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Working on a summary Sunday morning is absolutely fine when your project needs sunshine and water (plus chemicals in dark rooms). I've been printing with sunshine (aka cyanotypes) for an exciting branding project I'm currently working on.
In April, music, arts & performance festival Motel Mozaique, took place in Rotterdam. Friends from design studio Hats & Tales designed this year's event style and asked me to photograph the result of their hard work during the festival. See some more on Hats & Tales' website.
London fog: a morning walk through the mist along the river Lea and passing by a still deserted playground before the sun comes out and many will enjoy the sunshine here.
My series 7242 metres is featured in The Ride Journal VIII, which came out a few weeks ago. Super nice to see two spreads of work among some great writers, illustrators and photographers in this stunning magazine. Yay!
Turn it around
Btw, this is near my hometown in the Netherlands, my old back garden… it now looks like Africa sometimes like here on an iPhone shot.
Happy New Year to you! It was ferry time again these holidays… see more photos on Instagram.
I like this pic from the Catalan seaside I took back in October (see this series earlier on my blog) so thought I should post it. Aren't the colours nice?
Sometimes I like to take my Yashica with me and when I went to the Pyrenees for a hike I was aiming to document the day. Always nice to get them developed. I have the feeling I forgot to shoot some of the actual walk but at least I finished with a well deserved refreshment.
The Pyrenees are nice
I'm in Barcelona and while the city beaches are still filled with tourists and Catalans, a couple of hours walk north, the 'platges' are beautifully empty.
It's already a month ago that I went on a bicycle ride from London to Heijen, the place I grew up on the German border in the Netherlands. Here a few scenes on the way. More to come soon.
While waiting for the bus in Alfriston. I didn't see a bus, but saw this.
Thought it would be nice to go for a walk so I took the train to Eastbourne — with delay because of severe weather conditions — to walk the South Downs route to Alfriston. Unexpected snow, gale force winds, freezing temperatires, muddy slides and just me and the sheep, but beautiful and worth every step. Missed the last bus in Alfrsiton but well, just walked another three miles in the dark to the next train station to find a cancelled train. Pub time it was!
(I was reading the Alchemist, seemed very relevant, even passed a crystal shop on the way :-)
Pie Pacman (homebaked)
Several stages and ingredients of pie baking, more pies to bake, book to come.
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Archive for June 13th, 2008
from ThinkProgress, Jun 13, 2008
During an interview last night on Fox News's Hannity and Colmes, conservative pundit Dick Morris said that after all the American sacrifices in Iraq, he wants "bases out of that," essentially arguing that the more American casualties there are, the more the United States deserves bases from Iraq. He then explained that he envisioned the permanent bases would be "like they are in Okinawa or North Korea":
After we've sustained 4,000 casualties, I don't know about you, but I want bases out of that. I want the ability to have troops near Iran. And I'm not saying they go off base. They're like they are in Okinawa or North Korea.
The United States military bases are actually in South Korea, where approximately 28,500 U.S. troops are stationed.
more mccain nonsense
from Matt, ThinkProgress, Jun 13, 2008
During his town hall event in New Hampshire yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) got into a verbal back and forth with a voter over his support for Social Security privatization. McCain told the man, "I'm not for, quote, privatizing Social Security. I never have been. I never will be." Watch it:
But McCain's record begs to differ:
- "Without privatization, I don't see how you can possibly, over time, make sure that young Americans are able to receive Social Security benefits." [C-Span Road to the White House, 11/18/2004]
- "As part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it—along the lines that President Bush proposed." [Wall Street Journal, 3/3/2008]
Not only was McCain "a big booster" of Bush's 2005 plan to privatize Social Security, but one of his top economic advisers, Carly Fiorina, recently told conservative radio host Bill Bennett that McCain "supports private accounts as one of the ways to reform the system" and that "he will continue to be supportive of those."
how bush never missed an opportunity
Bush's Bluffing Has Made Mideast Peace a Bad Bet
Michael Shtender-Auerbach, Forward, Jun 12, 2008
From Taba to Tony, from the Rose Garden to Riyadh, from Geneva to Gaza—in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, no American president has been presented with more opportunities for reaching a true and lasting peace than George W. Bush. But with just a half a year to go before he leaves the White House and little indication of a breakthrough, it is all but certain that Bush will leave behind a conflict more intractable than ever, not to mention a situation in Gaza that ranks as the world's third-largest humanitarian crisis after Somalia and Darfur. This is more than just an exercise in historical finger pointing. When the 44th president of the United States is sworn in next January, he will inherit a legacy of failed chances at Middle East peacemaking. To borrow a phrase from Abba Eban, the president has never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity—to be exact, 21 opportunities over the past eight years to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Twenty-one: That's blackjack, with no jackpot. The next president, be it John McCain or Barack Obama, would do well to revisit those missed chances, for they offer an instructive lesson: American diplomacy in the Middle East needs to be about more than lofty rhetoric and half-baked initiatives—it needs to be about strategically pursuing the path of peace, supporting those that seek peace and following through on the necessary steps to achieve peace.
1 — Taba Summit, January 2001: As Bill Clinton left office and Bush assumed it, the Israeli and Palestinian negotiation teams met in Taba, Egypt, to continue what was started in 2000 at Camp David. The summit dealt with final-status questions and were by far the most robust, complete and hopeful talks between Israelis and Palestinians since Oslo.
2 — Mitchell Report, April 2001: While the second intifada raged on, former Senator George Mitchell headed a fact-finding mission whose report outlined a set of confidence-building measures to end the intifada, stop settlement expansion and bring the parties back to the negotiating table.
3 — Tenet Plan, June 2001: CIA Director George Tenet, hoping to solidify the recommendations of the Mitchell Report, went to Jerusalem to detail a security plan to end the violence and resume negotiations.
4 — Arab Peace Initiative, March 2002: The initiative, also known as the Saudi Peace Initiative, was a watershed in peacemaking efforts. Based on Security Council resolutions 242 and 338, the Arab League unanimously agreed to normalize relations with Israel as the outcome of a negotiated two-state solution. It also included a reference to an agreed-upon solution to the question of Palestinian refugees, signaling that Israel's objections to a massive return of refugees were beginning to find acceptance in the Arab world.
5 — The Madrid Quartet, April 2002: A quartet of Middle East mediators was constituted with the purpose of multi-lateralizing the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. It combined the political superpower of the United States with the financial backing of the European Union and the international legitimacy of the United Nations, as well as with the balancing influence, as seen through Arab eyes, of Russia.
6 — Rose Garden Speech, June 2002: Bush, to the surprise of many, became the first American president to openly state that a major American foreign policy objective would be to support and bring about a two-state solution and an end to Israeli occupation. A trailblazing speech, it signaled that some in the White House were beginning to understand the significance of the American role in the conflict.
7 — U.N. Security Council resolution 1397, June 2002: The resolution affirmed unanimous international support for the vision outlined in Bush's Rose Garden speech.
8 — Road Map for Peace, April 2003: Based on the parameters set out by Bush's Rose Garden speech, the Madrid Quartet developed a comprehensive plan, with the goal of delivering an independent Palestinian state living side-by-side in peace with a secure Israel.
9 — U.N. Security Council resolution 1515, May 2003: The resolution affirmed unanimous international support for the Quartet's Road Map for a permanent two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
10 — Geneva Initiative, December 2003: Drafted by former Israeli negotiators and their Palestinian counterparts, the Geneva Initiative maps out in comprehensive detail a blueprint for a permanent status solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with goals based on the parameters spelled out at Camp David, as well as on the Road Map and the Arab Peace Initiative. While not an official document, most credit it as the impetus for Israel's withdrawal from Gaza in 2005.
11 — James Wolfenshohn appointed envoy, April 2004: The former World Bank president was appointed as the Quartet's special envoy for Israel's Gaza disengagement. An American Jew trusted by both Israel and Washington, Wolfensohn would resign his post in 2005 in deep disappointment at the way the Bush administration systematically undermined his efforts.
12 — Death of Yasser Arafat, November 2004: While Arafat was revered by Palestinians as the founder of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and Palestinian national movement, his death also entailed an enormous opportunity for change and for greater democratic governance for Palestinians.
13 — Mahmoud Abbas elected president, January 2005: A non-violent pragmatist and long-time advocate of negotiations, after being elected he immediately called for an end to the intifada, a cessation of the armed struggle for independence and the resumption of peace negotiations with Israel.
14 — Sharm el-Sheikh Summit, February 2005: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak hosted Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Abbas and King Abdullah of Jordan to re-commit the parties to the Road Map and formally bring an end to the second intifada.
15 — Gaza disengagement, August 2005: The disengagement showed that Israel was capable of and willing to cease its settlement enterprise and withdraw from Palestinian territory. But instead of building momentum for a further withdrawal of settlers from the West Bank and reviving peace talks, the Bush administration expressed understanding for Israel's painful domestic struggle and rewarded Sharon with the promise that existing demographic realities in occupied territory would be taken into account in eventual final-status talks.
16 — Agreement on Movement and Access, November 2005: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice negotiated an 11th-hour agreement to improve Palestinian living conditions by creating parameters for better movement and access for Palestinians. The main purpose was to re-open the Rafah border crossing from Gaza to Egypt, a fundamental precondition for a peace deal. The border remains closed.
17 — Baker-Hamilton Commission, May 2006: James Baker and Lee Hamilton's commission, officially known as the Iraq Study Group, opened up the previously taboo "linkage" discussion by arguing that the "United States will not be able to achieve its goals in the Middle East unless the United States deals directly with the Arab-Israeli conflict."
18 — Prisoners Document, June 2006: Palestinian prisoners held by Israel from groups including Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine drafted a "National Reconciliation Document." The signatories agreed to a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders, marking a potentially crucial opportunity to co-opt Islamist militants and create a broad Palestinian consensus in favor of negotiations and territorial compromise.
19 — Mecca Agreement, March 2007: To address the emerging crisis between Hamas and Fatah in the West Bank and Gaza, Saudi Arabia convened national unity talks in Mecca to hammer out a unity government. Instead of embracing the accord, the Bush administration reportedly engaged in a clandestine effort to arm Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan against Hamas, which reacted with a military takeover of Gaza that June.
20 — Tony Blair appointed envoy, June 2007: The former British prime minister, with his high profile and stature, was tasked with improving Palestinian governance, economics, and institution–building. While Washington supported Blair's involvement, the State Department made clear his mandate did not include that of peacemaker.
21 — …and blackjack, November 2007: Bush convened a major summit in Annapolis, Md., and coaxed Israelis and Palestinians into a commitment to try to reach an agreement by the time he left office in January 2009. Six months later, the president has yet to deliver any real progress.
like ms. huffington, ipf hypes 'iran threat'
but here is an interesting bit from Israel Policy Forum, Jun 11, 2008
The current consensus is that the end of Olmert's term as prime minister is only a matter of time. It could be a few weeks or a few months. Meanwhile, a majority within the Knesset has been declaring that they support a bill to dissolve the Knesset and, therefore, bring on a new election. However, there is a game of chicken going on, with parties like Labor and Shas saying, "Yes, yes. We will vote for an election," but possibly also hiding ulterior motives. It is not certain that elections are very close. A more interesting question is whether there will be a Kadima primary. If there is a primary, and assuming that Olmert will not be re-elected (he may not even run), then his successor will be waiting in line. As long as he doesn't have a successor, he's got a bigger hold on his own party.
The two main contenders in a possible Kadima primary seem to be the current Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and the Minister of Transportation Shaul Mofaz. Livni is very popular with the public. She is far less popular within her own party. More importantly perhaps, Olmert does not like Livni and does not want her to be the leader of the party. Therefore, a lot of his maneuverings are not only aimed at saving his own skin, but also at outflanking Livni and doing as much as he can to support Mofaz. Mofaz has said that if he headed the party, he would try to constitute a government that would be led by him, Binyamin Netanyahu, and Ehud Barak. Without a doubt, that triumvirate would be further to the right than the current triumvirate of Olmert, Livni, and Barak. Of course, it is unclear whether Kadima would have the votes in the Knesset to build the governing coalition. If elections are held in the near future, particularly if they are based on security issues, Netanyahu is likely to be the frontrunner. But there is an unknown element now because corruption is so high on the public agenda. It is therefore possible that Livni, who is considered to be the "cleanest" of all the current politicians, or an unknown, centrist "knight in shining armor" promising to come in and save us all from corruption, could be the wild card that would change everything.
usaf video clip of pakistan strike
via al Jazeera
from Brian Cloughley, America the Detested, CounterPunch, Jun 13, 2008:
Further, it was announced by the Pentagon that the attack that killed soldiers in blatant violation of Pakistan's sovereignty was "a legitimate strike in self-defence." One can only regard such utterances with contempt, because those who spoke in such a way, and those who ordered them to say what they did, have no concept of loyalty to a friendly country. Nor, for that matter, do they take the slightest heed of international law and custom. The Pentagon quickly distributed a video showing an attack that was said to be a strike on an "enemy" position. There was no indication of where it was, when it was, what ordnance was used, or results of the attack. It was a fatuously amateur exercise in attempted damage control. And of course, later, in the inevitable reassessment (for which read : "We've been found out and had better think up a more believable version of the lies we told"), it was revealed that "a US Air Force document indicates bombs were dropped on buildings near the border, and Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman conceded there may have been another strike that occurred outside the view of the drone's camera."
mccain opposes supremes on habeas corpus
from Amanda, ThinkProgress, Jun 12, 2008
Today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) criticized to the Supreme Court's ruling granting Guantanamo Bay detainees the right to challenge their detention in civilian courts:
It obviously concerns me. These are unlawful combatants. They are not American citizens. We should pay attention to Justice Roberts. It is a decision the Supreme Court has made and now we need to move forward. As you know, I always favored the closing of Guantanamo Bay, and I still think we ought to do that.
McCain's statement mirrored remarks by President Bush, who said, "I strongly agree with those who dissented." Watch reactions from McCain and Bush:
McCain's desire to close Guantanamo Bay and his dislike of torture have nothing to do with this case. When it comes to upholding the rights of detainees, McCain has a long history of opposing them:
Today, the McCain campaign blog also approvingly cited Justice Antonin Scalia's exceptionally extreme rhetoric on the consequences of the decision.
army news sheet : obama = surrender
Army Shows Its Colors
Phillip Carter, WaPo Intel Dump Blog, June 12, 2008
The Army's public affairs office publishes a daily roundup of Army-related news called "Stand To"–named for the set of procedures combat units do just prior to dawn, when they go to full alert for a possible enemy attack. The daily wrapup contains links to mainstream media articles, Army press releases, foreign media stories and blogs. It's similar to the Defense Department's Early Bird–but much briefer, and obviously more focused on the Army. Tuesday's edition contained an entry under "WHAT'S BEING SAID IN BLOGS" that struck me as unusual–both for its headline and its patent political bias:
Obama: World peace thru surrender (KDIHH)
The link goes to a milblog called "Knee Deep in the Hooah." The author is a former Army officer whose son is serving in Iraq now. After citing a column on some curious Pentagon planning for an Obama administration, he goes on to write:
Roger that Redleg six, throwing away all ammo now and preparing to surrender … Redleg five, out.
After all, what better time to surrender than when we are winning? The article cited above also includes a Youtube link so that you can see the end for yourself in the end makers own words. Sure. This is all old news for those of us who care. But it still ticks me off anyway. So I thought to myself,"Why not share the wealth?" Now I can be ticked off in good company. Enjoy.
Mr.Hooah!, out.
Seriously? Have any of these people actually read the Obama defense policy papers or speeches–or are they simply going on what they hear on Fox News and the Limbaugh network? And more to the point, why is the Army's official in-house public affairs shop linking to this kind of stuff? Just a few weeks ago, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told all hands to stay out of politics: "As the nation prepares to elect a new president, we would all do well to remember the promises we made: to obey civilian authority, to support and defend the Constitution and to do our duty at all times…. Keeping our politics private is a good first step." He added: "The only things we should be wearing on our sleeves are our military insignia." Unfortunately, the message didn't get to through to the Army. Let's be clear: It is okay for the services to have a message. Both the Early Bird and Stand To speak for the Pentagon and the Army as institutions, and that's okay. They generally support the troops, the military, the chain of command, and the current endeavors in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nothing wrong with that.
And I have no objections to what Mr. Hooah wrote, besides the fact that I think it's factually wrong. He has his opinion; I have mine. But the Stand To page is different–and Tuesday's edition crosses the line. This isn't some citizen's blog or website. It's the in-house public affairs digest of the United States Army. It should not be amplifying partisan political attacks, nor should it be airing them at all. This appears like yet another example of the unusually cozy relationship which has developed over the last generation or so between the military and the right wing of American politics — an unhealthy development, to say the least. Last time I checked, soldiers and civilian officials didn't swear an oath to either political party or to their current president. Rather, they swear their fidelity to the Constitution, and the ideals it embodies, including the subordination of the military to civil authority. Adm. Mullen is right: As we enter a contentious election year, where issues of national security are likely to dominate the debate, the military needs to stay on the sidelines.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- Some Highlands and Belknap residents are saying no to a plan to build a Kroger gas station at the site of the old Hollywood Video store on Bardstown Road. That area's zoning doesn't allow for a gas station, but Kroger has asked the planning commission to waive that restriction. However, people who live close to the disputed area will do everything they can to prevent this from happening.
Just yards away from the hustle and bustle of Bardstown Road lies several quiet residential areas, and if people like Rhonda Neutz has anything to say about it, it will stay that way, which is why she says she is opposing Koger's plan to build a gas station just uphill from her home. Neutz says "Physically having the gas station is the fumes, the people, a lot of the different clientele that's going to be there and we already have enough noise from Kroger and the loud trucks that come back here."
This is why she, along with the help of several neighbohood associations in this area, have started a petition to convince Louisville's planning commission not to grant Kroger permission to build the gas station.
WHAS11 contacted Kroger officials for comment about this, but they did not return our calls. In the meantime, residents who live here tell us they've collected 700 signatures opposing this plan and say they will do whatever it takes to protect their homes.
The planning commission will be holding a meeting on Thursday at 6pm to address this issue, and everyone who lives here tells us, they plan to be there.


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Promise Keepers Seek to Purify Cyberspace
- Thursday, July 12, 2001
(CNSNews.com) - Promise Keepers, a group that rallies men to be better husbands and fathers, is taking its family-values mission to cyberspace, offering a new Internet Provider Service that will help members "guard their hearts and minds.
Promise Keepers said the service, called pkFamily.com, is "for any person or family who is concerned about filtering out negative content and allowing only positive resources of the Internet through."
Inspired by the organization's Third Promise, which says "a Promise Keeper is committed to practicing spiritual, moral, ethical, and sexual purity," pkFamily.com will automatically filter out websites containing pornography, hate speech, violence, and other content that presents an obstacle to the fulfillment of this promise.
"There have been hundreds of companies over the last five years that have created filtered Internet services, but hardly any of them have been able to stay in business because they haven't been able to get enough customers. And so one-by-one, they go out of business," said Ted Padwe, a senior systems analyst and webmaster for Promise Keepers.
"We started pkFamily.com as something that was trustworthy, fast and doesn't have busy numbers when you try to dial-up, all of the downsides that regular ISPs as well as filtered ISPs have."
Padwe said the Promise Keepers' full-service ISP is just like any other ISP provider, except that the filter always stays on. "You can't turn it off," he said. This makes it different from optional filtering programs that many computer users install on their own.
Filtering out the Impurities
Providing the "most advanced filtering technology available," pkFamily.com has partnered with ISPBrand.com, a service of 711.NET, Inc., which is described as an "industry leading provider of pre-screened, pro-family services."
"They have the right combination of the technology, the equipment and the heart to do this job," Padwe said.
711.NET, "is dedicated to providing products and services that allow for the Internet to become a useful and practical communications tool that is free of destructive content such as pornography, hate speech, crime, violence, and other dangerous content which clearly present potential danger to both individuals and families," according to ISPBrand.com's homepage.
PkFamily.com advertises that it provides subscribers and their families " peace of mind."
The website promises to block inappropriate material, based on the following criteria: "If the site contains at least one of the following, it will be placed on pkFamily's blocked-site list: pornography, depictions of sexual acts, violence, criminal acts, drug use, excretory acts, graphic medical images without medical context, discrimination, profanity, and adult humor. In addition, pkFamily blocks access to all unmonitored chat, newsgroups and discussion groups."
"If a person doesn't want to look at lingerie, swimsuits, female models, anything that's going to have a lot of bare skin, they can click a box and it will filter that out too," said Padwe. "Victoria's Secret probably is blocked, but there are other lesser known lingerie sites that haven't risen to the stature of being well-known and may be blocked if you check the box."
Asked whether websites such as the one operated by the National Rifle Association would be filtered, Padwe responded, "The NRA would be a recognized website, probably that people should be able to get to. I think you'd make a lot of people upset if they couldn't get to that website."
Padwe explained that there is a fine line to walk when it comes to content filtering. "If you filter too much, you upset some people because things they think they should see, they can't see. And if you don't filter enough, you have another problem."
Trying to avoid any imbalance, pkFamily.com aims to stay within "mainstream Christian values." But, said Padwe, "There are things that are out there that nobody's seen or evaluated before. The computer, on its own and through the programming that's been put into it, will decide whether there's enough suspect content on that page to block it."
He said up to several thousand sites a day are reviewed and either blocked or unblocked, according to the appropriateness of the sites."
In the Face of Competition
While Promise Keepers offers its own dial-up "full-service filtered Internet" for a minimum fee of $15.95 per month, its $5.95-per-month "filter-only" software is not compatible with dial-up providers AOL, Prodigy, or CompuServe.
"If you have AOL, Prodigy or CompuServe, they use their own proxies and so forth that we can't get in there and filter it. That's by design. They don't want anyone else in there," said Padwe. "If a person has AOL, Prodigy or CompuServe, they would have to change over to another service or change to our full dial-up service. We're not worried about that. We think some people will migrate off of them."
Citing the benefits of pkFamily.com over other ISPs, Padwe said, "AOL has gone up to $23.90 a month and we're $15.95 a month. The question is, "How many people like the e-mail style and all of the things AOL throws at you all the time? We're providing a very good service at a better price and the filtering. So, we think that there'll be a number of people migrating from AOL and the other services over to our service."
The Promise Keepers website takes Internet filtering to a new level, beyond what AOL offers. According to Padwe, "If a person had AOL on their computer, then that allows them to get unfiltered Internet. We're trying to provide assurances, especially to families that have children and teenagers, [that] when you have our service, there's not going to be any way that they can accidentally fall into pornography, the big thing that parents are mainly concerned about."
Dial-up Subscribers Beware
"When this service is installed, it's going to disable the ability of using AOL. The reason is that a kid can go on (AOL) and install something free like NetZero or Juno and he can then, with a free service, get access to inappropriate materials. pkFamily.com being present will prevent those other services from working," Padwe said.
Although AOL refused comment to CNSNews, it did not appear that the company views pkFamily.com as a serious threat.
"Again," Padwe said, "it's the people that are providing the filter who know that if they block too much, they'll upset a lot of people and if they don't block enough they'll upset a lot of people. They're operating at that balance point. The community standard of the people who are using this service are determining where the line is drawn. It's going to be the consensus of that community that determines what gets through."
"There is no such thing as a perfect filter," Padwe said. He described pkFamily.com's service as, "You want some fresh air in your house, but you don't want to leave the door wide open because maybe there's some mosquitoes. So, you have a screen door. And, the screen door would stop the mosquitoes and let the fresh air in. The only problem is that nobody can build a perfect screen door. Up in the corner there are a couple of holes, so every now and then a mosquito may still get in."
Although subscriptions to any of pkFamily.com's services is voluntary, Larry Ottingger, a senior staff attorney for People For the American Way said, "There's no question there's a danger that people are getting a very limited universe. The danger is that they'll be sold a false bill of goods, that they don't realize [there is] material that's being filtered out that they may want to look at. I think it's something they need to watch out for."
"Ultimately," Ottinger said, "if people are provided full information and they're making a decision that, 'Hey, all I want is whatever this Promise Keeper person tells me I can see,' -- that's their decision."
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Welcome, Friends, to My Website!
I'm Redding, California, author and storyteller, Linda Boyden, and I grew up playing in a sandbox of words. I imagined plays for my dolls to perform and told myself stories to fall asleep by. I bribed neighborhood friends to be students at my imaginary school or to act in my backyard shows, charging the audience--our mothers--a penny admission price, which we spent afterwards on goodies from the corner store.
I became a teacher, but after many wonderful years of working with primary students, I abandoned full-time teaching for full-time writing. My first picture book, "The Blue Roses ," debuted in 2002 from Lee and Low Books by winning their first New Voices Award. Since then it has won two other national awards and was included on the CCBC (Cooperative Children's Book Center) 2003 Choices list of recommended titles. My second book, "Powwow's Coming ," was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2007. I illustrated it making the pictures from cut-paper collage, which is another thing I loved to do as a child: making pictures with crayons and scissors. Book #3 (2010) is also from the University of New Mexico Press, "Giveaways: An ABC Book of Loanwords from the Americas ," and again I was lucky enough to do the illustrations.
I am a dedicated storyteller, performing preschool stories monthly at both the Redding Barnes & Noble store and the Redding Library. Often my audiences are large and most are under the age of four, so I do my best to keep the programs lively and fun...but sneak in something educational, too.
A "recovering schoolteacher" with over thirty years of experience, I have spent most of my adult life leading children to literacy. I enjoy performing at schools and working with students, encouraging them to play in their own sandboxes of words. I am a longtime member of the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI) and Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers & Storytellers.
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The New Jersey Devils have fired head coach John MacLean and replaced him on an interim basis with Jacques Lemaire.,
This will be the third time Lemaire has been head coach of the team. He retired last April after the Devils were eliminated in first round of the playoffs and had since been working with the club as a special assignment coach.
The Devils have struggled this season and are currently an NHL-worst 9-22-2. In their last ten games, they are 2-8. They have also been outscored 15-3 in their last three games alone, all of which have been losses.
"It's a decision that certainly is not one that's pleasant or we feel good about," Devils president and general manager Lou Lamoriello said. "But it's a decision that, in my opinion, had to be made. "I take responsibility for waiting and trying to get it to where it should have been. Under no set of circumstances should all of this responsibility be placed on (MacLean). The responsibility lies on the players and myself for what couldn't be done. Unfortunately, we just weren't getting it done."
The 65-year-old Lemaire coached 16 seasons in the NHL with the Montreal Canadiens, the Devils and the Minnesota Wild, posting a 588-441 record. His teams also played to 124 ties and lost 60 games in overtime or shootouts.
Lemaire won the Jack Adams Award as the league's top coach in 1994 and 2003, and he was an assistant on Canada's gold medal-winning team at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
Lemaire, who is in the Hockey Hall of Fame as a player, coached the Devils to the Stanley Cup in 1995.
"Jacques has the winning resume with him and he knows what has to be done to turn this around," Goaltender Martin Brodeur said. "This has to be a wake-up call for all of us. Jacques is able to get the best out of guys. He's a familiar face, so the adjustment won't be that bad. It will take us a lot less time to get accustomed to him. I'm sure that's what Lou is looking for, someone who can turn this around quickly."
MacLean had come under fire from some hockey pundits earlier in the season when star player Ilya Kovalchuk was made a healthy scratch for a game against the Buffalo Sabres. The reason for Kovalchuk's benching was never disclosed by the team, but the removal of a player with a 15-year, $100 million contract put the team under scrutiny from its fans and hockey observers. MacLean played for New Jersey from 1983-1997 and is still among the franchise leaders in most offensive categories. He scored 40 or more goals three times for the team, and was part of the club's first Stanley Cup title in 1994-95.
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Industrial Revolution (1800-1880)
Urban factory work was a major occupation of native-born migrants from the countryside as well as immigrants. Sixty-four percent of Boston's female industrial workforce was immigrant in 1860. Women workers performed the same unskilled jobs in urban mills as in the rural mills, and were paid much less than men, who often performed skilled jobs. In Philadelphia in the 1830s, mill women made an average of $2.25 per week compared to men's average weekly earnings of $6.50-$7.00. (16)
Women's involvement in labor organization in the 19th century was centered in the manufacturing industries. The cheap and readily available labor of young women in the very beginning of industrialism allowed the U.S. to more quickly expand. The young girls were willing and able to work while their male counterparts generally had to stay home and work on the farm.
The women generally liked being away from the drudgery of farm life. Earning their own money and living on their own was very liberating, despite the harsh conditions of the factories. The crowded, all-female environments of textile and garment factories created a feeling of community among women. (17) At the largest textile mill in New England, Lowell, MA, the women even started their own publication, The Lowell Offering, with their poetry and essays. Read an excerpt.
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The first instances of women engaged in collective bargaining were in Rhode Island and New Hampshire textile mills in the 1820s, where groups of women workers "turned out," or refused to work, and staged parades in protest of reduced wages and poor working conditions. (18)
In the 1830's, the mill workers in Lowell, MA, petitioned, went on strike, and lobbied for legislative reform of the textile industry throughout the 1830's and 1840's. The boardinghouses where the Lowell women workers lived were hotbeds of discontent—during meals women shared their common complaints about low wages, long hours, and unhealthy working conditions, and worked together to think of ways to improve their lives. (19) In February of 1834, 800 women signed a petition and turned out in response to a wage reduction. (20) Their strike was short lived, but gave the women involved hope for future success. Two years later, the Lowell women staged the largest women's strike to date when 1,500 to 2,000 women turned out for several months in protest of increased boardinghouse fees, virtually shutting down the factories. (21) After this victory, the Lowell women formed the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association (LFLRA), which petitioned the Massachusetts state legislature for a 40 hour week every year throughout the 1840's. (22) The Lowell strikes inspired similar collective action in mills across New England.
Read two letters written by Lowell Worker Mary S. Paul.
Women who worked in government-subcontracted sewing industries during the Civil War adopted the LFLRA's legislative tactics and petitioned the federal government for higher wages. (23) Below is the Lowell Mill and to the right are boardinghouses.
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Media Maneuvers—Here's the back story: Knight Ridder, previously the second-largest publishing company in the United States, was recently bought up by McClatchy, a company only a little more than a third the size. To understand what this means for the industry, I called Dennis Herrick, an instructor at UNM's Communication and Journalism Department who used to be a newspaper broker, owned a daily for 12 years and who authored Media Management in the Age of Giants.
Fancy doing something out of the ordinary this weekend? For a look into how "the other half" lives, park yourself over at the greatest show in town: under the big top at the lovely, luxurious University of New Mexico Hospital emergency room. It will be a show you won't soon forget. Good as any traveling three-ring cable reality show. Blood, guts, poverty, drug addiction, an occasional brawl. As the kids say, "it's sick."
Albuquerque's in good shape when it comes to physical fitness, according to Men's Health Magazine. For the second straight year, we've made their list of fit U.S. cities, though we dropped three places in 2006 and came in at No. 13 of 25. According to the magazine's report card, our citizens don't watch much TV, and we aren't particularly sedentary.
I have a small flock of chickens and a wife in the medical field. Naturally, in these uncertain times, that leads to discussion about avian influenza, aka bird flu. My wife recently brought home a copy of the World Health Organization's (WHO) (www.who.int/en) February 2006 "Avian Influenza Fact Sheet." And the question she also brought home was: What are we going to do with our chickens when the virus reaches North America?
Our fascination with counting bodies as a measure of how the war is going in Iraq is macabre. Worse, it is a false measure; a number without context; a point on a scale that signifies something different to every single person who reads it.
Dateline: Canada—A notorious Ottawa drunk driver was found not criminally responsible on his latest impaired driving charge after invoking the age-old "Shania Twain" defense. According to CBC News, Matt Brownlee was arrested last October after police spotted a pickup truck speeding along a busy street in downtown Ottawa. The 33-year-old man told psychiatrists that he knew the legal repercussions of his actions, but believed that country pop singer Shania Twain was helping him drive. Brownlee pleaded not guilty to four charges, including impaired operation of a motor vehicle and driving while disqualified. Last Monday, the judge in the case agreed with Brownlee, drawing on several psychiatric assessments that the man was not criminally responsible for his actions because he suffers from delusions that female celebrities are communicating with him telepathically and controlling his actions. Ten years ago, Brownlee was given a seven-year prison sentence and barred from driving for the rest of his life after he killed an Ottawa woman and her 12-year-old son while driving with a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit. Earlier in March, a psychiatrist told the court that Brownlee suffers from psychosis resulting from a brain injury caused by that 1996 car crash.


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Organized by the Folk Art Center at Morehead State University, this traveling exhibition features the works of famed chair maker Chester Cornett. In his lifetime Cornett pushed the form of the traditional Appalachian chair to its furthest limits. He made hundreds of chairs though only a few dozen are known to exist. Chester Cornett was a figure of great cultural interest in the 1960s and 1970s. Myths sprang up in his footsteps. He inspired writings by authors, poets, and scholars and in his native Kentucky Mountains and in Cincinnati, where he spent his last years, stories about him still persist.
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HP: Partners Don't Know Everything We Do
Try listing all the products in the Hewlett-Packard Co. portfolio. On second though, don't bother; there are tens of thousands of unique items. Even the major categories — PCs, networking, storage and printing — have too many products to note. And the company is betting its future on developing greater capabilities and value in cloud computing, security and Big Data.
It's of little wonder HP believes its partners and the general channel community don't know all that the company does or what it's capable of. In an article following last month's HP Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas, Americas channel chief Stephen DiFranco told Computer Dealer News that HP has to do more to let the channel know all it has to offer.
"They don't know all we do," said DiFranco. "We need to do more to get the product message out."
Allow Channelnomics to respectfully disagree with Mr. DiFranco. The HP story is well known — the company has operated in and around the channel for the better part of the last 30 years. Its partners have built strong, mature practices around respective domains. In fact, HP dominates relationships among the top 1 percent of the channel.
The challenge facing HP isn't that the channel doesn't know everything it does, but rather that the channel isn't selling enough of HP's products and services.
Since the summer of 2011, HP has been trying to regain its footing. The TouchPad tablet debacle, a series of strategic management missteps and years of under-investing in business development have conspired to nearly kill the vaunted company. Ever since, HP — under the direction of CEO Meg Whitman – has been trying to restore stability and return to growth.
The most recently quarterly results showed nearly all major divisions lost year over year and quarter over quarter sales. However, the losses weren't as bad as HP and analysts expected, so most everyone scored it a win. Storage, servers and especially PC sales are down. And while software shows promise, HP continues to struggle with going to market with its Autonomy acquisition.
HP shook the confidence of partners to their core, and they sought alternatives to insulate their businesses from disruption. This is why companies such as Lenovo Group, EMC Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. have gained at HP's expense.
DiFranco added, "We're one of the few manufacturers that plays across a broad enough product line that a VAR could literally build their entire business around us. A part of our product strategy is to make sure a VAR has the ability to complete a system with HP and have enough products to be successful. We design our lineup to enable franchise partnerships. I don't think everyone ever thinks of it that way."
That's patently untrue, particularly in the HP universe. Among HP's largest partners – Fusion Storm, MSI, Presidio, Logicalis, to name a few – are well-established practices in networking and storage. Cisco and IBM Corp. have "franchised" partners too; look no further than Dimension Data for Cisco and Sirius Computer Solutions for IBM. HP isn't alone in the thinking, but it is behind, as rivals have spent the two years building partners with defined technology practices and virtual channel networks of interlocking partners that create the net-effect of a franchise.
Problematic for HP and vendors like it is that partners now have choice where they hadn't before. Solution providers can choose hosted, cloud-based and homegrown products to complete their systems. Solution providers are earning more off their own IP than their vendor products; while this is great for the health of the channel, the lack of profitability on the resale of vendor products destroy the tradition incentive for loyalty.
In other words, solution providers don't necessarily need vendors to demonstrate value and generate profits.
This doesn't mean that the rest of the channel is as mature as Dimension Data or Logicalis. Better than 90 percent of the channel doesn't have truly defined specialization or business-technology practices that resemble the types of solution providers HP is thinking about. And, while security is a well-defined market and cloud computing adoption in the channel is increasing, Big Data remains relatively untapped by any channel segment.
What solution providers need is guidance on the emerging market opportunities and how to penetrate in a meaningful and sustainable way. In this regard, HP is doing a tremendous job. Its regional centers of excellence are providing partners with resources that help develop this new technology practices. And HP does have a tremendous program for helping partners develop solutions that fit their customers' needs.
Vendors are experiencing tremendous disruption by the influx of services that challenge their legacy hardware, the availability of low-cost technology that competes with their core offerings and new business models that make partners less dependent on them for profitability and viability. These challenges aren't exclusive to HP; it's affecting all the major vendors. Telling solution providers what products you have isn't enough; vendors like HP need to re-establish their value and partner imperative to remain engaged in the channel of increasingly independent solution providers.
One Response to "HP: Partners Don't Know Everything We Do"
One of the issues with HP is that to its partners it appears to be many different companies, not just one big HP.
Servers and storage products, to name two, depending on the models can be the responsibility of different "silos" within HP… and a "partner" may have an HP relationship with one silo, but not another… So, the partner with "one relationship, but not the other," cannot sell "the entire HP storage line." So when they are face-to-face with a prospect they are unable to present an entire "storage family solution" for the prospect's consideration… instead they can only present "that part of the HP storage family" that they represent.
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The Utah Highway Patrol has identified a California woman who was killed in a Monday rollover crash on Interstate 15 in Tooele County.
UHP Corporal Todd Johnson said Tuesday that Song Her Vang, 54, of Elk Grove, Calif., was dead at the scene of the 9:42 a.m. crash about 70 miles west of Salt Lake City. Johnson said the victim was ejected from the 1998 Silverado pickup truck when it swerved off the eastbound lanes and rolled several times.
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The driver of the vehicle, identified as the Rev. Nou Toua Vang, 64, also of Elk Grove, Calif., remained in serious condition Tuesday. Vang, who is the husband of the victim, was being treated for spine and neck injuries at a Salt Lake City area hospital, Johnson said.
Investigators believe Vang fell asleep at the wheel. He was part of a caravan of three vehicles reportedly in the process of moving the former pastor of the Sacramento Hmong Alliance Church from California to Minnesota, according to a statement issued Tuesday by the Hmong District of the Christian and Missionary Alliance church organization.
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"Never Ending" #1 has Adam P. Knave, D.J. Kirkbride, and Robert Love tackle the idea of an ageless battle between a superhero and evil scientist, but for a three-issue mini-series, the pace needs to pick up.
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"Molly Danger" Book One finally hits the shelves brought to readers through the imagination of Jamal Igle.
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"Molly Danger"/"Princeless" is the star of Free Comic Book Day in the Zawisza household thanks to the talents of Jamal Igle, Jeremy Whitley and Emily C. Martin.
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Remember when mama used to say, "Always put your friends ahead of any man"? Well, forget that advice and listen to this: If you put your husband behind your friends, you will find yourself without a husband.
A recent piece in the Daily Mail advises women to always pick their friends over their spouses. While I agree with the basic premise -- friends are so, so important -- the idea that a woman would prioritize anyone -- yes, even children -- above her husband isn't all that great.
When a person gets married, they should be marrying their best friend, and when they do, that person becomes like family. So why would you prioritize anyone above him? The writer says:
True friends are those who will always rally round when you are in trouble, or sick, or you need a good laugh or a new dress or even just to download your day. Your friends are there when you need them. Guaranteed. But with your partner, you just never can tell.
Certainly I deeply value my female friendships, but there is no one I value like my spouse. And that is how it should be. To enter into a marriage thinking it could potentially end and one should keep their friends around "just in case" is so cynical, it begs a simple question: Why get married at all?
My husband is everything to me, and I have his back and he has mine. When I have falling-outs with friends, he is there to tell me how much they suck. When I want to be sad about family drama, he is holding my hand. When I have a bad day at work, it's my husband I call. But when I want to see some chick flick he hates, I go with my sister or a friend. When I want to shop or just be away from the family, I have plenty of girlfriends, but for the important stuff, my man remains the number one.
And I think that is the right way to be. Children thrive on seeing happy parents. The relationship between the parents is the base of a healthy family. It's the most important part of many people's lives. How does friendship really compare to that?
Do you value your husband or friends more?
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I agree with you!
Problem is you could turn that ladies advice around. There is NO guarantee that your friend will always be there. Friends end relationships all the time. I was a LOT more careful about picking my husband then I have been with choosing a friend. A husband is the one who will always be there for you and have your back. Friends may come and go, and sometimes we are blessed with a friend that will stick with you through anything! My husband is THAT kind of friend!
God first...then family...That is the only way to live. During recent hard times, friends that I thought would NEVER abandon me DID. I find that people are great; as long as you don't really begin to count on them for anything.
Do I value my friends over my husband? No.
Do I value my children over my husband? ABSOLUTELY!!! No human on this earth is more important than my kids.
I love my husband to the moon and back, but my children will always come before him. And I don't care what anyone thinks about that :oP
i don't value my fiance over my child. My son is more important than anyone or anything in the world. The divorce rate is so high in this country. Most people will end up without a husband. Your child will always be there will a man might not. I value my fiance above my friends and other family. We both agree our son is valued above one another.
My hubs def comes before friends. I've been put in a few situations where I've had to chose one over the other and I chose my husband everytime. He is my best friend.
I am totally with you on this one. My husband is my best friend. He is better than any friend I have. I have more fun with my husband than with my girlfriends... our son is our priority. First comes our son then us. then family and last friends.
I completely agree with you. If you read the article the writer has been burned pretty badly by her ex and she continues on to "prove her point" by quoting other divorced friends. I have divorced friends who at this point feel the same way about friends being more important, but in reality friends can come and go even faster than husbands. I have only 2 friends that I've known longer than my hubby but trust me after a week on vacation with them I'm ready to go home to be with my hubby.
My friends understand that my marriage is my priority. That is why they are my friends. Friends who badmouth my husband or expect me to drop everything to hang with them, even my responsibilites, don't stay friends long. My friends are important to me, and my husband understands that, but perhaps he handles my devotion to them so well, because he is secure in his own importance to my life.
Your friends are there when you need them, but with your partner, you just never can tell? Seriously? What a load of bull. My husband is there for me 100% of the time, and I certainly CAN tell. While I love my friends to death, I trust my husband more than any of them combined. Whoever wrote that is a complete f-ing idiot. Also, my daughter does come before my husband, if I had to rank order of importance (thankfully, I don't).


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Got my first windows VPS today from buy VM but I can't seem to it to get it to connect to the network properly. I went on frantech IRC and the bot sent me to this page. I think I've configured as stated there even tired all three interfaces. None have worked which leads me to think I'm getting something fairly basic wrong here, so if anyone can point me in the correct direction that would be great. The info as I've entered it http://i.imgur.com/SKQXN.png
Francisco, you need to check your SJ DC network, I got two OVZ1Gs today and migrated data from one of my other buyvm boxes, in the same DC, the network speed was too horrible, attached please check. I got in touch with your staff, that guy said its just OK. I then quit.
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I did get a KVM512 too, but the same feeling, I dont want to talk about.
@Francisco said: I'm on vacation right now
Vegas, right?Thanked by 1Francisco
@Francisco said: Yep :)
I hate you. You abandoned us here, while you are with hookers, and gambling :(
@francisco isn't aldriyc with you :( ?
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@djvdorp said: isn't aldriyc
they broke up. @Francisco found out that @Aldryic was cheating on him with CC haha
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@miTgiB said: Say what? Are you trying to start drama? I can send you free popcorn instead
maybe :3
but I am trying to say passionally, not professionally.
what happened to Aldryic?
@seraphkz said: what happened to Aldryic?
@netomx said: they broke up. @Francisco found out that @Aldryic was cheating on him with CC haha
Pony couldn't get anymore time off from his other job since he took off ~2 weeks for his wedding in April.
He's at home handling sales/support/etc for us while we get to enjoy ourselves doing terrible terrible things.
I've posted some of the stories on FB for those that are on my friends list.
I don't see him at all on LET anymore.
@seraphkz said: I don't see him at all on LET anymore.
That's his choice :)
If you're wanting to talk to him you can always drop by IRC. During the week he's usually on. He takes the weekends off to unwind and spend it with family and such.
Who is gonna care for your customers now that you are having fun?:-(
@Randy said: Who is gonna care for your customers now that you are having fun?:-(
Ald seems to be handling just fine :P
i've been checking in every few hours to see if there's anything he needs a hand with.
@francisco can I be your and alds fb friend :D?
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@djvdorp said: @francisco can I be your and alds fb friend :D?
For me? sure. For pony? you'll have to ask/wait n' see
FranThanked by 1djvdorp
@Francisco said: Fran
I don't have you :(
me want hooker!
Don't your local country have hookers? :D
@Randy said: Don't your local country have hookers? :D
yes, but, for free???
no ADD FRIEND button :(
Sorry to hear that. :-( now i understand why you are so upset...
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He is having his beer now i guess? maybe some seafood?
@Francisco, Problem just happened with new boxes, will wait until you're back and fix it. Had been there the week of Oct 7, enjoy your terribly horrible things in Vegas, :) don;t take them with you when leave... LOL :)


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