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Friday, April 23, 2010

I feel like I've been missing out on life this week*. Since November I have been working exclusively on the Taylor Swift card line in my real world job. Personally, I'm not a Taylor fan, but her card line is fun and different and I really enjoy working on it since I get to do all my own illustration and lettering. However, due to various reasons, we've also been working with shorter than usual deadlines for most of the programs and sometimes (like this week) things get a little insane. Basically I spent the past week working on Taylor cards in my cubicle during the day, and then going home and continuing to work on them there until I went to sleep. Exhaustion is the only word that comes to mind. So now that I am mostly finished with everything I'm breathing again and thinking about the possibilities of the weekend. I altered the little graphic above from one of my Taylor cards to make a cheerful little to-do list for myself.

- Devour one of the following books (assuming they have been delivered to my porch when I get home): Grow Great Grub: Organic Food from Small Places, or The Illustrated Quick Cook: Easy Entertaining, After-Work Recipes, Cheap Eats.
- Attempt a hodge podge chili recipe for dinner.
- Ride the bike. Outdoors if weather permits.
- Re-pot my fast growing herb sprouts.
- Start some preliminary sketches for various Three Bears jobs.
- Watch more Star Trek Next Generation with Andrew.
- Morning yoga (one of my favorite weekend activities).
- Get around to adjusting the length of the skirt that I got from the thrift store a month or so ago.
- Finalize my tracklist for the Mix Exchange and get to work on some crafty packaging.
- Soak in some newly purchased Khaki King and Volcano Choir albums.

*With the exception of Tuesday which included Guys Pizza, haircuts, Phoenix Coffee, and LOST.

  1. much work for cards that say what is hard for people to say themselves, or to give them an opening to voice their own thoughts. One never realizes how much work goes into cards when you see them en masse on the shelves, but so much thought and emotion goes into many of them.

    Also can you say anything about how much if any actual input Ms. Swift has in her cards, or is it just basically her name for sales?

    Thanks for your blog, I'm glad I found it its very enjoyable and interesting.

  2. There is so much that happens behind the scenes in the greeting card world that still surprises me after several years of working there. There is a lot of thought and research that goes into each card product we put out there.

    As for Taylor, she does actually have a lot of input into her cards. Obviously she isn't here working beside us every day, but the style and emotion of the programs all come from her. She sees everything we produce for her line and gives it her stamp of approval before it reaches the store.

  3. thanks for answering! I'm glad that ms Swift does give input even though I'm sure she is very busy, and doesnt just use her name to make money. Apparently she cares about what her name and image mean still, and I hope Hollywood doesn't take that away eventually as it does with most stars of her stature.

    Thanks again for your blog and for the cards you put your heart into. I often stop in the card Aisle and just read various cards, even ones that can have no actual connection to me; it gives me a diffferent perspective sometimes of something I should appreciate more. Life is like that, one has to be open to what's around them in order to get the most out of it.


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Kennedy Cup 2017 Squad
Welcome to the official website of Carlow & District Juvenile League

Here you can keep up to date with the latest fixtures and results as well as all the latest news from the regions underage clubs. Browse through our photo gallery to see some of the action!

This website provides information about each club that plays in the Carlow & District Juvenile League. Where possible we provide a map and a streetview of a clubs home ground to help those involved with visiting teams to locate the pitch. If you are associated with a club and would like to provide us with more information about the background of your club and an exact location of your home ground then please contact us. We will update your clubs page with the new information.

Any Club that would like to add news to our Website, please email with the item.

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Crettyard show Racism Red Card day

On Saturday 22nd October Crettyard UTD AFC Juvenile club "Showed Racism the red card!"

Our small club is located off the N78 in rural county Laois , situated close to the borders of both Kilkenny and Carlow.

Our engagement with the campaign was simple but effective . Both our Under 13 and Under 12 teams were playing their league games against Hanover Harps and Vale wanderers . Both Cretty yard team managers Ramon Buggy and Martin Rice gave full support by allowing pre match preparation to be interrupted by Aine Geoghegan (Club Secretary)

St Joseph's AFC v Baltinglass Town AFC
St Joseph's 6 -2 Baltinglass
u16 league 31/03 18:30
St Joseph's AFC 6 - 2 Baltinglass Town AFC

St Joseph's hosted Baltinglass this evening in their second meeting of the season. The hosts started the strongest and forced a error early on from the Baltinglass defence when Pavel Cahill's cross into the box was deflected into the back of the net. Joeys went on to score 4 more before the break, with the goal of the game coming from Evan McGuire with a half volley to the top right hand corner. Baltinglass were denied 1 before half time with a great save from the Joeys keeper Conor Hickson. H/T 5-0. Credit to the visitors they came out strong in the second half and scored 2 goals which was backed up by some good saves from their keeper to keep pressure on St. Joseph's. Kostya Cahill added his second for Joeys before the final whistle leaving the final score 6-2. Credit to both teams for an enjoyable game of football played in good spirit. Goal scorers for St. Joseph's Kostya Cahill (2), David Quinn, Evan McGuire and Dominic Lukawski. All round great team effort. Scorers for Baltinglass Aaron Corcoran and Kyle Bennett, best players Eoin Mason and Carl Slater.
Carlow Girls Academy Squads

Last year we established a Carlow girls soccer academy for the first time ever. Our u12 and u14 academies competed in the u12 Gaynor Cup (a one day blitz in Sligo) and the u14 Gaynor Cup (a 4 day tournament held in University Limerick). Due to the success of our academies last year we will also have an u16 academy this year that will participate in the u16 Gaynor Cup also held in University Limerick over 4/5 days.

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Vale Wanderers AFC v St Patrick's Boys AFC
U14 League 31/03 18:30
Vale Wanderers AFC 1 - 4 St Patrick's Boys AFC

St Pats put in a great team performance to beat Vale in the superbowl. The game was all square at half time as Tommy Cummins opened the Scoring with Daniel Hayden levelling. Pats went ahead through Darragh o Donoghue and Daniel Hayden got his second and Lee Dowling made it 4. Vale stayed trying but Pats were the better team on the day and deserved there Victory.

Best for Pats Stan Harland Nicky Downey Daniel Brennan

Best for Vale Fiacc O Toole Sean Nolan Max Mccabe

U8 and U9 Blitz Format

The format for the u8 and u9 is also going to be blitz with four teams at each venue playing dual games so there will be four matches going on at the same time on a full pitch. The example below shows what happens when there is two teams and two more will play in the other half and then swap over. With the u8 and u9 everybody will play three 20 minute matches (10 Mins a side). In the event we have uneven number of teams some weeks clubs will just play one game.

Nurney Villa AFC v St Joseph's AFC
Nurney Villa 0 St Joseph's AFC 6
U12 League 29/03 18:30
Nurney Villa AFC 0 - 6 St Joseph's AFC

This was not Nurney's evening, St Joseph's came out very strong and scored after the first 10 mins. Nurney had their chances but half time score 0-4. Nurney did try but the back line out for St Joesph's were too strong. Finish score 0-6

Best for Nurney - Cian Tobin, Darragh Byrne, Cormac Murphy, Aaron Gordon

Goal Scorers for St Joseph's - Kate McDonald 2, Jack Dunne 3, Alan Bohanna 1

Best for St Joseph's Ruairi Scully, Mark Mullen, Kelly O'Neill

U11 and U10 Blitz Format
Blitz procedure

This year the format for u11 and u10 is dual games as above in the diagram so there is two games going on at the same time across a big pitch. There will be one official ref and the clubs take it in turn to officiate the other game. The ref swaps pitches at half time so all kids get equal time with ref. There will be four teams at most grounds every week unless a club ask for the day off. If two of the teams are from the same club then we play two 40 minute matches (20mins a half) to avoid the club playing against itself.

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St Fiacc's AFC v St Joseph's AFC
U14 League 29/03 18:30
St Fiacc's AFC 0 - 3 St Joseph's AFC

St Josephs were in control from the off. While fiaccs never gave up St Josephs scores came from Arnas Karalilus, Daniel Donegan and Cian Nicholl. Best for Josephs were Arnas Ubartas, Kian Dooley and James Haven. Best for fiaccs was Daniel Murphy, Caoimhe Fitzpatrick and Graham Maher.
SFAI Cup Draw

The draws for the SFAI Cups were made this week. All draws are on There is a new addition to this years competitions with the regional competitions being finished to a Final in each section. This does not affect the round of 32 draw which will take place after the December SFAI Council Meeting. Good luck to all teams taking part.

St Patrick's Boys AFC v Bagenalstown AFC
Good win for Pat's
U13 League 26/03 13:00
St Patrick's Boys AFC 5 - 0 Bagenalstown AFC

St Pats put in an impressive performance particularly in the first half against and out of sorts Bagnelstown team in the meadows.

St Pats passing dictated the tempo of the game and after some great passing moves and some impressive finishing from both Alex Kellegher and Evan Connolly put them two nil very quickly. Another goal from Jaime Murphy gave Pats a 3 nil lead at halftime.

The second half fared no better for Bagmelstown and even though they tried hard especially in midfield St Pats were able to add another 2 from one more from Evan Connolly and one from the penalty spot from Jaimie Murphy let St Pats run out comfortable 5 nil winners.

Scorers St Pats Jaimie Murphy 2, Evan Connolly 2 and Alex Kelleher 1

Best for St Pats Evan Connolly, Alex Kelleher and Cillian Fagan

Best For Bagnelstown were Justin O Riordan, David O Dwyer and James Farrell

Girls Academy Squads

Following on from the trials conducted over the past two weekends the following squads have been selected to take part in this year's Gaynor Cup competitions.

We would like to thank all the girls who turned up and took part in these trials. Any girls who may have missed the trials for any reason can still be looked at and assessed by the coaches just by contacting us and letting us know and we will arrange for this to happen.

U12 Squad

Niamh Lawlor - Burrin Celtic

Siofra O'Neill - N/A

Olwyn Lawlor - N/A

Sinead Thomson - St Joseph's

Kate McDonald - St Joseph's

Sarah Nolan - St Joseph's

Cariosa Morahan - Hanover Harps

Wicktoria Gorczyca - Bagenalstown

Emma Walker - Hanover Harps

Sarah Timmons - Hanover Harps

Niamh Graham - Crettyard United

Holly Wall - Bagenalstown

Katie C Byrne - Hanover Harps

Kerrie Smith - Hanover Harps

U14 Squad

Tara Long - Milltown United

Kelly O'Neill - St Joseph's

Kayleigh Shannon - Hanover Harps

Abby Phelan - Hanover Harps

Laura Kearney - Vale Wanderers

Sara Jane Doran - Milltown United

Blessing Kingsley - Hanover Harps

Grace Cullen - St Joseph's

Sara Kerfah - Hanover Harps

Beth Evesson - Hanover Harps

Michaela Delaney - Hanover Harps

Shauna O'Neill - Bagenalstown

Rachel O'Brien - Nurney Villa

Jean Bride - St Anne's

Aoibhan Kelly - N/A

Rachel Doyle - Hanover Harps

Emer Cawley - Hanover Harps

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Killeshin AFC v Baltinglass Town AFC
U12 League 28/03 11:00
Killeshin AFC 9 - 1 Baltinglass Town AFC

Killeshin had a great start to this match with a goal in the first minute through Jack Dowling. Cody Corrigan then added another when he chipped the keeper. Baltinglass then got stuck into the game but could not find a way through the killeshin defence.Jack Dowling then added his second from a free kick. Aodhan Lowry then scored with a fine strike from distance. Evan Dowling then added a fifth before half time to make 5 -0 at the Break.Both teams started the second half well but killeshin scored again through Cody Corrigan. Baltinglass then found a way through the killeshin defence with a well taken goal through Jack Boochail. Evan dowling then scored his second with a headed goal from a corner. Then another good move from killeshin was headed home by Danial Mc Grath. Danial then added his second soon after with a fine strike. Best for Killeshin were Aodhan Lowry Jake Smithers, Jack Dowling, Cody Corrigan and Tommy Hutton. Best for Baltinglass were Jack Boochail, Sean Delaney and Peter Wall.
Hanover Harps AFC Green v St Patrick's Boys AFC
U12 League 28/03 11:15
Hanover Harps AFC Green 4 - 1 St Patrick's Boys AFC

Hanover netted 3 times in the last 7 minutes to win this local derby. Tyris O'Rock had already seen his penalty rebound off a post before John Phiri put Harp's 1-0. St Pat's levelled to leave it 1-1 at the break.

The second half was end to end stuff until David Martins screamer found the net to put Harp's 2-1 up and John Phiri added two more to complete his hat rick as Hanover ran out 4-1 winners.

Best for Hanover were Daniel Brennan, Adam Dalton and Tyris O'Rock

Hanover Harps AFC v St Joseph's AFC
U13 League 28/03 10:00
Hanover Harps AFC 8 - 2 St Joseph's AFC

Hanover dominated from the start and were too strong for a spirited St Josephs side.

All the players for St Joseph's battled throughout and made Hanover work hard for their victory.

Goal scorers for Hanover were Ryan Brady, Kian Lawler, Eoghan Byrne, Adam McCarron, Pauric Kelly, Cian Kelly, Stephen Lacey and Matthew McCutcheon

Vale Wanderers AFC 01 v Hanover Harps AFC 00
Lundy-Gar on fire
u16 league 28/03 11:00
Vale Wanderers AFC 01 4 - 2 Hanover Harps AFC 00

Vale continued their excellent start to the second half of the season by beating Hanover on Easter Monday. Within minutes Vale were ahead when Ryan Lundy-Gar burst through and finished with a powerful shot.

Craig Forgarty then doubled the lead from the penalty spot. Vale continued to dominate for the remainder of the half.

In the second half Vale crumbled under Hanover pressure. They got back to 2-2 and looked like they might even go ahead. But up stepped Ryan Lundy-Gar to complete his hatrick with two more fine strikes.

A fine team performance from Vale with Craig Fogarty, Charlie Ashmore and the in-form striker Ryan Lundy-Gar excelling.

Parkville United AFC 01 v Nurney Villa AFC
Parkville v Nurney Villa
u16 league 28/03 12:30
Parkville United AFC 01 4 - 4 Nurney Villa AFC

Good match from start to finish, first goal for Parkville from Brian Byrne, shortly after Mark Foley scored for Nurney. Long ball in by Adam Byrne to Brian Byrne hitting the back of the net for his second. Nurney scored their second from Mark Foley through a penalty. Brian Byrne scored a great goal making it his hat trick. Nurney replied with a goal from Nathan Holden making it 3 - 3 half time. Both teams tried hard to win, with two more goals one from Nurney's Jake Treacy from a free and a goal from Parkville making it 4 - 4 full time.

Played well for Nurney David Murphy (in goals), Nathan Holden, Sean Smithers, & Jack Holden.

Played well for Parkville Niall Gahan, Lee Nolan, Cathal Lennon, Tadgh Black & Brian Byrne.

Fixtures information

On our new website you will find all the information you need about fixtures in the menus in top left corner. If you click on competitions in top left corner you will find fixtures, results and tables. For a quick look at next fixtures click that option. Important dates for SFAI cups. Under 16, 14 and 12 start 26th September and u13,15 the 4th October

Results & Match Reports

All Home Secretaries will receive an email each week with a link for entering Match Results and another link for Match Reports.

Please make sure that these are both completed by 6pm every Match Day.

The Away side MUST give best players and goalscorers to the Home Manager after each match.

Match Reports and Results will only start from Under 12. No Results or Reports will be accepted for Under 8 to Under 11.

The match report link will also allow you to upload Match Photographs.

Please use this to upload photographs, which will go into the Match Reports section and also feature in the Gallerys section of our web site.


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Blast From The Past...My Days In Youth Work

Before Gunner was born, Cody and I used to do a lot of work with high school students. Really, we began to back off on serving with youth whenever I started my teaching job, my hours at work and then after school were just a lot.
But just because we left that realm of service, doesn't mean that we don't miss it. We talk about the Bible studies we lead, the lock-ins we stayed up all night for, and the amazing camps where we got to lead. But mostly we talk a lot about those kids, they changed our lives more than we could have ever hoped to change theirs.
Today, I thought I'd share some pictures of the times we had, as well as some of the incredible things we got to be a part of. Sometimes it's a little fun to reminiscence...
For a few years, Cody and I worked at the same church with the youth group. He was  the assistant youth minister and I was the high school girls youth intern. I held this job while I was in college and Cody worked on his days off from the fire department. We no longer attend this church but we have so many amazing memories with so many people there.
All of these pictures are from a camp in Colorado that we attended. It was absolutely gorgeous and we white water rafted while we were there. On the last night, one of my youth girls and I came down with a stomach virus and we spent the night quarantined from the others in a separate room. We actually had a lot of fun doing that.
I promise I am in all of these pictures, although I just look like one of the kids in most of them.

 Me & Code.
 Youth staff.
My view during my morning quiet time.

The other ministry we volunteered with is called Young Life. Young Life is all about spreading Christ to high school students who don't belong to a church. It's an alternate ministry where we spent a lot of time just loving on students in hopes of showing them Christ's love, as well as telling them about it. We started volunteering after we both left our jobs at the church and volunteered for three years.
Most of these pictures are again from a camp in Colorado. At our camp in Colorado we repelled and did a high ropes course (ps: I'm terrified of heights), road horses, climbed the mountain that the camp was on, had a western hoedown, and did so many other crazy things. Young Life is all about doing the crazy, out there things. There are two non-camp pictures at the end of these from a normal night of hanging out and another from a weekend trip that we took to float the river.
Pie your leader at the western hoedown.
Hiking up the mountain.
 Our whole YL crew at the top of the mountain.
 Girl YL leaders at the river trip.
I suppose there's really no reason to share this post than to show you my heart and something that meant and means so much to me. There are a lot of days that I consider returning to youth work but I like to do things full-in, 100% and I'm not sure with a baby that I can do that. I don't believe in doing things half way, so right now, I think it's best to fully commit to the things that I know I can.
Who knows, maybe when my kids are grown up, I'll return to helping with the youth ministry. At least I can always be that cool youth group mom ;)


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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

South Carolina Meets Cleveland

In January of 2013, Emily, Jillian and I gathered at Jillian's home in DC for a little reunion/to meet her daughter, Graceanna (recap here). We decided that this sort of reunion was a great thing and decided to make it an annual thing. Since then, Jillian has moved down to Savannah, and Emily is living in Beaufort, so the two of them decided to make the 11+ hour drive up to Cleveland.

The week before they came was beautiful and warm, but the day that they arrived, it was snowing. They left the south in shorts and arrived in the Midwest to a couple inches of white stuff. And they couldn't get over how weird it was to see snow in April. I felt a little justified for all the complaining I've done to them. It only snowed the one day, and got warmer as the week wore on. We enjoyed sunny skies, if we couldn't have super warm days.

They arrived on a Tuesday evening, and we had dinner and talked for a little bit, but they were understandably exhausted from the drive and I had to work early on Wednesday morning, so we went to bed early!
On Wednesday after work, we headed over to the West Side Market. I knew they'd like to explore the booths, and I wanted to have some produce on hand for their visit. Carson handled the fruit and veggie purchasing while the girls and I went inside to explore. We bought crepes that were completely worth it. Jillian had a  Nutella and strawberry crepe, and I had a savory one which was my lunch. Emily isn't supposed to have wheat, so she mostly took pictures, but we shared a little anyway.

This is the little viewing balcony where we sat and ate and people-watched.

Carson joined up with us in time to run back down and get a gyro, which I recommended and which he LOVED.

We dropped Carson off, and then headed out for a few errands. We went to Trader Joes, which was Emily's first experience in the store. I'd say it was positive.

After that, we went to the Target with the escalators. When we first moved here, I texted her a picture of the cart escalator and since then, she's talked about wanting to see it. So we documented. And got a cart just for the experience.

We had burrito bowls for dinner that night.

On Thursday, I worked the only two hours I couldn't get covered at work, and then we set out on an adventure downtown. Jillian photographed and navigated.

We went to Edgewater Park, which looked VASTLY different last time I was there two months earlier (click here to see). I'd only been to this particular beach/park when it was frozen over, so I hadn't realized that we only walked on frozen lake last time and that the beach part was in a totally different area than I'd thought. When it was frozen, we walked all the way out to those rocks in the middle behind Jillian.

Here's Cleveland!

I had to ignore Emily and Jillian to give Carson a diagnostic update on the car. It started shaking and the engine light was blinking and the car got very smelly, which was a bit of a worry. I was explaining what was going on to him here. So Carson walked home from school, took Emily's keys, met us downtown, and fixed the car. Also: that's the beach part behind me in the picture. Underwhelming.

Emily kept her husband Josiah updated on what she was doing in Cleveland.

And I tried to communicate through text when my phone tried switching to FaceTime in the middle of a call.

But eventually we became unglued to our phones and documented the time together. It was windy the whole weekend, and especially by the water.

We ventured downtown, and located this stamp sculpture.

And parked near the public library, where these little turtle (?) guys were.

We walked through the old Arcade

And walked down East 4th street on the other side.

Winding up in Public Square

 And over to the Fountain of Youth (they were born in 1991, hence the picture)

We met Carson and then drove back at the apparent wrong time to be on the road. We hit every single light. But we did pass the theater district.

And we did see these guys dressed identically. They seemed somehow unaware that they were dressed alike, but we took a picture because it was funny to us.

And we ended up in Sweetie Fry, an ice cream and french fry place. We just had ice cream, and the experience left Emily especially talking about going back (which we eventually did)

In the car exchange, Carson forgot his keys, so he took mine, but locked them in the car, so we went to rescue him but I didn't have a house key to go inside to get his car keys because it was with my car keys, so he walked home (his house and car keys are separate) and then we drove him back to the car, but forgot to take my keys back, so we were locked out for 45 minutes. It was windy and starting to get chilly but Emily and Jillian relaxed on Emily's car.

On Friday, we took our time getting up and ready and then headed to Chagrin Falls. I feel like we've taken most visitors here but that's because it's pretty and the stores are fun and who doesn't like a waterfall? As expected, these visitors were fans of this quaint village as well, and we spent time at the waterfall before spending over an hour in the bookstore, did a little browsing in other stores and nearly died of hunger before finally settling on a burger place for lunch.

That evening, a few friends from our community group came over for a girl's night. We sat around and talked and ate junk food for awhile before most people left and we settled in to watch Letters to Juliet.

After that late night (people left at midnight), we slept in on Saturday. After getting ready, we went to stores nearby just to browse. Jillian quickly found a chocolate shop :)

Once the shopping was complete, we went home, where Carson prepared dinner for us. He took this picture of us in our coordinating outfits first.

And a ring picture, because that's what we do. From right to left in order of when we were married.

Carson grilled chicken, asparagus and onions for us. Yum!

We saved room, because we had plans to go to Sweetie Fry again for dessert. We were too full for fries, but never for ice cream!
Jillian got a sundae and Emily had goat cheese ice cream with turkish coffee and a tiny scoop of mint chocolate chip.

Carson had key lime and strawberry sour cream, with a "sweetie scoop" (baby scoop on top) of turkish coffee. I had a more unconventional combination of strawberry sour cream with salted caramel, with brown butter walnut on top.

Carson and I finished ours

But Emily and Jillian each left two bites, until I cheered them on to be a part of the clean plate club.

After ice cream, Emily introduced us to the world of Arbonne, which she sells. We did facials and foot soaks and heard all about the products.

World's most unflattering/horrible picture? Annnnd go!

We watched Project Runway and talked until too late.

The next day was Easter Sunday, which I'll recap in another post, since some of my pictures are from after Emily and Jillian left.

It was great to see them and to show Jillian and Emily around Cleveland. It's fun to reconnect with friends I grew up with, to see where life has taken them and to be able to share in life with these two, in good times and in bad. I'm looking forward to being much closer to them in a couple of months when we're in Tallahassee and already looking forward to the third annual reunion.

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  1. This makes me so so happy. :-) miss you dearest! loved finally being in your home and getting a peek into your OH life. also glad that you won't be so far away! yay!

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Cartesian Genetic Programming

Genetic Programming (GP)

Genetic Programming is concerned with the automatic evolution (as in Darwinian evolution) of computational structures (such as mathematical equations, computer programs, digital circuits, etc.). The best known figure in this field is
John Koza.
The form of GP pioneered by John Koza used a tree representation of computer programs. This was inspired by the artificial intelligence computer language, LISP.

Cartesian Genetic Programming (CGP)

CGP is a highly efficient and flexible form of Genetic Programming that encodes a graph representation of a computer program.
It was invented by Julian Miller in 1999 and was developed from a representation of electronic circuits devised by Julian Miller and Peter Thomson developed a few years earlier.

CGP represents computational structures (mathematical equations, circuits, computer programs etc) as a string of integers. These integers, known as genes determine the functions of nodes in the graph, the connections between nodes, the connections to inputs and the locations in the graph where outputs are taken from.

Using a graph representation is very flexible as many computational structures can be represented as graphs. A good example of this is artificial neural networks (ANNs). These can be easily encoded in CGP. Recent published results of Khan and Miller and Turner and Miller(see the publications linked from this site) show that using CGP to encode and evolve ANNs (CGPANNs) is highly efficient and very competitive with other methods of evolving ANNs. Here is a ten-slide introduction to CGP.
Chapters 1 and 2 of Julian Miller's edited book are available from the link below: chapter1-and-2-CGP-book.pdf

What can CGP be used for?

Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Financial prediction, Function optimization, Classification, Electronic circuit design, medical diagnostics, evolutionary art and music,..., the list is endless.

Understanding the advantages of CGP

CGP typically finds good solutions very efficiently in few evaluations. Although it uses many generations, it also uses extremely small populations, typically 5, where one is the best one from the previous generation.

In all comparisons CGPs performance has been shown to be highly competitive with other GP methods.

CGP is extremely efficient to decode. It takes one pass though the graph to find which nodes are required. So running data through the graph is very fast as it only visits nodes are are used.
In addition, CGP genotypes tend to decode into phenotypes that are a small fraction of the genotype size. This means solutions found are naturally very small and no parsimony pressure is required.

CGP does not bloat like other forms of GP.

CGP is easy to implement and indeed has been implemented in various languages (see Resources)

CGP, unlike some other forms of GP can easily implement multiple output functions. This allows it to solve such problem as circuits problems, implement neural networks and other graph-based computational systems.

Frankly, there is no reason not to try CGP.

How to choose CGP parameters if you are a non-specialist

Choose one row and a quite large number of columns ( at least 100, but maybe 1000).

If the package you are using has levels-back, make it equal to the number of columns.

Use a 1+4 evolutionary strategy. So, population size is 5 and each generation is formed from the parent (best candidate from previous generation) and four mutated versions of the parent (offspring).

This means that only four new fitness evaluations are required in each generation. Note by checking nodes used, you can find out if any offspring have phenotypes identical to parents. If so, set their fitness to be the parents (and do not increment the evaluation counter)

Either only mutate one active gene, or stop mutating when an active gene has been mutated (single). If you want to choose a mutation rate or probability of gene mutation then choose it so that only a few genes are actually mutated to create an offspring from a parent.

Brian Goldman and Bill Punch wrote a very interesting paper of various mutation mechanisms in CGP and found single to be very good.
Analysis of Cartesian Genetic Programming's Evolutionary Mechanisms

Do not use crossover.

Choose how many fitness evaluations you want to do and let your program determine the number of generations.

Only process used nodes when decoding CGP (Most software implementations do this).

To learn more

Buy the CGP book edited by Julian Miller (cheapest at amazon).
Cartesian Genetic Programming
Download a tutorial by Julian Miller and Simon Harding - note that more recent tutorials are always available from Julian Miller' publication page (go to People tab)
GECCO 2012 Tutorial on CGP.

News highlights

NEWS FLASH: DIFFERENTIABLE CGP (dcCGP). Dario Izzo, Francesco Biscani, and Alessio Mereta of the Advanced Concepts Team, European Space Agency in Netherlands have created a differentiable form of CGP(dCGP). This allows one to obtain high-order Taylor representation of program outputs. The new technique means that back-propagation (as in neural networks) can be used.

dCGP is open source and is able to find the exact form of symbolic expression as well as their constants. The authors demonstrate the use of dCGP to solve a large class of differential equations and to find prime integrals of dynamical systems.

GOLD MEDAL: Zdenek Vasicek and Lukas Sekanina win gold humies ($5000) award at GECCO 2015

Congratulations to Zdenek Vasicek and Lukas Sekanina for their oustanding work on "Evolutionary Approach to Approximate Digital Circuits Design". They used CGP :-)

Zdenek Vasicek wins best paper at EuroGP2015

Congratulations to Zdenek Vasicek who won best paper award at EuroGP2015 for his paper "Cartesian GP in Optimization of Combinational Circuits with Hundreds of Inputs and Thousands of Gates".

Machine Intelligence Ltd.

Simon Harding has founded his own company Machine Intelligence Ltd to exploit the power of CGP for automatic visual defect detection, and process control and optimization. Here is a interesting video showing how software detects faults in a metallic surface.


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Saturday, March 12, 2011

 Today I am thankful my brother in Japan is okay
I am thankful I am in such a great place in my life
I am grateful to have 2 healthy and happy kids and a husband who loves me
I am grateful to have a job and am able to work from home
I am grateful for running water, a warm home and grocery stores I can get fresh food from
I am grateful I know my Lord
I am grateful to get medical care for my family when I need it at a small price
I am grateful for so many things that I don't say enough
Yes, sometimes life is hard, frustrating, depressing, and I get irritable, impatient, or angry and negative to others around me
but today I am going to celebrate all the things I am grateful for.

and...I am happy I can change my hair when I want to
Here's the new hair-do

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Christmas Gift Guide Giveaway from FOLK Magazine! Fossil Coral and Turtle Macrame Bookmark

The FOLK Magazine blog has been running great features this holiday season with do-it-yourself crafts and more.

One thing they are also doing is hosting a wonderful Christmas Gift Guide Giveaway everyday and today, I am featured in the giveaway! My Fossil Coral and Turtle Macrame Bookmark will be sent to one lucky winner who comments on the FOLK Blog post.

Check it out for a chance to win!

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Saturday Sequins: Shop In Your Pajamas!

Check out the online craft fair posted by Saturday Sequins! Great way to shop small this Small Business Saturday.

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Friday, November 23, 2012

Give the Gift of Nature! Shop Small this Season...

Natural stones all polished and strung, check out these gifts for some holiday fun!

15% off of everything in my Etsy Shop from now through this weekend

Knotted and beaded with stones to match, long enough for your favorite hard back, these handmade bookmarks are unique and personal so consider one or two for your favorite reader:

Yellow Botswana Agate and Golden Autumn Leaf Macrame Bookmark

Lapis Lazuli and Starfish Macrame Bookmark

Perhaps a pendant or necklace is what you seek? A single nugget of earth's beauty or some sliding stones, adjustable from large to small they are a great fit for one and all!

Crazy Lace Agate Adjustable Pendant

 Labradorite Sliding Stone Necklace

Bracelets and jotter sets I have as well. What you might like I cannot tell so take a peek and have a look-see, especially the jotters that have artwork done originally by me.

Practical art for your pocket or stones for your wrist, you might find a stocking stuffer or perfect hostess gift!

Mookaite Jasper Triple Leather Wrap Bracelet

Garlic Scapes Jotter Journal Set (3 mini-journals.)

Last, but not least, be sure to check back as I will continue to add to the shop, that's a fact.
Happy shopping!

Saturday, November 17, 2012

A different sort of commission for me...landscape in pen and ink

I just completed my most recent commission in pen and ink. This was a little different than my normal subjects, but still an enjoyable challenge to render. As usual, this was done with my 3X0 (.25) Rapidograph pen on smooth Bristol paper.

The scene is a special one for the recipient, so a different composition was not really an option. Because the final drawing is approximately 9X12 (fairly small), I tried to focus on using various pen and ink techniques to highlight the different textures present. I did some heavy cross-hatching on the metal railing in the foreground; squiggly line work to show the foliage behind the railing; stippling to indicate sand on the beach; and various straight, fanned-out line work to fill in the palm trees.

I think it turned out very nicely and hope the recipient enjoys it!

Have you done any challenging projects lately? How did you manage to work around any tough parts?

We have a winner!

Thank you to all who entered my 4th Blogiversary Giveaway. Using the random number generator, the winner is Lisa

Please visit my Etsy shop to see my current offerings - more sliding stone necklaces, natural stone leather wrap bracelets, pendants, bookmarks and more! Great gift ideas for the holidays.

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Happy 4th Blogiversary Giveaway!

As a thank you for your continued support of my blog and my business, I am happy to announce a giveaway opportunity! This is the fourth year of my blog and I am giving away one of my new sliding stone necklaces to one lucky winner:

Mookaite Jasper Sliding Stone Necklace

This adjustable necklace features gorgeous Mookaite jasper nuggets in deep maroons, dusty purples, and some beautiful dark yellows and browns. The stones are highlighted by gold metallic and maroon Czech seed beads and glide gently along 1mm dark brown waxed cotton cord with two adjustable sliding knots. This allows the wearer to choose up to approximately a 32” cord length when fully extended. What a colorful and beautiful gift for yourself or someone else this holiday season!

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Deadline: The giveaway ends on Friday, November 16th at midnight. I will choose a winner using the random number generator and announce it on Saturday, November 17th.
Thanks and good luck!

Friday, November 2, 2012

About Me!

Recently, Etsy created a new, more detailed section for each shop owner called the About page. It allows a shop owner to share the story of their shop and why they do what they do.

You can find the link to a shop owner's About page on the left-hand menu, towards the bottom of the page under Shop Info.

I finally have completed my About page profile, complete with photos. So, if you are curious to know how my shop came into being and what prompted my current migration to jewelry and bookbinding, check it out!

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We want to be a welcoming, comforting presence in every community we serve and anywhere else we happen to show up. We know our guests have a choice — and we never want them to feel less than special.

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Our Mission is to serve everyone better than anyone else.

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The best way to earn our guests’ trust and loyalty is by showing what we believe in every day. That means we have to know what we stand for and act in a way that supports it.

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Bring your authentic and unique self to every situation and every opportunity to serve one another and our guests better than anyone else.

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Be “better than” and be “wiser than.” Challenge yourself and those around you to exceed expectations.

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Vermont soldiers in the Civil War wrote an enormous quantity of letters and diaries, of which many thousands have survived in libraries, historical societies, and in private hands. This collection represents a selection of letters and diaries from the University of Vermont and the Vermont Historical Society.

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I’ve been playing around with the Nikon D3100 and have a notebook full of real world tips and tricks that I can’t wait to share with you. If you’re ready to dive in, check out the Tips & Tutorials page for some cool how-to’s and techniques.

Follow my Facebook page and my YouTube channel to see the latest videos as they are released and to be notified when I post tutorials for the D3100.

Newly Released Cheat Sheets

If you’re anxious and want to start taking better pictures today, check out my Cheat Cards for the Nikon D3100. They give you a sneak peek at the settings I use for a variety of situations. I show you every setting to adjust, with step-by-step instructions that anyone can follow.

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If you have questions about your Nikon D3100, you can chat with me on Facebook or in the forum. I do my best to get back to everyone as fast as I can. Family always comes first (my wife and three boys), but any free time I have left is spent helping people just like you. Happy shooting!

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Landscape Settings for the Nikon D3100 – Howdy gals and gents! I just finished my guide which gives you a firsthand look at my process for shooting landscapes with the Nikon D3100. I show you the settings I used, along with some secret and hidden features that can help you in certain landscape type situations. Check it out »

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Nikon D3100 Forum – If you haven’t already done so, I highly recommend checking out the Nikon D3100 forum for beginners. Over the last few weeks, there have been wonderful discussions around a variety of topics (gear, settings, tricks, issues, etc…) surrounding the D3100. It’s a fantastic learning tool…and hey, you’ll be in good company. :)


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Your PC gaming weekend: win a Dawn of War 3 beta key, survive in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and more!

PC gaming weekend

Time to crack out the vuvuzelas and wave those flags. The weekend is here, and that’s a good enough excuse for a celebration. And how do we celebrate? With PC games, of course. Not planned your gaming weekend yet? We’ve got a few suggestions.

Come back daily for another hit of PC game news

We’ve got fifteen ideas to make your weekend better than all the rest. Yes, even better than the time when you had to prove to a grumpy police major that there really was something strange going on down at the beach, a task that eventually led to you realising that you definitely needed a bigger boat...

Win a beta key for Dawn of War III - we’ve got five to give away
Last week was all about the olde worlde Warhammer fantasy, but this week we’re heading to the 41st millennium for our Games Workshop kicks. Relic are holding the Dawn of War III multiplayer beta this weekend, and we’ve got five keys for it. Want in? Be quick, the giveaway ends at 10am BST on Saturday 8th, so there’s not long to enter!

Get briefed on EVE Valkyrie’s new Groundrush mode
CCP have stuck to the inky black of space for the majority of EVE’s lifetime, but they’re returning to Dust-like territory with Groundrush, the planetside-set new mode for Valkyrie. This game type takes places among the valleys, tunnels, and buildings of a planet’s surface, and we’ve seen it first-hand at EVE Fanfest in Iceland.

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In an incredibly special episode of Overwatch This, we chat with Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan about his behemoth shooter. For an entire 40 minutes Kaplan answers questions about the PTR, advancements in the overarching story, and what we can expect to see in the forthcoming King’s Row Uprising event.

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It’s one of the most anticipated Kickstarter projects to date, promising backers and fans that it will recreate the magic of old-school N64 platformers like Banjo-Kazooie. But does Yooka-Laylee get the right nostalgia fires burning? We gave it the review treatment to let you know if this bat and lizard combo is worth your time.

Discover how Microsoft’s Project Scorpio is making consoles more like PCs
This week saw the specs of Microsoft’s Project Scorpio console revealed to the world, and it’s true: they’re making a 4K console. But what does that mean? Well, considering the hardware inside and that it’s basically an upgraded Xbox One, it means that consoles are PCs now. Our hardware expert Dave explains why Scorpio doesn’t need Ryzen or Vega to be a success.

Find out how Kingdom Come: Deliverance’s ambitious cutscenes are made
We love a good lavish cutscene, and it looks like medieval sandbox RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance is really delivering on that front. Motion captured actors, humour-laced scripts, and - best of all - the one and only Brian Blessed in the cast. One of the most anticipated PC games just got a little more exciting.

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“Pit Senyor kang Mama kini, Pit Senyor kang Papa kini..” is the chant completing devotees’ offering dance of Sinulog in honor of the miraculous Santo NiÃ±o.

A pageantry of faith, a festival held in honor of the Santo Nino, celebrating the origin of the island of Cebu–this is Sinulog.

Sinulog is a dance ritual in honor of the miraculous image of the Santo NiÃ±o. The dance moves two steps forward and one step backward to the sound of the drums. This movement resembles the current (Sulog) of what was known as Cebu’s Pahina River. Thus, in Cebuano, it’s Sinulog.

Historians say that Sinulog is the link between the country’s pagan past and its Christian present.

Historical accounts say before Portuguese navigator came to Cebu on April 7, 1521 to plant the cross on its shore and claim the country for the King of Spain, Sinulog was already danced by the natives in honor of their wooden idols and anitos.

Then Magellan came and introduced Christianity. He gave the Santo NiÃ±o (image of the Child Jesus) as baptismal gift to Hara Amihan, wife of Cebu’s Rajah Humabon who was later named Queen Juana. At that time, not only the rulers were baptized but also about 800 of their subjects.

However, shortly after the conversion, Magellan died in an encounter with the reigning ruler of Mactan, Rajah Lapu-lapu, on April 27, 1521.What remained of Magellan’s men were able to return to Spain to report the incidentt. It took 44 years before a new group came and started formal Christianization of the islands. Miguel Lopez de Legaspi arrived in Cebu on April 28, 1565. His ships bombarded the village and in one of the burning huts, one of his soldiers named Juan Camus found inside a wooden box the image of the Santo NiÃ±o lying side by side with native idols.

Historians now say that during the 44 years between the coming of Magellan and Legaspi, the natives continued to dance the Sinulog. This time, however, they danced it no longer to worship their native idols but as a sign of reverence to the Santo NiÃ±o which is now enshrined at the San Agustin Church (renamed Basilica Minore del Santo NiÃ±o).

Through the years since 1521, the dance was a small ritual by a few in front of wooden idols or before the Santo NiÃ±o. In fact, at the Santo NiÃ±o church where the image is consecrated, only the candle vendors could be seen dancing the Sinulog and making offerings.

During the Santo NiÃ±o fiesta, which falls on the third Sunday of January, children dressed in moro-moro costumes also dance the Sinulog. This was really no big event for Cebu City.

In 1980, however, David S. Odilao, Jr., then Regional Director of the Ministry of Sports and Youth Development (MYSD), organized the first ever Sinulog parade. He gathered a group of students, dressed them up, taught them how to dance the Sinulog to the beating of the drums. It was a small parade really which went just around the Basilica, but it caught the imagination of the City of Cebu, which then thought of making the Sinulog a festival that would rival all other festivals being held yearly in the country.

Thus, under the direction of then Cebu City Mayor Florentino S. Solon, the Sinulog organization came into being. The first task of the organizing committee was how to conceptualize the festival and make it a big event.

In 1980, the local government had a grand and lucrative idea. The Sinulog fiesta at the time was an affair of local color. Held at the Basilica del Santo NiÃ±o, the feast-featured sinulog dancing performed by various groups to fulfill religious obligations. On the third Sunday of January each year, besides the faithful who joined the Sinulog to fulfill a panaad, the event began to attract an increasing number of tourists.

The Cebu City government thus planned to expand the Santo Nino feast celebration and bring this small, regional event to national prominence. In addition, there was an interest in preserving and promoting sinulog dancing as an example of the ” real and unique” Cebuano culture.

After the first year under the direction of the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, the Sinulog parade Was turned over to the mayor’s office which promptly exploited the commercial possibilities of the festival. Trade fairs, art exhibits, a film festival, and pop music events were added to the gravy train.

Sinulog ’81 was then organized. Practically all sectors in the Cebuano community got involved. To distinguish the festival from the popular Ati-Atihan Festival in Aklan, the organizers decided to use the parade to depict the history of the Sinulog, which, as had been said, is the dance which links the country’s pagan past and Christian present. Seven floats were created to depict seven different periods of history. Each float were followed by dancers wearing costumes depicting the periods.

They all danced the same beat the Sinulog parade started at 1 P.M. at the Cebu Provincial Capitol and ended about midnight at Fort San Pedro-Plaza Independencia area. And the show continued until the wee hours of the morning.

  1. joy says:

    i was once of the participants or shall i say a student that gathered by Mr. Odilao on the first sinulog on 1980…until now i always remember sinulog as part of my life…

  2. esmeraldo tanguan says:

  3. Senyor Santo Nenyo, thanks for the blessing ang for keeping me safe with my work here in Russia…Viva Pet Senyor

  4. trolitics says:

    im so much thankful for this, for letting me know about the origin of this festival, its really intersting especially like me who devoted most for my patron sr. sto niNo. his so miraculous.he was always there for me when im in the midst of pproblem and sorrows.Thank you so much Sr. sto niNo for all the favor Ive recieved.

  5. troy says:

    daghang salamat sa kaayo mo.Kanamo malooy ka unta. this short lyrics makes me cry when I attend mass at menore del sto. niNo church here in cebu. a lot of people devoted this child Jesus. old and young gathered and faithfully believed that this little child Jesus was so miraculous. This is our patron with my mother since I was young. We left all our problems to him even my mother even shes single mom with 3 children she always praying that someday this little Jesus help us and carry us on the top goal of our life.

  6. anne Q, tennessee says:

    to-Joji Estilo i was searching Tung Yan Restaurant because my parents found an old picture while when they dined there (DEC1982) and run into this site. Tung Yan closed i believe in late 1980’s or early 1990’s. i cant remember the exact year coz i remember i was still a kid.

    to the rest — Viva Pit Senyor! I miss Cebu and the Phils and hopefully one of these years I can come home and witness it again. i heard it’s so much commercialize unlike before in the 1990’s when we got out with neighbors.

  7. M-lo says:

    Viva Cebu ug Pit Señor sa tanan.

  8. Viva Pit Senyor!!!

    `tapos na ang 2010! so, Belated Merry Christmas & Happy New Year To All! and Pit Senyor To All!

    ei, U kNw(mga Females Lang!) 8 takes a MSG fRm U 2 g8 my cell f0nesss(Tatlo Kasi) 2 vibr8 but I only haV 2 think of U 2 get my heart 2 do D same.

    teX me, Females Only. 25 to 35 Ang Age, Single. NO GAY’s(Na ‘Di Ako Katulad Nila) & GUY’s Allowed. And, No Jejemon Text Allowed. Tnx! 0921-2363033 & 0906-2583982 & 0923-457-9277

  9. Amen to nicola ylaya! I wrote an article about the idolatry of Sinulog

  10. The Santo Niño was once considered the patron of Cebu.
    i hope this coming Sinulog, will peacefully celebrated by the people in Cebu…^_^…

  11. mitch says:

    SEE YOU IN 2017!!!

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Friday, May 20, 2011

Britney Spears planning for marriage again!

One of the world top pop star Britney spears want to patch up once again with her Hollywood ormer agent and boyfriend Jason Trawick. According to her last year in personal life what was happen was substantially changed. She has two sons with her earlier husband ‘kevin federline’. In the days of their struggle Jason could helped her very much.
Britney Spears, 29 years energetic pop star begins her career very early in her life and became very popular in the age of 20s. Her first two volumes witnessed record sales and bring her as a main stream pop icon.
 She exposes this secret in an interview with a fashion magazine OK. She said “I have thought about both of us and if everything goes well. Then, I want to tie the knot with Jason and wish a new beginning once again. By the way, I am still thinking on this”
(Britney Spears first married with Jason Alexander back in 2004 and divorced after a few days later. Than in a same year she married with Kevin Federline and in 2006 once again she took divorce from the Kevin. She has two sons out of her second marriage and now she is going to marry third time in last 7 years.)

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Friday, March 10, 2006

Desperately Seeking Endless Summer Collection Luna

Now that the ivory color I want is no longer available, I desperately want this yarn to make Elann's Luna Flickering Flames Circular Skirt. (ditto Elann's Sock it to Me Colori in "Seadrifter.") Does anyone else do this? Wait way too late to buy things? I've Googled and eBayed and there's none available anywhere. I suppose this is an opportunity to break out of my usual neutral choices for clothing and wear color, which is supposed to be the "thing" this spring and summer.

I'm meeting a friend at Nordstrom's beauty show tomorrow morning at 7:30AM. My friend and I are trying to start a style consultancy, otherwise I would be sleeping in or going to yoga.

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  1. I actually want to knit that same exact project. If you find any yarn that is ivory colored (available in black and dark blue, too, if I'm lucky) and has the same texture as Endless Summer Collection Luna, PLEASE email me:
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Sunday, April 02, 2006

Charting Projects

It's 7PM already! I was up until 5:30AM blogging and got up at noon. I made coffee and added a few rows to Mermaid until I summoned enough energy to get off the couch. Couldn't have done that without Amy's chart. It's such an enabler! I mean, I just had to work an extra couple of rows even after I summoned the energy to get off the couch! She worked out each row of the pattern on an Excel spread sheet. It would be a great to do this for every complex pattern. That's a lot of work on the front end, but it makes the knitting go so much faster. And you wouldn't have to use notes and counters while you knit. One of my WIPs is a Michael Kors cardigan from the Fall 2004 Vogue Knitting. I haven't worked on it for a year (bad me!). The pattern contains so many simultaneous reductions and increases, that I don't remember where I was. Lost the flow, you know? I still love this classic pattern, but I'll have to frog it when I return to it. Had I worked out a chart I could just pick up where I left off. Anyway, I'll be at full throttle about 10PM when Grey's Anatomy comes on and it will be hard to go to bed afterwards. Monday morning will be cruel. I run an international exchange program for professionals and have a group to meet tomorrow morning, so I can't be late. I'll be there. Have only missed one or two due to illness.

I really shouldn't have bought this Anastasia Brow Powder. It's a great product, but it's too dark for me - didn't look that way in the store. I haven't used much of it, only touching it lightly with my trusty little Shu Uemura brow brush. Nordies will probably take it back, but I don't feel right doing that. Maybe I'll just sell it on eBay. By the way, Rowan, the Anastasia rep at the Pentagon City Nordstrom, did a great job shaping my brows. Told her that I only wanted the shape of my brows accentuated by removing just a few stray hairs and she did exactly that.

I'm really NOT ready for spring...

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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Three Different Plans - 1998

Part three of our series covers the 1998 season. All three teams improved marginally in their won-loss records from 1997 (see Part Two below) to 1998. Oakland by 9 games, Kansas City by 5 games and the Twins by 2 games. Here are the raw numbers and general lineups for 1998.

Runs Scrd714734804
Runs Allwd899818866
98 Payroll$37,118,000$27,930,000$27,112,000
97 Payroll$39,350,000$27,150,000$23,950,000
Avg Age28.829.329.9

Prior to the season, all three teams made some rather uninspiring 'station keeping' signings of or trades for veterans players. Kansas City went out and signed Hal Morris, Terry Pendleton and Pat Rapp. They also traded Blaine Mull (yeah, I don't know him either) for Jeff Conine. Minnesota signed Otis Nixon , Mike Morgan and Orlando Merced. Oakland did their part by signing the likes of Mike Blowers, Rickey Henderson and Kevin Mitchell.

The Royals most exciting news of the offseason probably generated no mention of all at the time. On December 16, 1997, they signed an amateur free agent by the name of Runelvys Hernandez. They also made a trade very early in the 1998 season, moving Mike Macfarlane to Oakland in exchange for Shane Mack. Jay Bell and Tom Goodwin were gone and Jermaine Dye appeared in just 60 major league games in 1998, so the Royals went from scoring 747 runs in 1997 to 714 in 1998. Kevin Appier was injured and his 236 innings and 3.40 ERA were replaced by Pat Rapp's 188 innings and 5.30 ERA and the pitching staff suffered accordingly.

Minnesota made a very interesting trade prior to the 1998 season. With Todd Walker slated to play second base for the Twins, they moved Chuck Knoblauch to New York for four prospects and cash. Two of those prospects were Cristian Guzman and Eric Milton. Walker proceeded to hit .316 in his first full season and the 22 year old Milton managed to log 172 innings. Outside of Walker and 39 year old Otis Nixon, however, the Twins had a very non-descipt offense and could not take advantage of a pitching staff that surrendered 43 fewer runs than in 1997.

Oakland improved by the most of all three teams in 1998 and it is not very hard to see why. After having no pitcher throw more than 134 innings in 1997, the A's had four starters log 175 innings or more, led by two veterans free agent signees in Kenny Rogers and Tom Candiotti. With essentially four rookies in their every day lineup, Oakland had just two pitchers on their staff under 25 (Jimmy Haynes and Blake Stein).

Although better than in 1997, there was no confusing any of these three teams for a contender. With the exception of Damon and part-timers Sweeney and Dye, the Royals offense was all nearing or over 30 years old. With Appier hurt and the 36 year old Montgomery compiling a 4.98 ERA as a closer, some of what happened to their pitching staff could not be helped. They still had a pair of promising 23 year olds in Jose Rosado and Glendon Rusch and late in the year added another young pitcher in Jeff Suppan. Minnesota was faced with replacing aging Paul Molitor, Terry Steinbach and Otis Nixon and the spectre of a declining Marty Cordova. They had young arms in Hawkins, Milton, Radke and Frankie Rodriguez, but a bullpen that had only one reliever of note with an ERA under 4.00. Oakland had handed shortstop to 22 year old Miquel Tejada (who hit .233 in 365 at-bats) and catcher to A.J. Hinsh (who hit .231 in 337 at-bats), but they did have the rookie of the year in Ben Grieve and an ever improving Jason Giambi to replace Mark McGwire. They had patched together a mostly veteran pitching staff to take the heat off a young offense and were rewarded by a team that was learning how to win.

The Draft and The Systems
The Royals selected Jeff Austin with the 4th pick in the 1997 Amateur Draft. The Twins, picking 6th, selected Ryan Mills and with the number two overall pick the Athletics made a spectacular pick of Mark Mulder. Sandwiched between KC and Minnesota was St. Louis' pick of J.D. Drew, but below those in the first round were a bevy of prospects: Austin Kearns (7th), Sean Burrougsh (9th), Jeff Weaver (14th), Brad Lidge (17th) and C.C. Sabathia (20th).

After Austin, the Royals also had the 30th and 31st selections, taking (and wasting) them on Matt Burch and Chris George (Brad Wilkerson and Aaron Rowand went 33rd and 35th). Other players taken by KC in 1998 were Paul Phillips in the 9th round and Shawn Sedlacek in the 14th.

Minnesota absolutely wiffed in the 1998 draft, the most notable player they drafted was Juan Padilla in the 24th round. As we will see, however, Minnesota had already done their good draftwork earlier.

In addition to Mulder (who followed the drafting of Tim Hudson in 1997), Oakland added one other solid ballplayer by picking Eric Byrnes in the 8th round.

The Royals system was about to contribute Carlos Beltran and Carlos Febles, both of whom were up for a cup of coffee in September of 1998. Jermaine Dye was shuttling between Omaha and KC and Mike Sweeney was still toiling away behind the plate.

The outstanding season complied by Todd Walker was just the beginning of the Twins reaping the benefits of the good drafts of the early nineties. Corey Koskie, Doug Mientkiewicz, Torii Hunter and A.J. Pierzynski all had gotten a taste of the bigs with September callups and there was hope that Hawkins, Milton, Frankie Rodriguez and former number one pick Dan Serafini would join Brad Radke to form a young and talented rotation. Maybe even a raw talent like big David Ortiz might turn into something after hittin .277 with 9 homers in 278 at-bats in 1998.

Oakland had Ben Grieve to join Jason Giambi and were hoping their young shortstop Tejada would improve. Eric Chavez had hit .311 in 45 September at-bats and there were those two young arms, Mulder and Hudson, coming up to join the promising Jimmy Haynes.

The Twins and A's had both upped their payroll, mainly to plug gaps with veterans while they waited for youngsters to be ready. Oakland had invested wisely in Candiotti and Rogers to keep their team competitive and somebody (Mike Blowers) had to play third so Chavez could develop - particularly given the rookie Tejada was already playing on that side of the infield. Otis Nixon was better at 39 than Torii Hunter would have been at 22. While the likes of Ron Coomer and Terry Steinbach bought time for the Twins to develop Pierzynski and Koskie.

Even the Royals, while fielding a rather ininspring collection of veterans around Johnny Damon, had the offense on the way in Beltran, Sweeney and others. They even had some hope in some young arms. Probably Kansas City's biggest transgression at this point was carrying a high thirties million dollar payroll while both Oakland and Minnesota were saving money for later.

The winds of change, however, were about to begin blowing and three times that were so very similar for over ten years were suddenly about to get very different. Next installment: 1999.

Just a Quick Note

Just a quick post to let you know that I am still continuing on with our "Three Different Paths" series detailing the Royals, Twins and A's from 1996 forward. A busy couple of weeks have kept me from doing the next post in the series, but will do so shortly.

As always, catch me over at Royals Authority along with Craig from Warning Track Power.

Also, welcome back to the Blogger world (can I say that if I also write for MVN?) to Kevin Agee at Kevin's Royal Blog.


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The Political Economy of Brazil's Disarray

Troyjo discusses the current state of the economy in Brazil in light of its many challenges, ranging from corruption scandals to the end of the commodity boom. He offers some solutions for the future, but notes that their implementation is contingent upon the political will of President Dilma Rousseff and her party, who have been struggling since the 2014 elections. Unfortunately, he concludes that the state of political affairs in the country makes the chances of an economic upturn unlikely. Read the full piece on LatinAmericaGoesGlobal.


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Saturday, August 16, 2014

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The ground, the fabric, the underlying basis of the Haight Ashbury and the Summer of Love was spirit. We traveled to the heart of godhead, revelled in the ecstasy of union. We experienced ourselves as gods and goddesses and put our consciousness beyond form, into the magical rainbow that is the molecular flow.

We sang of love; we longed to experience love forever. We were certain that the whole human race was ascending, that all things were ascending. We were blooming like flowers toward an Omega point that Teilhard de Chardin described as a quantum leap for humanity.

The Haight Ashbury saw itself as the front echelon of consciousness. We were being guided up the mountain by magical beings. Then we learned that we ourselves were magical beings and reached down to help others up to our new heights.

Angry with hypocritical establishment religions, we read the scriptures from ancient mystics and flocked to hear spiritual teachings in our own new vocabulary. We sang, chanted, had ceremonies, danced and made love with Krishna, Diana, Shiva, Padma Sambhava, the Bal Shem Tov and Einstein. We met the tulkus, the swamis, the yogis, the rabbis, the roshis. We read Tibetan Buddhism, Timothy Leary, Ramakrishna, Suzuki Roshi and a myriad of other wise humans whose maps guided us to higher consciousness.

This is the Haight Ashbury that I knew. I had a store and a mansion there. I started out in high heels and a mink coat going to look at the "weirdoes". I ended up with very little, another saddhu wandering around America.

These pages are my pages and your pages, a real story of a few months in the Summer of Love and after. Nothing is hidden; there is still the amazing contrast between spiritual ecstasy and inter-relationship trauma. I mean, it was hard, man, and it was heaven. It was groovy, and it was sad. It was a pendulum swing between nirvana and hell. But through it all we were reaching for spirit.

The Diary was written in '67 - '68. I called it The Diary of a Pilgrim. Sometimes I sat on the edge of my little horse hair pad on the floor at Bill Paul's house, and I watched my hand scratching out mysterious symbols on pieces of paper that seemed way down there. Sometimes I could hardly see the words as they flowed out, but I knew we were pilgrims, explorers on the frontiers. In spite of the confusion and pain we dug that there was a light that rose from within us and surrounded the Be-ins, the dances at the Fillmore West and the Avalon and the Family Dog and on Haight Street itself. It created some great teachers, Stephen Gaskin and his Monday Night Classes, Bhaktivedanta from India, Tarthang Tulku from Tibet and Sajit Saddhu, whom the papers in India called the hippy guru. Schlomo Carlbach sang and danced like the ancient Jewish chassids; Murshid Sam Lewis did the same for the Sufis. The Grateful Dead, the Airplane, the Anonymous Artists of America, Big Brother and the Holding Company played the music that was our hymnal. They played on the streets and in the parks for free.

We meditated, took LSD as a holy sacrament that helped us recreate ourselves as holy, learned to do Hatha Yoga. We were born again hippies. Hip. Meaning to be aware, to know, to have soul, to understand. Smoking ganga, we wandered through realities that melted the barriers of time and space, of separation and loneliness.The life blood of the Haight Ashbury was SPIRIT.

Spirit underlay all the experiments in sex, in music, in politics, in psychotropic sacraments and family relationships. It was towards Spirit that we yearned. It was to Spirit that we committed our energies.

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Welcome back to another episode of #CMCtv. In this episode, we discuss how communications TO Partners helps Vendors drive engagement.

Much like ending a relationship over text message, communications to Partners can be troublesome. In both situations, you may find yourself asking: Is this really the best method and/or platform to get my point across? In the case of a break-up text, no it isn’t. Spot on analogy, right?

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Welcome back to another episode of #CMCtv. In this edition, we discuss Sales Strategy Tips for Channel Partners.

Partner and Vendor organizations are all unique; from size, to number of employees, to business goals, to Partner programs, to Partner types, to technologies and end users. You can’t treat them all alike; so, how then do you encourage and amplify digital marketing as it relates to sales strategy in a more custom way?

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CMCtv Episode 10: Training Successful Partner-Facing Teams

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“In the Grand Scheme of Things” podcast – Episode 31

On this week’s episode of “In the Grand Scheme of Things,” Dustin, Lee, Erin, Sam, and Devinn talk about the MTV VMAs, how the importance of DVDs and LPs in listeners’ lives have changed over the years, Spin.com’s top 10 richest bass players list, and finish it off with a discussion on snack foods.

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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

My Heart is Full

I recently asked my facebook friends, "for all my friends that I've met in this life, what is your best memory of me" ?

Heres what they said:

1) Evangeline Kissoon - Ur ability to pull me out of my comfort zone!

2) Briana Darlene - Walking Lake Merritt & eating at Ahn's burger. Lol! And when we went to Great America! :)

3) Brandt Teran - At Sipi when u always acting like u were setting but the ball was no where near you..made me laff u were a character.

4) Natasha EagleStar - Volleyball #10 setup!

5) Lydia Roach - Your hooker strut in shorts in the middle of the winter. Luv U!!

6) Corianna Honena - When I was a child and I meet you at Haskell, when my auntie Holly went there and we was at a dinner and a dog licked you and u screamed all loud and than you give me your Barbie doll. Lol

7) Kathy Peltier - When we were in Jenn's room and we went to the gazebo and hrs later you walked me back to the church and you made sure I didn't mess up my hair. You were such a gentleman :)

8) Elisa M. Suminimo - Going to Kingman with you and Ian. We had lots of laughs to and from. Oh yeah, dinner at El Palacio was a blast as well.

9) Anneka Osife - U playin volleyball @ da gym @ SIHS.:)

10) Karen Corbett - Your Orgasm. Let me know if you need my help again. You're the best.

11) Darlana White - your big brown glasses, blue shorts and white long shirt...oh and who could forget your ponytail :)

12) Kevin Nez - Your Great America video. Dancing hella hard to Bobby Browns My Perogative.

13) Mauro Moura - You scaring the shit out me at Market St. with that big hug Lmao.

14) Valerie Neunsinger - Chemistry class when we use to pass notes even though we sat next to each other lol...u always made me laugh with ur jokes :) Love ya Charlie.

15) Wesley Walker - The airplane move you did at the Bench & Bar... twirl

16) Judy Lujan - Talking to you at the Pow Wow Comedy Jam at Sac State after the show.

17) Michelle Le Brun - One of your psychic readings.

18) Stuart Campau - Your humbleness and lack of egotism..choke choke...

OMG, thank you guys so much, if I die tomorrow I'll know that I have lived a good life.

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Thursday, January 7, 2010

I haven't drank a carbonated drink in over a month- and more importantly, I have no desire too!  I had it in my head for a long time that I had to have a mtn dew at least once a day but now I want water or green tea. I have started drinking a cup or two of coffee every 2 days but studies say (supposedly) that a cup of coffee is actually good for you and way better than anything carbonated so hopefully I'm not trading one bad habit for another.
I have also hit the treadmill the past 3 days. The first night for only 30 minutes but then last night I lasted 47 minutes and today I made it an hour and 10 minutes. I think I would do better running in the mornings but don't have that option. I am working on starting out a low(er) calorie diet. It's not that I even eat "junk" food. I just eat too big of portions because I skip meals SO I am now eating 3 small meals a day and 1 healthy snack. Hoping to up my metabolism and lower my calories. The drinking water has been awesome. I feel so much better. My body was dehydrated and I didn't realize it until after correcting the problem. No wonder I felt like a slug. My body was running off of...well, nothing good.
I'm going to get healthier this year, get myself into shape and hopefully tone my body and lose some weight in the process. I'm really excited!

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Kellie said...

did anyone ever tell you that you're wonderful!!??? :) An inspiration.