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Returning Home
I know that I had somewhat promised to update the blog as soon as I arrived from Colombia; a first-hand reporting of all my experiences. The truth is, there are many things to share in this trip, and after 2 weeks of contemplation I decided to keep those feelings to myself. The trip was personal and too special; it is something that is best kept to oneself.
Other than my emotional encounters, I find myself obligated to showcase the beauty of its people, cuisine, culture, and Colombia's vast and magical landscapes. The word 'obligated' sounds a bit too forced, but a necessary description as to return the services of everything that Colombia has given me. Colombia has full potential to be the the greatest explorable country in the world. The remarkable diversity in climate and vegetation did not stop to impress me. I felt like as if I was hopping from one continent to another in a matter of days.
I have posted many of my Colombian photos. My photo collection of Colombia was more or less around 3000 shots, but unfortunately I cannot post all of my best frames simultaneously, as Flickr caps the amount of posts allowed per month. I shall complete my greatest photos gradually, though.
I loved Colombia. I loved everything about South America. There is no doubt that I have found a deep connection with the continent. It was more than the whole craziness that South America is usually associated with, but it was rather the surprise of knowing that there exist similarities that I can associate with when I was growing up. I had always admired landscapes. I stared and enjoyed the very green, gigantic and mountainous of my hometown, Kuningan, every summer. And the views of Colombia's Andes reminded me of that nostalgia in a much grandeur scale. The landscape was breathtaking. I had never felt so small, when being shouldered by mountains and surrounded by the bleakness of smogs. You need that sometimes, as it brings you back to earth in a much humbler human being …
I have come to realize that when it comes to people, we are all alike. The social crisis that has hampered Colombia are every day problems of the world. Their daily problems and even to its current political instabilities were something that I have been accustomed to.
This is a bit of a digression, but one thing I learned about Colombian people is how appreciative they are. Colombians are open, honest (with their feelings), and accept everything with an open mind. I find this to be a very special trait of Colombians. They enjoy everything around them (even if you may think its insignificant) and accept whatever that is, positively. Its as if they are able to convert anything into joy. Perhaps, the "magic realism" of Gabriel Garcia Marquez are direct echoes of his people.
Additionally, people have stamped Colombia negatively and I personally think that this needs to be changed. The media has portrayed Colombia to be a land-kill and various governments have red-marked Colombia to be a dangerous state. This is all untrue. I have never felt so safe in my life as I had in Colombia. At every check points (when driving out of the city), at every station, and at every corner of crowded centers, you are always accompanied by the safety authorities (military, state police, and tourism police). It is also true that the kidnapping and that guerrillas still exist in some parts of Colombia but their operations have been diminished tremendously. Foreign tourist are now safe to travel around the country. This should not deter others to visit.
I am certain that my exploration of South America has just began. There are many places that needs to be seen. South America connected my definition of reality. And I look forward to explore that feeling all over again.
Thanks Colombia!
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Colombia … Here I Come!
There is still a week to go before my departure but I cannot help and imagine what South America will actually look like. When I think of South America … I hear the words of Gabriel Garcia Marquez … so vivid, surreal and magical! I can already feel the magic now … and hopefully I can bring it back with me later.
Like most people on a trip, I want to make the most out of my time. I want to find something that I can't probably find anywhere else. It's got to be distinct and special. I need to be as remote as I can possibly be.
Not that I consistently update my blog, but it's going to be a while until I have a substantial 'reporting' materials to share about my trip. I would love to drop a note or update some photos, but that is not a promise, as internet access may be highly restricted.
I kind of have an idea of what I will be doing there, although not entirely. I am quiet a flexible person anyway, as long as I have a certain things to carry with me, I should be totally fine. Without further ado … here is the to do lists:
Travel Necessities:
- Journal
- Spanish language phrase book
- Travel Guide: Colombia
- Crime and Punishment
- 35mm camera
- iPod
- Cruiser board
- An open mind …
- Pereira
- Medellin
- Bogota
- San Andres
- Providencia
- Cartagena
Total time: 23 Days
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Indonesia 2007
I finally decided to write a journal about my trip to Indonesia. Although Its quite unusual on my part to share my personal stories to others, it should serve as an experience to see how people would react. Anyway, the fact that I have been away from the motherland for quite sometime, I realized that many aspects had incrementally changed my stand on things, especially my perspective on Indonesia. I do not question the scope of my alternation but I would rather feel it grow naturally within me.
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Brewed the coffee that morning, threw myself in the shower and dressed up for the daily routine. My day begins …
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"I'm very much surprised" by the guilty verdict, the 58-year-old councilman said in an interview Thursday, a day after the ruling in Los Angeles federal court. "I felt that I was innocent and I thought the jury would see that."
Wilson also said that he would consult with his attorney to determine if he can avoid being forced from his District 6 council seat until the verdict has been appealed. Nonetheless, his attorney said in a separate interview Thursday that it is unlikely Wilson will be able to remain on the council.
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Little house on the prairie
I don't live on a prairie. I don't even live near a prairie. I'm not even too sure exactly what 'prairie' style is to be honest. But when I saw this delightful Prairie Girl quilt here and here on Alicia Paulson's fabulous site 'Posy gets Cozy' I knew I needed some prairie in my life!
For me, 'Prairie Style' conjures up images of old fashioned farmhouses, wheat fields and those delightful feed-sack prints that are about the place. I suppose 'Little House on the Prairie', not that I ever really remember seeing a whole episode, just about sums it up. Maybe 'The Waltons', I happened across that one a little more. Probably an entirely inaccurate mishmash of an image and I apologise to my American readers here and now. But that's where my mind takes me I'm afraid.
I 'pulled' all my feed-sack, teeny tiny flower prints and other assorted 30's and reproduction print fabrics and I set about making plans for a log-cabin quilt. For some reason I had terrible trouble with all my calculations for this quilt.
Mummy Love needle book too, as these were the scraps I used to make it.
I even managed to make about twice the amount of binding I needed too. My brain must be reaching it's 'best before' date I think.
Anyway, once I had finally cut out all my little squares and rectangles, I set about piecing my blocks. It's very enjoyable to piece log-cabin blocks, much easier than the ones for my first quilt. And it didn't take me very long to get a nice pile of blocks sitting on the desk beside me.
There had to be a 'heap' picture now didn't there?
I tried not to copy Alicia's quilt too much. You know, apart from the entire quilt idea, the prairie style, the type of blocks.... apart from that, I tried not to copy it too much. I didn't look at her quilt again after I initially poured over it with love and adoration when I first saw it. But I did remember that she used cream sashing between the blocks, which set them off so beautifully. So, yes, after some lay out pondering, I did that too.
first quilt, I should have felt reasonably confident with this. The first time it went pretty well all things considered. Not perfect, but well enough and I learnt a lot about how I would approach the job next time round. But when it came to it, I found all that stuck in my mind was the difficult task of lugging the quilt through my little home machine and I wasn't looking forward to doing it again.
It was a good decision. I didn't bother to mark any lines as the blocks gave me a nice corner to aim for every inch or so and it also meant that if I started on the middle line, the longest, each quilting line I had to make after that got shorter and shorter. Extremely satisfying. Using this method I fairly whizzed through the job and had the whole thing done with just a morning's work.
For the binding, I used this tutorial from Amy Smart of 'Diary of a Quilter', which was an absolute winner. The instructions were very clear and although I had my heart in my mouth for the 'sewing the binding together before you sew it to the quilt' part, I put my faith in Amy and was duly rewarded with a perfectly fitted, mitred corner binding. Thank you Amy!
There. All done!
It's very pretty. I'm very pleased with it and looking back at Alicia's quilt now, I'm also pleased to see that it does have a separate and distinct style of it's own (thank goodness). I love the brightness and contrasting fabrics in Alicia's quilt. She's used some more modern and funky prints in hers which I love too, but mine fits very well with that funny, mixed up, Little House look that I had in my mind, which makes me very happy indeed.
It's supposed to be in the living room, that's what I had in mind when I made it, but it looked so right on my bed when I laid it out for this picture, I haven't had the heart to take it off yet. It's been so nice to snuggle under on these colder nights we've been having lately too. (It's almost like I need to make another one now!)
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Saturday, during the 100th annual meeting of the Subiaco Alumni Association, Subiaco Abbey and Academy will kick off its capital campaign.
Advance donors to the campaign, including alumni and other friends, are invited to Subiaco Academy's Performing Arts Center at 11:20 a.m. where they will join Abbot Jerome Kodell (Class of '57), Campaign Chairman, Steve Schmitz (Class of '91), and Honorary Chairman, John Beuerlein (Class of '71), as they announce Continuing the Tradition…A Campaign for Subiaco. The event will be streamed live over the Internet at http://www.ihigh.com/subiaco/broadcast_295500.html.
For 100 years, the Subiaco Alumni Association, which currently has over 2,700 members, has been contributing to the Abbey and Academy through volunteering their time and talents, as well as financially.
Campaign Chairman Schmitz said, "I would not be the same person without Subiaco in my life, and I have heard this same comment from so many other people."
The monks of Subiaco, along with guidance and financial help from the National Religious Retirement Organization of Washington, D.C., determined that a capital campaign is the most effective way to address current needs and to ensure long term ministry sustainability. After a year and a half of planning and visiting some alumni and friends, Subiaco Abbey is ready to kick off an $8 million capital campaign entitled "Continuing the Tradition…A Campaign for Subiaco," the goal of which is to grow the monastic retirement and monk education funds, upgrade Coury House Retreat Center and to further develop outreach to the Academy's students.
Alumni Association President, Dale Schumacher (Class of '71) said, "Our 100th anniversary is a great time to kick off this campaign which will help us build the foundation for the next 100 years and beyond."
Founded in 1878, Subiaco Abbey is a Roman Catholic community of 40 Benedictine monks proclaiming the gospel through prayer and work, including the operation of Coury House Retreat Center, and Subiaco Academy, a boarding and day school for boys in grades seven to 12.


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Thursday, 7 June 2007
Congratulations to.......KANCHANA
Here is the Winning Entry!
Thai Green Curry
Congratulations, Kanchana! Thanks to everyone who participated, all the entries were truly fantastic! This event will be hosted again, next Spring and I'll be giving away some very cool prizes the next time around too.
29 comments:
- archana said...
Congratulations to Kanchana :)
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 9:38:00 am
- archana said...
Oh forgot to mention congrats and thanks to you Trupti for hosting such a lovely event.
By the way I am the first to comment today.
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 9:41:00 am
- Sharmi said...
that a cool selection! congrats to Kanchana. and many thanks to Trupti.
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 9:46:00 am
- bee said...
thaks for organising this, trupti. kanchana's entry is truly outstanding. congratulaions, kanchana.
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 9:49:00 am
- Asha said...
Looks truly delicious!! She deserves it.Congrats Kanchana:))
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 9:53:00 am
- Sandeepa said...
Congrats Kanchana..I had liked that dish as soon as I had seen it, very beautifully presented too.
Thanks Trupti...for your effort and enthu
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 9:58:00 am
- Coffee said...
Truely deserved!! :) Congrats Kanchan.:) Great job Trupti!!
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 10:16:00 am
- marriedtoadesi.com said...
You have really organized such a wonderful event! Credit must go to the true winner, my husband Shankar since he is the chef! Both of us are so HONORED to win this, and to be recognized by this group of highly acclaimed food bloggers! You are all leaders in Indian food blogging and have truly set a high standard for photography, recipes, and presentation on your blogs.
Kudos to you all on the superb entries. The roundup looks phenomenal and I know I will certainly be trying out several of the recipes.
I'll admit I was really hoping to win the great prizes that Trupti has generously offered to us! Thank you so much for providing them. It reflects your sweet personality!
Thanks Again!
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:02:00 am
- Sia said...
right choice T:) thanks for hosting this wonderful event and congrats to kanch and shankar for their wonderful recipe:)
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:19:00 am
- Richa said...
trupti, thanks for this wonderful event! next time hun chokas part laees :)
congratulations to kanchana for the winning entry!
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 12:20:00 pm
- Mishmash ! said...
WOW ! finally you broke the suspense !! :)
Way to go , Kanchana :)
Trupti, this is one of the interesting blog events ...so pls keep it going!
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 12:36:00 pm
- Manasi said...
CONGRATS KANCHANA!!! and THANX Trupti for being the hostess.. look fwd to next SF!!!
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 1:17:00 pm
- Seema said...
Trupti, Many thanx to you for hosting such a wonderful event. Many many congratulations to Kanchana. Beautiful picture and lovely recipe of my all time fav Thai food.
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 1:26:00 pm
- Saju said...
Great Choice Trupti! I love Thai food. Thanks for organising too
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 3:30:00 pm
- Mandira said...
thanks for organizing the special event trupti... kanchana's presentation is delicious and truly beautiful!
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 3:39:00 pm
- Cynthia said...
Congrats Kanchana!
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 4:22:00 pm
- Foodlovers said...
Hey Trupti good job with the Event..
Congratulations to Kanchana.... very yummy cooking...Ur hubby is really good cook.
Thanks Trupti for hosting this Event...loking forward to participate next year too...
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 4:58:00 pm
- Sushma said...
Hey Trupti,
How have you been. I havent been blogging since long... The roundup looks phenomenonal...and definitely I really liked Kanchana's entry...very beautiful presented...
Congrats Kanchana and Shankar.
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 5:45:00 pm
- Vini K said...
Congrats dear Kanchana!curry looks beautiful..very nice presentation indeed!Love it:)
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 6:02:00 pm
- Vini K said...
And great roundup Trupti!
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 6:04:00 pm
- USHA said...
Congrats Kanchana....thanks for Trupti for hosting such a gr8 event..and encouraging all our food bloggers..
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 6:10:00 pm
- nz said...
wow Trupti ! What a great round up ! Where do you find time and energy to not only keep your blog going along with looking after a young family but also organising such events ?!!
Congrats Kanchana and congrats to you too Trupti !!
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 7:03:00 pm
- DesiGirl said...
oh well done, Kanchana and Trupti for doing it. When's the next one? :)
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 7:31:00 pm
- Roopa said...
congrats to kanchana, and thanks for hosting such a wonderfull event Trupti!
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 10:56:00 pm
- Vcuisine said...
Nice and entertaining even trupti. Tks for conducting it. Congrats to Kanchana for her winning entry. Viji
- Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:44:00 pm
- TheCooker said...
Congrats to Kanchana and Thanks to you!
We had a lot of fun participating.
- Friday, June 08, 2007 12:59:00 am
- DEEPA said...
excellent choice ....congrats to kanchana ...Trupti ..u did a great job in hosting this event .....
- Saturday, June 09, 2007 12:49:00 am
- Linda said...
Congratulations to Kanchana and Shankar with that lovely Thai Curry, and thanks for showcasing so many wonderful dishes Trupti! :)
- Saturday, June 09, 2007 1:07:00 am
- Garrett said...
Congrats Kanachana! Looks beautiful!
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The General body election for new office bearers will be conducted and planned to form AASK Women wing and Music Band. The meeting will be followed by an Orchestra performance by prominent singers and talented artists in Kuwait.
All well-wishers and social activists are invited to attend. AASK is also involved in educating not less than 140 financially and physically challenged students every year in Kerala and is planning to extend its hand to other part of India.
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Jeovanni Islas would normally be at work, laying tile in someone's bathroom in the Atlanta area. Instead, he is staying home on this recent weekday, retreating further into the shadows.
» ICE detains woman who claims she's a U.S. citizen
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There are just too many risks for Islas, an unauthorized immigrant from Mexico who graduated from South Gwinnett High School. Immigration authorities recently locked up the mother of his U.S.-born children after she was arrested for driving without a license. So what would happen to their three daughters if he were also caught driving unlicensed?
Immigrants like Islas are accustomed to being on their guard all the time. They instruct their children not to talk about their parents' legal status. They scan social media to keep up with the whereabouts of police. They stay in constant contact by phone, ensuring their loved ones make it to their jobs or back home.
But now, amid President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration, they are going deeper into hiding and taking more serious precautions, according to local police, immigration attorneys and foreign consul generals. Like Islas, they are remaining close to home, staying off the roads and rushing to obtain dual citizenship for their children in case they are deported.
At the same time, police have noticed an alarming drop in 911 calls from an area heavily populated with immigrants and are hearing reports of parents keeping their kids home from school. Other immigrants are said to be selling off their cars and homes and preparing to return to their native countries.
Lean and bearded, Islas considered his next move as he sat on the front porch of his modest home here in rural Walton County. Flanked by tall pines, his house sits off the road in a rural corner that meets all his family's needs: It's quiet, the public schools are good, and encounters with police are infrequent.
Olga Santiago-Paez, Islas' common-law wife, was on her way to work when Gwinnett police pulled her over because her brake lights didn't work. Finding that she had no driver's license, the officers took her to jail. From there, immigration authorities picked her up and sent her to a federal detention center in Ocilla, more than 200 miles away in South Georgia. When her daughters asked about her, Islas would tell them she was working.
Islas crossed the Mexican border without authorization about 16 years ago, seeking to get a better education and learn English here. He said he has never returned to his native country but is thinking about doing that now with his family. His wife, also from Mexico, was recently released from detention but is still facing deportation.
"A long time ago, I remember if you would see police in the stores and in the restaurants, you could say, 'Hi, how are you?'" Islas said. "And now all the people are scared."
'It's time to stop and think'
President Donald Trump's most famous campaign promise, made on the day he announced his presidential bid, was that he would build a "great, great wall" on the U.S.-Mexico border and make Mexico pay for it. He also would deport people who entered the country illegally and then committed crimes.
Those promises were a key to his election, and Trump voters expect him to deliver: unauthorized immigrants came here illegally and have no right to stay, they believe.
Nancy Gallegos of Gainesville, for example, is a legal immigrant and a Trump voter. She recognizes the plight of unauthorized immigrants — some of them face the disintegration of their families — but says Trump has it right: national security must be the priority.
Gallegos came to the United States from Venezuela and spent 14 years working to become a naturalized American citizen.
"I totally agree with what he is doing because it is time to stop and think about America," said Gallegos, a human resources manager for a staffing company. "The best thing is to implement a new system because here the system has been violated too much."
On Feb. 28, in his first speech before a joint session of Congress, Trump sounded different. He was more optimistic. He spoke of "unity" and about "dreaming big."
But one thing did not change.
"By finally enforcing our immigration laws, we will raise wages, help the unemployed, save billions of dollars, and make our communities safer for everyone," he said. "We want all Americans to succeed — but that can't happen in an environment of lawless chaos."
'False, dangerous and irresponsible'
Last month, the administration issued new guidelines that begin the process for building the wall, hiring 15,000 immigration enforcement and Border Patrol officers and enlisting the help of local authorities in deporting people. Those directives vastly increase the pool of people prioritized for expulsion.
The Obama administration — which carried out record numbers of deportations — focused on removing violent criminals, national security threats and recent border crossers. The new administration's directives go far beyond those priorities, saying the government "no longer will exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement." Now, people suspected of committing crimes and those who are perceived as a public safety risks could face removal.
Seeking to prevent a "sense of panic," U.S. Homeland Security Department officials are stressing the new guidelines are not intended for "mass deportations." They pointed out they can apprehend, detain and remove only so many people per year with their limited resources.
"ICE does not conduct sweeps or raids that target aliens indiscriminately," ICE spokesman Bryan Cox said in a prepared statement. "Reports of ICE checkpoints and sweeps are false, dangerous and irresponsible. These reports create mass panic and put communities and law enforcement personnel in unnecessary danger."
Still, the fear is real among immigrants, said Massiel Silva, a local immigration attorney representing Santiago-Paez. Silva knows unauthorized immigrants who are required to report regularly to ICE.
"Now they are faced with this dilemma: Should I report to immigration and risk being detained and removed and leave my family here? Or should I just hide?" Silva said. "These people have businesses. A lot of them pay taxes. They have a life. So having to choose to abscond and hide is definitely a very difficult decision."
'Confused people, rash decisions'
The phones ring continually inside the boxy white building off Chantilly Drive, near the edge of northeast Atlanta. The Mexican consulate has been fielding anxious calls since federal authorities arrested 87 unauthorized immigrants in Georgia amid a nationwide operation last month.
Some of the callers need simple legal advice. Many are scrambling to obtain Mexican documents for their U.S.-born children, in case they are deported.
"Our telephone system has gotten jammed," said F. Javier Diaz, Mexico's consul general in Atlanta. "We are seeing a lot of very confused people who are making very rash decisions."
Diaz said he and his staff are hearing reports of fearful Mexican nationals selling their property and fleeing.
Some of the anxiety stems from the mistaken idea that "mass deportations, mass raids are going to start happening everywhere," said Diaz, a Mexican Foreign Service veteran who has held posts in New York, Raleigh, San Diego and at the Mexican Embassy for the U.S. The Atlanta consulate, Diaz said, found that only three of the more than 25 Mexican nationals who were detained in Georgia during the ICE operation last month had no criminal records.
"This would confirm to us that the people who were detained in those operations followed pretty much what ICE was saying – that they were going after some specific people who had criminal records," Diaz said.
He hastened to add that the Trump administration's directives give ICE "wide leeway. And that is where the fear is — not necessarily what is actually happening."
Mexican consulate officials are advising unauthorized immigrants that they have the right to remain silent and should ask for warrants if immigration authorities seek to enter their homes.
Just a mile away on the other side of Interstate 85, Guatemalan consul general Rafael Novielli and his staff are seeing the same worries among their countrymen. Like Diaz, Novielli is seeing a surge of people seeking dual citizenship for their children out of fear they could be expelled. The detention of Guatemalan nationals has not increased significantly since Trump took office, Novielli said, but people are still afraid.
"There is outright fear, which is caused by real information and unfortunately by a lot of rumors," said Novielli. "Our phone lines are swamped."
Cops and the community
Doraville Police Chief John King attended a recent community meeting at a Winters Chapel Road apartment community. He wasn't in uniform and did not carry a sidearm. King, a Mexican native, sat casually on a small round table and spoke in Spanish to the dozens of people in the audience.
King recognizes there is a lot of fear among Doraville's substantial foreign-born population, driven partly by what he called unclear messaging from Washington and sensational reporting in the news media. So he decided to take a softer approach and appear in plainclothes.
He has a lot of experience dealing with tense situations, having commanded a battalion of Georgia National Guardsmen in Iraq, where he worked hard to win the trust of the local population.
King's police force asked for the meeting after seeing 911 calls drop in Doraville and after hearing from local elementary school principals that parents were keeping their kids home. His message at the meeting was simple: We are not in the business of immigration enforcement, so please don't hesitate to call us for help.
"We are here to respond to victims of crimes," King said. "If you don't call the police and report crime, the only people who are benefiting from this are the thugs."
Chamblee police delivered the same message to local residents.
"We are just encouraging everybody to still report all crimes to the police department," said Capt. Ernesto Ford of the Chamblee Police Department. "Our major concern is the victim and if a crime occurred and whether we have jurisdiction."
Irrational and rational fear
Dozens of immigrants crowded into the lobby at Christopher Taylor's immigration law office in Norcross on a recent weekday. Some sat ramrod straight with their arms folded across their chests. Others nervously glanced at their cellphones. A few mothers anxiously tended to their babies.
That crowd was nothing compared to what Taylor saw recently. He pulled up a photo on his cellphone, showing a long line of people forming at the door to his office one recent morning.
Taylor said some of his clients are legal permanent residents who are canceling trips abroad, fearing they would not be able to return. Others are worried whether ICE can track them through the tax ID numbers they use for banking.
"People are scared," Taylor said. "A lot of it is based on irrational — and rational — fear."
Taylor is urging those who are here without legal permission to find a lawyer and to not drive if they are unlicensed. Hail a taxi, hop on a bus or find a friend who drives, he tells them. Taylor talked about one of his clients who was recently deported to Mexico after she was pulled over last month for speeding in Gwinnett County. A Forest Park mother of three U.S.-born children, Juana Flores-Velazquez was also accused of driving without a license. And she had been deported once before in 2004.
Now her younger sister — also an unauthorized immigrant — is taking care of her kids. On edge over her sister's deportation, Norma Flores said she is staying off the roads, while keeping up with the news about the Trump administration's enforcement policies.
"Ever since my sister was detained, her children have suffered a lot," she said. "They cry and ask about her. I hope that the government can provide her with an opportunity to be with her children again."


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Ebola cases to surpass 9,000 this week, WHO says
Death rate at 70% for Ebola patients in West Africa
Ebola cases in West Africa will exceed 9,000 this week, the World Health Organization said Tuesday in raising the estimated death rate for the outbreak.
WHO assistant director-general Dr. Bruce Aylward said the death rate for the outbreak is now estimated at 70 per cent, up from about 50 per cent previously, in the three worst affected countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
"We will go over 9,000 cases this week," he told reporters from WHO's headquarters in Geneva.
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For the last four weeks, there's been 1,000 new cases per week on average. The goal is isolate about 70 per cent of cases within two months to reverse the spread of the outbreak.
The rate of new Ebola cases appears to be slowing down in two districts in Sierra Leone, Kenema and Kailahun, which Aylward attributed to behaviour changes in the community. But he said the virus continues to expand geographically in the worst affected countries.
Modelling projections estimate that by December 2014, 5,000 to 10,000 new Ebola cases per week are anticipated in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Aylward said.
To calculate the death rate accurately, officials need to know the true number of cases, which WHO said is substantially under-reported.
The death toll so far in the outbreak, first reported in Guinea in March, has reached 4,447 out of an estimated 8,914 cases thought to be infected.
Risks for health workers
Anthony Banbury, head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response or UNMEER, said Tuesday the Ebola virus is currently winning the race, but the epidemic can be turned around if treatment and burial teams expand before Dec. 1.
Banbury noted that 300 community treatment centres are needed in the affected countries. In each case, there are a myriad of factors to consider, such as who trains the staff and ensures they are paid, who provides supplies and clean water and who tests patients.
In other news Tuesday, the international aid organization Doctors Without Borders said 16 of its staff members have been infected with the Ebola virus. Of these, nine have died.
Sharon Ekambaram, head of Doctors Without Borders in South Africa, told reporters in Johannesburg that medical workers have received inadequate assistance from the international community.
"Where is WHO Africa? Where is the African Union?" said Ekambaram, who worked in Sierra Leone from August to September. "We've all heard their promises in the media but have seen very little on the ground."
Meanwhile, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, said they're donating $25 million US to the CDC Foundation to help address the Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and elsewhere in the world where Ebola is a threat.
Last month, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced a $9-million US donation to the effort.
World Health Organization spokeswoman Dr. Margaret Harris said they're racing to bring in more people and beds but the limited air transport and shipping routes limit the ability to respond.
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Sports Illustrated writer Selena Roberts has announced that she plans to follow her controversial biography of Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez with a similar account on Gotham City superhero Batman. While on her whirlwind promotional tour, I caught up with Roberts, and we sat down to talk about her newest project:
MIKE ELTRINGHAM: So, your latest book absolutely slams Batman. Outs him as billionaire Bruce Wayne. Labels him as a narcissistic rule breaker. There is some really shocking and nasty stuff in here. I get the feeling that a lot of people are going to come away thinking much less of Batman.
SELENA ROBERTS: This is true. But, the public has the right to know. And biographies on superheroes have been around a lot longer than you or me, so this isn't something new.
ME: What was the motivation for this expose?
SR: It was about time Batman got what was coming to him. It's hard to watch a guy be so smug, and present this pristine image of himself to the press, and not want to take him down a peg. Batman has denied most of my charges, but I say let my work do the talking. Go talk to my sources. They lined up to dime on him: Robin, Batgirl, even Lucius Fox gave me a little something. And here's a message for Batman: never question Selena Roberts' journalistic integrity. Selena Roberts is a classy broad with journalistic integrity out the yin-yang. You don't mind if I finish this bologna sandwich, do you?
ME: Go right ahead. Let's go through some of the juicier tidbits of the book: you talk a lot about his illicit affair with Catwoman. Batman is well-known by the public for his crime-fighting, so why should anyone have the right, or even care, to know the details of his private life in such gross detail?
SR: If he didn't want his private life out there for public consumption, don't put on a mask and fight crime. God, the amount of integrity I have in this situation is starting to get me excited. When you put yourself out there, you give the media license to investigate every salacious nook and cranny of your life. If you didn't want me to find that picture of you and Catwoman in bed, dressed like Popeye and Olive Oyl, you shouldn't have put it in your garbage can.
ME: Wow. Okay. Anyway, in the book you accuse Batman of wrongdoing that the public has every right to call him on, seeing as it has to do with his crime fighting. You have a lengthy chapter detailing Batman's illegal wiretapping procedures.
SR: That's correct. I got him good on that one. I set up a tape recorder in the Bat Cave while he was meeting with his Bat-Attorney. I got the whole thing on tape!
ME: Oh….well, wouldn't that conversation be confidential because of attorney-client privilege? In other words, while it may expose his wrongdoing, it's something that no one had the legal right to know about anyway, therefore making its exposure to the public highly inappropriate. That may not excuse what he did, but doesn't it make its exposure to the public dangerously unethical on your part?
SR: Unethical?
ME: Yeah, wouldn't you say that's unethical?
SR: No, I'm asking you what that word means. Unethical?
ME: Unethical behavior would be any behavior that violates your code of ethics as a journalist.
SR: Huh? Ethics? Look buddy, you're going to have to stop talking Portuguese and start talking English if you want to engage me on this topic. Someone with less integrity than me would walk out on you right now. God, it amazes me how much integrity I have. If you lined up all the American veterans of foreign wars, they wouldn't possess a scintilla of the integrity I do. After this I'm going to the Vietnam Memorial in D.C. to tell people that to their faces, and hand out copies of my book.
ME: Okay, one more question. According to reports, the evidence you received regarding Batman's wiretapping also implicated numerous others, including little known Gotham City police officer Wade Blumenthal.
SR: Okay….? Still waiting on your point here.
ME: My point is that the only reason anyone cares about Batman breaking the law is because he's so good at fighting crime. If you took away the wiretapping, Batman would still be excellent at what he does, and that lowly Gotham cop would still be mediocre. Is it fair that Batman gets dragged through the mud, while other perpetrators get no attention, simply because Batman is much more proficient at his craft?
SR: The point is, people want to see Batman get embarrassed. Don't knock me simply because there's a market for embarrassing famous people. Don't shoot the messenger. I'm just a vessel. It is the public's God-given right to know everything in my book, and I am just doing my journalistic and civic duty by exposing all this. And boy, am I cashing in along the way.
You know, it's taking all the integrity in my body right now not to slap you silly. I am literally shocked at the amount of integrity I have, which is more than I thought a human was capable of possessing. It's giving me a real integrity chubby as we speak.
ME: You do look like you have a hell of a right hook. Might want to take a course in how to put on make-up though, based on that picture. Thanks for the interview, honey. Do you think the book is going to sell well?
SR: Do I think it's going to sell well? Is the Pope Catholic? Were the Duke lacrosse players convicted of rape?
ME: Actually they weren't.
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"I tried to serve as a chronicler, as a watcher of beautiful people - to feed back an image of a positive, likable lifestyle― to offer pleasure as well as pride."
American photographer Crawford Barton (June 2, 1943 - June 10, 1993) chronicled the rise of gay culture in San Francisco from the late 1960s through the devastation brought on by HIV and AIDS in the 1980s.
Barton's partner of 22 years, Larry Lara died of AIDS related illnesses shortly before Crawford Barton joined the overwhelming chorus of creative men dead from AIDS on June 10, 1993. It is estimated that more than 650,000 have died in the United States from this plague.
There are used copies of a book of Barton's work available on Amazon. The GLBT Historical Society in California holds all of Barton's papers and studio work. Here are a few of his images. Let them invite you into a world when the gay community was just waking up and discovering their own liberation.
|Crawford Barton, 1943-1993


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Boys and girls are being sought for Derby Cathedral's choir and auditions will be held next month.
Boys (aged seven) and girls (aged 10-12) will be recruited to ensure that the high standards of musical excellence is maintained throughout what promises to be a busy and eventful year at the Cathedral. The auditions are on March 18.
Choristers play a huge part in the day-to-day services at the Cathedral. They also sing in other prestigious buildings around the country. Last year, they sang incathedrals in Northern Ireland and St Paul's Cathedral in London.
The choir has made recordings and featured on BBC radio and television in the past 12 months and, during 2012, they will be touring Cambridge, Durham and Scotland.
At various times in the year, they will offer performances of Handel's Coronation Anthems, Bach's St John Passion and Handel's Messiah in Derby Cathedral, all with professional orchestras and soloists.
Peter Gould, Master of the Music, said: "As boy's voices change and 18-year-old girls go off to university, replacements have to be found! This is something that keeps Derby Cathedral Choir fresh, youthful and enthusiastic."
He added: "Many people can have little idea of how fruitful membership of the choir can be for life. Not only do the choristers receive excellent musical training, they also have the chance to perform to the highest standards of professionalism several times a week, learning the most diverse and interesting repertoire."
Prospective choristers should come to the cathedral on March 4 (for boys aged seven) and March 11 (for girls aged 10-12) at 5.40pm to see the choir in action at a sort of Open Day.
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A cross-linked, a landscape full of obstacles and interstices, with which to plan an escape. A disturbing world, but in front of which courageous and shrewd characters accept the challenge. In the midst of this intricate iron and steel, this impressive metropolitan forest, we are, perhaps we are looking for a way to escape amidst such amazement. Or there is a proud character, ready to take up arms against a sea of trouble to go further. Chase the dream. That seems trivial, but it's all.
Somehow with his comics and with his paintings, Virginio Vona tells his own story. What needs to be known is why he talks so much about him. A lot.
Virginio one day found himself with nothing. But nothing really. Roman of the Tufello, worked in the general store carrying the cassettes. In that area dominated by the gasometer in Rome. How to say, an object of his own. When it is over there is the void. No prospect. Even mom is dead. What remains of me in Rome? Nothing. I have a girlfriend in Paris and one big dream: draw. What do I do? I'm going? I'm going. So? So.
I make a timing. Fade. We reopen the scene in Africa, in Algiers. That's where I meet Virginio for the first time. A force of nature, human and artistic. At Fidba, Almeria's comic festival, where many authors are French, of course, with his Romanesque french, is a crazy splinter. Frenzy of energy, of joy, of the present. Perhaps because he does not even believe that there is really a way to escape when the picture seems to have just made obstacles. But in a handful of months, with a positive and generous willpower, he succeeded in setting up his dream. Phoenix, a self-produced comic that sells thousands of copies (written by a screenwriter who calls himself a guardian angel, Iah-Hel, Frederic Gaffiat), makes him acquainted and knows him well. He exhibits in galleries along with illustrious artists like Druillet and Liberator, and then draws a mural to the Gare de Lyon. And it teaches. And invents. And he lives what he invents. Happy. With a satisfaction to take: return to her Rome to let her know what she was able to do. Go back with your heart beating and a tear ready to go down. Just for a moment.
Virginio has a genuine magnitude. He is an artist free of himself, as it rarely happens in the comic world where the ego is becoming an obsession. Perhaps because educated by his own difficulties, Virginio continues to hover as a butterfly within his troubled worlds. He realized that lightness allows flying. Strength, Virginio: fly.
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I take up my pen to write these few paragraphs before my previous installment is unleashed upon the famished beavers of the internet. But, with the benefit of careful preparation, I anticipate a pretty large chorus of fury directed against my aimless ramblings. With the UK Youth Parliament's 2015 Parliamentary sitting coming to a television set near you, it might be worth finding out exactly which motions are set to be proposed. Accordingly, here they are.
Mental Health rose to prominence on the youth politics agenda recently, invigorated by a number of high-profile campaigns and news stories: it appears that this aspect of personal well-being has been downtrodden by the NHS, with adolescents bearing the brunt. To challenge this hidden menace, stereotypes could be confronted through education and services improved with the aid of young people themselves. Despite the sheer scale of the crisis, I fully support the UK Youth Parliament crusade to tackle Mental Health head-on.
The prospect of a Living Wage was a welcome feature of George Osborne's most recent budget, one which will enable many more hardworking Britons to live comfortably and impose fewer demands on the Welfare State. But this new level of minimum earnings may still be inadequate, and it only applies to those for whom the threshold of adulthood is seven years in the past. So though I might dispute the precise level of this new lowest income for the gainfully employed, and feel that it should not be applicable in all circumstances, I agree that the Living Wage must take effect at an earlier age in the name of fairness and equality.
A Curriculum to Prepare Young People for Life is a cause of which I was a loyal supporter throughout my years in youth politics, and I rally behind that metatextural banner to this day. For too long, schools have peddled the agenda of endless examinations and tedious Citizenship Education without due care and attention for the aptitudes and abilities which truly matter. Finance, politics and employment should feature in a new, comprehensive curriculum of life skills to ensure that young people are sufficiently equipped for the trials and tribulations of modern society. Once again, I hope this issue finds favour in the Commons and forms the backbone of UK Youth Parliament activities in 2016.
Tackling Racism and Religious Discrimination, particularly against people who are Muslim or Jewish, is the somewhat convoluted title of the penultimate motion, and I feel troubled by the apparent focus on two faith groups rather than a broader spotlight under which all may be united. Furthermore, the absence of striking originality in subject matter may render any distinctive campaigning extremely difficult. Therefore, in spite of my support for the cause in general terms, I don't feel it will translate into a suitably impactful topic for the UK Youth Parliament to cover. The final issue to be discussed is Transport, soon to be the subject of an exciting new movement in Tyne and Wear which I'll discuss in a later article.
This balanced diet of themes will, most certainly, fuel an exceptionally productive year for my old teammates, and I'm positive they'll pick the right ideas in the end. Be sure to tune in for a fantastic hour of political discussion!


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Bounces used to be a good and useful thing. When you send an e-mail to an invalid address or make some other sort of error, you want to know that it didnt go well. But along the way, bounces got abused just like everything wholesome about e-mail to the point where you had to avoid them as a matter of course.
First, bounces became accomplices to spamming through directory harvest attacks. In this attack, a spammer picks a domain and sends out a large number of messages, guessing at the user name portion of the e-mail address and probably pulling a lot of them out of a directory of names (e.g., firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, etc.). If the spammer gets a bounce on a message, then its not an address in that domain. The messages that dont bounce are real addresses, and then you spam them. Because of this threat, many domains dont send back bounces for wrong addresses anymore.
Another threat these days is what is sometimes called spam blowback. As most of you know, when an e-mail is sent on the Internet from email@example.com to email@example.com, there is no mechanism with which the folks at bar.com can confirm that the message was in fact sent by email@example.com, or from anyone at foo.com.
So imagine that the message is false and not sent by anyone at foo.com and that there is no user "recipient" at bar.com. If bar.com still sends bounce messages, it will send them to foo.com. firstname.lastname@example.com (if there is such a user), receiving the bounce message, will say to himself, "Huh? I didnt send this."
Now imagine that a major phishing attack goes out with millions of e-mails sent from firstname.lastname@example.com. Some percentage of these messages, amounting to a very large absolute number, will be wrong, and the bounces will "blow back" to the mail server at Faceless National.
This has the potential to massively clog the banks infrastructure. According to IronPort, one bounce attack against US Life Insurance increased its inbound mail volume from the typical 10,000 messages to 3,653,201. A jump like that will cause anyone problems. And often the bounce messages themselves will contain malware.
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Monday, 20 June 2011
Concrete Curves
Walking between my hotel and the university for last week's conference sessions, the path took me under one of the biggest roads I've ever seen. Or at least, one of the biggest I've seen from underneath. It's quite majestic in an "industrial concrete" sort of way. Of course I had to stop and take pictures.
Meanwhile, from Portland's cable car, you can see what it looks like from above:
10 comments:
- Jenny Woolf said...
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- 20 June 2011 at 16:13
- Jenny Woolf said...
I love walking amongst railways and industrial landscapes so don't know why walking under big roads just seems scary. I'd love the cable car though!
- 20 June 2011 at 16:13
Very tangled and dramatic-looking!
- 20 June 2011 at 18:04
- Scientific Housewife said...
How cool! We have something like that in Tampa where our toll road becomes two stories, it's pretty cool.
- 20 June 2011 at 19:11
- Welshcakes Limoncello said...
I suppose it does have a sort of majesty.
- 20 June 2011 at 20:30
- Jeanne said...
Of course you did, and we love you for it!
- 21 June 2011 at 00:21
- Elizabeth Braun said...
Reminds me of some of the motorway mess near Birmingham! Also looks like some of the roads in Taiwan where it seems that every major route-type road is raised up on a concrete structure (I wonder if they're concerned about subsidence), complete with tower apartment blocks in the background.=)
Practicality is often so ugly, sigh!=)
- 21 June 2011 at 10:54
- Charlotte said...
Very neat view!
- 23 June 2011 at 18:28
- nina kuriloff said...
nice photographs!
- 26 June 2011 at 00:12
- Rabbit Hole Report said...
I especially like that second one. I've heard great things about Portland but never been. I hope the conference was a good one.
- 27 June 2011 at 00:40
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Hey there, Merry Christmas!
Can you image that Christmas just 4 days away? OMG! So exciting!
As I still counting down the days, let's join in some challenge before the season end.
For today, i'm sharing my Christmas card for The Crafty Addicts new fortnight challenge with the theme: Anything Goes/Let it snow.
Although where i stay do not snow, but i love snowing and winter.
Thanks to our sponsor Lemon Shortbread, i manage to create this card with the scene matching with this challenge theme: Let it snow.
Here is the closer look for my card, i'm using Winter Snow Muff Girl for my card.
That's all for my card today, just wish you Merry Christmas and Blessed New Year ahead, see you in 2017!
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Our annual performance of House of Cards was another huge hit. In the first half, we saw the story of the Baxter's. How they met, their first date, previous relationships and finally marriage and family. It was like "This is your life," but more embarrassing.
The second half featured our acclaimed courtroom intervention into the relationship of Belayet and Anna. He was suing her because she took too many photos of their lives. All seemed to be going well for him in the court case, until everyone fell in love with Anna and turned on Belayet. It seems you can't complain when your girlfriend is an ivy league scholar, and you send spam email for a living… He was forced to beg her for forgiveness in front of a sold out audience.


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I'm going out on a limb here and assuming these attacks in Egypt and Lebanon today are the work of jihadists. In the last couple of weeks they have kidnapped and executed an Arab ambassador, kidnapped an envoy from another Moslem nation, twice attacked areas of London with heavy Moslem populations, bombed the capital of Lebanon and done the same at a resort in Egypt. The targets, which include restaurant, nightclub and resort areas, were all sure to result in death or injury to lots of "moderate" Moslems. How long before these moderate Moslems realize that these troglodytes are as big a threat to them as to "the West"? Or perhaps a better question – when will their mullahs do something about it?
FOXNews.com – U.S. & World – Witnesses: Blast Rocks Egyptian Resort
At least two large explosions rocked the Red Sea tourist resort of Sharm el-Sheik (search) on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula late Friday, and a hotel was heavily damaged, witnesses said.


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A look at issues I deem worthy of my time, whether it be politics, religion or medical issues.
I think Israel will still exist in 50 years time (a country with nukes cannot be conquered), but it will be the North Korea of the Middle East - an impoverished wreck of country, hated by the world and reliant on MAD to keep its neighbours from wiping it out.
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text: Stephen Swoyer at TDWI writes about "Tech Talk: Big Data Meets Big Density". In this article, he talks about the different architectures used to scale data warehouse systems – SMP, MMP, NUMA, etc. Stephen talks about how more cores are squeezed into today's chips and how companies like Kognitio are leveraging this to handle even bigger datasets with their data warehouse systems. In this world of "Big Data", it is important to understand how these data warehouse systems will scale to handle the larger datasets and workloads required in modern data warehouse systems.


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By Whitney Radley
In May of 1948, the Galveston Pleasure Pier opened on Seawall Boulevard, as the largest amusement park of its kind in the country. It met its fate in 1961 at the hands of Hurricane Carla.
This May will mark a new page in the history books, when the 1,130-foot Pleasure Pier opens again — this time under the Landry's name — in the original location, just in time for Memorial Day weekend.
Preliminary planning has been in the works for years, and construction commenced months ago to fix the damaged pilings (the iconic Flagship Hotel stood in the spot from 1965 until 2008, when it was severely damaged by Hurricane Ike). Tilman Fertitta, Landry's sole owner, already runs multiple hotels and restaurants on Galveston Island, so he wanted to do something different.
"This will be a project that will totally change Seawall Boulevard," said Fertitta during an elaborate press conference — complete with cotton candy and a popcorn machine — at the company's Houston headquarters. In a room filled with news crews and the scent of fried food, Fertitta revealed mockups for the $60 million project.
Fertitta's biggest concern is where he's going to put all of the people.
Think Coney Island meets the Magic Kingdom: With carnival rides and roller coasters (there will be 16 to choose from), restaurants (including requisite turkey legs and sausage on a stick booths, plus the first Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. in Texas) and souvenir shops, Landry's is marketing the Pleasure Pier as a fun, family-friendly destination for tourists and locals alike.
Mayor Joe Jaworski of Galveston believes that the Pleasure Pier will bring "color, shape and sizzle to the Seawall." "This will bring a shine and a glow that has been missing for a long time," Jaworski said.
The pier will be open year round (daily throughout the summer months, and Friday through Sunday during the off-season) and will create more than 600 jobs. Galveston-born Fertitta expects other economic activity to follow in Pleasure Pier's wake — and though Landry's already owns a large chunk of real estate along Galveston's seawall, he says he wishes the company had more.
Pleasure Pier admittance tickets will cost $8 for children and $11 for adults, or attendees can upgrade to a "Ride wristband" for full access to the pier's amenities. A family of four can gain entrance and access to rides for $90.
The goal is to create a safe, "controlled environment," one where admittance is monitored (real estate on the 6,500-person capacity pier is extremely valuable, says Fertitta) and parents can feel comfortable letting their children roam. And one that appeals to all. "A family can be a young family or a couple that's 40 years old," Fertitta told CultureMap. He says that Pleasure Pier will offer options for everyone, from kids' games to live music on the bandstand stage.
One might immediately worry that the revamped Pleasure Pier, in its prime but precarious location over the Gulf of Mexico, might suffer the same fate as the ventures that came before it — but Fertitta's biggest concern is where he's going to put all of the people.
Houston Business Journal by Jennifer Dawson, Reporter
The Woodlands was No. 2 on a list of top selling master-planned communities in 2011, according to a nationwide survey by John Burns Real Estate Consulting LLC.
The Woodlands and Cinco Ranch were two of the top five selling master-planned communities in the U.S. in 2011, according to data released Jan. 24 by John Burns Real Estate Consulting LLC.
The top spot went to an active adult community in the Orlando, Fla., area called The Villages, which had 2,307 home sales in 2011 — more than double that of the second place finisher. The Villages also was the top seller in John Burns' 2010 survey with 2,208 sales.
The Woodlands ranked No. 2 based on 945 home sales, up from 786 sales in 2010. And Cinco Ranch came in third with 862 home sales, up from 823 sales in 2010.
The No. 4 slot went to Irvine Ranch in Orange County, California, with 764 home sales. Alamo Ranch in San Antonio rounded out the top five with 500 sales.
A total of 12 of the top 50 master-planned communities in the survey are located in the Houston area — the metropolitan area with the most top sellers. Other local communities include:
• Telfair ranked No. 10 with 381 sales, up from 330 in 2010
• Bridgeland was No. 13 with 334 sales, up from 285 sales in 2010
• Riverstone reached No. 15 with 302 sales, up from 225 in 2010
• Shadow Creek Ranch ranked No. 17 with 277 sales, up from 218 in 2010
• Sienna Plantation came in at No. 18 with 267 sales
• Eagle Springs was No. 25 with 234 sales
• Cross Creek Ranch tied for No. 28 with 225 sales
• Westheimer Lakes ranked No. 33 with 200 sales
• Summerwood came in at No. 36 with 188 sales
• Firethorne was No. 37 with 180 sales
A total of 133 master-planned communities were surveyed by Irvine, Calif.-based John Burns Real Estate Consulting for the second annual ranking.


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Heart by Country Love Crafts
Fluid acrylic paints by DecoArt Media
Stencils and stamps by Andy Skinner
Mini stencil by Tando Creative
Ooh, I love a good heart shape! This MDF one was sent to me by Country Love Crafts (lucky me!) as they wanted to see how I would decorate it. Well of course I went for the mixed-media version and immediately began by layering up lots of vintage text for a bit of texture ... you can see it it peeping through.
I added colour with DecoArt media fluid acrylics - fab colours! Then some stencilling, stamping, doodling, and a bit of wash tape. Layer, layers, layers!
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Since we have to be up VERY early Saturday to set up, we decided to spend the night in Lakeland. We'll check out where our space will be, have a nice dinner, and I'm thinking a glass of wine before getting to bed early!
April 27, 2012
"Smalls" For the Fancy Flea
Since we have to be up VERY early Saturday to set up, we decided to spend the night in Lakeland. We'll check out where our space will be, have a nice dinner, and I'm thinking a glass of wine before getting to bed early!
48 comments:
- debra valiante said...
Carol the best of luck I hope you three ladies sell out and come home with an empty truck everything is beautiful
- April 27, 2012 at 8:15 AM
- Kathy @ Creative Home Expressions said...
Have fun, Carol! I can't wait to hear all about it when you get back! I love your smalls. Sometimes I have more fun looking through the smalls than anything else.
- April 27, 2012 at 8:21 AM
- Patty Patterson said...
Have a great time and sell out quickly! I think the show would be fun to go to even if nothing sold, but I do hope that it is profitable for you. I would just love LOOKING! There's going to be so much to see!
- April 27, 2012 at 8:30 AM
- Cosy Life by Elly said...
Hey carol..That looks great. I really like your decals!!
You did a great job.
Have a very nice weekend..
Dear greatings Elly from Holland
- April 27, 2012 at 8:36 AM
- Betty Sneeringer said...
I so like your openess. I am sorry I won't be able to get over to Lakeland! I am going to try to visit your booth next week.
- April 27, 2012 at 8:49 AM
- Cindy The Victorian Journey said...
Good luck Carol. I am looking at all your smalls love it all. You will sell out in no time. Thanks for Sharing I will remember to show my price tags for the blog so you don't have to go upside down. lol. Hope you have a great time as well.
- April 27, 2012 at 9:20 AM
- lynn said...
just such beautiful smalls, carol! have a great show--wish i could be there:)
- April 27, 2012 at 9:25 AM
- Rona Gregory said...
Safe trip, have a wonderful time!
Ro xxx
- April 27, 2012 at 9:39 AM
- Diane said...
Good luck! Hope you guys sell alot.
- April 27, 2012 at 9:40 AM
- Ricki Jill Treleaven said...
Crol, I know you are going to be a hit at the fancy flea!
- April 27, 2012 at 10:10 AM
- Holly- Cutie Pie Cottage said...
Hope it's a good sale for you! Your smalls look fun! ♥
- April 27, 2012 at 10:24 AM
- Chris said...
Dang, I'd love to go to this, but I have something else scheduled.
Have a great day. Are you going to stop at Violette's? That's my usual reason to go to Lakeland.
- April 27, 2012 at 10:36 AM
- Bethkay said...
Be sure to take tons of pics of your sale to post when you get back. I can't go to the sale, but want to at least admire it all from afar ;0)
hope you have a great time!
- April 27, 2012 at 10:37 AM
- Celestina Marie said...
Hi Carol, Love your smalls. Best wishes for a wonderful sale. Have fun and go home empty!!
Hugs, Celestina Marie
- April 27, 2012 at 11:22 AM
- Carrie@comfortablycarriedaway said...
I always feel so inspired when I look at your projects. Everything is beautiful...I'm sure you'll do well. Enjoy the wine!
- April 27, 2012 at 11:26 AM
- Carrie@comfortablycarriedaway said...
I always feel so inspired when I look at your projects. Everything is beautiful...I'm sure you'll do well. Enjoy the wine!
- April 27, 2012 at 11:26 AM
- GARAGE SALE GAL ~ Deb's Earthly Delights said...
Sure wish I could be at the FLEA!!!
Have FUN and
make some MONEY$$$
deb :)
- April 27, 2012 at 12:26 PM
- kristiB said...
Love all of you "Smalls"!!! Please when you get a chance can you do a tute on the Les Fluers? I know you're super busy, but I LOVE these so much!!! Have a wonderful time, you will do GREAT! :D
- April 27, 2012 at 12:28 PM
- It's All Connected said...
What happy customers you will have this weekend! You would have a hard time dragging me away from your booth. Good luck! ~ Maureen
- April 27, 2012 at 1:10 PM
- Tina Eudora said...
Good luck Carol and I hope you sell everything you brought! Yes I do wish I could be there in person but my spirit is with you.
Take care and travel safely!
Tina xo
- April 27, 2012 at 1:12 PM
- Dawn's Craft Place said...
I would so buy everything you have for sale
Hope you have a great time and safe travels
- April 27, 2012 at 2:17 PM
- C'est moi Claudette said...
Small is BEAUTIFUL Carol.
I've always wanted to go to Lakeland. I bet it's nice and sunny too ; )
Say hi to sweet Kim for me if you see her. I'm sure she will be taking pictures galore.
Have fun and sell everything. I'd like to see an empty trailer come home.
- April 27, 2012 at 2:21 PM
I would be in your booth for hours! Best of luck - come home with an empty trailer (or use it to carry all the money - lol)
- April 27, 2012 at 3:02 PM
- Roxanne Reinhart said...
Carol - your things are fabulous and I know you will do well. If you have any of the Les Fluers in a book page left and maybe one of your small bouquets I will just have to buy them and have you send them to me!!! OMG - I just saw your bench!! That is tres' fab as well!!!
Can't wait for your stories!!!
- April 27, 2012 at 3:23 PM
- Stampin D Amour said...
Carol - good luck! I know you'll do very well! I can't wait to hear about your FF adventures! Hopefully, you can sneak away to do some quick shopping while you are there...
All of your stuff looks great! LOL! I always try to look at prices in blog photos too! :)
- April 27, 2012 at 4:10 PM
- Little Miss Maggie said...
I am sure you will have a very successful show. Great smalls and I adore your dried roses in French book pages. Wonderful collection.
- April 27, 2012 at 4:41 PM
- HeartVintageDesign said...
See you tomorrow at the Flea! I think it's going to be a great show : )
- April 27, 2012 at 5:47 PM
- Debbie said...
I hope you're not too busy selling the booth clean to take some pictures! I wish they would have something like that around here.
It all looks wonderful!
- April 27, 2012 at 6:26 PM
- hopeandjoyhome said...
Good luck Carol! i'm sure you'll do great. Wish I was close enough to go!
- April 27, 2012 at 7:02 PM
- sissie said...
Hi Carol,
I just know you are going to do so well at the Fancy Flea. You have been working so hard and creating so many lovely things.
Can't wait to hear how it goes.
- April 27, 2012 at 7:28 PM
- Createology said...
Carol by now you should be enjoying your glass of wine. Everything you touch is stunning and fabulous. I just know you will have the time of your life at this FF and I will be so anxious to hear all about it when you return safely home. Lots of photos too I hope. Blissful...
- April 27, 2012 at 8:14 PM
- Cheryl said...
Have a safe trip and a fun time at the "flea".
Happy Sales!
- April 27, 2012 at 8:54 PM
- mcvick said...
you must be having SO much fun at the fancy flea, can't wait for pics and details when you return.
and when you do, swing by my blog at www.cadeedee.blogspot.com to grab the versatile blogger award button that i've awarded you.
safe travels!
- April 27, 2012 at 10:36 PM
- SavannahGranny said...
OH my, this is going to be soooooo much fun. You have some great items to sell. Can't wait to see and hear all about it. Blessings, Ginger
- April 27, 2012 at 11:33 PM
- Laurel Stephens said...
Have fun!
- April 28, 2012 at 12:09 AM
- Shabby chic Sandy said...
Everything looks so fantastic! I really want to get into doing the water slide decals. I love the ones you have printed and would like to order those but was wondering if you are going to be selling the clear sheets to for people to print themselves. When you aren't too busy please let me know. I think I could get pretty obsessed with them:)
- April 28, 2012 at 12:58 AM
- Carolynn said...
Dearest Carol,
What a wonderful post! After seeing all your goodies...The song "These are a Few of My Favorite Things" is buzzing through my head!
You will be a hit! How I wish I lived closer!
Blessings and success to you this weekend!
Carolynn..."Chenille Cottage"
- April 28, 2012 at 3:41 AM
Great post:) Thank you for sweet words on my blog, and come back to visit soon..I have more swedish decor inspiration for you:)
Have a awsome weekend.
LOVE Maria at inredningsvis
- April 28, 2012 at 6:46 AM
- Kim @ Cheap Chic Home said...
I'll be headed out to see you this a.m., Carol--I'm so looking forward to meeting you! Hugs--best of luck today, Kim.
- April 28, 2012 at 6:50 AM
- Ginger said...
Good luck Carol, so wish I could be there. You have some beautiful things.
- April 28, 2012 at 8:34 AM
- Gina said...
Oh good luck, Carol!! I am so jealous of all the lucky people who will get to see your booth & buy your items.
- April 28, 2012 at 8:45 AM
- Lauren @ My Wonderfully Made said...
So many beautiful things!! I'm sure you won't be bringing much back with you except cash! I just love your blog and am adding it to my sidebar as a favorite!
- April 28, 2012 at 5:34 PM
- Sherry @ No Minimalist Here said...
Carol, I wish I could be there! I hope you have a successful weekend.
xo, Sherry
- April 28, 2012 at 7:03 PM
- Little Susie Home Maker said...
Wow, I just love the paper dolls! I am so excited for you. Sure wish I could go, but can't wait to hear all about it, when you get back! Have a blast!
- April 28, 2012 at 11:06 PM
- Linda @ Itsy Bits And Pieces said...
Love all of your goodies, Carol! Can't wait to hear all about it!
- April 29, 2012 at 12:21 AM
- Kasia said...
Im stoping my feet, jumping up and down and crying... in short, a hefty tantrum! I want to come tooooo!!!!!! LOL But seriously, congrats again my dear, good luck (I know you'll sell out!) And have fun fun fun! I cant describe how much I love your stuff!!! Maybe its a good thing I cant come, I'd probably end up buying it all and walking home ;)
Have fun girl, enjoy yourself!!!
- April 29, 2012 at 4:41 AM
- Karen hillman said...
Hi Carol!
I just saw a photo of something you had at your booth at Fancy Flea... I've been looking for something just like it. The photo was taken by Kitty Breed and was on her Facebook photos. It was a little white cabinet with little shelves on the side and some French writing on the front. Would you still have this or perhaps another? Please let me know! I have a second home in mount Dora and would love to visit your antique mall space! What mall are you in?
My email is firstname.lastname@example.com
My blog is ancientqueendesigns.blogspot.com
- April 29, 2012 at 1:11 PM
- Tee said...
LOVE those paper dolls. Do you have any left?
- April 30, 2012 at 12:38 PM


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One of the first and biggest transfers of this season's transfer window came when Barcelona finally sealed the signature of Brazilian starlet Neymar, a move for Neymar to European football has been coming for years and it was just a matter of time before one of largest clubs in the world beat their competitors to the talented youngster's signature. Neymar, if you haven't heard of him already (seriously, where have you been? YouTube him) has been closely followed for years after impressing hugely at his previous club Santos, winning South American footballer of the year in 2011 after previously coming third in 2010, and after a very impressing display for his country leading Brazil to a very important Confederations Cup win, this could be a warm up for next year's World Cup held in his home country.
If you know anything about Neymar his style of play has been a talking point for as long as he has been in the spotlight, his acceleration, his tricks and his amazing power (given how small he is weighing only 64kg and still being able to smash a ball as hard as he can, it's pretty much a miracle) all have brought him fame and fortune, but how well will he settle in the Catalonian giants, and how welcome will he be amongst the rest of the team. Firstly as has been advised by Barca's doctors and coaches, is for Neymar to put on weight, his tricks and speed were enough to make him the lead role in Brazil's league, but settling into European football isn't an easy task, football in Europe is a lot more physical, which given Neymar's size, could be a problem, I can't see him lasting two seconds against the likes of La Liga rivals centre backs Sergio Ramos and Gerard Pique, this will be exacerbated when the Catalonians start their European campaign in the Champions League later on this season, there's not many easy going centre backs and with the likes of Thiago Silva, Nemanja Vidic, Mats Hummels, Giorgio Chiellini or Branislav Ivanovic awaiting him at some point in the future, something needs to be done . This may be the biggest task of all as he can't keep his incredible speed and increase his power, at some point, something has to give.
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After such an extremely yummy Thanksgiving meal prepared (yup, 99.9 percent of it) by my wonderful daughter Amber, I was absolutely positive that I had totally gained back 1/2 of the weight I'd loss.
Unconsciously I kept forgetting to weigh myself 'cause I was scared that it would be above 160 pounds. If you remember I've been fluctuating between 155 and 160 for quite some time. When I stepped on the scale this morning it read about 157.5. You should have heard the big sigh of relief that came outta me. What a relief!
And, to make it even better, it's probably just water weight since it's "that time of the month" so I spent all of that time worrying for nothing. Not unless, of course, I'm being deceived by the sneaking-up-on-you bad pounds that'll all appear at once and before I know it I'll have gained 20 pounds.
Too dramatic?
My defense is still trying to fit in and find time to exercise. Yea, I sometimes still do what I've talked about before – fitting it in – but it's not enough. Maybe some room will open up to make it a little more feasible (I know it won't be easy) to exercise on a regular basis.
(Oh, by the way, you know that this is my health and weight loss journal, right?)
I'm never without a kid and this week already (and it's only Tuesday) I've been to a doctor's office twice. Once for myself and once for my son who I kept home from school today. I also have a doctor's appointment tomorrow. That's more than half the week spent in a waiting room, traveling to and fro and talking to doctors.
Speaking of doctors.
My appointment yesterday was with the nerve center at the VA hospital. It's the pain management clinic. The last time I went there they electrocuted my wrists/arms and yesterday they were nice enough to do it to my lower legs, ankles and feet. I even had the pleasure of getting a needle stuck into my ankle so they could test a muscle. Oh the joys of modern medicine!
It seems as if my nerves are responding a little slowly for my age and so was my muscle. It's possible that one of the meds I am on is causing that (oh, the problem is the numbness, tingling and coldness that I feel. It doesn't seem to be apart of the lupus stuff), but I won't be able to find out if I can go off of it for awhile and if that's conclusively the problem until I see the rheumatologist, which doesn't happen until the end of January.
That, as they say, is everything in a nutshell. Pretty normal for me, right?