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Trinity Church Cemetery
Saint Gilles, Lotbiniere County, Quebec
Contributed by Leslie Nutbrown, Jul 17, 2006, last edited Nov 25, 2006 [firstname.lastname@example.com]. Total records = 20.
From Leeds, Megantic County, take Route 269 North. Continue past Parkhurst and St. Sylvester. You will eventually come to a Y in the road where the Gosford Road (Route 218) meets the Craig Road (Route 269). The cemetery access is very close to this junction but it cannot be seen from the road.
There was a sign at one time but it has disappeared. The entrance to the cemetery is on the East side of Route 269 right at the junction and it appears you are driving into a private driveway. Ask locally for help in finding the cemetery. Drive past the house and you sill see an opening in the woods. It is very narrow and the large tree branches may scratch vehicles. The cemetery is about 500 feet at the end of this trail.
There are only a few stones and we saw evidence that someone or group has cut some brush and piled it and did a little mowing. I don't have any information on Trinity Church or where it was located.
Susan Nutbrown and I walked and read this cemetery on Jul 16, 2006.
- Leslie Nutbrown
s/w = sealed with or shares a stone with
Brennan, Nathaniel, d. 6 Sep 1883
Crane, Edward, b. 1845, d. 1909
Crane, Edward, d. 10 Apr 1870, age: 84yrs
Crane, Fanny, no dates, wife of L. Boyle
Crane, Robert J., b. 1883, d. 1940
Crane, Robert, b. 1816, d. 1905, s/w & husband of Margaret Sutherland
Dala??, Jane, d. 29 Dec 1850, age: 96yrs, wife of Joseph Lefebvre
Lefebvre, David, b. 25 Jun 1854 St. Giles, Quebec, d. 3 Feb 1899 Berlin, New Hampshire
Lefebvre, James, d. 12 Oct 1892 St. Giles, Quebec, age: 72yrs, s/w & husband of Ann
Lefebvre, William Joseph, d. 14 Sep 1853, age: 1yr, son of James & Ann (Smith) Lefebvre
Reid, Mary A., b. 12 Apr 1834, d. 2 Sep 1901, s/w & wife of Thomas
Reid, Thomas, b. 12 May 1817, d. 5 Sep 1885, s/w & husband of Mary
Shields, Catherine, d. 26 Sep 1872, age: 48yrs, wife of James Smith
Smith, Albert, d. 12 Feb 1864, age: 18m, son of William & Ann
Smith, Ann, d. 1 Jan 1905, age: 73yrs, s/w & wife of James Lefebvre
Smith, Edward, d. 18 Jan 1893, age: 73yrs
Smith, Mary Ann, d. 26 Jun 1888, age: 12y 1m 4d, daughter of Edward Smith
Smith, Mary, d. 23 Oct 1853, age: 19y 10m
Smith, Rebecca, d. 12 Aug 1864, age: 13y 7m, daughter of William & Ann
Sutherland, Margaret, d. 16 Oct 1885, s/w & wife of Robert Crane
Death Records (United States)
- U.S. Newspapers, 50-State Full Search (1690-current) - GenealogyBank.com
- U.S. Obituaries, (1976-current) - GenealogyBank.com
- Newspaper Funeral Notices - GenealogyBank.com


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Sunday, April 17, 2011
NOTEBOOK DOODLE part-M
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What? Beg pardon? Oh, nevermind.ReplyDelete
Jeff, That's the title of this drawing now: "What? Beg Pardon?"ReplyDelete
Brad, Thanks for the LOL!
Hey, this guy could play three part harmony by ear. No?ReplyDelete
HA! Maybe even a six part harmony if he had a piano on each side of his head.ReplyDelete
One rule I remember to use is that the ears line up pretty much between the eyes and nose. Of course that can go out the window depending on how cartoony or abstract the picture will be. :-)ReplyDelete
That probably would have upped his handsomeness by 75%ReplyDelete
KW: Brilliant! The placement of ears is one of the ways I ID artists. Folks don't appreciate how a character can completely change by where you place the ears. You have covered all the bases here with one of your typically excellent drawings.ReplyDelete
PS: I like the middle position. That really creates a different feel than either the top or bottom positions.ReplyDelete
Mykal, Thanks buddy.ReplyDelete
If I hold my fingers over the different ears, the middle does look best.
"Ears" to a funny drawing!ReplyDelete
Sadly though, his hearing is terrible.ReplyDelete

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February 6, 2013
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Hi there! Welcome to a Mint Owl Studio feature! Today I am making a treasure map using the adorable new stamp set A Pirate's Life by Mint Owl Studio and Copic Coloring on kraft cardstock!
The key to using you Copics on kraft is to let the colors dry before adding too much shading. The colors dry very differently than they look wet so in order to get a true idea of what shade they will be it is worth the extra drying time. I have printed out my Sandy Allnock Hex Chart (linked below in the supplies) on both Neenah card stock and on kraft so that I have a good idea of what my Copics will do on both papers.
It was a lot of fun to distress the heck out of these little maps that I stamped out using the A Pirate's Life stamp set (with a little help from Butterfly Kisses . . . watch the video to see which stamp I snuck in from that set!). The result is a fun, vintage treasure map straight out of The Goonies!! I'm from Oregon, so naturally I assume all treasure maps lead to One-Eyed Willy's ship.
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Meet Christina.
Christina Gora holds an Art Studio degree from the University of Kentucky. After completing her reign as Mrs. Kentucky 2014, she decided to combine her love of helping others and her passion for design to create Renovation Therapy. She enjoys taking adventures with her energetic toddler named KatieAnn, long walks on the beach, and coffee. Lots and lots of coffee.
What is Renovation Therapy?
Clutter and disorganization are often overwhelming, and a direct cause of stress and depression for many people. Careers, children, and life in general prevent many of us from taking care of the daunting task of clearing clutter and organizing.
Renovation Therapy was created to help busy people create a fresh start by organizing an entire home, or a single room. Consultations are available to customize a plan for your specific needs. Some of the tasks Christina can be hired for, include:
Price for initial in-person visit and consultation: $50 (for Lexington KY residents). Travel fee may apply if located outside of Lexington.
- Home Staging
- Single or multiple room organization and design
- Interior Decorating
- Estate Organizing
- Party decorating
- Yard sale and Donation organization
Price for initial in-person visit and consultation: $50 (for Lexington KY residents). Travel fee may apply if located outside of Lexington.
Renovation Therapy is a judgement-free business.
It doesn't matter how the clutter and disorganization got there...what's important is making the decision to do something about it! Christina respects the privacy of every client and will not share anything related to the client without permission.


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Open a Bar in Thailand
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In order to open a bar in Thailand, foreign citizens need to have a Thai partner who must own 51% of the business. On the other hand, opening a bar in Thailand means respecting the rules and the regulations as for opening any kind of business in the country. It is good to know that you will need the Thai liquor license to sell any type of beverages. Our experts in company formation in Thailand can offer proper assistance and guidelines if you want to open a bar in Thailand.
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Opening a bar in Thailand can be a fruitful business for all foreigners who wish to settle in the country and make profits. There are certain conditions and requirements you need to consider when deciding to open a bar in Thailand. If you want to speed up the preparation of the documents, you can solicit help and guidance from our company registration agents in Thailand. Please consider the following steps to set up your business:
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Cleo Baldon has an office overlooking Venice Beach, with its sunbathers, peddlers of gold chains, and break dancers doing their five-minute stints of flabbergasting gyrations that are followed by bursts of applause. Baldon, design director of Galper-Baldon Designs, does not have much time to look out the window. She is a woman of power. As we were talking, assistants would come in and thrust blueprints under her nose, asking for instant decisions on whether a wall should go here or there .
Baldon is unmistakably a nice and generous-spirited woman, but you get the feeling that you would not like to thwart her. At one point, the bright sun was getting in my eyes, and I slipped on my sunglasses. She stopped talking mid-sentence. "I'm sorry," she said, "I can't talk to you with those damn dark glasses." Off they came.
Landscape architecture is the chief specialty of Galper-Baldon Designs, and Baldon masterminds virtually all the residential work, except for plantings. "I don't understand plants," she says, "and don't intend to. But my partner, Sid Galper, is a fabulous horticulturist." She is proud of the prefabricated fiberglass spa with contoured seating that she designed 10 years ago. "Up to that point they were straight-sided things with benches in them." But she has also had a profound effect on the furniture industry in California.


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have a significant economy of scale entry barrier because large companies exist in the industry that has high production output Specialty chocolate and cocoa products are used as gifts during numerous seasons and celebrations including Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Valentine's Day, anniversaries and birthdays. Relative Price and Performance
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Cassandra Clare Quotes About ChildrenQuotes about: Children
They say you cannot love two people equally at once," she said. "And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will—you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each other, or who would have imagined my love for one of them diminished by my love of the other. You merged your souls when you were both children. I could not have loved Will so much if I had not loved you as well. And I could not love you as I do if I had not loved Will as I did.
You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places." "Enormous?" said Jace. "Did you just call me fat?" "It was an analogy." "I am not fat.
Thank you," Simon said. "It's a joke, Isabelle. He's the Count. He likes counting. You know. 'What did the Count eat today, children? One chocolate chip cookie, two chocolate chip cookies, three chocolate chip cookies . . .'" There was a rush of cold air as the door of the restaurant opened, letting in another customer. Isabelle shivered and reached for her black silk scarf. "It's not realistic." "What would you prefer? 'What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers . . .
Traded him for Alec," Clary said. "Not permanently" "No," said Jace. "Just for a few hours. Unless I don't come back. In which case, maybe he does get to keep Alec. Think of it as a lease with an option to buy." "Mom and Dad won't be pleased if they find out." "That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay Sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?" Simon inquired. "No, probably not.
I had such plans for this evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. But alas, it was not to be. No sooner had I consumed my third drink in the Devil than I was accosted by a delightful small flower selling child who asked me for twopence for a daisy. The price seemed steep, so I refused. When I told the girl as much, she proceeded to rob me." "A little girl robbed you?" Tessa said. "Actually, she wasn't a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel.
Children of the Nephilim," Magnus said. "Well, well. I don't recall inviting you." Isabelle took out her invitation and waved it like a white flag. "I have an invitation. These"--she indicated the rest of the group with a grand wave of her arm--"are my friends." Magnus plucked the invitation out of her hand and looked at it with fastidious distaste. "I must have been drunk," he said. He threw the door open. "Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests." Jace looked at him, "Even if one of them spills something on my new shoes?" "Even then." - 219
He's not feeling well," Clary said, catching at Simon's wrist. "We're going." "No," Simon said. "No, I — I need to talk to him. To the Inquisitor." Robert reached into his jacket and drew out a crucifix. Clary stared in shock as he held it up between himself and Simon. "I speak to the Night's Children Council representative, or to the head of the New York clan," he said. "Not to any vampire who comes to knock at my door —" Simon reached out and plucked the cross out of Robert's hand. "Wrong religion," he said.
Black for hunting through the night For death and mourning the color's white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown And red to call the enchantment down White silk when our bodies burn Blue banners when the lost return Flame for the birth of a Nephilim And to wash away our sins. Gray for the knowledge best untold Bone for those who don't grow old Saffron lights the victory march Green to mend our broken hearts Silver for the demon towers And bronze to summon wicked powers -Shadowhunter children's rhyme
Who am I?" he whispered. "For years I pretended I was other than I was, and then I gloried that I might return to the truth of myself, only to find there is no truth to return to. I was an ordinary child, and then I was a not very good man, and now I do not know how to be either of those things any longer. I do not know what I am, and when Jem is gone, there will be no one to show me.
The Sisters vanished entirely then, and Aunt Harriet was standing over Tessa, her face flushed with fever as it had been during the terrible illness that had killed her. She looked at Tessa with great sadness. "I tried," she said. "I tried to love you. But it isn't easy to love a child that isn't human in the least...." "Not human?" said an unfamiliar female voice. "Well, if she isn't human, Enoch, what is she?" The voice sharpened in impatience. "What do you mean, you don't know? Everyone's something. This girl can't be nothing at all.
I don't know what to do," Will said. "Mortmain has taken Tessa, and I believe now I know where she might be. There is a part of me that wants nothing more than to go after her. But I cannot leave Jem. I swore an oath. And what if he wakes in the night and finds I am not here?" He looked as lost as a child. "He will think I left him willingly, not caring that he was dying. He will not know. And yet if he could speak, would he not tell me to go after Tessa? Is that not what he would want?" Will dropped his face into his hands. "I cannot say, and it is tearing me in half.
You swore to stay with me," he said. "When we made our oath, as parabatai. Our souls are knit. We are one person, James." "We are two people," said Jem. "Two people with a covenant between us." Will knew he sounded like a child, but he could not help it. "A covenant that says you must not go where I cannot come with you." "Until death," Jem replied gently. "Those are the words of the oath. 'Until aught but death part thee and me.' Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later.
It was like a dam of musical critique had broken. Imasu turned on him with eyes that flashed instead of shining. "It is worse than you can possibly imagine! When you play, all of my mother's flowers lose the will to live and expire on the instant. The quinoa has no flavour now. The llamas are migrating because of your music, and llamas are not a migratory animal. The children now believe there is a sickly monster, half horse and half large mournful chicken, that lives in tha lake and calls out to the world to grant it the sweet release of death.
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Title: Rescuing Kinesthesia through Dance-Technology Interfaces: a theoretical framework towards posthuman corporealities
Following my theoretical framework on dance-technology interfaces and artistic practice based research in somatic based contemporary dance approach, I have been interested in work that emphasizes the kinesthetic experience, awareness, participation and empathy (particularly when experimenting with media technologies). Mostly as reflexive interfaces, the works have an inclusive and questioning attitude towards the very body-tech interfaces and the visual and audio dominance and consequent lack of focus on the embodied engagement. I would like to argue that, independent from media technology, the type of dance or choreographic approach and movement techniques influences the way kinesthesia is or is not addressed, expressed and sensed by performers and audience members.
Curiously, I began noticing that the dance works that I enjoyed watching, experiencing or learning about within dance-tech were related to the same aesthetic dance approaches I enjoyed in pieces without media. These pieces were, for instance, kondition pluriel's Schème II, Sarah Rubidge and Alistair MacDonald's Sensuous Geographies, Lynn Pook's Pause, Carol Brown & Escape Design's Sea, Unsee, and Tetsuro Fukuhara's Space Dance in the Tube.
Through semiotic and phenomenological analysis of hybrid and interconstitutive modes of interfacing amongst the work participants, I argue that these works share a common emphasis on kineasthesia. Wanting to experience and communicate with the audience members through this sense, they develop ways of bringing attention and awareness to it by following and learning about embodying sensations in interactive movement situations. Either watching or actually participating, these works induce immersion by relying on and sometimes isolating the kinesthetic perception from sight, thus being a playful and constructive mode of knowing ourselves and understanding kinesthesia's crucial role to our sense of embodiment particularly in this technological driven time of disconnection.
Narrowing the approach to emphasize what I am most interested: kinesthetic awareness, engagement and communication, it was not surprising that these works are rare to find to watch on stage or experience in interactive environments or virtual networked performance formats. I believe this happens due to the imposing power of the image and sound upon movement in most works. And this situation reflects our conservative and Cartesian mentality model where movement is included though instrumentalized to serve the, supposed more intelligent, media environments, diminishing, when not substituting, the bodies, and keeping kinesthetic communication unconscious instead of adapting the interfaces and systems to our corporeal potential expanding what we can be. I will focus on the implications of these approaches' perceptive inclusivity and how they can contribute to raise agency for kinesthesia. As Hillel Schwartz stated in «Torque: the knew kineasthesia for the twentieth century» (Schwartz, 1992), a century later I believe we are getting closer to fulfill this goal for our posthuman society with the support from neurosciences findings on mirror neurons and dual adaptability along with critical theory particularly on dance, performance and feminist studies.
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Damasio, António The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000,
Grosz, Elisabeth, Volatile Bodies: towards a corporeal feminism, Indiana University Press, 1994,
Hayles, Katherine, How We Became Posthumans: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, University Of Chicago Press, 1999,
Hanna, Thomas, Bodies in Revolt: the evolution-revolution of 20th century man toward the Somatic Culture of the 21st century, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, NY, Chicago, San Francisco, 1970,
Schwartz, Hillel, «Torque: the knew kineasthesia for the twentieth century», in Zone Books 6: Incorporations, the University of Michigan,1992,
Valverde, Isabel, Interfacing Dance and Technology: a theoretical framework for performance in the digital domain, Ph.D. thesis in partial fulfillment of degree. University of California, Riverside, 2004 (publication forthcoming),
Valverde, Isabel, Challenging Body Perceptions: dance towards and resisting new technologies, thesis presented towards the partial fulfillment of the MA degree in Creative Arts: Interdisciplinary Arts, SFSU, 1998


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So here it is. November 1. NaNo is upon me. Time to get 'er done. Although I don't exactly know what I'm going to get done. I have spent the last 3 weeks circling over plots. Nothing feels write. (haha. see what I did there?) Right. I'm so clever. And here I am again, procrastinating. I should have spent the last 53 words typing a story not fucking around on my blog. Gibberish. Or is it jibberish? Apparently it's gibberish because my auto-dictionary spat red wavy lines under my jibberish. Doh. There it is again. I'm choosing to ignore it.
So I need your help. Be my muses… and I will love and cherish you forever. No really. I mean it. I'll even hand over my first born. But I'll warn you. She's 11 now and a feisty 'lil thing. You'll probably give her right back.
I'm battling with a couple of different ideas. Do I go the massively-overdone-but-still-my-favorite route and do the zombie thing that I had planned? The only problem with that is I started in first person with my main character, then decided that I didn't want the focus solely on her, so I have about 4 or 5 other characters that are going to be leads, too. How do I mesh 1st and 3rd person? Is it even possible?
Okay, so idea numero dos: 300 years ago, a demon is in love with the daughter of a high priest. She is destined (via prophecy or some dramatic form of godly wisdom) to die in a sacrificial event. Demon tries to protect her, but as it is written she cannot escape her fate and dies anyway. Boo hoo. Now it's present time. Little baby girl is traumatized when her parents are killed by a very nasty demon (our poor forlorn lover) and is orphaned at a young age. She grows up under the care of her Aunt? Uncle? (someone, anyway) and discovers all sorts of mystic hooey exists unknown to us mere humans. She vows to become a hunter so she can kill the big bad that took her parents from her. In the meantime, POOF! the big bad demon leaves town for awhile, something to do with the reason he killed her parents in the first place. (they weren't quite as innocent as they appeared….dun dun dun!!) Anyhoo, there is light magic and dark magic. She only goes after those who do harm to others. 10 years or so later, after hunter girl is grown up a bit, a skeezy witch shows up in town and does something utterly wicked, causing our dearest huntress to try to kill her. She almost (but not quite) succeeds and the witty witch escapes and goes into hiding. Enter back in our demon (he comes back to town for whatever new plot reason). Huntress cannot defeat him alone, so she ends up having no choice but to enlist the help of nasty witch who also wants demon dead (he's trying to kill her, too? yes) Nasty witch thinks she's smart and casts the spell to link the huntress & demon together, so that whenever huntress kills the demon, she will also be killing herself. HOWEVA, the two find out about it somehow and have to work together to break said spell. OH, by the way. From the time the huntress was a wee baby, she has been having weird flashes of dreams involving flames and heat and all that good stuff. She has been deathly afraid of fire her whole life, but for no apparent reason. Well, once the two are linked together, the flashes dial themselves up a notch and turn into whole pieces of what seem to be memories. But she'd never been in a fire before. The kicker: Huntress is really demons long lost love reincarnate and the flashes are her memories of being burned in the sacrifice (if that's how I play it out… it may be something other than fire if I come up with a better scenario). WELL, that's all I have so far on that one. Definitely needs some fleshing out and some gaps filled in. So if you have any thoughts or ideas, do not be afraid to send them my way. The more the merrier.
AND THEN, idea the third: FMC is walking home one day and MC falls out of the sky. (No, not really) But he does kind of appear out of thin air. Doesn't know who he is, where he is, no memories whatsoever except for bright flashes of light. FMC tries to help MC remember who he is, blah blah blah. (Obviously need a better how-he's-found story, but details can be figured out laterish). Fast forward to the end of story and come to find out, (again with the dun dun dun!) there are doorways between worlds. MC was able to somehow open a doorway into ours and landed here. However, the key? (dont know how or why he opened door yet so that parts not quite figured out) broke or got lost & he is unable to get home. He needs to find out who he is and how to fix it fast because since he's not from here his body cannot withstand our environment and is slowly deteriorating. (basically like a foreign particle). I'm already thinking that this ending will surprise people and although books are supposed to have happy endings, this one not so much. If they fall in love, he is going to have to go back to his world if he finds the answers before its too late. Or, if he doesn't find a way back, he'll die here. And if he DOES find a way back, she can't go with him. So it's a lose, lose situation all around. Call me the next Nicholas Sparks. Or maybe zombies come to life and eat them all. Who knows.
ANYWAY…. so I REALLY REALLY need your help on this one folks. I'm asking those of you who would normally skip the commenting to look deep into your hearts and cough me up some advice. Tell me what you think of any of the ideas or, hell, if you have a better plot in mind (free for use of course) I'll take that, too. Just be nice and leave me with SOMETHING to chew on.


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Robert W. Fuller
Electrical engineer
Life Senior Member, 91; died 15 October
Fuller was an electrical engineer for 44 years. When he retired, he was a sales manager at Square D, an electrical equipment manufacturer with headquarters in Andover, Mass. He also served as lieutenant in the U.S. Navy during World War II and again during the Korean War.
He was a member of the IEEE Industry Applications Society and was named Man of the Year in 1987 by the society's IEEE Textile Fiber and Film committee. He volunteered at Potter's House of the Greensboro (N.C.) Urban Ministry, which provides free meals to people in need, as well as at Senior Wheels, a medical transportation program for the elderly.
Fuller received electrical engineering degrees from Georgia Tech and the University of Louisville, in Kentucky.
Robert Moles
Signal integrity expert
Life Member, 83; died 4 November
Moles was an expert in signal integrity as well as electromagnetic modeling and simulation. He also helped develop communications standards for the Internet.
He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at Queen Mary College, in London, and then moved to Canada to work as a radar engineer at Westinghouse, in Hamilton, Ont. He later moved to Massachusetts and worked for Honeywell, a manufacturer of automation and control systems, in Boston, and Data General, a computer firm in Westborough. Toward the end of his career he worked for Signal Integrity Software before moving back to England in 2009 to retire.
Moles was a member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems, IEEE Communications, IEEE Computer, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques, and IEEE Solid-State Circuits societies.
Joseph Grevious
Electrical engineer
Life Member, 86; died 5 November
Grevious was a founding member of the Institute of Radio Engineers' Professional Group on Radio Frequency. The IRE was one of IEEE's predecessors. Later, he joined the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society.
Grevious received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from City College of New York. He earned a master's degree in business administration in 1977 and a master's in accounting in 1984, both from Long Island University, in New York City.
Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar "M.G.K." Menon
Physicist and policymaker
Honorary Member, 88; died 22 November
Menon served as India's science and technology education minister under V.P. Singh, who was prime minister in 1989 and 1990. He was director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, in Mumbai, from 1966 to 1975.
He joined TIFR as a researcher in 1955 and experimented with cosmic rays and studied the properties of fundamental particles. He was named director following the death of the institute's founder, Homi J. Bhabha.
From 1986 to 1989 Menon served as science advisor to India's prime minister, Rajiv Ghandi. He was vice president of India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in 1989 and 1990. He served as a member of parliament from 1990 to 1996.
Menon received bachelor's and master's degrees in physics from Jaswant College, Jodhpur, and the Royal Institute of Science, Mumbai. He earned a Ph.D. in particle physics in 1953 from the University of Bristol, in England.
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Life Fellow, 88; died 22 January
Iwersen spent most of his career as a research engineer at Bell Laboratories, where he specialized in microelectronics and helped develop transistors.
He was elevated to Fellow in 1973 "for contributions and leadership in the development of semiconductor devices." He was a member of the IEEE Computer Society.
Iwersen received a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1955 from Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore.


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Mark Vanderbeeken: The English Language Innovation Bias
Wired August 13, 2014
*This piece was originally published, in Italian, in the exceedingly innovative (and very Italian) website "Che Futuro."
*As somebody who spends a lot of time in non-Anglophone countries, this is a situation that I see commonly. I rarely see it as well-described as this.
*I'd be flattered if people thought I wrote this thoughtful essay, but Mark Vanderbeeken wrote it. Mark's a Belgian guy who lives in Italy, and you can tell that because his English is so superb. I emphasize that Mark wrote it, because eager startup guys with limited English-language skills are sure to link to this blog entry, firmly agreeing with everything Mark says (because it's true). Since this is my blog, they'll skip over all the biased English, including this very paragraph, and they will hastily conclude that I wrote it myself. That's part of the "bias," you see.
*But, alas, despite my English, I'm not the innovator here, he's the innovator.
There are many reasons for the international business community to be grateful to the English language. English is the dominant business language precisely because it gives the global community access to itself – it is widely spoken, lacks the grammatical complications of the romance languages, and has a simple alphabet that lends itself easily to use on the internet.
However, as an entrepreneur in Italy, one of the many European countries where the native language is not English, I cannot but notice how strongly the discourse on innovation has become determined by the English language, and the media reporting in that language.
This dominance of English language carries with it an accompanying perspective of Europe, both in terms of stereotypes and in terms of relevance (or lack of) to the Anglo-Saxon world. This often puts European businesses and countries at a serious disadvantage that they are too little aware of, and are hardly addressing. But it also disadvantages businesses in the English-speaking world, which are perhaps not aware that they are receiving an abbreviated picture of innovation in Europe. This article is about the non-English disadvantage and what we can do about it.
Deconstructing the innovation bias
Key decisions about Italy's economy are now made in New York, London and Frankfurt. Political decisions come from Brussels. And nearly all international business dealings are made in English.
In an age of 24-hour online news, increasingly global media, and social sharing engines such as Twitter and Facebook, the global news about innovation is written and read in English. It is only natural that international decision makers are influenced by English-language media reports on how European business climates and countries are being perceived.
Unfortunately, Italy ends up being portrayed as a country without strong innovation capabilities.
There are several factors at work here. The first is that most global economic, political and business decision makers do not read Italian (or French or Spanish). Reading about Italy as it is covered in the English language inevitably offers the perspective of an outsider looking in.
Even the best translations can miss nuances, cultural references, and contexts – especially when a complicated story is reduced to a few lines in the "World" section. This often means that a story is being seen as "foreign business", and not simply part of regular "business". It becomes a part of human interest reporting.
Secondly, Europe, and Italy in particular, is often described as conservative, with little space for startups and entrepreneurship, with high unemployment, with quarrelling politicians who are far removed from their electorate, and with ageing companies that cannot keep up with the speed of the rest of the world. This biased image is of course only partially true: similar descriptions could be made of much of the USA or of the UK.
Too often, the Italy that the international media portrays is one of scandals and economic depression, alternatively picturesque or run down. This kind of broad-brushstrokes look at an entire country fails the locals who go about living, inventing and doing business much like anywhere else in the world. That is another Italy, however, and one which the English-language world is not really being given access to.
Decision makers who are basing their information solely on what they are receiving in the English language media are unfortunately not learning a lot about the more dynamic and highly innovative realities that have recently arisen. There is a sense that these realities are drowned out by the bigger picture, of euro zone woes, or political upheaval. In reality, they are the smaller pieces of the puzzle that help to shape an accurate view of what is happening on the ground, and are vital information for anyone wanting to do business in Europe.
The triple bind
This brings us to the third factor making up the innovation bias. In addition to a language barrier and a skewed perspective of Europe, there is also a geographical bias, which manifests in the desire to read about things happening close to home. The English language media – in my field they include Techcrunch and Wired, Fast Company and Business Week, The Guardian and The New York Times, ReadWriteWeb and UX Magazine, Shareable and Core77 – tend to write about social, technological, cultural, educational, and design innovation happening in their own cities and regions.
Therefore it is easy to find innovation articles about Savannah, Georgia, but not about Parma, Italy, or Nantes, France.
And since the European newspaper editors take a lot of their innovation copy from English-language media, the bias gets reinforced: even Italian media tend to write about innovation as if it comes primarily from abroad. Local Italian media often only start reporting on new local companies when they are noticed by the English-language media (such as the fine food initiatives Eataly or Grom, which went from scant press attention in Italy to widely reported "home-grown success stories" after they received international acclaim).
Our Italian media have, in other words, become indoctrinated by an Anglo-Saxon bias in the international innovation coverage.
So it's not only when you don't read French, Italian, Spanish or German, that you have a hard time figuring out what is going on in France, Italy, Spain or Germany – even if you do read one of these languages, the local media will not necessarily inform you about young, innovative companies setting up exciting projects.
This is perhaps the most difficult challenge.
Here in Italy, I just learned that there are more people in their twenties now who are starting companies than those that have steady (i.e. not fixed-term) employment. Aside from the employment problem for the young (which is disastrous, and urgently needs to be addressed), we also have another problem: we don't know what these young companies are doing.
Italian media tend to write about bigger, older industries that are politically well connected but are not doing very well, but seldom about younger companies that are growing and hiring young staff.
In seven years of operations, for instance, our 30-person company – which has hired a lot of young people – has never had a long write-up in the local press. Even when we received an innovation award from the Italian President in person, we had to work hard to get some small write-ups in the local media pages. A 10 times bigger company here in Torino, which works with FIFA, UEFA and NBC on sports technology services, also doesn't get much media attention and I discovered them last year, nearly by accident.
The problem only becomes worse when the coverage is in English: it is difficult to be informed about bottom-up initiatives, young start-ups, and social innovation in Italy, France, Germany or Spain, because there is so little media reporting about this in the English language. Italy for example relies on a very limited register: Ansa in English, Corriere della Sera English, the foreign correspondents in Rome, and the many initiatives of individuals who write blog posts, tweets, and short stories in English on what the other Italy looks like. This limited register is then the major source of information for international English media, who are more likely to pick up a story if it's already written in English.
Even the European Commission, who should be the first ones to be interested in repositioning the innovation capacity of the continent, has not much to offer beyond some PR stories on European-funded research projects. Other private European initiatives such as PressEurop, WorldCrunch and eGov Monitor are laudable but have limited impact.
The consequences
This lack of media attention, both in our local languages as in English, has huge implications for those of us in Europe who wish to conduct international business. We are at an unfair disadvantage compared to our UK- or US-based competitors, and we have difficulties getting political, cultural and business support in our own territories.
Some entrepreneurs who speak good English have decided to launch their own English-language websites, blogs and other media channels, or write for some of the international outlets directly (as we have done, actually).
And if a European (non-UK) company is really good, often the only way to make that case in the dominant international media is by opening an office in the UK or even better, in North America.
Rethinking the challenge
The English-language conundrum that entrepreneurs outside the UK and the US find themselves in can only be addressed through a concerted effort on five levels.
More European entrepreneurs will have to write about their work in English, either directly or through a good ghostwriter, and share their ideas not only on their own sites and outlets, but also through other (foreign) channels. Well-written and inspiring English is crucial in making our voices heard.
Local non-English media will have to become much more interested and engaged with social, cultural, technology and business innovation in their own communities and cover it, not because they are politically important or simply trendy, but because they hire (rather than fire) staff, set out a concrete future for their countries, change the public perception, and will be inspiring to others.
On a national level, Italy (and other European countries) will need a more structured approach. I suggest an online English-language magazine with a strong editor and a handful of writers whose task it is to cover the other Italy.
The European Commission has the biggest challenge, since there is currently not one voice speaking about interesting developments in European innovation. We need to create a resource where a Brazilian, American or Korean investor can read up on things, while avoiding the Anglo-Saxon bias. The Commission's recent Innovation Union initiative is a first beginning, but for all I can see it is drastically underfunded and understaffed.
Finally, I want to provoke the international media, the Business Weeks, the TechCrunches and so on. I know that most of these outlets are aware of their bias, and have started to address it, in part through more reporting by foreign authors, in part through the opening of other language editions. But it is clearly not enough. What kind of benefits would be created, for European businesses and their UK and US counterparts, if one of these media outlets started an English language Europe-wide venture on innovation?
Beyond Europe
I am European so I write about Europe, but the problem is exactly the same, if not worse, for some other regions in the world. Think Asia, Africa or South America, who often need to confront an even stronger language and cultural bias.
Perhaps we should think globally to confront this challenge (as Aljazeera has done for world affairs), but it is clear to me that with the increased importance of pervasive online media and the current economic crisis, the accepted status quo is not an option. It is up to us all to change this biased perception and develop some new, impactful tools.
Mark Vanderbeeken is Belgian by origin. After many years in the United States, he moved to Torino, Italy, where he and three partners started Experientia, a global 30-person user experience design consultancy. He publishes extensively on the company blog (Putting People First), on Core77, a global design site, and in some professional magazines.
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A glance through the files deepens the unsettling effect: Eight years ago, Love was a bandleader so punk-rock she named her first Sub Pop single "Dicknail," slapped a nude photograph of a prepubescent girl on the cover, and ironically quoted scripture on the back ("The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit," it read, immediately above a band photo in which the singer's garishly over-lipsticked mouth and wandering right eye were the two most prominent features). Now she's put in so much time as a Celebrity-with-a-capital-C -- running around with movie stars, discussing (and defending) herself, having plastic surgery, changing wardrobes -- that hearing her play even one chord is a genuine surprise.
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Celebrity Skin is a credible pop effort, and that's nothing to sniff at. The title song's choruses build to a muscular guitar hook Rick Nielsen could be proud of. (Cheap Trick fans take note, though: track 10, "Heaven Tonight," while amply jangly, is a new song -- not a cover of Nielsen & Co.'s 1978 classic.) Even when the lyrics are juvenile -- "Swing low, sweet cherry"? Come on! -- the melodies are catchy, Love's voice has a nice edge to it, and the production is as big and polished as you'd expect on an album that took this long to make.
Looming over the disc, often silently, is the shadow of Kurt Cobain's 1994 suicide (which coincided roughly with the last Hole album, Live Through This). All gripes aside, only the most demented observer would dare believe that this event could have caused Love anything but a world of pain unimaginable to most people. And "Reasons to Be Beautiful," for instance, is genuinely touching in its evocation of the singer's lost husband, "so sick in his body, so sick in his soul." For that reason alone, you've got to cut the woman copious slack, and try to remember that somewhere beneath the Protean rock-star/movie-star hybrid persona, there may yet lurk a gifted punker with something to say.
P. J. Harvey's shape-shifting, unlike Love's, seems motivated by a mixture of shyness -- or the attempt to overcome it -- and genuine artistic curiosity, not by exhibitionism, grief, or overweening ambition. Some of her guises have been more successful than others, but none has smelled of an agenda.
With Is This Desire? (Island), which comes out next Tuesday, Polly Jean Harvey tries on a new self -- a reasonably effective amalgam of several recent ones.
On Harvey's first two albums, she sang angular, anguished songs in a deep, rich alto. The time signatures were unusual, the rhythms complex, the melodies intricate. When she played live, she was an intense, nervous woman with a guitar slung over a white T-shirt. Then, midway through promoting the second disc, Rid of Me, Harvey found a stage persona that freed her: Out with the thrift-store duds, the hunched shoulders, even the guitar; in with the Siouxsie Sioux false eyelashes, slinky bodysuit, and full-on sexpot stage moves -- the backing band could handle musical duties. There was something disturbing, though, about the display. Harvey's discomfort was still there for any alert observer to see; it was just sublimated into this oddly fascinating performance. With her third CD, To Bring You My Love, Harvey tried out a sort of smoldering blues rock that seemed beneath her considerable talents, and somewhat at odds with her newly found glamour.
But on the new album, she deftly interweaves that same bluesy feel with more complex music that recalls the earlier albums, plus some texturally satisfying electronica and (in an everything-including-the-kitchen-sink spirit) piano and strings.
On the brief second song, "The Sky Lit Up," Harvey's voice builds from a smoky alto to a bansheelike wail as repetitive, barbed-wire layers of guitar accumulate into an electronic thicket. "Joy" links a fluttery jungle beat with a distorted bass line that sounds like nothing so much as a foghorn. At moments in the song, though, Harvey's singing verges on unbearable bellowing.
Desire, in fact, reaches maximum intensity on its quietest song, "Catherine." "I envy the road, the ground you've tread under," she sings softly. "I envy the wind, your hair riding over / I envy the pillow your head rests and slumbers." The song's menacing denouement: "I'm damned to hell every second you breathe." It's Harvey's exploration of that kind of unsettling sentiment that demonstrates a genuine literary talent -- the kind of tough-minded self-examination almost no rock singers these days seem capable of.
Like Courtney Love, Harvey is engaged in a public process of trying to find herself; Harvey, though, seems to be making some headway.


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False – The fertile time is actually about 6 days long each menstrual cycle. This comprises the 5 days before ovulation and the day of ovulation itself as this is the length of time that sperm can survive in the woman's reproductive tract.
"Men's fertility starts to decline in their 30's."
False – Men's fertility doesn't usually start to decline until they are over 50. It is a much slower decline than for women, but age does affect a man's fertility.
"Millions of ejaculated sperm will reach the egg."
False – Up to 300 million sperm are ejaculated at one time and only a million sperm will actually get as far as a woman's cervix. Only 200 of these at most will reach the fallopian tubes and around 100 will surround the egg with one sperm finally managing to fertilise the egg.
"After sex a woman should lie with her legs in the air to encourage sperm to travel to the cervix"
False – Just lying flat is enough. It makes sense to stay flat for 10-15 minutes but as the seminal naturally liquefies it will be lost from the woman's vagina whatever position she is in. This fluid mostly only contains dead and dying sperm. The healthy swimmers will already be on their way through the cervix.


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You may have heard of the Earl's Court Exhibition Centre, Kensington High Street and even the Troubadour, but have you heard about the wonderful massage parlour Earls Court is becoming known for? Well…. to be honest, it's not really an actual massage parlour – but if you are in the market for a truly incredible massage Earls Court is the place to go because it happens to be home to the beautiful Bianca, 24-Carat's 'escort of the moment'. Look at her page and you'll see why – she's very slim, tender and pretty with a perfect bust and long, dark-blonde hair. She looks almost pale and a little delicate, and sometimes gets given the label 'the girl next door' – this amuses me because I don't think I've ever had a girl living next door to me as beautiful and talented as young Bianca.
I was confronted with Bianca's remarkable abilities on only the second day I knew her. It was the day following her initial interview, at the 24-Carat offices, and I went to visit her at her apartment for a follow-up interview andmassage Earls Court –style. It's always important to us as an agency that we know without a doubt (preferably through first-hand experience) that the girls we sign up can handle a dating scenario with professionalism and ease. If they want to take incall dates, for example so they can practice SW5 massage, it's also necessary to check out their apartment and make sure it's somewhere that clients will be comfortable to go for the date. Well, Bianca, didn't disappoint on any count. Her apartment was lovely – very clean, comfy, quiet and relaxing, and from the start of the date, she was the consummate professional. Despite only being twenty years old Bianca comes across as having years of experience. Luckily she really enjoys meeting new people and building up her client base, so in her approach she's always 'fresh as a daisy', and very enthusiastic. She looked gorgeous when I arrived for our 'date', wearing a frilly little skirt and cute, tight t-shirt. I was also very impressed with her whole demeanour and character – she loves to talk and improve on her already good English, and has a friendly manner that made me feel relaxed before she even started the massage. The massage itself was just perfect – confident, assured, relaxing and arousing in equal measure – just what clients want when they visit the best massage parlour SW5 has to offer.
So, while I'm not saying that all the attractions and landmarks in the area aren't worth a visit, I think it's also worth remembering that if your 'thing' is a luxury massage Earls Court does this just as well as concerts, parks and posh shops. In fact, you might not find a better SW5 massage than that offered by the wonderful Bianca.
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Okay, raise your hand if it feels like you just turned 16? Okay, so maybe it has been a few years, like, 24, for me, omg, 24 years...but come on, if I close my eyes I can remember every single detail of the day. Where the hell did 24 years go? Or an even better question for me tonight, is where did the last 16 years go? You see tomorrow, my baby, my first born, my Mitchell, is going to enter into another world, the driving world, and that means that I am entering another world tomorrow too, one where I get to sit up late waiting him to arrive safely home because he is old enough to drive himself every where now.
Now don't get me wrong, I am pretty much going into this world with as much resistance as I can. I prayed at nights that time would slow, and my kids would stop growing up so fast. I watched as they grew out of their cute little work boots and overalls that I dressed them in as little boys, and their Scooby-Doo fascination seems like it never existed at all. And even my younger son, Nathanial will be joining the "I don't need mom so much crew" tomorrow, because he of course would rather go with his cooler big brother to things now instead of having his mom schlep him every where.
If I close my eyes, I can remember the first night I got my driver's license. It was snowing pretty good, and Dad had purchased a brand new car on the same day(I know, what was he thinking, right)? Actually, it was mom's car, Dad always had a truck. But I digress. On the day I got my license, it was snowing, we had a brand new car, and in rural Cape Breton that night, there was a dance in Mabou! If you are from rural Cape Breton, then you know, if there's a dance, then you have to go! I begged and pleaded with mom, but she didn't think it was a good idea, the roads weren't great, and it was her new car. Dad landed home from somewhere, and before my mother had the chance to even give him the look that said that he should say no, he had already said I could take the car and go to the dance. I don't think I ever moved so fast in my life to get out that door before mom could get dad to see the reasoning that she put out there. Now that I am in the same position, I am actually shaking my head, there is no way in hell Mitchell is getting my car on the very day he gets his license. LOL...I bet my mom is turning red and saying, "It's alright that it was my car and snowing.". Mom...you were right, I shouldn't have gotten the car that night. And here's the confession!
I didn't go straight to the dance, and home. As often happened as a teenager, it was all Tim's fault, lol. I can't remember if I went to pick him up or if I ran into him at Bobby's store that night...but he convinced me to go to West Mabou, in the snow to pick up John(Wendell) Campbell. Well, didn't I get the new car stuck in his driveway? Good thing I was a good driver and we got it out, lol...I think Carmen(John's dad) or Angus(his brother), helped. But we got out, and we made it to the dance, and eventually we made it home safely. I guess there are a few stories of nights out with friends and things we did that our parents never knew.
Maybe that is why I am having so much anxiety about this change that is coming in our lives? Teenagers will be teenagers, and they will go looking for fun, and friends, and hopefully they will just remember to do it safely. Or maybe I should just start drinking my way through the teenage years? I won't have a car to go anywhere anyways....


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Variety, they say, is the spice of life, and Tucson certainly dishes up plenty of variety (and spice) when it comes to eating out. Tucson is a city that lives for spice, and in the realm of fiery foods, Mexican reigns supreme. There's historical Mexican at both El Charro Café and El Minuto Cafe, nuevo Mexican at Café Poca Cosa and J Bar, and family-style Mexican at El Minuto. So if you like Mexican food, you'll find plenty of places in Tucson to get all fired up.
On the other hand, if Mexican leaves you cold, don't despair -- there are plenty of other restaurants serving everything from the finest French cuisine to innovative American, Italian, and Southwestern food. The last of these is almost as prevalent in Tucson as Mexican food, and you should be sure to dine at a Southwestern restaurant early in your visit. This cuisine can be brilliantly creative, and after trying it, you may want all your meals to be Southwestern.
Foodies fond of the latest culinary trends will find plenty of spots to satisfy their cravings. On the other hand, if you're on a tight dining budget, look for early-bird dinners, which are quite popular with retirees.
Market Timing -- Saturday and Sunday mornings are great times to stop by St. Philip's Plaza. No, this isn't a church, it's a shopping center, and on weekend mornings, there is a wonderful little farmers' market here. You can pick up organic bread, prickly pear cactus juice and jelly, homemade tamales, Mexican cheeses, and plenty of produce. Stock up here and then head to Sabino Canyon Recreation Area for a picnic.
Late-Night Noshing -- If your movie didn't let out until 10pm and the popcorn wasn't enough to fill you up, where do you go to satisfy your hunger? Try Kingfisher, 2564 E. Grant Rd. (tel. 520/323-7739; www.kingfishertucson.com), which stays open until midnight every night, or Pastiche Modern Eatery, 3025 N. Campbell Ave. (tel. 520/325-3333; www.pasticheme.com), which stays open until midnight Tuesday through Sunday. (For more information, see the reviews of Kingfisher and Pastiche earlier in this chapter.)
Bakeries, Cafes & Quick Bites
For some of the best espresso in Tucson, head to Raging Sage Coffee Roasters, 2458 N. Campbell Ave. (tel. 520/320-5203; www.ragingsage.com); prices are high, but the espresso here sure is tasty. Avenue Coffee, 2502 N. Campbell Ave. (tel. 520/225-0437; www.avenuecoffee.com), just up the street from Raging Sage, is another strong contender. If you've been visiting the museums on the University of Arizona campus and need a pick-me-up, try Caffe Luce, 943 E. University Blvd., no. 191 (tel. 520/207-5504; www.caffeluce.com), which is directly across the street from the campus. If you're a tea person, be sure to check out Seven Cups, 2516 E. Sixth St. (tel. 520/881-4072; www.sevencups.com), a traditional Chinese tearoom in a hip residential neighborhood near the University of Arizona.
If you find yourself craving a cupcake, head over to the university area to Red Velvet Cupcakery, 943 E. University Blvd., Ste. 165 (tel. 520/829-7780; www.redvelvetcupcakery.com). For eight-layer cakes and light food in an edgy atmosphere, I like to stop in at the Cup Cafe, at Hotel Congress, 311 E. Congress St. (tel. 520/798-1618; www.hotelcongress.com). At La Baguette Bakery, 1797 E. Prince Rd. (tel. 520/322-6297; www.ghiniscafe.com/page.cfm/bakery), which is affiliated with Ghini's French Caffe, you can get all kinds of delicious French pastries. AJ's Fine Foods, 2805 E. Skyline Dr. (tel. 520/232-6340; www.ajsfinefoods.com), a gourmet supermarket in La Encantada shopping center at the northwest corner of Skyline Drive and Campbell Avenue, is another good place to grab a pastry. If it's a hot day, head to Frost, A Gelato Shoppe, 7131 N. Oracle Rd., Ste. 101 (tel. 520/797-0188; www.frostgelato.com), a great little gelateria in the Casas Adobes shopping center. Other Frosts can be found at 7301 E. Tanque Verde Rd. (tel. 520/886-0354), which is conveniently close to Sabino Canyon, and at 2905 E. Skyline Dr., Ste. 286 (tel. 520/299-0315), in La Encantada shopping center. Alternatively, chill out with gelato at Café Italiano, 2485 N. Swan Rd., Ste. 141 (tel. 520/393-3396; www.cafeitalianoaz.com), which is in the Cornerstone Plaza on the northwest corner of Grant and Swan roads.
If you need a quick lunch, head for the nearest Baggins Gourmet Sandwiches (www.bagginsgourmet.com) for a delicious sandwich. Baggins has several locations, including 7201 E. Speedway Blvd. at Kolb Road (tel. 520/290-9383), 1800 E. Fort Lowell Rd. at Campbell Avenue (tel. 520/327-1611), and downtown at 33 N. Stone Ave. at Church and Pennington streets (tel. 520/792-1344). Good pizza can be had at Magpies Gourmet Pizza (www.magpiespizza.com) downtown at 605 N. Fourth Ave. (tel. 520/628-1661), 4654 E. Speedway Blvd. (tel. 520/795-5977), 105 S. Houghton Rd. (tel. 520/751-9949), and 7315 N. Oracle Rd. (tel. 520/297-2712). Whole Foods Market is a good place to get picnic supplies: organic fruit, delicious baked goods, cheese, meats, and wine. Locations are at 3360 E. Speedway Blvd. (tel. 520/795-9844) and 7133 N. Oracle Rd. (tel. 520/297-5394).
Note: This information was accurate when it was published, but can change without notice. Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip.


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I am so inspired to practice my free motion quilting that I am going to pretend that I did not turn my calendar. I have a schedule that I am suppose to follow, so I do not get behind in my sewing. So last night I decided to do my Free Motion Quilt Along #2. Stippling. I did not do a big sample but I am pretty happy with the results. The blue thread is #2.
So I want to do up some practice sandwiches so I can practice different stitches. I could not imagine just throwing them in a box when they are done, so I sat down last night and drafted what I wanted to do with them. I am quilting one side the same color and the opposite side in contrasting thread. Here is my stipple block. I marked it out before I started but then I went off the line, So I continued but ended in the middle so I just made a cirlcey thing!!
Here is the other side!!
Well now that I have that finished up, gotta take that foot off my machine and flip over the calandar!!
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Daily News Round #3 for July 30, 2004
- ACON4 Place Your Bets Contest Winners Announced
Although the results of the ACON4 finals were announced some time ago now, a contest for outsiders had been taking place alongside it by the name of the "Place Your Bets Contest". This consisted of 6,563 freely entered participants which were to guess which of the ACON4 finalists would reign supreme. People who guessed correctly were entered into a random drawing for the number 1 prize, the ACON4 SuperSystem. Turns out a X. Y. Zheng from China was the lucky chap to get his hands on that. Full details on final results, overall vote tallies, and prizes can be read within ABIT's official press release.
July 30, 2004 - The finals may be over, but the winning doesn't stop. A total of 6,563 people participated in the ACON4 Place Your Bets Contest, which had each participant guess as to which of the ACON4 finalists would take home the title of ACON4 World Champion. Those who picked the 1st place finalist were entered in a random drawing for the 1st place prize - the ACON4 SuperSystem valued at USD$3,000. Those who picked the 2nd place finisher were drawn for the 2nd place prize and so on.
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Generosity. Giving. Charity. If there is one thread that binds all of the world's religions together, it's that generous acts should be encouraged. Charity, generosity, and giving to the poor are mentioned in the New Testament over 30 times, Zakat, or donating a percentage of your income to the poor, is the third of Islam's Five Pillars, daana, or charity without expectation of a return, is a key aspect of Hindu teachings, and Buddhism celebrates even the simplest acts of kindness. Even the IRS encourages them by giving tax breaks for charitable contributions. But why is it so universal, and what does this imply? What does this say about humanity?
Every one of us have given a small bit of our abundance to those in need at one point or another. We've dropped a handful of change into a Salvation Army red bucket. We've slipped a dollar into the guitar case of a street musician or the cup of homeless veteran. One January when I was in college I saw a guy playing the tuba at 9 o'clock at night on a Chicago street corner. I handed him $5 (a big deal for a broke college student in the 90's) and told him to get inside before his lips froze permanently to the mouthpiece. And this made me feel good. Really good, actually, and I'm sure that you've felt the same way if you've had a chance to do something similar. This is beyond simple conscience or empathy, beyond the norms of our society or the teachings of our religions. Something about being kind just feels . . . right, like an affirmation. Reaching out and helping another person feels genuine, like doing so is an acknowledgment of something. I've given this a great deal of thought, and I have a theory about why, but first I need to explain a little about my beliefs.
If I had to put a label on my belief system, the one that would come the closest is Pantheist. Pantheism is the belief that all of existence is an interconnected whole, and that this whole is, for lack of a better term, God. Not the God of Christianity, Judaism or Islam, for those religions teach that the Divine is separate from Creation. Instead pantheism teaches that the Divine is existence, in a very real and literal sense. To a true pantheist, all of existence is holy, and the only sins come from fighting against the truth of our interconnection. Now, my beliefs deviate from this in quite a few ways, but that's not important here. The key fact is that I agree that "God" is not separate from us, and we are not separate from each other. More importantly, I feel that the joy that we get from being generous is proof of this interconnection.
Take this experience we've been discussing, this joy of generosity, and apply it to other spiritual points of view. To a monotheist, generosity is an edict from on-high, a requirement from God to behave in certain ways in order to earn a reward. To a reincarnationist, kindness is merely karmic book-balancing, an attempt to work off negativity from previous lives. To an atheist, charity is an acknowledgment of empathy and a way to keep the unfortunate and unlucky from destabilizing society. Yet none of these explain or even acknowledge the joy of generosity. They see it as nothing more than happy aftereffect or a result of Divine-given conscience.
I look at it differently. Stop and consider for a moment how it feels to receive generosity rather than to give it. Once we get past any feelings of guilt or shame (which I believe is just an unfortunate result of living in a capitalist society), receiving succor also feels good. It feels like an acknowledgment that we are worthy, that we deserve kindness. Think about this. Being generous and receiving help both trigger positive feelings. If we are individual souls trying to earn salvation, reincarnated souls seeking balance, or just bodies and minds going through the motions of our brief existences, why would receiving help feel as good giving help? It doesn't make sense.
Ahh, but what if we are interconnected? Then a logic beings to take shape behind all these feelings. Now, when someone is generous to another, it makes perfect sense that both would receive a similar positive emotion, for at a deep and esoteric level, there is no "other". There is just one Soul experiencing things from different perspectives at the same time. Now, I know this is an odd, even alien concept for many people. We are all taught the myth of the Rugged Individualist, we are all exposed to the rather lonely philosophies of most major religions, and what I am trying to describe runs counter to these in many different ways. I am not here to convert anyone to any particular way of thinking, but I do want you and everyone else to think about this, and think deeply.
So the next time you feel the desire to give, stop for a moment. Look into the eyes of that street musician, that homeless person, that bell ringer. See them as another person with hopes and dreams, joys and disappointments, foibles and graces. And just for a moment, try to perceive in their returned gaze a flicker of that Divine Spark that lives in all of us, that crosses creeds, classes, and colors. Look for that moment of namaste, the God in me acknowledges the God in you. This is what generosity is truly about. It is a chance for us to express our interconnection in a real and tangible way. Few things in life feel more fulfilling, because few things in life better reflect what I believe to be the real nature of existence. I give to you because you and I are connected, and if you lack something, then at some level so do I. I receive from you with gladness, for I know that I deserve kindness and that you feel as much joy from this act as I do. In this way, charity may be the most holy act we humans can do.


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ESPN launched another one of those "It's Not Crazy…It's Sports" ads, and this one has to do with everyone in Alabama saying "Roll Tide" to one another. I mean, at least the people that don't say "War Eagle," but I digress.
So I guess "Roll Tide" can mean any of these things:
- Hello.
- You have a deal.
- I love you.
- Drive a little slower next time.
- Up yours, pig!
- I'm so beautiful.
- Did you piss in the hottub?
- I would totally have sex with your new wife if I wasn't so fat and ugly.
- Are your children safe from online predators? Find out tonight at eleven.
- I forgot to bring a condom.
- That's okay. I'll just give you a handy in the cafeteria tomorrow.
- Let's read the will and find out who's rich!
Wow. That's really universal. It's like when a caveman grunts; you have to listen to how he grunts to understand what he means. I've actually been to Alabama a handful of times and I've never heard anyone say that to me. Just "You're gonna pay for that" and "I bet you can't french kiss better than my daddy." They were right on both counts.


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Monday, December 10, 2012
Our VIP Shopping Night...
We have a special prize giveaway on Wednesday night; for every purchase made, go into a draw to win a $100 Gift Voucher. This can acquire many a wondrous thing at Gather.
Posted by KNITWEAR & TEXTILE DESIGNER, NAPIER, NEW ZEALAND at 12:34 PM


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David Turkki dropped by at the Finnish Consulate in Toronto to cast his vote in the advance polls for the Finnish parliamentary elections giving him the number one spot at least in Toronto. The advance polls are held in various locations around Canada until Saturday, April 9th. The voting days and opening hours vary, and are outlined below.
According to the Finnish Constitution sovereign power in Finland belongs to the people, represented by Parliament convened in session. The Finnish Parliament is unicameral and comprises 200 representatives.
Members of Parliament are elected every fourth year. Election Day is the third Sunday of April. Every Finnish citizen who has reached the age of 18 not later than on the day of the election is entitled to vote in parliamentary elections. The first parliamentary elections in Finland were held on 15 and 16 March 1907. The parliamentary elections 2011 are the 36th parliamentary elections held in Finland.
The advance voting period abroad starts on Wednesday April 6th and ends Saturday April 9th, 2011. More information about voting by the expatriate Finns can be found in the PDF-file below.
Voting by the expatriate Finns (PDF, 41KB)
Embassy of Finland, Ottawa (ON): 6.-7 April 9 am – 6 pm and 8 April 9 am – 1 pm
55 Metcalfe Street, Suite 850, Ottawa
Telephone: (613) 288 2233
Consulate of Finland, Edmonton (AB): 6.-7 April 9 am – 4 pm
1400 Canadian Western Bank Place, 10303 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton
Telephone: (780) 421 1818
Consulate of Finland, Montreal (QC): 6 April 9 am – 4 pm
Kenniff and Racine inc. Place Sherbrooke, 1010 Sherbrooke Street West, Suite 602, Montreal (QC)
Telephone: (514) 282 9798
Consulate of Finland, Sudbury (ON): 6 April 9 am – 7 pm
176 McNaughton Street, Sudbury
Telephone: (705) 675 0067
Consulate of Finland, Thunder Bay (ON): 6 April 9 am – 4 pm
76 North Algoma Street, Thunder Bay
Telephone: (807) 344 9191
Consulate of Finland, Toronto (ON): 6.-8 April 9 am – 4 pm and 9 April 10 am – 2 pm
1200 Bay Street, Suite 604, Toronto
Telephone: (416) 964 0066
Consulate of Finland, Vancouver (BC): 6.-8 April 9 am – 5 pm
1188 West Georgia Street, Suite 1480, Vancouver
Telephone: (604) 688 4483
You must have your valid photo ID with you at the advance polling station. If you received the "notice of the right to vote" (voter's card) in the mail, please bring it with you. However, if you do not have it, you can still vote.
Further information about the elections: www.vaalit.fi
More information: Tanja Neuvonen-Del Bosco, Head of Consular Affairs, tel. (613) 288 2240, email: firstname.lastname@example.com and www.vaalit.fi


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I found this color Chi Chi Moondust at my local target it is so pretty I have never brought Chi Chi nail polishes before but this color was too hard to resist! I had a really great trip to target yesterday I came back with six polishes four bottles of Essence color & go and two bottles of Chi Chi this is the most polishes I have ever brought from an Australian store. Moondust has a dark purple base with a mixture of blue and purple glitter I hope you like it as much as I do!
Sunday, 18 December 2011
Chi Chi - Moondust
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That's gorgeous! I have it sitting in my untrieds, may be time to break it out!ReplyDelete
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No probs with application the base color is pretty opaque so you don't need too many coats the polish has quite a strong chemical smell but I find that with most aussie polishesReplyDelete
Julia you should definitely break it out! I am really happy with it would have loved to see it in the sun but maybe another day!ReplyDelete
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|Digital Art by Salvatore Vuono - Thanks
Welcome 2012! I am still working on my New Year's Genealogy Resolutions/Goals and will post them soon. I am especially thankful for all the great Geneabloggers who have shared their knowledge, humor and tips during the past year. I am also thankful for Google+ because I find it a terrific way to keep up with all that is going on in the genealogy world. The ability to comment and share in pretty much real time is a great boon. I am hopeful that we will all take advantage of Hangouts in a big way in 2012.
Cheers ~ All the best to you and yours in 2012.


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1 cup butter (2 sticks)
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
3 cups flour, self-rising
1 cup buttermilk
2 teaspoons vanilla
Southern Caramel Icing Recipe, double the recipe
Prep time 40 mins
Cook time 30 mins
Total time 1 hour 10 mins
Prep time 40 mins
Cook time 30 mins
Total time 1 hour 10 mins
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Prepare 3 9-inch cake pans.
Cream butter til fluffy and then add sugar and cream for about 8 more minutes.
Add eggs, 1 at a time, and cream after each.
Add flour and buttermilk, alternately, beginning and ending with flour.
Add vanilla and beat well.
Divide among pans and bake for 25-30 minutes until set.
Turn out of pans onto cooling racks and allow to cool completely.
Prepare Southern Caramel Icing as cakes are cooling then ice cake.


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Le 37.2: a beach restaurant for gourmets
beach design
The 37.2 beach restaurant has had a wonderful makeover and now sports new decor and a new menu.
Ideally located on the beautiful beach of Cala Rossa, the atmosphere here is chic and elegant. The decor features dark wood and furniture that invites relaxation, along with a great white veil to keep the sun off when it hits hard.
Gourmets will appreciate the menu by Pierre-Yves Lorenzelli, formerly of La Reserve de Beaulieu, whose very fresh gourmet cuisine seduces even the most demanding. There is no question here about taking the easy way, and even if you have lunch with your feet in the sand, you can expect to be charmed.
Fresh local produce, great prime rib, and the fish of the day are honoured on the menu, as well as delicious cocktails, if you come just for a drink.
Le 37.2
Cala Rossa
20137 Lecci
+33 (0)4 95 71 70 24
Menu: around 30 EUR