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Michael Maltzan Architecture
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Breaking Conventions: Michael Maltzan designs a house for a nontraditional household.
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"As a same-sex couple, we FELT that the old nomenclature of residential space didn't apply to us," states Lari Pittman, who, with his partner, Roy Dowell, challenged Michael Maltzan, FAIA, to explore the architectural ramifications of nontraditional relationships. For example, they wanted no doors or partitions between rooms. Instead, they asked Maltzan to "disrupt and dismantle the hierarchy of spaces" found in other houses and rethink conventions of privacy.
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Pittman and Dowell, both respected painters and teachers, lived in a 1,200-square-foot Richard Neutra—designed house on the northern edge of Los Angeles and needed more space. Although small, their 1952 house — designed for Neutra's secretary, Dorothy Serulnic, and her husband, George — sits on a 6-acre site that Neutra planned so it could be subdivided into three parcels. Since purchasing the entire property in 1997, Pittman and Dowell had built a small pavilion and cactus garden on the second parcel and saw how the site's various pieces all worked together. So instead of just building a bigger house on the third parcel and using the Serulnic residence as a guesthouse, they approached the new building as an integral part of a larger composition.
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Maltzan responded with a design that at first blush seems to contradict Neutra's — introverted and opaque rather than outward-looking and transparent, polygonal rather than orthogonal. But the more you get to know his house, the more you see how it picks up Neutra's ideas and gives them a new spin. While Maltzan certainly uses contrast as one means of relating the new to the old, his strategy is more sophisticated than simply doing the opposite of what Neutra did.
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"The new house had to work with the entire environment, not just the Neutra house," explains Maltzan. A driveway winds its way up the site with the existing home at the top, so he used that processional element to help generate an asymmetrical, spiraling geometry connecting the new building to both the cactus garden and the old residence. To anchor the dynamic composition, the architect focused certain elements — such as an internal courtyard and an oval skylight in the master bathroom — on an imposing stone-pine tree in the Neutra house's backyard. And since the old residence looks down onto its new sibling, Maltzan designed the roof of his building as an additional facade that clearly expresses the floor plan inside.
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Neutra layered space in his house, taking visitors from a relatively enclosed entry to an open living room that flows directly onto a backyard overlooking a valley and the city beyond. Maltzan reinterprets this concept, layering spaces, but in a pinwheel manner that opens each room onto the next and the jagged court in the center. Instead of unfolding in a linear progression, his plan takes visitors on a spiraling journey that offers surprising views through the house, into the court, and out to the valley. "I thought of the house as a perspective machine generating views across and through the building," says the architect. Indeed, the house presents visitors with an almost cinematic experience, as it frames a series of shots both outside and in and offers a number of unexpected moments — such as the view of the stone pine through the oval-shaped skylight in the bathroom, and the way a wall in the library turns into a bladelike edge as you turn the corner into the bedroom.
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By slicing and dissecting his seven-sided structure into a series of triangles and polygons, Maltzan creates a geometry that challenges conventional notions of household order. As soon as you enter, you can look into the master bathroom on one side or to the living room in front. From the living room, you can walk out to a covered balcony overlooking the valley or up one step to the courtyard. The bedroom on the other side of the court faces the living room with floor-to-ceiling glass (though shades can be pulled down). A galley kitchen occupies an interstitial space between the dining room and a library. Noting that the Serulnic house broke many rules when it was built, Pittman says that living in it for many years "radicalized us."
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Built on a concrete slab with hidden steel columns and laminated-wood beams, the new, 2,500-square-foot house cost $1.5 million. A conventional structural system and simple materials (plaster exterior, concrete pavers in the courtyard, and Scandinavian oak floorboards) kept expenses down. Although green-design strategies didn't play a major role in the project, Maltzan carefully oriented the house to catch prevailing breezes and specified double-layered, UV-protected glass to reduce solar loads.
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On paper, Maltzan's design seems a bit like a mathematical conceit and an odd response to the Neutra house. But in person, it feels remarkably comfortable — more sunlit and extroverted than you might imagine, and more connected to California's heritage of Modern architecture than it appears at first. For all its radical notions of subverting residential norms, it has an easy charm, welcoming to many types of people. Maltzan, who lives with his wife and two children in a 1920s bungalow and has never built a house for himself, says that for the first time in his career he could imagine taking up residence in one of his designs.
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By Sarah Stanton, M.Sc.
Communication is an important part of romantic relationships, especially when navigating conflict or when trying to change a partner's behavior. Although dealing with these issues can sometimes be distressing, it can also serve as an opportunity for you and your partner to learn about each other and improve your relationship. Indeed, by the end of this article, I hope it is clear that what matters most is not the presence of conflict itself, but rather how you and your partner handle the conflict (i.e. the communication strategies you use).
Communication strategies vary in terms of whether they are active (i.e. addressing a situation in a candid or direct way) versus passive (i.e. addressing a situation in a subtle or roundabout way). They also vary in terms of whether they are constructive (i.e. positive in tone or content) versus destructive (i.e. negative in tone or content). Over the years, researchers have identified four main types of communication strategies in relationships:
Exit refers to behavior that is active and destructive. Joseph uses exit strategies when he, for example, nags Shirley about issues, screams at Shirley when discussing problems, threatens to leave Shirley if she does not change, or ends their relationship.
Voice refers to behavior that is active and constructive. Joseph uses voice strategies when he directly (and positively) discusses his concerns with Shirley, suggests solutions to problems, attempts to change himself or Shirley in order to improve their relationship, or seeks advice from others about how to navigate issues in his relationship.
Loyalty refers to behavior that is passive and constructive. Joseph uses loyalty strategies when he prays that things will get better, hopes that problems will resolve themselves, elects to just "give issues some time," or remains supportive even when Shirley criticizes him.
Neglect refers to behavior that is passive and destructive. Joseph uses neglect strategies when he decides that he can no longer trust Shirley, ignores Shirley, gives her the "cold shoulder" when discussing problems, or begins to spend less time with Shirley in general.
So, which strategy is best? By and large, the constructive responses (voice and loyalty) are consistently associated with better relationship outcomes, such as greater satisfaction and commitment. The destructive responses (exit and neglect), on the other hand, tend to yield negative outcomes. This is understandable, since exit and neglect strategies are likely to devalue your partner and hinder problem-solving, whereas voice and loyalty strategies promote acceptance and understanding of your partner.
Although voice and loyalty are both constructive, recent studies suggest that loyalty may not always be an ideal communication strategy. For instance, Nickola Overall and her colleagues found that, when partners engaged in voice strategies during interactions by addressing issues directly with each other, they felt listened to and more valued. Engaging in loyalty strategies during interactions by avoiding conflict, however, did not yield these benefits. In fact, people who used loyalty strategies felt ignored by their partners and therefore felt less connected to their relationships (e.g., they felt less close to their partner) after the interaction. The authors reasoned that loyalty, being a passive communication strategy, is less noticeable to the other partner.
Calling back to our earlier hypothetical couple, if Joseph uses loyalty strategies in interactions, Shirley may not pick up on the loyal behaviors or notice that anything is wrong. Whatever issues in the relationship Joseph and Shirley are dealing with, then, are not resolved, nothing changes, and Joseph may feel like his concerns have not been heard or accepted by Shirley.
The take-home message, therefore, seems to be that voice is the best communication strategy to use in your relationship. Voice is active, meaning that your thoughts and feelings will be clear to your partner. Voice is also constructive, meaning that your partner will feel valued and understood as you navigate conflict together. By using communication strategies that are direct and positive, you and your partner will be happier and better-off in the long run.
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Showers and Strawberries
♦ Such a long week and so devoid of release. One little cog jams and suddenly, no sweet and soaring sex for me. Nothing but tantalising teases and the little preludes that normally swell into full-blown symphonies. A long, long week with no sex but plenty of sexuality, plenty of seduction, plenty of sinful talk and sensual snaps. It's enough to drive a girl wild.
The frustration is immense. I can't have what I want. I can't dive into delirious and furious fucking. No throbbing cock ready to fill me up, no scratching and clawing and just taking what I need. And I need it. It's all building up, up, up and something's got to give. Pictures and words and sensations fill my head and the dull ache between my legs nags, refusing to go away.
A little ball of want.
The week ends and I return home weary but with naughty thoughts whispering in my head. Earlier I had wished I could just reach down my knickers and stroke the flesh that lies there, but circumstances had got in the way. Soon, I had thought, soon I'll be free to do whatever I like to myself. Now here I am.
The perfect remedy for the hours upon hours of workaday life: a hot and steamy shower. I step in, my body tired and dragging with it a banality I'd hoped to leave at the door. With relief, I feel cascades of water hitting me, sloughing off the dust and dreariness, but leaving the tight feeling in my clitoris, now sharp as a whip. As I become clean and fresh, my energy rises and I reach for something soothing to slather myself in.
Strawberries. An ideal scent for filling my nostrils as I luxuriate in steam, self-indulgence and thoughts of you.
I cover myself in a strawberry slickness, stepping out of the stream so that it lingers on my naked body, a sweet pink liquid decorating my breasts, belly and thighs. Imagining the touch of your skin, I begin to stroke my own.
I run a hand down my thigh as the other lays momentarily upon my breast before beginning to explore it fully. I rub the strawberry gel into my skin as I imagine your hands, your gaze upon my increasingly excited and aroused body. When I have smoothed every bit but the last of the strawberry into my skin, I stop for a moment, listen to the heavy gush of the hot water and imagine in it your hot little breaths, your sighing gasps, your whispered curses and exultations.
The last of the strawberry has a special destination. I gather it up before snaking my hands one by one between my flushed-pink legs. Often I've enjoyed the feel of the slipperiness there as I wash myself, but now I know I'm going to make full use of it. With the heat of the water at my back, I stroke strawberry into every fold and crevice, sliding my fingers again and again over my pussy. You're in my head as I run my fingers hand-over-hand between my thighs, my warm, wet sex pulsing with the clean-yet-dirty feel of the silky-smooth liquid.
I work myself into a frenzy, gasping as your most wicked words echo in my ears. My clitoris is full to bursting of frustrations waiting to be let loose.
I turn, plunging myself back into the water, planting my feet firmly at the sides of the shower, spreading my legs and holding on tight to the shower with one hand. Images of you deluge as surely and relentlessly as the water itself as I move the fingers of my right hand up from my folds and to my clitoris. You're a slideshow. A zoetrope of lust. For now, at least, you're an avatar of sex itself and I will prostrate myself at your altar.
My fingers work furiously at my clit, stroking the warm, sodding skin into ecstasy as all the tightness of a week's torturous deprivation coils up ready to explode and dissipate. I hold on tight, the scent of strawberries mingling with my own, and I tumble shakingly into the first orgasm. Your skin, your fingers, your breath, your lust, my imagination bringing them to life and wrapping them around me, on me, in me.
I shudder, my orgasm racing through my body from clit to cunt and finger to toe. As it fades, I gasp. Before long I am cascading into another climax, stronger than the last, making my knees wobble. I hold on for dear life, nearly wrenching the shower contraption from the wall. As this second orgasm floods my body, I feel the last of the tightness and tiredness and tortuousness of my frustrations escape me. I needed this.
I needed to lose myself in a world of wetness, heat, sinfulness and strawberries and come out the other side fresh and shaking. Two warmths pulse through me now: that of the heat and that of post-orgasmic bliss. As thoughts of you lift from me like a broken spell, I blink and wake as if from slumber.
I turn off the shower and re-enter the world.
The scent of strawberries follows me for the rest of the evening… ♦
♦ This story now has its very own related HNT of me here. Two pictures of my breasts both pre-shower and all lathered-up. ♦
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Innocent Loverboy says :
Wow, that's really explicit. And a bit of a turn-on… and also very tempting. I may have to do the same to myself in one of the shower rooms of this house I find myself in. Of course, I'd have to find some strawberry gel first. I wonder if mint works as well. I have mint.
I love the way you describe things – especially the sensations that pulse through your body as you indulge in flagrante delicto. They are, of course, indescribable… but you get as close as possible, I think – and that, my dear, is commendable.
Catharine says :
I was excited enough just from the title!
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Very very hot.
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It's has been a hot minute since I've posted here. Life, as always has been kind of crazy and my creative life has been a little neglected. Cleaning up this blog, and updating some of the pages, is a step in the right direction. My goal is to get back into the book world a bit more, and start doing some book blogging. At the beginning of this year, my friend Laura and I decided to do the Rory Gilmore reading challenge – and I am falling behind dreadfully! I've been trying to make reading more of a priority, so expect much more bookish content ahead.
There is also some other big life changes ahead – and expect to hear more about that as well!
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Parents create special needs dating, friendship website
Most parents just want what's best for their kids, to see them happy.
Which is why one set of Michigan parents took that desire to a whole new level by creating a friendship and dating site for people with special needs.
The webstite, www.myperfectmatch.com is the brainchild of Shannon and Steve Harwood.
Their daughter, Amanda, suffered a traumatic brain injury when she was just two-years-old.
Now, at 23-years-old, they say she needs help meeting new people.
"It was a real struggle for her to talk to people to find friends to find boyfriends and that stuff that," said Amanda's mom, Shannon.
Shannon says she's seen first-hand how much harder it is for people with special needs to form friendships and relationships.
"You know we see my daughter she just struggles every day she's lonely," said Shannon. "You try to give them as much attention and do as much as you can with them but they see other people in the community that have that."
Which is why almost a year ago the idea of My Special Match was born.
"It's been a very heartfelt project for the last year," said Victoria Kautz, family friend and marketing director of the site.
In just 12 days the site is expected to launch as an avenue for people with special needs to form those types of relationships.
"Social relationships are certainly a vital part of every adult relationship including those with special needs," said Aaron Mills with Special Olympics Michigan.
"It's trying to find people on their level that they can communicate socially on the level that they're at," said Shannon.
"The biggest hurdle in developing new friendships for anyone including those with special needs is really just having the opportunity to meet new people," said Mills.
As for safety concerns, Kautz says there will be a blocking and reporting feature.
"Just making sure that everyone on there is a true 100 percent special needs person looking to find friendship or dating," said Shannon.
As with any dating site there are suggested tips and guidelines to follow when meeting new people.
My Perfect Match is no different, they have a safety tip training that must be completed before creating a profile.
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Why Machinima is Different
Posted by Peter Rasmussen on April 29, 2007
The Machinima Advantage – continued
To understand the potential of machinima we need to understand what has gone before.
Ancient history:
Even at the "independent" end the film industry has systematically been reduced in it's scope. Like a "mini me" of the studios it has become intensely corporate in its workings if not in the actual budgets. There was a time when there was more balance. Big budget films employed a lot of people and payed for the infrastructure of the industry while independents kept the fresh ideas coming. Even big studios would occasionally put out films that could draw some critical acclaim. Now it has become much more homogenous.
At the moment the making of films has become so strictly regimented. Everyone has gone to the same "how to make a movie" seminars to learn that you have to have two clips to hold the script together not three. There is no room for descent. The result being that they cost so much and that they're all the same movie.
Maintaining and expanding a profile in the industry has become such an art that there is a sense of reward that comes from being good at that alone. This contributes to a kind of decadents. It has become more about working the room and less about making the film.
Hal Hartley once said
"If I'm serious about film making
I have to get out of the industry."
The emphasis has been on impressing the industry with your value to get its support to make your projects possible. Now there is the potential to get that support directly from the audience you are making the film for.
Now we have digital video. Anyone can afford cameras and editing software that is capable of producing a film that at least has image and sound quality acceptable for commercial release. Now we have the Internet. Anyone can self distribute. Anyone can show their film to anyone who can find it.
Machinima is not a branch of an earlier kind of film making like video from celluloid. Machinima is a completely independent eruption. It is not just a new image recording medium. What used to be a video game add on is now a new approach to story telling that has it's own community and culture. It's a movement that is currently free of most of the intrinsic encumbrances of conventional filmmaking.
The greater population of machinima makers come from outside conventional filmmaking. Machinima was born out of the chaos of the warfare of first person shooters and the anarchy of excited gamers and hackers who were not restricted by filmmaking conventions or industry etiquette.
A great deal of machinima so far was made in existing games with no regard to copyright. This may actually have contributed to its growth. Not having to make the locations and characters made the process much more quick and fun at that early stage. Without copyright clearance the only way this work could be seen was for free. So the popularity grew. And other sources of revenue were explored. Like talking about how it is done at seminars like books on machinima like merchandising.
The feedback loop between trying something out and seeing the result is so much shorter. This is true of the day to day production and of the turnaround on entire projects. Techniques like real time puppeteering fuel spontaneity. The immediacy of machinima is a very powerful substance.
The best way to learn filmmaking is to do it. The budgets for conventional films these days have become so bloated filmmakers just don't get the same amount of practice. Starting out in the black and white era Alfred Hitchcock Made fifty films in his career. The ones he is most famous for are the ones in his later years.
With less time taken up by development and the raising of production money the turnaround for machinima is much faster. There is much less of a gap between having an idea and seeing how it actually looks on the screen. And straight away you can see if it works for the audience.
"Do what you like.
And If the audience doesn't like it get off"
– Noel Coward
It's not just the speed of production. It's very much about the attitude people making machinima bring to what they do. Machinima is propelled by the same sense of hands on discovery that drives the video game modding community.
Skills and practices drawn from conventional filmmaking can be applied but this must be done with care. With Main stream filmmaking you get development hell. There are so many people you have to convince that what you are doing will be successful. This environment rarely produces things that have not been seen before. Machinima seems to be in a position where it can avoid much of this at least for a while.
With conventional film making there can be a strange gap between the filmmakers and the audience, the "demographic" as they are sometimes called. With machinima it is much more fluid. There can be a conversation between the audience and the filmmakers even during production via blogs and forums. This doesn't mean that the work has been modified for the lowest common denominator it's more like an overture before the main event.
Fans of machinima are not looking for photorealism. The spectrum of kinds of machinima being made is quite broad. From popular entertainment to extremely conceptual art pieces. So broad that a vigorous debate continues to attempt to define machinima.
The 2006 Machinima Film Festival in New York ran for two days. The quality of entries had grown since previous years. Most entries ran for less than ten minutes. Two had a running time of more than an hour. Short titles rule at the moment. The most successful films at a festival of mostly short films are gag driven. A single clever concept well delivered with a strong punch line.
It's like Machinima is in the first few microseconds after its big bang. The particles are basic but very powerful. I expect that over the next few years we will see more long form productions as serious machinima makers settle in for the long haul.
There is an opportunity to, refine is the wrong word, to bring this new medium to a state where it can be produced for a return of revenue that allows the machinima makers to continue to deliver to there audience something fresh and original in a sustainable way without outside interference in the creative process.
6 Responses to "Why Machinima is Different"
April 30, 2007 at 12:33 am
"Me too", +1, etc. Thanks for writing this up.
May 2, 2007 at 3:18 am
Outstanding and uplifting, Peter. You have perfectly characterized some of machinima's greatest strengths. Thank you.
May 2, 2007 at 3:38 am
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May 4, 2007 at 4:33 am
Well put. It's a good time to be working in this, before all these young creative geniusses from animation schools will get their hands on it and put us all out of business. 🙂
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Hi Keaton, will you be releasing another single from the Beautiful Pain Album? I am grooving on Gonna Shine Brighter right now. MWAH!
Not quite sure what you mean -- singles tend to come out before the album, so no more singles left on the Beautiful Pain one. :) But I'll be releasing singles from the next album soon!
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Well I hope she spoils you and you have a superb birthday! I think you should come to Australia next year for my birthday and do a gig, yes, love planning ahead haha :) no but for real, Australia is calling your name!Keaton Simons responded on 07/08/2014 Next question
Hey Keaton! I discovered you on Breakthru Radio's Jam session. I looked you up and I think DJ Laura is your girlfriend? Did you know she plays your music?Keaton Simons responded on 07/08/2014
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Signup starts for Alton Park & Rec micro-soccer for 4- and 5 year-old players
ALTON — Parents now may sign up their 4- and 5-year-old children for Alton Park and Recreation Department's 2017 spring micro-soccer program.
The learn-to-play soccer program is open to boys and girls and emphasizes basic skills development and group interaction while having fun. Charlie Nasello and soccer players will instruct the young players, who will play games on the following four Sundays: April 23 and 30; and May 7 and 14 in Gordon F. Moore Community Park, weather permitting.
Registration fee is $14 per child. To qualify for a 4-year-old team, a child must have had his or her fourth birthday before April 30, 2017.
Advanced registration is required and space is limited. Deadline to register is April 21.
To register, go online to: cityofaltonil.com and click "program registration." Parents also may complete forms available during weekday hours at the Park and Recreation Department, 2 Emma L. Kaus Lane, Alton. For more information, call: (618) 463-3580.
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Curator and producer Manuela Benetton announces a new series of events in the unusual and all-enveloping setting of various Berlin churches, which will explore the power of experimental electronic music to generate a sense of connectivity between listeners and performers.
After the rare live appearance of Japanese improv collective Marginal Consort at St. Elisabeth-Kirche in June 2016 (in collaboration with PAN), and that of American minimalist Terry Riley with his son Gyan at Zionskirche last September (co-presented with Rabih Beaini's Morphine Records), the series continues with two special shows in 2017.
On April 28th, avant-garde music legends Nurse With Wound – Steven Stapleton, Colin Potter, and Andrew Liles, with James Hill as special guest – will play their first Berlin show since 2007 in the magnificent Sophienkirche.
Nurse With Wound have worked at the cutting-edge of meditative drone and ambient music for forty years. Their unique vision, influenced as much by Dada and Surrealism as by krautrock, cabaret and pop, has been fervently carried through a vast catalogue of releases, and they continue to break visual and sonic horizons.
Nurse With Wound's live performances consolidate all aspects of their practice into an ever-evolving experience, which is kept in flux by featuring an array of different guest musicians. Each live performance acts as a rehearsal for the next: no two shows are ever the same.
On May 31st, in the immersive setting of St. Elisabeth-Kirche, electronic noise maestro Merzbow joins forces with free improvisation pioneer Keiji Haino and long-time collaborator, the drummer Balázs Pándi, for their first ever concert in Germany. The fearsome threesome, who recently released the album An Untroublesome Defencelessness (Rare Noise Records), promise a bizarre, humorous, and disorienting live show. Merzbow's electronic swirls, scrapes, flickers, and vacuum-like chunks of sound enhance and open up dialogues between Pandi and Haino, who lock into an experimental and excessive duel. A special collaboration between Heith (Haunter Records) and Jesse Osborne-Lanthier (Raster Noton) will open the evening.
The show is presented in collaboration with the Milanese Macao collective as a preview of Saturnalia Festival, which will take place in Milan on June 17th–18th, and in association with The Wire, celebrating 400 issues of the magazine.
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As you may well know, cocktails are my vice (along with shopping, food, etc). But basically, they're my downfall.
So here's a roundup of some of the cocktails I've had in my time in France! I just hope I can remember what's in them so as to recreate them.. Somehow I think remembering things and alcohol just don't mix..
Le Parfait, from La Fabrik.
And my good-ness, it is perfect. Tasting kind of like gummy sweets, it's the right amount of alcohol to get you slightly merry but not be able to taste the alcohol – very dangerous, but so worth it. Go on, live vicariously!
Helen – Strawberry daiquiri
Me – Martini Royale
In this instance, I preferred the slushiness and sweetness of Helen's daiquiri to my rather potent martini, though the champagne in it was a definite bonus!
I don't know if you can count these next two as cocktails.. They are twists on the Kir Royale, but instead of using Kir I went for a lychee liqueur, and Alice went for a lavender one. Just what the doctor ordered after an exam!


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Versatility - that's one of the key words you can't get away from when attempting to sum up the careers so far of Johnny Dankworth and Cleo Laine. Now Sir John and Dame Cleo, well-deserved honours awarded for their services to music, they have now passed the milestone of their 80th birthdays. Far from resting on their laurels, they continue to be forces to be reckoned with.
Back in the late Forties, Johnny joined 'Geraldo's navy' - working as an alto saxophone player with dance bands aboard transatlantic liners. A colleague from those days was Ronnie Scott and they both haunted jazz clubs in New York on their frequent visits there. Bop innovators such as Charlie Parker, Bud Powell and Dizzy Gillespie left a strong impression on the young men, then barely out of their teens. They brought the message back to Britain and spearheaded the bop movement in the UK, founding the Club Eleven, a London nightclub where bop was the order of the day. Johnny joined the Tito Burns Sextet at about this time and also doubled as alto saxophonist and arranger for the Ambrose band.
For several years from 1949 he had begun to emerge as a consistent 'Melody Maker' popularity poll winner - in several categories (i.e. Musician Of The Year, Top Alto Player, Top Arranger etc.). In the natural course of events Johnny formed a small band, known as The Johnny Dankworth Seven, and they made their debut to a mixed reception at the London Palladium on 5 March 1950 as part of Ted Heath's Sunday Swing Session. The group's repertoire on that night wasn't commercial enough for most of the audience, something Johnny soon discovered, and before long the band had to compromise in order to survive. He readily admits that the group was considerably influenced by the Miles Davis epoch-making, albeit short-lived, nine-piece band of September 1948. The Johnny Dankworth Seven lasted considerably longer, breaking up in July 1953. The ensemble had plenty of ideas of its own and was certainly no carbon copy of any American group. In retrospect it emerges as a very significant and original part of British jazz history.
Cleo Laine had become a member of the unit in 1951 and even on these early recordings, such as Honeysuckle Rose and Easy Living (from 1953), her huskily rich voice is instantly recognisable. It's easy to understand how she has progressed to international stardom - her unique qualities were there from the start.
The phoenix that arose from the ashes of The Seven after just over three months was a seventeen-piece big band plus three vocalists (Frank Holder and Tony Mansell in addition to Cleo Laine). There was plenty of work available for big bands at this time and Johnny now came into competition with Ted Heath, Jack Parnell, Geraldo and Vic Lewis amongst others.
Cleo was making records under her own name by the mid Fifties and left the band in 1958 to concentrate on a solo career, in acting as well as singing. And in March of that year she became Mrs Johnny Dankworth. Like most great singers, Cleo has that rare ability to 'get inside' a song and virtually make it her own - even the most jaded and hackneyed numbers take on a new freshness when interpreted by her. In common with the late Mel Tormé, she doesn't like to be categorised as a 'jazz singer' - in fact it's impossible to pigeonhole a singer/actress of such diverse talents as Cleo. In the late Sixties for example her programmes would feature Schumann and Hugo Wolf lieder rubbing shoulders with traditional blues, British and contemporary songs as well as excerpts from Brecht and Weill's 'Seven Deadly Sins' and American evergreens. It was as Mrs Yajnavalkya in Sandy Wilson's musical 'Valmouth' that Cleo made her first West End appearance in January 1959, replacing Bertice Reading who had left for Broadway.
During the years that followed, Cleo's stage achievements included taking over the lead role from Lotte Lenya in 'The Seven Deadly Sins', depicting two famous actresses (Ellen Terry and Mrs Patrick Campbell) in the Johnny Dankworth-Benny Green musical based on the life of George Bernard Shaw, 'Boots And Strawberry Jam', and playing the role of Julie in Kern and Hammerstein's 'Show Boat' (Adelphi Theatre, July 1971). In November 1979 Cleo first portrayed the celebrated French authoress Colette in her husband's musical of the same name which enjoyed a short West End run in 1980. Cleo's first visits to Australia and America in 1972 were huge successes and from this time on she has gone from strength to strength and achieved true worldwide acclaim. Amongst the rave reviews by American critics, one wrote "…simply the greatest popular singer, male or female, in the world" - some accolade! 'Cleo On Broadway' marked her Broadway debut in 1977 and she attained the enviable distinction of being nominated in the popular female, classical and jazz sections of America's Grammy Awards.
In 1968 Johnny and Cleo bought the Old Rectory at Wavendon in Buckinghamshire (about 50 miles north of London) and converted the stables into a small concert hall. The following year the Wavendon Allmusic Plan (a charitable organisation) was launched, the main aim of which was to break down the artificial barriers between classical, popular and other forms of music. Thirty years later, they set up another charity, The Wavendon Foundation. This was formed with the objective of raising funds to benefit both individual young musicians in need of financial aid, and organisations seeking support for music education projects. In October 2000, with the aid of an Arts Council lottery grant, the new Stables theatre, built adjacent to the original stables block, was opened. It continues to function as a pivotal venue for performers, students and audiences alike.
This varied collection covers the seven years from 1953 to 1960, and includes two hit records. The first of these, from 1960, is the catchy African Waltz, and the second, which dates from 1956, is Experiments With Mice. This is an amusing, tongue-in-cheek vignette of several big band and jazz leaders, complete with a narration by Johnny Dankworth. At the time of this recording Johnny had recently changed the instrumentation of the orchestra by reducing the saxophone section to three (alto, tenor and baritone) and adding an extra trumpet and trombone - this created a new sound and placed the soloists in the front line. A year later the band recorded Big Jazz Story which is based on the same lines as Experiments With Mice and sets out, in a light-hearted way, to portray jazz history. Often underrated as a saxophonist, Johnny is given a chance to shine in the alto solos he provides on It's The Talk Of The Town and You Go To My Head. The style is markedly his own and reflects the 'cool' sound which was popular in the Fifties as typified by Lee Konitz and Paul Desmond.
The Dankworth Orchestra's first American concert took place at the Newport Jazz Festival on July 3rd 1959 and proved a great success. They also appeared at New York's prestigious Birdland nightclub and the Levisohn Stadium. Johnny disbanded the orchestra early in 1960 but re-formed a new band in the Summer of that year. During the next decade his activities were mainly centred on writing music for many films, commercials and television serials.
Happily, the Dankworth musical lineage continues through their talented children: Alec, a bass player, and Jacqui, a singer.
From the early Seventies to the present, with Cleo having attained international status, Johnny (or John as he is now billed) has undertaken an increasingly active part in managing her career and they are acclaimed in almost every country in the world.
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By Joe Bellistri On March 25, 2016 UNCATEGORIZED
We all have failed in life before. I try to be honest in these emails, so here is one more. I fail a lot…relationships, my marriage, parenting, business, life, etc.
You name it, my life is filled with failures. There are so many moments in my life I wish I had back. I think about the mistakes I made as a parent and as a business owner early on. It's embarrassing. But because I made these mistakes did I stop being a father or close the doors to Solution Fitness?
Michael Jordan (he is kind of a fairly well know basketball player) has this quote:
If you are like Michael and I (come on, you have to like how I just linked myself to Michael Jordan!), you have made your own "failures". These are your mistakes. Did you stop? Odds are, if you are like me and it was family or business related, the answer is "No".
Why does it have to end in the negative when it comes to nutrition, exercise, and health. You eat one bad thing on Friday night, now the rest of the weekend is a wash. You decide you are ready to start an exercise plan, but today is Thursday. Need to wait until Monday. Then Monday comes and goes.
Here is a fact: We are going to fail in life. Our lives are going to be filled with mistakes. There is a lesson to be adopted from this to help you with your journey to be healthy.
It is ok to mess up. You can eat bread once in a while, enjoy a glass a wine (or 2), spend a weekend with your family in Disney and eat crap the whole week. This is a part of life. These are the fun times.
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Last year when I first wrote this article I said a lot is going on in the background, and you know what? -- a lot is still going on, just not very fast. For the most part, not much has changed.
A lot of people have confused the transition to digital television with cable TV's transition from analog to digital for delivery. Not the same.
For the most part, digital cable service is the same old analog standard definition programming converted to "1"s and "0"s for delivery from the cable company to your home. Your cable company can push a lot more stuff through its wires and optical cables if it's in digital form rather than analog. More stuff includes broadband computer service, telephone service, video-on-demand (VOD) service. Makes lots more money. So the cable people would like you to subscribe to their digital tier, pay a little extra so they can make lots more money.
Whether you can get local digital broadcast channels in high definition depends on where you live. Check with your local cable company, ask probing questions, and then confirm with a second source--- the people who answer the phones may not have or understand the latest information.
If they do offer high-definition programming, you'll need a special set-top box (or a CableCARD, if you have a new HD set that is equipped for that), or just a "digital cable ready" HDTV if you don't want premium (extra-cost, scrambled) channels.
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There has been a move afoot to change the nature of those cable boxes that people use for premium and interactive services (this applies only to the new digital set-top boxes equipped for HD). The government some years ago (1996) told the cable industry to split the security functions (premium program encryption, etc.) of the box from the non-security functions (those boxes called "navigation devices"--they facilitate access to the various services offered by the cable company: interactive guides, video-on-demand, pay-per-view, etc.).
This action would open up the market for the non-security functions to third party suppliers (so if you wanted interactive services, you could buy your cable box from Best Buy or wherever, rather than taking what the cable company gave you, for whatever price they wanted to charge you). The goal is to increase competition and innovation, to give consumers better products for less money. It would also stimulate the availability of digital cable ready television sets.
The cable companies would be prohibited from making their own proprietary integrated cable boxes--that is, set-top boxes with both security and non-security functions built-in. Their ability to offer integrated boxes to their customers effectively shuts out competitors, who don't have access to the security functions.
Well, this has been dragging on for years, and postponed a number of times--the latest is an extension of the deadline from July 2006 to July 2007. The cable industry wants the prohibition eliminated altogether.
This latest extension was granted because the possibility of a downloadable software solution to the security half was in the offing. If a simple software download into any cable set-top box could replace a separate potentially costly piece of hardware, everyone would save a lot of money. The software could be downloaded into a third-party set-top box bought at a retail store as easily as into a box supplied by the cable company. The cable industry has until December 1, 2005 to report to the FCC on whether such a software security solution is doable. (If anything has happened, I haven't heard about it.)
The cable industry has argued that with more than a hundred million digital-to-analog converter boxes expected to be needed for cable-connected analog sets at the end of the transition, the added expense of separating security and non-security functions would threaten the transition to digital TV. The FCC has decided that it may allow cable companies to distribute simple integrated cable boxes that downconvert digital signals to standard-definition analog for their customers who wish to continue using their analog TVs after the end of the transition. Each such model converter box would have to be separately approved under a waiver.
After the transition ends (February 17, 2009, when analog broadcasts cease), many smaller cable companies want to downconvert the digital channels to analog at their head-end and send it out to all of their customers, even those with digital sets. If that happens, none of their subscribers will need digital-to-analog converter boxes (but neither will any of them get digital/high-definition programming, even if they have an HD set).
The broadcasters want the cable people to send out their pristine digital signals to everyone and have the customers with analog sets buy digital-to-analog converter boxes (or have the cable company give them the converter boxes for free).
Legislation that says what cable companies will be able to do is pending, seemingly self-contradictory, and baffling. One provision says they have to send out the broadcasters undegraded digital signal, and another provision says they can downconvert to a standard definition analog signal until 2014, while perhaps also sending out another digital signal, either standard definition or high-def. I will keep watching the bill as it gets closer to passage.
The D/A converting cable boxes could cost $7 to $28 billion. Motive enough, I guess, to want to eliminate the need for them.
So anyway, we still aren't close to banishing the cable company's integrated box, but now we have something called "CableCard" that lets you plug an electronic card that you get from your cable company (the security function) into a slot in your new "Digital Cable Ready" TV. This device lets you get your high-definition/digital premium programming simply by plugging the cable into the back of your set--no box!
The non-security functions have been built into the TV. The current limitation is that it only covers one-way services--no interactive VOD, PPV, etc. Something many subscribers want.
The cable companies have not been pushing CableCARD because there were some technical teething problems and because they make a lot of money on two-way/interactive services, as well as rental fees on their interactive integrated set-top-boxes.
There is a two-way CableCARD in development but negotiations are expected to drag on for years. The FCC has described the pace of those negotiations as "disappointing." The FCC is also concerned about the cable industry's apparent lack of support for CableCARDs, and has directed Comcast, Time-Warner, Cox, Charter, Adelphia and Cablevision to file status reports on CableCARD deployment and support beginning August 1, 2005, and every 90 days thereafter.
The movie studios, the computer industry, the satellite carriers, and the broadcast networks have joined the cable and consumer electronics industries in the closed-door two-way CableCARD negotiations. With a committee this size, and with so many different agendas, agreement on a standard will be like the second coming.
Cable channels going high-def?
Have you noticed that out of more than a hundred "cable" channels, there are only a handful that are high-definition?
The cable channel programmers are certainly interested in making the switch to high-def, they just want to wait until enough of their viewers have bought HDTVs and bought into the cable company's HD service.
The shift to HD is starting. The Discovery Channel has an HD version, and both HGTV and Food Network have indicated that they will go high-def in 2006.
Right now they are likely producing many of their shows in HD, programs that will be aired over the next few years, and shows that will be rerun in the future. It's just that putting them on the air NOW in HD will not bring them very much advertising revenue (and will pull viewers away from their income-producing standard-def channels). So now you see them down-converted to standard-definition.
Nevertheless, cable companies who are rolling out high-definition fare are signing up lots of viewers (Comcast is selling close to a million HD-capable set-top-boxes per year), thanks to HD events like the Super Bowl.
VOD is what the cable companies want you to buy, more than high-definition programming. Movies any time you want them. The Hollywood studio execs do not share their enthusiasm, preferring you to buy their DVDs if you want to watch a movie on your own schedule.
DVDs are bringing in a ton of money for the studios; VOD isn't. Advertisers aren't seeing a lot of benefits, either. For this reason, don't expect VOD to make inroads for at least five to ten more years, if then.
But who really knows what's going to happen that far in the future?
Dual and Multi-cast Must-Carry
Digital Must-Carry is the follow-on to the analog provision that says cable companies have to carry TV broadcasters' signals as part of their basic tier of programming.
The current twist is that we're in a transition period when TV broadcasters are transmitting parallel analog and digital signals. Many cable companies have already maxed out their bandwidth with the channels they are now carrying. They say they cannot add the broadcaster's digital channel (in addition to the analog channel) without kicking off someone else.
Actually, there seems to be a way to do this because new digital compression protocols allow them to cram more channels through the pipe to your house. But it will cost them money and they will not get any more advertising or other fees by doing it.
Some broadcast stations (while demanding that the cable people carry both signals) are demanding payment from the cable companies to carry their high-definition programming (in an attempt to earn some revenue from their advertising-poor digital channel).
Oh, and the other thing is that many broadcasters are deciding that they want to broadcast up to five standard-definition channels of programming in lieu of one high-definition channel. Five times the opportunity for advertising revenues. Most would broadcast high-def during prime-time, but switch to standard-definition for the off hours (daytime, etc.).
Some want an all-news channel, another weather channel, a sports channel, those all-important home shopping channels, and most vocally, when they're talking to the government--public service channels.
Don't we have enough channels?
Many broadcasters think not, but with most people getting their programming via cable and satellite, the broadcast stations have figured out that if only people with antennas can watch all of their five new standard-def channels, their audience share will be pretty pathetic.
So they are lobbying the government to require the cable companies to carry all of those derivative channels. It's called multicast must-carry, but the government isn't biting. So far.
The cable people are holding out their long-in-the-making agreement with the public television stations as proof that such a government mandate is not necessary or desirable.
Cable agreed to carry public broadcasters' digital multicast signals in addition to their primary HD signal, saying if broadcast stations produce compelling programs that the public wants (like public broadcast stations apparently have), cable will carry it.
Look for lots of channels from your local PBS station.
The FCC in June 2006 was going to issue new proposed regulations about multi-cast must-carry but pulled the proposal at the last minute. Chairman Martin wants must-carry; others don't.


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Police this week charged a man with eight felonies related to recent arsons and vandalism at Pickerington High School Central.
Police this week charged a man with eight felonies related to recent arsons and vandalism at Pickerington High School Central.
Christopher D. Hoar, 18, of Pickerington, was charged on Monday with arson, four counts of breaking and entering, two counts of possession of criminal tools and one count of vandalism for his alleged role in the Feb. 16 fire that destroyed two school transportation vans and other vandalism at Central.
As of press time on Tuesday, Pickerington police said a 17-year-old Central student also could be charged in connection with the destruction of the two vans, vandalism of Central outbuildings and graffiti to the exterior of the school.
Hoar, identified by Pickerington Local School District officials as a former student who dropped out prior to this year, was slated for arraignment Tuesday in Fairfield County Common Pleas Court. Following his arrest, he was placed in the Fairfield County jail. His bail was set at $75,000.
Pickerington Police Det. Rob Bartek said a woman who reported the fire on Feb. 16 helped lead them to Hoar. Subsequent reports and interviews of Hoar and a 17-year-old suspect led police to believe they found the culprits.
"Ultimately, it was the caller that called the fire in that led us to them," Bartek said. "After speaking with her and a couple other individuals, that led us to Mr. Hoar.
"These two individuals that did this basically told us about the other (suspected) person. Mr. Hoar told us about the juvenile and the juvenile told us about Mr. Hoar," he said.
The unidentified juvenile suspected of involvement in the Feb. 16 incident is facing possible expulsion, according to Lee Cole, director of communications for PLSD.
The arrest capped an anxious week for PLSD staff and students. In addition to the arson and vandalism, Central received several bomb threats last week and four students were sent home after a note found at the school said they would be killed on Feb. 19.
In the wake of the incidents, school officials sent a letter to parents stating the district "will not tolerate this type of behavior in any way." The letter also said the district would increase supervision in school hallways, staff members would increase their presence in restrooms and hall pass usage would be "carefully documented and limited."


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(From the archives: originally published July 16, 2014 on WNP's previous website)
We're thrilled that the Wide Net Project's 'Catfish Cakes' snagged a spot in the Seventh Annual Buy Local Cookout with Governor Martin O'Malley and First Lady Katie O'Malley. As the title suggests, the event is about promoting tasty creations to inspire buyers to go local. Featuring freshly caught Chesapeake Bay wild blue catfish, the cakes have been selected for this year's appetizer category.
This catfish cakes recipe, created by our own Wendy Stuart, featured red bell peppers and shallots from Mark Mills' Chocolates and Tomatoes Farm in Montgomery County and fish peppers and eggs from Emma Jagoz's Moon Valley Farm. As for the dish itself, it offers an affordable alternative to the ubiquitous Maryland blue crab cakes. A crispy and savory opening to the meal, it offers a bit of protein, vegetables, and starch in just a few bites.
The Buy Local Cookout is held in tandem with the statewide Buy Local Challenge Week (July 19-27, 2014). During this week, all Marylanders are encouraged to eat at least one local product each day. This challenge was created in 2006 by the Southern Maryland Agricultural Development Commission and has grown into a statewide initiative. While local movements exist throughout the country, there are few statewide examples as robust as the one held in the Old Line State.
We can't wait to fill you in on the event, the evening of July 24. We'll share the recipe then, too, so stay tuned!
What's your favorite way to cook up local fish?


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Relay for Life of Glynn County-Presented by Stambaugh Aviation takes place on Friday, April
21! Are you ready to relay?! Come out and join the celebration and help fight against cancer.
Opening ceremony takes place at 6pm. The event kicks off by celebrating everyone who's been affected by cancer. Whether someone's been diagnosed for 10 days or been cancer-free for 10 years, they gather together for the crowd to cheer them on.
At 6:30-7:00pm, the Survivors/Caregivers Lap takes place: Survivors define courage and inspire those facing a cancer diagnosis. Their strength is honored with each step they take around the first lap. If you know anyone who's overcome cancer, invite them to join.
The Luminaria Ceremony happens at 8pm. Each Luminaria bag represents a loved one lost to cancer, brings support to those affected by it, and honors survivors. This powerful moment gives people the opportunity to grieve but also offers hope and comfort.
Things wind down with the Closing Ceremony at 11:50pm. Attendees celebrate all that has accomplished together and remember those who have been lost. Together, the community commits to take action and help end the pain and suffering of cancer.
There will be fun, games, prizes, vendors, entertainment and live music by Michael Hulett, Justen Harden, Mercy Girl, Chris Hulvey, Travis Brown, and Cedrick Frazier and Smooth Journey all throughout the night.


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sometimes witty book reviews
Year of publication: 2010
Found: Under the Christmas tree
Pages/read time: 639, three weeks
As a white woman born, bred and living in Australia, the history of African nations, let alone the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is not something given much emphasis in one's education or day-to-day living. Until stumbling across this book in my local bookshop and putting it on my Christmas wish-list, I had a very basic understanding of West African history and even then, only from studying the atrocities of the slave trade. I can now say that Van Reybrouck's Congo: The Epic History of a People is one of the best places to start (but not end, he is after all, still a Western scholar giving a respectful but still single perspective of a history in a single volume).
The period of between 1960 and 1965 is known today as the First Republic, but at the time it seemed more like the Last Judgement. The country fell apart, was confronted by civil war, ethnic pogroms, two coup d'etat, three uprisings, and six government leaders … two – or perhaps even three – of whom were murdered[.] The death toll among the Congolese population itself during this period was too high for meaningful estimates.
This text is a compelling account of David van Reybrouck's historical research. Over a decade in the making, Congo is one man's interpretation of this region's fraught and fascinating history. The primary sources are an ecclectic yet thorough reputable combination of archival research, press analysis, archaeological artifacts, hundreds of hours of interviews and extensive reviews of secondary literature. My little researcher heart was very happy. At the same time, however, Van Reybrouck does keep the narrative flow moving, confidently guiding the Congo-history-novice through the major events of this nation's history. As stated in the book's blurb, Van Reybrouck has gone to great lengths to 'take a deeply human approach to [this] political history' and always attempts to 'focus squarely on the Congolese perspective' in an effort ensure that this is the Congolese' own history and as much as possible, not a Western account of it. As a twenty-first century, male, white researcher from Brussels, there is obviously bound to be some bias and judgement that cannot be avoided, which Van Reybrouck duly acknowledges.
An excellent grounding in Congolese history can be found in this work. The English translation by Sam Garrett tries to retain Van Reybrouck's fluid, almost conversational style as much as possible. Literal translation is sometimes a problem, and the use of dialogue-like passages can at first seem un-scholarly but the hundred or so pages of references do much to put one's academic scruples at rest as does the considerable number of direct press and interview quotes. A incredibly detailed and fulfilling read written with great respect for the people of the nation of the Congo.
Reading suggestion: Watch this video, this video and this video to get your head around the geography before you begin. I did not. It would have helped.


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Payten's current hobby is collections. She spends HOURS collecting random things, ex - seeds from flowers on the ground outside! I used to be nervous when I realized how quiet she was but lately she gets really quiet and just goes for the zip lock baggies. I'm constantly calling out to her "only two bags" and she sadly replies "ohhhh kayyyy." Witch a smile I then listen to her putting back the 100+ baggies, one at a time, back in their box. After the clean up she sprints to whatever pile she has decided to collect into a bag and very carefully fills the bag. Here are just a few examples below! these baggies are all over the house and she knows exactly whats in each one and has to bring them all everywhere. she gets so excited to show whoever we're on the way to see, she just knows they HAVE to love her collections as much as she does. Then just when you think she's forgotten about one, and that you can finally get rid of its contents, she goes looking for it and you better know where it is! (and that BETTER NOT be the trash) haha
Payten also LOVES working on things with Dad, she loves fixing her bike and holding the flash light for him when he's working on the car. Really anything that involves tools and flashlights. The funny thing is i remember loving the same thing. I remember watching my dad on boat engines, or cars, he'd always have his oldies but goodies music on, which is probably why i love that music too now. But little girls and there Dads....so dang cute. Daddies little girls will always look up to their dads and KNOW that they are the coolest dads in the world and we will always be so proud of our dads! Yes that means my Dad too. I MISS YOU!


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Arrived at the Brussels Airport 2am Lancaster County time, 8am Brussels time with Liz Hess' pictures for Guinea-Bissau in hand! Thankfully, they let me carry them on the plane. They have some cozy seats in the airport so I'm parked outside of the ubiquitous Starbucks catching up on work. This may be the last time I have strong wireless for sometime. In a few hours I will board a flight to Bajul, Gambia with arrival time around 1pm your time, 6pm Gambian time. I hope to catch up with Fred on The Get Up and Go Show before my flight and then I'll talk to you live from West Africa hopefully later today! Now off to find something to eat. I'll think I'll head back to the small food market near my gate for some cheese. (Only in a European airport would you find a store that sells super strong sumptuous stinky cheese! Just my speed 🙂
Click here to read the story at EMM.org.
Here is a video of the art unveiling at The Liz Hess Gallery, Lancaster, PA
WJTL is partnering with Eastern Mennonite Mission to build an elementary school for at least 300 children in Guinea-Bissau. Providing a durable, permanent school building is the first step in addressing the village's educational needs, boosting children's self-esteem, combating poverty, and sharing the love of Christ. $20 provides one sack of cement for the floor, $50 provides windows and doors, & $100 helps provide a corrugated metal roof. Our goal is to raise 5-thousand dollars to help build the school. The villagers will provide labor for the basic construction & some of the funds through the sale of their cashews. Click here to visit EMM.org and be a part of this exciting project! WJTL & EMM: Together with Christ Transforming the World.


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Have any of you seen this movie The Box?!
I just watched it, and I felt like I wasted a couple hours of my life! I couldn't fall asleep, so I decided to pull out the portable DVD player and watch the darn movie. I can usually tolerate and appreciate horrible movies, but this is going on the list of movies that have wasted my life. I should have turned it off after the first half hour.
I'm not a big fan of the Twilight Saga, but I would have to say that Edward and Bella's cheesy romance was more entertaining than The Box. Why the heck am I even writing about The Box?! I'm wasting precious time ranting about it, lol.
I got to it, and created a layout using a sketch from Sketchy Thursdays. I loved the design to this one:
I came up with this layout using some of my Urban Swank stash:
For more details on this layout, head on over to the Urban Swank blog. …and yes, I did mist on this one! haha.
While I'm talking about sketches, I was so honored when Valerie and Lynn asked me to contribute to the Got Sketch? blog. Here's the sketch I got to play with:
I created the following layout using some of the latest stuff from Sassafras Lass:
I tried to use a handful of my brad stash. I'm always trying to find different ways to use up my brads and eyelets. It's like no matter how many I use, the stash doesn't diminish!
Anyway, head on over to Got Sketch? to see my debut appearance over there. While checking it out, feel free to leave me some love. 🙂
Now, it's time to get back to work. I've got some class projects I need to start designing for an upcoming class.


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Inflatable arches is after 1900 people and development created a new form, inflatable because of the huge and imposing a more ambitious, and attract more visitors and tourists, is unmatched by the traditional flyer advertising propaganda, Arch proponents also means.
As a new means of publicity, inflatable advertising play a sound effect. Although it is often said the arch as "Rainbow", Arch but we can often see the Red inflatable, happy, inflatable arches symbol of celebration. With the development of means of communication, inflated shape gradually changes have taken place, there has been a strange-shaped arches, and add some to the top exotic décor, you can attract the attention of passers-by.
Main material is PVC plastic inflatable material, Oxford cloth, PVC screen material and its rigour is higher and less likely to leak, using inflatable air pump can be a shape, inflatable and continued to air under its shape without damage, you can keep in shape in the process.
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It has been a full few weeks getting ready for the annual Fall Crop at Cocoa Daisy this weekend. And it's finally here! If you get a chance, come see what the amazing DT has put together challenge and class-wise, it's a truly inspiring place to be right now. You can play along with the challenges all next week, and there will be prizes for the winners!
Right after the crop finishes up, we'll head right into Reveal for our November kit, Navy Pier. Here's a few sneaks to encourage you to head over to the message boards Sunday night between 8 and 10 EDT for chatting, RAKs, the gallery reveal. Kits go on sale to subscribers (there's a 20% off sale too!) at 9 EDT. If you're not a subscriber, they go on sale on the 1st of November at midnight.