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oh dear dog, words fail me
39 comments:
- Daisy Bateman said...
The really terrifying thing is that all of those comments referred to only seven books.
- 7/10/2006
- lizzie26 said...
Ah, too funny! Thanks for the beverage alert.
- 7/10/2006
My word, that was funny. Bless you, thank you, praise you, Miss S, for the beverage alert. Frappuccinos and keyboards do not work well together.
- 7/10/2006
- Sonarbabe said...
I read this one over the weekend. I was fortunate enough not to be drinking anything at the time, but my husband did rush to fetch my medication upon hearing my hysterical laughter, thinking I was having another one of my "episodes". Ahem. Sorry.
- 7/10/2006
- Sha'el, Princess of Pixies said...
I saw this. It's too funny for words.
And while your over at Making Light, click the Vindaloo link and play the music. Sing along!
We're England and we'll score one more than you! Wishful thinking though, huh?
- 7/10/2006
- Cara said...
Weeellllll, at least your experience with lo mein explains the meaning of 'slurpgurgle'!
- 7/10/2006
"I want to be very clear about something: Gynecological exams are never sexy. Absolutely never. Understand me: never. If only you had a cervix."
Oh dear dog!
"I think you meant assuage, not ass gauge."
Why didn't I listen to the beverage warning?
- 7/10/2006
- Mindy Tarquini said...
""He was everywhere and nowhere all at once; he smelled like tuna."
Oh.My.G*d! How did POD-dy mouth girl get hold of my manuscript?!
- 7/10/2006
But "awhile" isn't always wrong, as poddymouth claims!
It can correctly be used as an adverb, modifying how long one waits (say, for an editor to reject a manuscript).
A while, as two words, is the correct noun form.
- 7/10/2006
- Jim Winter said...
"I want to be very clear about something: Gynecological exams are never sexy. Absolutely never. Understand me: never. If only you had a cervix."
That reminds me of a recent conversation wherein I had to explain to a coworker why having a female doctor is not, Not, NOT an advantage during a physical. In fact, it makes "Turn your head and cough" MORE traumatic.
- 7/10/2006
Aaah, thank you! That really made me laugh.
- 7/10/2006
- Bonnie S. Calhoun said...
The beverage alert was definitely a necessity in this case...but the nasal lo mein sounds really bad.
That was a real hoot. I like the comment about assuage! LOL!
- 7/10/2006
Maybe he really did mean ass gauge...
- 7/10/2006
Awww, man!!! I was going to use something simlar to the tuna line in my next novel! It was going to be about a fishing captain who was a ghost and a buxom blond who falls in love with him!
Here's a lesson to all you who don't listen to the beverage alert. I almost snorted cherry coke out of my nose :(. It didn't feel to good.
- 7/10/2006
I laughed. I cried. I tinkled a little bit. Oops.
- 7/10/2006
"I want to be very clear about something: Gynecological exams are never sexy. Absolutely never. Understand me: never. If only you had a cervix."
This reminds me of Agent Kristin's theme: Why most women wouldn't find waking up in a room with a strange man standing bedside sexy, and its corollary, Why this isn't a good opening to your friggin' romance novel.
- 7/11/2006
- the mystic said...
Oh that was too much!
It would have made me feel like a pretty good writer too, except I have a short story originally written in second person (later re-worked in third)... and yes, the style was inspired by BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY.
- 7/11/2006
- M Harold Page said...
All very funny. But if you read crap, isn't there a danger that some of it will stick?
- 7/11/2006
- Ray said...
The funniest one is the mistake withing the critique. Made me chuckle awhile.
Golly, language changes. Someone's dating oneself, and in a public forum at that.
From Webster's, the form a while comes from Middle English, or about the year 1000. What a difference a millennium makes. Here's the more current take on the usage:
The adverb AWHILE is spelled as a single word: After stopping in Hadley awhile, we drove to Deerfield. As the object of a preposition, the noun phrase A WHILE is used, especially in edited writing, but the single-word form is becoming increasingly common: We rested for a while (or awhile).
(c) 1999 by Random House, Inc.
- 7/11/2006
- Unknown said...
Thank dog for the beverage alert... didn't want to waste a perfectly good latte.
- 7/11/2006
- Nicki Greenwood said...
Yep. Beverage alert, all right. Thanks for the warning, or my keyboard would have been a goner. :)
- 7/11/2006
- Bernita said...
I LIKED "slurpgurgle."
Shouldn't call it slopcrap.
- 7/11/2006
At least someone is reading their books.
- 7/11/2006
- Kitty said...
About "slurpgurgle" ...
I like it because it's a very descriptive. It reminds me of sniglets.
Are such words verboten?
- 7/11/2006
I think I've read one of these. The one with the gyn scene. The author brought it in to my library, wanting to sell it to us. Left it with me to review. I had to write a "thanks but not right for our collection" letter. She never came back to pick up her review copy...it sat behind my desk for over a year. Yes, my reviewer eyes found that gyn exam scene right away and I struggled MIGHTILY to remain professional. Funny, these, when you don't see the person behind the book. I did, now I see this as all too sad. And pray to dog that no one will ever laugh at my book the way, I confess, I laughed at hers (behind closed doors, of course. I TRIED to remain professional.)
- 7/11/2006
while i found pod-y's post extremely amusing, i am disconcerted to learn that i shall never be able to use tuna smells, green nipples, or italians with irish names. just ruined it for me.
- 7/11/2006
Nose noodles are one of those insult-to-injury things. Not only do they hurt, but everyone around you laughs at you.
I will never, ever self-publish. If I did, I'd always wonder if my book was as bad as these.
hcqneyd, eh? Some kind of Indo-European root meaning 'clichéd', maybe?
- 7/11/2006
- Beautiful Food Gardens said...
Gyn exams, sexy?
Words fail me.
- 7/11/2006
- astrologymemphis.blogspot.com said...
"I want to be very clear about something: Gynecological exams are never sexy. Absolutely never."
Reminds me of a date I once had.
Stewart O'Nan wrote A Prayer for the Dying in second person. I think I read the first paragraph about five times before I realized what he was doing. I liked the book, although I figured out the ending very early on.
O'Nan. Think he's Italian?
- 7/11/2006
- Sal said...
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- 7/11/2006
The local library has recently put in a section where patrons can display there POD books for a month. There are about a dozen books in the section. I began reading, but decided I would put down each book at the first grammar/typographical/factual error. I made it to the second page of only one book, and then it self-destructed ("Washington," she said. I smiled. I knew it had to be the District of Columbus and not the State."
- 7/11/2006
- Robin L. said...
That is truly funny. There should also be an alert to those of us in cubeville that you will laugh out loud and scare your cubemates!
- 7/11/2006
- Sal said...
Ray wrote, The funniest one is the mistake withing the critique. Made me chuckle awhile.
Golly, language changes. Someone's dating oneself, and in a public forum at that.
PODdy mouth wrote, "To all seven of you: It's for a while, not for awhile."
Seems The American Heritage® Book of English Usage agrees with her:
People often confuse the adverb awhile with the noun phrase a while. This is hardly surprising because they sound the same and the noun phrase can function like an adverb. In many cases both forms are acceptable. You can say It took a while to get down the hill, where a while functions like other noun phrases such as an hour or a long time. You can also say It took awhile to get down the hill, where awhile functions like the adverb phrase quite long or the comparative adverb longer.
You may want to be careful using a while after prepositions, where traditional grammar calls for a noun as object. Thus you should write I'll stay for a while, but not I'll stay for awhile. Without the preposition, either form is acceptable: I'll stay a while or I'll stay awhile.
- 7/11/2006
- Dave Kuzminski said...
And the Bulwer-Lytton awards have been announced! They're at http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
- 7/11/2006
- yossarian said...
"ass gauge" made me fall out of my chair...
- 7/11/2006
Punish on Demand?
- 7/11/2006
- Battlerocker said...
Hilarious. Thanks for the warning. That could have been a disaster. :)
- 7/11/2006
Scary stuff.
Although I don't think she knows what dialectical means.
Irvine Welsh has written a novel in a dialect, but I don't believe he's ever written a dialectical novel.
- 7/12/2006
- Ray said...
Oh, this is truly getting funny.
Hey, MY source's copyright date is 1999, and YOURS is 1996.
That made me chuckle for awhile.
That made me chuckle awhile.
Or should it be made me chuckle for a while? Who gave for so much influence? Might for awhile be an adverbial phrase? Holy Muddle of Prescription!
But this English professor I happen to live with never uses a while. It looks so first millenium, you know? Ergo, that, along with a more recent take on the subject (object?), guess I'll stick with it for a lot longer than awhile. This could be forever, or until an editor says differently. Then I don't care because (ME: bi cuase) it's off to publication after the goodness gets drizzled on awhile. (That was close; almost ended with a prep.)
- 7/12/2006


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(CNN) — The American Academy of Pediatrics is fighting back against teen pregnancy with revised recommendations on emergency contraception.
The organization is encouraging physicians to talk about medications like Plan B and Next Choice in their discussions with their adolescent patients – both boys and girls – on safe sex.
The United States has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy among developed countries. Nearly 80% of teen pregnancies are unplanned, a result of contraception failure or nonuse, according to the AAP.
The use of emergency contraception has been around since the 1970s, when doctors often advised patients to double up on their regular birth control pills in a method called "Yuzpe." Since then several products have been approved for use by prescription and over-the-counter. Yet lead author Dr. Cora Beurner said there are still many people who don't know about emergency contraception or have unfounded fears about using it.
Emergency contraception is designed to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex. It works by inhibiting ovulation and disrupting the production of key cells needed in a woman's body to conceive. It works best if taken up to 24 hours after intercourse, although it lowers pregnancy risk if taken within 120 hours (five days). It will not work if you are already pregnant.
Emergency contraception is available with a prescription for all patients and available over-the-counter for women over the age of 17. The pills cost around $80.
Most pediatricians are accustomed to discussing safe sex with their patients, according to Beurner, a professor of adolescent medicine and pediatrics at the University of Washington in Seattle. The AAP is recommending doctors have emergency contraception on hand for those who need it right away and be willing to write teenagers a prescription for Plan B or Next Choice for future use.
"They can keep the prescription in their wallet and if they have the need for it, they could go anywhere," Beurner said. "This is a 'just-in-case.'"
It should be emphasized to patients that emergency contraception is solely for emergencies, the AAP statement notes, and should not be used as a regular method to prevent pregnancy.
There are no serious side effects to emergency contraception, Beurner said. Although parents are often concerned that having a "back-up" will increase a teen's risky behavior, studies have shown that not to be the case.
Even if a physician is morally against emergency contraception, they have an obligation to offer the option to their patients, the AAP statement says.

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The Federal Reserve's mandate to maintain price stability requires that whenever significant inflation threatens it is supposed to hit the economy on the head with a brick: raise interest rates, and so discourage investment spending, lower capacity utilization, raise unemployment, and so create excess supply. The Federal Reserve would rather not do this unless it has no other option. If the rise in inflation is thought to be (a) transitory and thus (b) self-limiting, the Fed would prefer to let sleeping dogs lie rather than hit the economy on the head with a brick.
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However, when increases in inflation are confined to (i) energy and (ii) food prices, odds are that the increase is transitory and will be self-limiting. Hence the concept of "core inflation." If the Federal Reserve concludes that the current rise in inflation is transitory and self-limiting, it can point to the core inflation number as a principled excuse for not hitting the economy on the head with a brick.
The Fed's favorite measure is the "core" deflator for personal consumption expenditures (PCE) reported by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (in addition to the GDP deflator, the BEA calculates separate deflators for each component. Overall GDP statistics are quarterly, but the BEA provides monthly data on consumption). Here's how it looks (% changes from 1 year ago):
Clearly overall PCE inflation is more volatile than the "core" - taking out food and energy prices makes inflation appear more steady. Also, core inflation has mostly been lower than overall inflation - food and energy prices have been going up faster than the prices of consumption goods generally. That is, the inflation rate the Fed is responding to is less than the one we consumers are experiencing. (BEA data via FRED).


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Limit Theory is an indie space game promising "an infinite number of star systems to explore". It's also got one hell of a cool scanner.
OK, so that might sound like a strange thing to focus on, but take a look at it! Start at around 8:15. Scanners in games are a weird fetish of mine. From Batman to Sleeping Dogs to Mass Effect, there's something about the art of looking for something through bright lines that's both compelling and soothing at the same time.
And this scanner looks great. It sounds like it's at the very heart of the game; being an enormous procedurally-generated universe, it could be tough finding stuff to do, so this scanner will let you track down everything from resources to bad guys.
Thank Gunpoint creator (and fellow sci-fi UI fetishist, it seems) Tom Francis for spotting this. And while you're at it, check out this first look at Francis' next game, which in my dreams is an official FTL expansion.
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Students in this course are interested in Azure development or in passing the Microsoft Azure Developer Associate certification exam.
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Learning Index >> Hand-blockprinted Textiles: Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher
The Crafts Study Centre at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College, Farnham is fortunate to hold the major collection and archive of Phyllis Barron (1890-1964) and Dorothy Larcher (1884-1952), two of the leading hand-blockprinters of textiles working in Britain in the 1920s and '30s (No. 1). The furnishing and dress materials which this unique partnership produced first in London and then in the Cotswolds are noted for their innovative designs printed in subtle colours on quality materials. Most of Barron and Larcher's work was presented to the collection by Robin and Heather Tanner, two founders of the Crafts Study Centre, since Robin had been left all their work on Phyllis Barron's death in 1964.


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While most hustled to finish up their last-minute shopping, Jennifer Aniston and fiancé Justin Theroux spent their Christmas Eve soaking up the sun.
With Aniston, 43, in a red bikini and Theroux, 41, in black shorts, the couple showed off their sculpted beach bodies while vacationing in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Aniston is no stranger to Cabo – the We're the Millers actress spent Thanksgiving relaxing at the vacation spot with Chelsea Handler and some girlfriends.
She also celebrated her 41st birthday there last February with pals including Courteney Cox.
Aniston and Theroux celebrated the holiday season by throwing a star-studded party earlier this month. Demi Moore, Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Tobey Maguire, Jennifer Meyer and more celebrated at the duo's Beverly Hills rental home.


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Select a Wedding Date
After you've told the world that you're tying the knot, it is a good idea to not take too long selecting a wedding date.
That way when you are shopping wedding vendors, you know what date you need beforehand. It keeps you from putting things off, because the wedding date will be quickly approaching.
It gives your friends and family time to plan ahead. It is a good idea to tell them as early as possible, especially if you're getting married in the summer, due to many people planning vacations during that time.
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Hire a wedding coordinator. I know you think it is expensive, but you will thank yourself in the end. If you don't want to bear the expense of hiring a wedding coordinator, get some talented family member to help you. Any type of help will do.
Sometimes getting a second opinion can help you think about issues that you would not have thought of before. Above all, you should be enjoying yourself and not stressing out and getting some help will help you accomplish that.
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Your wedding coordinator can help you determine the type of feel you want your wedding to give. Do you want it small and intimate, big and formal or somewhere in between? How about the time? If you have a lot of out of town guests it may be a good idea to have your wedding in the early evening, but not too late. Having your wedding at 10 AM may not go over too well with them.
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Wedding Organizers like notebooks or software can keep you from going into the insane asylum, for your probably can't and shouldn't try to keep all those numbers in your head. This way you are less likely to forget the small expenses that tend to add up in the end like wedding dress shoes, slips and veils. http://Weddingchannel.com and http://Theknot.com have free online wedding organizer software that includes a budget and expense calculator. At the very least, attempt to carry a notebook with you and record your wedding budget, expenses and tasks.
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Making a wedding guest list now is not too early. Well, at least attempt to do it! Combine the guest lists of future in-laws with your parents and your own guest lists for a good starting point. Don't fret too much at first, because this will only be a rough draft. Your wedding coordinator can help you with this also. A good idea for all of you is to start off with those you must invite and end with those who you would like to invite and go from there.
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Picking your color scheme will, of course, make decorating a whole lot easier. The wedding décor that you want so badly may not come in the colors that you want, so it is good to do this early on. The same idea goes for the wedding party's attire.
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LONDON, May 19 (UPI) -- The third of seven nuclear-powered Astute-class submarines for Britain's Royal Navy has been launched into the water for testing by BAE Systems.
The launch of the future HMS Artful took place on Friday and Saturday at the company facility in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, with the vessel being moved from its construction site to a dock site.
"The launch of Artful is another significant step forward in the Astute program, said BAE Systems Astute Program Director Stuart Godden.
"Building on past experiences, we've been able to launch her in the most advanced state of construction of any submarine to be built in Barrow. This allows us to now fully concentrate on the test and commissioning activities required to get her to sea."
Astute attack submarines are 318 feet long, 37 feet in the beam and have a submerged speed of as much as 30 knots.
Complex testing of the Artful's systems will now take place, followed by sea trials next year.
BAE Systems said remaining Astute-class submarines on order for the Royal Navy are in various stages of construction.


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I have a set of point features and I wish to find the points that have common coordinates. Now I changed the code as shwon bewlo by using the IPoint and the compare method through a function. I have 2 loops with cursors. The first one should read the first point while the second loop the second point etc. How can I force the cursor of the second loop to go to the second point? I addedd another NextFeature but it did not work.The result is that all the points are the same between the 2 loops. Thanks Demetris
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Citi announced today that Peter Orszag has joined as a Vice Chairman in its Global Banking business. Dr. Orszag was formerly the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under President Barack Obama and is currently a distinguished visiting fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Orszag will be a member of the Senior Strategic Advisory Group, which includes some of Citi's most senior and effective bankers focused exclusively on client relationships.
"Peter brings a tremendous amount of knowledge as well as key private sector and government experience to Global Banking. His expertise in economic policy will complement our Investment Banking franchise around the world," said John Havens, Chief Executive Officer of Citi's Institutional Clients Group.
Prior to his role in OMB -- a cabinet-level position where he oversaw the administration's budget policy, coordinated the implementation of major policy initiatives throughout the federal government and reviewed federal regulatory action -- Dr. Orszag served as the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), supervising the agency's work in providing objective, nonpartisan, and timely analyses of economic and budgetary issues. Under his leadership, the agency significantly expanded its focus on areas such as health care and climate change. Prior to CBO, Dr. Orszag was the Joseph A. Pechman senior fellow and deputy director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution. He also served as director of the Hamilton Project, director of the Retirement Security Project, and co-director of the Tax Policy Center. During the Clinton administration, he was a special assistant to the President for economic policy and before that a staff economist and then senior advisor and senior economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers. He has also founded and subsequently sold an economics consulting firm.
Dr. Orszag graduated summa cum laude in Economics from Princeton University and obtained a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics, which he attended as a Marshall Scholar. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations.
"I am pleased to be joining Citi, with its unmatched global platform and dedication to providing clients with quality service and advice. I look forward to working with the experienced, dynamic team at Citi," said Dr. Orszag.
Consistent with applicable ethics rules, Dr. Orszag's role at Citi will not involve contact with U.S. federal government officials.
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Congress mulls path forward on voting rights
WASHINGTON The House Republican sponsor of the Voting Rights Act updates said Wednesday that Congress must pass a new anti-discrimination law before the 2014 elections that restores the federal supervision the Supreme Court struck down in June.
"The Supreme Court said it's an obligation of Congress to do this. That's a command of a separate but co-equal branch of government to do that," Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., told reporters Wednesday after urging the Senate Judiciary Committee to get moving on the issue. The law, he said, should be passed before the congressional elections. He added that House GOP leaders are open to the task, but they have to see a draft first, it must address the court's objections and be "politically acceptable in both houses" of Congress.
"The American people expect us to roll up our sleeves and get to work," Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a veteran of the civil rights movement, said at the same hearing.
The 1965 law and its extensions have historically won overwhelming bipartisan support.
But Republicans and Democrats working together is a tall order in an age of divided government and scorched-earth partisanship that only died down a day earlier when the Senate struck a deal to avert a ban on some filibusters. Democrats control the presidency and the Senate, while Republicans have the House majority.
More broadly, the Voting Rights Act hearings this week in the Senate and, on Thursday, in the House, come at a tense time for race relations. The nation is grappling with the acquittal this week of George Zimmerman in the shooting of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin. President Barack Obama, the country's first black president, has reacted cautiously to the Florida jury's verdict.
And politically, Republicans are struggling through immigration in their bid to appeal to Hispanics and other voters who turned out overwhelmingly for Democrats in last year's elections. So rewriting a part of the Voting Rights act is sensitive for the GOP.
The high court put race relations squarely in Congress' hands last month when the justices ruled 5-4 to strike as outdated a 1975 formula that determines which districts are required to get Washington's permission to change their voting practices. The ruling gutted the key provision of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, credited with ensuring ballot access to millions of black Americans, American Indians and other minorities. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that Congress has an opportunity to retool the law's so-called preclearance sections that give the U.S. Justice Department veto power over local election changes.
Sensenbrenner, who as House Judiciary Committee chairman led the 2006 extension of the law, Lewis and other lawmakers reacted angrily immediately after last month's ruling and urged Congress to quickly update the language struck down by the court. But some Republicans, like House Speaker John Boehner, have been noncommittal. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., has pledged to hold a hearing on Thursday but has not said whether he'd support the legislation Sensenbrenner and Lewis are urging.
"They need to see a draft," Sensenbrenner said of other Republicans who have not urged legislation.


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Educators approve $6 million in new funds to improve student success
Charge. Power. Responsibility. Courage. These were some of the words delegates heard throughout NEA's 2013 Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly in Atlanta as they debated to vote for an increase to membership dues, which passed today. The $3 increase will go, in part, to NEA's new Raise Your Hand campaign, which is aimed to improve student success and strengthen education professions.
The added revenue is expected to generate more than $6 million in funds, specifically to provide Great Public Schools Grants (GPS Grants) to NEA state and local affiliates. The grants will support innovative projects and best practices to boost student learning, such as successful implementation of Common Core Standards, school safety and anti-bullying programs, and technology initiatives to improve classroom instruction and student learning.
NEA President Dennis Van Roekel encouraged delegates to vote for the amendment.
"Our country has no shortage of people with ideas about how schools need to change. It seems that anyone can call themselves an 'education reformer'—no experience necessary. If we are going to take charge of our own professions, we must move beyond the old debate that has been defined by others," said Van Roekel. "It is time for us to transform public education by taking charge of our own profession."
GPS Grants will be awarded using criteria from key elements of the Raise Your Hand campaign, which will deliver concrete results, including successful students, accomplished professionals, dynamic collaboration, and empowered leaders.
Van Roekel said of the campaign that the power of an educator's expertise is important because "what we're trying to do with 'Raise Your Hand' for public education is to say, 'We're going to tap into the passion, creativity, and power of everyone who spends their lives in education.'"
The new GPS grants will help galvanize and organize NEA resources to support results-oriented actions that will help ensure opportunity, equity, and success for every public school student in America. Moreover, it will enable educators to join with partnering organizations to raise up and broadcast the good ideas and smart policies of NEA members, as well as successful programs.
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Germany vs. the Scientologists
A confession: I am not a Scientologist. I do not like Scientology. I would become frantic if my sixteen-year-old daughter fell into the hands of this self-proclaimed church.
Such a repudiation of Scientology is necessary for anybody who writes about Scientology in Germany these days. Of course, to deny, disclaim, and disavow it still may not save you. For the very attempt may prove the opposite: that you are a secret disciple or an agent of influence of a group which, like the Freemasons or the Elders of Zion, has learned to camouflage its quest for planetary domination.
Even going about your normal business might brand you as part of this subversive group, especially in Bavaria, where the feeling against Scientology is strongest. Take Guy Count von Moy, who runs a smallish brewery, the Hofbräuhaus, in the smallish town of Freising just north of Munich. Like all local brewers in Germany's shrinking market, the count has had to fend off giants like Beck's or Löwenbräu. And so he launched an advertising campaign. Maybe he was trying too hard to push his suds, especially when he resorted to such mysterious slogans as "Feeling Inner Strength" or "Relying on Your Own Power."
Sounds like Scientology, doesn't it? Soon the whispers started (perhaps set off by the competition), and not long afterward the count's workers were harassed as Scientologists, and so were his children. His wife, Verena, was one for sure, the voices in the dark murmured, and look, wasn't she actually running the brewery? What better way to corrupt Bavarians than by using their favorite beverage as the devil's tool?
It did not matter that the Moys were devout Catholics. Nor that the count was a member of the Order of Malta, into which only noblemen with the strictest Catholic credentials are inducted. In desperation, he took out an ad in the local paper: "Neither I nor any of my employees at the Hofbräuhaus Freising nor any member of my family has anything to do with the Scientology sect." Whether that will restore his reputation and balance sheet is not yet clear.
By their very nature, witch hunts are not concerned with the truth. A favorite means of detection of medieval witches was to throw a suspect, bound hand and foot, into the river. If she floated, she was possessed of unnatural powers and thus destined for the stake. If she drowned, she was innocent. Either way she was dispatched from this world, which was presumably the result intended in the first place. As the count and others like him may yet discover, it is impossible to prove a negative.
The Bundestag has set up a "Commission of Inquiry on So-Called Sects and Psychogroups," which directs much of its energies at Scientology. Late last year Antje Vollmer, a member of the Green Party who is also the Parliament's vice-president, showed up for a meeting of the commission. While the experts from the domestic security service, the Verfassungsschutz, were testifying, she was…
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Charles Dionne Recovering after Surgery
On March 16th Charles Dionne was competing in the Sequoia Cycling Classic Criterium and was involved in a crash where he broke his elbow (according to the Successful Living team report).
Charles has since had surgery to repair the damage and will now spend six to eight weeks in recovery. April and May races are out of the question, but by June he hopes to be back on form for the Tour de Beauce. In the meantime he is keeping fit by riding his trainer.
Media Matin Quebec has a complete story (in french)
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I have been actively stalking my mailbox, I really hate this superboxes as they are called, they are grouped together in random sections, and ours happens to be down our street about 6-7 houses, on a curve of the road, so you never know when or if the mailman has been by yet. I am so anxiously awaiting the arrival of my new Paradigm Lost fabric and with it, hopefully also my stitching mojo, but instead yesterday afternoon, something very mysterious arrived in a very small envelope with a Belgium stamp.
The Secret Santa has made an appearance in Canada too! I have been reading about these mysterious envelopes making their way in various spots around the world and imagine my delight and surprise when I found one in my mailbox too, accompanied by this lovely skein of floss and card stamped from a friend!
So no PL fabric for me yet but something better arrived instead! Thank you, Secret Santa!!!
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Secret Santa Strikes Again!
I have been actively stalking my mailbox, I really hate this superboxes as they are called, they are grouped together in random sections, and ours happens to be down our street about 6-7 houses, on a curve of the road, so you never know when or if the mailman has been by yet. I am so anxiously awaiting the arrival of my new Paradigm Lost fabric and with it, hopefully also my stitching mojo, but instead yesterday afternoon, something very mysterious arrived in a very small envelope with a Belgium stamp.
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Labels: Stitching gifts
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Lucky Stars Quilt
Not too much stitching from me the past few days....I guess I'm in a bit of a slump right now. My Paradigm Lost replacement fabric is on its way to me and hopefully when that gets in, my stitching mojo will be revved back up to swing back into full speed again.
Meanwhile I did get a quilt top sandwiched. I think I have 4 quilts tops pieced and ready to go, dreadful huh? This one is called Lucky Stars and I think it was originally started almost 5 years ago. I actually did get one Lucky Star quilt finished, because it was a fat 1/4 quilt, and being a beginner and very enthusiastic 5 years ago, I bought far too many fat 1/4's. So I weeded through them all, and picked out the golds and greens and finished those into a very nice twin sized quilt. I decided to keep all the blue and purple fat 1/4's and make a matching quilt.
Which kind of fell by the wayside for quite a long time, all the pieces nicely cut, until finally last year I sewed it all together, and now at long last its sandwiched together. Its still laying out on the floor of our extra bedroom, waiting for some kind of inspiration as to how I'm going to machine quilt this one. I keep thinking if I look at it long enough, some kind of magical inspiration is going to hit me, but I realize that I'm really only looking at it on my way to bed at night and the only kind of inspiration to hit me then is how comfy my bed and pillow are going to be. I hope it doesn't take me several years to quilt this one!
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Thanks and a finish
I've calmed down since my Paradigm Lost fiasco of last week. Thank you so much for your encouraging comments! Have I mentioned lately how much I appreciate reading your comments, they really are so heartwarming and touching and bring a smile to my face, each and every one of them!
I'm going to take the advice of Sweet Pea, Tannia, Barbara, Kendra, Monique and Annemarie, and use the motif that I've finished in something else, and scrap the fabric for some other use. And as Old Yankee Stitcher (sorry, I don't know your name) said, I learned a new technique in tea-dying, so nothing is ever a total loss. I've taken the plunge and reordered a fat-half in 40 ct linen. I debated for a while over fabric counts for PL, but I really do like stitching on 40 ct linens, so I stuck with that. This time though I ordered a huge piece and I'm not cutting this baby down...just in case :-D I really don't think I want to restart it again.
So to soothe my ruffled feathers over the weekend, I calmed myself with some gentle stitching on 28 ct and finished off my JBW stocking:
There is a wee bit more to the design on the lower left hand side, it didn't all fit into the scanner!
And I dug out my CHS alphabet and finished up H is for Horse.
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Labels: CHS Alphabet, JBW Stocking, Paradigm Lost
Friday, November 16, 2007
Paradigm is Lost
Well a lost cause that is.....see my lovely motif above? I finished that last night and as I was happily stitching away, thinking, wow I'm really getting a lot done tonight, I may even get this motif completed, but hmm, its just not looking quite right, now is it? I pulled out my picture of PL and looked again at the chart and no its definitely not right, this motif is supposed to be square, not oblong-ish looking. Hmm, again. Time to start counting linen threads. So I started to count linen theads, not the easiest to do, at night, on 40 ct fabric and lo and behold I started to realize my problem! This is a 40 count from I count from left to right and but only a 36 count when I count from top to bottom!!! No wonder my motif came out with such a wonky shape!
Definitely not Zweigart fabric here, which made me remember the mysterious unmarked bag that it came in. All the linens were marked Zweigart or Permin, except for the odd mysterious random piece that were just marked with the size of piece inside the bag. Well you can imagine my choice of language here, not blog-worthy at all.
I'm so disappointed, not that I have so much stitched, but this was the fabric that I had so lovingly tea-dyed and was so pleased with the outcome....and meanwhile what am I going to stitch my PL on? At first I thought, oh well, what does it matter, its PL and the motifs don't have to be square to matter. But then I started looking at my size of fabric and got out the measuring tape again and calculator and since I started 2 1/2" down from the top, I don't have a long enough piece of fabric for PL with 36 ct from top to bottom. And yet more choice unblog-worthy words......
So I'm giving up for the moment, checking out, crawling under a rock and feeling very sorry for myself. PL has got the best of me right now.
Posted by Wendy at 9:17 am 19 comments
Labels: Paradigm Lost
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
RR's, F&S's, and stash
I finished my section on Nicole's Round Robin! Another one is ready to put in the mail and send off to Carissa. I'm really happy with the way my section turned out. I used patterns from two different designs from Elizabeth's Garden and I managed to squeeze a couple more sheep in there because I thought they looked so cute! Here is a scan of most of Nicole's RR, not the entire piece, it didn't all fit in my scanner, so the last section with Leslie's house I had to leave off.
And yesterday's mail brought Ulla's squares for me from the Fair and Square exchange, all the way from Sweden. Look how sweet they are, hmm, she doesn't mention but looks like a Prairie Schooler house to me?!?
And here are the squares that I stitched for her (I remembered to take a picture this time around). She commented that she liked redwork and quaker designs so I chose this for her, which is actually part of one of The Workbasket tree freebies. I thought the red and white were a good choice, since they were the colours of the Canadian flag, which is a coincidence, since Ulla stitched the Swedish flag on her block.
And one more picture, bear with me! I got some long awaited stash in the mail yesterday, my birthday stash which only took 6 weeks to get here! Well we can all guess where I ordered from :-D
And for some reason this one particular design has absolutely caught my attention. Its called 'Of Female Arts' by The Primitive Needle. I'm in love with it and its just one of those that I'm dying to start.
Of course there are only like 9 or so Christmas things I really really want to do in the meanwhile....but I just really have to do this too. If only I didn't have to work for a living! And the kids didn't have to eat!! Meanwhile I'm envisioning fabric choices and floss choices....and getting myself started to work.....
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Labels: Fair and Square, Neighbourhood RR, Stash
Monday, November 12, 2007
Pretty Scissor Pocket
I've been a bad blogger and not updating as much as I should....the days seem to be flying by right now. Kristy's stomach bug got passed on to me last week but luckily it didn't last too long. Nick's asthma warranted a middle of the night trip to the hospital for more treatment but he is much recovered now. Kids do get over things so much faster then us olde folke!
We had a birthday lunch for my sister's 60th birthday on Saturday, it was just a girlie thing, mothers and daughters, and so much fun. There were 12 of us, sisters, nieces and cousins , hosted by my other sister . I recently was able to entice my quilting sister Karen over into the wonderful world of cross stitching so I thought it was time for her to have a lovely pair of snips to go with this fabulous new hobby (or, obsession LOL) . So I picked up a pair of pretty scissors and made this scissor pocket and scissor fob to hold them. This is from a Lori Birmingham kit.
Back view:Rachel (Willing Hands) let me know that she received my PIF for her. This was a fun little freebie put out by Plum Street Samplers and she said she was very happy with it. Hope your week starts out great!
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Labels: Stitching gifts
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Stitching Update
Its been almost a week since I've updated and I don't know where the time has gone! Its time for some long overdue stitching updates and since the camera isn't cooperating with me today, its scanner time:
Here is my Paradigm Lost start from November 1st, not much to see but its a beginning :-D
Paradigm Lost by Long Dog Samplers, on 40 count tea-dyed linen, using Gloriana silks
Here is a link to the SAL to see all the other lovely starts on PL and Cirque-des-Cercles: Snowbirds SAL. Its not too late to join us if you want to get in on the fun!
My JBW Stocking is moving right along, what a nice little design this has been to work on.
JBW Stocking, on 28 ct Graziano white/celery linen, using DMC
And finally I started Nicole's Neighbourhood RR. I'm using an Elizabeth's Design cottage and I'll fill up the space with some other trees and flowers. So far, so good, I think. I love how the little sheep came out, I'm thinking about adding another one....
I've had 2 sickie kids, Nick's asthma is kicking up and Kristy had a very bad stomach. Something tells me working at McDonald's has its downside - eating too much food there, combined with Hallowe'en treats! Of course a 16 year old will never admit to that!!
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Labels: JBW Stocking, Neighbourhood RR, Paradigm Lost


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In the old continuity, Gray was an orphan. He-Ro, Son of Skeletor?
In the old continuity, Gray was an orphan. He-Ro, Son of Skeletor?
"I will use this power for all the good that can be done, to work for peace, to encourage virtue, and above all, to preserve life in all its forms..." Superman
I'd like to see SoS be a new character, having him end up be someone we already know would be too soap operatic. I wonder if they'll tweak the NA storyline so that stupid looking goofy eyeball Skeletor is actually not Skeletor but his son in the future who simply took up the mantle. I mean hey, multiple He-Men, Sorceresses, and men-at-arms, why not multiple Skeletors? Yeah, I loathe this idea, so, they'll probably do it lol
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I'm thinking that the Son of Skeletor may be one of the 30th Anniversary figures by Mattel, unless they either plan to 1. never make him or 2. continue making "new" characters after 2012.
Maybe he will wear a helmet that resembles Skeletor's skull head as an homage to his father....
Top MOTUC wants: Sagitar, Great Black Wizard, Skeletor's Skeleton Warriors, Odiphus, Illumina w/Sleetah, Lady Slither, Tuvar & Baddrah 2-pack, "new" characters as designed by Axor (Axel)
And his name will be:
Skevil Luke
I really like the idea of Skeletor's son, absolutely not opposed to a new character. In my opinion, the key question has been uttered already: will this son be evil? It's an important question, seeing as he was sent to the future and indeed, not raised by either Skeletor or Evil-Lyn. It's the whole nature/nurture thing.
He could indeed be a character we already now but perhaps we should indeed be careful not to make the story into a soap. Although the idea of Demo-Man and Keldor that can only be saved by merging with his own flesh and blood has a certain dash to it. When Hordak saves Keldor he states that there's a price to pay, the price being not to see his son ever again. Or something... Hmmm, maybe too much of a soap huh.
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As it's mentioned in Battleground Evil Lyn's bio, there should be a "son of Skeletor" figure somewhere down the line.
In my humble opinion, it will either be NA Skeletor, or He-Ro. The latter possibility would at least explain how He-Ro got contaminated with the techno-virus...
I don't care about a son of Skeletor at the moment. But if they have plans for him, I hope that he will be a good guy. He is Keldor's son, not Skeletor's.
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na skeletor.. not a chance he wont have a skull head. i kinda see were you were coming from. my guess he would have a new & unique story behind him. although there could be nothing. he could just grow up normal & have a mundane life.
I think their son is Master Sebrian.
YES!! Think about it... it would actually almost make sense...
The child is sent into the future, but we don't know for how long, could be the spell misfires, and he only travels a year or two into the future, instead of something like 17 years, as intended by Evil-Lyn.
Thereby growing up in the time between when she leaves the present ( actually the future, since we haven't quite seen any of this yet. it's the last years of the line), and arrives in the future.
This could actually explain why Dare, the ADOPTIVE son of He-man, whom we never find out who his real mother or father is, is able to channel the power of Grayskull.
He's one of the blood-line, in direct ascendancy!
Now, I know not everyone will like this idea, but it's got some potential, yeah? And it does sort of feel like the kind of thing we could see in Motuc, aye?
Kind of a bit ironic... Skeletor's son is raised by He-man into a hero.
It also opens up for a great sort of variant of He-Ro2, a Sorceror-armour version! Complete with Golden Havok-staff, and an armour inspired by He-Ro1's look. Pretty cool beans, if you ask me!
Discuss, friends! Tell me what you think of my insane theories and ramblings. =)
I asked TG at SDCC is He-Ro was the son referred to in BG Evil Lyn's bio. He just said "Keep reading the bios!"
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Skeletor should die by his own son because they couldn't bare to share power togather!!!
Would love to see the son of Skeletor look like Nekron from Fire and Ice. Love the idea of him being an overpowered spoiled prince taking mums advice. Meanwhile lynn uses him to get her own revenge on the Masters and Skeletor.
lol he looks alot like them
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Like the bio said Evil-Lyn and Keldor were married, she more than likely got pregnant just before the war when he got acid in his face and then went to Hordak and got Demo-Man put into him. When he became temporarily insane, and no longer loved her, Evil-lyn feared for her son's life and sent him into the future for safety.
Now Evil-Lyn wants her son to be the next King of Eternia since he to is in the bloodline. But she has to get Skeletor and the Royal Family out of the way first. She alone can not handle Skeletor with his new found Demo-Man power so she frees Hssss (fail) then frees Hordak (major fail) then frees Gygor to aid Skeletor who she hates.
After the 2nd Battle Ground and she loses her powers she realizes she is hopeless and will never win, so she goes to the future to be with her son. But since she somehow gets the cosmic key to do so, she could very well go to the point in time when he is still a baby and fully raise him from the start.
Skeletor's death may not come by He-man, but by his own son he knows nothing of.
I had a random thought this morning, as I usually do. Mattel have gone out of their way to mention the offspring of Skeletor in the Battleground Evil Lyn bio. Since he has never been mentioned before (Bar some fan fiction), and is brand new character, and the 30th Anniversary characters are new, I thought perhaps he might be one of them. After all it was a random entry into the bio.
What do you think?
I would be very pleased with that! I want him in some way, and the Anniversary would be great: celebrate the old by introducing the new!
I'm hoping Songster is another.
...Unless Songster *is* the son...
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I am intrigued with the idea of Evil-Lyn having Keldor's kid and going into the future.
Would I like a son of keldo figure? Yes.
Do I want that figure as an anniversary figure? No?
When would I want it? A little ways down the line.
What do I want for the 30th anniversary line? Just some cool figures to bolster the ranks.
But the 30th Ann. figures (except Photog) are specifically reserved for completely new invented characters. And I for one think that's great. We didn't spend 1984 talking about which characters from 1982 we wanted to see made, we were excited by new and strange figures.
So Songster in the future? Perhaps, but the 30th figs should be for things like Kon-Dor or Felt-Man.