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Street Organizations. Today's Challenge, Tomorrow's Hope Friday, 03 June 2016 By Lacino Hamilton [Image Description: photo of graffiti in Birmingham, Alabama] Graffiti for the Crips, a street organization, lines train tracks in Birmingham, Alabama, in a photo taken on November 29, 2007. "Gangs" are arguably one of the most dominant and effective organizing mechanisms of urban youth today, though virtually no one will acknowledge this. The "common wisdom" about gangs (hereafter referred to as street organizations) is simply a repackaging of the stereotypes that Blacks and other minorities have spent centuries resisting. As a result, members of street organizations have borne the brunt of numerous punitive, and sometimes deadly, theories and social policies. The ministers, activists, scholars and elected officials who are often cast as "community leaders" by the media tend to deem members of street organizations as ignorant, illiterate and unimaginative. However, these "respectable" entities are short on both social analysis and understanding when it comes to these organizations. I see no need to shame, jail and destroy these youth - and I especially see no need to stop them from organizing. The failure to grasp the nature of street organizations has left society far too unconscious and passive in addressing the realities that give birth to them. The broader society is also ignorant of how these organizations create their aesthetic of survival, generated from the raw material of their immediate reality. The Roots of Street Organizations The roots of street organizations are not easily isolated. It is a misconception among many people that the creation of street organizations lies primarily in so-called "broken homes" or the pathology of poverty, as most literature on the subject might suggest. However, the origins actually lie in the fact that the larger society has rejected members of these groups, attempting to render them disposable. As a result, members often feel they cannot hope to realize personal growth, social progress, or self-worth through the avenues ordinarily available to more privileged individuals. Street organizations are sometimes viewed as a way to fill the gap. Human beings who are forced to live with exclusion, rejection and a stigmatized status, whose daily experiences tell them that almost nowhere in society are they respected and granted the ordinary dignity and courtesy accorded to others, will, as a matter of course, begin to question and doubt whether they have a place in the larger society. These questions and doubts become the seeds of street organizations. US street organizations gained prominence in the early- to mid-19th century, particularly in the poor ghettoes of Boston, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and a myriad of other US municipalities large and small, where Irish and Polish immigrants arrived in the US en masse under dire circumstances. They developed street organizations to bolster social solidarity and express a collective identity based on common ethnic roots. In the process, they created alternative social systems that allowed them to advance, even though US society at large was determined to keep them "in their place." Since then, youth of every ethnic and racial group have formed street organizations for similar reasons. In fact, if all members of street organizations were the product of two-parent homes and earned a living wage, that still would not eliminate the need for many youth to organize themselves around their social marginalization and exclusion. Some historians have made the argument that Black street organizations date back even further than the 19th century, and actually have their genesis in bands of runaway slaves. These included the fighting Maroons - a generic name that came to be an accepted as a way to describe fugitive, enslaved people throughout the Western Hemisphere, who not only offered the possibility of freedom and self-determination to enslaved Blacks, but also a basis on which to unite against white supremacy. The Crips, Black P. Stone Rangers, Sons of Watts, Young Lords Party, Brown Berets and the Vice Lords, to name a few, formed to challenge severe macrostructural constraints that compelled them to live and to act in ways that sometimes negatively impacted their communities. Members of these groups were overwhelmingly working class and poor, and saw no effective channel through which grievances, like poverty and racist police brutality, were being met. So, they sought extralegal and extrajudicial means of solving their problems. There is no question that the process of forming street organizations very often begins in response to long histories of discrimination, social exclusion, disenfranchisement, frustration with being denied the right to express oneself through sanctioned channels, the denial of economic opportunities, and threats to one's physical safety and survival. It is also true that many members have found "legitimate" structures (such as unions and some civil rights organizations) for dealing with these grievances to be completely unsatisfying - partially because many of these "legitimate" groups ultimately adopted a middle-class orientation, and failed to attend to the immediate needs of poor youth of color. In the wake of the civil rights and Black liberation struggles of the 1960s and '70s, some members of the younger generation concluded that there had been an excess of theory and too much reliance on judicial and municipal structures. Picking up on some aspects of the Black liberation movement, some of these new youth political formations generally veered away from elaborate theories and political education. Rather than planning mass peaceful demonstrations seeking to acquire court victories and civil rights, street organizations embarked on a new phase of struggle: widespread rebellion that did not necessarily coalesce around a defined objective. Operating in neighborhoods isolated from larger national networks, and ill-prepared for the campaign of terror that state and local governments would level at them, many members were eventually absorbed into dropping out of school and often turning to petty criminal activity. Thus, militancy and widespread rebellion emerged, in part, as a response to the perceived failures of unions and civil rights movements. Self-Destructiveness, Violence, Creativity and Survival Seen as nothing but self-destructive by most of society, street organizations are nevertheless creative in the sense that they are not passive targets of the destructive forces which act upon them. Members of these groups realize that there is strength in numbers and force in unity. They realize that waiting on problems to solve themselves is not usually the best strategy. Therefore, when traditional avenues for self-actualization, social progress and self-worth are blocked, they react adaptively by making use of the human resources available - themselves - to work out strategies of survival, and develop ways of coping with despair. Street organizations are also creative in the sense that they can unite hundreds and sometimes thousands of young people labeled as incorrigible. For example, in 1993, the Chicago-based Gangster Disciples began a fundamental partial transition from the Gangster Disciple street "gang" to the Growth and Development street organization. Along with starting a clothing line and other businesses that employed many of its reported around 30,000 members, the group also formed 21st Century VOTE to politically educate its members and create a voting block to influence local elections. 21st Century VOTE enjoyed some electoral successes - not surprising, given Chicago's large street organization population. However, this narrative is difficult to communicate to the general public and policymakers because it does not resonate with the basic belief system in the US about the causes and nature of youth subcultures: a belief system that accounts for social outcomes strictly in individual terms. That is, members of these organizations are individuals whose lifestyles bear the chief responsibility for their outside status. The negative aspects of street organizations can easily be overemphasized, such as self-abnegation, the distribution of narcotics and violence, while the creative and generative potential - the potential of a unified mass of people developing into a community power base that could become a major force in US society if better organized and in possession of a socially validated sense of growing power - are overlooked. Consider the efforts of the Conservative Vice Lords in the late 1960s: They founded a teen community center, a GED program, a tenants' rights organization, a business-training institute and other community-building efforts. In 1970, the Vice Lords were actually given $275,000 by the Rockefeller Foundation for their organizing work, and the Ford Foundation granted them $130,000, part of which was used for the Vice Lords' community-based small business development, including the African Lion, an Afro-centric boutique. None of this is to say that there should not be criticism of the tangle of antisocial behavior associated with street organizations. This deeply ingrained and culturally reinforced self-loathing and self-destructive behavior should not be ignored or explained away. No one can deny the devastation that the actions of some street organizations are having on many US cities. Beyond having become entrenched in the daily life of the urban US, street organizations are exacerbating existing crises. No matter how desperate the social-economic situation, neglected communities do manifest as destructive forces, it is because they are embodying the worldview, cultural structures and violence of the larger oppressive society that makes their existence necessary. To Engage With Street Organizations, Outsiders Must Accept Their Legitimacy The fact that street organizations might often be agents of their own pain - and violent in the remedy which they may suggest - is not particularly relevant to the understanding of the psychological reality which they reflect: oppression not only resides in external institutions and norms, but lodges internally, in the human psyche, too. Lacking a sense of identity, money and direction, many marginalized youth clearly chart their future in a manner that is truly as American as apple pie: with guns in hand, smashing any and all who impede their path. Hence, the psychological meaning and value of street organizations cannot be divorced from why street organizations are arguably one of the most dominant and effective organizing mechanisms of inner-city youth today. It is crucial to comprehend how the experiences and the patterns of conduct of members of these organizations are shaped by powerful structural constraints like inadequate education, job discrimination, crowded and poor living spaces, and a system of social and political power not responsive to their needs. It is also crucial to assist these youths in understanding the systems of oppression within which they live - and which, often, drive the violence they may experience and engage in - and encourage them to redirect their energies into more personally and socially constructive challenges. Of course, no prescription should be handed down from above, or from afar. It is tempting for people who are not members of street organizations to try to select the particular organizational model members of these groups should assume, and the mores and the manners which members should, if they wish to gain influence, adopt. But to succumb to these temptations to "recommend" models inevitably plays into the fantasy that policy makers and "experts" who are working "with" street organizations should decide their future for them - the idea that someone other than members of these groups should make decisions about organizing around their problems. The chances for any major cooperation between the broader society and youth involved in street organizations is slim, until we accept the legitimacy of street organizations to be their own example. It is they who have stepped into the vacuum created by failed social institutions and taken up the work of organizing those who suffer the most because of it - and it is they who are in the best position to know what is going on. Organization is not, ultimately, an intellectual process. It is a process of being involved, and that they are. Michelle Alexander writes of today's youth in The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness: Those of us who hope to be their allies should not be surprised if and when this day comes, that when those who have been locked out and finally have the chance to speak and truly be heard, what we hear is rage. The rage may frighten us; it may remind us of riots, uprisings, and buildings aflame. We may be tempted to control it or douse it with buckets of doubt, dismay and disbelief. But we should do no such thing. I'm aware of the widely held belief among many in this society that history has already spoken, but there is a very real debate to be held about the legitimacy of street organizations. I think we should grant many of them the respect of placing them in the same tradition as the Monroe NAACP under the leadership of Robert Williams, the Black Panthers, SNCC and the militias of freed slaves a century before that, instead of fearfully dismissing them as animals and monsters in need of heavy-handed policing. It is easy to forget the rather obvious fact that street organizations are one of the dominant means of organizing youth who are fundamentally alienated from mainstream society, and that these organizations are not going anywhere anytime soon. These youth should not have to prove themselves "worthy" in order to come out of the shadows of society. They should not be forced to conform to white, middle-class organizational structures. Moreover, members of these groups should not be asked to prove they deserve to have their needs adequately satisfied by society. They should not be told that they must persuade the larger society to accept them, by fitting their lives and organizations into a certain mold. This notion of "acceptance" is itself elitist, dehumanizing and often racist. A Process of Mutual Education Education is central to the task of ending youth marginalization in this country. But the educational mandate should not make two conventional mistakes: 1.) education must not be limited to information that supports and preserves the status quo and 2.) education, whether formal or informal, tacit or expressed, should not make the mistake of failing to encourage the larger society to put aside its preconceptions and actively think about how the larger society can learn from street organizations, and not necessarily the other way around. No matter how imaginative, elaborately or thoroughly planned, if street [rest of line cut off by scan] For education to be relevant to the pressing problems of these youth, those who are in control of this part of society must have the courage to re-examine present assumptions, methods and programs, and dismantle those environments and efforts which reflect only traditional and bureaucratic models. Education cannot be relevant to the problems of street organizations, except to reinforce them, if it encourages, even subtly, the dependency of the street organizations, because to encourage dependency is to rob the members of these organizations of their sense of dignity. In a broader sense, though, education cannot proceed painlessly. The struggle over what information and ideas are primary, over crucial differences in philosophical approaches to educating, over which worldview is legitimate and which is not, and over who gets to decide, is unmistakably a struggle of power - the combination of energies required to determine and translate goals into desired social outcomes. Education must dare to run the risk of being part of a real and comprehensive program of social action and social change. It cannot be a superficial education that reformers think will channel social discontent into existing institutions. It has to be an education that political leaders and prominent members of social organizations are recipients of. There cannot simply be nonprofit-driven programs to educate members of street organizations. Social change-minded people who seek to "help" members of street organizations must also recognize that there is much they can learn from them. The only way this process of mutual education can be accomplished is to begin by listening to those whose voices have been delegitimized through social stigma. Only by accepting these youth on their own terms will today's challenge become tomorrow's hope. LACINO HAMILTON (/AUTHOR/ITEMLIST/USER/51058) Lacino Hamilton has been incarcerated since July 1994. (For more information about his case, see "Ring of Snitches: How Detroit Police Slapped False Murder Convictions on Young Black Men (http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/29950-ring-of-snitches-how-detroit-police-slapped-false-murder-convictions-on-young-black-men).") After being sent to prison, he spent four of his first six years in solitary confinement. It was there that he began to read, think critically and distinguish between expressing a desire to change and demonstrating the ability to achieve it. Write him at: Lacino Hamilton #[ID], KCF, 16770 S. Water Tower Dr., Kincheloe, MI. Send electronic message via: www.jpay.com.
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Monica Peiser
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About Monica
It all began with melon seeds and acorn cup necklaces, inventing outfits for my paper dolls and discovering an imaginary world in which I am still quite content to spend time. I studied fashion at St Martins moving on to Central School of Art when I found I could learn to make jewellery. I have taught in various art establishments, given private lessons and run workshops for adults and children. Retired from teaching I continue to make jewellery and have recently become fascinated by the magic of automata, another form of construction, with added humour.
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Finishing a piece is rather more of an issue. Sometimes a piece will wait for years for me to decide just how it should look. I believe many painters do the same. I like direct selling, it is nice to know where my pieces go. I am always thrilled to bits when I bump into someone wearing something I have made.
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When living on a boat and bathing at the marina's showers, the nakedness of other men is unavoidable. Often, we are on the same schedule, heading to work at the same time. Day after day of toweling off together has born many friendships.
I remember once discussing this, over a glass of wine at a local pub, with my son, who also lives on a boat. I had just read a New York Times piece about gym designers having to alter locker rooms to accommodate the sensibilities of younger Americans to exposing and being exposed to nakedness.
I thought I would have a friendly ear.
I was wrong. He proceeded to pantomime a naked and wet old man lifting one leg onto a bench while resting an elbow on his raised knee and his chin in his hand, a kind of arthritic and fleshy version of Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker."
"And there it is all out there," he said, waving both hands in the area below his waist. "He is just saying look at my junk. That's not what I want to see. I do not want to see all of your junk."
To be clear: My son and I never see each other in the shower, fortunately.
We both laughed but I am also sad for my son. He has a timidity and shyness about his body. I love being naked. I prefer to sleep that way. On a few occasions, I have a sailed that way. I have rested that way, under a gentle sun, on the deck while anchored.
I am not interested in making nakedness a lifestyle but to be free off all cloth is liberating.
To my son's point, however, I have used my nakedness as a bit of fleshy cudgel. I know there a people who are more reserved — even shy about their nakedness. And, I know, there are people, like my son, who are disgusted by others' exposure.
Perhaps, I should be more considerate. The problem is, how men react often makes me chuckle.


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In this sermon, Pastor Jeff preaches on:
- The law of liberty
- The law of love
1 Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things.
2 For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
3 Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him.
4 Who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.
5 One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind.
6 He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.
7 For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.
8 For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.
9 For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
11 For it is written: "As I live, says the LORD, Every knee shall bow to Me, And every tongue shall confess to God."
12 So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.
13 Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother's way.
14 I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
15 Yet if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.
16 Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil;
17 for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
18 For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
19 Therefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another.
20 Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense.
21 It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak.
22 Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.
23 But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin.


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Beyond these important requirements, however, is the institutional desire to demonstrate our students are in fact learning what we say they are learning, and to make improvements where we find improvements need to be made. These two motives can be synergistic rather than mutually exclusive.
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Mists of Avalon miniseries certainly contributed. The beer is still unbrewed, the bike is still not running. We did get to a few garage sales and the Goodwill.
Mists of Avalon was a darn good book, and a pretty good miniseries, even though the miniseries didn't fully follow the book, though they both ended up in the same place. It's the Arthurian mythos from Morgaine's perspective, the modern analog would be Star Wars from Leia's perspective, if Vader wasn't their father but rather their son. Whoa.
It's been criticized as a work of pagan feminazi propaganda in Christian fantasy circles, and I can understand why they would say that. Still, worth reading and worth discussing.
The Mists of Avalon miniseries did have a good look, for instance the armor was studded leather, unlike in Excalibur from the 80's where Arthur and his knights were running around in full plate. Mrs. Ha didn't care for the fighting scenes, and the miniseries took some liberties there wrt to Morgaine, but I thought they were well done.
They should have cast more people to play the leads, since they go from childhood to being aged. Or maybe they could have used better makeup, they had Julieanne Margulies play Morgaine from a fourteen year old to someone in her 60's, yet she almost always looked to be in her 20s or 30s.
We have two weddings to go to in the very late summer and fall. One this weekend is for my younger cousin (the one with the pink shotgun on FB), the other is for Irish_girl. This is the cousin's second wedding, the first was four years ago when I was in the midst of many issues, including crippling arthritis, I ended up sitting around with all the other crippled folk and not having much fun. This time it will be just me and Mrs. Ha, we can go crazy, but we won't. Despite being PA's second largest city, there isn't much to do there unless you're into hunting, fishing, drinking or Elk Watching.
Irish_Girl is getting married, her nuptials are set for October. She asked Mrs. Ha to be in the wedding, too. More details as they arrive. We're psyched, she deserves happiness.
Internet glasses
My prescription sunglasses arrived when we were gone, I'm still getting used to them. They took a long time to get to me, longer than fourteen year olds. Then again, fourteen year old's sunglasses weren't as complex as mine, her eyes are not nearly as bad. I'm not sure it's a fair comparison.
The prices were good, $40 for hers, $80 for mine.
In other optical news, she's been at swim practice for a few hours a day, every day, for the Varsity swim team. She's complained about the difficulty of seeing things, we think she's lobbying for contacts, but I bought her some corrective swim goggles.
In other child news, today was the first day of school for nine year old. We weren't supposed to get the bus for elementary school, but they changed their mind after seeing the expressway interchange she was supposed to traverse. She got the bus this morning, and even hugged the driver, who we've had for 7-8 years.
We were intrigued when a male called for fourteen year old last night, but it was just the tree cutting service saying they would need access to our backyard when they take down our neighbors tree. That's the third big tree taken down in and adjacent to our yard in as many years. Here comes sunshine.
The secret to enjoying baseball
Last week I went to see our local minor league team play, the third time I've attended a game of professional baseball. This time I enjoyed myself, the secret was to spend twice as much on beer as you do on tickets.
The first time was close to 30 years ago, I was in high school, and underage. Some of the seniors may have been old enough, the drinking age was 18 before the "States Rights, get the Federal Government out of our lives" group took the Executive branch and decided State's Rights didn't apply to letting the states decide when on ewas old enough to buy alcohol.
The second time was in 1987 maybe, as a co-op for the FAA my group had a yearly trip to opening day at Yankee Stadium. I chose not to buy beer.
Yesterday though, beer was $6.50, and the ticket was $6.50, a pint of Oktoberfest and a pint of IPA, along with milf watching made the day pass.
On to other media reviews!
The Last Stand is my first book on Custer. I liked it, Custer did come off as a poor leader and egomaniac, and Sitting Bull is close to a hero. Custer dies
The Thousand-Mile War was about the Aluetian Campaign in WWII, yes, the Japanese invaded North America. What a horrid place to fight.
Xenocide is the third book in Orson Scott Card's Enders series. Humanity is trying to destroy the world Ender lives on, since it harbors very dangerous virii. His sister comes to visit, but it will be tough, can Ender and his sister stave off the rest of humanity, with only an omniscient computer network and the ability to wish for anything you want for on his side?
Paratrooper!: The Saga of the U. S. Army and Marine Parachute and Glider Combat Troops during World War II, an overview of glider and parachute troops in WWII, not just the battles where they jumped, too. A good overview, worth the buck I spent at the Goodwill.
The Haunting of Molly Hartley was a pretty bad horror movie, with little to recommend it.
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If you're a millennial mom, there's a pretty good chance you have a social media account for your baby. No, we're not talking about posting a ton of baby pics on your personal Facebook or Instagram page—but on a dedicated account with your baby's own name on it.
According to a new survey conducted by Gerber.com, close to 40 percent of moms aged 18 to 34 created social media accounts for their baby before the child's first birthday — and another 7 percent made one before their kid's second birthday.
Lily Silva says she has an Instagram feed for her son as a way to maintain her personal identity. "I think everything my son does is cute and I would love to post pictures all day long of what he does—but, I didn't want him to hijack my page," says the 29-year old marketing coordinator. "I'm still me—I'm a mom, but I'm also a daughter, girlfriend, employee. Although Mateo is the most important thing in my life, it's a step I took to make sure I remained me."
Silva says she made an account for her son as a way to have an opt-in baby picture option for loved ones. "You get to decide whether you see pictures of Mateo all day or not by clicking follow on his Instagram page," she says. "I try not to drown people in Mateo pictures on my own page."
Likewise, 30-year-old stay-at-home mom Cristina Carmona says the social media account for her daughter is "the easiest way for me to share photos of her with my friends and family. From her soccer practices, to Disneyland and everyday events, she's always on the go—and I love sharing her daily life with others."
Of course, it's not just millennial moms who are on board with the social media trend. Nicole Doyle, a 40-year-old mom to 3-year-old twins, created an account for her boys as a way to update loved ones on her babies' progress. "I did it because my boys were micro-preemies, born at 25 weeks, and it was a way to keep friends and family informed on how they were doing," she says. "Once they got out of the NICU, I [switched to using] it as an update to what the two twin tornados are doing, which is usually destruction."
Even while many moms maintain feeds for their babies, plenty of others say they abstain—for reasons relating to privacy, modesty, boundaries, and other concerns.
Christine Kirk is a 33-year-old new mom who makes her living in social media marketing for other brands as the C.E.O. of Social Muse Communications in Los Angeles. But she says setting up an account for her own son was a definite no-go.
"I have centered my career and my life on social media, and obviously see tremendous value in it from both a personal and professional point of view," she says. "But I knew right from the get-go that I would never create any social media profile in my child's name and update it as if I were him. My son should have the choice as a young adult about if he wants a social media presence, and what that presence will look like. I don't think it's a parent's place to make that decision on behalf of their child."
That said, she posts tons of pictures of the little guy from her own account—and even had a dedicated hashtag for him during her pregnancy. "I tweeted about my pregnancy, but it was always from my perspective — me sharing my own personal experiences about becoming a mother. I know I would have been horrified if at 13, I found out my mom had been tweeting as me for the past 13 years."
Other moms like the idea of creating social media accounts for their babies—but just find the upkeep too unmanageable in the midst of work and parenting duties.
"It wasn't that I ultimately decided against having an account for him," says one New York-based entertainment industry vice president and mom to an 18-month-old son. "I was posting so many photos of him on my own Facebook and Instagram that it just took too much time to keep logging in and out between our accounts. [Nevertheless,] he still has 79 followers and his last post was 65 weeks ago!"
Among other concerns, security and privacy issues worry parents, too. "The privacy implications come from posting stuff, not setting up accounts," says privacy specialist Bruce Schneier—so if you're posting your kids' photos online, it doesn't matter what account they live on. (And you shouldn't feel a false sense of protection if you only post photos of your children to your personal account.)
Schneier says that identity theft isn't a particular concern either. The biggest risk of setting up an account for your babies?" Your children might be embarrassed later," he says.
Gerber's nationwide poll included more than 1,000 moms with kids under two. The findings are being released in association with the fifth annual Gerber Photo Search.
Alesandra Dubin is a Los Angeles-based writer and the founder of home and travel blog Homebody in Motion. Follow her on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter.


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The Book of Runes
The following was written 7-12, in the garden of my Chiang Rai guest house.
3:45PM Ralph Blum's The Book of Runes I found faded and worn, buried deep in a used book store in Chiang Mai. It is "a handbook for the use of an ancient Oracle: the Viking Runes". It tells of their meaning and ways of their use. They are not so much a form of divination, of future telling or fairy-tale magic, but a challenge to look into yourself. By using the runes in search of an answer, you find your own interpretation and project what you already know, but perhaps do not wish to express, onto the stones. Their symbols, sounds, and arrangements seem almost arbitrary. Still, I must question it.
In The Spell of the Sensuous (which I will have to comment more on later), David Abram spends a great deal of ink on the impact of writing, particularly phonetic, with our experience of the world. He proposes that systems such as ours, where the sounds and the symbols themselves bear little to no resemblance to anything of the sensuous world, serves to cut us off from the that world – he assaults (with the alphabet, of course) this the same way Daniel Quinn assaults agriculture. Seeing the runes through these animist eyes, one wonder why they're to be used as an oracle. Question their validity. Their symbols have no reference to the natural world, nor do their sounds. This unlike, for instance, the Hebrew aleph-beth, the first letter of which meant ox and looked like an ox. Indeed, Odin happened upon the runes one day while torturing his own body – attempting to transcend the sensuous, and thus the whole of the natural world. From my limited understanding of the runes and their origins, I must be skeptic of their use, even if it is unimportant. I would prefer a more natural gateway within.
Still, a good read. Recommended for those who are interested in a Western version of the I Ching or Tarot cards.


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text: In the sermon text today, we have Matthew's record of the institution of the Lord�s Supper, the familiar words that we recall and recite week after week as we seek to be faithful disciples, imitate Jesus our Master. But we should notice that this meal is situation smack dap in the middle of betrayers and deniers. On side of the celebration we have disciples who are indignant that costly perfume has been wasted on Jesus and Judas who is the extreme form of this indignation striking a deal with the authorities to betray Jesus. And there is enough static in the air apparently for there to be great uncertainty about whom Jesus is speaking when says that one will betray Him. Apparently many of the disciples were plausible suspects. Following the celebration of the meal, Jesus plainly says that all of them will stumble. In varying degrees they will all betray Jesus, they will all deny Jesus, they are all Judas�s. And there Jesus is sharing his body broken with his betrayers, sharing the blood of the new covenant with those who will stumble, those who will deny Him. And this original context has held true down through the centuries. Sometimes we may think that if we have struggled with particular sins throughout the week, perhaps we are not worthy, perhaps we ought not to partake. But Jesus knows He is surrounded by betrayers and deniers, and He invites them and shares the meal with them. And He still does, and that is what the grace of this sacrament is all about. The grace of this sacrament is forgiveness enacted. I�ve snapped my children this week; I�ve lusted. I�ve had angry outbursts, I�ve lied, I�ve allowed bitterness and regret to fill my soul. And Jesus says to you, Take eat; this is my body. This is My blood fo the new covenant which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Here Jesus invites sinners to eat and drink with Him. Here He enacts your forgiveness. As surely as there is bread in your mouth and wine on your tongue, you are forgiven. So come, eat, drink, and believe.


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Cranberry Oat Muffins
3 Days to Christmas! That's 72 hours away. Are you ready? If you answered YES, I salute you with my coffee and Bailey's. Cheers! If you answered NO (pssst I'm there for you) and want a recipe in 30 minutes, you've come to the right place.
The holidays are all about feelings of 'home.' What does home mean to you? Hmm. Is that a loaded question? Let's simplify. If you had only 3 words to describe home, which ones would you choose? I would pick family, friends and food. The magic of food is how it makes us feel. Can you resist that comforting feeling of oats (combined with the Christmasy look of vibrant red cranberries) on a cold winter day? . Win right? One more win is that these muffins are good for you. And who doesn't like that around the holiday season?
Cranberry Oat Christmas Muffins
Author: Jen - A Naturally Nu Foodie recipe
Prep Time: 10 to 15 minutes
Cook Time: 15 to 20 minutes
Total Time: 25 to 35 minutes
Number of Servings: 12
1-⅓ cup (330 mL) gluten-free flour blend
⅓ cup (80 mL) coconut sugar
1 cup (240 mL) gluten-free rolled oats
2 tsp (10 mL) baking powder
½ tsp (2 mL) baking soda
1 tsp (5 mL) salt
1 large egg
⅔ cup (160 mL) lactose-free milk or plant-based milk
⅔ cup (160 mL) mashed ripe banana
¼ cup (60 mL) avocado oil
⅔ cup to 1 cup (160 to 250 mL) fresh cranberries
⅓ cup (80 mL) chopped walnuts (optional)
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, oats, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
In another large bowl, beat the egg, milk, banana and oil.
Add egg mixture into the flour mixture.
Stir in cranberries and walnuts (if using).
Bake muffins for about 15 minutes. Muffins are done when a toothpick comes out clean.
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text: Meet our Camp Leadership For the third straight summer we will have an experienced trifecta of leaders in the Camp Director roles. Denney Jefferson returning to Sawmill, Bruce Reed returning to Lone Star, and Larry Overfield will return to Piercing Arrow. With their collective 70+ years of service on the camp staff, they've become household names for many scouters, but we wanted to get to know these leaders a little better. Each of them took the time to answer a collection of questions regarding camp and their secret lives away from the reservation. Enjoy! Tribal Name and Responsibility? Denney Keeper of the Wampum Little Screaming Horse Bruce Chieftain Flying Red Flame Larry Medicine Man Lonely Flicker How many years served on staff? Denney: 10+ years as a Commissioner and a full-time staff member. Bruce: I have served for 33 full summers on staff and a few partial summers as a commissioner. Larry: 12 years on full-time staff and 14 as a Commissioner. Have served in all three camps and on the Reservation staff. 70+ Years combined service What is your favorite camp memory? (as a boy or adult) Denney: Buying and smoking White Owl cigars I bought from senior campers at Camp Geiger in our eight man cabins, as well as eating Slim Jim's and drinking Apple Beer; Mic-O-Say inductions is another thing!!! Bruce: I do not have just one favorite memory of camp. My best memories are working with Called Braves during many First Night Out instruction opportunities. Larry: Calling my brother Paul Hudson for elevation to Sagamore in Lone Bear Council Ring. Favorite camp meal? Denney: Salisbury steaks and potatoes. Bruce: There are no favorite camp meals. Larry: "Not Chicken". I guess Hot Dog. How many corndogs can you eat in one sitting? Denney: Three (I couldn't beat Justin Dealy's eight at one sitting). Bruce: I like corndogs, but one or two is plenty. Larry: None unless I'm real hungry, then maybe 1. What your favorite part about being the Camp Director? Denney: Getting the opportunity work with some many talented young people. Bruce: My favorite part of being a Camp Director is walking around and watching great merit badge instruction and lots of fun happening. Larry: My favorite part of being Camp Director, is watching the staff grow into "good young men". I also enjoy all aspects of the Mic-O-Say program. Who is a staffer that has always impressed you? Denney: Too many to mention. Bruce: There have been many members of the staff that have impressed me. I would not want to mention just a few because I would leave out some. All members of the staff impress me because they give up their summers to serve the "younger and weaker". Larry: The staffer who impressed me the most was Medicine Man Blue Elk, J.D. Hammontree. Currently Senior Medicine Man Painted Elk, Dave Woodman and Chieftain Flying Red Flame Bruce Reed. Who are you still in contact with from your scouting youth? Denney: My Blood Brother, Sam Welker. Bruce: We develop many life-long friends in Scouting. It is great to fellowship with those that we have shared fun activities and common character attributes. Larry: While serving on staff in Sawmill in 1963 (Nature Staff), Larry Potts and I were both Instructors. We are both still active and he is also a Medicine Man. What are you doing in the off season? Denney: I substitute teach during the school year and I'm a security officer during the state fair for the Sedalia Police Department. Bruce: I work with a Scout Troop and Venturing Crew. Camp planning begins in October of each year and keeps me busy until camp ends each August. I am a volunteer tutor at Benton Elementary School on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. I also enjoy going to Silver Sneakers exercise classes and riding my Harley with the American Heartland Chapter of the Harley Owners Group. Larry: During the off season for about a month and a half I camp with my wife Carolyn. Then start up preparing for the next camping year from the end of October until camp the next season. I enjoy spending time with my son's (both Eagle Scouts) and their families. Of course watching NFL and now the Royals. Chiefs, Royals or Sporting KC? Denney: Royals, of course!!! Bruce: Watching the Chiefs on television is a lot of fun when I have time. Larry: I have always been a big Chief's fan. I followed the Royals until the 1990's and stopped. I got back on the Royal Bandwagon in 2014. Really enjoyed the 2015 World Series, listened to a lot of games in the evenings at camp. What is a most odd or interesting fact about you? Denney: My fifth great uncle is Thomas Jefferson. Bruce: I have nothing too odd or interesting to tell. Larry: I served both in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army. What was your career? Denney: I've been in the law enforcement field for 38 years and retired from the Missouri State Highway Patrol after nearing 30 years. Bruce: I am a retired social studies and language arts teacher. Larry: My professional career, I was a Police Officer for the City of Raytown for 32 1/2 years. I started as a Reserve Patrolman and went full-time in 1968. I was a Patrolman, Sergeant, Lieutenant, Captain and I retired as Chief of Police in 2001. I also served in the U.S. Army Reserve for 21 years and retired as a Chief Warrant Officer Four. My military specialty was a Special Agent in the Criminal Investigations Command. I served 2 years active duty 2001-2003 protecting the Secretary of Defense and all the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. What is your one possession that you couldn't go without? Denney: The love of my wife and family. Bruce: I cannot think of a possession that I could not share with someone else if they needed it. Larry: One possession I can't go without, is my wife (Carolyn's unconditional love and understanding). A real physical item I guess would be for those of us in Mic-O-Say are my "Pappy Silver Mounts". What is your favorite song? Denney: I have a love for many varieties of music, with no special artist or group in mind. Bruce: No favorite song, but I enjoy listening to music. Larry: May sound corny but America the Beautiful and The Hills of Osceola. Who is your favorite Disney princess? Denney: Each young princess is special in their own way. Bruce: Sorry – no answer. Larry: Favorite Disney Princess, this is a hard one, not a Princess but Sleeping Beauty. If you could leave the world with one piece of knowledge, what would it be? Denney: You are one of billions of unique individuals in the world, try thinking of the world through another's eyes, actually listen to people, give without expecting anything in return and be fully present in the moment because the past is gone and the future isn't as important as a you may perceive it to be. If you do these things, your world would be a better place, not just for you, but for everyone else that's in it. (Matt de Klerk). Bruce: This question is too difficult for me. Larry: If you live by the Scout Oath and Law you will go a long with in life.


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Seven Filipino athletes will march in Sunday's opening ceremony of the 2018 Youth Olympic Games at the Obelisco de Buenos Aires in Argentina – all of them ready for the big stage featuring the world's finest junior athletes.
Golfer Yuka Saso, the designated flag-bearer of the contingent, will spearhead the country's objective to bring home a medal, like archer Gab Moreno achieved in the 2014 edition of the sportsfest for athletes 18 years old and younger.
"It certainly won't be easy considering the high level of competition. But one thing is for sure, our athletes will show up with their best performance to get a medal," said chef de mission Jonne Go.
Jann Mari Nayre, a national table tennis champ back home, will begin the medal campaign on Sunday (Monday in Manila) against a still-undetermined foe, followed the next day by kiteboarder Christian Tio, who will compete for six days straight in his bid for a podium performance.
Archer Nicole Marie Tagle and fencer Lawrence Everett Tan have shaken off the ill-effects of jetlag, as well as Carl Jano Corpus, after they hurdled a long trip from Manila that took them over two days to complete.
Swimmer Nicole Justine Marie Oliva has earned plenty of chances to land a medal after she was entered in eight events – 100m freestyle, 100m backstroke, 100m butterfly, 200m free, 200m back, 400m free, 50m free, and 800m free.
However, Maria Luisa Ner, an administration staff of the Philippine secretariat, disclosed that Oliva might swim only in six events.
A double-gold medalist in the recent Asian Games in Indonesia, Saso arrived just a day ahead of the opener, the first time in Olympic history that the opening ceremony will be held on the streets open to the public.
Joining them was Pauline Louise Lopez, an Asian Games taekwondo bronze medalist who was named YOG ambassador by the International Olympic Committee.
Over 4,000 athletes from 206 countries will vie for 241 gold medals from 32 sports until the closing rites of the Games on October 18.
Aside from Go, the Philippine Olympic Committee auditor and president of the Philippine Canoe Kayak Dragonboat Federation, POC secretary general Patrick Gregorio is also here to motivate the entire delegation and cheer for the athletes.
Moreno nailed the first-ever YOG gold medal for the Philippines with China's Li Jiaman after both joined forces in winning the mixed international team event in the 2014 edition of the Games in Nanjing, China.


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ABIR Jassem is busy preparing stuffed vegetables at a kitchen in Iraq's Mosul, where after years of unrest a women-run catering service has helped single mothers like her achieve financial security.
The 37-year-old, who lost her husband while the city was under the control of the Islamic State (IS) group, said she had to get a job to put food on the table for her and her children.
"If I didn't work, we wouldn't have anything to eat," said Jassem.
She is now one of some 30 employees of "Taste of Mosul", which celebrates local delicacies and was founded in 2017 after the northern Iraqi metropolis was liberated from IS militants.
Most of the workers – cooks as well as two deliverywomen – are widowed or divorced.
Mosul residents are all reeling from the brutal IS rule and the war to defeat it, but for women in Iraq's largely conservative and patriarchal society, the challenges are often compounded.
For Jassem, whose husband died of hepatitis, the catering business offers a lifeline. Her family had refused for her to work in any mixed-gender spaces, "but I wanted to work so I would not have to depend on anybody", she said.
Now she earns 15,000 dinars (US$11) a day cooking meals that are then delivered to clients.
Her speciality is Mosul-style kibbeh, a minced meat dish.
Neither Syrians nor Lebanese can make some of the recipes her Iraqi city is known for, Jassem boasted, as other women sat beside her at a large blue table were preparing the day's menu.
One cook rolled vine leaves. Another copiously stuffed hollowed-out peppers with orange-coloured rice, and a third made meat fritters.
Only slightly more than 10% of Iraq's 13 million women of working age are in the job market, according to a July 2022 report issued by the International Labour Organisation.
When the war in Mosul ended in the summer of 2017, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR estimated the number of "war widows" in the thousands.
"Their husbands were often the families' sole breadwinners," the UN agency said.
"Without an income and often with children to support, Mosul's war widows are among the most vulnerable to have been displaced during months of fighting for the once thriving city."
Mahiya Youssef, 58, started "Taste of Mosul" to allow women to enter the labour market in the battered city.
"We have to be realistic," she said. "If even people with university degrees are unemployed, I wondered what kind of work" would "let them cover their children's needs and be strong women".
Launched with just two cooks, the initiative has since grown and now also provides employment for young graduates, said Youssef, a married mother of five.
Appetisers and main dishes on the menu go for the equivalent of US$1-10, and monthly profits top US$3,000, according to Youssef, who plans to expand.
She said she hopes to open a restaurant or create similar projects in other parts of Iraq.
Youssef said her passion was "old recipes that restaurants don't make", like hindiya, a spicy zucchini stew with kibbeh, or ouroug, fried balls of flour, meat and vegetables.
One of her employees, Makarem Abdel Rahman, lost her husband in 2004 when he was kidnapped by al-Qaeda militants.
The mother of two, now in her 50s, delivers food in her car, which she said has drawn some criticism.
"My children support me, but certain relatives are opposed" to her working, she said.
But Makarem hasn't let that stop her, and said she has found in "Taste of Mosul" a "second home".
Many clients order again, but some have become particularly loyal.
For more than two years, Taha Ghanem has ordered his lunch from "Taste of Mosul" two or three times a week.
"Because of our work, we are far from home," said the 28-year-old cafe owner.
"Sometimes we miss our home cooking, but we have this service," he said, hailing "the unique flavours" of Mosul's cuisine. — AFP


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Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE< > • Effective - 28 Aug 2020, 2 histories
192.2305. Office of state ombudsman for long-term care facility and veterans' home residents created in department of health and senior services — purpose — powers and duties. — 1. There is hereby established within the department of health and senior services the "Office of State Ombudsman for Long-Term Care Facility Residents", for the purpose of helping to assure the adequacy of care received by residents of long-term care facilities and Missouri veterans' homes, as defined in section 42.002, and to improve the quality of life experienced by them, in accordance with the federal Older Americans Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 3001, et seq.
2. The office shall be administered by the state ombudsman, who shall devote his or her entire time to the duties of his or her position.
3. The office shall establish and implement procedures for receiving, processing, responding to, and resolving complaints made by or on behalf of residents of long-term care facilities and Missouri veterans' homes relating to action, inaction, or decisions of providers, or their representatives, of long-term care services, of public agencies or of social service agencies, which may adversely affect the health, safety, welfare or rights of such residents.
4. The department shall establish and implement procedures for resolution of complaints. The ombudsman or representatives of the office shall have the authority to:
(1) Enter any long-term care facility or Missouri veterans' home* and have access to residents of the facility at a reasonable time and in a reasonable manner. The ombudsman shall have access to review resident records, if given permission by the resident or the resident's legal guardian. Residents of the facility shall have the right to request, deny, or terminate visits with an ombudsman;
(2) Make the necessary inquiries and review such information and records as the ombudsman or representative of the office deems necessary to accomplish the objective of verifying these complaints.
5. The office shall acknowledge complaints, report its findings, make recommendations, gather and disseminate information and other material, and publicize its existence.
6. The ombudsman may recommend to the relevant governmental agency changes in the rules and regulations adopted or proposed by such governmental agency which do or may adversely affect the health, safety, welfare, or civil or human rights of any resident in a facility. The office shall analyze and monitor the development and implementation of federal, state and local laws, regulations and policies with respect to long-term care facilities, Missouri veterans' homes, and services in the state and shall recommend to the department changes in such laws, regulations and policies deemed by the office to be appropriate.
7. The office shall promote community contact and involvement with residents of facilities through the use of volunteers and volunteer programs directed by the regional ombudsman coordinators.
8. The office shall develop and establish by regulation of the department statewide policies and standards for implementing the activities of the ombudsman program, including the qualifications and the training of regional ombudsman coordinators and ombudsman volunteers.
9. The office shall develop and propose programs for use, training and coordination of volunteers in conjunction with the regional ombudsman coordinators and may:
(1) Establish and conduct recruitment programs for volunteers;
(2) Establish and conduct training seminars, meetings and other programs for volunteers; and
(3) Supply personnel, written materials and such other reasonable assistance, including publicizing their activities, as may be deemed necessary.
10. The regional ombudsman coordinators and ombudsman volunteers shall have the authority to report instances of abuse and neglect to the ombudsman hotline operated by the department.
11. If the regional ombudsman coordinator or volunteer finds that a nursing home administrator is not willing to work with the ombudsman program to resolve complaints, the state ombudsman shall be notified. The department shall establish procedures by rule in accordance with chapter 536 for implementation of this subsection.
12. The office shall prepare and distribute to each facility written notices which set forth the address and telephone number of the office, a brief explanation of the function of the office, the procedure to follow in filing a complaint and other pertinent information.
13. The administrator of each facility shall ensure that such written notice is given to every resident or the resident's guardian upon admission to the facility and to every person already in residence, or to his or her guardian. The administrator shall also post such written notice in a conspicuous, public place in the facility in the number and manner set forth in the regulations adopted by the department.
14. The office shall inform residents, their guardians or their families of their rights and entitlements under state and federal laws and rules and regulations by means of the distribution of educational materials and group meetings.
(L. 1991 H.B. 444 § 2, A.L. 2003 S.B. 556 & 311, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision § 192.1062, A.L. 2020 H.B. 1682 merged with S.B. 656)
Transferred 2014; formerly 660.603
*Word "homes" appears in original rolls of H.B. 1682, 2020.
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Thursday, December 23, 2010
G U D Issue Six
The issue opens with a story from Aliette de Bodard. Set against the backdrop of ancient China 'As the Wheel Turns' follows Dai-Yu on a journey through several lifetimes. In each incarnation she is tormented by the Founders who urge her to choose between them. It is a choice Dai-Yu knows she cannot make whatever the consequences to her own existence.
Lavie Tidhar delivers a poignant tale about a girl, a butterfly and a painter in the ghettos of WWII in 'The Last Butterfly.' Almost as poignant, but deeply contrasting, is Caroline M Yoachim's 'What Happens in Vegas' about drugs, sex and forgetting. While, Lydia Ondrusek offers us a sad tale about losing someone you love in 'Hateful'. 'Salad Days' by E.H. Lupton deals with genetic illness and whether it is preferably to know whether or not you have inherited faulty genes.
'Who are you talking to, Zone?' by Bob Tippee with its brevity of language and unusual narrative is an engaging tale about a vagrant who hears voices. At times, I wasn't certain if the other characters in the tale where figments of his imagination or not. I prefer not knowing.
There are a handful of micro tales in Gud, and my favourite was 'How to Recover from a Hundred-Year Sleep ' by Sue Williams. A delightful fairy tale.
For me, the best story this issue was Ferrett Steinmetz' 'In the Garden of Rust and Salt.' Nine-year-old Evelyn, Queen of the Junkyard, discovers unsavoury truths about her guardian and makes an unusual friend. Lovely.
Favourite poems were 'Fire at the Time Factory' by Jennifer Jerome and 'Doll' by Marine Richards. The latter is beautiful and evocative.
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A female patient, aged 31; newly graduated student with a doctoral degree about to start her new career as a Doctor) was flown into your Clinic/ Hospital.
Clinical presentations includes hemorrhage, nausea, migraine,
vagina discharges, breast tenderness, depression; and
examination of vitals depicts arbitrary increase; but hematocrit is decreased.
Blood glucose levels are within the reference range, but ALT/AST levels are elevated.
Parasitological investigations as well as urine/high vaginal swab microscopy, culture, and sensitivity, provides no correlation/useful information;
however surgical intervention reveals a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) around the neck, which was immediately operated. By the time the right half of her skull was removed to relieve the pressure on her brain, the thrombosis had spread to her brain causing severe damage.
She has been battling; and is currently been induced into a coma to stop the blood flow; being operated thrice, with multiple clots seen at the left side of the brain.
Attempts to stop the swelling proved abortive.
Patient is currently being placed on life support.
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Happy New Year from The Pumpkin Patch!
Pumpkin Patch workshops start back this week after a lengthy break
thanks to the snow and the Christmas holidays!
For the first time ever the Christmas cakes will become 'New Year' cakes as so many children failed to make the last class of the year and enjoyed the early winter instead!
This has to be my favourite photo of the season!
Our holy tree under a blanket of snow!


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After another bad few months for landlords in tenant disputes, the AIIC have issued more tips to help landlords in adjudications.
According to The Deposit Protection Scheme's findings, June 1st to August 19th saw over 1,000 disputes with 60% due to damage to property. Cleaning costs played a part in 40% of the disputes and redecorating in 31%. Many disputes cited more than one reason, cleaning costs incurred due to damage for example creating the skewed figures.
Pat Barber, chair of the AIIC offered this advice- "It's so important for landlords to get the paperwork right at the start and at the end of a new tenancy agreement. We are convinced that landlords winning dispute cases could rise from 19% to 30% if landlords were better prepared for a potential dispute.
"For example, ensuring there is a fair contract in place for a new tenant along with a thorough and detailed inventory, will enable both parties to be treated fairly and reasonably. Time and time again, we see landlords losing disputes because they're not providing the right evidence to show that a tenant has damaged the property."
They have also issued this list of tips for landlords to best equip them to avoid a dispute.
Christine McCluggage
12:37 PM, 7th August 2015, About 8 years ago
I am a very fair landlord. I never take money from Tennant deposit for cleaning even though my property has been left many times in a filthy mess, but my last Tennant did not report a water leak and caused damage to floor and carpet, I sent loads of photos off to DPS along with conversation with Tennant , I couldn't have been more thorough, and I was only asking for % of deposit not whole amount, just to cover repair, but DPS decided in there wisdom to award me £53 and gave Tennant £152 back!! I am out of pocket by £252 not to mention delay in getting new Tennant in because of work needing doing to repair damage! Is there any other companies LANDLORDS can use that in your experience are fairer than DPS ? Thank you
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A recent article on TechCrunch provides some worrying insight into the question of the worldview of VC investors in open source businesses.
The authors have impeccable credentials. Max Schireson was CEO of MongoDB and Dharmesh Thakker was managing director of Intel Capital, a hugely influential investor in open source startups. Both are now executives at VC Battery Partners. Yet the article is deeply flawed, with serious factual errors and an outdated, blinkered view of monetization. If this is how people who could be expected to be experienced and enlightened see open source, the prospects are grim for the rest of the field.
Getting a detail wrong happens all the time in journalism -- and usually gets corrected as soon as it's pointed out. But when supposed experts get fundamentals profoundly wrong, alarm bells ring. The most serious factual error, reflecting an impossibly bad understanding of the Apache Software Foundation, is the assertion that Apache tried selling support services in the past and failed. The authors state:
The Apache Software Foundation, whose open source server software burst onto the tech scene in the 1990s, tried a similar strategy — essentially, selling customers support as a sort of insurance policy on their deployments, which some users considered risky because they were based on open-source technology.
As a U.S. nonprofit charity that's almost entirely staffed by volunteers, Apache could not have offered any commercial service, as its VP of Brand, Shane Curcuru, points out in the article's comments. But even if it could, it wouldn't, because Apache is fundamentally a neutral meeting place for developers (whose motivations are extrinsic to Apache) to collaborate freely. Apache doesn't even let projects fund-raise for their direct operational needs, let alone offer commercial service. Any VC who believes Apache could, did, or would offer commercial services has completely missed the point of its existence.
Then there's an amazingly poor grasp of the role of open source licensing on display in another bold factual error that refers to the Open Source Initiative's list of approved licenses:
Some licenses allow anyone to create derivative works that build on the original product, while others reserve that right only for the owners of the original product.
That's simply wrong. According to the Open Source Definition rule 3, "The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software." There are no OSI-approved open source licenses that reserve the right to create derivatives to the copyright owner.
The authors don't even understand the business model of market leader Red Hat. They say:
So while Red Hat maintained a vibrant open-source community around Fedora, updating it with new features and releases every six months, the company reserved enterprise-grade features and optimization on standard Intel hardware for people using the paid enterprise product.
But as Red Hat employee Harish Pillay pointed out, "RHEL has no Enterprise-only features. What is in RHEL is in Fedora." The authors may believe -- based on biases arising from their own careers -- that the only viable business model for a company monetizing open source software is to create artificial scarcity to ape the models of legacy corporations, but Red Hat clearly proves you don't have to do that.
Those biases seem to arise from an outdated view of the market for open source software. Students of history know that pioneers of new markets are able to command profit margins approaching 100 percent as long as they can behave as monopolists. As their markets becomes subject to fair competition, margins fall. Expecting 90 percent margins is probably not realistic, yet the authors clearly do:
But don't try to build your business on services revenue. It carries a lower profit margin than other revenue streams -- perhaps 20 to 30 percent, as opposed to 90 percent for product-related revenue -- and it's not generally repeatable.
In plenty of markets a business with 25 percent margins is considered healthy, and the increasing maturity -- and commoditization -- of the software market suggests that the margins these VCs are seeking are based on historic exceptions rather than future norms and are aimed at generating one or two high-yield investments in the face of the overwhelming statistics of failure of businesses that let the VCs in.
More significant, the way open source projects arise and the way their existence is monetized by their creators has changed significantly in recent years. A collaborative co-development community adds innovation, expands and multiplies markets, and reduces anticompetitive behaviors. Recognizing this, companies like Twitter, Facebook, and Rackspace have chosen to monetize their software by giving permission in advance to all comers to use and improve their software. Yet the authors are still stuck in a world characterized by products like MySQL and MongoDB, where co-developers are discouraged and "community" is synonymous with "customer." Their discussion of one of these communities betrays their outlook:
OpenStack recently has been criticized for moving in multiple directions, driven by the various hardware players who all have competing business and strategic agendas and, now, products that may not work well with each other.
The errors highlighted here are not merely mistakes; rather, they reveal a worldview. People who believe that Apache is a competitor, OSI approves licenses that permit monopolization, Red Hat is a business that's succeeded through artificial scarcity, and open source communities with diverse agendas are "broken" are not the people you want in your new open source business.
They will try to persuade you to secure software patents so that they have an asset to trade when you fail; they will eject you from your own company when you try to hold true to software freedom principles; and they will treat your business as a failure if all it does is earn a decent living for you and your employees. You may want to grow your open source-based business another way.


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When I was in high school, we used to put our reports into these clear plastic folders and there was a hard plastic, skinny, tube-shaped part that clipped on to the seam to secure the loose papers. I think they still have them. Anyway, the clear plastic folder always kind of stuck to itself and you used to have to pry it apart a little at the edge to get it to open, but when you did, it could hold quite a bit of work.
Yesterday while walking the dog and praying, I had the sensation that I was moving into one of those skinny, clinging folders at the open edge, and even though that is super-weird, I immediately understood what God was trying to tell me. All along in our Catholic-Christian education, we are told that the path to God is narrow. Scores of parents, religion teachers, and priests have interpreted that the narrowness has to do with our behavior. So they teach: don't stray from the path, or you'll never get in. Yesterday, I realized the startling truth of the narrow path to a narrow gate. It does exist, but it's not your behavior that gets you to God. It's pain.
I have come to understand in a very difficult season that it's loss, pain, and struggle that bring you to God. You can never be right enough or good enough to earn that Love, and a true awareness of the overwhelming mercy and personal help of Jesus will only come to you when you really need it. Desperate, on your knees.
I've struggled and finally had to let go of a lot over the past five years: my mother, a place in my nuclear family, many assumptions and ideas, my identity, my growing kids, and an unspeakable amount of control I thought I had all along. Everything I've struggled over and ultimately lost has torn a ragged hole in me. And as a result, I am super-holey. But as either Hemingway or Leonard Cohen said, the broken places are where the light gets in. I'm pretty broken, and as I've walked through this season of my life, I see how God is using it. I see how He's shining in me in those places to help other people, and I have to hand it to Him. He knows what He's doing. He always did.
Now I am beginning to understand all those scripture verses where someone talks about rejoicing in their suffering, and how they have peace that passes understanding. It comes from viewing life through a different lens. It comes from a narrow road that is all about dependence on Jesus. There is peace amid trials with Him, and I'm slowly getting it. As I walk this narrow road, the picture is coming into focus, and ever so slowly, my life and work are coming to fruition. I'm walking into that folder, like it's a bit of an alternate universe, almost like Heaven on Earth, and it's changing how I see things.
As Fr. Richard Rohr said, "We don't come to God by doing it right. We come to God by doing it wrong." Ah, it's so true. Our church's emphasis on the behavior of believers is important, I know, but it is really missing the point and it may leave lasting marks on our kids as they move through Christian education and formation. If we could earn love and grace by what we do, that would be an awfully small box for God to live in, wouldn't it? The idea that we can control His actions to bless or curse by our own good or bad behavior seems to indicate that we are really the ones in charge, and it can't be so. No. The love of God is wild and overwhelming. It's a gust of wind and a drenching rain, falling on each one of us. Coming to truth and the need for mercy is the narrow road that will set us free. And it's as simple and as hard as taking a breath and slipping into a spare, small alley that you never thought you could fit in, and continuing to walk until our vision is changed for good. It's there that the work is secured and held in such a way that someone else can read it. When it's all said and done, maybe that's why we're here.


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A scammer called the popular Positano Ristorante Italiano in Bethesda on Tuesday and threatened owner Jimmy Traettino with words no restaurant owner wants to hear: "Pepco disconnect."
Traettino said the phone call, which came at 12:01 p.m. from somebody with a hard to understand accent, was immediately suspicious. He asked if the person really represented Pepco and the person hung up.
Traettino told BethesdaNow.com he wanted to get word out in case other restaurant or store owners got similar calls and because the scammer wasn't done.
One minute after the first call, Traettino said someone else from the same number called claiming that Pepco had not received payment since December and that a technician was on his way to disconnect Positano's electric service in the next 30 to 40 minutes.
Traettino said the woman on the phone had his restaurant's correct address, business name, account number and balance due on the last bill. Traettino couldn't verify the checks he sent to Pepco two weeks ago had been deposited because his bank website was down. He told the caller and she gave him until 3:30 p.m.
A bank representative told him on the phone that both checks (Positano occupies two physical addresses on Fairmont Avenue) had been deposited by Pepco. Pepco's automated system confirmed Positano was paid up.
Traettino said he called "Mrs. Robinson" at the number again and got a voice mail message.
The number — 240-389-4839 — is attached to a voice mail message in a woman's voice for something called "Disconnection Department."
A few seconds later, Traettino said the woman from the same number called back. Traettino told the woman her information was inaccurate. She asked him to hold and hung up.
"I could see the situation in which a panicked merchant would be put in a position to provide his or her credit card number to pay a sum of money to keep electrical service which was never in danger of being disconnected," Traettino said. "And who are these people?"
Phone scammers pretending to represent Pepco are nothing new. Earlier this month, Pepco warned scammers were starting to pose as third-party energy suppliers with fake utility bills through emails.
"Many companies, including Pepco, contact customers in person or via phone for various reasons. If someone claims to represent a company, whether the company is Pepco or another entity, it is important that customers take precautions to verify that the person is affiliated with the company, especially if that person is requesting an immediate monetary payment," the press release said. "When addressing past due accounts, Pepco never endorses a specific form of payment. Instead, multiple payment options are always given to the customer."
If customers have any doubt about the validity of a person's claim to represent Pepco, they should call the company immediately at 202-833-7500.


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"non-core" gitolite
Much of gitolite's functionality comes from programs and scripts that are not considered "core". This keeps the core simpler, and allows you to enhance gitolite for your own site without too much fuss.
Documentation for non-core gitolite is organised as follows:
This page describes the types of non-core programs and how/where to install code that is specific to your site.
The developer notes page tells you how to write your own non-core programs.
The list of non-core programs talks about what's already shipped with gitolite, with a brief description of each.
core versus non-core
Gitolite has five types of non-core code:
- Commands can be run from the shell command line. Among those, the ones in the ENABLE list in the rc file can also be run remotely.
- Hooks are standard git hooks.
- Sugar scripts change the conf language for your convenience. The word sugar comes from "syntactic sugar".
- Triggers are to gitolite what hooks are to git. I just chose a different name to avoid confusion and constant disambiguation in the docs.
- VREFs are extensions to the access control check part of gitolite.
...for non-core programs shipped with gitolite
. ├── commands ├── lib │ └── Gitolite │ ├── Conf │ ├── Hooks │ ├── Test │ └── Triggers ├── syntactic-sugar ├── triggers └── VREF
gitolite query-rc GL_BINDIR will tell you where gitolite's code has been
installed. That directory should look like this.
Among these, the directories in green are considered "non-core", while the ones in red are considered "core". In addition, the two files "gitolite" and "gitolite-shell" in src are also considered "core"
You might notice that there are two locations for triggers; that is simply because there are two types of them. You might also notice that there is no place for hooks -- gitolite doesn't ship with any hooks that are non-core.
...for your non-core programs
. ├── commands ├── hooks │ └── common │ └── repo-specific ├── lib │ └── Gitolite │ └── Triggers ├── syntactic-sugar ├── triggers └── VREF
If you want to add your own non-core programs, or even override the shipped ones with your own, you can.
Put your programs in some convenient directory and use the
LOCAL_CODE rc
variable to tell gitolite where that is. Please supply the FULL path to
this variable. (You'll find the rc file already has examples lines, commented
out, so it's easy to know where to put it and what syntax to use).
Within that directory, you can use any or all of the subdirectories shown here.
If you add a program in your local code directory with the same name as a shipped program, gitolite uses your version.
Notice that there are two directories related to hooks
here, neither of which exist in the shipped non-core code. Also, the
hooks/common directory is a bit special. If you add new hooks to this, you
must run
gitolite setup, or at least
gitolite setup --hooks-only, for it
to take effect.
using the gitolite-admin repo to manage non-core code
Important security note:
In this mode, anyone who can push changes to the admin repo will effectively be able to run any arbitrary command on the server. See gitolite admin and shell access for more background.
The location given in
LOCAL_CODE could be anywhere on disk, like say
However, some administrators find it convenient to use the admin repo to manage this code as well, getting the benefits of versioning them as well as making changes to them without having to log on to the server.
To do this, simply point
LOCAL_CODE to someplace inside
$GL_ADMIN_BASE in
the rc file. I strongly suggest:
LOCAL_CODE => "$rc{GL_ADMIN_BASE}/local",
Then you create a directory called "local" in your gitolite clone, and create the directory structure (shown in the previous section) within that directory. Thus, when you push the admin repo, the files will land up, with the correct paths, in the location pointed to by LOCAL_CODE.
(Note: when you do this, gitolite takes care of running
gitolite setup --hooks-only when you change any hooks and push).
types of non-core programs
gitolite "commands"
Gitolite comes with several commands that users can run. Remote users run commands by saying:
ssh git@host command [args...]
while on the server you can run
gitolite command [args...]
Very few commands are designed to be run both ways, but it can be done, by
checking for the presence of env var
All commands respond to a single
-h option with a suitable message.
You can get a list of available commands by using the
help command.
Naturally, a remote user will see a much smaller list than the server user.
You allow a command to be run from remote clients by adding its name to (or uncommenting it if it's already added but commented out) the ENABLE list in the rc file.
hooks and gitolite
You can install any hooks except these:
(all repos) Gitolite reserves the
updatehook. See the "hooks" section in dev-notes if you want additional update hook functionality.
(gitolite-admin repo only) Gitolite reserves the
How/where to install them is described in detail in the "locations" section
above, especially this and this. The summary is that
you put them in the "hooks/common" sub-directory within the directory whose
name is given in the
LOCAL_CODE rc variable, then run
gitolite setup.
repo-specific hooks
Important security note:
If you enable this, anyone who can push changes to the admin repo will effectively be able to run any arbitrary command on the server. See gitolite admin and shell access for more background.
If you want to add hooks only to specific repos, you can just do it manually if you wish -- just log on to the server and add hooks (except the update hook and, for the special gitolite-admin repo, the post-update hook -- touch these and all bets on gitolite's functionality are off).
However, if you want to do that from within gitolite, and thus keep everything together, you can do that also. Here's how.
Create a directory called
hooks/repo-specificin whatever location you decided to use for your non-core code (i.e., direct on the server, or within the gitolite-admin repo).
Add your hooks here, with descriptive names (i.e., not "post-receive", etc., but maybe "jenkins" or "deploy" or whatever).
- As of v3.6.7, you can also put them in subdirectories for convenience
(like if you have too many repo specific hooks). For instance, you
could put some hook code in
foo/bar; the symlink in the repo's hooks directory will be created as if you had called it
- As of v3.6.7, you can also put them in subdirectories for convenience (like if you have too many repo specific hooks). For instance, you could put some hook code in
Uncomment the 'repo-specific-hooks' line in the rc file or add it to the ENABLE list if it doesn't exist.
If your rc file does not have an ENABLE list, you need to add this to the POST_COMPILE and the POST_CREATE lists. Click here for more on all this.
Now add lines like this to your conf file:
repo foo option hook.post-receive = deploy
The syntax should be fairly obvious, but just to be clear, in this case a symlink called "post-receive" will be placed in foo.git/hooks, pointing to the executable called "deploy" in hooks/repo-specific in the local-code area.
WARNING: if the hook already exists, it is silently overwritten.
WARNING: (v3.5.x or below) once the hook is placed, you can't remove it through gitolite. That is, removing the option line won't do anything. You'll have to go to the server and remove it manually.
(v3.6+) You can assign multiple targets for each hook. For example, you could say
repo foo option hook.post-receive = deploy mail-admins
where "deploy" and "mail-admins" are pieces of code that do whatever their names suggest, and both are, independently, candidates for being run from a post-receive hook.
When you do this, gitolite does whatever is needed to run each of them as independent post-receive hooks (including sending them info over their STDIN as documented in 'man githooks').
For pre-receive or pre-auto-gc you should not use more than one hook. If you really need more than one, ask on the mailing list.
(v3.6+) You can change these hooks by saying:
repo foo option hook.post-receive = deploy mail-admins
or delete all of them by saying:
repo foo option hook.post-receive = ""
(v3.6.5+) You can add hooks incrementally. For example:
repo @all option hook.post-receive.00 = mail-admins option hook.post-receive.01 = deploy # (and later) repo foo option hook.post-receive.00 = mail-users #1 option hook.post-receive.01 = "" #2 # (and maybe still later) repo @foss option hook.post-receive.02 = save-push-sigs
foois a member of
@foss, this declares 2 post-receive hooks for it: mail-users and save-push-sigs. The suffix (in this example, "00", "01") can actually be any simple word. Using a suffix keeps the option names unique, which allows you to override or delete specific options, as we did in the lines marked '#1' and '#2'. The suffix also determines the order in which the options are used in applying hooks to the repo. If the order doesn't matter to you, just make sure they're unique.
syntactic sugar
Sugar scripts help you change the perceived syntax of the conf language. The base syntax of the language is very simple, so sugar scripts take something else and convert it into that.
That way, the admin sees additional features (like allowing continuation lines), while the parser in the core gitolite engine does not change.
If you want to write your own sugar scripts, please read the "your own sugar" section in dev-notes first then email me.
You enable a sugar script by uncommenting the feature name in the ENABLE list in the rc file.
Triggers have their own page.
VREFs also have their own page.


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