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Choosing The Right HDInsight Cluster

Josh Fennessy discusses things to consider before you create an HDInsight cluster:

Now for the big question, Windows or Linux?

That’s absolutely correct.

Help With Extended Events

Jason Brimhall has two recent blog posts on figuring out Extended Events information.  First is a republication of an older article:

First let’s tackle the problem of discovery.  When we want to use extended events to try and troubleshoot a problem or to capture more information, it is really good to know if such an event exists.  There are many events that capture data for various different things within SQL Server.  More and more events are being added with each release.  More and more data is being made available to the DBA to help perform a better job and to help the DBA better understand what is really happening within the database environment.

In order to determine if there might be an event, that can provide the data for that one “thing” that may be happening within your environment, we could start by querying the SQL Server Internals.  This next query will do just that for us.

After you read that article and check out the queries there, Jason has another post on finding the right event:

In my previous article I demonstrated how to find an event based solely on the name or description of the event. This is fantastic if the event name (or description) contains one of the magical words you have used. What if the event name or description has nothing to do with the terms you selected? Or, what if the data you seek may be attached to the event but wouldn’t necessarily stand out as a description for that event (by name or description details for that event)?

Now comes the more difficult task right? If the name or description of the event doesn’t relate to the search terms then you just might overlook a few events and be stuck trying to troubleshoot a problem. An equally big problem this could cause is yet another invisible barrier to using Extended Events. It would be easy to slide down the slippery slope and not transition to Extended Events just because an event, applicable to the problem at hand, could not be found.

Check out both of these posts.

Clustering With Spark

Konur Unyelioglu shows how to implement k-means and Guassian clustering techniques in Apache Spark using MLlib:

Clustering is the task of assigning entities into groups based on similarities among those entities. The goal is to construct clusters in such a way that entities in one cluster are more closely related, i.e. similar to each other than entities in other clusters. As opposed to classification problems where the goal is to learn based on examples, clustering involves learning based on observation. For this reason, it is a form of unsupervised learning task.

There are many different clustering algorithms and a central notion in all of those is the definition of ’similarity’ between the entities that are being grouped. Different clustering algorithms may have different ways of measuring the similarity. In many clustering algorithms, another common notion is the so-called cluster center, which is a basis to represent the cluster. For example, in K-means clustering algorithm, the cluster center is the arithmetic mean position of all the points in that cluster.

This is a fairly lengthy article but if you want to get into machine learning with Spark, it’s a good one.

Rename A Primary Key Constraint

Steve Jones shows how to rename a primary key constraint:

When you compare that with the same table in another database, what’s the likelihood that you’ll have the PK named PK__OrderDet__D3B9D30C7D677BB4? Probably pretty low.

This means that if you are looking to deploy changes, and perhaps compare the deployment from one database to the next, you’ll think you have different indexes. Most comparison tools will then want to change the index on your target server, which might be using this technique. Or the choice might be something that performs much worse.

What we want to do is get this named the same on all databases. In this case, the easiest thing to do with rename the constraint on all systems. This is easy to do with sp_rename, which is better than dropping and rebuilding the index.

Do read this and avoid renaming a constraint the bad way.

Statistic Column Sort Order

Shaun J. Stuart points out an inconsistency in display order for columns on a statistic:

What’s going on? Why are the columns in the statistic not in the same order as the columns in the index? Well, it turns out, they are. If we look on the Details page, we see the density vector is, in fact, created as Col2, Col1, Col3, which is the order of the columns in the index:

Read the whole thing to avoid confusion next time you look at the statistics GUI.

Cluster Rebalancing

Kevin Feasel

Peter Coates discusses cluster rebalancing in Hadoop:

After adding new racks to our 70 node cluster, we noticed that it was taking several hours per terabyte to rebalance the nodes. You can copy a terabyte of data across a 10GbE network in under half an hour with SCP, so why should HDFS take several hours?

It didn’t take long to discover the cause—the configuration parameterdfs.datanode.balance.bandwidthPerSecond controls how much bandwidth each node is allowed to use for rebalancing, and it defaults to a conservative value of 10Mb/sec/node, which is 1.25MB/sec. If you have 70 nodes (the number we started with before adding new ones), that’s 87.5MB/second. One terabyte, i.e., a million MB, divided 87.5MB/sec, equals 11,428 sec, or 3.17 hours per TB. The more nodes in the original cluster, the faster it will write.

On the development side, “it’ll automatically rebalance without us having to worry” is a great thing.  On the administrative side, we’re paid to worry about these things…

Data Cleansing Outside Of Excel

Lee Baker shows some free alternatives to Excel for data cleansing:

Another issue is that some Excel functions operate on selected data, whereas others act on the whole worksheet. If you select a column of data and use Find to identify certain characters, it will identify only those characters in your chosen column. If you now use Replace it will change all such characters in the entire worksheet – which is probably not what you wanted to do, and you may have unwittingly introduced new errors into your data without being aware of it.

The safest way to clean your data in Excel is to copy an individual column to a separate worksheet, perform all your cleaning operations in isolation until you’re happy with the result, then copy your cleaned data to your original sheet (or better still, to a new sheet that stores only clean data). The repeated use of Copy, Paste and using multiple worksheets to clean your data can become extremely messy.

Lee recommends three free tools, and they look like they’re worth trying out.

StackLite Dataset

David Robinson reports on a new Stack Exchange data set available to the public:

For each Stack Overflow question asked since the beginning of the site, the dataset includes:

  • Question ID
  • Creation date
  • Closed date, if applicable
  • Deletion date, if applicable
  • Score
  • Owner user ID (except for deleted questions)
  • Number of answers
  • Tags

This is ideal for performing analyses such as:

  • The increase or decrease in questions in each tag over time

  • Correlations among tags on questions

  • Which tags tend to get higher or lower scores

  • Which tags tend to be asked on weekends vs weekdays

  • Rates of question closure or deletion over time

  • The speed at which questions are closed or deleted

This is pretty exciting.  Getting good, high-quality data sets for demonstration and pedagogical purposes is time-consuming, so the fact that the Stack Exchange people are tossing one out our way could be a major time-saver.

Simplified Order Of Operations

Kevin Feasel

Michael J. Swart looks at how SQL Server implements order of operations:

I have a book on my shelf called Practical C Programming published by O’Reilly (the cow book) by Steve Oualline. I still love it today because although I don’t code in C any longer, the book remains a great example of good technical writing.

That book has some relevance to SQL today. Instead of memorizing the full list of operators and their precedence, Steve gives a practical subset:

    1. * (Multiply), / (Division)
    2. + (Add), – (Subtract)

Put parentheses around everything else.

Parentheses, even when unnecessary, are usually a good idea.  They help the reader understand what was going through your mind at the time.

New DBATools Cmdlet

Rob Sewell describes his experience creating a new cmdlet:

The journey to Remove-SQLDatabaseSafely started with William Durkin b | t who presented to the SQL South West User Group  (You can get his slides here)

Following that session  I wrote a Powershell Script to gather information about the last used date for databases which I blogged about here and then a T-SQL script to take a final backup and create a SQL Agent Job to restore from that back up which I blogged about here The team have used this solution (updated to load the DBA Database and a report instead of using Excel) ever since and it proved invaluable when a read-only database was dropped and could quickly and easily be restored with no fuss.

This is a combination of describing what the cmdlet does as well as the circumstances behind its creation.  It’s a good read.

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Serve for Your Life!

You get eight fall/spring breaks through your four years at Creighton. Ever thought of it that way? Yes, eight separate weeks, each with endless possibilities. Have you used one of these weeks to serve something greater? No? Well, as the saying goes: “If not you, who? If not now, when?”

There’s a place right on campus that enables you to serve something greater. The Creighton Center for Service and Justice (CCSJ) in the Harper Center puts on Service and Justice Trips each fall and spring break to dozens of locations around the country, each addressing a unique social justice issue. Immigration policies, education issues, homelessness, and environmental sustainability only begin to scratch the surface of the plethora of experiences at your fingertips.

Here’s a personal service trip experience to really bring it home: Last year, I embarked on a trip to Pilsen, a Latino neighborhood in Chicago. I worked at a parish led by a matriarch named Miquita, an elderly woman who spoke only Spanish. To give you an idea of her warm demeanor, she was widely known as the “Mexican Mother Teresa.” Her soul seemed to glow, and I wanted so badly to hear her stories, but I didn’t speak a word of Spanish. Nevertheless, we would often smile at one another and sometimes she’d hold my hand as we walked from place to place. Her Christ-filled beauty beamed from these interactions, and I realized that though a spoken language barrier separated us, we’re all fluent in the language of compassion and humanity. I’ll embark on my sixth Creighton service for fall break 2013. These trips are the most formative and influential experiences I’ve had as a Creighton student. (Can you even fathom the weight of that statement? Think all the experiences, big or small, you’ve had as a student. These trips make an impact.)

Above all, these trips are rooted in the heart of the Jesuit mission. Whether or not you choose to integrate Creighton’s Jesuit values into your daily life, St. Ignatius of Loyola’s teachings are undeniably electrifying and meaningful. An experience rooted in such impassioned values creates the foundation for a profound experience through a Service and Justice Trip. Each experience allows students to grow into men and women for and with others, as St. Ignatius of Loyola teaches, and to be in solidarity with the many members of our human family.

If you’re at all interested in becoming an influential, uniquely formed individual, Creighton is the right place. It’s the Jesuit values that set Creighton apart, that form extraordinary agents for change. Want to actually put our Jesuit mission into action, rather than just talk about it sometimes? Opportunity’s knocking: Applications are available now for Fall Break 2013. They’re due April 9. You’ll find the application and all relevant details here: http://blogs.creighton.edu/ccsj/serviceandjusticetrips/fall2013_application/

Don’t miss out on this truly incredible opportunity. A CCSJ Service and Justice Trip is the beginning of something complex, profound, and wonderful. In this writer’s opinion, no Creighton career is complete without [at least] one.

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In computer science, an undecidable problem is one that requires a yes or no answer, but is impossible for any known computer to reliably solve. Three of these problems are the halting problem, Kolmogorov complexity, and the Wang tile problem. The halting problem refers to whether a computer can determine if a program will ever finish running, whereas Kolmogorov complexity deals with compression, and the impossibility of perfectly compressing any given file. Wang tiles are square tiles with a color on each side. Infinitely placing them next to each other so that the colors of each side match the colors on the adjacent squares is called "tiling the plane," and there is currently no computer that can predict whether a given set of Wang tiles will tile the plane. Dive deeper into these computer conundrums in the video below.

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One cat in Japan holds an unlikely position at Wakayama Electric Railway Co. In 2007, the company appointed a stray cat named Tama to be super station master at one of its train stations, Kishi Station. Before Tama took on this official role, Kishi was struggling, and many employees were laid off. In just five years of Tama acting as the station master of Kishi, the cat helped bring in $10 million in revenue from tourists visiting the station to see its furriest and most famous employee. In June of 2015, Tama the cat passed away. Shortly after, Nitama ("Tama the Second"), a cat aged five, was appointed to Tama's former position as station master.

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  2. The main duty of Tama the Japanese station master cat was the greet passengers. 02:00

  3. The struggling Kishi Station in Japan was saved after hiring Tama the cat as station master. 02:10

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NEW YORK, N.Y. - New York City is the kind of place where you can see just about anything, from pizza-coveting rats to a pigeon-covered guy to a naked woman on the street.

In a scene a little too closely resembling Game of Thrones, a man allegedly forced his wife to parade outside nude. In the video posted online, the wife starts off in a towel and you can hear her husband calling her names.

"Say 'Hi' to the camera and say why you're doing it," he tells her.

The man eventually yanks the towel away and tells her, in Spanish, to "pose with your rubbish." Why the walk of shame? The man says he found out she was sexting seven other guys.

Web reaction to the video has been mixed with some people branding the video as "really low" and others calling it "well deserved" and "great."

What she did might be wrong, but his reaction is uncivilized, unreasonable and possibly illegal. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the naked truth.

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HOUSTON -- It’s thrills, chills and farts this weekend at the box office. Houston film critic Dustin Chase gives you a look at what's in theaters this 4th of July weekend.

The Purge Election Year marks the 19th sequel to hit screens this year, and the third film in that franchise. Chase reviews the latest horror film as well as the Blake Lively thriller The Shallows where she plays a Galveston, Texas surfer facing a monster shark in Mexico.

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Archive for June, 2015

New Life Through New Eyes

Have you hit the wall? Do you feel like you’re “done”? Is the joy gone…in your work, a relationship, or your life in general? There comes a time in most lives where the joy and satisfaction that once filled and fueled them diminishes even to the point of crisis. When this happens the natural reaction is to run, to flee, to get away from whatever it is that’s moved from beautiful to drab or from exciting to boring. In extreme cases this can lead to divorce, unemployment, or worse. At a minimum it results in dissatisfaction, disharmony, and disengagement.

The interesting thing is that most people who resort to “flight” versus hanging in to “fight”, don’t ever really solve the problem. They may find temporary relief in “different”, but the tendencies that pushed them to the tipping point in the first place will take them there again and again. The reason is that as they see it, the problems…AND the solutions are “out there”…when in reality they lie squarely within themselves! It’s easier to blame a companion or a job or our environment for one’s misery…when the real problem and solution lies within themselves and they choose to see things.

It is a marvelous and amazing thing to witness when someone chooses to see the same [old] thing in a new or different light; to see through new eyes. The author Marcel Proust wrote: “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes”. When we choose to see the same thing differently, to refocus on the positive, on its worth and potential, it (or they) changes right before our eyes. Seen from a different perspective or “attitude” what was drab or boring CAN become beautiful and exciting again.

Try this… Whatever it is (or who they are) that’s lost its luster in your [old] eyes, take out a blank sheet of paper and write at the top “Things I love about…” (whatever it is). Then below that make a list of all the good things, the good qualities, the value, the interesting things, the things about it that you’re grateful for, it’s irreplaceability…in short – the things you genuinely love about it or them. Then, before you go to bed at night stand in front of a mirror and read the list saying before each item on the list “I love….(that thing, aspect, feature, etc.)
Then the next morning repeat this reading, staring yourself in the eyes as you do. Do this every day for the next few days until you begin to see a transformation – until you see the thing (or person) as you once did…and you will!

A small investment in this process may well bring a huge improvement in your life and your relationships and may prevent unnecessary pain, loss, and disappointment down the road.
Too often people run from the very things that are the best things…when the right thing is just to see things with new eyes.

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This seminar is intended for students who are already familiar with the main contours of intellectual-property law and would like to explore the subject further. We will examine in depth a series of topics that, in recent years, have proven especially controversial or troublesome: traditional knowledge; the right of publicity; intellectual-property protection for fashion; fair use; possible solutions to the ongoing crisis in the entertainment industry; the relationship between intellectual property and freedom of speech; exhaustion; extralegal IP norms; and the relationship between IP and business strategy.

Each student will be expected to participate in the discussion of these issues and to write a short research paper addressing an aspect of one of them. Group projects are encouraged. There will be no exam.

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March 7, 2019 @ 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Anstett Hall Room 191, University of Oregon
Abraham Alfaro

This is the joint Areas 31 & 35 Spring 2019 Speech Contest Extravanganzaplosion. In no exact order, we will be having:

  • Area 31 International Speech Contest
  • Area 35 Speech Evaluation Contest
  • Area 35 International Speech Contest
  • Area 31 Speech Evaluation Contest.

Come support your club’s representatives! This might be the year the next World Champion of Public Speaking again comes from District 7 (we’ve had two: Ryan Avery and Randy Harvey. If your name begins with an R, you may have a very good chance!).

I am looking to get local news coverage at this event. It’s possible you may be asked to sign a waiver. I will make details available when appropriate.

The best parking is to the west behind Rennie’s Landing. You can find a useful map leading to parking here, but while we will be in the same building as where the UO club meets, we will not be in the same wing.


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Make your own fun Wow Wow Wubbzy birthday cake

A few years ago Julia was way into Wow Wow Wubbzy, she thought he was cute and had a funny voice and whatever else kids like about cartoons (her love faded for a year but now she’s BACK into him).

ANYWAY, did I mention that the year she was into Wow Wow Wubbzy I made her a Wow Wow Wubbzy cake for her birthday? Julia’s mom was making the arrangements and put me in charge of the cake. Since hand-made cakes are ALWAYS better than buying a rectangular cake with dumb crap airbrushed onto it and plastic soccer balls jammed into it, I decided to try and do it myself.

You might be saying “Damn, How do I make a Wow Wow Wubbzy birthday cake?”. Well, here’s what I discovered: making super-colorful character birthday cakes is easy.

Figure out what you want to make and think about your colors. To make whatever color frosting you want you need a lot of plain white frosting and REALLY potent, saturated food coloring (Williams-Sonoma?). Something like these work great.

Mix up your colors in appropriate amounts and put the more detailed colors that you need for edging (or what a bakery chef would call piping, I think) into a Ziploc® bag, squeeze it all down into the corner and bite the tip of the corner off to make it like a little pastry decorating bag thing. I had to do this for the face and small details.

  • Find the character you want, through proper channels, as I did (don’t sue me). I printed out a party decoration thing off the site which I think they encourage.
  • Print it out on a big sheet or paper
  • Make some kind of platform on which the cake will be transported. You need to be on this thing from start to finish because I don’t think you can move a cake like this to another surface when it’s done. I made a polka-dotted background, printed it out, mounted it to thick cardboard and wrapped it in clear wrap.
  • Make 2 13×9 cakes, cool them, all that.
  • Cut out your image. Try and simplify where you can. I had to customize it a bit by cutting off the arms and tail and shortening them
  • Put it on your cake and carefully cut it out. The fingers here were a bitch to cut out. The cake kept ripping.
  • There will be a lot of leftover cake from the unused areas, chop it into squares and use the leftover frosting to make weird cupcakes.
Wow Wow Wubbzy Cake printed out, slightly altered, and placed on 2 13x9 cakes.

Wow Wow Wubbzy Cake printed out, slightly altered, and placed on 2 13×9 cakes.

Do it

  • Stir up the frosting a bunch, it makes it go on easier.
  • Frost very carefully. (For added punch I did black edges. I could’ve stuck with yellow all around but I thought the black made it a little better.) I’m sure there are great tools for frosting a cake, get some, I had a butter knife, it sucked.
  • You are going to get very messy.

Wow Wow Wubbzy Cake frosted

Finish up

  • Clean up the base
  • Refrigerate the cake to harden the frosting back up.
  • Get out your real camera and take a nice photo

Take THAT, Duff.

Wow Wow Wubbzy Cake

Julia loved it.

Wow Wow Wubbzy Cake

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  • Petition To Free US Marine In Mexican Prison Has Enough Signatures, White House Still Silent

    It’s been more than two months since US Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi was arrested and thrown into a Mexican prison for accidentally crossing the border with three registered firearms in his truck.  Since Sgt. Tahmooressi’s arrest, the Obama White House has been relatively silent.  Now a White House petition has garnered over 100,000 signature, which is enough to force the White House to respond. Screen Shot 2014-06-02 at 7.51.07 PM

    Tahmooressi, who suffers from post traumatic stress disorder, said the treatment from the Mexican prison guards has worsened sense his failed escape. He says the guards stripped him, chained him to a bed, and beat him so many times in the face that he felt his jaw fall out of place.

    A State Department official said they have raised concerns with Mexican authorities about his treatment.

    “We’ve been very engaged,” said department spokeswoman Jen Psaki, according to Fox News. “We’ll continue to press the case.”

    Psaki also said Secretary of State John Kerry has been involved in the situation.

    About that.

    Daily Surge reported last week that instead of making an official statement or visit demanding Tahmooressi’s release, John Kerry spent Memorial Day weekend vacationing in Nantucket, a ritzy destination spot off of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

    It’s a shame that an online petition has to force an official response out of Obama and Jay Carney.

    I mean, it’s Mexico for crying out loud. No wonder America is losing respect around the world.

    One would imagine that after months of being mired in one military scandal after another, from Benghazi to Bergdahl to the VA, that Obama would be out there fighting to have Sgt. Tahmooressi released.

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Police deny officer’s involvement in human trafficking at MMIA

Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja Police Command on Tuesday debunked the claim that one of its officers, Insp. Matthew Esan, was involved in human trafficking at the airport.
The spokesperson for the command, DSP Joseph Alabi, who made the denial while speaking with newsmen in Lagos, maintained that Esan’s arrest was carried out in error by operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).

Alabi said investigations by the command showed that the officer was arrested by overzealous NAPTIP operatives while carrying out his legitimate duties at the airport terminal.

He said:” On June 9, 2018, at about 7.30pm, one Insp. Matthew Esan attached to Airport Police Command, Ikeja, while on duty at MMIA departure hall, received one Henry who claimed he was sent to him.
“While trying to get acquainted with the said person, some men who were later discovered to be NAPTIP operatives descended on him, and seized his phone as well as police Identity Card.
“The officer was later told that he was among a syndicate trafficking young Nigerians to the forthcoming FIFA World Cup in Russia and was later taken to the NAPTIP office alongside some other arrested persons and 10 rescued youths.

However, Alabi said following the intervention of the command, Esan was released on Monday after the arrested persons confirmed that they did not know him.
“The command wishes to reassure Nigerians that we will continue to work with NAPTIP and other sister agencies towards tackling human trafficking and other criminal activities within the airport environment.
“We also want to assure passengers and other airport users that the command is committed to their safety and security at all times,” he said.

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For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
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what God has prepared for those who love him”
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Eastchester's Cinzia Studio Celebrates 10 Years Of Dancing

Eastchester resident Cinzia DeGregorio. Photo Credit: Submitted
The space at Cinzia Dance Studio. Photo Credit: Submitted

EASTCHESTER, N.Y. -- Cinzia Dance Studio may be two years "young" in Eastchester, but the business has been around for 10 years and is, in fact, celebrating that achievement with a concert in May at the Tarrytown Music Hall.

The facility, now located at 291-293 Main Street, opened in 2006 in Scarsdale, and has since evolved into a large two room space. So said Owner Cinzia DeGregorio who said that, thanks to a professional staff and accommodating dance schedule, dancers have achieved great accomplishments both personally and professionally over the years.

"Our competition team was started four years ago and has grown into an award winning lyrical, jazz and hip hop team," explained the Eastchester resident.

Cinzia's also provides technical training in all the major dance styles, especially lyrical and hip hop, and offers vocal lessons, private sessions and fitness classes to boys and girls ages two and up. Adult dance, cardio and yoga are also offered.

"With our unique 'create a class' option, we let parents and children fit their love for dance in their hectic schedules as well as choose the desired style- and we always ensure that everyone leaves with a smile on their face and dance in their hearts," said DeGregorio.

She said 2016 holds great things for Cinzia's.

"We have doubled the size of our competition team and now have two teams that perform in various styles," said DeGregorio. The venue is also popular for birthday parties and is open seven days a week.

Go to for more details. And watch for information about the 10th anniversary recital May 22 at Tarrytown Music Hall. There will also be a ribbon cutting ceremony in Eastchester that month (date to be determined.)

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March 10, 2016 / Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers

A glimpse into the region’s future

According to a new regional forecast from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, the region’s population will continue to grow steadily and will add nearly 1.5 million residents over the next 30 years. Job growth is also expected to be significant. Officials are concerned a surge in residents to the region will continue to present challenges in providing affordable housing and quality transportation. (WaPo, 3/9)

The [District] is projected to expand from 672,000 residents last year to 987,000 in 2045, when it will be just shy of replacing Prince George’s County as the region’s third-most-populous jurisdiction, according to the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG).

Fairfax and Montgomery counties will continue to rank first and second. They and other counties in the region will continue to grow. But only Charles County, which is a quarter of the District’s size, will gain population at a faster rate than the city.

Related: Last year, 2030 Group president Bob Buchanan and George Mason’s Center for Regional Analysis senior adviser and director of special projects Stephen Fuller, led the charge to undertake an extensive research project providing recommendations for ways in which the region can reposition itself to maximize potential and remain competitive in the global economy titled, The Roadmap for the Washington Region’s Future Economy. WRAG president Tamara Lucas Copeland also shared how philanthropy in the region might respond and collaborate with other sectors to meet challenges facing our communities. (Daily 1/15)

– As misconceptions change about what the “face of HIV/AIDS” looks like, grassroots efforts are proving to be helpful in empowering those who are newly diagnosed. (WTOP, 3/10)

– Medicaid Rules Can Thwart Immigrants Who Need Dialysis (WAMU, 3/8)

EDUCATION/HOMELESSNESS | With recently-announced plans to replace the D.C. General shelter with smaller facilities, some are growing concerned about what the changes may mean for overcrowding in surrounding schools. (WCP, 3/8)

PHILANTHROPY/GENDER EQUITY | Mind the Gap – How Philanthropy Can Address Gender-Based Economic Disparities (PND, 3/8)

ARTSOpinion: One theatergoer shares his experience watching a popular Broadway show featuring a diverse cast, and how he felt when he look around and noticed the audience was anything but. (NPR, 3/8)

JOBS | The Abell Foundation is seeking to fill its Grants Associate position.

This quick quiz will guess your age, marital status, and income based on which mobile apps you have on your phone. My own results came pretty close!

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  1. napolikid / Mar 11 2016 1:01 am

    Re the app quiz: Got my gender wrong & that was supposed to be the easiest
    to predict?

    • Ciara Myers, Editor / Mar 11 2016 9:58 am

      Now that I think about it, that’s probably a good thing! It’s alarming just how much information can be gained from app usage.

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Four Signs It’s Time for Radiator Repair in Athens County, OH

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Cars are very fascinating and complicated machines. There are so many different parts, gears and belts that all have to work seamlessly together in order for the vehicle to function properly. While it can be argued that each component is important in its own right, your car’s radiator is one of the most important parts. If it’s not functioning properly, your vehicle will overheat and driving it will be impossible. You’ll know it’s time for radiator repair in Athens County, OH if you notice any of the following signs:

  • Internal corrosion: Most radiators are made of aluminum. Although aluminum’s heat conductivity capabilities make it a great material for radiator manufacture, it can corrode over time. A corroded radiator is bound to fail sooner rather than later. Unless you’re a car-savvy individual and can check your radiator for corrosion, we recommend bringing your car in for inspection at least once a year to ensure everything looks normal.
  • Warning light on your dashboard: It’s never a good feeling when you look at your dashboard and see a flashing orange or red light. This is especially the case if the coolant level light is on. The light is an indicator that your coolant is low for some reason. The light might be on simply because the coolant needs to be topped off; after all, it doesn’t last forever. On the other hand, the light may be on because there’s a coolant leak in your radiator that needs to be repaired as soon as possible. Never drive for too long with that light on. Bring your car to us and we’ll be able to diagnose the cause of the flashing light.
  • Wet spot on the ground: After you park your car, you’ll often see droplets on the pavement. These drops can be from a number of different parts of your car, and they’re usually not signs of problems. That being said, an abnormal amount of fluid on the ground is a clear sign that something is wrong. It may not be from your radiator, but it certainly can’t hurt to bring it in for an inspection.
  • Steam coming out from your hood: The presence of steam is an indicator that the radiator is no longer able to cool the engine. If steam is pouring out from underneath your hood, pull off to the side of the road as soon as you can and call a tow truck. Driving with a totally broken radiator can cause major damage to other parts of your car. The good news is that the steam might only be caused by a loose cap. If that’s the case, you won’t need actual radiator repair in Athens County, OH. But you should always err on the side of caution and never drive with steam coming from beneath your hood.

The best way to avoid needing potentially expensive radiator repair in Athens County, OH is to bring your car to Dana’s Tire Center for regular maintenance. Our professionals will be able to correct anything that doesn’t look quite right before your radiator fails. Contact us today to schedule an appointment!

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Lovecats Cowl Kit

I hardly ever promote products here at Dances with Wools, but when I saw this cowl, I just had to post it. The designer, Caroline Sommerfield, is a dedicated animal rights activist. She created a line of cat and dog colored yarns called – what else? – Meow and Woof, and donates proceeds to rescue and adoption agencies, spaying and neutering programs, and trap-neuter-return programs that support feral cat colonies with safe shelter, food, and vet care. What a brilliant way to combine the love of knitting with love of animals! Those two things are also close to my own heart; hence, this post.

This particular cowl is made in Silver Tabby Ursula, and features tabby style stripes interspersed with little  paw prints. Caroline’s company, Ancient Arts Fiber Crafts , features other kitty color ways in the Meow line, as well as an array of other yarns, patterns, and kits, along with a list of retailers.

You can order the Lovecats Cowl Kit , which is $39.99, here .

Pivot Cowl

img_0985Some knitters find garter stitch to be tedious, and avoid it whenever possible. But as this cowl shows, garter doesn’t have to be boring. In fact, it lends itself quite nicely to shaping, in a neat, tailored sort of way that stockinette or fancier stitches can’t quite match. This design combines short row triangles with rectangles, and one of the things that appealed to me when it caught my eye on the Purl Soho site this afternoon is the way it drapes without bunching up around the neck the way many cowls do. I also like the stitch definition that the yarn, Cashmere Merino Bloom, produces. Having now knitted several garments from Purl Soho kits, I can testify to the excellent quality of their yarns. Pivot is made on size 5 US straight or circular needles.

As soon as I finish the Purl Soho Drachenfels shawl that currently occupies my needles, the Pivot Cowl may just be my next project.

Jordaan Cowl

Just back from a Caribbean vacation, where knitting took a back seat for a week. Settling in at home today, catching up on email, etc,  I found this lovely, lacy cowl pattern from Tahki Stacy Charles. Named for the canals in the Jordaan section of Amsterdam, it’s made on size 9 (US) needles with two laceweight yarns held together. The free pattern is available for upload here. You can order the yarns from the TSC site if you like.

Two Favorite Crocheted Cowl Patterns

Lion Brand has come a long way, baby, since the days of their generic acrylic yarns in basic colors.

Last month, a friend asked me to crochet a cowl for her, using a pattern she found on the net. I prefer knitting to crochet, but the cowl came out so beautiful that I just had to make one for myself, in the same colorway (Lion Brand Homespun, in Tudor, a blend of natural, blues, and lavenders.) The original sports a button closure, which I decided to forego in favor of joining the edges to make a ring. The pattern can be purchased at etsy. Lion Brand has a similar pattern, free of charge, here.

The single crochet cowl, in Lion Brand’s new line, Unique (I used 2 skeins in Oceania), is very simple to make, mostly single crochet through the back loop. That pattern can be found here.

Both of these creations elicit admiration each time I wear them, and they’re both nice and cozy.


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Friday, December 19, 2008

Traditional Gold and Silver

Thank you to everyone who joined in with last week's 10 minute Christmas card dare. There were some amazing cards done in such little time!!

This week, we're setting another team dare which is to use traditional silver and gold on your cards. We'll leave it up to you as to whether or not you make a Christmas card. As its Boxing Day next Friday, we're having a week off, but be sure to check back in the New Year on Friday 2nd January for the first dare of 2009!!

Here are a few team examples to get your mojo going and please pop back giving us a link to your cards :-

Thursday, December 11, 2008

10 Minute Christmas Card

Thanks to all of you who joined in last week and made a card inspired by something in your homes. We hope it made you look at everyday things in a new way.

Just in case you hadn't noticed, Christmas is just around the corner - less than two weeks to go now!
So as we hurtle headlong towards the big day we thought we'd help you out just a little bit with those last minute cards.
Every year we find ourselves needing a few extra cards, even when we thought we'd got plenty, so this dare is all about super-quick Christmas crafting.
We want to see cards that take only a few minutes, but of course don't look it!
Make just one, or see how many you can make in an hour ot's up to you.
On your marks.... get set......Go Go Go
Here are some from the team to get you thinking - and please come back and let us know where we can see your creations. Have fun.

Thursday, December 04, 2008

Be Inspired at Home

Hi Everyone. Kathy here this week - and have I got a challenge for you this time! Are you scared yet? You should be! But first, a huge Thanks you to everyone who joined in last week's dare, the cards were all fabulous and we really enjoyed seeing all the different designs you came up with for Jane's White with Pink Christmas.

This week you can make any card you like - so it can still be for Christmas, or to say Thank You or a card for any occasion you like, but I'd like you to look for your inspiration right there, in your home.
The idea is that you look around your home and find a pattern, design, motif etc - or just part of one that you can replicate and use as the inspiration for your card design
You could use the pattern of the floor or wall tiles in your kitchen or bathroom, or even your patio tiles
Or maybe there's a pattern/motif that's used on a picture frame, wallpaper or curtains.
Or how about checking your crockery, a vase, an ornament for a motif you could develop into a design for a card
Once you start looking around, you'll see loads of little design motifs that can work for you - at least I hope you will!
And now I'm going to be really greedy and say that it would be especially good if you could add a photo of the original item when you write your blog!
I don't ask for much, do I? hehehe
Here are some cards from the Design Team - they were very quiet after I posted this dare for them - I was beginning to think it was A Dare Too Far! Hope it's not too scary for all you Daring Cardmakers out there. Please come back and leave a message when you've had a go at this one and we'll be along to see what you've created

Thursday, November 27, 2008

We are dreaming of a white Christmas.....and.....

Hello everyone!!
Jane here, thanks to everyone who put a card in for Vanessa's fab dare! It's been great viewing all your cards. All too quickly, and its Friday once again....and this week...we are dreaming of a WHITE (and splash of pink Christmas!) I would love you to design a card which includes white mostly (ie: snow, snowmen etc ) and also a little splash of pink somewhere on the card. :)

Here's some cards from the design team to hopefully inspire ...don't forget to leave a link so that we can come have a nosey at your lovely creations!

Friday, November 21, 2008

Cafe Chic!

Good morning everyone, my name is Vanessa, aka Ellepiggo, I've been cardmaking for several years now and I'm delighted to be part of the Daring Cardmakers team. This is my first time at setting the dare and as we're on "firsts" I thought about the first thing that springs to my mind every morning - Coffee!! LOL!

Yes, I'm a bit of a cappuccino/latte macchiato girl, so I want to see lots of cards inspired by coffee!! Coffee colours, cup shaped cards, card inspired by a coffee jar label, using coffee beans on your card, coffee shop logos on your cards etc etc.....

So, why not get creating those cards then pop back here and leave your link so we can come and see your fabulous work. In the meantime, here are a few cards that the Design Team have come up with :-

Stop press - we have now used a random number generator to pick the winners of the dare sponsored by Download Dottie and Charmed cards and Crafts!

The winner of either 2 downloads or the Christmas download is Michele of "my little space on the WWW"

The winner of the surprise prize from Karen at Charmed Cards and Crafts is Caz of "A load of old blogocks"

Could you both please email putting "DCM winner" as the subject and let Karen know which prize you've won. Congratulations to you both and a huge thank you to everyone who took part. We'd also like to thank Louise and Karen for sponsoring the dare :o)

Friday, November 14, 2008

Birds, Birds, Birds

Welcome everyone!
My name is Rein, and I'm setting my first dare for the Daring Cardmakers today!
I was born in Belgium, I'm married to a German man and live with my family in Germany. I love stamping, handikraft, sewing, nature...
I'm glad to set my first dare here.

Bird, Birds and More Birds
I love birds so I'd like you all to make a card featuring birds this week
......a bird in the snow, a birds nest, a carrier pigeon, a white stork or birds in the sky, or...,or... even big bird!
Here's what the design team have come up with to hopefully give you some inspiration :)

Ruth (Tip Top)Jozza Sue

Friday, November 07, 2008

Sponsored dare - Sparkle and Bling

Wow it's Friday again and we can't quite believe that it's November! Just where has this year gone? Before we get going with the new dare we would like to introduce you to our guest designer for November - the fabulous Ruth (Tip Top). We were thrilled when Ruth accepted the invitation to join us this month. Do make sure you check out her blog it is well worth a visit!

This week its Jozza's turn for the Dare and as its Fireworks week here in the UK she has gone all sparkly - so the brief was lots of bling!! We are sponsored this week by Louise Brigden (the designer of Dottie and George plus a whole host of other fabulous images) and Charmed cards and Crafts (the shop who sell the downloadable images).
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Louise was kind enough to supply us all with a selection of Dottie and George images and it's fair to say that we are in love! As it is a sponsored dare this week, we will choose a random winner who will win 2 download collections of their choice or the Dottie and George Christmas download. In addition to this fabulous prize, Karen who owns Charmed Cards and Crafts is going to put together a little something extra from her shop making it 2 prizes up for offer this week so it is going to be well worth taking us up on the dare to be in with a chance to win! The download can be won by anyone worldwide, but sadly the extra prize can only be posted to within Europe as Karen doesn't ship worldwide. We think you should make your card just for us this time - so please, no combined challenges for our prize dare.

SO have a go and see what you can come up with with some sparkle and bling and leave us a link for a chance to win some fabulous goodies. Here's what the design team made...


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Just read on the Romance Divas site that the list is ready at Amber Quill. The chosen few are there… but they’re not spilling anything until midnight on 1 March. Which is 6am here.

The more I read around what I should have written, the less I feel I will be one of the chosen few *sigh*. Nor even the ones who are going to get an offer to revise and submit. I don’t think the story is hot enough. According to some, even the weather has to have an erotic twist to it.

I sooo haven’t got erotic weather LOL

Ah well. I think the story stands on its own, so I should be able to punt it *grin*

So… No writing today either. We went to the seaside. In Britain. In February.

And yes, we should be tested for mental competence. As we were heading back to the car, it started to snow. I haven’t been so cold in a long time. But the hobbits had fun dashing about and causing the usual mayhem.

But there’s nothing quite so grim as an English seaside town in the winter.

With the biting cold and all that lovely sea air, The Ent and I crashed as soon as we got in. He’s only just coming around now.

I still have the mother of all headaches so I’m off in search of tablets.

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  1. Kim Rees / Kim Knox

    LOL – It was on the Sasha White Q&A. I read it a few days ago. It was saying make everything erotic *even* the weather. Not just to have a sunny day… but as Sasha put it… to erotise the weather from the h’s point of view. Really made me think. And to wish that I’d been able to read the Q&A *before* subbing LOL

  2. Pink Pen

    Crap… I hadn’t heard that about the weather. I don’t think I have weather in my story, let alone erotic weather. This waiting is killing me! Fingers crossed m’dear. I’m sure we’ll all be fine… 🙂

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You know you are an au pair in Ireland if …

Some of you may know that from 2011 to 2012, I have spent a gap year in Ireland.  During this time, which was packed with exciting adventures and new experiences, I wrote a little list of things that I learned/experienced/noticed while working as an au pair for a wonderful host family. I hope you enjoy reading this.

Maybe you will only understand some of the points if you are or were an au pair in Ireland.

(I cannot take full credit for this list as many other au pairs have contributed to it when it was posted within a facebook group!) Please feel free to contribute to this list as well. Simply leave a comment :).

You know you are an au pair in Ireland if…

… you greet everyone with ‘hiya’

… you have started a love/hate relationship with tea

… you couldn’t agree more that the Irish are extremely friendly and welcoming

… you missed a bus not because you were too late but because you didn’t know that you have to wave wildly at the bus driver to stop

… you know that Irish bus timetables are not reliable – instead you are mostly grateful, when there are any busses running at all

… you’ve missed a bus not because you were too late, but because the bus was too early

… you know people called Moloney, O’Sullivan, O’Donavan, Murphy and know that they are not ALWAYS related to each other

… you think you’ve just heard someone speaking Irish, but it turns out it was English

… you absolutely love when an Irish man says „cheers“

… you know that in Ireland children eat ‚treats‘ all day long

… you’ve tried Bulmers, Murphys and/or Guinness

… you find that Lemsip actually really helps

… you’ve bought something in a charity shop

…you find that potatoes are served daily and with kind of every meal…

…you can’t cook the ‚tatoes‘ right. The Irish got their special way to prepare them.

…you know what ‚Ribena‘ is

…you always say ‚thanks and goodbye‘ to the bus driver

…you get a heart attack when you see the price of food and beauty products

…you see cows everywhere you go

…you find that there are more cows than sheep in general

…you know that ‚roosters‘ are potatoes

…the children usually get what they want, even if it’s the third chocolate bar just before lunch/dinner

…everything is ‚grand‘ or else: ’not too bad‘

…you LOVE Penneys and Forever 21

…the landscape is so stunning and beautiful that it´s sometimes hard to focus on the children

…you know that not all the Irish are red-heads (stereotype!)

…you hear ‚Galway Girl‘ and ‚Ring of Fire‘ nearly every time you go out… and you still love it!

…you can go into the same pub every f****** night of the week and it’s never boring!

…you can’t spell people’s names, because OWEN is Eoin and EVA is Aoife

…you always take your umbrella AND your sunglasses with you

…you chat with people wherever you go and most of the times the chat starts with a comment about the weather

…you know all the differences between every kind of sugar and flour that exists

…you say ’no bother‘ or ’no worries‘ instead of ‚you’re welcome‘

…you are not surprised anymore if the children just eat a plain piece of butter or if they lick it of the toast

…you know that the butter in Ireland is usually salted

… you have accepted that clubs are closing at 2am and don´t find it shocking anymore when the light is suddenly turned on and you’re ‚politely‘ guided out with a „Folks, enough now – go home – have a safe trip home“

… you eat these sticky sweets like toffee-chocolate-cake or marshmallow-rice-crispy-butter-squares

…the kids get treats nearly on every occasion – whether it’s for behaving nicely in the supermarket or doing what they’ve been told to do

…’toast‘ is called bread (what?)

…you miss brown bread

…you really think you will visit a TOWN, although the so called city has a population of not even 3.000

…you find yourself spending money nearly everywhere you go

…you have tried thousands of different recipes for scones, as they are offered to you almost everywhere you are

…you find it completely normal when a car is passing you with its windows open and you start chatting with the driver

…you use the word ‚filthy‘ rather than ‚dirty‘

…you know longer bother about the streets and don’t get frightened anymore, when a car is coming extremely close to yours

…your host parents have furniture from Argos and mugs and things from Dunnes Store

15 Sekunden Irland (3) – Hi, Anne Frank!

Auf einem kleinen, selbstorganisierten Pub-Crawl an einem Donnerstagabend wurde ich mal wieder erinnert, mir nicht immer so viele Sorgen zu machen. Und das ausgerechnet an einem äußerst stillen und beschaulichen Örtchen: den öffentlichen Toiletten des Turk’s Head Pub im Temple Bar-Viertel.

Wie melancholisch. Danke an Anne Frank und die Person, die anscheinend aus anderen Gründen die Toilette aufsucht als ich.

„Think of the beauty still left around you, and be happy.“ Anne Frank

15 Sekunden Irland (1): Verliebte Monster

Es war einmal ….an einem Donnerstag in Irland: „Anni, weißt du was? Ich habe heute Nacht etwas seltsames geträumt. In meinem Traum waren zwei Monster. Aber sie waren nett. Und verliebt. Ein bisschen verliebt. Kannst du mir ein Bild von den beiden zeichnen?“, fragte mich der 3-jährige kleine Romantiker, auf den ich derzeit in Irland aufpasse. Denn „Monster“ können sich auch verlieben. Seht selbst. Happy End.


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1 year

1 year ago today, just shy of 24 weeks into the pregnancy, our little girls made their entrance into the world. Sweet Madeline was already gone when she arrived but the chance to finally hold her and say goodbye was incredibly special. Holland lived for just a few hours and we were lucky that she was able to be surrounded with love and warmth the entire time before she left us. It’s difficult to know how to spend this day, or even what to call it, but as a family we have decided we want it to always be a happy day to recognize the joy these sweet girls brought to our family.

I only have one “bump” picture with the twins, taken around 16 weeks, and looking back on it today is a very sweet memory of the excitement we had for them.

Today we bought balloons, flowers, and cupcakes. We went out for pancakes and called it a “special family day”. I’m sure when Campbell is a little older we’ll find a more direct way to celebrate her sisters but this year it was what we needed.

We’ve always been very open with Campbell about what happened and we share our sadness with her when it comes. However, we realize that although her sweet little heart understands and remembers a lot, she’s still very young to be able to process it sometimes. Today, it just felt better to have a happy time with her as we celebrated the lives of Madeline and Holland.

A big thank you to everyone who has given us an extra bit of love and support this past year.

“When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.”

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Dawning Creates

Writing and Reviews – Denise Pasutti

Mandy (2018)

The Players: Nicolas Cage (Red); Andrea Riseborough (Mandy Bloom); Linus Roache (Jeremiah Sand) SPOILERS? The Gist: Hmm….Umm…..There’s a lumberjack who can also forge one of a hell a bitchen’ axe. His girlfriend who draws and likes … Continue reading

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The Endless (2017)

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Castle Rock (2018)

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The Walking Dead: When the Dead Come Knocking

Spoilers, spoilers, spoilers…we got ’em!

Only one more episode before the mid-season finale and the prison survivors and Woodbury are finally on the verge of colliding.  The preview for next week looks awesome when Rick, Daryl and Michonne enter Woodbury.

In Woodbury this week, Merle is going to town on Glenn trying to get him to spill the goods on where the rest of the group and Daryl are.  Glenn tries to play it up saying Jim and Dale and Andrea are all with Rick but of course Merle knows the truth. In his anger at Glenn’s refusal to tell him where his brother is, Merle releases a Walker to attack Glenn who is taped to a chair.  Never fear, Glenn kicks ass and kills the Walker after he frees his hands.  Maggie is left in the hands of the Governor to be degraded as he tells her take off her shirt and bra.  He bends her over the table, implying he is going to rape her but he doesn’t.  Maggie and Glenn are reunited and the Governor finally gets his answer about where the survivors are after he puts a gun to Glenn’s head and Maggie tells him.  Glenn wouldn’t even give up the information as he looked at Maggie half-naked, being touched by the Governor and not with a gun to his head.

After Rick brings Michonne into the prison (thanks Carl), she tells him about Woodbury and that Glenn and Maggie have been taken there.  She fails to tell him about Andrea and Merle and I’m pretty sure that she must know that these are the people that Andrea was with and that they know Merle as well.  Rick heads to Woodbury to get Glenn and Maggie back and check out the town.  I think when he first heard of the secure town, he probably thought it would be a sanctuary but he reads Michonne’s body language and hears it in her voice that this is not the safe haven he is hoping for.

On the journey to Woodbury, Rick, Daryl, Michonne and Oscar are overwhelmed by Walkers and hide in an old house inhabited by a hermit that is going to open the door and let the Walkers inside.  Michonne kills the man and Daryl and Rick throw his body to the Walkers in order to escape through the back door.  Only Oscar is somewhat disturbed by the killing of the man and using him as bait.  I think he starting to see what normally good folk are willing to do in this new world.

Milton, the Governor’s doctor buddy, is experimenting and trying to determine if he can bring cognition and humanity back to Walkers.  He uses a dying old man, who volunteered to be his guinea pig, to observe as he dies and comes back.  Milton thinks he can do it and unties the Walker and is inches from having his face bitten off when Andrea sticks a knife through his head, saving a terrified Milton.

Final thoughts:  I understand why the Governor is giving Milton free rein to experiment and try to find a way to bring Walkers back to being human (hopes that his daughter Penny can be saved) but this part of the show was boring.  I was thrilled with Rick, Daryl and Michonne kicking Walker ass and can’t wait for them to get to Woodbury.  The meeting with Merle and Daryl is going to be tense and I think Daryl is going to be severely conflicted about his loyalty to his brother and to his new family – Rick, Carl, Carol and the others.  Oh, oh and the preview that was shown during the Talking Dead was such a tease.  Michonne finds Penny but doesn’t know she is Walker, thinking the Governor is keeping a child tied up with a bag over her head because he’s a sick f**k.  It should be a great episode that will make me curse that it won’t be on again until the New Year.

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Working as a Low-Bono Attorney

Noah Samuels is the Executive Director for The Northwest Consumer Law Center, and we just finished speaking about what we are doing to provide low-bono legal services to people of moderate means.

FYI: Low-bono is a playful way of saying low cost legal help.

Noah and I discussed how trust is paramount when serving clients who may not be familiar with American culture and custom. My strategy is to familiarize myself with my criminal defense clients like a friend would, and in order to establish rapport, I also share some details about myself. A lot of lawyers gasp at the thought of opening up to their clients!

But there is one thing you have to understand: the populations of people we are serving are constantly targeted by scammers and sharks that want to take advantage of people in desperate situations. As a result, people of moderate means, especially immigrants, have become very wary of any outside assistance. These individuals sometimes are foregoing finding professional help because they are afraid of getting taken advantage of.

Serving low-bono clients requires different strategies and understandings. We as lawyers need to rethink how we are communicating with prospective clients and retool our practices so that we can better reach people that need our help.

Shout out to Noah for the chat. Have questions about home-ownership, foreclosure, bankruptcy, debt collection, or student loans? The Northwest Consumer Law Center is there for you.

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‘Absurdities: An Evening of Ionesco’ at The George Washington University by Yvonne French

A pair of quintessential absurdist plays–The Bald Soprano and The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco–will lift you from the humdrum and deposit you in a place where language takes on a refreshing new meaning . . . that of nothing at all.

Maxton Young Jones, Will Low, and Rebekah Meyer. Photo by Chris Evans, TRDA Promotions Office.
‘Bald Soprano’: Maxton Young Jones, Will Low, and Rebekah Meyer. Photo by Chris Evans, TRDA Promotions Office.

In the experienced hands of Director Alan Wade, a professor of theatre since 1977 at George Washington University (GWU), this performance of two one-act plays gives you permission to sit back and let the nothingness wash over you.

The Bald Soprano is Ionesco’s first play. It is about a pair of British couples, one of which visits the other, but their conversation is so platitudinous and inane that, when they switch roles at the end, it doesn’t really matter.

The Chairs is an prime example of Theater of the Absurd, a literary tradition that describes life as pointless attributed to French writer Albert Camus and discussed in his essay The Myth of Sysyphus, who was doomed to push a rock up a hill over and over only to watch it roll down again and again.

As the Old Woman in The Chairs, GWU Senior Hilary Kelly established her quirky character with one peasant-like sniff of her nose. Kelly made the scattered, fussy, mean, conciliatory and flirtatious Old Woman into a totally recognizable character.

As the Old Man, Freshman Richard Schiavone excelled at regressing to his younger years. At one point, he sits on her lap and she comforts him as if she is his mother. They capture what it is to be young, and, notably, what it is like to be old and look back upon it. Her murmurs and gestures in addition to Ionescu’s dialog of cooings and nonsense words are excellent.

In The Bald Soprano, Senior Caitlin Simpson uses a nice sparse tempo as Mrs. Smith in her long opening monolog, and carries the show from her first singularly raised eyebrow.

Senior Matt Nickley, as Mr. Smith, channels a fox in a game of charades and leads the players as the action devolves into meaningless banter.

Freshman Will Low uses caricature-level facial expressions as Mr. Martin. He and Senior Rebekah Meyer check each other out surreptitiously but glance away just when the other might see. This minuet of manners alone is worth the inexpensive ticket.

Senior Maxton Young-Jones appeared in both plays, portraying the Fire Chief in The Bald Soprano and the Orator in The Chairs, in which his meaningless vocalizations deliver the final flurry of nonsense.

Senior Rachel Matusewicz played Mary (the maid) in The Bald Soprano. She captures with her movements the odd sensibility of the play when she disappears behind a grandfather clock.

All of the actors excelled alone and together. Their skill makes me wonder if Mr. Ionesco would still find human communication futile after seeing this performance. The actors might only consider holding their lines when the audience laughs (which is often and favorably).

The costumes were true-to-period and included a tailored woolen dress and collar for Mrs. Smith by MFA candidate Debbie Kennedy. Props were by junior Nick Ong and included a tabloid newspaper with the headline “Bald Soprano Catches Fire.”

'The Chairs': Hilary Kelly and Richard Schiavone. Photo by Chris Evans, TRDA Promotions Office .
‘The Chairs’: Hilary Kelly and Richard Schiavone. Photo by Chris Evans, TRDA Promotions Office .

The exceptional scenic design for The Chairs by MFA candidate Kirk Kristlibas portrayed the inside of a lighthouse with nine doors, each topped with an ornate transom window. The doors are accented brilliantly with right-on-cue lights by Junior Michael McManus and localized doorbell sounds by Junior Natalie Petruch in a finale that perfectly captures Ionescu’s absurdity.

Running Time: 2 ½ hours, with a 15-minute intermission.

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An Evening of Ionesco Tonight, Friday, February 21, and Saturday, February 22, at 7:30PM, and Sunday, February 23 at 2 p.m. at the Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre – 800 21st Street, in Washington, DC. Purchase your tickets online.Buy tickets online.