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William P. Brandon Qur'an collection

Call Number: MS0384
Overview The William P. Brandon Quran Collection consists of a large Qur'an (28 cm) probably dating from the 18th century, the white embroidered cloth satchel that originally housed it, and a small (13 cm) Qur'an.

Rupert Brooke papers

Call Number: MS0166
Overview Includes autograph post card (1913?) to photographer Sherril Schell, transcriptions and photocopies of letters and poems, nine portrait photographs by Schell, and letters from Brooke's executor, Edward Marsh, to Schell concerning the photographs.

Stanford R. Brookshire papers

Call Number: MS0041
Overview Chiefly official papers of Charlotte's first four-term mayor (1961-69). Comprised of subject files, correspondence, and speeches documenting almost a decade of change, particularly in regard to desegregation, and reflecting the increasing role of the federal government in addressing urban problems. Also includes material relating to national municipal organizations and to his family and personal life.

Ken Brotherton papers

 Collection — Box: SFC2 [F09.090.02.02], Folder: 152
Call Number: MS0152
Scope and Contents Primarily photocopies of articles published in the Mecklenburg Gazette, Mooresville Tribune, and Lake Norman Magazine about the history of North Mecklenburg and the Lake Norman area. Includes a nine-part article based on the Civil War letters of Joseph and Margaret Brawley Lipe of Iredell County. Also includes an essay, "Caldwell Family History," about descendants of the Lipe family.

Brown and Alexander (née Biberstein, Bowles, Meacham & Reed) records

Call Number: MS0148
Overview Records of a Charlotte, North Carolina architectural firm founded in 1905 by Richard C. Biberstein (1859-1931), who had come to Charlotte in 1887. The firm became Biberstein & Bowles, Inc. then Biberstein, Bowles & Meacham later Biberstein, Bowles, Meacham & Reed and eventually Brown and Alexandera. Contains job files and drawings for projects, primarily textile mills and villages in North Carolina and Virginia. Also includes similar material for residences, schools, churches,...

Anita Stewart Brown papers

Call Number: MS0507
Overview Personal papers, correspondence and memorabilia from Anita S. Brown. Includes materials from her nearly 30 years at Eastern Air Lines.

Josh Burford papers concerning the Charlotte LGBTQ+ Community

Call Number: MS0556
Overview Josh Burford is best known for his work to preserve and make accessible the Queer history of the American South through the development of archival collections and oral histories. The bulk of the collection relates to the establishment and collecting efforts of the King-Henry-Brockington LGBTQ+ Archive, as well as research into the history of Charlotte's LGBTQ community.

Warren L. Burgess papers

Call Number: MS0451
Overview The William Burgess papers comprise records related to Burgess's work for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission and as Town Planner for the town of Davidson, North Carolina. Materials include notebooks, sketchbooks, and a range of architectural drawings.

Mary Thomas Burke papers

Call Number: MS0572
Overview Papers of Sister Mary Thomas Burke, long-time faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and founder of its Counseling Program. Includes surveys, reports, speeches, writings, biographical information, and other material related to Sister Burke's work and community involvement.

Bobo Burnett papers

Call Number: MS0326
Overview Papers of a Spartanburg, South Carolina native relating primarily to his service in the 117th Engineer Regiment, 42nd Division, American Expeditionary Force during World War I. Includes originals and transcriptions of letters from Burnett to his family and his diary (1917-1919); letters to Burnett from French and English friends (1919, ca. 1940-1946); and material about camps Wadsworth and Croft, army posts near Spartanburg.

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Plumbers in Bedford

Find Plumbers in Bedford on the Bedford Today directory. Get reviews and contact details for each business including phone number, postcode, opening hours and photos.

Rene Plumbing & Heating Ltd

54 Waterloo Road, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK40 3PG

Family run since 2003, Rene Plumbing and Heating has developed into a complete maintenance service providing plumbing, gas and...

 Boiler installations, Boiler breakdowns and repairs, Boiler servicing , Landlord safety inspections, Toilets basins and showers, Bathroom installations, Leaks and blockages

Ability Engineers

5 Fairfax Road, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK40 4LS

Plumbing and heating company...

Aqua Heating & Plumbing Ltd

70 Putnoe Street, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK41 8HL

 Plumbers -> Boiler Cleaning, Servicing & Repair

L H S Ltd

67 St Johns Street, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42 0AA

37 Bushmead Avenue, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK40 3QW

Trevor Wille Plumbing & Heating

22 Everard Road, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK41 9LD

Mr Combi Ltd

27 Hatfield Crescent, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK41 9RA

East Area Gas

23 Costin Street, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK40 1RD

Plumb It Ltd

9 Westfield Road, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK40 4DQ

Rene Plumbing & Heating

54 Waterloo Road, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK40 3PG

Michael Facey Gas Services

20 Ormesby Way, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK40 4LZ

R W Bartram

139 Cardington Road, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42 0BZ

Impressions Plumbing & Heating Ltd

46 Cedar Road, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42 0HR

7a The Fairway, Bedford, MK41 9HD

Emergency Plumbing And Gas Services, Boiler Install, Service And Repair...

R C French Heating & Plumbing Engineers

42 Bradgate Road, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK40 3GB

Worthington Ellis Heating & Plumbing

43 Gainsborough Rise, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK41 7NS

Rene Plumbing And Heating

54 Waterloo Road, Bedford, MK40 3PG

Commercial Gas Solutions Ltd

Bedford Heights Manton Lane, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK41 7PH

Commercial gas solutions - a specialist company offering expertise in the connection, installation, decommisioning or isolation of...

LCA Plumbing & Heating

8 Selsey Way, Bedford, MK41 9EB

Mario's Heating Ltd

20 Eagle Gardens, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK41 7FE

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Chemists in South Shields

Find Chemists in South Shields on the Shields Gazette directory. Get reviews and contact details for each business including phone number, postcode, opening hours and photos.

Boots the Chemist

The Killingworth Centre, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear, NE12 6YT

Hylton Castle Pharmacy

22-23 Chiswick Square, Hylton Castle, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR5 3PZ

Sainsburys Pharmacy

Manor Walks Shopping Ctre, Cramlington, Northumberland, NE23 6RT

Lloyds Pharmacy

18 Albion Road, North Shields, Tyne And Wear, NE29 0HT

Lloyds Pharmacy is a chain of dispensing chemists that sell all the usual shampoos, cleansers, make up and pharmaceutical...

Quayside Pharmacy Ltd

Crawhall Road, Cowgate, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear, NE1 2BL

P K Khanna

41a St Georges Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE2 2SX

Campbell Park Road, Hebburn, Tyne And Wear, NE31 2SP

Demnox Ltd

140 Allendale Road, Sunderland, Tyne And Wear, SR3 3DZ

Norchem Ltd

2 Ethel Terrace, Castletown, Sunderland, Tyne And Wear, SR5 3BQ

Boots Stores Ltd

15-17 Percy Park Road, North Shields, Tyne and Wear, NE30 4LX

Backworth Pharmacy Ltd

2 Co-op Building, Church Road, Backworth, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear, NE27 0JE

Village Pharmacy

7 Station Terrace, East Boldon, Tyne And Wear, NE36 0LJ

Lloyds Pharmacy

Newstead Drive, Whitley Bay, Tyne And Wear, NE25 9EX

McCarthy's Pharmacy

Saville House, 1 Saville Place, Sunderland, Tyne And Wear, SR1 1PA


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Technology Impacting Parent-Child Relationships

. April 30, 2019.
Dr. Jenny Radesky, developmental behavioral pediatrician at the University of Michigan, studies family use of digital technology.
Dr. Jenny Radesky, developmental behavioral pediatrician at the University of Michigan, studies family use of digital technology.

Could parental stress and our constant “checking in” in our digital world, cause us to “check out” in our roles as parents? Could this technology interference be causing our children to act out?

A study in the journal Pediatric Research took a closer look at this issue, surveying technology use by 183 couples with children under the age of 5, and results show some correlation.

Dr. Jenny Radesky, a developmental behavioral pediatrician at the University of Michigan and a co-author of the study, saw the results as significant as they showed some association between a child’s externalizing behaviors (like tantrums and aggression) and technological interruptions that can get in the way of parent-child interactions throughout a typical day.

Digital interruptions

Parents involved in the study answered online questionnaires conducted between 2014 and 2016. In addition, the study considered one, three and six-month time points. As people were surveyed about how many times per day devices like a cellphone, television, computer, tablet, iPod and video game console interrupted a conversation or active engagement with their child. Parents reported that, on average, they experienced disruptions by at least two devices interrupting interactions, and that the interruptions occurred one or more times a day.
In addition, parents reported observations of internalized problems/solutions, like whining and sulking along with externalizing behaviors like temper tantrums and hyperactivity. Parents also reported on their own feelings of stress and depression.

Parent stress, child behavior and technology connection

Radesky and study author Brandon T. McDaniel, a professor at Illinois State University, concluded in their findings that “parents, stressed by their child’s difficult behavior, may then withdraw from parent-child interactions with technology and this higher technology use during parent-child interactions may influence the child’s externalizing and withdrawal behaviors over time.”

“It can be that the child is reacting to not getting attention and they amp up their behavior to be able to get more of a parent reaction,” Radesky said. “The other possibility is that they’re not getting as much reciprocal play time or conversation with their parents.”

Although a distinct cause and effect relationship cannot be determined from the findings, Radesky said, the results are compelling enough to warrant further study and to advise parents to be mindful of their own technology use.

Radesky, who has been researching digital use and its impact on families since about 2013, said it is hard to measure, especially with how fast mobile technology has become an integral part of daily family life. “We don’t have the data yet indentity what is too much technology use.” Also, she said, the threshold is different for different people and situations.

Intentional technology use

“I’m not telling parents to put their phones down altogether,” she said. “There are times when we need these devices,” adding that they can be used by parents in positive ways and for meaningful interactions with their children. She advises parents to be intentional in how they use their devices, avoiding the urge to respond to every notification that’s coming at them and interrupt their thought processes and the flow of activity with their kids.

As a parent of a 5 and 9-year-old, Radesky said she understands technology interference.

“What I strive for is being aware and telling my kids why I’m using my technology and being critical of the technology that’s sucking me in and also helping model that I can unplug and create a time and a place for technology too.”


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NYS DMV announces STOP-DWI Month in New York State

The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) today announced the start of STOP-DWI Month in New York State. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo recently issued a proclamation designating the month of November as STOP-DWI Month in New York. The New York State Special Traffic Options for Driving While Intoxicated (STOP-DWI) Program was established in November of 1981 to coordinate state and local efforts to reduce impaired-driving offenses and to prevent crashes across the state. Since the program was enacted, fatalities from alcohol-related crashes on New York’s roadways have decreased 74 percent.

“We have made tremendous progress in New York thanks to the STOP-DWI program, and we look forward to building on that success and continuing to save lives,” said Terri Egan, DMV Executive Deputy Commissioner and Acting Chair of the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee. “It is important this month, as so many families gather to celebrate the holidays, that we continue to spread the message that drunk driving is dangerous, and I thank Governor Cuomo for his support of this effort.” The NYS STOP-DWI Program is funded exclusively by fines collected from drunk and/or drugged driving convictions. It was the first program of its kind in the nation, and since it was enacted, has served as a model for similar programs across the country. The program empowers localities to enact creative and collaborative strategies utilizing education, awareness and enforcement to address drunk and drugged driving and prevent tragedies resulting from impaired-driving crashes. The program provides a platform for STOP-DWI Coordinators from each county and the City of New York to exchange ideas and collectively discuss and act upon mutual objectives that help advance these goals.

Through this collaboration, New York State has made significant progress in reducing drunk-driving crashes, injuries and fatalities. Since 2009, data from the Institute for Traffic Safety Management and research shows that all alcohol-related crashes in New York have decreased by nearly 10 percent. Fatal alcohol-related crashes have fallen by nearly 30 percent and personal injury crashes have declined almost 16 percent.

Robert Richards, Chair of the NYS STOP-DWI Association said, “Our team of STOP-DWI Coordinators work tirelessly each and every day to create and oversee comprehensive strategies to reduce the number of persons killed or injured in alcoholand/or drug-related traffic crashes. Our ongoing partnerships with the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee and our local agencies enable us to carry out the important mission that was issued to us when the STOP-DWI Program was established in November of 1981. We applaud the Governor for his continued leadership in traffic safety and for his continued support of the 58 local programs that comprise the STOPDWI Program.”

Sheriff Ron Spike, STOP-DWI Coordinator for Yates County said, Building on the success of the STOP-DWI Program, the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee, in partnership with the New York State STOP-DWI Foundation, support the state’s Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) training program. DREs are utilized by law enforcement officials when a driver appears to be impaired but police have ruled out alcohol as the cause or sole cause of impairment. Yates County has one DRE with Deputy Charles Emerson who received extensive training that has been approved by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). We hope to train another deputy as a DRE as we are encountering drugs with DWI incidents more frequently. There are now 270 certified DREs statewide.

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Tortilla Soup with Chorizo and Turkey Meatballs

Tortilla Soup with Chorizo and Turkey Meatballs

The days are getting longer.  Yes, that is exactly how I think about it.  Daylight Savings Time is not my friend.  In the fall, it is a completely different story – you get an extra hour of sleep, everything is peachy.  Plus, I actually love when it gets dark at 4pm in the afternoon, there is something very appealing to me.  I think it is because it seems like it should be so much later when it is dark, but you have hours left in the day.  Last weekend really messed me up – I have been exhausted all week – and as I am typing away, I really should be getting some sleep, as I have a 4am conference call tomorrow.  As if my internal clock isn’t already messed up enough.

There is something positive though about longer days…and it all comes back to this blog.  When I started this blog, I went out and got a painter’s light so I could take pictures before dinner (when it was dark), and I would still capture some good shots.  Over the years though life has become just too hectic – and last year, with my New Year’s resolution to simplify (which I tried extremely hard to do, but it never seems to be enough), I decided I would no longer go through the hassle.  Taking pictures outside is much easier and less time consuming.  Easier said then done.  What that means is that half the year, I can only make things on the weekend to post – and they need to be photographed while there is still light in the sky.  At least my family no longer waits for me to take pictures before we eat dinner.

Longer days means taking pictures after I make a weeknight meal – I love it.  Last night I was so excited to run a bowl of soup outside and snap a few shots before sitting down – I felt like I accomplished that much more in my evening.  After all – this very easy soup that I found in Cooking Light was definitely worth photographing.  I took one taste, and I knew it was a keeper.  I love a good meal in a bowl – and this was definitely satisfying.  I must say – do not skip the cilantro – it made the entire dish sing.

So, maybe longer days means I can be more productive.  But seriously, is that really what I need right now?  Just a good bowl of soup and some sleep – now that’s more like it.

  • 2 teaspoons olive oil
  • 1 cup chopped onion
  • 3/4 cup chopped seeded poblano pepper
  • 1 ounce smoked Spanish chorizo, finely chopped
  • 4 cups unsalted chicken stock (such as Swanson)
  • 1  (14.5-ounce) can unsalted diced tomatoes, drained
  • 2  corn tortillas, chopped
  • 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, divided
  • 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
  • 12 ounces 93% lean ground turkey
  • 1  large egg
  • Cooking spray
  • 3/4 cup frozen corn kernels
  • 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro

Heat a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add oil; swirl to coat. Add onion, poblano, and chorizo; sauté 2 minutes. Add stock and tomatoes; bring to a simmer. Stir in tortillas.

Combine 1/4 teaspoon salt, garlic powder, and next 4 ingredients (through egg). Shape turkey mixture into 12 meatballs. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add meatballs; cook 4 minutes, browning on all sides. Add meatballs, remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt, and corn to stock mixture, and simmer 5 minutes. Top with cilantro.

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Meredith Williams

MAY 17, 2019

The Nashville sweat scene is bursting at the seams — we’re talking countless gyms and studios out to get the city sweating. With everything from barre, boxing, HIIT bootcamps, cycling, and Pilates, it’s becoming harder and harder to come up with an excuse to not exercise. There’s basically an option on every street corner — and we’re not sorry about it!

So grab your best pal and workout buddy and take your pick of the best gyms in the Music City! At this rate, you could try a new sweat spot every month for the next couple years. Challenge accepted.

Pure Barre

Focused on tucking, burning, squatting, and pulsing, Pure Barre instructors make sure you feel it. With multiple locations in Nashville, Pure Barre’s low-impact, ballet-inspired workouts are made to transform your mind and body while lifting and toning all areas of your body… in just one hour. Really, you’ll never look at a two pound weight the same way again. Fitt Tip: if you’re shaking, it’s working!

Orangetheory Fitness

With multiple locations around the city, it’s safe to say Orangetheory Fitness Nashville is doing something right. This intense 60-minute workout is designed to keep your heart rate in the targeted color zones (blue, green, orange, and red). And since you’ll have your own personal heart rate monitor, you’ll be able to push yourself through the rowing, cardio HIIT, and strength training. Your workout will consist of a dimly-lit, chilly orange room, bumpin’ music, and a whole lot of sweat. Oh, and how could we forget? A badass coach to get your through it all!

Offering the best of both worlds—cardio and strength training—these guys aren’t contained to their studio walls. You can find the getFIT615 team outside of their location on Music Row running the stairs and swinging kettlebells, keeping their eyes peeled for a celebrity encounter. And talk about a full calendar, they offer special events such as yoga retreats, Tough Mudders, and luncheons throughout Nashville, AND a monthly book club!

Shed Fitness

The name is pretty fitting. SHED Fitness in Belle Meade and the Gulch offers moderate- to high-intensity circuit stations to all and any fitness level who are looking to get ridiculously fit. The best part? SHED splits up the days of the week to focus on different muscle groups, so all you have to do is show up ready to work! You can choose from group circuit classes or personalized 30-minute strength classes, each of which will whip you into serious shape.

Deemed “The Best Workout in the World,” and in now 14 different cities, Barry’s Bootcamp classes are a one-hour sweat fest with your choice of strength training and cardio intervals or double strength training. With hill climbs, sprints, and dynamic mode all on a self-propelled treadmill, you’ll feel it the next day. You WILL NOT get bored, either — the floor work off the treadmill focuses on a different muscle group each day. Pop in for a full-body Sunday workout, and afterward, hobble to one of the many restaurants in the Gulch to refuel.

This Green Hills 50-minute group or private training class is designed for you to both lose and find yourself. Pepper focuses on improving coordination, self-confidence, endurance, and muscle tone. In a dimly-lit, high-energy room, Pepper Boxing is the only boxing studio in Nashville that offers tear-drop, water filled punching bags to protect your joints and allow for a longer workout. And with up to seven classes a day, you’re guaranteed to be able to fit Pepper into your schedule somewhere!

Talk about feelin’ the burn. CycleBar has made their home in the heart of the Gulch, Franklin, and Hendersonville (and soon, West Nashville and Brentwood) and they certainly are not getting overlooked. Your 50-minute ride, lead by your CycleStar, is accompanied by bumpin’ Spotify playlists and personal data monitors in a state-of-the-art CycleTheatre. Get ready for the hills and drills and even rider competitions. Not to mention, you can book the entire studio for a private event. Obviously your next birthday party, right?

HOTBOX kicks your ass smack dab in the middle of Nashville, perfect for squeezing in a heated session of kickboxing before or after work. The graffiti-painted gym in the center of town is always booming with rap music and energetic trainers. And the kickboxing classes never get old, with fresh new tunes and different routines each session. Each class is mixed with bodyweight exercises, kickboxing, and finishes off with abdominal work. Upstairs, you’ll have access to a complete gym, strength exercises, and the occasional yoga break.

Besides having the hippest climbing gym in both East and West Nashville, Climb Nashville offers fitness classes uniquely designed for climbers, endurance and strength classes, and classes like Alpine Fit, Mobility, and Climber Core to keep things interesting. In addition to these, the gym has a variety of yoga classes, like Deep and Stretchy, Yoga Fundamentals, Yoga for Climbers, and Vinyasa Flow. Can’t get enough? Join Climb Nashville on their outdoor excursions throughout Tennessee!

Iron Tribe Fitness

If you’re a group fitness groupie not ready to take the plunge into CrossFit, you must be looking for a tribe. At Iron Tribe, you’ll learn all the basic strength moves without the crazy competitiveness — it’s a great place to get stronger if you can live without the open gym option. On Belmont Blvd. and on Belle Meade, with outposts also in Franklin and Brentwood, you may have just found your new fit fam.

If you're the early morning type, then you'll want to head over to Fit Factory. They’re super close to downtown and offer classes as early as 5:15am. If you’re into CrossFit-style WODs and intense group fitness, you can train your cardio engine and swing some kettlebells, no strings attached and without the lingo (don’t worry about rx’ing your 5RM KB OH snatch). You can even drop in at lunch for a quick sweat session. And with easy online check-ins to save your spot in class, this gym is perfect for every type of strength athlete.

Teamwork is what makes the dream work at BOOTHCAMP — a Nashville sweat spot offering private and group HIIT classes. With each day pushing a different muscle group to the max, you’ll get a full-body fix by the weekend. Classes use a variety of equipment and workout styles like the TRX, battle ropes, Rogue Echo bikes, aqua punching bags, a resistance bungee wall, and all sorts of other gym favorites. Wanna get in on the action? Head to the studio on 5th Ave. in Downtown Nashville.

Better together — that’s KrankFIT’s approach to cycling and strength training. And they’re definitely onto something here. KrankFit uses dim lights and loud music to encourage everyone in class to put forth maximum effort and intensity for one full, efficient hour of cycling and lifting. Ride and find your stride at their Green Hills fitness studio and prepare for some serious muscle burn.

You’re in for anything but an ordinary workout at Training Camp Nashville. The 10,000-square-foot space near Downtown Nashville on Davidson St. offers classes ranging from Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to Youth and Adult Wrestling, MMA, Boxing, Strength and Personal Training, and yoga. Brought to Nashville by MMA champ Michael Chandler, you know you’ll get a top-notch workout no matter what class you sign up for. And don’t miss your chance to get your Instagram moment with the infamous lion post-workout. Intrigued? You’ll have to see it for yourself!

CorePower Yoga

If you've never been to a CorePower Yoga class, then get ready for a high-energy, adrenaline-fueled sweat session that's far from your average yoga flow. Here, they offer classes in a room with the thermostat cranked to anywhere from 90-100º, depending on if you're taking heated or hot class (yes, there's a difference). With sweat dripping from every limb in your body, they'll guide you through a fast-paced series of poses meant to build strength and balance. And if you really want to challenge yourself, they also offer a Hot Fusion class that will test your will power. Newbies, no need to feel intimidated, either, they have a class specifically created for beginners that takes the heat out of the equation.

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Bottle Number 61 found

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Message Number 61 on 1st of August, minutes before being released into the water

I am a 12 year old boy, and from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. I found your message in a bottle, number 61, in the sea at Mablethorpe near the seal sanctuary, on August the 3rd 2015.
I was swimming in the sea with my Dad, I thought it looked like something interesting so I asked my Dad to swim out to it to get for me. I saw it, but it wasn’t obvious what it was straight away.

We opened the bottle back at my Grandma’s caravan, and my family and I were touched to see that someone had put loads of effort into making someone else feel happy!  The bottle is on my mantlepiece at home, and it gives me happy memories of my holidays.
Thank you for the great gift, and I was excited to find it!
This email that reached me two days ago (well, in fact it is two messages which I put together here). I am delighted to hear that another bottle has found a happy new owner.
The bottle has been floating for three or four days it seems, back and forth with the tide, and was found on the same beach quite close to where it was dispatched.
Message in a Bottle No. 61

No. 61 still at home

Vor zwei Tagen hat mich (in etwa) die folgende Email erreicht

ich bin ein 12 Jahre alter Junge aus Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Ich habe die Flaschenpost No. 61 am 3. August im Meer schwimmend bei Mablethorpe gefunden, in der Nähe der Seehundaufzuchtstation.

Ich war gerade mit meinem Papa im Wasser, und dachte, dass da etwas interessantes im schwimmt. Ich habe die Flasche gesehen, aber mit war nicht klar, was das sein würde. Ich habe meinen Papa gebeten, es für mich aus dem Wasser zu holen, und so ist er für mich rausgeschwommen.
Wir haben die Flasche mit in den Wohnwagen von meiner Oma genommen und dort aufgemacht. Ich und meine Familie waren sehr berührt davon, dass jemand sich so viel Mühe macht, anderen eine Freude zu machen! Die Flasche steht  auf meinem Kaminsims zu Hause und erinnert mich an meine schönen Ferien.
Ja, also wie du lesen kannst, Flasche nummer 61 ist also gefunden worden. Sie ist anscheinend 3 oder 4 Tage lang im Wasser getrieben und mit den Gezeiten hin- und hergeschwappt. Sie wurde so ziemlich and er gleichen Stelle gefunden, wo sie auch abgeworfen wurde.
Viele meiner Flaschen werden von 11-15 Jahre alten Jungs gefunden: Das sind anscheinend die aufmerksamsten Beobachter.
I heart U 007 kleiner

title page

Bottle number 61 is one of the five sister bottles with title “I (heart) you”. The five miniature books contained are not completely identical, but are all made making use of a couple of stamps which I cut from the erasers at the end of some pencils. – Andn then I also distributed the pencils among the bottles, of course. Additionally the bottle contained a letter explaining a little about the project and giving my contact details.
I showed off images of the bottles after bottle number 60 was found in the Saskatchewan river. I’ll include them here once again – and add one image showing off another of the inside pages as promised.
I heart U 008 kleiner

first spread

Flasche Nummer 61 ist eine von fünf Schwesterflaschen, die alle ein Minibuch mit dem Titel “I (heart) U” enthalten. Die Büchlein sind nicht 100% identisch, aber alle mit den gleichen Stempeln gemacht, die ich in die Radiergummis am Ende von einigen Bleistiften geschnitten habe. – Die habe ich dann natürlich auch auf die Flaschen verteilt.
I heart U 009 kleiner

second spread: “I ❤ U when you feel you have no-one”

Thanks to the finder who has shared his story with me and with us!

Danke nochmal an den Finder, der mich kontaktiert und seine Geschichte mit uns geteilt hat!

Last Week’s Result: 6 Dispatched, 1 Found

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bottle floating in the sea near Wells-next-the-Sea

We had a big celebration here on Saturday in our house will all our family from Germany visiting, but had arranged everything to go on a brief vacation with my sister and her family for a couple of days, leaving on Sunday. As you might expect, the Saturday and Sunday morning were full of activity and running around. I sat down in the car beside DH, kids in the back, excited to go on a beach vacation with their cousins, heaved a big sigh of relief, and felt ready for vacation indeed. Luckily the drive was not far, a little less than three hours to Wells-Next-The-Sea in North Norfolk.

The beach in Wells is magnificent. There are dunes along the shore, some permanently outside the water, some forming islands while the water is retreating. During low tide, we did not manage to actually walk to the shore line, because our kids would have had to be carried the whole way. Here is a satellite image of the coast (thanks to google):

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satellite image of the coast near Wells-next-the-Sea (via google maps)

Can you see that brighter yellow strip near the pine forrest there, this is the part of the beach that usually stays dry during high tide. The whole rest is covered in water. The water then retreats fast, but there is a stream that remains full of water also during low tide. I am not sure whether this is a river in the sense that it carries sweet water. But there are several springs in and around wells (hence the name) and it might be that it is a “real” river. However, looking at google maps it seems to be connected to the sea at several points, and the tide definitely pushes in mightilty. So I am not sure.

On Monday I unfortunately couldn’t leave the bed (full story on my other blog), but M. and my sister put in a bottle for me. The tide was already fairly low, and with more small children at the beach than adults, it was not possible for them to reach the actual sea. So they tossed two bottles in this stream:

Here goes the bottle with number 69

Here goes the bottle with number 69

and number 71 right after.

and number 71 right after.

It is funny how fast bottles goe seperate ways after having been tossed in at essentially the same time and the same spot. Bottle number 69 was found right after being put into the water. I have not heard anything about the other one.

Two days later. I went to the beach myself. This time the water just started to retreat – ideal conditions.

wells no 62

I make one photo of the number before putting in bottles to know later which bottle relates to which image.

My sister and I took turns throwing in bottles which were caught by the falling tide and the current that would later be the river and drifted quickly out to sea. You can see the buoys in the photos, marking the waterway to Wells harbour for ships.

Bottle number 66

Bottle number 66

throwing in bottle number 70

throwing in bottle number 70

Bottle number 68

Bottle number 68

Although the bottles drifted away quickly, we could follow them with our eyes for a while, drifting past two smaller boats. The beach was well visited and I feared someone might take the bottles out right after me tossing it in. But at least those four could only have been retrieved from the beach at hight risk, given the speed with which they drifted out to sea. We looked for a less visited corner, and indeed it looked like no-one watched us throwing. And also the people on the boat didn’t seem to notice the floating bottles.

On our way home on Thursday, we took a break to look at King’s Lynn, where the river Ouse flows into the sea. Unfortunately I didn’t have any more bottles on me. M. was surprised that I put in 4 bottles on Wednesday, but my sister and I had just too much fun tossing the bottles to not to. I wish I had brough more.

When I came home, I found a surprise in my mailbox. A boy aged 11 send me the following message:

I found your little message in the bottle at Wells-next-to-sea’s beach on Monday the 17th of August 2015. I was really surprised to find it floating around in the sea. I was just wondering where did you drop the message in from? my number for the bottle is 69.

Of course I already wrote back, gave him some details and asked for more. How did he find it? Was it hard to spot? Easy to open? Everything dry? And who is he? Was he on a vacation? Where is he from? – I hope he’ll answer my email. If he does, I’ll let you know of course.

This is a picture of the bottle still at home:

Message in a Bottle No. 69

Message in a Bottle No. 69, still at home

I named bottle number 69 “jumpping fish”, and as usual for these bottles, I cut the stamp for the fish by hand, and put the stamp in as a gift.

the cover image and the stamp on my worktable

the cover image and the stamp on my worktable

When I point my computer’s camera down, you can see that I curently have six more bottles here waiting for their release. I would like to put at least some of the small worlds into the river Thames. That is because I hope that even wild as it is, the river would be more gentle to the bottles than the open sea, and I know that there is at least one message collector on the Thames shores. Well, I’ll see. And of course I’ll let you know as soon as I can. (Unfortunately that sometimes means after I already put the bottles in. If you are interested in meeting up, taking a look at the bottles before I toss them, or just to join up for a joint tossing event, let me know now so that I we can be in touch closer to the actual event.)

at homeP.S.: I just noticed that for all summer dispatches, on all the photos I was wearing the same pair of pants. I maybe should mention that I do have others, and I also wear them…

Dispatches in Skegness and Chapel Saint Leonards

Central Beach in Skegness on July 15

Central Beach in Skegness on July 15

I just came back from a short break on the English East Coast. Of course I took some (two) bottles with me. This was the first time I dispatched bottles directly into the sea from the beach, and I am not sure whether I was being too clever, maybe. The first bottle was dispatched on July 15 in Skegness. A typical English seaside town with so called attractions like fun rides and casinos and the like. The central beach was still rather empty when we visited, which was probably due to the mixed weather but also due to the summer school holidays not having started yet. The photo above is taken where and when I left the bottle. You can see a Ferris wheel in the background and the Skegness Pier.

The tide was low when we visited with the flood coming in. Not a good time for simply throwing a bottle into the water, I figured. And so I decided to partially bury it. – I hope the flood took it with it rather than digging it in even deeper.

bottle no. 50 left at the beach in Skegness

bottle no. 50 left at the beach in Skegness

To be fair, the image above does not show the bottle how I left it. – My own children dug it out a moment later, and so I placed it a little nearer to the waterline and not straight down like here but tilted slightly toward the open see. – I am curious to see whether I will hear anything from that bottle ever again!

The second bottle went in at a beach near Chapel Saint Leonards. The tide was high and the water was retreating, and so I simply threw it in from the beach.

message no. 48 still airborne

message no. 48 still airborne

Well, “simply” maybe is not quite right. On a first trial I threw the bottle in standing beside the water and, being not that good at throwing any objects, it dropped pretty short. So I quickly got into the water, caught it, and threw it once more. I turned around to get back to my pants, and when I looked again I had already lost sight of the bottle.


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To Berlin! England Expects In Germany

GEORGE Orwell famously described international sport as war minus the shooting, and nowhere in English sporting history is this more conspicuous than when England play Germany at football.

“Two World Wars and One World Cup” was the playground song of the late Sixties and early Seventies. Or as Frank McGhee of the Daily Mirror put it on the eve of the 1966 final: “If, on the morrow, the Germans beat us at our national game, we’d do well to remember that, twice this century, we have beaten them at theirs.”

Since then, the theme has never really gone away, from the Carling Black Label dambusters football ad and the Daily Mirror’s “Achtung! Surrender!” front page in Euro 96, to the Battle of Britain aircraft impersonations at Wembley and beyond. Not that it ever seemed to have ay effect. “All that stuff about war, Panzers and Stukas doesn’t bother us,” says Franz Beckenbauer. “We leave that to the English.”

England is not the only country with a Germany problem. The Dutch are famously hostile, and before the Euros this year a Polish tabloid ran a picture of the team’s coach holding the severed heads of Germany’s national trainer and team captain and demanded their slaughter. But the big one remains Tommy versus Fritz – and that one goes back nearly 100 years.

The morning after England’s triumph in Berlin, it’s still shocking to see posters from a century ago, when war was dressed up as sport, rather than the other way round. “To Berlin!” urges one, promising, “good shooting and hunting” (of the Hun) and ammunition thrown in free.

Another shows how football was used as a recruiting sergeant in the Great War (there were even regiments made up of professional players, who fought in the trenches with the other soldiers (and didn’t to bring their wags). “Hundreds of Football enthusiasts are joining the Army daily,” it cheerily explains, before encouraging the men of Millwall to let the enemy hear the “Lion’s roar” as a prelude to giving them “a kick off the Earth”.

Last night there was a small but poignant gesture of reconciliation, when Bert Trautmann was honoured for “his life work to football and his work promoting better understanding between nations”.

When it comes to “medals on the table”, Trautmann famously won the FA Cup in 1956 while playing with a broken neck in the final. The same year he was voted player of the year in England. Before that, however, he won medals of a different sort. Five in all, including the Iron Cross, after three years on the Eastern front. His football career in England resulted from becoming a POW and electing to stay in Britain after the war.

Bert (or Bernhard, to give him his German name) has expressed his appreciation of the way that he was taken to the hearts of the people of Lancashire, and the legacy of his time in England is the Trautmann Foundation, which aims to improve Anglo-German relationships through football.

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Mabuchi, Toru, 1920-1994

Born in Tokyo. Son of the wood engraver Mabuchi Rokutaro. Graduated in 1941 from craft design section of Tokyo School of Fine Arts. Exhibited with Zokei Hanga Kyokai; member of Nihon Hanga Kyokai 1954-1960. Joined Nippankai 1960. Rejoined Nihon Hanga Kyokai 1982. Member and judge of Kofukai. Represented at Tokyo International Print Biennale in 1962. Taught at Hiroshima University. Plates sometimes composed of many small pieces of thin wood adhered like mosaics. Prints often deal with landscape, still life, haniwa, or pottery.** Taken in whole, or in part, with permission from: Merritt, Helen and Nanako Yamada. Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: 1900-1975. University of Hawaii Press: Honolulu. 1992.

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Are you looking for the best range of wedding flowers Tauranga has to offer? Look no further than Bayfair Florists. . Bayfair Florist have the skills & the expertise to provide you with that special bridal bouquet or arrangement of wedding flowers for Tauranga weddings. They also make bouquets for your bridesmaids, dressing your venue including centrepieces and providing corsages, boutonnieres and any other bridal floral work you need for your special wedding day.

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A wedding is a magical day for any couple. Key elements of the wedding are the flower arrangements and the bouquets. It is quite hard to pinpoint exactly how flowers became a staple at weddings, but this tradition appears in many cultures around the world, from the floral garlands of Indian weddings to the sprinkling of petals at many New Zealand weddings.

To create the most beautiful bouquets, Bayfair Florist starts with the best blooms sourced directly from the people who grow them. With the freshest materials, our expert wedding florists create beautiful arrangements perfect for both traditional and modern weddings.

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Life through the lens of cancer

Though I never set out with a concrete idea of what this blog would be about, I’ve mainly only discussed my running. But I realized there is a big part of my life that I’ve (not necessarily on purpose) never discussed. Mostly I felt that some of the experiences were not mine to share*, but after encouragement from Scott, I’ve decided to share away.

So, how to begin? Ahem.

I’m in a relationship with someone with an incurable** form of cancer. As frightening as that sounds, the cancer has never seemed incredibly dire or life threatening (Scott can attest to that). However we’ve learned in retrospect that it was incredibly dire and life threatening, which makes me shudder to think about. But right now Scott is stable. His cancer isn’t growing. He isn’t ‘suffering’ from cancer per se. He does still experience side effects of the chemotherapy he was on for over a year, but he can carry on with daily life mostly unimpeded. He runs 7 days a week, leads a vegan straight-edge life and is (aside from the cancer) ridiculously healthy. So healthy that we often forget about it.

But no, not really. We never forget about it. It’s always there, looming in our conversations about the future and about his son and about us. Scott, always a realist, jokes about his cancer frequently. “I won’t live that long!” he says when I say I hope we’re weird old folks. Usually these comments bring me down. But of course I think about them too. I’m only 27, I’ve already been married once, and currently I’m on no trajectory to have children. Am I just going to be alone when I’m old and grey?

Before I get to my thoughts on that let me start from the beginning. I first met learned of Scott through his blog. I’d been a vegetarian and a runner for years so naturally his blog was something I came across. I have read it intermittently since around 2010 and I attribute one of his posts to really bolstering my choice to go vegan. When I moved to Kansas after getting married in 2012 I submerged myself in the world of blogs and social media. I was so incredibly alone and isolated then – blogs were such a refuge for me. I had also at this point, started and then quit my job working in a lab doing rodent research, read Scott Jurek’s book and gone vegan for month stretches. I became even more interested in Scott’s blog and his passion for veganism and radical politics.

I remember catching myself up on his blog after I’d missed a few posts and saw that he’d just been diagnosed with cancer. It was surprising and saddening to me – but ultimately he was a stranger. I still felt connected to him as anyone who has read his blog for years can say. Scott writes with so much emotion and eloquence that it’s hard not to feel like you know him a bit. I sent him a card towards a donation fund a friend had set up and remember getting excited when I got a hand written thank you note in return.

But wait, hold on. Wasn’t I married at this point?

My personal life at this point and time – about 6 months into my marriage – was spiraling. I don’t really want to revisit the details, but let’s just say my ex was not a positive influence on my self-esteem. I felt like I was walking on eggshells all the time. I had just completely up-heaved my life for him (switched from a PhD to a MS degree and moved away from my family and friends to a town where I knew no one) so I was FREAKING OUT at the idea that it was going to fall apart. I didn’t know what I would do if that happened. So I basically was trying everything I could to keep it together, all the while not admitting to myself that I wasn’t happy in the least. If anything, my desire to connect with Scott should have been an indicator that something was wrong in my marriage.

So yes, I was married. But aside from occasionally commenting on his blog, or liking his Instagram posts I wasn’t really interacting with him. So I knew Scott had cancer, and had surgery and was basically not able to run for the time being. I followed his progress on his blog and Instagram and was happy to see him trying to return to his normal life. But his cancer was still at a distance. He seemed fine and active, but sometimes depressed about his situation.

My marriage ended in August and I completely shut down. I moved out, I deleted all of my social media accounts and holed myself up with Lily (my cat) in my nice new empty apartment. I barely reached out to friends, I tried to hide it from my parents and I didn’t tell anyone at work for months. Looking back I can’t believe I dealt with divorce that way, I can’t believe I did it all almost entirely alone. It was a very bleak time in my life.

I slowly reconnected with the world and made a new Instagram account and connected with Scott again. I realized my interest in Scott wasn’t just admiration from a far – I wanted to actually know him. After a cryptically flirtatious Instagram exchange, I sent him an email. I had no idea if he would even know who I was (I thought he was blog-famous, we laugh at this now) but he did and we immediately started talking. What started as a few timid text messages back and forth quickly jumped to daily phone calls and skype conversations. I don’t want to bore you with all the gooey details of our beginning relationship, but very early in our talks Scott emphasized to me that if I ever became too overwhelmed by his cancer situation I ‘had an out’.

Did I really asses what it meant to get into a relationship with someone whose health situation was unpredictable? Yes, I did – but the decision was easy. I knew that regardless of what ever happened to Scott, getting to know him would be worth it. And the decision was basically made before I could make it. I had feelings for him that I couldn’t just ignore because they weren’t convenient.

Anyways, mushy-ness aside – being in a relationship with someone with cancer can be challenging. I never had a ‘before cancer’ Scott to compare to, cancer was always present in our dynamic, so that seems to make it…. more of a constant? But still, I hate seeing him go through pain and not being able to help. I hate seeing how chemo interrupts his beloved running. I hate worrying that he might die from it. I also have selfish moments of frustration when I realize we can’t plan much of our life out in advance. I feel jealous sometimes of people with a ‘normal’ life who are able to have families and life plans and expect to die of old age.

But I counter with asking if I would rather not have entered into this relationship. No, I would never give up meeting Scott, I would never give up meeting his son, I would never give up seeing him dance like David Brent, or watching TV in bed with him, or seeing him progress his running, or all our conversations about a meaningful life.

I will say, this cancer thing has put me through a lot of scary shit. I’ve never had a close family member have major surgery of any sort. Watching Scott wheel away to the OR last August was probably one of the toughest things I’ve ever experienced, and waiting to hear he made it out of surgery was possibly worse. And I know I have to go through all that again, the waiting, the ICU, seeing him in pain…. But it’s not hard. It’s just what you do when you love someone.

Our life is very normal on the day-to-day. Cancer isn’t always rearing its head (though obviously I am speaking from my perspective. Scott’s daily experience with it is completely different needless to say. I try to be as empathetic as possible, but really I have no idea). And we’re incredibly lucky in that respect. I work in a breast cancer research lab and the stories my boss tells me are devastating. Scott’s cancer is slow growing and unlikely to metastasize. Many are not that lucky. So like anything else in life, we handle it day by day. And I know every day I made the right choice.

I might not know what is in store for my future, but to shy away from it is akin to avoid cars because you might be in a car accident. Life is scary and dangerous and full of sadness. But if you try to avoid all of that, you miss all the good, funny and awe-inspiring experiences that make life anything worth living! So I choose to not worry too much about the dying part, life implies death anyways. Its a miracle (of science) that we’re alive on this ridiculous planet in the first place.

*With this being said – I really hope I don’t come off all “this is how his cancer affects me, boo hoo”. Cancer is not my reality, I don’t want to pretend like it is.

**technically it could be cured with surgery but like everything else, it’s all chance and circumstance.

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  1. Thanks for sharing this, Laura. Very brave of you. My favorite part of your post ” Life is scary and dangerous and full of sadness. But if you try to avoid all of that, you miss all the good, funny and awe-inspiring experiences that make life anything worth living.”

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A simple clutch

Today I whipped up something quick. I bough a PDF pattern for a fold-over clutch from LBG Studio recently and figured this would be an easy thing to make for gifts.

Serendipitously, I visited my aunt and uncle, who are both interior designers/fabric aficionados/artistically minded people, two days ago. They had amassed a vast amount of high end upholstery samples that my aunt had been turning into pillows, but I left with a stash myself. Various textures, fabrics, patterns…. all nice heavy cuts that would look great on a clutch. I even got some beautiful toile designed by my aunt herself – I am such a sucker for toile. I need to have a special plan for those.

It was my first time installing a zipper on my own machine – turns out I have a lot of presser feet I didn’t know I had! It went surprisingly well and I am really pleased with my handiwork.

The bag itself is a fold-over rectangle with a lining. I used some quilting cotton I had laying around for the interior and fusible interfacing too.

I have heaps and heaps more fabric now to turn into clutches. Christmas shopping is basically done!

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Farmer’s Market Report for June 29th, 2010

Hi gang!  We were finally able to make it back to the Hilliard Farmer’s Market this week!  I would love to go every week but for our schedule it is sort of at a bad time.  If it started one hour earlier it would be perfect!

There was a two new booths this week, Oink, Moo, and Cluck and Blue Jacket Creamery. OMC were also grilling while we were there!  We were not looking for meat purchases though so we didn’t make it down that far.  I wanted to try some cheese from Blue Jacket but a parent wasn’t paying attention to her kids that were going back to the samples multiple times with the same toothpick.  Um, so yeah, I didn’t get to test taste much.  I did some try of their Grillin’ Cheese, which is cheese you can slice and fry up!  It was yummy! Sort of salty and totally chewy cheesy goodness.

I saw lots of berries this time around, along with peaches, and corn!  Hooray for sweet summer corn!

So my purchases this week included:

Raspberries and corn from Rhoads Farm along with tomatoes and zucchini from Wishwell Farms.  I was going to get blueberries but just missed those! When I got back to the booth, they had sold the last batch.  Booo

I had some very tart and juicy raspberries this morning with my morning overnight oats.  Perfect fuel for post run!

Scott had a lovely BLT for lunch with the tomatoes and also some local bacon as well.

I had my BLT with a bit more roughage.

In salad form with a ton of chopped veggies, a few seeds for crunch and fiber, and topped with balsamic and olive oil.

Dinner tonight will be made with the corn and tomatoes.  It will look very similar to this:

In fact it will be totally identical! A lovely black bean and corn wrap! With lots of veggies, hot sauce, guacamole, and “sour cream” (greek yogurt).  I already can’t wait to dig in!

Here’s my OHC PSA:  Support your local farmers and get out to the Farmer’s Markets!  Not only are you supporting your neighbors and your state, but you will know where your food is coming from.  Knowledge is power!  Curious to where some are?  Here’s a small (because there is a ton!) list to get you started:

Weekend Farmer’s Markets:

North Market on Saturday mornings (get there early, it’s popular!)

Clintonville Saturdays, 9am-Noon

Worthington Saturdays, 9am-Noon

Mid-Week Markets:

Hilliard on Tuesdays from 4-7pm down on Main Street in Old Hilliard.  Right at the entrance to Rails to Trails

Dublin on Wednesdays from 4-7pm on Bridge St. in the parking lot of the Dublin Community Church

Mid-Week markets are very handy because not everyone can make a market during the weekend.  Mid-Week gives you access to things you might otherwise be missing out on!

I’m now going to direct your attention to a fellow blogger, Brandi of Branappetite!  Brandi is cute as a button and one of the nicest people you will ever meet.  We got a very brief chance to chat last year at the Foodbuzz Festival and hopefully we’ll get a chance to connect again sometime.  She is starting a series on her blog called Scratch Made which features recipes and instructions on how to make things at home from scratch!  The goal is to show you how easy it is to make things yourself using wholesome healthy ingredients.  It also fits in perfectly with my Homespun Sundays!  Her first post is up, check it out!

Also, it just might give you some ideas of what you can do with all the new stuff you just purchased from your local farmer’s market!  Get in the kitchen guys because who knows what great things you can make from scratch!

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  1. My veggie intake triples this time of year. It looks like you got some great stuff and it’s so great that you all have so many markets around. We have quite the selection here too and I’m always so impressed by the things being grown. I had a Mr. Stripey tomato yesterday, an heirloom, for the first time. Seriously the best tomato I have ever eaten.

  2. Isn’t this time of year like Christmas? I just can’t get enough of the markets! Food never has tasted better. :)

    Mmm, no wonder you are recreating that for dinner. It looks out of this world!

  3. Totes saving this post for reference to the markets. There is also a permanent stand (during the summer) up Dublin Rd past Glick in Shawnee Hills. It’s closed on Wednesdays, but other than that, it’s open during the day.

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We Grow Together

It has begun! We have had a few days in Central Massachusetts that smelled like puddles instead of snow. The huge snow banks are compressing and shrinking little by little and every news cast is predicting less snow than the previous. Spring will arrive in its own time and I have begun to plan the 2015 Food It Yourself garden. This year’s crops will include:

From Baker Creek Seeds

  • Purple teepee beans
  • Dar cucumbers
  • Cocozella di Napoli zucchini
  • Alaska red shades nasturtium
  • Garden cress
  • Obus or Kroumir cantaloupe

From Seed Saver’s Exchange

  • Seashells cosmos
  • German chamomile

We are also hoping for another generation of tomato volunteers. It looks like our cherry trees have survived, but I won’t know for sure until another few feet of snow has melted. Now that the what has been decided, I need to plan the where for each crop.

Sunlight is an important factor, as parts of our garden are shaded at least part of the day during the summer. Tomatoes do not do well unless they are in full sun- at least 6 hours of sunlight every day. Other veggies can thrive with less. Based on the advice of the Old Farmer’s Almanac and Mother Earth News the cress and beans will get the shady edges of the garden.

There is one other factor I like to consider when planning my garden. Some crops grow better when they are companion planted next to others. One great historical example of this type of planting is the Three Sisters, an agricultural technique of North America’s Iroquois people. Other companion plantings include planting nasturtiums to repel cucumber beetles from cucumbers, melons and squashes. I know where I’ll plant those Alaska reds! There are some combinations that should be avoided, like tomatoes and corn. Here are some references to help you plan exactly where you will plant each of your crops this year.

Organic Gardening has a wonderful beginners guide to the practice of companion growing.

Golden Harvest Organics has an easy-to-use reference for companion planting.

Here is a great resource from The National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service (ATTRA). It even includes a gloss on the scientific underpinnings of this practice.

You may notice that these are sites which promote organic gardening, but don’t read too much into that. Companion planting can be a way to minimize the need for any pest control products, even “safer” and organic ones. If you are going to plant both tomatoes and cabbages, why not save yourself some money and trouble by planting them together? Give it a try! Companion planting has been around for eons because it works. Why not situate your seeds where they will thrive best?


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It’s been hot as hell for two months here in Texas, but the rest of the country seems to consider Memorial Day Weekend as the kickoff of the summer. The NFL is no different apparently, as it’s using the start of bikini season to get rid of those excess LBs. In this case, I’m talking about Sean Lee and Daryl Washington, but Andy Reid and the Ryan brothers can always stand to drop some weight. Let’s take a look at how the loss of two studs for the season affects the IDP landscape for 2014:

Sean Lee – It all started with a speculative Tweet from Schefter on Tuesday morning, and the bomb dropped a few hours later: Sean Lee tore his ACL. Lee has never played a full season in the NFL, but when he is on the field, few are better. Dallas will miss his tackling and coverage ability, and his IDP owners will be stuck scouring the waiver wire to replace him. Which brings up the question: Who will replace him in the middle of the Dallas defense?

Bruce Carter – When Lee went down for part of 2013, Carter shifted over to the middle and put up respectable stats. Nothing to write home about, but he was a top 40 LB in most scoring systems last year. The issue with relying on him to man the middle in Big D for an entire year is that he’s not very good at tackling or in coverage. You might ask, “Then why is he starting for an NFL team?” to which I would reply, “Because Jerrah.”

Anthony Hitchens – This is my pick for who will ultimately be the LB to own in Dallas this year. I did not mention Hitchens in my IDP Draft Recap, mainly because, you know, he was behind Sean Lee in the depth chart. Live and learn. Hitchens doesn’t have a great pedigree, but his ceiling is unknown compared to that of Carter, so I fully expect Dallas to roll the dice with their 4th round pick. He could easily be the steal of 2014 IDP drafts.

Daryl WashingtonSpring-time has not been kind to Washington in the past two years. Last year he failed a drug test in April (which led to a 4-game suspension), and followed that up by assaulting his baby mama in May. As an encore, he failed yet another drug test this year, which will cost him the entire 2014 season, unless he pulls a Braun and gets it overturned. It’s frustrating to own someone who is as injury prone as Sean Lee, but I would take that any day over a guy like Washington.

Kevin Minter – Unlike in Dallas, Arizona has an obvious replacement for Washington. Minter was already going to step in for the departed Karlos Dansby, and he will now be looked at as the primary option on that defense. Highly regarded coming out of LSU, Minter rarely saw the field as a rookie, frustrating owners who drafted him early in Dynasty Rookie drafts. Assuming he’s not a total bust, their patience should pay off this year, and I’d rank Minter as an LB3 with huge upside at this point.

Larry Foote – The most interesting subplot in the aftermath of the Washington debacle is the man who will likely be starting opposite Minter. Foote hasn’t really seen the field since 2012, missing pretty much all of 2013 with a bicep injury. But in that 2012 season, Foote was a startable LB in IDP leagues, finishing in the top 30 in most scoring systems. A return to that level might be a pipe dream (sorry Daryl), but you could do a lot worse with a late-round LB flier pick.


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Two of the biggest heavyweights in Division 1 will be meeting in the first week of the season beginning in 2018 and 2019 as well.

Chippewa Valley finished the 2017 season ranked as the #8 team in the state while Saline finished at #15. Both teams return several key players and have kids in their system who will keep both the Big Reds and Hornets towards the top of pre-season rankings entering the 2018 season.

In 2018 Saline (SEC Red) will host Chippewa Valley (MAC Red)

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Valencia Coming to Town

Multiple sources are announcing that La Liga powerhouse Valencia will be the latest European club team to travel the United States to play MLS teams during the Summer.  While lacking some of the cache of Real Madrid and Barcelona, Valencia is a quality side that will draw significant interest from fans in Philly and potentially DC where the team is set to play.

These matches are part of the summer ritual in MLS.  These teams criss-cross the United States preparing for their season by playing MLS sides and each other. Last year, AC Milan, Real Madrid, Chelsea and Everton were among the European powers crossing the pond to participate in an American Summer.  Not surprisingly, these games are not all about soccer.  The European teams are desperate to spread their brand to an American audience in an effort to collect fans and sell jerseys on these fertile shores.

At the same time, MLS teams can generate a large pay day by selling seats to see the foreign teams play (and these European teams don’t come for free).  MLS squads view these games as an invaluable oportunity to showcase their talents (and very existence) to soccer fans in the States who typically ignore MLS.  Some teams believe so strongly in these opportunities, that they readily shift MLS regular season matches to accomodate the games. Recall that the Galaxy made the AC Milan friendly an important part of their Beckham negotations.  Interestingly, some teams readily participate in these matches (Seattle, Los Angeles), while others show no interest (the Revs have vehemently denied that Valencia will be stopping in Foxboro).

Overall, we think that these games are great for MLS. Every time that a fan of a team like Valencia, Barcelona or Chelsea enjoys their experience at an MLS game, is an opportunity to create a fan who comes back to see the players for their local side.  Moreover, these events typically generate substantial revenue for the MLS Sides.  The touring season starts this weekend in Harrison with Santos


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A Rather Bright Silver Lining

I’ve written a lot lately about scarcityism (aka protectionism, “fair trade,” and about a million other monikers).  It is a rather strange doctrine, that in scarcity, not abundance, lies wealth.  What’s more, the problems the scarcityists claim exist for capitalism has a rather strong silver lining.

The argument for scarcityism is that prices are too low for some purpose.  If prices are low, that necessarily means there is a relative abundance of that good.  Indeed, this is the common issue scarcityists have: China is flooding our markets, immigrants are flooding our labor market, Germany is flooding our market, etc etc.  What we have is, essentially, an overabundance of goods/services.

It’s not just scarcityists who make this argument.  Other critics of capitalism do: obesity is a problem in America because we have an overabundance of food; we’re a nation that finds it cheaper to throw stuff out rather than repair (we have an overabundance of stuff); end of life medical care and diseases are rising (we have an overabundance of life).  The list goes on.

In short, the major criticism of capitalism is that it provides too many things!  What a criticism to have!  It’s like saying “my job is a problem.  It pays me too well and I have too many cars!”  Talk about First World Problems.

Compare the outcome of capitalism (overabundance) to that of socialism and other forms of economic planning: scarcity and poverty.  In Venezuela, shortages of even the most basic items occur every day.  In the Soviet Union and China, millions and millions died from lack of food, health care, and the like.  In Africa today, poverty and starvation and lack of medical care, issues virtually unknown in the Western World, are all too common.

In short, socialism gets criticized because it doesn’t do its job.  Capitalism gets criticized because it does its job too well.

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  1. I could not agree more with your criticism of scaristyism. Scarsitysts are why this kind of nonsense is how we get this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4128582/Nasa-plans-explore-expensive-asteroid.html

    Daily Mail right? They are equivocally saying that it would be horrible if there was an extreme abundance of platinum, gold, iron ore, and, because most asteroids have it, water. Society has always benefitted from such influxes of material and wealth. Only space exploration will give us an existence in which the struggle over resources, including livable/useable space. https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/about/nea_resource.html

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Tory MP Nadine Dorries has apologised to MPs for not registering income she made from her appearance on I’m A Z-List Celebrity in 2012. Dorries said the breach of the rules had been “inadvertent” (crap) but she owed MPs a “full and unreserved … Continue reading

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Hard to believe but Poytr Pavensky has driven what looks like a 10 inch nail through his Ball-Bag and into a Crack between the Cobble Stones. This is fuzzy picture version of his latest work – oh yes – he is naked. If … Continue reading

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Peanut Stew is featured today thanks to this great recipe prepared by fellow Grandma-in-law (grandson Evan’s other Grandma), Chris, for our potluck last week as mentioned in Tuesday’s post.

She adapted the recipe per her notes below and it was absolutely delicious!  The original recipe serves six and is easily adaptable to vegan, omitting the chicken and using vegetable broth.  I will add this recipe to my favorites.

African Peanut Stew

West African Peanut Stew

“A hearty stew that’s super-easy to make and great for peanut butter lovers. Can be made vegetarian or with chicken. In a pinch, feel free to use vegetable or corn oil for peanut oil, powdered ginger for fresh, water for stock, etc. Kale works well in place of collard greens.”

2 tablespoons peanut oil (I used coconut oil)
one half onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons chopped fresh ginger (I prefer to slice them thick so you can fish it out)
a pinch of sugar to caramelize onion
1 pound chicken, cut into chunks (optional)
1 tablespoon crushed red pepper, or to taste (which for me was none)
I added about a tsp of cinnamon
salt and ground black pepper to taste
4 cups chicken or vegetable stock
3 small sweet potatoes, cut into chunks
1 (16 ounce) can chopped tomatoes, with liquid
1/4 pound collard greens, roughly chopped
1 cup chunky peanut butter

  • Heat the peanut oil in a large pot over medium-high heat; cook and stir the onion, garlic, and ginger in the hot oil until softened, about 5 minutes.  (I used Costco rotisserie shredded chicken, so I didn’t add it until the last step, since it was already cooked)
  • Add the chicken; cook and stir until completely browned. Season with the crushed red pepper, salt, and black pepper. Pour the chicken stock over the mixture. Stir the sweet potatoes into the liquid and bring the mixture to a boil; reduce heat to low, cover the pot partially with a lid, and cook at a simmer for 15 minutes.
  • Stir the tomatoes, collard greens, and peanut butter into the soup. Partially cover the pot again and continue cooking, stirring occasionally, another 20 minutes. (Mine simmered for about 30 minutes longer than that. I used a potato masher and crushed up the sweet potatoes and tomatoes a little after the recipe’s 20 minute simmer, so it would be thicker rather than chunky.)

I had extra collard greens and one review suggested to sauté them as garnish along with chopped peanuts.

The original recipe was found on Epicurious.


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This is a complex and niche area of law that often sees people of impeccable character in criminal proceedings because of the behaviour, or anticipated behaviour, of their beloved pet dog.

Prosecutions under Section 3 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 are the most common proceedings that clients find themselves facing.

Section 3 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 applies to all dogs across England and Wales, regardless of size, breed or pedigree.  It encompasses the offence of a dog being dangerously out of control in a public place, and the charge can be brought against the owner and/or person in charge of the dog at the time.

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