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Freedom of Speech for Whom?
Recent events have prompted discussion about freedom of speech and its limits and, whilst I'd rather not weigh in on the case of Geert Wilders specifically, I would like to raise the more general and philosophical issue of freedom of speech - an issue that obviously affects the specific case in hand.
As far as those people whose views I find objectionable - such as Holocaust Deniers, Fascists, Theocrats et al - I'm generally of the opinion expressed by Evelyn Beatrice Hall (and mis-attributed to Voltaire) - "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." However, if I may play Devil's Advocate, I would like to put forward a counter argument that is specific to our time.
I will phrase this argument in the form of a question (one which, given the present climate, I cannot fully and satisfactorily answer myself):
Is it logical to grant freedom of speech to someone whose views - if accepted by a large part of the population - would put an end to freedom of speech?
This question is hinting at a clause within the principle of freedom of speech, almost a self-continuing clause, if you will, that freedom of speech should not be granted in those few times where it is possible that the result of that freedom would be the end of that freedom.
Now, generally I would disagree with this argument whole-heartedly, and I will bring up some counter arguments shortly. However, I think that it is important, when considering this question, to look at the state of the world's economy. In times of economic crisis, when the vast majority of people are doing very badly financially, extremism tends to do very well. William Cobbett's old saying, "I defy you to agitate a man on a full stomach", rings well in reverse too. Thus, it might be argued, that in the short term, we are at greater risk from political extremism. Therefore, would it not be sensible to limit the freedoms of only those few extremists whose freedom might result in the curtailment of the freedom of others, and create a very serious threat to public order. Should we not curtail a few freedoms in the short term, in order to maintain the principle of freedom in the long term? You might take Geert Wilders to be one of those people - although I probably would not, given the very small number of people for which Wilders' own brand of Islamophobia and prejudice is attractive (some might say that the electoral success of the BNP in some areas shows Wilders' threat, although I would say that the great mobiliser for the BNP is not Islam, but immigration, and alienation - although Nick Griffin may well come within the bounds of someone whose freedoms should be curtailed). You might also take Yusuf al-Qaradawi to be such an individual, and he probably has a larger audience than Geert Wilders.
There are multiple possible counter arguments (or counter counter arguments - if you will):
- Who will decide who constitutes such a great threat to our freedom? Judges? Politicians? Civil Servants? The system would be open to misuse for political reasons.
- If freedom of speech is an absolute then there can be no situation in which it should be curtailed. If you accept freedom of speech for a particular individual in most cases, why not in this case? It seems illogical that an individual who would be free to say what he pleased twelve months ago should now be prevented from doing so. The counter argument to this is the example of Adolf Hitler and the NAZI party, who gained support during the Great Depression quite rapidly, moving from being a fringe party of lunatics to a major player in the Reichstag.
- The suggestion is not applicable to modern life, as there is no extremist group that truly threatens to gain power and thus destroy our basic freedoms. I will stress that the argument is hypothetical, it is a 'what if?' not a specific point about a specific individual. However, I will once again raise the specter of Hitler and fascism to demonstrate how easy it can be in a time of crisis for people to turn to the extremes. Another example from (arguably) the other end of the spectrum, would be the Bolsheviks in 1917. In February, after the Tsar was deposed, a liberal(ish) Provisional Government was set up that was forced to work in tandem with the socialist(ish) Petrograd Soviet. The Bolsheviks, who were always a fringe organisation - even within the RSDLP - were not involved in either. They were only able to take over the Soviet - through elections, mind - due to the ongoing war and the coalescence of the more moderate Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries behind the PG's war effort. Once again, in October, they were only able to take full power due to popular unrest, greatly influenced by the PG's weakness (and by the war and the economy etc).
- One should be confident that, through argument and dialogue, one can argue succesfully for the liberal point of view. The problem with this is that it might be sound in normal prosperity, but times of crisis result in a paradigm shift that may not allow for it.
I think that I can see the case that I have put forward here - I can see that it has some validity. In my head, it sounds sensible. However, in my heart, I cannot accept it. I can also see the pervading authoritarianism of it, and the problems that entails. All-in-all, I cannot see a resolution to this problem that will overcome all the issues - it seems to be an ultimate catch-22.
In case you're wondering why this is so important:
For an example of what happens in a country where freedom of speech is curtailed to the point of non-existence, one need look no further than here.


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Dear Family and Friends,
It's been a long time since the news broadcasts on Short Wave Radio Africa have been deliberately jammed by loud, repetitive electronic noises but suddenly, alarmingly, its back.
The jamming of SW Radio Africa began at 7.20pm on the night of the 1st September 2010. The news bulletin was by then more than two thirds completed and a report on the need for extra funding for the constitutional outreach programme was just about to be aired. A loud interference broke into the broadcast, the repeated tones continuing until 8.00 pm, making it impossible to hear the remainder of the news reports or the following half hour programme.
Suspicions were immediately raised and the automatic question is: What's going on? What is it that the Zimbabwe government doesn't want us to know?
Its been over ten years since the fight for political dominance in Zimbabwe destroyed agriculture and business, chased 4 million people out of the country and turned our lives upside down; ten years during which we all learned what signals to look out for when something is up. The jamming of SW Radio Africa is one of those very clear signs and eyebrows are up.
You would think that that with the explosion of cell phone lines in the country and the return of an independent daily newspaper there wouldn't be a need for radio jamming anymore, but that's not the case. For the vast majority of Zimbabweans a newspaper is a luxury; computers, emails and internet access are a remote dream and sitting listening to a short wave radio station for two hours a night is the only way to get information that's not blatant propaganda.
So what is that they don't want us to know?
Could it be the news that a Bulawayo artist is facing charges with a 20 year prison term for an art exhibition?
Or the fact that the former education minister and Mashonaland East Governor is in a renewed land grab on the few remaining farms in and around Marondera ?
Perhaps it's the continuing reports of intimidation and harassment surrounding the constitutional outreach programme.
Maybe it's the 24 point document outlining action to be taken to apparently resolve issues outstanding from the tri party political agreement - issues which are 18 months overdue.
Or maybe, the jamming of SW Radio Africa is being done so that we can't hear the voices of ordinary people trying to live ordinary lives in a country where fear, intimidation and harassment are still all around us all the time and the only real change we see from our huge government is food in our shops.
When SW Radio Africa asked MDC Information minister Nelson Chamisa what was behind the radio jamming, Mr Chamisa said he didn't know the station was being jammed. His response was a mirror image of MDC co Home Affairs minister Theresa Makone, When asked about the arrest and detention of a Bulawayo artist, Mrs Makone said she didn't know about it. How soon they've forgotten that SW Radio Africa was their only voice before they got into Zimbabwe's massive government – a voice they don't listen to anymore?
Ironically the jamming of SW Radio Africa doesn't make less people listen to the broadcasts, but exactly the reverse because now even more people want to know what the government are trying to hide. Until next time, thanks for reading, love Cathy.
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We've been looking for nearly 6 months to find the right one :)
Is it cute?
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
It is finally here!
Posted by DivSu at 8:06 PM
8 comments:
- Abhinav said...
Nice :)
What is it .. a snake ?
- Wed Jul 01, 09:06:00 PM GMT+5:30
- Sri said...
Cool..is it a mini fountain kind of thing??
- Thu Jul 02, 10:04:00 AM GMT+5:30
- DivSu said...
@ Sri, yeah it is a home fountain :)
@ Abhi, snake?? How did you conjure that up?!
- Thu Jul 02, 11:46:00 AM GMT+5:30
- Sandhya said...
very cute :-)
- Thu Jul 02, 08:26:00 PM GMT+5:30
Like with all piece of arts you can never make what it is.
Doesn't matter though - it is interesting.
Nice conversation starter for visitors to your home :)
- Mon Jul 06, 09:50:00 PM GMT+5:30
does look like a snake (snake head at the top and tail at the bottom).
My impressions: looks ok but then it is all about personal preferences. If you guys like it, then thats all that matters.
- Tue Jul 07, 12:11:00 AM GMT+5:30
- Usha said...
Very pretty and fits so well in that place? where from?
- Fri Jul 10, 07:38:00 AM GMT+5:30
- DivSu said...
@Usha (I always feel compelled to add "aunty" :) ) - It is from Lifestyle..
- Tue Sep 01, 06:24:00 PM GMT+5:30
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Agriculture, especially in the semi-arid and arid regions of the Great Plains is on the tail end of its slippery slope of demise – as it has been since the first farmer to have a water well drilled into the Ogallala Aquifer (currently the largest underground water supply in the country) thought the supply was endless. The farming of annual crops only hastens the dwindling underground water supplies in the High Plains region, and continues to deplete a soil biota that took millions of years to form. Turning this area back to native shortgrass prairie would be the only proper thing to do, for it is way past time for a change.
This aquifer does not recharge (refill) as easily as some others do when precipitation falls within its watersheds, largely due to the simple facts that the region has a high rate of evaporation, rainfall is highly variable in the drought-common region over time and space, the difference in thickness of the layers of the aquifer itself, as well as the differences in soil types – clayey soils make recharge very low, while others like the Edwards Aquifer with its karst formations allows far greater recharge. Rather, the Ogallala is recharged by overland flow (runoff) from heavy rains and spring snowmelt from the watersheds of the Eastern Rocky Mountains and foothills, as well as heavy rains that fill the seasonally-inundated playa basins.
However, because snowpacks are smaller and subsequent snowmelt in the Southern Rockies is earlier than in recent decades, and vast changes in surface hydrology in the region have occured due to wasteful lawns, plowing of playa basins and 10,000 year old shortgrass prairies, roads, cities, houses, farms, ditches, reuse pits, stock tanks, dams, and all the other man-made "improvements", as well as current changes in the global climate, those recharge processes are forever broken and little of the precipitation today recharges the aquifer.
We can't continue to sacrifice our water to build a food supply for other countries – especially when the US wastes 40-50% of what we grow and produce. This is severely unsustainable and ecologically unethical; and shameful, too. But most of the public won't pay any mind to this situation until they go and turn on their faucet and nothing comes out. What a sad world we live in when we take for granted something as precious and life-giving as water, especially the Ogallala water, for it is fossil water, and once it's pumped out, it's gone forever.
"We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past."
– Winston Churchill
Ogallala Facts:
• If spread across the U.S. the aquifer would cover all 50 states with 1.5 feet of water
• If drained, it would take more than 6,000 years to refill naturally
• More than 90 percent of the water pumped is used to irrigate crops
• The aquifer is currently being drained at about 6 times the rate of recharge, largely due to agriculture
Source: University of Texas at Austin
"The complicated prairie survives against the odds, and our simple farms don't." – Paul Gruchow
For more information about how human-caused changes are affecting our water supply on a global scale, check out the documentary "Last Call at the Oasis". The trailer is below.


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Throughout my life, I've heard of people who have the "Bucket List." Things they want to do before they kick the bucket. I think I'd rather call it a Life List. Anything on that list would have to ADD to your life, or it wouldn't be worth putting on a list! I've never made such a list, have you?
If I were to start such a list, what might I add to my already BLESSED LIFE?
I might add things such as:
1. Go snorkeling.
2. In my dreams I para-sail, but not sure I would be brave enough in real life.
3. Publish a book with my byline.
4. Make a souffle.
5. Try truffle-laced ANYTHING.
6. Visit Japan.
7. Mission trip to Mexico.
8. Go on a cruise.
9. Find the perfect hairstyle (that might TAKE a lifetime!).
10.Sing the national anthem at events in 5 different towns. (one down, four to go)
More important is my spiritual "Life List." It contains only 2 items:
1. To grow in my relationship with Christ, and to know Him in His fullness; pleasing Him in my thoughts and deeds.
2. To reflect Christ to others, discipling them and being discipled by them in an interactive fellowship, always mindful of inviting others to join the journey with me.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Life List
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Today at the senior center we were sending "test emails" and I use a big projector screen in the front of the classroom that the seniors refer to while they sit at their desktop stations. I was showing them how to compose emails to someone in their contact list and in the subject field I started to write "this is a test" however, I was a key off in my typing and accidentally wrote:
which was projected on the big screen for all to see.
I also use pics of Chum and Wrigs as attachments when I show them how to open image files and I snapped a pic of Wrigs on the big screen:
And as you can see to the side I already put up their pics on the day we learned how to print.
I have so many more stories to share but Tom just poured some lemoncello so I don't think I'll get to it right at the moment.
p.s. one of my students rides in on a hover round.


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Supplements vs Fast Food vs Real Food
by David Smith
It's no secret that the supplement industry is huge. Bringing in over 5 billion dollars a year it is definitely big business and it's not going anywhere soon. From athletes, body builders and even your every day person looking to get fit, everybody seems to be taking some kind of supplement, and there is definitely no shortage of them. Some popular supplements being taken are protein, creatine, glutamine and multi-vitamins. Walk into any GNC store, and if you can get past the high pressure salesman, you'll be overwhelmed at what's in the store.
The FDA has very minimal, if any, regulations regarding supplements which means they are not regularly tested for foreign substances and the manufacturers can essentially say what they'd like in regards to what the supplement contains, where it comes from and what it actually does.
A recent study came out to suggest that in post-workout recovery process, supplements are no more effective than fast food in refueling your body. Then are supplements really worth taking? With how fancy they are, coming in various powders, in bar form, and in so many flavors and what not many people believe that they are healthy but when you compare the nutritional facts you might be better off just eating a Snickers. Also you can get all the nutritional benefit from a protein bar without the chalky taste powders. One might argue that protein bars or other supplements contain fancy vitamins or minerals that make them nutritionally superior to a Snicker's bar, but what if they just "claim" they're superior.
Post-Workout Glycogen Restoration is easily achieved through simple carbs, in which are sugars in their most basic form that the body can easily and quickly absorb into the muscles for use. You're body is very metabolically active as it works to recharge it's fuel stores and repair your muscles. So the best time to have such naughty treats is post-workout since you will use it rather than store it.
Having said that, comparing supplements to fast food as the study suggests, there isn't much difference in how your body processes the food. Again your body is very active post-workout and the absorption of nutrients is quite active, so while post-workout is a great time to have a cheat meal, it is an even better time to have a high quality nutrient dense meal. Nutrient dense foods are foods, which are high in vitamins, minerals and fibers. While many supplements are fortified with vitamins and minerals they don't compare with that of nutrient dense food, not only do you get the necessary diversity of the nutrients but often times certain vitamins and minerals interact with each other in ways that supplements can't necessary replicate. Vitamin D and Calcium is a common example.
Minerals can especially be found in leafy greens and vegetables, but aren't always "bio-available." That means that your body won't absorb the entire mineral contained within the vegetable and ends up leaving the body. Eating such nutrient dense foods post workout increases the absorption of the food you eat, specifically the calories, vitamins, minerals, fiber and water that is contains.
For a quick snack post workout, sometimes you grab what you have on hand. As an athlete, I always try to leave the gym with a snack in hand. Usually a hard-boiled egg or even a fruit smoothie containing vanilla protein powder. The best advice is to "keep it simple." Post workout you need some protein, you need some carbs and you need some fats. The amounts of course will vary depending on your goals, but focus most on consuming high quality, nutrient dense foods when possible.
Remember you are what you eat and the quality of food you eat has a direct effect on your bodies capabilities.
David Smith, Exercise Professional: Stonewall Fitness
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Definition of the noun agama
What does agama mean as a name of something?
noun - plural: agamas
- small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World
- lexical domain: Animals - nouns denoting animals
- more generic terms: agamid / agamid lizard = a lizard of the family Agamidae
- member of: genus Agama = type genus of the Agamidae
Alternative definition of the noun agama
- Any of the various small, long-tailed lizards of the subfamily Agaminae, especially in genera Acanthocercus, Agama, Dendragama, Laudakia, Phrynocephalus, Trapelus and Xenagama.
AGAMA is an Aviation waypoint.
- Agama a.k.a. Āgama: The Agamas are a collection of Sanskrit, Tamil and Grantha scriptures chiefly constituting the methods of temple construction and creation of murti, worship means of deities, philosophical doctrines, meditative practices, attainment of sixfold desires and four kinds of yoga.
- also known as Hindu Agamas
- Agama a.k.a. Āgama: In Buddhism, an āgama is a collection of Early Buddhist scriptures. The five āgamas together comprise the Suttapiṭaka of the early Buddhist schools, which had different recensions of each āgama. In the Pali Canon of the Theravada, the term nikāya is used in place of āgama.
Phrases with Agama
Phrases starting with the word Agama:
- Agama agama
- Agama Picta
- Agama Zonura
- Agama Boensis
- Agama cornuta
- Agama Elgonis
- Agama Mwanzae
- Agama Smithii
- Agama Spinosa
- Agama Tigrina
- Agama Wagneri
- Agama Africana
- Agama Bibronii
- Agama Catenata
- Agama collaris
- Agama Cornutum
- Agama Fasciata
Phrases ending with the word Agama:
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Printed encyclopedias and other books with definitions for Agama
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Food and Hygiene (1907)
An Elementary Treatise Upon Dietetics and Hygienic Treatment by William Tibbles
The agama is a lizard eaten for food, and represents the iguana of South America . There is an abundance of birds upon the continent ; but the Gallinaceas, which are most suitable for food, are badly represented. Grouse is represented by the ...
Critical Survey of Studies on the Anthropology of Nias, Mentawei and Enggano (2013)
by Peter T. Suzuki
The movement is called Agama Mesehi Indonesia Nias (The Messiah religion of Indonesia in Nias) and members of the sect call themselves "amin". DIJKSTRA, H ., 1916, Rechtsbepalingen op Nias. De Macedonièr (Groningen) 20: 49–53.
Bearded Dragons (2017)
by Wil Mara
The Sinai agama is an agamid lizard related to the bearded dragon. Within the agamids, the bearded dragon is in a group. 8.
Hindu God, Christian God : How Reason Helps Break Down the Boundaries between Religions (2001)
How Reason Helps Break Down the Boundaries between Religions by Francis X. Clooney Professor of Comparative Theology Boston College
The Mrgendra Agama is a Sanskrit-language Saiva text from before 1100. It explores multiple aspects of Saiva theology, ranging from a treatment of the philosophical problems related to divine embodiment to a practical and explicitly ritual ...
The Encyclopedia of Animals (2004)
A Complete Visual Guide by Fred Cooke
Crtlamydosaurus ting//, family Agamidae Banded agama laudakia stelho. family Agamidae Thorny devil Molixh horritiui. family Agamidae Eastern bearded dragon Pogona Mroata, family Agamidae Ocellated mastigure Uromastyx ocellata, ...
Encyclopedia of Hinduism (2006)
by Constance Jones, James D. Ryan
agama most commonly means " authoritative scripture." Different systems of tantric tradition may designate different texts as agamas. In South India, for instance, there is a tradition called Agamanta ...
Online dictionaries and encyclopedias with entries for Agama
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Photos about Agama
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- Agama
Serengeti National Park (Tanzania)
Photo credit: Feans
- Agama
A Brightly colored Agama keeps an eye on the sky as he also tries to impress his mate.
Photo credit: Ganesh raghunathan
- Rainbow agama
Photo credit: cricketsblog
- Agama!
Photo credit: David W. Siu
- Agama Lizard
Photo credit: Abi Skipp
- Female Namibian Rock Agama
Photo credit: NH53
- The Claw (Rock Agama)
Photo credit: Flavio~
- Male Agama lizards are so fancy!
Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.
Photo credit: mcoughlin
- Red-headed Rock Agama
Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya
Photo credit: Phase Locked Loop
- Agama Lizard
Agama Lizards, with male in the foreground, and the female, out of focus in the background.
Photo credit: VicBurolla
- Ground Agama (Agama aculeata) male
Rooiplat Loop, Mountain Zebra NP, Eastern Cape, SOUTH AFRICA
Photo credit: berniedup
- Agama lizard
This Agama was recovering from a fight, hence its weird position and closed eyes.
Photo credit: tonrulkens
- Shield-tailed Agama
Oregon Zoo
Photo credit: analisezocher
- Flat Headed Agama Masai Mara
A flat headed agama (agama mwanzae), in Masai Mara national park, southwest Kenya.
Photo credit: blieusong
- Ground Agama (Agama aculeata)
Mokala NP, SOUTH AFRICA
Photo credit: berniedup
- Ground Agama (Agama aculeata)
Auob River Bed, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, SOUTH AFRICA
Photo credit: berniedup
- Ground Agama (Agama aculeata)
Rooiplat Loop, Mountain Zebra NP, Eastern Cape, SOUTH AFRICA
Photo credit: berniedup
- Rock Agama
The SAP Labs Bangalore has a Hugh campus with a lot of importance to open spaces and gardens. Now, because of this, there are your garden lizards too which you'd find every morning socking up the sun on the stone pavements. Here's one such beauty :D...
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- Red-headed Rock Agama
Wonderfully-colored lizard at the airport in Moshi, Tanzania
Photo credit: string_bass_dave
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I have been busy making cards. I have absolutely LOVED the Parisian Breeze Designer Series paper which was released in the Spring Mini catalogue, due to end 30th November, 2009. I will be very sad to see it go, but am excited to see what the next Mini catalogue has in store for us!
Please remember, if you want to order from the Spring Mini catalogue, do so BEFORE the end of next month. My final order from the mini will be on the 29th November, so please, if there is any last minute products you need to purchase, let me know. :-)
.. and back to Christmas cards! This one was just a very quick and easy card, using the Winter Posts stamp set, Certainly Celery and close to cocoa cardstock. Don't you just love those jumbo brads!
How are your Christmas preparations coming along? I hope you have yourselves a bit better organised than I seem to be. :-) I do have most of my cards ready, it's the gifts I seem to have left a little late preparing, but I AM working on them. I won't be able to share them here till after Christmas, as they are for gifts for family (who sometimes check out my blog) but I will certainly share them with you after.
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I told myself I wasn't going to add anymore quilt alongs to my list for a while. But that was before I saw In the Garden. And here is my first block.
I did a trial run of a paper pieced block using Jason Yenter's Return to Atlantis. Unfortunately, as you can tell by the photo, I'm going to have to change it up a bit. I only did a quick trial, and didn't even try to make it all fit right. I just wanted to see the fabrics together.
Other odd things in the works, but nothing close to being finished. I just wanted to pop in and say hello.


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Google was voted the UK's top brand in a new survey published today by YouGov. The internet search engine moved up two places from last year to knock Microsoft off the top spot.
Founded twelve years ago by two students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google has grown to become one of the most recognisable brands in the world thanks to its search engine and the purchase of YouTube back in 2006.
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|Reviews for More Than Coffee
| marli-slashs fan chapter 5 . 6/13/2011
Gosh, it's so perfect, i was between tears and smile.
Bravo, wow, i don't know what to add.
| BM22OwenstinaKB chapter 5 . 6/9/2011
So freaking love this story! So awesome! Wish my parents were like Burt.
| snowangellms chapter 5 . 6/4/2011
love this story!
| gleerockssodontdenyit chapter 5 . 5/29/2011
pLEASE PLEASE CONTINUE
| PB Headless chapter 5 . 5/23/2011
This was lovely :) thanks for brightening my day.
| Mint Panda chapter 5 . 5/18/2011
Probably the best glee fanfiction I've read.
| blue-peridot chapter 1 . 5/17/2011
ohmygod, it's you! i love your fics on lj, i'm so glad i found you here! what luck. this was a great story, by the way. oh wonderful, now i can review and put you on alert and all :)
| asterisk'd chapter 5 . 5/17/2011
Aww, oh my gosh, this was adorable. I loved that we got inside Burt's head for a while, to see what he thought about everything concerning Kurt and Blaine...and that moment with Blaine crying into Burt's shoulder was heartbreaking and lovely at the same time. Excellent story!
| Eliza111 chapter 5 . 5/15/2011
Very cute!
| Shadil chapter 5 . 5/13/2011
Can this be canon or...?
This was adorable. Seriously, this was amazing and sweet, Burt Hummel manages to make me sob like a child even if it's just fanfiction. Thank you for writing such a sweet piece.
| mardie186 chapter 5 . 5/12/2011
This was very sweet. I love Burt Hummel and am always glad when he shows up in an episode. Please write more Klaine and Burt stories.
| Amethyst Archer chapter 5 . 5/11/2011
I love how Blaine could tell that Kurt had designed the room. The way he held Kurt's mother's picture was adorable. Carole beating Burt the punch made me smile. I love that Burt still spied even though he liked Blaine; Burt would still spy haha. The ending made me soooo happy. I'm really glad Kurt showed up because it ended with THAT. :)
| Amethyst Archer chapter 4 . 5/11/2011
Burt is so fantastically awesome; I love how you wrote his concern for Blaine and his hesitance for Kurt to grow up. I also love that Blaine misses Kurt at Dalton; it's just so adorable and a little sad.
| Militant Delusionalist chapter 5 . 5/11/2011
I love Papa Burt. :) He's fantastic! I smile every time I see on. I loved this! Everyone was pretty IC. And I like that Burt and Blaine developed a bit of a relationship. Burt's thoughts of Kurt made my heart melt. Great story!
Would you think about writing a one shot (OR MORE) of Burt talking to Blaine about his dad? I think you did a fantastic job of showing that Blaine has some baggage that most definitely needs to be explored. *nudge*
| Amethyst Archer chapter 3 . 5/10/2011
Blaine HAS always been the king of subtlety. ;) This chapter was awesome once again; just sayin'


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I know I haven't written in a while. I would think about writing, but I didn't know where to begin. I would let my mind slowly reach towards the fire of thoughts, images, and emotions I knew was raging somewhere inside of me, but it felt like bandages were being torn away from newly covered, gaping wounds. I quickly pulled away. I honestly didn't know if I was going to make it through the rest of my program. Getting out of bed was an immense effort, and I started searching for flights home on kayak.com. Well, I thought about searching for them…my computer was too far away for my comatose state.
Tears seemed to leak out of my eyes without warning. We stopped asking each other how we were doing, because it seemed like how are you? triggered just about all of the tear ducts in our hostel. Unraveling, people. We were unraveling.
Then, a miracle happened.
Last night, the skies cracked open and gumdrops of rain sobbed from above. Everyone ran for cover, and I just stood there, arms outstretched, unmoving. Within seconds I was drenched and it didn't matter. If I was crying, the sky was crying, too. Lightning struck all around us, and soul trembling thunder ripped through the night air. Soon, I was joined by a few from my group who felt just as overcome with anguish over the last week. We spoke very little, but let the pelting rain soak in past our clothes, past our skin, into our aching, despairing hearts. Minute by minute we were healing. We started smiling, we started hugging, we started laughing, we started dancing. The storm just stayed, suspended over us. It rained and rained and rained.
Our entire group finally joined in, even Ann our incredible director. The Bosnians and other Americans who had joined the dinner peered out from the windows inside the house. They've completely lost it said the eyes of the onlookers.
Yes, yes I have lost it! I have seen images I will never be able to unsee. I have heard stories I carry with me every waking moment. I am burdened with experiences that wake me up panicking with nightmares. I am laden with grief for the people I have met, for the burden I know they endure day after day.
To have a woman look you in the eyes and say I am waiting to die because her husband and her two sons were tortured and executed in a genocide – this plagues my thoughts and gnaws at my heart. You will leave my house tonight, but I will still be here. I will be here alone in the rooms where my boys used to run. I suffer inside. My soul suffers – there's nothing to console that pain.
The tears I shed over the last week did not even touch a drop of this ocean of despair. And then, the skies cracked open and gumdrops of rain sobbed from above.
Rose: I don't believe in God, but that was the closest thing to it.
Me: I do. And that was divine intervention.
I sit here this morning at a hotel typing to you, and tears still well up in my eyes. I know I need to write. I know I need to tell and retell their stories. They asked me not to forget, they asked me to share what they have experienced so that no one will have to live what they are living. These tears are not from pity. The people I have met have more tenacity and endurance and grace than anyone I know.
So I will start with Tuzla, the first city we visited last weekend. It was great to be in a hotel that was semi-nice. Just from a completely shallow standpoint, I liked Tuzla immediately. It has a smaller feel than Sarajevo, but is still bustling with activity. It wasn't overwhelming. Interestingly, very few people wear hijabs there, even though it is still predominantly Muslim.
We arrived after a long, snaking drive through the Eastern region of Bosnia to meet with Amir (need to get his last name). This man works in the office of the Mayor of Tuzla, and is a powerhouse. He's a heavier set man who towers over everyone in my group. Gray hair, salt and pepper beard with round cheeks and many years of burek sitting in his belly. He put on his thin reading glasses; as Ann says, he can't think without his glasses. Out of his briefcase, he pulled pages and pages of notes that he meticulously organized on his desk before beginning to speak. He spoke in Bosnian and Hasan translated.
Amir is a survivor of the Death March. He spent 7 days and 7 nights in the forest before successfully entering Nezuk and then Tuzla, the free territory. When he left Srebrenica, he said goodbye to his wife who was 7 months pregnant. He told us that after he left, the Bosnian Serb army was separating his wife from her father. She desperately tried to cling to him until a soldier pointed a gun at her pregnant belly threatening to shoot her baby and kill her. Her father shuffled her onto one of the buses transporting women and children to Tuzla. She never saw him again.
Two months later, in September, she gave birth to their son. Today, she still suffers from these memories.
Amir is an academic, a father, a tenacious survivor. I talked to him about his recovery, and he told me about the time he spent in the Netherlands. They tried to medicate him, but his anxiety spiked, his heart raced constantly, he was paralyzed by both depression and paranoia. Once he returned to Bosnia and connected with other survivors, his life regained meaning and purpose. He is a ferocious advocate for transitional justice.
Transitional justice considers four main areas: 1. judicial/criminal prosecutions, 2. establishing facts and telling the truth, 3. reparations and compensations, 4. institutional reforms.
His work with transitional justice has inspired me to look at the disproportionate focus on prosecutions. Many survivors die before any trial concludes, many perpetrators serve only a few years and have since returned to positions of power in communities where these survivors live. Is late justice justice at all? Amir questioned. Yes, I think yes it is. But it is not sufficient. I am not discounting the necessity of bringing criminals to justice, but it is evident that these convictions are not helping the victims heal.
I thought that men could die just once, but after a genocide, you can die again. First, when your life is taken away. Again when your bones are transferred, but denial of victims is the last phase of genocide. Every day we spend in silence. It is a denial that you have existed as a human being. (Amir)
Serbia denies the Srebrenica genocide. Many Bosnian Serbs deny or downplay the degree to which Bosniaks were systematically grouped, expelled and massacred in Eastern Bosnia. Without the establishment of truth, without being able to share their stories and their experiences, the survivors suffer protracted trauma from blatant denial. Another survivor, Hasan (whose story I will tell soon), described this:
By denying the genocide, they are saying my father and my twin brother are trash. They already executed them and threw their bodies into mass graves. They dug up the graves to scatter the bodies in secondary graves, trying to cover up their acts. They just threw them in a pile. A pile of trash. My father and brother, trash.
Tears welled up in his eyes as made the motion of tossing a banana peel into the garbage. Twenty-one years later, this is the burden they bear. This is the pain they suffer. This is the perpetuation of genocide.
In consideration of transitional justice, it is imperative that survivors are given a platform to tell their stories. Many thought that protected witness trials would provide this. This is not the case. The witnesses are asked questions, asked about certain pieces of their stories, what the prosecution teams deems important for the trial. These dynamics return survivors to an inferior position. Empowerment is imperative for addressing trauma, and the environment of the courts does not offer such a space.
While truth commissions are structured as a means for testimonials, the impersonal environment lacks the support often needed for survivors to feel safe sharing their stories and supported by a community. Some benefit is gained from these forums, but often survivors are re-traumatized by recalling their stories – an unsurprising psychological response.
Amir was able to heal largely through his involvement with other survivors and their collective purpose in advocacy. Through their collective healing, Amir has been able share his story to wider audiences. However, as long as political structures and institutions deny, downplay and disregard the truth, many survivors will remain disenfranchised and unable to heal.
Transitional justice is a complicated concept – one that involves macro level institutional reform to micro level individual considerations. I am humbled and astounded by the resilience of people like Amir to continue living, to continue advocating for holistic justice that has yet to be realized.
I will continue my story of Srebrenica in subsequent posts…stories I have not quite been able to put into words yet. Thank you for reading. Thank you for answering my skype calls. Thank you for encouraging me from afar.


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So most of Richard Armitage's posts re: Miles are gone
Thanks to piffle for the info.
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maybe Mr. Richard Armitage dropped this project/movie because a family member might be sick and he wants to take care of that person or maybe he wants to do something else (produce or direct movies), maybe he finally decided to take a real vacation.
Possibly another project more interesting or conflicting timelines. The contract may be not have been signed by RA. For Miles. He is acting rather erratically at the moment.
This looks like another independent project with all the problems that involves. Miles should have already finished filming last year, and their twitter page had its last entry in August 2016. Considering that Armitage probably has other obligations, any further delay would make his participation impossible. We'll probably never know what exactly happened.
I can't say I'm interested in watching this film (even if it should get made in the end) if he isn't in it. I found most of the short film pretty boring, and that's saying something considering how short it was. Th effects were good, though.
Again, I find this interesting because it gives a glimpse into the conditions under which he works.
He may have believed this was going to come into fruition, and then – whoops – an opportunity gone. As frustrating as it may be for him and us, I take this type of deletion as a rare opportunity to look into the life and working conditions of an actor.
i agree with Taurus about this short film. I finally watched it a couple of days ago and the effects were good but the rest of it was very boring. I know a lot of people are remaking old/different movies and there are a few that I think that Mr. Richard Armitage would be excellent in, just the other day the movie CLUE starring Tim Curry popped into my head. I think if they remake this movie, Mr. Richard Armitage would be perfect in Tim Curry's role (the butler). Mr. Richard Armitage has done different types of roles but comedy( little bit of it but not to much-Vicar of Dibley, LLL ). this role would show these people that he is a great actor and can do any character/role that you give him, or what would be really great if somebody turned the movie CLUE into a play and starred Mr. Richard Armitage.
I really, really wonder whether he's aware of how much hubbub he instigates with his deletions (which actually quite often don't bother me that much.)
Although this announcement of a job had a particularly short validity period!! Weird thing!
Yeah, you're right about deleting political statements or something important, which def is not a funny thing.
To me he now appears to be in a kind of muted and frustrated state about the political ongoings, realising "it" is not going to vanish in thin air….. (what we actually all do now, more or less…) and tweeting about this misery is easily a bit trivial. All this makes you (and Richie?) feel so powerless.
It's only yesterday that I realised I loved to read 'The Guardian' for years, but now whenever I open the site there are unbelievably awful and horrible daily news, and never before read political statements by politicians from England and America alike (and then of course there is Europe with it's multiple problems, and the rest of the peaceful world as well!! 😦 ) Reading now makes me sooooooo miserable, depressed, and ill-humoured!!! I reallly can't stand it at the moment!! Especially my self-adopted 'Lieblingsland' England for me is hard to recognise and understand these months, and it seems like it's getting worse every day…
Really hope The Man is fine and enjoying life again without a personal driver and maybe (if need be!) getting grounded again.
Another worthwile project for him to do in the time between: digging out all those finished films featuring HIM that are stagnating in any drawers……


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The latest promo, which runs for 2 minutes and 37 seconds, offers up a fresh look at director Tom Hooper's adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic 19th century story; even giving us a look at more of the characters, including the Thenardiers (Baron Cohen & Bonham Carter). Hugh Jackman leads the cast of the musical as Jean Valjean, an ex-con who's doggedly pursued by Russell Crowe's police officer Javert.
Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne, Amanda Seyfried, Aaron Tveit, Samantha Barks, Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen round out the supporting cast.
Les Miserables will be released on December 25 in the US and January 11, 2013 in the UK.


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Aug 24 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
** Alberta is facing the longest recession in its recorded history and the province's finance minister is warning that the provincial government won't be able to create enough jobs to incorporate thousands of unemployed Albertans.(bit.ly/2beYZ73)
** Chevron Canada Ltd is selling its gas station in downtown Vancouver as underused land in key city locations continues to spur redevelopment. It happens to be one of the last two remaining gas stations in downtown Vancouver. (bit.ly/2bf0Kkr)
** Alberta's economy is heading for the largest two-year contraction on record, as private sector investment continues to fall, by a projected 16 per cent this year, and the government's deficit increased to almost C$10.9 billion. (bit.ly/2beXs0x)
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News from the Center for Health, Environment & Justice, http://chej.org.
First-ever federal school siting guidelines hit the street
Monday, October 3. The Environmental Protection Agency released its voluntary School Siting Guidelines. Now school districts can look toward a federal policy model for guidance when constructing a new school facility.
For a decade, CHEJ has been working with concerned parents' groups, teachers' unions and community groups to address a range of toxic hazards facing schools in America. Thousands of schools are located near toxic waste sites or major sources of air pollution, such as chemical plants or incinerators. A 2002 study by CHEJ of just five states identified more than 1,100 schools within a half mile of a contaminated site, negatively affecting the health of more than 600,000 students.
The final release of the guidelines marks a milestone for safer schools, but much remains to be done. Many states still have no laws that restrict the building of schools near serious environmental hazards. CHEJ will be working with groups in New York and elsewhere to adopt toxic-free school zone policies and to educate school boards and other officials so they make better decisions about locating new schools. The guidelines are a strong tool in our fight to protect children's environmental health. Congratulations to everyone who worked toward this victory!


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"If you'd like to play along, let me know. I'll pick 7 interests of yours that I'd like to know more about, and you will write a journal entry about them in your journal and invite your friends to comment and so on and so forth. Don't just tell me about your interests in a comment to my journal...you've got to play fair and put it in your journal, so others can play along." I stole this meme, illegally, immorally and without permission, from . Gravity's Rainbow: This is the most intense book I've ever read. It took me about two months to slog through it, reading a bit every day. It's a long book, but so's the Illuminatus! trilogy, and that I've read through several times. Gravity's Rainbow is a completely different experience from any ordinary book. I consider it less a book and more a form of psychic parasite. For months afterwards I found my general mental state skewed markedly toward the surreal, and even such things as my word choices and writing style took on a Pynchonesque affectation. I felt basically like I was married to the book for as long as I was reading it. It was during a very strange and unpleasant period in my life as well. I was psychically raw and vulnerable, which further facilitated its parasitism on my mind. In short, I can't recommend it highly enough to anyone who wants something more than light reading. Especially if you like massive debaucherous orgies on the decks of cruise ships, lovingly-rendered descriptions of sexual coprophagia, characters randomly and unaccountably bursting into song, and a giant Godzilla adenoid which can only be appeased by having shovelfuls of cocaine heaved onto it. Moral Relativism: I think the idea of inherently right and wrong actions is one of the most detrimental ideas in history. I would call it a prerequisite for complete self-knowledge for one to understand that no such designations exist except as conventions. Not saying I've achieved complete self-knowledge, but as one seeking it, I like to tell myself that throwing out traditional morality was a good move. Of course, once one has rid oneself of the pernicious myth of right and wrong, one can go about constructing a working moral code for oneself, and that is fine and dandy. Snails: I've always had a particular affinity for snails. I like the fact that when mammals are huddled in their dens to get away from the damp and cold, snails make their way out to attend to their important business. I occasionally let them crawl around on my hands, having made sure to wash off any offending salt. I enjoy the feeling of their feet and their rasping mouthparts as they try to make food of me. Whenever I see them out on the sidewalk, I pause to move as many as I can to safety. Most people don't think twice about stepping on them, so I've taken it upon myself to be their protector. When I was three or four I peeled one, not understanding that its shell was part of its body, and felt terrible about it when I learned I had killed it. Since then, I've been working off my snail karma. This is the reason why I'm such a weirdo. Forgiveness: I try not to hold grudges. I think it's a bad habit. If I actively have something against a person I've ever been at all close to, or even a person who someone I'm close to is close to, I feel like something is wrong. Most slights simply aren't severe or important enough to harbor animosity about. I see enough social strife between people, and I prefer to stay Swiss about it. Unfortunately I've found that even this preference can get me into trouble. Pain in the ass, that. General Aimlessness: Everybody seems to be rushing around all the time, trying to stay busy and upwardly-mobile, in order to justify their existence on the planet. I say, fuck that. I didn't ask to be here, more than half the time I'd prefer not to be anyway, and so I see no point in making a space for myself in the world. I think that most ambition is mere ego-noise... or at least, it would be for me. Other people might have good reasons for doing what they do, but I know that if I were doing the same things, it would be out of some vain desire to conform and appear as less of an anomaly. For me, aimlessness is the only sincere option. Anything else would be a damnable contrivance. Superdeterminism: Put simply: determinism is the stance that the order of things is determined by the order of prior occurrences, and that the current state causally and predictably determines all future states. There was one past, there is one present, and there is one possible future. This is, as far as I see it, a patently idiotic hypothesis. Superdeterminism then, is basically the idea that things are as they are, however that happens to be, because they could not be otherwise. This may seem to contain a contradiction, but it is one easily assimilated. If an infinite set of possible states exists in superposition, then the current observable state is a statistical inevitability. I think it's a very elegant idea. It allows free will and chance to mesh amicably with notions of fate or destiny. It imagines the universe as a clockwork mechanism, but one so vast and complex that its motions cannot be reliably predicted. Tardigrade: Tardigrades are amazing. They've been around since the Cambrian, they are their own phylum and not related closely to any other extant life forms, they live on all seven continents, they can survive in extreme conditions that would kill other life, and they can be completely dehydrated and blown around as dust, to be reanimated upon contact with water. The fact that they are also known as Water Bears and Moss Piglets only makes them more awesome. There are tardigrades on you now.
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Is a co-operative right for you?
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Mutual Aid in Sussex (MAIS) are offering this FREE one-day session 'Is a co-operative right for you?' run by expert co-operative business advisers.
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Kim Mitchell concert tonight!
OMG the Kim Mitchell concert is tonight in the Dub-spot and Randy and Rod are sooooo excited, they have even scored some special drinks for the event. Might as well NOT go for a soda….if you know what I mean!!! Good 'ol Kim has even changed his lyrics especially for his new audience…."Those Paddy O'Lanterns, lighting up our livesssssssss."
Oh shit! Somebody at the concert called R & R a bunch of "douche bags" for not wearing any shirts!! RANDY IS MOTHER F'IN PISSED!!! Wow! He's now armed and ready…..and is gonna introduce that jerk to a real douche bag….grenade stylzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Forget about being called a bunch of douche bags for not wearing any shirts…Mario just called Randy a douche for not waxing his chest hair!!! Now completely pissed off, Randy has launched a douche towards Mario's head with thoughts of throwing a second in celebration of his great taste in tattoos!!!


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Post Season Scouting Is In Full Swing
Posted by Scott Mensing | Posted in | Posted on Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Even though the blog has been relatively slow for the past month or so, we have still been busy putting time in the woods getting ready for the 2011 season, which is only 8 months away (but who's counting)! There are many different post season scouting techniques that we do each year to better prepare ourselves for the upcoming season.
This year, our post season scouting has never been more important. We have two new properties that we acquired permission on right before the season opened last September. From the scouting that we were able to accomplish from the tree stand and running cameras, we believe both of these properties have the potential to be absolutely amazing with a little QDM. January through March is the perfect time to give us addtional insight on the quality and quantity of deer that are present on each of the properties.
The first post season technique that we do is to start our winter camera surveys. We started prebaiting camera sites the week after season closed so that we could increase our chances of not getting any shed bucks in the survey. We just pulled the last cards this past weekend and will have another blog post in the coming weeks detailing out the results of the survey. But as a teaser, potentially four new bucks will be added to the hit list for 2011, including "Stag".
In addition to running camera surveys, we also shed hunt, which may be my favorite time of the season. I'm not sure which I enjoy more.....killing a 150 inch buck or find his matched set laying side by side in his bed. There are many different "tricks of the trade" when it comes to shed hunting, but honestly, it's more luck than anything! The one piece of advice I give to anyone that asks is to walk, walk some more, and when you think you've covered the entire property, walk it again in the opposite direction. Unfortunately our stomping grounds are currently covered in 12"+ of white powder. Hopefully the predicted thaw this weekend will come as planned and we will begin picking up sheds off of potential targets for next season. But during our final card pull to our camera surveys, I stumbled across a "freshie" that was laying in a deep trail not 20 yards from the camera......oh, if all sheds were this easy!
But this shed is actually off of a new buck that just showed up during our camera survey. We hope to get a few more pictures of him prior to season, but right now he sure looks like a big, mature DINK!
When we are fortunate enough to have a white winter, which we currently fighting this season, we also pay close attention to trails, intersections, feeding patterns, creek crossings, fence crossings, etc. During the bitter cold months, the deer have herded back up and focus their travel patterns between bedding and feeding areas. And with the help of snow on the ground, the sign is much more concentrated and you can find those primary travel corridors. But don't just keep your eyes on the ground! Keep an eye up towards the canopy and look for those perfect trees located in your concentrated areas. We carry surveying flagging with us while shed hunting to mark trees that we want to take another look at in the summer. Summer scouting is that much easier when you all ready have an idea of where primary travel corridors are located.


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Between transcribing The Annotated Henry Reynolds and making a complete ass of myself at trivia quizzes (but that may just be the hangover talking), I haven't had much time to do much on the Gilligan and Roberts paper Australian Multiculturalism: Its Rise and Demise (link via Troppo Armadillo).
The paper is obviously part of a larger work, as indicated here:
Throughout this book we argue ... that Australian citizenship entails being a member of a particular political community that has a primary unanimity supported by a distinctive political culture. Being Australian involves sharing in both, albeit in limited ways by first generation migrants who retain strong identification with their original cultures and traditions. In the rest of this chapter we show how the policy of multiculturalism was extended beyond policies of humane settlement and modified integration to become a full-blown prescriptive account of Australian society that distorted the understanding of citizenship.
It's also very polemical in tone, which is why I was pleased to find the following paragraph. Can you spot the petard?
Multiculturalism was part descriptive and part prescriptive: it purported both to describe an actual state of affairs and to impose a preferred vision of what ought to be the case. That Australia should be a multicultural nation made up of distinct cultural groups, all of which are of equal value and should be equally valued, is a normative proposition. That Australia is this sort of nation is a factual proposition. Mixing up the normative and the factual is typical of ideologies, and invariably produces a confusing picture in which preferred normative vision colours factual appreciation.


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For dinner on Meatless Monday I decided to do a variation of a recipe I found on Splash of Something. It's an asparagus pasta dish with a balsamic glaze. Delish! I'm a huge fan of both balsamic and asparagus. As a testament to this fact, I already had a frozen side dish of balsamic glazed asparagus in my freezer. I got this particular side dish at Let's Dish, a great local company, but it's basically a bag of frozen, blanched asparagus (cut up into bite-sized pieces) and a bag of balsamic vinegar (about ½ cup) with 4 tablespoons of butter. I used this ready-made side dish to make my pasta but I'm going to translate it into a "from-scratch recipe" for you below. It was so delicious! Definitely a "must make again"!
Balsamic Glazed Asparagus Pasta
– 16 ounces frozen asparagus pieces (or you could substitute fresh, sliced into bite-sized pieces)
– 6 tablespoons butter
– ½ cup balsamic vinegar
– 1 pound whole wheat penne pasta (or other short-cut variety)
– ½ cup parmesan cheese
Add asparagus to a medium saucepan of boiling water and cook for 2-3 minutes, or until tender, then drain. For fresh asparagus, you will need to boil for closer to 5-6 minutes before draining. Return the asparagus to the pan, and add the butter and balsamic vinegar. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes, or until the sauce has thickened and coated the asparagus.
Meanwhile, cook the pasta according to package directions (I always subtract 1 minute from the cooking time on the box for good, al dente pasta). Drain the pasta and add to the asparagus mixture. Add the cheese and stir to combine. Remove from the heat and serve topped with more parmesan, if desired. Enjoy! 🙂


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There is a popular notion these days that younger workers and professionals, especially millennials, aren't interested in working hard to put in their time before being promoted to leadership positions; that they somehow feel entitled to all they want without putting in the time like those who went before them.
I'm not sure I buy it as an indictment on the entire generation. In fact I know I don't. There are fine examples of those that got ahead through hard work that I can tick off of by name upon request. But I can also give even more examples of those who exemplify and even go beyond the popular trope by arguing with their bosses and thinking themselves ill-used when asked to do normal work. So what to do as both a young rising professional and as a boss?
Here are your answers…Leadership development for bosses. Willingness to follow for young professionals. Challenging young professionals with diverse tasks for bosses. Humbly accepting new tasks and understanding the value of diverse experience for rising professionals.
Bosses have to recognize that they lead in a cultural era in which they must justify their decisions unlike their own C-level leaders and mid-managers when they were young professionals themselves. Gone are the days when you did what the boss says and never expected a reason. Whether or not you'd like it to be that way again, the current culture is what it is. Young professionals have information that wasn't available to them 20 years ago regarding leadership styles, successes, and corporate climate. Thus, it is unreasonable for leaders today to say "Because I said so" in response to a why question. In days past that might have worked for bosses when younger talent stayed with a single firm for life. Not any more.
So what should bosses do with their young professional risers? Mentor them. Develop them. This isn't as simple as talking to them and telling them what you did. It isn't merely urging them on to do better. This is not the Pointy-Haired Boss of Dilbert telling his charges to "work smarter, not harder."
Leadership development and mentoring is a deliberate, difficult task. It is several steps that are both generalized for all your people, and at once idiosyncratic to tailor that mentoring to the individual.
First, you must hire the right people. In my experience and in my recommendation, that means try to hire people smarter and better than you. It takes a strong leader, a humble leader, to recognize that you are a better leader when you are surrounded by outstanding people who can make you look better and be the most successful leader. Those that hire people beneath their own capabilities will always be the smartest person in the organization, but they will also have to necessarily stay engaged at a level far lower than they ought to in order to ensure everything gets done. If you think hiring people smarter than you will somehow threaten your authority, then your organization has deeper flaws than your hiring needs can fill.
Second, you need to mentor each individual to his or her own desires for their future. Some people want to get to the top as far as possible. Some people get to a place in their career where they love the job and want to stay there till retirement. Others like the business and aren't sure what they want for their futures and are looking for guidance. It is the good leader's job to steer the rising professional to their desired ends while maximizing their current output to meet your present organizational needs. This takes time. This keeps you from running day-to-day operations all the time. That is good. You shouldn't be running your operations when you hired people to do that. Your job is developing your replacements.
Third, you ought to find diverse opportunities for your rising professionals. When you have someone who is a real wizard at production planning, it is natural to want to keep that person doing that job for as long as possible. But the hit-by-bus problem, while rare, rears it ugly head often enough that you must consider what you will do when someone is gone and you need a replacement. Furthermore, it makes for a better rounded professional to know multiple different tasks and how they work together. If you are genuinely developing your young professionals, you are not only helping yourself in the present, but preparing them for future leadership. So once again, you have the opportunity that the people you trained and developed might be lured away to another company, but you also make a strong name for yourself and your company for hiring the best people and developing leaders for all companies.
And what about the rising professionals? If you want to get to the top, and if you want to be taken seriously, you need to seek diverse experience and you need to be humble enough to do what tasks are given you. In this era or every young person demanding and expecting respect, it is wise to do something to earn the respect. It is perhaps natural for you to want to rise through your ranks to leadership positions. But it is not reasonable to expect your employer to move you up without proving your worth first.
Seek out diverse opportunities. Volunteer for interesting, but potentially time-consuming tasks. Seek out some team tasks that show you what it takes to work well with others. Your leaders will not promote you, no matter how smart you are, if you can't show that people can and want to work with you. Yes, you will still be responsible for your primary duties as well as the side tasks, but you will have to learn to manage your time if you want to move to senior leadership positions.
You will also want to show your leaders that you are humble enough to do whatever tasks they give you. A year and a half ago, during Q&A at a leadership forum in which I was speaking at the Air Force Academy, I was asked about what a person can do early in his or her career to become a good leader. I said right away, "Be a good follower." I told the audience that their bosses had the advantage of more information about the decision than they have and more experience in dealing with such situations than the young professional.
Furthermore, the young rising professional must be humble enough to take the seemingly crappy jobs or additional duties that have to get done, but that nobody wants. I remember being given the security manager additional duties when I thought I was too senior for that about 20 years ago. My boss and his boss merely wanted to see how I'd handle the situation and if I'd set an example for my own subordinates. Today I look back and can say that I didn't handle it well at first. I failed the test initially. Then when I opened my eyes, I finally saw that it was an important job and I had to set an example. As soon as I did it well, my boss gave the job to another riser.
Never be too big for yourself to serve others and to take the seemingly small or tedious jobs. You will build more capital for yourself with your leadership and you'll gain really valuable experience to help you see how much goes into your operations that you might otherwise not consider.
Understand that this approach will take time for both the leader and the young professional. Nothing as important as your company's strategic future or your own professional development can be done quickly. If it was easy, then everyone would be going after the quick trick. But it isn't easy. Be patient, both of you, leader and rising pro. Be deliberate. Give really good mentoring and demand it from your boss as well. Both the company and individual will be better off in the long run.
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