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All courses are a full year unless otherwise specified. Click here to review Graduation Requirements.
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English I
Oklahoma History – 1 semester
Geography – 1 semester
Algebra I or Geometry
Physical Science
Required electives - (Choose one):
Spanish I or Computers
Electives - Choose one full year or two semesters.
10th Grade
English II
World History – 1 semester
Philosophy – 1 semester
Geometry or Algebra II
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Spanish II or Computers
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11th Grade
American Literature (English III)
US History
Biology II (upon recommendation) or Chemistry
Algebra II, Algebra III (Trig/Geom), or Calculus
Electives - Choose a total of 3 semesters.
12th Grade
British Literature (English IV)
American Government – 1 semester
Anatomy, Biology II, Chemistry II, or Physics
History of World Views
Algebra III(Trig/Geom), Trig, or Calculus
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Required Elective Choices for 9th Grade (full year):
Computer Applications
Elective Choices for 9th Grade:
(Prerequisites in parenthesis)
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|One-Semester Elective Choices
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Art - Drawing - May take up to 2 semesters
Art - Painting - May take up to 2 semesters
Art - Sculpting - May take up to 2 semesters
Advanced Home Economics –
(Intro to Home Econ)
College and Career Prep
Computer Science – (Web Programming)
Drama 1 - Acting (Application required)
Drama 2 - Production (Application required)
Economics – (Includes **Personal Financial Literacy)
Intro to Home Economics
Music Theory - 1st Semester Only
Philosophy II - (Philosophy I)
Study Hall – (11th and 12th only)
(no credit earned)
Only one semester allowed per year;
must have 5 homework classes;
not for concurrent enrollment students
Teacher's Aide – (12th only)
Video Productions - (2 years of Computer Classes)
Web Programming – (Computer Applications)
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I have always loved tours of religious sites. Churches, synagogues, temples. Even if I don't subscribe to the religious beliefs of that community, it's members usually treat it with such awe that the atmosphere changes. This was true of the Jing An Temple in Shanghai.
It was the first full day of my vacation, and I wandered out of bed around 12, ready to meander around and see a few things. Since the temple is only two metro stops up from the hostel I was staying at, I decided to start there and work my way around to whatever I fancied next.
This was a special day: it was the first day of the New Year {Lunar New Year}! Admission was a bit more expensive, but there were still crowds of people praying, offering gratitude, and making wishes for the new year. I don't like to take up-close pictures of people praying; I find it to be an invasion of privacy. But, I did take a photo from a balcony that shows all of those worshipping below.
And here's another one of folks offering incense.
There was a neat metal sculpture in the middle of the courtyard that folks were tossing {throwing} coins into. I'm not sure what that was all about, but I can guess.
And here are some more random photos of the temple.
It was a perfect start to Shanghai.

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New Music Machine, Dec 5 presents:
We need to straighten a few things out folks. But once we do, we'll have new music from King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, They Might Be Giants, Calexico, Django Django, The Go! Team and much more.
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Hungry for Reading
by: Joanna Holcomb
Growing Independence and Fluency Lesson
Rationale: Fluency is the ability to read quickly and with expression. It is important for students to develop this skill so that they can read with meaning and understanding. Students can gain this ability by reading and re-reading decodable text and then, through partner reading and individual reading, students will read more quickly and fluently.
Materials: Copies of Clifford the Big Red Dog (one for each student), paired reading checksheets, Clifford targets (directions at bottom), Cover-Up Critter (tongue compressors to cover up words), strip of paper with sentence "The puppy rushed to the bowl" for students to understand fluent reading
1. Today we are going to work on becoming more fluent readers! When we are fluent readers, we can read words quickly without having to stop as often. This will help us understand what we are reading better.
2. It is important to not skip any words when we're reading. All the words in a story are important, so if we skip one, we might not understand what is happening later in the story! If we don't understand a word, we can use our Cover-Up Critter to uncover the letters in the word one by one until we understand. If we came to a word like stuck, we could use our Cover-Up Critter to cover up everything except the u, which we know makes the "uhhh" sound like a caveman. Then, we can uncover s and t to blend the sounds together to get stuhhh and then add our ck and add it to our first sound to get stuck! You can use this any time you need help understanding a word!
3. When I read this sentence ("The puppy rushed to the bowl."), tell me which way you think is the way a fluent reader would read. (First, I will read the sentence like a student would decode.) "Thhhheeeee pppp-uhhhh-pppp-eeee rrrr-uhhh-sh-ddd ttttooooo theeeee b-uh-oooo-llll." (Next, I would read the sentence a little more quickly, and then finally read the sentence correctly and fluently.) Which sentence sounds the best? Thumbs up for which one sounded better. First one? Second one? Third one? The last one, right? That's because when we read fluently, people can understand us better and it sounds right.
4. Now we'll work on reading fluently together! Everyone should have a copy of Clifford the Big Red Dog so we are going to practice reading this book so we can become great readers! This book is about a little girl who gets a brand new puppy, but as the puppy gets older it keeps growing, and growing, and GROWING! What do you think will happen to the puppy? We are going to have to read the book to figure out what happens to the little girl and her dog, Clifford.
5. (Have the students read quietly to themselves for a little while to give them practice time.) Now that we have had a little practice time, we are going to pair up and practice reading the book aloud to each other. Each of you will read the book to each other three times and keep up with the checklist I will hand you. After one partner reads the book three times, switch and let the other partner have a turn.
6. (Walk around the class during the reading time to make sure students are reading and assessing one another correctly.) When everyone is done, I will call you up one at a time to my desk to have you read the book one more time and we can add to our graph to get the bone up to Clifford's bowl!
7. (Have students come up to the desk to see how many words per minute they can attain. Based off of this assessment and the checklist each partner completed, graph their progress on their Clifford graph. Set goals with each student to help them reach their fluency goals.)
-Clifford charts will have Clifford at the top with an empty bowl. Each time a student reaches their next fluency goal, they will get to move the bone one step closer to the bowl. The bones should have Velcro on the back to allow easy movement.
Assessment: Their oral reading to their partners and to the teacher will allow movement on their graphs which allows for quick assessment.
References: Zoom, Zoom, Zooming into Fluency by Maggie McKinney (http://www.auburn.edu/academic/education/reading_genie/adventures/mckinneygf.htm)
Clifford the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell
On Your Mark, Get Set, Read!! by Stephanie Pollack (for Reading Checklist)
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Reading Checklist: (one per student)
-Partners' Names: __________________
As I listened to my partner read, he/she:
After 2nd Read After 3rd Read
1. Remembered more words ____________ _____________
2. Read faster ____________ _____________
3. Read smoother ____________ _____________
4. Read with expression ____________ _____________


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Are you a business owner thinking about outsourcing your customer service needs to a call center but worry about how the outsourced center will handle an excessive workload? As many business owners before you have come to find, the intricate management strategies behind running a call center are both unique and effective. This behind-the-scenes look details just how outsourced call centers manage the workload of several different clients.
Staying Ahead of Evolving Trends
To successfully calculate and manage a big workload, call centers must be constantly seeking and analyzing overarching trends for potential inbound calls. Once broad trends are detected, they are then examined even closer to determine specific days of the week and hours of the day that these commonalities are occurring. By creating a timeline for developing call trends, centers are able to create a call forecast for specific times throughout the day.
While observing these trends, call centers are also able to determine the average handling time each call requires. This includes how long the actual customer interaction takes, the time required for any follow-up tasks, and any other miscellaneous demands of each call. Efficient call centers know exactly when people will be calling, what they'll be calling about, how long the call will take, and what steps should be expected next. By carefully calculating the workload, outsourced call centers will know exactly how much work they can take to provide customers with the ultimate services.
Staffing with the Customers In Mind
Without the adequate staff numbers, call centers will inevitably fail. Thankfully, most leading outsourcing centers know just how many staff members to have at one time and they also realize that their representative's health and happiness is vital for the satisfaction of customers. Many call centers provide staff with comfortable work stations that help to minimize strain and other related health issues.
Successful outsourced call centers are also good at knowing when they'll need more staff and when they won't need as many. By knowing the flows and trends of the industry, they can help you save money while also providing your customers with the care and consideration that will keep them loyal to your brand.
Call Centers are Tuned into Technology
Lastly, all great call centers have the right technology they need to ensure they can handle a large workload. Some of these technologies include:
- The cloud: fits the call center business model and gives business owners a cost-effective, multi-channel way to communicate with customers.
- Software: nearly all call centers use different types of software. Much of this software utilizes applications to better support your business and guarantees that representatives are complying by all levels of requirement.
- Headsets: are worn by all agents so they can talk with your customers while also using other means of technology to help and solve the complaint or issue the customer is calling about.
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Floral and leaf motifs cover an expanse of blue wool, covering a shawl from Sandeep Malhotra. It is inspired by India's legendary jamawar work. These original textiles were embroidered by hand. So intricate was the work that a person could finish only one shawl in his lifetime. Such shawls were not sold, but were given to kings and queens who, in turn, gave the artisan properties according to the worth of the shawl.
Sandeep has embraced his family's textile endeavor and has been instrumental in its growth. Today his family's workshop provides others in his neighborhood.
Sandeep has two children. He is deeply committed to caring for them while he strives to provide them with the best possible education.
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Contemporary designs derive from the Italian, Spanish, French, English; a favorite one gives the top of the table a generous overhang, especially on the ends, and places the heavy stretchers low. The Tudor type of these tables had bulbous legs, enriched with carvings which today, in a rare English antique or in a modern reproduction, are found in Elizabethan rooms with oak paneled walls and decorated plaster ceilings. Later, in Jacobean times, the legs of the tables became less heavy, and the baluster and other turned legs came into fashion. These English types of refectory tables are always of oak, the wood used in England for furniture at that time.
Refectory tables take their name, of course, from their use in the long refectory of monasteries or castles. Before the dining room was developed in England, when the great hall of a castle was living room and dining room combined, long trestle tables were in use. One referred to by Jourdain, in her book, "English Decoration and Furniture," was fiftyfour feet in length, this allowing ample room for the noble lord and all his retainers to sit down in a patriarchal manner that has since been lost. When the collapsible trestle table was superseded by the solidly built table, the new type was known as a "joined" table, because it was put together by a skilled carpenter, or "joiner."
Antique examples of these collapsible types of refectory tables are, indeed, rare today. Yet, in early America, they were much more often found than the four-legged, solidly joined table. Made of oak or of pine and maple, the trestle table was so constructed that it could be taken apart and placed out of the way when not in use. Its supports consisted of a pedestal at each end, and sometimes one in the middle, connected by a single stretcher, held in place by stout pegs or tendons. The trestle table apparently remained in use in the Colonies much later than in England; as did, in its turn, the four-legged stretcher type, with all its parts solidly joined.
Comparatively few of the "joined" type of refectory table were used hereexcept in the Southwest, where they had a mission type for Colonial joiners in these latitudes were making pine and maple tables more suitable for the habitations of the less opulent Colonial pioneers.
A useful form of modern refectory table has an extension top. This style, known generally as a draw table, is constructed with extension leaves placed under the top, which can be pulled out on occasion, and which, by an ingenious arrangement of supports, provides additional table surface at either end. This is a convenient arrangement where the table is to be used in the living room.
Furniture makers of today, keeping up with the increasing demand for authentic copies of the old forms, have made excellent reproductions of both the draw table and the solid-top table. In the best of these copies the craftsmen, while taking advantage of some modern methods of construction, retain all the old methods that helped to achieve durability and decorative effect.
Refectory tables, except, perhaps, the highly individual Tudor style with the large bulbous legs, fit into many kinds of interiors. They make useful side tables in a library or living room which may have chairs and couches and hangings of a period much later than the early American. The low-placed stretcher and wide overhanging tops give them picturesqueness; and, even in the simple ones made by country carpenters of Colonial days, there is a grace that can be made use of by the judicious even among more sophisticated furniture.
With the growing custom of combining dining room and living room an adapted aspect of the great castle hall is coming back-English or Spanish. Perhaps that is one reason why these long and hospitable looking tables fit in well at one end of a large living room that has a capacious fireplace and a gallery-both characteristic of European periods and architecture when refectory tables were used. Reproductions in pine and maple can be made of a pattern to fit in with room ensembles in the simple early New England style. Especially appropriate for a room paneled with straight pine boards, or for a renovated farmhouse kitchen, with its plastered walls and ceiling of open beams, is a primitive trestle table made a little broader than, the single wide board of pioneer days, so as to accommodate our present-day dining table arrangements.


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The non-renewable World Bank
Environmentalists and development advocates are sceptical that the World Bank's recent announcement of support for renewable energy is anything but spin. The targets were announced as the first public Bank response to its Extractive Industries Review (EIR), which was initiated in 2000 by Bank President James Wolfensohn. The EIR was formed to evaluate whether or not Bank support for Big Oil and King Coal contributes to the Bank's mission of poverty alleviation. The answer, after two years of consultation and study, was that they do not. The EIR recommended phase-outs of Bank support for coal and oil, and a phase-in of renewables by increasing lending by 20 per cent of the total energy lending portfolio each year.
'They're not even close to the EIR recommendation. They're pledging 20 per cent of a cent when they were asked to give 20 per cent of a dollar,' says Steve Kretzmann of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). According to IPS analysis of the Bank's lending, over the past decade (1994 to 2003) the World Bank Group approved over $24.8 billion in financing for fossil fuel extractive and power projects. Over the same period, the World Bank Group approved just $1.06 billion in renewable energy projects. In other words they preferred fossil fuels over renewables by a 23:1 ratio.
'At this rate, it will take the Bank Group nearly 20 years before their renewables portfolio reaches current levels of funding for fossil fuels – it's absurd!' says Janneke Bruil of Friends of the Earth International.
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Two Israeli youths who kidnapped 16-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khdeir and burnt him alive have been given lengthy prison sentences.
One of the killers was jailed for life and the other for 21 years on 4 February, after being found guilty in November. Neither can be named as they were 16 at the time of the attack.
The pair kidnapped Abu Khdeir from a street in east Jerusalem before murdering him. The murder was part of an escalating cycle of violence that led to the 2014 Gaza conflict.
Israeli settler Yosef Haim Ben-David, 31, is said to have led the attack, however, his lawyers claim he is mentally ill and was not responsible for his actions at the time.
Abu Khdeir was kidnapped, beaten unconscious, and burnt alive in the Jerusalem Forest in July, 2014, to avenge the kidnap and murder of three Israeli teens by Hamas members the previous month.
Hussein Abu Khdeir, the father of the victim, requested at the sentencing that Israeli authorities destroy the homes of the attackers' families, as they do with Palestinian terrorists, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported.


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Thursday, 16 March 2017
Happy New Home.
Hello guys! Here I am again with another make using some of the newest stuff from the MFT release.
I had to have these really useful key and key fob dies... perfect for a New home card...
the Die-namics Lock & Key die set help me create the perfect keyhole frame. I embossed the card with a wood effect die, and distressed it. This was a perfect opportunity to make a wee shaker card. I added the key and the fob from the Stitched Tiny Tags. Quite simple and quick to make. Hope you like it...
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text: Moving Towards Responsible Government Text Size a a a Print Page ContentThe Legislative Council 1872These men were members of the partly-elected Legislative Council of Western Australia in 1872.Courtesy Batte Library 52125P 'Maternal Solicitude' Bulletin, 7 February, 1888Britain was not eager to allow the colony too much independence.Courtesy Battye Library, WA BulletinIn 1870, the colonists won the right to elect some members to the Legislative Council. However, the Governor could still veto the Council's decisions and many colonists remained dissatisfied. They wanted a fully-elected parliament to run the colony's affairs. Colonists continued to argue for self-government and, by the 1880s, the call for political change was so strong that it could not be denied.In 1887, the Legislative Council voted in favour of a change to self-government. A new Constitution was drafted by Governor Broome and sent to London for approval.The House of Lords supported the Constitution Bill. However, some members in the House of Commons were worried that the Bill was too conservative because it restricted voting rights to men who owned or leased property.A special deputation from Western Australia led by Governor Broome, including Stephen Parker and Thomas Cockburn-Campbell, managed to overcome this opposition and persuaded members to support the Bill.In 1890, the Constitution Bill was passed by the House of Commons and granted the Queen's Assent. Western Australia's Constitution came into legal existence.


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Reading the Prologue for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings revealed much about the author. First and foremost, the text portrayed the outstandingly extensive breadth in all relations regarding J.R.R. Tolkien's thought, study, and imagination. It also portrayed some of his likings and enjoyments in life.
"Concerning Hobbits" Section One in the Prologue for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien's Prologue contains a long, detailed script regarding all things in relation to Hobbits. Much detail was given on subgroups among the Hobbits, what they look like, where they dwell, how they work the land, who remains prominent among them, how they relate to other Middle-Earth folk, and more. There seemed no end to the history, allegory, or factual tidbits.
Words failed me when I tried to describe to my father the imaginative depth and shocking detail included in this first section, "Concerning Hobbits." However, my father, who has read The Lord of the Rings several times throughout his life, knew the perfect phrase: Obsessive detail.
Obsessive is exactly what I would call J.R.R. Tolkien's work. Do some Tolkien fans take offense at this terminology? I hope not, for I mean no offense at this term. In fact, I have the proclivity and bias to believe deep people, obsessive and philosophical (and many times theological), lean toward genius in their arts and crafts.
The writing in this section layered detail upon detail, upon detail, and so on. J.R.R. Tolkien set the foundation for an imaginative people, then provided them with an imaginative history, then educated them with a language grounded in linguistic theory, and then added imaginative folklore for the imaginative Hobbits. In other words, Hobbits and the Shire could be real folk, in a real land, in a real world. Where could have J.R.R. Tolkien received his genius?
"Concerning Pipe-weed" Section Two in the Prologue for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
"Concerning Pipe-weed" in the Prologue for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings provided the perfect laughing magic after much education regarding Hobbits. For within the very first paragraph to this second section, Tolkien wrote a word very similar to an English word called nicotine. This "Nicotiana" was what Hobbits stuffed into their pipes, clay or wooden, and smoked.
J.R.R. Tolkien proceeded to provide imaginative detail regarding where the weed first came from. Did it come from the Hobbit village named Bree? Or does the weed grow native in the man-ruled city called Gondor? Again, Tolkien proved his imagination's depth in creating Middle-Earth history similar to our world's history, which means every culture is flummoxed about actual historical deeds and actions.
What this section blatantly shows is the time in which J.R.R. Tolkien lived. Cigarettes and cigars dominated most Englishmen pastimes, especially during World War II (WWII). With this in mind, and the knowledge about how this nicotine helped our WWII men to relax and rest, I can see why Tolkien included the Nicotiana weed into his literature. For every creature needs some means to rest, bodily and mentally.
"Of the Ordering of the Shire" Section Three in the Prologue for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
"Of the Ordering of the Shire" in the Prologue for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings detailed the government type that every conservative wishes for: minimal to nonexistent government. Based on how Tolkien described the governing society within the Shire, it resembled the United States government very much. The main similarity being free will, the other democracy.
Where the U.S. law enforcement writes speeding tickets and handles domestic disputes, the Shire's law enforcement deals more with folk outside the gated borders. Hobbits called them the "Bounders," strange folk on suspicious business. Such Bounders had appeared in Hobbit towns before. But those days were long ago, and the Hobbits had forgotten the danger these strange faces carried with them. Could this compare to the danger which German strangers presented to the English children in the early 1900's?
"Of the Finding of the Ring" Section Four in the Prologue for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Here Bilbo Baggins took stage. His story, summarized in "Of the Finding of the Ring" in the Prologue for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, revealed the dark story concerning a black heart and its "precious."
Gollum would strike fear in anyone's heart, let alone a simple, earth-loving Hobbit. For a ring to have so much power in prolonging a creature's life, corrupting the creature to solely desire its power, made known the evil behind it. And to have the honest and adventurous Bilbo Baggins lie about how he found the one ring only made certain its terrible power.
This fourth section seemed put-in merely to set the stage for The Lord of the Rings. It informed the reader as to why poor Frodo Baggins had to carry his heavy burden, and consequently why all the connecting events occurred. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to draw people into Middle-Earth. As did his son, Christopher Tolkien, when he wrote on the history surrounding Middle-Earth. But that's a different matter entirely.
"NOTE ON THE SHIRE RECORDS" Final Section in the Prologue for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Not much need be said on the final section in the Prologue for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The author again showed his obsessive brilliance on imaginative history and folklore, connecting his work to how his readers would perceive it, as written accounts from Middle-Earth Men and Hobbits. To this fictional world there seems no end, and nor do we want there to be.
I hope anyone who reads this post will join me as we continue to read and review J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings! Continuing on with the series, we will compare and contrast how the story's events relate to his personal life.
After all, Tolkien had mentioned this as a possible occurrence in his Foreword. Two biographies, one concerning the Inklings, the other concerning Tolkien himself, now exist on my bookshelf for this purpose. Let the fight between good and evil begin!


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Re: How do I edit an event after it has already started?john.decker Sep 2, 2016 11:17 AM (in response to chribick)
Hi Christine,
You must enter a start time that begins after the current time. If the event started prior to creating/editing the event, you might consider adding a note in the body for when it truly started, while still setting the current time as the start time.
Hope this helps.
Re: How do I edit an event after it has already started?chribick Sep 13, 2016 2:48 PM (in response to john.decker)
Thanks for the response. I think that is a defect as making a comment in an event is not a replacement for having an accurate calendar representation of an event. Thanks again for confirming John Decker


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Canadians are suffering from political correctness fatigue, suggests a new poll.
The same aversion to inoffensiveness largely credited with the rise of Donald Trump in the United States is alive and well in Canada, the survey by the Angus Reid Institute found.
In fact, Canadians are even more exhausted by the ever-present risk of offending than our southern neighbours, the pollsters found.
But north of the 49th, that burnout cuts across the political spectrum and all ages, says Shachi Kurl, executive director of the institute.
"In Canada, that feeling that people are too easily offended these days by the language that others use is something that actually cuts across the entire political spectrum, left to right," Kurl tells Yahoo Canada News.
A similar poll by Pew Research in the United States – prior to the current presidential race - found 59 per cent felt that way.
There are many factors at play in Trump's success, Kurl says.
But "clearly he has tapped into a sense of frustration and that frustration certainly may be manifested in a fatigue around political correctness or having to watch what you say or having to be inclusive or mindful or hurting others or offending."
There are also bigger issues at play, such as economic mobility and hope for the future.
In the U.S., Independent and Republican voters were more likely to feel that frustration that Democrats, Kurl says.
But in Canada the sentiment cut across party lines.
Seventy-nine per cent of Conservatives polled, 60 per cent of Liberals and 62 per cent of New Democrats said they felt people are too easily offended.
The poll found 76 per cent of Canadians felt that political correctness has gone too far.
And yet 72 per cent admitted they hold their tongues, at least sometimes. Almost one in five do it regularly.
And most don't do it out of fear of being judged. Eighty-seven per cent said they do it to be polite.
"This is such a typically Canadian response," Kurl says. "On one hand, Canadians say they feel political correctness has gone too far…. On the other hand, four-fifths of Canadians say they do self-censor and watch what they say, or hold their tongue, and they do it because they want to be polite, as opposed to being judged for speaking out."
Yet Canadians tend to curb their conversation not out of fear of reprisal, but politesse, she says.
"We feel a sense of constraint as Canadians around being politically correct and at the same time, those are shackles, in some ways, that we're actually putting on ourselves."


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As a voluntary and informal state-led process, the GFMD does not have a regular funding mechanism. Financial contributions are offered on a voluntary basis to rotating Chairmanships. Each Chair-in-Office prepares a comprehensive budget for the Chairmanship period, indicating the part it will cover through its own resources and the part for which it will require external funding.
A GFMD assessment exercise in 2012 reached a conclusion that the GFMD needed a more stable and predictable funding mechanism to ensure the sustainability of the GFMD process. On the basis of the consolidated GFMD Assessment Paper, the Swedish GFMD Chair in 2013-2014 led the GFMD in developing a long-term financing framework with the following elements:
- clear governance and accountability in accordance with established international financial and accounting standards;
- annual standardized core budget that includes the costs of preparatory activities, the operational costs of the GFMD Support Unit and the costs of organizing the GFMD Summit in the host country;
- early voluntary pledging to be held at the start of each Chairmanship; and
- a broader donor base that welcomes contributions of any amount by as many countries as may be possible.
Financial contributions are paid to a fund administered by the Chair-in-Office through the GFMD Support Unit and in coordination with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), host entity of the GFMD Support Unit. The Chair-in-Office, directly or through the GFMD Support Unit, incurs expenditures in accordance with the budget and ensures the efficient management of all funds received, including controlling and auditing.
Over the past years, contributions-in-kind have also been provided by a few governments, international organizations and foundations to the rotating Chairs-in-Office. Such in-kind contributions take the form of secondment of experts, drafting of Roundtable background papers or supplementary papers, and logistical assistance with preparatory activities. In these respects, the IOM, in particular, has been an important and steadfast contributor to the GFMD through the years. The MacArthur Foundation had also been one of the largest donors of the GFMD process until 2012.
Governments' responses to calls for financial and in-kind contributions have varied from one Chairmanship to another. Nonetheless, the number of donor governments has grown remarkably, averaging around 15 to 20 donors each year, since 2010. Records show that the number of contributors to developing country Chairs-in-Office is comparatively higher than to developed country Chairs-in-Office.
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Well, don't look literally - the cat did bring something home, but we made no photograph before picking it up, carrying it to the candle and burning it into nice crisp black oblivion. Yes, it was a tick - the first she brought home this season (at least the first one that we found).
So here's the obligatory Springtime-is-start-of-tick-season post:
Are you living in or planning to travel to a place in Europe that has ticks carrying the TBE virus? If so, have you checked your vaccination status? It's recommended to refresh the vaccination every 5 years, every 3 years if you are older than 60. TBE is a nasty thing, and the easiest way to avoid it apart from spending all your time inside is the vaccination.
Ticks can also give you Lyme Borreliosis, which is bacterial and also quite nasty, but there's no vaccine against it.
For those of you who need to refresh tick-bite avoidance and treatment stuff, because you are lucky enough not to get in contact with ticks often:
Wear long clothes when walking through nature, especially if you are walking through high grass, undergrowth, and along forest edges. Check yourself for ticks after being outside, enlisting the help of other people or a mirror for the hard-to-see spots. If you find any ticks, remove them as soon as possible, using a suitable tool; do not cover them in oil or glue. You can get tick-removal tools in every pharmacy (and also in pet shops). There's different kinds of them; we have a sling-type tool called "3iX" that we are very happy with, as it also works well on the cat (our main field of use) and will grip even tiny ticks. It has been said that just pulling out the tick without twisting is better; personally, I feel it goes out more easily with the old "turn it around a few times, pulling gently" method. Dabbing some disinfectant over the spot where the tick was cannot hurt once it's out.
Once you have the tick out, check if it has come out completely or if the head is still in the wound (that can happen sometimes). Then destroy it. Do not just flush it down the loo - it will laugh at you, ticks can happily survive for weeks under water. Either douse it with boiling water (must have more than 70°C to work), squash it completely (that can be messy) or use metal tweezers to hold it into a flame and burn it. Dead ticks are good ticks.
Fun fact: Sometimes you get a tick that has a tick on its back. A Two-fer. These two, my friends, are doing the Nasty. The Beast with Two Backs. They are humping along. Making more tick eggs. Or however else you want to describe it. If you kill these two, you have just rid the world of about 1000 more potential ticks...
(Disclaimer, in case it's necessary: I am, in general, an animal-friendly person. I'm one of those who carry the spider out, and make sure the bumblebee gets out of the house too. There are, however, three exceptions: ticks, moths and carpet beetles. Well, four if you count that I will slap a mosquito if it bites me. If you are a small chitin-clad creature that wants my blood or my wool, I will not give you quarter!)
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Look what the cat dragged home.
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I'm glad to see that Mayen appears to be in a tick-free area!
Britain's moat can be unpredictable in what it lets across: there are ticks and Lymes disease but no TBE as yet.
- 21 April 2015 at 13:22
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My country celebrated Independence day on the seventh. Every Friday before the seventh has been unofficially named 'National Colours Day' when nationals get dressed in and just generally put on shoe all the colours of our flag.
I had work though and even though we got away with keeping it a little casual I still felt I needed to make sure looked a bit corporate too. You cant see it well because of my vest but my shirt it says Spice Isle 473 on it and also gives a nod to our national dish a little lower down.
What a nutemeg looks like while on the tree, this one has just opened and will be picked soon
On national colours day our country is brighter and if possible, more spectacular than usual. The streets are bathed in red, gold and green. Our sky line is blown with row after row of buntings in the national colours and our children....oh our beautiful children are dressed in the most unique frocks, in a multitude of styles! All showing of their colours.
My country is refereed to as the Spice Isle for we are rich with spices and nutmeg happens to be one of those for which we are well known. We adopted the phrase 'respect the nutmeg' after the last Olympic games when our national champion (yes we call him that, we also call him 'The Jaguar' we are a proud people.) Kirani James won first place in the 400 meter relay race. Back then the announcers could barely pronounce our name, they didn't kno w how to say it because they'd barely heard of us. Respect the nutmeg means though we are little, we are spicy, observe us well for we are prestigious and worth much.
At least seventy percent of people are likely eating our national dish on national colours day. Often they are cooking it in the schools and selling it in the shops. It is everywhere, whether they are cooking it themselves or they are benefiting from the wealth of good cheer and the hearty sense of sharing and caring for which my country is well known. People are eating food that day that is a national symbol of how mixed up our history is but how resistant we are and hope we have continued to fight to prosper, with mother earth at our side.
There are marches in the streets, teachers and pupils all singing songs of national pride. On that day we are eating, we are singing, we are looking very pretty and we loving on we country.
One day, I hope that you will see it.
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I had an awesome time picking raspberries with my friend, Kate, at the beginning of July! This led to lots of tasty treats like my Raspberry Brownies, and Raspberry Lemonade. Yum!
I worked on some fun DIY projects, like this Emrboirdered Tea Towel, as well as a Fabric Flower Belt and my new favorite Arrow Tote.
I tried out a couple of recipes for my friends' wedding cupcakes. First I tried out some PB&J Cupcakes, then I made these Lemon Blackberry Cupcakes, which were so good that they warranted no additional test runs or recipes! I'm looking forward to making a good 80 of them for the wedding next weekend!
I continued my summer love affair with the farmers market, and made a couple of my favorite summer recipes: Apricot Preserves and Goat Cheese Stuffed Squash Blossoms.
Looking back, I also wore a ton of stripes this month! You can check out some stripe-y outfits here, here, and here!
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I've concluded that I should have been diagnosed with a serious condition at a young age.
The condition of "Expensive Shopper Syndrome," that is.
Urban Dictionary defines this syndrome as, "An unfortunate condition where a person tends to pick out the most expensive item available. If they are given a choice of ten different items, they could pick an item with their eyes closed and it would still be the most expensive item." Hallelujah! Can I get an amen? I've always been drawn to designer bags, the diamonds that are the most expensive cut and of course even the excessively overpriced bubble bath. It really is a problem…especially when you are of all things a college student on a tight budget.
My family has taught me that while it is nice to have those extravagant things once in a great while, it's not necessary.They are absolutely right. There are so many other causes and things that our hard-earned dollars could be contributing to instead of a $300 cashmere throw.
However, why can we not have the high-end style without the marked-up prices? Can we have our cake and eat it too?
With a few simple strategies we can!
- Look through things that you already have around your home. You will be surprised how lamps, books, old photos or drawings, vases, baskets and vintage knobs can have a purpose that you never thought of before. Repurposing and upcycling are popular trends right now. It can be a helpful way to look at the items you already own and find a new use for them!
- Prioritize. What upscale items do you absolutely need?
- Make a list (I already mentioned my passion for lists–so don't be surprised to see them as a common trend) and determine the necessities.
- With the list in hand, make sure when making purchases: you are searching for quality over brands. You can save a significant amount of money on buying items like decorative pillows at TJ Maxx or Homegoods instead of going to an inline store at the mall.
- Garage sales, thrifting and estate sales can be your ticket to great finds! While you may have to get past a lot of other people's "treasure", more often that not you may find a piece or an item that will be the perfect addition to your space. I've found everything from a marble shelf (see below) to new kitchenwares!
- Remember the old term elbow grease? It's very much alive today and you can create stylish, functional pieces for your space with some hard work. Remember that coffee table you found at one of your yard sale adventures? With a bit of TLC, a can of spray paint, some new hardware and love, it can instantly become a $25 focal piece for your living room.
- Clearance and sales should not be taken lightly. Things that are "past season" or "price-reduced" still have great value. Use your creative eye and see what masterpiece you can produce!
Here are few simple ways I incorporated my elegant finds and creations into my space.
What is on your top-of-the line items that you must simply get for your space? Can you find a way to make them or create them on your own?


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From helping revamp the menu at places like Diner Deluxe to his current post heading up the kitchen at Home Tasting Room, James Waters has definitely been around the block—in a good way. The executive chef talks about what it's like to date one of the city's top mixologists, the challenge of bringing his A-game in an expanding culinary scene and more.
Your girlfriend, Christina Mah, is the general manager of Raw Bar, where you started out. Is that where you two met? No we met at Spruce Meadows. We were both out their working a concession. It was weird because I met her and then two weeks later, I started at another restaurant and she happened to work there, too.
Meant to be then, I suppose. Hopefully. That was about 8 years ago.
What's it like living with someone who works the same hectic schedule as you? Well, we see each other on our days off and then we don't see each other at all, but we make it work
Do you cook a lot at home? We're off-and-on. We'll go through a few months of cooking all of the time at home but then, depending on what's going on, we'll be eating out a lot more. I do have a decent amount of culinary equipment—a circulator, a Vitamix and all of that stuff—at home, though.
You've been the head chef at Home Tasting Room for a year now, but you actually helped open this place back in 2010, right? I did, yes. I helped open it with Geoff Rogers. I was here for about 8 months, just working on the line. Then friends (who) owned the The Ship and Anchor were having trouble with the food program, so I went down there to consult. After that, I went to Diner Deluxe after. I was there for around two years.
When you came back here, did it worry you that the front and back of house staff had not been, let's say, consistently stable for the past few years? Not really, because I already knew the lay of the land, right? If I hadn't been here before, I might have been a little worried, but I knew what I was walking into and, I felt like Xavier Lacaze would leave this place in pretty good shape. He runs a tight ship.
Keeping "local" is a bit of an overused (but still appreciated) term these days. Is that something that really aligns with your cooking style? I go to the farmers' market twice a week, and try to keep it all local. Honestly, it's tough in the winter, though, and you have to compromise. Anyone who tells you it's all from around here, is just telling you a story (laughs).
Are there any local restaurants that you're especially impressed with lately? Well, I do really like what they've done with Raw Bar, I like Market, they're doing well, Dave Bohati is a good guy; and with Model Milk it's always nice seeing what their next menu is going to be. We like going to Divino for a cheese board every now and then, too.
On the flip side, have you had any really bad meals around town recently? Not really bad, but the thing is that service has been poor lately. The food (in the city) in general has been good, but I just find front-of-house staff can be a little surly lately.
What's one thing you've really being trying to focus on in your kitchen this year? I'm trying to get the butchery up. I find that a lot of cooks these days don't know a lot about their meat. Another thing for me is desserts. Us savoury cooks don't do on the dessert side that often, so I want to try to teach my kitchen more of that. You've got to push the boundaries, right?
I can generally look at a restaurant's dessert menu and tell if there is a pastry chef on staff. Can you? You can always tell if it's going outside the boundaries or if it's just a list of the classics—or even by the plating. If you have a creative plate, you can pretty much get away with anything. But the problem is that pastry chefs cost a lot of money. If you want to have one, that's usually another $50,000-$60,000 on your payroll, so that's why it's not a bad idea for us chefs to get back into desserts!
There are a lot of new restaurants set to open up this year. What is your game plan for staying relevant in the city's burgeoning food scene? I just try to stay the course. I think if you just control what you can control, the rest should fall into place. Don't worry about what the next guy is doing, or what just opened or what awards you're going to win. Just do the food and usually all of the other good stuff comes after that.
Keeping desserts front of mind, Waters leaves me with an easy recipe for pots de crème, chock full of espresso chocolatey goodness.
Espresso Pot de Crème
12 ounces dark chocolate (roughly chopped)
1½ cups heavy cream
½ cup half-and-half
⅔ cup ground decaf espresso
4 eggs
1. Place chocolate in a large heat-safe bowl
2. Heat heavy cream, half-and-half and espresso in a medium pot and bring to a boil. Then pour through a fine mesh strainer over chocolate. Discard espresso grounds.
3. Mix with a spoon until completely melted. Whisk the eggs into the mixture one at a time until well incorporated.
4. Evenly distribute the chocolate mixture into 6 small coffee cups or ramekins.
5. Place cups into a roasting pan or casserole pan and make a bain marie, then cover with aluminum foil make sure to poke holes into the foil to let steam escape bake at 325F for an hour or until set.
6. Let ramekins cool in water until they reach room temp. Then cool in the fridge until you're ready to serve.
Garnish with whipped cream or fresh fruit.
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For the Ohio State men's lacrosse team, Saturday marks the final regular season home game of the season. The squad takes on Air Force at 1 p.m. in Ohio Stadium in an important ECAC Lacrosse League game, with the league title on the line. Prior to the matchup with the Falcons, the 10 members of the senior class will be recognized.
Leading up to the game, each member of the class will be featured online. Ohio natives Scott Spencer (Mason) and Jake Sharick (Westerville) kick off the series. Read below for a Q&A with the seniors.
Scott Spencer, Goalie
How have you grown as a lacrosse player from your freshman year until now?
I think I have grown most as a lacrosse player from my freshman year until now in the departments of maturity and confidence. I think I have matured an immense amount, both on and off the field, since my freshman year. With maturity has come a new form of confidence that allows me to enjoy the game I love more than I did as a freshman and focus less on making mistakes while on the field. Instead I am able to focus on really improving my game and engaging with my teammates around me.
Do you have any hidden talents?
I can play the piano and like to try my hand at art every now and again. I really enjoy doing charcoal drawings.
Was your uncle, Paul Konkel, who played lacrosse at Penn influential in your lacrosse career? If so how?
My uncle Paul was definitely a great source of inspiration. After really figuring out I wanted to pursue playing lacrosse at the collegiate level, it was great to see someone like my uncle who had done the same thing. Being from a "non-hotbed" area can be intimidating at times and seeing his success from such an area was a huge motivating factor. Both my mom and dad were also extremely influential. Without their support and influence I would never have been able to achieve the opportunity to play lacrosse at the great place that is The Ohio State University.
What is the most rewarding part about being a Buckeye?
The most rewarding part about being a Buckeye is the brand of lacrosse we play. Our mentality is we thrive off the little things. We are a hard-nosed group that lives off hustle plays and discipline. We respect everyone, but fear no one. I know this mentality will translate into how I live the rest of my life.
What should goalies focus on when they are between the pipes?
A goalie needs to focus on communicating well with their defense and clearing the ball extremely efficiently. Everyone knows that a goalie needs to stop the ball and makes saves but it is those other details that can really elevate someone's play.
What is your favorite quote by Coach Myers?
"Respect everyone, but fear no one." Also, "No matter what in life, someone is chasing you."
Describe one or two things you do in your training that are keys to your success.
Never being satisfied is a huge key to having success and always being prepared. No matter the situation, whether you are an All-American starter or a 5th-stringer who has little shot of playing, you should always be as well prepared as possible. You can't control natural talent, but you can control the effort you put into your training and the intangibles of your character.
What has been your favorite moment of your senior year so far?
My favorite moment of my senior year has been singing Carmen Ohio in the "Horseshoe" after beating that team up North. That experience was truly unbelievable and one I will remember for the rest of my life.
If you could change one rule about your sport, what would it be?
I'd like to see a visible shot clock for timer-on situations. I think this would add more consistency in the scenario.
What are your plans after graduation?
Ideally, I would like to get involved in genetic and educational policy at some point in my career. I will finish a second major in chemistry next year and then will consider pursuing my doctorate or join the Teach for America corps in Chicago for two years.
Jake Sharick, Midfield
Do you remember the moment when you became interested in playing lacrosse?
When my friend Kyle Hann was playing in the 5th grade and he got me interested in playing.
What is one of your most memorable experiences as a Buckeye?
Winning the ECAC tournament and just this past week singing Carmen Ohio with a packed crowd in the `Shoe after we beat TTUN.
What has been the best advice you have received?
My middle school coach Alex Mills told me to always stay humble in everything I do.
Do you have any pregame rituals?
I chill in the locker room and listen to music until we all go out for warm-ups.
Do you have any hidden talents?
I have the ability to drink ketchup straight out of the bottle.
What do like to do in your spare time?
I love hitting the links.
Who do you admire the most? Why?
I admire my father and the way he handles his business on a daily basis and knows how to fix pretty much anything.
What is one challenge you had to overcome in order to progress in your lacrosse career?
Being able to wake up bright and early and go to practice before the rest of the world wakes up
Do you have any advice for incoming student-athletes?
Have fun with the Cerberus.
What are you going to miss the most about playing lacrosse at Ohio State?
The guys on the team


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Today was the day I strained my dandelion-infused oil that I started some weeks back. They have been sitting on a shelf in my kitchen for about a month now and judging by the color, I estimated that they were ready to be strained. How exciting that is to see the beautiful, golden color of the oil coming through the strainer. I get as giddy as a little kid at Christmas Time. :)
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This past weekend I had the opportunity to travel up to Oregon with a team from Bethel, where we ministered to the people of the city of Bend, as well as met with local churches. It was an amazing trip, full of joy, healing and restoration. In the days leading up to the trip, I kept hearing God saying over and over that He was bringing restoration to the people of that city. Because God is a God of restoration. You don't have to look too deep into the Bible to find a story of God bringing restoration to His people, it's just in His nature to do that.
God has been doing some incredible things in my life, especially in the days leading up to my Oregon adventure. Last Wednesday I felt God was telling me to go for a walk with Him down to the river. I had just seen some postings on Facebook from people I know that were against God and against the existence of God. As I was walking down to the river, my heart felt burdened with this and I began to ask the Lord what was going on. I felt like God was giving me insight into how He feels when those He dearly loves reject Him and choose to turn from Him. I continued to walk down the path to the river, with a heart broken for those who have turned from God, and with tears rolling down my face.
God's desire is to bring restoration to all people, even those who reject and deny His existence.
As I walked along the riverside that day, God was showing me something. He was breaking my heart for what breaks His, and it has since filled me with such compassion for those who are not in relationship with Him. We were not meant to live in isolation, or with hurt from past life choices weighing us down. God is so good, and He soon replaced these burdens I was feeling with joy, and I began smiling and laughing as I continued to walk. God never leaves us in a place of sorrow or pain; if we are continually experiencing that in our lives, then perhaps we are not allowing God in and we are blocking Him from bringing restoration into our lives.
I saw many incredible sights during my weekend in Oregon, from God restoring people's physical bodies, to entire families experiencing God's love and promises for their future. I watched in utter adoration of the Lord as we spoke life into a family who were experiencing difficult situations and were even at the point of turning from the Lord altogether. I watched as the husband broke down, with his wife by his side to bring him comfort. God brought restoration to this family in such a powerful yet gentle way. There is nothing as amazing in life as seeing the God of the universe step down and comfort those whom He loves.
God's desire is to restore to us those things that have been taken from us. The devil would love for us to remain broken, hurt, lonely or lost as a result of past choices in our lives, but that is never God's plan for us. We spent some time in a homeless shelter, where I had the chance to speak to a man in his late 50's. I listened intently as he explained to me the transformation he has seen in his life over the last few years since he allowed God into his life and has since then been off drugs and alcohol and is even planning on attending evening classes at a local church where he will learn more about God's love for him. Because God is a God of restoration.
My prayer is that you may take heart from this entry, that you may allow God to move within you, to mend any brokenness you have felt in your life, and to be fully restored to the life God has planned for you.


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Happy Monday!!!
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend we had a beautiful one here in CT!!
I did this card awhile ago the stamp set Owl Be genius from Sweet Stamp shop so cute and you know how I love Owls!! I paper pieced the owl and also colored him with some copics. The pattern paper is from basic grey.
Sweet stamp shop had some super cute stamps so if you have not already you can check them out here.
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I am not good at sensible life decisions.
Hang in there guys, it's going to be a longish one.
Race pack collection: Packet pickup was a breeze - in, out, done in 2 minutes on a Sunday afternoon. Bonus points for offering same-day packet pickup for runners visiting from overseas!
This race also had 10K and 5K fun run options.
The race pack: I don't really notice what's in the race pack so long as I get a bib and a shirt and a finisher medal at the end, but I know some of my readers do. This race pack was pretty dismal (at least for Singapore and for a run that I paid $50!! for): a bunch of flyers, including one for car servicing and one for air-conditioner servicing, and duplicate flyers for children's soccer birthday parties and gym lessons and watches.
There was one coupon for a massage, WHICH YOU BET YOUR ASS I am going to use, and one for an either-or spa deal: a facial or a 'slimming wrap', neither of which I really want, especially because the latter sounds like a poorly filled burrito.
Race site: The race site at Gardens by the Bay East is convenient only if you live at one of the Tanjong Rhu condos. Otherwise, it's about 1km from the nearest MRT station (Stadium). Walking about 1+km to and from the nearest MRT station is not a huge deal for me, but if this was my first half marathon, it might have been somewhat upsetting, I guess.
I went down with my neighbours Aicha and Peter, who were also running and supposed to meet their friend at the medical tent to give her a race pack. Turns out the medical tent was definitely not where it was supposed to be on the map. Thumbs down.
Baggage deposit and pick-up: When we got there, the bulk of the 10K runners were just finishing, and there was a horrifyingly long queue for baggage pickup. There were definitely not enough people manning the baggage pick-up booth, probably because some of them were handling half-marathon bag drop. Apparently some of the 10K runners waited in line for half an hour, ABSOLUTELY the last thing one wants to do after running 10K, thank you very much.
Fortunately when I finished, the queue for medal, apple, and water was fast, and I made a beeline for bag check. The queue for baggage...well, I probably stood in line for maybe 5 to 10 minutes.
By the way, race organisers: you know what would be really nice? Just hand us a little prepacked box of food so that we don't have to juggle apple and medal and banana and water etc etc, because ain't nobody got enough hands for that nonsense. One more thing - it would also be nice to have more water at the finish area instead of only at the finish chute.
The route: Two loops of out-and-backs, not particularly exciting, but quite pretty because you go around Marina Bay and a little way up the Kallang River and you get to see everything lit up at night. Not bad!
And now...*drumroll*...The run:
So after a terrible week at work, I promised myself I would do this as a long run, a kind of reward for making it through the week. Of course I was very bad and didn't keep that promise - more on which later.
There were about a thousand half marathoners, which is really, really small for Singapore! It was crowded for the first couple of km or so, but not too bad after I'd sorted myself out. (I tend to try to get out of the crowds right at the start, but this often spells trouble - here's why.) Later edit: I forgot to count the veteran half marathoners! That means there were about 1,500-1,800. Sorry. Still really really small for Singapore, though.
I could feel myself going too fast right at the beginning, and was desperately trying to slow down, but my legs seemed to be beyond my control. The angel on one shoulder said: "What are you doing? Stop passing people and rein it in now or else you'll die later." The demon on the other shoulder said: "But you feel fine *now*." In the end my shoulders were inexplicably sore so they must have been slugging it out pretty hard.
So what did I do? Of course I went out too hard for the first 11 or 12km. (What? Nothing hurt. Yet.) There was another woman on my shoulder and we kept trading places; I could hear her breathing quite hard next to me, which was quite distracting; I know she couldn't hear whether I was breathing hard because she had headphones in!
Somewhere around 14km I began to regret my initial burst of speed because I suddenly felt like my legs were made of lead. I kept thinking 'just keep running, just keep running'... My pace definitely dropped a bit here, and at this point I just slowed down to relax and enjoy the night air. The woman with the headphones overtook me and all I could do was glare at her back.
On my second loop, one of the drink stations ran out of water and was apologising: "Sorry, we only have isotonic drink left" - a nasty purple, grapey-smelling stuff. From the way it smelt I half expected it to glow. You had better not run out of water, especially when I'm in the middle of the pack and I know there are plenty of people coming along after me. (A note: When I first started doing half marathons I was so slow that some of the drink stations really did run out of water. So now I always, always, always carry my own for any race over 10K.)
At the 18k mark I somehow summoned enough energy to hammer (ok, only in my dreams; in reality I'm quite sure I looked like a spastic rhinoceros) the last couple of k's home.
I finished in about 2:15, which is where most of my half marathons seem to be these days, and with no ill effects but a pair of sore feet. My half times remind me of my 10K times, which were stuck firmly at 1 hour++ for a very long time until an abrupt and totally surprising breakthrough a couple of years ago. So maybe there's a half breakthrough in the offing somewhere within this lifetime!
My team-mate Claire who ran it as well said the course was a bit long; I still don't own a GPS watch so I'm just going to believe her.
After cooling off I found myself totally encrusted in salt - gross. Good thing I packed and ate my good old shot blocks throughout or there would have been blood. I mean cramps.
At the finish line, Jimmy found me and we set off for food and home. By now it was 10pm and NOW I was famished, so we popped into Burger King. Sometimes you just need a large iced Milo after a race. And sometimes you need a large iced Milo and a nap; I nearly passed out.
The verdict: You all know I really have only two key criteria for a race: Does it start on time? (yes) and Is it the right distance? (no) -- I'd give this one a grade B. Maybe some extra marks for scenery and a relatively thin crowd.
Anyway, I think I've learnt my lesson. The real test is the Run350 half in April, a race for which I actually have goals. You know, like goal number one: don't...start...too...fast. One day I'll be sensible.
I also think I need to do a couple of things in training:
- One, a long run or two with 7 or 8 tempo km in the latter half. Or some sort of progression long run in which I start slooow (an important lesson in reining it in) and work up to finish off at 10K pace.
- Two, aside from one angel and one demon sitting on my shoulders (those guys need to lose some weight), in all seriousness why are my shoulders sore? I have to figure out what to do to fix that.
An update: Results are out. Discovered my team-mate Claire was FIRST - well done her!
What are these mystery 'lap 1/ lap 2' points - what distances are those anyway? 3km? 4.2km? 5km? 10??? Annoying. Race organisers, please don't do this.
Epilogue: Cheer report, Metasprint Aquathlon
I had somewhat ambitious and extremely optimistic plans for Sunday morning: do a recovery run around Sentosa and cheer friends on in the Metasprint Aquathlon there. But we got home at 11.30pm, and by the time I showered and got into bed it was midnight.
Naturally, my body had other plans. I woke up at 8am, but Shirlene's wave was at 8.35 - not going to make it on time for the start, could I get there on time for the finish?
I got there at 9.15 - eek! - and thought I'd missed her, so I wandered around looking for her ('maybe she's cheering her husband out of the water?')...and missed her coming through the finish. When I turned around again she was standing there (sweaty hugs!) and we cheered Eugene and his friend Aylwin in. Those two are not only very competitive with each other, they're also training for a half-Ironman in May, so after Eugene and Shirlene got home...he turned around and went out to run for an hour. I have no idea how people do it. Training to run takes up enough of my time.
What are your best ideas for 70.3 cheer signs? I suggested Shirlene stand at T1 with a sign that read 'ONLY TWO MORE SPORTS TO GO'. ("Trolls," said Eugene, shooting us a dirty look.)


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1 — r
and correspondingly the nondimensional flowrate is
n ( 4b
Solving for the effective slip length, we obtain
4 n
Therefore, by obtaining the flowrate for a given configuration, we can then obtain the effective slip length from above (Lauga and Stone, 2003).
For the longitudinal configuration, (with m no-shear bands with halfangle a) shown in Figure 10.24, an exact solution was obtained in (Philip, 1972) for the velocity distribution
u(r, в)
R2 dp 4p dr
1 — (r/R)2 + (4/m)9
cos (M) cos(ma/2)
where M = —im/2 ln(re*e/R) and A implies imaginary part. The corresponding effective slip length, bl, for this case is
-f- = — In (sec(ma/2)) = — In (sec(#7r/2)).
R m n
For the configuration with the transverse no-shear stripes the solution is a bit more complicated, but four asymptotic limits were obtained for the
slip length bt in (Lauga and Stone, 2003), in terms of the slip percentage 6 and the separation between slip stripes L, as follows:
1. bt/R ж 6/4 for 6 ^ 0 and L fixed.
2. bt/R ж [4(1 — 6)]-1 for 6 ^ 1 and L fixed.
3. bt/R ж (L/(2n)) ln (sec(6n/2)) for L ^ 0 and 6 fixed.
4. bt/R ж [4(1 — 6)/6]-1 for L and 6 fixed.
For a small percentage of slip, the above limits suggest that the effective slip length decreases faster (quadratically) to zero for longitudinal stripes compared to linear decrease for transverse slip stripes. For a large percentage of slip the opposite is true. Also, for small separation between slip stripes (L ^ 0) we have that bl = 2bt. These two configurations represent the two extreme idealized cases, since in reality we expect a random distribution of no-shear pockets mixed with no-slip pockets. In addition, the dependence of the slip length of the shear rate can also be included in this model by assuming that the inhomogeneities (e.g., nanobubbles) are elongated at large values of shear rate, hence effectively increasing the relative no-shear to no-slip regions.


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Cough, cough, hack. Those are the sounds you hear no matter where you go in the Salt Lake Valley during January.
People don't believe me when I tell them we used to have air so dark and black that it was no different than a pea soup fog in London. If you walked outside in the morning in the early 1900's dressed in a white shirt, you'd come home wearing a gray one. The air pollution was that bad. In those days we heated with coal, the most popular and cheapest fuel available.
Victorian homes were built with transom windows just above the doors, not just as vents for natural air conditioning in the summer, but also to let out the coal smoke in the winter.
Back then we didn't have so many cars spewing out toxic fumes into the valley air, but we had smelters belching over our rooftops. We had the largest lead smelter in the world located in Murray. It processed thousands of tons of ore in its heyday, and in 1870, Murray produced the first silver bars ever smelted in Utah.
You know we're famous for the copper, silver and gold mines that dot and define our Wasatch Mountains, but those metals don't just come out of the rock pre-made into bars and coins. The ores must be heated and treated with chemicals to separate the riches from the unwanted byproducts, which in the past, were released without caution to the winds.
The Murray smokestacks came down in the summer of 2000. One stack was infamous for its big Colonel Sanders face and 'KFC' letters running from the top of the tower to the ground. The grounds at the base have since been EPA certified as clean, and you'd never know the history of the area based on the commercial development that stands there now.
The Kennecott smokestack just off I-80 east of the Tooele exit is 1,200 feet from top to bottom—higher than the Las Vegas Stratosphere and twice as tall as the Space Needle in Seattle. It was built in 1970 when the Federal Clean Air act came into play. It was meant to disperse waste gases, and indeed it did, capturing 99.9% of all sulfur gases released. On some cold air days you can look out there and see big smoke coming from the stack, but it's mostly just steam.
What are we supposed to do to stop the seasonal hack? It's hard to clear the air when you live in the bottom of a geological cereal bowl. We can all try not to drive so much, but few of us will do it.
I am a Board member of UTA, and I ride mass transit as often as possible. You can too. Go to RideUTA and see how you can make a difference in keeping car pollution out of the air and how public transit helps us all.


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Beware of Your Own Bubble/
By Bill Maher
It's September, which means millions of young adults have just headed off to America's colleges and universities to spend around $60,000 of their parents' money on porn camp. This also means it won't be long before we hear the same conservative complaints about liberal indoctrination on college campuses. Except …they kind of have a point.
Over the next four years - or five, if you're a football player - your typical college student isn't going to hear much in the way of conservative thought. Using data collected by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA, political scientist Sam Abrams points out that in 1995, the liberal-conservative ratio among faculty on American campuses was roughly 2 to 1. By 2004, that number had risen to 3 to 1. By 2010, it's 5 to 1. And then there's New England, where the liberal to conservative ratio is now above 25 to 1. Of course, if you're a Christian conservative matriculating at Smith or Mount Holyoke, maybe you should have read the brochure a little more carefully. Then again, that is a pretty stacked deck.
Now, do I believe those professors are there to try and indoctrinate their students into the ways of liberalism? No, of course not. Like professors teach your students! The TA's, maybe. The professors are too busy trying to publish an article in the American Journal of Who Gives a Shit. However, college is a place where you're supposed to be exposed to new ideas, new modes of thought, and new experiences, and not just when you're on mushrooms.
Could it be that in creating "a safe space" for students, what we really have done is eliminate any chance they're going to hear an opinion that may be different from their own? Or is it that conservative intellectualism is so on the decline, and because Republicans have made book learnin' such a bad thing, that liberals are the only ones who want to be a professor in the first place?
All I know is it's not a good thing to go through college and not have your liberal bubble burst at least a few times. And since the Fox News/Drudge/talk radio bubble seems to be what ruined conservatism, shouldn't liberals be wary of creating their own?


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Friday, January 27, 2012
Melted Crayon Art
18 comments:
- Scrappin Rabbit Designs said...
Oooh this looks like fun! Love how this turned out. Thanks for sharing the how to's.
- January 27, 2012 at 9:53 AM
- Love That Bug said...
This is so neat. I have seen the melted crayons done with a heat gun but never a glue gun. I totally love this idea
Hugs, Stacy
- January 27, 2012 at 10:20 AM
- Angi said...
Wowza...this is so fun!
- January 27, 2012 at 10:43 AM
- DIANA L. said...
What a fun project.
- January 27, 2012 at 3:37 PM
- Georgiana said...
You have such neat ideas. I could see this in so many different colors. Do you remember making wax candle art? Those were fun! My grandma would have all different shapes of glass bottles and we would melt all different colors. What a collections!
Carson's Creations
- January 27, 2012 at 7:13 PM
- Jean said...
I had forgot all about that Georgiana. I used to do it with my grandmother too.
- January 27, 2012 at 8:58 PM
- Jens Craft Corner said...
Love the crayon art. That looks so cool. I am making Valentine crayons also found on Pinterest.
- January 27, 2012 at 9:55 PM
- abusybee - DoubleClick Connections said...
This is super Jean! What a fun idea! I have seen these hot glue guns at the dollar store! I will have to pick one up! I love the image you used too, it is just perfect!
- January 27, 2012 at 10:35 PM
- Rhonda Emery said...
your work turned out so pretty. yes I saw this too was going to give it a try also. hugs
- January 28, 2012 at 10:12 AM
- Val said...
That is really cool, and it looks fun to make!
- January 28, 2012 at 2:16 PM
- Jani Lewis said...
OH HOW FUN! Ok, I have to try this. Love it. Thanks for sharing all your creative ideas :)
- January 28, 2012 at 8:08 PM
- JustYolie said...
Looks like fun!!! Stopping by to invite you to visit Link Up for Pink's new website http://www.linkupforpink.com
We are celebrating with several giveaways! :)
(I also have a giveaway on my blog)
- January 30, 2012 at 12:05 AM
- Chris said...
Hi Jean, wow, this sounds and looks like lots of fun. Good way to use up all those old crayons. Quite an unique piece of artwork. Thanks for sharing. I have recently found your blog and am now following you, and will visit often. Please stop by my blog and perhaps you would like to follow me also. Have a wonderful day. Hugs, Chris
- January 30, 2012 at 10:21 PM
- Besthobbyeva said...
Jean this looks amazing!!! I love, love the look! Awesome. Thanks so for the awesome instructions and helpful hints!!
Great card!!!
- February 1, 2012 at 9:15 AM
- Lindsey said...
I absolutely LOVE this! Thank you for sharing!
- February 3, 2012 at 9:38 PM
- Cindy said...
AWESOME project!:)
- February 4, 2012 at 5:43 AM
- Amy said...
Oh my goodness... TOO COOL!! Now I need ANOTHER glue gun (I think I have a growing addiction for glue guns now)... Thanks for sharing this -- I've never seen it before!! :)
Amy :) at www.lovetocrop.com
- February 8, 2012 at 2:39 PM
- Lisa said...
I love this type of melted crayon art.
- February 14, 2013 at 7:48 PM


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New Left Review 2, March-April 2000
Solving the Paradox of New Labour?
A certain tension lies at the heart of New Labour's style of government. On the one hand, the Blair government has been engaged, almost from its first day in office, in what amounts to a constitutional revolution, dispersing power across a variety of new institutions, and confounding the traditional reliance on single-party government by a new emphasis on cross-party alliances. On the other, the Labour leadership seems set on establishing a degree of control within its own party without precedent in modern British political history. At the institutional level, pluralism holds sway. Within the party itself, only one voice may be heard.
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