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Saturday, 31 May 2008

Cothi Bridge Show Part I

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This is our local show and I always try to go each year. I took LOADS of photos, but won't bore you with 60 + of them! Here are a selected few, just to give you a flavour of the day.
I had a wander round the craft tent, but before I could see it all, the judging started. Here is part of the needlecraft section.

Here is just one part of the children's class for animal made from a vegetable! These made me smile.

I took a quick photo of the flower displays on my way out.

Up at the top end of the showground were the sheep and cattle classes. Here is a splendid Jersey cow (how she walked with SUCH a full udder I don't know! If my memory serves me rightly, I think her colour may be called Mulberry - the deepest Mulberry is black, but I think it ranges through grey too. A change from the usual golden Jerseys though.

One of the beef breeds - I don't know which one but it has a blackside like a Belgian Blue or Limousin, only the colour's wrong!

Children showing a fine trio (look a bit like Suffolks to me).

I know that these gorgeous sheep are Hampshire Downs as I spent some time talking to their owner.

A cracking ewe, though I don't know the breed.

The initial line-up for the ridden Section C Welsh class.

One of the entrants for the ridden Shetland Pony classes with his very smart mum.

How's that for action? What all the Welsh Cob enthusiasts at the ringside come to see!

One of the entrants for the coloured classes. LOTS of feather, but personally I'm an Arab fan . . .

Nearly summer

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Isn't this beautiful - a myriad of Ox Eye Daisies and Pink Valerian on the roadside as I was walking home from the Show today. A few Knapweed in there somewhere, and some buttercups too. Just stunning.

I had a lovely morning at the show and will do a proper writeup later (I took nearly 70 photos!)

Needlework and gardening

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This is an exchange block for a quilt from a swop on the Creative Living forum. This is for Wren and i hope it arrives safely. The theme was garden pond, and I just happened to have some material with the appropriate print on it!

I am a Mattock gardener at times - that is, my intake part of the yard is challenging to say the least. This is MUCH progress made on the 2nd bean area - getting there, slowly!

The first flower on my Paul's Himalayan Musk - and a million more to come.

Friday, 30 May 2008

Heathland part II

Gorse - blooming happily in January!

When I had to drive across Llanllwni mynydd recently, it had greatly changed. It had been swaled last year - swaling is a controlled burning to get rid of the leggy heather which prevents the moor grass growing. As a result there were acres and acres of the rough moorland grass (purple moor grass) and some happy sheep! Mostly the sheep grazing up there are the diminutive Welsh Mountain sheep who can cope with the poor grazing and the poor weather over the winter months. Their lambs aren't normally born much before April, and are sweet little things, with tan-brown blodges on the back of their necks and around the tail areas - they look a bit like woolly Jack Russell terriers! The "Heathland" book by James Parry refers to areas of moorland in southern Pembrokeshire (some of which I know from my Archaeology Field Trips), where young boys were given boxes of matches by their fathers and told to go and "burn the common"! Hmmm - how to raise an arsonist . . .

In the past, this sour peaty land in many places was used for the age-old tradition of turving. Hence the old laws of Turbery on the New Forest and elsewhere. Forest commoners would be limited to the number of turves they could cut in a year - usually around 4,000. Some 1,500 homesteads qualified in 1858, and amazingly this added up to about 6 million turves per year. Heather and peat sods were collected in summer using a special spade and dried in stacks on site. Each sod was about 9 inches by 18 inches (22.5 x 45cm), and a minimum of 3/4" (2.5cm) thick - any less and it would fall apart. To ensure that grazing was not lost, and to allow regeneration so the supply would be continual, a strict rotational pattern was used. A chequerboard pattern where 2 turves were removed, leaving one square to grow back, was the norm. Once dried, the turves would be taken and stored under cover for the winter fuel. Many small industries grew up near heathland areas and were fuelled by turves cut locally.

This rough heathland was primarily grazing, however, and ponies and sheep were also partial to the young (softer) growth of the furze (gorse) bushes which grew amid the heather. Some farms had their own gorse mills and if you are ever in Wales, pay a visit to the amazing collection of vernacular buildings and the museum at St Fagans on the edge of Cardiff, and you will be able to see a purpose-built gorse mill building. Such gorse mills would sometimes be water powered. Dried gorse wood would be gathered into faggots, its quick-burning qualities ideal for fuelling domestic bread-ovens. The well-grown gorse was also utilised for chimney-sweeping, with a rope tied either end of the gorse bush and some zealous sweeps at top of chimney and hearth. Gorse blossom was gathered for wine-making (I have done so myself) and the blossom also produced a yellow dye. On Dartmoor, the gorse is known as "Dartmoor Custard"!

The moorland would be busy with furze cutters throughout the year - the bundles of cut gorse being secured by lengths of brambles and carried home. The cutters' hands were protected by stout gloves, of even by winding rope around the hands. The gorse was used by the cottager or sold at market, where there was a brisk trade. Apparently "a good faggoter could cut and tie a hundred faggots a day and for a long time in recent history that day's work would have earned him 2/6d" (12 1/2p in modern money).

Bracken - that bane of modern hill farms, where it is always trying to increase its range - was once utilised in many ways. It was primarily used as a bedding for farm animals, but also used as a compost on the fields, where it was strewn and then ploughed in. As a fuel, it burns rapidly and in the Middle Ages used as a fuel for brick and tile kilns. It was used as a packing material for fragile goods such as china or glass, and also strewn on farmhouse floors or yards and trackways - anywhere where muddy boots and feet needed to be mopped up! When burnt, bracken produced potash, which was not only an excellent fertilizer, but an essential ingredient for soap and glass manufacture.

(Many thanks to James Parry's excellent book "Heathland" where many of these facts were garnered).

Wednesday, 28 May 2008

Heathland poetry

There will be a longer post - as long as my connection lasts - consider this a stop-gap. I have the glums today - I will put it down to the weather - so I am having an indulgent half hour and would like to share this beautiful piece of poetry with you. It is John Clare's Emmonsails Heath in Winter:

I love to see the old heaths' withered brake
Mingle its crimpled leaves with furze and ling

While the old Heron from the lonely lake

Starts slow and flaps its melancholy wing,

An oddling crow in idle motions swing

On the half rotten ash tree's topmost twig,

Beside whose trunk the gipsey makes his bed

Up flies the bouncing wood cock from the brig
Where a black quagmire quakes beneath the tread;

The field fare chatters in the whistling thorn

And for the awe round fields and closen rove,

And coy bumbarrels twenty in a drove,
Fly down the hedgerows in the frozen plain
And hang on little twigs and start again.

From memory, a "bumbarrel" is a Long Tailed Tit.

Tuesday, 27 May 2008

Back to the future

This is the view from the top of Llanllwni mynydd looking towards the Presceli hills, where the Stonehenge bluestones came from. Click to enlarge, as ever.

Yesterday's weather was abysmal. More like October than May - terrific gales and a few hours' rain after lunch. We had a power cut too. When we phoned to report the outage, we were told that all the local villages were out and it might be 6 hours before we got the power back.

I had been making a big pan of soup and stewing up some lamb bones for stock, so I left them on the heat. Sadly, my soup needed another half an hour's cooking so the idea of soup for lunch was abandoned. I had been busy spinning when the lights went out, leaving our kitchen pretty dark, so we lit the candles which are in applewood candlesticks turned by my husband a few years back. This room is gloomy on all but the sunniest of summer days, as the main window faces East and is a Victorian bay add-on, and the only other window is at the back of the room, facing South. I needed to comb more of my Jacob fleece anyway, so I went and sat in the bay window and combed up a big pile to spin. Then as I didn't really need much light to spin by, I stayed in the gloom and spun and spun for about 2 hours when power came back on. I was just starting to really enjoy NOT having the power. No distractions of tv or radio (though if I am honest, I did look for batteries so I could listen to Radio 4).

The soup had carried on cooking with the residual heat (I use Le Creuset pans) and just needed heating up for a late meal. I had spun half a bobbin of wool. The grubby combed-out bits of left-over fleece went onto the compost heap. I have toyed with the idea of washing the coarser bits of this fleece however, and using it as a backing for a warm bed quilt (I have the material upstairs, just waiting for me to shift up a gear!) I have an old Welsh quilt which used up fleece in this manner and it is SO warm . . .

I could return to my vacuuming (deep joy . . .) I did the worst bit first - the stairs. The Dyson was very sniffy about the cat hairs and since I was having to use the skinny little pipe which is meant for getting in corners (as the proper stairs head attachment is unwieldy and crap) it was heavy going. Lightbulb moment. I went and fetched the stiff bristled brush my mum used to use on her stair carpets. Gosh, but I never knew there was so much detritis trapped in the carpet pile. The Dyson sucked that up OK. And a dead bat. Then rounding the home bend, on the darkest part of the stairway, a sudden chortling raspberry noise as the nozzle got another dead bat stuck across the end of it. I was about to turn the Dyson off when push came to shove and the bat disappeared up the tube . . . Note to self, OH really MUST sort out that bit up under the eaves in the top bathroom where they are coming in . . . Think Pipistrelle rather than Fruit Bat size (thank heavens!)

This morning I found that the hallway, vacuumed only yesterday afternoon, had a pile more dead leaves in it which had blown in under the door when someone had forgotten to put the draught excluder back across (think Georgian door and nothing level in the house = large draughty gap). The Dyson was still lounging upstairs. I went and fetched the dustpan and brush and saved on electricity and I probably burned up at least 2 calories doing it!

With oil prices going up daily, most of us are in for a sharp shock this winter. We have already planned when the heating is going on - and staying off. The Hergom stove in the kitchen will go on in the morning to provide heat (we live in the kitchen most of the day) for us and to dry clothing - we have two Betty Maids which we hang our damp washing on - thus saving on having the immersion heater on. In the afternoon the central heating will go on for a couple of hours to warm the rest of this (enormous) house. The wood burner will be on during the day on the coldest days of winter - we have found that the daily newspapers (which we formerly recycled) burn quite efficiently when tightly screwed up, and the residual heat from this keeps the worst of the damp/chill off the room (we shouldn't be having to do this in MAY, however!) When we do have the woodburner fuelled with wood during the day, I shall use it for heating water for washing up, tea-making and cook soups and casseroles on the top, to save using electricity.

We have a couple of tree trunks, which have been felled a few years now, to cut up for the winter stores, and we are fortunate to have trees around our fields, and about half an acre of woodland which has a couple of dead trees (still standing) which will see us through this winter. Whilst we plan to downsize in the next year or so, the next property will still need to have land for growing fruit and vegetables and woodland for renewable fuel. Plus a very big polytunnel so we can be as self-reliant as possible.

So - a two-hour power cut has made me look into the future and change some habits of a lifetime . . .

Monday, 26 May 2008

Chutney, Biccies and Spinning Jennie

Here is the batch of Mango Chutney I made yesterday. It turned out a little darker than usual as I used Demerara Sugar, but it texture was good and it will be splendid with a chicken curry.

Here are the Double Chocolate Chip cookies I made this morning for my son. Double only because they had both white chocolate and milk chocolate in them, as I had half a bar of the milk choc. going begging too.

This is the Jacob fleece I bought at the Smallholders' Show. It is crammed into that black bin liner, so a good few hours' work there.

I was combing the worst of the tangles and bits out of the fleece whilst my biccies were in the oven. I don't like to sit idle, and couldn't really leave the room. "Before" combing at the back . . .

This is my Ashford wheel, which I bought 2nd hand at the end of the Spinning Course I did (last year - or was it the year before?) You get some idea of how dark our house is in the winter - this is with two overhead lights on (low energy bulbs admittedly) AND the flash from the camera!

This is where all cats reckon they should be on a day like today - whilst not raining yet, it is blowing a hooley still and NOT nice outside. This is Gypsy, who turned up on our doorstep as a stray. This cushion on the top of the coffer, just outside my office door, is her idea of pussy cat heaven.

Now, if I can find my beeswax, I am going to make some home-made polish this afternoon. I may be gone some time . . .

Chocolate cinnamon cake and cookies

Click to enlarge - ferns growing on the lane bank locally. One of my better photos . . .

Yarrow has requested that I post the recipe for the Chocolate Cinnamon Cake I made last week (though forgot to take a photo of!) I am also baking White Chocolate Chip cookies this morning, so will add that recipe too, and update with a photo if I don't burn them to a cinder (oven playing up).

(I didn't bother with the banana sauce).

4 oz (115g) plain chocolate, chopped
Same amount of unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 tablespoon instant coffee powder
5 eggs, separated
7 oz (200g) granulated sugar (I used caster sugar)
4 oz (115g) flour (S-R)
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

For the Sauce:

4 ripe bananas
2 oz (50g) soft light brown sugar, firmly packed
1 tablespoon resh lemon juice
6 fl oz (175ml) whipping cream
1 tablespoon rum (optional)

Preheat the oven to 180 deg. C/350 deg. F/ Gas 4). Grease an 8 inch (20cm) round cake tin.

Combine the chocolate and butter in the top of a double boiler or in a heatproof bowl set over hot water and stir until melted. Remove from the heat and stir in the coffee. Set aside.

Beat the egg yolks with the sugar until thick and lemon-coloured. Add the chocolate mixture and beat just to blend the mixtures evenly.

Sift together the flour and cinnamon into a bowl.

In another bowl, beat the egg whites until they hold stiff peaks. Fold a dollop of whites into the chocolate mixture to lighten it. Fold in the remaining whites in three batches, alternating with the sifted flour.

Pour the mixture into the prepared tin. Bake until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean - 40-50 mins. Unmould the cake onto a wire rack.

For the sauce - preheat the grill. Slice the bananas into a shallow, heatproof dish. Add the brown sugar and lemon juice and stir to blend. Place under the grill and cook, stirring occasionally, until the sugar is cramelized and bubbling - about 8 mins.

Transfer the bananas to a bowl and mash with a fork until almost smooth. Stir in the cream and rum, if using. Serve the cake and sauce warm.

(It's nice cold too, and gorgeous with a dollop of ice cream . . .) Meant to serve 6!

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Makes 24

4 oz (1115g) butter or marg, at room temperature1 3/4 oz (50g) caster sugar
3 3/4 oz (110g) dark brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
6 oz (170g) plain flour
1/2 tspn bicarbonate of soda
1/8 tspn salt
6 oz (170g) chocolate chips (I am using white and cheating by just chopping up a bar of white chocolate - don't pay extra for little bags of specially-shaped "chips" - I never buy those)
2 oz (55g) walnuts, chopped (I will omit as my son doesn't like them)

Preheat the oven to 350 deg. F/180 deg. C/Gas 4. Grease 2 large baking sheets.

With an electric mixer, cream the butter or marg and two sugars together until light and fluffy.

In another bowl, mix the egg and vanilla, then gradually beat into the butter mixture. Sift over the flour, bicarb. of soda and salt and stir. Add the choc. chips and walnuts and stir well to combine.

Place heapted teaspns of the dough 2 inches (5 cm) apart on the prepared sheets. Bake until lightly coloured - 10 or 15 mins. Transfer to a rack to cool.

Both these recipes came from a book "Complete Baking" by Martha Day, which my son bought me for Christmas one year.

Sunday, 25 May 2008

A giant of a tree

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This wonderful tree was just to one side of the abbey ruins at Margam Park. It must be several hundred years old. I loved the elegant swooping of the branches so that they touched earth. In the green twilight beneath the tree's canopy, it was like being in fairyland. I grew up near the New Forest, and some of the Forest's magnificent oak trees date from the time when trees had their branches "trained" to form the ribs for our Navy's ships, back in the days of sail. Buckler's Hard was the naval dockyard at a time when some of Nelson's fleet were built. See:

A closer look at the tree, soaring into the sky just as the abbey buildings once did. I thought it was a beech, I was certain in fact, but then looking at a close-up of the leaves, they are very serrated on the edges . . . Perhaps an American beech? There are special arboretum plantings in the grounds.

I will dedicate these photos to my friend Leanne, who loves trees, and to my husband and eldest daughter who also feel the same way. I would find it very hard to live anywhere that DIDN'T have trees.

Saturday, 24 May 2008

Spinning, Jacob Sheep and a Castle

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Laburnum - which grows along the hedgerows in our part of Wales. Although it is poisonous to livestock, it seems tolerated. Legend tells that in the Great War, wood for fencing posts was in such short supply, that Laburnum was all that was available. Once stuck in the ground, it rooted! Hence hedgerows of the stuff - SO pretty at this time of year. It grows on Brenda's farm too.

This morning I had an invitation to visit a Farm Open day. I had promised a cake and some preserves for this too. I met Brenda, whose farm it is, at the Smallholders' Show last weekend. I had a lovely morning out, nice and relaxed, and bought some Celery from another of their stalls to plant up in my veg. plot. Brenda has an excellent flock of Jacob Sheep, and is an expert spinner and weaver - many of her textiles have won prizes. We had a good chat, and I will be joining her Spinning group this winter, as well as taking a one day course she is giving on Tapestry Weaving in January.

On the way back home, I stopped off in Newcastle Emlyn, the little market town on the banks of the River Teifi. I visited the castle for the first time in years, and treated myself to some Snapdragons, Violas, a blue Corydalis and some Celery seeds. The plants are planted, and I shall put some seeds in this evening, as I am late with them already - they should have been started off a month ago.

Of course, I had my camera with me, and took lots of photos . . .

Some of Brenda's Jacob Sheep.

Brenda spinning in her workshop.

Another view of the workshop.

Some of the beautiful things made from the Jacob wool.

Newcastle Emlyn town hall.

Newcastle Emlyn castle - the gatehouse. Here's the link if you want to know more about the history of the Castle.

View through window towards the town hall.

The weir on the River Teifi.

View of River Teifi from the bridge.

Such a pretty cottage, with its Montana Rubens clematis.

The Garden Centre where I just HAD to stop and browse . . . I bought Violas, Snapdragons, Celery Seeds and a splendi Blue Corydalis.

View from the top of the hill near our house, looking across fields which have been cut for silage, towards Black Mountain.

More Laburnum growing in a hedgerow nearby.

I like a challenge . . .

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This is my husband with the slasher, tackling the brambles t'other side of my veg plot. As you can see, he had his work cut out. Nature likes to reclaim her own. Unfortunately he unearthed a pile of junk beneath the brambles, so that needs taking to the tip. The fennel in the foreground is self-seeded and it's just as well as the ooooooooold fennel in the raised herb bed snuffed it over the winter. It had been there about 10 years though.

This is the tidy bit of my veg plot, and a soft fruit bed. The grass is about to be hoiked out though.

This is the "intake" part of the veg. plot where I extended last summer and grew beans and courgettes. As you can see, nature reclaims her own so it is back to mattock gardening for me. Sigh.

As you can see, I do mattock gardening very well. This was where some more beans will go again this year when I've totally cleared the area.

Here in the gravelled garden, I at least stand a sporting chance. To the left, in front ofthe stable door into the utility room, is a wildlife pond. I planned this part of the garden for years before it happened - I cut a picture from a gardening magazine and had it pinned on the fridge door as my inspiration.

Aquilegias are some of my favourite flowers.

I have singles and doubles in all sorts of colours.

This sort remind me of the skirts of Crinoline ladies . . .

This is part of the new planting in an extension of the main border. Some verbascum here, with Delphiniums behind them.


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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

7th Annual Saturday Writers' Short Story Contest 2008

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ENTRY FEE: $5 per entry, maximum of three entries. Submissions without entry fee or inadequate fee will be discarded or returned to contestant if SASE is provided.

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Standard manuscript form: 8 1/2 x 11 paper, typed and double-spaced, pages numbered and title of entry on every page, 12 point Times New Roman.

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Top ten winners may be given the opportunity to have a story included (one-time rights) in Saturday Writers’ literary anthology, published the following year.

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Anomaly Defenders (PC) Review – A Tower Defense Game That Isn’t A Bore Fest

Tower defense games are often like the Diet Coke of strategy games – offering the flavour of the real deal, but lacking some amount of substance. But you know what? Lots of people like Diet Coke, myself included. 11 bit studios threw tower defense for a loop with the Anomaly series of tower attack games. Now, they’re throwing that loop for a loop by making a traditional tower defense game. Does it stand out from the crowd, or does it taste like drug store cola?

Where the first two Anomaly games had players controlling human attackers, Anomaly Defenders places players in control of alien, well, defenders. Although more traditional, 11 Bit have still managed to craft an enjoyable game experience. Each of the game’s 24 levels tasks players with defending an evacuation launchpad from attackers – a simple premise, but the game sprinkles around enough variety to keep things interesting.

There are 8 tower types to pick from, each of which has a specific purpose. Spamming powerful towers can be fatal in later levels and at higher difficulties. Instead, careful planning is rewarded with satisfying ambushes, so long as the best towers and locations are selected. Attackers travel exclusively down defined right-angle paths, but can sometimes be lured towards resource deposits, allowing for strategic ambushes. Placement of towers is crucial, and environmental obstacles can provide protection from long range attacks. Players are also well advised to have contingency plans in place in later levels – certain enemy units have a tendency to head straight for the launchpad, ignoring attempts to lure them into a trap.

Gameplay is far from “set it and forget it” though. Players must manage a suite of active tower skills such as shielding, repair, and self-destruct, each of which is truly useful. Again, players must utilize all of the available options to succeed in later missions. Things get hectic, and mercifully the action can be paused to assess the situation. This doesn’t necessarily make life easier, as tower powers require energy that must be manually collected from fallen foes. Balancing the supply and demand of energy genuinely requires quick thinking, and hesitation can result in a complete breakdown of your defenses.

Too often, skill advancement is stiff and unforgiving in games. Thankfully, Anomaly Defenders allows players to redistribute tech points at will. This decision encourages experimentation, and allows players to easily experience all the options at hand. This is especially handy when your tactics fail against a certain group of enemies – instead of being painted into a corner, players can completely respec and try a new approach.

Anomaly Defenders looks and sounds great. There are lots of particles and pretty effects, and the music is sufficiently spacey and atmospheric. It’s not the most technically demanding game around, but there’s certainly nothing to cringe about. All around solid on the technical fronts.

Although more traditional than previous games in the series, Anomaly Defenders provides a flexible and entertaining strategy-light experience. It looks great, provides multiple options for players and play styles, and is challenging enough to require forethought and adaptation. Though previous Anomaly fans might be disappointed in the traditional approach, it’s well worth a try for tower defense fans.

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Here is the opening to my column about the Giants winning the World Series:

When it was over, after the Giants beat the Tigers 4-3 in 10, after the Giants swept the Tigers and won the World Series, the Giants players — Ryan Theriot and Jeremy Affeldt and Marco Scutaro and all the rest — gathered along the first-base line, as if Comerica Park was their park, and saluted the Giants fans — there were thousands of them — who shouted at the players, “Let’s go Giants!”

The players wore World Series shirts and caps, and they hugged wives and girlfriends and they were having an impromptu party in the cold and the rain of a Midwest autumn, not that they cared about the chill. They were having a San Francisco party in Detroit.

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Act structure

March 31, 2010 in Painter Story by Chris Charabaruk

Progress is still progressing on the script. While there are a couple of troublesome scenes that need some serious work before they’re even badly written, a lot of what’s left to do for the first three days doesn’t look all that tough right now. Days 1 and 2 are practically done (apart from the aforementioned scenes), and I find myself writing the ending scenes of day 3 right now, and leaving about half of the rest of the work to my partner in crime zahlman.

Because the plan is to put out a story demo to attract interest in people who could help us with art and audio, and then later put out a real demo showing off the first three days, these end-of-day scenes for day 3 have to be a logical conclusion to the previous ones. I’ve taken to thinking of the prologue and days 1-3 as the first act, with the end of day three serving as the climax of the act.

Chances are that I’ll be making an act two out of days 4-6, and turn day 7 and the epilogue into its own act as well. I already have something in mind to serve as the climax for each of those points. Act three, as it were, won’t be that traditional, though, being mostly climax followed by coda. Still, it’s easier to think of the story this way, at least for me. Mind, I’ve not actually started plotting out the rest of the script in detail yet. That won’t happen until zahl and I are done writing the first draft for act one. (And even then, there’ll probably be a break to recruit/kidnap artists.)

Speaking of artists, we’re still planning to start looking for people at the beginning of April (which is what, tomorrow?) and seeing what people can and will contribute. I’ll have more details on that in a post tomorrow or on the weekend, but if you’re an artist and interested in helping out, doesn’t hurt to draw some concept art of the girls and post links to it in the comments. Just sayin’.


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Monday, September 13, 2010

***Just in case things have felt a bit sluggish or unclear as of late.. The cosmos say....

At 20:00 UT (Universal Time) Friday, August 20th, 2010, Mercury the wise communicator—and universal trickster—turns retrograde at 19°01' Virgo, in the sign of the Virgin, sending communications, travel, appointments, mail and the www into a general snarlup! The retro period begins some days before the actual turning point (as Mercury slows) and lasts for three weeks or so, until September 12, 2010, when the Winged Messenger reaches his direct station. At this time he halts and begins his return to direct motion through the zodiac.

Everything finally straightens out on September 27, as he passes the point where he first turned retrograde. Mercury normally turns retrograde three times a year, but this year he turns tail four times, which is unusual.


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Stock buckle

  • Place of origin:

    England (made)

  • Date:

    ca. 1770 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Silver set with pastes, steel

  • Credit Line:

    Given by the Rev. R. Brooke

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  • Gallery location:

    Jewellery, Rooms 91 to 93, The William and Judith Bollinger Gallery, case 14, shelf D, box 1

New hairstyles for men in the 1720s and 1730s prompted a change in neckwear. Hair was worn shorter and confined at the nape in a small black silk bag. A stock made of folded and pleated linen or cotton created the effect of a white column supporting the head.

Stocks continued to be worn for formal and full dress throughout the 18th century. They were fastened at the back of the neck by a button, tape or detachable buckle. Buckles were commonly used because they were easier to adjust and kept the stock firmly in place with three or four studs inserted into buttonholes at one end, the other end being fastened by prongs.

Stock buckles are usually oblong with a distinctive pattern formed by the studs and prongs. Some are very plain but they can be more elaborate. Buckles could also be worn at the front and some fashionable gentlemen such as the dandy Richard ‘Beau’ Nash chose to be painted with the buckle showing. Also known as clasps, buckles were included in clothing issued to officers of the 17th Light Dragoons in 1778.

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Rectangular stock buckle of silver set with pastes. The stock buckle has an ornate curved chape and steel pinder.

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Silver set with pastes, steel

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Venezuela Headed For a New President?

Not only is President Maduro dealing with Venezuela’s drooping economy and lagging energy output, he now finds himself in the center of a possible electoral recall.
The opposing political force, Roundtable of Democratic Community, or MUD for short led by Henrique Capriles Radonski has amassed 1.5 Million signatures calling for President Maduro to step down from his political position. Many of the voters signed the petition due to the struggling economy and power shortage the nation is currently going through.

Adrian Jose Velasquez Figueroa thinks that if the 1.5 million signatures can be verified by the National Electoral Council, then MUD has 72 hours to get 20% of the electorates to sign the referendum. Once 20% is reached, it would be a straight shot to the Presidency for Radonski. Henrique Capriles Radonski was edged out by President Maduro in the last National election.

“I cannot imagine that running a country is an easy process during the best of times, let alone during times of extreme strife” says Jose Velasquez . My only hope is that the Venezuelan people can push through to better times and reach a level of economic and political prosperity.


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Determination, God and Therapy

In February of 2014, Elfrieda “Fritzie” Holtcamp was an active and independent 85 year old woman.  When she began to experience back pain, she was told that she had a bladder infection.  It never occurred to her that this would lead to a life changing experience. Unfortunately, her pain continued to worsen and she soon found herself admitted to the hospital with sepsis and the loss of motor function in her legs.  An MRI quickly revealed that she had a large abscess on her lumbar spine, requiring immediate surgery.  After surgery, Fritzie was told that she would never walk again.  She then spent three weeks in an acute rehab facility to recover some of her most basic mobility.  When it was time to move out of this facility, it was obvious to Fritzie that she couldn’t go home.  She chose to move to Mount St. Joseph Rehab Center in Euclid, a place where she had spent many hours as a volunteer with their pet therapy program.  When Fritzie arrived at Mount St. Joseph, she couldn’t even move her toes, but she was thrilled to have the physical therapist tell her, “Stick with me, I’ll get you moving.”  With hard work, motivation, and many hours of physical therapy and occupational therapy, Fritzie did “get moving”.  After 14 months, she was not only walking and able to stand on one foot, but she was able to leave Mount St. Joseph Rehab and live independently once again.  She states, “The therapy at Mount St. Joseph is fantastic!”  She credits her returned independence to “determination, God and therapy”, and to the peace and care that she received at Mount St. Joseph Rehab Center.

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Every new television season I manage to pick up one or two new series which eventually get a season pass on my DVR. The sad thing is when it comes to the next new television season I find it is those that I watched the year before which I delete from my DVR to make room for the new potentials. In almost every artistic endeavor you can name, sustaining creativity and building upon it is extremely difficult. I imagine for a new television series it is even more daunting. When you film your original order of thirteen episodes you likely put all of your good ideas on the line. Then if you’re successful you’re asked for nine more episodes to complete the first season. Now what? The truly creative manage to get over this; others have problems and it is why you often see those final nine episodes of a freshman television series become so maddeningly inconsistent. Of the new shows I began watching last year one of them has not only come back stronger than when it began but it feels like it is peaking at the moment. That show is NBC’s The Blacklist.

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The premise of The Blacklist is that a one-time agent who had turned to a life of crime by becoming the man who brokers deals between international criminals turns himself in. The character’s name is Raymond “Red” Reddington and he is played by James Spader in one of the best performances on television. It is his performance which makes the show watchable even when the plotting gets a little too byzantine. The structure of the show is Red only works with one profiler in the FBI, Lizzie Keen played by Megan Boone. The mythology weaving its way through the show is about Red’s and Lizzie’s relationship. There is some connection and the show feeds the audience bits and pieces about it around the case of the week. Those cases are people who are on The Blacklist, criminals so careful the police agencies don’t even know about them. Every episode starts with a name. Sometimes they have supervillain like names The Kingmaker or The Alchemist; sometimes it is just the name of a person or group. By the end of the hour the titular villain is thwarted.

The cases are pretty standard television fare. The performance of Mr. Spader is not. He excels at playing these morally ambiguous characters. He really became one of my favorite actors when he played the role of lawyer Alan Shore on the last season of the show The Practice before being spun-off into his own show Boston Legal. There is common ground between Red and Alan, besides the actor who brings them to life, both happily almost gleefully use unethical means to ensure positive outcomes. It is this ability to portray a character who contains a strong adherence to a personal ethos which makes Mr. Spader so much fun to watch. In The Blacklist he has never been better.

If you are looking for something to catch up on and binge watch as the weather turns colder I can highly recommend doing so with Season 1 of The Blacklist. Then catch up to the current season because it is only getting better.

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Lani Kai: given four lanes of traffic (two in either direction) in Ginza, one will find that at night, the outside lane in both directions will be completely lined with taxis
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Lani Kai: the Nissan Cedric here is an old example with a rather awful color scheme, but you will also find Lexus LS and Nissan Fuga (Infiniti M35) taxis, which are much newer, much nicer, and cost the same.

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Cara Agerstrand, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and Medical ECMO Attending at NYP/Columbia’s Center for Acute Respiratory Failure, discusses a cutting-edge technology called Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) and its use in the critical care environment. Dr. Agerstrand answers several questions on the topic, including:

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Well...the docks are almost in place.  Later this week boats will start moving in to the Miami International Boat Show that opens Thursday February 16th.  I'm including photos of the Virginia Key Site from Saturday 2/4 where the new boat and equipment displays will be located.  The white display tents stretch over a half mile long just behind the old Miami Marine Stadium.

The view of the Miami Skyline from the Virginia Key location is Awesome!  And they cleaned up the old stadium grandstand a little this year.

And I'm told the Water Taxi issue should be much improved from last years show.  The Miami International Boat Show is spread out over 4 locations.  New Boats and equipment displays at Virginia Key.  The Mega Yacht Show at the new marina on Watson Island.  The Yachts Miami Beach Display in front of the Eden Roc Hotel along Collins Avenue.  AND the Sailboat show at Miamarina/Bayside.  The water taxi's are the only viable transportation between show sites as each display is miles away from the other.

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Paul! It was great to meet you as well! I bet we could! We will have to get together some time soon and continue our conversation! Just got back to reality yesterday at 2pm so sorry for the late reply! I cannot wait to get a 27. I would like to keep one in Cape Cod.

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Yo Hunter!  I was delighted to meet you.  I could talk old boats all day.  Never even got to the story about my old 27 Commander...  And would love to find out more about your bullnose 42.  I agree with you...the 27 Commander was one extraordinary little boat.

I like the the capabilities of the 27. It is big but not too big and is a very solid boat. Easy to handle and easy to maintain. A lot less surface area to wax than my 42. I would prefer the two engine model myself but certainly understand Paul's thinking.

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I'd love to hear what you big-boat owners liked about the 27?

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For Immediate Release: February 9, 2016
Contacts: Office of the Governor: Brian Coy, (804) 225-4260, | Virginia Economic Development Partnership: Suzanne Clark, (804) 545-5806, | Opower, Alex Kotran, 330-607-5589,

Governor McAuliffe Announces 70 New Jobs in Arlington County

~Opower to invest $10.45 million to expand headquarters operation~

RICHMOND - Governor Terry McAuliffe announced today that Opower (NYSE: OPWR), the global leader in cloud-based software for the utility industry, will invest $10.45 million to expand its headquarters operation in Arlington County. Virginia successfully competed against Washington, D.C. for the project, which will create 70 new jobs and retain 357 existing jobs paying above the average prevailing wage in the region.

Speaking at today’s announcement, Governor McAuliffe said, “Keeping Opower in Arlington County has been a high priority of my administration. This high-profile energy software company is growing rapidly and making a major impact on global challenges, and we are committed to further strengthening this important corporate partnership. The technology industry is booming in Virginia, and wins like this expansion help us continue to build on the momentum in this important sector as we grow, diversify and build a new Virginia economy.”

“Opower is a great example of the type of new energy company we want to attract to and retain in the Commonwealth,” said Secretary of Commerce and Trade Maurice Jones. “It is important that we continue to catalyze growth in this strategic sector. We are thrilled to see Opower’s expansion, and we look forward to seeing the company’s future success in Virginia.”

Opower is an enterprise software company that helps utilities elevate the customer experience. Energy providers use Opower’s customer engagement platform to deliver proactive, digital communications that raise customer satisfaction, manage energy demand, and lower service costs. Opower’s software is deployed to more than 95 utilities worldwide and reaches more than 50 million homes and businesses.

“We are excited to work with our partners to design what will be one of the most dynamic workplaces in the region,” said Alex Laskey, President and Co-founder of Opower. “It’s critical that Opower has access to a skilled workforce and is able to offer a compelling work environment. We look forward to continuing to call Arlington home as we work with our utility clients help build a clean energy future.”

Pending execution of a lease agreement, Opower plans to locate its global headquarters at 2311 Wilson Boulevard, a new building to be constructed over the next two years by Carr Properties. “Opower is exactly the kind of customer we had in mind when we designed 2311 Wilson," said Oliver Carr III, Chief Executive Officer of Carr Properties. “We can't wait to see Opower employees meeting for lunch on our roof deck, or relaxing in the park behind our building and Opower families enjoying the daycare facility planned for our ground floor. We are excited to see that Opower will take full advantage of the unique workplace environment that we are creating at 2311 Wilson.”

The Virginia Economic Development Partnership worked with Arlington County to secure the project for Virginia. Governor McAuliffe approved a $1 million grant from the Commonwealth’s Opportunity Fund to assist Arlington County with the project. Funding and services to support the company’s employee training activities will be provided through the Virginia Jobs Investment Program.

“We are thrilled to continue to have Opower as a key partner in our business community,” said Libby Garvey, Arlington County Board Chair. “Arlington has watched Opower grow from a startup venture to a thriving leader not only in the region, but in the entire clean technology industry. Arlington’s highly-educated workforce and easy transportation access were things Opower was looking for as the company continues to grow, and we look forward to continuing our partnership with them for a long time to come.”

“I could not be more pleased to hear that Opower is staying in Arlington” said Delegate Richard ‘Rip’ Sullivan. “Opower is precisely the kind of company we should be attracting to continue to build the new Virginia economy. Opower will continue to attract an incredibly talented and educated workforce. It is a leader in an industry vital to Virginia’s economic and climate future: building a clean energy economy. I commend Governor McAuliffe for once again demonstrating why he is the Jobs Governor.”

“I am thrilled that Opower chose to stay in Arlington,” said Senator Barbara Favola. “This $10 milliondollar investment speaks to Arlington County’s high quality of life and business-friendlyenvironment. I am committed to fostering relationships with innovative technological companies such as Opower, and ensuring that Arlington remains an attractive place tostart or run a business and to raise a family.”

As of February 5, 2016, 599 economic development deals have been closed in Virginia since the beginning of the McAuliffe administration, with more than $9.82 billion in capital investment, which is more than any previous governor in the first 24 months in office


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Striking back at the true rationers of health care

In February, I predicted that Don Berwick would not survive the partisan politics surrounding his recess appointment as administrator of CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services), and regrettably, Dr. Berwick indeed stepped down from that position last week despite a number of notable accomplishments in his too-short tenure. Speaking yesterday at the annual national forum of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, which he led for nearly two decades, Dr. Berwick struck back fiercely at politicians who have used the myth of "death panels" to oppose health reform efforts, and others who he called the "true rationers" of health care. In his own words:

Cynicism grips Washington. It grips Washington far too much, far too much for a place that could instead remind us continually of the grandeur of democracy. ... Cynicism diverts energy from the great moral test. It toys with deception, and deception destroys. Let me give you an example: the outrageous rhetoric about “death panels” – the claim, nonsense, fabricated out of nothing but fear and lies, that some plot is afoot to, literally, kill patients under the guise of end-of-life care. That is hogwash. It is purveyed by cynics; it employs deception; and it destroys hope. It is beyond cruelty to have subjected our elders, especially, to groundless fear in the pure service of political agendas.

The truth, of course, is that there are no “death panels” here, and there never have been. The truth is that, as our society has aged and as we have learned to care well for the chronically ill, many of us face years in the twilight our lives when our health fades and our need for help grows and changes. Luckily, palliative care – care that brings comfort, company, and spiritual and emotional support to people with advanced illness and their families – has grown at its best into a fine art and a better science. The principle is simple: that we can and should offer people the very best of care at all stages of their lives, including the twilight.

The truth is, furthermore, that patient-centered care demands that the ways in which a person is cared for ought always to be under his or her control. The patient is the boss; we are the servants. They, not others, should direct their own care, and the doctors, nurses, and hospitals should know and honor what the patient wants. ... It is one of the great and needless tragedies of this stormy time in health care that the “death panel” rhetoric has denied patients the care that they want, denied caregivers the information they need to give that care, and denied our nation access to a mature, open, informed, and balanced discussion of the challenge of advanced illness and the commitment to individual dignity. It is a travesty.

If you really want to talk about “death panels,” let’s think about what happens if we cut back programs of needed, life-saving care for Medicaid beneficiaries and other poor people in America. What happens in a nation willing to say a senior citizen of marginal income, “I am sorry you cannot afford your medicines, but you are on your own?” What happens if we choose to defund our nation’s investments in preventive medicine and community health, condemning a generation to avoidable risks and unseen toxins?

Maybe a real death panel is a group of people who tell health care insurers that it is okay to take insurance away from people because they are sick or are at risk for becoming sick. Enough of “death panels”! How about all of us – all of us in America – becoming a life panel, unwilling to rest easy, in what is still the wealthiest nation on earth, while a single person within our borders lacks access to the health care they need as a basic human right? Now, that is a conversation worth having.

And, while we are at it, what about “rationing?” The distorted and demagogic use of that term is another travesty in our public debate. In some way, the whole idea of improvement – the whole, wonderful idea that brings us –thousands – together this very afternoon – is that rationing – denying care to anyone who needs it is not necessary. That is, it is not necessary if, and only if, we work tirelessly and always to improve the way we try to meet that need.

The true rationers are those who impede improvement, who stand in the way of change, and who thereby force choices that we can avoid through better care. It boggles my mind that the same people who cry “foul” about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people – elders, the poor, the disabled – who are least able to bear them.

When the 17 million American children who live in poverty cannot get the immunizations and blood tests they need, that is rationing. When disabled Americans lack the help to keep them out of institutions and in their homes and living independently, that is rationing. When tens of thousands of Medicaid beneficiaries are thrown out of coverage, and when millions of Seniors are threatened with the withdrawal of preventive care or cannot afford their medications, and when every single one of us lives under the sword of Damocles that, if we get sick, we lose health insurance, that is rationing. And it is beneath us as a great nation to allow that to happen.

  1. Michael Lerner M.D.December 11, 2011 at 5:27 PM

    Beautifully put. It's a shame his remarks didn't make the front pages of the newspapers, unlike his decision to step down.

  2. Great comments... if you enjoy straw men. Death panels are nonsensical political rhetoric, but applied only to the Obamacare debate (which passed btw) and resulted in exactly zero direct denials of health care for anyone. Pretty ironic to come down on people for cynicism and then follow with nothing but it. Only a true cynic believes the nonsense that opposition to wayward health INSURANCE reform (not actual health CARE or COST reform) is complete and absolute opposition to care for patients that need it. It is at its root opposition to improper methods of "reform", that we know for a fact serve one side's political cronies, drives health care costs UP, and LESSENS patient choices. But whatever suits you. But to keep up that behavior and wonder why we can't make any real progress in this area is nothing short of hypocritical.

  3. Dear Anonymous -

    I agree with you completely that the 2010 ACA was almost exclusively "health insurance reform," rather than true health care reform, and that it's unlikely to reduce costs in the short and perhaps even the long term. However, I disagree that Berwick was putting up a "straw man" by attacking people who would prefer that the broken system be left alone to continue its inexorable cost rise and necessitate cuts in Medicare and Medicaid rather than figuring out how to reduce inappropriate or inefficient care. It's certainly true that both political parties have been guilty of using "Mediscare" tactics to try to persuade voters that health reform is good or bad for their interests. But the point is, Berwick was working for solutions to the problems, and he was shunted aside for purely political reasons.


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Hamas TV Airs 'Death to Israel!' Music Video Day After Agreeing to Ceasefire

The day after Hamas agreed to a ceasefire with Israel, the terrorist group's TV station aired this "Death to Israel!" music video on its station:
"Destroy the throne of Zion, the house of absolute evil," the song goes. "Raise the banner of victory. Be like the fire of a volcano. Repeat in the name of your Jihad: Death to Israel! With blood and fire, resist until freedom. Defeat the soldiers of aggression the enemies of humanity."
The tune is illustrated with video of rockets being launched from Gaza, presumably, into Israel, the Zionist state, as well as other war scenes.
It was first noticed and translated by the group Palestinian Media Watch, which says the video aired "Nov. 22, one day after Hamas and Israel brokered a ceasefire."

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What â€“ Lecture / Q&A / Book Signing with Simon Leach as well as a celebration of Larry and Judy Bruning being a local Pottery for 30 years. Announcement at www.NWClayClub.com

Where â€“ 115 Avenue D Snohomish, WA (about 35 minute drive north from Seattle)

When â€“ Tuesday May 7th at 6PM

Cost â€“ Free to anyone who wants to stop by. There are going to be light refreshments served

Simon Leach is going to be at Bruning Pottery May 6-9th conducting some workshops and we wanted to bring local potters in to have an opportunity to meet Simon and help Larry and Judy celebrate their 30 years in business. We do not really know what to expect; it may be an intimate affair or it could be an all-out cramped standing room only kind of affair.

Simon is going to share some information about his life journey in clay as well as some information about his father and grandfather. He also has a new book and if you already have it bring it to be signed, Bruning Pottery has a very limited stock of Simonâ€™s new book, so if you want one you will need to get one from their gallery area first thing upon arriving.

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Bali: Once Again

Helsan Surapati sits on the glass-strewn pavement outside the gutted Raja restaurant, playing a blurry video clip of smoke and bloodied faces on his mobile phone. The Balinese vendor was buying a soda just down the street when a bomb hit the three-story building in Bali's popular tourist strip of Kuta. In a quivering voice, Helsan describes how he helped carry the wounded to taxis so they could be rushed to hospital. "There were people everywhere with bloodied faces," he says. "They were afraid of another bomb and were screaming and running." He shakes his head, repeating over and over: "It...

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