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Archive for March, 2011
Getting closer!
Yesterday marked the T-minus 3 week mark. Gabriel dumps the permanent fiberglass pants on April 4.
We've gotten into a basic holding pattern now. The rash is under control but not eliminated. It doesn't appear to hurt him. I'll have Jeanette do a guest post on her experiences with various diaper-rash creams, but whatever she's doing, it's been successful.
The cast is damp, but not soaking. We've used a cool/warm hairdryer to dry off the cast and get some airflow going, and though Gabriel hates it when Jeanette does it, he'll put up with it, and he doesn't seem to mind it when I do it. Big problem there is that the noise of it wipes out most conversation in the local area. But we can deal for half an hour a day.
And the big news is that the bills are continuing to roll in. We have a decent estimate now of the totality of the damage, and it's going to be heavy, but not crippling. We will probably be a bit over $10,000 total gross bill, though we'll see when the ambulance bill arrives. We got the massive $5500 whack from Primary Children's the other day, and Jeanette has still not gotten over the line-by-line insanity of that. More detail coming in a subsequent post.
The bottom line is that while we won't be able to pay it all off in one chunk, we will probably be able to allocate funds to pay it every month, depending on how those negotiations go. Several of you have offered your skills in this area, and we are hugely grateful for this and will certainly accept your offer, once we have everything in hand.
Gabriel isn't sleeping great – last night he did his usual 2 hour fit, which our home-for-Spring-Break son eventually terminated, God bless him – but he's sleeping fairly well, so we can, again, deal with it. He goes down better for me than for Jeanette, which is a great thing for her.
He's also getting outside now that the weather is okay. We took our weekly family walk Sunday and Gabriel went with us in the stroller. We've tried wagons, big strollers, all sorts of things, and he likes the tiny little umbrella stroller best. No idea why. It isn't sensible, but there you go. He loves being outside. We can also wrestle with him some now, which he likes, and even hang him upside down by the bar between his legs, which I'll have to get a photo of.
Note: the hospital staff told us not to lift him by the bar. Then they told us they had to tell us that, and that since you couldn't get the bar off with a chainsaw, we might as well go ahead. If anything happens to Gabriel, it is not their fault.
Dozens of you have told us you're praying for us and sending peace and patience our way. It's being received. You all have some serious Karma built up. We love you and can't possibly describe to you how wonderful it feels to be the recipients of so much goodwill and love. What wonderful friends you are. How amazed we are by every one of you.
Just another day, show reviews, and The Rash that Ate San Francisco
We knew that this injury was going to change all sorts of things in our lives, but no matter what we thought, we weren't prepared for the reality. Maybe, I'm working on this idea, you are NEVER prepared for the reality. I wasn't prepared for children, I can tell you, and we had 9 months lead time to work on that. But that's probably a post for another time.
Gabriel is not a sedentary child. He runs around everywhere, like a lot of two-year-olds. Sitting still is hard for him, but he'll do it – fortunately he likes TV, especially basketball and kids shows on KBYU. Apropos of this, in the hope that it will be of benefit to other parents, here are some short reviews of a few of the possibilities:
Word Girl: Cute show, animated in that style that you see so much of these days, where people use computers that could launch the Space Shuttle to make animation that looks like it was created by a 4-year-old. It's not heavy on words, despite the title. Reminded me a lot of Power Puff Girls, and I don't mean that in a good way. We use this one to put Gabriel to sleep on hard days.
Word World: Gabriel's favorite. I like this one entirely because of that. It IS clever. Everything in the world is made up of words, and the main characters, a sheep, a duck, and a pig, with assorted hangers-on like bear and ant, go around having adventures and fixing things by changing letters around. I find it unwatchable, myself, but as I say, this is the favorite. Episodes available on Netflix streamed over the web. Thank goodness.
Super Why: I don't even know what to say about this show. Part of me appreciates the cleverness of the concept, taking little animated kids (this show's animation is actually quite professional 3-D) and turning them into the Super Readers, so they can go solve problems by learning to read. Part of me thinks the show is the single most annoying thing I've ever seen, because it's one of those incredibly patronizing shows that asks your kid to "interact" with the kids on the screen, where they pause, ask you to say your name, look at you and ask you questions, all that. But I hear my four-year-old talking to the TV and naming off letters and reading words along with the show. That's not nothing, as my favorite TV character once said. Watch out for the jingles (of which there are several hundred). They will get stuck in your head. This is not something to wish for.
The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot about That: I'm confessing. I love this show. Most Seussian knockoffs (this is even worse for Milne/Pooh knockoffs, which are universally awful in almost every respect) don't work because the writers aren't capable of being even half as clever as Geisel was, but they imitate the style, and that gives me a rash, sort of like Vanilla Ice rapping. But this one does it the other way around, going for clever first and style second. It doesn't try to rhyme all the time – face it, Geisel was a master at this, and there are few to match him – but it preserves the whimsical style without attempting to make the show as if Seuss wrote it. They do learn interesting things, and if I don't hold much with adventure being the point of existence – a Jedi craves not these things, if I recall correctly – it's entertaining and I find it eminently watchable, a significant bonus.
Dinosaur Train: I've never been able to get through a single episode of this ("one, two, three toes! It must be a Therapod!" Seriously?). But my kids love it. It's not offensive, I just don't get it, except the part where the real-life paleontologist comes out and explains that we don't actually know anything at all about any of the creatures we're animating during the show. I like that part. And the jingle is catchy, but doesn't grate. A real bonus.
Sid the Science Kid: Cannot. Watch. We turn it off. Maybe the kids would like it, but we're not going to find out.
I'd love to hear yours. I know my sister loved Phineas and Ferb, but we don't get into Disney or Cartoon Network shows here. Except for Boomerang, because of Tom and Jerry, which for some reason my kids could watch all day.
Gabriel has a flaming "diaper" rash, which is not in the place his diapers go. It's in the surrounding area under the cast, where air doesn't circulate and the cast is wet and slimy. As hard as we try to keep it dry, it's just impossible. We have been doing the following:
- augmenting the diaper with a dry washcloth to add additional absorbency
- using two kinds of diaper rash ointment in alternating 6-10 hour shifts
- drying the cast as best we can by aiming a cool hairdryer into the open parts
- praying
- letting him lie on his stomach for a half hour a few times a day
This seems to be helping. It's getting better, though I doubt that it will come all better until the cast comes off. He's not in any pain from the broken leg anymore, so he can lie on his stomach without pain, but not without eventual discomfort. Keeping crumbs out of his cast is a difficulty as well, though not as difficult as we thought it might be, because he hardly eats.
And that's a problem as well, that we're not sure how to fix. Gabriel doesn't want to eat much. We get a few bites of things into him, but he's done fast. He's eating less than half what he used to (although he was always a picky eater). He has good energy, though, and seems good.
He is also actually sleeping. Two nights in a row, all through the night. He won't sleep in his bed upstairs, so we end up with him down in his spot on the couch (now fortified with a plastic mattress pad), but at least he's sleeping and Jeanette and I are feeling a bit more normal. I'm pretty sure the rash was the thing that was making him sleep poorly. We couldn't see it, because for two weeks he couldn't really move at all because of the pain from the leg. So I suppose it was inevitable, but it still made us feel like horrible parents.
I wouldn't trade this. I get great time holding Gabriel while Jeanette does his diaper and washes him. It's a blessed time for me, in spite of it all. Or perhaps because of it all. Have to think about that one, too.
The system sucks, but the people…
The medical system is a disaster, especially from the financial side, as I detail here and here. But there is one part of the system I have no complaints about, and that's the people.
With only two exceptions, and those are colored by the "necessity" of uncovering abuse where it doesn't exist, every single person we've dealt with has been absolutely great. Professional, competent, kind, even gentle.
- The ER staff at American Fork Hospital were exceedingly gentle with Gabriel when they took care of him there. He was distraught, it was late, everyone was tired, but they splinted his leg with great care, and when they pricked him for his line, they were supremely careful of him and tried everything to help him be comfortable.
- The ambulance paramedics offered several things to help Gabriel be comfortable, and allowed Jeanette to ride with him to the hospital. They were obviously sensible of the fact that this was a bad situation for us, and did what they could to make it better.
- The Trauma staff at Primary Children's Hospital could hardly have been more courteous or kind to us. They were faster than advertised at nearly everything, and we ended up leaving there a couple hours sooner than I expected.
- When it was time to go for Gabriel's checkup after a week (yep, we've made it a week), instead of making us come all the way to upper downtown Salt Lake, they let us go to Riverton instead, about 30 miles closer to home. They've given us suggestions for cleaning and de-smellifying the cast, which have been somewhat helpful.
- When we were coming to pick up the bill from AF Hospital, because the lady knew we'd have to be quick about it, she offered to bring the bill to the curb and hand it to us instead of making us come in, so that we could get back to Gabriel faster. This offer by itself tells you a great deal about the people that work there.
Our impression of the medical system has bee greatly altered by these and other experiences. We know that as messed up as the system itself is, that it is staffed by people that are absolutely the best in the world at what they do. More than that, they're great people. In the days that follow, when I am proposing possible solutions to the medical mess the country is in, I want to make very sure that I'm clear about one thing: I don't blame the people that are inside the system. Few to none of them have anything to do with how we got where we currently are, and it is entirely possible that some of them would be hurt in the short term by what I think we have to do to fix it. Such is not my intent, but I don't think that anyone is going to come out of this unscathed, anyway.
For now, a hearty thanks to all of the many people that have helped us by performing jobs for us that we cannot perform for ourselves. We all thank you and are very grateful for you.
Gabriel slept in a bed in his old room last night, the crib having been dismantled. He went to sleep far, far better than he ever has, and although he did wake up a couple of times (well, okay, six or eight times) between 12:30 and 4, he slept okay before that and after that. I haven't been home today, so I don't have a report on how he's done after that much sleep, but last night Jeanette and I did get more sleep than we have been getting, and in our own bed, too, so that's not nothing.
Melatonin, in response to several recommendations, has been procured, and we're going to give that a shot as well, and see if it helps him settle.
We got Gabriel up and sat him near the table. It required four telephone books and two bungee cords, and I doubt very much if this arrangement would meet any federal safety standard, but as you can see, he loved it. Halelujah, it was like having our son back again.
Econ 101 for Hospitals
I'm a small businessman. Have been for pretty much the whole of my life. The largest organization I've ever worked for, since I left the employ of BYU when I graduated, was a presidential campaign, which technically has a couple of hundred employees but functionally has less than 20. I currently run a branch of a mortgage company which has a varying number of loan officers, never (so far) exceeding 5. I think of it as my own company, and I run it that way. I have 20 years of small-business experience in several different industries, and I've been in leadership of the local Chamber of Commerce for a good while, which gives me that much more contact with all sorts of businesses large and small.
This thing with Gabriel has put me in contact with a huge number of enterprises that I've never had any dealings with before. One thing that has absolutely rocked me is the whole hospital/health care thing. Hospitals, I discover to my shock, are not businesses.
I'm talking about all hospitals, even nonprofit hospitals, which are many, because honestly there isn't much difference between a nonprofit enterprise and a for-profit enterprise, in terms of how it operates. Where the money comes from, yes, but otherwise no. There are certain characteristics of businesses that hospitals lack in entirety. One is a general connection between profit motive and sales. Another is a cost basis. Since I'm dealing with those up close and personal right now, those are all I'll address, but there are more.
Here's a core sample of the insanity currently running rampant in hospitals, and what you will see when you go there. This list isn't exhaustive, and it is, by necessity, restricted mainly to my experience with my child, but I'm told it isn't atypical in any respect.
No matter what it is you're there for, through the whole process, every time you ask about how much something costs, you'll get a blank stare. This means two things:
- It means that you're a heartless bastard that cares more about money than his child. This is a monstrous accusation, but it was leveled at me several times. It's going to get worse, I'm certain, because I'm going to keep worrying this point. While it is laudable and noble to put the life and health of a person above financial considerations, the fact is that no one's life and health are beyond financial considerations. Gabriel does not exist in a vacuum. He is one of ten people in the family. Thousands of dollars spent on his care means thousands of dollars less to spend on the care of the other seven children in the family. It just does. One thing impacts the other. There is not an infinite and unending supply of money.
This is not only poorly understood, even by adults, it is actively sneered at as being unworthy of consideration. This leads to union protestors in Wisconsin, among other things, that seem to think that there is a bottomless fountain of money to pay for whatever they want. There isn't. Money that is forked over by the state to pay for first-dollar medical coverage is money that cannot be spent on roads, or schools, or policemen. There are tradeoffs. We're starting to see some of those on a state and federal level.
They're much easier to see on a personal level, because the amounts are not hidden by billions of other dollars of spending. When they put a morphine drip in my son's arm, they're taking away money I need for car insurance. When they transport him 50 miles by ambulance, they're wiping out my ability to makes six months of mortgage payments. I see the tradeoffs everywhere, and though sometimes I might be willing to make those sacrifices, I'm never given the opportunity to decide. Once you're in the system, it is assumed that you want every possible convenience, even if the truth is that you'd prefer to eat next month, and you'd be willing to forgo heated blankets to make sure you could.
2. It means – and as a businessman, this was the most incredible to me – that nobody knows how to answer your question. Yes, the staff is aware that things cost money; what they're not aware of is how much. They can't tell you, because they don't know. You book the OR for a surgical procedure, there are seven hundred pieces of that procedure and nobody – absolutely no one – knows what they all cost. Most of the hospital people don't even know what THEY cost, except in hourly or annual terms.
So it isn't as simple as getting a handle on what I'm paying for, even, because nobody can tell me even if they didn't think I should be shot for asking. Because the medical billing is routinely handled by another department, and that department usually send the bill to a monstrous, faceless corporation that will write checks without thinking about it (we call this "insurance" as if that's what it really is), and THAT corporation is getting its money from another corporation (we call this an "employer"), that takes medical insurance premiums as part of a "benefits package" that has half a dozen other moving parts, we have divorced the consumer from the consumption to such a degree that normal free-market cost controls are absent. Try this on:
You run a grocery store. You have to pay for meat, then re-sell it. The meat comes to you with no price tag. How do you know how much to charge for it? You can't know. You can find out what people will pay, simply by putting the meat out there at $50 a pound and dropping the price until some of it sells. But what if every grocery store has the same problem, and they all sell meat for $50 a pound? Oh, wait, it's worse. Because the people that come in and buy the meat don't pay for it. They pay a grocery insurance premium increasingly (and with single-payer programs, known as socialized medicine, completely) divorced from how much meat they actually buy. In consequence, they buy all the meat they can, no matter how much it costs (which, as I said before, they can't know even if they're curious). When the grocery premium goes up, it goes up for everyone, whether they bought meat at all. And there you have the US medical billing system. Absolutely guaranteed to drive up costs. You couldn't have designed a system that would do it better.
The hospital sells all sorts of things under the heading of "care". In fact, EVERYTHING the hospital does as "care" sells me something that I have to buy. Rarely, exceptionally rarely, am I given any choice. Sticking with the grocery analogy, I am required to have carrots if I have beef. Never mind if I want to have green beans instead (although if I want them in addition, that can sometimes be arranged). The grocery store has determined that in my best interests, I have to have carrots. So I get them. They are placed in my cart. And I get to take them home, while the grocery store figures out what to charge me for them. This isn't a business. I know business when I see it. It isn't a charity. I know those things as well. This is something…else. I don't honestly know what this is.
What is the actual cost of an MRI? I mean, the real, amortized cost of the procedure to the medical institution so that it can recoup the value of the machine during its useful life. No. One. Knows. How is this possible? A construction company knows to the penny how much it has to charge in order to meet its costs, including replacing equipment when it wears out. A copy store knows that it has to charge a certain amount for copies in order to cover toner, paper, and wear on the machine. But a hospital doesn't know how much to charge for basic medical procedures? No. It doesn't. There are no pricing signals.
This does not, however, make the costs go away. What happens is one of two things: either the costs express themselves through the "insurance" system or they express themselves in rationing. There's no other way. If there isn't enough meat to go around, then either the race is to the strong and the lucky, or you develop a lottery system, or both. See National Health_Great Britain. It's simply the way things are. No politician, no demagogue, no think tank, no well-intentioned billionaire can make these things not be true. If the new health care law restricts insurance premium increases – and it does – then the artificial constraints placed on price increases will mean rationing of care. Period. You can stand in the rain, or you can stand under an umbrella, but if you stand in the rain you WILL get wet.
This is the outline of the problem. I'd outline a possible solution, but I'm tired and I bet you are, too.
Gabriel isn't sleeping. I mean, he sleeps, a little, but he never sleeps more than an hour or so at a stretch, and last night he cried for about 2 hours starting at 10pm and going to midnight before he finally fell asleep, then he woke up every hour or so for the rest of the night. Nicholas did his best to help Jeanette and I get some rest, but eventually at 2 I ended up down there with him until morning. Jeanette, because it was closing night for my play, had him for the Hell Watch of 8-11pm. I'd adore suggestions that did not involve powerful narcotics. I'm starting to think I'll drop that condition here in another day or so.
We are literally brought to tears by the generosity of our friends, and even our casual acquaintances. We've seen Paypal money almost every day for a while now, in all sorts of amounts, each appreciated as much as every other. We've gotten baskets and packages of toys and food. There's some discussion of a benefit concert, a family fundraising dance, bake sales, all kinds of things. I can't possibly express to you what this means to us. It's more than the money – though as those bills roll in, that's becoming critical – it's knowing that so many of you are praying for us or, as my good friend Sara says, sending peace and patience our way. We feel it. We rely on it. What a miracle you all are. May God bless you tenfold, as He has promised to do.
Since today we got to talk about how screwed up the medical system is, tomorrow I'll tell you how unutterably fabulous the medical people are, and I mean that sincerely.


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12:00 PM-1:00 PM on November 12, 2014
Location: Marcus Nanotechnology Building 1116
Title: DART: Dynamic Animation and Robotics Toolkit
Designing control algorithms for complex dynamic systems is a challenging and time consuming process. It often requires deriving nonlinear differential equations, formulating optimization problems, and solving numerous small but tedious problems, such as inverse kinematics, forward simulation, inverse dynamics, or Jacobian matrix computation. To streamline the process of controller design, we introduced an open-source, cross-platform toolkit, called DART, for rapid development of kinematics and dynamics applications in computer animation and robotics. DART (Dynamic Animation and Robotics Toolkit), one of the default physics engines in Gazebo, provides seamless integration with robotic simulators in ROS environment. In contrast to many popular physics engines which view the simulator as a black box, DART gives full access to internal kinematic and dynamic quantities, such as the mass matrix, Coriolis and centrifugal forces, transformation matrices and their derivatives. DART also provides efficient computation of Jacobian matrices for arbitrary body points and coordinate frames. In this talk, I will give an introduction of DART and demonstrate how complicated problems can be implemented using only a few lines of code in DART. I will also show how we use DART to make an Atlas robot walk, a Shadow Hand manipulate objects in hand, a virtual human learn gymnastics, and a variety of aquatic creatures swim in simulated fluid.
C. Karen Liu is an associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. She received her Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 2005. Liu's research interests are in computer graphics and animation, including physics-based animation, character animation, numerical methods, robotics and computational biomechanics. Liu received National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and was named Young Innovators Under 35 by Technology Review. In 2012, Liu received the ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award for her contribution in the field of computer graphics.

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Celtics point guard Isaiah Thomas says that he has been "gypped his entire life." Thomas, who is only 5'9″, is an absolutely incredible offensive player. He is putting up career numbers across the board and still came up short in the NBA All Star Voting. On the season he is averaging 21.8 points per game and 6.6 assist per game. Based on his stats alone, it appears that Thomas would receive enough votes to earn a spot on the All Star team, but this was not the case. Continue reading "Isaiah Thomas Controversy"
On July 12th, 2013, the Boston Celtics announced that they had traded Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce to the Brooklyn Nets. The fans of Celtics Nation immediately questioned Danny Ainge and why he would pull the trigger in this trade with no obvious star power return. It was obvious this trade was for the the future of the team but some fans failed to see the potential of this trade. Reporters encouraged the sports world that this trade would be a huge benefit for the Celtics in the future and the future is now. Continue reading "Boston Celtics Future"


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Just Checked In: TIE Colorado/
#edtech #tieco #elearning
Just got checked into my condo at Copper Mountain Resort and picked up the name badge and info for speaking at TIE Colorado. It looks like it is going to be a great conference, the woman in front of me while checking in said it is way better than ISTE, so I am looking forward to the sessions.
The theme this year is "New Frontiers." Boy, they aren't kidding. Edtech is going through a lot of changes and reform so I hope to get a lot of ideas over the next four days.
I'll keep you posted on what I learn.


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My nose and feet are cold. COLD!
It's 72 degrees inside Casa de Crazy and I have cold body parts.
There is something deeply satisfying about crusty French rolls and salted butter.
I went for almost a month without turning on, or even plugging in, my computer. Whoa.
I didn't realize that DST was starting? ending? Luckily my phone and computer take care of that for me, or the next week would have been...interesting...
It's November, over 70 degrees inside my house, and have I mentioned that my nose and feet are cold? because they are. Cold.
Casa de Crazy is a mess, and I'm determined to have it clean for Thanksgiving. That shouldn't be a problem, but I feel like I'm moving through Jell-O all the time, and things that should be quick and easy? Aren't. Oh, well. It'll all get done, somehow.
Whoever invented the freezer deserves a medal or sainthood or something. I can make soup, freeze it, and then share it or have it whenever I want. My children won't eat soup. I am not entirely sure they're mine.
My daughter has decided that it's her job to clean off the dining table. With a sopping paper towel and a generous dollop of dish soap. Bless her heart.
Next weekend begins the Great Casa Garage Cleanup of 2017. It is possible that I could be able to park in that space before Winter is over! Hurrah! Mizz A is coming down to help me because she's an incredible person who never shirks helping out a friend, and I'm lucky to have her or the garage would likely never have another vehicle in it. Also, the kids and cats adore her.
Goodwill and the rubbish company will be getting a bonanza. I will be getting an inside parking place again. Win-win-win.
I'm going to go tuck myself under a blanket despite the warm house, because did I tell you that my feet and nose are cold?
What're you up to, today?
Quote of the day...er...week...umm...hey, look, a quote!!
"...besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child." - Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One
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Sunday, November 5, 2017
Labels: Thoughtfetti
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- Momlady said...
I spent most of the day in my recliner 'cause every time I sat up my head told me not to.
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text: Shrimp trucks on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii GALLERIES PHOTOS OF... STUDENTS ABOUT EXTRAS HOME wallpaper sizes: 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1152 x 864 1280 x800(widescreen) 1280 x 1024 how to make this image your wallpaper Your screen size appears in red above left. Select it from the list. - Place your mouse over the image and RIGHT-click - Choose "Set as Background" why these images are free TripodGirl wants everyone to enjoy her photography. She thinks the old approach (galleries and rich folks) is history. Help her spread the word about this website. Please also visit the site's sponsors - whose ads appear to the right of your screen. This Blue Water Shrimp truck is parked on a vacant lot in downtown Honolulu. where: Honolulu, Hawaii (Kuhio Ave. & Kaiolu St.) when: February 2009 [more photos in this series]


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Oct 19, 2016
posted in Couple, Engagement, Portrait with 0 Comments
I photographed these two a couple years ago
before they were engaged, so I was so thrilled
to hear back from them again this summer
when Shane proposed to Ashley!
I loved how Ashley & Shane
mixed rock and chic,
accessorizing with black balloons,
champagne and their adorable little puppy.
Congrats S+A!
You make great
fur baby parents already,
so I know you'll be amazing
human parents one day ;)


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Gilbert E. Wolfe
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 by The Press in Obituariesof Macungie
Gilbert E. Wolfe, 80, of Macungie, died Feb. 10, 2018. He was the beloved husband of Patricia (Fehr) Wolfe. They celebrated 51 years of marriage last July. Born in Hellertown, he was a son of the late Gilbert T. and Coredius (Weiland) Wolfe.
He served his country honorably in the Army.
He retired from the former Bethlehem Steel Corporation after 41 years.
He is survived by his wife; children, Jacqueline and her husband Jack Reppert, Jarrod, of Macungie and Christopher and his wife Holly, of Center Valley; grandchildren, Michael, Rebecca, Zachary and Tyler; great-grandchildren, Faith and Luna. He was predeceased by siblings, Virginia and Russell.
Contributions may be made in his memory to the Lehigh County Humane Society, 640 Dixon St., Allentown, 18103.
All are invited to gather with the family 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Feb. 18 at the Falk Funeral Home, 1418 Main St., Hellertown, 18055.


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We have two major classifications of automated test in common use:
- Acceptance tests which execute against the application in its fully deployed state.
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The acceptance tests are written in language which should make them accessible outside of the development team. They are used to measure completeness, automatically test environments and provide regression tests. Their usefulness is widely accepted across the team and they tend to be very longevid, i.e. tests that were written a year ago against a particular API are relevant today and will continue to be relevant as long as that API is supported in production. The unit tests are written by developers and will almost certainly never be read by anybody other than the developers or possibly the technical leads. I program using TDD as I find it a natural way to construct software. I personally find that the tests are most useful as I am writing the code, like scaffolding. Once the code is stablized the tests still have a use but are no longer as critical. A refactoring of the application in some future sprint may see those tests be heavily amended or retired. They are not as longevid as the acceptance tests.
I have been reflecting on the usefulness and investment in test code for as long as I had been doing TDD. I had come to a conclusion that whilst acceptance tests are non-negotiable on projects where I have delivery responsibility, perhaps unit tests for TDD are not mandatory in certain situations. I have worked with several developers who are very very good and simply do not see the value in TDD as it is contrary to their own, very effective, development practices. I know in my team right now a couple of the very best developers do not use TDD the way everybody else does. Education and peer pressure has had no effect. They are delivering high quality code as quickly as anybody else. Its hard to force them to do differently – especially when some of them pay lip service to TDD and do have a high test coverage count. I know that they write those tests after they write their code.
In the last few weeks I came across a couple of concrete examples where TDD could have helped those developers deliver better code. In the future I will try and use these examples to persuade others to modify their practice
1. Too many calls to downstream service.
The application in question has a mechanism for determining identity of a client through some network services. Those network services are quite expensive to call. The application endeavors to call them infrequently as is safe and cache identity when is is resolved. We recently found a defect where one particular end point in the application was mistakenly making a call to the identity services. It was not that the developer had made a call in error, it was that the class inheritance structure effectively defaulted to making the call so did so without the developer realizing. The identity returned was never used. I suspect that this code was not built using TDD. If it had been then the developer would have mocked out the identity service (it was a dependency of the class under construction) but would not have set an expectation that the identity service would not have been called. The use of mocks not only to specify what your code should be calling but what it should not be calling is extremely useful. It encourages that top down (from the entry point into the system) approach where you build what you need when you need it.
Its likely that the defect would never have been introduced had the developer been using TDD. As it is we have a application which is making a large number (and it is a large number) of irrelevant calls to a contentious resource. We now have to schedule a patch to production.
Coincidentally, there was an acceptance test for this service, which was passing. This highlights a deficiency in our acceptance tests we have to live with. They test the 'what' but not the 'how'. The tests were running against a fully deployed application which had downstream services running in stub mode. The test proved that functionally the correct result was returned but it had no way of detecting that an additional spurious call to another service had been made during the process.
2. Incorrect error handling
In a recent refactoring exercise we came across a piece of code which expected a class it was calling to through an exception whenever it had an error processing a request. The error recovery in the code in question was quite elaborate and important. Unfortunately, the class being called never threw an exception in the scenarios in question. It had a status object it returned which indicated if corrective action needed to be taken. (It was designed to be used in conjunction with asynchronous message queues where throwing an exception would have introduced unnecessary complexity). The developer could have easily used mock objects and set an expectation that the exception would be thrown and the problem would have remained. But, if TDD was being used and the developer was working top down then the expected behavior of the mocks would have guided the implementation of downstream classes. Nothing is foolproof but I think this manner of working should have caught this quite serious error.
More subjective problems
I have also noted two other potential consequences of having some developers opt out of TDD. I do note that some developers on the team produce code that is more complex than others. It is fine from a cyclomatic complexity perspective but when you try and understand what it is doing you find yourself with a higher WTF count than you would expect. I think (again this is subjective, I have not gathered any empirical evidence) that a lot of the complexity comes from a lack of cohesion in the code. Logic is spread around in a way which made sense to the original developer as they had internalized all the classes concerned. That logic is not obvious to a new pair of eyes. If you are using TDD then this encourages cohesion in classes because it focuses the mind on what the class is responsible for before the developer has to worry about how it delivers those responsibilities.
This is a very subjective point and I would happily agree that several of the team members who do use TDD occasionally produce nasty code. My gut feeling however, is that it happens less often.
One final problem with some of the high flyers not using TDD is that bad practices tend to propagate through the team just as quickly as good ones. I have caught a couple of new joiners following a bad example or simply not using TDD becuase the developer they look to as a mentor is not evangelizing about the technique because they themselves do not buy into the practice. This is a shame as those new joiners often have a greater need of the rigor that TDD imposes than the more experienced developers.


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Telangana Population 2019
Population in Millions is 39.87 Millions
Population in Crores is 3.99 Crores
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Village Updates
Pamulapalli, Aswapuram Mandal, Khammam District
Nidjinta, Maddur Mandal, Mahabubnagar District
Guntupalli Gopavaram, Yerrupalem Mandal, Khammam District
Pamanagundla, Kattangoor Mandal, Nalgonda District
Khambapur, Pitlam Mandal, Nizamabad District
Thirmalapur, Ramadugu Mandal, Karimnagar District
Patherched, Narva Mandal, Mahabubnagar District
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Telagavaram, Penuballi Mandal, Khammam District
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on Feb 18, 2014, Lok Sabha passes Telangana state bill.
on Feb 20, 2014, Rajya Sabha passes Telangana state bill.
This newly formed Telangana State comprises 10 districts: Hyderabad, Adilabad, Khammam, Karimnagar, Mahbubnagar, Medak, Nalgonda, Nizamabad, Rangareddy, and Warangal.
Capital of Telangana is Hyderabad.
As the Congress Government discuss the contours of Telangana, India's 29th state, The option would be to bunch the 10 Telangana districts into a separate state which will have 17 Lok Sabha seats and 119 assembly constituencies. In that case, the rest of Andhra Pradesh will have 25 Lok Sabha seats and 175 assembly seats.
Telangana State will have 10 districts. Adilabad, Karimnagar, Khammam, Mahabubnagar, Medak, Nalgonda, Nizamabad, RangaReddy, Warangal and Hyderabad District as Headquarters.
Congress President Sonia Ghandi Finally pushed for announcement on formation of Telangana on 30th July 2013 at 7.20 PM. Telangana will be formed with 10 districts. Hyderabad is the Capital of Telangana in india. Hyderabad as Shared Capital for 10 or more years of the two states to be created out of the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
Telangana Rastra Samiti (TRS Party) formed by Mr. K. Chandra Shekar Rao in 2004 with main aim is to separate Telangana region from Andhra Pradesh and to regain regional autonomy as it existed before the formation of Andhra Pradesh State in 1956. As per Mr. Digvijay singh TRS will merge to congress for the elections of 2014.
- News Updated at 30 July, 2013 07.20 PM
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CBS late night programming is having some major shifts besides just the 'Late Late Show' host leaving the show. The 'Late Show' which runs at 11:30, just prior to Ferguson's show, is undergoing a change as well, as longtime host of many years David Letterman gets set to retire from the program. Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central's 'The Colbert Report' is now preparing to step up and fill Letterman's shoes as the show's host. Sources say that CBS has been eyeing Cobert for the 'Late Show' position at the time of Letterman's retirement since 2012, and that Ferguson, even with CBS seniority, had even less of a chance for the spot.
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I have been blessed to grow up in a healthy family where my mom and dad's love for each other was growing and extended unconditionally to my sister and I. My parents have been and done for me all a kid could ever want. Still that love and care continues to this day.
Even so, we become greater in our love for God, ourselves and each other through the love and investment of many people in our lives. In addition to my own wonderful mom I gained a second one halfway through my high school years.
I suppose it all began when I "fell in like" with one or more of her daughters and then became good friends with her oldest son. I worked close by and often stopped off to visit before or after work. Out of respect, I hesitantly knocked on their door in the early days but that soon changed when this family of ten didn't seem to mind having eleven, twelve, thirteen or any number of people be in their house. It was in this house I learned much about hospitality, generosity and values with a lifetime impact.
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I went away to college, got married, went to seminary then moved to California. This year I will have finished my thirtieth year as a youth pastor. Though I've only seen "momma" on a few occasions since those early days her impact on my life has continued. Her determined spirit, her compassionate heart, her boundless generosity and her love for me were investments no recession could ever diminish. My eternal investment in hundreds, maybe thousands, of youth, including my own family, is fueled by a Godly woman who dared to love and care for yet one more person in her life.
This last week she died. She finished the race well and I plan to do the same. I'll look forward to the hug at the finish line.
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Generally, it will be harder to catch the ball using a club with a high kickpoint. An overall high kickpoint will allow for a more flexible, comfortable through swing, but many people have the impression that because the head will not come back as smoothly, timing is more difficult.
What is needed in shafts for women then, is a good feeling to the club from center to butt, as well as a nice feel upon impact. It should also be designed to catch the ball on the head, or tip, return. In a sense, the feel and the head return are configured separately.
Normal low, middle, and high kickpoints each have their own characteristic feel, but the function of a shaft for women golfers needs to pay maximum attention to this "catch". To get catch on the ball, most golfers will try a low-kick shaft. But the butt of the typical low-kick shaft is generally too stiff, and while it may enable the golfer to better catch the ball, their timing will be off. Once the timing is off, this leads to a greater tendency to slice the ball.
From the viewpoint of ball catch, this accepted notion about low-kick shafts depends on the ability of the golfer to hit the ball cleanly. A shaft with a stiff butt will have much faster timing, which creates the problem of the head moving forward faster than expected, and failing to catch the ball as desired. Making the butt more flexible, however, results in a stiffer tip, worsening head return.
This is why it is necessary to approach this as two different issues, focusing on ball catch from the shaft center to the tip, and on feel and timing of the swing for the portion from the center to the butt.
Thinking about setting the fulcrum point of the shaft in this way, we recommended starting at the center, and changing the rigidity and feel of the "flex" at the butt end, without changing the characteristics of the tip. If you were to measure the figures at the center, you would likely find that most shafts are almost the same. This is why the flex value hardly changes, and neither does the feel of the shaft. However, when the golfer actually swings the club, this design enables them to feel the characteristics of each club through the differences in the butt end.
In shaft stiffness, the differences in tip and butt come out more as differences in flexibility rather than stiffness. It is especially important to clarify this difference when designing shafts for women golfers.
Basically, the most significant characteristic of women golfers is probably their relative lack of power. This is why it is important to emphasize a well-timed, light swing, rather than power, to catch the ball and ensure solid hitting.
Many people think that clubs for women golfers need only be lightweight, and this goes for women themselves as well as the men around them. But a lighter club also has a thinner shaft, one that is lighter in weight but with the same flex value, or stiffness, giving it a higher degree of elasticity. A higher degree of elasticity means a more springy club that will tend to feel bouncy, making it difficult to adjust to the faster timing. The golfer may want to use a slower swing, but if the shaft is designed to move quickly, the golfer will naturally feel as though she is swinging late.
If one were to make an extremely light, stiff shaft, it would have such strong spring to it that, without significant head speed, the golfer's downswing would inevitably be late, resulting in a mis-timed swing. Unable to react completely to the strong spring, the golfer may actually come to fear the behavior of her club. If the golfer is able to adjust her swing and bring it back smoothly, she may succeed in catching the ball, otherwise she may simply find the over-reactive club difficult to use.
To create the right sense of flexibility requires a certain amount of weight. Since a sense of both weight and mass are felt in the hands, it is important to make use of that weight, and to feel it in the swing.
Some women golfers also have great head speed, but speed can vary widely, from 20m/s on the slow side, to as much as 40m/s for those on the fast end. This is why it is necessary to offer broad variation in stiffness and weight balance, in kick point location, and in the feel of the swing, to meet the needs of those with slower and faster swings.
The CP54 shaft for women from Saiprogolf, for example, weighs 54 grams, but in the future, it would be good to offer a broader range by varying the weight between low, medium, and high kickpoints.
In reality, work on development of shafts for women golfers is just beginning. That said, women golfers should try to select golf clubs with shafts that meet their individual swing characteristics, power, and physical attributes.
Optimal club selection can have a major effect on swing, distance, and score, and every golfer should experience these differences for herself.
Working with Mr. Akatsuka and other engineers, Saiprogolf will continue to pursue research and development in superior shaft design for women, through which we hope to meet the expectations of an even greater number of women golfers.


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As the conference was located at Brussels and the talk was all about mapping the right example was not far away: Let's do some sightseeing, of course!
If you don't know what the Brussels Comic Route is all about you'll get some impressions here. Basically you'll find some walls of buildings in the city center of brussels covered with large-scaled comics.
First of all check wikipedia to see the list of all addresses. We can easily import those addresses by using the Internet Open ... -command in JMP. Go to File -> Internet Open in JMP and paste the Wikipedia-URL into the dialog.
|Addresses for the Brussels Comic Tour on Wikipedia
The next step for geocoding is to slightly chance the address column. Sadly the add-in is not a wizard thus it will not know in which city those streets are. I used a formula to add the word Brussels to each address.
The newly created address-column will be used on the right hand side of the dialog. Loading the coordinates from the internet (using R and the Google Maps API) might take a moment. But soon you should see two new columns in the data set: latitude and longitude for each address.
Now it's easy to present all comic-walls in a map. Just use the graph builder with a background roadmap!
If you think this map is a bit messy ... next time I'll show you how to do this in JMP:
If you liked this, don't hesitate to download the Add-In here (be aware that you will need R together with the two packages TSP and ggmap).
All feedback is welcome at email@example.com or @statcon on Twitter!


text: Casa Manni only caters to one couple at a time but staying here feels as though a very well-placed local friend were putting you up in their penthouse and taking you on personalised tours and events (archaeology, art, wine, food, shopping, leisure, and spa visits) with top experts. They offer exclusive access to Rome's best opportunities that even most Romans will never have. A proper wow!


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"How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn't pull the trigger?" – Virginia Woolf
Today, I'm using the pen in order not to pull the trigger, at least, the verbal trigger on my husband. We've talked for a while now about getting a second dog. When we married, I had one, and so Romeo and I were a package deal. After he passed away, I wasn't ready for another. I have been for more than a year now. But I knew between work, school, and everything else, we really didn't have the time/energy/money. Things are different, and this past fall, I brought up the idea again and told my husband to seriously contemplate it: I was beyond ready.
I brought it up this weekend, and he said, "you know I don't want one."
Me: (out loud) "…" (internally) *fuming* "so, no baby, no doctoral program, everything in my life is about somebody else, but no dog because YOU don't want one. I can't even form the words for you right now."
We were driving. I just turned and looked out the window saying nothing.
Tonight, I brought it up again. We were relaxed, chatting, browsing the internet (him), playing on face.book (me). He wanted to pull up the budget to be sure we could afford it. No problem. He goes over a few costs, says if we get a small one that would work well for its food budget. Okay, cool. And then:
Him: "Are you going to take care of it?"
And my heart sank. I got hot and angry and sad all at once. I threw back the covers, picked up my cereal bowl, and started walking out of the room.
Him: "Are you going to answer my question? Are you mad?"
Me: "I'm not going to answer that."
On first review, maybe to someone outside our marriage, this might seem like a fair question on his part. He doesn't want a dog, so he doesn't want to be responsible for it.
What pisses me off and saddens me is that on EVERY occasion that I've asked for a second dog, I've talked about what I'll do for the dog and the fact, recently, that me not being in a PhD program means I'll have time to care for one.
So, do you not want a dog, or do you not think I'll hold up my end of the bargain?
When we went into marriage counseling this summer/fall, once of his complaints was that he felt he had to shoulder so much of the responsibility at home. He was right: I got my MA at the expense of my family, and my husband certainly took on most of the care for our home and son. But that hasn't been the case lately. And the times when I've recently been insecure and asked him if things have changed, he's always, ALWAYS, answered yes.
So why the fuck are you asking me that bullshit now?
Am I just angry irrationally? Am I projecting and taking my own insecurities out on him? Or is he a gigantic ass?
Most days, I feel like an average mom and a sucky wife. This just confirms it.


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"watching vainly"
Lamentations 4:17
If you watched any of the news the past few weeks, then you probably know who Christopher Dorner was. The Los Angeles Police Department spent several days looking for him after he killed three people and threatened dozens more. It was the lead story on the national news for most of those days, until the day they found the house in the mountains where he was hiding out.
On that day, I was watching a national cable news program, which I do almost every afternoon. I'm a bit of a wonk when it comes to politics...
That day was also the day of the president's State of the Union address, so that is what the news would have been entirely about, were it not for the manhunt that was coming to a head in the mountains of Southern California.
So while the anchorman was talking about the upcoming speech, and interviewing the White House spokesman about the content, the station had a split screen, with a camera on the mountain community.
Now, the strange thing was, that on the side of the screen where the manhunt coverage was, there was nothing to see. It was just an overhead shot of some cabins in the area, but not even the cabin where Dorner was. The LAPD had asked the news choppers to stay back, and the news cameras to not film the exact area, so that if Dorner was watching TV, he wouldn't know what the police perspective was. So the viewers were really not seeing anything newsworthy.
But the real reason I was not seeing anything that was happening, was because nothing was happening. The police had surrounded the cabin, but then it was just a waiting game as they tried to convince Dorner to surrender. But while there was nothing to see, by having a camera there, the viewers knew that there was nothing to see. It was almost a reassurance on the part of station, sort of like they were saying, "Don't worry; we're keeping track, and as soon as there's something to see, we'll show it to you."
It made me wish God was like that. Don't you sometimes have struggles, that you've been praying God would solve or remove or whatever, and you find that you're waiting and trusting and waiting and believing and waiting and then starting to wonder if He has forgotten about you?
Maybe I'm one of His needier children, but wouldn't it be great if we could be sure that God was handling everything? If He had a way of communicating with us "I know it looks like nothing is happening, but I've got this issue on My front burner, and you just need to trust My timing."
He is trustworthy. It's a fact whether we remember or acknowledge it or not. I know that. I know that I can cast my cares on Him, because He cares for me. And I may not have a ready split-screen in my life where I can check on His progress, but reassurance is just a scripture away.
~ "Lord, I believe;
help my unbelief!" ~
Mark 9:24


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The complete, practical introduction for every wireless professional
Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) will be the key enabling technology for a new generation of mobile data and multimedia services with seamless roaming-even between wireless and wired networks. Now, one of the leaders in IPv6 mobility introduces the protocol clearly and concisely, from the standpoint of practical implementers. Hesham Soliman carefully explains MIPv6's structure, goals, deployment, operation, optimization, security, and much more.
Mobile IPv6:
- Reflects the final, IETF Mobile IPv6 standard and a detailed introduction to IPv6
- Includes background on Internet protocols and routing for every wireless professional
- Shows how MIPv6 works and how it's different from earlier Mobile IP standards
- Covers MIPv6 security, in depth-including a full chapter on signaling security
- Introduces handover optimizations, including fast handover and hierarchical MIPv6
- Presents mechanisms for IPv6 coexistence with the IPv4 Internet
- Contains a start-to-finish case study: IPv6 and MIPv6 in UMTS
An outstanding complement (or alternative) to the official specs, Mobile IPv6: Mobility in a Wireless Internet gives wireless engineers and researchers all the information they need to build reliable, high-performance MIPv6 systems.
About the Author
HESHAM SOLIMAN is a member of the Advanced Networking group at Flarion Technologies. He made numerous contributions to the Mobile IPv6 protocol and related optimisations, as well as, IPv6 and its applicability to cellular networks. He is a member of the IPv6 Technical Directorate in the IPv6 forum and several scientific committees for wireless and mobility related conferences. Prior to his current role, he was a senior specialist at Ericsson Research where he led several research activities related to IPv6, mobility management, and cellular networks.


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Marans Chickens
These Marans Chicken pictures will give you examples of what Marans Chickens look like.
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Marans chicken varieties include Black Copper, Silver Cuckoo, Golden Cuckoo, White, Wheaten, Birchen, and Blue.
Here's a Black Copper Marans rooster.
Here are some Marans chicks.
Marans hens lay three large chocolate colored eggs per week.
Here's a Sunstone Cuckoo Maran hen with her chicks.
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Ameraucana Chicken
Ancona Chicken
Andalusian Chicken
Antwerp Belgian Bantam Chicken
Appenzeller Spitzhauben Chicken
Araucana Chicken
Aseel Chickens
Australorp Chickens
Barnevelder Chickens
Belgian Bearded D Uccle Bantam Chickens
Booted Bantam Chickens
Brahma Chickens
Campine Chickens
Catalana Chickens
Chantecler Chickens
Chicken Breeds
Cochin Chickens
Cornish Chickens
Crevecoeur Chickens
Cubalaya Chickens
Delaware Chickens
Dominique Chickens
Dorking Chickens
Easter Eggers Chickens
Faverolles Chickens
Fayoumi Chickens
Hamburg Chickens
Holland Chickens
Houdan Chickens
Japanese Bantam Chickens
Java Chickens
Jersey Giant Chickens
La Fleche Chickens
Lakenvelder Chickens
Langshan Chickens
Legbar Chickens
Malay Chickens
Marans Chickens
Minorca Chickens
Modern Game Chickens
New Hampshire Red Chickens
Non White Leghorn Chickens
Old English Game Chickens
Orpington Chickens
Penedesenca Chickens
Phoenix Chickens
Plymouth Rock Chickens
Polish Chickens
Redcap Chickens
Rhode Island Chickens
Rosecomb Bantam Chickens
Russian Orloff Chickens
Sebright Bantam Chickens
Sicilian Buttercup Chickens
Silkie Bantam Chickens
Star Chickens
Sultan Chickens
Sumatra Chickens
Sussex Chickens
Turken Chickens
Welsummer Chickens
White Faced Black Spanish Chickens
White Leghorn Chickens
Wyandotte Chickens
Yokohama Chickens


text: This course includes the following: significant, individuals, issues and events in U.S. history since Reconstruction to the present; geographic influences upon the historical and economic development and growth of the U.S., and social, cultural, political and technological developments of the E.S. through current times. Historical content focuses on the political, economic, and social events and issues related to industrialization and urbanization, major wars, domestic and foreign policies of the Cold War and post-Cold War eras, and reform movements including civil rights.


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Focus on who and what you want - Instead of focusing on who and what you don´t want
By Dr. Linda Miles
"It´s a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept anything but the very best, you will often get it." W. Somerset Maugham.
Are you focusing on who and what you want with a partner? Or are you focusing on who and what you don´t want? Because, we do get exactly what we expect.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, famous author and Jungian analyst, created these 12 characteristics to seek in a long-term partner. The 12 points are listed below, and then I expanded upon them.
Here is a Guide for Conscious Choices in a Partner.
- Kindness and Respect - The expression, "we should treat family like strangers and strangers like family," is indicative of the amount of disrespect that is tolerated in relationships. This attitude is a barrier to the basic building blocks of long-term goodwill and respect.
- Ability To Learn: Curiosity - Although it is normal to have disagreements and power struggles, many couples fail to learn from conflicts and may repeat the same self-destructive scenarios and behaviors for decades. We shouldn't talk unless we can improve on silence. As James Thurber noted, our tendency is to look back in anger or forward in fear, instead of "around in awareness."
- Flexibility - Many people grew up in rigid families, with rigid roles. Consequently, it doesn't occur to them to let go of patterns that clearly aren't working.
- Ability To Hear Your Pain - This is what often brings couples into therapy, because they have not learned to sit and listen to one another with empathy and compassion.
- A Deep Inner Life On A Personal Journey - Often couples becomes too fused together, losing their individual joys and passions.
- Similar Passions - (Ability to have many varied good times together) - Many couples lose their pleasure bond with each other, sharing mostly complaints and drudge.
- Similar Values - Unfortunately we read too many "happily ever after" fairy tales, instead of understanding the importance of conscious negotiation of rules, roles, religion, and money issues, early-on in couple-hood.
- Compassion - Many people learn "shame and blame" games in their family. They engage in rascal hunting and learn to use these behaviors in close relationships. Families fail to watch each other with "soft eyes," (Levine 1995) in order to address problem behaviors in a gentle manner without judgment about toward partners. Often a partner will take the "moral high ground" and lecture to the other about perceived inadequacies. Instead, of compassion shared between two equals, partners often relate to each other like they are parents of children.
- Ability To Laugh At Ones Self - Because many people grew up in a shame-blame environment, it is difficult for them to look at themselves lightly.
- Substance Abuse, Dishonesty, Cover-up - A lack of knowledge about substance abuse introduces a wild card into relationships. Also, dishonesty and cover-up cause a build-up of bad feelings, becoming "brown stamps." This can lead to what I call the "anchovy pizza" syndrome. In my practice I have seen countless couples who've saved "brown stamps" of bad feelings, until they are ready to cash them in at the break-up redemption center. In one such case, a woman saved book after book of bad feelings about her husband's inability to hear her needs. The last stamp was pasted when he ordered an anchovy pizza. She hated anchovies. Then, she announced, to his shock, that the pizza was the last food he'd ever order for her, because she wanted a divorce.
- Ability To Be A Friend And Not Just A Lover - Passion without friendship in relationships, is like doing somersaults on a circus trapeze without a safety net.
- Someone Who Makes Your Life Bigger, Not Smaller - Unfortunately, too many people grew up seeing family in terms of correction-city, drudge and duty. Consequently, they perceive commitment as a prison sentence, instead of a shared adventure.
Although, this is an easy list to memorize, the difficulty lays in breaking the patterns that prevent maintenance of our desired behaviors. Peggy Papp, a famous family therapist remarked that we come out of our own family of origin with a "cookie-cutter" approach to life and it requires "heroic moments" to change the shape of our own cookie-cutters.
Visualize your dream relationship several times a day and that will help to begin to change your cookie-cutter. Focus on who and what you want, instead of who and what you don't want. Only one person can defeat you in the endeavor, that person is you. Inner correction creates outer correction.
Abraham Lincoln said, "Man is just about as happy as he makes up his mind to be."
Copyright 2005 Linda Miles PhD
Author, Dr. Linda Miles, is deeply committed to helping individuals and couples achieve rewarding relationships. She is an expert with a doctorate in Counseling Psychology, and has worked in the mental health field for over thirty years. She has been interviewed extensively on radio, TV, and in newspapers and magazines. Find more relationship ideas and relaxation techniques on her web site and in the award-winning book she co-authored, The New Marriage: Transcending the Happily-Ever-After Myth, and Train Your Brain: For Successful Relationships, CD.


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Lighthouses in Istria
Lighthouses on the Istrian islands and promontories are special places for a unique visit. Lighthouses are the most important aids to navigation which enable a safe day and night navigation through determined sea regions. They are built at the most prominent or distant points of the Croatian territorial sea. They consist in stone buildings with prominent light towers. They usually have main and stand-by light. The range of the main light is 30 NM. Some lighthouses are equipped with racons and/or fog detectors and fog sirens. All lighthouses are automated and supervised by means of remote control system. However, because of the importance of lighthouses for safety of navigation and in order to protect lighthouse buildings from degradation, 17 lighthouses still have personnel (1 or 2 lightkeepers in a shift).
The lighthouse of Cape Savudrija (Umag, Istria)
Savudrija is the oldest active lighthouse in the Adriatic and also, the most northern Croatian lighthouse on the northwestern cape of the Istrian peninsula.
Lighthouse Cape Savudrija Info
The lighthouse of Cape Tooth (Porec, Istria)
The Cape Tooth lighthouse is situated on the Lanterna peninsula which is 13 km distance from Poreč and Novigrad. Peninsula Lanterna is situated between the Tar and Lunga bays.
Lighthouse Cape Tooth Info
The lighthouse of St. Nicholas (Porec, Istria)
On the west side of the islet of St. Nicholas which is situated near Poreč, the Venetians have built in 1403 a 15 meter tall lighthouse on the highest part of the island.
Lighthouse St. Nicholas Info
The lighthouse of St. John's cliff (Rovinj, Istria)
The St. John in the open sea lighthouse was built on the same named cliff which is situated in front of Rovinj. The local people from Rovinj call it Lanterna. It is the most distant islet of the small archipelago of 13 islands which are situated in front of Rovinj.
Lighthouse St. John's cliff Info
The lighthouse of Cape Peneda (Brioni, Istria)
The lighthouse was built in 1877th on the southernmost cape of the Veli Brijun island, the one of fourteen Brijuni islands which have always impressed people with their beauty.
Lighthouse Cape Peneda Info
The lighthouse of Cape Verudica (Pula, Istria)
The Verudica Cape lighthouse is situated on the same named cape which can be found across the island of Veruda, south from Pula. It is surrounded by woods and clear blue sea in the tourist village Park Plaza Verudela.
Lighthouse Cape Verudica Info
The lighthouse of Porer cliff (Medulin, Istria)
The Porer lighthouse, which is situated on the same named rocky islet, was built in 1833 and is situated a mile and a half southwest from the southernmost cape of Istria – Kamenjak.
Lighthouse Porer Cliff Info
The lighthouse of Cape Marlera (Liznjan, Istria)
The easternmost part in the south Marlera, which is situated about 6 km distance from Ližnjan, is the punta Grkova. The cape name is associated with the Greek colonization of Cyprus in the 16th century.
Lighthouse Cape Marlera Info
The lighthouse of Cape Black Punta (Rasa, Istria)
The lighthouse was built in the 1873 on the identical named cape at the standout part of the east Istrian coast. It is located about 1 km south of the village Skitača in the municipality Raša.
Lighthouse Cape Black Punta Info
Lighthouses in Istria
|Lighthouse Cape Savudrija
|Lighthouse Cape Tooth
|Lighthouse St. Nicholas
|Lighthouse St. John's cliff
|Lighthouse Cape Peneda
|Lighthouse Cape Verudica
|Lighthouse Porer Cliff
|Lighthouse Cape Marlera
|Lighthouse Cape Black Punta


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As the UK's leading retirement housebuilder, over the past 40 years we have built more than 51,000 apartments nationwide and we regularly win awards for our work. All our properties are designed to make living easier and are built to high standards – just two of the reasons we've been awarded the 5-star rating for customer satisfaction in an independent survey by the Home Builders Federation every year since the awards began and we are the only housebuilder of any size or type to ever achieve this.
In 2017 we'll be building nearly 300 homes in the Norfolk area and in 2018/19 over 70% of our business will be in the Norfolk area alone for the East Midlands region. Because of this increase in activity we'll be opening a new office in the town of Wymondham for staff working in Norfolk which will be opening in September of 2017. We're looking for subcontractors that can help us meet this demand, from plumbers and electricians, to bricklayers and decorators - we want to work with you.
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Our Partnership Opportunity Day is the perfect time to introduce yourself and speak with our land, construction and commercial teams about working with us. The agenda for the day will be as follows:
If you would like to attend the day then you will need to RSVP by contacting Jane Mellors by calling 01536 220764 or emailing email@example.com.
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New Product Announcement – May 2018
FPD is proud to announce the introduction of 58 new Steering and Suspension part numbers for May 2018. Click the link below for the list of new items now available, and contact your salesperson for pricing.
New Product Announcement – April 2018
FPD is proud to announce the introduction of 50 new Steering and Suspension part numbers for April 2018. Click the link below for the list of new items now available, and contact your salesperson for pricing.
FPD at AAPEX 2017
Visit FPD at Booth# 3871, in the upper level at the Sands Expo Center, during the AAPEX 2017 show from October 31st – November 2nd
FPD Acquires Falcon Steering Brand
FPD has acquired the Falcon Steering Systems brand, together with other intellectual property and select inventory from Global Automotive Products Inc.
"Falcon has been a respected brand in chassis for many years" said FPD Owner and President Steve Feig. "As consumer demand continues to shift more toward economy line steering and suspension, we felt adding the Falcon brand to our lineup was a natural fit with our commitment to providing high quality product at a superior value."
Metal to Metal Upgrades
FPD has transitioned over 500 Ball Joints, Tie Rod Ends, and Control Arms from Metal to Platic to Metal to Metal design. This serves to improve performance and durability over the original equipment design.
Electronic Catalog Update
FPD has added over 300 new Steering and Suspension part numbers to our online catalog. Click the "Part Lookup" link and log-in to your account to view our online catalog.
FPD's New Control Arm Warehouse
FPD has opened a dedicated warehouse for our O.E. Brand Control Arms. The 30,000 sq. ft. warehouse will help expedite the processing and shipping of control arm orders.