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Dating is a product of the modern culture whereby men and women, and especially boys and girls form a 'relationship" and spend some time together, and more often than not break up. It is usually entered into by people , especially in the teen years who have no long range plan where the goal is marriage.
Courting, on the other hand was all about marriage. It was a process by which one would determine whether a suitable marriage could take place. Unlike the modern concept of "dating" serious issues of values wewre explored, and often families were involved.
One of the big differences is that sex did not become an issue, since it was understood that compatibility issues needed to be explored, and a respect and commitment between the two people built up that would stand the test of time. There would be plenty of time for sex after a marriage.
Dating , on the other hand, in most cases in the modern context is all about sex. Children as young as 11 are starting to date, and statistics bear it out that the younger one starts playing the "dating game" the more likely they will have had sex before finishing High school.
When sex is the focus, real substantial issues that will affect the long term prospects of a marriage take a back seat.
It is no accident that marriages don't last like they used to. By pursuing and succumbing to things that should only be part of a married relationship the necessary respect and love for the actual person cannot reach its full potential. It is difficult to truly love that which has become effectively an object.
Sadly, it seems that "dating" is here to stay. I have counselled my daughters to steer clear of it until they are ready to pursue marriage. Some of the reasons i give are:
1) You are young once amd single for a short time in your life. Much more of your life will be spent as married than as single. When you are involved at that level with someone of the opposite sex, you become answerable to them, and a time in your life that should be free from such encumbrances will be ruined.
2) I also tell my girls that invariably, when serious dating takes place at the high school level, one or both parts of the couple will see their grades start to slide. The demands of a relationship are such that something has to suffer along the way, and more often than not it is school work, which can have an effect on one's future whether getting into the University of one's choice, or even getting there at all.
3) I have also told them that out there, is one person who is meant for them, for ever. I ask them whether they want to give themselves entirely to that one person, or do they want to give him only what's left after a colourful past? I also ask them whether they would want the same from a potential husband... someone who has waited for them to come along, or has been with every available girl that came his way?
Which one would either respect more?
4) Obviously the issues of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases have come up, and when you explain it mathematically, essentially by saying that when one sleeps with someone, they are also sleeping with everyone esle they have ever been with, and a vivid picture starts to emerge, which hopefully will be powerful enough to get them to wait themselves and find someone who has waited for them.
Young dating leads to hurt and disappointment, and not just for the couple. They have both taken what is not theirs, and sometimes the consequences will reverberate among otgher people close to them as well.


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Monday, June 13, 2011
For Trinity Sunday: The truth in the Trinity, from Rev. Carl Scovel, a UU minister
At the end of the essay I will also provide links to contemporary discussions.
Here is the essay by Carl Scovel:
If God is Three
And three's a crowd,
Then only One
Can be allowed.
If God is One
and one's alone,
Then how can God
Come to his own?
If One is Three
Where's unity?
If three is One,
Then where's the fun?
But if God's free,
He might be three,
Or one, or four,
Or less, or more.
We keep on counting;
He keeps the score.
I suppose the question will arise: "Why discuss the Trinity anyway?" Who cares? Who is going to lose sleep over it? Does it make the slightest difference to the couples wandering in the park, to the bigwigs dickering in Moscow, or to the ballplayers on the athletic field? Does it really interest anyone who attends church nowadays--Unitarian or otherwise?
I asked myself this question a dozen times as I pored over Scripture and the church fathers. And the deeper I got into this doctrine, the more I read and scribbled, the more I encountered ideas and interpretations which ran headlong into each other, the more urgently did this question press itself upon me, until I realized that I was not looking for an answer, for a new doctrine or an old doctrine, but for a question. I was looking for the question which prompted four hundred years of profound and serious and sustained theological inquiry and debate, four centuries of history which have been summarily dismissed by many Christians and virtually all Unitarians as logic-chopping and vain speculation.
Yet we seek for the questions which will illuminate our faith. The issues which faced the church fathers during the first three centuries A.D. are here today, but they are badly put and badly argued. This is not surprising, for theology is hard and desperately unrewarding work. It is easier to spend one's time in committee meetings. But what the church--laity and clergy alike--needs today is clarity. We need to understand the promise that has been given to us. We need to know what is asked of us and what we have a right to ask. It is, therefore, not only proper but essential that we look at the church doctrines which we have so smoothly and arrogantly passed over before--and one of these is the doctrine of the Trinity. And if we need to go beyond the council of Nicea in 325 A.D. we need also to go beyond William Ellery Channing's 1819 Baltimore sermon on Unitarian Christianity.
The case for trinitarianismIn that sermon, Channing articulated the principal arguments against the Trinity which Unitarians have raised throughout Christian history. He said quite simply that the doctrine of the Trinity could not be found in the Bible. It was the same argument used by Michael Servetus three hundred years before and by Arius twelve hundred years before that. Channing wanted to go back to the simple religion of Jesus as he saw it in the Gospels and to bypass all the seemingly useless theological wrangling that followed.
And there's much to be said for Channing's side. The New Testament doesn't ever use the word "trinity." Tertullian coined it in the third century. Jesus refers to God as his father, says he must obey his father, return to his father, and so forth. He clearly subordinates himself to God. But what most Unitarians miss in the New Testament is the way in which Jesus identifies his work with God's work and his will with God's will (cf John 14:1-11). "I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but by me." "He who has seen me has seen the Father." "Know you not," he says to Phillip, who has asked him for a big display of miracles, "know you not that I am in the Father and the Father in me?" This echoes the faith of the early church. "God was in Christ," says Paul, "reconciling the world to Himself." (2 Cor 5:19). And again: "For if there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist (1 Cor 8:6). The New Testament may not teach the Trinity, but it surely seems to pave the way for the idea of the Trinity. The texts just cited are simply ignored by most Unitarians when they talk about going back to that "simple religion of Jesus."
It is necessary to realize that Jesus' ministry per se did not make a tremendous impact on the world while he was alive. His impact came after he died, in the events which we call the Resurrection. He came alive in the remembering, in the reliving of his life, by those who felt his impact in a way that they did not seem to when he was alive and with them. In a sense, he was more alive after he died, alive to those who were so struck by him that now they did not quite know what to do with their traditional Father-God. Jesus now seemed more real to them. They knew Jesus had taught them of the Father-God, but he seemed so much more vital than the God of tradition--until it occurred to them that the reason he seemed so real was that it was this God who was with him and in him and through him, and through him was now with them. Emmanuel--God-with-us--came true in Jesus Christ. This, I submit, was the early Christian's experience of God.
The question which the early church was trying to answer was: How is God with us? And the church answered it by saying, "He is with us through Christ, God's spirit now moving and speaking in our church, among us, present in our hymns and prayers and preaching and in the breaking of bread." No, this in itself does not create a doctrine of the Trinity, but it is clear that the Christian experience was moving in that direction.
The Council of Nicaea
I will not attempt to describe here the two centuries of debate that preceded the council of Nicea. What the Council decided in 325 was that the Son of God was not an angel, nor a creature like other creatures, but was derived from the very essence of God Himself. Christ was "God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God; being of one substance (homo-ousios) with the Father."
Now of course the Council of Nicea was a highly politicized event. It was called by the emperor, Constantine, in order to bring about theological unity in his empire. He paid the expenses of the 318 bishops who attended, and it is likely that he neither understood nor really cared much about the arguments that filled the air. What he wanted was a unified statement of belief, and he got it. Only two of the bishops who attended the Council--one of them Arius, a proto-Unitarian--refused to sign it.
I am convinced that certain benefits resulted from this decision. The trinitarian style of thinking preserved both the majesty of God and his proximity to his children, asserting both his mystery and his love without compromising either. The trinitarian style of thinking kept a certain motion or dynamic in the center of God. There is a church in Constantinople (Istanbul) which has a mosaic depicting God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit dancing with each other hand in hand. Motion is essential to an understanding of God, unless you prefer to see God as a big clockmaker who winds up the clock and then goes to sleep.
But the political atmosphere of Nicaea and the harshly dogmatic debates turned Christianity into a religion of propositions which one either assents to or denies. I can appreciate the (small t) trinitarian style of thinking, but hardening this into the formula of (capital T) Trinity has hurt the Christian faith.
Servetus and afterwards
It was up to Michael Servetus 1206 years after Nicaea, to raise this question again when he published On the Errors of the Trinity in 1531. In this work, written in the midst of Protestant and Catholic inquisitions, Servetus affirmed that the Bible teaches the Father is supreme, the Son is coeternal with the Father but subordinate to him, and that the Son can save mankind without being equal to the Father. For these heresies Servetus was executed in 1553, but his ideass travelled across Europe and eventually reached England, where in 1714 a young minister named Samuel Clarke, rector of the church of St. James in Picadilly, wrote a book that might have come from the pen of Servetus himself. It was called On the Scriptural Doctrine of the Trinity, and with 1250 Scriptural citations attempted to prove exactly what Servetus had said. Just before his death, Samuel Clarke amended the Book of Common Prayer, removing the prayers to Christ and the Athanasian Creed, and substituting Scriptural doxologies for the Gloria Patri. It was this revision of the Service of Morning Prayer which 55 years later became the basis for James Freeman's revision of the prayerbook at King's Chapel. The prayerbook now used in King's Chapel, therefore, contains the classical Unitarian Christian theological position. The prayerbook protects this position and makes possible its enunciation every Sunday.
From Unitarian Christianity to Humanism
At one time Unitarian Christianity was the theological position of every American Unitarian church. Now it is the position of relatively few Unitarians, and those few are dwindling. There is a reason for this. Unitarian Christianity has sought simplicity. Simplicity is fine, but simplicity has its dangers. It tends to become a religion of that which is intellectually the easiest to grasp, and of what feels to be true at the moment. Furthermore, one God without dynamics and without a mediator becomes either the unmoved Never, utterly transcendent and remote from man, or else becomes solely the Father God, so anthropomorphic that he ceases to be believable as God. For example, the God whom Channing described in his Baltimore Sermon sounds for all the world like a benevolent New England merchant. Very anthropomorphic.
In this Unitarian Christianity, God becomes either too remote or too close, but in either case the same result ensues. Man takes God's place. Unchecked Unitarianism then leads to Humanism. As Robert Frost aptly stated it in a passage in his Masque of Mercy (describing a bookstore owner named Keeper):
Keeper's the kind of Unitarian
Who having by elimination got
From many gods to Three, and Three to One,
Thinks why not taper off to none at all,
Except as father putative to sort of
Legitimize the brotherhood of man,
So we can hang together in a strike.
Intellectual positions do have consequences: What has happened to American Unitarianism is no accident. And what is amazing is how much mysticism and God-talk and orthodox hymnology still remain in Unitarian churches--a witness to the spiritual hunger of the human heart.
The church in a godless world
If then, we are to go beyond Nicaea, we must also go beyond Channing. We cannot go back to what is called "the simple religion of Jesus." It is just not available to us, and, after all, Christian faith is the response to Jesus; it is in fact the religion about Jesus, and there is no escaping this.
But we must begin where we are--in an essentially godless world, a world that gets along by and large without a sense of God and probably will indefinitely. Yet we are a special community--we who call ourselves Christians. We have elected to stand within the promise that God is with us. By being members of the Christian church we assume that somehow this promise is true, although we do not understand how. In fact, our question is the same one the church fathers asked so many centuries ago: "How is God with us? What does it mean--to be in Christ? How can Christ be close to us and yet remain still God in all His, or Its, mystery?" I believe that if we have the courage to ask these questions, God in his time and in his ways will answer us.
[Here are some more links for more recent conversation and exploration. The first is the link to an archived blog discussion on Chris Walton's Philocrites blog stemming from a post on the anti-trinitarianism of Isaac Newton and the place of responses to the Trinity in the UU history and tradition and contemporary setting. http://www.ctr4process.org/publications/Biblio/Thematic/Trinity.html...Much of the newer reconstruction of the Trinity comes from both liberation theologians, and missional church theologians such as Jorgen Moltmann, and also process theologians. For a bibliography of how process theologians approach the Trinity go to http://www.ctr4process.org/publications/Biblio/Thematic/Trinity.html...We have also had good discussions online of the Trinity and UUism in our UUCF-L and UUCF-bible email lists you can join through the www.uuchristian.org site.
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Here's a question relevant to everyone -liberal, conservative, Catholic, Protestant, etc. What is love? Is love a)a force which is somehow diffused through the universe, like a gas or a vapor, or b)something which one person has for another person?
Most people, if speaking unguardedly, would say the second.
So what do we mean when we say "God is love?" Surely that "God" includes ("involves", "contains" -choose whatever verb you will) more than one person.
Hence the Trinity implies, among other things, that there was never a time when there was no love in the universe.
Which certainly doesn't sound "arid" to me.

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The Hotel offers a swimming pool outside of their cottages for hotel guests to enjoy.
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Angels Suite
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Here, I have listed my best listenings of some new albums of so called free jazz and the other great free improvising discs for the year 2015.
NOUTurn Bobby Bradford and John Carter Quintet live in Pasadena 1975 Dark Tree Records
Callas Ivo Perelman & Matt Shipp Leo Records double
Hommage to Coltrane Paul Dunmall and Tony Bianco Slam double
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Kapihan (A Celebration of Coffee is the Philippines) is produced by Nestle Philippines Inc. in 2007. It holds more than 150 pages of stories and attractive photographs of coffee. Nestle Philippines dedicated the book to all those who contributed to the success of Nescafe, from the hardworking Filipino farmer, the appreciative consumer and to the committed team of Nescafe professionals.The first part of the book contains stories on:
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- when Brazilian Coffee Institute asked Nestle to develop a product that could make commercial use of coffee
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The last two parts of book contains recipes and other uses of coffees. Some recipes include Coffee Adobo, Coffee Sansrival, Coffee Pannacota and Coffee Truffle.
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The Ambiguity of David Thomas Broughton
The Ambiguity of David Thomas Broughton is a music documentary following the creative process of one of the UK's most enigmatic musicians and performers.
As a musical act, David Thomas Broughton is almost unclassifiable. His live shows are a exhilarating mix of musical experimentation and performance art, underlined by a raw unpredictability. His recorded material is dark but beautiful, marrying traditional folk with a surrealist edge. Off-stage, he's an introvert with a passion for bird watching.
Who is the real David Thomas Broughton? Through a series of interviews with friends, family and collaborators, filmmaker Greg Butler attempts to unravel this ambiguity.
His journey takes him to David's home town of Otley, where we track David's creative process as he records new material to be played at the End of the Road Festival.
- Year
- 2015
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 59 mins
- Format
- HD video
- Director
- Greg Butler 1st Feature
- Producer
- Greg Butler
- Co-Producer
- Executive Producer
- James Strathallan, Matthew Luke Simpson
- Editor
- Greg Butler
- Screenwriter
- Director of Photography
- David Rafique
- Production Designer
- Sound
- Guy Fixsen
- Music
- David Thomas Broughton
- Principal Cast
- David Thomas Broughton, Sam Amidon, Jonathan Meiburg, Luke Drozd, Drew Millward, Mark Andrew Hamilton, James Yorkston, David Shrigley, Howard Monk, Chris Broughton, Kerry Andrews, Sonny Baker, Lucy Jamieson, John Rogers, Anthony Chalmers, Rob St John, Sar
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- Colour Grading & Online Editing
- Andy DeVries
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- River Ferris
- Camera Operators
- Jamie McMurray, David Cohen & Adam Ings
- Archive Footage
- Harry Wheeler, Anthony Hall, Wasp Video, Vincent Moon...
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Toyota extends production cuts due to Thailand floods
Toyota has extended production cuts at its factories in Thailand and Japan due to shortage of parts in the wake of floods in Thailand.
The company said production in Thailand will remain suspended, while Japanese units will work at reduced capacity until 12 November.
The move is a latest setback for Toyota, which is still trying to recover from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan earlier this year.
Toyota is the world's biggest carmaker.
The company said that production in Japan "will be adjusted based on an ongoing assessment of the parts supply situation at each individual production line".
Production loss
The floods have dented Toyota's production numbers.
Amiko Tomita, a spokeswoman for Toyota, told the BBC that suspension of production in Thailand was expected to resulted in the loss of 69,000 units between 10 October and 5 November.
At the same time, output at Japanese factories is projected to be down by 22,000 units between 24 October and 5 November.
To make matters worse, the company warned that if the situation in Thailand does not improve, it may have to cut production in other countries including, the US, Canada, South Africa and Philippines starting next week.
"A decision on production from 14 November onward will be made based on an assessment of the situation as it develops," the company said.
Earlier this week, another Japanese carmaker Honda, said it will cut production at its factories in the US and Canada by 50% due to shortage of parts.


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The Channel Islands String Quartet will present AN AFTERNOON OF CHAMBER MUSIC: Birds, Roses and a Czech, on Saturday, November 15 at 3:00 pm at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts, located at 403 W. Hillcrest Dr. in Thousand Oaks. The afternoon features classical favorites performed in an intimate setting. A concert in the Large Rehearsal Room is like attending a concert in the Prague Conservatoire in the Czech Republic!
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SDK and App Flexibility Comes to Software Defined Networking
The complexity and dynamic forces of virtualization have double impact in the networking world, responding to rapid and continuous change and addressing the need for extensive testing before deployment on production data centers. HP's new approach to the problem is to create the tools and environment for enterprise networking that has been so dynamic in coping with those changes in the consumer space, the HP SDN App Store.
HP Manager of SDN Marketing Jacob Rapp provides an overview of the approach that HP used to meet the needs of both large enterprises, yet offer small SDN start up companies powerful tools and laboratories to compete in the app marketplace.
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Another tragic motorcycle accident occurred recently in Georgia.This blog has discussed the particular vulnerabilities of motorcycles, and how drivers need to be especially careful around motorcycles or scooters. Unfortunately, unnecessary accidents continue to occur and cost lives. Between 2001 and 2008, more than 34,000 motorcyclists were killed in accidents and about 1,222,000 people were treated across the U.S. in emergency rooms for a motorcycle related injuries, according to government statistics – a 55 percent increase in fatalities during that period. Non-fatal injuries rose as well, from 120,000 in 2001 to 175,000 in 2008.
Georgia, like the nation as a whole, has struggled with reducing motorcycle fatalities. The number of fatalities increased 59 percent between 2004 and 2008 in Georgia alone. However, for the same period, the number of motorcycle registrations in Georgia rose by 63 percent. This is a problem that needs to be addressed, not only because of the number of crashes, but for the disproportionate likelihood of serious injury or death when driving a motorcycle as opposed to another type of vehicle. In Georgia, motorcycle crashes are only one percent of all vehicle crashes; nevertheless, they account for seven percent of all vehicle crash fatalities, most resulting from head injuries. Motorcyclists are 35 percent more likely than drivers of cars to experience a road accident.
In this case, at about 3pm on Saturday, October 6, Nicholas Seth Clark, a 23-year-old from Monroe, was stopped in the eastbound lane of Youth Monroe Road, south of Loganville near Ho Hum Hollow Road in his Hyundai Elantra, according to the Georgia State Patrol. George Latimore, 54-years-old and also from Monroe, was on his motorcycle travelling westbound on Youth Monroe Road. Mr. Clark reportedly stopped, then tried to turn left into a driveway, but did so in front of Mr. Latimore's motorcycle. The motorcycle hit the right rear fender of the Elantra. A witness told reporters that both lanes of Youth Monroe Road were shut down while the paramedics tried to treat Mr. Latimore's injuries. The Georgia State Patrol and Walton County Fire/Rescue and EMS also responded to the accident. Mr. Latimore was airlifted to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta but died from his injuries later that same day.
Georgia State Patrol Public Information Officer, Gordy Wright, stated that charges are pending against Mr. Clark, depending on the outcome of the investigation by the Specialized Collision Reconstruction Team. When that investigation is complete, a trooper will meet with the prosecutor to determine if any charges should be filed, a process that may take months.
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Drifter posted a topic in UTV Events and RalliesRACERS, RACE TEAMS AND RACE FANS: RTC Events LLC and the Balsam Lake Chamber of Commerce announce the 1st annual Championship UTV Winterfest 200 Race this coming Feb 3-5 2017. More details including classes, race registration, vendor space etc will be posted on our website www.rtceventsllc.com by September 1st. A note about the course we are designing: Drivers should expect a variety of challenging race conditions including long, wide-open straight aways, sweepers & hair pin turns, obstacles and a few others we got up our sleeves. This will be a long course, not a short course bumper car type track so I expect we'll see some real impressive top ends :-) Our Website will be live September 1st but feel free to contact me with any questions in the meantime. Drifter PROMO FLYER 1.pdf


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Empowering Women to Flourish and ShineDate and Time: 20th November 10.00-16.00
Hosted by: Ambassador Radinck J. van Vollenhoven of the Netherlands, at the residence
at Shibakoen 3-6-3, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0011
Lunch and refreshments: Included
Cost: ¥10,000 per person (this is to cover food and resources)If you plan on attending, please contact:Tiffany Newell: Tiffany.Newell@
ImpactInternational.comImpact would like to invite you to join us at our second facilitated Flourish workshop where we will be creating powerful, implementable strategies that empower women in Japan to Flourish and Shine. We are committed to ensuring that the fantastic energy and momentum started by the World Assembly for Women (WAW! Tokyo) and Shine Weeks continues to grow and we would like to work with you to create sustainable solutions that will support women to become inspirational leaders of the future.
Sue Hunt - Former Director of Strategic Programs for the London Olympics and Paralympics and Global Ambassador for Flourish
Sue will share her experiences of being a female leader throughout the set up, delivery and running of the Games and also 20 years of leadership and change at Goldman Sachs, including 7 years as International Treasurer. Sue is an inspirational and motivating speaker, authentically speaking from the heart about her passion and experience. She is a true example of a female leader who has an enviable balance of both feminine and masculine leadership energies.
Denis Murphy - Motivational Key Speaker
Denis will lead a group experience focused on unlocking self-limiting beliefs by releasing fears. He will do this by helping us to realise that we are creating the world around us. His philosophy, that if we change, everyone around us changes will reinforce the Flourish message that we can all be Agents of Change. Using techniques that enable us to purposefully use our imaginations, Denis will help us to start behaving and feeling differently.
David Williams - Founder and CEO of Impact International
As CEO of an international, people development organisation that has an equal balance of male and female leadership at the top of the organisation, David is a fantastic example of a male leader who understands the need to empower and develop women. It is with David's mentoring and support that Tiffany Newell, Head of Innovation for Impact, created the Global Flourish Initiative.
Ambassador Radinck-van Vollenhoven - Executive Mentor for Flourish
The Ambassador will welcome guests and give a short speech about why he has volunteered to be an Executive Male Mentor for Flourish and why he believes empowering women in Japan and across the world is important and necessary. The Ambassador will also provide closing comments at the end of the day.Koshiro Kitazato - Executive Mentor for Flourish and International Trustee, Kiwanis International, Former Chairman, BT Japan
Kitazato-san will give a short speech about why he has volunteered to be an Executive Male Mentor for Flourish, why he thinks creating empowering cultures is important and some insights and ideas about what he believes Japan needs to do.
Impact Flourish Team: Tiffany Newell, Patricia Bader Johnston, Sarah Furuya, Charlotte Tiley, Zoe Cobb
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Hi everyone and thanks for visiting our blog. My wife and I created this blog to chronicle our experience while raising a son with Asperger's syndrome. Since our son was diagnosed with an ASD at age 5, we've had a lot of questions. Lucky for us we have a great support network in place. And our blog gives us an opportunity to share what we've learned with our readers. We hope you find our blog informative and interesting. Thanks again for visiting.
"It seems that for success in science and art, a dash of autism is essential." Dr Hans Asperger 1906-1980
Friday, 23 March 2012
1) It was the first week back after March break.
2) Jacob was away from school the week prior to the March break.
3) His EA's have implemented new things into the class to help Jacob with his sensory issues.
4) It's Jacob's 8Th birthday tomorrow.
We're very thankful. All of these factors could definitely trigger a child with Asperger's to have a meltdown of epic proportions. And with the way March has been for us thus far, I'm surprised Jacob's even been willing to go to school. Luckily for us, Jacob's week has been pretty good and this week he's earned:
What a relief. We thought this week would be rough, but on Thursday and today, Jacob didn't have any homework at all because he did all his work in class, which was amazing. I remember when I was young and my birthday was getting close. I would never behave in class. It was like because I was getting older that I could do whatever I wanted. But Jacob on the other hand doesn't really seem interested in his birthday at all. We've asked him what he wants for his birthday, but he says nothing.
I love that my son isn't materialistic, but it makes gift giving a little difficult. And of course, Shannon and I have to give gift suggestions to all of our family members. I don't know about other people, but buying gifts for my son is impossible. Maybe that's why he has so many DS games.
Tonight we're all going to my mom's house for dinner. I'd order Jacob's favourite food, but I don't know what company delivers peanut butter sandwiches and milk. So I think we'll order pizza or something. Then tomorrow, Jacob and I are going downtown (if he wants) and we'll have lunch and visit the art gallery (if he wants). My wife and I were invited to a wedding this Saturday too, but I'm not going. Shannon's mom is going in my place and there both friends of the bride. This way Shannon can see her friend get married and Jacob can still have a special day.
Did I mention how stressed I am? It's hard to plan a birthday when you have a child that doesn't allow you to formulate a plan, which is difficult for me. But I've learned to accept how my son is and we'll just have to freestyle his birthday. It's harder for us, but it's easier on Jacob and after all, it is his birthday. And we just want him to enjoy it. I'll be sure to post about it this weekend.
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Birthdays are always hard for us too. It's always hard to think of a traditional birthday because we so don't do that for our son. No singing or big parties, we just do what he wants to do which is usually certain tv programs and computer time. As long as its a perfect day for him that's all what matters.ReplyDelete
That's pretty impressive that he made the spring break transition so smoothly back at school. Sounds like the help there is good.ReplyDelete
I see you so many places I go, I had to stop in. My son is 5 and his birthday is in a couple months. I'm trying to plan but he has no concept of time and so jE either ignores me or -if I ask him what he wants - he thinks it is right then and that he should get cake an sing! Your plan sounds wonderfully relaxing and mellow. I hope your son has a wonderful birthday!Replies
Thanks Karen. In the past, we've thought about planning a big party, but if Jacob gets frustrated he'll have a melt down. And if there's 20 kids and as many parents, we can't just leave. So we usually relax and let Jacob decide what he wants to do.Delete
Oh man, I hear you on the gifts!! I get a big, I don't know, when I ask Katie. I never know what to tell family and friends to get her, which is SO different from Ben who seems to carry around a list of what he wants at ALL times...haha. We have learned our lesson with birthday parties away from the house. Meltdown city. For a couple years we didn't have one at all, and just went as a family to a local indoor water park. The past 2 K has asked for parties, so we have invited a few friends to the house, since it's her ultimate comfort zone, and they have gone pretty well. Anywho, I hope he had a wonderful day!!!!ReplyDelete


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_Wide Sargasso Sea_; Rhys, Jean
I am helping a friend pack up the books in her study. His books are in another room, to be boxed separately. The house has been sold; the marriage has ended. I pull the dusty paperbacks off the shelves, six at a time. These are the books that defined us as university students at the end of the sixties, and as young women in the seventies. James Joyce's The Dubliners. Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch. Alice Munro's Dance of the Happy Shades.
"Oh my god, look how young she was!" we say, gaping over the jacket photo. And realize that, at the time, we were even younger. Now we are in our own turbulent fifties. Who could have imagined that this decade of our lives would see us so painfully shaking loose the commitments we made thirty years ago, in love and innocence?
These are the books we were. Having boxed and moved my own library a few times, I recognize them. Joan Didion Play it as it Lays and The White Album. Normal Mailer Armies of the Night. Early tomes of CanLit: Hugh McLennan, Marie Claire Blais, Al Purdy and Margaret Laurence. Judith Rossner, Looking for Mr. Goodbar. Lisa Altman, Annie Dillard.
Look at this: Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea. The book is in perfect shape, with the rest of her titles behind. The alphabetical order is approximate, not obsessive. The books are findable, but they've been pulled off the shelf and replaced a few times.
Virginia Woolf, the oeuvre. A Room of One's Own, our bible. Dusty and stiff, it hasn't been opened in a decade. Doris Lessing, The Four Gated City. I remember exactly where I was when I read that (Massachusetts, summer of 1971, 23 years old) and with whom (first husband) and how moody I got about it.
Diet for a Small Planet. The Moosewood Cookbook. The Pooh Cookbook. Elizabeth David, the boxed set. Those recipes were incredibly complicated, as I recall. Back to fiction. Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers. Here's a hardcover first edition, a John Buchan novel. "That's his," says my friend. Different box. Different collection, entirely, aside from Winnie the Pooh, Paddington Bear, and Paddle to the Sea.
Rarely are the his and her libraries amalgamated. His would be history, political biographies, books about war. Maybe D. H. Lawrence, the oeuvre. Aldous Huxley, the poetry of Yeats. Maybe Arthur Ransom, the whole Swallows and Amazon series. As these collections will go their separate ways, there's no chance of merger. How did we ever think we could get along with the opposite sex when we read such different books?
Our Bodies, Ourselves. Now that is a classic. The book looks brand new. I cannot say the same for our bodies. We have some sags and stress wrinkles. Is it possible that we have taken better care of the books we adored, than of our hearts and minds?
The French Lieutenant's Woman. Remember her standing on the cobb looking out to sea? So romantic.
Our ideals have been for a rough ride in the last three decades. We asked a lot of our lovers and of our friends too. Which books here even hinted at how much work it would be to make a family that was Totally Different from the one you grew up in? To live up to what these books preached, have jobs, be citizens, and non-authoritarian parents? And which books told you what was next when that work is mostly done, and things fall apart?
Filling the carton is never easy. Timothy Findley's Dinner Along the Amazon is a completely different size than Seamus Heaney's North and I end up with a crater in my carton. The books slide around, or they won't lie flat. I don't want them to get bent. Taping up the cardboard flaps, I wonder-- when will these books come out again? Freedom comes with less wall space. Is it time to edit the collection, and our notions with it? Fit it to the new reality?
No. Just time to reread.
Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea
W.W. Norton
Katherine Govier has published eight novels and three collections of short stories. Her last novel was Three Views of Chrystal Water (4th Estate, London, UK; Harper Collins, Toronto). Her previous novel, Creation, was a 'New York Times' Notable Book of 2003. Katherine has spoken at the Lahti International Writers' Reunion in Finland, at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto, at Cambridge University, Princeton University and at the Canadian Embassies in Tokyo, New Delhi and London. She has been President of PEN Canada and helped found the new program 'Canadian Journalism for Foreign Trained Writers', which is open to refugee and immigrant writers, at Sheridan College. Her work has been published in Dutch, Italian, Serbian and Chinese. Katherine spends her time in Toronto and in Canmore, Alberta, in the Rocky Mountains.
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The Books We Were -- Katherine Govier
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Friday, 16 December 2011
Christmas in London
I used a new Lili of the Valley image called "Moonlight Wishes". I think this is such a gorgeous stamp.As you know my Mum and I do love the "Man in the moon."
I stamped the image out and coloured it using my trusty ProMarkers. I love the holly backing papers I used they are SO festive!
I really enjoyed colouring this stamp I kept it very simple as I think it suits the drawing.
I added a die cut poinsettia (in red of course!) and a red foil star to give some depth. I also added a die cut fir branch. The matting card has lovely embossed holly leaves.
I finished off with a round sentiment and put some punch cut embossed holly leaves around the edge.
I am entering this card into the following Card Challenges;
ProMarkers Mega Christmas Challenge
Joanna Sheen's Christmas Wishes
Papertake Weekly challenge "I'm dreaming of a (your fave colour) Christmas" My colours are red and green
Paper Sundaes Anything Christmas
Party Time Tuesdays Red and Green Christmas
Papercrafting Journey; Christmas Challenge
Creative Craft Crew "Tis the Season"
Scrapbook Sisters Two colours My two colours are red and green.
I would also like to mention the lovely red ribbon give away on the Ribbon Girl Blog here. I would love to get my hands on that stash!
I had a wonderful evening out on Wednesday when I was treated by my Mum to a festive visit to see The English National Ballet perform The Nutcracker at the London Coliseum. I love London even more at Christmas. Despite the crowds everyone seems much more cheerful. I took the tube to The Embankment and got some fun photos.
I rather like the fuzziness of these shots, it was very dark and very cold so it was difficult to keep my camera still. There is a sense of bustling in this shot.
Embankment Tube Station is very close to the Strand and Trafalgar Square. I had a few minutes to spare I took a stroll with my camera and took some festive shots.
Shop fronts all decked out for Christmas
And here is the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square which is an annual gift to the UK from Norway for the help we gave them during the War.
And towering up above me in the dark was none less than....
.................Lord Nelson...
You can just make him out as a shadow at the top of the plinth. It was a very chilly night so I did not hang around for long and walked the few minutes to The Coliseum. I actually think I prefer The Coliseum to the Royal Opera House. It is smaller and more intimate and the seats are more comfortable!
It's a lovely old building and inside was heaving with excited people ready to see this wonderful ballet. The Nutcracker has to be one of my favourite ballets to see at this time of the year. It really has such a Christmas feel about it.
The weather has really changed here in the South of England over the last day, we even had sleet this morning and temperatures of -2oc are forecast over night. Much as I know how it does disrupt life here I can't help but also be humming...
"I'm dreaming of a white Christmas!"
I hope everyone is keeping warm and snug, this is the last weekend of work before we can finally greet Christmas. As we are all reminded .......Keep Calm (but Carry on having Fun!)
Billy is certainly managing to do so ;0)
Back soon,
Bye for now.
Jane x
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Gorgeous card, love the holly backing papers and the die cut star amd the image is so cuteReplyDelete
Lindsay xx
Thanks Lindsay this card was made for my dear Mum and Dad :0)ReplyDelete
Jane x
Another beauty Jane, I love the backing paper it really is gorgeous and of course the little poisettia is lovely. :)ReplyDelete
Your photos of a festive London are great, I really must try to get to London at Christmas some year! So glad you enjoyed the ballet. :)
Have a great weekend and stay warm, it's pouring here,
Vivienne x
Vivienne you must come over at Christmas it's such a great atmosphere. It's freezing tonight and a heavy frost is forecast here. Keep snug and have a wonderful weekend too.ReplyDelete
Jane x
Thank you for the lovely visit to London. I so enjoyed the Square and the gorgeous lit Tree. I can imagine the ballet in that beautiful building, what a lovely thing to see with your mum. Try to keep warm and snuggly this last weekend before the Big Day!!! xoRobin❤
I love your card.. love the sparkly gems on it too! Again, thank you for taking me around London with you.. I may never get there myself but would so love to visit.ReplyDelete
((hugs)), Teresa :-)
It was a very special festive evening Robin. Keep snug too!ReplyDelete
Jane x
Thanks Teresa you would love London. Glad you enjoyed your virtual visit !ReplyDelete
Jane x
Gorgeous card Ginny xReplyDelete
Thanks Ginny and hello!ReplyDelete
Jane x
Beautiful card (good luck with the competitions!) and beautiful photos!ReplyDelete
This is such a sweet card. I love the coloring on the cute image and I think the star is my favorite part of the card. Love it. Thanks for playing at Party Time Tuesdays this week.ReplyDelete
Beautiful card Jane. Thanks for joining us at PfP for our mega Christmas challenge, good luck.ReplyDelete
Tracy x
Hi Nelli, thanks, keep your fingers crossed for me!ReplyDelete
Jane x
Hi Renee, thanks for the challenge and for visiting me here,ReplyDelete
Jane x
Thanks TracyReplyDelete
Jane x!
Hello Jane! Thank you for sharing those wonderfully Christmassy London pictures....I do love all those night time city lights at this time of year. And another lovely card too, with lots of interesting images and textures. Hope you are having a wonderful weekend!ReplyDelete
Helen x
The lighting really makes it doesn't it Helen. I am feeling SO festive now and it was a wonderful treat.ReplyDelete
Jane x
Beautiful card! Thanks for playing along at CCC and good luck!ReplyDelete
Hugs, Ani
Lovely shots, Jane, thank you so much for sharing! Those pictures are full of that lovely Christmas spirit and I love all those lights and sparkle...ReplyDelete
Only week to go, I LOVE IT! I am trying to take it easy, and I am following Billy's lead: no stress!
Happy Saturday, dear friend!
Jane, I think this is my "newest favorite" card you've created! What a sweet little celestial scene!ReplyDelete
It just doesn't seem like the holidays until I hear music from "The Nutcracker." How fun that you were able to attend the ballet! Happy Holiday countdown to you and Billy, too! :o)
Thanks Ani and great to see you here,ReplyDelete
Jane x
Yes just one week left now Mia and Billy is leading the way in showing us how to behave at this time of the year! Enjoy your pressie wrapping and have a great rest of the weekend,ReplyDelete
Jane x
Thanks so kind of you Michele..my Mum and Dad did love it! I am still humming the music from The Nutcracker, it was a most magical evening,ReplyDelete
Jane x
This is so pretty Jane! And some beautifl pictures too!! Thank you for joining us at Papertake Weekly and hope to see you again :)ReplyDelete
Hey, how come Norway doesn't give the US a tree? Didn't we help too? Love the photos. I'm glad you had such a lovely evening at the ballet :)ReplyDelete
Thanks Lisa...London at Christmas is even more stunning than normal.ReplyDelete
Jane x
Linda I'm sure you could share a branch or two with us ;0).ReplyDelete
The ballet was a perfect festive visual feast and the music...wonderful!
Jane x
Great photos and great card! Thanks so much for joining our 'Anything Christmas' challenge at Paper Sundaes.ReplyDelete
Thanks Jenny, glad you enjoyed your visit here!ReplyDelete
Jane x
stunning card jane.i love the image and your colouring and design is beautiful :DReplyDelete
thanks for joining us in our mega christmas challenge at PFP :D
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Thanks Coops, have a very Merry Christmas, nearly there now!ReplyDelete
Jane x
A beautiful card, thanks for joining the Joanna Sheen monthly challenge.ReplyDelete
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Thanks Wendy, the challenge has been great fun.ReplyDelete
Jane x
Thanks so much for leaving a comment; I really enjoy reading every single one of them.
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growing need in Israel for mature mentors for lonely children, Libby Reichman
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Brothers/Big Sisters. Founded in the United States over 100 years ago, it is the
oldest, largest and most effective youth mentoring initiative in the
world.Reichman launched the Israeli affiliate in June 2003 and modeled
it after the American program. At first, she worked without a salary and
invested her own money to even print out fliers. She started fundraising and was
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"We no longer nowadays salute 'Nature' with the unhesitating confidence invested in the concept by Audubon or by writers such as William Wordsworth, another of Bewick's numerous admirers. And yet Diana Donald's impressive recent study, The Art of Thomas Bewick, demonstrates the surprising resilience of the American visitor's assessment. At the end of her scrupulous inquiry into the political, religious, and cultural circumstances in which Bewick's work was undertaken, the Northumbrian natural historian still stands, however we interpret him, as an innovator rather than an imitator, and as an artist who worked, as much as any artist can, from freshly won experience rather than by cleaving to cultural precedent."—New York Review of Books
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From University of Rochester Athletics
The University of Rochester stormed back from a 14-point fourth quarter deficit to post a 61-58 victory over Thomas More College in the championship game of the Chuck Resler Invitational at the Louis Alexander Palestra.
Rochester entered the game ranked #21 by D3hoops.com and #22 by the WBCA. The Yellowjackets were among Others Receiving Votes by Women's DIII News. Thomas Moore was #3 by the WBCA, #5 by D3hoops.com, and #2 by Women's DIII News.
Al Leslie and Lauren Deming scored 20 points apiece for Rochester (2-0). Leslie added 11 rebounds, five assists, two blocked shots, and three steals. Deming had nine rebounds and one block.
Abby Owings led Thomas More with 19 points, four rebounds, and two steals in 34 minutes. Madison Temple scored 14 points with eight rebounds, five assists, and two steals in 34 minutes.
Those four were on the All-Tournament Team (Deming was the MVP) along with Ali Spayde of Calvin College and Erin Risner of Capital University. Capital defeated Calvin, 63-55, for third place.
Leslie and Deming did most of their scoring in the fourth quarter. Thomas More held a 51-37 lead through three periods. Leslie scored six early points in the final quarter, but a putback by Emily Schultz gave the Saints (1-1) a 56-43 lead with 7:08 to play. It would be TMC's last field goal of the game.
Rochester ran off 11 straight points: a fast break by Leslie, then a putback by her. Brenna James sank a three-pointer from left wing, Leslie sank 1 of 2 from the line, and Deming hit a trey from the top of the key. That got Rochester within 56-54 with 3:50 left. Temple made two foul shots (58-54) 30 seconds later.
After a series of turnovers at each end, Leslie caught a pass in the lane and pitched it out to Deming at the top of the key. She sank her second trey of the game, making it 58-57, with 1:58 left.
Both teams missed chances. Temple's three-point shot was off the mark with 47 seconds left. Shelby Rupp rebounded, but Leslie took the ball away with 40 seconds left. After a UR timeout, Deming sank a three-pointer from the right of the circle with 18.9 left. That put Rochester ahead, 60-58.
Taylor Jolly missed a trey for TMC and Temple grabbed the miss. Schultz missed a layup and Leslie fought for the rebound. She drew a foul, then made one of two from the line with four seconds to play. She missed the second shot. Owings rebounded, rushed to just shy of midcourt, but her desperation shot was off the mark as the horn sounded.
For a good portion of the game, though, very little was off the mark for the Saints. TMC pulled away from a 14-14 tie in the second quarter. A 15-6 surge by the Saints put them ahead, 29-20. Owings scored seven of the 11. It was 29-22 at halftime. In the third quarter, they kept at it. Seven points from Temple, a trey from Owings, and a baseline 12 footer by Shelby Rupp pushed the guests ahead, 41-26, midway through the third. The lead grew to 17, 49-32, on a steal and layup by Owings.
Through those first three quarters, Rochester shot a collective 11 of 43 (25.6%). In the decisive fourth quarter, UR shot 57.1% (8 of 14, including 4-4 outside the arc after 1-16 through the first three periods).
The loss for Thomas More was the first in the regular season for the Saints since November 23, 2012.


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While the Pixar / Disney marriage seems to be diluting the quality of movies produced by our friends in Emeryville, the infusion of fresh blood into the Disney side is resulting in better animated films from the Mouse House.
A perfect example of this is "Frozen" — a traditional cartoon made from the standard Disney template but with an energy and creativity that we used to associate with Pixar. As a bonus, the film is also jam-packed with a soundtrack of songs in the classic Disney style, making the whole package tons of fun.
Idina Menzel is the voice of Elsa, a princess with unwanted magical powers that let her command snow and ice. Estranged from her younger sister (the voice of Kristen Bell), the siblings have to reconcile in order to reverse the permanent winter that has settled upon the kingdom. Adventure, humor and lots of crooning happen along the way.
This is the kind of movie you will enthusiastically watch with your kids and then find yourself humming its tunes days later. Standard cartoon peril makes this best for kids 5 years old and up. (PG: action and rude humor). 1 hour and 42 minutes.
Ratings (out of 4 stars):
Overall: 3½ stars
Kids: 4 stars
Teens: 2½ stars
Adults: 3 stars
Seniors: 3 stars
Should you watch it? Yes — animated filmmaking at the top of its game.
"Saving Mr. Banks"
In contrast to "Frozen," this film was a disappointment. Much of that frustration stems with how this film was marketed, leaving viewers to believe they would settle in to see an upbeat look at the antics required to pull off making "Mary Poppins" into a film back in 1961. And judging by the trailers you'd think Tom Hanks, playing Walt Disney, was the star of the film.
But instead, this is secretly two films in one. Half of it is set in Hollywood with Emma Thompson playing Mary Poppins' disapproving author, P.L. Travers, who only reluctantly agreed to turn her children's novel into a movie. And the other half is set in early 20th century Australia, where we see through young Travers' eyes how her alcoholic father (Colin Firth) devolves and takes the family with him.
While all of the actors do good work (though Hanks gets inadequate screen time), the repeated flashbacks to the Australian saga create a dark underpinning to the entire film. This not only saps energy from the movie, but it made me feel like I had been sold a pig in a cinematic poke. This isn't a nostalgic retelling of Hollywood moviemaking lore, it's a "serious" film about addiction and broken families.
Based on the wishful thinking of the Disney marketers, I made the mistake of watching this film with my 10-year-old daughter. She was bored by the Australian half of the movie (as was I) and she had a hard time getting the connection between these disparate tales.
Not appropriate for kids; teens will be thoroughly uninterested. Seniors might have a deeper appreciation. (PG-13: addiction). 2 hours and 5 minutes.
Ratings (out of 4 stars):
Overall: 2 stars
Kids: N/A
Teens: 1 star
Adults: 2 stars
Seniors: 3 stars
Should you watch it? No — a faux children's film that will bore and depress.
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- Her topic is "Having It All"
- Those here have a career and not just a job.
- To be here we've given up commitments.
Our careers are just one part of our busy lives. 50% of our lives are spent a work. We need work-life balance. It is fuzzy where work ends and life begins. You can think of our lives as being divided into three areas: family, career and volunteering. Some people have clear borders between these areas. King has blurred the borders of her life. Flexibility has a price and may mean readjusting multiple schedules. What works for each person will be different. And priorities will need to reassessed, because things change.
Having it all means successfully negotiating the borders. Can we arrange our priorities into a fe pew major categories? Can we then define the borders between them?
Josh Maleeff - His topic is "Virtual Learning/Training"
The training room is becoming less common. What changed? Technologies have changed to allow elearning. If you remove travel, you should save time and money. With elearning there is the temptation of having other distractions. Technology can be a great tool for enhancing learning. With a webinar, keep it small and follow best practices. For example, engage people regularly (every four minutes). How do you engage and motivate learners? Gamification is one option. Two types of gamification: structural and content.
Maleeff noted that our conference badges have game elements (those ribbons). He then pointed to a element on LinkedIn that is a game element and has gotten people to further complete their profiles. Yes, there are both easy and advanced ways of implementing gaming elements.
Heather Piwowar - from ImpactStory.org - We cannot be satisfied in how people build on our digital content. We need to build better tools for discover and learning. We need better infrastructure.
What allowed us to build skyscrapers? Elevators. What are the elevators of the information world? She suggests open borders on our data/information (open licenses, etc.). It will take a while to understand what we need.
Sarah Glassmeyer - Professional Communication - It is something that we do every day, in words, dress, etc. People think she's provocative, but really she's a human cat. She is provocative because she tells the truth. Truth is a funny thing. We say that we value it, but we act differently than that. When you have to speak up and tell the truth, you are disrupting the current status quo of the situation. We must speak up and be honest, if we're going to improve.
"I just have a bad case of I can't shut the f***-up-itis."
Her rules for her self:
- Act, not react.
- It is okay to just drop the mic and just leave.
- Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean that they are wrong.
- Own your sh*t.
- F*ck 'em if they can't take a joke.
Yes, you have emotions and have blood in the game. And yes, it hurts when people don't get along.
Addendum (6/16/2014): Sarah has posted the text of her talk at http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=1291.
Addendum (6/16/2014): Sarah has posted the text of her talk at http://sarahglassmeyer.com/?p=1291.


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The first time I push-mowed my yard, dug in the beds and stretched over ladders to prune tall trees and shrubs this season, I was reminded shortly afterward of my age, but also how I didn't properly work out in my yard. Gardeners need not only warm up their muscles prior to vigorous work in their yard, but also need to practice proper methods for bending, lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling when doing yard work.
Carrying. Your arms, not your hands and fingers, should be the main source of power when moving objects. Carry loads close to the torso to protect back, arms and shoulders. Avoid carrying heavy loads like watering cans with one hand. Make several trips carrying lighter loads rather than one monumental effort.
Pushing. Keep abdominal muscles pulled in for back protection. Use your leg strength to help arms and shoulders when pushing a heavy load in a cart or wheelbarrow. Keep arms straight and knees slightly bent so that exertion is from the center of your body.
Dragging/Pulling. Keep knees flexed and back slightly rounded when pulling heavy tarps and the like. Avoid twisting torso when pulling something behind you.
Bending. Place feet small distance apart with one foot slightly in front of the other and with torso inclined forward from the hip. Avoid over-stressing knee joints and rounding back.
Lifting. When lifting anything heavy, always center yourself in front of the object. Hold the load close to your torso for better balance and back protection. Try not to tense muscles prior to a lift. Place one foot slightly in front of the other and place body weight over forward leg for better balance.


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For myself, I have deliberately made my bedside bookshelf short, so as to avoid teetering piles of half-read books. Current contents are:
1) 'Music in the Castle of Heaven' by John Eliot Gardiner. This has to be the best general overview of Bach's life and works ever published. Gardiner conducts performances of Bach that are about as 'authentic' (given that of course we have no actual contemporary recordings) as they could be, thus enabling us to hear the works with almost the freshness and surprise with which people heard their first performances. Unlike so many 'serious' books about music, which proclaim with pride their 'freedom' from 'technical jargon', this book is not afraid to use some; it assumes the reader has some knowledge of music and wants to learn more.
2) 'The Motive for Metaphor' by Henry Seiden. This is a collection of very brief — two or three pages each — essays on individual poems or poets written from the point of view of a psychoanalyst. Ever since Freud himself, psychoanalysts have acknowledged that many of their insights have been anticipated by poetry. It is a much less demanding book than that description might suggest; indeed I'd have preferred something a bit deeper.
3) Η Μενεξεδένια Πολιτεία (The Purple City) by Άγγελος Τερζάκης. A novel, set mostly in Athens, about an unsuccessful lawyer and his family. It was a present from a friend, but recommended by another friend, whose other recommendations I have not usually liked. But reading it is of course good for my Greek, and I am less than half-way through; let us hope it improves.
4) The Summer 2015 issue of 'In Other Words', the journal for literary translators. My delay in reading it is not entirely due to it lateness in reaching me; I read the thing more out of duty than for pleasure. An unwieldy parasitic superstructure of 'theory' has been erected on top of the real business of literary translation by people who write dull articles and who (most of them) can't translate for toffee. There is usually little of interest or use to actual translators, but there are sometimes exceptions, not least on the rare occasions they deign to publish something of mine.
5) 'An Introduction to Music' by David Boyden. This is the textbook we used when I was training to be a school music teacher. A general history of so-called 'Classical' music from the middle ages to the early twentieth century, with some theory and consideration of things like sonata form. Not quite as superficial as the title suggests.
6) Marianne Moore's Complete Poems. There are about 250 of them and, poetry being the single malt of literature, I am reading them at the rate of just one a day. Eliot thought highly of her, but I find her pretty impenetrable, mainly because her poems seem to rely on special knowledge, usually something she has read. The notes sometimes give details of this reading, but poems really have to grab you before you look at the notes. I shall persevere; she's supposed to be good and it's probably my fault I don't much like her stuff.
7) 'My Teaching' by Jacques Lacan, translated into English by David Macey. This is supposed to be Lacan's most accessible work, which doesn't bode well for his others. I'm never sure about Lacan: most of the time he seems to be, like so many other 20th century French intellectuals, a pretentious bullshit artist. But reading him one has the suspicion there might be something there. At his best, he seems to be saying opaquely and gnomically (perhaps poetically?) exactly the same things that Freud said with admirable clarity a hundred years ago.
Oh, and then there's my Kobo, which is an Amazon-free version of the Kindle. I keep putting more and more stuff in it, mostly downloaded free from Project Gutenberg. Among other things I'm reading Rebecca West's novel 'The Judge': her analysis of the thoughts and behaviour of her characters is almost as detailed (and sometimes almost as tedious) as Proust's.


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Bruce Ellery is the founder of Chelgrave Contracting and he has extensive experience in the labour hire industry. Bruce is an electrician by trade and, though he first started working as a contractor, it wasn't long before he moved on to supervisory and then management roles. It is this ground-level knowledge and experience, combined with his strong work ethic and drive to succeed that gave Bruce a competitive advantage when he established Chelgrave in 1979. Bruce quickly positioned Chelgrave as one of the premier suppliers of trades and related services in Australia, a reputation that has only grown and strengthened over the years. As Managing Director, Bruce is instrumental in shaping the reputation and direction of the company and he is still hands-on today.


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Texans' Johnson, Watt won't 'pack it in' despite lousy record
The fog of losing hasn't dimmed the brilliance of Andre Johnson and J.J. Watt. The worse this off-the-rails would-be Super Bowl season becomes for the Texans, the better and more admirable the 11th-year wide receiver and the third-year defensive end have come to appear by comparison.
A 2-8 record says the Texans are losers. A ninth consecutive defeat Sunday with 1-9 Jacksonville visiting Reliant Stadium would make them the AFC worst's team, based on that head-to-head tiebreaker. But Johnson and Watt can't be held accountable for these dire, desperate straits. Both are going to the Pro Bowl again. Both have done their part and more to lead the Texans where they were supposed to go.
They just haven't found many followers.
Ask coach Gary Kubiak about his elder statesman Johnson, and he says: "Andre is just a rock in everything he does and so competitive in everything he does. I always tell players when training camp starts the examples of how to do things right are in the room, (and) it's your job to go find them. It doesn't take long to find that guy."
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Still getting the job done
A year ago, the Texans were 9-1. Now they are 2-8. But neither receiver Andre Johnson nor defensive end J.J. Watt has fallen nearly so far personally. Watt's dropoff in sacks and passes defensed is seemingly directly related to the fact the Texans have spent most of the season playing from behind:
Andre Johnson
Year G Yds. Rec. Avg. TD Lng.
2013 10 966 72 13.4 5 62t
2012 10 870 60 14.5 3 60t
J.J. Watt
Year G Sacks TFL QB hits PD FF
2013 10 81/215 30 4 3
2012 10 111/220 24 11 0
TFL-Tackles for loss; PD-Passes defensed; FF-Fumbles forced.
Ask defensive coordinator Wade Phillips about his young lion Watt, and he says: "J.J. is a phenom, just a fantastic player with a great attitude. He's everything as advertised. You can see it every week. There's not anybody more focused on football, especially during the season, that I've been around in a long time."
Game remains fun
To be sure, Johnson and Watt are hating every minute of the losing. You see it in their eyes. You hear it in their voices. But Johnson and Watt aren't hating playing football. They aren't even hating football practice.
"The game is always fun for me," Johnson said. "I can't speak for anybody else."
No, he could be speaking for Watt.
"It's a tough situation we're in right now, but you can't pack it in," Watt said. "You have no choice but giving everything you have on every single play. As soon as the game starts, it's a football game. I treat every one of them the same. I'm going to play with intensity and have fun, enjoy myself, do what I do.
"After (a loss), then Monday and Tuesday, I'm frustrated, annoyed, angry. Sunday is the chance to for me to go out and do what I love, play the game I love, regardless of our record. It's an awesome opportunity to play in the NFL."
While Kubiak contends, "I think they'd be the first ones to tell you that it's all about the team and that's what they care about," Johnson and Watt aren't naive. They are playing for their legacy, too, never mind their livelihoods. It may not be about the glory or the money for either of them, but such ancillary benefits do matter.
Johnson has enjoyed one of the best careers by a wide receiver, and the Texans' collapse so late in his football life won't tarnish that. With 10 catches against the Jaguars' mediocre pass defense Sunday, he can reach 900, tying Marvin Harrison for the fastest to reach that milestone. With 566 yards over the remaining six games, he will move into the top 15 all time.
Keenum provides spark
Johnson's recent four-game partnership with Case Keenum has provided something of a new lease on his football life, helping him rediscover the joy of scoring touchdowns. He and Keenum have combined for five, which are two more than he had a year ago with the Texans sitting pretty at 9-1. He had caught only six TD passes in 23 games over the previous two seasons.
It's a tad late for him to enjoy much collective upside, though. Johnson is under contract with the Texans through 2014, which he pointed out after the team's latest loss, leading to speculation that his bleakly limited options are weighing on his mind. But it seems unlikely he will be given the freedom to go elsewhere, meaning the odds favor his playing his entire career for a franchise that never reached the Super Bowl.
It happened to Elvin Bethea. The Hall of Fame defensive end was stuck being an Oiler through thick - two AFC Championship Games - and thin, which included back-to-back 1-13 disasters in 1972-73 plus a 2-14 thud in 1983, his 16th and final autumn.
Watt, however, will have choice in this age of free agency. His rookie contract expires at the end of the 2014 season, and after the recent 0-8 run, he might be less than enthusiastic about extending his tenure with the Texans, although the team is certain to make every effort to lock him up long-term over the winter.
As a pro, Watt, 24, hasn't known what entrenched losing feels like. In his first two seasons, he was 2-for-2 in playoff appearances while experiencing 22 regular-season victories. For Johnson, it's a been-there-done-that déjà vu experience. He suffered through a 2-14 bottoming out in 2005 and didn't break even for the first time until the Texans went 8-8 in his fifth season.
"I know it's very difficult on him," Kubiak said. "It's difficult for everybody, but for Andre … he's always had individual success as a player, but he got a taste of what it's like to play in January and play in those big games. There's no substitute for that. So that makes its even tougher for him."
Numbers don't lie
Johnson and Watt have no choice except to keep to plugging away and padding their personal stats. Johnson, 32, is second in the NFL in receptions with 72 and fourth in yards receiving with 966. Watt, in turn, leads the league in tackles for loss with 15 and quarterback hits with 30, eight more than anybody else has.
His 81/2 sacks and four pass deflections are more than respectable totals as well, paling only in comparison with what he managed during his monster season a year ago and his stated goal of reaching 20 of each in 2013. It's not going to happen. The Texans, having trailed far more than they have played from in front, have hardly given him a chance to make his numbers.
But for the record, he is not complaining.
"I don't think it's harder to play well, because any time you're competing, you want to win," Watt said. "As a competitor, it's not hard to play. When you're out there playing, you're not thinking about your record or anything like that. You're thinking about winning."
Games or individual battles? Under the circumstances, it's likely become more the latter for him and Johnson.


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