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The New York Times
September 24, 2018
TA federal judge sent the right message last week when he blocked Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's suspension of an Obama-era rule that allows students defrauded by for-profit colleges to have some or all of their federal student loans forgiven…
The Los Angeles Times
August 31, 2018
The future of the nation's economy and the ability of its citizens to earn a decent living increasingly depend on having an educated population, with more people getting at least some college education after high school. Despite that, the Trump administration is smoothing the way for unsavory practices in the world of higher education, making it harder for Americans to obtain the degrees or training they yearn to achieve…
The New York Times
August 26, 2018
Say this for Betsy DeVos: The secretary of education has shown an impressive commitment to rescuing her friends in the for-profit college business from pesky measures to rein in their predatory behavior…
USA Today
August 15, 2018
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is about to make life a lot easier for predatory for-profit colleges and a lot tougher for students lured by overblown promises of jobs that never materialize…
Delaware Online
November 11, 2017
Today is Veteran's Day, when Americans pause to honor those who have served in our nation's armed forces….
The Daily Free Press
October 2, 2017
For-profit universities have been scamming and swindling unsuspecting students for as long as they've existed…
The Denver Post
September 22, 2017
For-profit colleges have their place in higher education, but too many operators have proved to be incredibly bad actors over the years, making reasonable rules meant to protect students the smart play…
The New York Times
July 13, 2017
States Fight to Protect Students of Schools
The Los Angeles Times
July 10, 2017
It's Betsy DeVos' job to protect students from predatory for-profit colleges. She should do it
The San Francisco Chronicle
June 20, 2017
Don't ease rules on for-profit colleges
June 20, 2017
DeVos Should Stick to the Rules on For-Profit Colleges
The New York Times
May 1, 2017
Keep For-Profit Schools on a Short Leash
Savannah Now
May 1, 2017
St. Louis Post Dispatch
April 2 , 2017
For-profit education could come roaring back in the Trump administration
The New York Times
March 23, 2017
Predator Colleges May Thrive Again
Chicago Sun-Times
March 22, 2017
Rolling back for-profit college reforms wastes money and lives
Philadelphia Inquirer
December 29, 2016
Star Academy failure underscores need to better monitor for-profit schools
The Herald (WA)
December 27, 2016
Predatory schools using veterans as loophole
Star Tribune (MN)
December 7, 2016
Keep the pressure on for-profit schools to be accountable
The Times-Tribune (PA)
December 2, 2016
McCann exposes for-profit risk
The New York Times
October 20, 2016
College Accreditors Need Higher Standards
The Des Moines Register
October 5, 2016
Beauty schools are designed to exploit students
The Herald-Dispatch (WV)
September 22, 2016
Diane Mufson: For-profit colleges still hurting students, taxpayers
Adirondack Daily Enterprise
September 21, 2016
For-profit schools need regulations
The Baltimore Sun
September 20, 2016
Big promises, dashed hopes at for-profit schools
Indianapolis Business Journal
September 17, 2016
Knoxville News Sentinel
September 16, 2016
Working with students in ITT closure shows state's best side
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
September 13, 2016
School's out for ITT: The for-profit network was bad for U.S. taxpayers
The Columbus Dispatch
September 12, 2016
The Columbian (WA)
September 12, 2016
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 11, 2016
Closing ITT Tech helps stop for-profit colleges from shaking down students
Indianapolis Star
September 10, 2016
A complete debacle at ITT Tech
The Sun-Sentinel (FL)
September 9, 2016
Another for-profit college leaves students in the lurch
Tampa Bay Times
September 9, 2016
Stronger Regulation Needed of For-Profit Colleges
The Detroit News
September 8, 2016
ITT Tech closure strands students
The New York Times
September 8, 2016
Late to the Fight Against Predator Schools
The Orlando Sentinel
September 8, 2016
With closure of ITT, make public colleges top priority
The Herald (WA)
September 8, 2016
Editorial: Student loans propped up failing for-profit schools
The Kansas City Star
September 7, 2016
Editorial – Curtain closes on ITT Technical Institute, a bad actor among for-profit colleges
Ventura County Star
August 20, 2016
Editorial – City of Ventura was blinded by Brooks Institute dollar signs
The Des Moines Register
August 5, 2016
Editorial – Obama protects college students, taxpayers
The Boston Globe
July 25, 2016
Editorial – In higher education, it's time to watch the watchdogs
The Des Moines Register
July 6, 2016
Editorial – La' James beauty school finally held accountable
The New York Times
June 20, 2016
Editorial – Protecting Students from Bad Colleges
The Des Moines Register
June 16, 2016
Editorial – For-profit colleges are bad deal for many
The Journal Gazette (IN)
June 16, 2016
Editorial – College's closure reflects scrutiny of industry
The New York Times
June 10, 2016
Editorial – Don't Force Students to Sign Away Their Rights
The New York Times
March 11, 2016
Editorial – When the College Degree Is Useless and the Debt Is Due
The Boston Globe
February 2, 2016
Editorial – Feds should own student loan problem
St. Louis Post Dispatch
January 22, 2016
Editorial – Short take: Sticking the taxpayers for education fraud
The Des Moines Register
November 29, 2015
Editorial: Do more to stop predatory for-profit schools
Palm Beach Post
November 20, 2015
Editorial: Student loan program must demand college accountability
Boston Globe
November 20, 2015
Editorial – The feds are right to hold higher-ed to higher scrutiny
The Transylvania Times (NC)
November 19, 2015
Editorial – Folly Of For-Profit Schools
Portland Press-Herald (ME)
November 18, 2015
Editorial – For-profit school settlement deserves low grades
The Spokesman Review
November 17, 2015
Editorial: For-profit colleges a bad bargain
The Kansas City Star
November 17, 2015
Editorial -States' crackdown on for-profit college chain is good news
Caribbean National Weekly
November 11, 2015
Editorial: Florida needs to revise criteria for for-profit institutions
The Kansas City Star
October 19, 2015
Editorial – Follow Defense Department lead to crack down on for-profit colleges
Los Angeles Daily News
October 15, 2015
Pipe-dream scams from America's for-profit colleges
The New York Times
September 26, 2015
Editorial: Speedy Help for Victims of College Fraud
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 20, 2015
Editorial: Congress must crack down on for-profit colleges ripping off students and taxpayers
Portland Tribune
August 27, 2015
Editorial – For-profit colleges need regulating
The New York Times
July 16, 2015
Editorial – Debtors Unfairly Excluded From Protection
Tampa Bay Times
June 26, 2015
Editorial: Helping students left behind by for-profit colleges
The New York Times
June 25, 2015
Editorial – Predatory Colleges Find Friends in Congress
Toledo Blade
June 15, 2015
Editorial – Predatory Colleges
Miami Herald
June 13, 2015
Miami Herald
May 26, 2015
Editorial – State comes to students' rescue? Hardly.
Palm Beach Post
May 19, 2015
Editorial: If for-profit colleges won't clean up their act, state must
Oakland Tribune
May 13, 2015
Editorial – Time to rethink our approach to higher ed model
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
May 12, 2015
Editorial – Appalling rip-off by the for-profit colleges
Telegraph Herald (IA)
May 10, 2015
Editorial – Government must stay tough on for-profit colleges
Tampa Bay Times
May 8, 2015
Editorial: Tougher regulation needed of training colleges
Monterey Herald
April 29, 2015
Editorial – Corinthian Colleges: Students at shuttered schools need help
The Daily Courier (AZ)
April 28, 2015
Editorial: For-profit education not all it's cracked up to be
The New York Times
April 17, 2015
Editorial – Help for Victims of Crooked Schools
San Francisco Chronicle
April 15, 2015
Editorial – A crackdown on for-profit colleges makes sense
The New York Times
April 2, 2015
Editorial – Students and Parents in the Dark
The Des Moines Register
March 28, 2015
Editorial: When for-profit schools graduate to nonprofit
The Palm Beach Post
March 17, 2015
Editorial: Tighter regulation, oversight will help students, taxpayers
The New York Times
February 10, 2015
When Colleges Use Veterans as Pawns
Minnesota Daily
February 5, 2015
Editorial – For-profit schools deserve scrutiny
The Spokesman Review (WA)
November 8, 2014
Observer-Reporter (PA)
October 16, 2014
Editorial – Degree isn't everything
Star-Tribune (MN)
October 8, 2014
Sorting good from bad among for-profit colleges
The New York Times
October 2, 2014
What to Do About Student Loan Defaults
The Columbian (WA)
September 19, 2014
Editorial – In Our View: Let The Buyer Beware
Sacramento Bee
September 2, 2014
Editorial — Senator is offended by his own bill
The New York Times
August 21, 2014
Editorial — Get Predatory Colleges Out of Job Training
San Francisco Chronicle
August 8, 2014
Editorial — Reinvest in community colleges
The Sacramento Bee
August 7, 2014
Editorial — Legitimate for-profit colleges should welcome legislation to clean up their industry
The Charleston Gazette (W Va.)
July 29, 2014
Editorial — Beware predatory 'colleges'
St. Louis Post Dispatch
July 21, 2014
Bottom line first, students second at some for-profit colleges
The New York Times
July 17, 2014
For-Profit Colleges Under Investigation
Chicago Sun-Times
July 13, 2014
For-profit schools can't prey on students
The New York Times
July 8, 2014
Editorial – Lessons of a For-Profit College Collapse
The Modesto Bee
July 2, 2014
Our View: Next VA chief has a lot on his plate
Sacramento Bee
July 1, 2014
Editorial: Next VA chief must crack down on for-profit colleges
DesMoines Register
May 26, 2014
Editorial: Credit Tom Miller for pursuing for-profit college 'abuser'
The Spokesman-Review (WA)
May 20, 2014
Editorial: Students, taxpayers both deserve protection
The New York Times
May 18, 2014
Editorial – Do Better on Predatory Colleges
Herald Review (IL)
May 13, 2014
Editorial – Be wary of for-profit diplomas
The New York Times
April 16, 2014
Editorial: Reining In Predatory Schools
Los Angeles Times
March 23, 2014
Editorial: Holding For-Profit Colleges Accountable
Sacramento Bee
March 15, 2014
Editorial: Federal rules make it harder for for-profit colleges to rip off students
The News Tribune (WA)
March 3, 2014
Editorial: Predatory for-profit colleges deserve federal scrutiny
The Spokesman-Review (WA)
March 2, 2014
Editorial: Better oversight of for-profit colleges overdue
December 27, 2013
Editorial – Simple rule change could help eliminate financial-aid fraud
Minnesota Daily
October 13, 2013
Editorial – State action against for-profit colleges
Minnesota Daily
September 16, 2013
Editorial – Who does John Kline represent?
September 9, 2013
Editorial – The Cost of Training Doctors Offshore
The Bellingham Herald
July 29, 2013
More oversight for poor performing for-profits
Kansas City Star
July 18, 2013
Editorial – Risky for-profit colleges need better oversight
Tampa Bay Times
June 20, 2013
Editorial: Rein in loan excesses at for-profit schools
The Columbia Chronicle
Editorial — For-profits, against students
Stockton Record
Editorial — No shortcuts to good education
Charleston Daily Mail
Editorial — On Veterans Day 2012, look out for new vets
New York Times
Editorial — Misleading Advice for Student Borrowers
Toledo Blade
Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
Editorial — Everest's failing grade leaves its students behind
Boston Globe
Editorial — For-profit colleges need closer scrutiny
Concord Monitor
Editorial — Student loans need even more reforms
The Gainesville Sun
Editorial — For-profit excesses
Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne)
Lawrence Journal World (KS)
Charleston Gazette
Editorial — Beware of for-profit colleges
The Oregonian
Editorial — For-profit college report card is unsettling
The Ledger (FL)
Editorial — For-Profit Colleges: Costly For-Profit Failures
The Spokesman Review (Spokane)
Editorial — For-profit colleges are wasting public funds
Shreveport Times
Editorial — For-profit college industry needs reform, monitoring
Standard Examiner
Editorial — For-profit debt studies
Standard Examiner (Ogden UT)
Editorial — For-profit debt studies
Editorial — Akst: Higher education system needs some schooling
The News Tribune (Tacoma)
Editorial — Too many for-profit colleges fail to deliver for students
The Patriot-News (PA)
Editorial — Failing grade: Congress must reform for-profit college system
The Palm Beach Post
Editorial — Protect students from being duped by for-profit colleges
Scranton Times-Tribune
Editorial — Less Profit, More College
The Sun (IA)
Editorial — The rising concern over debt and for-profit colleges
The Free Press (Mankato, MN)
Editorial — We deserve better from for-profit colleges
Times Call (CO)
Editorial — For-profit schools get a bad grade
Tampa Bay Times
Editorial — For-profit colleges: raw deal for taxpayers
The Reporter (PA)
Editorial — Education and profit motive don't mix well
Merced Sun Star
Editorial — Our View: For-profit college risk clear in report
The Roanoke Times
Editorial — The high cost of for-profit education
Star-Ledger (NJ)
Editorial — For-profit colleges must stop ripping off students, taxpayers
The Modesto Bee
Editorial — For-profit college risk clear in report
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Editorial — Failed schools: Congress must fix the for-profit college industry
New York Times
Editorial — Closer Scrutiny of For-Profit Schools
Editorial — Rein in abuses by for-profit colleges
Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT)
Editorial — For-Profit Colleges Get An "F"
San Francisco Chronicle
Editorial — Flaws in aid to for-profit colleges
The Sacramento Bee
Editorial — Senate report details risks of for-profit colleges
Florida Times-Union
Editorial — How for-profit colleges are ripping off students and taxpayers
The Portland Press Herald (ME)
Editorial — For-profit college aid should be tied to results
Kennebec Journal
Editorial — For-profit colleges not good use of taxpayer funds
The Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, IN)
Editorial — College scam clampdown
Chicago Sun Times
Editorial — A lesson in greed in for-profit school industry
Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA)
Editorial — Caveat emptor: for-profit college risks
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
USA Today
Editorial — For-profit college. What a racket.
New York Times
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Editorial — Feds need to do more to rein in for-profit colleges
The New York Times
Editorial: Looking for Rats in Ratholes
San Francisco Chronicle
Editorial — For-profit colleges must meet standards
Lexington Herald Leader
Editorial: Vets deserve education, not scams
Fresno Bee
Editorial — Good to look at for-profit college success rates in Cal Grant cuts
Sacramento Bee
Editorial — G.I. Bill abuses show why California vets want service to count
Charlotte Observer
Editorial — These schools profit big, on taxpayers' tab
The New York Times
Editorial — Heavy Debt, but No Degree
San Francisco Examiner
Editorial — For-profit colleges need stronger regulations to protect job seekers
USA Today
Editorial: Veterans are not 'dollar signs in uniform'
DesMoines Register
Editorial — Heed Obama's warning about for-profit schools
DesMoines Register
Editorial — For-profit colleges need close scrutiny from Congress
DesMoines Register
Editorial — College investment often a burden
Chicago Sun Times
Editorial: We'll all wind up paying for huge student debt
New York Times
Editorial — A Good Education With the G.I. Bill
The New York Times
Editorial — For-Profit Education Scams
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
Editorial — For-profit controls
The Daily Camera (Boulder, CO)
Editorial — Problems plague for-profit colleges: Colorado scores one for students, consumers
The New York Times
Editorial — Help for Student Borrowers
News Journal (Delaware)
Editorial — End this for-profit dupe of our military members
Toledo Blade
Editorial — Close GI Bill loophole
USA Today
Editorial: For-profit colleges are no answer to high tuition
Star Ledger (NJ)
Editorial: Caving to lobbyists on for-profit school regulation hurts students
The Minnesota Daily
Editorial — Obama succumbs to higher ed lobby
Lexington Herald Leader
Editorial — Test for-profit education; weigh value of state aid
Virginia Pilot
Ensuring GI Bill money is well spent
The New York Times
Orlando Sentinel
Bondi needs company in watching for-profit colleges
East Orlando Sun
New York Times
An Industry in Need of Accountability
St. Petersburg Times
For-profit schools get needed scrutiny
Courier Journal
Courier Journal
Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne)
Louisville Courier-Journal
Orlando Sentinel
Aggressive recruiting and loan defaults at for-profit schools demand more oversight
Orlando Sentinel
Students at for-profit colleges are taking on debt they can't handle
Palm Beach Post
Lexington Herald Leader
Getting money's worth not partisan
Orlando Sentinel
Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne)
New York Times
St. Petersburg Times
New rules let for-profit schools off the hook
The Daily Iowan
Harkin-backed regulations of for-profit colleges don't go far enough
The New York Times
Stopping Fraud at Trade Schools
Eugene Register Guard
The New York Times
Education Is the Last Thing on Their Minds
Des Moines Register
For-profit colleges need additional oversight
Seattle Times
Congress needs to address career colleges' toxic choices
Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Congress should study tactics of for-profit colleges
Marine Corps Times
"Congress, Pentagon must keep eye on for-profit schools targeting troops"
Miami Herald
Better bang for student-aid bucks
Philadelphia Inquirer
Providence Journal
San Francisco Chronicle
For-profit schools must be better regulated
San Jose Mercury News
For-profit college rules must be implemented
Des Moines Register
For-profit colleges need federal oversight
Kansas City Star
Colleges must ratchet down their ever-rising costs
St. Petersburg Times
For-profit colleges need closer scrutiny
Louisville Courier-Journal
Editorial: For-Profit Colleges
Tacoma News Tribune
Get moving on rules governing for-profit colleges
Lexington Herald-Leader
For-profit colleges deserve scrutiny
Vacaville Reporter
Regulate for-profit colleges
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Tightening up for-profit colleges
Whittier Daily News
Another view: Approve rules on for-profit colleges
Daily Breeze (Torrance, CA)
For-profit college rules needed
Toledo Blade
San Jose Mercury News
Federal rules governing for-profit colleges should proceed
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
Schools of Profit: Students deserve better at career colleges
New York Times
New York Times
West Virginia Gazette-Mail
Journal Star (Lincoln, NE)
For-profit schools need oversight
Florida Times-Union
Student loans: More oversight needed
Star-Ledger (NJ)
For-profit schools have promises to keep
New York Times
Los Angeles Times
New restrictions on for-profit colleges don't seem strict enough
USA Today
"Our view on student loans: High costs, loan defaults expose for-profit colleges"
New York Times
Denver Post


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Towards a theology of history (1961)
In this circular letter to the convents La Pira suggests reading the history of the world in the light of holy history. With no illusions about obstacles and difficulties that exist, he expresses his deeply felt conviction that the "home port" of world history is the Shalom of the Father.
Where is the history of the Church and of peoples going? Where is it going? Reverend Mother, we can now give a clear answer in precise terms. Despite everything and notwithstanding everything, it is going towards a new fullness of the times, towards the "fullness of nations and the fullness of the Jews" (as St, Paul said).
That is, it is going towards historical times analogous to those of Augustus and Virgil, times in which the bodies of the nations will be organically composed in unity and peace and will thus constitute the historic premise and the historical condition sufficient for the rising up in Christianity of all peoples, all nations and all civilizations of the earth "… and they lived and reigned in Christ for a thousand years" (Rev. 20.4).
What will the weather be tomorrow? Fine weather, reverend Mother, fine weather despite everything and notwithstanding everything. Despite local storms and furiously high seas here and there, the ocean floor is pacified. Christ dominates it. Our ship can courageously set sail again.
The theological hope (which is at once divine and human, celestial and terrestrial, temporal and eternal) is the banner hoisted on the poop of our vessel, raised before the eyes of peoples as a sign of grace, peace and victory: Haec est victoria quae vicit mundum, fides vestra (1 Gv. 5, 4).

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Timothy Noah
Political Science in the Crosshairs
Republicans defund academic studies whose lessons they don't want to learn
Harry Reid Reaps What He Sowed
The failure to reform the filibuster is already taking a toll
Facing the Facts Doesn't Always Change Minds
A new study on inequality shows that knowledge doesn't move the needle—with one exception
John Boehner's Kiss of Death
Why the House Republicans are so efficient at cleaning up their scandals
The Six-Month Recovery
For the typical American, the economic rebound ended in May 2012
The Lindbergh-Baby Economy
The sequester wasn't some sneaky Obama ruse. It was ransom.
The One Percent Gobbled Up the Recovery, Too
In fact, it put the 99 percent back in recession


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It's not a condition,
it's a continuum.
A therapist I once worked with said it best:
Abandonment is the gap between what you need and what you get.
Abandonment arouses the primal fear of infancy and childhood, that of being left alone to fend for ourselves. The Abandonment Wound is the result of an attachment rupture, so whether I'm using the language of abandonment or attachment, I'm generally referring to the same thing.
This kind of wound is cumulative: every loss, betrayal, disappointment, rejection (perceived or real), break-up or death can trigger the primal Abandonment Wound. Rather than dissipate, feelings incubate.
Everybody has an Abandonment Wound. The issue is not whether or not it exists within us, it's how well we're coping with it.
Abandonment can be so many things.
- traumatic birth
- a parent leaving their child, a child sent to boarding school, or a teenager leaving home
- a baby unattended, a child not picked up from school or other instances of neglect
- all forms of abuse including emotional withholding, shaming or mocking
- aloneness not by choice
- break-up, divorce or loving someone who doesn't love you back
- feeling deserted by a friend
- death of a loved one (including pets)
- a child's restlessness due to the emotional unavailability of a parent
- feeling displaced by the birth of a sibling
- teenage heartbreak
- social rejection or outcast status (gayness, bullying, awkwardness, etc)
- public shaming by an authority figure
- prolonged illness or becoming stricken by disease while others go on with their lives
- an accident, injury or shock trauma
- workplace disempowerment, stress, discontent and job loss
- financial instability, living in poverty or through bankruptcy
- redundancy or retirement
- living as a cultural minority
- relocation or displacement from homeland
- isolation from family, culture or spiritual community
- spiritual bereftness
- an implicit feeling unrelated to any initial sensitizing event (as in the case of Spiritual Abandonment)
The continuum of the Abandonment Wound is between withdrawal and pursuit. There's a constant tension between the desire to connect and the desire to flee. It's an attachment rupture that your body holds in the deepest part of its memory.
You may lean towards the withdrawal end of the spectrum, where you become over-functioning to compensate for loneliness and an inner barrenness. You may become extremely independent and highly performing in your work. You may have deep difficulty trusting in relationships. You may have a hard time accepting love and assistance. You may collect a never-ending stream of accolades and gold stars but no achievement ever feels satisfying enough to make you feel like you're enough.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, your desire to connect with a feeling of comfort may make you insecure, over-reliant or "needy" in relationships. You may be overly concerned with how others perceive you. You may have strong appetites and seek comfort in substitutes like drugs, drinking, sex, shopping or spending excessive amounts of time online. There's a deep hunger for something that feels impossible to satiate.
So. What to do?
To begin with, we explore what's happening now that's triggering an earlier pain. If you have difficulty accessing your feelings, we'll start there and practice that. If you're completely disconnected from your body, we'll bring you back in. Whichever stage you're in, we'll incorporate trance work (hypnotherapy) and subtle somatics (attachment re-patterning) to accelerate and deepen your inner resources.
We aren't just going to talk. We're going to practice. And learn. And heal.
My approach to somatic (sensation-based) work is based on my training with Diane Poole Heller through her attachment-based trauma recovery method, Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning. I began my training in 2017 and completed my certification in 2018. I receive on-going clinical supervision and personal sessions from my mentor, DARe trainer, Patti Elledge.
Prior to that, I lectured on Attachment/Abandonment at a number of conferences starting in 2014, providing workshops and trainings for hypnotherapists and other complementary health practitioners to help them integrate a trauma-sensitive approach into their work.
You might start by listening to my lecture on Healing the Abandonment Wound: A 5 Step Process.
Then, if you'd like to work together, book an initial session with me. After that, plan on coming back for another 4-6 sessions over a period of 2-4 months.


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I haven't really been on CC for a while because I've been busy baking!
This past saturday morning I had a spot at the Farmers Market. I thought that I would share the experience just in case anyone was interested. (I know that there have been posts about markets before)
To start with our market is in a cute and affluent town just out side of a big metro area (Indy) and it has a lot of bakers.
something that I observed before getting my spot was that presentation is REALLY important. There is a local extablished baker there that is pretty famous at the market (even written up in local papers/magazines). She has a great theme/style for her business --'like mom (from the 50's) used to make,' only better. she uses vintage fabrics, cake stands and vintage aprons to dress her space. (very cute and very good stuff). her booth is always busy. on the other hand, a local bakery came out to the market and just put up a table with a few pastries on display. I didn't see anyone stop at their table.
The famous cupcake lady was on vacation, opening a spot for me (the market is fully booked). since she is the cupcake lady, I thought that I would focus more on my cakes and cookies - although I did plan on bringing some cupcakes. if you've seen my webpage you know that my color scheme is blue (which I'd hoped would help differientiate from the other baker's pink) and whimiscal up-scale.
here's a decription of what I went through to set up my space on a weeks notice...
first folding tables - Costco $50 for the large one and $35 for the small one.
next display pieces - I have several cake stands and platters that I LOVE, but I did have to narrow it down for color scheme and space. the trouble is that I don't have covers. I scoured the internet and found a local restaurant supply place that had what I wanted in stock. I bought two plastic cake domes and two plastic sheet pan domes (for cupcakes and muffins). those were way more $$ than I thought. I also bought little sliver table marker thingies to hold cards with prices, etc. I wanted to buy my table clothes from them but they weren't instock. I ended up buying a couple white table cloths at Kohls on sale.
boxes - I have large white bakery boxes, but that wasn't going to work for little items. I ended up buying blue lunch/grocery bags, white and blue polka-dot gable top boxes (large enough to hold about 6 cupcakes), the largest of the clear plastic boxes for my cakes, and a bunch of blue and white ribbon (papermart.com). I did this the day after I found out about the market spot so I was able to get them via standard shipping - just barely.
banner - luckly I have all my own artwork and quickly whipped something up on vistaprint, but I still had to pay rush shipping. (it was about $25)
tent - grrr. after everything that I had to buy, I didn't want to spend $200 on an e-z up tent. I tried to borrow one but couldn't find anyone. then I said something to my mom the day before market day, and she said 'we have two for football season' - so amazing DH drove an hour to pick it up friday night!
now for the baking. I had NO idea how much to bake. it turned out pretty close, though. our market master repeatedly asked me to have 'breakfest' items, so I tested out some great muffin recipes from the Whimsical Bakehouse. I made about 1dz of three types. I got really good reviews from these, and sold about 2 dz. (took the others home for breakfest with visiting family) for my signature work, my cookies, I made about 5 dz decorated cookies. (bumble bees, sunflowers, frogs, crowns, butterflies, and since it's little league season - baseballs) I sold about 4 dz, and the animals and baseballs were definately the favorites with the kids. I also noticed that no one sold basic chocolate-chip cookies. so I made those and oatmeal raisin cookies (my favorite) bagged in groups of 6. sold out of those. finally the really show-y pieces - the cakes. I made 5 cakes. 2 - 5" round cakes and 3 - 4" round cakes. the remaining batter made 4dz cupcakes. people were definately drawn to the cakes and I sold 4. my cupcakes were simple, but I put RI butterflies and stars on them. again, presentation is so important. the kids were totally drawn to the butterflies.
finally, I also made samples. I made mini chocolate cupcakes with a swirl of chocolate-hazelnut icing (big flavor punch, as opposed to vanilla), and mini NFSC cookies with a swirl of leftover icing colors. I wanted to draw people and keep people at my booth -- being new. and, I've noticed that when I tell people that I do cakes, etc, I get at 'that's nice' but when I send my cupcakes somewhere I get a 'oh my gosh, holy cow, can I order next week?' while I don't think it was a huge benefit, it definitely convinced some customers. also a few people loved the taste of the cookies a lot, but thought that the big cookies weren't 'adult' so they suggested that I bag a bunch of the minis. I think that I'll do think next time.
I had several comments about how pretty my booth was, which made me happy after all the thought that went into it. (I had it set up in my dining room while trying to figure stuff out)
I also sold most of my stuff - enough that nothing really went to waste.
my booth was busy pretty much the entire time, and I got 6 calls/emails for orders yesterday.
it was kind of a sureal experience for me. I've been getting paid for my cakes/cookies for about 1 1/2 years, but the quick sale for cash in that environment was totally different for me. that really made me feel like I was 'in business.' (hubby felt the same way)
all good.
the part that I struggle with is the time. I worked my butt off staying up until after midnight every day last week (and until 3:30am on friday). and I made just enough to cover all the setup costs. (I mean the tables, etc, not the measly $10 spot fee). so much for a part time job. sigh.
hope to get a spot in a couple weeks. I also hope that 'just the baking' won't take so long.
anyway, if you'd like to see my booth, I posted pictures on my blog:
and if you have any questions, please ask away!
Jenn - I looked at your blog and your setup was amazing! Your cakes and cupcakes were awesome! Thanks for sharing your experience at the Farmer's market with us. I know that you spent a lot of money and only covered your setup costs. BUT it sounds like the Farmer's market will be calling you again, and the next time you'll be making a profit! Not to mention, you got some orders out of it, which will probably turn into more cakes down the road. So it sounds to me like your investment was worth it!
Congrats! That table setup was just gorgeous!
Everything looks so cute and yummy! I'm glad you had such a positive experience
Thanks for sharing your experience with the whole thing. I've been contemplating a farmer's market, but had no clue where to start. Atleast now I have a few guidelines
I bet you'll have even more success at the next one, especially now that your name is out there Good luck!
Where did you find the cute little silver price stands? And did you make your price tags with a cricut? And where did you get those sweet plastic containers for the cakes?
LOL. I hope I'm not bothering you with all my questions!
of course I don't mind, that's why I posted.
the price tags were 'table number markers' from a local restaurant supply (but I found them online too - just no time to order). they were $.70 each.
the price cards I made in MS powerpoint, printed them on cardstock and cut them with a extra large hole punch (Michaels, 2", 2.5", 3") -- the really large circles I cut by hand.
the plastic boxes are from papermart.com
those are the largest two that they make.
5x5x7" and 7x7x9" and they come with the gold bottom.
(I think that they are $.87 and $1.2? each)
obviously I would have liked something cheaper, but I really wanted a clear plastic box, for display, and travel.
plus when customers carried the box off it was great advertising.
the cakes needed to be fondant for that, because it was a little tricky getting the box over the cake without bumping it. (I put the cake in and closed it from the bottom)
I just looked at your pictures and everything looks amazing....I have never been to a farmers market with a booth like that . Your prices were also great, I would have definately been going home with a few items if I were there. It was a very interesting read....thanks I also feel your pain about breaking even, there is always so much work and sleepless nights, you feel like you should be getting paid alot more! Its definately a labour of love. Hope next time you come out on top.
Your booth looks great.
Made my mouth water.
There are definitely no booths like that at any of my local farmer's markets.
I wish there were, but then again I'd probably gain quite a few pounds.
I do art shows so I totally understand about the time and cost involved.
However, your setup costs are now basically done.
You won't be shelling out money for containers or the sign holders or most other things anymore, so you will be able to start seeing better returns soon.
As far as tents, keep an eye out on craigslist, thats how I got mine.
Congrats and keep up the good work.
I love your frog cookie and the coffe cake looks delicious
I just checked out your blog and you are definitely the " COOKIE QUEEN! " Very nice set up at your market. Your work is perfection! Nice job on everything!
Wish we had something like that here. I live in a very small town in the country with one stoplight and a post office about as big as most people's dining room. If you think I am joking, just check out the attached picture!
I have this picture on my desktop, it shows up much better there but you can get the point. It's the building in the foreground.
of course I don't mind, that's why I posted.
the price tags were 'table number markers' from a local restaurant supply (but I found them online too - just no time to order). they were $.70 each.
the price cards I made in MS powerpoint, printed them on cardstock and cut them with a extra large hole punch (Michaels, 2", 2.5", 3") -- the really large circles I cut by hand.
the plastic boxes are from papermart.com
those are the largest two that they make.
5x5x7" and 7x7x9" and they come with the gold bottom.
(I think that they are $.87 and $1.2? each)
obviously I would have liked something cheaper, but I really wanted a clear plastic box, for display, and travel.
plus when customers carried the box off it was great advertising.
the cakes needed to be fondant for that, because it was a little tricky getting the box over the cake without bumping it. (I put the cake in and closed it from the bottom)
Thanks for the info Jen! Again, you just did an outstanding job!
just checked out your blog...could you be any cuter...lol! your tables look great, very professional. the signage is fabulous! your products look great! i give you a couple weeks of being at the market, and they'll come requesting you. your work stands is amazing. great job jen. keep it up!!!!! maybe i'll have to take a road trip next time you're showing.....
thank you all so much.
I just wanted to give info to others out there thinking about something like this.
and like I said, I think that presentation is so important, I really had the same essentials as the others (table, tablecloth, pricing... but the colors and font etc, make a difference, I think...)
btw, thank you kneadacookie, you are so sweet and I'm always humbled when you comment on my stuff!
Just beautiful! You really pulled together an appealing (and appetizing) package! Your offerings and type of presentation are things I really miss about farmers' markets in the US. (UK towns all have markets, most one day a week, but you don't see much like your set up.)
I hope that you keep doing the markets and that they become profitable for you. Please keep up posted.
Darn, another blog I have to read...
That was so beautiful. I love the crisp white tablecloths standing against the cakes. It really made them pop. I am sure that you know that but. I also love the tags that you used such a unique and professional way. Oh forget it I just love the whole thing!!!
boy oh boy does that get the ideas flowing!! GORGEOUS set up!!
I liked the plastic lift up lid on the cupcakes - would you mind sharing where you found those?
The packaging for those cakes is perfet - you can tell you invested a lot of time to make sure it looked perfect. I wish you continued good luck with it!!
I liked the plastic lift up lid on the cupcakes - would you mind sharing where you found those?
I saw other bakers use these so it became a mission to find them!
this is where I first found them:
but I didn't want to ship on a short time line, so I bought them local at:
Thank you so very much for sharing!
Fabulous job! Love the signage and displays, and the minis in the clear boxes are beautiful! Bet you sold a lot - such an enticing display
Thanks for sharing!
I think I know of the other baker you are speaking of and her stuff is really cute. I have her website bookmarked.
You did a great job! Did you get any visits from the health department? Do you have your license or are you baking under the new farmers market law?
I am signed up for my local farmers market too in July. I too am planning on decorating my booth really cute to attract customers. I am going to make some cloth pennant banners using pastels and hopefully cupcake fabric. Maybe some paper lanterns hanging from the tent. A tablecloth to match the pennant banners.
Congratulations, Jen - what a wonderful job you did! And thanks for sharing all that information with us!
Your set up was amazing and very Posh! I love your cookies! I hope your day will drum up whirlwind of customers!
(new laws - insurance in work)
which market are you doing and when?
I'm sure we are thinking of the same person... Sweet Lucinda's
Courtney's stuff is really good and she does a masterful job at marketing amd image.
she has a aproned shaped penent banner that's really cute - which I'm guessing you saw. she also has really cute vintage fabric-like vinyl table cloths
for the others out there, here's her website, including photos of her at the farmer's market: (see the photo wall)
I just went and looked at your blog too...very nicely done! You put a lot of thought into it and it shows. I would buy from you over a guy with a card table and a pile of cookies too!
No I haven't been to the Zionsville market. I would love to visit for a little shopping trip in the future. It looks like a neat place!
Yes it was Sweet Lucinda's that I was thinking of. She has such a cute little place. Reading an article about her online is what inspired me to think about selling at the markets. They seem not to get too much positive remarks at CC, but it looks like she does well.
They seem not to get too much positive remarks at CC, but it looks like she does well.
apart from obvious skill, I think that it definitely depends on the market/place.
in addition to Sweet Lucinda's, there is a lady that does FABULOUS pies, 'My Sugar Pie.' she does really well - and has a nice setup too.
good luck I hope you do well!
Wow, all that information is really going to come in handy for a lot of us! Thank you so much for going into all that detail.
Glad to hear you had a good day. Hope you gave out lots of cards, and that your business booms!
What a wonderful presentation, and variety of items. Your display was awesome. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us.
I have been debating on doing something similar. I do the Bridal Show thing, but there has been an opportunity that presented itself to me and I may just go for it. Thanks for your inspiration.
JenWhitlock, thanks for an AWESOME thread! I think this thread needs to be a sticky at the top of the forum because I think so many people really want to know about how to start selling small at a market, exactly like you just did at your farmer's market. Your stand looked GREAT. And you got orders from it afterward too, so you can count those in your profits by and by. If you do it again, you won't have near as many expenses either because you already have much of what you need.
Thanks again for such a fabulous, fabulous post! I want to be you when I grow up! (Oops. I'm already 45. Tee hee!)
Congrats on the farm market stand. Off topic, but I just got a chance to check out your blog. Your cookies are AMAZING!!!!! I love that you use templates as "cutters." On your Fab at 50 cookies, how did you do the polka dots on the dress? They were beautiful!! You have a natural talent!
Much success!!!!!
Hey Jen - did you make the black raspberry filling that you had in your cupcakes? I'm looking for a good fruit filling recipe.
I used to make more raspberry fillings...
I used a recipe here (bag of frozen raspberrys cooked down with sugar, strained, and cooked again with cornstarch) so yummy.
I added it to my buttercream per the recipe in the Whimsical Bakehouse and loved it.
then I got in a hurry and lazy and just used the 'Smuckers Black Raspberry Simply Fruit' added to the BC. I know. I know. such a cheater, but really good!
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Singer or sister? Speculation is rife over who this woman is. Who is she? Kim Jong-un is pictured during a visit to Kumsusan Palace with an unidentified woman.
This screen grab shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, centre, with a mystery woman paying tribute to his late grandfather Kim Il-sung.
A mystery woman pictured accompanying North Korea's new leader Kim Jong-un to recent events has prompted speculation in Seoul about whether she is his partner or his younger sister.
The North's state television on Sunday aired footage of the woman joining Kim Jong-un as he paid tribute to his late grandfather Kim Il-sung on the anniversary of his death in 1994.
Top officials including ceremonial head of state Kim Yong-nam and army chief Ri Yong-ho accompanied the leader to Pyongyang's Kumsusan Palace, where the embalmed body of the nation's first president lies in state.
The TV footage showed the woman, apparently in her twenties or thirties, walking next to the leader. She bowed with him before a portrait of Kim Il-sung.
The short-haired woman, clad in a black suit, was also pictured sitting next to Kim Jong-un at a concert by a state orchestra on Friday.
Some South Korea media reports suggested she was Kim's younger sister Yo-Jong, who is believed to have studied in Switzerland along with him in the 1990s. Others suggested she may be Kim's wife or lover.
Seoul's intelligence agency and unification ministry, in charge of cross-border affairs, declined to comment.
The speculation highlighted the degree of secrecy in the North about the private lives of its rulers.
Kim Jong-un took power after the death of his father Kim Jong-il last December but the outside world does not even know his exact age.
An unidentified woman pictured standing behind Kim Jong-un during mourning for his late father last December was identified by some sources as the new leader's younger sister.
JoongAng Ilbo newspaper said the woman pictured in recent days may be Hyon Song-wol, a famous state singer rumoured to be the leader's lover.
It said she disappeared from public view in 2006 but was seen on TV again in March, apparently late in pregnancy.
"Hyon was a friend of Kim since they were teenagers and there is a rumour among the North's elites that she was his lover," it quoted an unidentified Seoul intelligence official as saying.
But Yang Moo-jin of Seoul's University of North Korean Studies said there was "little chance" the mystery woman was Kim's partner, given that the country's past first ladies have rarely made public appearances with leaders.
"She could be Yo-Jong or perhaps a daughter of one of the mistresses of the late Kim Jong-il … so that Jong-un can publicly showcase the solidarity in the ruling family," Yang said.
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Author: Maria V. Snyder
Publisher: Luna
Release Date: VariousReceived From: Library
This is the synopsis from the first book as not to give anything away:
Choose: A quick death…Or slow poison…
About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace—and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.
And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust—and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison.
As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can't control. Her life is threatened again and choices must be made. But this time the outcomes aren't so clear…
I really enjoyed this series, I decided to do one review for them all because I felt there was not enough to say to fill three reviews, also I wanted to give as little away as possible.
I'd have to say my favorite book in this series was Poison Study, there was so much intrigue, and interest, i really liked the idea of Ixian tradition and the storyline that, that brought. I enjoyed the fast paced manner of this one better than in the other two books.
While Poison Study was my favorite I really enjoyed Magic, and Fire Study as well, while there was too much traveling for me in these books, I loved the new aspect of romance, and the more political sense that they had.
Overall this series was good, but the last two kind of left me wishing for less traveling. I loved Yelena and Valek, as well as all the other characters in these books!
(One thing about the covers, is while they are beautiful they are white-washed, Yelena is a POC and that fact is very important in these books, especially the last two. I just wanted to draw your attention to that fact.)
Overall for the series: 4.5
Poison Study: 5/5
Magic Study: 4.5/5
Fire Study: 4/5


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9 Business Lessons From The Godfather – OnlineBusinessDegree.org
Just what kind of business are you in that you want to model your professional actions after the greatest cinematic mob story of all time? Well, no matter. The Godfather is chock full of great advice, and there's lots to learn from the themes of this classic film. Check out the nine best business lessons that we've learned from The Godfather, or you might be (metaphorically) sleeping with the fishes sooner than you thought.
Make Them An Offer They Can't Refuse
Obviously. One of the best ways to get what you want in business, no matter where you are: Washington, West Virginia, Utah, Tennessee, Rhode Island, North Dakota, is to tailor your product to your customer's needs. And this works for managers, too. If you want to incentivize your employees, there's often a way that you can make your request primarily beneficial to them and the company both. Barring using horse-headed death threats as a strategy, make sure that when you want a certain result, you make the incentive good enough to warrant it.
Trust No One
Whether you're a bona fide wise guy or not, it's wise to watch who you trust. That's not to say that you should be suspicious of everyone all the time, it's that the only person whose decisions and actions that you can safely rely on are your own. Even being in business with people for years doesn't mean that you can trust them, but you can trust them to be themselves. And whether you're running the underground or just the office, that's another key lesson to learn.
Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer
Well, maybe not your enemies. More like your competitors. It's important to have a good idea of the landscape of your market competition, both larger and smaller than you. And when there's an industry-wide issue that could improve your field, do yourself a favor and be the one to lead the charge to unity. You'll stand out among your competitors while also improving things for all involved when you're the one to get a group to band together faster than you can say "five families."
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Always Have A Plan
When you're running an international crime syndicate, you've simply got to have a plan. It's not profitable to do things willy-nilly, with no discussion or lack of a business model. It's probably best to avoid a business plan that involves gunning people down in the street, but appropriate foresight, planning, and action can lead to, ahem, legitimate business success.
Learn from Your Failures
Failure happens. Even to mafiosos. Let this fact lead you, and give yourself permission to fail. But also let yourself learn from your missteps, as it's possible to turn any short-term failure into long-time success. If you lose some guys in a gun battle, or lose money from a dirty double cross, you know how crucial it can be to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, regroup, and move forward. Also, what kind of job did you say you had, again?
Loyalty Matters
One of the most important lessons to take from the Don is that loyalty is key. In this day and age, economic security is a spectre — but it's paramount to remember never to bite the hand that feeds you. Whether you have a boss or have to deal with distributors, it's always best to be loyal to your higher-ups and those who depend on you. It's as simple as this: the better everyone does, the better everyone does.
Respect Must Be Earned
While loyalty is important, respect must be earned. Make sure that you're commanding respect, and not just because of your great work product. If you act with dignity and put integrity first on your value list, you'll see how easy it can be to build up mutual respect with co-workers, superiors, and those in other areas with whom you have to work. Additionally, take caution to respect respect: it's easy to build up, takes time to cement, and can be gone forever in a flash.
Business Is Personal
Tom, don't let anyone kid you. It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of sh-t every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it's personal as hell. And there you have it. Michael Corleone said it best, and it's the honest truth: business is made up of people. People who care, people who create, people who perform, and everything in between. The great thing about a business is that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, but its parts are people — and those are pretty great, too.


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"In my opinion, Phil is elite in his fields…"
"I have never found anyone that was a better instructor or more dedicated than Phil"
I have been a peace officer for 30 years and for 22 of those years also a prosecutor. I have known Phil Migliarese for a little over 11 years. During my time in the Martial Arts which spans 46 years, I have trained with many World Champions' and fighters. I have been a World Champion in my age & weight in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu as a Purple Belt and a Brown Belt.
I fought for the Heavyweight World championship in Full-Contact Karate and was World Rated in that sport for a number of years in the 70's. Of all the people I have trained with I have never found anyone that was a better instructor or more dedicated then Phil. He has helped my Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tremendously in the times I have trained with him, plus his instruction and help to me in Ashtanga Yoga has been invaluable in helping my flexibility, endurance, and strength. I would highly recommend Phil as an instructor in Self-Defense, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, or Ashtanga Yoga. In my opinion, Phil is elite in his fields.
Pat "Hawk"Hardy
– World champion Royce Gracie Black belt


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Makeup Brushes
Warning, you may never look at your makeup brushes the same again. Bacteria build-up on makeup brushes can lead to breakouts, decrease the brush life, and in some cases, may transfer pinkeye to your unsuspecting eyes.
How To Clean Makeup Brushes
How Regularly: Once a week to once a fortnight
Spot Cleaning: After each use, spot cleaning your brush with a cloth and makeup cleaner will help prevent any immediate risk.
Deep Clean
- Using a pea-sized amount of brush cleaner, baby wash or a gentle shampoo and softly rub your brush fibres in your hand.
- Rinse your brush under water (always facing fibres down) until the water runs clear.
- To dry properly, lay flat on a dry surface overnight.
Note: Never share your makeup brushes to prevent passing on any infections.
Hairbrushes can be a playground for dust, dirt, oil and even dust mites. And to think, this is regularly being used in your hair! This build-up increases your chance of frizz, oily hair and creepy crawlies. Ick!
How To Clean Hairbrushes
How Regularly: Once a week to once a month
- Using a pick, lift any hair from the base of the brush.
- Cut through the hair using scissors to easily remove the hair before cleaning.
- Create a cleaning mixture using baking soda, mild shampoo and water.
- Use a toothbrush to scrub the brush with the mixture.
- Once any grime has been lifted, rinse off any excess and lay flat to dry.
Washing Machine
If you have ever noticed marks or small flecks of grime on your clothes when you take them out of the washing machine, there is a good chance your washing machines needs cleaning.
How To Cleaning A Washing Machine (Front Loader)
How Regularly: Once every 1 to 2 months
- Place 2 tablespoons of baking soda and ½ cup of white vinegar in your washing machine.
- Run a normal, hot wash cycle.
- Once the wash cycle is complete, use a damp cloth to remove excess build-up, leftover from the wash.
- Leave the door open to air dry.
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First, the Hardware.
This is a really old PC – I bought it on 11th August 1998.
It's a Pentium II running at 266 Mhz. In some ways it's like a kernel that's peen patched far too often. In other words, it runs the same processor as it always used to, uses the same cabinet, but has had so many components upgraded over the years, that it's hardly recognizable as the machine that was delivered on my doorstep roughly 5.5 years ago.
Right now, it's got three IDE hard disks: a 40 GB one from July 2002, an 8.4 GB one from March 2000, and the original 2.1 GB from August 1998. I've pumped the RAM up to 384 MB, up from the 16 MB it came with. The video card and sound card are both onboard.
The sound system is something I'm proud of. It's a Creative something-something (can't quite remember the exact name). It came with two satellite speakers – the 7cm x 7cm x 7cm thingies pack in a huge punch – and a subwoofer. It's the smartest investment I made when I bought the PC. It cost a bomb then, but I've never felt the need for a separate music player – I simply rip all my CDs to my hard disk.
My only grouse with this machine is the 14-inch Samtron monitor. It's served me beautifully over the years, but it's so goddamn small! I've worked on 17″, 19″ monitors, have seen a 21″ one, and realised what a huge difference a large monitor can make to your computing experience. Even if I just traded in this monitor for a larger 19″ one, I have no guarantee that the puny onboard video card will support resolutions like 1600×1200 or higher.
Last year, I bought a 5 button Mercury optical scroller mouse. I learnt a few things from this purchase – one, even with the extra cost, always choose an optical mouse over a normal mechnical one. It's way, way smoother, doesn't get dirty and requires no cleaning, and can run on almost any solid, opaque surface. Second, the more buttons the merrier – but only if Linux detects them. The 2.4 series were unable to recognise the two "exotic" buttons my mouse has on the sides. Even xev wouldn't record any input when I pressed these buttons. The 2.6.x kernels, however, instantly mapped my buttons to right-click and middle-click, which I was able to change later – to launch xterm and the IceWM start menu! Finally, a scroller is a godsend when you're working with a lot of documents and code. Warning – a week with a scroller, and you won't be able to use a normal mouse again!
Then, the software.
Well, with about 50 GB of free space across my 3 hard drives, what OS(es) do I run? Several, actually. There was this point in time when I was new to Linux – around early 2001 – that I wanted to try out as many Linux distros that I could get my hands on. That's when I had upto 8 operating systems on those hard disks – and I didn't even have the 40 GB one yet! Now, of course, my installed base is down to a sane two OSes.
This is how my hard disks are organised: The 40 GB one is entirely Fedora Core 1. There's a 600 MB root partition, 7 GB /usr partition (these distros are getting SO bloated!), about 10 GB worth of "experimental" space, usually used to try out new distros, and finally, a 23 GB /home partition. (Update: I recently reorganised my hard disk the first time after I bought it, so the experimental partition is gone, /usr is larger, and /home is now 30+GB). The smaller 8 GB hard disk has Windows XP installed on it. The 2.1 GB one is a single large FAT32 partition. Now it's been months since I've booted into Windows, so I won't say much about it.
Fedora Core 1 is a wonderful OS. It's in that sweet spot between, say, Slackware or Debian, and Mandrake or Windows XP. I don't want my distro to try to do things for me that I'd much rather do myself. That instantly disqualifies the Microsoft family, Mandrake (though I rate Mandrake 8.1 as being a phenomenally advanced distro for its time), SUSE, and others like Lycoris, Ark and Lindows^H^H^H^H^H^H^HLinspire. I also don't want to spend 25 hours everyday in the supposedly joyous experiences of constantly "hacking away" at your system (I do suffer from the occasional "hack frenzy", though), "tweaking" it to perfection, and "optimising" it to squeeze every bit of performance from your hardware, making sure not a single needless instruction is EVER executed by the processor. So no Debian or Gentoo. (Mind you, I am, however, entertaining the thought of installing Slackware 9.1 or even Vector Linux on that test partition).
That leaves only Redhat's offerings, which I've used since release 5.2. Fedora is good-looking out of the box, has system configuration files that are still easy to edit – as compared to Mandrake and SUSE, and has wide application availability. If there's ever a small dependency to be satisifed, I know I can google for an RPM specially packaged for Fedora Core. I've been using it since it was released sometime in early November 2003.
My only complaint with Fedora is the HUGE installation size. Even a simple desktop system install will take about 2GB of space. Surely there's no need for that much stuff? Since Redhat's installer Anaconda doesn't offer too much choice regarding fine-tuning package selection, I'm left with no option but to select a custom installation, and then check the "everything" box to install about 5.4 GB of stuff. Now I hear that Fedora Core 2 has a full installation size of 6.9GB! That is clearly unacceptable. However, I have no dearth of disk space for my needs, so I'm not too upset.
Here's how my desktop environment's made up:
I alternate between several window managers. My all-time favourite has to be IceWM, which I started learning to love, ironically, when I was using Mandrake Linux 8.1! IceWM is a minimalist window manager with a Windows 95 look-and-feel. It's got a taskbar at the bottom, with a start menu, a system tray, and support for icons on the toolbar, like the QuickLaunch bar on the Windows 98-onwards versions of Windows. That's where the similarity between Icewm and Windows ends, though. Icewm is meant to be very simple, fast and unobtrusive. It has a set of extremely simple configuration files to manage the menu structure, the toolbar icons, the keyboard shortcuts, and overall preferences. IceWM is often called the "impersonator", for its excellent themeing support. With some work, it makes a credible attempt at mimicking Windows XP, MacOS 9 and OSX, even Solaris! For more detailed information on IceWM, here's my IceWM page.
My current love is
Fluxbox, which is even lighter and minimalist than IceWM (Update – I've returned to IceWM!). For a newcomer to Linux, staring at a default Fluxbox screen is intimidating, to say the least. There's only a small bar centred at the bottom, and nothing else. The applications menu is accessed via a right-click on the desktop.
However, just like IceWM, there are a few simple configuration files to edit: one for the menu structure, one for key bindings, and one for settings while Fluxbox starts. Fluxbox comes with a fair bit of documentation, and the key bindings are very flexible and comprehensive. More on Fluxbox on my Fluxbox page.
My terminal is xterm. I've heard that rxvt's lighter. I tried rxvt – compiled and ran it, but it wouldn't display man pages correctly. I'm sure that's because I didn't pass the configure script the right options before the compilation stage, but I'm too lazy to try rxvt again.
I've never felt the need for a graphical file manager often enough, to actually go hunting for one. On the rare occasion that I do need one, I take the trouble of waiting for Konqueror (strictly speaking, kfmclient in its filemanagement profile) to start up.
On the Internet applications front, I use Opera for browsing, though I still use Dillo for viewing local HTML pages. My email client used to be Evolution, but it was too large and slow for my liking, and I didn't really need a lot of its very good features. So I settled on Thunderbird for my POP3 email, It's attractive, easy to use, and is themeable. The only grouse I have, is that it's not at all clear how to change the password for the incoming and outgoing mail servers for a particular account, in case you've entered it incorrectly. GFTP is great for all my FTP upload/download needs. In fact, this website is administered using GFTP.
For instant messaging, it's GAIM all the way. A project that initially started out trying to build a Linux-based replacement for AOL Instant Messanger, has now grown into a full-fledged integrated IM client, with support for MSN, Yahoo!, AOL, ICQ, OSCAR, Jabber, IRC… you name it, GAIM's got it – or will have it in the next release! GAIM's plugin-based architecture makes it easy to add support for additional protocols. And your buddy lists are all integrated – you can either organise them by protocol, or group them into your own categories, independent of the protocol, or view them as a single list. You can also choose to have multiple chats open up as tabs in the same window. Like a well-behaved, standard-compliant app, GAIM adheres to the freedesktop.org's system tray standard. This means it can reside in the system tray of any WM that follows this standard – that includes KDE, GNOME, Windows, IceWM, among others. My only gripe? No support for buddy pictures under the MSN protocol, where I have most of my buddies.
One tool I must mention is wget. This is a gem of a program – a command-line-based, scriptable download utility. It supports FTP and HTTP downloads, can be configured to download entire web sites (by functioning as a limited spider), can perform interruptible, recursive downloads, can read input from both the command line as well as from a file, can be run from within a shel script, giving you complete control over how it's called and when… wget will suffice for all your needs. I use it to download entire distributions. I even used a single-line wget command to download the entire SuSE 9.0 distribution via FTP – all 4.1 GB of it, replicating the entire directory hierarchy. I'd call wget a work of art, nothing less.
For all my text editing tasks – whether its coding, writing email, or creating documents, I use GVim. I'd consider GVim as God's gift to the Open Source Community. I am not going to get involved in the classic EMACS v/s Vi flame war, because my experience with EMACS has been next to nothing. What I will say about Vim (and GVim, its GTK+ port), is that it was designed with productivity, and nothing but productivity, in mind. Every single aspect of Vim's usage is designed to maxmise typing speed and minimise finger/wrist movements. Looks and intuitivesness can take a walk. Vim is also configurable, to an extreme level. I've discovered dozens of keystroke combinations and configuration file directives, but I've barely scratched the surface of Vim's configurability. Occasionally, I also use Nedit.
For listening to music, XMMS rocks! I've tried
Rhythmbox, tried JuK. Nothing is as fast and zippy as XMMS. I don't need a ten-tonne behemoth for a music application which is going to play a 200-song playlist, minimised, in some far-off virtual desktop. My only grouse with XMMS is that it doesn't write ID3v2 tags, though I think it reads them. That can be annoying at times.
For all other forms of multimedia – video CDs, DivXs, movies, it's always MPlayer. MPlayer is another masterpiece from the Open Source commnunity. It can handle an astonishing variety of multimedia formats via its numerous plugins, has an optional graphical interface, and has keyboard shortcuts to handle all operations that would normally be performed via point-and-click. What I'm looking for right now, is an MP3 to OGG converter, which can do batch jobs. I also would appreciate pointers to an efficient ID3 tag editor. EasyTAG is good, but not good enough.
Finally Nero Burning ROM has a worthy competitor. Until recently, K3B was a CD-writing app which promised a lot but failed to deliver. No more. K3B has all of Nero's features, and , I dare say, a more intuitive interface. I use it to burn audio/data CDs, erase my CD/RWs, all with a simple drag-and-drop interface. It remembers all of my drive's settings – read speed, write speed, default ISO directory, whether to create multisession CDs by default or not, and the like. There's an animated icon for the system tray which is black-and-white at the beginning of a burn job, and fills up with colour, clockwise, as the burn job progresses. In the true UNIX spirit of the GUI being a simple frontend, the actual task of burning is performed by command line tools that've been around for ages, like cdrecord and cdrdao.
Whenever anyone sends me documents in .doc/.xls/.ppt format (which I absolutely detest – I'm a big proponent of ASCII files), I grudgingly turn to OpenOffice.org. I'd use AbiWord/Gnumeric, but OO.org offers much better interoperability. It takes a lifetime to start up on my puny machine, though.


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Short-Term Stay Rental Retirement Community
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Old Time Radio Recreations Troop presents "YEEEAASSSS?" an old time radio show featuring Jack Benny and the Magnificent Montague at 2 p.m. Sunday, February 19, 2017, at the Oak Park Arms retirement community, 408 S. Oak Park Ave.
YEEEAASSSS? is the single word that launched a million laughs depending on who says it. Take, for example, Jack Benny's train travels. No matter where he's going – Anaheim or Alaska – he runs into trouble. There's the crazy train announcer, there's the racetrack tout and the ticket seller that always begins with Jack asking for help. "Oh, mister? Mister?" He hears a smarmy, sarcastic reply, "Yeeeaasssssss?"
Then there's the Magnificent Montague, one of the greatest Shakespeare actors of all time, at least to him. When the local school does a scene from Romeo and Juliet for a charity fundraiser, Monty finds a way to get himself cast as the Romeo. But Juliet steals the show with that single word.
The free radio recreation shows are very popular with Oak Park Arms' residents and people from the community. Some guests bring their children and grandchildren to show them what entertainment was like before television.
A reception with coffee and cookies follows the performance.
Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear features actors and voice over artists who share a common interest – performing old time radio programs for the community. Each actor and technician donates talent and time.
Sound effects were an important part of live radio shows, and the group performs them live. They have a real door for slamming, doorbells, buzzers, a sound board and shoes for footsteps.
The Oak Park Arms is a rental retirement community which provides independent and assisted living apartments and a full schedule of activities and services. Furnished apartments are also available for a short-term stay – a weekend, a week, a month or longer.
The radio shows are free and open to the public. For more information call 708-386-4040.


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Warrior in Today's Society
Jermaine Andre is a professional mixed martial artist, a great warrior and a righteous man. These are his words.
'To be a warrior in today's society is to be one of the unaccepted and misunderstood.
As a true warrior carries more concern and emotion than the average person, he must always suppress his feelings so that he will not die from sadness.This usually leads the judgmental into believing that the warrior is a man of no heart. A true warrior looks deeply into all things without limiting his mind inside of the borders of societies restrictions. He makes his judgments off of what he has learned through experience instead of what he is told to believe.
A code of honor is always established somewhere within a warrior's life. His honor is more important to him than life itself. He would rather be dead with honor than alive without it. Please understand that a warrior's honor is not to be confused with a fool's ego. A warrior of today must always keep himself disconnected from the gratifications that society allows. Material things and money are only that to him. He must always be prepared to die for what he believes in, so he must never fear leaving things behind.
They do not sway with the winning side if it is in the wrong. This would be dishonorable. A warrior knows of things that the domesticated doesn't because of his courage to seek and find at his own will. This always keeps him separate from the sheep who follow the manipulating shepherd.
He does not look for his honor through fame or what other people think of him.
Even if the world condemns what he is doing as wrong, he will keep doing it if he himself feels that it is right. He does not seek the approval of misled and misguided men. Only the approval of the Spirit that he has chosen as his leader.
To the warrior, his only fear of death, is to die a cowardly one. To die a good, warrior's death … is only a blessing from his Superior Spirit.
Death through life is what the warrior will seek … and life through death, is what he shall find.'
Sevadaars Note : From reading the above what is the difference between a GurSikh and a Modern Day Warrior : NOTHING!!
WaheguruJeeKaaKhalsa WaheguruJeeKeeFateh!!
This entry was posted on Saturday, June 3rd, 2006 at 9:00 am
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The 71 World War I munitions destroyed were the largest amount of chemical munitions discovered on a military base in the United States, Army officials said before the project began in April.
The Army spent $7 million to erect and use what it calls the Transportable Detonation Chamber, a self-contained system used to destroy conventional and chemical munitions. The system now will be disassembled and returned to the mainland.
The weapons contained chloropicrin, a tearing agent, and phosgene, which causes choking and was used during World War I.
An Army statement said that "air monitoring confirmed that there was no release and that the munitions, including their chemical fill, were completely destroyed."
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Chong, 69, died July 15. He served in the House from 1972 to 1974 and the Senate from 1974 to 1980. He served on the Hawaii County Board of Appeals from 2003 to 2004. Memorial services on the Big Island will be tomorrow and in Honolulu on Monday.
Gov. Linda Lingle and the Hawaii Commission for National and Community Service have partnered to recognize individuals and businesses that have made an outstanding contribution to the community. Those selected will be honored at a banquet held at the Ala Moana Hotel on Oct. 17. Lingle is scheduled to attend.
"This is the first of its kind of award. It's the highest honor that the commission can bestow," said Brysen Poulton, the commission's spokesman.
Award recipients will be determined based on their volunteerism in the community. Two or three honorees will be selected for each of four categories: organizations and businesses, seniors, students (kindergarten through 12th grade) and young adults (ages 19-25). The application deadline is next Friday. To download an application, visit www.hawaii.edu/americorpshawaii.
Carol Ann Philips said the charges filed against her were based on allegations given to police by a man against whom she had filed a TRO. She alleged the man falsified an e-mail and that the proper law enforcement agencies will be notified.
The 41-year-old was arrested at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at her North Shore home and was released the same day after posting $1,000 bail.
Philips is a former staff member in Gov. Linda Lingle's Office of Information and Constituent Services and a current North Shore Neighborhood Board member. She ran unsuccessfully in 2004 against Democratic Rep. Michael Magaoay.
"Had the Honolulu Police Department made any attempt to verify the authenticity of the e-mail, the arrest would not have taken place," she said. "The arrest was due to the misuse of a process designed to protect women from harm. Ironically, it has been used here to add to that harm."
Police said the victim, 29, told them that he was stabbed when two men tried to rob him as he was walking near his home on Noholoa Loop in Mililani about 9 p.m. yesterday.
The victim was taken to Wahiawa General Hospital in serious condition. Officers investigating the incident said evidence at the man's house did not match his statement, according to a police report. When confronted about the discrepancy the man told officers that he was stabbed by his girlfriend during an argument, police said.
The woman was arrested at her Lehua Street home for investigation of first-degree assault.
The two men were involved in a heated argument in the front yard of the house, at 91-693 Pohakupuna Road, about 6 p.m. Tuesday. The argument turned into a physical confrontation and the men began wrestling, according to a police affidavit.
Alonso's son Richard went outside and found his father lying on the ground unconscious, police said.
Tubera was charged yesterday with second-degree murder and first-degree terroristic threatening. Bail was set at $250,000.
About 7 last night, the suspect was operating a mo-ped on private property in Palolo and was asked to leave by the property owner, a 56-year-old man, police said.
The suspect became upset and allegedly brandished a handgun before fleeing.
The suspect returned at about 4:30 this morning, and was arrested on suspicion of harassment.
About 1:15 a.m., four to five male suspects entered a Manoa residence occupied by three men, ages 20, 19 and 18, and took a wallet and other items, police said. The victims said one of the suspects was armed with a shotgun, and another with a crowbar. Police did not provide descriptions of the suspects.
Police said that the suspect punched his 20-year-old nephew in the head yesterday. Officers arrested the suspect on suspicion of misdemeanor abuse of a family member.
He was also arrested for investigation of felony abuse of a family member for allegedly punching his 39-year-old wife on July 12.
The suspect was convicted of abuse in 2006.


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For additional information about Gainful Employment Programs regulations, please visit the U.S. Department of Education website.


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Easily recognized by its distinctive, refreshing aroma, mint (Mentha) is a hardy herb that grows with virtually no attention. The leafy green plants are attractive in the garden, and the leaves are used to makes jams or jellies, flavor meats and other dishes, or to brew hot or iced tea. Growing cuttings in water is a simple and reliable technique to propagate mint, which often roots rapidly -- often as quickly as one week.
Cut several 3- to 4-inch stems from a healthy, vigorously growing mint plant, using a pair of clean scissors or a sharp knife. Carefully pull the lower leaves from the stems.
Put the stems in a glass bottle. You can also use a jar or other container.
Fill the bottle with cool water to just below the lowest set of leaves, with the upper one-third of each stem extending above the rim of the bottle. Ensure that no leaves are underwater, as allowing leaves to remain underwater may cause the stems to rot.
Place the bottle in bright light, but away from intense, direct light. Change the water every other day.
Transplant the mint to individual, 3- to 4-inch containers filled with commercial potting mixture when the roots are 1/4 to 1/2 inch long. Put the pots in a warm, sunny window.
Pinch about 1/2 inch from the stem tips. Pinching causes the plant to branch out, creating full, bushy plants.
Move the mint outdoors after all threat of frost passes in spring. If necessary, move the plant to a larger pot. Always use a pot with a drainage hole.
Things You Will Need
- Scissors or sharp knife
- Glass bottle or jar
- 3- to 4-inch containers
- Commercial potting mixture
- Larger pot with drainage hole
- Mint, a fast-growing plant that spreads by underground roots, can soon outgrow its boundaries and become weedy. Growing mint in containers on a deck or patio avoids this problem and the herb is handy for cutting as needed. Avoid burying pots in the ground, as the roots soon grow through the pot's drainage hole.
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