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This was one extremely annoying error that we kept encountering when trying to update existing node packages using the Node Package Manager from the command line:
npm ERR! cb() never called!
After much googling (interrupted by intermittent bouts of swearing at the computer) we finally found a solution to the problem.
Delete and try again
Now there may have been a less drastic solution (such as changing ownership of the .npm directory for example - which is an approach we only thought of later on post-solution) but after trying the following:
npm cache clean
And finding not one single improvement in the situation we opted to simply remove the .npm folder from our home directory like so:
rm -rf ~/.npm
This was followed by downloading and re-installing the Node and Node Package Manager Mac OS X Installer universal binary available here.
Upon successful re-installation we then opened a new Terminal window and re-ran the following command:
npm update -g
To find the Node Package Manager updating previously installed packages on the system - which is exactly what we wanted to see happening.
Like we stated above, there may be a less drastic solution to resolving the ERR! cb() never called message but this is the one that we found worked for us.
If you know of any other methods, feel free to give us a heads up using the comment form below.


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Now, I did remember to write out my own pattern as I went along making these cute little things... and I will share, but if you find a mistake or a easier way..please feel free to make any changes you need to.This worked out great for me and since this is my very first pattern EVER written....I really hope you can follow along with me.Followed by a copy of my crochet owl pattern!
Now, you all know I provide my patterns for free. I always have and hope to continue doing so. I don't mind people making things from my patterns, I don't mind people selling toys made with my patterns. But I do mind people who say they wrote a pattern that I wrote. That's called LYING and nice people don't lie.
I have asked the author of the above text to correct her post and include the link to my pattern. I hope she will have the integrity to do so.

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Chapter 654 - Killing in a Single Breath
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Wuqiong Bi collapsed into the puddles on the ground.
Her Daoist robe had already been burned into tatters. Her face was pale, her body completely drenched. All in all, she presented an extremely miserable figure.
Yet she cared for none of this, screaming with all her might.
She knew that her husband had used the red flower to protect her life, that he must have paid a ma.s.sive price.
The situation was now plain to see: the person that the Tianhai Divine Empress had originally intended to kill was not her, but…him.
Bie Yanghong heard his wife's words and he was naturally even more aware of the situation. The annihilation of the red flower had put him at his weakest moment.
But he could not leave, because the Tianhai Divine Empress had already arrived.
The black Phoenix wings appeared in the darkness like the shadow of death.
Nothing could be faster than her, not Wuqiong Bi's warnings or Bie Yanghong's thoughts.
A pure, seemingly rather delicate fist appeared in front of Bie Yanghong.
This fist seemed to contain all the energy of the world, completely encapsulating his surroundings.
Bie Yanghong had a feeling that no matter which way he went, he would find it impossible to escape unless he could ascend to the heavens or sink into the earth.
Yet the great earth was firm, and the restrictions of the Mausoleum of Books prevented even experts of the Divine Domain from flying, so how could he avoid it?
His pinkie finger lightly flicked, and the string that had originally been tied to the red flower rose upward.
An invisible string seemed to extend down from the starry sky all the way to the Mausoleum of Books, tied to his body.
Through some incomprehensible manner, his body flew upwards.
Just when his two feet left the ground, the pure white fist arrived.
It seemed that his struggles had amounted to nothing, but they were actually quite critical, because the fist landed not on his face, but his stomach.
Right at that moment, the thin string tied around his pinkie swung in front of his stomach.
An enormous boom akin to thunder exploded in the Mausoleum of Books. Countless cracks appeared on the stone plain and all the waters in the ca.n.a.ls boiled into the air, transforming into mist.
A clear path appeared in the mist, extending into the dark forests of the Mausoleum of Books.
A clear path also appeared in the dark forest, the ground completely covered in toppled trees.
The end of this path was the river outside the Mausoleum of Books. In the long-dry river bed, a huge hole appeared. The fake Heavenly Tome Monoliths lay in pieces within it.
Bie Yanghong lay in front of those broken monoliths, his stomach caved in, his body covered in blood.
The black Phoenix wings dispersed the darkness and the pure white fist appeared once more. It exploded towards Bie Yanghong, clearly not prepared to give him any time to catch his breath.
Wuqiong Bi screamed and madly rushed in that direction.
The snowstorm was still fighting against the shooting stars at the end of the Divine Path. A tinge of sternness appeared on Guan Xingke's ordinary face.
He had not expected that even Bie Yanghong, with his level of cultivation, was still not a match for even one fist of the Tianhai Divine Empress.
He could not allow this situation to continue. If the Tianhai Divine Empress truly could kill Bie Yanghong in a single stroke, then it would a.s.suredly be his turn next.
The countless tiny shooting stars made a sudden turn in the night sky. With a sky full of starlight, they surged towards the river outside the Mausoleum of Books, striking right at the Divine Empress's back!
The snowstorm swept over him, instantly covering Guan Xingke's body in tiny cuts, all wounds sliced out by sword intent.
There was a faint connection amongst the stars, which was fate. Within the domain of stars, there was a path, and this was change.
In a moment, the shooting stars enveloped the riverside and struck at the Tianhai Divine Empress. They seemed dense and profuse to an indescribable extent, but they were not the true sea of stars; there were naturally cracks within them.
No person could find the crack in these shooting stars in such a short time.
Guan Xingke was very confident of this fact, so he firmly believed that the Tianhai Divine Empress had to turn to receive his full-force attack.
He had chosen to use his valiant cultivation to resist the snowstorm of Han Qing's sword and sent his sky of shooting stars towards that side precisely so that he could leave Bie Yanghong a chance to live.
From any angle, this choice was courageous and wise, yet in hindsight, it was the greatest mistake he made in this battle of the Divine Domain.
Because the Tianhai Divine Empress's goal had always…been him.
The Tianhai Divine Empress did not turn. Instead, she continued to fly into the night sky, and then vanished.
Two streams of black light suddenly made their way through innumerable shooting stars, the black Phoenix wings tearing through.
The vast sky of stars was riddled with paths. Even fate could be reversed; how could she not see through the cracks in these shooting stars?
An extremely clear and incomparably arrogant Phoenix cry rose up from the Mausoleum of Books.
A true Phoenix cleaved a path through the stars and arrived in front of Guan Xingke.
This was a Black Phoenix, utterly enormous, seemingly able to obscure half the sky.
With a grim shout, Guan Xingke could no longer care for the sword intent in the blizzard. He flipped his right palm and sent it up to meet the night sky.
With this single palm, the countless stars in the night sky grew brighter. These were all the stars he had seen in his many years at the sh.o.r.es of the Western Sea. They were all his companions.
It was only a pity that the two wings unfurled by the Black Phoenix obscured his eyes and also obscured those stars.
The darkness of death descended.
There was a light clap.
The Tianhai Divine Empress's palm fell on Guan Xingke's palm.
Guan Xingke's palm was pristine, but his wrist bones were shattered.
He was an expert of the Divine Domain who had observed the stars for centuries, and whose flesh and bone had long since transformed to jade, their strength comparable to that of ordinary divine artifacts.
But now, they shattered like rotted wood.
Right after, Guan Xingke's hand shattered, then his shoulder shattered.
His crystal-like flesh, his jade-like bones, his blood glistening with fragments of stars, sprayed everywhere into the night.
Guan Xingke's body incessantly grew shorter, incessantly crumbled away.
The palm hanging in the darkness also finally shattered.
Guan Xingke became a pile of shards on the ground.
With the howling of the night wind, these shards were scattered in all directions, all the way into the night sky, their final destination unknown.
In the night sky, the ma.s.sive Black Phoenix gradually dispersed its body.
The Tianhai Divine Empress returned to the peak of the Mausoleum of Books.
She stood on the edge of the Divine Path and slowly clasped her hands behind her.
She closed her eyes, then opened them to once more look upon her world.
She was very calm as if nothing had happened at all.
Thus, the entire world turned silent.
In the moment when the Tianhai Divine Empress closed her eyes and opened them again, her soul once more traveled tens of thousands of li away, returning to the stream near Xining Village's old temple.
The tree branches were still gently swaying in the breeze.
The blood lotuses in the stream drifted off in all directions, guideless.
The monk was still sitting by the stream, his bare feet still in the water.
"This is Our world. Your coming means you can no longer leave."
The Tianhai Divine Empress gazed at him and said, "And We can come and go however We please."


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Nondual Highlights Issue #2084 Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Nagarjuna's Mahamudra Vision
Homage to Manjusrikumarabhuta!
1. I bow down to the all-powerful Buddha
Whose mind is free of attachment,
Who in his compassion and wisdom
Has taught the inexpressible.
2. In truth there is no birth -
Then surely no cessation or liberation;
The Buddha is like the sky
And all beings have that nature.
3. Neither Samsara nor Nirvana exist,
But all is a complex continuum
With an intrinsic face of void,
The object of ultimate awareness.
4. The nature of all things
Appears like a reflection,
Pure and naturally quiescent,
With a non-dual identity of suchness.
5. The common mind imagines a self
Where there is nothing at all,
And it conceives of emotional states -
Happiness, suffering, and equanimity.
6. The six states of being in Samsara,
The happiness of heaven,
The suffering of hell,
Are all false creations, figments of mind.
7. Likewise the ideas of bad action causing suffering,
Old age, disease and death,
And the idea that virtue leads to happiness,
Are mere ideas, unreal notions.
8. Like an artist frightened
By the devil he paints,
The sufferer in Samsara
Is terrified by his own imagination.
9. Like a man caught in quicksands
Thrashing and struggling about,
So beings drown
In the mess of their own thoughts.
10. Mistaking fantasy for reality
Causes an experience of suffering;
Mind is poisoned by interpretation
Of consciousness of form.
11. Dissolving figment and fantasy
With a mind of compassionate insight,
Remain in perfect awareness
In order to help all beings.
12. So acquiring conventional virtue
Freed from the web of interpretive thought,
Insurpassable understanding is gained
As Buddha, friend to the world.
13. Knowing the relativity of all,
The ultimate truth is always seen;
Dismissing the idea of beginning, middle and end
The flow is seen as Emptiness.
14. So all samsara and nirvana is seen as it is -
Empty and insubstantial,
Naked and changeless,
Eternally quiescent and illumined.
15. As the figments of a dream
Dissolve upon waking,
So the confusion of Samsara
Fades away in enlightenment.
16. Idealising things of no substance
As eternal, substantial and satisfying,
Shrouding them in a fog of desire
The round of existence arises.
17. The nature of beings is unborn
Yet commonly beings are conceived to exist;
Both beings and their ideas
Are false beliefs.
18. It is nothing but an artifice of mind
This birth into an illusory becoming,
Into a world of good and evil action
With good or bad rebirth to follow.
19. When the wheel of mind ceases to turn
All things come to an end.
So there is nothing inherently substantial
And all things are utterly pure.
20. This great ocean of samsara,
Full of delusive thought,
Can be crossed in the boat Universal Approach.
Who can reach the other side without it?
- Nagarjuna, posted to DailyDharma
She went on to say that from the moment they first met me, they had nicknamed me Fosforito, little match. "You burn too fast and uselessly." She gestured for me to remain quiet and added that I didn't know how to focus my energy. "It's deployed to protect and uphold the idea of yourself." Again she motioned me to be silent and said that what we think is our personal self is, in actuality, only an idea. She claimed that the bulk of our energy is comsumed in defending that idea.
Chapter 18
Florinda Donner, posted to The Other Syntax
SIKHIDHVAJA said:
Holy one, pray instruct me in such a way that it will be perfectly clear to me that the mind is non-existent.
KUMBHA said:
O King, there is not and there never has been an entity known as the mind. That which shines here and is known as the mind is indeed the infinite Brahman (consciousness). It is ignorance of its true nature which gives rise to the notion of a mind and the world and all the rest of it. When even these are insubstantial notions, how can 'I', 'you' etc. be considered real? Thus, there is no such thing as the 'world', and whatever appears to be is uncreated. All this is indeed Brahman. How can that be known and by whom?
Even in the beginning of the present world-cycle the world was not created. It was described as creation by me only for your comprehension. In the total absence of any causative factors, all these could not have been created at all. Therefore, whatever there is is Brahman and naught else. It is not even logical to say that the Lord who is nameless and formless created the world! It is not true. When thus the creation of the world is seen to be false, then surely the mind that entertains the notion of such a creation is false, too.
Mind is but a bundle of such notions that limit the truth. But, then, division implies divisibility. When the infinite consciousness is incapable of division, there is no divisibility and hence no division. How can mind, the divider, be real? Whatever appears to be here is perceived in Brahman, by Brahman, and such perception is, by courtesy, known as the mind! It is the infinite consciousness alone which is spread out as the universe. Why then call it the universe? In this plane or dimension of consciousness, whatever slight appearance there seems to be is but the reflection of consciousness in itself: hence there is neither mind nor the world. Only in ignorance is all this seen as the 'world'. Hence the mind is unreal.
Only creation is negated by this, not what *is*. The reality that is seen as this world is beginningless and uncreated. [. . .]
When the world does not exist as such, where is 'I' or 'you'? Hence, remaining at peace with yourself, engage yourself in non-volitional actions as are appropriate from moment to moment. All this is but Brahman which is peace; 'I' and the 'world' are but words without substance. When the insubstantiality of such expressions is realized, then what is seen as the world is realized as Brahman.
The creator Brahma is but an idea or notion. Even so is 'self' or 'I'. In their right or wrong comprehension lies liberation or bondage! The notion 'I am' gives rise to bondage and self destruction. The realization 'I am (is) not' leads to freedom and purity. Bondage and liberation are but notions. That which is aware of these notions is infinite consciousness which alone is. The notion 'I am' is the source of all distress. The absence of such a feeling is perfection. Realize 'I am not that egosense' and rest in pure awareness.
When such pure awareness arises, all notions subside. There is perfection. In the pure awareness, perfection or the Lord, there is neither causality nor the resultant creation of objects. In the absence of objects, there is no experience nor its concomitant egosense. When the egosense is non-existent, where is samsara (the cycle of birth and death)? When thus samsara does not exist, the supreme being alone remains. In it the universe exists as carvings in uncarved stone. He who thus sees the universe, without the intervention of the mind and therefore without the notion of a universe, he alone sees the truth. Such a vision is known as nirvana.
Even as the ocean alone exists when the word 'wave' is deprived of its meaning, Brahman alone exists when when the word 'creation' is seen as meaningless. This creation is Brahman; Brahman alone is aware of this creation. When the word-meaning of 'creation' is dropped, the true meaning of 'creation' is seen as the eternal Brahman. When one enquires into the word 'Brahman', the ALL is comprehended. When one similarly enquires into the word 'creation', Brahman is comprehended. However, that consciousness which is the basis and the substratum for all such notions and their awareness is known by the word 'Brahman'. When this truth is clearly realized and when the duality of knowledge and known is discarded, what remains is the supreme peace which is indescribable and inexpressible.
- excerpt from Yoga Vasistha, trans. Swami Venkatesananda
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I'm not ashamed to say I've done some pretty dumb shit because the internet said it was true.. No shame in my game. So here is a list of the
1. Put deoderant on my vag after shaving.. its supposed to prevent razor bumps. Idk if it worked maybe my razor just was awesome DUH but whatever #sofreshandsoclean
2. Tried to whiten my teeth with a banana peel... ummm yeah don't do that.
3. Putting tin foil in a boil and pouring used grease into it. That shit doesnt harden so you can throw away you just have a bowl of grease rather than a pan of grease.
4. Homemade baby wipes... okay this worked when I was broke as hell but they're really thin and soapy so either I F'd up the recipe or they're the equivalent of dollar tree wipes and if you dont know about dollar tree wipes you dont know the struggle! Ps. Cutting a paper towel roll in half isnt all that easy!
5.Nori seaweed wraps... Do I really have to elaborate? Okay. I thought it would kind of be like sushi. It wasn't. First of all canned fish EW! Second of all it was all mushy and fishy and I threw up. The end!
8. Using toothpaste on picture hooks to mark the wall. Im clumsy and toothpaste is sticky...#hotmess
9. Homemade potpourri Uhm yeah my house smelled like ass and then I had a pot full of cranberries, cinnamon, and oranges that I didnt know what to do with.
and 10. The reason you clicked on this blog post. Last night I googled DIY pimple remedy. Some brilliant
|and apparently didnt get all the eyeliner off my eyes so I look like a back alley crack whore....


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LONDON (Reuters) - An Italian magazine said on Tuesday it will publish pictures of a pregnant Duchess of Cambridge wearing a bikini on holiday in the Caribbean, angering the British royal family and reigniting a debate over privacy and freedom of the press.
Photographs of the former Kate Middleton, walking with her husband Prince William on a beach on the island of Mustique are expected to be published in the Italian gossip magazine Chi on Wednesday.
The same publication ran pictures last September of the princess sunbathing topless on holiday in France, raising questions about media intrusion into the lives of one of the world's most famous couples.
Chi's owner The Mondadori group published a picture of the magazine's front page on its website. It appeared to show the 31-year-old princess wading into the sea in a blue bikini in one picture and another where she was strolling arm in arm with William, 30, second in line to the British throne.
The headline read: "Kate & William in Mustique: The belly grows".
A St James's Palace spokesman said the decision was "a clear breach of the couple's right to privacy".
"We are disappointed that photographs of the Duke and Duchess on a private holiday look likely to be published overseas," he said.
The magazine's publication of the topless pictures last year against the couple's wishes was condemned by British Prime Minister David Cameron. It stirred memories of the world media's relentless pursuit of William's mother, Princess Diana who died in a car crash in Paris in 1997 as she was being chased by paparazzi.
While magazines and websites in Europe have printed long-lens shots of the couple, Britain's tabloid newspapers have so far held back.
The newspapers are fighting stricter regulation recommended by a judge-led inquiry into their tactics that uncovered illegal payments to public officials and phone-hacking to get stories.
The couple are expecting their first baby in July. The duchess was admitted to hospital in December suffering from an acute form of morning sickness.
Additional reporting by Paola Arosio in Milan; Editing by Andrew Heavens


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Hi stampers and happy Friday! Who doesn't love Fridays...especially when it's time for a new Fab Friday challenge! Um, and just HOW can it be February already???? Geesh! We have a super fun sketch for you today which can be interpreted many ways! I actually used some different shapes in my card so don't be afraid to mix it up! You can always substitute any shape you want in our sketches! Seriously! We won't yell at you:-) We encourage it!!!!
So, I'm playing more with my new goodies and thought it was about time I used the Tea for Two suite which I LURVE!!!!! It's so sweet and pretty and frilly and I sort of LOVE it! And it worked great for this sketch!
Stamps: Oh, hello
Paper: Whisper white, crumb cake, DSP
Ink: Crumb cake, so saffron, pool party, calypso coral
Accessories: Ovals framelits, honeycomb embossing folder, basic pearls, doilies, distressing tool
Sorry the picture is blurry. It was dark by the time I went to edit it so I'll try to come back this weekend and take another! Instead of some scallops at the top of my oval I used a quarter of a doily! I thought I was a genius for a second, lol! Don't you love when you come up with a fun idea and feel clever:-) I also used my distressing tool on the oval and DSP but it doesn't show up in the picture well.
Now, make sure you check out all the other fab design team projects and then play along!!!
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Background and Lifestyle
Interests and Personality
Peter Heij, born in Utrecht in 1960, lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He attended the Royal Academy for Art and Design (AKV | St. Joost) at Den Bosch from 1982 to 1987, specialising in painting. During his academic period, he produced works in numerous styles including figurative, expressionistic, and abstract. He continued primarily in realism, practiced from his youth and enriched with his academy experiences. The themes and subjects of some of these post-academy paintings deal with people and the impact of their surroundings on their identities, particularly in the Figures (Gestalten) series. Others endeavour to reconstruct landscapes of the past (the Lostland paintings) or attempt to capture the shapes of the ephemeral (the Skyscapes). A more recent group of works reveals the traces made on a landscape by its inhabitants (Santa Fe footpaths). Created in the same period as the New Mexico group, Peter executed a collection of sketches of faces from memory (Faces). The experience of new and changed insights and awareness through elevation above and distance from everyday reality, never completely losing sight of that reality, stands central in his work. Peter Heij has regularly exhibited both in the Netherlands and abroad. Solo exhibitions took place at Gallery Stam, Amsterdam, with an overview of the Lostland series (2008), and at Gallery Acculade, Amsterdam IJburg, where the comparision between older and recent work contrasting the themes of the inner and outer worlds (2008). The series Figures/Gestalten was shown at the Sint Antoniesbreestraat (a street exhibition) as a commission from the art commission of Wijkcentrum d Oude Stadt (city of Amsterdam Centre) (2005). Group exhibitions took place at LekArt 2012, theme; InsideOut, Culemborg, Gallery S, theme; contrasts, Amsterdam (2011), at the University of Pennsylvania, Fox Gallery, Graduate Humanities Forum, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. with the theme; In the Beginning, Exploring Origins in Contemporary Art (painting Lost Land IX) (2008), at Castle Nyenrode/Gallery Peter Leen, Breukelen/Gemeentehuis Maarsen (2007) and at 8Q Mondial Global Exhibition; Show Your Hope, Fnd. 80 Questions (travelling since 2007). He has made travels significant to artistic development to the U.S.A. (2003/2009/2011, et. al.), Italy (since 1973, last 2010), Vietnam (2001), Sri Lanka (1999), Thailand (1995/1996), and Indonesia (1994 and 1997). Education 1982 1987 Royal Academy for Art and Design (akv | St Joost), Den Bosch. Specialized in painting. Solo exhibitions (selection) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Open Studios Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam. 2008 Gallery Stam, Amsterdam. Gallery Acculade, Amsterdam IJburg. 2007 Open Studios Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam. 2005 Wijkcentrum dOude Stadt, project Figures in the Sint Antoniesbreestraat, Amsterdam. Gallery Acculade, Amsterdam IJburg. 2001 de Baak Art Gallery, Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Group exhibitions (selection) 2012 Cheapart Amsterdam. LekArt 2012, theme Insideout, Culemborg, The Netherlands. Alan Barnes Fine Art, exhibition Atelier 2012′, Dallas, Texas, USA. Gallery Stam, Amsterdam. 2011 Gallery Stam, Amsterdam. Gallery S, exhibition Contrasts, Amsterdam. 2009, 2010 Gallery Stam, Amsterdam. Open Studios Nieuwmarkt, central exhibition. 2008 Hotel Gallery Pulitzer, Amsterdam. Gallery Stam, Amsterdam. University of Pennsylvania, Fox Gallery, Graduate Humanities Forum, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.; In the Beginning, Exploring Origins in Contemporary Art. 2007 Gallery Peter Leen/Castle Nyenrode, Breukelen, Townhall Maarssen, The Netherlands. Open Studios Nieuwmarkt, central exhibitions at Chiellerie and Pintohuis, Amsterdam. 8Q Mondial Global Exhibition Show Your Hope, Fnd. 80 Questions. 2006, 2007 M.I.A.D. Venado Tuerto 2006 International Exhibition of digital art, Sante Fe, Argentina. 2006 Gallery Acculade, Amsterdam IJburg. 2005 Gallery Peter Leen, Breukelen, The Netherlands. 2004 Holland Art Fair, The Hague, The Netherlands-Gallery De Opsteker (Amsterdam). 2003 Lineart art fair, Gent, Belgium-Gallery De Opsteker (Amsterdam). Allegany Arts Council-Saville Gallery, Wills Creek Survey, Cumberland, Maryland, U.S.A. 2002, 2003 Holland Art Fair, The Hague, The Netherlands-Gallery De Opsteker (Amsterdam). 1999 Gallery Ploos van Amstel, Summer-and Autumn Exhibitions, Amsterdam. 1998, 1999 Institute for Religian Sciences, State University Groningen, The Netherlands; Eternal Vulnerable. Modern Art and Religion. Feb/Mar 1999 Museum Abtei Kamp, Kamp-Lintfort, Düsseldorf, Germany. Jan/Oct 1998 Faculty for Religian Science, State University-Museum Gerardus van de Leeuw, Groningen. Museum voor Religian Art, Uden, The Netherlands. Museum Begijncourtchurch, Saint-Truiden, Belgium. Public Collections R.O.C. Amsterdam, Municipality of Amsterdam, SBK. Publications (selection) 2009, 2008 Kunstgids/Art Guide Amsterdam; Edition 2009, pg. 114. Edition 2008, pg. 127. 2008 University of Pennsylvania, Fox Gallery, Graduate Humanities Forum, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.; In the Beginning, Exploring Origins in Contemporary Art; Catalog. 2007 The Uitkrant, Amsterdams Uitburo; Open Studios Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam, with pict. Figures III. The William and Mary Review-The College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.), pict. Reclining Amsterdam. 2005 De Echo, (newspaper Amsterdam); project Figures in the Sint Antoniesbreestraat, Amsterdam, pict. Gestalten III. 2004 Kunstbeeld (art magazine), edition Nov.; Pict. David in Amsterdam, about Holland Art Fair. 2003 Cumberland Times (newspaper Maryland, U.S.A.); Exhibition Wills Creek Survey, Allegany Arts Councels Saville Gallery, pict. Skyscape I. 1999 De Gay Krant (monthly newspaper), edition 390/July; Review with Gallery Ploos van Amstel (pict. Looking for God). 1998 Fier (magazine), editions March/April and Nov./Dec.; Critics and review by A. Westra (pict. Looking for God) and follow up by E. Maeckelberghe. Eindhovens Dagblad (newspaper Netherlands); Review Mary Winters; Eternal Vulnerable. Modern art and religion, exhibition State University Groningen, Netherlands. Friesch Dagblad (newspaper Netherlands); Review/interview Grada Kos; Eternal Vulnerable. Modern art and religion, exhibition State University Groningen, Netherlands. Catalog; Eternal Vulnerable. Modern art and religion. Exhibition State University Groningen, Neth., pg. 84, pict. Looking for God with text by Dr. David Bos.
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In three early July days in 1863, Gettysburg, Pa., was the stage for the largest Civil War battle. Between July 1 and 3, more than 51,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or captured as Union soldiers defeated troops under the command of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
From Friday, July 5, through Sunday, July 7, Gettysburg will once again teem with combatants - re-enactors bringing to life the battle during the 139th anniversary of the bloodiest battle of the War between the States.
But the re-enactment is but one segment of more than a week's worth of activities. During the 20th Annual Gettysburg Civil War Heritage Days, Friday, June 28, through July 7, visitors to the Pennsylvania town will see battles waged, historical encampments, listen to Civil War-era music and lectures, and step backward in time to a turning point in America's history.
Throughout Civil War Heritage Days, Gettysburg National Military Park will host a series of free guided walks and lectures in conjunction with the 139th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.


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Stocks stage major reversal higher; Disney, Snap earnings on the way; Disney, Snap earnings on the way
Is market turbulence the new norm? Plus, Carl Icahn says some levered funds will destroy this market—more bluster or wisdom from Uncle Carl? And Disney, Snap and Chipotle earnings are on the way. Plus a look ahead to everything you need to know for another big trading session tomorrow. Catch The Final Round with Jen Rogers and Yahoo Finance markets correspondent Myles Udland.
Winners and losers
Stocks in the red today include Credit Suisse as it will end trading and liquidate its daily inverse VIX short-term ETN—the XIV; Cirrus Logic as the chip name reported a profit and revenue miss; and Cboe, with the exchange operator getting hit as investors worry about how the implosion of products like the XIV will hurt VIX-related trading volume.
Stocks in the green today include GM as the automaker announced fourth-quarter earnings today, beating on revenue handily; Micron Technology as the chipmaker raised its quarterly outlook; and Toyota, with shares getting a boost as the automaker raised its full-year profit forecast, citing improved sales and a weaker yen.


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Cover Story
Driven to Extremes
AT 7:25, ABOUT 15 MINUTES INTO HIS TWO-HOUR-PLUS WEEKNIGHT COMMUTE, Marc Turner reached for his ringing cellphone. On the other end of the line, the younger of his two daughters, 7-year-old Catherine, had a question.
"I'll be home soon, Cate," he answered. "What?" His daughter wanted a more precise pledge. "Yes, I'm coming home, Cate, but traffic is horrible. I think it's probably going to be longer than two hours. Yes, you can tell Mom that: longer. Two hours, I hope, but I don't know exactly. Are you helping make dinner, Cate? Are you going to help set the table, then, or do something else? Good. Yes, longer than two hours, Cate. Help everybody while you're waiting. Yes, longer, probably." By the third time he answered the question, he wondered whether Cate was doing his wife's bidding. "Yes, you can tell Mom. I'll be home as soon as I can."
Turner, a 43-year-old paralegal, had just left for home from his job in bustling Tysons Corner, about 100 miles northeast from his Charlottesville residence, where he lives with his wife, Julie, and their three children. At 7:28, after crawling on the Beltway for a while, his gray 1999 Saab sedan pulled onto Interstate 66 West. Turner groaned. Traffic crept along at 5 mph. "Doesn't look good," he said. "Could be really long tonight. The fortunate thing is I'm not really tired yet." Tuesday generally presented a much less draining commute for Turner than, say, a Thursday night, when he was usually worn down by the first three days of the workweek -- three round-trip commutes that consumed four to five hours daily.
By Thursday nights, running on fumes, he routinely avoided the evening commute entirely and stayed at a discount hotel near Tysons Corner to rest and recover. He usually had a drink on the concierge's floor, sometimes watched a film in his room, got an early night's sleep and readied himself for a normally busy Friday morning. Two years ago, when he took the job in Tysons Corner, he had secured his wife's blessing for Thursday night stay-overs, assuring her that he would have more to give to her and the children on weekends if he came home on Fridays refreshed. The rest of his workweek, Turner pointed out, offered almost no respite. Even on uneventful commuting nights, he seldom walked through the front door of his house until long after the kids had eaten and fallen asleep. As often as not, Julie was getting ready for bed herself, having only enough time to say hi and ask her husband hurried questions about household matters, such as what he had spent that day so that she could balance their checkbook. And then she was asleep, and he alone again.
That isolation had come to define his existence. Turner's solitariness mirrored the lives of countless other commuters who have spent large portions of their working lives alone in cars -- alone with their dreams and anxieties, alone with worries about whether they will make it to their jobs or to the next appointment on time, alone pondering the complaints of alienated family members pointing out that they are not around often enough, alone with their own festering resentments over why the people closest to them can't better understand their mounting fatigue and stress. Doctors report a booming business in treating the neck and back pain of tense commuters. Studies have indicated a correlation between long, congested commutes and such stress-related maladies as high blood pressure. Other research has concluded that long commutes result in increased social isolation and greater dissatisfaction with jobs and life in general. Gridlock is the least of the problems.
As he headed toward home that evening, Turner estimated that more than 20 percent of his waking hours were spent commuting. Often during his rides, he saw many of the same vehicles -- a Honda sedan with a personalized license plate here, a white business van there, an elegant black Bentley whose impassive driver sat ramrod straight. He regarded the strangers behind the steering wheels as comrades of sorts, all of them often caught in a hellish crawl.
The Tysons Corner drive paled in awfulness to the often three-hour-plus commutes Turner had endured years earlier, while working in downtown Washington. In those days, his wife had regularly asked him not when but if he would be coming home; the job and commute had forced him into hotels two or three nights a week. Turner left the Washington job and took a moderately lower-paying position in Charlottesville to be closer to his family. But the work there, a brief detour from law firm work, quickly made him miserable. Soon, he was searching again for a new job closer to the city. In 2005, he accepted his paralegal position in Tysons, where his salary dwarfed what was available at any paralegal job he had then heard about in the Charlottesville area. He told Julie that his schedule could be worse, reminding her of his many nights in Washington hotels.
But by last year, this point was no longer consolation for Julie, who thought that Turner's Tysons Corner commute had become symptomatic of a vast separation that she felt in their marriage. She was lonely, she told him. A 41-year-old associate professor at the University of Virginia Medical School, she had an intense schedule herself and very little energy and patience left over for a husband who had virtually no time for her on weeknights; she was generally managing their children's needs alone. The problems in their marriage, she told him, were "multi-factorial," which meant, among other things, that his work life was out of balance with his personal life. His commute had become, as she put it, "a chief separation issue."
During the fall and winter, she broached the possibility of divorce. He thought about it, too. But, ultimately, he wanted to save his marriage and keep his family together. So he had hatched a plan to do just that.
"Traffic is particularly bad tonight," Turner said on I-66, as he rode the brakes at 5 mph in the middle lane, alongside the City of Fairfax and the junction with Highway 50. "It usually starts opening up a little past here, but not tonight, for some reason."
A black SUV cut him off, swerving from left to right, its driver waving over his shoulder as if in apology or thanks. "You don't change lanes like that," Turner groused at the SUV driver. "What are you doing?"
Traffic stopped altogether. He took a deep breath and leaned back a bit on his heated leather seat, which felt good on a cool night like this one. The car also had satellite radio, a present a long while back from his family, who thought his commute could be more tolerable if he could listen commercial-free to any of 100-plus stations. But he usually kept the radio low nowadays. Aside from the classical music station, it was little more than Muzak for him. Even the appeal of Thursday night stay-overs had faded. "You get to feeling lonely," he said. "It's nice to feel a little pampered, but it gets to be no fun alone. You want somebody to share it with."


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"Where's My Mickey?" is a Disney mobile game that features brain-teasing puzzles for players to solve. The objective of the game is for players to help Mickey Mouse collect water. By collecting water, players will be allowed to complete each story in the game.
Other Disney characters are also featured in the game, including Goofy and Pluto. A free version of the game is available for download. However, the free version provides fewer features than the full version. The free version provides players with over 13 puzzles, while the full version offers over 100 puzzles. The mobile game also features original animated episodes that players can watch.


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Former model turned forensic psychologist and PI Makedde Vanderwall is missing, presumed dead in Paris. By hiring a hit man to kill her, the powerful and corrupt Cavanagh family aimed to silence her for good. But after narrowly escaping death, Mak has taken over her would-be killer′s world.
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Collocations with "make"
Collocations with "make"
As students find it difficult to learn with verbs go with which other words, they frequently male lexical mistakes. Their lack of vocabulary hinders all their language skills especially while especially speaking and writing.
However, collocation maps like the one above are very helpful for them to learn the targetted vocabulary in collocations. Preparing such a collocation chart is very easy. I have used simple word document tools while preparing the one above. It is also possible to prepare similar ones using mindmapping tools such as "text2mindmap"
A few tips to deal with collocation maps :
- After introducing the collocations to students and making sample sentences with them , you can ask your students to work in pairs to write sentences. Afer checking and correcting the sentences the pairs have written, cut them in strips each of which has got one of the collocations practised. Then, you can group the students in threes and ask each group to pick one strip. When they pick the strip tell them whether they are supoosed to use the sentence in the strip with a collocation in it as the beginning or the ending sentence of the short story they are going to write. Tell the students that they have 5 minutes to discuss and decide on the setting, the characters and the events in their story and allow them 10 minutes to write their story as a group. After collecting the stories they have written and checking them, give the stories back to the students so that they can illustrate it with pictures, prepare a comic strip using the story or a poster to display on the class wall .
- Another activity you can do with the collocations is to ask students to form their own groups of 4 and to write a story using as many of the collocations as possible. The group that uses the most of them win the game. The time I allowed for my situdents was 15 minutes. Actually, I gave them a setting, some of the characters and a situation so that they could write more easily. After they finished their stories , they read it out loud in the class. Then I collected the stories so that I can check their mistakes. After checking their stories I gave the story to a member of another group to do the peer check and allowed then three days so that they couls spend more time on the story . They brought their stories written on a powerpoint document and illustrated with pictures. Finally I asked them a member from each group to upload their ppt stories on http://www.brainshark.com/mybrainshark in order to add voice to their ppts. They really enjoyed working on their ppts, and after their voiced ppts were ready, they uploaded them on our class' edmodo account to share them with the rest of the class.
A great application to learn vocabulary : WORDBUCKET
There is a variety of applications for smart phones which enable loanguage learners to expand their vocabulary. WORD BUCKET is one of the most practical ones since it enables learners not only to find new words in dictionaries but also to keep their personal vocabulary notebook. In other words, learners discover their own personal WordBucket , saving all the new words their learn and even adding their own personal translations.
In addition, WordBucket offers fun tests and games designed by langugae experts to help learners practise and remember the newly learnt vocabulary.
Visuwords online graphical dictionary!
The visual theasurus on this website is quite pratical. Rather than explaining how useful it is and how it can be used, I thought it would be better to provide you with the introductory note from the website. It is defiitely worth trying!
Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.
Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.
- It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus!
- Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists.
- The online dictionary is available wherever there's an internet connection.
- No membership required.
Visuwords™ uses Princeton University's WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers. Combined with a visualization tool and user interface built from a combination of modern web technologies, Visuwords™ is available as a free resource to all patrons of the web.
http://www.myenglishteacher.eu/ is another website that introduces nice vocabulary posters .


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I ventured into my tip of a sewing room for the first time in ages on Saturday and made myself tidy up. Not the major spring clean it needs but I put away the pile of fabric that was taking up most of the floor and sorted through the pile of things to be fixed that were engulfing the sewing machine. It was good. Good to reclaim the space a bit. I fixed the zip on Big Trouble's lion costume and sewed the tassel back onto his favorite hat. I established that J's PJ bottoms are unfixable and found a couple of small projects that were just waiting to be finished.
Back in the summer when we went to Whitby I bought a tea towel from the Captain Cooke museum. It shows his voyages of discovery and it was quite clear that a couple went via St Helena and Ascension island. The trouble was the islands weren't marked.
So I added them.
On Saturday I rediscovered the tea towel and finally did something with it. It was never intended to be just a tea towel you see. I backed it with a simple envelope back and stuffed a pillow inside.
Ta Da! One extremely large cushion. I kind of love it, even though it is a bit ridiculous.
Next I dug out another map. This time not made by me, but made by my dear friend Lucy. She gave it to me as a leaving present when we left St Helena in July 2014. I think she had intended to make it into a cushion but ran out of time.
She even marked Longwood where we lived. The different panels show the districts.
I backed it, in the true St Helena spirit of upcycling everything, with the front of an old shirt using the buttons as the fastening.
Finally I can see and enjoy it. I completely completely love it.
Thank you my lovely friend.


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The Marc Jacobs' look on the left was one of my favourite looks from recent seasons. And on the right is an offering from Alex Wang's diffusion line T by Alexander Wang. The looks are very similar- shiny full length skirt and thick wool winter sweater.
This look fascinates me. It's like a sartorial (it pains me to use that word) metaphor for where we are now in fashion. Take the spectacular style of the skirt (will get to the length in a minute) and what is essentially the utter blandness, the day-to-day sloppiness of the jumper and bang! The gap between sober nineties fashion and the ferocious extravagance of much of the noughties has been bridged. Clever, no?
(Skip the following paragraph if you cannot stand more rambling on long skirts – I do this a lot!)
And then there is the length. I have watched with nothing short of an obsessive fascination at how the full-length skirt has gone from 'out there' to everywhere. Every third lady is sweeping floors (not actually sweeping floors) in a full-lengther. It's amazing and great simply because they do look so great on everyone and they're practical (can be worn day or night) and are exceptionally comfy. The point is though, the long skirt is quickly becoming a wardrobe staple more akin to the skinny jean as opposed to a flash-in-the-pan harem trouser sorta trend. By nature though I am something of a pessimist and am already fearing that moment when I decide 'Hold up. I am sick of full-length skirts' and that's why I am proposing a promotion from mere trend item to staple piece. Now, that's something that really interests me.
And back to the top. To cut a long story short, I think this provides a pretty good template for fall dressing, and isn't it sorta cool too that nothing much has changed in a year?


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Six Presentation Lessons from Grey's Anatomy
First up was Dr. Torres. She is a nervous wreck and in trying to start her slides, she inadvertently shows a personal picture instead of a picture of the patient. Lesson #1 is to not send your laptop image to the projector until you have the correct image ready. Her slides are awful. She has a multi-colored background, every bullet point is in a different color, including dark text on a dark background, and the slides were disconnected from what she was stumbling through. Lesson #2 is to design slides that are easy to see and connect with what you are saying. She is fumbling so badly, that a colleague starts to engage her in a conversation to help walk her through the case. This calms her down and she finally sits on the edge of the stage and just tells the story. At one point, she is asked to show the X-ray that will illustrate the point she is making, so she shows that visual because it adds to the story. Lesson #3 is to aim for a conversation with the audience and use visuals only when they enhance the story.
Next up is Dr. Bailey. She is more comfortable presenting and starts by engaging the audience and interacting with them. She asks questions and throws chocolates to the one who answers correctly. Lesson #4 is to plan how you will interact with the audience. She uses slides, but they are mostly bullet lists and she didn't really need them because her style of interacting with the audience works so well. Lesson #5 is that you shouldn't feel compelled to use slides just because you can.
Finally we have the former chief of the hospital, Dr. Webber. He was requested at the last minute to participate, so he had no time to prepare any visuals. He just stands and tells his story. He is engaging, holds the audience's attention and makes them feel what he was feeling at the time. He needs no visuals and is very inspiring. At the end, he is the only one who gets a standing ovation. Lesson #6 is that sometimes the best approach, especially when you are trying to inspire the audience, is to use no visuals at all.
All three doctors were telling the story of a past patient case. And all three took very different approaches. Keep these lessons in mind when you prepare and deliver your next presentation.


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'Homegrown' Bilingual-Ed.Teachers Take Root
When Ariel Nievas came to California from Buenos Aires at age 13, he spoke only Spanish.
By the time he reached age 17, he was writing lesson plans for a classroom full of bilingual kindergarten students in the Fontana Unified School District, about an hour's drive east of Los Angeles.
Today, he is a student at California State University at San Bernadino, where he is preparing for a career as a bilingual teacher.
Since his first year of high school, Mr. Nievas has been shepherded by a "grow your own'' program the Fontana district set up three years ago to help alleviate a shortage of such teachers.
"There are kids you may think are going straight to McDonald's, but who are trying to improve,'' Mr. Nievas said. "This program is something our schools aren't doing enough of: saying, 'We can help you achieve your goals.'''
Frustrated with the cost, time, and risk associated with recruiting bilingual teachers, a number of districts are looking to their own classrooms of language-minority students to develop a new generation of teaching prospects. The Fontana program is seen as the most comprehensive model in this nascent movement.
The National Association for Bilingual Education estimates that U.S. school districts currently need roughly 175,000 more certified bilingual teachers than are available to serve some 3.5 million limited-English-proficient students. A 1993 study done for the U.S. Education Department estimated that at least 35,000 certified bilingual teachers were teaching across the country, although department officials say that estimate is too low.
Catching Up
Educational institutions have used the grow-your-own approach to teacher recruitment for some time, particularly to bolster the ranks of minority teachers or those who specialize in areas of critical shortage.
For example, the Council for Exceptional Children has for decades run high school clubs geared toward grooming students to be special-education teachers, said George E. Ayers, the executive director of the council.
David C. Haselkorn, the president of Recruiting New Teachers, a national, nonprofit organization based in Belmont, Mass., noted that no central clearinghouse keeps track of such programs.
In 1993, the group released what it says was the first national study of precollegiate recruitment efforts, reporting 216 programs enrolling about 30,000 students. Most were less than five years old.
Since that study, Mr. Haselkorn has learned of 290 more programs aimed at early recruitment of students for teaching careers.
"The greatest single reason for these programs has been to attract minority teachers,'' he said, with a lesser emphasis on bilingual- and special-education teachers.
James J. Lyons, the executive director of NABE, said one reason that precollegiate recruitment programs in bilingual education are just starting to expand is that the field has been fraught with political and pedagogical controversy.
"We're in a catch-up mode that's about 10 years behind the times because of this,'' Mr. Lyons said.
Gloria DeNecochea, a program officer for the ARCO Foundation and a former bilingual teacher, said another contributing factor is that knowing another language is not always valued in American schools.
"If kids don't think they're valued, why are they going to assume anyone's interested in hiring them because they have other language capabilities?'' she said.
Clubs, Credits, and Paychecks
Jerilynn Smith, the coordinator of bilingual programs for the Fontana district, started its grow-your-own program in 1990, after making repeated recruiting trips to Arizona and Texas. She spent about $10,000 each time, she said, and came up with only two recruits, both of whom eventually left the district.
"Getting people to come here was somewhat of a struggle, so we decided to invest in our own people,'' she said.
About 6,000 of the district's 30,000 students have limited proficiency in English, and 98 percent of those students speak Spanish. Most of the rest speak Arabic or Vietnamese.
Since 1990, the district has spent about $70,000 on the grow-your-own program, using a combination of state and federal funds for immigrant and L.E.P. students.
The core of the program is a Future Bilingual Teachers of America club that the district originally set up in one high school in 1991 and that now operates in two.
The faculty adviser, Gary Hinckley, brings in elementary-level bilingual teachers to discuss the students' work, then reviews pedagogy in preparation for the students' apprenticeships as teachers' aides.
They receive high school credit and a paycheck for working during the summer in the district's elementary schools, which are on a year-round schedule. Seniors can work as aides during the regular school year as well.
"The club helped me shape my thoughts and understand what my language could do for me,'' Mr. Nievas said. "It helps kids who have no clue what they want to do with those skills.''
Financial Aid for College
Jenny Garcia, a Fontana senior, spends the first two periods of the school day helping elementary-level students read in Spanish and English. She plans to go on to become a bilingual teacher.
"More and more kids are coming from Mexico and Central America into our community, and I want to be able to help and give back something,'' she said.
If graduating students are still interested in becoming bilingual teachers, the district hires them as bilingual aides and they sign a contract. The district promises to pay for the students' college training, and the students agree to work as bilingual teachers in Fontana for the same number of years that they received financial aid.
The idea seems to have caught on. When Mr. Nievas joined the club in 1991, there were 13 members; today there are 80. But the need for bilingual teachers is also increasing. Just four years ago, the district had 10 certified bilingual teachers; today it has 52 and needs another 50, Ms. Smith said.
When Fontana educators gave a presentation on the program at the NABE conference held last month in Los Angeles, they spoke to a full house, representing districts from San Francisco to Lincoln, Neb.
Navajo Initiative
The Fontana model could be the wave of the future, observers say.
"More and more districts are figuring out how to grow their own bilingual teachers,'' said Mary S. Leighton, a researcher for Policy Studies Associates in Washington. "They may not have contracts like Fontana, but they're realizing they're not going to keep [teachers] unless they grow their own.''
Ms. Leighton worked on a federal study, not yet released, that identifies professional-development initiatives with the potential to benefit L.E.P. students.
Other districts are using some elements of Fontana's approach.
The Tucson Unified School District in Arizona started a career ladder for its bilingual teacher aides in 1991, modeling its contract after Fontana's, and is considering starting clubs in its high schools for future bilingual teachers. So far, 45 aides are in the pipeline.
Gloria A. Dominguez, the assistant director for bilingual education and Hispanic studies for the district, said that outside recruiting has not filled her district's needs.
"All we're doing is moving people around. If we take someone from California, then California's short,'' Ms. Dominguez said. With the grow-your-own approach, she said, "people are here and know the area and probably will stay.''
With help from the Ford Foundation, the University of Northern Colorado this summer plans to bring 60 Navajo students in the 8th to 12th grades to its campus for two weeks to participate in the "Today's Students Tomorrow's Teachers'' program.
The Navajo Nation's goal is to develop 1,000 Navajo teachers who are bilingual in DinÀe, the nation's language, and English by 1997. Of the 7,000 teachers who work in schools in Navajo territory--which sprawls across Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah--only 1,300 are Navajo-speaking, according to the Navajo education department.
The students will develop sample lesson plans, work in the campus child-care center, and discuss teaching careers with Navajo teachers. Once they return to their schools, the university will conduct follow-up interviews and encourage counselors to set up clubs.
"We're trying to show students that careers in education are as rewarding as the higher-profile ones, like engineering,'' said Harvey A. Rude, the assistant dean of the university's college of education.
He said four other area colleges and universities are working with schools serving Navajo students to foster bilingual career ladders, primarily for teacher aides.
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They are slowly getting together, Clare, Lettuce and Marcie.
But they were not born triplets. The oldest just got fed up being "the oldest", people thinking she should be more grown up than her sisters. The youngest being fed up that everyone assumed she is the spoiled one. Which she is NOT!
People of course still try to figure out who is the oldest. But the girls will not tell. Many think Marcie is the oldest. Mainly because she sticks out as her hair is very different. And people seem to think the child that sticks out must be the oldest. Which is silly. And completely wrong in Marcie's case. Others think Lettuce must be the youngest. Because she looks like the youngest. A bit more delicate, a bit more crazy. They might be right. Or not at all.
What I do know is that Clare is the most serious of the three, when she's not being very silly. Lettuce is the bounciest one, when she's not lying on her bed reading for hours and hours. Marcie is the best secret keeper - when she is not out gossiping and telling everything anyone confided in her to her sisters ;) Lettuce is the gossiper, Clare the reader and Marcie the silly one. Marcie loves books, Lettuce laughs a lot, Clare tells her the gossip to laugh about...
They are all very different, in and out. They fight a lot and make up a lot. Each prefers to be on her own, they hug constantly. Make fun of each other and confide in each other...
They are very excited, especially the youngest one. And the middle one. But most of all the oldest one ;)
Please not that they are at an early stage so there is no blush applied yet, the hair is not attached yet, etc... So changes in appearance are always possible ;)


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I grew up in a tiny town in the corn belt where the first kid to ride his tractor to school was not the last. We swam in ponds as often as in pools. The super-spacious Midwestern sprawl and lack of public transport meant that, once I learned to drive, I usually got where I was going with the windows down at…um…a totally legal and safe speed.
That car now is scrap metal, and as summer activities go, Pittsburgh beats the flatlands with no contest! But gorgeous summer afternoons, grilling with friends, cinema in the park and some of the most ridiculous jams from the 90's have the power to send me back to my neighborhood with force. These books do the same, and it's kinda nice!
The Oxford Project by Peter Feldstein and Stephen G. Bloom
In 1984, the author set out to photograph everyone in his hometown of Oxford, Iowa, instructing them to "come as you are." Twenty years later, Feldstein hunted down the same people who had stood in front of his lens the first go-around and published the photographs side-by-side. Each set of photos comes with a brief interview of the participant, and they range from downright wacky to mundane. I've never thought of small town life as stunning, but this series of portraits absolutely changed my mind.
Rotters by Daniel Kraus
Joey was 16 when his mother tragically died and he was shipped from Chicago to rural Iowa to live with a father he barely knew. Living with a near-stranger is hard, but finding out the stink in your shack comes from the graves your dad is robbing? Arguably worse. This takes the small (and big) town mantra "nothing ever HAPPENS around here!" and runs it through the wringer. This book is not for the weak of stomach, but if you enjoy a thoughtfully dark read, you will get what you came for with Rotters.
Need to get out of the city – if only for a little while? Check out some of these other awesome reads with rural settings.
Whitney, CLP – Main
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Coach sandbagged by handbags
Oct. 22 - Coach's profit fell as sales of handbags and fashion items dropped in North America. Fred Katayama reports.
Rivals are poaching in Coach's turf. Sales of its iconic handbags and fashion accessories fell sharply in North America in the latest quarter as it faces intense competition from Michael Kors, Kate Spade and Tory Burch. That's key because Coach gets 70 percent of its sales in its home region, and those sales are decelerating. Inventories were high, and profit margin shrank. Sales from China were strong, but the weak performance in two big markets, North America and Japan, and the stronger dollar ate into earnings, Coach's profit fell 1.6 percent. Coach has been trying to recast itself as a "lifestyle brand," adding clothes and shoes to diversify from its lineup of handbags. But Michael Kors has been stealing market share as it expands its popular "shops within shops" at department stores. And Coach is going through a management transition with CEO Lew Frankfort set to be replaced next year with the executive who guided its expansion into Asia, Victor Luis. Based on the latest results, Cowen analyst Faye Landes said, "The company's turnaround is not imminent and is likely to be an iterative effort." Its stock certainly hasn't turned around. Once one of Wall Street's favorites, Coach fell at the open and is down more than 2 percent this year. Its archrival, Kors, is up more than 50 percent.


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The City of Sacramento has increased fire and ambulance services in Natomas and South Sacramento.
The Sacramento Fire Department has added a ladder truck in Natomas and an ambulance on Franklin Boulevard.
Sac Fire's Chris Harvey says previously, the closest ladder truck to the area was three-and-a-half miles.
"The importance of adding a truck out there is we now have several buildings that are over three, four, five stories tall. So, in event of major fire, you need a truck company in order to have that ladder to get up on the roof."
Harvey says some of the city's ambulances are responding to too many calls.
"The national standard for call volume for an ambulance should be right around 3,000-to-3,500 calls per -year, per-ambulance and we have four ambulances in the city of Sacramento that ran over 6,000 calls last year."
Four other ambulances responded to 5,000 calls last year.
The ambulance and two firefighters per shift will staff Station 57 at a cost of about half-a-million dollars annually.
A ladder truck is now based at Station 43 in Natomas at a cost of about $1 million a year.
Last year, the Sacramento City Council requested and voted to approve more fire services using Measure U funding.


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This is a nice dish for supper on a cold night. I had two partially used packages of ground meat in my freezer, so that's what I used for this recipe. I had carrots freshly picked from my garden and green beans that I had blanched and frozen earlier in the season.
2 large russet potatoes, peeled and cubed
1 tablespoon salt
6 tablespoons clarified butter
1/2 cup lactose-free milk
1 cup grated sharp cheddar or other hard cheese
olive or vegetable oil
2 leeks, washed and sliced, green parts only
1 1/4 lbs ground beef, lamb, or a mixture of the two
2 -3 carrots, diced
1 heaping cup cut green beans, frozen is fine
1 tablespoon minced fresh rosemary
1/4 cup minced fresh parsley
salt and pepper
Preheat oven to 375F. Put the potato chunks in a large saucepan, cover with water, add salt, and bring to a boil. Simmer until the potatoes are tender 10 – 20 minutes depending on the size of your chunks. Drain and mash the potatoes together with the butter and milk. Stir in the cheese then taste and adjust seasoning.
While the potatoes are boiling, heat about a tablespoon of oil in an oven-proof skillet. Add the leeks, and give them a couple of stirs around the pan until they just begin to soften. Add the meat and cook, breaking up clumps, until it is no longer pink. Add the remaining ingredients, cover, turn the heat down to low and simmer for 5 – 10 minutes until the carrots start to soften. There should be a little liquid in the pan but it should not be soupy. Add water if necessary. Taste and add salt and pepper as needed. Remove from the heat and spread the mixture out evenly in the pan; top with an even layer of the potato mixture. Pop into the oven uncovered and let it bake 25 – 30 minutes or until the potatoes just begin to brown. Serve hot, hot, hot!


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Juan Fabian Arenas Delacruz Charged with Aggravated Kidnapping
The man arrested at the center of the disappearance of an East Texas teenager has been charged. Juan Fabian Arenas Delacruz (pictured), who was arrested by Lubbock Police on Wednesday, has been charged with one count of Aggravated Kidnapping by Nacogdoches County authorities. Delacruz is currently being held in the Lubbock County Jail.
It was also discovered that Delacruz is in the U.S. illegally. He may be turned over to U.S. Border Patrol agents before facing charges in both Nacogdoches County and Lubbock.
Delacruz was arrested Wednesday at a construction site on the Texas Tech campus near 19th Street and Louisville. After being arrested he gave up the location of the missing teenager, Nomei Velazquez.
Police found the 15 year-old Velazquez at the Sunset Square Motel in the 1600 block of 38th Street. Velazquez was unharmed and taken to a local hospital by police for a medical evaluation. She will eventually be taken back home to Nacogdoches County.


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Hey everyone – sorry I have been MIA but my work schedule was a little crazy this week so I did not have as much crafty time.
Last month I created my black and white paper beads for Michele's monthly Craft your Stash challenge and I thought I would write a tutorial on how I made them and share some lessons learned.For those of you who have a Silhouette there are two different patterns available:
If you do not have a Silhouette there are several patterns available online, I searched the web using the keywords "paper bead template" – you can look for links or I viewed the images available on Google.Using the Silhouette patterns I played around with the size and the pattern to use. This is the pattern I used for the black and white bracelets and changed the size to 1.94" x 5.8". After cutting several of this pattern on the Silhouette I then cut the pattern in half to create my beads but part of the fun is making the different patterns to determine what you like best.
The first lesson I learned is even with cutting this pattern in half the beads were really too long as the bracelet does not lay flat on my arm.
For my new bracelets I decided to use a different pattern but the process is still the same when making the beads. I used this pattern and changed the size to 0.5" x 6.0".
After you have determined the pattern you want to use then comes the fun of selecting the paper you would like to "wear" and you have so many options from newspapers, magazines, scrap paper you couldn't throw away, or that new paper you have wanted to use but could not decide what to make. I wear a lot of black and white so I used coordinating black and white paper for my first set but for my do over I decided to use colors for Spring/Summer.
After you have cut your pattern from the paper of your choice using either your Silhouette or a template from the internet, it is time to start making the beads. The second lesson learned is I used bamboo skewers to roll my beads and if you look at the original picture you will see how large the base of the bead is so I decided to use toothpicks to roll my beads for the new bracelets. It depends on if you want a smaller or larger rolled bead. I am going to use my newest beads for the remainder of this tutorial.
1. Select the paper bead pattern and paper of your choice. I selected the triangle pattern using the Lime Rickey line from Basic Grey and coordinating cardstock.
2. Cut the number of templates for the desired number of beads. I am making extras to have more than one bracelet.
Tip: If using the Silhouette to cut your template use your exacto knife to cut over the cut lines to make sure you have a clean pattern to make your bead due to the small points.
3. First make one complete roll around either a toothpick or skewer.
4. Once you have one complete roll made use the glue of your choice (I used Mod Podge) and add glue to the portion of the pattern that has not been rolled.
Tip: I made my beads on Wax Paper so I could apply glue and not worry about the paper sticking to the area I was working on.
5. Once you have glue applied to the remainder of the pattern, slowly roll the pattern to make your bead. This process should be done slowly so you can keep the pattern lined up or the bead will become longer instead of staying centered - depending on your pattern the point(s) should end in the center of your bead.
6. As you get close to the end of your pattern I suggest applying additional glue to make sure the bead does not unravel.
7. Continue steps 2 through 6 until you have made enough beads for your project.
8. Once you have all of your beads completed it is now time to make them shine. I used Glossy Mod Podge to completely cover the outside of my paper beads and remember to coat the end of your beads as well. This will not only make them shine but it seals the paper as well. You will want to let them dry completely before you handle them so I used a piece of styrofoam (you can use anything you have handy) and toothpicks.
9. Once the beads have dried you can now add them to the jewelry selection of your choice. For the black and white beads I used 0.5mm Stretch Magic jewelry cord because you can simply tie a knot (and glue the knot) since I am new to jewelry making. For my new bead bracelets I decided to learn a little about jewelry making, I used black 1mm leather cord and magnetic closures.
Whola – after following these easy steps you have your first bead bracelet, necklace, or even earrings. If you make or have made paper beads I would love to hear from you so drop me a comment to tell me what you have made and if not do you think this is a project you will try?
I have also pinned some paper bead projects on my Pinterest "Jewelry Ideas" board and some will link you to additional tutorials. Have fun rolling your beads!


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My friend Roger and I were visiting buddy Pat in Benson, Arizona last night doing some dark-sky observing from his sky, at least dark compared to downtown Tucson! Pat had stepped into the house to assist wife Betty with a medical procedure when I noticed a brilliant light and expanding white cloud in the western sky. I've seen enough rocket launches from the west coast to know that is what we were seeing. They are particularly spectacular when launched at or shortly after sunset and the vapor trail and exhaust are illuminated by sunlight. In well-dark Arizona it can be an amazing sight!
I was already exposing with one camera on the telescope, so ran for the spare and clumsily set it up on a tripod, fumbled with settings, tried to focus on the distant lights of Benson and aimed to the already dimming cloud. It seemed to take 10 minutes to accomplish all that before my first exposure, showing the amazing expanding vapor cloud. It didn't take many minutes and the email chatter started among astronomers around the state (aren't cell phones amazing - even in our "remote" site!). Most agreed with my assessment, but Melinda at home confirmed later that the public along the west coast had jammed the media wondering what it was. Seeing my first frame above, you might think there was an incoming bomb exploding.
This morning I quickly performed some minimal contrast adjustments and sent them to our TAAA resident missile expert Jim O'Connor. He identified the blue cloud as the likely result of the 1st stage separating and ignition of the second stage. Of the 6 frames I got at approximate 1 minute intervals, frame 3 and 4 show a "puff" that might be the 3rd stage ignition, and the other plume he indicates may be the steering jets for aiming the warhead towards its target.
Finally this afternoon the notice came out: "The unusual light show observed last night from California and outlying areas was the unannounced launch of an unarmed Trident II (D5) submarine launched ballistic missile. The Trident was launched off of the southern California coast by the submarine USS Kentucky." So that's the story - Pat came out a few minutes later, disappointed he missed the whole thing! Below is a short time-lapse of my 6 frames on Youtube:
EDIT: I was thinking that at 600 miles, we must be about as far from the launch as you could be - but I'd be wrong! I got a message from some friends observing from near Portal, AZ who saw it (likely another 70 miles further east) and had dinner with a friend tonight who saw it camping from near the AZ/NM border last night. Looking at Google maps, that is close to the distance from Portal as well - well over 670 miles, depending on the exact launch point!
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In a short, intense and focused effort the newly formed law group, Lether & Associates, PLLC assembled content and made great focused efforts to build-out their new web site www.letherlaw.com in cooperation with John Hamlin. The site is built on the new DotNetNuke 6.0 with SQL Server back end and is hosted by Green Benefits, LLC on Windows Server 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5. The dynamic flexibility of DNN 6's CMS made for rapid development and quick site deployment. Further, the excellent content editing capabilities made for quick and easy content changes – on the fly! (www.dotnetnuke.com)
The development efforts stared on August 9th, and have been mostly completed by August 17th!
The dynamic flexibility of the DNN platform made this project possible by enabling the use of widgets, containers, and standards based code. The flexible content publishing has enabled the site to launch with 90% of the overall functionality while hiding the portions that are still under development or that are missing content. This incudes a full Blog module which will be added in few weeks following our launch today. The staging CMS feature will allow the team time to begin writing articles, with-out delaying the publication of the main site. Over the coming weeks we will integrating other features including: LinkedIn buttons on every staff profile and more.
Check out the new site at www.letherlaw.com
Source: The Growth of Social Media: An Infographic
I am proud to announce that after several months of development efforts, Bikefit.com is now live with their new ecommerce web site. Through extensive effort by all parties involved in the development process we have enabled some great functionality that is streamlining their operations and enabling a strong connection with their core distributors and suppliers.
Some of the functionality in Bikefit.com includes:
Please take a few minutes to check-out Bikefit.com and feel free to leave your feedback or comments. Like them on FaceBook and Tweet about them at Twitter.
Check out a few screen shots of the site:
Jing from TechSmith has become a regular tool that I have found very valuable in my daily computing. I though I might share a little bit about the application and some of the many ways it can be used.
Over the past 2 months I have been actively developing an ecommerce site for Bike Fit of Kirkland Washington, the new site is built on ASPDotNetStorefont Mult-Store version. For this project we set-up complete real time shipping calculations, a dealer locator for over 200 BikeFit Fitters / Dealers etc. We further integrated the web site with FedEx Shipping, Stamps.com and QuickBooks for shipping, accounting and inventory management. As you might imagine there are thousands of little decisions to be made that impact, design, functionality and more. On a daily basis I found myself using Jing to capture screen shots, and share them with the different stakeholders.
The great thing about Jing, is that it is always active and available. Simply click on the Jing Sun at the top of your desktop screen and capture the portions that you wish to share. It is a couple of quick clicks and you can save the graphic like the picture on the right, or simply get an abbreviated link that his published to Jing's severs for sharing as a simple link, like this, "http://screencast.com/t/JJhcVDYQ1"
Some of the valuable features include: 1) easy quick screen capture (video too!) 2) Easy annotation / markup. Put notes, comments, highlights quickly on any screen capture 3) Save the image on your PC 4) option to share the graphic with a short link. Last, the basic version which works very well, is FREE!
If you find yourself struggling to explain what is on your screen to someone over the phone or via. IM and are not in a position to 'share' your desktop, I highly recommend Jing! It will save time, enable clarity in your communication and solve many of those moments where a quick screen clip will add clarity to your communication.
For a more domestic and low key break from work, we traveled to Walla Walla Valley for three nights of relaxation, wine tasting, golf and pool side enjoyment. The crew included Steve and Arty Bartlett and John and Rebecca Hamlin. After a fun family filled 4th of July in Richland, we continued east to Walla Walla and enjoyed a great 3 days of perfect weather, great wine and sublime golf!
Click on the photo below to see all the photo's.
4th of July – Photo's – from the Family 4th of July at Mark and Grace Hendrickson's Home!
Great times by all . . . amazing fireworks all around. Click on the photo below to see the family 4th of July, 2011.


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Hurricane Irene disrupted an area served by lots of different power companies, providing a rare chance to compare response. Unfortunately, NYSEG, the power company that serves Dryden, seems to be faring among the worst:
NYSEG, which serves parts of northern Westchester and most of Putnam County, came under the harshest criticism Wednesday by town and county officials and customers. They said the company did not adequately communicate about the status of outages and when power would be restored. They said NYSEG also gave conflicting information at times, such as sending out automated messages to homeowners still sitting in the dark that their power was back on, or reporting that a neighborhood had 980 customers out and then 30 minutes later, have the number jump to 1,800.
"My frustration with NYSEG at this point is beyond description. They are not giving us information to impart to our residents," Somers Supervisor Mary Beth Murphy said Wednesday afternoon. "They did not take this hurricane advisory seriously enough to prepare for this event."
Jim Salmon, a NYSEG spokesman, disagreed and said advance planning had been done and crews were ready.
"This was a huge disaster. We have a lot of damage and we are having our crews work straight through until everyone is restored," he said late Wednesday. Additional crews were flown in from Nebraska on Tuesday and from southern California on Wednesday, he added.
And Governor Cuomo seems to have noticed:
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo took the same tack on Wednesday, insisting that Mark S. Lynch, the president of New York State Electrical and Gas, make public appearances in areas without electrical service.
It is, of course, certainly possible that NYSEG faces more difficult terrain, customers dispersed further across the landscape, or other challenges that the other companies don't face. I worry, however, that this reflects the hollowing out of the company as it joined Energy East and then Iberdrola, reducing staff and outsourcing more and more operations.
Hopefully the remaining customers will get their power restored soon (Friday? Next week?) and some kind of study of the response will let us know what happened.
In the meantime, a generator and a wood stove are looking like more attractive options.
Update: the latest figures show NYSEG as 3rd of 5 companies, though the top two are at 97% restored and NYSEG is at 88%. More: Now they're the 4th of 6 companies, at 93%. The three above are at 99%, 99%, and 97%, and the two below are at 91% and 85%.Posted by simon at September 1, 2011 11:15 AM in energy