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He mumbles it softly so I ask him to spell it and he scrawls it in thin graphite across the top of the lined paper smudged with math scratch work ... windows of this upper story Salvation Army building, out at Regent Park, with its postage stamp yards ... because it’s entirely monochrome, grey concrete, flat bricks? Or is it because of the loneliness [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 13:19:27
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Pick up trucks…
Around noon today, I’ll land in Savannah, Georgia, grab a suitcase stuffed with Christmas presents, and climb into my dad’s pick up truck ... play. Studied how they each played a different instrument but the end result seemed so… unified ... the concrete floor under my feet. I wanted to do what I watched Barbara Mandrell do that day [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 12:00:20
24 hours
My writing skills are seriously lacking today, but I'm going to write this out anyway and hopefully you'll get the idea of what I'm trying to say.. ... a bachelor apartment the size of a postage stamp, but it's worth it because I will have my own space ... ... where I'm moving is in the heart of downtown; concrete central. I'm from the country, so I'm used [more...]
Date: 2008-07-30 16:40:07
Showcase: You! week 6 - win a free book!
Last time I asked for your favorite frugal site. Moneysaving Mom received votes from Jamie, Dana, and Amy @ The Q Family ... out these tips: Use spray adhesive to cover a worn out desk pad and press a towel on top of it. It’ ... ’t you think?) Paint concrete blocks a bright color and stack with holes in front to organize office [more...]
Date: 2008-07-31 15:08:58
Who Says There's No Good News In The Paper?
It’s hard to remember when we’ve seen two more hopeful headlines: One yesterday said: “Shelby County Commission rejects Wal-Mart Supercenter.” A day earlier, there was another: “Riverfront plaza to replace lot.” Is it possible that the sustainability movement in our community is now officially under way in Memphis and Shelby County? [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 02:28:48
Over Sized, Over-BLANK… Overkill!
This article should benefit your perception of media and advertising. Today I take issue with use of terms such as “over sized, over stuffed, over…anything.” They make me angry! And I’d like you to feel the same way anytime you see or hear them. I recall a few years ago looking to purchase a new comforter for my bed [more...]
Date: 2008-07-06 08:30:27
Two-way Throwback
Spencer Larsen has received a stamp of approval from none other than Chuck Bednarik. Stamp? More like a helmet-to-helmet, full-contact collision. Bednarik wasn’t called “Concrete Charlie” for nothing. “What positions did he play?” Bednarik ... have some young legs, so we’ll see how I do.” Bednarik, now 83, believes today’s players could better [more...]
Date: 2008-11-22 04:41:49
Angry criticism and the name
Obstinate old man--senexsapiens, it is not. What is he saying;why is he still so angry? He says, I cannotforgive myself. We are immortal.Where was I? Prick him.-Geoffrey Hill, The Triumph of Love I'm interested in a type of criticism I've seen lately, one that can't stand other people's thoughts unless it has them held in a position, under a name [more...]
Date: 2008-10-10 11:48:00
Iraqi candidates stumping for Jan. 31 provincial elections
BAGHDAD, Iraq — If any single image can capture Iraq’s precarious position, suspended between dictatorship and democracy, it’s the campaign posters that are pasted on towering concrete blast walls throughout Baghdad ... , office seekers are pledging to create jobs, stamp out violence and build a “modern” Iraq. “ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-24 03:28:28
An Evening for Vayl & Jaz: Parts One-Four
“Cassandra, this is an emergency!” My phone beeped. Crap! Why do they put so many buttons on the side when they know sometimes you need to squeeze it like a stress ball? I’d probably just texted Dave’s flight arrangements to the head of the FBI. “Jaz? Do you know what time it is?” “You’re a freaking psychic! [more...]
Date: 2009-01-01 16:12:44
On Norm-Building as a Vocation
On the last day of class in "Rules of War," I ask my students what kinds of things are needed to strengthen the regime governing the conduct of war ... do to move the world in that direction. For awhile they struggle to come up with anything more concrete than ... you in the opposite direction." It was an interesting moment for me as an educator, to [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 02:06:00
Shanghai’s Bund Traders
SHANGHAI - Not one tourist is spared. “Rolex?” questions a young, slender man in his thirties, tobacco-stained front teeth and hands moving through his outer jacket pockets. It is an evening on the riverbank promenade of the Bund - Shanghai’s strip of historic art deco buildings aligned along the curve of the murky brown Huangpu [more...]
Date: 2008-10-04 02:15:12
News from Dallas
Well I made in to Dallas. It really amazes me that it is only a 3 hour flight but I go to Halifax at least once a year with Ian and that is 5 1/2 ... the satellite a while to acquire a signal at the airport as I headed out with all that concrete ... to my first store. I hit up ScrapBarn in Carrollton, Stamp Asylum in Plano and Scrapbook Bunnies [more...]
Date: 2008-07-31 15:11:00
Our Trip to Dallas. Apparently the Theme is "Butts"
I'd love to present you with a lucid, entertaining, well-planned story about our trip to The Big City, but it isn't going to happen ... to have someone else to make fun of (of whom. . .).On Saturday morning, we went to the rubber stamp convention ... to visit with Darling Darlene and her husband, Picasso Gaglione, of Stampland, formerly of Stamp [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 14:56:00
My 'angel of mercy', not thinking and some happier times
I would love to say that everything in my life is all peaches now. Instead last night I got my own ‘accidental angel of mercy’, which turned out to be a woman who could tell neither time nor speak English that well. So “Only give the night pills every four hours” and “Give me these pills at 5:30 a.m.” Got turned into “Give me these at 4:00 a.m.! [more...]
Date: 2008-09-04 23:26:00
Non Standard Construction Properties Offers Affordable Housing
by Phillip Evans As the recession begins to take hold and the availability of mortgages is reducing its even more difficult to find an affordable ... reinforced or concrete Non standard build properties where originally designed as accommodation ... or property security as they still class prefabricated reinforced concrete houses as temporary despite [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 15:55:56
An Evening for Vayl & Jaz–Parts 1-5
Here ya go! Just in time to celebrate the OFFICIAL US RELEASE of One More Bite (Yaaaay!! We are definitely doing the happy dance today!!)–An Evening for Vayl & Jaz in its entirety! “Cassandra, this is an emergency!” My phone beeped. Crap! Why do they put so many buttons on the side when they know sometimes you need to squeeze it like a [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 17:40:12
America Leads the Way
America Leads the way…sadly often in the wrong direction. Though my name is Scott, I like so many Americans am also Irish, thanks to my Grandma McGee. In fact though she lived in Oregon for more than sixty years, she never became a US citizen. Yet I have done nothing about this and remain only a US citizen…nor do I intend to [more...]
Date: 2008-07-03 17:40:13
Non Standard Construction Properties gives Affordable Housing
by Phillip Evans In these post credit crunch times its becoming increasingly difficult to get on the property ladder or impossible to find an ... Prefabricated reinforced or concrete Non standard build properties where originally designed ... construction or prefabricated reinforced concrete houses as they are still classed temporary, despite them [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 19:50:50
Turkmenistan: Will the state respect everyone's right to conscientious objection?
While several Jehovah's Witnesses in Turkmenistan are serving sentences for refusing compulsory military service on grounds of religious conscience, ... Service has learnt. However, it is unclear whether a concrete proposal exists. The latest Jehovah's ... as I have suffered." The authorities have refused to give him the official stamp he needs for a job [more...]
Date: 2008-07-31 12:05:39
2008 in Review: The New Pyramid Power
GERMANY: Two intellectuals have launched a project to build a copy of the Egyptian pyramids in the declining eastern city of Dessau as a burial site not for a lone king but for five million people. They say it would grow slowly - one concrete memorial slab at a time - but could within a couple of decades dwarf the Great Pyramid of Giza [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 05:01:00
Persuading Novice Voters With Abstract Or Concrete Messages: Timing Is Everything
When Barack Obama began his Presidential campaign, his rhetoric emphasized abstract notions of hope, change, and judgment ... , concrete proposals on a host of topics ranging from foreign policy issues such as the Iraq War ... week, the traveler is thinking about taxi cabs, boarding passes, and specific, concrete concerns [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 10:46:05
Retired Accessories List is HERE!
No real surprises, except maybe the Eyelets. I knew most of the designer paper would go since it had In-Colors in it…same as with the Scrappin Kits! ... of overlooked that stamp in that set at first, but now I use it a lot! In the midst of trying ... part, but I noticed that the seams in the concrete on the unfinished side looked damp. We put [more...]
Date: 2008-07-21 20:00:34
I grind my teeth again
First, a little background.I have a nice staircase.Non-Beijing residents will probably fail to appreciate the significance of that ... the only one I've ever seen.Most Chinese staircases are grim affairs of bare grey cement. Any plaster or paint that may have been applied, was applied long ago, and in the most desultory possible [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 07:22:00
No Room at the Table
For many Americans, it goes without saying that their country ultimately sets the agenda for what happens north and south of its borders. While other nations may hold equal or even greater sway over events in Asia and Europe, the Americas are ours, off limits to outsiders and those in the region who might not share a U.S. vision of its future [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 02:19:08
600 Facts Nobody Cares About (A Useless List)
It is impossible to lick your elbow. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call [more...]
Date: 2009-01-24 01:49:58
Hezbollah in Venezuela Setting Up Anti-US Operations
With every passing day, terrorism is moving closer to American Shores. According to a report by the LA Times, Lebanese Shiite terror group Hezbollah has established a "beachhead" in Venezuela Arraigned by Venezuelan President Chavez and his "best buddy" Iranian President Ahmadinejad, this beachhead is being created with one thing in mind, [more...]
Date: 2008-08-28 12:36:15
Pick up trucks…
Around noon today, I’ll land in Savannah, Georgia, grab a suitcase stuffed with jeans and t-shirts, and climb into my dad’s pick up truck ... tobacco barns, silos, and pine trees. We’d watch how the white people and black people wouldn’t make eye contact. Or how the hispanic migrant workers would just stand off to the side of the store and watch [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 12:00:20
Where Women Create
I just finished reading this new magazine this morning--every single word of it--and I've got to say I love it. Fabulous, indeed ... the ceiling and painting it, painting the walls, staining the concrete floor (I was going to put in tile until I saw a slab that had been stained and heard how easy it was--two artists live [more...]
Date: 2008-11-03 17:34:35
Three Dogmas of User-Centeredness
I guess I’ve been motivated to say all this for a while, but the real spur was an article I read the other day that tries to navigate a course for the future of usability studies, “User-Centered Technology in Participatory Culture: Two Decades ‘Beyond a Narrow Conception of Usability Studies,’” by Robert R [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 02:38:21
the doodle formula
one of my favorite scrapbloggers, adrienne looman, published a book earlier this year and i have been looking for it off and on since spring! ... of these 31 pages, including lots of step-by-step intructions backed up with concrete examples ... success circle punches in several sizes; 7 gypsies dotted circle stamp; prima paper bird; page [more...]
Date: 2008-09-09 09:23:00
Pledges, promises, faint praise
Written by Kay Kimsong Monday, 08 December 2008Phnom Penh Post Observers ask how useful the annual donor ‘ritual' really isWITH a record of ... is always the same - we finish the ritual with a stamp of approval on the government's development ... concrete, there is very little expectation," Ou Virak said.Related StoryADDITIONAL REPORTING CAT [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 12:24:00
Beach Houses Series #3
Remember this cover of Veranda, from the summer of 2004? It was of a beach house in Galveston (yes! that dreaded Galveston again!), designed by Houston great, Babs Watkins. The beach house generated quite a stir as it was knock-out gorgeous and was furnished with wonderful, painted antiques instead of typical tacky, beachy, [more...]
Date: 2008-07-07 19:09:10
oxford
My notes on my 3 days in Oxford: Never stops raining. It’s still beautiful, however; a good test of a city, does it look good in the rain? Stone responds to the light and air, to rain. Concrete just stays concrete, i.e. dead. Americans ... . Then the voices. They never shut up, trying to stamp their hideousness on Oxford like graffiti. Vermin [more...]
Date: 2008-07-12 23:23:34
John McCain: No Surrender
*I think this is a decent analysis of McCain even if I don't agree with all of it, it's still worth a read since it's a least fairly objective* Aug 28th 2008 | CINCINNATI, OHIO From The Economist print edition The gnarled maverick outpolls his party and might even beat Barack Obama. But what sort of president would he be? [more...]
Date: 2008-08-28 22:46:00
Non Standard Construction Properties gives Affordable Housing
by Phillip Evans As the recession begins to take hold and the availability of mortgages is reducing its even more difficult to find an affordable ... construction or prefabricated reinforced concrete properties where originally designed as temporary ... or prefabricated reinforced concrete properties owing to their originally temporary use despite them [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 11:36:43
Konadicures with an Update, a Sale, and the Poll Results
Good afternoon, Dear Reader!I never did get back to sleep, and have been running on a total of three hours for some time now ... -stamped my nails turning the pattern upside down on the second stamp, and I like the outcome ... one, despite my great love of Nubars, so shortly thereafter I decided to give it a try. First, I stamped [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 19:23:00
Another Challenge completed!
Well we have been at the renovating thing again or is it the demolishion thing? There is such a fine line! ... for the new carpet to be laid is the 4 of Feb so Tech class next month will be on bare concrete floors unless ... stamp set and used sponge daubers to colour the flowers and then a little blender pen. Card 2 I’ve [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 01:22:52
History. On Repeat.
I feel sick. Literally. Having just returned from Venus Berlin I should be blogging about how wonderful the show was – who I met, ... I was in Berlin I headed to the Holocaust Memorial and walked through the long isles of concrete towers ... when I was standing in the Memorial wondering if the designer meant for the concrete towers to be reminiscent [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 18:03:10
Inevitable Fall
Inevitable Fall posted by Dan Railcars - "Concrete Buildings" Running slipping slick down all-night subway steps. Solar-powered scientific calculator bear attack. Squinting, plugging other ear, trying to hear unintelligible voicemail while swarmed by guitar-hornets. Licking a back-hand stamp to pass it, press [more...]
Date: 2008-09-09 18:01:02
Affordable Housing found in Non Standard Construction Properties
by Phillip Evans As the recession begins to take hold and the availability of mortgages is reducing its even more difficult to find an affordable ... construction or prefabricated reinforced concrete properties where originally designed as temporary ... reinforced concrete houses as temporary despite being habitable in the 21st century. After the war [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 09:10:23
WORKSHOP PROJECT - AND THE FIRST DAY OF THE NEW CATTY, WHOOHOOO!!!!!
Happy Monday all!!! Whew!!! What a totally busy weekend - on Saturday morning all the male relatives were at my house to help Tony put up our fence ... , all the posts are up and in concrete and next week the rest will get done! On Saturday afternoon, the moms ... with two stamp sets and a Jumbo Wheel: Eastern Blooms (Looooovvvveeee it!), Doodle Wheel and [more...]
Date: 2008-08-11 05:55:00
Eat Healthy Monday!
This post was written by Pooja Mottl. Today’s Healthy Monday tip: Watch your bread (labels). We’ve talked about reading between the lines of the label-crazed food industry before. Earlier this month, our government’s watchdog agency, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), released a report giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 20:07:58
Porches are done
They have finished our concrete around the house and it looks great...well it'll look really great once it's dry and the powder stuff (release agent) ... it on the concrete and pound away. It's pretty amazing to watch. I missed all the staining part..oh ... up to do on the house from the concrete but that's okay. First off, I had to share a picture [more...]
Date: 2008-09-12 21:05:24
War Party in a Bind: After Nuclear Talks in Geneva, Iran Will Likely Agree
Dandelion Salad by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Global Research, July 23, 2008 The meeting in Geneva on July 19, between representatives of the 5+1 (U.N. Security Council permanent members plus Germany) and Iran, should be heartily welcomed by all those who seek a diplomatic solution to the hoked-up case against the Islamic Republic’s nuclear [more...]
Date: 2008-07-25 03:11:59
Council Meeting Devolves Into ANOTHER Circular Firing Squad
How shameful that it went down the way it did. Council fought against itself and ultimately delayed approval of the 20 economic development projects for another two months and directed Blakely to do a cost benefit analysis. During the debate, council members tossed around terms such as "irresponsible, " "shameful, " "blackmail, " "double talk" [more...]
Date: 2008-10-17 06:48:09
Math materials
Let me start off by saying that this is the first time I have used the maths materials so I am certainly no expert and if anyone reading this sees ... backed up with concrete, physical items. If I had been taught maths in this way I would have had a much ... as well. For the numeration section (learning the concrete and abstract concept of numbers) I [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 22:47:00
Oddball Films
As usual, we sat down to watch Jurassic Park the other evening. It’s a classic, although I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen it. There does appear to be a mismatch between the films repeated endlessly on tv and the films rarely, or never, shown. So here’s some of the very obscure films I’d like to see. They are oddball films [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 20:36:13
T-minus 4 sleeps
It's only four sleeps until we get possession of our house!!! Wow, can you believe it?? ... more concrete once we've made a couple of firm decisions as to what we want to do. I know we're both really ... ):And here's the card I made for Jaime:Both cards use the (now retired) "Stinkin' Cute" stamp set from Stampin [more...]
Date: 2008-03-11 02:07:00
Non-Profit Life
I don’t like Mondays. You might think I don’t like Mondays for many of the same reasons everyone else doesn’t like them. You’re right ... donations -prepare thank you notes for those donations (and stamp and stuff the envelopes) -deposit ... ). Then as I promptly wasted a good and annoying 7 hours ramming my head against my concrete wall trying [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 14:46:58
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