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Saint Louis Historical Art Project

a free public resource dedicated to providing information regarding artists who lived and worked in St Louis before 1970

This site will continue to be a  “work-in-progress” as we are always discovering additional biographical or exhibition information and additional images of artwork by the artists we have listed.  We are also continually discovering the identity and work of artists whom we do not currently have listed on this site.

Frank Nuderscher (1880-1959)

Nuderscher was a self-trained artist who became known for his industrial scenes of his hometown – St. Louis – and for Ozark landscape paintings. He was an active member of the regional art scene as a member of the Saint Louis Artist Guild, where he won ten first prizes, as well as serving as president of the Independent Artists of St. Louis.  He was one of the founding members of the Society of Ozark Painters, and the last survivor of the Riverfront Art Colony.  In 1936, he supervised the city’s WPA (Works Progress Administration) projects, and was a member of the National Association of Mural Painters.

Nuderscher and the other Ozark painters were attracted to the region for the delicate colors produced by the hazy atmosphere. In the earlier years of the Society, the region was seen as a sanctuary of beauty from the horrors and ugliness of World War I, and works by Society artists, like Nuderscher, frequently retained an emphasis on a quiet, restful composition featuring soft, pleasant colors.

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Posted on: 21st Nov, 2016

No food is as good and delicious as homemade food. When we think of ghar ka khana, we feel the warmth, the affection and the care associated with it. It also counts on health and hygiene factors. These are what the boxes of food from many household kitchens pack in for foodies across Hyderabad. Thanks […]

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Posted on: 30th Jul, 2016

Now you can be a chef for your dear and near ones. You can cook new dishes from any cuisine of your choice with the help of professional chefs in the comfort of your beloved kitchen. Chef In A Box has made it possible to break loose from the monotony of eating pre-cooked food. It […]

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House of Dosas: Abhiram Mitta’s Journey of Passion for Food from Kadapa to Hyderabad

Posted on: 24th Jul, 2016

Dosa is one of the few things that Hyderabad is famous for. House of Dosas is one of the few places where dosa is the best in the city. Though a small eatery which may go unnoticed if you are a first-time visitor, House of Dosas has made its presence felt on the culinary landscape […]

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Satan in your credit card? Starbucks, Wal-Mart and Disney have evil ways? Change-a-lujah, brothers and sisters, CHANGE your shopping and buying habits, the citizen artist Rev. Billy exhorts his "children." That is the clarion call of the serious and comic street theater mission of the 31st occasional Doo Dah Parade co-grand marshals, Rev. Billy, his director Sister Savitri D and their gospel choir of the Church of Stop Shopping (CSS). Doo Dah-Lujah! What a perfect fit for Pasadena's Doo Dah Parade. The irreverent Rev. Billy is comin' to River, er, Rose City!

It must have been mid-November when my fiancé Ken Gruberman and I saw a preview of the new documentary "What Would Jesus Buy?" Eager to see the anti-shopping documentary right before the holidays, it was gone in a flash. Hell and damnation, we missed it. Billed in their posters as the "The movie Santa doesn't want you to see," it's produced by Morgan "Super Size Me" Spurlock and directed by Rob VanAlkemade. "WWJB?" is a docu-comedy that trails the "fire and brimstone" style CSS characters as they cross the country proselytizing, preaching and singing to help Americans create a new Christmas without our addiction to shopping and products. Good news though, the DVD will resurrect and give rise to new viewers a few weeks after Easter of this year. Hallelujah!

Upon the announcement of their Doo Dah co-grand marshal status, I visited Bill Talen, the non-character name of Rev. Billy, and his wife in real life, Savitri Durkee, in their newly moved-in duplex in Brooklyn, NY.

"We were first acquainted with the Doo Dah Parade because of my Aunt Dabney Zorthian and wanted to be involved, but now that she's passed away, we're there in her honor. And the tone of the Doo Dah Parade suits our message," Savitri said. Both of the late Zorthians loved the Doo Dah Parade and were famous for their creative Dionysian festivities at their ranch in Altadena.

The fiery evangelical style of Rev. Billy is in the pantheon of American characters, but so is the steadfast, strength-behind-the-man preacher's wife, a role that Savitri plays beautifully on and off stage. They are a true team. Both charismatic, they are also easy on the eyes. And it's a good thing Savitri is as much a missionary of their anti-consumerism creed as Rev. Billy because his theatrics get him arrested and thrown in jail.

"I've been arrested 50 times or so," Rev. Billy said, "The scariest time was when I got arrested at a Starbucks in California, charged with obstruction of commerce, put on trial and a jury convicted me. When I was serving my three days, it was a tense time at the Twin Towers jail downtown LA. All of a sudden I felt really vulnerable, really blond, really suburban. And sure enough, after a few hours, a very big, extremely tattooed man came up to me and asked me what I was "in" for. He's got these major tattoos of Mayan art; pyramids. I'm thinking, OK, this is it. This is that terrible scene that everyone fears about gangs in prisons. A couple of his companions come up next to him. I start to tell him why I'm in jail."

Rev. Billy began to preach, explaining to the gang that he had been invited to California State University Northridge and he'd gone to a Starbucks to "exorcise" the cash register and preach to the Starbucks customers. Do they KNOW that Starbucks is a union-busting, corporate behemoth, with a pretend "bohemian" ambience? Do they KNOW that the farmers and their families in Guatemala are starving because Starbucks is NOT a fair trade coffee buyer? Do they KNOW that in the highland area of Guatemala where the coffee growers live and labor that there's a physician-to-people ratio of one per 85,000?

Then it dawned on the good reverend that indeed his jailhouse parishioners did INDEED know about the dire straits of the Guatemalan indigenous peoples. Hallelujah! The man had Mayan symbols for tattoos. Rev. Billy was preaching to the choir; he was fighting Starbucks for these men's relatives back home. For the rest of his three days in jail, the Guatemalan men had his back. His preaching had saved him. Hallelujah, brothers and sisters!

When I was with Talen and Durkee, I experienced being in the presence of kindness and greatness. They put their bodies and souls into their social activism. With hearts as big as Rev. Billy's pompadour, they kid, but they are not kidding around. Not religious per se, they are on a sacred, passionate path together: Stop Shopping!

Witness Rev. Billy and the CSS yourselves! Visit their Web site www.revbilly.com . Better yet, come down to Colorado Boulevard to see the Doo Dah at 11:30 a.m. Sunday. On Monday, the CSS folks will be at Pasadena's All Saints Episcopal Church, 132 N. Euclid Ave. A reception is at 6 p.m. and a "revival" starts at 7 p.m.

Be healed from excessive shopping! Hallelujah!

P.S. My fiancé and I are having our wedding shower, the Mama of All Wedding Showers, during the Doo Dah Parade. Come help us make a Guinness Book of World Records for the world's largest public wedding shower. In lieu of shower gifts, you can "shower" a nonprofit documentary instead by visiting www.beautybitesbeast.org and donating the cost of a spatula, blender or even a new car! Whatever's comfortable for you.

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The concepts of Open Innovation and design thinking have been highly popularized both in academia and industry for the last decades. Yet, there has been great confusion over these two concepts when practitioners apply it in the field.  Thus, it is important to understand how these two concepts are complementary in (1) practicing innovation and (2) managing innovation.

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The Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons/Escadrilles canadiennes de plaisance (CPS-ECP) is turning 75 this year.

The event is being recognized by the Squadrons, such as the Gabriola Island Squadron, by passing a unique flag across the country. This past Saturday, Sept. 28, the flag was on Gabriola with the local Gabriola Island Squadron.

Don Butt, a long time member of the Gabriola Squadron, gave some history saying the Gabriola Island Squadron was formed in 1996.  The “board” of the Squadron is called the Bridge. Don explained at the time, when the Gabriola Squadron was being formed, “you can imagine the horror among some Gabriolans at the prospect of a “bridge” coming to Gabriola.”

All joking aside, Don said the Gabriola squadron has, “instructed over 400 boaters, and wannabe boaters over the years.

“The work of CPS-ECP is by volunteers, amassing thousands of hours every year nation-wide.”

The mandate of the Canadian Power Squadron is to increase awareness and knowledge of safe boating by educating and training members and the general public, by fostering fellowship among members, and by establishing partnerships and alliances with organizations and agencies interested in boating.

Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons is a non-profit organization that has been connecting boaters for 75 years and continues to play a major role in Canadian boating culture.

The Flag Tour of 2013 is happening to celebrate the 75 anniversary of the founding of the Canadian Power Squadron.

The organization began in 1938, when three members of the Windsor Yacht Club crossed the Ambassador Bridge into Detroit, Michigan.

Under the direction of the Detroit Power Squadron, Fred Dane, George Ruel, and G. William Bowman passed the USPS Junior Piloting Course.

They soon formed the first Squadron in Canada, Windsor Power Squadron, with G.William Bowman as its first Commander. He later became the first Chief Commander of Canadian Power Squadrons.

 Between 1939 and 1946, the organization went into semi-hibernation, chiefly due to the lack of fuel, and involvement in World War II. In spite of this, a nucleus of members under Chief Commander Harry McGladdery worked to secure a Dominion Charter, granted on October 27, 1947. They also designed the CPS-ECP flag, registered June 14, 1948.

Don explained CPS-ECP is now recognized as the largest organization of its kind in the world, per capita. Accepted as the foremost educational boating authority in Canada; a consultant with Canadian Coast Guard; and an advisor of aids to navigation for the Canadian Hydrographic Service, through the MAREP/Marine Reporting Programme.

There are over 26,000 active members nationwide.

Instructors help recreational boaters improve their boating safety knowledge as well as their vessel handling and navigation skills. Students successfully completing the CPS-ECP Boating Basics or Boating Essentials course can receive a one year complimentary membership with access to member benefits.

Courses and seminars available from CPS-ECP: Boating Basics (Pleasure Craft Operator Card), Boating Essentials, Maritime Radio-ROC(M), Seamanship, Advanced Piloting, Electronic Navigation, RADAR for Pleasurecraft, Navigation, Global Navigation, Weather, Extended Cruising, Boat and Engine Maintenance and more.


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When I logged into NHL 19 for the first time, I headed straight to Franchise mode to pick the next dynasty in the NHL. Unfortunately, when I got to the division realignment screen, all I could do was roll my eyes.

For those who don’t have the game, when you pick your team in Franchise, you’re brought to a screen that allows you to realign divisions. From what I could find, this is the only screen where you can get teams overalls. In every other screen, it breaks down offense, defense and goaltending, but never reveals the team’s overall rating.

The biggest issue with NHL 19 is that there isn’t a larger disparity with ratings. Every team is rated relatively close to one another. If I asked you to give a rating to the Arizona Coyotes and Tampa Bay Lightning, I would guess that your Tampa rating is in the 90s and Arizona’s rating is in the high-70s to low-80s. Instead, Arizona is rated 91 while Tampa is rated 93. Not much of a difference when you look at two vastly different rosters.

Attribute and overall rating issues aren’t new to NHL 19. They’ve been a problem for as long as I can remember. The previous consoles had the ability to copy things to USB and import them into a game. When SimpleMathematics at Operation Sports started his NHL Revamped Rosters in NHL 14, it dramatically changed the way the game played. Shawn Thornton and Sidney Crosby no longer felt like the same player. The attribute differential gave players separation, but it also gave teams separation. Right now, there isn’t much parity in rating numbers.

Rating Issues In The Short Term

In the short term, the NHL series doesn’t offer any parity for teams. While I was combing teams and rosters for my ‘Top Five NHL 19 Franchise Sleepers’ article, I noticed that fourth line player like Tim Schaller are rated higher than they probably should be. This means that to differentiate between a fourth line player like Schaller and a first line player like Boeser, you need to elevate Boeser to a rating that may not be appropriate for him.

There doesn’t seem to be any certain type of defined system for players. Using the NHL Revamped Rosters as my example once again, they took fourth liners and dropped them anywhere between 60-70 while most first liners remained in the high-80’s to mid-90’s.

This change also means that free agents were affected. Upon starting your franchise, you can go into free agency and pick up some pretty helpful 70’s and 80’s (8 81/80 players to be exact). This shouldn’t be able to happen because good free agents, when a season begins, are going to be signed. There’s no way an 80+ should be sitting in free agency.

Long-Term Rating Issues

Lack of rating parity means you’re going to have free agent and player movement issues in the long term. I simmed four years of a sample franchise and counted fifteen 80+ rated players in free agency at the start of the season. Take a look at this screenshot from this 2019-2020 free agency. This screenshot was taken two days before preseason started. Here are 18 80+ rated players in free agency.

Note the date of 9/13/2019 in the upper right corner

If they were all 42 years old like Zdeno Chara, I could see why teams wouldn’t touch him. He’s getting long in the tooth and there is going to be some regression (though at 42, I am surprised to still see him rated as an 85), but to see young guys like Alex Iafallo and even Tom Wilson in free agency was a little surprising.

I realize that Iafallo and Wilson are RFA status, but even Xavier Ouellet at 26 should be on a team somewhere, right?

There’s an imbalance that the NHL team doesn’t seem to want to change. As it currently stands, the lowest rated NHL player is a 70. That doesn’t seem right. In fact, a few of those 70 rated players are Nathan Horton and David Clarkson. Horton hasn’t played a lick of hockey since 2013-2014 and Clarkson the same since 2015-2016. For them to be rated at 70 seems like a mistake. I realize they need to be on a roster for realism sake (they’re currently sitting in their respective teams long term injury reserve [LTIR] slots in real life) but 70s?

What this all means

The NHL series desperately needs a roster share mode and is currently the only EA Sports game without it. In fact, the NHL series is one of the only major sports title without a share feature, the other being FIFA. Madden, NBA 2K and MLB The Show all allow their users to update and share rosters online which helps enhance the user experience in Franchise mode.

How EA hasn’t put this feature in one of their longest running franchises is beyond me, but hopefully the team at EA Vancouver takes a serious look at the problems their pretend GMs face when trying to run realistic franchises.

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by Stephen Ross
First Published: Sleuthsayers, March 26, 2018 READ

I read recently in a newspaper about a study into the range of emotions human beings can experience. The study turned up 27 of them. And this was a study undertaken by the University of California Berkeley, and not some random list drawn up by two men in a pub over a pint.

Generally, it’s been held that there are only about a half dozen core emotions, e.g., anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise.

This study expanded on that.

In short, the researchers at Berkeley sat 800 volunteers down in front of video monitors and asked them to report and rank the emotions they felt when watching 30 short (silent) video clips. The clips included all manner of things, including births, deaths, marriages, sex, spiders, scenic wonders, natural disasters, and awkward handshakes (and probably, Donald Trump’s hair).

In short again, they found that the responses they got to the clips were multidimensional. No one clip produced one single emotion. In fact, a clip could elicit a variety of “feelings” in the viewer. And each of these feelings constituted an individual and unique emotion.

For example, a clip of a man on tightrope walking between two mountain cliffs brought in the following response from the subjects: Fear 55%, Anxiety 45%, Admiration 9%, Aesthetic appreciation 9%, Amusement 9%, Entrancement 9%.

I don’t want to get into an analysis of how they made their findings or drew their conclusions, but I think I can sum it up: Humans are complex creatures; our responses to stimuli are never one dimensional.

y real interest here, and reason for writing, is the LIST they drew up. And here it is:

27 Human Emotions

  1. Admiration
  2. Adoration
  3. Aesthetic Appreciation
  4. Amusement
  5. Anxiety
  6. Awe
  7. Awkwardness
  8. Boredom
  9. Calmness
  10. Confusion
  11. Craving
  12. Disgust
  13. Empathetic pain
  14. Entrancement
  15. Envy
  16. Excitement
  17. Fear
  18. Horror
  19. Interest
  20. Joy
  21. Nostalgia
  22. Romance
  23. Sadness
  24. Satisfaction
  25. Sexual desire
  26. Sympathy
  27. Triumph

I like this. It’s another handy list for the writer’s toolbox.

And I like the concept of multidimensional emotional responses to stimuli. It’s a good reminder to write characters that have depth and are of more than one emotion. If a character has only one emotion, he’s not real, he’s a transparent plot device.

The Illustration: This is a photo (close detail) that I took of a painting that hangs in the Auckland Art Gallery. “For of such is the Kingdom of Heaven” by Frank Bramley, 1891. It’s quite big and quite haunting, when you stand in front of it. I can report Aesthetic AppreciationSadnessEmpathetic pain, and Calmness.


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Anne Visser Ney

2013 Creative Nonfiction Contest Judge's Selection

Thread Like a River of Time

Scotch-Irish fire sparks from my mother’s eyes when she laments the damage done her children when she and my father divorced.   I was eleven, my sister six, and my brother, who stayed behind with my father, was 12.  Our family was rent.

"You kids were like seedlings that I ripped from the ground," my mother still says four decades later.  She grabs the air with arthritic fingers as though holding the rootless sorrows of her children’s lives.  Her memories haunt her:  ghosts of guilt over what she sees as her failure to thrive in a difficult marriage -- one doomed only by ordinary troubles.  Love is difficult, I tell her.  I am as old as her mother was then.  There are no easy answers; there is no going back; I forgive you.  Her gesture remains between us, higher than our heads.  "Ripped - from - the - ground."  The story told again, she drops her hand and rests it between us.

We sit at her flawless dining room table.  She bought it with her inheritance from my grandmother.  She wants to know my sister and I will be left with something beautiful that connects us to our family tree.  Her hands—small, strong, utilitarian— are restless on the fine wood; skim the graceful oval tabletop.  She worries a tea towel’s embroidered edges.  Her skin is translucent porcelain chapped dry from a lifetime of cleaning and fixing:  use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.

I stretch my hands toward hers.  My right index finger knuckle is swollen and red, and its middle finger neighbor is becoming unreliable with its willful tricking and popping.  My digits are gnarling into my mother’s hands; hers, into my grandmother’s, as though for generations we have washed the same dishes, scrubbed the same collars, soothed the same children’s brows, waxed the same floors, repaired the same sticks of furniture, and tended the same garden.  As though we mend the same tatters to the same end:  to make something useful – even handsome – using history’s thread and a needle passed like a scepter from one life to the next.

As though by our hands and skin and blue-gray eyes, we embody a single story even as we cocoon the lives we carry within our DNA.

My mother, sister and I left my father's house six weeks after Christmas.  I took everything I owned — a few treasured books, and beloved gifts my father's parents had given me over the years:  a Dutch pencil box with a miniature abacus under the lid, a Japanese doll wearing a luxurious red brocade kimono, and a marionette, a kilted Scotsman who carried a green bottle and walked drunkenly, pulled by strings my unskilled hands could not master.  I took my clothing — the blue tartan kilt that matched my sister's, white and navy blue knee socks, and mittens knitted by my mother’s mother.  I carefully packed the new guitar my parents had splurged on at Christmas, as though I could pluck sustenance from its strings to sustain me in the months to come.

My sister took her new Show 'n Tell record player.

My mother took bare necessities for my sister and me, and those things that she had come with to her marriage sixteen years earlier.  She reclaimed from me the passed-down Jenny Lind bed, matching dresser and night table with the pedestal hand-lathed from a cast-off textile mill shuttle loom.  She took her great-grandfather Bailey's bentwood rocker and his wife's fragile cane-bottom dining chairs; the chest of drawers we called Little William after a long-gone uncle or cousin.  My mother and I pushed it into its place by the apartment's front door where it would hold scarves and hats.

She took the quilts that had been made and passed down through her family like tangible, colorful histories; and her shoebox photos, populated by country people standing at attention in tiered generations of high cheekbones, grey eyes, and English skin worn to wrinkles as their decades passed in front of the camera's cocksure eye.

Because only my mother and I truly played it, she took the spinet piano.  Its bench had a plump needlepoint cushion with a gold background and black stitches patterned into a treble clef and the first few notes of a hymn, its title unremembered now.

Our living room furniture consisted of Grandpa Bailey’s rocker, Little William, a lovely (if impractical) tea cart my grandmother presented to my mother during some low point of her life as a young mother, and an oversized blue buffet in which my mother stored sewing supplies.  Cached there were department store boxes filled with yards of fabric bought and never used:  woolens, calicos, and tweeds.  Shoeboxes held pins, needles, spools of thread, and the sharp silver scissors my mother forbade us to use on anything but fabric.  Paper bags overflowed with remnants so small they might appear useless — scraps, really, mostly from my mother's projects, some from mine, each leftover neatly rolled and tied against someday.

The sewing machine, after the piano, was arguably her most valuable possession.  It had been a wedding gift from my father's parents.  To my knowledge, it was the only thing that remained of that intractable relationship.

The author in 1970

We drove away from my father's old white clapboard house in the Buick he had given my mother years earlier.  My sister sat in back tucked between dresses and coats hung on a bar suspended between car doors.  I claimed the front seat, oddly unchallenged, and pressed my forehead onto the cold window, fighting indignant tears as we rolled down Superior Street to the stop sign at Iron Avenue.  Three blocks down, to the right, our new apartment waited to tide us over until the end of the school year when my mother would find a new teaching assignment in another town.  Why are distances of the heart never proportional to miles traveled?  We covered light years in that first half-mile separation.

I hated our new apartment.  My twin-size mattress on its Hollywood frame was cramped compared to the high, full Jenny Lind with its spindles on which I had learned to park my gum at night.  I hated sharing a room with my kindergartner sister.  I hated the neighborhood.  I hated my mother for what I believed she had done.  She had been drowning under the weight of her life – my father's ministry, my brother's wildness, her trampled sense of self – but I could not know this and so failed to understand the depth of her will to survive or the devil’s choice with which she had been faced.  I only saw that when she left my father, she had ripped the timeline of my life in two, leaving my father and before on one side, ragged and irreconcilable with what was already, in my mind, the ever after.

Mostly, though, I hated how I had been sent tumbling through an unraveling universe that seemed utterly unaware of me.

When traffic cleared, my mother turned from Superior toward our new apartment.  Poplar sand maples arched winter-bare branches like a filigreed tunnel over Iron Avenue as it ran west along the rim of the Tuscarawas River bluff, parallel to the railroad and river below.  Our new apartment lay uphill where the steep road leveled out and diverged from the tracks and water.  The Avenue was lined with well-kept, if fading, 19th-century homes built for the town's former steel and coal barons.  The broad-lawned mansions backed up to the edge of the bluff – their back windows looked over the river valley and toward the hills to the south.  The aging steel mill’s chimney rose from the shuttered factory below, where it had once bustled with rail and barge traffic landing iron ore and coal and loading finished steel.

Every house seemed abandoned that afternoon.  Patches of sooty snow lay here and there on the manicured grass.  The largest mansion – it had a caretaker's cottage close to the avenue – was known to be haunted.  My brother and I had once sneaked up to its bare windows and pressed our faces against the glass to peer inside.  Sheets covered perfectly arranged furniture and we told each other there was probably treasure hidden in the house.  I thought of this as we drove past and how he had kissed my cheek good-bye just minutes earlier.

The duplex appeared like a 1960s afterthought at the end of the row of lifeless grand ladies.  Here, just before Iron Avenue turned into a stretch of mid-century modern office buildings, the graceful tree arch had been razed to widen the road.  A single young oak grew between the duplex and the avenue.  My mother turned again and the car crunched to a halt in the gravel parking lot that led to our new back door.

It was freezing inside.  My mother borrowed the neighbor lady's phone and called the landlord to come light the pilot in the basement furnace.  My sister sucked her thumb and stood wide-eyed, clinging to my mother's leg as the neighbor and I sized each other up.

It anguishes me now to think of how frightened and desolate my mother also must have felt that day.  How deep had her loneliness run that she would take us from the only life we had known in a manner that will seemingly haunt her until the day she dies and some higher power redeems her?

The author's quilt, 2013.

Yet were not my anger and confusion also well founded?

I took care of the things I could in the ways I knew how.  I dusted and vacuumed, did laundry and dishes, and helped cook when my mother was elbows-deep in grading ninth-grade English compositions.  I let my sister have the bed closest to the window.  I made them up with the quilts we had known forever, the pink one on her bed and the green one on mine.

Aunts or grandmothers had made all of our quilts.  My mother's was the most intricate.  Mine was older and bigger than my sister's, and therefore had many more squares on its face; hers was newer and brighter.  Mine had covered on the larger Jenny Lind bed amply; now I had to fold it in half so it wouldn’t drag on the floor from my new, smaller twin bed.  I arranged it carefully so its pattern fell evenly from the middle of the mattress.  I knew my quilt – its colors and stitches –like the veins on the back of my hand.  It carried stories in its two-inch patches seamed together with fine white stitches:  there was an uncle’s old work shirt, and there was a bride’s honeymoon traveling suit, and there was a cousin’s Easter dress calico.  The story of who I was and had come to be seemed carefully, painstakingly, written in the quilt's language of remnant and thread.

Sometimes I folded the quilt into a fat cushion on which I sat practicing my new guitar, learning the chords to the songs that I had been taught – ballads, hymns, folk songs, and my father's go-to car song, “Where the Rhododendrons Grow."

Other times I fled the tiny apartment and found my way to the bluff beyond our back door.  I discovered I could slide loose-limbed down its face, using exposed roots for handholds as I worked my way to the floodplain’s railroad and river.  Coal trains still ran through town regularly and cast-off lumps like immature diamonds could be found along the cinder right-of-way.  I picked them up from between the creosoted ties and flung them high and hard toward the muscled river alongside.

As I walked away from town, the bluffs softened into wooded hills.  I could not get lost; no matter how far I ventured the river and tracks would lead back to home.

Only once did I leave this sure path.  That day I walked too far and, when rain threatened, I tried to take a shortcut through the woods to avoid having to double back, and then climb the exposed bluff’s steep slope.  I had seen a trail leading uphill through the woods.  I followed it until I reached a plowed ridge and suddenly wide, open (if stormy) sky.  I hiked up the meadow as the sky grew darker.  When I reached the hilltop I had a long view of the valley and the far-off town.

In a disappointed instant, I realized that my best course lay behind me; back to the river that I knew would lead me home.  I turned and walked quickly and then, panicked as darkness began to gather, ran as though a banshee chased me, down the sloping field, into the woods and along the uneven path crisscrossed with exposed roots that had been teased from the ground by erosion during the previous summer's floods.  I slowed and caught my breath.  After I reached the tracks I ran again until breathless, as though whatever I had seen at the top of the hill threatened to trip me, pin me down, and hold me until I perished in the cold rain that had begun falling.  It was pitch dark by the time I scrambled up the bluff behind the apartment, grasping fists of cold, wet roots for handholds as I climbed.

When I burst through the back door, my mother looked up from the kitchen sink.  Where had I been? she wanted to know.  Why was I out of breath?  Was I all right?

 I pushed the door closed and looked at her – really looked at her – as she made dinner by the apartment's bright and unfamiliar fluorescent lights.  When I didn't answer, she paused then fully returned my gaze.  What's wrong? she said slowly, as though truly seeing me for the first time.  The water washed over her hands; one held a paring knife and the other a small hothouse tomato.  I knew she would cut it carefully into six equal pieces – two for each of us.  The moment expanded beyond its seconds and filled with the humming overhead lights, the rushing faucet water, and the sizzle of hamburgers.  Steam rose from the skillet where four quarter-pound patties fried in 1 teaspoon each of Worcestershire sauce and butter, a recipe she had cut from the Reader's Digest – one-and-one-third burgers apiece.

In my memory I see my anger emanating like knives from my injured heart, and my mother's undefended love taking them in like a river oyster enfolds razor-sharp grains of sand that in time it will lacquer into pearls.

I refused this forgiveness.  "What's for dessert?" I sulked, knowing there was no money for weeknight treats.  Her face fell.  I marched on through the kitchen and up the wooden stairs to the bedroom.

"Honey," I heard her say behind me.  But I had already stopped listening.

                                        "Certainly the quilt was made by a woman who knew better                                                 than to waste any small thing that came her way:  a scrap                                                  of fabric, an opportunity, a precious life."

Upstairs, I pulled the curtains to block the streetlights and headlamps cast by cars traveling down Iron Avenue.  I spread my quilt on the linoleum, rolled myself tightly within it, and wormed my way across the floor and onto my bed.  I pulled my head into the cocoon and breathed in its warmth.

I did not think that night about the woman who had made it or about those to whom it had been passed from generation to generation, woman to girl.  Now I wonder who created its pattern.  Was it my great-great grandmother who came from Ireland to work in other women’s finer houses?  My great-grandmother who once placed her four-feet ten-inch frame between her drunken son – and the gun he brandished – and her granddaughters whom he threatened to kidnap over her dead body?

Or was it my grandmother, who once had nothing to offer well-heeled visitors but a glass of water – even the last teabag had been reused too many times – something she did proudly, she often said, generous in what she had instead of ashamed of what she did not.  Her cousin, my Auntie Thelma, won quilting prizes for her tiny, perfect stitches and beautiful patterns.  She might have sewn my green patchwork in the found slivers of evening between when the farm chores were done and it was time to go to bed and fall asleep thanking God for His many blessings.

Certainly the quilt was made by a woman who knew better than to waste any small thing that came her way:  a scrap of fabric, an opportunity, a precious life.  Certainly its stories were laid one alongside the other and stitched with care by one of these Scots/English/Irish matriarchs whose hands tended others while their hearts surely longed for something beautiful and gracious, a part of themselves to leave behind.  Somehow, given next to nothing, using life’s cast-offs, they did both of these things and more.  The story of their lives – and mine – is tucked between the green backing and patterned top created for posterity stitch by careful stitch.

That night, of course, I could not conceive these connections.  While my mother fed my sister dinner and gave her a bath, I only felt the quilt’s layers and my aching grief.  Wrapped inside both, I cried silently.  So my sister would not be afraid?  So my mother would not know the depth of my shame?  Finally, I slept.

The author's mother (left) with her great Aunt Nona, the likely quiltmaker, 1936.

She has refined her story now, forty years after the fact.  Told so many times, it has become de facto history – children ripped like seedlings from the fertile soil of a home she once tried, and failed, to make.  Her remorse remains:  things might have been different.  But are they ever?  I wonder.  Or are we merely to make the best of what we’re given?

It seems to me now that she woke me late that night, after she read to my sister, tucked her in, and rubbed her back until she slept.  Then she rubbed mine until I woke.  When I stirred, she began quietly, tentatively.  Words are slippery things, like memories; they can be misinterpreted, or reshaped by time to make sense of the inconceivable or create meaning from chaos.  Maybe things did not happen this way at all.  Still, I remember the bluff and the quilt and the words in a single frame of place and time.

She turned my head gently to make me look at her.

My mother has never returned pain for pain or hate for hate; instead, she chose to cling to her daughter’s flung knives of hate and despair and to nurture them over the years into luminous pearls that will, in the end, be my finest inheritance.

"You kids," she began, "when I left your father.  It was like…"

Tears spilled down my warm cheeks as she struggled to verbalize the words I had read in her eyes earlier that evening.  In the story that followed, and a thousand since, I have reimagined myself making my way home that dark night.  As she spoke, my mother recused me from a life of bitterness by saying I had done nothing wrong to deserve the pain I felt.  If her children dangled by roots, it was she who held us.

I am with you she seemed to say.  You are in my hand.  As she talked I saw myself less and less as a cast-off child fighting her way alone up a cold bluff grit-by-dangling root, and more and more as the woman I would become, tucked tightly in the quilt and lifted up by the hands of the women who crafted it.  Those whose blood runs through me and whose stories I carry in the way of my mother, and hers before, someplace deep inside.

Anne Visser Ney grew up at the edge of coal-mining country in eastern Ohio. She is currently working on a literary memoir about her years of U.S. Coast Guard sea service; her essay, "Middle Passage, Morning Watch" will be anthologized in Red, White, and True (University of Nebraska/Potomac, Spring 2014). Her work has also appeared in print and electronic venues, including Rosebud Literary, Cezanne's Carrot, The Eckerd Review, and the Tampa Bay (formerly St. Petersburg) Times. She is a fourth-term MFA student at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.


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one kid, one roll, on film :: december

In the clearing stands a boxer,
And a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders
Of ev'ry glove that laid him down
Or cut him till he cried out
In his anger and his shame,
"I am leaving, I am leaving"
But the fighter still remains.

"The Boxer," Simon & Garfunkel

Well, our dear blog circle is winding up in the next month or so, and I've been in and out a bit, but mostly so, so pleased to be part of this wonderful project and part of this amazing group of women and photographers. It's humbling really to be surrounded by so much talented and to be so welcomed by them. Please continue along the circle by enjoying the beautiful photos of my friend Carrie Geddie. She'll knock your socks off!

*For my film-y friends, this was shot on a Pentax645n with Kodak TriX, processed by Photovision Prints at +1.

one kid, one roll, on film :: september

Oh, hello. Long time no see. :) We've had a bit of a summer, and as some of you may have noticed, I completely missed last month's edition of One Kid, One Roll, Once a Month. I missed you guys. Truth is, for various reasons, I'm just not picking my camera up much these days. It's okay. Breaks are good. I'm usually a month behind with these posts anyway, but I didn't want to let another round pass me by, so this time I dug deep into the archives to bring you some photos from our trip to Sweden in late June. Does it help that it felt like September in Virginia?

For part of our trip to Sweden we stayed at the best AirBnB on one of the islands in the archipelago and rented a motor boat from our hosts. Those were our happiest days, really, and Cal's happiest moments were behind the wheel of the motor boat. If he likes driving, he loves powering that boat even more. I'd hoped to get some "action" shots for one of my submissions to our blog circle, and our days on the Baltic Sea provided me with the perfect opportunity.

This post will be my last on SPL as it stands. I haven't been completely idle while this spot stood silent. There's been some behind the scenes work as I've tolled away at a new site for (still under construction). still + life will still exist as the storytelling portion of that new site, but nothing more. I'm excited for these changes and I hope you'll follow me along as I dip my toes back in the online world and start a new journey.

Next up in our circle is the lovely and inspiring Tricia Boutelle. You can find her at Tricia Boutelle Lifestyle + Photography. The way she shoots her family always slays me.


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Currency Markets in Focus As Fed Meeting Expectations Weigh on Japanese Yen

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Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) CEO Criticized Over Comment That Women Should Not Ask For Pay Raise

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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) came on the spotlight, but all for the wrong reasons. The software company’s Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella had made a comment saying that women shouldn’t ask for pay raise, but should wait for their work to be recognized before getting a raise. That comment didn’t go down well with men and women alike!

He was speaking during Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Phoenix.

The comment blew out of control, forcing Nadella to apologize and retract his comment. But that didn’t stop critics from continuing with their rebuff. Many critics have gone as far as questioning the quality and quantity that women workers at Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) receive.

“It is shameful that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella would tell women—especially in an industry that already has a serious problem recruiting and retaining female talent—not to ask for raises,” co-founder of UltraViolet Nita Chaudhary said in a statement.

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Others have termed it insensitive of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO to make such comments, particularly at an event for women. The comment is also coming at a time that many people have raised concerns about the low number of women in the tech industry and the fact that those who find their way there don’t stick around for long.

Nadella first made a verbal apology before sending an email apology to Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) employees, explaining that he had answered the question wrong. When retracting the statement, he said that both men and women should be entitled to equal pay based on the work they do.

The country has done a lot to enhance access to education to women, and many women have become very successful in industries initially reserved for men. However, at workplaces, women still face a challenge in terms of pay and how they are treated.

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recent report has shown that students at English universities pay the highest tuition fees in the world, followed by the USA and Japan.

According to a study by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), annual fees at universities in England stand at an average of £6,000, higher than those in the USA at £5,300 per year, and Japan at £3,300 per year.  The study did not include fees for private universities.

Based on data from fifty different countries, the report was published just weeks after the UK’s Conservative Government announced plans to allow universities to increase tuition fees in line with inflation from 2017, providing that the quality of teaching and learning is improved.

Prior to the previous Coalition Government giving universities the option to increase fees to £9,000 per year, the UK was ranked as having the fifth most expensive tuition fees in the world, behind Chile, Korea, the USA, and Japan.

Speaking to The Student, second year Cellular and Molecular Biology student at Newcastle University, Oliver Burton, gave his views on the report.

He told  The Student: “I worry for the sake of arts degrees with rising education costs. STEM subjects are receiving much more funding at present, relatively speaking, and we need to get away from this mentality that education needs to directly benefit the economy – it should be a matter of principle.”

Similarly, a second year theatre student at York St John University who wished to remain anonymous told The Student: “Tuition fees have risen to a level that is beginning to put students off attending university at all; most students are going to be paying off their student debts well into the later years of their lives. We need to find a solution so that every student gets a fair deal.”

Conversely, Sam Marks, a Chemical Engineering student at the University of Leeds believed that the high English tuition fees were justified: “Whilst on paper the tuition fees look like a lot of money, in practice I don’t think the increase makes much of a difference because of how you pay it back. I see it more like a graduate tax and I don’t mind if I pay a small proportion of my wage back each month to pay for future students.

“I think it’s most impoartant that prospective students from less privileged backgrounds realise that the increase in fees doesn’t mean they will be worse off at university. The change to tuition fees were just one change needed by a country with far too high public spending.

“On the other hand I do think the government needs to look at the maintenance grant, the way that’s distributed really doesn’t seem fair, especially to middle income families with quite a few children.”

The study by the OECD also showed that, behind Luxembourg, USA and Norway, the UK is the fourth highest spender on students among member nations of the OECD, spending £16,016 per student

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More than just silverware to play for in this Six Nations

With the Six Nations starting this weekend, the hearts of all Northern Hemisphere rugby fans will beat a little bit faster in anticipation of those frosty encounters on bitter winter afternoons that make up this great tournament. Rivalries wait to be reignited. Fierce battles from history are recounted. Legends sit in stands, purring about the youthful talent that has replaced them on the pitch. Fans wait for the first whistle, singing anthems with hearty voice and becoming pundits in pubs up and down the country.

This year the anticipation in the build up to the tournament will be even greater than normal. There is the introduction of bonus points, meant to inspire more free-flowing, attacking rugby capable of matching the Southern Hemisphere giants. The Home Nations are resurgent; England have gone a year unbeaten, Ireland have recorded victories over Australia, South Africa and New Zealand in the last 12 months, and Scotland have the greatest strength in depth they have possessed in living memory. Even France and Italy have new competitiveness after valiant performances in the autumn, with the Azzurri recording their first victory over South Africa under the tutelage of the impressive Conor O’Shea.

To add to this intrigue, this year sees the return of the British and Irish Lions, who set out this summer on tour to New Zealand. But, while this tour looks like an unenviable task – facing the World Champions with little more than a month’s preparation – the old magic of tradition will inspire this newly emblazoned pride of Lions, buoyed by recent successes over the Southern Hemisphere, to great heights and, hopefully, a victorious tour, guided by the wily Warren Gatland.

But, before they set sail on that grand adventure, there are the most impressive set of trial matches at stake in the Six Nations. Pundits, both professional and amateur, will be listing off numerous potential Lions squads until Gatland announces his in mid-April. Initially, England and Ireland were expected to dominate the squad due to their recent successes but, this week, Scotland coach Vern Cotter has suggested that his players could easily take 10 of the spots, due to the emergence of their young crop of talent inspired by the achievements of Glasgow Warriors. On top of this, Gatland’s allegiance to Wales is unlikely to be forgotten, with the Welsh making up 15 of his 37 places in 2013. Wales also seem to hold the new frontrunner to be captain: Alun Wyn Jones, the inspiring second row who led the Lions in the third Test four years ago and who has taken over the national captaincy for the Six Nations.

All of this makes this year’s selection one of the most exciting in years, due to the competition among all four nations, and so the Six Nations provides one last chance for players to prove themselves on the international stage against their rivals before the final decision is made. Therefore, any selection made now is open to change depending on form and fitness over the coming months, with many prime contenders, such as Billy Vunipola, currently injured.

In keeping with tradition, however, I have selected a squad based on past performances and those whom I think would have the best chance of completing the formidable challenge of beating the All Blacks in their own back yard. So here is my selection for the Lions Squad to travel to New Zealand this summer:

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This position is a prime example of the range of choices from all four countries that Gatland has to choose from. There is a key decision in getting the balance between experience, in the form of two-time tourists Rob Kearney and Tommy Bowe, and youthful exuberance, through talents such as Anthony Watson and Simon Zebo. The formers’ abilities to cover full-back as well as wing will surely count in their favour, while Liam Williams must be pushing hard for similar reasons having established himself as one of Wales’ greatest attacking threats. This is without mention of the favourite to wear the No.15 shirt, Stuart Hogg, whose counter-attacking abilities are unrivalled and he has the ability to produce moments of magic, while the incumbent Leigh Halfpenny’s star has dropped due to injury and the reliability of Owen Farrell’s goal-kicking. So, with the dearth of full-backs, Mike Brown is likely to miss out as well, leaving one space for a specialist winger, likely to be fought out between George North, Bowe and Jack Nowell, but due to his potential brilliance which was shown during the last tour, North just edges this for me.

Selection: Anthony Watson, Rob Kearney, Stuart Hogg, Simon Zebo, Liam Williams, George North.

With Jamie Roberts, a mainstay of the last two tours, seemingly out of contention having dropped to the bench for Wales over the Autumn, his position as a hard-carrying centre seems set to be taken by Robbie Henshaw. The outside centre berth will be harder to fill, but at the moment, Jonathan Joseph seems to be in pole position due to his ability to beat the man and score tries. Hot on his heels are the young guns of Eliot Daly, who is challenging for the England No. 13 shirt and may be an attractive selection due to his versatility, and Huw Jones, who is being tipped by many to be a bolter after his sensational performances against Australia and Argentina in the Autumn where he sparked life into Scotland’s backline. Another contender is the experienced Jonathan Davies who was so successful on the last tour and can cover both centre positions, while Duncan Taylor, Alex Dunbar and Garry Ringrose cannot be far behind. But, on balance, Davies’ experience wins out and Jones grabs the final spot ahead of the equally mercurial Daly and Ringrose.

Selection: Robbie Henshaw, Jonathan Joseph, Huw Jones, Jonathan Davies.

When fit, Jonathan Sexton still remains the first choice fly-half for the Lions due to his outstanding game-management. But, Gatland will not be as worried about the Irishman’s fitness as he was on the last tour due to the emergence of a number of viable alternatives behind him. Leading the charge is Owen Farrell, one of the most improved players over recent seasons who has driven Saracens and England to new heights, he will definitely tour and may well fill the inside centre position in the tests as he has done for England. This leaves one more position to fill and it seems to be a straight shoot-out between George Ford and Finn Russell, as the expansive game plan which Gatland seems to want to play counts against the solid Dan Biggar. So, while Russell can produce outstanding moments of skill, Ford just edges it due to his more calm persona and the vision with which he can unleash his backline.

Selection: Jonathan Sexton, Owen Farrell, George Ford.

This should be one of the easiest decisions for Gatland to make with Conor Murray, Ben Youngs and Rhys Webb all of exceptional standard and playing well for their countries. The man who may challenge them is Greig Laidlaw, whose ability to goal-kick as well as his leadership skills would be valuable on tour, but he does not have the required X-Factor to knock the other three out of their position. As it stands, Murray seems certain to start as he has quickly become one of the outstanding Northern Hemisphere players with his performances for Munster and Ireland.

Selection: Conor Murray, Ben Youngs, Rhys Webb.

The pack provides even more difficult decisions for Gatland as all four of the Home Nations are based on superb forward efforts. Mako Vunipola seemed certain to start at loose-head before injury but will now be pushed hard by Ireland’s Jack McGrath for that position. This leaves one more slot which is likely to be contested by Gethin Jenkins, who is hoping to return for a remarkable fourth tour, Cian Healy and Joe Marler. Marler may have pushed hard for the position but for injury denying him his England place for the start of the Six Nations, so I have given the position to Cian Healy for his all-round dynamism, although he may be challenged by the exuberant Ellis Genge if the young tyro stars in the Six Nations.
The tight-head position will also be fiercely contested, with Tadhg Furlong the favourite after his outstanding virtuoso performances in the Autumn, while Dan Cole has also produced a remarkable resurgence under Eddie Jones and seems certain to go on a second tour. This again leaves one spot and it would seem to be a choice between the solidity of WP Nel or the energy of Kyle Sinckler and although Sinckler would be an exciting prospect off the bench, as shown by his recent cameos for England, if required to start Nel would be the more reliable option.

Selection: Mako Vunipola, Jack McGrath, Cian Healy, Dan Cole, Tadhg Furlong, WP Nel.

This position, until recently, seemed to be a competition not only for a tour spot, but also potentially for the captaincy. It may still turn out that way, it would be hard to deny Dylan Hartley or Rory Best the role if they led their country to a Grand Slam. Both would make my touring party; Hartley, despite his disciplinary discretions, would add much-needed snarl to the squad as well as leadership, while Best has developed into a solid all-round hooker after his horror tour of Australia in 2013. My final spot would go to Jamie George, perhaps the most complete hooker in England, who would not only be an able deputy but would push both men hard for a starting spot. Sean Cronin may have challenged before injury ruled him out of the Six Nations, while Ken Owens and Scott Baldwin could also make the plane with decent showings in the Six Nations.

Selection: Dylan Hartley, Rory Best, Jamie George.

This will be the hardest position for Gatland to choose; England have at least four second-rows of Test match quality, Alun Wyn Jones is usually the first name on any team sheet, the Gray brothers form a formidable pairing and that’s without even mentioning the Irish man-mountain, Devin Toner. One man certain to tour is Maro Itoje, who has been a revelation since making his international debut a year ago. I place him on the plane alongside my tour captain, Alun Wyn Jones, who is by no means a certainty to start the tests due to competition and the alternative leaders in the squad but commands respect due to his gargantuan efforts on the pitch. George Kruis is also very likely to tour due his recent rise and his excellence in the line out and defence, as well as his close relationship with the forwards coach, Steve Borthwick. This leaves only two places to be contested by the Gray brothers, Joe Launchbury, Courtney Lawes, Devin Toner and Iain Henderson. Jonny Gray claims one as he has established himself as a huge presence in the Scottish second-row while also leading Glasgow with aplomb, showing abilities which could be vital in bringing this squad together. This counts against his brother and Devin Toner, who both have similar playing styles and so miss out due to the wealth of other options. The final decision between Launchbury, Lawes and Henderson is difficult, especially with Henderson’s ability to play 6, but with Itoje already in the squad and a plethora of options in the back-row as well, this skill becomes less essential. I have given the final slot to Launchbury on the back of his tireless performances in the Autumn, which he has taken back to Wasps and grown into a player of outstanding ability while his proficiency over the ball gives him a point of difference.

Selection: Alun Wyn Jones (c), Maro Itoje, George Kruis, Joe Launchbury, Jonny Gray.

One of the toughest decisions Gatland will have to make is to drop Sam Warburton, the man he has mentored at Wales and who led the team so successfully in Australia. But, Warburton is no longer first choice for Wales, let alone the Lions, and with so many options available there is no place for him in the squad. The man most likely to replace him at open side is his compatriot, Justin Tipuric, who would enable the team to play a free-flowing style equal to the All Blacks with his ability to make turnovers but also with his skill with ball in hand which is equal to that of a Test class centre. Along with Tipuric, Billy Vunipola and Taulupe Faletau are certain to tour if they shrug off their current injury concerns as they have the ability to take the game to the All Blacks and place them on the back foot with their running game. The same is true of Jamie Heaslip and CJ Stander, who have been outstanding for Ireland and their respective provinces this season and would offer viable alternatives as strong ball-carriers to put the Lions over the gain-line. This would also apply to Sean O’Brien, who on his day can be a one man wrecking ball, but would be pushed hard for selection by Ross Moriarty, James Haskell and Chris Robshaw, who have both been outstanding for their countries over the last year. Robshaw would have been very likely to tour before he was dealt the cruel blow of injury which has ruled him out of the Six Nations, but if he recovers in time he would still make my squad due to his all-round excellence and his never-say-die attitude. If he does not, Haskell or Moriarty would take his place alongside O’Brien, who just edges the position due to his experience of playing at 7. The possible bolter among this group would be Thomas Young, who has been in inspired form for Wasps over the last few months, but it would be a brave man to select him at the moment when his international pedigree is unproven, especially if he were leaving Warburton at home.

Selection: Justin Tipuric, Jamie Heaslip, Taulupe Faletau, Billy Vunipola, Chris Robshaw, CJ Stander, Sean O’Brien.

So, there is my 37-man squad to face the All Blacks in the summer; it combines a mix of youth and experience and is set up to play a fast-paced style based around a forward pack made of strong carriers which could place the All Blacks on the back foot. It is made up of 14 Englishmen, 12 Irish, 7 Welsh and 4 Scots, who I believe would have the ability to complete the formidable task of beating New Zealand at home, a feat which has been achieved only once in over a century of trying.

But before, that excitement begins and these players join up for the tour of a lifetime, they will batter each other with tooth and nail in what promises to be one of the most exciting Six Nations in recent memory. So, find a pub and sit down to enjoy this wonderful festival of rugby. Nail your nation’s colours to your mast, paint them on your face and buckle in for what is going to be a succession of mouth-watering ferocity. Roll on Saturday, and savour the spectacle.

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Saturday, December 24, 2016

Santa on sleigh - Freehand Christmas Nailart 2016

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Wish you Merry Christmas. I also did Santa Nailart for Christmas. I got inspired from the cover of magazine which had image of Santa on sleigh on cover. I loved how it came out. Keep reading for more details.

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Soft Floral Nails Using Gels- Gel nailart

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Today I am sharing something new for me. It's my first time doing gel nailart. I had purchased a UV lamp with gel kit from aliexpress almost a year ago (Click here to read my first impression) But I hardly used it. But finally I decided to try these gels and I came up with this simple floral design. I am quite pleased with the way it turned out. Read on to know more about my experience.

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

40 Great Nail Art Ideas- Things That Fly: Fairies Nailart

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Today I am sharing a cute nail art I did for #40GreatNailArtIdeas Theme Things that fly. This theme is so interesting isn't it. Options are unlimited and I went for fairies. For this nailart I started with gradient background and then added some freehand swirls to give it a mystical look. Then over that I added fairy stickers I received from El-Corazon. I have filmed a small tutorial to show how did swirls on nails so do watch it at the end of the post.

Monday, August 10, 2015

Sunset in Hawaii - Summer Nailart featuring Health&Glow Fluo Magenta and Fluo Red Orange Nail Polishes

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How are you? Well I broke my nails and have to chop them off but that won't stop me from making them lovely right ! :D Today I am sharing summer nails which I did using neon polishes from Health&Glow India. They are available only at their stores in selected Indian Cities. I managed to get a couple of Health & Glow polishes while they were on sale  (Thanks to my bro who bought them for me from Chennai) and I will be using them and sharing swatches in my future posts ! Well for now let's have a look at these beauties and also my Hawaiian nails :)

Sunday, June 7, 2015

MultiChrome Gradient and Geometric Stamping

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How are you all? Today I am sharing a simple stamping nailart done over a gradient base. I was planning to do this base since I got Phalish Winter Collection. The polishes I used here are holo-flakies and give a multichrome polish effect as gradient. Check out how ?:)

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Geometric Gradient- Rectangular Gradient Nails Video Tutorial

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Today I will share a new to me nail technique called geometric gradient. This is for NailthatTechnique-April challenge. I have seen radial gradient nails and was thinking to recreate the same on my nails but then I thought to try a different shape. I am quite pleased with the gradient I came up with - this is rectangular gradient. I have also done a video tutorial to show how I did this which is linked later in the post. Let's have a look

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Scaled Gradient Nails - Nail That Technique March

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Today I will share Scaled Gradient Nails for NailThatTechnique Challenge. You can also join us on instagram by following IndianLacquerLovers. Scaled gradient technique was started by Cristine aka SimplyNailogical and has been recreated a lot since. I have also done this before but this time I used vertical gradient method instead of horizontal. Let's have a look

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Valentine's Day Nails with Syrup Gradient Technique

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How are you all? Most of us are in Valentine's Day mood already. I am planning a family day out with my kids and hubby and will bake a cake :) What are your plans? Do share with me.

And what about V-Day mani? What are you wearing for Vday? Here is one idea simple and easy to do. All you need is two polishes and some heart stickers, so shall we check out :)

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Romantic Nails for Valentine Eve

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Sharing my first V-Day mani today. It will be perfect for a valentine evening. I have added step by step pics so you can try if you like. Let's have a look

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Halloween Vampire Nails - 3 Dark colours for #52WPNMC

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Happy Halloween !
I did these vampire nailart for Halloween and this is last nailart for #nailartchallengeoctober and also fits into #52WPNMC prompt 3 Dark Colors.Bloody drip and dark base makes it quite interesting ! Have a look

Friday, October 24, 2014

Diwali Nailart - Wishing All a Happy Diwali 2014

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Wish you a wonderful Diwali. Diwali is the festival of Lights and celebrated in the honour of Lord Rama returning to his home. This is a week long festival and different days have different ceremonies. Goddess Laxmi and Lord Ganesha are worshipped as this festival is also considered as start of Hindu's new year and Hindus pray for prosperity and good luck for coming new year.

This is my favourite festival. As a kid also I loved decorating my house with earthen lamps and helping my mother in making rangoli. I tried to recreate the same scene on my nails. Have a look

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Haunted House Nails - Halloween Nails !!

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I am still carrying on #NailartChallengeOctober for Halloween Themes. I talked about all details of this challenge in my first post so if you are interested you can click HERE and join :)

For today's prompt, which is Haunted House, I decided to do very simple Halloween nails. I also did matte version. So let's have a look now :D

Friday, October 10, 2014

Candy Corn Nails- Halloween Nail Challenge

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As you know I am doing a Halloween Nail challenge on Instagram and already shared a nailart few days back HERE. so today I am sharing Candy corn Nails and I really enjoyed doing it. I loved the way it came out and I hope you will also like it.

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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Ruffle Nails - One Stroke Nail Art

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Today I will share ruffle nails which is last prompt for #STNchallenges. I wanted to draw some ruffles (frills) using one stroke nails technique. It was a great fun and the result is beautiful.

Monday, September 29, 2014

Blue-Black Gradient Nails : 52 Week Pick n Mix Challenge

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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Scaled Gradient Nails (part1)- My first experience

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Today I am sharing scaled gradient nails as a part of #STNchallenges. You too can join us on facebook HERE and be a part of our future nail art challenges. This is my first attempt to this technique and I admit it was a real challenge. I failed terribly in my first trial but I didn't give up and here is my successful mani. After few trials and errors I finally came up with my own do's and don'ts which I hope will help others too. So keep reading........

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Welcome to part 2 of my scaled gradient manicure.
In this post you will find detailed steps on how I achieved the look. Also I have shared my tips for successful scaled gradient lets see >>

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

One Stroke Roses on a Rosy Gradient Nails

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I am blogging after a long break as I was enjoying my holidays and it was fun. If you are following my social sites you might have seen some pics and updates. Anyways today's nail art is for STNchallenges theme - Nailart using two techniques. You can join us on facebook HERE and be a part of future challenges. In this design I used two techniques- Gradient and One stroke. Lets have a look at it.


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Jennifer Lopez and beau were spotted shopping earlier today in California. J.Lo looked fab in her very own dress. Yes this dress is from her Fall 2013 Jennifer Lopez Collection available exclusively at Kohl's. I love her clothing line at Kohl' much more sophisticated than her J. Lo by Jennifer Lopez line that she first launched in 2001.

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