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    Show and Sale at Uncommon Grounds Halifax, Nova Scotia
    2008-02-01 13:16:28
    ***SPECIAL***Dear Uncommon Grounds customer and Internetty friend, Thank you to the staff and owners of Uncommon Grounds for supporting the arts by allowing local artists, like myself, to display work there. As a special thank you to you, a customer of Uncommon Grounds (and my Internetty friends), I have reduced the price of these original paintings for this show, during the month of February only. The price list and PayPal buttons are below for this select group of paintings. Since Uncommon Grounds is a Wi-fi location you can purchase your selection as you enjoy your gourmet coffee and meal. When a piece sells, I'll note it on this website. When the show is over (March 1), I’ll ship or deliver the painting to you. Shipping charges may apply. I have deliberately kept the file sizes small for this viewing on the Internet so that they can easily viewed as a group but if you require a larger image of the paintings to view or If you have any questions, please don'...
    By: MaryAnn.ca
     
    Kennedy Information Webinar: Uncommon Sourcing Techniques ...
    2007-11-01 16:48:00
    I just heard from Jeanne Sturges at Kennedy Information that over 700 people have already registered for next Tuesday's webinar (click the link to go to the site):Uncommon Sourcing Techniques that Uncover High Value TalentIt should be a lot of fun and I'm sharing the time with a couple of people that will make your time on the webinar worthwhile: Chris Murdock, Executive Sourcer at Yahoo!, and George Seiters, Sr. Director Corporate Solutions Product Marketing at LinkedIn.You can register by clicking HERE!Here's the best part....it's FREE!Look forward to meeting you on the webinar -Dennis...
    By: WirelessJobs.com
     
    Uncommon Morning
    2007-10-07 15:44:28
    This morning is a bit different.... most Sundays at 8;22 a.m. I am scurrying from place to place directing, speeding up (well, trying to) and reminding so that we can be out the door at 8:40 for first service.But this morning Sadie, our latest evangelist, has two of her friends coming to church with her. These girls came on Wednesday night and are very excited about joining our ROCKS choir (4th 5th and 6th grade) and going to church with us. Neither of them attend church and I met the parents of one of the girls yesterday who I really enjoyed talking with. The family is Hispanic and the mom is bilingual but she heard that I spoke Spanish and tricked me into speaking my faulty Spanish with her for about 10 minutes before she burst into perfect English when talking with my daughter. I jokingly scolded her for putting me through the hassle when obviously her English was much better than my Spanish.I'm learning, based on experience, that the friends one heads into Jr. High with can certainly determine how they live their lives. Kyle, Rand and Jimmy have either made excellent choices in this area or have simply chosen to have their siblings be their friends. However, Mike, John, Salinda and now Ricardo are gravitating towards kids who will either lead them into trouble or be led by them into trouble. Sadie has apparently made some great choices and so I am sacrficing my need to attend two services (I hate missing either service now that they are different) in order to be a taxi driver to pick up these girls and bring them to Sunday School and Church.I feel as though I am carrying out a legacy as my mother was a constant "bringer" when it came to kids and Sunday School. My Junior year of High School I spent driving one church van while my mother drove the other so that we could bring between 30 and 40 Laotian children to Kids Club. It was quite a hassle as we had only one vehicle. My Mom or I would drive my Dad to work in the station wagon to work at 4:30 (he worked nights). At about 5:45 we would drive the car to the church and park it. Then we would each take a church van and drive back down to our inner city neighborhood and fill them up. If there were other kids waiting we would make a second trip. I'll never forget those cute brown faces, in ragged clothing, speaking a language I did not understand, smelling of foods I had never tried.It seems like we've come full circle now. It's almost 30 years later and two weeks from today we will be flying to Texas to bring home two sons whose parents most likely immigrated to this country at the same time as the families of the children we picked up for Wednesday night kids club. This next generation is much different -- though their faces are still brown, their clothes are not raged, they do not speak the language of their parents, and if they smell, it is most likely of hamburgers or pizza. I must conclude my paying tribute to my parents who instilled in me a strong sense of social justice, a clear love for people of all nations, and a passion for caring for those less fortunate. They celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary on Thursday. I blogged their story a couple years ago if you haven't read it. They are aging, but remain committed to one another and remain my greatest inspiration, my primary role models, my consistent prayer support, and my heroes....
    By: Never a Dull Moment
     

    Scott Jones: fanfare for an uncommon man
    2007-05-20 00:19:00
    News:19-05-2007:A message from Scott Jones: Finally, an answer/diagnosis for my hand issues. It turns out that my hand issues are not spine related, though my cervical spine is pretty racked with cervical arthritis. I saw my neurologist today, and he brought in a specialist. They watched me play my guitar for a few minutes, and the specialist asked me a list of questions.It turns out that they have diagnosed me with Musician's Focal Dystonia. It originates in a part of my brain called the Basal Ganglia. Below are some quotes from a medical paper on it that describes perfectly, exactly what I've been dealing with since the end of 2004, when I was practicing intensley, and had played bass on several weeks of gigs, just before the problems started with weird problems with my ring and small finger:"The dystonias are movement disorders in which sustained muscle contractions cause twisting and abnormal postures. All movement disorders stem from disturbance of basal ganglia or their connec...
    By: Truth In Shredding
     
     
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