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Don't forget: CRECS Fight Club is on this Tuesday!
By Anthony Mandal Filed under: Events Tagged: debates, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Romanticism …read more
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By Anthony Mandal Filed under: Events Tagged: debates, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Romanticism …read more
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By admin
The current season of the Book History and Bibliography Research Seminar at the Institute of English Studies, 'Paper Pen and Ink 2: Manuscript Cultures in the Age of Print', includes a number of sessions that may be of interest to Romanticists. The next is Wim van Mierlo (Acting Director, Institute of English Studies, University of London) on manuscript culture after 1700; this will take place at 5:30pm next Monday (February 2nd).
Source:: http://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=555
By Eric Loy
Behold, a masterpiece of the dry erase medium:
So what we have here is a drawn mockup of where our Four Zoas prototype is headed. It's a layered transcription display that will expand lines on mouse click to simulate the manuscript's textual composition. Much more on that later.
For now, a couple thoughts on this pretty shoddy drawing that is currently taking up space in the Digital Humanities Center of Rush Rhees.
First, when working collaboratively, communication is key. The point of this whiteboard drawing was to help our library's resident programmer, Josh Romphf, see what our XML markup was aiming it for the eventual transformation that he would be building. Hey, it worked.
Second, as more and more scholars and students add "DH" to their list of interests, it's crucial to learn the language of the labor involved. Some DH-ers will also be expert programmers; most will never be. That's ok. However, maintaining a working knowledge of the technology your humanistic research might encounter is the key to working effectively with programmers, "technical editors," etc. Not only will one be able to articulate a project's needs more clearly, research planners can better anticipate these needs and proactively shape a project accordingly.
In other words, …read more
Source:: https://blakearchive.wordpress.com/2015/01/28/four-zoas-whiteboard-edition/
There is a Library Day at the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle-upon-Tyne on February 18. Anyone interested in giving a short paper (10 mins) on the Society or research using its resources should contact me at (firstname.lastname@example.com) or Ruth Connolly (email@example.com)
I'm planning to talk about John Clennell. Lit Phil missionary to Perth (see Cassie's post above) and then Hackney, where he set one up. Women seem to have been much more involved at Hackney than in Newcastle. Paul Gaulinius – current President at Newcastle – generously informs me that the recommendation book shows Clennell wanted more involvement for women at Newcastle. I'm waiting for the chance to see what he says next time I go up (archive fever)
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By marylshannon
Please see below for a Call for Papers for an exciting-sounding symposium on the Romantic Eye at Yale this April. The organisers are particularly keen to secure contributions from early career scholars (including people working on their doctorates). Flights and accommodation will be provided for those invited to speak, so if you're working on a topic in this area, this could be a really great opportunity.
(Taken from the BARS blog)
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This symposium examines Romanticism as a shape-shifting cultural phenomenon that resists easy categorization. Focusing on the period from 1760 to 1860, the symposium embraces the amorphousness that has been ascribed to Romanticism historically by eschewing any limiting definition of it, seeking instead to explore the broad range of art and visual culture characterized as "Romantic" during this hundred-year span. We are interested in what the Romantic "eye" pursued and perceived, and how it set itself the task of recording those perceptions. In addition to interrogations of the relationship between the visual arts and Romanticism, we welcome papers on writers, composers, scientists, and philosophers whose projects engaged the …read more
Source:: https://romanticillustrationnetwork.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/cfp-the-romantic-eye-yale-17-18-april-2015/
By sophiecoulombeau CALL FOR PAPERS Scandal and sociability New perspectives on the Burney family, 1750-1850 One-day interdisciplinary symposium Cardiff University Tuesday 1 September 2015 Keynote speaker: Professor Peter Sabor, McGill University ''The march of intimacy': Dr. Burney and Dr. Johnson' In recent years, much scholarly interest has moved beyond the novels of Frances […] …read more
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By admin
Very pleased to announce that the website for Romantic Imprints, BARS' 2015 International Conference, is now live. Of particular interest will be the page on panels, which contains a list of the open call sessions (with a document giving fuller details) and gives information on a number of themed panels which will take place at the conference. Abstracts are due on February 14th and should be submitted to firstname.lastname@example.com. I'd just like to flag up that I'm looking for participants for a Digital Communications roundtable (one of the open call sessions) – this won't involve full papers, but rather short (5 minute) introductions to panelist's digital work, followed by wide-ranging discussion. If you'd be interested in taking part in this, please submit a short (150-200 word proposal) to the conference email address – fuller details are on the document linked above.
You can also receive updates on the conference via Twitter and Facebook.
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By marylshannon
Romantic Illustration Network Symposium
'The Literary Galleries: Entrepreneurship and Public Art'
Supported by the University of Roehampton, the Bibliographical Society, and Tate Britain
We are pleased to announce that the third RIN symposium is now OPEN for REGISTRATION.
Friday 27th February 2015, 10am – 5pm
Board Room and Duffield Room, Tate Britain,
Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
This symposium brings together the authors of the key scholarship on the literary galleries of the Romantic period: Fred Burwick (The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, 1996), Rosie Dias (Exhibiting Englishness, 2013), Ian Haywood (Romantic Caricature, 2013), Luisa Cale ('Blake and the Literary Galleries', 2008; Fuseli's Milton Gallery 2006) and Martin Myrone (Gothic Nightmares, 2006; John Martin: Apocalypse, 2011) in a venue that is itself a form of literary gallery (Tate Britain) to present new research and to debate the relationship of painting to illustration, text, and print. To what extent did the literary galleries change the role of illustration in the Romantic period?
Places are FREE but limited to 15 in total, excluding speakers and organisers. This is due to restricted access to the Print Room. To secure your place, please email email@example.com, providing your name, status/job title, and institution (for name badges). Places will be awarded on a …read more
Source:: https://romanticillustrationnetwork.wordpress.com/2015/01/23/third-rin-symposium-the-literary-galleries-registration-open/
By firstname.lastname@example.com by Matthew Crofts, PhD Candidate at the University of Hull. There are quarrels in which even Satan, bringing help, were not unwelcome; even Satan, fighting stiffly, might cover himself with glory, – of a temporary sort. – Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History, 1837 p. 87 The French Revolution had an incalculable effect during the […] …read more
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By admin
This new collection of criticism by Jonathan Wordsworth, consisting of carefully-annotated transcriptions of talks given at the Wordsworth Winter School and including detailed assessments of the poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats, is available now.
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The central Daoist text, the Daodejing, spells out this concept explicitly. Those in positions of power are urged to know much, but do little. Chapter 8, for example, urges: "In governing, know how to maintain order. In transacting business, know how to be efficient. In making a move, know how to choose the right moment". Chapter 17 says that the most effective form of leadership is to motivate people rather than drive them or control them." (end of quote)
Sunday, 29 November 2009
Does liberalism have Chinese roots?
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Hofstede and China: Limitations
Characterizing Chinese Culture: the Poverty of Hofstede's Dimensions
Dr. Huibert de Man
Open University of the Netherlands/Maastricht School of Management
(Originally written in 2005, adapted in 2009)
In many publications on Chinese organizations and management, some attention is given to the influence of the specific business culture in China, which significantly differs, from North American or European culture.
The most cited author in this respect is no doubt Hofstede. His analysis of work attitudes of IBM marketing professionals in 40 countries, by means of survey research in 1968 and 1972, formed the basis for a framework for the analysis of cultural differences, which was published in his book ' Culture's Consequences' in 1980 (Hofstede, 1980). This framework now belongs to the standard view of culture in management. Uncertainty avoidance, collectivism (-individualism), power distance and masculinity (-feminity) have become the standard dimensions in which cultural differences between national cultures are discussed. For our discussion, it is important to note that no observations from the People's Republic were part of the sample. IBM had no marketing people there. Taiwan and Hong Kong were included.
Subsequent research refined the framework, without fundamentally changing it however (see Hofstede, 1991). Of special relevance for understanding Chinese business culture were the contributions by the Canadian researcher Michael Bond, which led to Hofstede's ' fifth dimension': Confucian dynamism. The conclusions on this Confucian dynamism were based on an analysis of questionnaires among students in 22 countries in 1980's (Hofstede and Bond, 1988). Originally, the Chinese sample was restricted to Hong Kong and Taiwan. Later, data from the People's Republic was added.
The dimension was based on a 'Chinese values survey' with 40 items based on Confucian values like tolerance, harmony, patience, courtesy and moderation. The dimension turned out to correlate with economic success in Asia. It was predicted that, once Mainland China would create the proper conditions, the economy would flourish there as well.
In terms of Hofstede's original dimensions, Chinese culture is described as:
- (rather) high power distance
- very collectivist
- rather uncertainty avoiding
- not very masculine.
The fifth dimension, Confucian dynamism, has not been used by many researchers. There has been a lot of confusion over this dimension and some doubted if it was a dimension at all. The philosophical basis in Confucian thought was criticized (see also Fang, 2003).
Thus, in many publications Chinese business culture is characterized in the original four dimensions. Special emphasis is laid on the collectivism and high power distances which distinguish this culture from what North American and European managers are used to.
The value of the original work by Hofstede cannot be doubted. Neither should one deny the usefulness of the dimensions to make western managers sensitive to essential culture differences. However, the application of the Hofstede dimensions has a number of limitations of which researchers should be aware. I will mention a few of them here:
- In Hofstede's work, there is an untested assumption of the homogeneity of national cultures, as well as an equally untested assumption of the homogeneity of corporate cultures and professional cultures. The differences between values and attitudes of, say, American and Taiwanese managers, are completely attributed to differences in national culture. The possibility of local variations in professional and corporate cultures is thus not accounted for. The national homogeneity assumption may be in line with nationalist ideologies which assume that there is a 'national character', which may be a questionable assumption in cases where regional and class variations in culture are large. Projected unto China: the problem of heterogeneity of Chinese culture(s) is neglected when one characterizes Chinese culture as many authors do. This nationalist bias is especially problematic now, where we see a revival of nationalist sentiments in China and, as a consequence, the creation of a myth of national culture based on Confucian principles.
- The original Hofstede research is an almost 40 years old. Even if the dimensions may still be useful, static characterizations of national cultures may lead to stereotyped images. Applied to China, this problem is especially serious. This country is in a phase a turbulent change and the assumption of a stable, unchanging Confucian base of its culture, for example, cannot be taken for granted.
- The original material of Hofstede equalled China with Taiwan and Hong Kong. Later, some material about the People's Republic was added. Hofstede's insight into China mainly occurred through the work of Bond. Application of Hofstede's original characterizations of China to the present-day People's Republic could be problematic, therefore.
- Hofstede's framework seems to explain everything in terms of culture. In his view, institutions are the consequences of culture. The independent influence of markets and institutional arrangements on human behavior and eventually on culture is not accounted for. Applied to Chinese management, this may lead to un undervaluation of the influence of changes in markets and institutions and their shaping influence of business culture.
- As a framework focusing on national cultures, the characterizations of Chinese management in terms of the four (or five) dimensions may lead to a neglect of corporate, industry and professional cultures. Differences between (for example American and Chinese) organizations may wrongly be attributed to alleged national differences, at the expense of attention to more specific factors. It may also lead to a neglect of the ways in which, also in China, organizations shape their own cultures by selecting, training and indoctrinating people.
What does this criticism mean? While acknowledging the value of the original Hofstede research it points at the need for a broader, more dynamic, less deterministic and more pluriform conception of culture, especially when it comes to understanding (business) culture(s) in present-day China. My suggestions:
Use the Hofstede dimensions and original scores as hypotheses, not as descriptions of present culture; test these hypotheses if possible by fresh data gathered in China.
- Account for pluriformity in cultures within China (regional, industries, age cohorts), do not assume one culture without further observation. Be critical of the nationalist cultural self-image projected by the Chinese leadership.
- Account for the interplay between markets, institutions and cultures.
- Give cultural change a central place in the analysis of present-day China, not timeless values; account for cultural ambiguity and confusion.
- Pay attention to the way in which organizations in China actively shape their cultures.
Fang, Tony, ' A Critique of Hofstede's Fifth National Culture Dimension' , International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, 3 (2003), 3, 347-368.
Hofstede, G., Culture's Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1980
Hofstede, G., Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind. London: McGraw-Hill, 1991.
Hofstede G. and M.H. Bond, ' The Confucius Connection: from cultural roots to economic growth,' Organizational Dynamics, 16 (1988), 4, 4-21.
Sweeney, B., 'Hofstede's model of national cultural differences and their consequences: A triumph of faith – a failure of analysis', Human Relations, 55 (2002), 89-118.


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Would-be burglar caught on camera
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A woman fought off a would-be robber in Fort Lauderdale and won.
Ebel Rias was opening the front gate of her apartment complex when she was overpowered by a much larger man. He was after the gold chain around her neck.
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Course open Tuesday 01 May
The course will be open for play tomorrow.
Murray Kerse
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The course will be open for play tomorrow.
Murray Kerse
Club Captain
The course is closed due to conditions on course.
Hammer Hardware stableford transferred to 12th May.
Club Championship finals transferred to 13th May.
Murray Kerse
Club Captain
May 20th
9 Hole Tournament: Women's Teams Stableford
Winner over the field: I.C.E.(Pl Pt) 45 pts
Front 9: JJB (PL Pt) 44, ACA (Tka) 43 pts.
Back 9: SFJ (Ash) 36pts, HMM (L Wai) 35 pts
Mens stableford: Gross: M Reilly 48 pts Medal: W Bell 51-20-31, J Tarrant 49-17-32 on C/B.
Stableford: F Ledington 21, M Reed 19.
Nearest the Pin (No 9): Men: W Bell Women: Heather Dodds (Gln). 2nd shot No 12: Jan Jones (Gld)
May 21st. Stableford
Winner over the field: G Thomas 41 pts
Senior: M Kerse 38, R Teahen 34. Twos: P Stringer, P
Saturday Mens Par Round Competition
Winer over the field: I Cooper +5
Senior: M Kerse +3, B Lyford +3, K Kerse +3, C Attridge +2, S Stewart +2
Twos: B Ranger, K Teahen x2, S Mackle, M Kerse, K Histen, H Scarsbrook, S Stewart
Intermediate: D Teahen +3, M Anglem +3, D McStay +2, B Mulvey +1, P Mawhinney square
Twos: D Marryatt, N Barnett, D Teahen
Junior: J Donoghue +5, J Frater +1, R Harmon +1, C Kelley square, J Kirkcaldie -2 by lot J Shore
Nearest Pin No. 9: R Walker. No. 12: D Mlne
Saturday Mens Jolly Potter Bar & Cafe Medal Competition
Winner over the field: K Histen 70-7-63
Senior: W Twaddle 78-12-66, S Mackle 76-10-66, K Teahen 71-5-66, H Scarsbrook 69-2-67
Twos: W Twaddle, D Bell
Intermediate: T Sullivan 82-17-65, R Stevenson 87-20-67, M Anglem 85-17-68, C Walker 85-17-68, D Teahen 85-16-69, B Mulvey 86-16-70, K Johnson 89-18-71, N Smith 88-16-72
Twos: K Johnson
Junior: C Kelley 90-26-64, R Tarrant 86-21-65, L Cunningham 92-26-66, R Harmon 93-25-68, D Patrick 95-26-69
Nearest Pin No. 9: S Mackle. No. 12: S Patrick
Saturday Ladies Stableford
N Donoghue 39, S Patrick 37, R Jones
Men's Stableford;
Winner over the field: D Wills 41 points
Senior: K Teahen 37, B Foxcroft 35, H Scarsbrook 34, S Mackle 34, S Stewart 33 by lot M Kerse 33
Twos: M Kerse (2), H Winkelman, P Mawhinney, G McNichol
Intermediate: D Wills 41, J Gould 41, D McStay 39, B Mulvey 36 by lot G Melhopt 36
Twos: nil
Junior: L Cunningham 41, J Donoghue 35, E Chilton 35, C Kelley 35, J Shore 35
Twos: R Tarrant
Nearest the Pin: R Stevenson (No 9 & 12) Nett Eagles : Jackpots.
Women's Stableford:
A Stuart 36, Fran Mulvey
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I can't tell you how much having herding dogs has been a special part of my life. They're just freakin' awesome dogs! I grew up on a farm in the country with Australian Shepherds and an Old English Sheep Dog cross as staples in my life. After school, when I finally got a job where I could do something drastic – like pay the bills – I knew I couldn't live without them anymore.
That's when I got my dog Percy, a Border Collie/Aussie (Bossie?), from an old farmer. After hanging out at a Disc Dog competition one day when Percy was only 8 months old, I thought it'd be cool to compete with him. So with a lot of fumbling, playing around, and goofing off with a Frisbee, I showed up with Percy exactly 1 year later and entered my first Disc Dog competition and had forgotten to look at the rules! Did I mention I like living on the edge sometimes? With the combination of Percy's natural talent, help from some really, really patient people, and my dumb luck, we almost qualified for the Worlds at that competition! We were both hooked!
But that summer, my job got even more intense. I started traveling more and hated leaving Percy by himself. If you're thinking of getting a herding dog, do your research first! I knew that Percy was not only lonesome while I was away, he was bored.
This is normal. Herding dogs have some of the sharpest minds in the animal world.
Forget chimpanzees, they could probably send an Aussie into space and have him fly the whole mission solo. If they're awake, their brains are working at 90 miles an hour. Percy needed a buddy . . . soon!
Enter a random Petfinder search that brought me to Eastern Herding Dog Rescue – to the rescue! I remember flipping through the numerous pets on Petfinder looking for an Aussie. As the page loaded my requirements (a young male Aussie), I stopped looking when I saw this guy's picture:
Go ahead. Say it. "Awwwwwwww!"
He looked like the most fun, fluffy, full of life little Aussie mix I had ever seen! I'm a sucker for goofs! Psych (Oscar as he was then called) was a two year old Texas Heeler (3/4 Australian Shepherd and ¼ Australian Cattle Dog). I instantly contacted EDHR with a ridiculously long email about how much I would love to meet him, and bring him home, and teach him to be a disc dog, and be a buddy to Percy, and how cute he looked, and – look, I didn't say living on the edge meant being smooth.
After email conversations with Ashley, Sarah, and Psych's foster mom, Brittany, and going through the approval process, I met them in Richmond and just fell in love with his freckled face! I played with him, petted him, he was so full of energy. He was perfect! That face just makes you laugh – in a Patch Adams kind of way – every time you see him. Cheering people up is his favorite pastime.
Besides food.
He loves food.
There's great joy in bringing home an animal you have just adopted. You're sharing your life with a dog or a cat or an iguana that really needs you. The responsibility is great. With herding dogs, it's even more so. They have so much energy and curiosity.
So why get one? Why go through all the trouble of research, searching, and, above all, going through a rescue?
Because these are the most loving, loyal companions that you will ever have.
They know if you're sad, if you're excited, if you're sick. They hate to see you leave, but love to see you come home.
They are intelligent, focused, and curious, constantly on the move, always asking questions (in that dog kind of way), and always tagging along from room to room, and pasture to pasture.
They need to run. They need stimulation.
They need someone who appreciates all of this about them and won't ask them to be something they're not (i.e. a Basset Hound).
And because someone didn't know all of this before getting one, because they couldn't take the time to click a few links to find out about them. They saw a cute picture online and they wanted handsome and fluffy rather than cute and wrinkled.
Pictures are great.
If you like what you see, print it out and put it on your wall.
But don't make an animal pay for your failure to realize what you're getting. These are the dogs who end up in rescues – or worse, they are the ones who don't. Okay. I'm off my soap box . . . for now.
So if you're still reading and think that these amazing animals are for you, then take home the one who came from that broken home, or the one who was abandoned. Give them a second chance.
Give yourself a chance for an incredible journey with one – or two – of the most incredible dogs you will ever find.
I did.
And now I'm Psyched for life! 🙂


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Checklist for more than one year
I'm planning my wedding 2 years in advance (it's in 2019) so when viewing my checklist, it only shows things to-do in the 12 months before our date. However for months that pass this year (ex. September 2017) it says they're past due. This is frustrating because they really aren't past due yet. Please make an edit so the checklist has years with each month.
Hi and thank you so much for your idea!
We will definitely take this into consideration. We're always trying to improve the Wedding Website experience for couples so we welcome all of your great ideas.
We will keep this forum updated as we make improvements!
Enjoy your planning!
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Kayla Mabon commented
There should be a 1.5 and 2 year timeline option. I'm planning my wedding for summer 2019 and have been since late spring of 2017, and many vendors in my city are already booked for my date. If I had an adjusted timeline, I would be able to space planning accordingly as to not miss out on certain vendors.


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The Winnetka Historical Society was founded in 1932 by a group of engaged citizens who recognized the importance of preserving the history of the Winnetka community.
WHS owns and operates two historic buildings in Winnetka. Our Museum and headquarters at 411 Linden Street houses exhibit and gallery space and is open for research, including the reference library, photograph collections, museum collections, archives, and house files. The Schmidt-Burnham Log House seasonally offers visitors a glimpse of life in the 1850s through the interpretation of costumed docents.
Museum at 411 Linden St, Winnetka, IL 60093 | (847) 446-0001 | firstname.lastname@example.com
Monday: closed
Tuesday: OPEN 1:00PM – 4:00PM
Wednesday: closed
Thursday: OPEN 1:00PM – 4:00PM
Friday: closed
Saturday: By appointment
Sunday: By appointment
When coming in to do research, whether on your house, a family, or other local history topic, it is best to schedule a research appointment in advance, so that one of our part-time staff members can pull files beforehand and maximize your visit.
Log House at 1140 Willow Rd, Winnetka, IL 60093 | (847) 446-0001 | firstname.lastname@example.com
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Every Thursday night, Kaya serves up a big fried chicken dinner. You get all the good parts from one half of a chicken – marinated in buttermilk, breaded in seasoned flour and fried crispy. This ample poultry portion comes with warm Reyna's tortillas, along with a seasonal, weekly-changing sauce and side.
See our Facebook page for Fried Chicken updates. The chickens are all-natural and locally raised.
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VOCM 620 AM or 620 CKCM launched on July 25, 1962 and owned by Newcap is a Grand Falls-Windsor station broadcasting News, Talk and Classic Hits. At launch the channel licensed to Colonial Broadcasting System Ltd., operating with an ERP of 10,000 watts was a repeater of St. John's based VOCM 590. A new semi-satellite was approved by CRTC in November 1968, the AM broadcaster would simulcast the content of CKCM. The transmitter at Baie Verte was launched on July 27, the rebroadcaster would operate on 1240 with a wattage of 1,000 for and 500 for night time. Colonial Broadcasting System Ltd was renamed as Radio Newfoundland Ltd. on 1982. By year 1995 the local content offered by the CKCM would share 60 hours while the rest would be borrowed from the main facility of St. John's. NewCap Broadcasting Ltd. in 2000 purchased VOCM and all its assets including CKCM. In September 2010 and FM transmitter (CKCM-1) covering Springdale was approved by CRTC that would be active at 89.3 MHz. The license for the CKCM and CKIM Baie Verte were validated on May 28, 2010 up to August 31, 2016. Audiences may listen to the VOCM 620 AM online with a news, community stories, shows, contents, events and more. Here is the website of VOCM: VOCM 620 AM
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Changing Your Employee Mindset
Changing Your Employee Mindset
When we leave our day jobs to become entrepreneurs we have to "unlearn" what it means to be an employee. It took me a full year to rid myself of the employee mindset! One of my clients gave me a much-needed kick in the pants. She explained to me that I was not her employee and therefore did not need to share everything I did in my business. All that time I was thinking she was my BOSS not my CLIENT – big mistake!
When you become an entrepreneur it requires a change in your mindset. So, remember…
You are the boss; not the employee.
The buck stops with you!
You make the decisions – the decisions are not dictated to you!
Don't look to your clients for direction.
You determine:
- Who you work with
- What you do
- When you do it
- How you do it
- Where you do it
- And for how much
Set business policies and stick to them!
Making the transition from employee to entrepreneur is a life-changing experience!
Take the time to embrace it.
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text: Every now and again, a car manufacturer will make a leap, thrusting itself into the limelight having unveiled its latest creation. Whilst these instances can be few and far between, Kia's bold move to catch the attention of the prestige saloon market is one that shouldn't go unnoticed. The Kia Stinger feels like it's the beginning of something monumental for the Korean manufacturer.


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TASUED Admission List For the 2019/2020 Session
TASUED Admission List for the 2019/2020 academic session has been released. Candidates who participated in the Post-UTME screening exercise of the university can proceed to check if they have been offered admission.
Candidates are to follow the procedure below to check their admission list.
How to Check TASUED Admission List:
1. Visit http://my.tasued.edu.ng/core/auth/index.php
2. Enter your Username (JAMB Registration Number), and your Password (Surname).
3. Select Prospective Student from the menu.
4. Click on Login to View your admission status and screening score.
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ImageWarper – WP
ImageWarper WP7 is a funny application for Windows Phone 7 devices, it allows you to warp pictures to make it funny. Take a picture using the camera, or choose it from your device pictures and warp it easily by moving your finger on the screen.
- Take a picture using the camera and warp it easily.
- Choose pictures from your phone and warp it.
- View animated warping to learn how to make a face angry or smiling…etc
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A Wisconsin Democrat Assemblyman turned to a Republican Assemblywoman in the middle of a legislative session Friday and said, "You are f--king dead."
Despite the following report from the Northwestern at 12:53 PM Monday, no major media outlet other than Fox News has covered this disgusting story:
Rep. Gordon Hintz, D-Oshkosh, called Rep. Michelle Litjens, R-Winneconne, Monday morning to apologize for his comments that Litjens described as containing an obscenity and the words "you're dead." Last week, he accepted responsibility for being issued an ordinance violation for visiting a massage parlor in Appleton that was the subject of a prostitution sting.
The Daily Caller's Jeff Poor on Monday linked to the website of Wisconsin's Newsradio 620 WTMJ which judging by the first comment reported as early as 10:43 AM:
Last Friday.... after the Assembly voted to engross the Budget Repair Bill, Hintz turned to a female colleague, Rep. Michelle Litjens and said: "You are F***king dead!"
In this post-Gabrielle Giffords world, with calls for a new civility, a man that was just busted in the middle of a prostitution sting says "You are f--king dead" to a woman on the floor of the Wisconsin assembly, and America's media couldn't care less.
Despite this being reported no later than 10:43 AM, a Google news search identified that apart from Wisconsin outlets, only Fox and conservative websites thought this was at all newsworthy.
As of 12:30 AM Tuesday, according to LexisNexis, no major news outlets reported this event. Closed-caption records for ABC's "World News," CBS's "Evening News," and NBC's "Night News" also found no coverage of this issue.
Imagine for a moment Hintz was a Republican and Litjens a Democrat.
This likely would have been the lead story for all three broadcast evening news programs as well as the focus of every hour of reporting on CNN and MSNBC with calls for Hintz's resignation.
But much like what happened at ABC's town hall meeting when a survivor of the Giffords shootings said "You are dead" to a Tea Party leader in the audience, our media clearly don't care when liberals publicly threaten conservatives.
Now this standard extends to a male Democrat elected official vulgarly assaulting a female Republican on an Assembly floor.
Makes one think it's journalism that's bleeping dead!
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Welcome to Engage Sports, a Des Moines-area sports league. The purpose of our league is to proclaim and demonstrate the gospel while playing the game of basketball. If you have spiritual or life-related questions, feel free "Contact Us". For additional details on what the gospel is all about and what it means to you, check out "What We're About" tab. You are also welcome to check out one of the churches participating in our league.
Engage is a network of fellowshipping churches throughout Iowa which currently includes Saylorville Church of North Des Moines, Lakeside Fellowship in Polk City, Living Waters Fellowship of South Des Moines, High Pointe Church in Altoona and Redeemer Church in Winterset. Started by Saylorville in 2005, our goal is to plant churches out of our own churches, while encouraging each church to remain Gospel centered and evangelistically active.


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A sick and wrong Thanksgiving story
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If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice. Meister Eckhart
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie
If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get. Frank A. Clark
None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy. Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. Estonian Poverb
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced, discharged and used up in order to exist at all. William Faulkner
Thanksgiving after all, is a word of action. W.J. Cameron
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. Thornton Wilder
Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Unknown
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. Johannes A. Gaertner
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. Cicero
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. Izaak Walton
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. Seneca
O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness. William Shakespeare
Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel. Unknown
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. Aesop
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" William A. Ward
No words necessary.
Speaking of the CIA.
She said she wouldn't lie.
On November 19, 1863, at the dedication of a military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, President Abraham Lincoln delivered arguably the most memorable speech in American history.
During the the single most brutal three days in American history, nearly one-third of the total forces engaged at Gettysburg became casualties, as more than 45,000 men were killed, injured, captured or went missing.
George Gordon Meade's Army of the Potomac lost 28 percent of their men.
Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia lost over over 37 percent.
Of these casualties, 7,058 were fatalities (3,155 Union, 3,903 Confederate). Another 33,264 had been wounded (14,529 Union, 18,735 Confederate) and 10,790 were missing (5,365 Union, 5,425 Confederate).
Charged by Pennsylvania's governor, Andrew Curtin, to care for the Gettysburg dead, attorney David Wills bought 17 acres of pasture to turn into a cemetery for the more than 7,500 who fell in battle.
Wills invited Edward Everett, one of the most famous orators of the day, to deliver a speech at the cemetery's dedication.
Wills also sent a letter to President Lincoln requesting "a few appropriate remarks" to consecrate the ground.
Nobody remembers a word of Edward Everett's two hour oration.
In just 272 words Abraham Lincoln established the standard against which every speech made since has and will be measured, likely until the end of our species.
Click on the photos for a trip to the life of Abraham Lincoln, or the Bttle of Gettysburg at the Civil War Trust, as the case may be.
The Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
I know this to be the case because I happened to have tickets for Joni Mitchell that night at Pine Knob.
You can trust me on this one when I tell you that the crowd was ready.
Under normal circumstances, I would have never gone out and bought myself a ticket to a Joni Mitchell show but ..... there was this girl .....
Anyway, I was completely unprepared for a band that rocked as hard as Tom Scott and the LA Express.
To this day, Court and Spark remains one of my all time favorite records.
Do what you want, but my best advice to you would be ..... crank it.
Apologies for the crap resolution, the great version of this performance has disappeared from the internet.
He bought a 57 Biscaine, he put it in a ditch.
Drank up all the rest that sonofabitch.
They may have come out of Boston, but if you're a Detroiter of a certain age, you know for a fact that The J. Geils Band is ours.
I don't even know how many times I saw this band, for a while there it seemed like they were in town nearly every week.
Here is J. Geils on guitar, Seth Justman on organ and piano, Stephen Jo Bladd pounding the drums, Danny Klein on bass, the always magnificent Wooba Gooba With The Green Teeth, Peter Wolf on vocals and the great Magic Dick on his lickin' stick.
One of the surest things in the history of Rock and Roll, this is J. Geils live and at the height of their powers in 1977.
Whammer Jammer.
"Let me hear ya Dickie."
Yeah, Yeah, I know ..... Whammer Jammer was Magic Dick's moment. But J. Geils always seemed perfectly happy in the background gluing the whole thing together.
At least that's how I remember him.
On February 10, 1996 World Champion chess player Garry Kasparov lost the first of a 6 match series to "Big Blue" a computer built by IBM that was reputed to have the ability to analyze 2,000,000 moves per second.
This victory was the first ever for a computer under international chess rules for match play which requires 40 moves in the first two hours, 20 moves over the course of the next two hours and one last hour to complete the match.
Cheer up humans, Kasparov, who is widely considered the greatest player in the history of the game, ended up winning the series with three wins, two draws and the one loss in the first match.
Abandon all hope humans, Big Blue won the 1997 rematch.
Click on the photo above for an interesting ... at least to me ... Time Magazine story on the move that got inot Kasparov's head.
Click on this little gear right here for a move by move accounting of the entire series.
As an aside, who the hell sets up an even game series?
Just sayin'.
Garry Kasparov would retire from professional chess in 2005 and pursue a career as a professional critic of Vladimir Putin. So much so that the fact that Kasparov is still alive is evidence to Iowa Republican Congressional Representative, Steve King that Vladimir Putin does indeed allow dissent.


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Cheeseburger Baby is my wife Marcela's favorite Burger joint. She would live at this place if it was possible. And as far as Miami is concerned, it's the Burger Icon on South Beach having just turned 10 years old (2010). If you're ever in need of having a Burger fix at 3AM on a Wednesday then this is your go-to place.
Whenever we're here my wife Marcela always like to start out with an order of Onion Rings. They're not homemade but they do the job plus they have some nice seasoning on them. Now, the Chili Cheese Fries are a whole other thing. These fellas are highly addictive. Yes, there are Beans in this Chili but that doesn't stop this BB machine, add some Jalapeños while you're at it. I love their melting technique which I guess you'll just have to see in person.
Since I love the Chili it only stands to reason I'd also try the Chili Cheese Dog. Once you close up that bun, you're fighting to keep everything inside. Again, I'd suggest adding Jalapeños to the mix even though I've never had it that way. The Chicken Tenders aren't too shabby either.
One of the things as of late that I'm obsessed over is the sear on the outside of a Burger Patty. I was watching a master at work cause my Burger had one of the most beautiful sears I've seen. It was cooked a perfect Medium and that Bacon was so crunchy & delicious it belongs in a Breakfast sandwich.
Cheeseburger Baby has a great Burger which is why they've outlasted all these pretenders opening up near them and trying to steal their thunder. If you haven't had them, you should be ashamed cause after 10 years they're still doing it the right way, their way.
Be on the lookout for the Cheeseburger Baby Food Truck all over town and at my Food Truck events!
P.S.: Remember, "it doesn't take 5 Guys to make a Cheeseburger, Baby", their phrase not mine.
Who's your baby?
Cheeseburger Baby
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Redwood Highway Fire Held at 50 Acres
The Redwood Highway Fire remains at 50 acres this evening and is 90 percent contained. Roadblocks on Deer Creek Road will be removed at 7:00 p.m. and the evacuation level for all areas around the burned area will drop to Level 1 (Ready) at the same time.
The fire started Friday afternoon in the community of Selma, located nine miles north of Cave Junction in southern Josephine County. The fire crossed Highway 199 near Ray's Market in Selma and continued burning east of the highway. Three homes and several outbuildings were destroyed.
Today, fire crews extinguished hot spots all around the fire's perimeter and a helicopter patrolled overhead watching for spot fires. Tonight, a 20-person supported by an engine and a water tender will continue mopping up and patrolling.
Wildland fire suppression crews from the Oregon Department of Forestry were aided today by engines and personnel from the Illinois Valley Fire District, Rural Metro Fire Department, Grants Pass Fire-Rescue and several private contractors.
The Oregon Department of Forestry and Oregon State Police continue their investigation into the cause of the Redwood Highway Fire.


text: Heat Pumps Year-round Comfort Posted February 10, 2015 Year-round, complete home comfort can seem like a distant possibility when trying to choose which home comfort system is best for the conditions in Dallas. Making that decision effects not only your comfort, but your wallet as well, so making the best decision possible is crucial to keeping your home comfortable for the long haul. Calling it a heat pump can seem a bit confusing when the system actually handles both your heating and cooling needs, but could easily be the comprehensive system you've been searching for. Heat pumps work like refrigerators in that they use electricity to pump refrigerant to different spaces to transfer heat. The main differentiator between an air conditioner and a heat pump is that heat pumps transfer heat from the outside air and air conditioners expel heat out of the home. Heat pumps can be the ideal solution for energy efficient heating and cooling year-round, and because it can handle both functions, all that is required is a simple change of the system's mode. Because heat pumps don't have to create heat, it makes them a lot more efficient as well. So how can you take advantage of a heat pump in Dallas? Lower Heating Bills: because heat pumps run on electricity, they keep energy costs down compared to other methods such as oil, kerosene and propane. Better Air Quality: being an all-in-one system allows heat pumps to filter the inside air all year-round. Cheaper Air Conditioning: heat pumps can operate more efficiently than most standard air conditioners, giving you cooler air for less money. When the time is right to replace your current heating and cooling system, a heat pump could be the right answer for you and your comfort needs. When used in the right environment, heat pumps are a great complete system that can handle your year-round comfort needs easily. If you'd like to find out more about heat pumps and how they fit in to the Dallas environment, give Tri County Air Care LLC a call at 469-213-8367. Back To Blog


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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently announced its largest settlement to date—$4.8 million—under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules. New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) and Columbia University (CU) agreed to pay $3.3 million and $1.5 million, respectively, for their failure to secure electronic protected health information (ePHI) on their shared network.
OCR initiated an investigation in Nov. 2010 after NYP and CU jointly reported a breach that exposed ePHI of 6,800 NYP patients to Internet searches via Google and other search engines. The breach occurred when a physician who was employed by CU and developed applications for both NYP and CU attempted to deactivate a personally-owned computer server that had access to ePHI on the network. The investigation indicated that the computer server was errantly reconfigured and that neither NYP nor CU took steps to assure the security of the server and the use of appropriate software protection.
OCR once again placed particular emphasis on risk analysis, consistent with a long line of OCR resolution agreements and pronouncements, as well as the recent issuance of the Security Risk Assessment Tool. OCR faulted both NYP and CU for their failure to conduct accurate and thorough risk analysis of all IT equipment, applications, and data systems utilizing ePHI and for their related failure to develop an adequate risk management plan to protect the security of ePHI.
A warning to those in joint compliance arrangements
This settlement also serves as a warning that covered entities who share ePHI platforms or functions may also share potential liability for noncompliance. NYP and CU are separate covered entities that engage in joint arrangements, including service by CU's physician faculty members as attending physicians at NYP. The hospital and university operate a shared data network linked to NYP's patient information systems and jointly administer a shared network firewall. In the press release, Christina Heide of OCR observed that:
"When entities participate in joint compliance arrangements, they share the burden of addressing the risks to protected health information. Our cases against NYP and CU should remind health care organizations of the need to make data security central to how they manage their information systems."
OCR's press release is available at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' website, which includes links to both Resolution Agreements.
Trending towards additional and more aggressive scrutiny
With the HIPAA Omnibus Rule firmly in place, OCR has been imposing progressively more frequent and more stringent fines in its HIPAA settlements. This is the fifth HIPAA resolution agreement announced by OCR in less than five months, and follows closely on the heels of OCR's April 22 announcement of two settlements based on failure to encrypt stolen laptops, resulting in settlements totaling nearly $2 million. Business associates are now subject to the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules and potential penalties for noncompliance. Covered entities and business associates will face additional scrutiny with OCR's upcoming HIPAA audits. Furthermore, an expanding array of potential enforcers, including the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), state attorneys general, and class action plaintiffs, in addition to OCR stand ready to pounce on any data breach or any real or perceived shortcoming in data security or privacy.
For more information on these developments and on some action steps of particular importance, please read our previous Alert "HIPAA covered entities and business associates face plethora of cyber security enforcers." A related consideration is that failure to conduct adequate risk analysis would prevent an eligible hospital or eligible professional from satisfying meaningful use standards and could subject a healthcare provider to denial or return of incentive payments, or even potential false claims exposure or exclusion from federal healthcare programs.
Covered entities and business associates would be well advised to heed the advice of OCR Director Leon Rodriguez, who warned in Dec. 2013 that:
"As we say in health care, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. That is what a good risk management process is all about – identifying and mitigating the risk before a bad thing happens. Covered entities and business associates of all sizes need to give priority to securing electronic protected health information."
For more information, please contact one of the attorneys listed below.


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From the Colorado Supreme Court's website:
Supreme Court Case Announcements Future Case Announcements
The Colorado Supreme Court will release case announcements on Monday, October 20, 2014, no later than 10 a.m. No case decisions or opinions will be available prior to the posting of the case announcements on this website. Monday's announcements will include the Opinions in the cases listed below. Click on the case to link to the ISSUES which were addressed during oral arguments.
2014 CO 75 – 12SC906, Justus v. The State of Colorado
The reference to our case is found about 1/3 of the way down the page with the date June 4.
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When we have read and digested the opinion we will release a statement.
Thank you for your patience and support.
Richard Allen and Gary Justus Save PERA COLA
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Envision the monopoly
Of the dueling hypocrisy
When what stands beside me
Is believed to be on top of me
Suffering fools search for truth by foot
As the wise pair lies
But nothing compares
To what the blind sees with lost eyes
As the high road becomes less traveled
I ask you all to stay down for the cause
Since new rules to behave
Are broken as just laws
For hindsight creates the perfect vision
Only to view my flaws
Guilty or innocent
When thrown from a jury of your peers
Means there is more separating us
Than age in years
The messenger is more important than the message
And the savior is greater than those he saved
Who is left afterwards to define the names they were gave
Languages are diverse
While math is concrete
Soon there will be a new science for people to compete
They depreciate the optimism
To raise the level of negative ideology
If one item can fix it all
We would reject it as idolatry
God must exist in a world where he or she is needed
However to go further than required helped in winning they were defeated
So I lambast myself for a solution for what to do
But everything I came up with was O-B-I-O-K-U
Trying to introduce myself in a new forum with hopeful expectations! - Obioku
"Don't be evil." - Google
"What a man's mind can create, a man's character can control." - Thomas Edison
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein
"Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
"The best thing I did was choose the right heroes." - Warren Buffett
"Obioku B. Obotette" - 1983
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East Lothian Council commenced public consultation on its Main Issues Report (MIR) on Monday 17 Nov 2014.
This means that if you're an East Lothian resident or have an interest in the future development of the area, the council want to hear your views!
The MIR is the first formal stage leading to the new East Lothian Local Development Plan.
The consultation document sets out possible strategies for accommodating new development such as housing, business and retail in East Lothian.
Following the consultation, the council will consider all responses and use these in preparing the Proposed Local Development Plan, which is expected to be published in late 2015.
The consultation period will run from Mon 17 Nov 2014 to Sun 8 Feb 2015.
A public consultation event takes place today, Thursday November 20, in Prestonpans Community Centre from 2 until 5.30 (drop-in at any point).
Responses to the consultation should be made via the Consultation Hub.
Find out more about the MIR and the public consultation via the links below.
More on Local Development Plan
The summary for the Prestonpans area can be viewed here.
What does this mean for Cuthill Park?
Briefly, Cuthill Park is protected by a Minute of Agreement - a robust yet flexible legally-binding document designed to protect green spaces in perpetuity.
Before a development could take place, permission would have to be sought from Fields in Trust whose aim is to protect open spaces for future generations to enjoy.


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What Do You See?
October 2, 2012
Remember the Magic Eye? You had to stare at a picture long enough to go cross-eyed. Only then would the image behind the image emerge. What at first looked like one thing ended up looking like something else. It played with our belief that what you see is all there is. Sometimes it takes looking at something in a new way to see what is behind the mask.
On Saturday I met an artist who plays with images too. Unlike the Magic Eye, you needn't blur your vision to see what she is trying to present. An artist living in Berlin, Gudrun Leitner stitches together fabric to emulate a photograph. Her accuracy is amazing ~ and the effect on the observer is surprising. Her work moves you to the core. It literally shakes you awake to a new awareness about your handmade reality: that often what you think you see is not what you are seeing at all.
With her permission I am posting my favorite image of all. Maybe it's because I like green eyes. This one made my knees weak. For more, visit Gudrun's Web site. She'll rock your world. You'll see!
The Power of Imagination
November 7, 2010
Dr. Charlotte Reznick, author of The Power of Your Child's Imagination, was on my mind this weekend as we took the kids to the mountains for a few days of frolicking. The four-star hotel offered great food, free WiFi, a wellness area with a pool with an Alpine view and enough cable TV to make the kids' eyes bug out. We managed to go for two hikes, swim in the pool four times, and visit the gym twice. To distract the kids on our long walks, we practiced math problems in our heads. All in all, it was a glorious time.
The imagination part came in with all the storytelling I did to keep the kids' entertained (and in complete unawareness that they were, gasp, hiking!). Remembering Dr. Reznick's nine tools to broaden our kids' imagination, we practiced some deep breathing on foot. Dr. Reznick calls it "balloon breath." She says:
"Get comfortable on a flat surface and place your hands around your navel. Focus your attention two to three inches below it, and breathe slowly and deeply into your lower belly so that it presses into your hands like an inflating balloon. Stay there for a minute or two, feeling its gentle rise and fall. Notice how you feel. Try it sitting and standing." (page 20-21) It is a great power of slow exercise for young and old.
It wasn't hard to do the next piece because, in truth, our special place was right before our eyes. In the second section of her book, "Discovering Your Special Place," Dr. Reznick says to foster the sense of self that dwells within. She suggests to visualize a peaceful place…perhaps our kids will think of the mountains the next time they're bored, looking out the window during class!
Although we didn't find any real animals (it is, after all, almost winter in the mountains, despite the unusually warm temps). Dr. Reznick recommends "Meeting a Wise Animal Friend" to act as protector. Perhaps the protective quality of animals is the reason why animal movies such as ICE AGE, LAND BEFORE TIME and GARFIELD are so popular.
In the third section, "Encountering a Personal Wizard" Dr. Reznick says sometimes we need to look to magical beings that might be able to assist us in times of need. During a particularly acrimonious homework session, I once called my son's Math Wizard on my cell phone. Suddenly, he was able to solve the math problem on his own because of the mere confidence his imaginary wizard friend gave him.
If you wonder why imaginary friends are useful, consider the next section, "Receiving Gifts from Inner Guides." Much like the phone call to Math Wizard, imaginary wizard and animal friends can provide gifts of strength and confidence when you need it most. The sixth section, "Checking in with Heart and Belly," helps your child get in tune with their own feelings.
Dr. Reznick writes: "Neuroscience has shown that certain 'brain' chemicals— neuropeptides, which communicate with other parts of our bodies— don't live only in the brain; they also reside in our intestinal tract. This suggests a second "Belly Brain" for emotions. Other research suggests that the heart has its own intelligence and communication system." (page 40)
Other Suggested Reading
In section seven "Talking to all your body parts," I was reminded of a recent blog post in which I offered up a simple exercise to help us re-enage with our bodies in a powerful way by greeting each section of ourselves with love, compassion and acceptance. Starting with your toes, moving up your ankles, shins, etc., thank each body part for the part it plays in getting you through the day. Give it a try!
We all know color can have an effect on our well-being. In "The Healing Properties of Color", Dr. Reznick addresses how we can creatively use color to express our emotions. And finally, in "The Healing Power of Energy," we learn the positive effects of 'sending' and receiving good vibes from others.
Fostering your imagination is a wonderful way to engage in the power of slow. Let it be your guide, wizard, animal or otherwise!
Wednesday Wisdom – Expanding and Contracting Time
August 19, 2009
Mary Westheimer, who works for Arizona-based sculptor Kevin Caron, shares a neat story about how time expands and contracts whenever she places herself in the flow of life. Fearless and calm, she's made it across Phoenix in the time it takes to order a Starbucks double latte skim at lunch time.
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Hello and Good-Bye
July 8, 2009
While much of the world was bidding Michael Jackson adieu, I was in a Salzburg radio station translating an interview with The Soulmate Secret author Arielle Ford on the other line. The radio host was incredibly gracious ~ she handed me her questions in German, which I simultaneously translated to Arielle. She spoke for two minutes, then I summarized what she said in German. I was very nervous at first, but relaxed after the first few minutes. All in all it went well.
Earlier in the day I grieved Michael Jackson's passing. In fact, I'm not done yet. It comes in waves. The sight of him on the front page of a tabloid, his music on the radio ~ he has left a gaping whole in our hearts. As one new friend told me yesterday, "He gave so much of himself to this world. A piece of ourselves went with him."
I was really present to the paradox of life yesterday. A joyful topic, such as finding your soulmate, can be handled simultaneously as a global icon bids farewell. It was a poignant moment for me in which I gave time an extra hug.
We all have a personal bank account of time available to us. Michael spent his time on Earth as an artist who was largely estranged from the very world he was entertaining. His fame came at a very high price.
I've decided to joyfully skip down the lane of life with my bank account of time resting softly in my heart. What will you do with yours?
Wednesday Wisdom – Minute-Snatching at Night
July 1, 2009
As a young mom, I could relate to the minute snatching this lovely mom of a two-and-one-half year old boy does. An expressive arts coach and artist, Gabrielle Javier-Cerulli paints at night. Despite the poor lighting conditions, she cherishs the 'me-time' so many moms do not give themselves.
Gabrielle Javier-Cerulli shares her wisdom here. [Listening instructions: Click on the link, then click on it again for it to open your media player. Be sure your pop-up blocker has been deactivated.]
Balance Needs Beauty
December 11, 2008
Sian Lindemann is no ordinary artist. She uses art to create not only a powerful, lasting message, but also to create beauty to serve the world. On September 11, 2001, she took action as she saw the world crumbling around her. Balance without beauty is like a mirror without a reflection. In her artist's mind, they are essential counterparts.
"If one invests wisely in beauty, it will remain with them all the days of their lives" ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
CLH: You started your National Living Arts Foundation as a post 9/11 response. Can you tell us how surrounding yourself with beauty can serve as a reminder to remain balanced in life?
Sian: I did indeed create The National Living Arts Foundation in response to the event of 9/11.
As I sat in response to the event unfolding on the television, I decided that living in the next moment, where individuals would be afraid to travel, to do, to participate and to try new things, might be limited.
Creating the Foundation was an opportunity to "make visible" and to assist many more artists to succeed with their works…..thus establishing more public art exhibitions, installaitons and the like….to inspire elevated thought.
It is essential for me to surround myself with beauty, as acquiring art and the appreciation of art, for me is not a luxury, but a necessity to maintain an inspired view on the world…..when things like the present economy and global unrest seem an overwhelming task to accept or to overcome.
In small ways, with artists, one at at time, or now as we develop group educational programs, I feel that contributing to the ongoing inspiration to the artists to continue is an essential part of my work.
CLH: Some people feel they aren't creative. In what ways can people invite art into their lives?
Sian: It is true that some people do not feel as if they are creative. It has been my experience that many of my benefactors and supporters do not feel that they are particularly creative. They have expressed that following me, following my activities, and / or acquiring the works that I present to them, is an act in which they can participate to encourage and support this broad development, and they do so as a vicarious "taste" into creativity.
CLH: How does creativity help people in therapeutic ways?
Sian: Creativity and the expression of one's creativity is a healing proposition. I know that if I cannot get clear on a particular topic in my day….I sing, or I write, or I journal or I paint, as a way to "connect" with my internal intuition and unique "voice." Yes, sometimes even I drop the thread to that internal peace.
Developing creativity is an essential activity, I believe, and it need not be
limited to that which is art, per se.
It can be developing a creative twist on one's immersion in family life or business……All of this is a healing and soothing process that brings about greater peace.
CLH: How do the arts serve to counterbalance negativity in the world?
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Sian: Great question. We can lift humanity throught the arts. I, in fact, had a complete spiritual epiphany with a collection of works from one artist, now many many years ago.
**You can enjoy 365 days of beauty this year with a desktop art calendar and journal. Go to www.poolofpossibilities.com. PROMO CODE: F101.
50% of the proceeds go towards Sian's foundation to benefit artists.
Life Balance Found in Taos
December 10, 2008
Brandon Schmid just wanted to be alone. A hard-working lawyer from Seattle, WA, he escaped to the rugged landscape in Taos, New Mexico, in the middle of winter. A rugged outdoorsman, he decided winter camping might be just the thing. Sad thing was, he forgot the matches…Read on to find out what he discovered about himself, his life, and his filmmaking abilities…
Humanity isn't about efficiency and accountability, but a balance of that with empathy and community.
CLH: Can you tell us what happened to turn your life around?
Brandon: I went snow camping outside of Taos, New Mexico, without any matches or a lighter (I forgot), and while freezing to death (not literally – but it was sub-zero in the negative teens and I was considering hiking back out) I had a vision for a movie — not just any vision, but a complete vision complete with characters, story, beginning, middle and end, what happens, why it happens, themes and everything in vivid detail — all in a matter of moments. For the past five years, I had been working as a business associate in a couple prestigious law firms in Seattle — Heller and Ehrman,* and Perkins and Coie — working my tail off, long hours, etc. billing and recording every six minutes of every working day for various clients. I had been to Taos several times in a row over a series of months back in 1999. But this time, I stayed for a whole week, as I had recently decided to switch firms and take two weeks in between to unwind. On the way down to Taos, I was reading Tuesdays with Morrie on the plane and couldn't stop crying — the walls and boundaries I had built up in order to function and succeed in such a highly competitive and demanding profession over the past 5 years came crumbling down. I realized how mechanistic and attuned to efficiency and accountability I had become — very inhumane in the sense that humanity isn't about efficiency and accountability, but a balance of that with empathy and community, right?
CLH: What advice do you have for workaholics whose lives are off kilter?
Brandon: I'd say take an inventory of what you have and cut out the excess to get down to what you really enjoy and need — and then adjust your work accordingly.
CLH: Have you developed a more positive relationship with time, and if yes, in what way?
Brandon: Once you throw it all away once – in this case to make a feature film – you get a better perspective on how you have been spending your time in the past — which helps you decide how you want to spend that time in the future. but, unfortunately, the best teacher for developing a more positive relationship with time is time itself.
CLH: You are currently on the film festival circuit, showing your movie, Toas. When can viewers enjoy your film in theaters?
Brandon: As soon as a distributor is willing to pick it up and pay my publicist to market it! 🙂 The film was a self-financed production. I guess those long hours slugging away at the clock paid off (just kidding!).
CLH: I appreciate your taking a moment to answer these questions.
Brandon: Thank you!
*Heller and Ehrman dissolved in October 2008.


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Gary Numan interview with Paul Morely from July 1979, and links to a Smash Hits interview from the same week!
Some content from the excellent (but paid subscription base) Rock's Back Pages, has found it's way onto Yahoo! An excellent interview/profile with Paul Morley from 1979, just as Tubeway Army broke.
Gary Numan was the gloomy Brit who married the influences of Bowie, Ultravox, and even Jobriath, hitting huge with 'Are "Friends" Electric?' Now lauded as an electronic godfather, he plays England's Bestival tonight (Sept 6), so we we're taking you down memory lane with this great Paul Morley NME profile published June 9, 1979
The list went something like: 2.00pm — Jackie, 2.30pm — My Guy, 3.15pm — Patches, 4.00pm — Record Mirror, 4.45pm — Smash Hits, 5.30pm — Paul Morley.
[the Smash Hits interview link is at the bottom]
Tubeway Army – "Are 'Friends' Electric?" named in Grauniad's "The best No 1 records"
After David Bowie's Low and Heroes, the race was on for the first big British electronic hit. Everyone knew it was going to happen, because this was the sound of the future. Who would it be: the Human League, Ultravox, Orchestral Maneouvres in the Dark? Nobody expected this to come out of left-field: a slow, almost dirge-y blast of pure teen alienation set in a chill Science Fiction future – or, rather, alternative present – with its intimations of surveillance, gay cruising, and robotic sex. It sounds too much, but Numan sealed it with a perfect, disconnected vocal and a sweeping, whooshing synthetic arrangement. With its two note hook, Are 'Friends' Electric? – even the quote marks are of their time – dominated the high summer of 1979.


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FOR those who like to see things in black and white, this was a difficult weekend.
There was the Afrikaans-speaking Richardt Strauss belting out 'Amhran na bhFhiann' at Lansdowne Road, while just a few men to his left, a series of Ulster players remained stoic, waiting for their turn with 'Ireland's Call'.
A few minutes earlier, the majority of South Africans in the crowd waited for the third part of their four-part anthem -- 'Die Stem', the old anthem from the apartheid era -- to begin before singing, while they fretted over their Zimbabwean-born prop Tendai 'Beast' Mtawarira, who had been taken to hospital before the game.
Strauss then went out and spilled blood for the cause, giving everything he had to beat the country of his birth, while the maligned Michael Bent came off the bench and showed that he wasn't some backpacking chancer and is actually a prop of genuine ability.
Then, yesterday, a Dutchman in orange boots scored two tries for a Scotland side featuring a Zimbabwean and a South African who played proudly in defeat to New Zealand, while England hammered Fiji on Saturday with a team featuring a South African partnering a Samoan in midfield, a New Zealander at No 8 and a Tongan behemoth prop coming off the bench for his debut.
It is head-spinning stuff and just shows how difficult the debate over qualification to play international rugby has become. The lines have blurred and nobody now knows where to draw the new ones.
Size Matters
Ireland and Leinster have thrived with two relatively small centres for more than 10 years, but as Gordon D'Arcy and Brian O'Driscoll near retirement, it could be time to look to the bigger, younger options coming through.
Between them, D'Arcy and Keith Earls gave up a stone and a half on their opposite numbers, who were both significantly taller.
The lack of an imposing carrier in the centre in the Rob Henderson or Kevin Maggs mould meant that South Africa could drift outwards, safe in the knowledge that there was significant cover inside, while both of the home centres had to punch above their weight when defending against Jean de Villiers and Jaco Taute.
Dave McSharry, Luke Marshall and Darren Cave are some of the bigger ball-carrying options who could provide more thrust in the midfield, while Earls' broken-field running talents could be put to far better use out wide.
Now it's time to cheer on the Boks
Much has been made of the rankings issue, but should the Springboks overcome Scotland at Murrayfield next weekend, the matter becomes moot.
While slipping to eighth is not ideal, it has little practical impact. If Andy Robinson's side, who showed glimmers of positivity in defeat to New Zealand yesterday, can respond by beating South Africa for the second time in succession, then Ireland will be in trouble.
If the Scots leapfrog Ireland it would have a dramatic impact on next month's draw for the 2015 World Cup and would increase the pressure on coach Declan Kidney ahead of the meeting with Argentina.
Plenty of work
for Kiss to do
Les Kiss has been freed up to work solely on attack this November, but despite having greater possession and territory, the Irish side never looked like crossing the Boks' line.
Ireland have always done well off first-phase ball, but needed patience against the 'Boks who presented a wall of giants every time the hosts attacked.
Kiss will be disappointed by the way his attack lost its shape after two or three phases, with players starting to go it alone.
At times Conor Murray or Eoin Reddan would look up and see very few clusters of support, nothing resembling a backline, and had to give the ball to a lone forward, who was turned over. A frustrating sight.
The balance of power remains
June and November offer the public a window into the world of rugby and, while Ireland, Wales and Scotland suffered defeats, France's annihilation of Australia offers hope to the northern hemisphere sides.
The stricken Wallabies -- who drew against New Zealand last time out -- face a daunting trip to Twickenham next, while France host Argentina on Friday night in an increasingly tasty looking encounter.
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In case her musical talent and outspoken opinions about the entertainment industry weren't enough to sell you on Lorde, she's gone and proven yet again that she's one of the coolest teens out there.
The 17-year-old pop star sat down -- over Skype, of course -- with fellow awesome teen girl and founder of Rookie, Tavi Gevinson, to chat about everything from Beyonce to music journalism to feminism. Lorde, who has openly identified herself as feminist -- a refreshing departure from celebrities who not only distance themselves from the term but misdefine it -- opened up to Gevinson about how she connects to the concept, and why the social, political and economic equality of the sexes is something that shouldn't be scary:
I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising, it's just a part of being a girl in 2013. And that kind of normal, non-scary, chill vibe that you had with it, and that Rookie had, was really encouraging when I was like 14.
Lorde also addressed the ambiguities and debates that exist within feminist communities, but said that these (often frustrating) conversations about what makes someone a real/good/true feminist haven't made her reject the term:
I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, "Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing," and I don't know, often it can be a gray area and it can be a hard thing to navigate. But I don't know. I just like, it's just something that I'd assumed was natural for a long time. It's not some crazy kind of alien concept to me.
It's heartening to see a pop star ready to openly discuss feminism and sex-positivity, and do it all with an unassuming air. "Just take pride in what you do. Take photos of yourself wearing super weird clothes and love how it looks and be happy with that," Lorde told Gevinson.
Now that's solid advice for women of any age to heed -- and it reminds us just why we love teenage girls so very much.
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Off to Vermont
Later today we'll begin our road trip to Vermont and Lake Champlain for a spot of camping, outdoor life and fishing. I'm sure there will be a few breweries to be visited along the way – Magic Hat and Otter Creek to name but two.
Apparently you can shoot pike in Lake Champlain at this time of year. I can't wait for dynamite season.
Last time we took a serious road trip it was in a SMART car up a bunch of big mountains in Spain. Now that was fun too!
Spain 2011
Spain 2011, a set on Flickr.
I mentioned that we took a trip to Andalusia in Spain last August. Here are the snaps.
Remembering Spain
Starting to get to grips with some HDR versions of some old photos. I found this one from our holiday in Andalusia, Spain last August. Not sure how I missed it first time round. It was so quiet where we stayed, we actually heard a leaf blow down the street. Ah Spain, your food was crap but your vistas were lovely.


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Volkswagen kills plan for pickup in Europe
High oil prices have snuffed out Volkswagen's plans to build a European-market pickup truck. The vast and versatile loading area of a pickup, while a selling point in the US, is seen by VW as a sales liability on Euro soil. The vehicle's sales potential didn't stand up to analysis by the automaker, which cited oil prices as the culprit for shifting market desires. The Volkswagen Robust is still underway, with the program ramping up to churn 90,000 pickups out of VW's Pacheco, Argentina plant sta
Spy Shots: Volkswagen Robust pick-up truck
Rumors of a German (or at least German-branded) pickup truck have been bouncing around longer than a Lamborghini sport-ute or Ferrari sedan, and may seem just as out of place. But the automotive paparazzi have brought the speculation back to the forefront, spying a developmental test mule of what is tipped to be a Volkswagen truck undergoing apparent cold-weather testing.
Spy Shots: 2010 VW Robust pickup
Despite what the truck in these photos looks like, it is not a Toyota Hilux rebadged by Volkswagen. No, according to The Car Connection, it's a Toyota Hilux body atop Volkswagen's upcoming Robust pickup. And before you VW fans get too excited, it is not intended for sale in the States. But truck shoppers in South America and Africa will be able to choose between a V6 or common rail diesel in both 2WD and 4WD versions.
Spy Shots: Volkswagen Taro pickup?
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Sometimes life takes a brutal turn. This became true for me when my husband - who was in the process of dealing with a physical disability - suffered a mental breakdown which traumatized us both. He didn't bounce back quickly. He is still not back to whole actually and it's been a long time.
Life goes on but nothing is the same. Life is not sweet anymore. It's difficult every day. Everything I believed about God - everything I believed about anything actually - has been overhauled. It is still being overhauled. What I believe now is not neat and clean. It is filled with questions. It welcomes mystery. Most importantly to me, what I believe now feels closer to true than it ever has before so for that I am thankful.
Early on - during the worst of times - God was silent. Silent except for one nagging question that came to me as I sat in the middle of the mess that had become my life through no fault or choice of my own. The simple question:
"What do you see here?"
I have been answering that question every day.
It's all I can do.
This is what I see here.