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Wednesday, 20 April 2011

Card class 5.5.11

You will need
Pro markers
Ms punch
Toppers for cakes

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Wednesday, 13 April 2011

Class card 20.4.11

Distress ink
Script stamp
Flower stamp
Baby pink ribbon
Pro markers
5 pink brads
Pink flower or punch
Round corner punch
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Tuesday, 5 April 2011

Debbie moore cd

Another quickie using the freebie papers on the cd

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Debbie moore free cd

Just gone to the computer to try out the free cd with the debbie moore magazine and as usual the ink has run out in the printer, I suppose that's my job too! Not having a good day today!
Anyhow this was a piramage print from the cd, mounted on gold mirror card and a few peel offs and flowers from my stash.
Enjoy x
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40th anniversary

Keepsake board I bought and never used! Oh well mix it with a debbie moore verse some peel offs and one of the ladies in the debbie moore magazine, add a little glitter and a few gems and voila!

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Baptism card

Wasted day waiting for deliveries to arrive so thought I would get started on a baptism card I was asked for
This charming little stamp is a fizzy moon one from crafty urchins in cheadle
I've used promarkers and ribbon and brads from my stash
The lettering is from a cheap alphabet set I picked up somewhere
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Sunday, 3 April 2011

40th Birthday card

Cream background card ,corner rounded and distress inked.
/old and cream shields matt and layered, cream one has been embossed with cuttlebug folder, randomly dabbed with versa mark and gold embossing powder and heat embossed.
Small shield is stamped with lady stamp
Finished with brown ribbon and paper flowers
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Edible Galactica

| Tuesday, January 25
Inspired by two Battlestar Galactica sweets that were brought to my attention yesterday, a really detailed Galactica replica in cake form and custom insignia chocolate molds, I decided to round up a bunch more that I'd either seen in the past or had hunted down myself. Thanks for the inspiration Autumn

Insignia Cakes
 By Archana Rao at Love Street Cakes, Brooklyn, NY

Simplified version in fondant from Cakes by Charissa

A very sparkly version by Jen in Omaha

A Very Special Galactica Cake
This incredible tiered masterpiece was made by Zoe at Whipped Bakeshop in Philadelphia, PA for Geekadelphia's BSG Party.

Cylon Cakes
 Cylon Centurion cake from Sugar Butter Flour in Sunnyvale, CA

Cylon Raider cake from Homemade by Jill

Cylon Centurion cake with working eye! (from YouTube)

Mandala Cakes
Starbuck's Mandala cupcakes with pulled sugar mandalas!! By Jessica Petersen at Pie of the Tiger

BSG Cake
"Eye of Jupiter" cake by catoholic (also made cool mandala chocolates!)

Autumn said...

AAAA! AAAAAAA! So much awesome! I love them all. You know, I had mandala cookies at my wedding? (accepting fate and all that, you know)

Tabs A. Geek said...

Those are epic. ANd look REALLY good. I want cake now :(

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Suzuki (Bo) (Boo-chan) (ボオ) is one of Shin-chan's friends and classmates from the sunflower class, he is 5 years old and born on August 10, 1992 in Kasukabe. He seems slow and expressionless, but is actually quite smart and has an interest in artistic, adult-oriented things. He loves to collect various kinds of stone and investigating urban legends and various mysterious objects such as UFO's. He has his own place where he says the rarest stones in Japan can be found. He often surprises his friends with his insight, though he speaks quite slowly. He always has a trail of mucus running down his nose and can perform various tricks with it. Bô-chan always volunteers for the role of pet dog or cat when the group plays house. After the nursery he likes to go to a Kasukabe store in which tatami is made, he loves to see how they do it.

He has a sister named Nisu. He is a functionally slow-speaking boy who is passionate about oddly shaped rocks. Like his interests, he's very odd and mysterious, which can sometimes be useful in certain situations. His mother has appeared only once in the manga and his father (ボーちゃんのパパ) has never appeared.

He is a member of the Kasukabe Defense Organization.

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Japanese: Chie Satō

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Friday, May 30, 2014

Her Majesty

Happy Friday!!

While I was waiting for my dad at the hospital for outpatient surgery, I stitched up this little baby. It's the companion pincushion for Honeybee Hill by Blackbird Designs

I put it together today, filled it with crushed walnuts that I bought at the pet store. (HINT).... I store the bag in the freezer, so it kills the bug eggs

Thanks for all the visits and the comments, that what keeps me in stitches

Good day!!!

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Honeybee Hill

Happy Hump Day!!

Remember this?

Well.... I've been working slowly on it, here and there

Taaa daaaa!!!! The finished product

Honeybee Hill by Blackbird Designs
30ct sheep straw linen W/ GA threads

It's not perfect, but I love it!

Sometimes I amaze myself with my finishes, lol

I got the idea from Vonna, (of course, who else?!)
www.thetwistedstitcher.blogspot. com

Happy finishing!!!

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Cinnamon Stars

Hello! stitching peeps

I have my official first finish of 2014

Cinnamon Stars

By Plum Street Samplers
Stitched on 35ct beige linen w/ GA and WDW threads

Make it a great day

Saturday, May 24, 2014

My snooty bag

Happy sunny Saturday here in N. Illinois
It's going to be a beautiful day.
We are going to ride the Harley to kellies conference softball game.

Anyhoo, I posted to show you my snooty parrots project bag that I had Faye at make for me
I love it!
I bought a yard of material, Faye made me the pincushion for the left over material, good deal!

Here's my progress

Here's the close up fabric. I bought it through and had it shipped right to Faye.

Thanks Faye, your sewing is fabulous

Make it a great day

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Lots of stitchy happiness

Hello stitching peeps,

I took the Kathy Barrick workshop on making a journal.
We covered it in fabric, then we fill the pages whatever we fancy
Here is mine

One of the designs we had to pre-stitch

The first page I used scrap book paper, rubber stamps, and Kathy's signature,

Another pre-stitched design

And yet another one, there was one more design, but I didn't get that stitched, soon though
Other pages...

A couple pages dedicated to my sister, birthday card and a valentine that I took out of her scrap book from a long long time ago

It was a really fun day and to meet Kathy was a joy. She's soooo nice and soo creative.

While I was at Lynn's of Madison taking the class, I bought six frames.
Here are four I framed right away, like as soon as I got home

I took out a corner desk in my sewing room, so now I have lots more space to fill the walls. The only real space I have left

Well that's all for now
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Thursday, May 22, 2014

For Niece #2

Animal Friends Challenge - Happy Birthday

This is for my niece Jade who is one for more simpler things so that is what I went with. I stamped the dragonflies in blue and embossed it in blue on a green vellum paper. I stamped the Happy Birthday also in blue. I mounted it on this orangy-red card stock and then on this yellowy-green card stock. I coloured in the wings with creatix paint in iridescent  blue and used stickers for the corners. Simple but effective I think.

Monday, May 19, 2014

Happy Birthday to niece #1

Crafty Creations - Recipe Challenge use at least 2-Flowers, Die-cut, Ribbon, Purple

Eclectic Ellapu - Spring or a Sketch

Dream Valley Challenges - Things with Wings

Alphabet Challenge - G for Gorgeous Gowns

I had a fun long weekend since it is Victoria Day  in our neck of the woods or as we say, May 2-4 weekend. Our 1 niece, Maddy, had her birthday on Saturday-she turned 20! Our other niece (on my side), Jade, turned 19 on Sunday. The card above is for Maddy. This is a sketch from Eclectic Ellapu and I was inspired to try this from Fanny Thornton's A to Z about quilting. I did not do any sewing though(It would have been a mess). I was also inspired by the Fairy Tales from Pensuasion and Untethered Realms that I read on the A to Z reading frenzy. I took 4 pieces of paper, one I left as is, 2 I embossed tiny flowers on the yellow card stock and tiny dots on the blue cardstock. The green vellum, I used my cuddlebug. I stamped the fairy who is wearing a great gown created by Gnomes are us ( Anorexic super model divas eat your heart out)  and I coloured her with Gamsol Pencils. I used some soft pastels around Ms. Fairy and I surrounded her with a nice light lilac ribbon and some other ribbon in antique silver/gold. I finished it off with a little bling. Thanks for the inspiration:) Hope you likey, likey:)

Monday, May 12, 2014

For You, Alex!

This  is for Alex J. Cavanaugh who I find to be amazing in his blogging activities. He helps many people and showcases so many on his blog. He is a breath of optimistic fresh air. I thought about making this card for a while and I was concerned Alex might think me slightly weird but then he would be right:) Something just told me to do this so I did and it is for you. I chose some shimmery black and silver paper as it reminds me of the sky and the future and what might be out there. I looked at his blog and his Ninja and I drew it on paper, coloured it in and cut it out. I embossed the letters and I was inspired by a Rush album that had their letters going from red to yellow so I tried to duplicate that since he is a Rush fan. I edged it with stars for his science fiction flair and added the music notes. I hope you like it and if you want it, just ask and I shall happily send it to you if you want but if you don't that's OK too:). I just thought I would highlight you since you do it for so many others. Happy Day everyone

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Liebster Award and Insecure Writers Support Group

 I have been nominated for the Liebster Award by Carol  Graham at She discussed all about her dogs on the A to Z Challenge. I was just shown how to do the name thingy-Yippee! I also thought this was good for my writing (or lack there of) and getting to know me (without singing it). Anyway here are the rules:

Here are the rules for the award:
  • List 11 facts about yourself
  • Link back and thank the blogger who nominated you in your post
  • Answer 11 questions by whoever nominated you
  • Ask 11 new questions to 5 - 10 bloggers with less than 300 followers - do NOT re-nominate the blog that nominated you
  • Go to their blogs and tell them they have been nominated

Here is a little bit bout me

  • I am a geek and love it.
  • I can swear like a sailor
  • I am very proud of being a Canadian but also proud of my German heritage and yes I have dirndls with the bosom flowing over and the whole apron thingy.
  • I have been a credit counsellor for 23 yrs and still enjoy my job immensely
  • I have Ehlers-Danlos-the type 3 hypermobility type. constant pain in all joints. cue the violins
  • I am strong in mind and refuse to give in to fear (except heights) even though I worry about things that usually never happen
  • Dislike making sports people and entertainment people heroes-I mean really? War vets are heroes not a guy who puts a ball in a hoop
  • I have strong opinions but value others' opinions
  • Love classical music, film music, classic rock, blues, but please no hiphop or rap crap
  • I have experienced severe bullying for years-hospital visits galore but couldn't break a bone (Yahoo for the E.D.)
  • I love my husband, my family, my friends, my animals (all animals), my job, Life overall as it is a banquet
Here are the questions I am to answer:
Questions from Carol Graham
1)  Can you tell me about yourself in 5 words or less?-dreamer,worrier, loyal, dependable, compassionate-hmmm sounds like my black lab
2)  What are you passionate about? Film, chocolate, Creating Cards, Travel, Chocolate, art, chocolate, history, and can you guess??? Chocolate!
3)  Do you have a Bucket List?  If so, how many items and your number one most important? I don't but sky diving and bungee jumping would not be on that! To be healthy...and have more chocolate.
4)  What is your favorite dog breed and why? I love all dogs even the yappy little Sh*&;^! but I do gravitate to the Black Lab
5)   Do you like to cook and if so, your favorite type of dishes? I can cook but there is so much more to life than pots and pans. Love Rouladen, Red Cabbage and chocolate-OK I am a bit ocd with chocolate.
6)  What angers you the most? sanctimonious people and bombastic bushkins (Mayor Ford comes to mind)
7)  What is your biggest pet peeve? keeping cupboard doors slightly open-why do people do that? I believe it is a plot to drive me insane
8)  What are your best qualities? Aside from loving chocolate? I am there for my friends no matter what as I cherish them dearly. I always try to help and offer encouraging words. Better to look at the bright side even when you see darkness.
9)  What are your worst traits, if you dare to share?  stubborn, worrier, leave little piles around-drives my husband nuts-heheheheeee
10)  What is something you hate doing but have to? dust-it never ends. Cleaning our cat's ass-we rescued her and she is fat. We are trying to get her to lose weight. She slides her ass on our carpet and leaves a streak like men do in their underwear-isn't she a dream? She is our Mia
11)  How long have you been blogging? I am trying to remember but senility is creeping in-I think 2010 or 2011??

Now here are my questions and I nominate 6 people who I hope don't kill me for nominating them but I think they are wonderful from the brief time I have met them in blogger land. They are:

Su-Sieee Mac -daily musings

Anabel Marsh - Travel a go-go:)

Grammy Staffy - Sweet lady with talented grand children!

Joseph Alsarraf - Humour and fun

Vidya Sury - Gives a smile every day

Ros - great info on genealogy

Beloo Mehra - Passion for education

  1. What animal do you always visit at the zoo or watch on TV before any other? Why?
     2.  What accomplishment are you most proud of?

     3. If you won the lottery, what would you do?

     4. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you go?

     5. Name 5 things you like about yourself?

     6. What's your favourite holiday and why?

     7.  What is your favourite film? Your favourite actor/actress?

     8.  Which movie or TV show do you wish was gone from your sight?

     9. Which entertainer do you feel needs a good spanking and be sent to a farm to work

    10.  Who do you admire, living or dead?

    11.  What makes you smile?

Ok there ya go! This was a long one but I hope you read and don't skim by:) I also hope the people I nominated are not upset but look at this as fun. If you feel like answering these in the comments 1 or all be my guest (again I won't sing). Enjoy your day!

Monday, May 5, 2014

Post A to Z (Zed-Lol)-I'm A Survivor

Oh My Goodness!! I am a survivor....or am I?

Maybe this is a mystery-I am a victim and who is the killer??? Ok Nothing that dramatic. You don't need to grab your ratty trench coat and try to solve a crime. I did survive the A to Z Challenge and thoroughly enjoyed it!

Great posts by so many people who I am now following and vice versa. I have read about quilting, Everyday musings, travel, amazing grandchildren with wonderful talents written by a beautiful lady (Grammy's News), the paranormal, fairy tales and tales from the dark side. Places people love to revisit or starting anew in a new land,  the animal lovers and art lovers-I salute you. To the ladies who made me think about education and the meaning of joy in life and made me smile every day. I also found out about different foods and fruits and got great recipes from Sharon Himsl. For example check out,+Tales,+and+Sails)-I made this recipe but with raspberries and it is delicious if I do say so myself.

It looks pretty good  for a first try.

Stephanie Faris - revealing her book cover today and that is something special so I look forward to the blog-hop even though I am a crafter of cards and not a writer-oh well. I am writing here.

This was my first A to Z-I loved every moment. Since it is my first I can't critique the negative things and why when I had a great time. I loved the pictures and commentaries and loved what people wrote and what they wrote on my blog. To the people who started this and helped out from the great Alex and all the rest. It was fun!

Thursday, May 1, 2014

A special thank you!

To everyone who looked at my blog for the A to Z Challenge I just want to say a special thank you. It was wonderful reading all your kind comments as I was very close to not joining in, but Alex the Ninja was a guiding light  and I decided to take it on and I am very glad to have done so.

If you read my posts you know I love Jimmy Stewart and he is my favourite actor. I have his book of poems and they became famous when he recited them on Johnny Carson. Above he recites his poem about his dog. Yes it made me cry and I don't care-it was sweet!

I also love animals and am following a couple of blogs that I found during my A to Z and told them of my beautiful Katie girl, my black lab, who is with my dad now probably traipsing in the bush somewhere. Our current dog is our Wallace who is a rescue and is all fun and playful until he has to go outside and then he shivers and freaks-absolutely terrified after all these years. Yes he is also known as chunky chunk and fart boy-boy can he let them rip and it sounds like a trucker (meaning no disrespect to truckers).  So here are my 2 below:) oh and yes Wallace has 1 blue eye and 1 brown eye.

                                                                     This is Katie

                                                                  This is Wallace

                                                                 Wallace and our lover girl Jade

                                                                 Katie  with Jade when she was a kitten

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Anthropologie & Holly Becker of Decor8

Boston was one lucky city this weekend as it was the first stop on Holly Becker's book signing tour! If you do not know Holly she is the writer behind the uber popular Decor8 blog and also the author of the new book Decorate. As you might remember I wrote about the book a few months ago and absolutely loved it!

The morning started at Anthropologie downtown with Holly putting on a Mood Board Demonstration. She was so personal and funny during her presentation and talked about how every room should have that one piece which is "wrong" or doesn't quite fit in. I could not agree more, it's usually the one piece guests are drawn to in the space!

Next Holly made her way downstairs and signed books for 2 hours! I was so excited for her as the line wrapped around the store. I of course went shopping and picked up this little & gem for a certain engagement photo shoot which will take place this week! Cute prop right?

Decorate Boston
Me and Holly catching up after her signing!

As you might know if there is an opportunity for me to gather local creatives together I will plan a party and this was no exception! About 23 New England designers, artists, photographers, fabric designers and bloggers gathered to network and honor Holly at a lunch! We had such a fantastic afternoon swapping stories and getting to know each other. As you can see we had one long, loud table!

I was so excited to catch up with friends Stephanie, Lindsay, Yvonne, Kate and Katy! Thanks ladies for coming out it was a great day!

(images from jace interiors)

LindsB said...

I had the best afternoon with you and it was so nice to FINALLY meet you after so long!!

Lets get together again soon and continue the wedding chat- since I just love it so much!!

Susan said...

Oh fabulous...I can't wait to do the same with Holly in Philly! Looks like a great night!

yvonne@designvignettes said...

So glad I was able to make it to Anthropologie + lunch to meet Holly (who is so sweet IRL!) and all the other creative women at the table! I left there quite energized and happy to have made new connections and to have seen some of my favorite Boston bloggers ; ) Thanks, once again, for getting us all together,Julieann!

Regina at Fauxology said...

What a great day -- thanks for the peek! Will have to see if she is coming to Orlando...

Caitlin said...

Sounds like a fabulous event! Can't wait to meet Holly this Thursday in SF. Thanks for the lovely post about the Boston signing!!

Amisha said...

Hi Julieann,
It was great to get to meet up with Holly and the BYWers! Thank you so much for organising it.

Loving your blog!

Laura@JourneyChic said...

Thank you again for organizing the lunch with Holly - it was great!

Stephanie @ Property Gossip said...

I am so jealous! I would have loved to have met Holly B AND to have had lunch with you lovely ladies :) BTW... your blog rocks!


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SS cricket Moulded Fielding Pads

SS cricket Moulded Fielding Pads

Close in fielders need to protect themselves. The standard protection for a really close in fielder would be a cricket helmet, an abdo guard and a great pair of fielding pads. There are very few fielding pads on the cricket equipment market that are as effective and as light as the SS Molded Fielding Pads.

These pads fit very comfortably under the trousers of the fielder. They are super lightweight and have very comfortable velcro padded straps that means that the fielder can barely feel that he is wearing a pair of fielding pads. While the fielder may not be able to feel that he is wearing the SS molded fielding pads, these pads offer great protection for areas that would otherwise be vulnerable.

One of the major factors of these cricket fielding pads is the fact that they are molded. Molded meaning that they contour to the shape of the fielders leg. This is a huge asset as it assists in comfort and protection. A molded pad makes the fielder more flexible and free whether it is to dive and lunge for the ball or it is to chase a ball. It also aids in the protection as the molded shape means that the maximum amount of body area can be protected.

The SS Molded Fielding pads are highly durable and all the components are built to high standards. These are great for a club or team to own to be used by the fielder designated to do the close-in fielding. And while it is always a bit of a short stick to be given those “silly” fielding positions, if you offer the fielder protection at least he will know you have him covered…..well kind of.

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Puma Bionic batting gloves review

This will be simple. Nothing to complicated.

Scoring system.

Quality of materials used will be called quality score. scored out of 3.

How comfortable the gloves are on the hands, fit, around wrist on fingers etc will be Comfort level. scored out of 3.

Protection will be scored out of 3 as well with a best possible score of 9.

#1 : Puma Bionic cricket batting gloves

Price $99

Quality : 3

Comfort : 2

Protection : 3

Score of 8/9

Very nice gloves, great protection and certainly quite rare at the moment. you wont see many of these around. Typical having all the coolest gear available and the biggest range as well. Its very obvious these gloves are made by SS. As are most batting gloves the world over these days and would say the only thing that makes these better than the SS gladiators is the use of a better quality Pittards leather on the palms.

The Bat-off!!

So, was looking around at a few of the bats i have in my store this morning and saw a few of them had very similar profiles. namely the Gray Nicolls legend cricket bat. The Vindico Geronimo players +. The Malik Bubber Sher cricket bat and the CA LE 12000 + TRD cricket bats.

I was thinking of ways that i could compare these bats on a level playing field so i came up with a rating system i think is fare and wont upset to many people.

The rating system goes something like this.

# 1. Price. rated out of 10 points. $600 is to expensive regardless of quality. $300 is a perfect price if the bat is good. $100 is generally a low quality bat so even if the bat is $100 it wont necessarily get a good grade unless its exceptionally good. eg. GN legend scores a 4/10 on price. its an awesome bat but $500 is a lot of money. Bat makers should be finding ways to keep their price lower, not making bats more and more expensive.

#2. Willow. Rated out of 10 points. This is a grade for the overall willow quality and aesthetics. overall look, grains, knots, butterflies, watermarks etc.

#3. Overall finish. Rated out of 10 points. did the bat maker take time to make the bat look pretty. Do you want to frame the bat its so beautiful or you dont mind throwing it in your kit unprotected.

#4. Performance. Rated out of 10 points. will this bat perform well. does it have a good balance and pickup. does it pick up light or does it feel bottom heavy or off balance.

#5. Wow factor. Rated out of 5 points. When you open up the box or show it to your friends are you going to think ” wow ” or does it just look like one of the other millions of bats that are produced every single year.

#6. Moisture content. Rated out of 5 points. Generally speaking a good moisture content is 12% but have found here in america that 9% is more realistic as bats have to travel a long way to get here. who knows what bats go through during the shipping process. The GN legend is on average about 9% so thats a good benchmark. Some Matrrixx bats have measured 2% so thats the other end of the scale and not where you want to be for sure. Ive also only made it worth 5 point because there is a margin for error and this is not an exact science. it is important however and thats why we have added it to the rating system.

So the perfect score is 50/50 and ive rated all these bats according to this scale.

First up here are some side by side pics to show you the bats are all very similar in shape, design, weight etc.

The GN Legend cricket bat. 2lbs 10oz ( Buy Now, click here )

Score :

1: price. 4/10

2: willow. 9/10

3: finish. 9/10

4: performance. 9/10

5: wow. 4/5

6: moisture. 4/5

Final score. 39/50

Comments. The GN legend cricket bat is an awesome bat. Great balance. superb quality. One of the best bats money can buy. But thats where the problem is. $495 USD. thats a lot of money. If you want and AUS version you will be paying around $700 USD. Thats just craziness so on the price point it loses some points. Im not saying its not worth that money. just saying its a bit expensive for the average joe like you or me.

Vindico Geronimo Players + cricket bat. 2lbs 14oz. ( Buy Now, click here )

Score :

1: price. 7/10

2: willow. 7/10

3: finish. 7/10

4: performance. 9/10

5: wow. 4/5

6: moisture. 4/5

Final score. 38/50

Comments. The Vindico Geronimo players + cricket bat is a good quality, solid cricket bat. Its performance outways its initial impression. I have been working closely with Vindico cricket to get there overall quality and finish up to scratch but there is no denying the raw power of these cricket bats. originating from the BAS and RNS factories in India, Vindico have a dedicated bat maker pushing out very limited numbers of quality cricket bats which allows them to make sure they only select quality performance willow. The ping and value for shots are incredible. The price point of $350 is a fantastic place to be as you get the same value for shots as the $495 Legend or the $399 GM original cricket bats.

CA 12000 Plus L.E. TRD cricket bat. 2lbs 9oz (Buy Now, click here )

Score :

1: price. 6/10

2: willow. 9/10

3: finish. 9/10

4: performance. 8/10

5: wow. 4/5

6: moisture. 4/5

Final score. 40/50

Comments. Very impressed with the CA. Probably better quality willow than the GN legend. The grains are 12 evenly spaced, perfectly straight grains. somehow just about every single CA TRD looks exactly the same. i dont know how they do it. James Laver would be happy to press this bat im sure. The grain structure is perfect. The ping however was not quite there as it was on the Legend and the Geronimo but the moisture content was great so it still scored well on the performace scale. With a little oil and some knocking in this is a top performer and thats the reason , along with a good price point of $379  in my opinion scores a 40/50 points.

The Malik Bubber Sher cricket bat. 2lbs 12oz. (Buy Now, click here )

Score :

1: price. 9/10

2: willow. 7/10

3: finish. 7/10

4: performance. 6/10

5: wow. 4/5

6: moisture. 2/5

Final score. 35/50

Comments. People come back year after year for a new Bubber Sher. There is no doubting its a great bat. The performance is there. The price point is incredible at $219. Free shipping inside the USA also makes it more attractive. Malik definitely know what they are doing. It scores low on the moisture meter at 5% which is a bit worrisome. But not the end of the world cos at $219 you can afford to buy another if this one happens to break. Make sure you put 3 coats of oil on it before knocking in and you should be good to go. The grain structure is not perfect and its not the best looking bat. But when someone hits you for a 6 with their bubber sher, no one is complaining about how wobbly the grains are.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this little Bat-Off with these 4 awesome cricket bats. please head to my Facebook page ( cricket store online ) for all the pics from todays blog.

Some interesting info.

CA = 36mm

GN = 36mm

Vindico = 36mm

Sher = 34mm

I will also upload a video later today to youtube so search for ” the cricket store online bat off part 1 ” and check that out to hear the ping for yourself.

Help me get a GM epic graeme smith players edition in mu hands.

please watch my video and give me your support. im trying to get GM to send me a GM epic graeme smith players edition cricket bat so i can do a review for you guys. please give me your support and tweet @richardlowy and @edwardlowy and ask them to please send me one.

you can also go to and send them and email through their contact forms.

Newbery sps cricket kit bag

This is my video review of the Newbery sps cricket kit bag.

• Ideal for the travelling cricketer at home or abroad
• Revised model incorporating the SPS and SPS Max models
• New heavy duty zip pulls and retractable handle
• Dimensions – 900 x 400 x 400
• Available in Navy/Gold or Black/Silver

I hope you have enjoyed my blog entry and please feel free to leave me comments or questions.

The 2012 Vindico Geronimo test + cricket bat review

Latin for Liberate, Avenge, Punish, Protect.

We are cricketers. We are fuelled by cricket and everything so beautiful about this magnificent game. We are passionate about how we play and the tools that enable us to attain perfection on the field and lose ourselves to it for the few hours we spend on a glorious summer’s day. We are Vindico Cricket. We are YOU.

At Vindico, we are committed to bringing you the best cricket bats for a price that won’t break your bank. Having played cricket across the world, it made sense for some of us to band together and form Vindico.

We are committed to bringing you the best profiles and superior quality English Willow, and shaped into magnificent works of art by a top notch Sub-Continental bat maker.

Thats the first thing you read when you take a look at That and also the ” are you ready for war ” slogan which i find pretty catchy as well. Needless to say i will probably be taking a Vindico into battle with me at the start of next summer to see if I, ” am ready for WAR “.

So far from first impressions i have been pretty impressed with this simple but very impressive new brand. Having spoken to the owners many times now and working closely with them in their marketing efforts i can attest to their statements, they are cricket lovers and they are passionate about the game. They are sourcing top quality materials and having now played around with their bats they do look to be belters.

One thing i really like is their battle or war like theme they have as every time you go to the middle its you fighting a battle not only with 11 other gladiators out there but also with yourself.

They have two bats in their line up for 2012, the Genghis and the Geronimo. Two mighty warriors in their own rites.

Geronimo profile : High to Mid-Sweetspot to counter the bouncy tracks

Genghis profile : Mid-Low/Elongated Sweetspot to counter low bounce wickets.

Willow Grades:

PLAYERS+ is our super premium Grade 1 English Willow.

TEST+ is our premium Grade 1 English Willow.

Both are incredible looking bats with imposing profiles and big edges. The test + bats have about 40mm edges. Comparable to any top brands around the world.

My video review of the Vindico Geronimo test+ cricket bat.

Enjoy some more pics of the new geronimo cricket bats.

Another thing i have been playing around with lately is the mositure content of cricket bats. I am finding that here in the united states that 9% is a good amount of moisture to have in your  bats. Here is a pic of my GN legend which i think is a good benchmark as its one the the best quality bats in the world, along with Laver and wood and such other names.

As you can see from the pictures the GN legend gets a solid 9% moisture content.

And as you can see the Vindico scores the same with the moisture content reader. A good 9%.

Moisture content is very important in cricket bat longevity as well as performance. a cricket bat that is to dry will crack and become brittle very quickly whilst you are in battle and worst case scenario will break. There is one advantage to having a low moisture content, and thats that the bat will be very light but if you cant afford to buy a new bat every season ( and who of us can ) the you want a bat with a higher moisture content.

The 2012 Vindico bats all come with a padded bat cover and toe guard. Knocking in is available on all bats at a cost of $50 from me at cricket store online. The bats also come with a round 12 piece cane handle with oval handles available on custom orders. As the bats are custom made for Vindico custom orders are quite popular as well.

Most impressive though on the new vindico geronimo is the ping, balance and pick up. This will be an awesome bat and im sure many hundreds will be scored in the 2012 season with these bats. And this bat at only $250 is a genuine great deal. Other cricket bats of this quality are easily $300 or $350 USD. this is certainly a great deal and a great bat.

I look forward to hearing your feedback about this blog and also these bats.

Are YOU ready for War???

Is the new 2012 GM epic cricket bat the best in the world for the 2012 cricket season.

Is the new 2012 GM epic cricket bat the best in the world for the 2012 cricket season.

I have done a review on this bat previously but am interested if people think this might be the best bat in the world next year.

The new Ayrtek cricket helmet

This is a video review of the New, technically advanced Ayrtek cricket helmets

read more at or buy it now at

How to knock in and oil your new cricket bat. PART 2

PART 2. How to oil and knock in your new cricket bat. ( the laver and wood way )

So as you can see from the video i am talking about how you are going to be actually knocking in your bat using a Hardwood mallet. Its important not to hit the sides ( edges ) of the cricket bat and also not to hit the back or the bottom ( toe of the cricket bat that actually rests on the ground ) of the cricket bat.

Here is an excert from the Laver and wood websiteand discussed what ive mentioned in the above video…………

Knock in Face

After the oil has been applied, the knocking in process can begin. This should be done using a Hardwood bat mallet. This provides much better performance than a ball mallet and also speeds up the process.
Start by hitting the middle of the bat just hard enough to create a dent. [This is surprisingly hard]. Hold the bat up to the light to see if you are making a dent.

Knock in Toe

Gradually compress the face of the bat around these dents so that the face of the bat is level and you cannot see the initial dents any more. The bottom of the bat toe (the part that is in contact with the ground) should never be hit with the mallet.

Knock in edge

The edges require special attention. They need to be rounded off so that the hard new ball cannot damage them too much. The edges should be struck at 45 degrees to the face so that the mallet can compress the willow. Similar to the face make one dent on the edge, and then gradually even out the edge so that the whole surface has a smooth, rounded appearance. The back of the bat should never be touched with the mallet (or the ball).
If the bat is hit on the edge at 90 degrees to the face, it reduces the width of the bat and is making contact with an area that is not mechanically pressed. This increases the likelihood of cracking and you should not be hitting the ball flush on the edge in any case.
With a hardwood bat mallet the knocking in process should take between 10 and 15 sessions of about 10 minutes each (it is probably worth doing this for a bit longer if the bat is of different brand to ours).
Once you have completed this process take the bat into the nets and play a few shots with an old ball. If the bat is showing very deep seam marks then it needs more compressing. One will always get seam marks on the face of the bat; however they should not be too deep.

More information can be found on the Laver and wood website.

So thanks again for watching my videos and reading my blog. I hope you find it enjoyable and informative. I look forward to speaking to you soon.

Cricket store online top 10 youtube video reviews

here is a top 10 list of my cricket bat reviews as voted for by people who watch my video reviews. I have taken the top 10 most watched videos and put them here in this one blog so you can see what people are watching and probably what cricket bats are top sellers.

In # 10

The 2010 SS gladiator cricket bat with 4728 views

In 9th

The 2012 SS platinum reserve cricket bat with 4851 views

In 8th place

The mongoose mmi 3 long handle / short blade cricket bat with 5066 views

In 7th place

The Adidas incurza cricket bat review with 6127 views

In 6th place

The MS Dhoni Reebok cricket bat with 6995 views

In 5th place

The Ricky Ponting Kahuna 1000 cricket bat with 7327 views

In 4th place

The malik bubber sher cricket bat with 8571 views

In 3rd place

The CA LE 12000 Plus cricket bat with 8983 views

In 2nd place

How to select a cricket bat by jason mellet with 10167 views

And in the top spot, i think its pretty obvious. its a bat made famous by one of the top cricketers of our time. there will always be debate over what kind of bat this really is, who makes it and where it comes from.

I guess combined 1st and 7th place you have over 20 000 views. which is pretty good.

Its the Sachin Tendulkar Adidas cricket bat with 15456 views

We do however have a potential spoiler. With a small total of 439 views in 6 days, which is an average of 73 views per day we have the 2012 GM epic cricket bat. If it carries on getting views at that rate and we give it another year it will have over 25 000 views which technically speaking is faster than the Sachin bat. time will tell if that happens though and thought i would add it in just for fun.

Thanks for watching guys and making my video series such a huge success. Please remember to head to youtube and look for a review on your next cricket bat.


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Polluted Water in Coal River Near Marsh Fork Elementary

Jun 19, 2010

SUNDIAL, W.Va.-- Just after dawn this morning, a community member noticed a torrent of murky, grayish water flowing from a drainage in to the Coal River.Drainage with murky water spilling into Marsh Fork of Coal River,  next to Marsh Fork Elementary School.The drainage is located on the banks of the river adjacent to Massey Energy's Goals Coal Processing Plant and across from the entrance to Marsh Fork Elementary School. At 7:10 a.m., two volunteers photographed the spill and took a water sample several hundred feet down stream, at the nearest accessible location.

We encourage all concerned citizens to call this polluting drainage release in to the West Virginia DEP's emergency hot line, reached at 1-800-642-3074. The operator will ask for your name, number, and the location of the spill (Sundial, Raleigh County, along WV-3 between Goals Coal Processing Plant and Marsh Fork Elementary).


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Michael Sellick is the founder of The Crochet Crowd. He teaches how to crochet using videos and loves to share crochet patterns.

One thought on “Market Bag

  • March 5, 2015 at 6:02 pm

    The link for the free pattern doesn’t exist anymore. Can somebody tell me the name so I can try and search it on Ravelry or the Internet?

Do You Have Anything to Share? Mikey welcomes constructive feedback to impove The Crochet Crowd.


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Cyril Rohr.

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Training sessions are now finished, quieter weeks ahead!

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  • YAML f7u12 - Aaron Patterson explains the need for a YAML.safe_load, following newly discovered Rails vulnerabilities.
  • Unobtrusive Ruby - “Unobtrusive Ruby is any Ruby code that stays out of your way”. Follow-up article on PracticingRuby.
  • A Lesson In Timing Attacks - Old but still relevant article on timing attacks, which look scary: “They work against a programmer’s best instincts—don’t do extra work—to give an attacker with access to a Statistics 101 textbook a good solid grip on your application’s guts.”
  • Search a Git Repo Like a Ninja - Much better than manually grep’ing or ack’ing.
  • A gentle introduction to actor-based concurrency - The Dining Philosophers Problem, seen from a mutex-based perspective, and with Actors (Celluloid).
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  • Classes vs. Prototypes in JavaScript - Clear and concise explanation of the difference between class-based inheritance and prototype-based inheritance.
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Book Review 10: A book on books

Matthew Battles, author of "Library: An Unquiet History" interviews András Riedlmayer, a Hungarian librarian and historian at Harvard about the war in the former Yugoslavia.

Over coffee one afternoon in the summer of 2001, András reminded me of another way to burn books, explained to him by a colleague who survived the siege of Sarajevo. In the winter, the scholar and his wife ran out of firewood, and so began to burn their books for heat and cooking. “This forces one to think critically,” András remembered his friend saying. “One must prioritize. First, you burn old college text books, which you haven’t read in thirty years. Then there are the duplicates. But eventually you’re forced to make tougher choices. Who burns today: Dostoevsky or Proust?” I asked András if his friend had any books left when the war was over. “Oh, yes,” he replied, his face lit by a flickering smile. “He still had many books. Sometimes, he told me, you look at the books and just choose to go hungry.”

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If you understand how the scholar feels, you may be interested in “Library: An Unquiet History. If you don’t quite get it, then this book is probably not for you.

I finished “Library: An Unquiet History” by Matthew Battles four months ago. Normally, I can turn around a review more quickly, but this one is a bit challenging. I couldn't decide if I liked it or not.

While I enjoyed the book, it wasn’t as good as I’d hoped. The book jacket describes it as a history of libraries from ancient times to present. In reality, though, it’s more of a collection of historical stories about libraries.

Battles frames the stories around the historical tension between two camps. The Universalists believe the library should include all books. Its value is in having a complete collections. The Great Books group, on the other hand, sees the library as the pinnacle of culture. It should have only the books we want people to read. The role of the library is to ensure people don’t waste time on books they shouldn’t read. Battles himself seems to come down on the side of the universalists.

Reading the library, we quickly come to an obvious conclusion: most books are bad, very bad in fact. Worst of all, they’re normal: the fail to rise above the contradictions and confusions of their times (in this respect, I’m sure this book will be no exception). It’s understandable, then, that we spend so much energy ferreting out the exceptional books, the ones that shatter paradigms. But we shouldn’t forget that the unremarkable books have much to teach us about cultural history – ultimately more, perhaps, than our cherished Great Books.

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Battles doesn’t claim to tell the whole history:

I am looking for the library where it lives. Of course, a complete history of the library – a documentary account of libraries wherever they have existed, in whatever form they take – would run to many volumes. What I’m looking for are points of transformation, those moments where readers, authors, and librarians question the meaning of the library itself.

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While Battle does find many of these points, he doesn’t quite tie them together into a single story. The stories themselves are fascinating. I learned a great deal about libraries. And the book itself moves smoothly from one section to the next. But somehow it feels like a shallow river. There’s a lot of stuff happening and swirling all around you, and you know it’s going someplace, but you can’t quite dive in and go along for the ride.

Battles writes long paragraphs and sentences. In the selections I cite below, he averages more than 20 words per sentence. I’m sure that’s from his experience as an academic. He crams so many facts into each paragraph that the information gets lost. This paragraph is great example:

Despite his distaste for the vulgar curiosities that seemed to pass for modern thinking, Swift found cause for hope in the early numbers of the Mercury. His mentor [Sir William] Temple was among those who offered questions for the learned members of the Athenian Society to ponder. Evidently, he encouraged swift to take the paper’s use of the Athenian moniker seriously, and to expect that the “Society” would offer sober and learned guidance to England’s burgeoning reading public. Swift’s first published poem, in fact, is his “Ode to the Athenian Society,” in which he extolled the “the great Unknown, and far-exalted Men” whose wisdom filled both sides of the Mercury’s sheet twice weekly. Later Swift learned that this “Society” was actually composed of just three Grub Street hacks. Its publisher and guiding spirit, a bookseller by the name of John Dunton, was a product of the dissenting academies who flourished in the book trade of London’s coffeehouse demimonde. He had even travelled to New England, where he met with Cotton Mather, visited a lecture given to Christianized Indians at Natick, and sold books at Harvard (some of which may have ended up in the library). Dunton championed precisely the new kind of book that, in Swift’s estimation, was cluttering the Royal Library. Indeed, he seems never to have had an experience in life that he didn’t deem fit to publish in book form. He memorialized his New England trip in an autobiography he called The Life and Errors of John Dunton, which he brought out, doggedly in some thirty editions. When his second wife’s promised generous dowry failed to materialize, he initiated a pamphlet campaign against his mother-in-law.

Page 100

Tighter writing and a more deliberate structure would make this a more compelling book, and more accessible for those looking for something more than historical anecdotes.

Library is like a stroll through a library. You can walk down the stacks picking up random books as you go. You can open it to random page and read some. Then you go on down the stack and pick up the next one. Such a stroll is relaxing and educational. And you can relish an afternoon surrounded by aging pages, smiling slightly in the comforting warmth. It’s all very pleasant, but there is no sense of transformation or completion at the end of the stroll.

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Some key passages:

Endowed by the grieving mother of Harry Elkins Widner, a Harvard graduate and bibliophile who went down with the Titanic, Widener is the Great Unsinkable Library. Its ten levels contain fifty-seven miles of shelves, enough to hold some 4.6 million bound volumes, giver or take a few. The shelves are great armatures of forged iron that carry the weight of the building; the library quite literally is supported by its books.

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Like other natural philosophers of the Latin Middle Ages, Roger Bacon held that three classes of substance were capable of magic: the herbal, the mineral, and the verbal. With their leaves of fiber, their inks of copperas and soot, and their words, books are an amalgam of the three. The notion that words, like plants and stones have existences independent of our uttering them – that they have power and do things in the world – is a commonplace in many traditions. Brought together in multitudes, heaped up and pared down, read and forgotten, library books take on lives and histories of their own, not as texts but as physical objects in the world.

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Still more Mesopotamian libraries must lie buried in the great tells, or mounds of ruined cities, that dot the landscape of the Assyrian homeland; precision bombs may now be destroying libraries we don’t even know exist.

Page 26

In an effort to stop the growth of the libraries at Rhodes and Pergamum, both of which threatened Alexandria’s preeminence, the city’s rulers banned the export of papyrus. The move backfired, however, spurring the Pergamenes to invent parchment (charta pergamenum), which for its strength and reusability would prove to be the preferred writing medium in Europe for more than a thousand years.

Page 28-29

The centralization and consolidation of libraries serves the convenience of scholars and princes alike. But great libraries are problematic in times of war, disaster, or decay, for their fate becomes the fate of the literatures they contain. Much of what comes down to us from the antiquity survived because it was held in small private libraries tucked away in obscure backwaters of the ancient world, where it was more likely to escape the notice of zealots as well as princes.

Page 31

When the future emperor Liu Ji’s father was kidnapped by a rival who threatened to boil him alive, the leader showed his coarse mettle by requesting a bowl of soup made from the resulting stock.

Page 38

But even if the last few charred characters offer up nothing new, once thing is certain: the most complete ancient library accessible to us today survived because it burned.

Page 55

[Francis Bacon’s} parsing of all human knowledge into three categories – memory, wisdom, and imagination – became an organizing principle of empirical thought. In his system, Bacon eschewed the division of sacred and secular, harking back to the classical epistemologies that emphasized relations among disciplines of the mind. His taxonomy enjoyed a lasting influence: Diderot adopted the scheme in Volume I of his 1751 Encyclopedie, and it has been the forerunner of modern library classifications.

Page 83-84

In the same issue, William Frederick Poole (who ran the Chicago Public Library) also draws a parallel between the smoking and reading habbits. To Poole, however, the tobacco reference was not entirely negative. “I smoked tobacco and read Milton at the same time,” he declares, “and for the same motive: to find out what was the recondite charm in them that gave my father so much pleasure.” But too many people, Poole admits, are dissuaded by that first unpleasant impression of tobacco from any further consideration of its charms.

Page 147

Alleging that Belgian civilians had committed such atrocities as ambushing rearguard troops and gouging out the eyes of wounded soldiers in the field, the German government justified the burning of the Louvain on the grounds of military necessity. “The barbarous attitude of the Belgian population in all parts occupied by our troops has not only justified our severest measures,” the Germans declared, “but forced them on us for the sake of self-preservation.” The West, of course, saw it differently. “It is treason to civilization,” wrote the London Daily Chronicle on August 29. “War on non-combatants is bad enough, but this is war on posterity to the remotest generations.” Eight days after the Germans razed the town, a witness wrote that “even into the country, leaves of manuscripts and books fluttered about, half burned, at the mercy of the wind.” One manuscript was saved, though: a professor had withdrawn it for consultation and carried it with him when he fled the city before the German occupation. Trudging along in a refugee column, he stopped in a garden near Ghent and buried the book, “ enclosed in a little iron safe.” There is no record of this single manuscript’s return to the library or of its rediscovery. Perhaps the last book of Louvain’s great prewar library still rests in its iron casket, a hidden library of one.

Page 159.

The Germans had other reasons to revile the Louvain’s library. Not only had a new library building risen risen from the city’s ashes, but a new collection as well – and after World War I, Belgian libraries had refilled their stacks with books confiscated from the defeated Germans. The library at Louvain once again held a rich collection, including incunabula and medieval manuscripts; many of these had been taken from the stacks of Germany’s own libraries.

Page 162.

The new libraries of the earlier twentieth century, however, hid away the books. Rendering them accessible only staff employing the latest technology: telephones, conveyor belts, elevator. The cover of the May 27, 1911, issue of Scientific American showed a cutaway view of the stacks of the New York Public Library, then newly opened. The view shows the all-male staff bustling among the shelves below floor level, sending volumes to the delivery room via a complex network of shafts and booklifts. Beyond the delivery room windows sit the blissfully browsing readers, unaware of the machinery employed to bring them their reading material.

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Feingold Doesn't Support Lieberman -- Hammers Bush/Cheney

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Senator Feingold was at his best this morning in an interview with Tim Russert on NBC Meet the Press.

On the Iraq war:

"The worst thing we could possible do is what Vice President Cheney and President Bush did which was take us into an unnecessary war -- that had nothing to do with 9/11 -- on false pretenses. They have done the worst thing that has ever been done in this regard. " (continue to see the video)
"We spent $2 million on Somalia in the last year while we're spending $2 billion a week on Iraq. This is insanity."
On a Bush Censure for Wiretapping:
"I'm very afraid that we are just going to have a blank page in terms of the history of this country and when the President assert and outrageous grab of executive power we did nothing.
"The extreme claim that, under Article Two of the Constitution, the President can make up whatever laws he wants is what of the greatest threats to our system of government... when the founders wrote the words 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors' they weren't particularly interested in break-ins at the Watergate Plaza or presidential personal misconduct. What they wanted was a different system of government than they had under King George III and that's what this is all about. The President is asserting claims that have, frankly, I don't think have ever been made in the history of this country.
On the Lieberman vs. Lamont
"I have a lot of admiration for Joe. He's a fine guy. He helped me a great deal on Campaign Finance Reform. I think Ned Lamont's position on the issues is much closer to mine on critical issues. I think this is something that's going to be decided by the people of Connecticut. I'm not going up there. But I'll tell you this Tim, I'm going to support the Democratic nominee who ever that is."

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Repairing Bush's Legacy: Lotsa Luck With That

As he heads into the political sunset none too soon, Bush and his minions are busily trying to repair his image so that he can move into that new house in Texas with a nice little legacy as a "misunderestimated" preznit.

Lotsa luck with that.

Apparently the meme that will resurrect his legacy will be the notion that somehow he kept us safe. First it was the Magic Dolphin lady; then the other day on MSNBC with David Shuster, Cheri Jacobus (identified by the universal "Republican strategist" moniker) did her game best:

I think history is going to look upon the George W. Bush presidency quite favorably. He has kept this country safe -- ah, since 9/11, we have not been attacked on our own soil. That is first and foremost the most important thing that Barack Obama can do as president, and I hope and pray that the Obama presidency is at least as successful as the Bush presidency in that regard.

If that sounds like a classic Republican setup, it is: First change the actual record, and then hold the incoming Democrat to a wholly higher standard that you've done your damnedest to ensure won't be reachable. After all, Bush did not keep us safe on 9/11 very well, did he? And moreover, he definitively made us more vulnerable to terrorist attack.

Brad Woodhouse responded just right:

Rewriting President Bush's legacy is going to be one heck of a task. I mean, just look at the state that America is in today. Like I say, the cupboard is bare. There's no product here to sell.

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Sgt Major Jerry Dwayne Patton, 40, died on 15 October 2008 during High Altitude High Opening (HAHO) training while assigned to Army USSOCOM preparing for deployment to Afghanistan. Jerry is survived by his wife Molly and his sons Chad, Cody, Chase and Connor.

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Leading questions

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What role does ethics play in leadership? In many ways this has been an underlying theme throughout January with media reports on political entitlement in regards to travel allowances and the changing of the guard in the White House.

The refrain of the former federal health minister Sussan Ley was that she was only claiming what she was entitled to according to the parliamentary entitlement system. At what point do politicians consider how it might appear to you and me? Just because it is legal does that make it ethical?

Ethics is defined as moral principles that govern a person’s behaviour or the conducting of an activity. Each of us demonstrates our ethics daily in the way we interact with each other and the decisions we make.

The Ethics Centre says ethical people try to answer the question of how to live by reflecting on difficult situations. They then act in a way that is true to who they are and what they believe.

Do we expect our leaders to be ethical? I suspect that here in Australia the answer is still yes. That is why politicians’ travel entitlements are receiving significant headlines and a reluctant health minister eventually resigned. It is also why there is a predominant sense of horror at the election of the 45th president of the United States. Ethics does not appear to be a word in his vocabulary.

As Christians we are called to the highest ethics. We are called to love each other as we love ourselves. Jesus’ parables are about caring for the lost, the rejected and the outcast. Paul’s letters talk about personal behaviour and expectations of leaders.

Self-reflection is a necessary ingredient as we strive to live a Godly (ethical) life. Whilst we might be appalled by the behaviour and words of the new US President, at what times are our behaviour and words equally appalling? How often do we take advantage of opportunities presented which might not always fit within our own moral compass?

Christ urges us to remove the log from our own eyes before we take out the speck from the other’s. Ethics is complex. King Solomon’s ruling regarding the rightful mother of a child reminds us of the importance of emotional intelligence in leadership.

As we reflect on the complexities of our world, let us not diminish the issues to black and white, and judge those who are faced with trying to seek solutions. Instead let us pray for our leaders – political, community and church – who, like us, are in need of the Wisdom of Solomon.

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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Inktober 2016: Day 8, "ROCK"

"Inktober" is a drawing challenge where you're encouraged to draw something in ink every day of the month of October.

There is an official list of prompts to assist in inspiration:

My sister, who illustrates children's books and is a far better artist than I, approached me to see if I wanted to "collaborate" with her on this Inktober journey.

After some discussion, we agreed that I'd create a "prompt sketch" based on the Inktober prompts and she would create the finished drawings.

I start the drawing, she finishes the drawing.

The results have been very surprising!

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What path are you on? Sociology can help!

We have set out four different paths:

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Path 1: Global Culture

The Global Culture path is intended for students interested in cultural diversity worldwide, in the ways in which people and ideas travel to and become reinterpreted in new locations, and in cultivating a nuanced and rigorous understanding of culture as an integral part of human existence. Global Culture students learn about how people generate meaning in their lives and in relation to world events and a continuously changing sociocultural landscape. With the skills produced in this track, Global Culture students will be able to shape careers that attend to intercultural and international difference-in fields such as cultural interpretation, nonprofit work (refugee ngos, social services), business, medicine, and government.

Illustrative career options:

  • Foreign service\diplomat
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  • International nonprofits & NGOs
  • Museum curator
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Path 2: Research, Planning & Policy Analysis

One very direct expression of the Benedictine value of service is preparing oneself for a career in research of some kind. Such careers are often to be made outside the university and involve some application of critical thinking and methodical inquiry to some practical question or problem. Knowing how to collect valid data about the wants and needs of clients or customers, for example, involves a set of sociological knowledge and skills that are comparatively rare in the marketplace, and consequently those who possess them can find many ways to do well in the world of work while doing good at the same time.

Illustrative career options:

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  • Institutional researcher for a university
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Sociology and Anthropology provide unique perspectives and sets of skills that enable students to analyze the workings of families and communities, to identify causes of dysfunction and to facilitate the strengthening of individuals, their relationships, and their interactions with social institutions. This path through the Sociology major demands that students become active learners, able to relate knowledge to their daily lives; it increases their intercultural competence, enabling them to analyze the impact of race, culture, and socio-economic backgrounds on individuals and families. It prepares students for personal and professional lives of integrity, civic engagement, and the pursuit of the common good

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Sociology and Anthropology prepare students to "lead with integrity", to "seek a socially-just world", to "be ethically responsible, committed and engaged citizens", and to "actively pursue the common good through engagement with civic, religious, non-profit, and professional organizations. There are few areas of social life in U.S. culture where this type of leadership is more desperately needed than in the Criminal Justice System. Through rigorous coursework, service-learning, and internships, students who follow this path will explore questions key to understanding and addressing the pressing problems of violence, crime, and injustice. Students will analyze the causes of these problems, and the impact of the inequality built into our current system.

Illustrative career options:

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Katrina Craigwell (@kcraigwell) leads content for the Digital Marketing team at General Electric (GE). She is responsible for driving content creation and distribution across GE.com, Txchnologist.com and GE’s corporate properties internationally, as well as GE’s social media presences on platforms including Instagram and Tumblr. Prior to her role at GE, she was Associate Director at social media agency Attention, where she worked with clients including CNN, HLN, WE tv, A&E, The Guardian, and Morgans Hotel Group. Katrina began her career in public relations at the Independent Film Channel, where she worked on some of the network’s first social media campaigns. She graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in International Relations.

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Visual Storytelling at GE

Do steam turbines, MRIs and jet engines have a place in digital media? This talk will explore how GE is using visual storytelling to capture the imagination of geeks and technology lovers worldwide. Shifting culture at a company that is over a century-old can take time, but it also unearths a wealth of fascinating stories. Katrina Craigwell has spent the last two years at GE bringing the company’s technology to life via visual content, including the launch of GE’s Instagram feed, two Tumblrs, a refreshed YouTube channel and re-launching GE.com. Katrina will share how GE is leveraging digital channels to make new connections with consumers and customers alike

Audience will learn:

  • Best practices for evaluating stories and aligning with business objectives
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