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Service Announcement: The Week Before Easter 2011
"This is a service announcement that bridges both LISTen: An LISNews.org Program and Ubuntu Ohio's Burning Circle. First lets pause for a word from the Internal Revenue Service."
[IRS PSA: Last Minute Filing Tips]
"In light of this being Holy Week there is no regular episode this week for either program. Operational constraints at Erie Looking Productions also prevented the production of normal programming. It should be noted that the April 30th date for the Ubuntu Ohio state rally is scrubbed and there will be a meeting on Internet Relay Chat on Wednesday night to discuss the matter. For librarians in Ohio and surrounding states, your attendance at the Ohio rally may be quite worthwhile to learn about Linux while also building community partnerships.
"The slushpile of links this week has been posted to the relevant part of gopherspace and librarians have a special challenge to see if they can still access that arcane part of the Internet. Consider this a learning activity to assess your capability to access the fairly broad spectrum of communication modalities the Internet offers. An appropriate URL will be posted to the show post.
"With that being said, have a good Holy Week and we will be back in seven days."
The slush pile: gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/skellat/2011-04-18

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five ideas for living missionally in your community
"By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." -John 13:35
We all have an innate desire to live in community with others on some level – yet for as much as we may seek it, the sense of community that we crave can feel hard to come by. We may have a sense there is something missing, or more to the story. According to The Gospel Coalition, "Community on this side of heaven isn't primarily about us though. Community is about God's glory being displayed to the world. Jesus clearly explains that the purpose of Christian unity and community is so that the world would know God the Father sent Jesus to this earth in John 17:21-24. Missional communities are different in that they primarily see the purpose of their friendship, love, and unity to be an apologetic for the gospel to their neighbors."
So often, we default to thinking that living life on mission must look a lot like being a missionary in a foreign country or dropping everything to be at events, meetings, or services. In reality, our God-given influence is not nearly as limited or black and white as we may sometimes think. Indeed, it's not about where we spend our time, for everywhere can become a mission field, if we choose to make it so. The Bible makes it clear that what is most important is our mission to make disciples, and there are oh so many opportunities for this in the living of everyday life!
Here are five simple ideas for living life on mission right where you're at, to meet others right where they're at in your own community!
Invite neighbors to co-host a progressive dinner. Breaking bread together holds great Gospel meaning and is also a wonderful opportunity for the kind of 'face time' that is instrumental in relationship building.
buy tinidazole usa Grow a garden and share extra produce with neighbors. Sometimes the intention and time spent in the the giving can speak even louder than the gift itself.
click over here now Look for those who may feel marginalized or forgotten. People who have experienced loss like death, divorce, or debilitation often feel uniquely connected with the body of Christ when remembered at times that they otherwise may be left behind because of the assumption that they don't quite fit the dynamic of the group or situation.
Make that dinner you've always wanted to share with an elderly, sick, or hurting neighbor. A great time to do this is when you're already whipping up a batch of pasta or soup. You can simply double or triple the recipe for what you're already cooking for your own family!
Be on the lookout for children in your neighborhood who may be a part of a family without a church home. They may be friends of your children, or simply kids that you yourself have come to know. Regardless, let us recognize that it is not uncommon for parents to be receptive to allowing their kids to ride along with other families to church, even if they themselves are not open to attending. Sometimes simple routines like bringing a neighbor kid along to church on Sundays can change lives, and change families for generations to come.
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This is a timely message for me. I've put myself out there recently, to find ways to live mission minded within my community. A homeschooling mama like you, I want to influence the kingdom for Christ beyond my four walls. Amen for this. I also love your blog name and the Well Studio sounds interesting. Will visit again soon.Reply
I love this! Living mission minded, focused fully on His heart, is the essence of community and the unity of communing in Him.
Bless you!Reply
Very inspiring and thought provoking.Reply


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If you have ever participated in a link program for acquiring links to your site, you might be one among those who would be on the Google scanner post-penguin updates. With its Penguin 2.0 and Penguin 2.1 updates, Google made the distinction between good links and bad links loud and clear. As soon Penguin landed, it started shuffling the search rankings and penalized sites involved in spammy links and over optimization. Penguin reacted strongly on bad link profiles and spammy link building practices that were prevailing in the domain before its arrival.
Backlink Profiling In Penguin 2.1 Age
If all is not the well with the links that you have already made in the past, what's the remedy to escape the Google ire? And here is the answer. Only a Clean Backlink Profile can help you to win the Google's trust. So, let's start with analyzing your backlinks on the following parameters:
- How you have built your links?
- From where you have acquired these links?
- Whether are not these links fulfill the quality guideline?
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- Comprehensive analysis of backlinks
- Complete analysis of the good link
- Tracking possible weak backlinks
Analyze Your Anchor Text:
The three steps given are primarily taken up during Google Penalty Removal. Anchor text analysis comes first. In order to ensure a perfect backlink profile, scrutinize the anchor texts used. While doing this you must check and enlist the number of optimized anchor text in the link profile, availability of branded links in the profile and identify how many links are being used with the same anchor text. It is therefore crucial to be specific with the branded links for your link profile. If possible, keep variations in anchor text(s) used.
Keep Track Of The Link Positioning:
The gap maintained between two consecutive links plays a significant role in backlink profiling. The term link positioning refers to the gap between two links placed in the same context. Two links shouldn't be very closer or too far from each other. It's always a good practice to ensure appropriate link positioning for a better backlink profile.
Start Managing Your Link Types:
Carrying relevant link types is also very important in creating a natural link profile. You can invite a severe Google penalty if a use a few types of irrelevant links. Prepare a check list to make a list of the links that come in this category.
Backlink Removal With Disavow:
That's the final deal. Once you have filtered that bad and messy links, send a reconsideration request to Google. Once Google receives, it puts all the bad links in the queue to consider it no-follow using its badlink removal disavow tool. Once disavowed, Google sets these links 'no-follow' and ignores them on its next crawling. This results in a clean and penalty proof backlink profile.
Don't forget to wrap up entire process and outcome within easily accessible reports. Before submitting the reconsideration request to Google make sure your list doesn't contain good links since once processed these results can't be revoked.


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Ms outlook not working behind pfsense - need help
HI there
I'm new to pfsense , but have pretty successfully configured squid + squidguard in my network.
My network topology consists of an ADSL modem + LAN.
My ADSL router has an ip address : 192.168.2.1, My pfsense WAN IP as 192.168.2.2 and the LAN Switch is on 192.168.1.0/24, my pfsense LAN IP is 192.168.1.200
I'm using squidguard (squid in on-transparent mode with port 3128 for internet access via proxy). I've no issues with internet access using my blacklist and whitelist.
The issue is using MS-Outlook 2007 clients on my LAN. I've a rediffmailpro.com account in the web and have configured outlook 2007 as IMAP client to use my email accounts. Before the pfsense was introduced, it used to work fine.
After installing the pfsensem my outlook clients are unable to connect to the email server itself. If seems they are unable to resolve the DNS itself and the outlook client throws an error "unable to reach E-mail server".
I've kept 192.168.1.200 as my gateway for LAN clients and the DNS server as 192.168.2.1 as well as my ISP dns of 188.8.131.52
But none of them works.
From the pfsense diagnostics menu, i'm able to resolve the DNS lookup, but running nslookup from my windows client on LAN, doesn't yield any results.
I guess there's something to be done either in routing and/or NAT on pfsense,
Can somebody guide how to?
mikeisfly last edited by
You shouldn't need to do anything. I suspect that you setup the domain name in Pfsense which is probably giving you some trouble. If you think its a dns issue try to use the fqdn of your mail server. Another thing you could try is to set your dns statically on your clients to confirm a dns issue, 22.214.171.124 or 126.96.36.199 works great for this. When you do a nslookup from the command line do you get a ipv4 server or a ipv6 server? Could be a ipv6 thing, I have seen this too.
well, the DNS setup at the client , using 18.104.22.168 as well as 220.127.116.11 doesn't resolve the problem. ipv6 is disabled on my clients. kindly advice further. Thanks for your reply
the fqdn of my mail server is pop.rediffmailpro.com and smtp.rediffmailpro.com
i've been using these before pfsense was installed, and it used to work fine.
recently i get error in my outlook client , while testing the email account as "error 100502". My previous error of "email server not found" seems to have been resolved, when i switched on the DHCP service on the LAN interface on pfsense.
I hope someone finds a solution to this issue.
These are my settings. Pls refer to the diagrams attached.
I wonder whats stopping my outlook clients to access the pop3 and smtp servers @pop.rediffmailpro.com and smtp.rediffmailpro.com
squid is configured under non-transparent mode using port 3128 with squidguard. I've no issues with squid and/or squidguard. Even Lightsquid is generating all reports.
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Do i need to bridge from LAN-WAN?? to make my outlook access the pop and smtp servers outside my LAN network?
IF so, kindly someone guide.
So you removed the default any any rule and put in your own specific rules.. With clearly no understanding of them at all - since for example POP does not freaking run on UDP ;) And looks like your just guessing at what you use since you have IMAP and POP and imap over ssl, etc. etc.
So what I would suggest is you put the default rule back, remove what you put in there - does outlook work now? Since you don't even allow 80 or 443 in those rules.
If you want to lock it down to just outlook, sniff a session with outlook to validate what ports it uses and then lock down your rules. Or review what protocols your using to access your mail - its unlikely your using both pop and imap and both of them clear and secure all at the same time, etc.
ooops !! must have accidentally deleted it
can you pls send a snap of how the default rule looks like. I will add it.
Thanks .
Its any any rule.
Thanks johnpoz.
I'll try that today and revert.
Meanwhile are you sure that:
1. My squid working in a on-transparent mode does not have any issues with this?
2. I don't need any bridging to be done?
3. I don't have to add any such rules on my WAN interface
for my outlook access from within the LAN.
Thanks again.
hi johnpoz
In-spite of adding the any any default allow rules at the top of the rules, doesnt help my outlook access the pop.rediffmailpro.com as well as smtp.rediffmailpro.com
I don't understand whether its the issue of the rules or squid. I'm able to access the web-sites though, with all the squidguard filtering active.
Also, i noticed that my antivirus doesnt take any updates too.
so basically its like my web browsing is fine, but any other application isn't being able to access the internet behind pfsense.
i'm using 3128 as the proxy port in my web browsers.
Supermule Banned last edited by
Yes. Have you configured your LAN settings on the PC's to use 3128 as proxy as well??
If its only your webbrowsers then Outlook doesnt have a clue that you use proxy.
i've configured my web browsers to use the proxy port as 3128 , and that how i'm accessing the internet so far, with squidguard filters active.
Its just that outlook isn't able to connect to my pop and smtp servers. precisely the servers are pop.rediffmailpro.com and smtp.rediffmailpro.com
what ive also noticed that from my client pc's i'm unable to ping the ADSL router ip (192.168.2.1) , but i can ping the WAN ip (192.168.2.2) which is directly connected to the ADSL router.
any luck!!
^ exactly if your using a proxy you need to tell your applications to use the proxy.. Your transparent mode proxy only works on web ports I believe, I do not believe it works on non 80/443 ports.
I don't use the proxy in pfsense for many years.. I don't see the point in a home setup.. Unless you have kids you need to filter from bad sites, etc. Yes back in the day when my sons were teenagers filtering porn was a common task ;)
So either have outlook use your proxy or rethink your need of proxy in a home setup - is this a home setup?
I'm using pfsense in a small office setup , where ,my primary requirement is to block web based email access. Hence i'm bond to use outlook client for my pop and smtp servers hosted on the my webspace (ISP) provider. The email service provider is rediffmailpro.com
I'm NOT using TRANSPARENT mode of squid. I'm using the port 3128 (configured in my browser) to access the internet.
Do you mean to say that i need to configure squid in TRANSPARENT mode inorder to make other application such as outlook and antivirus software get connected to the internet?
also, there's no setting as such in the outlook client to configure it to use a proxy. It takes the settings from Internet Explorer browser itself.
Hope there's a solution to this.
Thanks All
If you using in explicit mode - then configure your client vs relying on auto anything..
But if your not using transparent mode then anything not set to use the proxy should just go out the normal firewall rules and should work.
So you have any any rule currently - tell outlook NOT to use the proxy and does it work then? If so then you can configure the correct firewall rules to work and you will be good
the issue is this. Outlook doesn't have any settings for proxy setup. It uses the setup provided by IE (browser).
i've decided to re-install pfsense and try this all over again. Actually a bit fed up with tweaking it for past one week.
And you can tell outlook NOT to do that!!!
i need to check that.
meanwhile i tried changing my email client from outlok to thunderbird. The best part is thunderbird has a settings for proxy, but when i configure it, and try to acces my mails, i see no errors , but even i don't see any mails popping and mails are not going out too.
So i decided to re-install pfsense all over again with squid and squidguard + lightsquid
Do you thin that SQUID has to be configured in Transparent mode for this thing to work?? I guess not. Let me try again and revert.
Ok - so outlook 2007, I can look when I fire up my work laptop. But from quick google guess it has no proxy settings. And only uses IE setting, but only for http.
So that being said - if your lan rules allow the traffic it should work.
Tell you what – if you setup a test email account for me to play with, more than happy to work out what you need to do. Just PM me the details. I wont be sending more than a couple of test emails to validate it works. And then you can kill the account.
I don't have any problems firing up squid for testing, etc.
what details you need?
I'll be onsite from 11am IST.
Let me know.
Just need login info for a mailbox on your server. I can then behind my pfsense validate access using outlook 2007 and setup squid on my pfsense and work out what your doing wrong, etc.
so from looking at my outlook 2007, the only proxy support it seems to have is when connecting to an exchange server using http/https - under the connections section outlook anywhere.
If you are using proxy that prevents access directly out and only the proxy can connect out then you would need to setup your proxy to handle the connections on the ports your using and point your email client to the PROXY for server settings, pop, imap, smtp etc. And then setup the proxy to connect to your outside server.
I could test with using something like my google account with outlook - but would be better to use an actual account on your server so I can figure out exactly what your using be it pop or pop over ssl or imap or imap over ssl, be it you have to auth to your smtp server first before sending mail, etc. etc..
thanks for such overwhelming response.
I re_installed pfsense and my outlook started working . I guess there were some issues with the defaults rules. Also i had installed 2.0 , but now installed 2.1 version.
Thanks again.
no the default rules would allow ALL traffic.. From what I can tell is you removed the default rule and were creating your own, etc.


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Well good morning everyone!
I am back on a Design Team for The Outlawz! This time it is the Progressive Freebie Challenge and today we have a new one starting.
Rules are simple: Each month we will send you a free digital image to use in the Freebie/Progressive challenge. Once your creation is completed, upload it into the freebie challenge at The Outlaws and you will automatically receive the next month free digi. We will have one image per month so you have plenty of time to create a project using the image. Please register with your name and email address to:
This month's image has been provided by Teresa Arsenault (Tickell Expressions) and the winner will be able to have her make a custom digi just for them! How exciting!
Normally Teresa does not sell her images, but for a small donation to The Outlawz to help maintain the site, you will receive a copy of the image.
Normally Teresa does not sell her images, but for a small donation to The Outlawz to help maintain the site, you will receive a copy of the image.
I hope you will join us this month!
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Prisma color pencils
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City Leaders Begin Registering for the National ConferenceSubmitted by Mark Campbell on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 10:46am.
The Charlotte, NC chapter of Living Liberally city leaders to the National Conference September 5-7.
(Dick Cheney will not be wearing his hunting vest to Charlotte in September, so the proverbial ducks should be safe.)
We booked a hotel that the telecoms haven't 'bugged' yet. We've reserved a meeting space that will double as the holding cell for Rove and his buddies from the White House come January. We found an airport shuttle that runs on a clean-burning 75/25 mix of organic beer and wine. And finally, we promise to count every single Living Liberally libation drunk, er, vote cast here in Charlotte!
It's about that time, City Leaders. Register for our National Conference today!
Man, I Wish I Had One of TheseSubmitted by Amanda Riordan on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 12:27pm.
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The Liberal Card also gets you discounts to places that allow you to shop, dine and drink with a clear conscience. From a free beer at Rudy's the original home of Drinking Liberally to phone service from CREDO, we're hooking you up big time.
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Sounds Like a Plan!Submitted by Seth Pearce on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 2:28pm.
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To say that Matthew Yglesias's new book, Heads in the Sand will single-bookedly save the Democratic party is a slight overstatement. It does, however, provide what may be one the most important tools democrats can use to win in 2008 and govern in the years to come: a coherent, intelligent and aggressive liberal policy on National Security.
HITS is a book that, for starters, takes the issue of National Security seriously. Unlike many liberal thinkers and politicians of the past decade, Yglesias argues that National Security is an issue of prime importance to the Democratic Party and to America. It cannot be sidestepped in favor of domestic issues, that democrats are traditionally more comfortable with. The few democrats who do address National Security, Yglesias's "Liberal Hawks," only do so in a way that reinforces the failed Bush doctrine of militaristic nationalism, even if they disagree with his specific policies.
Yglesias asserts that since Bush took office, a National Security/ Foreign Policy ideal of using American military force to unilaterally rid the world of its evils had . Since 9/11, the face of this evil has been terrorism. Bush's War on Terror operates on the wrong assumption that you can combat a transnational villain, such as Al-Qaeda, by attacking national entities, like Iraq, and can do so through the pure might of American power. Bush's view was also faulty because it saw terrorism as an expression of "Freedom-Haters," who abhorred the American way of life, instead of as a specific reaction to specific actions taken by the United States and other countries, an idea espoused by many well-established intelligence and military organizations.
Democrats, Yglesias adds, have recently been holding more consistently anti-war positions, but have yet to attack the flawed ideological underpinnings of the Bush foreign policy nor have the provided an affirmative alternative policy. Matthew Yglesias to the rescue!
The key thesis of HITS is that instead of treating organizations like the UN as a shackle that confines and restricts American interests, the United States should focus on aggressively strengthening these kinds of organizations to create a "liberal world order", governed by laws, that could in part act as an international police force, more able to effectively confront transnational criminals than a single national army could. Thus, instead of America being the world's police department, America would become the Commissioner of a larger international police force, that would protect human lives and human rights.
McCain 4 RealzSubmitted by Travis Craw on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 1:21pm.
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It was a beautiful summers day when I sat down in my backyard with my dear old grandfather, a die-hard Texan who is ready to drive George Bush out of town in tar and feathers for being the slimiest most no good varmint ever to disgrace the name of America. So you might have been as surprised as I was when he sat me down to instruct me in the virtues of John McCain.
It was explained to me that, despite his intension to make permanent the Bush Tax Cuts, indefinitely maintain the military presence of Bush's war, and kiss the boots of the evangelical leaders who got Bush elected, John McCain is "His Own Man". I was confused, but I recalled faintly a time when John McCain called out the injustices of tax cuts for the rich, and denounced intolerant bigoted comments by Pat Robertson and John Hagee. I even felt a slight pang of nostalgia for a man who championed campaign finance reform, normalized diplomatic relations with Viet Nam, and held the promise of leading the Republican Party in a different direction than Reagan. There once was a time when people truly believed he was a reformer, but then again at that time people also though Milli Vanilli sang their own songs.
If only I had already read Cliff Schecter's "The Real McCain" as I was sitting there with Gramps, I would have been fully armed to set him straight on McCain's "Straight Shooting". Schecter simply and thoroughly takes on the real McCain issue by issue, illuminating a man, once known for progressive nonpartisan reform, who has turned his back on all of his beliefs in his ceaseless political pandering and scraping for power. To say McCain has any beliefs at all is a stretch, as when asked if contraception helps to stop the spread of HIV, McCain said, "I have to find out what my position was. Brian, would you find out what my position is on contraception."
Why Do You Need a "Progressive" Book Club?Submitted by Justin Krebs on Thu, 06/19/2008 - 5:15pm.
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Hooray! The Progressive Book Club is here! And in the next few days, I will receive three books -- including Cliff Schecter's "The Real McCain" -- for $1 each!
What might sound like a scheme on par with the treasure of deposed African dictators or a "Buy Now!" infomercial is actually a welcome and much-anticipated new cog in the growing progressive infrastructure: an organization that supports liberal authors and publishers, serves left-leaning literates, and rivals one of the right-wing's important tools.
And no, Cliff Schecter's not upset his book is being sent to me for a buck. Because if PBC takes off, there will be thousands of members exerting buying power together, giving authors dedicated audiences, and turning back the corrupting influence of right-wing groups that have helped push wingnuts into national notoriety.
But, when the reporter for this New York Times piece on PBC spoke to me (Living Liberally is a partner helping launch face-to-face Reading Liberally book clubs), she was skeptical.
"Why do you need a 'progressive' book club?" she asked. "Isn't it fair to say that like Hollywood, publishing already has a liberal bias?"
And that all-too-prevalent assumption is exactly why we need PBC. I suggested that the success of folks like Ann Coulter shows the power of collective book-buying to create successes, and thus give someone of thin resume and thinner morals a stepping stone to punditry prominence.
"So Coulter sells books -- when Al Gore writes a book that sells too. Are liberals really having a hard time being heard?"
Yes...she equated Ann Coulter and Al Gore.
For every Gore -- you know, your run-of-the-mill author with VP experience and a Nobel price -- there are dozens of talented progressive voices that never get heard. Some notable bloggers like Jeffrey Feldman and Michael Connery can thank independent publishers like Ig for having faith in them; but then those companies need help expanding their audience.
And that's where PBC fits in.
My father doesn't read blogs. He probably won't read this post. But he reads books -- and he reads the Times. The Times told him about PBC, and he just ordered books written by netroots notables for the first time.
I always remember as we started Drinking Liberally how people asked, "You live in New York...why do you need a liberal drinking club? Isn't everyone liberal?" The fact was those liberals needed an organizing structure which gathered and empowered them. And that's the same answer I'd give to PBC skeptics: yes, there are liberal voices, books, authors, publishers, readers...now, let's actually introduce them to one another.
And get 3 books for a dollar each in the process.
When Insurance Doesn't Offer AssuranceSubmitted by Justin Krebs on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 1:00pm.
(A quick word before you read on - the review below is the last in-house work by Amanda Milstein, our incredible winter intern and indispensable partner for the last several months. While we doubt this is the last you'll see of her work on Open Left, we want to wish her the best as she heads off to get a master's degree in public policy, including a stint at a think-tank this summer. Thanks, Amanda!)
Ray Bourhis, author of Insult to Injury, is an angry man. He has good reason to be—he is a lawyer that has spent much of his career attempting to get insurance companies to pay disabled people the money that they are owed, and has seen his efforts been thwarted again and again—and seen lives of many of his clients disintegrate as a result.
Bourhis describes the travails of people like Dr. Stuart Gluck, who had three disability insurance policies. He was diagnosed with HIV and also had a nervous system disorder ad triple coronary bypass surgery, sustained brain damage as a result of surgery—this was clearly a man who couldn't work anymore. UnumProvident, his insurance company, decided that despite all of this he should still be employed and they even threatened to demand some of the money they had already paid him back.
The book talks about the insurance industry focused through the case of Joan Hangarter, a chiropractor that needed to stop practicing when she developed extreme pain in her arm and neck. Her disability insurance was then cut off, forcing her and her children into destitution and onto foodstamps. Joan wins her trial, but UnumProvident is slow in paying her the money she was awarded—and does not change its behavior towards other policy-holders.
The book provides a passionate description of how the insurance industry is allowed to swindle clients out of money that they are entitled to. Through describing the personal stories of those whose lives have been destroyed by denied insurance claims and a painstaking description of Joan's trial, Bourhis paints a picture of a society that values the corporate bottom line more than the lives of disabled policy-holders.
Journalists and ScribesSubmitted by Justin Krebs on Tue, 04/29/2008 - 12:00am.
I was being interviewed by a radio station about a snarky article I'd written for a paper-and-ink (and also online) magazine, and they referred to me as "journalist Amanda Milstein." This struck me as clearly false (although far be it from me to argue with them, given it sounds better than "part-time job-holding, part-time interning, soon-to-be grad student Amanda Milstein") - and it looks like I'm not the only one who thinks so. One of the arguments made by Clay Shirkey in his new book Here Comes Everybody (which Matt mentioned here yesterday ) is that the title "journalist" is increasingly meaningless when anyone can write a blog post about an issue and publish it — and even if they are blogging about an issue as trivial as a lost phone, it is possible for them to get a large audience.
Shirky begins by describing a Gutenberg-era pamphlet written in defense of scribes, whose jobs were being taken over by the printing press. The pro-scribe argument was printed off on a printing press for maximum efficiency — it's always bad if your chief defender can't even be bothered to use your services. All much like how my childhood best friend's instant messenger screenname was something like luddite77; if you're bothering to have a screenname, you're clearly not devoting yourself to smashing machines.
Shirky takes this prologue as a launching-pad to deal with multiple aspects of the internet community-building revolution, from the efforts of Wikipedians and lay-run online groups to help people navigate software, to the the power of informal online photo-sharing in areas where important news events are occurring. To hear Shirky extend the metaphor, as the masses are storming communication, those now called "journalists" may well soon be the scribes of our era. The ways we meet people, communicate with friends, form community and many other facets of our lives will dramatically change as well.
While I found the book a bit tedious to read, it was clearly well-researched, and had much to say that will help people understand the new dissemination of information we are witnessing in our society. If you're interested in a nibble of Shirky's ideas before you commit to the many-course meal of his book, check out his blog first.
Sometimes I wish I could cast off modern technology and just go hang out with people in the park, and potluck in my spare time. And then I run off to send those I will soon be picnicking with a frantic g-chat message to make sure that someone knows to bring plates, check my friends' blogs to make sure I am updated on the key events of their lives — and still kind of wish I could communicate via loud drum. But, as Shirky points out, the technological and communication revolution is irreversibly upon us, and we just need to figure out how to adjust to the huge new swaths of information that are now available. I personally plan on configuring my google reader to scream at me to go outside instead of keeping up on my friends' blogs — right after I change my screenname to luddite88.
If Science Is For Liberals, Then So Is BonkSubmitted by Justin Krebs on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 12:00am.
Today the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is holding a hearing about the catastrophe that is Abstinence-Only Education. In honor of that, I am reviewing Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, by Mary Roach, while filled with hope (OK, I am way too cynical to be filled with anything that even remotely resembles hope) that, in the future, science and sex will be more closely linked in classrooms around the United States.
"Since when did Science become a liberal issue?" a comic asked at last week's Laughing Liberally in NYC. I would guess that that occurred sometime between when Galileo got in trouble with the church and the Scopes Trial. But now the truth is oddly liberal, so I hereby claim Bonk for liberals and those with a high threshold for the somewhat alarming.
I was going to a Passover retreat with a left-leaning crowd and was placed in charge of books and games, so I decided Bonk would be able to entertain pretty much everyone for seventy-two hours. This was more than true — I at least entertained myself by interrupting discussions on Jewish law in order to read people quotes about testicular grafting surgery such as "At one point [the surgery-performing doctor] described curing a twenty-two year old youth of, among other afflictions, the 'frequent writing of incoherent, rambling dissertations on architecture.' It seemed no ailment stood strong in the face of another man's testis."
Seriously, is that funnier than what you can and cannot eat on Passover, or what?
I spent most of my time reading Bonk laughing so hard that I was either forced to read passages out loud or having people read over my shoulder because they wanted to know what was so funny. During a bus ride from New York to Silver Spring I read the book at the same time as a friend because we both refused to put it down.
Mary Roach discusses a variety of sexual experiments performed by such notables as Masters and Johnson, and weirdos like the great grand-niece of Napoleon Bonaparte. Roach is experimented on numerous times (she and her husband have sex in an MRI machine, she inserts a vaginal photoplethysmograph while being experimented on in a place called the Female Sexual Psychophysiology Laboratory), she visits a sex-toy factory, and discusses historical sexual scientific advances and mishaps in a way that caused me to laugh so hard I thought I would sustain serious injury to my lungs. Bonk is a gleeful and hilarious exploration of the past and future of sexual science, and covers a variety of vital topics, from a discussion of the dangers of severed penises being eaten by ducks, bizarre cures for impotence, to everything else weird and related to sex that you would, quite frankly, never be able to imagine.
Maybe America's children don't need to know how to most efficiently stimulate pigs while artificially inseminating them (There are five steps that apparently include bouncing the pig up and down — I don't really want to describe the other steps), but it would be nice if they knew enough to know more than teens in Florida, a state with abstinence-only education leads sexually active teenagers to believe that "...drinking a can of Mt. Dew would prevent unintended pregnancy, or drinking a capful of bleach would prevent HIV/AIDS." Because the science of sex can be hilarious, but not knowing anything can be downright tragic.
Aborting AlarminglySubmitted by Justin Krebs on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 12:00am.
Reading Liberally Page Turner
There's very little to say about Abortion Without Apology: A Radical History for the 1990s that isn't actively nauseating. Between a step by step guide to how to fill a vagina with blood and bits from a cow's liver in order to get a hospital to perform a D&C, and realizing that the dreams of the initial pro-choice activists would never be filled, the whole book was somewhat distressing.
The book talks about the three women who gave birth to the organization that eventually became NARAL and their impetus for becoming abortion activists. One of them married at 15 because of her family's extreme poverty, was told she would probably die if she gave birth to a second child, and then wasn't given information about or access to birth control.
The book also discusses groups like JANE, a Chicago-based women's liberation group that provided low cost abortions done by laypeople in a friendly and cookie-filled atmosphere before being shut down by the government, and feminist groups that encouraged their members to learn more about their bodies and think about how they would like to change their role in society.
I don't want to have the government controlling my body and when I reproduce (they'd have to start by giving me a federally-mandated dating class—did you know that when a guy offers to pay for dinner you're not supposed to say "Sorry, that would make blood pour out of my eyeballs?" I had no idea.). On the other hand, there is something to be said for having federal standards for medical care. I don't think I'm a radical right winger for thinking it might be safer to get an abortion from a professional, instead of by having a women repeatedly stick her thumbs through her cervix, or with an apparatus made with "a mason jar, a cork with two holes in it, two lengths of fish tank tuning, and a syringe." Do I think people who practice medicine without a license should be penalized? Absolutely not, but unlike the author of the book, it's not what I would hold up as an ideal--although with fewer medical students learning how to perform abortions it might be the only option in the future.
Abortion Without Apology ultimately conjured in me a kind of nostalgia—not for the days of living-room abortion classes or feminist abortion collectives, but for eighteen years ago when the author, Ninia Baehr, thought it a somewhat obtainable dream to hope for a day when there were no laws regulating or controlling abortions. I just hope that my daughters aren't going to have to give themselves abortions with their thumbs. Baehr's dream of a world where women have complete reproductive freedoms seems to be retreating behind a phalanx of voters who place no value on a women's right to control her body and her future.
Reading Liberally Page TurnerSubmitted by KAT on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 12:00am.
by Amanda Milstein, Living Liberally
I went to sit in on a class at a Public Policy program that I might attend next year, and decided to do the assigned reading, as I find few things to be duller than sitting in on a class when I have no idea what is going on (also I wanted to procrastinate doing my calculus homework). The book for the class was Understanding Affirmative Action by J. Edward Kellough, which is not only a clear guide to legal cases that have dealt with affirmative action, but also an excellent size to whap people with should they persist in not agreeing with your affirmative action views, whatever those may be.As an extremely small child my brother must have been exposed to a conservative news program between bouts of playing with Thomas the Tank Engine, as he would wander around the house complaining that white men were being oppressed. "How will I get into college?" he asked us angrily waving Thomas around. "How will I get a job?"
"How would you your sister to get paid seventy five cents for every dollar that you get paid? Does that seem fair?" I demanded.
I wish Understanding Affirmative Action had existed then in order to read it to my brother until he fled, and so that my pro-affirmative action arguments would have been more nuanced then "You're just WRONG!" I'm glad that I've read it as now I'll be able to argue more effectively because I understand the legal history of affirmative action, why some states decided to get rid of affirmative action, and various arguments on both sides of the issue. The next time I get into a discussion about it I'll be able to recite court cases until my face is as blue as Thomas the Tank engine — and I'm looking forward to it.
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Heather Horne and Helen Pringle on porn discrimination in the workplace
Last week, Tony Abbott was photographed at a manufacturing company beneath a pornographic calendar image.
In a piece titled 'Naked truth: Factory life laid bare for Tony Abbott' News.com concealed part of the woman-on-woman porn image with "Oops". The reporter characterised it as an issue of political staffers falling down on the job by not scouting out the building beforehand, resulting in some embarrassment for their boss Mr Abbott.
The Opposition Leader described the image as "unbelievably tacky" when I asked him for a comment.
But it's more than oops, staff sloppiness or unbelievably tacky.
Pornography in the workplace constitutes sexual discrimination and/or discriminatory harassment and is unlawful. This significant detail seemed to be passed over.
In 1993, Heather Horne and Gail McIntosh complained of sexual discrimination in employment, and victimization contrary to the Equal Opportunity Act in regard to the pornography put up by men in their workplace.
I made contact with Heather and asked her how she felt about seeing this image in a workplace.
Heather Horne: I fought for the right not to be harassed by porn in the workplace – don't let it be in vain.
When I looked at this photo it was like a time warp. I was taken back nearly two decades to 1992, working in a male dominated workplace in W.A, just 30 minutes south of Perth, subjected day in day out to wall to floor female pornography.
Why was it there? It was there because it was a convenient weapon for those males who wished to use it to sexualize my workplace and degrade the working role of any woman who dared to trespass. To complain to my co-workers, management or to my male dominated trade union brought an onslaught of victimization and ridicule in the form of verbal abuse and even physical threats. After 18 months my female colleague and I were driven from our workplace.
I am not sure it is easy to appreciate today the level of raw emotion that the decision provoked in a section of male population at the time. Some of the commentary bordered on hysteria. And the media were very happy to get the most out of it. You would have thought we were campaigning to have their willy's cut off! If the practice of burning woman at the stake for heresy had not been discontinued in the 18th century, I think we may have had to carry personal fire extinguishers.
When we decided to take action, the company and union required us to submit ourselves for a psychiatric assessment to examine if our reaction to the porn and victimisation was 'normal' and whether it could have possibly caused us any mental or emotional detriment.
The hearing and subsequent decision brought a barrage of articles from the mainstream print media sensationalizing and trivializing the case. From cartoons depicting 'hairy armpitted feminists', to articles describing the pornography as 'girlie posters' and harmless 'girlie calendars'. These were the same media outlets that declined our offer to print the real material placed before the Commission on the grounds that it was too offensive! One broadcaster said that if we had focused on our proper roles as women – cleaning floors – there would never have been a problem.
After a three year battle, the W.A. Equal Opportunity Commission found my Employer and Trade Union liable for discrimination and harassment.
The decision had ramifications across a range of areas. I recall some weeks later getting a late-night call from a prisoner at one of WA's high security Jails who had suffered the indignity of having his porn posters removed from the wall of his cell, because it was deemed to be a workplace. He left me under no illusions what he was going to do to me when he got out.
I also recall even a year after the decision being invited to do a hypothetical enactment at an ALP History Conference here in Perth. We got to play ourselves and a guy in the audience lost it big time, abused us and stormed out.
I now work for a major multi-national company in the Oil and Gas Industry. Yes, it is still a boys club. But the wallpaper has changed. It has taken two decades and no small impetus was the legal precedent set by that land mark decision in 1994 and the changes it made to vicarious liability with both employers and trade unions.
It is with a quiet sense of pride that I walk on to work sites today and see posters on safety, health and EEO policy. Unfortunately it would seem the news has not filtered through to Digga Manufacturing in Brisbane.
We cannot allow the trivialising of images like this in an Australian workplace. These images are unlawful! Gail and I went through a lot to achieve the ruling. All workplaces should abide by it.
Pornography: The Harm of Discrimination: Dr Helen Pringle
The display of the calendar at Digga Manufacturing is prima facie a sign of unlawful discrimination in that factory.
A very common use of pornography is as sexual discrimination, itself a well-recognised form of harm in our society. And the evidence of pornography's harm in this respect stares us in the face as we go about our everyday lives. Take your car to be serviced at a garage. Ask a lifesaver for his help in the clubroom. Call in at a fire station. Check out an army camp's walls. Accompany Tony Abbott on a visit to the factory at Digga Manufacturing. Now ask me about evidence of the harm of pornography.
The walls of the garage, the clubroom, the fire station, the camp or the Digga factory form 'an environment which itself amounts to sexual discrimination'. That phrase comes from a decision of the Equal Opportunity Tribunal of Western Australia on 21 April 1994.
The 1994 case was brought by Heather Horne and Gail McIntosh, who complained of sexual discrimination in employment, and victimization contrary to the WA Equal Opportunity Act. In its decision, the Tribunal noted, 'It is now well established that one of the conditions of employment is quiet enjoyment of it. That concept includes not only freedom from physical intrusion or from being harassed, physically molested or approached in an unwelcome manner, but extends to not having to work in an unsought sexually permeated work environment. An employer who requires an employee to work in such an environment is subjecting the employee to a detriment and may be held to be unlawfully discriminating against that employee.' The Tribunal held that 'quiet enjoyment of employment' includes freedom from discrimination, which would require an employer to ensure a workplace free from the display of 'sexually explicit or implicit cartoons, … photographs of naked men or women, and publications featuring such photographs or containing other lewd or sexually suggestive printed material'.
That is, the display of the calendar at Digga Manufacturing is prima facie a sign of unlawful discrimination in that factory. And it is evidence of the harm of pornography as discrimination.
In the WA case, Heather Horne and Gail McIntosh had taken jobs in a heavily male-dominated workplace. Their duties included cleaning the amenities and crib rooms of the workers. When they complained to their union and to the company about the pornographic 'wallpaper' in the amenities, men in the workplace escalated the displays. For example, a poster of a man and a woman having anal sex, which was the property of a union shop steward, appeared on a crib room wall. The women found about a dozen posters on one wall, including a statue of a panther performing cunnilingus on a woman, two women having sex, and a woman placing a banana in her anus. One full-length nude poster had been used for dart practice. It had also been violently stabbed through the heart, head and genitals.
Heather and Gail found these posters not merely offensive but threatening and degrading, that is, discriminatory intimidation. When they complained, Heather and Gail were told that they were prudes and wowsers. They were called troublemakers, and were subjected to other forms of harassment and ridicule, including obscene graffiti about them in the toilets. Union officials and workers told them 'that it was a male workplace, the Complainants had no right to bring a women's perspective into it, they were lucky to have jobs and if they wanted to work in a male environment they would just have to "cop it".' At a Christmas party, they were attacked with high-pressure hoses, like the marchers for the vote in Selma, or the demonstrators for democracy on the bridges of Cairo.
Heather and Gail saw the use of pornography in their workplace as a threat to their dignity and to their standing as equals in the workplace. They described the effect of the use of pornography as 'Degrading; we felt total lack of respect; we felt threatened; we felt that these people didn't consider you as a part of their workforce – you were treated as someone totally different. You were alienated from them and it made me want to be sick; fear, because every time one went up it was an attack on me, a personal attack.'
Heather and Gail's story of the harm of pornography is not an isolated one. Many women wrote letters to them after the case telling similar stories from other Australian workplaces, and other successful cases were brought, such as at Mt Isa Mines by Narelle Hopper. Heather and Gail's courage and strength deserve to be remembered as a landmark of women's struggles for equality in Australia.
And the next time someone asks you for evidence of the harm of pornography, you can tell this story. For starters.


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Wouldn't trade Phillip Yancho's dentistry for any other. I've been privileged to be under his and his assistances care for years. His assistants are well trained in keeping the work area asceptic. There hands never stray from the work area when they are working on you. It's like being in an operating room. I notice those things because I was a nurse. My experience has always been pain free. The next day you can always count on a pleasant phone call from Mr. Yancho to see how you are doing. Everyone is always pleasant and cheerful. You will be in good hands with the Phillip Yancho team! More
Dr. Yancho and his staff are all very kind and friendly and they make sure you are comfortable andpain free. He is an excellent dentist and I highly recommend him. More
Dr Yanch is not only a amazing cosmetic surgeon his personality will leave you feeling as though he is a family member. To those who have fear about shots, let me say I have been to different dentist in my life and have felt some or tremendous pain with the shots I have been givin. NOT Dr Yanch he does magical shake to your cheek so that you feel nothing or next to nothing when he administers the numb solution. More
LOVE! Horrific dental experience with our now 11 year old. We've been coming to see Dr. Y for 5 years now. I've never seen patience and genuine concern for a patient. It took us 4 visits before my son would even sit in the chair. Now he gets comfy and has even fallen asleep (snoring and all). More
I have had the great pleasure of having my teeth worked on by Dr Yancho and his staff since January 2016..they are by far the best dental experience i have had for years!! From the kind and professional staff to the dental students from UofM I have been treated with care, respect and received fantastic dental care!! As a retired nurse and veteran I highly recommend their office!!!! More
I have been a lifelong dental phobe cursed with problem teeth. It took me 8 years in California to find a dentist I was comfortable with and trusted. When we moved to Northern Michigan I was terrified to begin the hunt for a great dentist again but the tooth gods smiled down on me two years ago and I found Dr. Yancho. All those 5 star reviews? Believe them! I have had dental implants, cosmetic restorations, and fillings all performed by him and they were all a walk in the park for me. He is gentle, reassuring, knowledgeable and skillful. The staff is fantastic and seems almost like a family. Visit this practice just once and you will never want to see anyone else, I guarantee it. More


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6 Things To Know Before You Take Out A Mortgage
With a term of anywhere between 10 and 50 years, a mortgage is the largest single financial transaction most people perform in their lifetime. With so much money (and time) on the line, it's crucial that you do your due diligence. So before you sign on the dotted line, doRead More →


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GB enthusiasts spoilt again.
It may be a case of the before the Lord Mayor's show but if you want to get a hold of the most powerful laptop around ahead of Core 2 Duo's monstrous launch check out this beast from perennial UK powerhouse rock.
Available within 48 hours, the company's Xtreme CTX will be the first laptop in the UK to feature Intel's new flagship Core Duo T2700 CPU. This processor runs at a speedy 2.33GHz sports a 667MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) and carries a hefty 2MB of cache.
Like any computer however a lappy is only as good as the components around it so enthusiasts will be chuffed to discover this 17in behemoth comes equipped with a 1080p capable WUXGA (1920 x 1200) X-Glass screen, 1GB of DDR2 667MHz RAM and a top of the line nVidia GeForce 7900GTX graphics card with 512MB of RAM. Things don't stop there either with a 100GB 7,200RPM hard drive, 8x dual layer DVD rewriter, 802.11a/b/g wireless, gigabit LAN and Bluetooth.
Perhaps most impressively the Xtreme CTX T2700 edition comes in at just £1,761.33 including VAT. That's a lot of dough in normal circumstances before for specs like this it is rather a good deal. As I said, the only fly in the ointment as far as this lappy goes is the impending arrival of Core 2 Duo, but that doesn't mean you should overlook bargains in the mean time…
If you're looking to train those biceps by dragging this porker around with you then you'll be pleased to know rock has just completed a deal with Cloud to provide all new customers with a month's free WiFi access from any of Cloud's 7,000 hotspots around the UK.


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The Snow Queen
14 December 2014
The Snow Queen at Princess Pavilion, Falmouth. Time 3pm.
Cornwall Dance School presents 'The Snow Queen'! A magical show following the tale of Edmond, Peter, Lucy and Susan as they discover a new world, filled with Ice.
When they meet Anna, long lost sister to Queen Elsa they soon realise that this is no ordinary land and that they may have a battle on their hands before they can make it back home!
This wonderful tale featuring scenes from Narnia and songs from Frozen, mixes Dance, Drama and Song to bring you a fantastic Christmas tale perfect to warm up those winter blues!
All tickets £8
Call 01326 211222 or book online via www.crbo.co.uk


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Welcome to Wellspring Dental Group
Welcome to Wellspring Dental Group, a family dental practice with offices in Nashua and Bedford New Hampshire. It's dentistry for the whole family... with a personal touch. At Wellspring Dental, we are guided by an individualized approach to dental care, providing best-in-class solutions individually tailored for each member of your family. We are a full-service family dental practice offering a wide array of dental services, including routine dental exams and cleanings, periodontal treatments, dental bonding, fillings, crowns and bridges, oral surgery, dental implants, root canal therapy, dentures, orthodontics and more!
Our office was designed, equipped and staffed specifically to provide you with the best service possible in a comfortable, relaxed environment. In fact, we aim to make your dental appointment the highlight of your day!
Stop by. We'd love to show you how we do dentistry differently.


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Should I form a Kansas S Corporation?The S Corporation:
An "S Corporation" is a corporation that elects to be taxed under Subchapter S of the Internal Revenue Code (enacted in 1958 and periodically amended) and receives IRS approval of its request for Subchapter S status. As a legal entity (an artificial person), the S Corporation is separate and distinct from the corporation's owners (the stockholders).
Kansas S Corporation Advantages and Disadvantages
Advantages of the S Corporation:
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Kansas' 2008 Business Tax Climate Ranks 31stKansas ranks 33rd in the nation's State Business Tax Climate Index. The Index compares the states in five areas of taxation that impact business: corporate taxes; individual income taxes; sales taxes; unemployment insurance taxes; and taxes on property, including residential and commercial property. The ranks of neighboring states were as follows: Nebraska (43rd), Missouri (15th), Oklahoma (19th), and Colorado (13th).
Kansas' Individual Income Tax SystemKansas's personal income tax system consists of three separate brackets with a top rate of 6.45%, kicking in at an income level of $30,000. That top rate ranks 21st highest among states levying an individual income tax. Kansas's 2005 individual income tax collections were $746 per person, which ranked 27th highest nationally.
Kansas' Corporate Income Tax SystemKansas's corporate tax structure consists of two brackets with a top rate of 7.35%, kicking in at an income level of $50,000. Among states levying corporate income taxes, Kansas' rate ranks 23rd highest nationally. In 2006, state-level corporate tax collections (excluding local taxes) were $137.93 per capita, ranking the state 28th highest among states that tax corporate income.
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Why Is A Metal Melting Furnace So Important In America?
Have you ever heard of an induction furnace? If not, then you probably are unaware of how valuable and important this induction furnace for sale can be. As a matter of fact, the United States economy could really use some induction melting furnace options for steel melting. That way, a metal melting furnace can work on American made steel. Here is why:
What does a steelworker do if they need to take steel or metal and put it into a different shape of physical? The answer is simple but the process is not easy at all, to say the least. The melting point of steel is just about 2500 degrees Fahrenheit. Therefore, a powerful metal melting furnace is required to even come close to this ridiculous melting point.
A big, metal melting furnace is going to work to produce a high amount of heat. That way, the metal melts quickly into a liquid. Then, induction hardening is used to c


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25 November 2009
Holiday Uniform....make it simple and chic!
Let's move on here this week to some useful information, shall we? Putting together a sensational outfit for your holiday uniform. Did I say uniform? Yes, I did! I don't always abide by the uniform because I dress according to mood but generally have a small selection that I choose from for holiday set aside anyway. For some people a go-to uniform or two is just the ticket for the hectic schedules they keep with cocktail parties, dinners and holiday events throughout the next couple of months. Very economical too! The color palette these days is so easy to build a small wardrobe around using blacks and grays with pops of colors. Deep purples and plums are all the rage. So are bold colors such as fuchsia, royal blue and emerald greens. Metallics are still showing on the racks big time; silver, gold and copper in metallics, lames and satins! There's so much to chose from! Start with the simple backdrop of a black slack or skirt. Above the knee is a good place to begin with the skirt and grab a couple of pairs of opaques to go with. You can wear a pump, a bootie or a tall boot with this look. Top it with a color, either in a blouse, an embellished or floral ruffle sweater or tee and jacket. Layer strands and strands of beads, pearls and metals and you're good to go. If you need the comfort of a slack there are many cuts seen today. The straight or pencil cut is all the rage but if it's not within your comfort zone don't feel pressured. Anything goes, really. Once piece jumpsuits are back. Can you handle it? Satin, no less! Gorgeous for a holiday party and so chic and comfortable. If this isn't for you, stick with a slack and a terrific flowing white blouse with lots of bling. Scarves and wraps continue to be accent embellishments that add a distinctive look to something simple an do double duty for warmth. Peep toe pumps or a gorgeous satin strappy platform sandal will finish off any outfit and give it a dressy and hip look. There are sales and bargains galore out there. You can pick up some great pieces for less but don't scrimp on your shoes! Standing for a couple of hours in a poorly constructed pair of pumps can do more damage than good if they are killing your feet! When my feet hurt, everything hurts, so shop with longevity in mind with the trendy shoes and don't go over the top trendy, that way you can get more wear per buck and not feel the guilt. Again, strands of pearls, chains and colored stones of all shapes and sizes go. If you're bold pile it on! Make sure you stand in a full length mirror when you dress so you know the balance is right. Even petite women can pull of this look if done right. Add pieces then take off a couple and see what balances your frame the best. Top it all off with a metallic clutch and a stunning black wrap secured with a broach and you've got a uniform! Simple go-to pieces to get you through the next six weeks or so right into the new year. Enjoy the festivities feeling great! Cheers...and thanks for reading! Miriam
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09 November 2009
Rain, Rain, Go Away....I've personally had enough, if anyone cares!
Rain, Rain, Go Away....and I don't really care if it comes back another day!!! I can't believe how much precipitation has been dumped on our heads this past month! It was a pretty soggy summer too but come on now?! Rain is good. We all know the benefits of what a good soaking can do, and I truly doubt we'll be in a drought situation next spring because our reservoirs have got to be brimming over like an unattended baby pool! I'm just saying, the wet dog, the muddy feet, the frizzy do! I can't take it anymore. I have been hoping for snow...which I really can't seem to tolerate more than a dusting of as of late...just so it's less messy to get around. Too many fall sporting games have been cancelled to ever try to reschedule. I can't remember the last time I washed my car! I mean, ya know, with real soap and all. Grungy liquid from the polluted sky has had to suffice. The only benefit I can see is that I did manage to get a few extra winter chores accomplished at home that I usually wouldn't have tackled until later in the year. My holiday cards are ordered, the kids playroom is sorted and organized and so is my cedar closet. Don't look in my back yard because fall cleanup has yet to be completed although I could probably pull an entire shrub out with my bare hands, the soil is so soft and pliable. My children have benefited a little from the foul weather. Less play outdoors and more time dedicated to studying and reading. What else is there for them to do? When you can get your kids to voluntarily study? Then let it rain! While it does have it's drawbacks, I'll try to remember that after the the rain comes the sun and along with it, renewal. Springtime rains bring new growth, fragrant blossoms and perfect beauty so I'll try not to complain too much. At the pace this fall is going spring is just moments away. However, for now, look indoors and find a couple of things you can chalk off your to-do list! I don't think we've seen the last of it yet! Thanks for reading! Miriam
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Man, everything is a blur these days. I wake up to beautiful sunlight, and bed down exhausted and satisfied. Here in Burton, OH, I'm sitting in a slow going diner eating a cheeseburger and trying to reflect on every detail and town we've been through since last I posted. I spoke with a past big rider today admitting my inspiration to write has slowly gone away since I found it got in the way of the actual experience. I want to share every moment and detail with myself and others, but truthfully my energy has gone other places. Like playing Ucher (our new team card game), or just sitting down and reading. I don't see myself doing things at this pace anytime soon. For better or worse 🙂
So to highlight the most recent events, I was posing in front of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland when a friend got stuck in his pedal and over he went, taking me down with him. A few gashes, a trip to the ER to hang out with another Big Rider who was sick, and a good ol' brush scrub down made that fall unforgettable. Following that incident we ran into a few more bumps today with sick riders, and a geographically scattered group . We as a group had been experiencing a few bumps over the ride, but that's to be expected. You sign up for 48 days and you should prepare for moments of inconsistency. My hope is that we all can reunite before the finish line healthy and accounted for.
To date, I have no words but to say thank you to everyone who provided the tools and strength for my journey. I was talking on the phone last night with Jay, telling him the one thing that always makes this journey worthwhile is inspiring people. I love hanging out in a local shop, sharing the journey with others, watching them go bug eyed and telling us they wanted to always do something like that. I smile and share the encouraging words passed on by past Big Riders. You Can Do It!! Oh yeah, big or small, experienced or not, you can take on an epic journey such as this. If not riding a bike, I mean, something can be done to get you doing something you never thought you could do before. Even if it's jumping off a diving board when you're scared to death of doing such a thing. That deserves as much credit as this. Ultimately, the journey asks of us to overcome our own obstacles, to challenge ourselves.
I have a huge gash on my leg but I remember my first reaction when I saw it. I started laughing and telling my friend I'll never forget that it happened. In fact I started adding up the drinks he had to buy me now. Score!!
So glad I have a sense of humor for mostly anything on this ride. That's really what you need. Not so much the physical as it is the mental. I admit to feeling homesick sometimes, ready to get off the bike and take a flight home to see friends and family. But with 7 days left, this is our homestretch. That's what keeps me in the game, as I hope it does for the rest of us. Only 7 days left. We started out from Seattle. We can take care of the rest. Here are some pictures to follow! Sorry for lack of detail of the locations. If you're a past Big Rider you'll understand. Everything blurs after awhile. The towns just pass by through our minds, and we usually don't know what day it is of the week. But to sum it up, it's all freaking incredible!!


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This is a guest post from Jennifer Welford, Small Business Team – Accounts and Legal.
'Ethnography' is one of those obtuse marketing words, like 'psychographic' or 'ideating,' which marketing industry insiders often use to maintain an aura of deep intellect in their field so that business owners simply must hire them.
Put simply ethnography is the scientific description of people and their customs, habits, and mutual differences. By using ethnography all businesses can benefit from a better understanding of their clients true behaviours.
How do you do it?
Deadly secrecy surrounds the results of ethnography studies, usually because they are so effective that corporations do not want their rivals to know their findings. In essence, the term 'ethnography' means a form of consumer observation which records actual behaviour, rather than feedback from customer surveys, or indexing all the pages they have 'liked' on Facebook.
The reason this is important is that everyone knows the lifestyle we claim to have on social media can be a glossy, airbrushed version of reality. And, in feedback surveys, questions can often bias a respondent towards a certain answer, by offering a reward for completing the survey. Therefore, their subconscious desire to please the researcher can mean the participant's responses are not totally genuine.
So, if you want customers honest and unguarded opinions you either have to mislead them as to the purpose of the survey – the placebo effect – or watch their actual real-life choices.
Observe them in their natural habitat
Ethnography studies involve a researcher actually accompanying the subject/customer home or to work, to observe them for several hours until that point that their behaviour becomes unconscious and is no longer affected by observation. Then, the disparity between what they say and how they act is apparent. For example, a group of surgeons in an operating theatre were asked if they had enough light. While they said they did have enough light, they were observed constantly shifting their heads to get a better view of the patient. Keith Goffin of Cranfield School of Management, who performed the study, said the company which commissioned the research took this finding and created a throw-away light stick that could help surgeons see better in their operating theatres.
However, those who cannot afford to contract psychological researchers to trail their target demographic can still learn from this technique. It could simply mean that when designing surveys and feedback forms, businesses need to dig a little deeper and ask why the respondent has chosen a certain option, forcing the customer to think for themselves and articulate why they have chosen the option.
Reverse psychology
Alternatively, you could take the psychometric testing approach and deliberately throw challenging questions at them, like "Do you strongly dislike Cheesestrings?" or "Is Net-a-Porter too expensive for the likes of you?". This approach can be a good way to provoke a strong reaction, or at least bring underlying feelings to the surface.
Challenging people to articulate their view of a brand or product can do more good than suffocating them with clap-happy platitudes about how great the brand is.
A simple application
Consider the supermarket brands Tesco and Morrison that recently changed their policy on keeping sweets by the checkout till. Keeping sweets and other items next to the tills is a is classic retail strategy that aims to boost confectionery sales through impulse buying.
However, by observing customers they found that customers felt that the supermarket giants were exploiting their weakness for confectionery for a fast buck. Removing the sweets from next to their tills, the supermarkets presented themselves as helping consumers make healthier lifestyle choices and, as such, the companies earned better relations and improved brand loyalty.
So, if businesses want to better persuade their customers that they have their interests at heart, start by looking at what they really need, rather than what you think they need.
This is a guest post from Jennifer Welford, Small Business Team – Accounts and Legal.
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Angelica Is an Angelic Herb
Notes from a Lancashire Countryman
The wild Angelica,Angelica sylvestris is a late flowering member of the parsley family {Apicaceae} which may best be identified by its stout stems distinctive foliage and large domed shaped flower heads. These umbels are often tinged with a pink.
Angelica flowers later than the common hogweed, Heracleum sphondylium, but during July and August the flowering period of the two species may overlap, and where they dwell together may cause confusion especially from a distance. However, closer observation will reveal significant differences between the two species, with the help of photographs the differences will be more easily observed.
Let us start with the obvious features such as the foliage. Those of the common hogweed,{see my hub Hogweed }, Those of the hogweed have coarsely divided wide lobes while those of the angelica have neat leaflets they are airy, and the whole leaf is triangular in outline. They both have inflated sheaths were the leaf stalk joins the stems.
Top. Hogweed foliage. Middle and Bottom. Angelica foliage
Umbels or flower heads
Next a closer observation of the umbels{flower heads}. Those of the hogweed are flat like a table top. The outer petals of each umbel {spoke like structures} that make up the flower head are larger than those in the middle. The petals are of a dull white colour. Those of the angelica compose a flower head that is rounded or domed shaped often the umbels have pink hues about them.
Flowe rheads or Umbels of Angelica. Below the Umbels of Hogweed
The cultivated species or garden angelica, Angelica archangelica has long been cultivated for its medicinal purposes. The roots and seeds being the main components for such use. The stems and seeds have been employed in the preparation of liqueurs. The dried foliage has aromatic qualities and have been added to herbal beers.
Components of the Angelica
It is recommended that the roots are dug up in the autumn of its first year of growth when they are considered to be at their best. They must be dried rapidly and immediately placed into an air tight container. Studies have revealed that treatment of this manner will keep their medicinal properties viable for many years. Thick roots should be sliced length ways to aid the drying process.
Stems should be cut about June or July for the purposes of being candied, which is done on a commercial scale, to produce cake decorations for the confectionery products.
Angelica has properties which are said to be calming, diaphoretic, stomachic, tonic and expectorant. It was regarded as being good to counteract the symptoms of colds and flu, colic,pleurisy and infections of the urinary organs. Modern day science disputes some of its medicinal virtues. For instance the use of seeds and foliage is unapproved. It also gives the following warnings. Pregnancy --there are documented adverse effects avoid the use of angelica. Diabetics should not take angelica it raises the blood sugar level. Angelica should not be used with any warfarin medication.
Young angelica
The name angelica
Angelica derives from the Greek Angelos, which means a messenger. It relates to a monk being visited by an angel during his dreams. The angel conveyed to him that angelica was the herb that should be used to treat the plague.
Wild angelica is said to have the same medicinal virtues as its cultivated cousin. However. here in the U.K. it is against the law to dig up any wild plant unless you have the express permission of the land owner.
Identification is important
This family of plants are notorious for having similar looking poisonous species. Therefore correct identification is necessary before consuming any from this group. Over on my website there are many others of this group featured complete with descriptions and images.


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Offense Brings Home Another Win for Women's Soccer
October 4, 2008
HUNTINGTON, P.A.-Fifteen shots, including nine of them on goal, helped lift CUA to a 2-1 win over Juniata on the road. This win also marked the opening of Landmark Conference matches.
Kelly Donnely (Garden City, N.Y./Garden City) led the offensive attack with five shots, and the game winning goal which came in the 53rd minute of play. Maggie McCarthy (Portsmouth, R.I./Portsmouth Abbey) opened the scoring for the Cardinals with a goal less than three minutes into the contest. Elyse Bellardini (Wayne, N.J./Wayne Valley) added an assist on McCarthy's goal.
Defensively for the Cardinals, Tere Rossi (Annandale, Va./Falls Church) made three saves on 12 total shots, all in the second half.
CUA will return to action on Wednesday, October 8 at 4:30 p.m. as the Cardinals will welcome York College (Pa.) to Washington, D.C.


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Sunday, July 18, 2010
Kraftin Kimmie July Release Blog Hop
It's that time again for another Kraftin Kimmie stamp release! This time however, I got help from my family to produce cool cards from the stamps. My lovely and gracious sister-in-law whipped this up.
Here's the info on the hop if you made a mistake and started here first:
Today Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps is releasing their new July images! As you've seen over the last few day in our Krafty Peeks, Annie Rodrigue has created the MOST FANTASTICAL FAIRYTALES! There are six images in the complete set and one very special one that we have created from Annie's original painting, Little Red Riding Hood.
And Steven Leary is back with Miles the Mouse and his cute girlfriend, Maisie! They are having a lot of backyard fun by the pool this month and you'll get to check them all out in today's July release day KRAFTY HOP!!
If you want to start from the beginning, just head over to the Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge Blog! As you hop from blog to blog, be sure to leave a comment at each and every stop because some lucky stampers will win packages of stamps from the new release!! And when you're done hoppin', be sure to head over to the Kraftin' Kimmie store, because ALL the new images are NOW available! OH and did we mention? Each and every order placed this week, will be entered into a draw?? One lucky customer will win a 5x7 print of Annie's Little Red Riding Hood!!
When you are done here please continue on to Designer Jeanne Streiff Blog Inky Paws. Have Fun!
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Yet Another Banjo Pig
Gotta love 'em. Check out the other pigs here.
This one is #3 for me. Its just a quickly inked sketch in the sketchbook.
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Illustration Friday: Giant
Monday, July 05, 2010
Another Banjo Pig
For those of you that are new here, I like to read Guy Francis' Blog "So Cat Tacos" and he and another Illustrator, Stacy Curtis started drawing banjo playing pigs. It got popular and other artist's started drawing their own versions, so they started a Blog just for this subject. The Dueling Banjo Pigs Blog. There's more than a hundred now. This is my second one. The wife suggested this one and when I had some free time I sketched it up in ink and watercolor in my sketchbook.
Thursday, July 01, 2010
Sketchbook Birds
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