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Entry Description: This building was built by a master of constructing Japanese traditional houses and tea-rooms?He beautifully completed this in his original way and we believe we have to preserve what he achieved to respect his philosophy and we kept such parts as much as possible. We arranged stylish elements to match Japanese four seasons and tried to fuse Japanese and Western designs: We use gray stone and granite for bathtubs and washbasins. We use natural stones where the skin touch directly. The location influenced our design so as to keep the view as minimum as only sky and ocean, so we designed the black tile pool for the rooftop of the extension building to unite the sky and the sea. Additionally we produce more unusual and dramatic time by aligning the flames against water.

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Entry Description: Ramos Pinto, which has been combining innovation with tradition in the production of wine Ports since 1880, has launched highly innovative and multi- functional packaging for its iconic RP 10YO. The packaging is 100% eco-friendly, complying with the environmental and sustainability concerns that Ramos Pinto has made its policy. It was created and produced by the Omdesign agency. It consists of two cork blocks and an outer sleeve of pressed cardboard that unites the two parts. Due to the unique properties of cork, a 100% natural and sustainable material, such as lightness, impermeability and thermal insulation, this packaging may be used afterwards for multiple purposes: as a cooler, somewhere to keep your pocket contents, pen holder, jar or even a flower vase. "Reuse this packaging in an original and creative way" is the challenge to consumers.

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From HIV to puppy mills, new laws for California

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But beach smoking ban vetoed

The most recent California legislative session ended Sept. 30. California legislators were busy during the final weeks and passed hundreds of bills. Governor Jerry Brown has had several weeks to decided whether he will sign a bill into a new law or veto it.

Below are several bills, which he signed and will become new state laws, and a few, which he determined should not become laws.

Drug price increases

One of the first bills signed was Senate Bill 17, which requires drug manufactures to notify the state when the wholesale price is scheduled to increase more than 16 percent within a two-year period. The bill applies to drugs, which cost more than $40 for a 30-day supply.

The intent is to promote transparency in the drug business, said the bill’s author, Sen. Dr. Edward Hernandez.

There is also a requirement to analyze how drug prices affect health care premiums.

“Drug companies abuse their market power by jacking up prices, and the public is looking to their government for help,” Hernandez said in the press release. “Requiring drug companies to provide advance notice and some explanation for large price hikes is a step toward a more stable and predictable prescription drug marketplace.

College education

Assembly bill 19 would waives fees for those students enrolled for the first time in the community college system and who take at least 12 units per semester. This new waiver would only be available for a newly enrolled student’s first full academic year of attendance,

Currently California Community Colleges charge students an enrollment fee of $46 per unit per semester. The board of governors may waive this fee for students meeting prescribed requirements.

The legislature must appropriate funds for this bill.

It also intends for community colleges to partner with local educational agencies to provide secondary and postsecondary students and their families assistance in learning about college opportunities, completing college preparatory courses, and applying for college and financial aid.

It also expects these partnerships to support and improve high school student preparation for college and reduce postsecondary remediation.

The potential cost of waiving these fees may be more than $31 million annually.

HIV transmission

SB 239, authored by Assemblymember Todd Gloria and State Sen. Scott Wiener, updates California criminal law to approach transmission of HIV in the same way as transmission of other serious communicable diseases

An individual, who knows they have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and expose anosther individual to it, by having unprotedted sex, can be convicted of a felony and sentenced to state prison. Senate Bill 17 would repeal this provison and define it as misdemeanor. The individual could be sentence to a county jail for six months.

It is also a felony to donate blood if one knows they have acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or tested positive of HIV. This also has been lowered to a misdemeanor.

“In the decades since these laws were passed, societal and medical understanding of HIV has greatly improved, and there are now effective treatments that lengthen and improve the quality of life for people living with HIV. Furthermore, there is no evidence that laws criminalizing sexual activity on the part of people living with HIV accomplish their intended goal of improving public health, Wiener, who was the co-author, said when he introduced the SB 239 in February.

“Today California took a major step toward treating HIV as a public health issue, instead of treating people living with HIV as criminals,” said Wiener said in the press release after its signing. “HIV should be treated like all other serious infectious diseases, and that’s what SB 239 does. We are going to end new HIV infections, and we will do so not by threatening people with state prison time, but rather by getting people to test and providing them access to care. I want to thank Governor Brown for his support in helping to put California at the forefront of a national movement to reform these discriminatory laws.”

While the votes on this bill (the Senate passed it 24-12 and the Assembly passed it 52-19 were not overwhelming, defeat was not threaten. St. Sen Jeff Stone opposed it and Assemblyman Voepel did not vote on it.

Political ads

Assembly bill 249, the California Disclose Act, would open the windows on who may be paying for various political ads or campaigns. More information on the source of funds for political ads — printed or telephonic — will be required.

The act prohibits a candidate or committee from sending a mass mailing unless the name, street address, and city of the candidate or committee are shown on the outside of each piece of mail in the mass mailing.

This also applies to a mass electronic mailing, The bill would provide that these disclosure requirements do not apply if the mass mailing or mass electronic mailing is paid for by an independent expenditure.

The new disclosure law prohibits candidates or committees from expending campaign funds to pay for specified telephone calls that advocate support of, or opposition to, a candidate, ballot measure, or both, unless the name of the organization that authorized or paid for the call is disclosed to the recipient of the call during the course of each call.

The act also requires advertisements to include disclosure statements, with the names of the persons who made the two highest cumulative contributions to the committee paying for the advertisement.

Puppy mills

Brown signed AB 485, “Pet Rescue and Adoption Act.”  Beginning Jan. 1, 2019, California pet stores will  be allowed to sell only dogs, cats or rabbits that which were obtained from a public animal control agency or shelter, society for the prevention of cruelty to animals shelter, humane society shelter, or rescue group.

And the dogs and cats must comply with laws regarding spaying and neutering of these animals.

AB 485 applies to the retail sale of dogs, cats and rabbits.

The bill’s author, Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell said in a press release after the Governor signed the bill, “This is a big win for our four-legged friends, of course. But also for California taxpayers who spend more than $250 million annually to house and euthanize animals in our shelters.”

Although the American Kennel Club opposed the bill, its language does not prohibit the purchase of the animals from private breeders.

Smoking on public beaches and parks

Senate Bill 386 and Assembly Bill 725 would have banned smoking on California pubic parks and beaches. Last week, Gov. Brown vetoed both bills.

In his veto message, Brown said he thought both bills were too broad. For example, the fine for lighting one cigarette in a state park could be $485.

More importantly, Brown said, “Last year, I vetoed Senate Bill 1333, a similar measure, because I believed that such a far-reaching prohibition in every state park and every state beach was too broad.”

He concluded his message with this statement, “If people can’t smoke even on a deserted beach, where can they? There must be some limit to the coercive power of government.”

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The educational process at the Department of International Economics of NTUU “KPI” has a practical side. Academic staff of the department regularly organizes students’ excursions to industrial enterprises, scientific and technical and research institutions, government agencies and other organizations.

In particular, students attend thematic public hearings in the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine, the National Bank of Ukraine, study innovation processes and inventions of the Institute of Electric welding named after Evhen O. Paton, Institute of superhard materials, Scientific park “Kyiv Polytechnic” and others.

Students also get acquainted with the management of the organization, financial and economic activities and production processes of:

NNEGC “Energoatom”;
ASTC named after Antonov;
PJSC “Ukrtelecom”;
PJSC “Arsenal”;
PJSC “Ukrplastic”;
JSC “Glass factory”;
JSC “Geofizpribor”;
PJSC “Kyiv Motorcycle Plant”;
PAO “The sheet music factory”;
PJSC “Obolon”;
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UX, or the User Experience is the measurable results of the User Interface aggregate. In other words, User Experience is the “heart and fuel” of a new business-to-client relationship facilitated by a Webpage and its specific User Interface. To continue the analogy, User Experience is the visceral, emotive and cognitive conclusions the child forms from playing with the new toy. There is theory behind what a user is thinking when visiting your website. What is their next action? Where will the web page take them?

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Friday, June 21, 2013

Sanibel Harbour Marriott Resort Wedding | Allison + Ryan

The long awaited wedding of Allison and Ryan had finally come!  I think we booked Allison and Ryan about a year and a half ago.  Time flies and the big day was here.  Allison and Ryan were married at Sanibel Harbour Marriott Resort and Spa on Saturday June 15, 2013.  The weather was perfect for their wedding day, and Allison looked truly amazing.  Allison described it as a fairytale wedding, and it truly was.  Congratulations Allison and Ryan, we were so happy to be part of this wonderful day! xoxox

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Monday, October 7, 2013

South Seas Resort Wedding | Emily + Brian

One of our most favorite brides Emily is married at South Seas Island Resort on Captiva Island!  We hope you love her video as much as we do. Congratulations Emily and Brian.  We wish you all the best.  xoxo

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Cool Books by Cool Kids:)

This post is long overdue.
I have been wanting to do a post about kids MAKING books and illustrating them for a long time. So when I recently did an author presentation at the Cunningham Elementary School here in Vancouver, I really couldn't put it off any longer. After I showed them the books I made, I got to see some books that they had made and that was of course really fun for me! Here are just a very very few of some seriously hilarious but also fantastic book covers. The kids at Cunningham are great and so are their teachers. It was so cool to see so much fantastic artwork up in the halls and I loved that they had already made their own books. Very cool.

These pictures are also from a book made by a very clever kid who doesn't go to Cunningham though. His mom took one of my illustration courses and gave me this book made by her super talented son at the end of class. I really love everything about it from the way he re-purposed an ordinary journal to make the book to the use of two panels for every page of his book. Well done Kiernan and thanks so much to you and all the kids at Cunningham too for showing me your awesome books!

You guys are my inspiration!

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Ezra Jack Keats

•Reproduced with permission of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation

One of the things I love the most about teaching is that it's such a great motivator to expand my own knowledge of the rich history of illustration. Every time I look at my notes for the session of my class that deals with the history of the subject, I find about ten-gazillion illustrators, printing processes or other things related that I want to know more about and pass onto my students. This time around I did a little bit of research on Ezra Jack Keats. These two sites here and here have been helpful for me; one of them being the Ezra Jack Keats foundation which also shows a photo sequence taken of a little boy.. who was the inspiration for Keat's most famous Peter Stories. I love that they put this piece of inspiration up on the site because it demonstrates so clearly and perfectly how whole entire stories can be crafted out of images.

A couple of these images are taken from a fantastic blog I just found which is all about Vintage Picture books. The blog is called "My Vintage Book Collection in Blog Form" and here is a link to it. Thanks Mallory for scanning these for us! :)

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Little Nemo In Slumberland

Here is a great quote from a great site about Winsor Mc Cay, and his amazingly groundbreaking comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland.

His most famous work, Little Nemo in Slumberland. Little Nemo , which ran from 1905 to 1911, is the pinnacle of comic strip art in the first decade of the 20th century. It displays an unparalleled application of Art Nouveau graphic style, translating sinewy, irregular forms and rhythms into a delightfully decorative comic strip design. The strips related the fantastic adventures which befell the child Little Nemo, who always woke up in the last panel of the comic strip.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Winsor McCay

There is no doubt that Little Nemo in Slumberland by the great Winsor McCay is amazing and completely ahead of it's time. Here are only a very few of the many many, beyond imaginative strips. There used to be a fantastic book that had a collection of the weekly strips in it but it's currently out of print. Let's hope not for long. I'll make the next entry about more on Mc Cay. Here's some art to get you interested to know moooore in the meantime and I found a really great blog entry on the prolific McCay here on this blog called Kleefeld on Comics


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Monday, August 3, 2015

The Dogs of IMR

While rescue can be very rewarding, there is one HUGE pitfall that all good rescues encounter: The Unadoptables. Here we also call them "Retirees". Simply put: If you operate a dog rescue, and you are not left with a bunch of these, you are either placing badly or not accepting the dogs who need you the most.

Gunther was our first of these. My friend, Lisa, asked me to pick him up from Crawford County Humane Society. I spent a day driving nearly to Indiana and back because we knew he had an eye injury that needed treatment. As it turned out, I wasn't able to treat it anyway because Gunther spent his first two weeks in rescue under my dining room table. He still has a scar.

You see, Gunther had been "rescued" by an elderly woman who thought that she was helping stray dogs by keeping them in a pen in her back yard. By the time her daughter came by and found out about her endeavors, there were 30 dogs of varying ages in that pen. Gunther, still under two years old, was hopelessly feral. He is now 12 years old and hates being touched. We drug him to trim his nails. Gunther requires a low allergen food, but little else. He knows the routine here and hates strangers coming into the house (he will try to bite them). Gunther also hates men in hats.

Sassy is an elderly Rat Terrier who came in a group of mill dogs when she was about two years old. I'll never forget the words of the rescuer who brought me two Rat Terriers. She pointed to the first, saying, "She's a sweetheart." Then she looked at Sassy and said, "That one is nuts."Sassy has been here ever since. No one can pet her or touch her. Much like Gunther,she will never adjust to a normal home. Sassy falls into the "Aren't puppymills wonderful?" category. She requires no special care - just food and compassion.

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Canis Stumpus Tripodis was one of a large group of Yorkshire Terriers confiscated by a local humane society. Stumpy had a badly mangled left rear leg which had to be amputated. When I brought him home from the hospital, he promptly bit me. It has taken years for Stumpy to feel comfortable enough to allow some guests to pet him. He loves being outside and we often find h
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im in the backyard, laying in the grass or barking at passing cars. He might be adoptable to the right home, but he requires a pet door to a fenced yard and no kids. So far, the proper situation for Stumpy continues to elude us. He is a Retiree with an option.

Cha Cha is a Chug - part Chihuahua, part Pug. She was a confiscation by an area humane society. They asked us to take her because of her intense fear. When she came here at one year of age, she bit Kevin as he tried to get her out of the kennel. Never one to ignore a warning, I placed the whole kennel in our gated laundry room with Cha Cha in it. For several weeks, she came out only at night to eat, drink, and use the piddle pads. Each day I would look into her pet taxi and speak gently to her as she tried her best to blend into the plastic. I fed her, talked to her, began holding out my hand for her to sniff while keeping my face averted - if I looked at her, she was gone! It took months for her to accept me. When she finally decided to trust me, she had reached her limit of one worthy human being. Two years later, no one else can touch her. Cha Cha eats a costly low-allergen food. She has no other special requirements.

Roxie is a 10 year-old Pug belonging to a dear friend who had to move into supportive living. I offered to keep Roxie and bring her for visits. These visits mean the world to both of them. For those of you unfamiliar with supportive living facilities, they take the resident's income and leave them $90 a month for incidentals. Roxie eats a mix of Blue Buffalo kibble and canned food, and uses tacrolimus eye drop at a cost of $50 a month. We receive much thanks and appreciation, but no financial support for her.

Likewise, Khaleesi's owner went into long term care when Khaleesi was already 14 years old and blind from bilateral cataracts. Khaleesi, a tiny black poodle with one Grade IV luxating patella, had two dentals right away - her teeth were horrible. She is the sweetest little thing you could ever imagine, and she fit in so well here, I hadn't the heart to send her on to another rescue. Khaleesi is now 17 years old. She spends most of her time sleeping on a bed in the kitchen near the refrigerator. She gets the food she prefers (Pedigree Little Champions), and takes Flagyl and Metacam each morning. Every evening between 6:30 and 8:00pm, I can count on her rising to make her way down the hallway - it's time for her dinner (if I don't notice her right away, she will come and stand stoically next to my bed until I do). Khaleesi is the only dog here who eats twice a day. At her age, she gets whatever she wants. We will love her until she joins her Mama in Heaven. Her other expenses include grooming four times a year and intermittent vet visits for antibiotics (she is prone to upper respiratory infections).

Sadie is a 10 year old Pug whose owners took really crappy care of her, then dumped her on rescue with a belly full of cancer. We hope our vet was able to get it all, but fear of recurrence seems to be preventing Sadie from finding a home with anyone else. We did a dental and spay on Sadie, too. Our vet missed a small round lump over her thigh, which is likely a cyst, but may require removal. Sadie has really bad knees in her rear legs which causes diminished fecal continence. She gets a queasy tummy, so we give her a half a Pepcid each morning with her Metacam. She eats canned food in weight maintenance formula to keep her weight down. Sadie is a sweetheart who never complains, gets along with everyone, and enjoys barking at stuff in the back yard along with her buddies, Stumpy and Eddie.

Gertie is a 10 year old Pug who is mine by default. Gertie is blind and not housetrainable - 'nuff said. Gertie has the worst KCS I have ever encountered. We use tacrolimus, but are close to giving it up for artificial tears and Genteal Ointment for Severe Dry Eyes. She chose me, and made her choice clear by saying,"Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma" whenever she is separated from me by a door or a baby gate. It would have to be a pug angel to ever adopt her. I would only entrust her to someone I know personally. Gertie is due for another dental soon.

Friends and blog readers will be familiar with Calvin the Curmudgeon. Calvin came to rescue in a group of mill dogs at age nine. He is fecally incontinent and walks by swinging his back legs like two sticks. He frequently falls and still stands back and barks at folks he doesn't know. If he lives long enough, Calvin will need wheels. Calvin takes Metacam each morning for pain and needs another dental.

Nellie is hands-down the most loving dog I have ever encountered. She is also the most submissive. Nellie is a 45# hound mix with a long list of phobias: Loud noises, thunder, open spaces are a few of them. We keep sedatives and she needs them if it even looks like it might rain. Nellie hasn't a mean bone in her body, but her fear is her downfall. If we take her out the front door, she drops to the ground and army crawls. She submissive urinates when strangers pet her or when she is placed in a vehicle. As you might imagine, she does not show well. So far, nobody seems to have the kind of tenderness, patience and compassion to work through these fearful stages. In my home and yard, she behaves like any normal dog. I do not see much hope for adoption for Nellie. Her main expense are her Blue Buffalo and her sedatives.

 Last of all today is Eddie. Eddie is 10 years old. Despite his age, Eddie is adoptable. He's pretty healthy - just needs dental and tiny lumpectomy. He is scheduled for these procedures on August 18th. Then, we hope, Eddie will be going home.

We buy a bottle of Metacam every month, a bottle of tacrolimus, Genteal drops and ointment, 50# of kibble, two cases of Pedigree cans, about 50 bags of Pedigree LC, one box of The Honest Kitchen EVERY month. We stock amoxicilline, Flagyl, Clindamycin, meclizine, baby aspirin, triple antibiotic ointment, and more. We use gobs of paper towels, baby wipes and chewys.

We have a bunch of very tough-to-place dogs. But we feel they deserve to be cared for as well as we possibly can.

If you feel that way, too, please help.

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As senators defect, GOP concedes health bill’s fate bleak |Sep 26, 2017

WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Susan Collins’ decision to oppose the GOP push to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul leaves the effort all but dead, with even party leaders conceding that their prospects are dismal.

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FAIRHOPE, Ala. — Sen. Luther Strange and firebrand jurist Roy Moore face off in Alabama’s U.S. Senate runoff Tuesday in a race that will reverberate through the Republican Party and has pitted President Donald Trump against his former strategist, Steve Bannon.

North Korea lacks ability, intent to attack US planes, experts say |Sep 26, 2017

SEOUL, South Korea — Military analysts say North Korea doesn’t have either the capability or the intent to attack U.S. bombers and fighter jets, despite the country’s top diplomat saying it has every right do so.

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A man was found shot to death on a Carson street Tuesday morning, sheriff’s deputies said. Deputies found the man at Idabell Avenue and Fairhaven Street when they responded to a report of gunshots at 2:30 a.

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It might seem hard to believe if you were among the tens of thousands of fans crammed into the Disneyland Resort last weekend, but we are entering a calm before the storm at Southern California’s theme parks.

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Cabrillo Marine Aquarium’s whale-watching naturalist training program kicks off on Oct. 3. The volunteer opportunity includes weekly Tuesday night trainings through March. Volunteers who graduate the training program will be placed on whale-watching boats to train viewers about local marine wildlife.

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Residents were able to escape unharmed, but a home was left with significant damage when a fire broke out in a Naples Island garage in Long Beach on Monday night, according to authorities. The blaze started around 6:25 p.

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Friday, July 25, 2014

The Honeycomb Hideout Episode 23: The Midwest Media Expo Day 1

Alright, gang! It's been awhile coming but it's finally here, the first day of the guys and girls of Imaginos Workshop at the Midwest Media Expo. It was a really fun show with a lot of interesting happenings, so give it a listen and check out all the fun we had. Also, stay tuned for Day 2 next week!

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Sunday, June 8, 2014

Review: Insurgent!

Title: Insurgent
Series: Divergent #2
Author: Veronica Roth
Release date: May 2012
Age group: Young Adult
Pages: 525

#Review of Divergent

I really loved Divergent, the first book in this trilogy. It was such a rush to read and I think this is a fascinating story. The ending of the first book was so intense for the main character Tris that I wonder how this story will continue.
I know most of you have already read the entire trilogy, but please don't spoil anything! I know I'm late reading this series, but I'm glad I get to read it now :)

Obviously this is the second installment in the Divergent trilogy by Veronica Roth.

This book took me some time to read. The last couple of weeks were so busy for me, that each time I started to read I just fell asleep... not because of the book though. I was just very tired after work.

This book was amazing. The writing is just so gorgeous that I read some parts out loud, just because it sounded so great. I really think that Veronica Roth has amazing writing skills and while reading this book I had a lot of moments were I just paused to admire the beauty of her writing.

Just like Divergent, I found this to be very fast-paced and action-packed read.
I loved that we got to see more of the other factions and receive information about the habits and rules within their faction. This makes me feel like I have a better prospective on the different factions and  really get to know them better.

I feel like Insurgent is a lot about trusting the people that you love and deciding whether to lie to them or tell the truth. It was very interesting to read about Tris' thoughts on the decisions she needed to make (which were a lot). Sometimes I really wanted to shake Tris for making certain decisions

We get to see Tris and Four interact and try to trust each other more although the circumstances didn't make it very easy for them.  May I just say I love Four :D

Tris is traumatized by things she has experienced previously and I think the way she deals with that it realistically written. Throughout the book she keeps having flashbacks and moments were she blanks out or is overwhelmed by emotions.

I literally can't think of anything I disliked about this book, 5 stars it is!!

Read the Divergent trilogy? Please don't spoil me about Allegiant, I don't want to know anything about it yet! Let me know your thoughts on Insurgent or Divergent below:D

Happy reading !

  1. Great review Myra! I've read the entire Divergent trilogy but I'm sorry to say that I guess it just wasn't for me, but I'm glad that you enjoyed it! I just didn't really like Tris. :(

    I'm also a NEW GFC follower and I'd love if you could follow my blog too! That'd be really awesome :)

    Olivia @ Fictionally Obsessed

    1. Hi Olivia, thanks for following my blog!
      It's hard to like a book if the main character isn't really speaking to you.
      I also visited your blog and follow you too :D

      Happy reading!

  2. I love Veronica Roth's writing as well! It's so beautiful :) Insurgent was actually my least favorite out the three books but only by a little.

    1. Hi Laura,
      The writing is very beautiful, it was so nice to read this :) I hope I will like Allegiant as well!
      Happy reading :)

  3. I think Veronica Roth is a fantastic writer, and I loved how Insurgent focused more on Tris, how she's feeling after what's happened, and how she's dealing with the grief. I thought it was very realistic and genuine. I love how Veronica was not afraid to tear her down to nothing and then build her back up. And I also liked the more developed relationship between Tris and Four. :) Great review!

    Holly @ Part of that World

    1. Hi Holly,
      You're so right! You really get to see how Tris deals with the grief and everything else that is happening.
      Happy reading!

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Monday, June 30, 2008

my room..

weee.. my room is much more pretty na!

it's the way i pictured it..
although it's not that done yet.. but it's improved..
ready na xa para kay skye in a sense..

blinking and glowing ones..

it's a bit messy still..
but it's the way it should be..
atleast i can find my stuffs within the mess..

i don't know where to put skye there though..
it's a bit cramped..
tas matakot ako mahulog xa like what happened to toph..
he fell from the double decker last week and again early this morning from his bed..

it was a loud..

wah! wah! waH! mama! mamy!

i got all shaken up coz skye was doing something weird!
like stiffening too much na it hurts and i went all tachycardic!!
like my heart was pumping 400 times more.. pumping adrenalin to my body..
it was much more scary than the kikiks gammy and lhey talked about..

damn them..
speaking of kikiks..

it made a big mark on the upcoming samal escapades..
madami daw dun?!
hai.. sayang..

edit ko lang to later..
i'm a bit beat up..

Monday, June 23, 2008

everything in one book..

i have been dreaming of you for the past days..

it was always the.. back to the old days dream..
nung mga araw na ala ka magawa.. at ibang makita kundi ako..
god i f*ckin' miss you..

and you go txtn me out of the blue that you miss me too..

but you go again with the dissing and throwing me away like i was some old rubbish you couldn't stand..

and there goes my support system..

i hope you know..
that the one person you hate most in my life..
the one bestfriend who's been keeping me sane..
said things that shocked me..

damn it..

sabi pa nya sana maayos to..
kasi skye deserves a father..
and na we have to patch this up..

coz she doesn't want me keeping skye from you!

because i was so f*uckin' pissed off with you that i told her you won't see even skye's shadow and anyway.. you don't believe in skye..

i didn't expect that from her..
but i always thought she was well above me..
and you hate her.. and want to kill her..

ala ka na nga sa life ko..
ala ka na kay skye..
and you want her out of my life too?!

you want me to go crazy..
beyond repair?!
how crazy do you want me to be..

you are as free as air to flow..
hinayaan kita to do everything..

the few friends that i want to have for myself.. you wish gone..

can't you see how good and forgiving my friends are..

they are but a few..

because the one friend i thought who'd be the best among them turns his back on me.. leaving me alone..

go on.. do your thing..

sana.. you can produce a straight answer..
you always turn deaf and mute when i ask you what you want.. from me..


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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Original T Shirt Design

This custom design was done for a friend of mine, as a joke of sorts. Design created in Photoshop and Illustrator.

Saturday, October 10, 2015

Monday, September 7, 2015

InDesign Graphics

Working within InDesign to create a flyer, a business card, and a pizza place menu, as well as some help from Photoshop and Illustrator

Monday, August 31, 2015

Deer Head Graphic

A new Graphic Design for a T Shirt idea, for a 'Fight Club' comic entry contest of sorts.

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Another Vintage Graphic Design

This time it's for the 'Lost Siren's Tavern.' I did more pre production drawings for this one for more variety, as there's so much material I could come up with for this design, and eventually went with the more dynamic composition. Illustrator and Photoshop were used for software

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Vintage Graphics and Logos

I'll add more to these in a bit. I've felt compelled to hone my skills and create a few logos and graphics in a vintage black and white, rubber stamp kind of style, which is simple but looks great. Created with traditional sketching, Photoshop & Illustrator to finalize.

Friday, August 14, 2015

Hair Smack Logo

A concept logo that I did for a local Hair Salon. Programs used: Photoshop, and Illustrator.

Sunday, August 9, 2015

Retro Logo for 'Kickhouse Records'

Logo creation for a concept Recording Studio. I started with a simple silhoutte and then gradually fleshed out the other elements to the final piece. Programs used: Photoshop, Illustrator.

Friday, July 3, 2015

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Abstract Skull Graphic

A few variations of a shirt design idea, created in Photoshop and Illustrator.

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Leprechaun Graphic

I selected a final leprechaun character from my previous sketches and cleaned up the line art in Illustrator, then created a few variations with it, for a potential t shirt design.

Monday, June 15, 2015

Original Illustrations

A few character illustration pieces; I'll be adding more of these soon. Created in Photoshop and Illustrator.


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Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Papa Smurf speaks about the attacks...

Following the horrific bombings of smurf village no one really knew where Papa Smurf was. I just found this story on the newswire.

AP (Asmurfiated Press) NewsWire

SMURF VILLAGE--Following the devastating bombings at Smurf Village the leader of the smurfs emerged from an undisclosed location and issued a short statement late Wednesday afternoon along with Army general Norman Smurfzkof.

"Following the recent bombings of the Smurf Village all of the citizen smurfs have come together to aid those in need," Papa Smurf said. "The National Smurfs have been mobilize and Smurf Village has been declared in a state of emergency. We have the Central Intelligence Agency Smurfs (CIAS) investigating the attacks as it has yet to be confirmed that Gargamel or Azrael had any involvement with the bombings."

The National Smurfs are under the command of 3 star General Norman Smurfzkof.

"We have mobilized the 101st along with several units of the National Smurfs," Smurfzkof said. "We have a company of soldiers preparing to make their way here from Fort Smurf to aid in the recovery from these malicious attacks."

Little information has come in about the whereabouts of Gargamel or his right hand cat Azrael, but what little information that has been gathered has been very useful according to Gen. Smurfzkof.

"We have yet to confirm that this attack was organized or ordered by Gargamel, but we have found an unexploded warhead and cat food residue was found that we have sent to the lab. As most of you know, Azrael is known to favor a particularly expensive type of cat food that is made from tuna-safe dolphin."

While the smurfs seem to be on the defensive, Papa Smurf was wildly applauded by the large group of smurfs as he assured the citizens of Smurf Village that they will soon be on the offensive in an expletive-filled tirade that few will soon forget.

"We were blind-sided by this attack," Papa Smurf said. "We're in the middle of a (expletive deleted) forest and we live in mushrooms for Smurf's sake. One bomb would have done the trick, but as you can see these calculating (expletive deleted) used a bunch of bombs as the chilling images from UNICEF have shown."

"But rest assured, smurfs, we will find the sons of (expletive deleted) who did this, bring them to justice and I'll personally hang the (expletive deleted) from the tallest mushroom in Smurf Village!"

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Travis said...

Papa Smurf gets a lot of grief from the Snorks in the Democratic party, but I think he's doing a great job leading this village.

I have confidence in him that he'll smurf out the smurfers who did this. They'll be tried by a jury of Smurfs according to Smurf law. If that means smurfing their heads off, so be it.


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FIFA U-17 World Cup: Paraguay, full of flair and emotion, come out of Group B with A grade

Paraguay colts progressed to the knock-out round after they registered their third win on the trot by defeating Turkey 3-1.

Written by Shahid Judge | Mumbai | Updated: October 13, 2017 9:06 am
The Paraguay team are at once street-fighters and stylists. (Express photo by Amit Chakravarty)

Antonio Galeano remembers how he reacted after scoring Paraguay’s first goal at the Under-17 World Cup. “Si,” he says. “I was crying.”

The teenager wept as he sprinted straight towards his dugout, crashing into the warm embrace of his peers and coaching staff. If there is one thing you know about South Americans, it’s that they sure know how to celebrate goals.

The Paraguayans don’t exactly have a dance routine like the Colombians, instead they prefer a human pile-up. Galeano was buried under the first one — the one that made clear that the landlocked nation’s World Cup was off and running. In a week, they have become the most exciting team present in India, winning each of their three group games to qualify for the knockout stage.

True to the continental stereotype, Paraguay play their football with a great deal of emotion. “Football is the basics of society,” coach Gustavo Morinigo told The Indian Express ahead of the tournament. “It is what moves the people. If Paraguay does well in football, people are happy and they work better. But if it’s going badly, people feel it as well.”

So far in Mumbai, the group of 21 has played with exuberance typical of their teenage years. They play with an intention to please, both themselves and the ones watching. Statistics don’t mean much, especially the numbers that spell possession (only against New Zealand did they hold the ball longer than their opposition). Street-fighters and stylists rolled into one, there is a special love for dribbling. The mazy runs down the pitch, ball glued to the boots as they shrug off challenges with their strength and pace.

They are a bunch of individual talents without being individualistic. Their passing has been fluid and assured.

It’s almost as if they’re back in a playground, just them and the ball, and want to see how good they are. Then there is the pace in attack along the flanks. “They are dangerous because of those fast attacks, and they are physically strong,” says Turkey coach Mehmet Hacioglu, summing up the threat Paraguay pose.

They’ve netted 10 times in three matches. And it all started with Galeano’s screamer against African champions Mali in the opening 3-2 win. The youngster collected a clearing header from a set-piece just outside the box, and launched a half-volley that crashed into the back of the net.

He scored another from outside the box — the third in the 3-1 win over the Turks — to round off Paraguay’s perfect record in the group stage. But there were no tears this time, for he and his team had already made a mark on the tournament.

“Everybody is watching us,” he says. “This is the best chance for us to be seen by European clubs. The best chance of getting a better life.”

The night before the opening match, he remembers praying to God and his boots for that opportunity. His is the story typical of a Paraguayan teenager aspiring to be a football star.

Born and brought up in Asuncion, the capital city, Galeano’s father is a construction worker and his mother works as domestic help in several homes. “It’s always been a struggle and my parents too know football is the only way out,” he says.

He dropped out of school two years ago to focus on his game after earning a youth contract with top division side Club Rubio Nu. His talent was soon recognised, and as a 16-year-old, he was promoted to the starting XI of the senior team.

Playing with his own battling style, he’s fit in well with his peers in the national team. And Paraguay, with their South American blend of flair and rhythm, are making football fun again.

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Tuesday, 29 January 2013

India Pak controversy over Sharukh Khan's statements

The recent article written by Sharukh Khan in which he had mentioned  he gave his daughter and son Hindu names so that they are not discriminated in India and how he was opposed and criticized for showing soft attitude against Pakistan.
 He had also written in the article that, "I sometimes become the inadvertent object of political leaders who choose to make me a symbol of all that they think is wrong and unpatriotic about Muslims in India."

Pakistan's reaction to the article:
The article prompted Pakistan's minister Rehman Malik's to say that India should provide the actor security prompting a sharp rebuke from New Delhi that Islamabad should mind its own 'minorities'.

Malik said in Islamabad that the Indian government should provide security to Shah Rukh addressing reporters in Islamabad at a reception hosted by the Indian High Commissioner, Malik added that people of both Pakistan and India love Shah Rukh, reported Geo TV Tuesday.

Hafiz Saeed's reaction:
Hafiz Saeed said Shrukh Khan could move to Pakistan if he does not feel safe in India and if he is being targeted for being a Muslim.

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No-Knead Whole Wheat Bread

Being a baker’s daughter had it’s benefits when I was growing up.  Anytime we needed bread, donuts, cookies or pastries, Mom would call Dad at the bakery or let him know the night before what we needed the next day.   When Dad was the baker, we never baked at home and that was our reality. […]

Sauteed Kale with Dried Plums

My sister Alice gave me some of her dried purple plums when I was visiting Kamloops last week so I wanted to prepare a dish that would include them.  So if you like the taste of sweet and savory this dish is for you.  I made this last night for my friends Debbie and Warren […]

Curried Turkey Patties

What to do with your leftover turkey, sweet potatoes and gravy ?  Why not make these yummy patties.  If you have a lot of turkey leftover then make another batch with regular mashed potatoes too and see which one your family likes best.   Both potatoes work well with this recipe.    Don’t forget to bring out […]


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We Have A Complete Streets Ordinance in Indianapolis!

April 1, 2013

Indianapolis Complete Street Ordinance was rated the Best Complete Streets Policy in the United States by Smart Growth America. We were granted this prestigious and hard fought award for our extremely comprehensive policy here in Indianapolis and we couldn't have done it without the hard work of all the nonprofit partners (e.g. Healthy by Design, AARP, IndyCog and many others) and the City of Indianapolis' Department of Public Works.

The Best Complete Streets Policies of 2012

August 14, 2012

     As you may know by now, the Complete Streets ordinance passed the City/County Council unanimously at around 10pm on tonight! INDYCOG, AARP, Health by Design and a host of other organizations have been working to accomplish this task for some time and we are grateful for everyone's efforts. Additionally, we (the coalition) couldn't have made this happen without the support of Councilors Lewis, Barth, Miller, Oliver, Evans, Mansfield, McQuillen, Adamson and Gooden. These councilors worked tirelessly to educate both their constituents and fellow members of the council who originally may have not been so agreeable to ordinance. We would also like to thank Lori Miser, the Director of the Department for Public Works for her guidance and support of the legislation. Lastly, while he hasn't signed the ordinance as of this writing, we would like to thank Mayor Ballard in advance for doing so. He has supported our work on Complete Streets from day one and there is no reason to think that he wouldn't support it now.

     If you would indulge me for a minute, I would like to quickly explain how the Complete Streets ordinance came into being. Roughly, 3 years ago, Health by Design sponsored a workshop on Complete Streets here in Indianapolis. Randy Neufeld, a board member of the National Complete Streets Coalition and former executive director of the Chicago Bicycle Federation (now known as Active Transportation Alliance), was invited from Chicago to expound on the benefits of Complete Streets and how it could help our community and state. Many of the key advocates for the Indianapolis policy were in the room as well as a new city councilor, by the name of Maggie Lewis. From that initial meeting, Kim Irwin the executive director of Health by Design, formed a Complete Streets Workgroup which has been meeting monthly in order to establish Complete Streets policy around the state as well as locally. This workgroup met with representatives from the Mayor's office, Office of Sustainability, and Department of Public Works as well as community groups and other advocacy organizations to develop ordinance language that was robust and would deliver the results we felt were imperative to improve the transportation network in Indianapolis.

     So in conclusion, INDYCOG would like to extend a thank you to all the parties mentioned above and to all our members and individuals that signed the Complete Streets Petition. As a membership based organization, INDYCOG is only as good as its members, so if you aren't a member please consider joining <link our membership page>. As Margaret Atwood said, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

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We Need a Complete Streets Ordinance in Indianapolis!

     A coalition of local and statewide organizations has been working through the public policy process to get a Complete Streets ordinance adopted and implemented in Indianapolis. Now we need your help and advocacy action! At this point, you maybe asking yourself, "What is Complete Streets and why is it important to me as a bicyclist, walker or average citizen?" We invite you to review the information below and make an informed decision on why you should support a Complete Streets ordinance; then you can take action by signing this petition and contacting your Councilor to ask for his/her support.

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In case you aren't already aware of it, this Complete Streets video produced for the Indiana Healthy Weight Initiative is very informative and provides a great overview of Complete Streets.

Q: What are Complete Streets?
A: "Complete Streets" are roadways designed and operated to enable safe access for all users; pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and public transportation users of all ages and abilities.

Q: How is that different from what we currently have in Indianapolis?
A: Currently most roads are designed and built with only automobiles in mind, with the number one priority being the speed and movement of motorized vehicles. Unfortunately, this makes tour streets more dangerous for non-motorized road users - pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders - and the community-at-large. Additionally, sidewalks, bike-lanes, and transit connections are often the first "amenities" to be cut during project construction. A complete streets policy ensures that transportation planners and engineers consistently plan, design, operate, and maintain the entire roadway with all users in mind - including bicyclists, public transportation vehicles and riders, and pedestrians of all ages and abilities.

Q: What are the benefits of Complete Streets?
A: There are many benefits to Complete Streets, including:
• Complete streets make economic sense.
• Complete streets improve safety.
• Complete streets encourage walking and biking.
• Complete streets ease transportation woes.
• Complete streets benefit children.
• Complete streets are good for air quality.
• Complete streets make fiscal sense.

Q: How will Complete Streets make our streets safer and therefore better?
A: No longer will every road project need to be scrutinized by the limited city staff responsible for bike and pedestrian projects or by advocates (i.e. INDYCOG, Health by Design, AARP, etc.); but, instead the process for accommodating all road users will be institutionalized. In this way, the decision-making will ensure that the entire right of way is routinely designed and operated to enable safe access for all users. Complete Streets will create a process where every project will have to be evaluated for potential bicycle/pedestrian/ transit users in the initial planning process. A complete street may include, but is not limited to:
• Sidewalks
• Bike lanes
• Special bus lanes
• Comfortable and accessible public transportation stops
• Frequent and safe crossing opportunities
• Median islands
• Accessible pedestrian signals
• Curb extensions
• Narrower travel lanes
• Roundabouts

Not every street needs every element. In fact, one complete street may look quite different than the next, but both will be designed to balance safety and convenience for everyone using the road, regardless of age, ability, or mode of transportation.

Q: Won't this cost the City of Indianapolis a lot more money?
A: While there may be an increase in some projects (the addition of bike lanes, sidewalks, etc cost on average5% of overall project, there are far more benefits which include:
• Improved safety (injuries and fatalities cost us all $)
• Potential for economic development
• Opportunities for increasing physical activity (decreased healthcare costs)
• Reduced traffic congestion (Time/$ savings)
• Access for children, older adults, and people with disabilities
• Improvements in air quality (decreased healthcare costs)
• A comprehensive, integrated transportation network
• Wise fiscal investments since retrofits to existing roadways and bridges can be extremely costly. Designing and constructing complete streets the first time around saves money in the long run.

Q: Why do we need a Complete Streets Ordinance?
A: A complete streets ordinance ensures that transportation planners and engineers consistently plan, design, operate, and maintain the entire roadway with all users in mind - including bicyclists, public transportation vehicles and riders, and pedestrians of all ages and abilities.

The following elements comprise an "ideal" Complete Streets ordinance:
• Includes a vision for how and why the community wants to complete its streets
• Institutionalizes decision-making to ensure that the entire right of way is routinely designed and operated to enable safe access for all users.
• Specifies that 'all users' includes pedestrians, bicyclists and transit passengers of all ages and abilities, as well as trucks, buses and automobiles.
• Encourages street connectivity and aims to create a comprehensive, integrated, connected network for all transportation modes.
• Is adoptable by all agencies to cover all roads.
• Applies to both new and retrofit projects, including design, planning, maintenance, and operations, for the entire right of way.
• Makes any exceptions specific and sets a clear procedure that requires high-level approval of exceptions.
• Directs the use of the latest and best design criteria and guidelines while recognizing the need for flexibility in balancing user needs.
• Directs that complete streets solutions will complement the context of the community.
• Establishes performance standards with measurable outcomes.
• Includes specific next steps for implementation of the policy

A complete streets ordinance is NOT:
• A singular design prescription
• A mandate for immediate retrofit

More Q&A from the National Complete Streets Coalition

Learn More and Take Action

Complete Streets for Our Community

Complete streets are a sound financial investment for communities. Complete streets projects provide long-term savings and can be incorporated without requiring additional funding in the transportation budget. Projects can be re-prioritized and funds can be allocated to improve overall walkability and bikability.

More than one-third of Americans do not drive due to age, disability or poverty, and need transportation options.

CEOs for Cities released a report, Walking the Walk, in which 13 of the 15 housing markets they studied indicated that increased neighborhood walkability was positively correlated with highly significant home price increases over homes in neighborhoods with "average walkability".

Creating complete streets also reduces infrastructure costs by requiring far less pavement per user; this saves money at the onset of the project and reduces long-term maintenance costs. Investing in pedestrian and bicycle facilities cost far less compared to increasing road capacity for motor vehicles alone.

Economic vitality is increased in a community where retail and commercial developments are accessible by everyone.

The population is aging and older Americans need the public right-of-way to better serve them by providing safe places to walk, bicycle, and board the bus.

Complete streets improve safety. Everyone is safer when users have appropriate facilities for walking, biking, crossing streets, and catching a bus. Incomplete streets put people at risk - there are twice as many pedestrians involved in crashes where there aren't sidewalks, and reduced speeds benefit everyone.

Complete Streets are good for public health. Two-thirds of our population is overweight or obese and one out of four Hoosiers doesn't get any physical activity in a given month. For the first time ever, our children face a shorter life-expectancy than their parents. Yet in many cases we literally bus children across the street or around the block to get to school, and few of us have legitimate active transportation options for running a quick errand or going out to eat - even if we're only headed less than a mile away. These are missed opportunities for physical activity.

Complete Streets Nationwide & in Indiana:

More than 300 jurisdictions across the country have adopted Complete Streets policies.

Complete Streets Policies in Indiana:
• Bloomington/Monroe County Metropolitan Planning Organization
• Madison County Council of Governments
• Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission
• City of Columbus
• Evansville Metropolitan Planning Organization
• Additional local and MPO policies are forthcoming around the state.
• Statewide legislation was introduced in the 2010, 2011 and 2012 General Assemblies.

National Complete Streets Coalition
Indiana Complete Streets Campaign Facebook
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New Delhi, May 3 -- The heart of Ravi, a 26 year old youth (male) declared brain dead at BGS Global Hospital in Uttarahalli yesterday was transported through a green corridor today morning to Narayana Health City in Bommasandra Industrial Area. It took just 26 minutes for the ambulance and the transplant team to reach Narayana Health City from BGS Global Hospital with the donor's heart. He was admitted to BGS Global Hospital after a road accident on 16 th April. He was riding pillion without wearing a helmet and sustained severe head injuries after a fall from the moving vehicle. Recipient was a 40 year old male named Nagaraj from Koppal. A farmer by occupation, he was diagnosed with a heart failure in 2012 and was being managed by the Heart Failure Clinic team at Narayana Health City. The cross matching of the donor and recipient was done at TTK Blood Bank. Team of doctors led by Dr. Julius Punnen, Senior Consultant Cardio thoracic Transplant surgeon performed the heart transplant. Corporate Comm India(CCI Newswire) Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from The Pharma Times.

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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

The Ten Best Movies I Saw in 2015

As before, these are the ten best movies I managed to watch this year, whether they are old or new. In alphabetical order:

American Hustle: a movie with wonderful performances that were perfectly calibrated to the film's seedy, knock-off, deeply fake style, as communicated through the costuming, set design, and staging. The story--the Abscam affair as reflection of the hollowness of the American Dream--was merely okay, but we can overlook that.

Birdman: probably the best film I saw this year, at least when we're talking about what movies can do. Compelling story, presented to the audience through bizarre yet brilliant directorial conceits, and a performance by Michael Keaton at the center that was simply magnetic. It didn't stick the landing, I thought--the final scene actually pulled me out of the movie's spell, rather than sealing it for me. But other than that, fantastic.

Cinderella: a warm and non-cynical and completely unapologetic embrace of the story, told with a few original twists and touches, but mostly trusting that there is a reason why people love magical tales like these, and letting it do it's work. And work it most certainly did.

A Dangerous Method: a thoughtful recreation of a few particular people, ideas, and conflicts which characterized the fin de siècle world of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud--but the movie, at least to my mind, found clever ways to suggest the civic shakiness and the emotional danger inherent in their whole intellectual framework. Keira Knightly's performance creepily grows on you through the movie, as I think it was supposed to.

Get the Gringo: a sleazy and smart prison-break flick, with Mel Gibson as the one white American stuck in a Mexican jail. It traffics throughout in all sorts of crude stereotypes, but it can't be faulted for leaning on such stereotypes too much because it respects them, and allows those being caricatured to own their own identities. I kept thinking throughout of Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino, another crude but wise tough guy movie; Gringo might actually be better than that (I think overpraised) film, because it didn't aspire to anything beyond it's own genre.

Mad Max: Fury Road: the first of the two movies I saw this year whose visual story-telling was so powerful it elicited a real physical reaction from me as I sat in my seat in the theater and watched it; the protagonists' initial race for freedom, with the massive dust storm approaching, was so thrilling and awesome I was bouncing up and down in my seat, completely captivated. A gorgeously powerful, righteously feminist action film.

The Peanuts Movie: the second movie I saw this year that actually, physically moved me with its beauty. The style of its visuals could not possibly be more different than Fury Road's, but the animation conveyed a fantasy of the warmth and familiarity which folks like me have for these characters and the comic strip as a whole so well that, at one point during Snoopy's flight in his doghouse Sopwith Camel to save Fifi, I found myself smiling and weeping and shaking my head in admiration, all at the same time.

The Pledge: a hard, surprising police thriller. I never thought of Jack Nicholson as a subtle actor before, instead always expecting him to find the inner crazy within every character he plays, and use it to power his performance. But here, he sublimates the crazy so well that I didn't even realize I was looking at the psychological breakdown of the main character until the very end. A great, tense film.

Selma: an inspiring historical drama, with solid performances, and really very smart, subtle choices that, through a line of dialogue here or bit of pacing there, reminded the observant audience (like myself and a friend who teaches high school history; we talked about the concise smartness of this film for weeks) of the huge and complicated political and social conflict which surrounded Martin Luther King's powerful leadership and oratory.

The Zero Theorem: Terry Gilliam will never be able to recapture his glory years, I suppose, but unlike several of his recent movies, this film genuinely works. As a study of the manipulation, decline, and obsessive self-destruction of a brilliant mathematical and computational genius, Gilliam managed to invoke his own greatest movie, Brazil, with its familiar despairing, existential themes, but also bring his satire up to date in regards to both technology as well as corporate power. A worthy addition to his filmography.

Worthy runners-up: The Force Awakens (a solid B; a fun space adventure movie, nothing more or less) and The Martian (often, but not nearly often enough, up to the level of the book).

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For US Economic Recovery, Define Measurable Results – Make Them Stick

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America’s current economic problems have been years, even decades, in the making. Developments over the last 20 years have created a perfect storm that has undermined our economy’s resiliency to cyclical downturns, let alone against near-catastrophes such as we experienced in late 2008. The hard truth yet to be accepted by the public and elected officials is that there is no one blanket solution or quick fix. Huge federal injections of cash over the past several years failed to create sustainable job growth.

Clearly, America needs a comprehensive economic recovery plan, benefitting all Americans. The plan must be immediately actionable, with measurable results for continuous job creation and economic growth. With bold implementation, confidence will be restored at the level of both small and large business, as well as among consumers, catalyzing economic recovery. Any true recovery plan must contain these essential building blocks: Investments to foster innovation, entrepreneurship and expansion of businesses in areas of national priority, e.g., health care, defense and homeland security, renewable energy, aging urban infrastructure and public transportation; improved K-12 education and work-force training; and reform of onerous litigation and regulations.

In the 1970s, Americans readily bought the argument made by futurists that manufacturing was doomed, with the service sector pointing the way to a “labor-free” future. No surprise, then, that manufacturing began a downward spiral from its high-water mark of 30 percent of GDP to its current, meager 12.2 percent. The service sector has not, and never will, come to the rescue. Rather than be forced to innovate, US companies have been encouraged to outsource manufacturing, further weakening America’s economic base. Today, America faces fierce competition. Nations like Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, as well as European countries such as Sweden and Switzerland, have developed policies and invested heavily to grow manufacturing above 20 percent of GDP, with a deliberate focus on high tech, rather than commodity products.

Moreover, while America is slashing its defense budget, China, with its highly centralized economy based in command-control Communism, has become an economic power house, building a world-class defense system. Congress and the White House continue to embrace the naïve view that American capitalism will always prevail. But unless structural changes are made to unleash high-growth capitalism, the US will face a precipitous decline that is neither organic to its history, nor inevitable. Our competitors have developed strong educational systems where students receive excellent training in math, science and reading. Public K-12 education in the US has improved in wealthy suburban districts where graduates go on to the most selective colleges and universities. But urban and rural districts continue to suffer from Third World-style ills, including teachers who are poorly trained in mathematics, science and technology. And there is no relief in sight: Local and state budgets are in deficit and unable to cope with the needs of K-12 education.

The generation of patents by US residents has fallen to fourth-place behind Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. The number of patents issued to US research universities has been stagnant for more than a decade. Apart from a few well-known institutions, US colleges do not graduate innovators and entrepreneurs. US college students are choosing law, banking and investment-management over engineering and science. In 2007, US law schools awarded 43,518 degrees. In the same year, US graduate schools awarded only 20,000 Ph.D.’s in engineering and science to permanent residents. By a ratio of 2 to 1 ratio, we produced more J.D.’s than Ph.D.’s. In Taiwan, where the practice of law involves bachelors, master’s and doctoral degrees, the combined number of degrees granted in 2007 for all three levels was 3,598. However the combined number of degrees awarded at all levels in engineering alone in Taiwan was 81,699. That is, Taiwan produces more engineers than lawyers by a ratio of 22 to 1. No wonder that Taiwan is way ahead in patents-per-resident!

Law firms need litigation to prosper, but at whose expense? US firms spent $29 billion in 2007 for governance and risk management, which was up 8.7 percent from 2006. The US business sector spent $6 billion in 2007 to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, hurriedly passed by Congress to protect investors. Imagine if such sums were spent instead on R&D, new factories and work-force training! Medical malpractice litigation reached nearly $30 billion in 2008. Doctors are increasingly forced to recommend numerous tests as defensive measures thereby increasing health care costs.

Begun in January 2008, the Oregon-Wyoming liquefied natural gas Ruby Pipeline illustrates how onerous environmental regulations have amaged free commerce. Excessive regulatory policies were largely responsible for the project going 23-percent over its $3.65 billion budget by its completion in 2011. Construction was halted for three months to allow the greater sage-grouse, not an endangered species, to complete its mating season. The pipeline contractor had to place more than 200 archeologists in the field to comply with the 1966 National Historic Preservation Act. Political contributions from attorneys in the 2008 cycle exceed $230 million. No wonder malpractice litigation is not an issue in DC!

Congress must immediately create bipartisan committees to overhaul medical malpractice litigation and streamline regulations, while sensibly safeguarding the environment. The Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, Energy and Transportation must establish competitive proposal processes for university research and corporate-university joint research supported by large multi-million dollar, multi-year contracts, with milestones and expected deliverables. These must be large enough (at least $25 million annually for five years) to support faculty, doctoral students, qualified undergraduates, purchase of special equipment and external partnerships. K-12 education is a local issue needing large federal support based on solid initiatives that are designed to create qualified teachers and an environment where students learn. Measurable outcomes must be part of every school district’s request for federal support. In-service teacher training can jump-start the process, but districts need to provide time for training in math and science. Such a comprehensive strategy must be implemented now by the White House and Congress. It will immediately transform America’s economic outlook.