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By Kevin Revolinski
Resources updated by Transitions Abroad 7/27/2015
First of all, it must be clearly stated that finding teaching jobs in Italy has become increasingly complex given strict work visa EU regulations, the stuggling national economy in terms of unemployment, and the many protectionist regulations that consequently now exist. That does not mean it is not possible to find a job, but it does make the process far more difficult than it has been in the past.
Language schools start in September or October and finish up in May or June, and so contracts are typically nine to 10 months. There are also summer camps in June and July when many short-term jobs can found, but August is when the entire nation, sensing some inner call like baby sea turtles, makes a mad dash for the sea.
From February or March on is a good time to start looking for jobs as schools have a better idea of who is returning to teach. But there are also many jobs that open up very close to the beginning of the school year, sometimes mere days before the first day. There are also emergency openings throughout the year.
I did all my searching on the web, and in the boxout I have listed some good links to job lists and other resources. Many sites will list your CV for free and, speaking from experience, it is worthwhile to put yourself out there. A school that logs in and sees a decent candidate already in the database might not bother to post an ad.
Regarding experience, it is now standard across Italy to require a BA and a recognized certificate. CELTA certificates are typically asked for, though don't let that deter you if you have TEFL.
If you are considering teaching in Italy and you don't have the TEFL certificate, British Institutes might be a two-birds-with-one-stone solution. They sometimes offer a program that consists of two months of distance learning
(buying a few books and completing readings and assignments) and then two weeks of intensive training in Italy. Upon successful completion of the course, you are guaranteed a teaching job in one of their Italian schools for at least nine months
starting in October.
Where you want to live can affect your search. The more flexible you are, the more likely you are to find something. Don't rule out southern Italy. I have heard horrific statements from northerners about the people south of Rome. Indeed, the South is a different world in many respects, but it also has some advantages. Living costs are much lower while teaching salaries are not reduced proportionately. When I worked in Calabria I found my salary only a couple of hundred euros less than Web-posted positions in Milan. Rent in Calabria can be as low as $180 for a room and averages perhaps $250, whereas in the North apartments are often at least double that. Don't always balk at what appears to be a low salary. I wrinkled my nose at one ad that offered 750 euros net per month. But they also offered a furnished apartment, making this deal as sweet as 1,000 or more without the headache of apartment hunting.
When you find a school that wants to hire you, you are still just halfway there. Don't be rude, but be—shall we say—gently persistent in getting the necessary documentation.
If a school seems interested but the work permit is unlikely, ask them if they are willing to set you up for one year in a sort of student capacity. You are going there to study methodology of teaching English to Italians (and get paid anyway). Italians have a billion rules and regulations but have learned to dance about them with the grace of Fred Astaire.
Warning: Read your contract carefully! The school I worked for gave me mine in Italian. Careful discussion of the details can avoid misunderstandings later on.
Survival Tips: If you do find something and the pay is not exactly excessive, you can still find ways to get by. Private lessons can garner anything from 15 to 30 euros per hour. Offer cheaper rates to university students if they come in pairs or groups. Italy has a reputation for being expensive, but for the person struggling to survive there are ways to take the edge off. Go where the real Italians go. Look for the open markets for your fresh produce. There are frequent train offers for long-range travel; there are bus passes for frequent users, local wine casks pour off a liter into an unlabeled bottle for less than the supermarket.
For more information on working in Italy, including the different kinds of contracts, read Emma Bird's article on working in Italy.
Editor's note: Again, please note that EU restrictions over the past few years, including the Schengen Agreement, make acquiring working papers more difficult, though not impossible, than a few years ago for non-EU residents.
Job Search Resources
Transitions Abroad's Top ESL Jobs in Europe, Including Italy
www.tefl.com: Jobs and resources.
ESL Cafe
British Institute of Florence; www.britishinstitute.it
The British Council; www.britishcouncil.org
See our page listing schools to learn TEFL in Italy and offering job placements teaching English.
Also look at the contacts for job listings. Some of the schools are working through Italian agents. If the particular school listed is not interested, you might want to contact the agent regarding other schools he or she works with.
Some smaller schools might not be fishing from the major employment websites. Try searching them via your favorite search engine and use key words, "scuola inglese italia." If you have your heart set on a particular place, include it.
Try the online phone book! Go to the Italian Yellow Pages), and click on the language dropdown for pages in English. Type "English School" in the subject area and a specific city or region, if you like. Listings often contain more than just addresses and phone numbers; many list email and web page as well. This is not, however, a comprehensive listing. There are many more that are not listed for whatever reason—only the Italians may know.
KEVIN REVOLINSKI is a sometimes teacher, sometimes writer who has taught English in Turkey, Panama, Italy, and Guatemala.


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Real Bad passes milestone
Published 11/14/2013
Grass Roots Gay Rights West, producers of the popular Real Bad dance party that closes out the Folsom Street Fair, presented its beneficiaries with a total of $300,000 raised at this year's event. The donation means that Real Bad has donated $2 million to community organizations over the event's 25-year history. Beneficiaries gathered November 7 at BeatBox where representatives of 16 nonprofit groups were on hand to celebrate GRGR West's milestone.

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CUYAHOGA FALLS – Allen Parker Hensley, 58, died in Akron City Hospital Monday [January 28, 1980] after a short illness.
He was born in Atwater, Feb. 27, 1921 and lived in this area most of his life. He was a member of the First Methodist Church of Ravenna, the Retired Officers Association of the U.S. Marine Corps, of which he served as captain, was a member of the U.S. Marine Raiders, the Yusef Kahn Grotto of Akron, Fortitude Lodge 188 F.&A.M. and Two Harbors in Minnesota. Mr. Hensley was also a member of the BPOE 76, Ravenna, and president of Hensley Mondi Homes, Inc., of Hudson.
He is survived by wife, Pauline; daughters, Claudia Cole, of Columbus, Martha Hensley, of St. Louis, Mo.; brothers, Russell, of Port Ritchey, Fla., Bruce, of Rootstown and Paul; sisters, Mrs. Jim (Joella) Shanle, of Ravenna, and Mrs. Sam (Hester) Turoff, of St. Petersburg, Fla.
Friends received 7 to 9 p.m. tonight at the Wood Funeral Home, Ravenna Chapel, where masonic services will be held Tuesday evening. Memorial services 1 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. The family requests donations be made to a favorite charity.


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Gmail 5.0 lets you access your Yahoo and Outlook accounts too: download it here!
Gmail 5.0, the latest version of Google's email client, has been leaked. Featuring an all-new Material Design look, along with support for Yahoo Mail and Outlook, Gmail 5.0 is really something special. Thankfully, we've got the APK file for you here ready to download. Find out all of the Gmail 5.0 features below.
Not content with springing Inbox on us recently, Google has also updated its classic email client. Of course, Gmail 5.0 is dripping with Material Design, but there are some new features which address the functionality also, chief among these is its integration with with other email clients.
For users of Yahoo, Outlook and Hotmail, Gmail is now capable of acting as an inbox for those addresses too, reducing the need for multiple apps/log-ins to browse through your email. This is a welcome addition, as going through three different apps just to check unread mail is an unnecessary time sink.
Where this app fits alongside Inbox is still something of a mystery, as it houses most of the same features, it just looks a little different and currently doesn't have the "reminders" function. Take a look at some of the screenshots of it below:
How to download Gmail 5.0
Thanks to the Android Police team, you can download the APK of the new version of Gmail ahead of its official release in the Play Store. Remember that the APKs are signed by Google and will update the Gmail app already installed on your Android. To Install the Gmail 5.0 APK you will have to allow access to unknown sources in the security settings. If you don't have it already, download and install Gmail from the Play Store first before downloading the 5.0 update APK file.Gmail
- Filename: com.google.android.gm-5.0_ (1520254) -5.0006 million-minAPI14.apk
- Version: 5.0 (1520254)
- APK Mirror
To have the Exchange function, you will need this second APK:
- Filename: com.google.android.gm.exchange-6.5-1520254-500064-minAPI14.apk
- Version: 6.5-1520254
- APK Mirror
So, what did you think of Gmail 5.0? Is Inbox really still relevant after this update?
Source: Android Police
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It's an application of 10!
Baixando o ApK...Let's Go!!
you have got to try this app out, very surprised by how good it looked and the ease of adding new mail sites was so simple that even I had no trouble,well done all round
Been using this for a few days now and I like it, I like it alot. Next Article for the AndroidPIT team the "New Google Calendar" 👍😉
Great work guy's you just need to add a notification tone to your App or to allow Lightflow to pick the App up so I can add my own tone. AndroidPIT is the only App I can't set a notification tone for 😢
Haha thanks for the tip, Lee!
And I've emailed one of our developers about the notification tone, good suggestion.
Awesome, keep up the great work team and thanks again 👍


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To ban or not to ban?
This isn't just about Muslim sentiments; Indians in general need to stop being such over-sensitive babies. Pronto.
India experienced another freedom-of-speech controversy earlier this week when Kamal Haasan (played by Kamal Haasan, acting as Kamal Haasan) couldn't release his film Vishwaroopam, because certain Muslim groups protested the content of the film, saying it would hurt the sentiments of the community.
So incensed was Kamal Haasan at this violation of speech, that he threatened to leave the country like MF Hussain did, because apparently the best thing to do when attacked by a Muslim group is to move to the Middle-East.
Now I haven't seen Vishwaroopam, but I did go through its plot on Wikipedia, and to loosely paraphrase, it is this; An Al-Qaeda (Urdu for "Zero Dark Thirty") operative devises a plot to blow up New York with a "Caesium" bomb.
For the less scientifically minded among us, Caesium is an element whose chief chemical property is that it is not Plutonium, which is so 1980s Schwarzenegger, Daahling. Kamal Haasan plays the Muslim RAW agent who does everything in his power to foil this attack. This plot description raises three questions;
1) Are Muslim groups upset about the fact that an Islamic group is portrayed as a threat to New York? I can see why they would be, because there is no real world evidence to suggest that such a thing would ever happen.
2) Are Muslim groups upset about the fact that there's a Muslim RAW agent? In which case, I'm forced to assume that not a single Muslim person watched Kahaani.
3) Who the hell takes anything said or made by the guy from Appu Raja so seriously?
This isn't the beginning of some fascist anti-Islam tirade though. Because for one, I'm not anti-Islam, and for seconds, if I belittled Islam with no facts to back up my argument, what on Earth would the BJP do for a living? Today, Vishwaroopam offends Muslim groups. A few years ago, Singh is Kinng offended the Sikh community, and before that, Fire annoyed Hindu groups (and all people who totally misunderstood the sort of lesbian film they were buying tickets to).
This is a problem with us as a nation; when the hell did we turn into such a ginormous bunch of sensitive little children? As a culture we're witnessing levels of overreaction and sensitivity that make menopause look dispassionately Vulcan in comparison. (Women's groups who take offense to that comparison, kindly wait until next week to protest in order to maximise press-coverage efficiency)
I'm told we live in a secular democracy, but I'm also told that people have seen UFOs and Elvis walking down the side of the road. Right now, the evidence supporting all three claims is minimal at best. The problem is this; secularism done right means that nothing and nobody is sacred, as opposed to the Indian definition, which is everything is sacred, because everything is a vote-bank.
The other argument is that maybe Indian cinema needs to take a good hard look at itself and stop stereotyping. While that's a great academic argument, it doesn't change the fact that cinema, and all mass-art will always stereotype people, because negative or positive, stereotypes are the most economical form of environment-setting. This is why Punjabis in movies will always be gregarious, Catholics will always be ribald and slightly tipsy, and Bengalis will always be in eleven-hour films about a man staring at a blade of grass that is a metaphor for the partition of Bengal that nobody watches.
Story-telling truth is this. Thrillers need easily identifiable bad guys. Historically, the cinematic baddie has always been whoever was perceived as party to the last iconic global threat. This is why every American film from 1950 to 1990 had a Russian bad guy with an accent that sounded like a bottle of vodka had sex with a piece of granite. Today, we have the faceless Jihaadi. Tomorrow (and it's already happening) it'll be the oily banker from Wall Street. And the day after that, maybe it'll be the right-wing Hindu fanatic. That doesn't mean an entire community is being defined forever, culturally, by those tropes.
When I watch an on-screen baddie, do I judge him unkindly? Yes. But only him, not every single person on Earth like him. After I watched Transformers, I didn't come out and stare daggers at every single car in the street. (I only do that at Marol Naka.) When I watched the Dark Knight, I only hated Two-Face, not all two-faced people (In fact, I still like some of our politicians just fine). And when I watched Housefull 2, I left halfway and only hated myself.
Rohan Joshi is a writer and stand-up comedian who likes reading, films and people who do not use the SMS lingo. You can also contact him on www.facebook.com/therohanjoshi


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text: Eric's exploration of digital infrared photography over on flutterby has urged me to try to take some more infrared photographs. Toward that end, I've created Experiments in Infrared Digital Photography in my brainwagon photo gallery. So far, there are only three images, all derived from a single shot of some plants that I did yesterday. I was experimenting with changing the result using gimp. Let me know what you think.


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Friday, December 2, 2011
If my sister went to the beach in the 1940's...
She'd probably look a lot like this. :-) Check out her blog for more pictures from the photo shoot I did of her new dress!
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If you're like a lot of guys, learning how to get girls to like you is one of the hardest things you have to figure out. You've tried pick up lines that didn't work; tried to look like Brad Pitt with no success; most of the time you just end up feeling like an idiot.
If you're trying to get a girl to like you, then you have to involve something that is more important than looks; more important than some ridiculous pick-up line. You have to involve yourself and build a rapport with her.
Rapport is that part of communication that goes beyond mere talking. It's the part of communication that builds a connection between a man and a woman.
Here are the easiest steps around for building a rapport with girls.
1. Be positive. Upbeat and happy people are more fun to be around. Positive people literally draw an almost palpable energy, then give it back out to others. Extremely sexy.
2. Be full of energy. Now, you don't have to go bouncing around the room like a rabbit to display energy. What you do have to do is be engaged and engaging when talking with others. Listen intently. Be enthusiastic on topics that you enjoy. This type of energy is contagious.
3. Be confident. This doesn't mean you have to know all the answers and have the perfect thing to say at all times. It means that you have belief in yourself and what you do know. If you don't know something, say so. Don't try to act like you know about a subject you don't have a clue about. You're in idiot territory when you do that.
4. Relax! Girls are wonderful! They don't want to humiliate you. They WANT to get to know you. Just relax into conversation and begin to build a rapport. This is fun, if you'll just relax and enjoy yourself.


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Ok, as suggested earlier, this is your ENVY thread to tease, wind up and boast.....
I have a double purple hellebore in full flower with purple foliage.....envious?
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06 Mar 2014 20:06
Ok, as suggested earlier, this is your ENVY thread to tease, wind up and boast.....
I have a double purple hellebore in full flower with purple foliage.....envious?
06 Mar 2014 20:22
Ha ha Verdun, you are funny
I have 3 at the moment;
1. Greenhouse envy because I have a flat packed new greenhouse in my dining room but the weather every weekend has been rubbish and I haven't got it up!!
2. Seedling envy because my chillies are the only seed sown and haven't made an appearance yet......this is being rectified tomorrow and Saturday!
3. Snowdrop envy because Allium's have arrived and mine haven't, but I have got an email to say they are on their way
I'm not envious of your Hellebore because I am a newbie and at the moment am very proud of the 2 that I have got, but ask me again this time next year
I do feel a need to boast about my borders though, I am VERY proud of them, not bad at all for a newbie
06 Mar 2014 20:34
Verdun, I need to see the pictures.... so we can all drool.
06 Mar 2014 20:36
I'm envious, cos my snowdrops haven't arrived yet and I haven't got an e-mail about them either
06 Mar 2014 20:44
Hello all
Tracey - your response made me chuckle. I think you beat me on the comms front- no comms as to when they would arrive so nice surprise when they did
I have greenhouse envy even though i have a greenhouse. I need a bigger greenhouse i think. Sssh dont tell OH
I must admit i envy your borders Tracey - the sleepers make them look fab.
How about I have just planted up a Hammamelis Mollis- envious?
Verdun - your Hellebore sounds lovely - tried to get a double Hellebore at the GC last weekend but alas only single ones.
Hiw a
06 Mar 2014 20:45
I agree with Fidget - need to see pictures of the double Hellebore
06 Mar 2014 20:48
I wouldn't worry Star Gaze. I didn't either
Hoping Tracey and Star Gaze get their Snowdrops in time for the weekend so we can all boast about our drifts of snowdrops
06 Mar 2014 20:49
Yes Verdun, we need visual evidence of your hellebore beauty
Awww thank you Allium, very kind of you to say so. I think that's 2 compliments in one day, I'm not used to that
Lily, ours will be here tomorrow, and they wouldn't have got planted today anyway because it's rained all day
What a funny thread.
06 Mar 2014 20:58
Great thread
You are welcome Tracey
06 Mar 2014 21:10
knowledge and experience envy!
... if i had to choose one it would be greenhouse envy ...
06 Mar 2014 21:47
I have weekday gardening envy But I can't pack the day job in as i need something to support my plant buying habit
06 Mar 2014 22:33
Ditto Chicky I have plant identification envy, but am learning! Thanks to the forum I managed to successfully identify something in my parents garden
I have envy of anyone with a 'real' greenhouse.
I am envious of Fidget's garden! Very nice, even in winter!
I have 9 baby hellebores that should be ready to plant out next year . . . and some of them are doubles . . anyone want to be envious of me?
06 Mar 2014 23:06
That should do it Mike. Good job you've got the tin helmet.
I do like hellebores but there are many very popular plants that I really can't love. Heucheras for a start.
06 Mar 2014 23:08
COMPOST... Last year I made 3 large darlek like containers, 2 metre square home made compost bins and 25 compost bags of home made compost, enough to cover my third -to half acre garden with enough left for bean trench and veg patch.
I was told off last year for bragging and told that it wasnt a race or some such words, I just make good compost and get a lot of material to do it with.
I am envious of anyone who can get the plastic greenhouses to stay put in the wind.
06 Mar 2014 23:09
Mike, until this last year, I have to admit I could take or leave them.Mine were 20 year old, spread around a bit, in a shady place that nothing much else grows, and tend to be ignored. However, the new breeding lines coming along in the last 20 years have changed them out of all recognition. Look at the photos on Ashwood nurseries site.
Then if you can, go visit the nursery. The actual plants are better than the photos show. The big polytunnel full is mind blowing. I'm now digging out the old ones and replacing with new improved versions. I hope to grow some nice seedlings on using the Ashwood plants as parents. Some of them look like dahlias except they flower in winter and less trouble.
06 Mar 2014 23:16
I have greenhouse, hellebore and snowdrop envy, also full sun and big garden and if anyone has a smoke bush Cotinus coggygria I am green with envy.
06 Mar 2014 23:39
Woohoo! Lyn, my plastic green house has never shifted
Had to replace the cover though
06 Mar 2014 23:51
Lidl have mini polytunnel type greenhouses at £40. cheaper than replacing the cover. Use the old frame as staging.
07 Mar 2014 00:23
Planted three Hellebores in suitable shady corner 30 years ago and still waiting
for flowers - should I give up ?? Envy, is driving me to agree with Mike Allen.
All hope is withered !
We do have heaps of snowdrops, primroses and euphorbia,all in flower, and
Ashleigh2 we have a Cotinus coggyria. Boasting can sometimes be good -
07 Mar 2014 05:49
I have UK garden equipment and plant choice envy! Can't get half of what you can here!And greenhouse envy 1) can't afford one, 2) no room to put one!


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Weatherhead School of Management MBA Program Celebrated by the Aspen Institute
Posted 10.21.09
Justin Goldbach
Program Manager
Business & Society Program, the Aspen Institute
Rebecca Murphy
Director of Strategic Communications
Weatherhead School of Management
Case Western Reserve University
New York, NY, October 21, 2009--Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management has demonstrated significant leadership in integrating social, environmental and ethical issues into its MBA program, according to the Aspen Institute's 2009-2010 edition of Beyond Grey Pinstripes, a biennial survey and alternative ranking of business schools. The school has ranked 33rd on a list of the Top 100 business schools worldwide.
"Sustainable Enterprise is an overarching theme at Weatherhead," said Mohan Reddy, Dean of the Weatherhead School of Management. "With the inception of our newly formed Fowler Center for Sustainable Value, we continue to take the lead in researching and teaching sustainable business practices."
While many MBA rankings exist, only one looks beyond reputation and test scores to measure something much more important: how well schools are preparing their students for the environmental, social and ethical complexities of modern-day business.
This year, 149 business schools from 24 countries participated in an 18-month effort to map the landscape of teaching and research on issues pertaining to business and society. Relevant data collected in the survey, as well as the entire Global 100 list of business schools, is available at: www.BeyondGreyPinstripes.org.
"The best business students move quickly into the front ranks of business--and the attitudes and values they bring to the table are deeply influenced by their time in business education," said Judith Samuelson, Executive Director of the Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program. "Will they accept the status quo or act on their passion about the positive role business can play at the intersection of corporate profit and social impact? The schools that are competitive in the Beyond Grey Pinstripes ranking are the real trailblazers--they assure that students have the right skill as well as the will to make things happen."
"In these challenging economic times, the general public, not just scholars, are questioning whether the established models of business are broken," said Rich Leimsider, Director of the Aspen Institute's Center for Business Education. "Beyond Grey Pinstripes schools are thoughtfully pursuing new approaches. They are preparing students who take a more holistic view of business success, one that measures financial results as well as social and environmental impacts."
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- The percentage of schools surveyed that require students to take a course dedicated to business and society issues has increased dramatically over time, but at a slowing rate: 34% in 2001; 45% in 2003; 54% in 2005; 63% in 2007; 69% in 2009.
- Since 2007, the number of elective courses offered per school that contain some degree of social, environmental or ethical content has increased by 12%, from approximately 16.6 to 18.6 electives.
- The proportion of schools offering general social, environmental or ethical content in required core courses has increased in many business disciplines--Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, Operations Management--since the last survey in 2007.
- However, the percentage of schools requiring content in a core course on how mainstream business can act as an engine for social or environmental change remains low, at 30%.
- Approximately 7% of faculty at the surveyed business schools published scholarly articles in peer-reviewed business journals that address social, environmental or ethical issues. The titles and abstracts of the 1,211 articles are available at www.BeyondGreyPinstripes.org.
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It's Thanksgiving Day!
Every year we hear the same folk tale, "turkey makes you happy and sleepy!" There is a small dose of truth to that, but the real story goes a little something like this…
Tryptophan is an essential amino acid (a building block of muscle) that's converted into serotonin. Serotonin is what we all refer to as, the "feel good" hormone. So, we eat turkey, and turkey makes us happy! Right? Not quite. Here's the part of the story everyone misses. Turkey, is high in protein, and protein actually blocks the synthesis of tryptophan into serotonin. What?! But how do we explain the food induced coma?!
Enter the real hero of the day, carbs. Oh yea. The trick to getting your tryptophan is to eat carbohydrates alone with no protein at some point of your meal. This allows tryptophan to enter your brain and boost those serotonin levels.
Although turkey does indeed have tryptophan, it does not contain a high amount. There are a handful of relatively low-protein, tryptophan-rich foods you can include in your diet like spinach and other green leafy vegetables, sea vegetables, soybeans, asparagus, cauliflower, and sunflower or sesame seeds. Here is a list of foods high in tryptophan!
The moral of the story?
Have yourself a guilt free carb loving turkey day, and more importantly, thank your loved ones for that happy trip your on.


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In my life I have been lucky enough to have met a wide variety of famous people and celebrities. Some I have worked with and for, and some have been chance meetings in the middle of the street.
One thing I have never had to do was pay to have my photo taken with one. But a few weeks ago I was at a Comic and Entertainment Expo and it seemed the only way to get the photo was if you where willing to 'second mortgage' your house.
A picture with the entire cast of Star Trek the Next Generation, $495!?
Were they getting oral with that?
I'd rather just buy the box collection and take photos with me in front of the TV screen with the DVD on pause.
As I walked through the crowds of people worming around stations and waiting in lines for their chance to drop a stack of hundreds, I wandered past an empty que with a lone celebrity sitting at a table. I squint to see who it was and when my focus fixed on the 'celebrity' my jaw hit the ground!
It was none other than the Million Dollar Man, Ted DiBiase, from WWF fame.
Every weekend as a child, my older brother would would watch endless hours of wrestling crafting his torturous moves, then would spend the rest of the week tormenting me with them.
Numerous Royal Rumbles and Cage matches later I developed a 'like' for the show.
My favorite wrestlers;
The British Bulldog Boys and The Million Dollar Man!
His notable move… Shoving hundred dollar bills in his opponents mouth after they were out cold…
And after paying him his rate of $10 a photo… I was transported into the ring circa 1987
Ted, you are the first person I've ever paid to have a photo with, but it was well worth it!
And to my brother… We're coming for you!
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The world of fashionable hair styles was recently overrun by complex designs like ladder braids, perfected ballet buns and side fishtails, however, it seems as though the trends have made a dramatic change. The half bun, AKA, Hun, is the newest and hottest way to style your luscious locks. It's simple and works for almost all hair, especially for those of us who are trying to grow out bangs or just to cover up a bad hair day. This popular look is taking over the most famous heads of hair including Khloe Kardashian, Rita Ora and J. Lo. Even Brittain's own Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton is in on it all! Male celebrity hotties Jake Gyllenhaal and Harry Styles are trying it out, and it looks just as good on them!!
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After Effects Apprentice 101 (CS5 & CS6) from Class on Demand will get you up to speed with After Effects. After learning how to get around the program, Trish Meyer starts with a simple project where you will create a new project from scratch, learn the basics of keyframe animation, and render the final result. Chris Meyer will then help you build upon these skills by refining your animation moves using different types of keyframes, the Graph Editor, and a variety of Keyframe Assistants, including the ability to hand-sketch a motion path.
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text: Wicked Poseur has been one of my favorite live acts in Houston for awhile now. Fronted by Arthur Bates (also of The Energy), Wicked Poseur has gone through a few other guitar players but for this recording we get to hear Cley from Young Mammals. For pure riffage nothing beats Wicked Poseur. Be sure to listen all the way to the end of Slaves for a really extraordinary solo.


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Typical units are designed to provide flexible interior space with high volume ceilings and natural light provided on two sides of each living room. Fully-accessible bathrooms feature roll-in "European" showers. A common clubhouse is provided through renovation of an existing house, complete with provision of an exercise room, common living room with fireplace, kitchen, computer area and game room. The clubhouse building is located at the center of the elongated 1.67 acre site, with parking provided along the west side of property and through a dedicated parking lot at the north end of the site.
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"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone"
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"ARTIST / Paint clouds that really rain / And noisy, running streams, / Or birds that can take flight / And sing beyond your dreams, / Or sculpt a lovely nude / That wakes to your embrace . . . / If not, then praise the Artist / Who made the human race."
"Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having in themselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming a something it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow."
"There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through"


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I have struggled with the most effective way to present the art room rules. This fall I plan to try something new – an engaging rules project like the one Elizabeth Stroud uses in her art room.
Ms. Stroud's rules lesson is an example of project based learning. I love how Ms. Stroud's students work as teams, and come up with so many ways to demonstrate the art room rules. Even very young students were able to articulate examples of the rules!
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The slang term "lit" doesn't seem like it's going to phase out any time soon. And Steve Aoki takes advantage as he unleashes the video for his single, "Lit" featuring Gucci Mane and T-Pain.Read More »
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Mary Mason Lyon (February 28, 1797 - March 5, 1849), surname pronounced /ˈlaɪ.ən/, was a pioneer in women's education. She established the Wheaton Female Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts, (now Wheaton College). Within two years, she raised $15,000 to build the Mount Holyoke School. She also established Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) in South Hadley, Massachusetts in 1837 and served as its first president (or "principal") for 12 years. Lyon's vision for Mount Holyoke fused intellectual challenge and moral purpose. She valued socioeconomic diversity and endeavored to make the seminary affordable for students of modest means.
Sojourner Truth was the self-given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. Her best-known extemporaneous speech on racial inequalities, Ain't I a Woman?, was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights
Col. Oveta Culp Hobby, Director of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (later the Women's Army Corps), World War II, received the Distinguished Service Medal. In 1953 she was appointed as the first secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Dolores C. Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is a noted American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with César Chávez, co-founded the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). In 1997, Huerta was named one of the three most important women of the year by Ms. magazine. Huerta was an inaugural recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights from President Bill Clinton in 1998. That same year, Ladies Home Journal recognized her as one of the 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century, along with such women leaders as Mother Teresa, Margaret Thatcher, Rosa Parks, and Indira Gandhi. In 2002, Huerta was awarded the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. Dolores Huerta is an Honorary Chair of Democratic Socialists of America and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Equality California. Four elementary schools in California; one school in Fort Worth, Texas; and a high school in Pueblo, Colorado, are named after Dolores Huerta. One of the student centers at Pitzer College, in Claremont, California, is named the Huerta Learning Circle Room in the labor leader's honor.
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The photos below taken 06 June 2012 show a herbaceous plant which looks lovely each year - we have lived in our present home for 3 years now. I have no idea what the plant is and nor do any of our neighbours. It does not seem to be growing in any local gardens and I have not seen it for sale anywhere. There's no label next to the plant and so I hope that someone "out there" might be able to help.
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France-based Global Bioenergies (GBE) announced this week that it was able to directly convert glucose to propylene using the same artificial metabolic pathway that the company uses to produce its bio-isobutene.
According to the company, artificial pathway means:
"The GBE pathway uses enzymatic activities and metabolic intermediates that are not found in nature but only occur in microbial strains engineered by GBE. By engineering new functions into natural enzymes, we have created enzymes with specificity towards non-natural substrates that lead to the synthesis of target molecules."
Propylene, according to GBE, has never been naturally directly produced by microorganisms and therefore direct bio-production of propylene required an artificial metabolic pathway.
According to this February 2011 ICIS article, bio-based propylene however can be also produced (according to consulting firm Nexant) via:
- Fermentation of sugars to produce bioethanol, followed by dehydration to bioethylene. A portion of the ethylene is dimerized to produce normal butenes, which are reacted with the remaining bioethylene via metathesis to produce propylene
- Butanol is produced either by sugar fermentation or gasification of biomass and the bio-butanol is dehydrated to produce biobutene. The biobutene is reacted with bioethylene (as above)
- Biopropane produced as a by-product of biodiesel production is dehydrogenated
- Vegetable oil is fed to an enhanced fluid catalytic cracker unit (by the way, glycerol can also be converted to propanol right?)
- Gasification of biomass to produce a syngas is followed by synthesis of biomethanol. Methanol-to-olefins technology is then used to produce propylene
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Nexant believes that in the longer term, direct production of propylene via sugar fermentation process will be more economical than petrochemical routes.
Braskem has been the only company that the blog recalls having plans to build a sugar ethanol-based polypropylene (PP) plant via a new 30,000 tonne/year facility in Rio Grande do Sul near Porto Alegre, southern Brazil. The initial announcement was that the project is expected to be completed by 2013.
Chemical Week actually just published a comprehensive global PP market article today (subscription required), and in the article, Braskem was reported as making progress with its Green PP plans.
"The company has completed engineering studies and is awaiting board approval for construction of the green propylene plant, the first of its type, which will have a minimum capacity of 30,000 m.t./year." – Braskem
The article did mention whether the 2013 timeframe is still on target.
As mentioned in the ICIS article, Dow Chemical has also been looking at bio-propylene routes especially for producing the propylene derivative acrylic acid and the acrylates chain. Dow, however, is currently collaborating with OPX Biotechnologies to produce bio-acrylic acid via the 3-hydroxypropionic (3-HP) route.
I also recall mentioning Coskata in December (when it announced its IPO intent) and its partner Total Petrochemicals and IFP Energies in collaborating on the development of microorganisms and syngas fermentation platform to produce propanol from biomass, waste and/or coal/natural gas.
Total and IFP Energies together have been developing a new process to dehydrate alcohol into alkenes (such as propanol to propylene), which can then be linked to Coskata's syngas fermentation platform producing propanol.
"We believe this will result in the commercial-scale deployment of an end-to-end process to competitively produce propylene, allowing us and our future licensees and joint venture partners to access a large and fast growing market for a key petrochemical intermediate." – Coskata
In terms of development and commercialization timeline for their bio-propylene, Total and Coskata's partnership has a term of 20 years although it could be terminated early upon mutual agreement. First phase of the partnership is to develop the microorganism which started in early 2011. Second phase of the program will involve scale-up of the strains at a demo plant using both biomass-derived syngas and syngas from natural gas. Final phase will be the development of engineering package and cost estimate for the process.
Upon successful collaboration, the companies expect to have joint ownership of the propanol production technology, Coskata owning exclusive licensing rights, and preferential access by Total Petrochemicals to use the technology for its own propylene production.
Back to Global Bioenergies, the company said it will partner with major industrialists to develop a propylene bioprocess based on their technology.
GBE is currently working on its bio-isobutene project with plans to build an industrial scale pilot facility in 2013-2014, and commercial-scale production around 2017 onwards.


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I'm not very comforted when people in power with access to sensitive information make declarative statments about imminent dangers posed to me. I'm especially worried when a guarantee is made to me in regards to these dangers by someone who has a proven track record, for whatever reason, to have his pulse on "the real threat" which may come in "the belly of a plane." Now, good ol' Joe the Politician is making even more difinitive statements in regards to what our future has in store for us.
Joseph Biden has stated that "we're going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis" and that he can "guarantee you it's going to happen." He continued to state that "it's not going to be apparent that we're right" in regards to how an Obama/Biden administration would handle such a situation. Here – take a listen for yourself:
He isn't the only one that feels this way. When questioned about Biden's statements, Fmr. Secretary of State Madeline Albright felt that "its just a statement of fact, frankly." Sen. Joe Lieberman appeared on Face the Nation on 06.29.2008 and echoed Biden's sentiments by saying that "our enemies will test the new president early." He also went on to tell Bob Schiffer to "remember that the truck bombing of the World Trade Center happened in the first year of the Clinton Administration. 9/11 happened in the first year of the Bush Administration." I'd like to personally thank Joe the Politician #2 for narrowing the timeline for when the next terrorist attack or crisis will strike America and the world. It will happen with in the 1st year of the next President's term.
However, that is not close enough. I think I'd like to narrow it down a bit more. Lets see what Fmr. Secretary of State Colin Powell had to say while appearing on Meet the Press on 10.19.2008:
In case you missed it, Colin Powell stated that "there is going to be a crisis [to] come along on the 21st or 22nd of January that we don't even know about right now." Oh, really? What an interesting thing to say. However, don't worry! The United States Military is already in place and engaged in homeland tours – for your protection of course. Who needs a 2nd amendment and Posse Comitatus when you have the US Army on American soil to protect you? Oh, wait.
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3 Ways Landing Page Testing Leads You Towards PerfectionLast updated on by Fahad Muhammad in Conversion Optimization
Building optimized landing pages isn't like adding 1 + 1 and getting 2. All successful landing pages don't follow a specific pattern. There's no size fits all framework involved here, which is why sometimes marketers feel like headless chickens trying to figure out what to do with their landing pages; what is it that they need to change to get better conversions? Is it your copy or your image, your form or your CTA button?
Well this is the time that I lead you towards a solution that helps you come up with the perfect landing pages. It's hard to hit the bulls eye with your landing pages from the get go, and this is where landing page testing comes in.
It's landing page testing that helps you build the perfect page because it helps you examine and re-examine your page again and again until you find the elements that make up the very best landing page.
Landing page testing is there with you through your whole landing page building process, which is why landing page testing isn't just a single approach. There are different tests that you can do on your landing pages to help spice them up.
If you want your landing pages to be the best versions of themselves, you'll need to seriously consider some of the landing page testing techniques mentioned below.
1. Usability Tests
Usability tests basically help you assess how your visitors see your landing pages (i.e. how usable your landing pages are for your target audience). These tests help you understand if there is something on your pages that you need to change in order to smooth over the lead capture process.
For example the 5 second rule test helps you see how memorable and clear your landing pages are for your visitors. All you need to do to perform this test is get someone (favorably a neutral party) to see your landing page for 5 seconds and then after they're done ask them a few questions about your page, like if they understood what the page was about etc.
2. Multivariate Tests
Multivariate tests help marketers test out different elements inside their landing page. You have to set up one landing page and then add different variants of your landing page elements which are then tested until you get to know which elements work perfectly together on your pages, or which elements your visitors prefer the most.
Multivariate tests are basically multiple A/B tests running simultaneously inside a single page.
3. A/B Tests
A/B tests are the most commonly performed landing pages tests and can you guess why that is? Because these tests simply work!
As you might have guessed from the name doing A/B tests involves you setting up two variations or alternates of your landing page. These variations are then analyzed and assessed. At the end of the test you get to know which variation of your page your visitors were most responsive to.
This basically means that the landing page that you end up showing most frequently is the one that your visitors liked the most.
You can test anything while performing A/B tests, you can test all the elements on your landing page; be it the CTA, the copy, headline, image or contact form.
To demonstrate to you that A/B tests actually work and help you get higher conversion rates, let's look at an A/B split test performed on CTA button copy. Empire Flippers tested their landing page CTA button copy, the personalized button copy increased click-through rate by 33.10%:
And this isn't even the best part, what's going to get you even more excited is the fact that Instapage now let's you perform simple A/B tests. You can create variants of your landing page easily in the Instapage landing page builder just by pressing the plus tab shown below and then basically just A/B test your way to higher conversions.
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I was standing at the stove the other night fixing supper and having one of those "lost in space" moments. You know the moments I mean – the ones where your body and your mind are in two different places.I then got my body and mind all lined up again and realized just how much I miss Kit-Kat. What a great little buddy and what a loss in our home now that he is gone. Kit-Kat was a pound kitty. When I was working at the police department, the animal control officer talked me into giving it a try. She said she had a cat in the pound that really wasn't the usual pound kitty. He had arrived in town with a family when they moved here. They had been living with relatives and searching for a place of their own where they could have pets. They had been unable to find an apartment, and were making the tough decision to find a new home for their cat. They had tried to find a good home for him, but had been unsuccessful. The animal control officer had agreed to see what she could do, and I became the target home long before I knew what was going on. "Just try it for a few weeks. I'll take him back if it doesn't work out. He's had all his shots, he's neutered, and about a year old. How can you resist?"
It should have been easy to resist. I was not a cat lover at all. I'd tried a couple of kitties once and what an experience that had been. So why I ever said yes, I'll never know. But I did, and as quick as a snap, there he was, making himself the king of the house. He actually didn't arrive with a name, and Kit-Kat became a default name. Jennifer and I couldn't seem to come up with one we liked, and bounced between calling him kitty, and the cat. So eventually Kit-Kat just became his name.
He was a lover cat. He wasn't one to play much, but liked to be in the same room as people. He was a big cat, about 16 pounds most of his life. Jennifer enjoyed him a lot and even had him in some of her senior pictures. He arrived with some very unusual quirks, and I really always thought he might be half dog. I'd always had the belief that cats are picky eaters, but that didn't hold true with Kit-Kat. He also loved to be vacuumed – yes every time the carpets got vacuumed, so did the cat. He would come over by the running vacuum cleaner, flop down on the floor and just wait to be cleaned. I once had a Kirby salesman come to the house and I told him I had to know if his vacuum cleaner would pass the cat test. Kit-Kat didn't like his noisy thing, and I had to give the sales guy a demo with mine so that he could see how Kit-Kat really did like to be cleaned. Needless to say, I didn't buy a new one.
When Gene moved here, they became the best of buddies. I think Gene just has a way with animals to begin with, but the little treats Gene would give him sure helped in the beginning. One of the favorite treats was "hamburger man". Yes, raw hamburger rolled into little balls, and made like a snowman, stacked on each other. I didn't think an animal should be fed any place but in the regular dish, but it wasn't long and I was doing hamburger man also. Along with anything else we discovered he would eat – cooked noodles, chicken, olives, bread, and even veggies were all things we tried.
So, the other night as I was cooking supper and thought to myself how I hadn't made "hamburger man" for Kit-Kat, my thoughts quickly drifted away from the task at hand, and I was sad for a moment as I realized just how much I miss that little guy.
R.I.P. little buddy. You are greatly missed.
Today's interruption is brought to you by baseball and childhood.
Many many years ago in a land far far away, I got to go to a baseball game. Not just any baseball game, but a game with my heros! This story involves my childhood, so it was MANY years ago, a different century and millennium, and any trip over 50 miles was far far away to me. As it was we were traveling to New York to see my grandparents. Travel in those days was not easy as my dad usually had to take us to a train depot, or an airport far from home to make connections.
So we had taken part of the trip in the car to Kansas City. We visited some friends of my parents and while there we went to a baseball game. At that time the A's were in Kansas City (1955-1968) which is a fact that only matters because I was able to go and see them play the YANKEES, which were in the Bronx, and continue to be in the Bronx.
The YANKEES were THE team. Every kid in America loved them, including me, and this was a time frame when they were powerful. I think I knew every player, at least the ones that counted: Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford, Moose Skowron. I was about to go and see them all. It was a day I'll never forget. Actually I didn't get to see them all. One of the M's didn't play but I can't remember if it was Mantle or Maris, so I have chosen to remember that I saw them all.
Fast forward to December 2007. We took a trip to NYC to see my daughter. Boy did we see NYC and had a blast, but the highlight of the trip for me was a surprise that Jennifer and Gene cooked up. A birthday present I think. They had planned a tour of Yankees stadium!! WOW!!
It was a Sunday as I remember and the day was gray and windy. We decided to drive and took the Throg's Neck bridge. We could see the white caps on the water and there were spots where the water had splashed onto the highway. But nothing was going to dampen my enthusiasm. I was only worried that we would get lost. I had always hoped to go to a ballgame at Yankee Stadium and this was as close as I was ever going to get.
We did arrive safely and decided we had enough time to grab some lunch before the tour. I think it was a McDonald's or a chain fast food place at least. As we came out of the
restaurant fast food place we could see the subway sign and my heart started beating a little faster. The stadium was right there in the background, but it was so large I didn't actually notice it. Not only one stadium, but two. The new one was being built right across the street from the old one.
We made it to the tour. We were inside that historic stadium and I was soaking it all in. Photos everywhere in the halls. All the greats. The pressbox where we could see all the field, covered with snow I might add. The clubhouse where we couldn't take pictures because it is being used by the players. I could see some stuff left during the off-season, and smells, just like any locker room.
And then …….. We were there, in the dugout!! All I could do was stutter: Babe Ruth sat here, Mickey Mantle sat here, and I continued to utter names that I knew. It was a minor point that none of those players had actually sat in that dugout since they did major renovations in the 1970's. It just didn't matter to me one little bit. Next thing I knew I was walking up the steps and touching the field. I really wanted to go out onto that field, but my desire to not be arrested took control. (I actually did step out onto the field later on, but there is no evidence, and I'll deny it.) As a sidenote I could mention that my daughter has been to several games in this very stadium, but for now I again choose to ignore certain facts. She wants me to be jealous and I'm not going to do that.
So now it is October 2009. World Series time. The Yankees are once again playing in the Series. (I am going to totally ignore that they are one game behind the Phillies because a lot can change.) They are now playing in their new stadium and possibly someday I will take a tour of it also. I never grew out of loving them! And for now I'll just enjoy my memories as they warm my heart on this cold snowy day.
Did I say snow? Of course I did, and let me just share the latest forecast on Day Two of this autumn storm we are having. This is not a good start for what is going to come when winter actually arrives.
Snow. Blowing snow. Snow accumulation around 2 inches. Highs 30 to 35. North winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph. Chance of snow near 100 percent.
Areas of blowing snow in the evening. Cloudy with snow likely. Colder. Snow accumulation around 2 inches. Lows 15 to 20. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph with gusts to 30 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent. Wind chill readings zero to 10 above zero.
Today's interruption is keeping me warm. Go Yankees!
Today's interruption is brought to you by the weather and sadness.
I looked at the calendar earlier this week, right after I looked at the weather forecast which was predicting 10-20 inches of snow. SNOW!! again. I don't think it is necessary to add the rest of this post which will describe my opinion of said forecast, but you have nothing better to do than read my opinion, and I have nothing better to do that give it.
It is autumn people! In fact, when I looked at the calendar I confirmed that we are only slightly over 1/3 of the way through autumn. Autumn: the season when leaves fall from the trees. I see nothing about snow in that definition. Let me repeat that: I see NOTHING about snow in that definition!!
Now let's talk for just a minute about that weather forecast. Originally it said we were in a "winter storm watch" and of course it now says "winter storm warning". It says nothing about "autumn storm watch or warning". Further, it says this warning continues until 6pm on Thursday. Today is the first day of this snow, and in a few hours we'll add some nice wind to blow the snow around. I can hardly wait!
As you can see by the photos, the leaves have not completely fallen off the chokecherry tree in our backyard, although they seem to be mostly off the other trees in the neighborhood. This is thanks to the snow we had a couple of weeks ago. The top of the privacy fence seems to have 3-4 inches of snow, and I took this photo at about 8am. Not that I am usually up at that time, but today was supposed to be a special day.
Special, but yet part of my usual routine. Not an interruption to it. It is quilting day – my once a month all day 10am-10pm sewing day working on just whatever projects I want, but mostly UFO's (un-finished objects) which also could be called PIGS (projects in grocery bags). So there is sadness that I don't get to go. Yes, quilting day is in that town 60 miles away. Sixty miles of snow-covered highway that will be full of drifts later today after the wind starts up. Sixty miles of winter weather that should be autumn weather!
Oh, and on one final note: the electricity is not co-operating, so I'm not sure I'll even get to sew at home. We were without electricity at 5am this morning for a couple of hours, but it came back on before I got too cold. Since then it has been flickering a bit. I have the pellet stove cranked up and hopefully the city can
control eliminate the outages.
This is the day the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it.
Yes, there are much worse things that could interrupt my life.
Today's interruption is brought to you by a giveaway and pumpkins.
More specifically the Pumpkin Patch Primitives Quilt Shoppe is giving away a HUGE fat quarter bundle of Red Rooster's Pumpkins and Spice fabric line. It is yummylicious!! Well at least the photo is, and I'd really love to win and touch and
fondle sew with it. I have a million ideas of what I could make.
Another bright note for today is that I leave in the morning for the quilt retreat. I'm so excited!! There is a slight interruption though as my friend has come down with something and won't be going with me. She has vowed to sew at home the entire time, but I will miss her loving encouragement and fabulous sense of humor.
As the farmers around here say: There's always next year. (as far as the retreat) For the giveaway, I am planning on winning: this year, this month (actually Nov. 1st) this time.
P.S. I found this contest at Elaine Adair Pieces – she's listed over there is my sidebar. If you enter yourself, please give her the credit.
Today's interruption is brought to you by the USPS and retreat.
I've been looking forward to my quilt guild's retreat since I joined the guild a year ago. Actually I wanted to go to the retreat even before I joined, and quite possibly was the very reason I joined. I had heard from friends how fun it was and all the munchies they had. Food always does it for me!
I had recently ordered a booklet with some quilted items and was hoping the USPS would come through for me and deliver it on time. They did, and I am happy. I'm not a very prolific quilter, but I do have LOTS of ideas as well as supplies. In fact (feel free to roll your eyes) I just bought some favrick (fabric, for those of you who don't speak childease) to make some market totes. I'm actually considering making them for gifts for Christmas, but am wavering because of my limited sewing skills.
If they come out good, I'll want to keep them. But if they come out bad, I won't want anybody to see them. Dilemma Dilemma! Oh wait, I can make double – one for me and one for a gift. Another for me and another for a gift. I might be onto something here, but as I said, I am NOT a prolific quilter.
As I close this post, I'd like to give a shout out to my brother, Richard. It is his birthday. I'll be kind and not tell you how old he is, but alas, he is still younger than me. If you notice my archives, you'll see that Richard seems to get mentioned regularly. I have two other brothers I love just as much, but they are much quieter and not as prone to note-worthy escapades.
Today's interruption is brought to you by 38 old cars and brothers.
So, I'm going about my normal daily routine: wake up and stumble to the coffee pot. Actually this is right after I stumble somewhere else, but I didn't think that was a detail you needed to hear. So I have my coffee, freshly made by Gene of course. He is so good to me, and he gets up earlier than me. Next, I grab the newspaper off the front porch to see what news I might have missed. Mostly I read it for the comics and local sports. The rest of the news I've probably already seen on the internets.
Time to check email. The usual newsletters, and not much else. But wait! Why do I have email from the Omaha World-Herald. I don't subscribe and it wasn't marked as spam. I can see by the preview that my brother Richard has sent me a story. Actually a link, but I can already tell by the subject line I am going to see Carhenge, whether I like it or not. I've already sent flowers to my brother, thanking him for his kindness.
Carhenge is the scourge of my little town. Most people seem to think we could have done without this little tourist attraction, especially when it is #2 on the list of wackiest places to visit. Here's a little quote from the World-Herald article:
The only attraction deemed wackier than Carhenge is the toilet seat museum in San Antonio that features more than 800 decorated toilet seat lids but no bathroom.
BUT the rest of the world loves it. I've had visitors from three foreign countries, and several US states, and they have ALL wanted to see Carhenge. One of them in a blizzard and one of them even wanted to go straight from the airport.
And let me tell you about this straight-from-the-airport visitor. He lives in England. Ninety minutes from Stonehenge! Ninety minutes that he had never found, for gawd's sake, to visit Stonehenge. And now it was top priority to see Carhange? Kids these days! Now I admit it is unique, but not worthy of the homage it has received. In the end it was good we had gone from the airport as things changed drastically in the next days. Princess Diana died. This young man was devastated. This young man felt so alone in a foreign country that doesn't have royalty. A country that is thousands of miles from where he wanted to be. We were glued to the television for days.
I don't know if my brother, Richard, has ever seen Carhenge or Stonehenge for that matter, but I can guarantee that the next time he comes to visit I WILL give him the royal tour. Oh, and I lied about the flowers.
Footnote: Yes, I borrowed the photo of Carhenge, but just until I can drive out there to take my own, which I'm sure will be very soon.
Today's interruption is brought to you by Crisco or whatever other brands of shortening are out there.
This was a couple of months ago.
Ring Ring or more like Doo-dah-DEE-duh Are you hearing the Halluliah chorus ringtone? Nothing as ordinary as ring ring for me.
Hello. Dessert is served in five minutes. WOW! Be right there. The conversation was short, very short. I think they hung up right after I said WOW and just assumed we would be there. And we were.
Our friends had invited us over to enjoy a freshly baked peach pie. Lois had gone to her son's house to check on things and water the plants, and there right in front of her eyes was a pie. It had been a surprise gift for their son and new wife, but since they were off traveling for their honeymoon, Lois didn't want to just leave it on their porch for another week. The fact that the pie was sitting on top of the freezer was just not an important point to her. Who would think of putting it in the freezer to await their return? Certainly not me, and obviously not Lois either. Thus, we got the phone call. When something good happens, share the news, or the pie, whichever the case may be.
We enjoyed! We raved! Especially about the crust! It had been forever since any of us had tasted crust so yummy and flaky and so homemade. If a pie is cut into 8 pieces, and there are 4 people, simple math tells you we got to bring some home.
Not long after, I got to meet the pie maker. Meredith makes lots of pies every week and she made it sound so easy. I just figured I would probably never learn the secret.
Yesterday, I headed out the door to go and have coffee with Lois. This is not an interruption in my daily, or at least weekly routine. We like to get together and catch up on news or plan what things are coming up in the way of quilting classes we might be taking.
As I walked in the door, there was Meredith, the pie maker. She has become a friend of Lois since the wedding and I just figured our coffee time would be a threesome, which always is fun.
We're going to learn to make pie crust Lois announced, as she asked me if I wanted flavored coffee or regular. I chose flavored since it was already made and we could get to the pie making faster.
Get to the pie making? How exciting! I was going to learn how from a pro! I was going to become a pro, which was even more exciting! No more cooking shows on TV for me. I was going to be the star!
So Meredith started putting flour in the bowl. "How much" I asked. hmmm Meredith replied. "You'll have to sort of guess. It depends on how many pies you are making" It looked to be about 4 cups of flour to make enough for 2 pies, with both a bottom and top crust. Next was the Crisco, and again with the "have to guess" method. Again, I guessed it to be about a cup and half.
This was not going to be easy at all. It seemed like I was never going to be a pie maker. Goodbye stardom. Goodbye TV show. Hello again Mrs Smith my old friend.
Throughout the next hour we watched; we learned. About the texture of the dough, the temperature of the dough, when to add a little more shortening, when to add a dribble more of water, how to flour the counter and then roll out the dough, as well as some other neat tricks and helpful hints. Yes, Virginia, you can teach an old dog new tricks. Now I just have to be brave and try it, or go and study all the step-by-step pictures at Pioneer Woman. She has a totally different recipe but it does have actual measurements if you'd prefer not to guess.
And speaking of Pioneer Woman, did you notice her site is in my favorites in the column over on the right hand side? And did you know she is coming out with a cookbook, with LOTS of living color pictures? And did you know it is the only thing on my Christmas list? (so far)
Happy Pie Crust making to everyone. What a pleasant interruption to an otherwise ordinary Wednesday afternoon. Next time I'll take pictures.
Today's interruption is brought to you by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Nebraska State Patrol.
Okay this isn't starting out as likely to have a happy ending, but, trust me, it does. Of course it does; I'm writing it aren't I, and I can do anything I want with my story.
Yesterday I had a meeting in a neighboring town about an hour away from home. (Yes, when a person lives in the wide-open-spaces, "neighboring" can mean distances of 60 miles or more, with not much but space in between.) I already knew when I left home that the meeting was going to last a couple of hours, but I didn't think more than that. *sigh* Yes, the meeting lasted until 5:30. Could it have gotten over earlier? Yes it could have, but that is a story for another day.
I had wanted to get home by 6 for several reasons, with the weather being a huge concern. For the last several days we had been having winter weather. Not the once in a while fall snowfall we can get, but real honest-to-goodness winter weather.
Winter weather, horrible weather, what the heck is happening weather Where is global warming weather. We'd had days of snow, and freezing cold, as in the teens and twenties, and now it was expected to start raining or more accurately rain turning to snow. Life just doesn't get any better than this!
Another reason to get home by dark is the deer. Deer don't like to follow the rules you know. They don't stay away from the highways and leave the cars alone. Why do we have fences then, you ask. "Obviously, they are only for cows," say the deer.
I had decided to take the route that follows the river on the south side. There is a much prettier view, and far less traffic this time of year. It is beet season here. Sugar beets, for those of you who don't realize that not all sugar comes from cane. During beet harvest there are numerous semi's loaded with beets heading to the factory, which is located on the north side of the highway. And due to the weather (see above) they were out in full force. I wouldn't mind the trucks and I do think the drivers are competent, but every once in a while a beet decides to jump out of the trailer and onto the windshield of an oncoming car. The beets seem to be in cahoots with the deer.
Shortly after I started out on the highway, going down the south side, enjoying the view, watching out for deer, I realized I was following a state trooper. Not to worry as I had no plans to exceed the speed limit, but the trooper seemed to have no plans for at least going the speed limit. Nope, he was going about 15mph slower. What to do? Not having total confidence that the speedometer in the car is accurate, I decided not to pass. I would follow until the "cut across" to the north side and take whichever way he or her didn't. Yep, mind is made up.
At the cut across he/she went straight, so I decided to cut across to the north side. I was so focused on not following the trooper that I neglected to see the train beside me. I slowed, I turned, I stopped right behind a car that was stopped at the railroad crossing for the train that was just starting to move. A coal train! An 872 car coal train! Maybe even more. Okay maybe not that many cars, but the most they are allowed if there is a law. Here in western Nebraska we get to experience at least 100 coal trains a day coming out of Wyoming. Suddenly I realized that as soon as I crossed the river I would be in BNSF Railroad territory doing the same thing: moving that coal to power plants on the east coast, so that all people living in metropolitan areas instead of wide-open-spaces can have electricity to power their computers to read my blog.
The force was with me! I reached the north side and no trains were coming. I pulled out onto the 4-lane, full of beet trucks going and coming from the factory and continued on my way. No more troopers; no more trains; only 50 (of the total 60) miles to travel home, and 10 minutes to get there before dark! All the time watching for deer who think they are in charge of the traffic flow.
Freezing rain, fog, and more traffic all greeted me as I traveled onward. I should be working for the post office. But I knew what awaited me at home: a warm house with the pellet stove going, and supper ready to be served. That Gene! He is so good to me!


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The significance of the end of federal investment in social housing through the expiry of operating agreements has not gone unnoticed. If low-income households currently living in social housing will continue to have affordable, safe housing when operating agreements end has been discussed by housing providers, the media and in Parliament. Given the complexity and incremental nature of this issue, however, misconceptions abound. Here are the central misconceptions that we've heard, and the real facts:
Fact: Social housing providers with targeted programs receive federal funding to cover their mortgage costs AND to account for the difference between the rental income they received and their operating costs. This is what made it possible to house low-income tenants.
Fact: Social housing was developed under various programs, which had different requirements and funding structures. There were three main types of programs:
Fact: Social housing was structured in such a way that the mortgage matures when the operating agreement ends, but that's not where the story ends:
For targeted providers, because they receive funding which accounted for the difference between their rental revenue and operating costs, in addition to mortgage payments, they will face a considerable deficit without ongoing funding. They were set up to fail in the absence of continued federal funding for subsidies. They will have no choice other than to increase rents or sell some homes in order keep others for low-income households, leaving many vulnerable families at risk of homelessness.
For non-targeted providers, many will be in a strong position when the operating agreement ends, although they may have challenges paying for needed repairs to keep their housing safe over time. Providers were limited in their ability to contribute to and maintain a capital reserve fund.
For the mixed-targeted providers, whether they can maintain the proportion of homes reserved for low-income households will depend on the capacity of the provider. Those who were internally subsidizing these homes might be able to continue to do so if they can afford other necessities, like repairs. Those who had separate Rent Supplements are less likely to be able to afford to continue to subsidize these households, since they will no longer have external funding to do so because the supplements are also attached to operating agreements which are expiring.
Fact: Stipulations in operating agreements prevented many housing providers from running their buildings in a business-like way. For example, over one-third of the social housing stock does not have a capital reserve fund, because operating agreements didn't allow it.
Fact: The Investment in Affordable Housing (IAH) is an important source of funding, but is considerably less than what is currently provided for social housing. The IAH will contribute $1.25 billion over 5 years. Current federal funding for social housing is $1.6 billion every year, and it is declining annually. By 2016, the federal government will be saving more from its declining contribution to social housing than it is spending on the IAH.
Fact: The two programs – the IAH and social housing – don't house the same people. The IAH stipulates that housing be rented at or below market levels. Two thirds of social housing is required to be set at geared-to-income levels for those with the lowest income.


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The doctrine of divine sovereignty, the belief that God "foreordains everything that comes to pass", claims Pink, is "the centre of gravity in the system of Christian truth", second in importance only to the divine inspiration of the Scriptures. This is not 'the sovereignty of a tyrannical despot', of course, but that of a wise and good God, and it has to be balanced by human responsibility. If you're in tune with Pink's Calvinism and belief in predestination, and untroubled by his uncritical use of Scripture, you will enthuse about this studious and comprehensive book, and label it a 'classic'. But I will go on struggling with what we mean when we sing 'Our God reigns'. And I am unhappy with Pink's repeated assertions that God doesn't love everybody, but only believers. This book leaves me in awe of God, but not in love with him.
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