text: Hi all, The JIT has now reached the state it will have in the upcoming PyPy release (it's still on a branch, but it will be merged). What it does is produce machine code in memory, and run it. What it does not do is gain much speed by doing so. Yet. It's just bad timing that the release and EU-driven deadlines mean that we have no time left to put the pieces together now - but essentially they are there already. We expect the jit to become useful during March, and then we'll in all likeliness do another release - if only because we promized to the EU numbers like "50% of the speed of C" for the most extremely algorithmic examples. Back to the present. Let me describe the current status. The produced machine code is kind of good (the backend performs some liftime analysis and register allocation). The "timeshifter", which produces the jit frontend, is able to handle rather incredibly tricky situations successfully. From a user point of view the jit has some rough edges but nothing fundamental, and by construction it can jit absolutely any kind of Python code - generators, nested scopes, exec statements, sys._getframe().f_back.f_back.f_locals, etc. At the moment only the interpreter's main dispatch loop (i.e. mostly only pyopcode.py) is fed to the timeshifter, so the produced jit can remove the bytecode interpretation overhead, but cannot look inside the implementation of space.add(), for example. So it gives results that look like Python2C+gcc: it produces machine code that is essentially a sequence of calls to space.add(), space.cmp(), space.is_true(), etc. As we all know, Python2C gives a ~2x speed-up; we get about the same with our jit, except that the start-up overhead is greater - calling small functions is still quite slower with the jit than without. On the other hand, Python2C doesn't emulate frames, for example, so AFAIK pypy contains the first Python compiler ever where sys._getframe() completely works (Psyco emulates frames but not at 100%). Only the 386 backend is complete; mwh guesses that there is some degree of likeliness that the ppc backend will be completed in time for the release too. How to compile a pypy-c with a jit: use translate.py on targetjit (located in pypy/jit/goal/). Then: export PYPYJITLOG=log # logs machine code into file 'log' pypy-c >>> def f(x): return x*5 >>> import pypyjit >>> pypyjit.enable(f.func_code) >>> f(7) ..../jit/codegen/i386/viewcode.py log A bientot, Armin.


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This summer I have poems in very different places: Upstreet, a print journal frm Massachusetts. Cutthroat, a journal from Colorad0–this one is a tribute issue to Joy Harjo and Linda Hogan. And two poems http://www.brooklynrail.org/2015/07/poetry/patricia-spears-jones
Whispers and prayers in The Brooklyn Rail was created in response to the horrific killings
in Charleston, SC. Blossoms in the gyre in Cutthroat is a way of connecting nature, spirit and the struggle for justice. Poets are working. Poets are working hard.

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Internet Pioneer, Ben Padnos, Joins Mimvi Inc.
Padnos Brings Technological Leadership and Business Development Chops to Mobile Media Start-Up
Mar 11, 2013, 09:00 ET from Mimvi, Inc.
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Mimvi, Inc. (OTCQB: MIMV), the premier mobile search and discovery technology company, today announced the appointment of Ben Padnos to Head of Business Development.
Ben provides Mimvi with nearly 20 years of technology business development, strategy, marketing and sales leadership. He started his career as a Co-Founder of FANSonly, which is now owned by CBS Sports. He then joined the sales organization at Yahoo! in 1997, when the Company had fewer than 200 employees. He has since founded and co-founded several companies, including Better, Inc., a technology-enabled services provider in the Search Engine Marketing industry. Better, Inc. was subsequently acquired by Tsavo Media, a spin-off of American Capital portfolio company, Moxy Media, Inc.
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Tom Marino has been the U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district since 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Listening to the testimony of administration officials on Wednesday during the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing only further solidified my position to vote against a resolution authorizing the president to use military force in Syria. I asked simple questions of the witnesses and expected straightforward answers. Secretary Hagel and Secretary Kerry could not offer an explanation that made U.S. military intervention an acceptable option, nor could they define a clear and present danger to the U.S.
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The pope's butler has been convicted of stealing the pontiff's private documents and leaking them to a journalist, and has been sentenced to 18 months in jail.
Judge Giuseppe Dalla Torre read the verdict aloud Saturday one hour after the three-judge panel began deliberating Paolo Gabriele's fate.
Gabriele, 46, was accused of stealing the pope's private correspondence and passing it onto journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi.
Nuzzi wrote a book, His Holiness: Pope Benedict XVI's Secret Papers, revealing the intrigue, petty infighting and allegations of corruption and homosexual liaisons that plague the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church.
The book has convulsed the Vatican for months and prompted an unprecedented response, with the pope naming a commission of cardinals to investigate the origin of the leaks, alongside Vatican magistrates.
In her closing arguments, defence lawyer Cristiana Arru insisted that only photocopies, not original documents, were taken from the Apostolic Palace, disputing testimony from the pope's secretary who said he saw original letters in the evidence seized from Gabriele's home.
Arru admitted Gabriele's gesture was "condemnable" but said it was a misappropriation of documents, not theft, and that as a result Gabriele should serve no time for the lesser crime.
82 boxes of papers removed from apartment
Police said 82 moving boxes of papers were carted out of Gabriele's Vatican City apartment last May, though only about 1,000 pages were pertinent to the investigation.
During the trial, Gabriele detailed how he would photocopy papal correspondence in broad daylight, using the office photocopier in the presence of the pope's two private secretaries.
He pleaded innocent to the charge of aggravated theft but said he was guilty of "having betrayed the trust of the Holy Father, whom I love as a son would."
'The thing I feel strongly in me is the conviction that I acted out of exclusive love, I would say visceral love, for the church of Christ and its visible head' —Paolo Gabriele
The motive wasn't discussed during the trial, but Gabriele told prosecutors that he thought that exposing the "evil and corruption" that he saw around him would help the Roman Catholic Church reform.
Defence lawyer Cristiana Arru focused much of her questioning of defence witnesses on the search of Gabriele's home: Police said 82 moving boxes of papers were carted out of Gabriele's Vatican City apartment on May 23, though only about 1,000 pages were pertinent to the investigation.
Police have said that contrary to Gabriele's initial claims, the documentation contained originals, not just photocopies of papal correspondence. The originals were distinguished by the seals, stamps and internal processing codes used in the Vatican, they said.
In his final appeal to the court Saturday morning, Gabriele insisted he never intended to hurt the church or the pope.
"The thing I feel strongly in me is the conviction that I acted out of exclusive love, I would say visceral love, for the church of Christ and its visible head," Gabriele told the court in a steady voice. "I do not feel like a thief."
Papal pardon 'likely'
The sentence was reduced in half to 18 months from three years because of a series of mitigating circumstances, including that Gabriele had no previous record, had acknowledged that he had betrayed the pope and was convinced, "albeit erroneously," that he was doing the right thing, Dalla Torre said.
Gabriele has been held in house arrest at his apartment since July after spending his first two months in a Vatican detention room.
He was also ordered to pay court costs.
Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said the possibility of a papal pardon was "concrete, likely" and that the pope would now study the court file and decide. He said there was no way to know when a papal pardon might be announced.
In fact, the pope was both victim and supreme judge in this case. As an absolute monarch of the tiny Vatican City state, Benedict wields full executive, legislative and judicial power. He delegates that power, though, and Lombardi said the trial showed the complete independence of the Vatican judiciary.


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Medtech Hacking – You Don't Have to Be a Medical Expert to Contribute to Medicine
This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend the Hackaday #Superconference. This event was the first of it's kind and hosted by the people behind the successful niche website, Hackaday.com. I was really excited to be invited to attend this event because I've been reading the site almost daily since 2006, and I have had a few of my pet projects featured on the website in the past. Events like these (i.e. Makerfaire, Defcon, etc…) remind me that future progress in Medicine is dependent on the intersection and convergence of many different (and sometimes surprising) fields of science, engineering, and art.


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It was the end of a long day for William West as he left the offices of the Worker's Friend newspaper in Whitechapel, with the street lamps barely penetrating the unlit Dutfield's Yard.
A normal day for the young immigrant. But In those early hours of 30 September 1888 he would unwittingly find himself caught up in the Whitechapel Murders. We'll never know for sure whether he stumbled across the body of Elizabeth Stride, the third victim of the serial killer who would become notorious as 'Jack the Ripper', or simply passed on oblivious, but West would be called as the first witness in the inquest of the unfortunate 'Long Liz'. For West, a passionate socialist who would run like a thread through the Jewish workers' movements of the late 19th and early 20th century, this had a double terror. The 27-year-old had arrived in Whitechapel in the late 1870s, fleeing the anti-Jewish pogroms in Lithuania, and bearing his birth name, Woolf Wess. Stumbling upon the victim of a murder would be horrific enough, but Woolf would have been well aware that many in the press and public alike were already trying to associate the Whitechapel Murders with the large Jewish community in Whitechapel, with increasingly hysterical theories of religious ritual killings. West was 'the most modest of men' according to that leading light of East End socialism Rudolf Rocker, but like so many of his fellows, he had undergone an extraordinary journey to end up in Whitechapel. He was born in Vilkmerge in Russia (now Ulkomar in Lithuania) in 1861, the son of a master baker, and was apprenticed at 12 to a shoemaker. At 20, he was working as a factory machinist in the Russian town of Dvinsk (now Daugavpils in Latvia) but desperately looking for a way to escape. A choice of horrors awaited: death in one of the pogroms sweeping Eastern Europe or military services in the Tsar's army. So, in 1881 he was smuggled onto a boat to London.
A skilled shoemaker, machinist and baker, he easily found work in Whitechapel, but was appalled by the conditions of work and the exploitation of his fellow immigrants. He was also a hard worker and a fast learner, quickly gaining fluent English, alongside Russian, German and Yiddish. He put his energies into organising and directing the men and women he worked among. In 1885, he co-founded the International Workingmen's Educational Club in Berners Street (now Henriques Street), just south of the Commercial Road, and helped start the Arbeter Fraynd (Workers' Friend), translating news and radical views into the Yiddish that was the everyday language of Jewish Whitechapel. Questioning at the inquest focused heavily on West's movements, and the comings and goings at the newspaper and club, but he gave no mention of seeing Stride let alone stumbling across the body. The coroner wanted to know how many members the club had (70 or 80, working men of any nationality could join). He asked about its politics (it was political, a socialist club). How did members get involved? (they were seconded by other members). Did 'low women' frequent the area? (he had seen them on occasion). And William Wess (as he was called at the inquest) was questioned in minute detail about the topography of the club, the yard and their surroundings and about his own journey home (the few minutes walk to his lodgings on Cannon Street Road). West had nothing to fear in the end, and neither — soberingly — did the murderer. The killer was never brought to justice and it's highly improbable we'll ever know his true identity. The young socialist, duty done, would go on to be a lynchpin of East End radicalism. In 1889 he served as secretary of the strike committee during the East End tailors strike, alongside Charles Mowbray and John Turner. And in 1891, the increasingly popular orator set out on a speaking tour of England, alongside stalwarts of London socialism Kropotkin, Malatesta and Yanovsky. He became a skilled typesetter, working on the new Freedom newspaper, and drew on another of his talents, learned at his master baker father's side, to set up a co-operative bakery in Brushfield Street, Spitalfields.
During the 1890s, Wess founded and became secretary of the East London Workers Unions; then served as secretary of the International Tailors, Machinists and Pressers' Trade Union, and the United Ladies and Mantle Makers' Association. Then, in the early 1900s, he seems to have stepped back from union work, taking a job as a book-keeper in a tobacco factory and sharing a house in Leyton with his friend Tom Keell (the manager of Freedom) and his wife Lillian. It all fell apart when William and Lillian ran off together and by 1906 they were back in Whitechapel, setting up the Arbeiter Fraint club in Jubilee Street. Lillian even tried to set up an Anarchist Society school in the area, but with little success. And in June 1906, William served on the tailors' strike committee alongside Rudolf Rocker. To the end of his life, West remained enmeshed in the politics of the Left, joining the Labour party in the 1930s, while running the London Freedom Group. He died in May 1946 at 84. But one strange postscript remains. Years later, a 'friend of a friend of West' later reported that on that long ago night in 1888, the spooked printer had discovered Stride's body, but moved it further away from the offices of the newspaper and the club, lest members be implicated in the killing. Truth — or yet another fantasy in the ever-murkier world of 'Ripperology'? We'll never know.


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Valley Presbyterian Christian School endeavors to maintain a balanced education with emphasis on Biblical truths, academic excellence, character development, and athletic skills. It is our mission to provide a "Total Christian Education" that educates the whole child in preparation and fulfillment of God's perfect plan for his/her life.
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The learning environment I was so privileged to be in was wholesome, loving, and Godly. I was always surrounded by teachers who truly cared about me and each of my classmates. Thanks to VPS, I can proudly say that I am a much stronger Christian for learning the Godly values and character traits taught to me so many years ago.
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Enjoy match-3 gaming at its finest: Match 3 or more gems and solve all puzzles of the amazing online game Jewel Academy!
This online edition of the match-3 game Cookie Jam has a delicious sweet twist!
The more similar-colored boxing gloves you connect, the more powerful Ali's punches are in Muhammad Ali: Puzzle King!
Join Om Nom on his newest adventure and transform him into magical forms in this online Cut the Rope: Magic game!
Step through Escher-style labyrinths in this online version of Skyward!
Fly and survive through a mysterious forest full of animals, trees and flowers in the free online game BADLAND!
Start bouncing, perform awesome backflips and frontflips, and become the world's number one Trampoline Stickman!
Use your bow and arrow to hit the target. Don't miss in this online version of the popular game Stickman Archery!
One of the most addictive arcade games ever is back with 100 fresh new challenges. Play Color Switch Challenges online!
Enter the Cut the Rope lab and find ways to feed Om Nom with candy in this online version of the hit-game Cut the Rope: Experiments!
Use an epic range of weapons to smash open all of the stuffed and colorful piñatas in the game Piñata Hunter 4!
Take part in the most smashing battle ever and bash your enemies in the fun action-packed IO game Smashers.io!
Hire drivers, upgrade your gear, fight against the Horsemen Gang, and defeat their boss 'Duke Mo' in Road of Fury 3: Desert Strike!
Jump on time, rescue the princess, and save the world in the mega-addictive online game Super Mario Run 2!
Determine the catapult's power and make sure to destroy all enemies in the addictive online game The Catapult!
Start bouncing, perform awesome backflips and frontflips, and become the world's number one Trampoline Stickman!
The Prom in the Fabulous game Angela's High School Reunion was a Prom like never before. Or ever will be again..!
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Click to hop through as many rings as possible in this challenging and super addictive online Flappy Dunk game!
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Your father was a great adventurer, but as his son you do not possess the same skill or fortitude. Build up a Hero Agency to keep adventuring in the family!
Dodge traps and steal gold in this online version of the unique and award-winning platformer game King of Thieves!
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Topic: Ohhh…. (02/04/10)
TITLE: Three Bad Dates
By Lisa Tyre
"You're lost," his sister, Lisa said. "You walk around in your own world. You barely know what day it is."
"It's Sunday," Brian answered, "otherwise we wouldn't be having lunch and I wouldn't be listening to my second sermon of the day."
"It's time, Brian. Laney wouldn't want you to stop living. You need to get out there, date a little, get your feet wet."
"I hate wet feet," he'd joked.
"Be serious. I read that it only takes three dates to start to feel comfortable. You could do that, just three dates."
Brian nodded. Going out on one date, much less three, sounded like torture. The pain and worry was evident on his sister's face.
"Three dates, and you'll drop it for awhile?"
Lisa smiled. "Cross my heart."
Fine. He could do three dates. Besides, he had a plan - find three, completely inappropriate women, have three terrible first dates, and be done with it.
The first date went perfectly; it was awful. He'd met her online, and could tell from the profile description that he was definitely not her type. He'd watched her eyes glaze over as he spoke of his church, and the mission trip he'd been on a few years ago.
"No more online dating," Lisa admonished.
Brian made his second date a few days later through a dating service called, "It's Just Dinner". They matched him with a very young, very hip Event Planner who worked in the city and couldn't believe he had no interest in going to the opening of the newest hot-spot bar. She'd received an "emergency" call before the entrée came. Two down, one to go.
He'd met his third date on the bus. He hadn't planned on asking her out, but a small voice whispered, "her", and because she was completely inappropriate, he'd listened.
She had a pretty face, but her long, dark hair hung in tangles down her back. She was dressed totally in black, even her lips and nails were painted ox-blood. She wore onyx rings and black, bangle bracelets. He'd noticed her trying to read the other side of his newspaper and offered it to her. With the confidence of a man with nothing to lose, he'd asked her out. She'd hesitated briefly, but agreed to meet for coffee.
Brian shook his head. He'd been walking without paying attention and now The Java Jive loomed in front of him. Might as well get it over with. Taking a deep breath, he opened the door.
Whew. The only people inside were the staff and a petite blonde sitting by the window. Maybe he'd get lucky and she wouldn't show. His sister might not count that as a date, but he would. Feeling better at the prospect of not having to make small talk, Brian ordered a coffee and went to sit near the door.
The petite blonde smiled at him. Did he know her? Brian smiled back. Maybe she was someone from his church. Great! That was all he needed, someone from church seeing him drinking coffee with the Queen of Goth. His sister would never let him rest.
Uh oh. Now she was getting up and coming toward him. "Brian?"
Brian stood. "Yes?"
"I'm Shelly, we met on the bus?"
Brian's heart pounded in his chest. This couldn't be the same person! This woman was dressed in a pretty, brown dress, conservative makeup, a cross hanging around her neck.
"I'm sorry," he stammered, pulling out a chair for her to sit. "You look so different."
Shelly laughed, "You're joking, right?"
Brian shrugged, confused. "I'm sorry, I guess I don't understand."
"Ohhhh." Shelly began to laugh, her eyes filling with tears. "You thought that outfit was real? You didn't realize it was Halloween?"
"Halloween? My sister says I've been in a fog, I guess it's true."
"The man in the rabbit suit didn't give you a clue?"
"Ohhh. That makes a lot more sense now," he laughed.
"Should we forget coffee? You were obviously expecting someone different."
Brian remembered the still, quiet voice that had said, "her".
"I was," he agreed. "But I shouldn't have been. Please stay."
So she did.
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Faculty panelists Kerri Clopton, Educational Psychology and Foundations; Lyn Countryman, Office of Student Field Experiences; Elaine Eshbaugh, Applied Human Sciences; and Jeff Morgan, Physics, will discuss the usefulness of good SOA, including how to develop practices that can improve programs and teaching. For more information visit http://uni.edu/provost/cetl.
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Jammu: The credibility of the Omar Abdullah led-coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir is at its lowest due to failure on all fronts and rampant corruption, PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed said on Saturday.
Addressing a public meeting in the border town of Poonch, 250 km from Jammu, the Mufti said: "From day one, when this government (National Conference-Congress coalition) was formed, there is instability and uncertainty in the state."
The Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) leader told a gathering of over 2,000 people that "prevailing anarchy and chaos in the state is a result of the failure of the system".
To prove his point he referred to the remark of a cabinet committee which reportedly said that trust deficit and governance deficit was the main reason behind the alienation of people during the 2010 summer unrest.
The former Chief Minister observed: "The situation which was prevailing in the state in 2008 and 2010 still persists because the government has failed to bring transparency and accountability in the system."
He described the NC-Congress regime as the "worst ever corrupt government in the history of Jammu and Kashmir"."Although corruption has sneaked into the government from top to bottom, the anti-graft institutions like State Accountability Commission (SAC) have been deliberately made non-functional by the state government," he said.
He also called the NC-Congress regime a "directionless coalition" which has entered into an alliance "just to grab power". The Mufti said both the coalition partners speak in different tones on many important issues.
He said there was no Common Minimum Programme (CMP) between the two alliance partners.
Emphasizing on the need to solve the vexed Kashmir problem for lasting peace in the region, he maintained that dialogue was the only way to solve all problems peacefully. "Political parties of the country have to realize that solution of the Kashmir problem is a must for lasting peace in this region," he said.
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Jammu: The credibility of the Omar Abdullah led-coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir is at its lowest due to failure on all fronts and rampant corruption, PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed said on Saturday.


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Got this from the Skatefans listing- someone reported it:
I assume the times listed are for EST:
November 11, Skate Canada, ESPN, 4:30p-7p
November 18, Cup of China, ESPN, 4p-7p
November 25, Trophee Eric Bompard - France, ESPN, 4p-7p
December 02, Cup of Russia, ESPN, 4p-7p
December 09, NHK Trophy, ESPN, 4p-7p
December 23, Grand Prix Final, ESPN, 4p-7p
Note that those dates are Sundays- Sunday afternoons, so they will be counterprogramming to football, and even Disson skating on NBC a few times. Tape delay will be at least one week for each event.
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Low key family funeral for To Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee
The funeral for To Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee, who died on Friday aged 89, was as private as her life.
A few dozen family members gathered on Saturday at the First United Methodist Church in Monroeville, Alabama to hear a eulogy by her longtime friend and history professor, Wayne Flynt.
The eulogy, read by Mr Flynt, was the speech that he wrote in 2006 as a tribute when Lee won the Birmingham Pledge Foundation Award for racial justice.
Mr Flynt said Lee liked the speech so much that she wanted him to give it as her eulogy.
"I want you to say exactly that," Mr Flynt quoted Lee as saying at the time. "Not one thing more, and not one thing less."
"If I deviated one degree, I would hear this great booming voice from heaven, and it wouldn't be God," Mr Flynt said in an earlier interview.
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Last week South Yorkshire Police and South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue welcomed over 120 guests to their joint annual carol service at Lifewise, a celebratory event to mark Christmas festivities at the South Yorkshire based community safety centre.
Led by South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Pastor, John Freeman, the service included performances by the South Yorkshire Police Band, pupils from Northfields Infant and Junior School, and Cassis, a ladies barbershop quartet. Visitors to the event included South Yorkshire Chief Constable David Crompton, Police and Crime Commissioner Sean Wright and Chief Fire Officer Jamie Courtney.
A raffle at the event raised a total of £268 for In2Change, a local charity that works to give resettlement support to young offenders and provide a range of safety advice and guidance to the community.
Temporary Superintendent Paul Varley from the South Yorkshire Police Community Safety Department, based at Lifewise said "The event was a great success and was enjoyed by all. Since opening the Lifewise Centre in Hellaby, Rotherham in 2011 this is the second carol service we have hosted and we hope to continue this tradition for many years to come.
Chief Fire Officer Jamie Courtney said; "This was a fantastic event, and was an enjoyable evening for all who attended. It had a real community spirit and was an excellent start to the festive season."


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Not a terribly exciting race, and the Mercedes dominance of the early days of the 2014 Formula One season may not last. The team's 1-2 finish on Sunday was the first as an F1 constructor since Juan Manuel Fangio and Piero Taruff dominated the 1955 Italian Grand Prix. Stay tuned.
This article titled "Lewis Hamilton leads from the front to win his first Malaysian Grand Prix" was written by Paul Weaver at Sepang, for The Guardian on Sunday 30th March 2014 06.15 America/New_York
There is a line on Lewis Hamilton's fastidiously decorated helmet – taken from the American poet and author Maya Angelou – which reads "Still I Rise".
But for Nico Rosberg and the other Formula One drivers who trail in his phosphorescent wake there should be another message: Mind The Gap. The letters should be very large, and placed on the back of the helmet.
Hamilton's victory in Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix was hardly surprising. After all, he is the quickest driver and he happens to be driving a Mercedes car which is vastly superior to the other 21 vehicles on the grid. Except Rosberg's. And he beat his teammate by the staggering margin of 17.3 seconds.
The vanquished and the merely defeated wear different expressions, and Rosberg's ashen countenance evoked thoughts of Bob Hoskins' terrible epiphany at the end of the vibrant gangster film The Long Good Friday.
Even the quietly spoken Hamilton, who is not usually boastful of his gifts, said afterwards: "I learned a few things in practice but it is a different thing learning it from applying it, but today I applied it and that's why I blew him away. It's massive. I can't remember the last time in my career I had a gap like that, particularly with a team-mate driving the same car. That's definitely a good feeling."
Rosberg, who won the first race in Australia two weeks ago and was second here, still leads the embryonic drivers' championship by 18 points. But this was a reminder of the chasm that exists between the two Silver Arrow drivers when Hamilton is at his absolute best. Given the intimacy of the two men (and boys) as rivals, the bleak truth of the matter must be rumbling about somewhere at the back of Rosberg's highly intelligent mind. But the demands of professionalism, as well as self-esteem, are such that these thoughts must be sublimated, even banished, wherever possible. Sunday's drive by Hamilton, though, was a brutal reminder of the pecking order when all goes well for the British driver.
That is not to say that Hamilton, who was forced to retire early in Australia, is a shoo-in for the title. Many sagacious racing men put their money on Rosberg at the start of the campaign, for Hamilton can implode just as often as he explodes. But on his day he can reach a level that only the truly great drivers touch. And we don't know yet whether Rosberg is capable of greatness.
Jenson Button, Hamilton's previous team-mate, at McLaren, was asked about the pairing at Mercedes. He said: "They are close as friends but one [Hamilton] has won a world championship and the other hasn't – so that might change things a bit between them. They are going to keep giving it their all but looking at what Lewis did is going to hurt a little bit. He was super-fast here – 17 seconds. That is a lot to put between you and your team-mate when you have both had a clear race. I am sure that is strike one."
This was Hamilton's 23rd win in Formula One, his first at the Sepang circuit in Kuala Lumpur and the first one-two result for Mercedes since their heyday 60 years ago.
Hamilton led from lights out to chequered flag, his first victory since Hungary last summer, and he has rarely looked as elated as this. He said: "I'm pushing myself more than my team-mate is pushing me. That's where the push is coming from. Naturally, Nico is very quick, he's won the first race, he's always there. So naturally we're pushing each other. But I feel like this year I'm pushing myself that extra. I'm eking out more than I've ever been able to eke out before.
"I'm giving it everything. There's nothing else that's on my mind, there's nothing else that I'm thinking about. I'm only thinking about the championship. I'm thinking about winning. I'm living and breathing it, as I do every year. For some reason this year there's more capacity.
"I'm more mature. I'm getting older, so all the experiences are adding up. I'm starting to see the benefits of the mistakes, and the things I've said, or the things I've done, and I even noticed it today."
The race itself was largely uneventful but it did see the emergence of Red Bull as the likeliest challengers to Mercedes. Sebastian Vettel was third – albeit a huge 25 seconds behind the winner – and the wretchedly unlucky Daniel Ricciardo, who was disqualified in Melbourne for a fuel-flow violation after finishing in second place, put in another fine drive only to retire following a botched pitstop when his front left wheel was not properly secured, and a broken wing.
Fernando Alonso was fourth in his Ferrari, and at times showed some real pace. The signs are that both Ferrari and Red Bull will be competitive by the time the F1 circus comes to Europe in May.
Meanwhile, Williams and McLaren got both of their drivers into the top 10. Button was sixth, three places ahead of his team-mate, Kevin Magnussen, who was watched by his father and former McLaren and Stewart-Ford driver, Jan.
The most absorbing contest of the day was that between the Williams pair Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas. Massa ignored team orders to give way to Bottas. "Valtteri is faster than you," was the insensitive message he was given, which must have reminded of the time he was told "Fernando is faster than you" in his Ferrari days.
Massa, who was also pushed around by Michael Schumacher at Ferrari, and who just might consider himself top dog at Williams, remained precisely where he was.
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Mapping the e-Learning Terrain ARTICLE
James Marshall, Allison Rossett, San Diego State University, United States
International Journal on E-Learning Volume 10, Number 2, ISSN 1537-2456 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC USA
Influential voices, from the published literature, to blogs, and conference keynoters, describe e-learning that is technology rich, mobile, individualized, social and democratic. Classrooms, many note, are disappearing—and should. Blogs, feeds and blends enable this movement from a central function to lessons, information and coaching available on demand, in the workplace.
Do these views match contemporary practice in corporations, universities and government agencies?
This exploratory study mapped the terrain of e-learning practice. What do nearly 1,000 respondents report that they do when they are doing e-learning? Respondents reported on the frequency of their reliance on twenty-six e-learning snapshots developed by the authors. These snapshots clustered in five categories: instructional design strategies; instructional design measurements; programs for the individual; programs for the group; and Web 2.0.
Respondents reported that what they do is, for the most part, familiar. They practice instructional design as they move forward with e-learning. When asked what they aspired to do in order to provide even better services, they again chose instructional design, for example, customizing and personalizing learning experiences, and measuring impact. They did point to mobile delivery, collaborative and user generated strategies and technologies, but after again selecting instructional design.
Marshall, J. & Rossett, A. (2011). Mapping the e-Learning Terrain. International Journal on E-Learning, 10(2), 169-198. Waynesville, NC USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved February 22, 2018 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/33089/.
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HOW do you follow that?
That is the question the Dons face as the make the step up to the Co-operative Championship following the most decorated season in the club's storied history.
Head coach Tony Miller is clear on what he wants from the campaign ahead, which kicks off against Dewsbury Rams at the Keepmoat on Sunday (3pm).
"Consolidation," was his quick-fire answer to the question.
"If we can finish in mid-table in the Championship that will equal everything we achieved last season.
"There's a real opportunity for us to do that but it's going to be a tough year.
"We've set the target for a mid-table finish.
"Clubs like Featherstone, Halifax, Sheffield and Batley are probably a bit ahead of everybody else.
"Below that it's an open playing field.
"If you get it right on the day you have a realistic chance of beating the other teams at home.
"Like we did last season, we'll target out home games and try and pick up as many wins and bonus points away from home as possible.
"We know it's going to be tough but I think we'll be okay."
The Dons are looking to build on a brilliant 2012 which saw them win their first ever league line and the play off Grand Final, making their return to the second tier for the first time since 2009.
Miller (pictured) will be hoping to guide his side to a longer stay than four years ago when they last just one season in the Championship.
He is keen to work on his side's defence following the 44-4 defeat to Wakefield Wildcats at the Keepmoat on Sunday.
"We defended really well towards the back end of last season and we'll need to do that again," Miller said.
"We've got a few new lads in so there's work to be done.
"I was a bit disappointed with the defending against Wakefield, not one on ones but just our structure.
"To be fair to the lads, with the weather we've not had a lot of time to work on things recently.
"But we will get better."
Winger Stewart Sanderson scored a consolation try for the Dons against Wakefield.
"In the first half we didn't do ourselves justice," said Miller. "They were just too strong for us.
"The second half was a lot better. I thought we matched them for long periods.
"There are a few areas we need to fix up this week in time for Sunday but we did a lot of good stuff too.
"I thought we'd struggle around the ruck area but we did well in there. I thought there were more positives than negatives."
Craig Robinson (calf) and Grant Edwards (concussion) are doubts for this weekend.
Miller hopes to be able to call upon dual-registration trio Bobbie Goulding, Danny Cowling and Lucas Walshaw from parent club Wakefield.
Goudling and Cowling both played for the Wildcats against the Dons on Sunday with Cowling scoring a try.


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This is the only song I've ever seen with more downloads than total plays. That's an accomplishment in itself, LMAO
I was so happy for the first 1:10. The sound that came in under the first synth distracted. It didn't add anything and it wasn't clear. The square lead was too loud, I agree with the previous reviewer, and I didn't like the melody line as much.
I would say that it started off like a ball of flame and then petered out toward the end. If you put as much energy into the accompaniment as in that first drop, it'd be fantastic.
Well That Was Trippy
I've got a new way of deciding if a song's good or not. Open my window, turn up the speakers and see what the people of Stockton, England think. They quite liked it. HOWEVER, I do have some issues with it.
The fade out at 1:12 seems too sudden, there was hardly any transition. If you opened this up a bit not only would you increase the length of the song but it'd just sound better.
The glitch at 1:55 was great but, again, if you lengthened it out and made it more rhythmic then I think it'd work better.
I really love the mane leads you have going here (2:30). They complement each other very well, but I think you have some mastering issues. The second lead (sounds like a square) may need to be turned down a bit. Sounds like it's drowning everything else out.
Everything else works great. The outro's brilliant and a good way to end things
Overall, Ima giving this 8/10, it's great but still needs work. 5/5 because all publicity is good publicity. ^^
Have fun;
Hey J3envolio!
LOL, you exposed my song like that? Awesome haha xD. Please do so with the other tracks of mine aswell ;)!
And while I see what you mean, most of these things you mention I already looked into and thanks to it I have learned what I should and shouldn't do in future songs (keep in mind this one's uploaded almost a year ago :P. I barely gave this song any mixing or mastering whatsoever, which I since then have learned is very important!). Still, thanks a lot for taking interest and giving critics, they're always welcome!
Like the Halo Reach medal, this is unfrigginbelievable. I don't know where to begin on tips n tricks for upcoming songs. Maybe a little more clarity on the atmospheric pad? Besides that... zip. You nailed it. Why Charmanzer gave you a 3 is beyond me. 5/5 10/10
Thanks for the review!
Actually this song was quite badly mixed compared to my recently released stuff. Would I've done this song today I think it would've been twice as enjoyable as now. But yeah I see what you mean with making the atmosphere pad more outstanding, and I'll keep it in mind for the future!
Anywho, I'm really glad you liked it and thanks for reviewing!
Very good...
Also @ fohundredtwenty and Charmanzer, techno is supposed to be a series of loops and/or repetitive beats mixed in harmony. If you dont like that, you can't possibly like techno.... so why are you even bothering coming here?
Either way, this song is good, just be sure to take what people say with a grain of salt and keep your head up. Be proud.
Totally agree with you, mate!
Thanks for the review!
its true that it fell like LOOK AT ME IM FLYING!!!!!!
Indeed it does!
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MASTERS IN HD - it doesn't get any better
Forget the Super Bowl.
Even my beloved NHL Playoff games....
It just doesn't get better than the Master's in HD. The members there have been demanding of showing their course in the best possible light and CBS does an excellent job doing just that. The bright white ground marble sand traps poised next to emerald green grass and the dyed water makes for one hell of a stunning view.
Even if you have to catch a peek on Sportscenter HD - its worth it. Just total EYE CANDY...
Phil should have done better.
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Every Friday morning, SAfm's AMLive's radio anchor Xolani Gwala speaks to Martin Creamer, publishing editor of Engineering News and Mining Weekly. Reported here is this Friday's At the Coalface transcript:
Gwala: The great China-led economic supercycle that has been boosting global economies for a decade appears to be coming to an end.
Creamer: It appears to be coming to quite an abrupt end if you take the example of some of the biggest companies in the world. Those that have been supplying China and relying on this very big resources supercycle, including South Africa, of course, suddenly putting on the brakes.
I'm talking now about the world's biggest mining company, BHP Billiton, also has its headquarter down the road in Johannesburg. BHP has decided that it is going to relook and review its big expenditure programme. We are talking about $80-billion over five-years.
They are saying that they are no longer going to spend that. It is against the background of people demanding cash from these companies. It has gone back to that type of atmosphere that we had before the last economic meltdown where the investors say that you don't spend our money on new growth, you give us our money back in the form of dividends or share buy-backs.
We are back in that era that we were just 2008 where people are not looking at growth. The big five world mining companies that were looking to expend about $200-billion, I mean I'm talking close to R2-trillion in the next five-years.
Now they are under pressure from their shareholders not to do that, because people see that this supercycle is either come to an end or there is a huge interruption within it that makes them rethink. You get from the chairman of BHP Billiton speaking in Sydney Jac Nasser saying that improvement is not really underway in the world.
He says it is going to feel as if the ground is slipping under your feet. That is quite a statement from a person leading a company like that. So there is panic around and it is clearly going to effect expenditure on big growth projects, which will have a massive knock-on affect down the line.
Gwala: Some six-billion-rands in government help will be available to local manufacturers from June 4.
Creamer: And not to soon either, because we also have this uncertainty in the world with our manufacturers having reported a very bad month in March, a dismal performance there where things were down.
There has been a contraction of our manufacturing footprint for decades now. We have had this deindustrialisation and the government is coming in pretty quickly and saying look we do want you to compete, we do want you to put in that new machinery, don't decide now to just operate as a cash-cow.
There are headwinds, your trading partners are not performing as well as they were in Europe, but make sure that you remain competitive now. In order to that, we will assist you. Nearly R6-billion will be available from June 4 and there will be an online system where people can work very efficiently.
The production incentives are being managed by the Department of Trade and Industry and then the working capital side of it will be managed by the State-owned Industrial Development Corporation.
Specifically to try and make sure that they do across a broader front what they have been doing in the clothing and textile industry. We know manufacturing shed 200 000 jobs during the 2009 recession, 200 000 out of a million in total.
They want to make sure that this particular part of the economy now stabilises and they are prepared to put their money where their mouth is and its close to R6-billion available. From June 4 people can apply to have this production incentive.
Gwala: The South African Navy is now allowed to operate in Tanzanian and Mozambican waters to stop piracy.
Creamer: This piracy is hitting the real economy. We have got enough headwind at the moment, we don't need something like piracy.
We see that GDPs of islands around us like Seychelles at the height of this piracy fell 8%, because people don't want to tour, trade is affected. We know that there are 100 000 cargo ships sailing through the Indian Ocean a year and we have been having an average of 200 piracy attacks a year since 2009 and 1 000 taken hostage.
This again, trading is becoming more difficult, our trading partners aren't doing what they used to do. We don't want anymore interruptions. There is a situation where our navy overheads are covered. We've paid for these ships, now they need to do their job.
They can't do it very affectively unless the have a legal framework in which to work. The South African Navy has now made sure that it is allowed to operate within Tanzanian and Mozambican waters to stop this piracy.
They are also calling for even more amendments and adjustments to international legal frameworks to make sure that this becomes a smooth passage in combatting this maritime crime, which is ripping off billions of dollars a year from peoples' purses.
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Baby Bûche de Noël Cookies
Jessie Oleson rolls chocolate cookie dough into ropes, then cuts them into mini logs to resemble the classic French bûche de Noël cake.
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Level: Moderate
Yield: Makes 16 cookies
- 6 tbsp. unsalted butter
- 2 tbsp. granulated sugar
- 2 tbsp. light brown sugar
- ¼ tsp. salt
- ½ tsp. pure vanilla extract
- ¾ c. all-purpose flour
- ⅓ c. Unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 tbsp. heavy cream
- 2 oz. cream cheese
- 1 c. confectioners' sugar
- ½ tsp. Unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1½ tsp. heavy cream
- ½ oz. unsweetened chocolate
- In a medium bowl, using an electric mixer at medium speed, beat the butter with the granulated sugar, brown sugar, salt, and vanilla until smooth. Add the flour and 1/3 cup cocoa and beat at low speed just until incorporated, then beat in 2 tablespoons of cream until smooth. Turn the dough out onto a work surface and roll it into two 16- inch-long ropes. Wrap the dough in plastic and refrigerate until firm, about 20 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Cut the cookie dough into 2-inch logs and arrange them on the baking sheet. Bake for 20 minutes, until the tops crack lightly and the cookies are firm to the touch. Transfer the baking sheet to a rack and let the cookies cool completely.
- In a medium bowl, using an electric mixer at medium speed, beat the softened cream cheese with the confectioners' sugar, 1/2 teaspoon cocoa, and 1 1/2 teaspoons heavy cream until smooth. Beat in the melted chocolate.
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Naturally Educational » 1-2 (Toddlers), 3-5 (Preschool), 5-6 (Kindergarten), Bodily-kinesthetic, Featured, Literacy, Touch » D is for Dirt, R is for Rocks
D is for Dirt, R is for Rocks
We've also been exploring the universe of literacy in WordWorld–a television program on PBS that supports pre-reading skills. The characters on the show ("WordFriends") are formed out of the words that are their names. They solve challenges by building words that morph into the "WordThing" they need.
The key element for me is the way this innovative design reinforces the concept that text has meaning and many words signify actual objects.
We took this idea and went outside to play with natural objects and text.
First we spotted a patch of dirt. So, my daughter wrote "dirt" with a stick:
My son is a bit younger so we had him trace the "D" with a stick, first with my help and then on his own.
Then we collected pebbles and wrote "ROCKS"" with them:
For my toddler, we are reinforcing the phonics: "Rrrr-ROCKS!" My daughter is learning to associate words with the objects they are. And they are both learning in the very genuine context of some outside playtime.
The possibilities are endles.
- You can form words with or in twigs, leaves, acorns, mud, or sand.
- Spell out "bird seed" using peanut butter (or sunflower nut butter for those who are allergic) and seed on a disposable cookie tray and then leave it out for your feathered friends.
- Even indoors, make an "F" out of feathers, write an "R" in a tub of rice.
Tactile learning and physical activities are a perfect match with literacy activities. They activate multiple centers of the brain to increase recall, creating a visual and physical memory to go with the language development. And they help children form a deep understanding in context with their world.
Disclosure: This post is sponsored by WordWorld. All activities, ideas, opinions and educational information is my own. You can access free eBooks and games, and find out more about WordWorld's iPhone and iPad apps on their website. You can also follow them for daily tips and ideas on Facebook and Twitter.
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Love love love this idea of writing in a physical sense – – and outside! We are WordWorld lovers as well.
I featured this post on my weekly High Five! — http://handsonhouse.blogspot.com/2011/03/high-five-week-9.html
Thanks for the inspiration!
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I can't wait until it stops raining here so we can try this! Thanks, Candace!
Dirt is so much fun to play with!
Okay, so I featured this a long time ago too… But Candace I love it. I had (HAD) to include it in a roundup of dirty, muddy ways to play! LOVE!
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In addition to our weekly Monday Kid Corner, this week's theme is MUD. Brush off those archives and link them up at thejennyevolution.com. See you there! Jennifer
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Before you worry about being criticized, you gotta find it first. Once you have been criticized a few times, you'll probably find it isn't as bad as you thought it was (I guess for some people that could be different?).
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Pizza crust made it's way into my kitchen last week courtesy of Brittany Angell and Iris Higgins, authors of the brand new cookbook The Essential Gluten-Free Baking Guide Part One just released last week. I met both of these ladies last fall and had the privilege of preparing gluten-free cinnamon rolls in a huge hotel kitchen with them one night (long story…), so I can tell you that these are two hardworking, committed, and very talented women!
Their long-awaited new book, the first in a two-part series of baking guides, is designed to get you in the kitchen and working with a wide array of gluten-free flours. The first book includes over 50 recipes highlighting almond, quinoa, garbanzo, millet, and coconut flours. (Don't even ask. It's way too hard for me to pick a favorite!)
In addition to a comprehensive guide to each flour, Iris and Brittany also offer you an inside look at gluten-free baking through interviews with experts like Amy Green, Elana Amsterdam, and Kelly Brozyna. At the beginning of the book, they also give you the scoop on baking with alternative sweeteners, other supportive gluten-free flours, and dairy substitutes.
Although there are a fair amount of recipes in the book that call for gums and starchier flours (two ingredients which I prefer not to eat often), I had no trouble finding plenty of healthy options to add to my "must make" list. The sugar in the recipes can almost always be swapped with an unrefined granulated sweetener like coconut sugar, and some recipes are 100% sugar-free. The Blackberry & Lime Cobbler will definitely make an appearance on my table this summer, as will the Blueberry Oat Mini Muffins with Walnut Streusel. (I've also got my sights on the grain-free Peanut Butter Pancakes, Cinnamon Raisin Bread, and Breakfast Cookie Bars.)
Iris & Brittany provide weight measurements (grams) as well as volumetric measurements (cups, tablespoons, etc.) for all of their ingredients, making accuracy a breeze! If you follow the recipes by weight using a digital kitchen scale, you're guaranteed to have precise results just like theirs.
So, the pizza crust. To let you in on a little secret: I really, really, really don't like baking with yeast because somehow I almost always, always, always mess up the proofing part. So when I saw that this pizza crust was not only gluten-free but also dairy-free and yeast-free, I was totally in.
And it did not disappoint! I decided to divide the dough into two balls and make two smaller circles that I could then cut into flatbread wedges. They were just fine eaten plain, but I think they would also taste fantastic brushed with some garlicky olive oil and then grilled and served with curry or soup.
Brittany & Iris have given me so much inspiration with their new book, and I'm sure you'll find the same to be true. No matter how you eat—whether it's grain-free, vegan, sugar-free, or something else—this book promises to be informative, educational, and—for the baker at heart—loads of fun.
Vegan Pizza Crust
Recipe reprinted with permission from The Essential Gluten-Free Baking Guide Part One, by Brittany Angell & Iris Higgins
Makes one 12-inch pizza crust
1 tablespoon ground flax seed meal
1 tablespoon whole psyllium husks
3⁄4 cup plus 2 tablespoons boiling water
1 1⁄2 tablespoons olive oil
96 grams millet flour (3⁄4 lightly filled cup)
86 grams potato starch (1⁄2 cup)
1 tablespoon double acting baking powder
2 teaspoons unrefined granulated sugar
3⁄4 teaspoon salt
Your favorite pizza toppings
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Take out a baking sheet and cut a piece of parchment paper the size of the sheet.
- In a small bowl, stir together the flax seed, psyllium husks, boiling water, and olive oil. Let sit for 5 minutes.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the millet flour, potato starch, baking powder, sugar and salt.
- Once the flax mixture has rested for 5 minutes, whisk it for 30 seconds, then pour it into the dry ingredients, stirring until it comes together into a dough. It should be easy to handle at this point. Shape into a ball and roll it out on the parchment paper to about 1/8–1⁄4 inch thickness. Place the parchment paper on the baking sheet. Bake for 10 minutes.
- Remove from oven and top however you like. Bake another 10 minutes. Serve hot.
- Freeze and reheat leftovers as you would any other pizza.
Hallie's notes: I used an equal weight of arrowroot starch for the potato starch. I used coconut sugar for the sweetener. I divided the dough into two balls and baked them on separate baking sheets, rotating them once halfway through baking to ensure even cooking. Before baking the pizza rounds, I sprinkled them with extra sea salt and some dried herbs.
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Too Proud to be Served?
by MSKeller
We had a flood. It was a little flood really, at least I thought it was. It was just the water dispenser on the front door of our fairly new refrigerator. It evidently got stuck, shorted out and continued to run as we were at our three-hour church block.
End result, we had to leave for a graduation in Utah the next day, and the clean-up professionals went to work in our absence. I expected a week of inconvenience and then a just-over-the-deductible bill. Then my son sent me a text photo of my kitchen. . . gutted from wall to wall, cupboards, insulation, major appliances, everything. This was in May. It is now October, new carpet is being laid on Monday and I still haven't unpacked the pantry.
I've had difficulties before, car accidents; divorce; surgeries and babies; and each time I accepted the bare minimum of assistance when thrust upon me and never ever ask for it. I'm perfectly capable! Yet am I?
Who do I think I am?
How can I serve?
What can I do?
Do my little acts
Even matter to you?
Is it humility or pride
When I say, "No thanks, I'm fine."
With a smile
Hiding all the hurt behind.
Am I just as poor
At receiving your gifts
Feeling unworthy
And refusing you the delight
Of serving? ~ MSK
I'm discovering that looking into a mirror can be both revealing and unsettling. The blogosphere nudges at that; I find a clear window to other minds, personally unique thoughts and experiences. Watching the candor of others offers courage for me to discover a way to face up squarely with some of my own worst tendencies. I've even been gifted with a platform with which to express, share and discuss them with others.
I often long to 'make a difference' and yet there is no way I'd allow someone else to make a difference in my world. I even push away my husband, my mother, and friends when they offer. "I'm fine. I can do this."
Anne Morrow Lindberg said, "My Life Cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds."
Am I being prideful in not allowing others to respond to me?
Yet I don't change. I know intellectually that I need to be served. I know that I can't possibly do all that I have on my plate by myself, and yet I'm afraid to ask. I'm afraid of being told no. I'm afraid of letting someone be my benefactor. I'm afraid of feeling obligated. I'm afraid of not being thought of as capable and strong. I'm afraid of not being enough.
Maybe afraid isn't the right word. Perhaps I just don't want to be disappointed. They say that if you want something done right, do it yourself, if you just want it done, ask someone else. That is prideful. Thinking that I'm the only one who can 'do it right' or at least my idea of right.
What if I go to all the mental effort and humiliation (humble-I-zation) and ask for something, and am told 'Nah, you can't do that'. I'm left bereft, deflated and back where I began. I know, it's happened, and I detest that feeling even more than falling off a roller-coaster hill. Too big of a price to pay.
I remember when I was single and in an accident and simply could NOT take care of my family. They brought in meals for a couple of weeks (maybe more, I was down for six weeks, I don't remember, I was on drugs!) I was embarrassed every time, and never got used to it. Yet my family ate more than cereal and ramen. The women most certainly felt good about their efforts. . . as they ought to, but I hated it. I love them, dearly, but I hated being a project.
When I was well again, I seriously thought about finding out every woman who served me, so I could return the favor (and thus relieve my obligation), but realized it would be an impossible task. I still feel obligated, and so when someone is ill, I sign up, even if I am incredibly busy and can't imagine how I'll come through.
Usually when I write posts, I give suggestions. I am the teacher. I offer tools and ideas and ways to move forward. It is who I am as a life and relationship coach, yet this time, I have no answers. I only have a still-prideful acknowledgement that I realize I need to repent, but have no ability (or commitment?) to do so. . . yet.
Perhaps knowing is a first step.
- Am I alone? Do you have answers for me?
- How does pride snake into your life?
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I've never looked at it as being prideful in having a hard time accepting service, but that I am quite possibly a control freak. I just don't like it when things are out of my control.
I suspect that might be a part of it as well Lisa, though moreso I think it is simply that I don't want to deal with the frustration and disappointment of being turned down when I humble myself enough to even ask. So, I'm prideful even in considering being humble. Dichotomy?
I was completely convicted when I read your sentence, "I often long to 'make a difference' and yet there is no way I'd allow someone else to make a difference in my world." I think you hit this right on the head as a pride issue and I'm determined to be more vulnerable and less self-sufficient in filling all my own needs. Thankfully, life has helped me along with that and demonstrated my inadequacies to me regularly. I'm getting better at letting others make up the difference.
Vulnerability. That is the rub isn't it. Good to see flickers of hope for me!
One of the first things that comes to my mind? I can picture the Saviour sitting with HIS 12 disciples and partaking in the joy of just being, when all of a sudden HE decides to start washing the feet of those around him. Kind of makes me feel small yet at the same time, I make a difference. In that situation I have heard it said, "How dare you take away HIS blessing of service". And in that same thought and tone, are we not in the service of our Lord when we are in the service of others? So by taking away the opportunity of others to serve by "having" to repay them or as you put it "Return the favor", makes it sound like you are keeping score, so to speak. One ant cannot make a colony all by oneself. But MANY acting together can. sounds like you have a colony around you, so just let it be and enjoy ALL the many friends that your ward has and let them "Be of service".
Yes, yes, I know, I know. . . I do. . . it is the 'letting go' part that stumps me. I'm getting better. . . keep teaching me.
What I love about your example Edward is that Christ must have seen his apostle's dirty feet and instead of chiding them to wash their feet thoroughly before they sat to dine, he washed them himself. What a reminder about how to go about serving.
I think this is harder the older I get. As people have disappointed me, or taken advantage of my service, I don't want to let that happen, so I back away from receiving any service. Part of the gospel is keeping an open heart, which in these challenging times is tough. Not being willing to accept service can be an indicator that my heart is getting hard, or at least developing a thick leathery skin. Even in receiving service I wish to learn to be submissive, accepting whatever the Lord sees fit to bless me with as it comes through the hands of His servants. Even now as I write that it's hard to think about removing that tough leathery hide and baring my tender pink heart to whatever comes along.
I think that has something to do with it Jen. Being disappointed. Easier just not to ask. But I keep thinking that it also has part in 'blessed are the poor in spirit'. So while I keep kicking, I also keep knowing that I ought to be different. Perhaps one of these days something will shift enough to allow me that sort of humility. Good to know I'm not alone.


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