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Sometimes, when I am listening for what God is saying to me, the message is so direct, it can't be missed. Those are the times when I am forced into a situation I have been avoiding or those times when I just keep encountering the message over and over again. Usually, in those instances, I am hearing the message loud and clear, I am just avoiding really hearing it.
At other times, I feel like there is something I am hearing but it's like a sound that I can't quite distinguish - it's familiar or it hints at something but I can't tell what it means. All of my ponderings today are of the second variety.
The last two days have been really rich with simple and yet wonderful things that speak to me of what Christmas is supposed to be and that evoke such warm memories for me. I keep feeling this sense of comfort and safety and warmth. I feel this intense sense of belonging and quiet and peace. It's bliss and it's what I love most about Christmas. It's evenings that are sweet rather than exciting and tastes that are comforting and smells that smell like home. It's such a comfort.
I had begun to wonder whether my Christmas memories have more to do with where I live, in a reasonably affluent area (compared to the rest of the world) and in which there is no war and pretty much everyone celebrates, despite the fact that our celebrations may take different forms. I got pondering whether there are people around me who truly don't have those warm and safe memories that carry us through the hard times. While my family was pretty close to poor when I was growing up and there was a Christmas where there hadn't been gifts and an anonymous benefactor supplied my parents with gifts and a turkey, I had no knowledge of the struggles, I just knew that were had a family and we would be together and all of the familiar ornaments were around us and we would feel blessed. A friend came over the other day, though, and started to cry. She said that she hates Christmas because she has no warm Christmas memories - it was always awful, with her parents fighting, her alcoholic father angry and her being afraid of what might be to come. It really hit me - there truly are people, and people I love, who don't have that warmth to carry with them. I know I sound hopelessly naive, but in my world, despite the fact that people have horrible experiences, they do have those blessed times to remember and warm them.
It came to me that truly, while it's easy to dismiss those cloyingly trite Christmas memories as being shallow and unimportant but that would be wrong. Christmas is a time that we can truly bless the people around us and help them to build those feelings of love and comfort. While much of what Jesus had to say was challenging and compelling and, frankly, downright scary, there is still always that message of love, of the fact that we will be fed and we will have fellowship and we will have someone counting the hairs on our heads. It made me want to bless everyone I encounter - a homemade knitted gift for my friend's mother who is sinking in alzheimers, a warm and welcoming Christmas Day breakfast for my friend the widow who misses her husband so much at Christmas, a welcoming Christmas party for my daughter and several of her friends, a hand-knitted hat with a letter to welcome a refugee, a small gift for everyone who cares for my kids. It made me change my perspective from one of trying to get everything done to one of trying to make each experience a blessing. I want to treasure each chance to help someone to build a memory, to feel a sense of love from someone and to know that he or she IS NOT ALONE.
That is the gift I want to be able to give this Christmas and it is a gift that gives to me as much as to the person to whom I am giving.
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Sunday, November 29, 2015
Advent 1 -What is God Saying to You This Advent?
I go to this women's study group/prayer group on Wednesday nights that has been such a sanity-establishing place this year. It's the MOST eclectic group of women (that's another post) and we meet, talk about parenting and struggles as mothers, discuss a book and pray together. I think, terrifyingly, that I may even have found my "tribe". Anyway, each week, J, one of the women opens by asking us the question, "What do you think God is saying to you this week?"
The first time she asked, I was really stumped. I read the Bible, I pray, I listen to faith podcasts and I read voraciously. Despite all that, I have never simplified it down like that. I had really changed my thinking. It has made me much more conscious of my need to listen. It's been life-changing to me in terms of what I actually hear.
I have also been feeling very much called to honour Advent this year. I love Christmas but so often, it becomes a crazed rush and belief and quiet and preparation don't come into it. I wanted this year to be different (and if you ever read here, you have heard me say THAT before). I thought I might combine the two and ask myself, "What is God saying to me today? How can I get ready for the arrival of Jesus?" While Advent begins today, I have already been hearing God's call to me., which makes want to write so that I don't forget. So, a blog series is born. I don't know whether I will be able to write every day but that is my challenge.
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Over the last few days, we have been getting out our decorations. In our family, we like to decorate first Advent (I find that if we jump into Christmas too early, it's tired by the time it actually arrives. I grew up in a family that put the tree up Christmas Eve and it adds so much to the excitement that the time is actually here!)
Of course, the kids want to help and they have been frenzied with revisiting familiar ornaments. Me, in my slightly OCD way, feels that there is a "right" way to do it and I found myself feeling very frustrated (to the point of getting a bit chippy) with the fact that every time I turned around, another display had been rearranged or "messed up." Then, the question popped into my mind, "What might God be saying to me here?"
Then, I suddenly saw it. The kids were playing with Jesus and the Wise Men and the shepherds. They had Rudolph and Hermie and the scary white thing from Rudolph (forgive me, I was traumatized by Rudolph as a child, I don't get the appeal) coming to worship the King. Wow. My kids were seeing something that I wasn't. They wanted to be right in there, worshiping, getting to know the story, acting it out right in our living room. They knew that everyone needed to come and worship and I am quite sure that shepherds and sheep and camels and poor urchins certainly would not have stood in a properly choreographed line. The chaos they were creating in getting into the story was exactly what we should be doing. I was acting like the apostles when they tried to keep the children away from Jesus.
Have faith like these little ones... My first challenge for this Advent season.
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'MahaDharma' is for those who are desirous of true and universal self-development, freethinking –reasonable and lovers of true spirituality. 'MahaDharma' is the excellent system of universal development. That is 'MahaDharma' which helps to develop our conscious Mind, that which is free from all bad sides like superstition, malice, hatred, cruelty, malpractice, and which does not give us any false promise. The main subject of this brilliant system is, true and universal self-development (Maha Atma-Vikash education) -that which directly helps to develop our mind, that which teaches the method of better living and that which helps and incite or insist to get true knowledge. In fact, 'MahaDharma' is neither Religion nor irreligion; even it is not like current 'Dharmic' systems also. It is a new concept of human welfare.
'MahaDharma' is formed by some students and devotees of MahaManas alias MahaAnand –the great sage of the modern age, and it is formed on the base of 'MahaVad'. 'MahaVad' is a true spiritual, –true and universal self-developmental doctrine & teachings of MahaManas. Making us fully developed human being –is the chief object of 'MahaDharma'. This Maha system of universal development chiefly consists with virtues and duties of human beings, not with any blind-faith and inhuman activities. The chief duty is to belong to the universal self-development education of 'MahaVad' ('Mahaism').
The bounden duty of human beings is the practice of 'MahaDharma'. The main duty is to advance to be fully developed human being –to get true development of conscious mind and universal soundness. The continuous study of that is our worship. To develop oneself consciously–continuously by the help of 'MahaVad'–the way of real life, –is 'MahaManan' or 'Maha-Yoga' practice and that is 'MahaDharma'.
On the other side, in perspective of reality or universal condition (place – time – object – surroundings etc.) and depending on deliberation which is need to do or which is proper to be done– is 'MahaDharma'. The motive of 'MahaDharna' is not to bind human beings with any self-made rules and regulations like religions and 'Dharmic' systems. Its only desire is to make conscious human beings about the law – quality – disposition and aim of nature.
By holding which Maha system of self-control and acquiring self-knowledge, one can be able to advance towards the path of true & universal self-development –to be a fully developed human being– is 'MahaDharna'. The great humanitarian MahaManas says, it is not possible to attain salvation in this stage of consciousness. There are high to higher conscious-stages after this human conscious stage. At last–, step by step you need to reach to God conscious stage, and then you will be able to be same soul with God. Now, do your duty of this stage, –be a fully grown human being– first.
This Maha system of universal development by name –'MahaDharma' has been introduced at the beginning of this century in India. It has a scripture and doctrine, too. But this doctrine says, it is not necessary to follow me in every part, –being a follower of 'MahaDharma' one need to follow the main principle– that is–, "you have been born as a human being, your aim is to be a fully developed human being. Try to keep yourself always wakeful –conscious, to know oneself and this worldly system with your aim of life, and be effortful to make yourself true and universal developed human being.
The great sage MahaManas says, Development of humankind or a nation is possible only through the development of individuals. For that, true and universal self-development is the main program of 'MahaDharma'. MahaManas also says, an individual by oneself will be able to decide that which is proper to be done and which is to be practiced, –after knowing rightly oneself. Therefore 'MahaDharma' does not load any code of conduct or any rules and rites. It helps us to be developed rightly, –by that one can be able to know oneself and God in its own reality. When some conscious persons will be enough developed in different places by the help of 'MahaDharma' (Maha-self-development program), then those who are connected with them, also will be eager to be developed. In this way, so many human beings can be developed gradually.
'MahaDharma' is not like other religions or 'Dharmic' systems. The differences here are more pronounced than the similarities with them. Worship of God is not object of this system. The main object of 'MahaDharma' is to make us fully developed human beings. Development of mind and also blooming of consciousness is the fundamental tune of 'MahaDharma' –and that is the natural quality of human beings. The great universe existence is the God –from the viewpoint of 'MahaDharma' (for details visit our websites).
'MahaDharama' is the eternal truth which has revealed newly from the abyss of oblivion, or which was hiding for our ignorance so long. We –self-oblivious men, forgetting our aim of life, are living in an ecstatic state. By practicing which Yoga (Maha-Yoga) with great devotion, one can become a fully developed human being, is 'MahaDharma'. 'MahaDharma' is a natural way. When you will be aware or conscious about it –about aim of life, and also will be desirous to practice it –to be advanced towards the aim of life, then you will be initiated in your own path– 'MahaDharma'.
Welcome if you are of the same mentality. We want to establish a Maha-system of universal development world wide– that is 'MahaDharma' –the obligation of humanity. We are benefited and we want also you be benefited with us!
MahaDharma: The Call of humanity
Although, it is 'Dharma' in name but it is not a 'Dharmic' system (like such and such 'Dharmas'). It is 'Dharma' in true sense that is the law and quality of nature, and the natural duties of humanity. In real meaning –it is the way of real life; –it is the call or invitation of humanity, –the call of becoming fully grown human being. To respond at this call is not meaning abandon one's religion, that is to say, to hold 'MahaDharma', no need to abandon one's religion. We don't want to convert any one. We don't want to hurt any religious faith. We only want them, those who are of same mentality with us.
Practice of 'MahaDharma' is a special kind of Yoga ––'Maha Atma-Vikas Yoga' (briefly 'MahaYoga' or 'MahaManan') practice, by which one can advance on the path of becoming fully grown human being, through this true and universal self-development program. Actually 'MahaDharma' is a universal self-development program for conscious human beings.
To embody the main program of 'MahaDharma', we are desirous to set up a 'MahaManan Kendra' or 'Maha Atma-Vikas Kendra' (Universal Maha-Self-Development Education Center) of international standard. Please extend your helping hands to make successful this great endeavor.
Help us make it possible!
If you enjoy our endeavor, please spread the word about it. You can spread the light into the world and help more people find this wonderful message in this time of deep great changes. Please Share your new knowledge, Chat with your friends about 'MahaDharma' –'MahaVad', and make them enlightened. To know about 'MahaVad' & 'MahaDharma' visit- www.mahavad.webs.com & www.mahaism.webs.com and also search 'MahaVad' 'MahaDharma' through Google & Yahoo.
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I've had this for a long time now, and I'm finally getting around to sharing it! Our amazing friends over at High Rise Studio put together a little "trailer" of our wedding - we absolutely love it! Also, in case you haven't seen the photos of our wedding, you must visit the incredibly talented Jamie Delaine's blog (we are also featured on her website!)
Monday, December 19, 2011
Wedding Video!
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Christmas Gift Wrapping!
I recently had an opportunity to do a little presentation on how to wrap your Christmas gifts for the Divine Dessert Night at my church. I thought I'd give a little summary here of the ideas I shared. Of course, the ideas are not my own (although the wrapping job is) - bet you can't guess where I went for ideas! (Pinterest of course!)
It's not too hard to add a little extra love to your wrapping this year!
Tier it up with pretty paper:
Pick one print and use it everywhere (see how I did this for my gifts last year):
Use nature - pine cones, cedar branches, cranberries (or cinnamon sticks!):
Just go crazy with the curly ribbon (note: shipping paper is the most inexpensive way to wrap, and easy to accessorize! Plus, most shipping paper rolls have double the amount of paper as a regular roll of gift wrap):
Paper snowflakes (hint: iron it out on low to make it nice and smooth!):
Leftover lace/tulle:
For smaller gifts - old sheet music! (and if you can't bear to rip out a page, photocopy it!):
Eco-Chic magazine wrap with matching bow:
I received lots of comments on this one! Cut paint chips into shapes as gift tags (bonus: it's free!):
Make yarn pom poms (you can find lots of tutorials online if you search around - so simple!):
So there you go! Happy wrapping :)
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
Ruche favourites
Someday, I'd like to own something from the online boutique Ruche. They have the prettiest items, so I thought I'd share some of my favourites. A comfy knit sweater, a tailored blazer (preferably with elbow patches), and a pleated skirt in a fun colour are on my wish list this year...
Monday, October 24, 2011
Latest on Pinterest
Hello! In case you haven't heard, Pinterest is the place to be these days - it's basically a virtual pinboard. You surf your fav. blogs/sites and when you come across a photo you like, you "pin it" onto any of you pinboards. The best part is that it brings the link with it, so you can always find it again. Here's a few of my latest pins - you can follow me if you like! (Heidi Fleming)
2. Reference Unknown
3. Reference Unknown
4. Made By Girl
5. Design Seeds
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
Featured: weddingbells.ca!
Exciting news! I was hoping our wedding might be featured on a blog, and today it was! Weddingbells.ca posted a few photos and short article about our big day. Check it out here!
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
New skirt!
I recently found this awesome chiffon at Fabricland and, naturally, I had to have it. I was going to make it myself (during the last 2 weeks leading up to my wedding - ya right), but my amazing Aunt Donna took it home with her and "whipped it up" for me. I'm so blessed, I know. It fits perfectly and is super comfortable - love it! (Plus I just realized it has BOTH the chevron and geometric prints I've been loving lately!)
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Labels: chevron print, geometric prints, long skirts
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Happy Autumn!
It's the first day of fall! While I do love summer, I have to admit I'm enjoying the cooler weather and anticipation of the changing colours of the maple trees around our neighbourhood. I'm looking forward to eating more pumpkin pie than I should and spending time with family at Thanksgiving. In honour of the new season, I thought I'd share a few colours I'd like to experiment with this fall...
- Colour palette - {design seeds}
- Plaid shirt - Old Navy
- Blue tea kettle - Paula Deen for Kohls
- Red Perforated Toms - Toms.com
- Yellow Linen Armchair - Anthropologie
- Orange Kate Spade cross body bag - Alice in Wanderlust
Have a happy autumn everyone!
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Labels: autumn, fall colours, fall weather, orange, red, yellow
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Geometric Prints
Speaking of prints I'm loving lately...I think I'll have to give this one a try somewhere. I love the simplicity of the basic shapes and the interesting patterns they can create.
1. Etsy.com
2. 100layercake.com
3. Merriment Events
4. Zara
5. Etsy.com
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Labels: geometric prints, geometry, triangles
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Kitchen Cupboard Makeover
My first big home DIY project is completed! I've been wanting to re-do these kitchen cabinets since I moved in last October, and decided to finally get moving on the project before putting all of our lovely new wedding gifts away. We pulled off all of the cabinets, carted them to my dad's shop, and he sprayed them with his handy pressure sprayer. Then we put them all back on and shopped around (by that I mean headed to Home Depot), and found some new handles. While the cabinets were off, my good friend Tory repainted the walls to a nice grey (I'm not a huge fan of beige). And voila! I'll estimate this makeover cost about $120 + time. And I love it!
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Friday, August 26, 2011
Lately I've been loving...
Chevron! This print is everywhere I look, and I love it. Any colour, any size. There's something so classic about, which I think is hard to achieve with a print. You will definitely see this print making an appearance around my house in the near future. (I don't know where...but I'll figure it out..) Here are a few favourites I found on Pinterest.
1. aestheticoutburst.blogspot.com
2. apartmenttherapy.com
3. tatertotsandjello.blogspot.com
4. www.beklina.com
5. www.etsy.com
6. www.etsy.com
7. peacockfeatherevents.blogspot.com
8. www.urbanoutfitters.com
By the way, if you're into collecting inspiration online you should definitely get on Pinterest!
1. aestheticoutburst.blogspot.com
2. apartmenttherapy.com
3. tatertotsandjello.blogspot.com
4. www.beklina.com
5. www.etsy.com
6. www.etsy.com
7. peacockfeatherevents.blogspot.com
8. www.urbanoutfitters.com
By the way, if you're into collecting inspiration online you should definitely get on Pinterest!
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Monday, August 22, 2011
Favourite Wedding Details
I already finished my "Making the Dress" series - and that dress was definitely one of my favourite details. But there were so many more details that made our day unique and I wanted to share them with you! Our wedding day was definitely the biggest DIY event we've ever put on - but all of the time and energy was well worth it. Of course we couldn't have done it alone; we had tons of help! Thanks a million to everyone who pitched in :)
What was your favourite detail of YOUR wedding day? I'd love to hear!
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Living with conviction
My favorite part of the days leading up to Yom Kippur is all the time I get to spend on forgiving people. Since my friends are generally nicer than I am, this leads to them begging my pardon for all sorts of slights they imagined committing, while in exchange, I slip in a request for them to forgive me for running over their dog. Given that I am still basking in my forgiveness afterglow, I am disturbed by the attitudes displayed by some of those quoted in a recent Times of Israel article regarding one of the participants in an Israeli reality TV show who was convicted over a decade ago of being a sex offender.
The show, called HaKfar, picks five families, and asks them to live in conditions approximating those of Israel before 1948, and sounds like an Israeli version of Survivor. The young man in question, David, is a member of the Digmi family, and had sex twelve years ago with a 13 year old girl, when he himself was 19. This is not in doubt. He was found guilty, and was sentenced to six months of community service. The girl's family saw David featured as part of the promotional coverage for the show, and subsequently began a campaign to have his participation in the show ended.
I don't know David from Adam. I wouldn't hire him as a babysitter or camp counselor. I realize that the girl is traumatized from the incident, and her life has been changed irrevocably. On a personal level, that she is not willing to let this go is understandable. However, at what point do we allow people who have committed a crime back into society? From what I can tell, David has been living on the right side of the law for the last 12 years, and he has done all that was asked of him. He's a success story, in terms of rehabilitation.
Seeing her attacker on television is likely to cause his victim pain. But at this point, David has a right to do whatever he wants, within the bounds of any restrictions placed on him as a condition of his release, and at least she can choose not to watch the show. If he became a clerk at her local Rami Levi, or if she needed a taxi and he were the driver, what would she do then, try to get him fired? As for the assertion by a Na'amat representative that reality TV stars are role models, then reality TV in general should be banned, because I wouldn't want my kids learning from any of those people. In fact, having a public service announcement encouraging people to speak out about sexual abuse as part of the show might even help provide some much needed value instead of just empty calories.
Forcing the producers of HaKfar to cut David's appearances from the show would say to people who have committed crimes in the past that there is no reason to try to get your life back on track, because you will always have the stigma of being a criminal, even when there is no relationship between your crime and what you are trying to accomplish in the present. To avoid the temptation of recidivism, we should treat those who have completed their sentences with an open mind, while still providing enough oversight to ensure that they do not prey upon potential victims in the future. Otherwise, we might as well start building pens in which to house them. We can choose with whom to associate in our private lives, but we should allow everyone to participate the public marketplace. The best place to show your disapproval for HaKfar's casting decisions is by voting with your remote.


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Monday, Apr 25, 2005
South San Francisco, Calif. -- April 25, 2005 --Genentech, Inc. (NYSE: DNA) today announced that two Phase III trials of Herceptin were stopped early after a preliminary joint interim analysis demonstrated an improvement in the primary endpoint of disease-free survival and in the secondary endpoint of overall survival. The trials compared Herceptin plus chemotherapy to chemotherapy alone as adjuvant therapy following initial treatment with surgery for women with early-stage (or cancer that has not spread beyond the breast and associated lymph nodes) human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) positive breast cancer.
The two studies were sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and conducted by a network of researchers led by the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) and the North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG), who conducted this prospectively-designed joint interim analysis following consultation with the FDA. According to the NCI, the cooperative groups will present results from these studies at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting, May 13-17, 2005.
"The data from these very important Phase III trials suggest for the first time that a therapy that targets women whose tumors have a specific genetic mutation has the potential to reduce the recurrence of disease in early-stage breast cancer patients," said Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H., Genentech's president of Product Development. "While further follow-up is necessary, the results of this joint interim analysis suggest that adjuvant therapy with Herceptin plus chemotherapy for women with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer may increase the chance of long-term survival."
"Conducting this type of joint analysis, which enabled the groups to obtain these important results more than two years earlier than expected is unprecedented and we would like to thank the NSABP, NCCTG, the NCI and the FDA for their extraordinary efforts in combining these studies. We would also like to thank the women who participated in this study for their tremendous courage in making these results possible. Based on the strength of the results, we will work with the cooperative groups to prepare these data for discussion with the FDA about a filing for Herceptin in the adjuvant setting based on this interim analysis," continued Dr. Hellmann.
The NCCTG study enrolled its first patient in June 2000 and has enrolled 3,406 patients to date; the NSABP study began enrollment in March 2000 and has enrolled 2,085 patients to date. The interim analysis was based on information from 3,300 patients. These studies will stop enrolling new patients and the cooperative groups will continue to monitor patients for longer-term data. Each of the studies was a randomized, controlled trial that evaluated the combination of anthracycline and cyclophosphamide (AC) followed by paclitaxel, with or without Herceptin using different treatment schedules of paclitaxel in women with HER2-positive breast cancer.
Adverse events in these studies were consistent with those seen in previous Herceptin clinical trials. Each of these studies has an independent, external Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) that reviewed data from the studies, including cardiac safety data. The DMCs monitored safety data on a regular basis and there were three to four percent more cases of serious or life-threatening (and in rare cases, fatal) cardiac events, most commonly congestive heart failure (weakening of the heart muscle) in patients receiving the combination of Herceptin plus chemotherapy. Patients in these studies will continue to be followed for any additional side effects.
Based on the positive results from four recent Phase III trial analyses in the past five weeks, three of which occurred earlier than anticipated, Genentech will continue to evaluate its short- and long-term product demand and to assess its manufacturing plans and capacity to meet expected demand. The company expects to provide further information on manufacturing at the time of Q2 earnings results.
About the Herceptin Adjuvant Clinical Trial Program
Based on positive data observed when adding Herceptin to chemotherapy in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer, several cooperative groups are investigating Herceptin in combination with chemotherapy as a potential treatment in early-stage breast cancer. In addition to the NSABP and NCCTG adjuvant studies, two additional international adjuvant trials are underway, evaluating Herceptin with several different chemotherapy regimens, and in total will enroll more than 13,000 women with early-stage, HER2-positive breast cancer. Each study was designed with interim analyses.
About Herceptin
Herceptin is a targeted therapeutic antibody treatment for women with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer, an especially aggressive form of the disease that affects approximately one-fourth of women with breast cancer. Special testing is required to identify women who are HER2-positive and candidates for treatment with Herceptin.
Herceptin received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in September 1998 for use in women with metastatic breast cancer who have tumors that overexpress the HER2 protein. It is indicated for weekly treatment of patients both as first-line therapy in combination with paclitaxel and as a single agent in second- and third-line therapy. Herceptin is marketed in the United States by Genentech, in Japan by Chugai, and internationally by Roche.
In clinical trials, Herceptin has shown a survival benefit when used in combination with chemotherapy. In December 2001, Genentech received FDA approval to include data that showed a 24 percent increase in median overall survival for women with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer treated initially with Herceptin and chemotherapy compared to chemotherapy alone (median 25.1 months compared to 20.3 months).
Herceptin Safety Profile
Herceptin therapy does involve risks. Serious side effects have occurred in patients treated with Herceptin in metastatic breast cancer. Herceptin administration can result in the development of ventricular dysfunction and cardiac failure. Severe hypersensitivity reactions (including anaphylaxis), infusion reactions, and pulmonary events have been infrequently reported. Rarely, these were fatal.
Serious reactions were treated by discontinuing Herceptin and administering supportive therapy. In clinical trials, the incidence and severity of cardiac dysfunction was highest in patients receiving Herceptin with anthracycline and cyclophosphamide (AC). Most patients responded to medical therapy, including discontinuation of Herceptin. However, some patients were successfully managed while continuing Herceptin therapy. Patients receiving Herceptin should be monitored for deteriorating cardiac function.
In clinical trials, approximately 40 percent of patients experienced symptoms such as chills and fever during the first infusion. These and other symptoms, including nausea, vomiting, and pain, occurred infrequently with subsequent infusions. In clinical trials, the incidence of moderate to severe neutropenia and of febrile neutropenia were higher in patients receiving Herceptin in combination with myelosuppressive chemotherapy as compared to those receiving chemotherapy alone. There was an increased incidence of anemia leukopenia, diarrhea, and infection when Herceptin was used in combination with chemotherapy.
About Breast Cancer
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Pokemon Go indeed one of the interesting game on a smartphone. Everyone plays if they have a chance. But, there is a problem in this game. It is about the catching section. In order to get the Pokemon, you must throw the ball. What makes it worse you need to watch out a timing circle when throwing it. In order to catch it effectively, you need to match the timing. If you are having a hard time, just check the catching guide below to obtain your favorite Pokemon.
Use a Powerful Ball
If you find a powerful Pokemon, do not use Poke ball as the main one. You need to change it with a great one. For example, great ball and ultra ball is enough to do the job. Do not forget about the timing circle because it is still there. To get the best one, you can look for the nearest Poke Stop or if you do not want we have another method for you. Just sacrifice some of your Poke Coins to buy it on the shop.
Item is Crucial
An item like Razz Berry or similar which can increase the Pokemon affection toward you is the best trick. It does not matter how powerful the Pokemon, if you keep feeding the berry they will become easy to catch. For a reminder, it is quite hard to get it. If you are lucky, Poke Stop is the best place even though the chance is quite slim. If you have enough Poke coins, just simply buy from the shop.
Watch Out the Circle Parameter
When you encounter the Pokemon in the wild. You will see a circle around them. There is a meaning for each circle. The red circle is the toughest one, Yellow has a medium catch rate, and the last one is green (the easiest one). A good trainer will pay attention to this circle. Also, this one becomes the timing when you want to catch it. If the circle closer to the Pokemon, this is the best chance to catch it. If the circle spread out widely, it is not the right time to do it.
Wild Pokemon Movement
The last guide is you need to pay attention to the Pokemon movement. Some of them will block your poke ball. In order to prevent it, you need to have a good reflect skill. When you throw the ball and the Pokemon begin to move the body, just hold the screen to take back your ball. After that, throw it again. Although is simple, if you never watch out the movement of each Pokemon, you will waste all your ball.
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The lucrative Welsh art prize continues to speak to the real world rather than the art world.
Less well known than the Turner Prize, but as generous and rewarding as any other prize in the land, the seventh biannual Artes Mundi can be seen at National Museum Cardiff and nearby Chapter Arts Centre.
Unlike the world famous Turner Prize, Artes Mundi is yet to stir up the anger of the tabloid press. With £40,000 in prize money it's no less lucrative than its famous relation at Tate Britain this year. But the artists who crop up at the 2016 exhibition in Cardiff have been chosen for their concern with the 'human condition'; Turner nominees are typically concerned with questions of form and or theory.
The six person shortlist is truly international, rather than nominally British. This means gallery goers in the Welsh capital get to see work from Beruit (Lamia Joreige), France/Algeria (Neïl Beloufa) and Belgium/Angola (Nástio Mosquito), along with the USA (Amy Franceschini), the UK (John Akomfrah), and, specifically, Wales (the inclusion of Bedwyr Williams in his motherland's greatest art prize is a delight).
But this is one prize in which the artists appear to take second place to the current affairs explored in their work. Akomfrah and Lamia reflect on migration. Franceschini is concerned with food policy, Beloufa and Mosquito with abuses of power. Even Williams takes a break from his broader comic escapades to reflect on the fast growing urban centres of East Asia and contrasts that with the welsh valleys.
All of which is a refreshing break from, say, Helen Martens' artful arrangements of curious objects which greet visitors to the Turner Prize at Tate Britain this year. Artes Mundi artists are more likely to get their point across with a film, a photograph or a narrative idea on which any of us can get a handle. No it won't sell many newspapers; but it will sell a good many ideas about the world in which we live.


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Suspects in Hyderabad gang rape murder killed by police
Hyderabad, India (Diya TV) — Four suspects in the rape and murder of a 27-year-old veterinarian in Hyderabad were killed by police, who claim the four men were shot in self-defense. The action is drawing praise from the family of the victim but criticism from some lawmakers and civil rights groups.
Protests erupted in India this week seeking justice for this latest victim of sexual assault. Earlier in the week, a 23-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh heading to testify against a man who allegedly raped her multiple times was set on fire by a group of five men she says included her rapist, who was free on bail. She remains in critical condition.
In a terse letter denouncing impeachment proceedings, The White House signaled it does not intend to mount a defense of President Trump or otherwise participate in the House impeachment hearings. The decision by the administration likely accelerates the pace of impeachment. Hearings continue Monday.
Texas Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher introduced legislation to honor Deputy Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal's memory by renaming a post office in Houston in his honor.
Ravi Kapur contributed to this report.
Indian rape survivor set on fire before trial testimony
UNNAO, India (Diya TV) — A 23-year-old woman in India heading to testify against a man who allegedly raped her multiple times was set on fire by a group of five men she says included her rapist, who was free on bail. Doctors at the Lucknow hospital she was brought to say she is in very serious condition, with burn injuries to 90% of her body. Local police say all five suspects are in custody. India's National Commission for Women are seeking a detailed report regarding the number of reported heinous crimes committed against women and bail granted in such cases.
Nithyananda, a popular guru that faces charges of abduction and rape in India, announced he was establishing the Republic of Kailaasa on an island off the coast of Ecuador, which he claims will be the "world's greatest and purest Hindu nation," with promises of free education, free healthcare, free food and the revival of the temple based lifestyle, In addition to facing charges in Gujarat over multiple allegations, French authorities are investigating Nithyananda after one of his French devotees complained the guru had cheated him out of $400,000.
Ravi Kapur contributed to this report.
Demolition of Alhambra Sikh temple stopped
ALHAMBRA, Calif. (Diya TV) — A condo project that would have razed a long-standing Sikh Gurdwara in Alhambra, California was halted by that city's planning commission after hours of public testimony. A building permit for the 28 unit condo project was initially approved, but a 5 to 4 vote stayed the development. Now Gurdwara leaders aim to purchase the land from the current owner.
Professor & political analyst Peter Mathews announced his candidacy for California's 47th District Congressional seat. Mathews is running as a Progressive Democrat and aims to serve western Orange County cities like Garden Grove and Westminster.
A new NASSCOM report says India added 1,300 startups in 2019 alone, a factor in driving the country's economic growth. US-India Partnership Forum Chairman & former Cisco CEO John Chambers believes this report demonstrates Digital India initiatives are working.
And US-based private equity fund Advent International acquired a majority stake in Bharat Serums and Vaccines, a leading biopharmaceutical company in India, valuing the company at $500 million.
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Washington Post — By Liz Clarke and Abby Phillip September 24 at 6:52 PM
Some stood. Some kneeled. Some remained in the locker room, choosing to speak through their absence from the NFL's pregame ceremonies, in which the American flag is displayed and the national anthem sung. But from London to Los Angeles, virtually all NFL players on the sidelines prior to kickoff of Sunday's slate of 14 games locked arms with each other in response to President Trump's three-day campaign demanding that team owners "fire or suspend" players who kneel during the national anthem and calling on fans to boycott games if the form of protest continued.
The silent rebuke to the president, determined independently by each of the 28 NFL teams in action Sunday, represented an unprecedented collective action and show of solidarity among players who battle against one another 16 weeks, some more, each season.
Some, such as the Jacksonville Jaguars and Philadelphia Eagles, were joined on the sideline by their team owners, Shahid Khan and Jeffrey Lurie, respectively. Most were joined in standing shoulder-to-shoulder by coaches, staff and, in some cases, police officers.
All but five of the NFL's 32 team owners and CEOs issued statements Saturday night and into Sunday morning in response to Trump's crusade against protesting NFL players, which began in earnest during a Friday night rally in Alabama. After making a thinly veiled allusion to former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who sparked a national debate by taking a knee during August 2016 preseason games to protest police violence against minorities, Trump called on NFL coaches to get the "son of a b—" players off the field if they continued to kneel. The president repeated his call with no less intensity on Twitter on Saturday and Sunday morning.
The tenor and substance of those remarks, along with criticism that NFL rule changes for safety's sake had made the game boring, triggered reactions from many players, coaches and executives. While far from universally in favor of Kaepernick's method of protest, many owners issued statements defending the rights of players — and all Americans — to express themselves on matters they are passionate about.
Among the more notable was New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, a vocal Trump supporter and a $1 million donor to his inaugural.
"There is no greater unifier in this country than sports and, unfortunately, nothing more divisive than politics," Kraft wrote in his statement released Sunday morning. "I think our political leaders could learn a lot from the lessons of teamwork and the importance of working together toward a common goal."
Redskins owner Daniel Snyder was among those who had remained silent during the day Sunday, but he was expected to issue a statement close to the 8:30 p.m. kickoff at FedEx Field.
NFL game day began in London's Wembley Stadium, where the Baltimore Ravens and Jaguars kicked off at 9:30 a.m. ET, following two early morning tweets in which Trump reiterated his objections to anthem protesters and seemed to encourage fans who agreed with him to stop attending games.
Before the morning's first game, Ravens and Jaguars players and coaches locked arms on the sideline — some kneeling, others standing — as the anthem played. It was a scene repeated in 13 other stadiums stateside, from Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., to StubHub Center in the Los Angeles suburbs.


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Singapore must beef up vocational skills training and develop leaders capable of taking on global roles if it wants to win the worldwide war for talent, a new report concludes.
The Global Talent Competitiveness Index, released last week, ranked Singapore the world's second-most talent-competitive country for the third straight year, behind Switzerland. It is the only Asian country in the top 10 of the index, compiled by the business school Insead, the Adecco Group and the Human Capital Leadership Institute of Singapore.
The annual study measures a nation's competitiveness based on the quality of talent that it can produce, attract and retain.
While Singapore remains one of the most attractive locations for global talent, it is facing strong competition from its neighbours and this will only intensify as regional integration gains pace, according to the report's authors.
Grooming talent to take on global or regional roles at top companies remains a key challenge, said Professor Paul Evans, the Shell Chair of Human Resources and Organisational Development, Emeritus at Insead and co-editor of the report.
"(You) cannot run a global company in a senior management role unless you have in-depth international experience... The issue of how we can develop our own people instead of relying on expatriates remains a key challenge," Prof Evans said in an interview with The Straits Times yesterday at the report's Asia launch.
"Things are so good in Singapore that taking a risk and moving one's family, even to somewhere nearby like Indonesia, is not attractive to many Singaporeans."
Leaders need to "develop a deep feel" for the region, he added.
"It takes a lot of resilience and deep inner courage to run a large corporation, and I really don't think that resilience can be developed any other way except through deep personal experience."
The solutions are clearer when it comes to building up a pool of vocational talent - Singapore has responded to its technical skills shortage by trying to change mindsets and shift towards an educational system which embraces varied pathways, said Prof Evans.
Ms Wong Su-Yen, chief executive of the Human Capital Leadership Institute, said that even as Singapore focuses on attracting "the best brains from around the world to help us develop made-in-Singapore innovations", the country has to encourage its own people to venture out.
Research has found strong links between talent mobility and innovation, she noted.
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Join us on Saturday, February 23 for our 11th annual party with a purpose! Carnival Milwaukee is UEDA's citywide celebration of culture and diversity held at 1451 Renaissance Place from 5PM-10PM (food tasting starts at 6:00pm). Over 300 guests will join us to sample local cuisine from over 20 local restaurants, dance to live world music played by De La Buena, watch and participate in cultural dance performances by Salsabrosa and engage in cross-cultural conversations with other party-goers.
Milwaukee is known as the City of Festivals, holding individual ethnic and cultural festivals each year. Carnival Milwaukee is an annual event that celebrates ALL of our ethnic and cultural heritages. Attendees join us dressed in Mardi Gras-style costumes and cultural attire to enjoy music, exotic dishes and live entertainment that represents regions around the world.
Through this annual fundraiser, UEDA provides the Milwaukee community with a space to come together across deeply rooted geographic and cultural boundaries for meaningful cross-cultural interactions. Through locally produced ethnic food, music, art and dance, we aim to give attendees a deeper appreciation and understanding of Milwaukee's cultural and ethnic mosaic.
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I recently acquired a copy of Ancient Greek Fortifications 500-300 BC, by Nic Fields, "a freelance author and researcher based in south-west France" (lucky Dr Fields). "This book", says the blurb, "details the construction and ongoing development of the defences that protected some of the most illustrious sites in Greece during the most famous period of its history."
I beg to differ.
The already-short book (it has 64 pages, and copious illustrations, many full-page) begins with a three-page "Chronology of major events". The only problem is that there's almost no sign of "the construction and ongoing development" of Greek fortifications here. Out of 132 date entries, I found only 21 that were relevant, chiefly through mentioning a siege or a capture (e.g., "332 BC sieges of Tyre, Gaza"), and only three that actually recorded the construction of a fortification (Athens twice, Kassandreia, and Thessalonika); none mentioned ongoing development.
The fortress of Gyphtokastro (Attica, Greece) guards the Kaza pass over the Mount Parnitha range, which was the main route from Athens to Thebes. The north wall stands to its original height of about 6m; the towers survive to about 8m, and may originally have been closer to 10m. (Each course of masonry is about 70cm high, and the average stone block is 2m long!)
A chapter on "Building Methods" is a good start, but Dr Fields spouts technical terms without explaining them: "ashlar blocks", anyone? Okay, I will grant that Wikipedia comes to the rescue for this one, but what about "socle"? The one-page Glossary at the back (p.63) isn't much help; it contains only 15 terms – like "Palisade: Barrier constructed from wooden stakes, which are positioned vertically in the ground" – and uses only half the page. (A socle, by the way, is a stone-built plinth designed to provide a solid foundation for a mud-brick wall, and could stand a metre or so high.)
The main chapter, entitled "Fortifications", is simply a description of four different sites (Athens, Gyphtokastro, Mantineia, and Messene), with briefer comments on 'Other fortifications' (Aigosthena, Eleusis, Eretria, Phyle, Sounion). The sites were perhaps selected to match Dr Fields' photo collection, and that's no bad thing. But we get no sense of the promised "ongoing development" of fortifications.
The third chapter, "Nature of conflict and society", discusses infantry combat and the hoplite phalanx at great length, leaving a single page on "siegecraft" (half of p.50 and half of p.51) and a half page (p.52) on "non-torsion catapult". The mention of catapults is interesting, in the light of the tables that pop up at random intervals in the text. On p.20, there's a table of "Calibrations of bolts for bolt-shooter", with no apparent tie-in to the text. (The index confirms that this is the only mention of "bolt-shooters and bolts" in the book.) Here, the reader will learn that "1-cubit" equates to "1 cubit (pechys - 462.4mm (18.21in.)", though what he or she is supposed to do with that knowledge is unclear. The catapult, invented in 399 BC, just squeezes in at the tail-end of Dr Fields' time-scale (500-300 BC), but doesn't really figure in the text. Several photo captions take it for granted that towers were for artillery and the painting on p.39 of a tower shows catapults inside. (Though, without bows or springs, they wouldn't have been very effective!)
All in all, I'm left with the feeling that a great opportunity has been missed. The average reader will surely be left bemused by the whole subject. On p.52, there's a table of "Engines of war", listing seven dates and seven towns. The book, I think, can be summed up by one of these seven entries, which hints at some action at Oinoe in 431 BC ("Thucydides 2.18.1 - mechanai, possibly battering rams"); a glance at the index shows that Oinoe appears on p.28, where we read that "the fortified Attic deme of Oinoe (Myoupolis) had been walled by the start of the Peloponnesian War at the latest (Thucydides 2.18.2)"; and, if we check the all-important Chronology, we find "431 BC ...", no mention of Oinoe!
So, is this book about "the construction and ongoing development of the defences that protected some of the most illustrious sites in Greece"? I don't think so.


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Wednesday, August 26, 2015
CC7A :: Colorful Chaos
I didn't realize that the picture was North, in Canada. With all those colors I thought it was somewhere South, perhaps in South America. But I bet all those colors are beautiful peeking out of the snow in the dead of winter!
St. John's is said to be the oldest settlement in North America dating back to 1494 when John Cabot (a Venetian explorer) and his son Sebastian sailed into the harbor. And for the next 300 years this migratory fishing town turned into a strategic port that the French, Dutch and English continually battled for control. It ended with the French and Indian Wars in 1762 where the English successfully defeated the French in the battle of Signal hill and the French turned the city back over to the English.
I checked into why a Northern city might be painted so colorfully? It is an area called Jelly Bean Row. Tourist will ask to find the street or row where these house are, but it is a generic nickname that refers to all the row houses in the downtown area. Some say that they were originally painted so the fisherman could find their way home through the fog, which is a nice thought but not accurate. You can't see much through a dense fog no matter the color of the house.
They are actually the result of a revitalization began in the 1970s to the downtown in an effort to preserve the heritage of the houses that we're falling into disrepair and heading for demolition. One guy can be credited with the colors: David Webber, the Heritage Foundation Executive Director. He painted a sample block in bright colors. From there it spread like wildfire with people painting over the drab, dark colors of their houses and adding all kinds of fancy trims as well. At this point the majority of the downtown is decked out in these bright colors.
I got a little distracted in figuring out some history behind this picture, that I need to get to my project for this post! I went with the center colors in the pallet: orange - red hues. I love this piece of deep, cherry sea glass. I did another pattern with this red sea glass a while back that had an Egyptian feel to it. The red does sort of look like a burning sun hanging over a desert. I took some thick copper (14 gauge) and happily twisted and hammered away. Then shaped it around the glass so I could wire it in place. But first I dipped it in patina and tumbled it. I love how the tumbler takes the shiny edge off and buffs out the scratches from all my hammering. Last part of the design is a soft leather strap in the back that holds the necklace from shifting around too much.
And now on to all the rest of the CC7A artists: Monique (this month's host), Alicia, Christine, Therese and Sally
19 comments:
- Duni said...
I love colourful houses! Thank goodness they revitalized the area :)
Beautiful pendant! I don't come across red sea glass often.
- August 26, 2015 at 3:46 AM
- Jacquelineand.... said...
I always enjoy the informative tid bits you include in your posts. The cherry sea glass is extraordinary, and the necklace is spectacular... I can see it easily becoming the focal point of an outfit.
- August 26, 2015 at 4:34 AM
- JoJo said...
Newfoundland has been on my bucket list forever. My husband hates cities and I told him that I just want to take a pic of the colourful houses and then we can head for a more rural place to stay. Dying to see Gros Morne National Park on the west side of the island, and the icebergs drifting down from Greenland on the east side.
- August 26, 2015 at 8:04 AM
- Monique (A Half-Baked Notion) said...
I am loving both the amazing necklace design, and your great details about the colourful houses of this special place, Cynthia :)
- August 26, 2015 at 9:19 AM
- Miss Val's Creations said...
These piece is a stunner Cynthia! My mom's parents are from Newfoundland who later migrated to Boston. They went to visit and stay with a cousin they never met before. My grandparents both grew up in quiet coves. The people are incredibly friendly and welcoming. They adored it! Someday I will visit too.
- August 26, 2015 at 10:26 AM
- Christine Altmiller said...
Thoroughly enjoyed your St. John's history. I would love it if my area was this bright and colorful :-)
And your necklace...well, you know I adore your Ra piece and I feel the same about this too! This is a great style for you. MORE!!!!
And some day soon, I will be able to read your posts about your vacation! I will relish every word.
- August 26, 2015 at 12:41 PM
- Karin Slaton said...
That colorful chaos of dwellings is an incredibly interesting scene. And your writing made me feel like I was living their history instead of sitting at my kitchen table mid-2015! Nothing dominates like those earthy orange-reds, and I think your piece has an almost sacred feel to it. Love the idea of the stabilizing leather.
- August 26, 2015 at 1:06 PM
- BeadedTail said...
What a pretty place to visit and what a beautiful necklace! I love what you did with the copper!
- August 26, 2015 at 1:06 PM
- Claudia Aguilar said...
I always like looking at what you ladies come up with! I peeked a little :) That deep cherry
color is gorgeous!
- August 26, 2015 at 3:54 PM
- Therese's Treasures said...
Hi Cynthia,
Wow I knew the houses were colorful, but the history behind the colors is fascinating, thank you for researching and sharing. I love your necklace the design and color is just gorgeous.
- August 26, 2015 at 4:32 PM
- Veralynne Malone said...
It's always great when people take care of our history and want to revitalize an area. I hate seeing places decay. I really love the red color in your necklace. It is such a rich color. And the wire work around it is really beautiful. Great job.
- August 27, 2015 at 10:40 AM
- Janet Bocciardi said...
I've never seen such a rich shade of red sea glass! It's gorgeous. I love your setting - vintage looking, but modern, too. Awesome!
- August 27, 2015 at 12:32 PM
- Becky Pancake said...
Hi Cynthia, Your necklace is beautiful. It's simple, clean, elegant lines make it a real attention getter. I really enjoy all the information you include in your posts.
- August 31, 2015 at 9:59 AM
- pasqueflower said...
Beautiful pendant! Those colorful buildings could brighten a long, cold winter.
- August 31, 2015 at 7:14 PM
- Memories for Life said...
What a fun city! I just love all the color!
And your necklace is great. I love the custom copper piece :)
- September 1, 2015 at 9:46 PM
- Amy S. said...
Hi Cynthia! It is so neat to get some background information. You really did your homework and how very interestesting to learn about St. John's!! You paid tribute to the colorful palette perfectly. And might I add, I love your metal and wire work! Bravo!
- September 6, 2015 at 8:02 AM
- Anna said...
I enjoyed reading a bit of the history of this town and its colorful houses, Cynthia. Was definitely surprised to find it in the north, but living in the frozen north myself, I can imagine how welcome all the color is in the winter!!! This necklace and your recent designs are all lovely! You're so creative...and productive. Happy creating to you :)
- September 7, 2015 at 2:50 PM
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- Marcela Gmd said...
Thank you so much for your comment and for your friendship!!!!:)))
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To be successful at helping your child embrace healthy eating, it will take more than a rule from you, or a handful of nutritious items in the kitchen.
Selling "healthy" to kids requires lifestyle and attitude shifts, not a mandate of eating rules. With just a little insight, you can skip the pressure (and the mistakes) and let the model of healthful eating and healthy living sink in naturally.
Understand Developmental Stages
Children are black-and-white thinkers and learn best by hands-on activities. To tell them vegetables are healthy pales in comparison to letting them make a salad or help with a stir-fry. Teens, on the other hand, may want to eat healthfully if there is an immediate benefit: better concentration, more energy or clearer skin. "Healthy" has to have some pay-off for teens. Otherwise, it's just another adult telling a teen what to do, which will make many teens shut out the ideas.
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It's an Inside Job
Remember, anything we choose to do is ultimately something that is important to us. The same goes for kids and teens. Motivation to eat well comes from within, and you want to create this internal drive for healthful eating over time. Make connections between good nutrition and feeling good, fueling exercise with food and performance, and eating healthfully with being healthy, not sick. Connecting these dots helps to add value to the lifestyle choices your child makes over time.
Foster a Healthy Relationship with Food
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As political scandals go, this was an odd one. Gaming blogs were buzzing last week with reports of a bizarre incident involving the staff member of a U.S. Senator who (allegedly in a drunken rage) used a plot of land in Second Life to build an offensive display of protest against a fluffy pink video game character known as Kirby.
Early accounts of the incident raised more questions than they answered. An SLNN story failed to reveal the identity of the Senator, offered only the slightest of reasons why someone would hate Kirby enough to portray him as a sig heiling Nazi who "hates our troops", and raised the possibility that our national security might be at stake as a result of the Senate staffer leaving passwords posted on his computer monitor.
When mainstream political pundits grouse about the risks of swimming too far into the deep end of the new media pool, I'm pretty sure this is exactly the scenario they have in mind.
After re-reading the SLNN story a half dozen times, the mystery surrounding the identity of the Senator and his staffer became too much for me to bear. I'm sorry to report that I've spent most of the past week tracking down the participants in this absurd tale, and untangling a web of accusations, lies, and deceptions.
Now the whole story can be told.
A Lesson on Honorifics
My first task was to figure out who the Senator was, and how the hell a U.S. politician managed to slip into Second Life without creating a storm of media coverage. I've been hearing rumblings that the media has finally finished with the hype phase of its Second Life coverage, and is now moving into the backlash phase. Still, it seems like a real live Senator in Second Life should generate some sort of news coverage.
To my surprise, several sources revealed the Senator to be Mike Gravel. While Gravel is an active presidential candidate, he hasn't been in the U.S. Senate for over 20 years, and it's highly unlikely that his campaign volunteers have access to any sensitive information that would compromise national security. I would hope that everyone writing about the 2008 presidential campaign understands that, in Mr. Gravel's case, the word Senator is used as an honorific.
The Gravel revelation was also surprising because the protest was alleged to have taken place on land where the candidate's staff member was building a virtual campaign headquarters. But the Gravel campaign already has a well established virtual campaign HQ. As I was to find out, the Kirby incident had nothing to do with Mike Gravel's campaign.
A Lego and a Dream
Legoean Ferraris (aka Lego) is a volunteer for the Mike Gravel presidential campaign in real life AND in Second Life. I'm still not clear on what Lego's real-life responsibilities are, but in Second Life he's not exactly what you'd call a high ranking campaign official. He doesn't seem to have any responsibilities in the day-to-day operations of the in-world campaign.
Lego has only been in Second Life a little over a month. In that short time, he's already developed a concept for a consulting business designed to help Congressional candidates build and maintain virtual campaign headquarters. In some ways, Lego is like nearly everyone you meet in Second Life. He's convinced that virtual worlds are the future, and he dreams of running a successful virtual business.
The first step in Lego's business plan was to buy some land where he could build an office for his new venture. Lego purchased a small parcel in a business district named Bastiat. Shortly after that, things began to go bad.
A Spinning Pink Puff Ball
Not long after Lego arrived in Bastiat, a store called the Kirby Emporium opened across the street from him. For those of you who don't know, Kirby is possibly the most innocent video game character ever created. He was originally developed as a learning tool for novice gamers and was designed to be as inoffensive as possible. Kirby's special power is the ability to inhale his opponents and spit them out as stars.
Lego began to have problems with the Kirby Emporium when the store erected a giant spinning Kirby sign. Somehow Lego felt that Kirby's goofy presence would damage his business prospects. Apparently Lego isn't aware of just how bad Bad Neighbors can be in Second Life.
Lego's reaction to the Kirby Emporium seems to be part of an ongoing trend I've noticed among politically active residents in-world. Despite (or maybe because of) the naturally anarchistic nature of Second Life, political groups in SL are obsessed with being taken seriously. I can only imagine that Lego had nightmares about meetings with potential clients who wanted to know why there was an enormous spinning pink puffball across the street from his consulting office. Still, any consultant who attempts to portray Second Life as something other than what it really is isn't doing his clients any favors.
Lego eventually approached IntLibber Brautigan, owner of the region, to complain about the sign, and to demand that IntLibber buy the land back. Not only did IntLibber refuse to buy back the land, but he also took offense at Lego's complaints, and called Lego (get this) "a racist". Apparently IntLibber believed that Lego's distaste for Kirby was racially motivated.
Does Kirby Really Hate Our Troops?
After IntLibber rejected Lego's demands, Lego attempted to sell his virtual land at a substantial discount. A week later the land hadn't sold and Lego was still seeing spinning Kirbys in his sleep.
At some point Lego got the bright idea to use his land to build a kind of weird monument protesting Kirby. He constructed a huge house-like structure made of signs depicting Kirby as a little pink nazi, raising an arm in salute to Adolph Hitler. The pictures I've seen are a bit fuzzy, but Kirby appears to have a little red swastika on his chest. Over Kirby's head, the signs read "Kirby Hates our Troops".
Some have suggested that Lego's protest was merely absurd and was an attempt to make light of the ridiculous situation he found himself in. Still, I find it unfathomable how anyone involved in real-world politics could ever think that portraying a beloved video game character as a nazi is a good idea.
Lego briefly tried to coverup his involvement in the protest, claiming that a house guest had accessed his computer and built the signs using his account. As excuses go, it was just one step removed from "the dog ate my homework".
It was only a matter of time before Lego's protest was discovered by IntLibber, who promptly contacted Linden Lab to report the display of "broadly offensive material". IntLibber also confiscated Lego's land in the process. If nothing else, Lego succeeded in ridding himself of his problem land — at a 100% loss.
This past week IntLibber was still playing the race card. During our interview, he told me, "I have to say that while some people in RL may think this is an oddball comedic story, replace "Kirby" with "African American" and the story becomes far more clear."
I'm not sure what to make of IntLibbers comments. It's uncommon to hear a self-described Libertarian, and former Reagan Youth, speak so passionately about the plight of an oppressed group. If I were the skeptical sort I might think he was exploiting the situation for maximum media exposure.
So, What Race Is Kirby?
If Lego's hatred of Kirby was racially motivated, we might better understand his hatred if we knew what race Kirby is. Unfortunately, according to the Wikipedia, Kirby doesn't have a race:
Kirby's species has been a common topic of debate in his fandom. Unlike many other video game mascots, such as Link being Hylian, Kirby's kind has never been given an official name.
Still, IntLibber insists that Lego's protest constituted a "hate crime". During an interview IntLibber told me:
I would call it a hate crime, as much as burning a cross on someone's lawn … he didn't regard the Kirbys as people of any equal importance. That's the root of any bigotry.
I'm still not sold on the bigotry angle. While the use of Nazi imagery is certainly "broadly offensive", I'm not convinced that Kirby hatred can be equated with hating real people. It's more like hating a pink ball of lint.
Hating Copyright Violations
If Lego really wanted to take down the Kirby Emporium, he might have had better luck contacting the Nintendo legal department. There's no indication that any of the Kirby merchandise being sold in Second Life is authorized or licensed by Nintendo.
I raised this issue with IntLibber and suggested that, as a silent partner, he might want to take a closer look at copyright issues. In response, IntLibber asked if I was threatening him, then informed me that Disney is the only company that really cares about enforcing its copyrights.
While IntLibber may be a Second Life business mogul, he's got a lot to learn about how real-life entertainment corporations protect their intellectual property rights.
This aspect of the story raises another hypothetical question. Is it possible to commit a hate crime against a copyright violation? Only the RIAA knows for sure.
The Rest of the Story
One aspect of this story that's been overlooked is the fact that IntLibber is a silent partner in the Kirby Emporium. I'm not suggesting that this justifies what occurred, but it might explain his reaction to Lego's complaints about the spinning Kirby sign, and it certainly could explain why IntLibber would be making over the top claims that play well in the media. Lego's protest has turned into a huge promotional event for the Kirby Emporium.
IntLibber's grandstanding could also be politically motivated. While he denies involvement with any of the Second Life campaign groups, he recently named one of his islands Ron Paul, and he will apparently be donating a portion of that island for use by the Ron Paul campaign group. It's entirely possible there might be some Paul vs. Gravel rivalry fueling the battle between Lego and IntLibber.
Then there's the issue of Lego's land that was confiscated by IntLibber. IntLibber got the land back at no cost and gets to sell it all over again at a 100% profit. Despite IntLibber's outrage, this whole incident has worked out pretty well for him.
Meanwhile, Lego still has plans to launch his consulting business, only this time from a private island. It's doubtful that this incident will have any impact on his business, if for no other reason because his target market is blissfully ignorant of events that occur in Second Life.
While Lego lost a few hundred dollars on his virtual land, he might have fared much worse if the story had actually reached a wider audience in the mainstream media. All things considered, Lego got off easy on this one.
A truism of American politics is that the cover-up is often worse than the crime. In the case of the Kirby scandal, it's hard to tell which was worse, but one thing is certain, both were equally absurd.