Pick of the Day - Frog and Bunny by Lauren Abrams

By 1stAngel | August 8, 2008

Today’s featured art is Frog and Bunny by Lauren Abrams

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New art featured regularly, courtesy of the artists at Imagekind.

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AUGUST 7th: Kathryn Barnett School of Dance Performing at the Extreme Fashion Show at Jenkinson

By 1stAngel | August 7, 2008

The Kathryn Barnett School of Dance and all those associated with the event invite you to come out and watch not only the fashion shows at Noon and 2pm but for all the other events as well.

Kathryn Barnett and Gabrielle Barnett have been choreographing the Extreme Fashion Show portion of this event four out of the past five years and are looking forward to working with all those involved:

- Fashions by Deep Blue - Point Pleasant NJ

- Bev Studio Swimsuits

- Funk& Standard - Red Bank, NJ

- Hair by Glen Goldbaum salon - Red Bank, NJ

- Make-up by Mary Camus - MAC makeup

- Models from Barbizon - Red Bank NJ

- G-ROCK Radio 106.3 Monmouth County & 106.5 in Ocean County, the Alternative Rock Station

There will be lots of extreme sporting events during the day which will include BMX biking, Acrobatic Skydiving, Motor Cross events and much more.

It will be a great day for the whole family to watch never seen before ramps and tricks on the white beaches of Point Pleasant.

For more information, you can go to the Jenkinsonâ??s web site http://www.jenkinsons.com, or phone them at 732-892-0600.

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Registration 2008 - August 19 to 21 and 26 to 28, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm

Musical Theatre - Ballet - Tap - Jazz - Lyrical - Acro - Point

Kathryn Barnett School of Dance - Celebrating 25 Years of Dance

37 E. Front Street, Red Bank NJ

732-747-9552

http://www.BarnettDanceSchool.com

Call 732-747-9552 TODAY to learn more about celebrating dance at the Kathryn Barnett School of Dance where â??Itâ??s All About The Kidsâ??

Visit our photo gallery at http://picasaweb.google.com/BarnettDanceSchool

DIRECTIONS:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=37+E.+Front+Street,+Red+Bank+NJ&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=54.004053,112.5&ie=UTF8&ll=40.354263,-74.063601&spn=0.00641,0.013733&z=16&iwloc=addr

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Learn the Secret Art of Bonsai - Misseto Bonsai Club’s Annual Show at Sherway Gardens

By 1stAngel | August 7, 2008

Inspired by nature, the unique art of Bonsai aesthetically captures the beauty and strength of a tree. The Misseto Bonsai Club reveals the secret of Bonsai at the annual Exhibition of Bonsai at Sherway Gardens (Hwy 427 & the QEW) on Saturday, August 23 from 10 am to 6 pm and Sunday, August 24 from 11am to 5 pm in Sherway Square. Call 416-621-1070 for more information or visit www.sherwaygardens.ca or www.misseto.ca.

Throughout the weekend, Misseto Bonsai Club members and expert Bonsai artists will be at Sherway Gardens with a large variety of indoor and outdoor Bonsai to answer questions, offer tips and suggestions and give demonstrations on how to create perfect Bonsai trees.

Origins of Bonsai

Bonsai is a Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese word â??pun-saiâ?? which literally means â??potted plantâ??, and refers to something growing in a shallow container, tray-planted, or a tree in a pot. . The art originated in China a thousand years ago where trees were cultivated in trays, wooden containers, and earthenware pots and trained in naturalistic shapes. Bonsai, however, has been pursued and developed primarily by the Japanese.

Bonsai as an Art Form

Bonsai blends art and horticulture to create healthy living trees, which are constantly shaped and pruned through careful cultivation. The art of Bonsai expresses the beauty of natural tree forms in miniature. For example, a single tree in a pot can suggest a striking landscape.

To create a well-proportioned tree, the artist shapes and adjusts the treeâ??s proportions by wiring the trunk and branches of the tree, ensuring that the wires do not scar the bark of the tree. The size of the tree, its leaves or needles, its fruits or flowers, and even the container in which it grows reflect the treeâ??s proportion.

Sherway Gardens is owned and managed by Cadillac Fairview, one of North America’s largest investors, owners and managers of commercial real estate. With a portfolio valued at over $15 billion, the company and its affiliates own and manage over 83 properties, including some of Canada’s landmark developments. Cadillac Fairview is wholly-owned by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. For more information about Cadillac Fairview, visit www.cadillacfairview.com.

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For further information contact:

Peter Ashworth; Ashworth Associates; (416) 603-6005

Elena Price; Senior Marketing Director; Sherway Gardens; (416) 621-1071 ext 7020

Bob Pfister; Misseto Bonsai Club; (416) 622-5785

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Life with an old Farm Tractor

By InkandBrush | August 7, 2008

Ink & Brush Creations presents~ a Short Story on Farm life~ Written by R.Nees
Photos by me and all rights reserved.

~~Every time I use Dad’s old tractor, I am confronted with one thing or another that has the indelible fingerprint of our father….. one of the three point hitch arms is held on with the correct type of standard farm lynch pin…. the other is held on with a bent over 9/16” bolt. The list goes on….. I smile, every time. Dang, that guy knew how to improvise.

There has been a somewhat leaky fuel line on the thing, and I made the mistake of touching it a few days ago…. at which point it disintegrated. At least the end that fragmented was at the ‘high’ end of the line, and I could keep from flowing all of the fuel in the tank onto the ground while I had to run to town to find a piece of fuel line that would fit. I know this piece of line had been replaced at some point in the last 30 years, because the hose clamps used to attach it were not of the same type as on the OEM connections.
Managed to replace the line, and took a few minutes to hose all of the dust off the motor, and that led to spraying the grass seed, etc. out of the radiator fins. Less than 70% of them would flow water, so I took a nylon zip tie, and poked all of the slots between the cooling fins to remove the deibrus. Every 20 minutes or so, I would take the garden hose and check to see how much more of the radiator would flow water front to back…. after an hour, I must now have nearly 95% of the fins working as designed…….
Now that we have the fuel line fixed, and the radiator cleaned out, it’s time to do some mowing. except the battery is now flat.
How could that be? I replaced the battery 2 years ago! That led me to looking at the fan belt…… here’s the alternator, all the way to the end of it’s adjustment, the inside edge of the belt looks like rats died from gnawing on it sometime in the 1980’s, everything’s rusty…. the fan and alternator both would spin with pressure of one finger on them, without the belt moving. Did I mention this is a diesel, and it only uses the electricity to heat the glow plugs, and start the motor? No wonder there were no working light bulbs when I got this thing!
Had to go to town today anyway, to get ready for the interview tomorrow, so we picked up a new belt from NAPA. the looked it up in their ancient tractor catalog, and pulled the correct heavy duty belt out of whatever storage it was in.
Took it home, and took off the guards blocking access to the pulley locations….. (took the time to flatten said guards, and return them to the OEM shape, and used the correct nuts bolts etc to remount them) Had to snake the belt into place, and couldn’t get it on all three pulleys at the same time. Even with the alternator fully compressed, I could not get the new belt to migrate into the grove on the crank pulley, until I applied a squirt of Murphy’s oil soap for lubricant. Between that and a pry bar for the ‘proper application of leverage’ it all came together….. the alternator is now less than mid way through it’s adjustment range, I cannot budge either the fan or the alternator with any amount of pressure I can apply by hand, and after using my trusty echo to jump start it, I mowed in the heaviest grass on the place for over an hour…. and the tractor runs cooler than I have ever had it run in those conditions. 80 degrees F and I was in the sweet spot for most of the hour.

And there is more story to come, as Robert trys to fix the battery cable!
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University launches mould-breaking journalism degree

By 1stAngel | August 5, 2008

BA (Hons) Multimedia Journalism will equip students with the multimedia skills and understandings needed to work as journalists in the digital age.

The programme’s multimedia ethos responds to the erosion of traditional boundaries between print, radio and television companies, the online revolution and the emergence of new methods of delivery, such as podcasting. It seeks to meet the growing demand for journalists who understand the possibilities of the new technologies and can use them to create high-quality journalism in a wide range of formats.

Head of the Media Department, David Bradshaw, a former BBC North Africa Correspondent and writer for The Economist, said: “Most other journalism programmes require students to focus on print or broadcast journalism. But BA (Hons) Multimedia Journalism gives students the chance to build a much broader skillset, developing professional skills in print, radio, television and online journalism in all three years of the programme.

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