Archive | May, 2011

Anonymous Donor Supports Erie County Students with Gift

Anonymous Donor Supports Erie County Students with Gift

More trustee scholarships will be available to deserving students.

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Craigslist Rental Scam Hits Erie

District Attorney Jack Daneri has issued a warning about a Craigslist scam

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Triplets Among College’s Largest Graduation Class

Triplets Among College’s Largest Graduation Class

Penn State Erie, The Behrend College to hold spring commencement on Saturday.

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Erie PA News, Sports and Events for Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Erie PA News, Sports and Events for Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Get out of town for only a buck, starting today.

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"Car"icatures

I’ll start off by saying I’m not a fan of drawing cars, hooooowever I did have some fun with this project. The trickiest part for me was keeping the proportions correct. After all, I am a caricature artist!Below is a look at my process. I hope you enjo…

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West Sixth Streets grand homes exemplify historic preservation, creative reuse – Local News – GoErie.com/Erie Times-News

West Sixth Streets grand homes exemplify historic preservation, creative reuse – Local News – GoErie.com/Erie Times-News.
This is a pretty cool article about where my office is located.  Check it out.

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First Mother’s Day

My very first Mother’s Day. It started early last week when I was presented with an unexpected gift from Neil. An Amazon Kindle. I’ve wanted one for a very long time. For the past few years, I’ve found a new love of reading so I was very, VERY excited …

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Singapore otah/otak

We called it otak-otak in my country. In Singapore and Malaysia, this dish is known as otah or otak-otak. Fortunately, the name does not say anything about the dish itself. Otak/otah means brain in Indonesian and Malay. And there is no brain meat…

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Applications Being Accepted For High School Summer Science Program

Applications Being Accepted For High School Summer Science Program

Gannon’s Regional Summer School of Excellence is open to high school sophomores and juniors.

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One Down

I have just completed the first year of my doctoral program and I find myself asking: what have I learned? Not sure….can tell you a lot about information management, computer supported cooperative work, social theories of technology, philosophies on science, usability engineering, and most importantly, please believe me when I say this: graduate level applied [...]

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Erie PA News, Sports and Events for Monday, May 9, 2011

Erie PA News, Sports and Events for Monday, May 9, 2011

Some local science teachers will get schooled on energy efficiency.

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Tulip Time

Ahh, Tulip Time in Holland, MI.  A sure sign of spring.  The whole family decided our house would be a great place to gather for Mother’s Day this year.  None of them live all that close, so that means they were coming for the weekend…

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I’m not sure what to say.

That hasn’t stopped me in the past though.Despite my reservations about calling the “Other Dude”, I did. As suspected his shit was shit. Garbage. Crap. Almost no buzz and mostly soda and cut. Soft, like silly putty. A waste of time and money.To s…

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New Erie area businesses get youthful look – Local News – GoErie.com/Erie Times-News

New Erie area businesses get youthful look – Local News – GoErie.com/Erie Times-News.
This is what makes Erie great.  The article provides a nice summary of young business owners in Erie.  Some of them started from scratch, and others too…

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Char Kwe Tiaw

Cooking char kwe tiaw or fried kwe tiaw is not difficult and yet this is my first try. We do not cook this dish very often. And whenever we need to cook it, my husband will be the one who cooks it. I do not know why I did not bother to try to cook th…

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Road Trip Endeavour-back to regular life

Well, I’m sure everyone has heard that the Endeavour still has not launched.  I fully admit that when we found out the mission was scrubbed we felt like we got the wind knocked out of us.  The boys took the news pretty well, they just continu…

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Gannon’s May Commencement To Honor President Garibaldi and Bishop Trautman

Gannon’s May Commencement To Honor President Garibaldi and Bishop Trautman

The outgoing president is set to give the keynote address.

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Some random things I want to tell my daughter before I die.

I am the Mother of one daughter, Catherine. She was born on March the 9th, 1999, after many years of infertility, miscarriages, and dashed hopes and dreams. It was clearly the best day of my life. But I am a mother just like you. I have other things I …

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Erie PA News, Sports and Events for Thursday, May 5, 2011

Erie PA News, Sports and Events for Thursday, May 5, 2011

Just blowin’ in the wind

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3 Years.

3 years ago today I left my home state of CA. I still miss you California. My heart belongs there. I still don’t feel at “home” here in Erie, PA. In the back of my mind, plans of moving back are still lingering. Who knows, God may lead us back. But for…

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Erie PA News, Sports and Events for Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Erie PA News, Sports and Events for Wednesday, May 4, 2011

It’s Star Wars Day!

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Going Away Cakes

So I googled “”going away cake” to try to find some ideas of decorations for a cake for a party that we are having for 2 of my friends that are moving on to new jobs, and I had to share these ones that made me giggle . . .These are funny, but I really …

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Who is Big Al?

(Could Big Al be Tuppy’s Alias?  We haven’t known him that long after all…. hmmmmm.)
Just as I realized the other day that I had not shared an Anonymous Comment in awhile here on our humble blog, I also realized that it’s been a while since I’ve…

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One Way to Stop Asian Carp

One Way to Stop Asian Carp

I like this plan, bub

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This may not be all bad.

But the Dude isn’t answering the phone.Actually, his phone is turned off. That’s usually indicative of about three different things: 1. – He is out of product. 2 – He is out of town.3 – He’s in jail.For a lot of reasons I am hoping it’s one or two. D…

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Easter Goods!

We celebrated Easter with my grandma on Saturday this year. We picked her up from her new home and brought her back to our house for dinner and some cake!Bria got a new toy from Grammy & Grampy that she was super excited about! (she really was exci…

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Erie PA News, Sports and Events for Monday, May 2, 2011

Erie PA News, Sports and Events for Monday, May 2, 2011

I’ll catch up eventually…

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Road Trip Endeavour-Great Great Aunt Dutch

We are finally on our way home.  We had a great family vacay in Florida.  Even though we ended up missing the Endeavour launch, we were still happy to have a couple extra days of pure sunshine. But, before heading back to the mitten, we do ha…

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My New Favorite Blog Comment

The other day, on one of my Rabbit Movies, I received the following comment. It made us laugh SO HARD, that Rabbits and I thought we should share it.

I will pare it down a bit it to give you the best parts and sentences. The entire comment was prett…

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17 millions Americans Over-Qualified For Their Jobs

Over 30% of flight attendants have college degrees….although no advanced education is needed for the position. More information on the American workforce from the New America Foundation

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