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Life Drawings and Paintings
Life Drawing at the Pence
Day 12 – 30/30 Challenge
Day 12 is different in that I drawn this from a live model at Patris' studio. Again I used mechanical pencils with white charcoal on Kona paper. Made by Handbook Paper Company, it has a light brownish town quality very similar to Strathmore Tan but more texture.
This was a 3 hour pose of a young man from Poland. Patris remarked that he traveled all the way from Poland to model for us. Just kidding. He's here visiting family. He did a great job in modeling for someone so young.
Life Drawing at the Pence
I look forward to going to open studios. They are the stables of my art. They allow to practice techniques that I had learned.
With this particular 1 hour pose sketch, instead of starting with a gesture as I was taught, I started developing the head and slowly moving down to the feet. I noticed I was observing more, drawing what I see.
With an one hour pose, I found it easier to carefully draw.
The two, 5 and 10 minutes sketches can be seen on my Facebook page. Materials I used was mechanical pencils and white charcoal on Kona paper.
Paintings based on quick sketches done during a life drawing session. The first with the model on her knees is a 5 minute sketch. The second is 10 minutes.
Great exercises to create volume with the Zorn palette. I'm thinking cylinder. Forming the cylinder with half-tones near the edges to lighter values. Again I established the light and shadow patterns in the painting. On my palette I create two piles for the light and shadow. The main color is the skin color of yellow ochre and cadmium red. White is added for light areas and black is added for shadows. If I wanted a more yellowish skin tone, I add more yellows; more reds around the cheeks, then a touch more red.
I don't how long I will continue working with the Zorn palette. But it does help to work with a restricted palette.
Reclining Nude
This painting was based on a quick sketch done during a drop in session at the Pence. I used the Zorn palette of titanium white, ivory black, yellow ochre, and cadmium red. In fact most of my paintings of the figure or portrait has been with the Zorn palette. I'm not quite ready to go into more colors yet.
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5 minute then 20 minutes and finally a longer pose for 60 minutes. Working with charcoal pencils (2B and 4B) on smooth newsprint.
I took up a challenge to myself to work on one pose for that 60 minutes. Striving for a more finish look – developing details. Before I never took advantage of the 60 minute pose…just quick 20 minutes at various angles. There's no challenge to that because there's no time to develop. I definitely will now work on longer poses.
My next challenge is to work on toned paper with white charcoal.
Nude Contemplating
This black and white painting is based on a quick sketch at a drop-in session.
Quick Study
This is a quick study of the 6-hour pose. Based on an article I read in the May issue of The Artist Magazine by Felicia Forte, I followed her technique of painting a portrait using just 4 colors: titanium white, ivory black, yellow ochre and cadmium red.
The procedure is drawing the shapes, establishing light/shadow patterns, put in the local skin color and the local shadow colors and finally refining. All four colors are used but in varying degrees depending if it is shadow or light. For instance, the shadow consist mainly of black and red with a touch of yellow. The skin in the light is made up of red and yellow with a touch of white. Highlights are mainly yellow and white with a very touch of red.
This article helped quite a bit as how to use the colors more effectively.
And this is 6 x 8 on canvas paper.


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His Royal Highness Prince Turki bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, met yesterday with the Governor of the General Authority for Small and Medium Enterprises, Dr. Ghassan bin Ahmed Al Sulaiman.
A brief discussion concerning a potential future cooperation between King Abdullah International Foundation and the General Authority for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), took place. The objective was to promote entrepreneurship initiatives among the Saudi youth and to support their projects of innovation efficiently.
Dr. Ghassan Al-Sulaiman proposed several strategies to enable the corporation between the two entities to achieve the mutual goal of supporting the Saudi youth.
"The interest of the Foundation in the pioneering work is an extension of the interest of the late King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz in this precious category of pioneering citizens. He was always supporting and encouraging of all initiatives that would positively impact the Saudi youth and productive families. Further, the late King Abdullah, May Allah have mercy on him, was eager to create opportunities and set them and the productive families to succeed within their fields" HRH Prince Turki said at the end of the meeting.
King Abdullah International Foundation has made a number of initiatives to empower young men and women in the Kingdom.
- The ninth Meeting for the Board of Trustees of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Foundation for Humanitarian Work Appointment of His Royal Highness Prince Mutaib bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Chairman of the Board of Trustees, His Royal Highness Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and His Royal Highness Prince Sultan bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Chairman of the Board of Directors

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Mount Mary University launches new "Here's to the Bold" campaign
MILWAUKEE (Nov. 9, 2015) – For more than 100 years, Mount Mary University has created bold women who transform lives and actively meet the challenges of their communities. Mount Mary celebrates this proud legacy with a new "Here's to the Bold" marketing campaign, which launched this fall.
Mount Mary has engaged Manifesto, a Milwaukee-based marketing agency, to help develop the new campaign, which is designed to highlight how Mount Mary University lives its mantra of being a Creative Campus– a place that recognizes the importance of creativity and nurtures a unique brand of creative talent that can solve problems and improvise new ways of thinking and learning for the betterment of our 21st century world. The new messaging asserts that "Mount Mary Creates Bold Women."
The centerpiece of the new campaign is a microsite – www.herestothebold.com – which tells the stories of bold alumnae and students. Each story will showcase different alumnae and demonstrate how they've made their mark on the world.
"The bold tradition of Mount Mary first began with the School Sisters of Notre Dame, who had the foresight to create a place of higher education for women at a time when women didn't go to college," said Scott Rudie, senior director for university marketing and communications. "The new campaign both celebrates and builds upon that tradition as it tells the story of how Mount Mary is shaping the creative leaders of tomorrow."
The goal is to increase awareness of the impact of the Mount Mary experience with key audiences, including prospective students, parents, employers, and other key influencers.
"Part of our strategic process is honing in on the singular point of differentiation that defines an organization's purpose," said Tim Dyer, partner and chief storyteller at Manifesto. "What we uncovered at the center of Mount Mary was a culture-defying belief that measures success not only in salary, but significance."
The campaign will be visualized in the Milwaukee area via a new emphasis on digital advertising, emerging platforms such as streaming radio, and complemented by outdoor and print advertising. Content will be shared across social media as well, utilizing the hashtag #herestothebold.
"We wanted to investigate atypical channels where the millennial audience lives and breathes," Dyer said. "This includes an 'anthem' video that has the potential to be shared across the social landscape or a Pandora streaming radio ad that connects with the female audience we are trying to reach. From day one Mount Mary has had boldness in its DNA, and our job is to help expose it."


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NBC correspondent tweets photo of Studio 1A construction
NBC News correspondent Jeff Rossen, who also regularly contributes to "Today," tweeted a photo showing some of the work being done on the lower floor of Studio 1A.
The photo, which is accompanied by the text "Just showed up to Studio 1A for my story….where is everyone??," shows various parts of the "Today" set wrapped in plastic, including a portion of the video wall to one side of home base.
In addition, the floor's finish appears to have been removed.
Various other pieces of construction gear and, possibly, set pieces are also visible.
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Regarding Classes at BBI
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Kyle Maynard to speak at Semoball Banquet
(Local News ~ 06/20/14)
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Ozzie Smith, the scheduled keynote speaker for the 2014 Semoball Awards, will attend the funeral of friend and fellow Hall of Fame baseball player Tony Gwynn Saturday, and will not be available to speak at the event to be held at the Show Me Center...
Lafferty, Hicks preliminary hearings delayed
(Local News ~ 06/20/14)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Hearings were delayed Thursday afternoon for cases involving three individuals accused of arson and attempted murder. Donald Lafferty, Christopher Hicks and Brandy Hicks are all charged with the Class B felony of attempted murder, the Class B felony of first-degree arson and the unclassified felony of armed criminal action. Lafferty is also charged with the Class A felony of financial exploitation of the elderly ($50,000 or more.)...
Local woman confirmed with tick-borne illness
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Editor's note: After a June 17 Daily Statesman article stating that the Stoddard County Health Department had no reported cases of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in the county, a few calls were received to the contrary. One such call was from a local woman whose experience is told below. ...
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Dexter Police June 20, 2014 A report of fraud on W. Business 60 this week is under investigation. Robert Stoner, 52, of Dexter was placed under arrest at the Probation and Parole office on a warrant service. Ellen Maghrabi of Albany, Ore. was issued a summons at 415 N. Elm St. for grass cutting and removal...
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Logan Andrew Crawford, son of Kevin Crawford and Kristin Cox Crawford of Dexter, was born on June 4, 2014, in Cape Girardeau and died on June 18, 2014 at the St. Louis Children's Hospital in St. Louis at the age of 14 days. In addition to his parents, Logan is survived by one brother, Lucas Hayden Crawford; by one sister, Halle Grace Crawford; by his paternal grandparents, Ronald and Karen Crawford of Waterford, Mich. ...
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The Huntsville Public Library is once again offering free Beginner Spanish and Advanced Spanish classes beginning in February. Library staff issued the following announcement:
The ever-popular, free Spanish classes are returning to the Huntsville Public Library! Instructor Beth Williamson will be teaching Beginning and Advanced classes on Wednesdays in the Community Room. The 15-week program begins Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 and materials are provided. Register now to reserve your spot – only 35 students maximum for each class. Beginning classes will meet from 1 to 3 p.m. and advanced classes from 3 to 4:15 p.m. Register online at ww.myhuntsvillelibrary.com or call Mary at 936-291-5471 for additional information.
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Early readers of my blog might remember my Meditation on Tea post. Well, the one thing that can can make a cup of tea even better is a good biscuit.
I fancy myself as little bit of a biscuit connoisseur actually, and I think the British do biscuits rather well. Yes, America has given us the large, chewy cookie; Italy has given us the biscotti, which I don't particularly like; but we Brits are the champions of the humble biscuit.
"What's your favourite biscuit?" became a common question posed to the politicians who swarmed Mumsnet during the last general election. Gordon Brown's seemingly innocent overlooking of the question might have lead to his undoing. It certainly lead to a new biscuit smiley on the site which has come to represent a passive-aggressive "no comment". Last year, Sainsbury's conducted a survey of people's favourite biscuits. Inexplicably, the overall favourite was the dry and bland digestive. Readers of the Guardian apparently chose ginger and chocolate cookies as their biscuit of choice, and Sun readers like a pink wafer. While I am all for freedom of choice, I fear I may struggle to remain friend's with someone who chooses a custard cream as their favourite biscuit.
What is my favourite you ask? Well, that's rather a complex question. I love a good luxury biscuit, like a chocolate chip shortbread from the bakery. or our family favourite, Fox's Shortcake Rounds. But they are more chocolate than biscuit, which perhaps defeats the object. Surely anyone would chose a lovely rich chocolatey fancy biscuit over anything else? Perhaps more revealing is the everyday biscuit barrel choice you make. In that case it would have to be a Bourbon Cream every single time. Admittedly they taste less of chocolate than you might imagine, and they, like most biscuits, can be quite dry (this was initially the point of biscuits, the word biscuit comes from the Latin words bis (twice) and coquere, coctus (to cook, cooked), and, hence, means "twice-cooked") and therefore it is imperative that it should be dunked in a cup of tea. For even more biscuity trivia and reviews check out Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down.
I may lose followers by revealing this questionable habit, but I couldn't write a blog post on biscuits without giving you my ultimate biscuit tip. Make a cup of tea. Take a Twix (which for the purposes of this post I am considering a biscuit product, it's that grey area along with the Kit Kat). Bite off each end of the Twix, then, ensuring your tea is not too hot, use the Twix to suck up the tea. Finally, carefully eat the remaining melted, soggy goodness, taking care not to drop it into your tea. This, my friends, is a Twix Fix. Your life will never be the same again.
Sadly for me, my years of eating biscuits with gay abandon have caught up with my waist line so I steer clear of the biscuit tin unless it is a very special occasion. Fortunately, biscuity appetites can be satisfied calorie free with these fantastic hand-printed biscuit cushions from Nikki McWilliams:
Based in Dundee, there is a strong Tunnock's focus to her product line, but she still pays homage to the humble bourbon.


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Government Pilots New Model for Youth Health in Schools
Four Nova Scotia high schools will pilot a new model for youth health centres.
The model will be designed in partnership with students, teachers, administrators, SchoolsPlus staff, youth health centre co-ordinators, and other health and education stakeholders.
"Schools play an important role in promoting health and connecting young people to the help they need," said Health and Wellness Minister Randy Delorey. "We want to make it easier for youth to access the services and supports they need – from mental health and addictions, to physical and sexual health - when and where they need it."
The following schools will participate in the pilot:
- Amherst Regional High School
- Citadel High School
- Glace Bay High School
- Digby Regional High School (new youth health centre)
The pilot project will see stakeholders help develop a consistent approach to youth health across the province. It will focus on youth-friendly access to integrated services and supports that promote wellness and help students stay healthy and do better in school.
"We're seeing more students each year for everything from stress about an upcoming test, to food insecurity at home," said Erin Poirier, Nova Scotia Health Authority's youth health centre co-ordinator at Citadel High School in Halifax. "Being part of this pilot will help us better understand the changing needs of youth at Citadel High and how we can better respond to those needs."
An expert panel on youth health provided guidance and direction to government on this project.
Panel members are:
- Dr. Stan Kutcher, Sun Life Financial Chair in adolescent mental health (panel chair)
- Dr. Alexa Bagnell, interim chief of child and adolescent psychiatry, IWK Health Centre
- Dr. John LeBlanc, pediatrician, IWK Health Centre
- Jessie-Lee McIsaac, professor and Canada Research Chair in early childhood diversity and transitions, Mount Saint Vincent University
"Youth health centres are already a go-to place for support and services in many schools," said Dr. Kutcher. "By building on what's working and making improvements with youth in mind, we will be able to reach young people earlier and more often."
Youth health centres have been in many Nova Scotia schools for more than 14 years, and are now in 70 junior high and high schools. They offer a range of services, including health education, health promotion, information and referral, follow-up support, and some clinical services. SchoolsPlus, which will expand to all schools by the end of the 2018-19 school year, is often hosted within a youth health centre.
Better integrating youth health services was one of four recommendations put forward by the Minister's Panel on Innovation in Mental Health and Addictions. Government committed $1 million in the 2018-19 budget to advance this work.
The pilot will begin in January 2019.
Four Nova Scotia high schools will pilot a new model for youth health centres.
The model will be designed this fall in partnership with students, teachers, administrators, SchoolsPlus staff, youth health centre co-ordinators, and other health and education stakeholders.
The pilot will begin in January 2019 at Amherst Regional High School, Citadel High School in Halifax, Glace Bay High School and Digby Regional High School.
Health and Wellness Minister Randy Delorey says this will make it easier for youth to access services and supports– from mental health and addictions, to physical and sexual health - when and where they need it.
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Notre Dame football tweaks COVID-19 protocols on its path to resuming season
The greatest certainty of the COVID-19 pandemic is that plans change.
So Notre Dame football not holding its first practice Wednesday since the program suspended team activities Sept. 22 in response to a COVID-19 outbreak among its players, the plan head coach Brian Kelly shared with ESPN on Tuesday, didn't spell bad news for the Irish.
Instead, No. 5 Notre Dame (2-0, 1-0 ACC) held a voluntary conditioning session Wednesday. That followed a conditioning activity Monday and a weight training session Tuesday. Then the first practice finally took place Thursday.
The Irish practiced Thursday with 29 players unavailable to participate in any form due to COVID-19 concerns. Eighteen of those players remained in isolation due to positive COVID-19 tests and the other 11 players remained in quarantine as a result of contact tracing. Fourteen of those players are expected to exit those stages of Notre Dame's protocol within the next two days, ND head football athletic trainer Rob Hunt said Thursday in an online press conference.
The number of players in isolation and quarantine have decreased from 25 and 14, respectively, since Monday's update from the program. Surveillance testing within the program on Monday and Wednesday produced no positive test results. The team will test again Friday.
"Currently we've had no hospitalizations," Hunt said. "The majority of our players have had mild-to-moderate symptoms and have done very well from a recovery process."
The process, as Hunt described, prevents players in isolation from participating in any physical activity for a minimum of 10 days. After that 10-day period, asymptomatic players are then put through a cardiac screening process, which is reviewed by Dr. Richard Kovacs, a cardiologist from Indianapolis who has overseen cardiac evaluations for the NFL Scouting Combine. If a player clears that screening, he can gradually increase his activity level across a few days before being cleared for a full practice.
Players placed in quarantine can start modified individual workouts as early as the seventh day, Kelly said. Then, when their quarantine ends after 14 days, they're able to transition back to the practice field. With more players returning to the practice field in the coming days, the Irish should remain on track to host Florida State (0-2, 0-2 ACC) on Oct. 10.
After Thursday's practice, Notre Dame has scheduled practice for Friday, weight training for Saturday and a live scrimmage for Sunday.
"Guys were excited about being back out there and conditioning, and they want to get back at it," Kelly said. "So the energy is high. The morale is excellent. Guys know that there can't be any margin for error, and they'll follow that up."
Notre Dame believes it has identified at least some of the contributing factors that led to its COVID-19 spread following an examination of the team locker room, housing, meals, hotel operations and on-field activities, Hunt said.
The Friday before the South Florida game on Sept. 19, two players tested positive. A total of 10 Notre Dame players were held out of the game, which included two other players who tested positive earlier in the week, but the contact tracing around those cases may have not eliminated as many players as it should have.
"We believed we had most of it and there's a possibility that some of that contact trace may not have grabbed all those people with regards to those positive tests from the Friday afternoon test," Hunt said. "It's the only component there. It's speculative. It's a guess. But it's an educated guess that allowed some of those guys to then test positive on Monday."
Seven players tested positive that Monday. Eighteen others tested positive throughout the week. Notre Dame previously went from mid-June, when it first started testing players, through Sept. 20 with 18 positive tests.
A major lesson, Hunt said, is that players shouldn't let their guard down after testing negative.
"What we're realizing in this current situation is that a negative test on Friday doesn't necessarily mean that you're completely negative from the standpoint of clearing," Hunt said. "You should maintain the protocols that are clearly established. We may have gotten a little loose in some areas in terms of how we operate within our locker room, in terms of our mask compliance, our spacing on the sidelines and the activities that are being done there.
"These are certainly speculative, but as we look at the clusters that we had and the position groups that they were and how the contact traced the spread, there were areas that we can get better.
"A negative test doesn't mean that you're necessarily free and clear from the virus at that point. It just might mean you had a viral load that was low enough that didn't test positive. We're going to tighten those pieces up and have strict adherence to the policies and procedures that we had prior to this outbreak."
The Irish will make tweaks to their protocols, but those won't yet include changes to family members visiting players or testing frequency. Hunt said Notre Dame has not discovered any COVID-19 connections to players visiting with family members after games, which had been a concern of his prior to the season. The Irish aren't yet ready to switch their tri-weekly surveillance testing to daily antigen testing for the entire team yet either.
Kelly previously told ESPN that the program identified a pregame team meal and a vomiting player on the sideline of the USF game as major factors in the program's COVID-19 outbreak. Future team meals will be even more socially distant, Hunt said. The shifts in which players are allowed to use the locker room will become less crowded too.
"We're going to spread out more on the sidelines with regards to chairs and benches, and really, really dig deep and hold our players into kind of a zero tolerance with regards to mask usage moving forward," Hunt said. "Those are the areas that we've identified to try to help ourselves prevent this from happening again so that our guys continue to move forward through the season.
"They've done a great job through this. They've worked really hard over the last week to get this thing under control. I think we have one foot on the brake a little bit still, but I think all of us feel a lot better about where we're at now relative to 10 days ago."
The focus can never shift away from handling COVID-19, but Kelly has to balance that focus on preparing his team for Florida State. Beyond figuring out who will be available for the game, the team must figure out a way to make everyone available to play actually prepared to play.
Because the impact of Notre Dame's midseason COVID-19 outbreak will be measured by what comes next. Aspirations for a national championship depend on it.
"We'll see if it's a setback or a pause," Kelly said. "And how we play against Florida State will be the narrative that everybody writes relative to this either being a pause in dealing with COVID and the realities of it or it was a major setback."


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Barbara Meier Mayfield is a risk-taker, a poet and a kindergarten teacher. After a period of loss - both personal and professional - she refocused her life, getting back in touch with who she is at her core and started writing again.
We both attended the same undergraduate college – Southwestern College in Kansas. After too many years of no contact, we recently reconnected and chatted about her multi-faceted life.
Barbara: OK, not to brag or anything, Dennis, but I have this big pond right outside my window too.
Dennis: Yeah?
Barbara: And it's called the Pacific Ocean.
Dennis: Is it really outside your window? Seriously?
Barbara: Yes. Well, it's… I have a view of it outside my window. [laughs]
Dennis: Unbelievable.
Barbara: Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, I was like… I look out at that and then I go, "Am I really here?"
Dennis: So where are you in Oregon, then?
Barbara: I'm in Gold Beach Oregon.
Dennis: Which is?
Barb: Which is a very small town. But as I've found out by living out here that it's different being a tourist than it is living in a community like this. And it's a lot of poverty and a lot of wealth – not much in between.
Dennis: Wow. Interesting… Interesting.
Barbara: So it's real interesting to be in a small town again and have to drive to get and do anything anywhere.
Dennis: Right.
Barbara: But I do have this big pond outside my window, which is really nice. But you know, so it's nice being near water.
Dennis: Yeah! Good for you!
Barbara: Okay. So when I was little, I used to dream of flying all the time, jumping off the barn roof, soaring through the clouds and flying and dipping. It happened all the time. I don't have the dream as an adult but when I was a kid. And you know, it's funny because I talked to an aunt on my ex's side and she said she used to have the same dream. So then a couple of years ago, there's hang gliding right where I used to live and it was at this winery. And I was talking with this hang glider from New York and I said, "You know, I used to have this dream." And he goes, "You know, a lot of hang gliders and paragliders had these dreams while growing up and that's why we wind up hang gliding and paragliding." And so I thought, "You know, you can do tandem jumps and do that." And I'm thinking, "You know, I really should do that someday." And I wrote a poem about that, actually, about paragliding in Kansas and Oregon, all based on that dream of flying.
Dennis: Have you paraglided yet?
Barbara: No. I was going to but then I moved over here. But I think I might… I've seriously entertained the idea because you can do a tandem with a professional.
Dennis: Right.
Barbara: And where I lived in Southern Oregon, Woodrat Mountain was like right up the road from where I lived and we use to go up there all the time, just to watch and see. And so I know the place to go, it's only like a hundred bucks. But just because of that dream and that memory, see, Dennis, so you probably are supposed to hang glide or paraglide too.
Dennis: Got to do it. I've hot air ballooned a couple of times which was pretty magical.
Barbara: Oh, I would do that. I've never done that either.
Dennis: You crawl in the basket and then suddenly, the ground just kind of slips away.
Dennis: And it's quiet and it's just… you're just up there it's like, "That's just too easy." And it's cool because you're flying and of course there's no wind because you're flying at the speed of wind, right? So it's calm and you hear everything from the ground. You hear all the sound coming up from below you. It's amazing. Kids playing in the yard, you can hear every word. It's like… it's really cool.
Barbara: Well, I did research, then, on what actually happens when you're hang gliding or paragliding with the thermals and stuff, the turkey vultures and how they watch them testing to see where the winds are because you're basically just catching these thermals and you're jumping and you can… You actually fly for miles. You can soar, fly, glide for miles. And so I think about that diving in and out of clouds and the clouds is so… I mean it was a wonderful in literary metaphors.
Dennis: Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Barbara: Kind of like the childhood and then when you become an adult, you lose that ability to fly because you are this adult. But I think there's probably some of us that have not lost that.
And I had this realization probably about maybe five or six years ago that, you know, there's a lot of stuff that I never did because I wasn't good at it or at least I didn't have the talent for it and all of that. And what I came to the realization is, is that, you know, I may never be at an artistic, fantastic level, but I can do anything if I teach myself. And that, yeah, okay so maybe I'm not an artist like as a painter or something like that, does that mean I shouldn't take a class on watercolors and learn it and see the technique? Why not? To learn it and to do it. Why deny myself something that I want to try just because I'm not good at it? I can't do that.
Dennis: Couldn't agree more!
Barbara: And it's already happening with my five-year-olds. You know, "I can't do that." Well you know, my favorite thing is "can't" means "you won't." You've got to try. It's a matter of trying. And it's risk taking. And I think maybe that's what people get scared about is they don't want to… they're scared to take that risk. And so they deny themselves trying. You know what, I may never have a watercolor display, but you know what, someday I'd love to take a watercolor class – just to do it. And just to learn to draw. Why not? And I don't deny myself those things anymore because I can't do them because I'm not any good at it. And it's scary to take those risks but I have found that it's worth it to take those risks. Which kind of leads into your dream thing of – I think part of that dream thing is taking risks, you know? Taking that step and risking.
And I have to go back, okay, there's another thing in education about there are global teachers and then there are the linear teachers. Global see the whole picture, you know, and they break it down into smaller parts. Other people take the smaller parts and build up to global. So global people are usually… global teachers are messy and creative and they know all this stuff. And what I have found in the last five years of my life is that, you know, I was being condemned for being one of those global teachers because my room was messy, you know?
Dennis: Right.
Barbara: Because I let the kids make messes because I think learning is messy. And I had a principal that the room had to be neat. It had to be perfect. And she, you know, was going to write me up for my messy room because I spent more time teaching than I did cleaning up. And it's not like it was like health hazard or anything like that, it's just that that to me wasn't what was important -- it was the whole picture. I'm not linear, okay?
Dennis: Right!
Dennis: Listen, I love your thought about not being afraid and trying it. You know, my question always is, "What's the worst that can happen?" You know?
Barbara: Yeah. And that is something that I have learned just this late in life. One of those lessons I wish I would have learned when I was maybe 24. But I wouldn't be the person I am today if I wouldn't have gone through all those things that took me to this point in my life where I am a risk taker and I face rejection. And, like you said, what's the worst that can happen? And especially with my faith practice and my world view, you know, if God is really and truly in control of my life then I've got to leave it in his hands. And he's going to take care of me because he always has.
Dennis: Okay, yeah!
Barbara: So why not take that risk? That's why I'm here in Gold Beach Oregon. I took a risk.
Dennis: There you go.
Barbara: Took a pay cut. Moved myself over here. Gave up tenure [laughs] and here I am. Has it been easy? No. [laughs] It's not easy but I didn't wanna wait until I was dead, you know? Before I did something I've always wanted to do which was live by the ocean.
Dennis: That's what the dream was then?
Barbara: That was one of my dreams was to live by the ocean. To see what it was like. And if I waited till I retired and had my tenure and did all of this stuff, I probably never would have got over here.
Dennis: Why?
Barbara: Because, well, I got a job over here and I took up a huge pay cut because, you know what, I have sixteen years of experience and they only pay me for five years of my experience.
Dennis: Right.
Barbara: So you know, that's a scary thing is to… can I live over here on this – on an amount of money I'm not used to living. Can I live over here without everything I've always been used to? And I thought, well, if I wait till I retire before I come over here to live. I've heard too many stories of people that have just… they die. [laughs] Never got to live their dream. So I thought, "Okay, I'm going to do it!"
Dennis: And how is it?
Barbara: It's hard! It's a completely different way of life than what I was used to. And I've struggled, yeah. I also know in the back of my head you know, I've got to give myself time, six months, blah, blah, blah, blah... Everything is completely different than anything I ever expected even though I thought I'd prepared myself. But I also know you've got to give things time. You know, it's never easy. It's never easy…
Dennis: Very true.
Barbara: You know… ask me in a year.
Dennis: Okay.
Barbara: Ask me in a year and I'll tell you if I like it.
Dennis: There you go. Fair enough.
Barbara: I mean right now, I've just had… there's been too many... it's a poorer school district. They do things differently. They don't have as much money. The clientele… there's poverty but it's a different poverty than Medford. It's not so much the entitlement poverty, which you see in Medford. The people here are at least, it's different. And I have the best class I've ever had. They do things differently. And I've found that, I'm very well qualified for the job. I'm very well trained and because they can't usually get teachers like me over here…
Dennis: Interesting.
Barbara: …they can't pay. So, yeah, you know, I still have… I have access to rivers and the ocean and hiking and bicycling and the beach and rock collecting. And, so, yeah!
Dennis: Nice.
Barbara: You know what, I just know I guess that's why you get to be our age and you realize that, "Okay, yeah, it's going to be hard for six months and then it's going to get easier." Because when you start a new job, it's always hard. You know?
Dennis: Always.
Barbara: Always. So you just got to get used to it.
Dennis: That's it!
Barbara: That's part of it.
Dennis: Okay. Well, you said that's one of your dreams. What was another dream?
Barbara: Well, the writing… and that's kind of like what I was thinking, because we were talking about. But you know, you kind of got me going on that. It has been something that you know, my senior project at Southwestern was poetry with Dr. Daniels.
Dennis: Oh, sure.
Barbara: And I was always going to you know, be published and blah, blah, blah. You know, I moved out here and I got married, I had kids and I just never did it. I just didn't do it. Like I did, I was focusing on my marriage and my kids and doing all this and being the best wife, best mom and all that I can be.
Dennis: So you stopped writing, then?
Barbara: Oh yeah. I stopped writing. I stopped acting. You know, I didn't do anything. Anything that you knew me as in college, didn't do any of it.
Dennis: Wow.
Barbara: Because I get these mindsets. And so when that all fell apart, when my marriage fell apart and everything that I counted on and everything that I thought that made me who I am – my marriage, my motherhood, my relationship with my kids, my job as a teacher – all of those things, I lost them.
Dennis: Right.
Barbara: What do you do with me? And so when I was going through all of that and I started thinking more about, "I'm going to do something for me now instead of doing everything for my husband, doing everything for my kids, throwing myself in everything for my classroom, everything for my job, I did all that. Never did anything for me." Anything that I enjoyed doing, I started getting back into that. And so my favorite thing to do was to sit in Starbucks, drink my coffee and write. But you know, I was just writing for myself. And of course, the dream had always been to be published, you know? Because that's… wanting to share that.
Dennis: Sure.
Barbara: And I was going to look up the quote that you put on Facebook. You put a quote about following your dreams or something about… I think I have to look it up again but you had said something about dreams and doing it. And that was like, when I realized, "Okay, this is a risk. Let's do it." Dennis says this. That's good advice. Let's do this! Take that risk. Take that step of faith, you know, that leap, whatever. So, I started writing and I got as far as having enough nerve to put in on a blog.
Dennis: Okay. Right.
Barbara: But nobody reads your blogs unless you really publicize. So I didn't really have… except for people in Europe, I never could figure out why people in Russia were reading my blog.
[both laugh]
I was like, "What?!" So, ironically, what happened is that I saw that there was a Southern Oregon Writer's Conference in Gold Beach, Oregon. I was over here with Marcus. I was in a bookstore, saw this and went, "I think I'm going to go to that." So I came over and I went to it and one of the seminars was on… Oh, I actually won a scholarship.
Dennis: Really?
Barbara: I sent them one of my poems and I actually won a scholarship to go, which was really like getting published, right?
Dennis: Right!
Barbara: Because before then I was like, "I don't know if I'm any good at this or not." And I know that it is something that strikes me, gets me going, keeps me… it's one of my mental health strategies. It's something that I really enjoy doing. And so, one of the classes was on getting published. Well, heck, with all this online publishing, duotrope became my best friend. And so, I started sending out my stuff and started getting published. And it was like, you know, I love it. It's something that fulfills a deep, deep part of me. The working with words and creating with words and everything with my life and everything that I've learned about what writing does for me, I don't know, I guess I can't think of the word. It's so fulfilling and it's so what I want to do. It's like, I feel driven to do it now.
Dennis: Right.
Barbara: If I don't write, if I don't sit down and write, I ache inside.
Dennis: Nice.
Barbara: And it's also a way of… I've worked through my divorce. I've worked through the loss of relationship with my children. I've worked through all sorts of things: my faith, my romance, my marriage, you know. And actually what I'm doing now is, it's my memories. Taking my memories… of my childhood memories of Kansas and growing up on the farm. And it's a way of getting those down on paper. And even if I wasn't published, it would still be something that I would feel the need to do.
Dennis: I think it's great, though, that after all those years of denying yourself a part of yourself, you know…
Barbara: Yeah, I did!
Dennis: And I get that. I mean, that's happened with me with photography in the past as well. Just put it aside for a period of time. Could not figure out why I set it aside. It was insane because it's so much a part of who I am.
Barbara: Yeah!
Dennis: But you bring it back out and suddenly, you get that… "satisfaction" is not the right word.
Barbara: No.
Dennis: It's much deeper than that.
Barbara: Yeah. It's more. It's your heart and soul. It's your being.
Dennis: Absolutely.
Barbara: Yeah. And it was funny because I was thinking, I got one of the coldest rejection letters [laughs] I have ever, ever received, a week ago. Because most of the time the editors… what I've discovered is it's a numbers game. And the person that gave this talk said the same thing. I would say for every maybe ten to fifteen submissions, I get one published. And it's a matter of matching up your style with the magazine that is your style. And you know, my style, my voice – which I loved the keynote speaker last year – made voice really clear for me; voice is really where you were brought up; who you are, it's the memories of your past. Because everything's been written already but it's how we say it in our voice that makes it new.
So my voice, I realized, is not everybody's voice. And all of the editors have been gracious and kind in their rejection saying things like, "This is just not a good fit for us right now. Thank you for submitting it." "This doesn't fit our issue right now, but please submit in the future." And the person – this editor – last week came right out and said… I don't know, "Thank you for submitting but it just doesn't evoke any emotional responses." And I just went…
Dennis: [laughs]
Barbara: "Wow!" You know? And I think, "Is she, like, twenty five?" But to make that kind of a judgment…
Dennis: Yeah.
Barbara: …when really, what's going on is that my voice does not match her vision, her voice of what they publish in their magazine. And just to come out and say, I thought, you know, because my poetry does strike a chord with people but it doesn't strike a chord with everybody because it's not their schema, not their background.
Dennis: Right.
Barbara: There's a Midwest flavor to what I write about. There's a religious flavor to what I write about. And you know, and I'm kind of old school because I'm old, you know? [laughs]
Dennis: [laughs]
Barbara: But old school in the sense that, you know, don't know you agree we have some of the most wonderful professors in the world at Southwestern?
Dennis: We did. Absolutely.
Barbara: You know, Dr. Daniels taught me… Dr. Wroten… Mrs. Cope… Mr. Boucher…
Dennis: Yeah, yeah!
Barbara: They exposed me to literature, like Wordsworth and Shakespeare and TS Elliot. And you know, so when I say "old school," I'm talking about that whole range of Western European literature.
Dennis: Absolutely.
Barbara: And so yeah, I'm not too avant-garde. I guess there's kinds of poetry going on out there that's more visual and there's stuff I haven't even heard of before. So yeah, it may not have fit. And you know, maybe I should have done a bit of more research before I submitted to their magazine, but I just thought…
Dennis: Really?
Barbara: Really? You know.
Dennis: [laughs]
Barbara: I think that's something I can say because of my age. But, do I face rejection in what I'm doing? Going back to the rejection and the risk taking? Yeah! You know, that's a huge risk. But then when I think I was rejected by my husband. I was rejected by my children. I was rejected by my employer. What's a little email, rejecting a couple of my poems, going to feel like compared to those life rejections that I've gone through and I've worked my way through?
Dennis: That's amazing. Just to try and keep in perspective that way because you know, you send something out for publication or whatever it is and to get a rejection letter never feels good.
Barbara: No. Never.
Dennis: You know, it's an awful feeling because you have such hope that it's going to be accepted and resonate with whoever is publishing the work, you know. Because that's part of you. You want to share it and you want… the third party recognition is really lovely when it happens. But man, what you just said, though, of in comparison with other rejections, what's an email?
Barbara: Yeah. And I have to remind myself of that, though, because I still will get those emails and I will look at them for twenty-four hours before I will open them.
Dennis: Seriously?
Barbara: Oh, yeah! Because it's like, "Oh god, is it another rejection?" I literally have to armor myself up, gird my loins, whatever, to open that email.
Dennis: [laughs]
Barbara: But I know now the difference between now and say, when I was twenty-four, I would have just given up and quit. But I don't quit now. I'm just, "Let's resubmit somewhere else." And one of my favorite poems that I've sent it off ever since a year ago and it's one of my favorites and nobody has ever picked it up. And I keep looking at it going, "Why doesn't anybody pick this poem up?" because I just think it's lovely. I just think it's this lovely poem. And I realize that I always think, "Okay, is it the religious overtones that are to it?" Because I realize that, you know, people don't like, probably, Christian poems or religious poems or they don't want to have anything or show anything like that. And so I think is it that? What is it? But you know what? Two weeks ago, somebody finally picked it up.
Dennis: Ah, there you go!
Barbara: It's going to get published. So I finally found the place for it.
Dennis: Outstanding! Congratulations!
Barbara: So, yeah! So, my dream? It'd be kind of nice to have a Pushcart Award someday. But will I live without it? Sure! It'd be kind of nice to be published and maybe go to a writer's conference and be a keynote speaker because I'd be really good at that.
Dennis: You'd be great!
Barbara: Oh, I'd rock the audience. You know what? [laughs]
Dennis: Yeah.
Barbara: Plus, I'm a teacher, you know? And I would be very good at that because I'm a very good teacher. And you know what, I have not been in a play in over thirty years but I can totally get up in front of people and talk. I do want to do a play again someday.
Dennis: Yeah, really?
Barbara: And it's a risk for me because it's been over thirty-five years since I've been in a play.
Dennis: I'm just a couple of years behind you on that because I've not been in a show in forever either.
Barbara: Well, has it been since college?
Dennis: Yeah. I did one thing at a church a bunch of years back. We did a little staging of something and that's it.
Barb: Yeah.
Dennis: But I do keynotes. I do keynotes on a regular basis and do workshops and I'm not afraid of the stage at all. I love it.
Barbara: Oh, me to! And hey, five-year-olds are the best audience I've ever had.
Dennis: [laughs]
Barbara: I can sing and I can dance and they think I'm amazing.
[both laugh]
Barbara: "Ms. Holtz, how did you get so good at that?"
[both laugh]
I said "Because I'm old!" "You have such nice handwriting." I was like, "Not really but, hey." So, anyway, yeah. I thrive on that. I love that. So yeah, you know, it's those dreams… to talk about dreams is to take those risks. I think, you know, that it's risk taking and it's facing rejection and it's perseverance. And… getting new dreams. Trying new dreams out. You know?
Dennis: There you go.
Barbara: Because I think it used to be once you achieved your dream, it seemed like it was never as good as trying to get to your dream.
Dennis: Really? Yeah. Interesting.
Barbara: It seemed like that. But now, it's like I think maybe it's the dreams that you pick that are ongoing that they're never really over but they go to different levels.
Dennis: Right.
Barbara: And stuff like that. So, different audiences.
Dennis: Interesting thought.
Barbara: So, yeah! That's kind of where I'm at. [laughs]
Dennis: I think it's great! [laughs] No, your energy is absolutely contagious.
Barbara: And, see, that's what I'm good at. This is me in front of the classroom. This is me in front of any classroom. I get excited and I'm not afraid to show that excitement because I am a very… and this is what gets me about this principal that didn't like my style of teaching or my room. It's like, "She totally didn't get the point."
Dennis: Right.
Barbara: She didn't get me. She didn't get what I do for people. What I do for my students. You need different styles for different people. Am I the right teacher for everybody? No. You know, it's realizing that you're not always going to get everybody but you can… that there's people's roles and places in everybody's lives. You need all kinds of different teachers. You know.
Dennis: Absolutely.
Barbara: I'm the dramatic, theatrical, singing, dancing, but there's something to be said for that quiet, structured, linear teacher also.
Dennis: You've got to have both. It's much like in a business; you've got to have your marketing people and your sales people but you've got to have the finance people.
Barbara: Yeah.
Dennis: Because what they focus on and their detail and so forth you don't get from the sales guys. And you need them both, you know? So it's just the same in your world as well when it comes to… you've got to have the linear quiet teachers and you got to have the nonlinear, crazy teachers. You've got to a mix because that's all a part of who we are.
Barbara: And she wanted everybody to be the same kind of teacher. And I think in ways, the educational system also wants that too. They want the same time kind of teacher… because you know, children are a product now. You know, they want education to be the business model and we are a manufacturer. And we are producing this product. You know, not taking into account that this product is a human being that has had different experiences and a different life… you know, their dad may be in jail and they may be homeless or they may be an on-meth baby. You know, you can't make a person into a product. And you can't have a teacher that… you know, you can have your standards that you need to teach, but you can't expect a teacher to get the same results from every single child because we're all different. And that's part of the educational problem is that they want us to do that and they want to tie it to our salaries and they want to do all this stuff. And it's like, I have no control over what goes on in my student's life at home. I have no control over that and it has a direct impact on how they are in my classroom. I can provide a safe, loving, caring, warm environment. And I can teach the standards, what they want me to teach but I have no control over anything else.
Dennis: It's true.
Barbara: So yeah. That's kind of it.
Dennis: Barb, this is great. As I've said, your energy is contagious and you have so many great stories. Love your dreams; love where you're going with it. You've got to keep me in the loop, please.
Barbara: Okay. Thank you for encouraging me!
Dennis: I'm honored. If I did that, that's lovely.
Barbara: Sir Dudley.
[both laugh]
Dennis: There's more to that story!
Barbara: Yes!
After our original conversation, I caught up with Barb again, many months later…
Dennis: So how are you, besides parent-teacher conferences?
Barbara: Surviving. Survival mode. This is part of what I was reflecting on because the question came back – "I'll let you know in a year how it is living over here on the coast."
Dennis: Right, and?
Barbara: The first it was like major culture shock. I was blaming everything on moving to a small town, the poverty. All of the stuff that goes on because you're in a small fish bowl now. But then I'm thinking about when I came back to school this year, like I'm still talking to my teacher friends over in Medford, bigger city and all that, and they're going through the same thing.
So what I've come to the conclusion of is that education is in a really sad place and for teachers, it's really extremely difficult, and hard, and extremely stressful. I think part of what's going on is not so much that I'm blaming it on Gold Beach anymore. I'm blaming it on the profession.
So, what can I do that pays me just as much and still get some result? I don't know. There's just a lot of stresses now that are coming. It was fine because we were talking … we had a presentation on poverty and they talk about the children that are living in poverty are under chronic stress. All I could think about is "Well, what about us as teachers?" We are living under chronic stress and they say it actually changes your brain. It's like, "Okay, that's what's wrong with my brain."
Dennis: Wow, really? Okay.
Barbara: This year I'm doing a kindergarten-first grade blend and it's proficiency grading which means I have all of the low first graders in all of that, and seven high kindergarteners. I've never done a blend. I have this … they're a sweet class but it's hard work. It's just been a really hard year.
The first quarter is over with so I'm hoping that it will get … as I get used to what I'm doing and stuff, it will get easier, I hope.
Dennis: I hope so too.
Barbara: Okay. What else do we need to …
Dennis: Well, you talked about … Do you want to read one of your works?
Barbara: Yes, and I want to show you my book.
Dennis: Nice!
Barbara: It's called The Poeming Pigeon which is this is one of the anthologies that I had poems about food, and this is one of my Kansas poems.
Dennis: Nice!
Barbara: This was set in Vassar Junction – remember Bruce and Veda Rogers?
Dennis: Oh sure, yeah.
Barbara: Yeah. Well, this was about a memory from Vassar Junction. Did you ever know Rick Rottschaefer? He was probably before your time.
Dennis: No.
Barbara: He went … yeah. Okay. Well, anyway. We did the summer theater together. This was kind of like my poem about remembering him.
Dennis: Nice.
Barbara: It's called Glass Jars and Root Cellars.
Glass Jars In Root Cellars
by Barbara A Meier
What good is it to open jars
long-sealed on cellar shelves?
Rimmed in dust,
and encrusted in spider eggs?
If I took them off the cellar shelf-
(shuddering at the wispy touch of mummy silk)
would light reveal preserves or rot?
Could I hear the hallow sound
if I pinged the lid with my knuckle?
Would the dull thud reveal sooty strings of decay?
A seal broken by the years?
a stench of you long gone in the ground….
Or could I hold it to a light,
swinging on the end of a chain,
where the memories would be rich ruby red.
I'd climb the planks
of stairs,
feel the breath of cellar rock
at the nape of my neck.
I'd stride to the light,
and hold the memories high.
Maybe then to examine for cracks,
leaks of air, bulging sides.
Sniff for foul.
Would the memories hold with examination?
Or would the first touch of air dust the insides?
Just as I am sure your body now resides in dust…
I take the church key,
apply with surgical precision,
pry the lid back,
and wait…
Whiffs of crème de mint, Tanqueray, Oreos,
flypaper spit, and cigarette smoke,
on a late night prairie train…
with the Perseids
showering us in August,
melting across a Kansas sky.
Then they are extinguished…
burnt up….
Like we are long since dead,
you in your coffin,
and I in my glass jar memories…
Dennis: Thank you.
Barbara: Did you get that?
Dennis: That's lovely.
Barbara: Yeah.
Barb, That is my most favorite poem of yours that I have had the opportunity to read. It's been at least a year ( more?- I'm old, it's a memory problem!) but I never realized until now that it was about Rick. I often miss those days when we were all so young with the whole world dancing before us! Such a lovely poem!
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Do you know what a Braai is? Find out in this article.
Businesses and business people in South Africa have an energy that you will not see anywhere else in the world. Without sounding too political, the business men and women in the country have learned that if they want to get ahead they need to do so inspite of those in charge of running the country. Therefore, they have an approach to business which is refreshing and direct. Here are some tips from an expat Durban Boy about business in SA.
- Meeting at a braai is completely allowed especially for big business. People are busy during working hours, especially South Africans who are famous for getting in and working tirelessly. Take the meeting outside. South Africa is blessed with so many natural places of interest and beautiful scenery and a genuine love for outdoor braais (barbecues) and beer that it sets a perfect icebreaking scenario. (also South African's love an excuse…
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Thirdly, making beauty products at home lets you customize your products for your needs, ensuring you are getting bang for your buck in terms of active ingredients and tailored skincare. The beauty business tends to boast one or two, usually natural, 'feature' ingredients on the front of their package, obscuring the bulk of the ingredients - water, fillers, preservatives and chemicals, in fine print on the back. Making your own ensures you get more of the good stuff and less of the garbage.
Last but not least, DIY beauty is cheap and makes for excellent presents!
I'll leave it at that for now but this topic (cosmetics, chemicals and cowboys) and really is fascinating. I'll delve deeper in future posts.
Now for the Foaming cleanser!...
Home made cleansers are the shiz. And for this one, I'm using a Castile Soap which is soap made from oil. Why, you ask? - well have you heard of the Oil Cleansing Method? You wash your face with - you guessed it - oil, and steam it off using a hot damp face cloth.
Big beauty business inform us that "oil-free" make-up and cleansers are the way to go, but the problem is, these cleansers strip the skin of its natural oils, and to compensate, we produce more oil. This means more breakouts, blackheads, and aggravated skin, and more going back to the store to purchase products to fix the problems caused by products!
The principle behind the OCM is basic chemistry: like dissolves like. Hence, oil dissolves oil. The OCM uses oil to naturally dissolve the dirty oils on our skin without stripping it or using harsh chemicals.
After lots of research, I'm pretty confident that OCM works and I've been meaning to try it for a while. I've got the castor and olive oil sitting on my shelf staring at me, but since I'm only just coming out the other side of a mega detox (a painful but super rewarding result of switching to whole plant-based foods) I've been resisting sticking thick oil on my unpredictable skin until the detox symptoms are well and truly over.
So, in the interim, I made a gorgeous, safe, gentle cleanser that has been nothing short of amazing. Liquid castile soap, being oil based, gently foams and cleanses the skin without drying it. It gets a rich lather without the surfactants, feels clean after washing, and even moisterised. The antiseptic and anti-fungal properties of tea tree make it perfect for pesky acne. Here's the clincher, once you make this, you'll realise that foaming face cleansers basically 75% water, and you'll never buy store bought again! Here's how it goes:
Stick it all in the bottle, shake it up and away you go! The results for me so far? Pretty sweet. Simple, effective, non-drying. I've found that the less complicated my skincare regime is, the better my skin gets. Plus I don't miss spending $16 a bottle on face wash - the cost of this cleanser would be around $4. Maybe less.
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For today, it's another special request – a relatively "normal" fighter.
Level Two Human Pit Fighter
Taric, along with most of his family, was captured in a border raid. Unlike most of the youngsters who were sold as servants, he was more rebellious than sensible, and kicked up enough trouble to wind up being sold to a gladiator school a few years later.
He was cheap and disposable – and so was drilled with heavy armor (to keep him standing for a bit) and a single, impressive, weapon. After all, he wasn't expected to live long enough to use a second one.
Unexpectedly, he turned out to have some talent (or at least decent muscles and plenty of anger), and survived his initial bouts. That really rather surprised his trainers – and so did the stroke of luck which gave him a good chance to escape and the speed at which he grabbed it.
Taric is a paranoid, vicious, young man – and has a long list of people (captors, masters, trainers, people who killed friends of his, people who cheered too loudly for his opponents, and more) whom he'd like to see dead.
A bit of adventuring offers a chance to stay ahead of any pursuit (there might or might not be any, depending on whether or not his owner cares enough and whether or not the trainers he took out on the way out survived), good cash, a chance to practice the few skills he's got, to work off a little of his repressed (OK, not so repressed) anger, and – perhaps – a chance at collecting some allies and enough personal power to start working his way down his list.
Basic Attributes: Str 16 (+3), Dex 10 (+0), Con 12 (+1), Int 12 (+1), Wis 16 (+3), and Cha 10 (+0). (32 Point Buy).
Available Character Points: 72 (Level Two Base) +12 (Level One and Human Bonus Feats) +10 (Disadvantages: Valuable/escaped pit fighter, Dependent/Alcohol, and Irreverent) = 94.
Basic Abilities (62 CP):
Hit Points: 20 (L1d20, 16 CP) +8 (L2d10, 6 CP) +2 (2 x Con Mod) = 30.
BAB +2, Specialized/Melee Weapons, Corrupted/Greatsword only for Triple Effect (+6 total) (12 CP)
Skill Points: 7 (7 CP).
Fortitude: +0 (Purchased, 0 CP) +3 (Wis Mod, See Below) = +3
Reflex: +0 (Purchased, 0 CP) +3 (Wis Mod, See Below) = +3
Will: +1 (Purchased, 3 CP) +3 (Wis Mod, See Below) = +4
Proficient with Light, Medium, and Heavy Armor (15 CP), Proficient with Great Sword (3 CP).
Special Abilities (32 CP):
Upgrade Human Fast Learner ability to +2 SP/Level (3 CP).
Improved Initiative +2 (3 CP).
Skill Emphasis/Survival, Specialized in Tracking for Double Effect (+4, 3 CP).
Paranoid Reflexes/Finesse, uses Wis Mod for Reflex Saves (6 CP).
Will to Survive/Finesse, uses Wis Mod for Fortitude Saves (6 CP).
Anime Master, Specialized in Greatswords (3 CP).
Track/Wilderness (3 CP).
Innate Enchantment, Corrupted/becomes increasingly paranoid when in use. (5000 GP Value/4 CP).
Madblade (Variant of Shillelagh, a normal Greatsword becomes +1 and is considered on size category larger, 2000 GP).
Whirling Guard (Shield, x.8 only works when holding a Greatsword, 1600 GP).
Focus of Madness (+2 Wisdom, Personal-only, 1400 GP).
Immunity/The normal XP cost of Innate Enchantments (Uncommon, Major, Trivial, Specialized/any abilities purchased this way must fit the blade expert theme and take the "paranoia" limitation, 1 CP).
Total Skill Points: 7 (Purchased) +5 (Int) +10 (Modified Race) = 22.
Listen +8 (5 SP +3 Wis)
Survival +8 (5 SP +3 Wis)
Spot +8 (5 SP +3 Wis)
Sense Motive +8 (5 SP +3 Wis)
Tumble +1 (1 SP +0 Dex)
Use Rope +1 (1 SP +0 Dex)
Taric is – obviously – very limited. He's an angry young man with a very big sword with which he hits people – and when he's having one of his paranoid fits, the blasted thing seems to get even bigger. Still, there are probably worse foundations for an adventuring career than the ability to take and inflict a lot of damage.
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From the beginning of human history it has been the case that people have tried to shift responsibility from themselves to someone or something else. When Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden and then gave of the forbidden fruit to Adam and he ate it also they were acting out of their free ability to choose how they would live. God made them innocent. They had no sin in their past or in their memory. Yet they gave in to the temptations from the devil and sinned against God demonstrating a lack of faith in what God had promised them.
When God confronted them about their sin, Adam blamed Eve and in a way blamed God as well. He said, "The woman you gave me took of the forbidden fruit and she gave it to me." She blamed the serpent for it all. Only the snake had no one else to blame. From that day on the Bible records case after case of people blaming others for their faults.
In the story of the two first kings to reign over the nation of Israel we can easily see the difference it makes when we blame others or accept personal responsibility. Saul was confronted by Samuel for his sin in disobeying God with regard to the Amelakites. Saul immediately declared that he had obeyed God. Samuel asked what then about the noise of the sheep. Saul said it was the people that wanted to keep them and to spare the life of the king. Only when Samuel forced it did Saul admit that he had sinned.
Later when David had sinned by committing adultery and murder and Nathan the prophet confronted him for his guilt, David declared, "I have sinned." In Psalms 51 David went to God about his sin and declared, "Against you and you only have I sinned and committed this great iniquity."
The road to forgiveness is blocked when we refuse to accept responsibility and blame our faults on someone else. We live in a time when it is the accepted norm to blame people for our failures. We blame parents because we didn't do right. Often you even hear one say that the reason they don't go to church any longer is that their parents made them go to church when they were young. Some times we blame school teachers or the teachers at church. I've heard folk blame uncles, coaches, grandparents and the government for their choices.
Parents especially are prone to accepting the responsibility for the failings of their grown children. When a child is small and can't take care of themselves it is right for parents to take the responsibility for them and what they do. But when the child is thirty or forty years old and still blaming mom and dad for failures then something is wrong.
One of the lessons I learned in playing baseball for Coach Bell as a student in Junior high and high school was that each person is to take responsibility for their own actions. If you let the ball get by you, you shouted "My fault" for everyone to hear. I think that had a lot to do with our attitudes on down through the years. When I messed up or had some problem it never crossed my mind that it was my parents or the schools fault. They gave me the tools to make decisions for myself and no one but me can be held responsible for the choices I've made.
Years have past since those days of playing baseball back in Vernon, Alabama. Attitudes have changed along with the years. We've entered a time when we want to remove all responsibility from the child. If they aren't learning in school it couldn't be their fault. It must be their teachers. If they haven't learned how to act and what to believe it must be the church's fault for not teaching them all they need to know. If they aren't successful in life and making big salaries, it must be their parents fault for not bringing them up with the right tools or favors. The result is a soft society that blames the world for everything that is wrong in life and expects the government to solve all their problems.
Joshua asked a wonderful question a long time ago when he was an old man and ready to die. The question he asked the fellow Israelites was. "Choose you this day whom you will serve. Will you serve the God that took you by the hand and led you out of the land of Egypt or will you serve the gods of this land. He gave the people their choice and left them the choice of who they would serve. They would bear the consequences of their own decisions.
One lesson every parent needs to pass on to every child is that the responsibility for their life, their success or failure and their eternal destiny rest squarely upon their own shoulders. When one stops looking for someone else to blame and takes personal responsibility they have put the past behind them.
Remember every time you point a finger at someone else you have three pointed right back at you. You are the master of your fate.


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Mud Sweat & Tears is a family pottery based in Sorrento, British Columbia. Bruce and Laura have been making unique, high fired, hand thrown and hand built stoneware and porcelain pottery for 36 years. Five years ago their son Grant joined them on a full time basis adding his own line of eclectic pottery. Their daughter Marie helps out in the studio on a part time basis when she can.
Bruce works almost exclusively on the wheel, Grant works on the wheel, makes slab pots and also uses molds that the family have designed and made. Laura no longer produces work, but spends her studio time waxing and glazing. Although Bruce makes most of the glazes they are made with input from all three. Both Grant and Bruce are both involved in loading and unloading kilns. Laura takes care of the paper work involved in the business.
All the pottery produced is of their own design, and the glazes are made using non toxic materials. They have four electric kilns, a raku kiln and a 40 cubic foot gas kiln which is fired to almost 1300 degrees Celsius. Between them they use over 12 tons of clay a year. They participate in 10 shows a year, mostly around BC, but they have also participated in Art Market in Calgary every November for the last 10 years and Circle Craft in Vancouver for the last 2 years.
It is important to all the members of the family that the pottery they produce is of a very high standard, with careful attention being paid to form and function. They all hope that the pleasure they derive from making pottery shows in their work and brings equal pleasure to those who use it.
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Area teams ready for tourney
The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association released its soccer seeds this week and several area teams have reason to celebrate.
The Sturgis East boys varsity soccer team, boasting a regular season record of 11-3-1, stormed to its highest seed in the history of the program, securing the No. 5 spot of the Div. 3 South list. The 2012 team is the best the charter school has had in its history, and plays under the coaching of Brian Hastings.
Also named to the Div. 3 South list was fledgling varsity team Sturgis West, which came in at the 22 spot, earning a tourney berth in its first-ever varsity season. The team played to a 6-6-4 record under the helm of head coach Tim Barr.
In Div. 1 South, the Barnstable Red Raiders boys soccer team battled to a No. 18 spot with a final regular season record of 7-5-3 overall.
Making the post-season for the girls was Pope John Paul II, which played to a stellar 11-4-2 overall to earn the No. 6 seed, above No. 15 Sturgis East (6-5-2) and No. 18 Cape Cod Academy (6-6-2).
In field hockey action, No. 22 Barnstable (5-5-8) was slated to face No. 16 King Philip in the preliminary round at 7 p.m. Nov. 1 (press time).


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The Community Foundation of the Virgin will serve as a catalyst for initiatives promoting environmental and marine recovery from Hurricanes Irma and Maria, as well as resilience to future weather disasters.
In the wake of devastation from two back-to-back Category 5 Hurricanes in September 2017, the challenges facing the U.S. Virgin Islands are complex and multifaceted. CFVI is committed to supporting a variety of projects to "build forward". The projects funded through the Island Spirit Fund will include environmental/marine recovery, workforce development, and housing.
CFVI has been identified as a trusted vehicle for receiving and distributing funds to support renewal across the Territory.We are supporting or exploring a number of programs and initiatives related to environmental rebuilding, the marine economy, workforce development, and housing repair/rebuild. CFVI is eager to build momentum around these categories, which connect to a range of different sectors and issues including public health, social equity, tourism, sustainability/resilience, and others.
The region's response in the face of a changing climate is imperative to long term recovery and future resilience. We must take action now to ensure environmental sustainability for current and future residents of the Virgin Islands. CFVI is uniquely positioned as the only Territory-wide community foundation, offering donors, funders, and other stakeholders: intimate community knowledge, a history of collaborative partnerships, leadership, reputation, and accountability.
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Anglers land 800-pound marlin, but lose out on payday
A team of anglers landed an 800-pound marlin Wednesday off Cabo San Lucas, Mexico in the Bisbee's Black and Blue fishing tournament, but it won't count as the winning catch.
The group landed the fish nine minutes past the first day's 9 p.m. deadline, nullifying the result.
The toughest aspect is that if no other team beats that weight during the remainder of the three-day competition - and marlin that large are rarely caught off Cabo San Lucas - the catch would have been worth $1 million or more.


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I'm discussing the seamier side of science in a seven part series on what I call scientific sinning, including science hype.
The first three pieces in this series covered Failure to Cite, Paper or grant killing and a Need for Speed.
Today we talk about how bad it can get when scientists hype their work and I'm going to use the recent story about dinosaur farts and global warming as an illustrative case.
Scientists get excited about science, right? At what point do they cross the line to engaging in outright hype? What should they do if journalists hype their work?
Today a big news story has spiked on the internet about how scientists have reported that dinosaur farts may have caused global warming that killed them off.
No, really, you can't make this stuff up. Science hype?
A CBS News story on this explosive area reads:
The researchers, led by David Wilkinson of Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom, did their best to get an accurate estimate of how much gas these big dinosaurs would have created, but their answers are still just estimates based on multiple assumptions, they warn.
Hmmm…"estimates", "assumptions"…..it gets worse (emphasis mine):
There is currently no way to tell what kind of bacteria lived in the digestive systems of dinosaurs,what gasses they produced, or what those digestive systems would have looked like, but Wilkinson thinks they would have produced methane like today's animals.
So for all we know dinosaurs did not even fart at all, right? They probably did fart, but maybe they were petite farters? Maybe their farts were cold and cooled the atmosphere?
To me this paper is just so hyped, but it is actually not that unusual to see this happen in science and certainly it happens in the stem cell field too. There are stem cell research papers that I would call the equivalent of dinosaur farts. They make big news. They might be in splashy journals. But over time do they really amount to anything other than a bunch of B.S. (and associated gases)? Not really.
Why is hype bad? Because while it gets people's attention it is like scientific junk food and often times it is just totally wrong. Hype also leads to unrealistic expectations and letdowns.
Why do scientists promote hyping of their work? Probably because they think it is good for their careers and they want to be famous? I don't know.


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Alright, I've made up my mind. To hell with Clay and Klein -- they're both stuffed-shirted buffoons. I'm going Evangelista.
Who is Evangelista? He's Neil Evangelista, a libertarian "purist" who is running against long-time Republican incumbent Clay Shaw and pandering Democratic challenger Ron Klein. I have no quarter for either one of those two.
Shaw, of course, is an old-school Republican in the Darth Vader/Dick Cheney mode. He's all about protecting his rich buddies and is a believer in Bush's wars. He once told me that the U.S. military needs to be more like Saddam Hussein in Iraq to get control of the country.
So he's out. Then you have Klein. He's doing the typical Democrat shuffle of "Bush blew it on the Iraq War, but it was probably a good idea." Klein has also been playing up the threat of Iran -- and while he won't say it, I'm betting Klein would be a "yes" vote if Bush made a case for invading.
On top of that, Klein simply doesn't impress me in the least. He's sooooo f-ing central-casting vanilla politician.
And then you have Evangelista, former public information officer for Boca Raton. He wants to legalize marijuana (and all other drugs). I'm all for the marijuana part, though I'm not hellbent on unleashing cocaine, meth, and[jump]
heroine. I like my libertarianism with a touch of vermouth and a lemon peel; Evangelista drinks it right out of the bottle. He wants to sell all national parks -- including the Everglades -- so they can be managed by private companies. He wants to arm all teachers. He wants to end social security. Hell, he wants to end the federal government, basically.
Told you, he drinks the stuff straight from the bottle.
All in all, he's more Republican than Democrat, but he's dead-set against the criminal war in Iraq and supports withdrawing U.S. troops immediately. I'm not in favor of that either; I think we should set a fixed timetable (say six months to get them out of there). Klein, the wuss, won't even go that far.
Basically Evangelista, as he has noted himself, is the only anti-war candidate in the trio. And, unlike those other two, he also a touch of charisma, spontaneity, and gonadal fortitude. The Sun-Sentinel's Michael Mayo wrote Sunday how Evangelista lit up the debate last week with lines like, "You've seen all their ads. Mr. Klein is right about Mr. Shaw, and Mr. Shaw is right about Mr. Klein. I'm none of the above."
Precisely. Sure it's true that Evangelista has no chance of winning, I'm going to vote for him because he's not Klein or Shaw, is a true anti-war vote, and he's interesting. Dammit, I am so sick of these hacks disappearing in Washington to play their spin games, ala the useless Robert Wexler. Evangelista's more ridiculous ideas don't have a chance in hell, so we don't have to worry about that. He's also an independent, so you don't have to worry about his election messing up the balance of power too much. And it's just a two-year term. During that time, you can be sure that he would mix up the rancid political swamp in D.C. Given the chance.


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The N900 makes a great gaming device. It has TV out, accelerometers, and hardware support for 3D graphics.
Video showing what can be done with 3D and TV out
There is a range of options to get games on your device.
Native Games and Games Publishers
The N900 supports SDL and hardware accelerated 3D OpenGL ES, allowing it to run many Linux games. Several are available in the Maemo 5 extras repository.
- 3d graphics engines
- Maemo 5 Downloads
- OS2008 games - most of these games should be portable to the N900
- Chess - there are a variety of chess games available, including:
- Miniature - a networked, community-developed chess program, designed for Maemo - coming soon
- Quake3
- The Ur-Quan Masters (Starcontrol 2)
- Starcraft
Rovio have ported the following games to the N900:
- Bounce Evolution
- Angry Birds. The community have also created custom level editor for this great game
Both are available from the Ovi Store Ovi Rovio Games
SIO2 Interactive
SIO2 Interactive have ported their Open Source 3D engine to the N900, and have released a number of games.
Secret Exit
Secret Exit will be releasing a number of games for N900
Palm WebOS games
Main article: Preenv
Flash Games
As the N900 supports Flash 9 and has a hardware keyboard, many Flash games should just work. Read more about the options.
There are many emulators of older game consoles available for Maemo.
- Game Boy Colour - VGB
- Game Boy Advance - VGBA, GpSP
- Nintendo DS - DeSmuME
- Nintendo Entertainment System - FCE Ultra, iNES
- Nintendo SNES - DrNokSnes - (See Use WiiMote as Gamepad)
- Nintendo N64 - Mupen64+
- Old PC (x86, DOS) - DOSBox
- Sega Master System and GameGear - Mastergear
- Sega Genesis/Megadrive/Sega CD - PicoDrive
- ScummVM
- NeoGeo - gngeo, gngeo-gui, gngeo-gui howto
- Amiga - UAE4All
Other console emulators are not working 100% yet, but are available for the adventurous:
- GemRB - GemRB N900
- Frodo C64 - Needs porting from 770 to N900
- SDLMAME - MAME emulator
- Hatari - Atari ST(e)/TT/Falcon emu
- Playstation - PCSX-m, PSX4All, PSX4M, PCSX Rearmed
- Sega Saturn - Yabause
- Amiga - E-UAE, UAE, UADE
Some other terminal emulators exist for Linux, but do not work on Maemo:
Game Controllers and Peripherals
WiiMote as Gamepad/Remote
Main article: Wii remote
- Wiimote - Use your wiimote to play games! WiiMote can also be used GLOBALLY with your N900
- Configure WiiMote as Gamepad for Dr. NokSnes: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=506339
Play-station Six Axis Controller
The Six axis Controller now works on the N900
Wii Balance Board
N900 and Wii Balance Board Video
Connect one or more Zeemote Joysticks to the N900 using ZeeControl
Game Gripper
The Game Gripper is a slip-on gamepad accessory for the N900.
Frequently asked questions
Will N900 play games from big companies?
Nokia has publicly stated that they are fully committed to creating a proper channel for Premium content publishers to sell their content in a protected form via their Ovi Store. [1]
As for what we have now, well, from what I've researched there are vast repositories of games, both old and some semi-new where one can get games for the N900. The very nature of the device is such that the onus is upon the user to do the necessary research to find what will work.
There are numerous emulators where you can play thousands of old games for the NES, Game Boy, GBA, etc.
As for DOS games, it is yet to be seen if we can expect full compatibility, but rest assured, someone, somewhere is working on it.
The number of developers working on it is still relatively small.
Maemo is a developer's dream, but give it 6 months before you have precompiled, easy to use games…
My two cents for now. You have the full internet in your pocket! Isn't that enough?
What if I want a game that is not yet available?
See above (where do I get software from)
All my previous phones have run Java games: why can't I play them on N900?
Main article: Java
This article should include information from this external resource. Please help to copy the relevant information to the wiki.
Java is currently available for the N900 but requires some manual installation.
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Lunar Ballistec
Nike wanted to create a sort of sci-fi and spy narrative surrounding the footwear's design of the new Lunar Ballistec, one of the lightest and fastest tennis shoes ever made. The capsule were designed by the SC team and everyday, during a week, the Nike team released one image daily in social media, creating an expectation feeling till the design of the shoes was finally releaved.
- TECHNIQUE CGI, Photography
- AD AGENCY R/GA New York
- CLIENT Playing Arts
- REP AGENCY Bernstein & Andriulli