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Minutes – September 10, 2010
(Sorry for the late posting of these minutes – and an editorial note – since Claudette is co-chairing – will someone else volunteer to do the minutes this year? Thanks – Linda Williams)
We kicked off our first meeting for the year most successfully! It was wonderful to see so many Teen Librarians there and hope attendance continues throughout the year as the ideas discussed are extremely valuable to all of us. A vote was taken to decide what did work best for our busy schedules and it was decided that we will be meeting on the second Friday of the month, every month from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Willimantic Library Service Center. Our next meeting will be October 8th.
We spent some time discussing our summer programs for teens and what we found to be successful. Among our fellow librarians, the following programs have been tried: candy sushi, smoothies, fondue, nature printing on black t-shirts with a Clorox gel, tile bracelets, chocolate plastic, creative writing group. One thing that is for certain is that programs involving food are always a crowd pleaser.
However, we also noticed that we had a tendency to have programs that are more suited to the girl population. So, what about the boys? Some suggestions for programs inviting to boys are as follows: a guitar workshop, crime beat (have a state officer come in and set up a crime scene), gaming, a self defense studio doing a demonstration, and, if all else fails, market your more girly type programs by stating that it's a great way to make inexpensive gifts for the women in their life.
Although many have found our summer programs to be well attended it seems universally that we often lose our teen population as soon as school starts. Naturally, they are busy. With homework, sports, jobs, and social lives, how can we compete as a library? We're not where it's at. One of the best solutions is to hook them while we have them in the summer by scheduling programs for the fall. If it is at all possible in your own schedule and library, try to switch your hours of availability to suit their needs. Most importantly, never give up!
Our October meeting will center on Comics and Gaming and we will have a very special guest joining us so you don't want to miss it. See you then.
Claudette Stockwell E.C.Y.A. Co-Chair Children's Librarian Assistant Killingly Public Library


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This weekend, psychedelic rock darlings The Growlers are back at it again with their annual Beach Goth Music Festival, taking place October 22-23 in Orange County, California. This truly amazing lineup features performances by Justice, Bon Iver, James Blake, and Gucci Mane (the real one, no clones here) alongside rare appearances by TLC, 2 Live Crew, Violent Femmes and so many more. Keep reading for our top five acts you can't miss.
Archy Marshall, better known by his stage name King Krule has been turning heads since his 2013 debut, 6 Feet Beneath the Moon . This English singer / songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has gained attention for his gritty, deep voice and J Dilla inspired rhythms fused with a loose jazz sound reminiscent of late-era Tom Waits – a combination that's surprising in juxtaposition with his innocent, freckled appearance. He doesn't cross the pond to perform in the U.S. often, so don't miss his set this weekend.
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When you think of Blacksburg, Virginia, a one-man pop band isn't the first thing that comes to mind. But in 2009, Virgnia native Jack Tatum produced a sound and vibe under the name Wild Nothing that has made him and his touring band a staple on the indie circuit. Since signing with Brooklyn-based record label Captured Tracks in 2009, Tatum has released three albums and two EPs with no signs of slowing down.
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Tricky began his career in the early 1990's working with electronic music gods, Massive Attack and has since amassed an extensive catalog featuring twelve albums and countless collaborations including projects with Björk, Grace Jones, Cyndi Lauper, Yoko Ono, Red Hot Chili Peppers and many others. Make sure you check out this rare performance from a leading pioneer of the trip hop genre and all around UK legend.
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Howdy Ladies!
I wanted to stop and share my September cards with you all since some of my sweet ladies couldn't make it to club this month, I wanted you all to have access to the photos and instructions for the Halloween Centre Step card!
For those of you who belong to club, you know that each month we do one regular card that is 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 and then one Fun Fold! So this month, the fun fold was the Centre Step card. Here were our two projects for the month of September:
The cutsie Gingerbread card is a case from my dear sweet talented friend Kimberly down in the good ol' U.S. of A! Thanks Kimberly for sharing your MAD talent with us all! The awesome detail about this card that you won't experience from this post is just how good it smells! This card was stamped with versamark and then heat embossed with the Sugar and Spice embossing powder from our Seasonal
A few other cool things about this card is how we used the "Border Banter" stamp set to stamp on the Twill ribbon! And don't you just love those Bronze Designer Buttons....I'm in love!
So, our fun fold this month was a Halloween Centre Step card using the Frightening Feline stamp set. Love love love this stamp! It makes me want every day to be Halloween!
So here are some instructions on how to make this fun fold!
So first you will cut yourself your base in whatever color you would like, I used Whisper White at 8 1/2 x 5. Then, using a Fiskars cutter you want to put the cardstock on the 1" diagonal line and then cut between the 1" Horizontal line and the 5.25" horizontal line. Flip the card over and do it again on the other side!
Once you have both slits done, then you will pull out your simply scored tool and score at the 1", 2" and 5.25" marks on both sides.
You could also score in the middle at the 4.25" line, but actually like to let that fold happen naturally when I fold the card shut.
Here are the other pieces that you need to cut for this card!
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Now one of my group of Ladies didn't get to make this adorable Halloween card so this month, they will use this same fun fold to create an adorable Christmas Card! Here is what their card looks like:
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RedBone Press, Lambda Literary Award winning author of the bull-jean stories, Sharon Bridgforth is currently touring The love conjure/blues Text Installation. A recipient of the Theatre Communications Group/National Endowment for the Arts Playwrights Award, Bridgforth is Anchor Artist for The Austin Project (produced by The Center for African and African American Studies, U.T. Austin). For more information go to: http://loveconjureblues.com
About her work:
THE love conjure/blues TEXT INSTALLATION IS A MULTI-MEDIA PERFORMANCE. Bridgforth has collaborated with filmmaker Jen Simmons, composer Helga Davis, and a stellar cast and crew to create a film that will serve as a digital environment that she will narrate LIVE inside of. This presentation will bring to life the reality created in love conjure/blues, that the past, present, future, the dead, the living, and the unborn coexist/tell the story in concert; and it will offer an interactive environment that will support the audience as responsible witness-participants...
Jen Simmons' work lives in the liminal spaces between the convergence of film, live performance, and the web. Simmons has created and will install the love conjure/blues film that is the digital envirnoment that will house the performance. Join in the fun as we step into a world of raucous gender bending/jook joint singing/Prayer circling/sexually liberated/deep loving fun!For more information about love conjure/blues visit the website: www.loveconjureblues.com
An excerpt of her work:
"it was a hot night after a hot day. the peoples was in they finest/fresh pressed and set for whatever bettye's was about to bring. it was rib night/the start of the week-end..." an excerpt from love conjure/blues (c) Sharon Bridgforth, published by RedBone Press (http://www.redbonepress.com )
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Monday, July 18, 2011
Heard the likes of Tyagaraja, Black Joe Lewis, Big Boi, Bun B, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Chromeo, Cut Copy, and Weezer. I even got to go backstage and meet some of these guys! Crazy! Pictures really can't capture this at all. Click here to see a video recap of the weekend.
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Friday, March 27, 2009
It's time to "GO"-atee.
Whenever James goes on leave for any extended time, he likes to grow out his goatee. And I love it. The Army forbids him from sporting his goatee at all other times, so taking leave allows him the opportunity to grow it out to his heart's content. It's one of the perks of being "on vacation". He started growing it out today.
Tomorrow morning we leave for our Big Fat Vacation. James took off today to get the van serviced and detailed. I should be washing and packing instead of typing, but I could seriously use a break. Packing for a family of five who will be spending 10 days at a total of no fewer than 5 different hotels is no small feat. But I started planning for this weeks ago ~ it's all about tying up loose ends now.
We've estimated getting to southern California by Monday (2 overnight pitstops along the way from here to there) and spending 2 nights in San Francisco on the way home. With any luck, we'll be back home by Christmas Eve.
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Have a wonderful trip! Enjoy every minute of your family and be super safe! Can't wait to see pictures.
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- Karen the Californian said...
Yay! Can't wait!!
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Another great race and state. Good post! It seems like ages since we've run a race, but the reprieve will end very soon. Love you.
What beautiful photos. I've never been to VT or to MI or WI. You're convincing me I need to travel more...
that looks like beautiful scenery daddy. good pictures!
and congrats on another race finished!
it was a lot of fun to see you the other day and play cards with you both! we miss seeing you guys!
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No game is perfect and AFF has the standard "Unreal Engine 3" blue fog, but if I had to describe it I'd say it's Battlefront II, plus Battlefield. Great visual design, great audio design, runs really really well, and has good bot integration (performance decreases dramatically with more bots, but I can still get 1080/60 on max settings using a i5-6600k)
This is not just a port of units from the EAW:FOC version, since the gameplay mechanics are so different.
Right now, the game is very fun, and fairly well balanced. The only thing I would take off for is the performance, which can be improved later down the line. The Sins engine was never designed for massive amounts of fighters, which is exactly what the game encourages (New Republic especially). Coupled with the various banks of weapons capable of targeting multiple units, relatively small fleets will consume massive CPU resources and cause stuttering somewhat early in the game, especially when playing against AI and on larger maps.
Will up my review when mod works.
Can get old, but good mechanics
Buggy, with terrible UI and the spell system is atrocious, but combat is satisfying, third person is semi-useful, immersion has been doubled (at least), graphics have been upped, quest giving system amped, added slayable children, werewolves, infinitely better character rendering, and more.
On a side note, M'aiq is back! :D
Workable, but a bit outdated at this time.
Easily supports anything but RTS, which is the only real downside
Great multiplayer framework, good graphics, but a few problems (invisible enemies, anyone?) bring down the score.
It's pretty awesome.
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That's the old name (and university degree--my old Dean had one) that blanketed just about everything from before-they-were-named Sociology, Anthropology, International Relations to... yes, money and government. A catch-all with gravitas, which I like.
Anyway, my Second Son said today that he was thinking of voting for the official Libertarian candidate Bob Barr (say his name fast: Do you hear something vaguely Elephantine?) for President. Not so fast. Take an example from the great Norse god Tiu, for whom THIS DAY is named: he fought the dreaded Fenris Wolf to a draw, but lost a hand in the struggle. The lesson should be perfectly clear. Don't pull that lever for Bob Barr. That goes for all you Myriad Readers, even though it would happily syphon votes from McCain/Palin, much to my delight. It's the principle of the thing. He's a neocon Republican through and through...OR at best/worst a faux Libertarian. And I say he brings shame upon us true-bluers.
But first, he's a hypocrite. Congressman Bob Barr was first to call for Clinton's impeachment when Lewinsky-gate became public, decrying the "moral bankruptcy" of the Presidency while (like Newt Gingrich) he was cheating on his second wife with his third. It was OK with Barr for that wife to get an abortion, while at the same time he was fervently pushing anti-choice legislation. Now, here in no particular order are some other very un-Libertarian stances he's taken:
--staunch supporter of "War on Drugs," even to prohibiting medical marijuana use
--voted for war in Iraq
--voted for Bush/Cheney Patriot Act
--led the charge against same-sex marriage, authoring the federal "Defense" of Marriage Act
--sponsored Pentagon ban on practise of Wiccan religion on military bases
--advocates licking whipped-cream off female body-parts (did it at a fund-raiser, early 90s)
I don't care if Barr has repudiated some of these (maybe not the last)--How in the world can you trust him? It doesn't help any that he is a former CIA agent. Is he really a Democratic MOLE infiltrating the Libertarians to draw votes from McCain? Given his chameleon past, I can almost believe it. So he apologizes for all of that--is that his Platform? Come on...the only thing he's been steadfastly Libertarian about is GUNS, and I could take or leave that as being about zero conseqentiality. (When I'm in power I would, for civilians, LICENSE them down to a squirrel-rifle.) He's at bottom a tight-assed Republican in ill-fitting Libertarian costume. The G.O.P booted him out, so he seeks the spotlight anywhere he can, and changes his spots whenever necessary to remain in it. A politician/narcissist. And he reminds me of TV's "little old winemaker" of times past. The only good thing about Bob Barr? (say it again fast)--he hates George W. Bush.


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What is the greatest risk in Christianity? The risk of doing the wrong thing? The risk of saying the wrong thing? The risk of overstepping boundaries? The risk of changing something or doing something that shouldn't be changed or done?
As a kid growing up, those were the risks I was concerned about. "Be careful when doing your work Christian. Be careful that you don't overstep. Make sure you don't speak out of turn. Be aware that you will be judged for your actions and words." These seemed like good rules to go by at the time.
Then I read the story of the talents in Matthew 25. You know the one. A man goes away and entrusts 5 talents, 2 talents, and 1 talent to his workers. After the journey, he returns to find that the workers have invested and doubled his money. All do this, but one. The man with 1 talent says, "Master, I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you."
Fear and worry about the master's hardness, prevented the worker from investing. The master agrees with his servant, that he is indeed a man who "harvests where he hasn't sown and gathers where he has not scattered seed." However, the master won't agree that he is a "hard man." In the end, the master kicks the servant out of his presence for his unwillingness to invest the master's money.
So, according to this story, what is the greatest risk in the kingdom? The risk of overstepping bounds? The risk of saying the wrong thing? Or, could it be the risk of being paralyzed with fear because we don't know the master? The risk of thinking God is "hard" when he is actually generous? The risk of risking nothing?
We are challenged today to risk something for God. To speak when we need to speak, to make changes when they are appropriately needed, to be bold as he has called us to be, to start new things and do new things that are worthy investments for the Lord. We are cautious in our investing. We are aware that we work for the king and handle his money, which he has entrusted to us. We know not all things belong to us, and so we leave those things as they are. We recognize there are things that God has entrusted into our hands, talents that he wants us to invest. We are forever cautious to invest wisely. But we also realize that the greater sin is not the sin of doing or saying too much. Rather, the greatest sin is doing or saying too little!
For more on this subject, check out Lucado's book, Cure For The Common Life.


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Long-term Efficacy and Safety Study With Oralgen Grass Pollen
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00824447
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First Posted : January 16, 2009
Last Update Posted : May 5, 2010
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|Condition or disease
|Allergic Rhinoconjunctivitis
|Drug: Oralgen Other: placebo
|Phase 2 Phase 3
Allergy is one of the most common chronic diseases. Allergies to grass, weed, and tree pollens characteristically result in seasonal rhinitis symptoms commonly termed hay fever. The risk of developing asthma has been noted to be higher in patients with rhinitis than among the general population (10% versus 3.6%), confirming the fact that rhinitis is often the first step of the natural history of asthma.
Although several drugs effectively manage the symptoms of allergic rhinitis, conjunctivitis or asthma, they do not represent an etiopathogenic treatment of the considered diseases, and do not prevent the reappearance of the symptoms at the end of the treatment.
Immunotherapy is generally considered to be appropriate for patients in whom rhinitis symptoms cannot be controlled by an optimal medication regimen and avoidance of the allergens. At present, specific immunotherapy is the only therapy available that acts on the main cause of the allergic reaction by modifying or down-regulating the immune response.
Allergen immunotherapy is the administration of gradually increasing quantities of an allergen vaccine (extract) to an allergic subject, to reach a maintenance dose, which is effective in reducing the symptoms associated with exposure to the causative allergen.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|356 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Randomised, DB, Plcb Controlled, Multicentre, Multinat. Phase II/III FU Study to Assess Longterm Efficacy and Safety of 3 Different Dose Regimens of Oralgen® GrassPollen in Patients With Grass Pollen Related Allergic Rhinoconjunctivitis
|Study Start Date :
|August 2007
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|August 2008
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|January 2009
Placebo Comparator: Placebo control
Placebo control
Other: placebo
placebo control
Other Name: Placebo control
Active Comparator: Grass pollen extract, twice weekly
Grass pollen extract, 9,500 BU, given twice weekly
Drug: Oralgen
allergen solution sublingually
Other Name: grasspollen extract
Active Comparator: Grass pollen extract daily
Grass pollen extract, 9,500 BU, given daily
Drug: Oralgen
allergen solution sublingually
Other Name: grasspollen extract
Active Comparator: Increased dose of grass pollen extract
Increased dose of grass pollen extract, 19,000 BU, given daily
Drug: Oralgen
allergen solution sublingually
Other Name: grasspollen extract
- Pollen Season Rhinoconjunctivitis Total Symptom Score [ Time Frame: site specific pollen season ]
- Rescue medication usage [ Time Frame: one year ]
- Proportion of symptom-free days during the pollen season [ Time Frame: one year ]
- Rhinoconjunctivitis QoL Questionnaire [ Time Frame: one year ]
- Global evaluation of the efficacy by the patient [ Time Frame: one year ]
- Local and systemic tolerability and other adverse events, labor [ Time Frame: one year ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 51 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients who meet the in and exclusion criteria for study AB0602 and successfully finished this study.
- Patients who have given their written consent to participate in this study.
- Patients who are willing to comply with the protocol and understand the information given.
- Female patients of childbearing potential are eligible if they are not sexually active or if they use a medically accepted contraceptive method.
- Negative urine pregnancy test if female at the end of the previous study.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnancy, breast-feeding / lactation or sexually active women of childbearing potential who are not using a medically accepted contraceptive method.
- Patients who were non-compliant during study AB0602.
- Patients with a past or current disease, which as judged by the investigator, may affect the patient's participation in or the outcome of this study.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00824447
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|Principal Investigator:
|Dyonne van Duren, MD, PhD
|AMPHA Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 220, 6525EC, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
|Principal Investigator:
|Knut Schaekel, MD, PhD
|Universitait Klinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Fetscherstrasse 74, SN 01307, Dresden, Germany
|Principal Investigator:
|Iveta Kozlovska, MD, PhD
|Centrum Immunologie a allergologie, Pavla Horova 14, 84108 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
|Responsible Party:
|Dr. F.F. Roossien, Artu Biologicals Europe B.V.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00824447 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
2007-002477-31 ( EudraCT Number )
|First Posted:
|January 16, 2009 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|May 5, 2010
|Last Verified:
|May 2010
Keywords provided by Artu Biologicals:
long-term efficacy and safety
Oralgen® Grass Pollen
allergic rhinoconjunctivitis
Grass pollen extract
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Conjunctivitis, Allergic
Conjunctival Diseases
Eye Diseases
Hypersensitivity, Immediate
Immune System Diseases


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Insult the base. (The original post is revolting in the extreme.)
Dear Iowa Republicans,
I'll put this in language even your tiny little Iowa brains can understand: What the f*** is wrong with you people?
The news coming out of Des Moines (literally, French for "tell me about the rabbits, George") tonight is distressing in the extreme.
VodkaPundit insults the intelligence of good decent people — the Huckabee supporters who gave Mike an overwhelming victory over Romney and he concludes with this gem:
So I repeat the question: What is wrong with you people?
All my love, you corn-sucking idiots,
Wow, elitist much? Hint to VP: Republicans don't win elections without evangelical support.
Fearmonger when you don't get your way.
The market is tanking, allegedly because of the jobs report, with the Dow down 244 and the NASDAQ off 92 (3.5%) at this writing.
How much of the decline is due to the investor class rejecting the idea that any good news comes out of either Obama-McCain or Obama-Huckabee?
Yeah, right Huge Hewitt. Just because your precious phony Mitt Romney didn't win, despite outspending Huckabee 20-1, the markets are tanking. You're unbelievable. That's utter nonsense.
Threaten to vote Democrat if your candidate isn't the nominee.
I've been reading this line from a lot of commenters in a lot of comment threads where reaction to Huckabee's win in Iowa is discussed and it fills me with disgust.
Republicans taking part in this personal destruction nonsense better knock it off if we, as a coalition, are going to win. Scorch the earth too much and you're not going to get support for your preferred elitist nominee.
Social conservatives are not going to participate if they are insulted and played for suckers. That's what you're doing by threatening to vote Democrat if Huckabee earns the nomination of our party.
What a bunch of sore losers.
Wasn't it a great Republican who said "If you strike me down, I'll become more powerful than you can possibly imagine?" Or was it something about hanging together or hanging separately?


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Resetting/Removing BIOS password April 30, 2007Posted by ronandi in Hardware.
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In BIOS (Basic Input/Output System), sometimes a password is set. This may have been done by a parent that is locking up your computer, or may have just been set by yourself. Nevertheless, forgetting your BIOS password, or not knowing it at all, can be a real pain. In order to reset this password, several scripts or programs may be found online. However, many people are not aware of the fact that this password can be removed by just removing a small battery from the inside of your computer. If you are going to attempt to do this, please do so entirely at our own risk. Whenever you open up your computer, be sure to discharge any static that may be held by you. You can simply do this by wearing an "anti-static band" around your wrist, or by simply touching the metal frame on the exterior of your computer. In fact, you may want to do this on a floor without carpet. Also, be sure to constantly discharge even while working inside. Anyway, before opening your computer, be sure to unplug it. Afterwards, go ahead and open it up. Now, look on the motherboard of your computer for a small coin-sized battery (See picture). Now, simply remove this battery for about 10-15 minutes. Afterwards, replace the battery to its original location and close up your computer. Now, when you plug in your computer and start it up again, you shouldn't have any trouble with the BIOS password as it should have been removed.
-Thanks for reading
Blog is up. April 30, 2007Posted by ronandi in News.
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So, this blog is officially up. Right now I am looking forward to posting things related to the computer which are not very well known.


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text: I am the 'Pin up Poet' for March over at Another Lost Shark, the excellent poetry blog by Graham Nunn. Each week this month I'll be discussing my poetry and sharing some of my work. Head on over now to read Week One's offering and stay tuned for weekly updates.


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This is a new chapter on my reflection about the pros and the cons of going back to Galicia.
A good reason not to is jobs. Unemployment in Galicia (and perhaps all across Europe) is still significantly higher than in Australia, even for skilled labour. Even with the bad moments that IT is supposedly living here, finding a job as an IT professional is still much easier if you are in Sydney. The fact that Sydney is a large city (rather than a collection of mid-sized towns like Galicia) also helps.
Universities here advertise their vacancies. You can submit an application, hope to be called for an interview and, if you are good enough, be offered a position. The whole process can take a few weeks. This is unthinkable of in Galicia. There, universities rarely hire researchers other than as lecturers, which involves defending your research proposal against competitors and before a panel which is often strongly biased. Yuk.
Government agencies here work in a similar way: they advertise, select, interview and offer. In Galicia this is even crazier than with unis: you need to sit a series of highly competitive exams, usually with candidate/vacancy ratios higher than 20, which are prepared by some people for years, and all your merits are assessed based on your answers to the exam questions. No interview, no chance to negotiate. Yuk yuk.
It's sad wanting to go back to a place like this.


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In her article about transgender teens in the magazine this week, Margaret Talbot quotes Annette Bening and Warren Beatty's son Stephen calling himself, among other things, a "nerdfighter." It might escape the average reader's notice that this term is more than the sum of its parts. In the teen-age population, "nerdfighter" has a very specific meaning and etymology. Primarily, it identifies the teen-ager in question as a follower of John Green. Green is a former divinity student who dropped his plans to join the ordained ministry after a stint as a hospital chaplain. But you could say that, in his career as a young-adult novelist, he's become another sort of evangelist. His "A Fault in Our Stars" débuted at No. 1 on the children's best-seller lists about a year ago. It is about a love affair between two teen-aged cancer sufferers, and was drawn, in part, from his experience as a chaplain.
Green has been writing about teen-agers who don't quite fit in, albeit in less epidemiologically significant ways, for some time. His first novel, "Looking for Alaska," in which a boarding-school student puzzles out what happened to his friend when she died in murky circumstances, showed a knack for the alienated-whip-smart-teen-ager genre. Some people might mutter something here about formula. But, for his readers, Green did what David Foster Wallace said good fiction did: he made them feel less alone. The book was not an instant best-seller when it appeared, in 2006, but it was something almost better: a cult hit. And, as such, it gave Green the beginnings of an online following.
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Everybody doesn't believe in you. I don't say this to be harsh; I say this to be honest. Since this is the case you must believe in yourself.
Believing in oneself has become underrated in today's society. We live in a culture where we are too often seeking the approval of others. Often times before we decide whether or not to believe in ourselves, or our ideas.
This happens no matter who you are, or where you are in your life. Regardless of whether or not you are an honor roll student or a stand-out athlete. Regardless of your title as bank President or your job as a gas station attendant. Regardless of the nice clothes you wear or the nice car you drive. Regardless of the 1,000 plus facebook friends and several twitter followers you have. None of these things are more important than you believing in you.
In other words, it really doesn't matter who believes in you. All that matters is what and who (God and yourself) you believe in.
© David McGhee


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Ok here's my list of favorite things to do in New Orleans. I created this for a friend who will be traveling there next week. This city has a big piece of my tourist heart. I don't claim to be a NOLA insider, but these are the things I do when I visit. I scribbled this in no time at work so there are quite a few things missing. I'd love for you to point them out in the comments.
Bourbon Street – Go watch fraternity boys binge drink on Bourbon Street for like 15 minutes and then leave. (I know there are other things to do here but the booze/vomit smell generally deters me from discovering what they are. I come back when sauced enough not to care.)
Royal Street – Walk from Bourbon over to Royal Street and mosey in that direction for a while. There are lots of artists and antique shops on this street that are fun to look into. I bought a watercolor from a guy on the sidewalk here that I love (above). There are good deals if you're looking for art, there are also some fine pieces by talented artists. A variety at your disposal.
LaLaurie's house – If you keep walking down Royal you'll eventually come to an area that has more residential homes and vacation properties. In this neighborhood at 1140 Royal you can see the home of this woman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphine_LaLaurie who is something of a New Orleans ghost legend and one of the character's on American Horror Story this season if you're into that sort of thing. I usually visit NO at Halloween so this is right up my alley.
Mansion Tours – Right next to LaLaurie's house is a place that gives mansion tours. I wasn't able to get in when I last Fall, but the tours are supposed to be excellent. I'd be curious if you checked it out how that went.
Jackson Square – If you head back down Royal the way you came, turn on either St Ann or St Peter St toward the canal (away from Bourbon). Go down about a block and you'll see Jackson Square which sits in front of St Louis Cathedral. There's history about this place. I don't k now what it is. But it's probably interesting to read. The square is usually overrun with artists and street performers and on a nice day it's a great place to people watch.
Café Du Monde – walk through Jackson square down toward the canal and look across the street – you'll see Café Du Monde. They're famous for their beignets (doughnuts). Good stuff. Their coffee isn't half bad either. That's a good place to sit and watch the circus at Jackson Square. The spectacle of traffic will make you laugh as well. http://www.cafedumonde.com/
Magazine Street – great shopping. Cute houses.
Garden District Tour –There are dozens of these just pick one that sounds good. If a reader has been on a particularly good one I'd like to know about it.
Marie Laveau's House of VooDoo – for all your spell casting needs. It's on bourbon street. You can find things there like shrunken heads and idols to help you sleep better at night or get rich. All fun.
The Frenchman – this neighborhood has great jazz music but it's getting more of a party vibe over the years. You could check that out.
Yes there's Starbucks.
This is one of the last Creole Family-owned (Creole owned) restaurants in the French Quarter. The owner is an incredibly kind gentleman who personally built us a "tasting" menu when I was last there. All of the food – ALL OF IT – was insanely good.
This is a great restaurant owned by Emeril Lagasse whom my dear father once referred to as "that sellout". I thought his food was actually quite delicious. And I enjoyed the restaurant decor. Food was a bit on the expensive side but good. Food portions are not huge. There's a good chance you'll have to wait so make your reservation and go down to the bar on the corner. It's cute and the bartenders are friendly.


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I am not a New Yorker. Every time I come home I am reminded of this fact. On Monday I had a meltdown when I got confused like three blocks from our house and called my step-mom in a panic to declare "this is why I belong in LA!"
My brother and I were given the option of going up to Maine tomorrow or today and both of us were like, "TODAY. NOW. RIGHT NOW! AS SOON AS POSSIBLE." I do love New York but ultimately, it's not for me. Never would I ever have thought that LA is more similar to Maine, but I guess it is... so Maine, here we come!


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"I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me."
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
When I was a little girl, my mother bought me a doll. It was a doll from an expensive boutique in Paris: she had rosy cheeks and long dreamy lashes. Her eyes were blue, and they closed when you lay her down. When you propped her up again, they opened. I was fascinated by how lifelike this attribute was, but what fascinated me most was the color of her eyes and her skin: so blue! so white! I named her Sleeping Beauty.
Sleeping Beauty's name has always varied: some call her Briar Rose, some call her Rosamond. Disney names her Aurora. However, in the most popular version of the story, Charles Perrault left the princess anonymous. Before she falls into a deep sleep, she is called Beauty, because she has been given the gift of perfect beauty by her fairy godmother. While she sleeps, she is called Sleeping Beauty, for that is all she is. When the prince comes to rescue her, she is laid down in her beautiful bedchamber, sleeping. Fixed; passive; perfectly beautiful. He falls in love with her beauty, what else does he know of her?
All the fairytales have beautiful women, of course. In the cast of Disney princesses, Aurora is white; Ariel is white; Belle is white, Cinderella is white; Snow White is white. There are princesses of color – Mulan, Jasmine, Pocahontas, the late addition Tiana. However, the kind of beauty they possess is still the most narrowly-defined version of beauty: there is very little variation of features between the white princesses and the princesses of color. The nonwhite princesses have almost the same facial features: almost the same dimensions of cheekbone, of lip, of nose and chin. There is only enough variation to mark them 'Other.' Dye Belle's hair, stain her skin with brownness, and Jasmine emerges. The brown/black is only coded as beautiful when it retains a certain percentage of whiteness. It's a phenomenon that works both ways. In reverse, it's what I call featural appropriation. The features that are mocked or satirized on the black/brown body are praised when they are transplanted to a white woman. Like cultural appropriation, it is a systematic deconstruction of our culture, our features: some of our parts are taken, and the rest are left discarded on the floor. We are discarded.
Jasmine's precursor, is, of course, Princess Badroulboudour from The Thousand & One Nights. She is described as:
"the most beautiful brunette in the world; her eyes were large, lively, and sparkling; her looks sweet and modest; her nose was of a just proportion and without a fault; her mouth small, her lips of a vermilion red, and charmingly agreeable symmetry; in a word, all the features of her face were perfectly regular."
Compare that description to this, from Jules Verne's Around the World In Eighty Days:
'…her fine eyes resumed all their soft Indian expression.When the poet-king, Ucaf Uddaul, celebrates the charms of the queen of Ahmehnagara, he speaks thus: "Her shining tresses, divided in two parts, encircle the harmonious contour of her white and delicate cheeks, brilliant in their glow and freshness. Her ebony brows have the form and charm of the bow of Kama, the god of love, and beneath her long silken lashes the purest reflections and a celestial light swim, as in the sacred lakes of Himalaya, in the black pupils of her great clear eyes.." It is enough to say, without applying this poetical rhapsody to Aouda, that she was a charming woman, in all the European acceptation of the phrase.'
Princess Badroulboudour is described as having "perfectly regular" features, because regularity and symmetry are pleasing to the eye, charming, agreeable, faultless. If beauty is described as regular and faultless, we presume that ugliness is the opposite. Something irregular, some fundamental fault-line in the topography of the female face, some fearful asymmetry that causes ugliness. Ucaf Uddaul describes the queen's charms similarly: her cheeks are "harmonious contours." What is ugly is not merely ugly, then. It offends harmony. It offends symmetry.
Verne goes on to describe Aouda as a "charming woman in all the European acceptation of the phrase." Her eyes have a "soft Indian expression": she is described as fundamentally Other but still acceptable by European standards of beauty, which is paramount. Verne in his benevolence makes sure to let us know that the particular kind of foreign beauty that Aouda has does not prevent her from also fitting into the mould that would be considered a beautiful woman in England.
I had an Indian friend once who asked me, on a trip home: "what do white boys think of Indian women? Do they think we're pretty?" The question hurt me, just as it hurt me to see the Youtube comment on a Selena Gomez video: "I'm Indian and proud to see that Selena Gomez likes our culture. I never thought people would know so much about India like she does [sic]." Both were questions shaded with such innocence, how could I possibly begin to explain to either person the complex realities surrounding their assumptions? More importantly, I thought, I didn't need to. Perhaps it would be enough to just say: "White people's opinion of our beauty, our culture, doesn't matter"- but then, who would be satisfied with that answer, when it clearly did? How can I describe the specific wound left by the white women on online dating sites who say "only white men" or that left by the white men who say "you're attractive, for a [X ethnicity]?" We do not dare disclaim or minimize the woundedness of little black girls who grow up in a time with too few Lupita Nyong'os. We know what happens to a wound when it festers.
Beauty is pain, goes the saying, but what does that mean? My grandmother tells me it means that one must suffer to be beautiful. There is a certain kind of suffering, perhaps, in female beauty rituals. We pluck our eyebrows, we wax our legs, we ache in our stilettos. We go hungry and we zip ourselves into dresses that make it difficult to walk. And still, I am dissatisfied with that construction of the phrase. Is it, instead, that pain is beautiful?
Many men have told me they are attracted to sad girls, girls who are in pain, girls who need to be rescued. There is a romanticism, they tell me, in loving a sad girl, because they feel vindicated when they can make them smile. There is an exquisite vulnerability in the performance of sadness and pain that they seek out, that is beautiful in itself. When women weep in television and movies and books and even in songs, it is often an aesthetic affair: tears stream down their cheeks, their eyelashes are darkly matted with mascara, their mouths droop downward in an irresistibly sad line that speaks of sorrow but also of beauty.
Beauty is pain. Beauty causes pain, too. "She was so beautiful it hurt" is a phrase often heard: it describes the bone-deep ache we feel when we see a sunset or a city skyline at night. We ache because it is temporal, we ache because we cannot grasp it, we ache because we cannot comprehend it. But that is not the only pain caused by Beauty.
A while ago, I wrote a poem called 'Color'. It's about a young girl and her pretty blonde doll that she keeps locked in a closet, for fear it will fly away. The girl in the poem is a little brown girl, and as she grows older, the doll changes in her image: it transforms; its whiteness is destroyed. As I illustrated it, I noticed (for the sake of convenience, I'd begun with the white doll and overlaid its features with brown paint, black hair) that the smiling expression of the doll in the first frame was rapidly disappearing. It wasn't that I was erasing her smile, it was that her smile was naturally eroding under the weight of the red lips, the dark skin I'd drawn on. The more color I added to the frame, the unhappier she grew.
As color seeped into her world, so did pain. Awareness of beauty hurts, but not as much as the awareness of ugliness, the awareness of lack. In Toni Morrison's tale, Pecola longs for blue eyes so much; suffers so much as a little black girl that "the matrix of her agony" is filled with death. The awareness of our lack of beauty forces us to strip away skin, to bleach it, to cover up darkness. Beauty is a construct, but who will tell that to those who deconstruct themselves in the search for beauty?
Like Pecola's friend, I scanned my own doll as a child for the signs of the beauty that had escaped me. I tried to dismember it, to find the secret of the desirability that had not escaped me. I locked my doll in a cupboard, because her beauty hurt me. She was a doll, she decayed. I remained.


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Starting this week, I will become very busy and i don't know how long this will last. Reading blogs became a routine in the morning and posting became sort of a habit. I need to focus and de-focus on some things so I had no choice but to set my head straight.
While I'm away, I know I will be missing a lot from you guys. I'll try to still update when I have a chance. I bet I'll have a lot to update you when I get back... :D
Thanks for staying with me for quite sometime. I will surely miss you all guys!
|Picture taken during the farewell party for my previous company, don't mind my eyes, they were still soar from crying.


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|This carbon cycle diagram shows the storage and annual exchange of carbon between the atmosphere, hydrosphere and geosphere in gigatons - or billions of tons - of Carbon (GtC). Burning fossil fuels by people adds about 5.5 GtC of carbon per year into the atmosphere. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
by Alan Pears, Senior Lecturer, Global Studies, Social Science & Planning at RMIT University, The Conversation: http://theconversation.edu.au
Some critics of carbon pricing have pointed out that, over time, the carbon price will increase to a much higher level and devastate the economy.
Indeed, the image of a python squeezing the life out of the economy has been painted to describe this.
However, this view is based on a misunderstanding of how carbon pricing works, and confusion over the difference between the price per unit of carbon and the overall impact on household and business costs.
Most analysts expect the carbon price to increase over time as the "low hanging fruit" of abatement options is captured and we have to adopt more expensive ways (such as carbon capture and storage and costly forms of renewable energy) to make deeper emission cuts. By 2050, many estimates indicate the price might exceed $150 per tonne.
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For example, Treasury expects the greenhouse intensity of Australian electricity to fall by over three-quarters by 2050, as renewable energy and gas replaces coal fired power. On top of this, we will be more energy efficient, so we will use less electricity to deliver each service such as lighting, comfort, refrigeration, and so on.
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Alton attorney Amy Sholar jabbed Madison County State's Attorney Tom Gibbons over a $1,000 per plate fund-raiser being held for him tonight at Porter's Restaurant in Collinsville.
Sholar is seeking the Republican nomination to run against Gibbons in the 2012 general election.
"As a sole practitioner who has helped hundreds of families through difficult legal times, I want to be the State's Attorney for all of the people – not just special interests and the well-connected who can write checks with lots of zeros," Sholar said in a press release.
The event for Gibbons also includes a $5,000 per person pre-event.
Gibbons said it was disingenuous for Sholar to criticize the pricetag for his fundraiser when she has received several contributions in the amount of $2,500.
Sholar formed a campaign committee in May and since then has received five $2,500 contributions, according to records at the Illinois State Board of Elections.
Gibbons was appointed State's Attorney in December to serve out the remaining term of William Mudge, who was elected circuit judge.
Since his campaign committee was formed in March, Gibbons has received seven $1,000 contributions.
In the meantime, Sholar said she is hosting a $10 per person fund-raising event at the Knights of Columbus in Bethalto tonight.
Sholar received her law degree from St. Louis University School of Law. She has worked for the Madison County State's Attorney's Office and for the City of Alton. For the past seven years Sholar has been in private practice. She resides in Godfrey with her two children.


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I even rode the itty bitty chuu chuu train :D
It was an awesome day and Freya had sooo much fun!
After the bonfire we decided to have dinner at Burger Love :D
lol Sofia dropped by cause she was buying dinner too..and took a pic of from outside. I think it look funny :)


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I have always done my best angst driven activities over a good piece of music (crying, baking, eating said baking solo style, painting, journaling and even fighting- oh, how dramatic). Perhaps, I watched too many episodes of The Days of our Lives in my teens and early twenties.
It is often satisfying for me, when I am feeling overwhelmed, to imagine myself as a character in a music video of my own making. It is also a way for me to take control of whatever situation is picking apart the grey matter in my skull, with relentless ferocity, so that I can slow things down and visualize the outcome that I am seeking. And really, it is completely without added fat and will not cause a pesky hangover.
I have made mental image music videos to all of my favourite sad, happy, and celebratory songs since I was a small child. It was often the thing that most helped me to feel less lonely. I guess in some ways, it was my own homemade method of meditation. It was very useful when I was on lengthy road trips as an adolescent, as it also aided in stemming my boredom. This helped my siblings out in that I was rarely tempted to elbow them, pinch them or put gum in their hair while they were sleeping in the seat next to me.
All that it took for me to self soothe and slip away was my Sony Walkman and my Peter Gabriel, So tape.
Recently, I started thinking about the ways that I used to calm myself way back in the olden days(my children's terminology for my life prior to their arrival). Before things such as wine, cigarettes and prescribed sedatives were at my disposal. These adult methods of soothing really have nothing to do with self, but rather take one very far away from self. Of course, paradoxically,they often have the effect of convincing you that you are indeed connected to something greater. The wine God is not without its own (huge) flock of followers.
I no longer want to be taken away from myself. I will turn 40 this year, time to grow up – or, "foot the bill" as a lovely relative of mine says.
So, this past New Years, rather than making a resolution, I opted to make a mental image music video visualizing what I would like to see in my life for the upcoming year. I chose a piece of music that had very few lyrics and is lengthy enough to make an epic video. I then picked four words ( no particular reason, except that four is a fair number, unlike third wheel three ) that I want as the tagline descriptors of my life in 2013.
They are, in no particular order; Courage ,Strength, Kindness and Compassion.
Give it a try – pick four words, or five or ten and then press play on the video. You can even chant them out loud (often best advised that any children of the teenage persuasion are at school, as this can do more to deflate your self-esteem than to inflate it if said teenager screams out, "You are SO weird!" mid chant) or in your head in time to the music.
Throughout the song, imagine where you will be at this time next year.
I bet that you'll be a superhero, lady.
* For more information on the wonderfully gifted Canadian artist, Mike Milosh, here is a link to one of his blog spots. You can also check out some of his music here.


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Saturday, December 27, 2008
My gosh, my life's a complicated dynamo, these days: the global and local projects I've undertaken, the energetic way I'm getting my voice out, the writing projects, they've got whirlwinds beat by at least 60 miles an hour! Yikes! And I've built gravel paths through wilderness and marble paths through meadows and lasting paths of peace, on the ground in Colorado and in the mid-air, on the ObamaBlog. What a trip! Zip! It feels only weeks ago, I left for my life up here, instead of 8 full months. Time rips the sonic fabric when I'm happy.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Hello, CenterDoug
I'm back from my Obama-Work-Vacation, and will be more focused on this blog as I'm headed to Nicaragua on January 15th, as long as the planes are still flying. God knows any more what we can count on, except life, death, and taxes, and, for me, Barack Obama. My focus these days is very much in support of the Indigenous Peoples of the Western Hemisphere, including my family in Nicaragua. I'm co-coordinating a new Obama Community Group on MyBO tofurther communication in the States with all of Latin America and the Caribbean. Very wide ranging, with some superduperstar Obamabloggers signed on. It's hot, I'm excited, and this blog should be linking to all my other blogs about now through Intense Debate. I may end up an unofficial Ambassador to Nicaragua yet, just through my blogposts, anyway. I think I posted that early here: I applied to be appointed Nicaraguan Ambassador in Obama's Administration, and, while it is a cosmic longshot that this Cosmic Caballero would ever be considered, hey, WHY NOT? (said Robert Kennedy in 1968) and I've pretty much operated that way ever since. I could do some good there, but it would be a very different Embassy than what has ever been, for sure.
Gracias, CenterDoug
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Ay Chihuahua!
So, strange. Only 32 days to Nicaragua, most out of Glenwood. Here's my happiest seasons greetings to all of you. CD
Navidad in Nicaragua
©Doug Evans 2008 (767 words)
For The Glenwood Post Independent (December)
Christmas Day starts early in Teotecacinte, Nicaragua, at least in my sister Marta's casa de palomas, on the southern skirts of this peasant village where I spend my warmer winters. No sleeping-in is allowed, in Marta Betanco's house, not even on Navidad. Except for me, of course, off in my cloistered wing: since I'm considered a North American angel of God down here, she grants me special license, at least on high holy days; she said, with a chuckle, last night, "Angels need their sleep, Dugla, particularly at Christmas, when they're so very busy."
My life is very sweet in Nicaragua.
Marta's up at 3 am, probably, for an hour of prayer on her knees, after lighting the kitchen fire. The rest of the family gets rustled up by the mamacita at 4 am, to help her clean house (including washing the adobe walls of the sala and the kitchen stove with fresh, clean mud). Every inch of the dirt floors is swept by Estania, Marta's daughter, with her handmade broom. In the kitchen, Marta's steaming nacatamales in their banana leaf wrappers, poised in an iron kettle above a simmer for 5 hours. The water mustn't boil off, or all-day-yesterday's prep work will scorch, ruining the coming feast.
Cesar, the papa of the house, is scrounging firewood to keep the boil going. Even Arnoldo, the teenage son, has a duty: he's gone fishing for tilapia in the rio Limon, hoping to catch a big one to give his grandmother on Christmas Day. I know all this is happening, of course, even from my sequestered spot, because Marta's voice carries quite well in still-humid December. It's now 9 am on Christmas Day in Teote. The only sound louder than her commands was the rooster "Hallelujah Chorus" at daybreak, 4:47, today, when I awoke. Even sleeping angels need to wake up sometime, I guess; it might as well be to crowing, for joy at the coming of light.
While all that's going on in prep for the family feast at noon, I'm playing "Christmas Carols, 'Round the World" on my laptop, stretching in the growing light, and being grateful for another day, especially this one, in my 64th year. Time is very precious to me, and I make the most of it. The sound of Perry Como singing "Ave Maria" brings Marta to my door with café and "Feliz Navidad!" She's picked a favorite coral rose as a special gift, this morning of mornings. We hug, then she scurries back, sure the nacatamales are burning. I look at the rose and know, once again, that my life is full of angels, right in front of me: it took Nicaragua to let me see that. It's a gift I'll carry with me, I hope, and live up to, as well.
With the swish of Estania's broom and the tinkle of holiday laughter in the air for company, I head for my laptop and three hours of daily writing. Even on Christmas. Heck, because of Christmas! In a few hours, the whole extended family of Betancos will descend on la casa de palomas, 89 strong this year, counting all the new babies, and I'll need to kiss my Christmas solitude "Good-Bye." We'll be decorating the chimbomba, the Christmas tree, this year a potted Norfolk Pine, my treat, brought all the way from Esteli by taxi, which we'll plant in my garden at Tierra Mia after the 12 Days of Christmas are over. In the late afternoon, we'll all troop to church for Christmas mass. We'll vow to make each day a new beginning.
In Nicaragua, Christmas dances on for almost half a jolly month past the Christmas service, culminating in gift-giving, a multiplicity of hugs, another feast on the 12th day, when the Wisemen arrived at the stable with their offerings. As Nicaraguans rarely have cash for gifts to emulate the Magi, love and handmade tokens take their place. It's a time to honor babies, birth and parenthood, and every human life on the planet, a time for cherishing familia, not for shopping.
This year, I helped a friend fold 89 origami storks to pass out, then, hang from fishing line above my family's beds and hammocks. I've been folding the first folds on and off since August, but I know they'll be a triumph. I mean, they're crimped by an angel from the States, after all; I even added sparkles with glitter, so they'll twinkle in the Nicaraguan night.
Feliz Navidád, mi amigos en Glenwood Springs and all the international bloggers now my friends. CenterDoug
Monday, December 1, 2008
From Now On, Cultural Creatives: Us!
I will be refocusing this blog much more often on my daily life as a multicultural global citizen, triumphant in the USA and in Nicaragua, in the Now. I will be focusing my Obama Blog [http:www.my.barackobama.com (Obama Doug's Obama Blog)] on networking those who are interested in learning about the exploited and magnificent peoples of the "Land Bridge" between North and South America, the heartland of the Western Hemisphere, Central America, from South Mexico to Nicaragua.
This Blog, CenterDoug, will focus on furthering understanding, mostly for myself, on the current paradigm shift we undergo presently.
Gracias, CenterDoug
A Shift Towards Compassion
A shift towards compassion:
I've been playing with the concept, for a while, of the "Paradigm Shift," primarily a rise to higher collective consciousness, accompanying our movement from a 20th century "Old America" to a 21st century entity I'm calling "New America," a very transformative, millennial vision that's still mostly perfumed air and dreams, right now, that I'm seeing only in tantalizing, ghostly shimmers. Admittedly, I live and think and act from the very-most fringe of contemporary being. But, right now, most everything out there seems to have turned inside-out, to me: so maybe, just maybe, the fringe has become, at least for a moment, the epicenter of synergy. Certainly, questioning looks better all the time, at every level.
We're in a very transitional Transition, at the very least from a current President to a bright-shiny new one. Everything is transitioning, let us hope, with grace. We may, as well, be in the midst of a tsunami of a Consciousness Shift—Blip!--leaving everything (including, by the way, each of us!) looking somehow different, as from a never-seen-before perspective, while staying almost exactly the same.
Imagine it: Something uniquely new, that isn't just another expensive toy!
And, I'll tell you what. I feel it's already happened.
Does it not feel to you as if everything's somehow gone inside-out? Gone topsy-turvy? Turned upside-down? And, all the while, everything has, yet again, stayed the same? That's the way I felt when I faced third world poverty and starvation in Nicaragua, in 1993, as an "entitled American" with spiritual issues. Things happen when we're ready for them, even if we don't know it. Back then, I suddenly became very grateful for what I'd taken for granted before and found a pair of global shoes to fill. Now, that somersaulting sense, intuitively, signs the Collective Shift that most Cultural Creatives (Paul Ray, The Cultural Creatives) have been awaiting and working on in their millions of private American lives, since the 1980's: that moment when "enough" people are living their lives as conscious, grateful, global people, being the change they want to see, from every level of the warp and woof of both our American tapestry and the rest of the globe's people.
Life's a test we're always ready for, if we'd only listen, from the inside-out.
It might be true (but, who knows what's true, when everything is somehow different?) that those who've relied on institutions to save them, even from themselves, might be a bit panicked right now, since not much is working "rightly" out there, except, perhaps, the promise of Obama and continued American ingenuity; some might be afraid to do their own thinking for a change. In my estimation, self-responsibility is still rather new a concept in America, since we tend to forget to include responsibility for others in the equation. We might all be wise to take our lives reasonably lightly, right now, held in hands of love and gratitude, honoring the current craziness with the salsa of humor and a juggernaut of compassion for our brothers and sisters, some of whom might be cracking up, under the strain, right now, of tribulation.
We're going through an evolutionary shift in thinking, together, even if we do not know it. Those who do know it might choose to serve others, right now, at least with a compassionate ear. It's all up to each of us, right now, after all, as it's almost always been, but, maybe, more of us know it.
We voted for change, and it looks like we're going to get it. We might as well welcome it, then, grow and prosper.
Gracias, CenterDoug