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Blackwood is a Customer Service Supervisor for the
United States Postal Services. He is an elected Southern
California Association of Governments Regional Council
member for District 39; Vice-Chair of the South
Cities Council of Governments; Vice-President of the
Los Angeles County Division, League of California
Cities; has been a Council Member for the City of
Lomita since 1997; and presently serving as Mayor
of the City of Lomita.
Michael Grossman
Michael Grossman is a 33 year veteran with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. He is currently a Division Commander in the Department's Office of Homeland Security. He was previously assigned as the Captain of the Department's Emergency Operations Bureau, where he was responsible for overseeing the Terrorism Early Warning (TEW) Group and the Department's Emergency Management and Disaster Response for the County of Los Angeles.
Mike previously held a two-year assignment with the National Institute of Justice in Washington D.C. where he served as the Director of the Technology Assistance Division in the Office of Science and Technology. His duties included guiding the NIJ's nationwide program to support research and development of new technologies for police and corrections.
While assigned to the LASD's Advanced Training Bureau, he created and managed the Department's Use of Force and Tactics Training Program for over 8,000 sworn officers. He is a court-recognized expert in use of force, and has an extensive background in field operations, custody, court services and administration.
Mike recently received his Master's Degree in Homeland Security and Defense, from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Upon graduation, he was awarded the Curtis H. "Butch" Straub award for exemplary academic achievement and leadership. He also holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from California State University Los Angeles. He was a member of the Cerritos Community College faculty for 17 years.
Mike is the Chair of the County's Terrorism Working Group (TWG). He is also the chair of the Logistics Section of the Central California Area Maritime Security Committee (AMSC), and a member of the executive committees for the Airport Security Advisory Committee (ASAC/LAX) and the Los Angeles/FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). He is also on the Advisory Committee for the Institute for Non-Lethal Defense Technologies (INDLT) at Penn State University. In January 2006, was appointed by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors as a commissioner on the County Emergency Planning Commission.
Commander Grossman has traveled widely to expand his knowledge on terrorism. He has visited Israel, Pakistan and recently returned from Jordan. He had the opportunity to meet with Prime Minister Sharon, President Musharraf and His Majesty King Abdullah II.
During his career Commander Grossman has received four LASD Distinguished Service awards and one Exemplary Service award. He has also received a Distinguished Service Award from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).
DEPUTY CHIEF MARK LEAP Commanding Officer
Deputy Chief Mark Leap joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1968 and is
currently assigned as the Commanding Officer, Counter Terrorism and Criminal
Intelligence Bureau. He was born in Los Angeles and raised in the San Fernando
Valley. As a junior in college, he served as a student worker in the LAPD, underscoring hislife-long commitment to law enforcement and the LAPD.
Throughout his career, Deputy Chief Leap has completed a numerous assignments,
equipping him with a broad range of law enforcement experience. After five years as a
police officer, he promoted to the rank of detective where he worked undercover narcotics investigations. Following his experience as a detective, he held the positions of sergeant and lieutenant working in various patrol, investigative, and administrative assignments throughout the City. As a sergeant, he worked internal affairs, training division, vice investigations and assisted in the planning and security for the 1984 Olympics. As lieutenant, he worked as a Watch Commander at 77th Street Patrol Division and then served as Assistant Commanding Officer, Personnel Division.
He promoted to the rank of Captain in 1992. As a Captain, his assignments included
Jail Division, West Traffic Division, Commanding Officer of West Los Angeles Area and Commanding Officer of Rampart Area.
Upon his promotion to Commander in July 1998, he served as the Assistant Commanding Officer-Operations South Bureau. In 1999, he became Commanding Officer of Uniformed Services Group, overseeing Emergency Preparedness, Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT), Air Support Division (ASD), canine unit and the mounted unit. He was the officer in charge of planning and implementing the Department's tactical strategy for the 2000 Democratic National Convention.
These experiences equipped him to play a role in the emergency and law enforcement
response to the events of September 11. Under the leadership of Chief Bratton, Deputy
Chief Leap designed the original Counter-Terrorism Bureau. From its inception, he has
served as the assistant Commanding Officer of the Counter-Terrorism and Criminal
Intelligence Bureau.
In this assignment, Deputy Chief Leap is the Director of Emergency Operations for
LAPD during major unusual occurrences. Additionally, as part of his responsibilities, he
assists in coordination of the Emergency Services Division, including the Bomb Squad and the Hazardous Materials Unit and the Major Crimes Division, including Anti-Terrorist Section, Special Investigations Squad, Criminal Investigations Section, and Criminal Conspiracy Section. Deputy Chief Leap oversees the LAPD Homeland Security Grant Program, working closely with other emergency response agencies and the Mayor's Office.
Deputy Chief Leap completed his Bachelors of Science in Criminal Justice. He has
served on the California Attorney General's Blue Ribbon Commission on Special Weapons and Tactics. He is a recognized Use of Force expert. He currently serves as the Chair of the Los Angeles County Emergency Preparedness Commission. He has lectured on police community relationships and counter-terrorism at the UCLA School of Public Affairs and UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences. He is also a consultant on Counter-Terrorism for the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the Major Cities Chief's Association.
Deputy Chief Leap is married to UCLA Professor Jorja Leap. They have a daughter, Shannon. He lives with his family in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles.
Commissioner Manning is a 27-year veteran of the Los Angeles Fire Department and is currently assigned to the position Commander, Special Operations Division. He is responsible for the management and oversight of the Air Operations Section, Disaster Preparedness Section, Homeland Security Intelligence Section, and the Arson/Counter-Terrorism Section.
Commissioner Manning serves as a Primary Task Force Leader of the Urban Search and Rescue Team, California Task Force One where, along with his team was deployed at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Commissioner Manning's Fire Department career began in 1977. He worked primarily in the Hollywood, Downtown, and South Central areas of the City. In 1985, he was promoted to Captain and assigned to the Planning Section where he responded as the Disaster Preparedness Officer. In 1990, Commissioner Manning was promoted to Battalion Chief and was the initial incident commander during the 1992 Civil Disturbance. Following this event, he assisted in the development of the Department's Tactical Alert procedures and instructed civil disturbance preparedness to fire and law enforcement agencies nationally. In 1995, Commissioner Manning was assigned to direct the Arson Investigation Section where he received two of the Mayor's Productivity Awards for the development of the House of Worship Arson Task Force and the High Impact Team which coordinated local, state, and federal resources for combating arson in Los Angeles.
In 2000, Commissioner Manning was promoted to Assistant Chief and assigned to the Downtown area. Amongst numerous emergency incidents, Commissioner Manning was the Incident Commander of the tragic Palomar Hotel Fire that occurred in 2001 in Hollywood.
Commissioner Manning resides in La Canada with his two daughters.
Miller is the Environmental Services & Planning
Director and a Council Member for the City of West
Covina. He previously was Director of Planning &
Urban Development for the
of Garden Grove. He has a total of 33 years of local
government experience.
is the city representative in the following organizations:
San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments, Southern
California Association of Governments, Los Angeles
Division of the League of California Cities, Chamber
of Commerce of West Covina. Commissioner Miller is
also a member of the following committees: Environmental
Quality Policy Committee, League of California Cities;
Public Safety Policy Committee, League of California
Cities; alternate, San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership;
alternate, Los Angeles County Waste Management Task
Force; and City & Schools Subcommittee, West Covina
City Council. In addition, he is a member of several
professional and community organizations.
Miller has an AA Degree in Forestry from Fullerton
Community College; a BA Degree in Geography from California
State University, Fullerton; and a Master of Science
Degree in Public Administration from California State
University, Los Angeles.
Milliman - SECRETARY
native of Los Angeles, Commissioner Milliman has served
as Director of the Southern California office of the
League of California Cities since February 2000. He
to the League over 27 years of experience in public
affairs and city management, having served as a City
Manager in two California cities, Fort Bragg and Cotati,
and as Deputy City Manager for the City of Bell Gardens.
His service to local government has included serving
on the City Council in Maywood, and on numerous intergovernmental
boards and commissions.
by Governor Pete Wilson to represent the state's
476 cities on the California Emergency Council, Commissioner
Milliman has served as a local emergency services
director and coordinator, and as a reservist with
the Federal Emergency Management Agency for 15 years.
Milliman has long advocated for excellence and integrity
in local government. He is a recipient of the Management
Innovation Award from the International City Management
Association and author of a program that received
the Helen Putnam Award for Excellence from the League
of California Cities.
Milliman left local government in 1997 to form a corporation
and purchase the California Western Railroad in northern
California, where he served as President, CEO and
Marketing Director until joining the League staff.
He also served as legislative representative for the
California Shortline Railroad Association.
entering public service, Commissioner Milliman worked
as a newspaper reporter and editor in Los Angeles
County. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism
from California State College at Los Angeles, and
was the first-ever recipient of the Certificate in
Disaster Preparedness Administration in 1976. Commissioner
Milliman and his wife of 31 years have two daughters
and one granddaughter.
Chief Daryl Osby has been a member of the Los Angeles County Fire Department since May 1, 1984. He currently is the Deputy Chief overseeing the East Regional Operations Bureau. The geographical area of his assigned region encompasses 33 cities and several unincorporated communities. He is responsible for the daily operations and emergency response via 76 fire stations.
During his career, he served as Fire Fighter/Fire Fighter Paramedic from May 1984 to October 1988; Fire Fighter Specialist/Inspector from November 1988 to August 1991; Captain/Paramedic Coordinator from September 1991 to July 1996; Battalion Chief from August 1996 to November 2000; Assistant Fire Chief overseeing the Planning and Community Services Division from December 2000 to November 2001; Deputy Chief assigned to the Special Operations Bureau which consisted of the Air and Wildland, Lifeguards, and Technical Services Divisions from December 2001 through June 2002.
He has served in several first responder and emergency management positions throughout is career. Chief Osby has been assigned to an incident management team in the position of incident commander for over four years. A few of his significant assignments includes a train derailment, the management of several major brush fires including two incidents during the 2003 California fire siege. He also served an 18-day deployment to Louisiana for Hurricane Katrina as a team leader of an Incident Management team. The team assignment(s) included assisting the City of New Orleans in developing a plan for continuity of city government and eventually managing the body recovery efforts.
Throughout his career, he has taken numerous management and emergency management courses. Chief Osby has conducted numerous courses and presentations related to emergency management. He is currently enrolled in an "Emergency Services Administration" Master of Science Program at Cal State University Long Beach. Chief Osby has been a member of the Los Angeles County Emergency Preparedness Commission since 2001 and currently serves as the chairperson.
John G. Gaines, Jr
John G. Gaines, Jr. was born at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio and was raised in Europe where his father was stationed in the U.S. Air Force. After serving in the U.S. Navy after high school, he returned to Southern California and graduated from Loyola University of Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science.
John reentered the Navy after graduation and upon completion of OCS in 1972 he was commissioned an Ensign. He underwent flight training and was designated a Naval Aviator and was assigned to Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 113 (VAW-113) at NAS North Island, California. He completed 2 Western Pacific Deployments in USS Enterprise. He was then assigned to the staff of Air Wing 14 at NAS Miramar, California as the Assistant Air Wing Landing Signal Officer and was assigned operational flight status with Light Attack Squadron 97 (VA-97) and completed Western Pacific Deployments in USS Enterprise and USS Coral Sea. John logged over 600 carrier landings and 3000 hours of flight time in the E-2B, TA-4C and A-7E aircraft. John left the U.S. Navy in 1979 with the rank of Lieutenant Commander (USNR).
John entered the aerospace industry as an engineer with Northrop Grumman Corporation in 1980 eventually rising to position of Reliability Engineering Manager for the B-2 Stealth bomber program. He joined General Dynamics Space Systems Division and was assigned increasingly responsible positions in engineering marketing of space launch systems before being assigned as the GD field marketing rep to Air Force Space Command in Colorado Springs. John was promoted to Manager of the GD Space Systems Los Angeles Field Marketing office in 1990 and relocated to El Segundo, California. John joined BAE SYSTEMS in 2001 and is currently responsible for marketing and business development of BAE SYSTEMS commercial hybrid drive products for transit applications on the West Coast and Hawaii.
John retired from the City Council of the City of El Segundo in April 2006 after fulfilling two terms, most recently being the Mayor Pro Tem of El Segundo. He served as the Chairman of the South Bay Cities COG Homeland Security Task Force, Chairman of the Municipal Area Express Transit Board of Governor's, Chairman of the El Segundo Technology Sub-committee, a member of the LA County Terrorism Early Warning (TEW) Group and numerous other boards and commissions. In April 2006 he was appointed as a member of the Emergency Preparedness Commission for the County and Cities of Los Angeles by the LA County Board of Supervisors. The President, Los Angeles County Division of the League of California Cities, nominated him to the commission. He is active in his church and youth sports, as well as many professional, governmental and civic organizations.
John is married to the former Susan Demmer of Fontana, California. They have three children; Rebecca, Robert and Benjamin.
Pahua is a thirty-three year veteran of County service,
the last nine in the Office of Emergency Management
(OEM). She has been the Emergency
Commission's Executive Director for the last
seven-years. In addition, she is the County's
coordinator for Federal/State Assistance Programs,
Community Mitigation Programs, and County Policies.
She translates the Emergency Survival Programs tips
monthly on the County's Spanish-speaking Hotline
and has made several media presentations.
to her assignment in OEM, Ms Pahua represented the
Department of Public Social Services at community
events, worked at an American Red Cross Shelter for
two-weeks following the Whittier Earthquake, and has
worked in several Disaster Assistance Centers explaining
available County programs.
Pahua received an Associate of Arts Degree from Harbor
College in 1987, and received her Professional Development
Series Certification from the California Specialized
Training Institute in 2002.
Michael J. Brooks
Mike Brooks has approximately 27 years of public service with over 25 of those years being in law enforcement with three separate agencies.�He is currently employed as the Acting Administrator for the Los Angeles County, Office of Emergency Management, where he provides managerial oversight on emergency planning, response and recovery issues.
He has been involved either as a first responder, planner or in a management role for many disasters and major events within Los Angeles County. Some of which were:
In addition he has responded to many floods, fires and natural disasters. Most recently he traveled to New Orleans as a member of an advance team of County emergency service providers, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, to provide assistance with the Continuity of Government.
Mike Holds a Bachelors degree in Business Management, and a Master's degree in Behavioral Science.
Ellis M. Stanley, Sr., CEM
Ellis M. Stanley, Sr. is the General Manager of the City of Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Department. He began his City career in September 1997. Prior to that he was the Director of the Atlanta-Fulton County Emergency Management Agency since 1987. He has been the director of an emergency management program for almost 30 years, beginning in 1975 in Brunswick County, North Carolina and in Durham-Durham County, North Carolina in 1982. Ellis has also served as a County Fire Marshal, Fire and Rescue Commissioner and County Safety Officer.
While in Atlanta he was active in the community, serving as a Vice-Chairman of the American Red Cross' Board of Directors, member of Leadership Atlanta, (He is also a graduate of Leadership Los Angeles), Georgia's Local Emergency Planning Committee and many others. He has an international reputation having chaired the International Development Committee for the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) and establishing Global Partnership Programs on Preparedness in several countries.
Ellis is active in the emergency management profession having been President of (IAEM), the American Society of Professional Emergency Planners (ASPEP), the National Defense Transportation Association (NDTA), and the Metropolitan Atlanta Chapter of the National Forum for Black Public Administrators (NFBPA) and Vice-Chair of the Association of Contingency Planners (ACP). He was the inaugural chair of the Certified Emergency Managers Certification Commission.
He is Vice-President for Public Sector of the Business & Industry Council on Emergency Preparedness and Planning (BICEPP) and is on the Emergency Services Committee of the American Red Cross Los Angeles Chapter. The Mayor of Los Angeles has also appointed him to the Emergency Preparedness Commission for the County and Cities of Los Angeles, of which he became the Chair of the Commission, and he is a member of the City's Emergency Operations Board. Ellis was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Urban Search and Rescue (NIUSR). a Board Member of the Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII) and a Regional Board Member of Operation Hope, Inc.
Other professional affiliations include NASA's Earth Science Enterprise Applications Strategy Program Planning & Analysis Panel, the Association of Contingency Planning (ACP), and the Southern California Emergency Services Association (SCESA). Additionally Ellis chairs the following: IAEM Government Affairs committee, the Emergency Management Metro Forum, the Cal (IT) 2 California Institute for Science and Innovation Advisory Board and Member of Board of Advisors to the Homeland Security Leadership Alliance and the Advisory Board of the Los Angeles Transportation Foundation. In 2001 Stanley was awarded a Los Angeles area EMMY for producing the public service announcement "Emergency Preparedness Patrol". Stanley was also inducted into Contingency Planning and Management (CPM) Hall of Fame's PUBLIC SERVANT CATEGORY for 2005. CPM recognizes individuals from the public sector who have made significant contributions to emergency response and crisis management, enabling businesses and their workers to resume operations after disasters or major disruptions
National committees include the National Science Foundation's appointment to the National Research Council's Board on Natural Disaster (BOND) as well as the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources Planning for Catastrophe: A blueprint for Improving Geospatial Data, Tools, and Infrastructure committee, and the U. S. Congress' appointment to the National Weather Services Modernization Transition Committee. He is an adjunct instructor at the National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, MD and has served as a member of the Board of Visitors of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Emergency Management Institute and an adjunct at St. Petersburg College Terrorism School. Stanley also chairs the Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP). EMAP is a voluntary accreditation process for state and local emergency management programs. He is also a member of the Board of the California Forensic Science Institute. Stanley was recently appointed to the Advisory Board of the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis and Terrorism Events (CREATE) at University of Southern California.
He is a member of the Southwestern Regional Board of Directors for Operation Hope and Hope Coalition America. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Oklahoma State University Fire Protection Publications and on the Advisory Board of the Community Preparedness and Disaster Management Program at UNC-CH School of Public Health.
He was recently appointed by the National Research Council to the Natural Disasters Roundtable. The Roundtable's mission is to facilitate and enhance communication and the exchange of ideas among scientists, practitioners, and policymakers in order to identify urgent and important issues related to the understanding and mitigation of natural disasters.
As a trainer he has served as the discipline expert for many major events, i.e., The 1984 and 1996 Summer Olympics, and as Atlanta's Emergency Manager for the1996 Centennial Games he was responsible for training as well as managing the Emergency Operations Center for the public health aspects of the games, to include developing and rolling out the first operational MMST (Metropolitan Medical Strike Team) in the country for the games.
Other major events included the Papal and World Youth Conference in Denver in 1994, the 1995 Special Olympics in the City of New Haven, New Orleans for the 1988 Republication Convention as well as Atlanta for the 1988 Democratic Convention and Chicago as they prepared for the 1996 Democratic Convention. As the nine host cities of the World Cup Games for 1994 planned for their games, Stanley was called to provide Integrated Emergency Management System (IEMS) training and Emergency Operations Center training for the cities. He has also provided training as cities prepared for such events as Super Bowls, World Series, NBA Championships, etc.
Stanley has an international reputation having led delegations of Emergency Management professionals to China and Japan for a month long professional exchange program as well as having conducted seminars on emergency management in Trinidad and Tobago and as chair of the International Development Committee conducted with the United Kingdom that has led to a Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. He is the City of Los Angeles' representative to participate in the Cluster Cities Project of the Earthquake Mega-cities Initiative (EMI). The Cluster Cities Project fosters the sharing of knowledge, experience, expertise and technology in an effort to further advance the reduction of earthquake risk to large metropolises that are under the threat of earthquakes and other major disasters.
Currently Ellis serves as an advisor to the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER), engineering solutions for earthquake loss reduction. MCEER research aims to improve seismic assessment and performance of buildings, highways and other infrastructure, as well as emergency response and recovery systems. He also serves as a member of the center's Industry Advisory Board, chairs the Metro Emergency Managers Forum of IAEM and is a member of the Government Advisory Council for the Institute for Innovation in Government Technology. He was also selected for the 2006 John F. Kennedy School of Government's National Preparedness Leadership Initiative. Stanley was a student of the Center for Creative Leadership.
Stanley's civic activity include memberships in the Winnabee #786 Masonic Lodge, Wilmington Consistory #63 and the Habib Shrine Temple #169.
Ellis is a 1973 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in political Science. He is married to Iris and they have two sons, Ellis, Jr. and Chris.
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Sunday, 23 July 2017
Military images in the Fabergé Museum, St Petersburg
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It doesn't seem to matter what the exact subject is really, I get a great deal of pleasure viewing this sort of print, especially so when the subject matter is the mid to late 19thC and early 20thC.ReplyDeleteReplies
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They are a great set of pictures (and I could imagine painting figures in some of the uniforms), and I had hoped to buy postcards of them at the museum. Unfortunately one of our party became unwell, and as a result we did not get the opportunity to visit the onsite shop.
All the best,
Really excellent (and great inspiration for those of use interested in the post-napoleonic continental armies. These images are all so regular. Did you donwnload them from somewhere or did you crop these yourself before posting? (I'm very impressed if it's the later!)ReplyDeleteReplies
Ed M,Delete
I am very pleased to read that you have enjoyed looking at this series of images.
I photograohed the paintings myself using a Fuji bridge camera with the flash turned off. I then cropped the images after downloading them onto my computer.
All the best,

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Do you want to know why you get sick in the summer just like you do in the winter? Well, it can't be the weather. It's not cold outside. It can't be your kids bringing home germs from school, unless they're going to summer school.
So why do you get sick in the summer. The same reason you get sick in the winter. Granted you can catch germs from door knobs and bathroom sinks. Or someone sneezing on the train or in your office, or your immune system could be weak and you just get sick.
Or it could be this,
Most illnesses are transferred due to the lack of discipline your butcher, sandwich maker, deli counter person and yes the cook at your favorite restaurant has when it comes to sterilizing his cutting board and this …
I've seen it so many times at a sub shop or in a commercial kitchen. The cook or prep person sneezes into his hand but he's so busy that he wipes it on his apron. Now he's cutting tomatoes and you come in and want a sandwich. What does he do? He wipes his knife on his apron and proceeds to make your sandwich. Like his apron is some sort of sanitary haven.
Same goes with cutting boards. Most restaurants and supermarkets keep their employees busy. As the managers watch payroll they want Jose over there to prep up 4 cases of lettuce, two boxes of tomato's and slice a bag of onions all in about 2 hours.
Do you think Jose is concerned with sanitizing his cutlery and boards? Or do you think he wants to keep his boss off of his ass and get the work done in the required time.
Let's go to behind the cooks line. Peter works at a place that serves fajitas and it's busy. Do you think Peter switches between a poultry knife and a beef knife to illuminate the possibility of cross contamination? Or, wipe the cutting service in between the chicken and the steak or whatever else he has cut in the last fifteen minutes.
Oh and what if Peter has the sniffles.
If you get sick all year round it may be as simple as the people that prepare your meals. The kid at Subway, or the Pizzeria you frequent. What about Uncle Bill's barbecue every Fourth of July. Does Uncle Bill execute clean and safe food handling techniques? How many times does he touch the chicken and then the steaks on the grill with his not so clean hands?
Ok you can't lock yourself and your family in a bubble.
What you can do is be aware of who's preparing your food and how they prepare it. Watch the kid making your sandwich. Instead of running through the drive through, go inside and watch the people in the back handle the fries, the burgers and for God sake the salads.
Note: there is no way on God's green earth I would ever purchase a salad from a fast food restaurant. A Fast food restaurant should be used for one thing only--a pre-cooked, pre-heated limited hand contact--desperate sustenance source.
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She's very much an inside dog and hasn't been misused or maltreated as far as I'm aware and is supposed to be good with children.
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Action Wisconsin Wins $87,000 In Storms' Lawsuit
Louisiana Preacher Will Appeal Decision In Ovadal-Inspired Suit - Lawyers To Get Winnings
Madison - Wisconsin's largest gay rights group has been awarded $87,000 in attorneys' fees by a judge who verbally spanked a Louisiana "pastor" and his lawyer for bringing a frivolous lawsuit claiming the group defamed him.
Grant Storms had claimed in the lawsuit that Action Wisconsin defamed him by saying remarks he made at the "First International Conference on Homo-Fascism," advocated the murder of gays. The day-long conference was held in Milwaukee in October, 2003 and sponsored by the now-defunct Wisconsin Christians United.
But in a ruling last week, Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Patricia McMahon said the AW's interpretation of the remarks was reasonable and the lawsuit lacked merit from the day it was filed in February 2004. The judge also blasted Storms' lawyer, James Donohoo of Milwaukee, saying he should have known the complaint was a waste of time.
However, the judge likely was unaware - on the record at least - of Donohoo's previous association with the primogenitor of the AW lawsuit: self-ordained "pastor" Ralph Ovadal. Ovadal, who now operates the self-identified "independent, unlicensed" Pilgrim's Covenant Church (PCC) in Monroe, sponsored the anti-gay event.
As Quest reported last July, the genesis of the Storms lawsuit followed an ironic and, some might say, almost comic path. Following the lightly attended 2003 Homo Fascism conference, WCU reported on its website on October 14 that turnout at the event "included nine pastors, a state senator, a police officer, and a number of ministry leaders" and offered for sale an audio disc of the conference speeches. Two weeks later on October 22, the "Reality Check" column in the gay publication Wisconsin INStep reported that the state senator in question was "freshman Republican Tom Reynolds, not exactly a new convert to the extremist right."
The dual information led then AW board President Tim O'Brien to order a copy of the conference speeches, which O'Brien listened to in full, and AW Executive Director Christopher Ott listened to in part. Both men were named as co-defendants in the Storm suit.
Ott later wrote a letter to then Senate Majority leader Mary Panzer requesting her to "to investigate, identify, and discipline the state senator " who attended the conference. Ott included excerpts of the Storms speech and wrote "the attendance of a state senator at this conference is similar to a senator attending a Ku Klux Klan rally or neo-Nazi conference, and should receive tremendous scrutiny - especially at a time when legislators are advocating a constitutional amendment targeted at gay people."
The December 8 AW press release about the Panzer letter contained similar excerpts from Storms' speech such as "They [gays] want to kill you;" "There is a philistine army out there. It's called the homosexual movement, whether you can see it or not, understand it or not, they want to eliminate us;" and "God has delivered them into our hands, Hallelujah – Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom [like gun fire] – There's twenty! Grant also made comments that suggested his supporters go to a fast-food restaurant for a quick meal before continuing the allegedly metaphorical massacre.
On December 8 & 9, WCU responded to the AW press release claiming that "we had expectations that the homosexual propagandists would prove our point about homo-fascism by screaming bloody murder and making all sorts of wild accusations." A third WCU press release on December 10 promised "Action Wisconsin Will Be Held Legally Accountable for Vicious Attack upon Christian Pastor." A later WCU newsletter advised Ovadal was assisting Storms in arranging for a Wisconsin attorney. Donohoo had represented WCU in earlier cases.
Storms responded to McMahon's award decision on January 11 by claiming that any contention that he was advocating the murder of gays is "ludicrous and ridiculous." He also labeled the judge "liberal" and "insane."
"I was saying, the Christian community needs to go forward and stand against the homosexual agenda," he said, vowing to appeal the decision. "We'll win this case and we'll win the cultural war. We have God on our side."
Donohoo also said he would appeal the awarding of attorneys' fees, claiming the lawsuit was not frivolous. Ovadal also reinserted himself into the fray January 12 with a press release on the PCC website.
Action Wisconsin's lead attorney Lester Pines said the dismissal of Storms' lawsuit and the declaration that it was frivolous is a victory both for free speech and for Action Wisconsin, which is gearing up for a major campaign against the likely November referendum on a constitutional ban on marriage and civil unions for same sex couples.
"This is going to be a very vicious campaign and I want everybody to know that if they think they are going to use phony defamation claims against Action Wisconsin to try to divert it, we will vigorously defend them," Pines said.
Action Wisconsin had also criticized state Senator Tom Reynolds (R-West Allis) for attending the Milwaukee conference. Reynolds said January 11 he stopped by for 20 minutes as a courtesy.
But as Quest also reported last July, Reynolds has a far more involved interest with Ovadal's anti-gay agenda. The 2003 InStep story along with subsequent dueling AW and WCU press releases drew the attention of Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel political columnists Cary Spivak & Dan Bice, who followed up with Reynolds and confirmed his presence at the Homo Fascism conference. In their January 13, 2004 piece the columnists wrote: " 'It sounded interesting,' said the West Allis senator who owns a small print shop. 'I don't know much about them. I do a little printing for them.'" The "little printing" included a number of WCU brochures. Some of WCU titles are "A Little Discrimination Can Be a Good Thing," "Homosexuality: The Truth" and "Is Someone You Know A Bugger?"
Action Wisconsin executive director Chris Ott, who - along with - was named in the lawsuit, hailed McMahon's decision. "Action Wisconsin will not be intimidated into abandoning our mission to achieve full equality for LBGT citizens," Ott said. "We did not back down from this frivolous suit, and fought back with full strength in order to preserve our mission. In the months and years ahead, those who would consider suing us to silence our voice should take fair warning from this decision: your frivolous claims will not go unpunished."
Pursuant to the judge's ruling, the award will go to cover court costs and attorney fees incurred in Action Wisconsin's defense. The organization is hoping to raise $5 million in its defense of marriage equality in the coming contstitutional referendum fight.


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Mary J. Blige Owns That She's A 'Queen' In Everything She Does
Mary J. Blige made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday evening (November 13) and dished all about earning her title as Queen of Hip-Hop and Soul.
"When I first heard that term I didn't understand that I was a Queen, I didn't know what to do with it," the 46-year-old entertainer told Jimmy. "I didn't understand that I was Queen until later in my career when I heard my song 'Family Affair' on the Country stations. It just didn't register to me that I was a Queen of anything, I just didn't take it like that."
"Now, it's like yeah I am Queen," Mary added. "I am Queen of everything that I do and I'm not cocky about it. I feel like I had to earn it, I didn't understand in the beginning. I can own it now."
Mary also talked about her role in her latest film Mudbound, which is already gaining much praise – Watch her full interview below!
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The Virtues of the Slow Movement in our Crazy Fast-Paced World
We don't mean to burst anyone's bubble, but slowing down is not a viable option for today's world. There's too much at stake politically and economically for that. Plus, things are accelerating. There are forces at play on this planet which cannot be avoided, since we are all a part of the planetary body.
So what about a different take on slowing down. How about slowing up? What's the difference, you ask?
Slowing down has this backward-looking connotation. A sort of nostalgia for "the good ol' days" when human beings were happy, healthy, content, in touch with nature (depending on just how far back your particular flavor of nostalgia takes you).
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This kind of slow thinking is romantic, yet terribly naïve. There's never been a so-called "Golden Age" in the recorded history of humanity. Throughout our journey as a species, we've looked at expanding ourselves onward and upward beyond the plight of our state—however we defined it at the time.
Evolution, devolution and revolution are the only constants in the universe. Slowing down connotes a kind of devolution. This planet is not quite there yet. As humanity we still hunger for evolution; and are caught in the early stages of a worldwide planetary revolution.
Slowing up is a forward-looking way of thinking. Being slow is not so much about doing less or doing things in an old-fashioned way, it's more about doing not doing. Slow is about presence, awareness. Take a moment to actually be in the moment. In short, APPRECIATE. To appreciate is to raise-UP.
Slowing up embraces both evolution (advancement), and represents a revolution for this humanity because its number one characteristic demands a revolution in attention: a shift from being largely asleep (hurriedly and mechanically rushing through every experience) to being intensely awake.
Slowing up is all about getting involved: intimately experiencing each and every moment; every facet of life. Slowing up takes its time to appreciate the finer things in life, the subtleties, the details. Slowing up expands awareness and raises our level of experience to new heights of wonder and awe.
Most of all, slowing up expands awareness and raises the level of our experience of ourselves and our relationships with the universe.
Slowing up is really about growing up. Like the great old growth sequoias of the West Coast, growing up takes time. It's not by accident that the wisest of humans are the ones who embrace the pace of living relative to their station along the journey. Treasured moments. Measured words. Eternal wisdom.
Sometimes slowing up is really fast! We cannot control the speed at which life hits us. Being slow is not about slowing down our external circumstances. Ironically, that only accelerates our mind and causes more stress! It's about slowing up to the rhythm of perennial nature. Sound like a paradox?
No matter how hectic your life, it's always possible to experience the moment as a singular eternity frozen in time. Be in the moment. Don't think. Try it. When you begin to practice slowing up, something incredible happens: you relax, become more aware, healthier, more in touch with your own humanity.
Slowing up raises your awareness of the fact that all this time there has been no hectic, crazy world "out there." Rather, the hectic pace of your world was set by your own internal clock. The alarm bells, punch-cards, schedules, responsibilities, all of it…the fast-lane was painted by your own psyche: desires, fears, concerns, thoughts, emotions, et al.
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Munkres Chapter 2 Section 17
Theorem 17.11
Problem: Prove that every simply ordered set with the order topology is Hausdorff. The product of two Hausdorff spaces is Hausdorff. A subspace of a Hausdorff space is Hausdorff.
Proof: Let have the order topology and let be distinct and assume WLOG that . If there does not exists a such that then are disjoint neighborhoods of respectively. They are disjoint for to suppose that would imply that contradictory to our assumption. If there is some then are disjoint neighborhoods of respectively.
Let be Hausdorff and be distinct. Since are distinct it follows we may assume WLOG that . But, since is Hausdorff there exists disjoint neighborhoods of . So, consider these are clearly neighborhoods of in and to assume would imply .
Lastly, suppose that is Hausdorff and let be a subspace of . If are distinct there exists disjoint neighborhoods of them in . Thus, are disjoint neighborhoods of them in .
Problem: Let be a collection of subsets of the set . Suppose that , and that the finite union and arbitrary intersection of elements of are in . Prove that the collection is a topology on .
Proof: Clearly and are in . Now, suppose that then and since and is closed under arbitrary intersection it follows that and thus . Lastly, suppose that then and since and is closed under finite union it follows that and thus .
Problem: Show that if is a closed in and is closed in that is closed in .
Proof: Since is closed in and is a subspace of we have that for some closed set but since is closed it follows that is the intersection of two closed sets in and thus closed in .
Problem: Show that if is closed in and is closed in then is closed in
Proof: This follows immediately from question 9.
Problem: Show that if is open in and is closed in , then is open in and is closed in .
Proof: This follows immediately from the fact that and .
Problem: Let be an ordered set in the order topology. Show that . Under what conditions does equality hold?
Proof: Let then is a neighborhood of disjoint from and thus . Equality will hold when are limit points of or said otherwise whenever we have that there are some $lated d,e$ such that .
Problem: Let and denote subsets of . Prove that if then , , and . Give an example where this last inclusion is strict.
Proof: We choose to prove the second part first. Let then there is a neighborhood of such that and thus and so . Conversely, suppose that then and and so there are neighborhoods of such that clearly then is a neighborhood of such that and thus .
Using this, if then we have that from where it follows that .
Let then there is a neighborhood of such that and thus for every and thus for every and so finally we may conclude that .
To see when inclusion can be strict consider with the usual topology. Then,
Problem: Criticize proof (see book).
Proof: There is no guarantee that the for which intersected will b e the same that will intersect if you pick another .
Problem: Let and denote subsets of . Determine whether the following equations hold, if any equality fails determine which inclusion holds.
a) Equation does not hold. Consider that but . The inclusion always holds.
b) This follows from a) that equality needn't hold. Once again the inclusion is true.
c) This need be true either . The inclusion holds.
Problem: Prove that if then in the product topology on .
Proof: Let . Let be a basic open set in which contains . Since we can choose some point . Then, . It follows that
Conversely, let . Let be any set such that . Since is open in it contains some point . Then, . It follows that . A similar technique works for .
10., 11,. 12 Covered in theorem stated and proved at the beginning of the post.
Problem: Prove that is Hausdorff if and only if the diagonal is closed in with the product topology.
Proof: Suppose that is Hausdorff then given we may find disjoint neighborhoods of them. So, and since . It follows that is closed.
Conversely, suppose is closed in and are distinct. Then, and so there exists a basic open neighborhood of such that and so are neighborhoods of in which are disjoint. For, to suppose they were not disjoint would to assume that contradicting the assumption that .
Problem: In the cofinite topology on to what point or points does the sequence converge to?
Proof: It converges to every point of . To see this let be arbitrary and let be any neighborhood of it. Then, is finite and in particular is finite. If it's empty we're done, so assume not and let then clearly for all such that we have that and thus is in . The conclusion follows.
Problem: Prove that the axiom is equivalent to the condition that for each pair of points there are neighborhoods of each which doesn't contain the other.
Proof: Suppose that is then given distinct the sets are obviously neighborhoods of respectively which don't contain the other.
Conversely, suppose the opposite is true and let then there is a neighborhood of it such that and thus is open and is therefore closed.
Problem: Consider the five topologies on given in exercise 7 of section 13 (my section 2).
a) Deterime the closure of under each of these topologies.
b) Which of these topologies are Hausdorff? Which are
Proof: …
a) As a reminder the topologies are
For the first one we easily see that .
For the second one we can see that . To see this note that is open by definition and thus being the complement of it is closed. Thus,
For the third one . To see this note that we in a sense already proved this in 14, but for any and any neighborhood of it we have that and thus if (assuming it's non-empty) we see that . Thus, given any point of and any neighborhood of it we have that is infinite, and thus clearly . The conclusion follows from that.
For the fourth topology we note that which is open in with the upper limit topology. Remember that
For the last one . Clearly and since is closed and is the intersection of all closed supersets of it follows that . Now, suppose that then which is a neighborhood of which doesn't intersect and thus . So, . The conclusion follows.
Lemma: If is Hausdorff, then it is
Proof: Let and by assumption there exists disjoint neighborhoods of respectively and so clearly and thus is open and so is closed.
: Clearly the first topology is Hausdorff since it is an order topology and we proved in the initial post that all order topologies are Hausdorff.
Lemma: Let be a set and two topologies on such that is finer than . Then, if is Hausdorff with the topology it is Hausdorff with the topology.
Proof: Clearly if are distinct we may find disjoint neighborhoods of them in the topology given by and thus the same neighborhoods work in consideration of the topology given by .
: From this lemma it follows that having a finer topology than with the usual topology is Hausdorff
: The cofinite topology is but not Hausdorff. To see that it's it suffices to prove that is closed for any . But, this is trivial since being the complement of a finite set is open, thus closed. But, it is not Hausdorff since it cannot support two disjoint, non-empty open sets. To see this suppose that is open in with the cofinite topology then is finite and since a disjoint set would have to be a subset of it follows that is finite and thus it's complement not finite. Thus, is not open.
: Once again this topology finer than that of with the usual topology since
: This isn't even . To see this we must merely note that if is any set containing we must have that there is some basic open set such that , but this means that . So, there does not exist a neighborhood of which does not contain .
Problem: Consider the lower limit topology on and the topology given by the basis . Determine the closure of the intervals and in these two topologies.
Proof: We first prove more generally that if then . To see this we first note that is open since which we claim is open. To see this we note that . So, since is the intersection of all closed supersets of and is closed we see that . So, we finish the argument by showing that . To see this we show that is a limit point for from where the conclusion will follow. So, let be any neighborhood of , then we may find some basic open neighborhood such that , but clearly contains infinitely many points from where it follows that is a limit point of . From this we may conclude for that and
We now claim that in the topology generated by that and . More generall, let us prove that in this topology
Clearly if then choosing some rational number and some rational number then and so that . Also, if then choosing some such that we see that and . Thus, the only possibilities for are . But, just as before if is any neighborhood we may find some open basic neighborhood $latex [p,q)$ such that but clearly and thus since was arbitrary it follows that .
So, now we split into the two cases. First assume that then given any neighborhood of we may find some basic neighborhood such that , but since we see that from where it follows that and thus since was arbitrary it follows that and thus . Now suppose that , then is clearly a neighborhood of that doesn't intersect and thus so that
The conclusion follows.
Problem: If , we define the boundary of by .
a) Prove that and are disjoint and
b) Prove that i and only if is both open and closed
c) Prove that is open if and only if
d) If is open, is it true that ?
a) Clearly if then there exists a neighborhood of whose intersection with the complement of is empty, thus . Now, let now if there exists a neighborhood of such that then and if not then every neighborhood of contains points of and since it follows that it also contains points of . Thus, either or , thus . Conversely, if then either there exists a neighborhood of such that and thus . Conversely, if then for every neighborhood of we have that and in particular and so .
b) Suppose first that . If we're done, so assume not and let . Since there is a neighborhood of such that but since it follows that and thus is open. Conversely, letting we see that and so by the same logic there exists a neighborhood of such that and thus is open and so closed.
Conversely, suppose that is both open and closed and suppose that . If then for every neighborhood of we must have that and thus , which is a contradiction. Conversely, if then for every neighborhood of we must have that and thus which is a contradiction.
c) Suppose that is open and let , then every neighborhood of contains points of by definition, but since (it can't be an interior point, thus ) they must be points of and thus . So, . Conversely, if then must be a limit point of which is not in and thus every neighborhood contains points of and so
d) No, it is not true. With the usual topology on the set is open, but
We choose to omit 18, 19, 21 on the grounds that they are monotonous and easy, monotonous and easy, and way, way to long.
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Are Americans united around the notion of a genuine celebration and acceptance of Dr. King Day as a national holiday? From the time Congressman John Conyers (D - Michigan) first introduced legislation for a commemorative holiday four days after King was assassinated in 1968, it took 15 years to create the federal Dr. Martin Luther King Holiday. After the bill became stalled, petitions with six million signatures endorsing the holiday were submitted to Congress. Conyers and New York representative Shirley Chisholm submitted King Holiday legislation each subsequent legislative session until Congress passed it in 1983. President Ronald Reagan, who had staunchly opposed the bill, citing its costs, and who had three years earlier kicked off his bid for the presidency in Philadelphia, Mississippi – a lingering symbol of racial intolerance and the site where civil rights workers Cheney, Goodman, and Schwerner were murdered – reluctantly signed it into law, declaring the third Monday in January National Dr. Martin Luther King Day.
Among my proudest moments was marching arm-in-arm with thousands of other peaceful demonstrators on the Washington Mall back in1982 and 1983, led by Stevie Wonder, who was a committed key figure advocating for the Dr. King national holiday. Other marchers included Dr. King's widow Corretta Scott King, Reverend Jessie Jackson, scores of dignitaries, celebrities like Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, and Ossie Davis, along with us everyday citizens.
Yet still today I remain confounded that some leaders on the state and national level seem to negate the potential of this holiday as more than a mere political photo op. They marginalize its importance as a teachable moment and meaningful opportunity to embrace Dr. King's amplified vision of William Bradford's concept of a "beloved community" imbued with collective means by which to heal, build, and unify through service projects that promote reconciliation and tolerance. Just as he led his life in active pursuit of service to others and justice for all, Dr. King's holiday should be active, never passive. These are the ideals out of which the American spirit and our shared values are honed, but to date these ideals seem lost on some government leaders at local, state, and national levels.
Some municipalities have allowed that any national commemoration of this celebration of the human spirit is optional and viewed it with a ho-hum attitude. Some states confine the place of the holiday to classrooms, treating it as a mere academic exercise. For example, California focuses its King Day observances largely within public school districts, encouraging "a day of reflection on Civil Rights."
But other states take a more active stance. For example, New York State emphasizes year-long volunteerism along with cultural, artistic, and community cooperation. Beginning in 1997, the Empire State's Community Services Initiative to Remember and Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was established. This is a model that could well serve to show the way for other states' involvement in creating inventive ways to honor and celebrate Dr. King though community service.
The King Community Service Initiative urges New Yorkers to strengthen their communities by extending their hands to help the homeless and to care for the less fortunate. The common thread that links the various King Community Service Initiative activities is outreach beyond conventional social boundaries to promote interracial cooperation. Community Service Initiatives offer a rare socially progressive departure from the policies of former Governor George E. Pataki, a moderate conservative Republican with an otherwise questionable record in the areas of urban education reform and civil rights administration and enforcement – areas critical to achieving socio-economic parity and harmonious race relations.
Despite the Pataki administration's dubious record on matters of socioeconomic and racial parity, growing involvement of individuals, schools, churches, and community groups in the state; broad energized celebrations demonstrate just how far reaching an executive initiative can be for establishing the right tone and setting a sterling national example of actualizing Dr. King's mantra of working to create the "beloved community."
The writer, Dennis Day served on the Planning Committee for New York State's Annual Holiday Observance to Remember and Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday from its inception in1997.


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Domestic flights operated by United Airlines were temporarily grounded because of a computer glitch Wednesday morning.
Laurie Slothower, with the Sacramento International Airport, tells Capital Public Radio that three United flights to Los Angeles, Denver and Chicago were delayed 60 to 90 minutes.
United is processing passengers as quickly as possible and expects to get those three flights into the air by 7 a.m.
This is the second such setback for the carrier in less than six weeks.
Bloomberg News reports that "automation issues" triggered the glitch, according to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. United flights already airborne are continuing to operate, according to aircraft tracking website Flight-Radar-24.
A United spokesman says the airline experienced "network connectivity issues." United Airlines suffered a similar incident on June 2, when the world's second-largest airline cited a lack of "proper dispatch information" that forced a halt in U.S. takeoffs for less than an hour.
Planes in the air weren't affected in that episode either.
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Virtual Sketch Date: Peony in vase
I've jumped a long way out of my comfort zone and used a few spare hours on a cool inter-blog project: Virtual Sketch DateHere's the result using the gorgeous reference pic provided. This was provided by fellow artist Sharon K.M. Thank-you.It's not a sketch (too much detail), it's not a finished drawing (too rough for that), it's a study with a million mistakes that have been taken aboard and not forgotten. "Peony in Vase" 10x12 cm, study in graphiteThis was fun and definately a much needed exercise.Looking forward to next months challenge.


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Shiva (シバ)The apparent leader of the Hachishoujin as well as a member herself. She serves Kokushou without question and is in fact, the clone of the late Tsuzaki Shizuka. In the anime, she pilots a black Moribito Type-01, but in the manga, she pilots the Kiribito Core (and thus possibly the Kiribto Zai as well, but that has yet to be revealed.) During the Lost Years arc, Shiva pilots the jinki called Black Rondo. In this arc, Shiva is gravely wounded in combat against Ogawara Ryouhei in the Moribito Type-0, suffering severe damage to her reproductive organs. Whether or not these injuries will have any effect on the plot or story is unknown, although a comment made by Yao after he rescues Shiva suggests this. According to official sources, "Shiva", is the correct spelling of her name, though the more popular version "Shiba" is used by many fans.
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Friday, June 14, 2013
"12 Tags of 2013"...June
18 comments:
- Karen Petitt said...
So beautiful! Wonderful use of colour - love every little thing about it! Whenever I have to have a 'tidy/clear out' session I always loose at least one important item, tidying up after ourselves is damaging to our health lol! Karen x
- June 14, 2013 at 12:07 AM
- ...the yorkshire fox... said...
...fabulous tag Kath, loving your colours, so pretty...Mel:)xx
- June 14, 2013 at 6:28 AM
- Enfys said...
Told you!
En x
- June 14, 2013 at 9:46 AM
- Rita said...
What a stunning tag Kath. The colours and the stitching look fabulous too. It certainly is sods law when things like this happen, but never mind ,you now have a spare. Have a Good Day. Hugs Rita xxxxx
- June 14, 2013 at 10:03 AM
- May said...
Gorgeous tag Kath, Love the colours & well done on the stitching... I keep meaning to do that but my sewing skills are zero...Love the matching buttons & ribbon...at least now you have a spare pad of Watercolour paper.... Hugs May x x
- June 14, 2013 at 10:34 AM
- rachel said...
wonderful tag Kath - you have inspired me - might go and do mine now! Hugs Rachel xx
- June 14, 2013 at 10:47 AM
- Christine B. said...
A stunning taq Kath. Love, love , love it. The colours and everything about it is so pretty.
Have a great weekend. Love and Hugsx ChrisB
- June 14, 2013 at 11:01 AM
- Carol Clements said...
Love your tag and the colour combo. Not got round to making one yet.
- June 14, 2013 at 1:07 PM
- trish said...
Hi Kath, glad your pad turned up, it's always the same when you think you've lost something for good. Love your tag, the colours are gorgeous and blended beautifully...Trish
- June 14, 2013 at 2:47 PM
- Redanne said...
Hi Kath, your tag is stunning, I love the gorgeous colours and the stitching - wonderful. I share your angst - I have been looking for days for one butterfly stamp......still have not found it, hope I have not binned it. Hugs, Anne x
- June 14, 2013 at 3:31 PM
- Barbara said...
Beautiful tag. I love the colors and the stitching and everything about it. When my children were small, we blamed lost items and other stuff on Gus the Ghost, who supposedly was in the attic.(a children's book about a ghost who was forever moving things around. Now that my children are grown and no longer in the house, I just have to blame myself for lost items... it happens to all of us!!!!
- June 14, 2013 at 4:26 PM
- Paper Junkie said...
My dressmaker friend would love this tag Kath - lovely colours! X
- June 14, 2013 at 8:21 PM
- Kat said...
Great tag Kath, love the colours you've used.
Typical that you find the thing you've lost after you buy more. Think it's probably happened to us all.
Kat xx
- June 14, 2013 at 8:56 PM
- Linda S. said...
Yup, that finding stuff as soon (minutes, sometimes) as we have purchased new, happens to all of us. Your tag is delightful. Happy to see you using some fresh new color combination. Lovely work
- June 14, 2013 at 10:08 PM
- craftyfoxglove said...
Love the tag and the colour combinations, would love to see a demo of how you put it together. How frustrating going all that way into town only to get home and find the stuff under something else. Have a great weekend
Val xx
- June 14, 2013 at 11:24 PM
- Nunt said...
Love the color scheme on your tag!
- June 16, 2013 at 3:48 PM
Love how the buttons tie in with the dressmaker's dummy theme - all very cool.
- June 17, 2013 at 1:19 AM
- Kayla Turner said...
I love the dress form! and plus that pale pink color brings you eyes all over the tag because you managed to bring that color from everything from the button embellishments to the background! looks fabulous!
- June 24, 2013 at 9:15 PM


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Monday, February 8, 2016
More Students' Miniatures
The only thing I love more than teaching my Miniatures class, is getting photos from students of what they have done as a result of the class. It's been a long while since I have shown any student's work, so I think it's time... I have one, possibly two, Miniatures workshops coming up this spring so I always get bitten by the bug once again when there's a class upcoming. I like to have a few new ones to show if possible... I have several underway, but nothing far enough along to share with you yet. But back to some completed by students...
I just received these two photos last night from Theresa O. of PSLCQG who won a first place ribbon last weekend in the Small Pieced category at her guild show for Little Red Bear Paws. Finished size is 17.5" square. Congrats Theresa! It is fabulous. Look at her quilting! Wow! What a super job she has done!
Next up, from a class last July, is Martha E. from TTQG with Primary School, 13.5" square and hung on point. I love it!! Isn't it sweet? Perfect points on perfect little fishies...
I think Jeanne W. of MCQG is hooked on minis. She has done a few and although I haven't heard from her recently, I bet she's still at it... Here are two photos she has sent me since I taught the class she attended last winter. I just love this little ninepatch combined with Sunbonnet Sue. It is 11" square, the nine patches measure 1.5." It includes hand appliqué, prarie points and the tatted flowers were Jeanne's 14 year old granddaughter Grace's first attempt at tatting! Wow! Creative talent runs in the family, I'd say.
Another by Jeanne, a 13" square Pineapple.
Log Cabin and Pineapple blocks have long been favourites of mine, I haven't seen one yet that I didn't love!!
EDIT Feb.9: I just received an email from Jeanne telling me she won a first place ribbon this past weekend in the PSLCQG show for Oh, My Stars!
....and Jane T. won a ribbon also, for her Tiny Logs. Although I have shown these two miniatures before here, I think they're worthy of another look, especially with ribbons attached, don't you think?!
Last but certainly not least is Gloria T. of TQG. Gloria is prolific, and tends to finish each project. I hear she never has UFO's. (I can't imagine...) I think Gloria really was bitten by the deadly miniature bug when I had her in class.. She has sent me at least half a dozen photos of completed minis... so here are two more. First a 6" square Log Cabin. Lots of little logs! Sweet!!
And lastly a Grandmother's Fan done in Oriental fabrics. This one looks like it might be hand quilted...
Awesome job, everyone! I'm so proud of you all! Keep sending me those pics!!
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Labels: Miniatures, Student's Work
6 comments:
- Jennifer said...
How gorgeous are these minis......I love them all, but especially the Bear's Paw.
- February 9, 2016 at 12:14 AM
- kath001 said...
Wow, just amazing work!
- February 9, 2016 at 12:17 AM
- Pamela Gordon said...
These are all so beautiful but I really like the 'little red bear paws' one. Exquisite workmanship!
- February 9, 2016 at 1:21 PM
- Country Gal said...
All so pretty and great work to all ! Thanks for sharing , Have a good week !
- February 9, 2016 at 3:31 PM
- Vee said...
They are all amazing! I love the meaningful use of the tatted flowers...very cool!
- February 11, 2016 at 12:01 PM
- Sheila said...
So many wonderful miniatures, it must make you feel very proud when your students receive ribbons for their work .
- February 16, 2016 at 11:27 AM
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