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We did our homeschooling with lots of fun, hands-on activities, and often were able to just use things that we already had around the house. Today, I am sharing about what we did for early math.
When you little, everything is math!
Toys can be counted, towels sorted and put into sets. Cookie making became a lesson in adding and subtracting, and beads got sorted into patterns as well, as making necklaces. Also, buttons, shells, rocks, sorted by shape, color, size, what have you. Even laundry could be sorted into sets. All of this is good early math learning!
Our little ones learn best through play. Basic math concepts, such as counting, sorting, bigger/smaller, same/different, adding, subtracting, etc can all be learned through play with manipulatives.
Making a Manipulatives Kit
Making a kit can be frugal and simple. We just collected small items from around the house, or from our beach collections of rocks, etc.
Manipulatives can really be any small object that you have around your house. Buttons, shells, rocks, etc, can be sorted by shape, color, or size, and grouped into sets. This teaches early math concepts, as they are play! Even laundry could be sorted into sets, or by size, small, medium and large, such as with towels.
We put our manipulatives into a shoe box, decorated it for fun, and got it out only for math play time. That made these little toys and objects special to her.
Some of the things that we included were:
1. Rocks collected from the beach
2. Legos, or other small toys, to sort into sets, by color, size, or shape.
3. Our collection of old buttons
4. Pine cones
I have more about manipulatives kits here. You can teach all of the early math concepts through manipulative play! Here's more on that...
Early Math Concepts
Using small objects. Ask your child: How many is four? How many is six? What if you take one away? Add two? Ask lots of questions for number concepts to develop. Later, your child can practice this in Numbers and Patterns-K.
2. Sets:
Math is all about sets. Children making their own sets will provide true learning! They can enjoy sorting their toys into sets. Sorting buttons by shape, then by size, etc. There are sorting activities everywhere! My daughter enjoyed sorting laundry into sets by grouping the like sized towels/washcloths, etc. Buttons can be sorted by size, color, or shape into sets, etc.
3. Addition and Subtraction:
Cookies are the best for this! Or give your child a cookie sheet to work on with a limited number of toys. Ask your child to add the trucks to the cars or other simple problems.
4. Mathematical Patterns:
As you know, math is made up of patterns. Crayons can be used to sort into patterns, such a finding all the orange and blue crayons and lining them up for a two part pattern (e.g., orange/blue, orange/blue,etc.) Making a bead necklace is fun too. Use a two part pattern, or a three part pattern.
As your young child gets better, add in a fourth part (e.g., one more color, blue/red/yellow/purple, repeat, etc.) Coloring patterns can be fun too. There are some patterns to color in Numbers and Patterns –K.
As your young child gets better, add in a fourth part (e.g., one more color, blue/red/yellow/purple, repeat, etc.) Coloring patterns can be fun too. There are some patterns to color in Numbers and Patterns –K.
5. Equivalents:
Making equivalents is fun! Rods can be used for this but you can make your own out of construction paper. First, cut out a strip of paper that is 10 inches long, say in blue. Then cut out cubes that are 1 inch in size, in yellow. Ask your child how many yellows equals a blue? He/she will find that 10 yellow cubes equals one blue (10 inch strip). And they will be doing equivalents!!Your child can discover these herself! Everything that your child discovers for herself will stick and prepare her for more advanced math later!
Early Math Resources
When we needed more ideas for our math play, we turned to some workbooks by Evan-Moor or Teacher Created Materials. Both are frugal and done by well respected publishers. Here are some of our favorites:
Lots of great ideas for math play here. Click the title to read my review of this resource.
Shapes and Beginning Fractions
The book above gave us more ideas for our math play. We usually used our manipulatives along with the book, so that my daughter could do the early math problems hands-on.
We would take one page at a time, encouraging my daughter to solve the problems by using her manipulatives. Handling the manipulatives and working out the early math problems in the book, really makes early math come alive! One evening we even made pizza night into a lesson on fractions!
Who gets to eat the last piece, 1/4th?
Evan-Moor has lots more preschool, kindergarten and early elementary workbooks here.
Has your little one begun to explore early math yet? Whatever way that you decide to introduce math to your little ones, enjoy it. I sure did. My little one is pictured below....
.....who was homeschooled through high school, and who is now a college junior.
What do you like to do for early math play? You do not need to have a complete cuuriculum for that. And I would love to hear about your early math ideas in the comments. This post is part of the iHN Ultimate List for Hands-On Homeschool Ideas.
Thanks for stopping by BJ's Homeschool,
Betsy is mom to her now rising college senior, whom she homeschooled from preK through high school. She blogs at BJ's Homeschool, about the early years, high school & college and wrote - Homeschooling High School with College in Mind. She offers free homeschool help through messages at BJ's Consulting, and has had articles picked up by the Huffington Post.


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I chose the restaurant (Si Tapas) and Trevor chose desert (La Duni). It was a perfect evening. Good food. Good wine. Chocolate. The hubster. What more could a girl ask for?
Not this:
Trevor: "Oh, good! There is a lightening delay. If we hurry, I might not miss any of the Broncos/Ravens game!"
This is the second year in a row that the NFL has opened their season on my wedding anniversary. I'm not even sure how that is possible. It is like Roger Goodell is screwing with me. Maybe once every five or six years, but this has now happened twice in my four years of marriage. Which, granted, isn't all that long. But it is long enough for it to be the second anniversary since becoming parents (20 months and one day ago) that we have paid our favorite babysitter, who happens to have a four hour minimum, for an hour we didn't even use. BECAUSE WE WERE HOME BY 9:30 TO WATCH THE GAME.
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TV: Renewals & Cancellations
So the end of TV season cancellation/renewal news cycle is over, and I would summarize my feelings on it as thus:
Kings - CANCELLED - It was too good to last... I shall miss you, close ups of Ian McShane's incredibly expressive face!
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - CANCELLED - Boo! It was actually starting to get good! We'll never find out if John Connor will find closure on his hot unrequited robot love. And I will miss Sarah's brooding.
Pushing Daisies - CANCELLED - I only watched two episodes of this cloyingly "adorable", disgustingly precious show, not to mention the badly written voiceover narrative, and I'm so sick of hearing people gush about it, good riddance!
Dollhouse - RENEWED - I'm happy. This show is no Firefly, and Eliza Dushku is just not rangey enough of an actress to pull off the role, but it has enough interesting elements to keep me watching. Especially shirtless Tahmoh Penikett- more please!
Chuck - RENEWED - Yay! My favorite fun show! This show has the most likeable & talented cast, and it's always been a delightful mix of pop culture hipness with a throwback to the classics vibe. (Totally random but delightful detail about the shot: Adam Baldwin's hardass NSA agent character keeps a framed picture of Ronald Reagan in his apartment.)
Friday Night Lights - RENEWED - Oh thank fucking christ! The end of season saw Coach get an outsized comeuppance for the one time he lied to his wife. I can't wait to see hot it all rolls out!


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The team at Disney Research is up to its fun old tricks, this time finding some new uses for off-the-shelf RFID tags. Along with researchers from Carnegie Mellon, Disney's laboratory wing has discovered a low-latency way to process RFID signals, making it possible to use the tags to turn cheap objects into simple wireless interactive controls that don't require battery power. The RapID (pronounced "rapid") system could lead to all manner of inexpensively produced interactive toys. Such functionality could also be incorporated into smart books with relatively little expense.


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My pizza is tomato sauce, tomatoes, shallots, red peppers and yellow peppers. Accompanied by yellow pepper, shallot and onion kebabs. (on an adorable Mickey Mouse pizza plate)
Stephen piled on cheese and tomato sauce for his.
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No, you do not agree with this and that is why you are reading this stuff.We believe that any one can achieve his/her dreams and targets by following the correct strategy. I remember an interesting line I came across which said that 'Brain is a trial and success phenomenon'. Indeed, it is.
Maximizing the Potentials:When you talk about maximizing the potentials it means that you want to make full use of capabilities. We, human beings, think about past, review our present and try to foresee our future; but we waste a lot of time doing so. Maximizing the potentials does not mean that one keeps on thinking for hours rather it is as simple as THINKING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
Let us start with the very basic steps that will help you get the most of your brain.
1- Watch Your Thoughts
2- Positive Mental Attitude
3- Train your mind
Pacify your Mind:
Watch Your Mind:
to incorporate exercise in daily routines. When you can maintain your body to remain fit and healthy, why not bother about the mind which has to control all your body mechanisms. However, some religious rituals also offer peace of mind and helps soothing it. You can search for the available options and can opt the one that suits you the best. Whatever option you take; it will help you bring your mind in a controlled state. You will be in a position where you will observe your thoughts and look at them coming one after the other. Just like, while sitting at the coffee shop by the road side you see many people going from one direction to other and you keep on watching them silently. If you continue pacifying your mind, you will soon be able to watch your mind. While doing so, you will realize that there are numerous thoughts broadly classifying into useful and
useless thoughts. It is just like data in the raw form that should be processed to extract useful information. Similarly, you have some thoughts which are meant to utilize once and then throw away. Okay, let me explain. Remind yourself of any unpleasant event that occurred in your past. For example, I have faced circumstances in which my academia got badly affected because I was going through emotional dilemma. I realized that I need to be emotionally healthy and intelligent at the expense of my result. There is no use of
remembering that result or those emotions, anymore, as they have nothing to do with the present. I was unaware that I can be emotionally healthy and a stronger person than I was at that time so nature showed me where I lacked. Echoing in my mind, 'Anything that does not kill you makes you strong'. Life shows us such situations so that we can learn and move ahead. Are you following me?
Train Your Mind:
-To observe things accurately at a glance
-Sharpen memory
-Improved focus on a single task
-Managing multiple tasks successfully
-Gather the data and link up the facts effectively
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-Deal with the problems in a cool-headed manner
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-Improve emotional intelligence
-Stay in the positive frame of mind even at the disastrous scenarios
Once you have set your goals, it means that you have found the direction for your thoughts.Of course, we can not cover this entire topic here as it is beyond the scope but you can proceed further on your own. I repeat, you CAN proceed further and seek more knowledge on this subject.
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Posted by Bel. The time is 7.53pm here in Wellington, NZ.
But I'll tell ya what, Flannery O'Connor's writing will hold your attention and keep you from even thinking of falling asleep. And quite possibly, the darkly drawn characters of her 'Southern Gothic' tales will give you nightmares.
I was so enraptured by the title story of A Good Man Is Hard To Find, that I did that real annoying thing of re-telling it to the next person I came across, trying to quote her chilling sentences word for word, bungling it horribly and no doubt putting the innocent soul off books in general for life.
Not that her stories in the conventional spooky way. The various characters of A Good Man Is Hard To Find are gut-wrenchingly human and their hopes and flaws are what loads each story with an ominous sense of foreboding. Double-crossing is rife, an almost inevitable conclusion. Although the stories seem to be set in the immediately post-WWII era, there is a quality to them which is so reminiscent of the Coen Brothers' films that it is boldly contemporary.
A note on the title: I had the complete wrong idea about what this book was going to be like. I have an immediate connotation of some kind 80s era poster of a topless Fabio with the twisted slogan 'A Hard Man Is Good To Find' emblazoned across. And so I assumed that this book was some kind of romance trollop too. Read the first story of the book to see how the line is actually used and you'll see just how wrong my interpretation was.
A Good Man Is Hard To Find (and Other Stories) by Flannery O'Connor. Highly recommended.
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Last week, I had an amazing time hanging out with Jessica Sands Photography. We did something I don't always remember to do on my own; fun shooting. It really is creatively refreshing to GOYA and shoot for the love of it.
TUBING!!! {This is still something I have yet to try since moving up here! So on my to-do list!}
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Looooooooove this one of Jessica!
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8 Jul 2011
Seeing the real McCoy... er, McDino
In fact, I love that so much that I've written two books on the subject: Super Crocs and Monster Wings, and Spiked Scorpions and Walking Whales.
So, imagine my delight at visiting the T. rex Discovery Centre in Eastend, a small town in southwestern Saskatchewan.
Although it was named for Scotty, the Tyrannosaurus rex found nearby, the Discovery Centre is a treasure trove of an amazing range of fossils from the area, from giant sea creatures that swam in the great inland sea that once covered most of the Great Plains to the strange-looking mammals that evolved to fill niches left by the disappearance of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Still, Scotty the T. rex is pretty cool. With more than 65 percent of her skeleton complete, she (probably she) is the most complete T. rex found in Canada so far. Scotty was discovered 20 years ago near Eastend. All her fossil bits are in the Royal Saskatchewan Museum's fossil research lab, which is housed in the Discovery Centre. There's something rather amazing about peering through a huge glass window to see a complete set of fossilized dinosaur vertebrae laid out in order on four large shelves. Not replicas. The real thing!
Coincidentally, in the year that Scotty was discovered, 1991, other scientists discovered the impact site of a huge meteor that struck Earth 65 million years ago and hastened the extinction of the dinosaurs, as well as plenty of other animals. In fact, 75 percent of the species on earth became extinct after that impact.
The meteor left its mark around the world, in a layer of light-coloured clay and ash, often rich in the element iridium, which is more common in meteors than in Earth's crust. It's called the K-T Boundary because it marks the end of the geological time called the Cretaceous Period (it starts with a K in German) and the beginning of the Tertiary Period.
And there it was, too! Not just a diagram of rock layers or a photograph, but a chunk of rock from the Frenchman River Valley with the actual K-T Boundary layer running through it. Below that pale line was rock a dinosaur might have stepped on. Above it was rock that might once have carried the footprint of a mammal exploring its new, dinosaur-free world.
When you spend a lot of time reading about the ancient past, looking at pictures or replicas of fossils, and even writing about it, seeing the real thing right in front of you is a thrill.
Can you tell?
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5 comments:
- Ishta Mercurio said...
I love that section of rock - not only can you see the lighter layer running through it, but there is also a subtle difference in the layers above and below it. So amazing!
On a side note, I love the photo of the Discovery Centre: such a lovely building, and so nice the way it is integrated into the surrounding landscape. Thanks for sharing this!
- 8 July 2011 at 23:37
- Claire Eamer said...
Hi Ishta,
Seeing that bit of the K-T layer was really special, after having read so much about it. And I agree about the building - very nice design. I think the Centre is going to get better and better. Thanks for dropping by here.
- 10 July 2011 at 00:38
- Paula said...
Wow! That's another museum I absolutely have to visit. Thanks, Claire!
Museum fans who like this place will also like the museums at the Royal Tyrrell museum in Drumheller, and the museum at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump.
- 16 July 2011 at 15:17
- It's a little skewed, that's for sure. said...
I'll be posting here about both Claire's and my recent visit to Drumheller in a few weeks. Claire and I will have to compare notes so we don't supply too similar posts!
- 26 July 2011 at 17:00
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Glad to hear you loved the T-Rex Centre. I am assured by all the Paleontologists there that the hills are FULL of fossils for the aimless hiker! If you want to see more about what the Cypress Hills has to offer feel free to watch this short video on just a few of the things (including the T-Rex Centre) that can be found in the Hills: http://youtu.be/-3PKIJM8cVE
Oh, and if you perchance are back our way again - make sure to take in the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada's Summer Star Party in the Dark Sky Preserve that is the Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park!
Gail Kesslar
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Benzema receives backing from French court over sex-tape scandal
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Support from France's highest judicial court – the Court of Cassation – could see Karim Benzema absolved from claims that he aided an attempted blackmail of former international teammate Mathieu Valbuena.
Benzema, 29, was accused of acting as an intermediary for blackmailers who obtained a sex tape featuring Valbuena. Benzema's appeal to have the case dropped was rejected by the Appeal Court last December, but Tuesday's backing from another court gives the Real Madrid striker hope of ending a scandal which began when he was arrested in November 2015.
"It's definitely a big victory," lawyer Patrice Spinosi told France Info, according to BBC News, declaring it a turning point in the investigation.
The prestigious Court of Cassation's decision will force Benzema's plea to be heard again by the Court of Appeal's examining chamber, and BBC News understands it will have no choice but to throw out the case. Still, this eventuality could be months away.
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When blackmailers contacted Valbuena to inform him that they'd got hold of a sex tape, he was asked to appoint a middle-man to negotiate the video not being made public. A police officer, given the false name Lukas, was drafted in as the go-between by Valbuena.
A childhood friend of Benzema's was asked for help by the blackmailers to strike a deal with Valbuena, and it was then that Benzema allegedly urged Valbuena to pay up while both were with the French national team in October 2015.
Benzema's lawyer Spinosi alleges that the police officer worked hard in trying to find an agreement between the blackmailers and Valbuena, and that no criminal proceedings would've occurred without his dishonesty.
Since Benzema was taken in for questioning over 20 months ago, neither he or Valbuena have represented their country. Benzema is still on the books of Real Madrid, while the alleged 32-year-old victim switched Lyon for Fenerbahce of the Turkish Super Lig in June.


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It is a plangent call in the present circumstances; a cri de coeur to stanch the haemorrhage of public trust in the institutions of state. The Executive is harried and beleaguered; the Legislature a moshpit of implacable enmities; the Judiciary disdained and mistrusted. The genie of public opprobrium is out of the bottle, and there's no stuffing it back in.
Ampun Tuanku the book, lapidarily limned?
Speaking of which...
There was another story about how a New York Times reviewer (not that one) "killed" Patrick Somerville's novel, This Bright River. Incidentally, the same reviewer was kinder to his first novel, The Cradle. It seems she got a couple of characters mixed up and ended up revealing a possible spoiler, i.e. the identity of the unnamed narrator.
NYT has issued a corrected version of the review, but what's interesting about this saga was the e-mail exchanges between a NYT editor and one of Somerville's fictional characters which led to the correction.
At least said character was a person. Imagine if it were a ghost, or an animal... not that it matters.
In other news:
- Ooh, will an e-book market in Japan be kindled? And if t will, who will win it - B&N's こぼ or Amazon's きんでる? Well, I'd like to think it's natural for something called Kobo (こぼ) to enter the land of the cellphone novel.
- A 9-year legal battle over scathing restaurant review leaves a bitter taste for Aussie food writers. Unfortunately, it looks like the reviewer's fault. But if everybody said only nice things about good restaurants and kept their mouths shut over bad ones, will the pool of writing be as lively and colourful?
- How an abandoned Wal-Mart became a library. Better than most abandoned buildings that get turned into parking lots.
- Guidebook for Japanese tourists visiting Scotland advises, among other things, "don't call the Scots English."
- Calabash, a Jamaican lit fest. Sounds cooler than Ubud....
- I CAN HAZ E-BUK? YES U CAN. Katz Tales and Boris out in e-book format.
- Textbook crisis in Ghana, thanks to cheap imports and dodgy regulations.
- The difference between rights and copyright.
- Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code is Oxfam's most-donated book for four consecutive years. Not sure if that's a good thing.
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One of my favorite things about summer is corn on the cob. I've always cooked it in boiling water on the stove, but over the past couple of years I kept reading about grilling corn. I decided to give it a try for myself.
The Internet (where all information is True) differed on whether corn should be presoaked or dry; husks/silks removed in part, in whole or not at all; kernels brushed with oil, butter or not at all. Cooking time (15-20 minutes) and medium-high heat, though, seemed to be about the same among all my sources.
With 6 ears of corn to play with, I decided to soak 3 ears (for 15 minutes completely submerged) and leave 3 ears dry. I pulled off the husks and silks from the very top of the ear (see pics for what I mean) and also removed any loose husks. In my head, this reduced the chance of the silk or husks catching on fire.
I ended up with a cooking time of 20 minutes going for an overall charred look to the corn (I could have been okay with 15, I think) and made sure to turn the corn every 5 minutes or so.
The verdict? Not bad. A little overcooked maybe, but still tasty. The husks and silk came off easily – no need for a corn brush – which may make this my go-to method of cooking corn. Absolutely no silk was stuck to the kernels among the dry ears. That was the only soak vs nonsoak difference so I'll be skipping the soaking step from here on out.
A couple of caveats for people wanting to grill their own corn dinners.
Caveat 1 – The ears are hot, freakishly hot beneath their outer layers of husks. You don't realize how hot they are until you start peeling the husk and are committed to holding a steaming hot ear of corn in one bare hand.
Caveat 2 – Many Internet recipes said go by the look of the husks, their overall charred appearance, to determine doneness. I waited the extra 5 minutes so the husks darkened more and wish I hadn't. Maybe I should have closed the grill from the beginning instead of for the last 10 minutes.
Bonus caveat – the finished corn had an odd odor while in the husks, somewhat of a cross between popcorn (yum) and composting garden waste (not so yum). But the smell didn't transfer to the kernels and once the ears were husked, it was gone.


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Being in the midst of moving I will not commit to blogging everyday but I do commit to taking a few quiet moments to reflect on the simple joys in my life each and every day this month. I will try to share them here and there with you :)Today while waiting in the car to pick up Abbie from school, I was looking at all the houses decked out in their Christmas finery and caught myself feeling a little sad that our home is not decorated with Christmas fun but with cardboard boxes. Then I flipped on the radio and the sweet sound of Christmas music greeted me. Wow - a total turn around! I love Christmas music. The music fills me with JOY!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Choose Joy - Music
Sherry put up a great December challenge - to choose JOY! From her blog challenge post: "Look for JOY each day and blog about it. It might be something as big as attending a wedding or as small as how cozy your slippers feel...it's up to you. CHOOSE to find joy.each.day." What a great idea!
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Fasting: Why and How
I've had a few fasts in my life. Sometimes I fasted from food, other times I fasted from TV or pop or some other thing. Can't say that fasting is a sure thing to spiritual breakthrough, but it positively is a biblical discipline that I would venture to guess is under practiced in the church today. I could, however, be completely wrong about this because fasting is usually an intensely personal practice. The elders at Mars Hill Church in Seattle are planning a day of fasting and they have posted some Scriptures and thoughts on fasting here.
From the above linked blog….
John Calvin said in his fourth Institutes book that fasting has three objectives: "We use it to weaken or subdue the flesh that it may not act wantonly [lacking restraint], that we may be better prepared for prayers and holy meditations and that it may be a testimony of our self-abasement [humiliation] before God when we wish to confess our guilt before him."
It Will Grow Back
I posted about this concept a few weeks ago, but here is the entire article that I wrote published on an awesome online Christian magazine for men, Prodigal Son Magazine.
Your Hair Will Grow Back
Tonight while I was telling the kids the story of Samson before bed my mind came to rest on this verse, "22 But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved." I didn't know exactly what the verse said but the thought occurred to me that there must have been some amount of time that passed between when Samson was captured by the Philistines and when he gave his live to destroy the house he was shackled in.
I wondered what that time was like. We read in Judges 16 that when Samson was captured his eyes were gouged out leaving him blind. We also read that the Philistines would have Samson brought before them for some kind of entertainment. It must have been a humiliating time for the once proud man. Not being able to see and not being able to defend himself against such embarrassment could have driven Samson mad. He could have denied God and cursed God for laving him in such a state. But I don't think he did.
The verse above tells the tale. Over time, what must have seemed like an eternity for the warrior turned blind court jester, Samson's hair grew. But not only his hair was restored. It is possible that his heart for his God was restored as well.
The chances are good that you have done something to dishonor God. The Bible says that everyone has turned from God and gone his own way at some point. Sometimes the choices we make has very serious consequences that leave us feeling blind, or humiliated, or shackled. Just like Samson. The good news is that because of Jesus death on the cross our hair will grow back. And we can be used by God again.
Reading as the Sun Comes Up
It is 6:30 AM and I rolled into the local coffee shop to do some work. The only other person in here is a lady sitting in the corner reading her bible.
–Crazy, I know her and she just stopped to say hello–
Does anybody else in the world get up so early to sit and read? Kind of a weird Christian practice, but one that is foundational to me experiencing growth and strength in my walk with God.


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you are very lucky to have such a wonderful set of king penguins! the woodland birds looks particularly stunning. I thought the same thing about the future of books becoming more about being beautiful objects, but these things always come back to money and it would be a shame if books became only luxury items purchased by wealthy collectors. Although this is a fact of life many artisans & artists have lived with for generations. Love the Morris quote.March 10, 2013
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What gorgeous books and everything else You are right, taking the time to really see things brings so much visual pleasure – even with fading eyesight!March 10, 2013
What a treat! So many beauties. Sometimes it seems the best things are made of wood. I saw your oak basket (without my glasses) and thought it was a coracle, which is strange because there's one on my blog tomorrow. I once made some branchwood picture frames in the spirit of David Nash but they always looked better than what they framed. And I'm so glad you were inspired to visit the William Morris Gallery. There was a time not too long ago when it was threatened with closure but they've done a great job bringing it back to life. Thanks for mentioning my post but you need to fix the link! Also thanks for those highly covetable King Penguin books and the ponies, not wooden but beautiful.March 10, 2013
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Ah, beautiful things, indeed.
The basket reminds me of baskets that were made here long ago. It would be like hitting the lottery to find one now.
We do have local artisans continuing the art of making sweet grass baskets. I wish I had bought some years ago; they are very expensive now.
The yurt frame would make a wonderful gazebo or arbor. It is a bit of a shame to cover it up with canvas.
There really is something about carved wood that does make you want to touch it. You are so lucky to have that stair rail to run your hands on daily.
I'm a sucker for books and those are illustrations are exquisite. You just can't get the same effect from an ebook as you do from real books. There is just something about holding one in your hands. I even like the smell of books, both old and new.March 10, 2013
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How come that post didn't include my name? I remember seeing it. Weird.March 10, 2013
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I have a King Penguin book on moss. The illustrations are beautiful and they remind me to stop in damp woodlands and get nose to nose with these intricate, otherworldly beings.March 11, 2013


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Grandes tandems tras la cámara
Me traigo este post copiado tal cual porque, aunque conozco las limitaciones de que esté en inglés, viene con vídeos empotrados y, teniendo en cuenta que es acerca de las grandes parejas entre directores y directores de fotografía, es un lujo tanta reunión de grandes imágenes. Entre otros está Robert Richardson con Oliver Stone y sus míticos planos-secuencia de JFK, David Lean con Freddie Young en todas sus obras magnas y la famosa secuencia de Aqaba de Lawrence de Arabia (rodada en una rambla de Almería, para más datos), Nykvist con Bergman, Kaminsky con Spielberg y sus bélicas, Storaro todo él, Ballhaus y Chapman con Scorsese (el mítico comienzo de Toro salvaje es el clip que lo acompaña), Alcott y sus lentes de la NASA junto a Kubrick, Libatique y Aronofsky, Coutard con la 'Nouvelle Vague' (cómo no, es el baile de Anna Karina en Vivir su vida el ejemplo) o Wong Kar-wai con Chris Doyle... y esas cosas que hacen juntos :P . Se podría citar a todos pero, vamos, aquí están gentileza de Daily Film Dose:
There's a great tradition of directors' frequent collaborations with their trusted cinematographers. I've sampled some of the best long term collaborations which involved at least three films made together. I've chosen each of these for their artistic and cinematic contribution the world of cinema. So I'm not judging these on the length of collaboration but the quality. Please read, and as always send through your comments. Enjoy.
Robert Richardson-Oliver Stone
The Stone-Richardson relationship goes back to Stone's second film "Salvador". Richardson collaborated on the Oscar-winning "Platoon" and "Wall Street". But it wasn't until "Talk Radio" that Richardson's style was born. Under the guidance of Stone Richardson developed a hazy-hard lit style, where he frequently used hard light above actors, which blew out parts of the frame. Stone and Richardson would use this technique with virtually all of their films from "Talk Radio" to "U-Turn". With "The Doors" or "Natural Born Killers" for example this technique complimented the drug-hazed hallucinatory theme of the films. Maybe there was a falling out between the two because Stone and Richardson haven't worked together since U-Turn. And I don't think it's a coincidence that Stone's work has been going down hill ever since.
U Turn (1997)
Nixon (1995)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Heaven & Earth (1993)
The Doors (1991)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Talk Radio (1988)
Wall Street (1987)
Platoon (1986)
Salvador (1986)
Freddie Young – David Lean
After filming "Bridge on the River Kwai" with John Hildyard Lean hired veteran Freddie Young to lens his next series of epics. "Lawrence of Arabia" was their first film together. The film won Freddie his first Oscar and the film would go on to become one of the most beloved films of all time. Young and Lean managed to use the wide and desolate desert landscape to their advantage. Shooting in 70mm, they were able to frame a character as a tiny figure against a wide desert background, and still have him big enough on screen for the audience to see. The famous introduction of Omar Sharif into the film is a classic but even more impressive is the raid on Aqaba. As hundreds of camels raid the city, we see the action from a magnificent long pan from above. Young and Lean would get grander and grander with their next two films – "Doctor Zhivago" and "Ryan's Daughter" both of which net Young two more Oscars as well. Lean would take a long hiatus after "Ryan's Daughter", and so their working relationship ended there.
Ryan's Daughter (1970)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Here's the Aqaba sequence:
Christopher Doyle – Wong Kar Wai
Christopher Doyle is an Aussie who left the country at 18 to travel and immerse himself in all cultures of the world. He landed in China and learned Mandarin and Cantonese. After making "Days of Being Wild", Wai's second film, this was clearly the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Doyle and Wai soon developed a unique style of art-street films that would influence many of the cool-slick looks of today. Doyle and Wai would shoot in small cramped apartments, lit with Hong Kong-famous fluorescent and neon lights. Fluorescent light creates a different look on film, and when not colour corrected creates a green-tinted hue. This style has been copped by virtually every 'slick' film made since.
2046 (2004)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Happy Together (1997)
Fallen Angels (1995)
Ashes of Time (1994)
Chungking Express (1994)
Days of Being Wild (1991)
Beautiful movement and colours from "Fallen Angels":
Janusz Kaminsky – Steven Spielberg
Prior to the 90's Steven Spielberg had used several DOPs to lens his films – Vilmos Zsigmond, Bill Butler, and William Fraker. Allen Daviau, who made six films with Spielberg, was his preferred collaborator for a long time. But after working with Polish DOP Janusz Kaminsky on "Schindler's List" in 1993 they've been soul mates ever since. They've gone on to develop their own style together, specifically the use of the bleech bypass lab technique, handheld camera, and the 45 degree shutter. These techniques were essentially born into mainstream consciousness with "Saving Private Ryan". Today these tools are readily used by filmmakers to create the effect of "gritty", and "tough". It's also become the mandatory look of war films today.
Munich (2005)
War of the Worlds (2005)
The Terminal (2004)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Minority Report (2002)
AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Amistad (1997)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Schindler's List (1993)
Gritty battle from SPR:
Vittorio Storaro – Bernardo Bertolucci/Warren Beatty/Coppola
Storaro is arguably the master of colour. He first worked with Bertolucci on the classic "The Conformist". Storaro loves to use blue, red and yellow to help express mood and emotion from the characters and scenes. The most startling evidence is Bertolucci's "The Last Emperor" in which entire sections of the film had themed colours corresponding to the stages of life of Emperor Pu Yi. Warren Beatty became a frequent collaborator after "Reds", which won both Storaro and Beatty Oscars. Watch "Dick Tracy" though and you'll see the most extreme example of Storaro's use of colour. The entire film is bathed in primary colours. Storaro also shot 3 films with Coppola including "Apocalypse Now", "One From the Heart" and "Tucker, A Man and His Dream".
With Bernardo Bertolucci:
Little Buddha (1993)
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
The Last Emperor (1987)
La Luna (1979)
1900 (1980)
Last Tango in Paris (1973)
Spider's Strategem (1970)
The Conformist (1970)
With Warren Beatty:
Bulworth (1998)
Dick Tracy (1990)
Reds (1981)
With Francis Coppola:
Tucker: A Man and his Dream (1988)
One From The Heart (1982)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Watch the colours in "Bulworth":
Roger Deakins – Joel & Ethan Coen
The Coen Bros first established a relationship with DOP Barry Sonenfeld who shot their first three films. Once directorial offers came to Barry, the Coens had to find another person to take his place. Roger Deakins stepped up to the plate for 1991's "Barton Fink" and the rest is history. Roger Deakins is now a revered master who gets calls from Ron Howard, Sam Mendes and Norman Jewison. One of the most significant contributions of their collaboration is the use of DI (digital intermediate) instead of the traditional process of negative cutting. "O Brother Where Art Thou" was one of the first high profile films to use DI and its colour correction tools to manipulate the image in ways never before imagined. Deakins was able to turn "O Brother" from the traditionally unfiltered shot film into the dustbowl-era sepia toned look entirely in post-production. He did the same by turning colour film into beautiful B&W in "The Man Who Wasn't There".
No Country For Old Men (2007)
The Ladykillers (2004)
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Fargo (1996)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Barton Fink (1991)
This is some colour manipulation "O Brother Where Art Thou?"
Robby Muller/Anthony Dot Mantle – Lars Von Trier
I've included these two cinematographers who work separately but are both responsible for Lars Von Trier's most influential works. The Dogme '95 films have had such a profound effect on filmmaking and much of it owed to these two great cinematographers. Robby Muller was already a successful collaborator (ie. Jim Jarmusch's films), but his work on "Breaking the Waves" changed filmmaking forever. Under the direction of von Trier Muller broke ground with an up close and personal handheld style audiences had never seen before. Dot Mantle shot the Thomas Vinterberg's landmark Dogme film "The Celebration" in 1998. Mantle would help pioneer other classic video dogma features as Danny Boyle's "28 Days Later", and von Trier's "Dogville".
Robby Muller:
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Breaking the Waves (1995)
Anthony Dot Mantle:
Manderlay (2005)
Dogville (2003)
This is a German dubbed clip from "Breaking the Waves", but who cares:
Gregg Toland – John Ford
Gregg Toland's legacy film is, no doubt, "Citizen Kane". But he only made that one film with Orson Welles. It was his work with John Ford that laid the groundwork for "Kane". Even though Toland was a studio guy who got 'assigned' to films he was able to test his 'deep focus' style in "The Long Voyage Home", and "Grapes of Wrath." It's interesting to note, before Kane was universally accepted as the greatest Hollywood film ever made, routinely "The Grapes of Wrath" was cited as such. Toland also worked a lot with Howard Hawks and William Wyler, but, other than Welles, it's his pioneering work with Ford that he is revered for.
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Some deep focus from "Grapes of Wrath":
Gordon Willis – Woody Allen
Gordon Willis is most famous for shooting "The Godfather Saga." But those are the only films he did with Coppola. Willis isn't just about 'underlighting'. His work in adapting a film's look to the mood and tone of the material is his greatest strength. This is exemplified by his body of work with Woody Allen. His widescreen B&W work on Allen's love poem to New York "Manhattan" complements perfectly the architect and history of the great city. And his work on the mockumentary "Zelig" was a seamless manipulation of stock footage and hand scratched shot footage to create fake but utterly believable newsreels from the 1920's.
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Zelig (1983)
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
Stardust Memories (1980)
Manhattan (1979)
Interiors (1978)
Annie Hall (1977)
A great scene from "Annie Hall":
Sven Nykvist – Ingmar Bergman
Nykvist and Bergman made 15 films together started with "Virgin Spring" in 1960 and ending with "Fanny and Alexander" in 1982. Their work resulted in a naturalistic style using almost exclusively on location sets, natural light, direct and simple shot compositions. Nykvist's soft light style of the 70's gave his films a dreamlike quality to them. This style became the rage in the late 70's when filmmakers frequently used pro-mist filters to recreate the softness and haze of the Bergman/Nykvist films.
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)
Autumn Sonata (1978)
The Serpent's Egg (1977)
The Magic Flute (1975)
Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
Cries and Whispers (1973)
The Touch (1971)
Hour of the Wolf (1968)
Shame (1968)
Persona (1966)
Winter Light (1963)
The Silence (1963)
Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Minor spoilers in this "Cries and Whispers" clip:
Lucien Ballard – Sam Peckinpah
Lucien Ballard's work with Sam Peckinpah deserves to be recognized. Ballard was not a master of light and colour, nor was he a technical genius like, say, Roger Deakins. Ballard lensed Peckinpah's best known films – "Ride the High Country", "The Wild Bunch", and "The Getaway". These films are not pretty to look at but captured the blood and guts dirtiness of Peckinpah's films. The slo-mo blood ballet scenes in "The Wild Bunch" and "The Getaway" were so far ahead of its time in the late 60's, early 70's that, other than "Bonnie and Clyde" no one was doing that style until Ballard and Peckinpah did it. Today their influence is felt all over action films of the 80's through to today – Walter Hill, John Woo, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez all have a piece of Lucien Ballard in them.
The Getaway (1973)
Junior Bonner (1972)
Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Ride the High Country (1963)
Some bloody gun battles in "Wild Bunch":
Kazuo Miyagawa - Kenji Mizoguchi
Miyagawa worked with the four great Japanese directors of the 50's and 60's including, Kurosawa, Ichikawa and Ozu. But he was most frequently associated with Kenji Mizoguchi and lensed such classics as "Sansho the Baliff", "Ugetsu" and "The Crucified Woman". Don't forget that "Rashomon", "Floating Weeds" and the "Zatoichi" films are also on his reel. Amazing.
Street of Shame (1956)
The Taira Clan (1955)
Crucified Lovers (1954)
Sansho the Baliff (1954)
The Crucified Woman (1954)
A Geisha (1953)
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
Miss Oyu (1951)
This is "Ugetsu" (potential spoilers):
Sergei Urusevsky – Mikhael Kalatozov
Anyone who knows me knows I continually praise the underappreciated work of Mikhael Kalatozov. His man behind the camera was the great Sergei Urusevsky. Between the two filmmakers they created a series of films known for their innovative and proficient use of the mobile camera. Urusevsky could move his camera virtually anywhere he wanted. Using starkly contrasting B&W and extremely wide lenses, the world of his films were opened up to see everything in the frame. His extremely long takes of "I am Cuba", "The Cranes Are Flying" and "The Letter That Wasn't Sent" saw the camera move up and down buildings, into swimming pools, across long stretches of road, up staircases etc. He is a master and I can't hype him enough.
I am Cuba (1964)
The Letter That Wasn't Sent (1959)
The Cranes Are Flying (1958)
"I am Cuba":
Michael Chapman/Michael Ballhaus-Martin Scorsese
Marty has had a few great collaborators. The most significant have been Michael Chapman, who shot "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull" and Michael Ballhaus who shot "After Hours", "Goodfellas" and "The Departed" and more. Neither of the Michaels exhibit a trademark style or look. Each of them adapted to the look Marty specifically wanted. "Raging Bull" is the flashiest of these films. It's a technical masterpiece filled with so many memorable shots you can't keep track. Robert Richardson lensed three Scorsese pictures as well and in those films his signature look showed through beyond the Scorsese style. But the greatness of each of Michael's films means as much as any other film listed here.
Michael Ballhaus:
The Departed (2006)
Gangs of New York (2002)
The Age of Innocence (1993)
Goodfellas (1990)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
The Color of Money (1986)
After Hours (1985)
Michael Chapman:
Raging Bull (1980)
Taxi Driver (1976)
One of the beautifully composed shots of all time:
Robert Burks – Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock worked many different cinematographers. But at the height of his career Robert Burks was his go-to guy. Burks first worked with Hitch on "Strangers on a Train", but it was his colour films that made their work memorable, to name a few "Dial M For Murder", "Rear Window", "North By Northwest" and "Vertigo". Hitchcock's use of colour in "Vertigo" is their greatest legacy. With colour still in its infancy, Burks and Hitchcock used its hallucinatory qualities to its maximum. Colour became a character in the film. For example, Burks used green to represent Jimmy Stewart's character's vertigo and how its effect translated into his burgeoning relationship with Kim Novak's character.
Marnie (1964)
The Birds (1963)
North By Northwest (1959)
Vertigo (1958)
The Wong Man (1956)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Trouble With Harry (1955)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
Rear Window (1954)
Dial M For Murder (1954)
I Confess (1953)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Grace Kelly's entrance in "Rear Window":
John Alcott – Stanley Kubrick
From 1971 to 1980 John Alcott was Kubrick's go-to guy. Alcott actually started out doing additional photography on "2001: A Space Odyssey" though Geoffrey Unsworth got the credit. His first film in charge of the camera was "A Clockwork Orange." Though not as impressive technically as "2001" it was the first of Kubrick's new look which he would stick to for the remainder of his career (except "Eyes Wide Shut"). Alcott used natural light as much as possible, creating a largely flat look. Alcott would win an Academy Award for his use of candle-light cinematography in 1975's "Barry Lyndon". "The Shining" carried the same look as "Clockwork", and though Alcott didn't shoot "Full Metal Jacket" his influence is still on that film as well.
The Shining (1980)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – additional photography
Alcott's candle-lit interiors:
Raoul Coutard – Jean-Luc Godard/Francois Traffaut
It wouldn't be a list without acknowledging the New Wave cine-master Raoul Coutard who shot the majority of the great Jean-Luc Godard's films and several of Francois Truffaut's. The French New Wave is famous for its on-location locales, minimalist lighting and handheld camera work. Apparently before 1958 he had never handled a motion picture camera. He was a stills photographer who stumbled into shooting film. His first New Wave film was the seminal "Breathless". Even Coutard would admit his work is unpolished and a little sloppy but it typifies the inventiveness and free form spirit of the New Wave.
Prénom Carmen (1983)
Passion (1982)
Week End (1967)
La Chinoise (1967)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
Made in U.S.A. (1966)
Pierrot le fou (1965)
Alphaville (1965)
A Married Woman (1964)
Band of Outsiders (1964)
Contempt (1963)
Les Carabiniers (1963)
The Little Soldier (1963)
My Life to Live 1962)
A Woman is a Woman (1961)
Breathless (1960)
Watch Karina shake it in "Vivre Sa Vie" (remind you of another famous movie from 1994?):
Gregg Toland - Orson Welles
Ok only one film, but it's "Citizen Kane". Respect.
The New Guard
Here's a sampling of how this list could be added to in the next ten years
Emmanuel Lubezki – Alfonso Cuaron
Children of Men (2006)
Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
Great Expectations (1998)
A Little Princess (1995)
Sólo Con Tu Pareja (1991)
Cuaron and Lubezki's language together includes wideangle lenses and long takes. After "Children of Men" both filmmakers are household names and hot commodities in Hollywood. Lubezki's already been courted by the likes of Michael Mann, Terrence Malick, and Tim Burton. There's no doubt this team will be expanding the limits of cinema for years to come.
Harris Savides - Gus Van Sant
The Last Days (2004)
Elephant (2003)
Gerry (2002)
This is the death trilogy which exclusivey used long takes, and in the case of "Elephant", elaborate steadycam shots. Each of these films are immaculately composed and choreographed. Hopefully Van Sant will hired Savides beyond the death trilogy, though for Van Sant's next film, "Paranoid Park", he employed another great DOP, Christopher Doyle.
Robert Elswit – Paul Thomas Anderson
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Magnolia (1999)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Hard Eight
Anderson's language includes brilliant steadycam work, long tracking shots, anamorphic flared lenses and brilliant hues of blue and red. "There Will Be Blood" is due out before the end of the year. We will to see if its fits in with their three other films.
Wally Pfister – Christopher Nolan
Four films with completely different looks and visual design. A Pfister film or a Nolan film is not noticeable by look, but the masterful collaboration so far makes these two in the top five of working filmmaker teams today.
The Prestige (2006)
Batman Begins (2005)
Insomnia (2002)
Memento (2000)
Rodrigo Prieto - Alejandro González Iñárritu
Babel (2006)
21 Grams (2003)
Amores Perros (2000)
Prieto and Iñarritu love their grainy, handheld over the shoulder shots. These are the hallmarks of their collaboration. Prieto is big time now after working with Ang Lee, Oliver Stone and Spike Lee. I hope they continue to mutually express themselves together in future collaborations.
Matthew Libatique - Darren Aronofsky
The Fountain (2006)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Pi (1998)
After only a few films with the director Matthew Libatique and Darren Aronofsky are already revered in cinematographers circles for their innovative and expressive camera. "The Fountain" was a departure by shooting the film entirely in a studio and much of it green screen. But Aronofsky kept it real by refusing to use CG and opting for traditional practical and optical effects which kept Libatique on set and in control of the look of the film.
Robert Yeoman - Wes Anderson
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Rushmore (1998)
Bottle Rocket (1996)
Yeoman and Anderson's films are so distinct, one frame of one of their films is immediately distinguishable as their own. They love their wideangle, anamorphic frames, extremely overcranked slo-mo and lush saturated colours. Look for "The Darjeeling Limited" hopefully later this year.


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Axs Lyle Lovett Concert Ticket Reviews and Complaints
Bought 2 $49 tickets thru AXS for Emmylou Harris & Lyle Lovett in Denver. Was billed $225 by something called Vivid Seats. That was bad enough. Emmylou cancelled because of illness. Venue (fiddler's green) announced on FB refunds would be made thru point of...Read more
Vivid tickets is a ticket scalper. I doubt AXS can help you deal with a scalping service.
Axs Lyle Lovett Concert Ticket


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Cee's Odd Ball Photo Challenge: 2016 Week 46
Thanksgiving is next week, but as far as the stores are concerned, Christmas is just one day later. And down at the dam, the last few leaves are clinging to the trees … except weirdly, some still have all their leaves. It's a bronze and deep red time of year.


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PBMs and Pharma are both at the Informative/Analytical levels in HIT productivity, research and utilization. On a scale of 1-10, most are at the Level 4, and whenever they fail to integrate true statistics, represent a major failure in the contemporary ACA defined healthcare system.
It helps to document these things.
Sometimes they are so recurring you tend to forget the earliest examples of prejudice and insecurity showing their faces in the job world. There were two recent encounters I had in interviews that stank of Ageism–that behavior that tells you they are going to accept or reject you for a position due to personal prejudice rather than anything to do with pro-corporate success.
A national PBM was recently searching for experts in pharma marketing research strategies.
Obviously, having a very lengthy and rich background in researching the demographics and health economics of the nation should be in your favor. However, this is not the case when they team initiating this program hasn't an inkling of an idea of what the pharma industry is like at the small group age-gender-culture level.
When one cannot read the map to success, one is unlikely to ever blaze the trail needed to make it to the end of a new adventure.
Such is the case with this major pharmacy benefits management company I had the opportunity to meet face to face with. I have known this company's database for more than a decade, and know its potentials, which have never been utilized to their fullest extent. Why the delay I wondered? I figured the reason for this was just like for other PBMs, lack of the necessary skill set to see the potential applications for ths data, and know how to make those successes in just a few weeks–not a year.
So, many companies are in fact very out of tune with their populations–their consumers. The focus for too long has been on cost analyses rather than quality of service analyses. As a result, these companies expect little advancements or innovations to come their way in the pharma PBM work (this particular example is not, by the way, for the #1 PBM in this country, so don't worry you others from that company because you recognize my name; your failures come by way of other midguided paths, lack of skillsets.)
This first event seemed to ring of "ageism." A company that has superficially experienced managers who succeeded in career changes without undergoing much advancement in knowledge, produce a band of thinkers who cannot implement change. So what do they do, they look outside the facility, try to meet people who know what to do. This is always where my face-to-faces and direct calls to HIT Seniors and Directors seem to fit in. But one example wasn't really that convincing for me, that ageism was a barrier to their success.
But then another example of this error in corporate behavior surfaced in a work place.
To improve and redefine a "team", three changes were made. Three of of the three changes involved the few remaining males in the research group, who were removed one after the other. The order in which these changes happened resulted in elimination of those with the most experience, the richest background, most successful problem solving history–so the team got worse in weeks. Next, his counterpart who untrained in the same processes for analyses, failed to improve morale or team success–someone else had to go, and HE (not SHE) did.
This second loss involved the most important IT/HI member of the team–the individual who designed the original investigative research processes and IT data mining pathways.
The aura about his departure was that he was leaving left due to personality changes or perhaps conflicts; the same incidentally that caused the first male manager to be told to leave.
When the third of three males was told to step down, however, why this was happening finally made sense.
Being on the mailing list for team projects, any inferred plans to undergo change can also reach you, which they did at my end. So imagine for a moment suspecting you are being ousted from the team, for whatever reason, and as a result of your departure you know there is no other person there now trained in your skillset. But there are new people being hired, who in months or a year or two, may get an idea of what to do.
Now obviously, you are going to wonder, who made this decision? You ask because obviously it is counter to producing any end products required by contracts in the near future.
So, this mailing goes around the group. It's kind of like those rumors that bunches of kids spread around a school. You see all the hints that a new "team" is forming at school. Some are excluded from the list of tasks at hand. Yet they still receive the memos about the tasks that are due, perhaps to make them think they'll be a part of this change.
The only problem with this logic is that when the brainstorming begins, and you are not invited to those meetings, as the duties of each members get defined, you know you are next on the chopping block for improving the workforce.
If you have any doubts, look at the list of those who are included; are there any demographic changes worth noting?
Ageism and Sexism thus are revealed.
Inability to see the problems leading up to this stage detail exceptionally porr, out of touch managers.
For some reason, with this position, people left and did not leave behind any history of their HIT work. This is like a scientist claiming he made a discovery and then destroying all documents providing his point. Companies should always have retraceable research notes; this company didn't.
So next, you have to wonder, was the lack of these notes due to disgruntlement, or incompetence, or simple sloppy record keeping?
But the better question is who is best to blame for these fiascos? It is not the researcher/analyst ultimately at fault for this–it is the HIT team and its manager, leader, advisor. We penalize physicians for not keeping good patient records. Companies fail to take actions to prevent workers from not producing retracable research steps, when billion dollar drugs and million dollar therapies are being tested for their efficacy or not with particular patient populations. Is there anything less ethical than this failure management process?
So companies favoring the younger, inexperienced workers, are in effect eliminating the only ones who knew how to engage in a detailed statistical study in the first place.
And managers are ultimately the decision makes here, the producers or the worst possible errors, at least at the corporate finances level.
Managers who make such errors exist for only one reason. In the PBMs we see them as businessmen trying to understand the differences between treating different ICDs, histotypes, or genetic histories. They most likely don't know the differences between adenine or guanosine, and cannot explain why IgE is important here, and IgA there. In one very important research data set I was reviewing, I saw drug names provided only by first initial. The researcher/analyst then has to ask, is that C for a cancer drug of Class I or 2, they each have the same beginning letter? Unfortunately! Without prior data resources and examples, you are now left with the dilemma of retracing your original dataset entries.
Time is the issue in the workplace. It should only take days to complete any study, once you have the EMR/EHR/Med Rec data. But. "Garbage In = Garbage Out", or so they say.
When a manager or higher up cannot see why a particular manner of keeping data is problematic, failure is inevitable–thus the reasons for continued failure following the ageism-genderism changes–reasons for failure: part II.
In this case, the reverse sexism is well documented by the corporate emails, which essentially have the atmosphere of management stating "okay girls, here is what we're gonna do–let's divvy up these skills and see if we can figure it all out . . . "
It takes more than just a team of people trying to break the code to produce intelligent results.
Ultimately, clients (companies) and patients are the victims of these poor management steps by a health industry dependent upon reliable health research data.
Poor managers are the reasons that projects in the non-clinical health industry setting–the PBMs, the contracted HEORs and QOC researchers, etc–ultimately fail. Managers who are not well experienced in the field, and lack the knowledge and experience required to provide the best care, are certainly not going to make the best decision makers, and sometimes become poor team leaders, the reasons for failure.
"Human Resources" can play a role in this setting as well. You know that HR hasn't paid much attention whenever a company loses its best talent due to management decisions. This places Talent Searchers back to square one with their projects, and the overall company in an even worse position.
So it's back to Square One, so they say.
Square One means that it'll be another year or two or three before the new team catches up with the old.
Three years in any HIT field is equal to a generation. That means that 3 years from now, they will have someone with the right experience and skills to implement innovation and change.
Meanwhile, their competitors will become 1, 2 or 3 years ahead of them.
Sometimes, the best members of a team just never get the acceptance they are due, and the team never advances.
This chaos is actually going on all through the HIT professions right now, not just Pharma, not just PBMs. They don't know who or what to hire, because they don't know what tasks have to be done, or understand the tasks well enough to stop placing the square peg in the round hole.
Few managers/VP/COs/Presidents are willing to hire new recruits, new skills, or pay for the experts. Of the majority who claims this is not true, they fail to do what they claim, and even then miss the opportunities for hiring innovators.
Hospitals that hire only nurses to engage in non-nursing tasks look good on paper, but fail in terms of improving their quality of care and even possible lower morbidity or mortality rates. They too have not hired the experts, only those skills sets they are familiar with.
In the end, it is the patient that suffers the most here, and the leaders/managers who are most responsible for an industry's failure.


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I generally think of John MacArthur as writing books about business and leadership, not home life or families. But this one focuses on Ephesians 5-6 and focuses on the mutuality of submission.
But, MacArthur made some interesting points:
- The book of Ephesians is written only to Christians. If you are not a Christian, you cannot possibly make your marriage everything God intended it to be.
- Mutual submission is the single most important principle governing all personal relationships for all Christians. It is not merely a wife submitting to a husband. MacArthur quotes numerous Scriptures which show that all Christians should submit to all other Christians. It is what Jesus modeled for us.
- Wives must submit to the leadership of their husbands. But husbands must also submit to the needs of their wives.
- The command for mutual submission is unconditional. It does not exclude women whose husbands are not believers.
- Submit does not mean obey. Submit is an active, deliberate, loving, intelligent devotion to the husband's noble aspirations and ambitions.
- Titus 2:4-5 commands a woman "to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands." Yes, we are commanded to be home makers.
- Wives are required to submit to their own husbands, not all husbands or all men.
- Children are commanded to honor their parents, not obey them. Of course honoring parents usually means obeying them. The commandment includes a promise: that if you obey your parents the days of your life on this land will be long. In other words, rebelling against parents often has built-in consequences that tend to shorten one's life.
- MacArthur writes that "Teaching children to obey is ...a full-time, years-long duty for parents, often frustrating and always requiring diligence." He writes of our innate desire to disobey and the need to overcome it.
- The parent's job is to nurture and admonish. Admonition should always include instruction, not just discipline.
- Instilling an attitude of obedience in our children is more important than the actions of obedience.


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Folk fusion
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Mr A recently came across this book for me on European folk fabric design and dress – part of the Pepin Press series on fashion, textiles and patterns. It's an A4 sized collection with heaps of bright photos of fabric and embroidery designs from central and south-eastern Europe.
The historical photos are great – alongside close-ups of similar embroidery designs, they reinforce just how much work went into some of these garments.
The book also includes a disc of images and patterns, including these elaborate redwork and blackwork examples, so you can print them out and try them yourself.
I'm a big fan of crewel embroidery and there are plenty of examples included in this book too. Fun for hours!
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He is growing like a weed... especially when you think he originally started at 5 lbs. 11 oz.! We are so lucky to have this wonderful little man in our lives!
|4 Months - Celebrating Christmas Up North at his Grandma and Grandpa Great's house
|5 Months - "1st Christmas and they stick me under the tree like a present"


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Workouts At Work
When you use the greater part of your workday sitting behind a work area, keeping solid and fit could be a test. An excessive amount of individuals nowadays work extended periods in an office with next to no physical action. This lifestyle can prompt weight pick up and other health issues.
It's an exceptional thought to extend and reinforce your physique with simple office workouts. These activities might be performed while situated on your office seat or at your work area. Continuously make certain to get up and move no less than once for every hour.Workouts At Work
Office activities are not intended to take the spot of universal high-impact or quality preparing. In any case, they offer an incredible approach to get your physique moving and your blood streaming.
Extending is a basic action that doesn't require much exertion yet can build your vigor level, expediting more terrific benefit at work. When doing your extends, agile up by strolling around the workplace for a couple of minutes.
Wrist Stretch: Extend one arm in front with the palm confronting upward. Take hold of the fingers with your other hand and pull the fingers towards you. Feel the stretch in your lower arm. Hold for 20 seconds, then rehash with the other hand. Workouts At Work
Lower Back Stretch: Sit up straight and place your right hand behind the right hip. Gradually turn to left, utilizing your left hand on your right thigh to extend the stretch. Hold the position for 20 seconds. Rehash on the other side.
Neck Stretch: Slowly tilt your head to your left shoulder and hold for ten seconds. Rehash on the other side. Do this practice gradually and tenderly to forestall neck damage.
Bicep Curl
Hold a water container in one hand. Sit tall with your stomach tucked in and your back straight. Gradually lift the container towards your shoulder for 15-20 reps. Rehash on the other side. The flask, loaded with water, gives safety.
Hip Flexion
Sit tall, keeping your abs tight. With the knee twisted, lift one foot a couple of inches off the ground. Hold for a couple of seconds, bring down the foot, and rehash. Do 16 reps, then rehash with the other foot. Workouts At Work
Supported Push-ups
Push-ups reinforce the arms and midsection muscles. Helped push-ups are simple workouts that you can do in the workplace. All you need to do is incline toward the bureau, supporting yourself with your arms. Inspire yourself far from the work area. Do 10 reps a few times each day to encourage yourself stay caution and dynamic. Workouts At Work


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Watch Chelsea vs Arsenal live online
The gunners travel to Stamford Bridge today hoping to capitalise on any wavering of the tremendous Chelsea spirit and power to try and build some momentum in their quest for a possible assault on the title they hold. It certainly will be a big ask of the gunners, despite Chelsea slipping up last weekend against Manchester City. The crown of London's best team has certainly shifted in recent years with Chelsea becoming the main challengers to Manchester United's dominance of the premier league in the 2004/05 season with their first premiership trophy and the gunners not having won a trophy since the F.A. cup they won in the 2004/05 season.
Didier Drogba will be the main reason why Arsene Wenger may be losing sleep this week as he has torn Arsenal apart in recent duels. Inspiring them to a 3-0 victory for the blues at the emirates and beating them 2-0 at Stamford Bridge on the way to the title last season. Although the gunners had a 5 year unbeaten streak against Chelsea between 1999 and 2004, since then it hasn't been a pleasant encounter for Arsene Wenger's men.
Chelsea will be buoyed by the evident crippling issues Arsenal have with injuries to Fabregas, Thomas Vermaelen and Manuel Almunia and Arsenal have lacked real physical strength in recent matches which will be another aspect that will favour Chelsea. Lampard will still be out through injury but the defence of Petr Cech, Branislav Ivanovic, John Terry, Alex and Ashley Cole will be fine to feature for the blues and so far this season have only leaked 2 goals.
The key man for Chelsea will be Michael Essien. The midfielder has been the engine for the blues and it is no coincidence that their impressive beginning to the campaign has also seen the player start every match. His involvement was crippled last season due to a knee injury but now recovered this term has seen him give more impetus to the attack from midfield and also seen him weigh in with 2 goals. Arsenal know all about the threat he poses especially after a 35 yard screamer he scored against them in 2006.
A key man for Arsenal today could be the new buy Marouane Chamakh who was snapped up to help bring rigidity and power when going forward and he has already proved a handful for defences this season winning 2 penalties and dispatching 2 goals in 6 appearances is a good return and gives Arsenal real hope in trying to turn over the blues in their own back yard.
The match will be streamed on various sites over the internet. One of the sites which will feature it is the one below.
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I can't see anything because my eyes are all blurry./ I msy have to get mum to type for me because this is so difficult. Blurry eyes could be a side effect of one of the drugs. No, that's it. I'll have to dictate to mum and she can type.
I had to have another sleeping write off day.Yet again there was someone else who couldn't take blood. I've had so much morphine that I keep saying crazy things. I told the doctor I'd forgotten to order legwarmers. I have no idea why I thought legwarmers would help.
I had quite a bad cough last night, so they've put me on some just in case antibiotics.
I'm going to have to sign off now, cos I'm so tired.
P.S I had a chicken mayo sandwich at last. Thanks Steph and Nick for getting it for me.