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even their expert advice. Contrib.com actually revolutionizes the may marketing professionals can gain new client projects and stay on top of their workflow. They have the IT experience that has developed over 20,000 database integrated websites and applications since 1996. Alot of companies out there online claim that they are leaders in one area of digital marketing or another, but they only rely on a few case studies to prove that their strategies and techniques are sufficient for this era in digital marketing and business in general.
The contribution process allows participant members complex options for obtaining part time work, partnerships, getting funding for start-ups, and so many other opportunities present themselves through Contrib.com. I’m sure that you’ll be hearing about partnerships being formed, or that The Consultingguy is a PR Manager for one startup or another.
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This year I plan on getting an assist from professional help when it comes to taking care of every aspect of my health. In order to improve my diet, I plan on looking for a professional dietician to get some help on what I should and shouldn’t be eating. I also plan on going to State Farm and look into getting both Health and Dental Insurance to make sure that I’m covered in case something happens. Also, I need to upgrade my workout routine, and finding a personal trainer is key to that -- it’s all about finding the right people.
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The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Rosa Salazar has joined the Insurgent caste as Lynn.
Insurgent filming is going on currently.
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The arguments below expand on my second recent JoongAng Daily op-ed on the Iraq war.
I published a laymen version of the following arguments in my recent JoongAng Daily op-ed.
A lot of people will (and did) accuse the neocons of orientalism, racism, and US hegemonic arrogance. Nevertheless I’ve always thought this neocon argument was somewhat convincing to most Americans, especially the GOP. I’ve always thought it was the horribly botched execution of the war (‘fiasco’), not the idea itself of ‘draining the swamp,’ that cost the invasion American public opinion support. I also don’t think the neocon argument was ever properly made to the US public, probably because it sounds both orientalist and hubristic. This is not the sort of argument the Bush administration could make out loud; WMD was much easier to sell and far more direct, as Wolfowitz noted. But I think if you read neocons like Kristol, Krauthammer, Gerecht, or Podhoretz, as well as high profile area experts like Thomas Friedman, Fareed Zakaria, or Bernard Lewis, or the right-wing thinks-tanks that supported the war (AEI, Heritage, Foundation for Defense of Democracies), this is what you heard. (For example: this, this, this, this, or this). I once participated in the FDDs’ terrorism fellowship program, and this was pretty much the line we got.
So you may not like the argument, but at least there is one. The war cannot just be dismissed as US imperialism, an oil grab, or a PNAC/neocon cabal, which I think was too often the default position on the left, especially in Europe, during the war. Opponents should rebut this and not just stick to deriding W the swaggering cowboy, fun as that may be.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the war this month. I’ll be teaching it in the next few weeks at school because of the decade anniversary (March 20). To my mind, it is the most important geopolitical event, for the US, possibly the planet, since the USSR’s collapse. It also pre-occupies me to this day, because I initially supported it, and didn’t really turn against it until 2008/09. I had students who told me, late in the war, that I was the only instructor they knew who still supported the invasion. Finally, I gave in, and accepted the by-then conventional wisdom that the war was a ‘fiasco.’ I will argue in my next post in a few days, that there was in fact an at least minimally defensible argument for the war, but the execution of it was so awful, disorganized, mismanaged, and incompetent, that any moral justification was lost in the sea of blood and torture we unleashed.
Hence, the post title purposefully implies that the invasion was a bad idea. But to be fair, that should be the first question: what, if any, arguments at this point can be mustered to defend the war? IR should try to answer this seriously, because I’m all but positive that the journalistic debate will be not be driven by the state of Iraq or US foreign policy today, but by the high personal reputational costs faced by so many pundits supportive of the war. It would not surprise me at all if folks like the Kagans, Krauthammer, or Thomas Friedman miraculously found that the war was worth it after all. McNamara-style mea culpas only happen at the end of a career (so I give Sullivan and Fukuyama credit for theirs on Iraq). But academic international relations (IR) should be more honest than that.
And indeed it does look like we will leave behind a small army of contractors (armed in some way or other) and a large embassy staff. On top of that are the recently announced plans to beef up the US presence elsewhere in the Gulf – again creating the foggy, ‘we aren’t in Iraq but we still sorta are’ vibe that everyone is wondering about.
I supported the Iraq War until around 2008, at which point it became just too clear that we were in over our heads and had drawn too much blood to justify the modest improvements in governance that resulted. (An important part of my change in thinking was this.) Like the neocons, I feel the impulse to ‘solidify’ gains in Iraq by staying. It was such a titanic effort, that if Iraq collapses again (primarily because the surge didn’t resolve the issues of Iraqi division so much as freeze them), the whole thing will look like an even more colossal failure than before. An obvious model for the neocons would be Korea, where the presence of US forces helped keep Korea on track to the point where it is basically a modern liberal democracy today capable of taking care of itself without much help.
But there are some obvious problems that I would like to hear answered about why we should stay. Read this also on why we should leave.
1. The Iraqis want us to leave. Exum’s post on this is spot-on. We may want to stay, but they clearly don’t. In fact, it is increasingly obvious that the really don’t want us there anymore. This must weigh very heavily in any decision; indeed, it should be a deal-breaker if Iraqi sovereignty is to have any meaning. If we stay when they don’t want us to, then we really are an empire. That really is an occupation. I do wish some kind of bargain could be found. Like everyone else, I worry that Iraq will collapse in civil war, and a minor US presence could be an important brake. But honestly, we turned that place upside down. Iraqbodycount.com estimates that our intervention resulted in over 100,000 deaths, not to mention the millions wounded, internally and externally displaced, disrupted, etc, etc. We don’t really need to start debating the Green Zone or Fiasco again to know that do we? Honestly, we shouldn’t be very surprised they want us to go.
2. Can we afford this? I guess I sound like a nag on this. Like Ron Paul, I keep bringing this up again and again, and no one wants to hear it, and everyone thinks I am a scold or a bore. But it still worth nothing that we spend over a trillion dollars on national security per annum, have a budget deficit around $1.5T and $10T in debt, are cruising toward a 100% debt-GDP ration by 2020, and have an aging population that would really like Medicare and Social Security instead of aircraft carriers and occupations. At some point, we have to make some hard budget choices. Given how badly the Iraq War flew off the rails, and how much the world and Iraqis themselves want us to leave, honestly this is probably one commitment we can afford to cut in the interest of better balancing our obligations with our constraints.
3. Do we really want to stay in Iraq for 50 years, if indeed Korea, Japan, or Germany are the model? It is worth recalling that back in the 50s, Americans worried similarly about a huge, never-ending, super-expensive commitment to a small, far-away, not too important place (Korea). Now, the neocons are right to say that in the end, Korea turned out well, but it took 50 years, it is not clear how to measure if the US commitment and money spent in Korea was ‘worth it’ or not, and whether the US public would support any such long commitment to Iraq. In short, if the US had a reasonable, Korean-style shot at normalizing Iraq, but it would require 50 years of commitment, would the US public support it? Well, given that US support for the Iraq War faded after just a few years, I don’t think that question would survive a referendum. Remember that the war was not sold in 2002 as a 50 year nation-building exercise that would cost trillions of dollars. There is just no way the US voter would have supported that. Wolfowitz even admitted that WMD was the only way to ‘sell’ the war to the public, because the Bush administration knew the public wouldn’t buy a larger, ‘freedom agenda’ mission. And of course, candidate Obama explicitly ran on this plank.
So yes, we should stay involved with Iraq, through diplomacy, aid, and training. We owe them that, but we must in the end, respect both the wishes of the Iraqi and American publics. After so many years of debate on this issue in both countries, it should clear that this is not a fly-by-night poll result. Everyone knows the risks of withdrawal, and they have decided for it nonetheless.
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This entry was posted in Poetry & Quotes, Solitude and tagged beauty, dew, dew drops, night, night beauty, night jewels, peace, poem, poetry, rain, raindrops, silver pearsls, solitude, water diamonds.
That’s a beauty! I’m speechless.
I appreciate your generosity, Soumya. Elephantine thanks for liking my little poem. Stay Smiling!
Thank you dear for such a splendid appreciation. This means much encouragement. Stay peaceful!
Thank you very much for your beautiful words. Coming to creativity…you are no less and I have read many of your works.
My Pleasure dear Euphonos. I am glad that you considered my blog for the honorable nomination. I humbly request you to pass this honor to much deserving blog. I stopped accepting awards for a while …hope you understand.
He He He….I am just decoding my own inner silence. Thank you very much for your warm greetings. Wish you a wonderful and blissful year ahead.
What a beautiful poem! It’s a treat for the eyes and the soul as well. The rhymes are delightful and this is a lovely poem to read aloud.
First off, I welcome your beautiful presence on my blog. I am immensely happy to read your beautiful appreciation. Thank you so much , dear Amrita for your lovesome words and warm greetings. Apologies for not being prompt. Hope you are having a blissful time. Wishing you a year full of blessings and smiles.
Thank you very much Angielynn. Happy to know your kind opinion on my blog. I appreciate your beautiful presence here. I do agree…the snow fall looks just fantastic on the site. Thanks for noticing that subtle beauty. Hope you are having a blissful time.
Wow…what a beautiful appreciation. Feeling elated reading your words…many thanks to you, Topaz. Penning a rhyming poem is more fun…try one.I would be glad to read yours. The image courtesy …is all Google. I have put the image link below the poem. FYI..I am not good at photography so always at the mercy of photos taken by others.
The words and shape of the poem pair so well together! The eloquence is clear here!
Gratitude to you, Christy. Happy, knowing your good opinion on “Winging Diamonds”. Many thanks to you for the beautiful appreciation. I too liked the diamond shape… it was just an accidental construction.but immensely happy with that. Hope you are doing all well.
Beautiful and I love how it is cleverly presented too! Keep up the great writing.
Thank you my dear Emily for your lovesome appreciation. and wonderful encouragement.
Great words and expressions of thoughts..!
Thank you so much for your generous appreciation, Tahir. Few more days…..and hopefully I will regain inspiration to blog.
Welcome and my pleasure you reply dear Friend.
Hope you will come soon..!
Thank you so much for your wishes, friend. Stay smiling and blessed.
Thank you very much Nihar for your beautiful appreciation and lovely presence on my blog. I completely agree…the picture is damn amazing…it is very inspiring too.
Thank you once again for the encouraging words. Stay around and stay peaceful!
Good one Reva, stay around and stay peace.
It is an elated feeling when others say they enjoy my works…thanks for that beautiful feeling.
Yes, but you have lovely posts to keep me meaningfully engaged…Happy Writing!!!
Awww……that’s so kind of you, Nihar. Will definitely treasure this appreciation. Thanks for all the meaningful well wishes.
Thanks for sharing the link, friend. I will definitely go through…very soon. Would love to drop my opinion there.
Thank you very much, my beautiful Genie. I am little busy with my project work…sorry for the delay in showing up to reply. I hope you understand, sweetie.
Wow…what a splendid appreciation to cherish. Thank you very much Akhiz…was busy with my project so could not reply to you promptly. checked your message just now.
I have a long way to justify what you have talked about my works in comparison to the great Picasso. But I am glad..you feel so.
Thanks for the elephantine support, you ever render.
Thank you so much, Samjoth. Your lovely words are heartily appreciated.
i’d really appreciate if you could give your feedback on my blog 🙂 thnx ..
Sure…. I would definitely like to visit your blog soon. Sorry for not being prompt as I was occupied with something very pressing. See me soon on your blog.
This is lovely Reva. For me, it’s very befitting right now, because my seven year old recently took an interest in fire-flies. They really are amazing little creatures, aren’t they.
Once again, you have eloquently written, and I love the visual of the poem. The photo as well is stunning.
p.s. I don’t know why, but I didn’t see this post in my Reader. Ugh.
Thank you Staci, for all the lovely encouragement. Yes fireflies are simply amazing. I am doing absolutely fine dear. Regarding the reader thing…I am facing similar problem from few of my favorite blogs…. as of now, I am un-following and then re-following them. This si suggested by Fred. Hope this works.
By the way…the poem is not about the fireflies….it is about the water drops on leaves that shine like diamonds in the night.
Oh my, was i ever wrong. So sorry dear. The lights look like fireflies. Maybe I just thought that way because my son got really into them recently.
Hey..no worries….no need for sorries and all.. it happens and I understand that it was because of your involvement in your son’s project.
Love you too R. Thanks for understanding.
I am always grateful for the splendid and beautiful appreciation you bestow on me and my poems, Kirsten. I cherish your wonderful encouragement. Thanks for the love and ever kind words. Happy @Ms Wordsmith.
sheesh this is all kinds of gorgeousness.
Lol….dont you think the truly working weight loss ritual is a heaven-sent one?
Rightly said… going green works…for everyonez good.
I so love the perfect blending of the picture and your beautiful poem….thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much, Brown… for the wonderful appreciation. Such kindness from an amazing poet like you, means a lot to me. Thank you once again for your beautiful presence here.
Wow, you have post the diamond poem.
And it’s in a diamond shape… Cool.
Amazing elegancy comes through the water droplets in the grass- a true diamonds provided by the Nature to enjoy the moment of precious drops.
Thank you so much, dear. Let me tell you this is inspired by one of your recent poem in which you mentioned WATER DIAMOND. I told you in my comment that I liked it very much. I took me several hours to narrow down on image and just few minutes to set a poem on it. Beautiful pic was all i needed.
True…water droplets on grass …is simply elegant…..Mother Nature’s beautiful gifts to us.
I am glad you posted it…the poem shows your uniqueness and a wonderful way with words.
Thank you for the appreciation and also for the inspiration.
Thank you Khushi for your beautiful appreciation. I am happy to know that it made your day….feeling wonderful.
Thank you very much for stopping by and liking my post.
Your beautiful words are immensely appreciated.
Stay Around and Stay Happy!
Reva, this is brilliant! Your words are spectacular, so visual. My favorite line that creates a marvelous image is, “Against the black nights’ velvety vest”. Thank you for a stunning poem! Please enjoy the rest of the weekend!
Have a fun-filled and peaceful Weekend!
Thank you for liking my post. I love this picture above and the poem. Blessings.
Pleasure is all mine, Katie. I am equally thankful for your wonderful presence on my blog. I appreciate your kind words and blessings.
Thanks. Peace be with you.
Ahh….what a fantabulous appreciation..I am all humbled.
Thank you so much my dear Chloe….your words are truly soothing. Diction is short of justifying the gracility in the luminosity. I just tried my level best.
All happy that you like it.
WOW WOW WOW reading your splendid appreciation, D! Feeling beautifully encouraged …….happy to realize that my efforts with this stint dint go waste.
Thank you Light for your ever shining support.
Okay…deal done…..Thank youzzzz bartered effectively. On a serious note…I too enjoy your company and your work. And on a friendly note….I give my poetically sculpted DIAMOND to you.
Ahh…..zillion worth words, sweetie. It is my pleasure to gift my diamond to you. Big THANK YOU for”sweetest friend/ sister/ writer”…this means a lovely lot. Much love to you dear.
I will definitely stay happy and warm.
Thank you ever so much friend for stopping by my blog and liking my works. And this is the best appreciation I have ever received….It means a lot to me.
Thank you once again for your kind and lovely words.
I am humbled and equally honored knowing your wonderful opinion on my blog. Treasure this elated feelings. Stay Around and Stay Blessed!
Thank you my jULIA for so much LOVE and kind appreciation. Hope you are doing well. Take care, as well.
Thank you very much, dear. I humbly appreciate your kind words. By the way…its my first ever stint. Glad you like it.
Thank you very much Robert for stopping by my blog and also for the awesome and lyrical appreciation. I am humbled. Stay Around!
Thank you ever so much for stopping by and planting your beautiful appreciation.
Thank you my dearest Tia…..totally fagged out penning and painting it. I am completely fresh to this…trying my best, experimenting with different concepts. Hope…it is not too bad.
Sincerely thankful to you for the much needed appreciation.
It’s a filigree work, my lovely Reva!
You’re a real artist, a jeweller!
Your work shines like a masterly faceted diamond!
WOW! Splendidly marvelous…Thanks you so much for this pristine diamond and platinum words….Your nectarine words made my day.
Thank you soooooooooooooooo much for this elated feeling, sweetie. Love you.
Like all coins in chess goes inside the box after the play, so the dramatic dew transform and fly at the sight of the sun.
Thank you very much, Vinz. You have put it brilliantly accurate. True….the old play runs for a while and dies to reborn as a new play.
Love your interpretation. Thanks for sharing your beautiful thoughts.
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Howdy! It’s been busy as we continue to decrease our overall hive count (too many for Mark to care for solo). I wanted to share with you all Mark’s latest newsletter to his students and our customers. You can also find an updated Beekeeper Workshop list for the remainder of 2017 on our website. Hope you and your bees are all well!
We visited our large bee yard in Medina County this morning, and while it is dry there (no rainfall from Harvey) we still saw a good pollen flow and even a small nectar flow. I am always amazed at how resourceful the bees are! Here in Guadalupe County (about 10 inches of rain from Harvey) we see a good honey flow in some locations and a heavy pollen flow everywhere. We often see a dearth of both of those this time of year, so this abundance of pollen and nectar pleases us as much as it does the bees. We are mostly seeing strong, healthy hives as a result of this boost in nourishment. When I do come across a weak or dead colony I attribute it to either a failing queen or a heavy mite load. We are working hard now to replace all of our queens and to make sure that every colony has an acceptably low mite count. For mite treatments we used Apivar in some locations, and in other locations we are trying multiple rounds of oxalic acid vaporization. We expect good results from both methods.
I am teaching our September Intro to Beekeeping class for paid registrants this Saturday, therefore we will not have our usual free beekeeping workshop. Nevertheless, please feel welcome to drop by if you need a queen or any supplies, or just want to visit. We always enjoy hanging out with beekeepers! Please visit our website if you’d like to see a full list of our upcoming workshops.
I wanted to share a photo of something that you may not have seen before: worker bees killing their queen. The bees form a tight ball around the doomed queen and proceed to sting and overheat her until she is dead. What a way to go! This was a young queen that perhaps entered the wrong hive after a mating flight, or perhaps had some defect that the colony found unacceptable. I noticed that many of the workers in the ball continuously exposed their stingers. When I picked up the ball with my bare hand I was immediately stung.
Hello friends and beekeepers! Our apologies for being absent for so long but so much has happened in the past six months that it’s hard to know where to begin. First off, I got laid off my IT training job which was full time. It was hard at first but was obviously a blessing also because we experienced the most hectic (in a very good way for a small business) holiday season. I do believe there were a couple of times Mark and I looked at each other and acknowledged feeling overwhelmed by the amount of business and wondered if we could do it all. But we did and we loved it. We were, however, happy for the season to slow down on Christmas Day so we could take a break.
With me home for now and helping out, we have been able to get reorganized a bit and have added a lot more to our Honey Store as well as in the Beekeeping Showroom. We are so enjoying it! How exhilarating to see our dreams of a cool beekeepers paradise take shape finally! If you are in the area, do stop in and look around. We still maintain our Bee Ranch apiary and love to show our visitors the hives when we can.
“We are a long time away until our first full honey super and until our first divided colony, but we already are seeing some exciting developments early in this beekeeping season. Wildflowers are sprouting up and growing thanks to our winter rains. Agarita, one of our best early bee plants, is about to bloom heavily. And our mite counts are very low. We sampled about 900 bees from three colonies in one bee yard today and found only three mites. That is below the treatment threshold. We will sample bees in every bee yard and treat as needed with oxalic acid. We will also feed as needed. Just about every hive will receive a helping of natural pollen or a pollen supplement as most are light on pollen right now.
We do not have a workshop scheduled for this Saturday, but I am available for one-on-one consulting to help you with whatever beekeeping questions or challenges that you have. And, at about 10 AM Saturday morning I will open up one of my Bee Ranch colonies and give it a late-winter inspection. Bring your protective gear and join me as I look through a colony and assess its condition and needs at this early stage of the beekeeping year. It will be fun!
We do, however, have a workshop coming up this Saturday and then into February so check the right side of this entry and you’ll see the workshop listing as well as other class information. Even if you’ve had bees a while, come visit and hang out a bit. We are loving being a meeting area for local beekeepers and we love sharing news and ideas. Thanks and see you soon!
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Day 18 & 19: Sleep, snow and cereal.
Second last update on my progress to beat video games. First off, yeasterday involved hours of sleep and eating cereal. Not much just sat around, ate, slept, pooped, slept and showered (did I mention slept?). It’s been mostly an uphill battle, I’ve been getting a on and off craving since day 10 or so and usually when the cravings come I try and sleep it off. Looks like fighting with myself is pretty hard considering the last two days seem very ominous that my mind wants to go down with a fight on this.
So today’s going to be nice and easy. My sister invited me over for dinner, but I’m not too sure if I should go. It just snowed last night so it’s bound to be a bit chilly. All day I’ve been just watching T.V. and eating bowl after bowl of cereal. I guess I might, I have to get out of the house and away from my computer.
Well, 19 down and 2 to go. I’m doing pretty good besides all the headaches and sadness. I’m going to see if my sister planned anything for that dinner. Until monday, have a nice weekend!
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Having had to stop painting the back of the house due to the rain, I have been playing around with some shots from earlier this year. I have stumbled across a setting on my scanner that seems to deliver decent scans from Kodak Portra 160 colour print film.
Initially, I liked this in colour, but having played with it for half an hour this afternoon, I actually prefer it in black and white.
As expected, there was, apparently, “nothing wrong with the service” we received from BA back in March (it took 2 months to get a resolution from the CAA). Of course there was nothing wrong – I have gone to all this effort to bring this to the authorities’ attention because there is nothing wrong.
Here is the email that I received from them recently.
Further to my email of 14 April 2014, we are now in a position to respond to your concerns about your flight with British Airways (BA), having now received a response back from BA in relation to this flight and the seating allocation. The matters you raise in points 1 and 2 of your letter, as I am sure you can appreciate, are customer service issues for BA to respond to separately.
Turning to your matter 3 and our response from BA, notwithstanding your concerns about your safety in terms of being ‘trapped’ in your seats by what you describe as a ‘severely disabled’ and ‘large’ lady, the crew on this particular flight were satisfied with the passenger’s ability to evacuate the aircraft, as required in accordance with BA’s Standard Operating Procedures. As such, whilst the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) do appreciate that having persons with reduced mobility (PRM’s) on flights can have an impact on other passengers, it does not therefore believe the safety of this flight, or the passengers was compromised.
BA, along with all UK operators, takes their responsibility towards the carriage of persons with reduced mobility seriously. Operators in general cannot discriminate towards those who are not fully mobile, but do have provisions based upon the individual’s ability to evacuate themselves from an aircraft, either aided by someone who is accompanying them or unaided if they are able to do so.
The CAA is therefore satisfied with BA’s response to this enquiry, but does understand your need to look into this matter. I do apologise that is has taken longer than expected for us to be in a position to respond fully to your concerns on this occasion.
Now, I didn’t expect anything more than this, to be honest. A lesson learned.
The sun was out first thing so we decided that we would brave the ferry to Capri. They seem to run a random service – one puff of a breeze 300 miles away and the hydrofoil stays in port – but the hotel reception checked and confirmed that they were sailing today.
We got there with 5 minutes to spare and got on board quite a decent catamaran for the 20 minute crossing.
25 minutes, and the catamaran would have had my breakfast on its carpet. The last time I was on a ferry that made me feel so ill was actually the hovercraft Princess Anne in 1979. That was a serious white-knuckle, gripping the armrest journey and this morning I was very close to letting the side down. Still, I just about managed to get there intact, but it took me a couple of hours to feel better.
That took about 20 minutes and you knew you’d walked up a mountain by the time you got to the top. I can feel myself getting fitter by the minute this week. Capri town is a nice enough place. Not very big, we managed to walk just about every street. Full of shops that were closed, from Prada to Ferrari, and more fancy sunglasses shops than seems really necessary. In fact, every Italian town down here seems to be obsessed with sunglasses. Have they never heard of mobile phone shops?
We caught the normal ferry back instead of the hydrofoil. Half an hour late, it was amazing to see them load and unload lorries on a quay no bigger than that at Lyme Regis, and once on board the thing was absolutely filthy. For a place that has apartments at €1m+, Capri has some serious transport problems.
Now, it’s the last night of the holiday. Looking forward to Friday and picking up an award, with a bit of luck, and then some serious removal tasks on Sunday when back at home.
If you have ever wondered what Capri looks like, wonder no more.
I think I’ve worked out what’s going on now.
It’s Mardi Gras. The town has a half day holiday. The kids get dressed up as Superman, Zorro, the devil or a princess, as do some of the adults. They have actors on stilts.
They close off the town square and throw confetti at each other. They blow up huge balloons and chase each other about the street in a massive inflatable translucent cube. There’s a green snake involved somewhere too, but that might be a caterpillar.
At the end, they inflate more huge, long, thin balloons from which more confetti spews forth.
OK. So I haven’t worked out what’s going on, but I’m sure that Freud would have something to say.
The weather looked a bit iffy, so decided to take the bus down to Amalfi and stop off at Positano on the way back. An hour and a half each way with a return fare of under a fiver and some of the most spectacular views anywhere, on the way. We had thought about hiring a car to do the trip, but having taken advice before hand, in think that the bus was definitely the better option.
The road is narrow at the best of times and less than single lane at the worst. Our bus met another in a small village and it was touch and go for a while – literally.
Amalfi is a pretty small city, with a beautiful duomo and a fabulous coffee/pastry shop next door. Frequented by bus loads of Chinese tourists who just seem to want to use the loo, rather than eat pastries, the coffee, canolli and lemon cake were the best we have had this trip. Mind you, at €20, they should be.
With the mixed weather today, we headed back via Positano, a nice seaside resort town. It’s out of season at the moment, so half of it is closed, but it’s easy to see how busy it might get in the summer. It’s a bit like Portmerion, but with real buildings and people.
The bus journey got me thinking about “living every day is if it’s your last”. Again. I was thinking that the use of the bus could be seen as a dry run for hiring a car and driving the road myself, but realised that I would probably never come back this way again. Life is not a rehearsal, so they say, and a little bit of me wishes that I’d been braver, found that Arbarth 500 for hire, and just driven down there myself. Yes, I’d have to have been careful on the corners in the villages. Yes, I will have seen much more of the scenery from the bus window as opposed to behind the wheel. But… Oh well, I will just have to drive it in that parallel universe, or that other life.
Back in Sorrento and the sun is out. It’s Mardi Gras today and part of the town is closed to traffic and there is some kind of kids’ festival today where they all dress up as devils, or cartoon and fairy tale characters in readiness for not being able to do so during Lent, presumably.
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The Seahawks, in besting the 49ers today, won a chance to face off against the Denver Broncos on February 2 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. Today’s game was hard to watch. The Seahawks were behind in scoring all the way to the fourth quarter where they finally rallied and won. I shook my legs with nervousness so much I probably irritated the neighbor downstairs. I like it when the Seahawks start winning from the first quarter, that way I’m less stressed as the game unfolds. Congrats to the ‘Hawks. I wish them luck against Peyton Manning and the No. 1 offence in the land. I hope they win, too. Here, in the twilight of my life, I’m learning to accept that I’m a Seattleite. I have no plans to relocate to someplace new. This is it. I have to root for the home team and I don’t mind.
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From left to right: Ian and Bri singing, Jesse on tambourine and a beardless Grady hamming it up.
Sometimes you just have to sing some Coolio, Frank Sinatra and Billy Joel back-to-back in order to have a good time. Add some friends, good beers and Jell-O shots to the mix, well, that’s when you have a really good time.
A few weeks before that picture was taken above, Ryan O’Leary invited me to a mixer at Voicebox karaoke where three different organizations battled it out for supremacy in karaoke skills. The American Marketing Association, Public Relations Society of America and the Portland Advertising Federation all had members in attendance who sung well (and poorly) to a mystery song drawn out of a hat or bowl or… something. However, it wasn’t until the event was over that the real fun began.
We still had another couple hours on the clock and made the most of it playing songs we wanted to sing and it hit an epic moment of the night when at least nine people were all singing Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” at the top of their lungs. That’s when I knew that we had to go back with some close friends and experience this again.
I highly recommend finding a place like Voicebox that lets you rent out rooms to do karaoke, especially for the shy person who doesn’t want to sing in front of strangers. Even if only two people have microphones, it’s a blast when you all can sing or let friends without microphones be back-up singers. I can easily say that I had more fun spending a little over $20 for the two hours I was there than in a crowded club trying to dance to bad music. If you live in Portland, you need to do this.
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I went for a get-together dinner session with Peter’s friends and old mates two nights before. It was a nice carnivorous experience at Carnaval Churrascaria, a Brazilian Restaurant at Damansara Jaya area.
Although the name “Churrascaria” itself suggested bbq feast for carnivores, however the salad bar offers quite a range of different vegetables which includes spinach, coleslaw, stir fried french beans, caulis and potatoes salad, wedges, mashed potatoes, black beans, beef stew, pasta etc. Hence, the restaurant still caters for the need of those who are not too fancy over meaty meal.
The passador or the waiter will bring out cuts of barbecued meats (some in big loaf) on skewers, and move around, carving the meat at your request. The big knife which he used to carve and slice out the meat are a bit scarry though. I cant really differentiate the taste of Brazilian barbequed meat and the usual d.i.y. barbecued meat, except that it was grilled to perfection, not much of the burnt charcoal bitter taste, and very aromatic as well. On top of that, the meat went very well with the self made mint, salsa sauce and others like HP and Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce.
The range of the meat they served wasnt that much of variety actually, there are lamb, garlic beef and medium rare beef slices/ribs, chicken, Chicken Ham, sausages, and fish. Peter’s mates mentioned that they used to have prawns and gizzards as well. To my surprise, the lamb actually tasted better than beef, usually i’m not so much of a lamb person as i’m put off easily by the lamb smell, but they’ve done it nicely, juicy and succulent, maybe its the Brazilian secret recipe. The signature beef (see image below) was something i don’t dare to try, cuz i can see the meat was bloody red, chewy and it leaves traces of blood in the plates. urghhh…. .
Its a good place for the carnivores as you can eat all you want for RM48++. In my opinion, there is still some room for improvement for the ambiance though, it would make a whole lot different if they can play some nice Brazilian song and make the environment more lively rather than just hanging a Brazil flag next to Malaysia’s.
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I read Dirty Love at the same time I was working my way through Lorrie Moore’s Bark. (See review here). Both are short story collections and share common themes. But where Bark featured eight stories, Dirty Love has just four. The difference between them is that each of Moore’s stories is easily read in a single setting, while Dubus’ are novella length and require an extended perusal.
The stories in Dirty Love are linked, with characters in one story often turning up in the next. As the title indicates, love in these stories is “dirty,” but not in the sexual sense. Rather, the is focus on the need for love, how it often leaves one feeling helpless, affects the ego, and generates its fair share of insecurities. Portraying the minefields that relationships create throughout life, Dubus’ narratives beautifully capture the human experience of love’s darker sides.
All four stories make for compelling reading, but the two that stood out to me were Marla and Dirty Love. In the first, an overweight young woman finally finds a romantic partner, then realizes after moving in with him that he grates on her sensibilities. And yet she stays in the relationship, fearful that she might not find another. Dirty Love tells the story of a teenage girl fleeing both a compromising video of her that has been posted on the internet as well as an alcoholic father. She ends up with her widowed great uncle Francis, a man coping with his own approaching death. It is a powerful and moving story.
Dubus is a great storyteller and he backs it up with writing that sculpts fully formed characters. Compared to Moore’s creations, the people in Dubus’ stories struck me as more believable. While this might be explained simply by the difference in the stories’ lengths, I also think Dubus is the better writer. This is the first book I’ve read by him, but it certainly will not be the last.
Until just recently, Lorrie Moore was a professor at the University of Wisconsin. Because of her national success as a writer, during her tenure here in Madison, she generated plenty of local pride. Over the years, I’ve read a number of her books, both in novel and short story format. While I found them pleasant enough, I was not as impressed as the critics were.
Bark, her most recent collection of short stories was published in 2014. It was well received critically, which tempted me to give Moore another try. After reading one of the stories from this collection in a literary magazine, and enjoying it, I decided to give the entire book a try.
The collection itself is on the thin side, featuring eight stories. While I could not discern an overarching theme, all of them feature sharp social observations, irony, and personal tragedy, leavened with humor. Lorrie Moore is a great wordsmith and I took delight in her clever turns of phrase. But as in the earlier works, for me the stories in Bark lack the necessary ingredient needed to elevate them to true classic status. While engaging, they tended to blur together, and I found myself forgetting them soon after reading. The best story here just happens to be the one I’d previously read, Thank You For Having Me.
I’m being a bit harsh here. My guess is a good many readers will disagree with my comments. To the book’s credit, these stories are fully formed and engaging. Bark is certainly worth picking up, if only to appreciate Lorrie Moore’s clever wordplay and sympathetic characters.
it relaxes into a yawn.
I find only empty air.
When this book was published in 2003, Dan Shapiro was a psychologist who specialized in treating physicians. Delivering Doctor Amelia tells the story of one such clinician, Amelia Sorvino, a gifted obstetrician who finds herself in the grip of crippling self-doubt following a delivery that resulted in a poor outcome. Not only is she facing a malpractice suit, Amelia fears that she did make a mistake that caused the problem. As a result, she no longer feels capable of delivering other babies.
From the first session with Shapiro, Amelia seems to be holding back rather than opening up during her sessions. This leads to a growing suspicion on Shapiro’s part that he might be dealing with a suicidal patient. The book vividly documents the unfolding journey of self-discovery on the part of both patient and physician.
In his narrative, Shapiro introduces several other side stories. One is his earlier battle with Hodgkin’s disease, intertwined with the efforts with his wife to conceive a second child through in vitro fertilization. A third is his contrasting of Amelia’s case with another patient he has treated, a young girl scheduled to have a leg amputated because of a cancer diagnosis.
Shapiro does a good job of weaving these strands into the overall piece. My problem with the book centers on two issues. The first deals with Amelia herself; she did not seem believable to me as described by the author. I know Shapiro went out of his way to disguise her true identity; perhaps that led to my feeling that some essential piece of her was not captured on the page. The other issue centered on the fact that I learned more about Shapiro’s personality than I did Amelia’s.
These caveats aside, Delivering Doctor Amelia is the type of medical story that will most likely appeal to a wide audience. Its prose is easily understood by the layperson and the puzzle of Amelia is an interesting one. More importantly though, the topic addressed here is an important one. As the author shows, physicians suffer from high rates of mental health issues due to the stresses they face on the job. Finding a way to insure they succeed in their profession is a benefit to us all.
required to make the utterance real?
Tell me, if not, what exactly is a prayer?
Some reviews have called this book the greatest Alzheimer’s novel yet. I disagree. A good portion of this book does deal with a husband with early onset Alzheimer’s, but Thomas is trying here to achieve something broader, delivering an ambitious storyline that spans three generations. He methodically presents the life story of Eileen Tumulty and her family, sometimes in numbing detail.
The novel follows Eileen, born in 1941 in Queens, New York, for more than six decades. The reader is introduced to her hard drinking Irish parents, then to Ed Leary, the scientist/teacher she marries, and ultimately to their only child, Connell. The story focuses on the small joys and sorrows of daily life and always the resiliency needed when faced with heartbreak. Eileen and Ed’s marriage is not perfect, but it is a solid one.
Initially, I was bothered by the story’s abrupt transitions from one event to another, as a year or two went by in the meanwhile. There seemed to be no theme indicating where the story was leading, or why. And then when it became obvious that Ed was developing Alzheimer’s in his early fifties, I feared his disease would be the overwhelming focus from then on out. Fortunately, while important to the story, this does not become its black hole. Throughout, Thomas continues to show Eileen’s dogged pursuit of a simple middle class existence.
Surprisingly, the story is told from the perspectives of Eileen and Connell, but Ed is not given the opportunity to speak for himself. I found that an interesting choice on the author’s part. Still, by taking time to dwell on the mundane details of this family’s life, all three characters are easy to identify with.
I had mixed feelings while reading We Are Not Ourselves. There were stretches where I wanted something more exciting to happen to enliven the proceedings. At the same time, I appreciated Thomas taking time to create such an exhaustive life history. True, some of it could have been pruned back without sacrificing the story’s impact. Yet, few writers today even attempt to create something on this broad of a scale, and that’s a shame. For a debut novel, Thomas has penned a challenging work that ultimately pays dividends for anyone who invests in reading its 656 pages.
What a daring, ingenious novel. Johnson has the nerve to set his second novel in a country so cut off from the rest of the world that it might as well be on another planet. That country is North Korea. While it is impossible to know if he is providing a true picture of the country, his story has the aura of authenticity from beginning to end.
Park Jun Do is the book’s protagonist. His father was the master of Long Tomorrows, a work camp for orphans. His mother, a singer, disappeared when he was a baby—stolen by government agents looking for beautiful women to send to Pyongyang, the country’s capital and center of power. Recognized early on for his intelligence, Jun Do is groomed for government service and taught to speak English.
The book is divided into two sections. In part one, Jun Do is enlisted to kidnap Japanese citizens, serves as a signal operator stationed on a fishing boat, and is finally assigned to a diplomatic mission being sent to the United States. When that mission fails, upon his return, he is arrested and sent to a prison mine that few emerge alive from once they enter.
Part two provides a sudden shift, and a surreal one. Jun Do has assumed another man’s identity. Now he is Commander Ga, a North Korean hero and a rival of Kim Jong II (the Dear Leader), North Korea’s dictator. He has also become the “replacement husband” to Ga’s wife, a famous actress, Sun Moon. While it sounds convoluted, Johnson masterfully makes it all understandable.
The story is mostly told as a third person account, but in the second half of the book the author also uses a propaganda story, broadcast into all homes, to advance the plot, as well as a first person account by an interrogator of Commander Ga/Jun Do. For those who like thrillers, this book provides plenty of that as well.
Themes of The Orphan Master’s Son include the influence of propaganda on the populace, the place of personal identity in a repressive regime, and the corrupting effects of power among government officials. While these are dark themes, there is love, humor, and the redeeming quality of self-sacrifice as well. It is no exaggeration to say this book is a classic. It is a terrific novel.
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To save You go to any length.
To plunge me down upon a knife.
To know Salvation is God's Son!
Almighty God, my Shield, my Rock!
Entwining souls as in a noose.
Behind them ground was torn and grooved.
But further shakings preached God's hand.
The cosmos stumbled, drunk, insane.
Between whose teeth men's blood is caked.
Surprised, they yield each diadem.
Which all their so-called wise men hailed?
Against the seats where evil lies.
Send Christ with armored tank and truck!
Where no one knew the Lamb that's slain.
See here enthroned, a secret place!
And men proclaim what He had sown.
As Grace poured out in Christ draws near.
And lets mankind there walk about!
I walked on land where waves had beat.
Not me, a LION, they all saw.
*The brutal and finally unsuccessful Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan (it was the sheer force of a superpower dictatorship attempting to subjugate a much weaker country) was the strange and unusual means for the spread of the Gospel by Christians in the Soviet Army--which shows that God has His instrument in what we would call the most unlikely spots! The red-starred flag was replaced by the Islamic flag of the cruel Taliban, but that Christianity-attacking regime has been forcibly overthrown recently by America and replaced with a democratic one where freedom has, in a measure, appeared, so that individuals can more freely practice faith, whether Moslem or Christian.
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WASHINGTON, Sep 5, 2011 (IPS) – When David Petraeus walks into the Central Intelligence Agency Tuesday, he will be taking over an organisation whose mission has changed in recent years from gathering and analysing intelligence to waging military campaigns through drone strikes in Pakistan, as well as in Yemen and Somalia.
But the transformation of the CIA did not simply follow the expansion of the drone war in Pakistan to its present level. CIA Director Michael Hayden lobbied hard for that expansion at a time when drone strikes seemed like a failed experiment.
ISLAMABAD, Aug 16, 2011 (IPS) – Pakistani civilian and military leaders are insisting on an effective veto over which targets U.S. drone strikes hit, according to well-informed Pakistani military sources here.
Recent developments (including the aerial bombardments of Pakistani villages under the auspices of the “war on terrorism”) indelibly point to a broadening of the Afghan war theater, which now encompasses parts of Pakistan. The underlying tendency is towards an Afghan-Pakistani war.
“Nascent democratic reforms will produce little change in the face of opposition from an entrenched political elite and radical Islamic parties. In a climate of continuing domestic turmoil, the Central government’s control probably will be reduced to the Punjabi heartland and the economic hub of Karachi,” the former diplomat quoted the NIC-CIA report as saying.
Continuity, characterized by the dominant role of the Pakistani military and intelligence has been scrapped in favor of political breakup and balkanization. According to the NIC-CIA scenario, which Washington intends to carry out: “Pakistan will not recover easily from decades of political and economic mismanagement, divisive policies, lawlessness, corruption and ethnic friction,” (Ibid) .
This US agenda for Pakistan is similar to that applied throughout the broader Middle East Central Asian region. US strategy, supported by covert intelligence operations, consists in triggering ethnic and religious strife, abetting and financing secessionist movements while also weakening the institutions of the central government.
The broader objective is to fracture the Nation State and redraw the borders of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Ambassador Husain Haqqani will discuss the current situation in Pakistan.
Produced for Link TV by Jamal Dajani.
Leaders of the two largest parties in government met over the weekend to finalize what those charges will be.
The killing of 11 Pakistani soldiers by U.S. air and artillery strikes last week shows just how quickly the American-led war in Afghanistan is spreading into neighbouring Pakistan.
Pakistan’s military branded the air attack “unprovoked and cowardly.” There was outrage across Pakistan. However, the unstable government in Islamabad, which depends on large infusions of U.S. aid, later softened its protests.
Attacks by U.S. aircraft, Predator hunter-killer drones, U.S. Special Forces and CIA teams have been rising steadily inside Pakistan’s autonomous Pashtun tribal area known by the acronym, FATA. The Pashtun, who make up half Afghanistan’s population and 15% of Pakistan’s, straddle the border, which they reject as a leftover of Imperial Britain’s divide and rule policies.
Instead of intimidating the pro-Taliban Pakistani Pashtun, U.S. air and artillery strikes have ignited a firestorm of anti-western fury among FATA’s warlike tribesmen and increased their support for the Taliban.
The U.S. is emulating Britain’s colonial divide and rule tactics by offering up to $500,000 to local Pashtun tribal leaders to get them to fight pro-Taliban elements, causing more chaos in the already turbulent region, and stoking tribal rivalries. The U.S. is using this same tactic in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This week’s deadly U.S. attacks again illustrate the fact that the 60,000 U.S. and NATO ground troops in Afghanistan are incapable of holding off the Taliban and its allies, even though the Afghan resistance has nothing but small arms to battle the West’s hi-tech arsenal. U.S. air power is almost always called in when there are clashes.
In fact, the main function for U.S. and NATO infantries is to draw the Taliban into battle so the Afghan “mujahidin” can be bombed from the air. Without 24/7 U.S. airpower, which can respond in minutes, western forces in Afghanistan would be quickly isolated, cut off from supplies, and defeated.
But these air strikes, as we saw this week, are blunt instruments in spite of all the remarkable skill of the U.S. Air Force and Navy pilots. They kill more civilians than Taliban fighters. Mighty U.S. B-1 bombers are not going to win the hearts and minds of Afghans. Each bombed village and massacred caravan wins new recruits to the Taliban and its allies.
The U.S. and its allies are edging into open warfare against Pakistan. The western occupation army in Afghanistan is unable to defeat Taliban fighters due to its lack of combat troops. The outgoing supreme commander, U.S. Gen. Dan McNeill, recently admitted he would need 400,000 soldiers to pacify Afghanistan.
Unable to win in Afghanistan, the frustrated western powers are turning on Pakistan, a nation of 165 million. Pakistanis are bitterly opposed to the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan and their nation’s subjugation to U.S. policy under dictator Musharraf.
“We just need to occupy Pakistan’s tribal territory,” insists the Pentagon, “to stop its Pashtun tribes from supporting and sheltering Taliban.” But a U.S.-led invasion of FATA simply will push pro-Taliban Pashtun militants deeper into Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier province, drawing western troops ever deeper into Pakistan. Already overextended, western forces will be stretched even thinner and clashes with Pakistan’s tough regular army may be inevitable.
Widening the Afghan War into Pakistan is military stupidity on a grand scale, and political madness. But Washington and its obedient allies seem hell-bent on charging into a wider regional war that no number of heavy bombers will win.
There has been a historic shift in Pakistan that is largely overlooked in the U.S. – a struggle for democracy, led by lawyers. In the U.S., the lack of news coverage has created a distorted view of Pakistan’s President Musharraf and of the Pakistani people. The United States’ support of Musharraf, widely considered a dictator, has generated anger at America in Pakistan’s middle class.
Bombs in Lahore reveal the depth of the challenge facing Pakistan’s new government.
Beena Sarwar is a journalist in Pakistan, former Editor ‘The News on Sunday’ and Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She is currently based in Karachi.
Pakistan’s national elections today are critically important for this strife-torn country’s future. They are almost as crucial for its western backers. Unless honestly conducted – and this seems highly unlikely – the vote will ignite further violence, plunging the highly strategic nation of 163 million into new dangers.
As of this posting, the turnout is disappointingly low, averaging less than 35%, caused by apathy, political fatigue, fears of attacks and the widespread belief that the elections will be manipulated by the government of President Pervez Mushattaf.
Only one thing is certain about today’s vote. If President Pervez Musharraf and his PML-Q party do well enough to retain power or head a coalition, the election was likely rigged.
Musharraf has rigged every vote since seizing power in a 1999 military coup. Polls show only 15-20% of Pakistanis support him. The majority backs the late Benazir Bhutto’s People’s Party, and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s Muslim League (PML-N). A coalition of Muslim parties, and cricket star Imran Khan’s PTI, may also garner some new voters, though Islamists have been trailing in the polls.
While piously claiming to be waging war in Afghanistan to bring it democracy, the western powers have been encouraging and abetting dictatorship in Pakistan.
The reason is clear: Musharraf has rented out much of his army and intelligence service to battle Taliban in Afghanistan and tribal militants at home. His fee: up to $1 billion monthly in secret and overt US payments. Without them, Musharraf wouldn’t last very long.
Musharraf and his US and British patrons are hoping the opposition will split the vote and become deadlocked, leaving the former general as last man standing. The opposition, by contrast, is talking about ending the war against Taliban and reasserting Pakistan’s interests in Afghanistan and Kashmir – something Washington and London do not want to hear.
The powerful military still supports Musharraf, though for how long depends on the level of post-election violence. Gen. Ashfaq Kiyani, the new armed forces chief, was selected by Musharraf and Washington as a loyal anti-Islamist who would follow America’s lead. But this capable general remains an enigma. Indian intelligence sources say the US decided in early 2007 to ease the floundering Musharraf from power and make Gen. Kiyani Pakistan’s new strongman. One is reminded of Henry Kissinger’s cynical quip that the only thing more dangerous than being America’s enemy is being its ally. Musharraf’s usefulness to Washington is rapidly nearing its expiry date.
If Pakistan is rent by widespread protests and violence over brazen electoral fraud, or suffers political deadlock, the military may overthrow the widely detested Musharraf and seize power. Gen. Kiyani is said to be reluctant to see the military re-engage in politics, but there could be no alternative if veteran politicians Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto’s widower, Asif Ali Zardari, cannot produce a viable government.
The best outcome would be for the military to exile Musharraf and impose temporary martial law until the independent judiciary can be restored, the electoral commission made fair, media ungagged, and political repression ended. Then genuine, honest elections could be held and Pakistan returned to parliamentary government. But once the soldiers taste power again, they may be reluctant to give it up.
Until Pakistan gets a legitimate government representing its national interests, rather than those of the western powers, the country will remain in turmoil, and Pakistanis disgusted by the political process.
This, in turn, will pour fuel on the rising flames of anti-Americanism and extremism.
Pakistan is facing spreading civil war, and possible secession by two of its four provinces. The Pashtun tribal uprising ignited by the US/NATO occupation of Afghanistan is now spreading into Pakistan, risking a full-scale uprising by that nation’s 25 million Pashtuns. Any of these earthquakes could provoke an invasion by India, met by a nuclear riposte from Pakistan.
The war in Afghanistan and heavy-handed efforts by the US to bend Pakistan’s military regime to its will ignited much of the current turmoil. A majority of Pakistanis don’t want their soldiers to be western mercenaries, or their leaders to appear western yes-men. They support Taliban, and the struggle for Kashmir. But the US is so consumed by its war of revenge against Taliban over 9/11 – in which Taliban as not involved – it cannot see any of this.
Pakistan is the Muslim World’s most important nation and sole nuclear power. By treating Pakistan like a banana republic, arm-twisting Islamabad into battling its own people, and ignoring its own national interests, the US is playing with fire and damaging its own long-term strategic interests.
In the first part of this Pakistan elections special, Sir David Frost talks to Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of the late Benazir Bhutto and the co-chair of the Pakistan People’s Party, who says Musharraf would not stand a chance in fair and transparent elections.
In part two of this Pakistan election special, Sir David Frost talks to Nawaz Sharif, the former two-time Pakistani prime minister who leads the Pakistan Muslim League. Sharif says Monday’s polls are likely to be rigged as Musharraf lacks grass-roots support.
In part three of this Pakistan election special, Sir David Frost talks to Shaukat Aziz, a former Pakistani prime minister, who says Pervez Musharraf is the right person to bring together the country’s different political forces.
In part four of this Pakistan election special, Sir David Frost talks to Imran Khan, the founder of the Movement for Justice party, who warns that a Musharraf election victory could lead to unrest even more severe than that following elections in Kenya.
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Every time I make cupcakes I think of Sweet Cuppin’ Cakes from Homestar Runner. I used to watch those StrongBad emails ALL. THE. TIME. They were so stupidly funny. Kids’ Book will always be my most favorite of favorites. Anyway, semi-completely-unrelated to this I made cupcakes yesterday. For reasons I have yet to figure out US boxed cake mixes are not sold in Italy. Personally I think this is a huge mistake as the Italians go nuts for the box mixes at the US commissary. The only box mixes you can find over here create dense, dry cakes that are not unlike the cakes you would find in a pastry shop or at a restaurant. I personally am not a fan of dense cakes unless it is a lemon poppyseed pound cake and in that case I will eat the whole thing myself. Many of the recipes you find online end up producing denser cakes that either end up dry or have a ton of ingredients all in an attempt to keep the cake moist. A year or so ago I decided to try the chocolate cake recipe on the back of the Hershey’s Cocoa container and have never looked back. It is so light and fluffy and not at all dry. It has a nice chocolate taste but doesn’t feel like you’re eating something so rich that you couldn’t have two or three of them.
Traditionally, as in all four times I’ve made these cupcakes, I’ve made a buttercream frosting that is either vanilla flavor or the vastly more popular and delicious Bailey’s Irish Cream flavor. Not having a hand mixer here and making the hard but necessary decision to leave our fancy new stand mixer back in Maryland meant I was not able to make the buttercream for these cupcakes. I just don’t have the arm strength. It was a disappointment since my only other choice was to go with store bought frosting. Let me just tell you up front that aside from the Bailey’s frosting, which is way too easy to eat in large quantities, I am not a fan of frosting. I’ll take a glaze or a light coating of icing but those cakes with gobs of flowers and 2″ of frosting as well as a thick layer inside make me want to barf. The smooshy texture and super sweetness just make me sick so I’m very particular about the sugary coating of my desserts. I went with a vanilla Duncan Hines creamy something-or-other frosting knowing that I could just add some real vanilla extract to it to make it taste less, um, crappy. (My apologies to those who like store bought frosting. May I suggest making your own some time so you realize how horribly wrong you are to like it? Have you looked at the ingredients? You should.) I also bought some little sprinkles because I like cute things. What? You eat with your eyes first so why shouldn’t my food be cute?
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line muffin pan with bake cups. Mix the dry ingredients together and then add the liquids making sure to add the boiling water last. The batter will be quite runny. Depending on how big you want your cupcakes to be fill the cups 1/2 – 2/3 full. Bake for 22 – 25 minutes depending on your oven. (I checked after 20 because our oven runs hot.) Allow to cool slightly in the pan before removing to a cooling rack. Makes 24 – 30 cupcakes. Frost.
Place the butter in a large bowl and mix until creamy. Slowly add the confectioners sugar 1/2 cup at a time (it will fly out of the bowl so prepare to get covered) until you get the desired consistency. Once the sugar has been incorporated add the Bailey’s and the milk. Now here’s where taste comes into play – if you like a strong taste of Bailey’s you may need to add more than the 3 – 4 tablespoons. I’ve been known to add 6 – 7 because I want it to be obvious. This is totally up to you. In the event the frosting ends up softer than you’d like just add a little more sugar to stiffen it up.
To frost the cupcakes you can either just use a pastry knife and slather it on or use a ziplock bag that has the corner snipped off. The larger the hole the wider the strip of frosting will be so keep that in mind.
I’m always on the look out for other cupcake recipes so if you have any good ones that you’ve tried be sure to pass them on!
Hey you! Do you like cheese? I don’t mean those neon orange pre-wrapped slices of cheese product, although at one time I thought they were the bees knees, no, I mean curdled animal milk. Do you like curdled animal milk? Maybe I should start over. Excuse me, are you a fan of cheese? When you think of snacking does the image of a nice block of sharp cheddar come into view? Or maybe a lovely salad with gorgonzola, walnuts, and pears? How about a french baguette and some brie? Those are all delicious options but may I offer you something even better? Something so deliciously creamy it almost melts in your mouth? A cheese that has a sweetness that cannot be replicated by other lesser cheeses? That little white ball of amazing that doesn’t need to be consumed with anything else but still plays well with a super thin slice prosciutto or a freshly picked tomato? What kind of wonderous cheese is this? Why mozzarella di bufala, of course. What? You’ve never heard of such a thing? Or maybe you’ve heard of it but never tried it? Oh, so you’ve tried some form of it in the Italian restaurant down the street and don’t see what the big deal is? I’ll tell you what the big deal is, you need to get yourself on a plane and come to Naples to try some mozzarella di bufala, for reals.
See, here’s the thing, me and milk products we don’t get along so well. We had a nice thing going for years and then one day…let’s just say we’re no longer friends. The thing is that for whatever reason I can eat buffalo mozzarella with no problem. Since I haven’t eaten cheese in a couple years I’ve kinda been going crazy with the mozzarella. The best way to eat it is straight up but the other night we had it with prosciutto and tomatoes, it was pretty delicious, I highly recommend it.
The gnocchi only take a few minutes to cook so it’s better to do the sauce first but make sure to put the water on to boil. Put all of the ingredients except the gnocchi and cheese in a pot and bring it to a simmer. At this point you’ll need to check the seasoning for the sauce – if it’s on the bitter side adding a little sugar or honey will help get rid of that. Once the water boils make sure to salt it before putting in the gnocchi. After cooking for the allotted time (usually 2-3 minutes, they’ll float when done) drain the gnocchi and return to the pot. Add the tomato sauce and the cheese to the gnocchi and stir to combine. Recipe makes enough for 2-3 people.
Traditionally this would be put in a dish and placed in the oven for several minutes to melt the cheese further and create a sort of crust but, again, lazy me isn’t going to take that step. We had it with some chewy Italian bread and some red wine. If you can’t make it over here to try it then at least give it a try at home.
I like food, do you like food?
Process the cucumber, tomatoes, and arugula and place in a bowl. Crumble the feta on top. In a separate bowl, or dressing shaker bottle, mix together the olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and honey. The honey will help to emulsify the dressing and sweeten it just a bit but is completely optional. Finally add salt and pepper to taste. You can of course add more or less of the oil and vinegar depending on how tangy you want it to be. Pour the dressing over the salad just as you are about to serve it. Enjoy!
It’s a pretty straightforward salad and it would be easy enough to add or substitute other things such as blue cheese for the feta, spinach for the arugula, and maybe include walnuts, pecans, red onions, peppers, or olives, whatever floats your boat. You could also sprinkle on some oregano for a more authentic greek salad taste. If you try it let me know what you thought of it.
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Joel Kennedy. The Recapitulation of Israel: Use of Israel’s History in Matthew 1:1–4:11. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2.257. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008. 264pp. 9783161498251. $105.00 (paper). Published in Bulletin for Biblical Research 20.2 (2010): 268-69.
This book is a revision of a dissertation supervised by Francis Watson at Aberdeen. The subject of the book is “the Christological use of Israel’s history in Matthew 1:1–4:11” (3), and its “primary focus . . . is examining Israel’s history and the recapitulation of it in Matthew” (17). Though Kennedy defines “recapitulation as a particular subset of typology,” he thinks “at this point in the discussion, it appears best to step aside from trying to defend typology as a legitimate label for Matthew’s work” (21). He states that typology needs “further refinement,” and therefore his study avoids “the term typology and seek[s] to strictly examine Matthew’s text itself in regard to recapitulation” (22). Kennedy states, “The term most apt in describing [the] utilization of Israel’s history in Matthew is recapitulation, which includes repetition, summing up, representation, and embodiment” (23).
After the Introduction, Chapter 2 looks at Matthew’s Genealogy (Matt 1:1–17). Kennedy passes over Matthew 1:18–25, moving directly to what he refers to as the “Passive Recapitulation of Israel’s History” in Chapter 3 (Matt 2:1–23). Chapter 4 then treats the “Active Recapitulation of Israel’s History” (Matt 3:1–4:11).
Kennedy’s treatment of Matthew’s genealogy first discusses the multilinear and unilinear genealogies in the Old Testament, then proposes that unilinear genealogies can also be teleological when they aim to highlight a key figure at the climactic end of the genealogy, such as the genealogy in Ruth that concludes with David. He then shows that genealogies are compressed narrative summaries. All this sets up a useful discussion of the way Matthew uses the genealogy to present Jesus as the recapitulation of Israel. The sense in which Israel’s history is “passively” recapitulated is that Jesus relives and repeats it in the events that happen to him as a child. Kennedy reads Matthew 2 from the perspective that it is narrating the new exodus. Chapter 4 then discusses the baptism and testing of Jesus.
This book makes an important contribution to the discussion of the use of the OT in the New. More work like this needs to be done, looking at the larger patterns and frameworks in the OT and then examining how these are used in the New. This goes far beyond citation formulas, verbal quotations and allusions, and other connections that are established at lexical levels. The kind of work that needs to be done, like Kennedy’s, is only possible from reading the texts in their original languages, gaining a thorough knowledge of the stories and patterns, and then engaging in slow reflection on textual connections. Too much work on the use of the OT in the New has been done without respect for OT context. Too many assertions have been made by NT scholars (and OT scholars too) whose conclusions betray simple failure to understand what either the OT or NT author was doing.
My only complaints about the present volume have to do with the way it tries to avoid the issue of typology. The attempt to circumvent the issue fails because though the word “typology” is avoided, the term that is used, “recapitulation,” is presented as a subset of typology. I cannot find a statement that differentiates between the two, nor do I see appreciable distinctions between what Kennedy calls “recapitulation” and what Allison, for instance, calls “typology” (Kennedy briefly summarizes Allison, with approbation, on p. 21). Connected to this is Kennedy’s dissatisfying decision to pass right over Matthew 1:18–25. The thesis of my essay (“The Virgin Will Conceive: Typological Fulfillment in Matthew 1:18–23,” in Built upon the Rock, ed. John Nolland and Dan Gurtner [Eerdmans, 2008], 228–47) fits perfectly, it seems to me, with Kennedy’s thesis, and he cites other essays from Built upon the Rock, so he had access to the volume. Perhaps the sticking point was the word “typology,” but in the absence of clear discrimination between that term and “recapitulation,” it seems that one word is merely standing in for the other. Many people have reservations about typology as a method of interpretation, but I do not think that using a different term for the same thing will alleviate those concerns. These complaints registered, let me say that this is an enjoyable and insightful volume that moves in a productive direction. Kennedy models an interpretive approach that will yield sound conclusions regarding how the New Testament authors understood the Old and presented their work as its fulfillment.
I would love to read this book, but its $105.00. Any book you could recommend that is along the same trajectory?
Well, my book isn’t only on Matthew, but my interp. of Matt is moving in the same direction . . .
I’m looking forward to it. I have been going through Vos this summer and Beale’s Temple and the Church’s Mission. Jim I do have a question. If you see Jesus as the personification of Israel, how do you have a millennium where they are literally re-established? What did Jesus not fulfill that will be fulfilled in the millennium? And i’m not sure how you hold to the already-not yet model (or two-age model) and have a millennium? Is the millennium a ‘sorta already-and kinda not yet’?
1) God’s glory will cover this earth as the waters cover the sea in the millennium, before he does the same thing in the new . . .
2) All already/not yet is “sorta-kinda” right? I think there’s already/not yet at work in Ezra-Nehemiah . . .
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This cracked me up. Twice. Okay. Three times.
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This paper develops and applies a spatial econometric model that links road upgrading to forest clearing and biodiversity loss in the moist tropical forests of Bolivia, Cameroon and Myanmar. Using 250 m cells, the model estimates the relationship between the rate of forest clearing in a cell and its distance to the closest point on the nearest road; the transport distance-minimizing route to the nearest urban market, with an explicit control for road quality; terrain elevation and slope; the agricultural opportunity value of the land; and its legal protection status. The model takes into account spatial autocorrelation and simultaneity in the relationship between forest clearing and road location.
The findings emphasize the road transport results; forest clearing is highly responsive to the distance to the nearest urban market which comprises of the distance of the cell to the closest point on the nearest road and the transport distance-minimizing route to the nearest urban market the distance from market. The responsiveness of forest clearing to distance from the nearest market is lower for primary road links, because their higher average vehicle speeds and lower maintenance costs reduce the effect of distance to market. Using the estimated forest clearing response elasticities and a composite biodiversity indicator, this research computes an index of expected biodiversity loss from upgrading secondary roads to primary status in each 250 m cell. The results identify areas in Bolivia, Cameroon and Myanmar where high expected biodiversity losses may warrant additional protection as road upgrading continues. In addition, they provide ecological risk ratings for individual road corridors that can inform environmentally-sensitive infrastructure investment programs.
As road upgrading will inevitably accompany rural development programs in many countries, the methodology developed in this paper has potential for more widespread application in all moist tropical forest countries.
Susmita Dasgupta is a Lead Environmental Economist in the Environment and Energy Research Group of the World Bank with a specialization in empirical research. Her research focus is on environmental management in developing countries. Dr. Dasgupta has done extensive analysis on health hazards of pollution, poverty/environment nexus, setting priorities in pollution control, deforestation, biodiversity loss, impacts of climate change on coastal zones and climate extremes, adaptation to climate change, cost effective regulations, monitoring and enforcement of regulations. She has conducted research activities in Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Cuba, India, Iran, Lao PDR, Madagascar, Mexico, Tunisia, Vietnam and Yemen, and has published numerous articles on issues related to development and environment.
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of facilitating a wedding up at Heritage Wines, Mt Tamborine. We used the new pavilion that has been built overlooking amazing views of the Gold Coast. It is completely enclosed in glass, with doors that open out on to a spacious deck. Half an hour prior to the wedding the rain came in and the most stunning double rainbow I’ve seen in ages appeared over the hills of the mountain- oh! It was so beautiful, and very clearly a blessing, but all our thoughts turned to the bride who needed to walk down a flight of stairs in the rain in order to reach the pavilion! Fortunately the rain cleared, and the bride and her three daughters who were her attendants arrived at the pavilion dry and smiling.
The wedding yesterday was celebrating the union of a couple who have shared their lives for a number of years already. This couple have taken their time to learn about each other, developing a deep and rich relationship, and have allowed their children the time and space to grow into each other. We honoured and celebrated the joining of two families yesterday, with the groom’s son and the bride’s three daughters offering their blessings to the union in a handfasting ritual, with each sibling placing a ribbon over the couple’s joined hands that I then tied together as a gesture of grounding them together as one new family.
All weddings are special, and each time I facilitate a ceremony I leave the space absolutely buzzing. I smiled to myself all the way home, thinking of how wonderful it is when ceremonies are so simple and so beautiful. It is the thought and intention that goes into the ceremony that is the most important. Of course yesterday it helped to have such a beautiful and already prepared space to hold the ceremony, but it was more the fact that family and friends had stopped and taken the time and effort to help this couple with their celebration. Everybody was there FOR the bride and groom, there were friends and family busy taking care of the details: arranging the environment, informing the guests of the procedure for the afternoon, holding the ‘space’ so that the couple need not think about such things on their day. Everyone had taken special care with their appearances (all the guests looked so beautiful together), their attention was focussed on why we were all gathered together and it was clear from the applause as we congratulated the couple, that everyone wished this couple all the happiness in the world. To me it is this kind of energy that contributes to the success of a ceremony.
To Mr and Mrs White, and your family … I offer you my blessings and I thank you for the opportunity to be a helper for you on such a joyful occasion.
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As for the rest of Saturday: I walked back to the city centre with Paul and one of his friends, Sonja, as they were going off to Mara's birthday party together, and we parted ways at Pij. I was utterly soaked by the time I got home. On getting back I put washing to dry upstairs (this was at about 10.30) and then slobbed about online for a bit without really achieving anything except a Deep and Meaningful email conversation with Eni. I went to bed around 2.00am after another episode of X-Files (now at the end of season 2), until I couldn't keep my eyes open. These days I'm not very good at sleeping alone (I don't count Lisa being in as being not alone), especially in a creaky old house with neighbours who don't seem to sleep, so it's best if I just tire myself out before I attempt to sleep.
The other bizarre thing was another bloke called Paul who rang up wanting to speak to Lisa and ended up with me answering the phone. This occurred at 12.30am (yes, that's after midnight) so I was probably not exactly completely awake, and as a result when he introduced himself I thought it was someone at Mara's party taking the piss, having stolen my Paul's phone. Other Paul attempted to prove he was who he said he was with some nonsensical (to me, anyway) anecdote, and then it transpired I was not Lisa. I had no idea if she was in, but nevertheless, even if she was, I imagine she would be in bed at 12.30am anyway. After that I shut the living room door so as not to hear the phone (meh...) and ended up making myself some pasta at around the same time because I was hungry. It was a bit of a strange night, all told.
Thankfully, it's a quiet one next weekend, though it's going to get considerably busier as Christmas approaches. I'll just be glad when the second Beethoven concert is out of the way. I mean, it sounded frelling amazing, but my word, it's tiring to sing. We get to sit down for a bit after the "Credo" section, but that section is about 15 minutes long, mostly in the upper range of the voice and incredibly fast... absolutely mad. Beethoven was a sadist, clearly.
"When you're singing this, imagine Beethoven going ' I vill write zis part for ze tenors and keeeel zem!'..."
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Jacoby Falls has become a popular hiking destination in the Loyalsock State Forest. A linear trail, 1.6 miles long, reaches the falls. I had been to the falls several times, but decided to explore the creek above the falls to see what might be there. There looked to be a gorge and possibly some waterfalls.
I parked at the trailhead and crossed the boardwalk as purple ironweed was in bloom. The trail is blazed yellow and I made good time through the hemlock forests. The creek soon joined the trail and it was flowing well.
But this beautiful hike also had swarms of mosquitoes. I had not encountered such oppressive bugs for many years. I tried to hike fast. I crossed a small side stream and descended to a narrow pipeline swath. To the left was another side stream that features its own waterfall in high water.
The trail followed the pipeline swath as it crossed the creek a few times. It then veered left into the woods and climbed up the rocky glen to Jacoby Falls. This falls is so beautiful, in a grotto of cliffs with veils of falling springs. It is possible to hike behind this falls, which is about 30-35 feet tall. In winter there are incredible ice flows.
My hike did not end here as I intended to bushwhack upstream. I scrambled above the falls to the right and followed the creek with smooth bedrock slides and ledges. I followed the pipeline swath for a little ways, but returned to the creek. I hiked through scenic hemlock forests and reached a beautiful cascade about ten feet tall. I continued up the creek, off trail, as the gorge narrowed. There were no more waterfalls, just some small cascades near the edge of the plateau. Springs flowed down the steep slopes as a mist hung along the creek.
I retraced my steps and sped through the forest, trying to evade the mosquitoes. As luck would have it, the bugs abated as I neared my car.
While a hike to Jacoby Falls, and the cascades and ledges immediately above it, is very enjoyable, I would not recommend hiking up the gorge in its entirety.
Trailhead is located at 41.376850, -76.920176.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Hiking, jacoby falls, loyalsock state forest, pennsylvania by endlessmountains. Bookmark the permalink.
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It’s going to be (almost) all sunshine for a US Marine company currently gearing up to deploy in Afghanistan. In a historic first, they’ll be powering much of their gear with solar energy, which could cut their fuel consumption in half, reports Wired’s Danger Room. Seems the brass was pleased with the results of a test this summer where the unit ran much of a mock Forward Operating Base on sunbeams.
It’s not that the Pentagon has gone all tree-huggy. Their very practical motivation is cutting costs and saving lives. Each soldier in Afghanistan uses 22 gallons of fuel a day, and delivering each gallon to the war zone costs between $300 and $400. And those convoys make great target practice for the Taliban. Plus, it’ll help the Pentagon beat Pepsi and Intel in the race to America’s top user of renewable energy.
I reported a while back on how the West Bank city of Jenin, once a hotbed of Palestinian radicalism, is now being touted as a model of Israel-Palestinian cooperation – but that the progress there could easily collapse if Palestinians don’t start seeing some tangible benefits. The world’s greatest news magazine, The Economist, has a more recent dispatch from Jenin in their current issue, which reports some encouraging updates.
To wit: “Israel now lets cars as well as people go through the Jalameh terminal, the gateway between Jenin and the Galilee district of northern Israel … Hundreds of Israeli Arabs drive across every day, ending Israel’s economic boycott. Around Jenin Israel has lightened its footprint; many checkpoints are unmanned. On a good day you can drive from Jenin to Ramallah, the Palestinian administrative capital, without a single Israeli soldier demanding papers.” There’s even a new outdoor movie theater.
But things are still might dicey. The economy is still feeble, and a promised joint Israeli-Palestinian industrial park unbuilt. There’s still plenty of loathing for Israel, too: Locals cheered when Hamas terrorists killed four Israelis at the start of the latest peace talks. And I can’t say I hold out much hope that those talks are going to produce any real results – make that ANY results. But at least they’re talking instead of shooting.
Much more important than the back-and-forth about Israel’s (lethally bungled) raid on a boatload of (deliberately provocative) protesters trying to bring humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip is the bigger question it raises: what to do about the blockade? Without a doubt, its critics are right to say it inflicts terrible human suffering on civilian Palestinians. But it’s also a fact that without it, Hamas would smuggle in even more rockets to lob at Israeli civilians, not to mention whatever other weapons they could get their hands on to help further their goal of wiping Israel off the map.
If anything, this kind of collective punishment tends to make the locals rally around their leaders, not seek their overthrow. There’s nothing to suggest Hamas is losing popular support in Gaza because of the blockade – probably the opposite. I don’t know what the solution is, but it’s pretty obvious the status quo just isn’t working, and never will.
One of the Gaza flotilla ships, impounded in Ashdod. Thanks, Guardian.co.uk.
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Not much to add this week; just a little around the borders. I’m grateful thankful for the tiny update, though. I finished it early and I’ve been spending the extra time playing Let’s Go Eevee working on some other projects.
I like this border. I may use it for another piece in the future.
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Chrismakkah 2018: …And one for me!
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BigFoot was on the road again.
Shrunken to a normal size.
And after nearly three years in and out of a Big Boot or hobbling around with a cane or crutches, or gliding on a knee scooter, BigFoot FINALLY started WALKING!
There is now a BlueToe on the SkinnyFoot, thanks to a “maintenance visit” for a Podiatrist’s professional pedicure!
I always liked my podiatrist even though he frightened me occasionally with ragged pedicures.
But who am I to question the cutting techniques of an accredited podiatrist?
Note: Old people tend to elevate doctors to godly pedestals of eternal wisdom.
On this visit the good doctor once again cut a ragged edge and managed a very jagged cut on the SkinnyFoot’s Big Toe.
And this instantly caused a blue spot at the base of the nail.
I took him at his word of course even though I knew there was no blue spot when I walked in and I had not stubbed my toe or dropped anything on it.
Old people tend to accept anything a doctor says, particularly if he is wearing a white coat!
And it was only a little blue spot after all. It would undoubtedly heal with time.
So off I went to PT (Physical Therapy).
Metallic blue toenails are the “in” thing now. And that’s how BigFoot’s Big Toe looked….. blue.
Hmmmm. Do you think I should I go to a salon and get the other nine nails painted to match?
BigFoot’s Big Toe is still Blue.
Seems to be healing but I am afraid to wear closed toed shoes for fear of aggravating.
Will I lose the nail? Too soon to tell.
I will lose the Podiatrist.
I LOVE Tuesdays in my part of Virginia because it’s “Swim Day” (even though I have missed doing the local YMCA Aquasizing sessions now for several months.
I do manage to get there on Thursdays though and whilst the class is doing jumping jacks in the water, I am dog paddling at the deep end. It makes BigFoot happy to participate even in that small way.
Thursdays are also delightful because Thursdays are Swim Days too. And the dog paddling brings on an after-the-beach drowsiness as well as soft skin and a feeling of immense accomplishment.
Other days present odd challenges.
On Monday, after agonizing trying-on-and-on-and on, I found a bathing suit (to wear on on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It’s a lovely floral thing (dooming outdoor swimmers to be attacked by bees who think the flowers are real). It might work for Tuesdays and Thursdays but makes me look pregnant on any day of the week.
Now I realize a woman my age should not be pregnant (and if so, might qualify as a carnival attraction). Nevertheless, it is a lingering image locked in my mind’s eye.
Therefore on Friday, after swimming on Thursday in an old suit which outgrew my newly acquired non-exercise shrinking figure (saggy suit blues), I returned the new (pregnancy type) suit to the store down the street who said they would take it back with the original tags.
That leaves Wednesday and the weekend.
Wednesday was spent on line ordering other things. BigFoot resists on-foot- buying in real stores (except for swim suits) resulting in shopping withdrawal symptoms. You would be surprised at how painful that can be. But, modern progress allows one to alleviate pain by enabling purchasing things without actually standing on your feet.
Sunning in old clothes (not sure of bathing suit yet).
Waiting for results of the 5th MRI for BigFoot.
Trying on new socks (ordered on line).
Taking pictures of BigFoot (which is nominally shrinking now).
And wishing it was Thursday!
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A couple months ago I was asked to participate in a local homeschool curriculum look-see and to provide a table with books that would encourage building relationships with our children. Since I had just completed the Moore interviews, of course those books were part of my display. But as moms stopped by the table that morning and I listened to them talk about their goals for homeschooling, I repeatedly suggested reading Grace-Based Parenting by Dr. Tim Kimmel.
Though not a book written specifically for homeschoolers, Dr. Kimmel’s approach to building positive relationships with children is a practical one that will enable parents to set the tone of grace in their homes and smoothly transition with their children from childhood, through adolescence, and into adulthood. And it is just the material for homeschoolers that I feel is missing in much of what is taught and marketed to homeschooling families today!
Using the relationship of our Heavenly Father as the model, Dr. Kimmel does not hand out a check list of impossible standards but rather paints a picture of God’s grace in a believers’ life, demonstrating how that same grace ought to be poured out into the lives of our children. He begins his book by examining the two common parenting extremes and he explains how both of these views are equally spiritually toxic to children, eventually driving them away from the relationship with Christ we want them to have.
The first extreme view of parenting is that of having few if any boundaries. These parents don’t get involved with their children’s friends, they allow their children complete freedom on television and on the internet, allow them to date in junior high, and even provide hotel rooms for their after prom activities. Though most of us don’t believe Christian parents have this mindset, I hear this sort of discussion often among parents who take their kids to church but who don’t understand their God-given role as moms and dads in everyday life.
At the other extreme end of the spectrum are those parents who bring in their parenting boundaries far too tightly, placing undue burdens on their children, building fences where none should exist. Unfortunately, it is homeschooling families who are more apt to gravitate toward this end of the spectrum, often believing that those fences give them more approval or protection from God.
Grace based families are a breath of fresh air. They process their day-to-day life with an air of confidence that comes from knowing God profoundly loves them. The key characteristic of grace-based families is that they aren’t afraid. They are especially unafraid of all the evil around them…This changes the way children view their parents and the choices they make on their behalf. It also gives children a much more attractive view of their parents’ faith.
And that was just from the introduction!
Dr. Kimmel goes on to offer antidotes to methods of toxic parenting and he does so by offering real solutions offered with grace, as you would expect! Grace-Based Parenting is tied for my number one relationship homeschooling book pick. Next week I will review my other number one choice!
We really must be on guard, holding fast to the Truth; to the Word, and to Christ. It doesn’t have to be quite as complicated as we might make it seem.
Funny you should mention this. Our Adult SS class is discussing this book and I even came back to your blog the other day to see if you ever mentioned it in your grace in parenting blog posts.
Tim Kimmel was very kind to me, when i phoned into his radio program one time several years ago, so i feel that appreciation for him. I did feel that this book was driven by reaction against what he called legalism, but is colored by the reverse problem — antinomianism, which is a chronic problem in dispensational theology (which I believe is Kimmel’s doctrinal system). The NT teaches laws of conduct, which include huge amounts of OT material re-formatted into the Christian era. I felt he gave short shrift to this.
Thanks for your thoughts, Jack. As always they are appreciated.
“”Grace does not lower the standards in our homes, it raises them. It doesn’t push people away from holiness, it pushes them toward it. It doesn’t cause them to despise truth, it propels them to embrace truth all the more. It encourages people to aim higher in their relationship with God and helps them dream bigger dreams. Cheap grace, on the other hand, holds people down and sets them up for heartache.
“Grace certainly has its share of enemies. There are those enemies who want to camp on the truth of the bible and say that life is black and white with little nuance. Parents like Tom assume that to show grace is to go soft on moral standards. They get a lot of fuel for this skewed opinion of grace from the parents who use grace as their excuse for not enforcing rules. A family without clearly defined rules and standards could never be a grace-based family. It’s too busy being a nightmare to live in.
“Tom was also making a mistake that many people wrapped up in legalistic parenting make. They look on grace as a cop-out, something used by parents who don’t want to take any of the unpopular stands that often accompany moral convictions. Those who reject a grace-based environment often lament our decline into secularism. They decry the absence of standards. They think grace allows children to do their own thing and make their own decisions at the expense of moral absolutes. They believe grace is light on discipline and doesn’t enforce rules.
“Guys like Tom may take pride in how well their children behave, but the harsh way Tom gets his results and the connection he builds between their behavior and their acceptance by God, sets them up to look elsewhere for their security, their significance, and strength. It is the lack of grace in well-behaved homes that turns children’s hearts away from God when they’re finally too big to intimidate and too old to control. There is a place for rules, even for strictness, in a grace-based home, but how they are presented makes all the difference on how they are received.
“On the other hand, seeing grace as an excuse not to parent your children within the boundaries of godliness is equally repugnant to God. It is not grace that condones the crooked paths our children may take. Rather, it is cowardice, laziness, and selfishness. Home has got to be a place where our children are safe from the traps of the world and assured that they have parents who won’t surrender God’s standards, even to them.
It’s been some time since I read this book, so you’ll have to tell me if there are other sections that might have given me the impression I still carry in my memory. Is it possible this is a second edition? I read this when it first came out, a couple of years ago. I never thought Kimmel was antinomian, but there was something about the book that stuck in my mind that way. Either I just missed that material, or perhaps he added some clarifying material.
Pondering some of the thoughts of Tim Kimmel that I quoted in the comment section….
My husband and I have been in a wonderful church for a little over four years after several years of patriocentric/ecclesiocentric/experimental doctrinal stuff that left us spiritually dry and emotionally drained. Our pastor is both a scholar and a humble man, a rare combination. His sermons always challenge me theologically, always make application, always inspire me to be in the Word. But most of all, they are so saturated with grace that each week when I leave worship, I love God more and long to obey Him. I am not beaten down by some man’s extra rules, I am more in love with Jesus and that makes me want to do what is right.
I want my children to look at their parents and experience the same thing as a result of how I live and instruct them.
Jack, I am looking back through the book to see if I pick up what you did. Will let you know.
I have been homeschooling for thirteen years now, and my whole purpose was/is to raise my children to walk with the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity and truth.
And you know what? I’d like to say that the Christian home schooling community has been a beloved companion on this journey, but I would be lying. From my experience, grace is the one thing they are missing, and that loss is great loss!
Perhaps that’s because of the part of the country in which we live. There is a huge emphasis on patriarchy, and on being (or at least appearing to be) the “perfect Christian home school family”.
Our family is hardly perfect, but I love them dearly and I believe God does too. It has been so hard to choose to love and support my family in the face of the disapproval of the Christian home school “support groups”.
My children were not welcomed in the Christian home school community because of hairstyles and clothing choices and lack of commitment to keeping the lesser rules of religion.
Now my oldest is in college, following the Lord and doing her best to live an authentic life of love. She is very much into fashion and style, (she does not look like a Vision Forum gal for sure!) and she’s going to college! And majoring in business! And she has a real relationship with Jesus that is the most important thing in life to her.
One of her friends was also home schooled, only with a much stricter religion and old-school curriculum than I used. This girl now declares herself an atheist, smokes both cigarettes and marijuana, drinks alcohol and sleeps around. She is totally turned off of Christianity because the love of Christ and the grace of God missing from her strict (but doctrinally correct!) home school family.
A painful reminder that without love, we are all just clanging cymbals, even if we do home school.
Grace-Based Parenting sounds like a very timely and needful book for the Christian home school community. I plan on getting a copy. I hope it sells like hotcakes at the conventions.
I have certainly been guilty of going down the checklist put forth by the latest books about the Lord, homeschooling, family, and marriage. I will be the first to admit that I have had to repent over my reliance on books instead of The Book. I’m lazy and would rather read a book than take time to pray and listen. Just tell me what to do. I can check off the boxes.
Grace actually takes relationship and relationship takes time and effort, im lazy. I would rather follow a proven method 1,2,3 than actually love and engage my children with my heart instead of a formula.
Getting this book back out….but praying for HIS Spirit as I read….
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Jeremy likes to meet nice people! He likes to meet all kinds of people, actually. He's much more social than I am. And though I was a terrible writer when I invented him, because I was seventeen, I have to give myself credit for one thing: pretty much from the beginning, whenever I imagined interacting with him, as of course I occasionally did, I imagined him as regarding me with this same amused tolerance. He was never dark and tormented; I thought that was boring even twenty years ago (though I did give him a rather Sandmanny appearance). He's simply trying to have a good time in a world in which it seems most people are emphatically not having a good time, they're too worried about crops or border skirmishes or whatever. I even gave him the most fairy-talish downer of an origin I could think of: he is the son of a poor woodcutter and his wife. They were super nice to him, though, because I also thought the trope of killer-as-abused-child was boring as hell. I was a lousy writer back then, but I had pretty decent narrative perception. Good for you, seventeen-year-old me!
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Soon all of me is on the ground again.
I feel Your hand slip into mine.
While mine is so weak and shaking.
Where am I, my Lord? I ask.
You are here with Me, You whisper.
So in need of all You are.
To those on the ground.
And My Heart is here always.
Piercing with Thorns so deeply.
Be here with Me in agony and neglect.
Where few wish to come.
Yet open still for your tender love.
As I long for you deeply.
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and silence to begin with.
I do not dismay at quietness.
what beauty lies in your solitude.
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Volleyball is definitely a well-known sport today. There are many intramural teams and as well top level teams all over the world. But, where and when did this popular sport begin? The background of volleyball is interesting, it is interesting to view its simple beginnings, the adjustments that it gone through, and all of the volleyball facts as time passes.
The guy who invented volleyball is William G Morgan. He was actually a sports instructor at the Young Mens Christian Association, often known as YMCA. Originally the YMCA presented a new game which we all know today as basketball. Morgan found the physical contact of basketball and also the fast pace tired the older businessmen that loved participating in the games. Thus, he created a new game having significantly less contact and much less court movements that he called mintonette. This game eventually become the game of volleyball.
Morgan tried the sport along with people in YMCA for approximately 12 months until he decided to show it to a team of YMCA physical education directors. In 1896 the sport of mintonette was offered to the directors and they suggested that he change the label to volley ball considering that the game consisted of volleying the ball in between the two over the net. The first official volleyball game was played out in 1896 in Springfield College.
History of volleyball reveals that Morgans previous sport of mintonette resembled the sport of badminton. Its played in a rectangular court with a net on the center of the court. The teams were separated making sure that theres no physical contact with the opposite team at all each team was positioned on either sides of the net. Players will utilize their hands to beat the ball back and forth across the net. The ball should continue to be in play until finally its missed and touch the floor. Scores can be gained when the other players could not return back the ball.
As volleyball history went on, the regulations transformed a little and became far more specified. Officials together with YMCA made a rule book that provided details about the court dimension, ball size, as well as scoring method. It ultimately transformed into what you may identify as volleyball right now.
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Companies looking to offer retirement plans will soon have a new alternative. Automated investment adviser Betterment said today that it will soon offer a 401(k) platform for employers. In other words, your retirement fund may one day be run by code.
The wealth management startup has made a name for itself in the past few years for its so-called robo-adviser services. Investors hoping to do more with their money, but who might not be able to afford the hefty fees that come with financial advice from a human, have turned to companies like Betterment, Wealthfront, and FutureAdvisor for help. The startups pride themselves in providing a clean mobile experience paired with automated investing for the more tech-savvy millennial investors gravitating to their services.
Betterment is hoping to accomplish the same thing with its latest venture: Betterment for Business, which is set to be available early next year. The new service will provide companies with a robo-driven alternative to other 401(k) providers, including a similar clean interface for both employers and employees. If it works, Betterment's 401(k) bot may help add financial adviser to the list of human jobs soon to be co-opted by smarter machines.
For Betterment, the idea for the new service came from the company’s own challenging search process to find a 401(k) provider for its employees, says founder and CEO Jon Stein. After combing through a number of options, Betterment settled on what they believed was the best option they could find. And, even so, Stein says it was a "disaster."
Betterment believes that its emphasis on tech and user experience will make it a desirable choice for employers and employees. On the employer side, companies will be able to see a dashboard that allows them to check in on the company’s accounts; enroll new employees; and offer any assistance—all online. Stein says that it is also offering its service with lower fees than its older competitors.
For participating employees, Betterment says that, unlike its competitors, users will be able to get personalized advice thanks to its automated system. If a user has a company-sponsored 401(k) on Betterment as well as other individual accounts with the company, the automated service will make decisions based on all of the assets combined.
"You can tell us more about yourself so we can further customize a plan for you," Stein says, meaning that the plan can also take into account social security benefits, other investments, as well as your personal goals.
While the success of Betterment for Business remains to be seen, the company is intent on pushing its expansion into a space traditionally dominated by financial services institutions like Fidelity, Vanguard, and Charles Schwab.
But businesses tasked with choosing company-sponsored 401(k)s will still have to reckon with how willing they are to put their employees' retirements in the hands of a robot. Even if Betterment offers a cheaper alternative or snazzy interface, companies will have to decide if they really want to put their long-term stake in something new.
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Janet Yellen feels good about America's economy but sees risks rising overseas.
Yellen, the Federal Reserve chair, spoke optimistically on Tuesday about the U.S. economy, particularly the strong gains in the job market and resilient consumer spending. But when she turned to the global economy, it got gloomy.
"Global developments pose ongoing risks," Yellen said at the Economic Club of New York.
Top of her worry list: China and oil. Yellen said uncertainty over China's economic slowdown and the direction of its currency, the yuan, contributed to the market meltdown at the beginning of the year when the Dow lost about 2,000 points.
Stocks rallied as Yellen spoke with the S&P 500 turning positive for the year and the Dow closing at its highest level for 2016. Her remarks made an interest rate hike at the Fed's next meeting in April seem unlikely.
Yellen worries that another downturn in oil prices could lead to spending cuts by oil-driven countries and job losses at energy firms. Such responses "could have adverse spillover effects to the rest of the global economy," Yellen said.
One of the fears is that if the economy falters, the Fed won't be able to do much. Its usual plan to lower interest rates won't work given how low rates are right now. Yellen would like to see Congress step up to boost economic growth.
"It would certainly be helpful to see fiscal policy play a larger role," she said Tuesday.
Only two weeks ago, the Fed cut its forecast for economic growth and held off on raising interest rates any more.
Immediately following the meeting, some Fed officials were already feeling more bullish about raising rates. St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said last week that the Fed "could probably make a case for moving in April" if jobs and inflation stay on track.
Yellen, however, said the Fed intends to "proceed cautiously."
Heading into 2016, the Fed was predicting four rate hikes this year. Now it only anticipates two. The Fed increased rates in December for the first time in nearly a decade.
America's employment has met the Fed's goal, but inflation has not. Inflation is lagging behind largely because of cheap gas prices and lackluster wage growth.
Oil prices have rallied in recent weeks from a low below $27 a barrel in early February to around $40 now. If that trend continues, inflation could pick up.
The latest report on inflation came out Monday and showed a slight decline in February. However, when you take out volatile categories like food and energy, core inflation rose 1.7% in February, matching the gain from January.
Monday's inflation news doesn't help or hurt the case for a rate hike in April, which is still considered unlikely. However, the odds of an April rate increase could change on Friday when the Labor Department announces the March jobs report.
If the U.S. shows healthy signs of job and wage growth, that could convince the Fed to increase rates at its meeting as soon as April. But Yellen's concerns on the global economy might continue to hold the Fed back from raising rates anytime soon.
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Below is my sermon from July 23, 2017, focusing on Jesus’ Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds. Parables can be tricky, in part because we’ve been conditioned to read them allegorically. But they weren’t always intended that way–they are stories meant to make us question, think, and consider. There aren’t always easy answers. But the questioning can bring out a lot of good thoughts, anyway.
In seminary, one of the highlights of the year was always the flag football tournament, known as Luther Bowl. Eight seminaries would send teams, some from as far away as Chicago and South Carolina, to Gettysburg to play for the honor of winning the trophy—a replica of the Book of Concord. If you didn’t already know this: people at seminaries are major dorks.
But the highlight of Luther Bowl was always the traditional match that started it all over forty years ago: Philly versus Gettysburg. We had our own trophy just for that game, a rivalry that is right up there with Oklahoma versus Texas or Ohio State versus Michigan.
As a highly competitive person, I loved it. I probably got way too into the football, but it was a lot of fun. By my third year playing, we had already lost the Gettysburg game for two straight Luther Bowls, and we had to win this one to avoid just like total embarrassment. The only problem was, the Philly-Gettysburg game was last on the schedule and we were losing players throughout the day.
A couple were hurt, but a bunch just had to leave for other commitments: weddings, church services, you name it, but when the time came for the big game, our team had only 12 players left for an eight aside game.
What happened, though, was that we played better—better than we had in our first two games, better than we had when we’d been able to get rest and have subs. Because those of us who were left were the ones who actually cared—the ones who’d been at practices, who pushed ourselves, who wanted, not just to win, but to embarrass Gettysburg. And we did: 38-13.
Once we had weeded out, you could say, the hangers on, we were left with a small team, but a cohesive, dedicated team. It’s why teams have cuts, because they don’t want to be pulled down by those who can’t pull their own weight. It’s why I’ve wanted, in many a group project in school, to cast off those who were slowing the whole group down.
It’s a concept that works really well for teams, and even for group projects, if the professor will let you do it. Get rid of the dead weight, and those who are left are able to perform better. And for good or ill, it’s also a desire we sometimes have with church.
It’s one of the things the church has always struggled with—the fact that, as an institution, we are imperfect. Some seem to truly feel the zeal and faith in their hearts and others seem to just be hanging around. It’s what leads to desires to purge the membership rolls, get rid of those who don’t really fit the bill. It’s not new.
There’ve been different responses throughout history. The Apostle Paul was more of a purge the rolls kind of guy—advocating in First Corinthians to avoid all those who do not live morally upright lives and to not allow them into the assembly.
A few centuries later, during a time of great persecution, some in the church renounced their faith and made vows to the emperor. After the peril was over, they wanted back in the church and those who had suffered didn’t think they should be allowed in. In that case, St. Augustine argued, in part based on today’s parable, that the church is not a selective club for the most holy, but a place where all are together.
The question hasn’t gone away; such is our human nature, our penchant for judgment and condemnation. For declaring the future of those we deem somehow inadequate in faith and Christian life. For assuming malignance in another as if our own actions are above reproach.
This parable ought to stop us in our tracks. Good and bad seed sown together. When the plants came up and bore grain, then the weed appeared as well. And the servants came and wanted to know how this bad seed got into the field. And they were prepared to go out and tear it up. But the householder said no. For in gathering the weeds, they would uproot the wheat—they must both grow together until the harvest.
Who do we think that we are? God? Yet many do. We do. A lot. We decide that we know who is worthy and unworthy, we draw lines of who is in and who is out. As much as we rush to judgment, as we rush in to pull up the weeds lest they infest the whole field, Jesus counsels patience. We do not know what is wheat and what is weeds. We cannot know, mostly because it is not our job to decide.
But also, the fact of the matter is, this is a parable. It’s a story that is meant to make us rethink our assumptions about God, about each other, and about ourselves. There is no one-to-one comparison. We are all both wheat and weeds at different points in our lives. We all have the capability for producing good fruit, and yet we all often let that good fruit get entangled by other cares and issues.
Perhaps Jesus’ preaching patience frustrates us. I know it frustrates me at times. We want to tear out the weeds, we want to fix things and make them as close to perfect as we can. We want to get rid of whatever holds us back, but we can’t. The most honest part of this parable is that the field is imperfect. There is good and bad intermingled together, intermingled in the church, intermingled even within ourselves. And to try to separate it would mean the loss of some of the wheat.
We live in this confusing time that Paul writes about in our Romans reading today. This time where we wait, with eager longing for what is to come. We have experienced the inbreaking of God’s kingdom or reign, the inauguration of a new era of hope and possibility in which we, Jesus’ followers, are to be a sign, witness, and foretaste of what is to come. At the same time, we live in the “not yet.” While God has broken into our lives and creation and bridged the gulf of estrangement between us, God’s reign is not fully here yet.
Having patience for that reign to be fully realized is not the same thing as having passivity until that moment comes. On the contrary. This parable teaches us that judgment is ultimately in God’s hands, not ours. It is not up to us to exclude anyone from God’s redemptive power. In the long run, it’s a freeing thing: Trusting that God will redeem the world frees us to take responsibility for the care of our corner of it. We aren’t in charge of defeating evil and death, that’s God’s job. But we can take care of our neighbors, speak out against injustice, and support those in need.
May the God of both the wheat and the weeds bless us with patience and compassion—for others and for ourselves, as we seek this work of growing and producing good fruit. Amen.
Below is my sermon from Sunday, July 16. It is mostly focused on the Jesus’ parable of the sower in Matthew. This past week, I had the great joy of being with some of St. Paul’s youth on a service trip entirely focused on food justice and urban gardens, so this text was perfect! I hope you enjoy reading some of the highlights from our trip, and look for more in the future as the youth will share their own stories.
A sower went out to sow. On Thursday, after having spent the past four days working at our service projects, one of our youth said to me: I hope I never have to see another garden again. I definitely agreed with her. And then on Friday, after we came home, I looked to see what the readings were for this Sunday. And I could only shake my head. A sower went out to sow.
This week, ten of our youth, Stu Krissinger, and myself were working with fifty other youth and adults from the synod at a service project site in Philadelphia. All of the kids are going to be in high school this year and our group was made up of mostly ninth and tenth graders.
Our week of service was focused entirely on food—food availability, food justice, food sustainability. Through talking with urban farmers, food bank managers, and our nearby neighbors, we learned about how access to nutritious, affordable food is limited in Philadelphia, large parts of which qualify as a food desert.
And we worked every day with those who are actively seeking to change this. We spent one whole day with East Park Revitalization Alliance at their three-hundred bed garden in Gray’s Ferry. Thanks to our kids, work that would have taken the staff a week was accomplished in about five hours.
Stu’s group of kids then spent most of their week at the Eliza Shirley house, a Salvation Army project that provides food and shelter to mothers and children in need. My group went to two more community gardens, both in the Mount Airy section of the city. One helped residents learn about growing their own healthy food and supported the local food bank. The other was attached to a women and children’s shelter, providing that place with fresh produce.
And so, when I came home, and I read the familiar parable of the sower again, after rolling my eyes at a garden story, my first thought this week was—this sower is really crazy. Gardening, farming, growing things out of seeds is hard enough work without this kind of reckless behavior. Sowing seed on the path? In the thorns? In rocks? Who does that? He was being wasteful and extravagant—and only making more work for himself later. I know—we spent a lot of time pulling plants up from where they didn’t belong.
Except, as we learned firsthand this week, unlikely places, and unlikely people, can be surprising places of grace and beauty. In Grays Ferry, a rough neighborhood many of us hadn’t been to before, we saw an abundant harvest, of vegetables and fruits and flowers, all lovingly cared for by a recovering drug addict. We saw a community that had come together to make a change for the better. We saw hope and redemption at a homeless shelter. We stayed at a church run school on North Broad street, doing everything it could to be a positive influence in the community.
A sower went out to sow, and scattered seed everywhere. Even in the places that didn’t seem like a good investment. Even in the places that common sense would have told you to avoid. Did it all take root? No. Will our seeds of love and service always take root? No, they won’t, not always. Will the seed of God’s love always land in receptive places in our own lives? Probably not.
If you want to look at it from a simple cost-benefit angle, it is wasteful to do what God does. To simply throw seed everywhere. But God doesn’t look at things from that angle. The seed itself is good, and God never tires of scattering it abundantly, extravagantly, and yes, even wastefully.
It might not all take root, but some of it will. And sometimes, it will take root in the places that didn’t seem like a good bet, in the places where it seemed wasteful to give it a chance to grow. And beauty will bloom out of the broken cracks that were there before.
Because when that seed takes hold, and grows roots, in my life, or your life, in the community—when it hits the right soil at the right time, we will be amazed by the results. I know that I was amazed this week—amazed at the beauty and growth and potential in the communities we were working with, but also amazed at the ways our group, our youth, was stretched and challenged and grew right before my eyes by the experiences God had placed in our path.
A sower went out to sow—and that sower sowed abundantly, extravagantly, even recklessly. The sower sowed in unlikely places, and in unlikely people. And thank God for that. Amen.
This year marks my third “colonial service” here at St. Paul’s, and it’s a tradition I have come to appreciate for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, it is important to always remember that our Christian faith and the gospel of Jesus Christ transcends nationalistic holidays; it transcends really, any division we seek to put upon ourselves as children of God: be it country, race, or gender.
But it also, we are reminded today, transcends time. In this service, we are invited to remember the generations and multitudes that have gone before us, not just at St. Paul’s, not just in America, but throughout the centuries of the faith. Every Sunday, we worship in communion with all the saints in heaven and on earth, but through this Sunday’s worship we have a more tangible reminder of it than usual.
Having been set free from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness. What does it mean to be free? We don’t often think of being set free in terms of becoming a slave to something. What is freedom? We usually think of freedom in terms of freedom from things. Freedom from the tyranny of a distant crown; freedom from government meddling in how we speak, associate, or worship; or even freedom from a meaningless job.
We measure freedom largely in terms of the degree to which we are free from constraints. Freedom is personal independence. It is the ability to think for ourselves, choose for ourselves, and do for ourselves, without being encumbered by outside influences, whether they are laws, the needs of others, or our own moral compass. That’s the kind of freedom we like to think and talk about around the fourth of July.
Except, that’s not at all the kind of freedom that Paul is talking about in this letter to the Romans. Paul is living in a different time and place that really has no concept of personal freedom. Individualism is not yet even a concept, let alone the dominant practice of the culture. And from that perspective, Paul is able to cut right through our modern myth of personal independence.
In Paul’s understanding, we are all enslaved. Not one of us is a truly independent being. Our allegiance, whether it is a conscious decision or not, belongs to something or someone. We’ve heard the expression, “He is a slave to fashion.” He lets the passing fads of the day dictate his choices—what he buys, what he wears.
What about, “She is a slave to fitness.” She arranges her life and relationships around trips to the gym and rigorous workouts. Some people have pledged their allegiance to personal wealth and are guided by the whims of Wall Street. If you want to know who your master is, pay attention to the thing that most often occupies your thoughts. Pay attention to how you spend your time and money.
The question is not whether we will follow someone or something, the question is not whether we will give our allegiance to someone, but the question is who? Who is going to have our allegiance? Because, like the golden age of baseball, there is no such thing as free agency. In order to play the game, you need to be owned by one team or another.
The teams of serving ourselves, of following our own best interests, as Paul says, obeying our passions, do not lead anywhere but death. Not literal death, but the death of compassion, the death of empathy. The teams of our business, or our family, or our whatever, above everything else leads to death. The death of community, the death of that which is bigger than ourselves.
But thanks be to God that we have been brought from death to life, that we have been bought from the powers of sin and self-interest buy the love of God incarnate in Jesus Christ. We who have once been slaves of sin have been set free from sin. Set free from that which seeks to control us, even within ourselves.
We have been set free, not in order that we might shake off all constraints, but we have been set free from sin in order that we might become slaves of righteousness. God’s love, God’s forgiveness and acceptance, set us free from that which binds us—even our own fears and limitations and shortcomings. But we are set free in order that we might be constrained by God’s righteousness. That we might be constrained by love of God and love of neighbor.
Martin Luther, in one of his more influential writings, titled, On the Freedom of a Christian, would have been able to give this whole sermon in his first two sentences: A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant, subject to all.
We cannot be free, truly free, unless we submit ourselves to God, the source of true freedom. We are not truly free unless, in God’s love, we are subject to one another. May the love of God, the grace of God which frees us all from the bonds of sin and self-centeredness, bless us in our love and service towards others. Amen.
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A woman grows increasingly fascinated with her body after suffering a disfiguring accident.
Marc, a traveling entertainer, is on his way home for Christmas when his van brakes in the middle of a jerkwater town with some strange inhabitans.
A group of youngsters go out to a disco on Christmas Eve and accidentally run into a shepherd who has prepared himself for a night of pure insanity.
A couple are looking for their child who was lost in the tsunami - their search takes them to the dangerous Thai-Burmese waters, and then into the jungle, where they face unknown but horrifying dangers.
Fervidly dark lovesick horror inspired by the real-life criminal duo, the Lonely Hearts Killers.
A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.
Lucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise... they're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night.
Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.
In the middle of a zombie apocalypse, a resourceful couple hides out in an isolated abandoned building. The woman is pregnant and the man is infected, slowly transforming into the kind of inhuman monster they are trying to escape.
The suggestion of a big treasure hidden somewhere inside Mrs Jessel's once renowned classical dance academy will become an irresistible lure to a fiendish trap for Lucie and her friends.
The Belcourt Cinema in Nashville warned ticket holders that they would not get a refund if they left the theater as In My Skin, a creepy French quasi-horror film about a girl who cuts into her body, played -- no matter how much they protested. Three people left the theater and one girl looked to be crying. I got light-headed, my forehead felt hot, my stomach wanted to void its contents, and my brain wanted me to flee -- and that was when she went to see the doctor about the cut on her leg. (I had to close my eyes and calm my thoughts for about a minute.) The wound was nasty but it was nothing compared to what she did to herself later. Most of the cutting happened off-camera which on made her actions more gruesome because the imagination had been activated. Just the sound alone was enough to make me cringe. When I slept later that night a nightmare haunted me. My leg was craved of all it flesh and muscle until nothing was left but bone. Yes, this movie truly disturbed me worse than anything I've ever seen. Worse than Texas Chain Saw Massacre or Hellraiser -- mainly because In My Skin was done as a real film. No, serial killers or demons from Hell, just a girl with mental problems.
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CCL group to NAWTEC 2018!
CCL members Tasnuva Moutushi, Grace Correa, Joseph Figueroa, Riliwan Sanni and Dr. Marco Castaldi and alumni Dr. Jeffrey Leblanc attended the Annual North American Waste to Energy Conference in Lancaster, PA. The students presented posters on their research related to waste-to-energy, and received great feedback and encouragement for their work. Go team!
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CCL student Riliwan Sanni has been accepted into the graduate program at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He will start his MS program at the Chemical and Biological Engineering department this Fall. Congratulations and good luck!
Professor Castaldi was featured on French TV for his research collaborations with Ecole des Mines, Albi investigating the valorization of biomass. In this segment, the TV show is highlighting the conversion of biomass to energy and to produce a char that has been demonstrated to be an effective catalyst in harsh environments.
Professor Castaldi was interviewed by CUNY Radio about his Fulbright Global Fellowship appointment conducting research on thermal conversion for sustainable waste management. Please listen to the short podcast for more information.
Dr. Marco J Castaldi, Dr. Simona Ciuta, and Demetra Tsiamis published a book on waste gasification and pyrolysis. This textbook explores the most recent gasification technologies developed worldwide to convert solid wastes to energy, synthesis gas, and chemical products. The authors examine the thermodynamic aspects, reaction mechanisms, and kinetic constraints of using various types of wastes as feedstock.
The book is recommended for engineering researchers, graduate students, industry professionals, municipal engineers, and decision makers when planning, designing, and deploying waste to energy projects.
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Two posts in two days? You bet – I’m trying to make up for lost time!
With fall having officially arrived just a couple days ago, I’ve been decorating for the new season all week. Mostly, I’ve just put up the same candles, lanterns, and decor we’ve had for years. I have a few autumn-related projects on my to-do list, so hopefully I’ll have those completed and can blog about them soon.
I did finish one craft this week, and I really wanted to share it with you. It’s a washi tape pumpkin garland.
And the end of fall last year, I picked up a pack of six mini plastic pumpkins from Michael’s.
They weren’t the greatest colors, but I thought I could use them for vase filler or maybe paint them (neon pumpkins, anyone?) and display them in a glass vase or something. Cut to this year when I took the bag of pumpkins out of my fall decorations storage tote. I had the idea to turn these cute little guys into a small garland. I knew that the six pumpkins would not make a long enough garland for the fireplace, so I thought a shorter garland would look nice paired with a fall print or chalkboard.
I still needed to figure out how to pretty the pumpkins up a bit. I didn’t feel like painting them (mostly, I didn’t want to set up cardboard and newspaper outside), so I tried to think of what I had around to change their color and pattern. Maybe decoupage using scrapbook paper? But, my laziness got the best of me when I realized it would be messy. I then got the idea to use washi tape. I have a ton of rolls, and while none were really fall-like, I realized I had some orange options and decided to go for it.
Before I got started taping, I tried figuring out how I would attach the pumpkins to some brown twine. I considered using a hot glue gun, but I wasn’t sure the pumpkins would hang nicely. I thought that cutting off the stem, putting hot glue under it, and then reattaching the stem with the twine underneath would be the best option. When I went to remove the stem, I was pleasantly surprised to see that it popped right off intact!
I left the stem off and taped up three of the pumpkins. I used a striped pattern on two of them and a herringbone pattern on the third. I did three continuous loops of washi tape around the pumpkins going right over the middle, and then a loop to the left of center and one to the right. For the part of the pumpkin left showing, I used short pieces of tape vertically on each side of the pumpkin. The tape ended up a little bit over the stem hole, but it didn’t matter. I just put the twine over the stem hole, then re-attached the stem.
The garland and framed chalkboard is currently sitting on a floating shelf behind the family room couch, along with some other fall decorations.
I love how these little pumpkins came out, especially with the little effort this DIY project took to do.
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This week the University springs into action as the first week of September begins, and new students accustom themselves to the Victoria University campus. This week’s blog post will be looking at another flurry of activity on Vic campus: the group of people who work behind the scenes tirelessly to make sure the Booksale is a big success!
The Victoria College Booksale volunteers are a knowledgeable, upbeat and diligent group of people, many of them alumni of Victoria University, and all of them friends and supporters of the Victoria University Library. They work all year round to organize for this September event, and the process is an involved one that relies upon the support and commitment of all those involved.
Donations of books are welcomed, received and processed over the course of the entire year, and drop-offs are encouraged a good six or more months in advance. Starting in November, books are already beginning to be organized and processed for the following year’s Booksale.
Volunteers will spend hours down in the basement of the Victoria University library, in the cold days of winter to the balmy days of summer, pouring over book donations and sorting them. The Booksale has over 50 different categories, which include popular genres such as Cooking, English Lit, Film or Mysteries, but also includes many lesser known genres such as Astronomy, Environmental Studies, Fantasy , and the always exciting Rare Book section, well-loved by book collectors and students alike. The Booksale also boasts sizeable CD, DVD and Vinyl sections, which hold some great treasures to be touched upon in next week’s post.
book’s condition, the edition of the book, the popularity or obscurity of the book, of course the topic of the book and lastly whether the book may be a collectible or of rare value.
We are all very grateful for the hard work that all of our volunteers put in throughout the entire year, but especially during these last few weeks when the push is on!
Interesting in getting involved right now, while the excitement is mounting? We are encouraging students or recent alumni of Victoria University who can commit themselves to a few hours of volunteer work on days leading up to the sale, to help assist moving boxes of books into Old Vic and setting them up in their categories. For more information on assisting us in the next couple weeks, please contact Sarah Gough at 416-585-4471.
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^ a b “Segmentation in Tardigrada and diversification of segmental patterns in Panarthropoda” (英語). Arthropod Structure & Development 46 (3): 328–340. (2017-05-01). doi:10.1016/j.asd.2016.10.005. ISSN 1467-8039. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1467803916301487.
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A collection of electric vehicle videos that include my projects and events I have been to, enjoy.
-The Wisconsin electric auto association meet at the Milwaukee Makerspace, Video done by Ben Nelson.
-AMA (American Motorcyclist Association) made a short video of my “Zion” electric motorcycle at the mid-ohio TTXGP event.
-Proof that electric motors produce 100% torque at ZERO rpm!
-One of my favorites, proving electric power is still capable of scorching tires!
-My brother took this footage at the 2009 Michigan electric vehicle rally.
-Another video from someone at the 2009 Michigan electric vehicle rally.
-TTXGP Mid-Ohio race track, I believe the second time around the track.
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I know that a bit of real deep and grateful experience like my grandfather’s is sure to suit you even as it does me. We rejoice to hear from our old friend. The Lord bless thee. You are now enjoying ripe fruit. The Gospel is good when it is green and new to us, but it suits us better and better as our autumn of life mellows our knowledge. We have no inclination to change’ I might almost say “no temptation to alter.” None but Jesus; nothing but grace. Our love to you. I am slowly improving.
The Wednesday Word: Ministry Through Mercy!
Alexander the Great was sculpted with his hand resting on his face, as if in contemplation. But the real purpose was to hide an ugly scar on his cheek.
The German emperor, Wilhelm II, was photographed and painted standing in such a position that his withered arm would not appear.
All of us have imperfections and not just physical ones. Some of us feel mentally scarred by our life and failures. Unfortunately, our wounds (self-inflicted and otherwise) incorrectly inform our psyche that God will never use us again.
And this is confirmed by the censorious and disapproving who tell us that the Lord is finished with us? Let me ask, who lied and said God wanted nothing more to do with you? Who told you that you are flawed and thus unusable? Such a prophet of doom needs someone to teach them the Gospel and its applications.
Christ Jesus has always done His work with broken things. But sub-consciously we applaud only the strong, the successful, the slick and the unmarked. God, however, is the God who will not abandon the unsuccessful. He is the God of those who have failed. He is the God of the defective and the damaged.
John Mark was a failure on the mission field.
The Lord used them, and He can use you!
Peter was afraid to die.
Rahab used to run a brothel.
We are not an impressive lot, but we have an impressive Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no bruised reed that He cannot bring back. There is no one to whom He cannot convey restoration (Matthew 12:20).
Someone once said, “I was never of any use until I found out that God did not intend me to be a great man.” I like that. There’s no pressure on us to be great or perfect in every decision we make. The Lord does not base His love for us on our performance.
Now here’s the thing, we should never disqualify ourselves because of our flaws.
In Nehemiah 4:2, some people couldn’t believe that Nehemiah was going to rebuild the city walls with old burnt stones. What they were really saying is, you can’t do anything with this rubbish. Could it be that too many people have said that about us? According to them, we’re no good, we are failures, we’re all messed up. We have been put on the trash heap.
He is our worthiness (Revelation 5:12). Mercy is our qualification for ministry (2 Corinthians 4:1). We need nothing more but nothing less!
If Christ’s death was intended to save all men, then we must say that God was either unable or unwilling to carry out His plans. But since the work of God is always efficient, those for whom atonement was made and those who are actually saved must be the same people. Arminians suppose that the purposes of God are mutable, and that His purposes may fail. In saying that He sent His Son to redeem all men, but that after seeing that such a plan could not be carried out He “elected” those whom He foresaw would have faith and repent, they represent Him as willing what never takes place, — as suspending His purposes and plans upon the volitions and actions of creatures who are totally dependent on Him. No rational being who has the wisdom and power to carry out his plans intends what he never accomplishes or adopts plans for an end which is never attained. Much less would God, whose — wisdom and power are infinite, work in this manner. We may rest assured that if some men are lost God never purposed their salvation, and never devised and put into operation means designed to accomplish that end.
Jesus Himself limited the purpose of His death when He said, “I lay down my life for the sheep.” If, therefore, He laid down His life for the sheep, the atoning character of His work was not universal. On another occasion He said to the Pharisees, “Ye are not my sheep;” and again, “Ye are of your father the Devil.” Will anyone maintain that He laid down His life for these, seeing that He so pointedly excludes them? The angel which appeared to Joseph told him that Mary’s son was to be called JESUS, because His mission in the world was to save His people from their sins. He then came not merely to make salvation possible but actually to save His people; and what He came to do we may confidently expect Him to have accomplished.
Since the work of God is never in vain, those who are chosen by the Father, those who are redeemed by the Son, and those who are sanctified by the Holy Spirit, — or in other words, election, redemption and sanctification, — must include the same persons. The Arminian doctrine of a universal atonement makes these unequal and thereby destroys the perfect harmony within the Trinity. Universal redemption means universal salvation.
Christ declared that the elect and the redeemed were the same people when in the intercessory prayer He said. “Thine they were, and thou gavest them to me,” and “I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine: and all things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them,” John 17:6, 9, 10. And again, “I am the good shepherd; and I know my own, and mine own know me, even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep,” John 10:14, 15. The same teaching is found when we are told to “feed the Church of the Lord which He purchased with His own blood,” Acts 20:28. We are told that “Christ loved the Church, and gave Himself for it,” Ephesians 5:25; and that He laid down His life for His friends, John 15:13. Christ died for such as were Paul and John, not for such as were Pharaoh and Judas, who were” goats and not sheep. We cannot say that His death was intended for all unless we say that Pharaoh, Judas, etc., were of the sheep, friends, and Church of Christ.
Furthermore, when it is said that Christ gave His life for His Church, or for His people, we find it impossible to believe that He gave Himself as much for reprobates as for those whom He intended to save. Mankind is divided into two classes and what is distinctly affirmed of one is impliedly denied of the other. In each case something is said of those who belong to one group which is not true of those who belong to the other. When it is said that a man labors and sacrifices health and strength for his children, it is thereby denied that the motive which controls him is mere philanthropy, or that the design he has in view is the good of society. And when it is said that Christ died for His people it is denied that He died equally for all men.
It has been well pointed out that “it is very obvious that because God is an intelligence He must have a plan. If He be an absolutely perfect intelligence, desiring and designing nothing but good; if He be an eternal and immutable intelligence, His plan must be one, eternal, all-comprehensive, immutable; that is, all things from His point of view must constitute one system and sustain a perfect logical relation in all its parts. Nevertheless, like all other comprehensive systems it must itself be composed of an infinite number of subordinate systems. In this respect it is like these heavens which He has made, and which He has hung before our eyes, as a type and pattern of His mode of thinking and planning in all providence.
“We know that in the solar system our earth is a satellite of one of the great suns, and of this particular system we have a knowledge because of our position, but we know that this system is only one of myriads, with variations, that have been launched in the great abyss of space. So we know that this great, all-comprehensive plan of God, considered as one system, must contain a great many subordinate systems which might be studied profitably if we were in the position to do so, as self-contained whole, separate from the rest” (Lectures by A. A. Hodge). That “one system” or the eternal “plan” of God was comprised in the everlasting covenant; the many “subordinate systems” are the various covenants God made with different ones from time.
The first is the Jew; to him the gospel is a stumblingblock. A respectable man the Jew was in his day; all formal religion was concentrated in his person; he went up to the temple very devoutly; he tithed all he had, even to the mint and the cummin. You would see him fasting twice in the week, with a face all marked with sadness and sorrow. If you looked at him, he had the law between his eyes; there was the phylactery, and the borders of his garments of amazing width, that he might never be supposed to be a Gentile dog; that no one might ever conceive that he was not a Hebrew of pure descent. He had a holy ancestry; he came of a pious family; a right good man was he. He could not endure those Sadducees at all, who had no religion. He was thoroughly a religious man; he stood up for his synagogue; he would not have that temple on Mount Gerizim; he could not bear the Samaritans, he had no dealings with them; he was a religionist of the first order, a man of the very finest kind; a specimen of a man who is a moralist, and who loves the ceremonies of the law. Accordingly, when he heard about Christ, he asked who Christ was. “The Son of a carpenter.” “Ah!” “The son of a carpenter, and his mother’s name was Mary, and his father’s name Joseph.” “That of itself is presumption enough,” said he, “positive proof, in fact, that he cannot be the Messiah. And what does he say?” “Why he says, ‘Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites.’” “That won’t do.” “Moreover,” he says, “‘It is not by the works of the flesh that any man can enter into the kingdom of heaven.’” The Jew tied a double knot in his phylactery at once; he thought he would have the borders of his garment made twice as broad. He bow to the Nazarine! No, no; and if so much as a disciple crossed the street, he thought the place polluted, and would not tread in his steps. Do you think he would give up his old father’s religion-the religion which came from Mount Sinai-that old religion that lay in the ark and the overshadowing cherubim? He give that up? not he. A vile impostor-that is all Christ was in his eyes. He thought so. “A stumblingblock to me! I cannot hear about it! I will not listen to it.” Accordingly, he turned a deaf ear to all the Preacher’s eloquence and listened not at all. Farewell, old Jew. Thou sleepest with thy fathers, and thy generation is a wandering race, still walking the earth. Farewell, I have done with thee. Alas! poor wretch, that Christ who was thy stumbling block, shall be thy Judge, and on thy head shall be that loud curse: “His blood be on us and on our children.” But I am going to find out Mr. Jew here in Exeter Hall- persons who answer to his description-to whom Jesus Christ is a stumblingblock. Let me introduce you to yourselves, some of you. You were of a pious family too, were you not? Yes. And you have a religion which you love- you love it so far as the chrysalis of it goes, the outside, the covering, the husk. You would not have one rubric altered, nor one of those dear old arches taken down, nor the stained glass removed for all the world; and any man who should say a word against such things, you would set down as a heretic at once. Or, perhaps you do not go to such a place of worship, but you love some plain old meetinghouse, where your forefathers worshipped, called a dissenting chapel. Ah; it is a beautiful plain place; you love it, you love its ordinances, you love its exterior; and if anyone spoke against the place, how vexed you would feel. You think that what they do there, they ought to do everywhere; in fact your church is a model one; the place where you go, is exactly the sort of place for everybody; and if I were to ask you why you hope to go to heaven, you would, perhaps, say, “Because I am a Baptist,” or, “Because I am an Episcopalian,” or whatever other sect you belong to. There is yourself; I know Jesus Christ will be to you a stumblingblock. If I come and tell you that all your going to the house of God is good for nothing; if I tell you that all those many times you have been singing and praying, all pass for nothing in the sight of God, because you are a hypocrite and a formalist. If I tell you that your heart is not right with God, and that unless it is so, all the external is good for nothing, I know what you will say — “I shan’t hear that young man again.” It is a stumblingblock. If you had stepped in anywhere where you had heard formalism exalted; if you had been told “this must you do, and this other must you do, and then you will be saved,” you would highly approve of it. But how many are there externally religious, with whose characters you could find no fault, but who have never had the regenerating influence of the Holy Ghost; who never were made to lie prostrate on their face before Calvary’s cross; who never turned a wishful eye to yonder Savior crucified; who never put their trust in him that was slain for the sons of men. They love a superficial religion, but when a man talks deeper than that, they set it down for cant. You may love all that is external about religion, just as you may love a man for his clothes-caring nothing for the man himself. If so, I know you are one of those who reject the gospel. You will hear me preach; and while I speak about the externals, you will hear me with attention; whilst I plead for morality, and argue against drunkenness, or show the heinousness of Sabbath-breaking, all well and good; but if once I say, “Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye can in no wise enter into the kingdom of God;” if once I tell you that you must be elected of God-that you must be purchased with the Savior’s blood-that you must be converted by the Holy Ghost-you say, “He is a fanatic! Away with him, away with him! We do not want to hear that any more.” Christ crucified, is to the Jew-the ceremonialist-a stumblingblock.
The uncertainty which had until now, marked the nation of which Messiah should come, and the scene of his achievements, was here dissipated. The family of Abraham is designated, and of that family the tribe of Judah, and of the tribe of Judah the house of David. Each successive development narrows down the circle, and makes the investigation of Christ’s claims to the divine mission, when he shall come, more simple and certain. Yet many centuries are to pass before his advent. Other measures must therefore be adopted, such as that on his appearing, it shall be known beyond the possibility of a doubt, that he is the very Christ promised to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob, to Judah, and to David. Of these measures, what are to be the nature and character?
To [Rev. A. S. Patton].
I do not know who “the sainted gentleman” may be, but he did not speak the truth if he reported me as saying that I hated a close-communion Baptist as I hate the devil. I never even thought of such a thing, and assuredly it is not and never was true of me. The “saint” must have dreamed it, or have mistaken the person.
The most unaccountable statements are made by men of known integrity, and they can only be accounted for by misunder-standing or forgetfulness. I know my own mind and views, and I can say, without reserve, that the expression could not have been used by me. As compared with the bulk of English Baptists, I am a strict-communionist myself, as my churchfellowship is strictly of the baptized.
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Began as a Naga Artificer on Jan 19, 2018.
The game lasted 00:00:49 (491 turns).
The hobgoblin is heavily wounded.
The puff of flame misses the hobgoblin. The hobgoblin hits you with a club.
0 | D:1 | shotax the Naga Artificer began the quest for the Orb.
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Emma, a 2014 Tempo participant, now works as the School Chaplain to Wilson’s Hospital Boarding School and Diocesan Youth and Children’s Officer in the Church of Ireland Dioceses of Meath and Kildare.
Emma: I’m currently working in dual roles as School Chaplain to Wilson’s Hospital Boarding School and Diocesan Youth and Children’s Officer in the Church of Ireland Dioceses of Meath and Kildare. At the time of Tempo I was a secondary school teacher and I’ve moved into these roles for a couple of reasons. I became more convinced that I wanted to be involved in youth and school’s work, but in a more unconventional role than teaching. I felt very restricted by the Irish examination system and since I can’t single-handedly bring it down, my new role allows me to a bit more creative in how I come alongside pupils as they navigate these difficult years. Another reason I went for this job was that I was curious to see how I would get on working in a more explicitly “Christian” job where I could be a bit more straightforward in conversations about faith and letting people know they are loved. The main reason was that, in spite of myself, I knew I was being called into the roles as I came from a rural Church of Ireland and Boarding School background and I knew I would be able to “speak the language” and hopefully be of some use in building the Kingdom in that context.
Emma: Tempo provided inspiration and direction at a time when I was really in doubt about what I was doing with my life professionally. The single most important question I have ever been asked professionally was at the centre of the Tempo experience: how would your context look different if the Kingdom of God came? That reflective question was the catalyst for so much of the activity I began in my last year as a teacher in a secondary school. At the time I was heartbroken when, during the Tempo course, it became clear my time at the school was coming to an end (career break cover that had always been uncertain). Looking back now I see that a great future was around the corner and that in the meantime I lived so much more confidently, meaningfully and faithfully because of the dreams and plans that the Tempo course caused me to put into action in work. Even though some of the projects never had a chance to develop into what I had dreamed, the experience I gained by starting them, and the relationships that I built because of those “start ups” were so invaluable – both personally and professionally in my new roles. I know I would have stayed in the comfortable rut that year if I hadn’t had the input from the course and the encouragement and accountability of the other participants on Tempo. Tempo also linked me in with the work of Innovista in general and I really benefitted from their Leading for Life event as a kind of top up of inspiration after Tempo had been done for a while.
Emma: Listening to your context was an important principle that has been useful in the move to a new part of Ireland and a new job. I’ve been navigating the difficult terrain of trying to pitch in to “the way we do things round here” and at the same time, injecting some energy and new perspectives, so the listening piece has been great to help me do that more sensitively. I do struggle with throwing myself into different opportunities as they arise, but I constantly have the Tempo lessons about vision and strategy floating around the back of my mind. That knowledge has been making me really determined to set aside some time to think about the bigger picture and think more long-term.
Emma: In terms of prayer my biggest problem is definitely that the jobs can be all-consuming, because they require so much creativity and energy. This coupled with the fact that I can become a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to a project I care about, is a bit of a recipe for fatigue and losing your sense of purpose. I am always happy to be prayed for about discipline, forming healthy routines, taking space to spend time with God and remember what it’s all about!
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2019-04-19T15:10:35Z
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https://innovistaireland.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/where-are-they-now-emma/
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The best way to remember is to write it down. As a writer of moments big and small, I just had to write about this one–the biggest moment of my life. It has forever changed me.
All of the cliche things are true: it’s magical, painful, scary, and it’s the most wonderful thing ever. I’m still in awe of what my body is capable of doing.
Before I jump in, I’d like to backtrack a little bit. If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll know that last year I had a miscarriage. It was devastating–the most emotionally painful thing I’ve ever experienced. I’ve never felt so empty, lonely, or sad before (you can read more about that HERE). It is true–that time heals. Because of this experience, I was terrified to become pregnant again (you can read more about that HERE). I wasn’t scared of becoming a mother, or losing my identity. I was scared to lose another baby.
My pregnancy wasn’t easy. Each day was a milestone for me. I grew a little more confident as the weeks passed, but deep down I knew it could all be taken away at any moment. I was guarded; I felt robbed of a carefree, easy going, excited pregnancy. I’d gone to the doctors office more times than I can count (even more than the usual appointments) because I experienced bleeding throughout my entire pregnancy. This might be too many details–but it is what scared me the most. Every time it showed up, I panicked. This is how my miscarriage started last time. But this time was different as I was continually reassured by a heartbeat that everything was going just fine, and the doctor would say, “bleeding can be common and normal.” It would go away for a while, and I’d be so thankful. And then it would show up again; I was dizzy with fear. What if I lost this baby, too?
At 33 weeks pregnant, the bleeding showed up again. We rushed to the ER and it was determined that this was “normal pregnancy stuff, as my body was preparing for birth.” I was dilated 1cm, which is also totally normal. What was strange though, was my abnormally high blood pressure. I am usually praised for having low blood pressure. Just to be safe, they did a swab test to see if baby could perhaps, come early. The test (fetal fibronectin), if negative, means it’s close to 100% that baby will not come early. However, if positive, there is a 10-20% chance that baby could arrive within 7-10 days. This is a small percentage, and there are often false positives; mine was positive. To be on the safe side, I was given steroid shots (betamethasone) which would boost baby’s lungs (which were still developing) just in case of an early arrival. The resident doctor assured me of the small percentages and sent me home. I arrived the next day to get the second dose of the steroid shot, and my blood pressure was even higher. Because of this, they admitted me for several hours to observe if it changed. It only got higher, and I had protein in my urine. I was diagnosed with gestational hypertension. This diagnosis meant that I would be induced at 37 weeks. I was nervous that my baby would be born 3 weeks early, and via induction.
We assumed we would be told “this is normal”, and be sent home, so we left our packed suitcases at home. The drive was a blur. It hurt to sit in the car; I felt like I was squishing baby’s head. I thought my hips were going to crack apart. I began to breathe differently, and then Codey knew this time was different. By the time we got to the hospital at 1:30 am, I had trouble speaking because the pain was pretty intense. The pain is hard to describe…but it felt like my lower back and uterus were in vice that kept tightening. The triage nurse who I had spoken with on the phone a half hour before was my nurse as I arrived. She attempted casual conversations with me, and I began to shake uncontrollably; I couldn’t stop. This actually scared me. It felt like I wasn’t even in my body anymore. The bleeding got worse. The nurse rushed to find a doctor to examine me. The doctors were too busy. “I’m not supposed to do exams,” she said, “but I’m going to do it anyway.” She examined me and said, “oh, yep. You’re 5 cm dilated, you’re going upstairs to labor and delivery. Gosh, you seemed so calm on the phone!” I couldn’t talk. She stuck an IV in my wrist, and asked me about pain management. Codey spoke up for me, as he knew my wishes. “She’d like to attempt natural childbirth, but isn’t against an epidural if it comes to it.” The IV was for antibiotics as I had never done the Strep B test (which is done at 35 weeks). Things progressed so fast, I didn’t even get the antibiotics and my IV was never hooked up.
The nurses in the ER said, “congratulations!” as I was wheeled out of there and into the elevator. Once there, my nurse said, “almost all 34 weekers will be okay, so don’t worry.” Just then it hit me and I began to panic a little bit: my baby was going to be born a month and a half early.
Once we got to the labor and delivery room, everything was really a blur. I remember the nurse who greeted me there was so kind and warm and made me feel comfortable (as comfortable as can be, I guess, when you’re giving birth to a human). She helped me change into a gown and blood was dripping down my legs. I felt an enormous amount of pressure and insisted I had to go to the bathroom. She helped me sit down, and obviously I didn’t have to go to the bathroom, my baby wanted to come out! I climbed into the bed and stayed on my hands and knees as the rushes of pain got more and more intense. I couldn’t lie down on my back because it hurt too much. Another nurse was called in and so was a delivery doctor (not my doctor, because this was very short notice). They examined me and I was at 8 cm. Everything progressed so fast–to me, the entire thing felt like 20 minutes. And just like that, I was at 10 cm. No time for pain management. I rolled over onto my back and they told me to push. The encouraging nurse held one foot and Codey held the other. My mom arrived just in time. Baby’s heart rate dropped, so they broke my water. I was given oxygen and was told, “Okay. You have to push baby out in the next couple of pushes, or we will need to use forceps.” The thought of big metal prongs pulling my baby out by his fragile head scared the hell out of me, so I pushed! After several big pushes, I remember saying, “I can’t.” Everyone cheered me on. I’ve never been cheered on that hard before. As baby’s head came out (the “ring of fire” description is no joke), Codey said, “he’s beautiful!” and I couldn’t believe it was over already. I had it built up in my head that labor would last forever. Two hours after arriving, at 3:31 am, our baby boy was born. He didn’t cry.
Baby was whisked away to make certain that he could breathe. The doctors were so surprised he could breathe on his own–all thanks to that steroid shot the week prior. He was small, 4 lbs 12 oz, and 17″ long. Codey cut the cord, baby was cleaned up, and I held baby on my chest for a few moments. I couldn’t believe my baby boy was here. Codey and I had a short list of names, and we decided then and there that he’d be called Arthur. After our very brief moment, baby and Codey went upstairs to the NICU.
I remember feeling so confused. Why is my baby somewhere else? It’s like I forgot that he was born prematurely and that he needed intensive care. My mom stayed with me as the doctors cleaned me up. I’m glad she was there–otherwise I would’ve been all alone. The nurse pressed really hard on my belly and it hurt. The doctor examined the placenta and said that I had Placental Abruption; he said it with a very serious tone. Placental Abruption (occurs in 1% of pregnancies) is when the placenta breaks away from the uterus, and causes bleeding–and in some cases, a hemorrhage; it deprives the baby of oxygen, and causes severe back pain. He said I’m lucky I got to the hospital when I did or things could’ve been worse. In the moment, I didn’t realize how serious this was or how close to danger we were.
They added a few stitches and continued to press on my belly. The nurse gave me a bagel with cream cheese–I was shaky and starving. She helped spray me off in a stand up shower, and helped dress me in some hospital socks, undies, and a clean gown. Then she showed me how to use a breast pump–which was so other-wordly to me. The last thing I wanted to do was try to use a breast pump while my baby was somewhere else. But I was assured that it would encourage my milk to come in–and premature babies thrive best on breast milk. I was determined to breastfeed and to provide for my baby. This interim time of belly pressing, and pumping seemed to drag on for an eternity.
Recovering after birth was not how I imagined it to be. I had imagined snuggling my newborn bundle in my hospital bed and remembering every small detail with my husband as our family became three. I do remember the small details, but I didn’t get to snuggle my baby in my bed.
As the time kept crawling by, Codey and my Dad eventually came back to the delivery room, all smiles telling me that Arthur was doing great in the NICU. Because I didn’t have an epidural, my legs weren’t numb, so I could thankfully get out of there sooner than if I had one. The nurse pressed on my belly one more time and said, “are you ready to go see your son?” I cried happy tears–my heart was in another room waiting for me. I would’ve leapt off the bed, but I couldn’t. She helped me into a wheel chair and wheeled me to the elevator. We went up to the top floor where the NICU was. After getting off of the elevator, we had to fill out some paperwork at the check-in counter and sanitize our hands. Then the greeter pressed a button to open the doors to the NICU and I was wheeled inside. Arthur was in room 11; I was went past door after door of rooms with baby names on the outside: Carter, Pearl, Mason, Teddy, Peyton…eventually we got to ours: Arthur. The glass door slid open to a dimly lit, quiet room.
I’d only met him briefly in the labor and delivery room, and already he looked different. He was all curled up in his crib connected to wires. I was pushed closer so I could reach out to him. I was a little scared to touch him as he seemed so fragile in this new environment. I said, “hello, mom’s here,” and then the tears quickly fell from my eyes staining my hot cheeks. A kind nurse lifted him out and put him on my chest as I sat in the wheelchair. I was in shock and awe–I was holding my precious baby–my strong little rainbow. I can’t begin to describe how it feels to finally hold the person you’ve been carrying for months. After our visit I was wheeled down to my recovery room on the post partum floor. Although Arthur was just upstairs, the lump in my throat was hard to swallow as I left him.
The rooms that lined the hallway next to mine were joyful. Doors opened showing moms snuggling their newborn babies in their beds, surrounded by excited family members ooh-ing and ahh-ing. The little infant cries I could hear through my closed door broke my heart. I couldn’t hear if my baby was crying upstairs. I couldn’t rest. At this point, I had been up for two days straight and was barely able to function, but my heart felt broken. Codey reassured me of what the doctor had said, that the average NICU stay for a strong baby who can breathe on their own is only one week–and our baby was strong–his stay would be short.
The days all melded together. Due to bladder trauma, I had to stay admitted for an extra day. Like I said before, I couldn’t rest. I did begin to wonder when I’d ever walk like a normal person again, or be able to sit down without grimacing. Caring for myself and any thoughts on healing were far from my mind. It was honestly just something I had to deal with–the more pressing matter was going upstairs to see my son and assuring him that I was there and he wasn’t alone.
Resting in a hospital is kind of a joke. Dr’s and nurses come in and out every few hours (which is great healthcare! but I was exhausted). I saw a lactation consultant several times and instead of counseling me on the perfect latch, she made sure my pump flanges were the correct size. Pumping turned into my job. I pumped every 3 hours around the clock–I was determined to provide food for my baby. Because I couldn’t be with Arthur 24/7, pumping became the very first way I could care for him as his mother. Each night I pumped several times and Codey proudly took the minuscule amounts of milk upstairs to the fridge in Arthur’s room like it was his job. One night Codey was sleeping so hard, and I didn’t want to wake him; I slowly made my way to Arthur’s room. My nurse said she could bring the milk up for me, but I wanted to see my baby. It was 2:00am and he was peacefully sound asleep. I put the milk in the fridge and told him I’d be back soon. On my way out, a nurse showed me a closet full of handmade blankets; I got to choose one. The blanket is snuggly and made of flannel. Of all the bold and colorful prints, I chose the one with Winnie the Pooh and friends. This very sweet gesture made me cry.
On the fourth night of my baby’s life, I left him in the hospital and went home. I was discharged, and he wasn’t. He was alone, without us. I sobbed the entire walk through the NICU, in the elevator, and all the way to our car. People stared and I didn’t even care. Arthur’s nurses encouraged Codey and I to go get some sleep in our own bed. Well meaning friends had told us various forms of: “enjoy the rest while you can!” This statement seemed kind in theory, but it hurt me; how could I rest when my brand new baby was without me–his nurturer, his mother?
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2019-04-23T14:37:25Z
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Quite a lot of people in Germany and in the aereas of “Francophonie” have family connections to France. I therefor am happy to introduce the recently founded ACADEMIE MUSICALE LIESSE.
Probably not everybody ever heard of “Liesse” – and indeed we will have to search for Liesse Notre Dame/Aisne, near Laon, NorthEast of Paris, not that far from the border to Belgium.
The geolocation fixed, we now learn, what this rather small place with approx. 1.200 inhabitants at present has remarkable things to offer to the world, which is a Catholix pilgrimage to a statue of “Our Lady of Liesse” being the patron saint of the Diocese of Soissons, in which lot of remarkable churches including the gothic Cathedral of Laon.
It is here in this place “Liesse (Notre Dame)” that they set up in 2014 – the really must be audacious! – a new boarding school with majors in music, the “Academie musicale de Liesse”. which has remarkable back up and is “protegeé” par Sa Altesse Royale, le Princesse de Hannovre, Stefanie de Monaco! Full stop!
The special thing with this foundation however is, that they set up a NATIONWIDE Foundation aimed to SPREAD this type of “Academie musicale” embedded in secondary school-education all over the territories of France – and indeed at moment are busy with the start-up of a SECOND school in type of “Academie msuicale de Liesse”, which such is figuring as some sort of “pivot element” in their plans and schemes.
We may such get the impression, that they really have SOME aspirations – and which in my personal view is most important – DO MUSIC EDUCATION ON INTERNATIONAL LEVEL being FIT for festivals and competitions. We may even say that they are spreading some sort of “Catholic optimism and esprit d’pioner”, that was special to St. Benedict as he startet to set into effect a GENERAL PLAN for CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT of the entire of EUROPE – but under the sign of the Christian Cross. So this new enterprise of “Academie musicale Liesse” certainly is not for those, that can be freightened by small words like “Catholic” and/or “Rome”!
And now – last but not least – comes the one important thing on this planet,which is the problem of FUNDING and ASSISTANCE with OTHER types of help, such for instance giveaway of books, donation of buildings (by means of testamentary last will?) and organizing concerts and other forms of participating in SUPPORT activities. Please visit URL https://www.academiemusicaledeliesse.fr/comment-nous-aider – where your have DIRECT links to ACADEMIE MUSICALE DE LIESSE.
Vierge de Liesse, nous te chantons.
Vierge de Liesse, nous te prions.
et Jésus ton enfant est béni.
maintenant et à l’heure de la mort.
And what has all this to do with me personally beyond just familiy history connecting me to French arigins from mother’s side? To make it short: We met the geographical name SOISSONS. And once there was a certain OLYMPIA MANZINI, relative of Cardinal Mazarin, which by marriage somehow became Comtess de (county of) SOISSONS, which was a minor filiation of the Royal House of Savoy – and the most famous descendant of this Olimpia Manzini family-branch was PRINCE EUGENE OF SAVOY, who later became the MOST IMPORTANT GENERALISSIMUS during the AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN TURKISH WARS of the Habsburgs Emperors, which certainly would not have been worth mentionioning, if not I myself happened to write 2 books on the Belgrad-campaigne of 1717 of said Prince Eugene.
And such we learn: The world is small – and GLOBAL VILLAGE we had in former centuries since long!
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2019-04-21T12:55:00Z
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What I’m Up To These Days….
I’ve been in England for two weeks now. Lectures began last Monday.
This is my final year, and I’m determined to make the most of it – which means I’ll try to find the time to visit galleries and museums in London, read all sorts of books, and concentrate more on my studies.
Anyway, my room is such a mess that taking this little picture was not even easy. A Manual for Cleaning Women aside, the books arrived on Friday. I hope – I will try my best – to read all of them before the year ends. I initially wanted to read the Booker Prize nominees first, but I lost my debit card and couldn’t order anything for 1 week! So it would’ve been virtually impossible to read them in 3 weeks or so with my lectures.
A Manual for Cleaning Women: I bought the book in Waterstones during the Fresher’s Week because I didn’t have anything to read in my room. I’m halfway through it, but I’ll read it sporadically now that I’ve received my other books – the reason being that reading nearly 400 pages of short stories can get very tiresome. I like it though.
This Is How You Lose Her: I had already added the books I wanted to read to my Amazon basket even before I actually obtained my debit card back. However, when checking out I noticed that two collections of short stories present in the cart were by Irish authors. So I kept one (Young Skins by Colin Barrett), saved the other (Dark Lies the Island by Kevin Barry) and added Junot Diaz’s short stories, because he writes from a different background and I was very impatient to discover his writing. I’m currently reading and loving it!
The Vegetarian: The Man Booker International Prize 2016. At first I didn’t want to read it that bad. But I read how the translator, Deborah Smith, learned Korean shortly after finishing university at 21 and how she ended up translating The Vegetarian. I can completely relate to her feeling that she needed to do something different, that will make her stand out, after graduating. I can’t wait to read this book!
The Art of the Short Story: I’m loving reading short stories at the moment so I was very interested when I saw this book on goodreads. Paris Review is synonymous with quality and its selection of short stories (twenty in total) looks very promising. I like how each of them is given an introduction, so that we can witness the art of ”shortstorytelling” in different settings and styles.
The Sympathizer: This book won so many awards, among which is the Pulitzer. I added it to my tbr list because I wanted to read more books by Asians or authors of Asian descent. What made me want to actually read it now is simply the fact that it is one of the best books of 2016. In 2017 I’ll have my eyes set on different books and might end up forgetting it. So now is the right time, I think, to read it.
Good luck with your last year! Oh my dream is to visit museums in London one day!
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Jane Lynch was born on July 14, 1960 in Dolton, Illinois, USA as Jane Marie Lynch. She is an actress, known for Glee (2009), Wreck-It Ralph (2012) and Role Models (2008). She was previously married to Lara Embry.
Lauren Potter was born on May 10, 1990 in Inland Empire, California, USA as Lauren Elizabeth Potter. She is an actress and producer, known for Glee (2009), Guest Room (2015) and Mr. Blue Sky (2007).
Dot-Marie Jones was born on January 4, 1964 in Turlock, California, USA as Dorothy Marie Jones. She is an actress, known for The Boondock Saints (1999), Glee (2009) and Married with Children (1986). She has been married to Bridgett Casteen since December 21, 2013.
Karla Crome was born on June 22, 1989 in London, England. She is an actress and writer, known for Under the Dome (2013), Misfits (2009) and National Theatre Live: Amadeus (2017).
Sherri Saum was born on October 1, 1974 in Dayton, Ohio, USA as Sherri M. Saum. She is an actress and producer, known for Sunset Beach (1997), One Life to Live (1968) and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001).
Amanda Leighton is an actress, known for This Is Us (2016), The Fosters (2013) and Trolls: The Beat Goes On! (2018).
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Questions, comments, concerns? Review copies, interviews, guest posts?
How goes the diet soda struggle Jennifer? For me, not too good.
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Picking up where I left off last time: the night before last, Graham cola_fan and Alex oniugnip and I went out to a bar for the birthday party of a friend-of-a-friend of Graham. The bar was full of hipsters. We could have been in Portland, except that everyone there probably spoke three or four languages at a minimum. I didn't have the slightest idea how to order a screwdriver, so someone else ordered for me; later, I realized that I probably could have ordered one of the numerous mixed drinks that have Spanish names. We were out until two in the morning, and on the way home, we stopped at the xurrería for xurros, which I was familiar with from having had them thrust at me on sticks while walking around the Mission. I had never realized that they were from Spain, though. In Barcelona as in San Francisco, they're the ideal food for walking home after a night at a bar.
In the morning, we woke up promptly at nine -- Indiana time, that is. In Barcelona it was, in fact, three in the afternoon. All our pre-trip efforts to change phase had been for naught, it seemed. Luckily, Graham and Xana had slept late, too, and they weren't upset that we didn't get out of the apartment until late afternoon. We took the metro over to the race expo at the Plaça d'Espanya to pick up our marathon packets. It looked a lot like a race expo in the States does -- lots of sportswear vendors trying to capitalize on the fact that many thousands of runners are all briefly in one place. The packets included our official race shirts and numbers and timing chips, as well as the usual pile of "hey, come run our marathon, too!" advertisements just like they do in the States, except that this time the races being advertised were in places like Florence and Amsterdam.
After picking up our stuff, we stopped to look at the Magic Fountain of Montjuïc, where the evening's light show was just starting. At first, I thought that Graham and Xana were just being silly when they called it the Magic Fountain, but no, the map we looked at really did say "Font Màgica". Xana dismissed it as "kitsch", but it's photogenic. Then again, so is everything and everyone here.
Back on the metro, we went to a different part of the city to go to a correfoc ("fire run") that Graham and Xana knew about. The trip involved a fair amount of changing trains and walking through tunnels. When we finally emerged from the subway, we walked along steeply winding streets toward the ever-louder sound of drums until we found the people playing them.
The drummers turned out to be at the beginning of a parade of dragons, including one with interesting anatomical features.
Then came a bunch of people dressed in dragon outfits and safety goggles and carrying pitchforks.
and then they danced. It was awesome.
When the smoke cleared, we headed back to the metro and took it to yet another neighborhood, where Graham and Xana led the way to a tapas place. A Chinese tapas place. That was also a hair salon. Yes. Some of the dishes ranked among the best Chinese food I remember ever having. We headed home a little before midnight, feeling full and satisfied.
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Google reportedly plans to begin selling a branded Android smartphone directly to consumers as soon as early 2010 as it continues to broaden its web services portfolio beyond the desktop. Citing sources familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal reports the device – dubbed the Nexus One – boasts software designed by Google itself, from applications to the user interface of each individual screen; HTC is said to be manufacturing the device hardware.
UPDATE: With the Nexus One, the software giant has now started producing hardware. It hopes to compete against the iPhone, claiming the Nexus One is faster. If it really is the long promised iphone killer, will have to be seen. The smartphone is now avaiilable for British and American consumers through the Google web shop (either device-only at $ 529, either combined with a T-Mobile subscription at $ 179). Collaborations with Vodafone and Verizon should bring the device respectively the European and US market in the spring of 2010. No details yet whether Nexus One will be available in Belgium anytime soon.
In other Google news: Google Search was the most visited mobile site in the US in 2009. Yahoo! Mail comes in second, followed by Gmail, The Weather Channel and Facebook.
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Haillicourt is a commune. It is found in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais in the Pas-de-Calais department in the north of France.
This page was last changed on 27 September 2017, at 15:29.
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This week, April 10 through 16, is World Homeopathy Awareness Week. As we all know Homeopathy comes under much pressure from many sources including the media. Now it is our week to make a stand and spread the word about homeopathy. Here are a few ideas to help you make a real statement about homeopathy and get the word out to others. Help celebrate the birth of our great founder, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann. After 200 years his work endures and is still our guiding light.
Call your local radio stations and ask them to make a public service announcement. They will do this as many times as they can during the week if they know. Once it gets put on a schedule they may announce this more often than you can imagine. But if they do not know about this we do not get a word of the free advertising. Include a small statement about the effectiveness and safety of homeopathy and include your phone number if you are a practitioner. This way they will call your number looking for information and you have another interested person knocking at your door. This is a great way to make the introduction and get free advertising. Spread the word.
Write a short letter to the editor of your local newspaper. Explain that this is Homeopathy Awareness Week. Include a short description about the wonders of homeopathy. Also include your contact number for the very same reasons as above. Some people may know nothing about homeopathy and want to find out more. Others may know some but didn’t know there was a homeopath or any local contact for homeopathy in their area.
Put on a free talk. Set up a free lecture about homeopathy through your local health food store, library, community center or your office if you are a practitioner. Announce this to your fellow practitioners in the area. They actually may be very interested in what you have to say and could end up bringing much business through referrals. Put up flyers in public places announcing the time, date, location, contact phone number and title for your talk.
If you are a practitioner you can offer a World Homeopathy Awareness Week discount. Sometimes a surprise discount for your existing clients goes far with customer relations. You can also offer a discount on their next visit for their referrals of new clients. You can offer a special for new clients who schedule their first visit during the awareness Week. What ever works for you as a practitioner will always be appreciated by your clients.
Make a general public announcement by putting a sign on your car that says World Homeopathy Awareness Week. Put contact info and wherever you go others will see. It can open many doors.
Send an email to family, friends, your contact list announcing World Homeopathy Awareness Week. Be sure to include a little information and the offer that they can contact you for more information. Ask them to pass the email on. This is what the week is about; making contacts and increasing awareness about homeopathy.
If you Facebook, Twitter or any of the other social contact services put out the word. Ask your contacts to help make the World Homeopathy Awareness Week go Viral.
Hopefully these ideas will inspire you to do just one thing to spread the word. Doing all of the above suggestions would start to begin to “saturate the market”. There is a point in marketing when the person has heard the message from many different sources enough times that it sticks. Doing all of these options would really get the message noticed and can start to make a difference. If you are a practitioner this is a great way to get free advertising and increase your business. If any of you have more ideas about ways to spread the word and celebrate homeopathy please leave a comment below. I love hearing from you and others benefit from your comments as well. Please share yourself.
Thank u sir very much.
The ideas u have mentioned are realy helpful for the awareness of publics and for the publisity of homoeopathic medical system.I appraciate ur this wonderful suggestions for the promotion of homoeopathy.I hope that ur goodself wiil also guid us in the future.
papers to publish a special articles for this day.
hank you for the reminder.
Many many thanks for the reminder for the Homoeopathic Awareness Week and Samuel Hahnemann Birthday.It is a real tribute to Homoeopathy.
nice idea but but homoepathy should be introduced on every important platforum.
hi , many thanks, thanks, thanks, in my opinion you are one of Gods angel.
I pray tribute to Hahnemann who was in fact a special messenger of Almighty to invent and propogate Homeopathy for salvaging the mankind suffering from numerous physical and mental maladies. I firmly believe that any body may rise to undermine homeopathy, homeopathy will spread for the welfare of mankind through out the world.
I Really respect Dr Hanemann Very much . I always remember his birthday And my colledge days when we use to celebrate it .But now being a homemaker & mother of two kids I find it very difficult to explore my knowledge about homoeopathy.I reslly want to start my practice again .
Homoeopathy is a God given gift to mankind. There are so many diseases that can be cured by homoeopathy treatment – where alopathy has been a total failure or has no medicine without more than one side effects. Let us all salute the great master Dr. Hanemann.
Its a very great message to be forwaded to all the people all over the world. The value of Homoeopathy will be spread amoung the whole community of the world.
I pray my due respect to Hahnemann who was in fact a special messenger of Almighty to invent and propogate Homeopathy to all those suffering from numerous physical and mental maladies and getting permanent curable results. I firmly believe that any body may rise to undermine homeopathy, homeopathy will spread for the welfare of mankind through out the world.
I salute to the great founder of Homeopathy. Long live his message to all mankind on earth.
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The Ceety o Makati (pronoonced /məˈkɑːtɪ/ mə-KAH-tee; Filipino: Makati) is ane o the 16 ceeties that mak up Metro Manila, ane o the maist populous metropolitan auries in the warld. Makati is the financial centre o the Philippines an ane o the major financial, commercial an economic hubs in Asie. As the host o various embassies, it is an' a' an important centre for internaitional affairs.
Wi a population o 510,383, Makati is the 16t lairgest ceety in the kintra an ranked as the 40t maist densely populatit ceety in the warld wi 18,654 indwallers per km2.
Makati wis foondit bi Spaniard Miguel López de Legazpi, who dismissed Makati as a wirthless swamp. Accordin tae folklore, Legazpi asked for the name o the place but, acause o the leid barrier, wis misinterpretit bi the natives. Pointin tae the recedin tide o Pasig River, the natives answered, “Makati, kumakati na,” literally meanin ebbin tide.
Makati became the financial centre o the Philippines durin the 1950s. Mony districts an laundmerks in the ceety hae acome well kent tae ootsiders. Makati haes been iconified as the "Financial Caipital o the Philippines". Anchored bi Ayala Avenue, Makati is the financial caipital o the Philippines an is the hame o the Philippine Stock Exchynge an the Makati Business Club, ane o the maist important economic hubs in the Philippines. Warld-cless research varsities are locatit in the ceety.
Makati is deevided intae 33 barangay.
Makati's sister ceety is Los Angeles, Californie. Makati is twinned wi Ramapo, New York an Vladivostok, Roushie an aw.
↑ "Province: NCR, FOURTH DISTRICT". PSGC Interactive. Makati City, Philippines: National Statistical Coordination Board. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
Wikimedia Commons haes media relatit tae Makati City.
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Quacks or Bootleggers: Who’s Behind Hedge Fund Regulation?
Attempts by U.S. federal officials to regulate corporate governance have been criticized by prominent scholars as “quackery.” Major reforms like Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank may in fact do far more harm than good. But what if these efforts at healing our financial system are more than just poorly designed and executed? What if, instead, they are achieving precisely what they were designed to achieve? What if they were designed not by quacks but by bootleggers?
In the wake of the financial meltdown of 2008 to 2009, there was no shortage of Baptists arguing that something had to be done to minimize systemic risk, largely by reforming the market structures that were believed to have contributed to a dangerous accumulation of risk. Hedge funds, despised by some since the collapse of Long Term Capital Management in 1998, received their share of criticism. Enter Dodd-Frank, which had the express goal of “promot[ing] the financial stability of the United States by improving accountability and transparency in the financial system.” So far, so good, for who could possibly be against increased financial stability or improved accountability and transparency?
Speaking in general terms, the Baptists had staked their claim to the moral high ground, but the details of Dodd-Frank indicate that bootleggers might have been lurking behind the scenes. A closer look at the regulatory regime imposed on hedge funds reveals little to like, regardless of one’s view of hedge funds or systemic risk.
To begin, regulation of hedge funds in the name of financial stability makes little sense. Hedge funds engaged in many of the same practices as the rest of the financial industry, but they probably don’t contribute to systemic risk for two reasons. First, they are not large enough to endanger the stability of the broader capital markets. Second, many of the practices for which hedge funds receive criticism (short-selling, emphasis on short-term profits) work against the unwarranted inflation of asset prices, thereby working to deflate bubbles and lower risk.
Even if hedge funds did pose systemic risk, however, Dodd-Frank’s regulations won’t mitigate that risk. The regulatory regime has four primary parts. First, hedge funds are required to register their advisors, thus eliminating the private advisor exemption under the Investment Advisors Act of 1940. Second, those advisors are required to maintain detailed information about the investment positions and strategies of their funds; that information can be audited by the SEC and will almost certainly be part of regular reports that the SEC can now mandate. Third, it will now be more difficult for investors to qualify as “accredited investors” or “qualified clients.” Fourth, every fund must implement internal compliance programs and hire a compliance officer.
These measures will impose high costs on hedge funds, including the cost of collection, maintenance, and transmission of vital fund data to the SEC. The regulations will also make it harder for hedge funds to find qualified investors. None of these costs comes with commensurate benefits to either hedge fund investments or the financial system as a whole. The risk assumed by hedge fund investors is personal risk and must be compensated by the higher returns hedge funds offer above those of competing products. This is a function of markets, not a problem in need of correction. Any systemic risk is unlikely to be mitigated by requiring advisors to register, limiting the number of investors, or requiring disclosure to the SEC.
So, we are left with a regulatory regime that purports to solve a probably non-existent problem in a way virtually guaranteed to fail. Two explanations seem possible. One is that legislators are just incompetent. The other is that government officials do not know what risk hedge funds pose but suspect that it is unacceptably high and wish to gather as much information as possible in preparation for future regulation. Either way, the regulations seem particularly well-designed to harm hedge funds, making the presence of bootleggers likely.
The cost to hedge funds of complying with the regulations will, of course, reduce the return that hedge funds can provide to investors. Potential hedge fund investors will also experience increased difficulty in qualifying as accredited investors. Together, reduced returns and more difficulty qualifying to invest with hedge funds will cause investors to shift their money elsewhere.
More crippling to hedge funds, however, is the way disclosure requirements infringe on the adaptability and secrecy necessary to the hedge fund business. Once information is collected, maintained, and provided to any government agency, its secrecy is compromised. Also, when the SEC can mandate disclosure of investment positions and strategies, adapting those positions and strategies to the realities of a changing marketplace becomes problematic.
If this seems far-fetched, imagine the scenario where a hedge fund discloses investment positions on a Monday but needs to change them completely on Tuesday in order to respond to a previously-unforeseen emerging trend in the market. In the eyes of a skeptical regulator, market necessity will look suspiciously like avoidance of oversight. Hedge funds will be forced into a choice between limiting the speed at which they innovate or defending against suspicious SEC investigations, either of which will be costly.
Who are the bootleggers who benefit from this arrangement? Two possibilities seem plausible. One is large, traditional financial institutions. The investment vehicles provided by traditional firms are rough substitutes for the services of hedge funds. They are likely to be less risky but also offer lower returns. If regulations lower hedge fund returns, traditional investments with their lower risk become attractive again. The other, related possibility is larger hedge funds that wish to limit competition from smaller rivals. A larger hedge fund will be better able to spread the costs of hiring a compliance officer, registering advisors, and gathering and providing data to the SEC across a larger investment pool, thereby experiencing a smaller reduction in return. Smaller hedge funds, unable to spread the costs as widely, will fail, and their clients will turn either to larger competitors or to more traditional financial institutions. Importantly, these two possible bootlegger scenarios need not be mutually exclusive, as many large financial institutions now have their own hedge funds.
At a basic level, whether quacks or bootleggers are responsible matters little—market function is unnecessarily impaired. At a deeper level, however, bootlegging strikes at the fundamental rule-of-law principles that undergird all free markets and put much more at risk. We owe it to current and future generations to bring to light and eliminate bootlegging. We can start with bootlegging in Dodd-Frank.
Roberta Romano, Quack Corporate Governance, 114 Yale L. J. 1521 (2005); Stephen M. Bainbridge, Dodd-Frank: Quack Federal Corporate Governance Round II, 95 Minn. L. Rev. 1779 (2011).
Bruce Yandle, Bootleggers and Baptists in Retrospect, Regulation, Vol. 22, No. 3, at 5 (1999).
Pub. L. 111-203, Long Title (2010).
This post comes to us from Professor Jeremy Kidd at Mercer University’s Walter F. George School of Law. It is based on his recent working paper, “Quacks or Bootleggers: Who’s Really Regulating Hedge Funds?” available here.
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http://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2016/11/23/quacks-or-bootleggers-whos-behind-hedge-fund-regulation/
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As I write this, it is the first day of tech for Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play. The room is divided in two: people either run around on the stage adjusting a set piece, or they sit around and try to pass the time until their cue is called. I am sitting in a corner with the actors, still wrapping my head around the fact that, for the past few weeks, I got to be an actor.
For those of you who don’t know me personally, I’m a BFA Theatre Arts major. I’m from a city in California called Sacramento (yes, the Lady Bird Sacramento). I did theatre my whole life, from acting in every show I could get in to, to doing crew for children’s productions. But the sole source of my joy came from acting, primarily in musicals.
I love acting. I love it with every fiber of my being. It is something that is intrinsic to my life. I remember doing show after show in high school, joining a conservatory my senior year, and dreaming of what my life would be as a performer.
One of the biggest reasons I came here was to become a well-rounded theatre artist. As well as a performer, I’m a playwright. I’ve written a few plays, three were produced while I was in high school during our One-Acts festival. I also had a stint directing and choreographing. I loved doing all of these things, and didn’t want to abandon them. This begs the question why I didn’t get a BA instead, at a smaller liberal arts college. I wanted to enter the professional world ASAP. I didn’t want to meander after graduation, trying to find a job with few professional connections.
In Mr. Burns, the survivalist characters that we see are not actors nor are they theatre people. The entire play revolves around a group of people telling stories as a means of survival. None of these characters have BFAs in acting. The closest to a “theatre person” is Gibson, a Gilbert and Sullivan aficionado. They perform as a means of survival, even though they do not identify as such. Yes, their art is means for ensuring their existence, but they love what they do. They could be hunters, leaders, but a strong part of their identity is linked to performance.
The story of a group of people finding each other, working together, and creating art resonates with me. I love watching how their story evolves over time, from a campfire tale to an operetta. I love watching them become a troupe, and seeing them love the work they do. They are so much more than actors, they contain multitudes. They take on a series of roles, some are writers, some are directors, some soley identify as actors. They are true theatre artists. Their survival depends on the multitude of skills they contain.
My survival depends on embracing the many talents within myself. The projects I’ve felt the most proud of were the ones where people embraced the multitudes they carried. Stage managers also being lighting designers. Actors also being writers. Playwrights being dramaturgs. Dramaturgs assistant directing! Look at Tarell Alvin McCraney. He came to DePaul for acting, and embraced the playwright within him. To limit ourselves to one definition, whether it is acting, playwriting, or stage managing, is an insult to ourselves. And for me to ignore that I love performing and want it to be part of my life is a mortal sin.
After Mr. Burns closes, I move away from performing. I start dramaturging and assistant directing. This isn’t the end of an era, it’s the start of a new journey. I have to move forward, without hesitation, and stop denying my joy. The biggest thing I’ve learned from this whole process is that if I want to survive and be happy, I can’t deny myself. I have to live.
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https://ttsdramaturgyblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/02/survival-lessons-from-the-simpsons/
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It’s getting very often for me to hear “How can I install a custom brush in Photoshop?” lately. So, I`ve decided to write a basic guide to help people on installing their custom/downloaded brushes.
Where to find 3rd party photoshop brushes?
The simple answer is Google it! 😉 there are hundreds of sites out there which offer free photoshop brushes. They even categorize the brush types for your convenience. Personally, I`ve got really nice experience with http://www.brusheezy.com/ in downloading brushes. Moreover, its free!
How to install the downloaded brush?
Well, its pretty simple! The people who know how to install fonts on to their computers, they know how easy the process is. Because, the process is exactly the same! Right, once you have downloaded the brush from internet (they often comes in compressed format such as *.rar), uncompress the file and you should have a Photoshop compatible file with an extension *.abr (adobe brush’s short form).
Remember, the above shown path is the default location where we install Photoshop often. If your Photoshop was installed in some other location, you need to find the Adobe folder and navigate to the Brushes folder.
Awrite, pasting the .abr file itself will not invoke the brush inside Photoshop. You need to load it into the current brush palette to use it. Its very easy indeed.
Note : If the photoshop was open when you installed the brush, you need to restart the Photoshop inorder to see the newly installed brush in the list.
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https://surensmart.wordpress.com/2012/03/09/how-to-install-photoshop-brushes-windows/
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Lewis Dymoke Grosvenor Tregonwell (/trəˈɡʌnəl/ trə-GUN-əl; 1758–1832) was a captain in the Dorset Yeomanry and a historic figure in the early development of what is now Bournemouth.
A statue of Tregonwell in the town of Bournemouth which he founded.
Born 1758 in Anderson, Dorset, Tregonwell lived at Cranborne Lodge as the squire. His second wife was Henrietta Portman. When Henrietta’s second child Grosvenor Tregonwell died, having been accidentally given a double dose of medicine, Henrietta sank into a melancholia, which resulted in the Tregonwells holidaying at Mudeford, near Christchurch, Hampshire, to recuperate. During their holiday they visited ‘Bourne’ which they found so delightful that they bought land, in 1810, built a house and so precipitated the growth of Bournemouth.
More than 200 years earlier, Tregonwell’s direct ancestor, Henry Hastings, the eccentric Dorset sportsman (son of George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon), had briefly controlled the land that his great-great-great grandson bought, when he was lord of the manor of Christchurch from 1597 until 1601. Hastings’ youngest daughter Dorothy married Thomas Tregonwell.
By 1796 Tregonwell was Captain of the Dorset Rangers and led cliff top patrols of the Dorset Yeomanry in the area of Bourne Heath between 1796 and 1802 during the Napoleonic Wars. The eastern part of Dorset was under the command of Henry Bankes of Kingston Lacy; Bankes divided his area into several smaller parcels, and allocated officers to each area. Tregonwell was matched with the easternmost region, which took him up to the Liberty of Westover (now the site of Bournemouth). The rangers’ duty was to keep watch for smugglers, particularly along the cliff-tops, where Chines (wide fissures in the soft cliffs) allowed potentially easy access for smugglers and French invaders.
Tregonwell was also a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Dorset. After the Battle of Trafalgar the threat of invasion by the French lessened and so in 1810 he felt that he was able to retire from the service.
In 1810 the Tregonwells decided to build a house near Bourne Heath to live in over the summer months, their main residence was Cranborne Lodge. Tregonwell was able to buy 8.5 acres (34,000 m2) of what is now Bournemouth town centre for just £179 11s (£179.55) from Sir George Ivison Tapps, the Lord of the Manor of Christchurch.
On 4 July 1810 Tregonwell and his wife took their friends, the Grove family, on a visit to Bourne Mouth.
We all walked on the sands. The Tregonwells are here and very kind to us. We went after dinner to see a place Mr T has bought and talks of building on called Bourn. It is very barren but [has] a pretty sea view.
They slept in the new house for the first time on 24 April 1812.
The house survives to this day as a wing of the Royal Exeter Hotel.
Tregonwell built his butler Symes his own cottage, original known as Symes' Cottage, but later renamed Portman Lodge, after Henrietta's maiden name. This building was badly damaged in a fire in 1922 and later demolished in 1930.
In 1832 Tregonwell died at the age of 73 and was buried in Anderson, but in 1843 his widow had his remains transferred to a vault in St Peter's Churchyard at Bournemouth. For many years Tregonwell was revered as 'The Founder' (of Bournemouth) the Mayor of Bournemouth would attend an annual Founder's Service at Saint Peter's, during which he would lay a wreath on Tregonwell's tomb.
When Portman Lodge was demolished in 1930 suspicions were raised that Tregonwell, or Symes at the very least, were involved in some way with smuggling. A secret chamber was found 3 ft (0.91 m) below the ground surface, with an arched roof 6 ft (1.8 m) above the floor. It was 10 ft (3.0 m) in length and 7 ft (2.1 m) in width, and was accessible through a trapdoor. The Symes clan of Cranborne, Verwood and Sixpenny Handley had long been involved in smuggling, and the butler never appeared to travel with Tregonwell, so it is possible that he looked after his master's smuggling activities while he was away.
There is documentary evidence, mostly in private diaries, for instance of the Earl of Malmesbury, that the gentry colluded in smuggling activities; Tregonwell's smuggling connections, however, remain entirely speculative. Underground rooms were often used as ice-houses, as the only available form of refrigeration; it is largely wishful thinking that links such structures with smuggling. When Bournemouth was mostly heathland, it was small gravelly hollows surrounded by gorse bushes which were most likely to be used as hiding places, as contraband made a swift journey inland.
^ Cave, Paul (1986). A History of the Resort of Bournemouth. Southampton: Paul Cave Publications Ltd. p. 14. ISBN 0-86146-039-1.
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#11: Go trick-or-treating at an ancient Indian burial ground.
#15 Invade the peaceful skeleton realm and turn the formerly peaceful skeletons into a determined warrior culture obsessed with revenge.
Its heaps good to see these every week. Keep up the good work!
That Brexit thing. XD And this Halloween special really turned out pretty good! Great work on the details too. Seems like living up to this level in the future's bound to cost a lot of added effort with each panel.
Gonna follow this advice and have a good one. Happy Halloween!
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https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/chazdude/10-more-things-not-to-do-at-halloween
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Finalists in the prestigious CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2005 Competition, were announced today by Joel Kibazo, Chairperson of the independent judging panel. This first time partnership with MultiChoice has not only helped expand the competition to 630 entrants but has also ensured its truly pan-African nature. The competition, held in association with South African Airways and sponsored by a number of leading African companies, received entries from 40 countries throughout the continent, including Francophone and Lusophone Africa.
The winners of the competition, now celebrating its tenth anniversary, will be announced at a gala awards ceremony in Kenya at the Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi on Saturday June 25th. One of the co-hosts for the evening will be Jeff Koinange, CNN's Africa Correspondent.
Announcing the finalists, Kibazo commented: "It was very encouraging to see finalists for this year's competition from all over Africa, and in particular entries from Francophone and Lusophone countries. This again confirms the far-reaching talent emerging from throughout the continent and the truly pan African nature of the competition. The finalists can all be very proud to have been chosen against strong competition."
The independent judging panel, chaired by Joel Kibazo, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at the Commonwealth Secretariat, includes Dr Doyinsola Abiola, Managing Director Concord Press of Nigeria, Cameron Duodu, Ghanaian Writer and Journalist, CNN's Africa correspondent Jeff Koinange, Arlindo Lopes, Chairman and CEO of Mozambique Television (TVM), Shasha Ndimbie, Freelance Editor, Consultant and TV news anchor for the Cameroon Radio Television Corporation, CRTV and Onkgopotse JJ Tabane, SAA Vice President, Communications Government Liaison, and Customer Services. Filipe Correia de S�, Filipe, Senior Producer at BBC World Service, was especially brought in to help judge the Lusophone category.
The competition is held in partnership with MultiChoice and in association with South African Airways. Other prestigious sponsors include African Development Bank, Celtel International (mobile operators), IPP Media, Johnnic Communications, Merck, Sharp & Dohme (MSD), CTS Group, The Safari Park Hotel and Casino, Global Media Alliance and Camerapix.
The CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2005 competition is open to professional journalists/technicians (including freelancers), born in Africa, working on the African continent for media organisations that are African-owned or principally based in the region, or publish a publication in Africa which is targeted at an African audience for reception within Africa.
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A full moon will light up Christmas skies for the first time since 1977.
The Yuletide Full Moon, also known as The Full Cold Moon arrives when the nights are at their longest and darkest. The midwinter full moon rides high in the sky in contrast to a low-hanging sun.
Only three full moons have coincided with Christmas Day since 1900 – the last one in 1877 and after this year, the next will be in 2034.
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Severe Thunderstorm Developed Tuesday over north parts of Saudi Arabia and moved east, these storms produced very heavy rain and some hail, more than 50 mm of rain was reported in some areas across this line of heavy thunderstorms that stretched from Jordan/Saudi Border north west to east of Iraq up until the far north of the country. This system is one of the very few systems i have ever seen with this cloud strength and cloud cover, these clouds are all CB type of clouds which develop usually in the Tropics, sudden development of these clouds produce very high winds and heavy rain with flash floods in any area they hit. the interesting part is that most weather modules are still predicting that this system of unstable weather will continue to affect most of the Gulf until at least the 6th of May!! and by the looks of this system the conditions that are producing this system seem to be holding up much more than usual. This year is moving to being a real unusual season by all means, and it is a year to monitor. The most interesting characteristic this year is the moisture that is fueling the Gulf with needed upper level convective energy, it has been ongoing and acting as a main source of instability when colliding with any approaching cold front, there is an open bridge stretching from Africa towards the Gulf in continues moisture feeding to the area , if this continues we will see Tropical weather staying for some time across the Gulf! something that i have personally not seen happening in my life time.
Weather Forecast for the coming 48 hours, expected thunderstorms developing across much of the north parts of Saudi Arabia , and some might reach Riyadh Area, Kuwait should be watching for some severe weather in the coming 48 hours, with high winds , sand storms, and severe thunderstorms with heavy rain. the system will then move east and south east with a chance to affect more parts of the Central Gulf though we will keep on monitoring the situation and updating it in the coming few days.
Why i say unusual weather? well this is the part of the year where we start to get temperatures rising above 30’s Degree but still many areas in the Gulf are under or around this figure and we are getting close to the end of April ! on top of that moisture from Africa is still fueling thunderstorms and wide spread cloud coverage over much of Saudi Arabia , these clouds are developing some times early morning and extending towards the night , which is unusual for this time of year , the usual is temperatures around 30 to 35 over much of Saudi Arabia and thunderstorms which develop afternoon mostly and live for few hours until the sun sets down. All weather modules seem to be suggesting more rain and thunderstorms until this weekend over the north and the north west as well as the central part of Saudi Arabia, heavy rain is expected and in some parts over 50 mm. The weather pattern of the past few days will continue. Jeddah should also be on a weather watch for sudden thunderstorms starting tomorrow.
The fuel from the humidity of Africa is still spreading towards the Gulf, very strong thunderstorms were the result of this continuing fuel, we are still under the influence of this jet stream of humidity stretching from south Africa up to the north and north east. Severe thunderstorms developed last few days over allot of the areas including Riyadh. Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE. The system will stay feeding moisture towards the Gulf in the coming few days and more rain is expected though this time it will be more concentrated towards the Central and north western areas. Jeddah should be on a watch for the coming 4 to 5 days for any sudden thunderstorms , these thunderstorms will have heavy rain. Riyadh will see on and off rain for about 3 to 4 days this week so enjoy this weather its real spring !! temperature are holding down due to the clouds and rain in the area and should stay at these averages for the coming few days.
For Lebanon and the Mediterranean area the weather should be very nice and beautiful, no rain is expected for the coming days only slight chance of isolated afternoon showers , other than that it should be a sunny and cool few days ahead.
There is also one more system that should affect the Gulf area by the end of this month, so keep the umbrellas with you !
A system of unstable weather will start to affect most parts of the Gulf , Including the UAE, Qatar , Bahrain and the eastern parts of Saudi Arabia. Rain and thunderstorms is strongly possible starting today and will increase by the coming 48 hours across these areas. most intense rain is expected along the eastern province of Saudi Arabia including Bahrain by this Wednesday, expect to see some sudden thunderstorms along this system with strong winds and sudden dust storms as well. Temperatures will fall slightly along with this system. unstable weather will continue to mid next week.
This month is known for harsh changes in weather, from cool weather to spikes in temperature and sudden thunderstorms with high winds and hail . looking at all the weather modules it seems that there will be two fronts , one will affect the north and north east through the coming few days with a small chance of some rain across that area. The other front seems to be a strong one and should start to affect us by 10th of April, this front seems to have the potential to produce severe thunderstorms across north east including Kuwait , eastern province , Bahrain, and Qatar starting from the 10th till the 15th of April. Temperatures are expected to rise through this week and through this month , slight decrease in temperatures when these fronts pass us. in short, small chance of rain from 1-10th , while very high chance of severe thunderstorms in the eastern area of the Gulf from 10th to 15th of April.
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Whe I was a kid and as a young man my folks belonged to the Dehli Fishing Club which had a clubhouse at the old Ford Country Club on the little Miami River a few miles from Newtown. There were about 15 members and their families who all spoke German (Schwabish-Banat dialect). There were ten rooms at the club house used by the families. Over the years we all had a great time there and everyone pitched in cooking, cleaning groundskeeping etc. All the women used to play a Hungarian card game called "Fuxen" Nearby at Old Fort there was always a big 4th of July show with bands, dancing, fireworks etc. We would dance with the girls who came from Shademore camp and other nearby areas. One of those girls (Betty) eventually became my wife! Also at the fishing club the men played cards, fished and sang German songs.
Another memory as a young man was to go over to Kentucky at Daytona Beach to swim etc. Those Kentucky girls were great company! My good friend Ray Kibert had a canoe and we would paddle in the wake and high rollers (waves) created by the steamboat "Island Queen. It took some hard muscle to to propel the canoe in the high rollers but once there, the vacume would just take us right alongbehind the boat for several miles without rowing. One day Bob Gau and I decided to play hooky from school and went swimming in the river. He jumped in and the water was so cold he yelled "Wow" and his false teeth flew into the river. We searched and searched. Needless to say he was in BIG trouble when he got home because the teeth were so expensive and he should have been in school. He was grounded for a month and we all felt his misery. Without his teeth he had a different face!
In the mid 1930's I was privlidged to spend my summers as a waiter, bus boy and dishwasher at a lodge and YMCA camp on Big Beausoleil Island in Georgian bay, Ontario. I had a great time fishing and boating there. I also enjoyed taking overnight excursions on weekends with Indian guides. They knew all the best places to fish and hunt. I also became familiar wit Estelle, the daughter of the resort owner. She was sort of a Tomboy and we enjoyed fishing, sailing and swimming.
One summer, in 1937 I think, after leaving the camp I hitchhiked from Toronto to the New York Worlds fair. I made numerous long hitch hiking trips when I was a young man, but of course doing something like that would be too dangerous now in the US. I remember on one trip returning from Washington DC I had no place to sleep so I went to the jail in Wheeling West Virginia and they let me sleep overnight there. This I did in the company of hoards of bugs and cockroaches. I hitched a ride with a truckload of mules. There were already three guys in the front seat so I rode in back with the mules. For 40 miles I was bumped, bounces and stepped on by the mules. I was glad to get off that truck. No more mules for me. The next day i couldn't get a ride so I went to the rail yards at Athens, Ohio and tried to jump on a moving freight train. I ran along and grabbed the ladder rung and it slammed me against the side and tossed me by the side of the track into the gravel. I laid there stunned for ten minutes. my right shoulder was bruised and i thought it was broken. I had enough strength to go about 200 feet to the highway where I weakly hitched a ride with two Ohio University students. Seeing my condition and after i told them what happened they took me to their frat house and took care of me for two days and I am indeed grateful. They even gave me a dollar when I left. I only remember they were from Cleveland.
In 1934 I had to quit my High School and go to work to help the family. I worked during the day and finished high school at night later that year. For the next four years I worked as a meatcutter. Full-time permanent jobs were hard to come by. This was depression time in America and the next few years were fairly uneventful. During this time I still cut meat but Dad's barburing was suffering as people wern't getting many haircuts. Although he did get me an apprentacship at Barburing in a mans shop so i could get my Barbur certificate. The manager of this shop was in a love affair, got the lady pregnant and refused to marry her. She came to the shop one day and sat in a barbur chair and constantly swore at him. With each burst of swear words she would pump up the barbur chair then release it so it came down with a loud thump! All this commotion caused the customers to exit and stay away, so he closed up shop for three days!
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A control wire driving mechanism for use in an endoscope includes a toothed wheel actuated to rotate in a control part of the endoscope. A control wire has a cord-like member helically wound on and secured to the outer peripheral surface of a portion near the proximal end thereof at a pitch corresponding to the pitch of the toothed wheel. The control wire is meshed with the toothed wheel at the portion wound with the cord-like member.
The present disclosure relates to subject matter contained in Japanese Patent Application No. 11-319134 (filed on Nov. 10, 1999) and Japanese Patent Application No. 2000-50666 (filed on Feb. 28, 2000), which are expressly incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
The present invention relates to a control wire driving mechanism for use in an endoscope to pull a control wire by rotation of a rotating member.
There has heretofore been known a control wire driving mechanism for use in a bending control device of an endoscope, for example. In the mechanism, a pinion (i.e. a toothed wheel) that is actuated to rotate with a control knob (or a control lever) is meshed with a rack connected to the proximal end of a control wire, and the rack is advanced or retracted linearly by rotating the pinion, thereby driving the control wire to advance or retract.
However, such a rack-and-pinion mechanism needs a space for travel of the rack on each of the front and rear sides of the pinion as viewed in the axial direction of the control wire. The necessary rack travel space is twice as long as the travel stroke of the control wire.
For this reason, the control knob cannot be disposed closer to the upper end of the control part. Consequently, it is impossible to ensure a sufficient length for the grip portion of the control part. This causes operability to be impaired.
In view of the above-described problem, one type of bending control device for an endoscope is arranged such that the proximal end portion of a control wire is wound on a pulley having a circumferential groove formed on the entire periphery thereof, and the control wire is pulled by rotation of the pulley. Such a pulley can be disposed closer to the upper end of the control part of the endoscope.
In such a mechanism, however, the end portion of the control wire must be secured to the pulley. Therefore, the maximum angle of rotation is limited considerably, and the control wire is likely to break owing to the stress concentration on the secured portion of the control wire.
Under these circumstances, a mechanism using a sprocket wheel as a rotating member has been put to practical use and widely used. In the mechanism, a chain connected to the proximal end of a control wire is meshed with the sprocket wheel to pull the control wire.
However, because the chain has a considerable thickness and height, the device becomes large and heavy when the chain is connected to the proximal end of the control wire, and hence the endoscope control part becomes unfavorably large and heavy. This gives rise to a problem because it is necessary for the operator to actuate the endoscope control part while holding it with his/her hand throughout the observation of the inside of a body cavity. In addition, the use of a chain causes the cost to rise unfavorably.
An object of the present invention is to provide a control wire driving mechanism for use in an endoscope in which a toothed wheel can be disposed at a position closer to the upper end of a control part of the endoscope, so that it is possible to ensure a sufficient length for the grip portion and hence possible to attain favorable operability, and which can be formed in an extremely simple, compact and lightweight structure at reduced cost and is also superior in function.
According to the present invention, there is provided a control wire driving mechanism for use in an endoscope. The control wire driving mechanism includes a toothed wheel actuated to rotate in a control part of the endoscope. A control wire has a cord-like member helically wound on and secured to the outer peripheral surface of a portion near the proximal end thereof at a pitch corresponding to the pitch of the toothed wheel. The control wire is meshed with the toothed wheel at the portion wound with the cord-like member.
FIG. 14 is a sectional view of a focusing control wire driving mechanism according to a sixth embodiment of the present invention, in which an intermediate portion of the control wire driving mechanism is omitted.
FIG. 1 shows the whole arrangement of an endoscope.
The endoscope has a control part 1 adapted to be held by an operator with his/her hand when operating the endoscope.
A flexible tube 2 is connected to the lower end of the control part 1 to form an insert part of the endoscope.
A bendable portion 3 is connected to the distal end of the flexible tube 2. The bendable portion 3 can be bent as desired by remote control. A distal end block 4 is connected to the distal end of the bendable portion 3. The distal end block 4 contains an objective optical system or the like.
A bending control knob 5 is provided on the upper half of the control part 1 to control bending of the bendable portion 3. A portion of the control part 1 below the bending control knob 5 is a grip portion 1 a. An erecting member control lever 6 is used to change remotely the direction of projection of a distal end portion 10 a of a treating instrument 100 inserted into an instrument-inserting channel of the endoscope.
FIG. 2 shows a bending control wire driving mechanism provided in the control part 1 to pull a control wire 10 for bending the bendable portion 3.
A pair of control wires 10 are connected at their distal ends to the distal end of the bendable portion 3. Intermediate portions of the control wires 10 are axially movably passed through respective guide pipes 12. The guide pipes 12 are formed from close-wound coil pipes inserted in the flexible tube 2, which forms the insert part of the endoscope. The proximal ends of the control wires 10 are led into the control part 1.
Although in this embodiment the proximal ends of a pair of control wires 10 are joined together to form a single wire as a whole, the arrangement may be such that control wire portions that are passed through the guide pipes 12 and a wire portion disposed in the control part 1 are formed separately from each other and connected together in the control part 1. A securing seat 13 secures the proximal end portions of the guide pipes 12 to a frame 14 in the control part 1.
A toothed wheel 17 is connected directly to a shaft 16 driven to rotate with the bending control knob 5. A U-shaped curved portion of the control wire 10 within the control part 1, which is formed by the interconnected proximal end portions of the pair of control wires 10, is wound approximately half around the toothed wheel 17.
A cord-like member 20 is helically wound on and secured to the outer peripheral surface of the control wire 10 at the same pitch as the pitch of the toothed wheel 17, so that the teeth of the toothed wheel 17 mesh with the gaps between the turns of the cord-like member 20.
Accordingly, the toothed wheel 17 is, as shown in FIG. 3, a helical gear having teeth formed obliquely in the same direction as the direction of the helically wound cord-like member 20. The toothed wheel 17 may have any tooth form as long as the teeth of the toothed wheel 17 will not undesirably disengage from the gaps between the turns of the cord-like member 20. With this arrangement, the toothed wheel 17 is allowed to mesh with the control wire 10 at any rotational position thereof. Accordingly, the bending control wire driving mechanism can be assembled with a high degree of freedom.
Referring back to FIG. 2, an outer surface cover 18 is secured to the frame 14 with machine screws 19 to surround the portion of the control wire 10 wound with the cord-like member 20 so that the control wire 10 will not undesirably disengage from the toothed wheel 17. Threaded holes 21 are provided so that the outer surface cover 18 can be secured to the frame 14 at a position shifted from the illustrated position.
By virtue of the described arrangement, when the toothed wheel 17 is rotated by turning the bending control knob 5, the control wires 10 move axially as the teeth of the toothed wheel 17 move. Thus, one of the pair of control wires 10 is pulled, while the other is pushed out. Consequently, the bendable portion 3 bends at an angle corresponding to the amount by which one of the control wires 10 is pulled. Because the bending control wire driving mechanism requires substantially no space for the bending operation above the toothed wheel 17, it is possible to dispose the toothed wheel 17 and the bending control knob 5, which is connected to the toothed wheel 17, at a position closer to the upper end of the control part 1 and hence possible to ensure a sufficient length for the grip portion 1 a of the control part 1.
The cord-like member 20 is wound on the control wire 10 over a length sufficient to keep the cord-like member 20 from disengaging from the toothed wheel 17 even when the bendable portion 3 is bent to the maximum. Travel stoppers 23 are secured to the control wire 10 at both ends of the cord-like member 20 wound thereon.
Fixed stoppers 24 are so arranged that the travel stopper 23 attached to the payout-side control wire 10 abuts on the associated fixed stopper 24. If the bending operation is further performed after the travel stopper 23 has abutted on the fixed stopper 24, as shown by A in the figure, the payout-side control wire 10 deflects considerably in the control part 1.
In the present invention, any fixing method may be used to secure the cord-like member 20 to the control wire 10. For example, as shown in FIG. 4, metal wires 10 a and 20 a that are used to form the control wire 10 and the cord-like member 20 are provided with coatings 10 b and 20 b of a thermoplastic synthetic resin material (e.g. a polyamide resin or a polyurethane resin) to a thickness of about 0.1 to 0.3 mm. Then, the cord-like member 20 is wound around the control wire 10, and in this state, the control wire 10 and the cord-like member 20 are heated to weld together the coatings 10 b and 20 b.
The metal wire 10 a used for the control wire 10 may be a stainless-steel stranded wire with a diameter of the order of from 0.3 mm to 1 mm, e.g. a 1×7 stranded wire or a 1×3 stranded wire. The outer diameter of a portion of the control wire 10 that is wound with the cord-like member 20 should preferably be within about 3 to 5 times the diameter of the metal wire 10 a (e.g. about 1 to 5 mm). In the case of an industrial endoscope that may be inserted into a pipe bore with a large diameter, the diameter of the control wire 10 should be increased according to use conditions.
The control wire 10 elongates gradually as it is pulled repeatedly in use of the endoscope. In the mechanism according to the present invention, however, no slip occurs in the engagement of the control wire 10 with the toothed wheel 17. Therefore, the mechanism operates reliably. However, the maximum angle of bending of the bendable portion 3 may decrease as the control wire 10 is pulled repeatedly. In such a case, as shown in FIG. 5, the securing position of the outer surface cover 18 should be moved to shift the mesh position of the control wire 10 with respect to the toothed wheel 17. The same measures may be taken when the control wire 10 is excessively long, for example, at the time of initial assembly.
It should be noted that two mechanisms as stated above may be combined together for use in a four-direction bending control device.
FIG. 6 shows a second embodiment of a bending control wire driving mechanism to which the present invention is applied. FIG. 7 is a schematic view showing an essential part of the second embodiment.
In this embodiment, two toothed wheels 17 are placed in side-by-side relation to each other and connected directly to a shaft 16 driven to rotate with the bending control knob 5. A pair of control wires 10 are placed along the toothed wheels 17, respectively, being curved in an approximately U-shape. The curved portion of each control wire 10 is wound approximately half around the associated toothed wheel 17.
A distal end tip 11 is secured to a free end of each control wire 10 on which no tractive force acts. In this embodiment, the free end of each control wire 10, to which the distal end tip 11 is secured, extends from the area of engagement with the associated toothed wheel 17 in a direction in which the control wire 10 is turned back in an approximately U-shape with respect to the pull direction of the control wire 10.
The arrangement of the rest of this embodiment is the same as in the first embodiment described above. Therefore, the same members or portions as those in the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals, and a description thereof is omitted.
By virtue of the described arrangement, when the toothed wheels 17 are rotated by turning the bending control knob 5, the control wires 10 move axially as the teeth of the toothed wheels 17 move. Thus, one of the pair of control wires 10 is pulled, while the other is pushed out. Consequently, the bendable portion 3 bends at an angle corresponding to the amount by which one of the control wires 10 is pulled.
Because the free end of each control wire 10 extends from the area of engagement with the associated toothed wheel 17 in a direction in which the control wire 10 is turned back in an approximately U-shape with respect to the pull direction of the control wire 10, the bending control wire driving mechanism requires substantially no space for the bending operation above the toothed wheels 17. Accordingly, it is possible to ensure a sufficient length for the grip portion la of the control part 1.
Furthermore, the free end of each control wire 10 may extend from the area of engagement with the associated toothed wheel 17 in a direction perpendicular to the extension of the pull direction of the control wire 10, as shown schematically in FIGS. 8 and 9. The free end of each control wire 10 may extend in other directions. If the free end of each control wire 10 extends in a direction of not less than 90 degrees to the extension of the pull direction of the control wire 10, no space is needed above the toothed wheels 17.
FIG. 10 shows an example in which the free end of a control wire 10 extends in a direction of less than 90 degrees to the extension of the pull direction of the control wire 10. In such a case, if the free end of the control wire 10 extends in a direction of not less than 45 degrees to the extension of the pull direction of the control wire 10, the space required above the toothed wheels 17 can be reduced on an effective level.
FIGS. 11 and 12 show an example in which the present invention is applied to a control device for a treating instrument erecting member 7 disposed in the distal end block 4. The treating instrument erecting member 7 is pivotally rotated by driving a single control wire 10 to advance or retract alone through a toothed wheel 117, whereby it is possible to change the direction of projection of the distal end portion 100 a of the treating instrument 100 inserted in an instrument-inserting channel 8.
In the embodiments shown in FIGS. 11 and 12, a sector wheel 117 having teeth formed on a side surface thereof is connected to the erecting member control lever 6 and placed in the control part 1.
A single control wire 10 wound with a cord-like member 20 that meshes with the toothed wheel 117 extends in a straight-line form in the embodiment shown in FIG. 11. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 12, the control wire 10 is curved at the position for engagement with the toothed wheel 117. A connecting pipe 10 c connects together two sections of the control wire 10.
FIGS. 13 and 14 show an example in which the present invention is applied to a focusing control device provided in an endoscope. An objective lens barrel 9 disposed in the distal end block 4 is advanced or retracted in the direction of the optical axis through a control wire 10, whereby focusing can be effected.
In these embodiments, a single control wire 10 disposed in the control part 1 is advanced or retracted in the axial direction by a toothed wheel 17 similar to that in the first or second embodiment.
According to the present invention, a toothed wheel for driving a control wire in the axial direction can be disposed at a position closer to the upper end of a control part of an endoscope. Therefore, it is possible to ensure a sufficient length for the grip portion of the endoscope control part and hence possible to attain favorable operability. In addition, because the control wire can be surely advanced or retracted with an extremely simple arrangement, it is possible to obtain a control wire driving mechanism for an endoscope that is superior in function despite a compact and lightweight structure and reduced cost.
a control wire having a cord-like member helically wound on and secured to an outer peripheral surface of a portion near a proximal end thereof at a pitch corresponding to a pitch of said toothed wheel, said control wire being meshed with said toothed wheel at said portion.
2. A control wire driving mechanism according to claim 1, wherein said control wire and said cord-like member are provided with respective coatings of a thermoplastic synthetic resin material, said coatings being welded together.
3. A control wire driving mechanism according to claim 1, wherein said toothed wheel has teeth formed obliquely in correspondence to a direction of said cord-like member helically wound on said control wire.
4. A control wire driving mechanism according to claim 1, wherein said toothed wheel has teeth formed on an outer periphery thereof.
5. A control wire driving mechanism according to claim 1, wherein said toothed wheel has teeth formed on a side surface thereof.
6. A control wire driving mechanism according to claim 1, wherein said control wire comprises a pair of control wires connected together at their proximal ends, said control wire being meshed with said toothed wheel in an approximately U-shape.
7. A control wire driving mechanism according to claim 1, wherein said control wire is a single control wire, said control wire being driven to advance or retract alone by said toothed wheel.
8. A control wire driving mechanism according to claim 7, wherein said control wire is meshed with said toothed wheel in a curved state along said toothed wheel, said control wire having a free end extending in a direction different from a pull direction of said control wire.
9. A control wire driving mechanism according to claim 8, wherein the free end of said control wire extends in a direction of at least 45 degrees to an extension of the pull direction of said control wire.
10. A control wire driving mechanism according to claim 8, wherein the free end of said control wire extends in a direction of at least 90 degrees to an extension of the pull direction of said control wire.
11. A control wire driving mechanism according to claim 8, wherein the free end of said control wire extends in a direction of at least 180 degrees to an extension of the pull direction of said control wire.
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Greetings, readers. Here in Central Pennsylvania, I believe we were extremely fortunate during hurricane Sandy. Yes, we had wind, rain, and temperatures in the low 40s, but relatively little damage around here. Then, I saw pictures on the Yahoo! news page from places like Atlantic City and Manhattan in New York City. The pictures were surreal. I saw the historic roller coaster and part of the boardwalk in Atlantic City literally underwater. New York City taxi cabs and other vehicles were floating down the city streets. Subway tunnels looked like swimming pools (thank God, Mayor Michael Bloomberg decided to stop service Sunday night). I have personally never been in a hurricane. From the photos I saw, I don’t want to be.
Now, I’m not saying that Pennsylvania didn’t receive damage. I’m sure that Philadelphia and places closer to the coast were much worse off. State College, where I’m from, lies in between a few tall mountain ranges. I’m not trying to be cute here, but they do wonders for breaking up windy storms.
Last night I contacted several family members. I called my cousin Ed in New York state, who luckily was North/ northwest of it all, and hardly got any rain. My brother David, who lives in New Jersey, near Philadelphia, lost some shingles off his roof. Other than that though, they survived. And my aunt in California wanted me to keep her up to date on how I was.
Of course, one of the biggest threats in a storm like this is power outages. Pennsylvania had its share of those. I found out one thing about my apartment building. We do not have a back-up generator. So I, along with a few other people, bought batteries, water, and other basic storm necessaries. My computer weather forecaster says we aren’t to see the sun before Saturday. I’ll be doing a lot of flight simulation between now and then.
Until next time, take care and stay safe where ever you are. And Happy reading.
Greetings, readers. Just a one paragraph message to all my readers & followers in the path of Tropical Storm Sandy or Hurricane Sandy… I’m not sure which it is now… PLEASE stay safe. I am in my little, dry apartment. There is some water at the front entrance, but not much. The bad thing is that it’s been raining and blowing here in central Pennsylvania since morning, and the actual storm hasn’t even gotten close to us yet! : ( Everyone, do take care. We’ll be back with more posts a.s.a.p.
Who needs the NHL anyway?
Greetings, readers. I’ve been keeping up to date on the lack of progress dealing with the National Hockey League lockout. Being from Pittsburgh, I do like to keep tabs on how the Penguins are doing. Well, there was no pre-season, the regular season was supposed to begin in early October, but last I heard, games were canceled through November 1st. News flash for the people responsible: You are slashing your own throats!
Do you really think that NHL fans are going to stand for this much longer? It seems like just a few years ago, though I’m sure it’s been longer than that, an entire NHL season was canceled. Can you guys say, where the hell did our fan base go? Well, owners, you just need to look in the mirror to answer that question.
Now I’m not an expert in business. I’m quite certain that there are probably a hundred different topics that need addressed, and that there is no easy answer. But just think of all your fans, whose Christmas comes in October, that you are letting down. If and when you ever come back, don’t be surprised if you play in arenas one-third full or less. With the economy the way it is, people will very gladly put food on their table and buy the necessities of life before they go again to one of your stupid hockey games. I am now done ranting.
Until next week, have a nice weekend, take care, and happy reading.
Greetings, readers. With a hard week of creation coming up, I’ve decided to post a quick top 10 list. Do you remember these little gems from childhood?
#10: “Are we there yet?” When I was a young boy, that’s why my mother broke up our 612 mile trip to Maine into three days of travel.
#8: “Do I have to eat all my vegetables?” I wasn’t a picky eater, but some of my friends were.
#7: “Could you help me with my book report? It’s due tomorrow!” Lol. I did this one quite a lot.
#3: “Mommy or daddy, there’s a monster under the bed!” By late at night, I was meaner than any monster.
#2: “My invisible friend broke it.” I only used that one once. The punishment was more for the fib than for the thing that I did wrong.
#1: “You’re not the boss of me!” Even though I never said it personally, I had a neighbor for a while whose sister said it to him all the time.
If possible we shall drop another blog entry in but as mentioned, creation must take precedence this week.
Greetings, readers. As I returned home last evening from supper at Godmother’s, I had time to reflect on things that have been going in on my life recently. I was sitting at home listening to music, I recalled my earlier post, Life doesn’t have a reset button. This morning I re-read that entry and I have just a couple of quick things to say about it.
First off, I might have been a little bit too rigid in my thinking. Life is not always black and white. Sometimes it is indeed grey. For instance, when it comes to my ex-wife, Georgia (last name omitted for privacy reasons), feelings can be quite mixed. After everything that went on, I still feel myself caring for her very much. She was my first and right now I am not looking for another.
I also read over my post from yesterday, Depression helped by air guitar. I thought about how much fun I have when I partake of my hobby and that actually alleviated some of those dark thoughts. What I need is a good case of let’s get down to work. Before Rebecca and I move on to our creation day, let me add a personal note to my ex-wife. I have told her many times how I feel and that sometimes even two people who care still can’t play house anymore. She knows I’ve got her back.
On Sunday afternoons I go over to my Dad’s house and see my sister and my nephew. This last Sunday my nephew was following the progress by Felix Baumgartner to jump from a high spot in the atmosphere and break the sound barrier without a plane or a rocket. My nephew kept tabs on his progress up. Us grown-up told him to do a few things before leaving the house, so he missed watching the jump when it happened. He did announce that the jump had taken place, and enjoyed watching it afterwards. When we got to my other sister’s house, he told his aunt and two cousins about the jump, so they could share the event. He kept track the rest of the day to see when the record was declared and when it was confirmed that Mr. Baumgartner had indeed broken the speed of sound. Yay to Felix Baumgartner!!!
Apparently thousands, if not millions, of others were also watching, because my nephew announced that YouTube had crashed from all the people wanting to see the footage. I was surprised by how fast the site was back up that same afternoon.
I immediately texted Joe when I heard that YouTube had crashed, knowing that he would especially need to know. Joe had been frustrated at the end of last week by troubles using YouTube on Mozilla Firefox, because he has an air guitar/air drum show featuring songs from the Beatles coming up in December. He switched to Opera to use YouTube and it was working. I wanted to make sure he knew that any trouble with YouTube that Sunday was because of this event, and not because a second internet browser was incompatible with the music site. He needs the music to practice with!
I’m not used to being aware and plugged in when history is made, and I enjoyed the feeling. Joe and I salute the explorer, Felix Baumgartner. Thank you.
Greetings, readers. Don’t have much time until my dentist appointment but wanted to share my enthusiasm and optimism by letting you all know what a great day of creation Rebecca and I had on that personal memoir idea that hit me the other night. It has been quite awhile since 2+ pages of new material other than blog posts have been created. Yay us. Tomorrow either Rebecca or I will be typing the usual Friday blog entry. As is our new usual, when Rebecca chimes in, it can be anything she wished to write about. I am now off to get my lower jaw numbed, and later on tonight I shall play Bingo if I feel up to it. Take care, have a great day, and happy reading.
Greetings, readers. After much frustration and much debating on what my next writing project will be, I have decided on two of them. The first is a period piece set in the Edwardian era and the second will be another memoir book, dealing with more personal stories of my own life rather than life at camp. This new memoir book idea hit me overnight and literally woke me up out of a sound sleep.
While the Edwardian piece still needs planning, the memoir project can get us underway creatively, which will certainly make me feel more productive as a human being. I must admit right now I feel like a time waster. Being sick twice in the last three months, and having to stop and recuperate, didn’t help matters.
I am quite certain that the changing temperatures of the early fall contributed to my slight health demise. It seems a number of people have got the cold. I know for a fact at my favorite coffee stop, Panera Bread, I was told that almost every worker had it at some point or another. But with me on the mend, I feel very optimistic that I can finally engage the engines, put them in first gear, and get down to some good work.
On a lighter note, I am watching my cat Keekee race back and forth in the apartment. Rebecca pointed out something last week that is apparently true. When I have my blinds and/or window open, Keekee is much more active. And that’s a good thing. She is only five years old and we don’t want her acting like a grandma quite yet.
Finally, congratulations to the Penn State Nittany Lion football team for winning their homecoming game vs. Northwestern. It came down to the last few minutes but they pulled it out 39 – 28. Yay us. Until quite soon, take care, have a good week, and happy reading.
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I usually say that I started practicing yoga around late 2005 or early 2006. The truth is yoga took a while to grab my attention. I guess really I was introduced to yoga in the 1990’s by my martial arts teacher but at the time I thought I was doing Kung Fu (I found out later he used yoga heavily in his classes).
Around 2002 I was talked into signing up for a few yoga classes. I HATED IT! I thought the class was torture. I was pretty fit at this time of my life so it surprised me at how hard yoga was. The teacher was high energy and moved fast. She kept saying we were coming into our resting posture, downward dog.. I thought to myself that downward dog was the farthest thing from a resting pose in the universe. I didn’t renew my class pass at that studio. I thought yoga was dumb. I only decided to try it again because I was getting injuries from surfing and it had been recommended by my fellow surfing buddies as a way to minimize this.
The irony? The same yoga teacher who taught those hated yoga classes was the person who I actively seeked out years later for my yoga teacher training. Her style has changed a lot. She works therapeutically with yoga mostly now. But I thought it was sort funny that this particular “dreaded” instructor is now one of my most inspirational influences.
I don’t go to yoga flow classes very often. It isn’t that I don’t like them. I do… I LOVE them… but I have to be so careful in a flow class. My tendency is to go too far and injure myself. I think it is because I was a competitive athlete when I was younger. I was trained to push the body beyond it’s capacity. That is how you win races. You go beyond what you think you can do. Athletes spend a lot of time with their coaches. In my case my coach became almost like a parental figure. I trained rowing with his daughter so the dynamic was even more so. I trusted him with my body. I believed I could make it do what he said it could. And it did… and we won races. I also experienced the start of knee injuries from having overdeveloped quadriceps at the ripe old age of 15.
When a yoga teacher in a flow class says to do something I do it. At least I used to. Usually I can do what they say but not always with the integrity or control that I should. I am learning to step back. Do less. Listen to my body.
Oh and I have a short plug for her upcoming fundraiser tomorrow if you are in Victoria area. It is called “Global Mala” and all raised funds will be donated to the United Way which is a wonderful non-profit that helped me son and I during a tough time. 108 Sun Salutations!
Photo is Shiva Rea who I “think” Tracey may have trained with (or at least have been inspired by).
I have really had to scale back on the physical asanas recently so instead of working with quantity I am focusing on quality. I am practicing the most simple asanas while really paying attention to how my body responds. What part of the body do I feel the posture in? What moves? What moves that maybe shouldn’t? Where do I hold my tension? How often does my face tense?? I have been doing yoga long enough that I am pretty good at keeping my breath in sync with the movements but little tensions here and there still creep into my practice. This slowed down practice is allowing me to look a lot deeper into my habits. What part of the body avoids the posture? What parts of the body do I numb out? Numbing out is a big one for me… I say I have a high pain tolerance but in actual fact I think I am just pretty effective and “numbing” parts of my body so I don’t feel pain. Sometimes this is related to emotional pain. Sometimes it is just to avoid physical pain. Ahhhh yoga.. you have no end of lessons for me do you? My yoga practice really does force me to look honesty at myself.
My classes have been pretty small lately. I got a little burnt out on promoting my yoga teaching and I have really noticed the difference since I became a bit more quiet. It is hard to talk about yourself all the time. “Pick me pick me!!!”. It gets tiresome and I think my friends are a bit sick of hearing about it. I am just going to back off for a bit and take it easy. I have family visiting. My allergies are at their yearly high. My energy is a bit low.
I have a poster that someone is going to help me hand out and a resume that I am ready to send out. I think that will have to be it (promotion wise) for the next few weeks. My actual yoga practice has been regular but simple. My knee injury was doing so much better so I started being less careful and now I think I have re-injured it. How frustrating. I can feel my flexibility decreasing in certain areas because I just can’t do some stretches safely right now. I am gaining a bit of weight too because I am less active. When I was younger I was very athletic and I tore a ligament. I remember feeling this way then too. Frustrated and like I will never be fit again. I know things will turn around. It will just take some time and gentleness with myself.
My practice today was pretty quiet. A quick little hatha session while the baby was sleeping.. such is life. I have a lot of work around the house to catch up after being away all weekend. Plus my knee is quite sore after sitting on the floor all weekend during the workshop. I am feeling like I need to baby it a bit. Yes, the knee is still acting up. I thought it was getting better so I tried to go for a short run. Ouch. The knee is not better. A torn meniscus is a hell of an injury to work through. I worry I keep re-injuring it. I am trying to be careful but it is difficult because the pain doesn’t come until well after I have stretched it too far. The doctor warned me about this. Delayed pain. He said “use common sense”. It is a little tricky when one is used to being pretty active. I am just grateful spring is on the way. With the warmer less wet weather me and the baby can go for some long bike rides without her freezing her buns off.
Neither of my babies have been sleepers. They were up every two hours until they were both well over a year old. I never really appreciated how precious sleep was until I had children. This last time around (being a new mother) I had a little breakdown in the doctors office. She prescribed sleep. She even gave me a doctors note to help me getting funding for childcare so I could collapse. “Depriving people of sleep is a form of torture” she told me. Sadly I was so exhausted, tired and generally so out of it I couldn’t even get it together to deal with the bureaucracy that came along with trying to get funding to sleep. It was hell. Thankfully the baby started sleeping through the night a few months later.
Now I am greedy for sleep. I started writing this blog as a way to keep on track with my yoga practice but I have struggled keeping up with it. My free time is in the evening. I would rather be sleeping. I am really working towards not feeling guilty about this desire to “konk out” instead of be productive.
The Yoga Nidra workshop I am taking isn’t really about sleeping. It is more about entering altered states of consciousness. It is so close to sleep though the subject matter of quality sleep keeps coming up in our discussions. This is where my learning is happening in the workshop. Jenn keeps recommending a book “Take a Nap! Change Your Life“. which I think will be treating myself to in the next few weeks. It is a simple to read book that is chocked full of little useful tidbits about sleep, when to sleep, and what different stages of sleep do for you. Apparently the average person can have up to a 3 hour long nap during the day without it affecting their night sleep at all. I know in my heart that I need this day rest. I have always said that my employers are pretty much wasting their money on me after 3:00pm. When I was younger I attended art school in Mexico. Siesta is a tradition down there so I came home and snoozed every afternoon. Everything shut down until around 5:00pm. The stores stayed open late after that. I was in heaven. My energy was bursting. I had found my natural rythm.
So sleep….have I mentioned how excited I am about it??? Maybe I will try to book a sleep-cation if life permits the opportunity.
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The reality is most startups need to raise funding to grow, and to become real companies. It’s not typical that a company can make money if it doesn’t fundraise, and certainly very unlikely that anyone will make any money if your company does not grow.
So you weren’t thinking about raising money, but you met a bunch of investors, and they said that you really should. Other founders around you said you should too. You then decide, “what the heck, I will give it a shot.” It is a mistake. You are not ready, you didn’t prepare, you didn’t plan.
When you go to a casino and gamble, you think – all these poor suckers around me, they are going to lose, but me? No, no, no. I am a winner. This is sad, because as an entrepreneur you actually are special. All of us are. We are this crazy, courageous, relentless unstoppable breed. But the reality is that it is not a good bet to make when it comes to seed funding. You are better off being prepared and winning because of that.
But even if you are prepared, it may not be enough this day and age. We see less and less people funding ideas and decks. Investors want to see early traction – some sort of indication that not only your idea is great, but that you talked to customers, built a minimal viable product and have some kind of traction – proof that you can do it and it may work.
And if you find it too daunting and complicated – get help! Talk to fellow entrepreneurs who’ve done it before. Apply to Techstars and we can help you accelerate the business and raise funding. Really think through the funding. Prepare, be thoughtful and win.
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Jordan Marsh (officially Jordan Marsh & Company) was an American department store chain that was headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and operated throughout New England. It was founded by Eben Dyer Jordan and Benjamin L. Marsh in 1841. The ownership of Jordan Marsh was transferred between several holding companies during its operation, including Hahn Department Stores in 1928, Allied Stores in 1935, and Federated Department Stores in 1988. The brand was retired, and most stores were converted into the Cincinnati-based Macy's, in 1996.
Allied also operated a separate group of stores in Florida called Jordan Marsh Florida, which were disbanded in 1991.
In 1841, Eben Dyer Jordan left his job at a Boston dry goods store and went into business for himself laying the foundation for the first Jordan Marsh. Ten years later, Jordan partnered with Boston merchant Benjamin L. Marsh.
They began by selling linen, silk, and other dry goods from Europe to wholesale customers in and around the city. As the business grew, it moved from one location to another and in 1861 Jordan and Marsh decided to begin selling directly to the public. They acquired a brownstone building at 450 Washington Street, in the heart of what is still Boston's downtown shopping district. After the American Civil War, Jordan and Marsh expanded into nearby buildings, offering an increasing quantity and variety of goods. Eventually the partners had established the nation's first "departmentalized" store and called it Jordan Marsh and Company. During the second half of the 19th century, Eben Jordan's son, Jordan Jr., and a new partner named George Mitton took over the company, turning it into a modern department store.
Jordan Marsh and Company, in addition to establishing the first department store, introduced the concept of “department shopping.” Jordan Marsh combined an elegant atmosphere with excellent personal service and a wide range of merchandise. With many different departments displaying wares from around the world, the store drew shoppers from the city as well from the growing "streetcar suburbs." Once at the store, consumers could do more than just shop. Jordan Marsh offered fashion shows, a bakery famous for its blueberry muffins, art exhibitions, and even afternoon concerts.
Jordan Marsh also pioneered new services for shoppers not available in more traditional specialty shops. Most important, it offered credit, usually in the form of charge accounts. It introduced the customer-is-always right policy, and offered money-back guarantees. Jordan Marsh was always known for implementing new technology as well, one of the first stores to feature electrical lights, glass showcases, telephones, and elevators. It also installed pneumatic tubes that delivered cash and credit information to individual departments.
In 1935, Boston's Jordan Marsh became one of the founders of New York City-based Allied Stores Corporation, a successor to Hahn Department Stores, Inc., a holding company founded in 1928.
After World War II, the management of Jordan Marsh announced that it would build a new store in downtown Boston. Jordan's five older buildings would give way to a new building that would take up a full city block. Covering an area larger than Harvard Stadium, it would have two stories under ground; another 14 would rise into the air. It would have all the latest technology, including air conditioning, automatic doorways, block-long show windows, and radiant-heated sidewalks. After the addition of the "new building" in 1949, the Jordan Marsh Complex was split into four distinct units; the 1949 new store, the original main store, annex, and bristol building. The Boston redevelopment authority estimated the complex's total retail space at 1,700,000 sq ft (160,000 m2), which made it overwhelmingly the largest retail venue in Boston. At the same time, the company began moving, along with its customers, into the suburbs. Jordan's constructed its first branch stores in older suburban communities in the 1940s, but by 1966 the branch stores accounted for half of all department store sales.
The shopping mall Shopper's World opened in Framingham, Massachusetts on October 4, 1951, making it one of the earliest suburban shopping malls in the country. Jordan Marsh stood at the southern end as the sole anchor. It was the first mall-styled Jordan Marsh in the country and was unmistakable for its large white dome. The dome was visible from the air and was used on aeronautical charts as a visual reporting point for aircraft approaching Boston's Logan Airport. It was reputed to be the third largest (in diameter) unsupported dome in the world after St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and St. Paul's Cathedral in London. The Shopper's World store quickly became the most recognizable Jordan Marsh outside the flagship store in Boston.
In 1956, the first store in Miami, Florida was opened with slogans such as "Florida's high fashion department store" and "the store with the Florida flair". Later, it was divided into a separate division of Allied then the Jordan Marsh of Boston with headquarters in Miami. With newcomers heading into the state, the store lost focus and decided to downgrade in order to compete. Jordan Marsh also opened a San Diego branch around the same time, occupying the former Sears store downtown. The branch did not do nearly as well as the Florida branches and the failed store closed in 1958. The Florida stores were disbanded in 1991, with several being merged with Maas Brothers, which later became Burdines, now Macy's.
The main building of Boston's Jordan Marsh complex, an ornate brownstone edifice with a landmark corner clock tower designed by Nathaniel J. Bradlee in the 1860s, was torn down in 1975, along with its entire row of historic annex buildings. Local architect Leslie Larson founded a coalition called the City Conservation League to try to save the main building, which made way for a low modern brick structure that sits there today as Macy's. Some outraged customers cut up their credit cards in protest of the demolition. These protests and preservationist grassroots efforts led to the creation of the Boston Landmarks Commission.
In 1986, the Canadian Campeau Corporation acquired Allied Stores Corporation, which was reorganized under the merger agreement. In February 1987, Campeau merged D.M. Read Co. of Bridgeport, Connecticut, into Jordan Marsh, and merged Jordan Marsh Florida with Maas Brothers of Tampa, Florida, as the new Maas Brothers/Jordan Marsh Florida division.
In 1988, Campeau Corporation acquired Federated Department Stores. To consolidate with Federated, Allied's New York headquarters moved to Cincinnati. Allied Stores: The Bon Marché, Jordan Marsh, Maas Brothers/Jordan Marsh Florida and Stern's, operating in tandem with Federated: Bloomingdale's, Abraham & Straus, Lazarus, Rich's, Goldsmith's, and Burdines.
In 1990, saddled by debt resulting from the highly leveraged Campeau takeover of Federated, both Federated and Allied filed for bankruptcy reorganization. Campeau Corp. U.S., Inc., was renamed Federated Stores, Inc. The operations of Jordan Marsh Florida and Maas Brothers were absorbed by Burdines in 1991.
In 1992, a new public company, Federated Department Stores, Inc., emerged in February. The former Allied Stores Corporation was merged into Federated. A consolidation of the A&S and Jordan Marsh divisions resulted in the A&S/Jordan Marsh division, headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. In 1994, the A&S/Jordan Marsh division merged with Macy's East and the A&S stores were renamed Macy's in 1995. In 1996, Jordan Marsh stores in the Northeast U.S., already part of the Macy's East division, were converted to the Macy's nameplate.
From the 1940s until 1972—and again in the early 1990s—the Jordan Marsh flagship store in Boston's Downtown Crossing was home to the Enchanted Village, a lavish Christmas display which at its height took over an entire floor of the department store and was also spotlighted in its display windows. The centerpiece of the display, besides Santa, was an eight-set Lionel electric train display. From what started as a marketing gimmick, the Enchanted Village quickly became a legendary Boston tradition and an annual mainstay of the city's holiday season. Macy's discontinued the Enchanted Village in 1998 when it was moved to City Hall Plaza. More recently it has been housed in the Hynes Convention Center.
On June 16, 2009, the Enchanted Village, including all props and figures was sold at auction, as the City of Boston could no longer afford to be a major sponsor of the annual event. It was sold to Jordan's Furniture (which is a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and had no connection to the former Jordan Marsh), and is on display during the holiday season at the Avon, Massachusetts location.
10 Altamonte Springs Altamonte Mall 1974 Still operating as JCPenney.
12 Boca Raton Town Center Mall 1980 Closed by Mervyn's in 1995. Building is now Saks Fifth Avenue.
17 Boynton Beach Boynton Beach Mall 1985 Became Sears in 1992. Closed in February 2019. Space currently vacant.
16 Coral Springs Coral Square 1984 Still operating as Macy's.
13 Cutler Ridge Cutler Ridge Mall 1981 Still operating as Macy's.
15 Doral Miami International Mall 1983 Still operating as Macy's.
1 Downtown Miami Omni International Mall 1956 Closed by Burdines in 1992. Building is now Miami International University of Art & Design.
2 Fort Lauderdale Sunrise Center 1960 Fourth and fifth floors added on to Jordan Marsh in 1966. Still operating as Dillard's.
8 Hollywood Hollywood Fashion Center 1972 Closed in 1991. Building has since been demolished.
18 Jensen Beach Treasure Coast Square 1987 Still operating as Macy's.
4 Kendall Dadeland Mall 1966 Still operating as Macy's.
7 Miami Beach The Mall at 163rd Street 1971 Closed by Mervyn's in 1997. Building was demolished for Walmart.
14 Melbourne Melbourne Square 1982 Still operating as Dillard's.
9 Merritt Island Merritt Square Mall 1973 Still operating as Macy's.
11 Plantation Broward Mall 1978 Still operating as Dillard's.
6 Pompano Beach Pompano Fashion Square 1970 Closed by Mervyn's in 1997. Building was demolished for Lowe's.
3 Orlando Colonial Plaza 1962 Closed in 1991. Building has since been demolished.
5 West Palm Beach Palm Beach Mall 1967 Closed by Mervyn's in 1997 and again by Dillard's in 2000. Building was demolished for Forever 21.
^ a b c "Jordan Marsh Announces New Store". Mass Moment.
^ a b Benson, Susan Porter (1986). Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252060137.
^ Viser, Matt (November 29, 2006). "Enchanted Village is a broken spell". Boston Globe.
^ Filipov, David (June 16, 2009). "Magical memories up for bid: Auction could be salvation of Enchanted Village". Boston Globe. pp. A1, A12.
Cohen, Lizabeth (2003). Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 9780307555366.
Benson, Susan Porter (1986). Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252060137.
Jordan, Marsh Illustrated Catalogue of 1891 (Dover Publications reprint, 1991).
Tales of the Observer, by Richard H. Edwards, Jr. (Jordan Marsh Company, 1950).
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jordan Marsh.
This page was last edited on 11 March 2019, at 13:00 (UTC).
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Apache is a web server, that has it’s roots in the CERN web server.
It is the most widely used web server on the Internet today, it can be integrated with content technologies like Zope, databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL and others (including Oracle and DB2) and the speed and versatility offered by Web rapid application development (RAD) languages like Personal Home Page (PHP).
It is highly configurable, flexible and most importantly,it is open. This had lead to a host of development support on and around Apache.
External modules such as mod_rewrite, mod_perl and mod_php have added fist-fulls of functionality as well as improved the speed with which these requests can be serviced. It has, in no small part, played a role in the acceptance of the Linux platform in corporate organizations.
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The Apache web server has been designed to be used in either a modular or non-modular way.
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In this part of the configuration file, the settings affect the overall operation of the server. Setting such as the minimum number of servers to start, the maximum number of servers to start, the server root directory and what port to listen on for http requests (the default port is 80, although you may make this whatever you wish).
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In SOA, everything is formalized.
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Windows-integrated authentication requires that all users be running internet explorer 3.01 or later Kerberos is a network authentication protocol.
It is designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography.
Passport authentication make use of Microsoft’s passport service to authenticate users of your application.
If users have signed up with passport and we configure the authentication mode of the application to the passport authentication, all authentication duties are off-loaded to the passport servers.
To use passport authentication we have to download the Passport Software Development Kit (SDK) and install it on our server.
The SDK can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/websrvpass.aps. It includes full details of implementing passport authentication in your own applications.
Forms authentication provides us with a way to handle authentication using our own custom logic with in an ASP.NET application.
The following applies if we choose forms authentication.
When a user requests a page for the application, ASP.NET checks for the presence of a special session cookie. If the cookie is present, ASP.NET assumes the user is authenticated and processes the request.
When the user is authenticated, you indicate this to ASP.NET by setting a property, which creates the special cookie to handle subsequent requests.
The Windows Distributed interNet Applications Architecture (DNA) is a Microsoft blueprint for robust, scalable, distributed business software.
It gives all combined advantages of Centralized mainframe, application servers, internet technologies and Personal computers.
Windows DNA is an evolution which started from mainframes (where all logic was centralized), Fox pro ages ( where we talked in terms of two tier systems), VB6 / SQL SERVER (three tier where we talked in terms of having one more tier which was mainly COM where business logic resided), COM+ ( looking in terms of transactions and fulfilling ACID rules) and finally the DNA.
To support web based application Microsoft has tried to add internet features into the OS using COM.
But developing a web based application using COM based Windows DNA is quite complex. The complexity is due to the simple fact that Windows DNA requires the use of numerous technologies and languages. These technologies are completely unrelated from a syntatic point of view.
A webapplication is a type of client/server application, which means that the functions of the application are split between a client computer and a server computer. The client and server computers are connected to one another via the Internet, and they communicate with each other using HTTP(Hypertext Transfer Protocol).
To access a web application, you use a web browser that runs on a client computer.
The web application itself is stored on the server computer. This computer runs web server software that enables it to send web pages to web browsers.
The web applications work with data that’s stored in a database, most server computers also run a database management system (or DBMS).
The DBMS provides access to information stored in a database. To improve performance on larger applications, the DBMS can be run on a separate server computer.
The user interface for a web application is implemented as a series of web pages that are displayed in the web browser. Each web page is defined by a web form using HTML, or Hypertext Mark up Language, which is a standardized set of mark up tags.
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A California judge dismissed Frank Sivero’s claims in a hearing Thursday.
Frank Sivero, who played mobsters in Goodfellas and The Godfather Part II, sued Fox in October with the intriguing claim The Simpsons copied his likeness for a mob character named Louie.
Now Sivero’s suit sleeps with the fishes.
In a Los Angeles Superior Court hearing Thursday, judge Rita Miller granted Fox’s motion to strike the complaint on the basis of California’s anti-SLAPP law. The statute requires a plaintiff who challenges a work of free speech to demonstrate the likeliness of prevailing on his claims.
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I met up with a dear friend of mine to exchange goodies she got for me from convention ( Hi Sharon ) I made this card organizer for her as a small token of my appreciation for her doing that for me .. We met for Lunch at Mr. Pita and WOW what a Fabulous Lady, I am honoured to call her my Friend .. Our vist wasnt long enough and we plan to meet up again But what Made our vist even better ( If thats possible ) is that she also brought all her swaps she recieved from Convention this year so Of course I had a fun time taking photos of her goodies ..Thats until my camera Battery died ( Boo Hoo) BUT no fear the smart one in our family ( my beautiful daughter Jessica ) said "Mom use your camera on your cell phone " What a relief .. Theres nothing wose than seeing awesome swaps and not being able to document them for my mind to remember . Now if I could only upload those photos from my cell photo to my computer Thats another story for another day ..
Thank you so Much Sharon ..
Dawn - that is such a nice gift you made.
wow, what an awesome gift!
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This page is for a proposed conference presentation at The Collective, on Delivering equitable & inclusive instructional content using UDL principles.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) not only makes content accessible, but an equitable and inclusive user experience for everyone. These simple guidelines benefit all learners and support different learning styles, including ESL learners and sensory impairments. Come learn how easy it is to make instructional content inclusive to all in PDF, Word, PPT, and HTML, and walk-away with the skills (and tip-sheets) to do it at home.
Understand how UDL makes your instruction and content more inclusive, and what UDL is.
Learn how to optimize everyday documents such as HTML, PDF, Word, PPT, and Alt-text for Visuals, with UDL principles.
Outline next steps to implement UDL and/or share UDL info at your library.
Connect with others who are interested and motivated to implement UDL principles, to continue sharing and learning together after the conference.
Google Doc for attendee’s to outline Best Practices for Creating Accessible Documents, By Document Type.
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If your employer made you drive around in vehicles made from uranium, handle uranium without protection, and breathe uranium dust mixed with traces of plutonium, would you be surprised if, in a few years, you started to have health problems like cancer, chronic fatigue, kidney damage, and neurological and chromosomal damage? If you questioned the cause of your malaise, would you be surprised if your employer told you that uranium was a harmless natural substance? And that your health problems were unrelated to your job?
Since Desert Storm, the United States and Britain have been using ammunition, shells and tank armor made from depleted uranium (DU). According to the U.S. Army Environmental Policy Institute, "Iraq and northern Kuwait were a virtual testing range for depleted-uranium weapons. Over 940,000 30-millimeter uranium tipped bullets and more than 14,000 large caliber DU rounds were consumed during Operation Desert Storm/ Desert Shield." Estimates for DU use in Desert Storm are about 300 -350 tons of DU, while the current war in Iraq is around 1500 tons. Dr. Asaf Durakovia, then Chief of Nuclear Medicine for the Veterans Administration said after Desert Storm, "Due to the current proliferation of DU weaponry, the battlefield of the future will be unlike any battlefields in history."
While the use of the word "depleted" uranium is technically correct, it can be misleading. A byproduct of nuclear power production, DU is about 60% as radioactive as natural uranium, but with a half-life of four and a half billion years. Natural uranium can be ingested in food and drink and get expelled from the body within 24 hours. DU-contaminated dust however, is problematic. When breathed into the lungs, it can remain for many years, causing a wide range of serious health problems.
One of the biggest players in the processing of DU from as far back as the 1950's was a military contractor called Nuclear Metals of Concord, Massachusetts, later renamed Starmet. Now bankrupt, Starmet dumped uranium, berrylium, and other toxins on its 46-acre site located at 2229 Main St., polluting the groundwater. Land as far as a mile away contains radioactive soil. The pond and surrounding land are currently the site of a controversial Superfund cleanup.
There are economic and military advantages to the use of DU. First, it is one of the densest materials in the world. And nobody argues that DU ammunition and shells are extremely effective in piercing tank armor and bunkers, after which a DU round disintegrates into tiny aerosol particles and bursts into flame. Economically, DU is very cheap and a large supply is readily available.
The downside is DU's catastrophic effect on health of our own troops, which the military denies. Of the 697, 000 soldiers that participated in Desert Storm in 1991, 207,000 are receiving disability compensation. (Veterans Benefit Administration Report, May 2002) This comes to a staggering 30%. (these three-year-old figures are almost certainly higher at present.) These vets are still young men and women now in their mid-thirties, an age when they should be in the prime of their health and strength. Many possible causes have been suggested such as the inhalation of oil fire smoke, vaccination damage, exposure to bioagents, nerve gas, pesticides, etc. all of which most likely contribute to what is loosely termed "Gulf War Syndrome," but some have theorized that Gulf War Syndrome is a form of radiation sickness mixed in various proportions with exposures to this toxic mélange of substances.
History is repeating itself. Remember those GIs in the 1950's, who were paraded out to the desert and told to face the direction of atomic bomb blasts, only to come down with cancer later in life? Then they faced the arrogance of their own government, who sought to deny responsibility for the broken health of these men. It all happened again a generation later with Agent Orange and the devastation it caused those who returned from Viet Nam.
An actively participating American citizenry should demand an open discourse on the use of depleted uranium- instead of the dialogue being closed off and displaced with administrative mandates. Thomas Jefferson said, "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education." This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.
Amidst the denials and projections that will surely follow, the use of depleted uranium will be a bitter pill indeed. Uranium ammunition. Broken health. Expendable people. Depleted uranium is bad idea that nobody talks about.
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Miss Ella, May your years all fly away; like before the sun. And when you have nothing else to do, just think of me for fun. Effie (G) B. April 5th, 1884, Saturday.
Signature "Effie B" could be Ella's sister Effie Glasgow who married F.G. Brumbaugh.
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Ballymote Market House is a simple two-storey three-bay structure. At the ground floor there are three large arches, now with inserted windows. At one end there is a small rectangular doorway but this may be a recent insertion.
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Another colourful and imaginative watercolour from Margaret Ellem.
The Dragon was an exercise in experimenting with colour textures. This was done by a range of paint interactions with other chemicals.
For some details, write to Margaret on this blog through the comments section.
Margaret intends to go under her maiden name in the future. More and more her paintings will be signed Margaret O’Toole as seen above.
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Namaste. This just a quick note to let you know that I am deeply moved by your summary statement on Art and what it can do for the human person. I support your endeavour. And I wish people around us can aspire towards a cultivation of mind and body in some degree of art form. God Bless.
Piercarla …. this is simply beautiful! love everything about it .. plus the words are great!
This is a very dynamic painting!
Very nice work, Piercarla! I love the colors of red and dark with the hint of blue you used. Great work!
Superb work….great message! Really nice Piercarla!!! ……………….
Very powerful work. You have strong messages. I like that.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. Now, THAT is a profound and true statement. Buddha was right. I am glad you reminded me of this. This is also a magnificent, lovely work of art, to say the least.
I am surprised that I am the first one to comment about this outstanding image. It is wonderful and full of magesty.
‘Piercarla: There is much to enjoy in your compositions, a spiritual aspect come alive, generated by contrast, texture, and clarity. As a composer of Haiku poetry I include one for you. Continued success, best wishes.
I’ve just visited your wonderful website and browsed through your art… it is absolutely beautiful!! So much soul flowing, Piercarla! Really beautiful, and I know they must be even more breathtaking in reality.
What a wonderful project! Your work is truly a blessing to this planet.
Just wanted to let you know the prints arrived and I absolutely love them. I already have them displayed where they constantly remind me of what I need to remember.
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glossy patina, pierced at sides for attachment. Built up encrusted material inside mouth with remains of teeth. Mounted on custome stand.
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This entry was posted on Dezember 19, 2008 at 2:10 pm and is filed under Energie sparen. 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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The Heart Bulletin was published by the Medical Arts Publishing Foundation in Houston from 1952 to 1971. The back cover of every issue featured cartoons of red arteries and blue veins that playfully illustrate the principles of cardiovascular medicine. Each illustration has a quote about cardiovascular theory from notable philosopher or physician.
Joseph Schwarting, once the only fine arts major on the University of Texas football team, was the lead artist for Medical Arts Publishing Foundation, which was noted for using original art for each graphic in every journal. The company also published The Cancer Bulletin and The Psychiatric Bulletin.
The Texas Medical Center Library’s John P. McGovern Historical Center houses the original artwork for all the publication of the Medical Arts Publishing Foundation. Below are some of the original artwork for the Artery & Vein characters.
LIFE magazine, November 17, 1941, page 115.
The Houston Veterans Administration Hospital moved its new radioisotope laboratory—nicknamed the “Atomic Lab”–into this converted Navy barracks in 1952. Its eight thousand square feet included eight laboratories, a cold room, culture transfer and media preparation rooms, a constant-temperature instrument room, sterilization room, the latest in housing for laboratory animals, and an animal operating room.
Medicine began to use radioisotopes in the late 1930’s as tracers in investigation and diagnostics, and to administer radiation as therapy for cancers and thyroid disease.
Dr. Michael DeBakey conducted some of his early vascular surgery research in Building 203. The first Dacron graft surgery was performed at the Houston Veterans Hospital in September 1954.
The vehicle parked out front is a fourth-generation (1947-1955) Chevrolet Suburban. It has a single taillight in the middle of the rear hatch.
“The men are being trained in how to calibrate a GM (Geiger Mueller, geiger counter). In a calibration, you relate the meter readout to the actual exposure rate in mR[milliroentgens]/hr. The actual exposure rates are indicated on the floor and have been calculated based on the distance from the source and the known activity of the source. The source is the small metal capsule hanging from a string in the center of the concentric circles on the floor. It is towards the lower right corner of the photo. The source is the same height above the floor as the center of the GM tubes. The latter are the vertical cylinders clipped to the front of the bottom portion of the meter case. Notice that these tubes are aligned up on the concentric circles.
P-3305-01, photo of radioisotope laboratory building, Houston Veterans Hospital, ca. 1952; John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center; Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library; Houston, Texas.
Kahn, Jeffrey, “From radioisotopes to medical imaging, history of nuclear medicine written at Berkeley,” http://www2.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/nuclear-med-history.html.
This series of images is of the Arabia Temple Crippled Children’s Clinic. The Clinic was founded in 1920 and operated in space provided by Hermann Hospital during the 1940’s. The building seen here, constructed on Hermann land, opened in 1952. It joined the nonprofit Shriners Hospitals for Children in 1966 and continues to operate as a Medical Center member institution.
The Houston branch treats cleft palate and orthopedic concerns. Shriners Hospital, Galveston, opened in 1966 and specializes in burn care.
This series also constitutes our Tour of Elaborate Wallpaper. Particularly notable are the cherubs in the nursery (which may have been painted) and the Plymouth Rock scene in the lunch room.
P-2537-04 Arabia Temple Crippled Children’s Clinic, patients’ room.
P-2536, Arabia Temple Crippled Children’s Clinic exterior view; John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center; Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library; Houston, Texas.
P-2537, Arabia Temple Crippled Children’s Clinic series of interior views; John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center; Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library; Houston, Texas.
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↑ "Prevention and elimination of disrespect and abuse during childbirth". World Health Organization. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
↑ "The prevention and elimination of disrespect and abuse during facility-based childbirth" (PDF). World Health organization. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
↑ Sando, David; Kendall, Tamil; Lyatuu, Goodluck; Ratcliffe, Hannah; McDonald, Kathleen; Mwanyika-Sando, Mary; Emil, Faida; Chalamilla, Guerino; Langer, Ana (1 December 2014). "Disrespect and Abuse During Childbirth in Tanzania: Are Women Living With HIV More Vulnerable?". Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999). 67 (Suppl 4): S228–S234. doi:10.1097/QAI.0000000000000378. PMC 4251905. PMID 25436822.
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↑ Kujawski, Stephanie; Mbaruku, Godfrey; Freedman, Lynn P.; Ramsey, Kate; Moyo, Wema; Kruk, Margaret E. (1 October 2015). "Association Between Disrespect and Abuse During Childbirth and Women's Confidence in Health Facilities in Tanzania". Maternal and Child Health Journal. 19 (10): 2243–2250. doi:10.1007/s10995-015-1743-9. PMID 25990843.
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Clean Out the ‘Fridge Soup!
I started poking through the refrigerator last night and realized I had some vegetables that were going to go past their prime if I didn’t cook them soon. I also had a bit of chicken left from the roasted local chicken I made on New Year’s Day, so it made sense that it was time for a big pot of “Clean Out the ‘Fridge” Soup!
I started with a couple of carrots, celery hearts, mushrooms, some of the local tomatoes, and figured it was time for me to cut up and roast the local pumpkin before it got soft. I decided to add 1/4 of it to the soup, and roast the rest for later.
Gorgeous inside, right? This pumpkin came from Sejah Farm.
I chopped up the carrot, celery, 1/4 of the pumpkin, and left the pumpkin in large pieces to roast. I put a bit of water in the pan with the pumpkin and then covered the whole pan with foil, and roasted it at 350 degrees for an hour (or until soft).
And here’s the soup with the tomato and mushrooms chopped up and added! I decided to toss in some frozen green beans as well, and then started getting creative and went out to the garden for some japanese greens, which I gave a quick rinse in the sink before slicing them up and tossing them into the pot.
Last, I shredded the leftover chicken, tossed in a can of chickpeas, added some vegetable bouillon paste, salt, pepper, dried oregano, and put the pot on to simmer for a while. I want to point out that with soup like this, I don’t worry too much about how I chop up the vegetables. The most important thing is that they are all bite-sized pieces, and that they fit on the spoon when they are being eaten! So some of the mushrooms are cut in wedges, other in squares…I don’t care. Save the perfect little diced cubes for when you’re entering a cooking competition, but at home all that matters is that it tastes good and is easy to eat.
And here’s the soup at the finish. I stirred in some tomato paste because I decided to give it a bit more tomato richness, but that’s purely optional.
And, as a bonus, here’s the pumpkin puree – scooped out of the shell after cooking and popped in the freezer for future dishes…like pumpkin bread…or one of my favorites, pumpkin lasagna!
So when your vegetables are starting to wilt, don’t throw them away…make a big pot of soup, and enjoy the abundance of flavors!
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In my previous life, back before I discovered Baja and surfing, I shared my life with two Rhodesian Ridgebacks (and a husband too, but he’s a whole other story). Their names were Kipling and Fletcher. I got Kipling in 1994 when she was eight weeks old, after visiting the breeder and meeting her “mom” and “dad” and being thoroughly impressed by their quiet strength and nobility. I took raising Kipling seriously – some who knew me then might even say obsessively – because knowing she would become a large and very powerful dog (brushing up against 100 pounds), I didn’t ever want her to get out of control. The result was a dog that was a pleasure to walk on leash, who came to work with me every day and slept quietly under my desk until something was amiss or I pulled out my lunch, who sat nobly beside me in the passenger seat of my truck, buckled in with her special doggie seat belt. And because I socialized her to within an inch of her life, she also loved everyone and greeted them with an adorable full-body wag that caught most people off guard. If she really liked them, she would try to go through their legs while doing the body wag, lifting shorter people up off the ground and giving several woman in skirts an unexpected thrill.
The best thing about Kipling, and I’m told Rhodesian Ridgebacks in general, is how discerning she was. She loved everyone with two exceptions. In both cases, they were strange men who proved to be up to no good. In both instances, she put herself between me and the man and growled so menacingly that it was clear they were not to come near me. A Ridgeback conveys that they mean business like few other breeds. I’ve missed the sense of safety that comes from knowing your best friend has your back.
When I left my husband and moved into my bachelorette apartment, Kipling came with me. But when I made the decision to move to Mexico I was faced with a dilemma – should I bring a large dog on a journey across two countries and on into a third where I didn’t know precisely where or how I would live? I wrestled with that question for some time before deciding that the best thing for Kipling was to return her to the home she’d shared with me, Fletcher and my ex for several years. I’ve always wondered if I did right by her, if we would have done okay down here together. I’ve missed her and every time I think about leaving her and the fact that I’ll never see her again, I tear up.
In the past two years, I’ve lost four dogs to old age, two of them medium to large dogs who were excellent guards, barking what seemed like vicious warnings to those on the outside of the gate. They weren’t vicious dogs, but they did a good job acting the part and I believe took protecting me and this property seriously. Of the remaining three dogs, one is too old and infirm to fend off much more than a pesky fly; Peanut barks a good game when I’m home, but she purportedly stays in the garage if I’m gone; and Millie, while she might bark and nip at strangers when I’m home, like Peanut, does nothing if I’m away. I miss having dogs on the property who defend it consistently.
So about a year ago, I started thinking about my Ridgebacks and how they are such excellent, discerning guards, and just big and scary looking enough to get people’s attention. A couple of months ago I went so far as to contact a RR rescue organization to see if they could help me adopt a Ridgeback that needed a home. No dice, they said, they can’t adopt out of country. I put the word out with friends and on Facebook in the hopes that someone would know someone who knew of a Ridgeback that needed rescuing. I even went so far as to consider the possibility of traveling to Jeffreys Bay at some point in the future to visit my buddy Derek Hynd (more on that later) and find a Ridgeback while getting some epic surf. Where better than the land where they originated to find one?
And then, last Tuesday, I was at the veterinary clinic buying more meds for Doobie, when at the end of the transaction, I said to the vet, Dr. Felipe, “I’m looking for a dog…” Before I could say another word, he replied, “Follow me.” So I did.
He took me to the shaded kennel area behind the clinic and from about 15 feet away pointed at a medium to large red dog in one of the dog runs. When we entered the area, she barked at us three times – a deep, resonate bark that would make anyone sit up and take notice. The cage she was in was under heavy shade, but I could see that she had a black muzzle and black-rimmed dark amber eyes, a large white blaze on her chest and white socks on her front feet. I held my breath a little and listened as Felipe began to tell me about her.
“She has just started to bark when people come back here. She will make a good guard dog.” He said he believed she was part Mastiff. I was dubious because of her size and relatively fine facial features. He said, “and she has some Boxer in her,” and then he said, “And some Rhodesian Ridgeback.” My heart did a little leap.
He took me over to inspect her. “Look, she has a ridge,” he said.
I looked at her back and saw nothing, but he directed me to look at her neck. And there it was – a circular whirl of hair just below the occipital ridge and a length of hair growing at odds to the rest of her coat that runs the length of her neck. While it might not be up to breed standard (the ridge is supposed to start between the shoulder blades and run the length of the back), it most definitely is a ridge.
I had to leave and return for her, so he had his staff bathe her, and when I returned and they brought her out to the waiting area, I was surprised to see how beautiful she was. I gave her some barbecue chicken I’d brought along as a bribe and was impressed at how gently she took it. Her friendly nature reassured me. The fact that she made it all the way home on the bumpy, windy road without any “incidents” further made me think I was doing the right thing by adopting her. To prove me further right, she promptly relieved herself when I let her out of the car.
That night walking with her and the other dogs down the beach, I was astounded at how much she looks and moves like Kipling did. She has the same long, strong, sinuous body, beautiful deep red coat, and graceful gait. While she may be a little long and masculine in muzzle and her ears may not hang in the proper “houndy” fashion, I think there’s more Ridgeback in this baby than either Mastiff or Boxer. The hair on her head is as soft as velvet, just like Kipling’s, a tactile memory I’d long forgotten.
Kali and Mochi checking out a horse grazing just outside the property.
She’s fit into our home almost seamlessly, behaving like this has always been her home. After one night and a morning in the dog run outside (as much to give my dogs a chance to get used to her as the other way around), I quickly gave her run of the property. Her second night here I let her sleep inside because it was clear from the way she stayed so close to me that she wasn’t going to spook and take off. She lies a few feet away on the floor as I write this, legs outstretched, eyes half closed, trying, like the rest of us, to find some cool in the oppressive heat of a tropical summer afternoon.
And I don’t know if she senses it, but to me, she feels like home.
Satellite image of the storm’s intensity.
The weather in Baja is gorgeous about 95% of the time. There are more blue-sky days here on average than most places on Earth. We get our fair share of wind in the winter, which is why this is such a great wind and kite surfing locale, but those are nice constant winds of between 15 and 25 miles per hour. Summer winds whipped up by warm tropical disturbances are different – they are meaner, stronger, and can wreak serious havoc when they exceed the 60mph mark. They are typically preceded by skies heavy with grey clouds and sometimes thunder and lightning. Fortunately, thanks to modern weather predicting technologies, we usually know when they are coming and can prepare our homes by putting up window-protecting storm shutters, removing delicate window screens, and packing all the patio furniture and garden decorations away in garages and bodegas for safe keeping.
There is an energy of expectation and suspense that surrounds preparing for a storm. Perhaps that’s what I get off on, same as the adrenaline rush from surfing, that makes me embrace inclement weather. When I was a kid in Ontario, Canada and a big snowstorm blew up, I used to wrap myself in my father’s parka and walk through the streets of my small hometown buffeted by the wind. His coat reached mid-way down my calves and I had to wrap my arms around myself to pull it in and keep the frigid wind out. I think I felt more invincible in his coat than I would in my own snow gear, it was like he was there with me, his arms wrapped about me to fend off the weather. Icy snow flakes bit into the skin of my face and blew into the small space between my neck and the woolen scarf tightly cinched there. The sounds of the storm – the wind whipping along those otherwise quiet streets, through the trees so that their branches clicked and scratched out a dissonant beat, my boots crunching on the gathering snow drifts, the creak of icy power lines swaying overhead – accompanied me on my trek past small houses nestled into deep snow drifts. I relished the cold biting my nose, the sensation of ice crystals growing from the tips of my eyelashes, of cold air rushing into my mouth and down into my lungs. I’d walk the perimeter of our town in the dark of an early winter evening, the streetlights catching the flash of so many snowflakes flying about wildly in blasts of a northeast wind.
I approached rainy days in summer similarly – I would walk the streets of my town or the dirt round that defined the circumference of the lake where we had a cottage, getting soaked to the skin, shoes squishing, my socks falling from the added weight of the water they’d absorbed, gathering around my ankles. If it was windy, those rainy days almost made me feel as alive as a stormy winter night did. I embraced the power of the wind.
Living at the tropical end of the Baja Peninsula could challenge the most ardent lover of wind not to forsake their love for calmer locales. The other day we had an unexpected chubasco (storm) come through in the early, soft lit hours of the morning. Aside from some thunder and lightning that woke me at 4:30am, the storm front hit with little warning at 6:40am. The sound of the wind wailing through window screens and the patter of large rain drops hitting the tiled patio outside my bedroom door roused me out of a sound, dream-filled sleep. In the time it took me to haul my still sleep-drenched body out of bed and wrap myself in a sarong, a howling gale had blown up out of nowhere. As I hurried down the stairs to gather patio furniture cushions, the wind grabbed my sarong, yanking it off with surprising force. I pulled it back around my chest in vain, the wind lashing out and ripping it off once again. I threw it on the dining table and ran naked about the house battening down the hatches.
The dogs, spooked by what were now 60 to 70 mile per hour winds, did their best to trip me up as I went from door to door to window, closing and latching them against the onslaught of wind and rain. The interior of the house looked like a wind tunnel experiment – papers and magazines were flying everywhere, window blinds flapped madly. Relief washed over me when Doobie, the senior member of the dog pack, padded up as quickly as her arthritic legs could carry her while I collected the cushions from the patio furniture. There was no time to get the patio furniture inside. I knew I had to pull the three sliders leading to the ocean-side patio closed NOW. But the largest one refused to latch – the force of the wind bent it so the two sides could not make contact. I left it and ran to close the windows upstairs.
When I returned to the living room, the wind had picked up another notch and ungodly sounds were coming from the unlatched door. It groaned and creaked in protest as I watched it bend and bow in response to the force of the wind. I pictured it exploding in a cloud of dagger-like shards and, in response, retreated to the garage, herding the dogs along with me. From the garage I heard a plaintiff meowing, a distress call from the bushes just outside the leeward side of the house. Responding to my encouragement Mochi the cat shot across the driveway and into the garage, managing somehow to escape getting soaked despite the huge rain drops that now pummeled the driveway. Even Mochi seemed to understand that the living room was a high risk zone and remained in the garage with the rest of us.
The wind slammed and shook the garage doors in a cacophony of metal on metal and the rain began to pour from the gutters in a torrent. Ungodly sounds were emanating from the house – moaning and groaning and howling her protests against the force of the wind.
I’m not sure how long we waited, but the wind soon weakened enough that I felt safe returning to the living room to try to close the slider once again. With a great deal of effort and several tries I managed to latch it, relief washing over me. A large puddle of water had gathered inside the three sliding glass doors – the rain forced through the tiny space between the doors and their tracks. As I mopped up the water, I felt the sting of wind-blown sand hitting my leg and discovered that the wind had also unseated one of the sliders and opened a quarter-inch space between the frame and the door. Amazing! Those doors are heavy!
Fortunately, the storm only lasted a couple of hours, but she managed to wreak some serious havoc all along the coast nevertheless. Here three screens were bent and torn off windows, several others tweaked out of shape, the screens stretched and pulled from their frames. The cover for the barbecue is MIA. It was weighed down with three heavy clay floor tiles, but the wind must have got under it, threw the tiles to one side and launched that heavy cover like it was a plastic grocery bag. It’s out there somewhere in the desert. My neighbors had palapas torn apart or knocked over, roof tiles ripped off, gates and unlatched doors pulled from their hinges. Coconuts and fronds turned to ballistics, felled from palms in a frightening volley. It’s amazing no one was hurt.
In the cleanup afterwards, we found sand everywhere. Sand blew into every crack and crevice, collected in large volumes all over the patios and as high as the second story. It blew so hard, it blasted the paint right off the metal gate to the beach.
In my twelve years living here at the southern tip of Baja, I’ve never before experienced a storm of this magnitude come up so quickly. So while I do love inclement weather, I prefer the kind that comes up slowly, with warning, and time to prepare. And the feelings I have towards hurricanes lie somewhere other than in the “love” spectrum. We’re in the thick of hurricane season now and with sea and air temperatures higher than we’ve experienced in several years, it bodes to be an active one with storms continuing to form well into October. I beseech Mother Nature, keep those Category 4 hurricanes well out to sea this year.
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But what have they created in this darkened software bunker? What work are they about to put their coding skills to? This is what the Homeland’s creators call a ‘propaganda boiler room.’ Driven by extreme political convictions, they’ve created thousands of fake social media accounts to spread disinformation into the news feeds of millions of users.
As all of you will have heard recently, the role of the web and social media in political life have now become major global concerns—not just the plots of TV drama. We’re hearing more and more in the news about fake news, hacking, cyberattacks, political bots and weaponized computational propaganda.
And from critical technology thinkers, too, we’re hearing that ‘software is taking command,’ that automation and ‘algorithms rule the world,’ and that you can either ‘program or be programmed.’ Digital technologies, we now know, aren’t just neutral tools—but powerful devices for shaping our actions, influencing our feelings, changing our minds, filtering the information we receive, automating our jobs, recommending products and media to consume, manipulating our political convictions—even for ‘personalizing’ what and how we learn.
But as Homeland dramatizes, if software is becoming more powerful in our everyday lives, then we also need to acknowledge there are people behind it—programmers who have learned to code to make the technologies we live with.
As a result, Silicon Valley companies are now investing billions of dollars to re-engineer public education to achieve that aim.
In the UK, learning to code and computer science are now part of the formal curriculum for schools, in England, Wales and Scotland alike. Over the last couple of years, I’ve been studying the documents produced to promote learning to code, following how coding and computing have been embedded in the curriculum, and recently interviewing relevant policy influencers involved in the new computing curriculum in England.
Now, we need to go back in time a little here, back to 2011, and to Edinburgh. Here, at the Edinburgh Television Festival, was Eric Schmidt, then chief executive of Google, giving the keynote address to an audience of media, industry and policy leaders. After talking about disrupting TV broadcasting through media streaming, Schmidt suddenly turned his attention to attacking the British education system.
The talk tapped into a growing concern in the UK at the time that teaching children how to use Microsoft Office applications was inadequate to preparing them for living and working with more complex computer systems.
In fact, within six months of Schmidt’s speech, the Secretary of State for education in England at the time, Michael Gove, announced a complete reform of IT education during his own speech at a 2012 ed-tech trade show for IT teachers.
Well despite Gove’s argument about not micromanaging the new curriculum, by September 2013, just 20 months later, entirely new programmes of study for computing in the National Curriculum appeared, to apply at all stage of compulsory schooling in England.
I’m going to fill in the gaps in this story in a minute, but if we briefly come back to the present, we find Google now much more positive about British education.
So in 5 years, Google has reversed its opinion of computing in the UK, and even of its educational institutions.
But actually it’s not as straightforward as business driving policy. What happened in England with computing in the curriculum was the result of a much messier mix of ambitions and activities including government, businesses, professional societies, venture capitalists, think tanks, charities, non-profit organizations, the media and campaigning groups. As another of our interviewees said, from the outside the new curriculum looked ‘sudden and organized’ but was actually a more ‘anarchic’ mess of ‘passions’ and ‘reasons’.
So, for example, the year before Eric Schmidt’s Edinburgh speech, the campaigning organization Computing at School had already produced a ‘white paper’ detailing a new approach to computing teaching. Computing at School is a teacher members’ organization, originally set up by Microsoft and chaired by a senior Microsoft executive.
Its 2010 white paper focused on ‘how computers work,’ the knowledge and skills of programming, and ‘computational thinking’—that is, it said, a ‘philosophy that underpins computing’ and a distinctive way to ‘tackle problems, to break them down into solvable chunks and to devise algorithms to solve them’ in a way that a computer can understand. The Computing at School white paper, and the outline computing curriculum it contained, was then put forward after Michael Gove’s speech as a suggested blueprint for the national curriculum.
In fact, it was the Computing at School chairperson who was then appointed by the Department for Education to oversee the development of the new curriculum, and who led a 3 month process of stakeholder consultation and drafting of the new curriculum in autumn 2012.
Livingstone actually called his Nesta report, Next Gen, a ‘complete bottom up review of the whole education system relating to games.’ Nesta also produced a report on the legacy of the BBC Micro that Eric Schmidt had credited as a ‘fabulous initiative’ to get kids coding in the 80s. Nesta has continued to produce reports along similar lines, including one on getting more ‘digital making’ into schools, and another on the role of computer science education to build skills for the data analytics industry and the data-driven economy.
Soon after the Next Gen report was released, Livingstone and Nesta formed a pressure group, the Next Gen Skills campaign, which lobbied government hard to get programming and computer science in the curriculum. The campaign was supported by Google, Facebook, Nintendo, Microsoft, and was led by the interactive games and entertainment trade body UKIE.
Ian Livingstone, meanwhile, is establishing his own Academy Schools. Like the Swedish free schools approach, the Livingstone Academies will be privately run but publicly funded, and have significant discretion over curriculum.
So, Nesta and Livingstone have highlighted the powerful role of digital entrepreneurs and the language of the digital economy in securing government approval for computing in schools. As you can see, their emphasis is very firmly on programming and software engineering, rather than the more abstract study of the mathematics and algorithms that are the focus of the discipline of Computer Science.
Although programming and Computer Science are of course related, many critics have pointed out that most new computing courses and curricula are more closely connected with software development. We asked people about this is in our interviews, and were told by several people, including those at Computing at School and Nesta, that it was in everyone’s best interests to allow terms like Computer Science, coding, programming, computational thinking, digital skills and even digital literacy to be treated as the same thing.
Several people we interviewed were especially critical of the Shut Down or Restart report produced by the Royal Society in 2012. Its emphasis was on disciplinary computer science, and its recommendations reflected the views of major computer science academics and associations.
The Royal Society report was published just a few days after Michael Gove’s speech—in fact, he said he was looking forward to reading it. And you can see the influence of the Royal Society in the strong emphasis on the idea of computing at the ‘fourth science’ in the English computing curriculum. This goes well with the current emphasis in English education on established subject knowledge—though the fact the Department for Education authorized the Livingstone Academies indicates how government sees computing as a hard science and an economic catalyst at the same time.
In fact, we were told by several interviewees that a major issue in the development of the computing curriculum was that the government ministers and special advisers responsible for it didn’t think it was academic enough—it needed more hard Computer Science content and theory. Even though they weren’t supposed to be micro-managing it of course.
When the computing curriculum consultation group submitted its draft in late 2012, ‘The exact words were ‘the minister is not minded to approve the draft you sent,”’ one interviewee told us. The group had submitted its draft curriculum at 5 o’clock on a Friday evening and the chair was then contacted over the weekend by the special adviser to the minister.
Despite being a consultative curriculum drafting process, in the end the new programmes of study, we were told, were the product of just two senior executives responding to the demands of the minister and her special adviser to emphasize academic Computer Science.
But for many other people involved in trying to shape the new curriculum, the purpose wasn’t to reproduce disciplinary computer science through the school classroom, or skills development for the digital economy. One of the people we interviewed, also part of the curriculum consultation and drafting group, told us he was even banned from attending meetings after complaining about there being too much Computer Science content. Another had his expenses cancelled as part of the group to stop him doing wider consultation with teachers. The minister’s special adviser was allegedly behind both decisions.
Another area of influence on the computing curriculum was the role of charitable, non-profit and voluntary groups. Code Club is an after school programming scheme that puts volunteer coders together with children to teach them to code. It has its own coding curriculum that starts with visual programming applications like Scratch and then proceeds to programming with HTML, CSS and Python.
There are now over 5000 UK Code Clubs, teaching over 82,000 children programming. When it first started in 2012, the computing curriculum hadn’t even been drafted, yet Code Club is still going strong even though coding is now embedded in the curriculum.
One of the things that the continuing popularity of Code Club reveals is that computing remains very poorly resourced in schools. Code Club has an army of volunteer programmers—the computing curriculum has a teaching workforce of mostly ICT teachers who all need radical retraining. The government budget for this retraining worked out to about £100 per member of staff, which largely means external providers have stepped in.
As a result, Code Club now runs its own teacher training sessions, where volunteer programmers educate teachers in how to teach programming. Other training providers are available—Computing at School offers resources and training, but so do large commercial organizations, as we’ll see in a moment.
Code Club was also absorbed into the Raspberry Pi Foundation in 2015. The Raspberry Pi device itself is a very small, ‘hackable’ computer, and the foundation was set up as a charity to support its educational uses. But one of the other activities performed by Raspberry Pi is to catalyse the wider take-up of computing in schools. It has a couple of magazine titles, The MagPi and Hello World, to promote coding and making.
The MagPi is specifically about making with Raspberry Pi itself, while Hello World focuses on ‘plugging gaps’ in teachers’ knowledge and skills in computer science, coding, computational thinking, constructionism and digital making. Again, this reflects the deliberate ambiguity built in to the curriculum.
Probably the most high profile intervention into coding in schools so far came with the launch of the BBC nationwide campaign called Make It Digital in 2015.
One of the key projects was the launch of the micro:bit, a small coding device which it distributed for free to a million UK schoolchildren in 2016. The BBC has also established a non-profit foundation to roll out the micro:bit internationally.
The micro:bit, Code Club’s courses, and Raspberry Pi’s magazines indicate how much the new curriculum relies on public and charitable organizations to provide the support and resources required when government departments withdraw their ‘micro-management’ of key subject areas but retain a strong steering capacity over strategy and direction. One of our interviewees, who worked at a coding charity, described how she acted as a ‘geek insider’ who could translate the language of ‘geek’ into government speak for ministers, their special advisers and civil servants.
But besides these charitable providers, the curriculum has also, as we’ve seen, become the target for promoters of academic computer science and for entrepreneurial influence based on arguments about the digital economy. I think it’s a model case of how education policy is being made and done these days—it’s steered by government but taken forward by wider networks of organizations, with the special advisers of government ministers taking a strong role in approving who’s involved and vetting the outputs produced by the participants.
Yes, it’s not micro-managed as Michael Gove promised, but it’s not unmanaged either. And that doesn’t make it easy to work out what the overall purpose of the curriculum is—because it means different things to different groups.
The missing aspect of the curriculum as it has ended up from this messy mix of organizations, interests and interventions, for me anyway, is a more critical understanding of the social power of computing. Several of our interviewees said that the more critical aspects of computing suggested during the curriculum consultation were systematically erased before the curriculum programmes of study were finally made public in 2013.
Look at the bottom left column of this table where text has been struck out—this is from the draft computing curriculum in 2012 and emphasized ‘critical evaluation of digital content,’ the ‘impacts’ of technology on individuals and society, and ‘implications’ for ‘rights, responsibilities and freedoms.’ The right hand column shows how this part of the draft curriculum was rewritten, now emphasizing the study of algorithms, Boolean logic, and data manipulation.
This is what was lost when the draft curriculum had to be rewritten between its submission on Friday night and the new deadline for 9 o’clock Monday morning specified by the minister’s special adviser.
I understand that here in Sweden there remains potential for more critical approaches to digital competence, so I want to spend the last few minutes focusing on that.
Just a week or so ago, the Austrian research group Cracked Labs produced a report on the commercial data industry. It demonstrated how we are being tracked and profiled via data collected from our use of telecoms, the media, retail, finance, social media and technology platforms, and public services.
What does this have to do with computing in schools?
So, one of the world’s most powerful data harvesting companies is also one of the world’s most powerful computer science for education philanthropies, funding one of the world’s most powerful cross-national digital economies.
First, coding and computer science are being put forward as solutions to the digital economy by businesses but also think tanks and government officials too, with students positioned as future digital workers and entrepreneurial citizens—or agents of social and economic progress through software.
Second, relationships are being built between national governments and commercial companies to deliver on major educational goals and purposes. This is changing how education systems are governed—not just by government departments but from the headquarters and philanthropic outgrowths of global technology companies. It’s an example of how tech companies, many from Silicon Valley, are becoming ‘shadow education ministries’ as Neil Selwyn has described them.
Third, and consequently, companies like Oracle, as well as Google and Microsoft and others, are directly influencing curricula across Europe and globally, changing what teachers practice and what students learn along the way. They are even actively supplying teacher training courses to equip teachers with skills and knowledge.
Fourth, these organizations are talking the language of ‘computer science’ which is appealing to many educational policymakers—in the UK, as we saw, giving coding the credibility of Computer Science has been really important. Yet what they are actually promoting is closer to software engineering as practised in the technology sector. Some, like Oracle, also mention ‘digital literacy’ but this clearly a functional kind of literacy in writing code.
And in doing so, these organizations are shaping computing to be a practical, skills-based subject area with a hard scientific surface—and definitely not a more critically-focused subject which might draw attention to the data surveillance practised by the same organizations persuading national governments to focus on computing education in schools.
As the Cracked Labs report shows, Oracle knows an awful lot about people. This is the kind of digital environment that children and young people are now living and learning in. That’s why, in closing here, I want to suggest the need for a different direction in coding and computing in the curriculum—or at least a proper discussion about its purposes. It’s great to see this conference as a space to start that dialogue here.
We are now teaching kids to code—which has all sorts of advantages in terms of tech skills, creativity and understanding how computers work. But there’s a risk we could just be reproducing the practices of Silicon Valley in our own classrooms.
It is also notable that when the co-founder of Code Club criticized the ‘mass surveillance’ practices of Google a few years back that she was forced to resign by the Code Club board. Google was then one of Code Club’s main commercial sponsors.
We also need to think about the political uses and abuses of programming skills. Teaching children to code could actually be dangerous if it trains them with the right skills to work in Homeland’s propaganda boiler room. In many ways, young right wing activists are today’s most successful digital makers, using their programming skills to disseminate political values that many of us, I’m sure, find extreme and divisive.
My view is that a properly purposeful and meaningful computing education would engage with the social and political power of code to engineer, in part, how we live and think. ‘To program or be programmed’ is a neat mantra, but you need a different kind of critical knowledge and skill set to understand how your information practices are being programmed by the engineers at Google, how you can be monitored and profiled through the Oracle data cloud, or how you can be manipulated via social media.
According to the Times Education Supplement, the weekly magazine for education professionals in the UK, ‘the algorithm’s gonna get you’ in the classroom too. That’s an overly paranoid headline—but maybe it might provoke educators to consider the social power of programming and the algorithmic techniques of data mining and surveillance it’s produced.
What would it mean to receive an education in computing that helped young people navigate life in the algorithmic data cloud in an informed and safe way, rather than as passive subjects of this vast science experiment?
Technical know-how in how computers work has its uses here, of course. But also knowing about privacy and data protection, knowing how news circulates, understanding cyberattacks and hacking, knowing about bots, understanding how algorithms and automation are changing the future of work—and knowing that there are programmers and business plans and political agendas and interest groups behind all of this—well, this seems to me worth including in a meaningful computing education too.
I am encouraged to see that there is scope for some more critical study in Sweden’s incoming digital competence curriculum. That type of study of computing and its impacts and implications, in the UK, was shut down before the curriculum had even started up.
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Great piece Ben. I have lived through at least 4 iterations of this. They never achieve their aims for reasons too numerous to put in a comment. Anecdotes must suffice. Much of Apple’s success results from Jobs’s love of typography and Woz’s counter-culture phreaking and love of Star Trek as anything else. Dundee became a world centre for the computer games industry possibly because the Speccy was built in the Timex factory and there were so many knock-offs in the community.
This was a very informative post and raised a lot of great points. Your post stated, “Leading venture capitalist Marc Andreessen predicts a future with two types of job: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told what to do by computers.” Recently you see so many posts online with titles such as “Will Your Job be Safe?” or “Top 50 Jobs That a Robot Can Do”. I never thought about the fact that someone needs to be there to program these robots who are supposedly taking over so many jobs in the future. This made me think about my own students and the experiences I have had with technology in schools. I was teaching some aspects of computer science in an elementary school last school year. I was learning along with my students because I did not have any background in coding. I can speak from experience that if their was a common curriculum with standards for teachers to follow it would be more beneficial for students and teachers. You raised a valid point that since computer science is so broad and ever changing educators believe different things should be included. Personally I believe that the only way to see what works in a computer science curriculum is to implement one in a school and gather data to inform your future instruction.
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Do you remember making the switch from Myspace to Facebook just when you were mastering how to market your projects or yourself? Maybe it was Black Planet or Yahoo Groups before Twitter. As you know, social media changes swiftly with new tools and new features on the old tools. Instead of becoming frustrated, go with the flow, and experiment with a few new things coming down the pike.
Canva the graphics tool has made some recent changes, including a Beta testing of a new way to create in a more organized fashion. You can access that feature now. In the future, expect the inclusion of a scheduling tool, which is being beta-tested by a select group of users now. If you can create using Canva, then why not schedule on the same platform?
Blogging, as you know, is a form of social media. WordPress’s Gutenberg project will ultimately become the only way to use the platform. It is similar to drag and drop but it relies on building blocks on individual posts and pages (with plugins) that give each page a unique look and function.
Vero is a platform that is growing in popularity. It enables you to make social more personal and personable by sharing only with the people you want to share your videos and photos with. It is free for life. Try it.
Caffeine is a new broadcasting tool to livestream for fun, for gaming or to speak with your audiences. It’s in pre-release mode, so feel free to sign up now.
Instagram’s IGTV is turning the photo-sharing platform into a broadcast studio. More and more Instagram business users are producing long-form and episodic videos to engage their audiences. Expect that to grow.
These are just five platforms to keep an eye on as you keep in mind that you don’t have to use every feature on any of them. Just use what works for you.
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One of California’s freshest beatmaking exports are LA-based duo gLAdiator, who offered up a brand new full-length release for free download via their soundcloud yesterday. Entitled New, their album is a foray into the currently fertile breeding ground shared between today’s bass music spectrum and the southern hip hop aesthetic.
Late last week they also unleashed a monster remix of dutch producer Don Diablo’s “M1 Stinger” – again the track is available for free download below.
gLAdiator hits town this Thursday, December 20th at Fortune Sound Club for their debut Vancouver appearance, and we’ve got two pairs of tickets up for grabs – just email me here at dailydreadbass@gmail.com & tell me the names of the two members of gLAdiator. I’ll take submissions thru ’til 6pm PST on Wednesday December 19th at which point I’ll randomly choose two correct answers, each of which will be put on the guestlist with a +1, and notified early Thursday.
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Snoring, at first, seems to be a harmless habit. It is understandable because everyone snores occasionally. However, it becomes too much when it affects the quantity and quality of sleep of other people in the room. These people often transfer to other rooms to have a more relaxing night. Snoring could also be a reason of fighting between couples. Yes, it appears to be a narrow reason for break ups but this does occur in relationships.
A glass of milk is no-no. Your ‘before bedtime’ drink could be contributing to your snoring. How? When you drink milk, or in that case any other dairy product, you are encouraging the body to produce more mucus. Mucus serves to protect the body from foreign invaders. But when in increased amounts, mucus accumulation could be a health threat. Mucus intensifies the snoring problem by restricting the passage of air to the channels in your body.
A good alternative drink is an herbal cup of tea or an apple cider before you say your good night greeting. Another dairy product that’s a good substitute for mucus producing foods is yogurt.
This food type is another snoring blunder. Fatty foods, especially those eaten at night, are causing you to snore more. The general rule is to avoid large meals before bedtime. These type of foods cause inflammation of your digestive organs and air passages.
Yes, oil is considered as a form of fat. However, unsaturated fats found in olive oil can aid in reducing inflammation which in turn, reduces snoring. Once you’ve tried olive oil, you’ll instantly feel its effect in your throat.
This two food spices is doing more than just adding flavor to dishes. Onions and garlic could actually provide relief for snoring. It is suspected that these spices are capable of drying up your nasal passages and airways which reduces the mucus accumulation hence reducing your snoring.
The information you’ve learned are honest-to-goodness solution to reduce your snoring. However, keep in check other items such as your weight and the place you sleep; because aside from food, there could be a lot of things which may contribute to your snoring.
Are you dreaming of an attractive the body that everyone wants to look at? If yes, then you are in the right page. This page will feature way on how to lose belly fat naturally.
This article aims to lose your belly fat by incorporating habits that you can easily perform. This includes belly fat diet and exercises which are known to effectively reduce that belly.
To effectively lose stomach fat, you have to generally get stronger. While you are training, you will build up muscle mass and will aid in your fat loss. Though exercises such as dead lift and squats will not directly reduce your belly fat, it strengthens your abs and back. Your waist size will be reduced as a result.
If you are doing running and squats, increase the calories you are burning by adding high intensity exercises in between your regular routines. By doing this, you will also burn calories 16 hours after doing the exercises. Experts prefer this method over marathon and long hours walking in treadmills.
When it comes to diet, choose green and leafy vegetables. It is suggested to stuff them into your body so that you will not have a place for unhealthy treats. Spinach, broccoli, and cabbage are preferred foods over processed foods.
You can also take in olive oil. Adding this to your diet will signal your stomach to produce an important hormone. This hormone will tell the brain that your stomach is full. By then, you will feel less hungry. It is not suggested you drink it straight up. Instead, take it in 15 minutes before your meal with bread.
If you are drinking a lot of alcoholic beverages, then this could be contributory to the accumulation of your belly fats. Drinking from time to time is alright. But too much drinking puts a lot of stress in your liver. This will hinder your way in building muscles. Drink on Fridays and Saturdays but to a moderate amount. In the rest of the week, drink more water and eat more fruits.
One of the leading factors that influence your body to store fats is stress. When you are stressed, your body will release the hormone called cortisol. Cortisol signals your body to store more fats. Beat stress by performing breathing exercises and relaxation techniques.
The methods that are included in this article will surely reduce that pooch in your middle body. Stay motivated so that you will experience continuous result, as they say “Success breeds success.” Keep track of your progress so that you will feel that you have accomplished something. You will now have the pleasure of showing off your attractive body.
It seems that the tall people are the confident and successful individuals. They tend to be the ones who get the better job and more money. Being tall has lot of advantages. With this in mind, you are now in search for ways to get taller.
You are not alone in your quest to grow taller. This article will discuss several ways to achieve height increase so that you will feel more confident in your daily tasks. (You can also read a report about height increase. Click here.) Height increasing exercises and proper diet aims to promote the release of growth hormones from your body. This hormone is responsible for your height increase.
Stretches are usually done to warm up before exercise. It is also a logical and scientific step to gain height. Experts suggest that you do at least 15 minutes stretching exercises daily. One of the suggested stretches is the cobra stretch and car stretch.
Cobra stretch is an exercise performed with your arms perpendicular to the floor. You are to look up and you arms in the floor as if you are doing a push up. Your feet should be pointed downwards to lengthen your spine. Arch your back to support your neck creating a cobra position. You are now to bend your hips to lift your body up into an inverted “V” position. Tuck your chin against your chest. Return back to the original position. Each repetition will take you 10 to 20 seconds to complete. Perform this in six repetitions.
In performing car stretch, you are to go all fours on the ground with your arms locked. While inhaling, flex your spine down with your head facing up. Exhale as you push your spine up in to an arch while bringing your face down. Each repetition should last 3 to 8 seconds. Perform this exercise in six repetitions.
This is a very simple exercise that could gain you an inch or two in your height. This exercise is very simple and will require you to hang on a bar. This could really be tough in your first tries depending on your weight. But after few attempts, you will get used to it. Hang on the bar with your arms and stretch your spine for 10 seconds. Do this everyday for 2 minutes you will feel the changes in your body.
Swimming exercises are proven effective in increasing your height. The exercises involved in swimming require your body to stretch the muscles all over your body. Perform breast strokes as it can work wonders in your body.
These grow taller exercises are no secrets as they are the logical ways on gaining height. The real secret to grow taller is by persistence and dedication.
Now that you have read the grow taller exercises, you will feel more confident in your daily activities. You will feel improvement in how you deal with people. They will see you as an individual who strives for success. All of this will result due to your efforts you put in to grow taller.
A smile is a natural way to communicate happiness. Together with beautiful white teeth, it indicates success and confidence. However, your smile does not often communicate positive vibrations. This can be caused by the discoloration of your teeth that causes other impression. To address this, there are numbers of tips you can read on how to get white teeth.
However, the best way to address this problem is by following natural teeth whitening methods that are friendly to your teeth. But before we go to the exact methods, we must first understand why teeth discoloration occurs.
Teeth naturally darken as we age. This is part of the degenerative process our bodies naturally experience. Aside from that, there are also environmental factors that play a role in teeth discoloration. Habits such as smoking and drinking coffee have long term effects on our teeth. This includes staining, darkening, and damage to nerves. Other factors to blame in yellowing of teeth are use of antibiotics and excessive fluoride consumption in specific stages of tooth formation.
With that in mind, we can now turn to natural teeth whitening methods that are proven to be effective. Eating crunchy foods tops the list of natural teeth whitening. It polishes the surface of your teeth. Crunchy vegetables and fruits are also known to increase production of saliva. The saliva is aids in protecting the teeth from cavity-causing bacteria. On the other hand, sticky foods are often traced to be the source of substances that stain your teeth.
Aside from the strawberries ability to improve your cardiovascular condition, these fruit is also known to naturally whiten your teeth. The vitamin C it contains is powerful enough to fight off plaques. Malic acid, which is also found in apples, is a natural astringent that helps to remove stains on the surface of your teeth. The steps on how to utilize berries on how to make your teeth whiter is simple. Before you brush your teeth, crush the berries and apply the pulp with your toothbrush. Let it stay for five minutes. Rinse your mouth well afterwards. Other than strawberries, a few vegetables such as cucumber, celery and broccoli have known natural tooth whitening effects.
Eating cheese appears to have no relation in improving your teeth’s condition. However, it is helpful to know that cheese could promote remineralization of the enamel. (News here.) The substance called casein along with calcium and phosphate plays a role in strengthening the enamel. The enamel is the outermost surface of the tooth. This layer protects the dentin. The dentin dictates the color of the tooth.
Of course, you should not forget to maintain a healthy oral hygiene. Brushing and flossing is the basics of having a good oral hygiene. Brush your teeth every after meal if possible. This alone could keep your mouth clean and healthy.
There are several symptoms that a person can experience if he or she has a damaged liver. Some signs of liver damage include abdominal pain, unusual weight loss, nausea, jaundice and loss of appetite. If you experience this kind of symptoms then it’s best that you go to a physician and have a thorough examination of your condition. Now, if the doctor suggests that you have a liver problem then it’s advisable to take the steps that can help decereasingthe symptoms being experienced.
Follow a liver cleansing diet to aid in treating your liver problem. A good diet is made of up of the right foods to eat every day. Eat more fresh food that contain fiber. Fiber helps in cleansing toxins in the body. It helps the liver to function properly. You may want to prepare dishes that have fibrous vegetables as ingredients. Wheat and barley are also preferred. You may also want to add spinach and berries to your dish. A healthy and delicious salad is preferable if you want to treat your liver problem.
Now, if you’re diagnosed with having a fatty liver disease this would be the right time to quit eating and patronizing such types of foods. Stop consuming junk foods and fried dishes as well. It’s ideal to eat raw and fresh fruits and vegetables. You can create several delicious fatty liver diet recipes that can help you cure your current liver problem. It’s highly recommended that you also stay away from coffee, liquor, and carbonated drinks since it can affect your treatment. Substitute a bottle of soda to a glass of fresh vegetable and fruit juice. You can mix different kinds of fresh vegetables and fruits to your juice. This healthy juice drink is a good cleansing agent for your liver. Drink two to three glasses of this home made juice and you’ll be treating your liver problem effectively.
One of the signs of liver damage is dehydration. The best solution is to drink 10 glasses of water every day. Water helps you keep hydrated and it’s an important component that makes your body healthy. It’s also a source ofare essentialoxygen and minerals that the body needs.
The effectiveness of the treatment primarily depends on the person’s ability to shift to a more healthy lifestyle. The food you eat will determine your liver’s condition in the future. So, start eating healthier foods and have a healthy liver.
Thinking of quitting smoking? Well you should be thinking that and eventually decide that you should. But to quit smoking can be a struggle for you since you will be releasing yourself from the addiction of cigarettes. It is also hard to deal with it since it is gradual and requires patience for you to deal with the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal and cigarette cravings.
Dealing with nicotine withdrawal symptoms and cigarette cravings can be remedied through self-help techniques such as keeping yourself relax, eating healthy, drinking fluids, exercising and resting a lot. But there are inevitable cases wherein dealing with nicotine withdrawal symptoms and cigarette cravings can’t be tamed with self-help techniques. This will then lead you to the idea that you already need a help of a physician.
Acupuncture – This therapy has been known to be an effective management technique or therapy for nicotine withdrawal symptoms. As one of the oldest medical techniques ever known in history, acupuncture is done through triggering endorphins release which makes the body relax since these endorphins are natural pain relievers.
Behavioral Therapy – Since smoking is a physical addiction and a psychological habit, your rituals and habitual behaviors as a smoker should be dealt with accordingly. You can use coping or management skills in order to deal with your rituals for instance, instead of lighting a cigarette, you can light a candle.
Motivational Therapy– This can be a therapy of self-help techniques as you can use reading materials such as magazines, books and articles in the internet where you can find alternative solutions in dealing with nicotine withdrawal symptoms and cigarette cravings. For example you can consider the amount that you always spend whenever you buy cigarettes. Calculate the amount that you may have saved for other worthwhile activities.
Stop Smoking Hypnosis – Stop smoking hypnosis has been known to be real effective in dealing with nicotine withdrawals and cigarette cravings. This therapy is done through directing you to a very profound relaxed mood where you are put to a state where you push to quit smoking and to create an unfavorable attitude and thinking about cigarettes and smoking.
Non-nicotine medication – This medication is actually done by reducing your cigarette cravings and lowering down your symptoms of nicotine withdrawal without the use of nicotine. Applying this kind of medication can be done through varenicline or Chantix and bupropion or Zyban.
Nicotine replacement therapy – If there is a non-nicotine medication, there is also a therapy or medication for nicotine withdrawals through the use of nicotine substitutes. This is about replacing cigarettes with other nicotine products such as nicotine patch and nicotine gum. Moreover, this nicotine replacement is done through providing gradual and low doses of these nicotine substitutes until you get rid of nicotine withdrawal symptoms without your exposure to the poisonous tars and gases of cigarettes. This therapy is not actually abrupt since you are still given nicotine but not with the presence of the contents pure cigarettes emit that could infect your lungs.
There are several symptoms that a person can experience if he or she has a damaged liver. Some signs of liver damage include abdominal pain, unusual weight loss, nausea, jaundice and loss of appetite. If you experience this kind of symptoms then it’s best that you go to a physician and have a thorough examination of your condition. Now, if the doctor suggests that you have a liver problem then it’s advisable to take the steps that can help decrease the symptoms being experienced.
If you happen to feel several symptoms of a damaged liver then it’s advisable to stop doing unhealthy habits. Drinking alcohol is one habit that should be avoided. You don’t want to experience severe pain and do further damage to your liver. It’s best to stop drinking liquor immediately. You may want also to reduce your intake of fatty foods that contain so large amounts of cholesterol. High fat foods will only make your condition worse, so try avoiding it as possible.
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I have been getting lots of hits to my post about the VS2008 release date being February 27th 2008. Let me clarify what this date means. This is the official date that VS2008 will be released. There will be lots of events put together and possibly free copies of the software distributed and lots of marketing taking place. This is the launch date of the product and should not be confused with the RTM (Release to Manufacturing) date which most developers (particularly those with MSDN licenses) are interested in. The RTM date is when all coding and testing of the software is done and the product is released to the manufacturing process to burn the DVDs. Usually within a few days of a product’s RTM MSDN subscribers will be able to download it from MSDN. If you look at the blogs of some of the Microsoft Employees particularly Somasegar’s blog, you will see that Microsoft is shooting for an RTM of November 2007 for VS2008. The two dates are a few months apart for several reasons.
The February date is for an event including three products, VS2008, SQL Server 2008, and Longhorn Server. The marketing folk want to throw the parties and the marketing shebangs all at once to capture people’s and the media’s attention. They want to be able to say things like “The biggest release Microsoft Ever Did”. Also launching the products within a few months of each other will put in people’s minds a state of “another release from Microsoft” which is boring and not exiting. So a big launch is the way to go. When you have three big products releasing, you want to have a few months of cushion in case last minute show stopper bugs are found. Also, this gives you time to prepare the physical media that will be given away at the events and other things that can not be done the day after RTM.
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Steve Rogers: Super-Soldier #2 continues right from where we left off, with Jacob Erskine shot by a sniper right in front of Steve Rogers. This is followed by a hail of bullets, and Erskine dies in Steve’s arms, telling him to protect his wife. Steve escapes the building by jumping out of a window and using a flag to slow his descent. He finds the sniper’s nest, but he sees that the shot was fired remotely. He checks out the scene of the crime again, where Erskine’s head of security is comforting Erskine’s wife. Steve heads to all of the “usual places” in the Madripoor underground to see if the attacker was a local, but it seems that it was more likely an inside job. He has Sharon Carter dig up info on the chief of security while he remembers the woman Erskine’s wife looks like: Cynthia Glass, a Nazi spy who was there when Steve first enlisted in the Super-Soldier experiment and who died protecting him, ignoring her orders. Steve tracks the wife and chief of security to the Nextin hideaway, but instead of playing it smart, he approaches her at night, wanting to find out if she’s really Cynthia. The wife claims she dreams about him, and they start kissing. Steve backs off, and the wife grabs her head in pain, running back to the building. Sharon tells Steve that the chief of security didn’t exist until just a year ago. Steve figures it all out in time to head into the building and see the chief and the wife. The chief reveals that the wife is a robot cleverly made to think it is human. As is the chief himself. They are both controlled by Steve’s old foe, Machinesmith, who traps Steve in the room and starts a reaction that deactivates the Super Soldier serum in his body.
Considering that Ed Brubaker’s work on Captain America has been disappointing for a few months now, this is definitely nice to see. Maybe Brubaker just understands Steve Rogers better than Bucky Barnes. Even though he is the person who singlehandedly created Barnes’ current persona. Strange as it sounds, considering how wonderfully written this whole issue is, it must at least partially be true. Machinesmith is a classic Steve Rogers foe, and it does make perfect sense now that we look at everything that’s happened thus far in hindsight. I don’t know what his plan is with the Super Soldier serum, like if he actually does want to sell it on the black market or if this is just revenge. Either way, he’s an appropriate choice as the villain. And Cynthia Glass is, fortunately, a pre-existing character, Steve Rogers’ first love before even Peggy Carter. So there’s no massive retcon here as to another lover Steve Rogers had at one point. Brubaker’s just working with what’s already there, and he’s doing a bang-up job. Of course, the other star of the issue is Dave Eaglesham, who’s proving to be a great artist for Captain America. He certainly makes Steve look perfect, and he’s already improved on the ridiculous skinniness of Steve from the last issue. Now he just looks like a small, weak guy instead of someone who’s so underweight that he looks like he should just crumple over. I just have one small beef, and it has nothing to do with Eaglesham. Other colorists are rather inconsistent about how much red is in Steve’s new costume. It would be nice if someone would just tell them to follow what he looks like in this book and in Secret Avengers, since both are written by Brubaker. And a minor note, but this cover reminds me of how much Carlos Pacheco has fallen from his height. I mean, what a funny looking face. And the head/body proportion is a bit off. Anyway, minor issues, neither of which have to do with the issue itself. At least Brubaker hasn’t completely lost his mojo.
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I really like this comic strip, I better used this joke to my colleagues> I am surely that they will laugh at this.
The employer sure detailed the description of the newly hired golfer to his qualification. It is kind of funny on how it was elaborated. Hopefully, this newly hired golfer could hit the whistleblower and play nine before the sun goes down.
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# attribution is C L E A R L Y made.
# Button named button1 . . .
Yeah, tkinter’s name is different between the versions of python.
how would you add an image into the new window?
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This entry was posted on June 17, 2012, 8:40 pm and is filed under Game Development, Species. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Whose Life is This? | Heavenletters | Illuminations Now!!
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New features in Diskcat 3.0!
Fixed bug with read-only catalogs in list.
Saving Column settings in ini file.
Creating categories of catalogs in directory structure. User can now select directory where to put catalogs.
Renaming catalogs from within the program.
Double click to open files from the program.
Support for RAR, ARJ,ACE,LHA,CAB,TAR,ARC,SQZ,PAK,ZOO and HYP files!
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Pretty good. The only negative thing I have to say is that its kinda slow paced and you need a higher FPS.
Worthy of Krinkels for sure.
Good job, hope to see more.
But you might want to put in some more Jebus, didn't see him too much.
the violence had a distinct madness feel, but I think it should have had a faster pace.
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Richland, WA - Leana Beasley has faith that a dog is man's best friend. Faith, a 4-year-old Rotweiler, phoned 911 when beasley fell out of her wheelchair and barked urgently into the receiver until a dispatcher sent help. Then the service dog unlocked the front door for the police officer.
"I sensed there was a problem on the other end of the 911 call," said dispatcher Jenny Buchanan. "The dog was too persistent in barking directly into the phone receiver. I knew she was trying to tell me something."
Faith is trained to summon help by pushing a speed-dial button on the phone with her nose after taking the receiver off the hook, said her owner, Beasley, 45, who suffers from grand mal seizures.
Guided by experts at the Assistance Dog Club of Puget Sound, Beasley helped train Faith herself.
The day of the fall, Faith "had been acting very clingy, wanting to be touching me all day long," Beasley said Thursday.
The dog, whose sensitive nose can detect changes in Beasley's body chemistry, is trained to alert her owner to impending seizures.
But that wasn't what was happening on Sept. 7, and Faith apparently wasn't sure how to communicate the problem. During Beasley's three-week hospital stay, doctors determined her liver was not properly processing her seizure medication.
Knoxville, TN - A family escaped a fire that destroyed their home thanks to their toy poodle, Teddy. A member of the family less than a year, Teddy started barking early Sunday. "He does that occasionally, so I just hushed him," Michelle Singleton told WBIR-TV.
But Teddy wouldn't stop, and soon she smelled smoke.
She thought it was outdoors coming in through the air conditioner until her husband Randy Singleton noticed their closet was glowing. "That's when he realized it was a fire," Michelle Singleton said. They grabbed their three children and Teddy, and fled.
"We came outside and flames were going through the roof," Randy Singleton said. Watching their home of eight years burn was numbing. "You don't know what to do. You want to do something. You can't. I don't think you even realize what you're losing," Randy Singleton said.
They were able to rescue a few family pictures.
It was pretty sobering. It was very sad. Just a lot of memories in there, and just all burnt up. But I know God's faithful, and there's going to be good coming out of this," Michelle Singleton said. Like their little dog, Teddy.
"Yeah, he's going to get a big steak," Randy Singleton said.
ALASKA (Scripps Howard News Service) - Don Mobley figures he owes his life to his dog Shadow. The 3-year-old German shepherd mix took on a charging grizzly to protect his master.
Bears have bluffed Mobley before. Usually, he stands his ground. But when a female grizzly growled and charged him last weekend, its cub 15 feet away, instinct and experience told him one thing: run. "I don't think I had any choice," said Mobley, who at the time was gathering firewood for a night on a sandbar along the Nakochna River. With the cub so close, "I was going to get mauled." Mobley hot-footed it toward the river, thinking the deep water might turn the grizzly off the chase. But he knew the bear would overtake him in the 50 yards to the water's edge. The sow was about 10 feet behind Mobley when a black-and-tan savior zipped out of the woods and lunged at the bear.
It was Mobley's dog, Shadow. Mobley, 56, heard the dog and soon realized that the bear and its cub had disappeared with 3-year-old Shadow barking madly in hot pursuit. "The only thing that saved me was my dog," he said Wednesday. Shadow came through Saturday's ordeal with minor injury, raw spots behind his floppy black ears. Mobley isn't sure if the bear bit the dog or clawed it. He also doesn't know if Shadow bit back. But he's fine and so is Mobley, who is in Anchorage this week for an appointment.
hay-making machine sliced up the 62-year-old's left foot, police said on Friday.
and could have bled to death without help, police in Upper Austria province said.
A dog prevented a tragedy from happening last week.
Painter Kevin McDonald was painting a home when the ladder he was standing on gave way, NewsChannel5 reported.
"Once the ladder broke that was it. I was on the ground so fast I had no time to react," McDonald said.
The homeowner was gone, but the family dog was still around. The golden retriever saw McDonald fall 12 feet from the roof.
Neighbor Marie Istvan said the smart-thinking pet alerted her by running next door.
"He acted real funny like there was something wrong," Istvan said.
She followed the dog's trail and found McDonald barely moving in a pool of blood.
She was able to get him help right away. McDonald spent two days in the hospital but has since returned to work.
He thanked the neighbor and the dog for saving his life.
MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida dog who fought an alligator to protect an elderly woman was honored for his loyalty with a "Dog Hero of the Year" award.
Two-year-old Blue, an Australian blue heeler from LaBelle, saved Ruth Gay from the gator and survived numerous injuries, said the organizers of the annual Heinz Pet Products award, which was announced in Pittsburgh.
Gay, 85, was taking the dog for an evening walk along a canal behind her house last July when she slipped on wet grass and fell, breaking her nose and dislocating a shoulder. Blue lay at her side while she called for help.
Suddenly the dog growled and ran off into the darkness -- sensing an alligator that had climbed out of the canal about 50 feet away, apparently attracted by Gay's calls.
Blue fended off the reptile despite suffering numerous puncture wounds to his stomach and when Gay's daughter and son-in-law arrived home about an hour later, led them to where she was lying.
"I heard the alligator and Blue fighting, and I thought Blue was dead," said Gay. "It wasn't until my daughter came home and I heard Blue barking that I realized he was still alive and that he saved me from the alligator."
In winning the award Wednesday, organizers said Blue beat out about 100 contestants whose acts of bravery during last year were submitted by their owners or admirers.
Patti Jo Lambert, coordinator of the dog hero program, said Blue's story stood out. "In all 47 years of this program ... we've never had a winner who fought an alligator," she said.
A woman claims that after two men assaulted her Thursday, her dog came to her rescue.
The woman said that the two men suddenly appeared in her Hamilton mobile home's hallway, according to WLWT Eyewitness News 5's Anu Prakash. She tried to escape, but the men dragged her to the ground and assaulted her.
During the assault, the woman claims that she blacked out. When she came to, the two men were gone, but she found herself gagged and bound hand and foot.
Baby, the woman's dog, came to her rescue. The dog gnawed the binding off the woman's hands. She was then free to call 911.
Prakash reports that an eyewitness described two men who had been in the neighborhood that night. The woman also gave a brief description of the men who allegedly assaulted her: One an had a scar above his nose and his eye, and the other man had a tattoo on his hand of a sword with a rose.
The family dog saved a Titusville woman and her son early Thursday morning when their home caught fire.
Beatrice Williamson, 77, was awakened by her dog barking at 3:30 a.m. She discovered that her house was on fire, and she woke her son James and they both escaped the home.
James broke down the front door in the escape. Once the two were safe, James tried to go back in the house to save the dog and her 11 puppies, but he was too late.
James was able to save a pet boa constrictor, and the family cat was believed to have run out of the house during the blaze.
Firefighters said that the damage might not have been so extensive if the family had a working smoke detector. Firefighters said that faulty electrical wiring started the fire.
Williamson was treated for dizziness and high blood pressure at the hospital, then released. Her son was not injured.
Home, PA (USA Today) A three-legged, tailless pooch named Percy might look like a bedraggled Benji, but he's got the heart of Lassie. The terrier-mix's owner, Christina Lowman, 47, credits the small mutt with saving her life after she took a fall on Christmas morning. Lowman said she slipped on an icy ramp outside her home and was knocked out cold. She's not sure how long she lay outside in the 11-degree weather, but she said she could have died if not for Percy.
"When I woke up, the dog was licking my face," Lowman said. "He brought me to by licking my face and barking."
Harrisburg, PA (USA Today)Yosemite Sam, a 2-year-old 180-lbs St Bernard, kept his human Kathi Zerance afloat for nearly an hour after she suffered a brain aneurysm while swimming in the Susquehanna River. She underwent surgery amd is home recuperating with her 5 dogs.
Zerance, who took the dogs to the river for their daily exercise, joined them in the river. "All of a sudden I started hearing this load roar" and her body went limp.
She wrapped her arms around Sam's neck. The current began to carry them downstream until Sam could scamble onto a rock and stabilized Zerance with his body.
MIAMI (Reuters)A suspected carjacker has shot and killed Atlas, a Miami police dog, just three months after the animal joined the canine unit, police say.
The 2 1/2-year-old Belgian Malinois was chasing the suspect through a Miami schoolyard late on Saturday when the man opened fire, striking the golden-haired dog in the stomach, police said Monday.
Another bullet nearly strcuk Atlas' handler, police officer Wayne Cooper. Atlas died early on Sunday.
Police described Cooper as "distraught".
Killing a Florida police dog carries a maximum five-year prison term.
Indianapolis IN Police are mourning the death of a canine gunned down by a confused officer in a raid on the home of a suspected drug dealer, police said.
Rookie police dog Balco, a Belgian Malinois, became the first police dog killed in action in the city's history during a raid on the home of Charles Howard on Monday night, Sgt Paul Ciesielski said.
"He got away from his handler, and one of the officers thought it was a strange dog coming at him," Ciesielski said.
A south Fort Worth (Texas) family is crediting a Labrador mix dog, 3-month old Blackie, with saving their lives early yesterday, when fire tore through their home on Bewick Street, destroying almost everything and displacing the family.
The family members were awakened by the dog's relentless barking. Today, they have their lives, but they lost all their material possessions in the fire.
A family and their guests can thank the dog for saving their life when deadly carbon monoxide filled their home in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
The people were celebrating their daughter's birthday when the Rottweiler let out a series of wails from the basement, where she was kept. Just then.. the family started feeling woozy and they called for help. Firefighters got everyone out and went downstairs to save the dog.... who had passed out. Two firefighters also had to be treated for carbon monoxide poisoning... but everybody's okay now.
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"Come back, dear ideal, to smile on me again"
Francesco Paolo Tosti was something of an in-between composer. His works lived between the world of the classical and the popular, causing critics to judge his works harshly, precisely because of his songs’ popular appeal. Today, that distinction has faded, and all one hears is Tosti’s ability to write glorious melodies and set texts beautifully.
This piece is one of the tenor “national anthems” with so many recordings that it is difficult to make a selection. I hesitate to include one particular recording as the model, but feel it is worth noting; Alessandro Moreschi is the only male castrato soprano to have made recordings, and if you’ve never heard him– well, judge for yourself.
"Deutlich schimmert auf jedem Purpurblättchen: Adelaide"
Beethoven captures a lover’s longing for his muse named Adelaide in this masterpiece typically performed by tenors.
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In the “feast or famine” times of our ancestors, bingeing made sense. When food was available, they feasted, preparing for when food would be scarce. In those days, excess food didn’t cause the anxiety it causes us now, and the feast-famine model was functional. Now, however, it causes distress and shame. If you restrict—whether it be intentionally or unintentionally (dieting, overexercising, or appetite-suppressing drugs), you’re setting yourself up for a binge. It’s very important to eat regular meals to shift away from this cycle. If you binge at one meal, don’t skip the next or you’ll simply set yourself up for another binge.
Usually, when we binge, we beat ourselves up for it. And then we feel shame. And we don’t like those feelings of shame, so we distract ourselves from them. How? By continuing to binge! And what about when we want to understand what led to the binge? If we’re self-critical, we avoid thinking about it because it makes us feel so crappy. Not only does self-criticism make us feel worse, it actually prolongs and perpetuates binge behavior. With mindfulness and self-compassion, we’re actually far more likely to make a change in our behavior. Being self-compassionate means you treat yourself like you would a friend or loved one. If you slip up, you’re supportive and understanding, rather than cruel and angry.
Oftentimes, bingeing is our body’s way of seeking nutrients we’re deprived of. A craving for sweets is often a sign that we’re dehydrated or lacking vitamin C. A craving for salty foods might mean we’re missing calcium, sodium, magnesium, or zinc. Low energy combined with insatiable appetite might mean you’re low in iron or B12. Make sure you’re getting enough of these important micronutrients, as well as satiating macronutrients such as high-fiber carbs, healthy fats, and protein. Not only do these fill us up, they prevent blood sugar crashes (that often result in binges).
The solution to binge eating is not simply to avoid binge food, but it’s a necessary step in recovery. The way to work through alcoholism is not to practice abstinence while surrounded by vodka bottles; similarly, the way to work through binge eating is not to practice intuitive eating surrounded by your binge foods of choice. If you don’t feel safe around cereal, don’t buy cereal for now. If you don’t feel safe around ice cream, don’t buy ice cream for now. This is not a sign of weakness or failure; it’s a supportive and compassionate action in your recovery process.
Mindfulness is intentionally paying attention to the present moment, without judgment. We can mindfully bring attention to our bodily sensations, thoughts, feelings, and senses. With practice, we are able to switch out of the “autopilot” mode of bingeing, and change our behavior. Mindfulness also helps you become more aware of whether or not you’re physically or emotionally hungry. Yoga and meditation are great avenues to gaining mindfulness skills.
Unknowingly, many people who struggle with binge eating make their recovery more challenging by engaging in high-intensity exercise that can set them up for a binge. High-intensity exercise keeps our appetite high and can often put our bodies into that state of “famine” we discussed earlier. If you’re wanting to get a handle on binge eating, consider scaling back on spinning or CrossFit. Bring more functional fitness into your life, like taking the stairs, walking, and practicing yoga.
An acronym I encourage clients to use once they can switch out of “autopilot” is HALT: “Am I Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired?” Of course angry and lonely could be replaced with many other emotions—hurt, sad, bored, guilty. As you become more in touch with your body, you’ll be able to better tell if you truly are hungry, or if your hunger is for something else. For example, if you can acknowledge you’re lonely, you might reach for the phone or practice self-compassion instead of going to the cupboard. Similarly, we seek high-fat, high-sugar foods for quick energy when we’re tired. For anyone prone to bingeing, this can be a trigger.
Shame thrives in secrecy, and shame perpetuates bingeing. When we can talk about our struggles in a safe, supportive environment, the shame begins to melt away. Then insight and change happen. There are many support groups for binge eating, both online and offline. If you’re not ready for a group, consider seeing a therapist or attending a treatment center. It is very challenging to try to heal on your own, and usually bingeing has become a maladaptive way of dealing with more complex issues.
Purging perpetuates a cycle of bingeing on several levels: First, it sends the message to our body that despite eating a moderate amount of food, we’re not satisfied. So what do we do? We eat more! Secondly, it psychologically permits us to keep bingeing, as we know we can alleviate the discomfort of a binge with a purge and not absorb the calories (yet, we still absorb most of them). When we stop giving ourselves the option to purge or restrict, we’re more intentional about binges.
I’ve had many clients who feel extremely vulnerable to bingeing when they’ve been drinking alcohol. This is because alcohol affects our prefrontal cortex, the area of our brain that controls logic, decision-making, rationality, and self-control, among other important functions. Alcohol also increases our appetite for up to 24 hours after consuming it, depresses mood, and destabilizes blood sugar—which raises your susceptibility to a binge the next day. If you’re trying to binge less, consider cutting back on how much you drink, or cutting it out entirely.
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https://aloha.com/blogs/nourish/10-tips-to-stop-binge-eating
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