The treble clef is hand-cut from a broken drum cymbal and attached to a disc cut from a retired vinyl record. The backing is a black resin disc with gold marbling hand brushed to its surface. No two are alike.
This makes a great hostess or teacher gift. Pair with a bottle of wine or a special balsamic vinegar or olive oil.
The stopper base, sourced from a U.S. manufacturer, is machined from 360 brass, with FDA nitrile o-rings that create a tight seal to the bottle. The four graduated bands will securely fit most bottle sizes.
I was born and raised in Edmonton and attended the University of Alberta and earned an undergraduate degree in Science and French. After completing my degree, I moved to Calgary for medical school and graduated in 2015. Although I loved the city, I could never cheer for the Flames, so I came home to Edmonton for my residency in Family Medicine. I love all facets of family medicine but am particularly interested in maternity care and women’s health. There are very few things in life that I enjoy being woken up for in the middle of the night, but delivering babies is definitely one of them.
When I’m not at work, I can be found bragging about my puppy Dora, travelling with my wonderful husband, Sabin, or honing my gardening skills.
Community involvement has a great impact on the entire community. Since at one point of time you relied on the community, a time will come when you are supposed to take it back. Community revolves around much to do with what we do on daily basis. From the local villages to urban areas there is a need for community involvement. In the community, there is both the literate and the illiterate.
The literate helps the community to grow through sharing ideas and correcting anything that they think it’s in the wrong direction. Unity in various communities is enhanced through such kind of ways. Most of the times you find out that the illiterate persons are reluctant. The ignorance is what makes the community to lag behind. You may be wondering, what is the importance of community involvement? This website outlines some of the importance of community involvement.
Sharing of ideas is the first sign you can have from community involvement. Issues will always come and you will be required to handle them as a community. Through community involvement the issues that affect the community will be no more since solutions will be sought. Therefore, it is important as a community to share opinions on the issues tackling your life. Once ideas are shared, you find out that there is that one person who has given an idea that is the most preferred. It is important that once opinions are shared, you implement them with immediate effect so as to take effect to the public. Sometimes it happens that some communities cannot come together and share ideas on how to handles the happenings. Community involvement will be of great advantage to those persons whose standards of living are extremely low. Therefore, you will end up developing your community from one level to another.
The community get to learn new information from the community involvement. The public learns new information from the people enhancing community involvement. If you come with the idea of how it is supposed to be done, then you will be helping. Various skills whether technical or scientific has to be put in place for the project to work out. If you are among those implementing the project then you will pass the knowledge to the community. They will be in a position to learn more on new things that they did not know.
The third significance of community involvement is the feeling of ownership. The whole community will be thankful to itself since its project turned out a success. They will be in a position to make their decisions and be accountable for anything that happens. As an individual when you are sure you got involved in implementing the project you will applause yourself.
During the colder months most of us make a pretty good dent in our sofas by spending lots of time getting all cozy and dreaming of warmer weather. We were ecstatic to hear that Punxsutawney Phil didn’t see his shadow (yippee!), because at Art Van, we dream of warmer weather… and redecorating. If you feel the same impulse to create, we’re here to remind you that a little rearranging goes a long way. You’d be surprised how different your favorite chair looks three feet to the left.
Now that we know spring is arriving sooner than we expected, we really have the urge to freshen up the furniture and maybe toss on a fresh coat of paint in one of the super hot colors for 2011. If the “it’ color Honeysuckle is too out there for you, there are plenty of other color options to put a spring in your step.
Gray is still the neutral that reigns supreme. It’s the go-to color for walls, floors, furniture, and fashion. We love how well it goes with what you already have, but also how it brings out the vivacity of brighter colors like orange, fuchsia, and green. Speaking of green, what other color paints a better picture for the promise of new beginnings? There are various shades you can use to give your home a fresh feel, and this color is especially good for accent walls and accessories.
Before you start with all of the heavy lifting, try redecorating with our Room Planner. This free tool allows you to input all your room dimensions and contents so you can see how different arrangements will look. Then shop online or come in to see all the exciting new designs blooming in our showrooms, the Clearance Center, and Scott Shuptrine Interiors design studio. And don’t forget, our fun Spring Design Classes will be happening soon, so make sure you check the Special Events page at artvan.com to find out when and where we’ll be bringing spring to your town!
Well, this is it - we're finally here, the last Friday without real baseball for 7 months or so. It's an exciting time with Opening Day only two full days away. It's been a long off-season, but a fun one (in some ways, at least). The CC and Teixeira sweepstakes, the Dunn-Burrell-Abreu all-hit/no-field contract hunt, the Peavy non-sweepstakes, the Maddux-Moose-Schilling retirements, the Manny saga... it's all made for a rather interesting 6 months.
And then of course I started this blog back in December, which has certainly changed the way I read and talk about baseball (for the better, of course). It's been a lot of fun these last few months, and I can only imagine how much more fun it will be when there's baseball to write about every day of the week. I'm looking forward to it.
Anyhow, now that we're only one weekend away from Opening Day, it's time to make predictions for the year ahead. I have to be honest here - I'm terrible about this prediction thing. The first time I remember making an "official" prediction for the upcoming year was in 2004. It was the winter after Kansas City's surprise winning season, and I was sold on them as an up-and-coming team. So I predicted them to go all the way to the World Series. Of course they went on to lose 104 games the next year. Last year, I predicted the Tigers to be in the Series; they finished the season 14 games under .500. So I'm terrible at this, and I'm very aware of that.
Still, it's fun to do and my buddies and I do it every year. And since I have this blog to post on, I figure I might as well make my predictions public for all to see. But to make it even more exciting, I've decided to invite some others to give their predictions too. My brother was ingenious enough to set-up a spreadsheet using Google Docs that can record a bunch of predictions, and I've invited all my friends and fellow bloggers (that I could remember at the time) to use that spreadsheet to record their predictions. Hopefully, a few of them will, and we'll be able to compare the various predictions side-by-side. Feel free to view the predictions here, and if you want to be involved, drop me an email.
With all that said, here are my predictions. And, please remember, I'm an idiot when it comes to these things (I feel bad for Mets and Red Sox fans).
I kind of fudged the numbers to get the Brewers in there. I think they'll battle with the Phillies for the Wild Card all year, but I'm not sure who'll end up winning more games. Since I'm a Brewers fan, and since these predictions mean nothing, I might as well make them look like something I'm rooting for.
I'm not positive how Manny will react to being in LA for the full year, but I can easily see the writers voting him the MVP if he puts up a pretty strong year. With the excitement that he'll cause in Los Angeles if he really is playing well, and if the Dodgers do win 89 games, I think the writers will have a hard time not giving in to the excitement. It'll be David Wright otherwise.
I can't really think of a good MVP or Cy Young candidate in the AL. I'd like to say Halladay for Cy, but I'm not sure the Jays will support him enough. And if Longoria does win the MVP, he'll be the third player this decade to win ROY and MVP in back-to-back years, after only happening once or twice before (I know Cal did it in '82 & '83, but I can't remember if anyone else I had done it).
Hopefully, I'll get to the spreadsheet tomorrow, but what's up with the 75 wins for the Braves? Ouch.
Yeah, sorry about that, Mark. I wanted to have them closer to .500, but the wins-losses need to balance out, and it was tough. It's just really hard to have a lot of .500-ish teams, it seems (and I'm not even predicting any really high win totals!).
That's one of the best names I've seen on this. I have no idea why, but it makes me smile. What doesn't make me smile is Atlanta coming in third. What do I have to do around here? :)
Thanks for pointing that out, p. Dumb mistake. It's fixed now. I'm going with Minnesota still, even though the Mauer news might make the prediction moot.
She is rooting for the Royals and Indians to do well (full disclosure-is from MA and lives in MilROCKee and is a diehard Brewers and Red Sox fan). Is also pleasantly perplexed by the dynamics of the AL East last year.
Needs to think more about who will win it all. Could see a NY/NY WS. The Yankees just have too much to lose to be bad. She would like things to be awful for them but... She could see TB and NY flaming out under the pressure, but could see them building on their success easily and spending binge (NY).Things are always clearer after the All=Star break and midseason trades anyway....
Cleveland and KC are her teams to watch...Kerry Wood is AWESOME when he's healthy...and what if Matt LaPorta gets called up...Hmmm.
She thinks a 3rd place finish for Hotlanta is appropriate considering they seemed to add some young talent. She based her 3rd place prediction on assumption of staying healthy and the newbies prove themselves.....