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Alleged press images of Sony's upcoming flagship, codenamed Honami, reveal beautiful design as expected, may be announced officially on July 4.
"Honami", the codename for Sony's upcoming flagship Android Smartphone, a part of the 'One Sony' initiative that aims to truly bring out the best of Sony, in a Smartphone. Dubbed the Xperia i1, here are the first alleged press images of the upcoming monster camera phone:
Is it just me or the device indeed shows some design similarities with the Nokia Lumia 925? Oh well, it's actually a good thing because the phone looks stunningly good. Also, our sources confirmed that Honami will support 4K video recording and playback. This was made possible largely due to the use of Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 800 SoC, which supports the said features (apart from delivering blistering fast performance).
A side-by-side comparison of how Honami stacks up when placed beside the Xperia Z and ZL… It's bigger.
Lastly, we speculate that Honami will indeed be announced on the 4th of July Paris media event. If the leaked images are indeed real, then the photo of the Eiffel tower is just too hard to go unnoticed. Sony is dropping subtle hints eh?
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Home > News & Events > Events Calendar > The Future of Leader-Leadership and Character Development: What's "I" got to do with it? Frontline with Faculty Series.
"Ask what you can do to make the world a better place."
"Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation."
"Leadership and Learning are Indispensable to Each Other."
- John F. Kennedy "To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
- Teddy Roosevelt Dana Born will discuss leader and leadership development and incorporate into the discussion the growing importance of character development. Given the changing world, does the leader focus on what it is to exercise leadership make sense as a starting point? Does the fascination with explanations and descriptions of "I" serve us?
Dana H. Born, Lecturer in Public Policy, is a retired brigadier general with 30 years of service in the U.S. Air Force. Prior to coming to Harvard, from 2004-2013, she served two terms as the President appointed dean of the faculty for the U.S. Air Force Academy where she was also a professor and head of the Behavioral Sciences and Leadership Department. Dana also served as Assistant Director for Recruiting Research and Analysis in the Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management Policy, aide to the Secretary of the Air Force and Deputy Chief of the Personnel Issues Team in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel. She commanded the 11th Mission Support Squadron at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., was an Exchange Officer with the Royal Australian Air Force, and served in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. A 1983 graduate with distinction of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Dana holds two master¹s degrees (Trinity University and University of Melbourne) and a doctorate in industrial and organizational psychology from Penn State University. She has received a large number of awards, including an honorary doctorate from Simmons College in 2007, the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit and the Defense Meritorious Service Medal.


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|Loaded Firearm Discovered in Carry-on Bag at Amarillo (AMA)
- Three inert grenades were discovered this week at Baltimore (BWI), Minneapolis (MSP), and Kansas City (MCI).
|Knife Concealed in Bag of Chips (LBB), Knife Under Pull Handle (BTR), Knife Sewn Into Lining of Purse (IAH)
- Nine credit card knives were discovered this week. Four at Kansas City (MCI), two at Albuquerque (ABQ), and the remainder were discovered at Colorado Springs (COS), Cincinnati (CVG), and Fresno (FAT).
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- A knife was detected in the lining of the carry-on bag at Baton Rouge (BTR).
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**I did this write up a few years ago for the Mk4 forum. It has not been updated since 2005. Please use this as a guide, but keep in mind that some oils may have been added or removed from this list since it was made.**
All You Ever Wanted to Know about VW Approved Oil, and more!
To make a long story short, VW Auto Group (specifically VW and Audi) maintain an oil standard of approved oils which are acceptable for use in their engines.
This compliation of approved oils is to help you choose an oil which will both suit your needs, and confirm to the VW oil standard.
Currently, there are two standards which you should be concerned about, the 502.00 and the 505.01 standards.
If your car was made between 1998 and 2004, your car requires 502.00 oil. For a list of approved 502.00 oils, click here.
If you car was made after 2004, your car requires 505.01 oil. For a list of approved 505.01 oils, click here.
The 505.01 oil standard is the most recent - released July 2005.
If you are confused about which oil you should choose, I suggest reading the PDF version of VW's Choosing the Right Oilgasoline engines brocure, which is available here.
**Regarding TDI Engines**
Quote, originally posted by tjl » TDI diesel engines in the US, use:
1996-2003: 5W-40 or 5W-30 synthetic with any of VW 505.00, ACEA B3 or B4, or API CF-4, CG-4, CH-4, or CI-4
2004-2005: VW 505.01 rated oil only
Note: VW 505.01 rated oils also meet VW 505.00 (though typically not VW 502.00). Most(?) VW 502.00 rated oils also meet VW 505.00 but not VW 505.01.
disclaimer: all information in the thread was obtained from VAG as puplic domain information. If, after reading this thread, you are still unsure of what oil to use, please consult a VW Technician. That is all.
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Due to advancements in technology and global consumerism, the world has experienced an immense increase in globalization over the past two generations. National borders are becoming increasingly irrelevant to global commerce, as people and products move seamlessly around the globe to meet the needs of an ever more educated and eager consumer base.
The most successful business leaders of the future will need to recognize diverse challenges and opportunities that arise from international and intercontinental trade. In order to help Fisher students build the skills necessary to capitalize on these business opportunities in their future careers, Fisher has developed a robust multi-tiered approach to globalizing the education of our students.
- 98% of returning participants said it helped them to better understand their own cultural values and biases (IES)
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The Office of Global Business provides Fisher students with a variety of options where they can put classroom theories into action in compelling international locations, and learn through experience. Employers value the diverse background that global experiences provide and list "strategic international understanding" and "cross-cultural experience" as two of their top four employee traits they seek.
What global companies look for are people who we think have a global perspective. Students are well placed to do this if they have taken opportunities to widen their cultural perspective.
People who succeed can work in multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural and multi-locational teams. If students have demonstrated they can work with other cultures and teams, that's a big plus for us as we need students to be intellectually curious and culturally agile if they are going to work in a global context.
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LOS ANGELES -- Marley Coffee has named Mother Parkers Tea and Coffee its exclusive foodservice distribution partner for all of Canada. The partnership will bring a full-service coffee program to universities, hotels, cafes, restaurant and convenience stores across Canada. It will combine Marley Coffee's line of sustainable coffees in all formats with Mother Parkers' equipment support program.
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Bautista, Buchholz garner August AL honors
Bautista, Buchholz garner August AL honors
Leading the American League in five offensive categories was more than enough for him to be named the league's Player of the Month. The AL's monthly awards stayed in the East, with Red Sox right-hander Clay Buchholz taking home Pitcher of the Month honors.
Bautista, the Major League leader with 43 home runs, topped the AL in home runs (12), RBIs (24), slugging percentage (.742) and total bases (72) while tying for the lead with 18 extra-base hits. He also finished tied for second in runs (23) and third in walks (23). He reached base safely in the final 13 games of the month while hitting .299 with a .431 on-base percentage and .742 slugging percentage in 98 at-bats.
This was his second career monthly award, and his second in a row, as he shared honors with Minnesota's Delmon Young in July. Before July, the last Blue Jay to take home Player of the Month honors was Joe Carter, back in April 1994.
Reaching double-digits in homers in a month is nothing new for Bautista this year. This was his third time above that plateau -- with 11 in May and 11 in July, the only time a Blue Jays player has accomplished that feat. Bautista has set a Blue Jays record with three monthly home run titles as well. His dozen long balls in August tied him with Jose Cruz Jr. and Carlos Delgado atop the organizational leaderboard for the month.
As good as Bautista was at the plate, Buchholz was just as dominant on the mound. The right-hander went 4-0 with a 1.03 ERA and 28 strikeouts over six starts. He was second in the league in ERA for the month, bringing his Major League-leading ERA down to 2.21 for the season. The AL Cy Young Award candidate is also among the league leaders for the year in wins (15), winning percentage (.750) and opponent batting average (.222).
With the Red Sox trying to claw back into the playoff race, Buchholz came up with three of his four wins against intra-division opponents, beating Bautista's Jays twice and the Yankees once last month. The 2010 All-Star went at least seven innings in five of his six starts and allowed a run or fewer in five starts as well. Over the course of the month, he strung together a career-best 26 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings, spanning three starts.
Rotation-mate Jon Lester won this honor back in May, giving the Red Sox two Pitcher of the Month Awards for the first time since Lester was so honored in July and September 2008.
Jonathan Mayo is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Martin Flirts with No-Hitter, Blue Hens Bang Out 14 Hits to Down Rider 11-1 in Series Finale
BEL AIR, Md. -- University of Delaware starter Chad Martin flirted with a no-hitter into the seventh inning and the Blue Hens banged out 14 hits and scored four runs in two separate innings to defeat Rider 11-1 in non-league baseball action Sunday at Harford Community College.
Martin, a redshirt freshman from Darnestown, Md. (Quince Orchard HS), did not allow a hit over the first six innings and retired the first two batters in the seventh before Rider's Justin Thomas clouted a home run to dead center field to break up the no-hit and shutout bid.
The Blue Hens (6-7) won their second straight game and inched closer to .500 as they took the series from Rider after falling in the opener 4-1 on Friday. The Broncs managed just two hits and fell to 3-8 on the season.
Martin (2-1) went seven full innings, allowing just two hits and one run while striking out seven batters. Luke Alicknavitch came in to close out the win with two perfect innings of relief. Martin was trying to become the first Delaware pitcher to hurl a no-hitter since the 2005 season. He set the Broncs down in order in the third, fifth, and sixth innings and retired the first two batters in the seventh before the blast by Thomas.
"It was nice to get this series after losing the first one," said Delaware head coach Jim Sherman, who now needs just three wins to reach 400 for his career at Delaware. "Our guys really played well today. Chad pitched with great poise and understanding and attacked the hitters. We got good hitting from (Joe) Giacchino and (EJ) Stoltzfus at the top of the order. Overall it was a great day."
Delaware scored 11 runs for the second straight day and matched a season-high for hits. The Hens used a four-run sixth inning to go up 7-0 and added four more in the eighth inning to extend the lead. After managing just three hits Friday in the 4-1 loss to Rider, the Hens have now scored 11 runs in consecutive games for the first time since mid-April of last year.
Third baseman EJ Stoltzfus went 3 for 4 and knocked in three runs, centerfielder Joe Giacchino went 2 for 4 with two triples and three RBI, and shortstop Brock Niggebrugge had two hits, scored twice, and knocked in another run.
Giacchino led off the first inning with a triple for Delaware and then scored on a groundout by Stoltzfus and Alex Mottle added a run-scoring double to put the Hens up 2-0 after just one inning. The Hens added a single run in the fifth and then put up four in the sixth as Niggebrugge knocked in one run, Giacchino brought two runs home with his second triple of the day, and Stoltzfus added an RBI single.
Delaware added on to the score with four more runs in the eighth thanks to a sacrifice fly by Giacchino, an RBI single by Stoltzfus, and a run-scoring single from Tyler Powell.
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Bravo! I actually laughed at this one.
In for 1
So I guess that makes two this week?
That thing's operational!
It's a part!
...no, I mean, it's a TARP!
...aw hell.
I question whether Admiral Ackbar is Chinese
At least it's not a tarp...
Know Your Meme!
It's...so awful...
Hahaha. Nice. In for 1.
Why did I never think of this? I could've made millions! Ok, maybe not millions, but I see this selling pretty well.
Wow, that's not going to get you (the general you) sued?
Made me laugh but too nerdy to wear.
Mmmm. Fried calamari would be mighty tasty about now.
Wow another Ninthwheel so soon?? damn!
Clever with the finger trap, but I'm just not interested in this one. But with the woot off going on. I bet it will sell like hotcakes. So good luck, Ninthwheel! ;)
Mon Calamari have webbed hands. I'm not sure if this is canonically accurate.
Augh. I liked this guy and his legendary quote long before it became an internet meme. I always called him "the lobster guy" and always thought it was awesome when he screamed about the impending trap they walked into.
So yes: "augh". I had to buy it.
Woot, you foiled my plans to keep my money safe from you yet again. Curse you.
StargateGamingGeek wrote:So I guess that makes two this week?
the hilarious part is that I've talked to certain staffers about how tired Teefury is with all their one-note references.
Humor wise, this is a step above, but really... I'm not going to pretend this isn't saddening to see. I guess it had to be, since Teefury is on woot's turf tonight with a meaningless cute bunny drinking coffee
The phrase "I can't shake 'em!" comes to mind. Two movies back, I know, but still.
Is it a Legendary Trap? Just wonderin'.....9_9
Got one of these for my boyfriend, his fellow game developers will get a holler out of it. XD~~~~
Also, hi-five to another Austin designer! We should organize an Austin Wootmeet.
I will now be singing Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey aaalllllll daaaaaayyyy long! Thanks, woot, for the soundtrack to my day. =)
I must have it! In for one.
"party trap"
I was considering doing something along these lines for the palindrome derby. Too late now. Thanks a lot Matt Leyen! ;)
squirrrl wrote:Made me laugh but too nerdy to wear.
AdderXYU wrote: Teefury is on woot's turf tonight with a meaningless cute bunny drinking coffee
Mmmm, yes, more for my collection, BUWAHAHAHA!
He falls for everything.
AdderXYU wrote:the hilarious part is that I've talked to certain staffers about how tired Teefury is with all their one-note references.
Humor wise, this is a step above, but really... I'm not going to pretend this isn't saddening to see. I guess it had to be, since Teefury is on woot's turf tonight with a meaningless cute bunny drinking coffee
Ugh... TeeFury...
(By that I mean... Have their designs always sucked or is it a recent thing? My first/only buy from them was the last $5 grab...)
He's so googly eyed.
"It's A Trap!" is right. I purchased two shirts this week. Phil, the prince of insufficient light is here to darn me to heck for buying shirts I really don't need.
Double Darn!
futile or empty of meaning
freakin' awesome! in for one!
Wow. Somebody has too much time on their hands.
I want one but am to afraid to click on the "I want one" button in fear of it being a trap.
Uncle Albert win!
This is why you should always snip up your chinese handcuffs with scissors before throwing them away. Otherwise innocent Mon Calamari can become tangled in them and die.
Dear Internet,
I'd like to preemptively point out to all the hyperventilating nerds that Admiral Ackbar does indeed have finger-like appendages, though he is a lobster-like denizen of Mon Calamari. If anyone would like to empirically test whether or not a Chinese finger trap would work on chitin, be my guest.
A little help on the song? All I can think is "I'm Super" from South Park: BLU (all the sorrys), but I don't think that's right.
Bought it like a bad habit.
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Despite rhetoric supporting the advancement of women on corporate boards, the evidence of any progress in the last decade is meager (outside countries with mandated gender quotas). Archival board data (approximately 5000 U.S. publicly traded firms) from the past decade (2002-2011) shows that the biggest predictor of whether or not a female is appointed to a corporate board is if a woman just left that board. If a man leaves a board there is a corresponding negative effect (though the magnitude is of this effect is lower). This "gender matching heuristic" was replicated in follow up lab studies, which also showed that although respondents are selecting candidates based on gender matching, they deny using gender as an important factor. We suggest this gender matching is a subconscious heuristic process stemming from the more general status-quo bias.
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My Dell Latitude D620 has a Broadcom 57xx Gigabit Ethernet and an Intel 2200bg wireless controller. Both are not noticed upon boot. Do an ifconfig and all that is listed is loopback.
Looked in networking hardware in system (?) menu and also loopback was the only one listed.
I plan on testing my one of many external wireless cards later today to see if they function.
Thank you!
I did that and it worked. The Intel 2200bg is set up as eth1 and the Broadcom did populate when the command was run as eth0.
Testing other cards...
These did not work...
Senao NL-2511CD Plus EXT2 (Prism 2.5)
eHome EH101 - who knows what chipset...it was free!
These did work...
ZyXEL G-102v2 (Atheros ath0)
Linksys WPC54G ver3 (Broadcom wlan0)
Netgear MA521 (Realtek wlan0)
All are PCMCIA (PCCARD) wireless network cards
I run a 904ha eee pc and i tired the command
root@bt:~# /etc/init.d/networking start
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root@bt:~# ifconfig ath0 up
or if you want it in monitor mode
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# wlanconfig ath0 destroy
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After my Bacon Dove Poppers post I realized that I, in fact, did not tell y'all we got a puppy. (Look, I said "y'all!" I'm so Texan now!)
His name is Jasper and he is a standard poodle.
In general, I don't feel that dogs are particularly urban homesteader-y. They can help guard a flock of hens if they are outside, but most urbanites keep their dogs inside unless they are home, and on a city lot, I'm not sure what else they contribute to food independence or self-sufficiency. But that doesn't stop us from wanting them or loving them. Yay dogs!
Jasper is not just a standard poodle. He is a hunting poodle. After Josie, our last dog, Rick had decided that our next dog should be a hunting dog. He wanted a buddy that could go with him on duck hunts as well as retrieve birds for upland game. There are a few breeds of dogs that fit the bill of both upland and waterfowl retrievers… labs, Vizslas, Weimaraners and poodles.
I'm not a huge fan of labs – they are being really over-bred, they think with their stomachs, and I've had mostly negative experiences with them. Vizslas and Weimaraners are gorgeous dogs, but they are very high energy, and I just didn't think I could handle adding one to our already chaotic household. That left poodles.
Poodles are reputed to be great family dogs and good retrievers (if you can find a breeder still breeding them to work) and they don't shed. Of course that last one means they have a high maintenance coat. But I'm ok with that actually.
In May, we picked Jasper up from a breeder in Phoenix. I know Phoenix is a long way to go for a dog. However, most standard poodle breeders these days are breeding for looks, not for working. So back in September of last year we started searching for a breeder who was actually hunting with their poodles.
We finally narrowed the very short list of breeders down to two; one in Georgia, Louter Creek, which is the home of Cooper, the famous poodle from Duck Dynasty (no, he doesn't really belong to Si – sorry to burst your bubble), and to Harmony Mountain in Arizona.
After contacting the breeders in October and doing tons of research (and Googling), we decided on Arizona. Both breeders were great, and I'm certain a dog from the Louter's would have been wonderful. But Harmony Mountain was much closer to Colorado (which did factor into the cost for us), and it was obvious that Lori and Rich kept in close contact with all their puppy buyers. Lori's attention to detail, testing and keeping up to date with research made me know they were the breeder for us.
We signed on the line in December and put the deposit down on Jasper's litter the first week of January, before we found out we were moving to Texas.
After we found out about the move, we almost canceled. He was due to be born at the end of March, within a couple of weeks of us getting to Texas. We would bring him home in May. The prospect of a new puppy during all this seemed pretty overwhelming, but in the end we decided to keep our deposit.
I'm so glad we did. After the move I actually had much more free time to give to puppy training than I would have back in Colorado.
Also, if any of you knew our old dog, you would understand my fears in getting a new dog. She was a mutt from the pound and very difficult on almost every possible level.
But Jasper… Jasper has been a dream. He is sweet and calm and smart. He is happy and gentle and sensitive. He fits in here perfectly. Nothing has been disturbed by his joining the family. He loves to snuggle and thinks he is a lap dog. Or possibly a cat.
By 4 months old he had already mastered sit, down, stay, shake, place, wait, come, kennel, load, off, leave it, heel… I'm sure there are more.
As far as hunting, he is retrieving and likes the water. He is already responding to whistle commands. He's currently enrolled in obedience classes, at the end of which we hope he will have earned his Canine Good Citizen title.
I am grooming him myself. He is pretty good about me clipping his nails and trimming his body and feet. He doesn't like having his face shaved still, but we push through and take it slow and I know soon it will be easy too. I have shaved his face three or four times now. Every groom gets faster.
Jasper's almost six months old now and is about 21 inches tall at the shoulder. He'll continue to grow, but probably won't be huge. The kids love him and he them. He's a good sport (as this pictures shows). We're just entering the mischievous teenager puppy stage, but aside from a Spiderman action figure loosing a hand, there haven't been many toy casualties yet. Knock on wood.
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So today Schatzi and I got into it. Yup, I lost my patience with this 8 month old brat. The morning started with her not wanting to eat her food. Okay, I let it slide. I get home from work and I get my 3 1/2 month Alaskan Malamute and we start training. This guy is awesome. Anyways, I put him in the kitchen and bring in Schatzi. We started just doing basic sit, down, stay...etc. However, it's like she forgot about everything. She sat, but didn't want to down nor stay. This are things she knows by heart. So whatever I changed it and went to touch pads she did okay, but not like she normally does. Then went back to the basics and the same. I was already getting frustrated at her. So I decided to bring both Cudi and Schatzi out to the back yard and let them mingle. Schatzi was being too rough with him so I separated both. I told my dad to walk Cudi up and down while Schatzi is sitting down and every time they would pass in front she would break her stay. She was being such a brat I snapped at her. I got mad, yelled, and cussed her out. :( Then to top it all off she starts running in circles and taunting me. Every time I got close to grabbing the leash she would run full speed in circles lol. That drove me crazy. Has anyone gone through something like this? I've never encountered this behavior with this girl. -_-
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yes, my dog will always play games when i lose my patience, running and jumping and running some more. then again, i don't know if he realizes those limits - when other dogs knock at him for getting too intense, he just goes right back into it, sprints around with this stupid happy face and i am assuming he is thinking "yeah right, bark, hit me, bark bark at me! catch me now! ha ha ha ha!!!!!!"
or something like that.
What helped me is to ramp up the shorter sessions, tone down the longer ones. Nowadays it's like 3 really short sessions, less than 5 minutes each, and just random stuff in between all the time. It holds his attention much nicer, and he gets just as much out of it. and no matter where it ends, make sure you end on the best note - string together 3 great commands - sit, down, sit? awesome, end. heel for 60 paces? awesome, end. recall on first call, AND a sit stay? awesome, end.
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When my dig tries to act up I look at what I am doing and try to adjust the signals I am sending.
You said it all
Eight months old? You said it all right there. We are over two years away from that time with our youngest GSD female. We tend to forget all those frustrations over time. I can remember Kana and training "leave it". She would leave it, only to snatch it away at the last minute and take off running. She would then drop whatever we were using about 25 yards away, come running up to me, siting and waiting on me to go get it. As I got about 10 yards away, she would bolt and grab it before I could get there. Sounds funny now, but at the time it was NOT!
I hear your frustration. Xerxes knows the down and stay commands but sometimes it's just like, Na I don't want to. You need to walk away from it and maybe try shorter sessions like it was suggested. I know it is easier said then done. You just want to scream at them when you know they know it. Dogs can be brats just like kids and for german shepherd because they are so smary somtimes are worse. I always called their "badword" additude.
8 months is that time they start to really test you. I think sometimes when they get like this, to maybe give the really structured obedience a break and just do some fun games with a few commands mixed in.
Really, you've got a teenage girl on your hands. :D
Welcome to the "brat club". I am going through the same thing with Sam, the Knuckle head. He tries my patience, but I just walk away, count to ten, until he settles down, or until he does it again. At this point, I can't wait till he grows up!
LMAO ... welcome to a teenage GSD.
Trust me, with patience, time, consistency, patience, patience and lots more patience you'll get through it.
There were times with Kyleigh between 9-11 months of age I would have GLADLY handed her over to someone else to raise - then give her back to me when she was a year!!!!
When he gets like that, stop training. You're only frustrating yourself, he feeds off that and it's a cycle of frenzied energy.
I'm not saying don't train ... just don't train at the moment. Burn that energy off in a fun way - play tug, run around the backyard with him, anything BUT training. Then try again.
He hasn't forgotten any of his commands, he's just testing to see if you REALLY mean it.
This behaviour is EXACTLY why so many dogs end up at shelters at 8-9 months of age!
Hang in there - it does get better!!! All of us with older GSDs can attest to it!
Next time this happens, finish with something strong - like the touch pads - and put her up. What good does it do to do what you did? I have finally learned this.
It could be calming signals too - slowing things down. Like sunflowers said, look at yourself.
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Sometimes I just resort to sit and watch me, anything so we can end on a good note and my terms. I figure if I lose it, then he perceives that he won, and that would undermine my authority and make him challenge me even more.
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"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals, and you know it," proclaimed Agent K, actor Tommy Lee Jones' character in the film Men in Black. Agent K was referring to the chaos that would ensue were the public made aware of aliens living among them. Because when people think and act in unison, the results are rarely productive, and occasionally they're catastrophic.
But what if you could take groupthink and eliminate the dumb, panicky and dangerous parts? That's the idea behind crowdsourcing: When you ask the whole world a question at the same time, it's safe to assume you'll end up, by default, with a reasonable answer.
And thanks to the Web, you really can ask the world a question and get individual answers in return. That's exactly what the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce did as part of its InnovateNow campaign. The chamber turned to the wisdom of the crowd to determine how to increase public transit ridership on reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Four years ago, in partnership with the Illinois Department of Economic Opportunity, the chamber launched InnovateNow, an effort to transform the Chicago metropolitan area into a global center of innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity. To achieve its goal, the chamber is working with state and local governments, schools and businesses on ideas for design and innovation that will spur economic growth and environmental sustainability.
During preparation for the 2009 Innovation Summit, the chamber was approached by InnoCentive, a company that specializes in using crowdsourcing to help clients solve problems, said Chicagoland Chamber Foundation President Lance Pressl. For a fee, InnoCentive helps its clients design a challenge, which can be related to any subject - from math and science to public policy. Once the challenge is finalized, the client (a.k.a., the "seeker") offers a reward for a workable solution and InnoCentive posts the challenge on its Web site. Once the challenge is posted, "solvers" from around the world can access it and attempt to devise a solution. Anyone can be a solver, and InnoCentive said it has around 180,000 people registered.
"As we were preparing for our third annual Innovation Summit, we were thinking about what the theme might be," Pressl said. "We seized upon 'How innovation plus design can equal sustainability.'
"We thought, 'Wouldn't it be cool if we were able to link the theme of what we were doing with an InnoCentive challenge?'"
After some brainstorming, the chamber settled on a challenge that would ask how the Chicago Transit Authority could increase public transportation ridership and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The challenge dovetailed with the already-established Billion Rides campaign - an effort to tally 1billion public transit rides in one year.
Last fall, Pressl and the chamber began working with InnoCentive's sales vice president, Jon Fredrickson, to devise a challenge they hoped would generate a blueprint for boosting public transit ridership to 1 billion. The chamber managed to get $5,000 for a reward and posted the challenge in November. Pressl presented the winning solution at the Innovation Summit in May 2009.
While it's not a government body, the not-for-profit Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce seeks to improve the Chicago region. The chamber was also the first organization with a public interest to work with InnoCentive. As such, both Pressl and Fredrickson said they weren't sure what interest there might be in solving a public-works problem. They were both pleasantly surprised.
"That people somewhere would have an opinion and be willing to use their intelligence to offer that opinion, idea or solution to a public body was pretty compelling," said Fredrickson. "And when you started looking at the number


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The Name
This year SAPPHIRE officially changed its name and became SAPPHIRE NOW. Why? Different answers from different people. Those that should know said: "The new name stresses the urgency." Urgency for whom, SAP? And will the next SAPPHIRE be named SAPPHIRE THEN? Never change a successful brand.
The Event
Another premiere for SAPPHIRE was the simultaneous show in Orlando, US and Frankfurt, Germany. With 5,000 attendees in Frankfurt, 10,500 in Orlando and 35,000 online participants, this was the biggest SAPPHIRE event ever. I must admit I was concerned going to Frankfurt while everyone in Walldorf desperately tried to escape to Orlando. Who wants to attend a second-hand event? But now I'm a believer. SAP managed to balance the important parts of the show between Orlando and Frankfurt. Keynotes were held simultaneously in both locations via virtual video connection and speakers in both cities. In general I never had the feeling I would miss anything important in Frankfurt simply because it was the smaller event overall. It didn't make a difference if I couldn't attend another 400 presentations in Frankfurt or 800 in Orlando from the total of 1,200+ presentations – I had a packed agenda and got all that I expected and needed, including 1:1 meetings with SAP executives like Jim Snabe. The simultaneous, virtual set-up not only helped to save a lot of cost, it created a sense of a bigger virtual community and underlined SAP's ambitions for more sustainability. To all that traveled intercontinental: Shame on you, next year stay in your home region!
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Find out how to get to Guaranteed Rate Field. Whether you're traveling from north, south, east, west, by car or CTA.
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Accessible parking for cars displaying state issued disability placards or license plates is available on the north side of the ballpark in parking lot B immediately adjacent to Gate 5. To reach lot B guests from the north should travel south on Wentworth from 31st street and turn right on 33rd, then left on Wells street. Guests coming from the south should travel north on LaSalle from 35th street and turn left onto 33rd, then left onto Wells.
A parking attendant will direct vehicles displaying a current handicapped license plate or municipally issued disabled permit to the reserved parking area. Any guest in need of assistance may be dropped off or picked up at Gate 5 lot B. Guests needing access to an elevator or escalator should enter the ballpark at Gate 5.
The Chicago Transit Authority provides transportation to/from Guaranteed Rate Field for guests who are physically challenged. Arrangements may be made by contacting the CTA at 312-836-7000; (TDD) 312-836-4949.
Parking lots will close 30 minutes after each game. Tailgating is not permitted after games.
Regular priced individual parking costs $20 Monday through Saturday, and $10 on Family Sundays.
Guaranteed Rate Field is easily accessed via public transportation. The area is also serviced by a number of bus routes and Metra Rock Island stop. Please visit the Chicago Transit Authority Web site at www.chicagotransitauthority.com or via phone at 312-836-7000 for more information.
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Union Leader Correspondent | April 28. 2014 9:37PM
Construction began recently at Attitash Mountain Resort on three zip lines, including the "Flying Bear," which is being billed by the resort as the "longest single-span zip line in the contiguous United States." (COURTESY)
Among the variety of attractions at New Hampshire ski resorts are canopy tours at Bretton Woods, which also offers zip lines; a mountain coaster at Cranmore Mountain Resort, which also has a giant swing and the Soaring Eagle zip line; the Zipline Canopy Tour and Thrillsville Aerial Park at Alpine Adventures near Loon Mountain in Lincoln; the Canopy Zip-Line Tour at Mount Sunapee in Newbury; Gunstock's zip lines, Aerial Tree Top Adventures and off-road Segway tours.
In addition to zip lines, he said, resorts also are enticing summer visitors with disc golf and downhill-mountain biking.
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ONE OF my favorite and most-used recipes, this salad is easy to prepare for two or 20! I often improvise with other fresh ingredients such as carrots, onions, celery, parsley and even crunchy water chestnuts. Around our house, this recipe is known as "Jenny's Salad" in honor of our daughter-in-law, who introduced it to us. -Sally Frizzell, New London, Ohio
- 1 cup broccoli florets
- 1 cup cauliflowerets
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- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- In a bowl, combine the first three ingredients. In a small bowl, combine mayonnaise, sugar, vinegar, salt and pepper; mix well. Add to vegetables and toss to coat. Yield: 2-3 servings.
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Each year, the National Institute on Aging publishes a funding policy for medical research grant applications. This policy is of great interest to scientists and researchers seeking funding and others in the research community.
The interim funding policy and paylines for fiscal year 2014 are now available. In a new blog post, Dr. Robin Barr, director of the NIA Division of Extramural Activities, describes the temporary paylines and how they might change over the course of the year. "Hopefully we will be able to pay more applications once Congress enacts a budget or continuing resolution that covers the entire fiscal year," he explains.
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Les Chevaliers de l'Ordre de la Terre Plate, Part I: Allègre and Courtillot
France has a per capita carbon emission of 1.64 tonnes, compared to 2.67 tonnes for the U.K and 5.61 tonnes for the US. So, if anybody has earned the right to rest on their laurels and pontificate to the rest of the developed world about what they should be doing, you'd think it would be France. Far from it, under the leadership of Nicolas Sarkozy, France has embarked on an ambitious program of deeper carbon reductions. In introducing the measures, Sarkozy said "The guiding principle is that the cost to the climate — the carbon cost — will be integrated into planning of all major public projects, and into all deliberations affecting the public." These measures include: a commitment that all new buildings would be net energy producers by 2020, incandescent lighting would be banned by 2010, buyers of efficient vehicles would be subsidized, drivers of inefficient vehicles would be penalized, and road construction would be severely curtailed in favor of expanded rail travel using state-of-the-art French TGV technology. A carbon tax is also being seriously contemplated. These proposals are the result of an intensive months-long series of discussions with scientists and stakeholders such as environmental nongovernmental organizations, industry representatives, and labor union representatives. The process, known as Le Grenelle de l'Environnement, was described here by Nature (subscription required) and a summary of some of Sarkozy's proposed actions was reported in the press here.
All the same, there has been some pushback from a vocal pair of highly decorated French academicians, Claude Allègre being the most prominent and noisiest of the two. In recent years, Vincent Courtillot has emerged as a reliable sidekick to Allègre — a Dupont to his Dupond — helping to propagate Allègre's claims and adding a few of his own. Both are members of the Académie des Sciences, and Allègre has been awarded both the Crafoord Prize and Bowie Medal. Allègre has an impressive list of publications relating to the Earth's interior, and besides that was Minister for Education, Research and Technology in the Jospin government. Courtillot — currently director of the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) — has had a distinguished record of research on fundamental aspects of geomagnetism and is currently President of the Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Section of the American Geophysical Union. Their views were amply (some would say more than amply) represented at a symposium on the IPCC report, held last Spring at the Academie (See the issue "Evolution des Climats" of La Lettre de l'Académie des sciences, and press reports in Le Figaro, Le Monde, and Liberation). What does all this mean? Are the opinions of Allègre and Courtillot founded on some special profound insight that has escaped the notice of the community of scientists who have devoted entire careers to studying climate? Let's take a look.
When an active scientist of the distinction of Allègre or Courtillot speaks out, the voice has a special claim on our attention, no matter how implausible the claims may seem. It would be a mistake, however, to accept the proclamations of such luminaries on the basis of authority; one must examine the arguments on their merits. Allègre does not publish his arguments on climate in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, so we have to turn to his popular writings and public statements to get a glimpse of what these arguments are. A treasure trove of Allegrisms (Allegrories? Allegrations?) can be conveniently found in a little opus humbly entitled Ma vérité sur la planète (Plon/Fayard:Paris 2007). Many of the things said here merely parrot standard discredited skeptics' arguments without adding anything new: For example, Allègre at several junctures repeats the old fallacy of confusing unpredictability of weather with the problem of determining how climate responds to changes in radiative forcing: "I have difficulty believing that one could predict with precision the temperatures that will occur a century from now, when we can't even predict what they will be one week from now." (p.89) He also repeats the fallacy that the lead-lag relation between CO2 and temperature in Antarctic ice cores proves that temperature causes CO2 variations rather than vice-versa — a tired and thoroughly discredited argument (look here for a summary of the rebuttals) . There is little more to say about such arguments, save that Allègre's willingness to repeat them shows either a remarkable gullibility or a disturbing lack of scientific integrity.
Elsewhere, though, Allègre breaks new ground with regard to passing off nonsense as scientific argument. Here are a few examples.
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We are members of the International Slow Food Movement living near the Sacramento Delta and in the shadow of Mt. Diablo.We believe in the sustainability of our local food system and honor our agricultural heritage.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Eat In at Las Lomas High School
Join us for a community pot-luck picnic at Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek.
This event is free!
We are gathering in support of healthy school lunches. This is one of over 200 eat-ins being staged across the US on September 7 this year to send a message to Congress. As a national day of action, Slow Food is hoping to persuade our members of Congress to increase funding to school lunches and make a commitment to improving the quality of food served to our children every day.
Bring your friends and family! For the month of September only,new donations to Slow Food at any level will provide a one-year membership in Slow Food USA. This is a wonderful time to join Slow Food and support good, clean and fair food.
So gather with neighbors and others who share your views on feeding our children and have fun at Las Lomas on September 7.
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Is there a time set for this event yet? Are there any assignments for the pot luck? Do you still need volunteers? I'd like to announce it at the green business lunch on Wednesday, so I could use some details. Be sure to update the LinkedIn site - Contra Costa Sustainability Forum. We're getting more members all the time.
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No assignments, bring what you want.
What other projects are happening with Delta Diablo? I'm looking for a local group to get involved in.
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One of our girls had FHO done on one hip at two years old. Healed up great, no issues. I agree with Jocoyn. Find a surgeon you trust and give good consideration to his or her recomendations.
I would find the BEST orthopedic specialty surgeon I could find and trust them based on their evaluation of your dog. Don't let a regular vet touch this. One who has done a lot of both surgeries, is board certified, and good references (or at a teaching hospital).
In either case, follow up with their guidance and always keep the dog lean and muscled.
Would they be able to do a THR with the cup missing?
Rudy had a THR when he was 18 months old. It was great. Recovery was not as bad as I thought. Surgeon said only 25% of dogs need it done on both sides. Rudy never did.
He was walking off leash (supervised) by week eight, and fully recovered to play with my other dog at week twelve.
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|I would definitely see about talking options with a surgeon if you can. List out all your concerns about her condition, about the different surgeries and see what ends up working out the best for the two of you. With hips, since it is a major part of the leg, doing one at a time gives them usually a little something to stand on, but we have done bilateral knees where I work lol. Sounds like she really got passed the bad stuff when they were handing out genetics.
I just worry with her not having a hip socket on both sides it will be hard for her. Every post or website says do one at a time so the good leg can get them along while they heal. Trouble I see is both hips are missing the joint so not sure if it will hold her weight. She is 68 pounds I think last time I looked.
Also thanks guys for your views and feedback. This is the first time I have had to go threw any of this so kind of freaking out lol.
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I think I'm one of the only people who believes in and prefers the THR with larger breed dogs lol. It is what I have the most experience with as far as my own personal dog goes and people who come where I work with their pets. The larger dogs generally get THR done. It is a rather invasive procedure (there is a less invasive one in the works but the implants need revamping) however it gives you a really good hip joint once they heal.
My first dog had severe bilateral hip dysplasia. I knew from when she was about two months old what I was facing. I kept her as comfy as I could with joint foods, supplements, pain meds (she was sensitive to NSAIDs) and low impact exercise. When she was around 8 years old, she'd completely lose her back end as she was running. Finally took her in and her hips just looked awful. Talked with the surgeon and he was confident that we would only need to replace one of her hips and she'd do fine.
She did better than fine. For the first time in her life, my dog had three good legs to stand on. She could move without the pain in that hip once she recovered. Getting up and down was easier, she finally was keeping trim because she could move more. And the surgery went so well that even after she fell one week post op between the rows of seats in my car, her hip was still just as secure as it was when they originally placed it!
So needless to say, my experience was good with the THR, and if you can afford it and are good about the aftercare and physiotherapy, the results definitely can turn out well.
|I did bilateral FHO on my 11 month old GSD years ago. As GSDBestk-9 said, my girl healed great, no issues and actually did search and rescue for 9 years after that.
|Did a bilateral FHO on a 10 months old rescued dog many years ago, best decision ever. She healed quickly and lived a long pain free life after that.
I need help with FHO or THR
I am new to the forums so I hope this is the correct area. I am looking for feedback on FHO and THR. The vet is going to go over all of this more in details in a week or so for a follow up but I would love to hear from those that have went threw it with their dogs.
Sadie 6 months old Female and she walked funny to me so had X-rays done. They said she has a birth defect so she is missing the cup area in her hip its only the ball. If that makes sense to you all. Pretty much the x-ray was a strait line nothing coming out to meet the ball from her leg. I will try and get the X-ray to add so it will be easier to follow.
I know some forums say you shouldn't do THR until after they are over 12 months so I hope the meds she is on will keep her pain free for now. She's still happy and very active. She just walks really funny and some nights you can tell she is hurting some.
The main thing I want to know from others is how well did your dog do with FHO or THR? How long did it take to replace both the hips before they were back to their normal self and do you think its worth putting them threw it or would you just pain meds for as long as you can if you had to do it over?
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And so it begins
I've written before here about how, in our household, Samhain starts early. For us it begins at the end of September, during the week when we've repeatedly lost beloved pets and on the day when, two years ago, I pledged my service to the Wild Hunt. This year, that day was marked with an inadvertent bloodletting when the Hunt, not satisfied with the efforts I had made thus far on their behalf, aided me in slicing open the knuckle of my right index finger almost to the bone with a pair of sewing shears. (Followed, of course, with a expensive trip to the emergency room and several weeks of limited ability to do anything--including typing and crafting--with that hand. The Hunt does not play.)
It continued the following week when I made a trip to one of the city's oldest cemeteries (and bear in mind that here on the west coast, "oldest" means the 1800s, and the most ancient looking monuments, crumbling with apparent age, are not truly ancient at all but merely rain-damaged). I brought with me home-brewed mead and bone meal, to feed the dead, and locally harvested apples for Sleipnir, Odin's giant eight-legged steed. (Eight legs, by the way; have you ever thought about that? Why does He--the horse, that is--have eight legs? Spiders have eight legs. So does a casket, when borne aloft by four mourners. Sleipnir is, indisputably, a horse of death, a steed to carry one to the land of the dead--which, throughout the Norse myths, is exactly what He does.) I discovered an area devoted to the Civil War dead, which startled me because it seemed the wrong coast for that, but the monument statue of a soldier in uniform and the plots of the military dead exuded an aura of welcome for me, a kinship with the "once human" contingent of the Hunt, with Odin's fallen heroes. Here was succor and support, and so it was here that I marked the stones with my blood, freshly drawn from my finger (not the one with stitches!) using a lancet. (The dead were especially interested in and enthusiastic about the mead, by the way!)
During the following weeks, I gave in to the urge to spin witchy things, ritual cords for bindings and handfastings, and I made candles for the first time, for the dark moon. I revisited a kinship to fire, and began to nurture my ability to mold it through the physical agents of melted wax and molten sugar. Everything physical has its echo, its shadow self, Over There, so that spun sugar here equals firestorms There, and subtle weavings Over There lead to inspirations and art here. A lot of my work is centered around making, the capturing of spirit in flesh (although in my work, "flesh" consists of wool , or wax, or antler bits). I work to channel the bits of the divine and of the spirit that I can grasp and to give them expression Here, and to use the physical elements at my disposal here to pay honor to the gods and the spirits, as well as give comfort and nourishment to the dead in this their time of movement and passage.
The worlds shift and swirl continually before my waking eyes. My partner dreamed, recently, that we found a human skeleton, and that I made her help me bury it in my mattress, surrounding it with graveyard dirt, so that I could sleep on it. In waking life I would never go so far, but I weave the worlds together on a daily basis as I walk to and from work, as I tread the paths of wetland and forest. Today, walking down a tree-shrouded street, I rode beside Odin at the head of the Hunt, overlaying this world with another, stitching the worlds together with only a hint of a seam (and an eye out for traffic). I made myself into a conduit, allowing passage and conversation from There to Here, permitting movement and influence. Such is the work of a Door.
This past weekend, I performed oracular seidhr, a service I have offered to my wider community for close to a decade now. Seidhr is an umbrella term encompassing both a practice of seership and a "system" of magic, both stemming from pagan Scandinavia and both documented in the Icelandic sagas as well as the poetic eddas. As a system of magic, there is nothing "harm none" or otherwise Wiccan-rede-like about seidhr; it is a method of soul manipulation, developed in an era of great hardship and constant need (not unlike African/Southern American Vodoun), and its adept practitioners were (and are) rightly feared, their names spoken in hushed voices and with awe. As a practice of seership, seidhr is performed by a number of different individuals and groups across the US and Europe, each with their own method and ritual. It, too, is bound to need, traditionally practiced only when demanded by the community. I have compromised with tradition by offering it five times per year, coinciding with some of the major "wheel of the year" days, which often in turn coincide with ancient Germanic festival dates. Samhain occurs at roughly the same time as Winternights, the Scandinavian festival honoring the elves (who were often conflated with the dead), and is the gateway holiday to Yule, which is the northern tradition's ultimate "thin veil" time of year. I perform oracular seidhr as a service to the community, an act of intercession, but also a service to the gods and the dead, who must often try too hard to make Their voices heard and to exert Their rightful influence on mortals and the living. I perform it as a service to Wyrd itself, to the Well and the Tree, the depths of Being and the heights of Potential, the guardians of the Threshold.
After seidhr, there was some treasured time alone with Odin, the Master of the Hunt who also owns my heart, and now the frenzy begins in earnest. On Wednesday I will go to work bearing handcrafted salted caramels and dressed as one of Odin's ravens, a carrion bird. On that night, Halloween, we observe a festival we've dubbed the Feast of Treats, in honor of all of our dear departed animal friends. We will offer little tidbits our companions enjoyed during life: blueberries and Combos, cherry vanilla ice cream, McDonald's cheeseburgers. For ourselves, there will be Halloween mini-candy bars, liquor, and tears. The following weekend, we will process to our favorite local cemetery bearing offerings, and will visit the grave of the city's founder to express our thanks that this beautiful but mercurial city welcomed us and gave us a home and livelihood, rather than chewing us up and spitting us out as it has done to so many. I will wander among the monuments and the carefully tended plants that grace them, the yew trees and snowberry bushes, weaving a path for the dead to travel, offering mead and sweets, perhaps buying some plant cuttings and graveyard dirt with coins, a smear of honey, and a taste of blood.
The following Wednesday, on the astronomical cross-quarter day of Samhain, we will host a feast for our beloved human dead, our ancestors of the flesh and the spirit. I will have Stella Doro anisette cookies for my grandmother, Matzoh with cream cheese and jelly for my aunt, Entemann's spice cake for my mother, buttermilk for my grandfather, beer for my father, and delicate white wine and petits four for the Queens (my group of adopted Disir, consisting mostly of medieval European highborn women). In silence, we will welcome the dead to come among us and feast, we will listen to their voices rather than our own, we will reforge broken links and mend sundered connections, providing what comfort we can and receiving comfort in return. We will then turn our eyes towards the long, cold, stormy months ahead, the rain soaked nights and windswept afternoons forming the dark corridor which will end in the twelve nights of Yule. We will do the work the gods and spirits give us, and I will continue to weave the worlds together, to feed the spirits and the dead, and to channel spirit through my busy hands into matter.
What about you, dear readers? What are your own plans for Samhain and the season ahead? What will you do?
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
I found a small pomegranate at the store this weekend and bought it, so I should do something. Just no idea what. Some of it is because we just got through Sandy here (I was not in a severely hit area but it's still thrown off life) and some of it is still being unsure of my steps right now.
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