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|back to basics
This is my Photo-Heart Connection of this month. I had selected another photo but while I was editing some photos for an on-line class about how to make creative sketches that I am taking, I felt unexpectedly connected to some of them
I made the photos only to document my working process and I was reluctant to share them out of that context so I resisted to follow my heart but it ended up winning
As they say, heart defies logic. This is not the photo I expected to share, but here it is
You may ask where is the connection here, why my heart dances and applauds when look at it, what makes this better than still lifes, flowers, summer sceneries and the rest of captures of July
Well, that´s what I think:
Drawing was my first creative passion. My first memories of myself represent me as a girl who was always drawing
Till I had 18 or so, I drawed almost every day of my life, mainly using Indian ink. I thought I was meant to be an artist and I wanted to study art, but every time I attempted to take a specific class on this issue, I felt frustrated and missunderstood
When I started my university studies, I opted for the social field and not for the art field, many person advised me to make a pragmatic decision and I thought they were right
I´ve been without drawing properly since 1999 or so, but I´ve continued to develop my creative dimenssion trough making collages, restoring furniture, taking photos and any kind of crafts you can image
I don´t know if the academic perspective of art, my need to please others, my perfectionism and great expectations and the feel that I was not good enough created this situation, but by taking this class I have given myself permission to explore my ability without pressures and I am feeling the same bliss that I experienced as a kid. And my heart dances and applauds!.
The class involves several assignments which are interesting, very inspiring and liberating. This photo is partial capture of one of the first pages I have created. We have to play with paints or ink freely, creating casual patterns and then we could use it to draw or write
I selected this fragment because of the phrase I found there (which I didn´t even remember writing it): surrender yourself to your destiny
10 comments:
- Cindy Swainson said...
Very interesting post...I too started with drawing - as a young child. I can draw just about anything...as long as it will sit still for me. I seem to have abandoned it in favor of 'mixed media' stuff and photography.
What is the name of the class you are taking?
- August 4, 2013 at 4:34 PM
- Diane said...
this is lovely, especially how your heart told you to share this. your story of reconnecting to drawing is beautiful.
- August 4, 2013 at 4:51 PM
- Kara said...
Love the story with the drawing. the heart pulls us to things and often we don't understand why until we are in the middle of it.
- August 4, 2013 at 5:23 PM
- Cathy H. said...
I know your heart is thrilled that you're once again drawing. Glad you went with your heart on choosing this photo, it's a beautiful photo-heart connection!
- August 4, 2013 at 9:24 PM
- seabluelee said...
I can feel your heart connection to this photo. I'm so glad for you that you've rediscovered your passion for drawing. It obviously brings you so much joy. I hope you never give it up again!
- August 4, 2013 at 11:53 PM
- Carola Bartz said...
Surrender yourself to your destiny... Oh, I like that.
What you write makes the connection perfectly clear and I can see how much your heart is in there. Beautiful.
- August 5, 2013 at 1:54 AM
- Marcie said...
Love the possibility of 'surrender'....especially when it includes 'destiny'. And what a beautiful story of your 'becoming' and 'connecting' to your creative self.
- August 5, 2013 at 12:31 PM
- Ginny said...
This is a beautiful post and photo-heart connection. Reconnecting to something we love without pressure sounds perfect to me. Enjoy every minute.
- August 5, 2013 at 1:30 PM
- Kat Sloma said...
An amazing Photo-Heart Connection! Your heart knows what you need, that's why we have to let it lead in our choices for this practice instead of letting our brains get in the way. And your heart is leading you to art, a return to drawing and your essential self. I often think that as we are searching for our authentic selves in our adult life, we discover it was all there when we were a child. We just have to cut away the excess that was piled on by expectations from parents and teachers and society as a whole. Thank you for going with your heart this month!
- August 6, 2013 at 3:47 PM
- Aga Gasiniak said...
dear Zena, I have been waiting about 23 years to start drawing and another 6 to start painting. So it is never too late. I know that. I really like your ink page, stay creative and keep drawing.
- August 8, 2013 at 3:17 PM

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If you sprained your ankle while hiking by yourself, you might get a bit worried. If you then realized that the only trail back was closed, you'd probably get a little scared. However, if you happened to be hiking near the village of Grimmelwald in Switzerland, a local cat might come to your rescue.
According to the Independent, a Hungarian hiker, sc4s2cg posted on Reddit that he was hiking in the mountains around Grimmelwald when he ran into trouble. The route that he meant to take back to the village was marked as closed. With his ankle sprained, the hiker wasn't sure of a good alternate route.
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A Holiday Window Art Project
I thought Essley was excited for the holidays last year, but this year puts last to shame. She turns 3 on December 28th, and this is the first holiday season where she really gets it. It's not even Thanksgiving yet and it's basically all she talks about. From Santa Claus and Christmas trees to holiday songs and movies to holiday treats, she is obsessed. But her favorite holiday symbol, one about which she speaks almost incessantly, is the snowman. And more than anything, she loves to draw snowmen, and for her dad and I to do the same. So I had an idea of how we could incorporate three things she loves – art, holiday decor, and, of course, snowmen – into a fun creative project that would likely blow her little mind.
One morning last weekend, before my husband took her to run some errands, I told Essley to get into the holiday spirit because when she got home, we were going make something fantastic together. She was so excited that she insisted on wearing a holiday dress. (And truth be told, I may have been even more excited about it than she was.) I put on some holiday music, washed the big window/glass door leading to our back porch (because when you have a 10 month old babe and a 2.5 year old toddler, glass without tiny handprints no longer exists), and gathered our supplies: some Crayola Window Markers and the new Crayola Air Marker Sprayer. When she got home and I told her that we were going to airbrush a snowman scene on the window, she started cheering and dancing around the room. It was pretty awesome.
The first thing we did was sat down with our supplies and picked out our colors, and then Essley practiced putting markers into the Air Marker Sprayer. Then we got to it! This thing is the absolute coolest you guys – all you do is plug it in, insert a marker (the spray nozzle is compatible with all Crayola Broad Line Markers, not just the Crayola Window Markers we used), push the on button, and spray. There's no messy paint involved. Just markers. I was amazed.
We started by making the outline of the snowman together, and then Essley worked on coloring in it. It was obvious that the Air Marker Sprayer was designed with kids in mind – it's so easy to use and I know that even beyond the holidays (and beyond windows; it can be used on paper and many other mediums to create endless craft projects) it's going to make for hours of continuous creativity. We didn't look at any pictures while we designed, and instead just made things up as we went along, which added to the adventure. Essley very endearingly instructed me to add buttons, and a red scarf, and an orange nose, and finally, a big hat. Then she decided we needed some blue snowflakes, of course. It was really fun to experiment with the Air Marker Sprayer and see how moving it close to the window and/or far away could create different effects. Clean up was a breeze too. And for people who had never airbrushed in our lives, I was admittedly impressed with how our snowman turned out. He's still going strong too. He gets a big hug from Essley in the morning and before bed, and she fondly named him Art Project Frosty, which I think is simply perfect.
Essley and I both had so much fun creating our holiday window display together, and we're both looking forward to designing another one soon. It was really cool to get to create something holiday themed together that went beyond just a piece of paper, or even traditional holiday decor. And I love that you can see it from outside too!
If you have little ones who are excited for the holidays, and/or if you're excited for holiday decorating and want to do something unique this year, grab a Crayola Air Marker Sprayer (they're only is $ 29.99 and come with 5 Pip-Squeaks Markers, 10 sheets of paper, and 2 stencil sheets) and some Crayola Window markers, and decorate your own holiday window. I'd love to see your creations! And if you share them on social media, make sure to tag them with #AirMarkerSprayer for a chance to be featured on Crayola.com. Happy holiday decorating!
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10 Great Mashed Potato Recipes
When Robbie and I first started dating, I had him over for dinner. This was actually very brave of me as I wasn't exactly the most proficient chef at the time (and although I've very slowly learned to enjoy occasional cooking, I'm admittedly still not, at all). But I wanted to do it. To impress him, I whipped up a batch of one of the dishes at which I've always considered myself to be quite good – mashed potatoes. I really took my time with these babies too, adding the perfect amount of butter and garlic and young love, and watched eagerly as he took the first bite. His mouth formed a sort of forced smile as he grunted "mmmm" and slowly continued to take more tiny bites throughout the meal, until he was finally done. I was confused as to why (1) it took him so long to finish and (2) he didn't pile on a heaping serving of seconds. These were my famous mashed potatoes, after all, and they were freaking dynamite. I knew something was up. Eventually I got it out of him – dude doesn't like mashed potatoes. I know, I couldn't believe it either. Talk about a red flag, man. Could I really date someone who didn't like the most glorious food in all the land? Could I ever really trust him? Thankfully he had plenty of other redeeming qualities, but ten years later, I still give him a hard time about his distaste for the best food that ever there was.
Thanksgiving is exactly one week away, which, for us normal folks who actually appreciate their deliciousness, means (if we're lucky) we'll get to consume massive amounts of mashed potatoes. While my favorite type is the boring old traditional version (potatoes, garlic, milk, butter, and a little salt), I thought it would be fun to make a couple of unique varieties this year as well, and got to searching. I came across all sorts of ridiculously tasty looking recipes along the way, so it only made sense to share my favorites for this edition of 10 Great. I mean, how about #9? Mashed potatoes for breakfast? Yes, please! Or #7? Talk about comfort food. What if I just made an entire dinner out of just mashed potatoes – would that be weird?
I hope my fellow mashed potato lovers enjoy these recipes. If you have any others you can add to my collection, please leave them in the comments. And if you're one of those weird people like my husband who doesn't like mashed potatoes, just like with him, I'll still love you. But if I ever meet you in person, just know I'm going to give you a hard time about it.
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It never gets old
Today is of course Memorial Day, and in my opinion it is the second most important public holiday in the American calendar. It is a day of deep solemnity and, for far too many American families, terrible, aching sadness.
Take a trip to any American national cemetery today and you will get some small idea of the true cost of this wonderful gift of FREEDOM that you and I enjoy.
The freedom to live in peace, to raise our families without the threat of war and all of its horrors hanging over our heads, to read and write and learn dangerous things, to become whoever we want to be, is ours- because of them.
But this isn't just a day of sadness and remembrance, as vitally important as those things are. It is also a day to give thanks to those who embody the ancient truth that "the noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and war's desolation".
To that end- here is one of my all-time favourite videos, showing soldiers coming home to surprise their loved ones:
I remember seeing this video almost a decade ago thanks to Supreme Dark Lord Vox Day (PBUH). Good luck trying to get through that without... well, getting quite emotional. I watch that video several times a year and I've never managed it. And nor should one be expected to do so.
This Memorial Day, let us give thanks to those who fought and died for the rest of us, so that we can enjoy this most divine gift of freedom. They ennoble us; the very least we can do is remember them.
God bless them all.


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Another novelty that evokes the tradition of Italian master craftsmen is this playfully arranged worktop a part of the Minà kitchen project. Combining traditions, retro hints, and cutting-edge technology the designer composed multifunctional island with an artistic and dynamic pattern. Minà features a pewter-plated steel worktop combined with a breakfast bar tiled in lava stone. The exquisite artisanal surfaces of the island is made by laying Sicilian glazed volcanic stone tiles over a water-repellent support: innovative, artistic and brings back the rich textural and colorful effect into the kitchen.
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An announcement echoed through the Inferno newsroom on Thursday afternoon that, at the time, raised questions on the future of Business to Business media. Reed Elsivier was announcing their preliminary profit results for FY2007 and amongst the statement told shareholders, staff and any PRs listening, that they would be divesting in their business arm, Reed Business Information (RBI).
In the office we immediately began a collection for some of the journalists we have worked more closely with over the years, from Poultry World and Truck & Driver magazine, and began to mourn, was this the death of the trade media?
With the press currently making bold, sensationalist statements based on a thin veil of evidence, such as the onset of the next great depression following Jerome Kervial at SocGen losing £3.5 billion in one trading day, we thought it wouldn't be long until the bell would be tolling for our comrades in the trades. But being the prudent PRs we are, we decided to investigate this news and see whether the end was nigh, or if this was merely a new beginning.
In the same statement announcing their divestment in their business wing, Reed Elsivier also announced revenue growth of 6%. Over the past 12 months that counts for revenues in excess of £4.5 billion. Further to this statement they announced that the decision to clock off the business media wing was to streamline their operations as RBI is not a loss making arm and has, in current years, seen great growth, especially in their move online with some of their titles.
Subsequently Apax Partners, the parent company of Incisive Media, has been seen be sniffing around RBI's pedigree, so for now the future for our friends in South London looks a little safer.
For now though we would like to show our support for our counterparts at China Chemicals and Health & Beauty Salon magazines and let you know, whatever journey you go on in the next 6 to 12 months we will be right there with you.


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Monday, November 26, 2012
Susan Rice
69 comments:
- Joe said...
I'm not at all convinced that Susan Rice was anything more than just a pawn in this mess.
Even President BO (the amateur president) said she had nothing to do with the incident (then why did he send her to testify...because he's such an amateur?).
"And why wasn't Hillary, whose position warranted her presence...on the Sunday morning shows instead of Rice?"
Ah, methinks somebody is being protected...perhaps for some future electoral event.
- November 26, 2012 at 4:42 AM
- Always On Watch said...
do you think she's as guilty as Obama is at having kept information from the public
Absolutely! And probably for reasons in addition to Obama's re-election.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Susan Rice was promised the position as Secretary of State for going on all those talk shows and lying about Benghazi.
As for Hillary not going out there and speaking over and over again the lies about Benghazi, she was using CYA. Remember that she is an attorney and knows full well the significance of "What did she know, "What did she know, and when did she know it?"
- November 26, 2012 at 4:42 AM
- Always On Watch said...
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- November 26, 2012 at 4:47 AM
- Always On Watch said...
Maybe Hillary is being protected for another reason: appointment to the SCOTUS. Just a thought.
- November 26, 2012 at 4:47 AM
- sue hanes said...
Z - I think Susan Rice does deserve a chance for nomination as Secretary of State. But now that this whole thing has come up it is going to be difficult for her to get past it.
She has large shoes to fill as Hillary has done a good job in that position - don't you think?
- November 26, 2012 at 5:03 AM
- Silverfiddle said...
She's already in over her head, but so is the entire administration, including our President.
At this point, does it really matter?
- November 26, 2012 at 5:26 AM
- Ducky's here said...
I think the repubs are going to try to make Benghazi an issue until the midterms and get their head handed to them again.
You'll probably find rabies media talking about impeachment. Benghazi is the new birth certificate.
You don't seam to learn.
- November 26, 2012 at 6:54 AM
- Z said...
Sue, the problem is that Obama's made her a promise but the conservative media saw the truth in Benghazi and can't let it go; we can't have a president who might have done ANY of what's pretty obviously been done.
The first question Rice will be asked in confirmation hearings is "Who told you to say that after everyone knew it wasn't the video?"
and "Who changed the CIA memos?"
Think Obama wants THAT? :-)
No, I think she deserved a chance before she fell for this and went out to the morning shows..but if she falls for that, can we have her falling for things as Sec or State? I don't think so. She's clearly not bright enough nor does she put America first.
To the rest of you: I agree with all of what you said; except I don't believe Hillary would want to spend the rest of her life on the Supreme Court. Within a few months Ginsberg will retire and we'll see Holder step in.
wait for it!
- November 26, 2012 at 7:04 AM
Susan Rice is a long time friend of Obama and a fellow red-diaper baby, I believe. She was Obama's first choice in 2008 but he had pay-off Hillary. Rice will be a terrible Secretary of State just like Hilly was. Obama's second choice right now is John kerry. So, sit back wittness the disaster that is coming.
- November 26, 2012 at 7:10 AM
- Z said...
No, Ducky, we do learn. And we have media which covers everything, and importantly.
When the left learns, we won't have people like obama as president anymore.
When the media's honest, we'll be back on track again as America.
How's that Arab Spring working for you? You naive liberals...what a mess you've created for all those Arabs you supposedly championed...seems to always happen that the poor get treated the worst by liberals, doesn't it.
- November 26, 2012 at 7:17 AM
- Z said...
there's a rumor going around that Obama may have to dump Obamascare in favor of doing something about the financial mess he's created....stay tuned.
VERY interesting, particularly when 20 states are saying they won't go along with him.
But, I'll tell you what; if Republicans pursue taking the mortgage deduction away, I will be TICKED OFF.
- November 26, 2012 at 8:00 AM
- Z said...
Plus, I think taking the mort.ded away would slow home sales, construction, etc etc etc...long range problems...
- November 26, 2012 at 8:01 AM
- Z said...
Sue; I have a question for you, then I HAVE to get ready for work! (working late tonight so I go in a bit later)
What would it take for you to lose confidence in Obama?
Would it influence your opinion of him if you learned that the middle class might have much higher taxes next year?
I believe you can be very, very reasonable and I know you love this country deeply; but I also can deduce that you voted for Obama because you've always been a fan.
Does Benghazi mean nothing to you? Or do you think the Republicans and Petraeus are wrong in what they've brought out?
Do you think Romney really would have done a bad job getting our economy back on track?
And did you believe the left when they said Romney had a war on women and didn't care about the poor?
I would NEVER put you on the spot like this unless I felt you're reasonable and you know I will not attack you for ANY answer you give...I PROMISE.
You can totally ignore this comment/questions...but I'm really curious if you feel you'd like to take a stab. Because I want to understand better what makes Obama so popular and if you believe him and the media. Was Romney really so bad?
- November 26, 2012 at 8:09 AM
- Divine Theatre said...
The bottom line: she has no credibility. That being said, how is she going to be able to do this job? The world is watching and they are not ALL as naive and gullible as American lefties.
- November 26, 2012 at 9:09 AM
- Bloviating Zeppelin said...
When you start pulling the sexist card and the race card, I've tuned you out.
She doesn't mean anything to me. She's just another no-account Obama hack.
- November 26, 2012 at 9:11 AM
- Pris said...
Frankly, I don't think it matters who Obama appoints as Sec'y of State. The agenda will not change, and we'll be lied to regardless!
If Rice is not confirmed, sooner or later someone who goes along with the administration will be. It's not a matter of "who", it's a matter of "when". Just the thought of John Kerry should tell us that!
- November 26, 2012 at 9:16 AM
- Divine Theatre said...
I agree, BZ, those "isms" have become hackneyed.
- November 26, 2012 at 9:50 AM
- Right Truth said...
If she was just a pawn, she does not deserve to be Secretary of State. Some think it would be good grill her on what she knew, etc., but I doubt she would reveal anything.
Right Truth
- November 26, 2012 at 10:41 AM
- sue hanes said...
Z - I'm not sure how to answer that question. I haven't lost confidence in President Obama yet.
I do know that I did not want Mitt
Romney to be in charge of this country.
I will be honest and if I do lose complete confidence in the President I will admit it.
- November 26, 2012 at 11:31 AM
- sue hanes said...
Z - 'Was Romney really so bad?'
Yes, in my eyes he was. Everytime I saw him I hated to think of him as leader of the Free World.
I will agree with you that perhaps
Obama is not doing such a hot job but at least he has four years under his belt. I'm hoping that he will do better this next four.
And I'm praying that he will - too.
- November 26, 2012 at 11:35 AM
- sue hanes said...
Z - May I take this opportunity - and go off topic for a minute - to say that I am for one six year term - and no reelection.
If that were the case then Obama would have been concentrating on getting the country in shape to protect his legacy - and not spending time on getting reelected.
Romney may have had a better chance.
- November 26, 2012 at 11:42 AM
- JonBerg said...
"I'm hoping that he will do better this next four."
Does "better" mean more and more of same? OMG!!!
- November 26, 2012 at 11:47 AM
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- November 26, 2012 at 11:53 AM
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- November 26, 2012 at 11:57 AM
"Obama is not doing such a hot job but at least he has four years under his belt. I'm hoping that he will do better this next four."
So...I have to ask...what motivated you to vote for a man that had no platform, other than "Forward"...never put forth an economic recovery plan....has presided over 8% unemployment...25,000,000 unemployed....a 141% increase in food stamp recepients...has passed with executive fiats more than Congress would ever allow by bypassing Congress...presides over the Benghazi fiasco and lies about it...has a racist AG who has his own scandals and has put this country into so much debt that for the first time ever...our bond rating and credit worthiness were lowered.
Who's (no) energy policies are hurting every American, every day of the week when we pay our electric, heating oil, gas or at the pump. Meanwhile he shuts down a pipe line....closes off millions more acres to gas & energy development...and kills the coal industry.
A man whose investment in "unicorn" energy went bust...failures...every one of them.
Are these "accomplishments" in your view? Even if they've all been disastrous for this country and it's security...and it's standing in the world? A world of Islamist nut bags, terrorists and countries dedicated to our destruction? Or do you think waving a "nasty" letter at the UN or a speech to the other 190 shitholes on the planet will fix everything?
But after all that...I'l just take a wild guess....you think he's cute. So you voted on your estrogen levels thinking you'd love to share his testosterone?
Or was it you thought his "son" Trayvon was cute too?
Ore is it....you and a few others like you...just don't think much?
- November 26, 2012 at 12:05 PM
- JonBerg said...
Thanks for providing specificity to all that I had/have in mind. Re-election of the Fraud-in-Chief adds a complete new dimension to the term "mind boggling"!
- November 26, 2012 at 12:24 PM
- Average American said...
"When the media's honest, we'll be back on track again as America."
Z, that will be the day right after HELL FREEZES OVER!
"Re-election of the Fraud-in-Chief adds a complete new dimension to the term "mind boggling"!
JonBerg, and a new term, NINCOMPOOPERY! I guess I never really realized how S T U P I D the American electorate is.
- November 26, 2012 at 1:24 PM
- sue hanes said...
Z - Remember that if Romney had won it would mean a Conservative agenda - which I did not want.
So it's more than just if I didn't like Romney that was at stake.
Know what I mean?
- November 26, 2012 at 2:08 PM
"Know what I mean?"
Hell no...can't you explain?
Everyone here is usually fully capable of expressing their political point of views and reasons for doing so.
It's just you libs....with your "feelings" agenda that can't muster a cognitive thought other than some obtuse..."know what I mean"?
That's real deep....real deep. Did it take you all day to come up with that?
- November 26, 2012 at 2:39 PM
And they let you dopes vote?
- November 26, 2012 at 2:40 PM
- Ducky's here said...
"Feeling" agenda? Who are you backing, Imp?
The other Rice? Condominium was so stupid she was absolutely shocked, shocked I tell you when Hamas won the Palestinian election.
That crew wasn't even knocking on the door.
- November 26, 2012 at 3:38 PM
- Liberalmann said...
OUCH! PULITZER WINNER CALLS OUT FOX NEWS ON FOX NEWS (regarding Rice)
- November 26, 2012 at 3:43 PM
Really...Rice...a phd...was stupid?
Not as stupid as Uncle Ben's namesake.
- November 26, 2012 at 4:12 PM
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- November 26, 2012 at 4:14 PM
BTW...credit where credit is due...whether I / we agree with you or not...you're not a dope...and at least have brains enough to know why you vote and for whom....not like the majority of your fellow moronic travelers.
- November 26, 2012 at 4:17 PM
- Kid said...
With much respect. Is there Anyone in the obama administration who isn't a POS ?
AOW. You're freakin me out with the hilrod stuff !
- November 26, 2012 at 5:05 PM
- Kid said...
Sue Hanes. LOL !!!!!
- November 26, 2012 at 5:05 PM
- Kid said...
IMP, If I may, democrats get elected because they keep the fantasies of their support base alive. It seems obvious (especially if you tiptoe through the pictures of the People of Walmart ) that fantasy is 99% of life for most of these brainless idiots.
- November 26, 2012 at 5:10 PM
"Ya know what I mean??" Jeezus ....typical candidate for Jesse Waters on one his street interviews of libbie dopes.
But...as they laugh and reveal their idiocy...they think they're "hip".
Hey...who's the VP anyway...? Duh.
- November 26, 2012 at 5:11 PM
- Kid said...
PS, for our liberal friends. To see more creatures, click on "more creatures" at the lower right area of the picture at the top of that page.
- November 26, 2012 at 5:13 PM
- Kid said...
IMP, libs wear their stupidy and ignorance as a Red Badge of Courage
- November 26, 2012 at 5:15 PM
Courage? Going through life with people who point at you behind your back and say...what an dumb ass, moron and a typical Walmart shopper?
Completely stoned, cracked, methed out bonged or oblivious because of it?
Mitt was right....47% of this country are blithering idiots.
Welfare? No voting rights.
Students? No voting rights.
Illegal? Yep...them too...no voting rights or social benefits.
Not a property owner...yup...you too...no skin in the game.
Felons? Nope.
- November 26, 2012 at 5:43 PM
"Even President BO (the amateur president) ..."
Joe...give credit where credit is due...he's no longer an amateur...he's past that....now after 4 years he has proved that he is a professional FU. Forward...he says....to the cliff and oblivion. 4 More years and we'll wish we looked like Detroit.
But...we're hip...we're cool, aren't we?
- November 26, 2012 at 5:47 PM
- Kid said...
IMP, We do need voting reform, but who is gonna bring it? The repubs have already caved to the idea they must pander to the losers if they want to sit in the big chair.
I'd be happy that to vote you paid a net positive of property tax + income tax. Course that means you need ID right off the bat.
I remember years ago a weekend in Detroit around Christmas they had their Heartwarming story on. Some chick with 9 kids living in a Buick.
Get this - she is on wick AND section 8 and Still gets kicked out of her apartment - (Is that even possible? apparently) and has 8 kids at the time.
At the time of the "news" story, she's got 9 kids and have been living in a Buick for 1.5 years. One of the kids is 8 months old. She got pregnant while living in a Buick with 8 kids and the chicks doing the story on the news are all whimpery and teary-eyed that some sucker bought that child abusing bitch a 250k house.
Unreal, but That is the world liberal morons live in. Now they're bringing that crap to a neighborhood near you and us. I have no patience for them. I Hope I offend them. I couldn't possibly offend them as much as they offend me and a decent society.
- November 26, 2012 at 6:19 PM
- Kid said...
Sorry, the kid wasn't 8 months old, only a month or two. It was clear that she got prego while living in the car.
- November 26, 2012 at 6:27 PM
- Ducky's here said...
Yeah, we commies live in a world where eight kids aren't living in a Buick with no chance for much more than to repeat the mistakes of their mother.
You have no patience with us, kid?
Buy a freaking vowel you dope.
- November 26, 2012 at 6:27 PM
- Kid said...
A rare duck reply....
what chance do you think those kids have with a POS mother like that regardless. How about this. How about not paying POS women like that to pop kids out like pieces of toast you moron.
Buy a brain you idiot ! :)
I did some research and found how YOU can get a new brain for little more than travel expenses.
Here's what you do:
Get a one way ticket to France.
Get molested by TSA at the airport and get on your plane.
Travel to France.
Once you're there, make your way to Pierre laDouche's farm.
You should find other morons like yourself out in the cow pasture. If not, wait a few minutes for them to show up.
When you see one, yell "FREE MONEY!" in unison with one of the other idiots while simultaneously picking up a cow manure pie and tossing it in the air.
Now quickly, run underneath the cowpie your compadre moron threw, turn your head sideways and thrust it sideways up into the air just as the cowpie hits your ear. Do that as long as necessary until all of your current grey matter has been replaced with cow manure. You'll be much better off. You'll thank me.
- November 26, 2012 at 6:36 PM
The "mother" ( cow ) needs to be Sangerized. Why should anyone...libs included not see that a pig like this needs more misfits to be supported by us when a sterilization makes more sense?
Oh...oops....she has "reproductive rights"...that's it...right? Not to take advantage of...or be forced to use birth control? Ahhhh....what bullshit.
- November 26, 2012 at 6:41 PM
Duck...sounds like you'd have no problem climbing into the Buick for a cop , a feel and a free ride?
- November 26, 2012 at 6:45 PM
- Kid said...
IMP, the paradox's of liberal idiologic are stunning really.
- November 26, 2012 at 6:50 PM
- Kid said...
IMP, while the other 8 kids watch too right? hahaa
Hey, it's sex ed, homestyle.
- November 26, 2012 at 6:51 PM
Sex ed? Duck gets his from coffee table books...the kind that impress guests when they come over for an "Amuse Bouche". He does dust them off I'm sure.
You know the kind. They serve Frangelica in petite glasses...the proletariat must rule, Soviet style...while the shit's in the Buicks...dumpster dive.
- November 26, 2012 at 7:16 PM
And the kids have to watch...so they can know the name of the next one to share a front seat or the trunk of the Buick.
- November 26, 2012 at 7:18 PM
- Z said...
Sue, I can't imagine what you think the conservative agenda is, but I'd sure like to know.
Everybody...I'd have really liked to have Sue felt safe here with her responses. I want to hear what she has to say because it's literally inconceivable to me how anyone could possibly choose Obama over Romney (or almost anybody, come to think of it).
Let's listen. Thanks.
It's important for me to understand...and I'd like to know what leftwingers think the Republican party's about.
It's clearly not about what the media and CNN, etc., represent, that's for sure.
Sue, I think six years and no reelection isn't bad, either.
By the way, I don't think Obama gives a crap (pardon, but I can't think of another word right now) about a legacy. I think he cares more about bringing America down to a third world country of heavy debt, no self reliance among individuals, socialized medicine, deathly taxes, and no opportunities for our kids.
- November 26, 2012 at 7:20 PM
- Z said...
Imp..>Frangelica's Italian, not French!
- November 26, 2012 at 7:22 PM
- BetteJo said...
What was the question? :)
- November 26, 2012 at 7:52 PM
- Z said...
Kid! I just read your story...are you kidding me?
What do we do with women like that? And her kids?
Do you think they should be taken away? There seems like literally nothing redeeming about the situation. Being with her means a future of NOTHING.
Ya, people will say "she loves them" but how's she SHOWING it?
Imp and Kid...your back/forth comments are the best!
- November 26, 2012 at 9:17 PM
- JonBerg said...
"Yeah, we commies live in a world where eight kids aren't living in a Buick with no chance for much more than to repeat the mistakes of their mother."
Well, of course, Ding Dong, yours would be living in a "Trabant"! A mistake of your stupid socialism-Moron!
- November 26, 2012 at 9:44 PM
- Average American said...
It's a damn sad day when we see frigging morons like that bitch with 8 kids popping another one out of the oven just to get a damn raise in her welfare check! It used to be that if you wanted a raise, you worked harder until someone noticed you were worth more. I frigging HATE this new America!!!! When in hell does hunting season start on these moron liberals anyway?
- November 26, 2012 at 9:55 PM
- JonBerg said...
And just imagine what all of that adds to the Gene Pool!
- November 26, 2012 at 10:51 PM
- beamish said...
She should get the same chance that Robert Bork did.
- November 27, 2012 at 1:34 AM
- Liberalmann said...
It's typical. So called 'Christian' wingnuts always eventually reveal themselves to be hypocritical haters and racists.
- November 27, 2012 at 3:41 PM
- Kid said...
Z, This happens much more than anyone would believe. I've had many people testify about it because they lived in or near these areas. It's more prevalent of course in the blue states and cities like Detroit that have been totally destroyed by democrat politics. Plenty in Cincinnati.
Literally, this is paying women to pop kids out into zero opportunity, drug and crime infested environments. Ever watch scared straight? That's were these kids come from. It's never ending and blossoming gross abuse of children and democrats pay for it. They pay for child abuse.
So, here's what I'd do. Turn off the spigot. We'll pay for your first mistake. Have two or 50 kids, you get no increase in your check. No motivation to continue the practice.
If you do continue to pop kids out without any visible means of support and the children aren't being supported, you go to jail for the crime of child abuse and the kids get shipped out to foster (pedophile) homes or preferably orphanages that don't exist anymore because the libs closed them in favor of escalating a situation where they pay pedophiles to 'foster children'. About just as bad, but when you find these people, you put them in jail too and let some more drug users out if necessary since they only hurt themselves for the most part.
We had the murder of child in fostercare in Cincinnati years ago that made most people upchuck so I won't reveal, but the point is local radio begged people to call in and and testify if they had a good foster experience. For a week solid. NONE did. Many however called to say they enjoyed and were and are so appreciative of their orphanage experience. They ended up feeling that the ended up with huge families and many stay in touch with many they shared the orphanage with. Plus you have a situation you can monitor much easier that fragmented foster 'homes'.
One guy called while I was listening saying they adopted a 13 yr old girl who was now 18 and had been in 17 pedophile homes. They'd simply move her to another one when she reported it.
It's not just money and macro issues that make me hate liberals. Their stupidity and childlike brains cause so much damage to individuals.
- November 27, 2012 at 4:29 PM
- Z said...
Lib: it's typical....you're still such a racist you think anybody criticizing a black American is racist. WOW. That is so stupid (sorry, but...) ...
ya, we who adore Alan West are racist: Good deductive reasoning, as usual.
KID: All good. I believe orphanages are a better solution than foster care, too. Foster Care CAN be good, but I've never heard of a successful one myself.
Kids can feel loved in an orphanage...if someone's beating them or using them for the dollars they get to have them there, ..that's a nightmare.
I like your ideas. DO IT :-)
- November 27, 2012 at 7:21 PM
- Kid said...
Z, I'd be more than happy to have libtards squealing in anguish if only I could.
Course they'd be happy as soon as the clouds were cleared. You know, just like 4 year olds.
- November 27, 2012 at 8:11 PM
- FreeThinke said...
Of the various Rices I like Uncle Ben and Condoleezza much better than Susan.
Susan OUGHT to be cruisin' for a bruisin,' but I'd bet the farm she never gets what should be coming to her.
She'll be the next Secretary of State, because she's "black" and frankly there is NO meaningful opposition to the DemonRat's agenda -- NONE.
- November 27, 2012 at 8:24 PM
- JonBerg said...
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- November 27, 2012 at 10:51 PM
- JonBerg said...
"'Christian' wingnuts always eventually reveal themselves to be hypocritical haters and racists."
Hey Mustang and M4e, have you ever thought about how much fun it would be to have had this jerk or Daffy under your Basic Training Command positions? My guess is they would have 'washed' but possibly may have, actually, become real men! Well, obviously, the latter didn't happen
- November 27, 2012 at 10:57 PM
- Average American said...
After much soul-searching, I have changed my views on having my tax dollars being spent on birth control. As much as I hate the idea, I am OK with it. A lot less damaging and a HELL of a lot cheaper than the alternative.
As far as baby factories are concerned, when a woman has her own basketball team, she's already had to many! She wants welfare of any kind-----the tubes get cut! It's voluntary of course, she doesn't HAVE to---unless she wants to continue the freebies! No neutering=no welfare, period! If that leaves the kids without proper food, shelter, etc, the state takes them. END OF STORY!
- November 28, 2012 at 9:39 AM


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With the amount of NX and E3 rumors buzzing around on the Internet, I wanted to chime in and inject a healthy dose of objectivism into the Internet's arm. Just because someone has had some information correct in the past does not guarantee accuracy. With video game journalism, there is sometimes a severe lack of fact checking and research; but this is at its' height when reporting on rumors and leaks. Let me explain.
Quick warning: You should always read what someone has actually said. Often times, rumors are misrepresented or simplified on news sites. Sometimes quotes are taken out of context, and going back to the source is the quickest way to determine just how big — or minor the rumor actually is.
The first and most obvious reason why people in the know might not actually know is because they are lying. They could be lying to get attention, they could be lying for a personal agenda. The optimist in me doesn't think people would just lie for attention or for trolling, but it happens (People on the Internet? Lying? No!). But let's not assume the worst, and explore other reasons why they might not know.
Even if the information is false I wouldn't discount other possible explanations for why the informant is wrong. Another reason, is that their source misled them, or assumed information to be true without verifying it themselves. It's a lot like high school. Someone thinks they saw you kiss the cheerleader, and now the whole school believes that you made out with the hottest babe in school…when in reality you were just practicing your tongue skills with a mop.
Joking aside, people can just fill in the information themselves and led themselves down the wrong path. Maybe a developer heard that the NX had weaker hardware than the PS4, but wasn't aware of the potential increased performance through other advancements. Therefore, a statement that the NX is weaker than the PS4 would make sense, but it might not be correct (again– hypothetically).
Something that often gets disregarded is people not thinking about what kind of information their informant would have. Big companies don't have all their information laid out for all their employees, and there is usually some sort of structure and hierarchy of information. (A cashier at McDonalds wouldn't know when the McRib is coming back. Stop asking them!) Therefore, a developer may be unsure of when the release of another team's game is. They may have heard it, but then it just becomes hearsay.
The source having malicious intent is another reason. Not everyone is just willing to tell trade secrets. There has to be some motivation to spill the beans. Having a long standing relationship with the source would probably guarantee more accuracy, but as an outsider we wouldn't know that. There's also the possibility of someone leaking false information in order to gain some advantage. Internal company politics is a thing, and something that us outsiders aren't privy to. Sometimes a company might want to test a product idea by "leaking" it and then seeing the public's reaction. Or a company might want to spread false leaks in order to confuse and distract from the real information.
Lastly, just because someone has been proven in the past does not mean they are currently proven. The source's employment status may have changed, or if it's not tied directly to the original source (hearsay) and then it becomes a different, unproven source.
So yeah…those are some reasons why having a source does not guarantee accuracy. Check out my Introduction to Leak Busting for more information.
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Women give out their number or email a lot!
I have even read about one girl giving it ten times a day but it's safe to say that's a lot of unanswered calls because while it's not hard to get a woman's phone number, most of the time all you have to do is ask…
The difficult part for most guys is having her answer the call and then setting up a date that she'll actually show up for.
To prove to myself ( and you too I suppose ) that getting her number IS the easy part I did a little experiment. ( By the way, follow my advice and do something like this if you want to overcome a fear of asking for numbers. )
I sat down in a bar and made sure the area was well visited by many women and remained there the entire evening.
When a potentially interesting or attractive woman came by, I would simply say,
"Hey. What's up? I'm Pete."
Most of the time she would tell me her name and then I would quickly ask for her number.
Granted it wasn't the most brilliant technique or at all creative, but it worked!
The problem was, as I alluded to above, most of the time they wouldn't even remember who they gave it to, and then, if by a small chance she would answer, setting up a date with a practical stranger became impossible with the "better" ones.
It proved getting her number was easy but since I made no effort to gain rapport with her or do something to assure she remembered me and actually WANTED me to call I quickly realized there needed to be more.
So I came up with another idea to help us all out – I asked women and I'm going to reveal to you just what they taught me.
But first… you have to get her number or email first… right?
Rather than repeat the same advice which has been handed down to me – please read these two articles from my favorite "attraction experts" and memorize AND practice their routines because they DO work.
They are posted up at DiaLteG TM: My Nice Guys Approach to Attraction: How To Get A Woman's Phone Number And Email Address Within Three Minutes Of Meeting Her and Two Best Methods to Get a Girls Number.
Both of those pages are full of great information and both will say the same thing – getting her number is one thing but her answering it, remembering us, and wanted to talk to us requires a little more and skill and knowledge.
The results from my "phone number" survey showed me this:
Woman will easily give out their number easily to a man who is:
(In order of importance.)
- Charming.
- Nice.
- Gorgeous.
- Different.
- Sincere.
- Had a great pickup line used properly.
- Asked for it blatantly.
BUT… to understand and get past the real problem here we must remember what else my number survey showed me:
- 80% of women have given out a fake number.
- 50% of women have given out a number they never planned on answering.
- 50% of women have given their number out, answered the call, but then decided at that point to never meet up.
- 30% of women have offered their number without even being asked.
- 70% of women have given their number, hoping he would call, be he never did.
- 90% of women have given out their real number at some point in their lives.
- 60% of women said the most they've been asked for their number in a day, was 1-3 times.
- 50% of women have given out a fake number 1-3 times in their lives.
The two top reasons for a woman giving out a fake number were:
- She was not attracted to him.
- She wanted to get rid of him because he was rude.
The other reasons why she gave a fake number was:
- She was having a bad day.
- She had been asked way too many times that day.
- She don't give out her number to strangers.
Based on that information it's clear and easy to see what we must do to assure a successful number and to increase the chances of her answering her phone AND help us actually get a date out of it.
- Be Charming.
- Be Different.
- Be Sincere.
Throw away being nice because not only is that a given, it's assumed you're not going to act like a dick.
Throw away being gorgeous because we can tend to our looks – just how handsome we are is normally beyond our control and actually not that important anyways.
You can learn to use a great pick up line if that's your choice and I've devised some clever ways to help you with that here: Breaking Down The Approach – How To Find The Pickup Line That Works For You
We've already discussed the blatant method and how it can work but it won't help us get past the number or have her remember us, or get her to answer her phone when we call.
The real question or problem then is…
How can we be charming, different, and sincere?
First the easy one – sincerity.
Women want to know your not just out farming for girl's numbers.
So you trade numbers with her.
Spend a little time talking with her.
Develop a few minutes to gain some rapport.
And of course – avoid giving her compliments which are overdone depending on how attractive she is. Meaning is she's highly attractive she's heard many of it before from guys who were just looking to get some and she'll less likely trust your sincerity.
Assure yourself ( in her eyes ) by making sure she is giving you a number she'll answer and text her immediately ( while she's still with you ) to "Make sure she has yours and you didn't screw up the number. 🙂 "
Being sincere is sometimes simply a matter of having a real reason to contact her later on and if you do that – it will prove your sincerity without a doubt. Beyond that, it is her problem and probably is based on a lot of bad experiences in this area.
The harder part of all this is "being different" and "charming" to make sure she remembers who she gave the digits to.
This two terms may not be interchangeable because people who are considered the most charming ( although they mare share certain traits of communication ) are considered different because they're rare.
To me – since charm is something unique, like something you would wear as in a necklace or something you carry, like a lucky charm, or even a magical place far far away…
And because charm is normally felt based on someone's experience in the world – meaning whereas one woman might find you charming another may not…
Charm can be considered another term for ATTRACTION.
Therefore if you're good at creating attraction you WILL be seen as charming.
If you must define charm in your head and avoid all the bells and whistles which comes along with this definition, read this –> The 5 Traits of Charming People It's tight. Un-promoted and truthful.
Being different is something which I fear most guys get wrong in the beginning because they TRY to be different which usually comes off as sketchy, creepy, weird, or worse a pre-planned personality the more intuitive women see right through and so your number will never be answered by her.
I found "being different" is also a form of selfishness most people avoid because they believe it's wrong.
Think of it this way – follow YOUR passions and not your parents wishes.
Please yourself first ( with regards to completeness ) which will put you on a unique path many have not been.
Then there comes the "belief" you're different when in fact you're not. A subject which is not only hard to understand because it comes from our common brains, but is also NOT any different from anyone else who believes they are different too.
See how confusing the whole "being different" subject becomes?
Let's throw away all the confusion and clearly define what's the difference which makes all the difference here. 🙂
Never try to believe you're different. Never assume you're any different from the last guy or ten guys who tried to gt her number.
You BE different by following whatever goals you set for yourself and yes be a little selfish about your beliefs or moral compass BUT always be open to discovering new ideas, concepts, and theories.
The trick is HOW you communicate yourself to others which will deem you as being different, unique, charming, and above all else… RARE.
You can do all that without trying to do it because the new focus becomes communication – something I know for a fact women can not resist. You also can't convince a woman to like you – something I bring up in this post you may be interested in –> You Can't Convince Her To Like You or Talk Her Into Feeling Attracted
If you can learn to ( skillfully ) communicate just how attractive you are to a woman in the shortest amount of time, give her something to remember you by, and leave her wanting more of you…
You'll find the harder part of getting her numbers as in her answering it, replying to your text, or setting up a date or meeting will not pose a problem anymore.
Okay now – I understand what I'm asking is a little vague or may not simply have you getting real numbers immediately.
I understand the advice above, although is definitely true – does little to help you learn how to attract, create attraction to be charming, or even how you're supposed to communicate your "different self" to women you meet – if in fact you're not struggling to meet women in the first place.
Personally I discovered hundreds of paid advice products to help and lots of them do – but not many of them focus completely on what I've shown you today except for ONE.
You'll find this one follows along with what we've gone over today, has minimal cost out-of-pocket, and deals with very specifically everything I've mentioned today. It's called The Fearless Code David Wygant wrote it and he is a master at communicating to women his attractive self.
I've chosen David's product for many reasons but if you're here today – just because you want more opportunities to meet women, you get the occasional number but it never works out for you, if you're not sure how to create instant attraction and you're tired of trying to fake it…
AND if you believe what I've shown you today MAKES SENSE plus you're not looking for more advice than you need by some over blown up product promising you more than you'll ever need…
This is where The Fearless Code comes in…
Getting numbers is one thing and yes it IS that easy but let's be real serious here – you want her to answer when you call AND you want her to remember you. Having a phone filled with digits which are nothing more than voice mail accounts are useless.
Hope this all helps you out,


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Preparing Nyonya food is often considered a laborious task as the cuisine is synonymous with super heady aroma and spicy blend of various spices and ingredients prepared in the most traditional way - using stone mortar and pestle (lesung) or a very thick and heavy stone slab that comes with a stone rolling pin (batu giling). This perception that many hold is, well, quite true!..that is, depending on what you cook. Not all Nyonya or Peranakan food are difficult or require a long-drawn process to prepare. There are times that I just want a quick-fix Nyonya food and ikan cili garam is definitely one of my favorites in the super easy category. Unlike the older generation of Nyonyas who were known to be real fussy cooks who swear by the use of tools like the lesung and batu giling to bring out the best of taste and fragrance from the spices or ingredients, I am just thankful to whoever that invented the electric blender!
Below is my darling late Mom's recipe. She used to cook this sometimes 2 or 3 times a week and we were so contented with just a simple dish. Hers tasted fabulous because she would tirelessly pound all the ingredients by hand using lesung or batu giling. The only complain I have when I made this sometimes was when the chilies were not spicy enough. This is where comes the addition of bird's eye chilies (cili padi). The ingredients for the paste are extremely uncomplicated - only shallots, chilies and salt. However, never underestimate how simple and few ingredients can make a dish tastes oh so delicious!
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Pound/blend together:
5 shallots
6 fresh chilies
3 fresh bird's eye chilies (cili padi)
1/2 tsp salt
- Heat the 1/2 cup oil in a non-stick frying pan. Fry the fish till brown. Drain off the oil and place the fried fish on a serving plate.
- Using the leftover oil from frying the fish, take about 3-4 tbsp and heat it up in a frying pan/wok. Pour in the blended chili paste and saute for 12-15 minutes over medium heat. Drain the oil and dish up the chili paste and pour over the fried fish. (Note: If you believe that life should be lived well, then dribble some of those oil from saute-ing the chili onto the fish too. Yumm yummm!)


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I'm going to a health conference on Thursday that has been organised by the think-tank Reform. Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is the keynote speaker.
If we find ourselves playing conference bingo, we can expect to hear him say that "we gave the NHS £10 billion" (depends how you count), "that was more than the NHS asked for" (nope, it definitely wasn't), and "we're funding the NHS' own plan" (erm…)
If he has something more substantial to say, then there's a lot for him to talk about; most of it stemming from the progress or otherwise of 'the NHS' own plan'.
The NHS' own plan
This is the 'Five Year Forward View' project, drawn up by NHS England's chief executive, Simon Stevens, to close a gap between flat NHS funding and rising demand and costs that could reach £30 billion by 2020-21.
It worked on the basis that, if the government put in £8 billion, and social care and public health funding was maintained, and the NHS was able to keep on top of its efficiency agenda, and it used some cash to 'pump prime' new ways of doing things… it should be able to find the other £22 billion.
The Forward View only came out in October 2014, but a fair bit of this is already off track (see posts below). The government did announce £8 billion for the NHS in its 2014 budget (and then back-counted another £2 billion, to get to the £10 billion figure).
But as Stevens has told several Parliamentary enquiries now, the money is not going in smoothly (it doesn't feel like it, but this year is a relative 'year of plenty' – there will be virtually no funding increases in the next two years). To make things worse, the acute sector has fallen over a cliff.
The King's Fund, another think-tank that tracks NHS finances closely, reported in February that hospitals will miss their £580 million deficit target this year, and are likely to overspend by £820-920 million.
Director of policy Richard Murray argued that, at best, this will wipe out the 'sustainability and transformation fund' money that would otherwise be available to 'kick-start' change. At worst, it could eat up reserves and even push the NHS overall into the red.
Meanwhile, investment in public health by a Conservative government always sounded like a non-starter and, as major news outlets have been pointing out, social care faces a crisis all its own.
In fact, it's so bad that the King's Fund's pre-budget statement reckons that if Chancellor Philip Hammond has any money that he doesn't need for his Brexit fund, it should go into social care.
STPs: neither sustainable nor transformative?
So, the mood music against which the Forward View has to be taken forward isn't promising. But what about the plan itself? Ideas for turning the Forward View into reality have been put forward in 44 'sustainability and transformation plans'.
These got off to a bad start. NHS England tried to hold them back so its comms teams could vet them for 'positive messages', but councils went ahead and published them anyway.
This led to accusations that the plans had been drawn up "in secret" that have proved hard to shake off. Not least because papers and activists have picked over them looking for hospital closures and job losses – and these are easy to find.
Just this week, the BMA put out a blog post arguing that without more money, the plans were not only "doomed" but "a way to dress up cuts to public services." Saying that plans that have yet to start have already "failed" seems a bit much. But there are reasons to worry about the STPs.
Reorganisation by stealth
For a start, there are signs that NHS managers are doing what comes most naturally, which is to focus on management.
Stevens told his most recent appearance at the Public Accounts Committee that the STP 'footprints', which are rapidly acquiring the accoutrements of administrative areas, such as leaders and key performance indicators, would in due course become 'accountable care organisations.'
In other words, bodies that take responsibility for the health (treatment or long term care) of a local community, and get paid according to the size and health profile of that community (rather than services run or treatments delivered).
Stevens admitted this would end the purchaser/provider split for the first time since the internal market was introduced by the Tories in the 1990s; which is a big thing in health policy circles.
All of this is happening without the centrally-dictated reorganisation that has been repeatedly inflicted on the NHS, most recently by former health secretary Andrew Lansley.
Most people in the NHS would say "and thank goodness for that." However, the fact that the latest reorganisation of the health service is less visible than most doesn't mean that managers are not being distracted by it.
Fuelling public anxiety?
Also, the lack of public clarity on what is happening seems to be adding to public concern. Just this weekend, there was a huge march in support of the NHS at which there were many cheers for speakers who claimed that it was being 'privatised.'
Yet the STP changes are, if anything, moving in the opposite direction (unless the conspiracy theorists are correct, and the ultimate ambition is to create ACOs that can be taken over by US corporations – which is frankly unlikely, given the margins and more likely losses on offer).
Be bolder, people
More substantively, the STPs are big and complex; and yet it's hard to escape the feeling that they are nothing like bold enough. As I live in the county, take Hampshire's STP.
It talks about the need to: resolve long-standing issues with care on the Isle of Wight, sort out Portsmouth's struggling A&E, resolve the very public crisis at Southern Health and Care NHS Trust (which suffered another blow this week when the CQC announced it was going to prosecute), and work out what to do with the small district general hospitals in Winchester and Basingstoke.
Also, about the need to: keep these organisations on top of their efficiency savings agendas, while introducing new, more integrated ways of working underpinned by a big expansion of its existing shared care record / IT platform.
Delivering on any one of these imperatives would be a major achievement in five years, but there is neither time nor money to treat them as sequential issues. And what the STP lacks is a sense of how its different elements can be done at once, to support each other.
Never mind a vision of what a safe, modern service, with a digital front-end and highly trained staff in expensive buildings only where they are really needed, might look like – for the available money.
IT's just not happening…
Just to stress, Hampshire's STP is not alone in this. Kingsley Manning, the former chair of NHS Digital, wrote a column for HSJ recently in which he argued that the STPs generally fail to engage properly with productivity, and with how IT might drive that.
Instead, he noted, they tend to tick off analytics, shared care records, and digital services as nice things to have, rather than as programmes that will deliver the kinds of improvement in workforce productivity that have been seen in other service industries.
Mind you, when it comes to IT, it's not just the STPs that are struggling. Last week, my former employer, digitalhealth.net reported that one of the biggest trusts in the country, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Foundation Trust, had been unable to get its electronic patient record plans past NHS Improvement.
It wanted to spend around £25 million on a US system called Cerner Millennium and, while that's a lot, it seems incredible that neither the company, nor the trust's IT department, nor its general management, could get together a business case for it in an organisation spending £860 million a year, and employing 14,000 people.
(Of course, NHS England might have helped, but it seems to have become hopelessly distracted by trying to get a handful of 'global digital exemplars' up to snuff with £100 million that, HSJ reported this week, the Treasury probably wants back).
The NHS' own plan 2.0
As commentator Roy Lilley noted in his newsletter this week, this kind of thing does not tend to worry the activists and medical staff who joined last weekend's NHS march. They just want more money for the NHS and for their local services to be 'saved'.
It would be unreasonable to expect otherwise. But Lilley is right; even if this government was going to find more money for the NHS (and all the pre-budget briefing is that it won't – although social care might, might just get something) it needs to be spent effectively – and that means differently.
Stevens is working on a big reboot of the Forward View. So, if Hunt is going to do more than play conference bingo on Thursday, he'll need to say something about what 'the NHS own plan 2.0' looks like.
Also, how the NHS' regulatory structures are going to get behind it and start getting managers to think like, well, managers; and how politicians are going to sell all this to a hostile staff body and a very worried public. What's the betting?


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Russia's Cyprus Aid Talk Conjures Bad Memories
Cyprus is looking for help in Russia to save its collapsing banking sector. But to some of the nations in the European Union's eastern flank that experienced Moscow's rule, that option would be a scary one.
So far, Russia has declined requests for new loans, although Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Friday his country hasn't ruled out helping Cyprus if the European Union and the Mediterranean nation can't resolve their differences over a bailout for country's banks.
Russia "has understandable economic interests" on the island, where Russian deposits have helped turn Cyprus into an important financial hub in the region, he said.
The Cypriot parliament resoundingly rejected a plan to raise 5.8 billion euros ($7.5 billion) from a tax on all bank deposits in order to unlock a further EUR10 billion being offered by the EU and the International Monetary Fund.
Russia is in the frame as a potential source of bailout money and the country from which a bulk of Cyprus's foreign deposits originated. Yet what may be acceptable for Cyprus would likely lead to a public revolt in the EU countries which, like Cyprus, joined the bloc in 2004 but experienced Moscow's rule in the 20th century.
It is hard to imagine how a nation such as Poland would react if one of its larger banks were suddenly forced to split, while all deposits were frozen and taxed as savers queued to empty cash machines.
A mention of help from Moscow under such circumstances would likely spark panic in the European countries that lived with the risk of a Soviet intervention during the communist era. It led to bloodshed on several occasions–in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968–hanging like the sword of Damocles over Poland.


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What: Digital coupon specialist RetailMeNot's (NASDAQ:SALE) stock sank 15% in May, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence.
The slump has contributed to a rough run for investors lately; Shares are down 64% over the last year.
So what: Ironically, May's swoon came following a first-quarter earnings announcement that beat consensus expectations. RetailMeNot posted a 9% revenue decline, in line with management's guidance, that translated into adjusted earnings of $12 million, just as executives had projected. "The first quarter of the year is off to a solid start," CEO Cotter Cunningham said in a press release.
There's no question that the business is facing challenges, though. RetailMeNot's desktop sales, which still represent over two-thirds of revenue, dove 19%. The company managed slightly higher mobile traffic, but not nearly enough to offset the weakness on desktop.
This gap suggests RetailMeNot doesn't enjoy as strong a competitive advantage on its mobile platform, and that's a problem because shopping traffic is leaving desktops and moving to devices like smartphones and tablets.
Now what: That headwind likely drove management's soft guidance for the second quarter. Cunningham and his team projected $50 million of revenue, or just below Wall Street estimates. Executives are encouraged by the early results from their GiftCardZen acquisition, and with improvements they've made to the mobile platform around food and dining deals. "Expanding the ways consumers can save utilizing the RetailMeNot App and global websites, remains a top priority for the business," Cunningham said in a press release.
These initiatives may start paying bigger dividends down the road, but investors aren't likely to push the stock higher until RetailMeNot can show enough progress on its mobile offering to make up for the traffic drops it is currently witnessing on its desktop platform.
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|The fifth grade students, at Laurelton-Pardee Intermediate School, have been studying a unit called Animal Studies. We have been studying frogs, crabs and millipedes to see how some animals live in the water, some on land and water, and some just on land. The millipedes have been the most difficult to observe. I will collect insect specimens from around the school to show the similarities and differences of insects when compared to the millipede. I have participated in two Bugscope sessions previously and thoroughly enjoyed both of them. I have also submitted a proposal to National Science Teachers Association to present a session in March 2009, in New Orleans, at their national convention. I would be introducing teachers to Bugscope and encouraging them to apply for a session. I don't know if it has been accepted yet.
|Where did you hear about Bugscope?
|Science and Children Magazine is where I heard about Bugscope. I am a reviewer for submitted articles that are sent to them and I read the article that someone had sent in to see if they could get it published. Before I encouraged them to publish it, I went through the process to see if it was really as great as it sounded. I am happy to say that it was!


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We are Amber & Alex and we live in sunny Escalon, California.
We've been blissfully married nearly three years, and together for five! We are totally in love and adore each other, and we also have so much love to give.
Which is why we are here! It seems like we are endlessly searching for fulfillment of a triad with a female. We are here to share our thoughts and experiences, frustrations and happiness, and offer/receive advice and feedback. We would really like to get to know more "poly" people, like us. Sometimes it can feel very lonely where we live, when it comes to polyamory.
We are currently reading "The Ethical Slut", which we find consoling thus far. The book reminds us of all the constructive conversations we've had together, and how prepared we are for this type of relationship; but also to look at different view points and appreciate new ideas.
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Art has always been a part of my life ever since I was young. I enjoy art as much as children enjoy playing. Art is something that captures the eye. It is not something we need to study to be able to understand and enjoy it. Thus, it is an expression of one's personality and perception of life.
Growing up, my curiosity towards art becomes quite addicting. I took up art related courses and attended related seminars. Art is great! Through art, you can express emotions that you are not willing to show with words. It may be a form of joy, sadness, or anger. I can't imagine life without art.
According to William Rubin, director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, "there is no single definition of art." I agree to that. There are different kinds of art, depends on how the artist expresses one's self. But for me, I have found myself expressing them through "fish head art".


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Along with adverbs and telling, I think backstory completes the unholy trinity of writing. So much so that agent and writing guru Donald Maass advises you cut any backstory in the first 50 pages. But backstory has its uses, and sometimes, it's critical to know that history.
Even if it's not critical for the reader to know it.
In some genres it's more of an issue. Fantasy, science fiction, historical--any genre where the past and the history of that past strongly affects the current plot and the motivations of the characters. Doubly so if the antagonist is the one with the past that's come back to haunt someone, since you don't always see the antagonist's POV.
My current WIP has a major event that happened decades ago, but this event is the trigger for all the present-day plot events in the story. I knew basically what had happened in the past, but I focused more on what my protagonists were doing/uncovering and chose what parts of the antagonist's plot to use based on them, not what had actually happened.
By the time I was done, I wasn't happy. The mystery part wasn't as strong as I knew it could be, because I hadn't spent enough time on the backstory. If you looked too closely at the plot, things didn't quite line up, and questions were left hanging. The more you thought about the story, the weaker the story got. Not a good thing.
So I went back and wrote the backstory.
I drafted a rough synopsis that described that past event and what happened. Why the characters did what they did and the ramifications of those actions. When I was done, I did the same thing with my antagonist. Then, I did it with all my major and supporting characters who were involved in it, no matter peripherally. (One character was nine years old when this happened, but after doing this, I realized the event had a profound affect on who he was that made his character much richer and more interesting)
That's a lot of summarizing and a lot of backstory, but afterward, I knew how all the pieces fit and those plot events that felt shaky could now be made solid. I knew why folks did what they did in the present day plot, even if they weren't the POV character. I had secrets non-POV characters wanted to avoid, which gave me all kinds of great fodder to use to up the mystery, the tension, and use for plot.
I made this event matter to the present day world and those who lived in it. It wasn't just "something that happened once" anymore.
If you're facing a story with lots of history, try writing out that history. Ask yourself:
What happened in the past and why?
It seems simple, but the act of writing it down forces you to make decisions about things you might not have realized weren't clear. It'll also help you spot any holes or weak logic. Try to go down three levels.
For example, Level 1: Why are they doing the obvious thing? (the plot reason most likely) Level 2: What made them do that thing? (probably the motivating factor from the backstory) Level 3: What made them do that thing? (a solid reason for this to happen at all. And the most likely culprit of plots that feel a little flimsy when thought about or questioned).
How does it affect the current plotline?
Knowing this can help you decide what aspects of your backstory to reveal to the readers. The bits that actually matter, not the full history that doesn't advance the story.
Were any of the current characters involved?
If so, what was their role? How do they feel about it now? How does it motivate their actions and choices now? This will help make them real people with real motives, even if they're not major players in the story. It'll also give the sense that things are going on in the world and it's not all about your main characters. Supporting players have lives, even when off screen.
How do the POV characters feel about it?
If your POV characters weren't involved (or don't know about it) odds are they're trying to figure it out in some way. That might even be the goal of the book or a subplot. What do they know? What do they think they know, but have wrong? What parts are they trying to solve, but uncover something totally unexpected? Knowing the backstory can help you plot twists and turns and surprise the reader in ways that make sense and feel grounded. It'll also make it easier for you to plot when, where, and how they discover information, especially if other characters hold the key to any of that information. You'll know exactly who knows what, why they may or may not talk about, and how badly they'd want to keep (or reveal) that knowledge.
Backstory gets a bad rap, but when you think about it, it's the motivating factor behind your characters, and characters are what drives your story. You need the backstory to create rich and proactive characters. So why not write it all on its own? It keeps it out of the story, allows you to explore the history that captured your interest, and helps you crafts a story and characters with depth.
How much does backstory affect your current WIP? How much have you put into the story? Do you feel it's too much? Too little? Have you tried writing it out separately?
Looking to improve your craft? Check out one of my books on writing:
In-depth studies in my Skill Builders series include Understanding Conflict (And What It Really Means), and Understanding Show Don't Tell (And Really Getting It). My Foundations of Fiction series includes Plotting Your Novel: Ideas and Structure, a self-guided workshop for plotting a novel, and the companion Plotting Your Novel Workbook, and my Revising Your Novel: First Draft to Finished Draft series, with step-by-step guides to revising a novel.
As J.T. Hardy, she write urban fantasy for adults. The first book in her Grace Harper series is Blood Ties.
Janice is also the founder of Fiction University, a site dedicated to helping writers improve their craft. Her popular Foundations of Fiction series includes Plotting Your Novel: Ideas and Structure and the companion Plotting Your Novel Workbook. Her Revising Your Novel: First Draft to Finished Draft series offer step-by-step guide to revising a novel. Her Skill Builders series includes Understanding Show Don't Tell (And Really Getting It), and Understanding Conflict (And What It Really Means).


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