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Use a pewter charm set of the 12 days of Christmas to create an elegant bracelet for the holidays. Red and green beads add a splash of festive color to this charm bracelet project. This cute Christmas Days Bracelet also makes a wonderful gift for friends and family, and it's the perfect stocking stuffer for any mom or sister who loves decorating for Christmas!
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Always interested in how we construct and perform a 'professional self', this advertisement for staff in a soon-to open burger restaurant in town caught my eye:
Its X-factor style pitch implies a requirement to act, dress, and indeed rock, as if every day is the best of our life. As a quiet introvert, at least part of my response to the advert is one of exhaustion, but it prompts interesting questions about the new implicit social and psychological contracts of the lower-paid workplace.
Earlier this year, Paul Jaskunas wrote in the NYT about "the tyranny of the forced smile"
At his recruitment training session, one of three core requirements prescribed was "does the applicant love the job?". He shares his surprise that love is now considered essential to the employment relationship, pointing out that it seems an extreme standard to apply with respect to most positions.
He critiques the new requirement for us to "refuse to accept that a job is merely a job. It must be something more — a vocation, an adventure, a journey to higher heights. I often do feel this way about my work, but I'd rather not feel obliged to profess my enthusiasm. I'll keep my chin up; on a good day I might even whistle. But please don't ask me to smile if I'm not in the mood."
He also shares his own tongue-tied experience of being asked in an interview whether he was "a passionate teacher".
"A silence fell over the room; it lasted much too long. I'd surely lost the job by the time I cleared my throat and began to qualify an answer…I stumbled my way through a circuitous reply and concluded by saying that, yes, actually, I suppose I could describe myself as passionate, in a sense. In a sense. I couldn't resist the qualification….As I shut the door behind me, the committee erupted into laughter."
Thinking about all this led me back to Rob Horner's article in an early issue of The New Inquiry with the theme of Precarity"
In his analysis, titled 'Inhuman Resources', he suggests that "anxiety is used to rationalise precarity as opportunity: The new world of work lets us be more proactive and "creative" in ways that showcase our "individuality" rather than just our ability to perform a job. But…this ceaseless self-presentation takes a psychological toll. Having to enact a false self that placidly absorbs indignities means we live out the system's contradictions and transmute them internally, taking on all the stress and cognitive dissonance this entails".
In a similar vein, Joe Keohane wrote a New Statesman piece In Praise of Meaningless Work in which he sums up the essence of my response to this 'epic' job advertisement:
"With unemployment falling to pre-recession levels…the prayer is that the line will be drawn, and managers will see that the way forward is actually very simple: Hire good people. Treat them well. Help them succeed. Compensate them fairly. Let them go home."
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Just as I was finishing my prep for a session on images and metaphor this week, a whole new profession swam into view: Michael Erard works full-time as a metaphor designer in a think tank, generating metaphors to help people understand unfamiliar plans and ideas. "They aren't supposed to make someone remark: 'That's beautiful.' They're meant to make someone realise that they've only been looking at one side of a thing."
He describes the challenge for the metaphor designer as generating lots of 'pseudo-mistakes' "some of which will be useful and have sticking power … at the end, the floor will be covered with the blood of failed comparisons."
Tucked into his article are a variety of interesting definitions, such as considering metaphors as 'categorisation proposals', as provocations, as a 'mapping' between two different things, or simply as "something unusual, a pleasant surprise – but it cannot be too much of a surprise", this latter sounding very much like George Kellys' suggestion that we appreciate things which are interestingly new, but not so unfamiliar as to be confusing.
Erard's metaphors are generally designed for social organisations with aim of 'trying to communicate the expert view of an issue'. He sees himself as helping understanding by giving us new ways of looking at things, rather than inventing fantasies or distracting us. "But the metaphor also has to be able to survive, avoiding traps in the culture that can disable it. Once we loose a metaphor into the world, it will be blocked by other ways of thinking that change its meaning or disrupt its interpretation."
His pertinent example of a metaphor that deliberately obscures reality is that of national finances being described as household budgets. "People believe that the family is the most salient social unit which makes the metaphor exceedingly sticky and powerful", and hence its usefulness to "politicians of a reactionary stripe".
I enjoyed his piece, and it reminded me of another recent column by Oliver Sacks about the 'mishearings' he experiences with increasing deafness. Sacks describes speech as "open, inventive, improvised; it is rich in ambiguity and meaning. There is a huge freedom in this, making spoken language almost infinitely flexible and adaptable — but also vulnerable to mishearing."
Written with his usual warmth and good humour he describes each mishearing as a novel concoction, both fresh and surprising. "I am often strangely slow to realize that I have misheard, and I may entertain the most far-fetched ideas to explain my mishearings, when it would seem that I should spot them straight away. If a mishearing seems plausible, one may not think that one has misheard; it is only if the mishearing is sufficiently implausible, or entirely out of context, that one thinks, "This can't be right".
He ends with a few wondrous examples, recognising the wit and 'dash' of the hearer's instantaneous inventions. Mishearings "reflect, to some extent, one's own interests and experiences, and I rather enjoy them: a grocery bag turns into a poetry bag … all-or-noneness into oral numbness … and a mere mention of Christmas Eve a command to 'kiss my feet!' "
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alex swarbrick: Thoroughly enjoyed this; both as someone who seems to think a lot in metaphors, but also as someone alternately amused, exasperated and delighted by my own mis-hearings. Combining the mis-hearings and metaphor, as a hearing aid user my favourite delight is taking them out at the end of the day and entering what I describe as 'duvet world'. Without my hearing aids the world sounds like I'm under a duvet, or have suddenly stepped into the hush of a carpeted library. It can be bliss!! July 13
fiona duggan: I find metaphor to be a very useful approach for empowering people who feel they don't know a lot about space. I've experienced chiropractors do a wonderful review of a campus masterplan by applying diagnostic techniques from within their own discipline, and economists come up with a novel way of allocating and sharing space by applying economic principles, and geographers talk about the characteristics required for democratic spaces to support learning … July 14
armando magnino: Fundamentally, I have a problem with the definition of metaphor that is used in the article. The examples quoted in my opinion are similes not metaphors (the brain is like a machine, the child is like a flower, the paintbrush is like a pump) – they rely on the cognitive, denotative aspects of the comparison whereas in my (perhaps idiosyncratic) definition the metaphor relies on the emotional, connotative aspect of the comparison. Just because there's an elision of the comparative (we omit the "like") it doesn't turn it into a metaphor. There is however a permeable membrane between simile and metaphor and that's where the meaning gets "sticky" or perverted. I remember when I first started working with young people in the States, often from tough backgrounds, one of the pieces of advice I was given was to be wary of using metaphors of "family" to describe the group, the camp and the experience because for many of those kids on an emotional/connotative level, "family" did not have the implications of safety, security, love, acceptance, stability that culturally we tend to associate with it. I have a strong attachment to defending metaphor as a linguistic tool not for "explaining" (similes can do that) but for connecting emotionally… and deconstructing what that attachment is all about is a job for some other time … 22 July
Several recent projects have involved developing learning materials, including online resources, and the resulting discussions and experiments have offered me many new and useful questions. So I was interested in a new column from Jesse Stommel on the Hybrid Pedagogy website, describing his experience of designing MOOCs (Massive Open Online courses). He presents a variety of learning points and provocations from his most recent project – a Shakespeare course that currently has over 18,500 students enrolled from 157 countries.
As I read it, my highlighting pen was working overtime so I thought I'd signpost it to colleagues involved in constructivist learning. I was inspired, and some of you might be similarly inclined print it out and pin it on the wall, while others may find themselves shouting arguments at the computer screen – either way it should be thought-provoking.
On the heavily structured nature of most online programmes he writes:
"I remain certain that learning is not something that ought to be managed. The better we become at managing learning, the more damage we do to learning. This is the cruel irony of the learning management system. The better designed it is for doing its core function, the worse off the learning that happens inside of it"
"Learning is an encounter, not a spreadsheet …. We either critically interrogate our tools or are subject to them. There is no middle ground between these two."
Colleagues from Personal Construct Psychology might catch a flavour of George Kelly's writing in Stommel's discomfort with doing the same thing twice. He sees repetitive practice as working against our own learning, while making it difficult for us to 'encounter each learner and learning environment anew', concluding with the bold and rather magnificent proposal that 'the best best practice is to imperil best practices".
"At the point that our content feels stroked and adored, we know that actual learning has stopped. Learning is at direct odds with content. In fact, learning does battle with content. If content wins, learning loses. We do, instead, in the best learning environments, grapple with content — we kill it on the road when we meet it there."
Referring to developing content for his Shakespeare programme, he describes his goal of "creating content that was, at every turn, self-undermining"
"Ultimately, every video champions discovery more than knowing or certainty … Facts are shared, details are offered, and content is delivered. But never at the expense of questions or openings to discussion."
Collaborating with many colleagues and describing himself as a conductor, he also references Howard Rheingold who describes the course leader as "chief learner". He ends with a brilliant example of how expertly course content and constructivist pedagogy are woven through his work:
'In the introduction to the course, I write,
"Shakespeare begins Hamlet with the words, 'Who's there?' The question is deceptively simple, but it is one that opens a whole host of potential rabbit holes for us to tumble down. What I know is that how we begin something new is important. The first thing we say. The first question we ask. The first part of ourselves we show."
I am, from these first words in the MOOC, showing my pedagogical hand, talking about Shakespeare and also about the nature of the course itself'
Having become discouraged by much of the content-heavy, highly-structured and over-controlled online learning I have encountered recently, I was refreshed, motivated and challenged by this short piece. I might even want to make a poster of his encouragement to 'be always so light on our feet as to remain unentrenched'.
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john j: a good challenging piece. I enjoyed his comment "Most cMOOCs are disasters of learning design. Beautiful disasters. Joyous disasters. Productive disasters. But disasters nonetheless. As if a course literally exploded onto the internet, leaving a smear of barely intelligible bits across the web." My experience precisely!! I am convinced that the less like a replicated classroom we make them, the more useful they become. 21 June
synnarji: my perception is the article seems a contradictory marketing ploy. I believe that the stories by Shakespeare use simple prose because the plays were acted out for a population that was largely uneducated. Perhaps when we become obsessed with teaching a deeper understanding about his plays a complexity is introduced that Shakespeare was careful to avoid? 21 May
ash: hey i'm borrowing his "who's there?" as my starting point from this day on…thank you. 2 July
The long and fractious election campaign currently coming to a close in the UK seems to have been characterised by an exceptionally poor quality of discussion and debate. Leading politicians, press and broadcast media have all indulged in the usual aggressive trashing of opponents' personalities combined with extreme defensiveness about past records, generating a lot of heat but very little light and leaving nearly 40% of the electorate 'undecided' with just a few days to go.
So it may be a good time to promote my continuing enthusiasm for variations on Kenneth Gergen's 'argumentation from nowhere'. Gergen's experiment, which I first discovered in 'Social Construction in Context' (2001), was derived as "an attempt to remove the grounds for either claiming assertions to be 'one's own', or for viewing counter-assertions as challenges to one's integrity".
Gergen and his team invited a wide variety of people to contribute entries to a discussion while setting aside their personal position. The were asked to generate as many arguments as possible for either side of a polarised debate, and then to develop possible criticisms of those views. After contributing their thoughts they were able to read all the other entries, and were subsequently invited to comment again with any new alternatives, or with possible rejoinders to the views already included.
"The result is a multiplex array of discourse surrounding the issue at stake, essentially a map of possible arguments, justifications, citations of evidence and the like, on both sides of the issue". Participants reported considerable learning and felt that the experiment helped them see the issue in more complex terms. "Of special significance, they indicate that it would be difficult to resolve the issue by simply declaring one side the winner".
I have since worked with many discussions based on 'argumentation from nowhere' as an alternative to oppositional debates. Participants are asked to think of the widest possible range of stakeholders in the issue under discussion (and I think the best definition I ever heard of a stakeholder is 'anyone who might give a damn') generating as many views as possible that might be held by each stakeholder group. They are encouraged to consider why those views might matter to people, and what kinds of belief systems they might logically derive from, guided by the question: in what way might each of those views make perfect sense? I will usually add the aspiration that, at the end of the exercise, no-one at the table would be entirely certain of the current personal views of any of their fellow participants.
The outcome has usually been very productive as argument turns into exploration, and condemnation gives way to curiosity. People who were previously opponents can sometimes come up with ingenious supports and logics for arguments they earlier disagreed with, perhaps because the need to agree has been removed or possibly because the activity itself is an intriguing exercise in thinking. The result has generally been far more openness to alternatives, a much richer discourse to draw on, a greater acceptance of the complexity and ambiguity inherent in most debates, and an increase in sociality between both participating colleagues and and absent stakeholders.
As Gergen says of his experiment: "No, this did not mean a resolution of differences. However, it did allow for productive exploration to take place in a context in which victory and defeat were removed from view".
A rich and constructive addition to the usual election presentations and debates. In my dreams …
4 May 2015
(photo: ECTN 'Racconti Meditterannei' summer school in Greece)
Last week I was sent a link to a suggestion that seems so simple and obvious that I can't quite imagine why I haven't thought about it in this shape before. It comes from a short article in the Spectator by Rory Sutherland who highlights the perennial problem of organisations recruiting and promoting the same types of individual every time.
He points out that finding the 'perfect' thing – the perfect house for example – will often lead to a somewhat bland choice because it is meeting a wide variety of needs and so 'cannot be too weak in any one dimension'. Choosing two homes inevitably leads to diverse choices, often complete contrasts.
"Intriguingly, in other realms of decision-making we seem not to understand this at all. For instance, in assessing job applicants or parliamentary candidates or university admissions…it is assumed that ten groups each choosing one candidate will make the same 'optimal' choice as one group choosing ten. They won't."
He highlights the default to the safe and familiar choice each time, and suggests that a commitment to tightly standardised processes which apply identical selection criteria to everyone, one person at a time, is likely to be part of the problem. His proposition is that if we chose people in batches we would make quite different choices and would 'take a punt' far more frequently.
It's not such a stretch in large organisations to consider a shift towards recruiting and promoting in groups as the standard, especially in settings where commitment to diversity is high in principle but disappointingly poor in practice. Of course there would be practical difficulties – vacancies don't arise in groups, job descriptions are highly individualised – but do we really want change?
I think this is one of those trojan-horse ideas that contains many useful provocations: why continue to recruit so many people into specialist silos when we subsequently spend so much time and effort trying to break down the walls that creates? Why not build more pools of free-floating talented professionals with flexibility to work across roles and disciplines given that so much work is project-based? Why not think about fewer, larger 'intakes' rather than repeated one-off recruitment processes. A useful shift in practice may not need big groups either – the article suggests choosing ten at a time, but I'd guess that just three might be the magic number in terms of making a difference.
'Mix' is generally an important part of how we view fairness in groups, yet is not often a key criterion in selection because of the focus on recruiting one person at a time. Selecting in groups may be a key to the long overdue shift of perspective from how well a person 'fits' with the status quo to how much valuable difference they will add to the group. The group selection processes I have experienced do seem to generate a much sharper awareness of the mix being created in each cohort, and even the most homogenous organisations tend to develop a more critical eye when they see themselves reflected in a group.
'Once you understand this, the potential exists to increase the level of (social, gender, ethnic, mental) diversity….without imposing any quotas: it arises naturally once you choose people in batches."
Link: Want more diversity? Rory Sutherland
1st March 2015
Herminia Ibarra has recently published some interesting pieces on professional identity in the Harvard Business Review. Citing authenticity as the the prevailing "gold standard for leadership" she takes a more constructivist approach, pointing to ways in which an adherence to 'true' or 'real' self can hinder growth and development: "Because going against our natural inclinations can make us feel like impostors, we tend to latch on to authenticity as an excuse for sticking with what's comfortable."
Viewing ourselves as works-in-progress by contrast enables us to continually evolve and reconstrue our professional identity through trying on possible selves. "That takes courage, because learning, by definition, starts with unnatural and often superficial behaviors that can make us feel calculating instead of genuine and spontaneous."
She reminds us that "it's OK to be inconsistent from one day to the next. That's not being a fake; it's how we experiment to figure out what's right for the new challenges and circumstances we face." She suggests that we borrow selectively from people we admire and try their behaviours on for size, developing our professional selves through a courageous process of trial and error. She maintains that active experimentation rather than introspection is the key to development, and quotes playwright Wilson Mizner: "copying one author is plagiarism, but copying many is research".
In provocative contrast to prevailing leadership advice she advises: "Don't stick to your story".
In a similar vein, her latest article critiques leadership presentations, suggesting that they increasingly demonstrate a curious mix of the deeply personal and carefully staged: "Typically the speaker starts with an anecdote, preferably about a difficult experience that tested the executive and forged his or her leadership values. That's followed up with "what I have learned" and, often, a comment on the importance of being authentic. The executive usually tries to be humorous and self-deprecating. The whole presentation has a casual, spontaneous tone — but it's orchestrated down to the last detail."
Her critique ranges from questioning the validity of 'personal talk' across cultures – "the template is deeply American" – to wondering why intimate evidence of triumph over adversity is now expected as a professional credential, while noting the irony that this particular construction of 'authenticity' has become just one more requirement to which a leader must now conform.
Links to the HBR:
article: the authenticity paradox
article: by being authentic you may just be conforming
1 February 2015
The end of the year, and an opportunity to share an essay I have just discovered by Sam Kriss in the New Inquiry. Basically (and you might think unpromisingly, but bear with me) it is a review of the 5th edition of the DSM, the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of the psychiatric profession produced by the American Psychiatric Association which is also the standard reference in the UK.
As might be expected, its publication in 2013 provoked wide-ranging comment, much of which focused on the seemingly endless proliferation of new 'disorders' each time it is re-published. Kriss brings exceptional flair and imagination to his review by treating the manual as a work of dystopian fiction:
A new dystopian novel in the classic mode takes the form of a dictionary of madness. Over two inches thick and with a thousand pages, it's unlikely to find its way to many beaches. Not that this should deter anyone; within is a brilliantly realized satire, at turns luridly absurd, chillingly perceptive, and profoundly disturbing.
Colleagues in clinical psychology/psychotherapy might be interested, but so might anyone with an interest in psychiatry, literature, or cross-disciplinary criticism – it's an excellent critique full of brilliantly quotable descriptions:
The scene this prologue sets is one of a profoundly bleak view of human beings—one in which we hobble across an empty field, crippled by blind and mechanical forces whose workings are entirely beyond any understanding. This vision of humanity's predicament has echoes of Samuel Beckett at some of his more nihilistic moments—except that Beckett allows his tramps to speak for themselves, and when they do they're often quite cheerful.
Rather belatedly it occurs to me that this is a somewhat bleak offering for the time of year, although in the past this week between solstice and new year was known as 'the dark days'. Coincidentally, in the process of writing this, I've been sent an appropriately dystopian salutation via @NeinQuarterly:
Maybe the new year will be a good one. But the monster under your bed isn't losing any sleep over it.
So in line with our topic I share that unfestive greeting, while personally wishing everyone a warm and happy new year!
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This was very fast and easy to make. I used golden beets because thats what I had. My Dad never likes beets, no matter how they are prepared, with this he went back for seconds! (okay..I never told him there were beets in these, maybe it was the color that fooled him ;) ) My 2 1/2 year old loved them too.flag if inappropriate
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This is a creative use of beets and very easy. As soon as I got them in the frying pan, someone came to the door, and I was able to let them sit a little longer than the recipe says without any trouble. I found the end result a tiny bit bland, though, and would try adding ginger next time to give it some kick. I also ended up leaving them in the oven at 300 for about 15 minutes - timing issues with the meat - and they stayed crisp, but the onions had a chance to cook a bit more, which was nice.flag if inappropriate
Absolutely delicious. my parents already have big plans for me to make these again for two seperate occasions. i might try using a milder onion next time, as the onion flavor was quite strong. they don't stay together very well when cooking, but it doesn't matter, as long as you are gentle.flag if inappropriate
Finally a beet recipe for those who are not crazy about beets! These were very tasty and attractive as well -- I added more flour (about 1 to 2 tablespoons more) and a couple cloves of minced garlic. Also, I found it helpful to squeeze out the excess moisture before frying to make the pancakes crisper.flag if inappropriate
This recipe was delicious, easy to make, and sure to impress. I added about a half tsp of ground ginger to add a little "asian" flare to complement the seared tuna I served it with. Yum! A couple notes on the recipe: grating the beet is MESSY! don't do it wearing white. Also, I found that using my hands to press the mixture into pancakes worked best, to keep them from falling apart.flag if inappropriate
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NOLA Fests with Locals, Free ParkngUnited States, Louisiana, New Orleans
About this listing
Read the rules before booking
Space where guests can cook their own meals
Towels, bed sheets, soap, and toilet paper
Space where guests can cook their own meals
Towels, bed sheets, soap, and toilet paper
Central heating or a heater in the listing
In the building, free or for a fee
In the building, free or for a fee
Continuous access in the listing
Breakfast is provided.
The listing can accommodate a gathering of 25 or more attendees
Easy access to the building and listing for guests in wheelchairs
Private or Shared
Free, in the building or nearby
The Space
Born and raised in New Orleans, I reside in the second oldest neighborhood in the area, Algiers Point with my husband, Troy. We live here at the home and prefer to stay when we have guests. We have ample space for your pets, too. We have 2 dogs and prefer not to have to board them. If you would like the entire home, this can be negotiated. We will still clean, cook, and take care of your needs. Just let us know! There are additional cleaning fees for pets. Ask for details.
The home is walking distance via Mississippi River ferry from any place you would want to geaux (go phonetically). A creole cottage nestled among ancient oaks at the levee on the Mighty Mississippi is waiting for you. Two bedrooms, one bath, gourmet kitchen and a great deal of history are some of the things our place has to offer. There is also space for our queen sized air mattress and our sofa, too. My great grandmother's furnishings are here. The home is over 110 years old. It has all of the modern amenities you need; all the charm of an historic place.
Art and food are important to us. Our home is filled with original art from the region. Culture is important to us. This home is bursting at the seams with it. First things first, though; you need to get local. Here, we ask unusual questions when getting to know someone. The Initial List:
- Where'd you go to school?
- Who's your Mama?
- Are you Catholic?
- Can you make a roux?
It's an entirely different universe in the Crescent City. The school anyone asks about isn't on the university level. Locals want to know where you went to high school. Mama and church, well...you just don't question those questions. We still have parishes here instead of counties. A roux is equal parts of fat and flour; our fnf to your bnb. It is used to thicken sauces and such. But please, don't call it sauce here. Even if it's red, it's gravy. I know, foodies everywhere are aghast. I'm part Sicilian. I feel your pain. It won't change.
Our area is completely diverse. Within walking distance, there are churches, galleries, the Old Point Bar features live music, Vine & Dine, the Dry Dock Cafe' and more. We have a way of doing things (or not doing them) here. Please do visit Bourbon Street. Please venture out to our other festive streets, too. Head to Frenchman Street for a local, chill vibe. Visit Magazine Street's fabulous boutiques, quirky hangout spots and high end art galleries. Don't forget this is a magical place where families are raised. There is something for everyone here.
We speak in Yat. Imnatryandaserchfadat. Translation: I'm going to try and search for that. It's our own vernacular. Run on sentences and those ending in prepositions are the norm. We live by very different seasons here (brown shrimp, Mardi Gras, crawfish, Jazz Fest, white shrimp). If traveling abroad I were asked "where you from?" (and, we would say it that way), the US wouldn't even come to mind. Our irreverence is only surpassed by our passion. We are New Orleans. New Orleans is what we are.
We are ready to welcome you to a unique experience...NOLA like a local!!!
PLEASE NOTE: During certain peak seasons a non refundable deposit of 50% is in place (i.e. Super Bowl, Mardi Gras, French Quarter Fest, Jazz Fest, etc.) Prices and rates are subject to change.
Guest Access
The entire home, yard and porch, except for one bedroom.
Interaction with Guests
As much, or as little as they prefer!
The Neighborhood
The hundred year old architecture and amazing old Oak trees. There are restaurants and music venues within a 15 minute walk from the home.
Getting Around
We are a 15 minute walk from the Algiers Ferry that travels to and from the French Quarter. The cost is $2 each way. There is also an RTA bus stop around the corner.
Pets are welcome. We have dogs. When we leave...the dogs leave, if need be. Local immersion is not only welcomed, but also encouraged. If you want to learn more about our food, music, art or anything, we can either let you know where to go or take you there personally. Please no smoking in the home, we've got a great front porch. Just be respectful of the space and the neighborhood. All in all, you will be provided with just about anything you'll need. Please use what is meant for you and leave things the way you found them when you got here. If doors or drawers are closed, that means it's off limits. We love entertaining. Please keep in mind, we live here. We are very easy going and know you'll love it here. We are in our mid 40's...not stuffy at all. And, all are welcome here.
PLEASE NOTE: During peak season, a non refundable deposit will be in place. For all bookings, an advanced deposit of 50% is required.
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Estuve 10 dias maravillosos en la Casa de Wendy y Troy. Era mi primera visita a USA y en New Orleans fui muy bien recibida. Aunque asistí a un Conferencia Académica, la ciudad me recibió con una fiesta, el Mardi Gras, y tuve los mejores anfitriones. Wendy y Troy son las personas más amables y colaboradoras que puedas encontrar y te hacen sentir como en tu propia casa. La casa es exacta a las fotos, buena ubicación y el barrio es muy tranquilo y las mascotas (Drew y Boudin), son adorables. Recomiendo mucho hospedarse con Wendy y Troy, si quieres tener una experiencia hermosa de la ciudad, el río., el ferry, su comida, su música, el arte y sobre todo conocer gente linda de New Orleans.
Very nice quint place across the River nice neighborhood. Wendy is easy to work with. Good value and easy access away from the nuts, LOL!
About the Host, Wendy
I am a native of this amazing city; born and raised in Orleans Parish. My husband and I were married on 11/1/11...All Saint's Day. Yes, we're fans. We love food, fun and football! The wedding colors were black and gold. That's why I'm in a yellow 1967 Camaro. It was as close as I could get to gold. I am an accomplished cook; he's not foodventurous...so if you'd like to come to my little gourmet kitchen and create, I'm ready! My family has been here for quite some time. My great grandmother was born at her home on Euterpe Street in 1901 and many of her furnishings are here. We are pet friendly. We've got three dogs who can either be here, or not, when you are. Many of our friends are in the tourism, restaurant and music industries. I'm about culture. Get immersed! Just let me know what kinds of things you'd like to do in our fantastic city. If you like art, the creole cottage is filled with original pieces from the region. We do some of that ourselves, so you just might see a work in progress. Creativity is welcomed...as, are you!
A true monthly rental rate for those in/moving to the area can be negotiated on an individual basis. One of our long term stays, Rosi and I still stay in touch via email. I drove her to the grocery and restaurants so she wouldn't have to rent a car. We truly had a blast just hanging out. When she was finished with her conference for the day, we all went to the Mardi Gras parades.
In keeping with my New Orleans heritage, I can's live without the brass band music, I lived in another state for a short time and the food left much to be desired, I love that we can throw a party on a moment's notice, and... I love my New Orleans Saints! Who dat!
So far, Rome has been my favorite place. I was there for 9 days and didn't see half of what I wanted to visit. My dream is to get a chance to go again soon.
When I'm hosting, I want my guests to feel at home. If they just want their own quiet space; I give them their space. If they are into doing what the locals do, I find out what interests them and make it happen. More than anything I want my guests to feel comfortable, and adjust the experience to their vision of New Orleans. Hope to hear from you soon.
Carpe Diem,


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Posted: 02/15/2010 - A fireworks company that lost four workers last summer on Ocracoke Island is appealing a $44,800 state fine.
Posted: 02/15/2010 - A fireworks company that lost four workers last summer on Ocracoke Island is appealing a $44,800 state fine.
Updated: 02/12/2010 - Latrina Monroe of Central Heights Road, was charged Thursday with abuse of a disabled adult causing serious injury.
Updated: 02/11/2010 - The feds say a convenience store was used to import between 20 and 30 kilos of cocaine per month from Mexico and distribute it to at least five states.
Posted: 02/09/2010 - Jermel Jamison was last seen on U.S. 264, near Old Raleigh Road and Boykin Road in Wilson County.
Updated: 02/09/2010 - A flipped over tractor trailer on a busy highway ramp in Wilson has been cleared away for the morning commute
Updated: 02/09/2010 - A state report shows 80-year-old Lawrence Russell, Jr. of Beaufort County, a patient at Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro, died last week.
Updated: 02/06/2010 - A prostitution bust in Wilson County County led to an arrest, according to lawmen, and they say the case may have a human trafficking tie.
Updated: 02/04/2010 - The NAACP says the US Department of Justice has joined the Department of Education in looking at the case.
Updated: 02/04/2010 - A Wayne County high school student has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon after a fight on a school bus Wednesday morning left the victim with 28 stitches on her face.
Updated: 02/04/2010 - A Wayne County teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a student was due in court Thursday.
Updated: 02/04/2010 - WITN's Cassandra Bell brought us our first of several "Black History" reports this month at 6:00 pm Wednesday.
Updated: 02/08/2010 - The fire happened Tuesday night around 9:00 p.m. at a home at 109 South Georgia Avenue.
Updated: 02/01/2010 - The new rules came after four people were killed and a fifth worker injured in a July 4th fireworks explosion on Ocracoke Island.
Updated: 02/01/2010 - The Postal Service reminds customers to make sure their mailman can get to their mailbox because of the snow.
Updated: 02/01/2010 - A Goldsboro man was struck and killed Saturday night as a snowplow was clearing U.S. 70 in Wayne County.
Updated: 01/30/2010 - The accident happened around 1:30 a.m. on Hines Street in Wilson.
Updated: 01/28/2010 - Henry Sills of Goldsboro is facing charges in both Wayne and Pender counties.
Posted: 01/28/2010 - A Home Depot in the east is closing down, putting dozens out of work, and store merchandise on sale.
Updated: 01/28/2010 - Police say James Grant, Jr. was found Thursday morning.
Updated: 01/29/2010 - A Wayne County man with a criminal past died Wednesday morning after he was tasered by deputies.
Posted: 01/26/2010 - Officials who handle veterans benefits are holding a gathering Tuesday at Wayne Community College in Goldsboro.
Posted: 01/25/2010 - A Goldsboro man says he was robbed and then dragged by a car after he tried to purchase an iPhone that he saw on Craigslist.
Posted: 01/20/2010 - The trial is underway for two of the men accused of murdering an Eastern Carolina restaurant owner in front of his children.
Updated: 06/18/2014 - Some people have some clean up to do after strong thunderstorms rolled through Sunday evening.
Posted: 01/18/2010 - People in two cities in Eastern Carolina will have a new place to do some discount shopping this spring.


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I have to argue that a flat iron is a better ininotven than sliced bread! I have been using the Wen cleansing conditioner for 9 months (not really into any other products in the line) and ADORE it! I am meaner to my hair than ever, yet it is better than it has been since my love affair with the flat iron began.
I just wanted to past along to Jennie that she suhlod check out the GoodWill stores in her area. Bigger cities have some of the nicest brand name clothes. Seattle near us gets lots of business apparel. It is a good way to supplement your wardrobe without spending a lot of money. I buy clothes for my daughter to wear to work, she is an assistant manager at a retail store.


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After a long stretch of quiet here on the Loom, I wanted to let you know what I've been up to, and what I'm going to be up to over the next couple years. I've got some new projects afoot.
1. Each week I've continued to write my "Matter" column for the New York Times, about subjects ranging from vaccines to the Cambrian Explosion. I won't break down the whole list of recent columns here, but if you ever feel the urge to catch up, you can go to the Matter archive.
2. Two of my books are coming out as second editions. A Planet of Viruses will be ...


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by J.T. Benjamin
A few years ago, in this very column, I waxed rhapsodic about an article on the "Focus On The Family" website called, "Is My Child Becoming Homosexual?" The article consisted of a series of questions that parents ought to ask themselves to determine if their child was gay. Such questions included whether a child preferred the company of girls or acted in an effeminate way, had a tendency to cry easily, dislike athletics and avoid roughhousing. In all honesty, I answered almost all those questions in the affirmative, leading me to conclude that in the eyes of Focus On The Family, I was gay, notwithstanding my heterosexual sex life, my long-term marriage to a woman, and my lifelong love of all things vaginal.
One question struck particularly close to home. "(Does your child have) A susceptibility to be bullied by other boys, who may tease them unmercifully and call them 'queer,' 'fag', and 'gay.'"
Guilty as charged, Your Honor. Not only did I inherit my mother's short, stubby legs and not only was I a late bloomer, I'd been born two days before the cutoff date to enter kindergarten. As a result, I was easily the smallest, slowest, weakest kid in my class. Since I was also the smartest (hey, I don't believe in false modesty, why lie?), and since I was completely incapable of keeping my mouth shut, feeling compelled to shout out all the answers and demonstrating to these knuckle-dragging idiots how it was done, I was on the receiving end of more than my share of bullying from those aforementioned knuckle-dragging idiots. I heard all the usual taunts: "shrimp," "shorty," "teacher's pet," "smart-aleck," "show-off," and yes, even "queer" and "faggot."
Now, when I was little, I had no idea what a "faggot" was, so I can be fairly certain the knuckle-dragging idiots had no clue, either. For the first few years of school, I deduced it was a nickname for something like "easy target" or "kid who needs a pounding" or "wounded baby zebra." Once I did learn what the term meant, and that there were boys out there who wanted to kiss boys, and girls who wanted to kiss girls, I concluded that my tormenters would have to all have good-sized rocks transplanted into their skulls to meet the minimum intellectual standard set by the term "knuckle-dragging idiots." Maybe I WAS short and a teacher's pet and a show-off, but watching lovely little Karen Saunders on the playground swings, her white skirt and her long black hair flowing as she soared into the air, one thing I also knew was that I'd never EVER have the urge to kiss a boy as much as I wanted to kiss Karen Saunders.
It is an unfortunate truth that as long as people come in all shapes, sizes and temperaments, certain people, including but not exclusively children, people will find ways to tease, torment, torture and bully each other, with every sort of cruel name they can think of. I heard many of them as I dodged punches and headlocks and wedgies, but one of the ones that didn't bother me much was being called a "faggot." That's because I knew I wasn't homosexual, and simply calling me one didn't make me one.
There's been a lot of news lately about the bullying of young both gay and perceived to be gay, to the point that they feel compelled to commit suicide to stop the torment. One tragic example is of 18-year old Rutgers student Tyler Clementi, who jumped off a bridge after two of his asshole classmates (excuse me…ALLEGEDLY asshole classmates) allegedly secretly recorded him kissing another (male) classmate, and then allegedly broadcast the clip on the internet. Mr. Clementi's story has been only one of many such stories of young men and women, some in their early teens, who committed or attempted suicide after having had enough of teasing and bullying for being, or for being perceived to be, gay. While sociologists report that gay teen suicides have not dramatically increased in recent months, it's a sort of good-news/bad-news situation. It's good news that there's no epidemic of gay teens killing themselves, but it's bad news that it's an apparently ongoing phenomenon which has only recently gained public attention.
In response, sex advice columnist Dan Savage launched the It Gets Better Project. The project encourages people of all sexual orientations to broadcast messages of encouragement and hope to young LGBT people that as much as they may feel isolated and intimidated now, as they mature and grow, things will get better for them. Messages have been broadcast by not just ordinary people, but by celebrities like Adam Lambert, Ellen DeGeneris, Tim Gunn, President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, Secretary of State Clinton, and Houston, Texas city councilman Joel Burns, who tearfully made his statement during the middle of a city council meeting, to sustained applause.
So, in the aftermath of a series of tragic anti-gay bullying events, gay and straight Americans have responded by banding together to deliver a message to suffering LGBT teens that there is hope, that bullying is wrong, that they aren't alone, that they aren't depraved, and that their situations will improve.
And yet…
Although Focus On The Family scrubbed their "Is My Child Becoming Homosexual" article from their website years ago, they're still up to their old tricks. On August 29, 2010, an article in the Denver Post outlined the Colorado-based Focus On The Family's fear that school programs which promote diversity, tolerance, and bullying-prevention initiatives must be fought because they're promoting a hidden pro-gay agenda. Candi Cushman, Focus On The Family's resident education expert, said "We feel more and more that activists are being deceptive in using anti-bullying rhetoric to introduce their viewpoints, while opposing viewpoints by conservative Christians are portrayed as bigotry."
The more things change, the more things stay the same. Five years ago, being bullied was a sign you were homosexual. These days, it's a sign you're being encouraged to be tolerant of homosexuals. Either way, trying to stop one kid from calling another kid "faggot" and beating him up is a bad thing to do, in the eyes of Focus On The Family.
To quote Kurt Vonnegut, "So it goes."
Seven years ago, Adrienne, the esteemed goddess/guru of this fabulous website, (may her virus scans always come up clean), gave me free rein to give vent to whatever bothered me. Turns out, quite a lot gets me All Worked Up. I've teed off on the Holy Terrors on the far right, on their "War On Whoopie," their attempts to stifle all things fun about sex, gay marriage, Proposition 8, the benefits of pornography, the virtues of BBWs, teen lust, the hypocrisy of Newt "Impeach the adulterer! No, not me! The other adulterer! No, not him! The one in the White House!" Gingrich, Mark "Appalachian Trail" Sanford, David "How much for a handjob" Vitter, Larry "Wide Stance" Craig, and Ted "Spending Weeks In The Arizona Desert With Three Guys Cured me Of Homosexual Impulses" Haggerd. I've ranted about porn chic, obscenity, the Purity Myth, the Monogamy Myth, the Sanctity Of Marriage Myth, and how we'd all be much better off if we just abided by a simple, direct credo, namely that when it comes to what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own bedrooms, we should all adopt my credo of "Mind Your Own Business."
I'd like to say that after I've let off so much steam, I'm a much mellower and calmer person now, having allowed the benefits of my advancing age and wisdom to soften the harsher edges of my argumentative personality.
I'd like to say that, but I'd be lying.
The truth is, as the first part of this column indicates, I still get just as royally pissed off about the general state of affairs in the world today as I did years ago. In fact, I'm more pissed off. Because no matter how much I've been ranting and raving, certain idiot segments of the population out there still haven't gotten the hint.
There's a famous old saying that goes, "Give me chastity and give me temperance, just not yet."
With apologies to St. Augustine, "Give me the serenity to suppress the urge to choke the ever-loving shit out of some sexually-repressed asshole trying to ruin everyone else's good time, but not yet, I've still got a few more scores to settle."
There's another famous old saying that goes, "All good things must come to an end."
Just not yet.
It's time to move beyond the hallowed cybernet pages of ERWA. I'm launching a new blog called, (appropriately enough) All Worked Up.
And there's this newfangled thing called "Facebook" I'm trying out as well. Come by to sign up and be my online friend, join my "All Worked Up" group and we'll go from there.
"All good things must come to an end?"
Fuck that.
I'm just getting warmed up.
It's worth a shot.
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Bank managers often claim that equity is expensive relative to debt, which contradicts the Modigliani-Miller irrelevance theorem. This paper combines dividend signalling theories and the Diamond-Dybvig bank run model. An opaque bank must signal its solvency by paying high and stable dividends in order to keep depositors tranquil. This signalling may require costly liquidations if the return on assets has been poor, but not paying the dividend might cause panic and trigger a run on the bank. The more equity has been issued, the more liquidations are needed during bad times to pay the expected dividend to each share.
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In the tradition of In the Time of the Butterflies and The Kite Runner, a tender, evocative novel about the years leading up to the Sri Lankan civil war.
On the day the Herath family moves in, Sal Mal Lane is still a quiet street, disturbed only by the cries of the children whose triumphs and tragedies sustain the families that live there. As the neighbors adapt to the newcomers in different ways, the children fill their days with cricket matches, romantic crushes, and small rivalries. But the tremors of civil war are mounting, and the conflict threatens to engulf them all.
In a heartrending novel poised between the past and the future, the innocence of the children — a beloved sister and her overprotective siblings, a rejected son and his twin sisters, two very different brothers — contrasts sharply with the petty prejudices of the adults charged with their care. In Ru Freeman's masterful hands, On Sal Mal Lane, a story of what was lost to a country and her people, becomes a resounding cry for reconciliation.
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Hatch Seeks Show On His Kids From Sperm Donations
Reality star Richard Hatch, who was freed this week from prison on a tax evasion sentence tied to his $1 million "Survivor" winnings, said Tuesday that he is hoping for a new reality show about his relationship with the children conceived from his sperm donations.
Hatch, 50, was released Monday from prison for violating the terms of his supervised release in the long-running case. Hatch maintains his innocence and says he does not owe money to the Internal Revenue Service.
"Here I am, subjected to something that can only be described as institutionalized bullying," said Hatch, who spent nine months in prisons in five states.
Hatch won the inaugural season of the show in 2000. He was convicted in 2006 of two counts of attempted tax evasion and one count of signing a false tax return. He was released from prison in 2009 but ordered to return after a federal judge ruled he failed to file amended income tax returns for 2000 and 2001.
Shortly before returning to prison in March, Hatch, who lives in Rhode Island, said he met a 22-year-old biological son who is living in New Jersey. Hatch said he met the man, whom he identified only as Devin, through the Sibling Donor Registry, which helps connect donors and children. They took a DNA test to confirm their genetic ties, he said.
Hatch said another biological child, whom he identified as a 22-year-old Maine woman named Emily, visited him in prison.
"It was additionally challenging to be wrongfully imprisoned knowing that these children were coming forward," Hatch said. "I told the court that beforehand. I explained this is a fascinating time in my life when I was at a place where I wanted to get to know these people who are my children who have come forward and want to get to know me."
He also views the show as a way to help the public understand the relationships between offspring and donors.
"The offspring want connections with their biological donors because of all kinds of varying reasons from health to emotional to whatever they are," said Hatch.
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