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By Genevieve Simperingham. First published in The Natural Parent Magazine.
In my parent coaching work, I like to talk about anger and rage and how common the tendency to explode (or implode!) really is in families. Anger is a very real and daily challenge for most parents as they juggle the various wants and needs in the family; their child's anger, their partner's anger, their own anger.
Anger is an emotion that's especially difficult to bear; it can feel scary and larger than life. It can be hard to admit to feeling angry, even to ourselves, and hard to feel that we deserve support and empathy – but we always do. Much hurt, harm and damage happens as a result of pent up or mis-directed anger, yet the emotion itself is not to blame. In fact empathy for ourselves and empathy for our child is one of the antidotes to aggression and overwhelm.
Parents get angry when …
When they feel confused about how to best respond to difficult behaviours like aggression in the family. They need the skills. Anger can rise with speed and fury when unresolved emotion or trauma becomes activated. Healing is needed. Parents get angry when the emotional, physical and financial needs outweigh the resources and they feel unsupported by family and community. It really does take a village. Overall, anger usually signifies an overwhelming backlog of unmet needs.
How quickly conflicts spark and escalate.
On any particularly busy day, parents can feel stressed and stretched by the demands of endless jobs and tight time constraints, stress rises as the pressures mount. Then if you turn and ask your child to do a couple of simple tasks like washing teeth, getting dressed, but they either ignore you or flat out refuse, that tide of anger can rise up. Your child's refusal seems completely unreasonable! Despite trying to control your tone, you snap, your child snaps back. Boom! Conflict escalates! You can't help wishing your child understood how minimal your demands are compared to when you were their age!
Breaking the cycles of 'stress-passing' in the family.
We can, and need to, learn constructive communication, conflict resolution and problem solving skills. Yet we need the patience, clarity and confidence to put them into practice. Becoming mindful of our emotional triggers that relate back to our childhood and then owning, exploring and resolving these emotions forms the foundation of peaceful parenting.
The stress response.
When we become triggered, something in the present reminds us at an unconscious level of something in the past that's still unresolved and held as tension in the body. In reaction to our child, all of a sudden stress soars, anger rises, muscles tighten, we fixate on problems, become inflexible, and lose our ability to empathize. Without realizing it we're caught in the fight/flight/freeze stress response and there's no time to sit and listen when things feel this urgent. In these moments we act more from a hurt child place than a conscious adult place.
In the traditional parenting model,
parents attempt to regain control by overpowering their child with that look, by threatening punishments, withdrawing privileges, yelling and ultimatums. But parents who are working hard to not yell or coerce often face strong surges of emotion that need containing to avoid spilling their stress over onto their child. Stopping in our tracks and owning and managing our feelings takes a LOT more skill than simply threatening kids into compliance. It's in the most challenging moments when pressures are sky high that parents face the need to skillfully surf the tides of emotions that threaten to swamp them.
Getting back on track.
When committed to more peaceful and respectful communication, we need to view our yelling and exploding as our cue to self-regulate; to come back to feeling like we can, not just escape acting from a powerless hurt child state, but become firmly grounded in our calm, confident adult self. Perhaps we need some non-judgmental listening, meditation, relaxation, we need to reconnect with our self and reconnect with our child. We just know that things are not going to get back on track with our child until we slow down and release the pressure from us both. But how do we do that?
Becoming more mindful of our triggers plays a big part in parenting from the heart with more connection and patience. It can be valuable to take time to reflect on the things that your child does that can really trigger/activate some big feelings in you and explore what's familiar about these situations? For instance, if your child ignoring you is a trigger, does it evoke familiar feelings from your childhood years? When triggered, words can pour out of our mouths that shock us to hear, often the same words that hurt so much as a child. It's a kind of unconscious re-enactment. The more conscious we become of our triggers, the more we can mobilize and resolve these packages of pain inside and begin to bring conscious awareness to the process as it's happening, or about to happen and change direction. I developed my Stress Relief for Parents CD with this whole subject in mind. The tracks equip the listener with exercises to help them resolve difficult feelings, gain insights into what unresolved emotions are being triggered and offers a blissful 15 minute body relaxation.
It's okay not to feel okay.
When our child's behaviour triggers a highly emotional response, by increasing our mindfulness of our reactions, we gain an opportunity to bring compassion to some sore feelings that need and deserve attention. There's a lot of power in observing the sensations in our body and recognising the feelings that get activated at these times and where those feelings are held within the body. We may identify feelings of sadness, overwhelm, perhaps fears or feelings of inadequacy. The trigger might be your child's resistance, lack of responsiveness, their lack of affection, their affection for their other parent, aggression, tantrums, neediness, their response to sleep, food, chores, school. Something is experienced as familiar at a body instinctive level, feelings open in your body memory that your conscious mind was previously unaware of.
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When we're triggered
It can feel as if the hurt inner child is competing with our child's feelings with sentiments of; "nobody cares about MY needs/ resentments/ frustrations/ disappointments/ grief". Such inner conflict can be very uncomfortable, but be assured that if you've even started to become aware of such internal reactions, you're well on the road to breaking the cycles of disconnection and well on the road to claiming more peace of mind and heart for yourself and your child.
Listening heals.
Counselling and psychotherapy can be a great way to explore and resolve stuck feelings and patterns from the past that prevent growth in the present. Counselling or organized listening partnerships differ from chatting with friends in that it gives you the chance to really drop into exploring where the related feelings are held in the body. Crying can feel so very cleansing and relieving when the space is held by a calm, patient, wise and empathic listener. Their acceptance of your feelings helps you listen to yourself to glean the deeper insights and resolve feelings that previously felt so unmovable like the big rage and grief that can compromise your clarity and confidence daily.
Taking the pressure off.
Parents carry so much stress and fear around getting to sleep, school, work, daycare or swimming lessons on time. Children don't and can't function well within a busy time pressured timetable. In aiming to lower the stress levels in the family, parents often realize that everyone is living under more pressure than they can sustain and it calls for a re-evaluation of their lifestyle. It's good to talk about downtime and de-stressing, to model taking rests, reading, playing, meditating, support your kids to have free play time, time to daydream, time in nature, time to find and follow their interests.
Self-regulation skills.
As well as therapy, there are many self-regulation and self-healing skills that everyone can learn that really help to restore peace and calm when strong emotions threaten to dominate the scene. I'll share with you some of the tools that work for me and for many parents that I help:
Reconnecting with your heart.
This simple act of putting your hand on your heart and asking; "what am I feeling, what do I need?" helps us reconnect with our inner world in a positive way. The response might be "I feel stressed! I feel angry! I need to slow down, I need to ask for help, I need to cross something off today's list of activities." Try it!
"Name it to tame it"
This is a phrase coined by author and psychiatrist Dr Daniel Siegel. There's a lot of power in simply naming what we're feeling. When we tell our child "you're making me so angry", we give them the message that they control how we feel and it's their responsibility to keep us happy. Whereas, when we say "I feel angry, I really need to slow down and relax", we show them that we can not only identify and be honest about how we feel but also take responsibility and relieve them of responsibility for our feelings. This really is fantastic modelling for our children. The child who can clearly express that they're angry is more likely to seek support and less likely to take their anger out on others. I love how, in response to enquiring "you seem really stressed, what do you need?" my children often reply with simple expressions like "I'm angry", "I feel overwhelmed", "everything feels really hard at the moment", "I feel like I need to scream". When such feelings are expressed, accepted and understood, the emotional charge can dissipate significantly.
Positive self-talk.
We tend to respond to our emotions with similar words and messages that our parents responded to our emotions. Becoming mindful of our self-talk and consciously practising empathic and supportive messages, we begin to re-parent ourselves. Being kind to ourselves creates the foundation for kindness to others. For example, instead of berating yourself for feeling angry and overwhelmed, you might say to yourself "it's ok, this is just a tough moment, it's okay to feel what I'm feeling".
Simply sitting.
There's a Chinese proverb that says "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." Even though anger can give us physical superpowers, attacking the housework in a manic passive aggressive frenzy can be pretty scary and overwhelming for our kids and isn't the best modelling! When we become overly stressed, our system becomes flooded with stress hormones, everything speeds up, our breathing, our thinking becomes irrational, our tone of voice intensifies and we speak faster, which every child knows to be a warning sign! Simply sitting down in an armchair or even lying on the ground or the grass slows everything down, totally changes the dynamic with our child and gives us a chance to emotionally re-stabilize. This modelling teaches our children what they can do in overwhelm.
Visualising a red stop sign.
To help you hold back from speaking words or taking action that you'll later regret and need to repair with your child, if you just remember one thing, remember a red stop sign. When feeling emotionally charged, it's hard to remember the theory, but the brain responds very well to visual messages and bringing to mind a red stop sign, or even better creating or printing a drawing to put up on the wall, may help you stop and slow down enough to begin to remember some more positive things you can do. If you draw or print one, you could write some key reminder words on it like; "breathe", "centre", "de-stress".
Fresh air brings a fresh perspective.
When stresses rise in the family, the walls can start to close in, everywhere we look jobs demand our attention. Being in nature helps us decompress and relax. The sights, sounds and smells of nature remind us of life's small pleasures and help to put things back in perspective. Most people can literally feel the stress starting to drain away when they put their bare feet on the earth. Looking up at the sky, looking out to nature helps us lift up and out of the scenario that we've got ourselves tightly wound into.
I can see clearly now …
Once we return to a calm state, many options open up. We again remember our child's goodness and can reconnect and repair after conflicts. Our child feels and experiences our emotional storms and instinctively protects themselves by muffling the communication. Yet when a parent restores calm inviting communication, their child's usually right there waiting for them, power struggles dissipate and warmth, connection, cooperation and humour return to the scene.
Written by Genevieve Simperingham, founder of the Peaceful Parent Institute in New Zealand, parent coach, educator and psychosynthesis counsellor.
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I also recommend working through our Overcoming Overwhelm Course which has been created especially to help parents work through becoming more mindful of and better managing their frustrations, anxiety and anger. Parents often describe how the information comes to life for them when they work through this course. It brings in many of these same principals in this article, but takes you through a step by step process to develop your daily self-care practice, to explore your triggers with on screen reflection questions and then some videos that guide you through some simple but powerful ways to reduce the intensity of unresolved painful emotions that were previously locked in the nervous system, ready to flare up in moments of high pressure.
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Ever watch your pet wake from a sleep? There is usually a ritual of stretches before they go on their way. Most animals stretch themselves out first to get the circulation going and the body limber. Here are simple stretches that can be done right from the bed. Remember to 'wake up like an animal' for your body to be ready for the tasks ahead and for the day to be off to a great start!
Full Body Stretch
While lying flat, extend your arms overhead and stretch the tips of your fingers and point your toes in opposite directions. Hold for a few seconds. This releases tightness throughout the entire body which can form during sleep.
Figure Four Stretch
Next, stay lying flat and put your ankle on the opposite bent leg at the knee. This stretch helps lubricate the hip joints, thighs and glutes. Hold for a few seconds and be sure to stretch both sides.
Knees to Chest
Next, bring both bent legs far into your chest. This stretch is commonly done in Pilates and helps the low back and stimulates the mind and body connection.
Supine Twist
Now, bring bent legs to one side of the body while arms are outstretched and head is looking over opposite shoulder. This twist increases circulation and stretches the spinal muscles.
Bed To Floor Stretch
Sit up at the edge of the bed and bend your head to the floor with your hands reaching the floor and your back rounded. This helps stretch the back and brings a supply of oxygen to the brain.
Slowly stand up and raise your arms to reach for the stars. Now, you are ready to start your day!


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The Cloister Beach Club is one of the accommodations in Sea Island. Georgia. Executive chef Kurtis Baguley of the resort provided this recipe to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. We made it, loved it and are sharing it with KosherEye readers. It is a chocoholic's dream, but certainly NOT Weight Watcher friendly. In moderation, y'all. This is a 5 star dessert from a 5 star resort!
1 cup roughly chopped pecans
1/2 pound unsalted butter
1/4 pound milk chocolate, chopped
1/4 pound semisweet dark chocolate, chopped
Vanilla ice cream, whipped cream and cherries
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Arrange pecans on a rimmed baking sheet and bake 10 minutes or until just toasted, stirring occasionally.
While pecans are toasting, in a large saucepan, melt butter over low heat. Remove from heat. Stir in milk chocolate and semisweet chocolate and keep stirring until chocolate has completely melted.
Add toasted pecans and keep warm until ready to serve.
To serve, top one or two scoops of ice cream with 1/4 cup warm topping. Garnish with whipped cream and a cherry and serve immediately. Any remaining topping will keep refrigerated for up to 2 weeks. Warm gently before reusing.
Makes: 2 1/2 cups
The decadence of the dairy butter is unbelievably delicious. However, to make this parve, simply substitute Earth Balance parve margarine and parve chocolate and serve it over parve ice cream.
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The Garde was a new kind of military institution in Haiti. It was a force manned overwhelmingly by blacks, with a United States- trained black commander, Colonel Démosthènes Pétrus Calixte. Most of the Garde's officers, however, were mulattoes. The Garde was a national organization; it departed from the regionalism that had characterized most of Haiti's previous armies. In theory, its charge was apolitical–to maintain internal order, while supporting a popularly elected government. The Garde initially adhered to this role.
President Vincent took advantage of the comparative national stability, which was being maintained by a professionalized military, to gain absolute power. A plebiscite permitted the transfer of all authority in economic matters from the legislature to the executive, but Vincent was not content with this expansion of his power. In 1935 he forced through the legislature a new constitution, which was also approved by plebiscite. The constitution praised Vincent, and it granted the executive sweeping powers to dissolve the legislature at will, to reorganize the judiciary, to appoint ten of twenty-one senators (and to recommend the remaining eleven to the lower house), and to rule by decree when the legislature was not in session. Although Vincent implemented some improvements in infrastructure and services, he brutally repressed his opposition, censored the press, and governed largely to benefit himself and a clique of merchants and corrupt military officers.
Under Calixte the majority of Garde personnel had adhered to the doctrine of political nonintervention that their Marine Corps trainers had stressed. Over time, however, Vincent and Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina sought to buy adherents among the ranks. Trujillo, determined to expand his influence over all of Hispaniola, in October 1937 ordered the indiscriminate butchery by the Dominican army of an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 Haitians on the Dominican side of the Massacre River. Some observers claim that Trujillo supported an abortive coup attempt by young Garde officers in December 1937. Vincent dismissed Calixte as commander and sent him abroad, where he eventually accepted a commission in the Dominican military as a reward for his efforts while on Trujillo's payroll. The attempted coup led Vincent to purge the officer corps of all members suspected of disloyalty, marking the end of the apolitical military.
In 1941 Vincent showed every intention of standing for a third term as president, but after almost a decade of disengagement, the United States made it known that it would oppose such an extension. Vincent accommodated the Roosevelt administration and handed power over to Elie Lescot.
Lescot was a mulatto who had served in numerous government posts. He was competent and forceful, and many considered him a sterling candidate for the presidency, despite his elitist background. Like the majority of previous Haitian presidents, however, he failed to live up to his potential. His tenure paralleled that of Vincent in many ways. Lescot declared himself commander in chief of the military, and power resided in a clique that ruled with the tacit support of the Garde. He repressed his opponents, censored the press, and compelled the legislature to grant him extensive powers. He handled all budget matters without legislative sanction and filled legislative vacancies without calling elections. Lescot commonly said that Haiti's declared state-of-war against the Axis powers during World War II justified his repressive actions. Haiti, however, played no role in the war except for supplying the United States with raw materials and serving as a base for a United States Coast Guard detachment.
Aside from his authoritarian tendencies, Lescot had another flaw: his relationship with Trujillo. While serving as Haitian ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Lescot fell under the sway of Trujillo's influence and wealth. In fact, it was Trujillo's money that reportedly bought most of the legislative votes that brought Lescot to power. Their clandestine association persisted until 1943, when the two leaders parted ways for unknown reasons. Trujillo later made public all his correspondence with the Haitian leader. The move undermined Lescot's already dubious popular support.
In January 1946, events came to a head when Lescot jailed the Marxist editors of a journal called La Ruche (The Beehive). This action precipitated student strikes and protests by government workers, teachers, and shopkeepers in the capital and provincial cities. In addition, Lescot's mulatto-dominated rule had alienated the predominantly black Garde. His position became untenable, and he resigned on January 11. Radio announcements declared that the Garde had assumed power, which it would administer through a three-member junta.
The Revolution of 1946 was a novel development in Haiti's history, insofar as the Garde assumed power as an institution, not as the instrument of a particular commander. The members of the junta, known as the Military Executive Committee (Comité Exécutif Militaire), were Garde commander Colonel Franck Lavaud, Major Antoine Levelt, and Major Paul E. Magloire, commander of the Presidential Guard. All three understood Haiti's traditional way of exercising power, but they lacked a thorough understanding of what would be required to make the transition to an elected civilian government. Upon taking power, the junta pledged to hold free elections. The junta also explored other options, but public clamor, which included public demonstrations in support of potential candidates, eventually forced the officers to make good on their promise.
Haiti elected its National Assembly in May 1946. The Assembly set August 16, 1946, as the date on which it would select a president. The leading candidates for the office–all of whom were black–were Dumarsais Estimé, a former school teacher, assembly member, and cabinet minister under Vincent; Félix d'Orléans Juste Constant, leader of the Haitian Communist Party (Parti Communiste d'Haïti–PCH); and former Garde commander Calixte, who stood as the candidate of a progressive coalition that included the Worker Peasant Movement (Mouvement Ouvrier Paysan–MOP). MOP chose to endorse Calixte, instead of a candidate from its own ranks, because the party's leader, Daniel Fignolé, was only twenty-six years old–too young to stand for the nation's highest office. Estimé, politically the most moderate of the three, drew support from the black population in the north, as well as from the emerging black middle class. The leaders of the military, who would not countenance the election of Juste Constant and who reacted warily to the populist Fignolé, also considered Estimé the safest candidate. After two rounds of polling, legislators gave Estimé the presidency.
Estimé's election represented a break with Haiti's political tradition. Although he was reputed to have received support from commanders of the Garde, Estimé was a civilian. Of humble origins, he was passionately anti-elitist and therefore generally antimulatto. He demonstrated, at least initially, a genuine concern for the welfare of the people. Operating under a new constitution that went into effect in November 1946, Estimé proposed, but never secured passage of, Haiti's first social- security legislation. He did, however, expand the school system, encourage the establishment of rural cooperatives, raise the salaries of civil servants, and increase the representation of middle-class and lower-class blacks in the public sector. He also attempted to gain the favor of the Garde–renamed the Haitian Army (Armée d'Haïti) in March 1947–by promoting Lavaud to brigadier general and by seeking United States military assistance.
Estimé eventually fell victim to two of the time-honored pitfalls of Haitian rule: elite intrigue and personal ambition. The elite had a number of grievances against Estimé. Not only had he largely excluded them from the often lucrative levers of government, but he also enacted the country's first income tax, fostered the growth of labor unions, and suggested that voodoo be considered as a religion equivalent to Roman Catholicism–a notion that the Europeanized elite abhorred. Lacking direct influence in Haitian affairs, the elite resorted to clandestine lobbying among the officer corps. Their efforts, in combination with deteriorating domestic conditions, led to a coup in May 1950.
To be sure, Estimé had hastened his own demise in several ways. His nationalization of the Standard Fruit banana concession sharply reduced the firm's revenues. He alienated workers by requiring them to invest between 10 percent and 15 percent of their salaries in national-defense bonds. The president sealed his fate by attempting to manipulate the constitution in order to extend his term in office. Seizing on this action and the popular unrest it engendered, the army forced the president to resign on May 10, 1950. The same junta that had assumed power after the fall of Lescot reinstalled itself. An army escort conducted Estimé from the National Palace and into exile in Jamaica. The events of May 1946 made an impression upon the deposed minister of labor, François Duvalier. The lesson that Duvalier drew from Estimé's ouster was that the military could not be trusted. It was a lesson that he would act upon when he gained power.
The power balance within the junta shifted between 1946 and 1950. Lavaud was the preeminent member at the time of the first coup, but Magloire, now a colonel, dominated after Estimé's overthrow. When Haiti announced that its first direct elections (all men twenty-one or over were allowed to vote) would be held on October 8, 1950, Magloire resigned from the junta and declared himself a candidate for president. In contrast to the chaotic political climate of 1946, the campaign of 1950 proceeded under the implicit understanding that only a strong candidate backed by both the army and the elite would be able to take power. Facing only token opposition, Magloire won the election and assumed office on December 6.
Magloire restored the elite to prominence. The business community and the government benefited from favorable economic conditions until Hurricane Hazel hit the island in 1954. Haiti made some improvements on its infrastructure, but most of these were financed largely by foreign loans. By Haitian standards, Magloire's rule was firm, but not harsh: he jailed political opponents, including Fignolé, and shut down their presses when their protests grew too strident, but he allowed labor unions to function, although they were not permitted to strike. It was in the arena of corruption, however, that Magloire overstepped traditional bounds. The president controlled the sisal, cement, and soap monopolies. He and other officials built imposing mansions. The injection of international hurricane relief funds into an already corrupt system boosted graft to levels that disillusioned all Haitians. To make matters worse, Magloire followed in the footsteps of many previous presidents by disputing the termination date of his stay in office. Politicians, labor leaders, and their followers flocked to the streets in May 1956 to protest Magloire's failure to step down. Although Magloire declared martial law, a general strike essentially shut down Port-au-Prince. Again like many before him, Magloire fled to Jamaica, leaving the army with the task of restoring order.
The period between the fall of Magloire and the election of Duvalier in September 1957 was a chaotic one, even by Haitian standards. Three provisional presidents held office during this interval; one resigned and the army deposed the other two, Franck Sylvain and Fignolé. Duvalier is said to have engaged actively in the behind-the-scenes intrigue that helped him to emerge as the presidential candidate that the military favored. The military went on to guide the campaign and the elections in a way that gave Duvalier every possible advantage. Most political actors perceived Duvalier–a medical doctor who had served as a rural administrator of a United States-funded anti-yaws campaign before entering the cabinet under Estimé–as an honest and fairly unassuming leader without a strong ideological motivation or program. When elections were finally organized, this time under terms of universal suffrage (both men and women now had the vote), Duvalier, a black, painted himself as the legitimate heir to Estimé. This approach was enhanced by the fact that Duvalier's only viable opponent, Louis Déjoie, was a mulatto and the scion of a prominent family. Duvalier scored a decisive victory at the polls. His followers took two-thirds of the legislature's lower house and all of the seats in the Senate.


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Last week I got the idea to make peeps, but not just regular peeps... I wanted to give them a makeover and create GLAMOUR PEEPS! I've always been a fan of these adorable little chicks, and even as a kid they were the only candy I wanted for Easter.
I do remember asking for a white chocolate bunny one year but I never even ate it. My reasoning: I thought it was too cute to eat :) However, I never had any problem eating peeps. Even now it takes a lot of will power for me not to buy them!
Now you should know that once I get an idea in my head it is full steam ahead! As I was conceptualizing this glamour peep idea I started thinking about how I would even make them. I knew I would start off making my marshmallows, but would I just use a cookie cutter and cut out cute little shapes? Nah that wouldn't be enough for me. I knew I would have to pipe them. The next question was how do you pipe a peep? Well I decided to wing it and it worked! Okay so I made marshmallows and tinted them pink-surprising right?! They looked so cute when I piped them. I could have left them alone at that point but that wouldn't have been very glamorous, and I tend to like things over the top ;) Enter disco dust... I cannot even begin to tell you how much I LOVE disco dust! It's edible glitter. I mean really what's not to love?! Once my peeps dried overnight I brushed them with water and then covered them in pink disco dust. I used blue food coloring to give them eyes and GLAMOUR PEEPS were born :) The last thing to take care of was presentation. The only proper way to display GLAMOUR PEEPS is on a feather boa! I knew that would come in handy one day ;)
Ready for my close-up! |
- 1/2 cup light corn syrup
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 4 egg whites
- 2T. powdered gelatin
- 4T. cold water
- 1t. vanilla extract
- Mix powdered gelatin with cold water (add extra water if needed) and set aside.
- Combine corn syrup, sugar, and water in saucepan and bring to 235 degrees using a candy thermometer.
- While bringing sugar mixture to a boil begin whipping egg whites in mixer till soft peaks form.
- When sugar mixture reaches 235 degrees add gelatin and quickly stir to dissolve.
- Slowly add hot mixture to whipping whites.
- Add vanilla and whip till stiff.
- Add food coloring if desired.
- Cover a sheet pan with parchment paper.
- Cover parchment with powdered sugar(don't be cheap)
- Fill a piping bag with marshmallow.
- Pipe a tear drop shape first.
- Then pipe the peep by squeezing the marshmallow on top of the tear drop pulling the piping bag up. Slowly release your pressure and bring forward.
- Allow peeps to dry overnight in a cool dry place.
- Brush lightly with water.
- Brush with disco dust.
- Place the eyes on them using a toothpick dipped in food coloring.


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Tuesday 16 November 2010
A wedding present for William and Kate
The BBC reports a jolly enthusiastic response from the Coalition Cabinet - where the news was greeted with "a great cheer" and "banging of the table" according to David Cameron - along with appropriate congratulations from other political party leaders, with Ed Miliband saying that "the whole country will be wishing them every happiness".
What the political parties should usefully now cooperate is to legislate to remove the gender discrimination in the line of Royal succession before the Royal wedding.
If William and Kate were, after the marriage, to have children - then a girl born before a brother would be placed after her brother in the line of succession.
That possibility ought to be removed by the time of their wedding in the Spring or Summer of 2011.
It is not just that "equal rights for Royal Princesses" could be seen as an appropriate constitutional wedding present for the happy couple. Nobody would suggest that this is the most important equality cause in our country, it is now time to act upon the long overdue removal from our unwritten constitution of an unnecessary piece of gender discrimination which makes no sense at all.
It would also now be dangerous not to finally act on this discrimination. If William and Kate were to have children, a reform could then affect existing individuals. It would be far better to act now, before that is the case.
Any supporter of the Monarchy should be able to see why there would be considerable public bafflement, and probably anger, if a first-born Royal girl was to be discriminated against in the line of succession in this way. And those who oppose the Monarchy for reasons of republican and democratic principle can have no reason - while trying to win an elusive public majority for that argument - to support gender discrimination within the Monarchy that we have.
Both the previous and the current government have said that they support reform in principle. There is no plausible reason how they could oppose it. That has been government policy for over a decade. There is overwhelming public support for the change. The government even reported to the House of Lords back in 1998 that the Queen supports the principle of reform. (The Royals are constitutionally not supposed to actively promote this or any other change; any interviewer who managed to ask Wiliam or Kate for their views might be rebuffed, though support for gender equality would hardly be the most controversial of public statements).
The Fabian Monarchy Commission recommended this reform back in 2003. Fabian Executive member Alf Dubs is sought to bring forward legislation to expedite government action on this "breathtakingly modest" reform in 2005. Former LibDem MP Evan Harris put forward a Bill on this in 2009, which again generated promises of reform from the government.
As Next Left has previously set out (full background and links here), there has been a lot of foot-dragging, with reasons for delay including the length of time and complication of writing to other Commonwealth governments (in which case, it might be as well to get on with it).
So once the Cabinet have got over their table-banging excitement, perhaps they could quickly decide - at their next meeting - to ensure the government puts in place plans to bring about this significant symbolic change by the time of the Royal marriage next year.
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- 16 November 2010 at 23:47
- Unknown said...
Surely modern Britain should be a republican state. I'm not interested in "equal rights for Royal Princesses" I'm interested in equal opportunity for all. I'm pretty sure the founders of the Fabian Society would agree.
- 16 November 2010 at 23:51
- T.N.T. said...
I agree with Gerry. If we have to have a monarch, he/she should be chosen at random - by a lottery of UK citizens. And for a fixed term - say 5 or 10 years.
Who on earth on the Left cares about changing the rules of succession? It's just changing one completely arbitrary mechanism for maintaining birthright priviledges for another.
There really is much more important stuff for the Fabian Society to get worked up about than this. - 17 November 2010 at 08:00
- Stephen Wigmore said...
I agree that the sex discrimination should be removed from the royal succession, before there comes a chance it could actually affect someone.
To the above, I am a staunch Monarchist. Far better a royal family and monarchy entwined with our national history and culture and architecture than some anodyne president, another greasy pole for failed ex-politicians to climb. - 17 November 2010 at 11:24
- Richard T said...
Rats. There was I thinking that a good wedding present would be for ex Prinz Wilhelm to be a private citizen earning his own living and supporting his wife on his own abilities.
- 17 November 2010 at 12:32
- Unknown said...
I don't understand why Conservatives are Monarchists either. How can anyone possibly argue against a meritocracy is beyond me. Neo-liberal thought is about tearing down barriers to entry (self made man, pull yourself up by your boot straps, American dream etc) yet they continue to promote privilege. (I love the lottery idea by the way.)
The only pro-monarchist argument I'm aware of is the economic one (money in tourism) implicit in this (that is if you accept the basic premise Americans would suddenly stop flocking to the Buckingham Palace because the Queen is no longer their- not been a problem for Paris) is the "trickle-down effect". Check the latest ONS/HMRC figures on wealth distribution, they blow that theory out of the water as 53% of the entire wealth of this country is owned by 20% of the population, while the top 1% own, while the top 1% own 21% of the UK's wealth. Here's the link http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=2 - 17 November 2010 at 15:57


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Munich/Pforzheim, June 10, 2021: The finalists for The smarter E AWARD 2021 are in fine form again this year with their pioneering projects and products promoting a sustainable energy industry. The Outstanding Projects category honors energy projects that have been completed around the world. The Smart Renewable Energy category celebrates sector coupling solutions as well as smart management tools for energy systems. The winners of The smarter E AWARD will be crowned on a virtual stage as part of The smarter E Industry Days being held between July 21 and 23, 2021.
The smarter E Europe is the continent's largest platform for the energy industry, showcasing intelligently connected concepts and solutions geared toward efficient energy generation and usage. Innovation is an essential driving force behind a cross-sector approach on this level. With that in mind, the valued innovation prize of the energy industry – The smarter E AWARD – centers around solutions and concepts that take renewable energy, decentralization, and digitalization as the basis for intelligently linking every aspect of electricity, heat, and transportation.
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Regulatory inefficiencies and threats in the areas of hours of services for truck drivers, the Clean Water Act, and the use of coal ash could undermine the historic policy reforms put in place by the newly enacted highway and transit law–MAP-21, the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) chairman told Congress on July 19.
Testifying before the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform, 2012 ARTBA Chairman Paul Yarossi, president of HNTB Holdings, explained that some regulations provide a "sense of predictability and ensure a balance between meeting our nation's transportation mobility needs and protecting the public interest." However, he cited three areas that "hinder, rather than help this balance."
Noting that a "one-size-fits-all" approach would not work, Yarossi urged Congress to re-examine rules governing hours of service for long-haul truckers. He explained that transportation construction industry drivers tend to drive short distances to and from a work site rather than the long trips of commercial drivers.
"Such limitations can disrupt the efficient deployment of professionals and resources on the construction jobsite, without a demonstrable increase in safety," he told the committee. "Further, it increases costs that would otherwise support capital and personnel expansions."
Second, Yarossi pointed to draft guidance from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that would greatly expand the reach of the Clean Water Act to include roadside ditches within the jurisdiction of wetlands.
"Virtually every road and roadway improvement project has a ditch associated with it," explained Yarossi. "Notwithstanding the complete lack of viability of such a plan, it would inject major uncertainty and delays in the delivery of transportation benefits."
Finally, the ARTBA chairman highlighted the EPA's possible designation of coal ash as a "hazardous waste." Coal ash is commonly used material in concrete and a key component in transportation infrastructure improvements. He cited a 2011 ARTBA economic study, which found that removing coal ash from transportation construction would cost the public and private sectors more than $104 billion over the next 20 years. Such increases could threaten jobs and result in increased material costs, thereby negating any cost savings that would develop as a result of policy reforms passed in MAP-21.
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Be on the Mountain
Our friend, Rob Bell, tells a story in which God tells Moses to climb to the top of a mountain. Moses obliges, but when he finally reaches the summit, God commands him, "Be on the mountain."
I imagine Moses responded, "I heard you the first time: 'Go to the top of the mountain'! Here I am, just as you asked. Now what?"
And God likely responded, "Just be on the mountain"—in a stoic, but slightly annoyed, tone.
Then Moses, puzzled by the seeming redundancy of God's request, might've furrowed his brow and scratched his noggin because he didn't understand that God didn't want him to just travel to the peak and then immediately contemplate his next move. God didn't want him preoccupied, standing up there worrying about how he was going to get down, or what bills must be paid, or whether he turned off the lights before leaving the house.
God wanted Moses to be on the mountain: to enjoy the moment. Which is impossible when we're stuck in a state of perpetual planning. Or perpetual worry. Or perpetual whatever.
I'm not particularly religious, but I appreciate this parable because it reminds me when we pause for a moment, we can appreciate the present: it takes a tremendous effort to reach the peak—we should enjoy it, even if only for a moment.
If we want to enjoy life, we must commit to being on the mountain. That doesn't mean we shouldn't plan—but let's enjoy the planning process more. And it doesn't mean we shouldn't work hard, either—but we can enjoy the work when it is executed from a place of total awareness.
Don't dwell on the past.
Don't worry about the future.
Be on the mountain.
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It seems that van Rysselberghe really liked Pointillism and the related Divisionism a lot, never totally abandoning (while watering down) the concepts later in his career when many of his paintings were more conventional.
But he had to earn a living and, as for many painters, that required making portraits. So van Rysselberghe often tried to include as much Pointillism as he could in a number of those portraits. The problem is, Pointillism and portraiture do not mix easily. That's because Pointillism in its pure form cannot handle small details and sharp edges, things that portraits traditionally require.
So compromises usually had to be made, as the images below indicate. They are presented in roughly chronological order.
Portrait of Alice Sèthe - 1888
An early Pointillist portrait.
Mathilde Vereeken - 1891
This features many little colored dots on the subject's face, but van Rysselberghe had to use some conventional brushwork on the ear, the lower part of the nose and upper lip, and the eyes.
Emile Verhaeren - 1892
A mix of hard edges and dots here.
Jeune fille en vert - c. 1892
Pointillism doesn't always work for hair, either.
Anna Bloch in her Studio - c. 1893
By the time he did this portrait, Rysselberghe was resorting to conventional painting for faces and hands.
Maria and Elizabeth van Rysselbergh
Around 1900, he was using plenty of sharp lines, leaving Pointillism for flat, plain surfaces.
Portrait of Mme Demolderlder (detail) - 1902
Closer view of how he was treating faces.
Mevrouw Henry van de Velde-Sèthe
From the same era: a selective mix of forms and dots.
Woman at Her Toilette - 1905
Since this wasn't a commissioned portrait, Rysselberghe could enjoy using much pointillism here, though some lines are strategically used.
André Gide - 1908
An example of his brushwork in a more Divisionism mode, though key facial features are drawn, not dabbed.
Madame von Bedenhausen avec son enfant Luli - 1910
Pointillism and Divisionism can be seen here, but they are incidental to the depiction.
Portrait of Margarethe Kühlmann-Stumm - 1913
This portrait has bright colors, but otherwise is almost conventional.
Mrs Schlumberger and her Daughter Luli - 1918
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Austin Ruse has headed the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) since the summer of 1997. Ruse has held the title of President since 2000. Ruse and his team have participated in every major UN social policy negotiation since 1997 including the multi-year negotiations that created the International Criminal Court. He has briefed members of the U.S. House and Senate on U.N. matters, as well as briefing White House and National Security Council staff. Ruse has also briefed senior government officials, journalists, and Church and non-governmental leaders from around the world.
He has appeared on a number of national cable network programs discussing UN and Catholic issues, including news programs on CNN, CBS News, MSNBC, and Fox News. Ruse has published in First Things, Washington Times, National Review Online, Weekly Standard, Human Events, and Touchstone, as well as newspapers around the world. Ruse is a biweekly columnist for TheCatholicThing.org and founder of the foreign affairs blog, TheNewSovereigntists.org. He is a former foreign affairs commentator for EWTN's weekly news broadcast The World Over hosted by Raymond Arroyo. He lectures widely on U.N. matters, appearing throughout the U.S., also in Canada, Latin America, the Far East and Europe. Ruse is a founder of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. Prior to helping to found C-FAM, Ruse spent many years in magazine publishing including Forbes, Fortune, the Atlantic Monthly and Rolling Stone.
Ruse is a Knight in the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, a Knight in the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, and is a founding member of the Diplomatic Society of St. Gabriel. He is also a member of Sons of the American Revolution. He holds undergraduate degrees in Journalism and Political Science from the University of Missouri, and an Honorary Doctorate from Franciscan University of Steubenville.
He is married to the former Cathleen Cleaver, who is senior legal advisor to the Family Research Council. They have two daughters, Lucy and Gigi. They live in the state of Virginia where Ruse's family first arrived from England in the early 1700's.


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Chief Justice John Roberts has been drawn into President Trump's web.
Last week the president criticized the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, based in San Francisco, calling it "a lawless disgrace." The New York Times writes, "Mr. Trump's remarks came after a federal trial judge ordered the administration to resume accepting asylum claims from migrants no matter where or how they entered the United States."
The judge issuing the ruling was Jon S. Tigar, of the United States District Court in San Francisco, whom Trump quickly singled out as an "Obama judge." This prompted a rare pushback from Chief Justice John Roberts, who said in a statement, "We do not have Obama judges, or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. The independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for."
The problem, as the president correctly sees it, is that the judiciary in too many cases appears to have become independent of the Constitution, making laws and reading liberal policies into the document that are not there. If all judges thought the same, as Roberts seems to suggest, why are there so many 5-4 rulings by the high court?
Conservatives have long complained that liberal judges advance policies that would never get through Congress. Besides, if there are no Trump, Obama, Bush or Clinton judges, then why the battle over every candidate nominated by a Republican president? Have we already forgotten the recent all-out war mounted by the left against Justice Brett Kavanaugh?
In a Thanksgiving Day tweet, the president claimed, "…the 9th circuit has a horrible reputation. It is overturned more than any circuit in the country, 79 percent, & is used to get an almost guaranteed result…Judges must not legislate security and safety at the border or anywhere else. They know nothing about it and are making our country unsafe. Our great law enforcement professionals must be allowed to do their job! If not there will be only bedlam, chaos, injury and death. We want the Constitution as written."
In fact, the Ninth Circuit's rulings are not the most overturned. According to data compiled by the U.S. Supreme Court blog, that particular distinction goes to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, which is in Ohio.
But that last sentence is at the heart of a debate that has been going on at least since the 1960s, and centers on what standard should be used to interpret the Constitution. Does the Constitution speak for itself, or does it say only what judges say it says, as the late Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes contended a century ago?
The president is on solid footing when he argues to preserve the prerogatives of his office. In 1950, the Supreme Court said, "The exclusion of aliens is a fundamental act of sovereignty … inherent in the executive power." Congress increased that power in 1952, passing legislation declaring the president "may by proclamation and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens and any class of aliens as immigrants or non-immigrants whenever he thinks it would be detrimental to the interests of the United States."
President Truman vetoed the measure, but Congress overrode him. It is the standard that ought to be employed today.
This debate is more than a legal squabble between politicians and judges with differing points of view. It is about the character and makeup of our country and whether we who are now living will bequeath to our descendants something resembling what our predecessors passed to us.
Most immigrants in the past wanted to learn English, embrace the culture and become fully American, not hyphenated Americans with agendas and policies brought from their homelands.
The back and forth between President Trump and Chief Justice Roberts has brought the real issue to the forefront again where it is likely to remain through the next election and, depending on the outcome, for elections after that until it is resolved either to the benefit or detriment of the nation.
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Chanel sneakners: when the House of haute couture tries its hand at streetwear.
For as long as the House of Chanel has been in existence, the brand's values have always remained the same. That is to say, an ode to femininity and independence, about which Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel waxed lyrical. Over the years, this brand, synonymous with French elegance and traditional know-how, has succeeded in setting itself apart from its competitors and winning the public over. Chanel ready-to-wear is not the only area the label is active in. Today, we can also find various collections of luxury jewellery and perfumes. Footwear is another of the targeted sectors. Chanel added trainers to their offering a few years ago to adapt to modern trends and appeal to an ever-larger audience.
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Red Hat Sponsors the Fourth Annual EFF Freedom Fest at LinuxWorld August 4
San Francisco, CA - For the past four years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been thanking its members for their support with a free outdoor concert called Freedom Fest. This year's event will be bigger and better than ever. EFF has partnered with Red Hat, the world's leading provider of Linux and open source solutions, to conduct the festivities as part of the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco. The Freedom Fest will be held outdoors at the gorgeous Yerba Buena Gardens, with an all-star lineup that features celebrated local artists Austin Willacy, Josh Fix and the Furious Force, and The Megan Slankard Band.
Warwick Davies, Group Vice President, IDG World Expo, said, "We're pleased to have EFF's Freedom Fest at LinuxWorld. It's a natural partnership, and we hope everybody who attends has a great time."
Red Hat Vice President of Corporate Communications David Burney added, "As an open source company, Red Hat believes in providing freedom and choice to technology users, and we are excited to partner with EFF to bring this great event to the Bay Area."
In addition to celebrating digital rights, this year's Freedom Fest is held in honor of the attorneys who volunteered their time to help win the Bunner case, defending Andrew Bunner and hundreds of other Linux users who hosted DeCSS code on their websites against a lawsuit brought by several large entertainment companies. The annual concert is also a chance for people interested in EFF issues to meet the staff in a relaxed atmosphere, enjoy some free music, and share food and drink. And for the first time ever, the event will be simulcast live over the Web at the EFF website.
The EFF Freedom Fest will take place on Wednesday, August 4th, from 5:00-8:00 p.m. The event is open to everyone attending LinuxWorld and all EFF supporters.
Freedom Fest website.
Shari Steele
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Jennifer Johnson
Dean and Erskine Wood Sr. Professor of Law
After graduating from law school, Dean Johnson clerked for Judge Alfred Goodwin, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. She was in private practice with a Portland law firm, specializing in real estate finance and land use, before joining the faculty in 1980. Johnson has received both the Leo Levenson and Burlington Northern Foundation awards for excellence in teaching. In 2008, Dean Johnson was named Jeffrey Bain Faculty Scholar in recognition of her exemplary teaching and scholarship in business law; and was installed as the Erskine Wood Sr. Professor of Law in 2011. She became Dean of the Law School in 2014. Also in 2008, Johnson was elected to the American Law Institute. Johnson is a member of the Oregon State Bar and serves on various bar task forces charged with drafting business legislation. Dean Johnson currently teaches classes in business associations and securities regulation. Her primary research areas are in corporate and securities law and her recent scholarship focuses on private placements and retail investors.
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- BA with honors 1973 Mills College
- JD 1976 Yale Law School
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- Private Placements: Will FINRA Sink in the Sea Change? 82 University of Cincinnati Law Review 465 (2013).
- Securities Class Actions in State Court, 80 University of Cincinnati Law Review 349 (2012).
- Fleecing Grandma: A Regulatory Ponzi Scheme, 16 Lewis & Clark Law Review 993 (2012).
- Secondary Liability For Securities Fraud: Gatekeepers In State Court, 36 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 463 (2011).
- Securities Class Actions in State Court (forthcoming U. Cinn. Law Rev, 2011)
- Private Placements: A Regulatory Black Hole, 35 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 151 (2010).
- Critiquing Arbitration of Shareholder Claims, 36 Securities Regulation Law Journal 181 (2008) (co-authored with Edward Brunet).
- Substantive Fairness in Securities Arbitration, 75 University of Cincinnati Law Review 459 (2007) (co-authored with Edward Brunet).
- What's Good for the Goose? The Unintended Consequences of the Federal Takeover of Corporate Law, 2 Journal of Business and Technology Law 251 (2007).
- Wall Street Meets the Wild West: Bringing Law and Order to Securities Arbitration, 84 North Carolina Law Review 123 2005).
- Earthworms and Pyramid Schemes: Judge Goodwin's Contributions to the Federal Securities Laws, 15 Western Legal History 45 (2002).
- Risky Business: Choice-of-Law and the Unincorporated Entity, 1 THE JOURNAL OF SMALL AND EMERGING BUSINESS LAW 249 (Winter 1997).
- The Oregon Limited Liability Partnership Act, 32 WILLAMETTE LAW REVIEW 147 (1996).
- Limited Liabilities for Attorneys: General Partners Need Not Apply, 51 THE BUSINESS LAWYER 85 (1995).
- Corporate Mergers: Redefining the Rule of Target Directors, 136 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW 315 (1987) (co-authored with Mary Siegel).
- Predators Rights: Multiple Remedies for Wall Street Sharks Under the Securities Laws and RICO, 10 JOURNAL OF CORPORATION LAW 3 (1984).
- The Emperor's Old Clothes: Piercing the Bar's Ethical Veil, 13 WILLAMETTE LAW JOURNAL 221 (1977)(co-authored with Paul H. Francis).
- "Limited Liability Partnerships," published as Chapter 3 of ADVISING OREGON BUSINESS OSB (2001)(co-authored with James M. Kennedy).
- Introduction (Oregon Land Use Symposium), 14 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW v (1984, No. 4) (co-authored with Laurie A. Bennett).
- General Resource Management Goals - Goals 5-8, Chapter 5 in 1 LAND USE (Oregon State Bar Committee on Continuing Legal Education 1982 Revision).
- Contract of Sale, Form 4 in II REAL PROPERTY (Oregon State Bar Committee on Continuing Legal Education 1981 Revision).
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Give gardens gift of organic matter
Gardens and landscapes work really hard to give us so much beauty and bounty, so sometimes it's nice for gardeners to give something back to the earth.
Fall is a really good time to build up your garden soil for next year. Probably the best gift you can give your garden is to amend its soil with organic matter.
When you add organic matter to your gardens, you add back microorganisms and improve the life of the soil. Organic matter breaks up heavy clay soil and increases drainage; in sandy soils, it slows down drainage. And while it's not actually a fertilizer, organic matter does contain essential plant nutrients.
So when you're looking into the gift of organic matter for the garden, just what are your options?
In Mississippi, a traditional choice has always been cottonseed meal. This soil amendment really boosts the organic matter in our garden soils. Raw or fresh cottonseed meal has a lot of green and brown materials, and it is best added to the garden after it has been composted.
Mississippi is an agricultural state and has an ample supply of agricultural organic wastes, better known as animal manure. Manure is a good source of plant nutrients and is rich in nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. When used fresh, it is considered "hot" and can harm plant roots and may spread harmful bacteria. I always recommend using only completely composted manures for the garden.
However, you can apply fresh manure directly to the garden if you work it into the soil at least 90 days before planting. This step allows the manure time to compost in place so it becomes stabilized and beneficial for plant growth. Fall is the perfect time to apply fresh manure in preparation for planting next spring.
Now, while compost is always a good gift for the garden, a really special and thoughtful gift is vermicompost.
Earthworms produce vermicompost as they efficiently break down organic wastes, producing what really can be called "black gold." I'm an avid worm rancher, and I have several worm bins producing vermicompost for use in my garden and landscape. In fact, I earned my Ph.D. studying the effects of vermicompost on plant growth.
You don't add vermicompost in nearly the same quantities as a normal composted material. Amend garden soil with small quantities of vermicompost to produce very healthy growing environments. Be aware that vermicompost is not a fertilizer and has limited plant nutrition, but it adds microorganisms and provides other intangible benefits that improve soil life and health.
Coffee grounds are another organic garden amendment that has been getting a lot of attention, especially on Internet gardening sites. What could be easier than taking the morning coffee grounds and spreading them around the garden? Research has demonstrated that coffee grounds have an inhibitory effect on seed germination when used as topdressing. This feature makes them a great way to control weeds in the garden.
If you don't drink as many cups of coffee as I do each day, many coffee shops generally will give you their spent grounds as a way to recycle these wastes.
So don't worry about finding the perfect box and ribbon when giving the gift of organic matter to your garden. A bucket and shovel will do just fine.


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Building a Linux Cluster, Part 2: What's Involved?
Editor's Note: Be sure to read the other articles in this series, Building a Linux Cluster, Part 1: Why Bother? and Building a Linux Cluster, Part 3: How To Get Started.
Part 1 of this series examined some of the whys of building Linux clusters. We shouldn't have to apply the "rule of five whys" (the rule states that you must ask "Why?" at least five times before you get the real answer) to determine whether you should consider a Linux cluster for your environment. If you're convinced—as you should be—that under the right circumstances a Linux cluster can substitute for an expensive SMP system, the next step in the process is the physical engineering of the solution. In this installment, we consider the what of cluster building: the hardware and software components that make up a Linux cluster, and some ways to think about integrating them into a solution for your environment.
Before we get too deep into the what portion of the discussion, I need to mention that I don't have all of the answers about Linux cluster design or implementation. For one thing, the available components, in terms of software and hardware technologies, change on what seems like an hourly basis. I monitor about 35 technology-related RSS feeds to keep up on things, along with closely watching cluster-specific software projects and other sites on a less frequent basis. Linux in general, and clusters in particular, can be rapidly moving targets. Blink twice and the world will have moved on a bit.
Before getting too worried about the pace of Linux cluster advancement, however, remember that you can still save money without trying to stay in the Top 500 list for supercomputers. The whole process of selecting the right hardware and software components is iterative—the only way to start is to do an initial design and improve it. Let's not let our management and friends accuse us of "analysis paralysis," right?


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Alex Garland, writer of 28 Days Later and Sunshine, makes his directorial debut with the stylish and cerebral thriller, EX MACHINA. Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company's brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test-charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan's latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated--and more deceptive--than the two men could have imagined.


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Sequester, Military Compensation Changes Will Hurt Our Forces | Commentary
For months, the Defense Department has carried out affairs under the direction of the Budget Control Act of 2011, aka "the sequester." This state of affairs has imposed limits on military procurement, deployment, training schedules and overall force readiness.
At this juncture, the pressure of the sequester and finding cost savings threaten another area of critical military spending: compensation and benefits. Having already placed heavy burdens on commanders and forces, this pressure to find savings threatens to pass America's budgetary woes to individual DOD employees in and out of uniform.
Particular scrutiny of military compensation and benefits has come under the purview of the newly created Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission, created by the fiscal 2013 National Defense Authorization Act. Names of the chairman, the Honorable Alphonso Maldon Jr., and commission members were released in June. The commission is tasked with ensuring, "long-term viability of the All-Volunteer Force . . . [and] to enable the quality of life . . . [while] achieving fiscal sustainability."
Although the particular mission of this commission seems productive on its own, the fact that it has been directed to look into the "fiscal sustainability" indicates DOD benefits might be on the chopping block should the sequester continue and pressure mount to find more cost savings.
While the costs of military benefits have increased throughout the past 12 years, much of this growth is the result of the introduction of Tricare for Life in 2002-2003. It is only reasonable to assume costs after years of war correspond to the increase of veterans and retirees.
However, the spike in compensation costs in the early 2000s does not indicate an out-of-control benefits system. To the contrary, a report by retired Air Force Col. Mike Hayden, writing for the Military Officers Association of America, looks over the past three decades and shows that compensation has consistently held 30 percent to 33 percent of DOD spending, neither hemorrhaging DOD funds nor stowing them away.
If the military compensation system is not broken, then what can Congress achieve by reforming it? First and foremost, some members of Congress perceive benefits and compensation as an area of the defense budget that can be cut to reduce the financial strain of the sequester.
One particular effort put forth by the president's fiscal 2014 budget request and echoed by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is a proposed cut to DOD pay. This particular measure would implement a 1 percent increase for military personnel to save about $540 million.
While this proposal would cut costs, it comes as a tremendous slight to military personnel whose pay is supposed to be tied to private sector growth, the Bureau of Labor's Employment Cost Index, which is supposed to be a 1.8 percent increase. In addition, Hagel also recommended in a letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee on July 10 for the inclusion of enrollment fees to Tricare, which he projects could raise $1 billion. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., earlier this year stated, "There are a lot of ways the federal government can cut costs . . . but targeting salaries and benefits for our troops and civilian personnel should not be one of them."
Despite members of Congress' determination, the sequester continues to be a lose-lose situation for DOD. On the one hand, the president's budget recommends the lowest pay increase for servicemembers since 1963, while the alternative budget under the sequester would continue to furlough about 650,000 DOD civilian employees, cut all military promotions, freeze pay raises and cancel retention bonuses. As of July 15, DOD civilian employees are now being furloughed for 11 days, representing a 20 percent cut in pay while in effect.
How then do plans, such as the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission, hurt future readiness of the Armed Forces? To best understand the answer, one must look back to 1986 when Congress decided to revamp military retirement options under a new system known as REDUX that offered lower initial compensation and greater returns only available to the most financially savvy servicemembers. In response, military retention plummeted.
Given the overwhelmingly negative response to cutting compensation benefits in the past, it is puzzling why Congress would want to attempt such measures now, when the military is already overburdened by the sequester's hindrance of military readiness.
Asking our servicemembers to bear the financial burden, created by Congress' inability to reach an agreement on the budget is stretching their willingness to serve too far. Ultimately this commission and Congress must remember discussions on military compensation, exacerbated by the sequester, not only affects thousands of DOD employees and servicemembers but also determines America's ability to maintain a force capable of securing our nation's interests for the foreseeable future.
Anthony A. Wallis is the legislative director for the Association of the United States Navy.