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Our Household: Part 3
In our household, our Sugar Gliders do not hate dogs. In fact, when Fiona, Yoda and Plato are out and about, they often jump on to Glacier and Roscoe and scurry around on the boys. Both boys are incredibly patient and just ignore the Sugies. Hermione has only been introduced to them through the cage so far, but eventually, we hope to teach her that Sugar Gliders are friends, not food.
I thought today we could be introduced to one of the two humans in our household. We are definitely outnumbered by animals here, but I don't think we'd have it any other way.
Introducing Mr. K.
Mr. K was born and raised in Michigan, but moved around a bit in his early adult years. He attended college to become a minister, but realised that that sort of work just wasn't for him. He started working for Best Buy and quickly climbed the managerial ladder. He worked in both Michigan and Florida and was very successful. At age 25, just six months after he had bought a brand new car, he lost his sight to a neurological condition. Apparently it had been going on for a while, but there was nothing gradual about the onset. At one point, he was totally blind, but after under going some heavy steroid treatments, he regained some of his light perception, which he still has today. This means, he can see bright lights on TV screens or even outside, as long as there is enough contrast.
After this very obvious life altering experience, he attended the Commission for the Blind in Michigan, which is a facility designed to assist totally blind and visually impaired people learn important life skills, such as reading braille and Orientation and Mobility. (Orientation and Mobility is what we are taught to allow us to be independent travelers). After four months at the Commission, Mr. K attended Leader Dogs for the Blind and was matched with Roscoe. This is where we met as well.
Our"courting" story is kind of funny, but quite lengthy. So, perhaps I'll leave that for another day.
Mr. K decided to go back to school and in October of 2009, he entered Liberty University for Psychology. He is currently a "Senior" and will probably graduate in the fall of 2013; unless he decides to do a double major in Psychology and Criminal Justice. His future plans include attending the University of Edinburgh for his Master's in some kind of Neuro Psychology program that I can never remember the name of; it's just that impressive.
Mr. K is six foot five and his height is often a conversation starter. We always tease him because Roscoe is shorter than Glacier, but realistically, personality wise, Mr. K and Roscoe were matched perfectly.
Mr. K likes to draw and after not drawing due to his sight loss, my mom convinced him to try again with some very impressive success. He also started painting when we moved with even more success. One of our friends has commissioned him to paint him a series of paintings, with the Yorkshire rose as the focus. Everyone who sees the paintings are floored at how good they are. Mr. K, of course, does not think they are brilliant, but many people would beg to differ. He also comes from a musical background in that he played the guitar in a metal band in high school and continued playing music, just with different instruments. When we lived in SC, he picked up the banjo and thoroughly enjoyed it and now he is taking online lessons for the mandalen. He is actually talented and I am impressed at how quickly he has learned to play each new instrument.
Mr. K is also the biggest nerd around, but I love him for it. It's funny because if you were to see him, you may not believe me. He has several tattoos and his hair used to be shaved into a mohawk, but underneath all of that, Mr. K loves electronics and videogames. Cameras, computers, new cellphones, anything that may be related to technology and he's going to be excited. His favourite are speakers though. When we lived in SC, he had a crazy sound system and whenever someone gets a new one, he is always over hooking it up properly.
Mr. K wasn't really an animal person until he met me and was matched with Roscoe. Actually, I think the various dogs we've had in our considerably short relationship have all brought him closer to being a dog person. He has completely fallen in love with Hermione and as I mentioned before, the Sugar Gliders have attached themselves to him.
As for me and Mr. K: we are best friends. Sure, we have little spats as any friends or married people do, but at the end of the day, we like doing things with each other and love being around one another. We definitely complement one another well and I think that is what makes our relationship work. I think sometimes it is easy to forget, in the craziness of the day to day, how important someone can be to you. Sometimes I forget to tell him how proud of him I am and how lucky I am to have him in my life. I mean, really, who else would put up with my crazy dog antics?
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7 comments:
- pattib said...
Aw, thanks for sharing your special Mr K with us! He sounds like a wonderful guy, and a good match for you. :) (Now I must go tell my husband, Andy, how proud I am of him, too. Thanks for that reminder!)
- 12:10 p.m.
- Becky said...
How fun to read more about you guys! And, of course I love the last sweet paragraph :)!
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- The Websters said...
Wow. Mr K. Is VERY talented.
- 5:49 p.m.
- Nicky said...
Aw, that is a lovely post. As a person who has always been blind I can't imagine it was easy for MR. K at first but sounds like everything is good now. You also sound very happy together and he is even taller than me. :) I won't ever try and mess with that guy haha.
- 9:12 p.m.
- K9 Katastrophie said...
Great post! I would love to hear about your courtship with Mr.K sometime! That is incredible how he is so talented at so many things!
- 11:19 p.m.
- Jen said...
He sounds like a very interesting person!
- 3:18 p.m.
- garthriley said...
We have been curious about Mr. K so we enjoyed learning about him. We can't wait to hear your courting story!
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Yash Chopra's rapid death has remaining expert acting professional Kamal Haasan, who met the film maker several weeks before he approved away, stunned.
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Kamal Haasan was in awe of Yash Chopra's ever passionate characteristics and convenience.
"Yashji's 80 decades sat really perfectly on his shoulder area. He never sensed the bodyweight of being 'the' Yash Chopra. He was in really like with movies, not with its features. In that sensation we were identical. When we met we were both like children in a toy shop looking at all the offerings around us. There was so much to imbibe, so much to do," he said.
"The sensation of wonderment never remaining Yashji. No issue how much mature he got, he still had the same passion stage whenever we met," he included.
Haasan exposed that Yash Chopra had programs to check out Chennai to fulfill songs genius AR Rahman to talk about about a songs for his new movie Jab Tak Hai Jaan.
"When we met last he informed me about how he would fulfill in Chennai next for a songs that A.R. Rahman was expected to provide him for his new movie. That was never intended to be," said the 57-year-old.
Many periods Yash Chopra and Kamal Haasan came near to breaking an concept they could perform on, but couldn't apply it.
"Don't ask me why we never proved helpful together until now. We were too active talking about concepts to actually get down to doing anything tangible. I've no remorse about not dealing with him," he said.
"Just hanging out talking about concepts with him was an encounter value treasuring. Even at 80 when I met him for the before he was wonder-struck by the amazing of the motion-picture strategy, of what miracle it could do.
"Every time he liked something I said he would trim over like an excellent boy with that look which said, 'Really? We can actually do that?' I'll skip that unconditional sensation of satisfaction in the lifestyle of movies during my trips to Mumbai."
Yash Chopra approved away on Oct 21 due to several body failing. He was being affected by dengue.


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One thing for sure is that once the word gets out about Oliver!, tickets for the Dickens-inspired musical blockbuster now playing at the Academy of Performing Arts are going to be prize possessions.
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CONSIDER YOURSELF AT HOME – Cole Perry (L) as the Artful Dodger welcomes the young Oliver, Maxwell Dexter (R) to join the shadowy Fagin's gang as a better way of life from toiling away at the workhouse in the Academy of Performing Arts production of Oliver!Dickens of a show at the Academy of Performing Arts
One thing for sure is that once the word gets out about Oliver!, tickets for the Dickens-inspired musical blockbuster now playing at the Academy of Performing Arts are going to be prize possessions.
All year, the APA has been producing big-cast musicals, Fiddler on the Roof, South Pacific and now Oliver!, and the Orleans-based theater group is once again making a name for themselves for putting on some highly polished community theater productions. Oliver! is perhaps the best show this year and accomplishes that using a smartly-forged collaboration between some old mainstay APA actors and a slew of talented and energetic kids. It combines to make the show both heartwarming and entertaining, which results in a real audience pleaser.
British playwright and songwriter Lionel Bart first introduced the story of Fagin and his gang of youthful pickpockets, the Artful Dodger, Mr. Sowerberry and Mr. Bumble, the murderous Bill Sykes and his ill-treated girlfriend Nancy and all the other characters in Charles Dickens' 1838 tome to the London's West End in 1960.
Two years later the successful show skipped across the pond to Broadway with Ron Moody playing Fagin, a role he reprised in the 1968 movie version of musical stage play. The show's score is beautifully written with touching melodies such as, "Where is Love," and "As Long As He Needs Me," and "Who Will Buy," entertaining group numbers like, "Food Glorious Food," "Oomph-Pa-Pa," and "Consider Your Self," and great songs for Fagin with, "You've Got To Pick A Pocket or Two," "Reviewing The Situation," it's surprising the musical isn't done more by theater groups.
Peter Earle is once again at the helm of this production, both from the director's chair and also as the lead character Fagin. It is clear he relishes the role and has a strong voice that easily handles the songs. Considering the size of the cast, the myriad of songs to stage and choreograph, Earle has done yeoman work and done it all very well.
The part of Oliver is delightfully played by Maxwell Dexter, whose pint-sized personae as a wide-eyed orphan touches your heart. He steals the show when he grabs the audiences heartstrings with a delicately clear rendition of "Where is Love." As far as his acting goes he more than holds his own among his new found world of street urchins, but is relieved when he learns who is real relatives are.
As the Artful Dodger, the ringleader of Fagin's gang Cole Perry is an all-round performer who can sing, dance and act with a terrific comedic flair.
Rebecca Lach plays the beautiful Nancy with a sweet powerful voice. The young woman has the misfortune of loving one of the most despicable men around. Her poignant cover of the song "As Long As He Needs," shows no matter how bad she is treated by her ruffian beau she still is desperate to make their turbulent relationship work.
As the brutish Sykes, Rick Smith captures the essence of the mean-to-the-point of murder black-hearted villain. Not using his usual smooth voice he grumbles his way through his signature song, "My Name."
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If you're looking for a wonderfully home-grown dose of theater, the APA's Oliver! might just have you asking, "Please sir, could I have some more?"
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ACCLAIMED actor and singer-songwriter, Dato' Mohamad Nasir Mohamad or M Nasir is currently in the Sultanate to promote his involvement in the upcoming Bruneian film, "Yasmine – the Final Fist", where the award-winning Singaporean-born Malaysian plays a fallen Silat warrior.
During a press conference held in conjunction with movie launch of film at i-Centre, Berakas yesterday, the multi-talented artiste announced to members of the media that he will make a cameo appearance in the film acting as a "dark character", a role which he described as "very challenging". He is also one of the first confirmed casts in the film.
Dato' M Nasir speaking at the press conference. – AZROL AZMI
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Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Jean-Claude Brizard was joined by leaders of the City's sister agencies, departments, community and faith leaders to announce that CPS will implement the Children First plan to support students across the city as the leadership as the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has chosen to strike on Monday.
CPS is encouraging all parents to find alternative options for their children, and will open 144 Children First sites to serve as a safety net for families who are not able to access alternatives for childcare. No instruction will occur at these sites as they will not operate as schools, but they will provide a safe and engaging environment as well as provide daily breakfast and lunch to children in need.
"The choice by the leadership of the Chicago Teachers Union to strike is an incredible burden on our families and children, and I want to thank Chicago's community and faith leaders for coming together to support our students in what will be a difficult time," said CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard. "While we can provide a safe and engaging environment for students most in need, it is not a substitute for being in class with their teachers, where our students really belong. We are committed to working with the CTU, as we have for the past few months, to find a solution that is fair for our teachers and keeps our kids in class."
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Visited last week and found it very interesting. There's not that much on the Mosquito itself - a short film, a large model and an unadorned fuselage hanging from the ceiling; there are also features on the Horsa glider and various other plywood planes. Depending on how interested you are in the rest of the exhibition it can take anything from 30 to 60 minutes to explore.
Worth a visit if you're in the area and of course there is the rest of the museum to explore.
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Seven Mile Road women, our second year of Women of the Word begins in a few weeks. Here is more information from Colleen McFadden & Shainu Thomas for anyone who may be interested in learning more.
the goal
Women of the Word exists to train women to teach women God's Word. The teaching ministry of women ranges from Bible talks in large-group settings to sitting across the table with one other woman and working to understand a passage together. To that end, we envision three different kinds of participants in this track: 1) those who teach large groups, 2) those who disciple through one-on-one or small groups, and 3) those who simply want to participate as observers (with no teaching responsibilities). We know women desire to communicate God's Word in a variety of venues. This track will equip you to understand the Bible and to communicate it effectively to others.
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Meetings: We will meet approximately once per month from October 2016 to December 2017 (taking a break in the summer). Our first meeting will be October 8, 2016. Training meetings will be on Saturday mornings from 9am-12noon at the church. The meetings are meant to provide training in biblical exposition (understanding and communicating a biblical passage) and to be a time where we can practice teaching our fellow participants in order to receive feedback to grow in our ability to teach.
Reading: All participants will be expected to purchase and read Expositional Preaching by David Helm (Crossway 2014) prior to the start of the track. There will be additional readings throughout the year as well.
Teaching: Participants who desire to teach will have the opportunity to do so. This will look different for each participant including, but not limited to, taking the form of a Bible talk at a mini-retreat, teaching a children's Sunday school lesson, writing and leading a small group Bible study, explaining the Gospel to someone outside the Christian faith. Each teaching session must be expositional in nature where the main point of the passage is the main point of the message. We will ask you to practice your teaching session in advance at a training meeting. If you participate as an observer, there will be no teaching responsibilities; however, we do encourage you to engage in the Bible study preparation for each meeting in order to gain the most from this track.
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Prayerfully consider if you would like to be a part of this training. There is a healthy amount of work to do with meeting, reading, studying, preparing, and teaching. Pray asking God if this is how your time should be spent over the next several months. If you participated in the 2015/2016 WOW track, you are welcome to participate again.
Send an email to Colleen McFadden (firstname.lastname@example.com) by October 2, 2016, if you would like to participate or with any questions. Please include your desired area of participation: 1) large group teaching, 2) discipleship through one-on-one or small groups, or 3) observation with no teaching.
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"…the reshuffle of the cabinet, the relation between the PM and the LDP, and the new cabinet members (and their background)…"
There are two kinds of major cabinet reshuffles executed by an LDP-led administration: 1) the Hail Mary (football pass), an attempt to revive fading public support, sometimes accompanied by the resignation of the prime minister himself and/or a subsequent call on a snap election; and 2) the Jimmy Carter (WH tennis court time management), a semi-regular reassignment, say, at a couple of years' intervals, to contain restlessness among the non-cabinet/sub-cabinet parliamentarians. The Abe administration's latest is obviously the latter. The evidence: high poll numbers nearly two years after the inauguration, and the retention of his chief cabinet secretary, minister of finance, and minister of foreign affairs.
The relationship between the PM and the LDP used to be simple. Barring impending disaster, faction leaders fought it out, and the winner became PM. But a variety of reasons, including losing to the opposition, changed this. Faction members now vote for whom they like with near-impunity. From Junichiro Koizumi on, only the disastrous Taro Aso has assumed the PM's office while the head of a faction—one of the weakest ones at that—while faction leader Nobutaka Machimura suffered the indignity of losing to Abe, a member of his own faction. Although open rebellion outside of the regular triennial LDP presidential election is rare, there should be significant pressure on the PM to resign if his poll numbers threatens to dip into the twenties—the thirties if a national election looms on the horizon—and a successful challenge is likely to be mounted at the regular leadership election if the PM decides to stay the course.
There are people who claim that this is a right-wing cabinet that reflects Abe's nationalist revisionist proclivities. Those people are idiots. Don't listen to them. I do not pretend to know the cabinet and sub-cabinet appointees well enough to pass judgment on them individually. But they average out to a very solid and moderate mean. Abe is not the sharpest quill on the proverbial porcupine. But he comes across as an astute and ideology-free judge of character and administrative talent.
If you have the stomach for more, I am usually available at … on Thursdays, 2-5PM, and lunch before that if you like. But call ahead just to be sure.
Addendum: The Jimmy Carter analogy doesn't work. Must keep working on my writing skills.


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The newly elected Canadian government has turned down Diamond Aircraft's request for a $35 million ($36 million U.S.) loan needed to recall workers and keep the D-Jet program on schedule.
Diamond President Peter Maurer said it became clear that the loan would not be granted, and Maurer was disappointed but "hadn't been banking on it." He added that, "The sad part is we can't recall laid off employees right away. We are not in a position to do that. One of several doors is closed," he said.
He noted China officials have talked with the company for six years, and that the company has a plant in China. He said there is nothing happening in those talks at the moment, but did not rule out the possibility that should a deal develop, Diamond would be hard pressed to turn it down.
He noted losing people now laid off to other companies would be a setback: "We would be starting over with new people." Within hours of learning the expected decision by the government, Maurer was calculating May 17 how many laid-off employees have been lured away from London, Ontario, the company's home city. He noted that while the Canadian government has a history of aiding aircraft development, mentioning the Bombardier Challenger in particular, there is not the same appetite for it in the newly elected government.


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Lisa Harper-brown has an Honours degree in music from the UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
In 1992 she won first prize in the vocal section of the AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION's YOUNG PERFORMER AWARD and in 1993, the AUSTRALIAN SINGING COMPETITION's FAIGEN AWARD, enabling her to undertake study at the BRITTEN-PEARS SCHOOL.
He first operatic engagements were for the WEST AUSTRALIAN OPERA where, between 1994 and 1996, she appeared as The First Lady in THE MAGIC FLUTE, in the title rôle of Handel's ALCINA and as Rosalinde in DIE FLEDERMAUS.
She made her debut for OPERA AUSTRALIA in 1997 appearing as the First Lady in the OZ OPERA touring production of THE MAGIC FLUTE and singing Pamina in the company's Melbourne season of THE MAGIC FLUTE. Of her performances of Helena in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, THE AUSTRALIAN wrote, …the lustrous Lisa Harper-Brown, a goofy Joyce Grenfell-esque, Helena… She appeared as Fiordiligi in COSI FAN TUTTE, of which THE HERALD SUN reviewer said, …her dark edged soprano promises a thrilling future., and THE AUSTRALIAN called her, … a knock-out as the febrile Fiordiligi., while the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD reviewer said she was, …. a delightfully sensuous Fiordiligi… constantly focussed. OPERA~OPERA declared, The secret, on this occasion, to exciting success was in the casting of Fiordiligi. She is a difficult performer to forget, tall and willowy, …. a committed actor… I found (her) performance satisfying in a way that is rare at the opera.. As Elsa in LOHENGRIN, in both the company's Sydney and Melbourne seasons, THE TELEGRAPH wrote, It was a night of superlatives. Lisa Harper-Brown made a heart stopping debut as the tragic Elsa, while the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD said, The one reason why… Lohengrin is a satisfying experience overall, is that it has in the young soprano, Lisa Harper-Brown, a performer who can make us believe in the character of Elsa. Harper-Brown, willowy, eager and vulnerable might well have posed for a pre-raphaelite portrait of the character. OPERA~OPERA wrote, Winning hearts was the Elsa of Lisa Harper-Brown, a tall, beautiful and elegant soprano., and writing of her performances of The Countess in THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, OPERA~OPERA said, …excellent. She added a depth of musical perception to those two great arias, particularly Dove sono.
On the concert stage her appearances have included engagements as soloist for performances of Gorecki's SYMPHONY OF SORROWFUL SONGS mounted by the UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, recitals in Florence, Den Haag, Malaga and Fuengerola, Spain, in Oxford, and throughout the UK including concerts at ST. JAMES'S, PICCADILLY and ST. MARTINS IN THE FIELDS in London. During 1995, in the UK, she was one of the soloists in Mendelssohn's ELIJAH appearing alongside British baritone, Benjamin Luxon. She has been a guest artist in MOZART BY MOONLIGHT in Sydney's BOTANICAL GARDENS, performances she repeated in 1998 and 2001. She was guest artist in the SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's SYMPHONY UNDER THE STARS in the SYDNEY FESTIVAL of which the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD said: Lisa Harper-Brown…the clarity and precision of her voice had the crispness of summer wine. Yes, thank you, some more please., and, with the same orchestra was engaged as Gerhilde in its concert performances of DIE WALKÜRE. For the MELBOURNE SYMPHONY she has been soloist in Barber's KNOXVILLE, SUMMER OF 1915, with the STATE ORCHESTRA OF VICTORIA she appeared in OPERA IN THE BOWL in the MYER MUSIC BOWL in Melbourne and has given guest appearances for the AUSTRALIAN POPS ORCHESTRA in the MELBOURNE CONCERT HALL and the SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE. She appeared in the SYDNEY 2000 OLYMPICS OPERA GALA.
Lisa Harper-Brown's 2002 engagements included Echo in ARIADNE AUF NAXOS and the Countess in THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO in OPERA AUSTRALIA's Sydney and Melbourne seasons, performances which won her a HELPMANN AWARD for Best Supporting Actress and, during 2003, Diana in ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD and a return to Helena in A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM both for OPERA AUSTRALIA.
2004 engagements included Ortlinde in the STATE OPERA OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA's DIE WALKÜRE and Dvorak's STABAT MATER, both in the PERTH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL and during 2005, Musetta in OPERA QUEENSLAND's LA BOHEME.
She appeared as the First Lady in THE MAGIC FLUTE for HAMBURG STATE OPERA during 2006.
Lisa Harper-Brown returned to the role of Helena in both the Melbourne and Sydney seasons of Britten's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM for OPERA AUSTRALIA during 2010.
During 2012 she sang the role of Ortlinde in the NEW ZEALAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's concert performances of DIE WALKURE in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland. She also appeared in the lead soprano role of Elizabeth I in Donizetti's MARIA STUARDA for DAYS BAY OPERA in Wellington.
Engagements during 2013 included Verdi's REQUIEM with the NEW ZEALAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA and her debut for OPERA NEW ZEALAND as Donna Anna in DON GIOVANNI. She has also appeared in THE RINGTONE CYCLE in a season of five performances in THE SALON at the MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE as part of the program of 2013 MELBOURNE RING FESTIVAL which ran alongside OPERA AUSTRALIA's production of Wagner's RING CYCLE; the piece was written for her and the SERAPHIM TRIO by Graham Koehne and originally premiered at the 2012 ADELAIDE FESTIVAL.
2014 included her return to the role of Donna Anna in DON GIOVANNI for OPERA NEW ZEALAND in its seasons in Wellington and Auckland.
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The Miami Children's Museum is not so much a museum as a glorified playhouse, with areas for kids to practice all sorts of adult activities like banking and food shopping, caring for pets, playing TV news anchor in a studio and acting as a local cop or firefighter.
Kids can pretend they're banking at the miniature Bank of America, shopping at the local Publix Supermarket, or taking a Carnival cruise ship, which even stops in the re-created port of Brazil. One of the more impressive exhibits is the World Music Studio, where budding rock stars can lay down a few tracks and play instruments.
The Miami Children's Museum also offers educational displays about subjects ranging from Miami architecture to Brazilian culture. There are also hundreds of bilingual, interactive exhibits as well as programs, classes, and learning materials related to arts, culture, community, and communication.
The Children's Museum is located across the MacArthur Causeway from Jungle Island, east of downtown Miami. There's a parent/teacher resource center, a Kid Smart educational gift shop, a 200-seat auditorium, and a restaurant.


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i honestly can not get over how amazing the liquid gold that comes out of this machine is.
we have one at my new workplace.
i'm having a love affair at the office with this baby.
WHAAATTT??? I thought you were all for and ONLY for tea??? :-) Mind you I guess George would change my mind too!!!! hehehe


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The newest member of my household arrived in a jar last Saturday, and the first thing I did was starve it for a week. Quite the warm welcome, I know, but luckily everything seems to be fine.
My friend Jordan gave me some of his sourdough starter, and I have a lot to learn. It's no ordinary cooking ingredient—this thing needs to eat. Sometimes it likes to be in the fridge, and other times it prefers the counter. And I could very well be responsible for killing it.
My favorite source for the science of cooking is Shirley O. Corriher's Cookwise. I pulled it out yesterday and read up on starters. Apparently, sourdough starter is a symbiotic relationship between yeast and bacteria. So I guess there are two new members of my household.
I really like the idea of a starter—a little boost from a friend to help you towards your goal. I wish there were starters for other household projects. I could have used a laundry starter this weekend. And a starter to clean my barbeque, which is overflowing with ashes. And there are many weeknights when a simple dinner starter would come in handy.
I fed the starter a few times this weekend to get it good and bubbly, and made a nice little loaf of bread today. It's pretty good, and quite lovely to look at, but there are a few things I'll change next time. Maybe I'll advance to pancakes and muffins, but for now I am working on bread. And on not killing the starter.
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These have been some busy times, I've visited over the last few weeks and then got waylaid halfway through writing a post. In fact something is bound to distract me any moment now…No? Phew. I'll keep going then.
I officially left my job at the end of August and since then have been drawing up a different sort of career plan. Currently I'm marginally under-employed but building up hours slowly – I've been lucky enough to find work doing the things I love and am getting mildly entrepreneurial with some drawing stuff too. Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty broke and I will need to get a 'day job' to keep things ticking over but I'm excited about work once more after feeling so miserable about it for so long. You don't realise how bad things have been until you begin to come out the other side.
If there's been a challenge over the last month or so it's been to hold my nerve and not simply hop back on to the treadmill – it would be easy to do, it's what I have always done before – for short-term financial stability. Writing this blog really made me look at the B.A.D patterns in my life, one of them is that I burn out super- fast under stress and take a long time to recover. I've spent a lifetime railing against this, imagining that each new set of circumstances will yield a different result. Like banging your head against a brick wall and expecting it not to hurt if you do it enough. So I'm trying out a new way of doing things. If I end up eating sawdust-bread and living in a shoe box I will know that the old way was better.
So, October will continue to be a 'hold-your-nerve' challenge and I'll be looking at research about how we break patterns and cycles and make changes. Brain stuff an' that.
In the meantime,
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A TV crew from one of the UK's most famous shows visited Queen's University this week to get to the bottom of an out-of-this-world mystery.
The News Letter tagged along to find out more about the next episode of long-running BBC programme The Sky At Night which deals with the discovery of an object from another solar system and the research on it carried out by a team of Queen's astronomers.
Researcher Michele Bannister told of the moment last October when her team learnt of the 'foreign object' in our solar system.
She said: "A circular was sent out to members of the astronomical community at about 6.30am saying that there was a very good chance a group in Hawaii had observed the first interstellar comet.
"For people like myself who have spent many years trying to understand what exists in our own solar system, this was so exciting – another little piece of a solar system that is not our own that has come to visit."
She said the team of eight from Queen's then scrambled to gain access to telescopes in the Canaries, Hawaii and Chile which can be programmed over the Internet and viewed remotely.
"We know it's from another solar system because of the path it took," she said.
"What we've learned is it's about twice the size of the Europa Hotel and it's quite elongated, vaguely cucumber-shaped. It's travelling twice as fast as the fastest spaceship to leave planet earth.
"If you were able to stand on its surface – which you couldn't do – it would be a bit like the texture of merengue.
"We have no idea which solar system it came from – that's the fun part."
In the stacked infrared image that we've printed above, Ms Bannister explained the object known as 'Oumuamua is a dot of light in the centre, the long streaks are stars and the little curls are cosmic rays.
Sky at Night presenter Professor Chris Lintott said: "I think the most exciting thing is that it's a mystery story.
"It's astronomy at its most exciting – something has arrived in our solar system, it's a dot in an image and no one knows what it is. I'm very excited to be [at Queen's] because the people here were the ones chasing that story down.
"We're telling the story of Alan (Fitzsimmons) in a hotel room desperately sending emails asking for telescope time, or Michele calling colleagues in Hawaii to work out what to do. I think that really makes the science come alive."
The late Patrick Moore presented The Sky At Night from 1957 until 2013, making it the longest-running TV programme with the same presenter of all time.
Prof Lintott said: "There's an episode from the sixties where they talk about the possibility of an astroid from another solar system coming into ours, but I don't think anyone actually thought they'd see one. This is completely unprecedented."
Post grad student at Tom Secull, 24, said: "Of all the humans on earth we're the first to get to observe and work on this kind of project."
Fellow post grad student Meabh Hyland, 25, said: "I've always been interested in astronomy since I was very young. It's exciting to be able to work on these sorts of things."
• Queen's University features in the episode on Sunday, February 11 on BBC Four at 10pm


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A couple of new stamps from Great Impressions caught my eye this month and I pulled one of them out for today's card: Homes. I did some paper piecing with 6x6 paper pads by Echo Park (also available in the Great Impressions shop!) for the houses for something different. I die cut the clouds and sun from a couple of PTI dies and adhered them to the top of my card. The sentiment was added last with letter stickers and my typewriter.
(Supplies - Stamps: (Great Impressions) Homes. Ink: (Memento) Tuxedo Black. Cardstock: (PTI) Rustic white, Limeade Ice, Soft Sky, Harvest Gold. Dies: Papertrey Ink. Patterned Paper: Echo Park. Other: Buttons, twine.)
Have you tried paper piecing on a card? Line art stamps are perfect for this technique! And 6x6 paper pads make it really easy to coordinate patterns.
Don't forget to check out this month's challenge! You can find all the info here.
Have a great week!


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This course is designed to help students successfully transition from high school AP chemistry to the college level. It provides a general introduction to topics that entering freshmen typically find among the most difficult to master in a first-semester general chemistry course, including the nature and structure of the atom, quantum chemistry, and the nature of bonding. Students gain familiarity with the way in which a rigorous college chemistry course is taught and receive a realistic exposure to the nature of quizzes and exams. Problem sets, selected readings, and group problem-solving strengthen skills and facilitate learning. Prerequisites: one year of high school chemistry, 2 years of highschool algebra.


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text: Adam Hanga, the Turkish Airlines Euroleague's reigning Best Defender Trophy winner, has left Baskonia Vitoria Gasteiz to join FC Barcelona Lassa for the next three seasons, the clubs announced Tuesday. Hanga (2.01 meters, 28 years old) averaged 10.5 points, 4.4 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.3 steals in 33 games last season, at the end of which he was chosen as EuroLeague Best Defender by EuroLeague head coaches. In 75 career games over three EuroLeague seasons, Hanga has accumulated 654 points, 316 rebounds and 91 steals. He proved a major contributor to Baskonia reaching the EuroLeague Final Four in 2016 for the first time in eight years as he was the EuroLeague's fourth-best stealer and shot-blocker that season. Over the last two seasons, he has accumulated the fourth-most steals (80) and the sixth-most blocks (55) in EuroLeague play while being the shortest player ranked among the top 20 in total rebounds (285). Hanga started his career with Albacomp-UPC Szekesfehervar of his native Hungary and also played for Basquet Manresa of Spain and Sidigas Avellino of Italy. Hanga is a member of the Hungarian national team. At Barcelona, Hanga rejoins Sito Alonso, who was his head coach at Baskonia last season and now sits at the head of Barcelona's bench.


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text: Riley says his new guns are injury-free heading into training camp. From the Herald: "Having limped out of last season with injuries, Miami Heat forwards LeBron James and Chris Bosh likely won't miss a step when the team opens training camp next week. Heat president Pat Riley said Thursday that James and Bosh recently passed voluntary conditioning tests and have recovered from injuries that limited both late last season and into the playoffs. James played with a strained right elbow during Cleveland's playoff run that ended with a six-game loss to Boston in the second round of the playoffs. Bosh sustained a facial fracture April 6 that required surgery. He missed the final five games of the regular season with Toronto. He also has missed dozens of games in recent years with soreness in both knees. Although James and the Cavaliers initially downplayed the significance of the strain last season, Riley said Thursday 'it was a real injury' the Heat checked out after James signed with the Heat as a free agent in July. Riley said James passed a physical examination before signing his six-year, $110 million contract and has shown no discomfort in workouts with Miami's staff."


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Points is a software company that makes the world's loyalty programs more valuable and engaging. I am the Scrum Master for 3 teams helping to successfully deliver projects with multiple product components and features in a SaaS based environment. I collaborate closely with other scrum teams, Software Engineering, Product, Delivery Services and the Leadership Team.
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We know that music is a great way to pass on cultural norms to children. Our ethnic songs tell rich stories and carry the sounds and rhythms that cling like soil to our family's roots. They enrich our lives by reminding us that we have come together from other countries, religions and races with rituals and customs often very different from the predominant culture in which we live. We also have new songs grown out of our current culture that pass on the unspoken biases and echo the morality of the norms that guide our daily lives. When we "swim" in a predominant culture, like fish who do not notice that they swim in water, we may not be aware of the powerful messages that we pass on in our songs.
Here's an example. Remember that old Mother Goose nursery rhyme about little girls made of "sugar and spice and everything nice" and little boys made of "snakes and snails and puppy dog tails"? The musical lilt of the poem doesn't hide the fact that two hundred years ago we trained children to abide by the strict limitations of the gender roles that were so entrenched at that time. Now we accept and delight in knowing that some little boys are sweet as sugar and spice, and some little girls are full of snails and puppy dog tails, (whatever that means!). When our possibilities are limited, our lives are diminished, and none of us want a diminished life.
As "singer-songwriter-storytellers" we have the ability to lift others who feel diminished. We can expand possibilities and avoid limitations that our culture imbues within us about our gender, our values, honesty, self-worth, playfulness and treatment of one another. It's both an opportunity and a responsibility, but in order to do this, we must first be aware of what needs to change. It requires a clarity about the cultural messages carried in our songs and stories. Do our messages, like Mother Goose, limit today's children? When we discover a "hidden message" in a song, do we throw it away or change it? Perhaps we explain to our audience why we changed it, so they can raise their awareness as well. As we gain clarity about our cultural biases, all of us move closer to being a more reasonable, sustainable and caring species on this planet.
Let's take a look at a few of our commonly accepted cultural messages.
Imagine you are invited to have your own television show. Every Saturday morning you could sing new songs and bring new possibilities into the living rooms of millions of homes. Your television producers however, aren't comfortable with you as a 'real person', so they've developed a Daisy the Dinosaur suit they'd like you to wear. Mattel will manufacture little plastic Daisys and toy sales will help fund your show. So you sign on the dotted line and the next morning they want you to sing a song called "Grown-ups Know Best!" And you suddenly remember the Little Golden Book about Tootle, the little engine that didn't want to stay on the tracks. He would run with his buddy the horse out in the meadow, and come back to the station happy and covered with mud. Well, Engineer Bill and all the townspeople knew what was best. Tootle's behavior had to be stopped, so they hid behind bushes in the field and waved red flags at him whenever he got off the tracks, and Tootle learned that he had to "stay on the tracks, no matter what!"
You loved that book as a child, but you now think, "That's not a message I want to give to kids! Kids need to take chances and explore new possibilities, to think for themselves and pay attention to their feelings, not just believe everything adults tell them." So you refuse to sing the song, and the producers say. "See? This is why we didn't want a 'real person'! Pick up your pay check on the way out. Hey Charlie! You want to be in the Dinosaur suit today?" And we see that going against predominant cultural views can be financially costly for us, which brings up another hidden message.
Instead of firing you, the producers might offer you more money to do their song, because our current culture taught them that everything (and everybody) has a price. I loved talking to my old friend Utah Phillips about how everything we touch gets passed through 'the cash nexus'.
"They think that if something costs more, it's better!" Utah would grumble, "but how about 'time' and 'space'? Parents who spend time with their kids instead of money, have happier kids. I gave my son Brendan some space in the empty bottom drawer of my bureau as a gift one Christmas. He thought I was cheap, but I told him he could put anything in it that he wanted! It didn't cost me anything, but it was worth a lot to him. And I had to remember that it was his space, and not tell him how to use it or organize it. Good lesson!"
If we honestly investigate why we place value on certain things around us, we can pass that clarity on in our songs. I wanted to give my kids an allowance, and my wife questioned me, saying that our kids could get funds from us if they really needed something. I held on to the allowance concept until I realized that my hidden reason for giving them an allowance was so I could cut them off if they didn't do what I wanted! I caught myself limiting their possibilities, but I got a great song out of it.
A feminist economist told me that our values go off the tracks (like Tootle the train) when economics thinks of itself as a pure science. In reality, our culture consists of the rules of economics as they operate within social and environmental contexts, and these contexts need to be considered before we take action. Of course we want Daisy the Dinosaur to make a profit, but what's the point of doing the show if Daisy doesn't encourage kids and families to find other caring ways to interact socially or to care about the physical environment of the community in which we all live? We want Daisy to help kids learn "how to think, not just what to think". (The same struggle teachers face, working in schools that focus on test scores instead of on the development of a whole child.)
Money is not the only "bottom line". Social and environmental contexts have "bottom lines" too. As singers and songwriters we can use our songs to model other diverse ways to value things in our lives, instead of passing everything through "the cash nexus". Families need our help to do this, because what we have now is not sustainable. Can we play with that hidden message?
"If you play around, you never accomplish anything!" When little kids play, accomplishment is not their goal. "Playing around" means you are trying out possibilities. Football "players", on the other hand "play" football, but it's more about winning than playing. Earth Ball is about playing, not winning. It consists of a huge canvas ball in the middle of a field. Players form two teams. Each team tries to roll the ball over other team's goal line, but you can change teams anytime you want, so as long as people want to keep playing, the game goes on. Life is a game like that. Most of us want to keep playing (sustainable) but there are others who believe they can only play to win, and like most games, when someone wins, the game ends.
A interviewer asked one of the young women protesters at Occupy Wall Street about the lack of clear demands from the protesters. She answered eloquently.
"First, making a demand would mean we don't have the ability to make changes happen ourselves, when we actually have great power to make changes, so we don't need to ask others to make changes for us. Second, a demand might temporarily be responded to, but as long as the same system stays in place, things eventually return to what we have now. And third, we are here learning and educating each other. Us younger folks need to create a world with more possibilities and hope for us and everyone else, including the police, the bankers and the 1%."
Fortunately chewing is a process, not a result, so we don't need all the answers, maybe just some song revisions. We are the bearers of the stories and songs of childhood culture. As we build our own awareness about how best to shepherd in new visions and possibilities for the adults of the future, we help create a world with more hope.
Reprinted from Children's Music Network - Pass It On! Magazine - Peter Alsop's "Thoughts To Chew" column - Spring, 2012


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Well, it's Tuesday again and you know what that means. Time for another COLOR ME challenge. Are you ready? I am.
So, let's get started!
Thanks to everyone who entered last week. The entries were all great. . .as ALWAYS!
The winner for the Smirky Graduate (boy) stamp is: Donna Vallee.
The winner for the Smirky Graduate (girl) stamp is also: Donna Vallee.
Congratulations Donna!!! Just drop me an email and I'll get your free images right out to you.
Here are the two images for this weeks COLOR ME challenge. I've done both a boy and girl for you. Since Mother's Day (US) is quickly approaching, I decided on these two little cuties. They're really perfect for ANY time, but I had moms in mind when I drew them. Hope you'll like them too.
You may color one or both. The choice is up to you, but you are allowed to enter a card for each image.
A Mother's Day Heart (boy)
A Mother's Day Heart (girl)
So, let's get COLORING. You'll have until 5 PM EST, Monday, April 11th. to upload your card or blog using Mr. Linky to qualify for the FREE image. There will be a winner for EACH image, (which are as always, chosen by my son), and the winning cards will be the model for the colored image that I offer in the store.
And. . .
if you follow the challenge rules of Bold & Bright over at Sassy Cheryl's Challenge blog, you may enter your image there as well. You can win a $5 gift certificate in that challenge.
Can't wait to see what you do. I think these images are going to be SUPER fun to color! Or at least I hope so!
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text: CS6800 Advanced Theory of Computation Hybrid Genetic Algorithm in Solving TSP By Ting-Yu Mu Outline Introduction of pure Genetic Algorithm Introduction of Traveling Salesman Problem Example of pure GA solving TSP The Hybrid Genetic Algorithm The design and the implementation of the Hybrid GA Conclusion The Pure Genetic Algorithm A search heuristic that mimics the process of natural evolution Utilized for generating useful solutions to optimization/search problems Techniques inspired by natural evolution: Inheritance Mutation Selection Crossover The Methodology of GA A typical GA needs: A genetic representation of the solution domain A fitness function to evaluate the domain Initialization Many individual solutions are randomly generated to form an initial population (chromosomes) The population size depends on the problem Selection A proportional of the existing population is selected to breed a new generation through a fitness-based process (fitness function) The Methodology of GA Genetic Operations A pair of parent solutions is selected for breeding the child using: Crossover (recombination): Varies chromosomes One-point crossover Two-point crossover Mutation: Used to maintain genetic diversity from parent and child 1010010 → 1010110 The Methodology of GA Termination: The process is repeated until a termination condition has been satisfied, the conditions include: A solution is found that satisfies the need Fixed number of generations reached Computation time reached The best solution's fitness value is reached Combinations of all above The Methodology of GA Traveling Salesman Problem A classical NP-hard Combinatorial Optimization (CO) problem NP-hard: Non-deterministic Polynomial-time hard At least as hard as the hardest problems in NP An algorithm is said to be of polynomial time if its running time is upper bounded by a polynomial expression in the size of the input ( = ( ) for some constant k) Time complexity of TSP: (2 ∗ 2 ) Combinatorial optimization: A topic that consists of finding an optimal object from a finite set of objects (The best solution) Traveling Salesman Problem Given n number of cities and the distances between each of the cities: Objective: Find the cheapest round-trip route that a salesman has to take by visiting all the cities exactly once and returning to the starting city Possible Complete algorithm Bad solutions: idea due to computational complexity Approximate algorithm (better): Nearest Neighbor (NN) algorithm Genetic Algorithm Pure GA for Solving TSP Involves various stages for solving TSP: Encoding Evaluation Crossover Mutation Elitism Decoding Pure GA for Solving TSP Encoding of TSP: Decides the format of the chromosome Decimal chromosome is used instead of binary due to the complexity of the problem All the genetic operations are done by manipulating genes (integers), and each gene corresponds to a city Each chromosome corresponds to a route Two conditions need to be met: The length of the chromosome should be exactly = n No integer in the range {1, 2, …, n} should occur more than once Pure GA for Solving TSP Evaluation The main goal of TSP is to minimize the tour distance: same for the evaluation criterion The lesser the distance traveled, the better the route is The termination criterion is the number of generation evolved GA of Chromosomes: stops after certain number of iterations The solution: The best chromosome in the last generation Pure GA for Solving TSP Crossover Operation: Two chromosomes are randomly selected using roulette wheel selection The chromosomes with higher fitness stand a better chance for getting selected The operation continues until the specified crossover rate is met Higher fitness chromosomes will produce a better next generation with higher fitness values Pure GA for Solving TSP Crossover Example: Crossover operation for TSP of 8 cities The parents selected are P1 and P2 P1: Operation: 4 6 1 8 5 3 2 7, P2: 3 2 8 6 4 7 1 5 Two indices are chosen at random (Ex. 2 and 5), creating a window of cities in each chromosome tmp1: 6 1 8 5, tmp2: 2 8 6 4 Exchanges these two windows from each other The initial child IC1 and IC2 are generated by scanning P1 and P2 gene by gene, left to right, until all the genes are scanned: IC1: 1 2 8 6 4 5 3 7, IC2: 3 6 1 8 5 2 4 7 Pure GA for Solving TSP Mutation Operation: Works on a single chromosome at a time and alters the genes randomly Reversing the order of genes between the randomly chosen indices The chosen chromosome C1 = 3 6 1 8 5 2 4 7 Choose two random indices: 3 and 7 Creates a window: 1 8 5 2 4 Reverse the window: 4 2 5 8 1 New chromosome: 3 6 4 2 5 8 1 7 Critical step due to the optimization of sub-route Changing the starting and ending points Pure GA for Solving TSP Elitism: Helps to keep the better solutions intact and pass over into the next generation without alteration The elitism rate directly depends on the size of the population The rate should be decreased when the population size is increased For example: The TSP with population of 100 cities, the elitism rate is set to 50% Due to the mutation will also randomly worsens the best solutions found so far Pure GA for Solving TSP Decoding of Chromosomes: It decodes the best chromosome in the final generation After the max number of generations are reached, the GA will terminate, the best chromosome so far found is chosen as the solution The route that the salesman has to travel in order Hybrid GA for Solving TSP Hybrid genetic algorithms are used to improve the convergence rate and find more optimal solution over the pure GA The Hybrid GA uses the Nearest Neighbor (NN) TSP heuristics for initialization of population Nearest Neighbor is chosen to hybrid with GA to see the performance enhancement in solving TSP Hybrid GA for Solving TSP Nearest Neighbor Algorithm: The algorithm generates the NN routes for each city considering them as the starting city for that particular route The algorithm: Step1: Move all the cities to a list Step2: Select the starting city as present city and remove it from the list Step3: Find the nearest city to the present city in the list and make it present city and remove it from the list Step4: Repeat step3 until the list is empty Step5: Return to the starting city and show NN route Hybrid GA for Solving TSP Nearest Neighbor Hybrid of GA All the NN routes are found for each city as starting city The NN routes are stored and analyzed for their fitness values The better routes from this NN algorithm are considered along with the solutions generated by the genetic algorithms The Comparison The performance comparison between pure GA and Hybrid GA in convergence rate: The Hybrid GA is way better than pure GA though it involves an extra complexity in getting NN route NN depends on starting city, Hybrid GA does not Conclusion Importing of solutions from NN algorithm into the initial population of the pure GA gives better convergence The hybrid approach also consumes lesser memory and lesser computational time To achieve better performance of GA: Parallel programming Genetic operations refinement Crossover refinement Mutation refinement References [1] Performance Enhancement in solving TSP using Hybrid Genetic Algorithm. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org [2] Genetic Algorithm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm [3] NP-hard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-hard [4] Combinatorial Optimization. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_optimi zation


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I will be sending these little pieces of art out to my friends and followers who request one. If you would one of my future ICADs sent your way, comment below and send your mailing address to me at (thedotnestmonster at gmail dot com).
It's day 7 of my personal ICAD* challenge. Today I used a cut out phrase from a magazine - "in progress"
This is not one of my favorites but a promise is a promise.
* Index Card-A-Day
Here's the video of the making of ICAD #007:
Supplies Used: Gesso, magazine cutouts, Dylusion Ink Sprays, Faber-Castell Pitt Big Brush Pens, Faber-Castell Gel Sticks, Portfolio Watersoluble Oil Pastels, Liquitex Gel Medium, Modge Podge, Stabilo pencil, Uni-ball Black pen, and Paint pen.


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"At the horse, Despard, at the horse!" cried an authoritative voice from behind.
The pistol flashed, and the coach lurched over as one of the horses gave a convulsive spring. But the driver still shrieked and lashed with his whip, while the carriage bounded onwards.
But now the road turned a sudden curve, and there, right in front of them, not a hundred paces away, was the Seine, running cold and still in the moonshine. The bank on either side of the highway ran straight down without any break to the water's edge. There was no sign of a bridge, and a black shadow in the centre of the stream showed where the ferry-boat was returning after conveying some belated travellers across. The driver never hesitated, but gathering up the reins, he urged the frightened creatures into the river. They hesitated, however, when they first felt the cold water about their hocks, and even as they did so one of them, with a low moan, fell over upon her side. Despard's bullet had found its mark. Like a flash the coachman hurled himself from the box and plunged into the stream; but the pursuing horsemen were all round him before this, and half-a-dozen hands had seized him ere he could reach deep water, and had dragged him to the bank. His broad hat had been struck off in the struggle, and De Catinat saw his face in the moonshine. Great heavens! It was Amos Green.
The desperadoes were as much astonished as was De Catinat when they found that they had recaptured in this extraordinary manner the messenger whom they had given up for lost. A volley of oaths and exclamations broke from them, as, on tearing off the huge red coat of the coachman, they disclosed the sombre dress of the young American.
"A thousand thunders!" cried one. "And this is the man whom that devil's brat Latour would make out to be dead!"


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A fortnight ago I was at the Wellcome Trust for an event curated by Amy Cutler in which artists, musicians and academics re-soundtracked nature documentaries by performing texts, improvising music and creating alternative soundscapes. The ways in which animals are filmed and presented to viewers are continually changing (demonstrated vividly last year in the BBC's Zoo Quest in Colour) and this event included footage made with very different purposes in mind, from the scientific (Julian Huxley) to the surreal (Jean Painlevé). As someone who grew up with Animal Magic and Johnny Morris doing amusing voiceovers to the 'antics' of zoo creatures, I've always viewed nature programmes with some suspicion and they clearly offer a rich field for academic enquiry, raising many more questions than the obvious ones around anthropomorphism. The reason for mentioning the Wellcome Trust event here is that two of the performers, Justin Hopper and Sterling MacKinnon, chose not to soundtrack a nature documentary, performing instead to Larry Gottheim's seminal landscape film, Fog Line (1970).
In introducing this performance Amy said that her students hate it when she makes them sit through Fog Line. If this seems hard to believe, check out the hostility of the film's lone reviewer on IMDB. In The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place, Scott MacDonald describes a kind of blindness in people who are asked to watch it. 'When I ask viewers immediately after a screening of Fog Line what they've just seen, a frequent response is a sardonic "Nothing!"' Many are unaware that there are horses in the film, shadowy forms that become visible about two thirds of the way through. It is as if the static camera, slow silence and gradual evaporation of the fog condition the viewer into thinking nothing at all will happen. MacDonald suggests that an inability to notice the horses also reflects a refusal to see the filmmaker 'as the designer of the image'; in fact Gottheim chose his location partly because he had observed horses moving in and out of the space.
In his discussion of the film, MacDonald suggests that it presents the viewer with three conundrums: why did Gottheim include the wires, how is it that the horses appear so small compared to the trees, and what is that blurry grey disc, like a dark sun, that appears above the trees? The answers illustrate Gottheim's interest in the way landscape vision is mediated through technology. Those power lines offer a frame to measure the change in our field of vision, from blankness to a flat grey pattern and finally a three-dimensional space. The depth of field that seems to distort what would naturally be seen by someone on the spot is the result of using a telephoto lens. And that mysterious disc in the sky is simply a smudge on the camera that Gottheim did not remove - even if the film lasted longer than the last of the fog, we would never see the landscape perfectly.
I had only ever seen Fog Line in silence, though never of course in absolute silence, and as I watch it now the lifting fog is accompanied by the hum of my computer, a distant intermittent drill and the slow rumble of an aeroplane. Nevertheless, the film itself projects a sense of quiet, and it is easy to imagine the fog muting any ambient sound. At the Wellcome Trust, Fog Line was accompanied by a gradual amplification, with the emergence of recognisable landscape features echoed in the way a spoken fragment - 'Fogs also vary' - was repeated with more and more words until it became William Gilpin's complete sentence: 'Fogs also vary a distant country as much as light, soften the harsh features of landscape and spreading over them a beautiful, grey, harmonising tint.'
In preparing his piece, Justin discovered that Fog Line was filmed near the small town (Binghamton, New York) where he grew up. So, after the Gilpin quote, he included words to evoke the 'physical and psychic landscape of small-town America: William S Burroughs, Walt Whitman and others. This telephone-wired and neon-lit landscape that dramatically appears from behind the fog's gauze, coming into focus just in time to snap back out again.' It's strange, because to me those mist-covered trees and fields don't seem particularly American at all. Instead they bring to mind the Sussex of my own childhood, although as I try now to recall that 'distant country' it slips slowly back into the fog.


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Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) are increasingly turning to computer aided simulation to help improve engine performance. They are finding that simulation-based design offers the greatest potential for cost savings, as the engine can be first broken down into different key components which influence performance. These key components vary from the intake port flow, in cylinder combustion process, to coolant flow, piston cooling, and even the oil flow patterns in the engine.
There are certain test criteria that have been contingent on using only physical testing in the product development process. Some of these test systems are fairly complicated, usually with varied time scales. The recent advancements in CFD methodology and computer hardware are making full 3D system simulation a reality, which is breaking down the barriers to virtual testing.
This webcast covers virtual powertrain testing in place of physical testing. Presenters will also discuss how advancements in multi physics and heat transfer models have made this approach possible today.
Speakers discuss a method of separating these system simulations into several sub-systems, allowing the subsystems to interact with each other, and exchange data to simulate some of the more complex physical tests.
Guest Speaker:
Jeff Schlautman, GM Powertrain


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Fo Da Philippi Peopo 3 Hawai'i Pidgin (HWP)
How Fo Get Um Right Wit God
3 Kay den, bruddas an sistas. Stay good inside, cuz you guys stay tight wit da Boss! Da kine stuff I telling you guys inside dis letta, dat fo help you guys fo stay outa trouble, an dat no make bodderation fo me fo tell you guys dat one mo time.
2 Eh! Watch out da kine peopo dat ack pilau kine! Dey da kine peopo dat everytime do bad kine stuff. Dass da kine peopo dat say you gotta knife up da body. 3 Dey tell, "Fo be God's guy fo real kine, gotta cut skin." But you know, us guys, we da guys dat get God's Spirit. Dass jalike da mark fo show dat we God's guys fo real kine, not dem. Cuz wen we do stuff fo God, da Spirit help us do um, dass why. Us guys can feel real proud cuz we stay tight wit God's Spesho Guy, Jesus Christ. We no tink we okay jus cuz somebody wen do someting to our body.
4 Now me, if I like, I can tink I okay cuz a who me, an wat I wen do, but no need. If da odda guys figga dey can trus dat stuff, I figga I get plenny mo fo trus den dem guys. Listen up! 5 Dey wen cut skin on me one week afta I born. I from da Israel peopo, from da Benjamin ohana. I hundred percent one Hebrew guy. I wen work real hard fo do everyting God's Rules say, jalike da Pharisee guys teach um. 6 I wen go all out fo make da church peopo suffa plenny. If you figga can get um right wit God if you do jalike God's Rules say, I do all dat awready. No can poin finga me an say I neva.
7 But you know wat? No matta I wen figga all dat stuff do me plenny good, now, I figga all dat stuff ony junk! Cuz I stay tight wit Christ now, dass why. 8 Mo den dat, jalike I wen say, now I figga everyting ony junk. Cuz now, I know my Boss Jesus Christ fo real kine, an dass mo betta! I wen lose everyting cuz I his guy, you know. An I figga, all dat kine ony rubbish! Cuz I like come real tight wit Christ. 9 I like everybody know dat I stay tight wit Christ. I do wat God's Rules say, but dat no make me get um right wit God. I get um right wit him cuz I trus Christ, dass why! Dat way, wen I trus him, God da One dat wen make me come right wit him.
10 Main ting, I like know Christ to da max. He wen come back alive afta he wen mahke, an he get plenny power. I like him make dat power work inside me. Wen I suffa cuz I Christ's guy, I like handle um jalike him. I like come jalike Christ, so wen I go mahke, I goin handle um jalike him. 11 So den if can, I figga, bumbye afta I mahke, God goin let me come back alive.
I Like Win Da Race
12 I not saying dat I wen win da race awready. I not perfeck yet. Mo like I go all out, cuz I like da medal fo come mines. Jesus Christ make me come his guy awready. Dass why I go all out fo win. 13 Eh, bruddas an sistas! I know dat da medal not mines yet. But I doing da main ting so I can get um -- I not even tinking bout all da stuff dat wen happen awready. I going fo broke fo da stuff dat goin happen bumbye. 14 I running all out fo win da race. An you know wat kine medal I goin get fo dat? Dis: God goin tell me, "Eh! Come up hea by me!" An I going dea cuz a Jesus Christ, dass why.
15 You know, all us guys dat stay grown up an solid inside, good we all tink an feel da same way. If you guys tink diffren, God goin show you how you suppose to tink. 16 You guys doing okay, so stick wit da stuff you know an stay do um.
17 Eh, bruddas an sistas! Help each odda fo ack how I ack. Get odda guys dat do jalike I do. Check out dem guys too. You guys get all us guys fo copy, so you guys can do jalike we do. 18 But eh! Jalike I wen tell you guys ova an ova awready, an even now I stay crying wen I telling you guys dis: Get plenny guys dat stay agains Christ, an dey no can take dat he wen mahke on top da cross. 19 Dem guys, bumbye dey goin wipe out. Dey ony live fo eat. Everytime dey do shame kine stuff, an dey figga dey so hot stuff wen dey make lidat. Dey da guys dat ony like tink bout da kine stuff from dis world.
20 But us guys, we get our own place wit God inside da sky. Dass wea our Boss Jesus Christ stay. We stay waiting fo him come back from dea, cuz he da guy dat goin take us outa da bad kine stuff we stay in. 21 He goin make our bodies come real diffren, no matta our bodies stay kinda junk kine right now. Christ, his body wen come real awesome, an he goin make us come jalike him. He can do dat, cuz he get da power fo take ova everyting.
Hawai'i Pidgin (HWP)
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Alhamdulillah, thanks for all your bless ya Allah,
fellas, you must know that i've just decided a great things in my life ever in a couple day ago,. it's my life, and i'll be the one who let where it will going,. ya Allah, guide me to your way 🙂
[a deep breath]
today, alhamdulillah, i'm totally happy, thanks to everyone around me, love you all 🙂
it's a great day, even i woke up at 7, then took ablution and pray subuh recently,. hehe, astaghfirulloh, people would think that i was pray duha,, hehe..
then, today is my first day subscribing the newspaper, so i spent my morning time by read a newspaper while was eating a great skippy-bread[love it:)]
then i tried to solve some maths task, i like it when i know how to make it,, [apa sih maa,,]
around 10, my uncle from jakarta called me, we went to bubur Mang Oyo, with my uncle and his two bussines partner. we had a great time there, but unfortunately, those two guys, my uncle partner, started to call me with CEPOT [cewe kenalpot] 😦
a quarter to 12, i went to sumur bandung, have a really great time there, even i fell asleep when the teacher explained the answer. hehe
at 2 pm, i've done my dzuhur, than enjoying live by surfing the internet, i met ridwan at msn, and asked him to wake me up at 4 by buzzing the conv.
at 4, i woken up by ridwan's buzz. i got one new sms from diny, she asked me to accompany her tonight, yeah, it was raining, so i replied that i can make it after maghrib,
after maghrib, i went to diny boarding house, then directly went to kartika sari, amanda brownies kukus, and de'kos. de'kos is a seafood restaurant with a cool menu;
– nasi, per orang Rp. 1000 semaunya
– teh tawar Rp. 100 semaunya
– es teh tawar Rp. 250 semaunya
hehee,, thats cheeeaaappp
extremly cheap, instead it was A RESTAURANT, not a cafe or food court
i ordered nasi, kerang bambu saus tiram, and sayur asem, 17.000 rupiah only 🙂
diny asked me to continue the journey [alaahhh] to ciwalk, some stuff she had to buy,.. because she'd like to fly to pekanbaru,.
@ciwalk, she wanted to watch ayat-ayat cinta, i see that movie a week ago, 😦 but she kept insist on asking me to accompany her, even she'd treat me the ticket,. it's a really hard time, i promise to my self for not seeing any movie in march,. then i stuck standing in front of ayat-ayat cinta poster,. oh no, 'but, i'd like to see fahri one more time'
i got up from my 'fahri day dreamin' hahaa,.. told diny that i cant make it,
hell no, diny wanted a Baked potato at raffles, bloodyhellno, it was 9pm already, and she asked me to have our second dinner,, haha
finished the baked potato at 9.30
i went to 'heartwarmer', i bought a huge-cute-warm-sandals. love it.. haha, its quite crazy, because, the heartwarmer rolling door was closed, i knocked it and asked them whether i could make a transaction or not.
took diny home, then i arrived at my own boarding house in 10.05,.
i was yelling around 15 minutes, just because the door locked and none of them answer my call
😦 hehe,,
it's my first longest english blog, hahhaaa


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For Immediate Release
Shaye Wolf, Center for Biological Diversity, (415) 632-5301
Up to 200 Walruses Dead in Alaska as Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Third-lowest Level Recorded
BOULDER, Colo. - The Arctic sea ice has reached the
third-lowest level ever recorded, and up to 200 walruses, which appear to be
mostly new calves and yearlings, have been reported dead near Icy Cape on the
north coast of Alaska - further evidence of global warming's brutal
transformation of the Arctic. Although the cause of the walruses' death has not
been confirmed, young walruses are vulnerable to being trampled to death in
stampedes when disappearing sea ice forces walruses to come ashore in large
The National Snow and Ice Data Center
announced today that the Arctic summer sea-ice reached a minimum of 5.10 million
square kilometers (1.97 million square miles) on September 12, making 2009 the
third-lowest year on record behind 2007 (1.65 million square miles) and 2008
(1.74 million square miles).
"The deaths of these walruses is another
wake-up call that we will lose the Arctic if we continue on our current course,"
said Shaye Wolf, a biologist with the
Center for Biological Diversity. "Every moment that Washington delays in taking strong action on climate
change, it robs the walrus, the Arctic, and
Arctic people of a future."
The rapid melting of sea ice due to climate
change is forcing the Pacific walrus, a well-known resident of the Arctic seas
between Alaska and Siberia, into a land-based existence for which it is not
adapted. In 2007, the early and extensive disappearance of summer sea ice pushed
females and calves onto the Russian and Alaskan coasts in abnormally dense
herds. Russian biologists reported that 3,000 to 4,000 walruses, mostly young
animals, died in 2007 after being crushed to death in stampedes. Last week, U.S.
Geological Survey researchers reported a large herd of 3,500 walruses on shore
near Icy
Cape, as sea ice
disappeared over their foraging grounds.
The walrus, whose scientific name means
"tooth-walking sea horse," uses the ice as a platform from which to forage for
clams and mussels in the relatively shallow waters over the continental shelf.
Female walruses and their calves follow the sea ice year-round and rely on the
safety of ice floes for nursing their calves and as essential resting platforms
between foraging bouts, since they cannot continually swim. All Pacific walruses
are dependent on sea ice for breeding activities in winter.
On September 8, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service announced it would conduct a full status review to determine whether the
Pacific walrus warrants the protections of the Endangered Species Act. The review must be completed by
September 10, 2010 under a court-ordered settlement in a case brought by the
Center for Biological Diversity to compel a response to its scientific petition
to protect the walrus.
The polar bear has also become an icon of
global warming as the melting of its sea-ice habitat causes individual bears to
drown, starve, and even resort to cannibalism. The Polar Bear Specialist Group now
classifies eight of the world's polar bear populations, including both of
populations, as declining.
In May 2008, the Fish and Wildlife Service
listed the polar bear throughout its range as "threatened," also in response to
a petition and lawsuit from the Center.
The Center is currently challenging the failure to list the polar bear as
"endangered" based in part on U.S. government studies showing a
more than 77-percent chance of extinction for two-thirds of the world's polar
bears by mid-century, even under sea-ice projections that underestimate the rate
of sea-ice loss. In 2007, there was
less ice in the Arctic than more than half the
world's leading climate models project will occur in 2050.
This summer, as the sea ice melted, the
House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act or
ACES. Senators Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and John Kerry, D-Mass., are scheduled
to introduce the Senate version of this legislation later this month.
"The climate bill needs to be significantly
strengthened," said Wolf. "The
House legislation would not save the polar bear and the walrus and would give us
less than a 50/50 chance of achieving the greenhouse gas reductions scientists
say are necessary to head off devastating climate change. We can't flip a coin
with the fate of the planet."
The Center for Biological Diversity is advocating for
a bill that sets an overall cap on atmospheric carbon dioxide levels of no more
than 350 parts per million, consistent with the best available science; works
with, rather than replaces, the Clean Air Act, which has successfully reduced
air pollution for 40 years and is one of our most powerful tools in fighting
global warming; and that eliminates or greatly reduces offsets and other
"The Arctic
is the Earth's early warning system," said Wolf. "If Congress and the Obama
administration begin deep and rapid greenhouse pollution reductions now, we can
still avert some of the most serious global warming impacts. But the rapid change underway in the
Arctic shows that time is running perilously short."
Current sea ice data is available at http://nsidc.org/
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