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Friday, March 17, 2006
The Liberal Baby Bust
It seems that demographers have started finding out that we are destined
for a return to traditional values in the West. The "progressives" are
contracepting, aborting, and homosexualizing themselves into oblivion.
Those with strong moral values are having far more children, and thus
making their beliefs far more likely to be carried into future generations.
While not all these children will carry on their parents moral values,
those that don't will find a world with far fewer potential mates who share
their values.
"In the USA, the 17.4% of baby boomer women who had one child account for a
mere 9.2% of kids produced by their generation. But among children of the
baby boom, nearly a quarter descend from the mere 10% of baby boomer women
who had four or more kids.
This dynamic helps explain the gradual drift of American culture toward
religious fundamentalism and social conservatism. Among states that voted
for President Bush in 2004, the average fertility rate is more than 11%
higher than the rate of states for Sen. John Kerry. "
"Tomorrow's children, therefore, unlike members of the postwar baby boom
generation, will be for the most part descendants of a comparatively narrow
and culturally conservative segment of society. To be sure, some members of
the rising generation may reject their parents' values, as often happens.
But when they look for fellow secularists with whom to make common cause,
they will find that most of their would-be fellow travelers were quite
literally never born.
Many will celebrate these developments. Others will view them as the death
of the Enlightenment. Either way, they will find themselves living through
another great cycle of history."
Link to the full article from USA Today on Yahoo
You've got to be kidding me!!
You conservatives are a bunch of environmental anti-Christs!
What about the trees! What about the poor people living in India, Africa, and Detroit?
There are too many mouths to feed and you want more children.
You Christians make me sick.
Your perception is distorted by the very "progressives" that are slowly dying out. You see, overpopulation is a myth, the earth is capable of feeding many more times the current world population. Population growth has very little to do with damaging trees, or poverty. Poverty and starvation in Africa related to atheistic dictators and war not by overpopulation.
When a society stops having children, the few children who are born will get crushed by the cost of supporting the aged... this will be a huge problem for your child if you even have one... if you don't the responsibility will fall on someone elses children... pray they have a more than just a couple.
As for the "anonymous" blogger, Children are a blessing not a curse. God always provides a means to support them. They are our gift to glorify Him. Sadly too many people have fallen away from what life is..I'm sorry that you didn't know that you were a gift to your family as well.
It's sad that people will fight for causes such as the protection of animals and the right to smoke pot, but will not fight for the sanctity of life. It is imperative that we stand up and protect our families and most of all the sanctity of life. We were commanded to go forth and multiply and there is no greater joy on earth than to live our lives for the Glory of God and passing it on to our children. May the Blessed Mother continue to pray for us and may the love of Christ consume all of our hearts.
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Day 24, Friday: Your top 3 worst traits.
I have, admittedly, been a horrible participant in the Blog Everyday in May challenge. I just feel as if I have really had great content to share, and I did not want to put that on hold. Although today I was going to post something different, I saw the topic and felt it was absolutely necessary to write this post.
Why, you might ask, was it SO important for me to complete this post? Well, simply because I think social media gives a skewed image of our lives. Although I try to be as real as possible on this little space, sometimes I am scared to blog about the negative, or do not want to dwell on less than perfect things in my life, so I skip over them. I do not exactly see this changing anytime soon, but I do find it necessary to share the not-so-perfect aspects of myself with you all sometimes, like now.
So, here are my top three worst traits:
1. I lose sight of God DAILY. Seriously. Although there are days I just feel His love all around me, embracing me and encouraging me, there are also times throughout those same days that I feel no connection with Him, that I question whether or not He is with me. This happens more often when I have crazy busy days, probably because my quiet time is the first thing to go. On days I lose sight of Him, I am not a nice person. I NEED His grace, because without Him I am lost. I have to constantly remind myself that He is with me, even when things get crazy. I admire those women that can live the majority of their days praying and listening to God's guidance, I need more of that in my life.
2. I am terribly moody. Sometimes I wonder if I am bipolar because I can wake up so happy and ten minutes later just be irritated or upset or mad. Sometimes I feel like I can't even control it, which is a joke because I can and I refuse to use excuses for my behavior because there are none. These mood swings end up coming out on my loved ones, and there is no excuse for that either. I pray on this one a lot.
3. I have really limited patience at times. I think it comes down to me wanting to be a control freak and have a plan for everything. I get frustrated at silly things like being asked to repeat myself or being given the infamous "let's talk about this later." Although I know I am getting better at this, I still have a LOT of work to do.
That's all friends. Maybe you can learn a thing or two from my worst traits!

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Charles H. Thompson : policy entrepreneur of the Civil Rights movement, 1932-1954
- Responsibility
- Louis Ray.
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- Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2012.
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- DEDICATION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PROLOGUE CHAPTER 1: CHARLES HENRY THOMPSON, THE EARLY YEARS, 1895-1925 CHAPTER 2: HOWARD UNIVERSITY AND POLICY RESEARCH CHAPTER 3: THE MENTORSHIP OF DWIGHT O. W. HOLMES CHAPTER 4: SACRIFICES AND ASPIRATIONS CHAPTER 5: FOUNDING THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO EDUCATION CHAPTER 6: BATTLING DRAGONS, OLD AND NEW CHAPTER 7: A BASELINE FOR MEASURING PROGRESS CHAPTER 8: FEDERAL AID TO EDUCATION CHAPTER 9: THE CASE FOR LITIGATION CHAPTER 10: TEACHERS' SALARY DISCRIMINATION CHAPTER 11: HIGHER EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP, 1936-1940 CHAPTER 12: WINNING THE PEACE CHAPTER 13: INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS, 1942 CHAPTER 14: A POLICY WINDOW OPENS CHAPTER 15: SWEATT v. PAINTER, 1945-1950 CHAPTER 16: THE JNE NATIONAL CONFERENCE, 1952 CHAPTER 17: THE BROWN DECISION, 1952-1954 CHAPTER 18: "KEEP SAWING WOOD" ENDNOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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- During a period when African-American education was at the epicenter of the civil rights movement, Thompson's Journal documented the rapid growth of educational discrimination in the South despite significant increases in public school funding, providing irrefutable evidence that racially segregated public education was inherently discriminatory, hence, unconstitutional. Between 1932 and 1954, Thompson's editorials provided a nuanced, insider's account of one of the most successful policy research ventures in American history: the movement to overturn racial segregation as public policy, chronicling the rise during the Depression, World War II and the postwar period of a policy community committed to expanding human rights nationally and internationally. A brilliant essayist, Thompson sought to close the gap between America's democratic precepts and its undemocratic practices by molding public opinion favorable to a significant expansion of civil rights among scholars, policymakers and the public. An expert witness in several landmark higher education cases argued before the U. S. Supreme Court including Sipuel (1948), Sweatt (1950) and McLaurin (1950), Thompson's editorials provided an informed, eyewitness account of African-American teachers' pivotal role in the NAACP litigation campaign culminating in the landmark Brown et al v. Board of Education of Topeka et al (1954) desegregation ruling. This is the first, full-length study of Charles H. Thompson's contributions to American education and the civil rights movement.
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Those of you who are pianists will fill my pain. Yesterday I was asked to play that, whatever it is, in Relief Society. (I was so happy to feel like I was contributing in some very small way.) So I sit down and start to play. No sound. Oh yeah. I have to turn it on first. Who turns on a piano! Where is that power switch? I am not accustomed to turning on my piano. Then some horrible ghastly sound comes out. Freak! What have I done? I know. I have ruined any kind of reverence that may have been there. And all the notes were correct. It was too loud and just plain ugly! You would think I could play softer and the organio would respond respectively. But no. Now what do I do? There must be some kind of volume control on this thing. Oh good. There it is. I think I will slide the notch to the third bar. Too soft. OK the fifth. Too loud. The fourth. Not loud enough but it will have to do. Then the prelude begins. YUCK! is all can hear. Even when played perfectly.
Maybe that's the problem....It's all too perfect. Or all the same. There is no "music" in this kind of music. I would say instrument, but it makes me cringe to call it an instrument.
What would Beethoven or Mozart or any of the masters think of this thing? I don't think pianos or organs like it too well either. I bet it's very confusing to the organio. I mean, what would you call it? Musexual or organiosexual? Yeah, that's what I would call it, organiosexual.
No wonder it has a horrible sound. It is confused and frustrated. It needs to come out of the musical closet.
Actually, it needs to go back in the closet never to be heard from again.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Organio or Pianorgan...Whatever!
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LOL! It sounded as good as it could sound, I suppose. Poor orgiano. It will never have a (good)place in this world...ReplyDelete
You def get an LOL (even capitalized)for this one.ReplyDelete
Oh, I didn't even notice. I just loved that fact that you were there playing. Really. And did I tell you how good you look? You look so good, so healthy and good and smiley. I loved it.ReplyDelete
That is so funny! I have a couple of friends in my ward that have to play that "instrument" and they think it is a piece of ____ too! Good to hear you are doing well!ReplyDelete
too funny. i've vowed to never learn the organ. are you proud? :) wish me luck with my recital next week. one tay two tay.ReplyDelete
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My goodness. I swear I have not forgotten about you guys! I have been so busy I have had little time to blog for the longest time. I do come back with a vengeance though with some great news. Ok the deal is I have never really had a career. I have always worked at odd jobs, some that have been very good to me over the years, and others that have not been. For once in my life I get a fighting chance like everyone else. A wonderful opportunity has arrived at my feet in the form of a program out of Morrisburg, ON called the Operating Engineers Training Institute of Ontario. It is a ten week long course for obtaining my heavy equipment operators license and I couldn't be happier as I have been chosen as one of the successful candidates yesterday. I leave Rankin Inlet April 10th 2010 and end the course on June 18th. Just in time to fly out to Newfoundland for July 9th to get married!
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RantWoman imagines her this afternoon: MOmmm, you're giving away my supper.
RantWoman: 1. it's not suppertime yet. 2. We have enough to share and it's been a rotten couple weeks at that other kitty's house.
Rotten couple weeks as in:
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--A conversation with another neighbor of the form "Thank you so much for telling me. I am SO sorry. Owwwwwww!"
--A conversation with the other kitty's human about changing locks and a RantWoman offer just to sit with if needed. Other kitty's human goes on RantWoman's Hold in the Light list and watch for fluctuations from that neighbor's usual sunny presence.
--On RantWoman's way out this afternoon, other kitty was howling in the hall near his house. RantWoman is glad the kitty's human opened the door. RantWoman learned some cat food would help. Enough for today.
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Building muscle mass is one of the toughest tasks you can attempt. Okay, sainthood is probably harder, but not by a lot. Your body is an extremely efficient machine. It retains the amount of muscle mass that is required to comfortably perform your daily routine—no more and no less. Excess bulk takes a lot of energy to maintain—up to 50 calories a day per extra pound of muscle mass you add—and thousands of generations of evolution have taught your body that that's a waste of perfectly good nuts, berries, and animal flesh. So it adds muscle reluctantly, and sheds it willingly when you stop exercising.
Unfortunately, evolution couldn't have imagined a society in which high-quality protein is plentiful and people judge each other on the basis of quadriceps definition, biceps bulge and pectoral depth.
So if you're going to step into the weight room to build a body that flaunts the unnatural abundance of these times, there are only two rules you need to know:
Rule #1: Lift heavier weights.
"I see people in the gym doing the same thing day in and day out," says Jose Antonio, Ph.D., C.S.C.S., an exercise physiologist at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, "Doing any one thing for a prolonged period is a waste of time." The problem is that once you've done the same exercises with the same weights for a period of time—a month or two, say—your body has made all the changes it's going to make in response to those exercises. In other words, it's not going to add muscle.
To break this holding pattern and build more muscle mass, Antonio suggests a three-phase approach.
Phase One: Be an organization man (or woman). Organize your workouts into three periods, each lasting a month to six weeks: First, go for rapid muscle growth. Do strength training workouts with progressively heavier weights. That means, on most exercises, do 3 sets of 6 to 10 repetitions, using enough weight so that your muscles are fatigued on the last rep.
Phase Two: Next, do a strength cycle, and do power lifting-type workouts with much heavier weights. (As with all lifting programs, be careful not to overdo it, and always have a spotter when using maximal free weights.) Thoroughly warm up with at least 15 minutes of light cardio exercise and stretching, then do 4 to 5 sets of 3 to 5 repetitions of exercises like squats, deadlifts, and bench presses.
Phase Three: Do a few weeks of "cutting up," in which you lift lighter weights—go for 3 sets of 12 to 15 repetitions, and employ supersets (going from one exercise to another without taking a rest in between) and other high-intensity tactics. Add more cardio exercise, and watch your diet more carefully. This doesn't add new muscle or strength, but it sure lets you see what you've spent the previous months building.
Rule #2: Eat the right foods at the right times.
Most lifters have a vague idea that they should choke down some protein after a workout. But few realize how important it is to eat protein and carbohydrates before a workout.
"You should have one gram of carbohydrates to each half gram of protein an hour before a workout," says Susan M. Kleiner, Ph.D., R.D., author of Power Eating, who has worked extensively with body builders. "A gram of carbohydrate and a gram of protein each contains 4 calories and, for most people, about 200 to 250 calories total should do it." Translation: If you work out in the morning, a bowl of All-Bran Cereal with skim milk should do the trick. Later in the day, try a carton of low-fat yogurt.
This combination not only gives you the energy to lift, it also helps repair muscle damage and fully enhances the recovery process following the exercise—all which contribute to building bigger, buffer muscles.
After exercise (ideally during the first 45 minutes immediately following a workout), you need protein and carbohydrates also, but in a different ratio. Kleiner recommends 4 g of carbohydrate to each gram of protein, and that you eat this as soon as possible after a workout. Try a sandwich with 2 ounces of turkey or other lean meat plus one serving of vegetables and fruit, or a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with a cup of fruit juice and a cup of yogurt, and then eat something similar—same ratio of carbs and protein—a couple of hours later.
Finally, the type of protein you eat matters: Essential amino acids—those found in animal products like dairy, meat, eggs, and fish protein—are better for muscle-building than the vegetable proteins found in beans, rice, and nuts. Kleiner believes dairy protein is the best after exercise because it contains high concentrations of glutamine, an amino acid that seems to prevent infections—something people training hard are more vulnerable to.
Whether you've been stuck on a muscle-building plateau or just starting to pack it on, making these changes in your exercise and eating should lead to immediate gains. And don't worry about your body's grudge against gaining muscle. Eventually they'll learn to get along.
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"A rose?" asked the neighbor.
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New Delhi, Delhi, India:Max New York Life Insurance, the largest non bank owned private life insurer today announced its audited results for the Financial Year 2011 -12. The company recorded 10% growth in gross premium to Rs. 6,391 Crores while the profit increased 159% to Rs. 733 Crores. The Company also performed well on other parameters like asset under management, recording a growth of 24% to Rs. 17,215 Crores over the last financial year, while solvency margin increased to 534%.
Max New York Life has now one of the lowest customer complaints incidence ratio at just 0.2 per thousand for the fiscal. The company's Outstanding Claims Ratio has come down to 1.6% as on 31st March 2012.
Commenting on the performance of the company, Mr. Rajesh Sud, CEO & Managing Director, Max New York Life Insurance said
"I am happy to share with you our performance for the financial year 2012. Though the market continues to remain challenging, we have responded extremely well and outperformed the private life insurance industry. This has been made possible due to our continued focus on building a successful life insurance business to deliver the core value of long-term savings and protection."
"Over the years we have built a financially strong and stable company based on solid foundations and are confident of a sustained profitable growth as we continue to differentiate in the market place basis our advice based sales, comprehensive product portfolio, diversified distribution model and a customer centric approach at every touch point. Our capital position and solvency surplus indicates our strong financial position. We are confident of further strengthening our performance in the next phase of our growth journey with Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance (MSI) as our new partner." he further added
Financial Year (FY) 2011-12 (April 2011 – March 2012) compared with FY 2010-11 (April 2010 – March 2011)
The Gross Premium for FY 2011-12 increased by 10% to Rs.6,391 Crores with new business premium declining 8% to Rs.1,902 Crores and the renewal premium recording an impressive growth of 20% to Rs.4,489 Crores.
Max New York Life believes Adjusted Individual First Year Premium is the true indicator to measure new business success. During the FY 2011-12, on this parameter, the company outperformed the private players and consequently the private market share of the company also increased by 110 bps to 8.6%.
The Company's conservation ratio, which is amongst the highest at 81%, is testimony to its commitment towards customers. Our 13th month persistency at 75% is amongst the best in the industry.
Cost Management
The company undertook cost management initiatives over the last couple of years with long-term impact perspective. This resulted in cost ratio improving to 30 % in FY 2011-12 as compared to 38% in FY 2010-11.
Net Profit
During the FY 2011-12, Max New York Life Insurance, recorded the Net Profit of Rs.733 Crores, a 159% increase over FY 2010-11. Of this, Shareholders Profit after transfers amounted to Rs 460 Crores, an increase of 137% over FY 2010-11. The impressive rise in net profit was a result of continued revenue growth coupled with better productivity and cost efficiency.
Solvency Ratio & Capital
The company's paid up capital (including share premium) and solvency surplus as on March 31st 2012 was at Rs. 2,127 Crores and Rs 1,703 crores respectively.
The solvency ratio of the company stood at 534% for FY 2011-12 as compared to 365% for the corresponding period previous year. Max New York Life maintained more than 3.5 times solvency ratio as compared to the 150% mandated by IRDA.
Assets Under Management
During the FY 2011-12 the Assets Under Management (AUM) recording a growth 24% to Rs.17,215 Crores; Non linked AUM grew by 48% also resulting in corresponding increase in investment income.
About Max New York Life Insurance Co. Ltd. (www.maxnewyorklife.com)
Max New York Life Insurance Co. Ltd. is a joint venture between Max India Ltd., one of India's leading multi business corporations and New York Life Enterprises LLC, a subsidiary of New York Life, a Fortune 100 company. Max New York Life Insurance, incorporated in 2000, is the largest non-bank promoted private life insurance company in India. The company offers both individual and group life insurance solutions. It has established a multi-channel distribution network across India. Through its wide network of highly competent life insurance agent advisors & intermediaries and comprehensive product portfolio, Max New York Life is providing life insurance solutions for its core value of Long-term Savings and Protection.
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been almost a month in the Bigg Boss House but the fight over household work
seems to be endless within the inmates. While a few of them act responsible and
take an initiative towards the maintenance of the house, the rest just find a
reason to shed work every time.
After Apurva was elected to be 'Captain' this week, he made sure that he divides all the responsibility amongst the housemates to make this process smooth. However, Armaan Kohli is not happy with Apurva's decision and thinks that the housemates are dumping work on him all the time. He feels that when Kushal is supposed to do the cleaning of the kitchen area, he is refraining from doing his share of work and nobody is noticing this. He expresses his displeasure to Tanisha Mukherjee while and tells Tanisha that he will not contribute to any household work till Apurva Agnihotri streamlines this process.
On the other hand, Vivek Mishraa and Kushal Tandon get into a fight when Vivek tells Kushal to be little more careful while washing utensils and prevent the sink from getting water clogged. When Vivek is having this conversation; Kushal starts laughing as Pratyusha Bannerjee, Kamya Punjabi and VJ Andy giggle listening to him. Vivek warns Kushal not to make fun of him and to start taking things seriously. Pratyusha sprang to Kushal's defense saying that they have been working and doing all this work even before he came into the house. Kushal then lashed out and got into a verbal spat when Vivek encroached into his personal space while other housemates try to control this situation.
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So you want to build an application for a mobile device (read: cellphone). Great! There's lots of powerful platforms out there you can start with, and port them to any other device you want with a minimum of work. Most everyone gives their SDK away for free and provide lots of forums, documentation and other sources of information to help you write your app. So you pick a platform, develop your code, test it in an emulator and everything's ready to go. Now just open up your wallet, bend over and let the fun begin...
Yes, it seems the sad truth is that for many modern devices you are *forced* to either go through a bunch of hoops to "sign" your application for one specific device (meaning 1 cell phone that you own) or pay a large sum in developer fees for the right to a certificate to sign your applications with. Otherwise either you'll never be able to install your application, or it will install and not run, or it will run with very limited "credentials" - it won't do everything you tell it to do.
For Symbian devices, the two methods developers had to get their apps signed have been Symbian Signed and Java Verified. These two services allow you to submit your application for review, upon which time you'll be shipped back your binary signed with their magic certificates for the IMEI of your device. Lovely. If I want to give my application to others I need to either self-sign it and use the few paltry credentials they let me use (internet access, possibly file access) or pay hundreds of dollars for a 1-year signed cert.
This has culminated with the creation of Symbian Horizon, a new middle-man created by Symbian in order to basically distribute your application to lots of other "app stores" automatically to "reduce developer cost". As far as I can see, i'm still paying about the same as I was before to develop the damn thing. Publishing it is a completely separate issue. I'm more than happy to provide a download URL on my own site and let people install an app themselves - it's really not difficult *if your application is signed*. I don't want to make money off people. I don't create applications for pay. I do it for myself, for fun, for freedom, and to share my work with the general public. I don't need to pay costly fees to develop for a desktop application, or a web application. Why am I forced to pay to develop for this device which i've already paid for, and am paying even more for the luxurious benefit of being able to most-of-the-time use the internet with it?
I can't believe the wool had been pulled over my eyes for so long with respect to these development practices. This is just another result of organizations like the RIAA and MPAA in their long-time battle to keep you from using the things you purchase in the way you choose. It makes me very sad to see this kind of oppression so well hidden within a system that encourages the breakdown of community and the closing-in and restricting of creative content for the sheer purpose of capitalizing on the ignorant masses.


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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Date Night.....Gone Awry
My sweet, thoughtful husband had Sheena (his sister) come over to babysit Nathan on tuesday night so that we could go out and have a nice evening together, just the two of us. I was looking forward to it all day and couldn't wait till 5:00 came and we could get on our merry way. I even kept Nathan home in the afternoon to be sure that he got a good afternoon nap so that he wouldn't be cranky for Sheena. Well when it came time for his afternoon nap and he cried for an hour instead of sleeping, I should have known that plans would not go as smoothly as I had hoped. When it came time for us to leave, Nathan was so tired by that time that he refused to eat his dinner (a first for him I might add) and had a complete meltdown! He has never acted this way and we had no idea what was wrong with him or what to do. We finally got him to eat a little and got him settled down, but by that time both Jake and I were frazzled (and I'm sure Sheena was kicking herself for agreeing to stay and watch him) and we were on a time constraint for dinner cause we had show tickets downtown and had just spent an hour of our "dinnertime" calming Nathan down. So when things were looking down, they shot back up real quick after we had a quick dinner at Jason's Deli and hit the U2 in 3D show at the Imax theatre! That show was absolutely amazing!! I love U2, but have never been to their concert and this was like being on stage with them. Of course before the show we called Sheena to see how Nathan was doing and thankfully he went to bed without a fuss at 6:40 and was sleeping soundly. That made us completely relax just in time for the show. We have several friends that have seen this show and highly recommended it so we are now singing the same song. If this show ever comes to an Imax near you, it is a MUST see!
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Our Trip to OKC
Sorry it's been a while since I have posted anything. We just returned this week from spending a week in Oklahoma City with my mom and grandma. Nathan liked spending time with his grandma and great-grandmas, however, he did not like to sleep at night. He would scream bloody murder until I would come and get him and put him in bed with me......then of course he immediately fell asleep. So after a week of sleeping with mommy, we had a little bad habit to break when we got home. The first two nights at home was rough. I had to let him cry it out for an hour before he would fall asleep. Boy it's been a while since we've had to do that! He is finally back in his normal sleeping routine and all is well again! :-) We had a good time in OKC, but there's no place like home. Nathan always learns new things when we take him on trips and this one was no different. He learned to say "bananas" (or "nanas"), "water" ("wawa") and "night-night". When he sees a dog, he'll say "ruff ruff" or "bow wow wow". Today he started saying "ba" for "ball". It's really exciting to see him learning to say words now. It's fun to watch him learn and explore and develop his little personality, but as his personality develops, we can see that he is very determined, but with little patience. He gets so frustrated when he can't do something or we are busy doing something and can't play with him right when he wants us to. When he gets frustrated, he screams and we've done just about everything we can to get him to stop and nothing is working. I'm hoping he gets through this phase quickly. If anyone has any suggestions on how to get him to stop screaming, we are all ears!
Here are some pics from our trip:
Here are some pics from our trip:
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Friday, February 1, 2008
The Ravioli Battle
After battling Nathan to let me feed him his ravioli so we wouldn't make a big mess.........guess who won.......
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In Singapore, the mainstream media has often been criticized by our online community for biased, pro-ruling party reporting.
However, I think that even the mainstream media itself is not entirely homogeneous.
Compare these two news articles, both reporting on the response of Mr. S. Iswaran (Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry) in Parliament to questions about the Integrated Resorts.
Click on the headlines for the full articles:
1. No compromise to concept of IRs, with small portion for gambling (Channel NewsAsia 18 May 2010)
2. Too early to judge success of IRs: Iswaran (TODAYonline 19 May 2010)
Here are excerpts from both reports to highlight a small but crucial difference between them:
1. Channel NewsAsia - He also addressed concerns from opposition MP Low Thia Khiang that many Singaporeans were hitting the casinos. He felt there is a novelty factor at play, but pledged that agencies are monitoring the trends closely.
Hougang MP Low Thia Khiang said: "There are reports that most visitors to the casinos are actually Singaporeans, is that a concern of the government?"
Mr Iswaran replied: "Obviously we want to ensure that Singaporeans who choose to go to the casinos give due thought to that before they go in and not do it on an impulse — which is why we have a whole slew of measures that have been put in place.
"It would be fair to say that there is a novelty factor in place, and to say that whatever we see at play in terms of numbers, in terms of performance in the first few weeks and months is an accurate predictor of what will be happening 12 months, 24 months down the road, I think may be stretching the argument a little bit."
"I think what I can assure the member is that the agencies are monitoring the situation closely and I think once we have a better sense of the patterns and trends, then I think we will better know how the measures we have put in place are working."
2. TODAYonline - Opposition MP (Hougang) Low Thia Khiang asked if the Government was concerned that many of the casinos' patrons so far seem to be Singaporeans.
To this, Mr Iswaran replied that the "novelty factor" was at play and may not accurately reflect the situation one or two years down the road.
"The agencies are monitoring the situation closely, and once we have a better sense of the patterns and trends, then I think we'll know how the measures (against problem gambling) we've put in place are working," he said.
If the Channel NewsAsia's direct quote is accurate, then Mr. Low actually asked if the government was concerned that MOST casino visitors appear to be Singaporeans.
He didn't ask if the government was concerned that MANY casino patrons appear to be Singaporeans, which is how TODAYonline paraphrased it.
MOST is not the same as MANY.
There is a difference because MANY refers to raw numbers whereas MOST refers to a proportion.
Over time, any foreign-owned casino that opens its door to native citizens will have MANY native visitors.
But if the casino was planned to be a tool for boosting tourism, then MOST of its visitors should be foreigners, not natives!
Otherwise it would have become yet another shiny new avenue for citizens to transfer their money to foreign corporations.
Interestingly, Mr. Iswaran did not dispute Mr. Low's observation; instead, he talked about the novelty factor and the need for more time to determine the trends, which seems to be a tacit acknowledgement of the current situation - if you read the Channel NewsAsia version, that is.
In contrast, that insight cannot be obtained from the TODAYonline version.
For any piece of news, I think it's a good idea to read a number of sources to get a better picture of what is going on.
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"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." – Neil Armstrong (1930-2012)
"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." – Neil Armstrong (1930-2012)
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
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- S.A. said...
And a sharp eye! And brainz.
- Wednesday, May 19, 2010 3:54:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
I enjoyed reading your blog. Keep it that way.
- Saturday, August 21, 2010 11:56:00 AM
- Personal Trainer Singapore said...
i totally agree, this type of things u totally cannot jump into conclusion.
- Saturday, August 28, 2010 11:04:00 PM
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If you can't tell...I am so excited to be back in Fishers!
We are just renting for now. Those of you who know me well - know I do do apartment living very well...but this time, I am just so excited to be close to our family and friends that I am not complaining at all.
I didn't even mind digging in boxes this morning to get ready for work! :)


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Part 2 of my blog post from vacation is about military fort, which we visited during our vacation. It's located about half an hour from where we're hanging most of our days on the beach. I love to visit abandoned places such as this fort, where you really get feeling that time has somehow stopped. This military fort is really big and scary on the inside, but the view from the top it's amazing.
I was wearing this dress from H&M with chucks, which was a good decision because I would broke my toes if I would wore sandals because of our path through rocky beach.
And with this post I'm saying goodbye to the summer and hello to the autumn! :)
That's it for now, enjoy your Sunday!


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Notre Dame Basketball: Complete Roster, Season Preview for 2013-14 IrishNovember 3, 2013
Notre Dame Basketball: Complete Roster, Season Preview for 2013-14 Irish
Mike Brey has built a consistent force in South Bend, as the Irish made their sixth NCAA tournament appearance in seven seasons in March of 2013. This year's squad should continue the March Madness streak, with four returning starters and a trio of 4-star recruits.
The Fighting Irish lost their Luke Harangody clone, Jack Cooley, to graduation. Nonetheless, their starting lineup could very well consist of four seniors and a junior. Add in that talented youth and the Irish could experience their deepest NCAA tournament run under Brey.
The Irish will be newcomers in the Atlantic Coast Conference, after leaving the former Big East Conference. Notre Dame will see familiar faces like Syracuse and Pittsburgh, but must prepare for the likes of Duke, North Carolina and Virginia as well.
This article will highlight ND's roster, projected rotation, key returning players, key newcomers, X-factors, scenarios for how the season will play out and of course it will also offer a final prediction on the 2013-14 campaign.
Key Newcomers
Demetrius Jackson- According to Rivals, Mike Brey was able to snag the 38th-best player in the 2013 class, as Jackson chose Notre Dame over John Groce's Illinois Fighting Illini. Jackson won't be thrown right into a primary ball-handling role, as he will have plenty of experienced guards to learn from.
On paper, Jackson will be the team's backup point guard behind Eric Atkins. An exciting lineup could contain Jackson playing the point, while Atkins and Jerian Grant play the wings in a small lineup. The 6'1" Jackson, from nearby Mishawaka, is the point guard of the future and will be a key contributor for years to come.
V.J. Beachem- Another state of Indiana native, Beachem finished 86th in the 2013 Rivals rankings. Beachem is a 6'8" forward, though he needs to build upon his slim 187-pound frame. Beachem's frame is similar to that of ND sophomore Cameron Biedscheid, with plenty of room to fill out still.
Beachem should see spot minutes as a true freshman, likely behind the more experienced Biedscheid and Pat Connaughton on the depth chart. Beacham should still be a steady player off Brey's bench as a freshman and will come up big when the Irish big men get into foul trouble.
Steve Vasturia- The third and final of Notre Dame's three 4-star recruits in 2013 is Vasturia, who hails from Philadelphia. Vasturia is a 6'6" guard, who will spread the court as a deep shooting threat and was an 89 percent free-throw shooter during his prep career.
Vasturia, like Beacham, should see minutes off Brey's bench immediately, though that playing time may be inconsistent from game to game. Vasturia is praised as having a high basketball IQ and is a perfect fit for a Brey-coached squad.
Key Returners
Jerian Grant- Though listed as a senior, Grant is actually a redshirt junior, so this will hopefully not be his last season wearing that snazzy Irish uniform. In Grant's two seasons, he has been nothing short of spectacular, averaging 12.8 points, 5.3 assists, 2.9 rebounds and 1.3 steals in 36.3 minutes per game.
Grant scored in double figures in all but seven games a year ago and carried Notre Dame down the stretch of an improbable five overtime win over Louisville. Grant is a complete player who will once again be tough for Coach Brey to take off the floor.
Eric Atkins- Almost mirroring Grant's numbers, Atkins averaged 11.2 points, 5.5 assists, 2.6 rebounds and 1.4 steals as a junior. Incredibly, Atkins was on the court even more than Grant, at a 38.3-minute-a-game clip. Both players come from Maryland and have formed a top backcourt over the past three years.
Atkins connected on 42 percent of his three-point looks last season, but only made 65 percent of his free throws. Atkins played the backup point guard role as a freshman, as Jackson will this year, but will now start his third and final season running the show.
Pat Connaughton- Though basketball may not be his first sport, Connaughton is a pretty darn good player. Connaughton, who is a star pitcher on the Notre Dame baseball team, has a future as a professional in that sport. For now though, Brey is happy to have him on his squad.
Connaughton averaged 8.9 points, 4.7 rebounds and 2.1 assists last season, as a sophomore. He also saw heavy minutes, playing just over 32 per night. Connaughton is lauded for his toughness and hustle, while he also provides the Irish with another three-point option along the perimeter.
Roster and Projected Rotation
0 Eric Atkins G 6'2" 182 SR Columbia, MD
1 Cameron Biedscheid F 6'7" 186 SO St. Louis, MO
3 V.J. Beachem F 6'8" 187 FR Fort Wayne, IN
4 Patrick Crowley G 6'3" 201 SR Los Gatos, CA
11 Garrick Sherman C 6'11" 255 SR Kenton, OH
15 Eric Katenda F 6'9" 230 SO Paris, France
20 Austin Burgett F 6'9" 227 SO Avon, IN
22 Jerian Grant G 6'5" 203 SR Bowie, MD
23 Demetrius Jackson G 6'1" 195 FR Mishawaka, IN
24 Pat Connaughton G-F 6'5" 214 JR Arlington, MA
25 Tom Knight F 6'10" 258 SR Dixfield, ME
30 Zach Auguste F 6'10" 242 SO Marlborough, MA
32 Steve Vasturia G 6'6" 207 FR Medford, NJ
35 Austin Torres F 6'7" 218 FR Mishawaka, IN
Projected Rotation:
C- Garrick Sherman
PF-Tom Knight
SF-Patrick Connaughton
SG-Jerian Grant
PG-Eric Atkins
6-Cameron Biedscheid
7-Zach Auguste
8-Demetrius Jackson
Others: V.J. Beachem, Steve Vasturia, Austin Burgett
Bench: Patrick Crowley, Eric Katenda, Austin Torres
Biggest X-Factors
Cameron Biedscheid- Coming out of St. Louis, Missouri in 2012, Biedscheid ended up being the 28th-rated player, according to Rivals. As a true freshman, he chipped in 6.2 points, 1.4 rebounds and one assist per game in 17.4 minutes off the bench. Biedscheid scored in double figures six times during his first season.
Over the last five games of his freshman campaign however, Biedscheid only connected on one of 19 shot attempts, 15 of which came from behind the arc. Look for a more aggressive Biedscheid off the ND bench as a sophomore, as he certainly has the physical tools to be a big time player in the ACC.
Garrick Sherman- Luke Harangody's collegiate career seemed to last forever. After Harangody left, Brey slotted Harangody's lookalike, Jack Cooley, in as the starting center. Both Harangody and Cooley were double-double machines, leaving big shoes to fill for former Michigan State player Sherman.
Sherman averaged 7.0 points and 3.4 rebounds in 15.6 minutes as a redshirt junior, well surpassing the numbers he put up at MSU. Sherman is likely to enter the starting lineup now, unless Brey decides to play small. Sherman was a hero in that classic five overtime win over Louisville in February, scoring 17 points.
Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios
Best-Case Scenario: Sweet 16
As much as I want to believe in the Fighting Irish come March, I just can't. Notre Dame will absolutely finish in the top half of the ACC and be a lock on Selection Sunday. The Irish will range anywhere from a four to nine seed after yet another successful regular season.
But that just may be where the success runs out. Only once in Brey's 13 years have the Irish reached the Sweet Sixteen, which was back in 2003. While my gut instinct says they will lose in the round of 32, I could see them reaching the Sweet 16 with a favorable matchup, though no further.
Worst-Case Scenario: NIT Bid
While the former Big East Conference was one of the nation's toughest, it was in some ways top heavy. This year's ACC may be similar, though bottom-tier teams that Notre Dame beats up on will have different names across their jerseys, such as Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech, instead of DePaul and Rutgers.
Unfamiliarity with their opponents, as well as having an X on your back as a league newcomer, could cause ND to lose games they shouldn't. The margin for error is so thin in college basketball, that plenty of good squads have found themselves on the wrong side of the bubble. Still, I don't see that being the case for Notre Dame.
2013-14 Prediction
Prediction: 24-11 (11-7), At-Large Bid, NCAA Tournament Third Round
With plenty of cupcakes to go around, Notre Dame should get hot to end 2013. The team's only tough matchups come against a trio of Big Ten squads: Iowa, Indiana and Ohio State.
In league play, Notre Dame will be tough to beat at home, as usual. However, traveling to the Carrier Dome or Chapel Hill may not be so kind. The Irish may also drop a few games to inferior competition on the road, as protecting home court is precious in college hoops.
On Selection Sunday, I expect Notre Dame's name to be called out with a No. 7 seed. The Irish will then win their first NCAA tournament game since 2011, before bowing out in the round of 32 to a second-seeded opponent who is simply the better team, thus ending their 2013-14 campaign.


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3: The North American Union—Canada, United States, and Mexico together by 2010? (John Spalding)
This topic is very interesting. For this section we found 3 rather solid articles that layout some of the discussion points behind this anomaly called the North American Union- a supposed joint venture to make Canada, Mexico and the United States an independent union. We found several articles, people and websites involved with covering the topic as well as several people who are smack dab in the middle of the "conspiracy".
The first article is by Jerome Corsi. He posted this article in Human Events Online and it is entitled "North American Union to Replace USA?" Corsi calls the Bush administration to task on their adoption of items toward a path of cooperation and action. The article also mentions the formation of the SPP- Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America and their 2010 goal of creating
"…a North American community to enhance security, prosperity, and opportunity…Its boundaries will be defined by a common tariff and an outer security perimeter within which the movement of people, products, and capital will be legal, orderly, and safe."
Finally, Mr. Corsi warns his audience that the administration will not secure the border because it has other things in mind, namely- a free commerce union with Canada and Mexico. He recommends that the Minuteman Project continue its workhttp://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=14965.
The next article is a response to Mr. Corsi by John Hawkins. It is entitled "Killing the North American Union Conspiracy" found at Human Events Online. In this article, Mr. Hawkins tries to refute some of the "conspiracy" discussion. There is an organization called NASCO that is calling for "NAFTA- Superhighway"—a proposed freeway road link between the US, Mexico, and Canada. Mr. Hawkins quotes Tiffany Melvin, the Executive Director as saying "We have no secret meetings with the Bush Administration...We are a business organization trying to promote the NASCO corridor and the connecting highways in Mexico and Canada…" When discussing the SPP, Hawkins claims that the SPP "Blueprint" is not being used to set up a union. The outlines and work that may seem like a conspiracy is just US businesspeople working with Canada and Mexico to make a more prosperous corridor for the business communityhttp://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16103.
He concludes his article with these remarks:
"The reality is that since Mexico and Canada are our neighbors and our biggest trading partners, there are plenty of reasons for the government and private industry to try to streamline and improve our relationship with them on security, trade, and other issues."
The final author we found offering insight on this "conspiracy" is Patrick Wood, the Editor of the August Review. His article is found at a website called News with Views found at: http://www.newswithviews.com/ under the title "Toward a North American Union- Part 1 of 3." Mr. Wood credits modern day globalization with the efforts of the Trilateral Commission- a member organization that has elite membership from America, Japan, and Europe. Wood calls on the Trilateral Commission as having a clear goal to create a "New International Economic Order" that would get rid of the existing model. He had several thoughts on the Trilateral Commission, which we will list to provide a brief view on his stance:
• The Trilateral Commission dominates the executive branch of our government
• George H.W. Bush is a trilateral commission member appointed by Reagan
• Reagan also appointed key members of the commission to his staff
• George Bush continued as president and then was followed in office by another commission member—Bill Clinton
• Bill Clinton appointed 14 Trilateral Commission members to his administration
• George W. Bush is not a Trilateral member, but Dick and Lynne Cheney sure are
After spelling out his reasons for the trilateral commission, he explains a governmental loophole that railroads certain items through congress and senate, by using a Fast Track Authority. Wood outlines the parameters of the Fast Track process as one that limits for just some of the following reasons: trade measures proposed by the president have to be voted on in a certain timeframe, does not allow for amendments, and only 20 hours to debate the issue. This process does not leave any time for public debate on the issue and, as a result, it leaves these decisions exclusively in the hands of the executive and legislative branches of the government.
Wood recalls two uses of the Fast Track process in the Clinton Administration: NAFTA and GATT Uruguay. The Fast Track Process has been in place since 1974. The only other uses of the process were for GATT Tokyo, the U.S.-Israel Free Trade Agreement, and the U.S.- Canada Free Trade Agreement. There have been other free trade agreements that go through the normal legislative process, but Wood believes that these items were "Fast Tracked" because these agreements would never have been passed if they were open for rigorous debate within the United States Congress and Senate. He states that the Fast Track process had a specific task: "to "fast track" the creation of the "New International Economic Order" envisioned by the Trilateral Commission in 1973!" He also suggests that "Because international treaties supercede national law, Fast Track has allowed an enormous restructuring of U.S. law without resorting to a Constitutional Convention." The Fast Track process does seem to give a lot of power to the executive branch of our government. The reaches of this process are frightening and it seems those who know the process are good at maneuvering the political system.
Wood details several items in his article including opposition to NAFTA (Ross Perot shows up in this section), the Spin Machine of Trilateral Commission Members and their promotion of NAFTA, the Role of The SPP (also mentioned by the other two authors), and the introduction of Robert Pastor—claimed architect of The North American Union. Overall the review of some of these events was thorough, yet incomplete. Mr. Wood and his publication The August Review have adopted a "Follow the money, follow the power" mentality that they use to structure their reviews. Complete article is found at this link: http://www.newswithviews.com/Wood/patrick18.htm.
To us it seems that there are several interested organizations that like the business prospects of a North American Union. Some groups want there to be a Union, while others, do not. We also see that the Trilateral Commission has membership that is scattered throughout our national government and business organizations. Trilateral Commission reports are used to influence laws at the national level of our country, and as the articles reveal, instead of taking the debate to the people, it is easier to "fast track" certain trade legislation.
We believe that there have been changes to our laws that were not debated by the majority of people in this country, and we had virtually no say in any of these events. There may not be a specific conspiracy to create a North American Union, but there is plenty of evidence that shows the Trilateral Commission is a powerful organization, there is an organization devoted to creating some sort of "prosperous business venture with Mexico, United States and Canada (SPP), and that the Fast Track process for legislation is a quick effective way to get some laws passed without public knowledge/ debate. We think that there are already efforts underway to establish a North American Union, but it is not a conspiracy, they are quite out in the open about the process and could change the face of the United States without even asking the majority of American citizens.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Political News (Special Issue) Post 3 of 5
3: The North American Union—Canada, United States, and Mexico together by 2010? (John Spalding)
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The problem with this "conspiracy" (as much as I wouldn't mind an open border with Canada, allowing labor mobility and freedom of movement, etc.) is this:
Just announced today: the plan to build watchtowers and sensors along the northern border.


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Shelby's Jackson Mims hits two-run double in six-run eighth, then scores winning run on wild pitch in bottom of the 10th inning
GASTONIA - For much of Thursday night, the Gastonia Grizzlies seemed doomed to let mistakes do them in.
Then the bottom of the eighth inning happened to get them back in the game and in a game marked by mistakes, a wild pitch in the bottom of the 10th inning brought home Shelby's Jackson Mims with the winning run of a dramatic 10-9 victory over High Point-Thomasville.
It marked the third walkoff win of the year for the Grizzlies (16-10) - and the second walkoff won on a wild pitch.
Trailing 7-3 after 7 1-2 innings, Mims (two-run double) and former Burns High standout Bradley Evans (three-run double) sparked a six-run uprising that got Gastonia back in the game.
Then with much of the crowd of 976 already heading for home, Mims drew a one-out hit by pitch, advanced to third on Harris Yett's single to right and scored on a wild pitch.
It capped a night in which five Gastonia fielding errors and six walks and two hit batters issued by Grizzlies' pitchers looked like it would end the team's slim first half division title hopes.
Thomas Yoder had two hits and two RBIs to lead the Grizzlies' 10-hit offense and reliever Daniel Wiggins picked up the win despite yielding a two-out, two-strike game-tying single in the top of the ninth inning.
The comeback win came one day after Gastonia lost 5-1 to Forest City to give the Owls a share of the first half title.
Gastonia is now 16-10 with two games left in the first half against the Owls - at Forest City on Friday and at home on Saturday at 7:05 p.m. Forest City dropped the first game of a doubleheader at Martinsville and the second game wasn't finished at press time.
The Grizzlies appeared to overcome early mistakes to take a 3-2 lead into the late innings.
But a disastrous seventh inning gave the Hitoms (12-13) a 7-3 lead.
The Grizzlies fell behind 2-0 after three innings before a three-run fourth inning put Gastonia ahead.
After Mims reached on a fielding error, Harris Yett, Yoder and Chaz Davey followed with successive hits. Yoder's double plated Gastonia's first run and Davey's single tied it before Mitch McGarry's fielder's choice RBI groundout made it 3-2.
Mims is a 2014 Shelby High graduate preparing for his senior year at UNC Charlotte while Yoder and McGarry are currently on Belmont Abbey College's roster.
Mims' two-run double plated the Grizzlies' first two runs of the eighth before Evans, a 2015 Burns graduate preparing for his sophomore year at Tusculum, hit a two-out, three-run double.
Jacob Breakfield, a 2012 Bessemer City, started for Gastonia and got no decision after pitching six innings and yielding seven hits, two runs (one earned) and no walks while striking out four.
Richard Walker: 704-869-1841; twitter.com/jrwalk22


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And It Came To Pass
Contributed by Segun Omole on Feb 28, 2008 (message contributor)
Summary: There are things you believe God for but you've not seen them manifest...God words are yea and amen..
And it came pass
Many a times for us as Christians we are faced with issues, situations and circumstances that makes us doubt whether all the promises made to us in the bible can actually come to pass. Sometimes we hear a good message and our faith is stirred up within us...faith cometh by hearing..we begin to believe God for greater things. But after a while we begin to lose faith and doubt whether those promises are actually true or if they are only meant for a particular set of people. In fact, some of us actually heard clearly what God wants to do for us but our present circumstance does not in anyway indicate any possibility of manifestation. We are so overwhelmed by the problem that we fail to see the possibility of a solution.
Hannah (grace or gracious) in our text to day was in such a situation. She was married to a man called Elkanah (Acquired by God), who despite his profession of love to Hannah still had another woman, Peninnah (Pearl) to warm his bed. To make matters worse Hannah was barren while her adversary had children...Have you ever been in a situation where it looks like everything is just going wrong for you...you lose your husband, lose your children, lose your home, lose your job and at the point of losing your mind..has anyone ever felt like world is crashing down on them. Bible says that Hannah's adversary (Peninnah) provoked her sore..An adversary is an opponent, one who stands in your way of progress, hinders you, resist you. In fact that is the devil's position..who or what is your own Peninnah? Remember Peninnah means pearl and from my understanding of english language pearl is supposed to be beautiful. It is used to decorate or adorn women to enhance their beauty. Are there not things in your life that are supposed to add colour to your life but have now turned to an adversary?? Are there not people who from afar look so wonderful to you but when you get close you find out they are not so so beautiful on the inside. Has God given you a good job and now it seems you're about to lose that job? Have you had a wonderful wedding only to return to the court later to file for divorce?? Peninnah!!! How do I deal with this pearl that has turn to a shackle. Bible says Hannah wept sore...have you been weeping secretly in your closet? Everytime children are born it reminds Hannah of her own deficiency...what testimonies have you heard and it reminds you of your own impossibilities. Hannah refused to eat..she fasted constantly. Even Elkanah could not comfort Hannah..am not I better to thee than ten sons? he ask...how can a husband replace a child? No matter how good intentioned any man is they don't have the solution or the answer to your problems...have your friends in trying to help you offered you a substitute for what you really want?? has your family 'organized' a replacement for what God promised you?
People say when the desirable is unavailable then the available becomes the desirable...but I beg to defer, I will not take a substitute for my promise.
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i don't want to brag or anything, but i've flown across the pond THREE WHOLE TIMES in my life, which makes me somewhat of an expert jet-setting type of person. not really, but let's pretend. aaron has a very sad, empty passport which bears no stamps, not even one. which translates to: aaron has really never left the country. unless you count those trips to tijuana, and really, you'd have to remember them to count them. am i right? am i right? haw!
so, he's doing the backpacking thingfor TWO WHOLE WEEKS, which requires resourcefulness and the ability to live like a hermit crab for quite a bit of time. he keeps coming up with these, um, "ideas" ...
- I'm going to buy underpants, and then throw them away! So that I don't have to wash them! [ok to be fair, he doesn't call them underpants. but i think it sounds funny, so I do. but really. buying underpants just to throw them away so that you don't have to wash them. it just makes me ponder.]
- I only need one pair of pants, right? [i. would. die.]
- I only need one pair of shoes, right? [see above]
- I think I need a red shirt. Yeah, a red v-neck t-shirt. *smiles contentedly* [I'm still trying to figure out the significance of this one.]
- My plane ticket is around $700. But the Euro Pass is $800. I must have. [ok so this one actually makes some sort of weird sense. But please don't get me started on the whole search & find process for said Euro Pass]
and so on. it's gotten to the point that i brace myself each day as i head home for the next "big thing" for his trip. i wonder if today will be WHAT SIZE BAGGIES DO I NEED TO BRING DAY? and such.
in reality, it's quite adorable how excited he is. and also? it's pretty awesome that he is going to see paris, bruges, switzerland and who knows how many other locations in his 2-week adventure. because part of the fun is having the Euro Pass so he and Eddie can Go Anywhere, and make the train their home. There's all sorts of other Weird & Crazy things going into this trip, but don't get me started on the COUCH SURFING experiment. I mean, like whoa.
Stay tuned for What Kind of Deodorant Aaron is Going to Pack... (i kid, honey.) smooches!


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This is a Jewish version of Stone Soup, a traditional fairy tale. I always enjoy this tale, no matter what country or village it takes place in.
Open Road Integrated Media and Net Galley allowed me to read this book for review (thank you). It has been published, so check at your local bookstore for a copy.
I first heard this story recorded by Danny Kaye. I bought a set of records with all kinds of fairy tales and he was on it. I was charmed by tale then and it still charms me.
When an old man walks in the village of Chelm and asks for food, people tell him they don't have any to share. He smiles at them and tells them he'll make some stone soup and share it with them then. They hang around to see him do it and soon he has them bringing him ingredients to make it tasty enough for all to enjoy.
They share his soup during the Seder feast on Passover and everyone is happy. They don't even think about the food they contributed. Such is power of a good story teller and the power of sharing.
I don't think you'd have great luck doing stone soup now, but you might be able to get folks to bring what they have and make a nice soup of it. Even if you don't have enough for you, everybody's bits can make enough for everyone!
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Stone Soup with Matzoh Balls by Linda Glaser
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Thursday, 18 April 2013
The Many Faces of Natural Hair
A lot of women are transitioning from permed to natural hair these days, some don't wear their natural hair, some do. I went natural in September 2011, i have loved every bit of it and yes, i am never using a relaxer on my hair again. I recently just cut my Afro but will start growing again soon. When i started growing my fro, a lot of my female friends and even strangers always asked how i maintained my hair, products i use, etc. So i decided to get someone who is more of a Natural hair buff than i am to give women tips. I dragged her away from her blog, lol, but that's what friends do. Here's what Sandra has for you ladies.
Hi my name is Sandeey and I'm a "Natural Hair-olic". What I mean is... I'm obsessed with my naturally Kinky, Coily hair. I stopped retouching my hair in June 2010 and haven't looked back ever since. People keep asking if I'd ever go back to using relaxers and my answer is always "never". I have nothing against ladies with relaxed hair but its certainly not for me...not anymore.
I have always had long hair. When I was younger, my relaxed hair attained bra-strap length. I have almost attained that length with my kinky hair, in about 3 years now. As a result, people tell me that natural hair is good for me, since long hair is in my genes. I guess there's some genetic aspect to the rate of hair growth but come on! That can't be all! Everybody's hair grows. That's a fact. What we have to learn is length retention. Treat your hair with care and it will get longer. I guess I'm partly on this natural hair journey to prove that. When I get past bra-strap length, it'll be proof enough that we contribute to length retention. My ultimate hair goal is waist length! #FingersCrossed.
Finding the right hair regimen has not been easy for me. I even modified it recently. I have tried so many products and some have proved to be excellent. I won't go into it in details but I will give you guys a general idea. I wash my hair every weekend and only comb on those days. It's quite easy to comb and detangle natural hair when it's damp and coated with moisturizing products. Before I wash, I saturate my hair with Almond or Olive Oil. I wash my scalp with an anti-dandruff shampoo (Selsun Blue), and use a deep conditioner after (Gentle Touch Deep Conditioner). After rinsing, I do not use a blow drier or any other form of heat to dry my hair. I wrap my hair with a towel without rubbing, to absorb the water. When my hair stops dripping, I moisturize with a leave-in conditioner (any good one) and seal in the moisture with my Shea Butter and Almond Oil mixture. This gives my hair some sheen. I always do this in sections, comb and then two-strand twist my hair to stretch it. When my hair is dry, I unravel my twists and style away! I re-moisturize during the week whenever it feels dry. Some people find this time consuming but I'd rather do it myself than sit in a salon every weekend.
As I said earlier, I'm obsessed with natural hair and this led me to start my own blog. Well specifically, I started the blog to show others how to maintain natural hair. I show them the many faces of my naturally kinky hair which includes the good, the bad and the frustrated! #MoreGood. People keep asking me what I do to my hair so I let my blog speak for me. It's much easier to tell them..."read my blog and find out"! Let me not write a novel here before you guys yawn and nod off.
We should be proud of what we have. Natural hair is what it is...natural. As someone out there put it "we do not GO natural, we RETURN because natural is where we BEGAN" .
Blog: http://hairoflife.wordpress.com (or click on a direct link on the side bar to get to her blog)
Instagram: 'hairoflife'
Ok ladies, be sure to follow Sandra's blog and also on instagram. I know i've picked up more tips from this post, now i cant wait to grow my hair back. Lol. More pictures of Sandra's hair below.
Love Lowla
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- Anonymous18 April 2013 at 04:21
Yes yes yes. Natty all the way!!!!ReplyDelete
nice one sandra..telldem.. u forgot to mention its probably cheaper than a turkish, lebanese or brazilian hair, thats also important with d financial constraints facing homes now... lols... Natural=beautiful=Cheaper=More money for suyaReplyDelete
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You Can't Win 'em All
For those of you who remembered I entered a short story writing contest, the results winner was posted in yesterdays paper. It wasn't me. Apparently stories about elderly women in personal care homes is more interesting than a good old fashioned love story. Not that I'm bitter. Well, maybe a little. But I honestly was expecting anything. Only hoping for the best. So many thanks to AM and Bon for helping me out so much.
There were two runners up stories in todays community newspaper. I have to say I liked them better than the winner. But sadly I didn't really enjoy any of them much. I was expecting to really have my socks knocked off by the winner(s). Not so. I'm not sure what I was expecting.
I guess when I think about it, there are a lot of books out there that wouldn't be my cup of tea. But they still got published. Just like not everyone would agree with me that this was one of the best books ever written.
The people who put together the contest have also planned a festival for next weekend. There will be some authors leading discussions, doing readings and lectures. There will even be a discussion on blogging! Unfortunately I will miss a great deal of it due to work but I think I will attend at least some of it. I'm glad something like this is happening in my community. Hopefully it will get more people excited about reading and writing.


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Back to My Bead-weaving for NaSeBeMo
I had almost forgotten how wonderful it feels to actually finish a bead-weaving project — almost! For NaSeBeMo (National Seed Beading Month), I decided to kick off with a project that I could actually finish before moving on to the mountains of bead-weaving UFOs I have sitting patiently in individual baggies on my work table.
For me, jump-starting my beady brain sometimes requires an object, like these cabone rings I found at my local yarn store. They're smooth wood, so they only require a light coat of paint to blend in with the colors of the beads I wanted to use. I painted three of them, originally picturing a rather elaborate beaded necklace. Instead, I found myself wanting to make a bead-weaving project that I could finish in just a couple of days. There was no pressure, I set no deadlines for myself, and best of all, I found a gentle rhythm to my bead-weaving that I hadn't experienced in a very long time.
I decided to use right-angle weave to cover the painted ring with the beautiful beach-y size 8 seed beads I got from my trip to York Beads in New York City earlier this year. I had no idea what to do with the ring once it was finished, but I beaded on with the faith that something would come to me as I worked, and I wouldn't be left with another UFO in a plastic baggie on my work table. Sure enough, as I stitched, the thought to add spike beads along the bottom of the ring popped into my head! It took a couple of tries to get the spikes attached the way I wanted to, but they went together quickly and easily.
To complete the piece, I decided to stick with my theme of simple but beautiful, and I stitched a quick spiral rope using some of the leftover size 8 seed beads. The perfect closure? An Italian pewter button from Natural Touch Resin Beads jumped out at me from my little box of findings. (I so love using buttons as closures for my beading projects these days — I may have to write a whole blog just about these amazing buttons I find!)
Next up to keep my fingers busily beading, I am motivating myself to finish bezeling the last dozen spikes or so for a bracelet design that I came up with earlier this year. The original used Czech glass gumdrop beads instead of spikes, but these lovely blue Czech glass cup flowers and the 14k gold round druk beads just looked so lovely together, I decided to do a re-make!
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Are you joining us for NaSeBeMo? Are you fining it difficult to keep up with beading a little bit every day? Do you have any blog updates to share with us? Leave a comment, tell us how you're doing with finding some time to bead every day, and post any links to your blog updates for us to read here on the Beading Daily blog!
Bead Happy,
P.S. Do you like those right-angle weave-covered rings? Never fear! They'll be a free project here on Beading Daily in just a couple of weeks! Stay tuned!


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Throktar posted a topic in Warrior---Triface's Guide to Threat and Tanking in Vanilla--- **Disclaimer: This guide was not written by me. I've only done some formatting. All credit goes to the Reddit user Triface for writing this guide! You can find his original comment here. I'm submitting it to the Crestfall Forums for the sake of posterity.** Defensive Stance The stance you are in affects how much threat you deal: Battle Stance and Berserker Stance both give your threat a x0.8 multiplier, meaning that if you do something that causes 100 raw threat it will only cause 80 threat in these stances. Defensive Stance on the other hand has a x1.3 multiplier, so that 100 threat is now 130. While there are some benefits to using the other stances, they are usually specific to only a few situations and to some more advanced techniques which you would mainly need when raiding. In general you want to ignore the other stances as they will only complicate things for little benefit (the main exception to this rule is using Mocking Blow which I will go into a bit more detail about later). The Pull As a tank you should always be the one to pull, the reasons for this are twofold: The mobs attack you first which makes them easy to group together and the damage that they do will be giving you rage right away. In order to pull aggro from someone you need to cause 10-30% (10% in melee, 30% ranged) more threat than the person at the top of the mob's hate list. If you are the first to pull then you are instantly at the top of the hate list and everyone else needs to do at least 10% more threat than you to gain aggro. It's always best to pull with your ranged weapon if possible, this way you can always pull to a safe position and minimise the risk of other packs of mobs getting aggroed by accident. After pulling, the first thing you want to do is to activate Bloodrage - gaining rage causes threat at a rate of 5 threat per 1 rage so you are instantly putting out threat before the mobs have even reached you and you have some rage to start using your skills right away. Rotations So you have pulled the pack of mobs and activated Bloodrage. Nine times out of ten the next step is to Shield Block - this means that you will almost certainly block the first hit which will enable you to use your most powerful threat-generating ability: Revenge. Revenge is both the most efficient threat ability that you have (even including the cost of Shield Block) and the highest threat-generating ability in your arsenal outside of Shield Slam. You should use Revenge on the main target on cooldown, using Shield Block to proc it when necessary. Next is Sunder Armor: this is your bread and butter threat spam skill. You generally want to put one or two Sunder Armor on the main target after Revenge just to put you ahead of the DPS. Heroic Strike shouldn't be used at all unless you are generating rage faster than you are able to spend it with Sunder Armor, which won't be often in 5-mans. At this point, you need to start thinking about generating threat on the adds. Contrary to popular belief, Thunderclap is actually a poor choice for AoE threat in vanilla; Battle Shout is almost always the better option. In vanilla, Battle Shout does 55 threat per person buffed (so 275 threat in a 5-man party) split between all the mobs which can be compared to the 130 split threat plus the damage caused per mob with Thunderclap. When you add in the multipliers for being in Battle Stance (x0.8 threat) or Defensive Stance (x1.3 threat) that changes to 375 threat total for Battle Shout vs. 104 + (damage x0.8) threat for Thunderclap. Another thing to take into consideration is that Thunderclap costs 20 rage compared to Battle Shout's 10 rage, meaning that you can get two shouts to one clap. In addition to this, since Battle Shout is a buff it causes no damage so it doesn't break CC and has full threat at any range from the mobs since it is affecting your allies rather than the mobs directly, while Thunderclap's damage can break CC and only causes threat to the mobs hit by the skill. A Battle Shout or two will build up some initial threat on all mobs, giving you some time to start cycling through the adds; solidifying your threat with Sunder Armor. Your average rotation will look something like this: Pull ---> Bloodrage ---> Shield Block ---> Revenge main target ---> Sunder Armor main target x1-2 ---> Battle Shout x1-2 ---> Sunder Armor adds one at a time, switching to Revenge main target whenever it's up, with extra Sunder Armor on the main target as needed. There will be deviations depending on the situation of course; for example if you need to gather up caster mobs with Shield Bash, but this is the general order you want to go with. Managing Your Group The hardest part of tanking is generally trying to stop your group from doing stupid shit . From the high damage DPS with no concept of threat management or crowd control mechanics to the healers who think that they need to keep everyone at 100% at all times, no matter how well you play you will lose aggro to these people and it will always be your fault. Always. Taunt is your go-to skill for these situations: it works by giving you threat equal to the highest person on the monster's hate list (so if you have aggro already it does nothing in that regard) and forces the monster to attack you for a time. During that time you need to build your threat up quickly so that the mob doesn't just switch back after the Taunt ends. The temptation is to Taunt as soon as you lose aggro but say a DPS gets aggro, takes some hits and you taunt it back, then your healer throws a big heal on the DPS and gains aggro instead; the cooldown on Taunt will seem like an eternity at that point! You should generally save Taunt for when your healer gets aggro since a dead DPS is a slower fight but a dead healer is a wipe. If you think the healer is safe you can Taunt but sometimes it is better to let a DPS take a couple of hits to help them remember that they need to manage their threat as much as you need to manage yours . You also have Mocking Blow available in Battle Stance if your Taunt wasn't enough or was resisted. Challenging Shout, the AoE taunt, is another option if things are looking really grim. Binding both of these abilities to a key is very useful and putting Mocking Blow in the same position on your Battle Stance action bar as Taunt is on your Defensive Stance action bar lets muscle memory aid you when switching to Battle Stance. Using Tarket Markers to mark targets (skull icon etc.) can help greatly in keeping the group on the right target and keeping CC from being broken, so where possible you want to do this or at least try and get the group leader to do it. Additionally, another great piece of advice is getting a threat meter addon as this can give you pre-warning of losing aggro and makes you aware of those in the group with poor aggro management. There are a lot of other little points as well but I think this has gotten pretty huge already so I will leave it at that. I hope this helps you! TL;DR (Almost) Always be in Defensive Stance. Always be the one to pull. Pull from range to a safe spot. Skill order after pulling is generally Bloodrage ---> Shield Block ---> Revenge main target ---> Sunder Armor main target x1-2 ---> Battle Shout x1-2 ---> cycle through adds using a Sunder Armor on each while using Revenge on main target whenever you can plus the odd Sunder Armor. Try and save Taunt for pulling aggro from your healer. Try and manage your group by calling targets. Get a threat meter addon.
Sherekhan posted a topic in ShamanHello I been planing back and forth what i will be playing. Now i am pretty sure i will go Horde and go a Druid and a Shaman. Always liked hybrids in all games i played. But here i will focus on the shaman i plan to play. I have a long experience (10 years) playing Enhancement shaman and believe i know the spec pretty well. The nostalgia made me want to roll one again but with a twist. I been trying it out now on another server at low lvl (RFC and WC so far) and it worked well. A fun part have been the fact i had to sell into the groups 2-3 times (been doing RFC 3 times and WC 2 times) to accept me as tank and so far i haven't failed the group. In vanilla there were some who played shaman as tanks and especially in 5 mans. There were some guys doing it in raids. I been around looking for guides on the internet for Shaman tanking guide without success. I have some ideas myself for how it will look. But if anyone knows of a guide, some discussions about BiS, talents etc. I would be really happy to hear others ideas. Ps. all you who irritate your self over people not playing optimal sepcs etc. You don't even have bother answer to this post. Ds


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To be honest, the past month has been filled with a lot of anxiety. I have overextended myself a little bit, and those who know me will tell you that I do not always rise to the challenge. Rather, I can be found in bed with the covers pulled over my head.
Don't get me wrong. I still love my job. Seeing 19 smiling, eager faces every morning is a blessing to be sure. Twelve of these faces happen to be boys. This leads to a very lively and spirited atmosphere. Yes, those are euphemisms for loud and at times out of control. During group work I will notice boys in the back of the room yelling. I will shoot them "the look." While very effective with girls, "the look" does not always get the point across to boys. As females, we have to be so attuned to others thoughts and feelings. We are trained from an early age to carefully analyze all body language cues from others to be sure that we are acting appropriately in social situations. We are intensely self-conscious and we carefully scrutinize our every word and our every movement. We also have a highly developed ability to follow conversations where only pronouns are used.
Boys are different. When my carefully practiced, and to be honest quite scary teacher look fails, I walk over to the boys. Close physical proximity is a tried and true classroom management technique. Once I come close to the group of boys, do they magically become quiet? Do they even acknowledge my presence? Of course not! However, suddenly, I realize that they are not yelling, but actually rapping the words to a song they have come up with to present the information they learned in their group to the class.
What do I do then? Naturally, I applaud them for their creativity and I give them all little pats on the back to encourage them to keep going. I then always walk over to the girls to see how their projects are going. They can usually be found carefully sketching out their ideas with pencil and ruler before going over them with marker. This is my happy place. We look at each other, look at the boys, and roll our eyes a little.
Of course the boys act this way because I let them, and I think I'm okay with that.


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Received my first one off Scrapagogo Monthly Kit in July and WOW! Wish I had the money to be able to subscribe, really might have to see if I can stretch to it. Any way thought a good place to start might be with a few layouts I made with it.
This is the car that me and my boyfriend have recently brought together, I can't actually drive yet but i plan on learning... sometime! I used mainly the gogo kit but also a few flowers and my dymo for the writing.
This layout uses the lovely embossed cardstock from the gogo kit and is scraplifted from Shimelle's lovely Paris layout in Scrapbook Inspirations Aug I think. The pics are from mine and my bf trip to london in one of the parks. The papers are Crate Paper Little Sprout and the title sticker is K&Co. I just love how close the squirrels got to us!
Anyways have work tomorrow and stock take to do unfortunatly so off to bed. Sleep Tight! xx


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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
now playing on goat tv...
and yes, there are two dogs piled in with the goats.
sorry the picture ain't the greatest. i didn't subscribe to the new fangled digitial transfer. i'm a rebel. and a hippie. and a borderline hermit.
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Using Social Media and Web 2.0 to Differentiate Instruction By: Mary Marotta Instructional Technology, Professional Development Consultant and Adjunct Professor
Sunday, July 15, 2012
I was fortunate to teach a mobile computing class this month. With a varied range of students in the the class we were able to review dozens of apps and apply to our content area. A few of the elementary teachers created their first ibook using a variety of apps. I will post the link soon.
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