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The Competition of Bragg Reflection and Fresnel’S Reflection of Electromagnetic Waves in the Artificial Helicoidal Bianisotropic Media with Local Chirality

  • I. V. Semchenko
  • S. A. Khakhomov
Part of the NATO Science Series book series (NAII, volume 89)

On the base of the exact solution of the boundary-value problem for artificial helicoidal media with local chirality we describe the reflection of electromagnetic waves on the periodic structure of medium as well as Presnel’s reflection from sample’s boundaries. It allows to model the transmission and reflection of electromagnetic waves in dependence on the obtained parameters of artificial helicoidal medium and to design the device for polarization transformation. A possibility of the minimizing of size of a structure for transformations of the polarization state of electromagnetic waves is shown.

Electromagnetic Wave Transmitted Wave Bragg Reflection Polarization Plane Cholesteric Liquid Crystal
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From: Young, Milan <Milan.Young@nuance.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:22:39 +0000
To: Dan Burnett <dburnett@voxeo.com>, Jim Barnett <Jim.Barnett@genesyslab.com>
CC: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>, "public-media-capture@w3.org" <public-media-capture@w3.org>
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To: Jim Barnett
Cc: Harald Alvestrand; public-media-capture@w3.org
Subject: Re: approaches to recording

I actually have been convinced for a while now that a new IETF protocol would be needed to best suit the needs of the speech recognition and synthesis industry.  The characteristics are very different from what humans need.
[Milan] Does your request for a new "protocol" center on alternate transport/framing over the existing WebRTC methodology, or is this an entirely new scheme?

Humans deal okay with gaps but need a steady-speed play out.

Speech recognition engines don't deal well with gaps but can handle big bursts of data at once.  Additionally, they don't need the data in real-time but do need to receive the final sample very close to when the person said it.  Real-time is helpful because the processor can be working as the data is streamed, but the worst thing is to have to wait at the end for the last sample, because that delay adds on to when the recognizer can respond.
[Milan] I agree waiting for the last sample is not ideal, but I'm unclear how this would be addressed.

-- dan

On Oct 12, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Jim Barnett wrote:

The lack of real-time delivery is not normally an issue for speech recognition systems, because they run many times faster than real time, and can catch up quickly once the data is available.  So if the delays are short enough, the user will not perceive them.  And if the delays are longer, well... then speech recognition will take a long time.  People are used to stuff being slow on the internet, aren't they?

-          Jim

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On 10/11/2012 12:50 AM, Jim Barnett wrote:
I just want to observe that lossless streaming is what we (= the contact center and speech industry) want for  talking to a speech recognition system.  It would be ideal if PeerConnection supported it.  Failing that, it would be nice if the Recorder supported it,  but in a pinch we figure that we can use the track-level API to deliver buffers of speech data and let the JS code set up the TCP/IP connection.

Of course lossless streaming (truly guaranteed delivery) implies non-real-time streaming (or, more formally, having to deal with the possibility that delivery will be delayed beyond real-time), given that the Internet is a lossy medium.

To another thread: Yes, having the constructor for the recorder take a MIME type parameter would imply that you set the codec to be used. I think we all agree that the data coming out of a recording interface is encoded.

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  1. This is amazing information, Adel! I never would have fathomed that Shakespearian plays would help autistic children with social skills, movement, gestures, voice projection, understanding emotional cues, facial expression, timing, taking turns, etc. And Kelly Hunter’s Heartbeat Method is most fascinating. I especially like the idea of using the iambic pentameter for switching gears from one activity to another. I think I will use it myself! Congratulations to you and your son for his performance as Montjoy! And congratulations to you for sharing this most important and fascinating information!

    1. Thank you, Rori. Shakespearean plays are a very effective in teaching emotions, improving concentration and developing social skills of children with autism. I saw how effective it was to my son and he loved and learned to enjoy it without being anxious in performing in front of a crowd. Yes, you can also use it yourself by buying Kelly Hunter’s book. There is a link that I posted Amazon. All the best!

  2. Wowww ! Really interesting to read. I keep in mind that ‘How Shakespearean Drama boosted your son’s Social Skills”. This approach reminds me the “psychodrame” therapeutic approach use in psychotherapy.

    The “psychodrame” approach is used to replay the situation of a client under a different point of view in a therapeutic environment. Your kid learned by imitation of their acting coach in a similar manner that a person in therapy learns by playing his role in a different way.

    I ‘ll certainly talk about it to my friend who has two autistic kids, and to one of my co-worker. I did share your story on my social network 🙂 Cheers, Jeff

    1. Drama is indeed a way of expressing emotions which gives a therapeutic effect both in psychotherapy and in boosting the social skills of autistic children.

      Thank you, Jeff, for supporting me in advocating autism awareness and understanding by sharing this article to your friends who have autistic children as well as sharing my story to your social media networks.
      You will be blessed! 🙂

  3. Another amazing avenue of involvement and development for autistic children!

    I can well imagine a sense of pride they enjoy, being able to slip into the role of a historical hero or a figure of renown.

    In this, a child can prove to him/herself that there is ability for integration, not only in an acting group, but in an honored aspect of the culture they are a part of…..

    Very fascinating indeed…..

    Thank you, Adel, for sharing this!

    1. You’re welcome,Therese. My son enjoyed playing the role of Montjoy and being a part of Shakespeare’s Henry V Performance. It is indeed a great experience for him performing in front of an audience. He did well and made us proud! 🙂

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In the past, when the web was new and statistics were dated or non-existent, it was easy to overlook the value of search engine optimization. In fact, many businesses chose to focus primarily on hand to hand marketing. As a result, we watched some of the most popular and esteemed corporations fall like kingdoms scrambling for power. The good news is that today’s businesses can learn a lesson from the not so distant past. The best news though is that stable statics have since been produced to steer us all in the right direction. SEO is important because:

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While all of the above-listed data makes SEO an undeniable necessity for any forward-thinking business owner, the last stat is crucial and one that all too often falls through the cracks. With 16%-20% of search queries containing previously unseen phrases, it’s clear that what people are looking for changes every minute, second, hour of the day. As such, an SEO company must continually research Google trends in order to stay on par with the ever-increasing competition. As you might already be aware, 2017 holds no shortage of internet users, nor does it contain a shortage of new business owners. In fact, Forbes estimated that more than half a million new businesses are established every month. With both markets on the rise, a virtual plethora of opportunities has come into existence. It is now possible for a start-up company to completely shut out a long-running, previously successful conglomerate and vice versa, plus everything in between. Change isn’t just happening. It’s happening at a faster pace than ever before.

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It’s entirely possible for a small site with the right media to prosper in today’s market. The recipe for success is a unique but still applicable strategy that touches all the bases from keyword research to social media marketing, from seamless web design to copyright building, link building and email strategies. If search engine optimization were a diet, you could recognize an SEO expert company as the one that provides a well-balanced meal complete with all the food groups and trimmings.

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Tastes Like Music

Publisher: Nurture Craft

Humans may all look pretty much the same on the outside, but some people have unique conditions and amazing abilities! Whether it’s having no fingerprints at all (adermatoglyphia), hearing music every time you taste chocolate (synesthesia), or being able to see one hundred million colors (tetrachromacy), some conditions bring our understanding of the human body to another level entirely. An unparalleled tour of the hows and whys of these extraordinary human conditions, Tastes Like Musicis accessible and playful. Each section presents an awe-inspiring snapshot of the biology behind one of 17 quirks, while short interviews with people affected by these conditions (including the author!) provide windows into real-life experiences. The book takes a balanced approach, highlighting the pros and cons of each condition and providing plenty of general facts about the human body. Readers will delight in the illustrations throughout and come away with a new appreciation for all the weird and wonderful things the human brain and body can do.

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Page Count: 40
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Track Folders

Let's have Track Folders as well as the currently available Region-based Folders.

Track Folders would allow one to better organize the Arrange
window, grouping together related tracks (all the drum tracks, or all
the string tracks, for example) into one Folder Track.

The resulting Track could be expanded or collapsed directly within the Arrange Window, within the context of other tracks (just like Finder folders in List view), or could be opened in its own window in the manner of the current Region-based folders.

One should also be easily able to drag tracks (as opposed to regions) into and out of Folders, to and from other Folders and the top level. Again, just as files in the Finder can be moved about between Folders.

The functionality I am looking seeking is something like that of
Cubase's (sorry to mention unmentionables) Folder Tracks feature or
Digital Performer's Track Folders feature:

Here's hoping that this feature will be implemented.
Here here! This would also address the existing problem of not being able to select and move multiple tracks in the arrange window. I'll take both wishes, thank you! :)
yeah that folder thing and the comp tracks are really cool
but i think logic 8 is still missing some editing functions compared to Pro Tools
and the other thing Im still missing in any other sequencer than PT is the Quick Punch thing wich uses 2 Voices on every Track instead of one, so whenever u punch u will never miss audio cuz its recording everytime u hit play on the second voice of the track so punching failures are no longer existing i love that feature.
By the way best thing in a sequencer would be to have PT Playlist feature combined with Logic comp track feature, would freaking rock my socks =)

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Kit Altin Named Chief Strategy Officer of The Gate London

We’re delighted to announce that Kit Altin, head of innovation and global planning director for Procter & Gamble at Leo Burnett Group, will soon be joining The Gate London as our chief strategy officer.

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6 Essential Updates for Email Best Practices

Although many brands have turned most of their attention to marketing to fans and followers via social sites, email marketing remains one of the most direct and effective ways to reach and engage customers. In fact, best practices for email marketing have simply changed to include the opportunities provided by social engagement. Lyris recently compiled some updated best practices for email marketing. Here are six easy ways they found to improve your engagement with customers via email.

Embed Social Media Links In Email

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Drive traffic to your social profiles by giving your customers everything they need to find you. Instead of relying on them to search for your page on Twitter or Facebook, simply embed links to each of your social profiles in your emails. The familiar logo icons for each of the platforms will attract attention immediately, and with a simple click, they’ll be redirected to your page. It’s a simple change but it could drastically improve your social following.

Offer Promotions Redeemable In Store Via Mobile

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As of 2012, 106 million people in the U.S. have a mobile phone and 54 million have a smartphone specifically. Take advantage of this large customer base by offering email promotions that customers could easily redeem via their mobile device in store. It could be in the form of a barcode that associates can scan, or an alpha-numeric coupon code that can easily be shown to an associate.

Drive Email Opt-Ins From Social Pages

email best practices Just as you might have email subscribers that haven’t found you in the social sphere, you might have social followers who haven’t signed up for your mailing list. Use your social accounts to promote your email list and provide links or tabs (within Facebook) that make it easy for followers to sign up. If you use MailChimp, integrating it into your Facebook page is very easy. If not, a search for newsletter apps on Facebook will help you find what you need.

Add ‘Share To Social’ Links In Email

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If you highlight special promotions or products in your emails, give customers the option to share it to their own social networks with just a click. Studies have shown that Facebook and Twitter recommendations have led to purchases by more than 30% of female users — more than enough reason to introduce a share to social link in your emails.

Drive Customers To Pinterest Boards Via Email

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Studies have shown that embracing Pinterest can lead to some serious conversions, so if you’ve already made the jump to the popular site, let your customers know. Drive traffic to specific themed boards, like a must-have holiday gift board, or simply include a general link to your Pinterest profile so customers can follow some or all of your boards.

Leverage Social Insights To Drive Email Content

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If a specific blog post or social post getting a lot of positive attention, use that as material for your email blast or newsletter. Yelp regularly culls new and hot lists and reviews and highlights them in its weekly email blast. If something is getting lots of attention, don’t be afraid to showcase it in your emails.

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Blog Apps for Mobile Readers

As more and more people use mobile devices, blog apps are the best way to keep your readers reading your blog.

What are Blog Apps?

A blog App is a branded app that runs on the users Android or iPhone/iPad.  Blog Apps are available to the reader via a download from iTunes or Google Play.  It then resides as an icon with the Blogger’s logo and when opened goes to directly to the blogging content.

How Blog Apps Help Attract and Keep Readers

Having a Blog App can help a blog in two ways:

  1. The blog app can be found via the mobile marketplace.  This opens up a completely new group of readers.  So now people searching for information about a topic via iTunes or Google Play will find the app about the type of information being blogged about.
  2. Existing readers will be able to download the Blog App and read the latest posts on their native app.  No need for them to keep searching for the blog, or searching through bookmarks.  The blog app has the blog logo and name and is quickly found on their list of apps and opens directly to the latest blog content.

When someone installs a blog app, this tends to make them a loyal reader of this blog.  These people will then tend to read the installed app blog posts on a regular basis.

How are Blog Apps different from a Mobile Website?

Just like a mobile website, the Blog App uses your branding (title, logo and color scheme), and they both contain the same content and can both be read by a smartphone or tablet.  So how do they differ?

  1. A Blog App is a native app that loads and response faster than data in a mobile browser.
  2. The content in a Blog App can be read even when the device is not connected to the internet.  Mobile Websites require internet access.
  3. The App can be found not only via a search engine like google or yahoo, but also through iTunes and Android’s Google Play
  4. Finding the Blog App already installed with an icon on a device is easier than searching for a blog website on a browser

All of these make reading your blog easier on a mobile device than simply having a mobile website.

How does content load to the blog app?

The same way it is already loaded onto a blog.  The content is written on something such as WordPress or and the content is automatically loaded into the blog app.  That’s it, nothing special has to be done by with blogger.

How to get your own Blog App

Click here for pricing and details .

Sign up today before your readers migrate to competing blogs that are mobile blog apps!

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3 tips to make your long hair look amazing

Tips for long hair care

To make your long hair look great, they should be healthy and need daily care. In this article you can read how to care for long hair in natural and gentle way. Your long hair care can by as simple as you want.

1. Support growth of your hair with cutting

Many women with long hair think that there is no need for often haircut. The opposite is true. Long hair are more teared by clothes, by sitting on a chair, by ironing and so on. Therefore, we recommend to cut your hair at least once every two months, but not more than 2-3 cm (1.2 in). This action supports hair growth and side-effect is eliminating frizzy ends.

2. Nourish your long hair

Nutrition for hair growth is extremely important. Our body is also nourishing them, but very long hair consume more. Also, under the influence of stress, fatigue, hormonal fluctuations or changes in temperature, your hair are losing quality, flexibility and strength. They need to deliver necessary nutrients such as vitamins (B, C, E, …), zinc, manganese, copper and more. This could be done with the inclusion of fruits, vegetables and grains in your diet. Hair masks (e.g from yeast, beer and/or eggs) will be also beneficial. And remember, one hair can grow from one place only about 24 times.

3. Let your hair breathe

When taking care for long hair, there is also necessary to pay attention to their load. If you wear your hair pinned, nothing do more damage to your hair than pulling them with rubber band  (also hair breathe harder and faster break). When you sleep, use satin or silk pillow rather than cotton (on which hair break sooner).

Natural, not synthetic, care for your long hair must be done precisely, but it takes time, which many of us don’t have. Therefore, we recommend you, instead of these three tips, to use hair care products without sulfates and with natural ingredients, such as various organic vegetable oils that bring to your long hair shine and essential minerals.

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An American Haunting

An American Haunting
Rachel Hurd-Wood

Rachel Hurd-Wood

Screen Time: 70%
Role: Betsy Bell
Age: 14 years old

An American Haunting

Rating: 7.4 (5 votes)
Directed: Courtney Solomon
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Based on the true story of The Bell Witch of Tennessee, the story is of a spirit which attacked the wealthy and highly respected Bell family for four years, eventually causing the death of one of them. In 1818, the family began to experience disturbances on their property. At first, slight, unexplained noises, but the spirit began to grow, becoming aggressive and singling out the father, John, and his beautiful daughter Betsy. The attacks on Betsy were vicious and unstoppable with her being brutally beaten regularly. The family desperately searched for the cause of the spirit in the hope of finding a way of defeating it. They tried exorcism and moving Betsy from the house, but the spirit continued its brutal assault. It developed voices and began speaking to the family, but refusing to say why it was there. Then, finally it pronounced a death sentence on John. Within a year, he was dead. Shortly, thereafter, the spirit left the family in peace, but never the same. It would not be until years later that we would be taken back to the terrible night the spirit was born and find out the horrific truth about its nature and origin.

Movie Reviews

Loved It, 12 May 2006

Author: stellarob from IMDb

I'm not sure exactly what people were expecting from this movie but I, for one, went into it with no expectations. In other words, I wasn't expecting some great factual account a haunting that supposedly took place way back when. Maybe if I were more familiar with the history of the Bell Witch, I'd be more inclined to feel differently.

But as that is not the case, I have to say that I enjoyed the movie. I really like suspense and this film had a whole lot of it. The way in which it was shot just sort of gave it a kind of eerie feel, which really added to the suspense. The actors, I thought, did a great job.

And Rachel Hurd-Wood, especially, helped to bring the story to another level. I'm glad it wasn't the typical blood and guts horror movie.

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Louise Ann Wilson Company was established in 2008 to deliver the artistic practice and research of Dr Louise Ann Wilson.

Louise is an artist, scenographer and researcher who creates site-specific walking-performances, films, installations and book that give-voice to ‘missing’ or marginal life-events – with transformative and therapeutic outcomes. Her work has addressed terminal illness, bereavement, in/fertility and involuntary childlessness, the effects of aging and the impact of change.

Current projects include: Women’s Walks to Remember: ‘With Memory I was there’, which celebrates the walking-lives of Lake District women and collects significant walks that can no longer be walked and Dorothy’s Room, an immersive installation inspired by Dorothy’s Rydal Journals in which she was bed-bound relying on memory to transport herself into the Cumbrian landscape she had once walked.

Both projects are exhibited at The Wordsworth Trust Museum, Grasmere until 20 December 2018.

Louise's projects are developed in close collaboration with experts from fields not usually associated with the arts, and people with lay and local knowledge of the site. They are made through an extended period of immersion in a chosen landscape using three tiers of cross-disciplinary research into the site, the subject matter and related science (biological and social) and with participants who are themselves experiencing the effects of the underlying subject matter.

These have included: geologists, botanists and shepherds; neurologists, embryologists and palliative care nurses; women experiencing involuntary childlessness, care-home residents and fishermen.

She also applies six scenographic principles based on the concept of the feminine (material) sublime and developed through a close study of Dorothy Wordsworth and her female comtemporaries approach to, and way, of engaging with landscape.

In 2017 Louise was awarded a Ph.D. in Theatre Studies from Lancaster Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University.

She regularly exhibits her work and present her practice and research at a conferences and symposiums as well as in the press, media and on radio broadcasts. She works as a visiting lecturer at a number of UK universities.


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The University of Louisiana at Lafayette awarded 1,260 diplomas during Fall 2018 Commencement ceremonies Friday at the Cajundome and Convention Center.

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Eric Bartel, son of Gary and Pat Bartel of Lafayette, has been named the Spring 2004 Outstanding Graduate for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Bartel was selected as the outstanding graduate from the B.I. Moody III College of Business Admnistration. One student from each of the university’s nine academic colleges was selected as an outstanding graduate and each were honored during their respective college’s graduation ceremonies on May 15. During graduate school commencement, Bartel was selected as the UL Lafayette Alumni Association's Outstanding Graduate from the nine finalists. Students were nominated by their deans and judged upon leadership, scholarship and service.

Bartel, a finance and insurance and risk management double major, has been on the National Dean’s List and the UL Lafayette Dean’s List. He is an active member of Gamma Beta Phi and Financial Management Association. He is also a member of Beta Gamma Sigma and Phi Kappa Phi, an elite academic organization. Bartel received two scholarship awards, the Distinguished Freshman and the Centennial scholarships.

Bartel, a member of Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajun football team, received the UL Lafayette Student Athlete of the Year award and the USAA Academic All-American (Football) award. He was also named the UL Lafayette Male Student Athlete of the Year.

In 2000, Bartel was elected UL Lafayette Student Government Association College of Business Senator and the College of Business President in 2002.

Bartel also volunteered for St. Jude’s “Up ‘Til Dawn” fundraiser and auction, as well as the American Heart Association Heart Walk. He also participated in the “Bucks for Trucks” post 9/11 fundraiser for the New York Fire Department.

After graduation, he plans to obtain his master’s degree in either business administration at UL Lafayette or relocate to a university that offers a graduate program in Sports Management.

Other Outstanding Graduates include Erin Dugas of New Iberia, Applied Life Sciences; Kevin Stewart of Lafayette, Arts; Dock Davis of New Iberia, Educaton; Ryan LeMaire of Lafayette, Engineering; Lindsey Shea of Broussard, General Studies; Danielle Alsandor of Lafayette, Liberal Arts; Bridgette Robertson-Mouton of Lafayette, Nursing; and Robyn Deranger of Opelousas, Sciences.


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Wedding Wishes

Hi everyone! Happy Hump Day! Hope you’re having a great week and you’re having nice Spring weather where you are! I’m absolutely thrilled to be guest designing again for Crafting By Designs! My ‘just because’ card with the mirror stamping was in the March Spotlight and I was invited to be a guestie! How awesome is that?!

I’m really excited to share my GD inspiration project for the Girls or Flowers challenge! I created a pop-up gift bag card using a somewhat CAS ‘positive/negative’ stamping technique. I really enjoyed creating this – I’m getting more into clean and simple cards and I love a navy blue and white color combo!

I am in love with this large dahlia flower stamp! I stamped it off the right side of the navy blue panel and heat embossed it in white. This is the ‘positive’ stamping. I die cut a stitched flag from vellum and stamped the wedding sentiment in navy blue ink, then added several flat-back pearls to complete the front.

I stamped the large dahlia flower in navy blue ink on each side of the gift bag I created from copy paper which is lightweight and won’t be bulky inside the card. The image on the gift bag is the ‘negative’ stamping.

I made handles for the gift bag out of white bamboo cord and embellished the entry holes with small navy blue and white punched circles. Yep, it looks like an ‘authentic’ gift bag, lol! So much fun! :)

I stamped the inside sentiment in navy blue ink and layered the white panel on navy blue cardstock.

Proud to enter this card into the following challenges:
Card Mania – #91 – April Showers Bring May Flowers
Crafty Calendar Challenge: April Showers and/or Spring
Crafty Creations Challenges: #339 – Anything Goes
Happy Little Stampers: April Challenge – Anything Goes with Dies
Inspiration Destination Challenge Blog: #126 – Anything Goes
Lemon Shortbread Challenge Blog: #39 – Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations: April Challenge – Anything Goes
Sunny Day Crafting: April Challenge – Spring
The Crafty Addicts: #35 – Anything Goes/Add A Sentiment
The Sisterhood of Crafters: Stamp It Challenge
Word Art Wednesday: Weeks 278/279 – Anything Goes

Cardstock/Paper: SU Thick Whisper White and Night of Navy cardstock, white copy paper
Stamps: SU Definitely Dahlia stamp, SU Floral Phrases stamp set
Ink: SU Night of Navy ink, Versamark
Dies/Punches: SU 1/4″ and 1/2″ circle punches, Lil Inker Designs Stitched Sentiment Flag die
Accessories:  MISTI, Hero Arts  white embossing powder, Hemptique Natural Bamboo cord

I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s project and will enter a project in our Girls or Flowers challenge this time! Thank you so much for stopping by today – we’ll see you next time! ;)

Scrappy hugs,

8 thoughts on “Wedding Wishes

  1. Wow this is such an amazing project. Love the idea. Thanks for playing at Lemon Shortbread and good luck. Hope to see you back for our new challenge. Bettina DT xx

  2. WOW!!! so beautiful and “one of a kind” the idea..Thank you so much for joining us at Happy Little Stampers – Anything goes with dies Challenge. Hugs xx Deepti Aggarwal

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I had a consumer credit card and just paid the balance IN FULL the end of December. Now I received a letter telling me they CLOSED my account.

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Holiday Inn Krakow City Centre platinum upgrade

Holiday Inn Krakow City Centre is my favorite hotel location for Krakow at only 5 minutes walk to Rynek Glowny, the Old Town Market Square and 15 minutes to Plac Nowy Kazimierz, the center of the nightlife zone for pubs. Holiday Inn Krakow is a hotel I have stayed at two times before, in 2016 and 2017, when there was remodeling work at the hotel. Our stay this summer exceeded our expectations with a platinum member upgrade.

Hp;iday Inn Krakow

My wife is not a hotel geek and generally has a difficult time remembering which hotel was which when I refer to our past vacations. There has to be some memory I can trigger for her to know which hotel I am talking about when I say something like, “We are staying at Hotel Indigo Krakow and Holiday Inn Krakow again on this trip.” We have stayed in eight different hotels around Krakow over the past three years.

Our first stay of 5 nights in July 2016 at Holiday Inn Krakow is one memory I can trigger for Kelley by saying it was the ‘dungeon room hotel’. The memory of a first floor room facing blank interior of a white walled courtyard where we had no room view for the week is one she remembers. The other memory that triggers Holiday Inn Krakow for her was on our last night there in 2016 when we talked to the young bartender for an hour about his upbringing in a Krakow suburb.

Holiday Inn Krakow was 15,000 points per night on that summer 2016 trip. The hotel went to 20,000 points in 2017, then 25,000 points per night in 2018. This UNESCO World Heritage city has one of the largest tourism markets in Europe, known for its centuries old architecture, multitude of cheap restaurants and bars and as the gateway city for a day trip to Auschwitz concentration camp museum and Wieliczka Salt Mine.

My second stay at Holiday Inn Krakow in January 2017 was a better room in regard to furnishings, but still in a location that faced the interior white walls. That time is memorable for the jackhammer sounds as I worked in the room in the morning writing. The real deal of that stay was earning 43,000 points on a $100 stay through a combination of two different IHG promotions.

Holiday Inn Krakow City Centre is rated #16 of 268 hotels in Krakow ranked on

Third time is a charm
Executive Room 601

Holiday Inn Krakow Executive Room 601 view

Holiday Inn Room 601 windows are probably directly below the H logo.

This third stay was once again booked to fulfill my May-July 2018 IHG Rewards Club Accelerate promotion tasks and earn 9,600 bonus points for two stays booked through the IHG app and 16,900 bonus points Accelerate achievement. We had stayed the night before at Hotel Indigo Krakow, about 20 minutes walk through the Old Town Planty greenbelt, which had historically been the location of medieval city walls encircling the Stare Miasto-Old Town. The walls were removed and turned into a park space in the 1820s.

I booked Holiday Inn Krakow on an advance purchase Standard Room rate at 380pln/$102.46usd.

Loyalty Traveler – Hotel Indigo Krakow Old Town great location for tourists

Krakow Planty Park is about 100 meters from Holiday Inn Krakow

Our room was not ready when we stopped by the hotel around 12:30pm. The receptionist said it would be ready soon and we checked our luggage. She also offered us drink coupons while we waited.

That was ideal for us since we wanted to watch Tour de France and have a beer and achieved both objectives at the hotel without having to wander around Krakow looking for a pub showing the cycling race.

Holiday Inn Krakow Okicim and Tour de France while we wait.

We were there less than 30 minutes before the receptionist came to us in the lobby bar and handed us keys to Room 601. She pointed to the elevators in the direction of the bar. That was a good sign to me since it meant we were staying on a different side of the hotel than my previous two stays.

Holiday Inn floor 6 is top floor. No white walls dungeon room this time.
Holiday Inn Krakow Executive Room 601

We opened the door at the end of the hall to find an extra large corner room.

We headed out for Kazimierz to drink beer and find some food. Kuchnia u Doroty became one of our favorite restaurants for good quality inexpensive meals in Kazimierz. We ate there three times over the following week. The place is so popular that reservations were required to get a table after 6pm.

Holiday Inn Krakow centrally located for walks to Kazimierz and across Old Town with Hotel Indigo on north side of Old Town next to Stary Kleparz market and walk back through Planty Park to Holiday Inn shown on map as 1 hour route. This is a typical walk for us spending a whole day hanging out.
Holiday Inn Krakow Platinum member welcome amenity

The night before we had wandered all around Old Town and the walkway along the river looking for a good vantage point to watch the lunar eclipse blood moon.  When we returned back to Holiday Inn Krakow in the evening, we discovered if only we had been in room 601 the night before.

Full moon view from Room 601 Holiday Inn Krakow

We had a comfortable night in Holiday Inn Krakow Room 601.

By the way, the only change I really noticed in the hotel from our previous stays was a new restaurant entrance. We were there on a Saturday and there was a private Jewish event happening in the restaurant space, so I only saw the stairway entrance.

Holiday Inn Krakow City Restaurant

The next day we headed to Krakow Glowny bus station for a 90 minute ride to Oswiecim, where we stayed two nights at the new Hampton Inn Oswiecim during our time in the city on a visit to Auschwitz.

Loyalty Traveler – Hampton Inn Oswiecim on a trip to Auschwitz

Loyalty Traveler – Auschwitz-Birkenau tour in photos

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Ric Garrido of Monterey, California started Loyalty Traveler in 2006 for traveler education on hotel and air travel, primarily using frequent flyer and frequent guest loyalty programs for bargain travel. Loyalty Traveler joined in 2008.

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  1. No. We bought meals at U Szwagra next to bus station and ate lunch on the bus to Oswiecim.

    Kelley really does not like to get up for breakfast when traveling.

  2. I’m with Kelley, in that I rarely make it for the included breakfast, unless it happens to be around 10ish. I frequently use a free breakfast as a determinant in choosing a hotel, but rarely am up and about in time to eat it. I’m on vacation, dammit, and I don’t want to rush.

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Raised Rural: Part 2

In part 1, I more or less established what it was like growing up rural, white, and more or less working class. But I didn’t want to stay that way.

I spoke about my father’s Pennsylvania Dutch family in detail. The family name goes back to my great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather, whose grave I located eight miles from the house where I grew up, and maybe three miles from my grandparents and five from my aunt. Not far from the grave is a little village that bears the family name, where his trading post was.

My mother’s family, also Pennsylvania Dutch with supposedly some Swiss and other assorted heritage, doesn’t have any towns named after them. As they tell it, my grandparents came from alcoholism, neglect, and abuse and managed to rise above it to become fine people. They were active in the Lutheran church in their hometown as long as I can remember, and they frequently packed up their six children for camping trips across the eastern U.S. and Canada. As a young child, it was normal for them to visit places like Alaska, Iceland, Caribbean Islands, and Scotland. My grandfather would have spent a winter in Antarctica like my aunt and cousin, if not for his doctor’s recommendations against it.

My aunts and uncles, like my grandparents, were lively, talkative, funny people when I saw them at family reunions and holidays, and their houses were much newer than mine and nicely decorated. They went to the Renaissance Faire and traveled internationally, wore wooden pendant necklaces, and one of my older cousins got a Bachelor’s degree. She, as well as all my older cousins, moved away to different states or south into the cities or suburbs. The second wave of cousins – the wave to which I belong – quoted the Simpsons and Seinfeld, had tarantulas and ball pythons as pets (we asked for years to get a python too, and after my brother spent his own summer at the amusement park he bought his own), and owned current game systems like Sega Genesis and PlayStation. They introduced me to Sonic the Hedgehog, Crash Bandicoot, and Final Fantasy 7. Most of us have wandered around different parts of the country, too, or managed to get a work visa to New Zealand for a couple years.

Awareness of the world outside of rural Pennsylvania is what I inherited from this side of the family. It bordered on – no, it crossed over into arrogance, and I remember an occasion as a teen when an adult outside the family called me out when I said I was better than somebody in town. It was a terrible thing for me to say and think, but I inherited it nonetheless. It might have been given to me as a coping mechanism for my difficulties socializing with other kids. (Or maybe it incited my difficulties. As a 30-year-old who hasn’t had to feel the sting of peer rejection for many years, I can’t tell.) I didn’t have friends in my elementary school, so books filled the void at recess and in my spare time at home.

We had Sesame Street and Disney picture book series, books that I loved from Ollie’s Bargain Outlet on ocean life and natural disasters, world fact books that I read cover to cover, a children’s dictionary that I browsed for him, books on predatory animals and poison dart frogs that I would swipe off my brother’s shelves and read jealously. I would read every word on the cereal boxes, move on to the beaten-up coverless copy of Ferdinand the Bull that appeared in our house from seemingly nowhere and which I was particularly fond of, then I’d go read the cards on F-14 Tomcats and Apache helicopters and B-5 stealth bombers that my grandmother ordered for my brother. I spent hours studying the Peterson’s Field Guide to Eastern Birds. When the Scholastic catalogs were distributed at school, sometimes I could beg my mom into ordering a book or two if they could afford it. I read books my grandmother got from church sales, her old encyclopedias, and my father’s Strange But True books we found in the attic one day at her house. I loved my elementary school librarian, and she loved me back, letting me pick out chapter books too advanced for most of my classmates and allowing me a steady diet of Hank the Cowdog and paranormal stories. When she retired, we all made cards, and mine included a drawing of me clinging to her leg and crying with a sign for the Trail of Tears (and recent topic on social studies) in the background.

I was markedly different from the other kids in my elementary school. I dressed like a boy with shapeless jeans and oversized t-shirts and sneakers, and I was seriously absentminded and awkward and prone to daydreaming, but I also got straight As, won a poetry contest run by the local newspaper, and after a couple tests I was put into the gifted program. The three other gifted kids in my grade had entered the program before me, the trail possibly blazed for them by older, academically successful siblings. We never became friends. I was teased so badly, there were times when I pleaded with my mom to somehow get me into a private school, thinking it would be better socially. My mom pointed out that the kids in private school would probably be worse.

In junior high, the kids from the township and borough were thrown together with kids from the district’s other elementary school – which was adjacent to the “rich” suburban school district – and I found acceptance among the kids from the mobile home park and eventually formed my clan with anime nerds and fellow marching band members, choir members, and the people in their orbit. Most of the band kids lived in housing developments from the 70s and 80s, and like me, many of them had been in gifted. We would quote Monty Python sketches and Mel Brooks movies. Most of us played the student instruments we’d rented in fourth grade and eventually bought, or instruments that had been living in the band closet for years, but once in a while an unblemished, rose-tinted piece of brass would appear.

Though most people in my school district who continued their education went to community college or commuted to the rural state university 40 minutes away, the band kids with the newer houses tended to choose places like Penn State, Gettysburg, Muhlenberg, Temple, West Chester. Big state universities or private colleges where they’d live on campus. When I attended my future husband’s Baccalaureate, there was a palpable gasp when it was announced that one of the graduates – not even the valedictorian or salutatorian – was going to the University of Pennsylvania. It was unheard of that someone from our district would get to go to an Ivy League.

A prestigious university wouldn’t be in my own future, either. When I toured potential transfer colleges in the Philadelphia area to be close to my now-husband, I did visit Penn (I even remember the short Catholic school-inspired skirt from Kohl’s I wore, because it seemed academic), who might have taken some of my college credits but couldn’t offer me a scholarship. Neither could Bryn Mawr, who wanted to count my father’s income in their need-based scholarship calculations despite my parents’ divorce and my complete lack of financial support from him. Haverford had a 3% acceptance rate for transfer students so I didn’t bother applying, and Swarthmore wouldn’t have accepted any of my transfer credits.

So I applied La Salle University, the same place my husband was attending. A regional Catholic college, not nearly as well-known as St. Joseph’s or Villanova, it was attended primarily by kids in the Philly area who had gone to Catholic school and received a partial grant from the university. Coming from a family of working-class lapsed Catholics from Delaware County, it made sense that he gravitated towards those three colleges. La Salle just happened to offer the best financial aid package to him.

Lucky for me, they also accepted all my transfer credits and gave me a scholarship… even if I was as far from a suburban / urban Catholic as you could imagine. This was apparent before classes even started. I remember I was made to participate in the orientation weekend designed for incoming freshman, and we played Jeopardy. When I correctly answered several questions including one about John James Audubon and the magazine he founded, a frustrated freshman boy burst out some comment about how he didn’t spend all of his time birdwatching. I thought to myself, incredulously, how had he never heard of Audubon mazagine?

Raised Rural: Part 1

The Connecticut suburb where I live voted overwhelmingly for Clinton at 69%. But the rural township where I grew up in Pennsylvania voted 68% for Trump. I might have voted in Trump, too, if I had continued to live most of my life there.

When you think Pennsylvania Dutch, you might think of Amish folk in Lancaster County. I think of my family. The Dutch – or “Pensylfainya Tutch Nah” if you’re one of the old ones who grew up speaking the language and went to a Grundsau Lodge like my grandfather – are overwhelmingly Protestant, German immigrants who arrived decades before the American Revolution and settled in a swath moving west and north from where their ships landed in Philadelphia. Where I grew up is the very northern end of where they settled. Going through old documents and books from one side of my family, I know my first PA Dutch ancestor came here as a French Huguenot in 1738. His son became an officer in the Revolution and then a state representative, and the generations after him made their money off coal, slate, and other natural resources. There are pictures of railroads and factories in the old photograph albums, next to photos of round-faced women in fashionable dresses and stern-looking men. And pictures of the hotel that my great-grandfather owned but that didn’t get passed down to my grandfather, who I only know to be a bus driver with antiquated, oftentimes unintelligible speech patterns that were made worse over time by multiple strokes, calling homework “lessons” and fond of the phrase “gee almighty.” Picturing him, I see him sitting in his chair in the basement of the split-level, the chair draped in a sheet to protect it from doghair from the Golden Retriever, watching NASCAR with the volume up on Sundays but also Formula 1 on Saturday afternoons, and chewing flat toothpicks or Wrigley’s Doublemint that he bought in 5-packs and kept in a Christmas-themed, mailbox-shaped tin that once held Russell Stover candies, wearing a white T-shirt and shorts with a black belt, long legs out in front, mesh hat on his head, mostly quiet but sometimes vocalizing what might have been a complaint.

My dad inherited the bitterness, and once or twice as a kid he erupted about how someone long-dead in the family had squandered some sort of fortune. He would work at a company for 2 or 3 years before moving on to something else. There was the year or two that he worked in maintenance at the local amusement park. We got free season passes, and he would sometimes bring home sunglasses or hats for my brother and I that unfortunate roller coaster passengers had lost. When he worked at a place that manufactured diamonds for drill bits, he would bring home razor blade-sized plates of carbon with little diamonds growing on them and stress balls with the company logo. They lived on top of the microwave, next to a boom box whose dial never changed from the local rock station. There was the year he broke his leg falling down the old wooden stairs with the broken toilet he was replacing, the EMTs that came, the cast we signed, the metal pins in his leg, the explanation that the first doctor had messed up and he would need another surgery. Later that year, going to the supermarket and standing not at the checkout counter where I’d usually pester my mom for Chiclets or Fruit Stripes, but another counter with a glass window, no cart with us, my parents looking tense and ashamed. Kids at school making fun of me after I told them how the food fairy visited my house and delivered boxes of bananas and oranges. Going from paying 35 cents to the ladies at the lunch register to saying “free.” My younger brother and I being told to be on my best behavior while my parents, somber-faced, met with a well-dressed man in an office with leather furniture and a credit card company logo on his door. A report card where my teacher expressed concern that I constantly talked about my family being poor.

But later came my mom going back to work after my brother was in school, the housekeys, and once or twice, an afternoon with the nice old lady across the street when we forgot our key and the windows were also locked. Buying the acre of land next to the house and making garden plots, building a bridge across the stream on the new property where my brother and I played with our two Black Lab mix rescues, erecting a toolshed. Associate’s Degrees for my parents from the local community college. Replacing the old diesel Volvo wagon for a used F-150 that we would take camping to New York on vacation, then the excitement of trading in the other wagon for a brand new Jetta for my mom to drive to her payroll job at a construction firm. $1.25 for lunches, and a little extra for iced tea. Me turning 14 and getting a job at the same amusement park where my dad worked years ago. My dad’s promotion to supervisor, business cards, button-down shirts, and new stress balls that said “Move over, Silicon Valley. Here comes Lehigh Valley.” A trip on a plane to Disneyworld. Replacing the big blue stones of the driveway with asphalt and paying a company to construct a two-story garage. Then came the market crash, the layoffs, coming home to an unlocked door because our dad was inside, looking for jobs or doing coursework for his online university. My mom taking a second job, at that amusement park. Eventually my parents’ final split and divorce, community college for me when my hazily-planned dream of going to Ithaca for music fell through, and buying fruit and $0.50 misshapen loaves of French bread at the grocery store for a late lunch on my way home from campus because it was cheaper than a sandwich in the cafeteria, but sometimes I’d splurge on a $2.19 cup of soup. It took me several months to realize I had a PELL Grant in addition to my PHEAA Grant, and that I had money to put towards my books.

But that’s a lot of time I just covered. Let’s back up to my childhood again. My grandmother would take us to Sunday School in the mornings, and my mom or sometimes my dad would pick us up. My first years of Sunday School were spent in a trailer next to the UCC church on an aptly-named Mountain Road that wound past cornfields and single-story homes at the foot of Blue Mountain. As far as I could tell, everyone else at the church was also Pennsylvania Dutch. As were most of my classmates, who could choose between German and Spanish if they wanted to take a second language in high school. My high school had between 600 and 700 students over four grades, with less than 10 Black, Asian, or Latino students who were there throughout high school. In elementary school and junior high, kids with names like Desiree and Jaritza would appear for a year or two, tough girls from Allentown or Bethlehem with loud voices, low grades, lip liner, hoop earrings, and tight clothing, who hung around with the disruptive kids who smoked. They were different. We had a word for their difference: ghetto. The single cheerleader of color, a skinny pretty girl who wore Abercrombie like the skinny pretty white cheerleaders, wasn’t ghetto.

I never shopped at Abercrombie, being taken instead to Sears, Kids R’ Us, and the Vanity Fair outlets in Reading for nice school clothes as a kid with my mom and grandmother (who worked as a teller at a local bank) and sometimes my aunt (who worked at a travel agency), and going to Old Navy, Deb, Kohl’s, and JC Penney as a teenager. Band concerts and Sunday clothing usually came from the Fashion Bug in town, which specialized in dark-hued, shapeless, uncomfortable polyester dresses and pants. When I wasn’t forced to look nice, I was wearing oversized t-shirts. There was the t-shirt with wolves in the woods from the Woolrich outlet, where I also got a rabbit pelt. There was the tie-dyed shirt I got from the Independence Day celebration in north central PA where relatives had a hunting cabin, and where I also got a second rabbit pelt and attended the rattlesnake hunt festival one year. There was the Bob Marley t-shirt from the boardwalk in Maryland (a camping trip), soft hand-me-downs, a tie-dye wolf shirt from a flea market, marching band t-shirts I had to wear to football games when I took off my jacket.

For fun, my brother and I watched Disney movies on VHS, either rented from my mom’s sister’s video store, or materialized in our house probably as extra stock from the video store. Or we played with the toys given to us mainly by our grandmother and aunt. Sometimes we went outside, but living out in the township next to a busy state route two miles outside of the actual town meant we had no local playmates. Our house was a farmhouse built around 1908, the farm itself long gone, and the living room never completely finished. Eventually we put drywall up along the walls, but the ceiling is still exposed beam, 100-year-old white hatchmarks on the wood. Because of its location outside of the town lines, among woods and scattered farmlands, whenever we called the police we needed to wait around 40 minutes for a state trooper to arrive from Bethlehem. The cities in Captain Planet showing trash cans were unknown to me, as were the city blocks in Sesame Street. I didn’t recognize the lush suburban streets in Wishbone, or in the bicycle safety videos I saw in school. Looking both ways and dismounting near crosswalks meant nothing to me. I could only ride my bike alone in the following places: on the quarter mile of back road that led to a steel fabrication company (my brother and I could see the welders’ torches from our bedroom windows), a defunct paint mill, and the crumbling foundation of a railroad station that had been abandoned decades ago; the rocky track next to the wooden railroad ties left behind after the steel had been ripped up; or the dirt track next to the fabrication company where four-wheeler enthusiasts had made loops and hills. Sometimes my brother and I would walk on the tracks looking for metal stakes or other strange-shaped rusted things, or look for owl pellets and rocks by the river. When he was old enough, my brother got a BB gun, and sometimes he could get me to shoot at empty soda cans with him. When my parents got handguns and my brother got a .22 rifle, we set up paper targets at the dirt track and took turns loading and emptying clips and learning how to operate the safety controls and load the chambers, the sound of exploding rounds dampened by foam plugs from my dad’s work or earmuffs. Sometimes I could be talked into spending an afternoon shooting at bottles and cans thrown in abandoned quarries, or at the rod and gun club where I took the hunter’s safety course and hit every clay pigeon they threw during my test, but I preferred the precision of the smaller caliber rifles to the loud shotguns that bruised my shoulder.

We lived near the Appalachian Trail, and my mom took my brother and I hiking sometimes. There was a shelter where sometimes we would find hikers with expensive-looking equipment. Most people from the area who ventured up to the trails didn’t venture far, hanging out at the Knob or by the cleared-out powerline towers, and both areas were spray-painted with graffiti and had green shards of Yuengling bottles strewn among the rocks. You could see fireworks in Allentown and Bethlehem from up there. When my husband and I first started dating, we would go up and walk around sometimes, and then run around chasing each other in the baseball fields where he’d played Little League, drive around on the rural roads and pass occasional memorials at the foot of trees or telephone poles, stop in cleared cornfields and beat each other with dead stalks, and make an occasional trip through the woods to check out any of the numerous abandoned, water-filled slate quarries where my parents and their friends would drink and hang out and sometimes jump and sometimes drown. Sometimes he used the money he saved from working at Taco Bell near the mall to buy Chinese takeout, or I paid for breakfast at the rural diner with money from my retail job at the mall.

The mall wasn’t technically in Allentown, but the suburb north of it. My family occasionally ventured into affluent parts of Allentown for doctor’s appointments and suit rentals, but there were never any trips into the center of the city until I had college classes downtown. Allentown was dangerous, it was said. The dark-skinned loud people I encountered at the nearby amusement park, teenagers with their pants hanging below their buttocks, brought to mind the word “ghetto.” (And we had a word for white kids who emulated that kind of dress and attitude.) In my young mind they were ill-mannered at best, and maybe dangerous, and this was reinforced by the adults around me. Bus trip to musicals in New York were prefaced with grave warnings to keep my belongings with me at all times. A childhood trip to Philadelphia with my grandmother (who has never left the U.S. as far as I know) and aunt, a 70 mile trip, merited a stay in a fancy hotel – but 70 mile trips to Hershey Park or Lancaster were done in a day. The country, the rural towns, that was where it was safe. That’s where I was supposed to belong.