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A close-up message from our fundraising director
I was introduced to Realm a little over two years ago at a viewing party for the first 'Weed' special. While I work with my children and their challenges, none of them have medical needs that require daily medications, routine trips to the hospital or a team of doctors. I was introduced to families that call those situations their daily reality. Witnessing the interactions that day between this unique group of people brought together by hope and less than desirable circumstances blew my mind and my heart wide open.
I knew that this was so much more important than anything I had ever experienced before and in October 2013, I began volunteering on the phones for Realm. The gravity of the calls was overwhelming and heart breaking. Imagine listening to a parent as they explain how sick their child is with the sound of pain and determination in their voice that stings you in your gut. Every call left me wanting to do more for these families and the Realm of Caring. In the spring of 2014, I was offered an amazing opportunity to be the Director of Fundraising.
The past two years of my life working for Realm have forever changed me. It has changed me as a person, as a mother and as a wife. There have been moments of pure frustration because we find out some new rule that the state/FDA/feds is throwing around. As well as times I feel angry about the complete miseducation some exhibit with regard to cannabis and this movement. At the end of the day all of those moments are worth it when I get a story from a client about their success. That is what this is all about, our clients' success. For me this is now especially true. My mom was very recently diagnosed with cancer. As soon as we found out, she became one of my clients. My mom is extremely important to me and it is difficult to accept that she is going through this. The only solace that I have found is that I am able to team her up with an organization that works so very hard to support its clients. She is also going to take part in our research registry because the research that we do is vital in legitimizing the use of cannabinoids. My entire job is fundraising. This fundraising is how we pay for these research opportunities. It is how we fund our client support programs such as orientation and the client care specialists. Not to mention, education/awareness events and client family events. These funds also go towards the Realm Cares Financial Assistance program. This program is where Realm gets to writes a monthly check to clients needing financial assistance.
Thank you for taking a moment to read my story. I hope that it helps to inspire and motivate you in your continued support for the Realm of Caring.
Blythe Kingsbury, Fundraising Director


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|Position ID:
|Position Title:
|Simons-FAPESP Research Professor Position in Theoretical Physics
|Position Type:
|Tenured/Tenure-track faculty
|Position Location:
|São Paulo, São Paulo 01140-070, Brazil [map]
|Subject Areas:
|Theoretical Physics / Complex systems including applications to biology, Astrophysics, Condensed matter theory, Cosmology, General relativity, Gravitational waves, Hadronic physics, Mathematical physics, Particle physics (theoretical and experimental), Physics of cold atoms, Quantum Optics, Statistical physics
|Appl Deadline:
|2019/12/01 finished (2019/10/14, finished 2020/06/07)
|Position Description:
Simons-FAPESP Research Professor Position at ICTP-SAIFR
The ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR, www.ictp-saifr.org) announces the opening of a Simons-FAPESP research professor position which, depending on the qualifications of the candidate and the selection process, can be either a permanent professorship or a 5-year professorship with the possibility of tenure after 3 years. Candidates from all areas of theoretical physics are encouraged to apply, and the international search committee will be chaired by Peter Goddard (IAS Princeton).
ICTP-SAIFR is a South American center for theoretical physics created in 2011 as a collaboration of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) with the São Paulo State University (UNESP) and the São Paulo Research Funding Agency (FAPESP). It is located at the Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT-UNESP) campus in downtown São Paulo and has a large number of postdocs and visitors. In addition to performing research and organizing activities, the new professor will assist in the teaching and supervising of Masters and PhD students of IFT-UNESP.
Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience, and will include fellowships from both the Simons Foundation and FAPESP. Additional grants are available for research/travel and salary from state and national funding agencies, and the professor can use ICTP-SAIFR funds for graduate students, postdocs and visitors, as well as participate in ICTP-SAIFR exchange agreements with the ICTP Trieste, Perimeter, KITP, Mainz, CERN, Fermilab, Saclay, Nordita and IFT-Madrid.
Although applications will be accepted until the position is filled, candidates are strongly encouraged to apply before December 1, 2019 by filling out the online application at www.ictp-saifr.org

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I have trouble remaining aware of my surroundings, and as a kid it was worse. When teachers called on me in class, I rarely heard them. Even waving a hand in front of my face and saying, "Earth to Bryn!" wouldn't always snap me out of a trance.
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When you grow your favorite strain, it is heartbreaking to discover that your end product looks nothing like what you'll find in a dispensary. Our guides offer steps and tips to help you get closer to the top shelf bud you crave. Today, we feature a growing guide for Blackberry Kush, an indica dominant hybrid that is a cross of Blackberry and Afghani.
It is a strain known for its fruit flavor along with the famed earthy Kush taste. It is an extremely popular medicinal strain, and with a THC content of between 16% and 20%, its potency is to be respected. Depending on how you cultivate this strain, you will probably end up growing a different Blackberry Kush strain to what you see in the store; although not necessarily a lower quality version.
Tip #1 – Blackberry Kush Strain Review: What to Expect When You Use It
It doesn't take long for users to discover why Blackberry Kush is such a coveted medicinal marijuana strain. Its sweet aroma is extremely noticeable, and you will definitely continue smelling it long after the weed has left the room. Your mouth will water as you smell this pungent bud, and the strong earthy diesel flavor, with a strong berry taste, will leave you craving more.
Although its THC is in the medium range, it is a strain known for having potent effects. You should consider using it if you suffer from anxiety. Once you smoke it, prepare to relax and lie down on a bed or ease into a comfortable position on your sofa; you won't be getting up anytime soon. Blackberry Kush is an excellent stress-relieving marijuana strain with sedative qualities that should be used at night time.
Tip #2 – Difficulty Growing Blackberry Kush
The grow difficulty of Blackberry Kush is classified as 'moderate.' This is primarily because of its susceptibility to fungus and spider mites. Mites, in particular, can pose a real threat, even in an indoor grow. Although spider mites are not that hard to see, these critters have an incredible ability to multiply.
Most infestations begin from the accidental transfer of a small number of mites from another plant. These pests have also developed significant pesticide resistance over the years. Growers can reduce the number of spider mites in a cannabis garden by misting the plants with a homemade solution. Increasing humidity also works, but if you overdo it, fungal diseases could become a new issue.
One natural method of eliminating spider mites is to introduce predatory mites such as Phytoseiulus persimilis, Amblyseius fallacius, and Amblyseius californicus. All of them are capable of massively reducing an infestation by feasting on spider mites while leaving your crop untouched. However, these predators only survive in certain conditions and are usually ineffective when the humidity is under 60% and the temperature is over 86 degrees Fahrenheit. Alas, spider mites continue to thrive in those conditions.
Tip #3 – Best Growing Techniques for Blackberry Kush
If you want to make the most out of your Blackberry Kush crop, use the Sea of Green (SOG) method. SOG involves growing several small plants rather than a handful of huge ones. You can bring the plants to harvest faster because your smaller plants don't need to support as many bud sites as large plants.
Typically, growers switch to the flowering stage when their plants are no more than 4-6 weeks old when utilizing the SOG method. We recommend adhering to the longer side of that range because an extra week of vegging can make a massive positive difference to your yield. You can also 'top' your seedlings by getting rid of their tips when they have 4-6 pairs of leaves.
Make sure you have at least four plants. Begin as usual by growing your plants from seeds or clones. Allow them to grow and transport them into larger buckets when necessary. About two weeks later, use the Low-Stress Training (LST) method which involves gently bending the branches down, so they sit flat rather than reaching upwards.
Once you are satisfied that your plants have had enough of a vegging period, force them into flowering by changing the light schedule to 12 hours on, 12 hours off. SOG is a fairly easy technique that boosts yield and speeds up the growth cycle.
Tip #4 – Blackberry Kush Yield
Blackberry Kush's yield is classified as 'moderate.'You should get around 16 ounces per square meter indoors, and up to 28 ounces per plant outdoors. One of the most important tricks when growing any marijuana strain is to understand when it is the right time to harvest. Blackberry Kush is no different to most strains insofar as there is a 2-3-week harvest window.
One of the best ways to increase yield is to allow the buds to fully ripen. It isn't unusual for buds to gain an extra 25% in size in the last fortnight before harvest. Another benefit of choosing when to harvest is that you can decide on the precise effects. If you want a buzzy high that you can enjoy during the day, harvest a little earlier. If you want a relaxing, almost sedative experience, harvest a bit later.
Tip #5 – Feeding Blackberry Kush
Blackberry Kush needs heavy magnesium feeding throughout its growth cycle. You also need to keep nitrogen intake high during the vegetative stage to help boost node development. Magnesium deficiency can significantly reduce the growth of any marijuana strain, and especially Blackberry Kush.
One of the first signs of magnesium deficiency is slower growth at the bottom of plants. You may see yellowing leaves with a crunchy brown tip. It is a 'mobile' deficiency which means it spreads throughout the plant. Eventually, it reaches the shoots which become purple as leaf chlorosis speeds up.
Your crop is particularly at risk if you use an inert growing medium such as coco coir. If you are growing hydroponically and allow the pH of the nutrient solution to go below 5.0, a magnesium deficiency is likely. If you see this deficiency, begin by flushing your plants with 6.0 pH water. Next, prepare a feed with the right pH for the growing medium you have chosen.
Prevention is better than cure, so invest in a premium quality growing medium, and nutrients specifically for marijuana plants. Some growers swear by Epsom Salts which is another name for magnesium sulfate. As a general rule, if you use Epsom Salts, add a tablespoon for every gallon of water and apply as a foliar spray every two weeks.
Tip #6 – Should I Grow Blackberry Kush Indoors or Outdoors?
You can try to grow Blackberry Kush outdoors, but it will be a challenge. It is a plant that needs to be trimmed regularly, is sensitive to inclement weather conditions, and is prone to pest infestation. On the plus side, it provides a generous yield. Blackberry Kush grown outdoors is ready for harvest by the middle of October.
Ideally, you will choose to grow this strain indoors so you can have some semblance of control over the growing conditions.
Tip #7 – Blackberry Kush Flowering Time
It is a strain much-loved by growers because it is ready for harvesting indoors relatively quickly. Blackberry Kush's flowering time is 7-8 weeks. Growers need to keep a close watch on the plant during the vegetative stage as it is prone to pre-flowering; an action that slows down growth and overall yield.
In case you didn't know, pre-flowering occurs when a marijuana plant in the vegetative stage starts producing clusters of hairs or pistils as they typically do toward harvest time. It is an issue seen with fast-finishing indica strains if they get stressed. Once it reaches the flowering stage, Blackberry Kush doesn't stretch that much which makes it an excellent strain for the Sea of Green (SOG) growing method as mentioned in #3.
Overall, the flowers of this strain have a medium leaf-to-calyx ratio. As a result, you should find it relatively easy to trim the buds when it is time to harvest. Please make sure that you keep all of the trim that is covered in crystals; it makes outstanding hash!
Tip #8 – What is the Best Climate for Growing Blackberry Kush?
Blackberry Kush thrives in a mild to warm climate with a daytime temperature of between 68- and 80-degrees Fahrenheit. Remember, if you try to grow it outdoors in cool temperatures, there is a real chance that the crop will fail.
Blackberry Kush also prefers low humidity. During the vegetative stage, keep the relative humidity (RH) at 55-60%. By the time the flowers are in the blooming stage, the RH should be reduced to 40%, and can be as low as 30% by harvest time.
When RH is too high, the plants draw water from the soil at a slower rate than normal because transpiration is slowed down by the lower than usual water gradient between your plants and the atmosphere. As a result, your Blackberry Kush plants will take in fewer nutrients which leads to a deficiency. The crop's calcium intake is most likely to be affected by a high RH.
However, it is a balancing act. If you allow the RH to get too low, your plants will draw water from the soil too rapidly; and they can't draw water at a rate equal to what is lost via their stomatal openings. When this happens, a plant closes its stomata, an act that hinders photosynthesis. It protects the plant but leads to stress, slow growth, and reduced yield.


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From William Hogeland:
Greetings, all,
Please join me for what I hope will be a lively party/talk/signing on Wednesday, October 24, 7-8 p.m., to launch my new book Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation. The event will be held at that great independent bookstore BookCourt, 163 Court Street, Brooklyn, U.S.A. It will involve banjo-thumping and caterwauling (not "The Cuckoo" this time), but I'll try to keep that to a minimum, and some sort of adult beverage will be served. I'll tell startling tales from Founding Finance, consider aloud why we don't know them already, and sign copies. Hoping for a freewheeling hour in my old neighborhood.
(This is a free and public event, and all are welcome. Don't hesitate to invite others who might be interested, forward this e-mail, and post to your networks.)
Regarding Founding Finance: It ranges like a bull in a china shop through those critical years 1765-1795, turning up dire conflicts among 18th-century Americans over finance and economics. These are the conflicts that, while shockingly little-known, I think played directly into — no, they were — the American founding's critical path, the stuff that really made us who we are. (The book is published by University of Texas Press, in Mark Crispin Miller's "Discovering America" series.)
Little-known founding-era episodes that may sound eerily resonant:
- Predatory lending in a real-estate bubble about to pop
- Upscale investors' feverish speculation in dubious debt instruments
- Foreclosure crises sending ordinary families into poverty and dependence
- Popular uprisings against government complicity in wealth concentration
- Militarized crackdowns on democratic approaches to finance
- And — of course! — more
This is not, in other words, another book about founding conflicts between Americans and England. We won that war. These are stories of the founding war between some Americans and other Americans, a war between ordinary people and the consolidated elite over money, debt, and government's role in public and private finance. A war we refuse to believe formed us, a war we've never stopped fighting.
I offer these strange tales, sometimes grim and sometimes funny, featuring oddball characters both famous and obscure, in hopes of making an entertaining election-year dissent from Tea Party and "constitutional conservative" claims on the American founding — and from a lot of liberal preconceptions too.
Further info on Founding Finance events to come (events in Boston, Kansas City…). You can check my Facebook author page, follow me on Twitter, skim my blog, and/or receive a very few more of these blasts by not unsubscribing. In the meantime, I hope you'll come to BookCourt on October 24!
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I REFER to the StarMetro report "High-rise project planned in place of Serani Row" (March 21) wherein the past president of the Malaysian Institute of Architects (PAM) Saifuddin Ahmad was quoted as saying that it would be difficult to preserve Serani Row unless there was governmental intervention. I fully agree with him.
Having seen the structures a fortnight ago before they were demolished, I was saddened because despite their dilapidated condition, it was clear that Kuala Lumpur had lost another eminently restorable landmark. There have been too many demolitions of such buildings for development projects.
The houses at Serani Row (pic) should not have been demolished as they were pre-war homes with a vibrant account of the Eurasian community.
Heritage trails and other walking tours are currently being lined up to attract visitors to Kuala Lumpur, which raises the question why there wasn't any coordination between the National Heritage Department and Kuala Lumpur City Hall in getting professional input before a heritage structure such as Serani Row was allowed to be torn down. The tourism potential of Serani Row was obvious as the area is packed with tourists visiting KL Tower and other nearby landmarks like Old Malaya, a successful food and beverage centre.
A Central Market concept could have been devised to convert Serani Row into an international tourism attraction similar to Kasturi Walk along the old Rodger Street and the River of Life project at Victory Square (now called Medan Pasar).
But another heritage area has been destroyed due to the inability of Kuala Lumpur City Hall to coordinate planing with the Tourism and Culture Ministry, National Heritage Department and local preservation societies such as Badan Warisan and even professional societies like PAM, which could contribute ideas.
There are many other lost and forgotten landmarks requiring protection and it is only a matter of time before these will also be lost forever to future generations of Kuala Lumpur residents.
Conservation should not be limited to just places connected with historical figures either. Unique structures built in older architectural traditions, such as the Sino-Malay Palladian buildings and various other styles currently gazetted under the National Heritage Act 2005, should be included too.
In addition, the Federal Department of Town and Country Planning Peninsular Malaysia, in its circular "Warisan Senibina dan Kepentingan Sejarah", has stated that for the purposes of the Town And Country Planning Act 1976, the department recognises in urban planning the need for heritage building conservation.
The importance of this Federal Government advisory appears to have been largely ignored by the local authorities, however.
There are various other enclaves in KL that have such buildings, including Jalan Imbi where there are buildings constructed in the 1930s.
I am afraid that if concrete steps are not taken, KL will lose much of its historical buildings, which will result in a reduction in earnings from tourism since tourists generally do not come to see modern structures. In this regard, the potential of Serani Row is lost forever. Regulations and other bylaws have to be enacted under the National Heritage Act 2005 as well as City Hall's laws to list all pre-war buildings. This should prevent their demolition until all applications for development are vetted with the National Heritage Department's input as well as local preservation societies.
KL residents must take an interest and notify the National Heritage Department of beautiful and old buildings before it is too late. Perhaps a web register can be created for this purpose jointly by City Hall and the National Heritage Department. If this is not done, KL could lose its tourism appeal as a historical city.
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Meet us at the Hospitality Room of Colonial Hills United Methodist Church
General Meeting – The first of 2019!
6:00pm entry, 6:30pm start time.O
San Antonio Water System rates for 2018
Fellow CHNA Members,
This is a reminder that follows up the schedule of 2019 meetings I sent out some time ago. Here is the
information about this upcoming meeting:
WHEN: Wednesday, January 23.
TIME: 6:30 p.m., with "snack 'n' visit" starting at 6:00.
WHERE: Colonial Hills United Methodist Church (CHUMC)
Hospitality Center.
5247 Vance Jackson Road, not a quarter-mile up Vance
Jackson from Callaghan, on the left.
The Hospitality Center is facing Vance Jackson at the north
of the very large main parking lot. It will be lit up and obvious.
MEETING ✔ Introduction of new SAPD SAFFE Officer Steve Beilstein
HIGHLIGHTS: He is assigned from the Northwest (Prue) Substation to cover Colonial
Hills following the retirement on January 11 of Officer Donnie Milewski.
SAFFE has been critically important to Colonial Hills, which is why
we need to hear from our new officer.
✔ TCI explains how it intends to handle the upcoming Marlborough repaving
The engineer or engineers responsible (I'm about to receive his/her/their
name[s] from District 1, which will be in the meeting agenda you'll receive
when you walk in) will be there, along with Martza Carmiol, our superb
District 1 representative from Councilman Trevino, who will introduce him/
her/them and help us stay "on task" with the answers to questions you no
doubt will have after the notorious performance of TCI's contractor in the
painful and nearly endless Tiffany sidewalks project last year.
Getting some firm commitments from TCI is especially important given that
this is not just an overlayering as was done on Briarfield last year but a removal
of several inches of pavement and underlayment and then replacing it all.
✔ SAWS representative(s) defend its seemingly never-ending rate increases
and reveal what upgrades, renovations, or other disruptive interventions
are on tap this year for Colonial Hills.
As with the TCI portion of the meeting, I'll have the name(s) in the agenda
of whoever has been assigned by SAWS to meet with us.
✔ There are other items, but these give you the flavor of the meeting (chocolate
mint, perhaps).
And finally . . .
For reference, here again is the CHNA general meeting schedule for 2019 (please note that these
meetings are regularized to occur on the fourth Wednesday of the first month of each quarter):
First-Quarter Meeting 6:30 p.m. (6:00 for "snack 'n' visit") Wednesday, January 23, at the
Colonial Hills United Methodist Church Hospitality Center
Second-Quarter Meeting 6:30 p.m. (6:00 for "snack 'n' visit") Wednesday, April 24, at the
Colonial Hills United Methodist Church Hospitality Center
Third-Quarter Meeting SPECIAL EVENT: SUMMER SOCIAL WITH HORS D'OEUVRES/
6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 24, at a venue you'll hear about well in
advance of this event. This is a sort of traditional summer event,
held every summer from the beginning (I'm pretty sure).
(This has been held several times at Mamacita's, which, as those who
have been there for this event know, is a truly fine venue for it. There
are a couple of other places where we have gone, one of them Big
Slice Pizza on the east side of Vance Jackson (right where Mossrock
dead-ends), but, sadly, Big Slice died recently.)
Fourth-Quarter Meeting 6:30 p.m. (6:00 for "snack 'n' visit") Wednesday, October 23, at the
Colonial Hills United Methodist Church Hospitality Center
This is the annual meeting at which new officers are elected to
serve for the next 12 months.
See you at the meeting on Wednesday evening.
Rick Christensen


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Last month I went out in the driveway, got in the Prius, and drove to Texas. Ann stayed in Saranac Lake.
Like most heads of foreign states and all Americans, I was already considered by the NSA to be a person of interest. I became a person of exalted interest, code-red interest, by cruising around in the Adirondacks and along the south shore of Lake Erie in December and then continuing the rest of the 1900 miles to Texas. That's not how we do things in this great country. We fly. Besides that, I was a vegan bound for a deer hunt.
I trust the NSA did a competent job of surveilling me, but I doubt it learned much about my inner life. It needs a little more time to develop technology so intrusive as that. It probably reached some conclusions based on my choices of radio stations, food, lodging, and my suspicious evening phone calls to India, but that was hardly more than guesswork. Being a patriotic American, I want government agencies to do a good job, so I'm going to lay out below a reliable version of the part of my life on the interstate that was unreachable by existing technology. The NSA is welcome to it.
I had my reasons for driving.
There's no TSA on the interstate. Nobody kicked the back of my seat. I didn't have to sit next to anyone who was clothed in a distressingly inappropriate fashion. Not once ─ going or coming ─ did I hear anyone announce into a cell phone the breaking news, "I'm at the airport."
In addition, it was the best way to transport the Advent gifts Ann had made for the grandchildren. She'd spent days making maple marshmallows and other confections, then more days wrapping them. Five grandchildren times the twenty-four days of Advent made for a lot of packages (120, actually). No ordinary wrapping either. To Ann, design and execution of paper and bows is as important as what's inside. The last sixty hours or so before my departure were something like those days in college when she made her living baking pecan pies until two or three in the morning during the lead-up to Christmas. She wrapped and labeled and kept a chart all day Saturday, about twelve hours on Sunday, and finished with a few hours on Monday morning while I packed the car.
An offering involving so much effort as that could only be delivered by someone with a strong interest in their arriving in perfect condition. I had that. I carried them into my motel rooms at night lest they freeze or get stolen.
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I like being alone with my thoughts, even in four-day stretches and even if the thoughts are often about whether artfully wrapped boxes of handmade Advent gifts might be about to fall off the back seat. But I managed to reflect on more interesting ─ even weighty ─ matters as well.
I was hardly well started before I wondered how much of the surface of the U.S. is covered with pavement. Through the magic of the internet, I did a thorough five-minute job of research on that question in the parking lot of a convenience store south of Cincinnati.
In 2005, one authority put the figure at 43,000 square miles, an area about the size of Ohio, our 37th largest state. Six years later, a plausible calculation had the number at 61,000 square miles, which is a bit larger than Florida, our 27th largest state. Such a high rate of paving scares me. It won't be much of a country, if most of it is under concrete and asphalt. But maybe we could offset the harm a little by finding a way to shunt the rain that falls on the coming horizon-to-horizon impervious cover to places that need it, such as the Ogalalla Aquifer or San Antonio.
Another question of deep importance. If Ike were alive today, what would he think of what his interstate highway plan had come to? Maybe not much. He was a fine fellow and a hell of a good general and he kept his extramarital sexual activities out of the public eye more skillfully than most postwar presidents, but so far I know, he was not much given to reflection. (He did, of course, offer that one musing on the dangers presented by the military-industrial complex.)
If he were alive now, he should have some reservations about what the interstate system has come to.
He could start with the widely held belief that the journey is as important as the destination. Just zipping along between exits at seventy miles an hour with an occasional stop at a service area for a Roy Rogers sandwich and the opportunity to line up shoulder to shoulder with truck drivers at a row of urinals tends to argue that in these times, the destination may be undervalued.
Now and then, I make a long drive on roads of the sort Ike found wanting, the kind with traffic lights and no-passing zones and that sometimes go right through the middle of small towns. It's slow going, but there's much to be said for seeing something along the side of the road other than a list of motels, gasoline stations, and fast food franchises that wait to greet the zoned-out traveler at the next exit.
Still, travel via interstate is generally thought of as progress. So are many peripheral changes that have grown up as part of this new way of getting from point A to point B. Satellite radio, for example. On my recent pilgrimage to my place of origin, it was both edifying and enjoyable to listen day after day to various news and opinion outlets struggling to make it sound like what was being reported and opined about was not what had already been broadcast on a dozen other stations. For staying informed, you can't beat hearing the same story and opinions over and over. And few devotional exercises compare to hearing "Silent Night" 500 times in a span of eight days. To keep from getting in a rut, I'd listen to NPR morning and evening. But never for very long. Little-girl voices and vocal fry and upspeak are only tolerable in small doses.
Before Ike's dream and its accompanying ways were realized, long-haul travelers would twist the radio knob until their fingers were cramped and raw, fighting through static, trying to find something to listen to as the AM signal faded every few miles. That quest was at least as interesting as the redundancy that is satellite radio. And late at night, clear-channel stations would bring contact with parts of the country that were as foreign as Samarkand, places such as Omaha and Tulsa. The ads for mass-produced religious relics and cancer cures on the Mexican station XEG were highly entertaining.
But hold on. AM stations, including clear-channel broadcasters and even XEG, are still right there on the dashboard. Swept along on the wave of radio improvement, I never thought to let them out. Maybe I will the next time Ike and I take a trip.
These days cars often have gps systems. If you're any good at using one, you'll never be lost. I'm not sure that's an improvement. Some of my most interesting driving experiences have occurred when I've gotten lost. Late one night about twenty years ago, I made a wrong turn coming into Manhattan. One bad decision led to another, and Ann and I soon discovered ourselves to be under an expressway in the south Bronx trying to make a u-turn in an exact recreation of the frightening scene at the beginning of Bonfire of the Vanities. A gps system would have denied us the fun of boring friends with that story all these years since.
At one point in my recent trip with Ike, the dashboard clock jumped an hour. It knew that it had crossed into a new time zone. I wanted to stop right there, and go back and forth over the line and watch it change, over and back, over and back, faster, faster, see if I could confuse it, but it was a lot of trouble to do that on an interstate. Like using a gps, it provided a bit too much certainty in everyday life for my tastes. Life is just not as interesting if you always know what time zone you're in.
Some cars have television and video players. Presumably, this is to keep the kids from getting bored. Now at this point, I have serious questions about whether we're making progress in regard to anything. Boredom is a blessed state; contriving to deprive children of it is tantamount to child abuse.
Oh sure, kids still say they're bored sometimes, but with so many computer games and gadgets available to them, their complaint hardly compares to what children knew in the not-too-distant past. There are probably children alive today ─ and more on the way ─ who have never invented a game to play when they couldn't find anything to do. Some may never have had an imaginary friend. Who needs one of those when someone has already imagined one for mass consumption and made a video of its adventures? What is the effect on human evolution to have successive generations who have never whiled away hours in the back seat of an un-air-conditioned sedan looking for Burma Shave signs? Probably nothing good.
Well, Burma Shave is no more, and on my drive to Texas, when I tired of having deep thoughts on important subjects, I had to make do with whatever I could find in the way of distraction. For a time, I observed billboards advertising "adult book and video" stores that were coming up in two miles. They were usually old frame houses alone and palely loitering at the edge of a plowed field, surrounded by large but almost empty parking lots, waiting like Burma Shave to pass into the ephemera of history, victims of progress in the form of internet porn.
After a couple of days, I began to wonder now and then if I'd gotten turned around and was driving back where I'd just come from. Every cross-road settlement looked like the one I'd just come through, and it offered the same franchised food and motel and gasoline services that I'd seen at my last stop. If the independently owned, one-off "tourist court" exists at all anymore, it's on life support. And "tourist cabins" have gone the way of Burma Shave.
"Ike," I said, "What's the point of traveling, if everything's the same all up and down the road?" He didn't answer. Perhaps he thought the interstate was primarily about moving goods. A tractor-trailer rig full of Little Friskies doesn't care much about same/different.
I was relieved when I did encounter variation, however small. One Best Western, for example, dispensed liquid soap from a container on the shower wall rather the usual small bars wrapped in paper. A Red Roof Inn supplied tissue in pocket packages rather than from a slot in the vanity. So much uniformity in a country that purports to value diversity above just about everything is confusing.
I take trips in hopes of seeing something that's different from what I see at home. Corporate America is indifferent to why I take trips. It knows for sure that most people want everything outside of Dubuque to be just like everything inside Dubuque.
The nearest I got to the "travel is broadening" aspect of travel came when booking rooms. I'd pull into a parking lot and call Travelocity to get a reduced room rate on the Hampton Inn I was sitting in front of, and someone in Mumbai would answer. That sounds exotic — booking a room in Goodlettsville, TN by phoning India — but by the second time I did this, the person in Mumbai greeted me like an old friend, had all information necessary to make the reservation, and the time I spent with an interesting person in a foreign country was limited to four minutes, thirteen seconds. But I'd saved money — maybe $50 — by making that heretofore prohibitively expensive and time-consuming call, and that alone was interesting enough to qualify as a minor travel adventure. And I enjoyed imagining the NSA reaction to my calls to Mumbai. "Willcott's calling Mumbai again. Run a 431 check on that, Agent Johnson."
I was reassured about diversity as I got closer to Texas. People began to talk like Ann and me. A waitress in Little Rock called me "hon," and that gave me a nice going-home feeling. I recalled a big-deal, ivy-league-educated Goldman Sachs banker asking Ann incredulously, "You don't celebrate Thanksgiving in Texas do you? I mean with turkey and everything?" And then there was that time Ann owned up to a Post Office clerk in Saranac Lake that she was a native speaker of East Texan. "Just can't get rid of it, can you," he said, shaking his head sympathetically.
To do my part to keep diversity alive, I joined old friends for the deer hunt, but I didn't pick up a rifle. Killing animals doesn't much appeal to me anymore. And I pretty well stuck to my vegan diet even as I was surrounded by camo-wearing omnivores (good men all, I hasten to add).
Leaving the deer camp to start back home, I drove for a couple of hours on two-lane blacktop passing through small towns in early morning light. I enjoyed it a lot. It was peaceful. It was home. It was the way life was supposed to be. All that, though by training and adoption, I am now thoroughly east coast and urban.
By then I'd been away from home for about two weeks and Ann was having trouble getting the driveway plowed and the monastery boiler was acting up and she was ready to put up the Christmas tree but didn't want to do it alone. So just south of Dallas, I got back on the interstate and covered a lot of ground in a hurry. In doing so, I realized Ike's idea has merit, even if it came accompanied by changes that make me uneasy.


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1. So, what annoys you most about the whole dating process?
This question might catch your date off guard, but it's a good way to let them know that you have some humor in you, and that you can both find some common ground on your previous not-so-great date experiences.
2. Whose the biggest influence in your life?
You can learn a lot about someone based on who his or her role mode is This question could lead to life stories and life lessons that let you see a more personal, even vulnerable side of your date. Pus, people love to talk about themselves and what inspires them, so this question could spark plenty of conversation!
3. What's your ideal way to spend a Saturday night?
This question is for you just as much as it's for your date. If your date likes to sit inside and play video games for 4 hours straight on a weeknight, but you're the kind of person who would camp overnight on top of a mountain after spending the day hiking the Appalachian Trail, then you might have some conflict.
4. If you could drop everything right now without any consequences, what would you do?
This is a fun hypothetical question, because it gets you and your date to think outside the box You can talk about your hopes and dreams and be creative with imagining where life might take you.
5. Have you figured out what your calling in life is? If not, what gives you energy and purpose at the moment?
This is a heavy question, but an important one. Everyone is searching for his or her purpose in life. While many people find their "thing", others struggle to define their identity and spend years trying different career paths living in different cities, and changing their friend groups to see where they fit in. I t's different for everyone, and it's a great philosophical topic you could potentially talk about for your entire date.
In conclusion, the aforementioned set of questions range from light topics to heavier more in depth topics. It's important to ask these questions in proper context. For example, if you're on a fun bowling night date, you may not want to bring heavy philosophical topics into the light fun environment. It could be a real downer to the over vibe of the night. The best thing you can do for your first date is to have fun and relax; and pretty soon that first date will no longer be a first date.


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A comment over at Philly's blog, You Made Me Say It, got me thinking. Now, thinking is not one of my better attributes (just ask CL and Gideon) but like Lewis Black, I have a hard time swallowing nonsense, because "I have thoughts", and they get in the way of the usual religious swill swallowing. So there I am, thinking about his post, and some of the comments, and the question arises about god being outside time, space and logic. And it got me thinking more. What does that mean, god is outside time, space and logic?
Exactly where IS he?
Let's take the first concept, time. How can anything be outside time? Time is just a way of measuring the passage of, well, time. I know that sounds circular, but I can't think of a better way to put it. To say god is outside time, is similar to the contention that he's outside, say, linear measurements. For example, if he's standing next to you, he'd be, what? Five foot eleven? Six-two? Ten feet tall? Whatever he is, he's a definite height. His fingers are a definite length, his head a definite circumference, and his penis…well, we won't go there. Measurements are ways of comparing one physical attribute to another (men do it with their… oh, wait, I already did that joke) so that we can define it spatially relative to another. It's a great way of understanding concepts like height, weight, distance, etc. by comparing objects and distances to others that are actually known by the observer. It's how we humans categorize and simplify knowledge.
Similarly, time is a measurement of activity and existence relative to other activities and existences, so we can compare them, and better place them in our storage banks of knowledge. For example, the Super Bowl was six months ago. Six months is the measure of the passage of time between when the Super Bowl was actually played, and this moment. But six months is just a mental construct, a useful tool for us to understand that time frame. It doesn't exist other than in our brains, and as a measurement, it's only useful relative to other measurements.
So how can god be outside that? We construct and measure the passage of time, and our measures of time – seconds, minutes, hours, days, years, etc – are based on the physical aspects of our particular solar system. The units of measurement elsewhere in the universe could and would be different. However time is measured, either god is somewhere in reference to it, or he's not. Of course, my position is that gods don't exist, so perhaps theists and atheists are in agreement here. If god is nowhere (in a temporal sense) in relation to everything else, he's simply nowhere, i.e. he doesn't exist.
I can't get my head around the theist concept of someone or something being outside time. Does god flit around from the past to the future and back to the present? How does he do that when the past is over and the future hasn't happened yet? If he can, then in some sense, the past is not really past, because at least he can go there now, in the present. Same with the future. It destroys the definition of those terms to say he's outside time, because "past", "present" and "future" are again, mental constructs and concepts of time, something humans created to understand the passage of time.
Am I confusing you? I'm not done yet.
Space. The final frontier. What is space? Here are two definitions, from among many, that fit the discussion:
- The infinite extension of the three-dimensional region in which all matter exists.
- The expanse in which the solar system, stars, and galaxies exist; the universe.
To some extent, and for my purposes, they really define the same thing. The entire area where all matter exists is the same thing as the universe. Essentially, where everything is. Let's use that as our definition of space. Now, if god is outside of where everything is, again, to some extent, theists and atheists are in agreement. If he isn't where everything is, then, for all intents and purposes, he isn't anywhere, i.e. he doesn't exist. Space is not, by my definition, like a closed room, with god outside the room, knocking on the door so he can come in. Space is everything. If he's outside of space, then there is an area out there that can be defined, and if it can be defined, it's part of everything. If it's part of everything, then god's not outside, he's inside. He can't logically be outside everything and exist at the same time, which takes us to concept number 3.
Logic. This is another one I can't get my head around, because logic is what my head does. It's hard to be illogical about logic, but this argument does a good job of it. Logic is the mental process of reasoning, by abstraction and analysis, the form of propositions, such as "does god exist". It is a rigorous, well defined body of rules and processes we use to test the truth of propositions. It's how we arrive at conclusions relative to those propositions, and it is a process that we use because it works. It's part and parcel of the scientific method, which would not be such a good tool for discovering truth unless it embodied logic.
To say that god is outside logic is to say that he is illogical , i.e. not logical. Of course, an atheist's primary response when confronted with the god question is to show that the concept of god is illogical, so again, it would seem that theists and atheists agree. If god created logic (to the extent that something like a mental process can be "created") and logic is used to derive truth, why would god be outside that same process, when it comes to proving the truth about the existence of god? Wouldn't he have created logic so that it clearly and simply leads us to him, rather than away from him?
The entire argument that god is outside of human reality is just another admission, albeit unacknowledged by theists, that god doesn't really exist, and the only way they can justify the sheer lack of evidence for him is to claim that he is outside of everything we know. It's something that can't be tested or proven, but it does allow them to hang on to that gossamer thread of possibility without ever having to let go.
Knock, knock
Who's there?
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A confidential internal inquiry into the office of the Aged Care Minister Ken Wyatt was leaked to the media during the recent election campaign. The journalist described the leaker as a "whistle blower."
Whistle blowers are honourable people who are motivated by altruistic intentions. Anonymous disgruntled staff members who are dissatisfied with the outcome of an internal grievance process are not whistle blowers.
I have never worked in Minister Wyatt's office so I do not have inside knowledge. However, this leak had all the markings of a political attack.


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Charlotte and Mark, Hayne Devon 29th April 2017.
Welcome to the blog of Devon Wedding Photographers
On saturday the 29th April we made our way to Spreyton – a village close to Whiddon Down, Devon. This was to photograph the wedding of Charlottte and Mark who got married in the church situated in the middle of the village with a beautiful tree lined walk way and surrounded by wonderful Devon views. Just outside the gate way to the church there is a beautiful large oak tree that actually marks the exact spot for the centre of Devon – (I quite liked this fact!)
I (Emily) started the day by photographing Charlotte and the rest of the bridle party get ready at Marks family home near Spreyton and Amy went off to photograph the boys who got ready at Hayne. Hayne was the wedding venue they had chosen and what a wonderful place it was. We had never been there before even though it is nice and local for us. We loved finding lots of great spots for photos that we knew Charlotte and Mark would appreciate and I couldn't be happier with the results now I have been through and sorted/edited them all.
Their ceremony was perfect and meaningful, having selected hymns that were different to the usual, my favourite being the one they ended on… We only took a couple posed and confetti photos at the church as it was a little chilly and the possibility of rain meant we needed to make sure we didn't take too long on getting to Haine for all of the group photos that they were wanting. However we were very lucky and it actually stayed dry all day even if it was a tad nippy!
They had their wedding breakfast at Hayne's rustic/modern barn that was lined by lights and hessian giving it a warm welcoming feel. The boys did their speeches superbly and all the guests enjoyed the stories they told.
In the late afternoon once everyone was fed and had maybe drank one too many they set about playing a football match this was northern vs southern (As Charlotte was from up North there was a lot of guests who were too!) This added some humour for everyone watching and a bit of fun for those playing.
The evening entertainment was led by a terrific band called… They were lovely guys who were also very talented too.
I write this blog as I'm waiting to start my new 'adventure'. This week brings me starting a new job doing marketing 2/3 days a week for a company in Exeter… Good to keep me on my toes!
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A few weeks back was the end of the volunteer time for the kids youth group, most groups don't go through the summer. My women's group goes all year round, so the kids group is very small and doesn't have all the volunteer's like it does during the other time of year.
I wanted to do something special for those men and women that come in each Wednesday and play and teach the kids (believe me it's not an easy thing handling 30+ kids). I had some Reese's Pieces that I had left over from a baking project. So I went on a search to find a thank you gift that had "piece's" in it to tie it in together. I found this FREE printable on Mrs. Lirette's Learning Detectives. Her free printable went perfect with the little bag of Reese'sPieces that I put together.
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Fill small bags with Reese's Pieces, I evenly separated out with the number of bags I was doing. She had it set up with four per page, with was perfect! I printed on cardstock and then took my paper trimmer to trim the four cards. I took a whole punch and punched two holes and ran some twine through to tie the bags. I didn't have any ribbon that would match so twine it was. You should have seen the faces of the volunteers, it was wonderful to brighten their day. This was such a simple gift but it had so much meaning and a big thanks to those wonderful people that put up with our kids on a Wednesday night when you know they are cranky and not wanting to hang out and do studies at 7p to 8p at night.
I hope you make this for someone special!
Brighten someone's day!
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Today it's time to head out to wine country. Luckily for us, Alba is not only home to amazing food, but also happens to be located in the Piedmont region, whose hilly area, the Langhe, is a major wine production province. Yesterday we dipped our toe in the water with Barolo, which left me slightly underwhelmed, and so I am pinning all of my hopes on today to be completely wowed by what Italy has to offer when it comes to wine. Continue reading "Black Beauty"
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Oxfordshire County Council has approved plans to borrow £120m to repair roads and other council assets.
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It is the 15th of the Month so it is time to show off the newest images being released over at Inky Impressions. We have a great selection of Images and Sentiments coming out this month so please be sure to check them all out.
Today I decided to use the image Summer Fun Owl.
I colored the image with my Copics. The paper is from MME-Sweater Weather Stack. Again I used my Veneers wood and the sky is just sponged on.
I will be entering this card into the following challenges too:
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India bag 13 medals at Junior Asian Wrestling Championships 2017
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New Delhi [India], June 19 (ANI): India won 13 medals, which included 2 Gold, 3 Silver and 8 Bronze medals, in the 2017 Junior Asian Championships which concluded on Sunday. The tournament kicked off in the Taichung city of China's Taiwan Province on June 15, and were wrapped up on June 18. A total of 24 Indian wrestlers participated in the four-day event. Boxing Federation of India (BFI) chief Brijbhushan Sharan Singh congratulated the wrestlers for their astounding performance in the event. The tournament brought together dozens of male and female freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestlers from various Asian countries and regions, including China, Chinese Taipei, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, South Korea and Uzbekistan. The medals winners for India are as follows: Gold medal: •51 Kg category (Women)---Pooja •60 Kg free-style category (Men)--- Sharvan Silver medal: •44 Kg category (Women)---Sonu •84 Kg free-style category (Men)---Deepak •120 Kg Greco-Roman category (Men)---Satish Bronze Medal: •59 Kg category (Women)---Manju •63 Kg category (Women)---Reshma Mane •72 Kg category (Women)---Pooja •50 Kg Greco-Roman category (Men)---Manish •74 Kg Greco-Roman category (Men)---Saajan •84 Kg Greco-Roman category (Men)---Sunil •66 Kg free-style category (Men)---Karan •120 Kg free-style category (Men)---Pushpendra (ANI)


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From her yellow 1920s Dutch style bob to the vintage clothing she almost always wears, Annamarie von Firley's sense of style is influenced by the past. An avid collector of vintage fashion, von Firley has made a business out of her love for period clothing. Today she's the owner and designer of reVamp, a retro fashion house in Los Angeles that manufacturers and distributes garments inspired by those designed during 1910-1957.
Since co-founding reVamp in 1998, von Firley, 43, currently oversees a ready to wear line of clothing that includes 200 looks for both men and women. Inspired by photos, fashion plates and illustrations from thousands of catalogues and more than 1000 items from her own personal collection of vintage garments, she has developed an extensive knowledge of period clothing.
"I'm constantly acquiring items that I not only appreciate but also study as reference materials and sources of inspiration for future products," she said.
Her clothes are sought out by costume designers for stage and screen and have been worn by the actors in numerous television shows such as Glee, CSI New York, Saturday Night Live and films like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Several of her pieces for actress Kerry Washington were featured in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained and she's provided garments for the HBO drama True Blood.
"While I was working on the petty coats in the origin story for vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), I sewed my finger into one of them and ended up bleeding on the True Blood costumes," she said.
She's definitely put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into the company and carved out a niche in the very competitive entertainment industry; her garments are also featured in various theater productions and many exhibits in our National Parks as well as the Smithsonian.
One of her more recent lines, The Prohibition Collection, features designs from the 1920s, including what she calls the John Barrymore shirt and high-waisted and narrow-legged pants for men and the coat smock and dirndl skirts for women.
"We work to be as historically accurate as possible and pay attention to the details that existed in the fashions of the period," she said. "To reflect the stylish silhouettes and details of bygone eras while making them accessible to a contemporary audience as well as accommodate for comfort and freedom of movement today," said von Firley.
Her passion for vintage fashion began long before it became cool. While her peers at Jefferson City High School (JCHS) were shopping at the Capital Mall, only a few blocks from her parent's home, von Firley often scoured through the racks at the Salvation Army.
"I remember finding these amazing ball gowns from the 50s that were in great condition and I wore them to school," said von Firley. "At that time, although I wasn't aware of it in a conscious way, I liked the fashions, music and literature from other time periods."
Looking back now, she can see a method to her madness, but in the late 70s and early 80s, she was just considered different, perhaps a bit odd by some of her fellow students.
"Annamarie didn't dress like everyone else and didn't really follow any trend or pack but made her own way," said Larinda McRaven, a professional ballroom dancer who first met her in 7th grade art class.
"She was probably into new wave or punk and she also never tanned and that was unheard of in the mid 80s," she said. "Being beautiful, smart, artistic and self-assured is a pretty hefty package for anyone, let alone a young girl in a small Midwest town."
Born in Pennsylvania, von Firley's family moved to Jefferson City from Denver when she was 4 years old. Her father, Art, had immigrated to the U.S. from Germany after WWII, and dropped the "von" to disassociate himself from his heritage.
"My parents thought it would be a good place to raise a family," von Firley said.
Her father created Casualty Indemnity Exchange, the family business. On Friday nights, her father and mother, Joan, were part of a dinner club and played cards.
"She would take her allowance money to Jo-Ann's Fabrics to buy remnants and come home and make clothes using safety pins," said her mother, Joan Firley. "I also remember her telling me 'don't buy anything that matches.'"
"She was into dance, creative writing and took piano lessons and I wasn't sure what she would end up doing but I knew she would be successful," she said.
As part of the insurance business, the family traveled to Hawaii and other places to meet with insurance agents and were exposed to different people and cultures.
"My dad hadn't been to Germany since the war ended and after being diagnosed with cancer, he wanted to tie up loose ends and go back and visit his family," she said. "So we also made regular trips to Europe."
Carrie Tergin, owner of Carrie's Hallmark on High Street and former Jefferson City council member, and von Firley are long time friends. Both attended West Elementary School, then Simonsen as a freshman before JCHS.
"They moved down the street from us and that's how I met her," said Tergin. "As we grew up she was so worldly and traveled to Europe and was into music that was popular over there and that we hadn't heard here."
Tergin remembers going to von Firley's house and being around her older brother Doug, a member of the band Gravity Kills, whose music would later be featured on MTV and the soundtracks for the movies Escape from LA and Seven.
"Going to her house was really fun," Tergin recalls. "Her mom was glamorous, dressed to the nines and Art was was like a second dad really, such a loving man and a philanthropist."
After graduating in 1989, von Firley and Tergin's lives went in different directions. Von Firley to Amherst, Mass., to attend Hampshire College.
"It was a very non-conformist school and there were no grades, fraternities or sororities and students created their own majors," she said. "Everyone was self-directed and I was with a bunch of like-minded folks who were doing their own thing."
Her father passed away in 1991 and von Firley received her BA in Wooden Toy Design and Construction in 1993 and then moved to San Francisco and received her BFA in Furniture Design from California College of the Arts there in 1996.
During this time, she also took up swing dancing, during a revival of the swing movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Always involved in dance from an early age, she performed regularly with several San Francisco-based dance companies, such as the Russian Collection, Khadra and the Decobelles, a historical dance troop recreating the looks of the 1920s to the 1940s.
She and a friend, Autumn Adamme. who had her own business making custom corsets, went to a swing dancing events on the USS Jeremiah O'Brien and to Club DeLuxe, one of the hot swing clubs in San Francisco.
"We would complain about how badly everyone was dressed," she said. "The downside of wearing vintage clothing to dance is that it can be brittle and fall apart and doesn't hold up very well."
"We also talked about starting our company that would provide garments for swing dancers that looked great and allowed for the freedom of movement," von Firley said.
Initially, she resisted. "I needed an income and knew how hard a start-up business could be," she said.
For a while she had served as a product designer and COO at Grandiflorum Perfumes, but then between jobs, she agreed.
"She was going to take care of pattern and stitchers and I was supposed to handle marketing and running the business and doing the things that were in my wheel house," she said.
Eventually after a year, she bought out her partner and had to learn how to do everything.
"We were being eaten alive by overhead, because there really isn't an infrastructure for manufacturing in San Francisco," she said. "I would attend textile shows in downtown Los Angeles to buy fabric and saw signs everywhere offering three month free leases."
She signed one and moved her business to downtown Los Angeles in 2001, while she resided in the town of Glendale.
"I moved to Glendale in April of 2001, 80 years from when my father was born there," she said.
A moment of synchronicity, and a good sign, the company's first big break came on HBO's Big Love, which she worked on for all five seasons.
She had provided garments for Carnivale during season two and the costume designer for that show ended up working on Big Love.
"I was watching the show thinking why am I not involved with it and then I got the call," she said.
She made outfits for stars Chole Sevigny and Mary Kay Place, but also dresses for hundreds of extras for a scene on the compound.
"It was a huge order for 175 white dresses. That was the hardest work I've eve done and then when I watched the scene on the show it ended up being two seconds long," she said.
That's show business and she's well-versed in the highs and lows of the Hollywood roller coaster. Her family keeps her grounded. She met her husband and fellow swing dancer, David Butler, a CPA and partner at a business management firm, at the Art Deco Ballroom during a swing camp on Catalina Island. They now have a 5-year-old son Stuart.
They were married in 2004 in the chapel of Konopiste Castle outside of Prague, with a champagne reception in the Rose Garden.
"Most of my father's people live in Slovakia (the former Austria Hungarian Empire), but Prague is way more lovely than Bratislava. His sister, Elizabeth, was the prima ballerina of the National Theatre in Prague in the 30s and 40s. " she said.
Tergin attended their glamorous wedding and the dinner reception on the grounds at Prague Castle, the official residence and office of the Czech Republic.
"If anyone was going to get married in a castle it would be Annamarie. She made her own ruby red wedding dress and she and David took the floor and are amazing dancers," Tergin said.
Von Firley also has spent 15 years flying on the trapeze.
"I started flying trapeze because I had an acute fear of heights that I wanted to get over. I felt that I needed to hug the Monster," she said. "I'm glad that I did because it turns out that I'm really good at it."
In 2008 she was offered a contract to fly with a troupe with the Ringling Bros. Circus. She didn't accept, but she did fly trapeze in the reality show The Girls Next Door, which aired on E! (2005-2008) and featured Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner and his girlfriends who live at the Playboy mansion, including Bridget Marquardt. Von Firley also made several outfits for Marquardt, one of Hefner's girlfriends, who appeared on the show.
While developing and growing the operation, the company's web site,
www.revampvintage.com now has a huge presence. Her line of clothing can be seen on the company's website, which also serves as a resource for historic information and generates as many as 3 million hits a month. The company also offers a series of informational seminars and workshops on vintage hair and make-up.
Recent projects, include making costumes for a new production of "On the Town" in the newly renovated Lyric Theater, formerly Foxwoods Theater, which begins in October on Broadway in New York. She's also making costumes for an upcoming exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. There's also the possibility of working on the next Tarantino film.
"I love doing the television and movie work because I'm doing things to recreate a design in a time period I don't always cover," said von Firley. "But for the ready to wear line, there's so much amazing vintage designs that are being destroyed or dissolving, lost in the sands of time."
"There's really a finite supply of vintage clothing and I love helping to keep alive these beautiful designs of the past," she said.


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Lovely film that concentrates on Trinidad with Scarlet Ibis, Bats, Iguanas and Giant Leatherback Turtles.
Lovely film that concentrates on Trinidad with Scarlet Ibis, Bats, Iguanas and Giant Leatherback Turtles.
There follows a power-point of our holiday in July and August 2013.
Proudly independent since 1962 (formerly British). English is the language (often Pigeon English!)
Coconut plantation near Mayaro.
Look what you can make from them!
False religion abounds.
Fast ferry to Tobago. North coastal mountain range of Trinidad in background.
Rubbish-a common site.
Lovely waterfalls for bathing.
Mosquito net and aircon-two necessities!
Wonderful wildlife. Giant Leatherback Turtle and Scarlet Ibis.
Many beautiful plants.
Feathered species abound in this tropical, insect-laden paradise-here are some that are seen almost every day and a few rarer ones.
L to R. Hummingbird. Kiskidee (very vocal in the morning).??? Then Golden Oreole, Pelican, Black Vulture and Scarlet Ibis. Middle row left is a Savannah Hawk of which I saw three at once today-this one has caught a snake. I take no credit for any of these pictures!
Trinidad has one of only three pitch lakes in the world.It covers an area of 100 acres and has dropped in height over the last 150 years. The pitch is approximately 30% water, 20% sulphur, 40% oil sand. Some parts are hard and have a skin others softened and sticky in the sun.
The pitch is scooped up by bulldozers and put into trucks-pulled up an elevated railway (see pictures)
to enter big boiling vats where at 350F the water and sulphur are extracted to give the pure asphalt used in road building, camera cases etc. A barrel is worth 500$ US.
The lake was created thousands of years ago by the process of subduction, when the Caribbean continental plate was forced under another plate. This opened fault lines that allowed oil from deep underground deposits to rise to the surface, where it collected in a volcanic crater. The air caused lighter elements of the oil to evaporate, leaving behind the heavy asphalt, a mix of oil, clay and water.
Sir Walter Raleigh came across it in 1595 and saw it's contents would help seal his ships hulls.
Mining of the lake started in 1867, and an estimated 10 million tons of asphalt has been extracted since. Lake Asphalt of Trinidad & Tobago Ltd. (trinidadlakeasphalt.com) is a state-owned enterprise which mines, processes and exports asphalt around the globe, where it is used for paving roads, runways and race tracks. The company is vital to the local economy, as the major source of employment. The lake is estimated to contain reserves of around 6 million tons, which would last 400 years at the current rate of extraction.
Pitch is a name for any of a number of viscoelastic, solid polymers.
This means that even though it seems to be solid at room temperature and can be shattered with a hard impact, it is actually fluid and will flow over time, but extremely slowly.
Pitch can be made from petroleum products or plants. Petroleum-derived pitch is also called bitumen or asphalt.
Pitch was traditionally used to help caulk the seams of wooden sailing vessels (see shipbuilding). Pitch was also used to waterproofwooden containers, and is sometimes still used in the making of torches. Petroleum-derived pitch is black in colour, hence the adjectival phrase, "pitch-black". Noah used pitch to waterproof the ark
Scores of brilliant scarlet Ibis flying in and roosting on an island of green tree foliage in the middle of a huge brackish lake was the undoubted highlight of a two hour boat trip into the Caroni Swamp in west Trinidad. It is noticeable that God has especially made so many red flowers and this particular bird in this part of the world to show the exquisite beauty of contrasting colours. The colour of these birds is due to their unique incorporation into their plumage of the red chemical pigment that they absorb from the tree climbing crabs that form a major part of their diet. (It is B carotene also found in carrots!).
En route to the Ibis island we saw three coiled up Casacabel (boa) snakes resting in the trees above us. The forests that make up the rest of the swamp are mangroves with massive arching roots lining all the waterways.
Among the birds we also saw the ubiquitous white egrets, some blue heron, tri-coloured heron, sand pipers, a potoo (nightjar) and a large white hawk.
A great time-thank you Lord!
It was overcast, a good day for the beach. We bathed and body-boarded in the surf. There were horses and their keepers in the waves too. The rain came on heavily and the sea was turned into what looked like a giant sundew plant as the drops bounced back up. The rain was cool and the seawater warm. The streets and drains turned to torrents. I was singing walking back from the beach as the thunder rolled. There was not a mosquito in sight trying to bite. It was wonderful!
Rain in tropical lands is so different. You don't mind getting wet, in fact it's a pleasure!
' For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.'
Isaiah 55:10,11.
Lord send a torrential rain of your word on the earth!
Fri 26th July
There are many lovely beaches on the north coast. (see pics) Boat trip to Paria River in heaving blue sea navigating between giant rock formations.(see photo) River comes out from a lagoon behind a sandbar like so many on the island. A walk though the bush brought us to the impressive Paria Falls where we bathed, dived , jumped in and fed the greedy fish.(see photo) Stargazing and discussion followed by games evening.
Aug. 1st.
Enjoyable visit to Point-a-Pierre wildfowl trust-wetlands with various ducks eg Black Muscovy, a Jacana and some huge fish called Pacos. Also saw an Osprey hunting on way home. Joseph and Marie now look positively black. I now realise why so few white men make their home in the tropics!
Weds 31st July .
Some of the adversities of tropical living…
Another dawn dog chorus which continues all day!
The heat at night is almost unbareable, fans really don't help much! Air conditioning is the only remedy! Bitten badly as well by sandflies as I try and sleep.
Mcdonalds may be here but I miss fresh milk! In T&T Nestle reconstituted milk reigns.
New realization of the need to love others regardless of their weaknesses and characters, just as we have been and are loved and accepted by our longsuffering God. Rom.5:8.
'If thou Lord should mark iniquities, O Lord who should stand?' ' Your sins and iniquities will I remember no more .'(for condemnation)…..yet 'every man shall give account' in judgment (hence they must be recorded in the books)
Day at Macqueripe on the north coast from where we could see Venezuela. Some did ziplining and most bathed.


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