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Wellstone's legacy lives on
Kari VanDerVeen
Updated: October 31, 2007 - 2:50 pm
Five years after the senator's death, his influence is still felt
On a grassy knoll with a sweeping view of Lake Calhoun, a large granite boulder mined in Minnesota marks the resting place for one of the state's most beloved politicians.
Framed by a majestic pine tree, the gravesite of Sen. Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila and their daughter Marcia is steeped in natural beauty. The site is serene, yet at the same time infused with life. Just beyond the wrought-iron fence framing Southwest's Lakewood Cemetery, people walk, run and bike along the path circling Lake Calhoun. Children in strollers and dogs on leashes bask in the fall sunshine and people casually wander out onto a small dock.
It's a picturesque site that became the final resting place for the Wellstones five years ago after their plane crashed near Eveleth, Minn. on Oct. 25, 2002. Hardly a day goes by without someone visiting the site, said Lakewood Cemetery President Ron Gjerde.
Rep. Frank Hornstein (DFL-60B) and Sen. Scott Dibble (DFL-60) visit the Wellstone grave each year before the start of the Minnesota Legislative session to gather inspiration. Hornstein met Wellstone in the early 1980s and said he was not only a mentor, but is the reason Hornstein is in the state Legislature.
"There's a whole generation of us who are community organizers, as Paul was, and who decided to seek elected office because of Paul's inspiration and example that one can work for social justice and be an organizer and it's not mutually exclusive of elected office," Hornstein said.
Secretary of State Mark Ritchie can see the Wellstone grave from his home across the street in the ECCO neighborhood, and he draws similar inspiration from the senator's legacy. Ritchie worked with Wellstone during the 1980s on farming issues and was impressed by his passion. Wellstone's death prompted Ritchie to get active in making sure Minnesotans were mobilized and encouraged to vote.
"I think Paul's death … stopped a lot of people in their tracks and had us think, 'What are we doing with our lives?'" Ritchie said.
Ritchie attended Camp Wellstone — an intense program that provides hands-on training in grassroots politics for citizen activists and people interested in running for office — and ran a successful campaign for secretary of state using the principles he learned there. The camp is one of the initiatives of Wellstone Action, a national center founded in 2003 to keep Wellstone's legacy alive by teaching others his unique style of progressive politics.
"We want to train and teach others to step out and be active in public life because that was what Paul was all about," Wellstone Action Executive Director Jeff Blodgett said in an interview last year.
Wellstone is one of Minnesota's political giants, best remembered for campaigning on a rickety green bus and unapologetically pushing a progressive agenda.
"Watching him speak was a physical activity. The people in the audience would rock on their heels and stand on their tiptoes as Wellstone's voice rose with excitement," wrote Bill Lofy, who worked on Wellstone's 1995 reelection campaign, in his book "Paul Wellstone: The Life of a Passionate Progressive." "At the end of his speech, he left an audience of cheering, smiling people, eager to support his
His work in the Senate continued to touch people's lives. Ritchie was about to give a speech for a conference on family farms in Kentucky when a young woman from the hotel's front desk came to his room in tears with the news that Wellstone's plane had crashed.
"Before I could really react," Ritchie explained, "she said, 'My father was a coal miner, my brother is a coal miner and Paul Wellstone came here and held a hearing and worked on the question of mine safety. He actually cared about miners and working people.' … She went on and thanked me on behalf of Minnesota for sending somebody who cared so much to Washington."
Linden Hills resident Pete Dross met the Wellstones while he was a student at Carleton College in the late 1970s. They worked together to protest some of the college's investments and became friends. Dross went on to work at the Center for Victims of Torture, and he recalls how the Wellstones were dedicated to the center's mission.
The Wellstones leave behind a legacy of hope in their firm belief that individual citizens can make the world a better place, Dross said. "They believed it and they walked it."
Ritchie spoke at a gathering of remembrance held at the College of St. Catherine to mark the five-year anniversary of Wellstone's death. Although no official events were planned at Lakewood Cemetery, Gjerde said Wellstone's gravesite will soon be included in a publication that provides cemetery visitors with information about some of the most prominent people buried at Lakewood. Visitors can use the publication to give themselves a self-guided tour.
Yet Wellstone's mark extends far beyond the granite stone carved with his name.
"One thing he liked to say quite often and that I refer to whenever I do my political community work is that politics is about improving people's lives," Hornstein said. "He was doing this to improve people's lives, whether it was farmers who were struggling or workers losing their jobs or just giving a voice to people who wouldn't have had a voice."
The reverence with which people across the United States still talk about Paul and Sheila Wellstone, even five years after their death, is an indication of the impact their work made, Dross said.
"People talk about how their death was a loss for the nation and not just Minnesota," he said. "Their impact was obviously felt here, but I think they inspired people across the country."


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CUCET 2013 Candidates Confused over the displayed results
Published: Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 17:25 [IST]
Several candidates who appeared for the Central Universities Common Entrance Test (CUCET) -2013 were in for shock and surprise after they found the results notified twice, with different marks, on the CUCET website.
While a few were lucky to get additional marks in the second publication, many have had their marks cut.
A L Selvam, brother of Meena, a candidate who appeared for the entrance exam for MSc Economics, found her marks reduced the second time. She had scored 45 out of 135 in the results that were first put out on the website.
However, the second time, her marks were cut short to 34. Besides, she was found ineligible for the course as mathematics was not part of her higher secondary subjects. However, Selvam claims that no such criteria was set at the time of applying for the exams.
Another candidate, S Veera Prasath, is awaiting a reply to his mail to the authorities seeking to know why his marks were reduced from 48 to 33. "I had applied for admission to Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics and my name appeared in the rank list. I don't know why the marks were revised. There is no response from the university as well," he added.
Though his name had appeared in the rank list, he is skeptical about getting an admission. The counselling is scheduled to be held on Tuesday, he said. Yet another candidate, Deepak Raj, had applied for Bsc BEd, MSc Life Science and Msc Mathematics, and had scored 31 initially.
However, when the results were put out for the second time, it was reduced to 25. While applying for the examination, there had been an option for Bsc BEd, but interestingly, when enquired with the university through the phone number provided on the website, an official had said there was no such course this year.
"When we sought the reason for change in marks, the officials said that it was due to a technical fault. However, we have both mark lists which is a proof of the goof up," said his father S Ravi.
However, there were some lucky ones like Abdul Jalal, who surprisingly got additional marks in the second results.
"I scored 35 first, but the second result showed it as 73 out 135," he added. Revanth, who had applied for MSc Economics, was also lucky to score more in the second results. However, he found himself ineligible as he did not opt for Mathematics in Plus Two.
"When I enquired with the Central University of Tamilnadu, I was told that since I did not choose mathematics in Plus Two, I was ineligible. But nothing as such was mentioned in the application," he said.
Earlier, CUCET candidates, upon reaching the examination centres allotted to them, were taken by surprise when they were told that the exam had been postponed. An official source at the Central University of Tamil Nadu said more than 500 applicants had applied from TN.
Source: Indian Express.
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About 100 kilometers east of Addis Ababa is the city of Nazaret, the third largest city in Ethiopia. More than 1 million citizens live here, including an estimated 7,000 teenage prostitutes. This is the reason Buckner/Bright Hope started a job training program here three years ago, and the reason why so many young women's lives are being transformed.
Today I saw more than 125 young adults, ages 16 – 28, being trained in unique job skills – wood working, welding, plumbing, hair dressing, and masonry. They train for eight months and then spend the ninth month doing on-the-job training, working for a business for free. It's this "real-world" model Getahun Tesema, Buckner/Bright Hope director, says is critical to the program's success.
Many of the students end up being hired by the business they trained with. Others go on to start their own business with financial help from Buckner/Bright Hope.
I spent a good amount of time today interviewing the beneficiaries of this program, many of whom are orphans or live in severe poverty. They all have a certain amount of hope, and optimism, about their future. Many have already scouted out the market and are confident their line of business will help them provide for their family.
One young lady, Ejigayehu Asseya, is studying wood working. At 20 years old, she is responsible for providing for herself and her sister. They are both orphans.
I asked Ejigayehu what her life would be like if she hadn't been given this opportunity, and she immediately became quiet. She looked down at her hands, up at me, and down again. She spoke in Amharic, which I do not understand, and yet – I knew exactly what she was saying.
Nigussio Chequalla, 28, is another young man benefiting from the wood working training. Nigussio was born with a physical disability that prevents him from walking or running well. He graduated from high school six years ago, but was unable to find work because of his condition.
"I have no father and no mother. They have already died," he said. He went on to explain that he lives with his extended family, who for the past six years have treated him as a slave.
According to the staff, now that Nigussio is learning a trade at the Buckner/Bright Hope training center, his extended family is treating him much better in hopes that he will one day take care of them financially.
Birtukan Taffa, 23, is learning the skill of plumbing. Birtukan has nine sisters and one brother, and she is responsible for providing for all of them. Her mother is dead and her father is "retired" and cannot work.
"I have a plan to support my sisters and brother when I complete this program," she explained. Before entering the program, she was working as a day laborer and taking work wherever she could get it. Now, she is certain she wants to work as a plumber because she has already scouted the market and knows that there is a great need for plumbers in Nazaret.
Birtukan gave me an encouraging message which I promised I would share with others.
She told me that we should continue to do this program, because it is a good program that helps a lot of people. She said that there are many people who are in a worse situation than she is, and they need help, too.
As I think about what she said, I can't help but think she's talking about her own sisters – nine new faces the streets of Nazaret might claim. I am hopeful that with Birtukan's training, she will be able to not only provide for her sisters and brother, but serve as a role model. And in doing so, the power of this program can become exponential. As she is empowered to provide, she will empower her family to do the same.
Ten new productive members of the Nazaret workforce, thanks to one life-changing program. Yes, Birtukan, I think this is something we should continue to do.
Jenny Pope, Buckner publications editor, traveled to Ethiopia in June 2009. This is taken from her blog entry during the trip at blog.itsyourmission.com.


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Q: Get all IDeclaredType-s in current project (for a ReSharper Generator plugin) I'm writing a ReSharper 7.1 Generator plugin and need to get a list of all types declared in the current project (classes, interfaces and structs - IDeclaredType-s) for the GeneratorProviderBase<CSharpGeneratorContext>.Populate method.
With regular reflection it would be as simple as Assembly.GetTypes(), but here it's proven to be quite a challenge. Is there a way to do this?
I've searched high and low, the docs and samples didn't help, then looked through every *Extensions and *Util class, but couldn't find anything useful...

A: I managed to do what I needed, but I'm not really sure if it's the right/best approach:
[GeneratorElementProvider("MyGeneratorProvider", typeof(CSharpLanguage))]
public class MyGeneratorProvider : GeneratorProviderBase<CSharpGeneratorContext>
{
    public override double Priority
    {
        get { return 0; }
    }

    public override void Populate(CSharpGeneratorContext context)
    {
        var projectCsFiles = GetAllCSharpFilesInProject(context.PsiModule);
        var declarations = projectCsFiles.SelectMany(GetDeclarationsFromCSharpFile).ToList();
        context.ProvidedElements.AddRange(declarations.Select(d => new GeneratorDeclarationElement(d)));
    }

    private static IEnumerable<ICSharpFile> GetAllCSharpFilesInProject(IPsiModule projectModule)
    {
        PsiManager psiManager = projectModule.GetPsiServices().PsiManager;
        return projectModule.SourceFiles.SelectMany(f => psiManager.GetPsiFiles<CSharpLanguage>(f).OfType<ICSharpFile>());
    }

    private static IEnumerable<ITypeDeclaration> GetDeclarationsFromCSharpFile(ICSharpFile file)
    {
        return file.NamespaceDeclarationNodes.SelectMany(GetDeclarationsFromCSharpNamespace);
    }

    private static IEnumerable<ITypeDeclaration> GetDeclarationsFromCSharpNamespace(ICSharpNamespaceDeclaration namespaceDeclaration)
    {
        foreach (var namespaceChild in namespaceDeclaration.Body.Children())
        {
            var classDeclaration = namespaceChild as IClassDeclaration;
            if (classDeclaration != null)
            {
                yield return classDeclaration;
            }
            else
            {
                var childNamespace = namespaceChild as ICSharpNamespaceDeclaration;
                if (childNamespace != null)
                {
                    foreach (var declaration in GetDeclarationsFromCSharpNamespace(childNamespace))
                    {
                        yield return declaration;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Any comments or simpler (maybe even built-in) ways of doing this?

A: Here's what I came up with using the cache. It still doesn't seem right, but I expect it to be better than the previous approach. This is still called from a GeneratorProvider.Populate:
public static IEnumerable<ICSharpTypeDeclaration> GetAllPublicTypeDeclarations(this IPsiModule module)
{
    var declarationCache = module.GetPsiServices().CacheManager.GetDeclarationsCache(module, false, true);
    var declarations = new List<ICSharpTypeDeclaration>();

    foreach (var shortName in declarationCache.GetAllShortNames())
    {
        var declaredElements = declarationCache.GetElementsByShortName(shortName).OfType<ITypeElement>().Where(e =>
        {
            var elementType = e.GetElementType();
            return elementType == CLRDeclaredElementType.CLASS || elementType == CLRDeclaredElementType.INTERFACE || elementType == CLRDeclaredElementType.ENUM;
        });

        foreach (ITypeElement declaredElement in declaredElements)
        {
            var declaration = declaredElement.GetDeclarations().OfType<ICSharpTypeDeclaration>().FirstOrDefault(d => d.GetAccessRights() == AccessRights.PUBLIC);
            if (declaration != null)
            {
                declarations.Add(declaration);
            }
        }
    }

    return declarations;
}

Note: The results won't be the same as in the first answer, cause I've changed some restrictions. Also, in both cases, I'm not concerned with partial classes.

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You will work in team of max 5 persons to implement the solution that fits according to the problem statement you have chosen. Shortlisted teams would be prompted for the solution implementation and would be provided with 5 weeks of time to implement their ideas. The shortlisted teams on the last day will pitch at the finale of the HackamotiVE to present their projects (the projects will uploaded to youtube and the link should be shared).
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Teams must consist of 1 to 5 members.
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Клатрин — білок, який відіграє одну з найважливіших ролей в утворенні везикул в клітині. Клатрин був відкритий Барбарою Персі () в 1975 році. Цей білок утворює структури, які нагадують трискеліон і складаються з трьох «важких» і трьох «легких» ланцюгів клатрину. Клатринові трискеліони можуть асоціювати між собою, утворюючи полігональну решітку, яка містить у собі везикулу. Звідси походить назва білка, оскільки латиною clatratus означає «решітка». Оболонкові протеїни, такі як клатрин, беруть участь у формуванні везикул усередині клітини. Екзоцитоз та ендоцитоз везикул дозволяє клітинам комунікувати між собою, переносити поживні речовини та сигнальні молекули тощо. Процес ендоцитозу може бути використаний патогенами, такими, як віруси, для проникнення всередину клітини.

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Клатриновий трискеліон побудований з трьох «важких» клатринових поліпептидних ланцюгів, які взаємодіють своїми C-кінцями, кожен масою ~190 kDa, а також трьома «легкими» поліпептидними ланцюгами масою ~25 kDa, що міцно зв'язані з важкими. Важкі ланцюги є основою клатринових ґраток, тоді як легкі ланцюги більше задіяні в регуляції зборки та розборки цілої клатринової комірки. Клатринові легкі ланцюги можуть існувати у вигляді двох форм, які позначаються a і b. Важкий ланцюг клатрину, кодований геном на хромосомі 17 в людини, експресується в усіх тканинах. Інший ген, що кодує важкий ланцюг, розташований на хромосомі 22, експресується в м'язах.

N-термінальний домен важкого ланцюга клатрину закінчується напівкінцевою β-пропелерною структурою, завдяки якій відбувається взаємодія з іншими білками. Видовжена частина клатрину утворена суперспіралізованими альфа-спіралями.

Коли клатринові трискеліони взаємодіють між собою в розчині, видовжені домени мають певний запас гнучкості для утворення шестикутних та п'ятикутних фрагментів, які необхідні для збірки тривимірної комірки. Коли багато трискеліонів об'єднуються між собою, може утворитися корзиноподібна структура. На малюнку вище зображена така структура, утворена з тридцяти шести трискеліонів, один з яких показаний блакитним кольором. Іншою типовою тривимірною формою, утвореною клатрином, є зрізаний екосаедр.

У клітині клатриновий трискеліон у цитоплазмі взаємодіє з адапторним протеїном на мембрані. Клатрин не може взаємодіяти з мембраною або везикулою напряму, і тому потребує протеїнового адаптора. Декілька мембранасоційованих клатринів можуть взаємодіяти між собою, поступово складаючись у жорстку тривимірну структуру, складену з п'ятикутників та шестикутників, що змушує мембрану викривлятись. Різні комбінації п'яти- й шестисторонніх з'єднань дають змогу отримати вигини різної форми та розмірів.

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Клатрин відіграє головну роль у процесі формування везикул. Клатринові везикули () утворюються навколо різних молекул на клітинній мембрані, комплексу Гольджі та інших локаціях у клітині. Після доставлення везикули за призначенням клатринові молекули, які утворювали ґратку навколо неї, роз'єднуються, і молекули, що вивільнилися, готові до утворення решітки навколо наступної везикули.

Процес утворення везикул неможливий без адапторних білків. Такими білками є, наприклад, AP180 та епсин. AP180 бере участь у формуванні синаптичних везикул. Епсин залучає клатрин на мембрани та сприяє його полімеризації, а також сприяє викривленню мембрани.

Клатрин також виконує інші функції. У клітинах, що не діляться, утворення клатринових везикул відбувається постійно. Цей процес повністю припиняється під час мітозу. У цей час клатрин асоціюється з веретеном поділу в комплексі з двома іншими білками: TACC3 та ch-TOG/CKAP5. Клатрин є допоміжним фактором у сегрегації хромосом за рахунок стабілізації кінетохорних мікротрубочок веретена поділу.

Клатрин-опосередкований ендоцитоз () регулює багато фізіологічно важливих процесів, таких як інтерналізація рецепторів, проникнення патогенів або синаптична передача сигналів.

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 Епсин
 Синаптична везикула
 Адаптин
 Рецептор-опосередкований ендоцитоз

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PROSPECT DESIGNER BRINGING DRESS RELIEF TO LOCALS
TAFE NSW Macquarie Fields
Jessica Cortis
Published Date1 Year Ago
Picture: TAFE NSW student Olivia Liros' designs
Blacktown fashionistas are celebrating local access to couture evening wear after the launch of a new Western Sydney-based label by an up-and-coming Prospect fashion designer.
TAFE NSW Macquarie Fields graduate Olivia Liros comes from a family who all work in the wedding industry and is determined to bring a new and edgy spin to the range fashion choices available to locals, without having to travel to the city.
Spending her teenage years undertaking work experience at her extended family's bridal store, Olivia had a desire to bring the couture scene to the West and made her dream career a reality by studying a Diploma of Applied Fashion Design and Merchandising (Design and Product Development), which is offered at TAFE NSW Macquaire Fields and TAFE NSW Lidcombe.
Olivia has launched her label L.I.V and is now designing eveningwear for clients across Western Sydney. With an eye for comfortable and edgy elegance, her work highlights sleek, neutral designs for women. She is also now looking at expanding her work to include resort wear.
"There are so many beautiful eveningwear dresses out there for women but it's rare to find something that is elegant and comfortable, which is the point of difference in my designs," Olivia said.
"My teachers at TAFE NSW have been a big help in equipping me with the hands-on skills that I need to design and make garments and learn how to shape fabrics to suit different body types."
Olivia's hand-made her own clothing range, which was modelled at the TAFE NSW end of year fashion show in 2019. Her clothing range is inspired by her fashion muse, Australian designer Toni Maticevski.
It's an ideal time for Olivia to be working in the fashion industry, with arts and design on the rise in Western Sydney, strengthened by the relocation of the Museum of Applied Arts and Science's Powerhouse Museum to Parramatta.
TAFE NSW Head Teacher of Fashion, Fiona Lloyd, said Olivia was a shining example of the opportunities available to TAFE NSW students.
"The Diploma of Applied Fashion Design and Merchandising is the perfect blend of creative and business, giving students the outcomes in design and product development, operations, marketing and consumer behavior to be able to succeed in the fashion industry."
"Thanks to the practical, real-world skills she has developed by studying at TAFE NSW, Olivia is ready to take her fashion label to the next level and work side-by-side with industry."
If you are ready to enrol in a fashion course at TAFE NSW, visit www.tafensw.edu.au/courses/fashion-and-textiles-courses, or call 131 601.
Media Contact: Jessica Cortis, TAFE NSW Media and Communications Business Partner, 0456 170 211.
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Key Pen Middle School students involved in school bus accident
Pierce County Sheriff deputies and the State Patrol assisted the traffic flow on the Key Pen Highway while injured students and drivers were transported to St. Anthony Hospital. It took about two hours to clear the accident from the highway. There was major damage to the rear of PSD bus 47. Photo: Danna Webster, KP News
Shortly after 11 a.m. on Nov. 18, school bus 47 from Key Peninsula Middle School was involved in an accident. It was an early dismissal day and students were being transported home. The accident occurred south of the Shell station on Key Pen Highway.
Thirty-four students were on the bus. Six students were transported to St. Anthony hospital for evaluation and injuries were reported as minor.
Emergency medic units also transported the school bus driver and the two drivers of the other vehicles involved. Division Chief of Operations Guy Allen at Key Peninsula Fire District 16 reported that he had not received an official hospital report but no one was admitted into the hospital and most went home quickly.
First on the scene were an engine and Medic Unit from FD 16. They received the call at 11:20 a.m. and were on the scene in nine minutes. The Key Peninsula units were assisted by medic units from South Kitsap and Gig Harbor. Key Pen highway was cleared of the accident and open to traffic at 1:24 p.m. after the state patrol investigation.
FD 16 Division Chief Chuck West reported from the scene his appreciation for the back up assistance from South Kitsap and Gig Harbor. They needed all their vehicles to transport the six students and three drivers to the hospital.
Peninsula School District officials were also on the scene. Division Chief Allen said, "The school district was very responsive. Administration was there in the first 20 minutes and they had another bus in route to transport the other students."
Amy Nelson, Director of Assessment and Accountability for Peninsula School District said the parents of students transported to the hospital were contacted immediately and then all of the parents of the other student passengers were contacted. "Our concern is for the safety of our students and contacting parents," Nelson said and noted that PSD updated their website about the incident immediately.
According to Allen, the school bus stopped for traffic and a pickup truck following the bus was unable to stop. The pickup truck pulled into the southbound lane to avoid collision with the bus. The southbound lane was occupied by an oncoming van. The pickup tried to correct back and collided with the van and the rear of the bus at the same time.
The accident is under investigation by the Fire District, Pierce County Sheriff and State Patrol.
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Well I do like Chocolate Chip Cookies. Time to relax, a good book, going to mass, a hot cup of tea (with a cookie is best), my dog Chip, getting lost in genealogy, going to the mountains, and big family dinners are a few of my favorite things.
We are definitely on the same mindset! If I had to make a favorite thing list that wasn't actually THINGS, I would need more than ten for sure! Thanks for your comment!


I know the yarn is Regia, but once again, the colourway escapes me. I always take a picture of the ball band to try and avoid just this moment, but these ones have been around for so long that it's hopeless.
I've got the ball band for these ones, Lang Super Soxx, Cashmere Color 4-ply, colour fetchingly named 904.0010. (There. Now I can lose it.) I knit along on those for a while, but it didn't scratch the itch. It didn't feel like knitting really, just something to do, and this morning the feeling is still there. I picked up my knitting and realized that I'm starting to get over the Big White. The urge to have something a little more fussy is upon me, and I found myself browsing patterns, looking through ideas, re-reading notes that I left myself about things I wanted to knit, back when the Big White was all I was allowed to knit. I thought about starting a bit more lace, perhaps a few cables. Maybe something else beaded, now, while I know where my tiny crochet hook is?
Then I went upstairs and got myself something to spin. Clearly, I'm not totally over it. Maybe tomorrow.
*PS. The hill repeats were a bust yesterday. My cough is better, apparently better enough to let me ride, but not to let me ride hills. I did three loops through the park to warm up, then made one ascent, tried to hack up the lower lobe of my left lung at the top, and limped home. I suppose one is better than none, but it was pretty demoralizing. Today's a new day. I'll try again.
Cameron got the knitting time. He's working on his second project – and it's a doozy, though he doesn't know it. He did so well with his first project that I decided he could handle something really good, so he's working on a Baby Surprise Jacket – and he's almost done. A few rows away from the buttonholes, and he's learned how to increase, decrease, follow his markers, read his knitting, knit into the back of a stitch, pick up a dropped stitch, and cast on and off. (I find the secret with clever beginners is not to tell them when they're doing something hard.) It was hard to give up the knitting time, but pretty satisfying to see Cameron churn along.
Today I'm trying to find it in me to get on my bike and go do hill repeats. (They're exactly what they sound like. Ride to the top of a hill, ride down, repeat.) It's about a thousand degrees in the shade though, and I've decided to wait until this evening when it's not ridiculous out there. It reduces the amount of swearing I do on the bike tremendously. (Note that I've said "reduce". A nice knitter on instagram said she passed me cycling on the trail on Saturday, and I've been worried the whole time that I was cursing when she saw me.) Let's do Karmic Balancing Gifts until I can motivate myself to get out there, shall we? To recap: You donate (or tweet, or facebook, or tell a friend) to a member of Team Knit (that's me, Pato, Ken and Cameron) and send me and email with the subject line "I helped" (send it to stephanieATyarnharlotDOTca – changing the AT and DOT to the appropriate symbols, and noting the .ca) and then as often as I can, I spread the Karma around.
Fiona W, Liz R, Deborah D, Bonnie J, Janis M, Lindsey T, Erin R, Barbara S, Pferdina and Natalie R will all be enjoying her generosity. As if that wasn't enough, 10 knitters can pick three patterns each from her store. (With the exception of Daddy's prayer shawl, because Tanja's already generously donating the proceeds from that one elsewhere.) There's lots of pretty things to choose from. Those are for Suzyn J, Kim C, Ruth H, Irina N, Kathryn K, Amanda G, Leanne D, Dawn S, Sarah L, and Kate E.
Here's a beautiful hand quilted bag by Kristy, from her very pretty shop Eleven Stiches on Etsy. She'll be sending that out (it's perfect for big knitting projects) to Sarah K.
Kris has two amazing gifts from her stash to yours. (The Karma is strong with this one.) First 7 skeins of Malabrigo Rueca handspun superwash DK (well kind of thick-thin really) merino 285 yds "teal feather"colour, that will be going to Shanna H.
The second is 4 skeins of Madelinetosh Vintage superwash worsted merino 200 yds in Oak (Oh, so pretty) for Jade O.
Finally (for today – there's so much more) Jeanne went stash diving, and came up with four beautiful gifts for all of you. Of her first gift she writes "I would like to donate a bag from Erin Lane Bags and a 300 yd skein of Knit Circus Greatest of Ease (80% merino/20% nylon) in the color "Meet me at the Fair". Simply a lovely little kit I received, but unfortunately they are not my colors. I know someone else will give this the love it deserves." I hope that's true of Sharon C because that's where it's headed.
"Two skeins of Huckleberry Knits (80% BFL/20% nylon, 420 yards) in the colors "WineSap" and "Rock Candy". Hoping whoever receives this can enjoy a nice glass of wine while knitting up something lovely!" I bet that's exactly what Josiane R plans.
3 skeins of Shibui (100% Superwash Merino, 525 total yards) in the color "50's Kitchen". (That's so perfectly named) for Tia D.
"2 skeins of Plymouth Happy Feet (90% merino, 10% nylon, 384 yards each) in the colors "Tuscan Spice" and "Purple Iris" plus a cute bag from Erin Lane Bags to carry a fun project around!" And that's going out to Joy C.
Well, there you go. 28 gifts, all done and dusted, and the hill beckons. (Actually, my knitting beckons. I thought I might get a few rows in before I ride.) If you think your name is listed here, check your inbox. I've emailed all the lucky ducks.
There is nothing that I regret about the last few weeks of my life. That my time went to my girl and her wedding, that my energy went in that direction? A good choice, my knitters. A good choice. The shawl, the arrangements…it was all fine, but the whole time there was a twitchy little voice in the back of my head … a voice that said "What about the Rally?" and in true Stephanie form, I replied that I would worry about that later.
Blog. It is later, and despite the fact that I am in my late forties, for some impossible magic reason I thought that procrastination would work better for me now than it has in the past. (I suppose I procrastinated on figuring out that procrastination is a bad plan.) Last night I looked at my fundraising (way behind) at my work on the Steering Committee (barely up to date, thanks for covering me Cam) and then my Blog, I looked at my arse, and I realized that on no level am I ready.
Departure is in 4 weeks and 1 day. This weekend marks the back-to-back deadline. By now, I'm supposed to have ridden two long rides, 90km or more, on two consecutive days. I haven't been on my bike in (ahem, I was doing a wedding) more than a week. (It's longer than that, but there's only so much panic I can engage in at once.) Last night I made a vow. I looked at the date of the rally, I realized that If I don't get on my bike in a really, really big way in the next couple of weeks, riding my bike to Montreal is going to hurt like you wouldn't believe, and I made a commitment to ride every day between now and then.
Then I lay in my bed, cried and coughed, because Blog, I have a terrible cold. I caught it right before the wedding, and thanks to the miracle of modern medicine and the ancient tactic of whiskey, I made it through the whole thing, but I'm still wheezing and coughing and blowing my nose, and this morning I realized that I'm still too sick to ride, and I felt just horrible. Every minute I am not on my bike fills me with panic, but today I realized that I just wasn't going to win the day, and I lay down.
Tomorrow I'm going to ride 100km, cold be damned. I might do it slowly, and I will likely be sorry the whole time, but I'm going to ride it. On Sunday I have to sweep a ride in the car with my Co-Lead, and so that day is out. On Monday though, if I get up and get it together, I can ride another 100km, and on Tuesday, I can do the same thing… and then… If I can somehow repeat that over and over for the next month, there's a chance that my middle aged self can somehow get myself to Montreal without crying the whole way.
That was my favourite comment out of all that you left on my last post, and trust me, I loved and read them all. Yes. Man, have you been reading this blog for a long time. The first time I mentioned wee Meg (properly) was Jan 27th, 2004. She was 12. The second was May 4th, in a post entirely devoted to her. (In the name of soft warm merino, click on that link.) That little bundle of knitting energy, of cleverness of… Megan, that teeny girl wed on Monday, and she was not a child. I had been worried that she would be. That she would still seem too small to me. Too… young. I worried that I wouldn't be able to see past being the mother of that girl to see the woman she's so properly become.
I was able to do this, but only on her wedding day, in horrific waves of emotion – which means that for a McPhee woman, I was completely out of control. I was not too bad the evening before. We went out for a "last supper" just our little family, and her betrothed was noticeably and deliberately absent. We went to a stupid local restaurant we've been too a hundred times exactly because of that. We went there, and we ate what we always did, and laughed about what we always do, and then we went home and had champagne in the backyard, and I was fragile, but okay. I went to bed, and the sisters stayed up and drank bubbly in the backyard and were sweet to each other and I don't know what they said, and I don't care. I fell asleep to their laughter, trickling in my window like bells.
The next morning, it was over. I woke up early and came downstairs and drank coffee, and wrote a post to you, and waited for the girls to wake up, and then they did, and the morning was… perfect. There was nail polish crisis* and then I tried to make Meg's bouquet and there wasn't enough greens and Amanda drove me to get more and… even that was perfect. We cooked the food for the reception, we tied the bouquet with ribbon. We chimed in on which tie Ken should wear. What lipsticks for the sisters… Right before we left, Megan sat herself down, took a few minutes, and embroidered her wedding date on the hem of the underskirt of her dress. In blue.
I don't know what it was about that. It was, so much a lesson of her youth. A lesson about handwork and the value of it and what it means to wield a needle and my wee girl thought that up herself, and sat there in the sunshine, needle in hand, and it felt like something I gave her, but maybe it wasn't.
That morning was a poem. It was everything this family was good at… and then we got in the car and went to my mum's and kept on rolling. My sister was there and my Mum and my aunt and Joe shined his shoes and everyone got their hair done (even me which is why I look weird but good in all the pictures) and we were tight. We were generous with each other. I love us best when we are like this. All of us. Our family works beautifully when we are all present.
When we were all ready, I was going to go, to get in a cab and take Joe and Ken and go to the restaurant (did I mention Meg was married in the restaurant my sister owns? Perfect.) and I had a bag and a camera and a thousand details, and then Meg asked me if I would come up, and put her in her dress. Blog, I swear everything was fine until then. At the risk of being overly intimate, I went upstairs, and my sweet daughter stepped out of her jeans and her tee shirt, and she stood there, naked and perfect, and moved from one space to the other, and I held her wedding dress out, and she stepped into it. I don't mind telling you, as she stepped in, and I held it up, and it slipped up over her hips and into her form, and as I slid the zipper up over herself… it ended. I wept. I took the shawl I had made her and placed it round her shoulders, and I kissed her, and fled cowardly to the kitchen.
Her sisters came up then, and were with her. Joe and Ken and I a lift with Pato, and we went to welcome guests. We waited there, me being the only one who had seen her, and the text came, saying she was in the cab, on her way. Her bridegroom stood (I told him she was coming) and then I moved to the back, to take her in though the back door. As I waited, a storm of feelings, my brother stepped up next to me and asked if he could come with. "Oh Please" I said, and we met our girl.
From there, it is a train wreck. From there, I wept every minute. She was, Blog… so beautiful. She was perfect. I mean that. She was generous. She was kind. She gave her day to so many people, and I have never been prouder, and I don't even know why because I think that marriage is optional.
She walked down the aisle with Joe and Ken, and she moved from their arms to his… and somehow, we let go.** Off she drifted. Off she decided. And I wept, just because she was not my baby anymore.
She wed. We welcomed the lad and lo, he is ours. I cried, somewhat helplessly, throughout my whole toast. I kept trying to reign it in, but she is mine and I love her, and I didn't know how to let go of that whole thing.
*The nail polish crisis was me. The ladies put it on me, because of some ridiculous Mother of the Bride rule that I think they made up. it was pink. I wore it until today, when a nice person at a Bike Rally meeting had nail polish remover, and I got it off me.
** This is not even remotely true. I told her husband during my speech that we would not surrender this girl, that at the best, he could share.
*** Joe and Ken you were very strong. My sister and brother cried though.
**** (There is no **** in the post but I wanted to add something) Joe asked the DJ to play "our song" after Megan's choice at the wedding. I was incredibly touched by his romanticism… Except for when I had to remind him it was our song, and dance with me. We are old. Our daughter is married.
***** Any rumour suggesting that Joel Plaskett attended Meg's wedding and sang to her and Alex is totally true. Also? Alex? Welcome to A REALLY COOL FAMILY. We're loud and weird, but as long as you're this good to our Meg, we're on your side.
I was up early today, sitting in a quiet house, waiting for the house to explode around me. The ladies all slept here at home last night, and stayed up long after I went to bed, laughing and talking in the backyard, being sisters together.
I find myself emotional today, though I have a cold, so I look tearier than I feel. Everything feels like a "last time" to me. The last time we'll have dinner together, just our little family. The last time that the girls will sleep here, just the three of them. The last time we'll have breakfast the way we do… after today, everything changes. After today, one of my daughters is a married person, and her husband will be part of this family, and he will come to dinner and… wait, you don't suppose he'll sleep over when the girls do? Best not to worry about that today.
Today is a landmark. My little Meggie.
I'm going to go make her bouquet.
When I wrote "see to-do list 3a" on a spreadsheet this morning, I knew that things were getting intense, wedding wise. We're just a few days out (I refuse to calculate how many hours away Monday is) and things are hairy over here. Everyone is on their own personal set of missions (Hey, how long does Bleeding Heart foliage stay perky after you pick it?) and jobs. (Where's that ribbon? Did you have the ribbon? Wasn't the ribbon on the piano?) We're slowly getting it together (That is definitely not enough candles) and getting ready for the whole thing. (I really do think I can core 50 roma tomatoes in an hour.) One thing is (almost holy cow do I ever need a bunch of pins) off the list.
Blocking, I am in you. Joe, we might sleep on the chesterfield tonight.
But when you're old like I'm old (I'm much older than Stephanie, so this is in no way to imply that she is old), there's a multiplex lens on everything, especially people, and you see not just what they are, but what they've been to you.
This blog, which I gifted to Stephanie so long ago because she so clearly needed more people to talk to about knitting, is more than simply a blog. It's a community. The message that Stephanie takes from knitting is that small actions add up to large outcomes, and that is the backbone of this community that collectively has raised (and continues to raise) over a million dollars for Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders. It's a community that has surprised, delighted and flabbergasted the Toronto People With AIDS Foundation's staff, volunteers and clients, who are all so fortunate to have made your acquaintance. All because Stephanie wanted to do more, and knew that as a community, you could do so.
Stephanie has given me a life I thought I would never have, held to a higher standard, filled with more love and more fun, than I ever would have or could have believed. That's what she does, really, she gives, more than anyone I've known, to a degree that even I, after all this time, find incomprehensible. So much more than just friendship, she has given me my life.
Our relationship remains 999 cranes.
* If you wanted to give me a present, a donation to the Rally would be pretty amazing, and the icing on my virtual birthday cake – which would be kinda great because I don't like actual icing.
** That includes knitting on the Great White. 3.5 rows to go, 3 days to deadline. Unless I break my arm in the next ten minutes while sitting quietly at my desk, I think I got this. Actually, let's not say anything like that.
*** Ken did it last in 2004, then over the years, my Mum, my girls, my sister and Jen all took turns. I must be getting really old to have wound around back to Ken again.
**** There are a lot of reasons to love him. Ken is not just the reason this blog exists, he's also the way this whole family got into the Rally. This year – despite a fall from his bike that resulted in a separated shoulder, he's riding again, and Team Leading. If that impresses you, you can say so through his donation link.
The Big White continues apace, and even though this week has been nothing short of a train wreck time wise, I'm still on track, though my ability to stay that way feels fragile. Row 39 accomplished, seven rows (and that long cast off) to go, and seven (or eight) days to go until shawl deadline. One thing I can say with certainty at this point – I'm not going to run out of yarn or beads. There's tons of both, so there's one layer of worry I can take off this.
Deb has three gorgeous skeins of Rios in Sunset from the Dizzy Sheep, and copies of her three beautiful patterns Mai Sola, Volo and Lenai. (The yarn is enough to make one of the shawls) and I hope that Janet A really loves the combination.
Your fellow knitter Kerry over at C.S Literary Jewelry (careful with that link Knitters, careful) makes beautiful literary themed jewelry, and she's offering up one of her charming (get it?) necklaces. They've got a teapot, a vial of real tea leaves, a quote, a cup. Devastating.
Karen from Greyston Bakery is giving away a A twelve piece assorted brownie gift box. Greyston Bakery is an over 30 year old social enterprise in Yonkers, New York focused on creating jobs for individuals with barriers to employment – including homelessness, incarceration, and chronic, generational poverty and providing access to the resources needed to improve their lives, their families lives and the health of their communities. Click on the link. They're doing amazing things, and Kelly Y is going to get to eat the brownies.
Corrine, purveyor of fine patterns, has a nice thing for some knitters.
Jill, a charming and generous knitter, went into her stash and found two cheerful skeins of yarn that she's somehow able to part with.
She'll be sending those along to Bonnie, and I'm grateful to them both.
and my random knitter-picker says it is for Alex E.
It's a handmade drop spindle, nostepinne, buttons and a shawl stick, and the whole shebang will be going to live with Andrea L.
and after consulting with the fates, it's going to make its merry way to Judy S.
and a Signature Gift Set for Ginni G.
Would you, Could you, on a plane?
Whoosh. I wrote most of this post on Friday – and then I really have absolutely no idea what happened to the weekend. There was a knitting retreat, there were lots of nice people, the days were full and beautiful and long, and at the advent of each of them I thought there would be so much time to finish this post, but then suddenly it would be night time, and I'd be falling over like a tree with another day gone, swearing to make time the next day to have it happen. Then whammo, another wonderful busy train full of knitters would hit me, and now it's Tuesday. Sorry about that. There was a lot going on.
Thursday the big white and I made the trip from Toronto to Port Ludlow, and I decided to be both bold and fierce and knit the whole way. (I brought a sock just in case – I didn't want to be knitting project free the whole way if there was turbulence.) It was worth it, and it worked out perfectly.
I came up with a system pretty quickly. Usually I tip beads into the lid of the container (leaving the container open) and then pick them up as I go. The open container seemed really risky on a plane, so what I'd do was open the thing, dip my hook in until as many beads as it would hold were loaded on it… then snap the lid back on and tuck the beads away. Then I'd lay the crochet hook on my iPad (which also conveniently had the pattern) and the it would snap to the magnetic cover so it couldn't roll away. It worked really, really well. So well in fact, that when I landed, I was on row 32.
That Thursday night I had 15 rows to go, and 15 days until shawl deadline. That left one row a day, and I knew that night that a whole row a day was a complete pipe dream while I was teaching and running a retreat… and I was right. After knitting as much as I could on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and today, I'm on row (drumroll, please….) 34.
That's it. 34. Now I've got 13 rows to go, and 11 days to shawl deadline, and I'd think that I was getting a ton done on the flight home, but I'm needed there, and so I've made a crazy decision to fly home tonight on the red eye from Vancouver to Toronto. I swear that when I made that decision I looked at the fact that it left at 10:30 and arrived at 6am, and thought "Well, that's a seven and a half hour flight I can sleep on" and booked it. I have no explanation for why I thought that. Did I forget the earth was round? Did I forget about time zones? Was it lost on me that Toronto's three hours ahead of the West Coast? Did I forget that that flight's been just under 5 hours every other time I've done it?
Who the hell knows what came over me, but the upshot is that this little knitter is getting on a plane from Seattle to Vancouver shortly, and a few hours after that I'll fly to Toronto, and then I'm hitting the ground running with a full and complicated day on what turns out to be four hours sleep, because yeah – the earth is round, I'm an optimist, and that intersection is not awesome.


TV gal Stephanie Sandoval and her husband Carlos Monge just opened the new and improved Body By Design Personal Training Studio in Ahwatukee. Carlos is a bar-none trainer with a fabulously fit following, including Stephanie, his biggest cheerleader. The new space is bigger and better, and even has childcare (wohoo!). Here, Stephanie and Carlos give you an inside look into their fitness faves, from Stephanie's "torture" sessions to Carlos' favorite 380-calorie restaurant meal (for real!)….
Carlos: Rope workouts are incredible and I like to combine them with resistance training and a solid incline workout on the treadmill. If your heart rate doesn't continually increase, you're not working hard enough to improve cardiovascular conditioning.
Stephanie: I love a good run. I've been a runner since high school and still enjoy taking off on a cool morning for a neighborhood run. I ran a marathon and would love to train again someday! In the summer I'll switch to a treadmill. But if my hubby is training me then he 'tortures' me with his incline treadmill workout!?
Carlos: Up and at 'em in the morning is the best way to go in my book! You're on empty calories so you go straight into fat-burning mode. And you set your mind in motion for healthy eating choices throughout the day, too!
Stephanie: My favorite time to work out is mid-morning. I like to get the day started with my little guys and then workout at 10am, just in time to make a good lunch choice. But, if it means a late workout or no workout, I'll do an afternoon workout! Whatever it takes to get done!
Carlos: Knowing where to find healthy meals that are quick and convenient helps me stick to clean eating. I get the Chipotle chicken salad with black beans, pico de gallo, red spicy salsa and no dressing – only 380 calories. Sometimes I'll add in guacamole, understanding that it's an additional 250 calories. I also recommend that my clients check nutritional information when they're dining out.
Stephanie: Carlos and I love our friends at Z-Tejas in Chandler! And we both love the Grilled Cilantro-Pesto Rubbed Ruby Trout with steamed veggies (the avocado mango relish is amazing!). It's delish and under 550 calories!
Carlos: Prayer is a huge part of my life. I pray several times a day and enjoy listening to contemporary Christian music while I workout… gets me in the zone. Aside from that, the easiest way for me to de-stress is to go to a matinee on Friday afternoons after I'm done training clients. A little escape from the heavy lifting, long hours at Body by Design with no wife, no kids… just me and my Diet Coke and a protein bar.
Stephanie: I manage my stress with prayer and reading a daily devotional in the morning. (I'm reading Jesus Calling right now by Sarah Young.) That really starts my day with fresh perspective. Then, to relax and enjoy a little "me" time, I enjoy going out to lunch or dinner with some girlfriends. It allows me to talk and laugh and share stories, which helps me feel balanced in life with my faith, my family and my friends!
Carlos: I drink a protein shake (whey protein powder and water) right after a workout because you have a 30-minute window where your body absorbs the protein most efficiently. That starts your body's recovery a lot sooner.
Stephanie: Immediately after a workout I reach for a protein shake with roughly 25 grams of whey protein, just a few grams of sugar and low carbohydrates. It fills me up so I can get to the next meal without being tempted to eat comfort foods or sweets that will "undo" what I just accomplished in my workout.
Now that's what I call a gym!


Can we remove dead treas from Municipal Reserve Land?
No, protecting our natural environment is important. Dead wood is essential for the maintenance of biological diverse ecosystems and animal habitats.
What is the process for developement on Municipal Reserve land?
The process for accepting and review of applications for development on Municipal Reserve land starts with contact Sturgeon County Community Services Manager to schedule a meeting to explore the concept and ensure compliance with the Open Space Master Plan. Depending on the scope of the project community group demonstrates public support. Once this is determined and if approved, Community Services will provide the landowner with the authorization to proceed. The Landowner will provide Community Services with an application package that contains 4 sets of general site drawings, any detailed engineering drawings of all existing and proposed municipal improved and lot grading plans, playground specifications, etc. that are consistent with the General Municipal Servicing Standards (GMSS). Other departments within Sturgeon County will review and comment on operational impacts and to ensure the proposal is compliant with GMSS. Once the submission is accepted for contraction, a license agreement is negotiated and executed complete with maintenance standards and insurance expectations. Within 6 months following construction completion the proponent must provide as-constructed record drawings and the internal inventory will be updated to manage Sturgeon County assets.
Can we swim in Cardiff pond?
Water levels and water quality in Cardiff is highly variable and unpredictable. Currently Sturgeon County does not test the water quality in Cardiff, the waters are untreated and therefore we do not promote primary contact recreation activities (e.g. swimming, diving, windsurfing). For the health and safety of our residents we promote NO CONTACT in Cardiff.