;)
Little Sadie also joined the party. So cute and little.
Emma was in swimming land and loving it.
Gift table.
We also made these little gift bags to the little mates who were at the party.
I fell in love with these little sailor ducks I randomly found at Smiths. I came home so excited to show Cruz… he just laughed at me and said "Yeah, they are cute."
Family and Friends.
This was adorable to see Claire and Roman playing with this toy.
Claire LOVES this sailor hat. She wears it around the house often.
Claire LOVES this sailor hat. She wears it around the house often.
Opening the presents.
Thanks everyone!!!
Claire has lots of new toys, PJ's and clothes.
She has been loving it all week.
We had a fantastic party.
I felt like all my planning and what not was well worth it.
I know Claire would have been happy with just a normal day… but I couldn't resist celebrating her 1st year mark with a fancy party. She is such a fun, happy girl.
Love You Little Claire, Claire.


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We book all the pitches for Wild Tree Fair (499 people) and Harlequin Fayre (2800 people). These events offer a good opportunity to meet a great selection of public.
As our dates approach we book up the amount of pitches required. Please see below for current availability of spaces.
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We welcome a huge range of traders, goods and services, but we work within a few boundaries. There is no scope to bring animals. We do not permit sales of:
- Alternative Highs
- Fireworks or Sky Lanterns
- Knives and other items that may be deemed weapons, with the exception of hand made items that are retained / kept safe until after the event
- Any mass-produced / imported plastic goods
- Any other items obviously beyond the remit of these green minded and family led events. If in doubt, please ask.
We welcome Flypitchers / Blanket pitchers. The fee of £5 a day is payable at the Event. The pitch must be fully cleared away when not attended. There is no need to apply or notify us in advance, simply buy your tickets and trade for the hours that suit you. Fly pitching is great as it adds variety for the public and gives you a chance to dip your toe into trading at events.
All other pitch types are limited in number, so please apply early. We prefer stalls that are unique, local, and offering your handmade goods, so please mention any workshops you might carry out, or other information that will help us pick your stall! Some pitches such as the The Sustainable Futures & Crafts Areas are without charge, the rest attract varying fees. As a rule a pitch includes 2 free tickets, thought there is scope to vary this.
All Pitchholders will provide their own unique and beautiful structure, which they will normally camp behind (except the 4x4m pitch - you would probably camp in public camping)
Pitch Fees
We like to keep it affordable so we can pick the most suitable from those that apply and so that people come back. Fee is determined by type, size, number of extra tickets and vehicle passes needed as well as any electricity required (caterers only). As an example the Trader 4x4m pitch is charged at about the same cost as 2 adult tickets and a vehicle pass.
Traders / Sales pitches: Frontages of up to 4m, 7m or 10m. NB the 4m pitch is very cheap (similar or less than the cost of 2 full-priced adult tickets and a vehicle pass), but does not allow camping or parking at the pitch. Numerous areas around the site depending on your opening hours, size and type of stock. We faviour ethical and visually interesting pitches.
Caterers: Frontages of up to 4m, 7m or 10m are charged more than general traders. Factors include vehicle and staff numbers as well as if you need electricity. Trade of any food or drink is always by prior arrangement. Caterers that do not need additional electricity are favoured, along with those that include seating, undercover spaces and a welcoming frontage. Menus must be interesting, affordable, and avoid crossover with other caterers. Much of our clientele are young families. Caterers are sited in areas that suit their stock. Electricity is available to some caterers (chargeable). We prefer Caterers that operate with Solar Power, purchase stock ethically and locally and create good looking welcoming spaces.
Healing Area pitches are available to many types of Practitioner. We also also have tickets available to enable Workshop Leaders to operate in the shared structures which we provide. Charging for treatments is expected. Crossover of services offered is avoided or minimised. Practitioners will need to provide evidence of qualifications and insurance. The Healing Area is a wonderful and calm space in a woodland setting.
Crafts Area is aimed at those able to teach others varied, useful and interesting crafts. It's a great way to publicise your work, meet people and earn something along the way. A minimum of 2 Adult tickets is given per pitch in return for at least 4hrs a day of operation. Materials cots may be charged at cost to the public. Sales of own made goods are permitted and attract a surcharge of 10% of take but the pitch must be predominantly about teaching and sharing.
Interactive pitches include art installations, trapeze shows, shadow puppet theatres and mobile exhibitions - we love it all! We'll talk further once you have submitted the form.
Kidz Area groups are not charged (and in some instances are paid) and contribute to the event in time / resources. The Kidz Area is a stunner - please join us.
Bushcrafts Area: We have a number of groups involved in a dynamic space in the woods, offering all sorts of activities. Let us know what you can do, we'd like to include you.
Pitch size. When working out Pitch Size you must include guy ropes and all other ground you might need (eg for any camping or vehicles that you would like to keep within the pitch) For pitches without camping or a vehicle behind (Barrow caterer & 4x4m trader), your vehicles will be parked in Car Park B and you will camp as close as practical, but possibly in public camping. We cannot invent extra ground on the day, so you can only be given the ground that we have agreed to your using.
Additional Tickets including Children can be bought at the same time as you book your pitch - let us knw what you need. Everybody at the event will need a ticket – no visitors or single day passes will be in use.
Electricty & Lighting
For Caterers we can supply power and / or lighting (charges apply).
Most other pitches shut up shop as the day draws to a close. If you might want to operate later do let us know, as we will site you accordingly. If you need electricity you will provide it yourself from renewable means. This cannot include petrol / gas generators or running your vehicle engine. If stalls need lighting we suggest solar panels and 12v LED lighting units of your own. The cheapest option is a car battery and some 12v LED lights from ebay. LED lights give you about 9 times more light per watt than incandescent bulbs. Paraffin lamps may be suitable where all proper safety measures and paperwork are in place.
ARRIVAL: The best time to arrive will be sent to you by email. It is generally the Tuesday or Wednesday prior to the Event.
SITING: On arrival you will be shown to your pitch. Please stay within the boundaries we show you or you will almost certainly have to move before you can trade. Please set up as quickly as possible and do not ingress on to your neighbour's pitch, beyond the peg line, or across access / fire lanes.
SIGNING OFF: We need to be sure that all areas affecting public are safe before allowing them into the Arenas. Sign off times are icluded in the info email. The deadline is normally 5pm on the day before the public are allowed onto your arena. Site Sign Off includes all structures being up, guy ropes marked and safe, pegs wrapped with soft material, electrics installed, fire protection measures in place, trip hazards removed, perimeter gaps filled and vehicles to final position. You may work inside your stall after this time. Failure to meet this deadline will result in a stressful delay in trading for you and your neighbours while you make your area complete.
TAKEDOWN: We operate until late on Sunday night. We ask and expect that frontages are left up until at least 11pm on Sunday. There is no vehicle movement until Monday 7am. This is really important. Firstly, people will be relaxed and the crew will have worked hard all week, so vehicle movements are a serious H&S issue. Also as importantly, you may have finished trading but the Event is still in full swing. If you drop your frontage it leaves the event looking barren and steals some of the magic from the evening for all at the Event, as well as creating holes in our frotages that become Security and Safety issues. We ask that you close up your pitch and join us for a last dance - you've earned it. Start monday with a coffee and a rapid takekown. We do not allow public into the Arenas on Monday, so it is the perfect time to take down and get safely on the road.
Thank you for taking the time to read this. Please apply. You will be added to the system and sent an invoice as soon as it is generated. The sooner you pay any pitch fee the cheaper it is (info on the invoice). If you decide you do not want to trade after all please just let us know.
Have a great season!
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Hugh Jackman Takes A Cricket Ball To The Groin (Video)
Actor Hugh Jackman recently had himself a Brett Favre moment when he stepped up to the plate against cricket great, Shane Warne. I am not entirely sure if jockstraps are mandatory in the game of cricket, or if Jackman felt the need to put one on during this friendly talk show skit, but regardless of that fact I think it is pretty safe to say that a swing-and-a-miss has never seemed so painful or embarrassing.
Hat Tip – [The Daily What]


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Welcome to Region 22 of the National Labor Relations Board. We conduct elections, investigate charges of unfair labor practices, and protect the rights of workers to act together, serving northern New Jersey from our office in Newark. If you have questions or wish to file a charge or petition for election, please visit our office or call and ask for the Information Officer on duty. We can arrange to have someone speak with you in the language of your choice. We are also happy to provide speakers and materials to promote a greater understanding of the National Labor Relations Act.
National Labor Relations Board Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon today announced the appointment of Dorothy Foley as Deputy Regional Attorney of the NLRB's Regional Office in Newark, New Jersey (Region 22). In her new position, she will assist Regional Director Michael Lightner in the administration and enforcement of the National Labor Relations Act in northern and central New Jersey.


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İrfan Eskibağ, a 41-year-old Kurdish political prisoner suffering from pancreatic cancer, lost his life at one minute past midnight on Wednesday, 8 May. Eskibağ had been in prison for 10 years.
Eskibağ's health had been in critical condition for a long time. When he was held in Bolu F Type Prison, he was diagnosed with hepatitis and was transferred to Ankara Sincan F Type Prison for treatment in January 2011. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital in June 2011 and had a medical operation. The doctors terminated the radiotherapy and chemotherapy recently "as there was nothing left to do."
The report prepared by the hospital said he should be released from prison as his disease had been diagnosed at a late stage and prison conditions would cause a further deterioration in his health. Authorities continued to incarcerate him until he lost his life.
The report was submitted to the Istanbul Institution of Forensic Medicine. Idris Baluken, deputy chairman of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), told the Ministry of Justice on 1 May that Eskibağ was not even able to meet his personal needs and asked the institution to accelerate the process for his release.
The forensic report was never published, preventing Eskibağ from spending his last days with his family.
"I stayed with my brother at hospital for 20 days. The state killed my brother," Rıza Eskibağ said.
"It was obvious my brother would die. But they did not release him. The biggest criminal is the Institution of Forensic Medicine. The prosecutors waited for the forensic report to release my brother. But the institution did not submit the report. I spoke with my brother one week before he died. He still had hope. He believed that he would be released and get well outside."
Irfan Eskibağ was taken in handcuffs to hospital for treatment. His brother maintained that he became ill because of prison conditions: "It was not a suitable ward for cancer patients. It was airless and on the ground floor."
His other brothers, Timur and Hacı, said that Rıza Eskibağ wanted to spend his last days with his family after his health worsened but he was not allowed to.
"They are destroying everyone who stands up against the opinions of the state. It seems that the duty of state is to make its own citizens suffer," Hacı said.
Irfan's lawyer said: "There is no explanation for not allowing a deadly ill person to say goodbye to his family.".
State committing murders
Medical reports of independent hospitals are not taken into consideration when an ill prisoner applies to the authorities for release but have to go through the Institution of Forensic Medicine for a ruling. That costs the lives of many sick prisoners.
"We are faced with an immoral, inhumane and insistent attitude. We are screaming. The prisoners who should be protected by the government are killed at the hands of the government," Metin Bakkalcı, secretary general of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TIHV), said.
"The authorities have committed a crime according to even our insufficient municipal law, let alone international law and the treaties we have signed. The state is committing murders openly and blatantly. We will not be silent on that."
The institution has been denounced by human rights organisations for violating medical ethics, adopting a vengeful attitude towards ill prisoners and functioning as a political institution, not a scientific one.
According to the report of the Prison Commission of the Human Rights Association, there are 411 sick prisoners in Turkey and 230 prisoners are severely ill. One hundred and twenty-one are near death and 108 of them need extremely urgent treatment.
Most of those prisoners have become ill through being tortured in prison or because they have not been treated properly for wounds sustained during their capture.
Releasing all political prisoners is one of the main demands of the Kurdish political movement and human rights defenders to achieve a just and sustainable peace.
They call on Turkish authorities to immediately release all sick political prisoners and provide them with proper treatment as a reassurance that the government is committed to resolving the Kurdish issue.
The Ankara branch of the Prison Commission of the Human Rights Association gathers in front of the Ministry of Justice every Friday to ask for the release of ill prisoners.
And they are calling out to the authorities: "İrfan Eskibağ has died and 230 people are seriously ill in your prisons. Who is next? Whose death will you watch this time?"
Uzay Bulut is a freelance journalist based in Ankara


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I think the designers at Kaiser designed this range of papers just for me! Could you choose better colours for my boys' uniforms? In this Class of '87 section all layouts use Kaiser products, and I will just note any extras underneath relevant layouts.
Bracket punch by EK success, my own sewing machine.
Title cut on my Cuttlebug. I also included the filing card (this is how I store all my printed pics). I had written the details on it in my sad looking left handed writing when my arm was in plaster- all part of the story, my arm had been broken 3 days when the pics were taken.
Oh my beautiful boy :-)
Background yellow paper is Kaiser, other products by American Crafts
Alphas by Making Memories
Metal badges by Making Memories, Rubon letters by Chatterbox
Alphas by American Crafts
Weirdly this is one of my favorite layouts! That's because I love the memory that it records :-) Letters by American Crafts.
Tape (at bottom of layout)- Pink Paislee
Alphas by Making Memories
Alphas by American Crafts
I bought at least 10 of these double sided folder style pages. I just loved them, I have about 3 left in my stash now which I am saving for something really special.
I had gotten really confused (sigh) and somehow prepared 2 layouts for the 2009 Triathlon, so this was a spare! Therefore I MADE poor Luke enter again in 2010 or I would have had a surplus Layout!


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It was a child's paradise during the Washington County Child Care Association's Week of the Young Child Celebration last Friday, April 21 at the Washington County Event Center. A free dinner was served to all in attendance before the program. Several groups also had informative booths set up to visit. Booths included Awanas, Centennial Mental Health, Washington Count Connections, Girl Scouts, Akron Head Start, Washington County Sheriff's Office, Baby Bear Hugs and Northeast Colorado Health Department. Instead of the usual carnival, a Science Assembly was held, fascinating kids and parents with all the different experiments. The program was put on by Science Matters. According to their web site, "Science Matters in America is a private organization dedicated to increasing science literacy among girls and boys ages five through fourteen. We strive to give every student a meaningful hands-on science experience throughout their academic careers. Since 1999, Science Matters has been providing quality science enrichment programming. Our curriculum is standards-based and help to develop the skills of a scientist. Students love the projects and activities and have fun while learning. But it's our teachers that make the biggest difference. Hand selected and trained in the "Science Matters Way," the instructors combine fun and science inquiry. That's how our slogan "Where Science and Fun are One" came to be.
" Tasha Wagner of Science Matters invited her friend, Kelsey Turner of Brush, to be a volunteer for the day. Turner is a teacher and took the day off to help Wagner. There were many experiments and Wagner and Turner really involved the kids who attended. During the experiments, Wagner would ask the kids questions, all involving science. She mixed ingredients together that sat for a little while and then started flowing over the container. Wagner had her back to the table, so the kids saw it start to overflow the container and told her. Once it stopped growing, it turned into a solid mass and was easily picked up. There were several others. One involved the use of cornstarch. It was in a box to which a tube was attached and a candle was inside the box. Corn starch does not burn on its own, but once the candle was lit and she blew the corn starch into the air, by blowing through the tube, you could see flames, because the corn starch caught fire. The kids really loved the experiment involving a big bottle of pop and mints. She put ten mints in the bottle at the same time, and the kids loved to see the pop shoot up into the air. At the end of the show, the kids and adults were able to make slime that they took home. Once the program began, they had the full attention of everyone who attended and even the youngest of the children thoroughly enjoyed the evening. They also had free popcorn, sno cones and cotton candy for everyone. Even though the children didn't realize it, they were really involved with science for the evening. The evening was fun for everyone who attended and although the rain seemed to keep some people at home, those who attended were glad they went.


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Vachier-Lagrave in leadership: Caen
had the battle for the title of the French national champion to date with the leader Laurent Fressinet in the 5th Round one setback. He defeated Jean Pierre LeRoux and watched as Maxime Lagrave Vachier-filed past after a very short draw against Andrei Shchekachev. The direct encounter between First and Second Round 6 ended in a draw. Etienne Bacrot was previously co-favorite to win only one game and told the rest of the point. But this is enough for third place, level on points with Fressinet. In the women's tournament takes Sophie Milliet fourth with a 3.5 from reports from the French Association ... http://www.echecs.asso.fr/
tables, games, pictures ... http://www.chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp?newsid=12042
national caen 2011 pgn: http://www.chessbase.de/2011/Franz_ch/runde1bis6.htm
women pgn: http://www.chessbase.de/2011/Franz_ch/fem1bis4.htm


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WEST ORANGE, NJ - The West Orange High School boys track team continued its winning ways as they took the team title in the Essex County Championship for the first time since their 2009 and 2010 seasons.
The team was buoyed by the outstanding performace of senior Barden Adams, who won the triple jump (47-2) and the long jump (21-9 3/4), placed second in the high jump (6-6) and took fourth in the 110 hurdles (15.13), scoring 32 points.
The top five teams were: West Orange (69.2), St. Benedict's Prep (51.3), Columbia (50.4), Seton Hall Prep (48.5) and Livingston (43.6)
Barden, named to the All-State Team in April, said, "I came into the meet with high expectations. I had a rough start in the long jump and hurdles but with high jump I picked it up. When I got to triple jump I was trying to break the record."
Adams continued, "With my brother, who had just returned from South Carolina University where he runs track, watching in the crowd, I had more confidence. I jumped 47 feet 2 inches to miss the record by 1 inch!"
He also noted, "This allowed me to increase in the triple jump rankings. I was also named the New Jersey State Track and Field athlete of the week."
Other West Orange athletes making their mark were Jahir Blanton, who took second in the 100 meter dash and fifth in the 200 meter dash; Caleb Edgehill, who took fourth in the 800 meter run; Siem Mehrutu, who took third in the 1,600 meter run and fourth in the 3,200 meter run; Jagger Garguilo, who took fifth in the 3,200 meter run; Eshawn Hoffler, who took sixth in the high jump and fifth in pole vault; and Samuel Amorin, who took sixth in discus. The boys team also took third in the 1,600 meter relay.
The Girls Track team came in sixth place overall with a score of 33.7, behind Columbia (155), Montclair, Millburn (44.4), Livingston (42.5) and Mt. St. Dominic (41.6).
Malawi Allen took first and tied the record in the high jump, 5-6, and Aliyah Barnes took first in the 100-meter hurdles (1:03.05).
Akinsola Bukola took sixth in both the 100 and 200 meter dash and Chelsea Benoit took sixth in the 400 meter run.


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"Over There! A Celebration of the WW1 Soldier"
This year we will celebrate the Army's 242nd Birthday looking back at the WW1 soldier. It will be a special evening with our guest speaker, Dr. Monique Seefried, an appointee to the US WW1 Centennial Commission and LTC (ret) Ed Kennedy's WW1 Uniform Exhibit.
** For more information: Dr. Monique Seefried / LTC (ret) Ed Kennedy's WW1 Uniform Exhibit.
** Register for the 2017 Army Birthday Ball HERE!


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They are blowing them out. Check with a price scanner. Chad and I just got an Eternal Bargain for 8.98.
*edit* The UPC should have a sticker over it that says do not stock to get the price. We found them at the end cap in the toys section and not the normal section with all the trading cards.


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Being a Beatles baby: Julian Lennon reflects on big Beatles anniversary
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NEW YORK – Fifty years, ago, when Julian Lennon was just a baby, his father, John, and the rest of the Beatles— Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr—packed their bags and boarded a plane headed for the U.S. There, on Feb. 9, 1964, they would grace the stage of "The Ed Sullivan Show," making them an international music phenomenon.
Growing up, young Julian didn't understand anything about his father's massive success and the time that would become known as Beatlemania.
"I mean, [during the height of Beatlemania] I was 3, 4, 5 [years old]," Lennon told FOX411. "Anyone must remember that dad left when I was 3 years old. Mom and I lived out of the limelight. We lived a totally different life.
"People seem to forget that. In many respects, as much as I'm tied in [with Beatles history] I am also quite distant from it."
Still, on the phone, Lennon sounds exactly as you'd expect him to, with a perfect English accent and a slow, steady tone. In photos, the resemblance between Julian and John is undeniable.
Julian has said in the past that he thinks he looks more like his mother's brother than any other relative. But he's not blind to the fact that on some days you'd have to do a double take to distinguish him from his famous father, who was murdered in 1980.
"For the most part, one would hope to look like one's parents, and if one didn't, you'd be worried wouldn't you?" he said with a laugh.
As throngs of Beatles fans, TV shows and rock and roll aficionados rush to commemorate the Beatles golden anniversary with extravagant musical tributes and TV specials, Lennon will quietly ring in the milestone with a photo exhibit that he curated for the Morrison Hotel Gallery, which will be shown in New York City and West Hollywood, Calif.
A performer himself, it may surprise some that Lennon—who certainly has the musical chops to out-shine some of the acts involved in various Beatles 50th anniversary shows—isn't celebrating the occasion with song.
"I just felt that [the photo exhibit] was really appropriate for me because I decided not to really partake or be tied in with the whole musical aspect with the Beatles 50th…with the Grammys [tribute]... It was all a bit of a mess… about who was performing what, when, where," he explained.
Since Lennon resides primarily in Europe, a big U.S.-based performance just wasn't in the cards.
"Listen, I appreciate the Beatles as much as everybody else, but the last thing I wanted to do—because it didn't look like there was going to be an opportunity to perform, really— was stand in the audience clapping along to other people singing Beatles songs," Lennon said.
"For me, it would be like a Beatles karaoke night. I'd just feel like a bit of an idiot, and I've never been a major fan of awards shows. It's just not my cup of tea."
Photography. That's the younger Lennon's cup of tea.
"My passion these days is photography, and I just thought what a great opportunity to look through hundreds of photographs, some of which had been seen before and many of which I'd never seen before," he enthused. "What a great opportunity to do a photographic tribute to the boys..."
Lennon, an accomplished photographer, hand-picked the images for the celebratory exhibit.
"This, for me, was a perfect, perfect way to [commemorate the occasion]… to embrace these great photographs, it just seemed the right way to go… emotionally the right way to go. It was a way of doing something special and unique."
Another way Lennon has celebrated the Fab Four through the years is by building his own collection of Beatles memorabilia. In 2010, he released a photography book, "Beatles Memorabilia: The John Lennon Collection," which features pictures he'd taken of his personal Beatles stockpile.
"All of those bits and bops [that I own] are important. They're all personal items," he explained. And though the book is long-finished and in its second printing, the collecting continues.
"It's not something I go searching for," he said. "If things are brought to my attention…every once in a while friends keep an eye out… and if something is outstanding or if it's something that is personal to me I will try and get it," he explained.
Lennon's music ventures always keep him busy, too. He's popped in and out of the spotlight since his first hit climbed the charts in 1984. His most recent album was "Everything Changes," released in 2011. A new documentary about the making of the record, "Through the Picture Window," can be found -- along with new music and photography -- on Julian's new app, which launched in Dec. 2013.
And if he's not busy enough, Lennon revealed that ahead of the Beatles 50th anniversary, he was in the midst of embarking on a life-changing trip.
Lennon spoke to FOX411 from Monaco, with an aching arm, sore from getting shots for Typhoid, Hepatitis A and Yellow Fever. While the U.S. celebrates the Beatles in early February, Lennon will be in Kenya and Ethiopia to see first-hand the hard work his White Feather Foundation has been doing in the region.
Lennon takes on a serious tone when talking about his foundation, which focuses on environmental and humanitarian issues, such as getting clean water to countries in need.
"It was probably only literally last year that I realized that I've got to make much more of a stance with [the White Feather Foundation]. I certainly wanted to have much more of a deeper involvement, and that came about from doing our first-ever charity event last year in Monaco, which enabled us to go on and do all these water projects that I am going to see."
Like many things in Lennon's life, his foundation has a connection to his famous father. Its name comes from a conversation the two once had, according to the foundation's official website.
"Dad once said to me, that should he pass away, if there was some way of letting me know he was going to be OK -- that we were all going to be OK -- the message would come to me in the form of a white feather… One thing for sure is that the White Feather has always represented peace to me..."


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The getting of the skip has been quite a saga. It starts back when Holly and her family went to New Zealand at short notice. Her husband showed up with a trailer load of hard garbage. Rather than leave it at our place, they took it to the shed.
Of course, . . . → Read More: The getting of the skip.