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2009: Lee Shirley Jun 19, 2009  (10 years ago)

By Randy King
Jun 19, 2009, 10:34

Lee Shirley selected to Roanoke Valley Golf Hall of Fame

Lee Shirley was the dominant women's player in the Roanoke area in the 1990s.

File 1993 Lee Shirley won the Roanoke Valley Hall of Fame tournament in 1993, beginning a three-year string of victories in the tourney.

"I don't have to actually play golf now, do I? I hope nobody expects me to break 80," she said.

So what? It was the low scores the Salem native posted during a brilliant 10-year run in the 1990s that validated her ticket as the sixth woman to be enshrined in the Hall of Fame.

In her '90s heyday, Shirley was tough to beat. She pulled off a trio of three-peats, winning the Virginia State Junior Girls title in 1990-92, the Roanoke Valley Golf Hall of Fame women's championship in 1993-95, and the Virginia State Women's Amateur crown in 1996-98.

"It's such a surprise, not to mention such an honor," said Shirley, 32, who now is married and lives in Raleigh, N.C. "I've been gone from Virginia for a long time now. It's nice to know that people still remember what I did a long time ago."

Dot Bolling, who has won more local major titles than any women's player in the Roanoke Valley, said Shirley's selection to the Hall of Fame was a no-brainer.

"Lee was a great player," said Bolling, 63.

"As far as I'm concerned, she is the best that's come out of this valley ... so far. She won everything she played in. She was just good. She was focused and all business. She was a very pleasant person to play with and play against.

"Back then, she hit the ball a long ways. And if she was playing today with the equipment and everything, she would probably win everything she played in. I guarantee she can break 80 to get in this if she had to."

Upon her graduation from the University of North Carolina in 1998, Shirley played two years on the Futures Tour, a feeder circuit for the LPGA Tour.

"There are definitely a lot of good players in the U.S., and you find that out," Shirley said. "Every level you go up in golf, it's definitely an eye-opening experience when you see how much talent is out there. I had a couple top-10 finishes."

Shirley was a serious threat to win every time she teed it up in the 1990s. At 16, she captured the Scott Robertson Memorial girls crown, a title that hasn't been won since by a Roanoke Valley player. In 1994, she won the State Women's Stroke Play title at Hidden Valley Country Club and was named the VSGA Junior Golfer of the Year.

Shirley said she owes her parents, Jim and Rosa, for getting her started in a game that lasts a lifetime.

"Without my family and having their support, none of this would have been possible," Shirley said. "My dad put the first club in my hand. They've got pictures of me when I was 2 years old on the putting green.

"Apparently, that didn't help much because putting is actually the worst part of my game," she added with a laugh.

When Shirley was 10, her father started pumping money into lessons from area pros. From that point, her game began a meteoric rise.

"I always joke that my swing was built by lessons," said Shirley, a North Cross graduate. "I had a lesson at least every two weeks, if not every week. I wanted to get better and I would take any help that I could get.

"My parents didn't ease me into it. They had me out there all the time at Hunting Hills. I played every week. I really can't remember a time in my life when I didn't play golf."

Shirley still plays today when she's not working as a licensed real estate broker for a Raleigh-area builder. She and her husband of four years, Martin Playford, take Fridays off together so they can play 18 holes.

"Martin is from England, so he's very much into golf," Shirley said. "We were golf buddies before we starting dating. We pretty much play to the same handicap, so we have a lot of fun together."

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Friday, October 3, 2008

Klamath Area Drives, Klamath, California

It rained for the second day in a row today, so we decided to take a couple recommended drives. The first drive was just north of Klamath, on Requa Road, to the Klamath Overlook. This was a drive through a very recent small forest fire, and there were beautiful views were of the Pacific Ocean.

The second drive was on Klamath Beach Road which took us to the mouth of the Klamath River. From this vantage point you can see where the river meets the ocean, and if you look closely, you can even see the fishing nets the Yurok Tribe uses to catch the salmon as they make their way up the river to spawn.

As we continued on 101 south, we saw a herd of elk in a pasture – one lucky bull elk and his harem of about 20-30 females. The bull elk was definitely trying to find some action, we even heard him bugling, but the females would have nothing to do with him. Overall, we'd recommend both of these drives for their beautiful views.

We’ve posted pictures of the Redwoods today, so enjoy!

Brad still waits to see the elusive Bigfoot…………

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Sabrina Peck: Director and Choreographer
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The Trials of Monica Lewinsky

Trials began as a staged reading at New Dramatists, a New York City institution that supports the work of living playwrights. Todd London, Artistic Director of New Dramatists, was interested in exploring whether verbatim transcripts—with their characters and drama—constitute a play, and whether theater had something meaningful to offer our experience of these events. Because of my experience working with recorded interviews and primary sources, I was asked to direct and help shape such a piece. The result was a surprisingly poignant and moving, if often hilarious, piece of drama. In the version presented at New Dramatists, I cast three women as Monica, and they rotated into performance at emotionally motivated places in the text. In the version we brought to HBO's US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, a single actress played Lewinsky, her Grand Jury scenes intercut with delightful and haunting telephone scenes with Linda Tripp. Additional texts included personal notes between the President and Lewinsky; the list of gifts they exchanged; and the Independent Counsel's clinical chronology of the emotional day Lewinsky was apprehended in the mall.

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Yusef Bulos, Craig Carlisle, Moira Driscoll, Judy Gold, David Greenspan, Novella Nelson, John Rothman, Teddy Smith and Abigail López as Monica Lewinsky*

*The New Dramatists reading included Culver Casson, Abigail Revasch and Emme Shaw with Lori Tan Chinn, Quincy Long, Akili Prince, James Urbaniak and Damien Young.

"The strong applause and vigorous audience discussion that followed marked the evening as something more than a stunt... The actors as much as the audience seemed mesmerized by the hourlong experiment."
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Archive for June 22nd, 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-22

  • As per the risk of a surprise trip, the gift recipient was not home. I’m sure they’ll be surprised to see the presents when they get home. #
  • Happy 55th birthday Bruce McAvaney, and happy 52nd birthday Daryl Brohman. #
  • Ooh yay, I’m working until midnight. I’ll be tired by the end of it as I’ve been awake since 2PM yesterday. #
  • A great idea: I should take over a TV station’s analogue signal for the final hour of analogue television (with their permission of course). #
  • “**Shrieking** I’m not cleaning that!” — Precisely the words I wanted to hear when I walked in to a fast food outlet earlier tonight. #
  • I’m happy that Jim Ball is back on 2UE’s New Day Australia, but I’ve been awake for 32 hours so I’ll probably sleep through most of it. #
  • No sleep for talkback radio callers! I’m calling Jim Ball now about bicycle storage areas and global warming. http://2ue.com.au to listen #
  • Jim seems refreshed from his walking holiday. I’ll elaborate on the global warming point I made in the coming days on my blog. #

June 22nd, 2008 at 11:59pm

Twitter Updates for 2008-06-22

***Post Removed shortly after 12am 24 June***

WARNING: My modifications to the Twitter Tools plugin broke the daily update posts. Do not attempt these changes unless you want to break the daily updates on your installation of Twitter Tools

Looks like the Twitter Tools plugin has gone slightly cuckoo and decided to repost the last daily digest. I think the reason it did that is because I disabled and then re-enabled the daily digests as Twitter Tools seemed to be stuck in the wrong timezone.

We’ll see if it’s feeling any better soon I suppose.

Update 1:13am: It seems to be storing tweet creation times in UTC rather than local time but storing the time it downloaded them in local time. I suppose I’ll find out around 10am if it’s worked out that I’m in Canberra and not London. I’ll see if I can find out anything more about this weird behaviour before then. End Update

Update 2:09am: It’s apparently a known issue, but not one that’s likely to be officially fixed any time soon. I didn’t find anything useful on Google either, so I went looking through the plugin and found this section related to digest creation starting on line 214:

$now = ak_gmmktime();
$yesterday = strtotime(‘-1 day’, $now);
$last_post = get_option(‘aktt_last_digest_post’);

if ($last_post != date(‘Y-m-d 00:00:00’, $yesterday)) {
$days = ceil((strtotime(date(‘Y-m-d 00:00:00’, $yesterday)) – strtotime($last_post)) / (3600 * 24));
else {
$days = 1;
for ($i = 0; $i < $days; $i++) { $n = $days - $i; $digest_day = strtotime('-'.$n.' days', $now); $tweets = $wpdb->get_results(”
FROM $wpdb->aktt
WHERE tw_created_at >= ‘”.date(‘Y-m-d 00:00:00’, $digest_day).”‘
AND tw_created_at < = '".date('Y-m-d 23:59:59', $digest_day)."' GROUP BY tw_id ORDER BY tw_created_at

Which I have altered to read:

$now = ak_gmmktime();
$yesterday = strtotime(‘-1 day’, $now);
$last_post = get_option(‘aktt_last_digest_post’);

if ($last_post != date(‘Y-m-d 10:00:00’, $yesterday)) {
$days = ceil((strtotime(date(‘Y-m-d 10:00:00’, $yesterday)) – strtotime($last_post)) / (3600 * 24));
else {
$days = 1;
for ($i = 0; $i < $days; $i++) { $n = $days - $i; $digest_day = strtotime('-'.$n.' days', $now); $tweets = $wpdb->get_results(”
FROM $wpdb->aktt
WHERE tw_created_at >= ‘”.date(‘Y-m-d 10:00:00’, $digest_day).”‘
AND tw_created_at < = '".date('Y-m-d 09:59:59', $now)."' GROUP BY tw_id ORDER BY tw_created_at

Basically I’ve added ten hours (the difference between Canberra’s timezone and GMT), hopefully that will fix the problem until it is officially fixed in an update by the plugin’s author. If this works, then I suppose that I’ll need to write a version of the workaround for those people in timezones behind GMT. It should be one extra line and a different variable, but I’ll wait to see if this works first. It hasn’t broken anything yet, so for one of my coding efforts it’s looking promising. End Update

4 comments June 22nd, 2008 at 11:59pm

Oh no, it’s the Schapelle Corby story again

If you think back three years to 2005and the height of the media excitement around the Schapelle Corby trial, almost everyone had an opinion on whether she was guilty of smuggling drugs or not, many of those opinions appeared to based on nothing more than a whim or whether she “looked like a drug smuggler”, A smaller number of opinions seemed to be based on selections of information presented at the trial and regurgitated by the media in a manner which would be impossible for an Australian based trial. Regardless of the opinions, the only person who really knew for sure was Schapelle Corby, for everyone else, it was a guess.

In the end, an Indonesian court found her guilty, and based on that, plus Schapelle’s body language of hitting herself on the head in a “why did I do something so stupid?” type of motion upon hearing the verdict, I formed the opinion that she probably was guilty. I don’t know for sure, but the evidence seems to fairly strongly indicate it in my mind.

Today, long after the story should have died, it still lingers and has returned to prominence with the revelation from one of Corby’s lawyers that he made up the whole “a baggage handler did it” defence:

SCHAPELLE Corby was in a Bali hospital under guard last night as a documentary revealed her ex-lawyer said Alexander Downer had suspected her family was behind her notorious crime.
The claim is made by Corby’s former defence lawyer, Robin Tampoe, in an explosive new documentary Schapelle Corby: The Hidden Truth.

The three-hour documentary screens tonight and Tuesday night on Channel 9.

In the documentary Mr Tampoe admits fabricating the defence that Australian baggage handlers could have planted the drugs in Corby’s luggage.

“Baggage handlers didn’t put drugs in the bag, nothing to do with it,” said Mr Tampoe, whom Corby sacked after she was sentenced to 20 years’ jail.

“Now she (Schapelle Corby) believes it. They all f—— believe it.

“It’s not true. That’s why you can’t put direct evidence relating to baggage handlers, ’cause they didn’t do it.
Mr Tampoe admitted in the documentary making up the theory after hearing ABC radio talkback in which callers discussed alleged corruption among airport staff. He no longer practises law.

He will face the Queensland Law Society next month over a misconduct complaint by Mercedes Corby.

Asked what he would say to the baggage handlers of Australia, Mr Tampoe says: “Sorry about that guys. Poor buggers. I won’t do it again. Thanks for the defence.”

If you think about it, the baggage handler theory was far fetched anyway. Illegal drugs are a rather valuable commodity and the people who take the risk of transporting it from one place to another in bulk amounts do so in a relatively controlled manner, they’re not going to “forget” to remove the drugs from a bag before shipping it overseas, and they’re not going to whack the illicit substance in some random bag that they may never see again. They’re going to know exactly where the bag is going, what it looks like, when it will get there, and how they’re going to get the substance out before anybody notices.

The inherent risks of transporting this stuff are too great to not take extreme care, admittedly mistakes will occur from time to time, but if the drugs in Corby’s bag had been planted by a baggage handler, there would have been at least a trace of suspicious activity by a baggage handler…but there wasn’t, so that defence fell flat on its face despite the media having a field day with it.

It’s unfortunate that this story is still dragging out and that everyone who has even a remote relationship with the Corby family seem to be doing their best to cash in on the saga. I have to wonder why we seem to be so content to make such a glorified spectacle of a convicted drug smuggler, and why the media think that her mental state, three years after her conviction, is of any interest to the general public. There are many people in Australian prisons who have mental health problems but we don’t make their plight a front-page news story…I don’t see any good reason for Schapelle Corby to receive media attention unless some amazing evidence comes to light showing that she is innocent, or (and I certainly don’t wish this on her) she dies, in which case she would deserve fleeting media attention as a person who was once in the public eye and is now no longer with us.

I don’t have the faintest clue why this story keeps getting a run in the media, perhaps somebody can enlighten me. Have I completely missed the point here? Does Schapelle deserve the attention? If so, why? And could it really be true that this story is so much more important than everything else going on in the world that it needs to be dragged up over and over and over every few months?

I just don’t get it. Unless I’ve completely missed something here and I’m looking at this from the perspective of another planet, I just can’t see any reason for the continued interest in the story. She was convicted, she is in prison, and her appeals failed; surely that should be a sign for the rest of us to move on.

2 comments June 22nd, 2008 at 02:14pm

I decided to join twitter due to the fact that I seem to put off writing a lot of my short blog posts because I want to expand on them even though they would be fine as a short blog post.

Twitter constrains me to 140 characters per message so it’s perfect for short blog posts, and can be used for other miscellaneous updates. Hopefully this will not only make me not put off the short blog posts to the point where they never get written, but it will also make me more interested in actually writing my longer blog posts because I won’t be dismayed by all of those short blog post titles just waiting for an accompanying article.

All of my twitter updates will be posted here daily (as long as the WordPress plugin for that actually works) and I’m debating whether or not to show them in the sidebar. You can also follow me on twitter at http://twitter.com/SamuelGS

At this stage I think this is just what I need to get back in to blogging regularly. Twitter’s 140 character limit is just the psychological limit that I need…I think…we’ll see how it goes.

Update: OK, it’s silly for me to post short immediate updates to twitter and only have them appear here once per day. The daily archive will be posted here once per day, but I’ve decided that the latest updates need to be visible in the sidebar. So far, so good, this is looking promising. End Update

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Saturday, December 21, 2013

Not So Merry Christmas

As I sit and sluggishly prepare myself for a rather forgetful Christmas in Delhi this year, I’m forced to wonder “what the fuck went wrong?”, “Christmas without the family?” I mean just 2 months back (October) I was happily unwrapping my Christmas tree, had a great time decorating it, and was already listening to my favorite Christmas songs. Read: NSYNC – Home for Christmas (Hands down the best Christmas Album)
how did I get from there to here?

I was so excited (always am) with the prospect of meeting my family and spending quality time with them. Now with Christmas just 3 days away all the excitement has more or less died. Christmas songs irritate the shit out of me and to be honest I really feel like packing up the tree and bury it somewhere never to see the light of day. Yes I said it!

After quite an eventful year, where I and my family have gone through some of the most traumatic experiences, it would have made sense for a happy ending but looks like it not to be. Let’s have a look at what 2013 had to offer.

To start with I have missed my flights more times than I can remember (started with missing my flight home for Christmas last year).

·         I was going to write about the dream job I had to reject, but I’m very happy where I am so let’s skip to the third.

·         I lost a very close friend, a brother and an ex boss in Pranay. We met on a Saturday night and planned to go out for dinner on Monday and he passed away that very Monday.

·         Our cook who had been with us for close to 10 years brutally murders our Driver (RIP and God bless his soul) in Delhi. Now this is the kind of shit you watch in movies and read about in crime magazines, never expecting it would happen to you. All my siblings were convinced our house was haunted and so we had to shift out of our beautiful bungalow to an apartment in Vasant Kunj.

·         This shift in address meant that I now had to travel a grueling 45 kilometers everyday to work. That’s 2 hours going and 2 coming home.

·         Endless nightmares about the murder and strange occurrences that always seem to happen around 4 am (time of the murder) coupled with my high blood pressure sent me into depression. The solution – Meet a shrink! More pills for anxiety, depression, sleeping pills, BP pills etc. but I’m glad to say that as of December I’m out of all medication except for the BP. lets move on this subject is way too depressing.

·         Then comes the election. The endless hours and months of strategizing our campaign, designing websites, organizing events and yes the TVCs (My uncle is the president of MPC – Mizoram Peoples Conference). I made 2 really nice TVCs hoping people would connect with the problem of bad roads and bad electricity. But then yet again all these did not translate to votes and our party the MDA (MNF and MPC) got 7 seats out of 40 and congress as always taking absolute majority.

·         Losing an election is like getting your heart ripped off, because of the time and energy you spend on it, needless to say the money that goes to waste and the sacrifices that you make. It still hurts like yesterday so I won’t go any further.

·         Because of the many holidays that I’ve taken this year for the Murder, the Depression and the Election Campaign etc. I dint have the balls to apply for more leave to go home for Christmas and partially because of the excessively ridiculous flight rates.

·         So I’m more or less forced to spend this Christmas here in Delhi with my buddy Joe. And to make things worse we don’t have girlfriends. Not that were looking out but you know, its winter, its cold at night and alcohol can only warm you so much and ummm… come on, it’s Christmas time! Spread the love? No love? Only seeds? Lol J/k. (Sometimes I don’t even know why I say the things I say).

Neway I shall count my blessings another day, for now I’m an angry man lashing out at the world because ummm… the Grinch stole my Christmas! That bastard!

So here's my Christmas plan. Drink to my hearts content and pass out early. Maybe watch the Arsenal vs Chelsea match, which I doubt we'll win given the recent or rather usual December sluggishness in form. but hell even if we lose, it gives me more reason to mourn our loss with another round of drinks. Maybe that's what being a true blue means, a blue December. I hate Christmas!

                                                             Merry Christmas everyone!


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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

That was weird

I play a Tele. I play clean. Normally, this means I have icepick tone, sharp treble that just pokes in the ear. The good thing about it is that you can always find yourself in the mix, but the bad thing is that you can't hide if you're having an off night.

Tonight, I tried a new, similar patch. And it was a ball of mud. No definition, all low end. This on my Tele strung with .009 strings. Normally, the thing has no bottom end. I could not find any top end with that clean patch.

During sound-check, I was playing around with patterns, adapting one that I learned off the Tommy Shannon bass tape, which, when put to B, is a lick from Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell".

E -----------------------------------
B -----------------------------------
G -----------------------------------
D -------------7-9-------------7-9---
A -------9-9-9-----------9-9-9-------
E -7-7-7-----------7-7-7-------------
Isn't it enough to make you want to pull out the ray gun? But, while playing around with it in another key (F#, which I'm not sure is the right chord but I think it might be) ...

E ----------------------------------------------------------------------
B ----------------------------------------------------------------------
G -----------------2-2-4-4-2-2------------------------2-2-4-4-2-2-------
D ---------2-2-4-4-------------4-4------------2-2-4-4-------------4-4---
A -----4-4--------------------------------4-4---------------------------
E -2-2--------------------------------2-2-------------------------------
"We've Got The Beat". Go-Gos. Who, remember, were so wild they got tossed out of Ozzy's backstage when he was still snorting ants and biting the heads of small flying animals.

Meanwhile, we didn't have a bassist — and if he called in and begged out, I never heard it — but between my mud, the piano and our friend coming back to sit in on organ, the low end was covered well enough. But still, it makes me very much want to get a bass. If you have two guitars and no bass, that's not right. And a whammy pedal set for going down an octave? That doesn't really do the trick.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Tales from the life of an "almost professional" musician

I play on Sunday. I was supposed to know what songs we're playing by Monday. I don't yet. But, on Tuesday, we were supposed to practice, starting at 7PM. The boys wanted to go to the library, and so I said "As long as you get back by 6:35 or 6:40, I'll be able to get there on time." At 7:05, I sent a reminder. They got home at 7:20, and I got to practice at 7:30, feeling angry and bad.

And found the room dark.

Practice was canceled due to the leader having health issues in the family. The email telling me this was sent around 5:30pm and arrived around 9:30pm. So, that was annoying, frustrating, and, finally, saddening.

That's the sad story.

We play through DI boxes. The other guitarist and I use multieffects boxes to juice our signal a little, but the bassist doesn't, and so, it is a rare and unusual thing for him to be noticable in the mix. But tonight, he was out in front, which was fun.

Before we started, he was playing the E on the B string. "Bonk!" he'd go, wait a little, then go "Bonk!" again. A bass is one octave lower than a guitar, and he's playing one octave up, so next time he went "Bonk!", I followed with my own "Bonk!" He didn't figure it out at first, so whenever he went "Bonk!", I went "Bonk!"

Soon, he got it. The other guitarist joined in, going an octave up, to "Bink!"

Not funny in the telling, I suppose, but it was funny at the time.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Victor Wooten at Sweetwater

On Monday, I took my two biggest sons to Sweetwater Sound in Fort Wayne to see a clinic with Victor Wooten and J.D. Blair.

OK, just in case you don't know, Wooten plays bass for Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. He plays Fodera basses and Hartke amps. He has been featured before on this blog, in the inaugural post of the 'man that's deep' label. There's also some points to add to the 'how to not suck' label. But we'll get to that.
On improvisation vs. repertoire:"The fewer songs you recognize, the better night we're having."
Of course, he's a massive player. He, a looper pedal, and a great drummer can make all the music you'd want.

Gearhead Paragraph: He had two bassists, one a 4-string yin/yang bass tuned EADG with a Hipshot D-tuner and another bass tuned ADGC: a 'tenor bass' in his terminology. Both have 24-fret necks. He uses nickel strings, a Boss RC50 loop pedal, a Peterson tuner pedal and had a Hartke stack with a 4x10 cab for high notes and a 1x15 for the low. He uses a hair tie to mute the open strings — I call it the Greg Howe trick because that's where I saw it first — He has basses with Kahler tremolos, fretless basses, five-string basses with MIDI pickups, but he didn't have them there that night. But that is what he uses. If you try what he likes and don't like it, he doesn't want the blame, and if you try what he likes and like it too, he doesn't want the credit.
On endorsements "Don't buy something because someone uses it. Try it out because they use it, but only buy it if you like it."

On the transitive nature of instruments "Bass is more a role than an instrument."

The coolest thing, the thing I want most to try, is his groove/rhythm exercise. Set up a long drum pattern on your drum machine. Set your drum machine so it plays that measure four times. Find your groove in that. Get into it.

Then replace the fourth measure to silence.

This will tell you your tendencies, if you tend to rush the beat or lag. And, if you know, you can start to work against it.

This is when you swap out the third measure.

Then the second.

Then just have one beat, one note floating in a sea of silence.

I have yet to try that exercise. But it sounds like a perfect get-the-groove don't-suck kind of exercise, doesn't it?

On warming up "I'm 45 years old. I've been playing for 43. I should be warmed up by now."

If you get a chance to see him playing with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, do it. If you get a chance to see him playing in duo format with J.D. Blair, do that. But especially, if you get the chance to do a workshop with him, jump on that.

The final point: it is far more pleasant to be in the electric guitar room at Sweetwater after a Victor Wooten clinic than after a John 5 clinic. Bassists who play with each other are much more pleasant to be in a room with than guitarists who don't.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

That's Gotta Hurt

Perhaps this is a lesson in ergonomics.

Phil Collins was the drummer for Genesis, and when Peter Gabriel left, he took over the singing duties, but he always saw himself as a drummer first.

But no more. Due to spinal injury, he's giving up the drums. Evidently, it's hooked to how he sits on the drum throne.

I've never really looked into ergonomics, especially the ergonomics of guitar. I know that I used to sit at an ergonomic desk with a keyboard extender that sat below my knees. That desk actually hurt me until I took off the keyboard extender.

Anyway, I always liked a bunch of his work. Sad to see him leaving the drum kit.

Monday, September 7, 2009

I Love The 70s....

I was playing my son some Supertramp. I don't know why Breakfast In America came back to my attention recently, but there it is. This evening, it came up because the family saw the Star Trek reboot, and when you think Spock, you should think of "The Logical Song".

But this brought to mind an element of my youth. I remember stopping by a friend's place, and his brother was there, long-haired and shirtless, airbrushing a mermaid on the side of his van, with Supertramp on the boom-box. At this moment, I cannot think of a more late-1970s moment than that. Can anyone one-up me?


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Cornwall’s ‘Fisherfolk’: Art & Artifice

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Cornwall’s ‘fisherfolk’: Art and Artifice, the first book on ‘Newlyn School’ paintings for some years (as opposed to individual artist monographs), examines Cornish fisherfolk imagery in a fresh light. It integrates local research into broader national and international debates on the fisherfolkgenre.

It explores the concept of models selected from Cornwall’s fishing populations and offered to the spectator as ideal national types – as model citizens. Regional versions of London’s 1883 International Fisheries Exhibition enabled the Cornish to present themselves as a proud, independent seafaring people. Press coverage of such events typified contemporary debates elevating rural, homely values over those of urban Britain.

The book investigates the whitewashed, spare, orderly cottage interiors to identify values that artists promoted in paintings of the Cornish home. The interior shaped the many representations of Cornish fisherwomen. Their healthy, natural beauty, praised by Stanhope Forbes and fêted in the local press, was also celebrated outdoors. Costume was a large part of feminine appeal, yet artistic treatment of fisherwomen’s dress was highly selective.

Artists heroised the Cornish fisherman as hardy, industrious and stalwart. Against the background of  contemporary concerns about Britain’s naval fortunes as well as its fish stocks, the fisherman’s sea-going costume is proposed as an emblem of the nation’s seafaring heritage. Meanwhile, the visual spectacle of Cornish Methodist processions draws on a fishing community’s self-presentation as orderly, temperate and responsible citizens.

270 x 210mm
full colour throughout


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Sunday, 28 April 2013

What's Your Passion?

Passion is Energy!
As you know, machine embroidery has been a passion of mine for many years now and I've resisted the temptation of other crafts suchs as scrap-booking (my hubby would go nuts if I had more boxes of stuff than I already have!) and I've never quite got the hang of crochet or knitting.  In my opinion, they don't grow quick enough anyway.
So, a couple of months ago I was in our local art shop trying to find sticky dots ... not available at any of the 'normal' stationery stores here in SA ... when I saw the most beautiful diary with a pewter front sitting at the till counter.
Caryl Parks, pewter artist extraordinaire's diary which caught my eye
I am a slut for stationery.  I cannot pass up on gorgeous pens and pretty notebooks.  Naturally this diary caught my attention, and without even checking for a price, I grabbed it and plonked it right there on top of those sticky dots.
The cashier moved the diary back to its position next to her till, smoothing away some fluff from the counter top.
I picked it up and again slapped it down with great purpose.  I had no intentions of leaving this beautiful object of my desire behind.
"Uh, Ma'am," the cashier looked me square in the eye, "this is not for sale."
"Whadaya mean, not for sale, it's sitting on your counter space isn't it?"
"Actually, Ma'am, if you want to learn to make one just like this, then write your name and phone number inside and the teacher will get hold of you."
And so it came to be, that yesterday, I started an eight-week course with Caryl Parks, Pewter Artist Extraordinaire.
Despite numerous reminders to relax, chant 'ohhhhmmmmm'  and breathe, dammit, breathe, I rubbed and I shoved and the silver stuff went its own merry way.  Where I wanted a lump, I got a dent.  Where I needed to make a 'pipe', I ended up with ski-slopes.  I'm thinking next week I take a hip flask of Stroh rum with me.  If it doesn't relax me, I'm sure it will work as a great patina.

OMG... will I ever get there?!
My first attempt looks nothing like anything remotely resembling a pewter anything!  But, there is one thing I know about myself.  I will not give up.  I will master it.
And so, predictably, I have a box filled with pewter smashing stuff which I've hidden away from my darling husband.  No, not because I don't want him to know I've started another hobby, but because, given half a chance, he'll be trying his hand at it too!
Go across to Caryl's blog for some Pewter is Passion inspiration  -  and lose yourself in her amazing talents.  And then perhaps join us and try your hand at pewter work too.  Well, why not?!
Love from Sunny South Africa

Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Whip me Back into Action!

Ok, so I haven't posted in a while.  That's not because I was lazy, or not interested, or anything like that... I just forgot my login details and couldn't for the life of me find where I'd saved them!  And then, just for mors, I went on holiday down to the Cape with my darling husband Peter, my gorgeous friend Julie and my eldest son Dane and his partner Michael.

Now I don't usually go away on holiday with such a mish-mash of people, but this time I had good reason.

One.  Julie is a breast cancer survivor.  Two.  I am a cervical cancer survivor.  Three.  We both ride Harley-Davidsons.  Doesn't make sense to you yet?  Patience!  You shall see the light in about forty more sentences or so!

So Jules and I decided we wanted to ride in the can.survive Ride4Recovery up the garden route of the Cape coast.  The thing is, we both live in Johannesburg, which is about 1400km's away from Cape Town.  And while neither of us are scared to ride our Harleys all the way down to Cape Town, we just didn't have enough time to do so.

Which is where Peter, Dane and Michael come in.

Dane and Michael - my gorgous boys!
 Michael has just recently arrived in South Africa (from the USA) and hasn't seen much of our beautiful country.  Dane needed a holiday and decided Cape Town (which is the Gay Capital of SA) would be a marvellous place for the boys to holiday.  Peter is just recovering from breaking his back and wasn't being left behind thank you very much!

So, three Harleys were put onto the trailer and Peter, accompanied by the boys, travelled down to Cape Town via Sedgefield (so that Michael could see the Cango Caves etc) while Jules and I flew down on  Three Harleys? I hear you say, but there are only two of you riding?  Well, Peter's Harley was still in the paint-shop getting its new coat of armour and he wanted to ride with us, so our dealer very kindly loaned us a gorgeous little 1200 Sportster... which, along with Julie's Sporty and my Switchback, made for three of us doing the Ride!

But before that, we spent three days cruising around the Cape Peninsula, riding to Somerset West one day to do a radio interview with Mark Taylor on 93.6fm Radio Heldeberg.  We enjoyed lunch (on my birthday!) at Mariner's Wharf in Hout Bay, visited an old friend, Wynter Worsthorne, in Noordhoek and rode up Chapman's Peak in the most wonderful weather!  Thank you Cape Town, it was fantastic!

Peter & Trisch on Chapman's Peak
 Early on the morning of our departure, Jules and I tagged the names of those who have succumbed to cancer and also those who have survived to our bikes.  We stood in silence looking at the names scattered on the ground... far too many... and these were only the people that two of us knew.  Imagine if we'd put all the names of all the people attending the conference - 350 women and men who knew others who'd passed on or were battling with the disease.

Jules sorts out the names of cancer survivors and those who've passed.
 We departed from the Breast Cancer Conference at the International Conference Centre in Cape Town through a guard of honour by the Amabella Bella Dragon Boat Cancer Survivors.  By the time we took off on our Harley's, I was in tears from the emotional moments, hugging women who I didn't know and promising them I would ride for their mothers, sisters, aunts, nieces, and others.

Leaving Cape Town, the Ride4Recovery Girls with Peter in his Pink cap!

It was a gorgeous ride up Sir Lowry's pass and it must have truly been a sight to behold... 11 Harley ladies and gents roaring up in pack format.  We stopped off at Riversdal where we spent time talking to over 500 women and men at a fruit packing farm about the early detection of various cancers.  We truly felt that if we could help save just one life, we could conquer this beast.

Before long, Julie, Peter and I were back on the road, this time on Route 62 - stopping off at the infamous Ronnie's Sex Shop where Jules and I hung a pink bra in the pub in tribute to all the women who have/had/been affected by breast cancer.

Trisch helps Jules to hang up a pink bra at Ronnies
 Our last day was spent (deservedly) enjoying the wine farms around the Stellenbosch and Paarl regions.  We ended up at a wonderful wine farm, Muratie, where Dane tickled the ivories while Peter, Jules, Michael and I sat in a cozy wine cellar enjoying the crisp taste of their Melcks' Rosé.  Aaaah...
Dane can never resist a piano!
How blessed am I to have been able to experience this.  But as they say in the classics, all good things come to an end. And so, tomorrow, I go back to work.  Holiday over, ride done and dusted, now to go forward to more excitement in my life.

So, with love from Sunny South Africa,
I'll be blogging again soon!


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You may reach the helpline 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, by dialing:
1-866-VETS-NJ4U (1-866-838-7654)

Sayreville Veterans Honor Roll

Veteran must be or have been a resident of Sayreville while serving during Wartime or Conflict

Veteran or family members of Veteran must present a copy of a DD-14 form, or other suitable documentation showing name of Veteran and home of record during enlistment or war time service

The Sayreville Veteran’s Alliance reserves the right to review and approve all applications

Veterans’ names are not listed alphabetically

Applications should be sent to:         Sayreville Borough Clerk

                                                                  167 Main Street

                                                                  Sayreville, NJ 08872

                                                                  Attn: Veterans Honor Roll

Veterans Buy a Brick Program

The Borough of Sayreville, in conjunction with the Sayreville Veterans Alliance are now accepting applications for Veterans Memorial Bricks. These Memorial Bricks will be permanently installed as the Veterans Memorial which is located at the front area of Borough Hall.

Memorial Bricks are currently available at a cost of $50.00 each and can be personalized with a maximum of three lines of 13 characters per line.

The Bricks are placed randomly at the discretion of the Veterans Alliance.

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A courtesy service card is available in the Middlesex County Passport office to all veterans in acknowledgement of service rendered to the United States of America.

•Original DD-214 must be recorded with the County Clerk.
•Proof of name and address in Middlesex County in the form of a driver's license, business mail, or property tax bill.
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Veteran’s Advantage Booklet
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Mimic Wet-Plate Photography On iPhone

Simply tilt your iPhone to add vintage black and white!

The inevitable demise of the darkroom has been a sad sight for photography purists, but Koloid turns your iPhone into a virtual developing tray, which you merely have to tilt to darken areas of your shot.

You see a yellow ‘liquid’ on the screen – this represents collodion, a key ingredient in traditional wetplate photography technique. Move the thick liquid around and it exposes your photograph that you’ve either taken with the app or chosen from your iPhone’s Camera Roll. Leave it over an area and it rapidly darkens (burns) it. Because you’re actually mimicking the developing of a photo by sloshing the collodion around, you never ever get exactly the same results each time.

This is no ordinary filter app – Koloid is quite unique and substantially more fun than many other effects apps. True to its darkroom origins, you can only develop in black and white, but it’s anachronistic enough to allow sharing by social media and email!

To get started, fire up the app and you get the choice of taking a shot with the app or choosing from your library (the film icon). Then you can start developing the image.

SKILL LEVEL: Anyone can do it

IT WILL TAKE: 5 minutes

YOU’LL NEED: iPhone, Koloid

1 Slosh the liquid

Once you’ve selected a picture or taken a shot, the next screen is where you set the amount of collodion in your tray (via the slider at the top). The more solution you have, the faster it sloshes around, but it’s less precise. You then need to press in the middle of the screen or shake the iPhone to start. Now tilt the phone to slosh the developing solution around.

2 Personalise it

When sloshing the liquid around you notice if you move too quickly you may end up ‘spotting’ the image with blobs of collodion – but you may want this effect, so be aware. When you’re done moving the collodion around the screen, tap Ready. You then see a preview of the final image, and if you swipe leftwards you can add a title, description and signature.

3 Share your work

Swipe left again and you see a preview image, complete with a border showing the date and signature. Underneath are direct links to major social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Flickr, as well as Email and Messages. If you just want to save the final image to your Camera Roll, however, just tap the icon in the bottom-right of the screen.


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Saturday, July 23, 2016

our trip to the great Northwest (summer 2016)

We had a great vacation this summer—our largest trip ever. (Second-longest: driving to SD and eastern CO in 2012. Third-longest: NY state in 2011. We took shorter trips to northern MI in 2015 and southern MI in 2014; to NC in 2010; and to SC and more of NC in 2013.) We flew into SF on June 28th (the first flight for all of the kids except Zach) and back home July 14th. In between, we drove a loop up to Glacier (in NW Montana) and back. We rented a Kia van from Alamo and drove it 3,800 miles. We stayed in 13 hotels over 16 nights. The kids got along well (enough). In a nutshell, the trip was enjoying two cities and 20 kinds of landscape beauty in God’s Creation. (Here are the pics we posted on FB.)

It was a big, pricey trip for us: $2,330 in airfare; $1040 for a rental car; and $1,940 hotel (all including tax). But it was also our last guaranteed op to vacation with the entire family. With Zach moving on to college and beyond, jobs and other things may prevent a big trip like this again!

We flew with Frontier, non-stop out of Cincy. Frontier has cheaper rates, but you’ll want to keep track of the add-on charges for baggage and seat choice. I knew we wanted to see the NW and do a loop, so we could have flown into SF, Portland, Seattle, or Salt Lake City. SLC was the best choice in the earlier window (mid-May to early-June), but SF was the best in our travel window and besides, a great place to visit. (Unfortunately, Denver was too far east to start because those fares were much cheaper.)

From the airport, we took BART. In SF, from Tuesday evening through Thursday afternoon, we walked and used Uber twice (first time for us; inexpensive and very easy!) Then, we rented a van and started out of the city. In SF, lodging was expensive but I got a relatively good deal at a Travelodge on Market.

On Tues PM, we were aiming for a Mexican restaurant, but ended up at one of our best meals on the trip—Pete’s BBQ on Mission and 20th —about $50 for the whole family and the best ribs I can remember. From there, we walked east on 20th to Vermont St., which is curvier from 20th-22nd—in a more-organic way than the far-more-popular Lombard St. It’s out of the way, compared to other tourist attractions (thus, its limited popularity), but if you have a car, it’s easily worth the trip.

On Wednesday, we did a huge batch of the touristy stuff. We ubered to the CableCar museum—very cool to see how it works and to see it working before your eyes. From there, we walked to and through Chinatown. (Grant is the touristy street; Stockton, Kearney, and the cross streets are far more authentic.) Then, we walked to Coit Tower—with its nice views of the city—and then down Lombard to its famous curvy section. We headed toward the bay, going past the Keane(Big Eyes) painting/gallery (you could see a lot from the sidewalk, but it was closed) and hung out at Ghiradelli Square for ice cream and chocolate. Next up: Musee Mecanique at Fisherman’s Wharf with its old arcade games and antique turn-key machines. After meeting Tonia’s brother’s family and having dinner with them, we ubered back to our hotel. In total, we walked three miles, but SF’s hills made it seem a lot longer than that!

On Thursday, we walked up Market to City Hall (at least in that time frame, there were many more Gay Pride flags than U.S. flags) and the British Motor Sports dealership (where Daniel and Joseph were geeked to see so many expensive sports cars). We went shopping at a huge, six-story mall. We saw the Shaking ManSculpture at the Yerta Buena Center and had amazing kimchee/Korean burritos at the HRD Coffee Shop. We spent the afternoon at the Museum of Modern Art—great stuff and a lot better than the kids anticipated.

Things we noticed in SF (at least downtown): 1.) The hills in the city—whether walking, riding, or driving—are amazing. 2.) As expected, it was cold (60 degrees) and windy. 3.) Women were dress far more conservatively than in our area—in particular, showing a lot less cleavage. Part of that was probably temperature, but it all looked a whole lot classier. (Or maybe that’s the new trend and they’re ahead of us by a few years!) The men were much better dressed than in our area. Both relied on more muted tones. 4.) Very few people were obese or even much overweight.

There was quite a bit of homelessness and we were warned about some aggressive folks, but it wasn’t too bad. Then again, we avoided Tenderloin, which is supposed to be the worst. We were also told to avoid food at Fisherman’s Wharf, but we ate with Tonia’s brother’s family there out of convenience. (Small world that they were there at the same time!) We missed Twin Peaks (which is supposed to be cool, especially at sunset, if there’s no fog) and Alcatraz. The latter is pricey but worth it (from what people say and my memories), but in the summer, I learned that you have to buy tix at least a month in advance!

Driving in SF (at the end of the trip) was like any other big city—or what I experienced in Puerto Rico. You just get in there and mix it up—far more aggressive than usual, but “civilized” in its own way. Leaving SF at 6:00 PM, there was a ton of traffic, for a long time (really, all the way to Sacramento). And even, outside of the city, few people knew how to handle the fast lane. Also, throughout CA, there was far less signage inside and outside of cities—less visual pollution, but tougher to get around.

I wanted us to see Lake Tahoe, but I knew that our time of arrival there was likely to be after dark. I had been told that the drive on US50 from Sacramento to Lake Tahoe was beautiful, but we mostly saw shadows of what looked picturesque. (If you go with the interstate from Sacramento to Reno, consider checking out Emerald Pools in Nevada, CA.) The next morning, Lake Tahoe itself was gorgeous and the drive to Carson City was nice. So, I’m glad we stayed there before moving on to Reno and our long drive to Idaho that day.

Friday featured the National Auto Museum in Reno. It’s Bill Harrah’s collection and rated one of the top five car museums in the nation. We had a guide who made it far more interesting. On the way out of town we caught a VW bug that had been turned into a huge spider (630 Victorian Ave) and then drove 400+ miles to Twin Falls, ID.

Saturday AM started in Twin Falls with great views of the Snake River canyon, Shoshone Falls (really nice; Niagara-Falls-lite), and Perrine Memorial Bridge. We got to see three people parachute off the bridge—apparently the only bridge you can do that without a permit. There are plans to create a memorial to Evel Knievel’s Snake River Jump, but for now you can only imagine it without assistance.

Next up: Craters of the Moon NP. (You have other options coming out of Twin Falls: City of Rocks National Reserve and Bruneau Sand Dunes both looked good.) Volcanic activity is a key and obvious feature on our trip—from Yellowstone’s geysers to Lava Cast Forest in OR. At Craters, from a distance, the terrain looks like rich soil that has been plowed by a Paul-Bunyan-sized till. A closer look reveals huge lava rocks. With little moisture there and little ability for these rocks to hold moisture, nothing grows there (or has grown there for hundreds of years). The result is a stark, beautiful landscape. We also hiked up a spatter cone—what is now a lava sand mountain—one of many places on the trip where the terrain allowed for a very windy setting.

We finished the day’s events with Don Aslett’s “Museum of Clean” in Pocatello. We had gotten off to a late start and Craters took more time than I had expected, so we only had a half-hour at the museum. The bad news: it probably requires 1.5 hours to do it right. The good news: Don met us at the door; let us in free; and gave us a personal tour of his historic collection of vacuums, disinfectants, washing machines, art from cleaning instruments, etc. Sounds dorky, I’m sure, but it was great fun and informative, especially if Don will give you a tour.

Saturday was also our formal introduction to 20 kinds of beauty in Creation on this trip. Every hour or so, we’d get a different topography—and a lot of it was somewhere between pretty and breath-taking.

The next geographic target was Jackson (Hole), as the entry to the Grand Tetons. At this point, we were into the July 4th weekend in a rural area with big national parks in range, so it was tough to find lodging. I had initially planned to go east and stay at Lava Hot Springs’ hot pools, seeing Soda Springs’ man-tamed geyser the next AM, and heading north to Jackson. But we couldn’t find lodging, so we went northeast, stayed at the Sleepy J Cabins in Swan Valley, and came into Jackson from the west.

Sunday started with Grand Teton NP. We drove the inner road and took a four-mile hike to Taggart Lake. I heard recommendations to do Jenny Lake (early-AM is apparently best), but construction and crowds scared us away from that. We also had recommendations to hike at Phelps Lake and Two Oceans—and to drive Signal Mountain Road—but we didn’t do any of those.

From there, it’s a quick jaunt north to Yellowstone NP. The main roads in the park are set up like a figure-8. On Sunday, we covered the west side of the southern loop, including Old Faithful, Grand Prismatic Spring, and other geysers / overlooks. Old Faithful is the supposed to be the must-see, but GSP is awesome. (Fountain Paint Pots are supposed to be good too, but we missed those and caught Artists Paintpots the next day—excellent.)

We stayed overnight in West Yellowstone and headed back into the park on Monday, July 4th—for Artists Paintpots and the middle of the figure-8. (Norris Geyser Basin, including Steamboat and Echinus Geysers, is supposed to be great, but the traffic was brutal. Likewise, we wanted to do a slight detour north on the upper-half of the figure-8 to see Roaring Mountain, but construction and traffic made that seem unwise.) We took a slight detour, continuing on the lower-half of the figure-8 to the “Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone”, including Lower and Upper Falls, the hope to see wild game in Hayden Valley, and the stinky but cool Mud Volcanoes. Moving to the upper half of the figure-8, we saw Tower Fall and Calcite Springs (both good), before exiting Yellowstone at Tower Junction.

We could have gone to Mammoth Hot Springs, but it would’ve been a detour, given that we wanted to drive out of Yellowstone through Lamar Valley (hoping to see game, esp. wolves—didn’t see much) and especially to drive Beartooth Pass. It has been rated the top drive in America, but it was going to add 140 miles and 2:15 to our drive, so I was reluctant to take the detour. I asked FB friends for counsel and they insisted that it was worth the drive. Starting into it, you can imagine me trying to see what they wanted me to see, wondering if it would be worth it. For the first half-hour or so, it was solid/good but not worth the time. Then, it got awesome! I agree that it’s a must-see—a winding road, snow-capped mountains and ridiculous views.

We spent the night in Bozeman, since that was the start of my plan to spend a day going from Yellowstone to Glacier. And I planned for us to devote a day to Glacier before moving on. In Bozeman on Tuesday AM, we saw Ted Koterwas’ “Yard Art” (403 W. Alderson) before visiting the American Computer Museum (tons of detail on the history of computers and what led to their development).

(You could make the drive from Yellowstone to Glacier without stopping for any length of time. Since the park is out-of-the-way and closed much of the year, there is not much development, especially on the rural eastern side. So, it’s difficult to stay near Glacier on the east side; we stayed an hour away. You can get close to Glacier on the west side, but then what do you do once you traveled through Glacier? Re-trace your steps through Glacier or reverse our trip on the east side!) As another aside, I’ve heard that Canadian Glacier is even better, but we didn’t have passports for the kids and I didn’t want to add even more miles and cost to our trip.)

From Bozeman, we drove to Butte where we saw four things:

1.) Evel (not Evil!) Knievel’s grave (3910 Harrison Ave). Knievel was a Christ-follower who has a great gravestone. And it was made in 1974, just before his Snake River jump, when he thought he might die. (Or was that part of the publicity?)

2.) The Berkeley Pit (of Death) Overlook. It was a mine where they turned off the water pumps and things got nasty and poisonous. The story of how it got there and how they plan to address it is interesting. And it’s a non-beautiful lake of note!

3.) The Piccadilly Museum which was good overall and really good for the boys (lots of car stuff).

4.) On their recommendation, we saw the moving and historically-interesting Granite Mountain Speculator Mine Memorial at the top of the hill off of Main Street.

5.) I’m thinking that we should have visited the World Museum of Mining, but maybe not (any input?).

From there, we drove to Great Falls where we had planned to visit the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art. (It was well worth it, including a permanent collection of Lee Steen’s “Tree People”. Steen was born in Horse Cave, KY!) Lewis and Clark are a big deal here, since the Missouri River comes through this area. So, we went by the Lewis and Clark Interpretative Center there (although too late to see much). We also dropped by Giant Springs and the Roe River—acclaimed as the shortest river in the world at 201 feet. Seeing its beautiful, crystal-clear spring-fed waters flow into the Missouri, the longest river in the U.S., was really cool.

On the road between Butte and Great Falls, we saw the Missouri River strolling through the countryside. In particular, there’s a beautiful canyon area called Gates of the Mountains. I hadn’t heard anything about it until we got there. I wish we had taken the two-hour boat cruise down the river in that area. But that makes for more than a full day to get from Yellowstone to Glacier, so what should one sacrifice?!

We spent the night in Cut Bank, the self-acclaimed coldest town in America. The next day, Wednesday, was Glacier NP—out-of-the-way, but spectacular. We drove the “Going to the Sun” Road through the middle of the park, hiking the Hidden Lake Overlook trail (3 miles through a path half-covered with snow!) and Avalanche Creek/Lake (about 5 miles). Throughout the day, we had a bit of rain and fog, but not enough to reduce our experience much. But that can happen: after we got to the Hidden Lake overlook, fog rolled in obscuring or obliterating the view. And after we finished the HL trail, a grizzly bear and her cub caused them to shut it down! (If you have time or other hiking preferences, you should also consider Highline Trail, Fishercap Lake / Redrock Falls, and St. Mary / Virginia Falls.)

This is probably a good time to talk about animals. We didn’t see much as much as expected in the Tetons and Yellowstone. But we saw a lot by the end of the trip: tons of bison (many, right next to the road); elk a few times; a fox; a handful of lizards; quite a few mule deer. On the way to Glacier, we had a moose run right in front of our car. (Tonia was VERY excited about moose.) And in Glacier, we were within 100 yards of the grizzlies. Later, we saw two eagles and a coyote.

From Glacier, we drove through Kalispell and the Flathead Lake region—another beautiful drive. This is probably a good time to mention that the kids did really well with all (well, most) of the driving and cramped hotel rooms. Electronic devices (and Pokemon Go for the older two) were certainly a good distraction. Stopping every few hours to do something was probably a help. And they’re ages 11-17 now, so all of this has gotten a lot easier—except fitting into our usual hotel room with two queen-sized beds! We were also surprised to hear so much Christian music on the trip. In the non-city areas, there were still multiple Christian radio stations. Often, it was country and Christian dominating the airwaves.

On Wednesday night, we stayed in Post Falls, ID and then started Thursday with Ray Kresek’s Fire Lookout Tower and Museum in Spokane, WA (123 W. Westview; call 509-466-9171) the next AM. As with these little “museums”, it’s a big plus to have the founder give you a tour. Ray was passionate about the topic and gracious. His wife was about to return from 30 days in the hospital and recovery, so we prayed with him and it meant a ton to him. I’m glad we had that God-appointed time to encourage him.

We drove to Palouse Falls SP which was another nice waterfall, a beautiful lagoon, and a tough hike. (I followed Zach, Brennan, and Joseph on a short-cut that was really tough.) From there, we drove to Sacajawea SP in Pasco—at the confluence of the Snake and Columbia Rivers. Not a great site, but it’s on the way to the Columbia River Gorge (CRG), a nice stop, and a quick look at a historically key moment for Lewis and Clark. We decided to parallel the Columbia along Rt 14 in Washington instead of I-84 in Oregon. It’s shorter; requires about the same amount of time; and allowed us to catch the Stonehenge Memorial at Maryhill, the first WWI memorial in the U.S. (The Museum of Art just west of there was recommended, but we got there after closing time.) We stayed in The Dalles, OR—a good access point to the CRG from the east.

On Friday, we covered the CRG, starting with Bridge of the Gods ($2 toll), back into WA. We drove seven miles west on Rt 14 to Beacon Rock Trail, a one-mile hike up a huge rock to a nice overlook. We returned east to Bonneville Lock/Damand its fish ladders—very interesting, including an underwater look at the fish and lamprey moving through the ladders. (We were also surprised to learn/see that many people are employed to count all of the fish that travel through. Hmm…) We crossed the Bridge again and headed down I-84 to Exit 35 at Dodson, where the Historic Columbia Parkway gets going. There, Daniel, Joseph and I hiked the Oneonta Gorge—a nice little adventure, but you will get wet in some chilly water. (It’s up to the ankles for the most part—knees at one point—and then chest-deep toward the end.) Four of us did the five-mile loop to see Multnomah and Wahkeena Falls. (Daniel and Zach did a short-cut. You can see both falls from near the roadway, but there was a lot of stuff, in between, on the longer hike.). And we only got to see Vista House at Crown Point after closing, but it looked neat.

That evening, we rolled into Portland for two days and three nights. It was a vacation within a vacation—an easy pace, sleeping in and roaming around, rather than seeing a bunch of particular things. (We could have added Mt. St. Helens in WA, but it didn’t get rave reviews from my FB friends and didn’t seem worth the additional travel. We missed Kidd’s Toy Museum [1300 SE Grand], which looked excellent but is not open on weekends.)

We started with the “Saturday Market” on the riverfront. We went to the Rose Garden and then skipped the Japanese Garden (too expensive with uninterested kiddos). We went to the Freaky But True Peculiarium (ok for the boys; can’t recommend in general). The store at the “museum” included a highly-blasphemous depiction of Christ on the cross with the ability to dress him in various clothes. It was sad to see the blasphemy but encouraging to know this underlines the reality of Jesus and his work, since the same thing wouldn’t be done to Buddha, Muhammad, or MLK Jr.

We went to the Adidas headquarters, saw the shoe sculpture out front, and watched some employees play soccer on a small turf field behind the building. Downtown, among other stores, we visited Powell Books (world’s largest), Doc Marten USA (shoes), and Ground Kontrol (arcade). Then, we hit some food trucks for dinner—an entire city block’s worth at that location. Finally, we went to Blue Star Donuts and got three of their last donuts of the day: a passion fruit with cayenne pepper and cocoa that made our heads explode; a very good Blueberry-Bourbon-Basil; and a Lemon-crumb something they gave us for free. The donuts averaged $3 apiece, but they were worth it—a dessert, really. Briochefor the donut and craziness for the toppings.

The highlight was our time with Bill and Jenny Hunter on Sunday. We met them at Voodoo Donuts (compared to Blue Star: longer lines, crazier and cheaper donuts, and really good, but not as good). Then we worshipped with them at the SE/Ankeny campus of Imago Dei. (Small world: I sent their discipleship guy an email and that evening, unsolicited, Kurt told me that he plans to call him to talk about their similar stories. They’re both trained by Dann Spader and had a spouse who died young!) We made plans to meet Bill and Jenny for an early dinner at Ken’s Artisan Pizza. In the meantime, our family toured the Alberta Street Art District, including lunch at Little Big Burger (excellent) and a snack of the two “walking” waffle options at the Waffle Window. Then, we drove to Mt. Tabor for a look. On the way, we stopped at Mike’s Museum of MotionPictures (4320 SE Belmont), a cool little museum of film artifacts within a huge video store.

Back with the Hunters, after dinner, we dropped in on Chinese Gardens and walked the Tilikum Crossing Bridge. (We had hoped to take the tram from the bridge to the hospital on top of hill, but it was closed for the day.) We finished the evening at Salt and Straw Ice Cream, where they have a range of exotic flavors. My choice was Goat Cheese Marionberry Habanero—excellent!

We did everything we wanted to do in Portland. But if Tonia and I were there without kids, we would have tried some nicer restaurants. Among many recommendations, I had these on my list as possibilities, even with the kids: Ken’s Bakery; Nong’s Khao Man Gai (esp. chicken and rice); Pok Pok Noi (Thai); Tasty n Alder for Sunday brunch; and sets of “micro-restaurants” at The Ocean (2329 Glisan) and Portland Mercado (7238 SE Foster).

Heading out of Portland on Monday AM, we went to Silver Falls SP—with a number of waterfalls on a nice, five-mile hike. (If you’re heading south or west out of Portland, consider the Evergreen Aviation/Space Museum in McMinnville and the apparently-excellent Oregon coast, including Seaside, Ecola SP, Newport; Sweet Creek’s beautiful one-mile hike; and Seal Rock. In Central Oregon, also consider Mt. Hood and Deschutes Canyon.)

Moving toward Bend, we enjoyed some short hikes and the very different topography of SmithRock SP. It reminded us of Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs. It’s not famous, but I’d put it on your list. In Bend, we enjoyed the lovely park and walking trail along the Deschutes River Trail. There is supposed to be a Whitewater Park there, where you can watch water experts do their thing in kayaks, etc., but we didn’t get there.

On Tuesday, we started with a long drive on a dirt road, going the wrong direction through some wonderful territory. Then, we got back on US-87 and went to LavaCast Forest. It’s similar to Craters of the Moon, but more rainfall has allowed a different outcome with slowly-emerging vegetation. The “Cast Forest” is an area where the volcanic flow had lost some pop, surrounding and killing trees, but not destroying them. The result: the dying trees rot away and the cooled lava forms a “cast forest”—hardened lava holes where trees had once been. Very cool!

Next up: Paulina Falls, another nice waterfall. But given the others we saw, it’s not worth the trip—except in tandem with the Big Obsidian Flow a little further back in the park. That was amazing. Pumice and obsidian are two fruits of volcanic activity and this allowed us to another beautiful and cool moment in volcanic history.

Then, we had probably the biggest wow of the trip: Crater Lake NP. One of the placards noted the many times that people had “discovered” it—and a sense, we were discovering it that day. The response every time must be a jaw-dropping wow. Like Glacier, given the snowfall, it’s only open a few months a year. (In fact, the eastern loop still wasn’t fully open when we were there on July 12.) But oh my! Snow, amazing blue water, one of the world’s deepest lakes, and a number of beautiful views from the rim of the volcanic crater. (You can take a tough hike down to the bottom—and even get a boat ride to the larger island. It’s also a place where you can fish without a license, since there are no native fish!)

From there, we had a long drive to stay the night at Crescent City. Like our evening drive to Lake Tahoe, the landscape seemed pretty, some of the best parts were probably invisible for our drive to the coast. At the end, we went through Jedediah SP on US101—and even at night, you could tell that the redwoods were awesome! (My favorite part was when they obviously built the road to barely miss a mammoth tree or two.)

Crescent City apparently has some nice stuff (Pebble Beach Drive and Point St. George), but we kept moving on Wednesday. (Another option is to stay east—to drive past Mt. Shasta and go to Redding for the Sundial Glass Bridge and Sculpture Park.) The next morning, we saw more of the Redwoods in the daylight, with a drive down Howland Hill Road (not in my research for the trip, but apparently, the no-brainer way to see the great trees—driving, a short hike, and/or a longer hike). Ideally, we would have gone all the way down HHR and loop back on US101, but they were doing construction on HHR’s bridge.

Heading south, the rest of the day was a mix of beach views (with two stops at beaches), canyon drives, a herd of elk near Orick, Redwood Creek (where the creek goes into the ocean and the beach has dead redwoods), and two scenic drives through redwoods (Redwood SP and the more-touristy Avenue of the Giants. If you want more time on the beach and on Route 1, you can head SW at Leggett. But we stayed on the main road to our hotel in Healdsburg (about 50 miles north of SF): America’s Best Value Inn. This was our only bad hotel experience: no A/C and no ability for management to get us to a different room (fine, stuff happens, right?), but no discount and the implication that we deserved it since we signed up through Priceline (unacceptable).

On Thursday, our last day, we had a short drive to Sebastopol, to see dozens of excellent “junk art” pieces on Florence Street between Wilton and Healdsburg. (The artist, Patrick Amiot, lives in that neighborhood and refers to it as "junk art" and “urban folk art”.) Aside from Reno’s 95 degrees, this was our only (brief) time above 80 degrees. Even so, there was little humidity—all in all, gorgeous weather. (And we’re glad we missed the usual summer fun in Louisville for two and a half weeks!) Then, 25 miles later, it was back into the 60s—and another 25 miles later, we were back to 60 degrees and windy along the beach.

We looked at Pt. Reyes SP briefly, but time was short and the lighthouse was closed. If that’s your cup of tea, I could see spending a half-day there. I had Muir Woods on my list, but didn’t know why. And there were huge crowds. But it was just to see more redwoods. Well, of course, most people haven’t been further north in CA to see redwoods, so Muir is the place near SF to do that! We walked the Golden Gate Bridge (very cold) and wrapped up with a drive around Golden Gate Park and through the city.

Two public policy items to close: First, Oregon was funny since it had legalized marijuana but is one of two states (along with NJ) where you’re not allowed to pump your own gas. One is tempted to imagine that the policy is driven by paternalism (and safety concerns). It's certainly motivated by that. But the more likely explanation is the standard bad-economic thinking that leads one to imagine that such government efforts create net jobs. (From the little bit of easy research I could do, Oregon revisited this topic with a referendum in 1982 and maintained the status quo.)

Speaking of government creating net jobs: we’ve seen this on most (every?) trip, but our time in national parks concentrated the observations. Placards tell us that X was the result of funding from the WPA in the 1930s and often mention the job destruction from that spending. Of course, when you take money from some people and give it to others, you’ll create jobs, but you’re not likely to create net jobs. Of course, the creation is obvious and the destruction is subtle, so it’s easy to get fooled. The WPA was one of many interventions that lengthened and deepened the Great Depression. Although it’s cool that we can enjoy such things today, it was on the backs of those who were forced to sacrifice by the lousy economic policies of FDR and his “New Deal”. (I will turn this into something this Fall, but the project could range from op-ed to major research piece. Stay tuned!)

It was a lot of work, but it was a great trip. If you have the resources, make it a priority to get out west!

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Truth And Lies Of Modern Education: Is Homework Good Or Not?

Are assignments always useful as part of the learning process for students? The answer is situational provided that teachers need to apply an effective system to outline their lessons. In order to maximize the results, constant assessment methods are necessary to make sure that students succeed in the course. In the following line, we study these issues in order to come up with a decisive conclusion.

Facts about education

Nowadays, we have the best moment in History to outline educational methods for students. The Internet is the worldwide encyclopedia that is available to anyone who has a connection. More importantly, now that we count on many devices that can connect to the Internet, the possibilities are endless. For instance, you do not understand a term while studying? Worry no more, pick up the Smartphone and look for the definition. Quick and effective. Modern technology applied to education is the most useful tool.

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People think that devices just distract students. However, this is not completely true provided that students can make a more serious use of the gadgets. This is also an educational concern for teachers, as kids should learn how to use the available tools that are brand-new. In fact, we should teach them how to become autonomous in their study. Nowadays, there are plenty of initiatives that provide courses online, as well.

What to expect in the next years

As technology evolves, we have more tools to complement the study process. Therefore, teachers should be updated in this progress to improve the learning process. Unfortunately, technology advances so fast that it is hard to use the latest software tools or devices all the time. We should expect that some developments are implemented in the following years, such as more tactile screens and educational apps. As mentioned before, why carry a huge dictionary if you can have it in your pocket, i.e. download an app in your mobile phone or look for the information on your laptop. These new possibilities should be considered in nowadays education.

Check this site to find out more about the effectiveness of homework and modern education. There, you will find very interesting info that will help you understand these topics in depth. Moreover, it is always fascinating to consider how to improve the learning system so as to make students grasp the contents more effectively.


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As you know, parenting a troubled teen can be extremely difficult and a Christian school for troubled boys can really help. These boys need the structured and supervised environment of Jubilee Leadership Academy, where genuine transformation takes place through the power of God.

Your son will discover an entirely new life here at Jubilee Leadership Academy. You may be shocked at times by your son’s selfishness and refusal to think of others. At this Christian School for troubled boys, your son will learn the true meaning of being a Christian. The foundation of this spiritual program is service. Your son will learn to make others more important than himself through ongoing involvement in service projects. Teaching him empathy for others while volunteering at a homeless shelter, working food banks, reading for children, and visiting senior citizens forms the foundation for a completely new way of looking at the world! This introduction to his new Christian fellowship will allow your son to completely turn his life around through the power of Christ.

Your son is acting out and is filled with anger for various reasons. As they embrace the word of Christ and see living role models of His Grace all around them, they will grow closer to God and become enthusiastic about the help provided at Jubilee Leadership Academy.

school for troubled boysAt Jubilee Leadership Academy, we know that not all boys respond in the same ways or at the same speed. For this reason, your son will get the chance to experience our various services dedicated to working with troubled boys. Boys feel more comfortable and at-home at Jubilee than other alternative schools, allowing them to form a trusting relationship with our staff. With our personal approach, your son will deal with issues of behavior, emotional expression, and relationships.

We know that Washington may seem very far from Oakland California and it is important that you are included in this experience. Therefore, family sessions are crucial and can be attended in person or over the phone. Your support is vital to the life-long change we aim for at Jubilee Academy. If your son is more hands-on, we will challenge him with tasks that build teamwork, communication, self-esteem, and accountability. No matter how your son learns and grows, we have the knowledge and the facilities to get him back on track in life!

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If your son is struggling in life and you’re seeking Christian schools for troubled boys in Oakland, California, let Jubilee Leadership Academy teach him a new way to live. Through Christian morals of service and compassion for others, this program in Washington will teach him how to look at the world in a completely new way. Call Jubilee Leadership Academy today at (509) 749-2103.

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