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Wednesday, December 30, 2015
What do I want? (Week 28)
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You can do it, I have faith in you!!!ReplyDelete
GOOD LUCK! It SUCKS and I most definitely cried the first day (and that's with one child!) but it's true that if you persevere, it'll pay out. I'm super curious to see which twin catches on first. My vote is for Clara to be the surprise winner.ReplyDelete
You can do it! I did the 3 day intensive as well (at least that's what it sounds like you are doing) and it totally worked! And....it was awful, No sugar coating it. But it worked and my guys picked it up quickly with that system. Allow yourself and the littles lots of grace and plenty of your treat of choice (I think I drank 10 Diet Cokes on day two!!) Before you know it, you will be done!ReplyDelete
UUUGGGGHHH. I totally understand the dread. I NEVER want to potty train Millie. Diapers are the best thing ever. And since we cloth diaper, I don't even have the incentive of not paying for diapers to lure me. I have ZERO reasons to want to potty train. The process sounds gross, and then the semi-potty-trained-but-still-having-accidents phase sounds gross, and having to dash into public restrooms sounds gross...anyway. I hope you have a lot of treats for you and Brian to get you through the weekend/next year!!!!!ReplyDelete
I clearly have no advice in this department, but here's to hoping it goes better and quicker than you expect!ReplyDelete
Just think -- it went pretty well and now you can dream about everything else you want that isn't related to the twins learning about self-care!ReplyDelete
Although really what I want is for the 4pm meltdowns to end so wanting things from our children is a never ending process.


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Last week I was asked that dreaded question: where do you get your ideas? After I stopped gibbering, I gave it some thought.
There's a reason, no two reasons, why writers hate that question. One is because the person asking it seems to assume that once you have the great notion, the concept, you're done. Easy peasy.
The other is… We don't know.
I get ideas all the time. I wake up in the middle of the night with diamond-bright plots and sure-fire bestselling notions.
Except, not really.
I mean, I do get ideas all the time, but frankly most of them are rubbish. At the very least they're not worth the energy it takes to turn them into something of value.
The trick is identifying the good ones from the time-wasters.
At this point, my eager inquirer is giving me a 'whassup?' look and I remember that I still haven't answered the question. Odd, that.
OK. The question is a valid one and I'll try to answer it here. How do writers come up with ideas?
Stephen King tells the story of how he had a motorcycle that wasn't working properly. He was told to take it to a man in another town. After some difficulty, he finally managed to get there and the cycle died just as he arrived. The man came to look at it and while he did so his 250-pound St Bernard was growling at King. The man told King to pay no notice. The dog was docile, he said. Then the dog reared up on his haunches and seemed ready to lunge. The owner smacked the dog with a spanner and he settled down. King went home and wrote Cujo.
Now, I would guess most people hearing King tell that story would say to themselves, "Aw, see: if great things like that happened to me, I could be a world-famous writer, too."
Except, of course, such things happen to everyone all the time. The only difference is King is actively looking for inspiration all the time and you're not. I'm sorry, but if you have to ask the question, you're just not paying attention. Once you start to take notice, you'll see potential stories are all around you. Of course, not having any ideas keeps you from having to do the bloody hard work of turning those ideas into a proper story.
Just sayin'.
We've all been scared, or ecstatic, or furious. Most of us, however, get so caught up in the emotion that we don't see the potential for storytelling that lies therein. Or perhaps we can't separate ourselves from the personal experience and make it into a work of fiction. Doing that takes practice.
But if you want to write and you believe having that one great idea is the only thing keeping you from success (it isn't), then you should be pleased to hear that it's not that hard to train yourself to spot those good ideas.
The big emotional moments in your life are perfect fodder for your fiction. (Try saying that with a mouthful of marbles.) Write about your first date, your wedding day, the birth of your child. Write about the old woman who terrified you when you were six. Write about the schoolteacher who inspired you but had a dark secret. Plunder your life story and ask yourself this question: What if?
"What if" is a magical phrase for a writer. Keep your 'Open Sesames' and your 'Abracadabras'. "What if" rolls back the boulders concealing the treasure cave.
What if on that first date the girl told you she had been abducted when she was three years old and asked you to help her get back to her real family? What if your new bride's uncle told you on your wedding day that the mafia was their family business. Son… What if the old woman down the street was a secret millionaire? What if your schoolteacher was a rock star by night?
The same question applies to even the most mundane of circumstances. What if the bus was late because it was hijacked by pirates or bank robbers? What if the dinner was burned because the imps have been messing with your appliances. Again. What if that unexplained bruise on your arm was because the ghost of your dead husband is trying to get your attention?
You're starting to see why I have so many ideas, aren't you? And you're probably figuring out why most of my ideas fail to translate into stories.
Here's something no one ever tells you: Just because you get an idea, even a whizz-bang idea, it doesn't necessarily follow that this is your story to write. Take Cujo, for instance. Feral dogs just don't do it for me. I'm not even tempted to read the book, (sorry, Steve), much less write it. I'd probably make the mechanic a serial killer. That spanner of his seems pretty deadly. Or maybe I'd deal with the biker's walk home. There's no phone and he has to trudge ten miles through rough country roads. Night has fallen and it starts to snow… Now we're cooking.
That doesn't mean the ideas will translate into a great tale. Recognising what will work as a story takes experience and practice. Until you have that experience, you'll probably make some false starts. It's okay, though, because nothing is every truly wasted. These fragments will teach you what works for you. They'll reveal the themes you're drawn to and give you a feeling for language and for putting a story together. What, you thought you'd just sit down and write a novel, just like that? Do pianists start playing concertos before they've mastered scales?
At some point, you have to stop running from the ideas and start to test them. As Louis L'Amour says in the above quote: the water doesn't start flowing until you turn on the faucet. I, and most every writer I know, get my best ideas when I'm actually writing. The two conditions are symbiotic. It's when you think of them as separate, independent conditions that you run into trouble. Sit and write. Use writing prompts to get the juices flowing, if you must, but write something. Staring out the window might look very Wordsworthian, but it won't get the job done.
But getting back to ideas. Here are a few more suggestions:
Find out what stimulates you. If attracted to the visual, then go to a gallery and find a painting or a photograph that gets under your skin. Now write the story that picture inspires. John Fowles was inspired to write The French Lieutenant's Woman because he was haunted by the image of someone standing on the shore. He wrote the novel to explore who she was.
If music is more your thing, find a piece that intrigues you or gives you ideas. Listen to story songs – Springsteen and Leonard Cohen are my go-to guys – and write about one of their incidents or characters. What happened to Rosalita's father after she ran away with Bruce? Whatever happened to Cohen's pal who wore the famous blue raincoat, and just how did it get torn at the shoulder? Or if the melody alone can do it for you, then away you go. A little Gershwin could inspire anyone.
Take a walk and use all your senses to capture the experience. How would this have changed if you lacked one sense? Suppose you had no ability to smell: what would that do to your life? What if one sense was tuned too highly? Suppose even a whisper sounded like a shout?
Read poetry and use a line as a springboard for a tale. "Them that ask no questions isn't told no lies / so watch the wall, my darling, as the gentlemen go by…" (The Smuggler's Song, Kipling) Doesn't that evoke all sorts of images?
Read newspapers, watch the news, read magazines. Martina Devlin's The House Where it Happened was inspired by one of those "On this day" notices in a newspaper.
Take a classical story and make it modern. It worked for West Side Story (based on Romeo and Juliet). Use Shakespeare, Homer, Marlow. Try folk tales and legends. My friend CRJ Smith wrote a fabulous story based on the Irish legend of the púca High Strange Horror
Change your routine. Take a different route to work and see what changes.
Pick a theme: Success. Loss. Betrayal.
See what I mean? Ideas are everywhere. They're in the air you breathe. Turning them into a tale, though. Well, that's a different story.


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Malcolm Turnbull has warned the conflict in Syria can't continue to develop into a proxy war.
Speaking on the sidelines of the United Nation's general assembly in New York, the prime minister said Australia supports any and every measure to aid peace and stability in Syria.
"I've spoken to many leaders in recent weeks about the Syrian situation and there is not a lot of optimism I regret to say. A political solution remains elusive."
Mr Turnbull said the situation is going to require a major step by the Russians to come together with the United States.
"This conflict in Syria cannot continue to develop into, in effect, a proxy war," he told reporters.
The prime minister discussed the importance of restoring the ceasefire with US President Barack Obama on Tuesday night (local time).
"It is vital for major players to reach resolution," he said, citing Russia, the US and the Gulf States.
Mr Turnbull warned the situation is much bleaker than it was a year ago when he spoke with world leaders.
The consequences of this war only get worse and worse, said.
"But often, as I say, it is darkest just before the dawn."
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop represented Australia at the International Syria Support group meeting on Tuesday morning (local time).
The sit-down, co-hosted by US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, came after the Syrian army declared an end to the week-long ceasefire.
It also follows significant air strikes in Aleppo and the bombing of an aid convoy carrying UN supplied food.


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A WIGAN veteran is calling for a return of Dad's Army to help the nation combat domestic terrorism.
Ex-L/Cpl Malcolm Vickers says a Home Guard should be set up to help "spotting bad guys" and has written to the Home Secretary with the idea.
The plan is a case of life imitating art with a revamp of the classic TV series set to hit the silver screens later this year.
Pensioner Malcolm told the Evening Post he came up with the notion after watching news bulletins calling for the public to remain vigilant to help combat terrorism.
He said: "There are hundreds of army veterans who may not be as mobile as they once were but they have sharp eyes and sharp minds and that's the main thing.
"The country's resources are being stretched to the limit and we have something here which is as yet untapped.
"When Britain has been under threat at times in the past, it has relied on the Home Guard. My father served in the Great War and then served in Dad's Army in the second World War."
The 70-year-old has written to Home Secretary Theresa May suggesting the new Home Guard could be deployed at public events to sniff out any potential threats.
The former military man, who was attached to Lancashire Regiments and served in Hindley C Company during his career, said in his letter: "I am in touch with about 17 veterans groups here in Lancashire. There are 346 veterans as members. Out of these I think 98 veterans would be ideal for this modern variation of Dad's Army.
"They would be suitable as a support group to any security/police detail at any public gathering."
"The veterans of England are a ready-made body of men who know which end is up in regard to spotting the bad guys."
Malcolm did not get the response he wanted however, but has vowed to pursue his idea.
In a letter from a Home Office official, he was informed the Prime Minister has already set up an Extremism Task Force to "identify any areas where our current approach was lacking and agree practical steps to fights against all forms of extremism."
It adds: "I would like to thank you for your suggestion. However, the Government does not have any current plans to re-establish the 'Home Guard'.
"I would like to reassure you that this Government takes the threat of terrorism and extremism very seriously.
"Extremism has no place in our society and will not be tolerated."


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The monotonous lifestyle of long working hours and meeting tons of new people may lead to a disturbed relationship, believe city-based psychiatrists. In a session, Pati, Patni aur woh, Dr Harish Shetty, consultant psychiatrist at LH Hiranandani Hospital, Powai spoke at length about extra marital relationships.
"Nowadays, we have long working hours and we tend to meet a lot of new people every day. Because of which, people feel bored and there is a lack of guilt in their actions. We need to understand that any relationship will work only after we make necessary efforts to make them work," he added.
He believes, "There is no such thing as a happy marriage life, there can only be a peaceful one. There are four mantras that would make your marriage work – firstly, marriage is a union of two forgivers. Secondly, you need to encourage small talks and soft touch. Thirdly, try to have as many meals as you can together, in a week. And lastly, cuddling is very important."
Talking about cuddling, he said, "cuddling is more important that having sex." He explains that memory is affected by feelings. Sex may or may not to be limited to age, but cuddling does not have age limit.
Most of the times, the partner goes for revenge date. "My husband has an extra-marital affair, so now even I'll go for it. This is how most relationships end. We must know that love doesn't come in numbers, but intimacy should be limited to one," added Dr Shetty
Lastly, he says that people should never get bored in marriages. "Boredom is tougher to treat than any illness. That should never get in between the partners."


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Yesterday, Soggy Coaster joined a couple of colleagues for an after-work beer at Cosmopolitan, a restaurant at 919 Main Ave. in Durango.
I like Cosmopolitan. It has a copper bar and an invariably friendly bartender behind it. The atmosphere is pleasant, even if the clientele trends a little old.
A fine dining restaurant, Cosmopolitan offers four beers on tap: Mirror Pond Pale Ale (Deschutes Brewery), Pinstripe Red Ale (Ska Brewing), Stella Artois and 1554 (New Belgium).
I opted for a Mirror Pond, then another. Finally, the bill came: $12. For two Mirror Ponds.
I was a bit taken aback. I would have expected the beers to cost, at most, $4 each. Six dollars is the most I can recall paying for a beer on tap.
Mirror Pond is a wonderful but fairly unremarkable microbrew; there is nothing about it that justifies charging $6 for a glass. Neither was the glass unusually large - perhaps 16 ounces. With foam, figure the drinker ends up with about 14 ounces of beer.
Lost Dog down the street charges only $2 for the same beer in a similar glass.
Perhaps - and this is speculation - Cosmopolitan is compensating for its lack of diners by charging Cadillac prices for beers. Restaurants have been hurting because of the economy. Restaurant revenue in Durango, as measured by sales tax receipts, declined 4.4 percent in March from the same month in 2008.
When we went to Cosmopolitan, the restaurant was empty, save for my colleagues, myself and a middle-aged couple cutting each of their sushi bites into several tiny pieces.
Now, I know one might expect beers at a fine restaurant to carry a small premium. You're paying for atmosphere, staff and the presumably costly Main Avenue rent. I understand keg prices have risen for restaurants and bars. But there is simply no excuse for a $6 Mirror Pond. (To be clear, all their beers were $6, making their Pinstripe tap easily the most expensive in town).
I will not be back to Cosmopolitan - not for their cold beers, not for their excellent martinis, not for their tasty meals - until the restaurant charges a reasonable price for its beer. The same goes for any restaurant that chooses to charge exorbitant prices.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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That is bullshit!ReplyDelete
I agree. Only when people refuse to pay these kinds of prices will restaurants and bars get the message that it's unacceptable. I'm annoyed that I didn't ask for the price before ordering.ReplyDelete
I had a similar experience at Magenta here in Corvallis. They didn't have the scotch I wanted, so the bartender suggested one that he thought had a similar taste. I got the bill, and my drink was $22. (!)ReplyDelete
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Hard-working LaChance makes quick impact for Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt assistant basketball coach Tom Richardson was watching an AAU game in the summer of 2013 when a player caught his eye. This player was a little on the short side for a shooting guard at the Southeastern Conference level, he wasn't overly athletic, not in the traditional sense, anyway, and his defense needed some work. But he could shoot—man, could he shoot—his high basketball IQ was evident even at first viewing, and he seemed to be the toughest dude in the gym.
It didn't take Richardson long to come to a conclusion. Vanderbilt, in desperate need of restocking its depleted guard corps for the 2014-15 season, had to have Riley LaChance.
Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings has known Richardson for years, dating back to when Richardson was Stallings' assistant at Illinois State from 1993-99. Richardson replaced Stallings at Illinois State before reuniting with him at Vanderbilt in 2003. In the 12 years they've worked together in Nashville, Stallings has sent Richardson all over the world in search of a particular type of player—a Vanderbilt player.
Stallings trusts Richardson implicitly, so when he received a call from his right-hand man that summer day in 2013, he took action. Let's offer this LaChance kid a scholarship, Richardson said. Right now.
So Stallings made an unusual move, for him. He called LaChance's father, Tom, and did what Richardson suggested.
Tom LaChance laughs at the recollection of that first conversation with his son's future college coach.
"He said, 'I've never offered a kid a scholarship without seeing him, play,' " Tom LaChance said. " 'But coach Rich said if I didn't offer this guy right away, I was crazy.' "
But before that formal offered was extended, Stallings had a question.
"He said, 'Do you mind if I ask why Marquette and Wisconsin didn't offer him?' " Tom LaChance said.
The question was legitimate. LaChance grew up in Brookfield, Wis., a suburb of Milwaukee that's about 70 miles away from Madison, home of the mighty Badgers. The question is even more legit after the first 11 games of LaChance's college career, during which he started 11 times, averaged 12.3 points and 2.6 assists, shot nearly 40 percent from the 3-point line and put together consecutive 26-point games against Purdue and Western Carolina.
It's doubtful that Marquette, under then-coach Buzz Williams, would have ever taken LaChance, who says Williams "recruited me very minimally." Williams likes longer, athletic two guards, and he's just as likely to find the one he wants tucked away at a junior college than a high school in his own backyard. But watch LaChance play, and he seems perfectly constructed for Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan's system, similar in height, build, basketball smarts and shooting ability to any number of guards Ryan has signed.
"They recruited me minimally after my sophomore year in high school," Riley LaChance said. "And after that, not at all."
LaChance talks about Marquette and Wisconsin without a trace of bitterness or regret. LaChance's father, who was a walk-on at Marquette under coach Kevin O'Neill and coached his son for years on the Ray Allen Select AAU team, isn't bitter so much as puzzled.
"I'm at a loss for words why Marquette didn't offer him a scholarship," Tom LaChance said. "Wisconsin had us up to a football game when Riley was a sophomore, then completely stopped talking to us."
Riley LaChance's coach Brookfield Central High School, Mark Adams, offers a theory about why Wisconsin passed.
"Two years ago, [Wisconsin senior guard] Josh Gasser blew his knee out and missed his whole year," Adams said. "He red-shirted. So that meant he was going to come back with two years of eligibility. And Wisconsin was stockpiled with guards."
Plenty of other options
It wasn't as though LaChance didn't have college options. His first scholarship offers came during his sophomore season in high school, from Western Michigan. The WMU assistant coach who spotted him back then, Rick Carter, has since worked for Missouri and is now on Chris Mack's staff at Xavier. He developed a close relationship with the LaChance family and thought Riley would be a star in the Mid-American Conference, if he could ever get him there.
"I thought he could be the freshman of the year in that league and an all-league player for three years," Carter said.
Carter hoped LaChance would go unnoticed by upper-major schools, but he wasn't counting on that happening.
"If you walked in the gym and saw him play, he never passed the look test," Carter said. "He still doesn't. You'd think, if you didn't know him, that the kid couldn't play high-major basketball. Then you see him in the course of a [high school or AAU] game play against better athletes and bigger kids and come up with 25 points, nine assists and six rebounds. He knows how to play the game."
Tom LaChance would have loved the chance to drive across town and see his son play at Marquette. The 70-mile trek to Madison would have convenient, too. But in retrospect, he thinks the fact Riley wasn't offered by the two major in-state schools was the best thing that could have happened for his career.
"It turned out to be a blessing," the elder LaChance said. "[Marquette and Wisconsin] not offering made him the player he is today. It made him get in the gym, work even harder, become that much better of a player."
LaChance's work ethic was already legendary, and it didn't come as a result of Tom being a stage father. Though he coached his son for several years on the AAU circuit, he never pushed, prodded or forced. He didn't have to.
"I never pushed Riley into basketball, never was a slave driver," Tom LaChance said. "I remember saying something to him one time when he was about 10. There's no free lunch, no magic formula. The best players are always the hardest workers."
Young Riley took that to heart, and the gym became his second home. At times, it seemed as though it were his primary residence.
"In my 14 years at head coach [at Brookfield Central], I've had some very good point guards," Adams said. "All of them were hard workers. But nobody ever put in the time Riley did."
Tom LaChance likes to tell the story about how, one Fourth of July, Riley postponed going to a family picnic in favor of working out a kink in his jump shot, clear evidence that basketball had taken over his life. Other sports couldn't lure him away. He dabbled in baseball and football for years and could have been a good high school quarterback, but his passion was basketball.
"I wanted to dedicate all my time to it," LaChace said. "I wanted to be able to play at the level I wanted to play [in college]. I knew it was going to take a lot of time and effort. I didn't want other sports interfering with that."
Limitations, what limitations?
LaChance doesn't compare physically with the kind of shooting guard that might turn up at Kentucky—he's 6-foot-2 and doesn't possess blazing speed or explosive jumping ability—but before his high school career was finished, LaChance turned himself into an ESPN Top 100 recruit. There are numerous tales of LaChance's exploits on the AAU circuit, in full view of recruiting analysts and college coaches.
"There was one AAU team that had a highly athletic player who had an offer to go to Maryland," Adams said. "Riley put up 40 on him. They started changing guys off of him, but it didn't make any difference."
LaChance had a knack for playing to the occasion.
"He plays with a chip on his shoulder, in a good way," Tom LaChance said. "He's not a flamboyant kid, but in the July [recruiting] period going into his senior year, there were a number of kids ranked higher than him that he flat-out destroyed in AAU ball. The more that happened, the harder he worked, the better he got, and the more offers came his way."
Though Marquette and Wisconsin weren't interested, other high major schools began offering scholarships. Minnesota wanted him. So did Iowa. Creighton, whose coach Greg McDermott always surrounds himself with smart, crafty jump shooters, worked its way into LaChance's final three schools. Iowa, which signed Brady Ellingson, one of LaChance's AAU teammates, also had a chance.
And then came that fateful day in Las Vegas, when Richardson, working off a tip from former Vanderbilt assistant King Rice, now the head coach at Monmouth, spotted LaChance. Richardson couldn't believe how perfect LaChance's game was for Vanderbilt's system. He couldn't wait to get Stallings on the phone.
Stallings was quickly convinced, despite not having seen LaChance play. Richardson's opinion was good enough for him. And though Stallings was originally curious why Marquette and Wisconsin hadn't already grabbed LaChance, that didn't stop him from offering a scholarship.
"I think sometimes when you recruit, you look for reasons not to want a guy," Stallings said. "Sometimes, for whatever reason, you look for reasons to like a guy. I think we liked what Riley was more than we didn't like what he wasn't.
"I think some people might have looked at him and said he's a little undersized and he's not athletic and he's minus this and minus that. And we looked at him and said, 'here's a guy who's tough and completes, and can really score and knows how to play. And those were just the things we could tell before he got to Vanderbilt."
Dish it out, I can take it
Rick Carter, the Xavier assistant coach who, when he worked at Western Michigan first offered LaChance a scholarship, was confident LaChance had what it took to excel at the highest levels of the college game. Carter knew all about LaChance's work ethic.
"Anything a college coach tries to put him through," Carter said, "he's going to be harder on himself. The hardest thing about most guys when they get to college is that they've usually been the best player at their previous school. They've never been criticized, never had their game picked apart. Riley's had that every day of his life."
Stallings has been impressed with LaChance's work habits, but equally impressed with his willingness to be coached.
"This kid stays after practice every day," Stallings said. "I'm not talking about some days, or most days. I'm talking about every day we're out there. He's great to coach. Phenomenal.
"I've told people he receives criticism and praise exactly the same. It doesn't faze him other than he receives it with an open mind and open heart and then goes out and does what he's been told to do."
One of Stallings' first edicts for LaChance was to improve his defense. "When he first got here," Stallings said, "he couldn't guard his butt with both hands. But he's already turned himself into a capable defender. To me, that's been as impressive as his scoring ability."
When it came time for Riley to choose a college, Tom LaChance didn't want to make his son's mind up for him. But he offered a strong opinion about Vanderbilt.
"I just said, 'if you ask me, coach Stallings is a great Xs and Os guy," he said. " 'If you go there and you work hard, he's going to make you better. The stars are aligning for you.' I was positive he could go there and play right away, and with the other good young players they had recruited, they were going to be relatively good right away."
LaChance was right. His son leads Vanderbilt (8-3) in minutes played, by a large margin, and has quickly made an impact. Against a good Purdue team, LaChance scored 26 points, leading Vandy to victory and earning SEC player-of-the-week honors. He matched that total the next game as the 'Dores beat back a pesky Western Carolina team with a furious second-half surge.
Those back-to-back 26-point games came after an 0-for-6 shooting effort from 3 in a loss to Baylor. That sent LaChance to the gym, where he adjusted a flaw in his mechanics and then went out and knocked down 8 of his next 12 3s against the Boilermakers and Catamounts.
LaChance has a shooter's mentality. If the ball's not going in, the only solution during a game is to keep firing it up. The practice floor is the place for fixing problems. After Baylor, one minor adjustment was all it took to get LaChance back on track. For two games, he was in that zone all shooters seek but seldom enter.
"It's kind of a surreal feeling," LaChance said. "Almost like an out-of-body experience. You don't even realize you're doing what you're doing until you look back. When you're in that zone, you just try to stay aggressive."
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LaChance has teamed with four other Vanderbilt freshmen—point guards Wade Baldwin and Shelton Mitchell, shooter deluxe Matthew Fisher-Davis and swingman Jeff Roberson—to give the Commodores an influx of energy and a backcourt transfusion to join a strong frontcourt led by sophomores Damian Jones and Luke Kornet and fifth-year seniors James Siakam and Josh Henderson.
Stallings, a demanding coach who can be a bit grumpy at times, has been smiling more this season than at any time in recent memory. He loves his team and looks forward to the next four years of coaching Baldwin, Mitchell, Fisher-Davis, Roberson and LaChance.
"They're a fun team to watch and a fun team to coach," Stallings said. "Especially lately, we've gotten to where the ball starts moving and we've gotten on some runs that have made the game a ton of fun. That's a good reason to smile."
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It's been a few days since the Blue Jackets decided to get the local bloggers together and present their case. You all know that I was not invited, but that's OK, because I'm sure they truly did not want me there because they know where I stand. But for those bloggers who did get to meet in the commanding heights of Nationwide, we get a nearly unanimous picture of what needs to be done. Call the County Commissioners, phone numbers conveniently posted, say a prayer of thanks every night for this gift from John McConnell, and think about what would happen to the 7,000 jobs that the team has created. (Really, 7,000? Where did that number come from?)
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Semi-Agreeing With David Kibbe
by Wes Rishel | November 18, 2009 | 4 Comments
It is likely not a coincidence that David and I independently posted thoughts on the NHIN last night. The ONC has the HIT Policy Committee looking into it and this is generating interest the HIT blogging circles. His post is The Health Internet vs. the NHIN — A Matter of Control, Cost, and Timing and mine is Health 2.0: Take a Lesson From the Web. Subsequently I responded to his and he replied. These are copied at the end of this post. In it he asks whether I agree with him on some points.
First and foremost I believe that when we talk about the "Health Internet" there are two equally important problems to solve:
- consumer-controlled accumulating and consumer-directed use of health records, and
- inter-clinician exchange of health records in the course of caring for or managing the care of a patient.
I don't believe that what has been written about the Health Internet describes a solution that deals with both cases. On the first point, above, I think David and I are in the same ballpark. The model of a PHR proffered by Dossia, Google and Microsoft has many of the fundamentals that are required: a clearly stated privacy model that can serve as the basis for informed decisions whether or not to use the service, access to consumers that is cheaper than Quicken on-line (i.e., free so far), a proactive consumer role in setting and changing consent for various kinds of information exchange, a way of verifying the consent on both sides (the consumer has to be logged into the web sites of both the PHR and the system that sends or receives data) and a rock-solid patient ID mapping (the mapping is created when the patient is logged in). I would argue that the use of "cloud storage" and good offices of the vendors to facilitate connecting to the PHRs is a valuable and highly desirable.
I have not been able to understand David's view on point #2. One could read his stuff to say that the Health Internet is all the industry needs. Given the growing presence of the Internet patient-mediated transfers should also be used to get lab results to the ordering physician, ED notes back to the primary care provider, to find out whether a patient presenting at the ED with chest pain has had a recent angiogram and get the results if so and so on through any number of care transitions that we handle very badly now in the health care industry.
There are problems with patient-mediated transfers of information in the course of giving care. Many patients who are fully deft at doing business on the Internet will forget or slow down the process. Some are simply unable to actively mediate information flows. A few patients will knowingly disrupt the flow of information. For example, they may delete reports that suggest that they don't need high-end analgesics. Anorexics, who already get more help on the Internet on maintaining their disease then they do on curing it, will also manipulate the information flow. Although these patients may be a minority, the potential for this manipulation will impact the credibility that physicians place on information received through patient-mediated sources.
Labs and other diagnostic facilities have legal and ethical obligations to ascertain that the information has gone to the ordering physician or one designated to receive copies. Information lost in transitions from hospitals to SNFs are a known source of death, and greatly reduced quality of life. I believe that solving the provider-to-provider problem for routine care delivery scenarios is every bit as important as patient engagement, particularly if one expects or hopes to maintain independent physicians as a viable participant in the US healthcare system.
Where we might agree is that the current conception of HIEs joined together in the NHIN has, at best, a very long lead time to create nonpatient-mediated exchange of healthcare information. It is not that some HIEs haven't done well or the current NHIN approach can't link them to one-another and to multi-regional providers. However, it is not clear that this approach can be built out in a reasonable amount of time even with mid-course corrections on the goals and standards in use.
There is an alternative to HIEs and the NHIN we should consider during this period of reexamination of the approach. It might be called The Health Internet for Providers. I don't see why we can't be sending information about patients with the same facility that one sends an email. This approach has several advantages
- The consent model can be essentially the same as the consent model that is used to send faxes today.
- Unlike faxes the package that is equivalent to an email can have a variable amount of structured data. In particular
- enough data to give the receive an easy shot at matching the patient with their data base
- data about who sent the info and what is the subject
- more structured data as appropriate to agreements between the sender and receiver. Presumably various incentive programs can improve the amount of structured data over time but the fundamental exchange mechnaism would not be broken.
- It should be straightforward to include in the approach irrefutability of transmission and receipt.
David McCallie has been talking this idea up with me and others and has come to a bright line to identify when a transaction should flow over the "provider health Internet" and when it should flow over the "consumer health Internet," (i.e., be patient-mediated). If the transfer is one that would be expected now (by fax, letter, CD or whatever) then it should not need patient-mediation to be accomplished. If such transactions are sent electronically now they are usually "pushed." Any kind of ad hoc searching of patient information (including looking up a critical patient in the ED) should be patient mediated. Perhaps there should be a "break the glass" capability for when the patient is incapacitated and there is no one else to give consent; that's a fine point.
So I conclude that maybe David K and I agree on some things. At least with his peanut butter and my chocolate we would have a complete candy bar.
What follows is the dialogue from earlier on Wednesday.
The statement that the NHIN was "created so that large systems like the VA and the DOD, Kaiser and Geisinger, can exchange data without having to reach the Internet" is blatantly untrue and contrary to everything that the ONC ever published about the NHIN. The NHIN was in fact built to run on the Internet.
Recently five small HIEs (RHIOs) working under the auspices of the California eHealth Collaborative created the ability to share patient data among them over the Internet in a matter of weeks using the NHIN protocols and the open-source code that was created as part of the last NHIN project. The small HIEs which have substantial support for physicians in small practices co-demonstrated with Kaiser. Far from the NHIN being designed to let the big providers ice out small providers it was designed to enable their interaction. In many ways this was a David v. Goliath use of open source software and the NHIN protocols as this the CAeHC is striving to position itself as an alternative to CalRHIO.
There is plenty of room to simplify the NHIN work so far. But we should not conflate the need for healthcare organizations to interact with the very important need for PHRs.
I address this in my recent blog posting "Health 2.0: Take a Lesson From the Web" (https://blogs.gartner.com/wes_rishel/2009/11/18/health-2-0-take-a-lesson-from-the-web/).
Dear Wes: Thanks for your comments, and I stand corrected. In the future I'll defer to your excellent blog post for a description of NHIN and CONNECT. I also think that the eHealth Collaborative patient data sharing project you refer to is real and substantial progress, and I'm glad that we agree on the point about simplifying NHIN and the protocols involved, so that health care organizations of all sizes can interact with one another and with PHRs.
However, the example of five RHIOs taking "weeks" to "create the ability" to share data, amongst themselves, is exactly the kind of enterprise and provider/organization control of data that Brian and I along with many others consider to be an insufficient solution, one that well describes the old idea of NHIN, but does not describe the new model Health Internet.
Perhaps we agree on this, too. That would be great.
But I want to emphasize that in my opinion patient-centered health data exchange should not require a RHIO or HIE or a formal NHIN. These constructs may be very useful in some ways in some communities, but they are not the same thing as what David McAllie described above, namely a means of exchange over the Internet by which "(T)he data will be available to them (patients/consumers) regardless of where they live or travel. The data will be exposed to services selected by the consumer via standards-based, simple, Internet-friendly (RESTful) protocols, and not via some overly complex service-oriented architecture that presupposes all of the use-cases."
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I think you have advanced the conversation by cleverly making the distinction between the "provider internet" and the "health (consumer) internet." This artifact may be a useful way to stage the discussion.
In a more formal mode, I think the distinction of how health information should flow to and from providers, consumers, patients, payers, and government agencies is perhaps a little more complicated. I think it might be best to think of each data exchange in terms of the policies, regulations, and laws that govern the flow.
For example, some data exchange is a function of WHERE (which state) the provider practices, e.g., state-mandated public health reports. These exchanges could be mediated by a local HIE, or perhaps just sent over a secure TLS connection to the state's designated portal. These transactions should follow the appropriate HITSP standard, and need not be RESTful, as they are fixed in nature and by design are not expected to change except slowly as regulations require.
Another large class of data exchange is governed by HIPAA. These data flows, as you nicely describe, are generally point-to-point, and are governed by an explicit consent to treatment (under TP&O.) These transactions likewise should follow HITSP standards, and likewise need not be RESTful, as they are intended for a well-defined, highly regulated purpose. "Secure, provider-to-provider messaging" with structured (and unstructed content) would fall under this category (and would eventually replace the fax machine.) It seems likely that as providers move more towards "hosted" or "software as a service" EMRs, many of these data flows would originate from vendor-supplied "inbox" software, using TLS to connect the provider to a vendor-hosted gateway, and from there to the desired target. It makes sense that the NHIN could provide the "gateway to gateway" message service, perhaps via rules around using S/MIME or simply SMTP over TLS. The NHIN (or ONC) could also coordinate and provide the LDAP directory service that will be necessary for the addressee to be determined, as well as core authentication services to guarantee that the recipient is authentic, etc.
These data flows (and others that I mentioned on Dr. Kibbe's blog) probably do not gain very much from an open-ended RESTful approach to interaction. There are reasonably well-defined standards that could enable these transactions to be quickly deployed. In this case, "simple" is the familiar. We don't need to re-invent email, FTP, etc.
The new category of consumer-facing services, on the other hand, are different. Most of these services don't exist yet. PHR-like services (like Health Vault and Google Health) are emerging, but they represent the tip of the iceberg compared to what will be possible when consumers are able to control and direct the flow of data from the originating provider to the service(s) of their choice.
These new services cannot be easily represented using SOAP or SOA-like models which presuppose the use-cases and expose only certain subsets of data behind pre-defined "service" transactions. Rather, these new services woudd benefit from a resource-oriented design, which exposes (to authorized users!) the actual data, using a yet-to-be-determined URI naming model, along with simple combinations of https' GET, POST, PUT, etc. This is where the NHIN could define "the health internet," by coordinating the URI naming standards, and by examples on how to use HTTPS to accomplish the core transactions. There are many new internet service APIs (like Twitter, Facebook, etc.) which could serve as models to follow.
Several key problems need to be solved before these RESTful services would be widely deployed, including is a common authentication standard for users, and agreements on how to implement proper permission and access controls on top of the RESTful transactions. There are some good models to follow in the Internet commerce space. Hopefully, the HIT "dogs" can learn from the Internet "cats." (Or did I get that backwards?)
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Dear Wes, Dr. McAllie, and others: First, let me say that we all have something to learn from one another, cats, dogs, whatever… that if we put the patient's health care and well being first, then we can make huge strides in solving whatever problems there may be. It is only when we fall back into our foxholes as representatives of special interests, be they standards organizations, consulting firms, IT vendors, or doctor groups, that we fail.
So, let me echo the spirit and I hope the intent of Dr. Blumenthal's recent communications about ONC's and ARRA/HITECH's major goal, which is to improve patient care, and to do so in part by removing barriers and impediments to health data and information flows. The information should follow the patient — be accessible whenever and wherever needed — and nothing should get in the way.
There is nothing in either Wes' post or Dr. McAllie's post, that I would disagree with. These are good ideas, all. Since both David and Wes are members of the HIT Standards Committee, and have enormous respect in the industry, their ideas carry real weight, and I'm encouraged by them and their agreement with one another.
And, as David says, Wes' artifact of breaking the Health Internet discussion into two parts, one for patient-directed data flows, and one for provider-directed flows, may be a useful construct for moving the discussion along. Nice.
This may help us come to terms with and accept the fact that the general problem of heath data constipation derives from attitudes and business models that are the responsibility of providers, IT vendors, and other health care entities to solve, not the patient's. In the past, the entire industry involved in building, buying, and implementing health IT systems has refused to design in data exchange or interoperability. The reasons were simple: This strategy has been, and continues to be, enormously profitable to a few. It explicitly supports the perverse incentive of the FFS by making data LESS available, and therefore adds to the justification for repeating tests and duplicating procedures, which someone will pay for most of the time (until now?), generating profits for the provider organizations which they can then use to purchase expensive but not interoperable IT. We have created tens of thousands of proprietary "data islands" for each node in the health care system, a situation that requires huge consulting interface contracts and incessant upgrades and versionings, to address data transfers, and we've ended up with what Esther Dyson very accurately called an "enormous calcified hairball" from which even basic, summary health information is very difficult to extract on a consistent and reliable basis. Witness the ePatient Dave fiasco.
So, I'm eager to join both of you and others to put the patient first and find ways that both providers and patients/consumers can get access to health data and information where and when it's needed, to improve continuity and quality of care.
A logical starting place in my own opinion is to focus on getting SOME meaningful and relevant summary health data to the patient, or to whomever the patient wants the data to be able to get to, on a consistent and reliable basis, using the Internet and World Wide Web protocols, standards, and conventions that already work for other types of personal data. If the big problem, really, is getting this small but relevant data set out of existing health information systems, let's work together to make this as simple, efficient, and user-friendly as possible (always securely). This will surely lead to provider-provider exchange enhancements, too. I am certain that once we can do this small thing, we can expand and extend upon it, to include more data and different types of data.
Rather than have the patient/consumer and his/her agents do an end-around the providers' systems, let's get them working together. This is my vision for the Health Internet.
Very kid regards, DCK
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Strictly Come Dancing's Ruth Langsford has told how she almost did not make it to the stage for her first dance due to "blind terror"
Strictly Come Dancing's Ruth Langsford has told how she almost did not make it to the stage for her first dance due to "blind terror".
The Loose Women star made her debut on the BBC stage with partner Anton Du Beke on Saturday night, delighting viewers with a waltz to This Nearly Was Mine.
But while she was all smiles afterwards, she confessed that she was suffering more than a little stage fright before.
Speaking on BBC2 spin-off show It Takes Two on Wednesday, Ruth, who'll perform the Charleston this Saturday, said: "I was more than nervous. This was blind terror.
"I just looked at Anton and I felt like my feet had been cemented to the floor. I said, 'I can't', and he just said, 'You can'.
"I couldn't feel my whole body … I thought I had someone else's legs."
But her partner described her as "a beauty" on the night, and she told how both her 15-year-old son and husband Eamonn Holmes had got "emotional" while watching.
It was a similar story for The Saturdays singer Mollie King, who dazzled with her kicking and flicking jive with AJ Pritchard.
"It was literally terrifying, but I absolutely loved every minute," she said.
Teasing viewers about the pair's plans for a steamy tango when the show continues this weekend, she said she will be transforming herself into "Tallulah the Tango Queen" and joked that the dramatic dance made her feel like an EastEnders actress.
Strictly Come Dancing continues on BBC1 at 6.45pm on Saturday.


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- Admission to the honors program in the Department of Geology requires completion of GLY 2250 (Evolution of the Earth lecture and lab) and a minimum grade-point average, both overall and in the major, of 3.40.
- To graduate with "honors in geology," a student must have a minimum grade point average of 3.45, overall and in geology, and must take a total of nine semester hours of geology with honors at the 2000 level or above with a grade of "B" or better in each course.
- The required honors thesis in geology is the three-credit course GLY 4510 (Senior Honors Thesis). The Geology Honors Thesis must be approved by two readers, with the thesis director from the Department of Geology, in order to graduate with honors in geology.
Note that graduating with Honors in Geology is not the same as graduating with University Honors, which requires completion of specific coursework through the University Honors Program.


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This week, I sat down with photographer and mental health advocate Blake Loates, to talk about her journey with mental illness and entrepreneurship, and how she's brought her multiple passions together into one successful business.
Listen to our chat here:
You can also tune in and subscribe on iTunes and Google Play!
Portraits of Blake by Andrea Beça Work.
That's So Maven! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB Financial. The network is growing as we speak, so make sure you check out all of the local podcasts who are a part of it!
You may have also noticed a slight change in how the podcast was introduced on this episode.
I've been wanting to make this change for a long time, and have finally done it. The word "female," which was originally chosen for the podcast's tagline simply because it rolled off the tongue well, isn't representative of the inclusivity I want this show to have. This new tagline embodies the show - and my values - much more accurately.
The future isn't male or female, the future is inclusive.
Thank you so much for tuning in to this week's episode of the show. Next week, we'll meet Navin Sidhu, who took her degree in civil engineering and turned it into a career in interior design with her company, Fab Hab.
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My Tower built from the kit
Archive for the 'Pioneering Competitions' Category
TowerWednesday, July 29th, 2009
Signal TowerThursday, July 2nd, 2009
A signal tower created from the kit.
Just for FunThursday, July 2nd, 2009
Use your imagination and customize the kit anyway you like.
Space StationThursday, July 2nd, 2009
Take a look at this: A space station can be created using the same kit.
CatapultThursday, July 2nd, 2009
This is a catapult built with my kit.
Suspension BridgeThursday, July 2nd, 2009
This is an example of a suspension bridge built with my bridge building kit.
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
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Learn To Swim Song And LyricsAs I said in a previous post when you are teaching young children and infants you have to make it fun and the best way to make it fun that I know of is to sing songs as you do the activities such.
I've made no attempt at all this time to explain where it is best to use these songs, that's your job as a swimming teacher. Suffice to say that these are to be used with the games you play to make the water environment fun and enjoyable for the children. This is by far the best way to overcome the children's fear.
I do need to repeat that whilst the hope is that they will fall over, you must always be ready and observant so that if they do you can pick them up and praise them.
You must never push them over; unless you want them to loose their trust.
You don't have to be able to sing or even know the tunes of these songs, the children will just be happy for you to say the lyrics as a poem. However having said that I'm sure you will recognize the words and be able to put a tune to them. Or make one up that fits.
Song Lyrics
What's The Time NemoWhat's the time nemo
Four o'clock (four Jumps)
What's the time nemo
Time b turn around so you don't get splashed
Cross The NullarborIf you want to cross the Nullarbor
You go by train
If you want to see Ullaru
You go by plane
If you want to go to the Barrier Reef
You need to go by boat
Before you cross Bass Strait
you need to float
Up To The CeilingUp to the ceiling
down to the ground
Backwards and forwards
And round and round
Dance little baby dance up and down
Let's go splashing all around
Up To The CeilingDorothy the dinosaur swings from side
She's terribly big and terribly wide
She gives us all a bumpy ride
And then she bubbles to the other side
This Is The Way We Blow Big BubblesThis is the way we blow big bubbles
blow big bubbles, blow big bubbles
This is the wav we blow big bubbles
While were in the water
This is the way we kick our legs
kick our legs, kick our legs
This is the way we kick our legs
While were in the water
This is the way we splash our hands
splash our hands, splash our hands
This is the way we splash our hands
While were in the water
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Humpty DumptyHumpty dumpty sat on the wall
Humpty dumpty had a great fall
Rolled right over onto his back
With a big fat tummy
And two feet that splash
Everybody BubbleEverybody clap
Everybody bubble
Then we kick back
And then we kick and bubble
Hands in the air rock-a-bye your bear
Bears now asleep, sh sh sh
Bears now asleep sh sh sh
Wake up bears.
Bananas n PyjamasBananas in pyjamas
Are bobbing Up and down
Bananas in pyjamas
Are bobbing Up and down
Bananas in pyjamas
Are bobbing Up and down
Cos on Wednesday's
They all like jump, and shout hooray
Motor BoatMotor boat Motor boat
Go so slow
Motor boat motor boat
Go so fast
Motor boat motor boat
Step on the gas
Hippitty HopI'm hippitty Hop the Kangaroo
I'm hippitty hop how do you do
hop on two legs not one like you
I'm hippitty hop the kangaroo
Action ( have a rest by floating)
Then say
Good afternoon (jump In the air)
We All Jump UpWe all jump up
We all bob down
We all blow bubbles
And turn around
We all go here
We all go there
We all jump into the middie
And splash everywhere
There is MoreThere is more information on teaching small children. Check under the label on this blog. See also Water discovery Games and Songs


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The Armory Show, NYC
The show was a mildly conservative explosion of flashy contemporary art, many of which were composed of mirrors, body parts, or words. The manipulation of light and reflections was a common theme, and many artists seemed to revel in the beauty of words, whether it was multiple words crafted as a list of questions an adult man might ask his father, or simply one word: vulnerable. Mirrors were a common sight; broken shards on the outside of a purse, a rippled reflective surface distorting and inverting its reflections, a reflective wall with shapes cut out of it, blurring the edges of its reflection. Body parts seemed even more popular; da Vinci's belief that the human body is perfect was recaptured in all mediums. A twisting fluorescent light depicted the brain, a mannequin made of clay circles stood in a corner, and a naked female is having sex with a cockroach the size of a Great Dane (the possibility of censorship is scoffed at). Popular culture, humor, and contemporary issues were not ignored either; there was surprisingly only one piece of art concerning President Obama, and one American flag, made of ribbons weaving around Venetian blinds. A large egg, tucked into a baby carriage, nestled in hay A chair and its surrounding walls was made entirely of unraveled VHS tapes, with the film sitting on the mirror that makes the floor, providing a disconcerting illusion of a never ending pit lined with tapes. A clear glass bowl, cut into only three-fourths its size, sits in a corner hugging the mirror on the wall, yet another illusion created by a clever artist.
The show was scattered across an amazing volume of space. It was guaranteed that anyone who visits the show would get lost within minutes, and even knowing the number of the exhibit where he is currently located is a useless indicator of location. The space, however, made it difficult to tell the difference between bona fide art and constructional necessities. A tangle of thick black wires obscured an artist's small gallery, yet did not draw attention away from the rest of the art; whether that is a testament to the art or the building I cannot say. Altogether, between jelly donuts, free beer, references to a 50 Cent album, and a massive cord telephone, the show was a proud collection of audacious artists who, in these economic times, cannot afford to be too bold.
-Geeta Talpade
March 7, 2009
Posted by The Arts Council of Greater New Haven at 1:30 PM
1 comment:
- Anonymous said...
can you tell us who the artists are whose images we see?
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Woohoo! Time for another fabulous challenge at The Heart Desires! Look at all the gorgeous inspiration Challenge #7 brings!
Here's what I've come up with:
I've used Avery Elle's Kitsch Christmas for all of the stamped images and colored them with Prismacolor pencils. Those deer!
The base layer is Next Level Quilted Embossing folder- it is the perfect amount of texture without being distracting- I inked it with pale pink at the edges.
A focal panel was cut from Authentique paper (also inked with pink at the edges) using the Gina Marie Scalloped Stitched rectangle die (I'm a bit obsessed with it!)- I thought the paper really pulled the challenge colors in well.
Some magenta & sparkly silver ribbon add to the vintage vibe and some Pretty Pink Posh sequins finish it off.
I hope you are enjoying the holiday season & also find time to play along with the challenge!
Head over to The Hearts Desire blog to see all the fabulous inspiration from my teammates!


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Thank you to all who attended the Distinguish Networking Event on December 2nd. The Travel Team put on the most amazing show yet and they got the chance to mingle and network with some of Brooklyn's most successful entrepreneurs and artists. We look forward to the next networking event and can't wait to see you all there. We uploaded the video from the event for you all to see!
If you like what you see in the video feel free to come and see more at our Fall Recital on December 17th. Early Bird Tickets available below.


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ARUNDEL Football Club assistant manager Craig Stuart feels his side will have to be at their best if they are to reach the Peter Bentley Cup final.
The Mullets face Hailsham Town in the semi-finals of the competiton at Shoreham's Middle Road ground on Tuesday (7.45pm).
Arundel have struggled against Hailsham this season, suffering a 7-0 defeat in the Sussex Senior Cup and a 7-2 defeat in County League Division 1.
Stuart said: "We have played them twice this season and, over the two games, it's an aggregate score of 14-2 to them.
"We have picked up some decent results this season but those two games were probably the worst.
"I think everyone wants to put right those disappointments against them and what better chance to do so than in a semi-final?"
Arundel have already been denied a cup final spot after suffering a penalty shoot-out defeat to Eastbourne Town in the Sussex RUR Cup.
Stuart said: "I felt we deserved to beat Eastbourne Town in that semi-final.
"We just didn't take our chances in that game and it cost us in the end. I think everyone wants to put it right by reaching a final this time around."


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I reported the incident to the police. As (we all) thought, there was nothing to be done in my case, but at least the local beat officer is now aware of a potential problem. It appears it could have been influenced by a film called TV Weather Man, or something, with Nicolas Cage, where people throw fast food and drink at him in the street for apparently no reason. Nice.
I will not let this put me off walking, though a few years ago, I would have been devastated. Thank you for all your support and encouragement, it is much appreciated and gives strength.
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R&R is key for Kevin Swainson. But we're not talking rest and relaxation.
Connector Systems general manager, security and telecommunications, talks to Heather Wright about the importance of relationships and respect in the November issue of The Channel magazine.
In 24 years in New Zealand IT, Swainson has seen plenty of people burn relationships for the sake of making their quarterly figures. It's the antithesis of his beliefs.
"You see new reps come in with very short term views, trying to make numbers for the quarter," he says. "Next quarter they know they'll be gone so it's do anything at any cost.
"It's such a small country, you just can't do that to partners. Sales are one off, relationships are much much bigger. I'd much rather walk away from a sale and keep a relationship.
"Ultimately I know, that unless I'm disappearing off overseas, then it's the same people you're dealing with.
"Someone might be at one company now but in six months or a year, they will probably be at another. And you want to be working with them there."
Early days
Born on a farm in Gloucester, UK, Swainson's family, including three brothers, moved to Kent's Maidstone when he was one. It was, he says, a great time.
His father was 'a very hard worker' often working 80 to 100 hours a week operating machinery at the paper mills 'and that sort of thing.'
"He was always of the belief that he would never leave anybody money, but he was all about making sure we were educated and could make our own way in life."
All four boys did apprenticeships, Swainson opting for electrical engineering and electronics and working at Marconi doing design work for military aircraft, including working on the heads up display in F16s.
"It was some pretty interesting stuff," he says.
"I was a high enough grade engineer that they were going to teach me to fly, but I finished my apprenticeship and got married a few months after that." He and his new wife decided to visit one of his brothers who had recently moved to New Zealand.
"We came here on holiday and have basically never been back since," he says, happily. "It was such a different lifestyle, such an outdoor versus indoor lifestyle."
Employed at Datamatic by 'old friend' Paul Johnston, who got Swainson residency here, he fixed and calibrated oscilloscopes - or as he describes them: "The things you see on TV with the nice blue lines going across the screen!"
When the role was moved to Wellington six months after he started, Swainson moved into a field engineer position then to post sale technical support for resellers nationwide and product management.
The industry was expanding rapidly and Swainson had been trying to expand his knowledge across all areas.
"I realised you just couldn't keep the depth and knowledge," says the man who has CCNA, Master CNE, MCSE and CCN among his certifications.
"I have a slight regret about the period from 1993 to 1997-98, in that I probably spent too much time focused on technology and not the family growing up. Before I knew it, I looked up and they were all heading off, not to primary school, but to intermediate."
To read about Swainson's 'Renaissance Years', check back to The Channel on Monday.


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The Gathered Provision at St Mary's is non-operational from 1st September 2016. Supporting the needs of every child remains central to the school's Christian values. The school has a proud history of dedication and commitment to SEN and our pupils do well here.
It is our aspiration that a new provision should be opened at some point in the future to address an area of need which is deemed appropriate at that time, and the school will work alongside the local authority to establish how best it can provide a service appropriate to the current needs of local children.
To read more about the special needs provision at St Mary's please view the SEN page on the website.


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Where has the time gone?
I for sure thought I would feel up TO BLOGGING EARLIER than this. It just doesn't seem right yet. Ryan and his family continue to stay heavy on my heart. This community that we have quickly joined has really hit me hard. Even though I have never met this sweet family they are my family. Since this tragic event I have been searching for unknown answers…. That I think God can only answer. I will share later about this.
Wohoo! For selfies
How far along: 31 + weeks
Cravings: no Cravings! But….. I do love a bowl of cereal at night…. Sugary cereal! And…… I could eat ice all day long!
Feeling: allergies !!!!!! Parker is moving all over the place!
Excited about: the pool opening so I can lay in cold water! Elle loves the pool, I can't wait to see her in her new bathing suit!
This last 7 days have been upside down for my household as well. Elle is sick! For the first time ever…. It's the saddest thing to see your baby not feeling like herself. It is day 7 and finally I think she is almost in the clear! How Come when you want your baby to eat sugary pop cycles that's the last thing they want to eat?
So now I have the same wonderful virus that she suffered through. ( yes I am laying down trying to type this in between naps)


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the look of disgust on his visog
Back-peddling for all he was worth,
'Look, I'm a very straight-talking woman and if there's something I like, it's
He'd already bought his poppy at Sainsburys, although as we got chatting
Guilt quids are as well received as any other in my book.
Cold but content, happy to, in some small
way, show my appreciation
for such a worthwhile cause.
Today, our 4th wedding anniversary
finds 't'old lass' (Yorkshire expression) tucked up
in the warm
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Guarding Eden (A Midway Novel)
by Cameo Renae
Publication Date: July 26, 2017
***The Midway Novels are spin-offs of the Hidden Wings Series, but each book can be read as a standalone.***
Tucked away at an upscale, private boarding school in Brindle Hollow, Washington, seventeen-year-old Eden East comes face to face with a hideous creature on her walk back to her dorm. Shaken to her core, she's left questioning the world around her, and soon finds herself entering a friendship with a hot, new student named Alexander.
Little does she know, Alex is a Guardian Angel, sent from Midway to protect her from those dangerous creatures—known as Darkling—lurking in the forest outside Brindle Hall. It isn't long before Alex learns this is no ordinary assignment. Eden's existence holds a secret; something hidden from even herself.
Eden is thrust into a world where Fallen angels and creatures of the Underworld will stop at nothing to catch her. With Alex at her side and a little help from some of his old friends, they form a formidable front against the enemy.
Hopefully, it's not too little, too late.
Get your copy on Amazon!
She had me at ... Angels, Fallen, Darklings!!!, August 11, 2017
This review is from: Guarding Eden: A Midway Novel Book One (Hidden Wings) (Kindle Edition)
This is the perfect follow up/spin off of the Hidden Wings Series! Guarding Eden can easily be a standalone, but if you have read any of the Hidden Wings Series you will be happily reunited with some of our most beloved friends!!
I am repeatedly amazed at how much I adore the characters Cameo Renae brings to life. Each book brings us more action, suspense, & romance too, but my favorite part is always getting to know the newbies she presents to us. They are always unique & real as they unveil their personalities, issues, & feelings along the way. Most importantly I continually want more. That paired with the intense battles we are thrown into time after time ensure I am a forever fan!
Genre: YA Fantasy
Publisher: CHBB
Cover Designer: Stefanie Saw
Edited by: Victoria Schmitz - Crimson Tide Editorial
Cameo Renae
2016 Young Adult Author of the Year - Penned Con
2013 Break Out Author by Young Adult & Teen Readers
2013 Book of the Year (Hidden Wings) Cameo Renae was born in San Francisco, raised in Maui, Hawaii, and recently moved with her husband and children to Alaska. She's a daydreamer and a caffeine and peppermint addict who loves to laugh, loves to read, and loves to escape reality. One of her greatest joys is creating fantasy worlds filled with adventure and romance and sharing it with others. One day she hopes to find her own magic wardrobe and ride away on her magical unicorn. Until then...she'll keep writing! HAPPY READING!
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Week At A Glance – January 8 – 13
Welcome to the first day of the winter term. I hope you've had a restful and restorative winter break and that your children are ready to jump back in to the rhythm and routine of school life.
Upcoming Events Schedule:
MONDAY – Jan 8
- Winter Term Begins
3 Kings Assembly, GS
TUESDAY – Jan 9
- Grade 8 High School Parent Meeting 7:30 pm, HS
WEDNESDAY – Jan 10
- VWSS Board Meeting 7:00 pm, GS
THURSDAY – Jan 11
- Adult Eurythmy Winter Session begins 1:20 pm, GS
FRIDAY – Jan 12
- Plum Cottage KG Parent Meeting 7:00 pm, ECC
Preschool and Kindergarten Pre-Registration
Deadline: Today, Monday January 8, 2018
Current Preschool & Kindergarten students
Log on to your Parent's Portal vws.bigsis.com/portal
Follow the instructions here: Commitment Form
Current Parent & Tot children
Log on to your Parent's Portal vws.bigsis.com/portal
Follow the instructions here: New Application
New Student Update
Join us in extending warm welcomes to Avery Johal (Dandelion PS) and Aaron Pepper (Grade 3), who both came to us in December; Yuhee Cho (Mulberry/ Dandelion PS), Trevor Chang (Dandelion PS), Zoe Jenkins and Aina Osafune-Moretti (Grade 3), and Siena Michael (Grade 4) who have joined us this month; and the following international and exchange students: Greta Pientka, Raffael Koelman, Elias Moos, and Maximilian Schlag from Germany (Grade 10 int'l); Frej Hovgaard and Roenne Clemens from Denmark (Grade 10 exchange); and Augusto Lanzoni Veiera from Brazil and Niklas Moegel from Germany (Grade 11 int'l). Thank you for choosing the Vancouver Waldorf School!
Parent Education Evening
We are excited to be hosting Kim John Payne next week for his talk "The No Maybe Yes Years: Preparing for Parenting Tweens and Teens". Don't be misled by the title, this Parent Education evening is well suited to parents with children ages 8 to 18! Find out more, and register here: No Maybe Yes. Tickets are $10 in advance online or $15 at the door. This evening presentation is open to the community, so please invite your friends.
Have a lovely week!
Laura Bergstrome
Communications & Events Coordinator