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I’ll say it again. Don’t look at the Dow.
Okay, maybe just a peek. After yesterday’s 1,000+ rout, and at last count, it was heading back north, slowly but surely.
But if you’re a long-term investor, you shouldn’t play these peak and valley games, right? Stop paying attention to that ticker and get back to work!
As for getting back to work, guess who’s getting into the delivery business? I’ll give you one guess.
No, not Domino’s pizza (at least not yet). Amazon!
The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that Amazon.com is preparing to launch its own delivery service for businesses, putting it in direct competition with UPS and FedEx.
No, to answer your inevitable question, there is not a single business or industry won’t consider entering and disrupting.
Amazon’s push into logistics reflects its growing ambitions across a wide range of new businesses beyond online retail. The company runs a dominant cloud-computing services division, a Hollywood studio and a massive marketplace and logistics operation for sellers. Last year, it acquired Whole Foods for roughly $13.5 billion, transforming it into a brick-and-mortar grocer overnight.
The new service will be called "Shipping with Amazon," and will have the company picking up packages from businesses and shipping them to consumers.
In a related story yesterday, Amazon said it would begin delivery of Whole Foods groceries via its "Prime Now" service. Shortly, Whole Foods’ customers in Austin, Dallas, Virginia Beach,a nd Cincinnati will have the option of one – and two-hour grocery deliveries.
I guess that means I can finally stop stocking up on grocery bags?!
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Today’s collage. That much is done, the house is clean, now it is time to start drawing a self-portrait on the first page of a new sketchbook.
This entry was posted in Artwork, Collage and tagged arts, collage, found objects, found paper, found papers, mixed media. Bookmark the permalink.
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Karbonn Mobiles has launched the K406, a dual-SIM and a dedicated music phone. The phone offers Hi-Fi sound for both FM radio as well as MP3 playback. The phone offers 4 hours of talktime, 8 GB of expandable memory and other features like Bluetooth, VGA camera, video player, mobile tracker, GPRS and of course, dedicated music keys for directly launching the music player. The Karbonn K406 is priced at Rs 2,590.
← Spice Mobiles introduces India's first 3D phone – the View D – glasses "not required!"
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Mein Leben in Rosarot !!!!
The Life of David Gale !!!!
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou !!!
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A lot of people are trying to get hired for fewer jobs.
(CareerBuilder.com) -- Desperation isn't an attractive trait on most people ... maybe anyone.
If you've ever witnessed desperation in a relationship, you know how unappealing it can be to see someone willing to settle for something. Anything. It makes you wonder just how much that person values himself or herself.
A job search isn't the same as a quest for true love, but it can often result in desperation. Think about it: If you don't have a job, you don't have money to pay the bills. For many people, a job search is linked to survival. Who wouldn't get desperate after a while?
Just like in a romance, however, being too eager and needy can backfire. Even if you're feeling as though you'll take any job that comes your way, don't let employers know that. You might be desperate for a job, but you don't have to act like you are.
You might think, "Won't I impress my future boss if I prove I'm willing to do anything to get the job?" You would be wrong. To help you understand what hiring managers think when they come across desperate interviewees, we went straight to the source.
Tony Deblauwe is the founder of HR4 Change and has 15 years of human resources experience. In his career he has seen more desperate job seekers than most people. Sometimes things go so wrong they're almost criminal.
"I had a case once where after not hearing from the recruiter (from just a résumé submission), the candidate came to the office and waited in the parking lot for the CEO," Deblauwe remembers.
"It was easy since the CEO's picture was online. [The candidate] felt that HR and staffing were a roadblock and the best way to prove his 'inventiveness' was to approach the CEO directly. It turned out badly as you might imagine -- we had to get security involved."
Not all candidates are as extreme. In fact, desperation is so common, Deblauwe sees certain traits appear time after time.
• "I'm willing to take any job!"
"People who have been searching a long time or who have limited leads respond to job posts that they will take any job even if it's clearly a step down," he says. "Sometimes this is due to the economy; sometimes they want to get into a company at whatever the cost. I have personally known of candidates doing this to get into Apple or Google."
• "I'm willing to temp first"
"Sometimes [starting as a temp] works, but when a candidate offers it first against a full time posted job, it's a turnoff," Deblauwe cautions. "Rather than show confidence that you can do the job as presented, you offset the discussion by saying you will be a temp. Not a good move and very desperate."
"It's one thing to say your salary is negotiable, but making a point in the phone screen or first round interview about not caring about the pay not only reflects bad judgment but low self-esteem," Deblauwe warns. "I ask myself, 'What else will you cave on if you had this job?'"
• "Why haven't you called me back?"
According to Deblauwe, being pushy is one of the most classic signs of a desperate job seeker.
"After sending in a résumé or getting an initial call back, a candidate loses all sense of how staffing process timing works," he says. "They will e-mail [or call] after one or two days. Candidates forget that many back-end processes slow job updates -- not because people forgot about you or don't care. This behavior doesn't show you are determined and eager; rather it makes you appear annoying and distracting. Almost always people who do this, even if they appeared to be a great fit in the beginning, get eliminated."
First off, don't say any of the above phrases. More importantly, prove that the company would be lucky to have you, and not vice versa. Don't be cocky, but act like you're ready for the job because it's the right fit, not because it's available now.
Even if you are desperate for a job, remember these tips because they're important to every job search.
• Have proof of your accomplishments so you can show the hiring manager that you deliver results.
• Show interest in the company. Employers like to know that you care about more than dollar signs, so do a little research on the company and even the interviewers if possible.
• Practice your interview answers so you don't blurt out a bad answer. For example, your answer to "Why do you want this job?" shouldn't include the low balance of your checking account.
• Make a list of the reasons you are the best candidate for the job. You can't convince a hiring manager that you're the best choice for the position if you don't believe it yourself. The best way to convince yourself is to look at all your best qualities.
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Hayes, the company that introduced the personal-computer modem in 1981, said Friday it filed for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code for the second time in five years.
The company will continue operating while developing a plan to reorganize, along with some of its domestic subsidiaries that also filed Chapter 11 petitions, Hayes said in a statement. Interim financing was secured to fund operations while negotiating more permanent financing.
Chief executive Ron Howard said the company will cut its operations to encourage profits and expand into broadband communications while continuing to support its customers in the analog modem business.
The Chapter 11 petition was filed in US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
Hayes Microcomputer, the company's name before its previous bankruptcy filing in 1994, sought protection from creditors when it was unable to meet orders, leaving it short of cash.
The company was nearly taken over by rival modem makers US Robotics and Diamond Multimedia in 1996, but it emerged from bankruptcy after an Asian consortium bought nearly half of the company in April 1996.
Bookselling 101: Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com may be fighting for the right to the biggest-mostest title in online bookselling. But a new company is making inroads into a vast and savings-starved sub-market in the world of words: College books.
With no advertising to speak of and only a month of operations, Bigwords.com has already started to generate a buzz among students. The company, based in Santa Monica, California, claims to have sold books to students at more than 150 colleges and universities around the country.
The ultimate goal: Dominating the US$5 billion-a-year textbook market.
That may not be a tall order. The college texts market has traditionally been dominated by local companies and schools, so there's no online franchise giant to slay.
Furthermore, college bookstores are known for price gouging – marking up books from their suggested retail price – and tightly controlling inventory, often leaving late shoppers without texts.
Bigwords.com plans to change that by offering discounts on books from more than 120 college textbook publishers and by stocking used texts and rentals of some of the more popular titles.
So far, the company has relied on word-of-mouth marketing. Students can earn free books by referring their friends.
Lucent hiring: Lucent Technologies said Friday it will add 1,626 jobs over eight years to its Allentown, Pennsylvania, Microelectronics Group headquarters, as part of a $165 million expansion.
Lucent's Microelectronics Group develops chips and fiber-optic components for networking equipment. The expanded Allentown facility will house the firm's semiconductor research and development teams, manufacturing, marketing, and sales operations, Lucent said.
Lucent (LU) cites the success of its Microelectronics Group for the expansion plans. This year, Lucent's semiconductor operations have enjoyed a double-digit growth rate, outpacing the industry's overall performance, the company said Friday.
Lucent's semiconductor operations are growing while much of the industry reels from the effects of idle factories and price cutting. In September, Cirrus Logic said it would fire 400 to 500 of its chip-fabrication employees in order to cut costs. Also in September, Taiwan's second-largest chipmaker United Microelectronics and Motorola separately shelved plans to build several multibillion-dollar semiconductor plants, due to the worldwide glut in computer chips.
Intel to buy the farm?: A sleepy Utah farm owned by the Mormon church may soon be transformed into a sprawling, megamillion-dollar Intel research and development campus, according to a report in *The Salt Lake Tribune. Intel (INTC), the world's biggest computer chip company, reportedly has an option to buy the 140-acre farm on the outskirts of Riverton, Utah, and is awaiting a sales and incentives pitch from local politicians before making a final decision to move ahead with construction of a 48-acre facility. If built, it could bring 8,000 high-paying jobs to Riverton.
The town also stands to make $17 million in property taxes if the sale goes through.
"This is without a doubt the biggest coup any city in Utah has ever been able to consider," Riverton Mayor Sandra Lloyd told the Tribune.
Amazon invades Germany: The online marketing war for cyberspace is going global. Just days after Bertelsmann, the world's third-biggest media company, announced a venture with Barnes & Noble to sell books online in America, Amazon.com says it will launch a new venture in Germany.
Amazon's stock (AMZN) tumbled this week on worries it would be hard-pressed to compete head-on against the world's largest book publisher, Bertelsmann, and the largest bookseller, Barnes & Noble.
But the German ad agency FCB/Wilkens Technics said Friday that its client, Amazon, will launch the new service 19 October in Bertelsmann's back yard.
The agency said the online book and music retailer wanted to become as well known in Germany as it was in the United States.
"The big challenge for us is to make the name Amazon, which until now was only known in Germany to a small group of insiders, a synonym for online book sales," said FCB/Wilkens creative director Jamal Khan in a statement.
The news follows the mid-week announcement by Bertelsmann that it would buy half of barnesandnoble.com, the online division of Barnes & Noble.
Bertelsmann's plans could threaten Amazon's dominance in the United States, where it controls the bulk of the market, analysts said.
Bertelsmann also plans to expand in Europe with its BOL online book sales project. BOL will be launched in Germany, France, Britain, Spain, and the Netherlands on 15 November.
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Color Me Rad – Do it!
So, a friend asked me several weeks ago to run the Color Me Rad race with her. I declined because I am somewhat OCD about having dirty hands, and certainly of feeling altogether messy.
But when a staff member contacted me about promoting the run on LittleBlackSweats.com, 1) I was flattered that she chose LBS.com (the little fashion site that could) and 2) thought it was a sign from the universe that I was supposed to run this 5K and possibly conquer my aversion to “filth” with good ole colored cornstarch.
With that said, I’m recruiting. Whether you are training for some longer race or you just want to run this for the fun of it, Color Me Rad is coming to the Mid America Center in Council Bluffs on July 8th at 9am. You can register online and the registration fee is $40, which includes a t-shirt, sunglasses, race bib, sponsor swag and color packet for the color fight post race. Or volunteer to be on the color bomb squad that “bombs” the racers every 5 minutes throughout – go easy on me!
Check out pics and videos from previous races on the website or join 70,000 other fans on Facebook and “like” the Color Me Rad page. Once you’ve seen the pictures, you can’t help but sign up… take it from me! You can also keep up to date on the other races around the country, and let friends know you are doing this great event that benefits the Special Olympics.
Check out this great YouTube video for inspiration, and I hope to see you there!
Last night, after dropping a bundle on three new bras (after going waaayyyy too long without replacing old, worn out, and played out bras), I was lamenting the cost of being a woman. I like the finer things for sure, but I won’t say I’m excessive about my beauty regimen. Hair cuts and highlights run me about $150 every 12 weeks – yep, I said 12 – as I try to put them off to save myself a couple trips per year that way.
I spend about $50 on day cream, $40 on eye cream and $40-ish on cleanser every couple of months. I’m a stay-at-home mom, so I don’t regularly wear makeup, except my $26 Lancome Definicils mascara and $18 juicy tubes of lip gloss. Or just a tinted Burt’s Bees lip balm for $9. Perfume gives me a headache, and my family membership to the gym, is probably comparable to most gyms – relative to the part of the country you live in.
My point you ask? Big news! Jennifer Aniston reportedly spends $8K per month on her beauty regimen. I was driving this morning, and my radio station’s DJ was remarking over Jennifer Aniston’s monthly beauty bill of $8K. Apparently, $900 per week goes to Yoga lessons, neck ointment by Euoko is $450, and regular splurges on Tracie Martyn Spa Facials are $500+.
Everyone seems up in arms about this fact. And while I don’t begrudge Jennifer Aniston her beauty routine (hey, she’s not getting plastic surgery every day like Melanie Griffith!), why is this news? Articles keep talking about how high and mighty Angelina would be about all the coin Jennifer’s dropping for beauty, while she’s trying to save the world.
All I have to say is… all that money is NOT in vain, as witnessed below.
January 27th marks a very important date. To honor what would have been their stillborn baby’s first birthday, the Hubertys are hosting a benefit for a group that promotes safe pregnancies.
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The county of Midlothian includes the City of Edinburgh. Edinburgh is a council area on its own and so the council area of Midlothian is the area of the county with Edinburgh and some hills in the south cut off.
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Like Serbia a decade ago, the government has its own version of peace, killing those of the wrong faith. How can there be a collation between Shia and Sunni?
Faik Bakir, the director of the Baghdad morgue, has fled Iraq in fear of his life after reporting that more than 7000 people have been killed by Iraqi interior ministry death squads in recent months, John Pace, the outgoing head of the UN human rights office in Iraq, told the March 2 British Guardian.
Pace said the Baghdad morgue has been receiving 700 or more bodies a month. The figures peaked at 1100 last July — many showing signs of torture. “The vast majority of bodies showed signs of summary execution — many with their hands tied behind their back. Some showed evidence of torture, with arms and leg joints broken by electric drills”, said Pace. The killings had been happening long before the recent spate of sectarian killings following the February 22 bombing of a Shiite mosque in Samarra.
The March 4 Washington Post reported that an “international official in Baghdad, speaking on the condition of anonymity”, had told it that “about 1000 people had been killed” between the day of the Samarra mosque bombing and March 3, according to Iraqi morgue figures. The Western corporate media seized upon the upsurge of killings that followed the Samarra mosque bombing to claim that Iraq is on the verge of “civil war” between its Shiite Muslim majority and its Sunni Muslim minority. The implicit and often explicit message that has accompanied the “Iraq-is-on-the-brink-of-civil-war” stories is that only the presence of the US and other foreign occupation troops is preventing Iraqi Shiites and Sunnis from massacring each other.
During the US war in Vietnam, supporters of the war also claimed that the withdrawal of US troops would lead to a “bloodbath” — while the US war machine slaughtered at least 3 million Vietnamese. The Western media claims that a “premature” withdrawal of the US occupation troops from Iraq will lead to a religious civil war there serve the same purpose — attempting to discourage domestic support for the immediate withdrawal of all those troops.
According to an ABC News/Washington Post poll released on March 6, “eight in 10 Americans believe that recent sectarian violence in Iraq has made civil war likely”, Reuters reported on March 7. The poll found that “fewer than 20 percent of respondents support an immediate withdrawal of all US troops”. However, 52% support a phased withdrawal over the coming year.
While the official White House line is to deny that Iraq is on the brink of a sectarian civil war, in the wake of the Samarra bombing at least one high-ranking US official has publicly given it credence. In testimony to the US Senate armed services committee on March 3, John Negroponte, the US national intelligence director, warned that “if chaos were to descend upon Iraq or the forces of democracy [i.e., the US occupation forces] were to be defeated in that country ... this would have implications for the rest of the Middle East region and, indeed, the world”. Negroponte was Washington’s ambassador in Iraq from June 2004 to April 2005 — precisely at the time that the recruitment of local deaths squads was being considered in Washington.
In January 2005, Newsweek magazine reported that the “Pentagon is intensively debating an option that dates back to a still-secret strategy in the Reagan administration’s battle against the leftist guerrilla insurgency in El Salvador in the early 1980s. Then, faced with a losing war against Salvadoran rebels, the US government funded or supported 'nationalist’ forces that allegedly included so-called death squads directed to hunt down and kill rebel leaders and sympathizers.” According to the Newsweek report, Pentagon chiefs were considering the recruitment of death squads from among SCIRI’s Badr militia, which had been incorporated into the US-recruited Iraqi security forces, to target Sunni resistance fighters and their sympathisers.
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This entry was posted on 15/09/2009 at 20:43 and is filed under documentation. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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It’s been too long since I’ve been here to post anything, just been busy with this thing called life and speaking of such life I must pause a moment in one we lost most recently, one who held my teen years hostage in his songs, Prince. Whether you liked him or not no matter but it was still a life lost.
Anyways, as I had mentioned it’s been a long time since I’ve come here to post and I totally missed posting on here during April, Autism Awareness Month and I’m a bit bummed about that as I had plans to post more awareness for females on the spectrum but I know I can always post so I’m not that bummed about that. There still needs to be more awareness about females on the spectrum so that girls aren’t left behind as I was. I didn’t know until I was 42 that I had Asperger’s Syndrome. Had I known or even my mom known when I was a girl in elementary school maybe I could’ve had more help towards my emotions, moods, anxieties and phobias. Course my mom had me evaluated and tested back when I was in 3rd grade in the early 80’s, they told my mom I was just a little slow and had some learning difficulties in the area of math, some speech problems, memory issues and difficulties understanding of sarcasms and idioms where I took them literally. I had help in math up until 10th grade as I didn’t require any more credits in math and I had speech up until 8th grade. I was so embarrassed to be in those classes and afraid that other students would find out and I would be laughed at, though no one ever found out thankfully.
Coming here to voice my opinions and tell my life story helps in some ways, though not completely as I have deep, very deep wounds from my parents and how I was raised. I never got “beatings” but let’s say words cut deeper than any spanking and they last forever. I think so much about those words all the time especially during certain times.
Today in my therapy session, ok so yea I need therapy to help me cope with my perceptions, anxieties, moods, some anger and my sometimes overwhelming meltdowns (the ones where I harm myself, I’ve wrote about this before in another post but briefly to touch on it I do on occasion harm myself during an intense meltdown. Say for instance if I got extremely upset or angered about something missing and not finding it where I had it after awhile of searching or a small disagreement with my husband I will get a handful of my hair all the way to the root and pull hard, not out but hard and then mess up my hair, scream harshly while open handed hit my head on both sides and sometimes I will also scratch my face from my forehead to down my neck…all while standing then after I will sit and cry while rocking).
So today while the therapist and I were talking she had begun to tell me that being an aspie I appear to have it all together than some but I began to get a little emotional and she asked what’s wrong I told her that actually it’s just what it appears to be though, sure I get that others are more different than myself, all of us aspies are very different and even each person is different as well…if we were all alike this world would be very boring, that’s my look on it anyways! But, I said that even though it appears that I have it all together I really don’t I just make it look like I do.
Have you ever seen a little comic/cartoon drawing of a door, on one side there’s a small scribble then the door and on the other side of the door a huge dark messy scribble…small one says “this is what I say” and the big one says “this is what I want to say”?? That’s me always! I never say 99.9% of what I really want to say, never have and most likely never will.
So, do I have it all together?? No but that’s in my eyes only apparently.
Comforts I love and need!
Some may understand, mostly other aspies and parents of aspies, how much we love comfort and sameness. It can be anything, from foods to movies to things you touch or hold or maybe a combination of several things. For myself it’s a combination of many things of different foods, certain movies and certain kinds of fabrics.
My food comforts, some are ones I will cook at home but some are ones I must go get from a restaurant (umm, NOT McD’s yack!). The ones I cook myself are: Spaghetti, Meatloaf, Roast, good southern food which mostly is greens and beans with cornbread and those are just my comfort ones. I cook more than just those, those are just the ones I could eat more than once or twice and not be sick of them. The ones from restaurants are: Chicken Chimi’s from our local Mexican place, General Sao’s chicken, Fried Rice and Pizza.
The movies I could watch a million times and still love them and not be bored or sick of them are well mostly from the 80’s and 90’s, yea I know but I was born in the 70’s and in the 80’s was my teen years so go figure on that one. Course that’s not to say I don’t like/love movies from a different time or these days. I generally love comedy but I sometimes go through a stage where I want drama or scary movies, action and adventure are iffy but will watch them from time to time and fantasy takes me to a different place, kinda makes me feel like I should be there..yea I know strange but hey that’s just me.
Things I love to feel and hold are fabrics that are so soft or satiny feeling, I could hold or sleep with all day or night. Like right now I have brown satin sheets on my bed, feels so nice and soft I run my hands and arms all over the smooth surface feels so soft, like if I were to touch a cloud that’s how I imagine it feeling. The satiny softness eases my nerves, helps me relax and calms me so I rest easier at night. There are other fabrics I enjoy touching too and sometimes I have found that I have this thing when I’m shopping if something even looks soft I will touch it, more like I need to touch it.
Like I say not many will get this, mostly other aspies and parents of aspies will understand. And these things I need daily in my life to help me when I’m stressed or my senses are out of whack or maybe my anxiety is near panic mode many of these help me.
Passions, likes, loves and addictions!
We all have things that we enjoy, like doing, items that are our favorites, movies we love, food we like and some have addictions to their passions but for us aspies its much stronger and not easily to move past or go to another activity. It’s almost like being in school really, we study our passions, likes and loves so much so that we know the names of every person who created it or know just how it was made down to the last small detail and know how to modify it better or know the entire collection and can name them from memory with just one glance.
Since my boys were dx’d (diagnose, diagnosed, diagnosis) at 4 1/2 and 3 I’ve learned all there is about Star Wars, something I thought I knew about more than my oldest since it came out when I was a little girl but he has “studied” it closely since he was 2 as well as Lego’s, which I think my feet and knees know more about pain than playing or as my oldest would say “it’s not playing it’s constructing”. Then there is his, my oldest, most favorite activity drawing and he has been doing that since he could hold a crayon! At first it was just stick people, odd looking stick people and when he started school you would see all these scribbles and odd looking stick people on his papers, well not just in one little spot or location but ALL over along the edges of the papers though I have to say he did learn too and oddly enough his teachers didn’t mind all that much.
Now my youngest, he was never really “hooked” on anything like his brother was but when he learned to read he learned to really enjoy his books. He really loves science and history, he really retains what he has learned in class and brings it home which he will continue to talk about for weeks if not months about it. When he was dx’d at 3 he just started talking but you couldn’t understand a word he was saying and now he talks nonstop, I love hearing him talk about his passions because there was a time I didn’t understand him and now its just wonderful. He is dx’d with Autism and Asperger’s because he showed sign’s for the “classic Autism” per the DSMIV (at the time, before DSMV came out) but didn’t fit in all the “boxes” for a full Autism dx.
As far as myself goes, yea I know shocker but if you read my profile and other posts you’d know I am an aspie too. Course I wasn’t dx’d until I was 42, only a year ago, but I’ve always known I was different from the rest of my peers, that something was different with me but I couldn’t understand why I was, I just knew I was. My passions, likes, loves and addictions are different, though I think that maybe all us aspies passions, likes, loves and addictions are different. As I’ve said to my kids and others before, “if we were the same we would be boring, but we are different and that makes us interesting”, whether others or well NT’s see it that way or maybe they think we are boring that’s their loss.
I love researching, usually anything really but more for my family history and other history throughout time. My husband says I have an addiction to stationary, ok so maybe I do, I love good pens and paper or notebooks and I’m constantly putting things in ABC order! I love the smell of old homes, for some reason it feels like I had been there once before long ago but I wasn’t.
I kinda feel as though maybe I got off topic in a few spots here and there but that’s just how my mind works, hard to concentrate on the same thing for me but I don’t know maybe it will help in some form for another mom who is seeking comfort in knowing shes not alone on her journey or help a teen think more that “so what” if they are different, different is good and boring is bad. On to more female aspie awareness.
When you plan a vacation you are excited and thrilled at the fun you hope to have when you go. Of course you must plan ahead for boo-boos and uh-ohs as well as mishaps and unfortunate accidents but you hope they don’t happen.
So let me tell you about our little vacation that was suppose to be a great time for our family as it’s been 10 years since we’ve gone on one.
I planned it so perfectly, knew just where we were going and what we would go do. My husband made the choice of going to Miami, his home town and his sister still lives there so we thought it would also be nice to visit some with her and the family.
Our first night there, getting checked in was OK and then dinner was a hassle only because my youngest struggles with food issues, severely, it’s like there’s only a select foods he will eat and sometimes that is a chore I itself. But we managed to make it through dinner and so begins the wait on my sister in-law and family.
They finally arrive, I’m so beside myself as well as my family because we haven’t seen them in 10 years. What started out a wonderful happy reunion soon went south in a flash!
My husband and her husband both decided to stay in the room with the kids so me, his sister, niece and her boyfriend and nephew all went to the bar that is attached to the hotel.
Started out all laughs and I was only halfway in my drink (frozen strawberry daiquiri) they all, well besides my nieces boyfriend, were into 3rd and 4th drinks and getting way loud, people looking at us…ugh the more they drank the louder they got and I was plumb miserable! I text my husband to come rescue me and then the check came, $270.00!! I tried my best to figure out who had what and they want to argue so we just paid the whole bill and we hoped that they would leave…nope no chance in that.
My night was getting worse by the minute and didn’t think it was ever going to end! We finally got them up to walk out and then the waitress brings a bill that my nephew had started after I paid the first one, $60, so huge argument started…my anxiety is now through the roof, let me dig a hole and hide in it please. So I left everyone and went to the room crying, I’m so upset that this had happened and embarrassed as hell!
Not long, my niece and her boyfriend come to the room she’s crying all upset saying that something happened and the ambulance was there and cops were called. Oh lord help me now.
Come to find out my drunk sister in-law fell and got hurt but she told the cops that her daughter pushed her when in fact she just lost her balance because she was wobbling like a weeble wobble person.
With them being so loud the night manager was ready to put us on the street all because they were being so loud and disorderly. Now I’m losing it, tears are flowing like niagra falls. My ridiculous drunk nephew comes to the room and scares our boys, they aren’t use to this nor are they around this never! My youngest with his anxiety and phobias, let’s just say between him and myself calming us is a chore and is up to my husband. At this point I’m ready to go home, it’s almost 3am but I don’t care I want to go home, I want my comfort zone/area and that’s home but he was able to calm us plus get the night manager to let us stay, the cops arrested my niece and we have yet to hear from anyone to say sorry or to offer to pay us back. We won’t be back.
After that night we did wind up having a really good time, our only issue was trying to find food that our youngest would eat. I was sure he lost weight while on vacation but nope he’s ok.
Next vacation won’t be near family!!
Going on a family vacation should be a relaxing time, not for my family…I mean part of it will be relaxing, maybe when everyone is in bed asleep lol, no but close. We do intend to have fun though, which is why I’m telling y’all about it…I may not be posting until we get back and due to people talking about not posting when you are leaving and bad people breaking in to others stealing which here we are lucky to have great neighbors who are nosey and tote plenty of ammo and guns.
But getting back to my topic, an aspie is never really on vacation when actually on a vacation because we still have our fears, sensory difficulties, anxieties, meltdowns and introvertedness.
There will be many obstacles, many which will be food issues with my youngest (who is 11 years old). There isn’t much he will eat and it’s already difficult enough here at home so going to a different state, that may have some places he will eat, will be a tough challenge.
Lord please give me the extra patience I will need for this family vacation and not be like the “Grizzwalds” lol.
Sometimes I really need a break, get away from the things that are so overwhelming, get away from getting sensory overload but there’s no where to run though sometimes I can escape when I go to the bathroom or take a shower but that’s all.
I’d like to just take off alone but my anxiety halts me, either one of my kids or my husband goes with me. I never go anywhere alone but at the same time I wish I could be alone though I know I won’t or can’t because I’m trapped inside myself.
There are days where I think I can do this alone but that’s all just in thought.
I’m too socially awkward or “shy” to go places alone, must have a “buffer” person.
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so every now and again i go and look over at honor_cup to see what some people post and when i was looking through it i found one for me. was i surprise and shocked at the sametime. i think i might know who it is from but i could be wrong. so i just wanted to say thank you to who ever it was that did one for me.
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You know those cookies that everyone loves to eat, but we swear there is never enough in the bag…. Famous Amos Cookies? Created by a black man, Wally Amos.
Guess what black woman, who also attempted to run for POTUS, survived three assassination attempts? Yes sir, Shirley Chisholm. She was a congresswoman and the attempts happened in 1972.
Even though you all probably think it is racist and want a change, don’t act like you don’t use Aunt Jemima’s syrup. She is designed after a former slave; who has/had a lifetime contract with the company. Guess whose family is paid (and we finally have a name for her) Nancy Green.
This entry was posted in BHM and tagged 1972 Presidential Election, assassination, assassination attempt, Aunt Jemima, Biography, black history, black history month, Black History Week, black woman, Canada, congresswoman, Drake, Famous Amos Cookies, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Josiah Henson, little known facts, Nancy Green, Ontario, POTUS, Shirley Chisholm, syrup, Uncle Tom, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Underground railroad, Wally Amos.
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100% Biodegradable Offer and upcoming.
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Fox News analyst denies existence of "sexist treatment" of Hillary Clinton, claims her campaign is lying "to energize the female base"
Kirsten Powers did qualify her statement, saying that there haven't been any incidents "that I've noticed"
As if the world needed further proof that people fail to notice what they are deliberately trying not to see, Fox News' Kirsten Powers appeared on The O'Reilly Factor Monday evening and denied that Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has faced any sexism in this election to date.
Former Secretary of State Clinton, Powers argued, "has been treated pretty well this time around," but "it makes sense that they would try to say that she’s being treated with sexist treatment" in order to encourage female voters to come out to the polls.
Guest host Eric Bolling played Powers a clip of Professor Michael Eric Dyson on MSNBC claimingg that "as a woman, and as a female leading candidate, the sexism to which she has been subject[ed] is pretty astonishing for our lack of remark upon it."
She replied that while Clinton "did face a lot of sexism in 2008," Powers has not, herself seen anything "as overt as what we saw in 2008. I'm sure they are some incidents" -- there have, in fact, been many -- "there usually are, but there hasn't been the same sort of pattern of sexism against her, that I've noticed."
"Who is being sexist toward her?" Bolling asked.
"I don't know," Powers replied, adding that "some people have complained that when Donald Trump went after her about her husband’s behavior, that somehow was sexist because it was expecting her to be responsible for her husband’s behavior."
However, she continued, "I don’t really see that as sexism -- I think that some of the stuff that we saw in ’08, particularly from Obama supporters, was very overtly sexist, it was very gender specific. I just haven’t seen a pattern of that this time. I’m not saying that it never happens, but it doesn’t seem to be like a pattern."
Clinton's recent complaints about the "tone" of fellow Democratic hopeful, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, is just her campaign's attempt "to look for ways to energize their female base, so it makes sense they would try to say that she's being treated with sexist treatment, but they should be able to produce a laundry list [of] examples."
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https://www.salon.com/2016/03/29/fox_news_analyst_denies_existence_of_sexist_treatment_of_hillary_clinton_claims_her_campaign_is_lying_to_energize_the_female_base/
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The present invention is directed to a digital wireless telecommunications system that includes a plurality of base station of differing spectral capabilities, and a plurality of remote stations capable of transmitting data to and receiving transmissions from the plurality of base stations. The invention herein provides a method for remote station hand-off between base stations of a narrower spectral capacity and base stations of a wider spectral capacity. A method is provided for a wireless telecommunications infrastructure to facilitate a remote station hand-off from a set of narrowband compliant base stations to at least one wideband compliant base station while a remote station is in the coverage area of both types of base stations. Additionally, the invention herein provides remote station apparatus, base station apparatus, and base station controller apparatus for performing the handoff methodology of the present invention.
The present Application for Patent is a Continuation of patent application Ser. No. 10/213,601, entitled “METHOD OF HANDOFF WITHIN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM CONTAINING DIGITAL BASE STATIONS WITH DIFFERENT SPECTRAL CAPABILITIES” filed Aug. 6, 2002, now allowed, which is a Continuation and claims priority to U.S. Pat. No. 6,535,739, entitled “METHOD OF HANDOFF WITHIN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM CONTAINING DIGITAL BASE STATIONS WITH DIFFERENT SPECTRAL CAPABILITIES” issued Mar. 18, 2003, and assigned to the assignee hereof and hereby expressly incorporated by reference herein.
The present invention relates to wireless telecommunications. More particularly, the present invention relates to a novel method for facilitating handoffs between digital base stations with different spectral capabilities.
In a code division multiple access (CDMA) spread spectrum communication system, a common frequency band is used for communication with all base stations within that system. An example of such a system is described in the TIA/EIA Interim Standard IS-95-A entitled “Mobile Station-Base Station Compatibility Standard for Dual-Mode Wideband Spread Spectrum Cellular System”, incorporated herein by reference. The generation and receipt of CDMA signals is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,901,307 entitled “SPREAD SPECTRUM MULTIPLE ACCESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS USING SATELLITE OR TERRESTRIAL REPEATERS” and in U.S. Pat. No. 5,103,459 entitled “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING WAVEFORMS IN A CDMA CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEM” both of which are assigned to the assignee of the present invention and incorporated herein by reference.
Signals occupying the common frequency band are discriminated at the receiving station through the spread spectrum CDMA waveform properties based on the use of a high rate pseudonoise (PN) code. A PN code is used to modulate signals transmitted from the base stations and the remote stations. Signals from different base stations can be separately received at the receiving station by discrimination of the unique time offset that is introduced in the PN codes assigned to each base station. The high rate PN modulation also allows the receiving station to receive a signal from a single transmission station where the signal has traveled over distinct propagation paths. Demodulation of multiple signals is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,490,165 entitled “DEMODULATION ELEMENT ASSIGNMENT IN A SYSTEM CAPABLE OF RECEIVING MULTIPLE SIGNALS” and in U.S. Pat. No. 5,109,390 entitled “DIVERSITY RECEIVER IN A CDMA CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEM”, both of which are assigned to the assignee of the present invention and incorporated herein by reference.
If a remote station travels outside the boundary of the system with which it is currently communicating, it is desirable to maintain the communication link by transferring the call to a neighboring system, if one exists. The neighboring system may use any wireless technology, examples of which are CDMA, NAMPS, AMPS, TDMA or FDMA. If the neighboring system uses CDMA on the same frequency band as the current system, an inter-system soft handoff can be performed. In situations where inter-system soft handoff is not available, the communication link is transferred through a hard handoff where the current connection is broken before a new one is made. Examples of hard handoffs are those from a CDMA system to a system employing an alternate technology or a call transferred between two CDMA systems which use different frequency bands (inter-frequency hard handoff).
Inter-frequency hard handoffs can also occur within a CDMA system. For example, a region of high demand such as a downtown area may require a greater number of frequencies to service demand than the suburban region surrounding it. It may not be cost effective to deploy all available frequencies throughout the system. A call originating on a frequency deployed only in the high congestion area must be handed off as the user travels to a less congested area. Another example is that of a microwave or other service operating on a frequency within the system's boundaries. As users travel into an area suffering from interference from the other service, their call may need to be handed off to a different frequency.
Handoffs can be initiated using a variety of techniques. Handoff techniques, including those using signal quality measurements to initiate handoff, are found in U.S. Pat. No. 5,697,055 entitled “METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDOFF BETWEEN DIFFERENT CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS”, issued Dec. 09, 1997, assigned to the assignee of the present invention and incorporated herein by reference. Further disclosure on handoffs, including measurement of round-trip signal delay to initiate handoff, is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,848,063, entitled “METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HARD HANDOFF IN A CDMA SYSTEM”, issued Dec. 8, 1998, assigned to the assignee of the present invention and incorporated herein by reference. Handoffs from CDMA systems to alternate technology systems are disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,594,718 ('306 application) entitled “METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE UNIT ASSISTED CDMA TO ALTERNATIVE SYSTEM HARD HANDOFF”, issued January 14, 1997, assigned to the assignee of the present invention and incorporated herein by reference. In the '306 application, pilot beacons are placed at the boundaries of the system. When a remote station reports these pilots to the base station, the base station knows that the remote station is approaching the boundary.
When a system has determined that a call should be transferred to another system via hard handoff, a message is sent to the remote station directing it to do so along with parameters that enable the remote station to connect with the destination system. The system has only estimates of the remote station's actual location and environment, so the parameters sent to the remote station are not guaranteed to be accurate. For example, with beacon aided handoff, the measurement of the pilot beacon's signal strength can be a valid criterion for triggering the handoff. However, the appropriate cell or cells in the destination system which are to be assigned to the remote station (known as the Active Set) are not necessarily known.
The cdma2000 cellular telephone standard proposal issued by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), entitled “cdma2000 Series TIA/EIA/IS-2000,” published in August of 1999, hereinafter referred to as cdma2000, uses advanced signal processing techniques to provide efficient and high quality phone service, and is incorporated herein by reference. For example, a cdma2000 compliant cellular telephone system utilizes decoding, error detection, forward error correction (FEC), interleaving, and spread spectrum modulation in order to make more efficient use of the available radio frequency (RF) bandwidth, and to provide robust connections. In general, the benefits provided by cdma2000 include longer talk time and fewer dropped calls when compared to other types of cellular telephone systems.
In the world of cellular telecommunications, those skilled in the art often use the terms 1G, 2G, and 3G. The terms refer to the generation of the cellular technology used. 1G refers to the first generation, 2G to the second generation, and 3G to the third generation. 1G is used to refer to the analog phone system, known as an AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone Service) phone systems.
2G is commonly used to refer to the digital cellular systems that are prevalent throughout the world, and include cdmaOne, Global System for Mobile communications (GSM), and Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA). cdmaOne, based on a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technology, refers to a digital cellular system that adheres to the family of IS-95 standards. 2G systems can support a greater number of users in a dense area than can 1G systems.
3G is commonly used to refer to the digital cellular systems currently being developed. 3G systems include cdma2000 and Wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA). 3G systems promise higher peak data transfer rates than do their 2G counterparts. Additionally, many 3G systems can support a greater number of users than can 2G systems.
Spreading Rate 3 versions of cdma2000, hereinafter referred to as 3X, use a frequency band of 3.75 megahertz (MHz), comprised of three 1.25 MHz chunks, while the Spreading Rate 1 versions of cmda2000, hereinafter referred to as 1X, uses a frequency band having a width of 1.25 MHz. Wherein 1X is a single carrier protocol, 3X is a multi-carrier protocol. As would be known to one skilled in the art, a single carrier protocol transmits data in a single frequency band, while a multi-carrier protocol, transmits data in multiple [single carrier] frequency bands. For instance, whereas 1X transmits data in a single 1.25 MHz frequency bands, 3X transmits data in three 1.25 MHz frequency bands. The modulation techniques performed by multi-carrier systems, hereinafter referred to as a multi-carrier modulation techniques, differ from those performed by single carrier systems, hereinafter referred to as single carrier modulation techniques. Although the examples of 1X and 3X are used as single carrier and multi-carrier protocols respectively, the invention is not limited to 1X and 3X protocols, and applies equally well to any system that is comprised of both single carrier and multi-carrier base stations, such as may be the case in future versions of W-CDMA that are attempting to support higher data transmission rates.
Any given cdma2000 system need not support 1X (version 1X of cdma2000) exclusively or 3X (version 3X of cdma2000) exclusively. A version of cdma2000 that uses a multi-carrier 3.75 MHz spectrum on the forward link, the wireless link that delivers data from the base station to the remote station, but uses a single carrier 1.25 MHz spectrum on the reverse link, the wireless link that delivers data from the remote station to the base station is described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/382,438 entitled “Method and Apparatus Using a Multi-Carrier Forward Link in a Wireless Communication System” assigned to the assignee of the present invention and incorporated herein by reference. A system such as this, that uses multi-carrier capabilities on the forward link, but uses single carrier capabilities on the reverse link, is hereinafter referred to as a hybrid system. A 3X/1X system is merely used as an example, and a hybrid system is not limited to such an embodiment. A block diagram of an exemplary hybrid system is shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an exemplary simplified cellular telephone system that uses multi-carrier transmission on the forward link and single carrier transmissions on the reverse link, wherein a 3X protocol is used on the forward link and a 1X protocol is used on the reverse link. Remote stations such as remote stations 110 (typically cellular telephones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) with wireless capabilities, or laptop computers with wireless capabilities) are located among base stations 120. The remote stations 110 a and 110 b are in an active mode and are therefore interfacing with at least one base station 120 using radio frequency (RF) signals modulated in accordance with the CDMA signal processing techniques. A system and method for modulating RF signals in accordance with CDMA modulation is described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,103,459 entitled “System and Method for Generating Signal Waveforms in a CDMA Cellular Telephone System” assigned to the assignee of the present invention and previously incorporated herein by reference. The other remote stations 110 are in standby mode and are therefore monitoring either a full paging channel for page messages indicating a request to communicate, or they are monitoring a quick paging channel for indicator bits indicating whether a message is expected on a full paging channel.
Each given base station 120 that is in active mode with at least one remote station 110 transmits data to remote stations 110 across three frequency bands f1, f2, f3, and receives data from remote stations 110 in a single frequency band f4. Each frequency band f1, f2, f3, and f4 has the same bandwidth. Frequency bands f1, f2, and f3 are adjacent frequency bands. For instance, if in the example of the hybrid system each band f1 was the frequency band 1900 MHz-1901.25 MHz, then f2 would be 1901.25 MHz-1902.5 MHz, and f3 would be 1902.5 MHz-1903.75 MHz. Thus, the adjacent frequency bands take up the spectrum 1900 MHz-1903.75 MHz in this example. In such a case, f4 would be a 1.25 MHz band located outside of that frequency range. For example, f4 could be located at 1820 MHz-1821.25 MHz.
Base stations 120 connect to a Base Station Controller (BSC) 114. Base Station Controller 114 controls base stations 120, and exchanges information packets between Mobile Switching Center (MSC) 116 and base stations 120. Mobile Switching Center 116 exchanges information packets between Public Switched Telephone Network 118. In other embodiments, different switches, such as a packet data serving node (PDSN), can be connected to the system. A cellular telephone system can contain more than one Base Station Controller 114 and more than one Mobile Switching Center 116, or conversely, in decentralized systems, such as those disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,215,779, entitled “DISTRIBUTED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR WIRELESS DATA COMMUNICATIONS”, issued Apr. 10, 2001, assigned to the assignee of the present invention, and incorporated by reference herein, Base Station Controller 114 or Mobile Switching Center 116 may be absent from the cellular telephone system.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an exemplary simplified cellular telephone system that uses single carrier transmissions on the forward link and single carrier transmissions on the reverse link. Remote stations such as remote stations 210 (typically cellular telephones) are located among base stations 220. The remote stations 210 a and 210 b are in an active mode and are therefore interfacing with at least one base station 220 using radio frequency (RF) signals modulated in accordance with the CDMA signal processing techniques. The other remote stations 210 are in standby mode and are therefore monitoring either a full paging channel for page messages indicating a request to communicate, or they are monitoring a quick paging channel for indicator bits indicating whether a message is expected on a full paging channel.
Each given base station 220 that is in active mode with at least one remote station 210, transmits data to remote stations 210 across a single frequency band f1, and receives data from remote stations 210 in a single frequency band f2. Each frequency band f1 and f2 has the same bandwidth. Frequency bands f1 and f2 can be offset by a predefined amount. If an amount of 80 MHz is used, and f1 is at the frequency band 1900 MHz-1901.25 MHz, then f2 could be located at 1820.00 MHz-1821.80 25 MHz.
Base stations 220 connect to a Base Station Controller 114. Base Station Controller 114 controls base stations 220, and exchanges information packets between Mobile Switching Center 116 and base stations 220. Mobile Switching Center 116 exchanges information packets between Public Switched Telephone Network 118. In other embodiments, different switches, such as a packet data serving node (PDSN), can be connected to the system. A cellular telephone system can contain more than one Base Station Controller 114 and more than one Mobile Switching Center 116, or conversely, in decentralized systems, such as those disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,215,779 entitled “DISTRIBUTED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR WIRELESS DATA COMMUNICATIONS”, issued Apr. 10, 2001, applied for by the applicant of the present invention, and incorporated by reference herein, Base Station Controller 114 or Mobile Switching Center 116 may be absent from the cellular telephone system as separate entities, but rather may be integrated into the base stations themselves.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an exemplary simplified cellular telephone system that uses multi-carrier transmissions on the forward link and multi-carrier transmissions on the reverse link. Remote stations such as remote stations 310 (typically cellular telephones) are located among base stations 320. The remote stations 310 a and 310 b are in an active mode and are therefore interfacing with at least one base station 320 using radio frequency (RF) signals modulated in accordance with the CDMA signal processing techniques. The other remote stations 310 are in standby mode and are therefore monitoring either a full paging channel for page messages indicating a request to communicate, or they are monitoring a quick paging channel for indicator bits indicating whether a message is expected on a full paging channel.
Each given base station 320 that is in active mode with at least one remote station 310, transmits data to remote stations 310 across three frequency bands, f1, f2, f3, and receives data from remote stations 310 across three frequency bands f4, f5, f6. Each frequency band f1, f2, f3, f4, f5, f6 has the same bandwidth. Frequency bands f1, f2, and f3 are adjacent frequency bands. For instance, if in the example of the hybrid system each band f1 was the frequency band 1900 MHz-1901.25 MHz, then f2 would be 1901.25 MHz-1902.5 MHz, and f3 would be 1902.5 MHz-1903.75 MHz. Thus the adjacent frequency bands take up the spectrum 1900 MHz-1903.75 MHz in this example. Likewise, frequency bands f4, f5, and f6 are adjacent to one another. Frequency bands f1 and f4 can be offset by a predefined amount. If an amount of 80 MHz is used, and f1 begins at the frequency 1900 MHz, then reverse link bands f4, f5, f6, could take up the 3.75 MHz spectrum located between 1820 MHz-1823.75 MHz.
Although a carrier could upgrade its entire network from a single carrier system to a multi-carrier system all at once, this is often undesirable in light of costs. Economically, it may be more desirable for a carrier to put multi-carrier capabilities in a few areas of their network that will benefit the most from multi-carrier capabilities, and then slowly roll out multi-carrier capabilities into other areas of its network over time. During such a gradual rollout, some of the base stations in the system will be multi-carrier protocol compliant while others will not. Likewise, some carriers may find it desirable to upgrade a portion of its network to support a multi-carrier protocol, without having the intent of ever upgrading the remaining portion of its network to a multi-carrier protocol.
What is needed is a method and apparatus for performing handoff in a wireless telecommunication system that contains digital base stations, some of which comply with a multi-carrier protocol and some of which are not multi-carrier compliant.
The present invention is directed to a digital wireless telecommunications system that includes a plurality of base stations of differing spectral capabilities, and a plurality of remote stations capable of transmitting data to and receiving transmissions from the plurality of base stations. The invention herein provides a method for remote station handoff between base stations of a narrower spectral capacity and base stations of a wider spectral capacity. A method is provided for a wireless telecommunications infrastructure to facilitate a remote station hand-off from a set of single carrier compliant base stations to at least one multi-carrier compliant base station while a remote station is in the coverage area of both types of base stations.
In one embodiment the handoff is enabled by transmitting a message to a remote station that indicates that the remote station should transmit modulated signals according to a single carrier protocol (e.g., 1X) and should receive modulated signals according to a multi-carrier protocol. In another embodiment, the remote station is instructed to transmit the modulated signals in the same frequency band as was used for transmission prior to the handoff. In another embodiment, the remote station is instructed to transmit the modulated signals in a different frequency band than was used for transmission prior to the handoff. In another embodiment the single carrier compliant base stations transmit in the single carrier frequency a portion of the signal that is generated in accordance with the multi-carrier protocol.
In another embodiment, the handoff is enabled by transmitting a message to a remote station that indicates that the remote station should transmit modulated signals according to a multi-carrier protocol and should receive modulated signals according to a multi-carrier protocol.
In another embodiment, the handoff is enabled by transmitting a message to a remote station that indicates that the remote station should transmit modulated signals according to a single carrier protocol and should receive modulated signals according to a single carrier protocol. In this embodiment, the remote station is instructed that it should receive single carrier modulated signals from at least one multi-carrier compliant base station.
The remote station adjusts its transmit and receive modulation techniques in accordance with the received handoff messages of the above embodiments.
The invention herein also provides remote station apparatus, base station apparatus, and base station controller apparatus for performing the above-described methodology.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an exemplary simplified cellular telephone system that uses multi-carrier transmissions on the forward link and single carrier transmissions on the reverse link, wherein a 3X protocol is used on the forward link and a 1X protocol is used on the reverse link.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an exemplary simplified cellular telephone system that uses single carrier transmissions on the forward link and single carrier transmissions on the reverse link.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an exemplary simplified cellular telephone system that uses multi-carrier transmissions on the forward link and multi-carrier transmissions on the reverse link.
FIG. 4 is a simplified network diagram of an exemplary embodiment of the coverage of a spread spectrum system in the midst of a hybrid deployment of single carrier services to multi-carrier services.
FIG. 5 diagrams a portion of the simplified network diagram of FIG. 4, and also shows the path of an exemplary remote station traveling throughout the network.
FIG. 6 is an exemplary diagram of the communication path of a remote station that is a multi-carrier handoff candidate communicating with two single carrier base stations BS1.
FIG. 7 is a diagram of an exemplary communication path during the handoff of a first handoff embodiment.
FIG. 8 is a diagram of an exemplary communication path during the handoff of a second handoff embodiment.
FIG. 9 a and 9 b contain an illustration of the spectral density and the associated transmission power that would be utilized to transmit N information bits using an exemplary single carrier protocol.
FIG. 10 a contains an illustration of the spectral density and the associated transmission power that would be utilized in a first embodiment to simultaneously transmit N information bits using an exemplary single carrier protocol and transmit N information bits using an exemplary multi-carrier protocol.
FIG. 10 b contains an illustration of the spectral density and the associated transmission power that would be utilized in a second embodiment to simultaneously transmit N information bits using an exemplary single carrier protocol and transmit N information bits using an exemplary multi-carrier protocol.
FIG. 11 contains an illustration of the spectral density and the associated forward link transmission power that would be utilized to transmit N information bits using an exemplary multi-carrier protocol.
FIG. 12 contains an illustration of the spectral density and the associated forward link transmission power that would be utilized in a first embodiment to simultaneously transmit N information bits using an exemplary single carrier protocol and transmit N information bits using an exemplary multi-carrier protocol.
FIG. 13 is a diagram of an exemplary communication path during the handoff of a third handoff embodiment.
FIG. 14 contains an exemplary illustration of the spectral density and the associated forward link transmission power that would be utilized to transmit N information bits to two remote stations using an exemplary multi-carrier protocol to communicate with each remote station.
FIG. 15 is a diagram of an exemplary communication path during the handoff of a fourth handoff embodiment.
FIG. 16 is a diagram of an exemplary communication path during the handoff of a fifth handoff embodiment.
FIG. 17 a contains an exemplary illustration of a transmitted multi-carrier signal.
FIG. 17 b contains an exemplary illustration of a portion of the multi-carrier signal shown in FIG. 17 a that can be transmitted in a single carrier frequency band.
FIG. 18 is a diagram of an exemplary communication path during the handoff of a sixth handoff embodiment.
FIG. 19 is a diagram of an exemplary communication path during the handoff of a seventh handoff embodiment.
FIG. 20 is a diagram of an exemplary communication path during the handoff of an eighth handoff embodiment.
FIG. 21 is a flowchart of the methodology that can be used to implement the first through the eighth handoff embodiments.
FIG. 22 is an exemplary block diagram of a base station apparatus that can be used to perform the first through the eight handoff embodiments.
FIG. 23. is an exemplary block diagram of a remote station apparatus that can be used to perform the first through the eight handoff embodiments.
FIG. 24. is an exemplary block diagram of a base station controller (BSC) apparatus that can be used to perform the first through the eight handoff embodiments.
Although many of the detailed descriptions are discussed in reference to a cdma2000 system containing 1X and 3X base stations, one skilled in the art will appreciate that the invention can be applied to any spread spectrum system and is not limited to the 1X and 3X systems used in many of the exemplary embodiments.
When discussing signal transmissions in a frequency range, the phrase ‘in a frequency band’ is used herein to refer to a spread spectrum signal that is spread across a given frequency. For instance, when stating that a signal is transmitted in frequency band X, wherein frequency band X is defined as the band ranging from 1900 MHz-1903.75 MHz, it is meant that the transmitted signal is spread across the frequency band 1900 MHz-1903.75 MHz.
In the network diagram, each circular footprint labeled BS3 represents a base station that is multi-carrier compliant and its corresponding coverage/footprint. Each circle, itself, is representative of the footprint of a base station BS3. Although the physical base station, BS3, is not diagrammed separately within the figure, it can be assumed that it lays somewhere within the diagrammed footprint. Each multi-carrier compliant base station is capable of both transmitting and receiving spread spectrum signals in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol. Hereinafter, all multi-carrier compliant base stations will simply be referred to as multi-carrier base stations.
In the network diagram, each circular footprint labeled BS1 represents a base station that is single carrier compliant and its corresponding coverage/footprint. Each circle, itself, is representative of the footprint of a base station BS1. Although the physical base station, BS1, is not diagrammed separately within the figure, it can be assumed that it lays somewhere within the diagrammed footprint. Each single carrier compliant base station is capable of both transmitting and receiving spread spectrum signals in accordance with a single carrier protocol (e.g., 1X). Hereinafter, all single carrier compliant base stations will simply be referred to as single carrier base stations.
A carrier (e.g. Vodafone AirTouch) will likely deploy multi-carrier services in small areas, or pockets, wherein multi-carrier services are first needed. FIG. 4 illustrates an example of such a network 410, wherein a small pocket of multi-carrier services is provided by six multi-carrier base stations, BS3, and wherein single carrier services are provided in a large surrounding area by forty-eight single carrier base stations, BS1. Hereinafter, the term non-homogenous network will be used to refer to a network containing both multi-carrier base stations and single carrier base stations, such as network 410. The non-homogenous network is essentially the combination of a single carrier system (the base stations labeled BS1) and a multi-carrier system (the base stations labeled BS3) that share common infrastructure, such as a BSC or MSC.
Multi-carrier base stations BS3 are not necessarily limited to communicating with remote stations by transmitting data to a remote station in compliance with a multi-carrier protocol in a multi-carrier frequency band. Rather, though, multi-carrier base stations BS3 may also be able to communicate with remote stations in accordance with a single carrier protocol in a single carrier frequency.
Having such flexibility in multi-carrier base stations proves useful when a network 410 is created by upgrading a pocket of single carrier base stations to multi-carrier base stations. In such a network 410, many pre-existing remote stations that desire service on the network 410 may only be single carrier compliant. So as not to deny service to non-multi-carrier compliant remote stations that have traveled into these upgraded pockets, the upgraded base stations may continue to provide single carrier compliant services in addition to the newly added multi-carrier services.
Although a multi-carrier base station, as used herein, can mean a base station that is not only multi-carrier compliant, but one that additionally is single carrier compliant, the same does not hold true for the meaning of a single carrier base station. A single carrier base station, as used herein, is a base station that is single carrier compliant and is not fully multi-carrier compliant. Thus, single carrier base stations cannot both transmit data on a multi-carrier forward link in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol and receive data on a multi-carrier reverse link in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol. All base stations that can both transmit data on a multi-carrier forward link in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol and receive data on a multi-carrier reverse link in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol are referred to herein as multi-carrier base stations.
FIG. 5 diagrams a portion of the network 410, and also shows the path of an exemplary remote station traveling throughout the network. Subscripts have been added to each instance of BS1 and BS3 for distinguishment purposes.
In FIG. 5, a remote station is in a call while traveling throughout a portion of network 410. The remote station begins its call at point 510 and terminates its call at point 558. “X”es are placed in the diagram to call to the attention of the reader various points at which the remote station is in different coverage areas.
At points 510 through 518, the remote station is solely in the coverage areas of single carrier base stations. At point 510, the remote station is only in the coverage area of BS1 a. At point 518, the remote station is in the coverage area of both BS1 d and BS1 e. Because the remote station never enters multi-carrier coverage between these points, no handoff is needed between the multi-carrier base stations and the single carrier base stations.
At points 530 through 538, the remote station is solely in the coverage area of multi-carrier base stations. At point 530, the remote station is only in the coverage area of BS3 c. At point 538, the remote station is in the coverage area of BS3 f. Because the remote station never enters single carrier coverage between these points, no handoff is needed between the multi-carrier base stations and the single carrier base stations between these points.
At points 550 through 558, the remote station is solely in the coverage areas of single carrier base stations. At point 550, the remote station is only in the coverage area of BS1 h. At point 558, the remote station is in the coverage area of BS1 k. Because the remote station never enters multi-carrier coverage between these points, no handoff is needed between the multi-carrier base stations and the single carrier base stations, between these points.
At points 520 through 528, the remote station is within the coverage areas of both single carrier base stations and multi-carrier base stations. At point 520, the remote station is in the coverage area of single carrier base stations BS1 d and BS1 e, and it is also in the coverage area of multi-carrier base station BS3 b. At point 528, the remote station is in the coverage area of single carrier base station BS1 f, and it is also in the coverage area of multi-carrier base station BS3 c.
At points 540 through 548, the remote station is within the coverage areas of both single carrier base stations and multi-carrier base stations. At point 540, the remote station is in the coverage area of single carrier base stations BS1 i, and it is also in the coverage area of multi-carrier base station BS3 f. At point 548, the remote station is in the coverage area of single carrier base stations BS1 h and BS1 i, and it is also in the coverage area of multi-carrier base station BS3 e.
In order to keep the call up, at some point between point 518 and point 530 a handoff must occur between single carrier base stations BS1 and multi-carrier base stations BS3. Likewise, at some point between point 538 and point 550 a handoff must occur between multi-carrier base stations BS3 and single carrier base stations BS1.
Several embodiments of the invention facilitate such a handoff. Some notation will prove helpful in describing these embodiments. Nf will be used hereinafter to represent a particular single carrier frequency band (such as 1900 MHz-1901.25 MHz) used for the forward link, while Nr will be used hereinafter to represent a particular single carrier frequency used for the reverse link. The term multi-carrier frequency band is hereinafter used to refer to the set of single-carrier frequency bands used for a multi-carrier transmission. For instance, if the combination of transmissions on frequency bands 1900-1901.25 MHz, 1901.25-1902.50 MHz, and 1902.50-1903.75 MHz is used to send a multi-carrier signal (e.g. a 3X transmission signal), then the set of these single-carrier frequency bands comprises a multi-carrier frequency band. Wf will be used hereinafter to represent a particular multi-carrier frequency band used for the forward link, while Wr will be used hereinafter to represent a particular multi-carrier frequency band used for the reverse link. Nf can be contained within Wf, or it can be a frequency band outside of Wf, further discussed in reference to FIG. 7. Likewise, Nr can be contained within Wr, or it can be a frequency band outside of Wr.
A remote station that is communicating with at least one base station BS1 via a single carrier protocol on frequencies Nf and Nr, while it is also in the coverage area of at least one multi-carrier base station BS3, is hereinafter referred to as a multi-carrier handoff candidate. Referring to FIG. 5, if the remote station is only communicating with BS1 d and BS1 e at point 520, it would be considered a multi-carrier handoff candidate at that point, since it is also in the coverage area of a multi-carrier base station BS3 b. It should be noted that point 520 is not the only spot at which the remote station could be considered a multi-carrier handoff candidate. At all points 520-528, if the remote station is communicating with at least one single carrier base station BS1, but it is not communicating with any multi-carrier base stations BS3, the remote station would be considered a multi-carrier handoff candidate.
Multiple embodiments of the invention, each for facilitating a handoff in a non-homogenous system, are described below. Following the description of these embodiments is a description of a flow chart that can be used for all handoff embodiments.
In a first handoff embodiment of the present invention, a multi-carrier handoff candidate is sent a handoff message (often referred to as an extended handoff direction message) from at least one single carrier base station BS1, instructing it to cease single carrier communications with single carrier base stations BS1 on Nf and Nr, and to begin multi-carrier communications on frequencies Wf and Wr with multi-carrier base stations BS3. For instance, at point 520, the remote station, which was communicating with BS1 d and BS1 e on frequencies Nf and Nr using a single carrier protocol, would be instructed to switch its mode of communication to a multi-carrier protocol on frequencies Wf and Wr, and to only communicate with base station BS3 b. In such an embodiment, the infrastructure instructs the multi-carrier base stations BS3 to begin communications with the remote station using the multi-carrier protocol on frequencies Wf and Wr. The infrastructure also instructs the single carrier base stations BS1 to cease communications with the remote station. Using point 520 as an exemplary point of handoff, figures used herein will assume a multi-carrier handoff candidate that is in the coverage area of two single carrier base stations BS1 and one multi-carrier base station BS3. However, one skilled in the art will realize that a multi-carrier handoff candidate could be in a coverage area in which there are more or less of either type of base station, as long as it is in the coverage area of at least one single carrier base station and one multi-carrier base station. One skilled in the art will also appreciate that the descriptions of the below embodiments are not limited to coverage areas of exactly two single carrier base stations BS1 and one multi-carrier base station BS3, but that they apply to other coverage mixes as well, such as a point that is in the coverage area of two multi-carrier base stations BS3 and only one single carrier base station BS1.
An exemplary diagram of the communication path of a remote station that is a multi-carrier handoff candidate communicating with two single carrier base stations BS1 is shown in FIG. 6. A diagram of an exemplary communication path after the handoff of a first handoff embodiment appears in FIG. 7, wherein the remote station begins transmitting in frequency band Wr, and begins receiving in frequency band Wf, and wherein transmissions adhering to the multi-carrier protocol are received by a base station BS3, and wherein the base station BS3 begins transmitting in accordance with the multi-carrier protocol in frequency band Wf.
Although this first handoff embodiment succeeds in allowing a remote station to keep up a communications link while traveling throughout a non-homogenous network, it lacks the desirable features of communication path diversity and power control that can be provided by soft handoff.
The lack of being in communication with both single carrier base stations and multi-carrier base stations when in the coverage of both negatively affects path diversity. If the remote station performs a handoff of the first handoff embodiment just prior to point 520, then the remote station will only have communication links established with multi-carrier base station BS3 b. Although the remote station is in the coverage areas of both BS1 d and BS1 e, it will no longer have communication links with these base stations, and will not gain the path diversity that could have been received by being in a soft handoff with these base stations. This is especially evident in instances where Nf is contained within Wf, and where BS1 d or BS1 e is transmitting at a particularly high power level and is interfering with the signals transmitted from BS3 b. If the remote station had been in soft handoff with BS3 b, BS1 d, and BS1 e, it would likely have received a good transmission from the high powered base station, either BS1 d or BS1 e, whose high transmission power level significantly corrupted the transmission signal transmitted by BS3 b. However, in the case that it is not in such a soft handoff, as is the case in the first handoff embodiment, it would only receive the corrupted signal from BS3 b.
The lack of such a soft handoff negatively affects reverse link power control as well. For instance, if after a handoff of the first handoff embodiment, at point 520 BS3 b instructs the remote station to raise its transmission power, the remote station will do so without regard as whether its transmissions are interfering with base station BS1 d or BS1 e, as can occur when Nr is contained within Wr. This is the case because the remote station is only receiving power control information from BS3 b. However, had the remote station been in soft handoff with all three base stations, it would only raise its transmission power if all three base stations had requested it to do so, thus reducing the chance that the remote station would raise its power level excessively.
Although the above embodiment describes how to facilitate a handoff from a single carrier base station to a multi-carrier base station, one skilled in the art will appreciate that a similar method can be used to handoff from a multi-carrier base station to a single carrier base station. A handoff from a multi-carrier base station to a single carrier base station could be used when a remote station is exiting multi-carrier coverage, such as at point 540 or point 548.
In FIG. 8, in a second embodiment of the present invention, a multi-carrier handoff candidate is sent a soft handoff message that instructs the remote station to continue receiving single carrier signals from the single carrier base stations BS1, but also to additionally begin receiving single carrier communications on frequency Nf from at least one multi-carrier base station BS3. In this embodiment, the infrastructure instructs these multi-carrier base stations BS3 to begin communications with the remote station using the single carrier protocol both on the forward and reverse links in frequency bands Nf and Nr, respectively. For instance, if the soft handoff were to occur at point 520, BS3 b would be instructed to begin single carrier communications with the multi-carrier handoff candidate in frequency bands Nf and Nr.
While a remote station is in such a soft handoff, it has communication links both with single carrier base stations BS1 and with multi-carrier base stations BS3, and thus receives the communication path diversity and power control benefits provided by such a soft handoff. Namely, the remote station is receiving data from and transmitting data to multiple base stations along different paths. Additionally, the remote station is receiving power control feedback (commonly received in the form of power control bits) from both the single carrier and multi-carrier base stations whose coverage area it is in, and thus is less likely to raise its power transmission level to a point at which it unnecessarily interferes with one of these base stations. A diagram of the communication path after a handoff of this embodiment appears in FIG. 8, wherein the remote station continues transmitting in frequency band Nr, and wherein the remote station continues receiving single carrier transmissions in frequency band Nf from single carrier base stations BS1. FIG. 8 also illustrates that the remote station begins receiving single carrier transmissions in frequency Nf from a multi-carrier base station BS3. Additionally, remote station transmissions adhering to the single carrier protocol are received by single carrier base stations BS1 and multi-carrier base station BS3.
Although the above describes a handoff from single carrier coverage to mixed coverage (an area that is both in the coverage of a single carrier base station and in the coverage of a multi-carrier base station), which occurs, for instance, at point 520, one skilled in the art will appreciate that a similar method can be used to handoff from multi-carrier coverage to mixed coverage, such as at point 540 or point 548.
In the second handoff embodiment, once the remote station travels to a point at which it is no longer in the coverage of single carrier basestations BS1, such as point 530, the remote station will only be communicating with multi-carrier base stations BS3, but will be communicating with them using the single carrier protocol. At such a point, a subsequent handoff can occur that will switch the mode of communications from single carrier to multi-carrier. This subsequent handoff comprises the infrastructure sending a handoff message to the remote station instructing it to stop single carrier communications with a set of at least one multi-carrier base station BS3 and to begin multi-carrier communications on the same set of base stations in frequency bands Wf and Wr. In other words, the remote station is sent a handoff message instructing it to cease all single carrier communications, and to only communicate using the multi-carrier protocol on the forward and reverse links. In such an embodiment, the infrastructure instructs the set of multi-carrier base stations BS3 to switch its mode of communications with the remote station to the multi-carrier protocol in frequency bands Wf and Wr.
For instance, at point 530, a remote station which had performed a handoff of the second handoff embodiment, and which was communicating with BS3 c in frequency bands Nf and Nr, using a single carrier protocol, would be instructed to switch its mode of communication with BS3 c to a multi-carrier protocol in frequency bands Wf and Wr. After this subsequent handoff, a diagram of the communication path looks once again as it did in FIG. 7.
Performing such a subsequent handoff is beneficial because it allows the benefits of multi-carrier transmissions to be achieved. Wherein performing multi-carrier transmissions on both the forward and reverse links at a time when a remote station was in the coverage area of both multi-carrier and single carrier base stations, as was done in the first handoff embodiment, could have deleterious effects, performing these transmissions when not in a single carrier coverage area will not have these deleterious effects, and thus should be performed after a remote station exits the single carrier base stations' BS1 coverage areas.
A subsequent handoff that tells the remote station to only communicate with one type of base station in that base station's native protocol (the native protocol of a multi-carrier base station is a multi-carrier protocol, while the native protocol of a single carrier base station is a single carrier protocol) is not limited to a remote station traveling from a mixed coverage area to a multi-carrier coverage area, such as at point 530. Rather, a subsequent handoff message that instructs a remote station to only communicate with single carrier base station's in a single carrier protocol should be used when a remote station travels from a mixed coverage area to a single carrier coverage area, such as at point 550.
The advantage of the second handoff embodiment of the present invention over the first is that the use of soft handoff when in the coverage area of both single carrier and multi-carrier base stations provides the benefits of path diversity and decreases the chance of the remote station interfering with one of the cells due to the fact that the remote station is receiving power control feedback from both types (single carrier and multi-carrier) of base stations. Although this second handoff embodiment provides these improvements over the first, there are considerations that still need to be taken into account in regards to the second handoff embodiment.
One such consideration is how the power levels of the multi-carrier base stations could be affected. Such consideration needs to be taken into account because the transmission power needed to generate the spectral density used within a certain frequency bandwidth X to transmit N information bits via a single carrier protocol is generally much greater than the transmission power needed to generate the spectral density used in the same bandwidth X to transmit N information bits via a multi-carrier protocol. This consideration is best considered after viewing FIGS. 9(a & b) and FIGS. 10(a & b).
FIG. 9 contains an illustration of the spectral density and the associated transmission power that would be utilized to transmit N information bits using an exemplary single carrier protocol of 1X (FIG. 9 a), and it contains an illustration of the spectral density and the associated transmission power that would be used to transmit the same N information bits using an exemplary multi-carrier protocol of 3X (FIG. 9 b).
The single carrier protocol modulates the information bits according to a single carrier modulation scheme and transmits the modulated bits at a transmission power Pn, in a frequency band having a bandwidth of Bn. Hereinafter, a given spectral density will be addressed using cross-product notation. For example, in FIG. 9 a, Pn is the power used to generate the signal over a bandwidth Bn; thus, the spectral density of the diagrammed single carrier signal in FIG. 9 a would be referred to as Pn×Bn.
The multi-carrier protocol modulates the information bits according to a multi-carrier modulation scheme and transmits the modulated bits at a transmission power of Pw at each frequency band Bn in frequency band Bw. The multi-carrier signal has a full spectral density of Pw×Bw.
The power Pn is greater than Pw, while the bandwidth Bw is greater than the bandwidth Bn. Using 3X as the exemplary multi-carrier protocol and 1X as the exemplary single carrier protocol, the bandwidth Bw is comprised of three Bn-sized chunks. As is seen, the spectral density in a particular bandwidth Bn is much greater for a 1X single carrier signal than it is for a 3X multi-carrier signal. Likewise, the transmission power, Pn, used to generate the spectral density Pn×Bn is approximately three times the power level, Pw, used to generate the spectral density Pw×Bn in each Bn frequency chunk.
FIG. 10 a and FIG. 10 b show two alternate embodiments in which a multi-carrier base station BS3 could simultaneously transmit a single carrier signal to a first remote station and a multi-carrier signal to a second remote station.
In FIG. 10 a, the embodiment entitled “Dual Transmission Utilizing Overlapping Frequencies,” assumes that in the non-homogenous network 410 the single carrier frequency band Nf is contained within the multi-carrier frequency band Wf. Such a non-homogenous network will hereinafter be referred to as an overlapping non-homogenous network. Diagrammed in FIG. 10 a is the transmission power and spectral density utilized in various frequency bands to transmit to two remote stations, the first of which is in a soft-handoff of the second handoff embodiment, wherein the single carrier protocol is a 1X protocol, the second of which is communicating with BS3 in accordance to a 3X multi-carrier protocol. In an overlapping non-homogenous network, multi-carrier base station BS3 transmits in frequency band 1010, which is comprised of frequency bands 1020, 1030, and 1040, a signal modulated in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol that is intended for the second remote station. Additionally, multi-carrier base station BS3 transmits in frequency band 1020 a signal, modulated in accordance with a single carrier protocol, intended for the first remote station. Assuming that a different power amplifier is used for each band 1020, 1030, and 1040, the transmission power used by each amplifiers of BS3 to generate the spectral density of the multi-carrier signal in frequency bands 1030 and 1040 is Pw. The transmission power used by the amplifier of BS3 to generate the spectral density of the single carrier and multi-carrier signal in frequency band 1020 is a Pn+Pw, a sum of the transmission power needed to transmit the single carrier modulated signal and the transmission power needed to transmit the multi-carrier modulated signal. Frequency band 1010 is representative of Wf, and frequency band 1020 is representative of Nf.
In FIG. 10 b, the embodiment entitled “Dual Transmission Utilizing Non-overlapping Frequencies,” assumes that in the non-homogenous network 410 the single carrier frequency band Nf is located outside the multi-carrier frequency band Wf. Such a non-homogenous network will hereinafter be referred to as a non-overlapping non-homogenous network. Diagrammed in FIG. 10 b is the transmission power utilized in various frequency bands to transmit to two remote stations, the first of which is in a soft-handoff of the second handoff embodiment, wherein the single carrier protocol is a 1X protocol, the second of which is communicating with BS3 in accordance to a 3X multi-carrier protocol. In a non-overlapping non-homogenous network, multi-carrier base station BS3 transmits in frequency band 1050, which comprises frequency bands 1060, 1070, and 1080, a signal modulated in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol that is intended for the second remote station. Additionally, multi-carrier base station BS3 transmits in frequency band 1090, a signal modulated in accordance with a single carrier protocol intended for the first remote station. Assuming that a different power amplifier is used for each band 1060, 1070, and 1080, the transmission power used by each amplifier of BS3 to generate the spectral density of the multi-carrier signal in frequency bands 1060, 1070, and 1080, is Pw. The transmission power used by an amplifier of BS3 to generate the spectral density of the single carrier signal in frequency band 1090 is Pn. In this case, frequency band 1050 is representative of Wf, and frequency band 1090 is representative of Nf. As described above, the second handoff embodiment of the present invention could affect power levels. Telecommunications systems, such as cdma2000 systems, are generally power limited in the sense that each amplifier can only transmit a certain amount of power. In an overlapping non-homogenous network, this has ramifications as follows. As an example, consider a multi-carrier base station BS3, in a non-homogenous network, each BS3 amplifier having a maximum transmission power limit of 5*Pw. This means that BS3 could support communications with up to five remote stations simultaneously. However, this number decreases when BS3 communicates in single carrier mode with remote stations that are in soft handoff. FIG. 11 and FIG. 12 serve to visualize this.
In FIG. 11, the transmission power of one multi-carrier call is illustrated, wherein 5*Pw is the maximum allowable transmission power level for a given multi-carrier base station BS3. It should be clear to one skilled in the art that given this maximum power level, multi-carrier base station BS3 could still support four more calls in addition to the one call currently up, because each multi-carrier call utilizes an average transmission power level of Pw per amplifier. However, bringing up a single carrier call on this same base station drastically reduces this capacity, as illustrated in FIG. 12.
In FIG. 12, the transmission power of one multi-carrier call in conjunction with a single carrier call on a multi-carrier base station BS3 is illustrated. It should be clear to one skilled in the art that only one more multi-carrier call can be added at this point, and that no more soft handoff calls can be added to at this point due to the near saturation power level of the amplifier supporting frequency band Nf.
Although the example of a power limit of 5*Pw is smaller than one could expect in a real system, it serves to clearly illustrate that the available multi-carrier call capacity of a multi-carrier base station can decrease as the base station begins to transmit data on the forward link in compliance with a single carrier protocol. Thus, in an overlapping non-homogenous network, the second handoff embodiment can have a deleterious effect on multi-carrier call capacity. This deleterious effect does not occur in a non-overlapping non-homogenous network, as multi-carrier base station BS3 would use two distinctly separate frequencies for multi-carrier calls and single carrier calls, wherein each frequency is supported by its own amplifier, as illustrated in FIG. 10 b. However, it might be more costly to purchase the rights to the extra frequency spectrum needed to create a non-overlapping non-homogenous network, and the deployment costs for the extra transmitters might prove costly as well.
Also, looking at the spectral density distribution in FIG. 12, one skilled in the art will understand that for each remote station in a handoff of the second handoff embodiment, interference in the single carrier frequency band Nf (1020 in FIG. 10 a) is higher than it would be if either the base station BS3 transmitted data to the multi-carrier handoff candidate in accordance with a single carrier protocol in a frequency band other than Nf, or if base station BS3 transmitted data to the multi-carrier handoff candidate in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol (thus distributing the spectral density of the transmission across a wider frequency band).
Another thing to consider in relation to the second handoff embodiment of the present invention is that, while the remote station is in soft-handoff, the fact that it is only engaging in single carrier communications will limit the forward link data transmission rate. This is a very important consideration. In many communication systems, the multi-carrier protocols provide a means for a remote station to receive much more data on the forward link than do single carrier protocols. Thus, one advantage that the first handoff embodiment has over the second handoff embodiment is that higher data rate transmission can begin occurring while the remote station is within multi-carrier coverage in the first handoff embodiment, whereas in the second handoff embodiment, a remote station would not begin receiving higher data rate transmissions until it is out of single carrier coverage.
Other embodiments of the present invention combine the advantages of the first handoff embodiment with those of the second handoff embodiment. In the below handoff embodiments, a multi-carrier handoff candidate is sent a handoff message that instructs the remote station to switch its mode of reception to a multicarrier mode, but to transmit in a single carrier mode. In other words, the multi-carrier handoff candidate is sent a message that has it switch from a mode wherein it behaves like remote station 220 a of FIG. 2 to a mode wherein it behaves like remote station 110 a of FIG. 1. Several of these embodiments are described below.
In FIG. 13, in a third handoff embodiment of the present invention, a multi-carrier handoff candidate is sent a handoff message that instructs the remote station to continue transmitting data in accordance with a single carrier protocol in Nr, and to begin receiving data in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol in Wf from at least one multi-carrier base station BS3. In this embodiment, the remote station uses the same frequency band Nr for the transmission of data after the handoff as it used for the transmission of data before the handoff. The infrastructure instructs these multi-carrier base stations BS3 to begin transmitting data to the remote station on the forward link using the multi-carrier protocol in frequency band Wf. Additionally, the infrastructure instructs these multi-carrier base stations BS3 to begin receiving reverse link transmissions from the remote station in accordance with the single carrier protocol in frequency band Nr. For instance, if the handoff were to occur at point 520, multi-carrier base station BS3 b would be instructed to begin transmitting data to the remote station in frequency band Wf in accordance with the multi-carrier protocol. Additionally, single carrier base stations BS1 d and BS1 e would be instructed to stop transmitting data to the remote station, but would be instructed, either actively (by instruction) or passively (by lack of instruction), to continue receiving single carrier communications in frequency band Nr from the remote station. The remote station would be instructed, via a handoff message, to continue transmitting data as it was before, in accordance with the single carrier protocol in frequency band Nr, but to begin receiving data in accordance with the multi-carrier protocol on frequency Wf from base station BS3 b. A diagram of an exemplary communication path after the handoff of the third embodiment appears in FIG. 13, wherein the remote station continues transmitting in frequency band Nr, and begins receiving in frequency band Wf, and wherein transmissions adhering to the single carrier protocol are received by two single carrier base stations BS1 and one multi-carrier base station BS3, and wherein base station BS3 begins transmitting in accordance with the multi-carrier protocol in frequency band Wf.
10] In the third handoff embodiment, once the remote station travels to a point at which it is no longer in the coverage of single carrier basestations BS1, such as point 530, a subsequent handoff can occur that will switch the mode of communications from single carrier to multi-carrier. This subsequent handoff comprises the infrastructure sending a handoff message to the remote station instructing it to stop single carrier communications. with a set of at least one multi-carrier base station BS3 and to begin multi-carrier communications on the same set of base stations in frequency bands Wf and Wr. In other words, the remote station is sent a handoff message instructing it to cease all single carrier communications, and to only communicate using the multi-carrier protocol on the forward and reverse links. In such an embodiment, the infrastructure instructs the set of multi-carrier base stations BS3 to switch their modes of communications with the remote station to the multi-carrier protocol in frequency bands Wf and Wr.
A subsequent handoff that tells the remote station to only communicate with one type of base station in that base station's native protocol is not limited to a remote station traveling from a mixed coverage area to a multi-carrier coverage area, such as at point 530. Rather, a subsequent handoff message that instructs a remote station to only communicate with single carrier base station's in a single carrier protocol should be used when a remote station travels from a mixed coverage area to a single carrier coverage area, such as at point 550.
This third handoff embodiment offers improvements over the second handoff embodiment in relation to the considerations that were discussed earlier. In the third handoff embodiment, the transmission power used by the multi-carrier base stations to transmit to the remote station is not disproportionately increased on one channel. For instance, FIG. 12 illustrated that during soft handoff of a method of the second handoff embodiment, a multi-carrier base station BS3 would be limited (due to transmit power limitations) to supporting one more multi-carrier call, and would not be able to support any more soft handoffs. However, given a similar situation, in which a single multi-carrier call and a single soft handoff are in progress, but wherein the single soft handoff is performed according to the method of the third handoff embodiment, a multi-carrier base station's transmit power limitations do not cause such severe limitations. This is because, in the method of the third handoff embodiment, the remote station in handoff is sent multi-carrier signals rather than single carrier signals. Power transmission on a multi-carrier base station that was servicing one remote station prior to engaging in a soft handoff with another remote station, as illustrated in FIG. 11, would therefore transition to a power transmission state like that shown in FIG. 14 after initiating a soft handoff with another remote station per the method of the third handoff embodiment. As shown in FIG. 14, the transmission power for the remote station in handoff is evenly spread across the three sub-bands of frequency band Wf. Thus, in this example, wherein max transmission power level is 5*Pw, and wherein a soft-handoff per the method of the third handoff embodiment is in with one remote station while another multi-carrier call is in progress with another remote station, it is seen that the multi-carrier base station is able to transmit to three more remote stations, each of which can either be in a pure multi-carrier mode or in a soft-handoff mode. This is a vast improvement over the power limitations that occur due to the soft handoff of the second handoff embodiment, as described in relation to FIG. 12.
Another way in which the third handoff embodiment has advantages over the method of the second handoff embodiment is that higher data rate transmission can begin occurring on the forward link as soon as the remote station enters multi-carrier coverage.
Although the third handoff embodiment does offer some advantages, some considerations should be taken into account with the third handoff embodiment. For instance, although the third handoff embodiment provides path diversity on the reverse link, it does not provide the path diversity on the forward link that is provided for by the method of the second handoff embodiment. Additionally, the third handoff embodiment only provides power control feedback from the multi-carrier base station while in soft handoff. As discussed in reference to the first handoff embodiment, a remote station that is only receiving power control feedback from the multi-carrier base stations could inadvertently transmit at an excessively high power, and thus interfere with the single carrier base stations whose coverage the remote station is in. A solution to this problem of power control can be provided in this handoff embodiment, as well as in any others that have the aforementioned power control problem.
In FIG. 15, a fourth handoff embodiment addresses the problem of interference on the reverse link in a different manner. In the fourth handoff embodiment, a soft handoff similar to that found in the third handoff embodiment is used, wherein multi-carrier communications are used by the multi-carrier base stations to transmit data to the remote station on the forward link, and wherein single carrier communications are used by the remote station to transmit data to the base stations on the reverse link. The difference between the third handoff embodiment and the fourth handoff embodiment is as follows. In the soft handoff of the third handoff embodiment, the remote station transmits data in the single carrier frequency band Nr both before and after the handoff. In contrast, in the fourth handoff embodiment the remote station transmits data after handoff in a single carrier frequency band that is different from the single carrier frequency band used prior to handoff. This difference is illustrated by transforming the labeling of the reverse link in FIG. 13 from Nr to a label of Nra, as shown in FIG. 15. Whereas Nr is representative of the reverse link frequency band used by the single carrier systems for remote stations that are not in soft-handoff with multi-carrier base stations (and it is also representative of the reverse link frequency band used by remote stations involved in a handoff of the second and third embodiments), Nra is representative of a single carrier frequency band reverse link that is located outside of the frequency band Nr. By having the remote station utilize a different single carrier frequency band for the reverse link while in soft handoff, it removes the problem of possible interference in the single carrier system due to the use of excessive transmission power by the remote station. The alternative single carrier reverse link frequency band, denoted by Nra in FIG. 15, is contained within the frequency band Wr in an exemplary embodiment. In an alternative embodiment, Nra is contained outside the frequency band Wr.
Although the above describes a handoff from single carrier coverage to mixed coverage (an area that is both in the coverage of a single carrier base station and-in the coverage of a multi-carrier base station), which occurs, for instance, at point 520, one skilled in the art will appreciate that a similar method can be used to handoff from multi-carrier coverage to mixed coverage, such as at point 540 or point 548.
In the fourth handoff embodiment, once the remote station travels to a point at which it is no longer in the coverage of single carrier basestations BS1, such as point 530, a subsequent handoff can occur that will switch the mode of communications from single carrier to multi-carrier. This subsequent handoff comprises the infrastructure sending a handoff message to the remote station instructing it to stop single carrier communications with a set of at least one multi-carrier base station BS3 and to begin multi-carrier communications on the same set of base stations in frequency bands Wf and Wr. In other words, the remote station is sent a handoff message instructing it to cease all single carrier communications, and to only communicate using the multi-carrier protocol on the forward and reverse links. In such an embodiment, the infrastructure instructs the set of multi-carrier base stations BS3 to switch its mode of communications with the remote station to the multi-carrier protocol in frequency bands Wf and Wr.
In the fourth handoff embodiment, the infrastructure instructs the remote station, via a handoff message, to begin transmitting data in accordance with a single carrier protocol in frequency band Nra, and to begin receiving data in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol in frequency band Wf from at least one multi-carrier base station BS3. The infrastructure instructs these multi-carrier base stations BS3 to begin transmitting data to the remote station on the forward link using the multi-carrier protocol in frequency band Wf. Additionally, the infrastructure instructs these multi-carrier base stations BS3 to begin receiving reverse link transmissions from the remote station in accordance with the single carrier protocol in frequency band Nra. Also, the infrastructure instructs the single carrier base stations BS1 involved in the handoff to switch its reception of reverse link transmission from the remote station from frequency band Nr to frequency band Nra (described in reference to the fourth handoff embodiment).
FIG. 16 illustrates a remote station in a handoff of a fifth handoff embodiment, which differs from the fourth handoff embodiment only in that the single carrier base stations do not receive the reverse link transmissions from the remote station that is in a soft-handoff. Although it is desirable that the single carrier base stations receive the single carrier transmissions from the remote station for path diversification, it may be cost prohibitive to configure the single carrier base stations BS1 to receive single carrier signals in two frequency bands, one for remote stations not in soft handoff, and one for remote stations in soft handoff. The fifth handoff embodiment can be used in cases wherein it is not desired to perform the configurations needed to receive transmissions in two frequency bands on single carrier base stations BS1. In the fifth handoff embodiment, the multi-carrier base stations BS3 and the remote station perform the same way as in the fourth handoff embodiment. The only difference, in fact, between the fourth and the fifth handoff embodiment are that the single carrier base stations BS1 is not used for communications with the remote station after a handoff of the fifth handoff embodiment.
In the fifth handoff embodiment, the infrastructure instructs the remote station, via a handoff message, to stop communicating with the single carrier base stations BS1 and to begin transmitting data in accordance with a single carrier protocol in frequency band Nra, and to begin receiving data in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol in frequency band Wf from at least one multi-carrier base station BS3. In such an embodiment, the infrastructure instructs these multi-carrier base stations BS3 to begin transmitting data to the remote station on the forward link using the multi-carrier protocol in frequency band Wf. Additionally, the infrastructure instructs these multi-carrier base stations BS3 to begin receiving reverse link transmissions from the remote station in accordance with the single carrier protocol in frequency band Nra. Also, the infrastructure instructs the single carrier base stations BS1 to stop communications with the remote station.
The disadvantage of the fifth handoff embodiment over the fourth handoff embodiment is that reverse link path diversity that was provided by the fourth handoff embodiment is not present in the fifth handoff embodiment.
In the fifth handoff embodiment, once the remote station travels to a point at which it is no longer in the coverage of single carrier basestations BS1, such as point 530, a subsequent handoff can occur that will switch the mode of communications from single carrier to multi-carrier. This subsequent handoff comprises the infrastructure sending a handoff message to the remote station instructing it to stop single carrier communications with a set of at least one multi-carrier base station BS3 and to begin multi-carrier communications on the same set of base stations in frequency bands Wf and Wr. In other words, the remote station is sent a handoff message instructing it to cease all single carrier communications, and to only communicate using the multi-carrier protocol on the forward and reverse links. In such an embodiment, the infrastructure instructs the set of multi-carrier base stations BS3 to switch its mode of communications with the remote station to the multi-carrier protocol in frequency bands Wf and Wr.
One thing that is not provided for in any of the aforementioned handoff embodiments in which the forward link transmissions adhere to the multi-carrier protocol (namely, the third-fifth embodiments) is forward link path diversity from both the single carrier and the multi-carrier base stations. However, in the handoff embodiments described below, forward link path diversity from both the single carrier and the multi-carrier base stations is achieved, at least in part. This is done by configuring the single carrier base stations BS1 to transmit signals to the remote station in the single carrier frequency band Nf, wherein the transmitted signal is a portion of a signal that was generated in accordance with the multi-carrier protocol. The concept of transmitting in a single carrier frequency band a portion of a signal that was generated in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol is described below.
A multi-carrier frequency band can be logically partitioned into several sections, each having a frequency bandwidth of a single carrier frequency band. In an exemplary system wherein Nf is contained within Wf, and wherein single carrier transmissions are performed using the 1X protocol and multi-carrier transmissions are performed using the 3X protocol, the multi-carrier frequency band Wf can be partitioned into three sub-bands, which will be called Wfa, Wfb, and Wfc, wherein each sub-band has a width equal to that of Nf. In an exemplary case, Nf is the same frequency band as Wfc. However, it will be understood by one skilled in the art that Nf can be present anywhere within Wf.
FIG. 17 a illustrates this exemplary case, in which Wf is divided into three sub-bands, each of equal width, wherein the third sub-band, Wfc, is the same frequency band as the single carrier frequency band Nf. FIG. 17 a also shows an exemplary multi-carrier signal, S, that would be transmitted in Wf. The signal S can likewise be broken up into three sub-signals, Sa, Sb, and Sc, each of which is transmitted over their respective sub-band. In this case Sc is transmitted over frequency band Nf (also known as Wfc). In the below described handoff embodiments, the entire multi-carrier signal, signal S, will be transmitted in frequency band Wf by the multi-carrier base stations. Sc is a portion of the signal, S, generated in accordance with the multi-carrier protocol, that is transmitted in the frequency band Nf. To gain path diversity for this portion of the signal, in the below described handoff embodiments, the single carrier base stations BS1 that are transmitting signals in frequency band Nf in accordance with the single carrier protocol additionally transmit the portion of the multi-carrier signal that was transmitted in the frequency band Nf by the multi-carrier base stations. For instance, if a signal were generated and transmitted as per FIG. 17 a, then in the handoff embodiments described below the portion Sc would be transmitted by single carrier base stations, as illustrated in FIG. 17 b.
FIG. 18 illustrates a remote station in a handoff of a sixth handoff embodiment. The sixth handoff embodiment has all of the communication paths of the third handoff embodiment, plus it also has a single carrier forward link communication path between the single carrier base stations BS1 and the remote station. As illustrated, portion Sc of the multi-carrier signal is transmitted over these single carrier forward link communication paths. Portion Sc is also transmitted as part of the multi-carrier signal transmitted by multi-carrier base station BS3. The sixth handoff embodiment has all of the advantages of the third handoff embodiment, and additionally it has the advantage that it gains additional forward link path diversity from the single carrier base stations for the portion of the multi-carrier signal that is transmitted by both the multi-carrier and single carrier base stations.
In the sixth handoff embodiment of the present invention, a multi-carrier handoff candidate is sent a handoff message that instructs the remote station to continue transmitting data in accordance with a single carrier protocol in Nr, and to begin receiving data in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol in Wf from at least one multi-carrier base station BS3. The handoff message also instructs the remote station to begin receiving data in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol in Nf from at least one single carrier base station BS1. In one embodiment the remote station is instructed to only decode the portion of the signal that occurs in the single carrier frequency band because the single carrier base stations BS1 will only be transmitting a portion of the multi-carrier signal.
In an alternative embodiment, the remote station is simply instructed to decode the entire multi-carrier signal from the single carrier base stations BS1. In such an embodiment, although the remote station will not be able to decode the entire expected multi-carrier signal from BS1, but rather only the portion that was transmitted by BS1, the absence of some of the signal will not negatively impact the remote station when decoding the entire multi-carrier signal as received from BS3.
In the sixth handoff embodiment, the remote station uses the same frequency band Nr for the transmission of data after the handoff as it used for the transmission of data before the handoff. In such an embodiment, the infrastructure instructs these multi-carrier base stations BS3 to begin transmitting data to the remote station on the forward link using the multi-carrier protocol in frequency band Wf. Additionally, the infrastructure instructs these multi-carrier base stations BS3 to begin receiving reverse link transmissions from the remote station in accordance with the single carrier protocol in frequency band Nr. Also, the infrastructure instructs these single carrier base stations BS1 to begin generating signals in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol and to transmit in frequency band Nf the portion of each of these signals that will be similarly transmitted in frequency band Nf by the multi-carrier base stations BS3. Single carrier base stations BS1 are instructed, either actively (by instruction) or passively (by lack of instruction), to continue receiving single carrier communications in frequency band Nr from the remote station.
In the sixth handoff embodiment, once the remote station travels to a point at which it is no longer in the coverage of single carrier basestations BS1, such as point 530, a subsequent handoff can occur that will switch the mode of communications from single carrier to multi-carrier. This subsequent handoff comprises the infrastructure sending a handoff message to the remote station instructing it to stop single carrier communications with a set of at least one multi-carrier base station BS3 and to begin multi-carrier communications on the same set of base stations in frequency bands Wf and Wr. In other words, the remote station is sent a handoff message instructing it to cease all single carrier communications, and to only communicate using the multi-carrier protocol on the forward and reverse links. In such an embodiment, the infrastructure instructs the set of multi-carrier base stations BS3 to switch its mode of communications with the remote station to the multi-carrier protocol in frequency bands Wf and Wr.
FIG. 19 illustrates a remote station in a handoff of a seventh handoff embodiment. The seventh handoff embodiment has all of the communication paths of the fourth handoff embodiment, plus it also has a single carrier forward link communication path between the single carrier base stations and the remote station. As illustrated, portion Sc of the multi-carrier signal is transmitted over these single carrier forward link communication paths. Portion Sc is also transmitted as part of the multi-carrier signal transmitted by multi-carrier base station BS3. The seventh handoff embodiment has all of the advantages of the fourth handoff embodiment, and additionally it has the advantage that it gains forward link path diversity for the portion of the multi-carrier signal that is transmitted by both the multi-carrier and single carrier base stations.
In the seventh handoff embodiment, the infrastructure instructs the remote station, via a handoff message, to begin transmitting data in accordance with a single carrier protocol in frequency band Nra (described in reference to the fourth handoff embodiment), and to begin receiving data in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol in frequency band Wf from at least one multi-carrier base station BS3. The handoff message also instructs the remote station to begin receiving data in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol in Nf from at least one single carrier base station BS1. In one embodiment the remote station is instructed to only decode the portion of the signal that occurs in the single carrier frequency band because the single carrier base stations BS1 will only be transmitting a portion of the multi-carrier signal. In an alternative embodiment, the remote station is simply instructed to decode the entire multi-carrier signal from the single carrier base stations BS1. In such an embodiment, although the remote station will not be able to decode the entire expected multi-carrier signal from BS1, but rather only the portion that was transmitted by BS1, the absence of some of the signal will not negatively impact the remote station when decoding the entire multi-carrier signal as received from BS3.
In the seventh embodiment, the infrastructure instructs these multi-carrier base stations BS3 to begin transmitting data to the remote station on the forward link using the multi-carrier protocol in frequency band Wf. Additionally, the infrastructure instructs these multi-carrier base stations BS3 to begin receiving reverse link transmissions from the remote station in accordance with the single carrier protocol in frequency band Nra. Also, the infrastructure instructs these single carrier base stations BS1 to begin generating signals in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol and to transmit in frequency band Nf the portion of each of these signals that will be similarly transmitted in frequency band Nf by the multi-carrier base stations BS3. As well, the infrastructure instructs these single carrier base stations BS1 involved in the handoff to switch its reception of reverse link transmission from the remote station from frequency band Nr to frequency band Nra.
In the seventh handoff embodiment, once the remote station travels to a point at which it is no longer in the coverage of single carrier basestations BS1, such as point 530, a subsequent handoff can occur that will switch the mode of communications from single carrier to multi-carrier. This subsequent handoff comprises the infrastructure sending a handoff message to the remote station instructing it to stop single carrier communications with a set of at least one multi-carrier base station BS3 and to begin multi-carrier communications on the same set of base stations in frequency bands Wf and Wr. In other words, the remote station is sent a handoff message instructing it to cease all single carrier communications, and to only communicate using the multi-carrier protocol on the forward and reverse links. In such an embodiment, the infrastructure instructs the set of multi-carrier base stations BS3 to switch its mode of communications with the remote station to the multi-carrier protocol in frequency bands Wf and Wr.
FIG. 20 illustrates a remote station in a handoff of an eighth handoff embodiment. The eighth handoff embodiment has all of the communication paths of the fifth handoff embodiment, plus it also has a single carrier forward link communication path between the single carrier base stations and the remote station. As illustrated, portion Sc of the multi-carrier signal is transmitted over these single carrier forward link communication paths. Portion Sc is also transmitted as part of the multi-carrier signal transmitted by multi-carrier base station BS3. The eighth handoff embodiment has all of the advantages of the fifth handoff embodiment, and additionally it has the advantage that it gains forward link path diversity for the portion of the multi-carrier signal that is transmitted by both the multi-carrier and single carrier base stations.
In this embodiment, the infrastructure instructs the remote station, via a handoff message, to begin transmitting data in accordance with a single carrier protocol in frequency band Nra (described in reference to the fourth handoff embodiment), and to begin receiving data in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol in frequency band Wf from at least one multi-carrier base station BS3. The handoff message also instructs the remote station to begin receiving data in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol in Nf from at least one single carrier base station BS1. In one embodiment the remote station is instructed to only decode the portion of the signal that occurs in the single carrier frequency band because the single carrier base stations BS1 will only be transmitting a portion of the multi-carrier signal. In an alternative embodiment, the remote station is simply instructed to decode the entire multi-carrier signal from the single carrier base stations BS1. In such an embodiment, although the remote station will not be able to decode the entire expected multi-carrier signal from BS1, but rather only the portion that was transmitted by BS1, the absence of some of the signal will not negatively impact the remote station when decoding the entire multi-carrier signal as received from BS3.
In such an embodiment, the infrastructure instructs these multi-carrier base stations BS3 to begin transmitting data to the remote station on the forward link using the multi-carrier protocol in frequency band Wf. Additionally, the infrastructure instructs these multi-carrier base stations BS3 to begin receiving reverse link transmissions from the remote station in accordance with the single carrier protocol in frequency band Nra. Also, the infrastructure instructs these single carrier base stations BS1 to begin generating signals in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol and to transmit in frequency band Nf the portion of each of these signals that will be similarly transmitted in frequency band Nf by the multi-carrier base stations BS3. Single carrier base stations BS1 are instructed to stop receiving single carrier communications from the remote station.
Although the above describes a handoff from single carrier coverage to mixed coverage (an area that is both in the coverage of a single carrier base station and in the coverage of a multi-carrier base station), which occurs, for instance, at point 520, one skilled in the art will appreciate that a similar method can be used to handoff from multi-carrier coverage to mixed coverage, such as at point 540 or point 548. Example 3, below, speaks to this.
In the eighth handoff embodiment, once the remote station travels to a point at which it is no longer in the coverage of single carrier basestations BS1, such as point 530, a subsequent handoff can occur that will switch the mode of communications from single carrier to multi-carrier. This subsequent handoff comprises the infrastructure sending a handoff message to the remote station instructing it to stop single carrier communications with a set of at least one multi-carrier base station BS3 and to begin multi-carrier communications on the same set of base stations in frequency bands Wf and Wr. In other words, the remote station is sent a handoff message instructing it to cease all single carrier communications, and to only communicate using the multi-carrier protocol on the forward and reverse links. In such an embodiment, the infrastructure instructs the set of multi-carrier base stations BS3 to switch its mode of communications with the remote station to the multi-carrier protocol in frequency bands Wf and Wr. Example 2, below, speaks to this.
51] A subsequent handoff that tells the remote station to only communicate with one type of base station in that base station's native protocol is not limited to a remote station traveling from a mixed coverage area to a multi-carrier coverage area, such as at point 530. Rather, a subsequent handoff message that instructs a remote station to only communicate with single carrier base station's in a single carrier protocol should be used when a remote station travels from a mixed coverage area to a single carrier coverage area, such as at point 550. Example 4, below, speaks to this.
FIG. 21 is a flowchart of the methodology that can be used to implement each of the handoff embodiments described above for a non-homogenous network. In block 2110, each base station generates a list of neighboring base stations using methods known to one skilled in the art. The process then proceeds to block 2120.
In block 2120, each base station transmits a neighbor list message containing the list of neighboring base stations. The neighbor list message will indicate the pilot offsets of each of the neighboring base stations, and will either explicitly or implicitly indicate the frequency at which each neighboring pilot signal is transmitted. Additionally, the neighbor list may state additional information about each neighboring base station, such as whether it is a single carrier base station or a multi-carrier base station, or the frequency bands it uses for communication. Alternatively this additional information can be transmitted on another channel, such as a paging channel. The process then proceeds to block 2130.
In block 2130, the remote station receives the neighbor list message and monitors for pilots at frequencies and pilot offsets indicated by the neighbor list message. The remote station gathers signal strength measurements of the pilots it is attempting to detect, and places this information into a signal strength measurement message, which it then transmits. In one embodiment the remote station only transmits information in the signal strength measurement message for signals that are received above a pre-determined threshold (such as pre-determined Ec/Io threshold, as would be known to one skilled in the art). A method and apparatus for generating a signal strength measurement message containing pilot strength information is disclosed in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/502,279, filed on Feb. 10, 2000, and entitled “METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING PILOT STRENGTH MEASUREMENT MESSAGES”, assigned to the assignee of the present invention and incorporated in its entirety herein by reference. Other methods for generating signal strength measurement messages containing pilot strength information are known to those skilled in the art. The process then proceeds to block 2140.
In block 2140, the base station(s) receive the signal strength measurement message. These base stations provide the signal strength measurements to the BSC responsible for handoff. The process then proceeds to block 2150.
In block 2150, the BSC examines the current state of communications with the remote station along with the signal strength measurements received from the remote station, and uses these to determine the new Active Set, the set of base stations with which the remote station should communicate, and whether or not to initiate a handoff in accordance with one of the above-described embodiments. For example, if the current state of the remote station is such that it is only in communications with narrowband base stations, but the received signal strength measurements indicate that the remote station is receiving strong pilot signal measurements both from single carrier base stations and from a multi-carrier base station, then the BSC would initiate a handoff of the above-described embodiments.
If the new active set contains only single carrier base stations, and the remote station is only in communication with single carrier base stations at the present time and those communications utilize the single carrier protocol, then although a handoff will be performed, it will be a handoff other than that of the above-described embodiments. Likewise, if the new active set contains only multi-carrier base stations, and the remote station is only in communication with multi-carrier base stations at the present time and those communications utilize the multi-carrier protocol, then although a handoff will be performed, it will be a handoff other than that of the above-described embodiments. In these cases, the process proceeds to block 2110.
In all other cases, a handoff of the above-described embodiments will be performed, and the process proceeds to block 2160. In block 2160, the BSC instructs at least one base station to transmit to the remote station a handoff message containing instructions for the remote station to perform a handoff. In one embodiment, all base stations that the remote station is currently communicating with transmit the remote station a handoff message containing instructions for the remote station to perform a handoff to the new active set). Depending on the radio propagation environment of the remote station, and depending on which particular handoff embodiment of the above-described embodiments a carrier wishes to use, the handoff message will contain the appropriate subset of handoff instructions as described in reference to the particular handoff embodiment chosen (i.e., a given carrier can choose whether to use any one of the first through the eighth handoff embodiments). Radio propagation environment is mentioned, because as mentioned in the descriptions of the various handoff embodiments, the handoff performed is dependent upon the location of a remote station in relation to the radio signals that it is able to receive from a set of remote stations at any given time.
For instance, if a carrier wanted to support the eighth handoff embodiment, the handoff message transmitted in block 2160 would be based upon the location of the remote station in accordance with the description of the eighth handoff embodiment. Below are examples showing how the location affects the message transmitted in the eighth handoff embodiment.
remote station at point 520 (going from single carrier coverage into mixed coverage). If a remote station at point 520 transmitted a signal strength measurement message in accordance with block 2130, then, in accordance with the description of the eighth embodiment, a handoff message would be transmitted at block 2160 that instructs the remote station to begin transmitting data in accordance with a single carrier protocol in frequency band Nra (described in reference to the fourth handoff embodiment), and to begin receiving data in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol in frequency band Wf from at least one multi-carrier base station BS3. The handoff message also instructs the remote station to begin receiving data in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol in a single carrier frequency band Nf from at least one single carrier base station BS1.
remote station at point 530 (going from mixed coverage into multi-carrier coverage). If a remote station at point 530 transmitted a signal strength measurement message in accordance with block 2130, then, in accordance with the description of the eighth embodiment, a handoff message would be transmitted at block 2160 that instructs the remote station to stop single carrier communications with a set of at least one multi-carrier base stations BS3 and to begin multi-carrier communications on the same set of base stations in frequency bands Wf and Wr.
the remote station at point 540 (going from multi-carrier coverage into mixed coverage). If a remote station at point 540 transmitted a signal strength measurement message in accordance with block 2130, then, in accordance with the description of the eighth embodiment, a handoff message would be transmitted at block 2160 that instructs the remote station to begin transmitting data in accordance with a single carrier protocol in frequency band Nra (described in reference to the fourth handoff embodiment), and to begin receiving data in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol in frequency band Wf from at least one multi-carrier base station BS3. The handoff message also instructs the remote station to begin receiving data in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol in Nf from at least one single carrier base station BS1.
the remote station at point near point 550 (going from mixed coverage into single carrier coverage). If a remote station at point 550 transmitted a signal strength measurement message in accordance with block 2130, then, in accordance with the description of the eighth embodiment, a handoff message would be transmitted at block 2160 that instructs the remote station to cease all communications using multi-carrier protocols, and to only communicate with a set of at least one single carrier base stations BS1 using single carrier communications in frequency bands Nf and Nr.
Although these specific examples are related to the eighth handoff embodiment, after reading the description of all eight handoff embodiments described above one skilled in the art will recognize what handoff messages will need to be transmitted in block 2160 based upon the handoff embodiment chosen and the signal strength measurements received from the remote station (these measurements allow the base station controller to estimate the location of the remote station). The process then proceeds to block 2170.
In block 2170, in accordance with the location of the remote station and in accordance with the particular handoff embodiment chosen, the base station controller instructs the base stations to perform accordingly. These instructions will be consistent with the handoff message transmitted in block 2160. If in accordance with the particular handoff embodiment one or more base stations should cease or alter their communications with the remote station, they are instructed to do so. Likewise, if in accordance with the particular handoff embodiment one or more base stations should begin communications with the remote station, they are instructed to do so in accordance with the handoff message of block 2160.
As an example, if a carrier wanted to support the eighth handoff embodiment, and the remote station was at point 520, and thus the handoff message described in reference to Example 1 of block 2160 was transmitted, then in block 2170 the base station controller would instruct at least one multi-carrier base station BS3 to setup a forward link to the remote station for data transmissions in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol, and to setup a reverse link to the remote station for receiving data transmissions in accordance with a single carrier protocol in a frequency band Nra (as described in reference to the fourth handoff embodiment). Additionally, the base station controller instructs at least one single carrier base station BS1 that was communicating in single carrier mode with the remote station prior to the handoff to stop receiving data from the remote station, and to alter the mode of transmission to the remote station to a mode in which it transmits in a single carrier frequency band Nf a portion of a signal generated in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol.
Although this specific example is related to the eighth handoff embodiment in a scenario wherein the remote station moved from single carrier coverage to mixed coverage, after reading the description of all eight handoff embodiments described above one skilled in the art will recognize what instructions the base station controller will give to the base stations in block 2170 based upon the handoff embodiment chosen and the estimated location of the remote station (as can be determined by the signal strength measurements using procedures known to one skilled in the art). The process then proceeds to block 2180.
In block 2180, the remote station receives the handoff message transmitted in block 2160, and complies with the instructions. If the received handoff message either explicitly or implicitly instructs the remote station to cease receiving communications from one or more base stations, the remote station will stop receiving data communications from those base stations. Also, if the remote station is instructed to begin listening to transmissions from one or more base stations, it will do so.
If the handoff message instructs the remote station to switch its mode of reception from a single carrier mode to a multi-carrier mode, it will do so. Conversely, if the handoff message instructs the remote station to switch its mode of reception from a multi-carrier mode to a single carrier mode, it will do so.
If the handoff message instructs the remote station to switch its mode of transmission from a single carrier mode to a multi-carrier mode it will do so. Conversely, if the handoff message instructs the remote station to switch its mode of transmission from a multi-carrier mode to a single carrier mode it will do so. Additionally, if the handoff message instructs the remote station to transmit in data in a single carrier mode in a particular single carrier frequency band (e.g., Nr versus Nra in the first through eighth embodiments), the remote station will begin transmitting data in a single carrier mode in that particular single carrier frequency band.
As an example, if a carrier wanted to support the eighth handoff embodiment, and the remote station was at point 520, and thus the handoff message described in reference to Example 1 of block 2160 was transmitted, then in block 2180 the remote station would begin transmitting data on the reverse link in accordance with a single carrier protocol in a frequency band Nra (as described in reference to the fourth handoff embodiment), and it would change its forward link mode of reception to one in which it receives data in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol. In addition to receiving a multi-carrier transmission from at least one multi-carrier base station BS3, the remote station would begin receiving a portion of a signal generated in accordance with the multi-carrier protocol that was transmitted over at least one single carrier base station BS1. In one embodiment the remote station is instructed to only decode the portion of the signal that occurs in the single carrier frequency band because the single carrier base stations BS1 will only be transmitting a portion of the multi-carrier signal. In an alternative embodiment, the remote station is simply instructed to decode the entire multi-carrier signal from the single carrier base stations BS1. In such an embodiment, although the remote station will not be able to decode the entire expected multi-carrier signal from BS1, but rather only the portion that was transmitted by BS1, the absence of some of the signal will not negatively impact the remote station when decoding the entire multi-carrier signal as received from BS3.
Although this specific example is related to the eighth handoff embodiment in a scenario wherein the remote station moved from single carrier coverage to mixed coverage, after reading the description of all eight handoff embodiments described above one skilled in the art will recognize what instructions the base station controller will put into the handoff message in block 2160, based upon the handoff embodiment chosen and the estimated location of the remote station (as can be determined by the signal strength measurements using procedures known to one skilled in the art), and therefore will be able to determine what the remote station does in block 2180 in response to the reception of the handoff message. The process then proceeds to block 2110.
In FIG. 22, base station 2200 generates a neighbor list message in message generator 2220 and provides the message to modulator 2230. The message is modulated by modulator 2230 and provided to transmitter 2240, which upconverts and amplifies the signal and transmits the resulting signal through antenna 2250.
In one embodiment, modulator 2230 is a multi-mode modulator, capable of performing modulation in compliance with a single carrier protocol and also capable of performing modulation in compliance with a multi-carrier protocol. In one such embodiment, modulator 2230 performs single carrier modulation in compliance with the 1X protocol and performs multi-carrier modulation in compliance with the 3X protocol. In an embodiment in which modulator 2230 is a multi-mode modulator, prior to performing modulation control processor 2260 instructs modulator 2230 as to whether it should modulate messages in accordance with a single carrier protocol or a multi-carrier protocol, as described in accordance with handoff embodiments 1 through 8. In one embodiment modulator 2230 is physically comprised of two separate modulators, one of which performs single carrier modulation, and another of which performs multi-carrier modulation. Control Processor 2260 either contains internal memory, or it is able to set and retrieve the value of memory in an external memory unit (not shown), as is commonly known in the art.
In one embodiment, transmitter 2240 is a multi-mode transmitter, capable of transmitting in a multi-carrier frequency band, and also capable of transmitting in a single carrier frequency band (such as 1.25 MHz for 1X). In an embodiment in which transmitter 2240 is a multi-mode transmitter, prior to performing transmissions, control processor 2260 instructs transmitter 2240 as to whether it should transmit messages in a single carrier frequency band or in a multi-carrier frequency band.
One skilled in the art will recognize that control processor 2260 may be implemented using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA), programmable logic devices PLD), digital signal processors (DSP), one or more microprocessors, application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) or other device capable of performing the functions described above.
Referring to FIG. 23, the transmitted signal is received by remote station 2300 by antenna 2394, after which it passes through duplexer 2392 to receiver 2390, which downconverts, filters and amplifies the signal. Receiver 2390 is a multi-mode receiver capable of receiving data in a single carrier frequency band, and also capable of receiving data in a multi-carrier frequency band. Control processor 2320 instructs receiver 2390 whether to be in single carrier or multi-carrier receipt mode any given moment, in accordance with handoff embodiments 1-8. Control Processor 2320 either contains internal memory, or it is able to set and retrieve the value of memory in an external memory unit (not shown), as is commonly known in the art.
The received signal is then demodulated by demodulator 2370 and provided to control processor 2320. Demodulator 2370 is a multi-mode demodulator, capable of performing demodulation in compliance with a single carrier protocol and also capable of performing demodulation in compliance with a multi-carrier protocol. In one such embodiment, demodulator 2370 performs single carrier demodulation in compliance with the 1X protocol and performs multi-carrier demodulation in compliance with the 3X protocol. Prior to performing demodulation, control processor 2320 instructs demodulator 2370 as to whether it should modulate messages in accordance with single carrier protocol 1X or multi-carrier protocol 3X, as described in accordance with handoff embodiments 1 through 8.
79] Demodulator 2370 provides the neighbor list message to Control processor 2320, which then generates a set of commands directing a search to be performed by searcher 2380. Searcher 2380 provides a set of search demodulation parameters to demodulator 2370. The demodulated signals are provided to pilot energy accumulator 2330, which measures the strength of the pilots of the base stations of the neighbor list. The energy of each of these neighbors is provided to control processor 2320, which compares the measured energy with a predetermined threshold T_ADD. Control processor 2320 generates a message that signifies which, if any, of the neighboring base station's signals exceeded the threshold T_ADD. Hereinafter, the term Active Set is used to identify these neighboring base stations.
The message is provided to modulator 2350, where it is modulated. The modulated signal is then provided to transmitter 2360, where it is upconverted and amplified, after which it travels through duplexer 2392 to antenna 2394, where it is transmitted.
Modulator 2350 is a multi-mode modulator, capable of performing modulation in compliance with a single carrier protocol and also capable of performing modulation in compliance with a multi-carrier protocol. In one such embodiment, modulator 2350 performs single carrier modulation in compliance with the 1X protocol and performs multi-carrier modulation in compliance with the 3X protocol. In an embodiment in which modulator 2350 is a multi-mode modulator, prior to performing modulation control processor 2320 instructs modulator 2350 as to whether it should modulate messages in accordance with a single carrier protocol or a multi-carrier protocol, as described in accordance with handoff embodiments 1 through 8. In one embodiment, transmitter 2360 is a multi-mode transmitter, capable of performing transmissions in a single carrier frequency band (such as 1.25 MHz for 1X) and in a multi-carrier frequency band (such as three 1.25 MHz chunks for 3X). In such an embodiment, control processor 2320 instructs transmitter 2360 whether to transmit in a single carrier frequency band or in a multi-carrier frequency band. In an embodiment that can be used to support the 4th and 7th handoff embodiments, wherein the remote station can transmits in one of two single carrier frequencies (e.g. Nr or Nra) depending upon the coverage areas that it is in, control processor 2320 instructs transmitter 2360 as to which frequency band to transmit in.
Referring back to FIG. 22, the message indicating the strengths of the neighboring base stations is received by antenna 2290 of base station 2200. The signal is downconverted and amplified by receiver 2280 and provided to demodulator 2270. Demodulator 2270 demodulates the signal and provides the result to control processor 2260. Control processor 2260 generates an Active Set list for the BSC in accordance with the information in the message transmitted by remote station 2300 indicating the results of its search. In the exemplary embodiment, the Active Set list will consist of all base stations whose signals, when monitored by remote station 2300, exceeded the energy threshold T_ADD.
In one embodiment, receiver 2280 can receive data both in a multi-carrier frequency band and in a single carrier frequency band. In such an embodiment, control processor 2260 instructs receiver 2280 whether to receive in a multi-carrier frequency band or in a single carrier frequency band. In an embodiment that can be used to support the 4th and 7th handoff embodiments, wherein the base station anticipates the remote station can transmitting in one of two single carrier frequencies (e.g. Nr or Nra), control processor 2260 instructs receiver 2280 as to which frequency band to receive in.
Control Processor 2260 sends the Active Set list to interface 2210, which forwards a message indicating the Active Set list to the BSC. Interface 2210 can be any interface that allows for communication between the base station and the BSC. In a centralized system, such interfaces are known in the art and include, but are not limited to, ethernet interfaces, T1 interfaces, E1 interfaces, ATM interfaces, and microwave interfaces. In a decentralized system, interface 2210 could simply be a memory bus or an area of shared memory. Capacity issues allowing, the BSC provides forward link channels on a subset of base stations in the Active Set list. The forward link channels are setup on each base station 2200 in accordance with the Active Set list, and in accordance with the handoff embodiment being used. Additionally, reverse link channels are setup on each base 2200 in accordance with the Active Set list, and in accordance with the handoff embodiment being used. As per the above-described handoff embodiments, it is possible that forward link channels can be setup on certain base stations without setting up reverse link channels on those base stations (e.g. the eighth handoff embodiment). Also, as per the above-described handoff embodiments, it is possible that reverse link channels can be setup on certain base stations without setting up forward link channels on those base stations (e.g., the third and fourth handoff embodiments).
In one embodiment, control Processor 2260 also provides the Active Set list to message generator 2220. The resulting handoff message is modulated by modulator 2230 and transmitted as described above. In one embodiment, the handoff message explicitly states which frequencies the remote station should begin receiving and transmitting on and whether the data should be modulated in a single carrier format (e.g. 1X) or multi-carrier format (e.g., 3X). Such a handoff message is generated in accordance with the handoff embodiment being used. In one embodiment, the handoff message merely states which base stations the remote station is to communicate with, and the remote station is implicitly able to tell which frequencies to communicate with from the receipt of other messages detailing the capabilities of each base station.
In an alternative embodiment, a control processor 2420 of BSC 2400, diagrammed in FIG. 24, generates the handoff message in accordance with the Active Set list and in accordance with the handoff embodiment being used. In such an embodiment, control processor 2420 sends the generated handoff message to each base station 2200 with which the remote station is currently communicating. Control processor 2420 sends the handoff message to base stations 2200 via BSC interface 2410. In such an embodiment, each control processor 2260 receives the handoff message generated by the BSC via interface 2210. In such an embodiment, control Processor 2260 of base station 2200 provides the handoff message to modulator 2230, which modulates the handoff message and transmits it as described above.
Interface 2410 can be any interface that allows for communication between the base station and the BSC. In a centralized system, such interfaces are known in the art and include, but are not limited to, ethernet interfaces, T1 interfaces, E1 interfaces, ATM interfaces, and microwave interfaces. In a decentralized system, interface 2410 could simply be a memory bus or an area of shared memory. Control Processor 2420 either contains internal memory, or it is able to set and retrieve the value of memory in an external memory unit (not shown), as is commonly known in the art. One skilled in the art will recognize that control processor 2420 may be implemented using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA), programmable logic devices PLD), digital signal processors (DSP), one or more microprocessors, application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) or other device capable of performing the functions described above.
Remote station 2300 receives the message by antenna 2394, demodulates the signal as described above, and provides the message to control processor 2320. Control processor 2320 then provides information regarding the Active Set list to demodulator 2370 and receiver 2390, and a handoff is attempted using the parameters of the base stations in the Active Set list. It should be noted that because, in this example, the Active Set is based upon previous information generated by remote station 2300, the remote station 2300 need not receive the Active Set list, because it often knows the stations on the list a priori. Thus, in an alternative embodiment, the remote station may delay a predetermined time period and perform handoff to the base stations whose signal exceeded the threshold. If, on the other hand, the active set is not simply a copy of the base stations which exceeded the threshold, but rather also takes into account parameters unknown to the remote station, such as capacity parameters of other base stations, then transmission of the message would prove of value.
One skilled in the art will recognize that control processor 2320 may be implemented using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA), programmable logic devices PLD), digital signal processors (DSP), one or more microprocessors, application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) or other device capable of performing the functions described above.
The previous description of the embodiments is provided to enable a person skilled in the art to make or use the present invention. The various modifications to these embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments without the use of the inventive faculty. Additionally, the various methods taught herein can be combined with each other in any manner without the use of the inventive faculty. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed.
receiving a second message at said remote station that indicates that said remote station should begin receiving signals in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol in a second frequency band that is larger than said first frequency band, wherein the second message is responsive to a determination that at least one of various base stations is single-carrier compliant and at least one of various base stations is multi-carrier compliant.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein said first frequency band is contained within said second frequency band.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein said second message also indicates that said remote station should begin transmitting messages in accordance with said multi-carrier protocol on a second frequency band that is larger than said first frequency band.
monitoring, from said at least one of said various base stations that is multi-carrier compliant, a second frequency band for signals transmitted in accordance with said single carrier protocol in said second frequency band.
means for receiving a second message that indicates that said remote station should begin receiving signals in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol in a second frequency band that is larger than said first frequency band, wherein the second message is responsive to a determination that at least one of various base stations is single-carrier compliant and at least one of various base stations is multi-carrier compliant.
6. The remote station of claim 5, wherein said first frequency band is contained within said second frequency band.
7. The remote station of claim 5 wherein said second message also indicates that said remote station should begin transmitting messages in accordance with said multi-carrier protocol on a second frequency band that is larger than said first frequency-band.
means for monitoring, from said at least one of said various base stations that is multi-carrier compliant, a second frequency band for signals transmitted in accordance with said single carrier protocol in said second frequency band.
receiving a second message at said remote station that indicates that said remote station should begin receiving messages in accordance with a multi-carrier protocol in a second frequency band that is larger than said first frequency band, and wherein said second message also indicates that said remote station should begin transmitting messages in accordance with said multi-carrier protocol on a second frequency band that is larger than said first frequency band, and further, wherein the second message is responsive to a determination that at least one of various base stations is single-carrier compliant and at least one of various base stations is multi-carrier compliant.
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Crunchyroll put a video documentary about working at Studio Ghibli up. See how the magic is made.
Back in late 1980’s or early 1990’s I saw an anime move in the anime room at Lunacon that blew me away. That movie was Royal Space Force, The Wings Of Honneamise. The animation that I did see was incredible, the story well developed and the background rich creating a level of animation that just didn’t exist in American animation. At the time I wasn’t able to sit for the entire movie and didn’t catch the title, so it was a while until I was the whole thing as back in those days you either were connected to a video tape pass around group, which I wasn’t or caught the stuff at cons, which because I was going to college and looking for work was Lunacon once a year. That changed when they opened up a Suncoast at the local mall and I could buy tapes. I quickly discovered the movie and watched the whole. With the exception of one scene the work was the tour de force that I remembered and the film is still a favorite.
One of the things I like least about many movies, TV Shows and anime is that supposedly expert military or police forces will bring the wrong tools for the job they are expected to do. Here’s a case in point. This is from the anime Bubblegum Crisis, which was produced in the late 1980’s. The bad guys are humanoid robots loaded with advanced weaponry and armored with exotic materials. The heroes, or heroines in this case are four ladies with heavily armored power suits. Typical anime stuff. Here’s the opening sequence.
Here’s another post on the “controversial” choice of Scarlett Johanssen as Motoko Kusangi in the forthcoming Ghost In the Shell movie. The problem is that when you can’t escape the cultish thinking and progressive grey goo that comes out of the modern university, you self drain any possibility of joy in anything.
NHK’s Tokyo Eye 2020 takes us on a tour of some of the anime and manga hotspots in Tokyo. As a long time anime fan it’s a nice short visit to places in Tokyo.
Tokyo is a great place to explore even if you are not an anime fan.
Watch this blog for more Tokyo stuff.
A fun place to wander around in and a must for an anime fan.
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The Integrated B.A./M.A. program in International Studies at the School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University is a distinctive opportunity reserved for top B.A. students currently in International Studies to pursue advanced studies and complete both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree consecutively. The five-year integrated program is aimed principally at students who would like to develop their intellectual and professional capabilities from a cross-cultural and international perspective. It is also open to students interested in academic and research-oriented careers.
Application deadlines are November 1 for Spring admission, or March 1 for Fall admission. See the Department of International Studies website for more information.
College of Arts and Sciences Credit Hours. At least 100 credit hours must come from College of Arts and Sciences disciplines. No more than 42 of these credit hours can come from the major.
Upper Division Courses. At least 42 credit hours (of the 120) must be at the 300–499 level.
College Residency. Following completion of the 60th credit hour toward degree, at least 36 credit hours of College of Arts and Sciences coursework must be completed through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
College GPA. A cumulative grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.000 is required for all courses taken at Indiana University.
Major. Completion of the major as listed below.
The major requires at least 35 credit hours (for the B.A. portion), including the requirements listed below.
Core Courses. Two (2) courses from the Core Courses list.
Introductory Elective. One (1) course from the Introductory Elective list.
Research Design. One (1) course from the Research Design list.
INTL-I 515 Research Methods in International Studies (If this option is used, student must take 3 additional credit hours in International Studies at the 300–499 level) No description is available for this course.
Advanced Electives. See the Advanced Electives list.
400 Level Course. One (1) course from the 400 Level Course list.
300–400 Level Course. Three (3) courses from the 300–400 Level Course list.
Capstone. One (1) course from the Capstone list.
INTL-I 680 International Studies Master’s Capstone (If this option is used, student must take 3 additional credit hours in International Studies at the 300–499 level) No description is available for this course.
Career Preparation. One (1) course from the Career Preparation list.
Electives. Additional INTL courses, as needed to complete all major requirements.
International Experience. Overseas experience (study or internship) of at least 6 weeks duration, approved in advance by the Department of International Studies.
Minor. Complete a minor related to international studies approved in advance by the Department of International Studies.
Graduate Requirements. Students must also complete the requirements for the Master of Arts in International Studies as listed in the University Graduate School Bulletin.
1 Non-native speakers of English may petition the Department of International Studies for exemption from third-year language study. Students eligible for a waiver may need to take additional credit hours in International Studies courses.
2 The Additional Requirements do not count toward Major Hours or Major GPA.
At least 30 credit hours are required in the major, though some majors may require more.
At least 18 credit hours in the major must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
At least 18 credit hours in the major must be completed at the 300–499 level.
Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the major.
A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the major—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
Exceptions to major requirements may be made with the approval of the department's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.
No credit hours earned at the graduate level may be counted toward the B.A. degree and no credit hours earned at the undergraduate level may be counted towards the M.A. degree.
Students in the program are normally classified as undergraduates until the end of the first semester in which 120 or more credit hours toward graduation have been earned. At that point, students will submit an application to the University Graduate School to initiate the transition to graduate status.
If the transition to graduate status is delayed beyond this time, Master's status will normally revert to undergraduate status.
Students not in good standing at this time are dropped from the program and reclassified as undergraduate B.A. students.
Students are advised to check with the Office of Financial Aid (through Student Central on Union) on the effect that the transition to graduate status may have on existing undergraduate funding.
In the case that students decide, or are forced by circumstances (see point bullet above) to not continue towards M.A. degree, they should complete INTL-I 400 in order to graduate with a B.A. degree in International Studies. If INTL-I 515, the required Methods course for the graduate degree, was taken prior to the 5th year, it will count as the equivalent of INTL-I 315. Otherwise, INTL-I 315 may also need to be completed.
Students in the B.A./M.A. program must complete at least 15 hours of coursework while registered in graduate status. Normally, this would encompass no fewer than two semesters.
Students who successfully complete all requirements for the Integrated B.A./M.A. in International Studies will have the B.A. and M.A. degrees awarded simultaneously.
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Being a “Nicholas” or “Boy” Bishop for the church is a bit like being “mayor-for-a-day” with a full staff of young officials. Choristers would choose one of their number to be the Boy Bishop, who would act the part of a bishop from St. Nicholas Day on December 6th until Holy Innocent Day, December 28th.
After the election, the boy was dressed in full bishop’s robes with mitre and crozier and, attended by comrades dressed as priests, made a circuit of the town blessing the people. The chosen boy and his colleagues would typically take possession of the cathedral and would have performed all the ceremonies and offices, except Mass.
This token is an example of the money which was struck for the Boy Bishop, known as “St. Nicholas’ pence”. It is thought to have only been made in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, and a number of these tokens were found in the church of St. Mary’s in the town during the removal of the priests’ stalls in 1842.
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Quantify what you're going to do across each of these 5 actions—it'll help you stay honest and think about it less.
I love it! I have a post brewing right now about feeling like a New Year is starting August 1st as well. Smart Sag's think alike!
It is also the start of another mercury retrograde soon - 2 August... sounds like a great time to live more the way you want and introspection.
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Why does France get more tourists than the UK? Isn’t having a royal family supposed to be more of a tourist draw than being a republic?
Also, Italy gets more tourists than the UK and they are a republic. Why???
Best Answer: Better weather trumps the boring royals.
France and Italy have other advantages. Better weather, better food, amazing art galleries for example. We also have good art galleries, but nothing to compare with France or Italy. And we can't compete when it comes to weather or food. If you want sunshine, great food, or great art, you are more likely to pick France or Italy as a destination than the UK. We have beautiful countryside here, but France and Italy have beautiful countryside with sunshine and warmth as well. Same with our beaches. We have beautiful coastline, but our sea is like ice. France and Italy have warm seas.
Better food. More visual art.
People don't go on vacation for those reasons. You're making something out of nothing. They go to visit museums, visit touristy things like the Eiffel Tower and eat. That's it. France wins.
Nice buildings, foods not bad, and if you avoid the American tourists you will stay happy.
And so we come to our homeland of Britain, a green and pleasant land full of sedate sights like Stonehenge set to a backdrop of gloomy skies and seemingly endless drizzle.
.... the stunning architecture, the Louvre museum, the iconic Eiffel Tower as well as the simple pleasure of sitting at a café terrace and watching the world go by (not to mention the stunning sunsets).
Because they are all better countries. Having a monarchy doesn't increase tourism it's a myth.
No, having a constitution based on a democratic monarchy is not a 'tourist draw'. Having a stable society that does not have a weekly car-burning riot is kind of a tourist draw.
People go to France as tourists, but the SORT of people who WOULD go to France as tourists, go to France as tourists. We don't want to encourage that lot.
You would end up getting French tourists!
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California’s water-starved landscape gave way to a series of wildfires earlier this summer that continue to ravage the state. So far, the fires have scorched about 350 square miles, an area which is slightly larger than New York City. 1000s of people have been forced to evacuate their homes. Resorts & lodges that were once a burgeoning vacation escape are now a pile of debris. & an unknown # of farm animals have been left behind.
The once elegant decor of the former Harbin Hot Springs Resort in Midtown, California is now covered in ashes after being attacked earlier this month by the Valley Fire.
So far, that conflagration has been the most destructive western wildfire of 2015. But it couldn’t erase the eerie smiles on these stone statue’s faces.
Deeper inside the resort, the inside of a bathhouse has been destroyed on the inside, but the “SILENCE” sign outside remains almost entirely untouched.
Here’s another shot of the resort. While it’s obviously no longer open, you can contribute to its Staff Relief Fund, which raises money for the employees who no longer have a place to work.
The Valley Fire didn’t just destroy resorts — it swallowed up homes as well. Here, only the metal shackles from a car garage & the shell of an abandoned car remain in Middletown, California.
Despite California’s severe drought, some home-owners kept swimming pools. Perhaps ironically, this 1 is now murky w/ash & dirt from the fire that destroyed everything around it.
Many animals were left behind during evacuations. The death toll remains unknown.
A woman returns to the remains of a home she once lived in as a child near Middletown, California.
The hazy skyline of California’s Sequoia National Forest stands behind what is left of the Kings Canyon Lodge, located southwest of Fresno.
Previous Article 2015 – Blood Moon, disastrous ‘tidal’ flooding, sea levels rising….
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I must be a nerd when I get excited by the launch of a survey!
This morning, if all went as planned, all law students received an email with a link to a new survey about their experiences as law students at Pepperdine. As the dean of students, I am particularly interested in knowing where we are meeting the expectations of students and where there is room for improvement.
Our students participated in the national Law School Survey of Student Engagement in 2006 and 2013, but this is the first opportunity the law school has taken to develop our own instrument (in conjunction with Pepperdine’s Office of Institutional Effectiveness) so that we can ask our own specific questions. Last year, I did a test run of a survey with our third-year students, but this year’s survey is extended to all of our students.
Once the survey concludes in late February and the results are compiled, we should receive fascinating insight into the makeup of our student body and their opinions on all aspects of the law school. What I find even more exciting is our ongoing use of this survey instrument so that we can track responses from year to year (i.e., if 1Ls’ opinions change as they become 2Ls, and then 3Ls).
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Welcome to my official author page! It’s amazing, being finally able to write that.
This new space was created fast on the heels of my novel “Fractal Theory” being accepted for publication by Five Rivers Publishing. Press release here.
The format will be a bit experimental at first, alternately dabbling in poetry, general musings, and artwork & photography by my multi-talented partner in crime, Mark A. Harrison.
In the fall of this year, I’ll be diving deep into my first collaboration with my Five Rivers editor, so that might be all you hear about for a couple of months (in between all the musical rehearsals for various concerts and the like).
Looking forward to sharing this new journey down roads as yet untravelled!
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Stranded 22AWG jump wires with solid tips.
A jump wire (also known as jumper wire, or jumper) is an electrical wire, or group of them in a cable, with a connector or pin at each end (or sometimes without them – simply "tinned"), which is normally used to interconnect the components of a breadboard or other prototype or test circuit, internally or with other equipment or components, without soldering.
Jump wires at the end of a multi-colored ribbon cable are used to connect the pin header at the left side of a blue USB2Serial board to a white breadboard below. Another jumper cable ending in a USB micro male connector mates to the right side of the USB2Serial board. Red and black tinned jump wires can be seen on the breadboard.
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I’ll be honest, at first I was happy. Happy it actually worked. Happy to be done shooting for this month. Happy I actually managed to pull off a shot that resembled what I had envisioned. Once I started editing I realized there were some things I simply couldn’t/shouldn’t do in post. Yup you guessed it – there are changes I want to make. Working with a deadline is a healthy practice even if I don’t have a client, even if I just want the freedom to “play around”. I do still have 4 days and therefore changes will be made.
1. Ambient light. This scene is full of rogue light. Light from the shadow light from the constant light I have in the background light from the flashgun projecting the cross, and it all has a purpose, but it distorts the subject in ways that I am not happy with. See the huge shadow from right to left on the table? That’s coming from the shadow projected on the background. Cleaning up most of those problems should be simple. Instead of projecting from in front towards the background I will project from behind. The background is opaque so I should be able to achieve the same shadow and cross projections, but better isolate the room from the background. Repositioning the constant lights will help illuminate what I intend to illuminate.
2. Color cast. Notice how blue the fringes of the cross are. Mixing a flashgun and CFLs casts two very different white balances into the same equation. There is no happy answer except to try and bring all the light sources into the same range of white. LED bulbs will replace all of the CFLs in the constant lights and a new stronger light for the shadow projection will be used.
3. The wine glass. The color of the wine is lost (I am debating how best to light that up, but more importantly the wine glass itself just doesn’t fit the image. I need a chalice, a large one, almost oversized.
4. Camera angle. Camera should be elevated just slightly. The chosen frame with little table and lots of background is good and makes the shadow more looming, but I’d like to see the whole rim of the wineglass and that requires either going lower (I don’t like this because the table will become too planar), or going higher (probably what I will do).
I am going to try those 4 shanges and see what happens. Wish me luck.
One test image that I was happy with – too bad there was no wine in the glass.
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Tringa turned 2 last month. Traditionally, 2 years old would mark the milestone at which dog owners would have their dogs’ hips x-rayed to be evaluated by Orthopedic Foundation for Animals. Most people doing this would be those interesting in breeding their dog. Many breeders ask their puppy owners to do this even if they’re not planning on breeding to give the breeder valuable info about their breeding program. Many breeders use OFA as a determining point for guaranteeing hip health (the presence of dysplasia or not).
Hip dysplasia simply means malformed hips. Being dysplastic in itself isn’t always a problem. Some dogs are dysplastic and never have any problems well into their advanced age. Others can go on to develop degenerative joint disease and arthritis at a very early age.
In our house, we choose to PennHip. See The Value of PennHip for a greater explanation of what it is and why we chose to do this.
PennHip can be done very early. We have our dogs PennHipped when we spay or neuter them. They’re already under anesthetic so it’s easy enough to do one more procedure.
There’s been discussion among breeders and dog fanciers that PennHip can’t accurately predict what dog’s hips will become.
Puppies in general have a lot of laxity in their joints. It’s what keeps them safe from injuries while they’re trying to get themselves coordinated and developed. Therefore we expect them to have some distraction in this technique. I would anticipate their hips to “tighten up” somewhat as they mature. To what degree is the question we wanted answered.
For our own information and curiosity, we chose to reshoot Tringa’s PennHip when she turned 2. In Tringa’s case, there was a degree of “tightening up”-but not much.
Her first PennHip was shot when she was 7 months old. Her left hip had a DI of 0.82. Her right hip had a DI of 0.85. Results on both hips state “DI is greater than 0.30 with not radiographic evidence of DJD. There is an increasing risk of developing DJD as the DI increases; low risk when DI is close to 0.30, high risk when DI is close to 0.70 or above.” (see The Value of PennHip for explanation of this lingo).
Because of the knowledge we gained from Tringa’s first PennHip, we were able to change her activities. No jumping, no Frisbee, no anything that would stress hip joints. Swimming, dock diving, etc are things to help her stave off arthritis or joint problems. We did things to help build and stabilize her muscles. We kept (& keep) a close eye on her weight. We added supplements. We crossed our fingers and hoped the critics were right in their suspicions of the ability of PennHip to predict the future.
Tringa’s second PennHip was shot 13 days after her 2nd birthday. Alas, even before the radiographs were sent into PennHip for evaluation, we could see the remodeling. In layman’s terms: PennHip DID predict the future.
Even with the changes we made, in the second set of x-rays we took, we can see remodeling. Remodeling is the term used when the bone changes shape. Here are a couple of photos showing the two views taken in PennHip. Each photo has the original film compared to the second film.
Can YOU pick out the remodeling?
If it was too subtle for you to pick out, here are a couple more photos with the changes highlighted with arrows.
What does this mean for Tringa’s future?
Well, we can already see her hip problems in her gait and she’s already shifting more of her weight from her rear legs to her front legs.
We’ll continue to monitor her and adjust her activities accordingly. We will take it into account when we ask her to do things and her compliance of what we ask. Is she refusing to obey or CAN she obey?
When she needs it, she’ll get meds to help relieve discomfort.
I also believe by doing a PennHip in her early age we gained valuable information that helped us put the need for medication off into the future.
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This article is about the plant. For the colour see Lavender (color).
Lavender is a type of plant found on almost all continents. It has a purplish colour. It has a colour named after it, called lavendar. Its Latin and scientific name is Lavandula.
Lavenders are very popular among gardeners. Sometimes their petals are dried and sealed in pouches for good scent, and sometimes put inside clothes to prevent moths, who can damage the clothes.
Lavenders are also used in cake decorating, because the flowers can become candied. Sometimes they are used in flavoring baked goods and chocolate desserts, and sometimes they use it to make a very delicious "lavender sugar". Lavender flowers are also used to make tea. The French make lavender syrup, which is used to make lavender scones and lavender marshmallows.
Lavenders are sometimes put in medicine, too, and sometimes to prevent infection - such as lavender oil, that was used in World War 1 to disinfect walls and floors of the hospital. As the folk wisdom says, lavender oil is also helpful to headaches when rubbed on your temple, and lavender tea helps you relax before bed time. Lavender is also very helpful when applied to insect bites.
Sometimes, dried petals of lavender are used to throw confetti at a wedding. It is also used for lavender theme wedding decoration where the flowers are put in the vases and kept on the venue table.
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Optogenetics, metabolism, nutrition, body weight regulation, neural circuits, synaptic transmission, affective disorders.
We are always interested in exceptional, highly motivated and articulate new lab members.
Elucidate the crosstalk and feedback between neural, endocrine and neuroendocrine factors in the brain.
What is the role of the lateral hypothalamus? What are the key players, interconnected brain regions and underlying neuronal mechanisms?
How does melanin-concentrating hormone, produced exclusively in the lateral hypothalamus, regulate body weight, learning and social behaviors? What are the neurocircuits, receptors and ion channel mechanisms that permit these physiological and behavioral actions? Which neurotransmitter systems are required?
How does the environment provide feedback to these neurocircuits? What is the effect of diet, macronutrient selection and/or endocrine signals on synaptic plasticity in targeted brain areas?
To address these questions, we use transgenic mouse models, whole-cell electrophysiology, optogenetics, pharmacogenetics, brain and slice imaging, neuroanatomy and behavioral testing.
Caption: Distribution of neurons expressing melanin-concentrating hormone (green) in the lateral hypothalamus. Co-expression and photostimulation of light-sensitive molecules (red), in a freely-behaving mouse allow us to form correlations between cellular activation and behavior.
Caption: At the target site, stimulation of the dark synaptic boutons that are enveloping our cell(s)-of-interest may cause a direct synaptic event that leads to a behavior.
Chee MJ, Arrigoni E, Maratos-Flier E. 2015. Melanin-concentrating hormone neurons release glutamate for feedforward inhibition of the lateral septum. J Neurosci 35:3644-51.
Chee MJ, Douris N, Forrow AB, Monnard A, Lu S, Flaherty SE 3rd, Adams AC, Maratos-Flier E. 2015. Melanin-concentrating hormone is necessary for olanzapine-inhibited locomotor activity in male mice. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 25:1808-16.
Luchtman DW, Chee MJ, Doslikova B, Marks DL, Baracos VE, Colmers WF. 2015. Defense of elevated body weight setpoint in diet-induced obese rats on low energy diet is mediated by loss of melanocortin sensitivity in the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus. PLoS One 10:e0139462.
Williams RH, Chee MJ, Kroeger D, Ferrari LL, Maratos-Flier E, Scammell TE, Arrigoni E. 2014. Optogenetic-mediated release of histamine reveals distal and autoregulatory mechanisms for controlling arousal. J Neurosci 34:6023-6029.
Chee MJ, Pissios P, Prasad D, Maratos-Flier E. 2014. Expression of melanin-concentrating hormone receptor 2 protects against diet-induced obesity in male mice. Endocrinology 155:81-88.
Chee MJ, Pissios P, Maratos-Flier E. 2013. Neurochemical characterization of neurons expressing melanin-concentrating hormone receptor 1 in the mouse hypothalamus. J Comp Neurol 521:2208-2234.
Adams AC, Domouzoglou EM, Chee MJ, Segal-Lieberman G, Pissios P, Maratos-Flier E. 2011. Ablation of the hypothalamic neuropeptide melanin concentrating hormone is associated with behavioral abnormalities that reflect impaired olfactory integration. Behav Brain Res 224:195-200.
Chee MJ, Myers MG Jr, Price CJ, Colmers WF. 2010. Neuropeptide Y suppresses anorexigenic output from the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus. J Neurosci 30:3380-3390..
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Will there be a cheap solar cell that can compete with grid electricity?
Thoughts on a Smarter Planet is a special blogger series in partnership with leading IBM experts. Join the conversation as these experts discuss the innovations in science, business and systems like transportation that are helping build a Smarter Planet.
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Although most people know me as a researcher of West Texas rock ‘n’ roll music of the 1950s, and a historian of Buddy Holly and the Crickets, I’m really interested in the big picture, that of the entire 1950s music era.
This website is devoted, as the title states, to the Rockin’ 50s. This is the title of my website, my magazine, and my business. Aside from various lists of related items for sale, I also offer a News And Announcements board and an interactive message board where you can ask any question pertaining to the 1950s and someone will come along and answer it for you. I have a lot of very knowledgeable people supporting this board and the amount of information they possess is scary, but very useful for all of you!
BACKGROUND: Bill Griggs’ parents were both professional musicians. His father, William B. Griggs, played trumpet in some name bands, then formed his own band in Connecticut before retiring. His mother, Emma Giel, played keyboards in Hartford, Connecticut and was known throughout New England. Bill feels this furnished the initial impetus for his interest in music as there was always music in the house.
HIGH SCHOOL: Bill attended Bulkeley high School in Hartford, Connecticut, graduating in 1959. At school, he was President of the Astronomy Club, member of the Audio-Visual Squad and Radio Club, and was on their track, cross country, and tennis teams. It was during these years that he began frequenting the State Theater in Hartford for their rock ‘n’ roll concerts and getting to meet with many of the artists of the day.
THE BUDDY HOLLY MEMORIAL SOCIETY: During the 1960s, Buddy Holly had sorta been forgotten. In 1971, Don McLean released “American Pie”, and in 1973, that famous line appeared in the motion picture American Graffiti (“I hate that surfin’ stuff. Rock ‘n’ roll’s been going downhill ever since Buddy Holly died.) Still, the so-called Buddy Holly “revival” wasn’t happening.
The reality is that Bill Griggs founded the international Buddy Holly Memorial Society in 1975 out of disgust. He wasn’t seeing Buddy in print, or on television, or really, anywhere. The BHMS, as it was called, ran from 1975 through 1991. At the time it was terminated, there were more than 5500 members located in all 50 states and in 34 foreign countries. During the term of the BHMS, Bill Griggs began publishing his Reminiscing newsletter that soon became a full-fledged magazine.
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The story is about a mentally retarded young man, Val. His older brother used him to marry his pregnant girlfriend. Inspite of his condition, Val learned to love and take care of his wife. Eventually, his wife felt the same love and affection for Val. Deep in her heart, she knew she loved Val more than anyone else. But a tragedy happened and put a very touching love story to an end.
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Siberia 2018 — From Novosibirsk to the Kazakhstan border, the Altai, and Tuva, in search of Pellenes jumping spiders with Galina Azarkina and colleagues from the ISEA.
México 2017 — A road trip through Oaxaca and Chiapas to look for Mexigonus jumping spiders. Most exciting salticids: purple tomato, blue-legs, quetzal, and red moon. These are our nicknames for them, as they don’t have scientific names yet.
Arizona and Mexico 2013– A trip to Arizona (mostly in the area near Tucson) and to Puerto Peñasco, Mexico. Many salticids were collected, but the focus on this trip was to collect as many different Habronattus species as possible. Most exciting salticids: two new Mexican Habronattus species!
Borneo 2012 — In which Edy Piascik and Wayne Maddison sought a complete salticid fauna with data on their habitats. Most exciting salticids: the first adult hisponines east of India, and “tiny shiny blacks”.
Ecuador 2011 — 150 salticid species in one site in Ecuador, Yasuní. What more could you ask for? Well, follow it with a trip to Canandé were we found an unexpected ground-dwelling Lapsias and a transparent amycine.
Ecuador 2010 — Tiny beetles and strange lapsiine salticids, with David Maddison. Most exciting salticids: New Thrandina species and Lapsias lorax!
Dominican Republic 2009– A trip with four salticidologists (G.B. Edwards, Wayne Maddison, Junxia Zhang and Gustavo Ruiz). Goal: primarily to understand the Caribbean radiation of euophryine salticids.Most exciting salticids: euophryines, euophryines, euophryines!
Papua New Guinea 2008– A Conservation International RAP survey to the Porgera area (Kai-Ingri at 3300 m elevation and Wanakipa at 800-1400 m elevation). Goal: to find new species; for Wayne, the goal was to see cocalodines alive. Most exciting salticids: three new genera of cocalodines (Cucudeta,Yamangalea, and Tabuina).
Gabon 2007– To the Crystal Mountains NE of Libreville, and Waka National Park to the south. Goal: to understand the phylogenetic position of central African rainforest salticids. Most exciting salticids: the thiratoscirtines!
Sierra Nevada, California 2005 to 2012 — Gwylim Blackburn’s exploration of different forms of Habronattus americanus only a few kilometers apart, among the patches of snow in the high elevations of the Sierra Nevada.
Singapore and Malaysia 2005- with Daiqin Li. Goal: diverse salticids. Most exciting salticids: agoriines, hasariines, ballines, spartaeines, euophryines, plexippines, and the strange nannenines!
Ecuador 2004– A trip mostly to the eastern slopes of the Andes, from 3000 m elevation down to 400 m, but with some time west of the Andes. Goal: salticids and social spiders, in collaboration with Leticia Avilés and Ingi Agnarsson. Most exciting salticids: new genera of lapsiines (Thrandina, Galianora).
Hey Dr Madisson! Greetings from the Philippines. I am a biology teacher and just recently I got attracted to the taxonomy of spiders. And considering “safer” spiders, I got attracted to jumping spiders, which are very common here in the Philippines. But these beautiful creatures are poorly studied and it seems no database are truly dedicated for jumping spiders. However in my taxonomy class, me and my students will be working on jumping spiders and start to understand its diversity. May I ask if you may extend your expertise to us, specially on taxonomic keys so that we may classify these spiders. I believe that there are jumping spiders that are not yet recorded. And by the way, the Philippines is a biodiversity hotspot.
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Let’s imagine we were doing a bike tour called “BaltikumExpress” this summer. Point A is Berlin, Point B Tallinn in Estonia.
Disadvantages: Visa costs for Russia, No Warsaw, no Masuren.
Advantages: No visa cost, Warsaw, Masuren.
Disadvantages: No Russia, longer road.
If we reach Helsinki to quickly, we can consider going to Turku (177 km from Helsinki) as an option.
Sat, Jan 15: Zürich – Dielsdorf – Hohentengen (29 km) – Rafz – Eglisau – Bülach – Zürich (79 km). Note that if you cycle along the Rheintal-Radweg you won’t reach Eglisau. Cheers to Nokia Maps, without which we would probably still cycle upstream.
Sun, Jan 16: Zürich – Winterthur (26 km) – Frauenfeld (42 km) – Konstanz (70 km) – Romanshorn (91 km). + Biberbrugg – Gross (100 km) – Samstagern – Horgen – Zürich (144 km). These 144 km are record for the young 2011 so far!
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This entry was posted on March 10, 2008 at 10:02 am and is filed under Love, Love Stories, Time. Tagged: Love, Time. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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One of my buddies in college, Mario Pagliaro, got accused of cheating on a mineralogy exam. These were very long exams and the situation was that he turned in a sheet with absolutely all questions right except one, which he missed. And another student also missed only that question. What are the chances? Well they were studying together and got the same wrong idea.
Mario had been in the US Army for six years and went to college right afterwards. I have no doubt that he would have got the 300 questions in the Parkway Rest Stop exam all correct, on the second try, because that is how he lived his life. He expected to graduate with a degree in computer science and a perfect 4.0 grade point average. However, he earned a B in an English class. His explanation was that they brought in a new teacher and so he stepped into an unknown situation. Shouldn’t have. The English teacher’s reason for giving him a B was that, while his work was A quality, he could have done even better but was just skating by. It is at least possible that the fact that she was making about $15,000 per year teaching without tenure at a small technical school influenced the grade as well, I don’t know.
Our school had computer programming contests and me and Mario teamed up, and beat the competition, graduate students and all. This was kind of odd because I was not a computer science major, but I wrote a lot of Fortran, which was the language used at the time. He had a brief but stellar career in computer science. When I graduated with a MS in math, he got me a contract working for Burroughs Corporation. While Mario was in the Army he was very much into physical fitness. He grew quite fat afterwards. and died of a heart attack back in 1997, aged 42.
Re Global Pioneering: she hasn’t been around for a week or two now. I guess she had a change of heart about the blog. A shame your friend died so young.
You will be tested in real life, first thing tomorrow, more accurately, more thoroughly, and more properly than any Ivory-Tower simulacrum ever devised. And there will be no “bell curve” for you to exploit there! You pass, you live; you fail, you die. Welcome to the real world!
Testing, in the collegiate sense, is only there to gratify the egos (and justify the salaries) of those who administer the “tests”. That and to help herd the “sheeple” into their pre-assigned pens.
Do you suppose Sir Karl Popper was ever affected by the notes his economics professors wrote at the tops of his classroom assignments?
Euphemistically speaking, if ‘you’ don’t learn — bloody quickly — how to “cheat on tests” (by having the Quick Reference handy for your chosen programming language, by bringing a good map and compass into the woods with you, or by ignoring the “apply for jobs in the Human Resources department” line) “Life” will chew you up and spit you out without further ado, and the world will forget you like the billions of others who went down that path before you.
You may find your own solace and ego gratification in recalling some twisted syntax or obscure co-valence reaction, but the guy beside you who “cheats” by just looking up the facts s/he needs & blasting ahead to the successful conclusion of the “test” will be your boss before you retire.
Please acceept my condolences on the loss of your friend. But his craving for “external validation” led him down the proverbial “wide path”.
Forget about “tests” and all similarly irrelevant artifices!
Wring all the value (to yourself ONLY) that you can from every possible educational experience you can find, including those you have to invent (autodidactism) for yourself!
And ignore the opinions of others!!
I agree with Jimbo on the real world versus tests. In academia tests are used to prevent “everything from happening at once”.
It’s not that Mario wouldn’t cheat on a test. Prior to college, his title was “sniper” and he was very practical in things that others might call violations of the rules. He would push the limits of what could be done in any way possible. What he would not do would be to get caught. In the case of the mineralogy (or was it geology) exam, I think the two students were given retests and passed again with near perfect scores. In any case, he got his A. That class was quite strictly graded; only about 4 of the 100 students would do that.
Carl, condolences for your loss. Such losses humble me. All the external things I value, the great (great only for it’s complexity, not genius) tower that is my life, could be brought down with the single stroke of an ax. Such loss of life causes me to look outside of life for my foundation.
As to Jimbo’s comment, perhaps I don’t quite follow, but I cannot see how Mario’s ability to do well on a test reflects a fundamental “craving for ‘external validation'”. A gifted mind might come to see through the sham-cloak of value that society places on testing. Should that mind then attempt to perform poorly on tests? I don’t think so. Rather, this understand should only effect how much stock we put in the outcome of tests.
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I remember Mario’s name from the long ago, though I don’t think I met him. I’m sorry to hear about the early death of your friend, bro.
I love giving tests. I make ones I’d like to take. There are no surprises; they just give my students a chance to write interesting things about the interesting things we’ve been reading.
On the other hand, if people do “A” work they get “A”s, cause it’s none of my business if they could have done EVEN better. What the hell.
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The Trotter Prize is awarded at Texas A&M University and is part of an endowed lecture series. It is awarded "for pioneering contributions to the understanding of the role of information, complexity and inference in illuminating the mechanisms and wonder of nature" and includes The Trotter Lecture which "seeks to reveal connections between science and religion, often viewed in academia as non-overlapping, if not rival, worldviews.
Nobel Prize winners Charles Hard Townes and Francis Crick received the inaugural award at A&M's Rudder Theater in 2002. Townes spoke about connections between science and faith. Promoter of the notion of intelligent design William A. Dembski shared the award in 2005 with theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman. Simon Conway Morris received the award and spoke in 2007. Francis Collins, the director of the human genome project, and Steven Weinberg, a Nobel Prize recipient for physics, shared the Trotter Prize in 2008 and discussed the interplay between science and religion. Astronomer and historian of science Owen Gingerich also won the prize.
Robert L. Park has criticized the award for being given to William A. Dembski, proponent of the concept of intelligent design, saying it is given out for "overlapping the magisteria" (a comment based on Stephen Jay Gould's concept of non-overlapping magisteria, NOMA, the idea that science and religion inherently do not overlap). .
2018 Michael Duff spoke on "The Best of All Possible Worlds"; Donald Knuth spoke on "Translating the Bible into Music".
2015 John Lennox, Philosopher of Science and Christian apologist gave a lecture entitled "God, Science and the Nature of Explanation". Timothy Spector, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology/Head at Kings College London spoke on "What Twins Reveal About the Science of Faith".
2014 Biologist James A. Shapiro spoke on "The Read-Write (RW) Genome: Taking Some of the Mystery Out of Evolution". James M. Tour from Rice University gave a talk on "The Impact of Faith Upon the Life of a Scientist".
2013 Roald Hoffmann, theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry gave a lecture: "INDIGO: A Story of Craft, Religion, History, Science, and Culture". Physicist Gerald Gabrielse spoke on "God of Antimatter".
2012 Hugh Ross, Founder and President of Reasons to Believe, spoke on "Theistic Implications of Big Bang Cosmology." Gerald Schroeder, Lecturer at The Aish HaTorah College of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, Israel gave a talk titled "Genesis and the Big Bang."
2011 Henry F. Schaefer, III, Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Computational Chemistry at the University of Georgia gave a talk titled "C.S. Lewis: Science and Scientism." Francisco J. Ayala, University Professor and Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine spoke on "Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion."
2010 Francis Everitt, Research Professor at the Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory at Stanford University gave a talk titled "Mystery in Science, Reason in Religion: How the Two Intersect and Overlap", and Sir Roger Penrose, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford gave a talk titled "Did the Universe Have a Beginning?"
2009 Owen Gingerich, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and History of Science at Harvard University spoke on the "Mystery in Science, Reason in Religion: How the Two Intersect and Overlap", and Charles Townes, professor emeritus at University of California Berkeley and 1964 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, spoke on "The Parallelism and Likely Eventual Convergence of Science and Religion"
2008 Francis S. Collins, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health gave a talk titled "The Language of God", and Steven Weinberg, 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics recipient and professor of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Texas gave a talk titled "Without God"
2007 Simon Conway Morris, professor of Earth Sciences and holder of the Chair in Evolutionary Paleobiology at the University of Cambridge spoke on "Darwin's Compass: How Evolution Discovers the Song of Creation"
2006 Freeman J. Dyson, winner of the 2000 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion Winner and Professor Emeritus of physics at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study spoke on "Heretical Thoughts about Science and Society"
2005 William D. Phillips, 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics Winner and Research Group Leader at the Physics Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology gave a talk titled "Ordinary Faith, Ordinary Science"
2005 William Dembski, Associate Research Professor at Baylor University gave a talk titled "Intelligent Design's Place in the Natural Sciences", and Stuart Kauffman, Director of the Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics at the University of Calgary, gave a talk titled "Toward a Physical Definition of Life"
2004 Paul Davies, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Australian Centre for Astrobiology at Macquarie University gave a talk titled "Did Life Come From Mars?" and Robert Shapiro, Professor Emeritus and Senior Lecturer of Chemistry at New York University spoke on "Science & Myth in the Origin of Life"
2003 Alan Guth, Father of the "inflationary universe" theory and Professor of Physics at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology gave a talk titled "Cosmic Inflation and the Origin of the Universe". and John Polkinghorne. an Anglican Priest and Former Professor of Mathematical Physics and President of Queens' College, Cambridge spoke on "The Universe as Creation"
2002 Francis Crick, 1962 Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine and Physiology who works at The Salk Institute gave a talk titled "The Astonishing Hypothesis" and Charles Townes, 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics at the University of California-Berkeley gave a talk titled "The Convergence of Science and Religion"
^ Gross PF; Forrest BF (2004). Creationism's Trojan horse: the wedge of intelligent design. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515742-7.
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^ Matthew Waller Darwin expert comes to Baylor U.[dead link] University Wire Article April 24, 2007 "Morris lectured Monday at Texas A&M University as part of the reception of the Trotter Prize whose recipients have included Nobel Prizewinning scientists"
^ Park, RL (2005-04-08). "Trotter Prize: an award for overlapping the magisteria" (PDF). Free Inquiry Group. Retrieved 2010-08-10.
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How often have you attended a conference only to sit through poorly managed panels featuring speakers with interesting bios that should have been more effectively engaged by moderators?
I’m at a morning conference listening to potentially interesting people participating in a few poorly moderated panels. Here are a few tips for moderators running panels based on events I’ve organized and joined as well as a conference series I organized for a former blue chip client.
1. Creative. Creatively title the panel. Come up with something that captures attention and draws audience.
2. Pre-interview Panelists. A week prior to the panel, speak with participants by phone to determine their strengths and weaknesses, competencies, and relevant success stories and methodologies you can point to during the panel. Determine questions you might ask panelists from this pre-interview, and during the live panel, draw from a list of these questions.
3. Avoid Lengthy Intros. Rather than turn intros over to panelists who will likely waste valuable time regurgitating bio elements that are usually in print, write a script that excerpts 20 seconds of pertinent information from each speaker’s bio, and get that out of the way quickly so you can get into the topic of the conference.
4. Manage Time. Make sure you manage your time during the actual panel so that you can make it through your questions in ways that engage every participant. If one participant speaks too long and delivers information that is off topic and puts your plan in jeopardy, be proactive and politely cut off the speaker. You’re doing this for everyone’s benefit.
5. Interactive. You are managing time. Make sure the panel is interactive. Ensure that everyone has a chance to speak, and encourage cross-talk.
6. Q&A. Leave some time for audience questions at the end.
7. Twitter. Set up a hashtag (#) for the panel (i.e. #panelname) that folks can use to tweet questions, and announce it at the start of the panel. You might find some potential questions and useful comments from these Tweets from attendees during the panel and incorporate these into the discussion.
8. Inspire. Drive personal energy through the session in ways that inspire the audience.
GloPos today announced its software-only positioning technology that makes all mobile phones location aware — outdoors, indoors, and even underground.
GloPos Technology requires only a cellular network to make all mobile phones location aware. No additional hardware like GPS or W-LAN is required on a mobile device for achieving accurate positioning.
“By making all phones location aware, GloPos Technology is set to revolutionize the indoor positioning and social location market, including mobile search and personalized mobile advertising. This will massively expand the positioning market,” said Mikael Vainio, CEO. “GloPos is a superior solution versus W-LAN and GPS-based indoor positioning applications which today serve less than 20 percent of the total yearly 1.3 billion unit mobile device market,” Vainio added.
GloPos’ patent-pending, self-learning algorithms calculate an accurate position fix to within 1-40 meters even in places where no W-LAN access points are available or no GPS can be used (i.e. in shopping malls, subways, underground parking, airports, sports arenas, and exhibition centers). GloPos works wherever cellular network coverage is available.
GloPos Technology does not consume any extra battery life while operating as cell information is already being used to stay connected. GloPos enables longer device usage versus GPS and W-LAN, allowing battery power to be used for more advanced applications and driving more powerful processors.
GloPos co-founders have over 20 years combined mobile experience with Nokia and Ericsson. CEO Mikael Vainio brings to GloPos more than a decade of executive experience with Nokia and Ericsson. Before joining GloPos he served in Ericsson Middle East HQ as Vice President Strategy, Marketing and Communications. Vice-President Alexander Le Bell has held executive positions with leading mobile and technology companies, including Ericsson, Nokia and Philips. He was Ericsson’s Director for Strategy and Business Intelligence for the Middle East. Prior to that he served in Nokia Multimedia, managing the operator business in Central Europe with some of the largest operators in the world, including T-Mobile, Vodafone and O2-Telefonica.
For more information visit: http://glopos.com.
GloPos was founded in 2009 to bring its new and innovative indoor positioning technology to the mobile consumer marketplace. GloPos is a technology spin-off company of 4TS Corporation, an innovative Finland-based company that develops location- and sensor-based technologies and solutions.
I have been working with Jeff Dorman, who is a dear friend and client, on a series of videos that articulate his philosophy on executive training. Jeff, who heads JDA International, a leadership training firm based on Princeton, NJ, cut his teeth in the food processing industry building Dorman Cheese with his family into a huge, national brand. Now he’s a highly respected national trainer who serves many Fortune 100 clients.
I’ve been reviewing a series of Jeff’s video segments that my firm produced through which he conveys his philosophy, expertise and experience on a number of topics including public speaking, leadership, employee performance, management, team building, consensus, etc. I walked away very impressed by the methodology he applied to his training approach which has helped thousands of executives and supervisors perform more effectively and efficiently in financial services, banking, food processing, and manufacturing.
So when I read the NY Times’ story about Obama’s health care plan, and how the Republicans in Congress stood up in opposition to it from the moment it was announced (like just about every other Obama initiative), I realized that Members of Congress could benefit from team building and consensus training from a guy like Jeff Dorman.
As Jeff pointed out in one of his videos, managers often are promoted into positions for which they lack communications, public speaking, and leadership skills. With some basic coaching, these folks can perform better and so will the company.
Is there a team building opportunity here for Members of Congress?
PS: To learn more about leadership, performance, communication and sales training, check out JDA’s blog.
Television has changed. When I was growing up, the family watched TV together in the evening because there was often one TV in the home. Then cable emerged and everyone had a TV in their room. Now kids growing up don’t need a TV box to watch; they can access everything they want on their computer screen, and the source is often user gererated content on YouTube or broadcast content on Hulu.
The past several weeks I’ve been working with Attention Span Media, a social media production studio whose credits include the mega online hit TV series, Dorm Life.
Dorm Life hilariously chronicles the experiences of ten college students residing on “5 South,” a dorm floor on a fictional campus. It’s the most popular web TV series on Hulu with 6+ million views and often called…NBC’s “The Office” goes to college.
Attention Span Media is one example of a small, indy studio producing content that rivals the big ones and reaches mass audiences via a savvy social networking model. In a recent California Chronicle article that my firm placed, Dorm Life was called “a taste of whats to come.” I agree.
Dorm Life is a great Long Tail example of a niche audience (college and high school students) growing so large that the show could easily migrate its audience to another platform; Dorm Life could find a home on traditional broadcast or cable TV and also monetize itself through sales and branded merchandise (shirts) and DVDs.
On the other side of the spectrum — the big box TV — AMG TV has just announced the first 3-D network, and their plans to deliver 3-D content to some 200 terrestrial station affiliates. That makes sense. I’m thinking the big box HD TV in the living room will never go away. The big screen at home will be used for big events like sports and 3D while the rest of us will continue to view our niche content on hand-held devices and computers. And don’t be surprised when your local TV stations go out of business or consolidate as a result … because viewership is shifting online. And advertisers will go where the audiences are.
Witness the recent demise of several of the most successful print newspapers in the world. I wrote about the publishing industry in transition last year. TV is also in a major transition. Watch for exciting new shows from Attention Span Media. And stay tuned!
This past Sunday at Sun’s Startup Camp before an audience of about 600 attendees, I had a chance to explore the challenges facing startup companies with a brilliant panel: Matt Dickman, Fleishman-Hillard (Matt’s blog); Christina Kerley, ckEpiphany, Inc. (CK’s blog); Jyri Engström, Google (Jyri’s blog); and Adam Metz, theMix (Adam’s blog).
Now you can view and download the sessions as we explore prelaunch and launch strategies and questions on Branding, Messaging & Positioning, Social Media, and Public Relations. You’ll hear real-time experience and sage advice from these experts in digital and social media, advertising, PR and technology. Rejoice: there’s something here for anyone managing or promoting a company, product or service.
Read Mashable’s report on the panel, CK’s post and Matt Dickman’s post.
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In the summer here the days start very early and they end late. I think it’s important to get in rhythm with the sun, and these days the sun is an early riser and is late to bed.
After a long hot day in the gardens, fields, woods and pastures, last night at about dusk I walked down to the pond, hoping to see the beaver that has been such a nuisance to us this year.
It was a typical summer evening, which means it was wonderful.
The sun had just set, painting the sky orange and purple. Directly where the sun had been an hour earlier, a thin cresent moon was shining.
The songs of whipporwills, bobwhites and mourning doves competed with the crunch of gravel beneath my feet. At the top of the hill that leads down to the pond, I startled some deer. The one on my right gave me a contemptous snort and dashed into the woods. The two on my left decided to show off their leaping skills. There is a point when a leaping deer seems to be suspended in the air. These two leaped simultaneously, giving me a double shot of that amazing sight. I wish I could have photographed it.
Nearer the pond the sound of bullfrogs joined the evening birds. Lightning bugs were starting to rise from the grass and a few bats darted around overhead.
Years ago we went on a family vacation to Belize. We stayed at a remote place in Placencia. It was very tranquil and beautiful there. I was leading a very stress-filled life in those days and the contrast with my everyday world was stark. I remember wishing that I could bottle the peacefulness and beauty of that place, and take it out whenever I was angry and stressed at work.
Stress-filled days for me are now the exception, not the norm. Now the norm is a beautiful serene walk to the pond after supper and a paseo with the family. Now I worry that I don’t sufficiently appreciate the beauty that envelopes me in my life here. That’s a very good thing to have to worry about.
I often feel the urge to tell about the things I see and do here. I feel a powerful desire to share with others, especially those who feel trapped and smothered as I once did. But when I try to write it out, it falls flat. I just can’t do justice to it. I can no more describe it in words than I could capture in a jar the feeling of sunrise on a beach in remote Belize.
But, for what it’s worth, here’s my humble attempt to at least suggest the sense of awe and amazement I got out of an evening stroll last night.
And by the way, the beaver did not make an appearance.
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The Kellie Stamps creative team have gotten together for a Instagram hop! CLICK HERE. We've gotten together to share a love, a love of chocolate and crafts, what could be a better mix? Each member has shared a fun creation showcasing the NEW Chocolate Lover stamp set and Chocolate Lover card and label set, that'll be in store on the 23rd of this month. Here is what I created with an Easter egg, not mine, my girls egg, because, keto, haha.
I've used a pocket page mini notebook from The Stampspot. Honestly I'd forgotten how much fun these little notebooks are. Diane of Dearly Dee inspired me to grab one out and now it's almost FULL.
Also inspired by Diane is to use sequins in the pockets. I unusually add in a filler card or back to front designs, making the notebook rather bulky. Using the pocket as a full spread in between has defiantly made my notebook more manageable. I decided to add a label from the Chocolate Lover card and label it back to back on the pocket.
I already had in mind to have a photo of a chocolate egg and to stamp around it. My vision for once turned out exactly how I wanted it to and I'm really pleased with this layout.
To jump in on the hop, head over here to the Kellie Stamps instagram. Be sure to follow a few simple steps/rules and you could win this this set, card and labels along with sequins and wood veneer Easter egg! Click HERE.
Do you want to know what I did? I picked out 4 of my favourite pattern papers from the 6x8 paper pad, and then I printed out four instax photos I knew I wanted to use and I laid them all out and worked on all four layotus at once. I used to do this when I was a design team member for Gossamer Blue back in the days. Only three out of the four worked out, but it's a fun way to get a few layouts cranked out in the one sitting, especially if you have a kit or like myself a collection and the Dream Big stamp set, that I only planned to work with. This is how this layout finished up.
It's been a while since I placed an order for a paper collection. But once I spotted the All Heart collection, oh did I need it! I ordered from Australian online store Sassy Scrapper, HERE and the service and timeline of my delivery was spot on. I knew if I didn't start using this collection, I would hoard it. This is something I'm not down with doing this year. This is the layout I created. One of three that I created that day. I love that the paper pad is 6x8 as that is the size I scrapbook in. I've used the DREAM BIG stamp set from my online store, Kellie Stamps, HERE.
This month for Kellie Stamps I did a few different things. In case you missed it, I designed a card and label set to coordinate with the release of the Dream Big stamp set, I know, crazy. Then I also have the release of the Holiday wood veneer set. Which is how this layout came about. Like the pattern paper? Yeah me too. I had saved a bunch of pattern dividers from a happy planner because I knew I would in the end cut them up as I never got around to using the planner during those months. I also added in a card I designed, because why not right? I used some of the Holiday wood veneer alphas, not to spell anything, heck no, these are my least used letters, haha. I used a bunch in another project I'm working on, more on that another time.
You can still purchase the stamp set DREAM BIG and HOLIDAY WOOD VENEER, HERE.
Here to share a scrap layout I created using the new, Practically Perfect kit from The Fairytale Club Kit. I love this kit. Every time I think Andrea can't possibly out do herself, BAM she goes and does it again. I don't think you even have to be a fan of the movie this kit is based on. I remember watching it as a kid, but I know I can use this kit over and over again.
I really am happy with how this layout came together with the photo of myself and all and looking like I'm calling myself, practically perfect. I'm not, haha, honest, but the font and music notes are just to perfect to not use.
I also managed to use a little bit of everything that comes within the kit and guys, I still have PLENTY. So if you haven't already get onto the subscription.
I started with a white cardstock base. I did consider going with a pattern, but when I laid eyes on the Spoonful of Sugar acetate, I knew I had to use it. One side gold the other blue, WINNING. When I spotted the tag I just knew I couldn't hoard it as much as I really wanted to, because it's gorgeous. So instead I got out all my favourite elements and added them to this layout. This is the end result and I couldn't be happier.
So when this gorgeous kit arrived, You + Me from The Fairytale Club, I knew right away that anything I created would not involve my husband what so ever. I'm not alone in the craft world where their husbands don't like their photo being taken, rarely, if at all? I mean after doing a podcast once and attending a couple of craft retreats, I found out a lot of people thought I was a single mum. I can promise, he's real, haha. So I knew right away this kit is going to be used for the people I love.
This girl I love to bits and if you read here, know me or follow me on any of my socials, you'll know this. We met online because of crafting, CRAZY right? It's been almost 10 years now, WHOA ok, I didn't realise that, haha.
I love using instax photos when I scrap? I don't know why, maybe because of the smaller size, but the photos just GO with the style I do. Do you pick your photo first or are you the type that picks what you will use first and then go from there? I personally pick a photo first. After I've picked the photo I always go to the die cut ephemera, then more pattern paper, strips, and stickers and layer and layer as I go. Once I'm happy I take a happy snap so that I can then remember where everything goes. There have been many a times that I've walked away for some reason or another and then come back and completely forget where I had things. i do this for almost everything, project life, cards and layouts. highly recommend it.
This is the final result and I'm super happy with how it all came together and the kit just WORKED so well for my plan.
Hi all, Kellie here with you again this month to share a layout I created using the NEW kit, December Dreams, it really is dreamy! I normally only really do layouts in the size of 6x8, which is exactly what this layout is. Instax photos also happen to be my favourite when doing layouts, but that's not to say I don't scrap normal photos from time to time. Let me tell you about it.
I've used a instax photo from a snap chat photo my girls sent me almost 3 years ago now, boy how times go on by. After I decided on the photo it was time to get busy. I like to layer or clutter, however you like to look at it. Then have open space. I don't know why, but it's always the look I generally go for. This layout came together so easily and I really feel it's because when you love to work with something it makes it so much easier. I'm pretty sure this kit is almost sold out, so get in FAST people!
I love all the pinks and soft blues in this kit, with hints of red. It all matches in so perfectly and makes working on a layout so much fun.
Lately I've been loving doing a layout here and there. I started crafting doing 12x12 layouts like I think we all did right? Then around 2015 my crafty friend Emma did the most AMAZING layouts and I was shocked to find out they were as small as 6x8. I had started doing the 8x11, thought I'd give 6x8 a try and the size stuck! I've made this layout with a Messy Box kit that is no longer sold, but I still have PLENTY of supplies. I'm using the NEW Kellie Stamps, stamp set, Hello Summer.
You can purchase your Hello Summer stamp set, HERE.
Nothing went better together than the new kit from The Fairytale Club and Color Cast Designs new release.
I've used the acetate web sheet also on the silver side as the other side is purple which is awesome to have two different colours. I'm really happy with the end result and after two layouts, two cards and a mini album layout I still have enough of the kit left over for so much more spooky crafting!
It's release day at Kellie Stamps and it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, well in the case of the Kellie Stamps release it is. this month I have three clear stamp sets, 2 of which are available in digital as well as two digital number card set.
It's been a few years since I created a layout until a few weeks ago and now I have the scrapbooking bug again and decided to use the OH WHAT FUN and NAUGHTY OR NICE stamp sets to document an older photo of my girls. I've also used a kit that was released by A Beautiful Mess, messy box. Trying to NOT buy any new Christmas releases and instead using the mounting supplies I have been hoarding for years.
Both stamp sets are perfect to document your December how ever you plan to do so. I'll be sharing how I am this week, so look out for that blog post.
Hello everyone, it's Kellie here to share a mini layout I created in a 4x4 mini album. These little albums are the best for documenting your memories. They can be used for the one theme or many. I decided that since my girls are getting older I would use one to document all their book week dress up days.
We don't celebrate Halloween in Australia, not like it's celebrated in the USA. But my girls once a year have book week where they get to dress up as a book character. It's so much fun to dress them up and see how excited they are and now that I only have one of three daughters doing it, as one daughters has finished her schooling and the other started high school where they no longer take part in dress ups. So I thought it was time to have them all in the one place, like a mini album.
Do you know what I love about this kit? EVERYTHING. The acetate sheet that comes with the kit is silver on one side and a purple on the back. I used the purple as a backing the this little layout of my girls dressed up day from a few years back. Harry Potter and a witch, the perfect match.
I then layered around the instax photo with the die-cut shapes ephemera pack and used some left over strips from the card I made and shared previously strips. I also used one of the little pop pop paper clips, HOW stickin CUTE are they? I'm trying not to hoard the rest of the three from the packet of four.
I grabbed a pocket that has 4 mini squares and cut up the 12x12 pattern papers and again used some of the die-cut shapes ephemera pack with a flair button.
Hi all, Kellie here with you again this month to share a layout I created using the NEW kit, Magical and Mischievous. I started in paper crafts only scrapbooking, then moved to cardmaking and then back to scrapbooking and pocket page albums. I love everything paper crafts. Now let me show you the layout I created.
I like to create layout in the size 6x8. It's a size I tried when a friend of mine, Emma, showed me her amazing work and I just loved the size. I've always found 12x12 a little too big for me, while 9x12 isn't overly large, but 6x8 is just perfect. I've used a instax photo from a snap chat photo I took of myself around this time last year. It fitted in perfectly with this kit as we don't celebrate Halloween down here in Australia. Although even that wont stop me from creating a few more layouts with this kit.
Starting with a plain white cardstock I love to layer when creating a back drop. So I grabbed the pattern paper to create a background. It's either I create a background or plain white space, one extreme to the next when it comes to my style sometimes.
I then grabbed out the ephemera die cuts and layered up. This is my FAVOURITE part when it comes to creating a layout. Sometimes I have to stop myself as I just want to add it all. I'm really happy with the final result and the way the layout turned out. It gave me the itch to create even more layouts again.
Want a little tip? You might even do this yourself. Often when creating anything I lay everything out, move things around till I'm happy with it. Then of course you have to stick it all down, which means taking it all off. Now this is where I can forget what went where, get distracted, walk away and come back and think, ugh where did it all go? I take a quick snap on my phone and then I have a reference. This also works well when you can't decide should that pumpkin go there or the black cat? Take a snap and you'll get your answer.
Before I share this layout I created for Gossamer Blue, after June I will no longer be on the Gossamer Blue design team, so this is my last blog post as part of the team. The June kits are all amazing from Gossamer Blue, but my favourite would have to be the main scrapbooking kit. It's not often I can pick a favourite, but the reasoning was mainly because of the pattern paper by Simple Stories. I think you might know from previous posts her on the Gossamer Bue blog by myself, that I have a thing for circles and especially when it's a pattern on a paper line.
I grabbed a favourite photo of mine from the Summer just gone as we are now in Winter here in Australia. Black and white is sometimes the best way to go when you work with a lot of colour. For this layout I most certainly did work with colour. I also added in some stickers from Kellie Stamps that I'm looking to re-stock soon.
I got all the embellishments from the Gossamer Blue, June kit and went about filling the circles on the pattern paper with enamel dots, acrylic, alphas, stickers and more from the kit. In the end I had to stop myself from over embellishing, haha. But I loved the result. Best of all I still have so much left over to make even more layouts to document those special moments in life.
Today is a great day for all the paper crafting people out there, why? Because it's National Scrapbook Day. Right now I'm about to get into some donuts, coffee, Grace and Frankie on netflix and get my craft on!
Jessica from Color Cast Designs and I decided to get together to host something for the day. We are setting a challenge each, with 3 prizes to be won. COMBINE both our challenges on the one project to win a combined prize from both Jessica and myself. Or heck join my challenge, then Jessica's and then both? After all it's National Scrapbook Day!
MY CHALLENGE : Mine is pretty straight forward, stamps and more than 3 types of embellishments. This means, flair, veneer, stickers, enamel dots, ribbon, rub on, acrylic and so much more.
I scrap lifted this from creative team member Diane with her permission of course. She gave me some suggestions to make it easier and I was like pfft, come on, how hard can it be........... Let me just say she got a 'told you so' in there, haha! But it was fun once I got the stamping down pat. Then came the rest of it. I thought being black and white, it would be easy. Regardless I'm rather happy with the end result and love my little instax machine as I just took this yesterday and already it's in the album, another coffee memory kept.
Get your stamps out and grab some embellishments and get scrapping!
I created this layout using the February main add on kit from Gossamer Blue. When I opened the kits and seen the floral pattern paper I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it, something I hadn't done in a long time. I'm more of a quick works best when it comes to doing layouts. But I wanted to cut out the floral designs. At first I cut a WHOLE bunch and had them all over my page, but my photo was lost. I needed that even balance of floral and white and this was the result.
I even cranked out some mounting tape that I'd been hoarding for years and often went to throw it out when I'd have a clean up of my craftroom, but always held onto it, boy am I glad I did! The mixture of navy with the reds, tan and green/blue was a great contrast and made my black and white photo of my daughter and I, well our feet stand out. Not usually one for navy on my crafts, I absolutely love it on this layout and kit.
I love that it was only ONE bit of pattern paper used on this layout with stickers and text, yet I feel it looks like so much more.
Don't forget to check out the gallery, with the creative team, because wow they are amazing. Did you also know we now have a facebook group? Where you can come and share your creations with the kits? HOW awesome huh? Check it out, here.
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It’s another damp, chilly rainy day around here. The kind that has a tendency to make bones ache and creak a bit, lol. It also happens to be a maintenance day, and combined with some rl stuffs that translates into a very limited game play window later this evening.
I pretty much like maintenance days, they provide opportunities for me to get into some in-depth blog reading, research of whatever’s got my attention and a host of incidentals. I go over “plans” I’ve made for various characters’ activities and generally attempt to get myself (organized?). Major challenge there!
Slightly serious though, with the vast amount of content offered and three level 90’s scurrying about soaking up as much as possible, we do need a better “Plan A”. We’ve got plenty of B’s, C’s and D’s in operation 🙂 Anyway, it’s something we’ve been working on this past week. Time, is a valuable commodity and we need to use it well.
Hence, no more running all three through a slew of dailys, everyday, for the sake of valor points. After all three have cared for their farms and gained their Ironpaw token for the day, one will get the call for a dailys run and they’ll switch off each day. This will leave time for one or both of the others to work on different projects. For example, Thdoria is the least geared of the three. On her off days from dailys, she could be venturing into some dungeons. Scary, but more effective I should think. Ay could really spend some more time farming his much needed ore stocks. Dufit could at least learn how to not get “chomp-chomp-chomped.” After all, he spent 1600g getting that invitation.
And of coarse, we’ve got the whole profession things going on. Blacksmithing, Alchemy, Tailoring and Enchanting are all skill capped. It’s high time to start making some money off of them, for all the efforts and money put into getting them there. And I happen to know a few alts sitting around gathering dust who could use a little helping hand.
Now then, I’m not very gold making knowledgeable, or an AH player. I know enough to use the Undermine Journal, and I do follow a few select gold making blogs. My AH history has been marginally good because of this, and a handful of luck tossed in. I do realize though, that this is a viable part of the game that provides some nice rewards. So along with some encouragement from blog readings, we’re going to venture into some attempts to fill our coin sacks to a “comfortable” level.
Our first inspirational steps came to us by way of reading Nev’s “20 Days of Goldmaking”. Formally considered useless for us, we’ve now installed Auctionator and LilSparky’s Workshop. It’s kind of like wiggleing your fingers in the bath water for a temp check before you climb in. Hopefully, our limited game play time this evening will allow us to get them configured.
I certainly don’t expect to compete with the real gold-makers of Fenris, but I do have my sights set on becoming “comfortably wealthy.” Lol, I’ll let you know how much that is when I get there!!!
It’s been quite a day in Azeroth, both interesting and challenging. Having briefly mentioned in previous posts about having several projects going on, today was one of those “work-on-UI” days.
Up until the past couple of weeks, I’ve had my UI pretty well established. All neat and pretty-like, comfortable to work with and useful across all characters. Keybinds were stable, only adjustments of which spells went on which key was needed in the beginning. I had this “Default” profile on most things that everyone used. Pretty simple. Right?
I’ve used Pitbull4 unit frames forever it seems like. One rule I go by, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Then I got into learning serious tanking with Killona. Started to notice some small changes were needed, nothing too serious, just little things popping up now and then.
Then, I decided (perhaps foolishly), to attempt learning the Healing trade. Now, we have some serious problems with unit frames. My baby healer needed something more suitable, more useful, to figure out what she’s doing.
Luckily, somewhere along the line in the past, I had installed this Addon Control Panel mod. It is certainly getting it’s workout time in now!
“ACP”, an in-game time saver!
I started with an old favorite, Grid. Still trying to get the configurations figured out so far. It’s a contender for Pitbull replacement, but questionable.
Then I gave HealBot a look over. I’m getting a bit further along with it than I did with Grid. I credit the HealBot website for the progress I’ve made so far. They have some good info available on set-ups, including some videos.
Neither of these unit frame mods have been on trial runs as yet. It looks like Healbot will get the first opportunity. My baby healer is level 14 atm. She chose to start her healing practice in battlegrounds today, using the stock raid frames. That’s a story for another time though. Tomorrow, we’ll be back to touching up the Healbot, and giving it a trial run.
If you happen to be a Healer with some insight about these unit frames, feel free to add them to your comments.
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Social determinants of health: How are hospitals and health systems investing in and addressing social needs?
The following excerpt comes from the report posted by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.
Health care stakeholders have long recognized that factors outside the health care system—the social determinants of health—influence an individual’s health and well-being. Many hospitals and health systems are working to navigate the challenges of effectively linking community and clinical services to improve health outcomes in the long term. The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions conducted a nationally representative online survey of about 300 hospitals and health systems to identify their current health-related social needs activities and investments and their potential future efforts. To better understand how hospitals and health systems may be operating in the larger health care ecosystem and the challenges they face, we also interviewed representatives of hospitals, health plans, and nonprofit community organizations.
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2019-04-20T19:23:46Z
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https://centerforhealthycommunitiesadvocate.wordpress.com/2018/03/14/social-determinants-of-health-how-are-hospitals-and-health-systems-investing-in-and-addressing-social-needs/
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Mary Eliza b. 1825 d.
Mercy (Williams) b. 1729 d.
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I'm not really sure why they'd be holding a sumo convention in a shopping mall, but OK.
Moving the stylus to control the blowgun, then blowing into the microphone to fire, is one of the most fun moves in the game.
Run up the escalator by sliding the stylus up your hero (bottom center). Don't hit the sumo.
In the optional Maniac mode, you can dress up your girlfriend in a variety of outfits.
Our hero meets the girl of his dreams on an escalator, but so do 12 other hopeful boyfriends.
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2019-04-23T00:40:36Z
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How many composed people do yell!
When their home team scores not so well.
“That was a sitter!” They shout.
“You are,” my dad said, “such a trollop.
The old man talks so much codswallop!
“You’ll wind up too deep in the mire.
He said, tucking into a scollop.
Why do ‘two’ Limericks about Codswallop, when one would really do?
I should stop after the first attempt; that will surely do!
And you wouldn’t want that to happen – would you?
And I then receive a reception rather chilly.
She needed the dosh for a flight.
My second option for you was for a poem on the theme of TRANSPORT.
When I wake up every day.
And this makes us all feel sad.
I travelled to witness something holy.
The colours, the flowers, broke my fences.
Causing me much needless pain.
Away, away from a dreary past.
It’s what my journeys are taken for.
So, in retrospect, ‘not’ to move is sometimes sublime.
Oh, for trains gone by.
Until it’s time for bed.
Option three was to write a ten-word story using all of the following words: JOKE, SINGING, GRAHAM, GAZUMPED and VICTORY.
The joke’s on Graham; while singing ‘Victory’ he got gazumped.
Singing a joke, I gazumped Graham. Victory! I love you!
Graham told a joke, got gazumped! So started singing victory.
Graham’s singing was gazumped by Pompey’s victory at Arsenal…joke!
This entry was posted in writing competitions and tagged ideas for writers, inspiration, motivation, writing challenges. Bookmark the permalink.
This was great, it really got the gears in my head spinning. Thanks for the inspiration.
Is high because I’m chocoholic.
Very clever! Happy Easter, Keith.
But what does he know? He’s a quack.
And get a full-blown heart attack!
I am, thank you 🙂 Hope you are too.
That’s good to know 🙂 I hope you do well.
So hide all excess from your mummy.
I started this a while back, during a Caribbean holiday. The Soca Roca was the disco boat that cruised the bay. I’ve had a go at finishing it under the pressure of your prompt!
Eyeing the coral fish, flashing their tarty show.
And the first stirrings of a melanoma.
And I had to throw the whole soggy mess away.
PS actually, I ate it.
We must have a holiday.
My dear, prithee, please don’t bray!
And swatted me, like I’m a fly.
Then screamed aloud for a holiday.
Well, thanks…I often don’t know which way I will go.. then inspiration strikes!
Which ate it for some topical lark.
And the results you can see in our tush!
These were her words – were they not?
And so we ate them right there in Heathrow.
Nothing like a limerick to start your day!
Days dragon, flying they were.
Yesterday we had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun (well, we would have done… if it hadn’t poured down from dusk till dawn till dusk) which has left us all forlorn.
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2019-04-22T03:05:44Z
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Unit Studies that are packed full of learning and fun. We have just finished up two unit studies, having used John Adams (a one-week study) and Pioneers (a three-week study).
Homeschool Complete is a curriculum choice that has seen success. Created by Debra Arbuthnot, these studies are what she used to homeschool her own children. Her children have now graduated college and she is sharing her successful curriculum with others. In addition to her family education, Mrs. Arbuthnot has 27 years in public and private education.
Homeschool Complete offers stand alone unit studies, complete year-long curriculum options, reading curriculum, and bundles of these products. Visit the website to take a look at all that is offered.
During this review period, we used two of her unit studies – John Adams and Pioneers. These studies are set up on a four-day per week schedule but you can adjust it for five-day weeks if that is what you do in your home. Alternatively, there are some suggested activities and reading that would allow to you go further with the study if you would rather do that on day five of your week.
Each study includes all of your core materials – reading, writing, math, science, history, fine arts, and PE. Every day does not include all of these areas but most are covered every day. To complete everything on each day’s activity list take around 2 -3 hours, depending on how much you adjust and your own children. We skipped the math in both of the studies because our daughter is at a different place in her math skills than these studies include. Even with that, we often spent an hour and a half – 2 hours on the study each day.
If you are a bit intimidated by the thought of covering everything with one study, have no fear. There are pages at the beginning of the study on how to use the study and the guide, how to approach teaching new skills, and tackling calender time if you use it in you home (it is included in the study). There is a complete skills list and a complete materials list, including having it broken down by lesson, at the beginning of the PDF.
John Adams is a one week long 54-page unit study covering, you guessed it, John Adams. In this 3rd-4th grade level study, there were picture books to read and discuss, writing activities, historical adventures to learn, biographies to read, weather to talk about, and so much more. From singing patriotic songs and doing some physical activity to working on workbook pages (included in the download of the study), there is a variety of activity for each day.
We did have to make a trip to the library for this study to get the picture books, but, hey, we love trips to the library! We found the main picture books for the study, as well as couple of additional ones to keep around. We also substituted the chapter book for out-loud reading because it did not correspond to the study and was a character my daughter did not like. We gathered a few supplies, like crayons and pencils and the printed worksheet, and started off.
Each day we would work through a picture book. Then we would work through the activities for the day. These included working on contractions, recalling information from the book, reading a non-fiction passage and writing answers to questions over it, creating art work to go with an event, creating a Venn diagram to compare two people, writing paragraphs and poetry, and movement activities.
By the time the week was out, we had a pretty good grasp of the life of John Adams, his wife Abigail, and the work he did as President. It was a good study.
Pioneers is a 3-week study for grades 3 through 6. At over 150 pages, it is packed with all your core materials and a bundle of activities to help your student experience life on the prairie. This study has a main book – Little House on the Prairie – that you will need to obtain separately. With the addition of a few materials for activities such as baking vanity cakes or making ice cream or growing crystals, you’ll have three weeks of fun reading and activity to learn about life during the pioneer times.
I did much of the reading out loud for Little House and then we used it as the jumping off point for the lessons after that. There are comprehension and discussion questions to go along with each reading of three to four chapters. Then there are worksheets, included in the PDF download, to further thought and practice writing. Each worksheet has some cursive practice and some words to work with in reading, spelling, and/or alphabetizing. Most have a short passage to read and then answer questions about, practicing full sentences. In these, we discussed weather, grasshoppers, and temperatures, to name a few. Miss J created graphs, mapped travel, labeled parts of grasshoppers, practiced reading charts, and worked on the long jump. She also work on music rhythms and time signatures.
Each day was a new variety of things to do and ways to do them. It was a good variety and kept things fun and interesting for her. We were able to take a couple of the activities and modify it to be able to go outside and work when the weather was nice. We found this study to be very adaptable and easy to use. With everything included for you, you can use just this study and feel confident that you are covering plenty of material with your child.
The unit studies are so full of activity and learning! You won’t be disappointed. Do recognize that your child may fall at a different understanding level for some of these. For example, the Pioneers study is listed for 4 different grade levels. There is no way the math in that study can work for all 4 levels so be prepared to adjust for your own students. But that is the beauty of these unit studies. They are so full of activities, that skipping a few things or modifying them doesn’t diminish the quality of the study. It still is full of core study activities centered around a theme.
Some of the activities don’t quite fit clearly into the theme but that is to be expected when you are trying to create a truly comprehensive unit study. An example is that for PE one day, there was a discussion of flexibility. Not a bad item to discuss and the activity was kind of fun for my girl but it didn’t really fit into the theme. Doesn’t matter – we covered PE that day!
All in all, I really like these unit studies. They are packed full of materials, ideas, and activities to keep the students engaged and interested. They material is flexible and can be adjust easily as needed to fit your family. There is enough material included in the downloadable PDF files that you wouldn’t miss it. You can even choose to pay for the unit study to be printed and shipped to you if you would prefer that route.
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A while back, we also used the unit study on Soccer. I did not write a review here on my blog for it but you can find it on the The Old Schoolhouse Product Review page.
Homeschool Review Crew families have used a number of the unit studies as well as different grade levels of the All-Inclusive Curriculum. Please click through the banner below to visit the main post to read more reviews of Homeschool Complete.
I love the idea of using the eboard instead of the worksheet. We have one of those somewhere and now I just need to find it!
She has loved it, probably because that is just something different. I’m all for different and keeping it new and interesting.
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Hey, this blog is run by Annike and Zoë.
We live in Sydney Australia, and as book lovers, we thought it would be great fun to share our views on Young Adult books with readers out there, as well as have a bit of fun writing while we are at it. We are identical twins and teenagers.
This blog will contain content such as book reviews, book vs movie comparisons and recommendations. We will try to post a blogs consistently and we thank you for all your support! If you have any feedback or ideas for us we would love to hear them in order to improve our blog.
Pingback: My FIRST Blog Award! – Coffee, Cocktails, and Books.
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2019-04-25T15:56:09Z
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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Zit?
When I was in my younger teens, I was paranoid that someone would know when I started my period. I have no idea why I was so embarrassed by this at the time, but I would go to great lengths to make sure no one knew that it was that time of month for me. Finally, I came to realize that no one knew I was having my period unless I told them and eventually I grew out of the secrecy phase all together.
Now as an adult, I feel like everyone truly knows when this gift arrives. Not because my stomach grows to the size of a watermelon, not because of my weird food cravings and certainly not because of my you-better-get-out-of-my-way-or-else moods.
No. They know because of the zit. The zit from hell.
My skin does a funny thing during PMS. It actually gets very clear, smooth, and fair, free of all irritation and redness. I look away for one second and then out pops an eyesore demanding its own zip code!
So for this reason, I feel like the world knows when CD1 is just around the corner. Not that I care if anyone knows anymore, but it’s damn embarrassing to have acne at 36 years old!
I artfully apply foundation and powder and it’s concealed–for about ten minutes. Then the monster erupts from my pale skin and screams, “Aunt Flo! Aunt Flo!” I feel like I’m trapped in a 14-year old’s body without the skinniness.
Keep in mind that “the zit” is just that. One large, fluid-filled pimple sitting on top of my somewhat smooth skin. If I had a rash of acne, it wouldn’t be so bad. That could be attributed to anything, like an allergic reaction. But, no, I have one Mt. Everest size pore that announces to the world that I am one big ball of raging hormones.
Think I should give it a shot??
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2019-04-24T02:19:45Z
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The email request came in; I’ve got a pine kitchen that’s about 15 years old, I’d like it painted. I live in Herefordshire, do you cover my area?… Yes I do!
This particular kitchen was made by a cabinet maker not too far away from where my clients lived. It wasn’t in bad condition – signs of wear and tear to the usual areas; around dishwasher, fridge and drawers etc… but, generally, it was pretty sound and a good canvas for paint.
OK, so to day one – upon arrival, I’m happy to find clear work surfaces – I apply my 600mm self adhesive protector and tape all edges… et Voilà, the work surfaces are protected for the duration of the project.
Following this, I go through my established routine of degreasing and dust free preparation. I usually use *Krud Kutter Original as my preferred degreaser, however, I gave Fluxaf’s *Pro Clean a whirl. As instructed, I diluted to a ratio of 10:1 – I was very impressed! I think that I may have found my new “hero product”.
… and then it’s time to paint; 2 to 3 coats of Pegaprim Isofix – I like to give bare wood a really good covering of this Shellac based high adhesion primer to ensure the oils in the wood are sealed. Isofix also form the perfect base for Tikkurila top coats.
Here you can see me applying Tikkurila Feelings Furniture Paint with a brush for the FOX range of brushes – it’s a lovely 2″ stubby handled brush called “the CUB” a fine addition to the FOX family.
The kitchen had a few interesting features, such as this basket drawer unit… the internal of this unit was painted and also the frames around the baskets.
Also a very nice glazed eye level wall unit… with glazed units, I paint the internal faces – so I do ask that my clients remove the contents.
The finished look of the kitchen was quite a departure from the original pine – a vast improvement, in mine and my clients opinion!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Fluxaf, Fluxaf Pro Clean, Hand Painted Kitchen, Hereford, Herefordshire, Isofix, Kitchen Painter, Krud Kutter, Pegaprim Isofix, Pine Kitchen, Tikkurila, Traditional Painter, West Midlands on April 20, 2014 by mjguestltdblog.
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2019-04-24T16:19:03Z
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https://mjguestltdblog.wordpress.com/2014/04/20/hand-painted-kitchen-herefordshire/
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Well it’s that time of year again, and I want to wish you all a Happy New Year. Another year bites the dust! Time certainly flies – the image above was painted many moons ago when my kids were really little…! I loved the lost-and-found element created by the snow and their colorful ski outfits.
I have had some recent professional disappointments as well as many positive events, so I will consciously try to focus on the good. Many artists will be able to relate to the abyss which awaits if you only focus on the one negative event rather than all the positive accolades.
If you love art as I do, it is likely that you enjoy reading about art as well; but that does not necessarily mean you enjoy wading through dry, incomprehensible artspeak. I recommend a wonderful treasure of a book I just read – Great Works: 50 Paintings Explored by the late Tom Lubbock. Tom possessed an uncanny way of talking about art in lay terms, weaving in and out of philosophical and pop cultural references. So light a fire, and curl up with your cat for a highly enjoyable read!
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2019-04-26T12:28:52Z
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We are not suggesting that there is no value in stocks, more that there are no "value stocks." The chart below highlights the performance of several style indices provided by S&P and Birinyi Associates. The "Birinyi Dividend Index" is constructed of S&P 500 stocks that yielded between 4 and 10% on 12/31/08 (112 issues and not all financial). As shown, these dividend stocks and the S&P 500 Pure Value index have performed worst of the seven styles shown (-62.7% and -67.5% respectively; the S&P 500 Financial Sector is down 78.4% by comparison).
In short, the values have gotten better, the yields have gotten higher and the market does not care. P/E ratios, price to book, and other valuations do not matter in this market. At the end of the day any valuation based on trailing earnings has no bearing going forward, and estimates for these supposed "value" companies are so uncertain that they have become useless. Google with a P/E of 20 is up 34% on the year, and GE with a P/E of 4.7 is down 44%.
At Birinyi Associates we continue to find the best opportunities in picking stocks. Sectors and styles continue to be volatile and while ETFs increase exposure they also increase the potential for headline risk. In this trader's market we believe market players should concentrate on names they know and understand. The traditional timing models that we have presented on this blog are based on a 50-day moving average. This approach has become less useful as many stocks have moved far enough that the 50-day average is not a meaningful measuring point.
Below we highlight a list of the S&P 500 stocks that are the most oversold based on a 12-day moving average. This list along with a list of the most overbought stocks are distributed to Birinyi's Mini-Institutional subscribers daily. Being a somewhat contrarian indicator, these stocks are below the bottom end of their trading range, and given strength should rally at least to the average and often to the top of the range (Short-Term TE). The "Extreme" column shows the most oversold and overbought levels for the stocks within the last year.
There are still more bulls than bears in this week's poll, but the margin continues to narrow.
Until today 800 on the S&P 500 had been a key level of support; it came into play in December and on 1/20/09. After declining below 800 this morning the index was unable to sustain a rally - support becomes resistance (we saw the same thing in March-09 crude contracts at $38).
Interestingly; the Dow was supporting to today's market at 7,550, which seemed to prevent a further run down. The DJIA closed at 7,552.60, just 0.31 points higher than November's closing low of 7,552.29. In other words, the Dow was finding support at the November lows while the S&P 500 is still 48.15 points above its November low of 741.
Tomorrow we will be watching both the Dow and the S&P 500 closely. In a positive scenario look for the Dow to hold 7,550 and the S&P 500 to break out above 800. If the Dow breaks down below 7,550 look for the S&P to find its first support at 750.
There are more bulls than bears in this week's poll, many have moved to the neutral camp.
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International Politics | Conlibe: Political Blog for TRUTH in Politics.
Detroit vs Egypt/Afghanistan: Where is the Outrage?
So when I heard this story on the CBS Evening news, my ears perked up!
It concerns the Abrams M1A1 tank – made in America – and the centerpiece of U.S. aid to Egypt.
But if you try to give Detroit IN AMERICA a few hundred million dollars, Republicans will cry blue murder! So Detroit and American citizens living there are stagnating.
But do you hear about mismanagement in Afghanistan detailed in a report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The report was sent to Defense Secretary Charles Hagel, (April 2013).
More than 80 percent of taxpayer-funded Defense Department contracts were vulnerable to direct funding of terrorists, including the Taliban.
$5 million was paid to contractors affiliated with the Taliban. (Afghanistan’s GDP per capita: $1,000 in 2011).
SIGAR’s July 2013 report says: The Defense Department is moving forward with a $771.8 million purchase of aircraft the Afghan National Army cannot operate or maintain. Anything Detroit needs?
A 2012 Associated Press report found that the Taliban could be using U.S. tax dollars to kill American soldiers. The U.S. military estimates that up to $360 million ended up in the hands of Taliban and criminal elements in Afghanistan over the past decade.
ONE billion dollars. Afghanistan got 100 of these!
Meantime, those new schools America is building for Afghan kids: The UN says The Taliban have attacked, bombed, or blown up hundreds of them—more than one hundred just last year. Do I hear Republicans at the Capitol squabbling over NO Child/Every Child Left Behind, Headstart and school choice vouchers?
Did you even KNOW about this SIGAR report? Outrage? NONE! You heard anything?
Healthcare for Americans…too expensive!!! If you want the US government to pay for your healthcare, go to Afghanistan…’cause Republicans are not going to care about wasted money…OVER THERE!!!
Back to Egypt, where the billion dollars in aid Congress approves for that country does not go directly to Cairo. According to CBS news, it goes to places like Archbald, PA.
131 people working at The General Dynamics factory there are earning VERY GOOD wages…on your dime! The factory makes parts for the Abrams tank…and workers are filling an order for 125 tank kits for the Egyptian Army…so it can shoot at more of it’s people, hopefully without the tank!
According to CBS news, there are 44 companies in Pennsylvania alone involved in making the tank. Other factories in Ohio and Michigan are helping out.
The lone voice in the wilderness…(no, NOT in Egypt’s Sinai Desert, but in the Outrage wilderness) is NOT Paul Ryan or fiscal king of Fiscality, Rand Paul.
They want the government to cut waste, cut spending everywhere else but in their back yard. Keep those fantasy, middle class lifestyle providing jobs that are subsidized by taxpayers – but cut food stamps for the poor, because tax payers should NOT, in fact CANNOT – continue to carry this burden!
The U.S. Army is planning to close the Lima Army Tank Plant from 2013 to 2016 in an effort to save over $1 billion; it would be reopened in 2017 to upgrade existing tanks. General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS), which operates the factory, opposed the closure, arguing that suspension of operations would increase long-term costs and reduce flexibility.
Specifically, GDLS estimates that closing the plant would cost $380 million and restarting production would cost $1.3 billion. If passed, a bill in the U.S. Senate from the first session of the 112th Congress would allocate $272 million in funds toward the plant to allow it to continue regular operations through 2013.
See what happens…to the plant, to Detroit, to programs for the poor when Congress returns from its recess in September and Tea Party Republicans TRY (are they still planning this)? to close the government over waste!!!
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2019-04-18T16:34:13Z
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https://conlibe.wordpress.com/category/politics/international-politics/
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2019-04-26T02:05:26Z
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One of the ways I lost more than 40 pounds over the last few years is sticking to a pretty regulated eating schedule: breakfast (sometime around 8 AM), lunch (sometime around Noon), afternoon snack (sometime around 4PM) and dinner (sometime around 7-9PM). And that’s IT! No other munching or snacking or eating unconsciously.
I know from experience that even two weeks of travel does not disrupt the works. But this summer has been different. For going on six weeks we’ve been hitting the roads and skies and rails with a trip to New York City, a trip to Montana and a trip to Montreal. There is no freaking way to keep a meal schedule tight when you have to attend timed exhibitions, weddings and parties, and a batch of music concerts.
So, I was worried when I stepped on the scale this morning.
I had gained only one pound.
Even better news is that I am having no trouble falling back into my routine with the clock. Doesn’t feel like a struggle or unsatisfactory. But I’m not going to make one of my old mistakes and decide I can throw things on autopilot. Must. Consciously. Stick. With. The. Plan.
A couple times a year, when I’m brushing my teeth, I reflect on my missing upper molar on the right (only one not there), and how much it reflects foolish immaturity and cruel fate.
As a kid, I did not have a single cavity. Yes, not one. A good dentist filled in crevasses in my molars to prevent cavities (which I have since learned is indeed an accepted practice, not a way to get some money from Mr. Perfect Ivories). But, in line with the louche personal habits of hippie/punk youts, I idiotically stopped taking care of my teeth in my 20s, assuming for some mystical reason that I was immune from decay. This was insanely childish. I had a good dentist in Missoula and on my last visit before the move to Boston, which I assumed would be the routine “yuck your teeth are dirty but no problems, ” I was informed I had a cavity in that molar.
Now I had trouble. No dentist in MA. No health insurance, either. So I let it fester until I got the one and only toothache of my life and took every nickle I had for a month and visited a dentist recommended by fellow workers. Nice guy. Kindly told me what I had done was foolish and unnecessary. Painlessly put in a huge filling. Later it became a crown. Decade or so after that, cracked down on an evil olive pit in a loaf and that was the end of the tooth.
All I had to do was not be an oral slob 45 years ago. So I’m smart as an oldster. The advice to smooth-faces? Dress like a bum and clean like a queen.
Lots of good ideas and information here. I was pleased that Abby Langer endorsed my one new habit about calories — looking at the calorie estimate on the packet. I did not know, however, that the estimate could be as much as 20% off and still be legal (awk!). Also, a very well-articulated rejection of the notion that, if you exercise your glutes off, you can eat as much as you want. “…with some apps it appears that you can negate your whole day of eating with a trip to the gym. Nope.” I wasted oceans of sweat for years after all the exercise-machine sellers pushed that notion.
Dr. Andrew Weil wrote some of the most exciting books about drugs and mind liberation I ever read.
The Natural Mind was a coherent manifesto without dropout drapery that argued many cultures used psychedelic drugs to shape young minds and the upsides were notable. Included original research into native-culture ceremonies and many insights. I have not read this completely revised version. But to be blunt I would say his original expression, warts and all, beats it.
The thing that weirded me out about his followup — The Marriage of the Sun and Moon — is that he had obviously figured cashing in on New Age vibes would pay off more than a lonely crusade to make acid experimentation a more normal and controlled part of American psychology research. Like they say, the beginning of the end.
Now he turns up every few years like a wind-up interview toy and gives the same spiel, with modifications, over and over. It’s not incorrect, though misleading I think in parts, just such a sad step-down from the potent message on mind liberation he once articulated.
But then, there was the Harvard Drug Scandal. Here’s Weil’s self-serving version. And here’s a more balanced look back.
I must have the flu (fever, runs, painful wracking coughs, overall sick feeling). I was smug, not an anti-vax zealot — most years I don’t even get a cold and can only remember serious flu a couple other times. But I enter the at-risk category this year, and yep, from now on, flu shot every fall.
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Peerless has been in business for over 100 years. Most of that time has been spent mixing dough for bakeries who produce breads, crackers, bagels, cakes and cookies. However, over the past few years, Peerless mixers have been finding their way into other types of food making facilities.
Peerless mixers are now in plants that mix different products such as pet food and treats, neutraceuticals and nutritional bars. With these adjacent markets, Peerless is expanding our existing product line to serve different types of food manufacturing.
The Pet Food Industry is one of the fastest growing markets and is expected to grow to US$74.8 billion by 2017. Read more here! about the growing Pet Food Industry.
Today, more than ever, consumers are focused on pet food. There are Pet Food Rating websites, Breeders Clubs that reward volume purchases and pet foods are now frequently labeled “Organic” , “Fresh” and “Premium”. In the world of “Pet Parents” who want to provide the “Best for the Fur kid” – “frozen”, “freeze dried” and “grain free” are advertising buzz words. Peerless has a small presence in this market – our mixers mix pet treats that are cooled and extruded into chews, and are used in a few other pet food locations that use Peerless mixers for R&D projects. This market is exploding, not only in the US, but around the world. Keep an eye out for Peerless as we carefully expand in this industry!
Recently, new research was completed and report published titled the “North America Nutraceuticals Industry Outlook to 2017- Increasing Demand from Ageing Population to Drive Growth” . This report gives a comprehensive analysis of the industry past, present and future outlook. To learn more about this report, click here!.
Statistics in this study include functional food, functional beverages and dietary supplements. Additionally the sub-segments of the industry, ongoing trends and developments, import and export scenario, government regulations and impact and highlight major players operating in the industry. The concept of nutraceuticals is very well prevalent in the North American region, with more than 60% of the population living in the US and Canada claiming themselves as a regular users of nutraceutical products. The value growth recorded by the nutraceuticals sector in the North American region over the review period of 2006-2012 was 8.4%. This market has a high growth potential for Peerless mixers as well. Watch for us in this new market as well.
Peerless Mixers Make Pet Treats Too!
It is not a surprise that pet food manufacturers use Peerless mixers too. Here’s a new mixer that is on its way to Alabama to make jerky treats for dogs. The interesting part about this mixer is that instead of having a bowl jacket that focuses on cooling the product this one actually steam cooks the product in the bowl while it’s mixing! Pretty cool!
Steam Jacketed Mixer used to make Jerky Treats for Dogs!
In the photo, you can see the piping that will be used to move and manage steam into this bowl jacket. The steam in the bowl jacket will be used to actually steam cook the ingredients while they are being mixed.
This is just another great example of how Peerless technology can be used in other segments.
To learn More about Peerless Mixers and other products – please visit our website.
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← You Can’t Do It All . . . But What Can You Do?
Many are starting the year off fasting and praying. Here is the blog post I mentioned in my post about “doing the work”. If you have not joined in to the fast, it’s not too late.
I did my first Daniel Fast November, didn’t fully understand it but the first seven days experienced intense warefare. Decided to DL for a blessed New Year. First seven days experienced the power of God’s Love like never before, chains broken, being set free. However, five days later the enemy reminded me of the things I’d been struggling with, my heart felt as if it was still infected, but saw instead of believing the lies, had to speak life and press on through …. we serve an Awesome God.
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The team’s youth movement — eight players are 25 years old or younger — makes veterans Trenton Hassell, Juwan Howard, Ricky Davis, Mark Blount and Marko Jaric potential trade candidates, either by the Nov. 2 season opener against Denver or the February trading deadline.
Wolves Vice President of Basketball Operations Kevin McHale said he talked to other teams all summer about deals that would further transform his team, but called September “a slow, slow, slow month” while potential trading partners discuss options with other teams and contemplate the $67 million-plus salary cap.
Sounds like just a matter of time until Mark or some of the other vets on the TWolves are moved.
NBA Training camp is right around the corner, if you can’t tell from us now adding NBA Pitt alumni to our daily searches.
So our first post on our way back won’t actually be about a Panther in a professional league. Go figure.
For those of you (or in my case, my wife) who have missed seeing Levon Kendall fixing his hair during basketball games…you’re in luck. ESPN2 will have the Team USA vs. Team Canada matchup from the FIBA America’s Men’s Championship today at 3pm.
So if you missed Carl Krauser and his US Virgin Islands team getting a 64-point beat down at the hands of Team USA on Thursday, here’s another chance to watch some former Panthers play basketball before football season gets underway. Krauser had 10 points and 1 assist on Thursday against the US, but he only played 17 minutes due to foul trouble.
Kendall and Krauser played each other (well, their teams did…but all we care about is them) on Friday, Team Levon pulling out the 93-83 victory. Krauser played 26 minutes in this one…and ended up with almost the same stat line he had in 17 minutes against Team USA. 10 points, 3 assists and this time he had 5 personal fouls (I think that is fouling out. I have no idea how international basketball works). Kendall played only 8 minutes but had 6 points.
Team Canada leads Group B with a 2-1 record, but that could change after playing Team USA today. The Virgin Islands (or Team X) is 0-2, so they pretty much have to win their two remaining group games to have a shot of advancing.
We’ll be keeping up with this thing for the rest of the tournament as long as Canada or Team X is still in it…but ESPN seems to only be televising Team USA games so far, so this may be your last chance to see one of our Panthers in the tournament.
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i spent most of my two days in Baltimore in a hotel meeting room, as planned since it was a work trip, but the few trips I took outside the lovely if slightly faded Hotel Monaco were great, thanks in part to glorious weather— sunshine, high 70s. Dinner was at the Woodberry Kitchen in an interesting old neighborhood near Hampden. The outpost of a James Beard winner, the place completely lived up to the hype and was worth the minor aggravation of having to reserve a table weeks in advance and nearer to the date, confirm more than once that We would show up.
Flavor is the word that comes to mind from our dining experience. The food wasn’t particularly sophisticated or complicated or showy. just the opposition. The presentation was basic and the entrees clever at times but not kooky. instead the emphasis was on ingredients – delicious carrots, fresh oysters, special salt from West Virginia (yes West Virginia.) And the dishes we had were often old classics dine the best way possible, so the deviled eggs, for examples were super fresh tasking eggs with a super creamy whipped egg yolk, some crispy bits of cooked ham and some magical pepper. The oysters were roasted in a wood fired oven and topped with a creamy crabmeat sauce; the meatballs were soft and tasty, covered with a tomato and ricotta cheese. My pan fried (or wood fired oven roasted?) chicken looked like a brown leather shoe sole but tasted unlike any chicken I’ve had (as our enthusiastic and knowledgable server promised.) Somehow it manage to be crispy on the outside and moist and full of, yes, flavor, inside. it was served simply atop wilted collard greens and some sweet roaste carrots.aso excellent: shortribs, scallops, beets (according to my sister who likes beets) and a delicious cranberry crumble pie made with whole cranberries and oatmeal).
I ended up taking the light rail for $1.70 from the convention center downtown to the airport and stopped for a crabcake at Phillips, conveniently near the southwest gates.
Metro Gallery, 1700 North Charles st.
Joe Squared, 133 West North Avenue, serving great pizza (one with bacon and clams, yum), plus has exhibitions and live music.
The Charles Cinema, 1711 North Charles street – longtime artsy film house.
Tapas Teatro, 1711 North Charles – Iberian-influenced tapas including asparagus w/Serrano ham (my brother just returned from Spain and raved about the ham there – and Gaudi buildings!) and crab/spinach in sherry cream sauce (which would probably kill me but sounds delicious.) Plus rare wines like Txakoli from the Basque region.
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Seriously? Seriously? Well, thank you for letting me know up front that you're a company I'm not interested in working for.
Not that I don't think you need to keep errors down, BTW. However, sometimes there's bad luck (or computer issues, or bad customers, or etc) that cause these types of errors. If you start off in the job description with such a harsh view of "number of mistakes", you don't sound like the type of company that understands the entire work ecosystem and I don't want to work there.
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The view from up above.
After learning about Flight and Rocketry, and specifically parachutes, the fifth grade gets an awesome opportunity. The design a contraption/parachute that will protect and egg when dropped from the top of a Fire Engine ladder. This is one of the highlights of the year FOR SURE!
The kids put so much work into what they are creating, and really came up with some great designs.
After getting over nerves, each of them went up and dropped their eggs. An overwhelming majority of the eggs survived, which was super exciting.
Way up there!The view from up above. Celebration! Our Egg SURVIVED!
I am pretty sure that this could not/would not happen in America, due to liability, no helmets, no permission slips, and so on. So I am marveling in this fun event while I can. I would highly reccomend it if you ever have the chance.
Brett, Christie and soon to be BABY…….
Just a few days after we moved into our new house with Kate, we added two more roommates. So we went from being in a house by ourselves to living with three and a half people pretty much overnight. Lots of fun for sure!
Brett and Christie are currently doing missionary work in Geita, a city on the Northwestern coast of Tanzania, by Lake Victoria. They have been here for about 9 months, so they got pregnant right as they arrived here. Anyways, they opted to have their baby girl here in Dar, as the healthcare is much better here and way more advanced than in Geita.
While here, they have been hanging out in our hot house, pole sana, catching up on some rest, and cruising the streets of Dar. Mostly I enjoy that they make us dinner and that they are wonderful company. The baby is due any day now so before we know it we will have a new born in the house. Praise the Lord for new roommates and babies.
The Beard and Belly picture they send out to friends and family. He has not shaved since they got pregnant!
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Hi friends! It’s almost Friday!! Woot!
I worked this morning and then stopped by the pool for a little bit. My mom had grilled some hotdogs so I ended up eating one for lunch. Once again, I wasn’t very hungry. I ended up eating some crackers by the pool too.
Thursday night is Zumba night! Love it! I go to a 5:30 class and look forward to it every week. I am finally getting the hang of all of the songs (well, except for the new ones she throws in there) so no more stumbling around! It was a great class and I did a quick 10 minute upper body strength session afterwards. My arms were surprisingly tired from the class!
Reid made dinner tonight…what a guy! Tacos were on the menu and I made up a taco salad to get my veggies in.
Yes, pickles. The best part!! I couldn’t even finish it though…it was huge!
I’m now contemplating dessert…a peach, an apple, or a bowl of ice cream? In the meantime, I’ll just have a spoonful or two of deliciousness…I and love and you!
For some reason all of the official videos are restricted from playing on WordPress…annoying! Anyone know a way around this?
What song(s) are you loving right now?
Who knew? I’m easily amused (and clueless, I guess).
Once I got home from work (with a stop at the salon for a quick trim of the bangs) I started gearing up for a three-miler that was scheduled. I wanted to get out this morning before work but that didn’t work out…I wasn’t going to let myself skip out!
I ate a peach (delicious!) and got dressed…I was feeling pretty shaky (low blood sugar levels) so I also had some Gatorade. And five Starbursts. I can’t seem to control myself when my blood sugar is low, remember?
I gave the carbs some time to bring my levels up and then headed out. It was still 80 at 5:00! For this reason, and because this is the first week of training, I didn’t push myself. I tried not to look at my Garmin and just went with what I was feeling. I ended up doing three miles at a 10:30 pace. I probably could’ve picked it up a little but I’m not worried about it.
It was a hot one! I kind of hijacked Reid’s iPod since it has a clip on it…I need one! It didn’t bounce around at all and was very handy…I even created my own playlist on it. He loves me.
And I need to just give up on these shorts already. They are just standard running shorts and they ride up like crazy!! So annoying. They’re from Old Navy but I I’ve tried the popular Nike tempo ones as well and they do the same thing. I think three miles is my limit with these and even then Body Glide is necessary. I want to try some compression shorts (i.e. spandex).
Lunch was pretty light with a salad and some crackers (my appetite has been nonexistent at lunchtime lately) so I was ready to eat my arm by the time I was done stretching. Reid requested french dip sandwiches (roast beef) and since he never really makes meal requests, I was happy to oblige.
Not exactly healthy or pretty, but yummy. I think an apple will finish off the meal…maybe with some sunflower seed spoonfuls!
Did you run today? How many miles?
I planned to wake up early and get a run in before work but that didn’t happen…I had to be at work for 9 and was a little rushed this morning. I need to get to bed earlier! I quickly made a ham and egg bagel sandwich and ate it in the car. It was actually delicious! I also had an iced coffee (Southern Pecan) with milk and sugar.
As I mentioned earlier this week, I registered to run my third half marathon, which is happening on October 1st. While I am in no way an expert on the subject, I have learned a few things since I started running two years ago and I thought I’d share!
Disclaimer: these are just things that have worked for me. They might not be right for you.
a training plan is helpful for mileage goals, but does not need to be written in stone. I followed Hal Higdon’s Novice Half Marathon plan for my first two races. The first time around I stuck to it very strictly and was pretty sick of training come race day. The second time, I was much more lenient since I didn’t want to wear myself out, but then felt under-trained at the race. I’m testing out my own training plan this time around (I’ll share it soon) and will change things up as needed, but I would like to stick to the weekly mileage goals.
Slowly increase your mileage to avoid overuse injuries. When I first started running I started training for a half but was sidelined with a stress injury in my tibia a few weeks before the race. Very discouraging!! I was trying to do too much, too soon, and certainly paid for it.
if your budget allows it, invest in a quality pair of running shoes. Go to a running specific store and have them fit you for shoes that are designed for your foot type and stride. Your body will thank you.
include training runs (or at least a run) longer than 10 miles. Hal’s plan tops out with a long run of ten miles and I followed this for half #1, but wish I would’ve gone the extra distance. This is all personal preference but I felt like those last three miles were especially difficult and I wished I had done a longer training run. My longest training run for half #2 was 12 miles and I will try to repeat that this time.
find running clothes that you’re comfortable in and train in your race day outfit; don’t wear something new that day! There’s nothing worse than a run where you’re constantly pulling at your shorts/shirt or chafing from ill-fitting or bunching clothing/gear.
I hope you find this post helpful! Part II coming soon. And thanks for putting up with me as I try to establish a blogging schedule! Ideally I would like to post twice a day, morning and evening, but I’m still figuring out how to make it work.
What form of fuel do you prefer mid-run?
I like chews or blocks, or even fruit snacks, but they sometimes get stuck in my teeth and can be annoying to chew! GU’s sometimes make me gag but I do like that you can finish them quickly. Gummy bears work in a pinch.
Any running questions that you would like answered?
Roasting a whole chicken is much easier than I thought, and really comes together very quickly with minimal prep work. It presents an aesthetically pleasing dinner that is perfect for guests, since you don’t need to stand over a stove for hours. I especially love the leftovers we always seem to have! So delicious on a salad the next day.
This recipe is really flavorful and super moist, thanks to the broth. The mustard was only slightly evident, but paired really well with the garlic. When it was cooking you could really smell the garlic and I was afraid that it would be overpowering, but it wasn’t at all. We will definitely be making this again!
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. In a roasting pan or deep baking dish, lay out the onion slices and add the chicken broth. Prep chicken by removing innards and rinsing with cold water. Pat dry. Gently separate the skin from the meat. Season generously with salt, pepper, and Italian seasonings, including under the skin and in the cavity. Place in baking dish, breast side up.
Combine the mustard, garlic, soy sauce, hot sauce, olive oil, and salt and mix well. Pour/spread over chicken. Bake for 1 hour and 20-25 minutes, or until the internal temperature reaches 165 degrees. Slice and serve with some of the onion slices and pan juices, if desired.
Source: Slightly adapted from Food. People. Want.
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i am on my wii and watching this!!!!
You actually worked on how everything moves so slowly. Must have tooken you a while.
The graphics lacked, but it made up in a great tutorial. Short, sweet, and to the point. Very perfect.
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I’ve just moved my blog to WordPress hosting, so apologies for any missing images or broken links.
I have to give a plug to an Irish band who you will hopefully be hearing a lot more of – Kidic. I think their forthcoming single, “Holding Doors for Strangers” is excellent, and frighteningly infectious.
Being young and cool things, they also have one of those Myspace pages where their fans can congregate and worship.
I always hated the fact that, living outside of the USA (Ireland), I couldn’t use the MSN Remote Record service to remotely set my Media Centre PC at home to record certain programs. ASCII Express have a product I stumbled upon called WebGuide4, which not only achieves what MSN Remote Record does, but will give me access to my pictures, music, videos, download recorded tv (dvr-ms files) and will let me stream recorded TV remotely to any device, PC, Windows Mobile device, etc.
I installed the demo, and after about 17 seconds of investigating it, got out my credit card and signed up. One of the best $15 I ever spent!
As always, the upgrade of this blog to WordPress 2.1 worked flawlesly…unless of course you can’t read this.
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From dining-set briefcases (thanks Brandon Maxwell) to Bella's Big Dress Energy, New York fashion week is already shaping up to be bigger and better than last season.
But in our 24/7 world of Instagram, alongside the onslaught of incessant political news (46 days until Brexit, people), perhaps you're already feeling a little burnt out.
Know what will help? Animals. Lots of them, in extremely cute outfits.
You might not know this, but each February, New York pet fashion show takes place – it's the largest pet fashion and animal rescue benefit in America. This year the event took place at the historic Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan, New York.
The show features themed catwalk shows with dogs in costume walking alongside rescue dogs needing homes.
It's all to raise money for the New York Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, a charity that works with more than 150 rescue groups and shelters to save the lives of the city's homeless animals.
Four catwalk shows took place, with themes including: Hollywood dreams, angels and demons, and international masquerade.
IMPORTANT THREAD: Photos from yesterday at the 16th annual New York Pet Fashion Show.
Let's start with this cool dog.
But it wasn't just dogs showing off their best outfits. Midge, a 25-inch-tall, 125-pound equine, also trotted down the runway.
The first horse in the event’s 16-year history, she arrived to the venue via SUV and sported a red-and-white sequinned cape and matching mask. Her costume was designed by noted pet couturier Ada Nieves.
Midge, who has dwarfism, was recused by Justin and Mindy Alameda nearly two years ago.
'She lived in Texas where she was being kept in a dog crate,' Justin told The Post.
Want more pics? Check out The Guardian's selection here.
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After a retreat in southern California, an artist asked me, “What is the way to look at a flower so that I can make the most of it for my art?” I said, “If you look in that way, you cannot be in touch with the flower. Abandon all your projects so you can be with the flower with no intention of exploiting it or getting something from it.” The same artist told me, “When I am with a friend, I want to profit from him or her.” Of course we can profit from a friend, but a friend is more than a source of profit. Just to be with a friend, without thinking to ask for his or her support, help, or advice, is an art.
“Sit empty of worldly anxiety.
It is the subtle activity of allowing all things to be completely at rest just as they are.
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.
The practice of true reality is simply to sit serenely in silent introspection. When you have fathomed this you cannot be turned around by external causes and conditions. This empty, wide open mind is subtly and correctly illuminating. Spacious and content, without confusion from inner thoughts of grasping, effectively overcome habitual behavior and realize the self that is not possessed by emotions.
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This is a sketch for a tattoo going onto someone’s shoulder for a half sleeve. Always hoping to do tattoos like this, I may even discount certain tattoos. Hit me up if interested.
I have time today and am looking to do this design as well as other designs at a bit of a discount. I also have gift certificates.
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MMM Whatchya Say - Mr. F!
From the sociopath that brought you MYSTSara Friedricks' suicide sceneMYST, peraMyst: Klendu is a prequel Mafia-like set in the same universe as peramene's Myst series. Its canonicity will remain debatable until its horrifying conclusion. Do not assume anything save the cold and inescapable reality of your demise. And possibly your character's/s'. All players will begin with limited abilities that will gradually grow as the game progresses. Expect to see some familiar faces.
If I get a day action I'm just going to use it immediately, fyi.
Actually I've decided I'm going to go full on mafia dad in this game.
You will get to witness my hot mafia strats laid bare.
You're running another Myst game?
Kill this one first, IMO.
Hmmmm, a scum response if I've ever seen one.
Lol at all of you when I use my reality warping OPG to change all votes for Podima for someone else.
I will strap in for this ride.
... alright. You can play. But I'm watching you.
If I'm not playing my own mom then I don't even know what the gently caress.
I'm not evil this time. You can all trust me. What could possibly go wrong?
I guarantee every single player will die. pera even spoiled it in the OP.
See, now you're just daring me to become better and re-take the thread when the situation arises.
You just know Paul Verhoven walked into the art department one day and threw down a drawing of that thing and just said "make this."
OK, I ACTUALLY have time to pay attention to this now with summer around the corner. Put me in, I'll read the OP more carefully tonight and do whatever it is I need to do.
There's my minimum met. This is happening.
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After his 220 days in solitary confinement, under harsh interrogations, Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court, presided by Judge Pirabbasi, has sentenced Former MP and former governor of Karaj, Mir Taher Mousavi, to five years imprisonment and ten years forced exile in Baluchestan.
Mir Taher Mousavi, a Professor of Sociology, former Parliament member, former Governor of Karaj, and a member of Mir Hossein Mousavi’s 2009 presidential campaign, was arrested last July and was transferred to solitary confinement in the Intelligence Ministry’s Ward at Evin prison.
Previously Kalameh had reported that the interrogators had given him two options: 1) A Commander Madhi-style interview as was broadcast on Zarghami’s Sima TV (Seda Va Sima, the Iranian national broadcast system), or; 2)A confession in a show trial like those we witnessed in the show trials of 2009.
Kalameh has also previously reported that Mir Taher Mousavi was under severe pressure to give a false confession. In particular, he was under heavy pressure to give an on camera confession.
There is no information at hand indicating whether or not his tortures included any physical torture. But, certainly it is indisputable that solitary confinement in itself is a form of torture, and, in Mir Taher Mousavi’s case, psychological pressure and his illness are additives.
Mir Taher Mousavi suffers from various illnesses, including a heart condition, and was under physicians care prior to his arrest. Doctors treating him had said, by no means should he be kept in isolation and confined to a closed environment. Despite Mousavi’s family having relayed the physicians opinion to prison officials and the investigators, Mousavi continues to be confined in solitary in Evin Ward 209.
Despite news sites close to the Intelligence apparatuses reporting of a heavy judgement against Mousavi, he has not as yet been officially notified of his sentence.
He is one of the harshest critics of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for which he has been imprisoned several times.
Mehdi Khazali is the son of the hard-line cleric member of the Assembly of Experts Ayatollah Khazali. After the public criticism of Ahmadinejad by his son, Ayatollah Khazali publicly denounced and distanced himself from his son’s positions.
On October 13, 2010, Mehdi Khazali was once again arrested by Intelligence Ministry’s agents after being summoned to the Branch 4 of the Public Prosecutor’s office at the Revolutionary Court. On that same day he had been threatened by the security police that he must present himself at Evin.
Khazali was once again incarcerated in Evin prison. His charges in this case were, “Insulting Ayatollah Janati, Insulting the president and propaganda against the regime”.
After Mehdi Khazali continued with his critical writings on his blog, he was once again summoned and arrested on July 18, 2011. He launched a hunger strike from day one of this arrest. He was transferred to Ward 350 in Evin prison on August 8, 2011.
Dr. Khazali suffered various health problems and was taken to Evin clinic on the 35th day of his hunger strike due to deteriorating health condition.
Dr. Khazali was released from prison early morning hours of March 19, 2012 after 70 days of hunger strike and having lost about 66 lbs, frail and unable to walk without using a case.
On February 5, 2012, Khazali was sentenced by Branch 26 of the Revolutionary court to 14 years in prison, 10 years exile and 90 lashes. He was charged with “Propaganda against the regime, assembly and collusion with intent to act against the national security, and writing of critical letters to the Supreme Leader”. This sentence was issued for his previous cases.
Dr. Mehdi Khazali was among dozens of people arrested Tuesday night October 30, 2012 in a raid of the Writers Society meeting. Upon arrest he announced he will launch a dry hunger strike.
Dr. Khazali broke his hunger strike after 12 days with the interrogators promising to release the other people who were arrested with him at the Writers Society meeting.
After 40 days of no news and no contact with family, on December 8, 2012 Dr. Khazali was allowed to phone his family.
Despite bail having been set for the release of Dr. Khazali on December 30, 2012, his family was not notified of the judge’s order until February 16, 2013.
Dr. Khazali’s family provided the court ordered bail, however, Intelligence Ministry prevented his release & pressed new charges.
Dr. Khazali is being kept in prison illegally. He has vowed to remain on hunger strike until he is released from his illegal imprisonment.
While in the past months, the Intelligence apparatuses were trying to encourage the Reformists (in a controlled and ineffective manner) to participate in the upcoming presidential election, yet, a large number of activists have recently been summoned and threatened that they should refrain from any campaign activities. Otherwise, they should expect to be arrested, and more seriously confronted.
According to Kalameh, reports indicate that, in the past few days, a large number of Reformist political activists and critics, a number of university educators, civil activists, labor and union activists, student activists, ethnic activists, Dervishes and Sunnis have been summoned in various cities across the country, by the Intelligence Ministry and the IRGC Intelligence and were given warnings (on behalf of the establishment, they were told) by the intelligence officials.
Kalameh also reports that the homes of many of the people summoned were searched and, in some cases, property and documents were confiscated. In the extensive search of the homes, even the religious and academic papers and pamphlets were carefully examined.
The intelligence agencies have informed the Reformist activists that, for the upcoming ’92 elections (2013), the establishment (read the authoritarian ruler) has made a final decision to prevent the effective participation of Reformists and Green Movement supporters in the election. Further, that any effort made towards involvement in the election will strongly be confronted.
They have also warned most of the people summoned, not to even think about the presence of someone like Khatami (former president) in the election, because according to them, the ruling establishment is against the candidacy of Mohamad Khatami.
The Analysis of some of the people summoned is that the purpose for these summons, and this method of confrontation, is to push from the scene the critical Reformist forces by threats and security management. This will keep the establishment from paying any cost for the possible disqualification of the Reformist candidate, of fraudulent election results, or from being forced to accept a person critical of the current situation in the presidency seat.
Even though, just last night (January 27, 2013), they arrested a few of your colleagues, or you may have heard about some of your colleagues having been summoned and interrogated…..You may be at work, they come for you. As simple as that: From today, no more job; from today, your home becomes another prison cell.
For days, all they thought about was to complete the furnishing of their home. At the beginning of Spring, they are suppose to start their lives under the same roof, and they are very excited.
Early in the morning, the phone rang, it was Saba. I wondered, at this time of the day? With a bit of hesitation, I answered, thinking she may have been upset because we didn’t go over last night…..I said, “Hello, how are you.” I was shocked to hear her cry.
These words were written by Mahdieh Golro (A former political prisoner) on her Facebook page about her friend Saba Sherdoost, the wife of journalist Millad Fadaei (political editor at Ilna). But when Mahdiyeh erroneously (and according to herself not paying enough attention) wrote the name of Saba Azarpaik instead of Saba Seerdoost, she didn’t know that in a few hours it would be Saba Azarpaik’s turn also.
Today they arrested Saba Azarpaik, perhaps they wanted to retaliate over a lot of things! Like, to retaliate for her pursuing the case of Sattar Beheshti (the blogger who died in detention). Or, retaliation for her sorrow filled report from Robatkarim (where Sattar was buried) and of his mournful mother and sister.
Now that they have arrested these journalists, perhaps they want to avenge drop-by-drop the ink that flowed from their pens. But they have a great illusion, an extremely groundless and flimsy illusion.
Yes, Sunday January 27, 2013 will be known as the day that the oppressor blackened and scratched it’s history page with it’s claws.
But one day in the future when people read these pages, nothing will reach their eyes, except the light from the new growth, pure as white.
Although it may appear that the new growth has been enchained by the oppressor, it’s light will remain. An oppressor who leaves marks on it’s own face, by it’s own claws and will eventually give itself the gift of darkness and destruction!….
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Today’s picture – The DAM – Soldier on!
Today’s pic – That’s one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Yeah, I’d go with that.
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Last evening the Victory Church Leadership Team had our first of two strategic planning meetings. The strategic plan is a tool we put in place to help us reach our vision. You may be asking, "What is our vision?" Good question! Below are our vision and mission statements. I will be sharing more concerning this in the future.
"Building D6 families to carry out the great commission and the great commandment."
We are in the process of evaluating everything and every ministry at Victory in light of our vision and mission statements. Please pray for our leadership team as we complete this process.
THE WORD OF GOD - IT IS YOUR LIFE!
It's puzzling that so many Christians try to live the Christian life without reading their Bible, except for sporadic readings of God's Word, seeking a pithy thought for the day.
The Word of God is not merely a source of helpful suggestions, preventative warnings, or inspirational thoughts: It is life itself!
God gathered the children of Israel at the edge of the Promised Land to review their pilgrimage with Him. They had spent forty years in a desert because their parents had not trusted God's word. Their parents died without seeing the Promised Land because they had not believed God's word. Even the revered Moses was soon to leave them because he had not shown proper reverence for God's word. Many of them knew those who had been put to death as a consequence of their disobedience to God's word. Over the years God's word had become the most important thing in the life of the Israelites.
Our reverence for God's Word is revealed not only by what we say but also by what we do. Spending more time reading and studying the words of people rather than the Word of God, reveals our hearts' condition. To blatantly disregard God's Word is to reject life itself. To obey God's Word is the surest way to experience all that God has in store for us.
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Christ wants to reassure us: Do not worry so much about things, always wondering, “What are we to eat? What are we to drink? How are we to be clothed?” Remember, your heavenly Father knows you need them all and he will take care of you.” Or as that holy woman, Julian of Norwich used to say, “all manner of things will be well.” Of course, this would not be a practical principle to apply in business, or government, or the professions; as if one did not have to plan ahead, study the details of a project and use all of one’s insight and energies to bring things to fruition. Like other countries, in Ireland we have learned to our cost that expecting a boom-time to last is a recipe for needing a bailout and the stern monitoring by the International Monetary Fund! Nobody doubts the need for prudence and for providing for the foreseeable needs of the future. However, just as important for our wellbeing is the kind of basic trust and optimism commended by Jesus. His words offer a radical antidote to being overburdened by caution and afraid of the risks of living. We really do need the sense that Someone up there is looking after me. A lovely image of divine providence is portrayed by Isaiah in the rhetorical question: Does a woman forget a baby at the breast?
I will never forget you. People’s fears are real enough. It seems that we are afraid of something all of the time and of everything some of the time. Many are afraid of failure, afraid of letting others down and of being let down ourselves by others. We may be afraid to love somebody because they might not love us; afraid of losing our jobs, our health, our security, our grip. We are afraid of growing old and of dying. Fear comes in a wide variety of forms, stress, doubt, tension, pressure, anxiety. It manifests itself in ways from a nervous tic to a nervous breakdown. Or as in my case now, a tendency to look over my shoulder at every shadow in the street. So we all of us have a lesson to learn from the great teacher of wisdom who said, “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you-you of little faith?” A deep faith can put all our normal fears into healthy perspective.
FATIMA- Pilgrimage/ 100th anniversary. The Little Way Association House. 10th to 17th May 2017. B&B plus airport transfers Cost £387. Own insurance required. If you would like to know more please contact John Connerly on 328 1487.
MEDJUGORJE Irish Centre Pilgrimage 20th-27th May. 7nights half board in 4 star apartments. Cost including airport transfers 370 Euros. Details; Jackie 020 3239 8662 or Colette 0151 220 0665.
Children’s Liturgy will close during half term and reopen on Sunday 5th March.
Baptisms …… please contact us to arrange a date.
First Communion Masses: Saturday 13th May and Saturday 20th May at 11am.
This Friday March 3rd at 2pmis the Women’s World Day of Prayer Service here at St John’s. The service comes from the Philippines this year and is being held in our church. As we are praying for Filipino women, we are hoping that some of our Filipino parishioners will kindly help and be a part of this service. Please see Maria Fryer or Claire McGree.
Lent begins this Wednesday- which is of course Ash Wednesday . This is still a day of fasting and abstinence for all who are able.
Mass at St John’s on Wednesday will be at 10am and Mass at St Anne’s is at 7.30pm.
Ashes will be blessed and distributed at both Masses. There will also be Ashes Services in all of our schools on this day.
During Lent here at St John’s there will be Stations of the Cross each Sunday afternoon at 3pm. There will be an early Mass on Thursdays at 7.15am, Lent lunches most Friday’s after an 11.30am Mass, Exposition and Confessions each Saturday from 10.30-11.30am.
Singing Practice – There will be a meeting at 7.30pm on Thursday 2nd March to look at music for Lent and Easter. All welcome.
*_Baptisms _**…… *please contact us to arrange a date as soon as possible.
*_First Forgiveness; _*Congratulations to the children from St John’s school who celebrated their First Forgiveness on Thursday. Thank you to the parents and teachers for instructing them and supporting them in prayer.
*During Lent *here at St John’s there will be Stations of the Cross each Sunday afternoon at 3pm. There will be an early Mass on Thursdays at 7.15am, Lent lunches most Friday’s after an 11.30am Mass, Exposition and Confessions each Saturday from 10.30-11.30am.
In the LPA & Deanery there is Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in the Oratory at St Luke’s on Wednesday 15^th March from 10am throughout the day, a Taize Evening at St Anne’s on Tuesday 21^st March, a Lenten Talk at Christ the King Bromborough on Thursday 30^th Marchand the Deanery Lenten Penitential Service this year will be at St Michael’sWoodchurch on Wednesday 5^th April.
Day of Reflection on Pope Francis’ Exhortation ‘The Joy of Love’: 10.30am – 3pm, Wed 26 April at LACE, Croxteth Drive, Sefton Park, Liverpool, L17 1AA and led by Father Chris Thomas, the well-known retreat giver. Cost £20 including lunch.
MEDJUGORJE Irish Centre Pilgrimage 20th-27th May. 7nights half board in 4 star apartments. Cost including airport transfers 370 Euros. Details; Jackie 020 3239 8662or Colette 0151 220 0665.
First Forgiveness for children at St John’s School will be celebrated in Church this Thursday 16th February at 6.30pm. Please keep the children, their parents and teachers in your prayers this week.
Sister Michela of the Comboni Missionary Sisters who gave the Annual Mission Appeal at last weekends Masses sends her thanks for the collection which amounted to £550.
Traidcraft Stall is open this weekend after Saturday and Sunday Masses. Please continue to support this worthwhile cause.
Tea and coffee is served in the Parish Centre each Sunday after 9.30am Mass. All most welcome .
Thanks to your continuing generosity and prayers the work on the sanctuary re-ordering and the re-siting of the tabernacle and the baptismal font is now underway. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. The redecorating of the Church and the Day Chapel will follow mid July/August.
Lent begins with Ash Wednesday on the 1st March… A full Lenten programme will be in next week’s newsletter.
A Prayer for this National Marriage week.
We thank you Oh God, for the love you have implanted in our hearts. May it always inspire us to be kind in our words, considerate of feeling, and concerned for each others needs and wishes. Help us to be understanding and forgiving of human weakness and failing. Increase our faith and trust in you and may your prudence guide our life and love. Bless our marriage Oh God, with peace and happiness, make our love fruitful for your glory and, our joy both here and in eternity. Amen.
In Jesus’ day salt was very precious. Some people were even paid in it. (Our word “salary” is from the word for salt-payment.) Since there were no fridges or freezers people used it to preserve food as well as to flavour it. In fact, there is even today an Arabic expression of friendship that says, “There’s salt between us”. The obvious thing about salt is that it pervades everything it comes into contact with. You can’t just have part of your soup that is salty. The whole lot gets transformed. And today Jesus tells his disciples that they are the salt of the earth. They are to bring flavour and taste to the earth, to all the people and situations they find themselves in. So often Christians appear as killjoys whose message is one of a life of deprivation and self-denial that would appeal to no normal person. Yet Jesus is saying that our job is to bring good news to a society that is becoming increasingly fearful and feeling under threat. The message of the gospel is one that is intended to add the flavour to life, to give life some seasoning, to leave a nice taste in the mouth. And we are called to be that salt.
He also calls us the light of the world. The Jews he was speaking to had no electricity. They used oil wicks. Without matches it took an age to light these lamps and so, for safety reasons, when people went out of their homes for a while, they put the lamp under a container where it could burn without danger of catching fire. As soon as they came back in they took it from under the pot and put it on a stand. As our world comes under the grip of real or imagined terrorist threats, as conflicts break out here and there, and as once more we hear of countries suffering famine and disaster, where can we look to shed some light on the situation? The only true source of light is God since there is no darkness in God. Jesus today tells us that we are to be the light of the world. By living his life, by witnessing to him, to the power his gospel has to transform, we reflect not our own light but God’s.
A Prayer for National Marriage week 7-14 February 2017.
This weekend: (at St John’s and St Anne’s). We welcome Sister Michela of the Comboni Missionary Sisters who will give the Annual Mission Appeal.
The Parish Pastoral Team meets on Thursday at 7.30pm in the Presbytery.
Grandparents Association Meeting on Thursday at 6.30pm in the Day Chapel. All grandparents welcome to this first local meeting of this newly formed association.
Traidcraft Stall will be open next weekend after Saturday and Sunday Masses. Please continue to support this worthwhile cause.
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Spiders don’t bother me; for decades I’ve been the designated spider slayer in my home. Naturally the designation doesn’t thrill me – those substantial arachnid intruders; the ones you can almost hear as they tip tap across the floor give me pause for a second – then it’s down to business, people are counting on me. To the dismay of the family, if at all possible I capture and release them outside. Assurances they aren’t hit men, have no vendetta, and are unlikely to make their way back inside do little to soothe the phobic nerves of my family.
Spiders are a fact of life, most are harmless, or at least not life threatening. Even the seven black widow spiders I’ve spotted, captured, or killed over the last year in my basement, don’t bother me as long as they stay downstairs.
Snakes are a completely different story; I’m incapable of applying the same rational thoughts when a snake is involved. Living in the heart of a major city in British Columbia, a snake should be the last thing to worry about. Or so I thought – “Daddy, please catch a snake for us” was the plea from our young children. We were on Vancouver Island, garter snakes were everywhere, and before I could scream “are you out of your mind”, we’re on the ferry home with a snake in a pail. The kids have already named it Mrs. Slithers.
Telling myself “hysteria” was a poor example for the kids, I made myself scarce as my husband set Mrs. Slithers up in an old aquarium. I even took the high ground when he assured me it couldn’t get out, and I was being silly. I didn’t “freak out” in front of the kids, I didn’t tell him he could deal with house spiders from now on, I even attempted interest. The next day Mrs. Slithers had 11 babies.
Kids love playing with baby snakes – kids love having all their friends over to play with baby snakes. Within a few days we were down to 7 or 8 babies. Attempts to convince myself the missing snakes were outside lasted about as long as a snowball in July. It was time for the Slithers family to move out – we made a day out of delivering them to the shore of Beaver Lake in Stanley Park.
What is it about phobias that make us lose our minds? Why is it that we trivialize the phobia of others as “silly”? Some studies suggest we are programmed to fear spiders and snakes as they could cause harm, while others contend these phobias are a learned behaviour – passed on by phobic parents. I grew up in a place where we were taught from a early age to watch out for rattlesnakes and black widow spiders yet snakes are the only thing that makes my skin crawl. When I think about it – I can’t come up with a single person I know who fears both snakes and spiders. Go figure.
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The rebroadcast of Kansas City Symphony’s 16th annual Bank of America Celebration at the Station concert from Sunday, May 27, 2018, will air on or near Fourth of July in the following markets. Check local listings to confirm days and times.
KPTS, Wichita, KS — Wed., July 4 at 10 p.m.
St. Louis Public Television — Sun. July 1 at 3 p.m. and Thur., July 5 at 1 a.m.
KMOS, Warrensburg, MO — Wed., July 4 at 8:30 p.m. and Thur., July 5 at 12 a.m.
Ozarks Public Television, Springfield, MO — Thur., July 5 at 8 p.m.
AETN, Arkansas Public Television — Sun., July 1 at 12:30 p.m.
To read more about the Kansas City Symphony’s 2018/19 season, visit the upcoming concerts page.
Becoming a Kansas City Symphony season subscriber has lots of perks.
VIEW THE 2017-18 season brochure HERE.
No. 1 – Amazing music and special moments.
In today’s hectic world, treat yourself to top-notch music that not only will relax and renew you, but truly inspire you. You will look forward to having time blocked off in your busy schedule where you can unplug for a bit and be in the moment. The Kansas City Symphony is consistently artistically excellent, so you know you’re always in for a memorable experience. Make it a fun outing with friends or impress your significant other with several dates already planned for the next year!
No. 2 – Greats Seats at Great Prices.
Becoming a Kansas City Symphony season subscriber is the surest way to secure the best seats available at the lowest prices the Symphony offers all season. It’s a terrific value too. Each season subscription includes the equivalent of at least 1 free concert. For example, those who choose the 7-concert Bravo or Ovation Series get 7 Classical Series concerts for the price of 6. And for the ardent classical music fan, the 14-concert Masterworks option is an amazing deal as concertgoers can secure seats to all 14 Classical Series concerts for the price of 11. Pops and Family Series subscribers experience similar benefits — four concerts for the price of three. Said another way, season subscribers save up to $20 off each seat for each concert. Becoming a season subscriber is the only way to guarantee such hot deals.
No. 3 – Free and Flexible Exchanges.
Conflict with a concert? Out-of-town wedding to attend? Trip planned? No worries, the Kansas City Symphony has got you covered with one of the most liberal and flexible exchange policies in town. All Symphony subscribers have the option of free exchanges, which means subscribers are able to exchange into virtually any Symphony concert – even into concerts not in their series. So, if you can’t attend, say opening weekend, you could switch into a Pops Series concert or a Screenland at the Symphony concert. Pretty sweet.
No. 4 – Additional Discounts.
Want to bring more friends with you? Want to add on a special concert? All season subscribers receive $5 off each ticket purchased outside of their subscription. Told you there were perks!
No. 5 – Exclusive Opportunities.
The Kansas City Symphony offers its season subscribers the chance to buy single tickets and special concerts before they go on-sale to the public. You’ll also have a chance to receive all of the latest news and announcements from the Symphony when you become a subscriber.
To learn more about all of the Classical, Pops and Family Series offerings, visit the Symphony season subscription page or call the Symphony Box Office at (816) 471-0400 or browse online at kcsymphony.org.
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The month of June has been filled with several new and exciting activities here at Hemphill Care Center. We enjoyed a cheese tasting party, a new activity called Circle Time, which is new and different every week and we have become quite the bowlers by practicing on our Wii. Our clown friends from Lakes Area Hospice entertained us on a Monday afternoon where we sang songs and laughed together. Quincy from Odyssey Hospice stopped by and led us in singing our favorite hymns. We always enjoy hearing Quincy tickle the ivories. On Friday afternoon we sang karoake with Marti Bible, she let us act like stars as we sang our favorite goldie oldies. David Ener was the winner in our annual hug Day contest, in which he received 96 hugs!
Our second movie night was a big hit for us. We enjoyed the outdoors while watching Hachie, A Dogs Story, which was based on a true story. The weather was pleasant and the food was great!. Thank you to John McGraw from Hornet Express Video for loaning us the movie.
Bingo games during June were sponsored by; the American Legion, Texas Home Health, Hemphill’s Church of Christ and Parkway Baptist Church.
The Pineywoods Pickers entertained us with favorite gospel and bluegrass songs, while our friends from the United Methodist Church provided the refreshments for us to enjoy.
Some Dallas friends came to see us during this month, Dean and Nancy Schober. They brought us a supply of new magazines for us to enjoy. Julia Ann Smith Covington enjoyed a Monday afternoon visit with her aunt, Lavern Mayo. She keeps us with what goes on around here by reading “On The Bright Side” every week. She made it a point to stop by and tell me that. I am glad I can be of service in that area.
Our dads were honored with a Fathers Day Pizza Party on Friday June 17. Ebb Dickerson was our oldest father at 101, Louis Scott was our youngest dad at 61 and Dempsey McClelland our father with the most children, he has 6. Friends from the VFW Ladies Auxiliary Post 10351 came by and surprised us with ice cream treats, which were delicious.
We were blessed with worship services and gospel singing by Bethel Chapel Baptist Church, Hemphill First Baptist Church, Hemphill Church of Christ, Fairdale Baptist Church, Little Flock Baptist Church, Parkway Baptist Church and Bethany Baptist Church.
Last Friday we enjoyed our one man band C.J. Michaels. He entertained us with lots of our favorite songs. He had the place hopping. Our Activity staff treated us to fresh made waffles yesterday in honor of National Waffle Iron Day. Today will be highlighted with a domino tournament, which will be a lot of fun for the players and spectators.
We look forward to making jewelry with Sandy Trahan, Olivia and Jasmine tomorrow morning and Tiffany’s Tasties tomorrow afternoon.
The resident council selected Fairdale Baptist Church as our volunteers of the month, Ruth Watson as our resident of the month and Tammy Childress & Bobbie Kukuk as our employees of the month.
We say a big “THANK YOU” to Tommy Whittington for the purple hull peas he gave us last week. We had a great time shelling them and look forward to enjoy eating them.
We extend our deepest sympathy to the families and friends of Marion Bryant and Charles Roy Parker.
Guests are always welcome to stop by for a visit at Hemphill Care Center. A visit, smile and a cherry word gives us a day on the bright side.
more big mamma turtles are coming ashore to lay their eggs.
a couple nights ago, these are a few of their tracks.
Each batch of eggs have a marker.
Our family was on the beach last night to watch the big turtles come ashore.
It started about midnight and continued until after 3:00 am.
Our grandson, Garrett, had the experience of helping the ‘turtle patrol’ collect eggs.
One big momma dug a hole about the size of your dinner table and about three feet deep.
the hole and retrieve the eggs.
Once finished she returned to the sea.
The process took her about three hours.
It was neat to stand beside a big sea turtle.
The ‘turtle patrol’ would not allow photos to be taken.
They thought the flash would disturb them.
A man can fix that!
A man can fixed that.
It has been raining since Saturday night.
The flowers at our complex are just beautiful and they seem to be so healthy.
It has rained most of the nite and all day.
It is gorgeous to see this much rain.
I few days ago, coconuts were harvested.
First, the ends were removed allowing us to drink the coconut juice.
Then they were sliced open to remove the coconut meat.
And finally, Glenda made coconut pudding pies using the few ingredients available.
And they were FABULOUS using the fresh coconuts.
of some golfing buddies back in the U.S.A.
And you know of whom I speak!
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Yep, been there, done that. No snow, no wind will stop the community allotmentieers.
Neither could the garlic and broad beans be stopped. They will use every bit of sunshine and the slightest warmth to get those enzymes in the cells ticking and grow through winter.
There was time for tea of course. It was quiet, can you imagine that there was no one else? Sometimes it is nice to have this peace in the midst of an urban area and normally bustling allotments when the sun is out.
Next I feed the compost bins with some mushroom compost which were kindly donated by our very own mushroom growers at www.urbanfarmers.co.uk. I do hope to be surprised by a bunch of mushrooms growing on top of the contents of one of the bins towards spring.
And another cup of tea before covering up the new plot designated for fruit trees and shrubs with the weed control fabric in preparation for spring when we can do some work there as well.
We have the following in stock.
We have a stock of Vigor which is a soft neck garlic with a strong flavour and early to mature. White cloves with slight purplish bands. Stores well.
We have all our usual range of gardening products including compost and manure. Additionally I have bought in a full range of John Innes composts Nos 1,2&3 plus seed compost.
So hopefully we will see you this weekend.
Let us know if you have some time 9AM as we have soil to bag up at a property in Sutton Road and if you have a car which can help with the transport that’s even better.
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Which of these non-animated pairs of best friends (bromances) in movies is your favorite?
See also: Favorite TV Bromance?
"Casablanca" Claude Rains and Humphrey Bogart 1942 Warner Bros.
Rick & Louis. Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains in Casablanca (1942).
Joker & Noah. Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones (1958).
Felix & Oscar. Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in The Odd Couple (1968).
"Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid," Paul Newman & Robert Redford.
Butch & Sundance. Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969).
Ratso & Joe. Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy (1969).
Max & Lion. Gene Hackman and Al Pacino in Scarecrow (1973).
Han Solo & Chewbacca. Harrison Ford and Peter Mayhew in Star Wars (1977-1983).
Maverick & Goose. Tom Cruise and Anthony Edwards in Top Gun (1986).
Martin & Roger. Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon (1987).
Bill & Ted. Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989).
George & Lennie. Gary Sinise and John Malkovich in Of Mice and Men (1992).
Bill & Ned. Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman in Unforgiven (1992).
Wayne & Garth. Mike Myers and Dana Carvey in Wayne's World (1992).
Lloyd & Harry. Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in Dumb & Dumber (1994).
Andy & Red. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption (1994).
Mike & Marcus. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys (1995).
Will & Chuckie. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in Good Will Hunting (1997).
Jesse & Chester. Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott in Dude, Where's My Car? (2000).
Rafe & Danny. Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett in Pearl Harbor (2001).
Harry & Ron. Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint in The Harry Potter Series (2001-2011).
Frodo & Sam. Elijah Wood and Sean Astin in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003).
Merry & Pippin. Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003).
Dom & Brian. Paul Walker and Vin Diesel in The Fast and the Furious Series (2001-2015).
Pintel & Ragetti. Lee Arenberg & Mackenzie Crook in The Pirates of the Caribbean Series (2003-2011).
Dave & Ken. Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson in Starsky & Hutch (2004).
Shaun & Ed. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Shaun of the Dead (2004).
John & Jeremy. Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn in Wedding Crashers (2005).
Ricky & Cal. John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006).
Seth & Evan. Jonah Hill and Michael Cera in Superbad (2007).
Sherlock & John. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in Sherlock Holmes (2009).
Peter & Sydney. Paul Rudd and Jason Segel in I Love You, Man (2009).
Kirk & Spock. Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto in Star Trek (2009).
Tucker & Dale. Tyler Labine and Alan Tudyk in Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010).
Philippe & Driss. Francois Cluzet and Omar Sy in Intouchables (2011).
Schmidt & Jenko. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum in 22 Jump Street (2014).
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life | The Poetically Incorrect.
Your presence made no difference.
But being together forever now isn’t bliss.
To all things that now are primitive.
Can we try once more the wish n greet?
Boots are no more a fashion.
Found and felt not without compassion.
Life we have still got.
And It’s breaking the dam.
It may not be wise.
Now it never feels nice.
This thing people call life.
Why did it turn out to be a last?
Framed in my heart shaped cast.
If you think of it your presence did make a difference.
Memories hit all the time.
It’s a lifetime of repentance.
a minute we never get back.
no one but you knows the way.
we should listen its up to us to do as we’re told.
through the heartache and the strife.
A Poetically Incorrect welcome post.
This quote is the inspiration behind this blog’s name and a lot of other things in my life.
To be here..it doesn’t matter if you are poetically incorrect or not. Doesn’t even matter if you are poetic, to be frank. If you respire, if you’ve created a carbon footprint (both of which are certain if you’re reading this) then you are a poet in your own sense. Everyday, every minute that you live, you create the stimuli for a string of words that, someday, will weave themself into a lyrical beauty some may call poetry, others song. The way you curve your lips into a smile, the sharp tip of your nose, the eyes you safely encapsulate a million dreams in, the hands tired from carrying on the random routines of existence, the legs only ever moving forward with the fluidity of your thought. Your every action is reason for celebration. And what better celebration than immortalizing that moment. And what better way of immortalizing than painting a picture with words? For it will not change with the dynamics of your growth into something else for someone else to immortalize in a pictue of words.
But some may say its incorrect to write more and live less. Then dont! Live more. Live each moment more deliberately. But write one word more than that. Write as much as you can. Dont worry if it is wrong. If it really is, All you’ll have is The Life of The Poetically Incorrect.
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Regardless, the project is a good idea, and like Gretchen says repeatedly in the book, "Everyone's happiness project is unique." That is very true. I am definitely NOT Gretchen Rubin (I probably wouldn't even be friends with her), but I do know what makes me happy.
I also know that recently, due in large part to working behind a desk, something I swore I'd never again do, I haven't been the happiest person in the world. I haven't been the happiest me I can be, and I know, because I have experienced real happiness, and this ain't it.
I'm working behind a desk in an effort to save up for the Bikram Yoga Teacher Training I've wanted to attend so badly for so many years. I'm working behind a desk in an attempt to earn a job that will help me keep my promise to myself to never work behind a desk again.
In an ironic twist of fate, I am sitting in a chair (which is horrible for your body) eight hours a day, answering phones and directing calls for the healthcare system. A system I myself constantly buck in favor of doing yoga and eating healthy.
In other words, I'm in danger of succumbing to the system I'm working for but otherwise carefully avoid. It's a battle with my conscience on a daily basis, that's for sure.
I keep telling myself that if I can just stick it out, the reward will be so wonderful and I will be so proud, but the cost is a year of misery.
Reading The Happiness Project reminded me of something I already knew: That I could not settle for a year of misery, I had to figure out how to get and STAY happy during this time. I can't just wait for happiness until I get to teacher training. I have to BE happy when I get there. Or else it won't make me happy, either.
I had started a new 60 day yoga challenge on January 11th, and I realized I'd inadvertantly started my own happiness project. I'll be approaching mine differently from Gretchen. Instead of picking a whole bunch of things to focus on each month, I'm picking one. One thing, for thirty days. The goal is to have each thing carry over into the next month, so that by the end of the year, I'll be more in tune with my own happiness. And instead of doing it each month, I'll do each thing in thirty day chunks.
Included in this happiness project is blogging, because I've realized just how much I gain by blogging, even if no one reads it. Whether I like it or not, there is a writer living in my head that won't leave me be. When I was a kid, it would narrate everything I was doing for a future novel. These days, it narrates everything I think for a future blog post.
Blog posts I'm not writing.
Hopefully blogging again will help clear up some of the mental clutter I've gathered since having this job, and also inspire me to think thoughts that would inspire (in turn inspiring me) others rather than depress them (or myself). Blogging regularly, though, is not on the schedule until May. Before that, I'll be working on some other projects (and blogging when I can make myself).
March 11th - April 9th: Food - Re-introduce veggies and juicing into my eating habits.
April 10th - May 9th: Hooping - Hoop every day, and post videos at least once a week.
May 10th - June 9th: Blogging - Blog daily.
June 10th - July 8th: Meditation - Meditate for fifteen minutes daily.
July 9th - Aug 7th: Hug Nation - Watch back episodes of Hug Nation daily, download Halcyon's Morning Meditation and listen to it in the morning.
Aug 8th - Sept 6th: Creativity - Start and work on This is Not a Book daily.
Sept 7th - Oct 6th: Friends/Socializing - Go to Open Stage every week, make efforts to attend other social gatherings.
Oct 7th - Nov 5th: Writing - Write every day, participate in LJ Idol.
Nov 6th - Dec 5th: Knitting - Start a new sweater, and/or work on the Masters Knitting Program from the Knitting Guild Association.
Dec 6th - Jan 4th: Singing - Sing every day. Possibly in front of people.
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This article is about the Mexican lightweight boxer. For the Mexican heavyweight boxer, see Humberto Soto (heavyweight boxer).
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Soto and the second or maternal family name is Ochoa.
Armando Humberto Soto Ochoa (born May 11, 1980), best known as Humberto Soto, is a Mexican professional boxer. A veteran of the sport for over 20 years, he is a former world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBC super featherweight title from 2008 to 2009, and the WBC lightweight title from 2010 to 2011. Additionally, he held the WBC interim featherweight title from 2005 to 2006.
Soto made his pro debut at the age of 17 and accumulated a record of 36-5-2, which included a 14 fight undefeated streak, before challenging for his first major title.
On August 20, 2005, Soto won the interim WBC Featherweight title by beating Rocky Juarez, in a fight which he accepted on two weeks notice.
On January 17, 2006, Soto defended his interim title by knocking out Oscar León in the 9th round. He vacated his interim featherweight title and defeated Ivan Valle in a WBC Super Featherweight title eliminator bout.
On January 22, 2007, Soto defeated Humberto Toledo (30-2-2) by third-round knockout. In his next bout, he defeated Bobby Pacquiao by seventh-round knockout.
On November 17, 2007, Soto fought reigning WBO Super Featherweight champion Joan Guzmán but lost the bout by unanimous decision.
On November 17, 2007, Humberto Soto fought WBO Junior-Welterweight champion Joan Guzman. The Dominican champion dominated the fight based on his speed of hands, reflexes, and superior boxing skills, effectively counter punching the relentless attack of Soto, who showcased tremendous strength, courage and determination. Guzman won the bout by Unanimous Decision.
On June 28, 2008, Soto faced off against Francisco Lorenzo (33-4, 14 KOs) for the vacant interim WBC Super Featherweight title. Soto knocked Lorenzo down twice in the fourth round with a barrage of punches. However, after lengthy consultations with officials at ringside, referee Joe Cortez disqualified Soto for hitting Lorenzo after he was down in what appeared to be a grazing punch. Cortez's decision was widely criticized and the WBC refused to award Lorenzo the title.
WBC president José Sulaimán condemned the decision as a "gross injustice" and one of the biggest he has seen in a long time. Sulaiman also announced that the WBC board of governors will vote on whether to declare the fight a no contest or to declare Soto the winner by knockout. Lorenzo, therefore, was not presented the green WBC belt as its champion, since it, though, opted to ignore the official verdict, and declared the title vacant. Sulaiman stated he wasn’t seeking to overrule the decision, but: "While we respect the authority of the (Nevada commission) for a decision of the fight, we are the only ones to have the authority to decide on the decision relating to the WBC world title."
On October 11, 2008, Soto defeated Gamaliel Díaz to win the interim WBC Super Featherweight title by technical knock out. Soto knocked Diaz down in the first round and dominated him throughout the bout. Diaz was docked two points for excessive holding and his corner refused to send him out for the eleventh round.
On December 20, 2008, Soto captured the vacant WBC Super Featherweight Championship with a 12-round unanimous decision over Francisco Lorenzo in a rematch of their controversial bout. Lorenzo was repeatedly warned for low-blows and headbutting throughout the bout. Lorenzo was docked one point in the 7th round for headbutting and another in the 8th for excessive holding. The final scores were 117-109 from two of the judges and 118-108 on the other card in favor of Soto.
In 2009, Soto successfully defended his WBC Super Featherweight title 3 times. On December 12, 2009, Soto moved up to the lightweight division and defeated former two-time champion Jesús Chávez by a 10-round unanimous decision.
On March 13, 2010, Soto claimed the WBC Lightweight Championship by defeating David Diaz. Soto dropped Diaz in the opening and final rounds en route to a unanimous decision victory.
On May 15, 2010, Soto made his first title defense against Ricardo Dominguez. Soto won the fight with a 12-round unanimous decision with the judges scoring the fight, 118-110 on two of the scorecards and 117-112 on the other one for Soto.
The lost interest in Saturday's fight card resulting from a canceled main event did not apply to Soto and Urbano Antillon, who staged a stirring world lightweight title bout at the Honda Center. Soto, relying on his ability to strike the challenger with barrages, made his third successful title defense by outlasting Maywood's Antillon in a close unanimous decision.
In July 2011 Soto relinquished his WBC Lightweight Title in anticipation of competing in the junior welterweight division.
A bout between hard-hitting Argentinian junior welterweight Lucas Matthysse and Soto has been confirmed for late April. Soto is riding a 14-bout winning streak that includes six knockouts.
On June 23, 2012 Humberto Soto faced hard-hitting Argentinian junior welterweight Lucas Matthysse. Matthysse dropped Soto in the fifth round. Soto's corner stopped the bout between the rounds.
77 Loss 65–9–2 (1) Antonio Orozco UD 10 Oct 3, 2015 StubHub Center, Carson, California, U.S.
49 Win 41–5–2 (1) Bobby Pacquiao KO 7 (10), 1:48 Jun 9, 2007 Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York, U.S.
48 Win 40–5–2 (1) Humberto Toledo TKO 3 (12), 1:50 Feb 22, 2007 Mountaineer Casino Racetrack and Resort, Chester, West Virginia, U.S.
47 Win 39–5–2 (1) Ivan Valle TKO 4 (12), 0:48 Aug 12, 2006 Thomas & Mack Center, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
40 Win 33–5–2 Wilson Alcorro TKO 6 (10), 1:23 May 28, 2004 Congress Theater, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
39 Win 32–5–2 Manny Rivero KO 1 (10) Apr 30, 2004 Isleta Resort & Casino, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
37 Win 30–5–2 James Baker UD 10 Dec 12, 2003 Edgewater Hotel and Casino, Laughlin, Nevada, U.S.
36 Win 29–5–2 Luís Fuente UD 10 Sep 12, 2003 The Orleans, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
34 Win 27–5–2 Armando Cordoba UD 10 Jun 27, 2003 The Orleans, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
32 Win 25–5–2 César Figueroa TKO 7 (10), 2:36 Feb 28, 2003 The Orleans, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
27 Win 21–4–2 Marco Angel Pérez TKO 3 (8), 1:16 May 17, 2002 The Orleans, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
26 Win 20–4–2 Mark Burse MD 10 Apr 26, 2002 Spa Resort Casino, Palm Springs, California, U.S.
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Vaslav Nijinski was the son of the Polish dancers Tomasz Nijinsky and Eleonora Bereda. He graduated from the Imperial Ballet School in St Petersburg in 1907 and joined the Ballets Russes in 1909, where he worked under its founder Sergej Diaghilev. In 1913 he married Romola de Pulsky, the daughter of the Hungarian actress Emília Márkus. This led to a conflict with Diaghilev, who may have been in love with him secretly.
He resigned and attempted to start his own ballet company. During the First World War he was under house arrest in Hungary until 1916. He was freed after Diaghilev, Alfonso XIII of Spain and President Wilson all called for his release.
He started touring but the stress of the management was too much for him and he became mentally unstable. In 1917 he settled in Switzerland with his family but his mentall ilness grew worse and he was never able to dance again.
Romola stayed with him until his death in 1950. He was buried at St Marylebone Cemetery in Finchley, London. After three years his remains were transported to Paris and he was reburied at the Montmarte Cemetery.
The grave of Vaslav Nijinski at Montmarte Cimetière, Paris.
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Does the word Cosmopolitan make you think sophisticated French, Italian migrants and the magazine, or the Somali, Afghan migrants that are?
Third world sh*thole springs to mind, with no effort at all.
Should this student have been punished severely for saying all this?
Why is the love of watermelon and fried chicken viewed as such a racist stereotype for black people?
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Great mentors are critical elements in students’ professional and personal development. The Letters’ mentorship program, now in its second year, will launch again in October 2016 with a call for student applications. Mentor applications are accepted year-round. Please contact us for more information.
The mentorship program connects LGBTQ-identifying Rotman MBA students with professionals in the LGBTQ community. The purpose of the program is to provide students with an opportunity for professional development and provide mentors with an opportunity to connect with talented and diverse young professionals and share their valuable career experiences.
Rotman students are matched with professionals whose career and personal interests align with their own. To apply for the mentorship program, a student must be a member of The Letters. If and when a match has been made, The Letters will ensure that contact information and additional logistical information are exchanged between both the mentor and mentee. A list of general suggestions on how to make the most of the mentoring experience will also be provided to both parties.
The Letters will host a kick-off networking dinner in November 2016 to greet all mentorship program participants.
A Letters executive member will facilitate periodic check-ins with both mentor and mentee about the progress of relationship.
The Letters will host a year-end networking dinner for program participants in April 2017.
In order to provide feedback and suggestions on the program, a short survey will be distributed to participants the end of the year.
The Letters is currently accepting applications for first years interested in participating in our mentorship program. Interested applicants can submit their application through this form.
Deadline is October 10th at 11:59PM.
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Employers take note! This may seem unorthodox and surprising but the numbers speak for themselves. Encourage your staff to take more breaks in order to increase productivity.
Allow staff to be social. Socializing having a bit of down time at work with friends is good for productivity, according to a 2007 study reported in the Journal of Socio-Economics.
Allow staff to nap. Taking a nap during worktime can boost performance and alertness, according to a NASA study of astronauts and pilots. They found that a 40-minute nap improved performance by 34% and alertness 100%.
Allow staff to work with a flexible schedule. Having flexibility built into one’s workday helps reduce stress, according to research from Global Workplace Analytics.
In the early 1930s, Reinhold Niebuhr was attributed to first creating the “serenity prayer” in his sermons. Winnifred Crane Wygal, a pupil of Niebuhr, included the prayer in her 1940 book, We Plan Our Own Worship Services,attributing it to Niebuhr. The prayer has been adapted and changed into what we read below today and is used in many mental health and 12-step programs.
Pray more for wisdom and strength.
This is a simple prayer or phrase to remember and remind yourself when you are feeling stressed out. It is freeing to realize that we do not have to control everything, as humans, we cannot control everything. Instead it is helpful to have a higher power to take control of the things we cannot control. Although, this statement can be adapted for people who do not recognize a higher power. The principles are still true, despite religion. You are only in control of yourself and no one else. While in life, there are many things that one cannot control, so the goal is to let those things go and not stress out about those things.
Progressive Muscle Relaxation is a common intervention that does really help people relax. This is a great, easy intervention that can be done in a chair or laying in bed. The image below shows the how-to steps. Basically, you focus your attention on one muscle group at a time by tensing/tightening the feet up for ten seconds then relaxing that same muscle group after ten seconds. Next you move to the next muscle group.
The chart above goes backwards from how most experts suggest doing this exercise. I find it is better to start with feet and then work up to the face, like the chart below shows. Another tip for this exercise is to remember to focus on breathing through-out the process. Attempt to take in deep belly breaths of oxygen. Remain as calm as possible and just relax. This exercise can put you to sleep, even after a long, stressful day at work. If you are having trouble focusing and doing this exercise alone, have someone else do it with you. Better yet, find a professionally trained counselor, social worker or life coach who can help you facilitate this intervention. This expert will help you remain calm, focus on breathing and learn to relax.
A very simple intervention to help reduce stress is to focus your thoughts and mind on the good things in life and off of the negative things in life. Take a moment to think of three things you are grateful for right now. Also list three things you like about yourself!
You may be surprised when you do start counting all the little blessings in life. They rally add up!
Especially in America, we are so blessed and have so much to be grateful for! What are you thankful for today?
Dancing is a fun, fast and potentially even romantic way to burn calories!
Dancing, whether a focused formal type of dancing, a social Zumba dancing or a wild night at the club, all have many other health benefits as well.
Dancing is a great way to distract yourself from a stressful day at work. So get out there with friends, or go-it-alone and just have some fun and “just dance” as Lady Gaga suggests.
This poster is a great reminder that it takes some effort to actually execute good listening. Good listening is focused or active listening. The first step to active listening is getting in touch with the body’s sense of a particular situation or issue. The old adage, “know thyself” is key before trying to help or listen to others. Recognize your own emotional and physical status. If you are having a rough day, then you will have to work even harder to pay attention to other people’s emotional status.
The next step is to focus in on the situation. Pay close attention to the particular event and/or feelings around the event. Look for specific words or images then come to describe the felt sense. For example, when you see a fellow friend or colleague walking around the office, look for his or her body language. Is he or she looking down or up? Notice his/her facial expressions. Are his/her shoulder and neck bent a certain way? Notice tone of voice. Listen to the words this person uses….are they positive, neutral, sarcastic?
The next component is the focusing attitude. It entails staying respectful, friendly, and welcoming towards whatever emerges. If you are judgmental and critical, that attitude stifles the inner voice and closes off communication with your deeper self. Active listening requires you to be mindful of other people’s emotional vibes and then also keeping your own emotional status in check at the same time. It can be an incredibly difficult task.
Although, it can also be an incredibly freeing task. Nurses, often use this focused listening on the job. This sort of focused listening gets their focus off of the immediate traumatic stress and puts the focus on the client. Not only does this help the nurse to distract from stress, it also improves the treatment and care that the hospital provides. Through active listening, you may be able to distract yourself from your own stress by focusing in on someone else. Also this becomes win-win as you can make someone else’s day by actively listening for them.
Learning new things is a distraction or break from your current life situation stressors. Learning new things has many benefits. Learning something new can reduce stress. Once you find a new hobby that you enjoy, that hobby is a break from reality, it is distraction from our daily worries! When we have success in our new hobbies, we gain more confidence in ourselves. When these two things are combined together, you will also improve your mental health. One reason why learning has a positive impact on our mental well-being is that it is often about setting goals or targets and achieving these. This sense of achievement is an important part of your mental sanity.
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See the garden at the back of the pond?
A lot of this garden is "trial and error". I want to use as many natives as possible, but I'm not sure which will attract butterflies. I have many "trials" going on right now, I've learned that coral Porterweed is very popular with the butterflies. I've also learned that Gulf Fritillaries prefer the native Maypops (P. incarnata,) to a non-native red variety.
My garden resides in the Florida Panhandle, in Okaloosa County (zone 8b). I have sandy soil and very humid weather to deal with. I've amended the sand with compost and manure. Water is another problem/blessing. The bottom of the berm on which the garden is planted is very boggy. The top of the berm is very dry. I've placed plants according to their water needs, rather than the typical color coordinating that most people do.
Below are some new pics, taken in my garden. Just click on the thumbnail to see the larger picture.
NEW in my garden this year! I've bought new host plants at my favorite native plant nursery. I'll add pages and info as I learn their growing habits, and see how the flutters respond to them. Spicebush, Sassafras, Buttonbush, Pawpaw, Flamevine, Pipevine, and Twinflower. I've also found some great 'weeds' (native plants) in the garden that are great host plants or nectar plants: Lyre-leaf Sage, Cudweed, Blue Toadflax, Goldenrod, Florida Paintbrush, Liatris, and Deer Tongue. I'm currently working on new pages for each of my new plants. Please check back, or email me if you have any experiance in your garden with them!
I grew these from seed and were very happy with them. They grew about knee high, and had great blue flowers. Although they struggled thru the hot, dry summer, they are still going, trying to bloom again in the cooler weather. I'll definatly plant them again.
Host plant for Painted Ladies. Biannual, easily started from seed. Y2K update: They stayed green all winter, but never grew taller than 6 inches, and have never flowered. I assume it's due to the acidic soil. I've decided Hollyhocks just aren't for my garden, but I'll leave these in, and see what they do this year. Fall 2000 update: After 2 full years in the garden, they still haven't bloomed. The leaves are there, but not big. Something did eat them, although I never found out what it was. I'll leave them there, as they stay green with no care. I still hope that someday the Painted Ladies will discover them.
I have purple and white annuals. Makes a good edging plant that is very easy to start from seed. Planted in a nectar garden with a butterfly bush and Pentas, these tiny flowers gave off a tremendous honey scent. I loved walking by this garden.
Native to South America, but naturalized in South Fla. Likes rich, neutral, moist soil. Very pretty red and yellow flowers. Started flowering early in the season. Y2K update: Died back to the ground, but is coming back already. New growth was hit by a frost in Jan and killed back, but it's already coming back again.
Doesn't transplant well. Stratify seeds. Start in small pots, and transplant when only a couple of inches tall. Host plant to Monarchs and many other butterflies. They also get nectar from Milkweeds. Another Must Have in a butterfly garden. Y2K update: Killed back over winter, but is already coming back. It's smaller than the other milkweeds, but is doing fine in March.
A Florida native. Likes moist, open meadows and pond or swamp margins. If you have a moist place, you need this one. The monarchs seem to prefer this one over the other milkweeds. New plants (from seed) are getting ready to flower now. Y2K update: Died back to the ground, but is already coming back in March. I found 3 Monarch eggs on leaves March 8th, even though there isn't enough leaves to feed the little piggies yet.
Really pretty magenta flowers. Looked great with the blue cornflowers and pink coral-nymph Salvia. Bloomed in spring, was gone by summer.
Easy to start from seed. Cold hardy annual that reseeds itself. I started it, direct sowed, in January, it's been blooming since March. A host plant for the Painted Lady. Also attracts bumble bees. Doesn't do to well in the Fla. summers, though. It's already "done" in June, so I pulled it up to make room for something new. I might plant ONE plant this year - it is a favorite of bumble bees.
Butterflies love it. Usually the cornerstone of a butterfly garden. My white one didn't make it. The purple one is still going strong, after 3 years. I got seeds for more varieties in 2000.
I got these seeds from a seed swap. I planted the seedlings in the garden the first week of March. I'm not real sure how they like the sandy, acidic soil. They don't look like they are doing real good. I'll keep an eye on em, but I'm not going to baby them. Update: They flowered ok in spring, but didn't last thru the summer.
Small tree. Host plant for sulphers. Easy to start from seed, flowers in early fall the first year. Y2K update: I kept three of these plants in containers, but didn't bring them inside over winter. They all died back over winter, and one is coming back in March. Looks like 2 didn't make it. They grow fast from seed, and I had pleanty of leaves for the Sulphur cats, so I won't worry if they don't make it thru the winter.
Likes a little shade in the afternoon. Prefers moist, sandy soil. Reseeds easily (almost too easy) Didn't last long in my garden - maybe a little too acidic or too much sun. This one won't be repeated in 2000.
Another seed swap jewel. These are doing great in the garden. They become a clump of blue flowers (hopefully), one foot wide, and two feet tall. Not sure how the butterflies like them, but the picture of the flowers are pretty. Update: Bloomed the first year from seed in spring/early summer. Didn't handle the hot Fla. temps well, but still were a nice plant.
Soak seeds 24 hours prior to planting. Germinate in damp papertowels and zip lock baggies. Good tall nectar plant. Pretty, but basically ignored by the butterflies, although a stray frittillary will nectar once in a while.. I got some seed for white coneflowers this year. Hopefully they will do well too. Y2K update: Died back over winter, and I relocated most of them to a different part of the garden. They are all putting new growth out now, though.
Host plant for Black Swallowtail. Easy to start from seed. I also have green fennel, which the cats seem to prefer. Y2K update: This plant handled the north Florida winter just fine, and never died back.
Another seed swap find. I planted seedlings in the garden in March, and so far they are doing great. Update: I think these seeds were mis-labeled. They look just like blue Salvia I also planted. They are really pretty, intense blue, and I like them! They will stay in my blue and white (not butterfly) garden.
Florida native. I started these from seed. They occur naturally in wet, swampy soil, reach 6 feet, has rose and cream colored flowers that show up in the spring and summer.
Florida native. Occurs in swamps and wet areas. Bright red flower, shrub like to 6 feet. I started this from seed, and it flowered the first year. Y2K update: Died back to the ground, but is growing back really quick. In March, it's already 10 inches tall, and bushier than last year.
A Florida native plant. I didn't plant these in my garden, Ma Nature did it for me. A good nectar plant, bumblebees love it..
A great butterfly attractor. Bright flowers take the baking sun and look great all summer long.
Florida native. Flowers in fall, butterfly magnet. I notice butterflies love this one, and it grows in the wild intermingled with Goldenrod. I collected lots of seed and scattered in the garden immediatly upon collecting.
Also called Grecian Laurel, Sweet Bay, Bay Laurel, and Pepperwood. Host plant for the Palamedes Swallowtail.
Beautiful, tropical flowers. Likes sunny places and moist, but well drained soil. I have a couple of species. One is a red Hawaiian species and the other was labeled "purple Passion vine." I also have the native "Maypops" or Passiflora incarta. Host plant for the Zebra Longwing and the Gulf Fritillary. Some produce an edible fruit, which flavors Hawaiian Punch. Frits prefer the maypops, and actually stripped mine. Caterpillars that were raised inside were fed leaves from the red Hawaiian species, and did just fine. Y2K update: Died back over winter, but is already coming back in Feb, 2000. I have runners all over my garden, ready for digging up and sharing with friends.
An absolute MUST in any butterfly garden. My favorite nectar plant. A real butterfly magnet. Palmedes Swallowtails love it, and it also attracts hummingbirds. I will add MORE in 2000. Y2K update: Died back over the winter, I'm not sure if it will come back. I did root some cuttings last year, and will buy more plants this year. Fall update: I have lots of red Pentas, and white, pink and purple plants too. The white and pink plants were visited, but the purple was almost totally ignored.
A Florida native plant. I started these from seed. They flowered the second year. These grew to a whopping 6 feet tall!! They'll need staking in windy places. Update: The butterflies ignored these, but hummers liked them. I think might move these into the white and blue 'human' garden. Not a good butterfly garden flower.
Black Swallowtail host plant. You'll need lots! Easy to start from seed. Y2K update: Stayed green all winter, and looked really pretty. Actually filled back out after all the cats ate it last year. In early March, it's ready for the next generation of Black Swallowtails.
A Florida native plant. Grows in sandy pinelands and wasts places. Likes dry, sandy, unfertle soil. Flowers open durnig the day, and close at night. Many people consider this one a weed. Looks great in the morning or on overcast days - flowers almost glow.
Wild carrot. Biannual; Easily started from seed. A host plant for Black Swallowtail caterpillars. Most pretty white flower in the garden! Flower attracted a few insects and smaller butterflies, but Black Swallowtials obviously prefered Parsley and Fennel. I like this flower, though ,and it'll be back next year.
Very easy to start from seed. A native all over the US. Looks nice with Purple Coneflower. Update: They were poppin up everywhere in my garden, soon as the blooms finish, I pull the whole plant up. The flowers were very pretty, but ignored by all insects. I might not give them the chance to flower next year. Reeseeds to an extent of being a pest.
An evergreen herb. Grows in average soil, in sun or partial shade. Host plant for Black Swallowtail and Giant Swallowtail caterpillars. Also and excellent repellant for Japanese Beetle and other beetles. Warning! Oils can burn sensitive skin; wear gloves when handling this plant. Y2K update: They droped a few leaves and turned yellow over winter. I don't think they like the acidic soil. I've read about their allopathic properties, and decided to dig them up and put them in containers. I can add lime and control the acidity this way too. Update: They did well in the container, and even flowered this year. I set the container out of the butterfly garden, in a more shaded place. The plant liked it, but I didn't find any cats on it this year.
I started these from seed, and they were already flowering in May, and are still going strong in Oct. They are a good nectar plant. In 2000, I plan to plant more of these, in a large clump. Very pretty color. Y2K update: I didn't replant this year, but had them growing all over the garden! They looked as pretty as they did in '99. Sulphurs love them in early Nov, right along with the bumbles.
Easy to start from seed. Soak 24 hours, and direct sow. A twining vine, needs something to climb. Almost done now, I'll pull them out (after collecting seeds) and plant something else. Attracted bumblebees, but not much of anything else. Didn't last long in my garden. It won't take up space there next year. On second thought, maybe I will plant them later in the year. I get long-tailed skippers in late summer/early fall. They host on beans. Maybe it can handle the cooler weather in Sept.
A Florida native. Great nectar plant. Comes in coral, white or blue. I have coral and blue. Coral is the prefered color to the butterflies. It is the second most visited flower in the garden.Y2K update: Died back over winter, not sure if it will come back. I did save some seed, but never got them to germinate. I've got to unlock the combination to get them to germinate. I'll not give up on thise butterfly magnet! Update: I worried for nothing - the blue Porterweed reseeded itself to the point of being a true weed. I did purchase another coral colored plant this year too.
Bloomed early from seed. Was nice looking, tall, and butterflies liked them. They didn't last throughout the summer, and were long gone by July. I liked the orange Cosmos better.
I have received lots of seed from swaps and generous people in my gardenwithbutterflies group (in egroups.com) and from the seed swap site in gardenweb.com - THANK YOU to all of you who sent me seeds and growing tips! As they grow, I'll add them to this list, and let ya know how they grow here.
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I remember, when watching 15 Minutes back in 2001, thinking Vera Farmiga was an interesting foreigner playing quite well off of Ed Burns and Robert De Niro. Sadly, until five years later with a spate of high profile films leading to the A-list status she now holds, I still thought it despite her being born in New Jersey. As a result, I had no knowledge of the independent film Down to the Bone—a Sundance-winning piece for both her and director Debra Granik amongst a slew of other nominations on the festival circuit—the true reason for her rapid ascent in Hollywood. Yes, there are many films dealing with drugs and addiction, mostly spring-boarding stylistic artistry off the kinetic/slomotion roller coasters associated with the habit. Few, however, allow themselves to delve into an addict’s upside-down world for an up-close-and-personal view. Requiem for a Dream melds the two schools; Trainspotting shows how style alone can excel; and even a film like Rachel Getting Married subtly infuses its blanket effect on one’s life. Granik’s debut goes for the vérité look, utilizing Farmiga’s performance to paint the exact depths necessary to plummet before even beginning to lift oneself up.
It all started seven years previous with the short film Snake Feed, directed and cowritten by Granik. I haven’t seen the movie, but from the inclusion of the titular reptile in Down to the Bone, I can see the metaphor porting over into the feature version. Farmiga’s Irene has allowed the devil that is cocaine to overtake her entire existence. Working a dead-end job as a supermarket cashier, coming home to two young boys and a husband who tries to stop her habit by using their money to remodel the house—as well as buy pot—she looks for any opportunity to hide and snort what she can. The bottom comes quickly as the Halloween season brings her to the point of no drugs and no money to acquire more. After cutting her coke straw to lick whatever granules stuck to its inside, Irene knocks on her supplier’s door late at night, after having been denied an ‘advance’ earlier, with her son’s birthday check; kudos to the drug-dealer for refusing to let her become that person, hocking her child’s happiness for her own escape. All the kid wanted was a pet snake, something she nixed due to the costs of tanks and heat lamps, all while leaving the pet shop to score more powder while her sons waited in the car.
The whole endeavor of living with the drug looming high, controlling your every move, is much like a snake feed. Helpless to get up, the addiction pounces effortlessly, coiling itself around you, suffocating any attempts to stop it as your breathing slows and the quiet floods over. No matter how gentle the beast is, never biting its handler and pulling away when flesh is placed at its mouth, the snake will never pass up an opportunity for the kill. And that is why kicking the habit is so hard. Irene has tried and failed before, but this time is different. She can say she’s doing it for the kids, but it really is for herself. She is no longer able to live with the fact cocaine has been consistently placing first over all other aspects in her life. It’s time for a change starting with rehab, even if only for a week—she can’t spend more than that off of work. Hugh Dillon’s Bob makes things easier, befriending her as both the male nurse on duty and as a reformed addict himself, lending his services as a helpful hand. But your own strength is all you can count on. When you cook Thanksgiving dinner for friends and family, only to see a dealer at the door sell to one, and watching them cut it on the table—with your husband, Clint Jordan’s Steve—it can get to be too much.
Granik has an eye and feel for letting the actors run with the material and do their thing onscreen. Jordan is great as the caring husband with his own unsavory addictions, albeit tame in comparison to his wife; Dillon excels as the recovered junkie unable to stay sober once a woman enters his life and stimulates his libido—how can he enjoy her completely without taking a ride on the H-train again? But the film really does revolve around Farmiga’s portrayal of Irene. Granik shows her during the good times, the bad, and all those ups and downs in between. She is an attractive woman with two well-behaved boys at home who know they are watching their mother disappear second by second. Each injection of drug, whether the coke, her boys’ happiness, or sexual arousal from Dillon, takes control of her body, inhabiting her every expression, movement, and sound. Even those blank stares and short temper with the litany of grocery customers resonates with complete authenticity; we watch her withering away. No matter how much love is at home, though, Steve won’t stop his own drug use; no matter how great life is with Bob, his ability to lie and watch her slip back can’t be forgotten. Irene can only survive if she wants to.
Obviously shot on the cheap and handheld, we see most of the action close-up. Down to the Bone becomes an edited together mix of moments full of emotion. Shots linger on faces of heartbreak and defeat; you believe these actors are caught up in this world, living day by day, fully knowing that the next could be the one of no return. It becomes a question of what will make you stop. When will the stakes get too high to roll the dice one more time? Knowing that Granik used many locals from the Ozarks for her sophomore gem Winter’s Bone, I wouldn’t be surprised if the other Narcotics Anonymous members are in fact real addicts here. Their actions and mannerisms speak volumes to the crushing weight addiction inflicts and Farmiga and company squeeze right in as though they’ve been users their entire life and Granik is merely filming reality. This film may not give you easy answers; it may not even show whether Irene’s strides to survive and be a mother to her children work. What it does tell is one woman’s journey to hell and back, finding a glimpse of hope with kindred spirits and friends who understand exactly what it is she is going through. While the success of rehabilitation may be yours and yours alone, the path to that revelation doesn’t have to be a lonely road.
Jared, thanks, for this–I believe it’s the most extended examination Down To The Bone has received in several years. You’re guess regarding the NA scene cast is correct–they were recovering addicts who had chosen to re-enact an earlier stage of their recovery process, and the counselor, like the public defender, was performing her real-life role. In Winter’s Bone there’s a scene with a Army recruiter that was filmed using the same technique.
I appreciate the kind words, I’m glad to have finally caught the film. I did so due to an interview opportunity with Debra Granik today, which I just finished, and saw DTTB on Netflix Instant so had to watch last night. She actually talked about the Army recruiter and public defender too, and what they brought to the scenes, that authenticity.
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This semester is quietly sucking out my insides… just like every other semester of my life. It may be time to face a bitter, bitter truth: I love school, but school does not love me. I certainly get off on Going to Class, Taking Notes, Learning, Academic Conversing, Gathering of Questionably Great Ideas, and Canoodling With Literary Celebs, but school also sends me into a perfectionist tizzy. I read Penelope Trunk’s article last night and was fairly horrified.
Anyway, I started to think about my pair of classes this semester. I have two most excellent professors who are both teaching highly inaccessible topics. Going to class is not difficult, but doing my homework is.
For one class, I get to digest stacks of articles on how to properly formulate and conduct research experiments that measure library use. Eight weeks in, I still have no idea what it means to “operationalize my terms.” I rewrote the problem statement for my semester-long mock-research project for a better grade, put some legitimate thought into it, made some changes, and got an extra .5 points. A pity .5 points.
For the other, I get to read once popular, now obscure, (always 600 pages…) children’s literature titles from the 19th century. Common plotlines so far include “I love my mother more than God! Waahh!”, “My father is punishing me for loving God more than him! Waahh!” and “Why can’t I read novels on the Sabbath? Waaaaaaahhh!!!” Finding anything to say in my papers other than “Wow, that book was bizarre” is surprisingly difficult.
But I’m still getting, largely, A-minuses. No, this former valedictorian is not an A student, she is an A-minus student. Thank you, sub-par public secondary education! However, despite my 18-years-and-counting proclivity for the A-minus, I always have this feeling that if only I could [fill in the blank with some random self-improvement], then I could get A’s.
– Starting papers the day before they are due.
– Coming home after work or school and collapsing onto the couch until I fall asleep.
– Coming to class without having completed the required reading and feeling like an idiot.
All of which have been regular behaviors this semester, no matter how much they induce the mania. Urgh.
But what bothers me most of all is that somewhere behind the mess of working and classes and vegging out on the couch, I don’t actually have time to do ANYTHING AT ALL. Nothing. Not my reading, not the kind of work that will get me that coveted A, and not anything at all that I typically find useful or entertaining or enlightening.
So I’m going out of my way to carve out chunks of time out of my day to just… be. I’m hoping this will a) improve personal morale b) increase productivity c) contribute to a sense of control over not just my day to day life, but my larger destiny.
In June, when I had 20 hours of work, 16 hours of internship, and 6 hours of class every week, I started waking up with Lance and having him drop me off at Starbucks in Brookline, or at the T so I could hop on the train and go to the Starbucks in Somerville. It was an act of desperation: the papers had to get written, and I discovered that I was more likely to work on them with two shots of espresso in hand, even if I had to hold them at 6:30 a.m. The habit followed me to this fall semester – before every large paper, it seems I’ve procrastinated enough to send me into desperation, and into Starbucks before the sun comes up.
b) Do something I don’t typically have time for, like spend an entire hour writing a really long, self-involved blog post!
So at least for a few hours a week, life is good.
And although I do miss my summer Somerville Starbucks, the Brookline Village location sure has more than its share of colorful clientele.
Today, I grasp at the edges of my manic life with help from a guardian angel.
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Many men go down to the sea in ships but not many have the experience of sailing our vast seas in a wooden ship. This makes the duty aboard an MSO unique.With their small crew and big job, every man must do more than their share.
Thanks to Kelly Binkerd for this wonderful picture of our beloved ship.
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I had a very exciting night out on Tuesday when I popped down to Greenwich to see the first ever film to be subtitled AND be in 3D!
Apparently, getting subtitled in a 3D film poses a whole range of technological challenges that it’s not been possible to fix until now. I’ve even been told that if the subtitles appeared wrong, people will throw up – without it even being a recent Eddie Murphy ‘comedy’ film. A quick glance at the screen without my 3D glasses revealed why – the subtitles have to be printed on the screen in overlapping text (and thereby impossible to read) in order to be viewable clearly in 3D.
The film that gets the honour of being the first ever 3D subtitled film is Disney’s A Christmas Carol so a big hats off to Disney. I felt obliged to go and see the film having provided a quote for a Disney press release welcoming it, but I’m pleased to say it was a very enjoyable film and the 3D effects were, as I believe the kids say, cool. When it was snowing on screen, it almost felt as it was snowing inside the cinema. That said, I remain of the firm belief that the Muppets Christmas Carol is the definitive film version of the Dickens classic.
It’s great news for deaf children and young people, who might otherwise have missed out on the opportunity to see the latest 3D films along with their hearing friends. The hope is that even more 3D films will be subtitled. I’m told that the up and coming big film, Avator will also be in subtitles and 3D.
My only gripe – and it’s not meant to detract from the achievement – is that virtually all of the showings of the film in London were either on a Sunday and Tuesday. Luckily, I was free on the Tuesday, but I did find myself grumbling “Bah! Humbug!” at the lack of choice over when I could see the film.
But in the meantime, well done to Disney for a real Christmassy treat!
PS You can find out where A Christmas Carol is showing in your area with subtitles by going to the ever helpful Yourlocalcinema.com website.
A few weeks ago, I mentioned that Your Local Cinema.com had been nominated as Best Arts Project for the National Lottery Awards. Well, they’ve gone one better and made it to the finals!
I wasn’t allowed to talk about it before but the reason I was doing a TV interview a while back was for a feature encouraging people to vote for Your Local Cinema.com. You can see the video here but be warned that there are no subtitles. It leaves me in the slightly odd position of not being entirely sure of what I’m saying. I’ve had words with them by email and hopefully it will be sorted soon. Fortunately, I’m too pleased that they’ve made it to the final to be absolutely furious about it.
Anyhow, get voting! Votes must be in by noon on the 14th August.
UPDATE (12/8/09): You can now see the video with subtitles here.
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Review: iPhone 4 with iOS4 | Globonomics!
I bought this from the Apple store at Palo Alto, California last month and while I bought the one without contract to AT&T/Apple paying the full retail price, the experience has been worth it.
Ever since I lost my iPhone bought in India back in 2008 due to a freak incident, I was waiting to avenge the loss of the device I used to use 24*7 and kept by my side. It was therefore a natural progression that I moved to the latest iPhone4 and having good features.
However, it was not so easy getting it to work in India due to the Micro SIM but I got it to work with a pair of scissors, Internet manuals to cut it to shape to fit my iPhone4 and of course, enabling the GPRS and getting it to activate on my network locally.
I also bought a Belkin cover for my iPhone4 as my last iPhone got permanently damaged due to water damage due to a faulty cover.
I finally achieved success and am now a happy user of the iPhone4! I configured my office exchange server with this to receive office emails alongwith my personal emails of various services as well!
Congratulation for new iPhone 4 with iOS4.
Experience you had “Micro SIM” is kind of scary — Apple is the best — people who use it they know the value in it — looking for more review on your experience.
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A wonderful group of Mari Lwyd revellers joined in upstairs at the Chapel on Sunday for the Abergavenny Christmas Food & Drink Fair celebrations with mulled apple, music and poetry ….
Artist, Sarah Rhys, gave a short talk about this ancient Celtic custom, and showed a small selection of drawings and prints, alongside paintings by the inimitable William Brown. Traditional Welsh songs were sung and the procession made its way into town and through the Market Hall.
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Let’s see why this commandment is so important.
Our first and most intimate authority is our parents! Yahuwah gives us our parents to be our first earthly authorities. They represent the intimate nature of Yahuwah’s government, and His dealings in our lives.
Even though parents have many faults and they make lots of mistakes, Yahuwah, as our supreme authority, has entrusted them with children. It is our parents’ position as Yahuwah’s authority in our lives, that is so very important for us as children to respect.
Yahuwah watches us very closely to see how we behave toward our authorities, and especially, our most intimate authority — our parents! Why? Because our parents represent Yahuwah’s intimate authority in our lives! How we respect Yahuwah’s designated authorities in our life, is how we respect Yahuwah Himself!
Our parents may not be serving Yahuwah. They may not be living righteous lives. They may not be skilled in their parenting of children. But none of this matters — because Yahuwah is watching us, with regard to our own behavior toward our parents.
It is our own behavior that we must be concerned about. It is our own behavior that we must adjust, so that we ourselves are in harmony with Father’s standards, regardless of what our parents do!
Yes, some parents are unrighteous, and unworthy of honour! All parents have faults, and make numerous mistakes! No parent has ever been perfect! Many parents have issues and struggles that developed from their own childhood. But most parents want, and try, to do their best in raising their children.
Our parents are the ones Yahuwah gives to us to be our first and foremost intimate, earthly authority. Because of their intimate position, our parents do many good things for us. They nurture and care for us, and do many things for us that we are completely unaware of!
And so Yahuwah charges us with the responsibility as children to honour, respect, and obey our parents. This means we are to be subject to our parents, yielded to obedience to their instruction. We are to be obedient to them in all things that are not sinful, not forbidden by the Word of God.
Even as adults, we need to maintain this submissive attitude toward our parents. Our heavenly Father’s counsel for us through our parents does not stop being valid, just because we have reached a certain age. Instead, as we mature, Father expects more of us, and tests our honouring of Him by how we honour our parents.
Going the second mile of Colossians 3:20, to honour our parents, requires that we trust and believe the Heavenly Father’s abundant love for us! It shows us, and the Lord, that we truly believe He will work on our behalf, and that He will work out our concerns for our good! (See 2Chronicles 16:9a; Romans 8:28.) Such efforts on our part will teach us humility and patience, and will train us to sincerely seek God whenever we have a disagreement with our parents.
Most parents do not want to “take over” the lives of their adult children. Most parents simply want their children to be happy and peaceful, and to walk in Yahuwah’s truths and blessings.
Yahuwah gives our parents intimate insight into us as their children, no matter what age we are. Our parents understand many unspoken details about us. As their children, it is important for us to patiently listen to and consider their suggestions. Parents’ insights are important, God-given clues for direction. The suggestions our parents give us may become confirming guidance from the Holy Spirit.
Disrespectfulness of parents is a dangerous attitude to exhibit. Those who dishonour their parents will not have things going well with them, consistently!
What is our attitude toward our parents?
Do we consider ourselves better than our parents? Are we without faults and sins?
Certainly not! Yet many of us are guilty of secretly harboring a superior attitude toward our parents. This kind of attitude causes us to be disrespectful to our parents. It causes us to regard our parents lightly, treating them with indifference, perhaps shunning them, scorning them, or even hating them.
We may outwardly try to be respectful to our parents, but if inwardly we regard them as inferior, we show that we hate them. We regard them with contempt, if we consider them ‘old-fashioned’ or ‘out-of-touch’ with the times.
But let me caution you Dear Reader. This kind of inward attitude toward parents is an indication of a hardened heart, and reveals that we have a rebellious attitude against the heavenly Father Himself!
A revealing clue of our attitude toward God is the way we treat our parents. The way we regard and behave toward our authorities, is the way we regard and behave toward God!
If we honestly desire to love and honour God, then we will make sure to maintain an attitude of respect, honour, thankfulness, and yieldedness to our parents — regardless of our parents’ personal problems. We will examine ourselves regarding our obedience to the Fifth Commandment, looking to see whether things are going well with us, or not.
Yahuwah wants us to serve faithfully, the authorities He places over us — the good authorities, as well as, the not-so-good authorities. If we desire to walk with God, doing what is right in His sight, then we will yield to our parents wishes; we will learn what they desire of us, and be submissive to them, as long as they are not requiring us to clearly violate the Scriptures.
If we are serious about following Messiah Yahushua, we need to develop a humble, respectful spirit, and learn the spiritual lessons of humility and servanthood. We must stop thinking so highly of ourselves! We need to become the servant that Abba Father desires us to be — that is, we need to lay down ‘my’ rights; and we need to surrender ‘my’ agenda.
Our parents are representative of the intimacy of Yahuwah’s government, and He warns us: Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother!
Those who seek to truly honour their parents will live in the blessings of Yahuwah!
Honouring parents is a major foundational KEY to receiving the blessing of well-being!
Let us seek with all our heart to keep the Fifth Commandment, by respecting and honouring our parents!
Awesome article – thanks so much for presenting an important godly viewpoint that is often ignored even in the Body of Messiah.
Thank you Sue, for your visit and your comment! It is great to hear from you!
A blessed chag to you!!!
I will share your post – many blessings to you ! Praise be to Adonai!
Blessings to you as well. Thank you for taking the time to comment.
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10) Save your pennies. They’re not worth much, but they reinforce concrete pretty well.
8) You can Google your dreams all day, but the company still won’t show results on how to fix the global economic meltdown.
4) The U.S. Dollar is worth less today than ten years ago, but it’s still the currency Yuan to have.
3) Greek debt isn’t the center of the worldwide fiscal disaster, but the riots in Athens are not over their Feta.
1) Money makes the world go ’round, debt makes the spin crash to ground.
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My 13th wedding anniversary is coming up next week, 18 years together. Even though he annoys the crap out of me almost every day – I would still choose him too!
Happy Anniversary and Happy Blogiversary….
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On this day in 1965 – The first spacewalk took place — by Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov from Voskhod II.
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The Pentagon says it has to shoot down a malfunctioning spy satellite because of the threat of a toxic gas cloud. Space security experts are calling the rationale highly unlikely. "Having the US government spend millions of dollars to destroy a billion-dollar failure to save zero lives is comedic gold," one tells DANGER ROOM.
Yesterday, Deputy National Security Advisor James Jeffrey said the satellite's tank full of hydrazine rocket propellant was the main reason the military was planning to blast the orbiter. There's a small but real risk that the hydrazine tank could rupture, releasing a "toxic gas" over a "populated area," causing a "risk to human life."
But, as we noted yesterday, Joint Chiefs of Staff Vice Chairman Gen.
James Cartwright cast the threat from the satellite in much less dire terms. Even if the hydrazine were released, he noted, the effects would likely be mild – akin to chlorine gas poisoning, which can cause burning in the lungs, and elsewhere. The area affected would be "roughly the size of two football fields [where you might] incur something that would make you go to the doctor."
And that doesn't sound like much of a risk at all.
satellites – at least one of which contained a form of hydrazine, UMDH (unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine).
Which leads one military satellite observer to tell DANGER ROOM, "Everything they said made sense except for the reason for doing the intercept in the first place."
1/10,000,000,000 of the area under the orbit," he adds. The potential for actual harm in unbelievably small. Which means the hydrazine rationale just doesn't hold up, literally not within orders of magnitude."
"The cynic in me says that the idea that this is being done to protect the lives of humans is simply a feel-good cover story tossed to the media," another veteran space security specialist adds. "It is true that hydrazine is very toxic and could result injury or death, but the odds of this happening are minuscule. The average person in American is many thousands of times more likely to be killed in a car accident than by any falling debris. In fact, no one has ever been killed by space debris (I have heard of one or two being struck but only minor injuries). So pretty much everything else you can think of (including getting hit by an asteroid/comet) is many times more likely than dying from this. Having the US government spend millions of dollars to destroy a billion-dollar failure to save zero lives is comedic gold."
Center, tells the Washington Post. "In the history of the space age, there has not been a single human being who has been harmed by man-made objects falling from space."
So what could that other reason be?
Our veteran space security specialist believes there are several.
My first thought is that MDA [Missile Defense Agency] is always looking for ways to pimp their systems and provide further justification that they work. The upcoming change in Administration is almost guaranteed to result in missile defense losing the top-level advocacy that it has enjoyed for the last several years. Any additional missions and justifications that the missile defense community can provide would increase the likelihood of their systems (and budgetary power) surviving.
"shootdown" (and I hate that term - the satellite is not flying and is coming down regardless of whether or not it gets hit by a missile).
Their absence at the press briefing could lend some weight to this rumor, although it could also be explained by the nature of the satellite and its still classified link to the NRO.
My real concern is that this is simply a knee-jerk reaction made by the Administration in response to the purported threat by the Chinese.
Since the April 2007 ASAT [anti-satellite] test, there have been rumors and whispers going around that the Administration and like-minded individuals are looking for more sticks (instead of carrots) to use against China.
While this "shoot down" is not a direct action against China, it would be a clear signal that the US can possess an active ASAT capability at any time if it so desires. That is a serious development as the previous US ASAT system using F-15s was mothballed in the 1980's.
Outer Space treaty discussion and ban on space weapons. It would further negatively affect the relations between them and the US. Which could lead to increased tensions, arms buildup, etc etc etc. Nothing good for anyone outside of arms manufacturers and politicians that need a bogeyman to scare people into voting for them.
US Strategic Command using a Navy missile to blow up a broken NRO satellite.
This is a military/national security op from the start and the only reason you trot the NASA Administrator out is to try and convince people otherwise.
UPDATE: Regardless of the central rationale for the anticipated intercept of a dying satellite, the action almost certainly would offer the Pentagon useful data on conducting antisatellite missions, our own Jeffrey Lewis tells Global Security Newswire.
The upcoming shot — using a sea-based Standard Missile 3 developed for regional and tactical missile defense — could thus prove to be a useful test for less demanding intercepts that might someday follow, he said.
For their part, “the Chinese are going to use this to excuse their otherwise inexcusable test,” Lewis said. “And those other countries who we count on to create a norm against debris-creating ASATs will be less willing to help us” in that effort, he said.
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