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04 February 2017
12:56PM It's back to snowy mountains for us!
03:20PM Beautiful town of Yamgata, Zao Onsen
03:41PM I love this ryokan!
06:48PM We're off to see the snow monsters now!
06:56PM Such a lovely and cool walk.
07:00PM We're here! 🙂
07:45PM IT.IS.FREEZING. Even the trees are cold.
07:53PM Literally can't even feel my face nor any part of my body anymore. How fun!
07:56PM Feeling Elsa~
08:10PM Who needs warmth when they've got ice-cream!?
05 February 2017
10:00AM Today is pretty much a free day so I plan to do a little stroll around town today. Others are having a go at snowboarding/skiing but unfortunately I wasn't feeling my best to try it out.
11:12AM I found this cute little café~ There were Australians having a coffee inside! I wanted to speak with them too but I was too shy >.<
12:00PM I got back to the ryokan. Joyce had a bad fever the whole day so I mostly spent my time taking care of her.
05:30PM Also played lots of UNO though.


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Career Colleges » New Hampshire » Computers and Technology » Networking
Looking for accredited career colleges, technical schools, and universities in New Hampshire offering Networking degrees. Network engineers and network administrators administer the vast web of computer networks connecting business and homes.New Hampshire colleges are some of the oldest and most distinguished in the United States. This is a great place to go to college. Conveniently located near Boston yet minutes away from pristine forests, wild mountains, and its own untamed and dramatic coast, New Hampshire offers both outdoor lovers and culture aficionados excellent opportunities for extracurricular activities. New Hampshire is a great place to visit, if only for the food: the seafood pulled from the icy Atlantic that laps its shores is some of the finest in the nation. You will enjoy succulent lobsters, briny clams, and delicate codfish, among other delights. Whatever your interests, you will find a New Hampshire education is a great start to an interesting life.
Achieving a computer networking degree will enable you to create, develop, program, maintain and install networks.
In essence, you'll learn how to connect various computers to one another so that they can share information securely and efficiently. Sometimes the computers might be in the same room on a local area network (LAN). Sometimes, the computers might be separated by oceans and continents on a wide area network (WAN).
Increasingly, consumers and businesses are turning to wireless technology because it is cheaper, more efficient, and more convenient. So most of the computer networking programs out there will train you in satellite systems and GPS technology in addition to all the other skills one learns (example: switching, routing, protocols, etc.).
Probably the most important aspect of networking is security. When information travels from one computer to another, it is vulnerable to viruses and prying eyes. So not only must you learn how to establish networks, but you must also make them secure. This can be a full-time job since hackers are becoming increasingly ambitious and creative. But the training you'll receive from a standard computer networking program will provide you with all the skills necessary to flourish in this field.
Find more schools to match to your needs.

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Poem: Poetry Pause
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Poetry Pause
Peppery pearls of purling poetry
Often flow fast and furiously.
Sometimes though, sonnets shine sans shimmer,
Growing gangly gaining no glimmer.
Therefore think it's time to type on Tuesday,
Pausing poetry prepared prior 'post' days.
June Nash
I have been writing poetry at a pace of 4-5 per week since I started this blog. I love writing, but think this may be too fast of a pace, especially around the holidays when I am being torn in several directions.
I will be posting one poem per week from now on. My poetry postings will be on Tuesdays.
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Ball Below Feet
Ball Below Feet
The ball below feet shot is possibly the most challenging of the sloping lies. There are sigificant adaptations required in your stance and swing so take plenty of club and swing within yourself. I had a breakthrough with these shots when (after years of struggle) I stopped trying to power my body through and make what feels like a hands and arms movement only. The body still moves as result but my balance is and club face control is greatly enhanced.
Technique Keys
• The ball will fade to the right (right handers) so aim well left.
• Club face control is essential; we are aiming left to allow for the fade so at no cost do we want to shut the face in on the ball or we'll hit a destructive pull. Hold the face square through impact.
• Flex your knees more than normal
• Swing more upright
• Stay down and in posture for longer through the shot than would be normal. It is too easy to stand up early and top this shot.


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This post continues a previous discussion, with the benefit of another year's insights and experiences.
Why We Are in This Situation:
The Microsoft Monopoly
In a post dated March 18, 2016, after an extensive review of relevant matters (e.g., Microsoft's corporate culture and priorities), I reached essentially these big-picture conclusions, regarding Microsoft's efforts to force Windows 7 users to switch to Windows 10:
Microsoft offered Windows 10 as a free upgrade, and pushed users of Windows 7 and 8 to accept it, because Microsoft considered Windows 10 important for the company's future: (1) Windows 10 was crucial in Microsoft's bid to control the Internet of Things [IoT], with billions of devices running Windows 10 IoT; (2) Microsoft wanted to sell a very stable Windows 10 to businesses, and planned to use millions of Windows 7 and 8 users as guinea pigs who would be force-fed the Windows 10 operating system and its potentially flawed updates, so as to catch bugs before they reached corporate users; and (3) Microsoft designed Windows 10 to produce revenues by obtaining detailed personal information on users and their computing activities.
Decisions incorporated into Windows 8 and 10 suggested that Microsoft increasingly took desktop and laptop computing for granted. The company's attempts to shoehorn a single operating system into many different devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets) made it more difficult for PC users to get work done. At the same time, new Intel CPUs were designed not to work with Windows 7. Microsoft's high-pressure efforts to drive users out of Windows 7 and into Windows 10 backfired in some cases, as users considered alternatives that might yield a long-term solution based on a well-organized and trustworthy operating system. Linux, in particular, was able to run on those new Intel CPUs; was able to run many Windows programs or functional equivalents; and also offered the ability to run the entire Windows (7, 8, or 10) operating system inside a virtual machine — all without the prospect of Microsoft's plans to sell its software on a more expensive subscription basis.
It was easy to feel, at that point, that the public was not served by the government's failure to achieve the breakup of Microsoft in its antitrust suit. Microsoft had engaged in many behaviors harmful to competition and, ultimately, to consumers. The New York Times (Markoff, 2005) conveyed the view that Microsoft was "paying for peace" without "changing its behavior in any significant way." Fortune (Tetzeli & Kirkpatrick, 1998) reported that, even though Microsoft was very popular at the time, a plurality of survey respondents considered Microsoft a monopoly, and "a very large majority — fully 80% — also believed that the Justice Department ought to enforce antitrust laws."
Kirkwood (2013) points out that consumer protection is the undeniable priority of antitrust law. The Times article observed that, in 2000, the federal judge had, in fact, "ordered that Microsoft be broken into two companies to curb its monopolistic practices" but that, "the next year, the new Bush administration decided not to seek a breakup and the Justice Department settled in 2002." As a consequence, according to The Baltimore Sun (Hawker & Lande, 2011). "Consumers today have no more choice about which operating system will come installed on their PC" than in 1998: "Windows' market share remains well above 80 percent."
That was the Microsoft of Bill Gates and of Steve Ballmer, his immediate successor. For many years, it has given the world the inefficiency of monopoly and its increasing burden on the American economy. The Microsoft-Bush example supports the argument of Forbes (Machado, 2015): the size of the monopolistic corporation leads to "a promiscuous interaction between regulators and industry, a pseudo-symbiosis that damages the real development of certain sectors . . . [and] holds countries hostage to inefficiency in these sectors." Schmitz (2016), a senior research economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, describes monopolies' internal turf wars in terms that match what Microsoft observers said about that company's own infighting:
Close study reveals that monopolies are in fact composed of many subgroups, and it is the interplay among these groups that leads to low productivity and the elimination of substitutes. . . . [C]ompetition among subgroups within the monopoly . . . often threatens to tear the monopoly apart. To survive, the subgroups agree to find ways to limit internal competition.
Stanford economist Bresnahan (2002, p. 17) explores the costs that Microsoft's monopoly imposed on consumers at the time — in, for example, "compelling Intel to abandon a line of innovative software," paying major Internet service providers (e.g., AOL) to choose Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser and reject Netscape's Navigator, and making it difficult for consumers to use anything other than IE. Bresnahan concludes that Microsoft's behavior had far-reaching deleterious effects upon consumer choice for years to come. Gilbert and Katz (2001, p. 39) concur:
[T]here is significant evidence that Microsoft took actions for the explicit purpose of harming competition. . . . [C]onsumers were likely harmed because much of Microsoft's challenged conduct reduced the probability that Netscape/Java would emerge as a platform competitor.
Fisher and Rubinfeld (2001, pp. 60-61) expand upon that: "[W]e believe Microsoft's conduct would not have been undertaken (because it was not otherwise profitable), but for the exclusion of competitors and the opportunity to recoup by maintaining and increasing monopoly power in its operating system." Fisher and Rubinfeld quote from the judge's opinion:
Microsoft foreclosed an opportunity for OEMs to make Windows PC systems less confusing and more user-friendly . . . . [and] deprived consumers of software innovation that they very well may have found valuable . . . . Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power and immense profits to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's core products.
Without denying those historical effects, Slate (Yglesias, 2013) suggests that, despite the government's failure to break up Microsoft, at least the litigation did make it impossible for the company to dominate Internet access through its IE browser and thereby prevent the rise of Google. But Hawker and Lande (2011) observe that, in the monopoly-friendly environment following the Microsoft case, an absence of aggressive antitrust enforcement may now facilitate efforts by Google to protect and extend its own monopoly in Internet search.
The point of these remarks on monopoly is that, if the government had persisted and succeeded in its efforts to break up Microsoft, that company would probably not have been in a position to force the majority of the world's computer users to switch to Windows 10. In that case — to cite the particular event prompting me to return to this subject — I would have been able to keep using Windows 7 on Intel's latest "Kaby Lake" line of CPUs. Instead, at this writing, it appears that Microsoft has used its power to give me no realistic option, other than Windows 10, if I wish to use that new hardware.
The Linux Alternative
So, as I say, in March 2016 I wrote that post, looking into the Microsoft mentality and the company's reasons for pushing Windows 10 so aggressively. For my own computing, the conclusion was that, if I wanted to continue to use Windows 7, I would have to view Microsoft as, in effect, an adversary that sought to make it harder for me to get work done, in order to serve its own purposes.
That view led, in turn, to the realization that, for desktop users like me, it might make sense to accept that the Windows 7 era was ending and that, at some point, I might have to switch to a non-Windows operating system. As elaborated in a number of posts in this blog, in mid-2016 I spent several months working in that direction, seeking to make Linux my new operating system. Along the way, I developed posts listing my favorite Windows programs, investigating the likely Linux alternatives to those programs, and describing some of my experiences in using those Linux alternatives.
Well. I can tell you that those explorations did not work out as I hoped or assumed they would. It had been more than five years since January 2011, when I had abandoned Ubuntu for the then-newish Windows 7, for the specific reason that I needed my software to work: I needed to get things done. And to a surprising extent, that was still the case. In 2016 as in 2011, some of my most useful and important programs did not have Linux versions.
It appeared that, often, that was simply because Microsoft's operating system monopoly made it unprofitable for developers to produce separate Linux versions of their software. No doubt Microsoft was also capable of paying or coercing other companies not to support Linux, if necessary. But without a government capable of insuring a fair playing field, the bottom line was that, for much of the software I needed, Windows was still the only game in town.
That said, it did surprise me that Linux still did not have its act together. There had been many improvements, during the intervening five years, in the Linux flavors I tested. There was also little of the attitude that people who don't know Linux shouldn't be using it; there was much more user friendliness.
But Microsoft's dominance was not the only problem. There was still a difference in attitude. Microsoft had become rich and powerful because it played to the market, and the Linux world just didn't. Again, there seemed to be many able and hard-working Linux people who were laboring to make their beloved operating system practical and accessible. But to a remarkable extent, Linux was still about people going in a hundred different directions. It was still a hobbyist's realm, a place for playing with computer possibilities but not for commitment to a competitive set of practical solutions for non-hobbyists.
Based on those months of trying different ways to get things done, I came to a conclusion. As detailed in another post, the dream of Linux dominance on the desktop was dead. Even during the upheaval wrought by Microsoft's force-feeding of Windows 10, Linux market share barely budged. Attempts to develop a Linux interface that would be friendly to the uninformed computer user were doomed. Uninformed desktop and laptop users already had well-funded Microsoft and Apple operating systems to meet their needs.
In other words, people who wanted Linux to succeed on the desktop seemed to lack a realistic target market. In my view, as suggested in that other post, the only hope for Linux was to become focused on the needs of Windows power users — of people who had a fair grasp of desktop computing and were not afraid of the command line. Success among those users could someday translate into success among others influenced by such users.
That post has had some readers. Unfortunately, I am not yet aware of any significant focus, or change in focus, by which Linux proponents could hope to make real inroads in any appreciable portion of the desktop and laptop operating system market. There does not appear to be any serious reason to believe that Linux will be significantly more popular on the desktop ten years from now than it was ten years ago.
This state of affairs seems to call for some reflection on the role of monopolies, or at least of major corporations. There is the hypothetical world in which there would be no monopolies, and perhaps in that world software-derived income and wealth would reflect the developer's positive contribution to society. But in our world, empires are forever being created and then replaced by other empires. People look for leadership, and align their own efforts and perspectives with whatever the leader is doing.
Open-source office suites, notably LibreOffice and OpenOffice, are often cited as strengths making Linux competitive with Windows. And yet those packages are exceptions that prove the rule: they are solid solutions produced by corporations. I would guess that a player like Google could develop Linux as a serious alternative to Windows on the desktop. There are no signs that it will happen otherwise.
To Transition or Not to Transition?
So I found myself facing the question of whether to stay with Windows 7 or, instead, to switch to Windows 10. It was time to review what that choice might mean.
I had seen many webpages and blog posts expressing the view that Windows 10 was great, and many others helping the apparently numerous users who decided to abandon Win10 and revert to an older version of Windows. So far, I had not found it to be great for my purposes; but if I decided to switch to it, I hoped I would be able to stick it out, rather than keep flopping back and forth.
As mentioned above, I faced this question because I was thinking about buying new hardware — specifically involving a Kaby Lake processor — that was supposedly incompatible with Windows 7. So, for me, it wasn't so much a matter of what people thought was great or terrible about Windows 10; it was more a question of whether I had any alternative.
It seemed I might. Reviews by PC Gamer, Beebom, and CNET emphasized what others (e.g., PC World) left relatively understated — namely, that the Kaby Lake line of CPUs (in CNET's words) "aren't as big an upgrade as you'd expect . . . a little bit faster and a little bit more power-efficient" than the previous "Skylake" generation of Intel CPUs. (Note that AMD's latest Zen CPUs are also supported for Windows 10 only.) CNET suggested the main benefit from the arrival of the seventh-generation Kaby Lake CPUs would be to generate some price-cutting among sixth-generation Skylakes. So one pair of options not requiring Windows 10 would be to keep using existing hardware, or to upgrade to a Skylake CPU. As Intel explained, this would mean a CPU with a number like Core i7-6920HQ, where the 6 indicates sixth-generation (as distinct from e.g., the seventh-generation i7-7Y75 or i7-7500U).
In August 2016, Microsoft stated that it would support Skylake through the end of the extended support periods for Windows 7 (i.e., January 14, 2020) and Windows 8.1 (i.e., January 10, 2023). According to PC World (Chacos, 2015), Microsoft's "mainstream" support period, ending in January 2015 for Windows 7, was the period during which the company would continue to issue new features or tweaks; and Microsoft's "extended" support period is the period during which the operating system will receive only security-related updates.
After the end of extended support, Digital Trends (Pot, 2016) said the system would keep working, but personal information would be vulnerable to "zero-day exploits." Elsewhere, Digital Trends (Stobing, 2015) explained that a "zero-day" attack is so called because zero is the number of days for which the vulnerability has been known. In other words, it is brand-new and is being used by the bad guys before the antivirus people and other good guys have a chance to do anything about it. Stobing said that, as one would expect, standard precautions could not offer 100% security, but would at least reduce the risk from zero-day exploits. Those precautions include using Windows Updates, keeping antivirus security current, keeping the router's firmware updated, avoiding iffy downloads and links, and keeping up with sources of information on security threats. It was not clear to what extent antivirus companies would continue to support Windows 7 in coming years, but in any case various sources (e.g., a Symantec discussion) seemed to agree that antivirus was no substitute for Windows Updates.
Instead of installing Windows 7 on a computer with a Skylake or older CPU, there was also the option of trying to install Windows 7 on a Kaby Lake or newer CPU. It appeared this could be done — there was evidently no absolute hardware prohibition against it — and some users reported no problems, while others had varying degrees of difficulty. Given the similarity of Skylake and Kaby Lake CPUs, PC Games (James, 2016) contended that the problems should be relatively minor for Intel CPUs, but might be more substantial on AMD Zen chips.
Another option was to install Windows 10, but configure it to resemble Windows 7 (or Windows XP) as much as possible. This approach could require the user to accept the loss of (or attempt to resurrect) certain Windows 7 features no longer offered in Windows 10, and also to cope with the possibility that Windows 10 would not run a needed Windows 7 program. An effort to redesign Windows 10 as Windows 7 might include the Classic Shell enhancement, to restore a more familiar Start menu; (1 2 3) sources suggested other modifications; and there would also be any number of other tweaks that might help to alleviate at least some of the terrible aspects of Windows 10.
There was also the virtual machine (VM) option. Especially on more powerful hardware, it might be possible to obtain adequate performance by running Windows 7 in a VM, either on Windows 10 or on Linux (which, like Win10, would apparently have no problem with Kaby Lake and newer hardware). Such a VM could be used at least to run any desired Windows 7 programs that did not run in Windows 10. As a point of comparison, in my years of running Windows XP in a VM on Ubuntu, I had found that XP was actually more stable in the VM than when installed natively. Performance had been acceptable though not great, even on the relatively slow hardware of 2008-2010. Security updates might not be necessary in a Windows 7 VM, especially if its software did not go online. That is, the user could disable the VM's network connection, and do web browsing in the underlying (Windows 10 or Linux) operating system. Another post describes my previous project of setting up a VirtualBox VM in Linux Mint.
Against these options, there was also the option of staying more or less where I was — just using my existing hardware for a while longer, or maybe upgrading to an older but still newish generation of Intel CPU. There was always the possibility of some new development that would change everything: a new Windows-friendly Linux, or a different kind of hardware, or a change in my own computing needs.
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Postscript, March 2018: as discussed in a later post, I wound up spending months trying Windows 10 — and then, a year after writing this post, I was once again reviewing what I had said here, and trying to decide whether to reinstall Windows 10 (in hopes that, this time, it would run key programs that Microsoft updates had rendered inoperable) or make the switch to Linux, running Windows 7 in a VM.


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Having a big baby at birth Jacob weighed 9lb exactly, it never even crossed my mind that I would be having this issue. Ever since he was born, he hasn't been the best drinker, and has always been so fussy when it comes to drinking his milk, up until he was around 9-10 weeks old he would only ever drink 3oz every 4 hours or so, something that I have found quite difficult to deal with. Every feed is a challenge, to the point of tears, and wanting to just give up trying with it as it has just made me worry so much!
I have a health visitor who comes to weigh him every 3 weeks as he has been putting on so little weight, and its really beginning to worry me. I feel I've tried everything from the way we feed him, the bottles we feed him with, the different teat sizes, but the only thing we haven't tried is changing his milk as I don't want to upset his little tummy. Since about 10 weeks old, he has been taking much better bottles out of no where, he is now taking between 5-7oz every 3-4 hours, and has about 5 bottles a day, however the only way I'm able to get this into him is if we don't hold him to feed him, we have to lay him flat on our bed or somewhere he can lay without being restricted as he's so fidgety.
We last had him weighed a week ago, and I was so sure he was putting on a good amount of weight but was completely disheartened at the fact he has only put 5oz on in the last three weeks. He now weighs 12lb 9oz, and I just feel he is so small for his age. I am at a complete loss, and have no idea what or if I'm doing wrong. He is a very happy and content baby who sleeps from 9pm – 7.30am each night, and is hitting each of his development milestones, and both the doctor and health visitor don't seem too concerned at the moment, but will be doing some tests in a few weeks if nothing has changed.
Please if you've had a similar experience or advice in general I would love to hear it, as I really have no idea what else I can do.


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Amway India, Turnstone Global to set up a Braille Library in Kolkata
Asia-Pacific, June 13 2017
KOLKOTA, INDIA: This Braille library in Kolkata is one of the five such libraries being set up by Amway in partnership with Turnstone Global across East. The other four cities are Bhubaneswar, Siliguri, Aizawl and Agartala.
Amway India has been setting up 31 Braille Libraries in India under National project for the Blind. In East, Amway India has set up 9 such Braille libraries including Kolkata, Siliguri, Bhubaneswar, Agartala and Aizawl, Guwahati, Shillong, Patna and Ranchi.
Sadhan Pandey, Minister-In-Charge, Consumer Affairs, West Bengal, inaugurated the Amway- Turnstone Braille Library.
The library will offer Braille versions of a variety of books & journals and CDs ranging from academic books, fiction, self-help, general knowledge for the benefit of more than 85 students with vision disabilities who otherwise have limited access to books.
The library is also equipped with computers that will enable students to access more than 30 CDs.
Commenting on the occasion, Sadhan Pandey, said, "This is a commendable initiative shown by Amway India in a very noble and spirited cause. I sincerely believe the students of the school will benefit immensely from the facility and hope that the effort encourages other organizations to do likewise. Such a combined endeavour will be a step in the right direction towards ensuring a more level playing field between the physically challenged and those less disadvantaged. I also advise Amway India to come forward and arrange for some training of students with vision disabilities so that they can get some placement in some sectors where they can sit in one place and do their work. "
Elaborating on the initiative, G.S. Cheema, Sr. Vice President – North & East, Amway India, said, "We have been working tirelessly towards the welfare of people with vision disabilities with a firm belief that education and knowledge is the key to the future that create opportunities transcending physical limitations. A Braille library is a key component of that strategy. We are in the process of launching 31 braille libraries across the country. We are delighted to have partnered with Turnstone Global who is helping us set up these Braille libraries in Eastern Region."
Speaking on the occasion, Kanchan Gaba, Secretary,Turnstone Global, said "We are happy to set up five braille library with Amway India in East. Such types of Libraries in students with vision disabilities and organization working with the blind are very fruitful to impart education for the blind. Through the braille libraries a blind person can quest for his knowledge and discover his potentialities through reading braille books. I personally and from the Turnstone Global thank Amway India and D F Blind School for the blind for giving such wonderful opportunity to set up the library. We are committed for the welfare of people who are blind and we shall be available for any further support".
Source: Indiablooms


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Saturday, 1 September 2012
Dream Jobs?
As it's Labour Day weekend in Canada, and Labor Day weekend in the USA, why don't we all write about our dream job and steps we have taken to get it?
If your dream job is Homemaker and Mother, that is fabulous, and please go ahead and write it in the combox, although instead of mentioning steps you have taken (since this is one profession that you can't WORK to get), tell us of any courses you may have taken to become an even better Homemaker and Mother.
My dream job is to be a bestselling fiction-writer. I realize that the "bestselling" part isn't entirely up to me, but the image I keep having is of a glorious writer's office, like Meryl Streep's in Romancing the Stone or Emma Thompson's in Stranger than Fiction. Okay, at least a proper desk. Offices and desks cost money.
I also have an image of putting down a phone and saying to B.A. "Oh, guess what, darling. My agent says I'm being offered [fabulous sum] for [projected bestseller]" and B.A. saying "Hooray! We should get a holiday flat in [Mediterranean town]."
Nobody should write primarily for money, but if you write all the time anyway, money for writing becomes kind of a thing.
The steps I have taken include reading, blogging, writing short stories; writing articles for newspapers and journals; writing five novels, one of which has been accepted for publication; writing one non-fiction book, which has been accepted for publication in three countries; joining a writers' group to get some feedback; writing to the Scottish Book Trust for advice; and submitting short stories for publication (so far big 0 on the short stories). I write almost every single day. I carry a notebook everywhere and write in it frequently. I pay careful attention to the way both Scots and Poles reinvent English.
Enough about me. Your dream jobs please.
24 comments:
- Maggie said...
Ultimately, my dream job is to be a stay-at-home wife and mother... the best step I've taken towards that is, on top of years of babysitting and helping out at home, the summer before my senior year of college, I spent 3 months at home running my parents' house; both of my parents were working and I was fully responsible for cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping, chauffeuring... you name it, I did it. It was the best way I could have spent that summer, as I moved in to my first apartment that fall and knew how to keep house, unlike my roommates.
- 1 September 2012 at 13:15
- Nzie (theRosyGardener) said...
I view this whole "dream job" thing as fairly fluid - I have a number of things that I think would be great jobs, but am not sure how it will play out. I'd like to work in some sort of law enforcement/prosecutorial role in human trafficking issues. I also love to write but don't do so often enough, but writing a novel or series would be great. And I enjoyed being a teacher, so maybe I'd teach law. I would also like a family, but I'm going to have to make decisions on that as it comes up. I don't see myself not having outside employment, but maybe more like my mom, few hours until school, etc. - not sure, will depend on so many factors. I am at law school, so that's the biggest step. In terms of dream job as a fantasy, historic document preservation.
- 1 September 2012 at 13:45
My dream job is to be a tax accountant, and work from home eventually. Right now, I am working in an Accounts Receivable position and taking online classes towards an Accounting Certificate. My fantasy job would require that I live in a foreign country, UK and Germany being my top picks.
- 1 September 2012 at 17:03
- Rae said...
My dream job is to be a stay-at-home (and homeschooling) wife and mother. Things I have done that I hope will help me in that role are: helping my mom with the household tasks and my younger siblings throughout high school, teaching two of my brothers and two other students for one year under the supervision of a licensed teacher, and choosing college courses that I would be able to use in that role. I have an Associates in Small business entrepreneurship, so my specialty is starting and running my own business. When choosing my generals, I decided to take Sign Language (great for toddlers, and less politics than the other options, besides) and developmental psychology, for example.
I'd also like to be a writer, so I blog and write little things here and there (and took creative writing in college.) And someday I think I'd like to have a business involving cooking, so right now I'm working in the kitchen/dining room of an assisted living facility.
- 1 September 2012 at 17:30
- Clare said...
War correspondent!
I've been trying to learn as many languages as possible and working at newspapers during my summer's off from school. Hopefully in a few years I'll be checking this blog from the other side of the world.
- 1 September 2012 at 19:39
- Clare said...
Sorry, that's "summers."
This is why my dream job is not editor.
- 1 September 2012 at 19:40
My dream job would be a history teacher at a university or high quality secondary school (ie., with curriculum I would want to teach) -- but the PhD market is so glutted right now that the professor thing is going off the table (for now), and I'll focus on middle or high schools. Of course my dream job includes a healthy focus on my central areas of interest, but I would end up teaching very general classes, so. (And my dream job also has a salary that I can travel on... edging into fantasy territory.) I got a BA in history w/ a medieval studies cert, but I'll need to tack on a Teaching Masters and (another hope) maybe an additional MA in my field of interest. Right now I've been doing two years of reading tutoring/in-class student teaching with Americorps for elementary kids. For a year in the middle I was an au pair for five children in Munich. These experiences have taught me that I don't want to work long term with young children! They are great -- really they are... somewhere inside there... -- but they make me want to drink every night.
- 1 September 2012 at 21:54
My dream job is as a tenured science professor and researcher. In addition to working as hard as I can to do the best science that I can possibly manage and publish, I read the academic blogs for behind-the-scenes career advice, talk with faculty, go to meetings and network like mad, and take an active interest in anything that will serve me in the great game of how to get an academic job. Since academic jobs are so scarce right now, the art of how to snag one is just as important as the art of how to do really kick-butt research.
- 1 September 2012 at 22:08
- Nzie (theRosyGardener) said...
Just because it's fun - total fantasy land, I'd be the Doctor's first American companion (nerdy Doctor Who reference..). ;-)
- 2 September 2012 at 00:10
Hey Nzie - save a seat for me in the TARDIS! Two American companions could also work. :)
For myself - just 2 months ago I got hired in my first full-time, benefited position in my field - I'm a zookeeper, and this is my dream job. I was a volunteer/unpaid intern throughout high school and college, got my B.S. in Wildlife Biology and then moved 2000 miles from home by myself to take a paid apprenticeship, which I held for a little over a year before getting my current job. I work with lions, rhinos, giraffes, zebras, and all kinds of antelope, small carnivores, and birds. I love everything about it and am very happy to be here, but I could see myself someday moving to a zoo that will send me to participate in international conservation projects. A goal to work towards!
- 2 September 2012 at 00:53
- Jen D said...
My dream job would be to keep house part time for my family and to work part time as a family physician.
The steps I have taken toward being good at the first part are cake decorating classes and having friends over for dinner frequently to practice cleaning, cooking, and hospitality.
For the second part, I have completed medical school and have less than a year left of residency. When I finish my training, I plan to move north, to a big city closer to my parents' home, which is quite Catholic and could be one step closer to achieving my first goal. ;)
- 2 September 2012 at 02:45
I have a couple but probably only one when the cold clear light of a reality check hits them:
1. Own a second hand bookshop/cafe
2. Own a bar in Havana
3. Work at the Vatican museums
4. Be the wife of [insert member of European Catholic royal family here]
5. Start up an Institute for the promotion of Christian Art/Architecture
6. Church restoration
7. Combination of 1-6
Things I have done to help me get there:
BA in English and Crim
Most of a Law degree
Most of a Grad Dip in Heritage
Almost 10 years in medical admin
Lots of travel
This could actually work!
- 2 September 2012 at 06:05
- Meredith said...
I want to be a Poet Mom. Neither half of that title draws a salary! Right now I am heading down the shaky path of teaching Latin part time and writing in the afternoon. To be a poet I have read lots of books, including poems in other languages. I have blogged about literature and worked for Dappled Things, of which I have recently become editor in chief. I even write poetry sometimes when I really feel like it... lol. This is the hardest part, actually - there is always something more urgent than the writing of a poem.
As for the Mom part... I give only God the credit for this, but I'm marrying a wonderful man in April! I already know how to cook and shop for groceries and such, courtesy of my mom who taught me to make pie crust when I was twelve. I don't have much experience with small children, but I'm sure I'll figure it all out as I go.
My ideal work existence involves writing poetry, getting occasional checks for prose articles, and running my own rather informal Latin school or tutoring operation, in which I would use Hans Orberg's Lingua Latina book and speak Latin to the children as Erasmus or Thomas More would have done.
- 2 September 2012 at 18:03
- Seraphic said...
Good heavens! Gerald Durrell is ALIVE and READING MY BLOG!
Joking aside, Kristen, I am very impressed.
Actually, I am very impressed by all the solid dream-yet-rooted-in-reality jobs (NOT "companion of Doctor", m'kay) and the work you girls have put in towards them.
And Meredith, that's certainly news! Best wishes!
Meredith is a long-time reader, everybody!
- 2 September 2012 at 20:42
- Seraphic said...
I mean, Kristin!
- 2 September 2012 at 20:42
What an interesting collection of different readers with different dreams, jobs and all you have, S.!
My dream job: Living on a (mountain) farm, together with a husband who is the farmer (because me alone, I would never dare start my own farm, as I really don't know enough about it). I would have children; it would work quite well to do farmwork and have my little children around somewhere. I would keep my own sheep. I love sheep.
What have I done to achieve this? Hm, moving to Switzerland, for instance, so at least I am geographically near to potential husband-farmers... :-) Studying agronomy (okay, that doesn't make me fit for the practical work, but it helps me with my actual choice of work, i.e. in science); working on a farm for one year and several times for a shorter period during university; looking a friend over the shoulder who spent several summers on Swiss mountain farms.
This may never come true, so at the moment I am quite content with working at a research institute with sustainable agriculture as main topic (second dream: working somewhere where I can contribute to sustainable food production and preserving nature. I love nature.)
- 2 September 2012 at 22:12
- Nzie (theRosyGardener) said...
Congratulations, Meredith! And I wouldn't worry about not having a lot of experience with children. My mom was an only child who ended up with 8 kids, and she did just fine... And my older sister, who always wanted to be a mom, babysat a lot, etc., still asked my mom for advice with her kids, etc. - even stuff I'm sure she knew at one point (too much to remember). Having good values puts you and your husband on solid footing. :D
And Seraphic, it was just a bit of fun... both Kristin and I listed real things, too. :-) (And in the non-reality, Kristin, we can totally be co-companions.) :D
- 2 September 2012 at 23:48
- Mary E said...
My dream job...
I would love to eventually be a stay at home wife/mom. But if getting a job comes first, I would to work in a parish or school setting and teach religion and about the teachings of the faith. In particular, I hope I can go into family life ministry.
- 3 September 2012 at 00:13
I think the closest translation for my dream job is state attorney. Of course, I would love to get married and have lots and lots of babies as well.
To acomplish this, I finished law school last year and I'm currently very fortunate to practice in a very nice firm in my home town. One has to pass very difficult tests to get my dream job, so I study everyday I don't know how many hours.
For my second goal, well, I have no game plan, just playing by ear.
- 3 September 2012 at 14:23
- Catholic Pen said...
Wow! Lots of interesting dream jobs. I myself would say writer/stay at home mom. I have kind of finished a novel--lots to be revised. I am also getting married next June. So who knows my dream could come true :) On a side note, I have been reading Seraphic for a few years, and met my fiance in the mean time. He is a wonderful Catholic man, and I did follow many bits of advice that I read hear, all the while quite enjoying all the things Seraphic has had to say. I don't comment too much, but have been reading all along the journey I have had toward marriage. Also by the way I will be 35 when I get married so--and I didn't see it coming! He did kind of come out of nowwhere into my group of Catholic friends. Thanks be to God!
- 3 September 2012 at 15:54
My dream job involves getting paid for doing what I now do for free: developing public policy and being a spokewsoman.
Energy law would also be fun. (Fingers crossed) making some headway there.
- 3 September 2012 at 17:53
- Charming Disarray said...
Right now my dream job is working as an editor, either for a magazine or for a company where the need for good, clear writing is contributing something important to society, in whatever way that will be. To achieve that goal I went back to school to get a master's in creative writing, spent a while doing freelance editing jobs and am now working at a small magazine where I'm learning the ropes of magazine publishing, copyediting, and now some writing as well. I've also written a young adult novel but don't feel like it's polished enough to start shopping around for agents yet, but it's always at the back of my mind, bugging me. I love having my finger's in other peoples' writing, though, so I think editing has become the thing that I see myself doing primarily.
- 3 September 2012 at 19:45
I actually have my dream job, but it turned out not to be as dreamy as I thought. Don't get me wrong, I'm still quite grateful for it! But now I'm on the hunt for a new dream, or rather a passion for something or another. I know, however, that I would be hesitant to spend so much time and energy following this next dream since the first one turned out not as fulfilling as I expected. So far, I'm praying that my heart will be moved Dramatically, in a way I won't miss :) Any advice on how to find a dream?
- 3 September 2012 at 20:09
- Alisha said...
Dream job: living in New York and singing on Broadway, or at least, just making a living from my artistic pursuits alone.
Things I've done: got a music degree, taken voice lessons for almost 22 years, sung in choirs, performed in shows, taken dance classes, taken workshops, worked for free, paid to work, sent in countless headshots & CVs, and gone to auditions over and over and over...and prayed. And prayed.
Don't know that I'm any closer than I ever was...and I'm too old for the dream now, really...but I don't have any others :(
- 5 September 2012 at 19:27


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In Oil & Companies News 08/05/2017
Hedge funds and money mangers cut bullish bets on U.S. crude for the second straight week, data showed on Friday, as oil prices fell amid signs of rising output in the United States, Canada and Libya, adding to the bearish sentiment in the market.
The speculator group cut its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 60,882 contracts to 224,058 during the week to May 2, data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed.
Money managers cut gross long positions in New York Mercantile Exchange crude oil to the lowest since early November.
U.S. oil futures on the NYMEX fell nearly 4 percent and averaged about $49 per barrel during the five trading sessions ended May 2.
Compliance with output cuts agreed by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other producers fell to 90 percent in April from a revised 92 percent in March, according to a Reuters survey. Earlier, the survey showed compliance in March was 95 percent.
OPEC along with Russia and other non-OPEC members agreed to cut output 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) in the first half of 2017. The countries plan to meet on May 25 and are widely expected to maintain output limits for the rest of the year.
However, Russia said on Thursday it had not yet decided whether to extend the agreement.
Libya's National Oil Co has said production had risen above 760,000 bpd to its highest level since December 2014, and it plans to keep boosting production.
In the United States, energy companies added oil rigs for a 16th consecutive week, bringing the total count up to 703, the most since April 2015, data showed.
Still, U.S. crude inventories have fallen for the past four weeks. Last week, stockpiles fell by 930,000 barrels in the week to April 28, less than half the decreased forecast by analysts.
Among refined products, speculators slashed bullish bets in gasoline, switching to a net short position for the first time since August.
Gasoline stocks rose 191,000 barrels, much less than the 1.3 million barrel gain predicted in a Reuters poll.
Gasoline demand for the past four weeks was down 2.7 percent from a year earlier, so stocks of the fuel, at 241.2 million barrels, remained 10 percent higher than the seasonal average over the past decade.
"The net short position of 3,298 contracts is close to the bottom of the five-year range, an oversold condition in our view," said Tim Evans, energy futures specialist at CitiFutures.
In ultra low sulfur diesel, money mangers turned net short for the first time since November. The group had combined futures and options net short position of 974 contracts on the NYMEX.
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Devika Krishna Kumar in New York; editing by Paul Simao, David Gregorio, Grant McCool)


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Sometimes or more often than not the world is a crazy world one time you make friends the next time you lose some. And the hardest part is when what you lose are those friendship you value most.
I cannot understand why friendship have barrieirs…language for example… time…circumstances, etc etc. Why does friendship end when you feel you are most comfortable with at that stage? It is such a stupid and ironic concept of life. Why does friendship between a man and a woman have boundaries whereas friendship between the same gender does not have? Why does it hurt so much to lose a friend? Why?
Why is friendship strange when you feel you are most comfortable with and why the barriers? And why you feel you have to let go when you feel it so good to keep em? Why?
What is it between friendship and love? Is there an unwritten rule between the bounds of friendship and love especially between a man and a woman? Why does one of them feel one has to let go when everything is doing much ok? Why? Answer me please?
If that is the case then I would not want to interact the opposite sex to be a friend…You know it is really hard to let go and much harder to end friendship when you feel and know you feel much comfortable with?
Why is it that when one feel so much comfortable with the other the other more often misunderstand? Why? What is it that they call friendship? Am I missing something here? Tell me because I am willing to know….
Why is the word friendship invented in the first place if it does not work when it goes deeper and profound? Damn that word if it does not work! Damn people if they do not feel the word at all!
Now you tell me what is friendship all about? Tell me how it works and I tell you if it is friendship I feel. All I think is that friendship is a word which means that two people are willing to go beyond the bounds of earth to help each other. To be an ear when the other needs a third. ….does it need to be the same sex to call someone a friend? I think Mr. Webster is wrong then and need to be modified what indeed is a friendship. Who are these we can so call friends?
Are they someone who pierce our heart and let us stop for a moment? Now I am confused what is indeed a friend?


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The International Dimension
ON FEBRUARY 27, 1978, delegates from thirty-five member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO) assembled in for a "diplomatic conference" convened to discuss a proposed treaty on scientific discoveries. Concerned primarily with the international recording of discoveries, the substantive provisions of the treaty were relatively modest. Controversial issues, such as the legal protection of discoveries analogous to patentable inventions or copyright of artistic and literary works, were avoided. The treaty was designed to provide a mechanism for establishing formal international priority for scientific discoveries and especially for the central dissemination of information on new advances in knowledge "for the benefit of the scientific community and the world at large."1 The treaty, adopted on March 3, 1978, was touted as the "first multilateral treaty in history to deal exclusively with the pure sciences as intellectual property."2
The plan for convening a conference on this subject grew out of a request to the director general of WIPO on August 19, 1971, by Iuri Maksarev, then chairman of the State Committee on Inventions and Discoveries of the USSR Council of Ministers. Maksarev, noting that Article 2 (viii) of the convention establishing WIPO in 1967 referred to "rights relating to scientific discoveries" in its definition of intellectual property, asked that consideration be made of the legal status and place of discoveries in the international system of protection of intellectual property.3
On September 27, 1971, the Executive Committee of the Paris Union for the Protection of Industrial Property placed Maksarev's request on its


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Dear Doctor,
I am Gina. I was born in Davenport, Iowa to my parents, Charles and Denise Gregoire. I am lucky to be alive. I was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck. I have 8 sisters and 3 brothers. I have over 30 nieces and nephews. I married the love of my life. I have my undergraduate and master's degree from Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. I work as a probation/parole officer in Anamosa, Iowa. I have a strong faith in God. I am human.
Listen to me. I suffer from hip pain. My long, beautiful, brown hair started breaking off. I bruise easily. I am gaining weight, despite eating healthy and working out. I started getting these weird stretch marks. Please help me.
Dear doctor, no I have not always had high blood pressure. My face has not always been this fat, round and puffy. I have not always had that extra fat on the back of my neck. I have never been depressed. I have never been this anxious.
You say my cortisol levels are high. Cushing's disease? What is that? Tumor? Where? Rare…rare…rare…
Please help me,
One of the rare ones
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One of the best things about teaching Children's Lit and having a four-year old at home is the ongoing parade of marvelous picture books that make their way into our home---some of them visitors and others permanent residents, some time-honored classics and others hot off the presses.
Every night my daughter and I choose three titles to read together, and it's often the best part of my day (and guaranteed to be the best part of bedtime, by a landslide). But whenever we discover something new that delights us---or rediscover old favorites---I find myself wanting to share the experience with our faraway family and friends. And thanks to the wonders of then blogosphere, I can (and without being limited to 420 characters).
My plan is to feature one of our bedtime books every night---and maybe throw in a few of the middle-grade and YA books I'm reading sans Little Girl. See ya tomorrow!


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For the past nights ive been having nightmares every time i fall asleep. Almost the same nightmare occurred each night. I've waken up at mornings in tears. Sometimes it's making me afraid to fall asleep. I have no idea how to stop this from happening but it is not a good thing….
Last night was the worst ever… I had this bad dream, that my boyfriend cheated on me. We were now living together. He asked permission to see his old college friends whom he had not seen for years and i allowed him to. Then suddenly had this feeling to follow him without him knowing. He ended up in a mall-type place, there were his friends and among them is his ex who has been making some efforts to have him back for real. It was still ok because she is totally out of his mind, out of his life…
Then he and his ex went away from the group, the next thing i know, he was up in this hotel- looking room naked with this girl… It was awful! I pulled him out of there, told him how dare he.. He seemed more upset that i caught him, than what he actually is doing.
I went downstairs with him telling him i'm going back to my country. I remember thinking- " Please tell me you'll come with me.." " please tell me not to go.." But all he said was – " Okay, does that mean i can go back upstairs?"
It crushed me… It broke my heart….
I woke up past 4 am crying..sobbing…I was trying to reach him, network was not good… i was so depressed, so messed up…
Then finally there he was, i'm finally assured that it was only a dream…"I'm here" "It's not real.." "I love you so much" … These comforting words…his voice.. his presence… Only this can make me feel better the whole day.
"Now, i won't mind having these bad dreams or nightmares as long as you are there each time i wake up.."


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Artist: Mercury Program/Maserati Album: Confines of Heat
Label: Kindercore Rating: 4.0 out of 5*
Solid, guitar-led ambient rock by by two Kindercore artists (MP just moved from Tiger Style). Carefully crafted by both parties and well woth listening to, even if I can't say clever things about it. Rolling Stone calls it "Sex Rock". I've never had sex to this kind of music before, but the term seems appropriate. Give it a listen and see what I mean.
No vocals = all tracks clean
Preferred tracks: 2 for the MP; 5 for Maserati
Play if you like: Mono (was on tour with MP earlier this year), The Sea and Cake or the local band A Problem of Alarming Dimensions
Site: here for the MP and here for Maserati.
Both groups play at Go! Room 4 on Oct. 27. (but go to Belle and Sebastian instead).
Artist: Pitty Sing Album: s/t
Label: Or Rating: 4.75 out of 5 *s
Oh yeah. More sweet, sweet 80s sounds. Unfortunately, this only has three tracks but they all need to be played! It's very much influenced by Simple Minds (c 1986), New Order and the Cure overall, but each track has is it's own little niche. Track three puts me in mind particularly of the Buggles. All in all, sort of a post New Wave rock ride. Play me!
Track one says fuck. Quite often, unfortunately.
Site: here
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
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Jesus told the Apostles that the times of the end would be typified by birth pangs relating to, among many other things, earthquakes in diverse places. This week has seen an unusual amount of earthquakes. These tremors are occurring not just as earthquakes but other, inexplicable earth form events that have scientists perplexed. Let's begin with the more mundane of the events, regular old earthquakes.
There have been quite a number of 6.0 plus magnitude earthquakes around the world this week. Easter Island to Baffin Bay, Rat Islands Alaska to Panama to the Gulf of California. China experienced a 6.0 that collapsed 10,000 homes, damaged 40,000 and caused much other havoc. There were some serious injuries but so far thankfully, no deaths.
In addition to the strong earthquakes in diverse places this week, two highly unusual events have also occurred. One is that scientists have detected mysterious tremors deep under the San Andreas Fault in California.
Mysterious tremors detected on San Andreas Fault
"Scientists have detected a spike in underground rumblings on a section of California's San Andreas Fault that produced a magnitude-7.8 earthquake in 1857. " Uh-oh, that's not good. The article goes on: "What these mysterious vibrations say about future earthquakes is far from certain. But some think the deep tremors suggest underground stress may be building up faster than expected and may indicate an increased risk of a major temblor." Well, we know that there will be earthquakes as there have always been earthquakes but typical of the end times, they will increase in size and frequency as birth pangs always do...
"Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, monitored seismic activity on the fault's central section between July 2001 and February 2009 and recorded more than 2,000 tremors. The tremors lasted mere minutes to nearly half an hour." The tremors are at a level that is twice as high as before the 6.5 magnitude 2003 quake. The fact that the tremors haven't gone down means the time to the next earthquake may come sooner," said Berkeley seismologist and lead researcher Robert Nadeau." All scientists do know is deep tremors appear to have foreshadowed large 2004 quake. Time will tell what God will do.
Other weird earthform activity is occurring up in Alaska. People living near Homer and visiting Bluff Point today were stunned to find a dramatic change in the beach. Where, the day before, beachcombers had a long flat beach in which to stroll, the very next day a 1,000 foot long bluff reaching 20 feet high greeted them. No one knows why.
'Uplift' baffles scientists, transforms area beach
"Like a giant fist punching through the earth, a 1,000-foot long section of the beach below Bluff Point rose up 20 feet from the tidelands sometime last Friday or late Thursday, pushing boulders up from the ocean bottom, cracking sandstone slabs and toppling rocks upside down. Below Bluff Point, a new fissure opened up at the base of the 800-foot high cliff."
Scientists don't know exactly what caused the uplift. It would take an earthquake over magnitude 7 to cause an uplift that high, said Peter Haeussler, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Anchorage. "I have no idea," he said when he first learned of the uplift. "This sounds really, really bizarre."
Why yes. Yes it does. You know, it kind of reminds me of the Corn Field Volcano that erupted in front if a guy plowing back in 1943. One minute, field, next morning, Volcano!
Though Mount Redoubt volcano has been extremely active, scientists do not attribute the mysterious uplift at Homer across the bay to be connected. Scientists have also ruled out an earthquake as the cause. Haeussler said, "You would have felt a huge earthquake if it was earthquake related." Hmmm. Stay tuned.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Earthquakes in diverse places
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- AnonymousFebruary 26, 2013 at 2:55 PM
Perhaps it's HAARP technology that's doing all this. There's plenty of info on google. Hmmmm. God help us all.ReplyDelete
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Bible Word of the Day: Immanence
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Did Obama win because of his policies?
The theory Barack Obama was re-elected due to his policies, as offered by the New York Times, is laughable.
President Obama's dramatic re-election victory was not a sign that a fractured nation had finally come together on Election Day. But it was a strong endorsement of economic policies that stress job growth, health care reform, tax increases and balanced deficit reduction — and of moderate policies on immigration, abortion and same-sex marriage.
Such "analysis" is beyond idiotic: Obama won in spite of his policies, not because of them.
The economy is, and has been, in the septic tank for the duration of Obama's presidency—the Obama 'recovery' has been worse than the Bush 'recession.' Job "growth" is limited to the government sector and part-time employment. Health care "reform" creates another mega-entitlement filled with demand while squeezing supply. As for tax increases… well, there's that whole fiscal cliff thing. "Balanced deficit reduction" means adding over five trillion to the national debt during Obama's first-term. "Moderate" policies on immigration never happened; "moderate policies" on abortion advocate any time, any where, any reason, and someone else pays; finally, "moderate policies" on homosexual "marriage" is sop to homosexuals (and when they "divorce," to the trial lawyers).
But what happens when the music stops? When John Galt bails—or heads to greener pastures—and there's literally (Biden-speak) no more wealth to be spread around? We've had the dot com bubble and the housing bubble, and now we're in the still-inflating government bubble. It's just a matter of when it pops and the longer it inflates, the worse the pop is going to be.
So contrary to the brilliant minds at the New York Times, Obama won for one reason: voters viewed him as more likable than Mitt Romney and they cast their ballots accordingly. It's the same burden John McCain faced in 2008. The 2012 Obama corollary is 1) few voters understand the free-lunch fallacy and 2) the media gave him a free ride (or better said, paid his way).
The president's first-terms policies have been one fail after another and given Obama's demonstrated inability to learn from his mistakes, a second-term will present more daunting challenges for normal Americans than ever before.
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Still finding myself on the hunt for a pink or coral-y pair of shoes to wear to a family member's wedding later this year. I usually never have a problem like this; it's just, well, I want them to be extra perfect. Maybe it's because I'll be single at said event, see, and I want to look real real pretty. Whatever the reason is, I just want to find a pair that I really, really want to wear. So when I saw these Zara pointy-toed pretties, I thought they might feet to a t.
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Opening ceremonies were just right with local officials and IODA poobahs mixing with hundreds of attendees in historic downtown Tavira. TeamUSA looked snazzy in their team polos, boardshorts and super cool cowboy hats. Giddy up!
Broadband issues tonight at the Albacore prohibit your faithful scribe from uploading the pics from the parade and ceremony but I promise to get to the venue early-ish (folks in the US will still be dreaming of sugarplums while I am hard at work by then!) Fleet assignments will be available in the morning as well so we will update you then.
Alex, Cooper, Ian and Romain are already in bed after pasta loading tonight at Mama Mia. They even passed on gelato... wow, they are really getting serious over here!
Signing off and standing by in Tavira, and since it is almost past midnight let me be the first to say... Happy Fourth of July!


text: The balcony is a jungle of tomato plants! We got rid of a couple that were not producing, which freed up some air space. It's also too green on the balcony so I've decided to add some color. Apparently, it's not too late to grow sunflowers. I have a packet of seeds and will plant them this weekend.


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To make your own smoked mackerel is way cheaper and healty than the one you buy at the store.
- 3 fresh mackerel ( you can decide how many)
- 1 tsp of salt
- 1Preheat the oven on 200C
- 2Clean the mackerel and remove the gills and fins
- 3Place the mackerel on a bake pan or the one i use as you can see in the picture above.
- 4sprinkle salt on it and use your hand to rub the salt around the mackerel.
- 5Allow it to rest for 20 minutes and remove the water from the fish.
- 6Bake it until it get golden brown, turn it and repeat the same.


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My Review:
My Rating: ★★★★★
She Caught Me by D.R. Lee is such a good destresser. Lol. It got me giggling and smiling. A lot!
Melissa sure is a gutsy girl.
This is a very quick read (it's a novelette of 10,400 words) and a very cute one at that. This is one of those select few stories that I'm sure I will reread in the future.
About the book:
Melissa Castillo has had enough of hiding her feelings for her best friend Samuel Torres. They've been best friends for far too long, and she has been in love with him ever since forever! It also doesn't help that Sam is a big tease. He always drops an innuendo or two when they're together, but doesn't really act on it.
Now that College graduation is just around the corner, Melissa finally convinced herself to push her inhibitions aside. She hatches a plan to reveal everything she felt for him without actually telling him!
You can check this book here:
About the Author
D.R. Lee is the pen name of a law student hailing from the Philippines. Outside of her academic endeavor, she does writing, painting, and a whole lot of reading. On a perfect day, she talks with the people inside her head and tells their stories through printed words.