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paper pumpkins v 2.0

 A few years ago I made some 3D paper pumpkins for a fall centerpiece.  They have since made the rounds on Pinterest and taken quite a beating, so I thought it was about time to revisit this fun craft.  This time I used yellow, tan, and brown papers from the We R Memory Keepers Harvest collection to create these paper pumpkins that will sit on our table as a fall centerpiece.  (I shared these on the We R blog last week.)

If you’d like to make some for yourself, here’s how:

1. Cut twelve 4 inch circles, twelve 5 inch circles, and twelve 6 inch circles from paper in various shade of yellow, tan, or brown.

2. Fold the circles in half, right sides together, then adhere wrong sides together to form 3D fold out spheres.

3. Trim a little bit off the bottom of the circles so they’ll sit flat.

4. Add a stem, some vines, and leaves to embellish the top of the pumpkins.  Cut a 12×1/4 inch strip of green textured cardstock, some maple leaves, and a 2×6 inch strip of brown textured cardstock for each pumpkin.

5. Curl the vine by wrapping the green strip around a pencil or pen.  Create the stem by spritzing the brown paper with water and then twisting and crumpling it into a stem shape.  Add all the embellishments with a hot glue gun.

These pumpkins are great fall table or mantel decor, and you can even involve your kids or grandkids in making them!  Designer tip: try die cutting or punching scallop circles or doily shapes (ie with We R’s Mini 8 Punch) to create some extra decorative pumpkins!

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I always love hearing exciting news from the paper crafts and scrapbook industry. And I love supporting creative endeavors that strengthen and enable us as crafters and memory keepers. Today American Crafts announced the launch of their new online publication, Cut and Paste.

It’s a FREE e-publication full of inspiration, tutorials, and the latest news. It doesn’t get any better than that! You can check this month’s issue HERE
To celebrate the good news We R Memory Keepers is hosting a fun giveaway on their Facebook page HERE that you really should check out as well. Enjoy friends!

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Happy Valentine’s Day (Written By AmbassadorNique)

Happy Valentine’s Day! This week is going pretty well. I am doing my best to keep these write up’s short so forgive me if I ramble. Tuesday night I was able to attend an event aimed to link young black undergraduates with mentors and allies. This was a very good event, and while I have a few complaints sometimes it’s better to keep them to yourself and look at the positives. This was a great networking opportunity for me since I am so new at this institution and really don’t know that many people outside of my department. I am actually following up by having lunch with one of the people I met and exchanging emails with some individuals who are currently in a Master’s Program I am looking into.

Wednesday was a great day. After a great workout at the gym I was able to speak to a co-worker who graduated from the same Master’s program I am applying to. I also found out that there will be a free 3 hour session on using Final Cut Pro X next month!

I will start hiking Tiger Mountain soon with one of the Doctors from our department and some co-workers. The goal is for the group to go on a continued basis, and also to diversify my hiking trips as well. The gym is great, but nothing will prepare me like actually getting up and doing it in the beautiful Washington state outdoors.

I ended the day with a delicious steak and lobster dinner (which I learned was called surf and turf.. lol) with my lady. She works tonight so we celebrated early. She also gave me gifts with a card made of a picture from our first valentine’s day we spent together back in 2007 before we started dating. Of course being an online shopper my gift didn’t arrive in time. I hope she likes it.

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    This is the classic children's book, Goodenough Gismo, by Richmond I. Kelsey, published in 1948. Nearly unavailable in libraries and the collector's market, it is posted here with love as an "orphan work" so that it may be seen and appreciated -- and perhaps even republished, as it deserves to be. After you read this book, it won't surprise you to learn that Richmond Irwin Kelsey (1905-1987) was an accomplished artist, or that as Dick Kelsey, he was one of the great Disney art directors, breaking your heart with "Pinocchio," "Dumbo," and "Bambi."

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Yuck, another tome from Sentinel, the ultra-conservative imprint of Penguin Books. The last book I read of theirs, "A Matter of Character: Inside the White House of George W. Bush" attempted to canonize our fearless leader with more ferocity and fiction than the recent revisionism about John Paul II. That's fine (although I needed a barf bag at my side at the Barnes & Noble—I'd never PAY for such a book!), but I couldn't believe the factual errors in Richard Kessler's book—not areas where I disagreed but true factual errors such as when he described Bush's education policies and completely mangled the discussion of the so-called "reading wars" between whole language and phonics. He ascribed all sorts of things to whole language that have absolutely nothing to do with it. Will Klein's book be subject to the same shoddy editing? I wonder to what extent the provocative "What She Knew, When She Knew It" subtitle relates to knowledge of her husband's affair. **Yawn.** On the other hand, I hope Hillary is NOT the presidential candidate in 2008, I don't think that's a terribly good idea (but if there isn't a woman on either ticket next time, I give up—that should have stopped being a Big Deal decades ago...).

According to that Media Matters article I linked to above under "MORE":

The Truth About Hillary author Edward Klein reportedly has a personal dislike of the Clintons,

Edward Klein's previous books have been widely denounced for reliance on "anonymous sources" and "psychobabble" . . . Klein makes his living trashing the famous in controversial books.

Of course, Media Matters appears to be, in its turn, a partisan organ concerned with discrediting the discreditors.

More than discrediting them, MM affirmatively exhorts its readers to lobby against the book's dissemination!

This is too delicious.

A neighbor of mine worked SS inside the Clinton residence. He will not speak of what he saw and heard, beyond simply saying that he left the position because he came to so despise them as people that he felt he could not do his job.

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Steers and Beers

There is a well-documented and sometimes dubious connection between cowboy culture and alcohol, but beef and brewing industries have long shared a profitable partnership.

The cattle perk their ears as the tractor’s engine roars to life. On cue, the six pregnant heifers slowly turn and amble out of the barn through a steady, freezing sleet to a nearby trough, anticipating the first steaming shovelful of feed.

The feed ration today at Hops & Heifers farm is comprised of spent brewer’s grain from Oskar Blues Brewery, located just a few miles down the road in Longmont, Colo., mixed with several flakes of hay to aid digestion.

The 50-acre farm, owned by Oskar Blues’ founder Dale Katechis, is primarily a cow-calf operation. Once weaned, most of the Black Angus cattle calved here are shipped to sister farms, where they’re primarily raised on grass supplemented with portions of spent brewer’s grain. The grain serves as a low-fat, high-protein supplement that helps maintain the herd’s weight and nutrition, especially during lean winter months when forage is scarce.

“It’s a great stabilizer to even out their diet,” says Geoffrey Hess, who oversees farm operations. “It’s difficult to keep a high production of grass in the fields, especially in this day and age where the drought is against us and our water usage is limited, so we supplement with spent grain along with hay that we raise.

“The grain doesn’t add a lot of fat, since there’s very little sugar left in it after the fermentation process, and it’s already somewhat broken down, so the cattle don’t have to work too hard to get the nutritional benefit,” he says. “It lets them have a nice warm meal and helps keep their body condition score even throughout the year.”

The cattle are processed at a facility in nearby Greeley, Colo. The beef is then trucked back to Longmont, where it’s served at all of Oskar Blues’ regional restaurants, along with the brewery’s beer.

At the turn of the 19th century, most towns had at least one small brewery to satisfy the local populace, and it was common practice to use the by-products of the brewing process as compost or as animal feed. Producers have long recognized its value in fattening cattle, especially when forage is in short supply. Even Adolphus Busch invited local farmers and ranchers to come and pick up his spent grain when he founded Anheuser-Busch Brewery in the 1850s.

In Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest (1874) by Joseph McCoy, the man credited with setting the stage for the great cattle drives when he established the first market for Texas cattle ranchers to ship their beef east, McCoy gives a sketch of a rancher named Major Smith, who he describes as a “persistent winterer of cattle.” Smith wintered more than 1,000 head of Texan cattle in an Illinois still-house in 1873, and kept them fat on a steady supply of slop comprised of “refuse arising from distilling or manufacturing grain into liquors” that would “without something to eat it, become an entire loss.

“Little trouble is experienced in getting every bullock to learn to eat the slop, and they usually get very fat,” McCoy continues. “Inasmuch as they become mature before grass fatted cattle can be had, and at a time when the supply of corn-fed cattle is almost exhausted, they invariably command good prices and generally make large profits for the feeder.”

Today, the total number of American breweries and brewpubs—more than 2,400—has surpassed the number of breweries operating during the 1890s—about 2,100—according to the Brewers Association, a non-profit trade group that advocates for the industry. As more beer is brewed and consumed in the United States, the volume of spent brewer’s grain is also increasing in direct proportion, and cattle producers are again turning to spent brewer’s grain as a ready supply of efficient and inexpensive feed.

Hess says he increasingly fields inquiries from brewers, farmers, and ranchers around the country about the effectiveness of using spent brewer’s grain as a feed supplement, and that he’s happy to share what he’s learned.

“Spent brewer’s grain has become a very inexpensive protein source for animals,” Hess says. “It definitely has a value associated with it.”

Finding a use for spent grain isn’t much of a problem on a small scale, especially for microbreweries like Big Bend Brewing Company in Alpine, Texas, which simply gives away its spent grain to anyone in the community who can use it.

“After each brew is finished, we empty the grains from the mash tun into large trash cans, which are then palletized and picked up by whomever is picking up grain that day,” says business coordinator Shane Galloway. “Our main ‘customers’ pick up grain for cattle, but the local vet clinic also picks it up for horses, and some locals use it for chickens and pigs. It’s a mutually beneficial process—we don’t have to pay any disposal fees and they get free feed.”

But when you consider the beer industry as a whole, however, and especially when you factor in large-scale commercial brewers like Anheuser-Busch and Miller Coors, it creates a logistical quagmire of what to do with the waste. A large production brewery like the Anheuser-Busch plant in Fairfield, Calif., for example, can put out more than 400 tons of spent grain every day.

During the 1980s and ’90s, at the height of “big beer” in America, feed companies would use industrial rotary dryers to dry the wet grain and include it in their feed mixes, says Stan Cooper, director of logistics for Sierra Nevada Brewery and co-manager of its North Carolina Brewery. Cooper worked in the feed industry during that time. But the energy costs of running the dryers nearly around the clock were prohibitive, so they stopped the practice, he says, which led the way for a wet-feed market.

“That’s also when dairies were switching from a full-feed ration to commodity feeding, and they found that the palatability of the dry feed was enhanced by the wet feed,” Cooper says.

Today, wet brewer’s grain, whether served as is arrives from a brewery or mixed with other commodities, is a viable, high-protein supplement to the diet of high-producing animals—as long as there is a steady supply, Cooper says. If the supply is not consistent, or there is variation in the supply, then the grain is better suited for lesser-string animals such as weaner calves and heifers, since any fluctuation in the consistency or quality of the feed supply can affect a cow’s overall health and production.

“Especially in the dairy industry, once a cow gets on brewer’s grain and her production is up to maximum, if you pull her off of it for any reason you’ll never get her milk-production schedule back on track unless you breed her again,” he says. “It’s a challenge, but if you have enough of the right animals around it’s a fabulous product if you can get consistent availability.”

Jack Whittier, a cow-calf extension specialist at Colorado State University, says that as the cost of corn continues on an upward trend, alternative commodities like spent brewer’s grain become more attractive. There’s some transportation costs involved for the farmers, but since most breweries either give away or charge a nominal fee for its spent grain, a less expensive overall feed bill is an enticing prospect for dairies, feedlots and cow/calf programs located near a brewery.

“When the cost of traditional feed grains go up, that increases the relative value of spent grains as well,” he says. “That’s the beauty of ruminant animals—they can use an array of feed products.”

For producers, it’s a matter of striking the right balance between feed costs, animal health, and maximum gains.

“The idea is to put on body condition when it’s less expensive,” Whittier says. “When there’s green grass and grazable feed, then the need for supplemental protein isn’t as great, but when conditions are a little more harsh and feed costs are higher, supplements like spent brewer’s grains are a low-cost, highly digestible tool that producers can use to help maintain desirable body conditioning throughout the year and throughout an animal’s lifespan.

“It’s like putting money in the bank that you can draw on later.”

Steve and Maggie Safford’s Angel Creek Ranch is situated along Nevada’s Clover Valley—fertile bottomland in the shadow of the Ruby Mountains. Their acreage is rife with sweet grasses that support a healthy herd of prime Black Angus, as well as the production of high-quality horse hay.

Although their beef and hay business was steady, the couple wanted to diversify their holdings and, in 1994, Steve, a longtime homebrewer, took his favorite beer recipes and opened Ruby Mountain Brewing on the ranch. Today, Ruby Mountain is thriving as Nevada’s only microbrewery that packages beer for off-premise sale. And his herd is thriving, thanks in part to supplementing their diet with spent grain.

“We feed our grain mostly to our weaners and replacement heifers when we have them separated,” Steve says. “We definitely see the results, as our 3-year-olds breed back much better when they get that extra.”

Throughout the West, breweries and producers are linking up to form this mutually beneficial relationship. Grand Teton Brewing in Idaho gives all of it spent grain to Teton Mountain Ranch, for example, and No Label Brewing Co. in Katy, Texas, donates its grain to local farmers.

Matt Long, brewmaster at Big Sky Brewing in Missoula, Mont., says the brewery donates its spent grain to three local cattle ranchers in trade for beef, which they use for cookouts at the brewery, and Deschutes Brewery in Oregon gives its spent grain to the Borlen Cattle Company (and also serves its ground beef at its restaurants).

When Jack Joyce, co-founder and CEO of Rogue Brewery in Oregon, found out that his brewers were dumping the spent grain at the end of each brew day, the former cattle rancher and lawyer who often represented dairy farmers put a quick end to the practice.

“I said, ‘You don’t want to do that, it’s great feed!’” Joyce says. “We’ve been using it for cattle feed ever since.”

The company also operates Rogue Farms in rural Oregon, where farmers grow hops, barley, pumpkins, rye, hazelnuts, and other crops that often find their way into Rogue beer, as well as raise pigs, goats, chickens, bees, and other animals that support the company’s other efforts. It’s a self-sufficient, regionally focused operation not unlike those that populated the region at the turn of the 20th century.

“We think people should buy local products when they can, and we need to make the best use of all the resources that we have available to us,” Joyce says. “We’re not chest-thumping environmentalists, but some of this stuff just makes sense.”

In many ways, ranchers have long been the primary stewards of the land, making the best use of the resources available to them without overtaxing the ecosystem or looking too far afield to sustain their operation. Theirs is a practical philosophy rooted in efforts that “just make sense” for the good of their cattle, the land, and their business. So when a proven resource such as spent brewer’s grain again becomes available in steady supply, it only makes sense that producers would seek out a partnership with brewers that’s in the best interest of everyone involved. It’s the kind of waste-nothing resourcefulness that only benefits the land, the stock, and, ultimately, the consumer.

What is spent brewer’s grain?

Beer is an agricultural product, comprised of four core ingredients: Water, grain, hops, and yeast. The harvested grain, mostly two- and six-row barley, is soaked in water until it germinates and the shoot barely cracks open the seed casing. Growth is halted when the barley is dried and roasted to varying degrees in a kiln, depending on how and in what styles of beer it will be used. This malting process produces enzymes that allow starches in the grain to be converted into fermentable sugars during mashing, the first step in the brewing process, in which brewers mill the malted grain and steep it in a mash tun filled with hot water.

The resulting liquid, now called wort, is strained into a brew kettle, hops are typically added for flavor, and the mixture is brought to a roiling boil. The wort is then set into a whirlpool to remove most of the solids, quickly cooled, and moved to a fermentation vessel. Yeast is added and, over time, the single-celled organisms metabolize the fermentable sugars into ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide. The result? Beer.

The largest by-product of the brewing process by volume is the wet, spent grain that must be disposed of after each batch of beer. The brewing process strips the grain of most of its starches and sugars, decreasing its overall energy content, but it also helps to partially break down the grain while leaving the roughage.

“It basically becomes a highly digestible fiber,” says Jack Whittier, a cow-calf extension specialist at Colorado State University. “It’s like the difference between corn and corn silage—the white stuff in the middle is starch, most of which is taken out during the brewing process, but the outer coat is still very digestible and doesn’t interfere with digestibility of other parts of the diet.

“When corn is fed along with a high fiber like hay, the starch content of the corn will cause the microbes that digest starch to outcompete the microbes that digest the cellulose in the hay. It’s not very efficient,” he says. “But when you take the starch out, as you do with brewer’s grain during the brewing process, then that antagonist goes away and the net effect is you get better digestion of the cellulose.”

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Wordless Wednesday – Jumping Through Hoops

Dogs like my Border Collie/Aussie mix need a lot of physical and mental stimulation. Pierson loves his walks but he has this driving need to learn. So if I don’t teach him things, he will get bored and teach himself things, probably naughty things. Lately, we’ve been working on agility-type things. I am not part of a dog agility group and have not yet bought my own equipment but I bought a $3 hoola-hoop at Walmart. Look at Pierson’s joy and excitement as he jumps through it!

I don’t have the best camera in the world so the images are a bit blurry. But Pierson still makes them great!

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  1. Long Life Cats and Dogs Says:

    Brilliant – look how Pierson has taken to that! Just fantastic.

  2. Prudence Says:

    Pierson looks like he’s having a blast!

  3. Sugar Sima Says:

    Woof! Woof! How FUN! Happy WW. Lots of Golden Woofs, Sugar

  4. Carol Bryant Says:

    How cute is that. I am getting a hoop for Dex – great idea!

  5. Kristin Says:

    Great job Pierson! Looks like fun. I’m going to get a hoop and try with my boys.

  6. Jen@MyBrownNewfies Says:

    How fun is that?!! love it!

  7. Colby Says:

    Pierson has springs in his feet. We puppy sat a Lab recently that had those same springy legs.

    Happy WW!

  8. FleaByte Says:

    Look how happy he is! I’m wondering if we couldn’t teach our ten year old Aussie mixes to jump through a hoop. What a fun idea!

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White House threatens to fire FDA head if he doesn't approve vaccine immediately

Food and Drug Administration chief Stephen Hahn was ordered to approve Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine by the end of the day or else.

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Friday pressed Food and Drug Administration chief Stephen Hahn to grant an emergency use authorization for Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine by the end of the day or face possible firing, two administration officials said.

The vaccine produced by Pfizer Inc. and its German partner BioNTech won a critical endorsement Thursday from an FDA panel of outside advisers, and signoff from the agency — which is expected within days — is the next step needed to get the shots to the public.

The FDA is not required to follow the guidance of its advisory committees, but often does.

Meadows spoke to Hahn by telephone on Friday, according to a senior administration official who was familiar with the conversation but was not authorized to discuss private conversations.

The chief of staff also told Hahn his job was in jeopardy if the emergency use authorization was not issued before Saturday, said a second administration official familiar with the conversation.

Hahn signaled that he would tell regulators to allow the vaccine to be issued on an emergency basis, the official said.

President Donald Trump has been pressing for quick approval for the vaccine and tweeted directly at Hahn earlier Friday, complaining that FDA "is still a big, old, slow turtle." Trump has publicly bashed the pace of the FDA's vaccine review process.

"Get the dam vaccines out NOW, Dr. Hahn," Trump tweeted Friday. "Stop playing games and start saving lives."

Hahn disputed characterizations of his conversation with Meadows.

"This is an untrue representation of the phone call with the Chief of Staff," Hahn said in a statement. "The FDA was encouraged to continue working expeditiously on Pfizer-BioNTech's EUA request. FDA is committed to issuing this authorization quickly, as we noted in our statement this morning."

The FDA said earlier Friday that it "will rapidly work" to grant emergency use of the vaccine.


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Tuesday June 15th (not Wednesday as we accidentally indicated in a prior email) is the extended due date for many U.S. taxpayers to file their 2020 taxes. It is also the 2021 2nd quarter estimated tax payment deadline (if necessary). Good job if you have already filed your 2020 U.S. Taxes!
If you need to pay 2021 U.S. federal estimated taxes –
  • 2021 2nd quarter payment is due on or before June 15, 2021
  • 2021 3rd quarter payment is due on or before September 15, 2021
  • 2021 4th quarter payment is due on or before January 17, 2022

The IRS provides more information about estimated taxes here: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/estimated-taxes  and online payments can be made via the IRS here: www.irs.gov/payments

2021 estimated tax payment vouchers (see P.11 for vouchers): https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040es.pdf

Economic impact payment (EIP)

Eligible taxpayers who have not received the first or second Economic Impact Payments can claim the credits when filing 2020 U.S. Individual Income Tax Returns.

You can check that status of your Economic Impact Payments and obtain more information here:

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Preparing for Exams: How to Speed Up the Process

Students always don’t have plenty of time to prepare for exams well. They need to explore a lot of different topics and check all the notes fast. Moreover, they usually have a lot of activities that cannot be compromised to focus on studying. If you’re one of them, the only reliable option is to enhance your productivity to speed up the studying process. In the post below, you will discover how to boost the studying process without having sleepless nights. These tips will help you increase your performance and boost grades with no stress. Read guide about Preparing for Exams in detail below.

Manage Time Like a Pro

First of all, you need to become a good manager of your time. Unfortunately, there is no secret tip that will allow you to get rid of stress and start consuming a lot of information fast. If you want to prepare for a final test well, you have to spend plenty of time studying.

It’s impossible to study a lot of hours a day with no breaks. Therefore, you need to create a timetable to batch the spare time on small study sessions. It will help you keep the process effective. The brain needs a lot of time to remember large amounts of information for a long time. It forms new memories while sleeping. Consequently, it’s recommended to consume information in small portions and have a healthy night’s sleep.

Note, you have to follow your schedule strictly. It’s forbidden to postpone study sessions or skip them to have a rest. It would be best if you built a habit to learn according to your plan. It will help you avoid studying a lot of materials in a rush to get prepared well in one day before a test.

Get Focused on One Task

Multitasking won’t help you to speed up the studying process. Moreover, it will have a negative effect on the entire process. To achieve academic success, you need to stay focused on one task only, preparing for exams. Therefore, you should learn subjects separately. However, if you have conflicting events in your schedule, don’t hesitate to delegate. For instance, if you have to compose an assignment, you can find a paper writing service and ask their managers, “Can you write my paper for me?” to prioritize the learning process.

Meanwhile, you can increase productivity by eliminating distractions that steal your time. Feel free to silence your smartphone or put it into a drawer if you cannot live even 10 minutes without a gadget. Also, don’t hesitate to install blocking software on your computer. It won’t let you waste time by watching videos or chatting with friends. If you have noisy neighbors who distract you from studying, you can wear headphones and listen to music. Also, you can close curtains or find a quiet place in your home to consume information effectively.

Create Good Environment

It’s vital to create a good environment to speed up the studying process. It’s recommended to gather all study materials in one place. Remove all things that you don’t need from your desk. You should have plenty of space to put all textbooks and notebooks on the table. By removing all the details that may distract you, you will increase your performance.

If you like studying with friends, don’t be shy about gathering them in one place to prepare for a test together. It can benefit you because your mates will help you grasp topics that you can hardly understand. For example, textbooks contain complicated terms only. However, your friend will explain something using simple language. Consequently, you will save a lot of time because you won’t be required to read a lot of different study materials to understand a topic.

Study Smart, Not Hard

It’s vital to use smart tricks if you want to speed up the process. Note, you have to take short breaks. It will help you boost performance and eliminate the need to request essay help to complete your homework on time. In addition, short interruptions will help you get distracted to refresh your mind.

Feel free to do some exercises during breaks. They will help you keep your body fit and increase the bloodstream to deliver more oxygen to the brain. Also, you need to drink plenty of water and eat healthy snacks to stay hydrated and have the required amount of calories to study hard. Note, the brain uses 20% of the body’s energy.

In case you want to remember things effectively, use graphics instead of text. It’s hard to remember a lot of text and use it to find particular information fast. Instead, use charts, spreadsheets, and graphs to note. Also, don’t be shy about examining your skills by using old tests. Indeed, they will imply different questions. However, since all tests are standardized, they will help you check how well you know a subject.

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Hey all readers, (again, if there are any left, that is! )

Wish you all a very, very happy new year! May you have a wonderful year, full of joy and prosperity and wisdom and laughter and fulfillment.

The last year ended on a mixed note for me. It was a year of major changes, some good, many bad. I am hoping that this new year is one of major changes, too; and mainly good ones! Amen to that. 🙂

Now, a new year is a time for making resolutions! I love making resolutions, and although I don’t love breaking them, I’m quite used to doing just that. 😛 So here’s a list of my resolutions for the year 2013.

1) 😀 This has been my new year’s resolution for the last 4 years now – so it doesn’t really feel new; and yet, as it has never been fulfilled, it seems so so new! 😛 Lose weight, of course! I aim to lose at least 1 kilo a month, so going by that target, I should be considerably fitter and healthier by the end of this year.

2) Write more and write better! There was a time when I frequently blogged, and then that time just flew past. It could be because I had so much free time and nothing much to do, so procrastination killed it, or it could be any other reason. The bottom line is that I need to get back in gear, and do something that I really enjoy doing – write.

3) Read more! GoodReads, this wonderful social networking website I am registered to, offers a self-challenge for the number of books you want to read in this year. I have challenged myself to 50! So, assuming I read at least 10 books I have already read ( yup, I love re-reading my favorite books – I feel I can get something new out of them every time), I aim to explore 40 new books this year. I have been wasting way too much time surfing the net and watching movies, and series, and videos – it is reading time, now onward! 🙂

4) Be more positive about life! Yeah, although I appear quite positive, the last year has been quite disappointing for me, bringing out my pessimistic side really strongly. Hell, I even hoped for the Mayan prediction to be true and prayed for the world to end in 2012! But as I then found out, pessimism doesn’t do much except spoil your mood even more. So this year, I again want to give optimism a shot.

That is all about my new year resolutions.

As for my new year wishes, I wish for a healthy and happy year for all my friends and family members! I wish for India to become a safer country for women, and I wish for every single person to understand their responsibility towards making it one. I wish for H1 visa rules to favor me and I wish I get a nice job. I wish for my husband to be really happy and successful in his professional and personal life.

Oh there are several other wishes, and I hope to discuss them with you somewhere down the year, as I express myself more to you guys, through a regularly written blog. Three cheers to that, and see you soon!

Happy new year, once again!

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Latitude: 51.2186 / 51°13'6"N

Longitude: -3.8619 / 3°51'42"W

OS Eastings: 270063.37893

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OS Grid: SS700482

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Entry Name: Cewydd's Stone, Six Acre Farm

Scheduled Date: 10 August 1923

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Source ID: 1003883

English Heritage Legacy ID: DV 41

County: Devon

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Early Christian memorial stone 20m south east of Sixacre Farm House.

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Brinjal chutney recipe is the common recipe in the rural households of Andhra Pradesh. After brinjal curry, it is the second most popular brinjal recipe.

Ingredients: 1. Big size brinjal = 1 (400 grams in weight)
2. Cucumber (Dosa kaya) = 1 cup (into small pieces).
3. Tamarind juice =2 spoons.
4. Oil (ground nut or sunflower) =3 spoons.
5. Salt = Sufficient for taste sake.
6. for spicing:
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B. Mustard seeds=2Spoons,
C. Mentis =1/4 spoon.
D. Red chilly (dried) =6-8 pieces
E. Green chilly (mirchi) = 2-3 pieces
F. Coriander leaves = 1/2 cup (made into fine pieces).
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1. First of all clean the brinjal with water and smear it with oil.

2. Make small niches (small cuts) with knife on it (1).

3. Burn that brinjal (2) directly on the burning fire of the stove, until the skin of the brinjal becomes black and the part underneath the skin also completely burnt and becomes soft.

4. Now take out the brinjal from the stove (3) and allow it to cool and remove the skin of the brinjal. After wards, make (press) that inner pulp (of the brinjal) to become smoother with the help of a fork.

5. Now take another pan and pour oil on it and heat the pan, so that the oil also becomes hot and then add black gram to the oil and heat the pan until the black gram turns to gold color.

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Hey, Brain, Let’s Slow Down and Get to Know Each Other #change11

Clark Quinn’s overview of Slow Learning is a lot more subversive than it appears, but I don’t mean subversive to traditional pedagogy. We tend to associate the word “subversive” with 1960’s radicalism, or as some kind of challenge to the puritan ethics of work and prudence. I sense, however, in Slow Learning a different kind of subversion, one that is far more traditional than most learning theories that get trumpeted on MOOCs. The Slow Food movement is a good example of how tradition has been used to combat excesses of modernity, in particular the unhealthy, pre-packaged fast foods we consume. Slow Food is subversive by being retrograde. It is a conservative movement (though not necessarily “conservative” in the sense of American politics).

Any Slow Learning movement must inevitably take on the excesses of the Internet Age. It’s a movement that would inevitably look to figures like Jaron Lanier and Nicholas Carr who have dared to point out certain areas of exposed skin on the emperor. This article by Meris Stansbury addresses some of Carr’s complaints, mainly that we’re ignoring the negative effects of the internet on our brains and our quality of thinking:

As we use technologies like smart phones and the internet, our brains are changing as well, and Carr argued that although we acquire skills, such as increased visual-spatial intelligence (being aware of many moving parts at once), we also weaken our “mindful knowledge acquisition,” inductive analysis, critical thinking, imagination, and reflection.

“Our brain is becoming saturated with information, and it’s becoming harder for us to hold onto meaningful information, if we can even pick out what’s meaningful anymore,” he explained.

The need to acquire many bits of information is nothing new, Carr said. Supposedly, early man needed to gather as much information as quickly as possible just to survive.

The brain releases dopamine, a chemical associated with pleasure, every time we receive new information, said Carr. The printed page and reading eventually changed that, but now we’re reverting to old times all over again.

For example, Carr quoted a recent study showing that for an average adult, time devoted to looking at screens per day averaged 8.5 hours, whereas time devoted to reading from pages per day averaged 20 minutes.

“This is a problem, because our brain has a ‘bottleneck’ when we go back to these old habits, meaning that our working memory has a ‘cognitive overload’—which can negatively affect our long-term memory and our ability to evaluate information and distinguish what’s useful from what’s just trivia,” he said.

For awhile now, I’ve thought that schools who ban cell phones and restrict computer use were living in the past and providing a disservice to their students who need to be trained on the forward path and fast. Now I’m wondering what all of this fast-forwarding is doing to our students.  Right now, it seems subversive to use Twitter in the classroom and to click your way through pages of research. Soon, this will become the status quo, and we’ll be complaining of the negative effects of too much internet use on education. We’ll start to sound like those “backwards cranks” who are still teaching in Industrial Age.

I agree, the Industrial Age model is over. But I think certain elements of the past will come back. I envision a new model that, from the outside, looks a lot like the one-room school house in the country.  It will become subversive to sit in silence and read for two hours straight from a real book, or maybe an e-book with no internet access. It will be subversive to sit outside under a tree with your devices out of reach, to go for a walk and reflect on what you’re learning. It will be subversive to think deeply and make a connection with only yourself.

Our course, students will use computers and the internet, just a lot less often, with less frivolity, and after contemplation. They’ll use them to make their lives simple and efficient, not cluttered and wired. “Wired” is a terrible word to describe the ideal consciousness. It suggests a hyper, frenetic brain geared up and ready to do too much at once. In time, we’ll develop better metaphors. I don’t think “slow” is ideal, but “balance” is a good place to start.

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  1. I agree. People will begin to look for a balance. Perhaps it’ll happen after the rush to non-tech. for teaching–as if one model is always better than the other. I’m still in wonder that most of the conversations about integrating technology in education still begin with the instructive, “think about your objective”. The objective to learning must be reached by deeper levels of thinking and/or absorption. Finding the right formula will be the next step after the rush to adaption.

    Henning Mankell’s opinion piece, “The Art of Listening” is fascinating in the context of 21st Century learning. (New York Times, 10.12.11) He talks about the power of storytelling in African cultures and how fully (quietly) listening to stories that may not have a clear definition is the way to learning: Mankell learned from listening and he learned about listening. Social media, the Internet, and many of the newer approaches to curriculum development is about learning via random and sometimes multiple, simultaneous storytelling. It’s our listening skills that need to be developed. Finding the balance of when to turn it off, when to know how and when to turn it off, seems to be a constant challenge for Western cultures.

    • Andrew Neuendorf

       /  December 12, 2011

      Thanks for the reply. I will read that article. I worry that our ability to focus on (and listen to) a sustained, meaningful narrative will be lost if we keep moving in hyper-speed.

  2. Hi Andrew, I agree, I think eventually more and more people realize that online is not everything…..

  3. Hi Andrew, thank you for this post. I do not not this Carr, will do a search on him.
    I wonder how a brain can become saturated with information? Same as reading to many books? I do not think Carr did much research on that.
    I wonder how Carr did invent the idea of dopamine in the brain every time we receive new information? Do we ever not receive new information?
    thanks again

    • Andrew Neuendorf

       /  December 13, 2011

      I’ll try to do a little more reading on Carr and post again on this. He has an article called “Does Google Make Us Stupid” in the Atlantic from a few years ago. I remember having mixed feelings about it, but it’s something I’m worried about. I’ll come back to this. Thanks for reading!!

  4. Thanks, Andrew, subsersive seems to be the right word for what I’ve been feeling the last few weeks by choosing to be less active in the #change11 mooc (and less active online in general) while focusing on family over the holidays. For example, there was a gap of about three days between a birth in the family and the posting of said news on FB. Some people would find that totally bizarre but I was happier holding the real thing than reporting about it.

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One of the best furnished churches in London

St Augustine of Canterbury, Langdon Park Road, London N6 5QG

“One of the best furnished churches in London”, said the Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman (1906–84) about the north-London Anglican church of St. Augustine of Canterbury. The church is a Grade-II-listed building that faces the Archway Road, just north of the distinctive bridge spanning that road – created in 1813 by John Nash (1752-1835) – and from which the name of the road and the surrounding district is derived.

The church as we see it today was created in several stages during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by three architects: John Dando Sedding (1838–91), Henry Wilson (1864–1934), J. Harold Gibbons (1878-1958). It is a distinctive mix of late Victorian Gothic and early twentieth-century Arts and Craft styles.

The foundation stone of the new church was laid in 1887 and the part-finished buidling was consecrated in 1888, the next stage of work being undertaken by Henry Wilson, one of Sedding’s pupils. However, the west front was not completed until Easter 1914, the work of J. Harold Gibbons. The west front is adorned with a life-size stone Calvary, which led to a noisy Protestant demonstration seeking to stop the dedication of the church later that same year; 20 June 1914.

The church of St Augustine of Canterbury, a view of the nave detroyed by fire. (Source: Paul Bell, 2012).
The church of St Augustine of Canterbury, a view of the nave detroyed by fire. (Source: Paul Bell, 2012).

A disastrous fire on the night of 11 January 1924 entirely destroyed the nave and required a major programme of rebuilding, which was undettaken by J. Harold Gibbons. It was at this time he added the 2-bay  organ gallery on the south side of the chancel, and a new Sacristy.

The current pipe organ dates from 1925-6, and was built by the London firm of A. Hunter and Sons of Clapham (London UK). The atractive case – designed by J. H. Gibbons – dominates the south side of the chancel. Although the instrument has remained incomplete for lack of funds it serves well, and sounds impressive in the generous acoustic.

The church contains some fine fittings, artworks and stained glass by – among others – Henry Farmer (fl. early c20), Lawrence King (1907-81), J. Linthout & Co. (Bruges), Margaret A. Rope (1882–1953), Adrian Gilbert Scott (1882–1963), Christopher Whall (1849–1924),  Nathaniel Westlake (1833–1921).

In 1930 Gibbons completed the Lady Chapel, with a decorative scheme by Nathaniel Westlake, Henry Wilson, and Christopher Whall.

On 13 October 1957 St. Augustine’s was the venue for the first liturgical performance of the “Twentieth-century Folk Mass” by Rev. Geoffrey Beaumont CR (1904–71), a product of the once influential Twentieth-century Church Light Music Group. According to Beaumont, the composition was the result of a chance conversation with a priest-colleague in London’s then impoverished East End who was deeply concerned that church music was utterly foreign to the majority of people.

From the first litrgical performance of Geoffrey Beaumont's "A Twentieth-century Folk Mass" Celebrant: Rev. Gerald Fitzgerald. (Source: Church Times Archive).
From the first litrgical performance of Geoffrey Beaumont’s “A Twentieth-century Folk Mass” Celebrant: Rev. Gerald Fitzgerald. (Source: Church Times Archive).

That first liturgical performance of Beaumont’s mass-setting was broadcast live by the BBC and caused quite a stir at the time. The Daily Express declared that “this disturbing racket . . . was one of the most incongruous things ever seen on TV”, while the Musical Times  dismissed it as music suited to the fetid atmosphere of a night club or cabaret.

This recording (below) was made by the original performers in the run up to the performance at St. Augustine’s: Cantor, John Alldis;  Musicians/singers, The Peter Knight Orchestra and Singers; Conductor, Peter Knight;  Organist, William Davis.

A Hunter in the London Docks …

All Saints, Poplar, London E14

The east-London district of Poplar once lay at the heart of Britain’s empire, being the location of London’s mighty East India and West India docks. Between them, during the nineteenth century these docks managed most of the ’empire trade’ coming into Britain.

The East India docks were opened in 1802 by the East India Company, established in 1600 as the ‘Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies’, while the West India docks were opened in 1806 by the ‘London Society of West India Planters and Merchants’, established in 1780. The two groups amalgamated their business interests in 1838 in the wake of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. This Act of Parliament had abolished  slavery throughout the British Empire, with the exceptions “of the Territories in the Possession of the East India Company”, the “Island of Ceylon” and “the Island of Saint Helena”; these exceptions were nullified in 1843, after which the combined Companies’ domination of the UK’s international trade steadily diminished.

A small chapel had existed on the Isle of Dogs from the middle ages, to serve the sparse population. It was abandoned as a place of worship by the time the Reformation, and any remains of it were swept away by the development of the docks.

As early as 1654 the East India Company provided its burgeoning riverside workforce with a chapel on the north side of Poplar High Street. The area was then in the parish of St Dunstan, Stepney, whose church was considered too far away for employees of the company’s docks to attend. In the later nineteenth century the East India Company chapel became a parish church in its own right; St. Matthias. It still stands today, though now a community asset.

With the opening of the new docks, Poplar became a thriving and densely populated mercantile centre. In 1817 a brand-new parish of All Saints was created out of Stepney parish with its own church (consecrated 1823; patron: Brasenose College, Oxford). All Saints church is an imposing, handsome building designed by Charles Hollis (n.d.), with a 161-foot high steeple; the building costs were underwritten by the West India Dock Company. The organ for the new church was built by the London organ-building firm of Henry Russell; see note below.

During the Second World War aerial bombing severely damaged the west end of the church putting the Russell organ beyond repair. The church was restored and its interior remodelled, providing a new organ and west gallery. The new organ (1953, by N. P. Mander Ltd.) was in fact ‘second-hand’, bought from the Clapham Congregational Church (south London), although with a new case. It had been installed in Clapham in 1902 by the London firm of  A. Hunter and Sons. It is a large instrument with a clear and bright yet rich tone, enhanced by a generous clean acoustic. On my visit there to play this organ I found it particularly encouraging of improvisation, and rather well-suited to the European Romantic repertoire.

As a coda, it is worth mentioning that Poplar is the area in which are set two popular BBC TV series: ‘Call the Midwife’, which is based on the work of the real-life nursing nuns of the Anglican Order of St John the Divine; and ‘EasterEnders’, which is entirely spurious.

The ‘Call the Midwife’ mission buildings and nuns chapel (c.1893; patron, Christ Church Oxford) remain on Lodore Street, converted to secular use. The adjacent parish church of St Frideswide, patron saint of Oxford, was destroyed by aerial bombing in the Second World War; the area is now part of All Saints parish.

A Hunter’s last breath, for now …

St Mellitus, Tollington Park, London N4

At first glance the Catholic church of St Mellitus located on Tollington Park in north London would appear to be an unremarkable nineteenth-century example of a neo-classical Catholic church building, such as can be found throughout the Catholic world.

However looks can be deceiving since the Tollington Park building has only been a Catholic church since 1959.

The building dates from 1871 and was built for the New Court Congregational Church to the design of C. G. Searle (1816–81). The New Court congregation had fist met n 1662 in a building in Bridges Street, Covent Garden, London. In 1696 the congregation moved to a location in Drury Lane and again in 1707 to a location in New Court, Carey Street, Strand. Here they stayed until the 1860s when Carey Street and the area all around it was cleared to make way for the building of the Royal Courts of Justice. Thus the New Court congregation moved to its new building in Tollington Park where it stayed until selling up in the 1950s, due to dwindling numbers. The descendents of the New Court congregation continue to meet today in other premises in the same area under the banner of the Elim Pentecostal Church.

This dissenting-Protestant back-story explains the church building’s interior, which seems to embrace Catholic worship rather reluctantly, although the Catholic congregation here have a genuine affection for the place.

The most obvious changes in converting the building were made at the (liturgical) east end where an altar replaced the large preaching desk (pulpit), and the display pipes of the pipe-organ were replaced by a painted reredos depicting a neo-classical doorway with three windows above; the significance of this decoration is not clear. Sadly I can find no pictures of the interior of the building prior to 1959.

The rather fine and rather large three-manual pipe organ (1920) by the London firm of Alfred Hunter remains in situ, hidden – and rather muted – behind the reredos; its console is at the east end of the south gallery. The instrument was installed as a memorial to those of the New Court congregation who died in the First World War.

I had an opportunity to play the organ during Christmas and New Year 2015-16 when it was abundantly clear that the instrument was in a very poor state, short of wind and with much of it unusable and by March 2016 the organ had stopped working altogether. Undeterred, the parish has immediately set in motion imaginative plans for a restoration of Alfred Hunter’s ‘war memorial’ organ, with help from the UK National Lottery.


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You may not see itor, more accurately,you may not remember it,but you are a radiant jewel,a burning star in God’s palm. Rainbow-splendored and multi-faceted, you are brilliance incarnate, formed to receive and reflect the light. And you are adored. Forged of emerald cities, ruby slippers and bricks of golden dreams, you are a fairy tale a walking, talking practical magic. A Never-ending story, you unfold, dabbling in wonder and dripping enchantment like pomegranate seeds eaten willingly to form the turning of the seasons. Each chapter of your tale reads “adored.” You are seraphim clouds breathed into the heavens. All cotton-candy […]


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Fighting for Affordable Housing

New Yorkers are increasingly unable to afford to live in their own city. As rents and housing prices rise, our neighborhoods are becoming more segregated, homelessness continues to rise, and people are being pushed out of their communities. There is a significant lack of deep and permanently affordable housing opportunities developed for lower income new Yorkers, and particularly for the nearly 30% of households considered extremely low income. We are all in danger of losing the diverse city we love.

Why This Matters

While the government acknowledges the affordable housing crisis, local policies and programs too often continue to serve the needs of private developers and the private market over the actual needs of New Yorkers, especially, our lowest income families. Additionally, as we have learned from the current expiring use crisis—we cannot afford to keep losing the affordable housing we develop and preserve; public investment in affordable housing should permanently serve the public interest.

What We're Doing

ANHD is fighting to create fair and affordable housing throughout New York City that prioritizes those most in need and least served by the private market.

We believe New York’s affordable housing policies and investments must be driven by the needs of our people, and not by the real estate industry or private developers. Our work attempts to shift housing resources and policies to focus on the lowest income New Yorkers.

ANHD’s goal is for all affordable housing developed with public resources to be permanently affordable, avoiding the current time-limited affordability requirements that have left the city scrambling to preserve subsidized housing created in earlier eras with public dollars. We also want deep affordability, which ensures those at the lowest end of the income spectrum have housing opportunities in our city.

Check out the associated projects below for more information on how we are fighting for affordable housing.

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