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Mozilla developers have blocked a Firefox plugin that was quietly pushed out by Microsoft, saying that it presents a security risk. (...) On Tuesday, Microsoft warned that Firefox users who have not applied a recent Internet Explorer patch were vulnerable to a "browse-and-get-owned attack" because of a bug in the Microsoft .Net Framework Assistant add-on.
To protect users who may not have installed Microsoft's patch, Mozilla is automatically blocking two add-ons: the Microsoft .Net Framework Assistant and a related plugin called the Windows Presentation Foundation. (...) "Microsoft agreed with the plan, and we put the blocklist entry live immediately."
Microsoft has also posted removal instructions [support.microsoft.com] in their Support section.
If you use Microsoft's "automatic" solution, you may need to install further updates after doing so. It would be a good idea to run Microsoft Update after downloading and installing the KB963707 patch. This shouldn't be necessary if you use the manual regedit-and-file delete procedure given in KB963707.
I wonder how much of the "bad" coding was intentional to slow down FF.
I can just see a Microsoft campaign telling you to
1) update your machine
2) open Firefox
3) open IE
4) type this URL into both browsers
5) hit enter on both browsers
6) See! IE loads faster than FF
What they don't tell you is their plugin from the "update your machine" step slows down FF.
I am not saying that this is what happened here, but if they wanted it obviously wouldn't be hard to pull off.
Malware is intentionally malicious. While Microsoft's add-on was defective and therefore exploitable, and while it was installed without giving the user an option, it's not quite fair to call it "malware." It's just buggy code.
Its a matter of definitions i guess.
Malware, short for malicious software, is software designed to infiltrate a computer without the owner's informed consent.
Informed consent is a legal condition whereby a person can be said to have given consent based upon a clear appreciation and understanding of the facts, implications and future consequences of an action.
Why MIGHT we need it? Why is Mozilla killing it (and is not after MS and Moz chatted a bit and said ONE is okay and the other is still blocked?)?
Nothing I use daily requires .NET. I've blocked it on updates on all systems. Biz continues as normal. Am I missing out on something?
I defer to nobody in willingness to attribute bad motives to Microsoft: they are, IMO, lawyers and lawyer-spawn, although serpents are physiologically incapable of stooping, there is no depth to which they would not slither.
But I have no trouble attributing this particular issue to stupidity rather than malice: after all, they have these kind of security, reliability, and performance problems ALL THE TIME on their own software.
>I can just see a Microsoft campaign telling you to
>1) update your machine
>2) open Firefox
>3) open IE
>4) type this URL into both browsers
>5) hit enter on both browsers
>6) See! IE loads faster than FF
>What they don't tell you is their plugin from the "update your machine" step slows down FF.
In THIS matter you're attributing far too much honesty to Microsoft. This is similar to what they do regularly. But only similar. Step 6 is always stated "See! IE RUNS faster than FF!" Even though they're only measuring LOAD time, they advertise it as RUN time.
As I say: there are few depths to which they have not already slithered.
I ask once again... what is the benefit of .NET?
On the other hand, if you're a surfer who likes Java because of its security, and don't want just anyone dropping anything on your machine without your knowledge or consent, then ... ClickOnce is the Satanic IT project of the year.
It's all in your perspective.


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Wakanda Forever!
By Camille Liptak and Dejanique Calloway, reporters Last week, Marvel Comic Universe set a record shattering February box office debut with its first black superhero film, Black Panther. According to CNN media, Ryan Cooglar's hero film amassed $241.9 million in U.S. and Canada its opening 4-day weekend, with a total of $426.6 million worldwide. Black …
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Camila Cabello's Solo Debut Hits RnB High Note
By Ciara Pack, reporter Camila Cabello has paved the way for Latinas in pop music with her debut album, Camila. Fresh out of girl group, Fifth Harmony, Camila has come roaring into the spotlight with her infectious RnB inspired album. Her self-titled album was released on January 12, 2018 and hit number one on the …
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Red Cross Recognizes PPCC Hometown Heroes for Mobile Food Pantry
By Jake Altinger, News Editor The American Red Cross Professors recently honored professor Ann-Marie Manning and Dr. Tiko Hardy with their Hometown Hero Award for their work launching and leading the Mobile Food Pantry program at PPCC. The award honors individuals, businesses and nonprofits who have made a significant difference in the community through courage, …
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Commentary: In Praise of the Pen
By Marko Salopek, reporter Every day our society becomes more deeply entrenched in a digital world. As we transition from paper to desktops, laptops, and pocketable super computers to record the visual representation of our language, our old analog friend the pen is being dismissed. In a blow hastening the demise of this writing instrument, …
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Tech Savvy Alternatives to Commercial Software Benefits Students
By Travis Boren, reporter Students looking for alternatives to commercial software would benefit from checking out open source options. Open Source is a term used to refer to software published under a license like the GNU General Public License, which focuses on the legal requirements to guarantee a piece of software remains free. One of the …
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Let's Hear it For the Girls: PPCC's The Trojan Women Auditions
By Camille Liptak, Arts Editor On Feb. 19th and 20th PPCC Theater Director, Sarah Sheppard Shaver, held auditions for the upcoming Spring 2018 production of The Trojan Women. Out of the 33 who auditioned, 25 of them were women. Fresh and familiar faces of the Colorado Springs theater community auditioned for Shaver, including PPCC …
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'Have A Heart' Makes Connections for Students in Need
By Jake Altinger, News Editor Over 100 students and faculty gathered in the Centennial Campus Atrium on Valentine's Day to brainstorm ways to help PPCC's homeless students succeed in college and beyond at Have A Heart For PPCC's Homeless Students: Finding Creative Solutions. Fourteen groups of five to eight students, with at least one faculty …
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By Cosmic Cannibal February 15th marks the continuation of Valentines Day sentiments as 3 major astrological planets shift into Pisces. On the 17th and 18th, swift Mercury and the individualistic Sun catch up to beauty-seeking Venus, affecting our thoughts, will, and values (not to mention what we attract and how). The Piscean passage brings with …
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By Marko Salopek, reporter PPCC's Director of Military and Veterans Program (MVP), Paul Dececco, says his mission as the new program director is to "empower military personnel, veterans, and their families to achieve their academic, career, and personal goals." Dececco, who has been at his post since Oct. 1, 2017, grew up in eastern Pennsylvania, …
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Kayakalpa Yoga Poses
Kayakalpa is a healing and cleansing tradition related to the practice of yoga in much the same way acupuncture and massage are related to some martial arts. Performing kayakalpa does not involve the same progression of challenging physical postures as other forms. Rather, kayakalpa consists of breathing exercises and other techniques intended to focus the flow of energy to improve health.
Physical Posture
Kayakalpa focuses on relaxation, breathing and energy control. For this reason, the proper postures for kayakalpa are easy on the body and simple to remember. This prevents physical positioning from distracting the practitioner from his breathing and energy focus. Kayakalpa is generally performed in relaxed seated positions such as lotus, or lying on the back fully relaxed.
Fire Breath
Kayakalpa breathing practices focus as much on the structure and intent of breathing as hatha yoga postures focus on the structure and intent of motion. Fire breath is a practice in which the yogi breathes in slowly and naturally, then exhales forcefully through the mouth. Fire breath helps with relaxation, fosters cleansing through completely emptying the lungs with each exhalation and develops awareness of the diaphragm while breathing.
Bastika is a breathing exercise roughly translated as "bellows," and thought to fan the fires of personal energy, much like a bellows fans a physical fire. To perform bastika, the practitioner breathes in through the nose, then breathes forcefully out through one nostril while holding the other closed. Alternating nostrils with each breath, this practice can lead to feelings of light-headedness or dizziness in beginning students.
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The practice of kayakalpa includes receiving massage and herbal treatments much like going to a traditional doctor. When receiving this kind of treatment, the recipient will assume various postures according to the course prescribed. When being worked on with massage or herbal tinctures, a relaxed posture is usually recommended. The person under treatment may also be prescribed a course of more physical postures from hatha yoga between sessions.
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Dividends Progress
My Dividend Investing Journey
A dividend is simply money that many companies will pay to their stockholders. It's their way of saying "We're offering you a piece of our profits because you are a valued shareholder." It's one of the simplest and quickest ways for ordinary people to make some extra income. All investors have to do is wait for the steady dividends to roll in periodically; it's as easy as earning interest. When I got my first job I wanted to start investing early and take advantage of compounding. 😀
From 2009 to 2011 I was heavily focused on buying dividend stocks with high yields like 5% or 6%. But starting from 2012 I changed my strategy and began to invest in dividend growth stocks instead, which are dividend paying companies that may not necessarily have a very high dividend yield, but they do have a long history of increasing their dividend payments, often every year. The best dividend growth stocks are sometimes called Dividend Aristocrats. I plan to keep buying these dividend growth stocks and hold them into my retirement. 🙂
In 2014 alone many companies I own such as TD, Bell, Enbridge, McDonald's, Qualcomm, and Chevron, have all increased their rate of dividend distributions to shareholders. 😀 I also use DRIP to buy additional shares at discounted prices.
Anyone can invest in dividend stocks. The way I got started in 2009 was by opening up an account with a discount brokerage firm. I went with TD Waterhouse but there are many other brokers out there. I bought 30 shares of Rogers Communication Inc. for $30 each (so that's $900 + commission.)
Rogers (RCI.B) was paying a dividend of $1.16 per share annually at the time. So each year I received $35 from RCI.B because of my part ownership in the company. That's a yield of roughly 3.9%. Over the next several months I invested in other companies like RioCan REIT, Suncor, Enbridge and pretty soon I was making over $200 of dividend income per year. As I invested in more companies over time, many of the older stocks I still held on to like Rogers were increasing their dividend payments. In 2014 RCI.B paid out $1.83 per share. My 30 shares now provide me with $55 each year! All I did was hang on to the stock and waited for the annual distributions to increase. You've probably realized that phone and cable companies are charging more for their services every year. All that extra money they're earning has to go somewhere right?. 😉
In my second year of dividend investing I was making over $1,000 a year in dividends. Then the following year I was making $2,500 in annual dividend income due to more savings, compounding, and growing dividend payments from already owned stocks. Dividend investing can take many years before it can start to really pay off, but it's fun, and the rewards are definitely worth the wait. 🙂 As of December 2016 I'm making $8,000 of passive, dividend income per year from my six figure stock portfolio.
Buying dividend stocks is easy to understand. But choosing the right companies to buy requires a little bit of research. (~_^) You can browse through my articles in the stocks category for ideas, or view my portfolios to see which stocks I like to invest in, but be sure to do your own research too.
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Not sure if focusing just on dividend stocks when you are young, with a long time horizon to invest is the best idea. A company that pay dividends is a company that says they don't need or want that money to invest in its own operations, so they're returning that money to the shareholders instead. A company that doesn't invest itself is a company that has limited growth potential. When you're young, it's probably better to invest in a company that is more likely to grow at 5% a year than return 5% a year in dividends. But again, diversification is key, so don't ignore non dividend paying stocks.
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Very nice progress! I'm currently between your 2010 and 2011 😀
Cool to see the snowball rolling 🙂
are you able to over two additional metrics during that time period;
1 – how much your dividend stocks were worth on average, year over year. This would show us if the dividend stocks actual increase in value or if all of their increased value is just paid out in dividends so the share price never increases.
2. how much your total dividend portfolio was worth (in terms of share) price at the end of each year. This would show us the correlation on the amount of stock you hold vs. how much your dividends increased.
I have a question regarding re-investing dividends. (DRIP'S)
I invested in a REIT with about $5,500 to start. The share price is about $33.50/share. I get monthly dividends of $8-$19/month. I enrolled in the auto DRIP but my monthly dividend aren't enough to buy a whole share so the money gets deposited into my account.
I want to reinvest dividends so I wait a few months until I have enough dividends to buy more shares but I thought about the brokerage fee for placing a trade for 1 share and it's 4.95.
If I buy one share for $33.50 with dividends but then pay $4.95 for placing the trade makes my cost average quite a bit lower.
Does this eliminate any advantage of re-investing dividends? How do you do it?
Hi Jeff,
If you really want to add more shares of this company at a cost efficient price than I suggest you might want to read more about share purchase plans through the transfer agent ( not all companies provide this.
Here is one link to get you started. There are also forums where people buy and sell one share to get started in a SPP. http://www.dripinvesting.org/first-share/
I believe you may find this way to start increasing your portfolio size is a good fit for what you want.
ps. Enjoy the blog Liquid. Like your thinking outside the box.
As your amount in a stock increases can you change into a DRIP purchase plan when it was not your initial investment instruction? I as well trade through TD.


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The world of workplace learning continues to change and evolve, bringing along not just challenges and exciting opportunities but also the need for L&D professionals to constantly develop their skills to meet the demands of its customers.
A recent joint study between CIPD and Towards Maturity showed a significant gap between the skills and capabilities that L&D practitioners know they need and what they actually have in-house. The research also highlighted a shift in the L&D role from pure training delivery to performance consulting. This means learning and development professionals must now diagnose and solve problems.
This means a complex list of skills are required in order to be successful. But what are those skills? I take a look at some of them here.
Internal Consultancy Skills
More so than ever L&D professionals need to display and demonstrate consultative skills. Similar to external consulting, internal consultancy skills often require the additional ability for individuals to work effectively with their colleagues and peers, often within challenging environments or with the back drop of office politics. They need to be effective in problem solving in order to clarify their client's objectives, reviewing and feeding back evidence and data, prepare 'bulletproof' action plans and confidently presenting solutions and recommendations to their customers.
Business Acumen Skills
Having a sound understanding of how your business works and how each business function links to the overall strategy of the company is vital for any L&D practitioner. Having met with hundreds of L&D professionals over the years, I often see a link between organisations that are performing well with the knowledge L&D professionals have about what is happening in their business. Amongst other things, this helps them to effectively present relevant and timely solutions that drive performance and results where both individuals and the business benefit.
Negotiation and Influencing Skills
Negotiation and influencing skills are an integral part of building collaborative internal and external relationships and partnerships. Negotiation is described as a dialogue between two or more people or parties intended to reach a mutually beneficial outcome.
Negotiating doesn't have to be as daunting as some people see it. Whether it's resolving a conflict or negotiating a contract with a supplier, with good preparation and some simple techniques you'll often be surprised with how often both parties can walk away feeling positive with the outcome.
Influencing skills are required to motivate others to take action and to bring people around to your way of thinking. If you haven't already, I urge you to read Dale Carnegies "How to Win Friends and Influence People". First published in 1936, it is one of the true timeless classics in personal development and self-help publications and is as relevant today as it was all of those years ago.
Tech Savvy
Technology is at the heart of many business functions and plays an ever important role in the delivery of learning solutions. Whether you are delivering internal training using virtual classrooms, developing just-in-time online support materials or supporting social and collaborative learning, a basic grasp of the technology involved and how it all fits together will serve you well.
Project Management
Whilst L&D practitioners are not always required to run projects per say, project management skills, or a basic understanding of project management, can be a useful set of skills to possess. Wikipedia describes Project Management as a "temporary endeavour designed to produce a unique product, service or result with a defined beginning and end".
Project Management provides a common language to aid communication and offers a structured approach to achieving a common goal. So, whether you are writing a business case for new L&D solution, managing internal relationships with key stakeholders, controlling resources or assigning tasks to colleagues, these skills can be a valuable asset for any learning professional.
I have always been a firm believer that learning and development provides one of the most important roles within any organisation. Our job is to help staff develop and ensuring each employee is provided with the right support, at the right time, to drive performance and productively. As the L&D landscape evolves and businesses change, learning and development professionals need to be flexible and responsive to their customer's needs.
Continued professional development for L&D practitioners is just as important as it is for the customers they serve. Our previous infographic, The Anatomy of an L&D Professional, highlights some of the other skills required in learning and development.
At Bray Leino Learning we pride ourselves on developing our people in order to deliver the best service possible for our clients.
Want to know more about how we can help your people succeed? Contact us now.
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In my series of blogs I will talk through my thoughts on some of the key challenges facing Learning and Development professionals, along with useful tips and advice.
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Noyes-Thomas to retire from Christel House role
Christel House International has announced that Vivienne Noyes-Thomas, its European development director, is retiring at the end of the year.
A former senior executive at RCI, Noyes-Thomas has been a stalwart of the charity, as well as the timeshare industry, for many years, but has decided to retire, with effect from 1 January 2017.
A statement from the charity, which helps children in Africa, India, Mexico and the US to break the cycle of poverty, said it was indebted to Noyes-Thomas for her hard work and dedication to its mission to transform the lives of some of the world's poorest children.
Christel DeHaan, founder and CEO, said: "We will miss Vivienne a great deal, but the good thing is that our friendship will continue, as will her advocacy for Christel House."
New director
Looking to the future, the charity is set to welcome Ann Gilchrist who will take over the role of development director for Christel House Europe from 1 January 2017.
Gilchrist has worked for a number of organisations in the timeshare industry, culminating in senior management roles with the Karma Group, and her experience in the industry and strengths in communications and marketing are all set to benefit Christel House. She will be training in Indianapolis during September and report to Noyes-Thomas until year-end when she will fully assume her new responsibilities.
In an open letter to friends and industry colleagues, Noyes-Thomas said the decision to retire had been a difficult one after enjoying a "long and life-enhancing relationship with the world of Christel DeHaan, first at RCI and subsequently with Christel House".
Personal pursuits
She added: "After a lifetime of working, it's time to focus on the future and allow more time for personal pursuits. I am very fortunate to have been able to support Christel House for the past six years and to work with you all – together we have made a significant contribution to the world of those less privileged than ourselves.
"I am deeply grateful to you all for your generous commitment over the years. As well as receiving your wonderful financial support, Christel House Europe has benefited in so many ways from your advice and counsel, enthusiasm and expertise and introductions to new contacts.
"This is a bittersweet decision but I shall always be a passionate advocate for the work of Christel House in a personal capacity – I hope you too will continue your wonderful commitment to transforming so many lives via the Christel House model."


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Fishing for bluefish is a blast. Bluefish fight vigorously when you hook them up and they are an abundant and often underused resource here on Martha's Vineyard. For many years bluefish where considered by most to be practically inedible. My father in law, a life long fisherman from the cape, spent most of his life catching bluefish for lobster bait. Though they make excellent bait, I love to eat bluefish. As a chef I am often asked what to do with a fresh catch, so I would like to share with you a simple recipe to make your catch into a crowd pleasing dish that is truly delicious.
First things first, when you catch a bluefish make sure to bleed it immediately. When fish fight, or are put under stress, there is a buildup of lactic acid in the flesh which can "cook" or "burn" the flesh if it is not metabolized. With big game fish like tuna some fishermen will let the fish rest on the side of the boat before it is killed to allow the acid to be metabolized. The second reason to bleed and ice your fish as soon as possible is discoloration of the meat, and of course the fishy taste that is often associated with bluefish. Bacteria is harbored in the gills and guts of any fish, so it is important to gut and rinse the fish before you filet it. With bluefish I like to bleed, gut, rinse and ice them before I get home. Bluefish fillets should not be red if they are handled correctly.
Smoking is a great way to introduce people to bluefish. There are many smoking methods for fish, but I would like to share with you one of the simplest methods to get you started. Begin with a 50/50 salt and brown sugar cure for 5-6 hours. Simple pack the fish in the cure and leave it covered in the refrigerator. If you have one you can place a rack under the fish so the liquid drains away from the filets. This will draw a considerable amount of water out of the filets. Rinse the fish with cold water and pat it dry with a paper towel. Lightly salt the filet and let it rest in the refrigerator for an hour or two until a nice pellicle has formed (a thin film that allows the smoke to adhere to the fish). Drizzle a little maple syrup and your favorite spices on top of the filet and smoke them on low heat (150-200 degrees F) until the fish is dark and firm. The fish will be cooked in about an hour, but for the purposes of smoked bluefish we want to take that a little further and allow the fish to really soak up that smokey flavor.
Smoked bluefish can be eaten on its own, but the prefered method these days seems to be bluefish pate. While dining in new york, I had a smoked trout pate that used cottage cheese as its main ingredient and was blown away by how well it stood up to the flavor of the smoked fish. Here is a fun and easy recipe to make smoked bluefish pate at home!
1 cup smoked bluefish (shredded)
¼ cup cottage cheese
2 Tbsp Sour Cream
2 Tbsp capers
1 Tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp horseradish
Lots of chopped chives, or garlic chives (1 whole bunch will not be too much)
Simply mix all of the ingredients together, season with salt and pepper to taste, and serve with crackers or freshly sliced cucumber. Feel free to experiment with proportions and add ingredients like mustard seed or soy sauce to make it your own!


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Desert Science
Create a desert sensory bottle by adding sand, and small plastic lizards and snakes found at the dollar store.
If you live in the desert, show the children how hot it REALLY gets in the summertime! Take an egg outside either on the sidewalk OR on the pavement and crack it open. If it is hot enough, it WILL FRY! LOL! This was one of my favorite activities during the hot summers in Phoenix!


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Publishing an eBook is exciting yet intimidating, especially if this is your first time. While the process is challenging, getting your book started with a great book idea is probably the hardest part. Out of the hundreds of thousands of books already written, what can you come up with that is innovative, fresh, and attractive to readers? How can we not 'reinvent the wheel' to bring the world something they haven't read or seen before?
One of the biggest hurdles for any writer is capturing that one idea that jumpstarts your story. This course guides you through the first step of getting that idea to lead you toward publishing your first Kindle eBook. Utilizing three steps, the instructor will guide you through the best ways to harness and develop ideas using your own personal interests to create best-selling stories and books. Readers are hungry for new stories all the time, and this course will show you how to make that story that only you can create. Whether it's tapping into your passions, innate talent or skill, or developing an idea or interest that you haven't tackled yet, these are all reservoirs of ideas that you can draw from for that perfect story. Taught by acclaimed self-made entrepreneur Anbu Rayappan, the lecture below is one of a series of lectures on being successful writing, publishing, and selling Kindle eBooks.
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In this lecture, let's learn the three simple and powerful ways to get great book ideas. There are four powerful steps to your first Kindle eBook.
1. Get book ideas.
2. Analyze the market for your book idea.
3. Write or hire someone to write your book.
4. Market and sell the book.
While we will discuss each one of these steps in detail in the following lectures, we will focus right on the science of developing book ideas. After the completion of Section One, you should have a good idea of how an eBook is published.
Step one, book ideas: Before you can take the step into publishing a book, you must first come up with the idea for the book. In order to write, you must have something to write about. There are three simple and easy ways to get book ideas. Let's look at each one of them here. You may be thinking, "There's already a book about everything. What can I write about? I can't write about anything new." This is not true. Things change. New technologies are founded and new trends emerge.
There's always something you can write about. Remember, you don't need to reinvent the wheel – just provide your creativity and experience to the information that is already out there. This is how numerous books have been written for weight loss. For example, you might have found a great recipe that helped you to lose 10 pounds in a month. Now, you can write a book about it telling the world how you did it. Let me give you another example. Let's say, you are very passionate about running a marathon. You are very good at it. You know how one can get into shape and what food to eat and what shoes to wear, etc. Now you are an expert in this area and you have got hands-on experience. Write a book about it so that millions of people who were interested in marathons can benefit from your book.
The three best ways to get ideas are as follows:
1. Passions.
2. Expertise, Talent, Skill.
3. New Skill You Want to Learn.
First, let's look Passions. What are you passionate about? There's should be something that you can do or can talk about for hours without getting tired of it. It could be anything from traveling to swimming to mountain biking to reading to playing video games. Sit down and make a list of 10 things you are passionate about. If you're not sure what your passions are, then ask yourself a few questions. What kind of books do I have in my personal library? What do I talk about when I talk to my friends? What do I talk about when I'm at a party? What can I talk about for hours without drawing a blank? When was the last time I lost track of time doing or talking about something? What was I doing or talking about at that time? If you have multiple passions, you could always combine two passions into one book. Some examples can be, traveling and running – seven best places to run when you are on the move. Coffee and travelling, 11 best places to drink coffee in Paris.
Let's look at the second way to get book ideas, which is through your expertise, talent, skill. Everyone is an expert in something. What is your area of expertise? Or, what are you extremely talented or skilled in? To find out your area of expertise, ask yourself the following: Number one, what kind of advice do people ask you for? Number two, what do people say when they appreciate or admire you? What do they admire you for? Number three, what do your friends say when they make fun of you? For example, if you're good with computers, perhaps, your friends call you a geek or a nerd. The answers to the above questions will let you know what you are an expert in. Once you know the answer, you can write a book related to your expertise, skill, talent. The third way to get book ideas is through new skills you want to learn. It is our innate nature to grow and improve and progress.
Lastly, what do you want to learn? What is the new skill you want to learn and brag to your friends and family about? Maybe, you want to learn a new language, you want to learn how to play the guitar or you want to learn how to juggle or you want to learn magic. Whatever it is that you want to learn, learn that skill. As part of learning that skill, you may do lots of research and read many books and talk to many people, etc. So, your head is now field with a lot of information and ideas related to the skill you are learning. All these details will be fresh in your mind. Put it down in a Word Document in a coherent and easy to understand way. This will help other people new to the skill like you were to learn the skill. You can save them the amount of time you spent doing the research and gathering all the details and they may thank you for that. It is a complete win-win situation.
We all get many ideas in our daily life. If we don't capture those ideas, we will lose them for good. Ideas drift away if you don't write them down. So many times I think of ideas while I'm half asleep and I forget about it completely by the next morning. Something you might consider is keeping a notebook near your bed, so that you can jot down any ideas you have when you're falling asleep or when you have an idea that wakes you up in the middle of the night. If I am outside when I get an idea, I put it in my iPhone Notes or if no one is within earshot, I record my idea in the Voice Memo's app. When I get home, I enter my ideas into a Word document to help keep myself organized. This way, everything is always in one place and I can edit them as needed. See you in the next lecture!
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of shooting 25 graduates from the 2014 class of Bishop Grandin High School. When a client asked me to shoot it for them, I instantly said yes – there was no doubt about it! Beautiful dresses, tuxedos, flowers, smiles, love, happiness + high heels. Who wouldn't want to spend their day photographing that? Looking back on my grad day, my one regret was not hiring a photographer to capture our day through their eyes. I am passionate about capturing memories, special times, love, unseen moments, happiness and gratitude. Yesterday was everything I expected and more. Although it rained once the limo picked the grads up, we were able to head to Devonian Gardens downtown Calgary and get some beautiful shots inside. Congratulations Graduates! I hope yesterday lived up to your expectations and you took every moment of it in! I hope these pictures stay close to your heart forever, and help you remember your day in years to come. Graduation is still one of the best days I have yet to experience. The anxiousness that is with you as you plan your future, the season of new beginnings and adventure. Saying hello to new friends and goodbye to old ones. It's one of the scariest yet most exciting times of your life! I wish you all the best of luck in the next chapter of your life, and remember whatever you choose to do – love it each and everyday!
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Clinical Services
More than 36 million Americans are affected by hearing loss, often caused by factors such as age, ear infections, neurological disorders, trauma or high levels of noise exposure. At Montefiore's Department of Audiology in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, our specially trained audiologists provide comprehensive diagnostics and treatments for patients experiencing all types of hearing loss and balance disorders.
The first step to restoring maximum hearing function is to identify the root of the hearing impairment through a thorough evaluation using state-of-the-art equipment. Other services offered at Montefiore include auditory assessment, customized treatment plans, hearing aid fittings and rehabilitation, ototoxicity (damage to the ear) monitoring, patient education and follow-up management.
Exceptional Patient Care
Patients ranging from newborns to elderly adults come to us from the New York metropolitan region as well as other states along the east coast for our exceptional experience and coordinated care. Our bilingual certified audiologists treat a high volume of patients with diverse backgrounds and conditions.
Audiology Conditions We Diagnose and Treat
At the Department of Audiology, we diagnose and treat the entire spectrum of conditions that might affect hearing and all degrees of severity of each. These include:
- Acoustic neuroma (non-cancerous tumor that may be pressing on the hearing and balance nerves)
- Autism
- Cerebral palsy
- Congenital disorders/impairments
- Vestibular (balance) disorders (i.e. vertigo, Meniere's disease, superior canal dehiscence syndrome, bilateral vestibulopathy, etc.)
- Down syndrome
- Infectious diseases (i.e. measles, mumps, etc.)
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Parkinson's Disease
- Swallowing disorders
- Tinnitus (ringing in the ear)
- Wax in the ear
Multidisciplinary Approach
The Department brings a multidisciplinary approach to each patient's treatment plan with the collaboration of speech pathologists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, social workers, physiatrists, senior nursing attendants and nurses who consider each patient's age, medical history and condition. The focus is always on the patient and achieving the best outcome. We work diligently to customize each treatment plan, refer to specialists (i.e. neurologists and otorhinolaryngologists) when necessary and manage follow-up care.


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External cookery courses
Visit cooking events staged by our qualified partners. You'll be impressed by our V-ZUG steamers in a relaxed setting.
Hands-on cookery course – Kochburg, Aarauerstrasse 53, 5600 Lenzburg, Switzerland
An informative and interesting cookery course experience using a steam cooker, Teppan Yaki and wok awaits you. It doesn't matter if you already own one of these appliances or not. You can watch and participate in the cooking, share your experiences with other users, learn and simply enjoy yourself.
Type of course: Hands-on cookery course
Course instructor: Ruth Pfäffli
Models: Steam cooker, Teppan Yaki, wok
Course location: KOCHBURG, Aarauerstr. 53, 5600 Lenzburg, Switzerland
Time: 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Price: CHF 120.00 per person, including food and drink
Further information: www.kochburg.ch
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Steam cooker cookery course – Kochburg, Aarauerstr. 53, 5600 Lenzburg, Switzerland
Do you already have experience with a steam cooker and would like to learn more? In this course, you will learn new techniques, recipes and tips that can't be found in any cookery book.
Our professional course instructor, Ruth Pfäffli, has prepared everything for your cookery evening. And of course, a glass of wine is a must when enjoying your creations. At the end, you will receive all the recipes so that you can cook them again.
Type of course: Steam cooker cookery course
Course instructor: Ruth Pfäffli
Models: Combi-Steam SL/HSL/XSL, Combair SL
Course location: KOCHBURG, Aarauerstr. 53, 5600 Lenzburg, Switzerland
Time: 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Price: CHF 110.00 per person, including food and drink
Further information: www.kochburg.ch
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«Sous vide» presentation in Rapperswil-Jona SG, Switzerland
Marietta Elsener, author of the steam cooker recipe book «Aus Liebe zum Dampf», has been offering a wide range of services on the topic of steaming with the V-ZUG Combi-Steam since 2003.
Presentation: «Vacuum cooking in the steam cooker – sous vide» ... with tips & tricks
Course location: Elsener Messerschmied, Kluggasse, 8640 Rapperswil, Switzerland.
Duration: 1 ½ hours... or more
You will find more information by calling +41 (0) 55 211 11 94 or at www.steamratgeber.ch
Cookery workshop «Steam & sous vide», Scuol, Switzerland
Cookery workshop: «Steam & sous vide» ... with tips & tricks
Course location: La Perla 5A, Via da la Staziun 438, 7550 Scuol GR, Switzerland
Course instructor: Marietta Elsener
Duration: 5 hours cooking and enjoying the results together
«Sous vide» is now covered along with «Steam». Let yourself be whisked away to a secret, culinary world and be amazed ... by the enchanting steam dishes that still leave you with their original aroma.
In a small group of 6 to 8 participants, you will go on a 5-hour «tasting journey» through «steam & sous vide». Firstly, you will learn how efficiently the cooking space of a (Combi)-Steam appliance can be used with the appropriate Gastronorm cooking trays. Secondly, you will be able to take a look into the world of «sous vide» and discover the excellent options afforded by this cooking method.
Together, we will conjure up, for example, a soup, a special starter, a main course with «sous vide» meat and side dishes, as well as a tempting dessert – and then enjoy sampling the results. As the course progresses, you can ask questions, share experiences and receive lots of tips. This is definitely an interesting «steam cookery workshop» not to be missed.
Reading tip
The strong demand and popularity of her recipes led Marietta Elsener to document her passion in a recipe book «at full steam». «Aus Liebe zum Dampf» – 60 steam recipes for everyday celebrations – with tips and tricks. Published in 2011, the high number of enthusiastic responses have proven the zeal with which readers have adopted the recipes when steaming their food.
You will find more information by calling +41 (0) 81 864 70 69 or at www.steamratgeber.ch


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Parenting Seminar
"Leslie brings much needed refreshment to parents who feel the intense pressure to be perfect. Her mixture of expertise, experience and passion left our parents with the perfect balance of peace and longing. Peace coming from the simple truth that God is powerfully at work in our lives and the lives of our families. Longing as every parent was inspired to seek God and trust him as we learn to be faithful parents. I am so grateful for Leslie's investment in the lives of our families."------David Grant, Lead Team - Next Gen - Mission, Irving Bible Church, Texas
"I wish Leslie had written this book twenty years ago. What she has written will free all of us to parent with joy, clarity, and freedom." ---Nancy Ortberg, author of Looking for God: An Unexpected Journey through Tatoos, Tofu, and Pronouns
"Leslie Leyland Fields offers counsel to parents that is liberating and demanding and theologically profound."----Ben C. Ollenburger, professor of Biblical Theology, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana
"Do not put down nor put off reading this delightfully smart book! Leslie Leyland Fields manages to challenge, teach, and inspire with hearty doses of wise and doable advice."-----Julie Barnhill, speaker, MOMSense columnist, and author of One Tough Mother and She's Gonna Blow
"Some of CT's best pieces on parenting have been written by Leslie Leyland Fields. If you've not yet read her CT classics "The Case for Kids: A defense of the large family by a 'six-time breeder'" and "The Myth of the Perfect Parent," do not stop at Go and read immediately."
-Mark Galli, editor of CT in inaugural issue of The Galli Report
Some of the places that Leslie has presented a Parenting Seminar
*Irving Bible Church, Irving Texas
*Emmanuel Faith Community Church, Escondido, California
*Kansas City Youth Front, Kansas City, MO
*Community Covenant Church, Eagle River, AK
*Family of Faith National Conference, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
*Peachtree Presbyterian, Atlanta GA
*Pure Vision National Teleconference
*Our Savior Lutheran Church, Naperville, IL
*Grace Baptist Church, Cedarville, OH
*Christ United Methodist Church, Memphis, TN
*Fellowship Church, Little Rock, AK
*Pure Heart Ministries, Harding University


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New Haven began as a self-governing commonwealth. New Haven was an independent colony. It was not a colony that was supported by a Royal charter or legal title from the English government.
The independence of New Haven rested upon the chance that the English government would be friendly or be too preoccupied to interfere with their affairs It was both a Puritan community, dedicated to God and at the same time a commercial enterprise. The Bible contained the word of the Lord. It contained the rules of conduct that individuals must follow and a pattern from which they could draw a plan of social organization. The Colonists perceived no conflict between their religious beliefs and pursuing economic advantages.
Two school-mates had become the organizers of this company of faithful. The Reverend John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton personified the themes of puritan community and mercantile enterprise. Eaton was a successful businessman and an administrator familiar with the operation of the joint-stock companies of the day. He was also a staunch Puritan. John Davenport had been the Vicar of Saint Stephen's in London. In that role he was expected to be a participant in the "prudential and secular affairs" of his parish. He had left England for Holland in 1633, but the fear of his parishioners straying from their beliefs and his communications with Reverend John Cotton, whose accounts of New England were exciting, provoked Davenport to return to England. He joined with Eaton to embark on a business venture to establish a plantation with a good harbor for shipping and at the same time to allow the unrestricted practice of their religious beliefs. These settlers were "the wealthiest group of merchants to come to any New England settlement before 1660" (. They would have attempted to fit into the Boston community if they had not encountered a Puritan church in crisis. Anne Hutchinson had scandalized the Boston congregation with her belief that divine inspiration came directly from God to the individual and that our earthly conduct had little to do with salvation . Such a dispute was so offensive to the newly arrived group that Davenport and Eaton immediately sought refuge in another part of this land outside the Massachusetts charter area. They heard of our area most likely from Captain Mason and the troops who had pursued the aggressive Pequots through the area a few years earlier. The first written account of this area may have been as early as 1614, when the Dutch navigator Adriaen Block anchored in a harbor flanked by two red hills, no doubt East and West Rocks. The Native name for the area was Ouinnipiack, the first European name was the Dutch "'Roodeburg"', red-town or place . Eaton and other members of the group went to the area the summer before the rest of the company followed. In the fall seven remained at the Ouinnipiac site, while others returned to encourage the rest of the company to follow in the spring. There was cleared land, a good harbor and the chance of developing a good fur trade. It has been proposed that Eaton may have been one of the about seven who stayed in the proposed site that winter. It is thought that it was at this time that the nine square pattern for the city was developed. Thus actually we may agree with the comment that New Haven was "America's first planned city" . The number of people in the company had increased while in Boston. Settlers from Hertfordshire and their Reverend Peter Prudden, who were equally horrified at the religious problems, were persuaded to join the Eaton-Davenport company. It took two weeks for the Hector and an unnamed sister ship to sail from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to Ouinnipiac harbor. Finally, on Saturday, April 24, 1638 about five hundred settlers disembarked.
East Rock, New Haven
Few of those that arrived intended to be part of a farming community. There was a substantial amount of hard money in the company, and this meant that the hardships that earlier settlements had were not experienced. These colonists could initially purchase what they needed. The location had been well chosen. There were to the east and west successive smaller harbors, estuaries of rivers that suggested good locations for settlement. The Ouinnipiac harbor was also about half way between the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In addition, there was virtually no threat from the area natives. Raids by the vanquished Pequots and Mohawks, who once sought tribute, as well as an epidemic had greatly reduced their number. Less than sixty natives in two small groups remained. In order to establish some title to the land treaties with the chiefs, Momauguin and Montowese, were signed in late 1638. Actually, more than the coats, spoons, hatchets, hoes and knives the natives appreciated the protection that the new arrivals provided. So it was that April 1638 the colonists arrived at a fairly secure spot in the wilderness.
It was at a meeting of the 'General court,' a legislative and judicial body of sixteen members under the leadership of Eaton, on September 1, 1640, that the new harbor was officially for the first time referred to as New Haven. It is interesting to note that Davenport and Eaton had previously won a close vote of the legislative body that established the separation of church and state in New Haven's government. These same town fathers felt that in order that New Haven become a new trading center they should create a series of communities in the area. These Communities would deliver their products to New Haven for export. The leaders of each of the communities would be members of the General court and meet on a regular basis in New Haven. Milford was established in 1639 by Reverend Peter Prudden, Guilford by the Reverend Herny Whitfield.. his house in Guilford is still standing and may be visited. Stamford and Southold, on Long Island, were incorporated in 1641. The last member of this network of local Communities was Branford; it came into the fold in 1644.
The New Haven merchants also made a thrust out of the immediate Long Island Sound area. They struck out for what is now the mid-Atlantic states Coastline, determined to find the best available Long Island Sound area. They struck out for what is now the mid-Atlantic states Coast line determined to find the best available harbor and establish yet another trading outpost. They paid little attention to previous titles to the land claimed by the Swedes and the Dutch; instead they resorted to gaining title by purchasing the land form the natives. In 1641 the New Haven legislative authorities voted themselves in Control of what is now most of southern New Jersey and the present site of Philadelphia. While this was a bold move it was also an unrealistic extension of what the New Haven Colony could control. The Dutch and the Swedes did not mind the settlers, but refused to tolerate the independent competition. The fifty New Haven families that settled the Philadelphia site were Constantly harassed. For ten years the New Haven party's homes were burned, commerce interfered with and leaders captured. New Haven appealed to its fellow New England Colonies for help. The other Colonies were not about to commit to something that Could develop into an armed Conflict to defend the New Haven Colony's tenuous claim. Sickness too, ravaged the outpost. The Colony Continued its claim until 1664 when the Duke of York brought under English Control New Amsterdam. Some of the original settlers from New Haven are today considered among the founding fathers of that region.
This was an enormous set back at a very bad time for New Haven. The Colony now had little currency. The Delaware scheme had drained its resources. There was now little chance of new investment because of a political change in England. Oliver Cromwell had lead a Puritan revolution. Charles I was killed. There no longer existed a reason for the Puritans to flee to the New World. "Strange though it may seem, more people left Massachusetts for England than came thence to the Bay Colony between 1640 and 1660" . A continued trust in the Lord, an indomitable spirit and perhaps desperation motivated the New Haveners to attempt what was to their last and most ambitious venture.
In New Haven, in 1645, was built an ocean worthy ship of 80 tons. To this point the Colony had but five small ships for coastal trade. This new craft was to sail directly to England. The Colony was no longer to use the Massachusetts Bay Colony as middle-man. The last resources of the Community were aboard the ship when it set sail in 1646 never to return. A year and a half went by and in the summer of 1647, after a thunder shower moved out over the harbor an apparition of the ship appeared. There seems to have been time for everyone to gather on the shore. They watched in amazement. It is recorded they Could recognize their friends on the deck. Then as the ship drew nearer the masts seemed to snap in an invisible wind, the passengers to pitch into the sea and the ship to capsize. Reverend Davenport explained that God had sent the ship to answer their prayers for an explanation of what had happened to their loved ones. H. W. Longfellow eulogized this revelation in his poem The Phantom Ship. The risks had been taken, all the grand plans had failed and the Colony was near collapse. Thus ended what might called New Haven's first maritime period. Those that remained now faced "a future of farming and isolation" .
Now once again there was a change in the English government. Charles II came to the throne in 1660. Puritan power was over. Two judges, or regicides, who had signed Charles I's death warrant escaped to New England in 1661. They were Colonel William Goffe, and his father-in-law Colonel Edward Whalley. While at first warmly greeted in the Bay Colony, the word of troops hot on their heels cooled the Bostonian's welcome. They traveled overland to New Haven where they were greeted by Reverend Davenport. They took up refuge on West Rock in an outcrop of massive boulders that now is call Judge's Cave. When the royal authorities arrived it was the Sabbath. They were Coerced to attend service, at which the Reverend Davenport read from the Bible, "'Hide the outcasts, and betray not him that wandereth"' he then read the supposed secret royal warrant aloud to those present . The officers could not find a trace of the regicides and departed empty-handed. For more than a month the judges remained in their natural hideaway. Daily a local farmer left food for them on a stump about half way from the center of town. They were prompted to leave their shelter after hearing what they thought might be a mountain lion or another fierce wild animal. Colonel Dixwell, the third regicide, had initially traveled to Europe after his escape from England and did not join his fellow judges until 1664. In 1664 another detachment of royal officers arrived in search of the regicides. Now all three hid at the West Rock site. Once again the search was fruitless and the troops left. The judges fled north spending time in Hadley and Hartford. Colonel Dixwell is the only one on record to have returned to New Haven. He assumed the name James Davids and established himself as a respected member of the community. He started a family and is the only one of the three judges we are sure of lain to rest on the New Haven Green.
It is felt but not established in any written record that this snub of the Charles II government officials may have hastened the end of the proud and independent New Haven Colony. It was brought to Governor Leete's attention that the Connecticut colony was sending an emissary to England to establish friendly relations with the new government. Eaton had died in 1658. New Haven was without a statesman and without funds. Governor Leete sent a hurried message to the Connecticut Colony's Governor Winthrop to request that he plead New Haven's case. Whether or not the message ever reached Governor Winthrop is unknown. What is known is that the Connecticut Colony envoy sought and obtained a charter which included the independent Colony of New Haven. Governor Winthrop returned in 1663 and proposed a compromise and after a two year argument New Haven acquiesced. On January 5, 1665 an act of submission was passed by the General Court of the New Haven Colony. The New Haven Colony was now officially part of the Connecticut Colony.
What words can we use to describe these early settlers? They were most of all God fearing adventurers. In an almost Quixotic fashion they seemed to venture forth without regard for physical boundaries or human limitations. They were dreamers with a vision. They longed not only to create God's kingdom on earth, but also a colonial empire that had the New Haven Colony at its center. The story of the Colony seems to fit the pattern of the tragic hero. He starts in heroic fashion, well-off and confident. Then fate interferes making each thoughtfully developed and implemented ventures collapse. These enterprises were not those of an individual or dictated unilaterally. The decisions were communally agreed upon, the Colony acted as a single body. The colonists' faith in God enhanced their belief that their undertakings would be successful. When it was apparent that their ship had been lost and that they were to become party of the Connecticut colony it was, no doubt, that same faith that held them together and gave them the strength to carry on.
The New Haven Colony was fundamentally designed to have a government based on a social contract whose rules were those of Bible state. The freedom to seek commercial expansion and the resulting financial reward were the primary factors-obsessions-in the establishment of the independent Colony. Yet below this entrepreneurial layer that found the leaders of the free planters from the six plantations, or settlements, meeting in 'general court' monthly to determine the Colony's grand plans there were the everyday routines that were necessary to sustain a community. Davenport and Eaton had arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony with about two hundred fifty in their company. Discontent cause by the religious turmoil doubled the number to approximately five hundred and these souls reached Ouinnipiac on April 24,1638. In spite of the fostering of five neighboring plantations in the following years it was reported in 1643 the New Haven plantation had about eight hundred inhabitants. This group was comprised of "122 planters (including widows), the number of persons in their households (totaling 419)" .There was a definite structure in this society. Free planters who were church members held the most authority they were followed by the nonchurch member free planters. There were also indentured servants, apprentices and finally those of a more transient nature the laborers and seamen. It must be noted that there were slaves. "There were a few Negro and Indian slaves, and some white persons were also enslaved as a penalty for arson, sometimes for years, sometimes for life".
Within years after the arrival of the Hector at Ouinnipiac, not only were there social classifications but also a great diversity of employment. First of all there were the Puritan farmers; then those that might be considered in professional fields, the ministers, the merchants and teachers. While these groups may well have provided for the emotional and financial security of the Colony it was the great number of skilled artisans who provided the community with what was needed daily. The artisans of New Haven in the seventeenth century made almost everything by hand. Their ranks included: "sawyers, carpenters, ship-carpenters, joiners, thatchers, chimney-sweepers, brick-layers, plasterers, tanners, shoemakers, saddlers, weavers, tailors, hatters, blacksmiths, gunsmiths, cutlers, nailers, millers, coopers, and potters". There was in addition an unsuspected category of skilled laborer, the spinster. Nearly every home housed an unmarried woman and it was to them that the task of making linen and woolen thread that eventually would be woven into cloth fell. Essential services were provided both for individual households as well as for the community at large for more than a century in this hands on labor intensive manner.
The water powered gristmill was the only exception to the general rule of manual endeavor. Of course, New Haven's was on Mill River. Atwater states, "To the first planters of New Haven, their gristmill was a very important institution. It was at Whitneyville, and the lane through which grists were carried to the mill,. called Mill Lane. Their posterity have change the name to Orange Street" . It is interesting to speculate where this mill might have been. It may actually be on the Eli Whitney site.
The New Haven Colony traded with the Massachusetts Bay Colony, New Amsterdam and New Netherlands. New Amsterdam was their first, nearest and favorite market. There were duties on both imports and exports and a constant stream of protests from one colony to another dependent upon which group imposed what. There was a demand for the Colony's products which included: "peas, flour, biscuit, malt, livestock, dairy products, beef, pork, hides and leather, furs and skins, shingles, clapboard, and pipestaves, fish, the products of the whale, the crude work of artisans, and wampum" . Hard money was scarce and might have been, "English shillings, Dutch Guilders, (or) Spanish pieces of eight".
The above list of products includes wampum which was another currency substitute. Most of the trade of the colony was carried on using barter or wampum. These methods of exchange necessitated constant regulation. Laws were passed fixing the value of wampum. Some colonists tried to copy the Native wampum, others took samples to England and had a porcelain counterfeit manufactured that eventually destroyed its use as money.
The currency problem continued to trouble the colonies until the revolution. In the mean time there was a slow development of industry in the area. Thomas Nash, or Naish is credited with making the first American clock. It was an all wood works affair Constructed in 1638. A few years later in 1655 an interest in mining developed in East Haven. John Winthrop Jr. and Stephen Goodyear joined to establish a forge and bloomery-a bloom is a chunk of iron that has been separated from the rock and is ready to be worked, wrought-at the point where Lake Saltonstall empties into a stream. Ore for the forge was located in North Haven bogs It was brought down the Ouinnipiac to East Haven and then carted overland to the forge. John Winthrop Jr. was enticed to move to New Haven to oversee the operation of the forge. He was Considered an outstanding metallurgist as well as physician. He purchased a home, ". . . paying for it in goats" . Again, as fate would have it within the year he was elected by the Connecticut Colony to be their Governor and left the area. This is the same office he no doubt, would have been elected to within the following months in the New Haven Colony had he been available because of the death of New Haven's Governor, Theoplilus Eaton. "It was a shrewd move on the part of Connecticut, destined to change the history of the colonies" . So to, it changed the future of the forge. The colony eventually suffered more than it gained from the venture. Within a few years it was considered a liability. It also "attracted unruly transients much to the discomfort of the town fathers" . before its eventual closing in the late 1670's.
An appropriate designation for the period from the 1650's to the 1750's might be the village period. Very little happened to industrialize New England. The household industries did become well established and the artisans maintained systems of apprenticeship. Trade was based primarily on barter. New Haven became a provincial, self-contained community based on agriculture. At the turn of the century it did reclaim some of its former prestige when it was proclaimed the co-capital with Hartford. There were small attempts to industrialize the area in the 1730's. Abel Parmalee established a bell foundry in 1736, becoming New Haven's first true industry. In the 1730's there was also a sawmill functioning in Hamden that was water powered. New Haven was slowly regaining its health and once again was becoming a bustling and prosperous community. No longer were the names of Eaton and Davenport the topics of Conversation, now it was Roger Sherman, James Hillhouse and Benedict Arnold that captured peoples interest. Osterweis states: "New men, ambitious and energetic, began to arrive . . . Ships engaged in trade with the West Indies were slipping in and out of the busy harbor . . . New Haven...was emerging from its medieval period" .
- - - Francis J. Degnan
When peace and security were established in the CONNECTICUT region after the destruction of the Pequods in the summer of 1637, a desire for emigrating thither was revived. At about that time several gentlemen destined to occupy conspicuous places in history as founders of a state arrived at Boston. These were Rev John Davenport, a popular Puritan preacher of London, who had been persecuted by Arch-bishop Laud and taken refuge in Rotterdam. Another was Theophilus Eaton, an opulent London merchant and member of Mr. Davenport's congregation and a third was Edward Hopkins, another rich London merchant and member of the same society. They were much attached to Mr. Davenport, and gladly came to share his voluntary exile from his native land.
New Haven Indians
At the time of the arrival of these gentlemen, society in Massachusetts was violently agitated by bitter theological discussions, which will be noticed hereafter. Mr. Davenport and his friends belonged to a school who sought to carry out in practice the idea of finding in the Scriptures a special rule for everything in church and state. For the purpose of trying an experiment in government on the basis of that idea, they desired an unoccupied field. From some of those who pursued the fugitive Pequods along the country bordering on Long Island Sound, they heard of the beauty and fertility of that region, and early in the autumn Mr. Eaton and a small party visited the country. He was charmed with a harbor on the north side of the Sound and on the banks of a stream, which the Indians called Quinnipiack, he erected a hut, where some of the party passed the winter to try the climate. That was on the site of New Haven, Connecticut. The place had been called by the Dutch navigator, Block, who had anchored in the harbor, "Roodenberg" or Red Hills, in allusion to the red cliffs a little inland.
In the spring of 1638, Mr. Davenport and his friends sailed for Quinnipiack, where they arrived at the middle of April. They were accompanied by a number of followers, mostly persons from London who had been engaged in trade; and in proportion to their number, they formed the richest colony in America. They spent their first Sabbath there - a warm April day - mostly under the shadow of a great oak, where Mr. Davenport preached a sermon on the subject of Jesus being led into the wilderness. They purchased the land of the Indians and proceeded to plant the seeds of a new state by framing articles of association, which they called a "Plantation Covenant," according to their peculiar ideas. In it they resolved that, as in matters that concern the gathering and ordering of a church, so likewise in all public offices which concern civil order, as choice of magistrates and officers, making and repealing of laws, dividing allotments of inheritance, and all things of like nature, "they would be ordered by the rules which the Scriptures held forth." So they began their settlement without any reference to any government or community on the face of the earth. The place where the first hut was built was on the present corner of Church and George Streets, New Haven, and the spot whereon stood the oak tree - their first temple for worship - was at the intersection of George and College Streets. For about a year this little community endeavored to learn by experience, from reflection, and light from Heaven through the medium of prayer, what would be the best kind of social and political organization for the government of the colony. They talked together much, and early in the summer of 1639 they were nearly or quite all of one mind. Then they assembled in a barn - all the free planters "to compare views and settle upon a plan of civil government according to the word of God." Mr. Davenport prayed earnestly, and preached from the text "Wisdom hath builded her house she hath hewn out her seven pillars." In his discourse, he showed the fitness of choosing seven competent men to construct the government and he then proposed for their adoption four fundamental articles; (1) That the Scriptures contain a perfect rule for the government of men in the family, in the church, and in the commonwealth; (2) That they would be ordered by the rules which the Scriptures held forth; (3) That their purpose was to be admitted into church-fellowship, according to Christ, as soon as God should fit them thereunto; and (4) That they held themselves bound to establish such civil order, according to God, as would be likely to secure the greatest good to themselves and their posterity.
These articles were unanimously adopted, when Mr. Davenport presented two other articles designed to put into practical operation the theories of the other four. These were (1) That church membership only should be freeburgesses or freemen endowed with political franchises, and that they only should choose magistrates, and transact civil public business of every kind (2) That twelve or more men should be chosen from the company and tried for their fitness, and these twelve should choose seven of their number as the seven pillars of the church. These articles were subscribed by sixty-three persons present, and soon afterward by fifty others.
The twelve men were chosen, and after due deliberation they selected the "seven pillars." After another pause, these pillars proceeded to organize a church. Their assistants, nine in number, were regarded as freemen or "free burgesses," and the sixteen elected Theophilus Eaton as magistrate for one year. Four other persons were chosen to be deputies, and these constituted the executive and legislative departments of the new-born state of Quinnipiack. To these Mr. Davenport gave a "charge," grounded upon Deuteronomy i. 16, 17. A secretary and sheriff were appointed. The "Freeman's Charge," which was a substitute for an oath, gave no pledge of allegiance to king or Parliament, nor any other authority on the face of the earth, excepting that of the civil government here established. It was a state independent of all others. It was resolved that there should be annual General Court or meeting of the whole body, in the month of October, and that "the word of God [the Bible] should be the only rule to be attended unto in ordering the affairs of government." Then orders were issued for building a meeting-house for the distribution of house-lots and pasturage for regulating the prices of labor and commodities, and for taking measures to resist the attacks of savages. They resolved, also, to choose their own company, and it was ordained that "none should come to dwell as planters without their consent and allowance, whether they came in by purchase or otherwise." In 1640 they named the settlement New Haven.
- - - - - - Benson J. Lossing, LL.D.


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"A Mind At Home With Itself"
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When we question our thoughts by doing "The Work," we are able to remove the blocks and reconnect with the place of deep love for ourselves and others.
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Job 19 The Message (MSG)
Job Answers Bildad
I Call for Help and No One Bothers
19 1-6 Job answered:
"How long are you going to keep battering away at me,
7-12 "Look at me—I shout 'Murder!' and I'm ignored;
I Know That God Lives
13-20 "God alienated my family from me;
21-22 "Oh, friends, dear friends, take pity on me.
23-27 "If only my words were written in a book—
28-29 "If you're thinking, 'How can we get through to him,
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