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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Back Home But Still Much To Do

The team has now been home for a week and as everyone's jet lag winds down, the question is often asked... "What now?" Good question. I'm glad you asked!

We have always approached our ministry to Bulgaria, and now Macedonia, as a relationship-based ministry of encouragement and support to the Body of Christ there. Furthermore, we view that ministry as a 52-week ministry, not two weeks. We do a lot of work while we are in Bulgaria. We get our hands dirty in construction, we help with a kids' camp, we teach in churches, we share Christ out in public... but let's be honest, the work that we do is minor in the big scheme of things. We are not going to impact a nation in only two weeks a year. And we don't need to. That's why God has raised up His Church there. We have Christian brothers and sisters in Bulgaria and Macedonia who God is working through to establish His kingdom in those countries. Unless the Lord sends me to live and serve there full-time, I will never be able to serve the way that my family there does.

However, God has called us to serve those who are building the Kingdom there. The most important thing we do in our time overseas is to build and strengthen the relationships that we have with our Church family there. We meet people, we pray together, we share our lives, and we serve side-by-side for the short time that we have together. Then, we go back home and spend the rest of the year building on those relationships. Much has been said about the negative impact of Facebook and other social networking media on this generation's ability to build real relationships. However, I want to note that when a real relationship has already been established, the internet can be a powerful tool to maintain that relationship over long distances. I am able to stay in regular contact with the Body of Christ overseas, praying for the needs that arise, offering support when needed, even sharing God's word and wise counsel for situations that a brother may be facing.

I can genuinely say that not a day goes by all year when I am not thinking and praying about Bulgaria and my friends and family there. The heart God has given to me and others on the team is a genuine burden that cannot be laid down when I desire. It weighs upon me and demands my constant attention. Even if I were unable to travel to Bulgaria every summer, my heart and service to that country would remain untouched.

I am blessed that the Lord has expanded our reach this year. Our time spent in Fakulteta was not about construction or kids ministry, but about beginning to build a new relationship with a part of the Body that was previously unknown to us. Our visit to Macedonia opened our eyes to a great need in the Body of Christ for encouragement in a nation where the Church is small and struggling, but filled with the Lord's grace and love. We look forward to building on these new relationships in the coming years and seeing how the Lord will use us to support His work in these places.

And, of course, we are already looking ahead to next summer. If anyone is interested in traveling with us next year as a part of our team, please get ahold of me soon. I don't need a commitment at this stage, I just want to know who's interested so I can begin to pray for direction. We'll also start fundraising soon for next year. We'll hold our first yard sale in September with four more every two months after. Anyone that wants to donate or has ideas for fundraising should contact me as well.

Above all else, we will be praying... praying... and praying! God is doing a good thing in Bulgaria and Macedonia and the prayers of the saints around the world are needed to come alongside what He is doing. God is good!

Thursday, July 4, 2013

The Camp Experience

Now that we are here at the Black Sea for a weeklong kids camp, I thought I'd take just a minute to share with you what our daily schedule looks like. :-)
 6:30am Wake up and grab a quick cup of coffee
6:45am Meet with Bulgarian leaders to discuss the day
7:30am Wake up all the kids
7:45am Physical fitness with Brittany and Raya
8:00am Breakfast
9:00am Small group prayer
9:15am Beach time (3 hours)... We watch out for the children's safety and play with them.
1:00pm Lunch
2:00pm Naptime (1 hr & 45 min!) But... not for us. We take this time to plan our afternoon and visit town for supplies.
4:00pm Daily bible lessons... Our group is responsible for 2 days of teaching.
4:45pm Group projects
5:30pm Game / craft rotation (30 min. each and switch)... Our group is responsible for this.
6:30pm Daily recap... using dramas and group discussion to go over bible lesson of the day. I lead this discussion.
7:30pm Dinner
8:15pm Evening service... Our group is responsible for 3 nights of teaching.

 After 9:00pm, we stay up for a few hours with the teenagers, then put everyone to bed. Afterward, we hide toys all over the camp for the morning and handle any last minute crafts, etc. We usually get to bed after midnight, sometimes much later! So that's our schedule. Its exhausting but fulfilling... God is doing mighty things! Keep us in prayer...

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Back at the Black Sea

After a 6 hour drive across the country today, the team has arrived at the Black Sea for a week long kids camp. We are working with the Blaga Vest church from Sofia to hold the camp for about 60 kids from ages 5 to 18 in the town of Chernomoretz near Burgas.

The theme of the camp is "Go Tell It On The Mountain," and uses five mountaintop experiences to relate spiritual truths.

  1. Mount Sinai - God is with his people.
  2. Mount Carmel - The Lord shows that He is the One True God.
  3. Mount of Transfiguration - Jesus is God's Son.
  4. Golgotha - Jesus Saves Us All.
  5. (Unnamed Mountain) - Jesus says, "Go to all!"
We will be relating these spiritual truths through teaching lessons, games and crafts, activities and nightly messages. We spend several hours a day with the kids in the Black sea in addition to plenty of other opportunities to hang out and fellowship. Each of the team members will have ministry responsibilities throughout the week so keep us all in prayer.

Also, we're running a little low on energy right now and a few have been fighting off colds. Please pray for our strength and health. We know that when we are weak, He is strong! God is good and we look forward to sharing the amazing things He is going to do this week at camp. In the meantime, here's a link to some pictures of our time in Macedonia over the weekend.

Pictures of Macedonia

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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Storybook 7 From Windham

WE have a sweet new group of 1930s prints in from Windham: Click here to shop online: Windhma Storybook 7

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

New Books This Week...

A great little collection of new titles came in this week:
First up on deck is Color Shuffle it has 15 gorgeous projects showcasing contemporary fabric.

Next up is Skinny Quilts and Tablerunners II This one has 15 gorgeous projects from 15 different designers! You won't believe how beautiful the runners in this book are!

Finally we have The Quilter’s Album of Patchwork Patterns by Jinny Beyer. This is an encyclopedia of Quilt Blocks from Jinny Beyer. It is a must have for every serious quilt library - an absolute wealth of information!

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Amy Butler Promotion

Here's a great group of Amy Butler prints priced at only 9.99/metre! Here is the link to purchase them online: Amy Butler

Friday, January 22, 2010

Kaffe Fassett Promo

We have a huge Kaffe Fassett Promo Going on - dozens of bolts priced only $9.99/metre - shop online or at the shop. Click below to start shopping online!
Kaffe Fassett
Only $9.99

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Snuggle Up With Flannel II

Yesterday we showed you a grouping of flannels with a Northern theme. Today I am featuring a traditional floral grouping. Once again it is from Northcott and is only 9.99/metre. As far as I am concerned no one makes nicer classic florals or better quality flannels than Northcott - I just love them! Click here to purchase online: Town & Country Flannels .

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Snuggle Up With Flannel

January is such a chilly month ... why not cozy up with some gorgeous Northcott Flannels? We have a large grouping of Northern Cottage prints in a warm country palette. These would make a fabulous raggy quilt! They are only 9.99/metre.

I honestly believe that Northcott makes the best flannels on the market - they wash without pilling or fading and have a gorgeous hand!

We hope you enjoy shopping on the new site! If you have any troubles or find any problems just let me know by phone 416 633-8800 or email and I will help you out right away.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Buck A Block

It is time once again for our immensely popular Buck a Block program. This year we will be doing it in black and white for maximum drama and maximum fun!

If you have never participated before this is how it works:

Pay an upfront registration fee of $7.50. For this fee you will receive a package of thangles and your registration kit. For the next 12 months you will visit the store at any time in the month and purchase one more block kit. Each kit contains the fabric and pattern to make one of the twelve pieced blocks in the quilt for only $1! At the end of the program you will receive the instructions to put the whole quilt available and we will have finishing kits available ... or you can choose your own fabrics.

Yes, you really do get everything you need to make a pieced block each month for only $1, including the fabric and the pattern!

To make the program as convenient as possible, you may visit the shop on any day of the month you choose to pick up your $1 block kit. If you can’t come in during a particular month(s) you must purchase the missed block kit(s) for $3 to once again be eligible for the $1 block kits.

In Store Shopping only please.

Not sure about Thangles? They are a great tool to use to make perfect half square triangles! Here's a little You Tube Video to show you how they work!

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Sneak Peak...

I know that we have been very quiet lately but we have very good reasons! Sew Sisters have been working very hard to expand and enhance our services. As you might have noticed our blog has a new look as does our website! We have integrated our two websites (the shopping cart and the information site) into one new and improved website! We are confident that this will greatly enhance your online shopping experience. If you have any trouble or find anything problematic please let me know at 416 633-8800 or Our technicians indicate that we might have a rocky three days as we change servers. You will have to create a new account when you place your order but we thank you for your patience with that.

That's not all the news! In addition to our new look we are expanding our physical premises as well. The store will be about 25% larger than it currently is and we are adding a larger, improved classroom as well as some much needed storage and workspace. We are very excited about all this growth and want to thank all of you for giving us the privelege of serving you!


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Monday, July 30, 2012

Enbloc News: 1H2012 transaction value down 80%..!

Statistics from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) show that the total transaction value of residential en-bloc properties for the first half of this year has plunged by 80% compared to the same period last year.

And there were fewer en-bloc property transactions.

Real estate analysts believe that this is due to the global economic slowdown, and the government cooling measures introduced late 2011.

In the first half of last year, 28 en-bloc residential properties were successfully transacted.

But this fell to just eight in the same period this year.

Among them was Nam Peng Centre in Upper Serangoon Road.

Between January and June this year, the total transaction value of residential en-bloc properties fell to about $250 million, from almost $1.6 billion in the same period last year.

Analysts said the additional buyer's stamp duty introduced by the government in December last year has curbed speculative demand for properties.

In addition, developers who buy en-bloc projects are now required to build and sell all units on the residential site within five years of acquiring the land.

Otherwise, they have to pay an additional 10% in stamp duty.

So developers have been extra cautious before they enter the market.

Director of Ascendant Assets Pte Ltd, Getty Goh, said: "In the past, developers can buy certain pieces of land and sit on it almost indefinitely. These days with all these additional constraints, it would definitely make a developer think twice before proceeding with an en-bloc transaction."

And with more land sites released through the Government Land Sales programme (GLS), this gives developers more choice, which in turn, pushed down the transaction price of en-bloc projects.

Goh said: "About 14 land parcels have been awarded via the GLS programme. However, the highest that has been transacted at was about $400 million. Naturally, this puts a price pressure on the en-bloc market."

The value of en-bloc deals for the first half of this year is merely 9% of the total transaction value for the whole of last year.

Analysts feel that while the market may pick up in the second half of this year, it is unlikely to top last year's numbers.

But, if the price for en-bloc projects in mature estates is not too high, developers would still be keen on them.
Source: Channel News Asia

Looks like our "enbloc dream" will have to be put on hold for awhile yet...

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Sunday, 25 September 2016

Assalamualaikum and hi to all the readers! (as if I have any other than myself lol)

So lately there is a topic that is frequently being debated by social networks users especially keyboard warriors. It is about niqabis.

So people are saying that some niqabis ni asyik selfielah, asyik post gambar dalam instagram and even there are people saying the niqabis better off without their niqab if they want to show off themselves in the online life.

I don't think we have any right to judge them. I know what they did is not right. The main purpose to wear niqab is to cover themselves from people bukan mahram. So if they keep on posting their pictures online, the purpose is gone. The purpose has no meaning. I'm sure the niqabis who always posts their pictures knew this.

But peopleeeeee, DON'T KEEP ON CODEMNING THEM. I know you people have good meaning behind those 'advises' that you guys posted publicly on facebook, instagram etc. Tapi korang tak rasa ke yang semua nasihat yang korang post public tu maybe akan buat niqabis niqabis ni akan buang niqab diorang? Diorang akan fikir yang buat apa pakai elok elok kalau asyik kena kutuk je. People have different ways in dealing with advises and condemns. Some people might take it positively which is diorang akan slow slow cuba tidak post gambar diorang selfie and any gambar yang boleh expose diorang but others might not; they might just take off their niqab. Any nasihat yang lembut maybe akan diambil dengan baik but nasihat yang kasar lagi banyak dari yang lembut ni. See Uqasha for example, see how mulut orang buat dia buka tudung balik. I know its not cacian orang to be blame hundred percent for her doing. Saya doakan dia panjang umur dan dikurniakan hidayah Allah,

I know niqabis is just not a wear. I know its more than that. Only the tough one could wear them. Tapi kenapa bila kita sebut niqabis je, semua akan fikir yang 'oh, niqabis ni mesti baik, kalau buat salah je mesti kena kutuk'. If thats how you thought of niqabis why shouldn't you think the same about those yang free hair too? Ke korang memang fikir yang perempuan freehair ni suka maksiat? Nooooo. Some freehair do solat 5 waktu, puasa and even sedekah more than you guys yang acah macam tidur pun pakai telekung kopiah peluk alquran.

But at least yang niqabis dah complete satu arahan Allah. Cover aurah perfectly. Don't make them go u turn.

What we wear does not describe our personality. We don't wear label on our clothes (except designer and brand labels lol). Don't aspect all niqabis are good. They have sins too. Don't expect all free hair women are kafir/bad. They might enter jannah more early than you guys yang asyik bagi nasihat terbuka ni. Korang tak tau yang maybe at later time in their life, Allah akan bagi hidayah kat diorang. See miss nina for example, how she changed from a super sexy modern women to role model muslimah that we can see now (She is so inspirational T_T)

I'm not a niqabis. I don't wear niqab so dont say 'ni mesti niqabis ni'. I don't have any niqabis friends. I'm not a guy either so don't say that I enjoy looking at niqabis pictures. Say what you want about me but then think about you guys too. I'm just a muslim that think we must change our mentality. Start from now.

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Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank
A comedy podcast to help better understand humanity and also to make fart jokes.

Tait Fletcher stopped by my hovel to talk to me about stunt work. Tait works as a full stuntman for TV and movies. We meandered into talk about Bruce Lee, Master P and how horrible actresses are.

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nuevas semillas para esta temporada…!!!!!

Nuevas variedades de semillas para esta temporada primavera-verano.!!!!! Lechugas de verano, berenjenas, tomates, sandias se suman a nuestra variada lista de semillas organicas y antiguas. Todas las variedades son polinizadas abiertamente ademas de ser cultivadas en forma organica. PARA PEDIR TUS SEMILLAS HACE CLICK ACA berenjena listada de gandia     berenjena black beauty   lechuga pablo lechuga rouge grenobloise tomate anana endivia full heart sandia orangello   Read more [...]

” A garden, small or large, like a nuclear or extended family, give us a protected, friendly place to grow-not only to grow herbs in a way compatible with nature, but to grow in our own psychic awareness, to cultivate our potential for being sensitive and responsible citizens of the planet and grateful caretakers of our inherited treasures”

Herb Spiral

The herb spiral garden was one of the first permaculture projects at Shamballa. An herb spiral has a number of benefits: It can be built at little or no cost from readily available materials, it’s a good way in a limited amount of space to grow a variety of herbs that need different growing conditions, it’s easy to plant, tend and harvest, and it’s very attractive. Considering the high cost of culinary herbs, an herb spiral can pay for itself in its first season, and imagine having an abundance of delicious and aromatic herbs right in your yard! This herb garden also lets us create a variety of microclimates. Some plants, such as many of the Mediterranean herbs, need dry, sandy soil conditions, while others require a moist, bottomland type of soil. The herb spiral accommodates these needs, as it is designed to have different soil conditions at different parts of the spiral. The top is a warm, dry area that gets plenty of sun. The bottom is cool, shady and moist. The middle is, Read more [...]


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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Wordless Wednesday-These kids sleep in the oddest places

Keeping with last weeks theme here is how I found my boys the other day.

Yes that would be my seven year old in my three year olds toddler bed. I assumed his brother kicked him out of his bed but he told me the next morning he wanted to sleep there so he did LOL

And where was little man? Why on the floor next to his big brothers bed wrapped up in the comforter and using his pillow.

These kids crack me up.


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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Israel: Traveling and Day One

Today has been our first full day in Israel! It's amazing to be here--to think that Jesus once walked here and performed miracles is so unbelievable! We've already started learning a lot, but we're just getting started. The weather is perfect here and we have had a lot of fun so far exploring and getting to know each other. Tomorrow begins our more intense studying, but for now, here are some of the highlights of our trip in photos so far:

Here's a picture of Jenae, Brian, and Aaron in Dusseldorf waiting to board our plane to Munich. These guys have been the best travel buddies. So much fun and laughing with them. I'm thankful God has brought us together!

I took this photo while flying over Germany. I would love to visit those mountains someday.

After about 15 hours of travel and 4 flights, we made it to Tel Aviv. Our first night was spent between Jerusalem and Bethany. This photo shows the Jerusalem side from the rooftop of the institute we stayed at.

All of the guys on the roof checking out the city.

The vegetation here is gorgeous, especially in the old city! Trees, flowers, and ivy grow in the fields and on buildings--it's beautiful.

After dinner, we all spent hours exploring and playing cards. One game went on for about 30 minutes. These guys are great. We've all gotten pretty close in a short amount of time.

A view of Jerusalem from the roof at night.

After a good nights sleep and recovering from jet lag, we had a great breakfast. It was interesting seeing what Israel usually eats for breakfast. Trying new foods has been a lot of fun.

The retreat where we stayed at was beautifully decorated with art and different plants.

One of my favorite pieces of art I saw.

After breakfast, we killed time with a two hour game of pictionary.

That afternoon, we left for Jerusalem.

After getting settled, we travelled into the Old City in Jerusalem.

All of the buildings and alleys had so much detail and character.

For lunch, we tried falafel. I absolutely loved it! I don't know why this isn't popular in the US! There's something like ground up garbanzo beans that have been rolled into a ball and fried in the bottom of a pita pocket, along with hummus (which they call "humous"), cucumbers, tomatoes, and pickles. So good.

Looking over at the Dome of the Rock and Mount of Olives after lunch.

Next, we went through the shopping area. There were all sorts of trinkets, foods, and produce everywhere.

And that concludes day one of Israel! Tonight the rest of our group comes in. We are all getting excited to start touring the rest of the Holy Land and listening to Dr. Martin and Dr. Nunnally's lectures. I still can't believe we're here where Jesus once walked! It's crazy, but so amazing. This is going to be a life-changing two weeks.

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Germantown’s Kneeland named deputy fire chief for county

Shelby County Fire Department Deputy Chief Glen Kneeland

Shelby County Mayor Mark H. Luttrell, Jr. has appointed Division Chief Glen Kneeland, a 27-year veteran of the Shelby County Fire Department, to be the department’s new Deputy Fire Chief. He’ll start his new duties on Jan. 1 of 2016.
He replaces current Deputy Fire Chief Dale H. Burress who retires Dec. 31.
“Deputy Chief Kneeland has the experience and leadership skills we need for this position. He’ll do a great job as our new Deputy Chief,” said Mayor Luttrell.
Kneeland, who resides in Germantown, began his career with the Shelby County Fire Department in July of 1988. He’s served as Division Chief, Administrative Battalion Chief, and Lieutenant. He was a founding member of the department’s Special Operations Rescue Team and also serves on the 9-1-1 Communications Board.
“Deputy Chief Kneeland is a career firefighter. He was our top choice based on his many certifications, capabilities and dedication to the job.” said Shelby County Fire Chief Alvin Benson.
Kneeland is a certified Emergency Medical Technician, Hazardous Materials Technician, Fire Officer, Fire Instructor and a former member of the Tennessee Task Force One disaster response team.
He attended Southwest Tennessee Community College and graduated from Germantown High School. Kneeland is married and has three daughters.


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There were only small, one man shops in Sidney by the 1850s. The first man to help direct Sidney down the path to an industrial powphilipsmith.gif (11300 bytes)erhouse was Philip Smith (shown at left). He arrived from Dayton in 1859 after he had learned the trade of a molder. With his brother, Michael, he founded P. Smith Bro. & Co. They made plows, bells for churches and schools, kettles, steam engines, boilers, fire escapes, and many other iron and steel products.  Mr. Smith eventually bought out his brother. He expanded the business in 1886 to make iron cookware, then known as hollow ware. In a few years, he added a line of aluminum cookware. This segment of the business grew rapidly.

Mr. Smith changed the types of products his company made to meet customer demands. He was making cast metal store fronts, grain cleaning equipment, copper tub wringer-washer machines, and milling machines by 1900. Philip Smith retired in 1907 after 48 years in the business. Further information on Mr. Smith can be found on page 668 of Hitchcock's "History of Shelby County".

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Guest Post on OhThreeOhFour!

Last week, Dulcie from ohthreeohfour asked me to guest post on her blog while she's moving and of course I said yes! You guys should check out her blog, if you haven't already. She likes glitter as much as I do, if not more! Thank you so much Dulcie for this opportunity!

check out the post here

here's a quick photo of the gradient I did for the post!

Make sure to check out Dulcie's blog & my guest post!

Thank you so much for commenting! I truly appreciate it and I will get back to each and every one of you, promise! :)

If you'd like me to check out your blog, please shoot me an email, rather than spam my comments with your link! I'd be much more willing to check out your page that way! :)


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(The Return of) Ignatz, by Sam Heldman

Tuesday, June 24, 2003

If ...
If I had to spend my blogging time either criticizing all the things that Instapundit says liberals and leftists must criticize in order show their bona fides, or explaining the reasons why Instapundit is a buffoon for saying such things, I'd never get any law practice done. So, here is the Ignatz rule: if I haven't said something about a given topic, there is nothing that can you can reasonably infer from that, especially if you've never met me. There are, at any given moment, one point three zillion things that I'm not blogging about, and only a very very few that I am blogging about. That's just life, you know.

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Friday, April 9, 2010

Poetry Friday - Shape Poems

The March 2010 issue of Appleseeds Magazine celebrates "Poets and Poetry." I am thrilled to have my work included in this exciting issue! My shape poems and an article "Get Your Poems into Shape!" begin on page 10.  I think that teachers will find this issue to be a useful resource to accompany Poetry Month celebrations.

Appleseeds March 2010
Poets and Poetry
(c) 2010 Carus Publishing Company.
Used by permission.

Here's a close-up of my poem "Snail Speed" from page 12 but I'm still not sure it will be big enough to read.
Here are the words:

Snail Speed

Fast is fun!
Fast is fine!
But sometimes S-L-O-W is just divine:
sipping icy lemonade
stretching back in willow's shade
searching for the perfect shell
lifting pine cones up to smell
hanging from a maple tree
swimming backwards, floating free
waiting for the fish to bite
holding steady on my kite
watching sunsets from the shore
gazing up at stars galore
hugging by the fireside
dreaming of a turtle ride

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Fukuyama: There is everything to be regretted...

The famous Francis Fukuyama shames American foreign policy in the 'paper of record'.
We do not know what outcome we will face in Iraq. We do know that four years after 9/11, our whole foreign policy seems destined to rise or fall on the outcome of a war only marginally related to the source of what befell us on that day. There was nothing inevitable about this. There is everything to be regretted about it.

Bush & Co are great teachers...at the barrel of a gun.

Bush said in his radio speech to the nation,

Like our own nation's founders over two centuries ago, the Iraqis are grappling with difficult issues, such as the role of the federal government. What is important is that Iraqis are now addressing these issues through debate and discussion -- not at the barrel of a gun.

Ex-squeeze me, what?

So, you invade Iraq and at the barrel of the gun you're trying to promote democracy...and now, Iraq is falling apart thanks to your foolish crew of misfits, yet you have reached new heights of absurdity by claiming this in your weekly audio speech to Americans.

You fool.

You're all fools for continuing to spin sunshine from a dark and grim situation. The world and Americans deserve the truth. THey DESERVE A DOSE OF FRICKIN REALITY. The image I have in my head is one of Bush on a ship. One hole opens up in the bow and water rushes in...he plugs it up with his bullshit. Then another hole and another hole, until he runs out of bs. The ship sinks from unsuccessful bullshit asphyxiation and the sheer force of nature.

And if you wingnuts on the right think you could trample the insurgency like the British did with Malay, you're so sorely mistaken. I'd like to see some wet-behind-the-ears DIA agent in Baghdad learn the numerous Iraqi dialects in 2 years...even 4 years, hell 10 years. I'm sure there are so many capable Americans that could really figure out Iraqi culture and this insurgency... ...in 30-50 years perhaps.

I'm just realistic.

Hope lies in YOU my Iraqi brothers and sisters inside Iraq that are working hard for peace and justice. Not with the fantasy seekers in Washington.

I'm being very very realistic.

Wholesale linkage: Isn't in Iranic, don't you think?

Criticize our war profiteering and you shall be demoted.
Dept. of WTF: JFK was contemplating using nukes on China if it attacked India again in the sixties.

One of my favorite punk rockers: Billy Childish, a profile

Larry Johnson, former CIA dude interview

Welcome to White America you brown intruders. Again, get demoted for telling the truth. Par for course and simply symptomatic of American unreality. Get promoted and awarded for lying through your teeth, get your life destroyed and get demoted for telling the truth and living in reality.

Eric Lichtblau reported in The Times this week that the administration was dumping the highly respected Lawrence Greenfeld, appointed by President Bush in 2001 to head the Bureau of Justice Statistics, because he refused superiors' orders to delete from a press release an account of how black and Hispanic drivers were treated more aggressively by the police after traffic stops. The Justice Department study showed markedly higher rates of searches and use of force for black and Hispanic drivers, compared with white drivers.

Fearing that the survey would give ammunition to members of Congress who object to using racial and ethnic data in terrorism and law enforcement investigations, Mr. Greenfeld's supervisors buried it online with no press release or briefing for Congress.

Mr. Lichtblau wrote that when Mr. Greenfeld sent the planned press release to the office of his supervisor, Tracy Henke, then an acting assistant attorney general, the section on the treatment of black and Hispanic drivers was crossed out with a notation: "Do we need this?" Ms. Henke herself had added a note: "Make the changes."

Inching toward civil war?

It's Frank Rich's Sunday editorial: Iraq, The Vietnam Echo Chamber

Henry Kiss"Um"inger talks Iraq exit strategy

What America doesn't want you to see: A photo gallery and the story.

Timothy M. Phelps: For Basra's Christians, Hussein era the good old days
Shiite-dominated city's minorities say repression on rise It makes me sick to even fathom this topic...that we have made no progress, that women are less free, that smaller minorities such as my family shall remain unprotected by any law, that we should only expect things to worsen for us in Iraq after the constitutional folly of the past week or so. It is ironic, or Iranic I should say, that Iraq has been handed on a platter to Iran by America. Sick, I tell ya, I'm sick.

So sick that I'll actually play hipster bingo.

Welcome to the Jungle

It's official now. Iraq is occupied and an operating system of law supposedly put in place by ineffectual puppet appointees does not even remotely apply any longer.

Iraq is the jungle.

Oh, but does it really matter the rule of law has been terminally vexed when people cannot take a stroll in broad daylight without fear of death, air-condition their 50 degree celsius sweat pools, or refrigerate their food?

Nah...so forget about it already.

Liberation is a glorious thing, ain't it?

Bush ally is complete lunatic, not a Christian

When you start telling a televised audience that the government needs to assassinate the leader of another country, it immediately qualifies you as a few things. A couple of them,

1) American Taliban Nutcase 2) Not a Jesus loving Christian

But hey, who am I to judge? Judge yourself.

Hand of Diego

As if we needed his confirmation...

Personally, I think it was a brilliant goal regardless. It's the classic exception to the rule for gamemanship, Maradona-style.

MPG video of the goal

Woot Woot, Wooster Collective

Let's reconstruct the reconstruction

Because it looks like by October we'll be back to square one. Oh, but we've come so far...

Really? We've made negative progress. Sure, change is painful. In Iraq, though, it's been more than painful. At times, so many things--terrible things--have been happening that I could not begin to fathom the amount and sick quality of death and destruction being visited upon by so many innocent Iraqis. Ordinary Iraqis caught up in a gail storm of gluttonous violence.

So, what next?

Let's reconstruct the reconstruction. Abort the process. Oh, but we can't, you say? Why not? Scrap the whole damn thing, I say. We need more voices heard. Reasonable voices across the spectrum of Iraqi society speaking about realistic and substantive changes being made to the current process which will usher in a gloriously spick-and-span version of the constitution whereby all needs of all parties are satisfied somehow, miraculously. The immaculate conception of Iraqi democracy.

That's what should be next.

Useful links:

Iraq reconstruction and occupation page on Global Security.
10,000 years of history in an Archeological Paradise (don't make you into democrats and republicans)

Bush & Co. help create an Islamic Republic one step at a time

Because it's a process, you know.

And the Cheney administration is not creating any ordinary Islamic state. They're creating one fraught with deadly militias, just so you know this step in the process better.

Across northern Iraq, Kurdish parties have employed a previously undisclosed network of at least five detention facilities to incarcerate hundreds of Sunni Arabs, Turkmens and other minorities abducted and secretly transferred from Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, and from territories stretching to the Iranian border, according to political leaders and detainees' families. Nominally under the authority of the U.S.-backed Iraqi army, the militias have beaten up and threatened government officials and political leaders deemed to be working against Kurdish interests; one bloodied official was paraded through a town in a pickup truck, witnesses said.

"I don't see any difference between Saddam and the way the Kurds are running things here," said Nahrain Toma, who heads a human rights organization, Bethnahrain, which has offices in northern Iraq and has faced several death threats.

Blog revival alert: The Religious Policemen is baaaaaaack

Run quickly

Iraq war veteran, aspiring politician, Paul Hackett has tapdancing charisma

As evidenced here

Former CIA anti-terrorism expert, Michael Scheuer, castrates and castigates...

...with this short conclusion on Hardball.

Love people, not places. Create together, don't destroy each other.

What we should be doing, instead of fussin' and a fightin'.

Bush will not meet with a mother of a fallen soldier

He will not look failure in its eyes. He will not try to reason the unreasonable to the heart of all reason--the love of a mother. He will not bring comfort to greiving mother Cindy Sheehan, who asks questions almost every mother of a fallen soldier has asked. Why? Why did my son die? What did he die for? There were no WMD, so what did he die for?

And why won't he meet with her? Because he's on vacation...for five weeks. Do you know the average American gets 7 days of vacation? Oh, but the preznit deserves this vacation because of all the successes he's commandeered this last year. With Iraq going so well, he might as well take the whole year off.

I stand by you Ms. Sheehan and all participators in the 1,600 vigils being held across America. I ask the same questions you ask. And I will continue to ask them, no matter how futile the effort may seem.

America and the world owes you a great debt for starting a conversation about the war that I thought would be difficult, if not impossible, to re-ignite so quickly.

You have single-handedly accomplished what troves of protestors could not. And so, I commend you deeply.

Cindy Sheehan's mother has had a stroke, so she has left Crawford. There are still hundreds of mothers there and more vigils are planned to happen simultaneously across the country on Saturday.

For more on the happenings in Texas where Ms. Sheehan has been having her vigil, please go here and here. Here are some messages for Cindy at EI.

My thoughts are with you and your mother in this difficult time.

Deputy Chief of US mission in Baghdad, Satterfield, implicated in Israeli lobby scandal

I was perusing the Times after being away for some time and what did I stumble upon, but this.

Satterfield is not famous for being completely pro-Israeli, but he does have long and close ties with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy...an AIPAC-backed Israeli think tank pushing Israeli policies in Washington.

If he is leaking classified information from the US government to Israel, he could potentially be leaking to Israel from Baghdad. And this will not make Iraqis happy at all.

Lion in a sheep's clothing?

You decide.

And on the other side of the sinister spy game divide is Iran and its obvious victory in Iraq handed to it by Bush Co. The thick of it is explained in detail in this article in Time.

Is Iraq becoming another Lebanon? Another arena for other peoples' wars?

The real question is...
Hasn't it already become this?

You can't eat federalism.

Fisk running on all cylinders in his latest. And here an Iraqi friend of his explains you can't eat federalism.

In Real Iraq, it makes no difference. For the "street", Saddam is history, there is no reconstruction and the filth of Abu Ghraib causes no great surprise - because most Iraqis knew all about it months before the West opened its horrified eyes to the pictures.

As for the constitution, I asked an old Iraqi friend what he thought yesterday. "Sure, it’s important," he said. "But my family lives in fear of kidnapping, I’m too afraid to tell my father I work for journalists, and we only have one hour in six of electricity and we can’t even keep our food from going bad in the fridge. Federalism? You can’t eat federalism and you can’t use it to fuel your car and it doesn’t make my fridge work."

An Iraqi's incisive words

I'm relieved Phttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifrofessor Cole posted this by one of his Iraqi readers.

' It is remarkable how the "experts" on Iraq ignore the most important section of Iraqi society: the non-tribal millions centred in Baghdad, Basra, Mosul, Kirkuk and some other large cities. These may well belong to tribes and may even be religious, but are totally independent. They regard their Sheikhs [tribal leaders], if they know who they are, almost as a lower cast: Asha'ir (Tribal people) who are considered clumsy, thuggish, and worst of all obeying the tribes rather than following their principles or the country's institutions.

Until the 1980's Iraq enjoyed the best health, education and other governement service, while the tribal areas were, and still are, quite backward and even primitive, while the cities were as advanced as south western Europe. The non-tribal Iraqis, call them Nationalist if you like, have had no place in Bush's Iraq because the Americans promoted tribalism from day one in the hope of controlling Iraq by buying its Sheiks and Mullahs. This policy worked in Afghanistan and Kurdistan
because these are collections of self-ruled tribal areas, and not real countries, but have failed in Iraq's large cities with their complex relationships and mobile population.

These urban Iraqis are critical for the future of Iraq because of their skills and patriotism - do not confuse them with the corrupt Ba'athists though. The Iraqi ministries now are paralysed by the corrupt and incomptent relatives and friends appointed by the Mullahs and Sheikhs who now rule Iraq, which is being transormed into a failed state. The militias and terrorists decide what happens to the people of Iraq. The Constitution and state Institutions are irrelevant no matter how much fuss is made about them.

The Nationalists, who are more likely to be highly educated professionals do not have militias, but can leave the country in droves. Thousands already have, and the country can not function without them regardless of who is in power. The bizzare collection of "Iraq Leaders" today are fighting over spoils that do not exist. The Oil money is not enough even for basic needs, and the failed economy and services will sooner or later trigger national revolt. Unlike other nations, millions of ordinary civilians have AK47s in their homes, and plenty of military training. '

en générale...

Hi there!

I'm desperately busy these days. My studies have become exponentially more difficult. Also, I've gained a number of new responsibilities and I haven't been able to deliver the goods on time. I've had some more problems with my internet connection, but now everything seems to be running soundly. I need to clean up my computer from a number of files not belonging here, too. It continues to be a bumpy ride online due to a packed hard drive. The net result of all these things has been falling more and more behind on everything going on. I'm going to try to catch up in the next couple of days because the weather is pretty nasty out.

One of my priorities is to address Khalid's imprisonment and what we'll work on accomplishing as a result of one of our very own spending time in the terrible conditions of Iraqi prisons. Of course, I am extremely unhappy Khalid and the Jarrars had to go through such a scary time. But I suggest this moment be seized as a blessing in disguise. We might be able to help many others who have been wrongly accused. We need to brainstorm about this in the coming days and weeks. And we need to continue writing those emails, letters, and making those phone calls.

More soon...

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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Driving in Atlanta nowadays is like a scene from Godard's Weekend.  In 1967, Jean Luc already understood our dystopian automotive future.

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Living and driving here in the Deep South (and these two things are intimately connected), one thing you quickly learn is that down here, you never, ever use your horn.  It's considered rude and ill-mannered and will most likely result in the direct opposite outcome than you were intending.

So it's with interest that I note, on my horrible, horrible drive home from work tonight, as the much-praised Waze app seemed to lead me from one appalling traffic jam to another, that the congestion has gotten so bad that I actually heard Atlanta drivers honking their horns while stuck in traffic.

Literally, it's a first, and another omen of the impending apocalypse.

Monday, April 24, 2017

My New Home

So it appears that we're not only going back to the Cold War, because why not?, but we're going to  bypass Poland and Berlin and even Vietnam and take it all the way back to the Korean War.

It's been convincingly argued that reality as we know it is just a figment of some future computerized video game, and it appears that the whatever-it-is at the controls is rewinding our history and replaying its favorite parts.  So if we're all just characters in a video game, I may not be escaping reality in my Minecraft fantasy world as much as indulging in an alternate, equally synthetic reality.

Here's a quick tour of a home I rebuilt from ruins in the Minecraft/Fallout Mashup.  Bonus points for being right across the street (Comm Ave?) from Fenway Park.  That would make the river behind me the Charles, but would that then make the desert across the river the post-apocalyptic remains of Cambridge?

Monday, April 17, 2017

Meditations Whilst Stuck In Traffic

Impermanence: This traffic will not last forever.. There was a time when I wasn't in this traffic jam, and there will be a time when I will no longer be in this, and at that later time, it won't seem to matter nearly as much as it seems to matter now.

Stoicism: This is the situation.  Thus, the cars are not moving.  How I react to this situation is my own decision - why increase my suffering and the suffering of others with impatience and anger?

The Origin of Suffering:  This is the world as I'm experiencing it at this moment.  To wish that the world was somehow different is to cling to a false illusion, and clinging to delusion is the origin of suffering.

The Idiot Driving Ahead of Me:  There's at least four car lengths open ahead of him.  Why doesn't he move forward and let all of us behind him advance a few tens of feet?  Grrrrrr!  Beep!

George Carlin: "Did you ever notice while driving that everyone going slower that you is a moron, and everyone driving faster than you is a maniac?"

Saturday, April 15, 2017

Alternate Reality

Meanwhile, for those of you keeping score at home, I'm still spending an inordinate amount of time escaping the depressing reality of the here and now by retreating into a Minecraft fantasy world.

Here's a tour of a recent house I built.  My skill set is still pretty limited and I don't go for all the modifications and add-ons that others apply to their game playing, but I have advanced way beyond the level I was at the last time I posted a game-play video.

In any event, in the Minecraft world, there is no President Trump, no Republican-led Congress, no I-85 bridge collapse, and no impending world war.   Just zombies, creepers, giant spiders, and ghasts, but those are all pleasant by comparison.

Friday, April 07, 2017

The Futility of Philosophy

"Quick!  It's an emergency!  Someone call a philosopher right now!," said no one, ever.

Wednesday, April 05, 2017

The apocalypse has surely descended upon us, or the Masters playing the video game in which we're trapped are surely in a foul mood.

Highway I-85 collapsed in a fire I passed over late last week, and while the Georgia DOT hopes to have that section of road repaired by June 15, no one is holding their breath expecting the deadline to be met and in the meantime, the northeast quadrant of Atlanta is nearly impassable.  I've telecommuted since last Thursday and only attempted to drive to the office today, but, oh, let me tell you about today.

After severe thunderstorms and tornadoes hit Georgia on Monday, not one, not two, but three fronts passed through the state today, each bringing golfball size hail, thunderstorms, and the occasional tornado.  My iPhone batteries almost ran out from all the flash flood and severe weather alerts I've been getting all day.  The commute, already trying and challenging before the highway collapsed, was all the worse for the traffic-choked detours and side streets, and then nearly brought to a complete halt by the weather and the limited visibility, flooded roads, and work crews occupying lanes during rush hour trying to clear clogged stormwater drains.

It seems that whatever you believe controls things around here, be it science, be it chance and happenstance, be it the old or the new gods, be it the Destroyer of Dreams and Destructor of Delights, be it two 13-year-olds playing a video game somewhere in New Jersey, whatever, it seems someone has decided to close Atlanta off so no one can escape and then flood us with rain, hail, and thunderbolts just to see what we'd do.

Many of us here are not amused.

Sunday, April 02, 2017

Of Course It Was

News reports are now saying that it was a person smoking crack under the highway that started the fire, that collapsed the underpass, that snarled the rush hour, and that is going to have Atlanta's already challenged traffic totally tied up in knots "for the foreseeable future."

Crackheads - this is why we can't have nice things.


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DIY Rose Bath Salts

DSC_3064I’m really lucky to have had one of my lifetime dreams realised with four amazing types of roses in our garden. Although most of them do last quite a while when placed indoors, I’m always looking for ways to reuse them after they’ve wilted. Last year we saved all of them for our wedding confetti so I looked into making rose bath salts. This is a surprisingly easy and very simple DIY, with only three ingredients (maybe four, read more below…)

You’ll need:

  • 3-4 Fragrant roses
  • 1 kg Epsom salts
  • 50 g Baking Soda

  1. Pick the petals of three roses that have slightly wilted and leave open in a bowl for about two days, so that it can partially dry. If you do use plain cut roses that aren’t as heavily fragranced, you can add a  little bit of essential oils in the next step.
  2. In a larger bowl combine rose petals, salt and baking soda. If you want the petals to be able to drain, place the mixture in a food processor with a blade for finer leaves. I like just fishing mine out of the bath when I’m done, leaving zero possibility of blocking the drain.
  3. Store all the loveliness in an airtight container to treat yourself.

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In Auschwitz, 1942, Jewish prisoners took it upon themselves at grave personal risk to perform comedy. This is their story, as one group struggles to perform a farce based on the first great anti-Semitic tragedy of the 20th century: the infamous Dreyfus Affair. As the play goes on, and dark secrets begin to emerge about the reason for its performance, those performing must ask themselves, can comedy truly have meaning in the face of horror? Who really has the last laugh

Appearing in the production are Jake Baker, Jorge Bolanos, Andrew Canada, Glenn Garrabrant, James McGuire, Murphy Mayer, Taylor Pittman and Guy Wicke. The play is directed by Elayne LeTraunik, Associate Artistic Director of Genesis Theatrical Productions. Stage manager is Beth Bruins with costumes by Rafaela Valderrama.

Jake Rosenberg is the award winning playwright behind Muse of Fire, Brothers, and The Jews, whose plays have been produced across the world, from the Best of Playgrounds Festival in SF to the Producers Club Short Play contest in NYC to the Belarusian Dream Theater Project. His play No One Gives A Clap, was produced in LA, Chicago, Vancouver and Frankfurt, Germany and was also named a finalist for The 2014 City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting. He is currently a sophomore majoring in dramatic writing at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.”

“My goal with MUSE OF FIRE is to tell a story that has been never been told before. It’s MUSE OF FIRE’s mission to state that Holocaust art should not become documentary for us. “Never Forget” might be a comforting maxim to rely on for the memory of this cataclysmic event, yet that should not be substituted for “Never Change.” We should not waste the powerful process that is creation on what has become, effectively, photo albums. And that’s where MUSE OF FIRE comes in. This Dreyfus play performed by prisoners seems completely incongruous with the stories of the Holocaust we’ve chosen to preserve. And that’s all right.  MUSE OF FIRE is a conscious effort in helping to deepen and enrich our cultural understanding of Holocaust art, and expanding what it means to remember.” – Jake Rosenberg

Runs: February 13 to March 13, 2016 at Redtwist Theatre, 1044 W. Bryn Mawr

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Dark Souls 3 Guide: Grand Archives Area Guide -

The Grand Archives are the last big area you have to clear before the end of the game. Good job making it this far! It's another dense area, with lots of levels stacked on top of one another, but it's also got a lot of useful upgrade items and weapons if you explore enough to find them. Now, this guide will help you with the exploring, giving you the quickest routes around the archives, but it's not going to spell it all out for you.

There is only one bonfire before the boss fight, and it's almost directly after the Dragonslayer Armour one. You basically just have to walk forwards for a bit. Given that there's only one bonfire here you might expect that the Grand Archives are a small, relatively simple area. This is, of course, not the case.

Appears after you defeat the Twin Princes, Lorian and Lothric, probably one of the creepiest boss fights in the game.

This sounds weird but we promise it makes sense in context. The area specific enemies for the Archives are all voluntarily covered in wax, like candles (we question the wisdom of doing this in a giant library, but who are we to judge?). At several points you'll come accross big basins full of wax and if you approach them you get an action prompt to stick your head in. You should definitely do this, a) because you look like a BDSM hot wax enthusiast after a serious weekender and it's hilarious, and b) because at many points in the Archives spectral hands will pop up out of the floor and shelves. They'll damage and stack curse on to you – unless you're in your giant novelty candle outfit.

You get in the Grand Archives by picking up a key in front of the main doors, which doesn't spawn unless you've already beaten three Lords of Cinder. You might remember, when you beat the Crystal Sage back on the Road of Sacrifices, that his soul said that the "twin Crystal Sages once served as spiritual guides to the scholars of the grand archives" so it shouldn't be that surprising that you run into the other one here. When you get into the archives he'll be in an alcove straight in front of him; start attacking him immediately. If you don't do enough damage to kill him immediately then he'll do the familiar disappearing act and reappear a couple of levels up in the Archives.

To get to his next location run left up some stairs, then turn right and drop down a ledge to run between rows of bookcases. Keep going straight until you see your first wax–headed scholar and carry on the direction he was going, which should see you turning left. In front of you now will be big stacks of books, more scholars, and a giant rectangular basin of wax. Go through the doorway to the right and up the right hand stairs in this dark room. Turn right again and go out into the main room of the Archives again, this time heading left. You should be able to see the Crystal Sage above you now, and he'll start casting spells again when you're in range. Instead of getting to him by going up the stairs and around, run forwards and on to the balcony in front of you. There's a ladder on the leftmost side that you can go up to come out on the balcony behind the Sage, avoiding the mobs on the stairs and most of the spells the Sage will throw at you. If you don't get him here he'll then teleport to the bridge over the middle of the Archives. To get there from the balcony you're on, run up the stairs to the left and keep going straight until you reach a broken bit of railing above the bridge. You can drop down here and finish the Sage off.

On the right, next to the Grand Archives bonfire, is a very, very long lift, which takes you up to the boss arena. But more on that in a moment. Most of the shortcuts you can open in the Archives involve kicking down ladders so you don't have to run around all the stairs every time you die. For the first one, start at the massive wax basin on the ground floor, go into the dark room on your right, up the stairs, and out. The kick ladder will be right in front of you, and goes down to the front of the ground floor, right of the alcove where the Crystal Sage first appeared.

From the top of this ladder run towards the balcony on the left and then keep going, curving right and around the whole circle of this walkway. That takes you to the bridge over the room. Run across it and into an empty stone room. Go around to the right and you'll find a lift, which takes you down to a room with a secret moving bookcase. Pull the lever to open it and voila! You're back on the ground floor again.

Right, hop back in that lift and take the right exit out of the room at the top, taking some stairs up and around to a kind of half circle mezzanine level, with a lot of bookshelves and waxy scholars about. Go across this to the doorway on the other side, through it, up the stairs, and out onto the roofs of the archives. Go left along the paved area you're on, down a ladder, and then onto the tiled roofs themselves. Keep going forwards and on to another long, paved walkway (not the square terrace on the right, which is lovely, but will take you nowhere, the walkway goes off straight in front of you). At the end of this is a steep, pitched roof leading up on your left, at the top of which is a gargoyle with a spear. From him you have two choices. Either go right until you see another balcony on the side of the archives, which you can walk into, or go left, doubling back on yourself but on a higher level.

For the latter you'll go around over a small dark tiled roof, always curving to the right, and eventually face off against two more gargoyles. Go on to the red tiled roof that they were patrolling on and drop down to the right, towards the big stained glass windows. You can get through a broken one here, and the next kick ladder is around the side of this walkway, back down to that mezzanine level with all the wax guys, so you can avoid all the roof malarky next time. If you chose the other route you'll come out on the same walkway, but at the opposite end of the room, so you have to walk slightly further to get to the ladder.

Alright, let's assume you've opened up that third shortcut ladder, and you've just gone up it. Run along the walkway until you reach a set of open doors on your left. Go through here, across the courtyard, and up the stairs (via three NPCs) into a candlelit room. There's a lift on your right which goes all the way down to the Grand Archives bonfire. This is your shortcut to the boss fight.

The Crystal Scroll is a guaranteed drop by the Crystal Sage in the archives. Give it to Orbeck of Vinheim back at Firelink Shrine to add some more sorceries to his shop.

Take the shortcut lift inside the archives (not the one up to the boss) and exit to the right, around to the mezzanine platform. Go up the ladder you kicked down earlier and the shard is on the corpse sat up in a chair in front of the stained glass windows. You may have already picked it up on your way through earlier.

Take the lift from the bonfire all the way up to the top. Exit the red-carpeted, candled room to the right, going up the stairs and out. Instead of heading forwards, towards the final boss fight, turn to your left and you'll find a staircase curving up around the domed roof behind you. Go up there and across the roof towards the rounded tower there. Proceed with caution: there are three angels on top of it, but you can avoid drawing aggro from them by skirting around the edge of the building using the narrow staircases.

There's a staircase leading into the tower at the centre of the roof. Directly opposite that staircase is another thin, narrow one that leads onto a wide rectangular roof. At the end of that is the shard. Nice work.

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Surgeon Simulator Now Tasks You to Operate On Donald Trump

Political seasons make for many headaches across the land as people needlessly make petty arguments for and against various candidates while ignoring the larger and more important picture.

It also provides tons of grist for creative mills. Politics have been seeping into games since Bill Clinton was a playable character in NBA Jam back in the early 90's.

Now there's a new Anniversary Edition of Surgeon Simulator that includes new stat track, additional environments, new achievements, updated graphics, and, best of all, a Donald Drumpf stage.

You can even choose to give him either a solid gold heart or a stone heart and their site is actually tracking who's giving what more. Currently the stone heart is in the lead.

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Game 24 Preview: Winnipeg Jets at Carolina Hurricanes

Winnipeg Jets (9-9-4) at Carolina Hurricanes (8-11-3)
RBC Center 7 p.m.
FS Carolinas, TSN Jets

The Canes are 2-1-1 in the past week and have looked considerably better after that 4-0 whitewashing they took at the hands of the Montreal Canadiens. I’ve noticed that the team has been playing a lot better in the defensive zone and my thoughts were confirmed with this article from Chip Alexander which explains how Paul Maurice has implimented a more defensive system. Instead of defensemen jumping into the play, you’ll see more of them laying back and guarding the point. You’ll also see the team putting more emphasis on a dump & chase style game where there is more emphasis on speed and less on manuvering through the neutral & offensive zone. The Canes are the fourth worst team in the league in shots allowed at even strength so I’m all for tigtening things up right now, especially with the lack of horsepower in the top-six. However, the negative effect of this system is there isn’t much offensive pressure and the Canes are a bottom-five team in terms of shots for, as well. My guess is that Maurice recognizes the lack of talent up front and realizes that the team is going to have to do a better job at preventing goals if we can’t score. Similar to the system Jacques Martin runs under the Montreal Canadiens.

Speaking of the Canadiens, the game against them on Wednesday showed some of the flaws with this system. The team had the puck in the Montreal zone countless times but failed to generate scoring chances because it looked like no one had idea had to do with the puck. Also, the team employed a defensive shell when they took a 2-0 lead and didn’t do much to create offense and it eventually cost them the lead. This is one thing I hate about this kind of system and it’s something I hope the team can fix. They take on another team with not a lot of offensive firepower in the Winnipeg Jets tonight.

Lines & Defense pairings

Skinner – Staal – Ruutu
Ponikarovsky – Jokinen – LaRose
Tlusty – Sutter – Dwyer
Stewart – Brent – Sutter

Gleason – Faulk
McBain – Allen
Joslin – Kaberle

Ladd – Antropov – Wellwood
Kane – Little – Wheeler
Glass – Slater – Burmistrov
Thorburn – Stapleton – Fehr

Byfuglien – Stuart
Hainsey – Bogosian
Flood – Oduya

What happened last time

This was a mostly forgettable game where the Canes lost 5-3 partially due to an awful performance from Brian Boucher and a couple bad bounces. The one positive thing that came from this game was that it sparked the return of the “Skinn & Finns” line as Skinner, Ruutu & Jokinen were reunited and it led to a third period goal. Those three along with LaRose had a pretty solid game overall and the Jets are playing with a couple different defense pairings from that game. Ron Hainsey has returned to the lineup which gives them another stay-at-home guy to put up against one of the Canes top two lines. However, that also leaves Dustin Byfuglien & Mark Stuart as having the latter play top minutes just isn’t a recipe for success for any team. The Jets lines have been shuffled a bit too with Evander Kane finally having the ball roll in his direction and Kyle Wellwood’s play improving. Alex Burmistrov played well against us back October but has been demoted to the third line now despite some strong underlying numbers. I’m not sure what that is about but it makes them a little deeper up front despite his linemates being very poor. Eric Fehr is also playing his first game as a Jet this year so be on the lookout for that even if he plays on the fourth line. What’s interesting is that both our shutdown line & defense pair did virtually nothing against the Jets last time. Now that Gleason & Allen have been split due to Harrison’s injury, I would imagine that doesn’t happen this game.

Game Notes

No bullets this time. Instead, I’m going to talk about a low-risk move that worked out in the Jets favor. That, of course, is signing Kyle Wellwood for less than $1 mil. Wellwood has always been known to be a lazy, overweight player who could never work out in the NHL but he’s actually done very well for himself since returning last season. He was signed by the San Jose Sharks in the middle of last season to give them more forward depth and he actually put up some very impressive underlying numbers. In fact, he had one of the highest balanced corsi ratings (corsi adjusted for zone starts) in the league last year but those were brushed off because he played on a good team and it was a small sample size. He’s carried that good play over into this year as he is one of the Jets top scorers, has one of the highest corsi ratings on the team, starts a good amount of his draws in the defensive zone and isn’t benefiting from too much luck. To put things simple, he’s just playing good hockey and this was a good signing by the Jets.

Overall, the Jets have become an average team in terms of shot and possession metrics over the last few months and tonight’s game against Carolina should be a somewhat even matchup now that the Canes are doing the same. I am kind of glad that Chris Mason is starting because while he has a history of playing well against Carolina, he still has not been good for the past two years.

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Drayson Bowman, Worth A Chance

When there’s a few open or questionable spots on the roster, I’m usually someone who likes to give the younger prospects a chance at the beginning of the year and the Canes have quite a few of those types of players who could make their leap into the NHL this year. I’ve already discussed Zac Dalpe and Zach Boychuk, both who will likely have a chance to crack the roster out of camp but another guy I would not look past is former third round pick Drayson Bowman. If you remember correctly, he finished last season with the Canes, played 23 games with them…but failed to net a goal in any of them. So why is this guy worth a look? You’ll see why….

In those 23 games, Bowman generated 51 chances at even strength (2.21 per game), which is not bad for someone who started 45% of his draws in the offensive zone and played third and fourth line minutes. If you remember my post on scoring chances by line combinations, I wrote that Bowman was very effective when playing on Brandon Sutter and Chad LaRose’s line. In fact, that line had the most success out of all of the ones Sutter centered. He also had a positive balanced corsi rating and was a pretty damn good player possession wise. The goals are going to come to him sooner or later if he keeps this up, and I think using that line with him, Sutter and LaRose would be a good idea to start the year.

Of course, there are some down sides to Bowman’s game and one of the reasons why he failed to score one goal last year despite playing well territorially is because he didn’t shoot enough. He only had 28 shots in those 23 games, so it’s clear that he needs to do more to get the puck to the net and create offense. He has a terrific shot but he doesn’t use it enough. Most scouting reports have pegged him to be a top-six forward due to his explosive stats in junior hockey but that hasn’t translated to the pro level yet, even in the AHL. He has 62 points in 107 games as a member of Albany and Charlotte in the AHL. He’s also pretty skinny at 6-1 and 190 lbs., and may need to put on some more weight to consistently play the tough draws that the Canes third line are normally assigned.

Bowman may not have the complete package yet but he was able to stick with the team for the last couple months of the season and despite what his boxcar stats say, he did not play bad at all. He wasn’t completely dominated like Dalpe was last year and he did not struggle as much as Boychuk did. Bowman was able to hold his own and get the puck moving in the right direction, so I think he should have a chance to make the roster at the start of the year. There are a few spots that are up for grabs (one of the wings on the third line being one of them), so I believe that Bowman will get his chance in the next month or so, especially since he proved that he can work well with some players already on the team. Like I said, I usually prefer to go with the younger player in these situations because we don’t know if the team is going to compete this year or not, so giving a guy with a decent upside some ice-time to start the year would be a good idea. That said, he’s only 21 so there’s still time for him to develop if he doesn’t impress in camp or needs more time to work on his game in the AHL.


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Monday, April 23, 2012

Today's tulips ...

 Tulipa  turkestanica

... and last week's red-winged blackbird.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Singing along with Seventh Day April

 A chickadee perches on the Therese Bugnet rosebush in the herb garden.

The spring soundtrack is playing loud and clear around here. The forecast is for a little snow next week, but today is supposed to warm and sunny. The birds have been active, from the chickadees that stay through the winter to the sweet-sounding red-winged blackbirds that appeared in recent weeks. This week I saw my first cardinal in the yard ever -- a female.

Take a look at what was going on this April 7.

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Flowers inside and outside the house

Amaryllis -- maybe 'Red Lion' -- that I overwintered and recently pulled out from its dormancy location in the closet under the stairs. Here it's backlit by the setting sun.

Crocus tommasinianus just starting to bloom near the side door.


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Friday, December 5, 2008

Jingle Bells

Merry Christmas to all my dear friends!
Yes. Its that time of year again and I am glad its that time of year again!
Even though the malls are crowded, the hole in your pocket is getting bigger and the same old christmas songs are replayed over and over but yes. I still love Christmas!:)
Looking back at the 19 Christmasses that i spent, well, not reallly 19 because i cannot really count those that i did not really 'celebrated consciously', I still cannot really figure out why i love Christmas so much!

This year is the third Christmas I am going to spend with the boyfriend and it is particularly exciting because he is going to meet my extended family. Anyway,I figured, if it gets too weird, we can probably run off to Mt Faber and continue our Christmas tradition. Yes. we are suckers for fake snow.

I baked more oatmeal choc-chip cranberry cookies yesterday.
No prizes for guessing who they are for.

P.S For having a true Haagen dazs experience. Please go with Wendy KTingwen.

P.S.S I had fun lah Ting! Your friend is funny too.

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July 13, 2010

OK....I have decided that since we focused on the "embellishments" that can be added to our pillows, our next topic would have to be my very FAVORITE one of all. That is WINDOW TREATMENTS! Many of these wonderful embellishments that you saw in the last posting can also be used to "make a statement" on window treatments. Many times in a room people make the mistake of not dressing their windows at all. Actually, valances or draperies (and some other possibilities we will talk about) "soften" the room and add that sense of "coziness". This is an important aspect, not only for yourself, but for guests that visit. It speaks to them a sense of "come in, relax, and make yourself at home".

Living room in browns, greens, and blues in varying patterns
Photo courtesy of Coastal Living magazine

I started here in a room with a simple neutral color palette. The accessories punch some color here, but notice the simple window treatments used in this area. They are neutral in color, with a contrasting band sewn on the outer edges. There is only one drapery panel per side of each window. This means you don't have the "bulk" of more fabric (more widths) that you would have if you wanted to be able to close the draperies. These are just simple, stationary panels that add that must have "cozy" touch to the room. Now, imagine for a moment, if these windows were not dressed at all. The room would not be "softened" and the overall effect would not be the same. Do you also see how even the simple contrasting band of fabric, on the edge, makes a statement? This is one way to add an embellishment, but at the same time, keep it simple. Draperies such as these can be custom made (using designer fabrics, trims, and custom sizing) or purchased as a ready-made in many of your local stores. Your options are more limited when using ready-made, especially the fabric choices and lengths, but it CAN be done.

Family dining area with french doors and green floor to ceiling curtains
Photo courtesy of Coastal Living magazine

Here we find floor-to-ceiling draperies in a small print fabric that adds more of a "color punch" to the area. In this room, these draperies actually pull the outside in...look at that! How refreshing! These panels do have more "widths" in them on each side (than previous photo), but this is only a matter of choice, if they are just to enhance the look and feel of the room and are intended to be stationary.

Photo courtesy of Traditional Home magazine

And here we have bold, floral drapery panels that truly make a statement in this room. Extra "widths" are used on each side, because of the overall size of the window, which runs across most of that wall. If you used only one width here, then the window treatments would be off balance and actually look skimpy. Notice also in this photo that the drapery rod is not hung all the way to the ceiling, as the others were. They don't have to go all the way up, and knowing this can help if you are using ready-made draperies with limited lengths available. A good rule of thumb is...the higher the better... since it draws your eye upward and makes the area seem more open and even larger. However, if not taking them all the way up, then try hanging them half the distance between the top of the window casing and the ceiling, as pictured here. This gives you a nice effect too. Oh, and while I'm thinking of it, you HAVE to notice the trim used on the sofa pillows here!!! It is indeed "Simply Irresistible"!

I hope this has helped you with our most basic window treatment - simple panels - and how they can add so much to a room. We will continue diving into more drapery options and also take a look at how embellishments can even be added to them. There is a whole world of exciting window treatments out there and we look forward to sharing more ideas with you. Now go have yourself a most blessed day!

  1. I would love to see you blog more! You have showcased some beautiful rooms. I would provide the link to your blog on my three Facebook profiles and my blog if you start blogging again.

    http://www.facebook.com/Lambitious (FB profile)
    http://www.facebook.com/LambitiousCreations (upcoming sewing business FB Page)

  2. Thank you so much for your kind and encouraging words! I hope to now blog on a more regular basis. I have lots to learn about it yet, but I do enjoy sharing with others what I have a passion for. Thanks so much!


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• (noun): A pancake made from rice and lentil flour with tomatos, spices etc.

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  • Mor Kozhambu along with onion uthappam is truly mouth watering.

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  • The satisfying uthappam, pancakes topped with tomatoes, onions, and cilantro, are made to order at one end of the buffet and disappear quickly.

  • The street rolls along from kebab house to Pakistani fare to Indian bakery to Udupi Palace, whose uthappam - pancakes made from ground rice and lentils - and other treats hail from the Southern India state of Karnataka.

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Friday, November 16, 2012

Stranger things have happened

This has been a fun but a little bit of an odd week for me. Those of you that know me-and it is fine if that remains our little secret-know I am a pixel pusher, at least by trade. The last few years I have been a pedal pusher. "Pssst, hey man, wanna by a bike?" as my trench coat jingles and jangles with the sounds of your two wheeled fix. Anyway, for years I tried to escape the dark, dank confines of corporate america and it's cubicle laden oppressed atmosphere. Working at Aviation Velo (formerly Bike Doctor) has given me that freedom that I was looking for. Working on, selling, riding and doing everything bikes has allowed me to be myself and not trying to fit that mold of artsy fartsy computer um guy.

So as luck would have it, Bike Doctor of Linthicum has decided to go AWOL from the franchise and venture into new, uncharted waters... for a three hour tour. The weather started getting rough...whoooaaa-flashback Skipper. So somehow I landed the job of....yup pixel pusher web guy again, In a bike shop?!?!?!? Never thought that it would go this route and honestly, wasnt real sure I would enjoy doing it again. Thoughts of fake people wearing fake facial disguises to mask their true identities came to the surface. Much to my shagrin, I am really getting back into it. It will never be at the 9-5 level anymore, but this has been really cool. I have control over what I do and when I do it-as long as it is done by december 31st!

It is still in its infancy, but it is coming along pretty good. I had to dust off the Dreamweaver  side of my brain and get a little jump start, but it is slowly coming back. Still a few kinks to work out here and there, but overall pleased with what has come about so far. It loads a bit slow, but that is because I have a large background image that needs to be reduced.Here is the link to the sight so far. Some links havent been linked and still working with making sure that it previews well in the popular browsers. Enjoy and get out of that cubicle and enjoy the outdoors!


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Security Advice for Homeowners from Expert Locksmiths

A locksmith is a professional whose main area of expertise is replacing and unlocking different kinds of locks. Naturally, a locksmith is someone who knows a lot about different types of security systems and locks. Many locksmiths don’t only offer lock-related services, but they also provide a full suite of security services, ranging from the installation and maintenance of different kinds of security systems such as CCTV systems or motion sensors. However, many expert locksmiths can also give detailed advice about the things that you need to do to protect your place. Here is some important security advice that every home or business owner should follow.

Change the Locks after a Burglary

Break-ins are a fact of life; according to statistics, a break-in occurs at an average of at every 40 seconds in the UK. A common mistake that many people make after a burglary at their home is that they don’t have their locks replaced. If you have cheap locks on your main gate and windows, it might be time for you to think about a replacement. You can hire professional locksmiths in Fareham to install new locks for you. The locksmiths will show you a variety of different kinds of locks, and depending upon your budget, they will give you advice on which locks are best for you. Obviously, more expensive locks are also more secure, so you have to choose carefully. The locksmith will inform you about which model is the best. These professionals are home security experts and know what your place requires. You can also hire them for a thorough risk assessment of your place to get a better idea about the ways in which your security may be lacking.

Install CCTV Cameras in Your House

Many locksmiths will tell you that installing CCTV cameras in your house is a very effective burglary deterrent. Burglars and thieves generally avoid targeting properties that are protected by CCTV security systems. That is because they don’t want their faces to be caught on camera. You can hire home security experts to assist you with the installation of a CCTV system. They will show you a variety of different systems and give you tips on which one is the best for your requirements. Some CCTV cameras are wired, while other systems are wireless and stream video over a wireless network. You can view the video through an application on your mobile phone wherever you are, thus giving you peace of mind that your house is protected at all times. Installing CCTV cameras in your house is a very strong burglary deterrent, and you should definitely consider installing such a system.

Buy British Standard Locks

Many people make the mistake of buying cheap locks that don’t meet high security standards. When buying new locks, always make sure that you buy British Standard locks. This will give you the guarantee that the locks have undergone extensive testing for their strength and durability. You should talk to your local locksmith about guidance on which locks are the best for your place.