The Oregon Department of Human Services and their division of Seniors and People with Disabilities has come out with a Facility Compliance website which “allows consumers to get basic information about substantiated complaint findings in nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, residential care facilities, and adult foster homes that serve seniors & people with physical...
[source: The Book of Bunny Suicides, by Andy Riley] Enjoy your day of defiance, Bp.
Seems schools have just figured out that "giving kids junky snacks" leads to "not eating good meals later." Ah. Common sense is not so common. I talked a week or so back about how removing snacks was just one of many tricks for getting kids to down their veggies at dinner. But if the schools are doling them out via vending machines or during class? Not so easy to put a stop to that. (Or is...
Cardboard boxes pile up outside a shoe store down the street. Trash to most people, but hours of enjoyment for two little boys I know. We've been known to swipe a few boxes and build play houses, trains, or whatever their imagination makes of it at the moment. Free entertainment!...
By now you're familiar with this routine, mamas. Last week we shared statements from the Seat 1 candidates we met with, so it only makes sense that next comes Seat 2. We asked them to tell us in 200 words...
My first sense of the modern is in what Roger Shattuck said about Marcel Duchamp: “Can one produce works that are not works of art? He tried; we wouldn’t allow it.” One might say of Robert Rauschenberg: “Can one throw out something that is pure junk? We tried; he wouldn’t allow it.” My second sense of the modern is in Rauschenberg’s famous early work,...
These are the remarks delivered by Peninsula parent Nicole Leggett to the PPS Board of Education Monday, May 14, 2008. -ed. Good Evening, School Board, I'm Nicole Leggett of Peninsula School. It has come to my attention that schools across the district have need of access to books. But not through another multi-million dollar curriculum adoption. What we need for are librarians to input, shelve,...
The first weekly Interstate Farmers Market was today in Overlook Park. It was pretty tame when I was there (from about 3 to 4), with about a dozen merchants and local "Klezmer, Balkan, Gypsy jazz" 5-piece Underscore Orkestra playing to a couple dozen visitors. Maybe it turned into an orgiastic festival of consumption right after I walked home? It ran from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM. There were a...
. This is the tale of a sad, blind, American diplomat and a sad, exiled Russian countess in 1930's Shanghai. The sets and costumes are fabulous, the music is delightful; and the fine acting makes a relatively simple story into something far more compelling. We found it exceptionally enjoyable and spellbinding throughout. I think this film deserves a place with the classics. ....
The massive earthquake in China has caused tremendous destruction and pain. In some cities most of the human population has been wiped out. In this destruction today a young girl was found alive. Why was she singled out to live while so many died? Many questions arise in my mind as I try to understand this destruction. I look to the Buddhist philosophy for answers. Buddha says life is full...
and we know what two cents buys. For me it is only the mayor and city council seats that has any effect on the future of the city, i.e., the county seats have little value. Because I live in Old...
For wine writers in western Oregon, this has been a very busy week; a very enlightening week that brought vast amounts of knowledge not previously experienced by this particular writer. The Dundee Hills Winegrowers Association (DHWA) invited Wine Bytes...
The Portland police shot and killed another person Tuesday night. According to this story, police say the dead man, Jason Spoor, was a suspect in a nearby homicide that had just occurred, and that he "was armed and refused to drop his handgun." This incident might blow over quickly, except for the identity of one of the two officers who fired on the alleged suspect: Scott McCollister, who shot...
Maybe it’s because I’m advancing in years, but it seems to be taking a little longer than expected to get over this jetlag. You know it’s bad when you go to make yourself a cocktail and realize it’s barely 11 AM. I’d been up since 3 AM so it was feeling like the end of the day. I'm still collecting my thoughts about the next post I plan to do on Italy, but I didn’t...
I've always been a little claustrophobic. Not very badly. Not enough to interfere with getting on elevators or even traveling from Chicago to Pittsburgh in a tiny sleeper car with a friend once upon a time. But I've always found MRIs challenging. Even the so-called Open MRIs. For some reason, it doesn't really help me that it's open to my sides when there's still this big metal thing three inches...
Some images from the walled city of Carcasonne, France.
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ORA member Leslie Elder is currently attending a watercolor class with nude models at Multnomah Art Center in Portland. This term the class is taught by Carol Humpage. "Painting with a live model, working quickly," Leslie says, "is great to loosen up my style. I'm really pleased with what it's doing for my artwork. The loosening effect flows over into my non-figurative work. Most recently I've...
Starring Erin, Mike, Adam, Josh, Jim & Allee Filmed on Location in Beautiful Downtown Sellwood Soundtrack: Punch the Clock by Elvis Costello “Isn’t this the greatest thing?” A Timeline for New ITSKers: May, 2007 – The Maiden Voyage of the Sellwood Kitchen. To think it all began with herb chicken, sweet potato oven fries and John Coltrane. Ah, chicken! Our albatross!...
Y'all remember ABC Wednesday - O is for Oops, etc.? Here's that same TriMet sign, altered. How quirky is this? Someone has added an open-mouthed alligator, waiting patiently for the falling cyclist. George Townboy, have you been in Portland and not let me know, bringing some of those gators you've been photographing in Florida? (As a word of explanation, George Townboy is a CDPB, a...
Portland Center Stage’s NOW HEAR THIS invites you to a concert reading of FUBAR a new play by Karl Gajdusek * May 17, 2008 Noon to approximately 2 pm @ Portland Center Stage 128 NW Eleventh Avenue (between Couch & Davis) in the Rehearsal Room Admission is free, but space is limited; email Megan Ward at meganw@pcs.org to reserve your seat -------------------------- --- Mary lives...
Event #4: World History, Knowledge and Reasoning Note: As a Decathlon Event, the Thursday Quiz will again remain at twelve questions, but with some tweaks to its format. Warning: This Quiz is rated Extra Hard. For each century indicated below, there is a list of four significant events. In some cases, those events actually happened during that century. In others, they did not. Determine which...
On Sunday afternoon at the Newmark Theatre, acclaimed pianist Marc-André Hamelin gave a recital that displayed his impeccable command of a wide range of music. The concert, sponsored by Portland Piano International, featured two Haydn sonatas, a jazz-inflected sonata by Weissenberg, a ballade and a barcarolle by Chopin, a Johann Strauss-inspired number by Godowsky, and a couple of new...
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As family law lawyers based in Portland, Oregon, potential clients ask us about if they can move out of the family home with the children, or if they can prevent a move. We hear questions like the following: Can I move with the children out of the marital home? Can the mother or father move out of the family home with the children without my consent? If we haven't followed the parenting...
Here are my notes from Chris Messina’s presentation at community 2.0. In other words, these are my interpretations of his words (not my words). I might have some typos or other errors. Enemies (I missed a few of these) inviting friends profile filling out & linking to other services finding and joining your groups duplicating content Users are not the same thing as customers The Web...
Three from "The Essence of Tao," compiled by Maggie Pinkney. The Five Mile Press The world is won by those who let go! Lao Tzu The things that are really for thee, Gravitate to thee. Ralph Waldo Emerson Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, Is always beyond our grasp, But which, if you sit down quietly, May alight upon you. Nathaniel...
As somebody who commuted six miles daily on a one-speed cruiser Frankenstein for several years (before I gave it away, I had changed every part, including the frame, except for the front wheel), I can much better handle the kind of clown who welds together some funky cool bikes than some other kinds of clowns I saw last weekend. Plus it turns out we've got a zero degrees of separation going with...
Tonight was the best play-reading group night ever. The play we read tonight was the one about Leon Theremin, written by one of the members of the group, and I got to play a real theremin. The music and sound effects were very much scripted into this play, in a way that they have not been in the other plays we've read. Not in the notation sense, but there were cues like, "Tuning" or "Ether", or...
The inaugral edition of Asphalt Sky is here. My poem, Ten Items or Less, is a part of a terrific lineup of poetry, art and fiction. Thanks to Jessica Fox-Wilson for creating it and by Jo Hemmant and Kate Sloan Fiffer for editing. Congradulations! The next submission deadline is due on September 1 for Volume 1, Issue 2....
This article was written by Suzette Fram and has been edited and published with permission of the author. There's often confusion among artists over what their artist statement, biography, and CV (curriculum vitae) should contain. Furthermore, how do you make your biography, or artist statement, interesting and readable? I've read some artist statements that were nothing but...
Genre: Juvenile Fiction Publication Date: 1964 Pages: 300 Challenge: Heart of a Child Challenge #5 From the Publisher: Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. In her notebook, she writes down everything she knows about everyone, even her classmates and her best friends. Then Harriet loses track of her notebook, and it ends up in the wrong hands. Before she can stop them, her friends have read the always...
There's a bloggingheads dialogue* between Ann Althouse and TalkLeft's Jeralyn Merritt that I think captures the essential debate Obama and Hillary have been having throughout the primaries. I'm not sure that's what America voted on, but it's worth passing along as a coda. It's why I've supported Obama for over a year now, and I think it will ultimately bring about a realignment of...
I'm not big on going to the dentist. I don't think I've had any regular dental care in the last 8 years or so, and I never really cared to do anything about it until recently. I wasn't having any pain or anything, but it just started to bother me that my horribly crooked bottom teeth were just starting to look dingy. On top of that, I had a small chip break off of one of my upper molars. So, it...
Make a quickie comic strip - Pop Candy - USATODAY.com Portland's toonlet gets coverage from USA Today: "A lot of possibilities exist within the site: Users can comment on strips, so you could blog via comic. Your strips can be featured on your own sites/profiles. I'm hoping new features will be added as the site expands, but for now characters can include Peter Bagge-drawn parts, pirate...
The mercury's expected to hit 88 degrees on Thursday and 94 degrees on Friday, according to KATU Meteorologist Rod Hill (a.k.a. my co-worker at the news station). Hmm... I wonder if my boss would buy my story if I called in sick. Uh... probably not. But wait, it's going to be 90 on Saturday and...
I guess the graphics don't actually say it anywhere, but these are current water temperatures on area rivers...chilly! In fact I went down to the boat ramp on the Sandy river at Troutdale to measure the temperature today, and was surprised by how cold it was. Because of the warm and slightly moist weather + cold water temp, you could see a condensation fog hovering over the river...kind of like...
It was just found out this afternoon that Hillary Clinton will be conducting a Town Hall meeting broadcast live on KGW at 7pm this coming Friday, May 16th, at 7pm. This will be in their studio A and a 5 camera shoot. Additional bleachers are being added (rented) for this event. Hillary's people were buzzing around today and the secret service start buzzing around tomorrow. Details will be reveled...
In the the premier of the new Barnes & Noble Studio series Cover Story, John Gall, Art Director for Vintage/Random House, talks about the design process and shares his five secrets for creating a successful book cover. The series will explore the world of book cover designers through stories and anecdotes.Book cover design has always fascinated me and this is a great five-minute look at the...
The deep and heavy parenting topics are great, but sometimes I personally love to compare notes on mindless stuff. The big thought-provoking question for me these days is, what's on your Netflix queue? I'll share mine, if you share yours. Atonement. Because it's an Academy Award winner. Raising Cain. For a showing with for a group of mamas of boys. A Walk to Remember. A "mood-inducing"...
Updated: There is a better article on the repeal on yahoo, here. A recent article in the New York Times says that Chicagoans have come to their senses, and overturned the ban on foie gras. That leaves California as the sole state that has legislated against it, though their ban doesn't take effect until 2012. Anyone want to take bets as to wether their law will ever happen? You can read more...
I had been itching to do another paper cut this week and was able to bust this out 2 nights ago when I was supposed to be working on other things. I feel so much better. Some random items: -Quilt Market is this weekend in Portland. It's to the trade only (Bummer for most sewers, sorry.) but the good news is it's bringing a slew of big fabric designer rock stars to this town for a few days....
I just ran across one of those posts on No Impact Man that shakes up what I consider to be essential appliances in the kitchen. Their household has adjusted to not using a freezer in their kitchen! Having the refrigerator component separate from the freezer part makes that shift a bit easier I imagine... but still! [refering to their under the counter freezer] "It's still in the apartment but...
NW Ryan is back on the market. The transaction failed today through no fault of the seller or the property. The cash buyer walked away from the transaction and forfeited their earnest money. This is only the second time in five years that I have seen a buyer walk at this stage in a transaction but this is exactly what earnest money is for. 100% of it will go to the seller. There were no...
...so I have to get this out of my head. Ever since I heard it I can NOT get it to frakking leave (I know that looks wrong but I checked) so I gotta post this and get it out of my brain. In the season premiere for Battlestar Galactica (and it's been like a month so this is not a spoiler) there's a ship that gets blown up in the big battle at the start of the episode. Right out of the gate, wham!...
We get emails, lots and lots of emails: I just came across your blog, and find it fascinating. As a former member/intern of the City Church and Capital Christian Center, and a frequent visitor to CBC, including a combined mission trip with all three churches, and one once privileged to the "inner circles" of the these of Churches, I couldn't fit all of my experiences into one email, but I had to...
Tagged by Swinebread with another blog nugget! It’s the Book meme. I have to grab the nearest book, turn to page 123, locate the fifth sentence, and then post the next three sentences on my blog, and then tag five other people. The book is Tales of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin The passage is: "A little gift," Diamond said indistinctly. "Enough for Tricks." "How do you know that?"...
Seventy-one years ago today — on May 15 in 1937 — my Dad was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Obviously, given the events of this past April 10, he didn't quite make it to his birthday this year. Of course, I inevitably just would have forgotten it completely, until some number of days afterward....
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