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NewsJune 3, 2011 - Updated on January 20, 2016
Reporter freed after being held for three weeks without valid reason
Mohammed Arkou Adiebou Ali, a Sudan Radio Service journalist who was arrested in Wau, in the state of Western Bahr el Ghazal, on 11 May for allegedly taking photos without government permission, was released yesterday in Juba and left at once for the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
Arkou is believed to have been treated badly during his three weeks in detention. He was transferred to Wau to Juba, the capital of South Sudan, on 24 May.
Reporters Without Borders is relieved by his release but firmly condemns his detention. Recent press freedom violations have undermined hopes that South Sudan, which will gain its independence in a month's time, would make free expression one of its founding principles.
Media freedom worsens steadily in south, old problems recur in north
As South Sudan prepares to become officially independent in July, Reporters Without Borders is appalled by recent developments affecting press freedom and appeals in particular to the new country's president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, to release the Darfuri journalist Mohammed Arkou Adiebou Ali without delay.
Employed by Sudan Radio Service, Arkou was arrested by South Sudan's security services in Wau on 11 May for taking photos without government permission, although the area where he was arrested is not a militarized one. He was transferred on 24 May to Juba, South Sudan's capital. Sources have told Reporters Without Borders he may have been tortured physically and mentally.
"We are concerned for Arkou's health and call for his immediate and unconditional release," Reporters Without Borders said. "The arbitrary nature of his arrest, the failure to provide his colleagues with any information, and now the possibility of mistreatment all reflect the prevailing impunity in a country where the security forces seem to be free to arrest journalists at will. The abuses against journalists and news media by the South Sudanese security forces must stop. To this end, we urge the authorities to fill the legal void surrounding the media's status by quickly adopting a law that clearly and explicitly ensures the existence of a free and independent press and offers guarantees for the safety of journalists.
"With just over a month to go to South Sudan's independence, the world's eyes are turned on this country. We remind President Mayardit, who is also Sudan's vice-president, that his people have considerable and legitimate expectations as regards their rights and freedoms."
Journalists are often harassed, interrogated or detained in South Sudan but the conditions in which Arkou is being held and the possible mistreatment indicate that this is more than a routine case of harassment. The authorities say he had several different versions of his identity papers but no valid charge has been brought against him.
Isaac Vuni, a freelance journalist who used to work for South Sudan's information ministry, was held from 28 March to 2 May. His arrest by the Juba police was carried out with the utmost secrecy and there was no news of him for a long time. While working for the Sudan Tribune, he was detained and mistreated at Juba police headquarters on 29 July 2009 after writing an article blaming members of the Sudan People's Liberation Army and the South Sudan government for problems at Nile Commercial Bank, a local privately-owned bank.
Two months ago, on 2 April, 2,500 copies of the Juba Post that were to have been distributed in the south of the country were seized by the South Sudan police at Juba airport. An independent bi-weekly that circulates mainly in the Juba region, it quoted Dok James Puok, a spokesman for dissident forces, as saying, "Forces loyal to Gen. George Athor will launch a heavy attack in Juba shortly before South Sudan hoists her national flag." After quoting this statement, Juba Post editor Michael Koma was summoned to the information ministry to explain the report's content. A week after this seizure, information minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin said in an interview for the Sudan Tribune that he wanted to put a stop to such practices and to help the media in their work.
There has nonetheless been no let-up in press freedom violations by the security forces, and they continue to go unpunished. A harmful climate for free expression seems to have become generalized. Michael Koma and another Juba Post journalist, Deng Atem Kuol were held by the police for nine hours in February and were accused of defaming Ivory Bank, another locally-owned bank, in an article referring to the possibility of its going bankrupt. Around the same time, police raided the headquarters of the English-language newspaper The Citizen and ordered its journalists not to write about armed forces misconduct any more.
No improvement in the north
Meanwhile, the press freedom situation is as bad as ever in the north of the country, where the government in Khartoum and the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) continue to use arbitrary arrests, intimidation and seizures to control and censor the media.
In one of the latest cases, newspaper reporter Abulgasim Ibrahim was detained for several hours on 17 May on the orders of finance minister Ali Mahmoud El Rasoud, who reacted angrily when Ibrahim produced compromising financial documents during an interview. The minister accused Ibrahim, whose newspaper, Al-Sudani Daily, supports the ruling National Congress Party, of gaining access to documents from his office without his permission.
Two journalists – Mohamed Alfatih Himma of Al-Midan (an opposition paper published by the Sudanese Communist Party) and Rashan Owshi of Al-Tayar Arabic Daily – were arbitrarily detained at a checkpoint at Jabal Awlia on 14 May, interrogated by military intelligence for seven hours about their return route to Khartoum from Kadugli, in South Kurdufan state, and were then handed over to the police.
No explanation was given for their arrest, but it was thought to be linked to their coverage of governor Ahmed Haroun's reelection in polling held from 2 to 4 May in South Kurdufan, which is claimed by both northern and southern Sudan. When all of the copies of the Sunday edition of Al-Tayar Arabic Daily were seized by the security forces on 1 May, editor Osman Murghni said the aim was to manifest the government's displeasure with its coverage of the election in this sensitive region.
As in South Sudan, the authorities in Khartoum often seize entire issues of newspapers as they come off the printing presses as a way to make them suffer financially and thereby pressure them into changing their editorial policies. Two independent newspapers, Al-Midan and Ajrass Al-Hurriya, staged a strike on 9 April in protest against this form of harassment.
A daily affiliated to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, Ajrass Al-Hurriya did not appear on 6 April because security forces went to its printing presses late at night and, without giving any explanation, ordered staff not to distribute the latest issue, although it had already been printed.


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Keen has a unique definition of Aggregate expenditure (closed economy):
=C + I + NetAssets + (G-T)
....he didn't explain that enough for me to fully understand what he's saying here. But here is my take (updated since I previously mentioned I too was confused) since many bloggers are just outright calling Keen's work nonsense. This is partly Keen's fault for not clearly defining things.
He goes on to say that:
Income + Change in Debt = Output + Net Asset Turnover
...which suggests to me he thinks that changes in assets (prices bubbles)are a result of changes in debt (a la Minsky, which makes sense).
From what I understand, what Keen means by Net asset turnover is speculative and ponzi financing. That is, financing of financial instruments that do NOT have a backing of a physical good or service and therefore are not expected to fully repay the principal and interest of the financing absent bubble formation.
In this way, Keen income and debt partially financing real goods and services, but also partially financing speculative and ponzi investments (the value of which is not based in real output).
In this view, neoclassical economics ignores this new class in the usual Y = C + I + G formation. The real question to me is then, why does he include G-T instead of just G in his above formula. That is still unclear to me.
UPDATE: had a brief back and forth with Prof. Keen about why he nets out taxes in his effective demand function. Not very insightful. He just said it's "cash flow."....hope he describes his re-formulation of the usual demand function in a more user-friendly way in the future.... Maybe he's too in-the-weeds.

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Talk:Route 66
Having driven all of Route 66, nine days to travel the entire road is more reasonable. Chicago to St. Louis could probably be done, but I would advise stopping at Springfield, Illinois. This also gives time to see St. Louis. St. Louis to Oklahoma City is way too long, so I split it. St. Louis to Springfield (MO) is about six hours on the old highway and eight to nine hours between Springfield (MO) and Oklahoma City. St. Louis to Joplin would be doable. Flagstaff to Los Angeles is too long. With a suggeted side-trip to the Grand Canyon, its about eight-nine hours to Barstow. This also gives plenty of time to celebrate an arrival in Santa Monica! --Rt66lt (July 15, 2005)
I'm still working on some of the attractions at the end and plan to add a few more into the Route. I still have two or three alternate alignments to write also. I did go ahead and make a link from Wikipedia's article on Route 66 to this page. --Rt66lt, Aug 29, 2005
I've attempted to add links to city articles for all of the cities mentioned, although I'll admit to being lazy, so many of the links might need some disambiguation. -- Wrh2 15:14, 10 Sep 2005 (EDT)
Route detail between Chicago and Springfield[edit]
There is an oddity in the route description as 66 passes through Bloomington-Normal (on both of which, btw, I'll be adding text to their respective, separate pages). The article says, "Turn south on Linden Street, west on Willow Street, south on Main Street (Business US 51), on into adjacent Bloomington, and left on Veterans Parkway." (I added the part about Bloomington, which is irrelevant to my question.)
It's been years since I've driven this, but I used to do it almost daily, and I wonder: does one really turn left onto Veterans at this point? That would seem to take one back around the Twin Cities on the Veterans bypass. Or is that currently the only way of getting onto Beich Street? Please check it out. -- Bill-on-the-Hill 21:55, 16 Sep 2005 (EDT)
Forget Winona[edit]
Should there be a note regarding the total lack of anything in the town of Winona? I recall being pretty disappointed that there wasn't even a gas station or cafe there. Maj 10:15, 16 August 2006 (EDT)
Printing problem[edit]
If I try to print this, it stops about half-way through (right under the notes section about Texola to Amarillo). Anyone else have this problem?Fastestdogever 13:55, 22 February 2007 (EST)
Giant city list[edit]
I'm thinking of making a page that lists all of the towns that Route 66 passes through. I'm planning a trip across Route 66 this summer, and I'd like to be able to print the guides to take with me, and with a huge list it would be much simpler. Also, the itinerary is good, but there are many people who want to travel certain sections, say a weekend in Oklahoma, and a list of all of the small towns and unusual attractions would come in handy. I'd like some input about possible ways to do this, in particular how to handle the alternate alignments. The best I could come up with is the way this site formats different routes in columns like this. First off, though, I would use the cities on the main route of the itinerary & later add in the alternate alignments. Any thoughts? -- Fastestdogever 19:11, 22 March 2007 (EDT)
Found what I was looking for - Category:Communities on U.S. Route 66 is what I don't want. From a travelers perspective, not a very good way to list the towns. If we create a category, won't it end up looking like this? -- Fastestdogever 11:48, 23 March 2007 (EDT)
Well, I tagged Flagstaff as "Route 66" and while a category hasn't officially been made you can see that it would be alphabetical. See [1]. An interesting idea I've had is to couple tags with geographic coordinates, which would organize categories based on geographic location. The problem with that is it'd require a lot of programming and tech work. -- Sapphire • (Talk) • 20:15, 23 March 2007 (EDT)
OK, I went ahead & made the Route 66/Cities page. How's it look? Fastestdogever 11:37, 31 March 2007 (EDT)
Attraction list considered harmful[edit]
The giant attraction list at the end of the current article is very difficult to use. I've shifted the attractions along the stretch I followed a few weeks back into the days in question, please follow suit. Jpatokal 17:43, 26 April 2007 (EDT)
I guess what the main issue is with having the attraction listings at the bottom of the page is that it is confusing. I can see how it would be aggravating to use this itinerary and have to flip back 10 pages to make sure you don't miss one of the attractions that is listed. I do agree that having too much information within each section is also undesirable, but perhaps we could come up with an alternative way to format the information. -- Fastestdogever 22:31, 26 April 2007 (EDT)
I started transcribing the described route to Google Maps, but then realized someone had already done a good job of itGoogle Earth link. I see from Wikitravel:External links that linking to maps is discouraged. On the other hand, Route 66 is a poorly-marked route and so the primary thing you need is a map. I am inclined to make an exception and link directly to this Google Map. Additionally, we could make a subpage from this page that includes turn-by-turn directions in a more readable format (rather than as paragraphs) that could include maps of at least the urban areas, and also links to external map sources. 184.108.40.206 18:23, 29 June 2008 (EDT)
No road there - Elk City to Sayre, OK[edit]
In the third paragraph of Oklahoma City to Texola, the sentence is "Where Business I-40 rejoins the interstate, continue west on the north frontage road. Follow this road to Business I-40 in Sayre." However, Google Earth shows the road simply ends at a private driveway at longitude 99D 34' 37.6" and resumes at 99D 35' 04.3". On leaving Elk City, one would have to stay OFF of the Frontage Road, or take a series of country roads to the north to get around the gap: 1525 metres / .95 miles north along N 1910 Rd, 1600 metres / 1 mile west on E 1140 Rd, then 2663 metres / 1.65 miles south on Cemetery Rd and rejoin the frontage road, a total diversion of 5.78 km / 3.59 miles when the direct route, if it had existed, would have been 2.06 km / 1.28 miles. Gcapp1959 11:48, 9 April 2012 (EDT)
Glenrio to Santa Rosa - possible route change - comments?[edit]
Okay, I can't find a NM Hwy 69, but I do find a NM Hwy 129. I wonder if 69 is a mistake.
Now, on reaching Santa Rosa, viewing it from Google Earth, it seems to me that the original route is better represented by exiting I-40 at a more easterly point, at Exit 277 (U.S. Route 84 South), turning right then following Will Rogers Drive westward. It flows more naturally from a curving frontage road just east of Exit 277, and on through Exit 275 (the parclo interchange). If nobody finds any illogic here, I would go ahead and change the entry. I've chosen this revision for my "virtual walk" along Route 66, the area I passed through yesterday.
By the way, is there any thought to giving instructions for an eastward journey along the highway, where critical in terms of ramps and one-way streets? Gcapp1959 10:55, 8 May 2012 (EDT)
If anyone else is a pilot, I thought you might like the set of airports, intersections, navigation aids in sequence to fly Route 66 from Joliet, IL to Santa Monica (you might start with Midway if you don't mind the heavy traffic large scale airport) and then go to Joliet to get one step closer to the full route.
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Eastbound Description[edit]
I have built my own guide for eastbound driving of Route 66. It follows some different routings in urban areas to abide by one-way streets and to adjust for availability of on-ramps and off-ramps (like the Arroyo-Seco in Pasadena). I prepared it in "Milepost" format (the famous Alaska-highway oriented publication), so it would take time to prepare in Wikitravel format. Is anyone interested in some sort of eastbound guide? Gcapp1959 (talk) 12:11, 3 July 2016 (EDT)


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The reality is that 70% of people in jail are there for one reason: living in poverty. Low-income Americans are sitting in jails for days, months, and even years simply because they can't afford to pay high bail amounts. All the while, private companies are profiting in the billions each year. This must end. Sign up to host a house party or screening of The Bail Trap: American Ransom today!
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Total Runtime- 39 minutes 39 seconds
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|3. Deal with The Devil
|4. How Much is Your Freedom Worth?
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On the Act and Art of Translation
Sri Sadhu Om Swamigal's writings on Ramana
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Synopsis of the Story of the futility of the vEdic and other actions to grant Self-Knowledge
Five Jewels in Praise of the Feet of Sri Ramana
On the eve of Sri Ramana Jayanti
Grateful Remembrance of Sri Bhagawan on His Mahasamadhi Day
New Insights into Self-Enquiry
The Papadam Song by Sri Bhagawan
|On the Act and Art of Translation
Explanatory Note added for clarity
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unsung heroes of poetry
from http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,844907,00.html
Not so long ago, it was not unheard of for publishers to issue English translations of foreign-language novels without acknowledging their translators. Such omissions may be infrequent now, but reviews of translated works still rarely refer to their translator, except maybe to commend the translation for not reading like one, or for reading smoothly - fluency being considered a virtue in translations, however craggy the originals. Invisibility, it seems, is still regarded as the ultimate accolade.
Where translators have made their presence felt they have become controversial, with those who characteristically intervene, seeking to domesticate texts, contrasted with those who foreignise, supposedly allowing other languages to alter our own. Of course, a certain kind of invisibility may seem positive, insofar as a translator allows the source text to penetrate the target language precisely by not interposing himself. In his introduction to his translations of the Israeli poet, the late Yehuda Amichai, Ted Hughes noted: "What I wanted to preserve was the tone and cadence of Amichai's own voice speaking in English, which seems to me marvellously true to the poetry in these renderings." Hughes was talking here about Amichai's preliminary English renderings of his own poetry. Hughes's approach was one of "creative non-intervention", since he did no more, as he said, than "correct the more intrusive oddities and errors of grammar and usage", thereby allowing Amichai's English poems to speak for themselves, even if in an English substantially at least of the Israeli poet's own making. As a translator, Hughes listened to Amichai's voice and did not shout it down.
Still, translators, though often ignored by scholars as well as reviewers, are, in fact, far from invisible. While one may easily exaggerate the translator's role or influence, obviously a translation must embody the reading of a text, and no reading can be neutral. So, what the reader of the translation is absorbing is a previous reading. Even if not the originator of a work, the translator is inevitably, to an extent, its re-writer.
This should be fairly obvious, yet few stop to think about it and publishers still tend to pass over the facts when it comes to presenting a translation, unless the translator is a celebrity in his or her own right. This may make commercial sense, but it is not conducive to an awareness of the mediation implicit in the act of translation. That it is untranslatable has sometimes been regarded as a defining characeristic of poetry. In a sense this is true, but without translators we would have had to do without the Bible, Koran, Bhagavad Gita, Homeric epic and so forth. The first issue of the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation, which I founded with Ted Hughes in the mid-1960s, more or less coincided with the first Poetry International festival in London. In 1967 Hughes wrote: "However rootedly national in detail it may be, poetry is less and less the prisoner of its own language. Perhaps it is only now being heard for what, among other things, it is - a universal language of understanding, coherent behind the many languages in which we can all hope to meet." Implicit is a belief in the translatability of poetry, in some kind of ur-language of human discourse. One is reminded of Walter Benjamin, who in his essay, "The Task of the Translator", contended that "to some degree all great texts contain their potential translation between the lines". However, while we may now be less inclined to express ourselves so optimistically, the fact is that there has been no slackening off in the transla tion of poetry. Indeed, once again, as in the days of Dryden and Pope, major poets such as Hughes and Heaney have devoted a substantial amount of their creative energy to translation.
The current issue of Modern Poetry in Translation ( available from Professor Norma Rinsler, School of Humanities, King's College London) , guest-edited by Valentina Polukhina, is dedicated to contemporary Russian women's poetry, and coincides with the visit of four leading Russian poets to England. The issue looks further afield than Moscow or St Petersburg to take in provincial centres such as Voronezh, Saratov, Samara, the Urals and Siberia. Some 70 poets are represented, including four who recently toured England: Svetlana Kekova, Vera Pavlova, Tatyana Shcherbina and Tatyana Voltskaya.
In an essay published in MPT, Voltskaya suggests "the machine of Soviet ideology damaged women less, because they are more concerned with the private sphere, those areas that it is harder for politics to penetrate", whereas it is precisely concentration on the private sphere "that enables a human being to remain human even in inhuman circumstances". In Soviet times, women wrote far fewer poems to order than did men. Are they therefore less compromised?
The issue contains work by many English-language translators and poets, Ruth Fainlight, Elaine Feinstein, Maura Dooley and Carol Rumens among them. Their counterparts in Russia have already begun to translate their work into Russian. A translation of Ruth Fainlight's poem "Sugar-Paper Blue" is soon to appear in Inostrannaya Literatura, a Russian literary journal.
I predict that electronically generated translation papers, drafts and comments will be of considerable value to critics in the near future and will make the translation process more accessible to outsiders. Improved visibility and appreciation of the creative skills required for poetry translation must help raise the status of translators.
Some years ago I was involved in a Nobel symposium on translation in Stockholm, organised by the Swedish Academy. Somewhat cheekily, I proposed that the academy institute a prize for literary translation. Since even the illustrious academicians could not possibly read all the languages used by potential literature laureates, I suggested, past judgments must have been based, at least in part, on translations. Indeed, the two laureateships might sometimes be bestowed upon the same individual. Objections will still be raised, on the grounds that translation does not merit such prestige and celebrity. On the contrary, I would argue: translation, as a mediation between cultures that requires total attention to primary utterances, and reciprocity rather than subservience, is a model for the traffic between nations.


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Joseph A. "Joe" Sestak, Jr. (born December 12, 1951) is a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania's seventh congressional district, having been elected in 2006. Before entering Congress, he was a Vice Admiral in the United States Navy. A Democrat, he has voted with his party 97.5% of the time during the current Congress and has missed 125 (16.1%) of votes.[1] Sestak defeated Democrat Senator Arlen Specter in the primary for the 2010 election.


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Now We Know It Stinks… Harry Reid Praises McConnell's Debt Plan
Uh-Oh. We are sooo screwed.
Harry Reid today praised Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's plan to increase the national debt.
The Politico reported:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Wednesday praised Republican Leader Mitch McConnell for putting forth a plan to raise the debt ceiling, calling it a "serious proposal" that he's continuing to study.
"He spent a great deal of time working on this. I commend him for his thoughtful and unique proposal, something that we have to look at very closely," Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said on the Senate floor. "I'm heartened by what I read. This is a serious proposal, and I commend the Republican leader for coming forward with it."
McConnell laid out his plan on Tuesday as he signaled bipartisan negotiations to raise the debt ceiling by the Aug. 2 deadline were beginning to look "increasingly pessimistic." His proposal, which he referred to as a "last-choice option," would give President Barack Obama new power to raise the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling without corresponding spending cuts.
Reid said he would discuss the plan with his Democratic caucus later Wednesday. "I'm studying it and discussing it with my senators," he said.
McConnell's proposal, coupled with ideas the two leaders have been discussing to lift the debt ceiling, "could go a long way toward resolving the impasse we now find ourselves in," Reid said. "We both agreed a long time ago the problem is not the president's. It's our problem. It's every American's problem, and certainly every member of Congress."
The plan to increase the debt limit remains unpopular. More Americans want their member of Congress to vote against such a bill than for it, 42% vs. 22%.
The Weekly Standard has more on the pitfalls of the plan and how Republicans will be blamed when for defaults.
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Elizabeth Ferrara's Astronomy Department Home Page
Elizabeth Ferrara
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Dr. Elizabeth Ferrara is an astrophysicist working with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. Her research interests include finding new gamma-ray source types and classes using multi-wavelength observations, and searching for new pulsars using gamma-ray sources as seed positions. Dr. Ferrara is part of the "Pulsar Search Consortium" (PSC), a group of gamma-ray and radio astronomers who use many of the largest single-dish radio observatories in the world to search for new pulsars. She contributes to ongoing PSC projects at Green Bank (NRAO), Parkes (ATNF), Arecibo (NAIC), Nançay, and Effelsberg (MPIFR) Observatories, as well as the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (NCRA). Together, these facilities have discovered more than 55 pulsars in radio searches of gamma-ray sources.
In her efforts to characterize and associate new gamma-ray sources, Dr. Ferrara also is actively working with a number of other ground and space-based facilities. Currently, she is facilitating or coordinating follow-up observations with SWIFT, the Nordic Optical Telescope, the Very Large Array, ATCA, and with the TANAMI project. By combining observations at multiple wavebands, she is working to gain a clearer understanding of what may comprise the still-unidentified population of gamma-ray sources from Fermi.
Dr. Ferrara is also part of the mission team for Fermi. She is currently the Deputy Lead Scientist for the Fermi Science Support Center, working with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) and Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) instrument teams to implement new science objectives. Prior to launch, Dr. Ferrara wrote and tested all the procedures used to command the LAT, the primary instrument for the mission. LAT instrument activation occurred during the second week of the mission, and she was present for the entire operation, which took more than 24 hours. Before joining the University of Maryland team in 2009, She received her Ph.D. in astronomy from Georgia State University in 2000. She has also worked with General Dynamics on a number of civilian space missions, including GLAST (now Fermi) and JWST.
Papers and Press
- NASA's Fermi Celebrates Five Years in Space, Enters Extended Mission
- NASA's Fermi Finds Youngest Millisecond Pulsar, 100 Pulsars To-Date, (Flash Interactive)
- Fermi's Latest Gamma-ray Census Highlights Cosmic Mysteries
- NASA's Fermi Telescope Finds Giant Structure in our Galaxy
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Nothing could be further from my mind. I don't find debates over who is "really" a Christian to be very useful in the first instance; debates over what assertion is right, yes, but that's quite different. The ugly tendency, so frequently on display among Protestants and not infrequently among Catholics, of declaring that our intellectual opponents are "not real Christians" or "Catholics in name only" is disgusting to me, and I want no part of it. God knows His own; it is not my business to weed His garden -- I'd only muck it up. If a given belief is untrue, then that is an adequate criticism of it. Speculations about the spiritual condition of those who hold it are unnecessary as well as unseemly and, in fact, unchristian: love doth not behave itself unseemly, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil.
And who is a Christian is, in my opinion, better settled by very simple and objective tests. Have they been validly baptized? Do they profess the Apostles' Creed? Then they are Christians. Christians can still be wrong about things; Christians may not actively practice their religion, or may apostasize from it at some point; but the criteria for answering whether someone is a Christian in the first place are, in my view, questions of objective and sacramental fact, not of private judgment of someone else's standing before God.
It is the easier for me to believe this, in that I have long since discarded the essentially non-Catholic belief that only Christians go to Heaven (as well as the Calvinist belief that all Christians, at least all the ones who are "really" Christians, do go to Heaven). It is quite true that God respects the choice of those who deliberately and finally refuse Him, preferring some inferior good in His place; the technical term for these inferior goods, as experienced apart from God, is the term hell; that is what the Athanasian Creed means when it says, Whosoever will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholick faith. Which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled: without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. But we cannot know who has and has not deliberately and finally refused, or accepted, salvific grace, and it is none of our business. Whether a person is a Christian in about the only useful sense of the term -- that is, whether they are baptized, communicating**, and professing the faith -- is something we can know by simple observation; which is what makes the term Christian useful in the first place. And the answer to that question does matter -- for, if Christianity is true, then men ought to pursue it, because man is made for truth -- but it is a distinct question from whether a person will enjoy eternal fellowship with God.
Monsignor Ronald Knox, who was the Catholic chaplain of Oxford University from 1926 to 1939 (as well as a translator of Scripture, a detective-story author, and a correspondent of C. S. Lewis), put the matter splendidly, when discussing in particular the position of Protestants from a Catholic perspective:
[M]y own impression is that there are very few Protestants who are Protestants in bad faith. They are in good faith, so long as they remain outside the Church through invincible ignorance. That's a phrase of ours that worries people frightfully ... If you've got a tutorial at six, and your watch tells you it's half-past five, and you're pretty sure your watch is wrong, and there's a clock in the next room you know to be right -- then that ignorance of the time which makes you half an hour or so late for your tutorial is not invincible ignorance; you could have overcome it if you had taken the trouble to look at the clock in the next room. So your friend's ignorance would be vincible, if he already had a pretty shrewd idea that the Catholic position was right, but refused to read the C.T.S. tracts you offered him because he jolly well knew he was going to lose a legacy if he became a Catholic. But that's not his position; a hundred accidents of parentage, education, misconception, sentimental prejudice and so on make him so far from the Church that his conversion would seem a kind of miracle; he really knows nothing about Catholics except that you are one, which may or may not be an inducement -- very well, his ignorance is invincible. It is the kind of ignorance he could not get rid of by taking any steps which he could normally be expected to take. So he's all right.***
Not least for such reasons as this, I consider it unconscionable to attack the sincerity of gay-affirming Christians. It is a flagrant violation of the Golden Rule; it is bad tactics and bad manners; in fact, it's slanderous. To attack a man's character is an assault on the highest and most precious part of his being, a violation of the commandment Thou shalt not kill. And I have absolutely no sympathy with people who regard such assaults as a form of flippant entertainment, or as being justified by a difference of creed.
Nor is it wise. Contempt is not a good place from which to argue intelligently. It's rather like claiming that your opponent in a sword fight is a bad swordsman as well as fighting for the wrong side: if you're wrong, you'll get cut, and frankly you'll deserve it.
This is one thing that has made me quite angry about several of the negative reviews I've seen of Vines' book. I disagree with him, yes; but calling him a liar, or accusing him of arguing as he does for self-serving ends, is a gross injustice and profoundly uncharitable -- if uncharity can be profound.****
And it sends a very nasty message to those outside the faith. In such a thoroughly if superficially Christianized nation, it is probably impossible actually to follow C. S. Lewis' counsel on the subject, but what he said about intra-Christian debates should be borne in mind: "Divisions among Christians are a sin and a scandal, and should never be discussed except among those who already believe that Jesus is the Son of God." Respect for our theological opponents is not only a moral obligation; it is also a good witness (though, I admit, I would hope that "It's the right thing to do" is an adequate motivation). I know both from my own heart and from some people that I've spoken with who have left the faith or remained outside of it, that the mutual hatred and spite of Christians is one of the strongest testimonies against the faith that exists. It is on account of such things that the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, and we will be held responsible for that.
*There is no good term for this. Gay-affirming would seem to suggest that any other view of gayness is repressive or demeaning; admittedly some, uh, gay-affirming Christians believe this, but plenty don't, and it isn't woven into their theology as such -- Justin Lee is a particularly shining example on this point. Progressive is pleasingly neutral as a descriptor, but irksomely vague. Revisionist, while etymologically very apt, sounds insulting and prejudicial. Heretical is in my view strictly accurate, but it is one of those words that tends to produce more heat than light, not least because it is virtually always taken -- by both sides -- to be a moral judgment of the person, rather than an intellectual statement of belief. Side A seems to avoid pretty much all of the criticisms that could be leveled at the above terms; and so, naturally, nobody knows what it means.
**I.e. receiving holy Communion, in contradistinction from those who either willfully ignore the Sacrament or have been excommunicated for just cause. In saying this, I am recognizing communicating as one of the essential Christian duties, without commenting on the precise nature of the act outside the Catholic Church -- nor even within her, since it's not directly relevant to the subject.
***From In Soft Garments (pp. 120-121), a collection of some of the addresses Msgr. Knox gave during his chaplaincy. (C.T.S. stands for the Catholic Truth Society, an evangelistic association which still exists today.) The phrase invincible ignorance is not much in use today among Catholics, partly, I think, because of the misunderstandings that Msgr. Knox was clearing up in this very address. The Catholic Church has not, however, relinquished the claim to infallibility, or the moral and psychological theology, which the term rose out of in the first place.
****I have also been puzzled, almost to the point of offense, by how many people are rushing to point out that his arguments are not new.


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Microsoft announced this week it has released both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing the final stage before a product actually gets into users' hands.
In the case of SP1, at least, there is one catch. If you're waiting on the edge of your seat, you still have a while to sit on your hands -- until mid-March.
Meanwhile, Windows Server 2008 Vista's server counterpart -- has also been released to manufacturing (RTM) and will be available for purchase to new customers starting March 1, the company said in a statement. Volume licensing customers with Software Assurance or Enterprise Agreements can download the server near the end of February.
Officially, Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2008 will be launched at Microsoft's planned "Heroes Happen Here" event in Lost Angeles on February 27.
Visual Studio 2008 became generally available last week. At the same time, delivery of SQL Server 2008, the third product being launched at the end of this month, has been postponed until the third quarter, the company disclosed late last month.
Meanwhile, after more than four months of testing, and repeated test releases, it's a little hard for some analysts to get excited about the final release of Vista SP1, but it's important nonetheless, not least because Vista and Windows Server 2008 have been positioned by Microsoft as complementary operating systems offerings.
Gaining synergy
"It's a good sign that they're done, and done at the same time, particularly for those people who want to gain any synergies from running the two products together," Michael Cherry, lead analyst for operating systems at researcher Directions on Microsoft, told InternetNews.com.
Both Vista and Windows Server 2008 share the same software core, as well as having some key interlocking features such as Network Address Protection or NAP, which quarantines new devices on the network until they have met specified security requirements.
Microsoft has seemingly taken its time getting Windows Server 2008 done. The first "release candidate" or RC of the server software was released to testers simultaneously last fall with the first beta test copies of Vista SP1.
The delay in providing Vista SP1 to customers has to do with coordinating availability across various distribution channels, according to a posting on the Windows Vista Team Blog Monday by Mike Nash, corporate vice president of Windows product management. That includes PC OEMs, retail packaged product, and download sites.
"In mid-March, we will release Windows Vista SP1 to Windows Update (in English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese) and to the download center on microsoft.com. Customers who visit Windows Update can choose to install Service Pack 1," Nash's post read. "In mid-April, we will begin delivering Windows Vista SP1 to Windows Vista customers who have chosen to have updates downloaded automatically," he added.
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BOWLING GREEN - Stewart Berry, 88, a professor emeritus at Bowling Green State University, died Wednesday in Wood County Hospital here of congestive heart failure.
Mr. Berry, who taught graduate-level statistics and research in BGSU's educational foundations and inquiry department, retired in 1984 after 28 years of teaching at the university.
"He enjoyed teaching. And he was very fair, generous, and compassionate," his daughter, Jeanne Berry, said.
"It was really most important for him that all his students did well. Statistics is hard, and so he gave his students as many chances as they needed to really understand it."
Before joining the BGSU faculty, Mr. Berry at different times taught education at Miami University, Ohio University, and Ohio Wesleyan University.
Mr. Berry also helped develop the specialist and doctoral degree programs in educational administration for BGSU in the 1950s and was co-author of a 1970s textbook titled Statistics for Educators.
Mr. Berry, who was born in Cincinnati and raised in Watertown, Conn., was a Taft School graduate with bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Alabama and a doctorate from the University of Cincinnati, all in education.
An Army Air Corps veteran of World War II, Mr. Berry served two tours of duty as a communications and security officer - from 1943 to 1946 and with the Air Force from 1950 to 1951 - in India, Labrador, and Greenland before he was honorably discharged with the rank of captain.
In his free time, Mr. Berry enjoyed swimming, sailing, and horseback riding.
Mr. Berry was a member of First Presbyterian Church, Bowling Green.
His other memberships included the China-Burma-India Veterans Association, Phi Delta Kappa, Kappa Delta Pi, Iota Lambda Sigma, Theta Xi, the American Educational Research Association, and the Optimist Club of Bowling Green.
Surviving are his wife of 56 years, Helen; daughters, Jeanne Berry and Cynthia Cummings; two grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in First Presbyterian Church, Bowling Green, where visitation will be after 10 a.m. Tuesday. Arrangements are by Dunn Funeral Home, Bowling Green.


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Arbitration on South China Sea a legal monstrosity, Chinese diplomat
The pending decision out of the South China Sea arbitration in The Hague, which was initiated by the Philippines, is a legal monstrosity and reeks of hegemony from Washington, said Wu Ken, China's Ambassador to the Netherlands.
"China will not accept an invalid arbitral award. Abuses of international law and a hegemonic mentality have no place in any SCS dispute," Wu told Xinhua in The Hague, where a decision will be rendered in the coming months.
"Such an arbitration should not be recognized or supported in any manner," said the Chinese diplomat, who took his post earlier this month.
The Philippines illegally occupied some of China's Nansha islands and reefs in the 1970s, which created the territorial disputes between the two nations. By abusing the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the Philippines advanced claims for an Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf, which overlaps China's claims and led to the current delimitation dispute.
"The UNCLOS does not address territorial disputes; with respectto delimination dispute, China has declared in accordance with the Convention that it does not accept compulsory procedures," the ambassador noted, " Thus, to settle SCS disputes through peaceful negotiation is consistent with an agreement between China and the Philippines and other ASEAN states. It is also consistent with international law regarding the SCS."
In his opinion, Manila has plainly abused the legal proceedings when it unilaterally initiated the arbitration. "The 15 submissions of the Philippines are closely related to territorial sovereignty and maritime delimitation, which are beyond the scope of the arbitration. Manila breached its commitment to settling disputes through negotiations," Wu said.
"According to the express provisions of the UNCLOS, with China's declaration, relevant dispute could only be submitted to compulsory procedures with agreement of the parties. The Philippines has no unilateral right to initiate the arbitration," said the ambassador.
The ambassador regretted that the Philippines' abuse of the legal process hasn't been stopped sooner, but incredibly fostered by abuses of jurisdiction. "Without China's participation, any ruling from the tribunal has no legal basis."
According to Wu, the then Japanese president of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) Shunji Yanai, who was entrusted to organize the tribunal under the Convention, turned a blind eye to the Convention's provisions.
"He assembled five lawyers of international law into a biased arbitral tribunal, which is tilted towards the Philippines and ignored what China stands for," said Wu.
The Chinese diplomat also noted that the SCS arbitration reeks of involvement by the United States. Washington has threatened that Beijing will pay for not accepting the tribunal's decision.
"How can a non-contracting State which selectively ignores the provisions of the Convention present itself as a judge for the Convention?" Wu questioned.
In his view, Washington has become a front-stage actor in the dispute. Despite fears to the contrary, nobody has encountered any problem with the freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, he said.
"What 'freedom of navigation' is to be defended by American warships patrolling near Chinese islands and reefs? They slap a label of 'militarization' regarding China's right to build facilities on its own territory. Take a look at the frequent U.S. military exercises in the South China Sea, what are they doing?" questioned the Chinese ambassador.
By repeatedly reinforcing its military existence in the South China Sea, Washington has violated basic international norms of peace, he said.
"Neither the Philippines nor the tribunal can change China's sovereignty over the SCS Islands and their adjacent waters," said Wu.
"They will not weaken China's determination and volition to safeguard its national interests and the dignity of international law. Nor will they affect China's sincerity in peacefully resolving disputes through direct negotiations," he added.
"The SCS disputes are very complex. However, with the guidance of the UN Charter and relevant international laws and together with China's maritime neighbors, China is confident and able to manage the disputes through rules and mechanisms, to mitigate disputes through maritime cooperation and to reach a final settlement through negotiations," he concluded.
[Source: By Xinhua Writer Liu Fang, Xinhua, The Hague, 28May16]
East China Sea Conflict
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Jerry McMillan was a key figure in documenting the fertile Los Angeles art scene in the late 1960s and early 70s. Originally hailing from Oklahoma, he moved to L.A. in the late 50s and starting taking photos whilst studying at Chouinard Art Institute. Much of the work being produced on the West Coast by the then-unknown loose collective of artists went on to become canonical in the history of Modern Art, and McMillan had a knack for getting great, often irreverent portraits of the main players. Photographing the likes of Joe Goode, Larry Bell, Judy Chicago and the Eds - Kienholz, Bereal and Ruscha (in fact Ruscha, a long-time friend, was something of a muse) both at work and at play, you can see the subjects trusted McMillan, and the easiness and intimacy in his work is a great behind-the-scenes counterpoint to the artwork itself.
One of his most infamous photos was for the War Babies exhibition at the Huysman Gallery in 1961. Showing a portrait of the ethnically diverse artists taking part in the show eating stereotypical food (Ed Bereal, African-American: watermelon; Larry Bell, Jewish: a bagel; Joe Goode, Irish: mackerel; Ron Miyashiro, Asian, eating with chopsticks) off an American-flag tablecloth, the image outraged conservative critics, and in fact the gallery closed shortly after the exhibition ended.
McMillan has also created more conceptual, complex works which can be seen here and deserve a look. But for now its his documentation of those West Coast mavericks we're relishing.
The infamous War Babies poster featuring, l-r, Ed Bereal, Larry Bell, Joe Goode, Ron Miyashiro
Ed Ruscha and Walter Hopps, 1962
Ed Ruscha unfolding 'Every Building On The Sunset Strip', 1967
Ed Ruscha, 1968
24 Young L.A. Artists, 1971
Ron Miyashiro in his studio, 1961
Ed Ruscha Says Goodbye To College Joys, 1967
Larry Bell, 1967
Robert Graham looking at his work in an exhibition, 1968
Judy Chicago, 1970
Ron Davis, 1968
Ed Kienholz, 1968
Larry Bell, 1968
Judy Chicago, 1970
All images © Jerry McMillan, courtesy of Craig Krull Gallery


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International Children's Book Day is celebrated around the world on Hans Christian Andersen's birthday, April 2.
Join Muse for a Canberra special with beloved local authors Irma Gold and Tania McCartney and recent arrival, illustrator Tony Flowers.
There'll be readings, on-the-spot drawing and colouring in - all the best things about books to celebrate this special day.
Saturday, 2 April 2016
3:30pm – 4:30pm
TICKETS: $10 per child (includes a glass of wine or soft drink for accompanying grown-up). Head to Muse for more info, and to book.
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Hi again,
I have so many challenges that I want to enter. I really like doing a new project for each, but sometimes I get lucky and I can make a design work for a few challenges. I really have to say Thank you to my blogger buddy and friend Carri - she has really helped me in the world of blog a lot. So Carri Thank you very much
I really appreciate your friendship. There are so many others of you out there that encourage me also, and I just want to say none of this would be possible without all of you. Thank you all.
Another challenge : I used My newly downloaded "SPLASH" from Echo Park digi paper, I cut the house and the small from April showers printed on AC card stock from Blast Off. The dotted paper is K & Co.
and the other paper is "Splash" from Echo Park today deal. A gift for you is from My Pink Stamper Stamper
Winter Treats and Sayings, inked with Jenni Bowlin "chicken feed."
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
WEDNESDAY-MORNING AGAIN -My Pink Stamper, Ecko Park and a challenge
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013
LotFP (hee hee hee)
For better or worse, I've never paid much attention to Raggi's blog for the same reason that I don't bother reading many blog posts with the word "Kickstarter" in them: marketing copy rarely makes absorbing reading.
As such when people throw around the acronym "LotFP", it carries a very different meaning to me. Everyone knows from Tolkien that "L.o.t.-" means "Lord of the-" and as for F.P., I direct you to the following discussion between office manager Michael Scott and Ryan the Temp from season 2 of The Office (U.S. edition):
Michael: For emergency contact put down Todd F. Packer. You know what the "F" stands for?
Ryan: Fudge?
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Re: "Where no man or beast shall pass through the land for 40 years." This is in Ezekiel 29. Has this already happened or a future event?
The quote is taken from Ezekiel 29:11-12 and concerns Egypt. There's no record of this happening from Ezekiel's day to ours, so many scholars believe it will happen during the Millennium. Zechariah 14:18-19 hints of this.
If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The LORD will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.
Ezekiel 29:13-15 says at the end of the forty years Egypt will be restored, but as a weak and lowly kingdom without influence in the world.


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Sunday, January 07, 2007
it's done. i've switched over to wordpress because i can no longer deal with the eccentrities of old blogger! so if you're game (& i hope that you are!) pls. check out my new digs over here. it's the same little ol' me, just different address is all...see ya there! the old blog will remain to redirect y'all to my new digs...c'mon over...i can't wait to have you stop by! ta-ta blogger!
Saturday, January 06, 2007
beloved, touched & blessed
that is how i feel at this moment in time... when i started this blogging journey nearly a year ago, never in my wildest imagination would i ever dream that i'd come to regard many of you as such dear friends, blog sistas, & kindred spirits! & for as long as i can remember, i've always found such great joy in making & giving things away to those i care for & appreciate. & when i send my little tokens of affection, i do not expect anything in return. it just makes me happy knowing that i sent some goodies someone's way, sharing the creative wealth & good cheer>>> hopefully bringing a smile to someone's face. that's just how i rolls...& my dh tells me never to change that about myself! but when i receive unexpected gifts, like i had yesterday, i am rendered speechless & utterly surprised because i do not expect anything. when i received not one but two packages in yesterday's mail, my heart was (& still is) bursting with gratitude & joy...i cannot believe the overflowing generosity & love i felt from these packages... dear pauline sent me this incredible box of wonderful goodies>>>i am astounded by how beautifully packaged everything was (i didn't want to undo the pretty wrappings) & the incredible amount of stuff she put in there>>>it seemed never ending! she sent me two lovely books, which i have already read! (i am a speed reader & they were such tender tear-jerkers!)...pauline, i *heart* you & everything that you sent me! i will treasure everything that you have so lovingly sent me! & then dear corey lavished me with antique french papers, ribbons, lace, postcards, music sheet scraps from her extensive personal collection...i was actually going to BUY this set from her wicked cool french flea market shop (which btw, y'all NEED to check out because she has a FANTABULOUS collection of FRENCH vintage GOODIES for sale!)...i am feeling rather SPOILT by corey!!!!!! MILLE MERCI BEAUCOUPs corey!!!!!!!!!!!! i amazed how much stuff i kept pulling out of that deceptively small packet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i *heart* you & for sharing so generously some of your fabulous collection! yes, today i am feeling very much beloved, touched & blessed. thank you blog world for connecting me to such lovely & generous spirits! i'll end this post with a s.w.a.k.
Friday, January 05, 2007
studio friday
this week's topic for studio friday is suggested by susan: CHANGING NAMES... "I've been reading Twyla Tharp's book The Creative Habit and here's an idea from her book - " the ancient masters of Japanese art were allowed to change their name once in their lifetime. They had to be very selective about the moment in their career when they did so. They would stick with their given name until they felt they had become the artist they aspired to; at that point, they were allowed to change their name. For the rest of their life, they would work under the new name at the height of their powers." So let's presume we are at the height of our careers - what name would you choose and why? " ~ Susan ***
this was a head scratcher for me. never given much thought about wanting to change my name, other than my surname when i was getting married...i looked up my name, mary ann, & it comes from the latin marianna, which means "beloved". i like that actually. it suits me...but i do want to play in sf this week...i've been mia for sometime from this group. so i surfed the net to see what i would change my name to. & this is what struck my fancy>>>kimimela akua>>>it is african for "butterfly born on wednesday"... butterflies are a favorite motif of mine & they also signify metamorphasis, don't they? & while perusing the aisles of an antique mall a few weeks ago, i remembered finding a vintage calendar & it was of the year i was born...just for kicks, i looked up my birthday in this old calendar & saw that i was born on a wednesday. & then i found those african names>>>too cool, huh? now, don't ask me how to pronounce my new name...your guess is as good as mine!
friday's finds
happy friday & 11th day of christmas! since i've been feeling cruddy this past week (blasted sinus infection!), i haven't done any offline shopping. but i did do some on-line shopping during school break & purchased those wicked cool arty books (wow, TONS of drooling on my part!) that i wrote about in the last post below & also these cool stamps & cd from stamp diva, which are my finds for this week's friday's finds. my weekend starts today & so i hope that i can come up with something creative with these new finds>>> like getting started on my valentine atcs for the flickr swap i'm hosting! my dear blog sista, jude, has already started working on hers & even posted a pic of one of her creations on flickr! yikes, i better get crack-a-lacking!
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
a trying day
i dreaded going back to school this morning after having been off since 12/15! how rude to be jarred awake by the @$#%& alarm clock!!! & i still was feeling crappy...the thought did cross my mind to call the school & say i was not feeling well (which was true!) but then i realized i would have to make up the missed day on one of my days off....uh, i chose to suck it up & drag my butt to the school. it wasn't too bad until i came across this kiddo i'll call "t". man! he was not a happy camper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he just about threw a HUGE hissy fit for a solid 10 minutes about how he was not coming with me to do therapy. i was gonna cut my losses & walk away...but the classroom teacher basically bargained with him & made him go. i'm not one to force anyone into therapy...that's not my style...but still, i remained calm, saying nothing as he sobbed hysterically walking to my therapy room. i kept thinking, how incredibly sad to see this little guy so stressed out & how hard it was for him to transition from one activity to the next. he eventually cooled off & we had our session. even before school vacation, t almost always reacted this way when it was time to go for speech therapy...after his shrieking, he eventually settles down & we, believe it or not, end up having good sessions...i almost half expect the terrible scene each & every time i come for the little guy, but today, it really took a lot outta me to deal with him...y'know, weather out his storm... i don't know, but he is much too young to be so troubled...so much tension & anxiety in this young boy... yet such is the life of a child with autism>>>when it rains, it really pours! i've been reading up on how to recognize & diffuse/divert potential "neurological storms" (as one book called them), like remaining calm & being non-punitive are recommended strategies. makes me wonder how he functions at home? how his family deals with his meltdowns & fits? it was disheartening to learn from some teachers about his rather chaotic home life...i saw t later in the day & he was having yet another meltdown in the classroom...he just was not having a good day being back after being off for so long. thankfully my other students were more accepting to be back in school! i wasn't feeling 100 percent today at school & having had to deal with t's meltdown kinda drained my energy for the rest of the day>>> i was never so glad to go home when the school bell rang! i was invited to dinner by a couple of pals but i was not feeling up to much of anything...i was SPENT...i had to decline the kind invitation, which i felt bad, but i desperately wanted to go home & lie down! wasn't i pleasantly surprised to find these lovelies in the mail?! i had ordered these books during break & here they are...my drained spirit started to lift... i can't wait to devour every last page of these books, which i have been coveting for some time now...i know, it's a huge splurge...but i work hard for these simple pleasures! ahhh, i can't wait to get my hands on them as i soak in a hot, soothing tub. sometimes it's necessary to unwind & feed the soul especially after a trying day.
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
not bad for a gal who's under the weather...
hi all! not feeling the best today, but as i laid in bed (re)reading this past summer issue of somerset studio>>>i found this article by danielle of the vintage dragonfly of her wicked cute jar fairies that i thought i'd give it go. just the other day i found a plain old leaded glass lantern & i got inspired! i thought of just the perfect piece that would fit inside & stuck one of my collage pieces i did a while ago for wednesday stamper...then added a few other doodads & what- nots...et voila! my very own altered lantern...this was wicked fun to make {& addictive too, lol}! i definitely will make more of these...but i think this is enough creative excitement for this tired gal...back for a lie down...but i do plan on making more of these lovelies...just when i feel more energetic! {wink}.
Monday, January 01, 2007
my new digicam & a look back...
i am sooooooooooooo excited to have my new digicam! GONE are the days of trekking to the super-walmart & getting those one-hr photo cds made!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yipee-i-ay!!!! i can upload pics to my computer, sha-zammmm! i've spent the weekend acquainting myself with my new toy & all its lovely features. & i think i've got the basic grasp...this is an upgrade from my old nikon cam & i'm lovin' the sleekness & tiny-ness of it all & the wicked cute pink & brown cam case>>> just darlin'! i finally was able to take snaps of these lovely prezzies i got just the day after christmas from a dear flickr pal, monica...she made this lovely tree ornie with such loving details... & she sent me this beautiful emu ornie...i was amazed that it did not get damaged in the post because it is rather fragile... i was so surprised & elated to receive these wonderful package from her>>>thank you so much monica! i'm quite touched by your gifts & i will treasure them always {smile}.
*** i got this idea from blog pal weirdbunny (thanks julia!)>>> she got this idea from a pal of hers in which you go into your archives & write the 1st sentence of each month's post of 2006. so i thought i'd give it a whirl (pls. note that i started my blogging journey last february):
februrary '06: a dear friend of mine told me about her blog & how much she enjoys it. march '06: how much longer do i have to hang on? april '06: he who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks ~~francois duc de la rochefoucald. may '06: my dear friend annie is in town & i can't wait to spend my day off tomorrow with her! june '06: the pocketbook i fashioned out of a plain wooden box with handle, which i found in the clearance aisle at wal-mart... july '06: this season i will...is the topic for this week's mmm. august '06: snaps we took of our weekend visiting the fam in chi-town. september '06: fun vintage stuff i found at that estate sale i had gone to with angie wangie in st. louie. october '06: hi blog sistas & friends! november '06: all day today at school, i kept wishing that the day would hurry up! december '06: this week's topic for studio friday is what's your favorite color combination?
it may not look like much, but believe me, these are but a fraction of what each month contained for the past year (561 posts, to be exact!)...which brings me to the topic of switching...well, i've looked into wordpress & i'm very tempted to switch over because i do actually like the looks of the pages there...but i've a bit of a prob, you see. wordpress, i'm told, is "static" & won't take movable side widgets, such as flickr & neocounter...two things i've become accustomed to seeing on my current blog...& if i switch over to wp, then i wouldn't be able to have either one in my new sidebar. which i'm not sure whether or not i could live without yet... so at the moment, i'll be staying put a little while longer.darn it all tho! i so was looking forward to a new look...{sigh}. but at least i have a gleaming new digicam!
Sunday, December 31, 2006
just a few hours left & 2006 will be history...new year's eve seems to put people in a pensive mood. i reflect on the past year & also what i hope to accomplish in the new year. HOPE is the key word here as so much of our future dreams, plans, goals, etc. are built on this. for me, HOPE helps ease me into the new year... as i look back, it's been an awfully eventful year, especially when i discovered blogging! & when i started creating art again after such a long absence...i also struck out on my own, left my draining hospital job & went into private practice as well as opened an etsy shop. along the way, i met some incredibly amazing & talented folks, both in bloggyland & off-line, gone on a few trips with dh & by myself, spent time with family, participated in various swaps>>>i could go on & on, but i won't bore you with all the minutiae. let's suffice it to say that it's been an eventful year...my blog helped greatly to document many of these events & i'm glad that i can look back into my archives to help my brain cells recall... for the new year, i hope to continue my creative endeavors & go on as many adventures (like to maine with the dh) with even more fervor & passion than ever before! & like this past year, my blog (& i'm still debating whether or not to switch over to another site) will continue to document my thoughts, art, musings, glimpses into my life in cheeseland. yes, there's alot to be hopeful in the new year...let's toast to a very healthy, happy & creative 2007!


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