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gone-daddy-goneDid you know that folks steal catalytic converters off of cars to sell them for the precious metals inside?  Did you know it only takes 20 seconds with a cordless saw to cut off the catalytic converter?  Did you know that your car is inoperable without the catalytic converter or that to replace one is about 2400 smackeroos?

Yeah, me neither.

Friday afternoon, John goes out to his car after work.  He rides public transportation to work and parks the car at the train station.  So he comes out, starts the car and it sounds terrible.  He calls me.

John: The car sounds really bad.

me: Like American Idol reject bad or what?

John: It’s making a roaring noise and I don’t know if I should drive it.

me: Drive it around the parking lot.  If it won’t go, call a wrecker.

I’m a lot of help, aren’t I?

So he calls me back in a few minutes.

John: The engine light came on.  I’m calling a wrecker.

me: UGH

It’s not that I wasn’t sympathetic.  I was.  It was just that I was wondering what was wrong the with the car.  Just last weekend it was at the dealership getting an oil change and inspection.  I was wondering what it was going to cost.

So John calls me about an hour later from the dealership.

John: I am freaking out.

me: What’s the matter?

John: Somebody cut off the catalytic converter.

me: WHAT?

John: Somebody cut off the catalytic converter.

me: I heard that the first time.  I thought perhaps I was hallucinating.

John: I wish I were.

me: Why would someone cut it off?

John: Apparently folks steal these for the precious metals.  It’s gonna cost about $2400 to replace.  You need to call the insurance company.

And so I did.  Hopefully, insurance will cover this.  We now have a lovely rental minivan which just makes me wish I still had a minivan.

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Our main test site is in Barrow, Alaska located at the Northernmost tip of the U.S. in the Arctic circle, and home to our largest deployments yet. In 2017, we deployed our material solution on 17,500 square meters (over three football fields) of ice, and in 2018, we deployed 15,000 square meters of material with successful results. With our proprietary remote monitoring buoy, we then track how our material is performing during the spring melt from our lab in California.

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Seed availability at the local level is key to enhancing seed replacement rate (SRR) and the adoption of improved cultivars. This requires quality seeds to be available in adequate quantities, at the right time and at a cost affordable by farmers. To achieve this and to train farmers in production of chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut seeds, training programs were held in multiple locations across the state of Odisha, India.

Sixteen training programs were organized in different districts in October and November. These included seven on pigeonpea in Sonepur, Ganjam and Gajapati districts; six on chickpea in Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar and Sundergarh districts and three on groundnut in Kalahandi, Nuapada and Ganjam districts. The major activities included promotion of improved cultivars and production technologies, development of a sustainable and effective seed system, and capacity building of farmers.

These programs brought together 1,267 farmers of which 125 were women. The resource persons for the training programs included officers from the Department of Agriculture and Seed Certification Agency and District Coordinators working under these projects and ICRISAT staff – Dr Pooran Gaur, Principal Scientist, Chickpea Breeding; Mr R Vijaykumar, Manager Field Operations, Pigeonpea Breeding; Mr SK Tripathy (State Coordinator for Odisha projects).

Projects: (i) Introduction and expansion of improved pigeonpea production technology in rainfed upland ecosystems of Odisha. (ii) Promotion of improved chickpea varieties in rice-based cropping systems of small holder farmers of Odisha. (iii) Scaling-up of improved groundnut varieties through established seed system in various cropping systems of smallholder farmers in Odisha. Investor: Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY), Department of Agriculture, Government of Odisha, India. Partners: Department of Agriculture, Government of Odisha; Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology; and Orissa State Seeds Corporation Limited CGIAR Research Program: Grain Legumes

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Cloud of Cards. The (coming) book

A sneak peek into the coming book that will present and discuss the design process as well as  its results, sorted out from this documentary blog. Design EUROSTANDARD with a new font by NORM.

As announced a few times already, two books in print-on-demand will summarize the overall research Inhabiting and Interfacing the Cloud(s), at the term of the design and ethnographic process we went through during almost three years.

Bratton H. B. (2016). The Stack, On Software and Sovereignty

(…). In an account that is both theoretical and technical, drawing on political philosophy, architectural theory, and software studies, Bratton explores six layers of The Stack: Earth, Cloud, City, Address, Interface, User.

Each is mapped on its own terms and understood as a component within the larger whole built from hard and soft systems intermingling — not only computational forms but also social, human and physical forces. This model, informed by the logic of the multilayered structure of protocol “stacks”, in which network technologies operate within a modular and vertical order, offers a comprehensive image of our emerging infrastructure and a platform for its ongoing reinvention. (…).

Note: recently published by the MIT Press — as well as quoted as a work in progress by Lucien Langton in a post back in 2015 — comes this book by Prof. Benjamin H. Bratton.

It consists in a comprehensive analysis, both technical and phylosophical of what we could call “The Cloud”, yet what Bratton describes as a world scale “stack” consisting in 6 layers: Earth, Cloud, City, Address, Interface, User (and which interestingly is not so distant to our own approach considering the user, the interface, the infrastructure and the territory).

Hu T.-H. (2015). A Prehistory of The Cloud

We may imagine the digital cloud as placeless, mute, ethereal, and unmediated. Yet the reality of the cloud is embodied in thousands of data centers, any one of which can use as much electricity as a midsized town. Even all these data centers are only one small part of the cloud. Behind that cloud-shaped icon on our screens is a whole universe of technologies and cultural norms, all working to keep us from noticing their existence. In this book, Tung-Hui Hu examines the gap between the real and the virtual (sic) in our understanding of the cloud. (…)

Note: while we do not necessarily follow Mr. Hu in all is assertions, we found it very interesting to digg into the potential past of this physical and digital construct (the cloud), even so it obviously mingles its own past with the one of the Internet, and previously with telegraph/telephone lines and railways that served as the initial paths for these “lines”.

Very interesting is also the part that presents the invention of the “user”, coming from an initial idea of sharing a common resource. It indeed seems that the “user” emerged from the ideas and technologies of “time-sharing”, then “multiprocessing”, when a single mainframe computer could remain stuck by a single user’s computations for hours or even days, sometimes for no results (error in the code).

Poetics and Politics of Data, the publication

Note: we’re pleased to see that the publication related to the exhibition and symposium Poetics & Politics of Data, curated by Sabine Himmelsbach at the H3K in Basel, has been released later this summer. The publication, with the same title as the exhibition, was first distributed in the context of the conference Data Traces. Big Data in the Context of Culture and Society that also took place at H3K on the 3rd andf 4th of July.

The book contains texts by Nicolas Nova (Me, My cloud and I) and myself (Inhabiting and Interfacing the Cloud(s). An ongoing Design Research), but also and mainly contributions by speakers of the conference (which include the american theorician Lev Manovitch, curator Sabine Himmelsbach and Prof. researcher from HGK Basel Claudia Mareis) and exhibiting artists (Moniker, Aram Bartholl, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Jennifer Lyn Morone, etc.)

The book serves both as the catalogue of the exhibition and the conference proceedings. Due to its close relation to our subject of research (the book speaks about data, we’re interested in the infrastructure –both physical and digital– that host them), we’re integrating the book to our list of relevant books. The article A short history of Clouds, by Orit Halpern is obviously of direct signifiance to our work.

Clog (2012). Data Space

Note: we mentioned this “bookazine”, Clog, in our bibliography (Clog, (2012). Data Space, Clog online), at the very early stages of our design-research project. It is undoubtedly one of the key references for this project, mostly related to thinking, territory, space and therefore rather oriented toward the architecture field. It will certainly serve in the context of our workshop with the architects (in collaboration with ALICE) next week, but not only, as it states some important stakes related to data in general. This very good and inspiring magazine is driven by a pool of editors that are Kyle May (editor in chief, we invited him as a jury member when we –fabric | ch with Tsinghua University– organized a call during 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale, curtated by Beatrice Galilee), Julia van den Hout, Jacob Reidel, Archie Lee Coates, Jeff Franklin.

The edition is unfortunately sold out. Reason why I assembled several images from the bookazine (for the research sake) in a pdf that can be downloaded here (60mb).

Mejias, U. A. (2013). Off the Network, The University of Minnesota Press.

Note: Off the Network, a book by Ulises Ali Mejias that is interesting to read when it comes to objectify and question the network paradigm. Beyond the praise about participation and inclusiveness that was widely used by network advocates and now also by marketing companies, Off the Network brings a critical voice and addresses the centralization, or in some other cases the “nodocentrism” that is at work through many global online services, so as the commodification of many aspects of our lives that comes with them.

While we are looking for alternative “architectures” for cloud infrastructure, nodes and services, this is a “dissonant” point of view to take into account and a book that we are integrating into the I&IC bibliography.


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Carly Fiorina, the Republican presidential candidate, likes to style herself as the woman who went from Secretary to CEO. Perhaps this bit of personal myth-making is part and parcel of normal political bio spinning. More important to note is her "babes on bayonets" campaign style. She sees in Hillary Clinton her own dark inner self. If I had to guess which candidate would be willing to okay slaying babies for fun or profit, or just to project power, it would be Mrs. Fiorina.

I don't think Carly was a particularly bad CEO at HP, as her opponents and numerous laid-off employees will try to paint her. She bought Compaq. The only real alternative to that was to get out of the PC business. She laid off a bunch of workers, which had to be done because both HP and Compaq had grown bloated with time.

It is not her business decisions with which I take issue. It is her political positions and the damaged-goods mind that they reflect that concern me.

Mrs. Fiorina did not begin life in the working class. Nor did she really begin her career as a secretary. She was the daughter of the very powerful Joseph Tyree Sneed, III, who was a government employee most of his life. He rose to be a Ninth Circuit Federal Appeals Court Judge. The Sneeds had plenty of money and Republican connections.

Carly (born Cara Carleton Sneed in September 1954) lived though the Vietnam War and the cultural revolution of the 1960s but apparently learned nothing from either. After a childhood of fancy schools she earned a B. A. in Philosophy and Medieval History from Stanford in 1976. As far as I can tell, many of her political ideas are from her medieval history classes.

Early failures are no problem for the children of the rich and power. Money and connections provide an endless string of second chances. Daddy bought her an MBA, then in 1980 she joined AT&T as a management trainee. You recall AT&T: "We don't care, we don't have to." She did well in the back-stabbing, ass-kissing, crony-capitalist bureaucracies of AT&T and then of its spin-off Lucent.

Now she wants to be President, even though she has never been Miss Popularity or elected to any kind of public office. Her strategy to emerge from a crowded field? Appeal to the Republican base with lies, exaggerations, and propaganda.

Her most frightening promise is to engage in the largest peacetime military buildup in U.S. history. This would be at a time when the nation already is approaching owing $20 trillion in debt.

But she is right up there with Adolph Hitler when it comes to manipulating emotions. That is why she is lying about Planned Parenthood, whipping up the anti-abortion and anti-birth control voters. For the most craven of politicians this sort of Babes on Bayonets campaign is a proven strategy.

Sadly babies are killed from time to time by military means. Mostly conquering armies, in ancient times, where happy to simply enslave the losers. But we know that the Jews claimed to have exterminated the babies of their enemies the first time they invaded Israel: "And we took his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain." [Deuteronomy 2:34] If the Jews did it, other armies did too.

But by Greek/Roman times, as more civilized ideas took hold, the killing of babies in war was looked down upon, though I doubt it ceased entirely. We see this reflected in the New Testament story about King Herod sending his men to kill the baby Jesus, but slaughtering other babes instead. Probably not a true story, since the Jews hated Herod and would have recorded it themselves, had it been true. If not true, it is an early Babes on Bayonets propaganda story.

The prototypical Babes on Bayonets story was a British Empire concoction during World War I. The German army asked permission to cross Belgium to attack its real rivals for global dominance, the French and British empires. Belgium was notorious for using mass murder and chopping off people's hands to extract wealth from Congo, and as a ally of the Brits and Frech refused passage to the Germany army. British propagandists accused German soldiers of throwing babies into the air and impaling them on bayonets for sport or practice. Not that the German Army was the Peace Corps, but it was a disciplined army that did no such thing.

The United States of America, as far as historians can tell, has never tossed babies into the air to kill them, but killing babies has not always been off limits. Slaughters of American Indians probably included killing children. Individual American soldiers in the Philippines War and later in World War II and Vietnam were reported to have killed some children, and some pregnant women. These cases were probably against orders.

But the big numbers were wracked up by the purposeful, mass bombings of civilian urban areas in Germany and Japan during World War II. The vaporization of large numbers of children at Hiroshima and Nagasaki is something I would expect Carly Fiorina to defend with every inch of her withered soul.

Carly's attacks on Hillary Clinton are vicious and untrue. Making false accusations and seeing what sticks was a political game played before either Carly or Hillary were born, but it has gotten out of hand these last few decades. Don't be surprised if Carly or a PAC supporting her shows a photoshopped picture of Hillary bayoneting a baby, or tearing into a child's neck like a zombie.

Women's rights? Who needs them when born into a rich, powerful family like the Sneeds. Rich people's rights will do you just fine, and America has plenty of those.

But I can say this for Mrs. Fiorina: I would vote for her before I would vote for some of her rival Republican candidates. The person I worry about is Senator Rubio. He's prettier than Hillary or Carly and he's young and arrogant enough to do something so stupid the entire world could be at jeopardy.

Bottom line is, Carly Fiorina is just plain crazy. She believes liberals caused the draught in California, that women should not have control of their own bodies, and that if you were not born as rich as she was, tough luck. Get a job as a management trainee (after you've used your bootstraps to get yourself a fancy college degree and an MBA) and make your corporate masters wealthier, if you want a bite of the pie.

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WATCH: Lady Lamb - "Dear Arkansas Daughter" - Live from Lincoln Hall in Chicago

Aly Spaltro, aka Lady Lamb, hails from Brunswick, Maine and kicks some serious ass. Just felt spreading the good word with one of my favorite songs by her. Hope you all enjoy it as much as I do!

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Monday, March 14, 2016

Compassion: 10 Amazing Stories by DailyGood Editors -- Shared by the Palm Springs Guru

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Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your modus operandi and change your world. --Annie Lennox

10 Amazing Stories For World Kindness Day--by DailyGood Editors, Nov 13, 2014

November 13th is World Kindness Day! In honor of this, we've compiled 10 diverse and heart-warming pieces honoring extraordinary acts of kindness, love and compassion by ordinary people. These stories include bus-drivers, bakers, basketball players, canine heroes and much more...reminding us of just how universal and essential the spirit of kindness is in our world. Read on and be inspired to do an act of kindness of your own today.

1. The Angel of Queens:
Jorge Munoz is a school bus driver by day and an angel by night. Every
night for more than 5 years, he has gone home and cooked food for
hundreds of people on his old stove. He then goes to a street corner in
Queens, New York and feeds those that are hungry. He does this with his
own money because "it's the right thing to do".

2. The Business 9 Women Kept Secret for Three Decades:
"Somewhere in West Tennessee, not far from Graceland, nine women -- or
"The 9 Nanas," as they prefer to be called -- gather in the darkness of
night. At 4am they begin their daily routine -- a ritual that no one,
not even their husbands, knew about for 30 years. They have one mission
and one mission only: to create happiness. And it all begins with baked

3. 21 Ways to Celebrate Life: After
Nancy Rothstein's son, Josh, passed away unexpectedly, she was seeking a
way to offer a tribute for family and friends to honor his birthday.
With each passing birthday, she adds one more item to the list.On Josh's
21st birthday, true to her tradition, Nancy shared these 21 ways to
celebrate life -- and shine your light in our world.

4. J-Mac: Shot of a Lifetime: Jason
McElwain, an autistic high school basketball team member in Rochester,
New York, served as the team manager and spirit coach for several years.
On the final game of the season the compassionate coach let him put on a
uniform with the rest of the team. What happened next you have to see
to believe.

5. A Cab Ride I'll Never Forget:
"Twenty years ago, I drove a cab for a living.  One night I took a fare
at 2:30 AM, when I arrived to collect, the building was dark except for
a single light in a ground floor window." What followed was a
life-transforming experience that blurred the line between giver and

6. An Ordinary Magical Life: "I
met Shelagh Gordon at her funeral. My sharpest impression of her that
day, as mourners in black pressed around me, was of her breathtaking
kindness. Shelagh was freshly-in-love thoughtful. If she noticed your
boots had holes, she'd press her new ones into your arms. When you
casually admired her coffeemaker, you'd wake up to one of your own." The
Star newspaper dedicated unprecedented coverage to this relatively
unknown 55-year-old woman's funeral ... this remarkable story explains

7. Peace-Chain Reaction: April
23rd, a little after lunch. 1991. That was the moment Joe Murphy,
decided that he would make something for peace. The details weren't
clear to him at the time, but he knew that it would be something
symbolic of connection, a chain of sorts. He knew that he would create
small art pieces, and that he would give them away, and that he would do
this for the rest of his life. This idea evolved into the exquisite
Peace Chains: a continuing series of ceramic pendants in vivid hues,
each with the word "peace" etched into it in one of over 90 different

8. A 15-Year-Old Dog's Gift to A Grieving Man: "I have
the pleasure of meeting hundreds of incredible heroes, but this one
caught me off guard.  Your hair will stand on end as you read the story
of this man and this dog who picked one another up time and time
again...May we all one day have the chance to love this deeply…"

9. The Man Who Dined With His Mugger: In
this inspiring audio clip, Julio Diaz tells the story of how he offered
his coat to the man who stole his wallet, and of how the two ended up
having dinner and a life-changing conversation together. Diaz's
unassuming manner and steadfast compassion shine through his words
making this a story hard to forget.

10. Designing for Generosity: What
would the world look like if we designed for generosity? Instead of
assuming that people want to simply maximize self-interest, what if our
institutions and organizations catered to our deeper motivations? This
compelling TEDx talk explores this question and introduces the concept
of Giftivism: the practice of radically generous acts that change the

Kindness comes in packages of all sorts, shapes and sizes! These ten
stories offer a small window into the infinite forms it takes in our
world. May each one of us find our own way of expressing it, today and
all days.

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Palm Springs Guru is proud of the people of Palm Springs, the greater Palm Springs area and the entire Coachella Valley for their constant practice of compassion.

Look anywhere in the Untied States of America and you will see American compassion for our citizens and people throughout the world.

Thank you to our friends at Daily Good. Here is your link to the original article: 10 Amazing Stories For World Kindness Day, by DailyGood Editors

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Aviva Stadium, Dublin - Liquid-Applied Waterproofing

The Aviva Stadium in Dublin is Ireland’s new home for international rugby and football, constructed on the site of the old Lansdowne Road stadium. The new ground includes a new podium, and a grand staircase built to allow spectators easy access to underlying railway and transport facilities.

IMA contractor Crown Roofing Ltd, based in Wicklow, was asked to waterproof the new podium deck and staircase using a membrane that could be applied directly to the new concrete structure.

The membrane then had to be covered with an appropriate drainage board and cementitious screed in order to provide a robust surface for pedestrian traffic.

The new concrete deck incorporated many complicated details including expansion joints, multiple surface penetrations, upstands, and glazing panels.

Close co-operation between Icopal, the architect, the main contractor and Crown Roofing resulted in the specification of the right product, and included the production of the technical details required to waterproof the complicated elements.

To provide the level of performance required, Crown Roofing first applied BMI UK & Ireland’s Parabit Hot Melt waterproofing, followed by the BMI UK & Ireland Rootbar Capsheet membrane, in order to provide an extremely robust protection layer and a surface on to which the drainage board and screed could be laid.

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Rise of Sharing Economy Benefits Businesses, Consumers & Sustainability

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The Information Technology (IT) revolution has brought many gifts and some would argue, many headaches, to modern society. Creative destruction has seen whole industries (newspapers, music) destroyed or significantly transformed and new industries (robotics, nanotechnology) rise.

One of the more interesting developments enabled by IT has been the sharing economy, sometimes referred to as the collaborative economy or the on-demand economy. The basic principle is that consumers temporarily pay for a product or service rather than buying and owning it. This arrangement eliminates maintenance costs, ongoing costs, and even insurance, putting more money in the pockets of consumers. Companies such as ZipCar, AirBNB, Uber, Lyft, Kickstarter and soon, Google autonomous cars, are transforming the way people live their day-to-day lives, businesses plan their operations, and governments deliver their services.

The Sharing Economy & Environmental Impacts

The sharing economy will likely have very positive environmental impacts as private vehicle contributions to carbon emissions should decrease as more and more people share gas powered vehicles. One day, gas powered vehicles will be gone, and emissions will drop even more.

Impacting Policymakers

The rise of car sharing services is now challenging government policymakers to also take advantage of the benefits by incorporating ridesharing services into transportation systems. It is expected that more and more innovative ventures in the sharing economy will continue to ring out systematic waste typical of mass production economies, and governments will benefit from this.

The path to a more widespread sharing economy is not without its hurdles as evidenced by Uber’s constant battles with entrenched interests and business regulations; some local governments are just too hostile at the moment. The question as to whether Uber and Lyft drivers are employees or independent contractors isn’t important to users who love the service, convenience, and low cost. Some local governments don’t blink an eye at ride-sharing services while others maintain intense opposition leading to slightly altered sharing service business models.

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Transforming Influence on Entire Economy

The sharing economy is also influencing all other businesses. Sharing services have significant savings and efficiencies to offer businesses, altering standard business models. Even B2B companies are benefiting from the sharing economy as sharing services improve efficiency, quickness of service delivery, and lead to better profits.

Entrepreneurship & Sustainability

The sharing economy is made for both entrepreneurs and sustainability and represents a better, more efficient modern society. The Internet Society of China estimated that in 2015 China’s sharing economy was worth $300 billion and employed over 500 million people. No other country on the planet, perhaps with the exception of India, needs efficiency more than China.

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The City Council approved the plan in November, but the panel is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the code change that puts the new rules into effect. The rules would become effective immediately if passed.

  1. When I lived in Tucson back in the early 90’s, there were restaurants with outside “misting” systems and golf courses were using water (in the daytime!) like it was going out of style, yet they ticketed homeowners for using too much water to wash their car (basically, if the water ran down the street from your car, it was considered too much).

    At about the same time, they were also completing the open aquaduct to divert Colorado river water to Tucson over hundreds of miles of desert, with an untold number of gallons of water lost to evaporation.

    Unless the city of Tucson has changed things since then, I’d have to say that their “conservation” efforts are a sham aimed at facilitating more growth, which was basically out of control when I was there.

    The whole approach to water use in Tucson is a joke. They are living on borrowed time, sucking down underground reservoirs that took thousands of years to fill.

    It’s only a matter of time before Tucson’s water wasting ways catch up with it and turn it into a ghost town — or at most a city with a greatly diminished population. They are basically fooling themselves if they think they can continue as they have been for so long now.

  2. LJ –

    In fact, Tucson is generally viewed as a model here in the West for its water conservation policies. When a colleague and I wrote about this subject in 2003, we found it difficult to make apples-to-apples comparisons, but Tucson typically comes out at or near the bottom in per capita water consumption among cities in the arid West. Its graduated pricing structure (use more, pay more per unit) has been emulated by other cities. I’m not sure when the policy started, but when I went out there in 2003 to write about their water policies, all the golf courses were being watered with outflow from their sewage treatment plant – another innovative strategy now being emulated elsewhere. Which is not to say they won’t run out of water anyway. But they’re better than most western cities right now in their approach to the problem, in my opinion.

  3. Between March 6 and March 15, the U.S. Drought Monitor showed significant portions of Southern California and Arizona going from severe drought to extreme drought. Meanwhile, almost all of Wyoming is either in severe or extreme dought, and all of Utah and Nevada are not far behind. With a rapid end to the El Nino and the possible start of a La Nina, the chances for a turn-around this spring now are slim.

    I’m sure this is getting covered in the areas most effected, but I haven’t seen much of anything in my neck of the woods. Sooner or later, though, this is going to be a big story. Fire season, here we come.

  4. CO has an interesting upcoming too, as the summer and fall were wet and some spots (not the SW) got good snow, and we can picture the grasses happily doing their jobs and popping up, going brown just in time for lightning season. The SW part of the state is clearly scr*wed, whereas the rest of the state could get lucky.

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Currently, Ms. Brennan serves as Director of Year-Round Programming to the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) where she oversees the Divisions Program and Learning Library, contributes to numerous capacity-building and communication initiatives, and produces the Positive Psychology Leader Series.

For 15 years prior, Ms. Brennan managed award-winning integrated marketing and public education campaigns for organizations such as the American Red Cross, University of Pennsylvania, and Lifetime Television’s Stop Violence Against Women initiative. Her work helped to inspire measurable action on the part of consumers, and impact public policy. She earned a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012.

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Caroline is one of the world’s leading experts on the science behind successful goal setting and the use of ‘good grit’ to achieve hard things. Caroline used grit to help overcome her personal battle with bulimia, and today she has more than three decades of unbroken recovery. Caroline has a Masters of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, and teaches at Wharton Business School’s Executive Education program. Caroline is the author of six books, including Positively Caroline (Cogent 2013), Getting Grit (Sounds True 2017) and Creating Your Best Life (Sterling 2009).

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The Twenty-Second Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR) will be held at the Hotel Monteleone in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana, July 23-27, 2019. The Biennial Conference of ISHR brings together several hundred specialists in the history of rhetoric from around thirty countries.

Scholarly Focus of the Conference

The Society calls for twenty-minute conference papers focusing on historical aspects of the theory and practice of rhetoric. This year’s specific conference theme or focus is “populism.” From its beginnings, rhetoric has been criticized for its perceived focus on manipulation of popular thought and emotions. Rhetoric can thus be easily associated with “populism,” a political concept describing movements, both left and right, that vigorously claim to champion the interests of “the people” against those of privileged elites. From the Greeks to contemporary politics, many aspects of rhetorical theory and practice can be viewed in this light, whether in ideologically charged argumentation, in popular modes of style, or in delivery. At the same time, the concept of populism itself can be contested. Finally, the reaction to perceived populism is a rhetorical study in its own right.

The conference will be held in a state which was the home of one of the most notable populist movements in U.S. history – under the rule of governor and later senator Huey P. Long in the 1920s and 30s – and of course will be held at a time when populist movements have upset traditional political balances worldwide.

Besides papers dealing with the relationship of rhetoric to populism, submissions might also deal with the rhetoric used (usually by its opponents) to describe populism.

However, papers are also invited on all aspects of the history of rhetoric in all periods and languages, and the relationship of rhetoric to poetics, literary theory and criticism, philosophy, politics, art, religion, sport and other cultural areas.

Procedure for Submission

Proposals are invited for 20-minute presentations delivered in one of the six languages of the Society, viz. English, French, German, Italian, Latin and Spanish. Panel proposals are welcome, under the following conditions: the panel must consist of three or four speakers dealing with a common theme, so as to form a coherent set of papers. The person responsible for the panel, who may also be one of the speakers, has the task of introducing the papers and guiding the discussion. Each speaker in a panel must submit a proposal form for his or her own paper, and should send the finished paper to the panel organizer before the conference. Proposals for panel papers must specify the panel for which they are intended. In addition, the panel organizer must complete and submit a separate form explaining the purpose of the proposed panel and naming the participants. Please be aware that proposals for panel papers will be considered on their individual merits by the Program Committee, and there is no guarantee that all papers proposed for a panel will be accepted.

Proposals for papers and for panels must be submitted on-line. Please complete the on-line form carefully and fully. In exceptional cases (only), proposals may also be sent by regular mail to the following address:

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Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge
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Guidelines for the preparation of proposals are provided at the bottom of this message. The length of the abstracts must not exceed 300 words.

Deadline for Proposals

The deadline for the submission of proposals is 11 May, 2018.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out before the end of August 2018. In a few cases participants may require an earlier acceptance date in order to secure funding. We will try to accommodate such requests if they are made with appropriate documentation.

Information about the Conference, including the conference hotel at special rates, will be provided during the academic year 2018-19. The conference registration fee is still to be determined, but the New Orleans organizers will endeavor to insure that this is kept as low as possible. Graduate students and scholars from underrepresented countries pay reduced registration fees and may be eligible for travel grants.

I am very much looking forward to welcoming you to New Orleans in 2019.

Malcolm Richardson,
President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric

Guidelines for the preparation of proposals:

The members of ISHR come from many countries and academic disciplines. The following guidelines are intended to make it easier for us to come together and understand one another’s proposals. The Program Committee recommends that all proposals contain:
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  2. a statement of the specific problem that will be treated in your paper; its place in relation to the present state of research in the general field under consideration; and its significance for the history of rhetoric;
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Dep. Defense Min. Hints at Israeli Strike on Iran

MK Danny Danon writes in Politico, refers to previous cases in which Israel struck nuclear sites against the US's will.

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The Deputy Defense Minister, MK Danny Danon (Likud-Beytenu), has penned an article in the US-based Politico website that appears to be a warning about an Israeli intention to strike Iran's nuclear weapon facilities.

The article refers to two previous cases in which Israel struck Islamic nuclear sites without US approval.

In 1981, writes Danon, “when Prime Minister Menachem Begin warned the Reagan administration that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was developing military nuclear capabilities, the Americans failed to act. Faced with the prospect of a nuclear-armed enemy Israel was compelled to take matters into its own hands.”

While the bombing of the Osirak reactor was widely condemned, Danon notes that former Vice President Dick Cheney admitted years later that Israel’s actions “had averted a catastrophic situation in which Hussein would have been armed with nuclear weapons.”

In 2007, Danon continues, Syria was “caught red-handed” attempting to develop a nuclear weapon. Then-President George W. Bush wrote in his memoir that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called him to say: “I’m asking you to bomb the compound,” but Bush declined.

Danon cites the memoir, in which Bush wrote: “I told him [Olmert] I had decided on the diplomatic option backed by the threat of force. The Prime Minister was disappointed… On September 6, 2007 the facility was destroyed. Prime Minister Olmert hadn’t asked for a green light, and I hadn’t given one. He had done what he believed was necessary to protect Israel.”

“Disagreements among friends on serious policy matters are legitimate and even to be expected,” Danon adds. “At the same time, both sides must work hard to ensure that hurtful words and personal attacks do not become regular elements of our ongoing dialogue,” he explains, in a possible reference to recent acrimony around an attack by Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon on US Secretary of State John Kerry, which was leaked by an Israeli newspaper.

“Over the next few months, the negotiations with the Iranians and the Palestinians will reach the crucial stages when difficult decisions will need to be made by all those involved,” Danon explains. “It is safe to assume that areas of contention will arise between us and our American allies. I am confident that both sides will work hard to ensure that whatever differences we may have on specific policy questions, we will not let these distractions impede upon our unwavering alliance.”

Against the context of the prior allusions to the attacks on nuclear sites in Iraq and Syria, this appears to be a rather broad hint that Israel may, in the next few months, embark on a similar attack on Iran's nuclear sites. The choice of Politico as the venue for the article may be a way of ensuring that the message reaches all US lawmakers, who will not be able to say afterward that they had not been forewarned of Israel's intentions regarding the Iranian nuclear program.

The US and other world powers have been negotiating with Iran over its nuclear weapons program, in an attempt to stop the program by diplomacy and avert war. Israel has strenuously opposed the concessions that the powers recently made in the negotiations, and warned that Iran was being deceitful and would not give up its nuclear weapons program unless it was forced to, either by military force or by crippling sanctions.

US lawmakers are poised to pass a bill slapping new sanctions on Iran, but President Barack Obama is adamantly opposed to the initiative. Danon's article appears to be a message to the lawmakers, saying in effect: "If you don't slap more sanctions on Iran, Israel may have to strike on its own."


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Minimally Invasive Cardiac Interventions

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Coils have traditionally been used to close PDAs, however in the last decade, a new device called the Amplatz Canine Ductal Occluder (ACDO) has become available.  When used, the ACDO significantly decreases the risk of complications. This procedure is usually curative. Patients go home within 24 hours of the intervention and have excellent long-term prognosis.

Pulmonic Stenosis

newsletter-stent-xrayPulmonic stenosis is a narrowing in the dog’s pulmonic valve, causing blood flow obstruction between the right side of the heart and the lungs. Although patients with mild or moderate obstruction may live a normal life, dogs with severe pulmonic stenosis have a reduced life span due to the development of congestive heart failure or life-threatening arrhythmias.

To relieve the obstruction, we perform a procedure called balloon valvuloplasty. A catheter is used to access the vein that runs down the neck. Multiple wires and catheters are placed across the obstruction using fluoroscopy (live X-rays) as a guide. Contrast is also used to visualize the anatomy and choose the appropriate catheters. A balloon catheter is placed at the narrowing. When we inflate this balloon the fused valve leaflets separate, relieving the obstruction and improving blood flow to the lungs. The balloon is then deflated and removed. A small bandage covers the small incision; dogs usually go home within 24 hours.

Some patients with severe pulmonic stenosis cannot have the obstruction relieved using this procedure and may require more advanced intervention. At Mass Vet, we offer the use of stents as a way of maintaining the pulmonary artery free of obstruction.

Pacemakers in Dogs

newsletter-pace-maker-xrayIn the same way that people may need to have a pacemaker placed for certain heart diseases, dogs also benefit from this amazing technology. Pacemakers are used to treat different conditions. Sometimes, the electrical system of the heart, which is generated in the upper chambers of the heart, does not reach the bottom chambers, leading to an abnormally low heart rate. This is called third AV block. Patients with this condition can have fainting episodes and lethargy. The only effective treatment is placing a pacemaker. The pacemaker maintains a more appropriate heart rate which prevents the patients from collapsing.

A small incision is made in the vein that runs down the neck, the pacemaker lead is introduced in the right side of the heart with fluoroscopy. One tip of the lead is anchored to the muscle of the heart, and the other tip is connected to the pacemaker generator. This small computer is programmed to track the dog’s heart rate, when it is too low, the pacemaker delivers an electrical stimulus to the heart to increase the heart rate. The generator is buried under the skin and the patient goes home within 24 hours. Routine rechecks are necessary to ensure appropriate pacemaker settings and assess the pacemaker’s battery life.

More information on each of these conditions and our cardiology team is available at

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Ivan Sosa Samper, DVM, DACVIM (Cardiology)

Dr. Sosa received his DVM at the University of Zaragoza in Spain, in 2007. He then went on to complete a small animal rotating internship in medicine and surgery at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. After working as a general practitioner for four years, in 2012 Dr. Sosa moved to the United States for a residency in Cardiology at the University of Florida. He became a board certified cardiologist by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in 2016, the same year he joined the Massachusetts Veterinary Referral Hospital.

Although Dr. Sosa enjoys challenging cardiology cases in both dogs and cats, he has a special interest in interventional cardiology procedures such as balloon valvuloplasty, PDA occlusion and pacemaker implantation. When not at work, Dr. Sosa and his wife enjoy sailing with his Golden Retriever.

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East Water Department Weekly DHR 4/13/09

East Water Weekly Report  4/13/09
Weekly Department Report
Date: 4/09/09
Prepared by: Terry McGinister
Specific Weekly Activities 4/03/09 - 4/09/09
Monthly meter reading
Checked sewer lift stations
Checked for sewer stop ups in the system
Two employees attended Water Class in Wynne
Repaired water leak at Rightor and Franklin Street
Repaired sump pump at lift station #1
Repaired pump #2 at lift station #1
Cut grass at the plant and Industrial Park
Unstopped sewer on Oakland
Future Weekly Activities
Replace suction valve and pump at lift station #3
Follow up Activities
Finish putting rip rap on levees at the ponds, finish installing by pass hook up at the remaining lift stations
Staff Concerns/Issues
Scheduling classes for all employees to attend to have enough hours to renew their licenses

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Post Cards. "The Good Old Days"

This is a digitally printed envelope containing seven original post cards of dismal British holiday resorts, photographed between 1950 and 1970.
Volunteers, who were children in the 1950's, have written by hand on the back of the blank cards.

The messages counteract the deluge of nostalgia and misplaced sentiment which our culture seems to enjoy at present. This nostalgia may have something to do with "Brexit." If you wish to go back, be aware that memory is selective.

Colophon produced on a typewriter (of course.)
A non identical edition of 9
The participants are named.

Printed on cards in a paper envelope 16 x 11 cms.


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Whitecaps FC reveals 2019 Season

WhitecapsFCThis week, Whitecaps FC and the MLS revealed the 2019 schedule kicking off the preseason February 8, 2019 in Honolulu, HI.  Home fans will get their first look at new coach Marc Dos Santos’ new look team when 34 regular season  gets underway March 2nd hosting Minnesota United FC at home in BC Place.

Vancouver’s regular season includes a home and away game against each Western Conference team, and one match either home or away against Eastern Conference clubs, including a visit to expansion side FC Cincinnati on August 3 ,and a visit from Wayne Rooney’s D.C. United on August 17 at BC Place

In celebration of the historic 1979 NASL Soccer Bowl triumph by the “team from the Village of Vancouver”, Whitecaps FC will host an anniversary match on August 31 against New York City FC, reminiscent of the 2-leg semi-final victory over New York Cosmos at Giants Stadium which sent the Whitecaps to the Soccer Bowl.

Whitecaps Pride Night

Other highlights of the season include Cascadia Cup home fixtures against Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers in March and May, a visit from Canadian rivals Toronto FC on May 31st.   Community matches include, Jeans Day, in support of BC Children’s Hospital FoundationSaturday, April 27 vs. Philadelphia Union.  Pride Night is Saturday, May 25 vs. FC Dallas and the annual Legends & Stars Charity Match takes place Saturday, September 14 vs. Houston Dynamo.

The season on Decision Day, as all league matches kick off  at 1 p.m. PT. The ‘Caps host Western Conference rival Real Salt Lake at BC Place in the regular season finale.  The new fixed-bracket, single-elimination format for the Audi 2019 MLS Cup Playoffs begins on October 19 with the 2019 MLS Cup is set for November 10.

The 2019 Canadian Championships schedule is still to be announced.  For more details and information on the Whitecaps FC 2019 season visit whitecapsfc.com

Whitecaps FC debut 2018 MLS Season Schedule

WhitecapsFCSoccer fans can start planning their calendars, as the Whitecaps FC MLS 2018 schedule is revealed.
Between opening day, March 4th and decision day on October 28th fans can look forward to 34 Whitecaps FC matches, 17 at home in BC Place.  The season is bookended by matches against fierce rivals, opening at home against Montreal Impact and, for the third season in a row, ending the season against Cascadia rivals, Portland Timbers.
With the addition of the expansion Los Angeles Football Club the Western Conference teams will face each other twice each, home and away, except Whitecaps FC will play San Jose Earthquakes which face WFC three times.  Eastern teams once again face Western teams once each, in the opposite city of their 2017 matches.  Besides a break June 14 – 22 for the FIFA World Cup 2018 group matches, fans won’t have to go long between home matches at BC Place as the team doesn’t play more than two matches back to back on the road.

In addition to Opening Day and Decision Day some highlight home matches to look out for include:

Saturday, March 24 vs LA Galaxy
Friday, April 13 vs LA Football Club (expansion club debut, Daffodil Day in support of Canadian Cancer Society)
Friday, April 27 vs Real Salt Lake (Jeans Day for BC Children’s Hospital Foundation)
Saturday, June 9 vs Orlando City SC (#BuckUp For Mental Health in support of Covenant House Vancouver)
Sunday, July 1 vs Colorado Rapids (Canada Day at BC Place)

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Saturday, July 28 vs Minnesota United FC (Pride Night)
Saturday, August 18 vs New York Red Bulls
Saturday, September 15 vs Seattle Sounders (preceded by Legends & Stars Charity Match in support of BC Children’s Hospital Foundation)

The Canadian Championship match schedule will be released at a later date. For full schedule listings and ticketing information visit whitecapsfc.com

Whitecaps FC defeat Toronto FC in season opener

Whitecaps FC vs Toronto FC – Saturday March 2, 2013 – BC Place

Making their 3rd MLS season debut under the roof of BC Place, Vancouver Whitecaps FC took on Toronto FC before a sell out crowd.  Both

Southsiders get ready for a new season
Southsiders get ready for a new season

Canadian teams have made a number of off-season changes, Vancouver bringing in a collection of new and experienced players. J-League veteran Daigo Kobayashi and Nigel Reo-Coker most recently of English side, Ipswich Town FC brought seasons of experience with them to the MLS to help the younger players; Kekuta Manneh, Erik Hurtado and Brad Rusin who all saw action in the season opener.
Once kick-off started the match, delayed due to televised curling running long, the first half got off to a tentative start for the hosts but the away team didn’t seem to be applying too much pressure allowing the Whitecaps time to settle in.  Captain Jay Demerit left the field after 7minutes for a undisclosed injury, resulting in an early start for Rusin. Some good moments of action followed but were offset by some missed passes and turnoveDaigors kept the scoreline at nil-nil at the half. Upon the restart and inclusion of Reo-Coker, seemed to ignite the team and audience as he got his first MLS touch on the ball.   Much more lively play followed throughout the second half, resulting in the winning goal from Koffie in the 59th minute. Overall, fans and players seemed to be pleased with the resulting 1 – nil start to the season, especially at the expense of rivals TFC.

Next home match for Whitecaps FC is March 9th at 4:30pm in BC Place, versus Columbus Crew.

Whitecaps FC keep the ball rolling

Whitecaps FC defend their lead against Colorado wearing new third kits

June is a good month for soccer. There’s lot’s of football on TV with Euro 2012 into the quarter final stage and after a two week lay0ff, the MLS Whitecaps FC returned with three home games in two weeks. Earning 7 of a possible 9 points from the homestand, Whitecaps haven’t lost since early May, moving them into 3rd place in the Western Conference.
Debuting a new jersey and a new designated player, the Whitecaps are making the most of being “Vancouver’s team” while they are the only active team in town, between the end of the Canucks season and the start of the Vancouver Canadians and BC Lions.
Adding a third jersey gives the team added merchandising revenue, the “Arbutus Brown with Sky Blue accents” jersey was met with mixed reviews on its unveiling but I think once people saw it in action during a win against Colorado, the success on the field helped turn opinion.  The third kit can be purchased exclusively from a special kiosk located on Terry Fox Plaza at BC Place until June 24th, after which they move to retailers like Sport Chek.
The ‘Caps introduced their latest designated player, Barry Robson to media and public but fans have to wait until the North American transfer window opens June 27th, before he can make his on-field debut. The Scottish international comes to Vancouver after two seasons at Middlesbrough FC in the English Football League Championship.  The 33year old midfielder has made 16 appearances for the Scottish national team, earning credit for one international goal.  Scoring 17 goals in his tenure at Middlesbrough, Robson “is a versatile box-to-box midfielder that can play in several positions, with the ability to create and score goals. Barry will be a great addition to our squad.” said coach Martin Rennie

Everyone celebrates Whitecaps FC good form

With the Whitecaps on a long road trip we will have to wait until July 17th to get our first site of Robson on the BC Place turf.
Hopefully the designated player proves himself and earns a place on the team by helping Whitecaps FC maintain their current form.

Whitecaps FC: Home is where the advantage is?

Whitecaps celebrate a goal on the way to victory over Chicago Fire
Empire Field scoreboard 4 - 2
Hopefully we see more final scores like this next season!

Following a fine home win August 7th against Chicago it was another loss for the Whitecaps FC as they are on the road. With a 3-3-5 record at home but a dismal 0-9-4 on the road it’s obvious home is where the heart is for Vancouver’s Whitecaps. Although Empire Field is only their temporary home while awaiting the completion of BC Place, the fans have turned it into one of the best atmospheres in the league and have become a formidable 12th man.  How much does the atmosphere help the ‘caps, we’ll never know but it’s clear road games are not good for the team’s standings.  Vancouver has one of the furthest travel times but that can’t be the only reason why they can’t seem to break down teams in their home stands.  While this season is far from over, it seems like a forgone conclusion that the Whitecaps will have a hard time moving out of the MLS basement.
What can Vancouver do to improve its standings next season? They’ve fired a coach and hired a new one Martin Rennie of the top ranked NASL Carolina Railhawks to take on the role next season.  More signings will certainly happen but they’ve already changed up the roster, numerous times, to no avail.  Will moving into BC Place in October make a difference? The atmosphere will definitely be different in a venue twice as large but we’ll see what the fans can do to keep the momentum going into next season.  Hopefully a downtown location will only mean more fans coming out to support the team!

What are your thoughts on how the team’s doing and what they could be doing?

Whitecaps FC – MLS Kickoff!

It seems even mother nature is a Whitecaps FC fan! The sun and 22,000 fans came out to Empire Field on a bright Saturday afternoon to witness the debut of MLS soccer in Vancouver.

Kick off Celebrations

The storied Vancouver Whitecaps franchise has moved into the ‘big leagues’ and from the showing they displayed, they deserve to be there! Granted it was a match against Canadian rivals Toronto FC, who are perpetual bottom dwellers in the MLS table, but the enthusiasm and skills of the Vancouver side overcame the experienced eastern team.
An ocean of white erupted as designated player Eric Hassli opened the Whitecaps account with a lovely goal in the first half and three more Vancouver goals followed (along with two Toronto ones, but we’ll gloss over those)

All eyes on the ball!

After the first goal broke the ice, the crowd really let lose, the casual fans being carried away by the spirited die-hards who’ve been longing for Whitecaps FC to take its rightful  place among the top tier.  When local boy, Terry Dunfield scored the volume rose even higher as Whitecaps drums were pounded and scarves where thrust into the sky.

The organization did a brilliant job of encouraging but also allowing the spirit and enthusiasm for the team grow organically.  With a countdown to the big match ad campaign nudging this home opener to the top of city’s conscientiousness the rest happened on it’s own.  At game day the crowds were early and ready for the action and the team didn’t disappoint, with a kick off celebration that included new BC Premier Christie Clark and NBA (and part-owner) Steve Nash beating the drums to welcome the players onto the pitch. A multi-cultural drum line was in the upper levels of the stands to help ‘drum’ up support but even without them I think this opening match would have ‘beat’ any other sporting event in the city for atmosphere. Mascot Winger was always a huge part of generating the cheers and noise around the games at Swangard Stadium but here in the large venue it’s harder for a little bird to make his rounds. It didn’t matter, the crowd shouted their own cheers (and jeers to the TFC fans) without any prompting from the winged mascot. With each goal the joy grew and grew until the closing whistle and it spilled out into the street around Empire Field and the party moved on.

Scarves Up!!

A solid season ticket base, an enthusiastic supporters club in the Southsiders leading the cheers, and a talent team on and off the pitch all combine to elevate the team to a major force of spirit.  The word of mouth from this display of Whitecaps fever will definitely spread through the city ensuring all games will have this amazing feeling (hopefully mother nature feels the same way and keeps us dry)


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The key to life

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Last night at Publix check out, a timely visual reminder. Habits and rituals make us and break us.

The key to life?

 Habits and rituals.

Prune the unproductive habits and rituals from your life, for the remainder of your life.

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Monday, April 22, 2013

Proud Mama Alert!

A good reputation is a fragile thing, especially in this day of rapid communication and mass media.  A reputation is something to never take lightly, but something to guard.  A reputation can be ruined simply by something said out of anger, being at the wrong place at the wrong time, or by the people who we are associated with.

We must take care of our reputation.  Treated it with delicacy, living with integrity.  To continue reading, please head over to Woman to Woman Ministries.

Counting blessings again this week...

1035. Bedtime reading as I sit next to my husband.

1036. Baseball practice beginning for my boys.  I love watching them play!

1037. My precious kids in my class at church and watching them praise Jesus.

1038. Lemon/cucumber water.

1039. Lunch with my nephew at his school.  I love eating lunch with my niece and nephews at their schools.

1040. A safe trip for my daughter going out of town for the weekend.

1041. My son having the opportunity to see a Nascar race with his friend.

1042. Wedding plans with my sister.

1043. Lunch with the family after church.

1044. Finding out the newest member of our family will be a new nephew!

1045. My daughter getting such high marks in photography for her very first state Fine Arts Festival!  She cried, and this proud mama cried!

1046. Her invitation to attend National Fine Arts Festival this summer.  Have I said that this mama is so proud!?

1047. Praise music that helps me feel God's presence all around me.

Please share your blessings with me.  What are you praising God for today?  Comment below with five things you thank Him for.

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Manual Exfoliators of the Gentle Kind

If we're really going to talk dead-skin-shedding, my preferred way to go about it would be a chemical exfoliation once weekly - Alpha H Liquid Gold, I'm looking at you. But with that said, I do like to get down, and ever so slightly scrubby on the odd occasion, though with none of that scratchy apricot kernel rubbish, instead with much gentler formulas that still slough and leave my skin feeling incredibly soft, but without a red-rawness about it. A trio of complexion transformers get regularly rotated within my routine and tick all of the aforementioned above boxes...

I've got to give it to the first gentle gritty exfoliator that got me thinking they're really not too bad after all, Oskia's Micro-Exfoliating Balm. Creamy and rich in texture, aside from the list of lovely nutritional ingredients, the balm uses a mix of silica and pure MSM (there's that star ingredient again) granules to refine the surface of the skin and buff away dead cells, yet emulsifies into a milk when in contact with water to soothe and nourish. It's pretty special indeed and I bring it out around once a week, but it's more than gentle enough to use every second day should you fancy it.

One with a bit of a difference comes from Indeed Labs and their Facial Powdered Exfoliator - it really is just a pot of pure powder that transforms into more of a paste when water is added which I then proceed to spread on and massage in. Five active ingredients make up the formula; bamboo extract for soft sloughing with the added bonus of all-natural antibacterial properties, rice bran powder smoothes and soothes, red algae for fighting free radicals, hyaluronic acid keeps hydration levels under control and pineapple extract acts as an AHA and breaks down dead cells by chemical exfoliation. I've got to give it to this one, after use, my skin is left the softest it has ever felt after using any product and so instantly drinks up whatever I follow with on top.

Delivering all kinds of transforming results is REN's Flash Rinse One Minute Facial - the clue's in the name with this one, and the overall finish is much akin to a one hour luxury facial, and really goes a little something like this: massage, leave, rinse, repeat (next week). Texture wise, it could easy be mistaken for your tube of toothpaste, blue, beady and slightly tacky, but in terms of formula, the technology locks in a hefty dose of vitamin c which activates the product when you bring water into the mix, but also works to firm and tone by diminishing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, supporting natural collagen production and  evening out the overall tone. The results? Seriously glowy and silky-to-the-touch feeling skin.

Feeling the need for an exfoliation a little more manual? Look in the direction of any of the three above as each are suitable for all skin types - sensitive skin gals, that means you too...

  1. I need to get my hands on REN's One Minute Facial, I always hear such good things about it!

    Catherine, xo || Lady Liquor

  2. I love the Ren One Minute Facial, I'll even argue that it's better than the similar Kate Sommerville product. I've yet to try the Oskia balm, but it's there on the list :)

    In terms of powders, I love the NUDE Fizzy-Oxygenating whatever that long name is one. You should check it out!

    Dar | www.holylipstick.com

  3. It's pretty amazing stuff Catherine - I highly rec. ;-)

  4. Ah it's amazing stuff - I'm guessing you mean the Exfolikate? I've never tried that but I've heard good things about the 'lighter' version! The NUDE product sounds awesome, I'll definitely look into this - thanks ;-)

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