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Madam Walker's August Garden
Another 100 degree day! Crazy me has the air conditioning off, the windows open and the ceiling fan on high speed. I think it's my way of communing with the folks I'm writing about because heaven knows it was HOT in A'Lelia Walker's un-air conditioned 136th Street townhouse this time of year in 1915. And she did NOT like the heat!
Faith Ringgold's "The Sunflowers Quilting Bee at Arles" 1991
A few days ago while writing a chapter about A'LW's friends, I came across a reference to someone named Ringgold. Couldn't help but think of artist and quilter, Faith Ringgold, whose quilt "The Sunflowers Quilting Bee at Arles," has long been one of my favorite pieces of artwork with my great-great-grandmother–and A'Lelia Walker's mother– Madam C. J. Walker.
The abundance of sunflowers made me think of a letter Walker had written to her attorney, F. B. Ransom, in 1918 a few months after she had moved into her Irvington-on-Hudson, New York mansion, Villa Lewaro, and about how excited she was to have enough land to have a garden.
Here's an excerpt from page 236 of my book, On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker:
By mid-August [Madam Walker] was "busy as a bee" tending her backyard garden. "Every morning at six o'clock I am at work…pulling weeds, gathering berries, vegetables, etc. We are putting up fruit and vegetables by the wholesale," she wrote F. B. Ransom, her attorney. "Tell Nettie she should see me know–am all dressed up in woman-alls, the feminine for overalls, and I am a full-fledged 'farmerette.'
Also check out my other blog post about my search to find a connection between A'Lelia Walker and possible members of the Ringgold family at our Madam Walker and A'Lelia Walker Family Archives blog.
We hope you'll visit us on Facebook at our Madam Walker and A'Lelia Walker Family Archives and Madam C. J. Walker Biography Page as well as on my Facebook personal page.


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How Hillary Plans to Defeat Donald, and Vice Versa
This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, March 2, 2016:
Polls taken before and during Super Tuesday show Hillary Clinton maintaining a slight edge over front-running Republican Donald Trump among likely voters in November, but well within the margin of error. Real Clear Politics gives Clinton a "spread" of between 3 and 8 points, down considerably from when Trump first announced his candidacy last summer. Rasmussen Reports shows a slightly wider gap, 41 percent for Clinton versus 36 percent for Trump, but warns that one in every four voters quizzed on Monday and Tuesday still hadn't made up their minds.
For Ed Rollins, Ronald Reagan's campaign manager during his reelection efforts in 1984, it's over: Trump will take the GOP nomination:
Game over! This [Super Tuesday] was a rout. Winning seven states and the vast majority of delegates is a landslide. Donald Trump and the millions of his supporters have changed American politics and the Republican Party for the foreseeable future.
More importantly, the Clinton campaign thinks Trump also will be the GOP candidate coming out of Cleveland in July, and is preparing for it. The New York Times expressed great concern on Monday, citing the primary question that was posed in a series of private meetings and conversations to which it was privy by dint of its liberal influence: How do we defeat Trump in a general election?
Some think Trump has sown the seeds of his own defeat with outlandish and offensive remarks concerning immigrants, Muslims, and women. Others, including former president Bill Clinton, were much more realistic, holding that only a well-executed campaign that portrays Trump as dangerous and bigoted would be successful in November. Liberal Governor Dannel Malloy of Connecticut agreed with Clinton: "[Trump] is formidable, he understands voters' anxieties, and he will be ruthless against Hillary Clinton. I've gone from denial — 'I can't believe anyone would listen to this guy' — to admiration, in the sense that he's figured out how to capture everyone's angst, to real worry."
The Clinton presidential campaign has already started testing ads portraying Trump as a misogynist woman hater and an enemy of the working class. Some consist of stitching together clips of various comments Trump has made and putting them into a montage designed to outrage fence sitters. Other related groups are investigating files provided by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to dig up what dirt that might be had there. Still others are doing "opposition research" on his business career.
Clinton strategists think they can portray Trump as unstable, with a violent temper, using that to question "whether he can really be relied on as a champion for anyone but himself."
Despite all of this, however, the Times remained anxious that any of this will be sufficient to overcome Trump's enormous advantages. Trump would be "vicious" against Clinton, demanding that she be indicted over the use of her private e-mail servers containing top secret information. He would remind voters of her husband's serial philandering. There's Benghazi, which, according to Stephen Soukup, writing for The Hill, will be forever tied, rightly or wrongly, to Hillary Clinton:
All that matters is that Hillary didn't get Ambassador Christopher Stevens the security upgrades he requested, that she went home and slept through the attack, that she allegedly lied to the families of the dead about the cause of the attacks (and then allegedly lied about the lying to the families), and then blew up at her Congressional inquisitors when they asked for answers.
Even more than Obama, Hillary owns Benghazi.
But Trump's biggest advantage is that he is the polar opposite of Clinton on many issues. InsideGov.com has provided an extraordinary compilation of just how wide that chasm is between the two. Clinton's political experience is a millstone, having served as Obama's secretary of state for four years and New York senator for eight years before that. Trump? Zero political experience. In today's environment, advantage Trump.
In "professional experience" InsideGov.com notes that Hillary is an attorney, serving at the infamous Rose Law Firm for 16 years, while Trump was running a private company, turning himself into a billionaire in the process. In "education" Hillary went to Wellesley and then to Yale while Trump attended Fordham and the Wharton School. On "individual rights" InsideGov.com rates Hillary as far more liberal than Trump, while on "domestic issues" Hillary is "comfortable with same-sex marriage" while Trump is not. On "keeping God in the public sphere" Hillary "disagrees," while Trump "strongly agrees."
On the Second Amendment, Clinton "strongly disagrees" that it guarantees an absolute right to gun ownership, while Trump "strongly agrees." On school choice, Clinton strongly disagrees with vouchers, while Trump strongly supports them.
On the economy Clinton is persuaded that government stimulus is better that a "market-led" recovery, while Trump strongly disagrees.
Tellingly, Insidegov.com reveals that nearly all of Clinton's funding — $195 million so far — has come from outside her campaign, while Trump's funding — $27 million so far — has come from his own personal wealth, suggesting that Trump belongs to no one while Clinton has outside influences that would likely sway decisions in the future.
Nathan Robinson, a Harvard Ph.D. candidate and editor of Current Affairs, wrote an article to persuade the Democratic National Committee (DNC) not to support Clinton, but to support Sanders instead:
A Clinton match-up [with Trump] is highly likely to be an unmitigated electoral disaster.… Every one of Clinton's considerable weaknesses plays to every one of Trump's strengths.… From a purely pragmatic standpoint, [Hillary] running against Trump is a disastrous, suicidal proposition.
Trump's style is to attack, attack, attack. This would put Clinton on the defensive, which, according to Robinson, would only encourage Trump to attack again. He would "steamroll" Clinton into electoral oblivion:
[Trump's] campaigning style makes Hillary Clinton Donald Trump's dream opponent. She gives him an endless amount to work with. The emails, Benghazi, Whitewater, Iraq, the Lewinsky scandal, Chinagate, Travelgate, the missing law firm records, Jeffrey Epstein, Kissinger, Marc Rich, Haiti, Clinton Foundation tax errors, Clinton Foundation conflicts of interest, "We were broke when we left the White House," Goldman Sachs…. There is enough material in Hillary Clinton's background for Donald Trump to run with six times over.
It would be a battle against an unarmed opponent, says Robinson:
Even a skilled campaigner would have a very difficult time parrying such endless attacks by Trump. Even the best campaigner would find it impossible to draw attention back to actual substantive policy issues, and would spend their every moment on the defensive.
But Hillary Clinton is neither the best campaigner nor even a skilled one. In fact, she is a dreadful campaigner. She may be a skilled policymaker, but on the campaign trail she makes constant missteps and never realizes things have gone wrong until it's too late….
In a race against Trump, Hillary will be handicapped not only by her feeble campaigning skills, but the fact that she will have a sour national mood, a poor staff, and a brilliant opponent.
Robinson pictures one of Trump's monologues on stage in front of TV cameras exposing Clinton's weaknesses and political baggage before millions:
She lies so much. Everything she says is a lie. I've never seen someone who lies so much in my life. Let me tell you three lies she's told. She made up a story about how she was ducking sniper fire! There was no sniper fire. She made it up! How do you forget a thing like that?
She said she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, the guy who climbed Mount Everest. He hadn't even climbed it when she was born! Total lie!
She lied about the emails, of course, as we all know, and is probably going to be indicted. You know she said there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq! It was a lie! Thousands of American soldiers are dead because of her.
Not only does she lie, her lies kill people. That's four lies, I said I'd give you three. You can't even count them. You want to go on PolitiFact, see how many lies she has? It takes you an hour to read them all! In fact, they ask her, she doesn't even say she hasn't lied. They asked her straight up, she says she usually tries to tell the truth! Ooooh, she tries! Come on! This is a person, every single word out of her mouth is a lie. Nobody trusts her. Check the polls, nobody trusts her. Yuge liar!
One-on-one, in front of millions, Trump would turn the polls on their collective heads. As Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge expressed it:
Trump vs. Clinton will appear to most Americans as a choice between something new and risky, and something old and corrupt. In 2016, who do you think the public will choose?
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This is it: the season finale, featuring the Avengers versus a vastly empowered Loki with the fate of the Nine Worlds hanging in the balance!
So I'm going to go ahead and say that if you can't appreciate how awesome the opening scene of Tony Stark working at the dwarf forge to re-make his armor is because, well, it's totally realistic, then you just don't get superheroes. Because it's pretty awesome. Indeed, there's a nice lead-in of the Avengers converging on Asgard to bring the fight to Loki as the episode opens.
Note how the Hulk and the Warriors Three go from taking down frost giants to on the ropes facing a group of "ordinary" Asgardian soldiers and various trolls, ogres, etc. Fortunes can shift fast in superhero stories, and it's the set-up for Sif, Wasp, and Giant-Man to swoop to the rescue.
Nice homage with the Hulk rescuing Brunhilde, his comic book teammate in the Defenders. Dare we hope for an Avengers vs. Defenders story in the future?
Black Panther's "Perhaps we should win this fight before starting another" is classic Marvel, trying to put aside the team bickering.
The arrival of Hawkeye and Black Panther quickly turns the tide. Loki's minions start toppling like ten-pins: Wasp alone takes down a half dozen! There feels like a definite "tipping point" in the conflict, either a shift in the context of the scene or simply the Avengers building up enough numbers or resources to wrap things up.
Note: Panther refers to Loki as Thor's "half-brother," a minor continuity error, since he is technically Thor's "step-brother" or "adoptive brother" (in the comics, Thor and Loki are not related by blood, Loki is the son of slain Frost Giant king Laufey).
Captain America's scene with Hela (who isn't named) is some classic "let me tempt you" superhero roleplaying and should earn Cap's player some points for the later scene, particularly given the bargain he must strike for Hela to send him to Asgard. In an RPG context, one can't help but wonder if this scene would be planned (the GM having Hela's offer in mind in advance) or spontaneous, with Cap's player pitching the idea of the bargain in order to deal with the challenge of Hela and escaping Nifelheim?
Okay, I really thought Hoarfen would be Fenris, but it's interesting to note Hulk's "feels bigger" comment: in some RPG contexts, that would be an actual game mechanic, a player making a declaration of some sort that influences the course of the game. Perhaps it was more giants, but one of the players decided to "up the stakes"? It certainly could be a reflecting of a narrative-control mechanic or simply players "shilling" for bonus points by choosing to complicate matters themselves.
Captain America's rallying cry is without a doubt a key element of his character; he's a true inspiration. It's not that Cap's tactics are that brilliant, it's that he helps the team overcome setbacks and motivates them. Any superhero game system needs to be able to model this in some way, or characters like Cap lose an element of who they are.
Note how Cap immediately turns the tide against Hoarfen: from the moment he shows up, the giant wolf doesn't score a hit against the heroes and they take it down fairly quickly. Another turning point.
The Avengers' initial assault on Loki is a near-perfect example of attack/counterattack: The Avengers go first and Loki counters each of the Avengers' attacks, with some of his counter-moves actually knocking them around: he hurls Sif into Faraday, flips Black Panther into Giant-Man, and then—on what amounts to his "first action"—takes everyone down with a sweep of his trident.
There really are few ways of emphasizing omnipotence better than having a villain destroy Captain America's "indestructible" shield. Cap and the team definitely rack up some setbacks during Loki's gloating monologue.
Iron Man gets a nice entrance, perfectly set-up by Loki's "who will save you now?" line; either a terrific GM hand-off to a player willing to narrate that moment, or a Gamemaster doing to description, then handing it over to Iron Man's player to stand up to Loki.
Again, notice how Cap takes command and rallies the troops.
"When in doubt, blow it up." Hawkeye's motto could be that of many a gamer, as well. What if Black Panther hadn't stopped Hawkeye? That's a possibility every GM has to consider. Maybe trying to blow up the Tree of Life wouldn't have done anything, or maybe it would have led to a very different ending to this story!
Note the key to defeating Loki isn't "hit him until he runs out of hit points" (fails a Toughness check, etc.) it's "find a way to break his hold on the Odin-Force". Although the Avengers fighting Loki manage to get some hits in and even send him flying, there's no evidence they're actually "damaging" him in any way other than (as Iron Man says) keeping him occupied.
No-Prize Time: Another minor continuity error: Cap appears on the bridge to confront Loki carrying his (undamaged) shield, which is broken again in the epilogue of the episode (meaning it wasn't miraculously repaired as a result of Loki's defeat).
In the end, the Avengers get their props for saving the cosmos, Loki goes to his rightful (and suitably mythic) punishment, and we get the foreshadowing of Season 2's major plot-line.
Just Shut Up and Be Awesome: It takes a certain suspension of disbelief to handle the superhero genre, with all of its "mad and beautiful" ideas and tendency to toss real-world things like physics and social dynamics out the window whenever they become inconvenient. Might sound like strange advice coming from the guy who spends time analyzing cartoons from an RPG perspective but, don't over-think things when it comes to superheroes being awesome. In particular, when it comes to your hero, don't let realistic expectations get in the way of being awesome: just go for it. Be heroic, iconic, and plain over-the-top super.
Be Willing to Wait for Help: Counterpoint to the "just be awesome" observation don't let your "invincibility" go to your head. In order for the story to have drama, there have to be setbacks and challenges, and there are going to be times when your hero suffers defeat or needs help. Part of the dynamics of a team superhero story is letting different characters take the lead and save the day. A good GM helps to manage this somewhat, but good players also don't hog the spotlight and even look for opportunities for their teammate to shine and help them to get there. It's even possible for turn-order and the like in an RPG to encourage this kind of thing.
Be Open to Opportunities: One of the best things about a live RPG is you don't really know what's going to happen. It's being creative on-your-feet and in the moment for both the GM and the players and, when all cylinders are firing and inspiration strikes, it can be pretty amazing. Be open to those moments and don't get overly attached to the way things "should" go. By all means stay within the spirit of the game and the genre, but a good game will provide players with opportunities to get creative, even some situations that require it.
"Leaders Lead": Leadership and teamwork are big elements of the superhero genre; charismatic leaders barking "Maneuver 7!" or "Fastball Special!" and hero teams overcoming more powerful foes by becoming greater than the sum of the individual members should be encouraged and rewarded in the context of the system. There's definitely a roleplaying element here, and players inclined to play leader-types should do so, and players should look for opportunities to work as a team, but it's helpful if the system rewards such behavior in order to encourage it.
"Invincible" is Relative: In the comic book genre in particular, anything is possible: supposedly "unbreakable" metals get broken, foolproof countermeasures are overcome, etc. The trick is to ensure this doesn't happen so often that those categories become meaningless. It's no fun having an impervious shield if every bad-guy gets to show how macho he is by breaking it, nor is it fun to be the greatest whatever in the world and have every guest star show you up by having equal or greater skill. While "absolutes" in the genre rarely ever are, exceptions should be for emphasis, to underline their rarity, rather than to render them pointless.
Tipping Points: This episode in particular seems to demonstrate a three-level breakdown in superhero conflicts: lesser, equal, and greater.
Lesser: These fights are almost pro-forma, in that the foes don't stand much of a chance; the heroes take them down pretty easily, even if they still have to "go through the motions" of doing so. This is the classic "minion" fight, where heroes often have a significant (statistical or story-based) advantage.
Equal: At this level there's some real back-and-forth, with both sides taking some hits and a relatively equal chance of either side coming out on top. This is what most game systems seem to strive for in terms of conflict mechanics with "game balance".
Greater: This is almost the reversal of the Lesser level, in that the heroes' foe is essentially unbeatable by normal means. Their regular attacks have little, if any, effect and victory may only be possible through some type of lateral win, defined as something other than standard combat.


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Jam Cruise 10 Lineup Announced!
The lineup for Jam Cruise was announced first thing this morning here on the West Coast, and I couldn't be happier that I've already taken the plunge and pre-booked a cabin for the 10th anniversary of the floating festival that everybody has been raving about for years. This will be my first year on the boat, so I'll be seeing plenty of unbelievably great music all while sailing the seas and partying with my fellow like-minded fans. Can't wait.
One of the bigger reveals of the lineup has been the port destinations that the cruise is choosing, and this time the festival is setting sail a full week after New Year's Eve with a January 9th departure n Ft. Lauderdale to make stops in Labadee, Haiti and then onto Falmouth, Jamaica. The whole thing winds back down on January 14th, 2012. Umphrey's McGee, Surprise Me Mr. Davis, Galactic, The New Deal, Shpongle, New Mastersounds, EOTO, and Orgone are just some of the artists I'm excited to get a crack at seeing this year, and there's tons more talent rounding out the lineup this year.
As hedonistic as the whole vacation is, I'm actually proud that the organizers thought to bring a stop by Haiti into the equation. More about those efforts were detailed in today's press release…
Positive Legacy is excited to announce the selection of Labadee, Haiti as one of the Jam Cruise 10 port stops. Leveraging the power of the music community to do good for others is the focal point of our non-profit organization and for the first time, are one of our ports was selected based on a service project rather than the other way around. The beautiful private paradise of Labadee is a safe and remote area owned by Royal Caribbean Cruise Line approximately 90 miles from Port-Au-Prince where lush rolling hills meet the sea. Labadee provides a platform for us to have a conscious beach party with music and fun while being able to give back to the people of Haiti at a time where the need is greater than ever. Long before the devastating earthquake shook Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010 the Caribbean nation of 10 million struggled to feed and shelter it's expanding population. More than a million families relied daily on International Food Aid. Since the earthquake the numbers of Haitians needing aid has more than doubled. 90% of Haiti's population lives below the poverty level, making Haiti the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere – but it's culture and history are undeniably rich. Positive Legacy is building strategic alliances with several major organizations and capitalizing on the space we have on the ship to bring goods and services to benefit the people of this beautiful island nation.
Join us in expressing the communal spirit of Jam Cruise by supporting the relief efforts and contributing to our most significant outreach to date to benefit those who are suffering from the repercussions of the earthquake. Stay tuned for big announcements about musicians, partners, and others who will be involved as this project develops…
The "conscious beach party" part is in bold, so let's hope it's stressed equally in person as it is in text. Hopefully we have room in our costume suitcases to help bring some supplies, donations and other items that can assist a nation broken and working on rebuilding where it can. And I'm sure I'll have no qualms about going back to my hedonism once I hop back on the boat, something that will surely provide some weird internal existential crisis for like a minute until I realize that I'm missing some rad DJ set somewhere on the boat. It'll be weird, sure, but I'm sure I'll find a boat full of people that are find just going with the flow anyway. I'll follow their lead.
Jam Cruise 10 Lineup
Umphrey's McGee
Keller & The Keels
Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
Railroad Earth
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
EOTO
Shpongle (DJ Set)
Perpetual Groove
Toubab Krewe
Break Science with Chali 2Na
George Porter & the Runnin' Pardners
Dr. Klaw
Surprise Me Mr. Davis
Dead Kenny G's
The Heavy Pets
A Set of Sly and the Family Stone (with Ivan Nevill, Eric Krasno, Jan Neville, Adam Deitch, Nick Daniels & Nigel Hall)
Tony Hall Superjam
The Everyone Orchestra
Paper Diamond
DJ Logic
DJ Kraz
Steve Kimock
Anders Osborne
Col. Bruce Hampton
Kyle Hollingsworth
Jessica Lurie
Adam Deitch
Eric Krasno
Jam Cruise
Jan Neville
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
Nick Daniels & Nigel Hall)
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The Living Building Challenge, created in 2006 by Cascadia Green Building Council founder Jason F. Mclennan, is the first building standard designed to go beyond simple reduction of environmental impact and take a restorative approach with the intent of creating zero impact and actively providing a net benefit to the surrounding area.
Rather than using credits or points like the familiar LEED rating system, the Living Building Challenge has twenty Imperatives, all of which must be met to achieve certification. To date, only a handful of projects worldwide have met the criteria, including one which achieved partial certification here in my home city of Victoria. Eco-Sense, a code-approved cob house completed in 2008, was started before the Living Building Challenge was first released and was adapted to fit the challenge and amazingly managed to meet more than 75% of the requirements. Since then, several more projects in British Columbia have aimed for Living Building status, including the VanDusen Botanical Gardens project in Vancouver, and the Okanagan College Jim Pattison Centre of Excellence in Penticton.
The Living Building Challenge was created in the Cascadia bioregion, but can be adapted to virtually any location on the Earth. However, it is still relatively unknown, compared to more familiar standards such as LEED, EnergyStar or Built Green. Certain forward-thinking companies are tackling the Living Building Challenge, seeing it as as the future of truly green building. Ledcor Construction Ltd. and CEI Architecture are two companies that have taken on Living Building Challenge projects, and will be presenting these projects at the 2012 Living Building Symposium held in Victoria BC.
Presenters at the 2012 Living Building Symposium include Marsha Gentile from Ledcor Construction Ltd, Robert Parlane from CEI Architecture, Dave Asprey from The Bulletproof Executive, Brianne Czypyha from the BC Capital Regional District, Keenan Turner & Joss Krayenhoff from SIREWALL, Richard Iredale of Iredale Group Architecture, and Cascadia founder Jason McLennan.
The 2012 Living Building Symposium is being held on May 31st at the Victoria Conference Centre, tickets are $55, and $30 for Cascadia members & students.


Donald Trump's former press secretary Sean Spicer has claimed to be "one of the most popular guys in Ireland" and said he was considering paid appearances on TV shows in Ireland and the UK.
The Republican aide, who left his job in the US president's administration on August 31st, has signed on with a paid-speaker agency in the hope of starting a lucrative post-White House career giving speeches.
Mr Spicer bragged to the US political news website Axios in a post published on Wednesday about the popularity of his White House press briefing and that he was mobbed by members of the public on a recent trip to Europe.
Among the opportunities Mr Spicer is considering, according to Axios, are paid appearances on TV shows in Ireland and the UK and lucrative consultants to offer advice to individuals and corporations. The former Trump aide has told The Irish Times that he hopes to visit Ireland soon.
A spokeswoman for RTÉ Television said she had no comment on whether any programme makers had offered Mr Spicer money for an appearance, saying that the broadcaster does not comment on any approaches made to guests or on editorial decisions.
Fianna Fáil TD for Cork East Kevin O'Keeffe posted a photograph of himself with Mr Spicer after the two men met at a meeting of a Catholic networking event in Rome last month.
"Introducing my new press secretary," Mr O'Keeffe joked on Twitter, posting a photograph of the two men.
Mr O'Keeffe later said that there was "fierce demand" to meet Mr Spicer.
"Everyone wanted a photograph with him - he's very recognisable," he told The Evening Echo.
Mr Spicer resigned as press secretary in July, ending a stormy six months as the public face of the Trump administration. He left after Mr Trump hired New York financier and longtime supporter Anthony Scaramucci, who himself resigned less than a fortnight later.
The former press aide's daily briefings at the White House attracted millions of TV viewers, who tuned in to watch his truculent handling of the media queries and frequent attacks on reporters.
The former political strategist and spokesman for the Republican Party drew controversy over his gaffes and false statements from the White House podium including his claims that Mr Trump's inauguration drew the largest audience ever and that Adolf Hitler never used chemical weapons.
He was notoriously lampooned by comedian Melissa McCarthy in a severe impersonation on US TV sketch show, Saturday Night Live.
Mr Spicer has since been replaced as press secretary by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the daughter of former Arkansas governor and former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.
A regular visitor to Ireland, Mr Spicer, a native of New England, has spoken proudly of his Irish heritage and has said that his great-grandfather came from Co Cork. For St Patrick's Day in 2016, he sported green and white trousers emblazoned with shamrocks during media appearances.
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Akitas are an independent breed, but most have a silly side reserved only for those people they know, love and trust. They do require being a part of a family, and should never be a trophy relegated to the back yard.
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Do you ever get so disgusted with yourself that you ask, "Why do I do this? Why do I try?" I look back over my past projects and ideas sometimes and just feel dejected. So, what do you do when you fail?
It can be tough, but you can work through the stinking thinking that is clouding your brain. I'm feeling it right now as I write, so I am addressing this question not just for you, but for myself as well.
I don't know, maybe it could be the time of year we are in, the fact that I am tired, or just reflecting on missed opportunities. One of the projects that were "abandoned" that bothers me the most was a Christmas video I had planned to work hard on last year. I had even gone as far as to post a clip of my describing what it was going to be like on my Facebook pages, but it never came to fruition.
It has been an entire year and it still eats at me because it just feels like another "project" I started and never finished. Albeit, a lot went wrong at Christmas last year that delayed the making of the said video, but I had all intentions of working on it this year.
Discouragingly, when I went to pull up the files, that I had spent weeks filming last December I discovered that they were all gone! Erased! I even looked through my external hard drives in every single folder, but they were gone. I must have erased them by accident at some point so now it grates on my nerves.
Why? Because I had some amazing footage of heavy snowfall in places, I should have never been able to access. Oh well, I must find a way to get over it I suppose but other things are irritating me as well.
I also found out about two weeks ago something was wrong with my contact page on my website, but I didn't have the time to address it then. Instead, I was too busy killing myself and working like an OCD obsessed nut to get all my wedding work done. Another quirk of mine, when I start something, I HAVE TO GET IT DONE. There are days I wonder if I have any sense of normalcy in how I live, lol.
Anyway, when I did finally get to it today, we discovered that the issue was all my inquiries were going to some random Gmail account I didn't even know I had. When I accessed this account, I knew I probably did not want to know what was in there. But I had to look, just HAD TO LOOK!
I will admit I didn't miss as much as I thought I did, but still when I was reading emails of people who wanted to talk to me about wedding and family photography, and I never responded it just kicked me in my gut. I took it personally, although no one was really at fault, and then my mind made it into a personal failure.
This just resulted in stinking thinking and what does stinking thinking equate to? A not-so-happy-cranky mood! So, what do you think I did? It's ok you can guess?
I just had to hop online and notice things that make me jealous of other people. Naturally, I started comparing myself to other people and their businesses. Geez, I'm so loveable right now, aren't I?
After practically screaming at the screen at randomness I probably shouldn't have been, I decided instead to sit down and write this out. Writing has always helped me process my thoughts, emotions, and gain perspective.
What can I do since I failed?
Well, I can be grateful for the successes I have had this year. I can be excited that I am alive and have my basic needs met.
I can also be grateful that I now have time to work on getting better at drawing, digital painting, sketching, etc. I started taking my art serious in March, but spring hopped in like that Energizer Bunny and I got swept away into the wedding season. Trust me the guilt from not focusing on my art has been weighing heavily on me too.
Yet, what does guilt do for you? It just leads you to more stinking thinking which I am famous for, lol. Therefore, I just need to reframe my mind and celebrate.
I found some great deals today at the Dollar Tree and my heavy editing is done. We should celebrate even the little things in our lives. I also have this cool set of eyes looking at me from the other end of my desk I sketched earlier this week. I shocked myself when I looked at them the next day. It always takes me 24 hours to appreciate anything I do.
Life isn't about what you don't get done or fail to complete. It is about celebrating what you do get done each day. I wouldn't beat my best friend over the head with what she didn't get done so I need to treat myself with the same respect.
If you are dealing with the same thoughts take time to process them and ask yourself this question, "Is this thought helpful or harmful to my mental health?" If it isn't, crystalize that thought you have captured in your mind's eye, then shatter it.
Then treat yourself to a glass of wine and listen to Michael Bublé's new album, "love," that came out today and relax. That is what I am currently doing. Tomorrow is a new day and you can inspire yourself again to get up and keep moving ahead towards your goals.
Sabrina L. Greene is a wedding and portrait photographer near Asheville, NC. She is also currently studying the human form to get better at being an artist and illustrator.
Sabrina is an experienced photographer and Photoshop artist of many years. She fell in love with the art of photography and photo manipulation in 2009 while in college at Mars Hill University. She holds a BA in English with minors in both Regional and Women's Studies. With an appreciation for all the arts her love of reading is what influences her artwork the most.
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Ranked in the world's top 100 universities, The University of Western Australia (UWA) is Western Australia's first university, established in 1911. The University has an international reputation for high quality education, research that is helping solve some of the world's most complex problems, and its strong relationship with industry and the community.
UWA is located next to the Swan River, five kilometres from the Perth central business district.
UWA offers a world-class education where students learn from leading experts, receive practical and industry experience, and develop critical skills. UWA's course structure allows students to design an individual course of study to match career goals with their interests. Students have access to work placements and exchanges with 180 universities around the globe. Graduates from UWA consistently exceed the national average starting salaries, while industry partnerships present valuable opportunities for professional networking.
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The University is a member of the Group of Eight, Australia's leading research-intensive universities, and belongs to the 23-strong, six continent-wide Worldwide Universities Network. It is also a founding member of the Matariki Network of Universities.Research
UWA is a research-intensive university attracting high levels of research funding and the finest minds from around the globe. Of particular note are Professor Barry Marshall and Emeritus Professor Robin Warren, who received a Nobel Prize for the discovery of Helicobacter pylori as the cause of stomach ulcers, and researchers who contributed to the discovery of gravitational waves, predicted by Einstein and one of the most significant scientific discoveries of the century.Community
UWA is widely acclaimed for its heritage-listed, picturesque grounds and its contribution to the community. It is part of a dynamic Perth cultural scene, having founded the Perth Festival (the oldest festival of its kind in the southern hemisphere) and has a vibrant Cultural Precinct with numerous galleries, museums and theatres.
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The Sonoma County GO LOCAL Board
Philip Beard, Ph.D.
Emeritus professor of German at Sonoma State University, Dr. Beard co-designed and from 2000 to 2005 co-coordinated the Global Studies B.A. program there. His interest in complementary economics stems from his extensive study of the roots of violent behavior. Since the early 1990's, Dr. Beard has collaborated on various projects aiming to design and implement robust, sustainable mutual credit programs at the regional level. The current design, "Sustaining Capital," forms an important part of the Sonoma County GO LOCAL Cooperative's long-term plans. Dr. Beard is a co-founder of GO LOCAL.
Terry Garrett
Terry Garrett served as the co-managing member of Sonoma County GO LOCAL and Sustaining Technologies from 2009 through 2018. He is now a member of the board. He also serves as a board member of Sonoma County Economic Development Board and also as co-chair of the Cannabis Advisory Group for Sonoma County Board of Supervisors. Prior to his work in local economic development, he published local newsweekly newspapers and magazines and developed marketing programs for local retailers and restaurants. Currently, he is co-publisher of the local food industry magazine, Made Local, and Chief Operating Officer for Mercy Wellness.
Chris Mann
Chris is the Chairman of the Gourd for Guayaki Sustainable Rainforest Products, a Sebastopol-based importer and marketer of Guayaki Yerba Mate and other rainforest products. Guayaki grows its products sustainably within the South America's Atlantic Rainforest and currently sustains and/or restores nearly 20,000 acres of rainforest, 34 indigenous families and over 300 bird and mammal species. Chris earned a BA in Economics from Harvard University but quickly realized that economics conveniently forgot about sustaining the environment and protecting people. Through his experience with Guayaki and previously with Natural Flavors, a 100% organic, vegan restaurant that employed 25 people and 60 local farmers, Chris is finding that by recognizing common purpose, seemingly disparate groups can integrate social justice, environmental restoration and economic success.
Janeen Murray
Janeen draws professional experience from both the business sector and the educational arena. Starting out as a junior high and high school teacher in Sonoma County public schools, she inspired a commitment to learning and sustainability in our youth. For the next decade she managed Operations and Marketing/Communications at two Sonoma County locally owned companies. Logging almost 10 years as GO LOCAL's Co-Manager and Board Member, she now serves as Executive Director. Also Manager of Sustaining Technologies, LLC, she works both organizations in tandem to develop programs and provide marketing consulting for locally owned businesses. Janeen also serves as a member of the Sonoma County Food System Alliance and is a 2011 Fellow of the Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy. You may also come across her wailing on her accordion around the county with the Hubbub Club street band and serves on the board of the nonprofit Hubbub Music Society. Contact: j.murray@golocal.coop
Danielle O'Leary
Danielle is the Economic Development Manager for the City of San Rafael, the largest city in Marin County. Danielle has over 13 years of economic development experience with local municipalities and specializes in helping cities develop brand and identity programs that reflect the unique characteristics of the community she serves. Danielle has a full range of experience in conducting public outreach programs, building relationships with City Councils, boards, commissions, local businesses and residents towards the common goal of a healthy local economy. Danielle received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration and Entrepreneurship, with a Communications Minor from Concordia University, Irvine. Her specialties include: business administration, public policy, marketing, branding, public relations and public speaking.
Matt Reynolds decided at an early age that through entrepreneurship he could directly help people improve their lives. Matt is President and Co-founder of Indigenous Designs Corporation, a leading premium organic apparel brand and producer of hand-crafted fair trade clothing. INDIGENOUS is a leading global, sustainable-fashion brand that has led the way in today's eco-fashion world. The company is committed to supporting fair trade values and indigenous artisan communities, investing in natural and organic fibers and environmentally friendly dyes, and to spreading the beauty of handmade eco-fashion.
Matt and Indigenous Designs continue to be heavily involved in promoting sustainability in collaboration with the Organic Exchange, the OTA (Organic Trade Association), SVN, BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies), Fashion Revolution Day, Triple Pundit, Worldways Social Media and B-Corporations. Matt continues to lead Indigenous Designs as a company immersed premium fair trade fashion as well as sustainability.
Todd Sheffield
Todd is CEO of Community First, a 53-year-old, locally based financial cooperative. He has held executive positions at financial cooperatives for the past 28 years. Todd is a Certified Public Accountant and earned his MBA, with an emphasis in Accounting, from Cal State University, East Bay. Under Todd's guidance, Community First was the first in the North Bay to introduce "smart ATMs" that automatically count deposits and don't require envelops, and the first locally based financial institution to roll out mobile banking on smartphones, instant-issue debit cards and an automated personal finance manager on its home banking site. Also under Todd's guidance, during the dark days of the Great Recession when big banks stopped lending, Community First increasedits lending volume so that Sonoma County residents could continue to buy homes and cars.
Todd has been a personal member of GO LOCAL for many years, and uses his Community First debit card to get his GO LOCAL Rewards wherever he shops.
Adam is President and Co-Founder of Peak Prosperity.
Quinn Lefaye
Quinn handles GO LOCAL's office & marketing support part-time. A jack of all trades, Quinn comes from a diverse background of education, career & philosophy. In addition to her work with GO LOCAL, Quinn is a practicing herbalist, environmental advocate, entrepreneur & event producer. Her current project is local event series Tea Here Now - a conscious night life event. Learn more at facebook.com/squishtribe. Contact: q.lefaye@golocal.coop
Janeen Murray (see above)
Debbie Stohlman
Debbie runs payment processing and bookkeeping for GO LOCAL, when she's not playing some serious (and seriously fun) 2 on 2 volleyball at a local park or beach. Contact: d.stohlman@golocal.coop
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We welcome Mark Stohlman as our new Marketing Coordinator as of July 2019. Upon retiring from over 24 years of service in the United States Coast Guard, with 14 of those years in Sonoma County, he settled in Sonoma County for good in 2007. Mark has spent the last 11 years in hotel management, most recently at the Bodega Bay Lodge as Director of Rooms and Revenue. Contact: m.stohlman@golocal.coop
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Reavis Sutphin-Gray began programming as a hobby in junior high school. He graduated from Pomona College in 2005 with a B.A. in computer science. Since then, he has worked in electronics and as an independent contractor engineering biotech software and systems. Reavis strives for efficiency and reliability both when developing algorithms and when mapping out the role of technological components in complex systems.
Recently, Reavis has leveraged his extensive background and education in traditional imperative, functional, and object-oriented programming methodologies to become adept at agile web application development. He sees Ruby on Rails and Django as powerful tools that enable small teams to create outstanding software through rapid iteration paired with extensive automated testing and static analysis. Reavis is the Lead Software Developer and Co-Managing Member of Sustaining Technologies.


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use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Http\Firewall\ExceptionListener as BaseExceptionListener;

class ExceptionListener extends BaseExceptionListener
{
    protected function setTargetPath(Request $request)
    {
        // Do not save target path for XHR requests
        // You can add any more logic here you want
        // Note that non-GET requests are already ignored
        if ($request->isXmlHttpRequest()) {
            return;
        }

        //why this... well, our application will be based on angularJS which uses # for routing
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        $request->initialize($request->query->all(), $request->request->all(), $request->attributes->all(), $request->cookies->all(), $request->files->all(), $request->server->all(), $request->getContent());

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Ellen first asked Underwood about how her marriage to hockey player Mike Fisher was going. "It comes with it's own wonderfulness and challenges ... We got married, he went back to Canada, I went back to Nashville. Then he got traded to Nashville, and he came, and he brought all this crap with him, " Underwood explained, laughing. "He's not a hoarder, but he's close, maybe? He's just like, 'Babe, I need more room in the closet,' and my heart just sinks. He'll keep like shirts and stuff, and I'll go through it and I'm like, 'You know you online shop' -- he loves to shop."
Underwood then interrupted herself, saying, "He's gonna kill me." However, she didn't let this stop her rant, as she continued, "He has stuff come in and I'm like, 'This is not going out fast enough. If you bring stuff in, stuff needs to go out. Do we need this shirt? It's got a giant stain on the sleeve. Are we gonna wear this again?'"
If that doesn't sound bad enough, apparently Mr. Fisher has no method to his madness, since his "hoarding" is not organized in the slightest. "It's everywhere. I know he would say I'm too controlling and I nag at him to get his stuff put up or something ... I'm trying to compromise," Underwood told Degeneres. "Before we got married, I redid my closet, so it's complete girl space, just with enough room for my stuff. So then when he comes in, I cleaned him spaces out and all that good stuff. [Our spaces are] probably close to equal. Man clothes just take up so much more space than women clothes. His jeans are like massive."
Underwood also spoke about her performance with Steven Tyler at April 3's ACM Awards, and even joked about their almost-kiss (refer to picture No. 14 here!), saying, "And we made out. Not really!" Underwood spoke humbly about her performance with Tyler, saying, "That was so much fun. We knew we'd play and have fun, 'cause it's such a fun atmosphere being out there, and he's just absolutely amazing. He's just this rock god the second he [gets] on the stage."
The 'Songs Like This' singer also spoke about her role in the upcoming flick 'Soul Surfer,' which is about shark attack victim/pro surfer Bethany Hamilton. Although Underwood loves the movie, she wasn't as enthusiastic during filming. "I was there [in Hawaii] a week, and part of my part in the movie is when we went to Thailand. So they like staged Thailand in Hawaii. We were there on the beach. It was freezing, though. They were like, 'It's never this cold!' And I was like, 'Yeah, of course not. Only when we are filming.'"
As for Hamilton herself, Underwood had nothing but positive things to say: "She's so strong and fun to be around. She just wants to surf. Even when we were filming ... she's just a monster out there, amazing." However, Underwood herself won't be picking up a surfboard any time soon, as she admits, "I'm not even a good swimmer!"


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Q: php memory management & profiling
Possible Duplicate:
PHP memory profiling

From what I've found online, all I've seen for tracking memory usage in an PHP application is to use the native "memory_get_usage()" function or buy a commercial product like zend server.
Anybody have some other suggestions? Seems like a good use for Aspect Oriented Programming...

A: XDebug works great for tracing, profiling, and debugging.

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Q: File handling in java with permission denied and wrong path i have a java class which reads and gives me the list of files available for the particular given path.
this is fine when the right path is given but there is no exception or error if the file path is not accessible or wrong path,
how to handle the following,

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*Given path does not have a permission to access

*wrong path is given.

thanks
This is my code what i tried and it is the jdk version is 1.6:
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class ExceptionInFileHandling {

    @SuppressWarnings({ "rawtypes", "unchecked" })
    public static void GetDirectory(String a_Path, List a_files, List a_folders) throws IOException {
        try {
            File l_Directory = new File(a_Path);
            File[] l_files = l_Directory.listFiles();

            for (int c = 0; c < l_files.length; c++) {
                if (l_files[c].isDirectory()) {
                    a_folders.add(l_files[c].getName());
                } else {
                        a_files.add(l_files[c].getName());
                }
            }
        } catch (Exception ex){
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }

    }
    @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
    public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {

        String filesLocation = "asdfasdf/sdfsdf/";
        List l_Files = new ArrayList(), l_Folders = new ArrayList();
        GetDirectory(filesLocation, l_Files, l_Folders);

        System.out.println("Files");
        System.out.println("---------------------------");
        for (Object file : l_Files) {
            System.out.println(file);
        }
        System.out.println("Done");

    }
}

A: You will have to use so e methods of File class.
Exists will tell you if the path given is valid and canRead will determine if you have read permision to particular file/directory.
Here you have some documentation.

A: @SuppressWarnings({ "rawtypes", "unchecked" })
    public static void GetDirectory(String a_Path, List a_files, List a_folders) throws IOException {
        try {
            File l_Directory = new File(a_Path);
            **if(l_Directory.exists()){**
                File[] l_files = l_Directory.listFiles();

                for (int c = 0; c < l_files.length; c++) {
                    if (l_files[c].isDirectory()) {
                        a_folders.add(l_files[c].getName());
                    } else {
                            a_files.add(l_files[c].getName());
                    }
                }
            }
        } catch (Exception ex){
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

A: Solution 1:
To replace the file separator based on the OS, answers for similar thread
Java regex to replace file path based on OS
Platform independent paths in Java
Solution 2:
To check wrong path, you may use below code.
  @SuppressWarnings({ "rawtypes", "unchecked" })
        public static void GetDirectory(String a_Path, List a_files, List a_folders) throws IOException {
            try {
                if (!new File(a_Path).exists())
                {
                   throw new FileNotFoundException("Given path '"+a_Path+"' is not available");
                }
                File l_Directory = new File(a_Path);
                File[] l_files = l_Directory.listFiles();

                for (int c = 0; c < l_files.length; c++) {
                    if (l_files[c].isDirectory()) {
                        a_folders.add(l_files[c].getName());
                    } else {
                            a_files.add(l_files[c].getName());
                    }
                }
            }
            catch (FileNotFoundException ex){
               ex.printStackTrace();
            }
            catch (Exception ex){
                ex.printStackTrace();
            }
        }

I hope this will help you.


The reaction to Aston Villa's away defeat to West Ham saw the gloom merchants out in force, with some joining Robbie Savage in predicting relegation for Villa, with some suggesting nothing had changed from last season. I suggest they actually watch the game. While Villa offered very little in the final third, the passing, building-from-the-back approach from Villa was a revelation compared to watching them last season. Now it's a question of honing it and developing it, especially when it comes to creating chances. Did people expect Paul Lambert to come in, click his fingers, and suddenly Villa would be playing ala carte football ala Barcelona? It will take time and patience is clearly needed.
The same goes for signings. With the window over a week away yet, now is not time to panic after just one game (I blame twitter and social media – nobody used to react after one game like this before). Lambert is an astute character with a good knowledge of the European game. The decent valued buys he's made so far, were off the radar of most Villa fans. That can only be a good sign. We need to be buying clever – like Swansea, Newcastle, Everton – rather than just going after 'known' mercenary-waged players, that seem to be the limits of many moaning Villa fan's knowledge – Defoe, Carroll etc.
Regarding losing the first game of the season. Villa's normally had very varied success when it comes to the season opener, as this table by whoscored.com shows.
Also, O'Neil only won one out of four opening games. When Villa were last the League Champions, they started the following 1981/82 season with a 1-0 home loss against Notts County. It didn't stop them becoming the Champions of Europe by the season's end though.
It's not hard to disagree with the table's suggestion that Villa have an easy start though… Their next games are: at home to a very solid Everton who just beat Man United; Newcastle away, who were top 5 last season; at home to an increasingly impressive Swansea who won at Villa park last season.
For Villa to break their worst run of games in the Premiership without a win, which currently stands at 11 matches, it's going to take a decent performance. Once the winning feeling returns though,with the style we're playing and hopefully with a couple of additions to the team, things should start to turn around quickly. At the moment, we'll have to take the rough with the smooth, and show some patience.
Really positive and great way of looking at things. Wish all villa fans were like this!!
deanovilla79 It's just common sense really!


It takes a lot of testicular fortitude to accuse someone of nonsensically curating music on a television show when you are actually the one that doesn't get the references.
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It's cutting it a bit fine, but I did get it done before the end of the month.
The lesson this month came from Ann Fahl. She recommended going beyond the basic stipple stitch, Now to me, the meander and stipple stitch aren't that easy, but it's definitely got easy with the free motion embroidery I've been doing.
I decided to go with swirls, as it went with the idea of cats playing with wool.
This is the most comfortable I've felt whilst free motion quilting, I'm even tempted to give this a go on a larger quilt.
The whole purpose of this embroidery course, is to push the boundaries, so now, paper has been added to a piece of hand embroidered cloth.
This is silk paper that has been machine embroidered, and then embellished by hand.
The paper was carefully cut out around the machine embroidered flowers and then very gently stitched to the cloth. To do that. I've used a mixture of french knots, blanket stitch, bullion knots and blanket stitch lace.
This technique works just as well with buttons.
Once the buttons and mirrors were applied, I heavily embellished the area with hand embroidery. I really do like the way it seems to grow out of the cloth.
I have lots of buttons collected over the years, I may think of a way to incorporate them into a piece of stitching.
This is a technique that needs a little more practise, and some more scrim! Warp threads were removed, then stitched on the machine to form "lace". It's quite interesting to see the different ways it pulls together, and the different patterns that form, so I'm looking forward to trying this again.
This next piece is adding a few elements together. The lace at the top is attached with a strip of french knots. Behind the scrim is a vintage transfer on silk.
Top and bottom, the scrim has been needle woven, and I think this is one of my favourite techniques from this class. I love the effect it gives. The bottom piece of scrim has nothing behind it, so the full effect can be seen. The lace in the middle is joined with bullion knots and the scrim at the bottom has been finished with buttonhole stitch and buttonhole lace.
... but I'm finally getting into the embroidery course and having fun. I'm beginning to catch up with all that has been going on, and hopefully won't be too far behind when the next lesson is released.
When we started playing with paper, I made a concertina fan out of a sheet of silk paper. I've cut this in half and added some hand embroidery. There are woven bars to keep the sides open and on the inside I've added splashes of colour with web stitches and french knots. To keep the fan in shape, I've used needle woven bars front and back.
Remember the scrim pockets? I've now taken these a stage further, applying the scrim over fabric and vintage embroidery.
The scrim has then been embellished with hand embroidery.
Small holes were cut in the scrim and then fixed with french knots, and there are lots of wrapped threads to form a lace effect. This allows the fabric and embroidery to appear from below.
The finished piece is quite small, and hopefully will become part of a bigger piece.
The next piece is prepared and I'm hoping for another happy stitching day today.
The lovely thing about the latest embroidery course, is trying new things and putting them together. The first element of the next piece was this cloud.
This is silk paper that has been machine embroidered and then further embellished with a buttonhole border, buttonhole lace along the bottom, and lots of bullion knots.
and a vintage embroidery transfer on silk.
The final piece wouldn't be complete without rain drops. This is silk paper with a shisha mirror.
Here it is, all complete. A cloud, with it's life giving rain, to make the flowers grow.
Knowing I had a swap, I had to get everything done, so they could be posted without worrying about missing the completion date.
The three pieces I stitched became a needle case, a scissor pocket and fob.
All that's needed now, is a button for closing, and the scissors to go inside.
After a little break, I am finally back to needle and thread, continuing on with the samples of stitched paper. This sample is one of the holes that I'd machine stitched across the hole.
I cut out close to the stitching and secured it to some silk. I then blanket stitched around the edge, and added some blanket stitch lace. The backing lace was then cut away to leave the hole open.
I like being able to see the writing coming through, but on a stitched piece, I would use some embroidery as the backing.
When I stitch these samples into the book, I just pick a page at random. I couldn't believe what was written on this page.
I signed up for a swap on the TSS Yahoo group for a scissor pocket and fob.
http://kincavelkrosses.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/rhodes-butterfly-biscornu1.jpg - which I thought I could adapt.
I've done this pattern, or part of it three times now. One for the scissor case, one for a needle case, and just the central design for the fob. Now I need to have a look to see if I have the fabric to make them up. Hopefully, it shouldn't take long, and they can be posted very quickly.
De stash page has had some more magazines added, as well as a couple of vintage sewing patterns. In order to clear some space, the first 10 items will be removed at the end of this week, so if you're interested, please email me.
This one has taken quite a little while to finish. The pattern was easy to do, but being four ply, it took time to grow.
It was made quicker by having a slash neck, the ribbing was done as part of the front and back pieces, so the sewing up part was quicker.
It's quite a pretty blue, grey colour. The yarn is Wendy Mode 4 ply, 50% pure merino wool, 50% fine acrylic, so was lovely and soft to knit with.
There is another project waiting for a finish in my knitting back, I just need to do some sleeves, maybe that will see the light of day before the end of the month.
I didn't have a lot of vintage embroidered linens in my collection to use with my embroidery, so I did a little search on Ebay, and managed to win this collection, for just a small amount of money.
I wasn't quite sure what I was going to get, as the picture wasn't the best, but I was pleasantly surprised when I opened the package.
and so has this cutwork. It's amazing to think of the patience and skill involved in doing this with a cotton pillowcase.
They are all now waiting to go into the washing machine, I wasn't so impressed with the smell of tobacco that hit me as I opened the envelope. Hopefully, they will soon smell a bit sweater and add a little something to future embroidery projects.
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Once the fun with the sewing machine was over, it was time to use the samples in some embroidery, to embellish them and get some ideas for a larger piece.
I used the over stitched piece of paper and added it to some dupion silk. The spiral of french knots attaches the paper to the silk.
I do like the different textures of the the knots and paper together.
I don't have a lot of vintage embroidery to use, but I do have a collection of these patterns. The earliest I've found dated is 1933. They would have belonged to my great grandmother and grandmother, passed down through my mum.
I used one of the transfers to stitch this. I left one incomplete, as lots of linen has been passed down only partially stitched.
To it I added some pin tucked paper. Holes were cut in it to form windows to the stitching underneath. Some windows have needle weaving over them. Attached to the bottom of the paper, is some machine stitched scrim.
This can be lifted to reveal the stitching below.
After some feedback from Karen, these ideas will be developed further. I think I should write some notes, my brain is mulling over new ideas and forgetting some of the old ones before I've had a chance to try them.
Not sure what I'll do with the rest, but the thinking cap is on.
After playing with scrim, it was now time to play with silk paper.
It was fun trying out the different stitches on the paper, and to see how resilient it is.
I like the edging this makes, just over stitching in circles backwards and forwards along a line, then pulling the excess paper away.
This stitch would be great for an edge, one of my favourites.
Now I'm looking forward to combining the scrim and paper with other fabric and hand stitching. Hopefully. a few more stitched samples will follow.
The third hardanger is complete, and I have a bookmark to show for it.
This was one of those projects that didn't look that much until it was finished. Once the excess fabric had been cut away, it looked pretty good. I am pleased with how it turned out. Lesson four has been printed, but yet to be started.


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Lípa v Kryštofově Údolí je památný strom rostoucí v Novině, součásti Kryštofova Údolí, obce na severu České republiky patřící do Libereckého kraje.

Poloha a historie
Strom roste v Novině u tamního domu číslo popisné 158 ležící severně od silnice číslo II/592. Severně od památného stromu stoupá do nadmořské výšky 560 metrů Simmův kopec. Po úbočí kopce vede zpevněná "Jelení cesta", po níž je v okolí stromu vedena zeleně značená turistická trasa nazvaná "Svatojakubská cesta". O prohlášení stromu za památný rozhodl městský úřad v Chrastavě, který 2. února 2007 vydal příslušný dokument, jenž 1. dubna 2007 nabyl své účinnosti.

Popis
Památný strom je lípa srdčitá (Tilia cordata), obvod jejíhož kmene činí rovných 400 centimetrů. Při vyhlašování památkové ochrany bylo kolem stromu definováno rovněž ochranné pásmo. Má podobu kruhu o poloměru ve velikosti desetinásobku průměru kmene měřeného ve výšce 1,3 metru. Zasahuje tak do pozemků parcelní číslo 57/5, 57/6 a do stavební parcely číslo 8, vše v katastrálním území "Novina u Liberce".

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Památné stromy v Ještědsko-kozákovském hřbetu
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Moran Mar Baselios Marthoma Mathews II (1915 –2006) was the Supreme head of Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. His Holiness was successor to the Holy Apostolic Throne of St. Thomas and Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan. His Holiness was born at Perinad in Kollam district of Kerala, and had his theological education at Old Seminary Kottayam and also at Basil Dayara, Pathanamthitta. Later His Holiness joined Bishop's College, Calcutta for his B. D. Degree, and studied Theology at the General Theological Seminary, New York. His Holiness was ordained as deacon in 1938 then as priest in 1941. On 15 May 1953 His Holiness was ordained as bishop Mathews Mar Coorilose at the age of 38 by the Catholicos Baselios Geevarghese II. Mar Coorilose was elevated to the throne of St Thomas as Baselious Marthoma Mathews II, Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan on 29 April 1991. Due to ill health from old age Mathews II resigned his position as the Catholicos on 29 October 2005. His Holiness died on 26 January 2006, and was interred at Mount Horeb Chapel, in Sasthamkotta.


To insert letters, press Dand the appropriate letters. My calculator has never exhibited any of the keyboard quirks others have mentioned. The calculator has been 'Ived' as a useless piece of decoration. The assets earned 10% while its debt cost it 8%. I wish I realized the sticky key problem sooner so I could have returned it during the one year warranty period.
Excel's number match my actual mortgage payment. It is callable on March 3, 2006 a coupon date , at a value of 102. The drop down menu feature gets you right to the functions you need depending on the context. The maximum number depends on the amount of available calculator memory. Begin mode makes the first payment an advance payment. Do either a or b: Key in the yield and press price.
A B C Switzerland Israeli Denmark Norway Sweden Francs New Kroner Kroner Kronor Shekel R! To transfer more than one value from a menu, use storage registers. Press the menu key for the past-due appointment. Typical for savings plans and leasing. If the list is, in fact, the entire set of data, the true population standard deviation can be computed by calculating the mean of the original list, placing that value into the list, and then calculating the standard deviation. Clearing Numbers Clearing One Number.
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Store the number of payments or withdrawals per year in Yand set the appropriate payment mode. I have a couple of programmed functions I use all the time. This amount plus last monthly payment repays the loan. Not having numbers register just does not cut it. Deleting Variables and Equations Each equation in the Solver list uses calculator memory to store 1 itself, and 2 its variables. Forecasts estimated values based on that curve. It is not an operator, which ÷ is.
Press a menu key to select a list of x-values independent variable. You can also find the weighted mean and the grouped standard deviation. What are your monthly payments? Naming an Equation Naming equations helps you identify them later. The closer your guesses are to the desired solution, the better chance the Solver has of finding it. Most loan calculations use End mode.
To clear a name, press C. Then display the smallest value in the list. U Stores as a percentage. For example, for a rate 1¼ times 125% the straight-linerate, enter 125. What is the yield to the call date? Headlines should be less than 50 characters.
The keys don't click as crisply as they used to, but I find that makes it even easier to use - now my hands just glide across the keypad. There is no limit on the length of an equation or the number of variables it has if there is enough memory to store it. It was removed early in 1991. As much as I love the calculator, I'd love being able to combine devices even more. More information on arithmetic is in chapter 2. Take the time to read chapter 1.
If needed: sets 12 payment. The calculator line is where you see numbers or letters that you enter, and the results of calculations. The call date must coincide with a coupon date. All you need to do is re-enter the one value you are changing: Keys: Display:. It's great for date calculations and financing.
You can also create repeating appointments—appointments that recur at regular intervals. To convert to the nominal rate, first key in the effective rate and press k, then press j. My calculator has never exhibited any of the keyboard quirks others have mentioned. This is a way to save memory space. Store annual interest rate in j.
If this is not true, see page 87. Suppose a corporation uses a rating system to determine salary. Correct prices and promotions are validated at the time your order is placed. I would love to design a simple face for it, but would not change a function. Internet research indicates that I need to take it apart and fix the ribbon connector to the display. In compound interest calculations, interest is added to the principal at specified compounding periods, thereby also earning interest. Get a new list by pressing ps The old list must be named first.


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Does anyone have experience or knowledge of a machinable material that can be used for vacuum forming polycarbonate? Basically start with this material, machine to form, clean surface finish, use as a mold?
Currently we use an aluminum filled epoxy, there is so much back and forth work to create the mold I have to imagine there is a more direct way.
This is nice to work with but pricey.
This is my favorite two part casting resin, cheap, easy to mix and use, and it machines nice.
I have been to the BCC site are there are some very interesting products, which casting resin do you use?
I use 8001 Kwik Kast resin.
I also noticed they have tooling boards.
As the site does not have prices can you tell what price they charge.
The BCC Kwik Kast resin is about half the usual price and easier to use than anything else I've tried.
Where and how can I contact Polytek, I take it they sell the BCC product?
Has anyone tried the Metal Cast from Bccproducts?
I've been using Ureol, which is a sort of predecessor of RenShape's block material. Very easy milled and form stable.


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The Global Academy reached 2 new milestones this week – join us!
These are extraordinary times at The Global Academy – and it's great to be part of it!
Less than 3 months ago my colleague Wendy Stone wrote this blog https://theglobalacademy.ac/heading-into-a-new-year-with-100-global-academy-researchers/ . We were thrilled then to have reached the milestone of 100 researchers linking their work to the wider purpose provided by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by joining us at the Global Academy. It seemed that our platform was gaining momentum and piquing interest in some research areas.
Adapting to difficult times
2020 was a long and difficult year for many, and researchers have been affected by the global pandemic along with everyone else. Some had their work curtailed by the sudden restrictions of field work. Others continue to be deeply affected by the inability to get the direct personal input they rely on from other researchers, or their research supervisors. Of course, over the course of the year, researchers have adapted in the same way as wider societies around the world: more work and collaborative interaction has moved online; new strategies for booking laboratory or library space and time have arrived; field work plans have been amended or adapted to fit the new reality.
At the same time a growing number of researchers have hugely valued opportunities that have arisen to collaborate, to share, and to showcase their research through new channels. This is evidenced by the growing number, and success, of online events and conferences and the new interest in possibilities to set research work in a wider context.
Our platform links research to the wider purpose of the SDGs and provides opportunities for collaboration, so we both benefit from, and amplify, this renewed need to understand the wider purposes of research.
Supporting researchers with purpose
Less than 3 months after that '100 researchers' blog article we have now welcomed over 200 researchers to The Global Academy. It is truly humbling to have researchers from almost 60 nations involved. Also at least ten Global Academy researchers have linked their work to every one of the 17 UN Global Goals.
With every new researcher who chooses to join us, the value of the Global Academy platform increases. For researchers there is a facility to search for others working in areas akin to your own and to reach out to offer, or seek out, opportunities to collaborate. Or, you can search for researchers based in your own country to see what others are working on more locally. Most importantly though, the platform offers an opportunity to showcase your research and become part of a growing global community, setting their research in the wider context of the world striving to achieve the UN SDGs by 2030 – that's just 9 years away! Please take a look and join us if you feel inspired to do so! https://theglobalacademy.ac
The next stage has begun – Research Groups
For us at The Global Academy this growth is thrilling because it is what we have been working on this for a while. It also means we can now able to move on and develop some of our other plans.
First among these is the addition of Research Groups. We are truly excited today to be launching the first Global Academy Research Group page. We have been privileged to work with Professor Sara Dolnicar and her team (especially Jenna Farmer!) at the Low Harm Hedonism Initiative in the University of Queensland Business School. The Group is undertaking a range of really important and interesting work, largely focused around sustainable tourism. They have linked their work to seven of the Global Goals, with a strong core of work associated with SDG 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production. We hope you enjoy exploring their work – much of it is explained with the help of straightforward, highly professional videos. https://theglobalacademy.ac/the-university-of-queensland/low-harm-hedonism/ . It is fascinating to hear from this team about the, relatively simple, changes that can help speed our progress towards sustainable tourism and travel.
If you'd like to showcase the work of your own Research Group or Institute, and set it in the context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, just get in touch! We'd love to hear from you.
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Pupil wins first place at dance competition
Bilquees Alexander, 17, a Grade 12 pupil at Belgravia High School, holds the trophy she won at the DanceStar World Finals. Celebrating her winning performance, is principal André Buis.
A Belgravia High Grade 12 pupil blew the judges away at an international dance competition, where she won first place for her solo performance.
Bilquees Alexander, 17, who is also a student at the Eoan Group School of the Performing Arts, qualified to take part in the International DanceStar World Finals, which was held in Croatia last month. It was here that she was chosen as the winner in the senior open category.
Bilquees has been dancing since the age of 5, and does ballet, contemporary, belly dance and hip hop. It was her mixture of belly dance and contemporary dance that secured her win. This was her first international dance competition.
"I was so confused when they called out my name as the winner. I didn't want to believe that it was me. I even asked the judge who gave me the trophy if it really was for me. I did not expect that at all," Bilquees giggled.
She fell in love with dance at the Eoan Group, Bilquees said. Her favourite dance style is contemporary dance, and she practises up to six times a week.
"Dance transports me to a place where I am the only one there. With dance, I never feel demotivated. It is rare that I actually see the audience, or the people around me once I am in that mode.
"I would like to do dance on a professional level, and part of that plan is to go overseas and learn some more," she said.
She finds balance between her love for dance and school work, Bilquees said.
Her advice to her peers: "Your dreams are never too big. Work hard towards it and don't slack. If you really love your craft, you will give it your all. There are no excuses, and no matter how long it will take, it will definitely be worth it."
Belgravia High School principal, André Buis, said three qualities distinguish Bilquees from her peers – humility, goal directness and her work ethic.
"Certainly these qualities should be the cornerstone and foundation of every pupil. Hence, the reason why Bilquees is the epitome not only for a success story, but that it embodies our slogan for the year, which is: 'Excellence never happens by chance'. It is always the result of hard work, planning, and the ability to see stumbling blocks as opportunities.
"We are extremely proud of her impeccable achievement," Mr Buis said.
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