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If there is one thing as a mom that I hate above all else, it's the grocery store checkout lane. No matter how many times my kids and I go to the store, be it the big box store or the bathroom/kitchen chain, no matter how many times I say, "No you can't have that candy/toy/sparkly notepad/pig with light-up eyes," my children always start to cry.
It's bad enough to have to take your toddler into a store. Most of us moms will try to avoid that at all costs. But every once in a while, we do and no matter how good my children are throughout the trip, the meltdowns always start in the checkout line. And for this, I blame stores.
In every aisle, there is something tantalizing. We can avoid the candy aisle, but then we end up in the small toy aisle. My daughter always knows I will say no to M&M's, but mini Barbies have no sugar! Why can't mommy get those?
Look, no matter how inexpensive it is, we don't need another mini Barbie in a pink jumpsuit. It sends the wrong message. I don't want to be on the hook for a "small present" every time we walk into the store.
But mommy! I was good! They cry. They scream. They stomp their feet. By the end of an hour-long grocery trip, all kids are tired. They are bored. It's the perfect time to tempt them with things they want and make their mouths water. The stores aren't stupid. They know they have parents in a weak spot. I am sure many parents give in just to stop that incessant whining. After all, wouldn't you pay $1 to avoid public humiliation?
So what is a mom who wants to send a message really to do? I stand my ground and I am often rewarded with an epic tantrum. If I buy them the thing, I may get happy kids, but I get a tantrum even more epic the next time I go into the store.
Here's a better idea: Stop manipulating my kids with store displays. Put small tools and things that appeal to grownups in the front of the store and hide the candy. I am sure the comments below will go on and on about how we all need to control our kids and all the "good" moms will say their kids never ask. But you know what? I live in the real world with real kids, and no matter how many times I say no, they STILL want the candy and small toys.
Personally, I prefer a store like Whole Foods where magazines and non-commercial sweets are less likely to catch my eye. So, yes. I frequent those stores. But sometimes I get stuck. And every time I remind myself that I am willing to pay a little more for groceries from a store that respects my children enough not to market to them directly.
Do you hate the checkout aisle candy displays, too?
So you blame the store for your child being a spoiled little shit and demanding candy/toys? Learn to control your child and stop blaming everything/everyone but YOU on why your child act out of control.
I NEVER have that problem with my kids. They like playing with the toys while waiting for me to check out but once I am checked out they put them away. They are 3 and 5.
that's an actual sales technique there... so yes you can blame them, they do it on purpose.
Yeah, they do it on purpose, but what are you gonna do about it? My parents didn't even take us to the grocery store until we were old enough to handle it! One parent stayed home with us while the other went to the store, and it stayed that way until we were old enough to understand how to be have and what our expectations were. If we threw a fit like that, our mom would have left the cart and taken us straight out to the car and home, even if it meant coming back later, just so that we would learn how to behave. Plain and simple. Parents need to act like parents. What next? Are people going to blame MTV for their kids doing drugs and getting pregnant?
She's pretty much impying those who act like parents are fake.
I agree with the other comments. This isn't the store's fault--don't let your kids get away with it! I'm still very young so I remember my childhood years very clearly. There was a book in my favourite "The Berenstain Bairs" series that dealt with this exact problem...where Brother Bear and Sister Bear were throwing these tantrums at the checkout lane and making huge scenes because they wanted candy or whatever junk food. I remember cringing to myself as I read it, thinking "That's so embarrassing!" so I never did it. In addition, I knew that my mother simply would not tolerate such behaviour so that kept me quiet too.


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Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is a rare, but serious lung disease spread by deer mice and other wild rodents. Hantavirus is found in the saliva, urine and droppings of infected rodents.
People can get hantavirus when they breathe in tiny particles of fresh saliva, urine, droppings or nesting materials that are infected with the virus. For example, you could get hantavirus if you sweep out a garage that has infected mice nesting in it. Sweeping stirs up the tiny particles of the infected droppings, urine or saliva, and makes them float in the air. When you breathe in these tiny infected particles the virus enters your lungs and you could get sick.
No. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is not spread from person to person. You can't catch it by touching or being around someone who has it.
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Some people may also feel dizzy, get headaches and have stomach pain, diarrhea and/or vomiting.
In the later stage of the disease (four to 10 days after the first symptoms start), you may have more serious symptoms:
Your doctor can diagnose hantavirus pulmonary syndrome by reviewing your symptoms and finding out whether you have been around rodents in the last 45 days. Your blood and sputum (phlegm) may be tested for the virus.
The earlier hantavirus infection is treated, the better the chances are for recovery.
The disease can become life-threatening within a few days of early symptoms, so it's very important to get medical treatment right away. Patients are usually admitted to hospital and given oxygen to help them breathe.
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The following column by Sun Public Editor Paul Moore is being published in an effort to provide readers with a timely report on a list of complaints about Sun coverage compiled by the press office of Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s administration. The list was given to Sun executives at an off-the-record meeting in December. Mr. Moore, who reports directly to the publisher and works independently of The Sun's news and editorial page operations, has carefully investigated the complaints on the list. The Ehrlich administration is expected to release the list today, along with other materials related to the governor's dispute with The Sun that led to the banning of two Sun journalists.
LAST NOV. 18, all Maryland executive
branch employees were banned from
speaking with two Sun journalists, columnist
Michael Olesker and State Bureau
chief David Nitkin.
The ban is still in effect today.
Concerned about the ban and public assertions
of unfair treatment of the governor by
The Sun, the newspaper's publisher and top
editors sought and ultimately gained an off-the-record meeting with Governor Ehrlich
and members of his staff Dec. 19.
At that private meeting, the governor's staff
distributed a document titled "Partial List of
Inaccuracies, Omissions, Errors, and Distortions
by The (Baltimore) Sun's Reporters,
Headline Writers and Editorial Writers Regarding
the Ehrlich-Steele Administration."
As The Sun's public editor, it is my responsibility
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to determine whether errors have been made
and how they occurred and to suggest corrections
to be published in the newspaper.
To fulfill that responsibility, I received a
copy of the list -- 23 items relating to news
stories, editorials, headlines, columns and
graphics published in The Sun between 2001
and 2004. I reviewed the items and interviewed
people involved. The Sun has corrected
or clarified four items.
In the weeks after the Dec. 19 meeting,
Governor Ehrlich alluded to this list when he
publicly accused The Sun of "serial inaccuracies"
in stories. On the radio and in interviews,
he also claimed that some stories had
been made up.
A close analysis does not support such conclusions.
While there is no doubt that some mistakes
have been made in The Sun's coverage of the
Ehrlich administration, there is no evidence
of the grievous, purposeful mistakes publicly
referred to by the governor. As I see it, those
claims are grossly exaggerated.
Because the list was offered at an off-the-record
meeting, I felt bound not to speak or
write publicly about it. There have not been
specific references to it in The Sun's news
pages for the same reason.
Now, an April 7 letter from Jervis S. Finney,
chief counsel for the Ehrlich administration,
asking for a "prompt public response" on the
list has removed that constraint, and the anticipated
release of the list by the administration
in response to a state Public Information
Act request makes this assessment timely.
The complaints focus either on questions
of factual accuracy or claims of bias in articles
and headlines that the Ehrlich administration
contends were not fairly balanced.
Making the list public is helpful, in my view,
because it sheds significant light on larger issues
that have shadowed the governor's dispute
with The Sun.
Governor Ehrlich was clearly upset by Mr.
Nitkin's coverage of a proposal to sell preserved
state land in St. Mary's County in a
deal that would have provided significant tax
benefits to the purchaser, developer Willard
A number of the listed complaints focused
on stories about that proposal, which
sparked a political controversy.
For instance, one concerned an Oct. 20,
2004, front-page article written by Mr. Nitkin
that was accompanied by this headline: "Ehrlich
OK'd deal for land."
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I posted an image of my foray into zaatar hunting and both Arlette and Dana mentioned the zaatar and feta cheese combo. Feta (aka Bulgarian cheese here) is crumbled, doused in olive oil and sprinkled with fresh zaatar; a breakfast and after-school snack that helped assuage my hunger daily as a child growing up in Beirut.
Obviously, not all of us can go out and pluck a handful of wild zaatar; getting a good-quality dry mix is fine as a substitute or a little oregano. Last but not least, the best olive oil and all the trimmings: Pita bread, chopped tomatoes, olives and sliced cucumbers should be included in the mouthful.
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A few of the many reasons for the growing popularity of wine. Some wine facts, a little bit of history and wine reviews from an amateur wine lover for the amateur wine lovers
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
WHY WINE: WINE FACTS; Did you know? Cooking with Wine,
Here's another edition of wine facts, as promised in previous wine facts posts. This time my wife,who does much of the writing on this blog and most of the research, used her Italian cooking expertise and wrote the entire article. I'll let her do that from now on. It will probably cost me more than hiring an expert writer, but maybe she'll take me along. Just maybe get her to go to the Wine Country Inn in Colorado or something like that. For first time readers of my blog, welcome to WHY WINE. I hope you enjoy reading my blog as much as I enjoy posting.
Wine Facts: Did you know? part 3
1. As a general rule of thumb, when cooking or serving wine with food you pair like with like. If you have a light meal (salad) pair with a light wine (i.e. Beaujolais or chardonnay). If you have a hearty meal (beef stew) pair with a robust wine (i.e. Chianti or Cabernet Sauvignon). (But note: using the opposite type wine makes for some interesting tastes.)
2. A perfect pairing leaves you wanting a sip and a bite and a sip and a bite etc.
3. If you won't drink the wine, DON'T cook with it. The so called "cooking wine" tastes awful. "Cooking wines" and "cooking sherries" are cheap wines to which salt and food coloring have been added. So why would you want to ruin your nicely cooked dinner with an off tasting wine? Use the wine from the bottle you're going to serve with the meal. It will give you a common taste between the meal and the wine and enhance the pleasure of the meal.
4. The old wives' tale that alcohol evaporates when wine is cooked in a meal is true – sort of. A wine with an alcohol content of 12% to 14% will cook down to 5% alcohol content in about 2 ½ hours. While not completely gone, the alcohol amount is so small that it really should not bother anyone when eating a 3 course meal.
5. A quick way to chill wine: fill a container that you can submerge the wine bottle up to its neck in with ½ ice cubes and ½ water. It takes half the time to cool the wine than when using ice alone. Reds at room temperature take about 5 minutes to cool. Super fruity wines (Beaujolais) take about 15 minutes. Whites take about 15 to 25 minutes. Champagnes take 30 minutes. (Note: use room temperature wine to cook with).
Related Post:
WHY WINE: Wine Facts; Did you know?
WHY WINE: Wine Facts; Did you know? part 2
7 comments:
- virgo27 said...
interesting post.
- March 4, 2009 at 11:04 PM
- The Wine Whore said...
Great post! I definitely enjoy reading your blog.
- March 5, 2009 at 2:34 PM
- The Buddhist Conservative said...
Great advice!
The marriage of wine and food is incredibly fascinating. We often are surprised when a wine we would not expect to go with a certain dish does.
A fruity red zinfandel and turkey? It works where a cabernet would make the turkey taste metallic.
Thanks for the posts.
- March 9, 2009 at 3:32 AM
- Wine Country Inn said...
Thanks for the shout out, joeshico. Mind if I cross post this, sometime, with linkbacks to your blog?
- March 13, 2009 at 4:16 PM
- Jong said...
nice one...
I have a trivia about wine, you can check it out..
- March 18, 2009 at 12:01 AM
Check out this fun web-site www.aboutboxedwine.com. Find out how to get more great wine for less!!!
- June 10, 2009 at 4:30 PM
- Wine Hampers said...
Fantastic advice here! I never knew that the alcohol in wine doesn't completely evaporate when cooked..I must remember that it takes 2 & 1/2hrs :)
- December 21, 2010 at 12:02 PM


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Banksy Wall to be Auctioned in Miami
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A portion of a wall from Red Hook, Brooklyn will be up for auction during Fine Art Miami's street art exhibition. The wall features a bandaged heart from Banksy during his month-long New York residency, plus a tag from another graffiti artist, Omar NYC. Experts are expecting the piece to fetch between $400,000 and $600,000.
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Sounds like a far better acquisition than the yellow acrylic wall, painted, with a roller (yes, exactly like any wall you've ever painted) that the National Gallery in Ottawa, Canada actually paid Olivier Mosset for.


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Nationally known environmentalist to speak at Treveccaís Stewardship of the Earth Day
Dr. Emmerich is the CEO of Emmerich Environmental Consulting, a 1997 Harvey Fellow, former U.S. representative to the U.N. for Environmental Affairs, and a member of the Academy of Evangelical Scientists and Ethicists. At Trinity Christian College Dr. Emmerich is an assistant professor and teaches environmental science and directs an environmental research partnership between Trinity and the Lake Katherine Nature Preserve.
Dr. Emmerich will speak in Trevecca's chapel service on Tuesday, April 18, at 10:30 A.M. Chapel is held in the sanctuary of Trevecca Community Church of the Nazarene adjacent to the campus at 333 Murfreesboro Road. The chapel service is free and open to the public.


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A multi-media icon based out of Houston, Texas, Rolando Becerra, was born in Sagua La Grande, Cuba. His career in media began in the tumultuous and highly politicized environment of Miami, Florida where he rose to prominence and notoriety for his trailblazing coverage of the Mariel Boatlift and May Riots.
Soon after, his reputation preceding him, he made his now legendary debut in Houston on August 12, 1980 on then Radio KEYH 85. Later moving to KLAT 1010 and then to KXYZ 1320, he returned to KLAT on January 4, 1994 where he was the host of Hoy! Con Rolando Becerra and Inolvidables until 2012. He was also syndicated in Dallas, Texas on KFLC 1270. He is currently the host of The Rolando Becerra Show Online!
During his unique career as a dynamic and versatile broadcast journalist, Rolando Becerra has acted as a passionate voice in the community serving a unique role as equal parts educator, consumer advocate and on more than one occasion raised more than a few eyebrows along the way. He has interviewed some of the most influential individuals in politics, culture, sports and media and developed a rabid following of listeners who rely on his unique and charismatic perspective on the news, events and culture that shape our world. Among the guests who have sat in the hot seat for him are former presidents Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon, Vice President Al Gore, then Vice President George H.W. Bush, Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Texas Governor Ann Richards, consumer advocate and often presidential hopeful Ralph Nader and every Houston Mayor over the course of the last 30 years and even fellow media figures including Bob Costas.
He has interviewed and established relationships with some of the music world's most iconic figures including Julio Iglesias, Enrique Guzman, Raphael, Cesar Costa, Alberto Vazquez, Angelica Maria, Jose Jose, Jose Feliciano, Jose Luis Rodriguez, King Clave, Leo Dan, Palito Ortega, Alberto Cortez and the list goes on and on.
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Torrie Wilson partied out in the islands for New Year's Eve, and the former WWE diva was nice enough to post a picture for us on Instagram.
January 13, 2014
Dolph Ziggler, Maryse Ouellet, Miz, John Morrison and several other people partied together on Halloween.
November 4, 2013
If you are a wrestling fan and anywhere near Sun City, you might want to pick up a copy of Red magazine soon, as Maxine poses topless on the cover of the latest edition. The former WWE diva is going by her real name of Karlee Perez.
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This really hot picture of Maxine in sexy shorts and a tight fitting top that exposes her breasts has surfaced online. The former WWE diva herself highlighted the picture on her social media account.
March 3, 2014
Maxine is now involved with a web series called The Cell, which is produced by Imani Films. The former WWE diva is now working as an actress. The show is about five women who are marked for death in a government cover up, before being trained on an island by the same government to fight global injustice.
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A Sample Vision Board
Towards the end of 2012, I was exploring the idea of creating a software-based version of my Product Canvas tool that integrates seamlessly with JIRA and GreenHopper. To get started, I created the Vision Board shown below.
The Vision Board captures my assumptions about the users and the customers of the new tool, the needs the product should address, the key product features, and the value the product should create for my own business, Pichler Consulting. (I explain the sections of the board in more detail below.)
As you may have noticed, I have kept the information on the board concise and coarse-grained. I did not, for instance, write personas and user stories, or create a design sketch. There are two reasons for this: First, I did not know enough about the users and customers at the outset to write personas and to describe the product in more detail. Second, I find that more information is best captured by other tools: the Product Canvas or the product backlog, and the Business Model Canvas.
The board proved very valuable for me: It helped me think through my idea, and it allowed me to share my thoughts with my team, and with our development partner. Additionally, the vision board helped me investigate the greatest risks by testing my assumptions, as I explain below. I now use the Vision Board for any new idea be it writing a new book, creating a new brochure, or updating a training course, and I help my clients apply the board.
The Vision Board Explained
The Vision Board is the simplest thing that could possible work to capture the vision and the product strategy. It uses five sections as shown in the following diagram and explained below. You can download the template from the tools section of my website or by simply clicking on the picture below.
Vision Statement is a concise summary of your idea that describes your intention and motivation. I also find it helpful to limit the vision statement to two sentences.
Target Group describes the market or market segment you want to address. You should state who the product is likely to benefit, who its users and its customers are.
Needs describes the product's value proposition: the problems and pain points the product removes, and the benefits or gains it creates for its users and customers. The section should make it clear why people will want to use and buy your product, and what the product's value proposition is.
Product summarises the three to five features of your product that make it stand out and that are critical for its success. These are likely to correlate to its unique selling proposition, and they should address the needs identified.
Depending on your product, the features may relate to functional properties ("mobile data access"), the design and the user experience ("cool, slick design that supports the brand and appeals to the target group"), or the technologies ("4G provided").
Don't make the mistake of listing lots of features. Stick to a maximum of five. Capture the product details at a later stage in your Product Canvas or product backlog.
Value explains why it's worthwhile for your company to invest in the product. The section states the desired business benefits, for instance, increase revenue, enter a new market, reduce cost, develop the brand, or acquire valuable knowledge. The latter can be just as valuable as the former: When Toyota shipped the Prius in 1997, for instance, the car was not earning any money. But it immediately developed its brand ("green car company"), and had gained an advantage in hybrid technology.
There are, of course, other tools available that help you capture your ideas including Ash Maurya's Lean Canvas and Alexander Osterwalder's Business Model Canvas. I may be biased but I really like the simplicity of the Vision Board: I find it always beneficial to consider the target group, needs, key features and business goals when exploring an idea. Filling in all the boxes on the Lean and the Business Model Canvas is often but not always helpful. But you can happily use the Vision Board as a stepping stone towards creating he Lean or the Business Model Canvas (as I explain in more detail below).
Research and Validation with the Vision Board
The Vision Board is not only a thinking and communications tool, it also allows you to test your assumptions, and capture the newly gained insights. To get started, I find it helpful to identify the greatest risk or biggest uncertainty on the board. This creates focus, and it enforces a fail-fast: figuring out quickly what works and what doesn't, which assumptions hold true, and which don't.
When I was working on my digital canvas idea, for instance, the greatest risk was initially misunderstanding the user needs, and potentially building a product that does not provide much value. I consequently decided to test my user needs assumptions before exploring further what features the tool should provide, or how the product should be implemented. I hence started carrying out a series of problem interviews, structured conversation with a prospect to understand the individual's problems and goals without referring to the solution, and engaged in a few direct observation sessions.
These measures helped me understand the target group better, and assess how much value a product canvas app with JIRA integration would provide. It also made me update and change the board to reflect my latest thinking, as the following picture shows:
I suggest you follow a similar approach when you work with the vision board: Identify your biggest risk, and attack this risk first. Don't be afraid to fail: Early failure saves you time and money.
The Vision Board and the Business Model Canvas
I find that the strength of the Vision Board is its simplicity: It captures the core ideas necessary to create a new product — the customers, the problem, the solution, and the desired business benefits. But it does not detail how the benefits are achieved.
This is where the Business Model Canvas comes in: The canvas states how the product creates value, and it covers additional aspects including the customer relationship, the partners, and key resources. The following pictures illustrates how the Vision Board and the Business Model Canvas can be used together:
The Vision Board and the Product Canvas
The Product Vision Board describes the vision and the product strategy, but it's not well suited to capture the product details. I therefore recommend that you derive a Product Canvas from your vision board, once you start validating product risks, as the following picture shows:
Physical or Electronic?
I have a preference to work with a physical Vision Board that's put up on the office wall where everyone can see it. Simply download the Vision Board template, print it out and get started!
If you require an electronic version, then try Jolien Coenraets' Google Drive template. I created the vision board above that captures my digital Product Canvas idea in PowerPoint by the way: I had to work with an electronic version, as my team is distributed, and the Google Drive templates had not been developed.
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In education, Finland is usually at the top & the USA near the bottom, but what is the middle or upper middle doing?
Like many other situations we like to focus on the extremes, and although learning from the best is not a bad idea, I would like to learn a little from the pretty darn good.
What are all those countries located in the upper middle area doing to get themselves where they are? Something tells me they aren't just avoiding wat the USA is doing and emulating Finland.
If you can, please share some of your stories and knowledge on what is working for you that other teachers and educators could mull over.
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I live in Japan, where most schools are geared towards entrance exams and thus rote skills and memorization are very much at the forefront. When you memorize for a test, there is a lot of cramming and long term doesn't really come into the picture.
I am wondering how you would define "think for yourself" and its role in education. I am curious.
Jim RyanApr 22 2013: Recognizing that others may have things to offer is a sign of an intelligent and cautious mind. That's good to see. I would say look to your school years, to see that you dare not challenge a teacher or you'd be where? Look to the system and ask yourself, did that system look for the best in each student and work to bring that out like my mother or does the system get angry with those that are different or seemingly, defiant?
We all lived the exact same things in school, depending on the school, the money, time, dress, jobs of the parents and so on, for the que's in how each is to be treated by the teachers or nuns. By such, learning is reduced to the least common denominator, instead of the best, which is to find the best each child has to offer and help them to enhance that. I went to a rich catholic school, even though we were economically poor. My mom worked 3 jobs to raise 5 kids and to give us the best educations. It's too bad the schools were ppoor in heart, mind and spirit.
How many teachers have you seen, that taught the most timid of children, to help themselves and how did they do it? Think about it, perhaps you can offer an answer.
There's more, but I'll await your input to here, as you show interesting qualities. However, unless you, we, are taught, it's darn near impossible to know.
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Finally, to make you ill, the bacteria needs to multiply. For instance, when food is left out for long periods of time, it creates an ideal situation for bacteria to flourish. The food provides the infectious material with "food" and the warm temperatures let it multiply readily. Refrigeration will keep most infectious material at bay.
There are a number of steps that are out of your control and in fact happen long before you even touch your food. What is a person to do? There are some basics steps that can help you significantly lower your risk of foodborne illness:
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Becoming Best Friends
- Friday, March 29, 2013
Become an Active and Engaged Listener
One of the most valuable and important relational skills to learn is listening. Make no mistake—becoming a good listener is hard work! If you are not a good listener, improve: read books on listening skills, or ask someone who is a good listener how he does it. The impact will astonish you.
To get you started, consider these steps:
- Give your children (or spouse) time to speak, even if it means waiting patiently during a period of silence as they collect their thoughts.
- Make eye contact when they speak to you.
- Be an active listener, interacting with what the other is saying, rather than jumping in to tell your own story.
- Don't assume you know what they mean, but instead, gently ask questions that indicate you are listening and seeking to understand.
- Be willing to listen to their ideas and insights without trying to control their words or responses.
When I recently asked my 30-year-old son his thoughts about this subject, he replied: "The times you and Dad listened to me—really listened, without prescribing what my words ought to be—were times I felt most befriended. Controlling children's responses doesn't encourage relationship, but rather, performance. And, a performance-based relationship isn't love..."
Learn How to Express Your Love Effectively
Finally, one of the most helpful tools in building healthy friendships within the family is learning the five "love languages" as described by Dr. Gary Chapman.3 Many, many people have benefited from his research on the five different ways we express and receive love: words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch. Find out what love languages you have, what kinds your spouse and children have, and make sure you are "speaking their language." An excellent source to engage this is www.5lovelanguages.com.
These are some of the paths I have imperfectly walked with my husband and children, concepts they have helped me learn and grow in. I encourage you to also become intentional in becoming best friends with your spouse and children. Take stock of your relationships right now. Is your home a safe place for building friendships? Do you take time to laugh and play? Have you discovered ways to enjoy each one in your family? Do you have regular time for listening and sharing?
Wherever you are on the path, commit your ways to the Lord, and ask Him to help you in befriending those beloved and unique individuals with whom you live. Believe me, the reward far outweighs the cost!
1. Schaeffer, Edith, What Is a Family?, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1975.
2. Scripture quoted from the New King James Version of the Bible.
3. Chapman, Gary, The Five Love Languages of Children, Chicago, Northfield Publishing, 1997.
Diana Waring, author of Beyond Survival, Reaping the Harvest, and History Revealed curriculum, discovered years ago that "the key to education is relationship." Beginning in the 80s, Diana homeschooled her children through high school--providing the real-life opportunities to learn how kids learn. Mentored by educators whose focus was to honor Him who created all learners, and with an international background (born in Germany, B.A. in French), Diana has been enthusiastically received by audiences on four continents.
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I read a really fantastic comment on Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish today: "Santorum's polygamy argument just seems so easy to refute with heterosexuality. If a man is allowed to marry one woman, isn't it just a slippery slope to his being allowed to marry three?"
Exactly, anonymous Dish reader. And as long as we're sliding down that slippery slope, I think that I should be able to pick up AT LEAST 10 celebrity spouses. Sure, Muhammad may have said the rule was "four wives or fewer unless you're a prophet," and that's generally been my rule of thumb, but Santorum says that once you let the people start getting married, they'll never stop. It's a crazy world out there! Don't worry, though, I'm pretty egalitarian. I will encourage my celebrity partners to bring their current partners along to our giant, sexy commune! Matter of fact, already-married celebrities get Bonus Points in this game. Just like already-married people get bonus points in my actual dating life.
So here are my Top Ten Sexy Famous People To Add To My Commune, In Alphabetical Order Because We Aren't Hierarchical Like That, Okay?:
1. Nick Cave
Me and Nick Cave share a birthday, which means we would have particularly epic Birthday Sex. His first band was called the Birthday Party, which I'm pretty sure was a message to me about how he loves me. And now he writes songs about Jesus and sex, which everyone knows is the best way to my heart. Plus he has a super-sexy baritone voice, which research now tells me means a low sperm count, which means we're less likely to get pregnant! I dressed up as Nick Cave for Hallowe'en this year. I totally got laid that night. What I am trying to say is that Nick Cave and I are already sexually intertwined. We should make it official.
Current Marital Status: Married to super-hot model Susie Bick; they have twin sons named Arthur and Earl. They definitely make the cut.
2. Daniel Craig
I saw the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo on Christmas Day. It was really good, and it was especially great because Daniel Craig took off his clothes on multiple occasions. I don't want to spoil too much for you, but I felt a little guilty about how much I wanted Daniel Craig to take his clothes off at the end of the movie. There was also this scene where Daniel Craig says something like, "What does a 23 year old want with an old man like me?" And it was only because I was seeing this movie with my dad that I didn't scream, "Shut up, Daniel Craig, you're so hot" at the screen. He's in this marriage for eye candy and a sexy accent. Not much else needed.
Current Marital Status: Married to actress Rachel Weisz. I might let her have conjugal visits, but she's not living with us. Being in The Mummy has consequences.
3. Zooey Deschanel
Yes, like everyone who is attracted to women, and probably quite a few people who didn't think they were, I am way into Zooey Deschanel. But was anyone else as depressed as I was when she and Ben Gibbard announced their divorce? I wanted to marry both of them! They had the cutest Twitter interactions, I could only imagine how fantastic their co-shower harmonizing must have been. And now she is alone! Making videos with her pal Joseph Gordon-Levitt, sure, and in a successful tv show, but going home to a cold, empty bed. I can fix that for her. I and my harem of celebrities.
Current Marital Status: Recently divorced. If we can convince the Gibbstack to come back, he's welcome any time.
4. Tim Howard
Interested in soccer now? Timmy Howard is the U.S. National Team's goalkeeper, and plays for Everton when he wants to make money and/or win. Based on this ESPN photo shoot, he also plays in a nude league I would like more information about. Not only is he a super-sexypants — well, sexy-no-pants — no, he is also a Sweetheart. He scored a goal last week, by kicking the ball from his goal all the way into the other one, and reacted not by gloating, as I would have done, but by feeling sorry for the other keeper! And Everton didn't even win the game! Timmy Howard: you've obviously got the empathy to excel at polyamory. Get in here!
Current Marital Status: Married to some lady named Laura. I don't approve of her.
5. Jude Law
Jude Law will forever be Bosie (his character in Wilde) in my heart. Which should disqualify him from marriage material, but sometimes I like a challenge! Besides, Bosie was pretty damn loyal, just couldn't manage monogamy. And we're not demanding that from him at all, just that he be around and make sexy pouty faces and talk in that fantastic accent. I won't even try to ask him to take care of me when I'm sick, unless I really want to see a temper tantrum, which I might.
Current Marital Status: He seems to be broken up with Sienna Miller? No one can really tell what's going on. Once he and maybe-Sienna but maybe someone else got married in a tribal ceremony in some Asian country that I'm sure was not weird cultural appropriation at all. Anyway, after they did this, their marriage wasn't yet legal in the U.K., and so I really wanted to take advantage of that window to legally marry Jude Law and be a bigamist with him without breaking any laws. But I guess he didn't really marry that lady anyway. No matter what, Bosie-Jude can join this commune with whatever lovers he'd like to bring, for however short a time.
6. Lee Pace
Yea, yea, you all love Pushing Daisies, hush. That's not what I'm here to talk about. I'm here to talk about a little film called The Fall. In The Fall, Lee Pace plays an injured stuntman who tells fantastic stories to a little girl so she'll steal morphine for him. And in the story he's some kind of swashbuckling masked Spaniard Zorro character, and it's all kinds of sexy. Plus, it has a really tender tearjerker ending. That is the movie where I really fell in love with Lee Pace. He's also played transgender in Soldier's Girl, which someone needs to get available on Netflix Instant so I can finally see it.
Current Marital Status: Single! We won't count it against him, he's probably got some baggage from all those years of being told you aren't allowed to touch your one true love.
7. Dolly Parton
Where to even begin with Dolly? The fact that she's one of the best songwriters of this century? The fact that she has chosen to look like the trashiest über-femme and doesn't give a fuck what you think? The fact that she has an entire theme park devoted to her? (I've been to Dollywood. TWICE.) When I was a child, the only Christmas album — on cassette because it was the early 90s — I wanted to listen to was Dolly Parton's. She has always been my hero, and now that I'm all grown up, I want to express my love for her in the best way I know how, by entering into a long-term committed relationship with her. And hoping that she'll agree to let "Jezebel" be our wedding song.
Current Marital Status: She's been married to Carl Thomas Dean for 46 years! That's inspiring in and of itself.
8. Shakira
Specifically that moment in "She Wolf" where she goes "awoooo." I'm not sure if you can marry a single vocalization in a single song, but I'm going to try. Because I am head-over-heels in love with the way she delivers that "awooo." It doesn't sound wolf-like at all, or even particularly sultry. It's almost… childlike? Not to sound like some creepy perv who's into children, 'cause I'm not, but Shakira's "She Wolf" "awooo" has a sweet innocence to it that utterly charms me.
Current Marital Status: Dating Barcelona defender Gerald Pique, who probably belongs on this list on his own, except that then I'd have to add most of the rest of Barca's team, so instead I'll just assume that Shakira can bring that whole locker room with her.
9. George Bernard Shaw
You always gotta have one dead person on the list. Not because I'm a necrophiliac, ewwww, but because as long as we're fantasizing we have to assume we can time travel and go back and grab someone from the Past. And I pick Bernard Shaw. I own every one of his plays. Many of them twice! Yes, my love goes far deeper than My Fair Lady, and my love for that starts out pretty deep. Bernard knows how to write real romance, and how to write strong female characters, and how to write prologues longer than the play itself and full of irrelevant political rants. Plus he was friends with Bosie!
Current Marital Status: Well, you know, dead. But! When he was alive, his love life is great. You see, he married this lady Charlotte. But she insisted that they never have sex. So he just had a bunch of affairs with married women! He will fit right in.
10. Shelley Winters
I lied. Two dead people.
But Shelley Winters. The lady who taught Marilyn Monroe how to make sexy faces for the camera. The lady who refused to give up her Hollywood career when her bombshell days were over and, thus, started her real career after they told her she wasn't sexy anymore. Of course, she was still sexy. She will always be sexy.
Current Marital Status: Again, whoops, dead. In life, she was married four times, the final one just hours before she died! She wore her first husband, Captain Mack's, wedding ring until the day she died. I recommend that she bring all four husbands with her.
So, there you have it, the sprawling sexy celebrity marriage compound that is only the natural consequence of letting celebrities get married. According to Santorum logic. Which will never fail.


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The Degree Of Competition In The European Football Leagues: A Statistical Approach
AbstractAs a professional sport, professional football teams in a league compete in imperfect market conditions since every team in a professional football league may be known by their differentiated product (i.e. the quality of football they play). If the competition level increases, the quality of football being played may also increase. Thus, consumers`(i.e. football spectators) value of money spent on football should increase too. Thus, this paper tries to implement the above mentioned economic principle through a statistical method on nine European countries football leagues, in an individual and comparative manner. During the estimation period, it is calculated that, on average, the highest level of football competition took place in France, whereas Turkish football came last.
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I have learnt four things over the past year or so.
One. The iPhone 3′s glass was scratch resistant but not dropping-onto-a-stone-floor resistant.
Two. I am clumsy.
Three. The iPhone 4′s glass was scratch resistant but not dropping-onto-a-pavement resistant.
Four. I am still clumsy.
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