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Friday, April 30, 2010

More, More, More: Arbor Day Square by Kathryn Galbraith

Arbor Day Square

In honor of Arbor Day today, check out the beautiful book by Kathryn Galbraith, illustrated by Cyd Moore. Poetic language and gentle watercolors are paired together for this book which celebrates trees and the act of planting them.

When Katie settles into her new town on the prairie, all seems to be established, just like back East, but there are no trees.

"There are no trees on the prairie.
No trees for climbing.
Or for shade.
No trees for fruit or warm winter fires.
No trees for birds. Or for beauty."

The townspeople agree to purchase trees, and when the saplings arrive, it takes faith to believe the trees will grow and offer shade in the Square. But they do, even the dogwood in memory of Katie's mother.

Cyd's illustrations set the scene for this picture book of the past. Gentle colors reflect the bright sunshine of the prairie, while spot illustrations accompanying the 1/2 to 2/3 page spreads draw the reader into details which flesh out chosen moments.

Kathryn's text is the spare language of a poet. She closes the work with a conclusion of Arbor Day:

Year after year.

And the year after that."

Find this book and then plant a tree with your totz!

Arbor Day Square
by Kathryn Galbraith
illustrated by Cyd Moore
Peachtree Publishers, April 1, 2010

Poetry Friday: Me Love Poetry, Cookie Monster

How perfect! Happy Poetry Friday!

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Babies Trailer

Oooooh! I can't wait to see this! Take a peek. It's going to be amazing.

See the official trailer here.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Let's Save the Animals: Frances Barry
Let's Save the Animals is skillfully designed so that large lettering tells a story about saving the animals, while brief, in-depth information, which is more appropriate for children slightly older than totz, is included in small type. This makes it easy for you to choose whether the smaller-type content is appropriate to share with your totz. Candlewick states the age as 4-7.

The illustrations are cut-paper images of each animal and simple collage landscapes with cut-outs and reveals. The forms are large and the animals are depicted in a somewhat realistic style that's not cutesy, but has graphic appeal. Unusual partial pages have been bound between full pages. For instance, an elephant's head turns as a half page between spreads that show the entire elephant; a rhino's grassland environment turns as another partial page to work with two rhino spreads.

It begins:

(In large type:)

I wish we could save
all the endangered animals in the world!

I'd save the African elephant,
stomping across the plains
and showering in the lake.

(In smaller type that a parent may or may not choose to share with totz:)
Humans are taking over the land where elephants live. Sometimes elephants are killed for their ivory tusks.

On the inside back cover, there are simple suggestions that empower young children:

I can help protect and save the animals
with these simple actions:

(In big type:)
Let animals sleep, feed,
and play on their own.

(In smaller type)
Disturbing animals in their natural habitats
can do more harm than good.

This is a beautiful book with a poignant, simple, deftly-delivered message.

Let's Save the Animals
A Flip the Flap Book
Ages 4-7

Frances Barry
Candlewick Press

Friday, April 23, 2010

Poetry Friday: Bow, Wow, Wow

Bow, Wow, Wow

Bow, wow, wow,
Whose dog art thou?
Little Tom Tinker's dog,
Bow, wow, wow.

Actually this is a puppy I babysat. :~) Happy Poetry Friday, totz!

Thursday, April 22, 2010

April Pick for the Older Sibling: The Solar Car Book

The Solar Car Book
A Complete Build-It-Yourself Kit
Just Add Sun!

This is so incredibly cool. Not only does it contain glossy, sturdy punch-out car parts, a real motor, axles, wheels, and all the parts to build a working model solar car, it also:
1. gives full, understandable instructions on how to assemble this solar car;
2. tells how to get your car to go in circles;
3. tells how to get your car to work indoors;
4. has pages of info about solar power, how cars work, and more science stuff, all written in a brisk, humorous style that appeals;
5. and includes a challenge issued by Klutz to try and beat the records Klutz set in various dashes and marathons when they tested their car.

Below is the back cover, showing the finished car. A friend who's very intrigued by solar cars, built the car and he noted that it must be placed in direct sunlight to work. He had fun putting it together and is now entertaining his family by running it around the driveway and sidewalks.

Once you remove the plastic encased parts on the cover, the spiral-bound book itself remains intact and usable. Well thought out. Kudos to Klutz!

The Solar Car Book
by the editors of Klutz, ages 8 and up

Monday, April 19, 2010

Zoo and Toys by Salina Yoon

Zoo (Little Scholastic)

Salina Yoon could very well be the master of the novelty book. Check out these two she created for Little Scholastic. I, myself, was excited to discover the surprises!

Picture four spreads that introduce colors. Each has an integrated, removable piece with a color and word of a color printed on it. Those in Toys are foil. In Zoo, the colors have a plush texture to match the plush lion on the cover.

After red, yellow, blue, and green are introduced in Toys, the final spread shows all the colors at once, colorful blocks. Orange, gray, brown, and black in Zoo, end with a colorful peacock. Now, take the colored pieces you removed, flip them over and construct a puzzle that duplicates the last spread. So smart!

One to two year old totz, will enjoy Salina's flat shapes that pop with intense color. Two to three year olds can solve the puzzles. These books will be engaging for years. Check them out!

Zoo and Toys
by Salina Yoon
Little Scholastic, 2010

Friday, April 16, 2010

Poetry Friday: Bell Horses

Happy Poetry Friday! I took this photo recently, then found this Mother Goose rhyme, then discovered those cute little horse socks are called Bell Boots. What do you know? :~)

Bell horses, bell horses,
What time of day?
One o'clock, two o'clock,
Time to away.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Dot and Dash Meet Their Friends: Emma Dodd

At 9 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches, this is bigger than your average board book. It has sturdy pages, bright colors, and flaps of varying sizes and shapes to find and lift. Dot is a spotted dog and Dash is a striped cat. The other characters in this particular book in the Dot and Dash series, are cleverly named Big (an elephant), Small (a mouse), and Tall (a giraffe). It begins:

Dot and Dash are ready to play.
"Small!" they call. "Are you ready to play?"

They open a small flap, but no one's home.
On the next spread, they open a 'tall' flap and are greeted by a giraffe.

I like the fact that this book teaches size-relation concepts within a simple story. Totz will be willingly pulled through this simple mystery story, which is perfect for this age. Where, oh where, is Small?

The Dot and Dash page at Scholastic's UK site offers printable coloring pages and a list of Dot and Dash books. Watch for the release of Dot and Dash in the US in May!

Dot and Dash Meet Their Friends, May, 2010
Author-illustrator: Emma Dodd

Friday, April 9, 2010

Poetry Friday: Come Out to Play

I only knew pieces of this. How about you? Have fun learning it with your totz on this Poetry Friday!

Come Out to Play

Girls and boys, come out to play,
The moon is shining as bright as day.

Leave your supper, and leave your sleep,
And come with your playfellows into the street.

Come with a whoop, come with a call,
Come with a good will or not at all.

Up the ladder and down the wall,
A halfpenny roll will serve us all.

You find milk, and I'll find flour,
And we'll have pudding in half an hour.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Photototz: Barbara Jean Hicks

How sweet to see Barbara Jean Hicks as a tot reading on her mother's lap! Lovely.

Be sure to check out Monsters Don't Eat Broccoli. Doesn't the cover just make you have to see what's inside?

Thanks for playing, Barbara!

Any other authors or illustrators interested in sharing a totz photo and your latest release, zip them to me at readertotzatclearwiredotnet

Monday, April 5, 2010

A Good Day by Kevin Henkes

A Good Day by Kevin Henkes is a delightful addition to the board book market. How refreshing to read a tale for the youngest reader that has a multilevel plot. Whether it is a bad day for a yellow bird, a white dog, an orange fox, or a brown squirrel, there is a solution around the corner to uplift everyone's spirits. I especially liked the bird who merely forgot his problem and chose to fly higher than ever. And then the bird's mishap is what touches a little girl causing her to announce, "Mama! What a good day!"

Kevin's thick-lined, realistic watercolors occupy the right side of the spread during the bad day litany. A striped page signals the story's turn and then all the illustrations sit on the left side, until the last page turn when text and image share a space together.

Subtle imagery placement, teamed with the tightest word structure, yields a beautiful board board. First released as a picture book, The New York Times Book Review called A Good Day, "a masterpiece, an almost perfect picture book." And maybe they were right, because maybe A Good Day is a perfect board book.

A Good Day
by Kevin Henkes
Greenwillow Books, 2010

Sunday, April 4, 2010

For the Older Sibling: Giveaway and interview with the editor and creative team at Aladdin paperbacks

The first two books in the Goddess Girls series, co-authored by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams are now in stores!

Athena the Brain (April 4, 2010)

Persephone the Phony (April 4, 2010)

Aphrodite the Beauty (August 3, 2010)

Artemis the Brave (December 7, 2010)

Aladdin paperbacks

Ages 8-12

It took more than two authors to create these books. It took a team. Authors Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams interviewed three of the wonderful people who contributed their time and talents to Goddess Girls: Editor: Emily Lawrence, Book Designer: Karen Paprocki, and Cover Artist: Glen Hanson.

Joan & Suzanne: Emily, what made you want to acquire the Goddess Girls series? Was it a gut feeling or something about the market or something else?

Emily: I’ll admit it – I’m a nerd. I took 7 (extremely useful) years of Latin! The idea of a fun, modernized setting -- but still mythically correct -- series about the Greek pantheon really appealed to me. And, my imprint, Aladdin, focuses on kid-friendly, commercial fiction for young readers so Goddess Girls was the perfect fit in a both a business and personal sense. It doesn’t hurt that the Percy Jackson movie released in the same season as the Goddess Girls, and interest in classical mythology is on the rise… We’ll just call that a hunch since I signed the series over a year ago.

J&S: What do you give a cover artist to help her or him illustrate a book? A synopsis of the book; the manuscript; a description of a scene you’d like to see depicted?

Emily: Glen Hanson, our amazing cover artist, was given an early draft of the manuscript to work from. Turns out that Glen is a HUGE myth fan as well (kismet, anyone?) and we didn’t need to direct him at all. He is also super talented and creative, so he came up with the elements you see on the covers – you’ll notice that Athena even has owl earrings! And, there was a long conversation about what were the correct columns to use on the MOA to be historically accurate. I find the best artists bring a lot of themselves and their ideas to a project, therefore enriching it for the better.

J&S: Karin, we think Glen is the perfect cover artist for Goddess Girls. You designed the look of the series and picked Glen as the illustrator. How did you find and choose him?

Karin: I stumbled upon his website one day and I was really impressed with the witty, sassy personality that came through the perfectly-executed characters. I bookmarked his site and came back to it when I received the first Goddess Girls manuscript. He seemed a perfect fit to create an appealing, slick, age-appropriate cover, and Emily and I were excited to see what he could do. Once I called him to discuss the project, I was pleased to find out that he was a huge mythology buff, as well as a genius with color. And he is truly a breath of fresh air to work with.

J&S: Glen, we were truly delighted with the cover illustrations for Goddess Girls. Your style fits the series to a “T”. You added so many fun details that are true to the actual myths, so we wonder if you have a personal interest in mythology or if you are just really good at researching these things?

Glen: Thank you. I’m so complimented that you both feel I did your book justice with my illustrations. Creating the covers was a complete joy because I’ve been obsessed with Greek Mythology since my early teens.

J&S: Can you briefly describe how you work from inspiration to sketch to final art? For instance, do you sketch on a digital pad or on paper?

Glen: I start by doing a rough pencil sketch on paper working out the basic design. I then refine the elements locking in the details, scan it in and send it to the art director and authors. Once they have approved the pencil rough, I trace it off onto good paper in pencil and hand ink the linework. That is scanned in and the image is colored in layers in photoshop.

J&S: Interesting! Thanks, Glen. Karin, is there anything else you can share with us about the process of designing this book?

Karin: Well, I have to say I really enjoyed reading through the manuscripts. I find the stories fun, light and full of appealing characters. The concept of the series is fresh and I have high hopes that girls everywhere with relate to the Goddess Girls (and appreciate their hunky crushes). I especially enjoy working on series’ for tween girls, and I was geared up to find some cute art/graphics, girl-centric fonts, and work with Glen’s gorgeous palette for this series. I think all the elements work very nicely together to marry the adorable cover image with the fun modern-meets-myth story.

J&S: How about you Emily? Anything else you’d like to tell us about your involvement in this series?

Emily: It was a new challenge for me to work with two authors (I’m sure Joan and Suzanne will talk more about this process at some point). While one author wrote one book, taking turns in the series, we needed to make sure their individual writing styles were consistent across the series, and that all the books related to each other. When editing, I kept an eye to make sure things were consistent in style, plot, and characterization/storytelling. Luckily, both Joan and Suzanne have a casual, conversational, and fun tone that shines through all four books. It helped that, while 1000s of miles apart, they worked closely together, reviewing and editing amongst themselves before it got to me – the open lines of communication between the 3 of us helped make this series shine in the end.

J&S: We appreciated how you kept us all on the same page :-). Glen, we have two more questions for you. First, we wondered what your studio is like.

Glen: My studio is set up with a large drafting table, lamp, drawing utensils, scanner, and a large computer monitor hooked up to my trusty laptop!

J&S: Anything else you’d like to share about your experience working on this series?

Glen: The Goddess Girls covers kind of dropped out of “Mount Olympus” for me because I have always loved Greek Mythology and have numerous books on the subject. Since I also work in animation quite a bit, my dream would be to be involved in a cartoon version of the series. I’m sending my prayers to Athena on that one!

J&S: From your lips to Zeus’s ears. I can absolutely see your illustrations in a tween graphic novel format, Glen. Our hopes go to Mount Olympus along with yours. Thank you again for your fabulous covers!

Goddess Girls giveaway! We're giving away 2 copies of Athena the Brain (#1) and 2 of Persephone the Phony (#2). Two winners (two books each) to be chosen randomly from those who drop a comment. Be sure to check back at this post on Friday to see if you won. (USA or Canada only.)

Three more days in the Goddess Girls five-day blog tour!

More giveaways, interviews, and blogs with some of our favorite book-bloggers:

April 4: Bookmuncher (Interview and book giveaway;

April 5: Readertotz, Suzanne’s Place, Joan Holub Author of Books for Children Expanded interview with the Goddess Girl team at Aladdin: editor Emily Lawrence, book designer Karin Paprocki, and cover artist Glen Hanson. Have you ever wondered why an editor decides to acquire a series? Here’s one editor’s take.)

April 6: Cynsations (Guest blog and book giveaway; Learn how we came to write the series, challenges we faced and how we solved them.)

April 7: Little Willow (Interview and book giveaway; We reveal more about our collaboration and inspirations, and our favorite books of all time.)

April 8: Zoe’s Book Reviews (Q&A and book giveaway. Q&A with both of us authors, our editor, book designer, cover artist, and Zoe herself!)

We hope you’ll drop by to help us celebrate, join the fun, and maybe win a book along the way!

Friday, April 2, 2010

Poetry Friday: Birds of a Feather

Birds of a Feather

Birds of a feather flock together,
And so will pigs and swine;
Rats and mice will have their choice,
And so will I have mine.

Happy Poetry Friday, everyone!

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Photototz: Melissa Walker

Take a peek at Melissa Walker as a tot! Yes, that's she in her mother's arms. Today Melissa looks so much like her beautiful mother I had to look twice when she sent me this image.

Here's Melissa's latest release, such a fun read, I know you'll love it.

Anyone else want to play? Authors or illustrators? Send me your cover and pic to readertotzatclearwiredotnet Thanks, Melissa!


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Thursday, May 27, 2010

10 days

10 days of pure selfishness. i get to do what i want when i want. i can drink coffee past 6 o'clock in the evening. i can go see a movie on a tuesday night. i get to watch my morning shows. why? because it's VACATION! and right now, at 10 o'clock at night i just started watching Nine because i don't have to get up in the morning. :) here are some pics that i'd like to share of happiness. enjoy!

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Friday, 25 June 2010

Lord of the Rings minis from White Dwarf 70 (October 1985)

 ME-44  Uruk-Hai - Orc Guards

A little leg-repositioning, a little weapon removing, sticking a spear on the helm, a gurning goblin face shield and ta-da, gone are the Tolkienesque eye and sensible armour, and in it's place the mad raving Hieronymus Bosch-esque vision of none other than Citadel art supremo John Blanche.

In many ways this (is/was) a quintessential 80s Citadel miniature, cool "come get some" pose, huge shoulder-pads with spikes, boots with turn downs. Also I'm guessing the global population of orc miniatures outweighs the rest of fantasy-dom put together, so it's a popular choice. Later in the series we get to see this miniature converted by another classic Citadel staffer. There's something about making the miniature 'your own' and also Citadel saying 'it's not just for Tolkien fans' in showing off these conversions.

Wednesday, 23 June 2010

Eye of the Dragon vs. Hobgoblin Ale

 Success at last! After years of scouring local charity shops, I finally picked up a Fighting Fantasy book - Ian Livingstones Eye of the Dragon - for the bargain price of 30p! It's the first non-Puffin published FF book I've bought. To celebrate I purchased a bottle of Hobgoblin Ale from Wychwood breweries. I like beer, and I like Fighting Fantasy. But which is best? There's only one way to find out... fiiiiiiiight!

So I open the bottle, pour out a glass admire the warm nutty citrusy notes and note the dark ruby colour. Time to  roll-up a character using the book-dice (similar to the technique used in Sorcery! of little dice printed at the bottom of the page)... Skill: 10, Stamina: 23. that's really good! Luck: 7, not so good.

Some random stranger called Henry (!) gives me a map and a deadly poison that will kill me in 14 days if I don't return with his treasure. The background  story name-checks a bunch of early Fighting-Fantasy locations, Firetop Mountain, Fang and Darkwood Forest. Setting out to the aforementioned Forest, I find a hut, search it, find an axe with a mysterious inscription on it and head down some gloomy stairs into the dungeon complex below. Swigging the ale I immediately notice the clean, dry, nutty flavour, and that I'm standing at a T-junction with absolutely no indication of which is the correct direction, the rats and wall slime aren't helping either.

Deciding to head left, barge into a locked door and enter a room with a mirror in it. Avoiding a mirror, I end up in a room with a wishing well, where I'm offered the opportunity of losing a Gold Piece to make a wish but not to nick all the gold. I sit down and drink some more Hobgoblin ale, noting the sharp citrusy bite whilst pondering this quandary: the instructions don't say how much gold I started out with, so I don't know if I have any to make a wish with. I decide to ignore the wishing well deciding that it's some kind of weird meta-gaming trap. A bit further on, I stumble into a Medusa and passing a Skill test manage to run off. Facing yet another oak door I end up accidentally releasing the Queen of Spades from what looks like a playing-card prison, and she gives me 5 gold pieces for my trouble, and I return to the door-laden corridor from whence I came.

After easily dispatching three Giant Rats in a kitchen, very nicely illustrated by Martin McKenna (see below), I find a healing potion in a cupboard. It's time for some more ale and a brief spell pondering a dungeon ecology that has Medusas in rooms almost directly after rooms with mirrors and why there's a kitchen. Whilst savouring the beers nice digestive biscuitty finish I leave the room and head down the corridor.

Perhaps it's the effect of half-empty bottle of 5.2% (vol) beer or the fact that yet again I'm faced with  a paragraph asking me if I want to open a door or not, but I'm getting a little irritated with the door corridor, door corridor pattern, it's like a 10 year olds first dungeon. Thank goodness that when I open the door there's a dual-weaponing Goblin to vent my anger upon. In a furious beer fuelled fighting frenzy I loose 2 Stamina, but gain 1 Skill from stealing some magic chain-mail from the goblins corpse. The celebratory quaffing of ale reveals the nutty flavour giving way to some very subtle bitter dark-chocolate notes.

Somehow I find I've staggered into in a marble room with gold footprints and a disembodied evil laugh. I didn't think I'd drunk that much! What on earth is going on? It's like I've ended up in a Dali painting. Cautiously I stand on the footprints and I'm  automagically transport myself to the woodsmans hut right at beginning of the adventure, with no items and -4 Strength and Stamina.

Cue much fist-waving and yelling "Curse you Livingstone!".  I spend the rest of the night drinking Wychwoods finest until I pass out, deciding that when I've sobered up I'll have to find Henry, get the antidote and tell him to go get the treasure himself. Final result: Beer:1 Fighting Fantasy:0

Monday, 21 June 2010

Lord of the Rings minis from White Dwarf 69 (September 1985)

ME 11: Gandalf the Wizard
Gandalf remains an archetypal wizard character and the miniature  has a life in both RPG and wargaming, so is a prime candidate for a Tabletop Heroes photoshoot. Here we have Gandalf the Sky-blue, painted by Stuart Parkinson with some wicked-cool drybrushing on his big bushy beard. It's a nice sculpt that captures a lot of Tolkiens descriptions - the bushy eyebrows, Glamdring at his side. The pose is reasonably neutral, he could be admonishing a fool of a Took, deciding which route to the nearest pub in the Shire, or about to fire lightning down on some Nazgûl, which makes it very useful for gaming.

Interestingly the Citadel sculptor has given Gandalf the pointy 80s shoulder-pads of magic, supported by the likes of the Emperor Ming and a whole range of Dark Elves and Chaos Sorcerers, and almost any wizard drawn by Tony Ackland. Slightly strange because pointy-shoulder-pads tend to signify evil, perhaps Gandalf has a dark-side we never quite uncovered.

Wednesday, 16 June 2010

Blog banner!

Finally got kicked into gear to 'design' (and I use the term in the loosest possible way here) a header image for the Realm of Zhu blog. Inspired by Dave Kings recent retro-restyling over at his 80's Citadel painting / collection blog Kings Minis where he's gone for a really nice interpretation of the 80s White Dwarf  'Eavy Metal (TM) logo.

I opted to totally rip take inspiration from the logo on John Blanche's box-art for Warhammer 1st Edition, not much to do in terms of witty alteration, except update that epic catch-all strap-line "The Mass Combat Fantasy Role Playing Game" to reflect the blog contents!

Saturday, 12 June 2010

Lord of the Rings minis from White Dwarf 68 (August 1985)

ME 13: Frodo the Hobbit

Just one photo from the Lord of the Rings minatures range this time. What's this then? Frodo on a pony. Never happened. Nice pony tho', obviously a Shire horse. Have we mentioned the 80's Citadel designers love of puns before? I think we have. Shire horse for a hobbit, get it? Oh how they must have gaffawed over their green stuff

But yeah, Frodo not once rode a pony. I suppose that's a problem with creating a formula, 3 figs 1 mounted, 1 standing, 1 mount, and then sticking to it, is that there are certain incongruities in the range. Damned useful for gaming tho' - especially as you can have a mounted and dismounted version of your general, commander, unit leader. or character. Unless you're playing a LoTR game of course, when you'll never ever need a Frodo on a pony.

The really nice brushwork (what is that - high wargaming standard? pro?) is by Lindsey le Doux Paton. The earthy tones of the halfling against the dark horse make a nice dramatic contrast. I'd be tempted to have done that horse "bay", and kept the colour scheme all neutrals. As black Shires are more expensive than bay ones, someone called "le Doux Paton" can obviously afford to show a little more panache with their horse, or perhaps this signifies something about Frodos accumulated inheritance from Bilbo.

Saturday, 5 June 2010

Lord of the Rings minis from White Dwarf 67 (July 1985)

ME 61: Sauron the Dark Lord

Sauron doesn't really appear in the Lord of the Rings, and we're certainly not given a description of him, so we get what is essentially a wraith on a giant ornately carved throne (there are naked figures entwined with entrails, like somehing out of Dante's Inferno), surmounted by the Eye of Sauron. As a diarama peice or dungeon furniture this is a very cool mini, but not really useful on the wargaming table. The back of the throne is a giant backbone with shoulder-blade bones, making it an impresive miniature 'in the round'. I quite like the uncredited paint-job here, the rust and blood colouring giving the whole thing a suitably hellish intestinal feel.

In this issue we were also treated to a small black and white collection of other miniatures from the Range photographed by Richard Harcourt (thanks Rich!). Top row: ME 34 Merry, ME 34 Bilbo, ME 34 Pippin, ME 82 Gollum, ME 34 Sam and ME 34 Frodo, with a ME-25 Ranger of Ithilien. The second row comprises ME 83 Tom Bombadil mounted on Fatty Lumpkin and Standing, ME75 Knight of Dol Amaroth (standing only), and a mounted/standing pair of ME 12 Aragorn: Strider the Ranger.


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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Daddy's Girl

It's no secret that I'm a Daddy's Girl. I mean, my mom and I have a fabulous relationship, but I am always Daddy's Girl. I love my mom to no end, but there is something different about the love a daughter has for her father, especially when she has as good a father as I do (though, being somewhat biased, I find it hard to imagine that anyone could have a better father than I do).

I applaud my mother for seeing the man my father would become in the boy he was. I thank her, to no end, for recognizing that he was the best husband for her and the best father for her future children.

It's also no secret that, to me, my father is a hero, nor that, for better or for worse, I am entirely his child.

In honor of Father's Day, some stellar things about my daddy:

Three Beautiful Things About My Father
1) He loves me without question and without judgment. He listens to me as I make my decisions and gives me advice when I ask for it. He lets me make my own mistakes and live my own life, stepping only when he sees me making the same mistakes he did, cautioning me about the possible negative outcomes.

2) He loves my mother wholeheartedly.

3) He is a good and honorable man. He taught me to give my all, to try my best and to always, always, act with honor and justice.

Three Beautiful Things About Being My Father's Daughter
1) I get to have his hair color, his eye color, a feminine version of his build, and his walk. This means my legs are strong, that I'm built for running and swimming, that I may be described as long and lean. My feet are not big. My knees are knobby and distinctive. My ankles are weak. I wouldn't change a single thing.

2) Being both an only child and a girl close to her father, I have learned a great deal about what to look for in my future husband. I would never date, or moreover marry, a man my father did not respect. I hope I have even a fraction of my father's judge of character.

3) I also inherited his style of thinking, which means that I am not alone in seeing the world with my own particular, peculiar perspective.

Three Beautiful Things About Being a Daddy's Girl
1) My father would do anything for me. Anything. Anytime. Any place. Thus far, this has involved picking me up from out-of-the way places, lifting heavy objects, having a house filled with a menagerie of pets and threatening to beat up one particularly obnoxious teacher in high school.

2) I know the proper way that a gentleman should treat a lady.

3) I know a heck of a lot more about cars and sports than a lot of women (yes, my love for baseball also comes from my mama, but what can I say, she chose well!).

Three More, Just for Good Measure
1) Watching Daddy walk through the hallway at work, proud, strong, confident in his ability, and seeing people toss admiring glances his way.

2) Knowing that I already know the song for the Father-Daughter Dance at my far-off wedding and knowing that it is the absolute perfect choice (and I'm not telling anyone until that day comes).

3) Knowing that he's saved me a hundred times or more from danger I didn't even know existed. No matter what, no matter what husband may enter my life, Daddy will be my hero.

The Three Best Pictures
1) In the NICU in the hospital where I was born. Me, as a newborn, several weeks early, looking like a tiny little eggplant in his large, solid, dependable hands. Him, young (younger than I am now), with no gray hair, no wrinkles whatsoever, wearing a yellow hospital cover-all and a look of complete and utter excitement on his face as he ponders the future of his brand new baby daughter.

2) The backyard in our first house. It's him, me and our beloved dog Fanny. He's kneeling on one leg, and I'm scooted in close to him with my elbow on his bent knee. Fanny's on his other side. He and I are grinning, and Fanny looks pleased as punch to be getting the attention.

3) My college graduation. Side by side. He's in his black leather jacket and a Cal hat (Go Bears!), and I'm still in my graduation regalia, blonder-than-usual hair (something I'll never do again). He looks proud. I look relieved. We both look a little bit scared about getting back in the caravan of vehicles and heading back home to deal with the mish-mash of crazy relatives.

Bre said...

I am such a daddy's girl too! I love this post to bits because it's so reminiscent of how I feel about my dad!

rubytuesdays said...

Those are all beautiful things!


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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

John Sands and houses of card

Most Australians will know the name John Sands, our longest-established publisher of greeting cards. They used also to publish many other things - books, maps, pamphlets, and especially board games - and last year I discovered that they had produced a cardboard dolls house in 1968.

First, I saw this ad in the Australian toy trade journal issue for June 1968:

The dolls house was just visible in a photo of the Sands display at the TAGMA (Toy and Games Manufacturers of Australia) exhibition in 1969:

Then this brochure popped up on ebay, 'Welcome to Gameland with John Sands':

On the back of the leaflet is the dolls house:

so now I had a colour image of it:

Then, late last year, I was delighted to spot the actual dolls house on Gumtree, and the seller was able to post it!

According to the lid, it originally came with furniture for four rooms - the lounge room, dining room, bedroom and kitchen. None of this has survived with this dolls house, unfortunately.

The base of the box is up-ended, and forms the garden and ground floor of the house, into which the walls and fences are slotted:

The house itself is also missing a few parts - the porch, the lamp over the door, the dormer window and chimney, and the little balconies under the side windows. Luckily the awnings are still there - they make the house look nice and cheerful!

Apart from the missing bits, and a smudge of paint on one side (which I haven't yet tried to remove), the house is in good condition.

Does anyone know what the furniture looked like? Hopefully one day I'll find a more complete set, or, if I know what it looks like, I might possibly find the furniture separately. I'd love to see the house furnished!

Amazingly, not long after finding this John Sands dolls house, I spotted another one on ebay! The second one is much older - I think probably from the 1930s.

This is called the Play Time Doll House. Some collectors, particularly those in America, will probably recognise it - I think that this was republished by John Sands from an original published (probably) by Warren Paper Products Co of Indiana. Built-Rite / Warren Paper Products was one of several companies making cardboard dolls houses in the 1930s, and they produced a range of models. I have one which I bought some years ago, from Wendy Stephen in the UK. It has exactly the same wording on it - "A Large, Rugged, Easy to Build House" - though I have just noticed that in fact it has no publisher's name on it at all!

The bottom of this John Sands box again forms the base of the house. Being much older, the sides of this box have collapsed a bit, so I placed the base on a couple of books to get the required height.

You will, of course, have noticed the very large Rogers sign on the roof! The Rogers logo also appears on all four sides of the box. It is printed on the box, but on the roof it's a label which has been pasted on:

In tiny letters, on the bottom left, is the name of the publisher: John Sands Ltd., Sydney. The house was obviously intended to promote Rogers paints, stating on the roof "Always use Rogers - the Mark of Quality - Paints and Varnishes - "If it's Rogers - it's Right!"

The floor of the house (base of the box) also has labels stuck on, proclaiming "For renewing Cars, Cycles, Woodwork or Furniture, use Rogers - the Mark of Quality - Ace Full Gloss Super Finish, Made in attractive deep shades & in soft pastel tints for inside use".
The interior of this house, though, is plain white!

I have found ads for Rogers paints with the same logo, dating from the late 1930s, like this one from the Northern Star newspaper (of Lismore, NSW), on 8 July 1939:

The house itself is a lovely old English style, popular in Australia at the time. There's an arched porch door under a steeply sloping roof:

All the windows have shutters and window boxes filled with gaily coloured flowers:

The windows have cardboard panes which can be punched out, but most are, amazingly, still in place. The tabs on the sides of each piece of wall or roof are more fragile - some are missing altogether, and others are splitting after many attempts to fit them through the triangular slots.

It's interesting that, though this house shows signs of having been much played with (the missing tabs, and the sticky tape holding the box and the sides of the house together), more of the window panes haven't been removed. I would think that it would make the interior more attractive and more realistic, to be able to see out ...

I wonder how it was furnished? This box doesn't say that the house came with furniture, but perhaps John Sands also made the cardboard furniture produced by Built-Rite / Warren Paper Products in the US in the 1930s.

While checking the digitised Australian newspapers for Rogers paints, and any sign of their promotional dolls houses, I came across this ad, published in regional newspapers in Victoria in July and August 1930:

The Electricity Commission of Victoria was offering at their showrooms, "free for the kiddies "Yallourn Cottage", which is a handsomely colored cardboard "doll's house" with doors and windows that open."
I wonder if John Sands also published this? I would love to know what Yallourn Cottage looked like - it was clearly named for Yallourn, the town built between the 1920s and 1950s to house employees of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, who operated the nearby Yallourn Power Station. When the coal mine next to the town expanded in the 1980s, the town was closed and removed!

Do you know of other Australian-made cardboard dolls houses and furnishings? Now that I have two houses, I'll certainly be keeping my eye out for more!

  1. Hello Rebecca,
    I am happy you were able to find these house after you collected all the information. They are beautiful and must have been so much fun for children to play with. I am glad they survived.
    Big hug,

    1. Hi Giac, Yes, I was very happy too! I think they are both very attractive, and children must have loved playing with them - I'm lucky to find some that survived. I still hope that I might find more - it does help knowing what to look for! Hugs, Rebecca

  2. Hi Rebecca. They are both great houses. I have one cardboard house that is in a tudor style but there doesn't appear to be anything on the box about where it was from or even the manufacturer. It is just called "Giant Dolls House" - just this minute saw 'Made in England' which was my assumption because of the style of the house.The bottom of the box is the inside of the house with printed carpets and a little bit of garden. http://www.dollshousespastandpresent.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=161941101

    1. Hi Sharee, Your cardboard house is lovely. It has similarities to the older of my two, and to the American ones I know - but whether that's just because they're from the same era, or because designs were shared, who knows. I will keep an eye out for your Giant Dolls House in newspaper ads and catalogues, etc - wouldn't it be great to know more about it!

  3. Love the colors of the 1968 house....and the fence enclosing the yard...and the different flooring inside! Hope you are able to discover more houses of card and they come to live with you.

    1. The colours of the 1968 house are so fresh and light, aren't they? The colours of the older house remind me of some of your 1930s Rich and Keystone houses!
      I hope more houses of card come to live with me - I have just learned about another one that was offered in the 1930s, free to readers of a magazine who collected 4 vouchers for it - now I will be keeping a keen eye out for that one too!!


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A Passing Thought On "Social" Networking..

So today we learn that the shares Facebook is selling today are valued at $18 Billion? That puts the company at what, around $100 Billion? I can't help, in passing, despair a little at this.

For a little perspective, some UNDP estimated costs:

Global cost of providing water = 9 Billion
Universal education = 6 Billion
Basic health & nutrition = 13 Billion
Maternal care = 12 Billion

When we look at what we value, and how highly; what we interact with day to day, sometimes the phrase "Social Network" seems like a dreadful irony.

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Friday, 4 May 2012

Red Button Design's CEO Addresses the MDG Summit.

This afternoon I was given the opportunity to address the Summit audience under Goal 7: "Environmental Sustainability"
(water, agriculture and energy).

My address was entitled "Water Solutions: Designing Against Dependency" as I used our Midomo water purifier as the case study to outline Red Button Design’s theory of change.

It is, however, equally applicable to any product or service geared towards affecting grassroots social change. It covers 15 basic points grouped into three stages (design, develop, deploy) which comprise best practise when generating base of the pyramid solutions.

The principles were extremely well received and provided the jumping off point for a great deal of theoretical and academic discussion. Of particular interest was the way we view possible alignments between commercially intelligent decisions and urgent social problems, with ethical business and social enterprises such as ours being front runners in the argument 'pro-profit'.

Midomo itself was met with its usual instant understanding and unanimous approval. We hope that the feedback from the audience this afternoon, towards both the product and the method of thinking that gave rise to it, is indicative of wider reaction. As we seek to roll (literally!) Midomo out to additional African countries and agencies, and release "Design Against Dependency" as an e-book for other BOP designers, this summer..

"Watch this space" - as they say!

MDG Summit, reflections on Day 1. (James)

The MDG Summit sees representatives from the private sector, governments, the UN and NGOs coming together to discuss how business can contribute to solving the challenges set out in the MDGs.

One of the key themes is the importance of partnerships; success, it is being argued, relies upon all implementing actors working together to achieve sustainable outcomes.

But with all this talk of donors, philanthropists, governments, businesses, charities and the UN all working together, one important stakeholder has been somewhat sidelined.

It is indicative, perhaps, of the distancing effect of working towards a set of global, all-encompassing development goals that throughout the first day of the conference very little mention has been made of the communities, families and individuals whose lives we are trying to improve.  One presentation in particular stood out in this regard, explaining a project which used the sale of carbon credits from reductions in emissions from boiling water to fund the provision of water filters to 900,000 households. Although innovative in its use of new funding models this project, as it was presented, seemed to totally avoid any kind of community engagement to understand the needs of those communities.  Although it could be argued that the provision of water filters to families in need is a no-brainer, I worry that without a deep understanding of the issues faced at a local level projects like this will not achieve the long-term outcomes they were designed to.

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Saturday, January 31, 2015

Go Dive Day!

My friend Travis Masutani wanted to go dive since weather was nice and he had a long work week.  We load up the kayaks and headed out a couple miles. We were so far out even charter fishing boats were tripping out on us two crazy divers.
This the scupper pro kayak which the best!  The water was clean and looked promising!  We chummed and flashed our lures and they came!
This Ono came in and Trav nailed it! His kayak took off, I jumped in my kayak and we chased it down.
It was huge and clocked in at 47 lbs. lots of sashimi for Super Bowl Sunday! Mahalos Travis for an awesome day of diving and the Super Bowl slabs.

Friday, January 30, 2015

"Best Buds"

So who's gonna win the Superbowl this Sunday?  As long as the commercials are good!  Check out this tear jerker from Budweiser.

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Go Fish Day!

Southwest winds with dropping swells today so plan was to catch fish for Super Bowl party.
James Oshiro aka mcguyver joined me for the action. Set out our Gaji lures and bam! Hanapaa!
Fish in the box!  We were ready to come in by noon.
Mission accomplished! Mixed bag.
Kawakawa is also called wavy back tuna and the curvy lines on top identifies them.

My nephew Maika striking the pose! That's how you do it!

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Dawn Patrol north shore

No time to cure. Gotta test this board on overhead waves at vland. Waves were coming up. Good to surf with eastsiders Wade, Rick, Timmy, and Marteen today.

Monday, January 26, 2015

Tokoro X3 Magic Board

Wade Tokoro called and said board is ready for pickup! He calls it the X3 model and can ride 6 inch to 6 foot waves. It's a 5'6" board with double concave. No time to cure so gonna test it out this week!

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Sunset, Shoot and Surf

Been seeing some super nice sunsets in town lately. Everyone wanting to see the green flash.
We did some filming with Merlinda for Hawaii skin diver tv also. Had to look south to find the right backdrop to match her jams world dress. They have such great outfits! Thank you Jams World!
Finished off the weekend exercising in town and grabbing a few waves.  More good waves up north and light winds in store for mid next week.

Saturday, January 24, 2015

Weekend Surf check

North big and ugly, south small and clean. Good day to work and get things done.

Friday, January 23, 2015

Hawaii Surf Trip

It's been a awesome winter so far with back to back swells all over. I gotta leave my quiver in my car to have more options. If you've been visiting Hawaii you've been scoring!
Today chose to ride my Kashiwai 7'2 with a far paddle and bigger waves.
Couldn't believe nobody was out but me. Thought I was on a surf trip on some remote island.

Thursday, January 22, 2015

West Wrap

Lots of wrap on this swell so got few fun waves in town. Save gas and score!

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Big Wednesday

The bay called the day!

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Epic V-land

The waves up north continue to pump! Today I was pleasantly surprised to see only 5 other guys out at v-land with perfect 3-5 ft surf. Not very often I get to park so close to the path to the beach. Great surfing with Wade, Ed, Hayato and Randy today.  Big waves on tap for next few days so bust out the guns and be safe!

Monday, January 19, 2015

Holiday surf

Woke up early today and winds were light southeast so made a b-line to backdoor.  Looked like about a dozen guys out so headed out to grab a few waves.
Fun 3-5 ft barrels but soon got crowded, then realized it was Martin Luther king holiday. Lots of groms and the line up is so tight when you paddle you end up grabbing other surfers leashes.
Drove home passing my side of the island and thankful for a new day.

Friday, January 16, 2015

Surf Slippahs

Hope everyone been getting some good surf with these light winds. Checked pipe and backdoor in the morning but winds were west so headed east again.
I took out a 6'0 Tokoro and my surf slippahs to maximize my surf time. I took the shortest line from shore to the break. Lots of sharp coral and sea urchin to get in at the entry so walked over it with my crocs and once I was safe tossed it over the waves hoping it would make it back to shore. Got some fun waves with my friends Wade, Rick, Marteen, and Randy out there and when I came in guess what? My slippahs were waiting for me on the shoreline.

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Fresh tuna catch

Today was another perfect day to be on the ocean so boarded Wendell Kos boat to look for more fresh fish.  Wendell is an awesome fisherman as well as diver.  He has the virus I do called "ahi fever".
We set out the lines and headed way out. The water was so flat and vog so bad it was hard to see birds.
We did manage to grab a few fish for our dinner tonight. Mix plate of shibi, akus and kawakawa.
Our last catch turned into this dried fish. The stores sell this for $29/lb.

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Perfect Day to Fish!

Today was a picture perfect day for fishing and diving. Sheet glass with no winds this morning. Swell came down but will be back up tomorrow late afternoon.
Set out our lines and special Gaji lures again and hanapaa! Double even triples at times. By noon we were ready to come in.  Here Al Ah Nee holding a pair of akus. Thanks Al for the Ono sandwiches again!
Made it back with lots of daylight to clean fish.
Our table was barely big enough.
Fresh sashimi for the rest of the week!

Friday, January 9, 2015

Eastside sunrise

Wow light winds are here and got to see a spectacular sunrise.
The cliffs of Makapuu as the new day begun.
Got to get my gills wet finally and exercise with my friends Travis Masutani and kris Tyler. Water was cold today as we paddled out a few miles. More Kona winds coming so gonna try get some fish.

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Weather forecasting

One of my responsibilities to finding the best spots to surf or dive is watching the weather. Learning how low and high pressures work and how it affects our weather is key. Low pressures have a counter clockwise rotation and the tighter the gradient the stronger the storm. Winter time we have a lot of low pressures that form by the Aleutians.
As the winds or waves approach monitoring the buoys for eta of conditions provide the approx time of arrival. Today we will have a big north swell but unfavorable winds per above charts. Not much action on south so good day to get your work done because next week looks good!

Saturday, January 3, 2015

3 E's to a happy life

It's been perfect conditions on the Eastside these past few weeks with fun surf. I've been driving up this coast for over 25 years and it never gets old. I paddled out early with one guy out and this guy tells me hi, come to find out it's my classmate from high school, Scott Salima. I'm still stoked to search for the best uncrowded waves as I was back in the day we used to surf 3x per day. I'm thankful for my health and happy to still enjoy the ocean. Eat healthy, exercise and enjoy life!

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Surf check 2015

8:00 am Eastside surf up! Let's go surf.

Happy New Year!

The real deal.
2015 is here!


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It didn’t make any of the local papers but Eureka businessman Don Davenport stood up at the July 21 meeting of the Eureka City Council and made an impassioned plea for more parking in Henderson Center.  Mr Davenport and I have had our differences in the past, but on this subject he’s absolutely right.  Last Monday I tried to meet a  friend who volunteers at the Cancer Society and drove around for fifteen minutes trying to find parking.  I finally resorted to the Rite-Aid lot, where I squeezed into a space that was already occupied by a scooter. Pathetic!

I asked everyone I could buttonhole what the problem was and no one knew. Here’s a wild guess: there’s not enough parking in Henderson Center!!  And with two new restaurants (Zöe and Diver Bar& Grill)  slated to open in the next few weeks, the situation in Henderson Center is only going to get worse.

It’s no better downtown. I routinely drive around Old Town looking for parking and go elsewhere when I can’t find it.  And I have a disabled placard! That means I’m not just looking for marked disabled parking, but ANY parking because I can use the placard in any marked space. I still end up driving elsewhere because there’s not enough parking.

What are our city officials doing about this problem? Making it worse!  Mr. Rob Holmlund, the city’s Community Development Director, has drawn a bead on the few available spaces and would like to see some of them set aside for “parklets”. Thank God the current proposal is only for four such spaces and we’ll all be curious to see if the property owners and merchants in Old Town really benefit from clearing space in front of their businesses. Considering the large population of homeless and poorly-housed folks within a block or two of the proposed “parklets”,  will it really be shoppers who fill the spaces?  We’ll see.

I believe Mr Holmlund’s well-intentioned proposal would be more suitable for Los Altos than for Eureka.

Ditto for his similarly well-intentioned desire to preserve the neighborhood markets of yesteryear. Yes, neighborhood markets are a great convenience but most of them are just getting by. I miss Songer’s and Cannam’s too but nostalgia won’t pay the bills.  I wish Handee Market and the others all the best,  and hope they survive but if they survive it won’t be because of city planning.  It will be because they’re filling a need. And they have nearby parking.


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Monday, April 1, 2013

10 Months of Macy

Let the countdown to having a one year old begin! The 10 month mark has kicked me in to full "1st birthday party planning mode" (which helps distract me from the sadness that my baby is growing up so fast)!

As always, Macy Jane has continued to amaze me this month with her ability to learn new things and continually grow in her skills. Her smile lights up any room she is in and we can't go anywhere with out people stopping us to tell us how beautiful our baby is. Swoon. As every mom feels, I truly feel so blessed and lucky we got such a sweet easy going blue eyed baby! Praise the Lord!

10 Month Stats:

March 24, 2013
Weight: Didn't weigh her, but I would guess about 21 lbs
Height: Long!
Loves to stand her shoes.
Diaper size: Officially moved up to size 4
Clothing size: 12-18 months for this long baby
Feeding/Sleeping: Sad to say, but the 2 2 hour naps a day are starting to dwindle in to 2 1ish hour naps a day. I am having a harder time adjusting to that than she is because I still feel like she NEEDS to be sleeping more. She is still sleeping like a champ at night and has pushed her wake up time to 8-8:30 (holla!) As far as feeding goes she has started to despise being fed baby food. She wants to feed herself and always wants whatever we are eating. That can be challenging when we are lazy and just order out so I have been doing my best at having fruits and vegetables and shredded chicken stocked in the house at all times for her. When we are out and about she will eat baby food out of a squeeze packet so that helps. Its so fun to watch her try new foods!
Happy girl feeding herself
Milestones: She has definitely mastered the "pincer grasp" and has TAKEN HER FIRST STEPS! She is cruising around on her feet while scaling furniture, but her main means of transportation is definitely crawling still.
Loves: To be on the GO! She is happiest when she can be on the move, exploring her surroundings. Little momma is a busy body. She also loves to take stuff out of whatever it is in. For example, she loves to empty her drawers or take everything out of the diaper bag. Another thing she loves, that she has always loved, is burying her face into anything that is soft, like a stuffed animal or soft blanked. It is probably the cutest thing ever.
Dislikes: To be held when there is crawling and exploring to accomplish. Still hates getting her faced wiped and she has made changing her diaper a REAL challenge lately!
Adventures: Welp, if you can call burning her arm an adventure, we experienced that this month. She went to the Children's museum for the first time, got her first pedicure (from mommy), celebrated St. Patrick's Day and got to meet the Easter bunny!
What we couldn't live with out: Working on weaning her paci, and leaving it for nap time and sleep time only. So far, she doesn't seemed phased by that. Phew! Still love her sounds machine, soft blankets, and hair bows of course!

First St Patricks Day

Playdate at the Children's Museum
Reach in, take it out, repeat.

LOVED LOVED the Easter bunny!

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Data marketplace and platform Infochimps launched a set of big new features this morning: a common geodata schema that aggregates information about places from multiple sources and offers it up in one API, an automated method of vis...

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The crowd at Where 2.0 was expecting an API announcement and Google delivered one. Lior Ron and Steve Lee announced their Maps Data API, a service for hosting geodata. As they describe it on the site: What is it? The Google Maps Dat...

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“I've carried out everything. All of it. You think it, I have accomplished it. The many things you never ever dared, the many things you aspiration about, every one of the things you had been interested by and then forgot simply because you realized you under no circumstances would. I did 'em, I did 'em yesterday while you have been even now in bed.

“It’s so less difficult now to Permit the universe get care of itself without thinking like I used to, which i experienced a little something to try and do with it.”

“I wish more persons would drop the stigma and take care of addiction given that the lethal and serious DISEASE that it's. Drugs usually are not some thing to glamorize in pop new music or film to portray as harmless recreational enjoyable.

In 2013, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated its labeling demands for zolpidem to recommend reduced First doses in order to avoid up coming-working day impairment and also to alert sufferers taking extended-launch formulations not to generate or undertake other hazardous functions the working day just after taking the medication.

American Psychiatric Affiliation's DSM-V identifies some of the symptoms of a sedative, hypnotic, or anxiolytic use disorder as:

Some we all examine while in the newspapers. It absolutely was, this sitting down close to with our buddies and bullshitting even though making tape recordings, the bad final decision of your ten years, the sixties, both equally in and out with the institution. And nature cracked down on us. We had been pressured to stop by points dreadful. If there was any "sin," it absolutely was that these men and women needed to keep on possessing a great time endlessly, and had been punished for that, but, as I say, I feel that, If that's so, the punishment was significantly as well terrific, and I choose to think about it only in the Greek or morally neutral way, as mere science, as deterministic impartial lead to-and-result. I loved all of them. Here's the list, to whom I dedicate my love:

• addiction – a brain disorder characterised by compulsive engagement in worthwhile stimuli Even with adverse repercussions

‘I began to seek to stop smoking four years in the past. Then it took awhile. You are unsuccessful and You begin yet again. Then such things as heart problems surface so you Stop.'”

Addiction quote: "It is by taking place in the abyss that we Get well the treasures of daily life. Where you stumble there lies your treasure."

Robert Downey Jr. has seemingly been “indulged” For many years on account of his Fantastic performing talent. His previous spouse Sarah Jessica Parker admits, “Quite early on, he explained to me he experienced a drug issue. Addiction didn’t seem like a thing that would impose Etiology itself on us. I was pretty Erroneous.

Treatment for an addiction usually calls for addressing the underlying issue triggering the drug use to begin with. Ambien rehab centers may possibly aid specific and group therapy, skills training, and more.

Johnny Depp has said he felt so intimidated by his Vaccine celebrity status for the duration of his early career, that he drank. “I’d check out capabilities and again in those times I pretty much needed to be drunk in order to communicate and have by way of it.

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Those praises ended up like drugs that eventually poison the brain, and gave you more inspiration to accomplish things to get more men and women talking about you. People today recognizing you as a person who isn’t scared, one who is ready to do what ever is necessary.

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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Supreme Court Denies Review Of California Donor Disclosure Law

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday denied certiorari in Center for Competitive Politics v. Harris, (Docket No. 15-152, cert. denied 11/9/2015). (Order List).  In the case, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld California's requirement that in order to solicit tax deductible contributions in the state, a charity or other non-profit must file a non-public annual report that includes an unredacted IRS Form 990 Schedule B, the names and contributions of significant donors. (See prior posting.) AP reports on the Supreme Court's action.


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Tuesday, April 4, 2017

GodSource is composed of infinite energy. Since this includes every possible pattern energy can be manifested as, every possible anti-pattern exists simultaneously, which causes an infinite cancellation process to cause nothingness to be the illusionary "stuff" of GOD. So, in order for a realm of experience, including one like our Universe, to become manifest, SOURCE segregates temporarily two self-cancelling energy patterns. This is why everything that has a beginning, has an end. Sooner or later those mutually canceling energy patterns merge back together. In essence, our Universe is like a huge virtual particle that pops into existence and then is absorbed back into the infinite energy field it manifested out of.

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Surgical Treatment of Male Infertility

Many factors contribute to male infertility, including age, nerve damage, and physical obstructions of the reproductive tract. In addition, low numbers or absence of sperm in the ejaculate may significantly impair the ability to conceive. Erectile dysfunction is the most common source of male infertility.

Luckily, male infertility is highly treatable. Electroejaculation (EEJ) is frequently successful in obtaining viable sperm by electrical stimulation of the prostate, even when no sperm is found in a semen analysis. During an EEJ procedure, two samples are collected. The antegrade contains the ejaculate. The retrograde is obtained from the bladder, where some sperm may have been lost during ejaculation.

If the male reproductive tract is blocked, other means may be necessary to retrieve viable sperm. Several procedures aspirate sperm from the epididymis, where sperm mature and sometimes accumulate. Percutaneous epididymal sperm aspiration (PESA) is minimally invasive and can be done under local anesthesia. Micro epididymal sperm aspiration (MESA) is slightly more involved. If sperm are not found in the epididymis by PESA or MESA, the testis may be explored by testicular sperm aspiration (TESA). Other options include collecting sperm during vasectomy reversal.

Cryopreservation of Surgically Obtained Sperm

Viable sperm obtained from any of these procedures are processed and cryopreserved by the laboratory for use in future IVF procedures. Specialized surgical procedures, such as those outlined above, are performed in collaboration with Dr. Samuel Thompson, urologist and male infertility specialist, of Urology of Indiana.

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Kristian Owens, LCSW-C, CTP-C, RPT

Hi, my name is Kristian Owens and I am a Clinical Social Worker with a passion for helping young people live a resilient life!

One of the things that I admire most about young people is their resilience (i.e. their ability to recover from difficulties). I’ve had the privilege to practice in various settings, including private, public, and alternative schools, inpatient facilities, community mental health agencies, and private practice. No matter the setting, I always stumbled upon the theme of resilience in my work with children, adolescents, and families. For me, this demonstrated that individuals possess the strengths to heal and grow from their life experiences.

In my practice, I aim to provide acceptance, genuineness, and warmth in my interactions with clients and their families. During sessions, I often use my extensive training in play therapy, expressive arts, and trauma-focused interventions to help individuals make sense of life’s challenges. As an expert in each of these therapeutic approaches, I’ve repeatedly noticed that once I accept a child for who they are as a person, they naturally process and organize their world through play and art. In order to optimize treatment success, I also value collaboration with caregivers and other professionals involved in a child’s life.

It is truly a privilege to be doing what I am most passionate about, which is helping young people realize their potential and pursue an abundant life. I consider it a valuable gift to be a witness and partner in a young person’s healing process, and I look forward to serving in this capacity with each interaction I have with a client and family.

  • Licensed Certified Social Worker – Clinical (LCSW-C), Maryland State Board of Social Work Examiners, 16719
  • Licensed Certified Social Work – Clinical Supervisor, Maryland State Board of Social Work Examiners
  • Certified Trauma Practitioner – Clinical (CTP-C), National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children
  • Certified Registered Play Therapist (RPT), Association for Play Therapy (APT)

  • University of Maryland College Park, Bachelor of Art (BA), Psychology and Criminal Justice/Criminology
  • University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Master of Social Work (MSW), Mental Health and Interpersonal Practice

Professional Affiliations

  • National Association of Social Work (NASW), Member
  • Association for Play Therapy (APT), Member
  • National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children, Member

Clinical Specialization and Interest

  • Play and Art-based Interventions
  • Anger Management
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Life Transitions (i.e. grief/loss, foster care/adoption, etc.)
  • Self-harming/Suicide Ideation
  • Trauma/Post-Traumatic Stress

If you’re ready to start working together, contact me for a free phone consultation to find out what services will help you and your family meet your goals!

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Saturday, April 11, 2015

Blue Lip Kiss challenge is raising awareness for pulmonary hypertension

Dear Respiratory Friends,
Respiratory Decade is supporting the Blue Lip Kiss challenge, initiated by Cordelia Skuldt!

Cordelia Skuldt has had pulmonary hypertension since she was 4. She is here to challenge you today to take the Blue Lip Kiss challenge to raise awareness and money for this horrible disease.
Here are the steps you can take:

1. Take a photo of yourself with blue lips, and post it on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Pintrest and Instagram) using the #PHaware and #bluelipkiss. Lipstick is not necessary (you can draw blue lips on your photo or just make them out of blue paper). This is the part when you can get creative.

2. Nominate and challenge others to take this challenge.

3. To learn more about pulmonary hypertension, or to donate money, go to

Please set your social networking post sharing to public so Cordelia can tally the numbers, and don't forget to add the #PHaware and #bluelipkiss hashtags!!

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