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Lots of people do not know that the need for diet. This info will probably perhaps not simply strain that the need for diet in your every day life style but in addition allow you recognize the most best problems you have the ability todo to ensure that you are performing possibly the most that you simply may to help in your own diet.
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When contemplating a diet plan that gives an adequate diet level, recognize that perhaps not all of healthy sounding meals are as healthy as you can think. Based round the reduce, floor turkey may possibly consist of nearly equally as far human body fat as floor steak. If searching to get meats, usually hunt for the low-carb or lean variants.
Consuming a glass of orange juice daily each early-morning is one of the most best ways to begin your working evening. Orange juice is full of vitamin c, potassium, in addition to additional fantastic vitamins. A few brand-names much consist of calcium to his or her lemon juice. inch tall glass of 100 percent orange juice for every single working evening is actually a great way to becoming that the suggested quantity of fresh fruit within your diet regime.
MSG has been additional into numerous processed meals to encourage personality. However, MSG provides no dietary worth and it has already been discovered to own numerous negative results, like depression and head-aches. Some individuals have a tendency to become much more delicate than other-people, nevertheless, you should avoid them of MSG even though you're not hyper-sensitive. It may possibly have longterm, accumulative results.
Peanut-butter is actually a great source of protein, nevertheless, you should swallow organic peanut-butter. The components in many cases are simply salt and peanuts. Normal peanut-butter is made up of hydrogenated fat and sporadically additional sugar along with alternative components. Because there is no hydrogenated human body fat, the oil will float to the leading over the organic peanut-butter. You'll require into shop it within the ice box and stir it before use.
Omega three crucial fatty acids really are a crucial component of this nutritionally well-balanced diet regime. They assist your cardiovascular system, blood and organs stay healthy and for that reason are a growing number of recognized from the health-care neighbor hood to be truly a fantastic means to remain healthy. You'll locate Omega three crucial fatty acids in fish goods or from utilizing a pill.
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Often tinkering with new recipes is actually a great way to inspire healthy consuming patterns and great diet. The problem and novelty of controlling fresh dishes promotes healthy selection and keeps a diet regime from changing to insistent and unappealing. Additionally, it aids add joy and travel to the procedure.
Nut milk is that a great choice to consider if that you possess problems with digesting fluids which comprises lactose. This sort of berry may likewise be exceptionally paid down in saturated fat, that'll assist to earn a simpler skin and pores T One. Put money in to nut milk if that you desire to enhance your skin treatment regular.
Many poor patterns are emotional that is similarly true to get diet. All of the struggles are literally inside your thoughts. inch case of this really is eliminating the benefit method that you've installation with yourself. You would really like to endeavor to expel the institutions in between meals and joy. Meals is petrol, not joy.
To make sure your system will be obtaining everything it requirements, consist of all-kinds of entire vegetables, grains, and also vegetables for the diet regime. All these are saturated in crucial minerals and minerals. Research have usually demonstrated which they truly are that the meals many People in america are conducive in. Being an additional reward, vegetables and berry additionally tend to eventually become paid down calorieintake
To outline, we supplied numerous hints and techniques to be certain that you are obtaining the maximum diet out of your every-day program. So long since you stick to what's inside this informative article, you will end up a-lot closer for a fitter manner of life. Make sure to consult with using a doctor before some significant life style modifications.


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An unprecedented cold snap has gripped most of the country this week. The negative twenty degree windchill outside has caused Thinking Color to start thinking warm thoughts. In fact, it is so cold we might have gone a bit overboard with our daydreams of warm places and have found ourselves examining the different colors of lava.
When most people think of the molten rock spewed from volcanic activity they think of red. However, there are several different colors of lava and the color of the substance tells scientists something about the composition of the material.
Lava straight from the interior of the earth is bright orange and usually about 1800 degrees fahrenheit. As the lava flows from a volcanic vent it cools to a brilliant red at 1400 degrees. Still cooling the lava transforms into a deep crimson at 1200 degrees, then to a mahogany brown at 900 degrees, and finally black volcanic rock.
The changes in color allow scientists to visually track the flow of lava and the construction of new land mass caused by volcanic activity.


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Building Technology Showcase is "living lab" for cutting-edge materials and systems.
As its name suggests, the Building Technology Showcase (BTS) is designed to highlight the latest approaches to sustainability and energy conservation in contemporary structures. Located in the Innovation District of Boston, it houses the headquarters of the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSE) and is designed as a demonstration space for research and development of sustainable energy technologies.
The state-of-the-art exhibition and educational space is open to the public and receives heavy foot traffic on a consistent basis. An interactive educational exhibit space in the building's first floor lobby is designed to encourage nationwide adoption of energy-saving technologies.
When it came to selecting the floor coverings to match the ambitious goals of this pioneering structure, the BTS wanted materials that were sustainable both in their manufacture and use. After investigating all available options, they chose nora® flooring.
"I was in Germany and had the opportunity to visit nora's manufacturing facility and see first-hand the detailed and delicate attention paid to the creation of the flooring," says Nolan Browne, managing director of Fraunhofer CSE. In addition to the sustainability and energy efficiency of the nora floors, BTS was impressed by its low maintenance requirements, long lifespan and comfort underfoot, he said.
"Having waxless floors that are able to be effectively kept up with only water is a huge advantage," Browne says. It will help BTS not only achieve its energy efficiency and sustainability objectives, but also enable it to reduce building maintenance staff and costs.
Similarly, Brown adds, "The product life span and durability contribute to the conservation of energy, because facilities don't have to re-install and replace the floor repeatedly."
As for its ergonomic impact, the building also has housing research and development labs on the upper floors where lab workers spend long hours on their feet.
"I was impressed with the significant research nora is putting into creating a product that is optimized for comfort underfoot," Browne says, adding that he hopes the organization can measure that impact in its living lab.
What better way to showcase and demonstrate new technology than to incorporate it into the building design? Get the whole story of BTS by reading the full project profile.


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Over the past six months, we've been tackling this Downtown loft renovation in the heart of the New Orleans Warehouse District. This 1700 sq. foot unit had good bones but needed a ton of work. The property had a great amount of natural light with a spacious floor plan. The kitchen and bathrooms of the home were in dire need of a renovation and needed to be brought into the 21st century. The flooring was original oak but needed to be refinished due to the previous home owners ruining them with black paint. Our clients need for functional yet sophisticated style was apparent after our initial meetings. Our clients love for contemporary design helped us to pull textiles and finishes that reflected their needs. The color palette for the space was dictated by this metallic grasscloth we became obsessed with. The wallpaper had tones of blue, green, gold and silver which coincided with the adjacent exposed brick walls. The plaster detail on the accent walls were existing to the entire unit and had the same color story as the selected paper. These colors dictated every other selection proposed for the home. The kitchen and bathrooms were the most challenging. The kitchen prior had zero storage and no counter top space. There were many challenges such as fur downs, half walls, high ceilings and sprinkler systems to address. Our goal was to take up as much space as possible for seating and entertaining. All in all this project came out just as planned with a sophisticated yet functional style for this young family. The layered lighting, fixtures and finishes really make this project shine. We couldn't be more proud!
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Artist: Jump Back Jake
Latest Release: Call Me Your Man EP
Genre: Rock/Blues
Jump Back Jake was introduced to me as the side project of Jake Rabinbach, lead guitarist for Francis and the Lights, a group which may be familiar to you but didn't ring a bell with me (I've since given them a listen, however). Fortunately, Jump Back Jake's classic-style rock 'n' roll should get by just fine on its own merits as their debut EP, Call Me Your Man, certainly proves. In 13 minutes the group covers a fair amount of territory, from groovy pop to fiery southern rock, with impressively catchy melodies and a retro vibe that's hard to resist. Hopefully there will be more to come from these guys as this side project has plenty of potential. Take a listen below!
Download: Call Me Your Man (MP3)
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Daily Dose - 9/28/10: Jump Back Jake
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One way to find out what is sent by FoxWeb is to do a "view source" on your browser. Obviously if your value includes reserved characters such as < and > you should HTMLEncode it with FoxWeb's Server.HTMLEncode method.
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Sent by John Potter on 04/02/2002 11:01:08 AM:
That's certainly a help but isn't the best solution. Why does only the first word of the verbose field's value shows up with stub 1. Should I urldecode
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With newer browsers you can control the width and font of a textarea by using CSS. You can also control wrapping by including the wrap clause (soft/hard):
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Sent by John Potter on 03/31/2002 01:29:49 PM:
Hello again,
The currently selected record of a dbf file has a length-100 character field named "verbose". It's content is "Certificate Aviation Safety Security "
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With stub 1 only "Certificate" shows up.
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With stub 2 "Certificate Aviation Safety Security" shows up
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Help will again be greatly appreciated.
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IBM is using three large investment banks to create the illusion of repurchasing approximately 8% of their shares. The transaction is valued at $12.5 billion of shareholder money. 118.8 million shares have been taken off the table.
The result will be an illusion of accelerated earnings per share. What the magic trick does not do is accelerate enterprise earnings by any metric.
The new wrinkle is actually buying shares from those that do not own them, with the very important added nuance of massive scale. Because of this nuance, the investment banks can send a bill to IBM if they start to lose money. There probably will be an adjustment at some point in the future. Watch for paragraph three comments at some point in the future when IBM needs to skate back on side with its publicly disclosed costs.
The disturbing aspect is this. Are the shares truly off the market? How long will it take to actually cover what I think is a modified short position? Will IBM be paying dividends on shares that do or do not exist?
Watch for an SEC investigation. I know IBM and associated parties probably have good advice or at least advice that was more expensive than good. The transaction begs the question that is fundamental in the stock market: How many shares are there? Boiler room operators used to issue tons of shares. This may skirt the issue much too closely.
Yet the company is battling a bugbear that keeps it from breaking out and prevents the stock from really soaring. Ironically, its problem is with the $48 billion-a-year business that saved it from ruin in the 1990s: IT services. What was once IBM's growth engine seems to be turning into a chronically slow-growing, low-margin drag on the rest of the company.
Fresh evidence of IBM's trouble with services came May 30, when the company revealed that it had just eliminated 1,573 services jobs, mostly in North America, bringing to 3,023 the total jobs cut in the high-cost region this quarter alone. That's a small percentage of the company's total workforce of more than 355,000. Yet when weighed against rapid growth in low-cost India, where the staff topped 53,000 at the beginning of the year, the cuts underscore the biggest challenge facing Big Blue: the Indian tech industry. [...]
To improve its efficiency, IBM has adopted the so-called Lean Operations discipline developed by Toyota Motor (TM) for manufacturing cars. It's adapting Lean so it applies to a global service organization, something the top Indian companies began two years ago. The basic principle of Lean Operations is that a company should be making continuous, incremental improvements in its business processes. That's one of the ways IBM figures out where it can eliminate work. The company also keeps a master database, nicknamed "Blue Monster," of all of its services employees. Supervisors use the information to track who is working on what project and when they'll be available for another assignment. In this way, the company hopes to minimize the amount of time people are between assignments.
All of this cost-cutting is the task of Robert Moffat, senior vice-president for integrated operations. His goal is to make the Global Technology Services workforce 10% to 15% more efficient each year. The key for him is to take costs out of the equation through a combination of workforce globalization, process improvements, and replacing manual labor with software. In a little more than six months, Moffat said at the May 17 analysts' meeting, he has rolled out the new formula for 22 of IBM's largest clients in seven countries. In some cases, he said, the clients have seen up to a 50% improvement in productivity. Now, Moffat is extending the new system to 600 more accounts.
All of this huffing and puffing over efficiency won't calm the frazzled nerves of IBM's 155,000-strong services workforce. True, there are still abundant employment opportunities in the company. About 30% of the people whose jobs are eliminated find other jobs within the behemoth, and, in the first four months of this year alone, IBM hired more than 19,000 people. But a lot of those hires were made in India. For the U.S. workforce, there is always fear that jobs will be lost to foreigners.
Back in 2000 and 2001, there was a large number of posts on this board and the pension board that described Gerstner's gutting of the real assets of the business, in order to build high-profit, low-capital lines of business.
Bottom line, IBM went into the body-shop business. We then referred to the new model as the renaming of IBM into "JAFCO". It appears that IBM stayed in that line of business a bit too long, - and now the Indians and Chinese are taking big bites of IBM. And, as its gross revenues shrink, stock buy backs appear to be a desperation move, - in order to keep the books looking good while Palmisano looks to buy real winners, shrink the cost structure and liquidate the frozen pension trust funds through attrition and mortality.
If I were an IBM employee in the USA (and soon, - in India), I'd be looking elsewhere for employment right now. For the past four years, IBM's firings have had nothing to do with performance or morale. They've been desperation moves designed to shrink the corporation down to the quality of its executives and managers.
That's because IBM's services overhaul not only involves cheaper labor -- IBM's work force in India rose from 9,000 in 2003 to 52,000 last year -- but also a quest to use less labor. That means rethinking and sometimes automating the ways that services contracts are carried out. Last year, IBM adopted a business-retooling system known as Lean to find such opportunities.
The company carried out a similar level of job cuts at the beginning of the month, for a total of 3,023 in this quarter and 3,720 for the year, according to IBM spokesman Edward Barbini. One-hundred employees in Boulder were affected as a result of the early May cuts, bringing the total to 145 for the quarter.
On Wednesday, the Armonk, New York-based company said it had contracts with three banks to buy back $12.5 billion worth of its own stock, totaling 8% of all outstanding IBM shares. In a statement IBM said the shares were purchased from the three banks under accelerated share repurchase agreements, which provided IBM with immediate delivery of the shares. IBM added that the banks are expected to purchase an equivalent number of additional shares in the open market during the next nine months. IBM did not disclose which banks were involved in the buybacks.
Now you fire all those guys and hire a bunch of guys from some Balakambastan at 1/6 the original team's salary. Even if the original team hangs around to train the new guys, the new guys have to ramp up from scratch. And you can rest assured, these kinds of handovers are seldom whole-hearted. Even if this new breed of cheap programmers is excellent, it's going to take the team a good 6 months to a year to get comfortable with any decent sized code, regardless of how stunning the documentation is. During that time the overall application design will get slightly worse as they try to implement new features in ways that don't fit in with the original application design.
In the mean time you've got 150 other tech companies realizing that people in the rapidly growing market of Balakambastan will work for peanuts and they'll all move in to the country. Now your new team of programmers are realizing that they can get more peanuts if they do the same sort of job hopping that was prevalent in the 90s dotcom heydays to get more peanuts. So over the course of the next year your new team is replaced by even newer people, whom you have to pay a lot more money, and who are completely unfamiliar with your code base again.
So now you're paying your latest bunch of Balakambastanis as much as you were paying your original programming team, but these new guys have little to no experience with your code base. Well done!
The truth is — you can only save money in this manner if you buy into the delusion that people are pluggable resources, or that experience counts for nothing (yes, I have also seen people with 30 years of useless experience, but I speak of actual, good quality experience here). To people who believe that in theory you can get as much done with a summer intern as you can with someone with 20 years of technical experience, my simple advice: give it a shot. One of my favorite quotes: If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. - Derek Bok
Outsourcing is great and all, but done en masse, and with such stupor, it only reflects the senseless mismanagement of a giant corporation. Stop by ibmemployee and you will see wherein lies the real malaise of a giant blunder of this nature.
It is correct that you cannot collect your share of the Cooper settlement until you being collecting your base retirement benefit.
It is not correct that your share of the settlement cannot be calculated and will be losing value because you cannot collect it now; it is an age 65 annuity that could be calculated now, and that will be the same when you reach age 65; it will not lose value, and your share will not change because you are not able to collect it now.
I would suggest you write a letter to: IBM Pension Administrator, IBM Employee Services Center, 3808 Six Forks Road, Raleigh, NC 27609
Ask for a complete estimate of what your retirement benefits would be if you left IBM and asked to start your pension on June 1, 2007, including your share of the Cooper Settlement. Include your full name, your IBM employee number, and a mailing address. You should get a full estimate within 30 days; if you do not you can complain to the Department of Labor and IBM can be fined. Keep a copy of the letter!
Once you get the response, file it in a safe place -- even though IBM sold you to another company, they are required by federal law to honor your vested pension benefits, including the Cooper settlement.
Hope that helps; let us know if you are successful!
The decision came in a case involving a supervisor at a Goodyear Tire plant in Gadsden, Ala., the only woman among 16 men at the same management level, who was paid less than any of her colleagues, including those with less seniority. She learned that fact late in a career of nearly 20 years — too late, according to the Supreme Court's majority.
The court held on Tuesday that employees may not bring suit under the principal federal anti-discrimination law unless they have filed a formal complaint with a federal agency within 180 days after their pay was set. The timeline applies, according to the decision, even if the effects of the initial discriminatory act were not immediately apparent to the worker and even if they continue to the present day. [...]
In a vigorous dissenting opinion that she read from the bench, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the majority opinion "overlooks common characteristics of pay discrimination." She said that given the secrecy in most workplaces about salaries, many employees would have no idea within 180 days that they had received a lower raise than others.
An initial disparity, even if known to the employee, might be small, Justice Ginsburg said, leading an employee, particularly a woman or a member of a minority group "trying to succeed in a nontraditional environment" to avoid "making waves." Justice Ginsburg noted that even a small differential "will expand exponentially over an employee's working life if raises are set as a percentage of prior pay." [...]
As with an abortion ruling last month, this decision showed the impact of Justice Alito's presence on the court. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, whom he succeeded, would almost certainly have voted the other way, bringing the opposite outcome.
But there's a catch. When older workers look for jobs, they may get as much respect as Rodney Dangerfield.
It often takes many weeks, or even months, for older workers to find jobs, distinctly longer than their younger counterparts. In 2006, for instance, workers age 55 or older spent an average of 22 weeks looking for work. That was down from 24 in 2005, but still far longer than the 16-week job hunts of workers under 55, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In the same vein, a study by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, sampling employers in Massachusetts and Florida, found that younger workers were about 40 percent more likely to be called in for job interviews than were candidates 50 or older.
Shareholders of Verizon Communications recently passed a measure that would give them an advisory vote on compensation packages for top executives. Shareholders at roughly 20 companies have pushed such say-on-pay proposals. And Congress appears ready to act if companies don't. The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would give nonbinding votes on pay to all shareholders, like those that Britain and Australia already have. [...]
The post-Enron reforms forced boards to eliminate conflicts of interest among auditors, investment bankers and others. But little was done to address conflicts of interest among pay consultants who may have other lucrative contracts with the same companies — and strong incentives to please the top executives. Those conflicts of interest fuel the irrational rise in compensation — and the growing discontent among investors.
A new corporate policy has employees at the largest U.S. stock brokerage possibly facing punitive action -- including the loss of pay -- if they take more than three sick days without valid excuses. Termination could result after eight sick days. [...]
Efforts to reach employees in various Merrill Lynch offices around the country were unsuccessful as company officials directed them not to talk to reporters.
In addition to interpreting the statute unreasonably and ignoring the relevant precedents, the majority blinded itself to the realities of the workplace. Employees generally do not know enough about what their co-workers earn, or how pay decisions are made, to file a complaint precisely when discrimination occurs. At Goodyear, as at many companies, salaries were confidential. The court's new rules will make it extraordinarily difficult for victims of pay discrimination to sue under Title VII. That is not how Congress intended the law to be enforced, merely how five justices would like it to be.
That's the lesson of an amazing bit of corporate welfare the Senate tucked into the Iraq war supplemental last week. Last year's bill included a hard-fought political compromise: Carriers that agreed to a "hard freeze" of their pension plans would be allowed to use a higher interest rate in calculating their plans -- which would reduce their net liabilities. The idea was to discourage airlines from buying union peace by running up their pension tabs, which they might later dump on taxpayers. A few airlines, such as Northwest and Delta, took this medicine.
"The claim about these pre-existing conditions was absolutely preposterous," Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said. [...]
"What this company did was create the illusion of coverage, when in reality, it would challenge almost any expensive procedure as a pre-existing condition," he said. CBS' investigation of Assurant found a pattern of questionably denied claims and cancelled policies — and what a South Carolina judge called a culture of "secrecy, concealment … and shredded documents."
First, there is not a place in this world that is not struggling to control health costs while providing high-quality, easily accessible care. No one — no one — has a great solution.
But second, whether as a doctor or as a citizen, I would take almost any system — from Medicare-for-all to a private insurance voucher system — over the one we now have. Job-based insurance is bleeding away the viability of American businesses — even doctors complain about the cost of insuring employees. And it has left large numbers of patients without adequate coverage when they need it. In the last two years, for example, 51 percent of Americans surveyed did not fill a prescription or visit a doctor for a known medical issue because of cost.
The candidates' plans aren't ideal, even from my perspective, but each would be a significant improvement over today's situation. Sen. Clinton's Best Practices Institute could save lives and money. Better technology could save lives and reduce cost while making the experience of being a patient more bearable. America's children would be fully insured and more Americans would have coverage under each of these plans. [...]
Here's how health reform could die: The Republican presidential candidates have remained silent on the topic for the most part. Come election season, the Democrats will have offered detailed plans that the GOP can then fire shots at each proposal in a leisurely manner. (They, of course, will offer no competing plans of their own. That gives them the luxury of criticizing the solution without addressing the problem.) Meanwhile the New Naders will be blasting the same plans from the right, which could rob them of much-needed support from the Democratic base.
Two possible scenarios could result: In the first scenario GOP campaign donors, 527s, and insurance companies, coordinate a campaign that paints the Democratic nominee's plan a disaster for small employers, the self-employed, and the middle class. Outcome: The Democrats lose the White House and suffer setbacks in Congress.
Now, the growing list of Democratic presidential candidates calling for universal, cheaper coverage -- Illinois Sen. Barack Obama yesterday became the latest -- suggests the days of health-care incrementalism are over. Nor are these Democrats alone in embracing the once-toxic political cause of universal care: The best-known state models have been championed by Republican governors, including Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, who is now running for president.
This shift reflects rising and inflation-topping out-of-pocket costs for health care and insurance premiums, co-payments and deductibles. Also, the number of uninsured has spiked to about 45 million, from 37 million when Mr. Clinton was president. Business leaders increasingly are seeking a government-imposed solution, saying employee health costs put them at a disadvantage with foreign competitors.
Those forces, in turn, have combined to embolden politicians in both parties to once again propose universal health care that inevitably would mean a big role for government -- and possibly upend the powerful insurance, medical and pharmaceutical industries.
Everyone needs to realize that if you are an IBM'er in North America.. you have a target on your back. Quality is not the answer anymore, if you work on an outsourcing contract, you know this all too well. IBM is over as far as the outsourcing (SO & ITD) goes...get prepared so when you are ra'd, you're expecting it, unlike me who wasn't.
If you're prepared, it will be a nice reward as you will cash out versus leaving without getting paid. Make this work for you. Take the culture that WAS IBM to your new company, start it there. The best part is IBM is shooting itself in the foot. All of these folks that IBM is screwing over are going into roles with competitors and in position to cost IBM money...remember what they have done to you and your fellow ibm'er...always remember -Sore Sphincter-
Just look at what they are doing to the IBM'ers with the pensions.. These folks have given their lives to IBM only to be screwed over.. I don't want to work for a company like that...that alone sealed my choice.. Its over.
Our IBM'er culture will need to be taken to another company. I wish all of those affected in the last few days the best of luck.. Please remember that you are not alone.. this is like a death in the family.. first its the shock and fear, then grief, anger.. Then the clouds start to part.. you have a whole new opportunity to work for someone else doing the same or something else.. we are not valued.. no raises why we have had record profits .. sam getting millions in bonuses.. I feel for those left..
60 to 70 hours will now be the minimum.. sweating over the fear of losing your job.. target on your back. YOU DESERVE BETTER. F sam and the upper management back stabbers. Its nice to see managers and 2nd line affected now.. there is zero loyalty from IBM management now.. think of how that will affect morale.. Get ready for some paltry raise and news that's its over.. that's BS. Read the proposals from the last stock holders meeting.. something big is up -Sore Sphincter-
I am bailing as soon as I find something. Active job search starts next week. I am not waiting for the severance. I figure it will get reduced soon anyway. In the meantime, I plan on putting in the bare minimum in OT. I think that everyone of us that is left needs to do this. The only thing that has been keeping this company floating is the sheer effort of the employees on the front lines. Let the process fall apart. No more 60 to 70 hour weeks.
Apply Lean to your own life. Cut out the excess work. Your customer, IBM, is only paying you for 40 hours a week. So, if you follow the Lean principles then they should only get 40 hours worth of work. Not 41 hours. Definitely not 50 plus hours. I am not saying to do anything unethical such as walk out of Sev1\'s or ignore your pager while on duty. But you sure can bail out of work at the end of the day, leave your pager at home while you are not on duty, and turn off Sametime and not answer your phone 30 minutes before you leave.
Anyone hassles you then use Work/Life Balance as an excuse. Let us face it. They have been out of legitimate PBC 3's and 4's for some time. They are creating them now for an excuse to let someone go. It is only a matter of time. Save your strength for your next employer who will hopefully appreciate it. To everyone that has been laid off I wish you the best. Hope to see you in the next company I work for. -Missed again-
Mostly feeling like a step-child because they gravitated toward the people they knew and had under them already. No leadership, no information, everything always hush hush and US vs THEM atmosphere. There was some help along the way with the diamonds in the rough managers, but all in all, the ones who tried to be helpful had to put up with a lot of pushback from 2nd and 3rd line mgrs. WHY? because they didn't know any of us or what we did day to day AND didn't care. They just look at spreadsheets and have teleconferences. I have a lot of anxiety and stress right now. BUT, please don't feel sorry for me. I have been miserable at IBM for years now. Always hoping things might get better, but they just kept getting worse. The scientists in IBM research are the only reason IBM still exists. and I don't want to hear. "Well that stuff had to get marketed and sold blah blah blah." Unscrupulous salesman and marketing people are a dime a dozen. Brilliant scientists are rare and IBM has plenty of them.
Quick story: About 1 or 2 years into my employment at IBM, I had a blind date. She was an office manager of a big electrical supplier in the Bronx. When I told her I worked for IBM, she started blasting me and IBM. I mean, she was foaming at the mouth. People started to look over at us. IBM was their IT company, completely dropping the ball, giving her and the company the run around. Needless to say, there was no second date.
I'm not upset because I got laid off. In fact, I'm kinda elated to get a package and unemployment and try to start my own business. What I am upset about is the way I have been treated overall during my years at IBM as I mentioned above. The arrogance and ego's floating around IBM is sickening. Hypocrisy and mean spirits. I was often spoken down to and insulted by many fellow employees I was trying to service. Those same people always abusing and trying to work around the system. Working around the system skews numbers and alters reality. Especially when our head count depended on the "numbers". BUT, I did make some friends and there are many nice people at IBM.
We would watch the IBM helicopter land at our site with Lou, or Sam or whoever and reasonably estimated the cost at thousands of dollars for that trip, when it was only a 10-15 minute car drive from Armonk. Heck, take a limo. It would still be much cheaper. But I guess toolin around in a chopper makes y'all feel way more important doesnt it? And my manager can't get reimbursed to buy us pizza once a year. I wish all my friends still working at IBM the best of luck. AND yes, I wish IBM research the best of luck because they do some incredible things in this world.
Well, I said my peace. I got it off my chest. Now I have to go work on my new journey in life. And in the end, life/happiness is a journey, not a destination. -Itrainedpradeepgupta-
Vault's IBM Business Consulting Services message board is a popular hangout for IBM BCS employees, including many employees acquired from PwC. A few sample posts follow:
Americans SHOULD generally be pleased that the rest of the world -- especially the "emerging markets" -- are starting to catch up. We are the deliberate creators of some of the mechanisms that the emerging countries are now latching onto to pull themselves up.
The problem is in the smoothness of any required labor and capital rearrangements. And here IBM has been spectacularly inept. No one can argue that instead of true global labor integration, we have a mad and unseemly scramble for the ephemeral benefits of labor arbitrage.
What with all the harrumping about "IBM Values," I would expect a little more straightforward and honest communication with IBMers in the US (and anywhere else) about what is going to change. But there is no communication -- not even in reaction to almost hysterical commentary by industry observers like Cringely.
If you read my previous posts concerning Indians, I do hope you find no racism -- but just deep skepticism that IBM's global resourcing strategy is sound. IBM's employees, customers, and business will be harmed along the way.
I don't pick on Indians - I denigrate IBM for building the offshore model. If we were offshoring to some other country where the resources were ignorant about business, challenged with communication, and culturally unable to provide customer service naturally and as a matter of course, I would be talking about them instead. The ire is completely directed at IBM for abandoning the blue chip functionally literate resource model in its g-B-s staffing strategy. [...]
So you can continue to think that I am part of the problem, but history will look back and say that those that pointed the finger at IBM's leadership and HR decisions over the last decade or more have been much more a part of the solution. The opportunity for offshore labor to cash in on this labor arbitrage is only a small component of a much larger picture. It doesn't deserve much of my attention, nor yours, and only gets my attention when I read something stupid here that challenges the reality of the situation.
Unconventional Road - need a combination of these to be effective:
Today's highly compensated executives face many difficulties, including figuring out how they can possibly spend all of the rich rewards they've earned on the backs of ordinary workers. Take a look at the insider trading of many of our IBM executives—spending the cash from all that stock "acquired at $0 per share" must be a real challenge! Or, imagine the difficulty IBM CEO Sam Palmisano will face spending his $10,000 to $20,000 a day pension when he retires!
As a way of helping out our beleaguered, modern-day robber barons this site will periodically feature "spending opportunities" that the "upper crust" of our society may want to take advantage of!
During the course of 19 surveys conducted in 2005, 2006 and 2007, his Redding, Conn., firm, Prince & Associates, asked about 2,500 high net worth individuals what issues were of the greatest concern to them. Survey participants earned their own fortunes, which totaled at least $500,000, with most participants being millionaires many times over. Heirs and heiresses weren't included. [...]
Managing a large fortune composed of liquid and physical assets, scattered in various geographic locations, can be a time-consuming task that's separate from the job of running the business that generated the wealth in the first place, says Amy Braden, head of the Family Wealth Center at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in New York, which serves clients who've amassed fortunes worth more than $25 million.
"There actually is work in overseeing that,'' she says. "People might be surprised about the extent to which wealth can be a burden. It doesn't take care of itself and those who are wealthy and have a sense of responsibility about that wealth, take that responsibility very seriously.'' [...]
Strikingly, what most concerned those polled was not being able to maintain and improve their current status and get ahead. This might come as a surprise because, well, they already are ahead. Overall, 91% call "the luxury lifestyle" a key issue, 94% say the same was true of "the lifestyles of the exceptionally wealthy." These exceed the 81% who say "not being able to meaningfully enhance" their current lifestyle is important, which is about the same level as "making sure your heirs are taken care of."
As Russ Prince describes it, it's the mind set of "I have the $5 million jet. I want the $10 million jet." But he doesn't see it as greed. Rather, he says, it's simply a reflection of what everyone at every income level wants: something more.
This site is designed to allow IBM Employees to communicate and share methods of protecting their rights through the establishment of an IBM Employees Labor Union. Section 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act states it is a violation for Employers to spy on union gatherings, or pretend to spy. For the purpose of the National Labor Relations Act, notice is given that this site and all of its content, messages, communications, or other content is considered to be a union gathering.


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Much of Rich's recent experience has focused on the renewable energy sector, representing the sponsors and developers in connection with multiple photovoltaic (PV) solar plants in Peru, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, and Panama. Many of these transactions have involved multilateral banks and development finance institutions from various countries around the world. He also has worked on a number of wind, thermal solar, and conventional power projects as well as toll roads, airports, transmission lines, waste treatment facilities, and water projects throughout Latin America. Rich is actively involved in the American public-private partnership sector, representing bidders, concession companies, underwriters, and lenders in the acquisition, development, and financing of major infrastructure projects throughout the United States.
Rich is involved in the Firm's pro bono efforts on behalf of unaccompanied children from Central America and is active in fundraising efforts for cancer and Parkinson's Disease research. He is a guest lecturer in international finance at the University of Miami School of Law.


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Before I get into my overall picture today… a little background. I am looking at purchasing my first lens. I've had my camera for a year now, so it seems right to move on to trying other lenses. The big thing I have been going back and forth on is if I want a macro or zoom. And I've decided to go with a zoom. There are so many times I could have had a better picture if I could have just zoomed in closer. My friend David suggested the current lens he is using, Tamron SP 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di VC USD. He is actually letting me borrow it for a couple of days to try it out. Thank you David!!
That leads me to the overall topic of this post! I had to try out this lens and I was hoping the weather would hold up for me. Well, to my surprise, Spring decided to pay us a visit this late afternoon. With some actual sun in the sky I dropped my daughter of at swim team practice and headed over to the Derby-Johnson Swan Reserve. And sure enough when I got out of my car it felt like a spring day. The birds were chirping happily every where and I even managed to see a beaver at one point (just had to be swimming away from me!! grr!!).
This robin just happen to stop long enough for me to snap a few pictures of him. From how this and a couple other pictures turned out (check out my flickr page), I'm thinking this lens will be a good choice.


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BETTY BOOP HAS PUPPIES!Our Betty Boop (CH Betty Boop Anima Canis) has delivered a litter on 21 November 2013! There are six puppies in the litter, two boys and four girls. The Sire is a French male Cyriague du Bois de Saint-Cyr, a nice pied Frenchie of Cotation 5 (more about the unique French system of cotations HERE). He was born and lives in the prestigeous French kennel Du Bois de Saint-Cyr near to Paris. Among others, Cyriague is father of Flavius du Bois de Saint-Cyr, the Junior World Winner 2011. For more information, please click HERE. Pedigree of the litter ibid or also HERE. click here
PUPPIES AWAITED • All Our "Girls" Are PregnantPregnancy was confirmed by USG - by Adela on Friday, by Hébé and Betty Boop two weeks ago. The delivery is expected on about 23 November, in case of Adelka ar the end of first week in December. Click HERE for more informations. click here
Duo CACIB Praha • A Dry Run for European Dog Show 2014However the final rehearsal for the European Dog Show 2014 will be the February show in Brno, double show in Praha was also a kind of dry run for this prestigeous international event. Almost 3500 dogs competed in Prague each day. Number of French bulldogs wasn't surprisingly high. Nocturne Mer Aglaos, a male of J. Kreplová, won both BOB and CACIB titles on Saturday. Queen Elisabeth Bohemia Hapet of H. Petrová was awarded Res. CACIB in females. Sunday was a one-female-show of K. Pejšová. Her male Eagle-Eyed Flat Devils won both CACIB and BOB, while her multichampion Best Looking Flat Devils has got CACIB in females. Our Hébé is pregnant and so she left at home. Horus probably became afraid of his high responsibility and refused to pose on the table in both days, what eliminated any hope for his good placement. click here
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She couldn't take her eyes off his feet. Good grief, when had she ever found a man's feet sexy before? Maybe it was because she wouldn't let herself look directly at him, and his feet were the only part of him solidly in her peripheral vision. If she let her gaze wander just a little farther up, she could see the outline of his strong legs under the jeans, and then her imagination would take her even further, to where the denim clung lovingly to his hard thighs and the slight bulge at the very top of one of them.
She didn't want to watch the movie. She wanted to watch Morgan, to drink him in and store him up. She very much wanted to keep this casual and relaxed Morgan that she had thought never to see again.
She still wasn't sure why he had let her come back. Sooner or later, maybe even tonight, he was going to realize she could never fit in here. The scene was all perfect except for the cookie-cutter wife. No matter how hard she tried, no matter how many strands of pearls she bought, she was never going to fit into that June Cleaver role. When Morgan came to his senses, she was going to wind up ruthlessly evicted again. She would be sent back to Hollywood with all the other glossy, plastic people who played happy families on the screen and made train wrecks of their personal lives.
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After the leaves fall, Kozo is cut down in November.
Kozo belongs to the mulberry family. It is characterized by its thick and long fibers.
Kozo is steamed. It makes easier to peel off the bark.
The bark is stripped off and dried. Then the barks with specks are removed completely.
The bark is placed on the snow-covered fields and bleached by exposing to the sun,absorbing snow moisture. Then the bark is washed.
Impurities in the bark are picked out by hand.
Tororo Aoi is a kind of hollyhock. Its roots are crushed to make "Neri" or mucilage.
It prevents the fibers from setting and entangling and it strengthens paper.
It also makes the sheets of paper separate easier.
When completely dry, each sheet of paper is inspected and sorted out by hand.


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The last article about God's elect informed you that they were chosen before being placed in their mother's womb and Ephes. 1:4 KJV bears this out:
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Is it possible that you are included as one of God's elect? They consist of two categories…The Remnant and His First Fruits.
The Remnant consists of those utilized by God to make certain that His Truth comes forth to these end times. They include prophets, disciples, apostles, and others utilized throughout God's Word.
First Fruits are the remaining elect and their job is serving God in these end times. Specifically, their job is helping God to awaken those sleeping to the truth that is taking place in these end times.
Is it possible that God has included you as one of His First Fruits?
Is it possible that He has chosen you to assist Him in these turbulent times?
John 15:16 KJV explains how you are chosen:
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Matthew 20:16 KJV says that you were chosen "First" (prior to being placed in your mother's womb) to enable you to serve "last" in these end times.
So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
Not many are chosen! Your answer to the question "Have I been chosen" requires that you look in a mirror and ask yourself: Does the reality that our nation is falling away from God trouble me? Am I troubled by the fact that our nation is ignoring our constitution and the important role that Christianity plays in it? Answering yes to these questions shows there to be a high probability that you have been chosen.
If you know that Satan comes before Jesus, claiming that he is Jesus at the second coming…then you definitely are.
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LESS vs SASS variable scopes
Google for something like "LESS vs SASS" and you will find the general consensus seems to be that SASS comes out ahead. Take a look at this summary, for example.
I'm not going to argue that in some respects SASS isn't more powerful but there's one particular thing - variable scoping - that I think LESS handles better.
In SASS variables are global; declared once and changed by any subsequent declaration. For example:
$color: #000;
header {
color: $color;
article {
$color: #333;
color: $color;
footer {
color: $color;
This will compile to:
header { color: #000; }
article { color: #333; }
footer { color: #333; }
The re-declaration of
$color inside the
article changes the value of the original
$color variable and any references after the
article block ends will get the new value.
In LESS things are a little different. The equivalent code (I won't bother to reproduce it here, just replace the
$ symbols with
@ in the SASS example) would compile to this CSS:
header { color: #000; }
article { color: #333; }
footer { color: #000; }
The re-declaration of
@color in the
article block is treated as a scope local override. At the end of the
article block it drops out of scope and references to
@color will use the original declaration.
Personally, I think the LESS scoping rules are much more useful. I frequently use a block-local override for a variable but I can't imagine ever finding the SASS approach useful. CSS is a declarative langage and at a macro scale order isn't (or shouldn't be) important. I expect to be able to re-order the declarations and have them produce the same result. Yes there are exceptions to this, for example CSS rules that conflict with each other (don't do that, then) and the fact that variables must be declared before being used (to me a natural exception).


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A decision on restoration work at the Colosseum has been delayed until 31 January at least, when Lazio's regional administrative (TAR) is scheduled to rule on a dispute about the tender for part of the construction work.
The court hearing is the latest in a series of legal challenges that have delayed the €25-million project funded by Tod's shoe company which, in exchange for funding, will be granted the use of the image of the Colosseum for marketing purposes for 15 years.
The court hearing relates to the validity of the first of four tenders for the restoration of the northern and southern elevations of the amphitheatre as well as installing gates in the arches. The €8 million contract was awarded to the Gherardi construction group last August however in November the city's superintendent said the company had failed to provide adequate documentation.
The mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno described the "continuous postponements" of the restoration as "serious" and "exasperating". In February 2012 Italy's audit court ruled that the contract signed one year earlier between Tod's owner Diego Della Valle and the culture ministry was regular, after the country's third-largest trade union UIL claimed that proper tender procedures had not been followed.
The other three tenders relate to the creation of a visitor's centre; the restoration of the arches; and internal sections of the amphitheatre.
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Governor Patrick's proposal to substantially increase investments in early education is generating interest across the state. The Berkshire Eagle has published a supportive editorial, the Boston Globe's Podium has run a supportive op-ed, and Cape Cod Times columnist Sean Gonsavles is also supportive. A number of papers – including the Boston Globe, Republican, Standard-Times, and Telegram & Gazette — have printed letters to the editor urging the Legislature to increase investments in young children.
Here's a sample:
"There has been a lot of talk on Beacon Hill about the need to improve the state's infrastructure in order to ensure that Massachusetts enjoys a prosperous future. Among the many initiatives laid out by Governor Patrick in his ambitious agenda is an investment in a sometimes overlooked but crucial key to the state's future: early childhood education."
Ron Friedman, senior vice president of Richards Barry Joyce & Partners, and Jed Swan, founder and managing partner of Drydock Ventures, Boston Globe Podium, February 26, 2012
"The state's employers need a well-educated workforce to meet the demands of today's largely high-tech marketplace. Falling short results in economic stagnation. Berkshire employers have had difficulty finding qualified workers, a problem BCC and MCLA have responded to. Education must be addressed at the ground level, however, which is why Pittsfield Promise was created a year ago to boost early childhood education in general and improve third-grade literacy in particular. While it is easy to find reasons not to do something, the reasons for improving public education in the state are many and of overwhelming importance."
Editorial, Berkshire Eagle, January 17, 2013
"The challenge is convincing enough folks to take off their short-term green eyeshades and look at the bigger picture that study after study has shown. High-quality early education is linked to lower incidences of students falling behind, less special education spending, higher graduation and college-going rates, reduced reliance on social support programs, better health outcomes and less interaction with the criminal justice system. To ignore common sense and empirical evidence in the name of short-term austerity is about the dumbest thing we can do."
Columnist Sean Gonsalves, Cape Cod Times, February 17, 2013
"Children who are prepared for kindergarten are more likely to maintain that positive trajectory throughout their lives, succeeding academically and economically, and making positive contributions to society. For Governor Patrick, this is an investment in our future that the commonwealth cannot afford to pass on for any child, and he has a plan to get us there."
Massachusetts Secretary of Education Matthew Malone, letter to the editor, Boston Globe, February 27, 2013
"I applaud [Governor Patrick] for recognizing that we will not provide the opportunity for every child to succeed until we invest in children's earliest years, when the path to literacy begins and the first evidence of the achievement gap emerges. I urge our delegation and delegations across the state to approve the proposed investments in early education and care."
John Davis, Irene E. & George A. Davis Foundation, letter to the editor, Republican, February 6, 2013
"Since 2005, Massachusetts has laid a strong foundation for a statewide system of high-quality early education and care that includes an oversubscribed scholarship for working educators earning college degrees, developmentally appropriate standards aligned with the K-12 system, and a shared definition of quality. The plan before the Legislature would help bring this system to scale. It emphasizes quality and respects parent choice."
Carolyn Lyons, President, Strategies for Children, letter to the editor, Boston Globe, February 27, 2013
"As someone who has spent my career in early education, I have witnessed families' uphill struggles to find high-quality early learning settings for their young children. I have seen underpaid early educators welcome opportunities to further their education and improve programs' quality, even though they're worn out by second and third jobs they need just to get by. As a New Bedford resident, I'm deeply concerned about the latest MCAS results that over half (54 percent) of the city's third-graders are not proficient readers. The governor has proposed a comprehensive plan to improve program quality and enable many, many more children to attend high-quality early childhood education."
Robert French, director of policy and program development, NorthStar Learning Centers, letter to the editor, The Standard-Times, February 15, 2013
"In a city where 59% of third graders scored below proficient in reading on the 2012 MCAS, the Worcester Education Collaborative believes that Governor Patrick's FY14 budget proposal contains some very good news…. The achievement gap is evident long before children start school. Closing it must start long before children start school. Now it's the Legislature's turn to act on this evidence."
Jennifer Davis Carey, executive director, Worcester Education Collaborative, letter to the editor, Telegram & Gazette, February 3, 2013


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FELO DE SE (M.L. a felon, i.e. murderer, of himself), one who commits murder upon himself. The technical conditions of murder apply to this crime; e.g., " if one commits any unlawful malicious act, the consequence of which is his own death, as if attempting to kill another he runs upon his antagonist's sword, or shooting at another the gun bursts and kills himself," he is a felo de se. The horror inspired by this crime led to the revolting punishment of an " ignominious burial on the highway, with a stake driven through the body." This was abolished by an act of 1823, which ordered the burial of the body of a person found to be felo de se within 24 hours after the coroner's inquest, between the hours of 9 and 12 at night, and without Christian rites of sepulture. This act was again superseded in 1882 by the Interments (Felo de se) Act, which permits the interment of any felo de se in the churchyard or other burial ground of the parish or place in which by the law or custom of England he might have been interred but for the verdict. The interment is carried out in accordance with the Burial Laws Amendment Act 188o (see BURIAL AND BURIAL ACTS). The act does not authorize the performance of any of the rites of Christian burial, but a special form of service may be used. Formerly the goods and chattels, but not the land, of a felo de se were forfeited to the crown, but such forfeitures were abolished by the Forfeiture Act 187o. (See also SUICIDE.)End of Article: FELO DE SE (M.L. a felon, i.e. murderer, of himself)
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- AnonymousApril 30, 2013 at 7:11 AM
What a great shot. Hope you have a nice day.ReplyDelete
VERY wise words Michelle -- and I like the b/w view. Have a great day!ReplyDelete
Oh I love this shot and the quote. Be well. BReplyDelete
Love this quote- it takes a strong will to conquer one's own self. Have a great day Michelle!ReplyDelete
Love the wavy glass at the top. Nice shot!ReplyDelete
Nice quote and photo.ReplyDelete
Looks like Woodbury on the walking deadReplyDelete
Wonderful quote!ReplyDelete
Very interesting shot...and the words are one to ponder...ReplyDelete
Great quote and I like the black and white. Have a good week. ;)ReplyDelete
thank you, dear michelle.ReplyDelete
A perfect quote for me, having survived looking back on 50 years of my life. Thank you, Michelle.ReplyDelete
Great quote and very interesting view. :). You be well also!ReplyDelete
Like your BW version of your town view. Some subjects call out for the subdued look. -- barbaraReplyDelete
Nice photo effect, and great thought for the day!ReplyDelete
I hope you and your wonderful family are well too.. and enjoy the week. We are good here, just a tad busy with this and that. But it's all good. ((hugs)), Teresa :-)ReplyDelete
Neat photo with the rippled look!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 30, 2013 at 1:40 PM
nice shot...and a quote to think about!ReplyDelete
Liked the picture and the quote.ReplyDelete
Only you can make an ordinary photo extra-ordinary!ReplyDelete
Excellent eye for the shot and excellent effect. Thanks for the wonderful wisdom too.ReplyDelete
Love that view!!!ReplyDelete
Hi Michelle, The photo almost makes the small town look like the city. :-) The thought for today is so true! JohnReplyDelete
Same to you as well =)ReplyDelete
Hi Michelle....this is a different kind of view but one that is very nice. Love the clock, the lamps and the benches....ReplyDelete
I wonder what the ratio is between truck owners vs automobiles. :)ReplyDelete
Great thought, great shot (sure looks a lot like our little town too).ReplyDelete
Spring must be quite advanced there if you already have Queen Anne Lace flowering - I'm still waiting on tulips.


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Letter to Felicia Marcus, Chair, California Water Resources Control Board Regarding the Final Draft of the Bay-Delta Plan Update
U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock, CA-04, joined by 13 California members of the House of Representatives called on President Trump to continue to provide federal assistance for fire suppression and recovery.
"For the state of California to endure these catastrophic wildfires, it is going to take your continued leadership and support," the letter to the President said. "We stand ready to assist you in expediting federal support to impacted communities." A copy of the letter is attached.
For many years, forest management and fire-prevention took a back-seat at these summits, but now nature is screaming its warning at us as fires rage throughout the west: the Tahoe Basin is on borrowed time. The fires all around us present a stark question: How much longer does Tahoe have? Will the view at next year's summit be one of burned out structures, blackened vistas and an ash-choked lake?


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I remember this kid from my fourth grade class. Jack was his name, I think, or at least, that's what I'll call him here. He seemed bigger than the rest of us, maybe he had been held back already. It was widely known that he was a trouble maker. Didn't try. Didn't care. The teachers regarded him with unmasked frustration and hostility, and their assessment of him was not lost on the rest of us. I mean, how stupid were you, if you had made it all the way to the fourth grade (perhaps having even repeated a grade or two along the way) and you still couldn't read?
I also remember that Jack was good at fixing things. Taking them apart and putting them back together again. Ballpoint pens in particular. Fourth grade was a seminal year for this, because the great privilege of being a fourth grader was that you sometimes got to write with a pen instead of a pencil. But with this privilege also came the frustration of pens that would every so often stop working, and you'd circle and circle on the page, waiting for the ink to come out, but it never did. Jack could fix your pen for you. He did this for me one time, as I had been seated next to him in art or music class. I'd regarded him somewhat suspiciously, and with a bit of fear. He was supposed to be a bad seed, the kind of kid you didn't talk to, a bully.
But as he sat next to me and dismantled my pen, he hummed a bit. And I realized, I couldn't think of one single instance when he had actually caused trouble or done something wrong. All I could think of was teachers yelling at him or punishing him for things that wouldn't have even caused so much as a raised eyebrow if some other student had done it. All I could think of was how, whenever he was called upon to read a passage out loud in class, he would stumble over the words, getting many of them wrong. And the rest of the class would snicker, at best, or laugh outright in his face.
He wasn't the bully. He was bullied.
He was dyslexic.
With a smile, Jack handed me back my pen, and it worked just fine. I wondered why everyone thought he was such a bad kid. I wondered how you could be in the fourth grade and still not be able to read.
That was almost thirty years ago. And the truth is, precious little has changed for dyslexic kids. My son would be Jack if I had listened to the piece-of-shit teachers who told me what a challenge he was, how he needs to try harder, how all we can do is wait and see. My son would be Jack if I had been gaslit by the piece-of-shit principal and school reading specialists and counselors who told me I was being unfair and unreasonable, who have cornered me and ripped me to shreds, who have done everything in their power to get me to shut the fuck up about dyslexia. My son would be Jack if I allowed myself to be intimidated by these overgrown middle school mean girls, by family members who deride me for being too "negative." My son would be Jack if I were anything other than stubborn as fuck. He would be Jack if I hadn't found Ms. V, if we hadn't had the means to pay thousands of dollars (with no end in sight) on dyslexia tutoring.
I thought about Jack the other day, and I wondered what ever happened to him. I'm not sure if I remember him being part of my class beyond grade school. I hoped to god he didn't blow his brains out or overdose, having spent his whole life believing he wasn't worth a damn. I hoped instead he invented something amazing, became a CEO or a stop motion film maker, or a software engineer.
I hope that my son makes it through, but unlike neurotypical children, who have every opportunity handed to them without question, Will has no such assurance. For dyslexic kids now, thirty years ago, sixty years ago, it's still the same: the very people whose job it is to help you succeed in life only sabotage you every step of the way.
Thanks for reading.
Sunday, August 27, 2017
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Stay STRONG!! and NEVER let anyone PUT OUT YOUR FIRE!! WIllam and the thousands of dyslexic children need supporters like you!!!!! Because of your love , William will succeed!!! We are SOOOOOOO proud of William !!! ! we will always be the wind beneath your wings!!! Sending strong vibes and luv to you!! pawpaw and grama nan
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Loving My Push Present From Alex And Ani (Thanks To My Best Friend)
I am SO EXCITED about this gift!! I've been eyeing Alex and Ani jewelry for quite some time because my friend Audrey McClelland is obsessed with them. OBSESSED. She owns TONS and TONS of jewelry from the store and I've had it in the back of my mind for over a YEAR to pick up something from the brand.
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How To Make A Fake Fireplace
Before building a fake fireplace of gypsum board, you are to find proper place for it, draw the design, and make a model. Foam plastic will do nicely for the model. It is light and affordable.
It is better to set your fake fireplace on a pedestal just like you would set a real one. A concrete or a brick pad 20 cm high will do nicely. Find the size of the pad based on the fireplace's dimensions. The pedestal should be 15-25 cm larger than the gypsum board construction.
Make the frame of metal profiles just like you would make frames for any gypsum board construction. Copy the drawing to the wall and the floor. Then assemble the box using C studs, U channels, wall dowels and screws.
To make the frame solid, make jumpers between the C studs and the U channels. If you need to make an arch, make cuts at 5-6 cm stepouts in the profiles and then bend them.
Choosing Gypsum Board And The Lining Board
There's no need to buy a fireproof gypsum board building a fake fireplace. All-purpose board 12.5 mm will do nicely. They use them to even walls and build bulkheads. If you need to bend the board, use arched gypsum board. It is thinner and can be easily bent.
Do the lining after making sure that the frame is strong enough and is fastened to the walls and the floor. Fasten the board to the frame with screws at stepouts not more than 15 cm. Don't forget to hide the heads. Prime and putty the ready constructions, then decorate it as you wish.
Decoration is the most interesting part. It lets you make you best design ideas true. To make the fireplace look real use the known parts of real fireplaces like bolts and ash-pans.
You can finish your gypsum board fireplace with any finishing material including natural stone. Don't forget that heavy constructions require solid base. It is impossible to provide if you live on the upper floors.
Use light materials to avoid overload. Ceramic tiles, artificial stone, decorative plaster and adhesive tape will do nicely. Polyurethane or gypsum plasterwork look unbelievably good.


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Many believe there was indeed "divine intervention" in the result of the mayoralty race in this town which was decided through a coin toss after the two main rivals ended up tied in the last May 9, 2016 elections.
This, after the election protest filed against winning coin toss Mayor Eleanor "Joni" Villanueva-Tugna was dismissed by the Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Malolos City.
Tugna's victory decided through a coin toss in the May 2016 election was affirmed by RTC Branch 81 in a 21-page decision penned by presiding Judge Herminigildo Dumlao.
In the said decision, the court sustained Tugna's argument that complainant/ protester Jim Valerio, former Bulacan provincial administrator/ chief of staff of Governor Wilhelmino Sy-Alvarado, "failed to give a detailed description of the acts or omissions complained of as required by Sec. 10(c)(iv), Rule 2 of A.M. No. 10-4-1-SC, otherwise known as the "The 2010 Rules of Procedure for Municipal Election Contests".
The protest was filed after Valerio lost in the coin toss, alleging that in 34 clustered precincts, "frauds and irregularities were committed in the conduct of the election and during the canvassing of the election returns".
Tugna's lawyers Romulo Macalintal and Antonio Carlos Bautista asked the court to summarily dismiss the said protest for being insufficient in form and substance and for the failure of Valerio to make a detailed specification of the acts or omissions complained of showing the electoral frauds, anomalies or irregularities in the protested precincts as required by the Supreme Court Rules for election protests involving elective municipal officials.
The court said that Valerio did not indicate in his protest the particular acts or omissions which amounted to fraud or irregularities committed in the conduct of election.
The Bocaue mayoral election became one of the most controversial in the May 9, 2016 presidential and local polls because it ended up in a draw and was decided by the toss of the coin after Tugna and Valerio received an equal number of votes -- 16,694 votes each.
Tugna scored a 3-0 on a best of five mechanics against Valerio.
She was immediately proclaimed the winner of the mayoral race in this town known as the "fireworks capital" of the country and its colorful fluvial parade.
The court added that Valerio's election protest "did not make mention of the individuals or parties that committed the frauds or irregularities complained of or of the voters who were disenfranchised due to the commission of the frauds or the irregularities complained of."
Macalintal said this could serve as a lesson to other lawyers who, he said, should file the "correct" election protest
Macalintal said that Valerio can still appeal the decision of the Malolos City RTC before the Commission on Elections.
Bro. Eddie Villanueva, father of Mayor Tugna, said there was "Divine Intervention" in the mayoralty race in Bocaue.
He said that there was a Biblical explanation to the coin toss victory of the mayor, citing Proverbs 16:33 which says, "We may throw the dice, but the Lord determines how they fall".
"We are thankful to God. My daughter has no interest in politics and just ran for her love to God and the welfare of her townmates," Villanueva added.
Mayor Tugna said that she was ready to face defeat but she miraculously won.
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A getaway
Though it was a short trip, we did our best to see the sights.
After an emotionally draining 9 weeks living in Athens, walking into Liberty was a breath of fresh air. Immediately calm embraced me and I was happy and peaceful. (I was pretty happy our whole time in London actually). I started in stationary but just browsed (Makiba, I could imagine you being there with me..), then moved up to the third floor where my guidebook promised "haberdashery".


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I love being on vacation. Who doesn't? You get a free pass from all the day to day pressures of life. Your attention isn't being pulled in a thousand different directions. You aren't surrounded by reminders of all the projects and tasks you should be spending time on. For me it's more than just a clear schedule. Hotels/vacation rentals are usually simple and stripped down to the essentials. Only the most important things are there and you don't really miss the rest. You make do and enjoy what you have. So it hit me while I looked around the bedroom we were staying in: I want to feel like this at home. More than just wanting it, I was determined to make it happen.
The room already had a lot of character. Our house was built in the 1940s and has good quality trim and doors (one of the things that made me fall in love with it) and the master bedroom has the slanted ceilings of a classic Cape. I was also starting with a solid base of beautiful antique furniture. I bought the set at an auction several years ago and I fall more and more in love with it all the time. I believe it's from the late 1800s and the quality is better than any furniture I've ever owned. The set included two twin sized beds (typical for that era), a large tall dresser, a low dresser with an attached mirror, a vanity with an attached mirror, a nightstand and a full length mirror. Since two twin beds wasn't really going to work for us, those went into storage and we bought a matching king sized bed. All the pieces have beautiful inlay on all sides and the tone of the wood is just beautiful. I feel so lucky to own it! I wanted the rest of the room's decor, accessories and bedding to do it justice.
I actually found a bedspread and curtains while I was still on vacation. The matelassé bedspread was on clearance at the LLBean outlet. I loved the simple diamond pattern and I knew the driftwood color was going to brighten up the room compared to the darker brown one we had in there for years (and years and years), so I jumped on it. The same day I also found the paisley curtains at TJMaxx for $24.99 (for two panels!). I love it when things come together like that! Once I saw them side by side I knew I was headed in the right direction.
The rug was the biggest splurge. I justified spending the money because the bright colored vintage rag rug we had in there is being moved to my girls' room (my next project!) so we needed to replace it with something. I do love vintage and antique rugs but I knew finding something old, simple, large and neutral would be a challenge so I decided I would buy something new. When I'm buying a new rug, my first choice is HomeGoods. Their prices on large wool rugs can't be beat. However, HomeGoods is hit or miss and I kept missing so it was time to start searching online. Overstock.com is usually my first choice for online rug shopping. Their prices are great, it's easy to search and filter by size, fiber, color, etc.. and shipping is very inexpensive. They actually had a lot of great options. I narrowed it down to seven gorgeous, neutral, natural fiber rugs that were less than $400 for an 8x10. As I was trying to make a final decision I stumbled upon this beauty Joss & Main and it was love at first sight:
It was all wool and cotton, had an interesting yet subtle pattern, combined several shades of beige, cream and gray so it blended nicely with the bedding and was in my price range. I'm so happy with it and will be sure to check out Joss & Main the next time I need a rug.
Bedding was mostly covered. I have been sticking with plain white sheets for years now. It just makes things easier. I don't have to match anything, they look crisp and clean, they can be bleached and I can buy them when I see a good deal. So I didn't need sheets and I already had the driftwood colored bedspread but I needed some shams and decorative pillows.
I will spare you the ugly details of my sham search (seriously, it was not pretty and my husband's new favorite saying is now "It's all a sham.") and just say that after buying and returning more pillows than I care to admit I decided to make two king sized shams out of a vintage bedspread. Ok, fine. I didn't make them. My mom did. But they are awesome and I love how they came out. The quality of the fabric is so much nicer than any of the budget-friendly options I was considering. The bedspread was white so we dyed them gray. It took a little trial and error to get them the right shade but I'm so happy with how they came out. I shared more about that process here.
The faux shiplap wall was definitely the most involved part of the project (you know, besides trying to pick out shams). Luckily, we had all the plywood we needed leftover from another project so that saved us some money and helped convince my husband we should do it. The slanted ceilings made all the cuts a little more complicated. Straight walls would have been much easier. But, we worked on it when we had spare time (which is hardly ever). Unlike other projects, we didn't have the option of working on it when the girls were asleep because air compressors and nail guns are not quiet. So let's just say that our bed hung out awkwardly in the middle of our room for a few weeks. Once all the wood was up I painted it a shade of gray that is several shades lighter than the gray on the other walls. I really love how it came out. The lighter color brightens up the room and the shiplap made an even bigger impact than I expected on the whole feel of the room. I have plans to add more shiplap in a few other areas in our home and I will share how easy it is to do in a later post!
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Shiplap wall color:
Plaster wall color - Behr Porpoise
Rug - Joss & Main
Plaster wall color - Behr Porpoise
Rug - Joss & Main
Bedspread - LL Bean
Curtains - TJMaxx
Sheers - Ikea (several years ago)
Bamboo Shades - Overstock.com (several years ago)
Double Curtain Rod - Amazon.com
Double Curtain Rod - Amazon.com
Shams - DIY
Decorative Pillows - Marshalls
Blanket - Marshalls
Lamps - Target
Wood Bead Placemat - Target
Faux Potted Plant - HomeGoods
Faux Potted Plant - HomeGoods
Vintage Clock - Etsy
Vintage Gold Round Mirror - Crompton Collective
Framed Watercolor - frame from Michaels
Framed Watercolor - frame from Michaels
Furniture - Antique (purchased at an auction several years ago)
I am really thrilled with how it all came out and I would love to hear what you think. Do you like an all neutral look or do you prefer more color? Is your bedroom due for a refresh?
Thanks so much for following along!
Thanks so much for following along!