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Last March 17, I had a weekend at Shu Uemura. I attended their Art of Beauty Workshop held at the newly East Wing, Shangri-la mall.
Nadia of Shu Uemura doing a small introduction
Workshop was conducted by Internationally Accredited Makeup Artist Patrick Alcober.
He introduced us the new products from Shu Uemura and showed us how to use them and shared a few makeup tips.
MUA Patrick demonstrating a simple summer day look.
While doing the demo he also explained what products he used and passed it on to the audience to test it out themselves.
These are:
Ultime8 sublime beauty cleansing oil is one of their new products
Tsuya Skin
it's a youthful radiance generator essence that promises to reactive your skin's youth in
7 days to achieve porcelain-fine, petal-soft, & translucent glowing skin
swatched on my hand
has a mild floral scent, consistency is runny & it has a pearlescent glow
and blended
was easily absorbed by the skin without any sticky residue
Stage Performer Insta-Glow
claims to deliver a natural glow, skin instantly turns luminous & smooth
swatched on my hand
has a medium thick consistency, if you look closely there are small beaded grey specs somewhat reminded of apricot scrub
slight blended
slowly turned / blended into my skin tone
it isn't difficult to blend into skin
red:juvenus intense vitalizing concentrate
swatched on my hand
a lightweight translucent gel consistency with a relaxing scent
POREraser UV Under Base Mousse
has SPF 35 PA+++
swatched on my hand
mousse texture
as you can see my hand is now smooth with less visible lines
Shu Uemura's famous Cleansing oils
their eyeshadows & blushes
their lipsticks
and the finished look
they served us mini red velvet & chocolate cupcakes
with MUA Patrick Alcober
with MUA Patrick & his model
chocolate cupcake for giveaway
unfortunately, I wasn't able to grab one as some attendees took 2 or 3 pcs for themselves :(
Thank you Shu Uemura Philippines for the goodie bag
lastly, I got myself a new lippie ^_^

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It seems that singers Lee Hyori and John Park may actually be somewhat close.
On April 10th, Lee Hyori posted a picture and tweeted to John Park, "Hey Sung Kyu (John's Korean name), you are going to come when we have our vegetarian part on 'Golden 12', right? Model Hye Bak wanted to give you this handmade candle." The handmade candle can be seen in the photo with a message from Hyori's friend that said, "Hi John. You are __ Super."
John Park replied, "Wow! I hope Thursday comes quickly," referring to when he'll be attending the 'Golden 12′ filming. The tweets between the two stars are of particular interest to fans as John Park has mentioned in the past that he's been a fan of Lee Hyori since childhood. Lee Hyori has also brought up on a previous episode of 'Golden 12′ that she would like John Park to guest on the show.
Followers commented, "Wow, the two of them are close," "I want to go to the vegetarian party," and "John Park is getting a lot of love from his noonas."
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Thursday, January 12, 2017
Watch the new trailer for THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS
Entertainment Weekly recently posted an exclusive new trailer for the highly acclaimed upcoming zombie film, THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS. If you have not seen the trailer yet, do yourself a favor and watch it now! Here is the basic plot of the film from the film's imdb.com page:
In a dystopian near future, humanity has been ravaged by a mysterious fungal disease. The afflicted are robbed of all free will and turned into flesh-eating 'hungries'. Humankind's only hope is a small group of hybrid children who crave human flesh but retain the ability to think and feel. The children go to school at an army base in rural Britain, where they're subjected to cruel experiments by Dr. Caroline Caldwell (Glenn Close). School teacher Helen Justineau (Gemma Arterton) grows particularly close to an exceptional girl named Melanie (Sennia Nanua), thus forming a special bond. But when the base is invaded, the trio escape with the assistance of Sgt. Eddie Parks (Paddy Considine) and embark on a perilous journey of survival, during which Melanie must come to terms with who she is.
Per the EW article, The Girl with All the Gifts can be seen exclusively on DirecTV from Jan. 26. Saban Films will then premiere the film in theaters on Feb. 24, when it will also be released on demand.
CLICK HERE to go to the EW article and watch the trailer
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You've noticed I've been crushing on cupcake liners lately? Totally guilty. I realized just the other day, as I was cleaning up from another project- I had quite a few cupcake liners just waiting to be used. Not just one size,either...THREE! So I got to work.
I grabbed my supplies making sure my pencil didn't have a lead and wouldn't poke through the papers on it's own (without MY additional pressure).
For the center of the top of the wreath, I wanted some texture and some ability to "fluff" the wreath later. I layered the liners smallest to largest, each fitting in the next ( you could also do it the other way).
After I layered them, I wrapped them around my dull but rounded pencil, applied hot glue around the tip and gently but firmly inserted them into the wreath form. If you poke holes through the liners- you often see through the liners to the wreath. I don't want that, so if I do poke through I glue another one in that isn't.
I want the wreath to look balanced- so I try and work "balanced" I numbered these for you so that you can see instead of just working around the wreath- I pop back and forth, trying to use the same number of liners on each side.
I ended up using JUST the mini liners on the inside- the larger ones closed off the hole. I also mostly used mini liners on the outside, but that was just because that's what I had the most of.
I'm pretty happy with it so far. It will be great to dress up and use in many different places- I love the look and the color.


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forgot to disconnect m1 cable when install windows.
m1 , number1 in settings>display , 1440x900 , my secondary monitor
m2 , number2 in settings>display , 1920x1080 , main display with tray area, where i work
the problem is where incoming connection will cause the windows launch on monitor1 rather than main display.
and the area below 900 pixel height remain black area unusable even after move to main display resized larger.
searching around can't get any hints to switch monitor numbers with proper method, or uvnc viewer is behave as expected?
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High court judges have backed demands by the home secretary and the US authorities to extradite a seriously ill woman to stand trial in America on charges of abducting her daughter 12 years ago.
In a ruling today ,Sir Anthony May, president of the Queen's Bench Division, and Mr Justice Foskett said the extradition should go ahead.
Liz Prosser, 59, from Tregaron in north Wales, suffers from Crohn's disease, acute fibromyalgia, epilepsy and depression. She is bedbound, admitted to hospital once a week for chemotherapy to alleviate the Crohn's symptoms and unable to sit up for more than 10 minutes.
"I'm absolutely devastated by this decision," she said. "What's the point in going on? If I'm forced on to that plane, it won't be extradition: it will be execution."
Prosser moved to the US to work in 1990 and had a daughter, Tamara, with her then partner. Her visa was not renewed in 1995, and she was told she would have to return to the UK leaving her daughter behind with her former partner. She bought two plane tickets to the UK and fled with Tamara without informing her former partner.
The US authorities caught up with them eight months later, removed Tamara and returned her to the US in a private jet. Prosser was charged with kidnapping and remanded in custody for four and a half months. Nine months later, charges of obtaining money by deception, relating to her time working at a US magazine, were added. Prosser vigorously contests the latter charges. She has spent over a decade on bail since her release from jail.
"I had a wonderful eight months with Tamara in the UK," she said. "If I had my time over again, I would do the same thing. I'm not a baby snatcher. I brought my own daughter to the UK because I couldn't bear to be apart from her."
For several years, her attempts to make contact with Tamara by letter failed. Contact was resumed after Tamara found one of Prosser's letters and phoned the number on it. Now Prosser, her former partner and Tamara have a good relationship and Tamara is planning on moving from the US to Wales to study in the autumn so she can be near her mother.
Prosser's husband, Phillip, who provides round-the-clock care for his wife, is devastated by the decision to extradite her.
"Whoever signs the extradition warrant will be signing Liz's death warrant," he said. "She is not a terrorist, a murderer or a drug lord. She's a mother who did what any other parent would do, desperately trying to cling on to her child."
Prosser and her husband fear that even if she survives the journey across the Atlantic, she will not be adequately cared for in the US prison system.
In court, her lawyers argued that she would suffer degrading treatment if extradited, contrary to Article 3 of the European convention on human rights, and that the extradition would violate her Article 8 right to family life. Her counsel, Hugh Southey, argued that her offence may not even attract a custodial sentence.
But the judges' ruling said: "We have concluded that Mrs Prosser's extradition to the United States would not be disproportionate in Article 8 terms, and that it serves the necessary democratic aim of preventing crime and maintaining public order by adhering to extradition treaties. Mrs Prosser's case does not, in our judgment, have striking and unusual features leading to the conclusion that it would be disproportionate to interfere with her Article 8 rights."
Prosser's solicitor, Marcia Willis Stewart, said: "The purpose of the law surrounding child abduction is to protect the rights of children and their parents. Mrs Prosser flouted those laws and was duly punished not only by a period of incarceration but by the loss of a relationship with her child.
"To seek to impose further punishment now in the name of upholding the rule of law is to miss the point that the law has already been upheld. Punishment of Mrs Prosser now, would not only place her at great risk because of her ill health but would mete out wholly unwarranted emotional punishment, possibly of a lifelong nature, to her daughter, the very person the law was intended to protect."


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Tips for Creating a Household Budget
The most important thing to most people is family and keeping them safe and secure. One way to help make your family safe and secure is by creating a monthly budget. There are a lot of expenditures that come up when having a family and doing some personal financial planning will go a long way in making sure that everything you need is covered. You know every month that rent is due on the 1st that food needs to be bought and your electric needs to be kept on to run the AC on those hot days. But, there are also future expenses that need to be considered as well like your Childs education, that trip to south America, and of course that new digital TV you have had your eye. Where going to spend some time talking about how creating a budget and different ways to accomplish this and stick to a house hold budget.
There are many ways in which you can setup a household budget. There are free templates that you can use. (Like This one)
There are also a lot of software programs out there now that assist in household budget planning.
Each one of these comes needed with some basic information you will need to input which comes to no surprise. To start you need to make a list of your basic household expenditures. Start by writing down your major expenses like rent or mortgage, electric, phone, food, and transportation. But, it is not just these basics to consider also need to adjust in clothes, entertainment and credit card payments.
Once you have created a basic list of expenditures then you need to figure out the total monthly income that you are able to budget from. If you are the only one working it should be easy to calculate your income. If other household members are also working and you relies on their income as well you have to add there as well and get an exact total. Sometimes it is harder to know what your other household members are contributing. It may vary from week to week depending on their jobs or industry. So sitting down with your contributing family members and hacking out an exact amount every week or month they can contribute will go a long way in being able to plan your household budget accurately.
Now that you have outlined your household budget either using home budgeting software or the budgeting worksheet that I provided here. It's time to create a budget. First thing is to balance your budget and see if your budget numbers are balancing out or if you are in the surplus or negative range. If it is balancing see if you can free a little up so that there is a surplus that you can have at the end of each month to save for those unexpected occurrences. If you are in the negative then you may need to cut out some of your listed expenditures or cut down on the ones you listed until you are at a balance or preferable a surplus to save.
Setting a budget can be tedious and sticking to it can be even harder but in the long run you will be glad you did. But getting it down on paper or in a software package that you have purchased is the first thing. Getting a handle on your household budget can improve your debt issue and even help you plan for that much needed vacation you need after reading this hub. However, you will still need to review your budget once a year so that you can keep up with the changes in expenditures or income.


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|This past Monday morning I was out for an early walk. The air was crisp, the sun bright, the dogwoods and redbuds and azaleas in full bloom. It was just one of those perfect mornings. I passed an older, slightly doddering lady and asked her how she was doing. She paused, cocked her head slightly to the side, and said with a wink in her eye, "Why, I'm just bathed in good feelings!"
|Well, that's what we all want on Easter Sunday, to be bathed in good feelings. This is the day that there's plenty to feel good about – the day, as we sing in our hymn, "death is conquered, we are free, and Christ has won the victory." All that, plus Easter Baskets for some and Bloody Marys for others.
|Somewhere in between the Easter Baskets and the Bloody Marys, throngs of people come to church. People often tell me that they feel a little shabby coming to church only for the red-letter days. They wonder if God thinks badly of them when they only show up in some kind of need, or when they've encountered some sort of personal sticky wicket. On the contrary, is my reply – that's what church is for, and that's who God is!
|As author Mary Karr says, "The would-be believers that sometimes ask me for help often say it seems hypocritical to turn to God only now whatever crisis is forcing them toward it – a kid with leukemia, say, husband lost in the World Trade Center. But no one I know has ever turned to God any other way. As the old adage says, there are no atheists in foxholes. Maybe saints turn to God from innate righteousness. The rest of us tend to show up holding out a tin cup. The church I attended said it best on the banner stretched across it's front: SINNERS WELCOME."
|That same banner is metaphorically stretched across Christ Church, every Sunday. For every Sunday we say, "A very warm welcome to one and all." And I've yet to meet anyone who doesn't satisfy the description of "sinner"
|– in other words, somebody who is in some need of God's help in some way. I, for one, would never be allowed in the door, much less up in this pulpit, unless sinners were welcome. Ultimately, we are all brushed with the same stroke -human need.
|Think about it. When you ask a child to draw people, he or she always draws stick figures. A poet named William Matthews noted that these figures evoke King Lear's "poor, bare, forked, animal," which, spiritually speaking, illustrates every last one of us. Describing his young sons at their artistic endeavor, he writes,
|They were powerless enough to know/ the radical equality of human
|souls, but too coddled to know they knew it.
|They could only draw it, and they blamed
|Their limited techniques for the great truth
|That they showed, that we're made in the image Of each other and we
|don't know it.
|That below our Easter frippery we are poor and bare and forked makes us prime and perfect candidates for the Good News of Easter, News meant to generate a veritable bath of good feelings even in the poorest, barest, and forkiest of us all. The Scripture this morning tells us that when Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Salome went to the tomb early on a crisp and bright morning to bathe Jesus' poor, bare and forked corpse with burial spices, they were shocked out of their socks at what they found. Or, rather, what wasn't found. Jesus was missing.
|Mark writes, "As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man, dressed in a white robe, sitting on the right side; and they were alarmed. But he said to them, "Do not be alarmed; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised; he is not here. Look, there is the place they laid him." They must have wondered who slipped what into their morning coffee. And as the text testifies, they never did recover, for they bolted from the tomb, dumbstruck and unraveled. And here ends the reading.
|Mark's narrative of the resurrection is the original account. His gospel ended there in the tomb – with a young man dolled up in white, 3 nonplussed women, and a Missing In Action Jesus. The resurrection account ends without us having seen the, well, resurrection! What is the Bible telling us here?
|One thing I feel sure the Bible is NOT telling us is that Jesus' resurrection was mythical or metaphorical. I believe that Jesus of Nazareth
|was raised bodily from the dead. I agree with John Updike, who says in his Seven Stanzas at Easter,
|Make no mistake: if He rose at all /it was as His body;
|if the cells' dissolution did not reverse, the molecules
|reknit, the amino acids rekindle, /the Church will fall.
|Or as the Apostle Paul says, if Christ has not been raised, then our faith is in vain, we are still dead in our sins, and we of all people are most to be pitied. The fact that in Mark's account Jesus is in absentia in no way indicates that He isn't really flesh and blood Risen, or that He didn't really burst His 3 day prison. Make no mistake -the stone was rolled back, the burial linens were cast off, and He strode out of the tomb, laying His eyes on the morning sunrise.
|So, in the Bible's account, we don't see Jesus. Just like in life, unless you happen to be given to St. Teresa type ecstasies. So if don't see Him in the flesh and blood, then where is a poor, bare, forked sinner to look for God? At a dinner party recently a friend asked Syri, the wizard woman on the new Iphone who answers any question you can throw at her, "Where can I find Jesus Christ?" Syri answered, "I am not qualified to answer questions of a spiritual nature." For that, I suppose, we can be thankful.
|The Bible, on the other hand, being God's inspired Word, is qualified to tell us where to find Jesus Christ. Mark tells us exactly where to look. Or actually the young man in white does: "Look, there is the place they laid Him."
|I take that to mean that we are to look for God in the tombs of our lives. The very thing that draws you to Him in your need is the only thing you need to be welcomed and received by Him. Across your poor, bare, forked form He lays the banner: Sinners Welcome. Just hold out your tin cup.
|God does not need the life you keep trying to stitch together with the hapless needle of your effort. He doesn't care a fig about the good works you try to put on His refrigerator in exchange for a gold star. And, He urges you to discover that the Fool's Gold of success you've been stuffing in your pockets, won't in the end, make your poor form rich, fill your bare form up, or straighten your forked form out. And your success certainly doesn't bathe you in any kind of good feelings that will last more than a day.
|The big cosmic joke is that the only thing anybody ever needs to be raised is the only thing every single one of us has – our deaths, in this case both real as well as the little metaphorical deaths we experience from cradle to grave. All we do is trust in Him who has been raised from the grave. We just hold out our tin cups and watch Him fill them with trust and faith.
|"Look, there is the place they laid Him." Children can usually draw little round heads on top of our stick figure bodies, and on our little round heads, our two little round eyes. That's all we need. For through the eyes of faith we look in the tombs of our lives and see that the tombs will sooner or later empty out into the morning sun. "Just remember that the twilight looks a whole lot like the dawn."
|And on each side of our little round heads, children draw little half-moons, which pass for our ears. That's more than enough, for with the ears of faith we hear the young man robed in white, sitting in the tomb saying, "Don't be alarmed! You are looking for Jesus – He has been raised." Words welcomed by a sinner – that "Jesus Christ is risen today, who endured the cross and grave, sinners to redeem and save."


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'Inside the Outside' to Open at MCLA Gallery 51
NORTH ADAMS, MASS. - On Thursday, Feb 27, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' (MCLA) Gallery 51 will present, "Inside the Outside: Reconsidering Our Views about Art." The exhibition, on display from Feb. 27 to March 23, will feature a variety of outsider and self-taught art, as well as contributions from professionally trained artists and teachers.
An opening reception for this exhibit, sponsored by MCLA's Department of Fine and Performing Arts and organized by students in the fall 2013 "Museum Studies" class, will be held on Thursday, Feb. 27, 5-7 p.m., in MCLA Gallery 51. The event is free and open to the public.
Self-taught and outsider artists are considered to be outside the typical artist spectrum; this includes, but is not limited to people living in isolated or marginalized communities, artists with mental or physical disabilities and those who are not influenced by much, if anything, in the established art world, according to Tony Gengarelly, Ph.D., professor emeritus of art history and museum studies at MCLA.
The work of artists and teachers Renee Bouchard and Ilene Spiewak will be displayed with selected artworks by students from the Lee Massachusetts College Internship Program, alongside other art by self-taught artists from the private collection of Jamie Franklin and Renee Bouchard.
"The art on display is intended to spark conversation about the conditions under which art is made and the circumstances that determine its appreciation," said Gengarelly, the project director of the exhibition.
The show also features the work of outsider artists Jessica Park and Michael McManmon. A new art biography written by Gengarelly, "A World Transformed: The Art of Jessica Park," will be introduced at the Feb. 27 opening reception. Park will be present to sign copies of books that are purchased that evening.
On March 18 and 20, two other events - both of which are free and open to the public - will be held in association with this show in MCLA Gallery 51.
On Tuesday, March 18, from 5 to 7 p.m., MCLA Gallery 51 will host an evening discussion, "Art and Biography."
"Art and Biography" will feature Jamie Franklin, curator at the Bennington Museum. Franklin's interest in outsider art started as a teenager, and has evolved as he grew into adulthood and became a collector. With his marriage to Bouchard, his interest in outsider art deepened.
Along with his expertise in self-taught art and Modernism, Franklin brings a unique perspective on the role of biography in the appreciation of art, Gengarelly said.
On Thursday March 20, 5-7 p.m., MCLA's Gallery 51 will host a second evening discussion, "Art Education and the Education of the Artist," featuring art therapist, teacher and artist Ilene Spiewak. This one-night event will include both a discussion and question and answer session on topics related to formal art education and the self-trained artist.
An artist and educator, Spiewak has used art as a tool for healing. She is a teacher for the College Internship Program for students with Asperger's Syndrome.
"My goal in teaching young adults includes providing ways to nurture individual creativity and experimentation with various art mediums, which can offer a sense of accomplishment and improve one's psychological health," she said. Working with the Good Purpose Gallery, Spiewak has displayed her students' work alongside her own art.
MCLA Gallery 51, at 51 Main St. in North Adams, will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The exhibition is sponsored by the Good Purpose Gallery, the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the MCLA Fine and Performing Arts Department, the Jessica Park Project at MCLA and MCLA Gallery 51.
For more information about the exhibition or any of the participating art galleries, go to www.mcla.edu or call (413) 664- 8718.


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WHAT Beachfront fractional-ownership development.
WHERE San Diego.
AMENITIES Direct beach access and concierge service, among others.
PRICES Shares range from $265,000 to $325,000.
STATUS The development opened in July. So far five shares have been sold.
DEVELOPER Ocean Pacific Companies.
CONTACT (877) 720-2169 or residenceclubmissionbeach.com.
DETAILS Mission Beach, a popular oceanfront playground, is at the center of the Strand, a roughly two-mile-long beach northwest of downtown San Diego. The beach has a long boardwalk and the historic Belmont Park amusement center, which opened in 1925 and offers artificial wave pools, along with an aging roller coaster and an indoor swimming pool. This development, said to be the first beachfront residence club in Southern California, occupies a single building with 10 two-bedroom homes. Ranging from 1,081 to 1,227 square feet, the furnished units are laid out on two levels and include floor-to-ceiling windows, private decks, high-definition televisions, Brazilian granite countertops and Wi-Fi access. They are sold in one-eighth shares, giving owners three preplanned weeks of use a year, with options for more time, depending on availability. Cabanas, chairs and umbrellas are set up on the public beach in front of the building, and bikes are available. Underground parking, private storage and daily housekeeping are offered as well, and the club's concierge can assist with prearrival grocery shopping, spa reservations, dinner plans and golf tee times. Sea World is located in the bay, just southeast of the development's site. The San Diego International Airport is usually reachable in under 20 minutes. The club is part of the Elite Alliance vacation-home exchange program, which offers access to residence clubs in Jackson Hole, Wyo.; Bermuda; and elsewhere.Continue reading the main story


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2017 International Credit Union Day® Theme Announced
Dreams Thrive Here
July 07, 2017
MADISON, WI — World Council of Credit Unions today announced the 2017 International Credit Union (ICU) Day® theme — "Dreams Thrive Here" — celebrating the spirit of the global credit union movement. ICU Day is celebrated annually on the third Thursday of October and will take place this year on October 19.
"ICU Day is the opportunity to encourage credit union members to get engaged, share their experiences and celebrate how credit unions and financial cooperatives have made an impact on their life choices. By placing people before profit, we defend the credit union and cooperative financial institution model worldwide," said Brian Branch, World Council president and CEO.
This year's ICU Day theme illustrates how credit union and other financial cooperatives serve as catalysts to make different professions, personal choices and career paths real. The hand-illustrated poster was designed by a Madison, Wisconsin artist who belongs to a design and printmaking cooperative.
Through ICU Day festivities worldwide, credit unions raise awareness through outreach, volunteering in the community and organizing contests, charitable fundraisers, and open houses — ultimately contributing to World Council's Vision 2020 goal of adding 50 million new members by the year 2020.
Official ICU Day graphics and posters in English and Spanish are available for download at International Credit Union Day. Promotional materials and other tips to create unique, memorable member experiences to help celebrate ICU Day will soon be available. Credit union and financial cooperative representatives and members everywhere are encouraged to share photos, events, experiences and other festivity ideas on Facebook and Twitter using #ICUDay.
World Council of Credit Unions is the global trade association and development platform for credit unions. World Council promotes the sustainable development of credit unions and other financial cooperatives around the world to empower people through access to high quality and affordable financial services. World Council advocates on behalf of the global credit union system before international organizations and works with national governments to improve legislation and regulation. Its technical assistance programs introduce new tools and technologies to strengthen credit unions' financial performance and increase their outreach.
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Last week I watched a councillor object at a public inquiry to an eminently sensible proposal for a sustainable extension to a town widely acknowledged to be a focus for future growth. The following day the same councillor retweeted a post from The Economist highlighting that concern over housing is at its highest level since May 2008 at 15% (the Economist's article is here).
That retweet may have been out of interest and not endorsement, but it serves to illustrate the fundamental reason why there is a housing crisis in this country. That reason is summarised by Ipsos Mori in it's submission to the Lyons Review:
Our surveys point to a local 'enough already' sentiment, and the national sense of crisis is felt much less keenly by people locally. In fact, more disagree than agree that there is a local crisis (49% vs 45%) and 36% of those who think there is insufficient local affordable housing disagree that new homes need to be built.
Planning is collaborative endeavour undertaken by three principal parties. the planners, the public, and the public's representatives. The planners' influence on the process is regulated by the fact that planning applications have to be considered, and local plans have to be prepared, in accordance with relevant national policy. It is the public's representative, the councillors, that ultimately determine whether a planning application can be approved or whether a draft local plan should be submitted for examination.
In response to the growing housing crisis commentators have proposed ideas ranging from the weird and wonderful to the pragmatic and practical for both the planning system and the wider land and development system within which it operates. No amount of reform, however, would prevent a planning committee member grandstanding in front of an audience when refusing an application, or a council leader kicking a local plan into the long grass so that an objective assessment of housing need is not published before a local election.
As Ipsos Mori note, as long as councillors think that public opposition is the biggest barrier to increasing housing supply (and they do), there is a risk that they follow what they think opinion is, and don't lead it to where they think it ought to be in the best interests of the whole community.
There are though indications that public opinion may be changing. DCLG has published findings on public attitudes to house building based upon the 2013 British Social Attitudes Survey. This suggests that opposition to new homes fell substantially between 2010 and 2013, with 46% of respondents saying they would oppose new homes being built in their local area in 2010, compared to 31% in 2013. The proportion that was supportive increased from 28% in 2010 to 47% in 2013, but that 47% is still below the 73% who agree that 'there is a shortage of homes that are affordable in my area'.
Concern over housing might be at it's highest since May 2008 at 15%, but it will need to be a lot higher before planning applications are approved without the need for public inquires and local plans are adopted without the need for arguments about housing need.
As Paul Weller said...
Concern over housing might be at it's highest since May 2008 at 15%, but it will need to be a lot higher before planning applications are approved without the need for public inquires and local plans are adopted without the need for arguments about housing need.
As Paul Weller said...


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Last week, on FM#3's birthday, FM#2 woke up complaining that his ear hurt when he yawned. Hmmm. Strange. I took his temperature and there was none so I dismissed it. I thought "If it gets worse, I'll take him to the dentist," thinking that it must have something to do with his jaw.
Since it was Tuesday, we went about our normal Tuesday business and went to therapy for the kids. It was an hour when FM#2 was out (not back seeing a therapist) and he stretched and yawned and quickly dissolved into tears from the pain in his ear. Okay, now, that was alarming! A speech therapist who was in the waiting room recommended that we dampen a paper towel, put it in a cup and in the microwave and create a miniature steamer to place over his ear. We did this and he seemed to improve but I called the pediatrician's office to see if we could get in when we were finished at therapy. My regular pediatrician was out but they said we could see her partner. Now, I'm not thrilled with her partner, who we've never seen before, because he missed a MAJOR diagnosis for a friend of mine's child but I thought, "he can at least diagnose an ear infection and give us antibiotics" so in we went.
He's actually a very funny guy and I like him more than I expected to but I don't want him to be our regular doctor because, well, he missed a major diagnosis. He's not up on the latest and greatest and is a bit behind the times. But he was funny. Which FM#2 liked. So, for some reason, I start talking about the time that FM#2 put something in his ear when we were living in North Carolina and it was in there for at least a month! Btw, FM#2 still had no temperature. The doctor looked in his ear and guess what? There was something in there. A little piece of foil from a Hershey's kiss. Hmmm, let me think, when did they last have Hershey kisses to eat? I guess that would be during advent when they got candy every night from our advent calendar.
After they got it out, the doctor reinspected his ear and then turned to me and asked "Why did you start talking about the time in NC when he put something in his ear before I even examined him?" A very astute observation I might add. "Ummm, because he's trouble and has a hard time learning his lesson," I mouthed to the doctor. But we do love FM#2 so much because he makes our lives so much more interesting. 😉 I also mentioned that the child has never had an ear infection in his life, had not had a cold, no runny nose and it seemed like a rather sudden onslaught of an illness. The doctor then told FM#2 he was free to put his shoulder or elbow in his ear but every thing else had to stay out. FM#2 thought that was funny too. The doctor really has a way with kids which you would expect from a pediatrician but which I don't always see. He has a great bedside manner. I just wish he was a better doctor.
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|Brief Introduction
In the new novel by Jasper Fforde entitled The Eyre Affair, Thursday Next is the female, first person narrator, a female sleuth who is employed as a special operative in the LiteraTecs division of a U.K. set in a futuristic version of the year of 1985. (The George Orwell allusion is obviously intended. The Gothic Corporation runs Europe; a war continues in the Crimea; Wales is an independent socialist state, and the heavioly guarded border will present challenges when the Special Ops need to slip across.) The flavor of the book reminded me of a female world of James Bond intrigue; however, there is a deliberate "Reader, I married him" aspect to the plot. Thursday's uncle Mycroft has a bookworm bio-tech experiment (and other nerdy magical inventions) He reminded me of the world of Harry Potter more than Carl Sagan's Contact (No, there aren't worm holes, quite, but these bookworms really chew up a mess). There were parts that seemed more like The Matrix, yet references to Alice in Wonderland are closer to its reality-shifting tone. In its name-dropping to the works of the canon, especially the Victorian canon, it is sure to entertain anyone familiar with well-known literature.
Essentially, there's hole between fiction and reality, and fictional
characters have been leaking out of their books.
|Moreover, there are rich allusions to the Works of William Shakespeare
and his place in the culture. (Yes, there are militant Marlovians
-- who have firebombed the Baconians --but they, as well as short reference
to a certain Earl, are the bad guys; each time Thursday is confronted with
new evidence of the Shakespeare-didn't-write-Shakespeare variety, she is
able to successfully dispute or deflect it (at least until her father shows
up in the last scene), with, for instance, a challenge: "What about the
Will?"--confirming that the man from Stratford knew some important people
connected to theatre people in London and thus had to have written those
Those readers inclined to need to discover Shakespearean references for themselves, may not want to scroll past this point on this page, but for those who have a need to know, here's my thumbnail list of Shakespeare references in The Eyre Affair.
Pages are to the first American edition, Viking Penguin 2002.
It was earlier published in the UK.
|Page 5. Thursday's father, a time traveler who has recently visited
1978 and brings her a Beatles single, makes a deliberate allusion to Hamlet
which Thursday identifies by the time her father alters the second line.
"Time is out of joint. . . . Good job I was born to set it
Page 11-12. Background on the need for the LiteraTecs. Thursday reports to Gads Hill (Dickens's last residence) from whence the manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit has been stolen.
Page 37. A Baconian--he introduces himself as Edmund Capillary--starts to rant. The Special Forces raise their pistols. Thursday reminds her new partner, temporarily assigned, that it is not illegal.
page 38, continuation of the Baconian assault. Thursday replies to him: "If you expect me to believe a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look."
Page 39. Thursday Next proposes her "What about the Will?" argument, but not before the Baconian complains that the New Marlovians firebombed the Baconian group that used to meet at the town hall and tries to pass out a pamphlet going into the fact that even two prominent Elizabethan satirists, Marston and Hall believed Bacon has authored Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.
Page 81. The Will-Speak Machine at the airship concourse, Swindon, where Thursday has gone to recuperate from a near fatal gunshot wound. (Her copy of Jane Eyre stopped the bullet, and this has set in motion some of the more major ingredients of the plot). This particular machine they are officially known as Shakespeare Soliloquy Vending Automationis the Richard III brand. A mannequin is visible from the waist. For ten pence, it "would dispense a short snippet of Shakespeare." These machines "hadn't been manufactured since the thirties and were now something of a rarity; Baconic vandalism and a lack of trained maintenance were together hastening their demise."
Page 82. Thursday has put in ten pence and recalls that she and her brother were fascinated with the Hamlet version near their home when young. (He thought "the undiscovered country" would be a nice place to visit.) 3 lines of "Was ever woman in this humor wooed"; Thursday is interrupted.
Page 83. The Richard mannequin is still whirring.
Page 84-5. It finishes the first Richard soliloquy with no audience then stops, "lifeless again until the next coin."
Page 118. Thursday has met an old beau, Landen, at the piano of the jazz bar. (The bar is named the Chesire Cat and lighted with a red cat in a green tree, both signs made of neon. The cat's outline flashes off every few minutest, leaving the smile by itself in t he tree--page 109.) He has tried to find out why she's in Swindon, then asks if she wants to attend the surprisingly still-running theatrical performance of Richard III.
Page 119. In the hotel room, in addition to the Gideon Bible, the Koran, texts from the Global Standard Deity (meant to stop religious wars), and other sectarian literature, there is the "now mandatory Complete Works of William Shakespeare."
Page 130. Thursday is being shown around the local LiteraTec office, overhears a young man answer a phone complaint, a "tirade" about Titus Andronicus.
Page 133. Malin and Sole are the officers who deal with crimes related to Shakesepare ("forgery, illegal dealing and overtly free thespian interpretations"; they have detained a man in tights who is a persistent offender; he puts on one-man productions of Twelfth Night; "his Malvolio is truly frightful." A page that is claimed to be from an early draft of Antony and Cleopatra has been analyzed by the Verse Meter Analyzer and rejected because it had "two many verbs per unit paragraph."
Page 147. More evidence against the Bacon wrote Shakespeare theory. Edward de Vere as alternative front-man for Shakespeare's compositions is introduced.
[Chapter 15 is written objectively. Instead of Thursday Next's narration, we get the depiction of the evil do-ers. Acheron Hades has kidnapped Mycroft, Thursday's uncle who, in addition to refining his lovely bio-tech book worms, has also invented a Prose Portal. He's sent his wife into blissful transport within the text of "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," but before he can get her back, must perform a task for Hades. Hades has also co-opted Shakespearean actor, Mr. Hobbes.]
Page 155. Mr. Hobbes, in tights, jerkin and codpiece, is a actor with the English Shakespeare Company who has been "passed over for ever major part with the ESC for ten years, relegated to walk-ons and understudying."
Page 156. Background on the actor Hobbes, in continuation: Hobbes joined up with Acheron Hades after escape from prison. He had been serving a lengthy prison term because, while playing Hamlet, he had gone overboard and killed Laertes for real.
Page 159. Just before Hades forces Mycroft to turn on his Prose Portal (his bookworms are already chewing over the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit), actor Hobbes makes sure that before he participates he has Hades' pledge to force the English Shakespeare Company to put on Hobbes improved version of the "Scottish play" along with (or is this merely Hades' satiric hyperbole), Midsummer Night's Dream with chainsaws.
Page 160. Shakespearean actor Hobbes returns out of the Prose Portal, dragging with him the befuddled lesser character from Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. Quaverley.
Page 162. We are back with Thursday Next. She has hooked up with Special Operative Bowden Cable. Bowden explains the background of Sturmey Archer, whom they are on their way to see. Sturmey got caught and turned state's evidence when he was implicated in a gang formed to market a forgery as Coleridge's continuation of "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Bowden explains he has some information on Sturmey he could use against him: "I've got some dirt on him about a Cardenio scam. I don't want to use it, but I will if I have to."
Page 163. They find Sturmey in a warehouse full of plaster busts (500 or so) and rubber casts (20; he "had a big order on") of Shakespeare. He also tries to keep busy and out of trouble by repairing Will-Speak machines. When Thursday and Bowden arrive, Sturmey "had his hand up the back of an Othello." The mannequin is stuck on repeated phrases from the "It is the cause" soliloquy, and "gave out a terrified cry of MONUMENTAL ALABASTER before falling limp."
Page 164. Sturmey confesses he has an order from the Japanese for ten thousand plaster busts; a seven-eighths scale replica of Stratford-upon-Avon is doing good business near Yokohama. Just as they think they are going to get information about the stolen manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit, all hell breaks loose. Gunshots. Bits of plaster fly. They take cover.
Page 165. The concussion of one shot sets off a Romeo; then another, and a pair of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth Will Speak mannequins start whispering plans to each other.
Page 179. After numerous plot twists, Thursday Next meets up with an old beau, Landen Parke-Laine. He has sent her a ticket to Richard III, which has played every Friday night for just about forever. We get a hint that it is an audience participation version.
Page 180. Indeed it has been ten years since they have spoken, but they used to attend this play regularly. The Ritz is a bit run-down, having played only this production every Friday night for fifteen years, with all the cast drawn from the audience. We will learn bits and pieces of what caused their break-up. Landen has implicated Thursday's brother Anton in a "fuck-up" with the troops of the 3rd Wessex Tank Light Armored Brigade in the Crimean War. (The war's still going on, just about everybody's served there. Fringe politicians are arguing better strategies, but the sad fact is that Anton died leading a doomed charge. Some of Thursday's own simpler tactical blunders will eventually be seen to grant Landen reprieve from being blamed for ruining her dead brother's reputation.) Here, in Chapter 18, they have a great time reconnecting to the fun of the audience participation Richard III. [Shakespeare meets Rocky Horror Picture Show.]
Page 181. Landen and Thursday meet outside the theatre. Reference to local actors and touring stars who drop by to participate.
Page 182. Announcement before the play. Performers Ralph and Thea Swanavon are attending for their 200th time; each has performed numerous parts many times; this is their first time opposite each other as Lady Anne and "Dick the shit."
Page 183. Clever depictions of an audience helping along the opening: "On the word 'summer' [made glorious summer by this son of York] six hundred people placed sunglasses on and looked up at an imaginary sun." Thursday finds herself reciting the words along with everybody else. When Richard recites ". . . to the lacivious pleasing of a lute. . . " the audience volunteers other musical instruments, "Piano! [ . . . ] Bagpipes! [ . . . ] Euphonium!"
Page 184. More details of the tradition of this production. "[F]ans would drive from all over the country to participate, and it was never anything but a full house." When Richard mentions he is "rudely stamp'd," all the audience begin a thunderous stamping of their feet. When he describes dogs barking at him, we hear the barks. Clarence is loudly forwarned that "Gloucester begins with G, dummy!"; they caution the Duke of York not to mention "the hump" and when he does, they prounounce his immediate fate, "The Tower! The Tower!"
Page 185. "A pink pantomine horse" appears "on cue when Richard [offers] to swap his kingdom for just such a beast." The battle at Bosworth Field engages the whole audience and moves out into the foyer; the Richmond character snatches a girl from behind the ice-cream counter as his Elizabeth, and all pledge allegiance to the first Tudor king.
Page 189. Indirect reference to Hamlet, in one of Hamlet's soliloquies. Thursday: "I slowly drifted into sleep and with sleep came troubled dreams."
Page 205. The LiteraTecs are finally figuring out that the bad guys are tampering with Martin Chuzzlewit. In discussing whether "this" [a character disappearing from his work] has ever happened before," Victor Analogy explains to Thursday, in reference to The Taming of the Shrew, that the drunken Christopher Sly character is the one for whom the play is performed. In proving her recall of the plot, Thursday volunteers: "He has a few lines at the end of act one and that is the last we hear of him . . . "
Page 206. Victor explains to Thursday that just six years ago a Christopher Sly was "found wandering in a confused state just outside Warwick." He "spoke only Elizabethan English"; he "demanded a drink"; and he "was very keen to see how the play turned out." Victor was able to question the man for half an hour. "[H]e never came to the realization that he was no longer in his own play."
[Prior to page 211. There has been more certainty that Acheron Hades is threatening more ominous deeds than that of hijacking Quaverley out of Chuzzlewit, and evidence that it works the other way, real people have crossed into fiction and stayed: Thursday is prepared to mention her own previous encounter with Rochester. Before Sly, there was some evidence that people entered books, but investigators thought of it as a one way transport. A collector of Antiquarian Books, Redmond Bulge, vanished in 1926 while reading Dombey and Son. A first review of Donbey and Son, 1851, failed to mention Mr. Glubb, the Brighton Fisherman. Apparently Bulge (or e-glub written backwards) is supposed to have transformed into Glubb and altered the post-1851 editions of the book. ]
Page 211. It appears that Christopher Sly is no longer available for questioning, but "went back . . . Quite of his own accord, although unfortunately because he was so drunk he went back not to Will's version of The Taming of the Shrew, but to an uneven rendition in one of the Bad Quartos. Melted into thin air one day while under observation."
Page 218. Bowden attempts to ask Thursday out for dinner. Thursday tells us they have little in common "except for an interest in who really wrote Shakespeare's plays." Bowden briefly sketches the Earl of Oxford theory. Meres, in Palladis Tamia (1598) names Earl of Oxford as an author, but also names and gives credit to Shakespeare for authoring plays he lists.
Page 219. Earl of Oxford theory, concluded: front-man theories don't work, yet if another did write the plays, Kit Marlowe is a good candidate.
Page 246. Victor Analogy and Thursday need to infiltrate the Earthcrossers
society, because its co-founder Dr. Müller, operating under the alias,
Dr. Cassiopeia, will know what Acheron Hades is up to or where he is. (The
Earthcrossers are meeting secretly but anticipate a meteor shower. They
will be showered with meteorites, which they will try to snare with catchers'
mitts.) Victor knows his fake ID will be only a first test.
They are fed a series of difficult solar-system questions, beginning with
which planet has the highest and lowest density and finally culminating
in the recitation of Uranus' moons. After starting to list from the furthest
away, Victor is challenged but then recites flawlessly, from the closest
first: "Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia,
Rosalind, Belinda, Puck Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon."
Page 259. Thursday is pausing before the climatic battle with the enemy (The LiteraTecs will discover that Acheron Hades has selected another manuscript to tinker with, Chuzzlewit having been rendered unavailable because Thursday's uncle knows what's up and burns it before it can be put to use. Thursday is back at her hotel, commiserating with herself because her old beau is marrying someone else. She leaves notice that she can be found at the piano bar, then strikes up a conversation with the bartender. It turns out he had trained to be a LiteraTec, got as far as a cadet, but then became implicated when his girlfriend, a "militant Marlovian," sabotaged someWill Speak machines so that they recited Tamburlane."
Page 260. Thursday teases out of bartender Chris some speculation about whether Marlowe wrote the plays of Shakespeare. Although Chris has married his girlfriend, settled in with two kids, and tends bar at night, his day job is to run the four-thousand member Swindon branch of the Kit Marlowe society. He knows he should not be talking to a real agent, but Thursday reminds him there is "no law against discussion, Chris. What do you think we are, the thought police?"
Page 261. Theories about Kit Marlowe's death, that Walsingham faked his death.
Page 262. Chris volunteers an inconsistency he has noticed. ("Don't tell the other Marlovians," he cautions.) Walshingham was more likely to have had Marlowe killed than to have faked his death. Still, Thursday eggs him on by speculating who else but Marlowe could have possibly written Shakespeare's plays. Here, if we've followed closely, we note that Thursday is just entertaining herself with the conversation, volunteering to Chris that there is too little evidence that people in Stratford knew the Shakespeare who wrote the plays. If the conversation continued, she might well entrap him with evidence about "The Will," but Chris shrugs and notes that "the Elizabethans were a funny bunch. Court intrigue, the secret service. . . "
[Thursday's exploits save the day. She enters into the plot of Jane Eyre in order to help Rochester call Jane back to him. There are many delightful intrigues and satiric twists upon the original. Everyone to this point has recognized the greatness of the novel but felt a little odd about its ending. In the text everybody knows, Jane agrees to marry St. John. Thursday's stay with Rochester and the resulting action she takes causes every reader's text of Jane Eyre to change accordingly. 99 of 100 readers are delighted with the new ending, "Jane and Rochester married! Isn't that wonderful?" (361). Thursday is a little worried what how Brontë Federation will react, but a splinter group of the Federation, Brontë for the People, approves. Thursday's personal fortunes match those of Jane, thanks to the clever twist upon Brontë's own plotting: a solicitor interrupts Landen's marriage to a golddigger to reveal that Daisy Muttlar is already married; she is Mrs. Daisy Posh (353). Landen and Thursday get married]
Page 368. Thursday's father appears from his time travels to visit Landen and Thursday at their wedding reception, but his timing is a little off. He appears a few minutes before Thursday asks him questions, to which he now has answers. She has to guess at what she might have sent him off to research: "How about the authorship of the Shakespeare plays?"
Page 369. Now that they are in sync, Thursday's father tells her what she wanted to know. He has visited London in 1610 and found out that "Shakespeare was only an actor with a potentially embarrassing sideline as a purveyor of bagged commodities in Stratford." Moreover, he has discovered that the plays do not exist. When Thursday contradicts him ("we saw Richard III only six weeks ago"), her father explains his exploit. When he realizes that "Time is out of joint big time," he revisits1592 and gives a copy of the complete works to the actor Shakespeare "to distribute on a given timetable."
Landen and Thursday cannot understand how neither Shakespeare, Marlow, Edward De Vere, nor Bacon have written the plays, but father explains "Given the huge
[Page 370] timescale of the cosmos, impossible things are commonplace."
Thursday's father repeats the allusion he started with, but this time word-for-word, exactly as Hamlet spoke it: "Time is out of joint. O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!"
When it dawns on Thursday that he was not quoting from Hamlet, but "the other way round," she exclaims:
"You put that in?"
With a smile, Thursday's father acknowledges his complicity: "A small personal vanity that I'm sure will be forgiven, Thursday. Besides: Who's to know?" [See page 5.]
[The last pages are suggestive of continued intrigue. One of the villains, Jack Schitt, has been returned to a manuscript, not of the design of the Plasma Rifle, but to the poems of Edgar Allan Poe, and funny things are happening at least to one copy of "The Raven." Thursday's father warns her to stay away from certain things, including: "don't be near Oxford in June 2016" (page 370).]
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MEPs in Strasbourg voted today to make it easier for qualified professionals to practice their profession in another EU country.
MEPs approved the introduction of an e-card detailing a person's qualification and experience and enabling the mutual recognition of professional qualifications across the EU.
Among many other professions, the new rules cover health professionals including doctors and nurses and explicitly allow for their language skills to be tested, recognising that a good grasp of the local language is important for patient safety.
Lib Dem MEP Rebecca Taylor, European health spokeswoman, commented:
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woensdag 21 april 2010
Typoos? It shuold be verboten!
Want to hide information in a sea of data? Try typoos.
From the RSS feed of Bruce Schneier I was pointed to an article about the nominated head the of US Cyber Command, Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, the current Director of NSA. In a snipped of his 'job interview' there has slipped a typo that has been copied & pasted in to 9 sites indexed by google.
Google "both government and insustry to consider" [with quotes ofc] and get 9 hits [21st of april 2010 at 09:18 GMT].
Gotta love unique typoos for tracking information spread.
But what if the bad guys would do the same? Use some 'easy to remember but unlikely to make' spelling errors so their cells can easily find instructions?
Just like Steganography, this should be investigated and a lot of money poured into to keep the spy catchers happy & busy.
Gepost door mokum von Amsterdam op 11:20
Labels: Bruce Schneider, steganography, typoos


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When my husband and I were first married, I didn't own a sewing machine. For our first Christmas, I wanted to make our stockings. So I stitched every piece by hand. They were padded, fully lined, had heel patches and a top cuff. I think my hands were raw by the end. When my first baby came along, I finally had a sewing machine and could put hers together in no time. Two years later, I made our son's stocking. Check out THIS POST to see pictures of their stockings. This year we've added two more stockings. One for our new little baby, and one for Jesus. As I make each child's stocking, I don't give myself any restrictions. I don't care if one stocking matches another. I just pick fabric that reminds me of that child. Our daughter's is flowery and girly. Our first son's in cowboy themed- he was our first child born in Texas. And this last stocking is sock monkey themed, for our hairy, cuddly boy.
This year I also made a simple stocking for Jesus. I made this one our of natural cotton and some white linen. Simple, yet beautiful. Many of you may already have one or have heard of this idea. Sometime during the Christmas season (some do it on Christmas Eve) each member of the family writes something down on a piece of paper that they are going to "give" to Jesus. It's a resolution of sorts. Maybe you will try to serve others more, share more with siblings, and the like. Then the following year, we get to look back on our gifts and see how we've done.
Our stockings are hung, now it's time to fill them up!