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Tuesday, 18 January 2011

puddles and puppies............................

The flooding caused by the weekend's torrential rain is slowly draining away although we still have a lot of water lying on the fields and after last night's frost, a lot of it has frozen over!  However, the sun shone today and we had a lovely walk down through the fields and round the great ponds which will hopefully disappear before too long.

Back in October I mentioned that our working beardie collie had his girlfriend to stay while she was in season, and in early December she produced a litter of eight puppies who are now almost seven weeks old.  The plan was always for us to have a puppy from this litter and after several visits we have finally made our choice although we wont bring him home until next week.  There are three dogs in the litter and it was a difficult decision to make as they're all lovely puppies.  A friend in the village is taking one of the bitches and at the moment there are still two puppies available.   We have a few ideas about names, but we'll wait until he's here to decide what really suits him best.

Wednesday, 12 January 2011

mist and magazines......................

What gloomy, murky weather we're having!  A chilly, damp fog has descended and walking the dogs this afternoon was like wandering through a strange, quiet, bluey-grey world full of  blurred, ghostly shapes.   Another couple of inches of snow fell through the night but it's very soft and damp with the rise in temperature so at least walking is a bit easier.

What better way to cheer up a gloomy afternoon than to escape into pile of lovely new magazines and that's just what I did!   Not that there weren't masses of other jobs to do, but  the lure of  the February issue of Country Living was too strong.  I've been reading Country Living since it first appeared in the mid 80's and I still have every issue.  They're stored in various boxes, bags and piles and some day I would like to file them in chronological order but  I can't see that happening anytime soon!

I think the February CL is better than the last few issues.  I felt the magazine had been going through a rather stale phase but this is a very bright, interesting and inspiring issue.  The Emporium pages feature lots of interesting bits and pieces and there's also a very good piece on food fraud which is something we should all be aware of as it happens a lot more than we might think.  I'm particularly delighted to see that Diana Henry is to be their new, regular, food writer  as I love her books especially Crazy Water Pickled Lemons which is full of wonderful recipes.  There are also lovely crafts, marbled paper, fascinating interiors  and all the other usual features.

I started to buy Country Homes & Interiors regularly in late 2009 and I've been enjoying it ever since.  I particularly like the food writing and have discovered lots of lovely new recipes over the months.  The February issue features egg recipes including what sounds like a delicious goat's cheese and leek souffle.   There's an interesting article about glove makers in Somerset  and some clever ideas for making bird feed cones, bells, hearts and trays which look really pretty and would no doubt go down well with the birds!    There are also the usual  interiors features  and a lovely article about a collection of snowdrops in Kent.

Saturday, 8 January 2011

Persephone Books..................

I have just discovered The Persephone Catalogue, brought out by Persephone Books in London.  They specialise in reprints of novels, diaries, poetry and cookery books, mostly by women and mainly from the early to mid-twentieth century.   It just arrived in today's post and I haven't had time to study it carefully, but even after a quick flick through, I've spotted several titles which I'd like to read.  Throughout the catalogue there are photographs of beautiful vintage fabrics whose designs are reproduced in the endpapers of the books.  I will be placing an order very soon and for anyone else who's interested they can be found on  http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/  The catalogue itself is a work of art and will probably be my bedtime reading for the next couple of nights!

Friday, 7 January 2011

last minute sky...................

The temperature is dropping again!  Last night it fell to minus 12 and today has been bitterly cold.  It was a particularly dull, colourless day and when I took the dogs out this afternoon I almost didn't bother to take the camera with me.  Thankfully I did and was rewarded with this spectacular skyscape which just seemed to appear from nowhere!  We hadn't seen the sun all day but suddenly a warm glow built up in the south west and this lovely sky transformed the afternoon!

Meanwhile, to the east something similar was happening although less fiery.  It was like a reflection in blue and pink and was quite amazing!

First footing continues well into January around here and we tend to get all the routine jobs done by early afternoon so that we can set off and visit friends and neighbours to wish them a happy new year.   When first footing someone, you take something to eat, something to drink and something for the fire.  We set off with a basket of bottles, jars of chutney, fruit cake, shortbread and lumps of peat and quite often the fiddle and guitar  just in case there's the chance of a tune!   It's a lovely custom and we've had our share of first feet as well.  Long may it continue.

feasting sheep


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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Mimi on a Sleigh..

Hey! I wanted to take a slight break from posting the Recollections 3-D cards to show you this cute stamp by Penny Black...Isnt Mimi so sweet on her sleigh? I just couldnt resist adding a pom pom to her hat and some sakura sparkle pen was added to the snow although it doesnt show up in the photo...I will be back on Friday to show you another of the Recollections Christmas 2011 stickers sets...Thanks so much for stopping by today!
Supplies: Penny Black Mimi Christmas, Paper by SU and Recollections and DCWV, Pop Dots, Copics, Pom Pom, Sakura Stardust Pen and White Gel Pen

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Recollections 2011 Part Two...

Hey! Hope you are doing great on this day before Thanksgiving....I told you I had some more Recollections to share with you from the 2011 Collection...Just like my previous post this is just as simple and it gets! I even used the exact same layout as it comes in the package...Other than taking them off and placing them on white cardstock and matting them...When you have something as cute as these embellishments you just let them speak for themselves...Clean and Simple...Hey Penny I always think of you when I post these cause I know how much you love the Recollections stickers too! Have a great day everyone and a Wonderful Thanksgiving!
Supplies: Paper by SU and Recollections, Embellishments by Recollections

Friday, November 18, 2011

Recollections Christmas Collection 2011

Hey! I am starting to get in the mood for Christmas! I love seeing the CUTE 3-D stickers that Recollections comes out with for every holiday...This is one of the sets for the 2011 Christmas Series...Arent these guys the cutest! I love how they put so much detail in them bits of bling bling and some acetate for ice for them to skate on...I will be sharing more of the collection in the next few days and as I like to do CAS style to showcase the images just as they are...Just matting and placing and thats it! I even use the same layout they come in to make it super simple during a busy time! Thanks for stopping by today...Have a great weekend!
Supplies: Recollections 3-D Sticker Embellishments, Paper by SU and Recollections and Pop Dots

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Winkie the Red Nosed Reindeer (Rudolphs Cousin)

Hi! Hope you are doing great! And I hope you enjoyed seeing my Aunt Lori' wonderful Halloween creations...She does such a great job and she really enjoys sharing them...I have been on a long break from card making and was inspired to get back into it when I saw this CUTE Hero Arts stamp at Michaels...As soon as I saw it I knew I wanted to make a clean and simple card and to add a bit o' bling to his nose and some gingham ribbon to keep his neck warm for fun...I am thinking this just might be my 2011 card this year...I really need to keep it simple since I make ALOT! I hope you like it...I am glad to be back...Thanks for stopping by today...Have a wonderful week! Ok now you know I have to play Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer :D
Supplies: Hero Arts Winking Reindeer, Copic, Red Bling, Offray Gingham Ribbon, Pop Dots, Papers by Recollections

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Friday, December 23, 2016

Winter Candy

This was one of my favorite images by Whimsie Doodles Christmas digis images to color.  I found the perfect paper to use for this card in the Whimsie Doodle Challenge for December.  I colored the digi with copics and added red bling over the buttons.  A candy cane brad was tied onto the jute for fun.  Thanks for stopping by.  If you head over to Whimsie Doodles Blog you can play along too!  Here's the challenge.
Supplies:  Winter Candy Digi by Whimsie Doodles, Copics, Red Bling, Pop Dots, Jute, Candy Cane Brad. DCWV Papers

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Mimi and Rudolph

This card was another fun experience.  I added some whimsy paper and coordinated the colors with my copics to color Mimi. Some pom poms were added to her colorful hat and die cut snow drifts with a bit of sparkling snow on the caps grounded the image.   Red bling for Rudolph's nose.  And then white satin ribbon tied to the fold. Thanks for stopping by!  Merry Christmas!

Supplies: Penny Black Mimi and Reindeer, Momento Black Ink, Pom Poms, Copic Markers, Snow Drifts Die Cuts, Pop Dots, Red Bling and Studio G Glitter Glue

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Mimi Christmas

Time for some whimsy fun using a sweet stamp from Penny Black that features Mimi.
I stamped her in Momento Black Ink then colored her with Copics.  I added some glitter glue to the stars and her wings after I cut and matted the image using pop dots to give a dimension.  I stamped the top portion of the stamp so I could color and cut out the hat and popped it up as well.  I just love Mimi!  I will be sharing another one tomorrow.  Thanks for stopping by!
Supplies:  Penny Black Stamp, Recollection and SU Papers, Pop Dots, Copics, Momento Black Ink, Studio G Glitter Glue

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Clean and Simple Christmas 2016

I wanted to share another card using a Clean and Simple design.  Tomorrow I will be posting a fun fun card using Mimi from Penny Black stamps! Hope you can stop by!
Supplies: Papers by Recollections, Joy Die cut by Paper Trey Ink, Wreath Die Cut Holly by C.C. Design, Pop Dots. Red Bling and Satin Ribbon.

Sunday, December 11, 2016

Christmas 2016

It's been too long since I have posted and I was hoping to have more time to make and share cards but it's been a busy few months.
I just finished over 40 Christmas cards to send out and decided to do a variety of a few different styles using this "JOY" die cut by Paper Trey Ink that I got a few years back.  I used it before on cards in a different way but this time I paired it with different Christmas papers I had in my stash and on this one I added the holly die cut with red bling for sparkle.  Some jute was added for texture.  I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and Happiest New Year Ever!
Supplies:  Paper Trey Ink Die Cut, Holly Die Cut (CC), Papers by Paper Studio.  Red Bling by Recollections and Jute.

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Farm Fun

I had fun making this card using different die cuts and punches along with adorable images to create this farm scene.  I love the sentiment.  Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies: MFT, Copics, MS Fence Punch, Marvy Circle Punch, Cloud and Grass Die Cuts, Pop Dots and Various Papers

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Chef Cutie!

I love this sweet little guy!  Ever since my Aunt gave me this awesome brick emboss folder I couldn't wait to try it out.  I found a DCWV paper stack that had the perfect color for a brick wall.  Each image was cut out by hand.  I placed them in front of the brick wall for a fun scene and added tiny epoxy buttons on his coat.  I hope you like it!
Supplies: MFT Stamps, Pop Dots, Copics and Epoxy Dots

Saturday, July 23, 2016

Happy Camper!

I had so much fun making this card!
I cut out the camper, trees and die cut the cloud.  I used a silver brad on the wheel.
I found this fun plaid paper that I thought would go great with the camping theme. Thanks for stopping by today!
Supplies: MFT, DCWV Papers, Copics, Die Cut Cloud and SU Ribbon

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Happy 4th of July!

With the 4th of July upon us I thought this would be a fun card to share.  I love Snoopy so when I saw this sweet image it was a no brainer to use this for a 4th of July card.  I cut the image out twice so I could pop up the hat for dimension. I made a Clean and Simple Design.  The star shaped bling was a fun addition for sparkle. I scored some lines on the red cardstock and there you go!
I hope you all have a wonderful 4th of July!

Supplies: Patriotic Snoopy, Recollection and SU Papers, Recollection Stars, Pop Dots and score.

Monday, June 20, 2016

A very quick and easy card, using a journal card I added dimensions to pop it up then punched out three butterflies using the Martha Stewart 3 in 1 butterfly punch.
Then I added bling to the centers and ribbon.  Thanks for stopping by today!
Supplies: Journal card, Pop Dots, MS Butterfly Punch, Bling and Ribbon

Thursday, June 16, 2016

You Spice Up My Life!

I had so much fun making this card.
Using this little Chef would be great for the man in your life, especially if he loves to cook.  I fussy cut the images after coloring.
And found some gingham in my stash that I thought went well with the theme. A bit of yellow was added to his mashed potatoes hes whipping up. Thanks for stopping by!
Supplies: MFT, Copics, Papers and Pop Dots

Friday, June 10, 2016

Aw Shucks!

I made this card for a sweet lady who has let me bend her ear many times and I will always be thankful for that....I missed her Birthday and thought this set was ideal.  I paper pieced her shirt to match the gingham strip going across the matted image.
I fussy cut the images after coloring with Copics.  Tiny Buttons were added to her shirt for fun.  I used Martha Stewart's Fence punch and Circle punch (for Sun).  Jute was used to attach the sentiment and button.  I hope she likes it! Happy Birthday Cindy!
Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:  Papers by Recollections and Making Memories, Button, Jute, Copics, Pop Dots, Circle and Fench Punches by Martha Stewart and Pearl embellishements for buttons

Monday, June 6, 2016

Always Be Grateful

I havent played along over at SCS CAS challenges for a while now and decided I would give it a try.
My Aunt got me these American Crafts Journaling cards and I have been waiting for the right time to use them.  The challenge for todays Clean and Simple Challenge was to create a card using Stripes and Polka Dots.  I got out my Journaling cards and found both!  I layered three of them and added a SU glitter brad in Pumpkin for some sparkle.  This would make a great Thanksgiving card and its super easy!  TFL!

Supplies:  SU Cardstock, American Crafts Journaling Cards, SU glitter brad and Pop Dots.

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

No Bones About It, You're Nice!

It's been a long time since I've made any cards. It felt good to finally make some. There's a sweet lady I know who trains Labrador's and this card is going to her.  The image was cut out twice.  The second time I cut out just the head and added pop dots for dimension.  A bit of bling was added to his collar and some ribbon across the middle behind the matted image.  I had a bone brad that I thought would be fun in the right bottom corner.  Glossy accents was also added to give his nose a wet look.  I hope she likes it!

Supplies: Designer Dog Theme Papers, Recollection and Stampin Up solid papers. Stamin Up Ribbon in Chocolate Chip, Pop Dots, Recollections gold bling, Bone Brad and Glossy Accents.


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Brentwood grad of 2007, Colgate University grad of 2011, and BCIT grad of 2013. Completed my undergraduate degree at Colgate in Environmental Geography with a focus on GIS (Geographic Information Systems – a tool used for mapping and spatial analysis). I then did an Advanced Diploma in GIS (post-baccalaureate diploma) at BCIT, which focused more on the programming and technical aspects of GIS software and related data formats. This ultimately led to my current position as a Support Analyst at Safe Software (, a company that produces FME (feature manipulation engine), for transforming data formats from one type to another (as we say, to help you love your data again!). Day to day I help customers resolve issues with their workflow, and act as the ‘translator’ between developers and customers. In my free time I love to bake, participate in triathlons, and binge-watch Netflix!

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domingo, noviembre 01, 2015

My Counterpunch article on hunger and financial speculation

Counterpunch, April 1 2012

Hunger and Financial Speculation
Why the World Price of Food Is Going Up
By Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero

   The fact that food prices are spiraling upward all over the world is not news.
Between June 2010 and June 2011 world grain prices almost doubled. Wheat went up 70 per cent between June and December 2010, and by June 2011 its price was 83 per cent higher than one year before. During the same 12-month period corn went up 91 per cent.
Quoting an article from the German publication Der Spiegel:
   "In March (2011), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported new record high prices, which even surpassed the prices during the last major food crisis in 2008. According to the FAO's Food Price Index, overall food costs rose by 39 per cent within one year. Grain prices went up by 71 per cent, as did prices for cooking oil and fat. The index had reached 234 points in July, only four points below its all-time high in February."
   This does not affect everyone in equal measure. The average American family spends no more than 10 per cent of its budget on food, whereas the world's poorest two billion spend between 50 per cent and 70 per cent of their scarce income on food.
   The political consequences of these price hikes can be explosive. During the 2010-2011 period several governments around the world were overthrown, there were riots in cities from Kyrgyzstan to Kenya, and three wars started in the Middle East: Syria, Yemen and Libya.
   The "Arab spring" has not been just about democracy, but also about access to food. A correlation can be drawn between spikes in food prices and the January 2011 overthrow of Tunisia's autocratic government, and, later that year, the revolt that forced Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign. Egypt happens to be the world's top wheat importer (as well as the world's fourth biggest corn importer), one out of five Egyptians subsists on $1 a day, and the government subsidizes bread for 14.2 million of the country's 83 million inhabitants (Christian Parenti, "Reading the World In a Loaf of Bread: Soaring food prices, wild weather, upheaval," The rise in wheat prices between 2010 and 2011 was simply devastating for Egyptian families, who on the average spend 40 per cent of their income on food.
   Nearby countries are also being affected by this situation. Parenti points out that Algeria and Morocco are among the world's top wheat importers. And Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Morocco figure among the top fifteen corn importers. The region's ruling classes are terrified, surrounded by hungry populations that are no longer afraid of state repression.
   But why are food prices out of control? There has been no shortage of explanations. Of all the voices that have ventured theories, one of the single most respected is that of ecologist Lester Brown. The influential Mr. Brown, founder of the Worldwatch Institute and now head of the Earth Policy Institute, blames weather disasters caused by global warming, the biofuels boom, skyrocketing oil prices, and the prosperous and growing Indian and Chinese middle classes' newly found taste for beef. But Mr. Brown and many other observers and commentators tend to downplay, sometimes even ignore, another factor: financial speculation in agricultural commodities.
   "Following heavy lobbying by banks, hedge funds and free market politicians in the U.S. and Britain, the regulations on commodity markets were steadily abolished. Contracts to buy and sell foods were turned into 'derivatives' that could be bought and sold among traders who had nothing to do with agriculture," says John Vidal, environment editor of the British daily the Guardian. "In effect a new, unreal market in 'food speculation' was born. Cocoa, fruit juices, sugar, staples, meat and coffee are all now global commodities, along with oil, gold and metals. Then in 2006 came the U.S. subprime disaster, and banks and traders stampeded to move billions of dollars in pension funds and equities into safe commodities, and especially foods."
   According to Catalonian activist Esther Vivas, acknowledged as one of the most outstanding critical voices on globalization and capitalism, halfway through 2010 "food speculation was attacking again and price of food was going up again." This "gave speculators the incentive to ask for new loans and buy commodities that foreseeably would increase rapidly in value. The very same banks, hedge funds, etc., that caused the subprime mortgage crisis are actually responsible for the speculation in raw materials and the rise in the price of food, taking advantage of profoundly deregulated global commodity markets."
   And what exactly is a speculator? It's someone who deals in a commodity, but neither produces it nor consumes it. The speculator's profits come from futures contracts, which are basically bets that the price of X or Y commodity will go up or down. These contracts are themselves commodities, traded among financial institutions.
   The speculator does not work in the real world economy, in which goods and services are sold to real people (ostensibly) for the benefit of society, but works instead in what has come to be known as the finance economy. "The finance economy is that which makes money by speculating with money, without involving the production of something that is sold, that is, with practically no exchange of matter, work or energy," says an educational document of Spain's Right to Food Campaign. "In the finance economy, for example, shares are bought in order to attempt to sell them later, thus receiving an economic benefit without having contributed anything to society."
   There has always been speculation; it's been documented as far back as ancient Greece; it is not necessarily an evil per se. But today it's a whole different game. The difference between the speculation of yesteryear and today can be summed up in one word: deregulation. As a result of the financial deregulation of recent years, particularly the 2000 U.S. Commodity Futures Modernization Act, speculation has rapidly grown to an alarming degree. Between 2003 and 2008, investment in indexes linked to commodities was multiplied times twenty, going up from $13 billion to $260 billion. When there is that much speculation, the postulates of liberal supply-and-demand economics no longer apply.
   If it were not for speculation, then how else can one explain rice futures going up 31 per cent in a few hours on March 31, 2008? Did the whole world get up that morning with an unusual craving for rice? How can mere supply and demand explain the price of wheat rising 46 per cent between January 10 and February 26, 2008? The price descended almost all the way to its former level in May and then hiked up 21 per cent in early June, and then went down again in August. If this is not due to speculation, then how else to explain this? Did whole swaths of the global middle class get on and off the Atkins diet simultaneously several times that year?
   In a 2010 shenanigan reminiscent of the comedy film Trading Places, the London-based Armajaro trading firm bought up some 7 per cent of the world's cocoa reserves - that's over 240,000 tons of the stuff, a lot of chocolate. As said before, speculators do not use or consume the commodities they trade in, so the fine folks at Armajaro had no intention of eating up all that chocolate. But they might as well have done just that because, as a result of their action, worldwide chocolate prices jumped up to their highest point in 33 years.
   The mildly worded way in which Armajaro describes itself is a jewel of the English language: "We specialize in the sourcing and delivery of cocoa, coffee and sugar, and we are committed to being the partner of choice in the Agri-commodity supply chain. Our established customer base includes all of the major global chocolate manufacturers and most of the world's leading coffee manufacturers and roasters. Sugar trading is a recent addition to our business and continues to grow and develop."
   According to Olivier de Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, "there is a reason to believe that a significant role was played by the entry into markets for derivatives based on food commodities of large, powerful institutional investors such as hedge funds, pension funds and investment banks, all of which are generally unconcerned with agricultural market fundamentals. Such entry was made possible because of deregulation in important commodity derivatives markets beginning in 2000. These factors have yet to be comprehensively addressed and, to that extent, are still capable of fuelling price rises beyond those levels, which would be justified by movements in supply-and-demand fundamentals. ... The logic has become purely speculative, in which investors adopt a herding behavior (they follow what other investors do), and do not made decisions anymore based on the 'fundamentals' of supply and demand. The result is more volatility, bubbles that form and bubbles that explode. This hurts in particular small producers and the poor food-importing countries".
   So, when it comes time to formulating effective strategies to fight world hunger, rather than joining the "send aid" bandwagon or embracing the high-tech fixes of Monsanto and the Gates Foundation, we would be better advised to take a critical look at the faulty economics of so-called free markets. Perhaps the protests of Europe's "indignados" and Occupy Wall Street are more relevant to the world's hungry than all the do-gooderism that is so much in vogue today.
   "As former National Director of Intelligence, Dennis Blair told a stunned U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on February 12, 2009, the global economic crisis, triggered by financial and commodity market deregulation, has replaced Al-Qaeda as the number one U.S. national security threat," said a report from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. "Blair's intelligence agencies forecast widespread regime destabilization if the economic crisis continued to fester without major policy and political reform within two years. His agencies did not specify what reforms were needed nor advocate for their enforcement. That is up to us."
   In the words of Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, "Neoliberal market fundamentalism was always a political doctrine serving certain interests. It was never supported by economic theory. Nor, it should now be clear, is it supported by historical experience."
Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero is a Puerto Rican author, investigative journalist and environmental
educator. He is a fellow of the Oakland Institute and a research associate of the Institute for Social Ecology.

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Almost exactly sixty years ago, France and the UK invaded an area along the Suez Canal. Egypt’s leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, had nationalized the canal a few months before, and for a variety of reasons London and Paris wanted to reverse this move. But the Franco-British military operation was halted within days, because the United States cut off emergency loans to the UK (France had to oblige because its troops were under British command).

The Suez Crisis had a number of very significant knock-on effects, ranging from the first deployment of UN peacekeepers to the promotion of pan-Arab nationalism. Plus, if there was any prior doubt, the episode proved that the United States was the undisputed leader of the Western world.

Suez also created a rift between London and Paris that has cursed NATO and the EU ever since, and that the impending British exit from the EU may only reinforce. Given the multitude of security challenges currently confronting transatlantic allies—from an unpredictable Russia to wars in the Middle East to a more assertive China—the West can ill afford diverging strategic outlooks between France and the UK, Europe’s leading military powers.

Since Suez, France and Britain have often fundamentally differed, in large part because they took diametrically opposing strategic lessons from that affair. The UK learned to never leave the side of the United States, giving the special relationship a renewed lease of life. The French learned to never trust the British nor rely on the Americans.

Former British prime minister Harold Macmillan later suggested that Britain should resemble the Athenians advising the Roman Empire. Charles de Gaulle, the former French president, adopted an attitude like that of the Spartans defying the Persian Empire. The general subsequently blocked British entry into the European Economic Community (which later became the EU), developed an independent nuclear deterrent, and took France out of the NATO military command.

Much has happened since then, with multiple nuances and contradictions for historians to research. But the Franco-British rift has never fully healed, and current (sometimes divisive) debates about NATO and EU defense policy reflect these fluctuations from entente cordiale to entente glaciale.

The EU could develop a defense policy only because France and the UK agreed that it should, at Saint-Malo in 1998. But the momentum behind this initiative was stopped by the 2003 Iraq War, which bitterly divided Paris and London. As a result, EU-NATO cooperation was hampered for years.

New leadership in both countries brought fresh ideas and a desire to repair relations. Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy reversed de Gaulle’s decision and rejoined the NATO military command in 2009, and he and former British prime minister David Cameron signed the Lancaster House treaties in 2010 to deepen bilateral military cooperation.

Moreover, London and Paris not only agreed on paper but were also prepared to act together, leading the charge for what became NATO’s intervention in Libya in early 2011. For a moment, it seemed that the curse of Suez had lifted.

But Paris could still not convince London of the merits of EU defense, and that policy floundered. Cameron, increasingly under pressure from Euroskeptic members of parliament to hold an EU membership referendum, could not be seen to approve anything that smacked of a Euro-army, such as an EU headquarters for operations.

Since the Brexit decision in June, Suez-legacy instincts are being reinforced. In a speech on October 6, French President François Hollande said, “There are countries – European countries – that think the United States will always be there to protect them. . . . Those European countries must be told . . . that if they don’t defend themselves they will no longer be defended.” Hollande continued: “The United States no longer has the same idea of defence protection [and] Europeans must realize that . . . they must also be a political power with a defence capability.”

In contrast, British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said on September 5, “That Trans-Atlantic link remains fundamental to the UK and to the whole of Europe. . . . Given the overlap in NATO and EU membership, it’s surely in all our interests to ensure the EU doesn’t duplicate existing structures. . . . Our Trans-Atlantic alliance works for the UK and for Europe making us stronger and better able to meet the threats and challenges of the future.”

If these Franco-British positions harden and cause a political rift in transatlantic relations, it seems that NATO and the EU will continue to be burdened with the curse of Suez for the foreseeable future. But it need not be such a binary choice. Similar to the way former U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower ended the Franco-British adventure in 1956, the attitude of the next U.S. president will be decisive—whoever she or he is.

The United States needs allies that are able both to contribute more to NATO (like the UK) and to act autonomously if necessary (like France via the EU or in other ways). As Jeremy Shapiro from the European Council on Foreign Relations has noted, “Europeans would be wise to take more proactive measures to visibly increase the burdens they bear within the alliance and their capacity for independent and cooperative action under the next US president.”

The next U.S. president, therefore, would be wise to encourage a rapprochement of views between the UK and France on the relationship between EU defense policy and NATO. Washington should also push London and Paris to jointly lead monitoring of the implementation of the EU-NATO cooperation program agreed to at NATO’s Warsaw summit in July 2016. This would help ensure that the union and the alliance work more closely and effectively together.

In the end, the curse of Suez will be lifted only when France and the United Kingdom realize that they are both right.

Daniel Keohane is a senior researcher at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zürich.


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The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory explores a relationship between patriarchal values and meat eating by interweaving the insights of feminism, vegetarianism, animal defense, and literary theory. The New York Times called it “a bible of the vegan community.” This October, a twenty-fifth anniversary edition was published as the book enters the Bloomsbury Revelations series.

When it first appeared in 1990, Library Journal called The Sexual Politics of Meat "an important and provocative work" and predicted it would "inspire and enrage readers across the political spectrum." True to Library Journal's prediction, the book was hailed by CHOICE as a "’bible' for feminist and progressive animal rights activists" and equally reviled by conservative commentators, including Rush Limbaugh.

The Sexual Politics of Meat explains the concept of “the absent referent.” Behind every meal of meat is an absence: the death of the animal whose place the meat takes. This is the "absent referent." The absent referent functions to cloak the violence inherent to meat eating, to protect the conscience of the meat eater and render the idea of individual animals as immaterial to anyone’s selfish desires. It is that which separates the meat eater from the animal and the animal from the end product. The function of the absent referent is to keep our "meat" separated from any idea that she or he was once an animal, to keep something from being seen as having been someone, to allow for the moral abandonment of another being.

The Sexual Politics of Meat argues that male dominance and animals’ oppression are linked by the way that both women and animals function as absent referents in meat eating and dairy production, and that feminist theory logically contains a vegan critique...just as veganism covertly challenges patriarchal society. Patriarchy is a gender system that is implicit in human/animal relationships.

The Sexual Politics of Meat shows how a process of objectification, fragmentation, and consumption enables the oppression of animals so that animals are rendered being-less through technology, language, and cultural representation. Objectification permits an oppressor to view another being as an object. Once objectified, a being can be fragmented. Once fragmented, consumption happens. The consumption of a being, and the consumption of the meaning of that being’s death, so that the referent point of meat changes.

 An overlap of cultural images of sexual violence against women and fragmentation and dismemberment of nature and the body in Western culture exists. This cycle of objectification, fragmentation, and consumption links butchering with both the representation and reality of sexual violence in Western cultures, that normalizes sexual consumption. This structure creates entitlement to abuse; with the structure of the absent referent the states of objectification and fragmentation disappear and the consumed object is experienced without a past, without a history, without a biography, without individuality.

The Sexual Politics of Meat offers examples of historical, contemporary, and fictional resistance to meat eating and argues that food decisions are coded ways of resistance. For many progressive, feminist, radical activists, vegetarianism was one aspect of their activism.

The appearance of The Sexual Politics of Meat triggered dramatic international media coverage of the book. Polity Press in the United Kingdom immediately issued a British Edition. Full-page articles appeared in Australian and Dutch newspapers; reviews appeared in Italy and Norway as well as in Great Britain and the United States. The Kirkus Review concluded that it was "an intelligent polemic...Adams's observations are telling, most are seductively sprung...the argument is both thoughtful and thought-provoking." Publisher's Weekly observed that "Carol J. Adams's original, provocative book makes a major contribution to the debate on animal rights."

The Sexual Politics of Meat has been translated into Japanese, Korean, Chinese, German, Portuguese, and Turkish; Italian, Spanish, Croatian, and French editions are in process.

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September 26, 2003
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The World Health Organization is this week addressing the problem of traffic accidents, which kill more people each year than malaria.

Experts say more than 1.2 million people die in traffic-related accidents each year.

"We have this huge problem that's killing people; that's disabling people, sending people to hospitals for [a] very long time and destroying so, so many families and very little attention is being given to it," said Etienne Krug, director of the Department of Injuries and Violence Prevention at the World Health Organization, and one of the organizers of a 20-nation summit in Geneva that this week studied the problem of traffic-related accidents and deaths.

The WHO meeting included officials of the automobile industry, representatives from victims advocacy groups and ministers of transportation and health from the countries participating in the conference.

In addition to deaths and injuries, it's estimated that traffic accidents in developing countries cost $100 billion per year, or twice the amount of economic assistance earmarked for development.

Mr. Krug says many road injuries and deaths could be avoided if developing countries adopt inexpensive safety measures that have worked well in the West.

"People have introduced safer cars," he said. "There's now seat belts. There's now efforts to limit speed, to control alcohol consumption. There's efforts to improve the health services so that there's better emergency responses."

Road safety will be the focus of World Health Day in April 2004. WHO officials hope the global initiative draws attention to a problem that leads to millions of needless injuries and death.

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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

PORCHETTA all'Abruzzese

In Italy, porchetta is produced using a whole pig that is completely boned and seasoned with various spices according to local traditions. After joining the two edges of the carcass, it is bound with string and placed in a wood-burning oven for cooking.  It is usually prepared for important celebrations and feasts.

There are two basic types of seasonings dictated by tradition. In southern Tuscany, it is flavored with rosemary. In Abruzzo, it is seasoned with wild fennel which gives it a fragrance and taste absolutely unmistakable.

I do not have access to a whole pig nor do I have a wood-burning oven, but throughout the winter months, my family feasts with a porchetta made from a pork shoulder. I pair the pork roast with oven roasted potatoes, fried peppers and an orange-fennel salad and we make our own celebration!

1 - 5 1/2 to 6 lb. pork shoulder with skin on and boned
5 whole cloves of garlic - cracked and skin on
2 tablespoons of wild fennel pollen
2 dry red peppers chopped
2 tablespoons of olive oil
Salt and pepper

Preheat oven to 450°F.  Place roast in a baking pan.  Drizzle evenly with 2 tablespoons of oil. Roast pork 30 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 300°F.  Roast pork until very tender and thermometer inserted into center of pork registers 190°F, about 3 hours 15 minutes longer. Let pork rest 15 minutes.  Best served warm.

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The inviting and distinctive scent released from the cooked porchetta is mouth-watering.  I especially love the crackling skin.

Paired with:

Fried peppers
Oven roasted potatoes

Orange and fennel salad

 Semplicemente squisita!


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2:20 p.m Friday, Jan. 20, 2017 Southern Palm Beach County

A longtime owner of prime land in Boynton Beach is negotiating with the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency over financial incentives to build an eight-story apartment building, and later condos and a hotel.
While Davis Camalier owns most of the land in his Ocean One project at the southeast corner of Federal Highway and Boynton Beach Boulevard, he needs a small piece of land owned by the CRA to complete it. And, he wants the property — appraised in 2015 for about $460,000 — for free.
Also, Camalier wants the CRA to provide about $4.2 million over eight or 10 years in property taxes generated by the first phase of the project and about $3.6 million from phase two. The CRA would keep an estimated $6 million in tax revenues generated by the project, documents show.
Officials didn’t appear to have much of a problem with the incentives, saying the money that would be given to Camalier is money that would exist only because of the project.
“The owner doesn’t have to build anything here. He can leave it vacant,” Mayor Steven Grant said in defending the incentives.
And, it’s not rare for the officials to give these incentives to bring development to the CRA district, considered a blighted area. This year, the agency will give about $1.3 million to five projects. And once 500 Ocean at Federal Highway and Ocean Avenue is built, the CRA will pay about $4.39 million to the developer over 10 years.
The Ocean One group presented the proposal earlier this month to the CRA, which is composed of the city commission. CRA members gave them a first nod that they are on the right track (though the project itself still has to be approved).
Phase 1 of the project proposes an eight-story building of 231 apartments and 8,575 square feet of stores. Phase 2 is on the south half of the property and would have a condo building likely taller than eight stories and a hotel.
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The city requires 413 parking spaces for Phase 1. The developer will provide that, plus 50 public parking spots. While the exact figures of Phase 2 haven’t been worked out yet, the developer promises to provide whatever parking is required, plus another additional 50 public spots.
Both the officials and residents don’t think the project will provide enough parking, and said they want more spaces.
“It is just a serious concern of mine that under-parking in this particular area would diminish the eventual payoff if people are deterred to come down there,” Commissioner Justin Katz said.
And they need to feel more comfortable that the stores will fill up. Former Delray Beach redevelopment director Chris Brown, representing the developer, told the officials they added more retail at the insistence of the city’s planning department.
Officials also want a concrete promise of a hotel.
Ocean One would be a few blocks north of the waterfront Riverwalk Plaza, where city officials this week approved a major renovation to include creation of a 10-story apartment building. Some residents fiercely opposed the plan because of the height, saying Boynton shouldn’t become a large, busy city.
And one resident, Lisa Browne Banic, expressed that same feeling about the Ocean One project.
“We’re here in Boynton Beach. Not in Delray Beach. Not in Fort Lauderdale where I used to live. We’re here because we like the small neighborhood environment where our children can enjoy the beach and the park neighborhoods,” she told city officials. “Please consider who lives here.”
But Ocean One is in the center of a downtown long-sought by city officials.
“I know that we want to keep Boynton Beach a family-friendly town, however this is the central business district. This is what we always thought was the top of the wedding cake so I’m OK with you guys moving forward,” Grant told the developers.

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Friday, August 21, 2009

What Happened to Alex Mack?

What happened to actress Larisa Oleynik aka Alex Mack from TV show "The Secret World of Alex Mack?" If you're from a certain age group, you already know why this is so important. To tons of adolescent boys, she was the dream girl. There were definitely way too many junior high conversations concerning Oleynik that involved the cracking voices of adolescent boys.

Hell even I'll admit that at one point I believed that I'd date her. Thankfully by high school I realized that this wasn't going to happen and moved on instead of becoming some crazy stalker Hey I know what you're thinking, but this is strictly a blog subject. I don't have a bizarre shrine to her like this girl I lived next to in college did to Angelina Jolie. I went in her room once, and every inch of her walls and ceiling were covered in pictures of Jolie. Needless to say, I was so creeped out that I never went in there again.

When "The Secret World of Alex Mack" ended in 1998, she seemed poised for success. Oleynik had a couple of guest spots on "Boy Meets World" as Shawn Hunter's girlfriend, and then in 1999 appeared in the movie "10 Things I Hate About You," which is probably her most known role besides playing Alex Mack. Especially since it seems to be on television every other day, and somehow I can't help watching it almost every time.

It was pretty strange that she kind of dropped off the map following that movie because it was a launching pad for just about everybody in it including Julia Styles, Heath Ledger and even Joseph Gordon Levitt. Who is to say that Oleynik couldn't have saved the last dance instead of Styles? Although Ray, her best friend on "The Secret World of Alex Mack" was black so maybe she already had her dance saved. The last recognizable role she had after that was a 21-episode stint on "3rd Rock From the Sun" as the girlfriend of the Tommy character who was played Levitt.

Maybe the reason for her disappearance can be attributed to "Alicia Silverstoning" herself or otherwise known as ruining a promising career with terrible career choices. There must have been better options available than a stint on "3rd Rock From the Sun." It was in the midst of the teen movie craze, and she could have done crappy movies like "Bring it On" and "Crazy/Beautiful." Instead those movies were done Kirsten Dunst who seemed like had the potential to be hot, but instead became at best a notorious two-facer that rarely looks attractive unless she's in some really good, photoshopped light. Come on, if Dunst could get that popular then Oleynik would have been ten times better her.

I mean Brittney Murphy was even considered an "it' actress at one time. Really, Brittney Murphy? She's responsible for one of the most awkward sex scenes (it's so mature you must sign into You Tube to view it) in movie history with Eminem in "8 Mile." I don't know if I've ever felt more uncomfortable in a theater, and it didn't help that the guy in front of me felt the need to say, "yeah, that's what I'm talking about" during it.

The more likely explanation could be Oleynik's decision to take a break from acting to be a normal teenager and go to college. Usually celebrities don't realize how much it sucks to be a normal teenager. The whole point of being one is to try to be as cool as you can and to get people to like you. Why would you ever give that up? Because once you do, it's hard to get back. Oleynik has probably discovered this because since 2003 she's only appeared in a couple of little-known indie movies and had a few guest spots on TV shows , which isn't anything near the success she once had.

For all we know, one of us could have randomly walked past Oleynik at a mall, movie theater, or coffee shop last week without even noticing her. Something that would have seem impossible in the mid to late 90s. Is it too late for her to make a career comeback? I don't know, but if Molly Ringwald can get a steady job on TV, then anything possible.

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DeerSpoonsStampin' Up! Deer Friends stamp set will probably always be one of my favorites. I found these great peppermint tea spoons at World Market – such a fun place to shop for Christmas treats. I just stapled the ribbon to the envelope of my Christmas card and got a little crazy embellishing the tea spoons. (Doodlebug Design, Inc. crushed velvet brads make an adorable Rudolph nose.)

I had fun passing these out to my fellow nursing home surveyors today. I am so blessed to work with such a wonderful and dedicated group of nurses, social workers and nutritionists. We are on the road so much together that they really are family. We've been through a lot together! Since none of them are really crafters, they're easily entertained by my little trysts with ink and paper.

If I don't get a chance to speak, write, Facebook, Twitter, or blog to you again this holiday, here's hoping all of you have a wonderful Christmas. Thank you all for putting up with all the silliness of my little blog. Here's looking forward to a wonderful 2010, with all the fullness of hope a new year brings.

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Board of Governors Professor of Politics, Director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics, and CAWP Senior Scholar

Ruth B. Mandel

During Mandel's tenure as Eagleton director, the Institute has launched new research and education initiatives in youth political engagement, immigrant political behavior, governors and state executive leadership, and ethics in government. Eagleton's education programs for Rutgers graduate and undergraduate students have grown, and the Institute has expanded its state and national outreach and service with visible public programs and social media communications.

As a founder and director of Eagleton's Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) from 1971 through 1994, Mandel built a national center with multi-faceted research/education/ public service and information programs about women's political participation, a subject previously unexplored. She remains affiliated with CAWP as a senior scholar, teaching and writing about leadership, with emphasis on U.S. women's political history, women as political candidates and officeholders, women's political networks, and the "gender gap." Mandel is the author of numerous publications about women's changing political roles, including In the Running: The New Woman Candidate, the first book-length account of women's experiences as candidates for political office.

From 1991 to 2006, Mandel held a presidential appointment to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, the governing board of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C. She was named Vice Chairperson of the Council by President Clinton in 1993 and served in that capacity until 2005. She chaired the task group charged with proposing a governing structure for the new Museum and also led the process to create the Museum's Committee on Conscience, which was established in 1996 with Mandel as its founding chair. Currently she serves as a public member of the Museum's Education Committee and its Committee on Conscience.

In 2009, Mandel completed two terms on the board of the Charles H. Revson Foundation. In 2012, she joined the board of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, where she is a member of its executive committee, and chairs the governance committee. Among other honors, Mandel has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Public Service by Chatham College and an honorary Doctor of Public Administration by Georgian Court University.


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Pictured here are carambola (starfruit), produce code 4256 that were for sale at the Newark, Delaware farmer's market. These carambola were produced in the United States, and sold by Brooks Tropicals, a Florida-based company specializing in tropical fruit and other tropical produce. The fruit were individually packed in a partitioned cardboard crate, to prevent bruising.


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Feb 27th, 2011, by Alex Zorach

These Gala apples were for sale in the Newark, Delaware Farmer's Market for 99 cents a pound. They are marked USA, and I suspect they are from Washington state.

While I enjoy the aroma and texture of Gala apples, I find them to be significantly too sweet for me; I prefer McIntosh, Pink Lady, and other slightly less sweet varieties. This particular batch of Gala apples was also a bit on the large side, which I find is a chronic problem with apples shipped around the U.S. from the Pacific northwest.


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Regional kick-off event for Stand Up. Speak Out. to mobilize 24,000 students & staff happening September 17th!

The Chignecto-Central Regional School Board (CCRSB) will mark the third year of its board-wide healthy relationships initiative, Stand Up. Speak Out. Stop Bullying. Together., on Thursday, September 17, at all schools and offices across the board, mobilizing close to 24,000 people. This year CCRSB is focusing on the theme “What’s in your backpack?”, broadening the meaning of Stand Up. Speak Out. to better encompass the tenets of Social Justice.

Regional Launch Event

Date: Thursday, September 17, 2015
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CCRSB Superintendent Gary Adams and Board Chair Trudy Thompson will be on hand, along with other CCRSB board members, CCRSB staff and the entire Truro Junior High school population.

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In April the grades 3 and 4 students from Rawdon District School participated in an art project with artist Elizabeth Sircom, on the theme of culture and community. The students and Ms. Sircom created a map representing the Rawdon District School catchment area with some of its past and present landmarks.

This project was made possible with funding from the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia’s ArtsSmarts Nova Scotia Program.


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We believe that GOD’S word, the Bible, is perfect and flawless. “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: (II Timothy 3:16)” Therefore, GOD’S word cannot be improved upon or added to. JESUS said in Matthew 5:17-18, “Think not that I (JESUS) have come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I have not come to destroy [the law], but to fulfill [it]. For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, [not] the smallest letter or the least stroke of a pen shall in no wise pass from the law, till all is fulfilled.”

We believe that JESUS CHRIST is GOD’S one and only Son (John 3:16). As GOD’S only Son, JESUS is the full incarnation of GOD in bodily form. “For in Him (CHRIST) dwells all the fullness of the GODHEAD in bodily form (Colossians 2:9).”

We believe that JESUS is GOD the FATHER’S perfect sinless sacrifice that was sacrificed for the sins of all mankind upon a cross. “And He (JESUS) is the atoning sacrifice for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world (I John 2:2).”

We believe that JESUS was and is a sinless Man. “For He (The FATHER) hath made Him (JESUS) to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of GOD in Him. (II Corinthian 5:21)”

We believe that JESUS is GOD the FATHER’S only provision that leads to eternal life. There is no other way to receive eternal life other than through repentance and faith in JESUS. “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of GOD is eternal life through JESUS CHRIST our LORD (Romans 6:23).” And, “…this is the record, that GOD hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath life: and he that hath not the Son of GOD hath not life (I John 5:11-12).” And again, “…that by the name of JESUS CHRIST of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom GOD raised from the dead, even by Him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone. Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men, by which we must be saved (Act 4:10-12).”

We believe that all people have sinned and have fallen short of GOD’S glory, but that GOD has made salvation available to all through repentance and faith on the death and resurrection of His Son from the cross (Romans 3:23; 6:23).

We believe that JESUS alone is LORD of All.  He is LORD in heaven and over all the earth. “Wherefore GOD also hath highly exalted Him (JESUS), and given Him a name which is above every name: That at the name of JESUS every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that JESUS CHRIST is LORD, to the glory of GOD the FATHER (Philippians 2:9-11).”

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We believe that JESUS died, rose again and is presently at the right hand of the FATHER making intercession for His church. “Who is he that condemns? It is CHRIST that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of GOD, who also makes intercession for us (Romans 8:34).”

We believe that JESUS is a real King with a real kingdom; He will return to establish His literal kingdom on earth for 1,000 years (Revelations 19:11-21; 20:1-6). “He (JESUS) will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The LORD GOD will give Him the throne of His father David, and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever; His kingdom will never end (Luke 1:32-33).”

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Words from a Book Editor (Part 2 of 2)

(This post comes from Vicki Crumpton.)

Traditional publishing is highly schedule driven. We live by catalog cycles and when a book is contracted, we slot it in a catalog season for release.

Manuscript deadlines are based on the release date, and everything we do for a book from then on, whether editorial, marketing, sales, or publicity, is driven by the need to hit that release date.

I'm writing this in the summer of 2012, and we're titling books that will release the following summer. Once titles are set, the cover design starts. I’m editing books that will release a year from now.

Each October, our sales conference prepares our reps to sell the upcoming Summer list, and our key account reps start selling right after the sales conference. Why? The large accounts make their buying decisions that far in advance.

Air traffic control is a good analogy for the publishing process. Planes get slotted by air traffic control long before they reach their destination, so that when planes get close to O’Hare, all of them can land in an orderly fashion.

I'd love to have the opportunity to listen to the cockpit radio conversation. I've never heard a pilot say, "I have to fly over Dallas on my way to Chicago, so I'm going to be about five hours late. That won't mess up anybody, will it?"

Life does happen. The important thing is for authors to communicate with their editors as soon as they know there will be a problem with a deadline.

Vicki Crumpton, Executive Editor for Revell (a division of Baker Publishing Group), acquired a number of award finalists and winners, as well as several New York Times' bestsellers, including 90 Minutes in Heaven. She holds an M. Div. and Ph.D. from Southwestern.

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Krazy Crafting Crew Altered Frames Hop!

                               Welcome to our “Altered Frames Blog Hop!”

Brought to you by our Krazy Crafting Crew. We are an independent hop team that enjoys
sharing out work with everyone and hope to inspire you with new ideas for you own
creativity. We are a team who loves to do all different themes, such as cards, layouts, 3D
projects and so much more. We do all the paper crafting from traditional to digital. Mostly
traditional, every now and then there may be a little mixed media too!

Now on to some fun.

Here is my project I have made for today’s hop

 I purchased an inexpensive frame.  It started out as brass looking.  I had a picture of it but it got accidentally erased!
I used cracked glass and made a circular pattern all over the inside of the frame. I let it dry.
Next I used Stampin up white and brown craft pads to distress the frame.  I let it dry for a few days.
I made some small roses and hot glued them to the frame, I also added diamond stickles to it.
I used my silhouette and some thin cardboard to make the word: Sisters.  I added colored cardstock to the top of the cardboard word.  Here are the pictures:

Our sponsor is Scrapbook Generation who is sponsoring 2 winners who each get to choose an ebook sketchbook of their choice from Scrapbook Generation. I'm so excited that they are sponsoring us as I love their sketches!!!!

            Thank you for coming by and hope to see you again next month!

If you missed the full line up here it is:

Next in line is   Kathryn ~

Lissa Marie said...

Very sweet! I love the flowers, need to learn how to make more of those!

Camille Short said...

What wonderful flowers!

Vickie said...

Love the frame and the way you did the flowers.

Lori Apgar said...

I love how you distressed the frame!! The flowers and "sisters" really pop too!!

Sarah Biswabic said...

What a beautiful picture frame! What a wonderful picture of you and your sister!

lorby said...

I love the way your frame turned out. What machine did you use to cut out the word sister? I have a Cricut and eClips and have never had good luck with them cutting chipboard of any thickness. Your frame is so lovely and the picture makes it even more so.

Carla said...

I love your frame!!! Thanks so much for sharing. I love the flowers you made.

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Kathryn said...

Great Picture!!! Wish I could make flowers like that. LOL all thumbs. TFS

Janet's Planet said...

great minds think alike! Love your Sister frame.

Miranda said...

Great frame, I love the flowers.

Paula Jennings said...

great job! Love the roses!


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In 1998 Randy developed a Student Career Assessment Program, WYGA, What You’re Good At to bring corporate tools to students so that they can understand their strengths and weaknesses and know how corporations will value them in the future. WYGA provides a program guide to help them discover potential careers and the best higher education options to qualify them for their professional choice.  This also helped parents understand their student better and adjust their role from parent to funding coach as the student matured into adulthood.  The relationship principles and dynamic s reach across all roles of people and their communication from families to non-profits, civic entities and corporations.

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With a focus on helping organizations improve workforce productivity, Novell announced the availability of the Novell Teaming Starter Pack program, which includes 20 free user licenses.

Novell Teaming is a flexible collaboration solution designed to help groups successfully work together, regardless of location. Available as an easy, preinstalled download with a quick start guide and tutorial videos, the Starter Pack is a risk-free way for organizations to try next-generation collaboration tools and experience more productive and creative teamwork to drive better business results.

”Kempinski Hotels operates on four continents with more than 60 hotels,” said Simon Coombs, executive vice president and chief financial officer at Kempinski Hotels. “As such, we are always exploring technology solutions that allow us to increase our efficiency. Novell Teaming is an excellent way for Kempinski Hotels to enable high-performance teamwork and increase our workforce productivity around the world.”

Through this no-cost program, customers and partners looking to try collaboration solutions in their environments are now able to leverage Novell Teaming to gain hands-on experience with team workspace and enterprise social networking solutions.

With integrated blogs, wikis, discussion threads, expertise search and other real-time collaboration tools, Novell Teaming boosts team productivity by bringing people together to create, share, discuss and manage information. Additionally, both the self-management functionality and the ability to design custom applications and workflows allow users to make the tools fit their work needs without additional administrative time or support.

”Collaboration tools are quickly becoming an essential requirement for successfully working in today's global and distributed business environment,” said Kent Erickson, senior vice president and general manager of Novell Workgroup Solutions.

”Empowered teams need to leverage expertise, regardless of where their experts are physically located. Novell Teaming Starter Pack is an excellent way for both customers and partners to get their feet wet with collaboration software and immediately realize the productivity benefits and cost savings that this solution delivers.”

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Finally, we're finally all going to be in the same state again. Yesterday Michael came home from Salt Lake City, home from his role in the UU Youth Caucus, home from GA-land, home. Today my husband comes home from wherever he was on the East Coast.....by some Great Lake......Erie? No it's not like the smarmy governor from South Carolina, I could know where he was if I were paying attention and he has been answering his cell phone, he's just gone so much I can't always keep it straight.

I know that this is the way my family life is headed, we'll scatter again. Soon, actually. My husband leaves again next week for...well, for someplace. My kids all go to Korean Identity Development Society camp next week--it's the first year they're all going to the teen sleepover camp. Then we have fencing and drama day camps for the youngest, and a two week wilderness adventure camp for our middle son, all the way on the Canadian Border in Northern Minnesota.

And we'll scatter again soon to gather in shorter and shorter bursts. This is likely to be Michael's last year at home. The family will march off one by one, gone to school and lives of their own. It's what I want, of course it's what I want. But oh it's going to be hard. You have to rip chunks of your heart out and send them off into the world wrapped in the body of your child. Oh my gosh.

So, here we are, we're coming together tonight from work and sports and games and travel. We'll grill some steaks and play cards on the patio and watch our little dog roll in the grass. A family. Our family. And it's so good. And I know full well it will not always be this way.

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