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Claire Danes Wins Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series at the 2013 Emmy Awards
Claire Danes took home the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series at the 2013 Emmys this Sunday. Danes won the same honor during last year's Emmys, as well.
Prior to this announcement, 'Homeland' had already taken home the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, going to Henry Bromell, to whom Danes paid tribute during her acceptance speech. Bromwell, 65, tragically died of a heart attack in March of this year.
Competing against Danes were Vera Farmiga for 'Bates Motel,' MIchelle Dockery for 'Downton Abbey,' Robin Wright for 'House of Cards,' Elizabeth Moss for 'Mad Men,' Connie Britton for 'Nashville,' and Kerry Washington for 'Scandal.'
What'd you think? Was Danes your choice for the winner of Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series? Sound off in the comments.


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This one is worth screaming from the rooftops. YOU CAN MAKE ICE CREAM CONES WITH YOUR PANINI MAKER! Easily! With no special ingredients! And they're good!
Get ready for your inner child to leap with joy once that familiar sweet, cookie smell you love from the ice cream parlor wafts about your kitchen. If you've ever watched the ice cream folks make cones, all they do is place some batter on a shallow waffle iron, press out the batter and shape the cone. It finally occurred to me…couldn't we do the same thing on a panini press? The answer is: absolutely.
For the cone batter, I looked to this super-helpful post on the Cupcake Project blog. Stef offered tips for pressing and rolling ice cream cones on a traditional waffle cone maker as well as a link to pastry chef Gale Gand's cone batter recipe on the Food Network website. You probably already have most of the ingredients on hand: heavy cream, vanilla, powdered sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and cornstarch. That's it.
I made up a batch of the cone batter, applied a dollop to the panini grill (a heaping tablespoonful seemed about right), closed the lid, and waited anxiously for a little over a minute.
This amoeba-with-ridges may not resemble the perfectly round discs that a regular waffle cone maker produces, but keep the faith…it'll be worth it.
It was easy enough to make my own cone mold. All I did was draw a big circle on the back of an old file folder (in truth, I traced the outside of a roll of blue painter's tape), cut it out and taped it into a cone shape. For those of you without a roll of blue painter's tape, I've made a little template for you.
At this point, the cone is very hot off the press. Be tough! You've got to work quickly to shape your cone before it cools (like less than 10 seconds). Position your mold in the center of the cone, leaving a little space at the edge…
…to allow the cone to fold over on itself at the bottom without leaving a hole. You know that ugh feeling when the drip-drops of ice cream on your sneakers let you know there's a hole in your cone.
The cone miraculously sticks itself together and, after about 10 seconds or so, holds itself in place for good.
Hooray – ice cream cones!
By the way, they are actually really good ice cream cones. You get big vanilla flavor along with hints of spice from the cinnamon and nutmeg. They're crisp just like they should be. It turns out that the amoeba shape that the panini grill produces, once rolled, actually makes a more even-edged ice cream cone than the traditional waffle cone maker. Ha! So maybe this way is even better. 🙂
I hope you'll all be grilling off tons of ice cream cones this weekend – and while you're at it, go ahead and fill them with some incredible Homemade Strawberry Ice Cream!
Make Your Own Ice Cream Cones on a Panini Press
Adapted from Gale Gand's Waffle Cone recipe on the Food Network website
Prep time: 40 min (including rest time) | Cook time: 30 min | Total time: 1 hr 10 min
Yield: 14 ice cream cones
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Pinch ground nutmeg
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- In a medium bowl with a whisk or electric mixer, whip the cream and vanilla together until it is mousse-like. Sift the remaining dry ingredients together in another bowl. Add the dry ingredients to the cream and stir to make a batter. Let the batter sit for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the panini grill to medium high heat (about 375°F).
For each ice cream cone:
- Place a heaping tablespoonful of batter onto the grill and close the lid, completely pressing the batter. Grill for about 90 seconds or until the pressed cone is browned but still malleable; it will be an oblong shape. Carefully transfer the pressed cone to a cutting board or piece of waxed paper.
- Position your cone mold (download a template and instructions for making a mold here) in the center of the pressed cone, leaving about 1/2″ of space between the long edge of the pressed cone and the pointed end of the cone mold.
- Working quickly and carefully (the cone will be very hot!), roll the pressed cone around the cone mold to shape it.
- Leave the cone on the mold for about 10 seconds to set the shape.
NOTE: After some testing on different grills, it seems that this recipe works a little better on grills like the Breville Panini Press where the grates close a bit more tightly together. The Cuisinart Griddler doesn't close quite as tightly, so it gives somewhat thicker cones.

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Fetal heart monitoring measures the heart rate and rhythm of your baby (fetus). This lets your healthcare provider see how your baby is doing.
Your provider may do fetal heart monitoring during late pregnancy and labor. The average fetal heart rate is between 110 and 160 beats per minute. It can vary by 5 to 25 beats per minute. The fetal heart rate may change as your baby responds to conditions in your uterus. An abnormal fetal heart rate may mean that your baby isn't getting enough oxygen or that there are other problems.
There are two ways to do fetal heart monitoring, external and internal.
This method uses a device to listen to and record your baby's heartbeat through your belly (abdomen). One type of monitor is a Doppler ultrasound device. It's often used during prenatal visits to count the baby's heart rate. It may also be used to check the fetal heart rate during labor. The healthcare provider may also check your baby's heart rate continuously during labor and birth. To do this, the ultrasound probe (transducer) is fastened to your belly. It sends the sounds of your baby's heart to a computer. The rate and pattern of your baby's heart rate are shown on a screen and may be printed on paper.
This method uses a thin wire (electrode) put on your baby's scalp. The wire runs from the baby through your cervix. It's connected to the monitor. This method gives better readings because things like movement don't affect it. But it can only be done if the fluid-filled sac that surrounds the baby during pregnancy (amniotic sac) has broken and the cervix is opened. Your provider may use internal monitoring when external monitoring isn't giving a good reading. Or your provider may use this method to watch your baby more closely during labor.
During labor, your provider will watch your uterine contractions and your baby's heart rate. Your provider will note how often you're having contractions and how long each lasts. Because the fetal heart rate and contractions are recorded at the same time, these results can be looked at together and compared.
Your provider may check the pressure inside your uterus while doing internal fetal heart monitoring. To do this, they will put a thin tube (catheter) through your cervix and into your uterus. The catheter will send uterine pressure readings to a monitor.
Fetal heart monitoring is especially helpful if you have a high-risk pregnancy. For example, your pregnancy is high risk if you have diabetes or high blood pressure. It's also high risk if your baby isn't developing or growing as it should.
Fetal heart monitoring may be used to check how preterm labor medicines are affecting your baby. These medicines are used to help keep labor from starting too early.
Fetal heart monitoring may be used in other tests, including:
Nonstress test. This measures the fetal heart rate as your baby moves.
Contraction stress test. This measures fetal heart rate along with uterine contractions. Contractions are started with medicine or other methods.
Biophysical profile . This test combines a nonstress test with ultrasound.
Things that may affect the fetal heart rate during labor:
Uterine contractions
Pain medicines or anesthesia given to you during labor
Tests done during labor
Pushing during the second stage of labor
Your healthcare provider may have other reasons to use fetal heart monitoring.
Radiation isn't used for this test. The transducer usually causes no discomfort.
You may find the elastic belts that hold the transducers in place slightly uncomfortable. These can be readjusted as needed.
You must lie still during some types of fetal heart rate monitoring. You may need to stay in bed during labor.
With internal monitoring, you may have some slight discomfort when the electrode is put in your uterus.
Risks of internal monitoring include infection and bruising of your baby's scalp or other body part.
Note: You should not have internal fetal heart rate monitoring if you're HIV positive. This is because you may pass the infection on to your baby.
You may have other risks depending on your specific health condition. Be sure to talk with your provider about any concerns you have before the procedure.
Certain things may make the results of fetal heart monitoring less accurate. These include:
Obesity of the mother
Position of the baby or mother
Too much amniotic fluid (polyhydramnios)
Cervix isn't dilated or the amniotic sac isn't broken. Both of these need to happen to do internal monitoring
Your healthcare provider will explain the procedure to you. Ask them any questions you have about the procedure.
You may be asked to sign a consent form that gives permission to do the procedure. Read the form carefully and ask questions if anything is not clear.
The consent form for fetal heart monitoring may be included as part of the general consent for labor and birth.
Tell your healthcare provider if you are sensitive to or are allergic to any medicines, latex, tape, or anesthesia.
If fetal heart rate monitoring is done along with another monitoring test, you may be asked to eat a meal before the test. This can help make your baby more active.
The amniotic sac must be broken and your cervix must be dilated several centimeters before the internal device can be put in place.
Follow any other instructions your healthcare provider gives you to get ready.
You may have fetal heart monitoring in your healthcare provider's office or as part of a hospital stay. The way the test is done may vary depending on your condition and your provider's practices.
Generally, fetal heart monitoring follows this process:
Depending on the type of procedure, you may be asked to undress from the waist down. Or you may need to remove all of your clothes and wear a hospital gown.
You'll lie on your back on an exam table.
The provider will put a clear gel on your abdomen.
The provider will press the transducer against your skin. The provider will move it around until they find the fetal heartbeat. You'll be able to hear the sound of the fetal heart rate with Doppler or an electronic monitor.
During labor, the provider may check the fetal heart rate at intervals or nonstop, based on your condition and the condition of your baby.
For continuous electronic monitoring, the provider will connect the transducer to the monitor with a cable. A wide elastic belt will be put around you to hold the transducer in place.
The provider will record the fetal heart rate. With continuous monitoring, the fetal heart pattern will be displayed on a computer screen and can be printed on paper.
You may not be able to get out of bed with nonstop external fetal heart rate monitoring.
Once the procedure is done, the provider will wipe off the gel.
You'll be asked to remove your clothes and put on a hospital gown.
You'll lie on a labor bed. Your feet and legs will be supported as for a pelvic exam.
Your healthcare provider will do a vaginal exam with a gloved hand to see how far you're dilated. This may be slightly uncomfortable.
If the amniotic sac is still intact, your provider may break open the membranes with a tool. You will feel warm fluid coming out of your vagina.
Your provider will feel the part of the baby at the cervical opening with gloved fingers. This is usually the baby's head.
The provider will put a thin tube (catheter) into your vagina. They will put a small wire at the end of the catheter on the baby's scalp. The provider will gently turn it on the baby's skin.
The provider will remove the catheter and leave the wire in place on the baby's scalp.
The provider will connect the wire to a monitor cable. They will keep it in place with a band around your thigh.
You may not be able to get out of bed with nonstop internal fetal heart rate monitoring.
Once the baby is born, the provider will remove the wire.
You don't need any special care after external fetal heart monitoring. You may go back to your normal diet and activity unless your healthcare provider tells you otherwise.
After internal fetal heart monitoring, your provider will check your baby's scalp for infection, bruising, or a cut. The provider will clean the site with an antiseptic.
Your provider may give you other instructions, based on your situation.
Before you agree to the test or procedure make sure you know:
The name of the test or procedure
The reason you are having the test or procedure
What results to expect and what they mean
The risks and benefits of the test or procedure
What the possible side effects or complications are
When and where you are to have the test or procedure
Who will do the test or procedure and what that person's qualifications are
What would happen if you did not have the test or procedure
Any alternative tests or procedures to think about
When and how you will get the results
Who to call after the test or procedure if you have questions or problems
How much you will have to pay for the test or procedure
Reviewed Date: 08-01-2023
This content was reviewed by Mid-Atlantic Womens Care, PLC. Please visit their site to find an Mid-Atlantic Womens Care obstetrician.


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Welcome to the Wikiversity Department of Cell Biology.
The Department of Cell Biology is where Wikiversity participants can organize efforts that attempt to facilitate explorations of cells as fundamental components of organisms. The Department needs to develop more Cell Biology-related activities that Wikiversity participants can use as learning resources. These activities can include efforts that aim to improve Wikipedia articles and contribute to Wikibooks modules. Since Wikiversity allows and encourages scholarly research, Wikiversity can function in some ways like a university that helps find educational content and sources for sister projects like Wikipedia. Wikiversity itself can host types of content that are not allowed at Wikipedia and Wikibooks.
Wikiversity has adopted the "learning by doing" model for education. Lessons should center on learning activities for Wikiversity participants. Learning materials and learning projects can be used by multiple departments. Cooperate with other departments that use the same learning resource.
- Overview of Cell Biology
- Stem Cells - What are stem cells? Why is stem cell research regulated by some governments?
- Cell Biology - Exploring cell biology. Independent study with projects.
- Bacteria on your skin
- Molecular evolution/Intermediate filament proteins - exploring the origins of an important type of cytoskeletal protein
- Human skin pigmentation - explore melanin, melanosomes, melanocytes, MSH and the control of skin pigmentation.
Learning materials and learning projects are located in the main Wikiversity namespace. Simply make a link to the name of the lesson (lessons are independent pages in the main namespace) and start writing!
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Department news
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- 8 July 2014 - Melanocytes resource started!
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While the internet can be a place of entertainment, learning and fun for kids, it also has a dark side. So how do you make sure your kids stay safe online?
Cyber safety consultant Brett Lee has travelled to some of far north Queensland's most remote communities to teach parents and relatives how to make sure kids stay safe on the internet.
Mr Lee pulls no punches in his approach to internet safety and said adults who claim they know too little about computers to monitor their children's online habits are kidding themselves.
"When I talk to adults and carers, particularly grandparents, I encourage them to draw on the skills and the knowledge they already have," he said.
"We can make incredible inroads and reduce [online] risks to nearly zero just by employing a few strategies and mindsets that we already posses."
Five tips for online safety
- 1. Talk to children
Mr Lee said first and foremost parents, grandparents and carers need to keep the lines of communication open with the children in their care.
"Never underestimate the value of knowing how kids are going just by having a simple face-to-face conversation," he said.
"The internet can instil the belief that it is a private environment but we can change that by talking to our kids by talking to our kids about what's happening online."
- 2. Clear rules and boundaries
Although they may not like it, children need to be set clear rules and boundaries about what sites or programs they are allowed to access, when they are allowed online and who they can talk to.
"Kids are used to rules and boundaries because they have them in every other aspect of their life," Mr Lee said.
"Whether they feel it or not, it helps them. It helps take away the responsibility for them to have to have to make the decision on their own when it comes to technology.
"We shouldn't step back or feel guilty about putting [rules] in place when it comes to technology. Kids are ready for it; we just need to put it in place."
- 3. Stay up to date
Mr Lee admits staying up to date with applications and programs is not the most popular of tips with many adults, but it is not as difficult as some people make out.
"This is not about staying up to date with technology because we can't do that – some of us don't have an interest, a lot of us don't have time," he said.
"It's more about staying up to date with the technology that applies to our family.
"Staying up to date is about talking to the kids, talking to other adults and talking to the school because they know the trends with programs and can give us some advice."
- 4. Consider parental controls
By installing software, programs or applications on a device parents or guardians can monitor online activity, block access to certain sites, set time limits on the device's connection to the internet and be alerted to concerning usage or conversations happening on the device.
"This is great for young children," Mr Lee said.
"Some parents and grandparents say to me 'it's like I'm spying on my children, they're going to say I don't trust them' but this isn't about spying on our children. This is about being comfortable in ourselves knowing that everything is going okay.
"We're spying on other people and we're spying on activity that may come into our home through that device."
- 5. You make the final decision
No matter what level of computer literacy or technological understanding an adult has, it is up to an adult to have the final say about a child's access to the internet.
"It does not matter who owns the device and it does not matter who knows the most about technology," Mr Lee said.
"If we feel something needs to be put in place or said, we do it.
"We are the ones who make the final choice."


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It's neat to watch these lilies open and close during the time-lapse movie. But what makes it even better is to see the camera slowly move during the time-lapse event. It's thanks to a special dolly which the photographers built for this purpose.
The system is based on two curved and inclined pipes which make up the rails of the system. The dolly that rides along the rails has a geared motor on it which turns at 2 RPM. This is used as a winch, spooling a string that is tied to the high-end of the rail system. As the winch winds the string, the dolly slowly moves along the track.
To make this work over multiple days they covered all of the windows in foil and lighted the room with fluorescent fixtures. An intervalometer was used to trigger the camera every three minutes. An Arduino monitors the camera's shutter LED via a light dependent resistor. Sixty seconds after an image is take the Arduino will drive the dolly motor for a few seconds
The finished video, as well as a hardware show-and-tell, can be seen after the break.
Continue reading "Taking Moving Time-lapse Images Over Days At A Time"


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Use the box at the top to search the (860) White Pages for the owner of any phone #.
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Leading Remedial Massage In Coolum Beach
You've got a range of options when it comes to massage in Coolum Beach, but you won't find something quite like the amazing services here at Helan's Mobile Massage.
Everyone knows the benefits of massage, but not everyone has the time to head out and write off several hours to get one. We're pretty sure you could make the time if a qualified therapist would visit you, instead of finding yourself forced to negotiate traffic and parking.
We can travel to you in Coolum Beach. We'll head to your home or office, anywhere on the Sunshine Coast and the surrounding Hinterland. If you thought massage services were prohibitively expensive, you'll find our prices a pleasant surprise.
First thing's first—what type of massage are you looking for?
Do You Need a Remedial Massage or a Relaxation Massage?
At Helan's Mobile Massage, we specialise in both remedial massage, and relaxation massage, but what's the difference between them?
Remedial Massage
If you've suffered an injury, whether at work, on the road or playing sports, remedial massage can be an effective approach to recovery and rehabilitation.
A more active and energetic experience than a straight-up relaxation massage, we'll target specific areas of muscle tension to help soothe your body and relieve stress.
While highly effective against injury, a remedial massage can also be useful if you're looking to relax but prefer a more vigorous massage to achieve this. You'll also find balance and a general improvement in well-being with this form of massage.
Relaxation Massage
Our regular relaxation massage will make you forget all those worries and the stress that life brings, and you won't need to leave home to be soothed and calmed.
A smooth and flowing Swedish-style massage takes all your cares away, but what could make this even more decadent?
What To Do Next
Call or text us on 0419 823 983. Or you can drop us an email at firstname.lastname@example.com
Let us know where you're based and make an appointment to receive the best possible massage, without ever needing to set foot outdoors!
Proudly Serving Coolum Beach
Coolum Beach is a beachside town and suburb of the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It is a popular day trip and holiday destination with Mount Coolum dominating the landscape. Parks, a boardwalk, esplanade shops, and the surf lifesaver club surround the beach. Helan Mobile Massage has 20 years of experience.
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Why not treat yourself to an aromatherapy salt back glow treatment? You could also get us to add some magnesium oil for a touch of luxe. When you've finished, and you feel like you're walking on air, why not round out the experience with a facial? You know you're worth it.
Why Not Treat Yourself To a Romantic Couples Massage?
Everyone is so busy these days, it can be tough to find enough time to spend with your partner.
One great way to reconnect and rekindle the closeness in your relationship is to indulge in a couple's massage.
Choose a 60 or 90-minute session and opt for the same extras we outlined above, from salt and extra oil through to facials.
If you've never had a couple's massage before, you don't know what you're missing!
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VivaCity2020 Project
This website is a knowledge platform for the VivaCity2020 Project, providing tools and resources for urban design practitioners to assist them with making more sustainable decisions.
VivaCity2020 is a university-led research consortium, comprised of Lancaster University, the University of Salford, University College London, London Metropolitan University, and the University of Sheffield, along with over 100 partner organisations.
In 2003, VivaCity2020 received £2.75M from the EPSRC (the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) to undertake a five-year programme of research into the design and delivery of sustainable urban environments (SUE). The aim was to develop an in-depth understanding of human behaviour in urban environments and to create new practical resources to support urban design professionals with sustainable decision-making.
The tools and resources developed address issues of crime, economic vitality, social exclusion, the environment and the quality of urban life. The project has produced numerous publications, including the VivaCity2020 book and a Toolkit of Sustainability Resources to support those involved in the design, production and management of the urban environment.


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Your weekly trip down junk food lane with San Francisco radio personality Cammy Blackstone and geek foodie Leo Laporte. From hot dogs on a stick to pizza in a cup, Munchcast covers geek food in all its guises. You can take your gourmet, just give us the midway. Although the show is no longer in production, you can enjoy episodes from the TWiT Archives.
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Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: Redefining Treatment Standards for the Multidisciplinary Healthcare Team
In this series of live, 1-hour CME/CE-certified meetings, expert faculty members will present an overview of CRPC and the current treatment landscape with an emphasis on interactive, case vignettes to highlight choice of therapy, toxicity management, and key issues in the multidisciplinary management of different clinical presentations of patients with CRPC in the VHA system.
The goal of this activity is to improve the multidisciplinary care of and education to veterans with CRPC regarding effective treatment options, including newer oral therapies in order to improve clinical outcomes.
Target Audience
This program is intended for urologists, oncologists, registered nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals who provide care for veterans with advanced CRPC.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Incorporate novel therapies into the clinical management of veterans with advanced CRPC
- Describe the role of the healthcare team members in providing multidisciplinary care to veterans with advanced CRPC
- Provide appropriate education to veterans with advanced CRPC regarding prognosis, treatment options, potential adverse events, and quality-of-life considerations
Available Credit
- 1.00 Participation
- 1.00 Nurse
- 1.00 Pharmacist
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Retired General and now-former CIA Director David Petraeus was originally scheduled to testify today before Congress to answer questions about the deadly terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Instead, the man some believed a likely candidate for President, is reeling from his admission of an extra-marital affair and subsequent resignation from the Central Intelligence Agency. The scandal is continuing to unfold and expand, almost hour by hour.
Even with so many details still unanswered, it's a sad and sordid story, an example of how quickly a person's life and reputation can be marred by moral indiscretion.
"He deeply hurt the family," a confidant told the New York Post.
What's often missing in the telling of extramarital affairs are the broken hearts of the many innocent individuals attached to both sides of the sin.
Scandals of this magnitude are like raging rivers with many tributaries. The implications will be far reaching, especially given political realities of the day. Analysts and pundits are already speculating and drawing conclusions, but I will defer and simply speak to the sorrow surrounding some social commentary on the subject.
The noted presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin was a guest on this past Sunday's Meet the Press. Unfortunately, I suspect her comments will resonate with a good many people:
I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities. What would we have done if FDR had not been our leader because he had an affair with Lucy Mercer? Think of the productive years that Clinton could have had if Monica Lewinsky hadn't derailed him. We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not going to get the best people in public life if we don't do that. This thing is really sad. This man was a great general, a great leader, and for his career to come to an end because of a private matter that affects his family and him and evidently doesn't have national security concerns. I don't know how you unravel it, but I wish we could.
We all wish the affair could be unraveled, but I strongly disagree with Ms. Goodwin's main premise that private lives are more or less inconsequential to public service, specifically among leaders.
For the sake of the argument, let's set aside momentarily the religious basis of a person's morality. Instead, let's consider simply the importance of truth and trust in a leader's life, especially someone responsible for the safety and security of others.
Let me ask you:
It would seem that Ms. Goodwin is suggesting the former, that the importance of trustworthiness and truthfulness are contingent upon one's affinity for the person or party rather than bedrock principles on which to build strong leadership.
The idea that high standards somehow discourages the "best" to apply is also curious to me. From my seat, the establishment of high standards doesn't discourage. Instead, it encourages young people to aspire to greatness and meet those high standards with excellence.
Modern critics have grown weary of the conservative argument that a person who cannot be trusted in private can't be trusted in public either. But fatigue of the facts doesn't negate the authenticity or veracity of the principle.
Scandal of this nature highlights the brokenness of humanity and the reminder that we're all just one step from making a bad decision with dire consequences. It is the wise person who acknowledges his or her own frailty and humbly steps forward with the attitude, "There but for the grace of God go I."
In the aftermath of a contentious election and now a scandal that leaves many heartbroken, let's commit to praying for this nation as well as those individuals directly and personally hurting over this story.


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Bob Compton Launches `Children4Change` Site to Help Americans Support Positive Education Reform
Online, Grassroots Organization Will Give Parents and Other Interested Parties Both Knowledge and a Voice to Advocate for Improvement in Their Children`s Education
INDIANAPOLIS--(Business Wire)--
Global entrepreneur, investor and education expert Bob Compton announces today the release of a new, online, grassroots organization called Children4Change.org. This organization is designed to inform and mobilize American parents and other concerned citizens in support of President Obama`s education agenda.
Am I the only one that thinks it is a little creepy that they linked parental involvement in education with support of President Obama's education agenda? First of all, I sincerely doubt that most parents have the slightest idea what President Obama's agenda is past a campaign slogan. When a parent gets involved with education, they are doing it to support their children, not a politician or a "agenda."
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The creator of several documentary films on education, including the widely-viewed Two Million Minutes, Compton has observed that parents and others in favor of education improvement want to know how they, personally, can advocate for change. Compton sought a way to organize American parents as a force to support their children, as students, and decided to utilize 21st-century communication tactics to give these parents a voice.
Children4Change.org allows parents and other interested parties to opt-in for notifications - via email, phone or both - regarding education reform events, legislative actions and opportunities to communicate with government leaders regarding education decisions - all tailored to their geographic location. For instance, if the state legislature in Indiana is voting on an education-related bill next week, Children4Change.org will alert all members located in Indiana of the opportunity to contact their government leaders regarding the vote. The organization also allows members to sign petitions which are sent directly and immediately to these political leaders, effectively simplifying this process for concerned parents who might not otherwise have the time or resources to provide this type of feedback.
"I wanted a means to assist concerned American citizens in supporting education reform to benefit today`s students," said Compton. "Children4Change.org provides the necessary tools to give people a voice to speak on behalf of positive changes in education for their children."
Children4Change.org will be debut in Indianapolis, Ind. with the ultimate goal of expanding it across the nation. The site already features an open letter to President Obama, voicing support for his education agenda. Interested parties can sign the letter, which will be then sent to the President. For more information on the organization please visit http://www.2mminutes.com/petition/.
So, what's with this "we are getting involved to support Obama" theme?
After some more reading, I realized why the Children for Change website begins with a letter to President Obama. Bob Compton must presuppose that the federal government has the responsibility for the education of children. Mobilizing parents to sign petitions and write government leaders also presupposes that the parents are not responsible for the education of their children, but that ultimately the government is the authority.
The more that the government legislatures educational policy, the less power parents will have on a local level to control the quality and type of education their children will receive. What a brilliant ruse. Con parents into thinking they are helping improve their children's education by signing a petition or sending a form letter to a politician.
Parents can feel good about doing nothing substantive about their children's education while politicians make all the decisions. This is the kind of policy that the anointed* love. (*The "anointed" is a term coined by Thomas Sowel in his book, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy.)
(I'm not saying that it is a bad idea to write your congressman, but that it will not bring result quickly enough to benefit your child in a poorly run school system. Your kid will be long gone before some government program will take effect.)
While I'm not a fan of the American government schools, I am a fan of the American education system which gives me the freedom to homeschool my children. This freedom could too easily disappear if parents get on the "President Obama can fix education" bandwagon.
Putting an "education agenda" and any politician's name in the same sentence is not a good plan. An approach to education that relies heavily on the government is a disaster waiting to happen.
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"Homoamorous" is loving people of the same sex, it is a less sexualized version of homoerotic and can apply in a variety of situations.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
5 comments:
- SNT said...
so just where is gay hell did you find this one, or come up with.
- December 23, 2009 at 4:13 AM
- Holly said...
Wouldn't that be homoromantic?
Like, an asexual can be homoromantic, heteroromantic, biromantic or panromantic. - December 23, 2009 at 5:31 AM
- Unknown said...
You know... I think I like that term. :) I love your words of the day friend!
all u need is love - December 23, 2009 at 11:41 AM
- planet trans said...
The truest love starts with the heart XOXOXO!
- December 23, 2009 at 10:27 PM
- Queers United said...
sick i read MANY sources and also check out some sexuality lingo sites.
holly it is very similar to the term homoromantic and certainly homoamorous can be embraced by asexuals.
bridge and kelli hugs and glad you like word of the gay. - December 24, 2009 at 10:03 AM
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Life And Times During The Great Depression by Jeff Desjardins, Visual Capitalist
The Money Project is an ongoing collaboration between Visual Capitalist and Texas Precious Metals that seeks to use intuitive visualizations to explore the origins, nature, and use of money.
The economy of the United States was destroyed almost overnight.
More than 5,000 banks collapsed, and there were 12 million people out of work in America as factories, banks, and other shops closed.
Many reasons have been supplied by the different economic camps for the cause of the Great Depression, which we reviewed in the first part of this series.
Regardless of the causes, the combination of deflationary pressures and a collapsing economy created one of the most desperate and miserable eras of American history. The resulting aftermath was so bad, that almost every future Central Bank policy would be designed primarily to combat such deflation.
The Deflationary Spiral
After the stock crash, money and consumer confidence was hard to find. Instead of spending money on new things, people hoarded their cash.
Fewer dollars spent meant more drops in demand and prices, which led to defaults, bankruptcies, and layoffs.
As a result of this spiral, the prices for many food items in the U.S. fell by nearly 50% from their pre-WW1 levels.
The price of butter went from pre-crisis levels of $0.21 to $0.13 per pound in 1932. Wool had a drop from $0.24 to $0.10 per pound, and most other goods followed the same price trajectory.
The Effects
Here's how "real value" is affected in a deflationary environment:
Real value increases: cash is king and gains in real value.
Assets (stocks, real estate)
Real value decreases as prices fall.
Debtors owe more in real terms
Interest Rates
Real interest rates (nominal rates minus inflation) can rise as inflation is negative, causing unwanted tightening.
From Bad to Worse
The Great Depression lasted from 1929 to 1939, which was unprecedented in length for modern history.
To this day, economists disagree on why the Depression lasted so long. Here's some of their explanations:
The New Deal was not enough
Looking back on The Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes believed that monetary policy could only go so far.
The Central Bank could not ultimately push banks to lend, and therefore demand had to be created through fiscal policy. Keynes advocated massive deficit spending to offset markets' failure to recover.
Keynesians such as Paul Krugman believe that Franklin D. Roosevelt's economic policies through The New Deal were too cautious.
"You can't push on a string." – Keynes
The New Deal made things worse
Some economists believe the New Deal had a negative net effect on the recovery.
The National Recovery Administration (NRA) is a primary subject of this criticism. Established in 1933, the goal of the NRA was to lift wages. To do this, it got industry leaders to meet and establish minimum prices and wages for workers.
Cole and Ohanian claim that this essentially created cartels that destroyed economic competition. They calculate that this, along with the aftermath of these policies, accounted for 60% of the weak recovery.
Lastly, one other charge leveled at Roosevelt by his critics is that the sprawling policies from the New Deal ultimately created uncertainty for business leaders, leading to less investment. This lengthened the recovery.
"[The] abandonment of [Roosevelt's] policies coincided with the strong economic recovery of the 1940s." – Cole and Ohanian
The Federal Reserve didn't do enough
Milton Friedman claimed that the Federal Reserve made the wrong policy decision, which extended the length of the Depression.
Between 1929 and 1933, the monetary supply dipped 27%, which decreased aggregate demand and then prices. The Fed's failure was in not realizing what was happening and not taking corrective action.
"The contraction is…a tragic testimonial to the importance of monetary forces…[D]ifferent and feasible actions by the monetary authorities could have prevented the decline in the stock of money… [This] would have reduced the contraction's severity and almost as certainly its duration." – Milton Friedman (and co-author Anna Schwartz)
The Federal Reserve shouldn't have done anything
Austrian economists believe that the Fed and government both made policy choices that slowed the recovery.
For starters, most agree with Friedman that the Fed's policy choices at the start of the Depression led to deflation.
They also point to the premature tightening that occurred in 1936 and 1937 as a policy failure. During those two years, the Fed not only hiked interest rates, but it also doubled bank-reserve requirements. These policies coincided with Roosevelt's tax hikes, and a recession occurred within the Depression from 1937 to 1938.
Critics of these policies say that this delayed the recovery by years.
"I agree with Milton Friedman that once the Crash had occurred, the Federal Reserve System pursued a silly deflationary policy. I am not only against inflation but I am also against deflation. So, once again, a badly programmed monetary policy prolonged the depression." – Friedrich Hayek
Personal Stories from The Great Depression
"One evening when we went down to check on the bank, there were hundreds of people out front yelling and crying and fighting and beating on the locked doors and windows. They had fires built in the street to keep warm and there were people milling around all over the downtown." – Vane Scott, Ohio
"A friend I worked with said in the Depression he rode the rails and stopped to eat vegetables out of a garden. The owner said he would shoot him if he didn't stop. My friend said 'go ahead,' as he was that hungry. " – James Randolph, Ohio
"When neighbors couldn't get a loan from the bank, they'd come to Dad. He sold farm machinery. He never put his money in a bank. He stored it in a strongbox in the fruit cellar, under the apples. He'd loan the neighbors what they needed and they paid him back when they could. If there was a month—especially the winter months—when they couldn't pay, they'd slaughter a cow or a pig and give him a portion. In the summer it was vegetables: corn, peas, whatever they had growing." – Gladys Hoffman, New York
"I thought the Depression was going to go on forever. For six or seven years, it didn't look as though things were getting better. The people in Washington DC said they were, but ask the man on the road? He was hungry and his clothes were ragged and he didn't have a job. He didn't think things were picking up." – Arvel "Sunshine" Pearson, Arkansas
After the 1937-38 Recession, the United States economy began to recover.
The focus of the American public would eventually shift away from the Great Depression, as events in Europe unfolded after Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939.
Life And Times During The Great Depression
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The Money Project aims to use intuitive visualizations to explore ideas around the very concept of money itself. Founded in 2015 by Visual Capitalist and Texas Precious Metals, the Money Project will look at the evolving nature of money, and will try to answer the difficult questions that prevent us from truly understanding the role that money plays in finance, investments, and accumulating wealth.


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She thought he was the love of her life, but Joy's world is broken when she discovers she has been betrayed not only by the man she loves, but her life-long friends as well. Taking the time to heal and mend her heart, with great effort, Joy slowly begins to forgive as well.
Unfortunately, the handsome doctor's wicked and devious ex-fiancé, Emma Ford, who was the catalyst of the destruction of Joy and Matthew's relationship, refuses to go away. What Emma doesn't know is that her scheming and conniving only solidifies the two lovers' bond.
Dr. Matthew Davis has the knowledge to make Joy Johnson see for the first time in fourteen years, but her refusal to go under the knife again prevents this from happening.
Will Joy allow her Doctor to perform this miracle, or will Emma get to her first?
The first time I walked into the café and saw her sitting there, she was reading in Braille. Her delicate fingers quickly skimmed over the pages; she's a fast reader. At times, she would come to a humorous part of the story and grin. Once, she laughed. It was a charming giggle and now having heard it, I want to hear it again.
So, what started out as a daily need for a double espresso macchiato was soon replaced by my desire to see her. Sitting across the room, pretending to read a newspaper, or file notes when I have them, I watch her. She recognizes her guide dog periodically, or stops to feel the rays of sun shining on her face that beam through the window. My favorite is when she listens in on someone's conversation.
What really surprised me was my reaction when a longhaired college student-type approached her one morning. Protectively, I tensed up, but her dog immediately became alert and growled at the intruder. It made me chuckle when it scared the guy so bad that he left in a hurry. I got a kick out of the smirk she had on her face as she rewarded her dog with some love.
Today, however, she's facing the window and looking up toward the sun, smiling. Running my hands through my hair, I force my eyes away from her.
Today's the day, I repeat to myself. Today I'm going to speak to her.
Opening the door, I glance over at her and her head slowly turns in my direction. She also takes a slow, deep inhaling breath.
"Hello, Dr. Davis, the usual?" Myra asks, causing me to jump at the sudden sound of her voice.
"Good morning, Myra. Yes, please, the usual," I reply looking behind me, afraid she'll leave before I get the nerve to say something to her.
This is it, Davis, time to man up.
A.P. Hallmark resides in Reno, Nevada, near her youngest daughter and four grandchildren. A paralegal in real life, she started her love of reading at the young age of fifteen, beginning with her first Harlequin Romance … and Fabio.
Her male characters are strong and possessive, her women are strong and feminine. With two powerful lead characters, her stories are filled with adventure, romance, and sometimes their will to be the last one standing gives her readers a fun ride.
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Is there a reason foodservice is still so heavily dominated by men?
I don't think there's a specific reason, compared to other industries, other than maybe awareness. The foodservice industry has been plagued by people not clearly understanding the benefits and opportunities available in the industry. Most people think about restaurant jobs as the person working the counter, not necessarily the person who can own the restaurant or brand.
There's not an educational track in our current system that highlights the benefits of working in the industry. I think that plays against us. And predominantly it's been a male-dominated industry, especially on the equipment side. But that's changing. If you look at manufacturers like Pepsi and Coke, you can tell it's changing, but it's going to take time.
Women recently became the majority in the American workforce. What can companies do to make themselves more attractive to professional women?
That's really what WFF is focused on. It's an organization whose mission is about leading the transformation for gender diverse leadership within the foodservice industry. We do that in a multiple of ways. We do that by focusing on the individual and preparing them with the leadership confidence needed to excel. Our focus is on directors, senior VPs, and C-suite and board members. WFF does that because the biggest leadership gap is in those positions.
In addition to that, we work with organizations to make sure they've created an environment where once these women are prepared, they're in an environment where employers know how to engage them and ensure that leaders understand the nuances that are required to elevate women. Part of that includes educating men about how women behave and the differences that may arise in working with them. Some men, quite frankly, have never had that experience. We tend to, as human beings, go with what we know and stay in our comfort zone. Part of what we do at WFF is create environments where people can build new, strategic networks that include men and women. That creates relationships and the opportunities to do business together—relationships that matter when a woman is being considered for elevation.
So men are welcome at WFF events as well?
Yes. Clearly we create an environment for women, but the whole issue of inclusion is based on creating new touch points and interactions for people. So the more you work together in these types of environments, the more you realize we're alike. Most importantly, it helps remove barriers so we can focus on driving results in our companies.
Is there resistance among men to that kind of strategy? I'm thinking of other industries that have come under fire recently for having "boys club" cultures.
There are segments in our industry where that is true, but here's the difference: People leading the companies in this industry share one big concern. We talk about sustainability, the economy, but at the end of the day we have to have the right people to drive our businesses. So it's more a question of: How do I recruit and retain the right talent?
Even though there have clearly been clubs in the past, there's an openness today that I've never experienced in my 30 years. People are saying, "We have to figure out how to get women in the pipeline, and we need to figure out how to get them engaged and motivated." That pipeline idea is important because when it comes to choosing the next generation of top leaders, they'll need to have had experience running a P&L, they'll need to have worked on marketing, they'll need to have worked globally, they'll need to understand how to build high-performing teams. Those types of things will prepare a woman to be a CEO.
Are women prepared to take on those types of roles? The excuse in the past has been a lack of education, but are there other draw backs for having women leaders?
Yes, they're prepared. If you look at just the changing demographics of the number of women who are in the work force today, the number of women who have taken on multiple assignments, the number of women who have, quite frankly, taken risks to gain those types of expertise, there are tons of women who are prepared.
Look around at the companies who have taken on this issue of diversity inclusion. When you have the commitment at the top of your organization, saying this is important for us and we're going to put our resources and compensation around it, all of a sudden you see women in those roles and they deliver.


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How Juliette "Daisy" Low, an unwanted child, a miserable wife, a lonely widow, finally found happiness as the founder of the Girl Scouts of America
June/july 1982
In 1911 Juliette "Daisy" Low taught her first seven female Girl Guides to raise chickens and to spin wool. Now their 2,500,000 descendants, called Scouts, can learn to change the washer on a faucet, rewire a lamp, style hair, take a photograph, clean and set the gap on a lawn-mower spark plug, or recaulk a window. They learn to "relate to others," participate in groups in a "personalized way," and "work through tensions." Gone is the loyal, honorable, obedient, thrifty, pure, courteous friend to all and to animals. She has been replaced by an honest, fair, helpful when needed, cheerful, friendly, considerate, wise user of resources, protector and improver of the world, and respecter of herself and others. Today she wears green polyester instead of blue cotton. But some things never change, and a Girl Scout is as prepared today as she was seventy years ago.
Daisy Low never felt prepared for anything—not for the elegant Savannah society into which she was born, not for the Civil War, which rocked her family, not for her disastrous marriage, and not for her volcanic mother, the stimulating, egocentric, and melodramatic Eleanor Kinzie Gordon.
Daisy, the second of her six children, was a disappointment on two counts: first that she was a girl and second that she was born at all. Eleanor hated being pregnant, hated children, and constantly announced her preference for her husband over her offspring. Apparently something of a child herself, she was impatient and competitive with her children and had little time for their complaints and problems. Daisy learned early to hide what troubled her; to manifest independence and maturity long before she felt them—indeed, in certain respects, she never felt either. Temperamentally Daisy was quite like her demanding mother. She never took no for an answer and had little patience with other peoples foibles but expected much tolerance for her own. And like her mother, her chief object of devotion was her father. William Washington Gordon was an honorable, loyal, dutiful man, a wealthy cotton broker who took public service seriously. He left his new bride in 1861 to fight for the Confederacy ("On his part, he didn't care a fig what I wanted," Eleanor wrote. "He took the usual 'Gordon' ground of duty"), served in the Georgia legislature after the war, and later acted as commissioner of Puerto Rico. Through it all he remained permanently fascinated and scandalized by his Yankee wife.
The Civil War was a difficult time for all the Gordons. Eleanor came from a pioneer Chicago family, and two of her brothers died fighting for the Union. Her husband tried to understand her personal loyalties, but it was hard for a man deeply attached to an impersonal one. In Savannah, Eleanor compounded her disloyalty to her husband by entertaining General Sherman in her home during his infamous progress through Georgia. Daisy, in the middle of things, as usual, is said to have sat on Sherman's lap. Daisy's first glimpse of marriage was of conflict between her father's duty and discipline and her mother's caprice and emotionalism.
Perhaps because her mother was so lacking in compassion, Daisy had a quick and unusual sensitivity to suffering. She saved stray animals, slept with her dolls to warm their cold china bodies, took her best blanket to cover the cow, and organized a society called the Helpful Hands to make clothes for poor children. (Since she couldn't sew, her brothers renamed her group the Helpless Hands.)
Daisy was a lovely, tiny girl with huge, dark eyes and long, dark hair, but her mother said she was "as ugly as ten bears." Thus Daisy considered herself unattractive and felt ill at ease in mixed company. But the society of girls was a positive delight to her. She wrote her parents at the end of a school year: "All the girls have gone, and as I look back on it I wonder how any mortal could manage to squeeze so much pleasure in so short a space of time. I can hardly realize that I will never see some of the girls again. School girl love is called silly, but I feel that in all my after life, I can never love as warmly and purely as I do now. " The upshot of Daisy's confusions was, not surprisingly, a bad marriage. William Mackay Low, the only son of a wealthy cotton merchant, was immature and unstable; his main interests were horses and, late in life, drinking. Daisy met him in England at his father's home. Her father cautioned her not to take up with Willy, but despite his warning the two announced their engagement.
Daisy chose her parents' anniversary, December 21,1886, as her wedding day. Just after the marriage ceremony she caught a grain of celebratory rice in her ear. She spent her honeymoon in pain and emerged totally deaf in that ear. She had thought—and hoped—before her wedding that they would remain in her home city, but before long it became clear that Willy, whose father had died shortly before the wedding, would have to move to England to manage the family estate.
There Daisy worked hard to charm Willy's friends: she rode to the hounds, gave parties, paid calls. But she wasn t happy, and she felt isolated and increasingly neglected. Willy traveled all over the world, almost always alone. Daisy began to have mysterious stomach pains. The doctors told her she must give up hunting, one of the only activities she and Willy had in common. She took up painting, poetry, and sculpture, forged a huge pair of gates for her home, and collected throngs of miniature dogs and encouraged them to sleep on her bed. Her biographer Glady Denny Schultz speculates that she also had a miscarriage. In any case, she had no children, a signal failure in her own eyes.
After years of private misery Willy finally made Daisy's unhappiness public by taking a mistress. He met Mrs. Bateman, a beautiful widow, in 1895, and eventually moved her into his and Daisy's house, forcing his wife into a distant wing. "Happiness is not the sum total of life," Daisy wrote her sister. "I am beginning to believe there is almost as much satisfaction in bearing pain bravely, as one grows older."
This opened a series of sordid negotiations that continued for five years and might have gone on for a decade had not Willy suddenly died. He left his enormous fortune to Mrs. Bateman with the provision that she pay Daisy twenty-five hundred pounds a year. Even Willy's lawyer urged Daisy to contest the will. She did and came away with a settlement of $500,000 and all of Willy's valuable properties.
At forty-six Miss Low, as she had begun calling herself, faced the deadly combination of great freedom and no direction. She traveled like a possessed woman, back and forth across the Atlantic and all over the Continent. She was morbidly sensitive, full of self-disgust and restlessness.
It was in this state that Daisy met Sir Robert Baden-Powell, hero of the Boer War, veteran of India and West Africa, author of many books, and Chief Scout of the British Empire. If ne'er-do-well Willy Low had an opposite, it was the honorable, loyal, and dutiful B-P, as Daisy came to call him. "I appeal to the British spirit already ingrained in you of 'playing the game,' " he once wrote to a friend, "that is, of doing your duty just as thoroughly when you are away from the eye of authority as when under it—not from fear of punishment for neglect to do it, but simply because it is 'the game' and is expected of you as a man of honor." Such was the assumption of the value of discipline, on which B-P founded the Boy Scouts.
B-P was unmarried when, at fifty-four, he met Daisy. His plan of operations for handling women was to tell them right away that he was not going to ask them to marry him but that he would be glad, as a friend, to help them in any way he could. "That's what I do and the matter being thus defined the girl confides in you and you have much better fun. " To his mother he wrote that he wouldn't marry till he was a major, "and then it will be a £50,000 girl at home."
If B-P was considerably beyond majordom when he met Daisy in May, 1911, she was no girl from home either. At fifty she had a lined face with hooded eyes, a straight mouth, and a long, beakish nose. She was a solid, handsome woman, extremely hard of hearing, and somewhat overwhelmingly vivacious in compensation.
Daisy took to B-P with daunting enthusiasm. Like Daisy he was interested in theater and sculpture. But Daisy, who considered herself a failure in the dark jungles of conjugal love, was most thrilled by his uncomplicated and uncompromising vision of life. She invited him everywhere. She teased him about the future Mrs. Baden-Powell. She wrote him letters faster than he, a most punctilious letter-answerer, could reply. She read his palm. The lines, she recorded, "are very odd and contradictory. The impression he makes on one is equally contradictory. All of his portraits and all of his writings represent him in action, essentially a man of war, though never has any human given me such a feeling of peace. He rushes from one engagement to another, though he doesn't strike me as restless or pushed or driven. It may be because in his own mind he is not personally seeking anything. His activities are for mankind and he has, perhaps, eliminated the effort to attain things for himself. To him his own life, as a saint, is apparently unimportant. "
Daisy assumed that Baden-Powell was secretly miserable, but he gently resisted her interpretation. Finally seeing that, unlike Willy, B-P didn't need her sympathy, Daisy concentrated on his spiritual meaning for her own life. "Today in the few moments I have had to myself, my mind has irresistibly dwelt on B-P. A sort of intuition comes over me that he believes I might make more out of my life, and that he has ideas, which if I follow them will open a more useful sphere of work before me in the future."
Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys had come out in 1908, and in its wake some six thousand girls had applied to become Scouts. As far as B-P was concerned, they should be taught "home-making and mother-craft." With the stipulation that they not use the Scout name or so much as greet a uniformed Boy Scout in public, he turned the notion for the Girl Guides over to his sister Agnes.
Daisy latched onto Girl Scouting with such vehemence that Baden-Powell advised her to be moderate until she was sure what she wanted to do. But Daisy had found her salvation. After several meetings with Agnes, Daisy retired to her Scottish estate and recruited seven girls, teaching them to spin, cook, and raise chickens for sale. This whetted her appetite, but Agnes Baden-Powell was firmly in charge of British Girl Guides, and Daisy wanted more latitude. She sailed for America, arriving in Savannah in 1912. Her first night home she called a cousin and announced that she wanted to discuss something "for all the girls of Savannah.and all America and all the world. …"
It was a good thing for Daisy and for Girl Scouts that her ties with Baden-Powell were getting looser, for she constantly disobeyed his mandates. She called her girls Scouts and, contrary to B-P's wishes, she intended them to enjoy outdoor adventure as much as kitchen instruction. She enrolled the first troop on an old Savannah tennis court. That summer Daisy organized a five-day camping trip for her girls. Everyone slept on the sand, got red clay all over her blue uniform, complained about the mosquitoes, and ate on eleven cents a day. As the weeks passed, Daisy talked about nothing but her Scouts. As her mother put it with characteristic sensitivity, "I don't give a damn about Girl Scouts. … [but we] are so glad Daisy is sticking to her interest that we want to do everything we can."
In September of that first Girl Scout summer, Daisy's father died. This new grief accelerated Daisy's feverish activity for her cause. She put literally everything she had into her Scouts. She financed the organization for its first four years. She took to wearing a hat decorated with a bunch of parsley and a couple of carrots. In the company of rich friends, she would sadly say she couldn't afford better trimming because she was sinking everything into the Girl Scouts.
She almost completely stopped making the effort to listen to anyone. She once told her niece that she was the center of attention because, after years of trying to understand what others were saying and finding it not particularly interesting, she decided to take matters into her own hands. (This policy had its drawbacks: one time Daisy decided to applaud loudly a speaker whom she couldn't hear, but whose audience seemed to Daisy too listless. As it turned out, the speaker was praising Daisy.)
In the Girl Scouts' formative years Daisy was less responsible for formulating their philosophy than for disseminating it. She wanted to teach the girls leadership, self-control, and executive skills. A first-class Scout was prepared: "almost a grown-up woman, capable of bearing the responsibilities that will come to her in her home and in the community."
In Daisy s broader hopes, her Scouts served as a modifier or class friction and a force against socialism. Girls, according to the manual, were more class conscious and class bound than boys, and one of the Scout laws in the 1913 edition of How Girls Can Help Their Country was that "a Girl Scout is a Friend to All, and a Sister to Every Other Scout no Matter to what Social Class She May Belong." Scouting, however, was not intended to break class barriers but rather to make them easier to tolerate. In later years Daisy sent her Scouts out to give "patriotic instruction" to workers in the New Bedford mills, where "foreign labor threatened to fall prey to the epidemic of Bolshevism and industrial unrest." She subsequently opposed raising membership dues, so that girls from working-class homes could afford to join.
Daisy did not see her Scouts as proto-f eminists. She was not in favor of woman suffrage and, in fact, once wrote a singularly unlyrical poem called Women of Ease in which she instructed women not to "shout for votes," explaining that their real burden was to train the young. When any question arose that Scouting might impair a girl's femininity, Daisy's supporters pointed to her impeccable credentials as a lady. One acquaintance remembered, in an effort to prove that Daisy wasn't turning America's females into tomboys or ruffians, that Daisy made "each of us feel that she was the favored guest. The art of intimacy, the fine flower of Southern cordiality, was at its best in her … her ideal of Girl Scouting was developed in a thoroughly feminine atmosphere. "
Quickly the movie becomes a thriller. A girl gets a message while on maneuvers that her mother is sick. She runs ten paces, walks ten paces (Scout style), fords a river, and makes it safely to the train depot. There she finds the station master robbed and wounded. With Girl Scout first aid she brings him around, and with Morse Code learned from Girl Scouts she informs the next station of her plight. When asked who she is, she allows herself a small Lone Ranger smile and taps out, "I am just a Girl Scout." The last scene seems rather like a sop to those who found the first half suggestive of too much adventure for girls. A group of girls marches into the house of a woman who works in a factory and whose husband is a soldier. The house and yard are a mess, the baby is dirty, and the older daughter is sick. The Scouts visit relentless cleanliness on house, yard, baby, and patient. The subtitle explains, "Housework is not so bad when you do it for your country." At this point the only man in the film makes his appearance to compliment his wife and the Scouts on his spotless house and family. The girls give the soldier a stiff salute and march out discreetly.
scarves, badges, bars, shoes, stockings, and materials. Typical of her deep concern with details of dress is a letter written in 1916 about a decoration to be worn "over the heart, and the cords looped up to a point left of shoulder & pinned on top of left shoulder twisted so that the ends hang within the circle of cords thus," and there follows a complicated illustration of the cord properly tied. As the film maker Josephine Daskam Bacon noted perceptively after working with Daisy on the first Girl Scout movie, "It suddenly dawned on me that she loved that big hat; she loved that ridiculous whistle; she loved her whole uniform! She wasn't wearing them, as some of us were, because it was necessary or because it seemed best: she loved to wear them! …"
America was taking to Daisy's notion. Carried along on the momentum of progressivism and the war, Girl Scouting provoked relatively little controversy and grew rapidly. From eight girls in 1912, the organization increased to five thousand in 1915 and to approximately forty-two thousand in 1920.
In that year, at the National Girl Scout Convention, Daisy resigned from the presidency, taking the title of founder. She declared her purpose to promote the movement worldwide, thus allowing herself, in her personal and somewhat erratic way, to work without the limitations of routine. By now she had become something of a hazard in the young bureaucracy. For instance, she is reported to have organized her bills into stacks under the categories "This Year," "Next Year," "Sometime," and "Never." As founder she worried about an unrelated variety of problems—trying to get the unwilling Mrs. Herbert Hoover to speak at the international meeting, the problem of creating Hungarian Girl Scouts against the opposition of the Catholic Church, and dealing with the charge that Girl Scouts had reduced the number of Boy Scouts by debasing the Scout name.
Her relationship with Baden-Powell remained on its high spiritual level. Every now and then he wrote her letters of moral uplift, retiring her dedication to her task. But even B-P's inspirational communications didn't keep her from feeling increasingly out of touch. In 1925 she wrote to her dear friend and Scout executive Jane Rippin: "I appreciate your writing to me—I feel so often that I am drifting away from the heart of the organization. Therefore when I am taken into your confidence, it rejoices me. "
The Fourth International Conference was Daisy's last major effort. It brought together Scout leaders from all over the world for the first conference held outside England. Daisy fought hard to prevent it from taking place in Switzerland, eventually paying for one delegate from each country to come to America. As much as her failing health permitted, Daisy welcomed dignitaries, participated in ceremonials, and worried over details. Agnes and Robert Baden-Powell presented her with a silver fish, the highest Girl Guide decoration.
By now Daisy knew she was dying. She had had cancer for several years and had undergone a number of operations. When her doctor told her she had very little time left, Daisy asked if she could make a last trip to England to say good-by to old friends and sort out her affairs. He said yes, if she hurried. Using all her remaining stamina, Daisy managed the journey, returning to Savannah with only ten days left to live. Three years before, on the eve of an operation, she had written her sister Mabel about her feelings on death. "I want you to realize … that I am glad to die . I look forward to seeing the parents, Willy Low, and … all the people I have loved and lost. I've always dreaded growing old and being a burden to my family. I am very glad to go when I have set my house in order … I have no ties that make parting here on earth an agony."
Daisy died on January 18, 1927, and was buried wearing her full uniform, the silver fish pin, a jeweled "Thanks" badge from her Scouts, and a telegram in her pocket from the head of the Girl Scouts of America saying, "You are not only the first Girl Scout but the best Girl Scout of them all."
Daisy once told the story "of a small friend of mine who, at the age of 8 years, prayed every night for a bicycle. On Christmas his mother had placed among his toys a tricycle. He got straight down on his knees and murmured, 'Oh, God, I did think you knew the difference between a bicycle and a tricycle.' "
More than half child herself, Daisy had kept her understanding of childhood throughout her long life. Sympathy with the defenseless dominated the egocentricity, impulsiveness, and hypersensitivity in her complex nature. This sympathy, combined with her sense of humor, made her the gifted midwife that she was.


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Mobile Forms is deployed as a package within the embedded CQ instance and exposes Mobile Forms functionality as REST end point over HTTP/S using RESTful Apache Sling Architecture.
Using Sling Framework
Apache Sling is resource-centric. It uses a request URL to first resolve the resource. Each resource has a sling:resourceType (or sling:resourceSuperType) property. Based on this property, the request method, and properties of the request URL, a sling script is then selected to handle the request. This sling script can be a JSP or a servlet. For Mobile Forms, Profile nodes act as sling resources and Profile Renderer acts as the sling script that handles the request to render the mobile form with a particular profile. A Profile Renderer is a JSP that reads parameters from a request and calls the Forms OSGi Service.
For details on REST endpoint and supported request parameters, see Rendering Form Template.
When a user makes a request from a client device such as an iOS or Android browser, Sling first resolves the Profile Node based on the request URL. From this Profile Node, it reads sling:resourceSuperType and sling:resourceType to determine all available scripts that can handle this Form Render request. It then uses Sling request selectors along with request method to identify the script best suited for handling this request. Once the request reaches a Profile Renderer JSP, the JSP calls the Forms OSGi service.
For more details on sling script resolution, see AEM Sling Cheat Sheet or Apache Sling Url decomposition.
Typical form processing call flow
Mobile Forms cache all the intermediate objects required to process (rendition or submission) a form on the first request. It does not cache the objects dependent on the data as such objects are likely to change.
Mobile Form maintains two different levels of cache, PreRender cache and Render Cache. The preRender cache contains all the fragments and images of a resolved template and Render cache contains rendered content such as HTML.
Mobile Forms do not cache templates that have missing references of fragments and images. If Mobile Forms take more than normal amount of time, then check the server logs for missing references and warnings. Also ensure that the maximum size of the object is not reached.
Forms OSGi service processes a request in two steps:
- Layout and Initial Form State generation: Forms OSGi render service calls the Forms Cache component to determine if the form has already been cached and has not been invalidated. If the form is cached and valid, it serves the generated HTML from the cache. If the form is invalidated, the Forms OSGi render service calls the LiveCycle Forms service container, which generates the Initial Form Layout and Form State in XML format. This XML is transformed into HTML layout and Initial JSON Form State by the Forms OSGi service and then cached for subsequent requests.
- Prepopulated Forms: While rendering, If a user requests forms with prepopulated data, the Forms OSGi render service calls the Forms service container and generates a new Form state with merged data. However, since the layout is already generated in the above step, this call is faster than the first call. This call only performs the data merge and runs the scripts on the data.
When a user submits the form, the browser sends state of form in JSON format to the submit service proxy; then the submit service proxy generates a data XML using JSON data and submits that data XML to submit endpoint.
Deployable Units
Mobile Forms is delivered as a CQ package that can be managed from the CQ Package Manager available at http://:/lc/crx/packmgr/index.jsp.
adobe-lc-forms-pkg.zip: This package is the main single install package. This package contains the following subpackages and bundles:
- adobe-lc-forms-core-<version>.jar: It is an OSGi bundle that contains the OSGi components and services for the Mobile Forms.
- scala-lang-2.9.1.jar: The adobe-lc-forms-core bundle uses some scala-related libraries present in scala-lang-2.9.1.jar.
- adobe-lc-forms-runtime-pkg-<version>.zip: This package contains runtime JavaScript libraries like scripting and layout engine, CSS.
- adobe-lc-forms-content-pkg-<version>.zip: This package contains Profiles and Profile Renderer scripts and some other resources.
- adobe-lc-forms-lcconnector-<version>.jar: This OSGi Bundle contains all LiveCycle specific service implementations.
OSGi Components (adobe-lc-forms-core.jar)
Adobe XFA Forms Renderer (com.adobe.livecycle.adobe-lc-forms-core) is the display name of the Mobile Forms OSGi bundle when viewed from Bundle View of Felix admin console (http://<host>:<port>/lc/system/console/bundles).
This component contains OSGi components for render, cache management, and configuration settings.
Forms OSGi Service
This OSGi Service contains the logic to render an XDP as HTML and handles the submission of a form to generate data XML. This service uses LiveCycle Forms service container. The Forms service container internally calls native component XMLFormService.exe that performs the processing.
If a render request is received, this component calls Forms service container to generate layout and state information that is further processed to generate HTML and JSON form DOM states.
This component is also responsible for generating data XML from submitted form state JSON.
Cache Component
The caching mechanism described in this article is updated for LiveCycle ES4 Service Pack 1. If you are on the LiveCycle ES4 base release, follow the steps described in Key Distinctions between LiveCycle ES4 and Service pack 1.
Mobile Forms uses caching to optimize throughput and response time. You can configure the level of the cache service to fine-tune the trade-off between performance and space utilization.
Description |
None |
Do not cache artifacts |
Conservative |
Cache only intermediate artifacts that are generated before the render of the form like template containing inline fragments and images |
Aggressive |
Cache Rendered HTML content |
Mobile Forms perform in-memory caching using LRU strategy. If cache strategy is set to None, cache is not created. LRU eviction policy is based on number of forms. You can also specify the threshold size beyond which objects are not cached.
In-memory cache is not shared between cluster nodes.
Configuration Service
Configuration Service enables tuning the configuration parameters and cache settings for Mobile Forms.
To update these settings, go to the CQ Felix Admin Console (available at http://<server>:<port>/lc/system/console/configMgr), search for and select LC Forms Configuration.
You can configure the cache size or disable the cache using configuration service. For detailed information, see Cache Component. You can also enable debugging using Debug Options parameter. More information about debugging forms can be found at Debugging Mobile Forms.
Runtime Components (adobe-lc-forms-runtime-pkg.zip)
The Runtime Package contains the client-side libraries used to render HTML forms.
Important components available as part of Runtime package:
Scripting Engine
The scripting engine of HTML Forms is written in JavaScript to support the XFA scripting API in both these languages.
At render time, the FormCalc script is translated (and cached) into JavaScript on the server transparent to the user or designer.
This scripting engine uses some of the feature of ECMAScript5 like Object.defineProperty. The engine / library is delivered as CQ Client Lib with the category name xfaforms.profile. It also provides FormBridge API to enable external portals or apps to interact with form. Using FormBridge, an external app can programmatically hide certain elements, get or set their values, or change their attributes.
For more details, see the Form Bridge article.
Layout Engine
Layout Engine also contains a set of widgets used to capture the value of form fields from a user. These widgets are modeled as jQuery UI Widgets that implement certain additional contract to work seamlessly with Layout engine.
For more details on widgets and the corresponding contracts, see Custom Widgets for Mobile Forms.
The style associated with the HTML elements is added either inline or based on embedded CSS block. Some common styles which are not dependent on form are part of CQ Client Lib with category name xfaforms.profile.
In addition to default styling properties, each form element also contains certain CSS classes based on element type, name, and other properties. Using these classes, one can restyle elements by specifying their own CSS.
For more details on default styling and classes, see Introduction to styles.
Server-Side script and Web Services
Any scripts that are marked to run-at-server or marked to call a Web Service (regardless of where it is marked to execute) always executes on server.
The client script engine:
- Makes a synchronous call to the server passing the current Form state in the form of JSON
- Executes the script or Web Service on the server
- Generates a new JSON state
- Merges the new JSON state on the client when the response is returned.
Localization Resource Bundles
By default, Mobile Forms is supported in English, French, German, and Japanese language. Based on the locale received in the request header, corresponding Resource Bundle is sent to the client. This resource bundle is added to Profile JSP as a CQ Client Lib with category name xfaforms.I18N. You can override the logic of picking up the locale package in the profile.
Sling Components (adobe-lc-forms-content-pkg.zip)
Sling package contains content related to Profiles and Profile Renderer.
Profiles are the Resource nodes in sling that represent a form or Family of Forms. At the CQ Level, these profiles are JCR nodes. The nodes reside under the /content folder in JCR repository and can be inside any sub folder under the /content folder.
Profile Renderers
The Profile node has a property sling:resourceSuperType with value xfaforms/profile. This property internally sends forward requests to the sling script for Profile nodes located in the /libs/xfaforms/profile folder. These scripts are JSP pages, that are containers for putting together the HTML forms and required JS/CSS artifacts. The pages include references to:
- xfaforms.I18N.<locale>: This library contains localized data.
- xfaforms.profile: This library contains implementation for XFA Scripting and Layout engine.


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