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Police in the Vermont town of Woodstock say the driver of a car involved in a crash that killed two people was eating ice cream before she noticed she was in the wrong lane.
Forty-nine-year-old Judianne Wood of Stockbridge pleaded not guilty this week to two felony counts of grossly negligent operation of a motor vehicle with death resulting stemming from the May 5 accident on Vermont Route 12.
The Rutland Herald says that a Woodstock police officer talked to Wood while she was still sitting in her vehicle. She said told the officer she had been eating ice cream that she had brought from home.
Seventy-nine-year-old Marion Grover and her 82-year-old husband Paul died as a result of injuries suffered in the crash.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Driver distracted by ice cream, kills two.
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I couldn't pick a favorite and Penelope was dying to get a picture taken in her chair too.
It's been a while since I've gone a month between blog posts. We've been pretty busy around here lately. And also, not busy at all.
After we got back from our vacation to Carolina Beach, Josh and I started looking into college classes. I decided not to take any because I don't want to pay for it out of pocket since I'm not going full-time. And there's still the whole, 'I don't know what to major in' thing. Josh, however, is going full-time and starts next week. My sister is moving out in a few days for college, so it's definitely back to school season over here.
So, Oliver is two months old. He is staying awake more now. The other day, he didn't want to sleep at all, but luckily, he was a happy baby. I don't know how he did it. He is still eating every 2 hours. At night, he wakes up twice. I need to get him going to bed earlier. It's anywhere from 9-12am. He usually wakes up around 3 or 4 am and once more before 8 or 9 when Penelope gets up. My goal for him this month is to get him to sleep flat on his back. He sleeps in his swing and rock n play, which are both curved. When we do lay him down in a crib, he doesn't sleep very long.
At his wellness check-up yesterday, he got 3 shots. He cried and then fell asleep. About 3 or 4 hours later, he was so upset. Of course this happened when we were at a restaurant. He was screaming and could not be calmed down. I took him outside for a while, then I gave him to my mom after she was done eating so I could eat. Poor thing. He was fussy most of the night. Penelope never seemed upset after her shots for more than ten minutes. He woke up at 11pm, right as I was heading to bed. I fed him, and he kept falling asleep, but waking up when I laid him down. By midnight, I couldn't do it anymore, so I took him upstairs where my mom, sister and Josh were all still awake and I went to sleep.
He weighs 13.7 pounds and is 23.8 inches long. He is around the 80th percentile for both. I'm still amazed that he's a "big boy." I was always told that breastfed babies tend to be smaller, but he just keeps growing and isn't slowing down! He is almost in 3-6 month clothes, but I'm going to hold off as long as possible because he has only been in exclusively 0-3 clothes for 2 or 3 weeks. Going to get as much use out of my favorite outfits as possible. His size 1 diapers are getting snug too. He is pushing the limit on those. Hopefully, I will be able to use them all before he goes to size 2.
He really doesn't like to be on his belly. I know tummy time is important so he can work on his neck muscles, but he cries the whole time. I think it's because he is always so gassy. He works on his neck while he is on my chest though. At two month, Penelope has already rolled from belly to back a few times, so I wish Oliver would be more willing to try. Penelope was also very strong and took her first step just a week after turning nine months.
Snapped a picture between cries.
Overall, Oliver is turning into a very happy baby and I just love watching him smile and listening to him talk. He loves watching his big sister run around and Penelope loves holding him and trying to help any way she can.
Weight: 13.7 pounds
Height: 23.8 inches
Size Clothes: 0-3
Size Diapers: 1
Sleeping Habits: Still wakes up twice a night.
Eating Habits: Every 2 hours for 30 minutes.
Come here, Penelope. We haven't taken a bathroom selfie in a while ;)


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The genre-bending cellist Yo-Yo Ma heads a dream team of string players -- Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile, Stuart Duncan -- who borrow from bluegrass. The quartet, plus singer Aoife O'Donovan perform three songs from their album The Goat Rodeo Sessions at the NPR Music offices.
Set List:
"Quarter Chicken Dark"
"Here And Heaven"
Rufus Wainwright's Tiny Desk set
"The Art Teacher"
"Respectable Dive"
For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concerts podcast, visit NPR.org/tinydeskconcerts.


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Reseach Project
Intermediate Accounting 1 -- Spring 2012
Financial Accounting Standards Codification Research Assignment Questions
In order to complete this assignment, you will need to access the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Financial Accounting Standards Codification database. The related information for this is posted on Blackboard for this course. The UH copy of the FASB Financial Accounting Standards Codification (FASC) can be accessed at: http://aaahq.org/ascLogin.cfm. The FASC is the one and only source of the technical GAAP standards. Other sources are no longer accepted as GAAP.
The student log in information is: Username: AAA51654 / Password: NpDRBXt. After you sign in – click on "FASB Accounting Standards Codification" on the screen and the database will open. There is a "search" box in the top right of the screen. If you scroll over the topics (Assets, Liabilities etc.) on the left side of the welcome page you will see the subtopics and contents – click on the subtopic and it will take you to the related Codification content.
The class assignment/project that you are responsible for is comprised of researching several of the more current technical topics in accounting and responding to several specific related technical standard questions about the topics. For some of the topics (see below) you will also be asked and responsible for interpreting how the technical standard is applied or what the objective(s) of the related GAAP rules are attempting to address or other questions as set forth under each topic.
You can access each topic by either scrolling over the topics and subtopics until you find the related content or topic or by using the search box. The required topics and related questions are listed below.
Students will submit BOTH an electronic copy and a hard copy of their assignments:
1) Electronic Copy: The assignment will be submitted online through the UH Blackboard Learn system, and all submissions will be checked for plagiarism (copying other students' work) using specific software developed to perform this task. If you cut and paste or copy another student's work, it will be detected, and you will receive a zero on this assignment and be subject to the UH Policy on Academic Dishonesty. Also, you cannot "cut & paste" the answer from the FASC database – use your own words. The electronic copy should be in an MS Word format and submitted on Blackboard Learn through "FASB Codification Project" link under Assessments. The system will not allow submissions after the deadline, and any project that is not in the system will get a grade of zero.
2) Hard Copy: A hard copy of the assignment will be submitted before the deadline stated below. Failure to submit the hard copy before due date will result in a grade of zero in the project.
Submission deadline for BOTH electronic and hard copies is APRIL 25, 2013 (by 5 PM)
1. FASB Accounting Standards Codification (FASC)
This section deals with certain general background considerations and information related to the FASC and the answers can be found by clicking the "About the Codification" and "Notice to Constituents" sections on the FASC Welcome Page. This section is a good general source of information about the FASC and should be reviewed prior to starting to answer the specific questions set forth in all sections. The related research questions that you must answer are:
(a) When did the FASC Codification become effective? (b) Did the FASC change prior GAAP?
(c) What does the FASB expect from the new FASC structure and system? (d) What are the "topics" used in the ASC?
(e) Are Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) references included in the ASC?
2. Transfer of Receivables FASC 860-10
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The art party was a HUGE success, the best one yet. Mainly because I moved it inside this time which allowed us to be in air conditioning and created an awesome art walk. The art was displayed outside, inside, in the corridor and upstairs in three rooms. The setting created quite an "arty" maze. The kids were so excited because they didn't know what they were going to find in each room.
The grade 8,9 and 10 students ran the whole show. The managers, workshop leaders, photographers, food and chair guards were all students. We had three drawing floors, a group canvas painting, paper plate weaving, chalk owls, paper cut dancers, group circle murals, CD mandalas plus so much more. It was busy and noisy but everyone was having a good time and on task. I could not have been happier with my students. We also had amazing food provided by the kindness of our parents.
I enjoy looking at these photos just as much as I enjoyed being there. My photographers and film crew really captured the event. It was so heart warming seeing the younger kids looking up to the big kids who were being such incredible role models. I think we have successfully put "community" into Lincoln Community School.
Please have a look at this video:
The event did not end with the art party that was actually the introduction to some awesome performances in the NPAT by grade 6,7,8, 9 and 10 students. It was a long day but well worth staying right until the end. I particularly liked the entertaining grade 8 performance just for the sweet dance moves!
This video is a slideshow that was playing in the music room showing student achievements throughout the year and their digital art:
Thanks again to everyone who supported this event it would not be a success without all of you. On a side note, you have no idea how relieved I was knowing that the work was indoors when it rained later that evening. It doesn't rain often but it seems to surprise us whenever we have a major event. This was the reason behind the relocation of the exhibit and it paid off.
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Love and forgiveness, children and your expectations, the precondition of love
Consider Forgiveness features interviews with leaders and scholars from the Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, and Christian traditions. This project was filmed in Amritsar, India, at Sharing Wisdom: The Case of Love and Forgiveness, a meeting of the Elijah Interfaith Institute's board of religious leaders. View these clips to learn more about each faith's approach to forgiveness and how it relates to justice, love, compassion, retribution, revenge, and empathy.


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At the one year checkup with the pediatrician, we raised our concerns that our son not yet speaking a single word. She said since we are from a multi lingual background (1 know 5 languages, and so does my wife) there may be a delay. With the speech delays with our elder son, this was not a very convincing answer. Finally on April 11th 2006 (when he was 18 months old) we had a team visit us from the county to access our sons problems.
Their feedback would change our life. Their casual conclusion was
He has Autism


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The joining of old methods with new modern technology.
The Rojac family has been on Gozona since the 17th century.
As of 2002 when the brand Savrin was abolished, the winery has been called Rojac and as of 2005 it is led by Uros Rojac who took over the vineyard after his father. He is a talented young man who places much emphasis on the experience of his predecessors in trying to balance old methods with new enology.
The vineyards start at 120 meters where white types are planted and stretch from terrace to terrace up to 240 meters above sea level where the red variety fares well.
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Mike: "My son lives in a church....land he's the mayor of the town. I live in a store, and my son, Andy, lives in a chicken coop. Joseph is the only one who owns a real house....and I'm a builder, so what went wrong?"
Andy: Hey. It's alright Dad. Who's complainin'? Out here, we use chickens for currency....which makes me ...the banker.
Mike: That's a good spin to put on it son. True as facts are. Now, I'll be tellin' people my son's a banker. If that ain't a step up, I don't have a ladder.
Andy: Rightly so... as you should. My nest is feathered. I'm even sellin' the eggs.
Mike: Well why don't we make it a family business and you can sell your eggs right here in the store?
Andy: Great idea Dad, but all my customers are local. That would confuse them. They buy the chickens and the eggs at the same time.
Mike: But wait a minute. I thought you said you got paid in chickens.
Andy: Oh no. That's chicken shit.
Mike: Never knew bankers to be honest.
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WHAT IS the District scandal really about? It is not, as it might seem, a simple tale of skirting campaign finance laws. It is more fundamental and more insidious.
D.C. businessman Jeffrey E. Thompson, having amassed great wealth from government contracts, illegally used some of the proceeds to subvert the election process and install officials who would, in turn, be even more helpful to his business interests. That a lion's share of the public dollars were aimed at providing health care to the city's poor makes the double-dealing all the more despicable.
As documents submitted to a federal court Monday show, Mr. Thompson spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in 2006 in an effort to elect a mayor to his liking. His candidate lost, so he tried again in 2010. This time, his favored candidate, Vincent C. Gray (D), won. Months into his mayoralty, Mr. Gray approved a multimillion-dollar settlement of a contract dispute that repaid Mr. Thompson with interest.
Mr. Gray says the settlement was made on the merits. He maintains that he was unaware of the illegal "shadow campaign" that Mr. Thompson financed on his behalf. He says that Mr. Thompson — and presumably several witnesses who are expected to corroborate Mr. Thompson's story — are lying.
U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. has a different view. "Today's guilty plea pulls back the curtain on years of widespread corruption," he said after Mr. Thompson pleaded guilty Monday to two felonies as part of a plea arrangement with the federal government.
Prosecutors detailed how Mr. Thompson secretly channeled more than $3.3 million in illegal contributions to more than 25 candidates running for local and federal offices. In 2006 he spent $350,000 to induce Michael A. Brown (D) to drop out of the mayor's race and another $411,000 on behalf of Linda Cropp (D), then the D.C. Council chair. (Prosecutors do not allege that Ms. Cropp was aware of the illegal efforts.)
Despite his best efforts, she lost and Adrian M. Fenty (D) was elected. Mr. Thompson's worries about a Fenty administration were realized when the city sued his firm for excessive expenses, winning a settlement in 2008 that called for a $12 million payment to the city and an additional $5.25 million in charitable contributions. So when, as detailed by prosecutors, Mr. Gray and his associates came calling in 2010 to see if Mr. Thompson would support a Gray candidacy, he was happy to oblige. He spent more than $660,000 on a shadow campaign and reimbursed straw donors to the official campaign in an effort that helped turn Mr. Fenty out of office.
Mr. Thompson supported Mr. Gray, federal prosecutors wrote in court filings, on the expectation that his election would improve the business climate for D.C. Chartered Health Plan, Mr. Thompson's company, which had a $300 million annual contract with the city. In its first year in office, the Gray administration approved a $7.2 million payment to his company that had been nixed by the Fenty administration.
Mr. Gray told The Post's Aaron C. Davis he doesn't recall Jeanne Clarke Harris, a former Thompson associate who also has pleaded guilty, asking him on Mr. Thompson's behalf to expedite the settlement but, "putting that aside for a minute, what if she had? Is that illegal?"
That's one of the questions that has yet to be answered by Mr. Machen's office.


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A huge thank you to everyone who bought the complete album. Seriously, thank you.
The Steampunk Opera full album is finally complete and available HERE.
Tomorrow we shall return to our usual shenanigans and posts about heaven knows what, but today we shall just give a thank you to all those who got the album.
So to show my gratitude, here is David Bowie fondling his goblin balls:
AND, as a bonus gift, because it is so awesome i don't have words, is a little girl dressed as Voltron who can and WILL seriously kick your ass:
I belief i have made my gratitude clear.


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Ketubot, Daf Kuf Zayin, Part 2
Reading for Monday, May 15
Ketubot 107-2
Today's sugya continues the discussion of whether a court will allot maintenance money to a woman whose husband has gone abroad. According to Rav they do, and according to Shmuel they do not.
תנן: מי שהלך למדינת הים ואשתו תובעת מזונות, חנן אמר: תשבע בסוף ולא תשבע בתחלה, נחלקו עליו בני כהנים גדולים ואמרו: תשבע בתחלה ובסוף; עד כאן לא פליגי אלא לענין שבועה, אבל מזוני יהבינן לה!
תרגמה שמואל: בששמעו בו שמת.
We learned: If a man went to a country beyond the sea and his wife claimed maintenance:
Hanan says: she must take an oath at the end but not at the beginning.
The sons of the high priests differed from him and ruled that she must take an oath both at the beginning and at the end.
They thus differ only in respect of the oath but they do not disagree that maintenance must be given to her?
Shmuel explained [this to refer to a case] where they heard that he was dead.
The Mishnah is raised as a difficulty against Shmuel. Both disputing parties in the Mishnah agree that the wife receives maintenance. The only question was regard to the oaths that she must take.
Shmuel resolves the difficulty by saying that this was a case where they had heard that the husband had died. In such a case he agrees that she receives maintenance, as I explained in yesterday's section.
תא שמע: מי שהלך למדינת הים ואשתו תובעת מזונות, בני כהנים גדולים אומרים: תשבע, חנן אומר: לא תשבע, ואם בא ואמר פסקתי לה מזונות – נאמן!
Come and hear: If [a husband] went to a country beyond the sea and his wife claimed maintenance: The sons of the High Priests say she must take an oath,
Hanan said: She need not take an oath.
If [the husband] came and declared, "I have provided for her maintenance," he is believed.
This is in essence the same difficulty as above. The baraita adds that if a husband states that he left her with provisions and he takes an oath to such, he is believed and she will have to return all the money she used to buy provisions.
הכא נמי בששמעו בו שמת. והא אם בא ואמר קאמר! אם בא לאחר שמועה.
Here also [it may be replied] is a case where a report was received that he was dead.
But did it not say, "If [the husband] came and declared…"?
If he came after the report had been received.
The resolution is the same as above. The court will order her husband's property sold and the proceeds used for her provisions only if they have heard that he died. The Talmud interprets the end of the baraita to mean that if he comes back after he was reported (falsely) as having died, he is believed.


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Quote:i was born and raised in a southern baptist church. i could write a book on the psychological torture I have endured from this. psychedelics actually opened my mind very much to just how bad it was. i tell you this so you understand why i was in church on acid . i had gone to church a few times on acid, always with my tripping roommate who had been in the same church with me for a number of years. well, another roommate was not inclined to ever go to church. we kept asking him to go to church with us on acid. of course we were perfectly comfortable with this. he wasn't. he told me that the last time he went to church the preacher went into a tirade behind the pulpit about druggies and kept pointing at him and never took his eyes off him. i told him he was just paranoid and it didn't really happen that way. oh, forgot to mention the particular reason I am going to church is because it is father's day and nothing makes my hardcore xtian dad happier than seeing me in church. too bad i was in my heyday of being an acidhead. so i'm totally tripping nuts when i get there. lo and fucking behold they forego the usual service to let whatever dad who wants to get up in front of the church and talk about being a father. now, you can guess whose dad gets up there. this is the church i was born into, i know everybody here and they know me. in fact, i was only 2 months "out" of church (i quit going when i moved out, since I didn't require me to go like my parents did). so my dad starts bawling up there and he asks me to stand up while he apologizes for being a godawful father (pretty fair statement IMO). the emotions this caused coupled with everybody looking at me (that knows me REALLY well) standing there and the head full of acid made me start crying and i just wanted to get the fuck out. finally he finished (it was a blur, i don't remember what all he said, a whole bunch of people were crying). i sat down and my roomate looked at me and said, "see, i told you, motherfucker". that pretty much ruined that trip (knocked the fun edge off it for sure) and that was the LAST time i set foot in church on drugs and was very near the last time I have ever been in a church... thank god .
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One of our personal favorites, Tuffy Tommy is our Persona Spotlight of the week. We couldn't pass up his adorable freckles and rumble tumble attitude. Wait 'til you see him all decked out tomorrow with our Fall Harvest theme. Even though temps are in the 80s and 90s for many of us, if we THINK FALL, maybe it will get just a little cooler!
About Tommy
Wherever there's a hill, look out: Here comes Tommy! This rough-and-tumble mischief-maker slides down banisters, jumps down steps and leaps into leaf piles, getting boo-boo badges of honor along the way. Tommy loves to play in the dirt with his trucks, but maybe a quiet card game or small book would make Mom happy!
TIP: Add the bonus sticker bandage to make Tommy look really tough!


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THONOTOSASSA - Harish Madnani could live anywhere in the Tampa area, but the physician chose the rural setting of Stonelake Ranch on Lake Thonotosassa. He was drawn to the sprawling equestrian and lakefront community because of its sweeping vista of the lake, open meadows, rolling hills, a bird sanctuary and an abundance of moss-draped grand oaks and magnolias. The secluded enclave tucked off McIntosh and Thonotosassa roads north of Interstate 4 fulfills the small-town sensibilities the Madnani family became accustomed to when they lived in Mississippi. �When we were looking for a place to build a home, we wanted open skies, a large lot and something close to nature,� said Madnani, who practices internal medicine at Access Healthcare in Hudson. �We didn�t want to be too close to town.�Embracing a serene quality of life away from the hustle-and-bustle of city living is a common theme in the affluent development, where the home sites range in price from about $100,000 to nearly $1 million. These days, sounds of progress at Stonelake Ranch blend in with the refrains of chirping birds and squawking geese. Stonelake Ranch is experiencing a growth spurt and impressive sales in a recovering housing market. Eight home sites have been sold in the community so far this year, outpacing the six luxury home estates sold there in 2012, said Virginia Arnold, senior sales associate at Stonelake Ranch. Each home sale averages more than $1 million with one 14,000-square-foot home topping out at $2 million. Luxury home sales and foot traffic is up across the area, according to the Tampa Bay Builders Association. Stonelake Ranch representatives see 2013 as a major turnaround year. �By the first quarter of this year we had sold as many lots as we did for all of 2012,� Stonelake Ranch general manager Brian Funk said. �We have learned understanding who our buyer is is important.� Real estate agents are selling Stonelake Ranch as a final move-in destination for homebuyers, Funk said. Nestled along the 900-acre Lake Thonotosassa, Stonelake Ranch is a 625-acre community of 160 executives and estate homes. It was developed in 2004 by Charles Funk and Jeff Meehan, founders of the Arbor Green community in New Tampa. Stonelake Ranch provides home sites ranging from 1.5 to 18 acres, each designed to retain the natural character of the former Florida ranch at that site. Houses at Stonelake must contain at least 3,500 square feet of living space if built on the water or a minimum of 3,000 square feet of interior space if built off the water. More than a third of Stonelake�s home sites border the lake, which is Hillsborough County�s largest, providing 10,000 feet or lakefront, sweeping water views as well as an island bird sanctuary. Lavish estate homes are being built by some of the area�s best known custom home builders, including Alvarez Homes, Arthur Rutenberg Homes, Bayfair Homes, John Cannon Homes, Homes by John C. Fowke, Windstar Homes, Bartlett Custom Homes and Olivera Construction. Several Stonelake residents have built private residential compounds � not just houses. The sprawling home sites are sprinkled with main houses and guest cottages. They have built horse stables to enjoy the community�s 40-foot-wide riding trails and 120 acres of meadows. Roughly 38 percent of the homebuyers are doctors, Arnold said. Other residents include a rapper and several well-known business executives and professional athletes, including football, baseball and hockey players. Stonelake representatives declined to identify their famous homebuyers. �Everyone who lives here is very successful and down-to-earth,� Madnani said.
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Last week we started on the Tunisian stitches with the Tunisian Simple Stitch. This week we're going to continue along the Tunisian line and show you how to do the Tunisian Purl Stitch. The Tunisian Purl Stitch builds upon the Tunisian Simple Stitch and creates a fabric that looks a lot like the purl side of a knitted garment. This is one of the stitches used in both my newly released patterns, The Tiny Cables Wristwarmers use this stitch to create the ribbing effect of the cuff as well as the Basketweave Wristwarmers. Both patterns allow you to practice the stitch in an easy setting.
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Last.fm vs Normaliser
According to last.fm, my Top Ten most listened to albums are:
- Bic Runga – Birds
- M. Ward – Post-War
- Nellie McKay – Get Away From Me
- Cat Power – The Greatest
- The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
- Scritti Politti – White Bread Black Beer
- Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
- Bent – Ariels
- Girl Talk – Night Ripper
- Paddy McAloon – I Trawl The Megahertz
Which all very respectable and tasteful indeed.
However, last.fm calculates this on the basis on tracks played. So, if the album has loads of short tracks (69 Love Songs, 3 Feet High and Rising, Best Of's) and you play it a couple of times, it will show up higher than an album with a few very long tracks (sorry, Sigur Rós, Blue Nile and Talk Talk).
So, some brainbox came up with a way of calculating your charts based on the length of the tracks. It's called last.fm normaliser and you should give it a go now.
My Top Ten albums are now a little more surprising:
- Paddy McAloon I Trawl The Megahertz
- Bic Runga Birds
- Bent Ariels
- Cat Power The Greatest
- Röyksopp The Understanding
- Nellie McKay Get Away From Me
- George Michael Patience
- Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit
- The Avalanches Since I Left You
- a-ha Analogue
This seems a tad odd. While I Trawl the MEGAHertz is a wonderful album, I don't think it's my most listened to one. It seems that the normaliser calculates the average length of the tracks on the album, so with Paddy's opus, you have track 1 at 22:06 mins (yes!) and the shortest track at 2:42. That makes the average about 12 minutes x 9 tracks = 108 mins. But the actual length of the album is about 53 mins. Hmmmm.
Still, interesting tool. Give it a go and report back, last.fm-ers!


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Results of the Archeological Investigation at Site 3Be264, Benton County, Arkansas
Author(s): Lawrence G. Santeford
Year: 1980
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We started our Thanksgiving vacation a little early. Shane took the day off and the kids were out of school. We had a lazy autumn morning. We were anticipating a storm, which included a major drop in temperature, which made it especially cozy.
We have a remarkable view of this Japanese Maple right out of the living room windows.
Climbing it has become a regular part of the kiddos afternoon schedule.
Harry Potter has also become a solid part of Ty's schedule. He just finished the 2nd book, it took him 4 days.
While Ty was perched in the tree, the boss obliged Ryli with story time.
This is one of her most favorite things to do.
Then it was time for Theo to show off his figure with dad.
This guy is starting to look like his dad, and no, I'm not referring to the rolls. More of the facial profile, we're hearing that more and more these days.
Cannon was busy saving the world up in the playroom. I wasn't able to take any pictures of that, due to the sensitive nature of Super-Hero-ness.
These five people are my treasures. They define all that is good in my life. This Thanksgiving, I am most thankful for them...and cozy autumn mornings together.


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Sunday, April 10, 2011
Experimenting with 360 Degree Feedback
Last summer, I had the privilege of spending half of a day at Google (click here for related post), where the objective was to expose us to a culture very different than what WE enjoy in the military. It opened my eyes to what WE could be and, in my opinion, more of what WE should be. Over the last month WE turned Chief Petty Officer and Chief Warrant Officer Mid-term counseling into phase two of OUR 360 degree feedback initiative. Because every action should be purposeful, this is the WHY behind OUR action:
- Mid-term counseling has turned into a paper drill in many places (no meaningful conversation to accompany the "wink, wink, nudge, nudge, consider yourself counseled" approach)
- Too many people are more concerned about pleasing their seniors than working with their peers and leading their juniors
- The most constructive feedback comes from our subordinates and our peers
- Counseling is about making each other better and therefore must be meaningful
Our approach was to specifically choose peers and subordinates who would take this especially seriously and provide constructive feedback about their chain of command. The result did not disappoint. WE had Seamen clearly articulating what they admired about their Division and Department Chiefs, as well as offering them ideas of what they could be doing better. WE had Chiefs who were truly interested in making the Chief's Mess even stronger, as well as celebrating specific attributes of theirs peers indirectly advocating on behalf of their peers to their shared reporting seniors. Unfortunately, WE also saw that not all seniors are paying enough attention to their juniors to meaningfully assess their strengths and areas for improvement. One of the coolest things about this evolution was the willingness of nearly every participant to put his or her name on the counseling sheet. Though some desired to remain anonymous (in the end WE ensured all remained anonymous for Phase II), most took ownership as a way of stating "I am proud of my input, I appreciated the opportunity, I have a strong desire to make all with whom I serve better and I would like it if others would do the same for me."
WE have yet to decide where to go with Phase III of this experiment, and have charged the Chiefs and Chief Warrant Officer (the recipients this time around), with making recommendations for the next steps. WE will ensure our PO1s get the benefit of 360 degree feedback during their next mid-term counseling, as we work to further our quest to create a culture that is even more focused on continual improvement across the 360 degree array. As WE state in OUR Command Philosophy, one of OUR four Command Values is...
"CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT: Not a single thing we do as a team is perfect and not a single trait of any individual is without room for improvement. Each of us will leave this command having improved it in some way and each of us will depart a better Sailor, person, follower and leader.
We will each leave our legacy with the command and our Shipmates; The command and our Shipmates will leave a legacy with us"
OUR values will continue to be more than words on paper and WE will continue to experiment with each and every one of them as WE write OUR own manual and share it with others who are interested in learning WITH us. At the same time, WE continue to choose to either validate or change the status quo by asking "WHY?" at every turn.
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Sean Doolittle's newest book "Safer has everything it needs to achieve commercial success...The plot is slick and inventive. The author is skilled at ratcheting up readers' foreboding, sympathy, and fear, creating the deep need to see how things turn out. The primary characters—Paul, Sara, Roger, Paul's attorney, and an ambitious TV journalist—are vividly rendered, and lesser characters are well sketched with a sentence or two. And looming over everything is the specter of the Heartland's dark side." (Booklist)
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I was just trying to explain to James what was happening on the tv. This picture was on the TV.
I pointed out then President-Elect Obama and told James that today was a very historical day (I know, I know... Drink!) because Mr. Obama, who is a black man, was going to be our new president.
James said to me "Yeah... it's important.... Which one is the black man??"
I tried to explain why it was an important point and he just looked at me. He really truly sees no difference between black/white/brown skin. "Oh... the man with a tan?" He sees us as all the same! How awesome is that??
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After a chain of events, i was inspired and in a mood to experiment. I had a general idea that i wanted to experiment with copies and wash-ups/watercolours.
After a brief research i decided i wanted to use as main theme different kinds of birds and i would focus more on experimenting with colours rather than creating a character or a theme for my coming-up children's book. Also, i wanted to exercise a bit myself into more freestyle colouring, along with the pleasure of "playing" with my inks.
I m quite pleased with the results as they are simple, experimentation sketches that have a nice effect.
Note: the quality is not that good as my scanner's not that good and the lighting wasn't helping me to take good photos of them.
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Remind yourself that you're bound to get better.
Don't get down on yourself. Don't beat yourself up. It's the next opportunity that matters, not the previous one. The previous one matters only in that you must learn from your mistakes. But the next one gives you the opportunity to show that you have learned from your mistakes. You can do it better next time. You just have to practice. Keep trying until. If you figured out what went wrong last time, then you know how to make it right next time. Don't beat yourself up for messing up. Pat yourself on the back for figuring it out.
You need to encourage yourself. You need to pump yourself up. Why? Because you can't wait and hope that someone else will come along and cheer you up, make you feel better, tell you that you'll do better next time. You have to rely on yourself. You have to have faith in yourself and your ability to figure out what works and what doesn't. You have to have the inner belief that everything you're doing you're doing for a positive outcome in the future. You have to encourage yourself with future successes.
When you miss an opportunity, are unprepared for an opportunity or suffer a setback while realizing your goals, you need to encourage yourself by immediately getting back in line. If you fall off track, get right back on. If you fall away from your disciplines, get right back to them. If you fall out of habit, get back into it. Something goes wrong, do what you can to make it right. It might be hard. It might be scary. Keep your resolve alive, active and well. Cheer yourself on to victory. You can do it.
Sometimes defeat is the best beginning. Why? If you're at the bottom, there's only one way to go. Up. But more importantly, if you're flat on your back, mentally and financially, you'll usually become sufficiently disgusted to reach way deep down inside yourself and pull out miracles and talents and abilities and desire and determination. When you're flat broke or flat miserable, you'll eventually become so disgusted that you'll pull out the basic essentials required to make everything better.


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Author and philosopher Jesuit Father Robert Spitzer defends the pro-life stance with secular principles and argues for a fresh approach to the abortion debate.
"The pro-life movement needs a comprehensive philosophy that makes a case, a very logical case, based on principles which are completely accepted by a secular society that shows that the pro-life position is correct and ethical and objectively true," Father Spitzer told CNA.
His book, Ten Universal Principles: A Brief Philosophy of the Life Issues was released in 2011.
Father Spitzer, former president of Washington's Gonzaga University and founder of the California-based Magis Institute, said that he wanted the work to be "very accessible" and help everyday Catholics learn how to oppose issues such as abortion and euthanasia by using philosophy.
In a recent interview, he said that despite secular media often associating the pro-life movement with illogical religious fanaticism, it's actually those in favor of abortion who have poor reasoning.
"Abortion," he argued, "is based on objective falsities, logical errors, ethical problems, violations of ethical principals and a complete betrayal of the notion of rights."
The 10 universal principles discussed in the book are broken down into four sections under the topics of reason, ethics, justice and natural rights and identity and culture.
Father Spitzer said that the sections outline basic concepts such as how objective truth can be known and how everyone can agree on principles like minimizing harm or guaranteeing essential human rights.
He said that using logical concepts everyone can assent to take the argument out of the religious or political spheres.
In the U.S. especially, the movement in favor of legalized abortion has "claimed the entire territory of vocabulary and concept," the priest said. "And because of that, in a way, they look like they're much more sophisticated than the pro-life people."
However, he added, "all we have to do is reclaim the territory right back."
"We need a vocabulary that neither the right nor the left will quibble with," he emphasized. "We need a vocabulary that neither the religious nor the secular groups will quibble with."
For instance, he noted, all people believe in things such as "inalienable rights," despite the struggle often involved to ensure them.
The priest highlighted painful examples in the nation's history, such as the 1857 Dred Scott decision in which the U.S. Supreme Court essentially ruled that black individuals were subhuman and had no constitutional rights.
"The wording of that decision, it just knocks you over," he said, "but if you look between the lines, its the exact same logic as Roe v. Wade," the landmark U.S. case that legalized abortion in 1973.
Although nearly 100 years apart, "both courts forgot about natural or inalienable rights. They never mentioned them."
The second mistake both courts made, Father Spitzer said, is the illogical assumption that black people and the unborn needed to be proved human when the opposite process was required.
"Anyone who knows elementary ethics," he said, knows "the principal of non-maleficence: Don't do unnecessary harm."
"If you're not going to do unnecessary harm, and you are uncertain, the burden of proof is on you to prove that the being under consideration is not human."
Despite the tragic outcome of both cases and their societal impact, Father Spitzer said he's optimistic that a renewed effort to introduce basic philosophical arguments into the cultural debate will be successful.
He also said he believes that humanity ultimately wants to do the right thing.
"I think people honestly want to make an optimal, positive difference with their lives, their time, their talents and their energy," he said.
"They want to make an optimal difference to family, to friends, to society, to their church if they have faith, to their local communities, to the little league, to the school board; whatever it may be, people are just generally exceedingly contributive."
Father Spitzer also said the pro-life movement will continue to be effective, given that people need to view these issues not just from an intellectual standpoint.
"Don't just look at them with your mind, but look at them with your heart."
"Let's come back to our senses and get out of the political rhetoric," he urged. Let's take "a good objective look from the vantage point of the mind and the heart, and just say, 'Come on, what do you really think?'"
It's actually really neat - I found all of Fr. Spitzer's pro-life material (and other theological works from EWTN) available at that Healing the Culture Site. Thank you, Fr. Spitzer for helping us make the culture of life strong! We need more leaders like that in our society.
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"There is no mention of the Death Penalty in the article. We need to continue building bridges between Justice and Life."
As there shouldn't be because capital punishment is not anything like the issue of abortion. There is NOTHING prolife about ending it, in fact, ending it results in just the opposite and promotes further harming to society and innocent human beings. Ending CP is built on a false assumption, while abortion goes against logic and science.
Tim O'Callaghan: Spitzer talks about the death penalty in his book. Please see <http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Universal-Principles-ebook/dp/B005R9HEC6>.
The pro-life movement has a wealth of intelligent and appealing arguments that connect with people's minds and hearts. Fr. Spitzer's is one of the best ever. He has a national pro-life organization dedicated to teaching the pro-life curriculum he talks about in this article. It's called Healing the Culture. They have all kinds of products that can help us spread this amazing pro-life philosophy. The high school curriculum is coming out in May. Make use of this group. Fr. Spitzer rocks!
In reference to Linus's comment, I think we must go further and say that it is not just a pro-life/choice nor a respect life issue, but a CHOOSE LIFE issue! See, pro-aborts would claim to respect the life of the mother. Remember that chant some of them shouted to disrupt a pro-life gathering in Washington last month? I think they were yelling: "Pro-life, that's a lie! You don't care when women die!" In this chant they try to camouflage the pro-abortion position as being "more" benign because they are actually "pro-life" of the mother and of her choice to live. The chant creates a poor, extreme and misleading caricature of them. But in reality, they are justifying their stance to choose death, the death of the defenseless and vulnerable unborn child. So, it is a CHOOSE LIFE issue because we want both mother and child to live. We want everyone to choose life instead of death. Even in extremely rare cases in which the mother or child may die in a life-saving medical process, the ethical option is to choose life and save both of them and never directly want the harm or death of either one. So, to choose to respect all human life does care "when women die", but also worries when women- and others involved- kill!
Linus, I think we must go further and say that it is not just a pro-life/choice nor a respect life issue, but a CHOOSE LIFE issue! See, pro-aborts would claim to respect the life of the mother. Remember that chant some of them shouted to disrupt a pro-life gathering in Washington last month? I think they were yelling: "Pro-life, that's a lie! You don't care when women die!" In this chant they try to impress as if they are actually pro-life (of the mother) and her choice to live. The chant creates a poor, extreme and misleading caricature of the pro-abortion position as being "more" benign. But in reality, they are justifying their stance for choose death, the death of the defenseless and vulnerable unborn child. So, it is a CHOOSE LIFE issue because we want both mother and child to live, that everyone choose life instead of death. Even in extremely rare cases in which the mother or child may die in a life-saving medical process, the ethical option is to choose life and save both of them and never directly want the harm or death of either one. So, to choose to respect all human life does care "when women die", but also worries when women kill!
There is no mention of the Death Penalty in the article. We need to continue building bridges between Justice and Life.
Please!!!!!!This is a RESPECT LIFE issue!!!!!Not a PRO-LIFE or PRO-CHOICE issue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Linus Francis.
Prolifers and Prochoicers are so polarized from one another that prochoicers can't see the reality that only true prolifers are true prochoicers…!!! Go Father Spitzer…!!!
I have engaged in a protracted conversation with a long-time, recalcitrant pro-abortion friend, who will not answer my direct question - Is the fetus a human being, with unique and unrepeatable DNA, from the moment of conception?
I pray that this person, and many others similarly deluded by our cultural milieu, will have the veil lifted from their (human) eyes, and know and admit the answer to this question. Only then will the tragedy of legalized abortion end.
It is sad. I am a young African American, but I don't think it is over reaching at all to say Slaves were lucky. They were lucky because they were conisdered one third of a person, enierly human, and allowed live because they had worth. Their work and the things they did had value, albiet in a twisted sense. On the other hand, infants are considered to not only have no worth, but to have anti-value: to be so horrid that people willingly pay hundreds of dollars to see that they never work, never are considered a person, never have a chance to live.
"....We tossed the forgein forces from our land
And founded one that sought each person's good,
And yet we somehow didn't understand
How negro slaves deserved such person-hood.
The slaves fought for their freedom, some escaped!
But children? How are infants going to fight?
Their sweetly forming lungs aren't fully shaped,
So we must raise our voices for their rights!"- Roe v Wade, LoudDreamer
If the so called 'secular sphere' is LESS rational than the Church, how are we supposed to use reason to change it? Unfortunately the liberal pro-death point of view is just as much based on 'faith' (belief in things unseen) as any religion. If the Church cannot even convince it's own members to vote pro-life, it will never convert the 'secular sphere'.
As long as pro-death democrats (Pelosi, Biden, Sibelius, etc.) can claim the mantle of Catholicism, the Church will lack the moral authority to impact our political culture.
I recently bought Fr. Spitzer's book to read, and he's absolutely right. We need to talk less about feelings, and more about how we think. At the risk of sounding sarcastic, if abortion is really about women's health, and "curing" a disease, then why are pro-abortion so resistant to the new laws requiring women to see the ultrasound of the baby before an abortion. When women have a disease such as cancer, the doctor shows them the image of the tumor, and discusses how they plan to treat the tumor. Information is a good thing.
This is such an important article. The type of reasoning/arguing promoted here is the ONLY way to present the pro-life cause in the secular sphere. NOTHING ELSE works. An appeal to reason, scientific facts and "natural and inalienable" rights is the only way to permeate the hard heads of those who have consecrated themselves to one political party or another.


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Friday, October 19, 2012
Swell Season
I'm also pretty amazed this baby has so much apparent room, being a mutant giant and all, to move around as much as he does. He shifts position constantly. And it feels horribly uncomfortable. I've tried to reason with him, have tried complaining to him, and have tried poking and pushing back on his wee giant parts from the outside, all to no avail. He's got the moves like Jagger.
My 36-week appointment is Tuesday and I'm going to initiate a frank discussion with the doctor about several things. 1) It needs to be noted in my chart that I have a medical education, am not a layperson, and do not want to be approached like I'm in the lowest common denominator and/or have a third grade education. I want facts, medically accurate information, options, and respect. There's a variation between doctors in the practice as to how I am spoken to and how much information, requested or volunteered, I receive. I'm also sick of hearing about "hospital policy" when what I want to know is about clinical judgement. When everything was fine, this was not an issue. Whilst shit is hitting the fan, this needs to be fixed. Especially in time for L&D. 2) I want to know if they'll support me in an effort beginning at 37 weeks to do whatever we can to kickstart labor for a spontaneous L&D experience, in the form of weekly (or more often, I don't care) internal checks and, if possible, membrane sweeping. This promotes release of prostaglandins that encourage the cervix to ripen and, to use a medical term, get busy. I can't imagine why they would be opposed to this approach, but you never know. I am interested in anything, medically validated or wives' tales, that helps us avoid the need for pharmacological or surgical intervention. I chose this practice in the first place for their minimum-intervention philosophy and statistics, but it feels like at the first sign of complication, that gets checked at the door. Imma get it back. (The OB I'm seeing at my 37-week appointment seems like she would be on board with my request, but I'm not 100% sure. The OB I'm seeing at my 38-week appointment with follow-up ultrasound, my favorite OB in the practice, I think would be. She gets my concerns.)
Maybe I'm committed. Or just stubborn. Or should be committed. No matter.
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Stubbornness is a strength, dude. I like your action plan. However this all unfolds, one can never say that you didn't exert your damnedest effort to advocate for yourself and your womb fruit. For reals.
Evening primrose oil is also supposed to be a great source of prostaglandins. If I remember correctly, you can take it orally as soon as now, and then shove it up yo' vag when Giant Baby is term for extra ripenin' effect.
And, well, there is also [cue foreboding music] castor oil. I know several ladies (my sister included) who did this to kick start labor when under an induction deadline, and it worked. One big probable drawback [more foreboding music]: The D. Yeeeah, diarrhea, cha-cha-cha. And I think there has also been some discussion about whether or not this makes the baby pass mec in utero, which, you know, can be a whole 'nother ball of intervention. Just thoughts.
- October 19, 2012 at 9:44 PM
- Lauren said...
Stretch and sweep totally worked for me. I had one at 37 weeks 1 day, when I was already 2cm dilated, and I immediately went into labour (within the hour). The only problem was that I then STAYED in early labour, with bad contractions every 7-10 minutes, for the next 48 hours. Then my midwife came over, found I was now 6cm dilated, but could stretch to 8 with very little effort. She did another stretch and sweep and I immediately went into active labour and had my baby 2.5 hours later, at home, at 37 weeks 3 days.
So, I'm a believer. I hope they'll do them for you.
- October 20, 2012 at 8:21 AM
- Roccie said...
Mine sounds dumb.
Borscht soup.
- October 22, 2012 at 4:12 PM


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Fridays are twilight days for me, a hard week of writing and working on the farm. Saturday, preparing for my writing class. Hopefully, a movie this weekend. Maybe a play, the "Glass Menagerie" at Hubbard Hall. Perhaps on Sunday a trip to the Mansion.If she can receive visitors, I'd like to drive to Indian River Rehab to see Christy on Sunday.
I appreciated this scene yesterday, the best of the farm, the animals grazing already, the grass is still a stubble out there, but turning green. Fate lying down, Red in the distance, keeping an eye on things. I am lucky to be here, a time for quiet, deep breath, reflection.
My weeks are more hectic than they used to be, more driving to Albany, more stuff to get hold of for the Mansion, my idea of family is extending, more people are entering my life. The political turmoil has been good for me in an odd way, I feel more engaged, more focused, clearer about my own values and my own idea of patriotism.
Ever since the November election, I have seen arguments and tension swirling all around me. The President has become an Orwellian figure, on every screen, every day, all day. There is no such thing as normal news any longer this is a mental challenge for everyone, especially those of us with anxiety, depression, anger, or other mental issues.
Whatever one's politics, the idea of this as the primary and continuing reality of the country seems unhealthy to me, it promotes conflict, fear and division. It makes people tense and angry.
My own response to this has been to set out to find ways of doing good – primarily, the Mansion, the Refugees, the Immigrants, the undocumented agricultural workers from Mexico and other countries, who are living in fear.
I believe it is essential for me and for ground and spiritual people to severely curb their time on social media and electronic devices.
I am happy to say I have not engaged in a single political argument, nor do I identify myself with the left and the right, two institutions devoted to not thinking or compromising. I am staying out of that space, yet my blog has raised tens of thousands of dollars to help people. That keeps me grounded and feeling strong. Maria and the animals are a constant source of love and purpose for me, I am grateful for them.
I am committed not to promoting argument or discord, but to doing concrete good for real people.
I accept that people see the world in different ways, including different ways than me.
And I am committed to writing about the people I see to support, and showing their images so that this work is transparent and authentic. From art kids to needy kids to trips to the Great Escape to blankets and fans and pots and pants for immigrants, to help for sick horses to uniforms for the RISSE soccer players, I am happy to have added this new dimension to my work.
The refugee children seem to me a powerful thing for me to embrace and write about. They need a lot of help. I will stay with them.
I will also retain the existing dimension of my writing, my books and blog and photos and posts about life on the farm, life with Maria and the animals here. I
Recently, I have opened up a new channel for people to support my work – one time donations in any amount – and this is giving some people a chance to contribute in small amounts they are comfortable with. I thank you for those and for the voluntary payments, which are supporting my work and the foundation of my blog and photography.
My words and photos, as always remain free, you are welcome to use them in any form you wish. I hope they brighten your days.
I will continue to use the blog in these ways.
My purpose is not to defeat or stymie President Trump, but I will continue to work hard to promote the values that I seem to share with many of my readers. Many of them are supporters of Mr. Trump, they are welcome here. Everyone is welcome here, except people who express themselves in hateful ways, or people who cannot bear to read anything they don't agree with.
Those people will not like it here and will be happier elsewhere, as some have already concluded. On social media, there is no shortage of places for people to hate and argue. This will never be one of them. Thanks so much for sharing this extraordinary journey with me. I am just getting started.


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Not sure what is going on
with me and the blogging thing.
I just know that it's not happening. Is it the start of school and changing my routine? Is it a general dissatisfaction with my life caused by school and work (or lack thereof), is my blogging career (ha!) over? What is going on with me?
Can't say. I do know that this is one of those times in my life when lots of things feel like they are on hold. My job is totally on hold and is stressing me out. We are refinancing our house which is stressful and makes us feel like we're on hold until it's resolved. This whole school year feels on hold to me -- I won't finish my credential until early December and but then the rest of the school year I'll be working part-time and I don't know it just feels wrong somehow. Everyone tells me to enjoy it but . . . to be honest, I'm not enjoying it.
Sigh. I'm just feeling lost and adrift, I guess. Hopefully focus will come soon. Maybe I'll have to force focus and contentment. Yea, that'll work.


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Proud to hear about Haden killin it in yet another week of PV Vball! keepin rockin it out haden!
Hmmm so i don't really have that many hilarious stories from this week (shocking i know) but I have a kinda cool one!
It involve my gurl michele.
We do this thing where we write down on a piece of paper chapters for them to read and questions for them to answer. Then they go through the process- pray, read, write, pray, read, revise, pray. everyone calls it a "homework assignment". Except i think that's stupid so I call it "questions for you to answer".
anyway, so we gave michele one of those to do. Had her read Mosiah 2 and answer some questions. We gave it to her like a week and a half ago so i was losing hope in her doing it. But we went over on wednesday i think and lo and behold-
and her eyes. her eyyyyes. You could see a change.
she was like "at first i didn't understand it. but then i prayed and read again, and i understood!"
Music to my ears.
ohhhh my gosh. bein on a mish, you just live for those moments.
I think giving out these assignments is really cool because instead of asking the investigator to "read and pray" we give them a specific thing for them to do, and if they realllllly do it, guaranteed to feel the spirit.
anyway, i about died when she said she did it. I'd never really experienced someone keeping a commitment before (poor me) ha but it really was just awesome. Something i'll never forget.
So sad day sister newell is leaving for nauvoo on April 10th and that's in like the middle of a transfer so most likely I'll be getting a new companion tomorrow. ew.
mission people are so weird and they say i'm getting a "step mom" cause your trainer is considered "your mom".
so stupid.
but anyway, i'm getting a new trainer tomorrow most likely so it'll be me, sister newell, and some crazy lady. Weird we'll be in a trio for like 2 weeks! We'll see how it goes.....
DAD please don't die in mexico by the way. Try to stay safe. I'll pray for you.
hmmmm i don't know what else to tell ya we have a few new investigators here and there but no one too golden yet. But maybe over time they'll become golden.
I'm starting to feel a lot more comfortable in the ward here, and it's starting to get a lot more fun! I really like this ward, the people are so nice and I just am so happy i'm out of the miserable stage of not knowing anything or anyone, and slowly but surely Manchester is starting to feel a little more like home (kinda) (not home home. Temporary home.).
Wellllll people try and keep it real this comin week! I'll work hard here in virginia and start this freaking town ablaze with member present lessons so yeah. (long story. our ZONE had 3 member presents last week. sister newell and i plan to double that ourselves. just wait. you'll see.)
love you lots and lots!
oh and shocking news about mason, mom. That kid has gotta slow down. I can't keep up with him. Also i was thinking and around august is when mason needs to have at least met his future wife so then they can have a year to date, get engaged and plan the wedding and then i'll come home and he can get married. it's full proof.
mom thanks for taking care of all that stuff for me, you da best. dad, just keep swimming (and running and biking).
tell cole i got his letter and it was great. I'm so proud of him and his grades. no F's. What a scholar.
And mom i also got your letter. i'll write ya back.
Also mom i'm pretty sure it's your birthday either sunday or monday of next week (i can never remember if it's the 30th of 31st) REGARDLESS, LIVE IT UP YA FREAKIN 49 YEAR OLD you don't look a day over 20.
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Since the last time I posted here a lot of things have changed. We moved into a small duplex, my husband and I are both working on our doctoral degrees, we have another truck, and my hubby got a job. The house will be gone by December of this year, and through all the heart ache and changes, one thing we have had to do is stand.
What does this mean, to "take your stand"?
Taking it from a dictionary the word "stand" means the following:
a : to support oneself on the feet in an erect position
b: to take up or maintain a specified position or posture
c : to occupy a place or location
d : to gather slowly and remain
e : to remain valid or efficacious the order given last week still stands
f : to endure or undergo successfully
The phrase "Stand Your Ground" is a battle metaphor. To stand and fight to defend the ground on which you stood rather than to run and give up ground to the enemy as he approached was to do the brave or honorable thing, and sometimes it was the difference between a military defeat and a military victory.
There are many opportunities in life every day that we can either choose to run away from responsibility or embrace it. Both of those decisions have consequences that will continue to reproduce themselves in the future. An example of this can be the opportunity to brush your teeth everyday, twice a day. Doing so will give you long-lasting healthy, white teeth. Failure to brush your teeth will cause infection, discoloration, and loss of teeth at an early age. Running away from responsibility brings about hardship for future generations as well. Your children will feel the consequences of your choice to ignore responsibility, either by emotional pain, or following in the same decision patterns.
Standing your ground means that you do not even have the choice to give up, back down, or run away, those things do not exist to you. What does exist is your faithfulness to stay in your position, place, and property until the next thing happens. Standing and staying responsible for the daily things in life entitle God to give us more to be responsible for. Our willingness to be mature and choose resilience over running opens the door for further advancement and responsibility in the kingdom.
Through out my work in counseling clients I hear more often than not, "But it would just be easier to give up and stay the way I am than to change." Although this may be true, it leads to a path of destruction, laziness and abuse of boundaries. I always respond with, "Then you don't need to be here with me because you are wasting my time and your money. Your proof is in your pursuit, if you really want to change you will put something into it." This usually works and change happens as the client invests and takes a stand against their past patterns of________(you fill in the blank).
Below are a list of scriptures that have been my encouragement the past few months and what God has shown me.
Exodus 33:21Then the LORD said, "There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock.
When there were times I wanted to give up and not do anything because the path I was walking led to heartache and anger, God shared with me that I can choose to stand on Christ, of whom is my rock, my firm foundation. I turned my feelings over the Him and felt the load leave.
Deuteronomy 11:25No man will be able to stand against you. The LORD your God, as he promised you, will put the terror and fear of you on the whole land, wherever you go.
As calls poured in for people wanting money I didn't have, God showed up that He is for me, and NOONE is against me. He has turned my mourning into dancing.
Joshua 7:10The LORD said to Joshua, "Stand up! What are you doing down on your face?
How easy is it to sit down for a moment only to realize that it turned into a pity party? I found myself saying," No one understands what I am going through, I am all alone in this, What good is it going to do just to get up and pray again?" It is in these moments when the enemy wants to make the situation all about you and make you forget about what God has done, is doing, and is going to do to help you along the way. In this aspect God was telling Joshua, Get off your butt, stop being distracted and see, hear and know what I have for you!
2 Samuel 22:34He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he enables me to stand on the heights.
There will be times when the only way to go is up, and it is in those times we see Who it is that is holding us up away from the turmoil of life.
Samuel 23:12 But Shammah took his stand in the middle of the field. He defended it and struck the Philistines down, and the LORD brought about a great victory.
This is a great example of standing ground and keeping the enemy off your land! He is under your foot, and he is just a mouse with a microphone wanting to tell you to run away, yet we have already won so keep standing and staying in the position of victory!
Psalm 20:8They are brought to their knees and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.
This reminds me of a teeter-totter in that when God defeats the enemy He raises us up and we stand firm in our victory.
Psalm 26:12My feet stand on level ground; in the great assembly I will praise the LORD.
It seems that standing may be a boring thing to do, yet in reality there more action to it than you think!! Standing your ground also involves a lot of moving around, being aware of your surroundings, listening for a call of battle or change, and even more so praising the Lord for the battle has already been won. If you stay distracted while standing you will miss your call of change. Remain focused, alert and in position for whatever may come next!
Psalm 33:11But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.
Oh how sweet this is, that even when my plans and choices have failed, His steadfast plans for my life stand firm and true.
1 Corinthians 15:58Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
As stewards of God's Kingdom we are given the authority to remain in His Grace and Favor over our lives. Making decisions out of Godly Wisdom and not out of our emotions shows God our rate of maturity and willingness to obey. God created us with emotions, but our His spirit to guide us with His wisdom, not our own swaying feelings and thoughts.
Ephesians 6:13Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
There will seasons of life where you have done all you can, thought all you can, cried all you can, ran all you can, prayed all you can, asked all you can, knocked all you can, paid all you can, saved all you can, pushed all you can and after you have put on God's armor, you STAND. Standing in God's favor, promise and letting Him show you when its time to walk forward!!! And yes...it is possible to stand and walk at the same time..thats another blog post. Until then....STAND YOUR GROUND!!!!
Jessica Smith