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The main objective is to promote Agile, the proven software development practices to turnaround software development project from notorious death march to successful deliverables and joyful project, to Thai community. Speaker are Agile practitioners from both local and oversea all voluntarily speaking at this conference to share their rich experiences.
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Topic Description: We all learn from our mistakes, and from others mistakes. And what is better than learning through a picture, as they say "A picture speaks a thousand words". This session is about telling a story through a cartoon, a picture or any creative visual telling your story of fiasco. In the end we take a walk through all the fine arts and vote for the best one. Winners get a prize and opportunity to talk about their story in detail. Anand Agrawal, Agile practitioner Agile Fiascos - Art Gallery Bio : Anand is in the industry for 7 years. He has been with ThoughtWorks for 6 years working in Big and small Agile and Lean projects in team sizes ranging from 2 to 200. Anand has worked in both co-located and distributed teams across locations in different timezones. Helped clients to adapt Agile practices like pair programing, continuos delivery, story writing and so on. | Topic Description: "When we scale agile, there are Several VILLAINS (Myths& Pitfall) which become as impediments to scale. How Heroes can win the Villains with strategy . My session will show Practical impediments while scaling agile and it is derived from my experience as Agile Coach and Scrum master in fortune 100 companies. Introduction :- 5 min Villains(Pitfalls) for Scaling Agile -10 Heroes(strategy and action ) for Scaling Agile - 25 minutes Game - 15 minutes Q& A - 5 minutes Maris Prabhakaran An Agile Rishi Villains and Heroes of Scaled Agile Bio : Maris Prabhakaran has over 15 years of experience in the IT Industry and has 7 plus years as Agile Change Agent primarily in the role of Agile Coach and Enterprise agile Transformer. He is distinguished international speaker on Agile and Executive Consultant at Enterprise Agile. He is Practising SAFE and DAD. | Topic Description: "Topic ""The 7 Habits of Effective Agile"" will help the respected audience to understand the following: 1. Why Agile? 2. What Agile Development Demands? 3. Challenges it poses for Software community (Developers & Testers) 4. Habits people should develop This session will be useful for Beginners, Software Developers, Testers, Business Managers and anybody who is interested to know about Agile and also it would uncover the myths of agile." Manoj Tiwari, Certified SCRUM Master & Agile Trainer The 7 Habits of Effective Agile Bio : Manoj Tiwari is part of CPA Global, Noida and leads the Test Engineering team. Manoj is a Certified SCRUM Master and have vast experience in managing distributed SCRUM teams and implementation of Agile tools & processes. Prior to this, he has worked with OpenText Technologies, Vignette, Impetus Technologies and CDAC Noida. Manoj works on innovating test engineering methodologies; focusing on innovating cost effective software testing solutions for web applications. He has been involved in designing RUP and Agile based testing frameworks. | Topic Description: "Many people think Agile is easy, but it is actually not. It might be simple but it is really on the opposite of easy. Having someone that walks the path before will help you speed things up. It is not just about knowing where the pitfalls are, saving time is the key to help you being competitive in the faster world nowadays. In this session I will talk about the idea of Agile coach the key benefits of having it instead of exploring the methodology by trial and error, how to distinguish between normal trainers and a real coach, and how to assess how good the result is." Kamon Treetampinij, Lean/Agile Coach (nickname:Sensei) Agile Coach : Why you need it. Bio : After 10 years of leaning and practicing Agile. The more I learn, the more I know not. | ||||
Topic Description: Why perfect agile execution may not be enough to ensure success. What the successful agile organizations do beyond ordinary. What we can learn from the success and failure. Suradet Jitprapaikulsarn, The 1st Thai ScrumMaster (since 2009) Necessary but not sufficient, lesson learned from success and failed agile executions. Bio : The 1st Thai ScrumMaster (since 2009). The only Asian Educator invited to Software Architecture for Educator Workshop at SEI every year (2006-2013). A lecturer at Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Naresuan University. Focus on effective architecture and practices. | Topic Description: "Many teams do agile by getting rid of chairs every morning. Some decorate their walls with stickies. Others insist on releasing bugs into production every 2 weeks. In this talk I will share with you why engineering practices are important and form an essential part of agile. I will give an overview of those practices so your team can be agile." Kevin Yeung, Software Alchemist Agile without technical practices isn't really agile Bio : I have more than 15 years experience in the industry and find myself happiest when I'm in small and engaged teams, continually delivering business values. I've learned techniques that help teams engaged and productive. This has become my focus these days in trying to help others learn these techniques to become happier software developers. | Topic Description: I am not an agile coach or scrum master or someone in management level. I am a developer who actually got hit by agile transition. I have been learning agile by trail and error with sweat and tears (no blood so far). I will share with you how the transition has influenced, motivated and deceived me. Chatchai Chailuecha, a dev who survived agile transformation When I was moving to AgileBio : Senior software engineer with 10 years experiences in enterprise java software development | Topic Description: "Scrum is simple, Scrum is hard" said Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber, creators of Scrum. While Scrum is just one of the Agile frameworks, Enterprise Agile Transformation is Very Hard but Very Rewarding. Introducing Agile just for development in a software centric organisation is not easy. Going beyond development and that in a non-software centric enterprise with silos and only waterfall experience is a Rocky Road. Following the US and Europe, now Asia is slowly adopting Agile and companies can not ignore Agile if they want to stay competitive. This topic is about the various agile transformation strategies for enterprises, the typical pitfalls and how to avoid these. These lessons are also valid for other companies. Using Scrum+XP+Lean as an example as a target set of practices, but generally applicable to Agile. It combines Agile with Organisational Change approaches. It is of interest to both Management, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Agile Developers, Agile PMs , other Agile Change Agents and generally, Agile Teams. While having some theoretical background, this is a very practice based session, with practical applications, whether you are starting a transformation or are in the middle of it, but not getting all the benefits yet. Adrian Lander, Enterprise Agile Transformer Eat more and keep eating: a taste of Enterprise Agile Transformations Bio : A Senior Agile Lean Scrum XP Coach with vast Agile / Scrum, Waterfall and transition from Waterfall to Agile experience. Not just a textbook trainer. Expert in Enterprise transformations and Organisational Change - into Agile. 30+ year IT experience, started with Model Driven Development, RAD & Artificial Intelligence programming. 20+ years IT management experience. 15+ years Agile experience. Early Adopter of Agile principles. Has done all the roles, from developer, data architecture, test manager, SW QM, PM to Waterfall turnaround manager. Program Management on large international key business programmes up to 100M+ USD. Since years fully focusing on coaching teams on Agile, enabling teams and helping teams to improve. Trained by Ken Schwaber (Scrum), Dean Leffingwell (SAFe Scaling Agile) and Lyssa Adkins (Coaching Agile Teams). Moved from Europe to Hong Kong to set up Hong Kong's first Agile consultancy, AgiLive Asia. Trusted advisor for FTSE 100 / Fortune 500 companies. Currently Enterprise Agile Transformation Coach / Lead Trainer for Cathay Pacific Airlines, where he introduced Scrum+XP supported by principles from Lean/Kan Ban. Helped Cathay to deliver their first mobile software, through the Agile teams he coached at Cathay's Innovation Centre and to deliver their first mobile tablet software to support business processes on board. Now guiding the Agile Transformation. | ||||
Topic Description: "This is the second project developed under the Huskycode's Real Agile project. The project is designed such that participants use their free time to learn Agile practices by shipping a usable product that benefit the Thailand software community. In this case, members meet online to develop and continuously release the Thailand Software Engineering Academy website. The team start with most members having little exposure on Agile and Scrum, learning the practices as they are using it. They are coached by experienced members of Agile66 as Scrum Masters and a product owner. We are excited to share valuable lessons we learned from practicing Agile. The open nature the project allow us to discuss everything happening the project in details, a surprisingly hard thing to come by when sharing Agile experience from the trenches. Everything we say that we do, we can show you how we do it. Real test cases, real deployment scripts, real UAT site and real automated deployment to the production site, along with all the traces process improvements, meetings, aha moments, pitfalls. We believe that the audience, especially those who just start going Agile, would benefit greatly from our real open project" Thailand SE Academy Developers Real Agile #2: Continuous Delivery in Thailand SE Academy Opensource website Bio : We are the team learning Agile as we are developing the Thailand Software Engineering Academy website. We use Scrum as over-arching process and practices continuous delivery to get regular feedback from the community. Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thseacademy/ Github: https://github.com/huskycode/thsea | Topic Description: Many teams and organizations focus on 'doing' Agile, rather than following the principles and values. Hence, they are unable to reap the benefits which Agile is supposed to bring in. Values and principles, like practices and artifacts, are not visible. What is visible is a set of behaviours which indicates that the team is just 'doing' Agile and is not 'being' Agile. This presentations attempts to bring out behaviours which indicate that the team is not following the Agile Values and Principles, and also suggest corrective actions. Sunil Mundra-Agile Evangalist Youe TEam Is Not Agile If........ Bio : Sunil Mundra is a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks, and is part of the India Consulting team. His areas of expertise include Agile Adoption and Transformation, Agile Maturity Assessment, Agile Training and Coaching, and Distributed Development. | Topic Description: Sharing what we have been helped, supported and found, plus lesson learned on 2013 training and coaching experience from SPRINT3R team. Twin and Prathan, Co-Founder of SPRINT3R Software must build for CHANGE not build for LAST Bio : SPRINT3R, a joint venture between Siam Chamnankit and Odd-e (Thailand), established in January 2013 by a group of geeks Who are passionate and practicing agile. SPRINT3R is small but mighty | Topic Description: "Do you feel that your SCRUM team has plateaued? Are improvements harder to come by? Do you think your team's performance has peaked? For matured SCRUM teams struggling to find incremental performance, Scrumban combines the best of SCRUM and Kanban to enable development teams to reach the next level of performance. Join me for an introduction to Kanban, the Theory of Constraints and why Scrumban may be the answer that you're looking for." Tze Tang, Agile Manager Scrumban = Scrum + Kanban: Managing flow in a chaotic world Bio : A career software developer, with a record of delivering enterprise quality applications for various industries. Passionate about creating and leading successful Agile development teams and to coach and mentor developers to be successful technically and professionally. | ||||
Topic Description: When you try to build a team, what you need to do is not to building a team, but to develop a good culture that makes your team grow in the right direction. We will give you guidelines and pitfalls for developing Agile culture for any scale, from 1-person team to big enterprise. Amp&Pam, Proteus Family Building Agile Culture for Any Scale Bio : Amp Tanawat, Proteus Technologies - A coding lover, team-working addict, hyper productivity seeker. Want to deliver a great product(s) with great teammates to customers. Specialize in Pomodoro Technique, Effective teamworking, Retrospective. Pam Suebvisai, Proteus Agility - Chief Technology Officer at Proteus Agility, a tech startup building an Agile project management software http://theeidos.com Agile coaching since 2008 Speaker and staff of Agile Thailand 2012 and 2013 8+ years in software industry | Topic Description: It is so trendy these days for people to be Agile. It is very exciting to be agile for the first few years when practices are fresh like the new painting, sheet never been slept. Hear the experiences from the enterprise failure and later turn around to be a better change agent. Explore the culture beyond Agile, the high performance culture that fun and rewarding journey! Arunthep Sangvareethip, Associate director and Executive Agile coach at BridgeAsia Building high performance cultureBio : Passionate about building an ecosystem for building high performance team in order to deliver great product that customer love. | Topic Description: A principle of good software engineering. Before planning for developing reusable artifacts, make sure that you make the best use of what is already provided for you already. Like language specific libraries, OS specific functionality, utilities, etc. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?UseBeforeReuse Terry Yin, Supreme Leader at Odd-e No Reuse Before UseBio : Terry coaches software teams to improve their engineering practices, programming skills and software design skills, to help his customers to be successful in their product development. And in the same time he also contributes to the software community by sharing his experience, working on open source, and any other fun stuff. | Topic Description: My experience to applied agile for Thailand government software, in case software development team and product owner team coworking. Teepakorn Siriwan, Founder & Quarterback, Computer Systems Integration Co.,Ltd. When I Applied Agile for Thailand Government SoftwareBio : Founder & Quarterback, Computer Systems Integration Co.,Ltd. | ||||
Topic Description: As an organization moves through its peaks and valleys of product cycle, one of the issue often faces is its resource movement and management. While there are a healthy number of Scrum Masters in the Organization to cater for the ever growing scrum teams, we also find that project delivery always takes precedence over everything else. This means that unless the organization has full time scrum masters, the energy level exponentially reduces. The notion of having full time scrum masters is still relatively new to many traditional organizations, let alone a troop of scrum masters. We need to prove the case. The discovery of SM contract workers came in a time when headcount was in constraint. All personnel were deployed to support project work. As a stop gap, we hired Contingent Worker SM. To our amazement, this has turn out really well! This paper will describe the working model of the Contingent Worker SM in an organization, compares and contrasts the benefits of having such an arrangement. It looks at the limitation of a Contingent Worker SM and we came up with a model to make it work. As an organization who both supports the efficiency of an organization as well as enabling new organization in Lean and Agile, this model has worked out wonderfully. The journey will be shared in this presentation and results shown.As any drugs used… We will also caution this presentation with side effects! By: Lee Ching Ching ; Jessica Lee; Joseph Chee Lee Ching Ching, Certified Scrum Master Contingent worker SM - Performance Enhancing SteroidsBio : Certified Scrum Master from UST Global and also the first contingent worker being hired as Scrum Master by client company, Intel, which is not normally done by traditional organization. Together with client, we learn, discovered pros and contrasts of this brand new working model, inspect and adapt. And the journey continues. |
All tickets include free international buffet lunch, breaks and Agile Tour Bangkok 2013 exclusive T-shirt. There are different types of tickets on sale but the total number of all tickets will not exceed 250.
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A cake can be inspired by just about anything… an invitation, a flower, a pattern on a favorite dress. Today's cake is the perfect example of how inspiration can strike anywhere. Created by the talented cake designer, Erica O'Brien, this lovely display was inspired by a pillow. Yes, a pillow! Erica took a fabulous flowered pillow by Dwell Studio and created one stunning cake! Fabric flowers are everywhere, why not on a cake too? With one look at this cake, I think you'll agree that beauty can translate into many forms, including cake.
A special thanks to Erica for sharing her lovely Fabric Flower Cake with us today! You can see more of her amazing cake creations on the Erica O'Brien website and blog. Erica also teaches classes, including a class on making fondant 'fabric' flowers! You can find the class schedule HERE.
Happy Friday everyone! Have a safe and happy weekend!


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Etihad Airways, the flagship carrier of the United Arab Emirates, has disclosed its preliminary traffic figures for January 2024, showcasing a remarkable surge in passenger numbers. The airline recorded over 1.4 million travelers onboard during the month, marking a significant milestone in its operational history. Etihad's proactive approach to meeting growing customer demand has led to the introduction of additional flights to key destinations.
Notably, the airline has augmented its weekly departures by nearly 27 percent for the upcoming Summer 2024 season compared to the previous year, further solidifying its position in the aviation market. In a bid to strengthen its foothold in the Indian subcontinent, Etihad Airways commenced daily flights from Abu Dhabi (AUH) to Kozhikode (CCJ) and Thiruvananthapuram (TRV) in the Kerala region.
This expansion brings the total number of Indian gateways served by Etihad to 10, reflecting the airline's commitment to enhancing connectivity and accessibility for passengers. With the successful inauguration of Abu Dhabi's Zayed International Airport as its new hub, Etihad Airways anticipates further growth opportunities in 2024. As the airline's network and flight frequencies continue to expand, it remains poised to introduce more travelers to the exceptional onboard experience synonymous with the Etihad brand.


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It was a wonderful lesson in blending because not one cup was not enjoyable.
I highly recommend it to new herbies. It will boost your confidence and teach you more than you'd imagine. Researching all the additions, tasting them, recognizing their flavors or even sometimes their effects; all these things are learned in this pleasant exercise.
This technique is not for any specific medicinal value (obviously) but it can feel very symbolic drinking a cup while remembering finding a certain ingredient while hiking with a good friend, that perfectly sunny spring day when the violets were everywhere, or the beebalm bursting with blossoms under the hot summer sun.
But I never had a specific list or pictures before. These ingredients are kept in separate containers (because nowadays they are used for lots of different things) until used in a blend.
Today I set out to create a special tea for a project. The day was one of those where a bit of snow is on the ground with a wintry misty mix attempting to fight through the dense fog that rests between the rises of the earth. Gloomy.
This calls for Spring flowers, fruits, mint and more. I will list the ingredients as I went along, and am proud to say that only a few were not hand-gathered and/or dried here in my kitchen and yard.
I started with the flowers. This winter day definitely needed blossoms. They included:
Whole violets, rose petals, lavender, elderblossom, chamomile, calendula petals, bee balm blossoms, and centauria petals. Pretty and fragrant.
Next came the dried berries and fruits. Home-dried blueberries (chopped), raspberries, pineapple bits, orange peel, and let's add minced ginger to this category.
To round it out, a couple handfuls of spearmint, a handful of lemon verbena, some holy basil, and a tiny amount of stevia. Two crushed geranium leaves for fragrance and it was time to try a cup.
Nothing wrong with a pale cup, but in this case it needed more zing. |
I'm always on the lookout for random containers. You just never know... The tea darkened with further steeping. It tastes delicious. |
Don't be afraid to blend up some herb teas. Just keep the quantity small, taste test as you go, and have fun. Two ingredients or twenty, it can be lots of fun.


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A Morning Adventure
Although the morning was raw, and although the fog still seemed heavy - I say seemed, for the windows were so encrusted with dirt that they would have made midsummer sunshine dim - I was sufficiently forewarned of the discomfort within doors at that early hour and sufficiently curious about London to think it a good idea on the part of Miss Jellyby when she proposed that we should go out for a walk.
"Ma won't be down for ever so long," she said, "and then it's a chance if breakfast's ready for an hour afterwards, they dawdle so. As to Pa, he gets what he can and goes to the office. He never has what you would call a regular breakfast. Priscilla leaves him out the loaf and some milk, when there is any, overnight. Sometimes there isn't any milk, and sometimes the cat drinks it. But I'm afraid you must be tired, Miss Summerson, and perhaps you would rather go to bed."
"I am not at all tired, my dear," said I, "and would much prefer to go out."
"If you're sure you would," returned Miss Jellyby, "I'll get my things on."
Ada said she would go too, and was soon astir. I made a proposal to Peepy, in default of being able to do anything better for him, that he should let me wash him and afterwards lay him down on my bed again. To this he submitted with the best grace possible, staring at me during the whole operation as if he never had been, and never could again be, so astonished in his life - looking very miserable also, certainly, but making no complaint, and going snugly to sleep as soon as it was over. At first I was in two minds about taking such a liberty, but I soon reflected that nobody in the house was likely to notice it.
What with the bustle of dispatching Peepy and the bustle of getting myself ready and helping Ada, I was soon quite in a glow. We found Miss Jellyby trying to warm herself at the fire in the writingroom, which Priscilla was then lighting with a smutty parlour candlestick, throwing the candle in to make it burn better. Everything was just as we had left it last night and was evidently intended to remain so. Below-stairs the dinner-cloth had not been taken away, but had been left ready for breakfast. Crumbs, dust, and waste-paper were all over the house. Some pewter pots and a milk-can hung on the area railings; the door stood open; and we met the cook round the corner coming out of a public-house, wiping her mouth. She mentioned, as she passed us, that she had been to see what o'clock it was.
But before we met the cook, we met Richard, who was dancing up and down Thavies Inn to warm his feet. He was agreeably surprised to see us stirring so soon and said he would gladly share our walk. So he took care of Ada, and Miss Jellyby and I went first. I may mention that Miss Jellyby had relapsed into her sulky manner and that I really should not have thought she liked me much unless she had told me so.
"Where would you wish to go?" she asked.
"Anywhere, my dear," I replied.
"Anywhere's nowhere," said Miss Jellyby, stopping perversely.
"Let us go somewhere at any rate," said I.
She then walked me on very fast.
"I don't care!" she said. "Now, you are my witness, Miss Summerson, I say I don't care-but if he was to come to our house with his great, shining, lumpy forehead night after night till he was as old as Methuselah, I wouldn't have anything to say to him. Such ASSES as he and Ma make of themselves!"
"My dear!" I remonstrated, in allusion to the epithet and the vigorous emphasis Miss Jellyby set upon it. "Your duty as a child - "
"Oh! Don't talk of duty as a child, Miss Summerson; where's Ma's duty as a parent? All made over to the public and Africa, I suppose! Then let the public and Africa show duty as a child; it's much more their affair than mine. You are shocked, I dare say! Very well, so am I shocked too; so we are both shocked, and there's an end of it!"
She walked me on faster yet.
"But for all that, I say again, he may come, and come, and come, and I won't have anything to say to him. I can't bear him. If there's any stuff in the world that I hate and detest, it's the stuff he and Ma talk. I wonder the very paving-stones opposite our house can have the patience to stay there and be a witness of such inconsistencies and contradictions as all that sounding nonsense, and Ma's management!"
I could not but understand her to refer to Mr. Quale, the young gentleman who had appeared after dinner yesterday. I was saved the disagreeable necessity of pursuing the subject by Richard and Ada coming up at a round pace, laughing and asking us if we meant to run a race. Thus interrupted, Miss Jellyby became silent and walked moodily on at my side while I admired the long successions and varieties of streets, the quantity of people already going to and fro, the number of vehicles passing and repassing, the busy preparations in the setting forth of shop windows and the sweeping out of shops, and the extraordinary creatures in rags secretly groping among the swept-out rubbish for pins and other refuse.
"So, cousin," said the cheerful voice of Richard to Ada behind me. "We are never to get out of Chancery! We have come by another way to our place of meeting yesterday, and - by the Great Seal, here's the old lady again!"
Truly, there she was, immediately in front of us, curtsying, and smiling, and saying with her yesterday's air of patronage, "The wards in Jarndyce! Ve-ry happy, I am sure!"
"You are out early, ma'am," said I as she curtsied to me.
"Ye-es! I usually walk here early. Before the court sits. It's retired. I collect my thoughts here for the business of the day," said the old lady mincingly. "The business of the day requires a great deal of thought. Chancery justice is so ve-ry difficult to follow."
"Who's this, Miss Summerson?" whispered Miss Jellyby, drawing my arm tighter through her own.
The little old lady's hearing was remarkably quick. She answered for herself directly.
"A suitor, my child. At your service. I have the honour to attend court regularly. With my documents. Have I the pleasure of addressing another of the youthful parties in Jarndyce?" said the old lady, recovering herself, with her head on one side, from a very low curtsy.
Richard, anxious to atone for his thoughtlessness of yesterday, good-naturedly explained that Miss Jellyby was not connected with the suit.
"Ha!" said the old lady. "She does not expect a judgment? She will still grow old. But not so old. Oh, dear, no! This is the garden of Lincoln's Inn. I call it my garden. It is quite a bower in the summer-time. Where the birds sing melodiously. I pass the greater part of the long vacation here. In contemplation. You find the long vacation exceedingly long, don't you?"
We said yes, as she seemed to expect us to say so.
"When the leaves are falling from the trees and there are no more flowers in bloom to make up into nosegays for the Lord Chancellor's court," said the old lady, "the vacation is fulfilled and the sixth seal, mentioned in the Revelations, again prevails. Pray come and see my lodging. It will be a good omen for me. Youth, and hope, and beauty are very seldom there. It is a long, long time since I had a visit from either."
She had taken my hand, and leading me and Miss Jellyby away, beckoned Richard and Ada to come too. I did not know how to excuse myself and looked to Richard for aid. As he was half amused and half curious and all in doubt how to get rid of the old lady without offence, she continued to lead us away, and he and Ada continued to follow, our strange conductress informing us all the time, with much smiling condescension, that she lived close by.
It was quite true, as it soon appeared. She lived so close by that we had not time to have done humouring her for a few moments before she was at home. Slipping us out at a little side gate, the old lady stopped most unexpectedly in a narrow back street, part of some courts and lanes immediately outside the wall of the inn, and said, "This is my lodging. Pray walk up!"
She had stopped at a shop over which was written KROOK, RAG AND BOTTLE WAREHOUSE. Also, in long thin letters, KROOK, DEALER IN MARINE STORES. In one part of the window was a picture of a red paper mill at which a cart was unloading a quantity of sacks of old rags. In another was the inscription BONES BOUGHT. In another, KITCHEN-STUFF BOUGHT. In another, OLD IRON BOUGHT. In another, WASTE-PAPER BOUGHT. In another, LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S WARDROBES BOUGHT. Everything seemed to be bought and nothing to be sold there. In all parts of the window were quantities of dirty bottles - blacking bottles, medicine bottles, ginger-beer and sodawater bottles, pickle bottles, wine bottles, ink bottles; I am reminded by mentioning the latter that the shop had in several little particulars the air of being in a legal neighbourhood and of being, as it were, a dirty hanger-on and disowned relation of the law. There were a great many ink bottles. There was a little tottering bench of shabby old volumes outside the door, labelled "Law Books, all at 9d." Some of the inscriptions I have enumerated were written in law-hand, like the papers I had seen in Kenge and Carboy's office and the letters I had so long received from the firm. Among them was one, in the same writing, having nothing to do with the business of the shop, but announcing that a respectable man aged forty-five wanted engrossing or copying to execute with neatness and dispatch: Address to Nemo, care of Mr. Krook, within. There were several second-hand bags, blue and red, hanging up. A little way within the shop-door lay heaps of old crackled parchment scrolls and discoloured and dog's-eared law-papers. I could have fancied that all the rusty keys, of which there must have been hundreds huddled together as old iron, had once belonged to doors of rooms or strong chests in lawyers' offices. The litter of rags tumbled partly into and partly out of a one-legged wooden scale, hanging without any counterpoise from a beam, might have been counsellors' bands and gowns torn up. One had only to fancy, as Richard whispered to Ada and me while we all stood looking in, that yonder bones in a corner, piled together and picked very clean, were the bones of clients, to make the picture complete.
As it was still foggy and dark, and as the shop was blinded besides by the wall of Lincoln's Inn, intercepting the light within a couple of yards, we should not have seen so much but for a lighted lantern that an old man in spectacles and a hairy cap was carrying about in the shop. Turning towards the door, he now caught sight of us. He was short, cadaverous, and withered, with his head sunk sideways between his shoulders and the breath issuing in visible smoke from his mouth as if he were on fire within. His throat, chin, and eyebrows were so frosted with white hairs and so gnarled with veins and puckered skin that he looked from his breast upward like some old root in a fall of snow.
"Hi, hi!" said the old man, coming to the door. "Have you anything to sell?"
We naturally drew back and glanced at our conductress, who had been trying to open the house-door with a key she had taken from her pocket, and to whom Richard now said that as we had had the pleasure of seeing where she lived, we would leave her, being pressed for time. But she was not to be so easily left. She became so fantastically and pressingly earnest in her entreaties that we would walk up and see her apartment for an instant, and was so bent, in her harmless way, on leading me in, as part of the good omen she desired, that I (whatever the others might do) saw nothing for it but to comply. I suppose we were all more or less curious; at any rate, when the old man added his persuasions to hers and said, "Aye, aye! Please her! It won't take a minute! Come in, come in! Come in through the shop if t'other door's out of order!" we all went in, stimulated by Richard's laughing encouragement and relying on his protection.
"My landlord, Krook," said the little old lady, condescending to him from her lofty station as she presented him to us. "He is called among the neighbours the Lord Chancellor. His shop is called the Court of Chancery. He is a very eccentric person. He is very odd. Oh, I assure you he is very odd!"
She shook her head a great many times and tapped her forehead with her finger to express to us that we must have the goodness to excuse him, "For he is a little - you know - M!" said the old lady with great stateliness. The old man overheard, and laughed.
"It's true enough," he said, going before us with the lantern, "that they call me the lord chancellor and call my shop Chancery. And why do you think they call me the Lord Chancellor and my shop Chancery?"
"I don't know, I am sure!" said Richard rather carelessly.
"You see," said the old man, stopping and turning round, "they - Hi! Here's lovely hair! I have got three sacks of ladies' hair below, but none so beautiful and fine as this. What colour, and what texture!"
"That'll do, my good friend!" said Richard, strongly disapproving of his having drawn one of Ada's tresses through his yellow hand. "You can admire as the rest of us do without taking that liberty."
The old man darted at him a sudden look which even called my attention from Ada, who, startled and blushing, was so remarkably beautiful that she seemed to fix the wandering attention of the little old lady herself. But as Ada interposed and laughingly said she could only feel proud of such genuine admiration, Mr. Krook shrunk into his former self as suddenly as he had leaped out of it.
"You see, I have so many things here," he resumed, holding up the lantern, "of so many kinds, and all as the neighbours think (but THEY know nothing), wasting away and going to rack and ruin, that that's why they have given me and my place a christening. And I have so many old parchmentses and papers in my stock. And I have a liking for rust and must and cobwebs. And all's fish that comes to my net. And I can't abear to part with anything I once lay hold of (or so my neighbours think, but what do THEY know?) or to alter anything, or to have any sweeping, nor scouring, nor cleaning, nor repairing going on about me. That's the way I've got the ill name of Chancery. I don't mind. I go to see my noble and learned brother pretty well every day, when he sits in the Inn. He don't notice me, but I notice him. There's no great odds betwixt us. We both grub on in a muddle. Hi, Lady Jane!"
A large grey cat leaped from some neighbouring shelf on his shoulder and startled us all.
"Hi! Show 'em how you scratch. Hi! Tear, my lady!" said her master.
The cat leaped down and ripped at a bundle of rags with her tigerish claws, with a sound that it set my teeth on edge to hear.
"She'd do as much for any one I was to set her on," said the old man. "I deal in cat-skins among other general matters, and hers was offered to me. It's a very fine skin, as you may see, but I didn't have it stripped off! THAT warn't like Chancery practice though, says you!"
He had by this time led us across the shop, and now opened a door in the back part of it, leading to the house-entry. As he stood with his hand upon the lock, the little old lady graciously observed to him before passing out, "That will do, Krook. You mean well, but are tiresome. My young friends are pressed for time. I have none to spare myself, having to attend court very soon. My young friends are the wards in Jarndyce."
"Jarndyce!" said the old man with a start.
"Jarndyce and Jarndyce. The great suit, Krook," returned his lodger.
"Hi!" exclaimed the old man in a tone of thoughtful amazement and with a wider stare than before. "Think of it!"
He seemed so rapt all in a moment and looked so curiously at us that Richard said, "Why, you appear to trouble yourself a good deal about the causes before your noble and learned brother, the other Chancellor!"
"Yes," said the old man abstractedly. "Sure! YOUR name now will be - "
"Richard Carstone."
"Carstone," he repeated, slowly checking off that name upon his forefinger; and each of the others he went on to mention upon a separate finger. "Yes. There was the name of Barbary, and the name of Clare, and the name of Dedlock, too, I think."
"He knows as much of the cause as the real salaried Chancellor!" said Richard, quite astonished, to Ada and me.
"Aye!" said the old man, coming slowly out of his abstraction. "Yes! Tom Jarndyce - you'll excuse me, being related; but he was never known about court by any other name, and was as well known there as - she is now," nodding slightly at his lodger. "Tom Jarndyce was often in here. He got into a restless habit of strolling about when the cause was on, or expected, talking to the little shopkeepers and telling 'em to keep out of Chancery, whatever they did. 'For,' says he, 'it's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.' He was as near making away with himself, just where the young lady stands, as near could be."
We listened with horror.
"He come in at the door," said the old man, slowly pointing an imaginary track along the shop, "on the day he did it - the whole neighbourhood had said for months before that he would do it, of a certainty sooner or later - he come in at the door that day, and walked along there, and sat himself on a bench that stood there, and asked me (you'll judge I was a mortal sight younger then) to fetch him a pint of wine. 'For,' says he, 'Krook, I am much depressed; my cause is on again, and I think I'm nearer judgment than I ever was.' I hadn't a mind to leave him alone; and I persuaded him to go to the tavern over the way there, t'other side my lane (I mean Chancery Lane); and I followed and looked in at the window, and saw him, comfortable as I thought, in the arm-chair by the fire, and company with him. I hadn't hardly got back here when I heard a shot go echoing and rattling right away into the inn. I ran out - neighbours ran out - twenty of us cried at once, 'Tom Jarndyce!'"
The old man stopped, looked hard at us, looked down into the lantern, blew the light out, and shut the lantern up.
"We were right, I needn't tell the present hearers. Hi! To be sure, how the neighbourhood poured into court that afternoon while the cause was on! How my noble and learned brother, and all the rest of 'em, grubbed and muddled away as usual and tried to look as if they hadn't heard a word of the last fact in the case or as if they had - Oh, dear me! - nothing at all to do with it if they had heard of it by any chance!"
Ada's colour had entirely left her, and Richard was scarcely less pale. Nor could I wonder, judging even from my emotions, and I was no party in the suit, that to hearts so untried and fresh it was a shock to come into the inheritance of a protracted misery, attended in the minds of many people with such dreadful recollections. I had another uneasiness, in the application of the painful story to the poor half-witted creature who had brought us there; but, to my surprise, she seemed perfectly unconscious of that and only led the way upstairs again, informing us with the toleration of a superior creature for the infirmities of a common mortal that her landlord was "a little M, you know!"
She lived at the top of the house, in a pretty large room, from which she had a glimpse of Lincoln's Inn Hall. This seemed to have been her principal inducement, originally, for taking up her residence there. She could look at it, she said, in the night, especially in the moonshine. Her room was clean, but very, very bare. I noticed the scantiest necessaries in the way of furniture; a few old prints from books, of Chancellors and barristers, wafered against the wall; and some half-dozen reticles and work-bags, "containing documents," as she informed us. There were neither coals nor ashes in the grate, and I saw no articles of clothing anywhere, nor any kind of food. Upon a shelf in an open cupboard were a plate or two, a cup or two, and so forth, but all dry and empty. There was a more affecting meaning in her pinched appearance, I thought as I looked round, than I had understood before.
"Extremely honoured, I am sure," said our poor hostess with the greatest suavity, "by this visit from the wards in Jarndyce. And very much indebted for the omen. It is a retired situation. Considering. I am limited as to situation. In consequence of the necessity of attending on the Chancellor. I have lived here many years. I pass my days in court, my evenings and my nights here. I find the nights long, for I sleep but little and think much. That is, of course, unavoidable, being in Chancery. I am sorry I cannot offer chocolate. I expect a judgment shortly and shall then place my establishment on a superior footing. At present, I don't mind confessing to the wards in Jarndyce (in strict confidence) that I sometimes find it difficult to keep up a genteel appearance. I have felt the cold here. I have felt something sharper than cold. It matters very little. Pray excuse the introduction of such mean topics."
She partly drew aside the curtain of the long, low garret window and called our attention to a number of bird-cages hanging there, some containing several birds. There were larks, linnets, and goldfinches - I should think at least twenty.
"I began to keep the little creatures," she said, "with an object that the wards will readily comprehend. With the intention of restoring them to liberty. When my judgment should be given. Yees! They die in prison, though. Their lives, poor silly things, are so short in comparison with Chancery proceedings that, one by one, the whole collection has died over and over again. I doubt, do you know, whether one of these, though they are all young, will live to be free! Ve-ry mortifying, is it not?"
Although she sometimes asked a question, she never seemed to expect a reply, but rambled on as if she were in the habit of doing so when no one but herself was present.
"Indeed," she pursued, "I positively doubt sometimes, I do assure you, whether while matters are still unsettled, and the sixth or Great Seal still prevails, I may not one day be found lying stark and senseless here, as I have found so many birds!"
Richard, answering what he saw in Ada's compassionate eyes, took the opportunity of laying some money, softly and unobserved, on the chimney-piece. We all drew nearer to the cages, feigning to examine the birds.
"I can't allow them to sing much," said the little old lady, "for (you'll think this curious) I find my mind confused by the idea that they are singing while I am following the arguments in court. And my mind requires to be so very clear, you know! Another time, I'll tell you their names. Not at present. On a day of such good omen, they shall sing as much as they like. In honour of youth," a smile and curtsy, "hope," a smile and curtsy, "and beauty," a smile and curtsy. "There! We'll let in the full light."
The birds began to stir and chirp.
"I cannot admit the air freely," said the little old lady - the room was close, and would have been the better for it - "because the cat you saw downstairs, called Lady Jane, is greedy for their lives. She crouches on the parapet outside for hours and hours. I have discovered," whispering mysteriously, "that her natural cruelty is sharpened by a jealous fear of their regaining their liberty. In consequence of the judgment I expect being shortly given. She is sly and full of malice. I half believe, sometimes, that she is no cat, but the wolf of the old saying. It is so very difficult to keep her from the door."
Some neighbouring bells, reminding the poor soul that it was halfpast nine, did more for us in the way of bringing our visit to an end than we could easily have done for ourselves. She hurriedly took up her little bag of documents, which she had laid upon the table on coming in, and asked if we were also going into court. On our answering no, and that we would on no account detain her, she opened the door to attend us downstairs.
"With such an omen, it is even more necessary than usual that I should be there before the Chancellor comes in," said she, "for he might mention my case the first thing. I have a presentiment that he WILL mention it the first thing this morning"
She stopped to tell us in a whisper as we were going down that the whole house was filled with strange lumber which her landlord had bought piecemeal and had no wish to sell, in consequence of being a little M. This was on the first floor. But she had made a previous stoppage on the second floor and had silently pointed at a dark door there.
"The only other lodger," she now whispered in explanation, "a lawwriter. The children in the lanes here say he has sold himself to the devil. I don't know what he can have done with the money. Hush!"
She appeared to mistrust that the lodger might hear her even there, and repeating "Hush!" went before us on tiptoe as though even the sound of her footsteps might reveal to him what she had said.
Passing through the shop on our way out, as we had passed through it on our way in, we found the old man storing a quantity of packets of waste-paper in a kind of well in the floor. He seemed to be working hard, with the perspiration standing on his forehead, and had a piece of chalk by him, with which, as he put each separate package or bundle down, he made a crooked mark on the panelling of the wall.
Richard and Ada, and Miss Jellyby, and the little old lady had gone by him, and I was going when he touched me on the arm to stay me, and chalked the letter J upon the wall - in a very curious manner, beginning with the end of the letter and shaping it backward. It was a capital letter, not a printed one, but just such a letter as any clerk in Messrs. Kenge and Carboy's office would have made.
"Can you read it?" he asked me with a keen glance.
"Surely," said I. "It's very plain."
"What is it?"
With another glance at me, and a glance at the door, he rubbed it out and turned an "a" in its place (not a capital letter this time), and said, "What's that?"
I told him. He then rubbed that out and turned the letter "r," and asked me the same question. He went on quickly until he had formed in the same curious manner, beginning at the ends and bottoms of the letters, the word Jarndyce, without once leaving two letters on the wall together.
"What does that spell?" he asked me.
When I told him, he laughed. In the same odd way, yet with the same rapidity, he then produced singly, and rubbed out singly, the letters forming the words Bleak House. These, in some astonishment, I also read; and he laughed again.
"Hi!" said the old man, laying aside the chalk. "I have a turn for copying from memory, you see, miss, though I can neither read nor write."
He looked so disagreeable and his cat looked so wickedly at me, as if I were a blood-relation of the birds upstairs, that I was quite relieved by Richard's appearing at the door and saying, "Miss Summerson, I hope you are not bargaining for the sale of your hair. Don't be tempted. Three sacks below are quite enough for Mr. Krook!"
I lost no time in wishing Mr. Krook good morning and joining my friends outside, where we parted with the little old lady, who gave us her blessing with great ceremony and renewed her assurance of yesterday in reference to her intention of settling estates on Ada and me. Before we finally turned out of those lanes, we looked back and saw Mr. Krook standing at his shop-door, in his spectacles, looking after us, with his cat upon his shoulder, and her tail sticking up on one side of his hairy cap like a tall feather.
"Quite an adventure for a morning in London!" said Richard with a sigh. "Ah, cousin, cousin, it's a weary word this Chancery!"
"It is to me, and has been ever since I can remember," returned Ada. "I am grieved that I should be the enemy - -as I suppose I am - of a great number of relations and others, and that they should be my enemies - as I suppose they are - and that we should all be ruining one another without knowing how or why and be in constant doubt and discord all our lives. It seems very strange, as there must be right somewhere, that an honest judge in real earnest has not been able to find out through all these years where it is."
"Ah, cousin!" said Richard. "Strange, indeed! All this wasteful, wanton chess-playing IS very strange. To see that composed court yesterday jogging on so serenely and to think of the wretchedness of the pieces on the board gave me the headache and the heartache both together. My head ached with wondering how it happened, if men were neither fools nor rascals; and my heart ached to think they could possibly be either. But at all events, Ada - I may call you Ada?"
"Of course you may, cousin Richard."
"At all events, Chancery will work none of its bad influences on US. We have happily been brought together, thanks to our good kinsman, and it can't divide us now!"
"Never, I hope, cousin Richard!" said Ada gently.
Miss Jellyby gave my arm a squeeze and me a very significant look. I smiled in return, and we made the rest of the way back very pleasantly.
In half an hour after our arrival, Mrs. Jellyby appeared; and in the course of an hour the various things necessary for breakfast straggled one by one into the dining-room. I do not doubt that Mrs. Jellyby had gone to bed and got up in the usual manner, but she presented no appearance of having changed her dress. She was greatly occupied during breakfast, for the morning's post brought a heavy correspondence relative to Borrioboola-Gha, which would occasion her (she said) to pass a busy day. The children tumbled about, and notched memoranda of their accidents in their legs, which were perfect little calendars of distress; and Peepy was lost for an hour and a half, and brought home from Newgate market by a policeman. The equable manner in which Mrs. Jellyby sustained both his absence and his restoration to the family circle surprised us all.
She was by that time perseveringly dictating to Caddy, and Caddy was fast relapsing into the inky condition in which we had found her. At one o'clock an open carriage arrived for us, and a cart for our luggage. Mrs. Jellyby charged us with many remembrances to her good friend Mr. Jarndyce; Caddy left her desk to see us depart, kissed me in the passage, and stood biting her pen and sobbing on the steps; Peepy, I am happy to say, was asleep and spared the pain of separation (I was not without misgivings that he had gone to Newgate market in search of me); and all the other children got up behind the barouche and fell off, and we saw them, with great concern, scattered over the surface of Thavies Inn as we rolled out of its precincts.
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Our friends at VideoTheVote.org were able to capture some early coverage of the vote-flipping incidents on ES&S iVotronic machines in WV. We now have reports of votes flipping from Democratic to Republican (and other) candidates across the states of WV, TN, TX and MO. (See end of article for previous reports, and what you can do if it happens to you.)
Now you can watch the votes flipping on video before your own eyes.
And how, even after an election official supposedly re-calibrates the machine, it still fails to work properly and registers votes incorrectly!...
Here's video of one of the first voters in WV to report the problem after her attempt to vote straight-party Democrat was flipped to straight-party Republican (appx. 2:15 mins)...
And in the following video, Jackson County, WV, County Clerk Jeff Waybright demonstrates actual vote-flips on the ES&S iVotronic, by showing how the failing machines, when not calibrated properly, can flip a vote from one candidate to any other. It's apparently just a coincidence that, so far, all of the confirmed reports of vote-flips this year have been awayfrom Democratic candidates.
It should also be noted that it doesn't matter what is shown on the screen when a voter votes on one of these god-awful devices which will be used by approximately one-third of American voters this year. The fact is that it's strictly impossible to confirm that any vote ever cast during an election on any Direct Recording Electronic (DRE, usually touch-screen) voting machine was ever recorded accurately for any candidate or initiative on the ballot, as per the voter's intent.
This video, demonstrating one way that votes flip from one candidate to another on DREs, is also approximately 2:15 mins...
UPDATE: Note how even after Waybright has re-calibrated the machine in the following, the iVotronic still fails to record votes correctly, as a straight Republican ticket is selected, but the machine selected Ralph Nader instead of John McCain! At appx. 1:50 mins into the video...
Moreover, as this video from UC Santa Barbara Computer Security Group as commissioned by the state of California demonstrates, simply because a DRE machine produces a so-called "paper trail" doesn't mean there is any means of accurately verifying the voters' ballots or the final vote counts. Aside from the fact that such "paper trails" most likely will never be counted by anyone anyway, the fact is that these machines are easily tampered with, in about two seconds, such that even the "paper trails" can be hacked without the voter noticing, in such a way that they would match the internal hacked numbers perfectly. In such a case, as demonstrated by UCSB, even a 100% post-election "audit" of the machines "paper trails" would fail to reveal that they had been maliciously tampered with.
Links to our recent stories on ES&S vote-flips and other failures follow, along with our recommended list of steps to take should you find your vote flipping on one of these wholly unverifiable voting machines...
Recent ES&S iVotronic Failures as covered by The BRAD BLOG:
- 10/18/08: ES&S Vote-Flipping Seen in 2 WV Counties
- 10/21/08: Election Filmmaker Sees Own Vote Flipped From Dem in TN
- 10/22/08: Candidate Names Missing on Final Review Screens in SC
- 10/22/08: Votes Reportedly Flip R to D in Decatur Cty, TN
- 10/23/08: Vote Flips 5 Times From D to R in Another WV County
- 10/24/08: Straight-Party Votes Flip D to R in TX
- 10/25/08: Screen Blanks Out, Another Obama Vote Lost in TN
- 10/26/08: DNC Claims They're On it, Just Can't Tell Us What They're Doing
- 10/27/08: ES&S Vote-Flipping Now Seen in 6 WV Counties
- 10/27/08: ES&S VP Given 'Award of Merit' By WV SoS
And since the DNC and Obama campaign refuse to take any steps to assure your vote may actually be counted accurately on one of these machines...
What to do if it happens to you:
- Call poll supervisors to observe the problem.
- Fill out a problem report.
- Refuse to vote on that machine.
- Request that the machine be taken out of service.
- Get a serial number of the machine if possible (may be difficult in many cases).
- Tell other voters in line which machine it was and that they should NOT vote on that machine!
- Report it to county/town election office.
- Report it to the Secretary of State.
- Call local reporters and tell them the story.
- Call voter problem hotlines (eg. 866-MYVOTE1 and 866-OUR-VOTE) and report it.
- Contact bloggers and Election Integrity websites.
- Raise holy hell.
REMINDER: Please bring a video camera/cell phone camera when you go to vote so you can document these problems on video tape, and then upload them to VideoTheVote.org and YouTube!
(Thanks to VelvetRevolution.us and TrueVote.us for help in compiling these recommendations!)


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I was invited by a Spiritual Mother from out-of-state to seek out your annual gathering here @ NM State Capital where testimonies were given on-site and we stood on the curb after & held signs that read "I regret my abortion".
Thirty years ago, I was in the ninth month of my second pregnancy when I received what was a very unsettling referral for a sonogram, which was not nearly as routine in those days. My eyes never once left the technician's face as she studied the monitor. You can imagine my doubled apprehension as she left the room without offering me the small mercy of that nonchalant, "everything-is-normal-and-on-track" smile. When the OB-GYN followed her back into the room moments later, I really needed him to compensate for the technician's serious breach of sonogram etiquette. Instead, he informed me that I was pregnant with twins.
I left that appointment just as frightened as every other woman who has ever received the same news. At the time, I already had a 23-month-old daughter; my financial resources, while not as limited as those of many new mothers, were light years away from reassuring; and my mental preparations had been for one baby, not two.
As the news began to sink in over the following few days, however, my fear got some competition from a growing awareness of my personal strength. I was still terrified, naturally, but on some level I made a decision to battle that fear, to refuse to let it take me without a fight. I remember throwing open the phone book (the Google of the '80s), and aggressively tracking down the contact information for the local Twins & Multiples club.
In "The Two Minus One Pregnancy" article in The New York Times Magazine (Aug. 14), Ruth Padawer interviews women who, after becoming pregnant with twins using fertility drugs and procedures, decide to undergo a selective reduction. The women describe with illuminating candor their fears of the challenges of birthing two newborns at once; of not being the best mother they can be to all of their children, including those already born; of being spread too thin. And so they abort one of the twins.
The story begins:
As Jenny lay on the obstetrician's examination table, she was grateful that the ultrasound tech had turned off the overhead screen. She didn't want to see the two shadows floating inside her. Since making her decision, she had tried hard not to think about them, though she could often think of little else. She was 45 and pregnant after six years of fertility bills, ovulation injections, donor eggs and disappointment — and yet here she was, 14 weeks into her pregnancy, choosing to extinguish one of two healthy fetuses, almost as if having half an abortion. As the doctor inserted the needle into Jenny's abdomen, aiming at one of the fetuses, Jenny tried not to flinch, caught between intense relief and intense guilt.
The women's honesty allows no confusion about what's making their decision for them: fear.
It's scary to be carrying twins; scarier to think about the labor that will bring these twins into the world; scarier still to contemplate "Now what?" Without these Orwellian choices open to mothers of this generation, we answered the question "Now what?" one sleepless night at a time.
So when I brought my twin girls home back in 1980, I took it one day at a time. Scratch that, I took it one action at a time. I made that nightly pilgrimage to the nursery with tired eyes and tired feet. Constant feedings and changings, yes, but accompanied all the while by the twins' mutual gazes, touches, and gurgling "twin talk." Exhausting days and nights, but ones that I would never trade away. I still look with personal pride on the technique I developed to feed the twins with two pillows — my home-grown version of Boppies. There were fun trips to the Mall to share my joys and accomplishments with the countless strangers who would smile and approach the twins and their beaming older sister. There were joyful milestones of birthday parties, school events, sports, and dancing lessons. My burdens grew easier with time, too, as the twins grew up entertaining and supporting each other, sharing experiences that only twins can share. And I got some unique life training that I could later bring to my career life: No one learns how to multitask with efficiency like a parent of twins.
Maybe our lives would have been easier had I "reduced" my pregnancy, but we would have missed the crazy magic of those early years.
I can't put myself in the shoes of a woman who decided for a selective reduction, but I can imagine that her decision stays with her always, perhaps evoking one emotion one day, another the next. Decisions made out of personal powerlessness and lack of support are the decisions that no one wants to make. And they're the decisions that refuse to let you rest, the puzzles that you try to solve and resolve for the rest of your life.
These decisions born of fear and powerlessness will probably always exist in one form or another, but does that mean we should all simply raise the white flag on this issue? That physicians should abandon their vow "to do no harm" because twins cost more money to raise?
I propose that all of us - the medical profession as well as society at large - make a collective decision to fight the fear. Let's not abandon these women in the cynical belief that there's not enough support for all of them.
Janet Morana is the executive director of Priests for Life, co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, and co-host of The Catholic View for Women on EWTN.


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ecoSPIRITS Launches First Circular Wine Technology
Sydney, Australia, March 23, 2022 / TRAVELINDEX / ecoSPIRITS announced today a significant expansion of its technology portfolio, taking on the substantial waste and carbon emissions footprint of the estimated 30 billion single use glass wine bottles that are produced each year. The extension of ecoSPIRITS' patent-pending closed loop packaging technology to premium wines marks the launch of the world's first globally-scalable circular glass packaging solution for the category. Developed to meet the standards of leading organic and bio-dynamic wine certifications, the new ecoSPIRITS circular wine technology will be deployed first in Australia in partnership with leading global wine producer Accolade Wines. Closed loop wine service will then be made available in a number of other ecoSPIRITS markets worldwide over the second half of 2022.
Designed with premium and certified winemakers in mind, the new circular wine solution offers full lifecycle wine preservation from winery to point of service. Upgraded versions of ecoSPIRITS' ecoPLANT™, ecoTOTE™ and SmartPour™ technologies deliver high standards of hygiene, oxidation, temperature and ultraviolet light protection for wines distributed in the closed loop system. Amongst other innovations, ecoSPIRITS' new circular wine technology will preserve the bottle presentation and consumer brand experience in hospitality venues, a distinct difference from existing keg and tapped wine solutions. The new wine technology will leverage ecoSPIRITS' global closed loop network, and offer the same dramatic cost and carbon footprint reduction as premium spirits.
The world's first glass-based, globally-scalable circular solution for wine
Among other technology upgrades, ecoSPIRITS has released a new version of its successful ecoPLANT technology that is tailored to process both premium wines and spirits. The new ecoPLANT 2.0W is a semi-automated, containerised wine and spirits processing facility that generates high purity nitrogen gas for ecoTOTE filling and wine blanketing, complies with leading European Union and Australia-New Zealand standards for food grade processing, and delivers gold standard wine hygiene and preservation.
ecoSPIRITS' award-winning ecoTOTE portfolio will now be expanded to include a wine variation, the ecoTOTE 3.0W. This newest ecoTOTE is designed specifically for premium wines, marked by a striking grey enclosure and with a stainless steel cap liner to comply with organic wine contact material standards and a tinted internal glass vessel to ensure ultraviolet protection for wines during transport and storage. The ecoTOTE 3.0W includes all of the features of the popular ecoTOTE 3.0S, including global cloud-based tracking, shock- and tamper-resistant features, and a 4.5L volume for efficient handling and transportation.
Headquartered in Australia, Accolade draws on a proud heritage dating back to 1836 and has become a world-leading provider of luxury, premium, mainstream, and commercial wines. With three of the top 10 wine brands in the United Kingdom and two of the top 10 brands in Australia, Accolade's rich and diverse portfolio is made up of distinguished wine brands including Hardys, St Hallett, Petaluma, House of Arras and Banrock Station. Accolade is a fully integrated business, managing the entire supply chain from grape to glass. With more than 1,400 employees in over 40 countries around the world, Accolade delivers approximately 276 million litres of wine to 130 countries every year.
Recognised as a leader in sustainability initiatives in the wine industry, Accolade is a signatory to the Australian Packaging Covenant, a sustainable packaging initiative which aims to change the culture of business by designing more sustainable packaging, increasing recycling rates and reducing packaging litter. Collaborating with ecoSPIRITS to pioneer waste and carbon emissions reduction in premium wines is a natural extension of Accolade's broad commitment to environmental responsibility.
For its first collaboration with ecoSPIRITS, Accolade has selected its leading eco–wine brand, Banrock Station. Banrock Station produces premium South Australian wines with a passion for quality and holds a longstanding commitment to protecting the local environment. The Banrock Station vineyards and protected wetlands sit side-by-side along the meandering Murray River and South Australia's Riverland. The winery's environmental commitment is broad and sustained, having supported more than 130 conservation projects in 13 countries over the last 20 years. Banrock Station's wines are sustainably produced, vegan friendly and already use lightweight bottles and recycled materials.
Banrock Station wines are made with the land and the environment in mind, having supported over 130 conservation projects
Initially, Banrock Station's Pinot Grigio, Rosé and Pinot Noir wines will be offered in ecoTOTE 3.0W format to on-premise customers in Sydney, Australia. As part of the partnership, ecoSPIRITS and Accolade will collaborate on a study of the lifecycle reduction in single waste and carbon footprint associated with closed loop distribution of the Banrock Station wines. The partnership with ecoSPIRITS is one element of Accolade's global sustainability strategy 'Making Every Drop Count', detailing a long-term action plan to create real change across the business, industry and planet.
About Accolade Wines
Headquartered in Australia, Accolade Wines draws on a proud heritage, with Houghton established in 1836 and the first grapes crushed at Hardys winery in 1857, to become a world-leading provider of luxury, premium, mainstream, and commercial wines. With three of the top 10 wine brands in the UK and two of the top 10 in Australia, Accolade's rich and diverse portfolio is made up of distinguished wine brands including Hardys, St Hallett, Petaluma, Houghton, Grant Burge and Banrock Station and modern wine brands such as House of Arras, Echo Falls, Madam Sass and Jam Shed shaking up the global landscape.
Accolade is a fully integrated business, managing the entire supply chain from grape to glass. With more than 1400 employees in over 40 countries around the world, Accolade delivers approximately 276 million litres of wine to 130 countries every year. Accolade is committed to the sustainable growth of our business and the industry. Through our relentless innovation, global sustainability strategy, and the partners we engage with, we endeavour to have a positive impact on the industry and communities in which we operate.


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VMware Workstation 3.2 Review
OK. I have been a VMware Workstation user for quite a while now. As always each new VMware Workstation release offers new features and fixes bugs that plagued its predecessor. I use the hell out of this software and it has rarely let me down. Whether you use it for network administration, help desk, development, or just for fun you will definitely get your moneys worth!
System Requirements
These requirements are the basic ones when using the compressed archive version of the software (IE you need to install using their Perl install script). Please check their website for your specific distribution.
- Standard PC with a minimum 400Mhz processor. If you want to run a Windows 2000/XP guest I would recommend at least a 800Mhz Processor.
- You need enough memory to run both the host and guest OS. 128MB RAM is the minimum and 256MB is recommended. 512MB is you want to run Windows 2000/XP guests.
- A minimum 256 color display. - Disk space. 20MB for the software. You need enough disk space to run each guest operating system. - NIC for networking.
New Stuff
I won't go into too much detail on this version of the software. Just read any of the previous articles concerning the 3.X versions. They are basically all the same except with some enhancements. These are the common enhancements:
Windows certification....blah blah. Forget this if you run a Linux Host. It is for the Windows version only. The same goes for the administrative lockout feature. We run Linux!
OK they claim better Pentium 4 performance. I have noticed a few things. My system used to crash every once in a while on my laptop and it never crashed on my AMD system at home. I have also noticed that my guest Windows XP OS doesn't claim to have a 6Ghz processor any more. Oh I wish I had one of those! Other than that I have not seen much more performance. Maybe the Windows version runs better?
There is support for the RedHat Kernel update too. VMware now installs those Kernel modules after you use up2date to upgrade to a new RedHat "canned" kernel. I wouldn't know because I download the kernel source and compile my own.
Support for Windows 2000 SP3 is a nice touch. So that's why it kept on crashing after installing that version of the Windows service pack. I kind of figured that was the culprit. Be sure to read the workaround.
For those of you who test NetWare 6, good news, there are now VMware tools for that NOS. VMware is getting better at supplying its Tools for various host operating systems. I would still like to see support for OpenBSD and the i386 version of Solaris, or better yet a SPARC emulator.
Be sure to read all of the release notes before you Install anything.
My Perspective
Installation was pretty straight forward. Just read the release notes first. After the "upgrade" I was promptly informed that my VMware Tools were out of date and I upgraded them. I don't see too much of a performance boost. Every once in a while my system would crash on me and I have not had a repeat since I have upgraded.
If you have a really fast, recent system with tons of RAM then you shouldn't have too many performance issues. I recommend at least 512MB of RAM if you want to run anything that is resource intensive (IE Windows XP; 256MB for your host and 256MB for your guest). The rule is, have a fast system.
If you are looking to run Windows games, especially 3D games then forget it. Joysticks are not supported and neither is 3D video support. Use Wine or Transgaming's WineX. It would be nice to have but doesn't look like it is on VMware's agenda.
Final Remarks
This product is a great buy if you already have not done so. The 3.2 upgrade is free if you have already purchased a 3.X version. This product is indispensable if you run a Linux desktop but need to manage a Windows-based network, write Windows based programs, test products, etc. A bit pricey but worth it.
The Good - Pros- A few new features and bug fixes over the last version
The Bad - Cons
- Although some major bugs were fixed I would like to see more "official" support for non RPM based distributions. I'm not sure about Turbo Linux. A lot of people used Debian based systems. Lets see some good support for them
- Rather costly for home use
The Ugly - Issues
The Verdict - Opinion
Definitely a great product for for software testing.


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This product includes Hammerting PC. This Early Access game is not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should wait to see if the game progresses further in development
The top 3 reasons to play Hammerting PC
- Manage a clan of colourful Dwarves, establish an epic mining operation, craft legendary swords and delve deep for greater glory, riches… and danger.
- Each Dwarf is richly and uniquely defined through its stats, Dwarven ancestry, traits, abilities, equipment, move set and more as they are shaped by events in their lives.
- As your Dwarves increase in skill and your base expands, build conveyor belts and elevators to free them of manual labour.
About Hammerting PC
- With a war raging on the surface, the Dwarves pledge to delve deep and as master craftspeople, will produce and supply what is needed to aid their allies. From humble beginnings, you start with a handful of Dwarves who need to set up operations quickly. However, as you progress, your small clan will expand and become known throughout the Upper Realms for their skill and premium craftsmanship.
- Allies on the surface will have all manner of requests. Dwarves may find themselves asked to craft a plethora of silver swords against an oncoming vampire army. For an elf princess's coronation, they'll wish for nothing less than a Legendary Diamond-Encrusted Gold Crown of Divine Ruling +3. With the Overworld in need, every successful delivery takes you one step closer to triumphing against evil. As your Dwarves increase in skill and your base expands, build conveyor belts and elevators to free them of manual labour.
- Does Åglöf's fancy ancestry clash with Vargskreva's humble upbringing? Is your explorer afraid of the dark? Has your master crafter reached their Ballmer Peak? Exploit the strengths of your Dwarves, as well as their weaknesses, in order to succeed. Each Dwarf is richly and uniquely defined through its stats, Dwarven ancestry, traits, abilities, equipment, move set and more as they are shaped by events in their lives.
- Anyone can craft an Iron Sword, but only Dwarves can haggle a Crystal Cave Dragon to sell her fiery Plasma Breath, pump it up to an Andthril Forge of Doom and use it to craft an… Iron Sword +2.
With every strike of the hammer on an anvil, a skilled Dwarf has a better chance of achieving a critical result, giving you better gear. - Dwarves are big on elevators, but not so much on free falling. As such, they have their own takes on Hellevators. For example, members of Clan Steelbrow prefer a traditional shaft dug straight down, straddled by a crane with a 300-meter rope, and nothing but a barrel to stand in. The barrel's built-in bar is, of course, stocked with ale.
- Only in the deepest depths will you find the most powerful materials, the warmest magma, the rarest treasures, and the most dangerous conditions. Figuring out the fastest and safest route down – and up again – is a chief concern, but you'll have plenty of unique Dwarven mechanisms to help you do so. Hammerting will feature liquid and physics mechanics for pumping lava to your hearths, brewing beer, tossing torches down shafts to light up the unknown and more.
- Want to bring your own spin to Hammerting? No worries, you can mod to your heart's content! You can use the bundled SDK to create pre-packaged mods and add or replace any of the game's assets. This is not just limited to "data" assets such as textures, you can also script and write new full-blown systems in native C++
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What are the system requirements?
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel core i5-2300 | AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB | AMD Radeon R7 360, 2 GB
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-6600 | AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 780, 3 GB | AMD Radeon R9 290, 4 GB
- Storage: 4 GB available space
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17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!— 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil. 28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. 29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
How do we live the new life in Christ according to the rest of this passage?
What is one area of your life that you need to focus on to live the new life in Christ instead of your old life before Christ?


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Proverbs 13
New Living Translation
13 A wise child accepts a parent's discipline;[a]
a mocker refuses to listen to correction.
2 Wise words will win you a good meal,
but treacherous people have an appetite for violence.
3 Those who control their tongue will have a long life;
opening your mouth can ruin everything.
4 Lazy people want much but get little,
but those who work hard will prosper.
5 The godly hate lies;
the wicked cause shame and disgrace.
6 Godliness guards the path of the blameless,
but the evil are misled by sin.
7 Some who are poor pretend to be rich;
others who are rich pretend to be poor.
8 The rich can pay a ransom for their lives,
but the poor won't even get threatened.
9 The life of the godly is full of light and joy,
but the light of the wicked will be snuffed out.
10 Pride leads to conflict;
those who take advice are wise.
11 Wealth from get-rich-quick schemes quickly disappears;
wealth from hard work grows over time.
12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life.
13 People who despise advice are asking for trouble;
those who respect a command will succeed.
14 The instruction of the wise is like a life-giving fountain;
those who accept it avoid the snares of death.
15 A person with good sense is respected;
a treacherous person is headed for destruction.[b]
16 Wise people think before they act;
fools don't—and even brag about their foolishness.
17 An unreliable messenger stumbles into trouble,
but a reliable messenger brings healing.
18 If you ignore criticism, you will end in poverty and disgrace;
if you accept correction, you will be honored.
19 It is pleasant to see dreams come true,
but fools refuse to turn from evil to attain them.
20 Walk with the wise and become wise;
associate with fools and get in trouble.
21 Trouble chases sinners,
while blessings reward the righteous.
22 Good people leave an inheritance to their grandchildren,
but the sinner's wealth passes to the godly.
23 A poor person's farm may produce much food,
but injustice sweeps it all away.
24 Those who spare the rod of discipline hate their children.
Those who love their children care enough to discipline them.
25 The godly eat to their hearts' content,
but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.


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TORONTO – Rob Ford, the pugnacious, populist former mayor of Toronto whose career crashed in a drug-driven, obscenity-laced debacle, died Tuesday after fighting cancer, his family says. He was 46.
Ford rode into office on a backlash against urban elites. He cast an image sharply at odds with Canada's reputation for sedate, unpretentious politics.
But his tenure as mayor of the country's largest city was marred by revelations about his drinking problems and illegal drug use. He was repeatedly videotaped and photographed while intoxicated in public.
His statements and actions became nightly fodder for TV comedians and an embarrassment to many of the suburbanites he championed.
Nevertheless, he was later elected by a landslide to a city council seat.


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