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|Holy Innocents Church, NYC, threatened with closure
Now it is being reported [by Christine Niles] that Fr. Wylie has had his faculties in NY revoked and he is being sent home [to South Africa].Traditionalists are in an uproar across the Internet, and see this as a complete injustice against a good and holy priest and a proof of how they are persecuted by the "Church of Nice", a term coined by one of their heroes, Michael Voris. They see themselves as loyal Catholics who just want to worship God in the same way the Church has done for 2000 years, and it is the evil, demonically inspired Church hierarchy who is conspiring to destroy them. This is seen loud and clear in the comments left on Archbold's post.
A few examples:
Here in Milwaukee we suffered under the reign of the blowhard comedian, Timothy Dolan, who seemed to prefer being looked upon as Santa Claus rather than a Catholic Bishop. Now he is in New York, and I can only pity my fellow Catholics who have to sit there and endure him.
The Pseudo-Cardinal Dolan is a joke and the bishops support pro-abortion organizations and pro-sodomy organizations with parish money. They are frauds and evil, Satan's spawn, except for the Traditional priests, like above. God Bless him. And Dolan's just a pathetic pillsbury boy, a "leader" in America who is destroying the Catholic Church from within, intentionally--like Fr. Oko writes, in his Homoheresy Report, for the Vatican.
Dolan just glad-hands abortionists and Satanic sodomites like Biden and Obama, acting like Mortal Sin is not "mortal"---just a joke. There is no Good and Evil in Dolon's America. Satanic Ethics are better than Thomistic Theology which he threw out.
There is no God, really, is there, Dolan, and Jesus Christ was just a lover of everything and all behaviors. He loved sin. Marx and his buddies (Dolan's buddies, too) are smarter than God.
Dolan is part of the Postmodernist "Kill God" group. He should be dumped by the Church---but the guy at top may be no better. We will see.
All we can do is as Card. Dolan told the Muslims, "keep the faith!" Even when Card. Dolan doesn't, or any other pastor of the Church for that matter--dare I say even the supreme pastor.
Karen Hall
We seem to be in an era where believing and teaching what the Church has believed and taught for 2,000 years is now frowned upon by ... the Church. I do NOT know what to do with this. Will I eventually be kicked out of Catholicism for being too Catholic?
Alphonsus_JrThere was one person who did not agree with the majority opinion, and voiced his differences thusly:
Where's the news? Dolan is a proven wolf, yet another shameless Judas Council scumbag.
JosephtheworkerHe was, of course, attacked by the others, but the one who really came out swinging was Christine Niles, our favorite Michael Voris acolyte. Her response in part:
You misunderstand. I am not a dissenter or a liberal. Think the opposite. But to rail on in a homily about schism doesn't help Catholics in their holy struggle to sanctity the world or to intensify their prayer and interior life and sacrifice. To do so is to give in to weakness and to grow schism. It nurses resentment.
A great priest calls for great sacrifice from his parish. He doesn't give in to whining. He encourages a sporting spirit among his flock in the spirit of the very early Christians.
A smiling, stout "we can work with this mess You've given to us, as You wish Lord! Thank You for the confidence You have in Your struggling children!"
Not a nanosecond of doubt, despair, complaint, worry. The homily, in the excerpt given, was just a big whiny complaint, in my opinion. It was not the stuff of hardy Catholicism.
Christine L. NilesChristine's talking points are taken directly from her leader, Michael Voris. Notice how Niles dismisses Joseph's call to not give in to "weakness and schism" or "nurse resentment" but instead be willing to sacrifice. She declares this humble and submissive attitude as a sign that Joseph is somehow in league with the evil Archdiocese of New York ("assuming" he is working for them) or he is a "progressive troll pretending to be orthodox."
Let me ask you something, Joseph, since you seem intent on defending the archdiocese here:
How does it sit with you that a gay-friendly parish like St. Francis Xavier Church in Manhattan (not far from Holy Innocents), whose pastor noted just last week in his bulletin that the Church "should evolve" on the issue of same-sex relations, and which just had a celebratory Mass for "21 years of LGBT ministry," complete with a rainbow flag runner up to the High Altar, gets NO INTERFERENCE from the archdiocese for its heterodoxy, while it swiftly brings down the iron fist on a good priest who spent 5 minutes mildly calling for justice and charity for the Traditional community at Holy Innocents?
If you're ok with that, then I will assume you either work for the archdiocese, or you're a progressive troll pretending to be orthodox.
Niles then picks up another Voris talking point when she brings up the "gay friendly St. Francis Xavier parish." Voris, with Christine Niles' help, has started talking points against the NY Archdiocese that have spread around the internet, and together they have started an active campaign against the parish of St. Francis Xavier in Manhattan.
I freely admit that Niles and Voris are correct when they say that St. Francis Xavier Church is a very gay friendly. The church is in Chelsea, a large homosexual community in NYC, and has an active LGBT ministry. They marched in the infamous New York City Gay Pride parade for many years proudly carrying their church banner, as seen here:
Voris and Niles are making the case that the fact that this "pro homosexual" church is being allowed to stay open while Holy Innocents, a church filled with good, faithful and traditional Catholics who only want to worship God as the Church has always done, is proof that the evil Cardinal Dolan really hates faithful Catholics and wants nothing more in life than to destroy them.
In his efforts to prove Cardinal Dolan's bias and even hatred against traditional Catholics, Voris makes the absolutely false claim that Cardinal Dolan supports the gay and lesbian lifestyle. To make his case, Voris points to a video which he claims shows His Eminence specifically cheering on the LGBT ministry of St. Xavier Church in 2010. Voris has made this charge many times against Cardinal Dolan in the past.
Voris brought up this false charge again with an interview he did with a parishioner from Holy Innocents (whom I have never personally met) on his "Mic'd Up" program. Below is the video of the interview.
Voris begins to talk about Cardinal Dolan and St. Francis Xavier at about the 13:00 mark in this video. Voris prefaces his remarks by stating that there is a "radical animosity" by the Church authorities against anything traditional.
"It's beyond disturbing. We have reported on these things for a number of years and many other people have reported many more years than we have. We have the advantage of having television so it's sometime in this day and age a better form of communication in getting the message across. But the idea that there is just this radical animosity towards anything in tradition, even . . . All of this stuff came out . . . Cardinal Dolan went to St. Francis Xavier parish three years ago. The parish videotaped the event. It was the . . . They just spent $10 million fixing it all up and they invited him to come say the Mass. He is at the Mass. Many of our viewers may not remember this or may not know it, but he goes to the Mass. And at the Mass, in the middle of the Mass, they start bringing up all the different parish groups, the Alcoholics Anonymous and this and that. Those are all fine works . . . people need help and that's wonderful. Then they brought up and introduced to him the LGBT group and said, 'The Parish lesbian and gay group.' And they brought them up, and he sat there in the chair. He had his glasses in his hand like this. He was slouched over. We've got the video. He leans over. They make the announcement and he goes like this [shaking his glasses in his hand], gives them the big handshake, big cheer."At this point, they switch to the actual video showing this moment. Following is my explanation of this video from a previous post entitled, "Michael Voris Declares War On Timothy Cardinal Dolan" which you can read HERE:
At 5:30 to 6:00 in the [original] video, you will see the "Catholic Lesbian Group" and "Gay Catholics Men Group" being introduced. The camera is focused on Cardinal Dolan who looks very serious. His face lightens up considerably when the speaker says, "These groups helped LGBT Catholics return to the sacraments and find an adult place in the Church of their youth." That is what Cardinal Dolan was "cheering", the fact that these men and women had returned to the sacraments, which would imply that they have left their sinful lifestyle. Right after this we see Cardinal Edward Egan, former archbishop of New York, praising St. Francis Xavier Church. Why doesn't Voris attack Cardinal Egan as well?
|St. Francis Xavier Church, NYC
After the video of Cardinal Dolan is shown, Voris then goes on a rant, designed to turn Catholics against His Eminence:
"Can you imagine St. Athanasius, Bishop Sheen, who is buried under the Cathedral, St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, standing there and giving a little cheer to people who have perverted sex and are placing their immortal souls in danger? [Voris then gets apoplectic] It's mind boggling how far off the tracks the Church of Nice, the Establishment Church has gone. It's beyond the pale. "The interviewee responds to this rant by agreeing and supporting the agenda of turning Catholics against Church hierarchy by basically blaming the Church for all of the evils in our society:
"Absolutely. This entire incompetence and irresponsibility - it wouldn't be so perilous for souls except for the fact that we're living in this, as you say, this toxic environment. There are almost as many abortions in the City of New York as there are live births. We're witnessing State sponsored attacks on the family and the Federal Government trying to get involved in all aspects of our personal lives including the education of our children. Where is the Church? Where is the hierarchy? They're missing in action."The truth is that Cardinal Dolan, as I have previously reported, is a board member of Courage, the Catholic ministry which helps gays and lesbians turn away from the homosexual lifestyle, and His Eminence has many times spoken out in support of this ministry. In addition, one week after appearing at St. Francis Xavier and "cheering them on" as Voris would have you believe, Cardinal Dolan forbid the people of that parish to march in the Gay Pride Parade carrying the banner of their church. Somehow, neither Voris nor Christine Niles ever seem to mention these facts.
Further, Cardinal Dolan has spoken out many times about the dangers of same sex marriage and abortion. He has celebrated Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral with Msgr. Philip Reilly, the "pro life apostle" as we in New York call him, whose entire ministry has been to stop abortion. There are many other examples I could give, all of which Voris and his supporters conveniently disregard.
Unfortunately, as I pointed out, many Catholics bloggers and Catholics in general have bought into this deception by Michael Voris.
From A Blog for Dallas Catholics talking about the removal of Father Wylie:
It seems Cardinal Dolan and/or someone in the Archdiocese of NY really, really did not like that sermon. But sodomizing St. Francis Xavier parish is OK. I am certain Holy Innocents will be shut down, Dolan seems to have little love for the TLM.From The Eponymous Flower:
There's no word as to what plans there are for St. Francis Xavier parish and its amazing outreach programs, and "loyal opposition" to the Archbishop and Catholic teaching. At this point, the Cardinal seems enthusiastic about what's happening there, and less so about what's happening elsewhere, if these closures are any indication.Les Femmes - The Truth posts one sentence and an interview Christine Niles did with the same Paul McGregor:
Pray Holy Innocents Stays Open and St. Francis Xavier Closes!From a blog entitled, "East Side Hunky's Klobasa Club":
Maybe Dolan would spend more time keeping a solidly Catholic parish open and closing down the Michael Sam wannabees at the sodomite parish of St Francis Xavier?So why close Holy Innocents, which is filled with "obedient and loyal" Catholics and leave St. Francis Xavier open when that church is so lax in following Church teaching? Don't such actions reveal a true bias on the part of Cardinal Dolan?
In contrast, those in the Latin Mass community at Holy Innocents pride themselves on being good, strong Catholics. If the worst happens and Holy Innocents is closed, they will not leave the Church but, for the most part, will find other Catholic churches where they can practice their faith.
But, you say, people have also worked hard to make Holy Innocents their home where they can feel safe and secure, giving of their own time and treasure. Why should they be turned out when all they have done is try to worship God as best they can? Why should they be "thrown to the wolves", as Father Wylie characterized it? The answer: for the same reason Our Lord allowed men to destroy His physical body - for the salvation of mankind.
Holy Innocents and St. Francis Xavier, even though they are both Catholic churches within city blocks of one another, are worlds apart and hardly seem like the same religion. Those who attend Holy Innocents would never go near St. Francis Xavier and vice versa. Is this the work of the Holy Spirit, that Catholics be divided into their own little churches that have absolutely nothing to do with one another? Or are we instead to be part of the one Mystical Body of Christ whose mission in life is to spread the saving message of the Gospel? How can we go out to the world with the message of Jesus Christ when we can't even agree among ourselves? Catholics are so busy fighting among themselves and with Church hierarchy that they give little notice to the spiritually wounded in their own midst much less those outside of the Church.
So how can we unite Catholics with Catholics? Michael Voris and his supporters would have you believe that Catholics who will not accept orthodox Catholic teaching, in this case the teaching on homosexuality, are not even Catholic and should be cast out and not allowed back unless and until they come to their senses. Let them lose their church and be thrown to the wolves. They don't deserve a church.
What does this have to do with closing Holy Innocents and keeping "sodomy loving" St. Francis Xavier open? Everything.
As Jesus told us in John 3:17, "For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." Our Lord would often go out of his way to search for the outcasts, as He did with the Samaritan woman at the well who was not allowed into "proper" society. There is no doubt in my mind that if Jesus Christ were physically walking this earth today, He would be at St. Francis Xavier Church in Manhattan, among many other places, reaching out to those in need. He would not barricade Himself off in His own world as so many of us have done.
However, as referenced above, when Jesus Christ came to earth He gave a completely opposite command to His followers. Our Lord did lead us in an exodus out of sin, but in a total reversal of the command given to the Israelites, Our Lord told us to "go into the world and preach the Gospel to all creatures." He led the way by doing this Himself, and was condemned for His actions by the Pharisees. Many were scandalized when Christ allowed his feet to be washed by the prostitute (thought to be Mary Magdalene). The Pharisee who had invited Jesus to his house said, "If Jesus were a prophet, he would know that the woman touching him is a sinner!" We need to ask ourselves if we are more like Jesus or the Pharisee.
"What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.
|St. John the Baptist Church, NYC, threatened with closure
|St. Michael's Church, NYC, threatened with closure
I believe that Our Lord is using the closing of churches to bring us spiritually and physically closer together and make us a stronger tool for evangelization to our fallen away brothers and sisters and those outside the Church. With so many souls in the balance, we cannot afford our petty differences and grievances against one another. We are like people fighting with each other on the river bank while others are drowning in the river. We have to stop fighting with one another and turn our attention to those who are drowning.
There is actually a higher percentage of Catholics in New York City than at any time in our history. In the borough of Manhattan, which is where Holy Innocents and St. Francis Xavier are located, 52.5% of the 1.6 million Manhattanites are Catholic. Yet, Catholic churches are being closed because the vast majority do not practice their religion.
New York City, along with much of the United States, is missionary territory. Our Lord said He did not come to condemn people and neither should we. We need to recognize sin for what it is, but just as a doctor sees his patients separately from their diseases, so we should see people separately from their sin. It is not our job to stand in judgment of them. It is our job to bring them to Christ. I believe that the church closings are going to force a lot of people to venture out to places where they would not otherwise go to spread the message of Jesus Christ, just as tragic circumstances motivated Catholics in the 19th century to leave everything familiar and, as a result, Catholicism was brought to America.
One of the main reasons I love going to Holy Innocents is the great reverence shown towards the Blessed Sacrament and the prayerful attention given during Mass. The servers and priests all genuflect each and every time they pass in front of the Tabernacle. During Mass, when their hands are not otherwise occupied, they hold them in prayer. Most people in the pews follow their example. People come to Mass and prayerfully participate in the entire Mass, completely focused on what is happening at the altar. They are truly aware that the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ is being re-presented to the Father in heaven.
If the worse happens and Holy Innocents is closed, the people there need to take what they have learned and share it with others. Like Abraham, the father of the faithful, they will be sent from their spiritual home to what may seem to be a hostile world, but it is a world that desperately needs what they have to give. I do hope they will go to places like St. Francis Xavier and lovingly and compassionately share their great love for Christ and His Church.
Realize that this is not your fight, but that Jesus Christ fights for you, and therefore no matter what happens, you will be the victor. But this will only be true if you follow our gentle and compassionate Savior who said He came not to judge but to save mankind.
The Lord had said to Abram, "Go from your country, your people and your father's household to the land I will show you."Hebrews 11:8-10:
By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.


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For the longest time people belived that game og golf belongs to the wealthiest of us. The situation has changed and more and more children are taking up this sport.
How tall and heavy your child is adds up to the measurments of weight and lenght for his or hers firts golf club. Same as with adults comfort levele is of utmost importance. It must be a set of clubs that offers a proper grip.
Here are some tips
Woods are the longest golf clubs and are used when long hits are required. To hit a ball as far as possible you need wood. It helps with distance but it s not accurate. Golf ball hit with woods will often land in unsuitable places. In conclusion, woods will add more power and asure far travel for the golf ball.
They are most used on golf terains and are second best for distances.In golf club kit there are many irons. They differ in their weight and size of the head. Irons can help you a lot if your ball ends up in the sand or in front of the obstacle.
A golf club named a putter is used when player needs accuracy. They are used for finishing strokes and are designed exactly opposite from the woods. With them player never aims to cover the distance. A decent putter is a neccesity.
Golfing kit conatins of 14 clubs for your child three mentioned above will be suficient. When game starts to progress you add more clubs for kids. You will have to buy lighter golf clubs when your child learns how to hit the ball with force and precision.
You may opt for used golf clubs for children it is a sane and smart decision if your child founds out that golf is not a game for him or her.
Today at the golf terains there are support facilities for young players from sets of golf clubs for kids to professional trainer. It s all there to encourage new players.

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Date(s) - 12/19/2018
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Heart Space at Seven Stones
Soul Awakening Practice and Meditation
Led by Denise Yocco
This week:
Through The Looking Glass
Offering some thoughts on moving away form the conflict that arises within and understanding that there is no place to arrive. We are whole in every moment if we can learn the difference between attention and concentration. The difference between knowledge and awareness.
This is a fluid practice that changes each week. Usually in 3 parts: 1) sharing a teaching, 2) sharing a meditation and its benefit as part of a an healing practice, 3) Soul Awakening practice.
Having been practicing for the last few months this Soul Awakening practice I am so wanting to share it with others. It is a very powerful practice that has been created by my teacher James O'Dea. It is a Metta, or loving kindness meditation.
Six Phrases:
Soul Awakening ~ Heart Opening ~ Light Shining ~ Love Flowing ~ Wounds Dissolving ~
Peace Radiating
What you may want to know:
It is simple. It can be done numerous times during the day within the course of your day. Once you have done it, the invocations, which are just two words, become planted within. The seeds now just need watering…practice.
It is powerful. The energy that flows during and after this practice is soft and flows easily from the heart. Also, you can feel that there are ripples of love flowing from you and all the places you have sent it.
It is healing. Beginning with ourselves we decide to heal. What ever it is that needs attention within us and in our physical body, we put loving attention and soul awakening energy there. We then offer the same to all the places we send it.
My feeling is that practicing in community will create a powerful environment for radiating peace within us and with all those we are in relationship with…which is everyone really.
Soul Awakening is the next place we need to go to experience the shift in our world that will save humanity. I believe this deep within my being. We must arrive here to survive.
It is my intention to offer this in Heart Space at least once monthly on Mondays and every Wednesday afternoon.
About Denise Yocco
I have been reluctant to offer anything about me as a bio. As you may know I am co-owner with my husband Nick, of Seven Stones Cafe, Seven Stones Gallery and Heart Space at Seven Stones…and that has a story all of its own.
I offer to this Heart Space community what I love and what loves me back. I am not educated by any university, or particular school of thought, only by what I have sought to learn and what life has offered to me in abundance to learn from. I feel deeply and passionately about self knowing and wholeness. I feel certain we can self heal through self knowing and forgiveness. I have taken The Peace Ambassador Training with James O'Dea, and heart honored to be part of the 2nd graduating class. I have taken classes in Non-Violent Communication and in Conflict Resolution. I am human and many times have missed the mark that each of these studies has offered to me. But I stay on course and continue to evolve. I possess no special skills to heal another, only the heart that keeps offering to others a way through, as I have found, and what I know works to heal. It will always come down to the work we do to help ourselves, no matter who we learn from, no matter who lays their hands upon us, no matter our teachers or guru, religion, or degree, it will always be our decision to heal ourselves. Our greatest service to each other is to offer from the heart what we have learned through life, to be bridges, to be friends. I simply and passionately offer that. Deeply thankful and blessed to be of service.
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Police said that a Long Beach man was drunk when he plowed his car into a Glen Head home on Tuesday morning.
According to police, the incident occurred at 12:55 a.m. on April 30, when Ricardo Medina-Baez, of Long Beach, was driving his 2005 Volkswagen southbound on Glen Cove Avenue.
Police said that the vehicle left the roadway and struck a residence located at Glen Cove Avenue and University Place. A woman was in the home at the time of the crash but was not injured, police said. Ricardo Medina-Baez was taken to a local hospital where he was admitted with a head injury. Police said his condition is unknown at this time. The vehicle was impounded.
Medina-Baez was charged with Driving While Intoxicated and police said that he will be arraigned "as soon as medically practical."


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A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey into ConsciousnessThursday, May 15th, 2008
It was 7:00 am on December 10, 1996. I awoke to the familiar tick-tick-tick of my compact disk player as it began winding up to play. Sleepily, I hit the snooze button just in time to catch the next mental wave back into dreamland. Here, in this magic land I call "Thetaville"—a surreal place of altered consciousness somewhere between dreams and stark reality—my spirit beamed beautiful, fluid, and free from the confines of normal reality.


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SOUTH BEND Â? A South Bend man charged with murder for a 2003 stabbing will go on trial for the second time tomorrow, nearly a year after the Indiana Court of Appeals overturned his 2004 conviction.
David Paul Clark, 48, is accused of killing Gregory P. Funches, 51, in a November 2003 struggle near Main and Sample streets.
A jury convicted Clark on the murder charge, but the appeals court ruled in September 2005 the judge erred in not giving the jury the option of a voluntary manslaughter verdict.
Judge Jerome Frese ruled the jury could decide on murder or self-defense because the evidence indicated Clark may have acted out of fear, not the anger or resentment of Â?sudden heatÂ? emotions that qualifies as voluntary manslaughter.
But the appeals court said fear or terror is considered a characteristic of sudden heat, and therefore the jury should have been given voluntary manslaughter as an option.
Clark was sentenced to 50 years on the murder conviction.
Murder carries a possible sentence of 45 to 65 years. Voluntary manslaughter, in ClarkÂ?s case considered a Class A felony because he allegedly used a knife, carries a possible 20- to 50-year prison term.
ClarkÂ?s second trial will be by judge.
Clark is accused of twice stabbing Funches in the chest after the two argued in the street and scuffled over a bag of beer.
Clark, Funches and FunchesÂ? brother had been involved in a verbal altercation moments earlier outside a nearby liquor store, and Clark waited for the Funches brothers by hiding between bushes and a building.
After the fight, according to court papers, Clark walked to the Center for the Homeless, where he placed the knife on the table and said, Â?I just stabbed somebody that was going to rob me.Â?
Staff writer Patrick M. OÂ?Connell:
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In his fifth year at Hogwarts, Severus Snape forges a friendship with a Slytherin girl, Charlotte Rosier, sister to Death Eater Evan Rosier, all the while pining for Lily Evans. The two connect intellectually and emotionally, setting off a chain of events that leads to enlightenment, but also to the darkest magic and war.
Rated: W
Categories: Drama, General
Characters: Alastor Moody, Alice Longbottom, Bellatrix Lestrange (nee Black), Evan Rosier, Frank Longbottom, Lily Potter (nee Evans), Original Character, Other Canon Character, Severus Snape
Genres: Action/Adventure, Friendship, General
Warnings: Abuse, Character Death, Torture, Violence
Series: None
Chapters: 3
Wordcount: 6096 - Hits: 81
Complete?: No - Published: 12/30/2014 - Last Updated: 01/06/2015


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Asian chilli crabmeat soup
Fresh crabmeat is preferred for this recipe, as it has a better flavour and texture. However, if it is unavailable, canned crabmeat can be substituted. Crabs have both delicate white meat and stronger flavoured brown meat – both are used to great effect in this recipe.
- 2 cups (350 g) crabmeat
- 6 French shallots (eschalots), roughly chopped
- 1 clove garlic, chopped
- 3 cups (750 ml) salt–reduced hot fish stock
- ⅓ cup (65 g) basmati rice
- 1½ teaspoons dried red chilli flakes
- 2 teaspoons fish sauce
- 200 ml (7 fl oz) low–fat coconut milk
- juice of 1 lime
- 3 tablespoons chopped fresh coriander (cilantro) leaves, to serve
- 2 spring onions (scallions), thinly sliced, to serve
- Put any brown crabmeat, the shallots, garlic and fish stock in a food processor or blender and process until smooth.
- Transfer the stock mixture to a saucepan over high heat and add the rice and chilli flakes.
- Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until the rice is just tender.
- Add the fish sauce, coconut milk and lime juice to the pan, stirring to combine.
- Add the white crabmeat and heat through gently.
- Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste.
- To serve, ladle the soup into bowls and sprinkle with the coriander and spring onions.
Serves 4
Preparation: 15 minutes
Cooking: 15 minutes
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Forecasts, integration aid, vouchers… Update for March 2
This Week at the Capitol – February 27-March 2, 2012
Save the Date!
Monday morning, April 16
Parents United's 10th Annual
Parent Leadership Summit
Registration available March 7
Budget forecasts
On Wednesday the state's February budget forecast, a $323 million surplus, was announced. The state's last forecast, in November, showed an $800+ million surplus that by law had to refill the state's reserves, which had been depleted to balance the state budget. Five million dollars of this week's forecast must do the same thing, but the remainder must be used to begin paying back schools. So, instead of a 60/40 shift, schools will now be paid on a 64.3/35.7 shift (the percentage of what is paid to schools in the current school year and what is delayed a year). While this is good news, in the next budget cycle we will once again be dealing with a budget deficit of $1.1 billion, with another $2.4 billion in IOUs to schools. Whoever is elected in November will need to balance this next biennium's budget along with Governor Dayton.
Integration Aid Resolution in limbo
After years of fighting over the use and purpose of integration aid, a program begun in the mid-1990s, a coup occurred: a bi-partisan final report was produced. As required by law, the Integration Aid Task Force provided this Final Report on February 15 (MPR Report).
Yet, the fate of integration aid is now in limbo.
It appears that legislators are waiting for the Minnesota Department of Education to craft a legislative proposal for the aid. While the co-chair of the task force has yet to be asked to testify on the recommendations of the Task Force, the Senate Education committee heard testimony from one dissenting member of the Task Force, Katherine Kersten, expressing her own opinions on integration (Audio).
The Perennial Voucher Bill
Every year that I can remember a bill has been introduced supporting vouchers. This year's version, HF273 (Woodard-R-Belle Plaine), adds substantial tax breaks for corporations that want to donate up to $20 million to private and religious schools, as well as increasing a family credit program for tuition.
The Minnesota State Constitution clearly states:
Article 13, Sec. 2. PROHIBITION AS TO AIDING SECTARIAN SCHOOL. In no case shall any public money or property be appropriated or used for the support of schools wherein the distinctive doctrines, creeds or tenets of any particular Christian or other religious sect are promulgated or taught.
However, the Supreme Court has upheld as constitutional dollars going to parents allowing them to make the choice of their child's education. Dr. Patrick Wolf, University of Arkansas, detailed his research on the advantages of vouchers.
The public policy question before this legislature is state support for private schools – schools that may have religious affiliation, the ability to selectively admit and dismiss students, and no requirement to comply with multiple state statutes. Proponents make the case that we have scholarship programs for early childhood and college students – why would this be different?
One testifier opposing vouchers made an interesting observation. He said for all the years voucher proposals have come forward, the main argument of proponents has been that voucher students attending private schools did better than their counterparts in public schools. Multiple studies have called that into question and the argument has shifted. Now the reason "vouchers are good" is that it increases parent empowerment and also that vouchers will create "better public schools because of competition." He then went on to list the myriad school choice opportunities Minnesota offers. Additional Testimony from St. Paul Public Schools.
Kudos to Chair Erickson
In last week's update, we referenced a bill that passed through Education Finance so quickly it caused objection from DFL lead Rep. Greiling. On the House floor this week, the author asked that it be recalled and re-referred to the Education Reform committee; many questions remained as to cost, implementation and intent of the bill. Chair Erickson then heard it in committee, admitting that the bill had flown out of Education Finance and that several DFL members had not had their questions answered. Rep. Erickson made it clear that they wanted a good bill. Now that minority members could continue questioning the cost of this bill, it became apparent that further fiscal discussion was needed; kudos to Chair Erickson for calling the vote to re-refer HF2127 to Education Finance. While this may seem convoluted, it is a good thing to allow the process to play out and now the bill has the opportunity to be re-heard in Chair Garofalo's committee.
What's happening with LIFO?
The "Last in-First Out" bill, HF1870, has passed through both the Senate and the House but in the process has been amended. It appears to be heading for a conference committee.
Bills to watch
- Students at low-performing schools enrollment options established, HF273 (Woodard-R-Belle Plaine)
- Online learning parameters modified, graduation requirements modified, and digital learning provided, HF2127 (Myhra-R-Burnsville)
- School district prone restraint usage extension and data collection and reporting requirements, SF1917 (Wolf-R-Spring lake Park); There are very differing opinions about this bill. Many parents believe that prone restraint is dangerous. Proponents believe that it is necessary to keep students and teachers safe.
More Bills to Watch
- Permanent School Fund Advisory Committee, HF2244 (O'Driscoll-R-Sartell) This legislation is very interesting and proponents make a strong case that changing the system of managing Minnesota's school trust lands can significantly increase potential funding for schools.
- School district operating referenda required to be held at the general election in even-numbered years, HF1858 (Quam-R-Byron) Sitting at the will of the Chair, K-12 Education Finance.
- Public school employees prohibited from using public funds and resources to advocate to pass, elect, or defeat a political candidate, ballot question, or pending legislation, HF329 (Bills-R-Rosemount) In its current form, this bill simply codifies a long-standing Attorney General's opinion that has been used as a filter for these activities. If it stays in this form, this bill does not appear to impact local parent legislative action committees, but it will be one to closely watch.
- Teacher contract qualified economic offer provided, HF269 (Downey-R-Edina) If a local school district offers a contract proposal that is in line with what the state has added to the per pupil formula, teachers are precluded from striking. This is another provision that was in the vetoed 2011 K12 Omnibus bill. Called the QEO, or Qualified Economic Offer, the idea was first presented in the late 1990s by former Rep. Phil Krinkie. It was law in Wisconsin beginning in 1993 and has since been repealed. As a point of fact, nothing in current law precludes school boards from making these offers. Testifying in favor of the bill were the Minnesota Business Partnership (MBP) and the Minnesota School Boards Association (MSBA). The MBP stated they wanted "keeping jobs to be the priority." MSBA said they wanted to "rebalance the bargaining table."
- Federal adequate yearly progress measurements specified, and lowest performing elementary and high schools required to submit to a turnaround strategy, HF2180 (Garofalo-R-Farmington) This bill is in response to Chair Garofalo's disagreement with the Minnesota Department of Education's wavier application, which was developed in the fall, negotiated and accepted by the United States Department of Education. I'm not sure how passage of this law would impact that process already in place. This bill currently has no Senate companion.
Click here for a complete list of education bills heard so far this session.
Supermajority States
As part of our ongoing information sharing about states that have adopted supermajority amendments, Minnesota Budget Project draws attention to a new report by The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Six Reasons Why Supermajority Requirements to Raise Taxes Are a Bad Idea. The report found that "there was no evidence that supermajority states had lower taxes or better tax policy than states without supermajority requirements."
Major findings of the report:
There's no evidence that supermajority requirements improve a state's economy. In fact, the report finds that "states with supermajority restrictions have suffered more in this recession than other states." The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that from the beginning of the recession in December 2007 through November 2011:
The seven states with broad, constitutional supermajority restrictions have lost 6.7 percent of their jobs, while states with no supermajority restrictions have lost 3.4 percent.
Six of the seven states with strict supermajority requirements have experienced above-average job declines.
The two states with the deepest job losses — Arizona and Nevada — both have broad, constitutional supermajority restrictions. Nevada has lost 13 percent of its jobs since the recession started and Arizona has lost nearly 10 percent. — Minnesota Budget Project
A Look Ahead
On Monday afternoon Senate Education will revisit SF388, "Low-performing school students enrollment options; nonpublic school eligibility requirements." With deadlines fast approaching, Chair Erickson told her Education Reform Committee to expect evening meetings and perhaps Friday meetings. It appears that many meetings, especially in House Education Finance and House Education Reform, are scheduled late in the day Fridays. So keep checking our home page to preview what's up!
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12 Sep 2008: Attention Seattle (and everyone else)
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For those of you who don't actually read any other ScienceBlogs (hi, Mom): We're approaching the one meeeellionth comment here at the ScienceBorg! This means there's a contest! If you submit a comment with a valid email address between... um, whenever the ...
22 Jul 2008: Attention New York City
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The chip in my head (the nice doctors at Seed installed one when I signed up for this blog) is all a-twitter. That means it's almost time to make my way, slack-jawed and drooling with my arms groping vaguely about the space in front of me, all the way acro ...
12 Aug 2006: How To Grab Google's Attention
Meta: search requests · 10 comments
I admit, I am hopelessly addicted to my own site logs, especially to the tracks of the 60% or so of my visitors who arrive here via Google search (and, to a lesser extent, other search engines - but Google traffic wins out by nearly two orders of magnitude ...
5 Aug 2004: Attention RSS Infidels
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31 Aug 2014: Blackberry wine
Food: blackberries, brewing, Rosaceae, wine · 1 comment
... I will be doing a bigger batch next year, with better attention to filtering early in the process. Last but not least, I've been ...
31 Aug 2013: Daucus carota Seeds: What'll They Do to Your Hormones?
Food, Science: Apiaceae, birth control, hormones, peer-reviewed research, poison hemlock, poisonous lookalikes, wild carrot · 5 comments
... using reputable field guides, dichotomous keys, and paying attention to botanically relevant traits beyond just leaf shape, sorting out the carrots isn't so bad. If you pay attention to them over the course of a growing season, the differences between ...
23 Jun 2013: Osoberry Ossobucco
Food: Indian plum, jam, lamb, meat, osoberries, recipes, Rosaceae · 1 comment
... I guess pragmatism in communication wins out over careful attention to cultural subtext. As communication goes, though, this form of ...
19 Feb 2009: Earth Scientists on Stamps
Human Fuzzies, Science: darwin, milankovitch, philately, richter, science in pop culture, stamps · 13 comments
... stupid Web Eleventy-Point-Oh jibber-jabber service, pay no attention. If you are an Eleventy-Point-Oh sort of person, though, perhaps you ...
20 Jan 2009: What Does it Mean to "Learn Science"?
Meta, Science, Teaching: edutainment, unfinished drafts · 2 comments
... an answer to that question on a timescale similar to the attention span of your audience. For blogs, that's at least once per ...
13 Jan 2009: Have We Really Reached "Peak Water"?
Aimless: · 12 comments
... somewhat patient with people who use "Peak X" as a hip and attention-grabbing way to indicate that Commodity X is in short supply, and I ...
31 Dec 2008: Geological Predictions for 2009
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... about "guerilla gorillas", but quickly turn their attentions back to the ongoing Congressional investigations into whether or not ...
24 Sep 2008: Carnival of Feminists #65
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... who reside in this particular teapot and have been paying attention to the tempest find it confusing and irrelevant.) On another tangent ...
5 Jul 2008: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: · 6 comments
... it. Yeah, it's got a lot of gender. It's kind of awful. Attention, Southern California! On November 13 you will have the exciting honor ...
30 Jun 2008: Tunguskatennial
Aimless: · no comments
... that this wasn't a case of smashing-from-space. Scientific attention has turned towards the details of the impact: Was Lake Cheko a result ...
27 Jun 2008: Richard Nixon Tamed the Mole People! A Timeline of Global Seismic Energy Release
Science: · 14 comments
... exactly the same. When I made all these graphs, I paid no attention to this whatsoever. It's a bit like trying to figure out how many "1 ... mostly moment magnitudes. If you don't pay close attention to the magnitude scale you are using, you will find that earthquakes ...
19 Jun 2008: Carnival of Space #59
Links: · 2 comments
... and Plutoids Everyone likes Mars, which means everyone's attention is on Phoenix and its oven. At the Planetary Society blog, Emily ...
14 May 2008: Dear Seattle Landlords: Your House is Not A Craftsman
Human Fuzzies: architecture, Arts and Crafts movement, craigslist · 1 comment
... handcrafted stone or woodwork? Or anything that displays attention to detail and respect for the skill of the artisans who built the ...
2 Apr 2008: Geology Jargon Ripe for Zombie Re-Animation
Aimless: · 26 comments
... want to work in a field where McPhee's lingering, poetic attentions are discarded for the clinical decisiveness of "titanite". For every ...
29 Feb 2008: Focus is a Renewable Resource
Aimless: · 5 comments
... keep noticing my breath I have to repeat the choice to pay attention. Over and over and over. Focusing on work doesn't come as naturally ... Most of the time, though, I can repeat the choice to pay attention. Over and over and over. I don't know if these every-five-minute vow ...
31 Dec 2007: Year in Review
Meta: clip show · no comments
Here, Have a Clip Show Post I Really Wanted More Comments On: What would you name as "science world heritage" sites? - Good science heritage sites should force us to consider the process of science, in addition to its results and historical characters. ...
17 Dec 2007: Aaand, the rest of AGU
Science: american geophysical union, underwear · 7 comments
... opposite theory from mine. However, I got a bit of media attention (which also went well), and I am looking forward to the luxurious ...
30 Nov 2007: Friday iTunes iChing: A Randomly-Generated AGU Press Kit
Science, Whimsy: american geophysical union, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, science journalism · 20 comments
... which AGU abstracts will get the most mainstream media attention. I'm working on my own list (though restricted to stories from the ...
1 Nov 2007: We're Good Enough, We're Smart Enough, and Gosh Darn It, We're the November Scientiae!
Links, Politics, Science: blog carnivals, feminism, gender, impostor syndrome, scientiae, sexism, zombies · 15 comments
... inside our heads functions primarily as a way to divert attention from all the real social problems outside our heads... well, I would ...
20 Oct 2007: The Spinning Dancer and the Brain
Science: debunking, neuroscience, optical illusions · 77 comments
... seen almost always invoke a change of focus - I shift my attention to her feet, or scroll up and down, others look at her hands or to ... illusions, but after listening a couple times and paying attention to the overtones, I could hear the second pair of tones in the other ...
30 Aug 2007: Notes From the Books Precariously Stacked on My Bedside Table
Human Fuzzies, Politics, Science: feminism, feminisms, history, psychology, racism, rape, sexism, trashy novels, white studies · 3 comments
... and there will likely be enough that is new to hold your attention. The Mismeasure of Woman - Carol Tavris. I started this book ...
29 Aug 2007: Another Year Older, Another Year Fartier
Whimsy: kids today · 5 comments
... videos. The space program has never really caught their attention except in disasters. - I know, I know, minus 80 billion geek ...
3 Apr 2007: How Much NSF Grant Money Can One Bad Apple Control?
Politics, Science: blog carnivals, peer review, scientiae, sexism · 5 comments
... and was too distracted by wondering about boobiez to pay attention to the science, etc. Presumably the reviewer would vehemently deny ...
27 Jul 2006: Coming Down from the Link Rush
Links, Meta: anti-racism, blog carnivals, doing science, erase racism, NASA, panta rei, race in science, racism · 1 comment
... on your perspective), though perhaps it was just spillover attention from my housemate's friend's fabulous book idea and not a sudden ...
6 Jul 2006: Isolated Wackiness, Shared By Everybody in the Whole Damn County
Politics: anti-Semitism, Christian hegemony, zombies · 4 comments
... thinking going on there. I don't think I should draw attention to a 21st-century American pogrom for fear of offending Christians? ...
6 Jun 2006: I'll Stick to Compost, Thanks
Politics: Berzerkeley, gardening, religion · 9 comments
... at Whole Foods; they don't sell the soulless hybrids. Attention Bay Area neopagans, animists and generic mystic crystal flakes: I'm ...
26 May 2006: Friday Cat Blogging: Holy Shit I Have Cats!
Personal: cats, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing · no comments
... taciturn shelter kitty. Anyway, here's Phoebe, the Feline Attention Whore: Unfortunately, I don't have any good shots of her sitting ... as much time as possible outside and is much less of an attention whore when she's in. My camera, you see, has been acting up. But, ...
29 Mar 2006: Nerds for the Cause of Justice I: Proof of Concept
Meta: blogtinkery, ideas for plugins, rhetorical tactics · no comments
... blog, good writing is what usually attracts and holds my attention. The message is important, but I'll eventually get frustrated and ...
13 Jan 2006: Rehydrated AGU
Science, Teaching: american geophysical union, conference blogging, mass communication, science journalism · no comments
... Answer: no. But curious bloggers wanna know: does Internet attention improve citation statistics? *First time I typed it: the poopular ...
13 Sep 2005: The Devil Is In
Aimless, Meta, Personal: beer, blogtinkery, en français, Internet friends, pirates · 3 comments
... comprehension of mumbly French is not what it used to be. Attention, hommes du Maroc! Quand vous essayez de faire la connaissance d'une ...
9 May 2005: Deconstructing Teh Funnay
Politics: offensive humor, rhetorical tactics · 9 comments
... Rhetoric of Blog Humor, which amount to tricks for calling attention to the punchline. Because if you have to think about it, to sort out ... Barry does this too (only he uses parentheses to draw your attention to the funny BIG NUMBERS! Or DIRE CONSEQUENCES! or BOOGERS!) - but ...
4 May 2005: California Senate Bill 5: Freedom is Coming!
Politics: academic freedom, California politics · 4 comments
... students with dissenting sources and viewpoints. Attention humanities and social science professors! I will be happy (for a ...
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Politics: lifestyles of the privileged minority, masculinity · 11 comments
... don't know that this is such a bad thing. It's good to pay attention to problems with culture and embodiedness and blah blah blah, so I ...
30 Mar 2005: New Athletic Allegiances and the Advanced Study of Mud
Meta, Personal: academia, Announcements · 11 comments
... efficiently. Sometimes they clearly haven't been paying attention to: Seismology. Statistics. I'm still working out the ...
17 Feb 2005: Initiative
Politics: dating, feminism, gender, rape · 3 comments
... scared that once she invites a little bit of attention, she'll lose the ability to put a stop to it, and she'll be ... decide not to stop following you around in hopes of more attention" ... I'm not sure that they serve such different rhetorical ... lest I be seen as inviting too much of the wrong kind of attention, and perhaps get myself into real trouble. (How many men have spent ...
1 Feb 2005: Ownership Society
Personal: capitalism sucks, money, public radio · 7 comments
... entails, of course, giving them money and then not paying attention to what they do with it. Oh yeah I feel the power of ownership ...
6 Dec 2004: An N Things Post: N=2, Politics
Links, Politics: gender, US party politics, USDA · no comments
... something sparklingly witty or even just a few moments of attention. But no one seems to be very excited about the USDA, so it's been ...
2 Dec 2004: Thanksgiving Food Review
Food, Personal: cranberry sauce, pie, recipes, thanksgiving · 4 comments
... apricot brandy taste was too strong. With a little more attention to chemistry, it would have made a splendid topping for vanilla ice ...
20 Oct 2004: AAA Pays Off
Personal: American Automobile Association, driving, jalopies · 2 comments
... done one of those N-point safety inspections. Or paid more attention to my dashboard light, the one that says "brake" that's usually for ... but you know how dashboard lights are, always wanting attention like a fucking whiny puppy. Hell, snapped brake lines are what ...
5 Oct 2004: Endorsements for Los Angeles Judicial Offices
Politics: endorsements, local elections, Los Angeles · 4 comments
... it turns out, LACBA confirmed my initial estimation. Maybe attention to questionnaires is a reasonable proxy for commitment to public ...
17 Sep 2004: Rhetorical Gatekeeping, Gender, Etc.
Meta, Politics: blogular wanking, feminism, gender, rhetorical tactics · 2 comments
... jokes and internal references. Wheedling attention from other people whose readership is uniformly well-reasoned and ...
31 Aug 2004: Citizens Don't Let Citizens Watch the RNC
Politics: civic duties, political tactics · 6 comments
... and Harrison are both feeling somehow obliged to pay attention to the Republican National Convention, or barf trying. Nonsense, I ...
21 Jul 2004: Fortune Cookies and Essay Prompts: the Expansion of the "In Bed" Heuristic
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment
... why these prompts are not worth even 5 minutes of my attention would take far longer than the 45 minutes allotted. Anyway, I've already made a substantial ($120) statement that my attention is worthless in comparison to the judgment of the all-seeing, ...
23 Mar 2004: Imaginary Robot Pathos
Whimsy: · no comments
... row, so I can quickly scan for points that require further attention. When I mark duplicates with things like BLAAAARH or ZUT ALORS!! I ...
8 Feb 2004: Narrative Coherence Can Suck A…
Human Fuzzies, Links: · no comments
... convince a solid multinational distribution network to pay attention. Meanwhile, the kiss of NAFTA is all it takes for scrappy lil' Pe ...
22 Jan 2004: Three-Coffee Morning
Personal: dreams · no comments
... I'm not even one of his supporters. Must. Stop. Paying. Attention. To. ...
21 Nov 2003: That's So 1986
Science: · no comments
... to the K-T boundary in order to attract the public's attention shall play the bottommost ...
22 Aug 2003: But You Still Have Two Kidneys, Scott!
Politics: California politics, criminals, media politics, organ donation, political tactics · 2 comments
... pet issues thrown in, the media were not paying enough attention to his pet issue. Quitter! Scott Davis's pet issue was organ ...
5 Aug 2003: Mandatory Events
Human Fuzzies, Personal: · no comments
Attention, residents of Tempe AZ, Albuquerque NM, Somewhere-In-OK, and Lavalia IL: ...
2 Jul 2003: eTextWhore
Meta: · 2 comments
... me draw your attention to the elegant, intelligent text ad in the side bar. I'm ...
17 Apr 2002: surface learning
Teaching: · 8 comments
... hall are looking back at you. If you want me to pay attention in lecture, try not speaking in such a fucking monotone. Dear Other ...
7 Apr 2002: Review Time!
Human Fuzzies: reviews of stuff, writing · 5 comments
Today, in honor of Rasmus and the peer-to-peer review project [broken link deleted], we (the royal editorial we) will be slicing up Magickal Musings, to see what's inside. Part I - Design Immediately, we were impressed by the butterfly, and the fact that ...
10 Mar 2002: Much Ado About
Meta: · no comments
... Or, for me to reward the sharing of your thoughts with attention and enthusiasm, you must be willing to do the same. I object to ... expect it to improve shortly. No need to keep throwing attention or other social valuables after an under-performer. I have few ...
7 Mar 2002: Try Optimism
Personal: · no comments
... of doing so? I read the little brochures, and see: Some attention to your thoughts and a few simple exercises to change some thoughts ...
26 Jan 2002: People At My School
Teaching: learning, mathematics, seismology · no comments
... of my professors lectures in a style which demands close attention, and expects us to take an active role and ask lots of questions so ...
11 Jan 2002: Flamingo Lips
Personal: blue sky, cult movement, embouchure, paying attention, peach, trumpet-playing, writing style · no comments
... by geography: when I was in Denmark, I paid more attention to detail, because details were often completely bizarre and ... patriotism, small things here don't call themselves to my attention, and so I've been ignoring rather a lot of them. Since I'm happiest ...
11 Nov 2001: s-tog til hundige
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... got such an unpopular taste in music I've begun to pay attention to all the other people going to concerts alone, and they all seem to ...
6 Nov 2001: things about busses
Meta, Personal: boots, maps, weather · no comments
... I do it when I walk too but it's not so easy to pay attention then. So tonight I tried standing more towards the inside of my feet, ...
20 Aug 2001: please, please
Human Fuzzies: Danish, language quirks, manners · no comments
... though, I suspect that this is something I should pay attention to. Particularly when I'm in social settings in a completely new ...
13 Aug 2001: aha! an American!
Human Fuzzies, Personal: Danish, tourism · no comments
... me directions to the airport. I'm almost flattered at the attention, and would be genuinely pleased if my super-Dane-o-matic camoflauge ...
26 Jul 2001: Red Pop and Hans Kirk's The Fishermen
Human Fuzzies: book reviews, pop · 21 comments
... tomorrow, while I'm cleaning ovens, is to pay particular attention to the quality of my vowels, and see if I notice anything interesting ...


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Watch Dr. Sylvia Gearing on the CW 33 discussing how you can spot a liar - click here.
Read the story featuring Dr. Sylvia Gearing on the CW 33 - click here.
Reposted from "The Truth Behind How To Spot A Liar" by Selena Hernandez on the CW 33
Everyone's guilty of doing it; to deny it would mean you're probably lying.
Studies have shown, on average, a person will tell two lies and hour. What's more, studies suggest one out of every 10 texts is a lie. But, you don't have to find yourself trapped in someone's web of deceit.
"I would say without a doubt, everyone lies," Dr. Sylvia Gearing said.
Dr. Sylvia Gearing is a psychologist and author. She has extensively studied liars and their behavior patterns. She revealed people lie for two reasons: either to spare someone else's feelings or to make a situation easier for themselves.
"We call those lies of concealment; we just don't tell all of the truth, we just edit the truth to suit our purposes."
Dr. Gearing added liars tend to focus on their words, so they're quick to forget about their facial features.
"They forget what their face looks like, and that's where the clues are – always."
Gearing offered some obvious clues to look for, if you feel like someone is out to dupe you.
- slow, deliberate pauses when speaking
- repeating the question you just asked
- smiling out of context
- a nervous, shaking foot or leg
"People who are lying are dead set, there's a mask," Dr. Gearing explained. "They're smiling, and they're controlling their presentation and their words that way."
We recruited the help of four Nightcap staff members: Jennifer, Keith, Christian and Keisha. For every question we asked, they each gave two responses: one is the truth and the other is a lie. Can you spot the lie?
Question #1 "What did you do last night?"
Jennifer: "Last night, I walked my dog and went to bed around nine o'clock."
Jennifer: "I passed out candy to trick-or-treaters."
If you guessed the lie was the first response – you're right!
Dr. Gearing said it was the subtleties in her facial expression. "Nine o'clock –her mouth went up, and then she frowned"
Question #2 "What did you have for breakfast?"
Keith: "I went to the Pancake House and had their apple turnover pancake with, uh, with some coffee. I think that was it."
Keith: "I had cereal."
The lie was the first response. Dr. Gearing offered some perspective. "There was too much stalling and making up as he went along, and again, too much detail. People who want to manipulate you, over tell you."
Question #3 "Have you ever been in a car accident?"
Christian: "Yes, I've been in a couple car accidents, um, but they've never been my fault. They're usually somebody hitting me."
Christian: "I have been in a couple car accidents, and um, they have all been my fault."
Again, the first response was a lie.
"When he had to pause, he took a little more time to get that lie out because he's not used to lying," Dr. Gearing said.
Question #4 "Have you ever told a lie because you thought you could get away with it?"
Keisha: "Yes, several."
Keisha: "No. I've never told a lie, um, not even a white one, no."
The obvious lie here, was the second response.
"She lies by exaggerating the facts," Dr. Gearing noted. "She enjoyed it when she was saying it. Nevertheless, it gave her away – it was a dead giveaway."
Visual clues to keep in mind, the next time you find yourself trying to call someone's bluff.


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McCarty, Lisa
Introduces methods of archival research and investigates its use as a tool for activism within documentary practice. Uses Duke s Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript library to gain practical experience to effectively locate, retrieve, handle, document and analyze primary source materials. Students produce original written and multimedia documentary projects that rethink notions of history, identity, memory, and loss. Explores individual and open source archives, as well as works by contemporary artists and documentarians who mediate archival materials and structures. Emphasizes the archive as a site of discovery and construction. Instructor: McCarty
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I have been nursing this crazy idea of learning Mandarin for a few years now. Idea because, doing business with China is becoming an increasingly important factor in wealth amassment. Crazy because, I have this theory that knowing the common language is an important factor in doing business or for that matter, doing anything better.
So, breakthrough happened a couple of years back when good friend K also evinced interest in learning Mandarin, and we enrolled for a basic spoken Mandarin course with the most famous institute in Mumbai. It was a 2 hour session every Sunday for 12 weeks.
My fighter alter ego kicked in, and I am proud to report that I attended all but one class (which I missed because of a holiday I had planned much before enrolling for classes). I am also proud to report that I did my homework every week before the class, which meant that Saturday nights were spent practising mā, má, mǎ, mà and ma (having five different meanings ranging from mother to horse). Surely, that's not how V would have liked to spend Saturday nights, but, hey, variety is everything.
Overall, those were a great three months, and reminded me of how I have always enjoyed being a student, learning something new and wanting to show off what I have learnt. More importantly, the class was composed of a motley group of people across age groups and professions (starting from 18 years all the way upto 60) which was refreshing, for I have been in classrooms and offices interacting with mirror images of myself for over 25 years now.
The age group is of note here. The 18 year olds were obviously the biggest fighters in the class, and the fighting tapered down with the increasing age. I was definitely behind the real students on the fight meter, but much ahead of the rest of the class. Eventually, Judgment Day arrived and emotions ranged from "Please, let me pass" to "I am going to top this one" as we answered our test papers. Since this was Mandarin 101 and our teacher was a native speaker from Guangzhou, we just had to hang around for 10-15 mins while she corrected our answer sheets and distributed the same. I liked the number I saw on my sheet, kept it down and looked around to sighs of relief from my friends (yes, made a few out there) who had also become eligible to get their certificates that evening. Meanwhile, you remember that friend I had enrolled with? - He came over grinning saying he had got some 85 and what did I get? (We are friends from B-school so exchanging marks is a die-hard habit). I told him and I heard a 'hush' from behind - It was one of the 18 year olds. She had got 88, had already seen her fellow 18 year old's paper which had a 92, and now she was in for a shock - she wasn't second in class but third, because I had got a 94.
At that point, I really felt sorry for having disappointed this kid. But, hey, come on! You cannot always underestimate someone because they are older and more prone to memory loss and Alzheimer's, can you?
Q for Qing because it is realllllly hard to find a word starting with Q, and Mandarin is a unique language where q is pronounced ch (qing is pronounced ching that is). Also, qing means 'please' in Mandarin, for the benefit of the knowledge-thirsty ones.
P. S. This post is the seventeenth in the A-Z blogging challenge series for April.


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After Yuvraj-Hazel, Zaheer-Sagarika new cricket-Bolly couple
Mumbai: The relationship between Indian cricketers and Bollywood actresses is not new but the trend has revived after Harbhajan and Geeta Basra and Yuvraj Singh and actress Hazel Keech's wedding. Yet another cricketer-Bollywood couple is in lime light. Cricketer Zaheer Khan has been spotted dating Chak De India Actress Sagarika Ghatge.
Recently, during the wedding of Yuvraj, former speedster Zaheer was seen arriving with actress Sagarika. As per sources, both are believed to be close to each other. It is rumoured that the couple is next to take the sacred vows of marriage.
The couple has been dating for mere four months following an introduction by a common friend and have been seen together at various social events. They were present in the Goa reception as well Jaipur ceremony for Yuvraj. The former left-arm pacer had proposed Sagarika for marriage to which she said yes, sources close to the cricketer revealed.
Earlier, he was linked with Bollywood actress Isha Sharvani. The two were in a relationship and were considering taking it to the next level. Eventually they parted ways for reasons best known to them.


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'Hatred' for motion controls to blame for Kung Fu Superstar's Kickstarter's woes
The developer behind a Kickstarter game designed for Kinect has blamed the gamers' 'hatred' of motion controls for the project's imminent failure.
Kung Fu Superstar was pitched as a narrative led fighting game which as well as accurately utilising Kinect's technology could also help players learn authentic kung fu techniques.
At the time of writing the project stands at 36,320 – well short of its 200,000 target – with just five days remaining.
We all know what the majority of hardcore gamers think about motion control," creator Kostas Zarifis told Eurogamer. We're not talking indifference, we're talking hatred. And for good reason.
Since the advent of motion control they've been constantly treated with disappointments (Rise of Nightmares, Star Wars, Steel Battalion... the list goes on). Unfortunately this is the climate we've been trying to pitch Kung-Fu Superstar in. And it doesn't matter that's exactly the landscape we are trying to change. People just don't care about that landscape any more.
We were also too slow to go into detail about how Kung-fu Superstar is not exclusively motion controlled. Far from it. Anyone who has seen our demos and sees how we blend controller and motion control gameplay tells us, 'I can't believe how innovative this is. Why has no-one done this yet?'
Unfortunately the people who do get that far into our pitch are very few. Most people's attention falls way before that point."
As well as being glum about motion control, Zarifis is also despondent about the overall impact – or lack of – that the UK arrival of Kickstarter has caused.
Kickstarter UK hasn't been the extravaganza we were thinking it might be," he added. We were biding our time until the platform launched here firstly for practical reasons but also because we hoped the launch would be this big thing that would lift some of the 'Kickstarter fatigue' we have been experiencing.
What actually happened was we had a whole load of Americans telling us they were trying to pledge but couldn't, people getting confused by conversion rates, people just couldn't be bothered re-entering their credit card details (something we hadn't realised you have to do on Kickstarter UK) and so on.
If I could turn back time I'd definitely launch in the US despite the hassle that is."


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Quick create export functionality
Serveral of my customers are asking for an export functionality to Excel or CSV. Have you ever experienced that? If so, how did you create that?
Let me tell you my solution. MS CRM 3.0 does offer SQL Reporting Services for Reporting. The reports which are generated can be exported to Excel and CSV. With a little bit of tuning, you can even render a report into one of these formats, without requiring the user to press the export button. In this post I'll show you how this can be done.
Let's say you're using the Adventure Works Cycle demo. Then create a report in SRS (there's enough info on the web on how to do this) and upload this report to CRM. You can upload such a report to crm by going to the Workplace area, select Reports and click "New". Now you can access this report via CRM, but also directly. To open this report directly, go to this url (where you enter your own servername, report folder directory and report name):
http://[your server]/ReportServer/?/[your report folder]/[your report]&rs:Command=Render
Now with sending parameters, you can export this to CSV or Excel. Modify the attributes of the report to contain:
The problem with the CSV, is that default the separator is a comma. You might want to change this to semicolon (;) or tab. To change this to tab, use the format hereunder:
Since we know now how to export data, we can also make this link available for users. Unfortunately the isv.config does not allow us to enter an url as describe above, but we can make a simple aspx, or even html, page which does redirect the user to that url. Just add the redirection page to the webserver and add a link in the isv.config. You have now made a very easy to modify export without coding!
Placing a code like that in the ISV.config.xml is not allowed due to the : in the query string. Instead you will need to direct your code to a intermediate page which will redirect you to the report. You can do this by using a simple html page with a meta refresh:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://localhost/ReportServer/?/Adventure+Works+Cycle+Demo_MSCRM/Export&rs:Command=Render&rs:Format=CSV&rc:FieldDelimiter=%09" />


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Inspiring Interiors
All of these swoon worthy photos were found on House of Pictures, go take a look around and try not to drool too much on your keyboard.
All of these swoon worthy photos were found on House of Pictures, go take a look around and try not to drool too much on your keyboard.
Inspiration photo sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Where to buy spring decor:
1. Custom Neon Sign 2. Yellow Table Lamp 3. Cow Candle Holder 4. Yellow Bar Stools 5. Teal Mongolian Pillow 6. Textured Striped Pillows 7. Wood Clock 8. Good Vibes Only Banner
I was so excited to see these gorgeous feedback photos from Petite Vintage Interiors. I took one look at the photos and thought "This, is THE cutest girls room I have ever seen!!" It's the perfect mix of girly, eclectic and practical.
It was awesome to see that they used our small polka dot decals on an accent wall behind the bed but I loved that it wasn't overpowering and more just there to accent the playful feel of the room.
Huge thank you to Petite Vintage Interiors for using our decals and providing such a great visual for how to use these cute polka dots!
All images via Petite Vintage Interiors
For more feedback photos and to view how others use our decals to style their space, follow along on Instagram @URBANWALLS
Since starting our Urbanwall Instagram (@urbanwalls) account we have been so excited to be tagged in some of your amazing feedback photos! Whether the decals be used for an office, nursery or an empty wall in the house, it honestly is so exciting to see how people have installed and styled their Urbanwall decal.
++ Here are a few of our recent favorites! ++
1. @justbellablog used our Polka Dots in gold for her office. Step by step her office
is coming together and we are staying tuned for the final reveal.
2. @inthefunlane let her daughter choose the decal and applied our Little Hearts
for a very sweet and shabby chic look.
3. @littlescoutco added Triangles for the perfect accent wall to her baby's nursery.
4. @athoughtfulplace redecorated her daughters room with Small gold Polka Dots,
shades of coral and that stunning chandelier in the middle of it all :) GORGEOUS!!
5. Charles found the perfect spot in the room to apply some In this House family rules.
Do you have a feedback photo that you would like to share with us! We would LOVE to see it! Just tag us on instagram at @urbanwalls and we'll send you a 15% off coupon for your next Urbanwall purchase!
I couldn't be more happy to have had the opportunity to connect with the lovely Stephanie from Garden Therapy. She is also expecting a baby this summer and wanted to get her nursery all ready and set up for the exciting arrival. Since she is is SO talented and knowledgable about outdoor projects it's no surprise that she would use that passion to bring the outdoors inside. She chose to use our "Hunter's Dream" decal to complete her nursery and it was the perfect choice. She even went the extra step by taking the time to place leaves throughout the room to give the "wind blown" effect and it makes such a huge impact.
I am also swooning over the branch swing-shelves that she made. You can view the DIY on her blog here.
Thank you so much Stephanie for the amazing feedback photos! Can't wait to see a little baby in that crib :)
Click HERE to purchase your Hunter's Dream decal.


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MARYLAND HEIGHTS, MO (KPLR)-A proposal for a new massive development in Maryland Heights that would have involved Rams owner Stan Kroenke has been dropped. Details on this story are appearing in our partner the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
At a special meeting Tuesday night, Maryland Heights officials revealed that Kroenke and his investment partner Alan Bornstein have pulled their proposal from the table. That plan involved among other things a retail, entertainment and sports district. The land that`s been under consideration is 1800 acres of flood plain near Creve Coeur Lake Park close to Highway 141 and the Page Extension.
Maryland Heights officials say they`re now going to take a step back to come up with more specifics on what kind of development they want at that location.
The Post is reporting that it could be a year or more before officials open up another request for proposals.
Local leaders say they want something that can be a regional entertainment destination. Officials say they also have to work out a plan with the local levee district to finance stormwater infrastructure that is needed in this flood plain before any project breaks ground.
Five other developers besides Kroenke`s group also submitted proposals but it appears none is moving forward at this point. Maryland Heights leaders say Kroenke`s group or someone else could come back with another proposal in about a year.


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I have probably mentioned a wonderful poet and editor, Sam Rasnake. (If I haven't, I have now, and sorry I took so long, Sam!)
Sam is the one who selected Fine Motor for the Sow's Ear Poetry Review chapbook contest, and he has also published some poems in his online journal Blue Fifth Review. He also publishes and online broadside series, and selected "Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra" for the current issue. He also asks poets to write a commentary about the composition of the poem--a deliciously torturous thing to do.
Thank you, Sam, for your efforts on behalf of poets and poetry!


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Rimmel London, the UK cosmetics brand, has signed models Coco Rocha and Georgia May Jagger as their two newest ambassadors. The two gorgeous models join the likes of Kate Moss and Lily Cole, who have been used in Rimmel London's previous campaigns. The girls will make their debut in the beauty brand's 2010 ad campaigns. [Modelinia]
Selena Gomez announced earlier this week that she is collaborating with a creative team to design her own fashion line, Dream Out Loud by Selena Gomez. The line will be made of eco-friendly and organic materials and is set to consist of "pretty, feminine and bohemian" clothes and accessories. [EOnline]
Hot on the heels of Selena Gomez, the Kardashian sisters are the latest celebrities to announce they will be releasing a clothing line. Kim, Khloe and Kourtney are teaming up with Bebe to design a line for spring. The Kardashian sisters have their own fashion boutique called Dash in California. [People StyleWatch]
Sarah Jessica Parker's newest fragrance, SJP NYC, was influenced by her most-famous character to date, Carrie Bradshaw. "A large part of the inspiration was what I now understand to be people's impressions of seeing Carrie Bradshaw walk down the street and what feelings that evokes for her and for them — a real sense of freedom and possibilities, a love for the city around her and, of course, fashion," Parker told WWD. The fragrance will arrive exclusively in Macy's stores in February, with a cuff bracelet with solid perfume debuting in May. [WWD]
In other beauty news, Black Eyed Peas singer, Fergie, announced today that she plans to add perfumer to her growing list of artistic pursuits (she already has a shoe-line under her belt, as well as several small film roles). The singer will be partnering with Avon to develop her first fragrance. The fragrance will have an initial launch outside the USA in August 2010 and will launch in the USA in November 2010. [Reuters]
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Korg announces new KROSS keyboard
When it comes to electronic keyboards, there are different brands to choose from, and Korg has been an established name in this area for a long, long time already. Well, Korg's latest addition to their electronic keyboard range has been called the Kross, where it is a mobile, affordable, keyboard workstation with audio/MIDI recording capabilities, and can operate on AC power or battery power (with the latter requiring half a dozen AA batteries to run), in addition to a vast selection of cutting-edge sounds. You will be able to choose from 61 keys or 88 fully-weighted keys, where it also holds the distinction of being the first battery-powered, full-featured Korg keyboard workstation.
It is said to feature rich sounds which are definitely top of its class, while carrying practical features such as analog-style step sequencing and built-in audio recorder, where all of those have been crammed into a lightweight and portable package. It seems that Korg is intend to hit the nail on the head this time around with the Kross offering specifications and style which will exceed people's expectation of a keyboard at this price point.
Kross is said to come with roughly double the sound sample data compared to preceding Korg models such as the X50 and the PS60. You will find essential sounds like rock/jazz organ, strings, brass, and synth sounds in there, where they have been carefully treated to upgrades and enhancements, in addition to carrying instruments like the toy piano, accordion, combo organ, church organ, and of course, vintage instruments such as a tape sampler. Time to start composing a new set of your own tunes, no?
Those who are interested in picking up the Korg Kross keyboard workstation will be able to do so from this August onwards, where it will come with two price tags due to the different configuration. The 61-key Kross will retail for $699 a pop, while the 88-key model is more expensive at $999.


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ée. I feel almost effluent. Love is in the air as well as a few zappy wasps it seems. I have to mind the guêpe. I don't want to get stung. Some small group of young teenage girls find their mobiles uproariously funny not a few tables away. One bats away a wasp and her colourful bracelet flies into the air and catches on the lower branches of a flowery tree. The girls collapse laughing and light up their cigarettes. People smoke a lot here I notice. At least it keeps the wasps away.
|Terrace at Cinema Café Utopia
On the opposite side of the square lies the Cinema Café Utopia. Other folk look casually across in my direction. Pretty sun kissed women on bikes head off in the direction of rue de la merci their long skirts floating in their wake. Ici, all is conviviality, pleasant times envisaged as being a thing sat on an olive oil blessed crunchy toasted slice of bruschetta. Hark at me getting all romantic. Suddenly, all my focus is on one single person out of over a hundred or so. She looks like she should be ecstatically dancing in a fountain so incredibly happy is she. "She may be the face I can't forget. A trace of pleasure or regret. May be my treasure or the price I have to pay. She may be the song that summer sings..." Yes thank you Charles Aznavour.
This slender tousle haired rather pretty woman flings her arms in the air, flashes a smile so brilliant for a moment the very sun is subdued and her rose scented self is swept up into the adoring arms of he. "He may be the face I can't forget..." Charles!! Arret! Stop now!
For the next fifteen minutes they sit on a hard wooden bench totally unaware of anything in the world (and I mean anything). Nothing exists except their uncompromising love and lust for each other. They embrace and enfold, tease and please, touch and stroke each other's limbs; each one eager as rampant bunnies to kiss the other with a collusion of blistering smackers and soft tender kisses. Oh to be so loved. Oh my life, Romeo and Juliet never had it so good. Oh, to ask the waiter for another very cold 1664 beer and a fan. Here they are bless 'em.
After all that mouth activity it is time for some food, I think. Having gone a bit meat crazy on this long weekend break I deliberately look out for an alternative.
I move over to the dining tables side of the actual restaurant and eventually choose to have a whole fish with accompaniments. The fish is a roast dorade – latin name Pagellus bogaraevo and it comes with a white asparagus, egg and rice mash, some salad, fresh lemon and rings of colourful peppers. In English it is a red sea bream. It is rare that I get to eat a whole fish like this and it was very tasty. I even photographed the remaining skeleton. When I looked up from eating the lovers had gone off to find a room or a back alley. Or a balcony.
The restaurant has become very busy and a rather noisy mixed sex group of French friends in their twenties have just arrived with the intention of partying and laughing clamorously. Think footballers wives françaises and bearded Romain Duris wannabees with plenty of Euros for bottles of champagne. As they say in journalistic circles I had my dessert, paid up and left them to it. The dessert was called a Financier. It is a dome shaped French teacake that traditionally tastes of almonds and caramelised butter. They have a soft and springy texture. Mine came with crème anglaises but didn't taste of much really. Nice evening though. Goodnight lovers. Wherever you are. xx
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Saturday, June 28, 2014
Inside and Cool............
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I think it is funny that there is a period at the end of CHIRP, as if there is nothing more to say.ReplyDelete
It never would have occurred to me to put bowls and tea things in a tiered basket. That is one of the reasons why your home is so interesting, unexpected things here and there.
I suppose you will be indoors quite a lot over the next while since your summer will last so long. You needed the break! :-)
Yes, a one word sentence. I thought it was different. I love everything about that little piece. It's hard to believe that it is July (almost) already. But, it will be a good while before we will have cool days again but, interests change and along about August/September it will seem like fall.ReplyDelete
Betty, I love those stemware dishes! They look just right for eating something cold while you are enjoying summer from the inside. (For sure, I'd be hibernating inside during a Florida summer!)ReplyDelete
I, too, think your "chirp" plate is charming. :)