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Monday, June 6, 2011

Functional Groups!! (by Bev)

What are functional groups?

-organic compounds that are comprised elements other than carbon or hydrogen (ex. nitrogen & oxygen)
-tend to be the most reactive part of the molecule

types of functional groups: alcohols, halides, aldehydes, ketones

Halides & Nitro Compounds

-naming: close to that of simple hydrocarbons - can be fixed to alkanes, alkenes, & alkynes (end w/-ANE)
           -if there is more than 1 of the SAME halogen/molecule attached to 1 molecule, add the prefix di, tri, tetra, penta, etc. before the halogen/molecule prefix
            -if there are DIFFERENT halogens/molecules attached to 1 molecule, list the positions in alphabetical order

(ex. 2,4,4-tribromo-5-chlorononane)

-the main chain name obtains one of these prefixes that are fixed to it

Ex. 1 (top left):
# of carbon atoms: 1 à methane
# of halogens: 3 Cl in the first carbon position à tricloro

Ex. 2 (top right):
# of carbon atoms: 1 à methane
# of halogens: 4 Cl in the first carbon position à tetrachloro

Ex. 3 (below):
***Note: each empty corner represents ONE carbon atom, thus there are 2 carbons in this molecule! :D
2 carbons = ethane
1 Cl attached in the first carbon position (recall: there isn’t a set direction in which to count the position that the carbon is in; count from the whichever way creates a smaller #, in this case, from left to right)
This compound is called 1-chloroethane or simply chloroethane.
Properties of Halides
-tend to be insoluble in H2O
-compounds combined with fluorine are non-reactive (inert)
                Ex. Teflon, which makes up the thin non-stick surface on frying pans
-compounds containing chlorine or bromine are more reactive under extreme conditions
-compounds that have iodine are quite reactive; they can be easily substituted with other functional groups
Properties of Nitro Compounds
-often insoluble in H2O
-inert to chemical attack unless under extreme conditions
-generally explosive
                Ex. TNT (trinitrotoluene & nitroglycerine)
-most smell pleasantly fruity
-have an –OH (hydroxyl) functional group
-naming: use the longest carbon chain containing the OH group & replace the ‘e’ ending in the parent hydrocarbon with ‘ol’
                -remember: always use the smallest # possible for the OH group even if the branched parts will get a higher # (ex. 4-methyl-2-pentanol rather than 2-methyl-4-pentanol)
                -if a molecule contains 2 or more hydroxyl groups, # both and add –diol, -triol, etc. endingsß 1, 2-ethanediol
Ex. butanol
-the longest carbon chain containing OH is 4 à butanol
Properties of Alcohol
-somewhat soluble in H2O: the hydroxyl (OH) group breaks off, but the hydrocarbon chain is often insoluble
-ALL alcohols are poisonous to an extent
                Ex. Ethanol: type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages
Ex. File:T-Butanol.png
Longest carbon chain w/OH: 3 à propanol

Some other types of alcohols:
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-have a double bonded oxygen at the end of the chain
-follow regular naming rules & change parent chain ending to –al (do NOT confuse w/alcohols, even though they are pronounced the same)!Butanal-skeletal.pngbutanol propanol

-contain a double bonded oxygen that is NOT on either end of the hydrocarbon chain
-ending: -one

Properties of Aldehydes & Ketones
-both: somewhat soluble in H2O
-aldehydes: quite reactive; easily turned or ‘oxidized’ into carboxylic acids
-ketones: rather non-reactive
Youtube links for extra help:

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Alkenes and Alkynes? Really now? Do Intelligent Chemists Really Not Know How to Make Up More Exciting Names?

Alkenes, Alkynes, who cares? They're the same thing.

Even though they both form bonds that contain fewer Hydrogen atoms attached to Carbon atoms, THEY ARE VERY DIFFERENT!
Naming these compounds are relatively easy, as they follow the same rules as naming Alkanes. Just remember to change the ENDING to the appropriate one!

Let's start with Alkenes.

Alkenes-->contain one or more double bonds
-->classified as unsaturated hydrocarbons

eg. CH3-CH2-C=CH-CH3

*notice how the ending of the parent chain changed

Alkenes have a many possible structures (same), BUT have different geometrical shape
-->this is special to ONLY ALKENES called geometric insomers

Geometric insomers-->occur when double bond is formed, having side chains attached (top & bottom)
-->2 types:
                  -trans: (top&bottom, bottom&top)
                  -cis: same side (top&top, bottom&bottom)

So, practice what you've learned!
Draw these structures:

Now, for the Alkynes!
Alkynes-->contain one or more triple bonds (yes, now you use 3 LINES!!)
-->also unsaturated hydrocarbons
-->naming rules are still the same, but CHANGE ENDINGS to "-YNE"

 eg. CH3-CH-CH3-C(insert triple bond here)C-CH3
        |         |
       C    CH3

It's simple...REALLY!

Make sure you do some extra practice from the textbook!!
Memorize all the prefixes (it'll help)!

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Organic Chemistry - May 26, 2011 - Isabelle Cheng

Isabelle Cheng
Block 2-2
Chemistry 11 Ms. Chen
Organic Chemistry
What is organic chemistry anyway?.....
Organic Chemistry:
introduction to the diverse chemistry of carbon
scientific study of the structure of carbon-based compounds and hydrocarbon
can vary from small to large
has a specific naming system
different kinds of structures to represent a molecular formula
form chains of carbon atoms

A carbon that has 4 bonds

A carbon atom that has 4 hydrogen atoms

A carbon-carbon bond

Branched Chain

There are certain names for each molecular formula!
1 - meth
2 - eth
3 - prop
4 - but
5 - pent
6 - hex
7 - hept
8 - oct
9 - non
10 - dec
You use these prefixes in the beginning and the endings for alkanes is “-ane.”
The formula is CnH2n+2, if you plug in the numbers and it doesn’t work then that means that it is not from the alkane group!
When looking at the structures: Always look at the longest chain and write the molecular formula from there!
For example:

It is called Propane because there are three of the longest chain.
For the Alkayl group, they have a different formula and different naming system:
The ending is “-yl,” so an example would be methyl.
For example:

This structure is called 3-methyl-pentane because the bond is on the third position and it is called methyl because it is from the alkyl group. It is called pentane because the longest chain has 5 of them.
Extra facts: The sum of all valence e- of each atom in the molecular formula must equal the number of electrons in your Lewis Dot Structure.
Except for a few elements, ex. H, most elements want a full valence shell.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

chemical bonding (by: mandy)

                                                         CHEMICAL BONDING
There are 3 types of chemical bondings: Ionic Bonding, Nonpolor Covalent Bonding, and Polar Covalent Bonding.
Nonpolor Covalent Bonding: electrons are shared equally
Polar Covalent Bonding: electrons are shared unequally
Ionic Bonding: electrons are transferred between two atoms

Electrostatic Force
Electronegativity: the measure of the ability of an atom to attract electron from other atoms.
Metals have LOW electronegativity
Non-metals have HIGH electronegativity
*The greater the difference of electronegativity, it is more likely to be Ionic Bond
           ENeg Diff. = | ENeg1- ENeg2 |

ENeg Diff. <0.5 (non-polar covalent)
ENeg Diff. 0.5 to 1.8 (polar covalent)
ENeg Diff. >1.8 (ionic)

London Forces

Polar Covalent Bonds

A molecule is polar if there is an imbalance with electrical charge. [This is called: Polarity]

Atoms with higher electronegativity (delta -)
Atoms with lower electronegativity (delta +)

For example:

Hydrogen has an electronegativity of 2.1
Oxygen has an electronegativity of 3.5
therefore, O, with the higher electronegativity is labelled delta- and two H are labelled delta+

Arrow should be pointing at the negative atom.

study hard!

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Electron Dots and Lewis Structures - Isabelle Cheng

Isabelle Cheng
Block 2-2
Chem 11 Ms. Chen
The Lewis Structure involves using dots. It is very simple and easy to understand!
Here are some examples!

Number of Valence Electrons12345678
ExampleHydrogenGroup I
(Alkali metals)
HeliumGroup II
(alkali earth metals)
Group IIIGroup IVGroup VGroup VIGroup VII
Group VIII except Helium
(Noble Gases)
Lewis Structure
(electron dot diagram)

That is what Lewis structures look like and how the dots are formed with the symbol in the middle to identify which element it is. The purpose of the Lewis Structure is that it shows the valence electrons that are distributed in a molecule. Also there is a rule called the octet rule which is saying that most of the atoms want the electrons to form covalent bonds. This rule does not necessarily apply to all of the atoms.
Here is an example of H20!
Lewis structure H2O
Here are some practice ones!
              ● ●
NH4 + = H   ●     N ●    H
  ● ●
The first step is to first draw 4 H’s because the element is H4.
Then you write a N in the middle with the surrounding H’s because it is the only element and it only has one.
The third step is to then daw two dots for every H surrounding the N.
You apply the same rules and the same procedure for the other elements.
Then that helps you get the Lewis Structure!

Monday, May 2, 2011

Periodic Table Familes and Trends.

#trending, teehee.

Who knew the periodic table created trends?
They're such fashionistas!

That was just for laughs...

ANYWAY, here's a video that explains everything. (:

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Electronic Configuration of An Atom: Does This Mean Anything To You? 1s^2 2s^2 2p^6 3s^2 3p^6...(by Bev)

The above was definitely NOT proper English.
It's actually something called Electronic Configuration.
Today, you're going to learn how to write "chemists' gibberish".
Looking forward to it?

What is electronic configuration?
-description of an atom's orbitals & how many electrons occupy each orbital
-helps to group & learn about the elements of the periodic table

recall: Niels Bohr suggested that electrons occur only in particular energy states - when an electron emits/absorbs a particular amount of energy, it will instantly jump to a different orbital

important terms to know:

-energy level: amount of energy that an electron is able to have
     'n' is the # of the energy level
          -for a given value of  'n', different types of orbitals are possible
               n=1     only s-type is possible
               n=2     s- & p-types are possible
               n=3     s-, p-, d-types are possible
               n=4     s-, p-, d-, f-types are possible

-quantum: the difference of energy of 2 specific energy levels

-ground state: when all the atom's electrons are in the lowest possible state (ie. stable, like a noble gas)

-excited state:  when all the atom's electrons are temporarily occupying an energy state greater than its ground state
     ex.  When an electron takes in extra energy, like a photon, or hits a neighbouring particle, it becomes excited.

-orbital: the actual area of space that an electron occupies in a specific energy level
     -4 types: s, p, d, & f
     -energy levels are not spaced apart evenly
     -each orbital is symbolized by a circle

-shell: group of all orbitals with the same n-value
     ex. 3rd shell: 3s, 3p, 3d orbitals

-sub-shell: group of orbitals with the same type
     ex. group of 5 3d-orbitals of the 3d shell

Type of subshell
# of orbitals
Max. # of electrons
1 s-orbital
3 p-orbitals
5 d-orbitals
7 f-orbitals

order in which the orbitals are filled:

Writing Electronic Configurations for Atoms

Neutral atoms:
-always begin using the LOWEST energy
-determine the # of electrons (recall: in a neutral atom, the atomic # is the # of electrons), then start at 1s, continuing to add until there are no more electrons
-each electron has an opposite spin classified by up & down arrows

potassium: 19 electrons

-negative ions: add electrons (equal to the charge) to the final unfilled subshell, starting from where the neutral atom left off
-positive ions: start with the neutral configuration & take away electrons from the OUTERMOST shell first

Why are you so surprised?!  There are always exceptions!!

Cr (Chromium gains stability with a HALF-FULL d-subshell)
we would predict: 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s3d4
but it is actually -->1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s13d5

Cu (Copper gains stability with a FULL d-subshell)
we would predict: 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s3d9
but it is actually -->1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6  4s3d10

Core Notation

-special type of electron configuration: core electrons are replaced by the nearest noble gas
     -usually take part in chemical reactions
-outer electrons: outside of the core electrons (ie. the noble gas)

How to write core notation

1. locate the atom & the nearest noble gas at the end of the period ABOVE the element (it is crucial to use the noble gas in the PREVIOUS row!!!)

2. replace the first part of the electron configuration (core) with the matching noble gas with the noble gas' symbol in square brackets

Carbon (6 electrons):

electron configuration: 1s2 2s2 2p2   <-- replace 1s2 with [He]

core notation: [He]2s22p2

a joke to end it off, as usual:


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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Six Questions with . . .Sonia Corley, makeup artist

S Sonia Diane Corley has the best makeup on Facebook. I'm in awe of women who can look natural and made up at the same time. It's an art. Corley, one heck of a makeup artist, is someone you should know to get that fresh look for your night on the town or that special day.
          1. Your make up always looks amazing. How did you get into being a makeup artist?

I never really considered myself a makeup artist. I really just only did myself and a few friends if they asked me to. I guess I have always loved makeup and I can remember playing with my mother's green eye shadow and red lipstick when I was a little girl. My first lipstick was the green mood changing lipstick from Sally's and I remember taking my allowance money to purchase drug store liquid foundation when I was a senior in high school. I dove head first into makeup after i cut all of my hair off and went natural in 1996; because I didn’t want to look like a "little boy." My first professional experience was when I met these two beautiful sisters by the name of Shawny Thompson and Catina Thompson-Catherine. They are the founding members of Classy Curves. They had the faith in me to do their makeup application in one of their photo shoots when I was just a rookie in the business. With them having the faith in me to do their makeup in their photo shoot gave me the confidence to apply at MAC to become a makeup artist. Well, when I went there with application in hand the assistant manager kind of looked at me like i was crazy. I had no portfolio nor a resume and after I got shot down I was extremely discouraged. About three weeks after that I was at a MAC event at one of the counters and was bored out of my mind. The girls who work at the counter was extremely busy and I decided to help out by talking to some of the customers (running my mouth is what I do best LOL!) I got noticed by one of MAC’s Senior Regional Managers and the following week i got a call from the counter manager to apply for the job. Well, I almost didn’t take it if it wasn’t for my Sean Payton and my Greg sister Benita Corley and Tiffany Wilson. They yelled at me in the worse way after I almost shot the job down. To this day, I owe them much gratitude because without them I wouldn’t be doing something I love today.

2.      2. What are the products that you think every woman should keep on hand?

 Basic products are moisturizer for your skin type, mascara, eye liner, tinted moisturizer and pressed or loose powder.
3. How do you know when enough product is enough?

Usually when I’m doing a makeup application, I usually investigate the look she is trying to achieve. If she explains to me that she doesn’t want to look like a clown and doesn’t want too much color I usually keep it simple and stick to neutrals on the eyes cheeks and lips. I apply a light foundation and a very natural look pressed powder. I’m not over the top with my makeup applications because i know i like to look as close to natural as possible. Usually when I’m doing it on myself it is usually to my satisfaction. I think one of the worse mistakes I can make on myself is applying too much blush.

4. What are your favorite products?

WOW! Are you ready for my top 1000 LOL! Believe it or not it is not eye shadow. My favorite products are blush. Blush makes you appear happy to other people and it makes your face come alive. MAC’s Mineralize Skinfinish Natural pressed powder; this product is ultra-natural looking and makes your skin appear to look like you don’t have on any makeup at all. It is soft it gives a radiance and it warms your skin up and gives it a soft glow. MAC’s cherry and chestnut lip pencils because I’m addicted to red lipstick. MAC’s fix + (fix plus) because it is holy water in a bottle. Fix plus sets powder makeup, calms down any itchiness that the skin may have, it calms down my oily skin, and it wakes the skin up. Each one of these products, I keep in my makeup bag in my purse. They are a must.

  5. Your eye makeup is flawless, what is your technique?

With anything practice makes perfect. You can’t make a perfect meal without practicing. I had the basics down because back in the 90's all I had was the instructions on the back of drug store eye shadow. I guess it was trial and error at first. When we got our MAC counter here, I would stalk the counter and ask the girls questions about how to apply eye shadow, reference books and magazines. But when I started viewing You Tube videos is when I got better with my technique. Also I use MAC's paints or paint pots as a base/primer. It acts as gesso or primer before you put paint like for example on a wall. If you don’t prime the wall then the paint will slip and fall the same goes for eye shadow. Without a paint pot my eye shadow wouldn’t look so pretty and last long.

 6. What cleansers do you use and what is your routine for keeping your skin smooth?

I have very acne prone and oily skin. My skin underneath the makeup isn’t so smooth. I only use Clean and Clear's antibacterial face wash morning and night and I use prescribed acne medication to keep my skin acne free.  I [also] use Aquaphor healing ointment to coat my face at night. It makes my face very smooth in the morning. If I use anything other kind of wash then it can be over drying or over hydrating and cause me to have breakouts.  Before I start with my foundation application, I use a MAC primer called Face Protect SPF 50 before I apply my tinted moisturizer and pressed powder.

Side Note: everyone skin is different and may require a different routine* so please see a skin care specialist to analyze your skin to see what products are best for your skin type.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Something unedited, unpublished. I have a question, how do you feel about a smoking heroine?

Vivian King knew her smoking days were over –and it wasn’t because she’d taken the last puff of the only Virginia Slim in her pack—because she would never get over the fact that she was climbing over a fifth floor balcony in a black leather dress. And she was scuffing purple leather boots beyond repair.
            Inside the plush apartment where she’d been bored out of her mind before taking the cigarette break, the was a party in full swing.  Old school rap music blasted so loudly that no one heard her banging on the glass door. And since the alcohol was flowing so freely, no one was paying attention to the one smoker who’d gone outside to feed her nicotine addiction.
            Swearing, Viv made the decision to climb down.  But where would she end up? As she slowly lowered herself on to the edge of the balcony below, she prayed that she wouldn’t fall in her sky high heels.  Swinging forward, she hopped on to the balcony to catch her breath. One floor down, four more to go. Obviously, no one was at home. She was happy. And they had nice patio furniture, which gave her a place to rest and examine the damage to her shoes.  Just take them off. You’re going to be safer climbing down bare foot any way, she told herself as she unzipped the boots. Why had she left her cell phone in her purse? Had she had it, she would’ve been able to call Karina. Then again, Karina had been with Jason Parker, the reason why they’d actually come to the party. Her call would’ve gone unanswered, more than likely.
            With her boots underneath her arm, Viv teetered down another balcony. As she leaned forward and hopped on this balcony, she discovered not everyone had gone out that night.
            “What in the hell?” a male voice boomed. Then the glass door slid open and Viv came face to face with the last man she’d ever expected to see again, her ex-husband Jovan Carlton. “Vivian?”
            “This can’t be happening,” she muttered, dropping her boots and shaking her head with embarrassment.
            “What are you doing on my balcony?”
            “It’s a long story and I had no freaking idea you were back in town or lived here,” she said.
            “You sure you’re not stalking me?” he said then laughed.
            “Go to hell, Jovan,” she said, slowly giving him a cool once over. In her dreams, he was fat, had shrank down to the size of a hobbit and grown horns. However, in reality, he was finer than ever, skin still smooth like ebony wood, his arms cut and that stomach flat. Even standing there in a simple tank top and a pair of cotton pajama pants, that man oozed sexuality. The same sexuality and sensuality that had attracted her to him five years ago.

Charlotte is one of the top 10 livable cities for readers

Charlotte, girl readers should love to live here. At least that's what says and I agree.

Book shopping in Charlotte is a common occurrence – 48 stores cater to the reading crowd. Make a stop in Park Road Books and you're sure to leave with something great and unexpected, thanks to a staff that receives high praise for truly being helpful, friendly and obvious fellow book-lovers.
Where to go: Park Road Books
Authors from here: Harry Golden, Cheris F. Hodges, Travis Jeppesen
Park Road Books is more than a book store, it's a living legend. I've signed there twice, and I have another one scheduled for Oct. 14 (and since you asked) at 6 p.m.
The staff loves books and that makes shopping there so much fun. With the closing of book stores, it's good to have this haven in the Queen City.

So, what is

The best places to live aren't always the biggest ones. You won't find New York City, Chicago or San Francisco on We're all about the great places in between the big cities. The staff of Livability has spent more than 20 years finding the good stuff in small to mid-sized communities all across America. The result? A resource of more than 500 of America's best places to live, work, play, explore and belong.

My crush...Mike Tomlin

I'm a die hard Dallas Cowboys fan. It's been that way since I was five years old, curled up on the sofa with my dad watching the games on Sunday. Back then, you had two choices-- watch football or shut up.
As a Cowboys fan, I was taught to hate the Redskins and the Steelers. Hating the Redskins is super easy. They are a poorly run organization and Dan Synder is a little jerk!
And for years, my Steelers hate was strong.
Then he came along:

Mike Tomlin, head coach of the hated Steelers is one fine man. And when he makes those angry faces on the sidelines, umm! I get such an inspiration to write.
I'm not a Steelers' fan. I especially dislike their quarterback with all of his alleged abuse of women and I never want them to win a game. But I do watch their sidelines just for a glimpse of Sexy Mike.
You can expect a Mike Tomlin-ish character to show up in a future book, short story or just more blogs about him. This is my crush of the moment. :)

I've become that old dude who punched me in gut in 1997

I opened my e-mail inbox today and my heart broke, in two pieces. College students email me all the time and I try to help them out as much as possible. When I was a Johnson C. Smith University student, I was surrounded by helpful professors and professionals like Herb White from The Charlotte Post, Cliff Harrington from The Charlotte Observer, Jeri Young--also from the Post and the second reader of my senior paper, and I can't forget about the best professor ever, Ms. Cassandra Wynn.

Ms. Wynn had a rule, she only sent students out into the real world who proved themselves in class. That meant writing well, meeting deadlines and attending class regularly. I don't know what's going on with today's students.

So, the email that inspired this rant was filled with misspellings (but you want to be a writer) and the student didn't tell me anything other than, I don't have a car. I don't even know what school this child attends. And, here's what really gave me pause, the student listed, and I mean listed a bunch of jobs that the student wanted help with. Many of them are outside of what I do. So, this child didn't do a brief Google search on me?

I didn't ignore the child, I did what was done to me once, I gave the student some tough love. I just hope it doesn't come off as mean as my first brush with tough love was. I still remember the editor at the Howard Job Fair who said to me: "You write boring. You wouldn't even be in contention for a summer internship at my paper."

Yep. That was in 1997. I would post his name, because I remember that too. In 1997, I was PISSED at him. I wanted to slap that old man. But I knew how to get my revenge; write better. I worked at it, worked hard. My professors and my internship editors noticed it. And guess what, I got a job in the same newspaper chain that editor worked for.
I hope my e-mail to this student is met with a can-do attitude rather than a "who the f*ck does she think she is?" attitude.

Friday, September 23, 2011

How the Goings and friends saga began

A lot of readers love a series. I know there are several I enjoy. AlTonya Washington's Ramsey's series, Brenda Jackson's Westmoreland series are just two.

But I never meant to write one. James Goings changed that. When I wrote Let's Get It On, it started with the idea of a hot shot NFL wide receiver getting stood up at the altar. Maurice Goings was born. Young, brash and used to getting his way. But he had broken one heart along the way, Kenya Taylor.
As the story came together, I had to give Maurice a conscious. Enter older brother James.

James has edge, James was the only person who could tell Maurice about himself  and James just wouldn't go away. When Let's Get It On ended, Betting On Love began. James needed his own book. I knew he needed a dynamic woman to help him on his journey to love.
I just didn't expect this heffa to have three best  friends. But I could -- in good faith -- send a single woman dealing with a break up to Las Vegas alone. Kandace, Alicia and Serena had to go with her.

If I weren't a writer and had all of these voices in my head, I'd be locked up some where. And rightfully so, but Kandace needed a vacation and found one in No Other Lover Will Do. Solomon Crawford came into my life and I have to tell you, I'm not done with the Crawfords.

And how can I forget about Serena Jacobs. She was that smart mouth friend who basically told me, chick, you are writing about me! Serena give me a lot to play with. Why was she so mean? His Sexy Bad Habit explained that attitude.
And then there's sexy chef, Devon Harris, who was once in love with Kandace. Solomon doesn't like him because he thinks this man still wants his wife. Umm, no. In March, Devon's story is going to be told in Recipe For Desire.

Alicia's talking to me and I'm working on her story. She works too doggone much, trying to prove something. but she is tired of being the third wheel.

So, until March, check out Maurice and Kenya's prequel, Maurice and Kenya . . The Beginning.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Do something: I'm writing a letter

September 22, 2011

Dear Southern Governors:

I am a daughter of the south, born in North Carolina, raised in South Carolina. I attended grade school and college in the south and spent my life working and living in the southeast. I’d call myself a GRIT if I didn’t think grits were the most disgusting food item in the world.
But I digress.
I’m writing to you about 11:08 p.m. Sept. 21, 2011. The night that Georgia possibly killed an innocent man,  Troy Davis. There was too much doubt surrounding his case, too many questions and not enough evidence. If this doesn’t spur us to review the death penalty, then nothing will.

Let’s be honest, the south has a bloody history of racism. My beloved state of North Carolina has played god with her citizens through the eugenics program that stopped hundreds of people for exercising their God given right to have children.
South Carolina celebrates the losing side of the civil war by flying the confederate battle flag—still in 2011. And Georgia added to her bloody racist past with the current killing of a potentially innocent man.

I’m asking you as a citizen, a voter, a taxpayer and an auntie—End the state sponsored killing of men and women. Stop the death penalty.

In North Carolina, 157 men and women sit on Death Row and more than half of them are African American. Yet,  black people only make up 12 to 13 percent of the entire US population. We’re not seeing a problem here?

In Texas, the family of James Byrd, the man murdered in a most heinous way, didn’t want to see his killers executed.
In fact, "You can't fight murder with murder," Ross Byrd, 32, told Reuters late Tuesday, the night before Wednesday's scheduled execution of Lawrence Russell Brewer for one of the most notorious hate crimes in modern times.
If the victim’s son feels this way, what does this say about the state of Texas and any other state that forces a prison worker to inject a person with a killing cocktail? State sponsored murder doesn’t bring the crime rate down. It serves no purpose.

The time to act is now. The death penalty is unfair, unjust and has no place in America and no place in the South. Don’t ignore your citizens cries for justice.

Cheris Hodges
And I do vote.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

I pledge allegiance . . .

I pledge allegiance to flag of the United States of America, one nation that kills innocent men under God. No matter the doubt, got to get that pound of flesh.

I pledge allegiance to the flag, of the United States of America, one nation, still judging a man by the color of his skin and not the content of his character. My country's tis of thee, a land with no liberty for people who look like me.

America, America, of thee I sing.

11:08, justice died. Troy Davis was murdered.

Six questions with. . .Author Ernessa T. Carter

Back in the 1980s, you couldn't watch a teen movie without red head Molly Ringwald starring it. Her most wide known movies has to be Sixteen Candles. I was never a fan of the movie, then I picked up the most amazing book, 32 Candles by Ernessa T. Carter. I'm not going to lie and say I love the movie now, but Carter's book makes me thankful that SHE liked the movie and wrote this novel! This is her first book, but with the kudos she received, it won't be her last!

1. 32 Candles was an excellent novel. What prompted you to write it?

To summarize a Toni Morrison quote, there was a novel I wanted to read, and I wasn't seeing it. I was very frustrated with the way dark-skinned women were being depicted in literature. And I realized that if I wanted to read a somewhat funny, somewhat romantic women's fiction novel, in which a contemporary dark-skinned black woman was depicted as something other a complete sad sack and/or victim, then I was going to have to write it. Often when avid readers complain about not being able to find a book that meets a list of specific wants, I think that's the Universe calling them to write a certain novel.

2. You deal with issues of colorism in your novel, do you think that's still a problem in the African American community?

You know, I have no idea anymore. I haven't had to deal with colorism in a very long time, because I don't associate with the kind of people who would engage in it -- mainly because I don't have to. I'm not in high school, I work from home. I get to choose who I hang out with, and I'm lucky enough to hail from a family that doesn't truck with colorism. I often think of colorism as a young black girl's problem. If it's still seriously affecting your life after your mid-twenties, then you need to start dumping certain folks and situations. I can't speak for the entire African-American community -- all I can say is that it's not a problem within my chosen African-American community.

 3. What went through your mind the first time you saw your book on store shelves?

Yay! .... I hope it sells.

 4. Tell the readers what's next on the horizon for you?

I just finished up my second novel, THE AWESOME GIRL'S GUIDE TO DATING EXTRAORDINARY MEN, which is about four women (including Tammy Farrell from 32 CANDLES), living, dating, and careering in Los Angeles. Davie also has a small cameo. I'm hoping this will give fans a gentle wean off her, because she's not in the third novel, which I'm working on now.

 5. What have people told you that they've learned from Davie's struggle?
Mostly people have said that they find her mindset and ability to overcome inspiring. I'm really glad about that.

 6. How can readers get in contact with you?
Totally feel free to contact me: etc at 32candles dot com -- I love hearing from readers.

 Thank you so much, for the interview!
No thank YOU. I had a lot of fun answering these questions.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Vote for your favorite Shades of Romance authors!!

It's time for the 2011 Shades of Romance Readers Choice Awards.
For the past 11 years, LaShaunda Hoffman has been promoting authors through Shades of Romance, an online magazine that offers readers and authors to connect in a significant way. Hoffman is great at what she does and is a friend to readers and writers. I dare you to log on and not find a new author to follow.
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Beverly Taylor
Romance Book Of The Year
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A Good As The First Time - AlTonya Washington
Return Engagement - Elaine Cantrell
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Auxiliary Association

Our New Van made possible by our Auxiliary Association

One of the greatest assets at Maplewood Nursing Home of Cheshire County is the Maplewood Auxiliary Association. This non-profit association was organized for the exclusive purpose of raising funds for projects that would benefit the residents of Maplewood.  Over the years, the Maplewood Auxiliary Association has made significant contributions toward improving the quality of life of the residents at Maplewood Nursing Home. The auxiliary meets quarterly (Jan, April, July, Oct) on the second Monday of the month at 2:00pm, with the exception to the July meeting.  The July meeting is a barbecue and is held at noon on the patio. R.S.V.P is greatly appreciated for this meeting, by calling Steve Wilson at 399-7376.  New members are always welcome!

Our significant contributions over the years include:

2013: The Maplewood Auxiliary is currently working towards a goal of purchasing flat screen wall-mounted televisions for all resident rooms and common areas. This fund raising is on-going and donations are always welcome.
2006: Purchase of a new Ford E-450 Starcraft 12 passenger 2 wheelchair bus
1999: Patio Project at Maplewood
* $20,000  for the construction of a permanent roofed 30’ x 40’ shade house for the facility’s back  patio. (Other contributions to compliment the patio have included planters, lighting, furniture for the residents, and other outdoor accessories)
* $5,000 to purchase a large commercial barbecue grill for the patio, where Maplewood residents enjoy outdoor barbecues at least six times each summer.
1993: Purchase of a new Ford E-350 Diamond 8 passenger, 2 wheelchair bus.  This was the first bus for Maplewood.

Other contributions over the years have included money for: three aquariums; the installation of an in-house closed circuit television network, so that concerts, events, and other happenings of interest to the residents can be transmitted via cable live or taped and played over an in-house cable television channel for the benefit of residents who may be bed-bound; a $3,000 electric lift, which staff can use to lift residents from a bed into a wheelchair; an ice machine for the nursing floors; and popcorn machines. Also, we have purchased big screen TVs for the resident dining rooms.

The original goal of the Auxiliary was for the purchase of a wheelchair bus.   The bus is used many times each month, taking residents to sporting events, dinners, weddings and funerals, as well as recreational excursions around the countryside. It is estimated that the Maplewood Auxiliary Association has raised close to $150,000 for the benefit of Maplewood residents over the last ten years.

Cheshire County Government and the staff and residents at Maplewood Nursing Home, extend a warm “Thank You” to all of the dedicated Auxiliary members at Maplewood. Their hard work and the fund raising that benefits so many Maplewood residents is just one more reason why “Maplewood is more than just a nursing home.”

Auxiliary Association Members:

Executive Committee:
President: Pam Fortner
Vice President: Jeanette Gardner
Secretary: William Moses
Treasurer: Karen LeDuc
Assistant Treasurer: Nancy Sawyer
Advisor: Steve Wilson
Board of Directors:
Ann Ray
George Jeffrey
Linda Jeffrey
Jane Thomas
Dot Beaudrieau
Additional Voting Members:
Lee Kennedy
Beverly Schmidt
Teresa Walsh
Sally Jenna

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Monday Morning Mirth November 16, 2009

  Monday Morning Mirth

NYTimes: “In the 1990s, there was the “Rachel,” named after Jennifer Aniston’s character on the TV show “Friends.” Before the Rachel it was the “Farrah” — the flipped out, flouncy hairstyle worn by Farrah Fawcett. Now, it’s Ms. Lively, the 22-year-old actress who plays Serena van der Woodsen on “Gossip Girl,” whose tresses are coveted: extra long, ultra-shiny blond with a mussed-up tussle frolicking through the ends.

I’m posting this because there’s no way in hella that I’ll ever be able to have it and I want it, my precious…

Search count: “blake lively hair” = 916,000
(search count “blake lively and penn badgley” = 525,000!)

How to get it? Well, Ms. Lively’s stylist says to just twist
the LONG hair into a loose chignon (extra points here for
knowing WTF a chignon is!) and let it dry naturally. Whatever.

Don’t forget, extensions are your friend! I went into a local corner store the other day and there they were: bags of hair. (Ditto points for the ubiquitous.)

4 responses to “Monday Morning Mirth November 16, 2009”

  1. meg says:

    Remember “Secret Hair”?? Lol!

  2. Tamara says:

    I’m pretty sure no one’s hair will naturally look that good by “just” twisting it into a chignon/whatever and letting it dry naturally! ha!

  3. Seanna Lea says:

    I will never have hair like that. I’ve finally come to the realization that my face is too long to look good that way. So, I love my short hair instead.

    Even when I had long hair the bottom bits always looked a little ratty and unloved.

  4. Tricia says:

    I’d rather be knitting than mussing up my tussle – too much yarn, so little time. Does that attitude make me too frumpy? You know a few dpns make for good chignon stix – oh so chic!

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Report Card

The Report Card is our annual publication evaluating the Government's progress on actions for children, and identifying serious issues for children.

It is an established accountability tool for the Children’s Rights Alliance and our members, as well as an important information resource for politicians, policy makers, service providers, non-governmental organisations and academics. It scrutinises the Government’s own commitments to children following from its programme for government.

2017 marks the ninth edition of our annual Report Card series, launched in 2009. Report Card 2016 marked the final year of the five-year Fine Gael/Labour coalition Government and examined the commitments in the Programme for Government 2011-2016. Over its lifetime, the previous Government was awarded on average a ‘C’ grade overall. This reflects a number of vital commitments it fulfilled for children, such as the establishment of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs with a seat at the cabinet table, a standalone department and Tusla, the Child and Family Agency as well as holding the Children’s Referendum to insert the rights of children into the Irish Constitution. The grade also reflects areas in which challenges remained at the end of the Government’s term such as child poverty, child and family homelessness and Traveller and Roma Children.

With a new Government in 2016 comes a new set of commitments to be examined in the Report Card. The commitments selected from A Programme for A Partnership Government for Report Card 2017 are those that are likely to have the biggest impact on children’s rights and those that are measurable under the format of the Report Card.

Report Card 2017 contains information up to the end of January 2017. The Government is awarded an overall ‘D+’ grade in Report Card 2017, reflecting a barely acceptable performance to date with little or no positive impact on children. You can read more about Report Card 2017 and previous editions through the menu on the left.

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Three years ago, Belgian artist Wim Delvoye’s tattooed Louis Vuitton pigs were banned from SH Contemporary, Shanghai’s largest contemporary art fair. This time, he’s at it again, tattooing more odious designs, and on more pigs!

The 46 year old artist, who claims to be a vegetarian, has been tattooing live pigs since 1997. He now runs a pig farm in the suburb’s of Beijing’s Shunyi District, where he works with Chinese tattoo artists to ink pigs with an array of designs, from Louis Vuitton logos and Walt Disney cartoon characters to Chinese motifs.

Before each pig is tattooed, it is first made to sign a model release form, sedated, shaved and applied with Vaseline. The tattoos are then allowed to grow on the pigs for a while before they are sold to “art” collectors from all over the world.

In 2008, the skins could fetch about 10,200 USD a piece. Today, each canvas can set you back by as much as 1 million RMB (around 152,000 USD), if reports by Chinese news agencies are to be believed.

The question is: do you want your piece of art dead or alive?

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Thursday, July 07, 2011

Science, Knives and Rambling

My heart is warmed.
Jake Steinmann over on his blog has a cadre of volunteers to go bang my contention that "controlling the weapon arm" as a first defense priority is... well, he'll see and then he'll pass on the data. I hope everyone understands how critical it is that people go see, and then pass on the data.

Most of the science of self-defense is crap. Someone comes up with a contention or a marketing strategy and then medical and psychological journals are combed looking for something that might support it. But there are problems with that. Most of the people combing the literature aren't scientists, they're martial artists. And sometimes I'm convinced that they never read past the abstracts... and so we have cardiac stress tests (treadmill running) used to substantiate the effects of hormonal stress. Stuff like that.

Dr. Bill Lewinski over at Force Science News seems to have the best grasp of experimental methodology... but most of the rest of the stuff in the field is crap. From voluntary questionnaires aimed at mass murderers, (Oh, he may haver killed six people without any motive but he doesn't have a reason to lie... sigh) To people getting in a pissing match because research and marketing may not match

Or people who quote in little circles: Dr. A says, "Mr. B contends that X+X=Z" and then Mr. B says, "In a paper published last year, Dr. A said X+X=Z" which is technically true, but still a form of intellectual incest.

I'm an INTJ. I pretty much only give a crap about whether something works. That outweighs whether it was handed down in a pure form for 200 years or if elite commandos train it. I'm also not super-interested in whether it works in class. If you explain to a group of people that hitting three points on the lung meridian in succession will knock them out, it will work on a surprising number of people... but if you go randomly smacking three points on strangers without the explanation, none pass out and they tend to get mad. Hmmmm.

So when someone tells everyone in a class how to defend against a knife and it works in class, that's not enough for me.

The live knife thing. We banged it. Mac came up with the best answer (though he has since said it was my idea, he is old and his memory is incorrect)... but just think it through: if there was something that worked reliably against a knife, people would quit carrying knives.

I'm rambling now (hotel after about twenty hours driving). The late Carl Cestari wrote something interesting about knives and knife users. His widow gave me permission to use it in "Violence: A Writer's Guide"... but not here.

I think Jake is on the right track. Question. Test to destruction. Report. That is the Scholar's courage, and it completely trumps the Warrior's.
I have been remiss in keeping you up to date.

Bunch of stuff in New England in August (I'm not running any of it, but if someone wants to get together on the off times, let me know.)
A two-part interview with Kris Wilder and Lawrence Kane (I seem incapable of sticking to a time limit):

I think that's about it.

Joshkie said...

Rory -

First off, I listened to the pod casts; good stuff, but it got me thinking.

This might not be the best venue to field this question I have, but I'll let the larger community weigh in too.

I want to start off by saying, I'm not a martial-artist. I've never trained in anything longer than 6 months. I've always worried about locking myself into a system. This could be me just being bad lazy and not wanting to commit, but I think this allows me a mental flexibility, as Jake would put it "no system bias." then again I don't know what I don't know, so there could basic errors in the assumptions that I've made.
Another thing I've found is the deeper you get into any mental disiplen the harder it is to to think outside the box. Not sure how true this is for the physical, but it been suggested by other commenters and by few of your own posts that it is safe to assume  it does lead to at lest a narrowing of focus to the options within the system.

So, my question is; how far down the rabbit whole, of martial arts, does a person need to go to be effective in a physical encounter?

I have my own answer, so I'm more or less just looking for your thoughts on this.

Joshkie said...

P.S. You might have covered this in "Facing Violence" but I'm taking reading it kind of slow or maybe FV is the answer in and of it's self.

Jake said...

My turn to feel flattered, I guess. In a way, I'm saddened by the idea that what I'm doing is particularly special. More people should do this.

Tony Blauer has a great expression that "there are more people who defend themselves every day, with absolutely no martial arts training whatsoever, than there ever will be trained martial artists who get attacked and successfully defend themselves."

The mental and psychological fortitude gets you way further than dancing around in funny pajamas (and I like dancing around in funny pajamas, for the record).

So I guess my answer would be: not very far at all.

Kasey said...

Small world Dr Lewinski was my college advisor and Goju Ryu Karate Sensei

AF1 said...

The Straight Blast Gym guys use the S.T.A.B system of knife defense which focuses on controlling the weapon arm.

That gym is famous for banging it out. In fact if I'm not mistaken it was them who first coined the phrase "alive training."

So if they say it really works, and you say it doesn't work, who are we to believe? Is it possible that there is more than one way to skin a cat?

Andy said...

Marc MacYoung says on his website (which is a huge rabbit hole in it self) about self defense,

"The techniques are simple, effective and often brutal. You don’t have to spend five years learning them. Most of these can be taught in well under three months, if not an intensive weekend"

I think the most important thing I've learned about self-defense is the situational awareness part, with that in tact the odds of me being in a physical encounter are pretty small.

zzrzinn said...

I'll bite on the STAB thing;

from the videos i've seen the program looks heavily centered on standing grappling for position in a 'live' environment with a dude with a knife.

Nothing wrong with that, but if the place you start from is "how can I grapple a guy with a knife in order to disarm it" will come up with different conclusion than someone whose scenario asks different questions.

Don't bite my head off if i'm missing something with the STAB stuff, i'm just going by what little i've seen.

Jim said...

RE: how to determine what's "right" in self-defense...

Everything that has worked was right. Everything that has failed was wrong. It's that simple. You aren't me; I'm not you. Your situation isn't the same as mine, and my encounter is different from yours.

So look at various methods, then try them out. Start with a fairly compliant partner, if it's new technique that you're just feeling out, then increase the resistance as you get the hang of it. Depending on your background, your experience, and what your partner brings to the party, that might be one or two reps easy... or one or two weeks of working it easy.

Your goal is to understand what works for you... while also throwing the other stuff into the toolbox. Under pressure, I've had stuff I haven't practiced in ages (and would have said I'd never use) pop out because it fit the situation. Rory, I believe, has described several directly experienced knife encounters. None of them "followed the rules."`

Or... as Rory said, bang it out!

Scott said...

Hey, there is another way of looking at it. The idea that "control" is a goal is itself an assumption that doesn't apply to many situations. Anyway, my first thought was, if it's a spear coming at you do you try to control the "spear arm?' oh wait there are two, well then do you try to control the spear, hmmm... maybe, it you can avoid the tip and grab it. But the basic formula, 'I use my mass to attack his mass' is probably going to be what stops him. Then again, getting some yucky stuff in his eyes would probably do the trick...I guess I'm going to have to bring a bag of flour to my next class...bang, bang....

Anonymous said...

This is not science agreed, but what I will say is that you need to work in a police environment, with access to information about assaults involving knives to really understand , witness statements,victim statements, cctv where available.not all Leos will have access to this , if they do have it , then they are closely monitored. this will not make them an expert, it will just give them a better informed opinion, if you don't have this access, or access to something similar such as a nurse or doctor in ER......then you just have an opinion

Joshkie said...

Anon -

I have Rory.

Mac said...

If you can see it coming, you probably have time to run or, if you don't mind bleeding, doing fancy stuff like 'riding' the limb (from Punong Guro Edgar Sulite's LAMECO) to reversing the flow (Professor Presas) and all kinds of fancy things. The trick is to see it coming soon enough. And if it's soon enough, why are you still standing there?

Christian Lemburg said...

Hm ... what I don't get here is the distinction between controlling the attacking limb and shutting down the attacker as alternatives ... of course you need to do both. Yes, that is hard, but certainly possible, especially if you are lucky enough to hit the head hard in the very beginning. I have done Jake's experiment with some willing members in our club, usually the attacker will get in some hits, but if you focus on hitting the head hard from the start while somehow defending the initial attacks, the attacks will slow down, giving you a chance to go in and control and kick or knee him until he's done.

Wishing Jake good luck with this, watch your knees, partner. We got some nasty experiences there with collisions and falling down on each other.

Steve Perry said...

Bare against the blade is almost always going to be an "Oh, shit!" move. If steel didn't usually beat flesh, we'd still be fighting wars with our fists.

Bare against the blade is a low-percentage game, last resort, and given a choice, I'd rather be in Philadelphia.

Against an attacker who actually knows what s/he is doing with a knife, bare = hamburger. Generally speaking. If you assume the knifer knows something and he doesn't, that doesn't cost you anything. If you assume he hasn't a clue and he does? You are catfish fillet.

Jack said...

Off topic, but I had read Meditations on Violence and found it interesting and useful. I live in NYC, my family was visiting from Dublin, Ireland about 18 months ago.
To give my parents a break, offered to take my much younger adoptive brother to my ju-jitsu/judo class and then to Times Square where he wanted to buy some sports wear.

While we were looking around Times Square, my brother accidentally nudged a CD vendor with his bag. The guy was a thug and started giving my brother some abuse with an undercurrent of threat. I think partially because the vendor had his buddy with him. My brother is from Nigeria and was 20 at the time. There were no other young black men nearby, so I'm guessing the vendor figured he was alone. My brother's in good shape but is a lean 5'9", and is also a pleasant, friendly kid. He simply had no idea why the guy was overreacting so.
So, I tried to talk the guy down, pointing out my brother was on vacation, it was crowded. Once he saw it was going to be a two on two situation he got a lot more thoughtful and conciliatory (Also, I'm 225lbs and had a t-shirt that I had picked up at Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok with the words "King Professional Boxing" in nice big letters)
But one of the things that was foremost at my mind was to give the guy an out, so he wouldn't feel cornered into fighting. Afterwards, I felt stressed and tense.
I'm not a natural fighter.
I've trained in kenpo karate, kung fu san soo in the past. I'm pretty strong, I pay attention during class, I play judo specifically get used to impact and non-cooperative bouts (something I felt was missing from the kenpo and san soo).
I can hit hard. I train boxing conditioning twice a week for 80 minutes, jujitsu 3 times a week, for 2.5 hours, yoga once a week to keep the wife happy.

But against this I'm not particularly co-ordinated, I don't box full contact because of the risks of brain damage, and I tense up.

One explanation I read was that maybe 20% of people naturally do not freeze during the start of violence. Like a bear they have no predators (the best soldiers, police, firemen, violent criminals are supposed to fall into that category). Another 20% are like rabbits. Fighting back is simply not an option for them, they curl into a ball. The other 60% of people first reacton not necessarily to take action, but they can be trained to do so). I'd probably put myself in the average 60%.

One of the the things I took away from reading your work, is that it is normal for most people to feel fear, temporarily freeze. I feel less bad about feeling fear, a tension in the chest (although, I'd admit from a self-defence point of view it would be better if I didn't)

Joshkie said...

I think we as a group our missing the point of what Rory means by "Attacking the Mind" or "Shutting Down the Brainstem."

We been focused on doing physical damage, not enterupting their plan for how the fight should go.

What can we do to cause our attackers to freeze and enterupt what ever plan they come up with, for how they want the fight to go?

Steve Perry said...

Stonewall Jackson's Dictum, Joskie -- Get there firstest with the mostest.

Rory's premise starts with the notion that the bad guy is apt to get there first, and then what do you do? Once action has commence and you are behind, catching up and getting ahead is the trick.

I think the reason we focus on the how-to-stop-the-knife stuff, low-percentage as it might be, is because to catch up, one has to avoid being sliced and diced too much.

The old recipe about how to make rabbit stew:

First, catch a rabbit ...

Joshkie said...

Steve -

But, do you need to gain control the weapon if you lock your attacker in the OO part of the OODA Loop by doing something he doesn't ecpect.

We been talking about mutual combat solutions meeting the attacker on his terms. I bring this up cause I was skimming chapter 6 The Fight and Rory talks about doing the unexpected.

I don't remember who said it or where I heard it, but someone said (and probably screwing this up), "The most dangerious people to fight are not the professionals, but the amateurs, you can count on the professionals to act a certain way. The amateurs not so much."

I'm not sure if Mac was referring to the mystical art of the TASER or some other mystical art he know for rendering a knife wilding attacher unconscious when he made this comment:

"Control the person, control the weapon. I figure an unconscious bad guy can have all the weapons he wants.

7:58 PM (made on the previos post "Getting the Stupid Out")

But why play by the 'rules',

Joshkie said...

P.S. When Mac made his comment, the first thing to flash through my mind was that Gieco commercial is the pen mightier than the sword.


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Friday, October 19, 2012

Living wabi sabi

"Wabi sabi celebrates the beauty and allure of imperfection....
the cozy familiarity of a worn-out pair of jeans,
the rustic elegance of an old Italian villa,
the faded splendor of well-used china
handed down from your grandmother's attic."
-Taro Gold

Wabi sabi is acceptance and appreciation of what is.
I try to live my life in a wabi sabi sort of way - enjoying this moment
and attempting to find beauty in the very ordinary-ness of daily life.

One of my favorite books is the wabi-sabi house by Robyn Griggs Lawrence.

Hope you have a great weekend!
I am going over to Sarasota to share some time with family and friends
and hopefully have a little time to hit Sarasota Art & Frame to pick up a few supplies.
I am looking forward to the drive over through Myakka River State Park -
it is so beautiful and I always see a variety of Florida wildlife.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Fall - in love

It's cooling off a bit here - and the sky is a brilliant blue with few clouds - and the humidity is much less - oh yes, it is finally turning to fall here in southeastern Florida - above is a sketchbook page - all watercolor
vegetable soup - yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
a cup of tea and a good book - by the way, have you read Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn?  I read it in one day BUT I was so disappointed by the ending - anyway, it is totally suspenseful and will suck you right in!

a new type of creative mischief going on in the studio - art dollmaking - it is an experiment for me - not sure how it will turn out ................ I am using lots of my stash - fabrics, yarns, beads, and paints in different ways - it is so tactile and tangible -- so different from watercolor painting or drawing -- depending on the results, I will post my creation in a few days

some things for sale on etsy, ebay, and as I continue to destash and try to make a little money for holiday presents

hope you are having a super day,

Friday, October 12, 2012

Some little corners of fall

Have I mentioned how much I love fall - and how October is my favorite month - after all, as they keep advertising on the baseball games, "legends are born in October"!  Every time that comes on (my DH is a fanatic baseball (especially the Yankees) fan), I make sure to point that out to him - after all, I was born in October! LOL!!!
Some corners around my house and a few things happening in the studio - my studio is on the southwest corner of our house, and when the sun gets low in the southern sky, the light coming in the south window is killer so this morning I pulled a vintage tablecloth out of the linen closet and layered it over the curtain - it is definitely helping diffuse the light.
Hope your day is filled with sunshine and love,

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

My first attempt..........................

Posting this photo of my latest effort is very scary for me - this is one of my first attempts at a watercolor portrait - I can see some things wrong with it but at least if you know the person in the photo, you can recognize him - gotta keep drawing and painting..........................
I have read many times that artists and writers get frustrated and depressed with their attempts, and how well I understand the feelings, but if I have learned one thing in my quest to become a better artist, it is that you must persist - you have to force yourself into the studio and pick up a pencil or a brush or whatever you use to create. You have to show up as much as you can, and some days the Spirit will fill you and some days not - but you gotta be there ready and willing to accept the Gift.
Hope you are having a wonderful autumn and finding a little time to create,

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

A little fall sketching

Now that it's a bit cooler (just 87/75) my husband decided to take on some outdoor projects that really can't be done in the hot summer. We have three live oak trees in our yard - a papa, a mama, and a baby (if you can call 20-25 ft tall a baby), and they need trimming every so often. Dan worked all day yesterday cutting down limbs off the mama size tree and today he was cutting the smaller stuff and tying them up in bundles so the yard waste men would pick them up. I helped him some and them brought some small twigs and acorns into the house to sketch.  The squirrels were quite upset and were really screeching!
and then just for fun, a bit of fall sunshine - I love gingkos - their shape, their colors - so unique!

Now I need to post these over at the flickr sketchbook challenge page - did you see that the theme for October is Cabinet of Curiosities?  I have some ideas!

Hope your day is filled with fall sunshine!

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

October - my favorite month

"There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October."
-  Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ah, the harvest colors of orange, gold, russet, cranberry, with a bit of green. Time for home baked breads and from scratch soups simmering on the stove - and pumpkin spice lattes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope you are enjoying this October!


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Nobody knows what to do

Something that has given me a lot of clarity over the past couple of weeks is realising that nobody knows exactly what to do at any given point in time.

I mean, nobody can ever know exactly what to do.

Without having some kind of crystal ball or knowing the result of every ensuing step after this particular decision, there’s no way you can ask someone “what do we do next?” and have them give you the finite answer, no matter how much expertise or experience they have.

Sure, experts make knowledgeable decisions based on what they know has worked in the past, but when has simply doing what we’ve always done helped us improve on anything?

And yeah, a dumb decision is still a dumb decision, but for every dumb decision there are a million good decisions, and a hundred thousand excellent decisions, and a hundred superb decisions, but never one perfect decision.

All we have to do is choose one of the good decisions.

If you’re wondering where that amazing photo came from, it was taken by Australian photographer, Jonas Peterson

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    gary - December 4, 2011

    Sometimes you just have to make a decision and run with it. It can be argued that people who don’t make a decision at all are making a dumb decision and we can all be guilty of procrastination. Some of the really great entrepreneurs like Richard Branson and Steve Jobs I am sure have made bad decisions in their time, but the difference is that they turned most of the bad decisions they made into good ones.

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    Chris Pahor - December 4, 2011

    Great comment and an excellent addition to this post. Even a decision that turns out wrong can be made into a good one. Thanks Gary.

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The Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity

September 16, 2012

“Idolatry’s Cure”

St. Matthew 6:24-34

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’  For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” St. Matthew 6:24-34

The reason we worry about the future is because we don’t trust God.  The reason we don’t trust God is because we are by nature idolaters.  Idolatry is the worship of a false god.  All sin is idolatry.  All sinners are idolaters.

We are Christians.  We have been delivered from idolatry and ushered into the kingdom of God.  The kingdom of God is where our God rules over us by his grace.  He forgives us all our sins.  He makes us citizens of heaven.  He fills us with the Holy Spirit.  He works in us the confidence that we are his dear children for whom he will provide every need of body and soul.

This kingdom is not something we win for ourselves.  It was won for us by the holy obedience of our Lord Jesus.  By taking our place under God’s law and by suffering for our sins he fulfilled all righteousness for us.  His obedience and suffering is our robe of righteousness that covers us and presents us spotless before God as pure saints.

That’s the kingdom of God and his righteousness.  That’s the foundation of our lives in this world.  Belonging to this kingdom and being covered with this righteousness make us rich.  Yet we worry.  We ignore our wealth and worry about being poor.  We worry about what we will eat, what we will drink, what we will wear.  We worry about all sorts of things, and our worrying is a form of worship.  It is a form of false worship.  It is a form of idolatry.

Idolatry is worshipping the creation instead of the Creator.  Do we trust in the things we need?  Or do we trust in the One who gives us the things we need?  We who have been delivered out of idolatry and have through the new birth of water and the Spirit entered into the kingdom of God are not in heaven yet.  The kingdom of God is here on earth wherever the gospel is proclaimed and the sacraments are administered.  These are the means of grace through which God gives us the righteousness of his kingdom.  These means of grace work faith in our hearts and we are born from above.  The Bible says that flesh and blood cannot inherit this kingdom, so we must be born from above.  But the sinful flesh clings to us.  God has delivered us from sin, but our sinful nature remains, hanging on until the day we die.  So we must do battle against idolatry within our own hearts.

We worry.  We look at what we need and we wonder how it will be provided.  We make only so much money.  What are we going to do?  What if we get sick?  What will insurance cover?  We know that we aren’t really in control and this means that we cannot know whether or not we’ll be provided for.  If we were in control we would be provided for.  Isn’t that right?

That’s not right.  That’s wrong.  Not being in control puts someone else in control and that someone else is our heavenly Father.  Jesus teaches us to call him, “Our Father, who art in heaven.”  Jesus teaches us that our heavenly Father feeds the birds and clothes the grass of the field.  He rules over this world with fatherly care.  He provides every living creature with what it needs and he will provide for us as well.

The godlessness of the twentieth century has given way to the proliferation of false gods in the twenty first century.  Atheism was a powerful intellectual force a generation ago.  Atheism teaches that there is no god.  Atheists are materialists.  They believe that the material universe is all that exists.  There is no God, no devil, no spirit world, no heaven or hell.  Everything is here and now.  The pop singer, John Lennon, promoted atheistic materialism with his song, “Imagine.”  We are to imagine that there is no heaven, no hell, and no religion.

But atheism doesn’t work.  People are by nature religious.  Even if they reject the true God they will inevitably come up with gods to worship.  It’s human nature.  Materialism doesn’t satisfy the soul.  People want religious satisfaction.  So they invent gods to give them what they want.  Idols rule by means of lies, false promises, manipulation, and every form of deceit.  That’s because they are invented by sinful men.  Since the devil is the father of lies as our Lord Jesus said, it is the devil and his demons that are behind the lure and power of idols.  And all idols are basically the same.  They are creatures claiming the status of the Creator.

Jesus nails down the very essence of idolatry when he calls it mammon.  Mammon is wealth.  It is the stuff that people trust in.  They can see it, measure it, and control it.  They’ve got it.  When they have it, they are in charge of their lives.  Or so they think.  But they are not.  The mammon that they think puts them in control is what controls them.  It is their master.  They must serve their master.

God or mammon – you cannot serve both.  Love and loyalty cannot be divided between the two.  You worship one or the other.  This is the way it is.  When we worry about food and drink and clothing and everything else that pertains to the needs and wants of our bodies we are saying that our Father in heaven is not really who he says he is.

Idolatry makes the jealous God angry, as God himself made clear in the words he gave to Moses from Sinai, “I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God.”  But see how gently he chides us.  Jesus doesn’t threaten us.  He speaks kindly to us.  Look at the birds and consider the flowers.  Use your God-given senses and think clearly.  Put two and two together.  If your Father in heaven takes care of the birds will he not take care of you?   You’re worth more than a bird, aren’t you?  And you worry about being clothed.  See how God clothes the fields.  How beautiful they are, yet their beauty is here today and gone tomorrow.  Won’t he clothe you?

You worry and it does no good.  The god called mammon is one big fat liar.  He teaches you to worry and yet your worrying can’t make you any taller, smarter, healthier, or prettier.  It does you no good at all.  You aren’t in charge of your life.  You never were and you never will be.  When you think you are you are deceiving yourself and bowing down before the meanest god in the word: mammon.  He does nothing but lays burden upon burden on you.  Listen to the inspired words of the Apostle Paul:

Now godliness with contentment is great gain.  For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.  And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.  But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.  For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 1 Timothy 6:6-10

The love of money cheapens life.  It measures it by a false measurement.  Jesus tells us that life is more than food.  The body is more than clothing.  True life is lived in fellowship with the One who created us.  Our true clothing is the robe of righteousness with which God has clothed us in our baptism.

That righteousness is what defines the kingdom of God.  Everybody wants righteousness.  Folks want the righteousness that the world sees.  Look at me!  See how good I am.  See how well off I am.  See how successful I am.  See what status I have.  And look at all my stuff!  Why, having this stuff must mean I’m good.  Otherwise, why should I have it?

But the kingdom of God is invisible to the human eye.  Its righteousness is of infinitely greater worth than all of the stuff that folks parade around.  The righteousness of God’s kingdom is the righteousness of Christ’s obedience and suffering.  This righteousness covers our sins.  It is the righteousness of Jesus’ blood that washes away our sins and makes us righteous before God.  God looks at us and see the obedience and suffering of his Son.  He sees what the world cannot see but what faith sees and trusts.  He sees us as pure and holy and innocent.  And so we are because we have Christ and belong to his kingdom of grace.

Life is more than food.  The body is more than clothing.  And the future is in God’s hands.  God will not provide us with the greater gift and turn around and deny us the lesser gift.  The greater gift is his kingdom and righteousness.  The lesser gift is the food, drink, and clothing we need to get by.  It makes no sense for God to give us the greater and deprive us of the lesser.  Here is how St. Paul puts it in Romans 8:32, “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?”  It is foolish idolatry to worry about the lesser gift.  The only cure for this idolatry is the greater gift.

How few find it!  It is more precious than all the money in the world.  It shines with a beauty unknown in nature.  It lasts forever and never loses its value.  It is the pure love of God filling us and assuring us that all our sins are forgiven just as surely as Christ our dear Lord suffered and died for us.  It is the Holy Spirit comforting us with the knowledge that the world in which we live must submit to its Creator in service to God’s children – and we are God’s children.  It is Jesus protecting us from the accusations of the law and the temptations of the devil.  It is heaven itself, where we will no longer be tempted and we will no longer suffer want and we will never be dissatisfied ever again.  This is the kingdom of God and his righteousness.

Seek it.  Seek it first.  Set it before all other things for it is your greatest treasure.  When you have it and you know you have it you know that you have nothing to worry about.  God has taken care of it, whatever it is.  And he has delivered you from idolatry.  Amen


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Friday, August 20, 2010

#224...photoshoot at mi casa

I spent the last two days watching Photographer Gustav Schmiege and Field Editor Susan Fox work their magic at my house. The photo shoot of my kitchen and bathroom is for Better Home and Gardens Special Interest Magazine Kitchen and Bath Makeovers, and it was so much fun, and such a great honor to have Susan and Gus shoot my home.

I really learned a lot from both Susan and Gus. Susan has a great eye, and it was so interesting to see how the staging for a photo shoot is different from how you decorate to live in a space. It differs more than I thought it would from either my decorating experience or my real estate staging experience, and I can see that it takes some practice. Additionally, Susan's job was to make sure that all of the requirements and shot requests that the magazine editors sent were met. I really enjoyed watching her work, and think with a little training, I might be good at being a photo stylist. Also, Susan wrote the nicest little write-up about me on her blog Love Where You Live.

Gus is an awesome photographer. He had some of his portfolio with him, and I really enjoyed looking through it. His work is really worth a look online here. He was so easy going, and answered a million camera questions that I was throwing at him, and even helped me better understand my own Canon camera. His job was so much more involved than I imagined, as he spent as much time setting up each shot as he did capturing it.

The little owls above are holding leftover remnants of some of the staging flowers from the shoot. I tried to make them little hats from the bits of flowers. Here are some of my shots of Susan and Gus hard at work.

....more leftover flowers for us to enjoy this weekend!

Love Where You LIve said...

HI Christie!
Thank you for allowing us to photograph your home. You have an amazing place! I've been so inspired by your creativity!! I've been talking about it with all my friends. Take care and stay cool! -s

Anonymous said...

That is so neat! I hope you showed the designers your before pictures! The transformation is amazing.

Kids are back at school, now to sew for the playroom.

the dowiaks said...

how cool, christie!! can't wait to see it in the magazine.


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03 July 2010

Architecture Love

Check out this gorgeous Mid-Century Modern home, The Radius House, designed by Daniel J. Liebermann.  Materials used in the construction included salvaged rafters from a 19th century hotel and glass from WWII fighter airplanes!

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Beautiful photos by Joe Fletcher for the New York Times.

Eva / Sycamore Street Press said...

what a gorgeous house! and i love that they used recycled materials.

A Perfect Gray said...

unbelievable. and look at the pattern on that terrace brickwork...


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Attack of the Super PACs

Fund-raising machines symbolize freedom, but spread political poison

Super PACs have become this year’s super-villains.

Thanks to a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing them, “super” political action committees that are independent but support certain candidates can raise unlimited amounts of money – and individuals are allowed to give unlimited amounts to them.

Technically, the Super PACs aren’t allowed to coordinate their activities with the candidates they support. But it’s naive to think they would ignore a candidate’s wishes.

Indeed, comedian Stephen Colbert, in his mock presidential campaign, turned his Super PAC over to fellow comedian Jon Stewart – and it was promptly renamed the “Definitely Not Coordinating with Stephen Colbert SuperPAC.”

The public, though, is deadly serious about wanting Super PACs banned, by a margin of nearly 70 percent in an ABC News/Washington Post poll – an astounding consensus crossing party lines.

There’s good reason for that: Political ads have long tended toward the negative, but with the influx of all that new money, Super PACs have become a main sewer pipeline, dumping political raw sewage all over the campaign. It has made the nation’s politics all the more toxic.

We do wonder how one goes about banning Super PACs under the First Amendment. While the current incarnation of PACs is obnoxious and unsettling, one of this nation’s most cherished liberties and greatest assets is the freedom to form associations – including those that promote political causes and candidates. How to rein in Super PACs without stepping on that vital freedom is a tricky task.

While we sort that out, however, there’s another election practice that is a ton more dangerous to the body politic: The profligate support of candidates by public-sector labor unions.

The Denver Post reports that a public-sector union network of contributors in that state “helped Colorado’s liberal super PACs spend nearly 150 times more money than their Republican counterparts in 2010.”

But the danger isn’t a partisan one; it’s a practical one. If public-sector unions – often using cash supplied by taxpayers, in the form of mandatory dues paid by workers – are successful in essentially hiring their own bosses, who are in turn beholden to them, the upward pressure on public spending only increases. This, at a time when most states are bowing under the weight of public-employee benefits and retirements.

Nor is this merely an academic discussion: The city of Stockton, Calif., is on the verge of bankruptcy. As one Stockton business owner noted on National Public Radio – hardly a conservative bastion – “When the real estate was booming and the money was coming in, naturally the politicians, being politicians, made everybody happy. (The) police department, fire department, all got handsome wages and retirement plans – same as city officials.”

How outrageous is it? Consider this, from Stockton City Manager Bob Deis, who said that in the 1990s, “City employees only had to work one month, and then they could retire, and the city would pick up their insurance for free for them and their spouse for the rest of their lives.”

“Now,” adds NPR, “the bill for those public employee benefits has come due.”

NPR calls it “An example to avoid.” Yet, you can be sure it’s being repeated wherever public-sector unions have seized control of the politicians. Wisconsin is just a high-profile example of the battle for the public purse that public-sector unions are waging – and in many cases winning.

We need not wonder what such a country looks like. It’s called Greece.

Super PACs are fun to hate. But the real action, the real potential for lasting harm, is elsewhere.

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Benefits of Chewable Multivitamin for Kids

Kids are known to be choosy with what they put in their mouths, whether it is food or medicine. Most kids love pizza and candies. Meal times are often a struggle between kids and their parents who want to feed them more vegetables and fruits. And parents are often at the losing end of the battle. That’s why parents turn to a chewable multivitamin for kids to provide their children with the required daily dose of vitamins and minerals. They are specially made to be appealing to children. Chewable multivitamin is one of those things that children and parents agree on when it comes to health products.

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I know I said "blog like no one is reading" but it's nice to know these people are

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Wordless Wednesday

As you may recall my last Wordless Wednesday (okay it was Tuesday) was just two weeks ago.

As they say, "If you don't like the weather, wait 10 minutes." (The water was 42F/6C)

  1. Oh my... that looks like Adam goofing off!!!

    He loves to strike a funny pose like your child.

  2. Holy crap that's cold! That's a brave boy you have there!

  3. This weekend I bet you'll be in the pool too! The weather will be gorgeous - at last.

  4. I heard, up to 25C on Saturday. What a crazy place we live in! But I don't think the pool will have warmed up enough for me yet, it's solar heated.

  5. Knowing little boys, if you had said "don't go in the pool, it's too cold.", I'm thinking he would have been doing a cannonball!!!
    I love that picture...the goggles, the fins, the pose...that photo is a keeper!!!

  6. Ha! Now that captures spring in our northern world. The sun makes all the difference as does this funny post.

  7. dkuriowa, yup, this was a pick your battles thing with my boys. What harm is there in a little cold water? Do people still get chilblains?
    SL, you are so right. I learned the weather changes line while living in Maine.

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